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ND students directly affected by More than 30 victims shootings through ties to VT killed in United States' deadliest mass shooting By AARON STEINER News Writer Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — A gun­ Virginia Tech is more than 500 miles from Notre man massacred 32 people at Dame, but the effects of what reports call the dead­ Virginia Tech in the deadliest liest shooting rampage in U.S. history have been felt shooting rampage in modern here on campus. U.S. history Monday, cutting A lone gunman shot and killed more than 30 peo­ down his victims in two attacks ple and injured dozens more on the Blacksburg, Va„ two hours apart before the uni­ campus before committing suicide Monday, accord­ versity could grasp what was ing to Associated Press reports. Officials told AP that happening and warn students. the gunman killed two people in a dormitory approx­ The bloodbath ended with the imately two hours before staging a separate attack gunman committing suicide, on a classroom building. bringing the death toll to 33 and Nearly 30 people were estimated to have been stamping the campus in the pic­ injured, according to area hospital officials, CNN turesque Blue Ridge Mountains reported. with unspeakable tragedy, per­ The Notre Dame community is saddened by the haps forever. tragedy. Assistant Vice President of News and Investigators gave no motive Information Dennis Brown said Monday. for the attack. The gunman’s “Our prayers go out to any people affected,” name was not immediately Brown said. released, and it was not known Notre Dame will hold a memorial Mass for the vic­ Above, officials whether he was a student. tims tonight at 10 at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. “Today the university was Brown noted that members of the administration evacuate victims struck with a tragedy that we know people at Virginia Tech and said the University consider of monumental propor­ sends its support and prayers. from building. tions,” Virginia Tech President Students reported hearing the news through vari­ Charles Steger said. “The uni­ ous sources throughout the day Monday, with some A t left, versity is shocked and indeed hearing from friends and family directly tied to horrified.” Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech But he was also faced with dif­ Graduate student Patrick LaFratta, a 2005 Virginia students react ficult questions about the uni­ Tech alumnus who said one of his friends had died in versity’s handling of the emer­ the shootings, said he had been in contact with to tragedy. gency and whether it did friends from the school throughout the day by phone enough to warn students and and online. ♦ protect them after the first LaFratta said he first heard the news of the shoot- burst of gunfire. Some students

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Law students show discontent Ca m p u s L ife Co u n c il Several voice strong Task forces finish criticism of school's administration, classes up year's initiatives

By KEN FOWLER 0 Chairs give updates on progress as News Writer leadership terms draw near to close Notre Dame’s recent six-spot drop in the US News and World Heather Rakoczy, direc­ Report Law School rankings has By KATHLEEN tor of the Gender Relations highlighted feelings of discontent M cD o n n e l l Center (GRC), m et w ith the among Law School students for News Writer task force members reasons ranging from ordinary to “because we [committee overarching. Members of the Campus members] wanted to make While many have questioned the Life Council (CLC) spent sure that our efforts would leadership of Dean Patricia their meeting Monday be complementary to the O’Hara, the dean said she under­ wrapping up initiatives the Center’s current efforts,” stands why a conversation about group’s task forces began Andrichik said. the future of the Law School would at the start of the year. Since current and future be taking place after the release of Unlike other bodies in GRC programming through the rankings, which knocked Notre VANESSA GEMPIS/The Observer student government, the groups like Men Against Dame from 22 to 28 — the pro­ Notre Dame Law School, above, dropped six spots in a recent national CLC did n o t u n d e rg o Violence aim to confront ranking. Many students have expressed discontent with the administration. gram’s largest drop since 2000. administrative turnover on the larger issue of objecti­ “I can appreciate that for stu­ April 1, so former student fication, the Conduct dents it’s very unsettling when dents after the rankings were ings was in its selectivity rating. body president Lizzi Awareness committee there’s a drop in the rankings,” released, O’Hara said the Law For the 2006 incoming class, the Shappell and vice presi­ decided to use its O’Hara said. “And so it’s not at all School administration would fully Law School’s acceptance rate dent Bill Andrichik still resources in another venue — it’s very understandable that evaluate the reason for the drop. jumped to over 21 percent. But, lead the meetings. — hall staff training. students would be upset by that However, she stressed that the O’Hara said, an analysis of other Andrichik, the Conduct DuLac does include a decline and that there be a certain schools in places Nos. 20 to 30 fin­ school’s numbers showed similar Awareness task force number of rules on amount of conversation and dia­ ished with unusually close overall jumps in acceptance rates around chair, explained how his pornography, and training logue going on within the Law rankings, indicating the separation the country, minimizing whatever committee proposes to hall staff should help con­ School community as a result of between 20th and 30th is minimal. effect it would have had on Notre address the issues of front that issue, Andrichik that.” One area in which Notre Dame’s pornography and objectifi­ In an e-mail to Law School stu- base score dropped for the rank­ see LAW/page 4 cation on campus. see CLC/page 3 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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I don’t know how much you have been following the developments from the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech on Monday. Personally, 1 really Jared Zenk Pat Kennedy Corey Arvin Jimmy Wilson Justine Duffy Caitlin McKinney haven’t been, at least not as much sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore freshman junior as I probably Dillon Morrisey Morrisey Alumni Lyons Welsh Family should. John Tierney The television in my room is not “A priest. “A can of Natty “Ghost riders.' ‘The Lagoon “A squirrel.' “According to News Wire glued to CNN and Maybe Father Light.” Creature. ” Kaleidoscope I don’t really Editor know all that Hesburgh. ” McDaniels, a much about what gremlin." happened. But I know that at least 32 people died Monday, and at least 28 people are injured. I know that Monday’s tragedy was the largest mass shoot­ ing in United States history. It was the largest mass shooting in the history of the United States. I’m not going to be that guy who sits here lecturing about how our values and morals as a society have I n B r ie f gone downhill, and how this shoot­ ing is just more evidence that socie­ ty needs to refocus religiously, as I There will be cholesterol heard some television pundits say screenings today from 7:30 to yesterday afternoon. 10 a.m. in 234 Grace Hall. No I’m not going to speculate on what appointment is necessary. compelled the gunman to do what he did, or on what could have been Bethany McLean, a sen io r done to stop this tragedy from hap­ editor and writer for Fortune pening. magazine and the co-author of But, I am going to pose a couple of “The Smartest Guys in the questions. What if this happened Room: The Amazing Rise and here? What if — instead of at Scandalous Fall of Enron,” will Virginia Tech — this happened at speak tonight at 7 in the Jordan Notre Dame? Auditorium of Mendoza about Could you imagine the panic that the lessons learned from the family and friends would be feeling, Enron scandal. while they wait to see if you are alive? Could you imagine the panic Notre Dame women’s softball that you would be feeling while you will play a doubleheader against try desperately to find your friends, Western Michigan today at 3 to see if they are still alive? What p.m. at Ivy Field. Admission is would you have done if you could free. have done something to stop some­ thing like this? Notre Dame baseball w ill I can’t really give you any play Toledo today at 6:05 p.m. TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer at Frank Eck Stadium. answers. I can’t really answer those Junior Eileen Wilkie picks up windmills after a day-long windmill farm event on questions myself. South Quad to promote alternative energy awareness. The entire situation seems so dis­ Notre Dame women’s softball tant to where I am, sitting in my will play Ball State Wednesday dorm room, listening to the song at 5 p.m. at Ivy Field. Admission “Twister,” getting ready to go to din­ is free. ner and writing this column. I’m pretty comfortable right now The Ballroom Dance Club will — the most I have to complain O ffbeat host “Merengue with Ramzi about is my Residence Life-issued Bualuan ” Wednesday from 8 to chair — and the whole idea of the Woman runs marathon in started the race on time at blocked a highway 10 :3 0 p.m . a t 205 R ockne. largest mass shooting in United space 10 a.m. EOT with race No. Monday, tying up traffic Dancers of all skill levels are States history is pretty far from my CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 14,000 taped to the front after the truck that was invited. Beginners are asked to immediate surroundings. — She traveled around the of the treadmill as the carrying them collided come from 8 to 9, social dance President Bush gave an address a world almost three times space station passed over with another vehicle and from 9 to 9:30 and advanced few hours ago, in which he called and was harnessed to a the Pacific Ocean. She fin­ overturned. Neither driver from 9:30 to 10:30. The cost is for prayers to go out to the victims treadmill so she wouldn’t ished, unofficially, 4 hours, was hurt, but some 500 $4 for the night or $35 for the of this tragedy. I’m not going to tell float away. 23 minutes and 46 seconds rabbits were killed, semester. The club is open to all you how to spend your prayers (I NASA astronaut Sunita later as the station trav­ authorities said. Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and think it’s kind of silly for either me “Suni” Williams completed eled over Russia. The Ml highway — the Holy Cross students, faculty and or President Bush to dictate what her version of the Boston The 41-year-old astro­ main road between the staff. you do in your spiritual life), but I Marathon on Monday — naut, who grew up in the capitals of Hungary and would recommend spending a few more than 210 miles above Boston area, had kind Austria — was closed for “The Shirt”will be unveiled minutes thinking about this tragedy Earth. words for the tem pera­ hours while authorities at 6 p.m. Friday at the Hammes today. “I’m done! Woo hoo!” mental treadmill, which gathered up the animals, Notre Dame Bookstore. No, it’s not on the grand propor­ Williams told Mission has had its share of break­ Highway Patrol tions of 9/11, but it is the largest Control after running 26.2 downs. Spokeswoman Viktoria To submit information to be mass shooting in United States his­ miles on a treadmill at the Galik said. included in this section of The tory (I still can’t get over that fact). international space station. Rabbits cause road block Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ What if this tragedy happened here? Already traveling at BUDAPEST, Hungary — Information compiled mation about an event to What if you were a victim? What if 17,500 mph, Williams Five thousand rabbits from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu your best friend were a victim? What if someone you loved were a victim? TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY The views expressed in the Inside c e . Lti Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. Contact John Tierney at 2 [email protected]

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room, and 31 others were Room 204, he said. lances to arrive. Many found Massacre killed in Norris Hall, includ­ “I must’ve been the eighth themselves trapped behind CLC ing the gunman, who put a or ninth person who jumped, chained and padlocked continued from page 1 continued from page 1 bullet in his head. At least 15 and I think I was the last,” doors. SWAT team m em b ers people were hurt, some seri­ said Calhoun, of Waynesboro, with helmets, flak jackets said. bitterly complained they ously. Students jumped from Va. He landed in a bush and and assault rifles swarmed “Just letting hall staff know got no warning from the uni­ windows in panic. ran. over the campus. A student that this is an issue and letting versity until an e-mail that Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old Calhoun said that the two used his cell-phone camera them know how to deal with it arrived more than two hours junior, said he was in a 9:05 students behind him were to record the sound of bullets if a situation arises rather after the first shots rang out. a.m. mechanics class when shot, but that he believed echoing through a stone than trying to come down hard Wielding two handguns and he and classmates heard a they survived. Just before he building. on students is our plan,” he carrying multiple clips of thunderous sound from the climbed out the window, Trey Perkins, who was sit­ said. ammunition, the killer classroom next door — “what Calhoun said, he turned to ting in a German class in Other task force chairs also opened fire about 7:15 a.m. sounded like an enormous look at the professor, who Norris Hall, told The presented the status of the on the fourth floor of West h am m er.” had stayed behind, perhaps Washington Post that the year’s worth of work. Ambler Johnston, a high-rise Screams followed an to block the door. gunman barged into the Current student body presi­ coed dormitory, then stormed instant later, and the banging The instructor was killed, room at about 9:50 a.m. and dent Liz Brown, who is the Norris Hall, a classroom continued. When students he said. opened fire for about a Student Voice and Input task building a half-mile away on realized the sounds were At an evening news confer­ minute and a half, squeezing force chair, passed around a the other side of the 2,600- gunshots, Calhoun said, he ence, Police Chief Wendell off about 30 shots. sample “duLac-abridged” acre campus. Some of the started flipping over desks Flinchum refused to dismiss The gunman first shot the pamphlet. The pamphlets are doors at Norris Hall were for hiding places. Others the possibility that a co-con­ professor in the head and currently being printed by a found chained from the dashed to the windows of the spirator or second shooter then fired on the students, Kinko’s in Chicago. inside, apparently by the second-floor classroom, kick­ was involved. He said police Perkins said. The gunman Student Concerns task force gunm an. ing out the screens and had interviewed a male who was about 19 years old and chair Danny Smith said he is Two people died in a dorm jumping from the ledge of was a “person of interest” in had a “very serious but very continuing his research on the dorm shooting who knew calm look on his face,” he podcasting and other new one of the victims, but he said. trends in education technology. declined to give details. “Everyone hit the floor at Smith said he will give a more “I’m not saying there’s a that moment,” said Perkins, detailed report at the next gunman on the loose,” 20, of Yorktown, Va., a soph­ meeting. Flinchum said. Ballistics omore studying mechanical Though the chairs made tests will help explain what engineering. “And the shots their task force reports, no happened, he said. seemed like it lasted forev­ business could be passed at Sheree Mixell, a spokes­ e r.” the meeting because there woman for the federal Erin Sheehan, who was were not enough members Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, also in the German class, present to reach quorum. Firearms and Explosives, told the student newspaper, For the CLC meeting in two said the evidence was being the Collegiate Times, that she weeks, Shappell asked mem­ moved to the agency’s was one of only four of about bers to bring suggestions for national lab in Annandale. At two dozen people in the class new committees or issues to least one firearm was turned to walk out of the room. The help set the CLC agenda next over, she said. rest were dead or wounded, fall. Mixell would not comment she said. “I know the discussion on on what types of weapons She said the gunman “was successes and shortcomings were used or whether the just a normal-looking kid, helped me in the transition gunman was a student. Asian, but he had on a Boy last year,” she said. Young people and faculty Scout-type outfit. He wore a members carried out some of tan button-up vest, and this Contact Kathleen McDonnell at Virginia Tech students watch the aftermath of Monday’s massacre the wounded themselves, black vest, maybe it was for [email protected] inside a building on campus. A gunman killed 33, including himself. without waiting for ambu­ ammo or something.” page 4 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, April 17, 2007

ing with the transactional side of here.” improve the opinion other legal didn’t receive a great rush of stu­ tilings.” scholars have of Notre Dame. dents after the rankings came Law What’s more, Kiani said, the Faculty evaluated But Paulino and Kiani said a out. continued from page 1 Law School should try to use That potential includes a slew predominance of one ideology She noted, however, that stu­ more undergraduate classrooms of young faculty members with among most professors is a seri­ dents typically approach the Dame’s final ranking. at different times to allow greater Supreme Court clerkships on ous hindrance to getting a full assistant dean for students, Gail “There was some indication flexibility in scheduling. With six their resumes. legal education. Peshel, with concerns. that applicants were applying to main classrooms in the Law Many students noted the Law “A lot of professors are bad Nonetheless, O’Hara said she more schools, so even though the School, he said, allowing under­ School’s young faculty as a signif­ professors. They just can’t believed she could do a better job volume of our applicant pool was graduate courses to be taught in icant boon to the students and teach," Paulino said. “But they're in communicating with students. the same as the prior year, the Law School and Law School the institution as a whole, but good in terms of the school’s “I think there’s room for whether or not the head count courses to be taught in under­ wondered if such success wasn’t Catholic image because they’re improvement in my relationship was exactly the same was more graduate settings would allow being promoted fully. good, conservative Catholic pro­ with students,” said O'Hara, who difficult to determine,” she said. law students an ability to register “Notre Dame’s reputation in fessors. But they couldn’t teach works in her office at night and She said it was too early to tell for classes that might otherwise the legal community, at least you anything if often leaves the if the pattern would last. conflict. among law schools, has not you begged door open. “Deans For many students, however, That, he said, is one of the improved, despite a lot of these them. They “There’s no wear a lot of differ­ the drop is already a sign of lost major things that could be fixed excellent, outstanding young fac­ couldn’t teach practicality to ent hats, and many potential: where but hasn’t been. ulty,” third-year law student you what the anything that we do of my responsibili­ N o tre Dam e A more general Derek Muller said. law is, but ties have demanded here, except for the sh o u ld be "To me, when there concern many stu­ Muller, who said he worried they’re still a lot of time and excelling, instead dents said they had about an overreaction to the US advisors. trial adlvocacy] energy. ... I think I are things that are it is declining, at was with the News and World Report rank­ “There’s no program, and it looks can always improve least in relative holding it back amount of Notre ings, said the administration was practicality to on my access to stu­ like that program is terms. from the potential Dame professors not vocalizing support for young anything that dents.” “To me, when visiting other law faculty members to the extent we do here, not getting enough of Several students that it has. It’s kind there are things schools this year — that it should. Nonetheless, he except for the the respect it said a two-year lag that are holding it of frustrating when something they said stressed caution to those criticiz­ trial adfvocacy] time from the time deserves. ” back from the you know it could seems to have had ing O’Hara. program, and students passed a potential that it an effect on the “When people tie the US News it looks like petition asking for has. It’s kind of be so much better variety and quality rankings to the current perform­ that program Jim Paulino additional power frustrating when than it is. ” of the courses ance of a dean, it only makes the is not getting third-year law student outlets in the Law you know it could offered. law school look very, very bad in enough of the Library and the be so much better O’Hara said she the eyes of the legal community,” respect it time the outlets Jake Kiani than it is,” said did not know if this he said in a follow-up e-mail to deserves. There’s nothing practi­ were installed last year was Jake Kiani, a third-year law student year marked an his interview. “The rankings are cal about coming to Notre Dame indicative of the communications third-year law stu­ unusually high kind of like the 800 [pound] goril­ Law School except that you need problems in the Law School. dent. “It’s great number of visiting la in the room, but it’s generally your degree to practice law.” “If any CEO of any com pany already, so why shouldn’t it be faculty members, but rather agreed that most law schools wanted plugs put in. they would better?” pointed to the positive trend she detest them, even if they do Other issues put the plugs in the next day,” The complaints are varied, said comes from having desired well.” Paulino said he feels trial advo­ Paulino said. “This administra­ with some wondering about the professors. From the faculty’s perspective, cacy is getting too little attention, tion and a lot of the faculty mem­ five-year delay in the opening of “We have an outstanding facul­ the new building couldn’t come especially in terms of mock trial. bers do things because that’s the new building for the Law ty, so it’s not surprising that our soon enough. “The general feel is that trial what they want to do ... oblivious School (now slated for 2009), and faculty would be attracted to “I think growing our faculty advocacy for mock trial is on the to what other people think or others criticizing what they call other law schools and that helps us better serve our stu­ way out, and they’re focusing feel.” inadequate upgrading of the cur­ they’re receiving offers to visit,” dents,” said Amy Barrett, an more on appellate advocacy,” O’Hara said the questions rent building. she said. “Within the legal acade­ associate professor of civil proce­ Paulino said. “Something that raised in light of the rankings my, it’s a fairly common culture dure and evidence in the Law was tremendously valuable to could provide a positive platform Class selection for law schools to hire visiting School. “That’s already in the me, that helped me get a good for self-assessment and the abili­ The overriding complaint, how­ professors. ... It’s in a sense a works as part of our strategic job, that’s going to help me be an ty to look for positive improve­ ever, was with class offerings. compliment to the outstanding plan.” excellent litigator, feels like it’s ments. Melissa Nunez, a third-year caliber of our faculty.” An increase in the number of getting slowly phased out of the “I want our students to be law student, cited problems with But on a different point, Kiani faculty members will allow pro­ school, feels like it’s not as impor­ proud of the Law School and feel property law classes and the can­ and Jim Paulino, a third-year law fessors to write and publish more tant as it should be.” like this is a strong and good cellation of other classes in the student, said the school’s ideolo­ scholarly articles, which will While some students have been community for them,” she said. days before semesters were set gy and strong Catholic focus — enhance peer evaluations of vocal about their disappointment to begin as serious issues not including classes on canon law — Notre Dame, she said. Barrett in the direction of certain parts of Contact Ken Fowler at fully addressed. only diminish its overall teaching said the new building also will the Law School, O’Hara said she kfowier 1 @nd.edu “Either Patty O’Hara needs to quality. change ... the way she runs the The requirements of Ethics 11 Law School or ... they just need a and Jurisprudence, Paidino said, Arts and Letters Students new dean, to be frank,” she said. amount to watered-down classes Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors “There’s a lot of reasons the with minimal practical use and school, in my opinion ... isn’t poor treatment of the subject doing its best to be a [top] univer­ matter. sity law school.” “The class was a joke, the Questions from many students course was a joke, the grading center around the number of cor­ was a joke, the whole thing was a porate law classes offered by joke — and that’s what makes Notre Dame in relation to the Notre Dame, quote, different. ... total number of classes offered in It’s like a mockery of our intelli­ other sections of legal teaching. gence,” Paulino said. “I think it’s O’Hara, whose specialty is in embarrassing that they would business and corporate law, waste my money as a student declined to say if she felt the pro­ and my time as a student to take portion of corporate law classes these things that really make no compared to the total number of difference from professors who offerings was adequate. Instead, really don’t teach you anything. she said the size of the Law Everybody knows it’s a joke.” School restricts both the number On a separate issue, Kiani said of faculty members and available he feels the administration hasn’t classrooms — a concern that the done enough to adjust to the new building will meet. number of faculty members on “There’s very few areas of the leave, creating a problem situa­ curriculum that we wouldn’t like tion for students looking to take to be offering more courses,” she courses in certain subfields. said. “That they know that faculty But whether the Law School is are going on leave ... it seems to doing enough with its current me you need to plan around that resources is an important ques­ to get the professors here that tion, Kiani said. need to be here to teach the “When I pick classes, I just feel courses that the students need,” sometimes there’s not as many he said. “This is supposed to be a classes as should be there in law school at one ... of the coun­ terms of what you really need to try's best universities. ... I don’t practice law,” he said. “They think that they are living up to don’t have enough courses deal­ the potential that they have

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I nternational N ew s S o uth K orea U.N. to send peacemakers to Sudan UNITED NATIONS — Sudan agreed Monday to let 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers deploy in Nuclear reactor shutdown likely Darfur with attack helicopters, opening the door to the first significant U.N. force to help Hopes renewed that Pyongyang will comply with disarmament agreement beleaguered African Union soldiers who have been unable to halt the region’s four-year war. After five months of stalling, the government Associated Press in Khartoum called for a speedy deployment and hinted it could approve an even larger SEOUL — North Korea U.N. force that has been demanded by the U.N. may be preparing to shut Security Council, the United States and others. down its main nuclear reac­ But experts were cautious about chances for tor, news reports said creating that 20,000-strong force, noting Tuesday, renewing hopes Sudan’s leaders have reversed course previ­ that Pyongyang will comply ously after announcing vague agreements for with a disarmament agree­ action in Darfur. ment days after it missed a deadline to shutter the facili­ French presidential bids underway ty PARIS — A week before the French begin The report came a day choosing their next president, the dozen can­ after a South Korean official didates moved into the final campaign said this government may stretch like a band of ragtag political war­ suspend rice shipments to riors, insulting, pleading and dickering for North Korea to ratchet up votes. pressure on the North to In the first round of an election that no one comply with its nuclear dis­ dares call in advance, Socialist presidential arm am ent pledges. hopeful Segolene Royal has made an The Yongbyon reactor was unflinching appeal to women to support her still in operation, but there in Sunday’s vote, while front-runner Nicolas was a high possibility that Sarkozy is reaching out to farmers, to those movement of cars and peo­ who voted no to a European constitution and ple at the site seen in satel­ to all who love France. lite photos could be linked to Unlike previous elections, no single theme a shutdown, South Korea’s has emerged. Jobs, immigration and the Yonhap news agency report­ French identity have all taken turns in the ed, citing an unnamed intel­ spotlight. ligence official. The Dong-a The only constant has been the front-run­ Ilbo daily carried a similar ner status of conservative candidate Sarkozy report. whom far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen An official at the National dreams of facing in the May 6 final round. Intelligence Service, South Korea’s main spy agency, told The Associated Press they were “following and N a tion al N ew s analyzing some peculiar movements” around the Bush pushes Denis to extend funding reactor in North Korea, without elaborating. The South Korean workers load packs of rice for victims of floods in North Korea WASHINGTON — President Bush, prodding August 30. North Korea may be preparing to shut down its main nuclear reactor. Congress to extend the Iraq war without calling official spoke on condition of troops home, said Monday that Democratic lead­ anonymity, citing policy. If the North complies, that withdrawal last week, but to begin talks Wednesday in ers owe it to veterans and their families to pass Yonhap news agency cited would be its first move it’s unclear when the North Pyongyang to discuss the the war-spending bill he wants. another unnamed intelli­ toward stopping production will move to get its $25 mil­ North’s request for 400,000 “Listen, I understand Republicans and gence official as saying that of nuclear weapons since lion. tons of rice. Democrats in Washington have differences over South Korea and the United 2002, the start of the latest On Monday, an unnamed South Korea periodically the best course in Iraq,” Bush said from the States have been closely nuclear standoff. The North South Korean official said sends rice and fertilizer to White House. “That’s healthy. That’s normal, monitoring some movement is believed to have produced South Korea could tem­ the impoverished North, and we should debate those differences. But our since a month ago. as many as a dozen atomic porarily suspend rice ship­ which has relied heavily on troops should not be caught in the middle.” “The intensity of these bombs since then, and con­ ments to North Korea in an foreign handouts since the Surrounded by families of veterans, Bush activities has increased from ducted an underground test effort to increase pressure mid-1990s when natural’ sought to set expectations for his meeting about a week or two ago,” detonation in October. on the North to shut down disasters and mismanage­ Wednesday with congressional leaders of both the official was quoted as Pyongyang said last week the atomic reactor. ment devastated its econo­ parties. In particular, he aimed to pressure saying. “There are activities that honoring its pledge was “We can’t just ignore and my and famine led to the Democratic lawmakers to fund the war without other than cars and people contingent on the release of do nothing if ... North Korea deaths of as many as 2 mil­ trying to limit or wind down the military mis­ moving busily.” money frozen in a separate doesn’t take initial steps” to lion people. sion. The report comes after the financial dispute after disarm as agreed in An official at South North missed a Saturday Washington blacklisted a February at six-nation Korea’s Unification Ministry, N.Y. Catholic diocese faces abuse trial deadline to shut down the bank where North Korea nuclear, talks, the official which deals with North MINEOLA, N.Y. — The nation’s sixth-largest reactor and allow U.N. had accounts. The funds said, according to the Dong- Korean affairs, said “noth­ Roman Catholic diocese went on trial Monday in inspectors to verify and seal were allegedly used in a Ilbo newspaper. Other ing has been decided yet.” a $150 million lawsuit accusing church officials the facility under a February money laundering and dailies carried similar The official spoke on cus­ of recklessness for employing a youth minister agreement with the U.S. and counterfeiting. reports. tomary condition of who raped and sodomized teenagers. four other countries. The money was freed for The two Koreas were set anonymity. In his opening arguments, attorney Michael Dowd told jurors the focus of the trial was not Matthew Maiello, a priest who pleaded guilty to rape and sodomy in 2003, but his superiors. “The question here is who let the beast loose? Who let him loose to run free through the flock Gonzales proceedings postponed of Rev. Thomas Haggerty, picking his victims at will?” Dowd said.

Associated Press pushed for Gonzales to testify as attorney general has been perfect­ soon as possible, and the long- ly honest,” White House spokes­ Local N ew s WASHINGTON — Senators post­ scheduled hearing is widely woman Dana Perino said Monday. poned testimony by Attorney viewed as the attorney general’s And Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, Indy man charged with wife’s murder General Alberto Gonzales in the last chance to quiet a controversy defended Gonzales from the politi­ NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — An Indianapolis man afterm ath of Monday’s deadly that has prompted calls in both cal backlash by noting, “This is a was arraigned Monday on charges he and two Virginia Tech shootings, delaying parties for his resignation. town of jerks.” other men plotted to murder his ex-wife. A fourth his chance to defend contradic­ Gonzales has struggled for more Gonzales accepts responsibility suspect was charged with assisting a criminal. tions about fired federal prosecu­ than a month to clarify what he for some of the confusion, Rebecca Payne, 32, and George Benner, 35, of tors that have taxed his credibili­ described as only a limited acknowledging in written testimo­ Fowler were found shot to death April 6 in her ty- involvement in the purge that ny “that at times I have been less mother's home just south of Carmel. Senate Judiciary Chairman Democrats believe was politically than precise with my words when Toby K. Payne, 30, was arrested the next day Patrick Leahy said the proceed­ motivated. A group of conserva­ discussing the resignations.” and held in the Hamilton County Jail without ings, initially set for Tuesday, tive activists joined the chorus He also ordered the Justice bond on a felony charge of stalking. His former would be inappropriate after the Monday, urging Gonzales to step Department to release more than wife had obtained a protective order against him shootings in southwestern down for having “debased honesty 5,700 pages of e-mails, schedules, in February, and investigators found phone mes­ Virginia. He delayed Gonzales’ as the coin of the realm.” memos and other documents to sages from him on her answering machine after appearance until Thursday. The White House maintained its show that the firings were not the bodies were discovered. The Bush administration has support for Gonzales. “I think the im proper. page 6 The Observer ♦ INTERNATIONAL NEXSZS Tuesday, April 17, 2007

V e n e zu e la Countries at odds over ethanol at energy summit

Associated Press regional “Bank of the South” pro­ basis of the criticisms.” radio broadcast that South Without mentioning Venezuela posed by Chavez as an alternative Chavez used to speak warmly American countries “have an by name, Jeb Bush said the PORLAMAR — President Hugo to U.S.-backed lenders like the about ethanol’s future, but he immense territory” to be able to United States needs to boost Chavez attempted to derail a International Monetary Fund and came out harshly against its pro­ comfortably produce ethanol and ethanol use because much of the U.S.-Brazil ethanol agreement as World Bank, said Rafael lsea, motion as a substitute for gaso­ plenty of food. petroleum consumed by America host of an energy summit on Venezuela’s deputy finance minis­ line after the U.S.-Brazil agree­ In a visit to Brazil, meanwhile, comes from nations that consider Monday, offering his own devel­ ter. ment. His concerns are shared by fo rm er F lorida Gov. Jeb Bush themselves “enemies of our coun­ opment plans for South America On ethanol, though, Brazil’s some experts who say that even if criticized Cuba and Venezuela for try.” using Venezuela's vast reserves of interests appear to lie in its all arable land on Earth were their leaders’ newfound opposi­ Venezuela’s information minis­ oil and natural gas. agreement with the United turned over to biofuel production, tion to increased ethanol produc­ ter, Willian Lara, dismissed Despite Chavez's clash on States, despite Chavez’s disap­ it still would not meet world tion. Bush’s remarks as part of the ethanol with Brazilian President proval. demand for fuel. Venezuela still “Mysteriously, for reasons I “open, clear and persistent inten­ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the two Silva said before leaving Brazil plans to expand its own ethanol can’t explain, they did a complete tion” of the U.S. government to leaders smiled and shoveled on Monday that he hopes to dis­ production for use as a fuel addi­ about-face,” said Bush, the broth­ create a negative image of the cement side-by-side for the foun­ cuss the ethanol concerns, espe­ tive. er of U.S. President George W. energy summit being hosted by dation of a new petrochemical cially “the technical or scientific Silva said in a Monday morning Bush. Chavez. complex in eastern Venezuela before they flew to Margarita Island for the summit. 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Tuesday, April 17,2007 1 ^ page 7 M a r k et R ec a p Lilly earnings exceed forecasts

Jones 1 2 , 7 2 0 . 4 6 + 1 0 8 . 3 3 First-quarter profits down due to restructuring, but higher than estimates Up: Same: Down Composite Volume: 1,941 142 1,288 2,690,330,508 Associated Press

AMEX 2,229.63 +5.21 INDIANAPOLIS — Drug NASDAQ 2,518.33 maker Eli Lilly and Co. start­ + 26.39 ed 2007 strong by beating NYSE 9,625.53 + 102.67 Wall Street estimates and S&PSOO 1,468.47 + 15.62 raising its own expectations, NIKKEtflokyo) 17,782.08 0.00 despite reporting net income that sank 39 percent com­ FTSE lOO(London) 6,516.20 +99.80 pared to last year’s first quarter. COM PANY % CHANGE | :$GAIN | PRICE The Indianapolis company S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) +0 95 + 1.38 146.70 reported on Monday earn­ POWERSHARES (QQQQ) +0 92 ings totaling $508.7 million, +0.41 45.06 or 47 cents per share, for the SLM CORPORATION (SLM) + 17.73 +8.29 55.05 first three months of the SUN MICROSYS (SUNW) + , 03 +0.06 5.86 year. That was down from $834.8 million, or 77 cents INTEL CP (INTC) + , J 2 +0.23 20.69 per share, in same period last year. 10-YEAR NOTE -0.55 -0.026 4.735 The company said its first- quarter performance was 13-WEEK BILL -0.10 -0.005 4.865 impacted by charges related 30-YEAR BOND -0.73 -0.036 4.890 to restructuring and an acquisition. The restructur­ -0.018 4.665 5-YEAR NOTE -0.38 ing charge of 8 cents per share stemmed mostly from LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) -0 .0 2 63.61 job cuts at a Lafayette, Ind., site and the company’s deci­ GOLD ($/Troy oz.) +4.60 689.90 sion to halt construction of PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) -1.138 103.13 Virginia insulin manufactur­ ing plant. It also included an expense YEN 119.595 0 of 29 cents per share related EURO 0.7389 to Lilly’s $2.3 billion pur­ POUND 0.5025 chase of ICOS Corp., a deal CANADIAN $ that closed in January. 1.1323 Excluding those items, earnings came in at $913.3

million, or 84 cents per AP I n B r ief share. That beat estimates A woman leaves Eli Lilly and Company’s corporate offices Monday. Lilly’s on Wall Street, where ana­ first-quarter earnings slid 39 percent, still better than forecasts. lysts polled by Thomson Third lender agrees to settlement Financial were looking for Sales rose 14 percent to quarter. But the company Oppenheimer & Co. ana­ ALBANY, N.Y. — A third lending company 79 cents per share. $4.23 billion from $3.71 bil­ noted that the drug saw lyst Scott Henry thinks the agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement in an The company started 2007 lion a year ago, which also lower demand in the U.S. drug still has plenty of expanding probe of the student loan industry, “out of the blocks strong,” exceeded Wall Street’s esti­ market, and it attributed the potential, especially if it New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said said Lehman Brothers ana­ mate of $4.12 billion. sales growth there mainly to receives approval later this Monday, as he announced that 13 additional lyst Tony Butler. “We are delivering on our higher prices. year to be used as a treat­ lenders have been hit with subpoenas or letters “Lilly did very well across priorities with solid financial Butler said Zyprexa still ment for the neurological from his office. the board,” he said. performance in the first was benefiting from the disorder fibromyalgia, which The investigation has now touched companies “Virtually every one of their quarter,” company Chief higher reimbursement it he called “a huge untapped that issue 80 percent of all student loans in the products exceeded our esti­ Financial Officer Derica Rice nets when patients switch market.” United States, according to Cuomo spokesman mates modestly.” told analysts during a coverage from Medicaid to Lilly now expects full-year John Milgrim. Five subpoenas and eight letters UBS analyst Roopesh Patel Monday morning conference Medicare. adjusted earnings per share seeking lending data were sent Friday. said the company beat esti­ call. Revenue growth from pric­ to fall within the range of The lenders that received subpoenas include: mates “handily,” and he Top-seller Zyprexa, an ing benefits like that is not $3.30 to $3.40 per share, an College Loan Corp., Access Group, Sun Trust, noted that its profit was driv­ anti-psychotic, saw sales sustainable like growth from increase from the $3.25 to Edfinancial, and Regions Bank. The companies en by higher sales not cost climb 10 percent to $1.11 higher sales volume, Patel $3.35 range it had projected. sent letters seeking documents include: National cutting. billion, marking the fourth noted. Overall, the company’s City of West Palm Beach, Fla.; Citizens Bank, “The overall quality of the straight quarter that sales Sales of Cymbalta, which performance left Miller PNC of Pittsburgh, US Bank, Bank of America, earnings was quite decent,” have increased when com­ treats depression, rose 89 Tabak and Co. analyst Les Wells Fargo of California, JP Morgan Chase of he said. pared to the previous year’s percent to $441.8 million. Funtleyder “pleasantly sur- New York, and Wachovia Corp. of Charlotte, N.C. In the letters, Cuomo is asking the companies to retain records and turn over data about their practices. Katrina victim to receive payment Private firm to buy lender Sallie Mae NEW ORLEANS — Allstate Insurance Co. must pay a Louisiana man who lost his home to Associated Press J.C. Flowers and private-equity firm Sallie Mae is by far the largest Hurricane Katrina more than $2.8 million in dam­ Friedman Fleischer & Lowe will invest school lender, originating $23.4 billion ages and penalties, a federal jury decided Monday WASHINGTON — A group of $4.4 billion and own 50.2 percent of in student loans last year, many of investors announced plans Monday to the company. Bank of America and them federally subsidized such as in a case that hinged largely on whether it was buy Sallie Mae, taking the nation’s JPMorgan Chase each will invest $2.2 widely used Stafford loans. The com­ wind or storm surge that wiped out his house. largest student lender private in a $25 billion and each will own 24.9 percent. pany has recently expanded into other The jury found Allstate — which claimed most billion deal that comes as some regu­ The buyers will also provide Sallie areas of lending, such as debt collec­ of the damage was due to storm surge, an event lators call for tougher standards and Mae with $200 billion in backup tion and 529 college savings plans. not covered in its policy — did not pay Robert lower federal subsidies for the $85 bil­ financing. But it has also been subject to Weiss enough money to cover wind damage to his lion college loan industry. John Oros, a managing director at greater attention from lawmakers and home. The verdict included a $1.5 million penalty Private-equity firm J.C. Flowers & J.C. Flowers, said the firm was drawn regulators currently probing ties for the company’s failure to pay the claim quickly Co. and three other investors will pay by Sallie Mae’s stock price, which had between lenders and college officials enough. $60 per share for the Reston, Va.- fallen to around $40 per share before who guide students toward specific Allstate lawyer Judy Barrasso said in closing based SLM Corp., commonly referred takeover talks began. The investors lenders for their loans. arguments that Katrina’s winds were not strong to as Sallie Mae. The sale price repre­ also weren’t deterred by the brewing Last week, Sallie Mae settled with enough to do the damage. She said Weiss already sents a nearly 50 percent premium for troubles for lenders and the prospect New York Attorney General Andrew had received more than $400,000 in insurance Sallie Mae’s previously sagging stock of a clampdown on the industry by Cuomo over the company’s business payments — including $350,000 in federal flood before takeover rumors emerged late lawmakers. practices, agreeing to pay $2 million to insurance. last week. “We think Sallie Mae is a great com­ a student loan education fund. It will The lawyer for the Weisses, whose home was in SLM shares traded up more than 17 pany and a great business, and appro­ also no longer pay travel and enter­ the Slidell area on the north shore of Lake percent on the New York Stock priate regulation will sort itself out in tainm ent expenses for university offi­ Pontchartrain, told the jury in closing arguments Exchange after the buyout was a way that will make this an attractive cials or send its employees to work for that the house was too high above sea level to announced Monday. transaction for us,” Oros said. free in campus financial aid offices. have been destroyed by Katrina’s storm surge. page 8 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEW'S Tuesday, April 17, 2007

“As soon as one friend called, LaFratta took classes in the aca­ anxious about security at Notre dents who are struggling emotion­ another did, and more,” Jennings demic building where the majority Dame. ally. Shooting said. of the deaths occurred. “I’ve never felt unsafe at Notre “I think there are a lot of continued from page 1 The students couldn’t give many “A few years ago, I was there,” Dame,” Smith said. resources for those who are hav­ details about the incident, she LaFratta said. “It hits home — Senior Paul Mitchell agreed. ing difficulties,” Shewakramani ings from his girlfriend, a said. these things really do happen.” “I still feel as safe here as any­ said. “I would be surprised if Virginia Tech alumna, around 10 “All [they] said was that there LaFratta said it was hard to where,” Mitchell said, stating, someone [who is struggling] a.m. LaFratta confirmed that his was a shooting ... and at least 20 imagine a scare on Virginia Tech’s however, that his notions of safety wouldn’t be reached out to.” girlfriend’s sister, a current kids had been killed and at least campus last year while a convict do not make Notre Dame exempt Still, Tarnawski said, it’s impor­ Virginia Tech student, was safe, as 20 injured,” she said. “As far as was loose in the area. This from violence like Monday’s tant to remember that you can’t well as the safety of several close I’ve heard, everyone I know is tragedy, he said, is even harder to tragedy. know what people are feeling. friends. OK.” picture. Virginia Tech, with an enroll­ “You never know w hat people “When I first heard, they were Jennings said she couldn’t con­ “The magnitude of the event is ment of more than 25,000, is are going through inside,” reporting there was only one tact some of her friends there just so overwhelming,” LaFratta located in the Blue Ridge Tarnawski said. “Someone after death,” LaFratta said. “I thought, Monday afternoon because phone said. Mountains, 160 miles west of my English class was like, ‘You ‘It’s a really sad event and I want lines were busy. LaFratta said he would have Richmond, Va. Jennings said know, 1 just wonder what was to know what is going on.’” Monica never predicted Virginia Tech’s location as a col­ going on in that person’s life that Soon, the news coverage took a Tarnawski, a soph­ anything like this at lege town — not part a large caused them to snap.’” personal tone. omore, said she “It makes you a campus he urban area — makes her think That same thought crossed LaFratta said he eventually heard here from a realize that it described as about Notre Dame’s similar set­ Mitchell’s mind as well. heard that one acquaintance had friend who attends could happen “exceptionally ting. “My first question was why — been killed in the first incident in Virginia Tech peaceful.” “Honestly, Tech ... is in the mid­ why would someone do that, just th e dorm . By M onday night, Monday afternoon anywhere, on any Students at Notre dle of nowhere — and it seems asking questions to the psychology LaFratta said he had seen pictures through the social college campus. ” Dame said they feel kind of like South Bend, which is a of that and what enables that sort on television of his slain friend. networking Web safe on campus but scary thought, being here. It’s a of violence,” Mitchell said. He said he knew the friend from site Facebook. Erin Smith recognize that an pretty enclosed campus, like Monday’s massacre will go down Virginia Tech’s marching band, “She actually event like Monday’s here,” she said. as the deadliest campus shooting senior where LaFratta played trumpet. composed a note could happen at Gillespie said the incident “kind in national history. Previously, the Other students with friends at that said I’m fine,’ anywhere, Notre of just puts things into perspec­ largest was a rampage that took the school expressed their concern and we all saw it,” Tarnawski said. Dame included. tive.” place in 1966 at the University of Monday afternoon. Like Tarnawski, Jennings and “Things like that, especially on “It makes me look outside the Texas at Austin, where 16 people Sophomore Amelia Gillespie Gillespie, LaFratta said that initial­ television — it seems so far away [Notre Dame] bubble a little bit, ” were killed before police shot the heard from her roommate before ly, all reports about his friends had ... [but] I think it could happen she said. “It’s a small world.” gunman to death. going to class Monday morning. been positive — until later Monday anywhere,” said Chris Heckett, a Sophomore Katie Bergerow said While the facts of yesterday’s “I was in shock. I have a couple evening, when he first heard his visiting graduate student. “To the tragedy caused her and her tragedy still are being investigated, of friends that go there, and I’m friend had been killed. think otherwise would probably be roommates to consider their safety students say while there is little still waiting to hear back from LaFratta was watching televi­ thoughtless.” in the residence halls. they can do, they can send their them,” Gillespie said. “I tried to sion news coverage of the shooting Erin Smith, a senior, echoed “We were talking about how we prayers and support. call them, but they haven’t called when he learned there were more Heckett’s thoughts. leave bur door unlocked,” “Right now, I’m here to offer any back. I think they’re okay, because deaths that initially reported. “It makes you realize that it Bergerow said. They probably type of support I can get involved, I’ve heard from other friends.” “At around 12:15 p.m. or so ... could happen anywhere, on any wouldn’t change that behavior, she any type of awareness,” Gillespie Freshman Tracy Jennings also all of a sudden, one of the three college campus, ” she said. “It kind said, but the tragedy “really shows said. has friends at Virginia Tech. [channels] reported that there of makes you think about the secu­ that something like this could hap­ LaFratta said he has done “a lot “One of my friends called me were at least 20 dead, ” LaFratta rity here at Notre Dame, or at any pen.” of praying” and will continue to do around 2 p.m.,” said Jennings, said. “I just really hoped it was a college campus.” Students are also lucky to have a so. who is from Richmond, Va. mistake.” Brown declined to comment on variety of support resources avail­ “My first reaction is to pray a lot The friend who initially called LaFratta said he soon realized Notre Dame’s policies or crisis able, said Gao tarn Shewakramani, — my thoughts go out to all those Jennings was not a student there, the situation was much more com­ management plans for any type of a Notre Dame alumnus visiting families,” LaFratta said. but the freshman received calls plex than the initial single death, violent tragedy like the one campus. He said such resources from Virginia Tech students short­ and he said he then felt a “tremen­ Monday morning. could help avert a violent crisis, Contact Aaron Steiner at ly thereafter. dous amount of sorrow.” But Smith said she has never felt especially those available to stu­ [email protected] Seniors - looking a Job Searching: From College to Career

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Associated Press ment implies that you’re just fooling around with some­ NEW ORLEANS — Jared thing,” said Leslie Jacobs, a Notre Dame will welcome film­ Lamb knew his students were New Orleans resident and vice makers and scholars to campus feeling the pressure. The math president of the state Board of Thursday to Saturday (April 19- teacher spent months prepar­ Elementary and Secondary 21) for its annual Asian Film ing them for a high-stakes test Education. “We’re building an Festival and conference, this year that serves as the first report entirely new school system, not titled “On the Edge: New card for their charter school experimenting.” Independent Cinema from since it opened after Hurricane Before Katrina, the state took China.” Katrina. over five of the city’s worst-per­ The festival will showcase five Two weeks before last forming schools. After the award-winning independent month’s test, Lamb tried to storm, the local school board films from China and engage the break the tension by following retained control of only five filmmakers in candid discussions through on a promise: He let schools. The rest are run by the about the global politics of the students shave his head as state’s Recovery School District China’s burgeoning independent a reward for their work or publicly funded, privately film industry. preparing for the weeklong operated charter schools. Anne Thurston, a senior Louisiana Educational Changes in the classroom research professor at Johns Assessment Program. experience are easy to spot at Hopkins University’s School of “It looked awful — a patch McDonogh 15, a school of more Advanced International Studies here, a patch than 400 stu­ in Washington, D C., and author Courtesy of performingarts.nd.edu there,” Lamb dents from pre­ of numerous books on Chinese The Asian Film Festival will come to Notre Dame this recalled. “But kindergarten contemporary politics, will deliv­ weekend. Five independent Chinese films will be shown. there was no 7 believe we should through eighth er a keynote address titled blood, and it be held accountable.grade nestled in “Rising China? The Other China? ♦ “The Silent Holy Stones” by is available on the Web at helped them pre­ The only way we the relatively Thoughts from China’s Wanma Caidan, 7 p.m. April 20, httpvyperformingarts.nd.edu/. pare for the test, can do it right now sedate residen­ Grassroots.” Her talk, which traces the intermingling of The conference is sponsored by so I have no com­ tial end of the will detail the country’s social native Tibetan culture with the Notre Dame’s College of Arts and plaints.” is through French Quarter, realities that she feels are com­ influence of the outside world Letters, Institute for Scholarship At schools standardized tests.”a block from monly misunderstood by (winner of China’s national film in the Liberal Arts, Office of across Louisiana, Bourbon Street. Washington policymakers, will award for best directorial debut) Research, Helen Kellogg Institute the annual LEAP The school, take place at 4 p.m. April 19 in ♦ “The Orphan of Anyang” by for International Studies, Office Gary Robichaux test determines which opened in the Browning Cinema of the Wang Chao, 10 p.m. April 20, of the Provost, Office of whether students principal September 2006, DeBartolo Center for the three different lives, three differ­ Undergraduate Studies, in fourth and McDonogh 15 is run by the Performing Arts. ent fates, each with their differ­ University Relations, Center for eighth grades can Knowledge is The films, to be screened in the ent backgrounds and experi­ Asian Studies, Department of advance. But the Power Program, Browning Cinema, are: ences, struggle to survive at the East Asian Languages and stakes are higher for the grow­ a network of free, open-enroll- ♦ “Walking on the Wild Side” bottom level of Chinese society Cultures, DeBartolo Center for ing ranks of charter schools in ment public charter schools. by Han Jie, 5 p.m. April 19, a (winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Performing Arts, Department New Orleans, including the KIPP has 52 public schools with drama centered on a youth gang the Chicago International Film of Film, Television and Theatre McDonogh 15 School for the more than 12,000 students in in a coal-mining area of China’s Festival) (FTT), FTT Talks, International Creative Arts, where Lamb 16 states and the District of Shanxi province (winner of the ♦ “Blind Shaft” by Li Yang, 2 Student Services and Activities, teaches. Columbia. Tiger Award at the Rotterdam p.m. April 21, two itinerant min­ Office of Information Test results, due in May, will More than 95 percent of KIPP International Film Festival) ers risk their lives under danger­ Technologies, John A. Kaneb be the first statistical measure students are African American ♦ “Unknown Pleasures” by Jia ous working conditions and Center for Teaching and of performance at the charter or Hispanic, and more than 80 Zhangke, 8:30 p.m. April 19, two develop questionable morals in Learning, Center for Creative schools that replaced many of percent are from low-income unemployed slackers try to make order to survive (winner of the Computing, Chinese Friendship the city’s notoriously dysfunc­ families. McDonogh 15’s demo­ sense of their aimless and uncer­ Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Association, Campus Ministry, tional public schools after graphics are roughly the same. tain futures in a sheltered town International Film Festival) Division of Student Affairs, and Katrina. Derrick Duncan, a McDonogh in China A complete schedule of events Notre Dame Alumni Association. “I believe we should be held 15 eighth-grader whose family accountable. The only way we evacuated to Houston during can do it right now is through Katrina, is now at his fourth standardized tests,” said school in less than two years. McDonogh 15 principal Gary Classes at McDonough are Le s s o n s Le a r n e d f r o m t h e Robichaux. much less crowded than in the Before Katrina, city schools public schools Duncan attended were plagued by mismanage­ before Katrina, and he says he E n r o n Sc a n d a l ment, a shortage of qualified gets much more individual teachers, crumbling buildings, instruction. poor student attendance and “It’s a lot better,” he said. frequent spates of violence. “Some of the stuff they do here Education officials said we would never do at my old Katrina, which flooded 80 per­ school.” cent of New Orleans, created Indeed, KIPP schools employ Bethany McLean an opportunity for the flagging virtually theatrical teaching public school system to right methods and routines. itself, with charter schools as a Teachers and students fre­ centerpiece. Advocates preach quently interact through patience. It will take time, they singing, chanting and hand Co-author of say, for the experiment to bear gestures. “Sparking” in the fruit. classroom means sitting up, “Starting a charter school in paying attention, asking and The Smartest Guys in The the best of circumstances is dif­ answering questions. Students ficult. Starting one in post- earn a weekly “paycheck” that Katrina New Orleans is even rewards good behavior with Room: The Amazing Rise and harder,” said Andy Smarick of treats like hot cocoa and the National Alliance for Public beignets, the fried pastries that Charter Schools in Washington, are a signature snack in New Scandalous Fall and D.C. Orleans. Before the Aug. 29, 2005, Lessons on behavior are as storm, charter schools account­ much a part of the school’s cur­ editor-at-large for ed for only seven of the city’s riculum as reading, writing and 126 public schools. Today, 31 of arithmetic. 56 operating schools are char­ One morning in February, ters. Nine more will open in the assistant principal Komal next school year. Bhasin was supervising a pop Tuesday, April 17,2007 Sponsored by: An estimated 56 percent of quiz in Lamb’s classroom when 7:00 p.m. the city’s roughly 26,000 stu­ a chirping cell phone broke the Mendoza College of Business MBA Program dents are now in charter silence. A student fished the schools, making New Orleans phone out of her pocket and Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide the only major city where a silently surrendered it to majority of enrollment is in Bhasin. Jordan Auditorium charters, according to the New “Can you apologize to your Schools for New Orleans, a teammates for disrupting?” Mendoza College of Business nonprofit group supporting Bhasin asked. charters here. The system, “I’m sorry, teammates,” the educators say, is no longer in student said. A classmate the testing stage. raised his hand and gave UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME “I get really tired of that term Bhasin his own phone. 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Letters to t h e E d ito r The hidden victim of the Imus scandal Thursday was a watershed moment in office) have refused to ever appear on ning impersonation of Cardinal Egan, controversial style they supported. the world of radio. Don Imus, nationally his show. I wonder, however, if this fall­ the Archbishop of New York, that slurs What is sad about this event is that syndicated host of the Imus in the out is genuine. Catholics as racist, homophobic and big­ instead of engaging in a serious debate Morning Show, was fired Thursday over If the parties believed the moral choice oted. Jewish people were also called about racism and stereotypes, the the racial slurs that he made toward the was to dissociate themselves with Imus, “thieving Jews” and “Christ killers.” In American public will have to settle for Rutgers women’s basketball team. The what took so long? Where were they the reference to Serena Williams suggesting holier than thou companies and politi­ comment, which referred to the women day after the incident? The fallout for she might appear on the cover of cians on their soap boxes deriding the as “nappy haired hos,” was appalling Imus didn’t begin until five days after Playboy, another cast member respond­ racism they profited from until it became and bigoted. The women of Rutgers bas­ the comments were made, far longer ed, “More like the cover of National inconvenient. Imus never hid what he ketball have been victimized by this than it takes to make such decisions. Geographic” (yet another Best of Imus was. He was a controversial and some­ remark and the pain inflicted should not This belated response from all parties is segment). They even went as far as to times racially offensive figure. His show be trivialized. not coincidental. There was not a gen­ refer to Martin Luther King Day as was about making money and helping The other, less obvious victim of this uine reaction to Imus, but companies James Earl Ray Day (his assassinator). lead the fight against cancer and autism. scandal is the American public. Imus’ and politicians simply pandered to the Apparently CBS, NBC, Obama and If only all the other parties could be as actions warranted punishment and polit­ American public. Ford could face this bigotry, but Rutgers’ candid with their agendas, perhaps real ical fallout, and normally I would be sat­ All of those “shocked and outraged” comment has crossed the fine. Has it issues on race would be addressed. isfied that both have occurred. CBS and now knew the reputation of the Imus really? Or has the public been victimized MSNBC removed Imus, and politicians show. For years the program has made by the self serving hypocrisy of politi­ Mike Folger including Barack Obama and Harold comments far more racist and offensive cians and the media? Once this issue sophomore Ford (politicians, I might add, that Imus than the ones made about the Rutgers became polarized, many seized the Zahm Hall vigorously supported in their bids for basketball team. The show has a run­ opportunity to condemn the man whose April 16 Lives lost in Iraq war anything but 'wasted'

What on earth is wrong with our socie­ fies this insult by senselessly claiming that is given or merited. Rather, content­ I strongly believe it tragic so many men ty today? Where has the respect for that he “certainly doubtls]” the war’s ment is a decision: One is and will only and women have died while serving in human fife gone? Why is it one must earn dead were content with their short lives be as content as he wants to be. There is the armed forces; however, I could never respect for his fife rather than it being as they must have had “lots of work left absolutely no objective way to measure say, nor tolerate others saying, these lost inherent to his very existence? to do and lots of fife left to live.” Well, the value of a hum an fife. Yes, there are fives have been a waste of life. The totally I write this letter with much frustration excuse me, dear William, but just certain feats within fife that are more selfless sacrifice and courage exhibited and anger in response to Wifi McAuliffe’s because you are 22 years old and have valuable than others; however, the cumu­ by any serviceman (dead or alive) is the column (“No children left behind,” Apr. yet to derive any contentment from your lative value of these various events of a ultimate gift that can be given and all of 16), which referred to the fallen soldiers life does not necessitate that anybody given person’s fife by no means can us civilians should be in complete and in Iraq as “wasted lives.” While McAuliffe else is in that same boat with you. And on measure or determine the inherent value utter awe of these men and women and probably intended for his column to that note, I would like to pose the ques­ of his being alive. At the end of any life, celebrate what they do and have done, argue the need to end the Iraq war, his tion: If you kicked the bucket tonight, there will be regret, the “if only” and the rather than lamenting over what they mode of argument completely under­ would your life have been a waste? “but I wanted to,” but this does not mean could have done. mined his effort. While for the sake of argument you the fife has been a waste, nor does it Rather than honoring those who have might respond in the affirmative, I “cer­ mean contentment cannot be derived Mary Daly valiantly served and given their lives for tainly doubt” that in your heart of hearts from what one has accomplished by his freshman a country they love, McAuliffe labels you truly believe that. Contentment does­ time of death, whether that person dies Welsh Family Hall these fives as “w asted.” McAuliffe justi­ n’t come with time, nor is it something at the age of eight, 18 or 81. April 16

Submit a Letter to the Editor or Guest Column to An acronym you can get behind [email protected] This week is supposed to be LGBTQ aware­ may prove to be a game of Scrabble that Milton or online at www.ndsmcobserver.com . ness week, but developing awareness is going to Bradley wouldn’t be able to finish. For those prove difficult with such a haphazard acronym. open to changing the acronym, there is always Letters to the Editor should be no more than 350 This contorted array of letters makes every arti­ “HATS” (Homosexuals Asking for Tolerance and cle seem as if a drunken reporter continually Sensitivity), but perhaps a more pragmatic solu­ words in length. Guest Columns should be no longer passed out on the keyboard. tion is a simple rearrangement of the difficult All of the great acronyms in our society have letters: “GQ.BLT” Now that sounds fashionable than 800 words and must include a byline with been catchy or unique enough to hold water and delicious. with the American public. Without a good name, year, and major. All submissions must include acronym, any group is going to suffer the fate of The writer is a former cartoonist for The NKOTB. Acronyms derive their strength from Observer the author’s name and contact phone number. being pronounceable as a word, like NAFTA or UNICEF, or having a multiple letter, think N Alec White Submissions must be in by 3:00 p.m. to be consid­ “Double A ” CP. senior If the leaders of this body are tied to letters off campus ered for publication the next day. like Q, giving gay rights a powerful acronym April 16

Sheehan's actions consistent with Catholic values

I was disappointed to read Sarah are that the administration’s case for war “not valued in the [Saint Mary’s] mission.” other heroic men and women are not Vabulas’ letter in last Friday’s Observer was wrought with misinformation and This argument indicates an unawareness “disrespectful” or “despicable.” They are (“Sheehan not in line with College mis­ deception, no weapons of mass destruc­ of Catholic values and a disregard for the courageous and morally justified. Neither sion”), in which she criticized the decision tion were ever found in Iraq, countless role that civil disobedience has played Cindy Sheehan’s methods nor the cause by Saint Mary’s to invite Cindy Sheehan to strategic and administrative errors have throughout human history in helping to for which she fights is contrary to the mis­ speak. Vabulas gives two reasons for her been made and corruption and scandal eradicate injustice and promote peace. sion of a Catholic institution like Saint disapproval: (a) that Sheehan “misrepre- plagued the administration every step of Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day Mary’s. Pope John Paul II has said, “When sent[s] the war through false facts while the way — from Halliburton no-bid con­ encouraged Catholics “to fill the jails with war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens casting unwarranted aspersions upon tracts to Abu Ghraib. Sheehan’s criticism nonviolent resistance to war.” Jacques the fate of humanity, it is ever more those who fundamentally disagree with is especially relevant today, as the sectari­ Maritain wrote, “The deep trend toward urgent to proclaim, with a strong and her,” and (b) that Sheehan has engaged in an violence continues unabated and the emancipation which is at work in that his­ decisive voice, that only peace is the road acts of civil disobedience to further her futility of the war has become apparent tory requires breaking of the law as a to follow to construct a more just and cause. even to members of the President’s own perpetual and necessary condition of unite society.” This is exactly what Vabulas offers no support for her claim party. progress.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was Sheehan has done, however unpleasant it that Sheehan’s criticism is based on false Although she is at times abrasive in her arrested and sent to jail 29 times for acts may be for some people to hear. facts. Sheehan has questioned the admin­ rhetoric, Sheehan’s objections are indeed of civil disobedience in his effort to secure istration’s motives for invading Iraq, criti­ warranted, especially coming from the civil rights for all Americans. Gandhi Michael Kelley cized its management of the war and mother of a soldier who was killed in engaged in civil disobedience multiple senior expressed frustration with the overall Iraq. Turning to Vabulas’s second reason times in his fight for India’s independence. St. Edwards Hall leadership of President Bush. The facts — that the avenues of protest utilized are The methods advocated by these and April 15 /’'I T h e O bserv er

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scoundrel, Mac retains a quick charm By TAE ANDREWS about him that the audience can’t help Scene Editor but like as he delivers his lines in a thick brogue. Three pennies for your thoughts, any­ As revenge for stealing away his one? daughter, Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum Tickets to “The Threepenny Opera, resolves to have Mac arrested. As a opening tonight at 7:30 pm on the Decio result, Polly convinces Mac to get out of Mainstage Theater in DPAC, cost a little town. But before he does. Mac makes the bit more than three cents (it’s actually $8 mistake of making a quick pit stop at his with a student ID), but the show remains favorite brothel, where he runs into the thought-provoking fare: a play set on the sultry Jenny (played by Sarah Loveland), mean streets of 19th-century London a seductive prostitute and bitter ex-wife and riddled throughout with social com­ who gets paid off to betray him. mentary and class consciousness. The resulting plot twists and turns At the very beginning, one of the char­ involve Mac’s many love triangles and acters strides to center stage and his continuing flight from justice. This declares “Threepenny ... an opera for process is complicated by the corrupt beggars.” On the surface, this is immedi­ police chief Tiger Brown (played by Mark ately apparent, as the ragtag ensemble Pienkos), who is an old friend of the iras­ performs a musical cible Mac. number costumed N<"-~ RE DAMfc "lu r TELKVfStC-N, 'Ni> < HfeAl Rc PRESENTS “The Threepenny as London’s poor „ Opera” is great fun and downtrodden as a show; it’s a DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer — who make up Tlx I Itm [ ciinij bawdy and gaudy The womanizing scoundrel Macheath (left, Matt Goodrich) elopes with Polly the staff list of affair full of spot- (right, Katie Nuss) while his crony (center, Alex Godofsky) looks on. Jonathan Jeremiah O pera on musical num­ Peachum, the bers, quick one-lin­ underworld king of Tuesday, April 17 - Sunday, April 22 ers and just the similar feel at times. In fact, the musical said. “It keeps covered the evils of socie­ th e city ’s b e d ra g ­ Evenings at 7:30, Sunday at 2:30 right amount of was written by composer Kurt Weill and ty and prevents us from speaking the gled beggars. The Tickets: $12; $10 Faculty, Staff, Seniors; $8 Students sleaze. The show ’s playwright Bertolt Brecht and debuted in truth. hunchbacked Decio Main Stage, DPAC tongue in cheek is Berlin in 1928. Indeed, it is believed to “The system of corruption itself is Peachum (played d e liv e re d w ell — have inspired “Chicago.” being crowned, and we’re all symptoms by Conor Woods) is most of the humor Despite all the grimy glamour onstage, of that system. I thought that should be a alternately hilari­ arrives with a wink there is a lot more to “The Threepenny panorama, an integral part of the whole ous and menacing and a nod. Opera” than meets the surface. Director system of which we are all are a part of. as he stalks the In addition, the Anton Juan wanted to use the show as a “It’s a beautiful experience to go stage with his sig­ overall stage aes­ platform from which to expound on through a process as an ensemble. I nature sneer on his thetic is perfect for social justice issues such as world pover­ wanted [the cast and crew] to under­ face. His wife, Mrs. the material. The ty. He started with the set itself. Without stand a different aesthetic, a different Peachum (Krysta stage is often a doubt, the play’s unforgettable central style. It’s because you lead the student so Dennis) also bathed in red and image is the set, which resembles a giant that they move into other realities. Their deserves mention blue hues, and Mac face. experience of pain is very limited. I for her crazed look and sinister cackle. and his miscreant crew sport garishly “I wanted to keep the set simple, with thought maybe they should face that too. Overall the pair is vaguely reminiscent of bright gangster zoot suits. In addition, in nothing technological,” Juan said in an A vision of social justice is something the Master of the House and his wife in keeping with the play’s theme of oppres­ interview Sunday. “I don’t like to be a they should understand. ” the musical “Les Miserables” — only sive poverty, much of the cast is decked slave to technology. Plus, I wanted some­ With its talented cast, dynamic visuals with better accents. out in couture reminiscent of the thing that could be manipulated by the and engaging characters, “The The two get their rags in a twist when “Derelicte” clothing line from the film actors.” Threepenny Opera” is not only well their beautiful daughter, Polly (played by “Zoolander.” A few costumes even Juan went on to offer his three cents worth the price of admission, but is also Katie Nuss), runs off to elope with include beer can bolas made out of on the set design. a show with a deeper meaning. That’s Macheath, London’s crown prince of empty Keystone Light cans. “My idea in the play, with the head quite a bargain. crime. Matt Goodrich steals the show as The play also has a strong cabaret being crowned, is that the head is the Mac the Knife, as he is more commonly influence. Fans of the musical “Chicago” system itself, the system of corruption known. Despite being a womanizing will love “Threepenny,” as it possesses a that spews out and swallows us,” he Contact Tae Andrews at [email protected]

DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer Stephanie Newsome plays a street singer in “The Threepenny Opera.” The Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (Conor Woods) menaces a beggar (Eddie show’s opening describes the play as “an opera for beggars.” Velazquez). In "The Threepenny Opera," Peachum plays the beggar’s boss. T h e O bserv er

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expect another“Poker”? By JAMES COSTA DePizzo: No. Honestly, we never Scene Writer really tried to replicate what “Poker” is and I think it would be foolish of For the second time in two years, us to try. It’s a magical song, but it’s O.A.R. is coming to South Bend to been 12 years since we wrote that play the Morris Center. It’s been an song. We’re at a complete different exciting year for the band, including place now with different aspects and a sold-out performance at Madison points of life that are what we try to Square Garden in New York City. That write about now. It’s just like how memorable night was filmed, and the songs like “I Feel Home” and “Love recording will come out this June. and Memories" can’t be replicated. The band’s most recent album, You can’t try to go backwards with “Stories of a Stranger,” is a chugging things; you can just keep going for­ and powerful piece of work that ward with things. brought the group great success this year and last. What’s it like as a band to have O.A.R., which plays in South Bend songs from a few years back that this Sunday, is often tagged as the you can play and so every night successor to groups like the Dave relive the memories of the times Photo courtesy of luxious.com Matthews Band and has continued to when the song was new? O.A.R. (Of A Revolution) performs at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The forge new musical paths and direc­ DePizzo: Just to see the reaction of group will play at the Morris Center for the Performing Arts Sunday. tions. Jerry DePizzo, the band’s saxo­ the crowd every night is a great < phonist, spoke with The Observer to thing. People ask if we get tired of take it as compliment and we try to We’re going to blow the doors off the discuss the band’s past and its strong playing a song but it’s not like that. forge our own path. I don’t think place. We’re going to bring out one outlook for the future. We have one song that we have to we’ve ever tried to sound like any­ hell of a light show and new arrange­ play and that’s the one we have to body else and if we tried, we’d fail ments and it’ll be a really powerful, Tell us about the album. How’s it play and some people see it as a bur­ miserably. So we try to be the band forceful and exciting O.A.R. been playing live? den but I really don’t. People get so that we are and get better at that. DePizzo: It’s been playing real well. excited and so happy when you play What songs can we look for that We’ve developed it, so why wouldn’t As your sound has changed over have become live highlights? some of the songs to you? And the other the years, I notice that the band DePizzo: “Fifty two fifty” is that one become staples of side of it is that we worked with famed songwriter Glen that has really taken on a life of its our concerts. We’ve switch it up and Ballard on “Love and Memories.” own. It has really developed into one developed them and change it every What was that experience like? of the stronger songs that we do live. manipulated them night. It’s never the DePizzo: It was great. I expected That was one that really surprised me O A R ^ same when we play to fit to fit the live something completely different out of going into the tour because it wasn’t environment, with it. I don’t think that situation. Glen Ballard was a a song that we played exceptionally arrangements that we’ve played songs well-known individual with a great well when we went in to make the fit a live environ­ Where: Morris Performing Arts Center the same way twice, amount of success and I expected a record. Now, it’s a really powerful ment in a way we ever. lot more attitude and bravado from song that has a lot of impact. didn’t focus on This keeps it fun him and I didn’t get any of that. He when making the When: 7:30 pm, April 22 and fresh for us. We really just sat down with us and What was it like when the band album. We do it so build upon it. We wrote and a song and I loved every realized they had sold out Madison that when you come Tickets: $28, Go To don’t play it the second of it and we got a great song Square Garden? to a show, the songs 1996 version or the out of it. DePizzo: It was great! The thing are certainly differ­ www.morriscenter.org April 16th version. was, we had played the Garden in ent from the album We keep building Where does the band see their January of 2006 and we were very, version. This is and adapting and sound heading in the tours and very pleased to fill it out the first time something the band J> changing it, and albums to come? around. That was a surprise to us; we loves to do. We love this keeps it fresh DePizzo: I’d say it’s going to get didn’t think we’d have that kind of to switch it up and for us. I think it’s closer to the live sound and what we success there. This time was a little vary it up to give the artist’s and the do on stage. We’re not going to different. Since we’d done it last year, people something a little bit different band’s responsibility to give the fans record a record of 10-minute epic we expected to do it this year and so for the live show. something new every time. Marc jams, but we’re going to have a lot of we raised the bar. [Roberge] does a lot of improvisation chemistry in the studio. We spent We’re certainly glad that we did it “Stories of a Stranger” was with the lyrics. Some nights when the about a month in New York writing again. We actually sold a few more released in 2005. Is there a new show gets a little crazy, half the lyrics new music for the record and we tickets this year than last year, which album in development? are off the top of his head. As one of recorded it all. We’d never done that was great. On top of that, we did the DePizzo: Yeah, we have a live the soloists in the band, I don’t play before. recording and the filming, so there record coming out June 5th. We the same solo twice, ever. One thing We used to come up with a bunch of was a lot of pressure put on us to sell filmed it at Madison Square Garden is that I don’t like to memorize song ideas, record them, and that out and'when we did, we breathed a on January 28th of this year. It's things. Also, it keeps everything fresh would be the record. What we’re sigh of relief. going to be a two CD and two DVD and exciting for me. doing now is playing the songs and set. It’s really fantastic. We’re recording them on tape and now over What’s It like to sell a million total extremely proud of it as a band and A lot of people don’t realize that the next few tours, play them live and records as a band? it’s probably the best thing we’ve O.A.R. is actually Of a Revolution. see how it goes in a live setting. They DePizzo: It’s great — it’s definitely done to date. Everything from the How did you get the name? end up becoming better songs an accomplishment. It’s a notch on performance, the recording of it, the DePizzo: I think it’s from a short because we get more comfortable and the belt. We continue to keep putting filming of it, the artwork, everything, story that Marc wrote in 1996. It’s more familiar with them through per­ notches on the belt and reaching, and it’s all just really great and we’re taken from a time when him and forming them. You can expect the going for goals we want to attain and extremely proud of it. We’re going Chris [Culos] had just studied abroad next O.A.R. record to be 10 or 12 per­ we want to achieve in our career. into the studio this fall to do another in Israel for months and had a new formances on a record and not just studio record. outlook on life. They’d seen a com­ songs. How does it work then that the pletely new culture, with different whole band can be doing their own How does it affect the band to cultures living together as one while What led you to join O.A.R ? thing and still come together to watch yourselves continue to rise? fighting each other at the same time. DePizzo: I lived the dream as a guy form one song? DePizzo: It’s a good feeling. The It was a distinct point in their life and who was a big fan of the music and DePizzo: That’s the chemistry. It’s band is bigger today than we were they started writing this music and actually got to be a part of the band what makes us who we are and the yesterday. It keeps growing and being in this band and they wanted a that I really enjoyed and loved. We band that we are. It’s what you can’t growing and growing. We haven’t name that was somewhat lofty, a were friends first and went to college get with a bunch of session musi­ really had an explosion of growth or name that meant something above together. I’d go to see them play and cians. It’s the camaraderie, the years something like that, and in some themselves and that’s what they came then I’d go and help set up at sound of brotherhood and friendship being ways that’s a good thing and in some up w ith. check, then I’d play a song at sound on stage, learning how to be a band ways we wish we would have that. check, then a song during the show, with each other. It’s something that Everything is steadily progressing In a review of the older album “In then a couple songs and it kept pro­ can’t be replicated. though. We’re a better band because Between Now and Then, ” you were gressing from there till the saxophone of it and we’ve learned to deal with compared to the Police. How does and what I did became an integral What are the band’s immediate each new level as well. the band enjoy these comparisons? part of the band and the band’s plans? DePizzo: The Police is one of my sound. It’s been a very exciting and DePizzo: We are on a spring tour You once said that two songs you favorite bands of all time, so if some­ rewarding experience. right now. We have a West Coast tour loved to play live are “City On one wants to say we sound like the in June, then the summer tour in Down ” and “Poker ” because they Police then that’s fantastic. I’ll take What can the bands expect from July. really hit a chord with the audi­ it. We can get compared to bands like the summer tour? ence. Now with this tour and the Dave Matthews Band, Phish and DePizzo: We’ll be playing new upcoming album, can listeners the Grateful Dead and it’s great. We songs, which we’re excited about. Contact James Costa at [email protected] page 14 The Observer ♦ CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday, April 17, 2007

NBA Heat fall to Celtics with big help from Jefferson Carter's triple-double helps Nets take down metropolitan rival Knicks; Gasol's contributions help Grizzlies defeat Spurs

Associated Press a loose ball, hit awkwardly and Posey fell hard to the court, imme­ A1 Jefferson’s jump hook with diately grimacing and grabbing his one-tenth of a second left lifted the arm. Boston Celtics to a 91-89 win over Miami finished its home sched­ the Miami Heat on Monday night ule 27-14; Boston was 12-29 on in the next-to-last regular season the road this season, matching last game for both teams. year’s mark. Delonte West scored 28 points, Standings-wise, the game was while Jefferson finished with 20 irrelevant. Miami will finish as the points and 13 rebounds for Eastern Conference’s fourth seed Boston. Rajon Rondo added 17 for and will be in either Cleveland or the Celtics. Chicago when the playoffs open Jason Williams hit his first five this weekend. Boston will finish 3-point tries — he finished 5-for-6 with the worst record in the East — and scored 16 points for Miami, and the second worst — ahead of as did Jason Kapono. Shaquille only Memphis — in the NBA. O’Neal added 14 points and But the Celtics, namely coach Michael Doleac scored 10 for the Doc Rivers, still showed plenty of Heat, who went with some unusu­ fire. al lineups in an effort to rest key Rivers picked up a technical foul players before the playoffs. midway through the third quarter Dwyane Wade had eight points for arguing a three-second call on 3-for-7 shooting in 23 minutes against Jefferson, and his team for Miami. responded with a 26-9 run over Miami gave the members of its the next 9 minutes. Gomes’ 3- regular rotation fewer minutes pointdr from in front of the Heat than usual. All five starters played bench capped the burst, and between 23-25 minutes, none of Rivers punctuated it with a fist them besides Eddie Jones seeing pump as the Celtics took a 75-67 any time in the fourth quarter. lead. Instead, this was a night where The Heat battled back, taking AP the likes of Doleac, Chris Quinn the lead on Doleac’s putback with Heat toward James Posey falls as he attempts to retrieve a loose ball against the Celtics and Earl Barron got plenty of play. 1:17 left, but that would be then- in Miami Monday. Boston won 91-89 behind a big game from Delonte West. And, in perhaps the theme of the last score. West’s jumper tied it at season for the Heat, they still 89 with 55.2 seconds left before York Knicks Monday night to com­ was activated and played the final quarter after aggravating an ankle couldn’t escape without an injury. Jefferson delivered the winner. plete a season sweep. 30 seconds of the third quarter. injury. Forward James Posey, a key 3- New Jersey is still hoping to But Stephen Marbury, David Lee Chucky Atkins scored 19 for point shooter and defender for the Nets 104, Knicks 95 catch struggling Washington for and Renaldo Balkman were still Memphis, while Dahntay Jones defending NBA champions, Vince Carter had 29 points, 12 the No. 6 seed and face Atlantic sitting, and they were joined along finished with 16 points. Tarence sprained his left wrist and shoul­ rebounds and 10 assists, and the Division champion Toronto in the the way by starting center Eddy Kinsey had 12 points, and Stromile der after colliding with Rondo with New Jersey Nets clinched at least first round. The Nets (40-41), who Curry, who didn’t play in the sec­ Swift added 10. 5:44 left in the second quarter. the No. 7 seed in the Eastern have won three straight and live of ond half because of a strained White and Michael Finley led the Both players were moving toward Conference by beating the New six, finish their season Wednesday right hamstring. Spurs with 17 points apiece, while night at home against Chicago. The rest of the night belonged to Butler and Bene Udrih scored 12 Bostjan Nachbar added 19 the Nets, with Carter and Kidd each. points for the Nets, who won their receiving loud ovations. Carter had grabbed 10 boards. sixth straight at Madison Square his second triple-double this sea­ San Antonio, which trailed by as Garden and 10th in the last 11 son and fourth of his career, while many as 21 early in the fourth meetings overall against their Richard Jefferson added 15 points period, got the deficit under 10 rivals across the Hudson River. and Mikki Moore scored 14. with 5:18 to play, and eventually New Jersey has won 22 of the last got within 91-86 on Butler’s 15- 26 in the series, including two vic­ Grizzlies 101, Spurs 91 footer with 3:19 to play. But San tories in the last four nights, and is Pau Gasol scored 25 Antonio, which never led in the 20-4 against New York in the reg­ points,grabbed 15 rebounds and game, could get no closer, drop­ ular season since acquiring Jason had six assists to lead the ping its second game in as many Kidd. Memphis Grizzlies to a victory over nights. Steve Francis scored 26 points the San Antonio Spurs on Monday The Grizzlies, who also defeated and Mardy Collins had 23 for the night. the playoff-bound Denver Nuggets E Knicks (32-49), who are limping to Gasol connected on nine of his on Saturday night, have won two the finish. They have lost a season- 15 shots to lead five Grizzlies in straight, matching their longest high five straight and need a victo­ double figures. winning streak of the season. ry at Charlotte on Wednesday to Both teams were without key Memphis held a 56-43 lead at avoid losing 50 games in consecu­ players. Spurs Tim Duncan, Tony the half as Gasol scored 20 points, tive seasons for the first time since Parker and Manu Ginobili took the including a 43-footer as time ran doing it three straight times from night off because San Antonio was out in the second period. The 7- 1984-87. no longer playing to enhance its foot Spaniard ran off the court The highlight for the Knicks was third seed in the West. That left lit­ with his arms outstretched like an a brief appearance by Jamal tle-used Spurs such as Jackie airplane before bumping chests Crawford after he missed the last Butler and James White starting with Swift. 22 games with a broken right their first games of the season. Atkins added 10 points for ankle. The Knicks’ second-leading Memphis starters Mike Miller Memphis. No Spurs were in dou­ AP scorer was expected to miss the and Damon Stoudamire didn’t play ble figures, White and Robert Nets toward Richard Jefferson dunks against the Knicks in rest of the regular season after he because of knee injuries, and Horry registering eight points Madison Square Garden on Monday. The Nets took the game by 10 was injured in late February, but rookie Rudy Gay left in the second apiece.

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Major League Baseball Boston M arathon American League East team record perc. last 10 GB Boston 7-4 .636 7-4 - Toronto 7-5 .583 7-5 .5 Baltimore 6-6 .500 6-6 1.5 New York 5-6 .455 5-6 2 Tampa Bay 5-7 .417 5-7 2.5 American League Central team record perc. last 10 GB Cleveland 6-3 .667 6-3 Detroit 7-5 .583 7-5 .5 Minnesota 7-5 .583 7-5 .5 Chicago 5-6 .455 5-6 2 Kansas City 3-9 .250 3-9 4.5 American League West team record perc. last 10 GB Seattle 5-3 .625 5-3 . Los Angeles 6-7 .462 6-7 1.5 2007 BM TOt Oakland 6-7 .462 6-7 1.5 MARATHON Texas 5-7 .417 5-7 2 National League East team record perc. last 10 GB Atlanta 8-3 .727 8-3 . New York 7-4 .636 7-4 1 Florida 6-5 .545 6-5 2 Philadelphia 3-8 .273 3-8 5 Washington 3-9 .250 3-9 5.5 National League Central team record perc. last 10 GB Cincinnati 7-5 .583 7-5 . Milwaukee 6-5 .545 6-5 .5 St. Louis 6-5 .545 6-5 .5 Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya crosses the finish line in Boston Monday as he wins the 111th Boston Marathon Pittsburgh 4-6 .400 4-6 2 Cheruiyot finished the 26.2-mile race in 2:14.13 for his third Boston marathon win. Houston 4-6 .400 4-6 2 Chicago 4-7 .364 4-7 2.5

National League West Cheruiyot defends Boston Marathon title team record perc. last 10 GB Arizona 9-4 .692 9-4 Associated Press after overcoming from a con­ Kenya took the top four the defending London cham­ Los Angeles 8-4 .667 8-4 .5 cussion from that slip and the spots in the men’s race and pion, American record-hold­ San Diego 7-5 .583 7-5 1.5 BOSTON — The runners remnants of a nor’easter to its 15th victory in 17 years. er and Olympic bronze Colorado 5-7 .417 5-7 3.5 were soaked, the pavement win his third Boston title. “It The top American man was medalist, still finished first in San Francisco 3-7 .300 3-7 4.5 slippery, and Robert is like telling someone some­ Peter Gilmore, in eighth the U.S. national champi­ Cheruiyot knew exactly thing very bad. ... It is not place. onships, a race within a race where trouble was waiting good.” Russia’s Lidiya Grigoryeva that carried a $25,000 along the Boston Marathon Cheruiyot, who also won in captured the women’s crown bonus. NCAA Men’s Lacrosse route. 2003, earned his third in 2:29:18, winning by 20 “It’s hard to deal with a dis­ Inside Lacrosse Top 20 So 48 hours before the Boston title standing up. He seconds and sending Latvia’s appointing performance start of Monday’s race, after outkicked countryman James Jelena Prokocuka to her sec­ when you’ve prepared for so team points prev. his more traditional training Kwambai on the way into ond consecutive second-place much better than you did out was complete, the defending Kenmore Square to win in 2 finish. Grigoryeva, who set there,” she said. 1 Cornell 360 1 champion headed to the hours, 14 minutes, 13 sec­ the course record in Los Cheruiyot spent two nights 2 Duke 331 4 course to test the traction of onds — slower than the Angeles last year, veered to in a Chicago hospital in 3 Albany 329 3 the finish line. It was at the course record of 2:07:14 he the stands to grab a Russian October after slipping on the 4 Virginia 305 2 end of the Chicago race, 26 set last year but enough to flag just before crossing the finish line as he raised his 5 Princeton 292 5 miles and 384 yards in, that win by 20 seconds. finish line. arms to celebrate his victory. 6 Georgetown 262 6 he slipped — nearly costing “When the lion is chasing Top American hope Deena He couldn’t sleep for more 7 Johns Hopkins 242 10 himself a race, if not a career. the antelope, he doesn’t look Kastor fell back after stom­ than a month, had trouble 8 Maryland 222 7 “I don’t want myself to back. He has to eat,” ach problems diverted her with his back, along with 8 Navy 222 8 think about falling down in Cheruiyot said. “So when 1 from the course for a minute headaches that persisted 10 North Carolina 206 9 Chicago,” Cheruiyot said run, I don’t stare at my time.” near the midpoint. Kastor, until six weeks ago. 11 NOTRE DAME 191 11 12 Bucknell 153 13 13 Loyola Md 116 12 14 UMBC 113 14 In Brief 15 Drexel 112 16 16 Syracuse 105 17 Weekley wins first PGA Tour Federer pressures ATP to Pacers out of playoffs for first 17 Towson 65 15 event at Verizon Heritage save Monte Carlo Masters time in 12 years 18 Delaware 37 18 HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Boo MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Roger INDIANAPOLIS, I.N. — Coach Rick 19 Colgate 36 NR Weekley didn’t blow his latest chance for Federer is making another push to save Carlisle said all the right things less 20 Hofstra 32 NR a first PGA Tour victory, chipping in on the Monte Carlo Masters from being than 24 hours after his Indiana Pacers the final two holes to hold off Ernie Els downgraded. were knocked out of playoff contention and win the Verizon Heritage on The top-ranked Swiss said Monday that for the first time in a decade. Monday. the ATP, which is planning to restructure He said they had a good practice and Weekley looked as if he would give its 2009 calendar, is moving too fast. will be ready for Tuesday’s game at back all of a three-shot lead after his “Many people are worried, and Atlanta. around the dial bogey on the 16th hole and his muffed because they are worried, I think we But he struggled whenever he chip behind the 17th green. Weekley fol­ should just wait for a minute here,” uttered the phrase “out of the play­ lowed the blunder with a 40-foot, par- Federer said. offs.” And his boyish face looked more saving chip to keep a one-stroke lead. The ATP wants to trim the Masters drained Monday than perhaps at any NHL But then Weekley had his troubles on schedule from nine to eight tournaments point in the past two tumultuous years. Ottawa at Pittsburgh Harbour Town’s lighthouse hole, No. 18. by cutting Monte Carlo and Hamburg and The Pacers will close their season at He chipped across the green and into the adding Shanghai. home against Washington on 7 p.m., VERSUS fluffy rough down a short slope. Once Both Monte Carlo and Hamburg, which Wednesday. Carlisle said it will be again, Weekley’s short game saved him, are two of the main clay-court warmup business as usual, but his gloomy Detroit at Calgary this time rolling it from 36 feet away. events for the French Open, would demeanor made his words a tough 10 p.m., VERSUS “Unreal,” Weekley said. “This is unre­ remain on the tour but no longer with sell. al.” Masters status. They are both suing the “You don’t approach it any different­ The Big Easy, bidding for his first tour ATP. ly because you’re out of the playoffs,” win since 2004, lost his chance on No. “Before we move too quickly in a bad Carlisle said. “You come in and you try 17, driving into the hazard behind the direction, let’s have a meeting all together to get better and you try to win those green for a bogey. and go forward from then,” Federer said. last couple.” page 16 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Cyc lin g Hamilton returns after 2-year ban

Associated Press on Monday to “the situation in i 2004” as he talked about his Tyler Hamilton feared his comeback. return to competitive cycling, “Still take it one day at a unsure what to expect in his tim e,” he said when asked first race in the United States about his plans for the week. “I after a two-year doping ban. did feel better today that cer­ After the first stage of the tainly I did in March. That was Tour de Georgia on Monday, encouraging, yeah. the former Olympic gold “It’s nice to get the first stage U.S. cyclist Tyler Hamilton gestures his innocence in a blood doping investigation with his fists medalist was encouraged. out of the way.” during a press conference in Switzerland In 2004. Hamilton returned to racing after a two-year ban. Hamilton was 56th, finishing Hamilton said he “really in the middle of a huge peloton remained a professional bike about 2 minutes behind the racer the whole time” during stage winner, Daniele Contrini the suspension, but he said his of Italy. Contrini finished the devotion to training can’t 97-mile ride from Peachtree replace the missed competi­ City to Macon in 3 hours, 24 tions. Italians say that minutes, 26 seconds. “I’ve trained every day,” he Hamilton is attempting to said. “The hardest part was reclaim his place among the missing out on the racing. I elite in cycling after his sus­ typically road race 80 to 100 pension in September 2004 for days a year, so I missed two blood doping, the transfusion and a half seasons, basically. I of extra blood that can missed a lot of racing.” increase endurance. He has The Tour de Georgia should m r been racing in Europe since help Hamilton learn if he is January but prepared for bigger 2 Monday was his “It was nice that races in Europe. first sanctioned there were a lot of Tuesday’s second race in his home s ta g e fro m country since the people encouraging Thomaston north 20 0 1 S an me and welcoming to Rome covers 135 Francisco Grand me hack to racing.miles, ” followed by Prix. another 118 miles Hamilton has n o rth to continued to Tyler Hamilton Chattanooga, protest his inno­ American cyclist T e n n ., on cence, but he Wednesday. seemed relieved to again have The fourth and fifth days the chance to talk about rac­ take the racers through the ing. mountains of north Georgia, Hamilton said his comeback including the grueling Stage 5 was slowed by a bout with flu run from Dalton to Brasstown symptoms that developed into Bald Mountain, Georgia’s high­ bronchitis in March, but the est mountain. 2004 Olympic time trial cham­ The relatively flat courses on pion says he hopes to use this Monday and Tuesday favor long race to build momentum sprinters. Hamilton, at his Find out w hy... for the Tour of Italy. peak, would be expected to Hamilton acknowledged he make his move in the moun­ Learn Italian this does not yet know if, at 36, he tains. can return to his top form. On Monday, Hamilton said his “I’ve never taken two and a focus was on his teammate’s ______sum m er.______half years off from racing and stage victory. come back,” he said. “Your “For me it was really emo­ ROIT 10115 is a 6 week, 6 credit course meeting from guess is as good as mine. I feel tional seeing Contrini there at I’m heading in the right direc­ the finish line,” he said. “I June 19 until August 3 - MTWRF 8:30-10:30/11:00-12:00 tion.” knew once he was there at the The troubles faced by breakaway he had a chance to IVs like a double shot of espresso in the morning! Hamilton, 2006 Tour de France win, and I just had my fingers winner Floyd Landis and oth­ crossed the whole day.” ers have hurt the sport. Hamilton’s return was con­ sidered a taboo subject by some. Castle Point Apartments -272-8110 “No comment on that,” said Doug Ollerenshaw, who fin­ 18011 Cleveland Road 8114 FAX ished second Monday, when asked how Hamilton was South Bend, Indiana www.cppj.com received by other racers. Hamilton said before the race he was prepared for a possible OffeRi'ng G neat R ent Specials* icy reception from some of his peers, but he said Monday he Indoor/Outdoor Tennis and Basketball had no problems. “It was really special there at the start line this morning,” Free Tanning Hamilton said. “It was nice that there were a lot of people encouraging me and welcom­ Heated Poo! ing me back to racing. That w as nice.” Hamilton is the captain of the Relaxing Jacuzzi Tinkoff Credit Systems team, a new Italian-Russian team. He brings valuable experience to Gated Community the team as a former teammate of Lance Armstrong and a racer who has won stages in Community Business Center the Tour de France and in Italy. Contrini is Hamilton’s team ­ m ate. Hamilton said this week he is motivated by what he still con­ siders to be unfair treatment of him in the doping case. He made only a passing reference Tuesday, April 17, 2007 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT page 17

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NHL Lightning take 2-1 series lead with win Sabres outduel Islanders in Game 3 of series

Associated Press After Richards gave the Lightning a 2-1 lead just 69 sec­ The Tampa Bay Lightning are onds into the period, New Jersey finding ways to make Martin countered with Parise’s goal that Brodeur look ordinary. deflected off Tampa Bay defense- Vincent Lecavalier scored his man Dan Boyle three minutes fourth- goal of the playoffs, and later to give Brodeur another Brad Richards and Vinny Prospal chance to take over the game. each tallied their first in helping the Lightning beat the New Sabres 3, Islanders 2 Jersey Devils 3-2 on Monday Thomas Vanek and the Buffalo night in Game 3 of their first- Sabres forwards stayed down round Eastern Conference only so long. series. After two games where most of Johan Holmqvist, who has the offense came from the reb o u n d ed from a shaky NHL defense, Vanek, Daniel Briere, postseason debut to outplay and Adam Mair all connected in Brodeur the past two games, the second period Monday night stopped 30 shots as the seventh- to lift Buffalo to a victory over seeded Lightning took a 2-1 lead the New York Islanders and give in the best-of-seven matchup. the top-seeded Sabres a 2-1 lead Game 4 is at Tampa on in the first-round, Eastern Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur saves a shot from Lightning center Ryan Craig Monday in Wednesday night. Conference playoff series. Tampa. Brodeur gave up three goals in the contest, leaving the Devils in a 2-1 series deficit. Brodeur, a three-time Stanley The Sabres, who led the NHL Cup champion, entered the play­ with 308 goals, scored six while offs with a 1.89 career goals- splitting the first two games on against average, but has given home ice. Chris Drury, who Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, up three in each game of the assisted on Mair’s goal, scored series. Tampa Bay also won twice in the series-opening victo­ three of four regular-season ry for the only goals by Buffalo Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, meetings against the goalie, who forwards. won a league-record 48 games. That all changed when the Chagall, Pavlov, Baryshnikov.. . Lecavalier scored his power- Sabres scored three times in a play goal on a sharp-angle shot span of 7:39. that appeared to catch Brodeur Trent Hunter and Ryan Smyth by surprise in the first period. He answered in the second period in had an assist on the winner, front of a towel-waving, sellout N.A.S.A. Payload Specialist, which Prospal scored from in crowd and NHL commissioner front of the net with 6:29 Gary Bettman. It wasn’t enough, U.S. Arms Control Liaison, remaining in the third. despite 32 saves by Rick DiPietro John Madden and Zach Parise in his first home game in three scored for the Devils. weeks following a bout with World Bank Investment Adviser. .. Brodeur’s experience and post-concussion syndrome. strong track record are the main When Randy Robitaille was reasons many expect the Devils whistled for tripping with 1:34 ultimately to win the series, how­ left, the white towels stopped ever the 28-year-old Holmqvist is waving and came flying down to making it interesting in his first the ice. WHAT DO THEY HAVE postseason appearance. Game 4 of the best-of-seven The Devils outshot the series is Wednesday on Long Lightning 9-5 in the opening Island. Game 5 is back in Buffalo period, but were 0-for-3 on the on Friday. IN COMMON? power play and failed to take Ryan Miller recovered from a advantage of a two-man advan­ shaky start to make 20 saves in tage they held for just over a his second victory this series and minute after Tampa Bay’s Martin 20th of his playoff career. St. Louis went to the penalty box After a lackluster first period for high-sticking. in which Buffalo was outshot 10- Holmqvist rebounded from 9, the speedy Sabres quickly took allowing five goals on 24 shots in the play to the Islanders in the a Game 1 loss to make 34 saves second. With constant pressure RU SSI AN in Tampa Bay’s 3-2 victory in and long-term puck possession Game 2 at New Jersey. He was in the New York zone, Mair solid again Monday night, even made it pay off at 5:17. after the second-seeded Devils Hunter got knocked off the tied it at 1 on Madden’s goal with puck on the offensive end, and RUSSIAN 10101, FALL 2007 2:33 left in the second. defenseman Henrik Tallinder The Lightning goalie kept the rushed back up ice. He gave the game from getting away with a puck to Drury, who crouched to NO PREREQUISITE huge save as time expired in the make a precision cross-ice pass period, rejecting John Dowd from above the left circle to Mair. from point-blank range and set­ He easily steered the puck in as ting the stage for an exciting he raced toward the left post. http://www.nd.edu/~grl third period. By then, Buffalo had a 4-0

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Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano grabs his injured hamstring after serve attempting a diving catch in the fifth inning of Monday’s game.

didn’t take advantage of some UNIVERSITY OP Associated Press support mistakes that he did make. It N O T R E D A M E CHICAGO — The limp was was to his benefit.” OFFICE OF INFORMATION clear as ^lfonso Soriano Chicago began the night last connections TECHNOLOGIES dragged himself up the stairs, in the NL C entral at 4-7 and out of the clubhouse and into entered with five losses in six the night. His immediate future games, and manager Lou is a bit murky, though. Piniella shook up the lineup. On a night when the Chicago The biggest change was mov­ Cubs shook up their lineup, ing Jacque Jones from right Come and Listen Soriano got shaken up. field to left and dropping him to He left in the fifth inning sixth in the batting order. Matt after injuring a hamstring Murton started in right, batted while attempting a diving catch cleanup and delivered two hits in the Cubs’ 12-4 rout of the and two RBIs. San Diego Padres on Monday. Piniella said before the game Come and Read “Yes, I don’t like to get hurt,” he was simply “changing things Soriano said, when asked if up a little bit. Nothing more, he’s worried. “I know that I’m nothing less.” not going to be able to play He also said one move that is tomorrow, so it’s sad for me not under consideration at the because ... I like to play every moment is moving Soriano out Come and Play day. We’ll see how I look of center field, even though he tom orrow .” entered with a .234 average Chicago, which was 0-7 and no homers. Of course, the against the Padres last season, bigger issue afterward was his led 3-0 in the fifth when Clay health. Lectio@Eleven Hensley (0-3) lofted a fly to “He made a heck of an effort shallow center with a runner on that ball,” Piniella said. “He on third and one out. Soriano cheated in a little bit on the A Late-Night Cabaret for the Soul raced in, dove and rolled over pitcher and got a good jump on as he trapped the ball. it and made a really good try.” Soriano then got up and His teammates put forth their slipped while attempting a best effort, finishing with sea- throw. Trainer Mark O’Neal son-highs in runs and hits (14). 11:00 pm every Tuesday at Recker’s tended to him, and Soriano Hensley gave up 10 runs and walked off gingerly under his 11 hits in five-plus innings. Free pizza supplied by First Year of Studies! own power. The initial diagno­ “I got into trouble a little bit sis was a strained left ham­ with trying to locate a fastball string, and the Cubs hoped to outside that was running over know m ore after an MRI exam the plate,” he said. “Their guys on Tuesday. came out swinging.” April 17 featuring: Even if the test reveals no Marcus Giles had one of the tears, Soriano thought he few bright spots for the Padres, Music by Da Natural would miss at least five days. hitting a three-run homer in “I believe that it’s not bad, it’s the ninth off Will Ohman, who not that bad,” he said. has a 9.00 ERA. But when asked if the dis­ Run-scoring singles by abled list a possibility, Soriano Derrek Lee and Murton gave wasn’t quite as confident — the Cubs a 2-0 lead in the first, Lectio@Eleven brings a cabaret of great music and great writing, read aloud, for the even though he the pain had and Michael Barrett hit a two- Notre Dame community. Come to Recker’s and hear it with your own ears! subsided a bit. run homer as Chicago scored “I don’t know yet, but like I four in the fifth to make it 7-1. said, I feel a little better now Mark DeRosa added a homer We are always looking for more readers and musicians. If interested, contact Jonathan than in the past,” he said. leading off the sixth against Couser at j [email protected] or call 631-3923. Soriano, who signed a $136 Hensley, and Cliff Floyd hit a million, eight-year contract, three-run drive off Mike and Jason Marquis were key Thompson later that inning. Sponsored by First Y ear of Studies components in the Cubs’ off­ But the Cubs left Wrigley season makeover. Field hoping Soriano’s injury Marquis (1-1) allowed one isn’t severe. run in six innings to win for the “I’ve had some injuries in my first time in three starts since career, and I know when you signing a $21 million, three- sign a contract the last thing year contract with the Cubs. you want to do is get hurt,” Observe “He was aggressive,” San Floyd said. “Hopefully, it’s not Diego’s Adrian Gonzalez said. th a t b a d , an d w e ’ll g e t him “He went after you, and we back as soon as possible.” page 20 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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deadly on its home field so far ed to in the first place,” fresh­ as th a t.” this season, posting a 7-1 man outfielder Ashley Castle Point 21 Tri-State record on its turf. The team’s Peterson said. Work Nugget Productions 10 continued from page 24 only loss was an 8-6 slugfest Saint Mary’s has not played continued from page 24 It looked as though third- with Indiana Tech March 26. since April 10 when the Belles seeded Castle Point would Saint Mary’s will be looking split a doubleheader with ther team scored for the walk away with an easy victo­ this season. to turn around their record on Calvin to pick up their first first five minutes. Do Work ry, but Nugget Productions The No. 8 Belles (1-3 MIAA) the road against the Thunder. conference win of the season picked up the pace and wouldn’t give in. Castle Point’s will use their sophomore Three of the Belles’ four losses by coming from behind to win scored the first four points size and ball movement, how­ pitching duo of have come in in extra innings. and went into ever, eventually Kristin Amram their six road Last season, the Belles swept the half up 11- g av e th e a n d C alli games so far Tri-State 6-5 and 6-0 but 4. They scored favorites the win. Davison — who “We have this season. played the Thunder at home in the first five Castle Point have combined However, team both contests. points of the “We do work. It’s scored the first for an ERA of really great team members said “The odds are really good second half. as simple as that. five points of the 2.03 this sea­ chemistry and we real­ delaying the that it’s going to be the same And though 5 game, but then son — to stop ly want to work togeth­ game a week this year,” Peterson said. “We Guys sank some witnessed the th e T h u n d e r ’s gave them time have really great team chem­ jump shots late, Mike Bramante deceptively dan­ power hitting. er to come out on top" to get ready for istry and we really want to it w a s n ’t Do Work captain gerous Nugget A m ram a n d the trip to work together to come out on enough to bring Production Davison com­ Ashley Peterson Angola, Ind. top.” th e m b a c k . offense. Bramante sank bine for the Belles outfielder “I th in k i t ’s Saint Mary’s will have a Productions’ five second lowest giving us more chance to show off that team a 17-footer to scored the next ERA in the time [to pre­ chemistry and turn around its end the game. three points, two of them on league in pitch­ pare]. When early conference woes starting Based on the performance, shots from behind the arc. ing, a spot they cancel a at 3:30 this afternoon. the name Do Work’ was They would go on to make above the Thunder’s deep staff game it gives us a little more appropriate. On the choice of three more shots from from (2.43 ERA). motivation to go out there and Contact Rebecca Slinger at the name, Bramante said: long range, and although they Tri-State has been especially win even bigger than we want­ rslingO 1 @sain tmarys.edu “We do work. It’s as simple only counted as one point, they kept Nugget Productions in the game. “They were on fire,” Castle Point captain Paul Pogge said of the competition. Castle Point scored six of the next seven points and led 11-4 Watch Concerts = Get Paid at halftime. The size of 6-foot- 2, 272-pound Pat Kuntz in the paint — combined with the perimeter shooting Kuntz’s football teammates Robby Watch Comedy = Get Paid Parris and Richard Jackson — gave Castle Point the early edge. After Nugget Productions sank two more three-point- Watch Movies = Get Paid range jump shots, Castle Point played tight defense all the way out to the perimeter and refused Nugget Productions any room to dribble. Work at Legends = Get Paid With score 17-10, Nugget Productions also began playing tough, physical defense all over the court. The underdogs locked down their men and Legends is currently hiring for the following positions for next year: managed to block some shots, but Castle Point scored four straight to seal the win. Pogge — along with Ben Student Manager Marketing Assistant Lepak, Parris, Kuntz and Jackson — held a size advan­ tage over the opposition. Castle Point blocked or deflect­ ed most of Nugget C lu b S ta ff Disc Jockey Productions’ shots and grabbed many offensive rebounds. “It helped on the boards,” Web Designer Sound Tech Graphic Designer Pogge said. The Nugget Productions ball movement was shut down, but the five managed to find and exploit one weakness of Castle View job descriptions and apply online at: Point — the defense at the top of the lane. Multiple times a legends.nd.edu man was open near the free throw line and, after a quick (applications due by Friday, April 20) inside pass, had an open turn­ around jumper. Castle Point acknowledged the need for improvement, but in other areas. “We need to improve athleti­ cism,” Pogge said. “We need R E DAME Contact Bill Brink at [email protected]

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son. “A huge key to our success is ennis SMC T Pitcher Kyla Sullivan has making things happen and Broncos been effective for the Broncos taking momentum right off continued from page 24 this season, despite a the b at.” mediocre 8-9 record. The jun­ The doubleheader is the MIAA first place The Broncos travel to South ior has posted a 1.38 ERA on start of a very busy week for Bend for a break from Mid­ the season to go with 84 the Irish, who will play eight American Conference play. strikeouts. Sullivan just has home games before Sunday Western Michigan is 5-5 in not received the run support night. Notre Dame plays sin­ on line in K zoo MAC a c tio n , an d th e sq u ad from her teammates needed gle games against Ball State has hovered around .500 for to post a winning record and Valparaiso Wednesday m ost of the year. A key for Notre Dame in and Thursday, respectively, Junior catcher Becky today’s matchup will be draw­ and has doubleheaders sched­ No. 5 singles spot during the Bartosz, batting .313 with ing first blood — the Broncos uled against Big East oppo­ Saint Mary's can take 2005 matchup. During tomor­ four homers and 17 RBIs, are 11-2 this season when nents Louisville and South conference lead with row’s match, O’Brien will leads Western Michigan offen­ scoring first. Florida for the weekend. return to compete as a senior sively. As a team, the Broncos “We’ve been working on victory this afternoon in the No. 4 singles spot. have struggled at the plate, jumping ahead in the first Contact Michael Bryan at Both McDavitt and O’Brien hitting only .205 on the sea­ three innings,” Bargar said. [email protected] were also active in doubles By ELLYN MICHALAK play in the 2005 match. Sports Writer McDavitt, who then competed in the No. 2 doubles spot, will now return to compete in the Saint Mary’s will travel to No. 1 spot alongside freshman Michigan this afternoon with a Camille Gebert. O’Brien and chance to tie Kalamazoo for her partner, senior Grace first place in the Gordon, will fol­ MIAA. low that duo in The Belles the No. 2 slot. come in to the “Kalamazoo is contest with a “Kalamazoo is a a solid team ,” conference solid team. We McDavitt said. re c o rd of 4-1 — “We should be one game behind should be able to able to beat Kalamazoo, beat them, though. them, though. which currently We will have to sits alone at the work hard and top with a record Kelly McDavitt use the skill that of 5-0. Belles senior we have been Though the using in our past Belles did not conference play the Hornets matches in order during the 2006 to play our best. season, they did not have “We beat Calvin earlier in much luck when facing the season, who is also a top Kalamazoo in 2005, the last team in the league, so I feel time the two teams met with very confident that we should their conference records on be able to gain a win against PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer the line. The Kalamazoo.” Irish senior pitcher Kenya Fuemmeler winds up during a 9-1 victory over Seton Hall March 25 at Ivy Field. Fuemmler will pitch for the Irish against Western Michigan this afternoon. Hornets shut out The Belles the Belles 9-0. should have As a sopho­ “I feel very momentum on more, Kelly their side after a McDavitt com­ confident that we successful show­ peted in the No. should be able to ing on the courts 4 singles spot, last weekend. GRADUATES gain a win against only to be nar­ Saint Mary’s rowly defeated Kalamazoo. ” almost shut out by Hornets then- MIAA foe Alma, sophomore Kelly McDavitt defeating the TAKE NOTE! Laura Spencer Belles senior Scots 8-1. in two sets, 7-5 In singles play, and 6-4. Now Saint Mary’s TAKE ADVANTAGE OF both are senior dominated, and captains of their each player won THIS GREAT teams, and McDavitt will com­ her match in straight sets. pete in the No. 1 singles spot The Belles also took two out of DEAL AND DR and Spencer in the No. 3 sin­ the three doubles matches to gles spot. help earn the victory. IN A NEW GM VEHICLE. Then-sophomore Tara O’Brien competed for the Contact Ellyn Michalak at Belles and lost narrowly in the [email protected]

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sistent this season, rarely put­ “Even today, we got one hit this season. who has given up 47 hits in 32 Squad attempts repeat ting together a sustained peri­ the last five innings,” Schrage He will take on a Toledo line­ 2-3 innings pitched. of strong performance od of quality play. said. “You have to. play all nine up that boasts five hitters Schrage said he is confident “When we start to play well, innings.” whose batting averages are the Irish will maintain their after G'toivn beatdown we tend to lay back,” Schrage Against Toledo (16-13), the above the .300 mark. The Irish intensity during the first of said. “Our job as coaches is to Irish will send offense will take two mid-week games before make sure that doesn’t hap­ sophomore on Toledo senior they take on West Virginia this By FRAN TOLAN p en .” righthander righty Todd weekend. Sports Writer “When we start to The Irish have only won Brett Graffy to Thomas, who has “We have won three out of back-to-back games three the mound with play well, we tend to a 4-2 record to four,” Schrage said, “but I After winning a conference times this season — including hopes of recap­ lay back. ’’ go with a 6.61 don’t think w e’ll lay back.” series for the first time all sea­ a four-game win streak from turing the solid ERA coming in to The Irish will also face off son, Notre Dame looks to March 17-23. p lay th a t Dave Schrage the contest. against Purdue Wednesday maintain its momentum as it In an 11-2 dismantling of allowed them to T h e Iris h before the three-game confer­ heads into a showdown with Georgetown Sunday, Schrage blow o u t Irish coach pounded out 29 ence series with the Toledo at Frank Eck Stadium said his team failed to remain Georgetown hits in the three Mountaineers. today. focused for the entire contest Friday and games against Irish coach Dave Schrage after scoring 11 runs in the Sunday. Graffy is 2-2 with a Georgetown and look to con­ Contact Fran Tolan at said his team has been incon­ first four innings. 4.45 ERA in 11 appearances tinue to rake against Thomas, [email protected]

Bookstore Basketball XXXVI Doing work Mike Bramante and Do Work advance in blowout; No. 3 Castlepoint also wins Monday Do Work also ran an effective By BILL BRINK two-three zone that prevented Sports Writer 5 Guys from getting any good looks inside the paint. Of 5 An impressive performance guys’ seven points, four were on both sides of the ball by Do on jump shots and three were Work led the squad to a 21-7 from put-backs. Those second- victory over 5 Guys Doing It chance points amounted to all B etter than Diddy Ever Did It. of 5 Guys’ success on the Do Work performed well on boards, however — they were both sides of the ball, out- dom inated down low. rebounding 5 Guys and keeping “[Rebounding] had a big the speed of the game high. effect,” Bramante said. “We got Do Work captain Mike • a lot of boards. If you get Bramante was the leading rebounds, you win the game.” scorer, dropping 12 points and Do Work decided to try the performing most of the ball- zone because they had seen handling. Bramante led the fast other bookstore teams run sim­ break as well and completed ilar defenses, but the squad many quick and accurate pass­ was prepared to switch to es to teammates Joe Bramanti, man-to-man if it wasn’t work­ Pat McHugh, Bill Schramm and ing. Eddie Fitzpatrick. The game started slow; nei- CHRISTIAN SAGARDIA/The Observer “It’s our game,” Bramante Stanford Hall junior Pat Dolan looks to pass during a Bookstore Basketball game this weekend. said of the fast break. see WORK/page 21 The second round continued with many top seeds playing Monday night.

S M C S oftball ND S o f t b a ll Belles face conference foe ND begins busy week After week off team against Broncos today is ready to challenge score and had inconsistent league rival Thunder Irish will begin 8-game pitching in the early season homestand today with tournaments, Notre Dame has By REBECCA SLINGER turned around its season since Sports Writer WMU doubleheader returning home and starting conference play. Saint Mary’s (14-4) will The Irish have won 11 of 13 finally get its chance to battle By MICHAEL BRYAN since their home opener, MIAA nem esis Tri-State (19-5) Sports Writer including nine of their last 10 with an opportunity to climb in Big East play. Pitchers the conference ranks. Brittney Bargar and Kenya The Belles were originally After dropping two of its last Fuemmeler have been lights scheduled to face Tri-State three, Notre Dame will try to out at home, and senior Saturday, but the game was get back on track at home Stephanie Brown has led the cancelled due to cold weather. today against Western Irish offense’s transformation Tri-State, which currently Michigan. The Irish (20-14, 9- into a dangerous lineup from sits in third place in the MIAA, 1 Big East) will face the top to bottom. is 3-1 in conference play. The Broncos (13-14) in a double- “Right now we re making Thunder have the second header starting at 3 p.m. at things happen,” said Bargar, a highest team batting average Ivy Field. sophomore. “We have done a in the league at .369. The It has been two different good job putting the ball in Belles are close behind in seasons for Notre Dame in play, and taking advantage of third, hitting at .356 so far KELLY HIGGINS/The O bserver 2007, with the team stumbling other team’s weaknesses.” Belles sophomore Katie Rashid tags a Rose Hulman senior out of the gates to a 9-12 start. see TRI-STATE/page 21 Amy Viles during a 1 0 -1 victory for Saint Mary’s March 25. While the Irish struggled to see BRONCOS/page 22