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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 81 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Senate reduces Candidates: student input is crucial "Our entire platform is cen­ the vice president of Student O'Donoghue penalty By LAURA ROMPF tered around the idea that the Affairs so that we may see an Assistant News Editor students should have a far more increased student voice on this active role in the decisions campus." Affairs. This allowed the senate Several candidates' platforms made around this campus," said Several faculty members of By LAURA ROMPF to reduce, increase or change Assistant News Editor before the student body presi­ Jim Focht, vice presidential committees agreed with the stu- the imposed penalty by the dential election address the fea­ hopeful. dents, noting Elections Committee. sibility of increasing student "The more student rep­ "We agreed [Wednesday! membership on University com­ students on ''The more students on resentation In an emergency meeting last night that there was a viola­ university would be night, the Senate passed an mittees. university committees the tion," said Carroll l-lall senator "Students offer a unique per­ committees, beneficial. amendment 16-6 decreasing Patrick O'Donnell. "A penalty the better off better off this University "Do I think tlw campaign suspension on the spective which cannot be needed to be imposed on the matched by any other contin­ t h i s will be." students B r i a n O'Donoghue/Norton campaign. University should con­ ()'Donoghue gent of the University communi­ llowever, we are allowed to ty," said presidential candidate will be." tinue to be on /Brooke reduce, increase or change the Vice presi­ Jim Focht the commit­ Norton Brian O'Donoghue. "While other penalty. I vote that we administrators and faculty can dential can­ vice presidential hopeful tee?" said campaign. make the suspension one day didate John Kevin Huie, Tlw bvlaw offer a great deal of informa­ because the two day punish­ tion, they can never know Micek said assistant passed by ment is entirely unfair. I do the Board of Trustee's report director of multicultural student the SenatP exactly what it is like for a stu­ have confidence in the Judicial dent. ... Students can constantly focuses on this issue and his affairs and member of the uni­ i n Committee, but the punishment ticket would also work to versity committee on cultural Wednesday o!Ter views which only can come O'Donoghue is unjust. Enough damage has from actually being a student increase student representation. diversity. "Absolutely. In my n i g h l 's already been done to their "Hunt [Hanover] and I are opinion,the student's voice is the meeting and being on the receiving end campaign." of important decisions." dedicated to increasing this rep­ most important assessment tool was approv1~d yesterday by Joe resentation," Micek said. "We Cassidy, director of Student Other candidates agreed with see SENATE/page 8 O'Donoghue. are committed to working with see INPUT/page 6

'Sister act' an option for college women

the U.S., there is one a year. Students consider "A lot of people find it hard to make a per­ manent decision," said Lavonis. · The l-loly Cross community is international vocations with the and has many sisters serving in eight foreign countries, which helps bolster numbers. "Some communities are not international Sisters of the like we are and are dying out,"said Lavonis. The number of nuns teaching at Notre Dame and Saint Mary's has not decreased. Holy Cross Often, nuns do not wear traditional habits, which makes them less identifiable. By NELLIE WILLIAMS Although sisters are not very visible, the News Writer priests at Notre Dame are a part of everyday life and Old College is well-known on cam­ pus. On Saturday evening. Notre Dame junior Andre attributes the high percentage of !leather Phillips will be getting ready for a young men studying to be priests at Notre danee. Dame to the visibility and daily interactions Unlike other young women. however. with priests around campus. Phillips will b1~ wondering what her date "I think it's because Notre Dame priests thought of this article. always talk about vocations and religious life. The studio art major and theology minor The visibility helps the students think," she enjoys aerobics, drawing and painting water­ said. eolors. She likes playing with kids and loves However, some students are aware of the Hallmark cards. She enjoys writing and piec­ nuns' presence on campus. ing together puzzles. Phillips began talking to Lavonis last May And, one day, she may be a nun. and suggested the Holy Cross sisters start a "It's kind of a sensitive thing," she said. vocation faith sharing group. "I've been thinking about the sisterhood since Phillips had been attending a vocation I was 15. I would always joke around with group with men in Old College and Father my parents about it." Bill Wack. However, being the only woman in Phillips is one or only a few women study­ the group "felt strange," to Phillips. ing with the Sisters of the l-loly Cross in order Now, Phillips attends the vocation faith to be a nun. sharing group she helped create with the Across the country, the number of women Sisters of the Holy Cross once a month. joining convents has been decreasing. One reason Phillips believe she was drawn Sister Margaret Andre and Sister Margaret to learn more about the Sisters of the Holy Mary Lavonis, both in charge of the Vocation Cross is because she is at Notre Dame. Ministry for Holy Cross Sisters, believe that Growing up in Sacramento, Calif., she the opportunities available to women today attended a single-sex Catholic school. At that did not exist 50 years ago have caused a home she would complain to her dad about decrease in women joining the sisterhood. the nun's habits. "When I was graduating from college, "I used to say, 'Oh, dad, I could never be a women were like S!~cond dass citizens," said nun because I hate their shoes,"' Phillips Lavonis. "The only women administrators of said. schools and hospitals were sisters." Although stereotypes about nuns exist, NELLIE WILLIAMSfThe Observer In the 1950s and 1960s, about 50 forma­ such as they are only teachers or nurses, tion classes for joining the Holy Cross Sister's Heather Phillips and her mentor, Sister Margaret Andre, spend a Community were offered each year. Today in see SISTERS/page 4 moment in reflection in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto. ... page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, February 11, 2000

INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S HISTORY Director discusses crowded, co-ed dorms ND student wins Publisher's Clearing House Beware of the Friday. Feb. 12, 1971 Thursday, Feb. 14, 1991 Director of University Hesidency announced to the On her way to a physics exam early in the morning. swans Hesidenee Hall Presidonts that Flanner Tower would be sophomore Annie Cahill received a suprise that really The last few years of student government has a co-ed dorm during the 1971 summer session with men made her day. The Clearing House offered her a check seen an incredible variety of leaders. We have and women alternating floors. The incoming class was for $25.000 or a Nissan 300 ZX, but she opted for the car. had a Student Body King crowned on the steps of the Main Building and declare that everyone bow also much larger than expected. Six men would be Floodr.d with loans, Cahill was then certain that she could to him in greeting. We have placed in a three-room and four-man suite until other return to Notre Dame the next year. She also planned to had candidates win under slogans such as "Bring the rooms would open up on campus. go to Florida for Spring Break with the extra eash. [Grateful! Dead to campus," and serious competition from "Kill the swans!" We've seen inept and unethical OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports presidents blasted in nation­ al news wires as they faced ethies hearings and petitions Ohio U. activist in court for burning gay flag of recall. We've even seen A.J. Boyd tand this is truly scan­ ATIIENS. Ohio vation to destroy the flag was the sex­ dalous!) the successful Charles Spingola. trtt~6f' the reli­ ual orientation of the flag's owner," he implementation of a senate Assistant gious activists who has preached on said. "This is the city's first ethnic made up of democratically Viewpoint Ohio University's College Green. must intimidation trial involving sexual ori­ elected representatives to Editor defend his actions and beliefs toward entation that I am aware of." serve the students· interest. gays, lesbians. bisexuals and trans­ If convicted. Spingola faces up to six At the same time as this gender peoplr. in court this week. months in jail and a $1,000 fine. radical form of governmrnt was implemented. Spingola. an evangr.lical preacher Spingola calls the charge nonsense. the duties of all student government officers from Newark, Ohio, ripped down and "This day is full of Orwellian doubles­ were redefined. The role of student policy mak­ burned a rainbow-colored flag flying peak," Spingola said. "They're trying ers (who wrestle with administrators. represent on the Ohio Statehouse grounds. The to include themselves in with [protec­ us," he said. the students and allocate our money) and stu­ !lag flnw at the Statehouse for the tirst tion for] people of gender or race." Hedfield filed thr. complaint against dent programmers (who coordinate c:oneerts. An time in honor of Columbus' annual He feels the !lag should not have Spingola. charging that he broke Tostal and other entertainment events) was gay-pride march on June 27. 1999. been therr. in the tirst place. "When Columbus' 10-year-old ethnic: intimi­ divided. The Senate is invested with the responsi­ "I think he did it to upsPL the gay you start to put up flags on the Capitol dation ordinance. which indudes sex­ bilitir.s of leadership. and Executive Cabinet community," said Jell Hedtield, nxe!:u­ building. it makr.s young people think ual oriontation. groups (CCC. IIPC. SUB and class offir.ers) take tive director of the Stonewall [GBLT people] arc dominating or Attonwys wrappPd up jury sr.ledion care of the fun stuff. Columbus. which has organized claiming victory," he said. "But they're for Spingola's trial Wednesday. And Despite this plethora of politicians. with a dear Columbus' gay-pride march for 18 not dominating or victorious over any­ Stephen Mcintosh. chief prosecutor. separation of powers. there is a perennial eon­ years. thing." said he hopes to conclude the trial cern among some voters that student govern­ "He wanted to disgrace and degrade Andrew Colopy. discussion leader Monday. ment is a clique that serves only iL-; own interests us. We went through all of the proper for OU's Open Doors organization. said "We have~ to establish that his moti- and that the solution is to send in a few "out­ procedures to have the flag tlown for he disapproves of Spingola's behavior. siders" to break it up. Unfortunately. the result of this effort has eon­ sistently been the election of "outsiders" who just bring in their own diques. Then it seems we've Court upholds NCAA standards Recruit receives 37 yrs. sentence been duped back to square one. Just consider what happened a couple years a STANFOHD. Calif. MADISON. Wis. go when junior class ofticer Matt Griflin was A recent decision by the Third Circuit U.S. Court of At an emotional sentencing hearing Wednesday. Jael elected student body president over senator Matt Appeals found that the NCAA's academic standarcl.s do Speights, 19. was sentenced to 37 years in prison and Szabo. No fewer than 19 ethical violations. a not have a discriminatory effect against African­ 40 years probation after pleading no contest to two recall petition and a $25.000 debt left from turn­ American student-athletes, reversing an earlier federal counts of sexual assault and one count of robbery. ing the President's Oftice into a private party decision. The late December ruling will have little etl"ect Speights, of Zion, Ill.. is a former University of marked that year. on the eligibility of prospective Stanford athletes, Wisconsin-Madison freshman football recruit on full The true solution seems obvious: Elect a ticket according to Athletics Departmr.nt ofticials, because scholarship to play fullback for the Badgers. Since his that's had enough experience as representative Stanford's academic standards are already so high. The Aug. 20 arrest. he has been held on $15,000 bail set by leaders. They should also know both how to get decision resulted from the NCAA's appr.al of an April Dane County Court Commissioner Todd Meurer. Head things done and how to bring in people from all 1999 case in which four African-American student-ath­ Coac:h Barry Alvarez suspended the 235-pound fullback over campus to work with. Striking examples of letes eomplained that the minimum standards for from the Wisconsin football team in August. According ideal presidential candidates have popped up in accepting freshmen using standardized test scores vio­ to police reports, Speights entered through an unlocked recent years: former vice-president Megan lated Title VI of the Civil Bights Act. The minimum stan­ door of a UW student's apartment at approximately Murrav. '98. former chief of stall" and reformer dards are part of a 19% NCAA ruling called Proposition 3:30 a.m. July 31. The victim told police otlieers that Brend~n Kelly. '98. and two-time senator and 16, which mandated that athletes have a grade-point Speights. after originally identifying himself as a friend chief of stall" Matt Mamak. '00. average of 2.5 and an SAT scorr. above 820. If the ath­ of her acquaintance. repeatedly threatened. hit and Unfortunately. none of these ideal presidents lete's GPA was 2.0. their SAT score needed to be at choked her as he sexually assaulted her. Several family even ran for the oftice. least 1010. Students also needed to complete at least 13 members of the survivor spoke at the hearing. pleading What qualities did these people have that made core academic classes. The plaintiffs argued the SAT is Judge Stuart Schwartz to give the maximum sentence them so ideal? All of them served on the Senate a culturally biased examination and therefore should on behalf of the survivor. "For me to heal, I have to for­ and either in the Office of the President or the not be used as an eligibility requirement. give him," the survivor's father said. Executive Cabinet. All of them had experience on the Campus Life Council. They all knew how to deal with the administration. and though diplo­ matic. all were rarely seen as conciliatory when it cam·e to defending the students' issues. They were true enough politicians that they wouldn't LOCAL WEATHER NATIONAL WEATHER turn student government into a private clique. So. if students take the lessons of the past with 5 Day South Bend Forecast them this year. we won't have to worry about it AccuWeather("' forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures The AccuWeathel"' forecast for noon, Friday, Feb. 11. next year. and we can actually see student gov­ ernment accomplish all the things of our wildest Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. dreams. Well. that. or at least keep out of trou­ ble.

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year's Ethnic Diversity together in a celebration of the know that there will be a net­ zation that will provide educa­ By SARA II RYKOWSKI Commissioner Akmaral diversity of every woman on work of support for them at tional opportunities about vari­ News Writer Omarova, provided the leader­ campus. Saint Mary's. Thus we hope to ous cultures, countries and peo­ ship in formulation of the cur­ "As we learn more about each bring in more cultural diversity ple," Omarova said. "These With thn advent of the rent proposal. other, we will become more in student population as well." opportunities will include Stud~mt Diversity Board, Saint Omarova, a student from the educated, understanding and The fourth objective of the speaker series, shows, news Mary's continues to renew its former Soviet Union Republic accepting," Omarova said. new Diversity Board is to pro­ and lectures." pledge to increase the diversity Kazakhstan, was intrigued by "Every woman at SMC is vide a discussion forum. The Public Relations ol' its campus. The Board of the project. unique and we want to cele­ "I have spoken to many stu­ Committee will publicize events Governance approved the board "The initial idea was brought brate this uniqueness." dents who have expressed the sponsored by the Diversity Tuesday. up to me by [Rosenbush], but I The third goal of the board is lack of support for minority stu­ Board and will be responsible "This will be a governing decided to go with it only after to provide dents on cam­ for publications. board that will work to address talking to students, faculty and support for pus," The Programming Committee diverse student issues," said administration," Omarova said. ethnic stu­ "Diversity issues are so Omarova will plan and organize social Georgeanna Rosenbush, adv~or "I have talked to many students dents and said. "Being a events sponsored by the board. to stud

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"It's a process of 'yes, yes' younger generation. or 'no, no' - a process of "They may be intimidated by SMC students Sisters exposure," she said. "I got the the lack of structure our gen­ continued from page 1 impression they want people eration has. The world is a dif­ ------=--=------to wait and know for sure ferent place than it was 20 to circulate petition Phillips said she has learned befor.: making a commit- 30 years ago, and the Sisters otherwise. ment. are trying to redefine their life "I thought [nuns] were won- To help young women in with the time going on." tor of student activities derful. Many touched my life deciding whether or not they Hicks, like Phillips, has + Students say Georgeanna Rosenbush. by example," shesaid. want to commit to the sister­ doubts about her call to reli­ elections were "Our point is that by circulat­ She does not feel she would hood, the Sisters of the Holy gious life. 'handled unfairly' ing this petition, we are not However, she feels drawn to attacking any of the candidates," be limited in life choices as a Cross have created a place to Sister. help women ponder the com- having a community life. said Quinn. "They're all quali­ "I realize where I am is fied to hold the positions, but it "Part of me feels limited at mitment. By COLLEEN McCARTHY where I want to be," said is not fair that Board of times, but when I step back They have created a house, Associate News Editor Hicks. Governance took determining and look at it, it's sueh a liber- the Discernment House, also the decision of the election into ating life choice - there's still called the Upper Room. The Hicks can live in the Upper Although the student govern­ their own hands and didn't let so much freedom there," house was created to provide Room for up to two years. ment association constitution at the students decide." Phillips said. a community and reflective "As long as I feel it's where I Saint Mary's does not have pro­ McCormick hopes the petition Contrary to the sisterhood, environment while discerning want to be, I'll stay," she said. vision for students who are dis­ will send a message to the Phillips still considers mar- whether God is calling them to "I can move on if I discover it pleased with election results. Board of Governance. riage an option. religious life as sisters. The isn't." Lavon is and Andre three Saint Mary's students have "We realize that Board of "I think marriage is still sueh first young woman to live in believe that young women taken matters into their own Governance's decision might be a beautiful option. Sometimes I this environment arrived in need to know the option to be hands. think I would really miss out early January and is living in a nun exists. Juniors Tara Cupelli, Katie final, but we feel the majority of students weren't represented not having a family of my own the Upper Boom with four "The key is desire," said Quinn and Meghan McCormick or kids. But then I think, what other nuns. Andre. "When you keep get­ came up with a plan to help stu­ and that's what they said they,·~ were doing," said McCormick. .~!":"' if~ WJL.'> working in an orphan- Not only is this Colorado­ ting the same thought over dent voices be heard on campus Cupelli hopes the petition will age for kids caring that way?" native Kathleen Hick's first and over again- it's a signal regarding the election situation signal to the Board of she said. time living in the Midwest, it is that God is trying to tell you after attending a question and Governance that they are not· She also questions whether also her first time living with a something." answer session with the Board representing the majority of the she will be lonely. community of Sisters. She A vocation faith sharing of Governance on Tuesday. students who voted in last "What if I'm truly alone? admits it is challenging. group, open to all, will be on Cupelli, Quinn and McCormick Wednesday's election with their What if you want someone to "It's a real challenging jour­ Feb. 17 at 8:15p.m. in the began circulating the petition on decision. hold you - something like ney to be on. Being in my 20s, guest house next to the Church Wednesday and collected 332 "Board of Governance said at that?" I'm the only one here my age of Our Lady of Loretto. A dis­ signatures by Thursday, repre­ the meeting Tuesday that their For now, Phillips will just and I am loosely connected to cernment retreat will take senting 25.4 percent of the stu­ decision was final, but we want keep praying about her choice. the community," said Hicks. place the first weekend of dent body. them to know that according to Her family, Phillips said, is She believes it takes much March at Mary Solitude. "After the meeting, I was not this petition, they are not repre­ very supportive of her search- courage for people to· explore happy," said Cupelli. "I wrote a senting the majority of the stu­ ing. Her mother once consid- this commitment when they letter to [College president] Dr. dents," said Cupelli. "We want ered becoming a nun and her feel they have received a call [Marilou] Eldred and decided we to make a point that students grandfather thought about the to the religious order. needed to start a petition." are not being listened to." priesthood. "This isn't a call to be a The petition states that the Although the three women do "It's something in our family. nun," she said. "This is a call election for president and vi~:e not expect that the Board of It's a way we see the best pos- about being a full person. It's president was "handled unfairly Governance will change its deci­ sible way to answer to God's not about becoming a nun - by the Board of Governance, sion to render Renner and Nagle call in com pi etc service," it's about becoming myself in Elections Committee, Elections victorious in the election, they Phillips said.Beforc joining, at the greatest way I can." Appeals board and the director feel an apology from the Board least six months of discern- Hick does not feel there is a of Student Activities." It goes on of Governance is in order. mont, pre-candidate (no set secure delinition of what reli­ to state that "As students of "At the very least, Board of length), candidate (one to two gious life is about. "It's a mys­ Saint Mary's College w<~ feel that Governance should admit they years), noviate (two years), tery," she said. "There are our votes have been discounted temporary incorporation (usu- these old stereotypes that and our opinion not valued." made a mistake by taking the election decision out of the ally live years), and then the becoming a nun is like giving By signing the petition, stu­ hands of the students," said final vows are required steps. your life away. We're kind of dents are requesting for a fair Cupelli. "I clearly think that with Phillips is currently in the afraid of this old tradition of and accurate representation of 332 signatures of the student stage of discernment. She is nuns our mothers grew up the views of the students, said body, it is obvious that the stu­ Cupelli. exploring her options and with." "We went door to door and dent body thinks they were learning more about the reli- She said she thinks the nuns wrong." gious life. are also intimidated by the took the petition to classes but Quinn agreed. some people found us because "] don't know that Board of they heard we were circulating the petition," said Cupelli. "For Governance will change any­ thing after the way they reacted the most part, peoples' respons­ at the meeting Tuesday saying es were extremely positive." their decision was final, but if so The three women plan to sub­ much of the student body wants mit thr petition to the board of the decision changed, how ean governance along with a letter this one board say no?" said flNtinEs that they will also send to Quinn. · Eldred, Linda Timm and direr- FOP~ft.L c.o.rnc.~~~

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STANSTED. England About hall' thn hostages !'rend from a hijacked Afghan airliner rnquested asylum in Britain. but thnir 74 applications ran into imnwdiate skepticism Thursday from officials who feared the four-day drama was all an Piaborate bid to escape Afghanistan. Police arr<~sted 21 people as the standoff fmded p!~acdully befon~ sunrise Thursday. At 3:50 a.m .. about R5 captives mostly women and 21 rhildn~n - suddnnly streamed down the air­ craft's rear stairs. illuminated by bright lights, thf~ir flowing garments fluttering in the wind. The rnst, including the hijackers. l'iled down the stairs two hours JatAr. Officials said the hijarkPrs never asked for asylum, but many otlwrs on tlw flight did. llome Secretary Jack Straw told tlw Ilous!' of Commons that Britain would try to deport them. subject to legal n~quirAments.

U.S. struggles with China trade deal WASHINGTON Tlw White I louse knows it has a struggle on its hands g!•tting fellow lkmocrats to sign on to a IH'W tradP agreement with China, Cabinet SO(Tetarks and Prcsidf~nt Clinton's top aide said Thursday. "This is going to be the tough­ est l'ight W!' face this yAar on Capitol llill." said White !louse chicl' of staff' John Podesta, as Jw askt>d for lobbying Jwlp from agricultur­ al inten~sts. The Clinton administration wants a vote as early as possible, and definitely before midsummer. on tradP accords that would S!'t China on the path toward joining AFP Photo tlw World TraclP Organization. The accords Lebanese Hozbollah fighters pray in the fields on the area bordering the Israeli-occupied zone of south Lebanon would do away with thP annual l'ight in Thursday. A member of the pro-Syrian guerilla group was wounded in one of several Israeli air raids in south Lebanon the same day as Israel and Hezbollah kept up their attacks. CongrPss ovnr granting China normal trading status by making that status permanent. Organized labor. environmental groups and many })pmocrats in Congress oppose th!~ agrPPnwnt as dangerous to U.S. workers. Israeli guerillas fight in Lebanon

Lebanon. Associated Press Recent fighting has killed able," Israeli Deputy Four captives freed in Sudan Meanwhile, the United six Israeli soldiers and two Defense Minister Ephraim BEIRUT States arranged a Friday allied Lebanese militiamen Sneh said Thursday. Israeli forees and guer­ meeting of the international and wounded 15 Lebanese On Thursday- the 12th rillas r,ontinued their UNITI~J) NATIONS monitoring group that has civilians. It has also seri­ consecutive day of attacks Thursday as l'ro-gov!'rnnwnt lighwrs rPkas(·~d !'our pno­ tried to enforce rules of ously eroded the chance of airstrikes - Israeli jets pl<' Thursday who had bnnn held !'or a wnnk international monitors engagement in the conflict resuming the Israeli-Syrian fired 20 missiles in eight worked to r.urb the worst in Llw soutlwrn Sudan with th1~ir U.N.-lcasnd since 1996. The monitors peace talks, which were raids against suspected plane. thP United Nations said. Thnw of the conflagration in southern comprise representatives of suspended indefinitely last guerrilla hideouts in Zillaya four- an American UNICEP staffer and two Lebanon in Pight months. Israel, Lebanon, Syria, month. Valley, 12 miles north of Kenyan pilots - wPre l'lown from southern In a dear sign that the France and the United Israel demands that the Israeli border, Sudan to Lokichokio. in northern Kenya, the worst may be over, Israel States. Syria, the main power bro­ Lebanese security officials basP of U.N. humanitarian operations for confined its air and artillery U.S. State Department ker in Lebanon, rein in the said. Sudan. spokeswoman Marie Okabe said. The bombardments to the front spokesman James P. Rubin Hezbollah guerrillas if it is The strikes followed line of the zone it occupies three. who wen~ not iden tilied. were ()Xhaust­ said the agreement to meet serious about negotiating attacks by the Iranian­ nd and wnrn bning examinnd by do(:tors. she in southern Lebanon. was an "important develop­ peace. backed Hezbollah on Israeli Earlier in the week Israeli said. Tlw l'ourth detain<'!~. a Sudannsn nation­ ment" that could help ease "The pattern of talking troops and allied militia­ al. was tahn to Malak a!. about 100 miles airstrikes hit power stations tension. and shooting is unaccept- men, the officials said. northPast of Old Fangak in Uppnr Nile in north. central and east Provine<' whnn• thny wen) l'rnPd. Government makes plane tests mandatory

IMiiftiiMWtHtl ed Wednesday that all Alaska, which has 34 stabilizer and struggled to Dow AMEx: Associated Press 2,000 of the planes world­ MD-80 series planes in its control the plane for at 892.99 LOS ANGELES wide be inspected, and all fleet, grounded two of the least 30 minutes before it }ONES -1271 The government is major U.S. airlines had jetliners in Seattle and crashed into the Pacific on requiring airlines to -55.53 Nasdaq: already begun an inspec­ Portland, Ore., because Jan. 31, killing all 88 peo­ 4485.63 inspect the tails of MD-80 tion process when the FAA metal shavings were found ple aboard. + 122.39 series jetliners and related decided to make it manda­ around the jackscrews - A 2-foot section of the planes for damage similar tory. Alaska Airlines which drive the planes' jackscrew was recovered NYSE to what was discovered in 614.43 grounded two planes horizontal stabilizers and from the wreckage, and -2.55 the wreckage of Alaska Thursday after problems control the up-and-down metal shavings found on it Flight 261. were found. direction of a plane. were determined to have S&P 500: Composite About 1,100 jets in the Passengers should Shavings indicate wear come from the nut in the 1416.83 Volume: United States - all MD- 10,643.63 +5.12 I ,04 7.956.000 exper,t minor delays, the on a nut that travels along mechanism. It is unclear 80s, MD-90s, DC-9s and VOLUME LEADERS FAA said. the screw. whether the damage was a Boeing 717s- will be r,ov­ "It's far more important The horizontal stabilizer, possible cause or an effect COMPANJ TICKER % CHANGE $ CHANGE PRICE ered by an order that was that we get these airplanes the jackscrew, nut, eleva­ of the crash. and the nut MCI WORLDCOM IN WCOM +3. 50 +1.8650 46.34 being drafted late DELL COM~UTER DELL +9 .10 +3 .2375 44.44 inspected," said Tom tors and other components has not been recovered. CISCO SYSTEMS csco +5. 53 +7 .1275 32.16 Thursday by the Federal MICROSOFT CORP MSFT +1.92 +2. 0000 27.26 McSweeny, the FAA's that adjust the plane's up­ NTSB investigators also ORACLE CORP ORCL +3.96 +2.3725 22.64 Aviation Administration. INTEL CORP INTC 'f-2.86 +2. 9950 21.77 associate administrator for and-down pitch have been announced the Navy had CYPRESS COMM IN CYCO +20 .59 +3 .5000 20.60 The airlines will have two CYTOGEN CORP CYTO +85. 71 +4. 9013 20.06 r,ertification. "We want it the focus of the Flight 261 recovered additional LOCH HARRIS INC LOCH -22.00 -0, BBOO 20.04 to three days to comply. COMPAQ COMPUTER CPQ -3.32 -0.8750 19.95 done right, and we want it investigation. The pilots pieces of wreckage from Boeing had recommend- done thorough." reported trouble with the Flight 261.

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bringing them up-to-date." with faculty and want to increase bership, some may not and each university committees. Huie also said that student student membership, actually committee should be viewed sep­ Input attendance and other factors "It has been our experience accomplishing their goal may be arately. that committee members truly continued from page I could result in a negative view of difficult. Micek said an increased "We need to look at which their membership "if the wrong do care about what students awanmess of student represen­ committees need student mem­ have to say," Micek said. "The in academic and campus life." student is put on or elected to tative is essential. bers," he said. "For example, the the committee. only problem is that often times "The idealistic answer to the "Currently students are often first year of studies advisory there are no students on these "A student who doesn't show positive role students play is that selected to sit on committees and committee already has student committees. We feel that stu­ up to the meetings all the time, students have a perspective on student government never even representation and there is not dents can make a difference and or who isn't informed or educat­ NO that faculty never have. knows who they are," he said. much need for a student to be on one of the best ways that they ed about the issues that the com­ They offer an essential point of "We want to work closely with the biohazard committee." can is through creating profes­ view," said Elizabeth Eldon, mittee addresses is not going to all student representatives so Overall, candidates hope that help that committee." sional working relationship with assistant professor of biological that we may keep our lingers on their election would help other members of the commit­ sciences and member of the However, overall Huie and the pulse of the projects that an) increase the student voice on tees." University committee on women Eldon stressed student represen­ being worked on." and faculty and students. tation is essential. "Student Focht said that cooporating Eldon cited several reason why membership on committees is with administrators is essential committees would benefit from important," Eldon said. in getting more students on com­ student membership. Because ''I've been interviewing for jobs mittees. students' population turns over this semester, and I am most "We would talk to administra­ Notre Dame Film, Television and Theatre presents quickly, this would help deter­ impressed by those places that tors regarding the benefits of mine if change was actually have student representation on increased student membership," occurring, she said. Also. stu­ the search committee. It shows he said. "Thereby increasing stu­ dents would gain an understand­ that they trust their students, dent influence, and we would ing of University governance, she and it ,if:. ensure that com- added. a c k n o w I - lli, mittee members However. Eldon cautioned that edges that "It has. tJeen our, U!r 111 ni went into meet­ there may be negative effects. the candi- experience that·~···· ings with the "In any committee there has to date's ability administration be a level of trust among mem­ to teach and committee members truly with clearly bers and an acceptance of com­ interact with do care about what defined goals mon ground rules," she said. students is students have to say. " and a spirit of "Faculty and students alike an important open and honest need to know when a certain dis­ component communication." cussion is confidential. and need of the hiring John Micek ()'Donoghue to be able to trust that confiden­ decision." vice presidential candidate stated an aspect tiality will be maintained. Some H u i e of the issue that faculty are uncomfortable dis­ agreed. concerned cussing sensitive confidential "Student voices are essential in William Berry, professor of elec­ topics when students are present honoring the commitment that trical engineering and member by William Shakespeare due to this lack of trust." Notre Dame upholds ... without of the review panel committee Sunday Matinee. February 20 ...... 2:30 pm Thursday February 24 .. 730 pm Eldon also said that due to stu­ them, staff and faculty too often for appeals concerning sexual dents' busy lives, they may not have to speculate and assume. If discrimination. Berry said his Wednesday February 23 ...... 730 pm Friday. February 25 . 7:JU pm committees do that, the initia­ always be present at committee committee is one that does not Saturday. February 26 ...... 730 pm meetings. tives and interventions that may need student representation. "I "Committees work best. be put in place may not have the can only answer for this commit­ Playing at Washington Hall o Reserved Seats S16 o Seniors S14 o All Students S12 though, when all members potential or authenticity that tee [on whether or not students attend regularly and are pre­ produces results. Simply stated, representation is necessary]. I Tickets available at LaFortune Student Center Ticket Office. MasterCard and Visa orders caii631·812B. pared for each meeting. Good without student input, staff and don't think student membership committees do real work on real faculty most likely have failed to makes sense," he said. The resrdency of Actors from rhe london Stage rs sponsored rn parr by :he Henkels liC!ure Serres issues. Students [or faculty] who exhaust their resources when O'Donoghue agreed, saying attend erratically have a nega­ making decisions." that while many committees tive impact, since time is wasted Although the candidates agree would benefit fromstudent mem-

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Speaker says "Those who feel to have a now that they were moving urban renewal + mission for development are across a multiparty council," he African the commercial farmers," con­ said. trasting with rural farmers who When destroyed, social capi­ Most presenters are con­ development By JESSICA DAVES "have lost confidence in the tal may be difficult to rebuild. nected with Catholic commu­ slowed by government, which never !Iyden's ambiguous speech News Writer nity leadership in cities poor relationships served them, became a corrupt and gloomy view of Tanzania's including Chicago, Cleveland, ______institution at the expense of the future sparked the critics in the Poverty is a way of life in for Detroit, San Antonio and El farmer," said Hyden. audience. A spectator. who had many inner city residents. But Paso, Texas, he said. By HENRI CAPIN GALLY The meltdown of trust among lived in Mozambique during the rather than ignore the situa­ "Students at the University SANTOS village farmers, or social capi­ 1960s, said that Hyden's view tion, many are fighting for often do not get the opportuni­ News Writer tal, presents a serious problem, about the depletion of trust in change. ty to hear and directly according to Hyden, because African society was exaggerat­ The Notre Dame community encounter creative leaders The di!Ticulti!ls in the eco­ cooperation among the people ed. Another audience member will examine the role of faith who are impacting communi­ nomic devolopment of African fosters the healthy development complained about the ambigu­ and cooperation in urban ties of need throughout the countries appear to be correlat­ of society. Tanzania's economic ous definitions of the terms renewal in a Feb. 13-15 con­ country," commented McNeill. ed with the deteriorating rela­ orientation used by ference "Reconciliation and McNeill encourages students tionships among the members has fluctuated Hyden. Renewal in the Cities: Faith­ to attend the events, all free to of sodBty. according to Goran between "Village farmers have The speak­ B a s e d the general public. "We tried llydcn. The highly-rngarded Marxism and er answered Initiatives." to make it student friendly," African lecturer discussed the capitalism. lost confidence in the that Africa will feature Conference he said. turbulm1t social and economic According to government. " was indeed a Harvard All events are in Students look forward to the scenario faced by Tanzania Hyden they "high trust-' University's McKenna experience. Father "We students all know that sincn thn 1960s. now have "the Goran Hyden ing" society, During tlw 1960s tlw pride worst of both but that he B r y a n auditorium and our large cities involve pover­ of indnpendence ran high systems." lecturer viewed a dif- Hehir and open to ty and other challenges. I am among thn peopln, Tanzania Hyden pro- ferent situa­ Father interested to see what these I faced a promising outlook. posed a very original solution tion while conducting his stud­ V i r g i i o the public. presenters have done to During tlw following two although his outlook of ies during the '90s. Elizando of + "The Church, address these issues with imagination and hope," said dncadns. howpver, corrupt Tanzania's future seemed pes­ An ideological division on t h e The Century, leadPrs usnd th!~ir privileged simistic. development amongst different Archdiocese Erica Loye, student of urban The City," position for thnir own int!~rnsts, "If there were to be a social social groups seems to arise. of San affairs. llydnn said. Pnopln of dillim~nt movement. it would come from Common farmers can be Antonio. 4p.m.,Sunday The conference will begin 4 Notre Dame p.m. Sunday with a discussion social rlassns rnaetml in con­ women. In the 1995 election. thought of as "entrepreneurs," + "Passion for trasting fashions to tlw gow~rn­ the women in the ruling party said Hyden. students by Hehir of the Catholic mPnt's abusP. implanted a women's council, "Village farmers have lost Angela Change," Church in cities. Other high­ lights include Elizondo, asso­ confidence in the government, Anderson 12:50 p.m., which never served them, it and Nikolas ciate director of the Green will Monday University's new Institute for .------=1--:N::--::--=T=-E=--=R=--=e=-s=-=T=-;;:E;;:-;D~---;1;--N;;;:-;;-A~--- became a corrupt institution at the expense of the farmers. also be +"Latino Faith- Latino Studies, who will speak speaking. 8 p.m. Monday about Latino C A R E E R I N There is very little trust, it must Based Initiatives: B 0 0 K P U B L I S H I N G ? be reestablished," said Hyden. "Faith­ faith-based initiatives. based ini­ Hope and "Father Elizondo is a Anna Kosse, a graduate IN MA HIEATI ES tiatives is a dynamic speaker and an of the University of Notr~ broad term Imagination," expert on Latino pastoral con­ Dame and the University for groups 8 p.m., Monday cerns,'' McNeill said. "He is of Denver Publishing and com- +"Attacking also the founder of the MACC, Institute and now with munities Mexican American Cultural All Show!-. Before 6 PM S--1.00 which con­ Poverty in a Civil Center, a national center for SourceBooks, Inc .• will be S.J.()() Studcnt-./C'hitdrcn/Scnior.., Sh.50 Adult nect their Society," 9:30 training and leadership devel­ on campus to speak with Stereo Surround Sound in all Theatre., involvement opment for those working in in social a.m. Tuesday interested seniors and Down to You PG·13 Latino communities." graduate students about 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:40 10:00 analysis, In addition, Notre Dame stu­ Eye of the Beholder the PUBLISHING INSTITUTE 12:55 3:15 5:35 7:55 10:20 action and justice in response dents Angela Anderson and Galaxy Ouest PG Nikolas Green will speak and job opportunities in 2:45 5:05 7:40 10:25 to challenges such as lack of Girl Interrupted A housing, education, economic about their experiences in the industry_ 7:25 10:05 Next Friday A development, health care, et faith-based initiatives over the Monday, Feb. '14 1:15 3:30 5:45 6:00 10:15 Scream 3 cetera," said Father Don past summer. One-on-one Conferences 1:30 4:10 7:05 9:55 McNeill, executive director of "We hope the speakers will 2:20 5:00 7:50 10:25 '1 0:00-'1 '1 :30arn in Snow Day PG the Center for Social spark the students' imagina­ 1·10 3:25 SAO 7:55 10:10 Arrnst:rong Room Stuart little PG Concerns. tions and desire to visit faith­ 2:30 5:00 7:35 9:50 The 10 different sessions of based initiatives like these in (LaFort:une) The Beach A 2:00 4:40 7:35 10:15 speakers will address urban their community or in experi­ 3:00-4:00prn Grand Hall The Green Mile R 3:45 7:30 situations where creative ential learning opportunities O'Shaughnessy The Hurricane R leadership and unity impact provided by the esc." 12:45 3:55 7:00 10:10 The Talented Mr. Ripley R the local community. "At the The conference is part of the Information Session 12:50 4:00 7:20 10:20 The Tigger Movie G conference, students would millennia! series "Building the 4:00-5:00prn in '1 '19 12:55 2:50 4:45 7:20 9:30 see a broad spectrum of faith­ Civilization of Love: Imagining Toy Story 2 G O'Shaughnessy 2:35 5:05 based initiatives in six differ­ the Third Millennium." spon­ ent sessions on Monday and sored by the theology depart­ www_ du _ ed u/pi lO!!AlS TIM!$ ONlY IOU~ !lAY AIW.\NC( liC~El' SAm Tuesday," said McNeill. ment. HANIIICAP ACCBSIBLI t NO PAS!£! • NO SUI'I'I!AV!RS

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was no room in the middle. by consulting many others. I CORRECTIONS Now there is much more of a know this is not what techni­ Senate variety on what we can do." cally should have been done, continued from page 1 OfT campus senator Pat Foy and I apologize for that. But +In yesterday's election pullout, Joe Shepherd was incorrecily ------urged the senate to look at the issue is not the ethics of identified as the 2-year president of the class of 2001. Shepherd was O'Donnell also stressed that the situation objectively. "Do my decision. Please leave the 2-year president of his high school class. the Judicial Council's punish- what is right," he said. "Last ethics out of this." ment was handed out against night. the decision didn't After debate, the amend­ +In yesterday's eleciton pullout, a quote attributed to Greg Smith the rules of the constitution. work out for several reasons. ment was brought to the floor should have been attributed to Brian Clemency. The committee formed to We made a mistake, but that and with 16 of 22 votes, it decide the punishment did doesn't mean we have to passed. +Clemency is a pre-professionaVeconomics major, not a govern­ not meet the constitution quo- make another mistake "I think with the ruling we ment major. tas. and thus their punish- tonight. The punishment made [Wednesday] night we ment was "null and void," mustmatchthecrime." were going to deal with many +Laura Petelle assisted with interviews and profiles for the election O'Donnell said. However. the Bridget Tomes from apathetic voters," said Walsh pullout. senate did agree that a viola- Cavanaugh disagreed. senator Kate McCarthy. "Not lion did occur and they "I do not think we made a only apathetic, but we would The Observer regrets the errors. should review the situation. mistake last night," she said. have confused apathetic vot­ Before debate began, "J do not think that the s1mate ers. By the amendment Senator O'Donoghue left th11 is a supreme body. It was the tonight, we decreased the f1oor. "J am removing myself job of the confusion from the debate for obvious J u d i c i a I a n d reasons," he said. "However. Co unci I "I want everyone to know allowed I want everyone to know that and I think that this appeal did not voters to this appeal did not come from the punish­ receive the us. It came from outside our m e n t come Jr,om us. " most infor­ campaign." s h o u I d .nu .. mation . Q li,;b OJ Overall. the senators want- stand." 8 nan 'Donoghue " ' 'p o s s i b I e . ed to finalize the decision. A f t e r The voters presidential candidate "Rules are rules," said Fisher d e b a t e now have senator Philip Dittmar. "We e n d e d , the choice decided that last night. For O'Donnell to make now let's make a decision and restated the most move on." that the Judicial Council did informed, best deeision." Knott senator Ed Foy not follow the rules of tho Pat Foy agreed. add~1d. "'Let's get this over constitution and thus an "The senate thought a can­ with now." amendment should be mach"l didate going on a WVFI Some senators were upset on the punishment. broadcast that reaches the decision was reconsid- "I want to reiterate what maybe three people ... did not ered. Pat [Foy] said: Do what's just. warrant a two day suspen­ "We made a decision," said Do what's right," O'Donnell sion," he said. "We thought Zahm senator Ryan Becker. said. "I don't think the one day was more appropri­ "Now to go back 24 hours Judicial Council made the ate for the violation." later and hear this again . . . right decision and the consti­ Overall, O'Donoghue's out­ we have to support the tution was not followed. The look was positive. Judicial Committee and go punishment should stand at a "We're happy !with the with our original ruling." one day suspension." amendment!, no doubt - Candice Marcum, Welsh Kelly Folks, Judicial Council especially because the appeal Family Hall senator argued President, was apologetic for came from outside our cam­ otherwise. "(Wednesday] the mistake, but stood behind paign," he said. "It's been a night it came down to two her original punishment. "I trial but we never lost faith. decisions - either extreme did not make this decision by We're going to continue on to left or right," she said. "There myself," she said. "I made it make this University better."

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Friday, February II, 2000 The Observer+ NATIONAL NEWS page 9 House passes 01arriage tax cut Affirmative action

of' tax cuts that would retum a earns roughly the same Associated Press portion of' projected budget income. The penalty strikes surplusr.s to taxpayers and most frequently at income lev­ ban denounced limit thr. growth of government. els between $20,000 and WASHINGTON versities under the proposal. "We need a tax code that $75,000 and costs couples an Associated Press Dispatching an Pleetion-year dor.sn't punish married eou­ average of $1,400 a year, "The athletes that are valentine. Hepublicans won ples," said House Speaker according to congressional esti­ needed to win football games I louse passage Thursday of' leg­ Dennis llastert. R-Ill. "They mates. will be included in that 20 islation that would cut income TALLAHASSEE, Fla. need to buy braces for the kids. The GOP bill would cut taxes Black college students and percent whether they have taxes $182 billion over 10 They need to buy insurance for for those couples as well as the grades or not," said years for all hundreds of other critics of the ear and the home. They millions of others who already Gov. Jeb Bush's plan to get Brenda Holt, a high school married don't need the federal govern­ get a marriage "bonus," mainly teacher in Quincy. "If the taxpayers. rid of affirmative action ment picking their pocket." those in which one spouse packed Capitol hearing government in this state does including It was a day for politicians of earns the lion's share of family not protect us from the good­ the 25 mil­ rooms Thursday to denounce every stripe to ally themselves income. It would gradually the effort as an attack on old-boy system, then who lion couples with the popular issue, even if expand the bottom 15 percent does?" who pay a women and minorities. they opposed this particular tax bracket to apply to more of Bush did not attend the The legislators hearing tes­ "marriage bill. Despite his veto warning, a married couple's income, timony were split into two penalty" third and final set of hearings Clinton said at a Capitol Hill boost the standard deduction in on his "One Florida" propos­ groups to accommodate the compared appearanee. "We know we 2001 for married filers to twice crowd. About 1,200 people with singiP Clinton al, which would eliminate should do this." However, he that of singles and raise the race and gender as factors in attended. and 100 spoke. pt~ople. wants marriage penalty tax income cap to allow more Each speaker was limited to The vote. timed to eoineide university admissions and the relief targeted more toward lower-income couples to claim awarding of state contracts. three minutes. with Valentine's Day next lower- and middle-class tax­ the earned income tax credit. "I think the governor has week, was 268-158 to send the He watched some of the payers. About 50 million married hearings on closed-circuit his heart in the right place, bill to the Senate. Although 48 "We are united in saying, couples filed joint income tax but has been misguided in his Democrats joined all television in his office. 'Let's do it now,"' Clinton told a returns in 1997, the most "The One Florida plan will approach so far," said Kelvin Republir:ans in favor, it was Democratic rally. recent year complete statistics Lawrence, a sophomore at short of' a vt~to-proof' edge. not work," said Anthony The "marriage penalty" arP available from the Internal Viegbesie, president of the predominantly black Florida Senate~ passage is far from occurs because millions of cou­ Revenue Service. A&M University. certain and President Clinton is Tallahassee branch of the ples who file joint tax returns Democrats complained that National Association for the For weeks, leaders in threatening a veto over the bil­ are f'orr:ed to pay taxes at high­ half of the bill's total tax cut Florida's black community l's cost and timing. yet llouse Advancement of Colored er rates than they would if they would go to couples who People. "The have protested against the GOP leadPrs trumpeted the were single and filing separate­ already receive a bonus and plan. In nwasure as tlw first in a series One Florida ly, Pspecially if each spouse would consume a large chunk plan is anti­ January, of the projected budget surplus "If the government in this two black minority, state doesn't protect us before plans are laid to ensure anti-women, lawmakers the future solvency of Social anti-poverty from the good-old-boy staged a Security and Mecidare, to pay and must be system, who does?" 25-hour sit­ down the national debt and to killed." in inside Lt. guarantee adequate govern­ T h e Gov. Frank ment spending. Republican Brenda Holt Brogan's "The Republicans want to governor has high school teacher office, havr, a political gimmick for insisted the demanding Valentine's Day," said Hep. plan would that Bush Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. "If they improve rescind his just want a political issue, diversity in education and executive they've got it." contracting jobs by increas­ order to put One Florida in Democrats also said two­ ing outreach efforts to place. thirds of the tax cuts would go minorities historically shut Bush refused, but he to couples earning more than out of opportunities. agreed to three public hear­ $75.000 a year once it is fully Bush spokesman Justin ings on the plan. The previ­ phased in by 2008, and would Sayfie said after the meeting ous two, in Tampa and entangle some of them in the that Bush still wants quick Miami, also were dominated complex alternative minimum approval on key parts of the by critics. tax. plan. 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McCain. though former get to do it," Forbes said. He Associated Press Ambassador Alan Keyes is still declined to say whether he Gore on gun control in the race. would run for the presidency WASHINGTON Deelining to immediately again or some other office, but Ending his "swim against endorse another candidate, "His position changed to said, "I will participate in the Associated Press thn tides," publishnr Stevn Forbns said on CBS' "The publie ~quare one way or match the changing times," Forbns pullnd out of the Early Show" this morning that another. Lehane said, noting the prolif­ Hepublican presidential race LOS ANGELES his campaigns in 1996 and Forbes left the presidential Bill Bradley, standing eration of gun violence in the today af'lnr past decade. "The public looks this year "changed the politi­ race today in the company of a Thursday with parents of chil­ spending cal landscape" and their cost select few who spent millions for leaders who respond to the personal dren killed by guns, accused AI changing times." -more than $66 million - of' their personal fortunes on Gore of coming late and ending millions on was money well spent. baek-to-back political cam­ Gore was campaigning in Los his sncond up weak on Angeles Thursday, too, pro­ "When you add it up, it's a paigns that ended in defeat. the emo­ quest for formidabln sum, but it will get Like Heform Party founder moting his health care propos­ tlw nomi­ tional issue al at a hospital. In a striking you a handful of ads in the Boss Perot and Californian of gun con­ nation. Supt)r Bowl." he said. "I think Michael Huffington before counterpoint, his motorcade V\' e trol. was held up temporarily we have changed the dia­ him, Forbes hnlped set the Framing have t·rn­ logun." standard for sparing no because of a shooting at a fast alt~d a nnw Forbes his contrast food restaurant nearby. Forbns cited his focus on expense on a political dream. in unusual­ ronst•rva- ovnrhauling thn incomn tax lie spent an average of $160 Speaking to youngsters at El tivn agt•nda," Forbns told sup­ ly barbed Sereno Middle School - par­ systnm, ending abortion, giv­ per vote to finish second in an terms, portnrs, claiming inl'luencn in ing parents more control over Iowa straw poll in August, ents of youngsters who were making thn party takP his B r a d I e Y Bradley killed standing with him - schools. although -no said: "This idnas sPriously. and allow- delegates Bradley said Gore voted "I have no rngn~ts. and you is not an issue that I came to against a 1990 bill to expand a ing pPople "This was a fantastic were at stake after seeing television pictures shouldn't t)ither." to control federal ban on assault weapons Forbns Pxitnd in and anyone of Columbine. This is an issue thnir Social phenomenal experience, could vote and only wants to register new Washington. th t1 pI acP lw that I believed as a matter of Security seeing America, learning for the price handguns while ignoring an railed against in two cam­ fundamental principle through­ estimated 60 million current savings. lie about America in a way of a ticket. out my public life." paigns for tlw timidity of. i.ts said his llat weapons. tax rutLPrs and thn clout of tts He spent "I have always supported tax propos­ few people get to do it." Bradley said he wants to spncial intPrest lobbyists. more than $3 common-sense gun control. AI al forced millfon a license and register all hand­ Champion of a f'lat incomn Gore has not always done guns but Gore has dismissed tax and a consnrvalivn voice candidates Steve Forbes month in the that," Bradley said. Bush and the plan as too difficult. on abortion, Forbes strugglml former presidential candidate last three The Gore campaign coun­ "The essence of leadership is to gnt his voice heard in a McCain to months of tered that Bradley was trying release to take on that which is consid­ campaign dominated from the 1999 in to manufacture differences ered too hard to do and make it their own start by Tnxas Gov. George W. advance of where none exist. happen. That's what leaders do tax-cut plans. Bush. with John McCain com­ the Iowa caucuses, where he "Vice President Gore has as opposed to politicians," ing on strong al'tnr a New Forbes won the Delaware finished a strong second, and been a strong advocate for gun Bradley said. primary in 1996 but decided Hampshirt) victory. the New Hampshire primary, safety laws," said Nathan In addition to national regis­ "Wn wern nosed out by a to gnt out of the racn this year where he came in a poor Barankin, a spokesman for tration of handguns, Bradley's landslide," Forbt)S said dryly. aftnr placing third in that state third. California Attorney General Bill plan calls for banning gun llis dnparturP triggnrnd a on Tuesday, behind Bush and "Never has so much been Lockyer, co-chair of Gore's dealers from residential neigh­ scrambiP among tlw rt)main­ even McCain. who didn't cam­ spent with so little in return," California campaign. borhoods, limiting the number ing contendPrs for his anti­ paign at all in Delaware. said Larry Makinson, execu­ But spokesman Chris Lehane of guns a person can buy each abortion. anti-tax supportnrs "This was a fantastic phe­ tive director of the Center for acknowledged that Gore's year, banning small, cheap on tlw conservative right. and nomtHHLI experience, seeing Responsive Politics, a research record in Congress bears little "Saturday night specials" and also SPL tlw stagP for a two­ Amnrica, learning about group that studies money and resemblance to his gun-control ordering background checks way battiP bntwnnn Bush and America in a way few people campaigns. stance of today. for purchases at gun shows.

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P.O. Box Q, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 Sourh Dining Hall, Norre Dame, IN 46556 Prisoners deserve the vote EDITOR IN CHIEF Michelle Krupa EVANSTON, Ill. journalism students, is it really unreasonable to assume that MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER "Our best teacher is history." said Eugene Pencham, there arc hundreds of Illinois prisoners serving regular jail M. Shannon Ryan David Rogero Chicago civil rights attorney and judge. sentences who also are innocent? AsST. MANAGING EDITOR The routs of apartheid in South Africa can probably be Yet given the possibility that our justice system is incapable Laura Petelle traced to the Dutch invasion, when the Europeans' superior of proving true guilt or innocence, there still are no candi­ weapons and technology overwhelmed dates for public office paying attention to the plight of prison­ NEWS EDITOR: Tim Logan the area's native inhabitants. Manu Bhardwaj ers who are serving jail times for crimes they did not commit. VIEWPOINT EDITOR: Colleen Gaughen For the next 300 years, blacks in South Why? SPORTS EDITOR: Brian Kessler Africa slowly won back their inalienable Because, just like Mandela, none of our prisoners has the SCENE EDITOR: Michael Vanegas rights from their oppressors. They won Daily right to vote. That's right. Despite the fact that the 15th SAINT MARY's EDITOR: Noreen Gillespie back the right to give their children some Amendment says "the right of citizens of the United States to semblance of an education. They won Northwestern vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States," we PHOTO EDITOR: Kevin Dalum back the right to buy and drive eaurs. are consistently denying U.S. prisoners the right to vote in all ADVERTISING MANAGER: Bryan Lutz They won baek the right to work in U.S. elections. AD DESIGN MANAGER: Bret Huelat decent, upper-level jobs. In fact, by 1994, they had won back I am not arguing that people who kill and rob other people SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR: Michael Revers all of their rights - exeept one. don't deserve to go to jail. What I am saying is that people in WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Erik Kush to You can often judge a eommodity's value by the extent that jail deserve to vote, for two reasons: CONTROLLER: Timothy Lane those who have it don't want to give it to those who don't 1) Innocent people are serving time in jail for crimes they have it. Six years ago, blacks in South Africa finally won the did not commit. The only way politicians will start paying GRAPHICS EDITOR: Joe Mueller most important right of all: the right to vote. attention to them is if they are given back the right to vote. Eugene Pencham said to a eurious audience Monday, 2) Even though U.S. citizens who kill and rob other people CONTACT Us "What did South Africa's blacks do finally when they got the deserve to go to jail, all citizens still deserve the right to vote OFFICE MANAGER/GENERAL INF0 ...... 631-7471 right to vote? Why, they eleeted an ex-conviet who had been in America. FAX ...... 631-6927 in prison for 27 years!" Although giving the vote to innocent people in jail won't ADVERTISING ...... 631-6900/8840 That's right. They eleeted Nelson Mandela. change the justice system overnight, it will give those inno­ ob,[email protected] Now, stay with me for a minute. cent people a voice and a means to try to change the system. EDITOR IN CHIEF ...... 631-4542 America contains only 5 percent of the world's population, MANAGING EDITOR! AssT. ME ...... 631-4 541 but houses 25 percent of its prisoners. I can't help but won­ This column first appeared in the Daily Northwestern at BUSINESS 0FFICE ...... 631-5313 der how many prisoners in the United Stat<~s are like Northwestern University. It is reprinted here courtesy oftlze NEWS ...... 631-5323 Mandela. That is, how many are unfairly incarcerated? U-WIRE. observer.obsnews.1 @nd.edu Ask yourself this simple question: If 13 men have been The views expressed in this column are those of the author VIEWPOINT...... 631-5303 released from Illinois' Death How, three of whom were freed and not necessarily those of The Observer. observer. viewpoint.! @nd.edu based on new evidence found by Protess and Northwestern SPORTS ...... 631-4 543 observer.sports.l @nd.edu SCENE...... 631-4 540 observer.scene.l @nd.edu SAINT MARY'S ...... 631-4324 Give thanks for all the goodness observer.srnc.1 @nd.edu PHOTO...... 631-8767 I am so thankful I am not a Viewpoint I am thankful for the dining hall I am thankful for my own beliefs SYSTEMS/WEB ADMINISTRATORS ...... 631-8839 editor; it would be depn1ssing to read ladies, who let me eat the day I forgot about God, my life, my religion. my body the millions of complaints people have my ID, who always have a hello and a and my own sexual chokes. THE OBSERVER ONLINE about a school I happen to love. smile, and who willingly dean up after I am thankful for the Irish Guard. the Visit our Web site at http://ob;erver.lld.edu tor daily I am thankful for this sehool, and the me when I accidentally leave my chants at basketball games, for Mike updates of campus news, sports. features and opinion fact that if there is any ...------.~------,--~------. Brown, for our school spirit and for columns, as well as carroons. reviews and breaking news aspect that I am unhap­ "·-'->' all other Notre Dame traditions. ti-orn the Associated Press. ppy with. I ean always I am thankful for all of the people SURF TO: either join or start a that I don't have room to mention weather tor up-to-the movies/music fOr group to actively here, from my professors and minute forecasrs weekly student reviews improve it. And, if I roommates to the stir-fry chef who cannot improve it, I am washes out the wok before steam­ advertise tor policies online features for spe­ thankful that I do have ing my vegetables. and rates of print ads cial cam pus coverage the free will to quit I am thankful for our sports archives to search for about The Observer complaining and trans­ teams ... all of them. They are OUH arricles published after to meet the editors and fer to another school. teams, OUH classmates and OUH August 1999 staff I am thankful for you, friends, whether they win, lose OR the many people (who I don't even Observer on the table. get arrested. know) who did help me up when I fell I am thankful for all of the service I am thankful for bun runs, joke bal­ POLICIES carrying my books in God Quad, who opportunities available here, and for all lots (vote for the Horney-Priest ticket in The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper offered to carry my backpack and held of the students who partieipate in them. '01 !), dining hall riots, and everything published in print and online by the students of the doors for me the time I was on erutehes, (Do a Summer Service Project in else that makes this school a little more University of Notre Dame duLac and Saint Mary's and who offered to lift my car out of the Philadelphia if you get the ehance ... fun. College. Editorial content. including advertisements, is not governed by policies of the administration of either diteh and over the eement block it was you'll be thankful too!) I am thankful that I do not have to institution. The Observer reserves the right to rduse stuck on during that of awful day my I am thankful for the ability to take rely on negative, scarcastie comments advercisements based on content. freshman year. advantage of the free food, free tee­ alone for humor. (Bring on the penis The news is reponed as accurately and objectively as I am thankful for the snowangels, shirts, free massages and free enter­ jokes!!) possible. Unsigned editOrials represent the opinion of snowmen and snowball fights that I tainment offered by SUB, and even for I am thankful I am not bitter, com­ the majority of the Edimr in Chid~ Managing Editor, happen to see around campus, and for those events that do eost a little money. plaining about every little detail about Assistant Managing EditOr and deparrment edimrs. my cozy dorm room with its own And I am also thankful that if an event this school. Commentaries, lerters and columns present the views adjustable thermostat. And, after expe­ doesn't interest me, then I am in no way But most of all, I am thankful I am not of the authors and not necessarily those of The rieneing the alternative, I am even more foreed to attend. a Viewpoint editor! Observer. thankful for the summer. I am thankful for the Debartolo docks Viewpoint space is available to all readers. The free I am thankful that I have a car, aeeess that run a little slow, and for the fact Angie Rausch expression of all opinions through letters is encouraged. Letters to the Editor must be signed and must include to a parking lot for only $75, and for all that if I ever did need to know the time Junior conracr intOrmarion. of the groundskeepers I DO see around on my way to class, that at least 98 per­ l'asquerilla West Qumiow regrtrdi11g Ob;erver policies should be direct­ trying to keep up with the snow as best cent of the student body regularly wears February 8, 2000 ed to E'ditor in ChieJMichelle Kmpa. as they can. watches.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Adios, Wadsworth O'Donoghue/Norton's Regarding Wadsworth's firing, I say "HURRAY!" and so do many of my Charlotte Club fellow alums. Despite his many vision untarnished aeeomplisments for the Title IX sports, and the overall Big East record. lw was a total llop in the two sports which REALLY This letter is about the character of our friend internet radio WVFI with Jabari Holloway. matter- varsity football and men's basketbalL Both teams Brian O'Donoghue. Many of you know him as On Sunday, Odie was casually asked if such hav1~ become an ND embarassment, to say nothing of the "Odie." To others, he is just a figure that appears interviews were allowed since campaigns started Dunbar and .Joe Moore fiascoes, so much so that Monk had to on the cover of The Observer on Thursdays with on Tuesday. To be certain, Brian made a more stnp in and personally start cleaning up the poop that Mike left a summary of the previous night's Student official inquiry, and to his dismay found that his all over campus! Senate meeting. To those who have had any con­ radio appearance was, in fact, prohibited. Brian Here's hoping Monk has the guts to finish his rehab job, fires tact with him, there is no doubt that he is one of turned himself in at once, and received a two that Faustian-fool Bob Davie and hires a REAL football coach a kind. He has the uncanny ability to seem like day suspension of campaign activities, which he before the football program goes brain-dead! the most insane person you've ever met, but in in turn appealed to the Senate. the next instant, he callbsay the perfect thing to It's become far too commonplace for politi­ Peter W. Murray, '64 lift your spirit in a time of crisis. cians, and people in general, to cover up their Notre Dame Parent, '89 and '93 If you ask him what he wants to do with his mistakes. However, as soon as he realized he February 9, 2000 life. without hesitation, he'll respond, "To save might have committed an infraction, Odie sought the world." And the crazy thing is that he's seri­ to turn himself in. This is honorable trait is one ous. The first time we heard this we almost of the qualities that we claim as one of Notre laughed, but the look in his eye wouldn't lot us Dame's founding principles. Apparently, Brian's dismiss it. Look at what he wants to do as colleagues in the Senate agreed with him as they President, and it's clear that he's a dreamer. He unanimously agreed that while he had made a has set his sights on enabling the students of mistake, the punishment was too severe. In Don't steal from Notre Dame to do great things. It has been obvi­ response to the Senate's decision, Student ous that Odie has been working for this goal Activities, an administrative group, determined since he set foot on this campus at Freshman that the Senate had no right to overturn the Orientation in 1997, even to the extent of passing penalty. Debartolo up time abroad in order to serve the community This letter is not meant as an endorsement of in the Student Union. any candidate for Student Body President, but as One of the most frequent The past few weeks have seen the escalation of a sign of support for our senator and friend, complaints I hear around cam­ Odie's vision. Unfortunately, one wrong step may Brian O'Donoghue. pus is that people feel tllPy hamper his chance of achieving this goal. While have more ruins hnro at school campaigning officially started Tuesday, candi­ Christopher B. Anderson dates were interviewed by campus publications Christopher D. Clement than th1~y do at home and it seems as if wn are constantly on Saturday. Believing this exception covered all Keough Hall Presidents babysat by the administration. campus media, Brian and running mate Brooke February I 0, 2000 Well. I am now getting a rlnar Norton accepted an offer to appear on campus understanding of why sonw of tlwsP things rwnd to take place.

Bdon~ I explain. I pose this I question to you. would you evPr enter a friend.s honw and rip down a family portrait that Awareness of social irresponsibility they have on tlw wall" In my four years here. I hav1~ seen many traditions ruined of Republicans should be raised bncausP o-f tlw irn~sponsibility of students, such as the ticket eampout. Well. my fellow stu­ In his Inside Column from Tuesday, Dustin company responded with legal delay tactics for dents. we arP now in fear of Ferrell is quite right in claiming that Democrats three years, during which it continued to pollute losing one mon\ privilege. Last have their individual failings, and he also cor­ the Delaware River. Finally, in 1991, the case Saturday night during tlw SUB rectly points out that some Democrats do not went to trial and a federal judge, calling NRDC's movie at DeBartolo. tlw por­ hold positions of highest virtue on every issue. evidence against Texaco (practically unassail­ trait of tlw donor of the build­ But one could claim that of any human, for we all able), determined that the company had violated ing was rippnd oiT of the wall. fall short of perfection. Does human imperfection the Clean Water Act on a total of 3,360 days." Now this act may have Sl\nmed mean that no idea is better than any other idea? Texaco, fined heavily and discredited, continued funny at the time. but it has Does the fact that policies are frequently imper­ to resist and eventually faced contempt proceed­ put the SUB movies under fect mean that one should attempt to improve ings for its obstinate delays in undertaking a some serious heat and we now those policies or, rather, just abandon the issue court-ordered environmental study. The court have to live in fnar of any other altogether? Of course, "not supporting ineffective battle continued into January 2000! incidents being the reason that legislation" does not mean "not caring." In regard to race relations, critics of the movins an\ caneellncl forever. However, in the absence of proposals of effective Democratic Party like Farrell enjoy pointing out This is disappointing, especial­ legislation from Republicans, suspicion arises as the traditional racism of Southern Democrats. ly since student affairs recently to real motives. The traditional Republican Unfortunately, time has passed for that objection. allow1~d us to start showing approach to the environment is the frequently Long ago, the most notorious racists in our gov­ movies in DeBartolo 101 and discredited one of allowing companies to enforce ernment (such as Strom Thurmond) got the mes­ SUB has just purchased new themselves. Of course, Republicans receive mil­ sage and switched allegiances, to the Republican il~nsns l'or thn projectors so lions from companies to encourage this position Party. that tlw picture takns up thn - a cynical person might even say that many Many Republicans these days endlessly lam­ whole sernl\n. Both of those companies have no intention of enfor~ing them­ baste President Clinton while lionizing Ronald things are for the benefit of the selves. Reagan as the serene embodiment of the ideals 1000 students that watch SUB Ferrell vastly understates the overwhelmingly of the Party. Reagan demonstrated his concern movies on a weekly basis. positive impact of environmental legislation. And for children and education by trying to abolish Ideally, I would like to son without Democrats (and a few Republicans of (not revamp!) the Federal Department of the n~turn of Edward good will), there would be no Clean Air Act, no Education, all the while selling weapons to the DeBartolo to the wall of his Clean Water Act, and no effective method of Contras in blatant defiance of the law. Lest we building. enforcing corporate responsibility in regard to forget, Bill Clinton was not the first president to llowever. morn importantly, I the environment. Give credit where credit is due. have trouble recalling facts while under oath. am requesting that everybody It is ludicrous even to compare the Democratic Ferrell imagines that there is no coherent ide­ who att1mds SUB movies in tho party record to the systematic attempts of the ology to political parties. However, there is, and futun~ show some responsibili­ Republican party in 1994 to dismantle even the it's called a platform. In the real world, most of ty. most basic environmental legislation. the time, legislators vote the party line. If consci­ Please, realize that one stu­ Lest one think naively that no corporation is entious Notre Dame Catholics should not be pid action may seem insignifi­ completely irresponsible anymore, I point to the Democrats because of the abortion issue, a host cant, yet it will directly affect A' long-standing battle between the National of issues dictate that they not be Republican the entire student body of i 1 { Resources Defense Council and Texaco. The either. Realistic voters must honestly address the today and the future. I don't NRDC is a highly respected, non-profit, public institutional Republican Party's legacy of social want to have to hire a security interest group. According to the NRDC, in 1988, irresponsibility on a wide range of issues, not guard to sit outside the movies "our scientists uncovered evidence from Texaco's wish it away. and create one more situation own internal reports showing that the company where intelligent. young adults had been knowingly and illegally discharging Tim Campbell are babysat. tons of oil, grease and other highly toxic pollu­ Senior tants into the [Delaware] river since 1983." Alumni Hall Ross J. Kerr Armed with Texaco's own pollution reports and February 8, 2000 Board Manager the testimony of local residents, NRDC quickly Student Union Board filed suit against Texaco in federal court. The oil February 8, 2000 ~~~~--~L-~L-~~~

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THE OBSERVER Friday, February 11, 2000 Saint Mary's: It's one heck

Editor's note: Scene will continue to fea­ Saint Mary's has five residence halls in ture the dorms and residence halls of four buildings, strange as that might ....- Notre Dame and Saint Mary's throughout sound, and each one has its own charac­ the spring semester. Anyone interested in ter and spirit. The residence halls are the .. ·-=·•,·•w ..,...... __ writing a dorm feature should e-mail heart of St. Mary's identity, and it is from .,,.,. ~ .. - .... Scene at [email protected] this beating heart that the college arteries h .... _,·-·· -..-~- :.. - pump out fresh, newly oxygen-invirogated women into a global body eager for strong By ANDREW McDONNELL and vibrant voices with pleasant pitch and Scene Writer timbre. For many of these women, their journey to the world begins in Regina It is now; it is here, that the loneliest Hall. tears fall, mufiled in drifts of dirtied snow. Now. What is now? Now is the lull that Regina Hall rests quietly between Groundhog and From the outside, Regina Hall, not to be Valentine's Day, the days where we sit pronounced with a "long i" unless one with hearts in a quivering flux between wants to be "smacked," is perhaps Saint the loss of a rodent whose very shadow is Mary's most unremarkable residence hall: feared and revered, and a day devoted to flat and block-like in appearance. The the expression of romantic love. Where beauty of a place is more than brick-deep, can a young person turn in a time of such however, and once one has entered the straining flux? The answer, which you are lobby of Regina, one knows that this is a all surely screaming in your thoughts, is special place. The foyer of this impressive community. structure holds two tiny pews on each This, and nothing less, is what life in the side, as if to say, "Welcome to a place of residence halls of St. Mary's is all about. worship. Pop a kneel." It also has a tiny Now you're probably thinking: Oh, a boy potted plant that looks like a palm tree, is writing this article about St. Mary's? seemingly placed to compliment the pews. Ooooo a boy! What's a boy doing writing One is left with a sensation that this is a an article about a school that would not place both sacred and tropical. admit him, even after five attempts? Well, Inside the main doors, the visitor is con­ I'll tell you what, everyone, before we go fronted with an impressive chapel, and any further, let's just get this out of the two expansive lounges on either side of way and say that I love Saint Mary, I love the main lobby. The lounge on the south her college, and as an Observer journalist side is brilliantly furnished in clusters of I possess the integrity to discuss Saint sofas and easy chairs ideally arranged for Mary's with an objective eye and a profes­ conversation. It also features an enor­ sional pen. mous glass wall that peers over the indoor That is to say, this is not just going to be swimming pool and a very nice grand another article about tickle fights. piano where people can rattle off a few ditties while they smoke a well earned and fully acceptable cigarette. The North Lounge is also nice and features a fire­ place. One of Regina's Home is where the heart is, and the distractions. A couple of Saint Mary's women take a most popular features is that it is composed said, "The best part of Regina is probably McCandless Hall is another residence almost entirely of sin­ living across the hall from all of your hall largely associated with underclass­ gles. The first floor friends. Since almost every room is a sin­ women and also one that lacks some of offers larger rooms, gle, you get your own space, and your the visual appeal of the older buildings. It but for the most part friends are all right there." was completed in 1964 and named for the rest of the dorm is Senior Kathleen Foley disagreed. "I feel Saint Mary's Marian McCandless, the filled with singles, bad for them," she said of Regina resi­ alumna who founded the Saint Mary's most belonging to dents. "It's funny 'cause it sounds nice in publication, The Courier, in 1966. Its exte­ younger members of all the brochures. It's got a pool, it's close rior is a fairly plain brown brick face with the Saint Mary's com­ to classes, you get a single. But when you rows of what look like compressed train munity. open your door, your room is closet-size. tracks wrapped around the building's Regina is a building Well ... it ain't so bad." perimeter. that can produce very That is apparently the most common Like Regina, the interior of McCandless different complaint of Regina residents, but King distinguishes it from the rest of Saint responses when said that though the rooms are roughly 8- Mary's living facilities. Having the advan­ it enters the by-10, it is worth it in the end, just to be tage of being the newest residence hall, ring of candid part of the Regina community. King said, McCandless can offer such amenities as discussion. "It's a really good community. It's friendly, the air-conditioned study carrels for each Sophomore and everyone says hi to everyone." room, and urn ... a sink in every room. Stephanie King McCandless Hall Which is admittedly a smaller amenity, but think of how much time a body doesn't have to spend walking back and forth every time those chompers need a brushing. OK, so it's not the nicest of interiors either, physically, but look deeper. Look at the community within! According to the staff of McCandless, it has sections that are a little smaller so they are more closely knit. Additionally, the students living in McCandless are mostly underclasswomen, so it is a very energetic place. Hall Director Kelly Ignatoski is very enthusi­ astic about her new role in McCandless. "I love NELLIE WILLIAMSfThe Observer McCandless," she said. "I (Top) A Saint Mary's woman works on a computer. (Bottom left) A couple of SMC women chit-chat between a studying session. wouldn't want to live (Bottom right) Le Mans Hall serves both as a residence hall and as an administrative building. anywhere else. It is a

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halls, it was still one of the most welcom­ its focal point. Once inside, the first floor is ing environments on campus. a wonderland of classy wood paneling, Responding to inquiries of her opinion of and the main lobby is speckled with small Holy Cross Hall, though, LeMans Hall resi­ metal chandeliers that give it an almost dent Foley stated, "I think it's gorgeous medieval flavor. Large wooden pillars also and it's beautiful, but sh-t, the whole dis­ make their presence felt in the lobby, soft­ tance to class thing. It's way out there." ly whispering, "Is it a forest, or is it an indoor place?'' And then it cackles. Annunciata Hall Most Le Mans Hall residents are The fourth floor of Holy Cross Hall is absolutely in love with the building and actually a residence hall unto itself. the people who people it. "There's a lot of Annunciata Hall, a.k.a. "The Rockin' quiet," said RA Sara Velligan, "so it's easy Sorority," is a special section designed for to get things done. And at the same time seniors to live in community together, and there are a lot of distractions whenever that is exactly what happens. They live in you want to find them. Best of both community. It looks like a normal floor, worlds, really." but Annunciata offers extra amenities Surprisingly enough, Foley agreed: ''I'm such as a very nice break room with a big lazy and Le Mans is close to everything. screen TV. It also has its own computer Yeah, we're huge. We have the most lab and kitchen, and members of the com­ washing machines of any building on munity are given a key that accesses the campus." basement entrance so they do not have to And the one naysayer in Le Mans, who pass the scrutiny of the front desk every desired anonymity, stated, "There is no time they want to enter and leave the best part about living on campus. They're building. unhelpful and stupid ... I just don't like the An Annunciata resident who would only business department, that's all. I'm sorry." identify herself as "Gabby" explained: "It's So really, she can pretty much be dis­ just nice being on a floor with all seniors. counted. The extra door is just a little extra incen­ tive." Indeed, any residence hall at Saint Fellow Annunciataette Megan Bodary Mary's offers a sense of spirit that is diffi­ agreed: "I feel tough. I feel like a big kid, cult to match at other schools; almost all finally, you know? I just like the feeling of the women interviewed agreed. Even when you walk in the elevator and get to Kathleen Foley. Despite the sometimes­ say, 'Could you press four, please?' It's a hindersome issues of visitation hours and access cards, life on the Saint Mary's cam­ - ... separation. It's just enough." While there will always be a naysayer pus is a life lived in community, and it is such as Foley, - who said: "I always largely through this community that Saint thought it was so funny that they renamed Mary's students are able to prepare them­ it a whole hall when selves for the world outside. it's just the fourth floor. That's all it is!" - there is something impressive about the community of Annunciata. It is com­ posed entirely of NELLIE WILLIAMSfThe Observer women on the brink break to sit back, relax and watch some TV. of leaving one stage of life and embarking on great building, and it has a great spirit. students, and it is possessed of some of another journey, and And we have a great staff. And I'm not the largest rooms ever created. No joke­ they are all in it. They just saying that because they're all stand­ you could squeeze a roller skating rink are all in it together. ing behind me." And that is when the into some of these rooms and still have brawl erupted. Not really, but it was room to herd alpacas. They are immense Le Mans Hall touch-and-go for a minute there. and feature hardwood floors, incredibly Opened in 1925, Le Asked what she thought of McCandless high ceilings, enormous windows, but they Mans (silent "s") Hall Hall, Le Mans senior Kathleen Foley only have two temperature settings - Hell houses 520 students replied, "No tunnels, no way," in refer­ and Eskimo Hell. and numerous - ence to McCandless's omission from the The real charm of this building is not in administrative offices, underground tunnel network at St. its parlors or its VendoLand. It is in its but it is also the most Mary's. Foley continued, "And it's closer community. These are no hostile Amazon recognizable land­ to Angela Athletic Facility, so it's probably women in Holy Cross, living in gated mark on the full of really skinny girls." seclusion bringing in men for the sole pur­ Saint Mary's But the residents of McCandless know it pose of breeding and then sending them to campus. It is as more than a location. To them, it's just the place from whence they came. No, an enormous home. these be a friendly and chaste people, and structure with though the author of this article was a commanding Holy Cross Hall required to be accompanied by an escort, bell tower as At the end of the tree­ as are all men in all St. Mary's residence lined Avenue lies a monument to the archi­ tecture of the past - Holy Cross Hall. It is a beautiful old building, the oldest of the resi­ ,.. dence halls in fact, and just by walking across its front porch and into its classic lobby with twin, curved staircases, one cannot help but feel a pang of jealousy that one cannot live there. Especially if one isn't even afforded the chance just because of one's gender. One can really feel the pangs if that's the case. That's when the sting begins to burn. Holy Cross is home to NELLIE WILLIAMSfThe Observer 320 residents, mostly (Top) Some women hang out in the hallway, proving that Saint Mary's extends even to Its hallways. (Bottom right) A gal studies for second- and third-year class; remember, Saint Mary's is also a school. (Bottom left) The grand Holy Cross Hall has really big rooms.

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Notre Dame room of LaFortune, By MARY ANNE LEWIS so make it a date. Bring that Scene Wri1er special someone for a special time with rhyme. About the speakers ... "Who do we want? Do you guys have any ideas?" Sixth stop: Notre Dame "I was thinking of Tori Amos Bookstore Bharatl Mukhe.;ee, Saturday, 8 p.m. "The Middleman and Other or Sarah McLachlan." If the date went well, why not Stories" "All right - those are pretty bring that significant other to a Novels: "Leave it to Me," "The big names. Anyone a bit more follow-up date? Lee will host a Holder of the World," "Jasmine," Awards: The National Book subtle?" workshop Tuesday at 10 a.m. "Wife" and "The Tiger's Daughter" Critics' Circle Award for Best "How about some authors Fiction ("The Middleman"), from Core?'' Seventh stop: Washington Non-fiction: "Days and Nights in Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA "Hey, good idea." Hall Calcutta" and "The Sorrow and the grant. NEH-funded "resource Now SLFL offers you a very Terror: The Legacy of the Terrorist expert" on world literature, It's coming. Momentum has special opportunity to see fellow Bombing of Air India Flight #182" Canada Council Senior Arts been building since April of last students read their own works. Fellowship and Woodrow Wilson year. Dozens of people are Each student will have approxi­ Collections: "Darkness" and Guest Residencies involved and even more are mately 30 minutes to present excited. The train arrives this his/her work, and the evening William Kennedy, Sunday, 8 p.m. Chlldren's Books: Saturday and all are invited to should last about two hours. . ''Charlie Malarkey and the Belly hop on for the ride. The journey Ilear the innermost thoughts of Novels: ''The Ink Truck," "Legs,'' Button Machine" and "Charlie offers excitement, danger, your fri!111ds on this entertaining "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game," Malarkey and the Singing Moose" romance, beauty, satire and evening, which will take place "Ironweed," "Quinn's Book," "Very imagination. Tuesday from 8 to 10 p.m. Old Bones'' and "The Flaming Plays: "Grand View" The conductor's name is Sara Corsage" Branch. She has organized the Eighth stop: Washington Awards: National Book Critics route through hard work and Hall, again Screenplays: "The Cotton Club" Circle Award. Pulitzer Prize. PEN good timing - time is of ulti­ On Wednesday from 8 to 10 and ''Ironwood" Faulkner award, member of mate importance on the rail­ p.m., see author Andrew American Academy of Arts and let­ ways. And over there is the Hudgins as he presents his own Collections: "Riding the Yellow ters, Academy of Motion Picture Arts assistant, Mary Ellen Donahue. work to Notre Dame students, Trolly Car" and Sciences. MacArthur Foundation Well, all aboard! staff. faculty and other mem­ Fellow, Commander of the Order of bers of the community. A recep­ Arts and Letters (in France) First stop: Library tion will follow for the writer in Auditorium the Notre Dame Hoom of The train arrives Saturday at LaFortune. Li-Young Lee, Monday, 8 p.m. Simon Guggenheim Memorial 8 p.m. sharp to visit Bharati Foundation fellowship, Illinois Mukherjee. Arrive early to Ninth stop: Notre Dame Books of Poetry: "Rose,'' "The Arts Council grant. ensure seating. She will read, Bookstore City in Which I Love You" Commonwealth of Pennsylvania answer questions and develop Work personally with Andrew grant, Pennsylvania Council on thoughts. The train departs Hudgins in a workshop offered Autobiographies: "The Winged the Arts grant, Mrs. Giles Whiting after 10 p.m. Destination is the Thursday at 10 a.m. Meet the Seed" Foundation Writer's Award, New Notre Dame Room of LaFortune man himself, and learn from his York University~s Delmore for a reception with the author. work and experience in the lit­ Awards: National Endowment Schwartz Memorial Award, erary world. for the Arts fellowship, Lannan Lamont Poetry Selection of the Second stop: Notre Dame Foundation fellowship; John Academy of American Poets Bookstore Tenth, and final, stop: Departure takes place Sunday Washington Hall at 11 a.m. Travelers will once The last opportunity to board Andrew Hudgtns, Wednesday, 8 p.m. Hodder fellow (Princeton), again be able to see Bharati in takes place Thursday evening at National Endowment for the Arts all her personal glory as she 8 p.m. Train leaves from a pre­ Books of poetry: "Babylon in a fellow, Ingram Merrill Foundation hosts a workshop for aspiring sentation by John Edgar Jar," "The Glass Hammer," ''The fellow, 1989 Poets' Prize winner, authors and all others interest­ Wideman and moves on to the Never-Ending," "After the Lost 1997 Frederick Bock Prize. - ed. The trip should grant a nice Notre Dame Room of LaFortune War" and "Saints and Strangers" Ohioiana Poetry Award for lifetime view and many new insights. for a special thank you to contribution to poetry, The Wideman for joining everyone Collections: "The Glass Anvil" Fellowship of Southern Writers' Third stop: Washington Hall at Notre Dame. Climb on for the Hanes Prize, American Academy See William Kennedy at 8 grand finale before returning Awards: Wallace Stegner fellow and Institute of Arts and letters' p.m. on Sunday. The evening home. lStanford University), Alfred C. Witter Bynner Prize will consist of a reading perfor­ mance and is anticipated to par­ Thank you for riding SLF

ticularly delight the students Lines. We hope you have < -J.t~ q·~ .fl taking Core classes. enjoyed your trip, seen interest­ John Edgar Wideman, Thutsday, Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award ing things, and learned a bit 8p.m. (twice), The New York Times "Best Fourth stop: Library along the way. Thank the book of the year," American Book Auditorium Student Union Board for the Novels: "Two Cities,'' "Sent for Award, Lannan Uterary Fellowship All day trips cancelled so that $20,000 funding for the trip, as You Yesterday," "Brothers. and for fiction, member of American Sophomore Literary Festival well as the concentrated efforts Keepers,'' . . A Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lines (SLFL) can make this of such people as Branch and "Fatheral?n~; MacArthur Foundation "genius spectacular offer of an after­ Donahue. They have put in Meditation on Fa e).'s and Sons. Race and Society · l:xe Cattle grant" and Rea Award for the short noon with William Kennedy quite a bit of time, work and Killing" · ···· story Monday at 3 p.m. in the Library thought into this project and Auditorium for a Seminar ses­ have every hope for its success. sion concerning his writing and Donahue, working on the pub­ related experiences. lie relations committee, has tried to ensure publicity for this Student readers Include: Paul CamJtata, Mi.chela Costello, Andrew McDonnell, Fifth stop: The land of poetry occasion through the newspa­ Lisa Marie Fabrega, Briafl O'Donoghue and Kara Zuaro Our host will be none other per, radio and by word-of­ than Li-Young Lee. This trip is mouth. recommended to the light of Furthermore, Branch has written hundreds of invitations, Coffeehouse in order to prepare aged to attend the presentations heart and to all lovers of poetry. been working as the head of the and Branch has been keeping in for personal presentation in the and workshops held by Bharati It is this year's only voyage to committee since Amy Sellers touch with the writers. "They hopes of claiming a precious Mukherjee and William this special spot, and places are stepped down from the position seem very excited to come here, half-hour in which to pour forth Kennedy, both of whom were going fast. So grab a place as last year. Since April, the com­ to see Notre Dame and to learn their most intimate writings read by Core students. soon as possible. Seating is lim­ mittee in charge of the what Notre Dame students are Feb. 15. Four very talented stu­ ited. Sophomore Literary Festival has like,'' she said. dent writers will finally have the The train is leaving soon. Boarding time and place: been working to find authors Students have been audition­ opportunity on Tuesday. Jump on, and keep your eyes Monday 8 p.m., Washington and other types of writers to ing and perhaps even per­ All students working in Core and ears wide open! Hall. Reception follows in the come to Notre Dame. They have formed in November's classes this year are eneour- ALL ABOARD!

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Notre Dame is one weird place form of an example: the SYR. Dating at ND. Dating is a good There are nicer places to live when it comes to gender relations Ah, the SYR. This is a dance no idea. 13ucausn guys and girls than South Bend, but we can and commitment between men and one really wants to go to, but every­ live are in separate buildings it make it seem better by Bush­ women. l think to have commit­ one must. It's a rite of passage for is extra important that you ing. Maybe someday they will ment, relationships are necessary; the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's date. otlwrwise it gPts scarier get a town sign that says "South and those seem few and far student. However, with the dance and scarier to take a shower. I Bend: The town that Bushes." between here at NO. - comes the undue pressure of "who like to visit the girl's dorms. As for dating, there are many Let's examine the Notre Dame do I take?" This is the trouble. Sincn all the girls are in one things to do, you just have to be relationship, shall we. We'll begin By the time the dance draws spot tlwy an~n 't afraid to let it a creative mastermind to find with freshmen year: This is a time near, you are ready to invite just all hang out and sometimes you them. Going out to eat is popu­ when crowds of first-year students about anyone- a friend, a friend's can see some interesting stuff. I lar on Wednesdays. And it can be seen roaming campus (and friend, that person who sits next to was in l'W a few days ago and doesn't take long to figure out the off-campus apartment complex­ you in class, some guy/girl that saw a girl zipping up her fly what bar to go to on every es) on Friday and Saturday nights. passes you in the dining hall or the whiln walking down the hall. night. There arc always the These groups participate in dorm­ first cute picture you come to in the I want to take a time-out here movies. Anything can really be hopping. They move from building Dog Book. and ask all NO students and a date. People should just be to building looking for a good time. Though everyone experiences faculty to make sure they flush lighthearted and accept that Many of these students engage in this feeling of desperation, the invi­ the toilet after they do the poo. massage from a stranger. Or sit multiple random hook-ups those tee always reads too much into the If you don't ['lush, and you don't by that lonely person at lunch. first few months of school. They're invitation. Fleeting thoughts of "Oh, do it because you think your That's a date. Invite some looking for a good time in a dark he/she must really like me" and poop looks neat and you want opposite sexers over for an corner with an unfamiliar face. "Next spring will be our one year oth!~r people to see it, I can episode of "The Simpsons." Someone they can brag to their anniversary" are pervasive promise you that we don't. If Climb some trees, go to the friends about, or more likely, avoid throughout the evening. The prob­ you really are amazed at the Snite. jump off the diving board in the dining hall for the next four lem (in this example) lies in the tn~asures that come out of you, at Rolf's. Go date, it's the best years. mixed-up mindset of the invitee; tlH~n bring a plastic bag or a time in your life to meet all The darker side to the freshman commitment and dating relation­ bowl, and some rubbnr gloves sorts of people. Then when you idea of the relationship - the per­ ships will not ever be normal here and bring it home with you. In get to know them better ask manent commitment. These not-so­ if men and women can't learn to the meantime for all of us clean them if they flush the toilet. rare people fmd another like-mind­ talk to each other, rather than people. keep pooping on the And if they don't, tell them you ed individual and begin the dating jumping to grand conclusions on end toilet. nnver want to see them again. ritual. These people want to contin­ their own. ue on the Notre Dame family­ So, what does that leave us with? personally. Before you know it, it is By senior year, you will know a The lone Response: four years later and the couple is handful of couples getting married I would just likP to thank Scott Little for his stereo­ trying to decide which city could after graduation; you will actually typical generalization of women. It has been a long provide themselves and their chil­ know a few couples who are tying time since I have had the pleasure of such a good dren with the best opportunities. the knot before that. The rest of laugh. A-hole. How does it happen? Why isn't your friends, however, will still be Jessica Needles their an exorbitant amount of rela­ in that dark dorm room corner Freshman tionship-hopping going on? The from freshman year, still terrified Regina Hall answer, my friends, comes in the of any kind of commitment. Monday's topic: Valentine's Day- comments on the holiday

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the first round since he ger to chalk one up. years of contract Associated Press trailed by eight strokes in the He missed a couple of 15- Bay Ilill Invitational 11 foot birdie putts before his SAN DIEGO months ago. He tied for 58th first nine was over. and was system," Jones said. "And I Davis Love III and Phil in that event. . muttering to himself on a long Associated Press don't know how Dan fits into Mickelson, two victims of the "It's OK. There are a lot of walk to the flrst tee. that." greatest winning streak on holes to play," Woods said. "I "I think I need a day off." he DAVIE. Fla. With Marino no longer under the PGA Tour in 52 years, put proved that last yr.ar. You can said after his round. evident Dan Marino now has some contract. the Dolphins gained themselvr.s go out there and make it up by the fact he declined to go time, and the Miami Dolphins $5.8 million to spend during the in position on the weekend. or even to thP range as the sun set have more money. free agent signing period, which Thursday tomorrow." over the Pacific Ocean. ''I've Marino. tlw NFL career leader begins Friday. They also for anoth­ Last year? What about last been grinding pretty hard in passing yardage. voided the released veteran tight (llld Troy er crack at week'? lately. I've been hitting a lot final two vears of his contract Drayton on Thursday. stopping He was five strokes back of balls. Maybe I'm just a little with the Dolphins on Thursday. Drayton, 29, said he will not T i g e r going into the final round at tired and need a little rest." It remained unclear whether the re-sign with the Dolphins for Woods. Pebble Beach - seven shots That's not to say he had no 38-year-old quarterback will less money. W hi I e back with seven holes to play energy. Woods swung so hard retire or return for another sea- "I've paid my dues as far as a W 0 0 d s Woods - and still managed to win with his driver on the 326- son. football player." said Drayton, was out of for the sixth straight time, yard second hole that he fell a Marino could rejoin the who caught 32 passes for 299 sync and ntiltching Br.n Hogan in 1948 few steps bar:k. Dolphins or go to another team yards last season. ''I'm finan­ usually in the rough, Love for the second-longest streak "That's all I'vr. got." he as a free agent. cially secure, but money is defl­ recovered from one mess on the PGA Tour. whispered as the ball came 'Tm not going to speculate nitely an issue. I'm a veteran after another and finished a He has his work cut out for one hop short of landing on about what Dan's going to do." and I consider myself one of the roller-coaster round at 7- him if he is to take another the green. He lipped out a 3- Dolphins presidrnt Eddie Jones best tight ends in the league. under 65. giving him a one­ step toward Byron Nelson's footer for birdie. however. said Thursday. ''I'm just stroke lead over Mickelson in record of 11 in a row. And if wasting the good drive. "Dan is a great 'Tm sure he's going going to put the Buick Invitational. the first round was any indi­ Still, a tough day at the athlete and he's some bait on "I just didn't have it," cation, a couple of prime office for Woods is better than done everything through the thought the end of the Woods said after a 1-under players are lining up to stop par for the course. possible he can process of 'Do I still want hook, watch 71. him. Even though Woods was six do in football. to do this?' He had the the line and Love, who finished four "I think guys like Fred off the lead, keep in mind that ''I'm sure he's see if there are strokes back of Woods in the Couples (68). Davis Love and last year he nearly missed the going through injury last year and his any takers." Tour Championship. made 10 myself are really trying to cut and went on to win by two the thought knees are not getting any Marino might birdies and a 30-foot par save play at a different level. and strokes with a 62-65 on the process of. 'Do I better." have some tak­ on the South Course at Torrey hopefully have a different weekend. still want to do ers. too. Pines. considered the more winner out on tour," "The guy is awesome, this?' He had At times. last difficult or the two tracks. Mickelson said. "Nobody has man," said J.L. Lewis, who the injury last Eddie Jones season, Marino Mickelson, the first victim in really done it yet." was in the group at 67. "He year and his Dolphins president showed the streak that began with the Maybe the secret is to give can play bad and win. and knees are not glimpses of the NEC Invitational in August. Woods a short week to get there is not very many guys getting any bet- player who shot a 66 on the North ready. After the Monday that you can say that about. ter. I'm sure that's what he's owns nearly every NFL passing Course. thriller at Pebble, he was at There are other guys who .,. __ thinking about." record. While Love is trying to win Torrey Pines at the crack of have a lot of talent, but he Marino threw 12 touchdown He led Miami to two fourth­ for the first time in nearly two dawn on Tuesday and spent gets the most out of his." passes and 17 interceptions last quarter comebacks during the years. his thoughts were Wednesday in the pro-am. All That's the task fadng Love season. missing five games and regular season. But the never too far away from of it seemed to take a toll on and Mickelson. two supremely most of a sixth because of a Dolphins were embarrassed 62- Woods. the 24-year-old Woods. talented players who haven't neck injury. He flnished with a 7 at Jacksonville in the second "He's the guy to beat as He was 2-over after three gotten much out of their career-low 6 7.4 passer rating. round of the playoffs. Miami long as he doesn't hurt him­ holes. and lucky to be that. games lately. Coach Dave Wannstedt has trailed 38-0 before Marino com­ self." Love said. "He's been on lie didn't hit a fairway. He Mickelson failed to win last indicated that he would prefer pleted a pass. He finished 11-of- a roll since high school." didn't even hit a green in reg­ year for the first time since to go with a younger quarter­ 25 for 95 yards with three Woods was two days ulation. Woods had to make a 1992, ending the longest back like Jim Druckenmiller or turnovers. removed from his sixth 15-foot putt on his first hole active streak on the PGA Damon Huard. who was 4-1 as "I don't think anybody wants straight victory Monday at (No. 10) and a 6-footer just to Tour. Love won over $2 mil­ a starter last season. to end a career on the kind of rain-delayed Pebble Beach, salvage a bogey on the next lion last year. but also failed Though there is no timetable game that we played in and he looked like he could one. to win. for Marino's decision. he likely Jacksonville," Drayton said. "He have used a day ofT. By the time he reached the Love spent the offseason will make an announcement deserves to go out on a white Trouble was. there was a 507-yard 14th hole. Woods trying to retool his swing. before March 20. the day the horse and with lots of fanfare. tournament going on. wore a look of exhaustion. which he says partially con­ Dolphins begin their offseason He's done. a lot to revolutionize When he failed to birdie the Even after making a 30-foot tributed to his back and neck workout program. the quarterback position and par-5 ninth on the North eagle to get back to even par. problems last year. The swing "We've got a new coordinator, the NFL as a whole. Course, Woods limped in at 1- it was all he could do to held up fine Thursday, even a new head coach and we're "I can't see Dan in another under for a six-shot deficit, muster a smile. raise his put­ though it took him 10 holes to going to have a new offensive uniform." the largest he has faced after ter in the air and lick his fin- record a simple par.

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NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL Barkley's supsension lifted after St. John's appeal

media after Saturday's game both speaking on condition of Associated Press at Madison Square Garden. anonymity. "Today is a time to move That exchange would have NEW YOBK on," St. John's athletic direc­ been a violation of NCAA rules St. John's successfully tor Ed Manetta said Thursday. if Barkley received preferen­ appealed the suspension of "We're not going to get into tial treatment because he is an sophomore guard Erick specifies of the case becaus11 athlete or if it constituted pos­ Barkley on Thursday and he that has to do with a student's sible paybaek for when he will play Saturday against privacy and we're going to turns professional. Villanova. respect that right now." Jarvis said that as far as On Tuesday, Barkley, the Manetta wouldn't give details, "it was pretty much team's leading scorer at 16.9 details about the process that what I've been reading in the points per game, was suspend­ stretched almost a week, from paper." ed by the NCAA for three notification of the possible vio­ "It was just a matter of if the games for an undisclosed rules lation to the appeal hearing. process were different then we violation. St. John's appealed "The NCAA interpreted rules wouldn't have ever had this that ruling even though he had differently than we did," he situation in the first place. aln~ady served one game - said. "The committee today This is about the process. It last Saturday's victory over ruled on what we presented needs to be changed and Boston College - and missed and took a middle decision improved. You should be inno­ a dg•etond that night at and that's frequently a good cent until proven guilty," he Providence. another victory way to resolve them. This said. for the Bed Storm 115-6). committee heard from both "If there was a problem with The Division I Subcommittee sides and made a decision on the fact there was an on Student-Athlete that." exchange of autos among the HeinstatemPnt upheld St. The NCAA won't comment friends, the first thing was re­ John's appeal. reducing the on specifics involving a deci­ exchanging the cars. Again JOHN DAIL YfThe Observer suspension to two games. sion without written permis­ that would be common sense." St. John's sophomore guard Erick Barkley, shown here in a "Erick is obviously very sion from the athlete. Jarvis made some strong recent game against Notre Dame, successfully appealed his happy," St. John's coach Mike The violation in question comments about the NCAA last three-day NCAA suspension for an alleged "extra benefit." Jarvis said Thursday night. concerned exchanging cars Saturday when the suspension "lie appreciates the game with a family friend, two was announced and he pub­ more than he did before. He sourees familiar with the ease licly apologized for using rape was glad to practiee today. have told The Associated when describing his feelings. Usually it's a chore .... You get Press. "The outrage had to do with a sense of how relieved he is Barkley traded his late the fact that our arguments becaus11 he was coneerned model Jeep Cherokee for a were based on common sense about his image and percep­ bigger but older Ford and any time someone is Live off-campus? tion." Expedition that belongs to a wronged when it just doesn't Through Jarvis. Barkley said family friend, said a source make sense, then that would he was going home after prac­ close to Barkley and another obviously make anyone out­ tiee and would speak to the with knowledge of the matter, raged," he said Thursday. Vote in the 2000 .. 2001 - Student Body Presidential Primary Election MAJOR lEAGUE BASEBALL Griffey joins sluggers in NL Central

Monday, February 14 sion: the Home Run Central. Jimmie Foxx in the AL in the Associated Press With Griffey's trade Thursday 1930s, and Hank Aaron, Willie from Seattle to Cincinnati, Mays and Frank Robinson - Ken Griffey Jr. swinging for baseball's three most prolific three of the top four career the fences with the wind blow­ and exciting sluggers all play in home run hitters - in the NL Debartolo: 11:00 .. 1:00 ing out at Wrigley Field. the same division, the National 40 years ago. Sammy Sosa patting Mark League Central. Pitchers from Milwaukee, McGwire as he rounds first The trio combined for 368 Pittsburgh and Houston - the C.-1 Parking Lot: 12:00 .. 3:30 base on yet another home run home runs the past two seasons three other teams in the NL trot. - an average of just over 61 Central - could be in for a long McGwire launching one of his apiece, more than Boger Maris' season of long ball. home run bombs over Griffey's record that stood until McGwire But nothing will rival the La Fortune: 5:00 .. 7:00 or Sosa's head. and Sosa took aim at it in 1998. head-to-head meetings of the Just a couple of years ago, This is perhaps the most Home Bun Kings. those were mostly dreams. Now greatest slugging trio ever to McGwire opens his season in that could be a typical day in play in one division. They rival St. Louis against Sosa's Cubs on baseball's most exciting divi- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and April 3. cinema@thesnite

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MAJOR lEAGUE BASEBALL NBA Griffey traded to Rodman gets desired attention Rodman had to do was show up. morn of a force. Associated Press And he did, even arriving five "He just has to get his lungs Reds for 4 players DALLAS minutes earlier than he had to. and his feet ready for basket­ Now that Dennis Hodman has Rodman played 32 minutes ball," teammate Cedric Ceballos Cincinnati, where he grew without any problems. Associated Press played his first game for the said. up. Griffey, who is eligible Dallas Mavericks, the wait begins He grabbed 13 rebounds and Hodman told The Dallas NEW YORK for free agency after the for his first outlandish act. played tough defense. He com­ Morning News he doesn't consid­ Ken Griffey Jr. was trad­ season, rejected a $148 There was no reason for mitted five fouls and drew just as er his return a sideshow. ed from the Seattle million, eight-year exten­ Bodman to dye his hair a new many. He missed his only shot, "I think this is a real good Mariners to the Cincinnati sion offered by the shade or to try anything wild on an attempted tip. opportunity for me to come back R e d s Mariners last year. the court in his debut Wednesday "Same old Dennis," said Sonics and one, just to see if I can do to d a y Seattle and Griffey want­ night, a 117-106 loss to Seattle. forward Horace Grant. "He is it," Hudman said. "Two, the peo­ ed the matter resolved by a f t e r llis mere presence already had still the same. pushing old ple here are very generous and agreeing the start of spring training. him where he wanted to be: in Dennis." nice. Three. to prove a point. If I to a con­ Griffey, 30, had 398 the spotlight. Bodman got away with one of can make this team get to the t r a c t career home runs in 11 The key with Bodman will be his old tricks - locking his arms playoffs, my job is done. My job is with his seasons, along with a .299 how he responds once people get in another player's, then acting done. home­ average and 1,152 RBls. used to him being around again. like he was the one knocked "It's a challenge, a hell of a Hank Aaron, baseball's t o w n That's when he's likely to start down when the other guy tries to challenge to try to turn this team team. career home-run leader pulling the stunts that have made get untangled. And he was effec­ around. Even though I'm not the T h e with 755, thinks Griffey him more famous than rebolir{fl'J. tive at -doling out shoves in traf­ Michael Jordan of the NBA, I can agree­ has the best chance to top ing ever could have. fic; Emanual Davis still may not do something to make this team ment his record. Another way to push his but­ have regained his balance from a little more physical, a little was confirmed to The Griffey, who will earn tons is for the Mavericks to lose a one particular jolt. more hard-core minded that they Associated Press by a $8.25 million this season, lot, something that's entirely pos­ But Rodman will need to learn can go out there and say, 'Hey, source close to the negoti­ the final year of an $34 sible. Just because Bodman about the NBA's new rules limit­ we can't be beat. If we're going ations who spoke on the million, four-year contract, knows Dallas' past doesn't mean ing contact. While he's at it, he to get beat, let's go out there and condition he not be identi­ told the Mariners in he's ready to lose more often should consider a refresher fight our butt oil' every night."' fied. The deal sends pitch­ November that he wanted than he wins. course in illegal defense as he If it happens, the perception of er Bret Tomko and out­ to be traded to a team Still, no matter what Rodman was twice caught out of position. Bodman being a grand disruptor fielder Mike Cameron to closer to his home in does is interesting to a lot of peo­ Teammates were excited by could change. Seattle along with minor Orlando. Fla. ple. His return to the NBA after what they saw Wednesday. They If the plan doesn't work, then league infielder Antonio Mariners general man­ 10 months of making movies, figure that as he gets into the don't be surprised if Dennis the Perez and another minor ager Pat Gillick held talks wrestling and generally getting swing of things, he'll become Menace returns. leaguer, the source said. with the New York Mets into trouble was truly a big-time Cincinnati called a news the following month, but event. conference for 6:45 p.m. Griffey then said he would The game drew 18,203 fans, EST. accept a trade only to the second-largest home crowd Seattle and Cincinnati Cincinnati. in the Mavs' 20-year history. agreed Wednesday night to Reds general manager More than 150 media credentials a tentative trade that Jim Bowden cut ofT negoti­ were issued, triple the typical would end the 10-time All­ ations at the winter meet­ amount. Star's stay with the ings, saying the Mariners' Plenty of fans were watching at Mariners, and Cincinnati demands were too steep. home, too. Fox Sports Net report­ - was given 7 2 hours to But talks resumed in ed Thursday that it was the work out a contract exten­ recent weeks. most-watched Mavericks game Goldberg said Tuesday sion with Griffey that the regional sports network has While high blood pressure may have no symptoms, it does have would make the trade the Mariners gave him televised since it began receiving consequences. Like Increasing your risk of heart attack and stroke. final. permission to talk directly ratings in 1994. Viewership That's why you should ask your doctor to check your blood ~ The trade involved only with the Reds in an effort peaked at 111,700 from 8:15- pressure and help you control it. Learn American ~e.art ... the Reds and the Mariners. to break the impasse. 8:30 p.m. and there were an more at www.americanheart.org or Assocranon. V There had been specula­ Since there was no deal in average of 94,065 television call 1-800-AHA-USA 1. Fighting H.. n DIMUO and s..... tion a three-way deal place then and no 72-hour homes tuned in throughout the including Anaheim was in window. that appeared to game. the works. violate baseball's rules. With so much buildup, all "The Angels are not "Enough occurred for us included in any transaction to look into it," said Sandy involving the Reds and Alderson, executive vice Mariners," Angels vice president of baseball oper­ president Tim Mead said ations in the commission­ today. er's office. The terms of the contract Alderson said whether and the other players any penalties would be involved in the trade were issued is something "that not immediately known. still has to be determined." Griffey's agent, Brian "l would say this Goldberg, said earlier this wouldn't take us very week that his client would long," he added. take less-than-market "Sometime next week at value to play for the latest."

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February 10, 2000 To the Saint Mary's College Community:

As the current Board of Governance and in light of the recent elections complications, we feel it is necessary to address the members of the student body. Let us start first by assuring each of you that the members of the current student government association who have been handling the recent events have done so with the utmost courage, responsibility, dedication, and intelligence. They deserve our support and encouragement. Their task is not, and has not been, an easy one.

The 2000-200 I Student Body Election began with the informational meetings that are attended by all tickets considering running. At these meetings, candidates are informed of the election bylaws, and made aware of requirements and deadlines. After these meetings four tickets declared candidacy. The primary vote was conducted on Monday, January 31st and no one ticket emerged with 50% plus one vote-the requirement established in the SGA constitution for a win in the pri­ mary election. As a result, according to the stipulations in the bylaws, a run-off election was held. The constitution states that, "The winner of the run-off will be that ticket with the highest number of raw votes." As we are all aware, the results of Wednesday's run-off election were a dead tie. Each ticket received the exact same number of raw votes. As this is a situation that Saint Mary's had never before been presented with, the Elections Commissioner, at the encouragement of the Director of Student Activities, approved a third election. This decision was not made according to the bylaws established in the constitution. The constitution clearly states that, "The only time a revote is to occur is if improper voting procedures were followed." Due to the fact that proper voting procedures were enforced for Wednesday's election a revote was indeed uncalled for, and in fact, was a direct violation of the stipulations set forth in the Student Government Association constitution. Furthermore, decision-making at that point rested in the hands of the Elections Committee, not the Elections Commissioner nor the Director of Student Activities. We acknowledge that this oversight was a mistake. Hh/ Unfortunately, this oversight was not brought to our atten~~n.until after friday's election. The results of Friday's election awarded the Koelsch/Rodarte a higher dJJHll ·I number of raw votes than the Renner/Nagle ticket. Theserile~i:Jlts, howf!ym;,,are deemed unofficial for 48 hours according to the SGA constitution. This time peri- od is the window of opportunity that is present in every election, giving either ticket the opportunity to file an appeal. Proper election procedure is to inform the candidates of the unofficial results. If, after having been informed of the results, no appeal is filed by either ticket, the results become official. Complaints, on the other hand, and a careful distinction must be noted between a complaint and an appeal, can be filed at any time by any member of the student body. Again, these guidelines are set forth in the elections bylaws of the Student Government Association constitution.

Sunday the Renner/Nagle ticket filed such a complaint. Their complaint was based on the fact that the Elections Committee was erroneously not consulted in determining to conduct a third election. It also sighted another oversight regarding Friday's election procedures: off-campus voting was not allowed in the Off­ Campus lounge. In light of these complaints, and according to the SGA constitution, the Elections Committee met on Sunday night to discuss the validity of the complaint and establish a course of action. A quorum of the Elections Committee voted unanimously to nullify Friday's election in light of what they considered to be valid complaints filed by the Renner/Nagle ticket. At this point, the Elections Committee notified both tickets of the decision to nullify Friday's election. The Elections Committee then continued its thoughtful deliberation. The Elections Committee, made up of representatives from each residence hall and off-campus students, faced a great challenge in reaching what they considered to be a fair, just, and impartial decision. The committee mentally placed itself in the position that they shouid have been in on Wednesday night: the point at which, according to the constitution, they should have been consulted. They were faced with determining what an appropriate policy would be in light of not only this election, but also bearing in mind the relevance of this decision on future elections at Saint Mary's. Several options were thoroughly discussed by the committee, including sending the tie-breaking vote to Board of Governance, establishing an emergency electorate, and reverting to Monday's numbers. A revote was NOT an option; it is a direct violation of the Student Government Association Constitution. After approximately four hours of discussion, the Elections Committee reached a conclusion. The decision of the Elections Committee is the following: In the event of a tie in the run-off election, the total raw votes cast from the primary and run-off election will be tallied and the ticket with the highest number of resulting raw votes wins.

After a majority of the Elections Committee voted in favor of such a policy, the candidates were notified, as well as the Observer. At this point, after the decision of the Elections Committee was made, the constitution states that each ticket has 24 hours to make an appeal.

In anticipation of a possible appeal from the Koelsch/Rodarte ticket, the Interim Elections Commissioner took steps to insure that the Elections Appeals board would be fully functioning. The Constitution states that the Elections Appeals Board is made up of three members of the senior class who are also members of either Board of Governance, Student Academic CounciL Residence Hall Association, or Student Activities Board. Furthermore, the members of the Appeals Board are asked and expected to remain unbiased and refrain from campaigning for any candidates. Unfortunately, one member was unable to serve. The SGA constitution states that, "An Elections Appeals Board will be appointed by the Elections Commissioner and approved by the Executive Committee of the Board of Governance ... " In light of the inability of one member to serve, the executive board voted to approve th~ appointment of her replacement, a senior member of Student Activities Board.

As expected. an appeal was indeed filed by the Koelsch/Rodarte ticket on the grounds that, "the decision to use the raw votes from the Monday and Wednesday elections is not a valid representation of the wishes of the student body... " and that they believe the Renner/Nagle complaint was not filed in a manner compliant with the time restrictions stated in the Student Government Association constitution. The Appeals board convened to discuss this appeal. Again, they faced a very difficult task and several options again surfaced. However, the one option the Appeals Board knew was invalid was to call a revote or to take into considera­ tion Friday's vote due to the explicit laws stated in the Student Government Constitution. As written by the Appeals Board, their decision is the following, " ... we affirm that the Elections Committee holds sole responsibility to assess elections procedures .. .In the case of the 2000-2001 election, improper elections pro­ cedures occurred .. .Therefore, Friday's vote was nullified ... Because Wednesday's election resulted in a tie, we refer back to the vote of the Monday, January 31st elections. Monday's results showed that the Renner/Nagle ticket received 43% of the total votes while the Koelsch/Rodarte ticket received 37% of the total votes. The goal of the Elections Appeals Board is to keep in mind the voice of the student body, while remaining fair to the tickets involved. We believe that our deci­ sion does accomplish this objective. The decision of the Elections Appeals Board is final and binding." After reaching its decision, the candidates were notified, as well as the Observer.

The intensity of this election reflects something that we should all be very proud of. This is reflected in the narrow split of the elections. Both tickets are made up of strong women yearning to serve Saint Mary's. Both are highly qualified and exemplify the best of Saint Mary's. Both have struggled to stand up for their rights as students and as candidates for Student Body President/Vice President.

We regret that the unfortunate events of the past week have occurred. We always hope that elections run smoothly, and they usually do. However, these recent events have served to solidify our confidence in the workings of the Student Government Association. Events unfolded such that the Constitution was our framework. Due process was followed every step of the way. Decision-making was conducted justly and fairly. In the process, we have maintained the integrity of the elections process and the future integrity of the Student Government Association. In particular, Bridget Heffernan, our interim elections commissioner, has conducted herself ethically, honestly, and has acted with the utmost concern for the interests of the student body.

This past week has not been easy for any of the parties involved: the candidates, the members of the Elections committee, the Appeals Board, or the student body. This election has served to illustrate the importance that even one vote can bear. Finally, we would like to remind everyone that we are all members of the same student body. We implore you to act with graciousness and maturity. There is no one to blame. It was an unfortunate occurrence, however, the strong guidelines established by the SGA constitution have insured fairness. Keep in mind that the student body elected the officials that are currently serving their terms; it is imperative that we have faith in and support the decisions made by the current Student Government Association.

Thank you very much and good luck to everyone involved. We are sure that the talents of the four young women involved will not be wasted next year. Saint Mary's is truly blessed to have such skilled and able women present among its student body.

With Respects, The SMC student body will receive a copy of this letter in their mail tomorrow. 1999-2000 Saint Mary's College Board of Governance r------.,.._...... _... ______....-~------~------~ . . . . ' .

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NFL Colts to keep Dilger Free agency creates new rosters

will test the free agency mar­ whether to retire following a for next five years Associated Press ket. series of concussions, stay with "The Bills felt squeezed by San Francisco, or to ask for his The NFL's annual free-agent 'cap-onomies,"' agent Leigh release. the next five years," Colts presi­ period starts Friday with the Steinberg, who represents Associated Press Rice, who interests dent Bill Polian said. "We look possibility that some of pro Smith and Thomas, said. Washington and Dallas among forward to a great season from football's biggest stars will be "Neither of these players want­ others. wants to play next sea­ INDIANAPOLIS him." on the open market, victims of ed to leave. It was their inten­ son but might be released for Ken Dilger got the long-term The league's free agency peri­ age, injury or the salary cap. tion, since they both had long cap reasons or at his own commitment he wanted from the od begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday. That group includes Steve and illustrious careers, to request. Indianapolis Colts. The Colts already waived line­ Young, Jerry Rice, Dan Marino, stay." Sanders, on the other hand, The veteran tight end signed a backer Michael Barber, receiver Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas Most of the NFL's 31 teams already wants out of Dallas. five-year. $15 million contract Lake Dawson. running back and Deion Sanders. who all were battling salary-eap prob­ which in any case would on Thursday with the AFC East Darick llolmes and quarterback could be retired or with new lems as the midnight deadline release him June 1 to make cap champions. Steve Walsh. Tackle Adam teams next season. approaehed. The cap this year room. He's due to make more ''I'm very happy. Meadows, Marino. the leading passer in is increasing by only $5 million than $12 million next season. I wanted to stay in "''m very happy. I running back NFL history, took the first step per team - the eost of one On Thursday, the New Indiana and finish Lee land Thursday by voiding the last good free agent - to $62 mil­ England Patriots saved some my career here," wanted to stay in McElroy and two years of his contract. lion. That means even major money by waiving tight end said Dilger, who Indiana andfinish my quarterback Marino has indicated that if he sbars could face the ehoice of Ben Coates and signing Lawyer could hav'e career here." K e I I y doesn't retire. he'd ptefer to accepting pay cuts. going else­ Milloy to a seven-year. $35 mil­ become a free II o I comb re-sign with the Dolphins for a where, or. in the eases of lion eontract. agent Friday. 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tenths of a second to 25.73 sec­ Lane Herrington lowered that this was a pleasant surprise," onds in the morning, was mark by over two seconds, she said. "I didn't even know Swimming enough to earn her a place in updating the record books to 1 Sullivan I'd broken it until I walked continued from page 28 the consolation finals. Stepping minute, 43.95 seconds. continued from page 28 around [to Gretchen]." up again, Sullivan broke her "Breaking a 200 freestyle Sullivan's role has been one playing to our advantage. But own record, cutting it to 25.60 record by two seconds is guidance, Sullivan began to of silent necessity throughout we're so happy we're fourth and an eighth place overall fin­ unheard of," said athletic realize that she could chal­ the season, as the junior has right now ... I'm going to take a ish. director Lyn Kachmarik. "This lenge what she had done the ability to pull out a tight picture of that scoreboard and "I just is unbeliev- before - and supercede it. win in critical situations. As mount it on the wall. This wanted to "Breaking a 200 freestyle able." "She's a very hard worker," the season progressed, makes a huge statement." take con­ record by two seconds is The 400 med­ Hildebrandt said. "I knew Hildebrandt watched the­ With Thursday's events trol of that unheard of this is ley relay team right away that she could woman who came to her behind Lhnm, day 01w's perfor­ r a c e , of Michelle beat all of her previous uncertain mature into some­ mances have set a precedent Sullivan unbelievable." Samreta, records." one who played an integral that success is to be exp<~cted said. "I Herrington, Sullivan did beat all of her role on the team. in this meet. Record breaking wasn't Lyn Kachmarik Lesneskie and previous records Thursday "In her lane, she is the performances proved to be the focused on Clayton also night, engraving her place in Saint Mary's Athletic Director motivator," Hildebrandt said. rule ratlwr than the nxception, my com­ rewrote the Saint Mary's swimming histo­ "She works hard, and they and tlw team has yet to attack petitors. I books, resetting ry by setting the 50 freestyle have fun. She is someone I the events that record breaking try to focus their own record twice, and anchoring look to for leadership both in performances were expected on myself, on my race. I just record by more than six sec- the 200 freestyle relay that and out of the pool ... she is in. wahted to give it all I [could.]" onds. cracked the oldest record left an excellent role model." "Tlwy've seen what they can Sullivan also anchored the Aware they had to edge Alma on the record board. Her newfound confidence do, and it's contagious," 200 medley relay team that College to finish fourth for day Hildebrandt was visibly was based in her mental llildebrandl said. "There is no cracked a 15-year-old record one, the record wasn't even a moved on the side of the training, an aspect of swim­ slopping this team." set by Rafferty, Pancrantz, consideration. Advancing past deck, glancing at her watch ming she had never consid­ Colle1m Sullivan set the pace Murtaugh and Byrne110 jn Alma and threatening and up at the scoreboard for ered before, Sullivan said. for the meet early in the day, February of 1985. The r~@fp, Kalam,

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top five in the nation - Syracuse and Michigan State. Hoops "We need to make sure we get good shots," Doherty said. continued from page 28 "That will help us, not only in Jar performance, Murphy per­ field goal percentage, but keep­ sonally showed the Huskies ing them from running the that their guard Khalid El-Amin break. We need to get back in is by no means assured the sta­ transition, and be very aetive in tus of Big East Player of the our zone and box out." Year. Keeping turnovers at a mini­ El-Amin ranks fifth in the mum could prove crucial for conference in scoring with 17.5 the Irish, who have struggled in points per game, but Murphy that area. leads the league in two cate­ "We've got to take care of the gories with his 23.2 points per ball," lngelsby said. "We know outing and 10.9 rebounds. that we can go out and play "We've got to contain Khalid with one of the top teams in the El-Amin from scoring and exe­ country in Connecticut." cute our offense," Murphy said. Chalking up a win has Junior guard Albert Mow·ing depended most strongly on two and senior forward Kevin factors for the Irish this season Freeman both average in dou­ - home court advantage and ble digits for Connecticut. Murphy's scoring output. For Notre Dame. sophomore With the crowds coming out forward David Graves and in force to home games. the freshman guard Matt Carroll Joyce Center has turned into a each average more than 10 tough arena for opponents. The points per game. Irish have taken full advantage Notre Dame is looking to of the home court support, rebound from disappointing holding a 12-2 record at the losses at Pittsburgh and JACC. Their play on the road Villanova. has been unpredictable, howev­ "We just have to keep our er. They sit at 2-8 away from focus and keep to our game home, with the two road victo­ plan," Murphy said. "We've ries coming against tiHl most gotten away from our game formidabln opponnnts in UConn plan the past couple of games." and Ohio State. Doherty elaborated on Irish "I don't think it's jitters on troubles of late. the road," DuiHlrty said. "It's "We needed to get our cage more of the energy we get from shook up a little bit," he said. the home crowd that we obvi­ "Maybe we started feeling too ously don't get on the road. You sure of ourselves. I'm going to have to create that for you~self try to deliver a bit of a wake-up on the road, and we haven't call in practice." been able to do that." It will take an inspired and In all but one of Notre Dame's error-free performance to losses this season. opponents deliver a second loss to held Murphy below his scoring Connecticut. Connecticut has average. only lost thnw times since "I think it's an important fig­ - falling to Notre Uame, with two ure. but not a crucial !'igun1," of the three defeats coming at Doherty said. "Other guys need the hands of foes ranked in the to step up at times.

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However. after the big win, Including the recent win over Laflin. This established squad coach Ty Tucker who brings a By RACHEL BIBER the Irish are being careful not­ Kentucky's ninth-ranked Carlos stands as a formidable oppo­ wealth of tennis knowledge to Sports Writer to take Ohio State lightly. Drada, 14th-ranked Sachire nent for any team, especially the improving program. He left "We are pretty concerned has put together an impressive for a team like Ohio State who Ohio State in 1992 after his Af't('r posting a hugP win ovPr about Ohio State because they string of victories and should has yet to prove they are junior year to become a profes­ IXth-rank<>d KentuC'kV on are unddeated." Notre Dame pose an obstacle for Porter. national con- sional tennis Tuesday. the 3Xth-rankeci Irish coach Bob Hayliss said. "They The rest of the Irish lineup tenders. "We are pretty concerned player. and look to keep their hot streak are pretty solid from top to bot­ will presumably remain the "It's going to achieved a alive. and improve upon their tom." same as in the previous match, be a tough about Ohio State because world ranking 3-2 record Ohio State has yet to barring the return of injured match for us," they are undefeated. of 232, and in when they encounter rough terrain this 56th-ranked junior and No. 2 OSU's assistant They are pretty solid 1994 he was meet 58th­ season. blowing by former singles player Matt Daly, who coach Dave nationally ranked number 51 South Alabama. has been hampered by a shoul­ Schilling from top to bottom. " ranked No. 35. Ohio State Tolndo. Bowling Green and der injury. said. "We were Tucker's t h i s Hobert Morris. Freshman Brain Farrell able to play Bob Bayliss arrival has Saturday at After posting wins, the stepped up in the No. 6 slot to well against men's tennis coach attracted a thP Eck Buckeyes reeeived attention by till in for s 0 u t. h number of key Tennis being granted a national rank­ Daly, and demonstrated his Alabama, the additions to the Pavilion. ing for the lirst time in at least poise and power by clinching No. 51 team in the country, but Sac hire Ohio State program, including T h e four years. the Irish victory over Kentucky this match will be a whole new freshman Philip Metz, who was recent win Chris Porter. ranked No. 62, in their previous match. level of play and we are going ranked 22nd in the United over KPntuckv marked the will lead the Buckeyes into Sophomore Casey Smith will to be on the road as well. This States Tennis· Association biggest upset by Notre Dame Saturday's match. and will most likely follow Sachire in the will be by far the toughest test national rankings in the 18 and - since the 1997 Irish squad. then most likely faee Irish captain ranks at No. 2 singles, followed of the season to date." under division. ranked 29th. upended eighth­ and All-American Ryan Sachire by sophomores Javier Taborga, The Buckeyes are under the The Buckeyes also boast the ranked Duke 4-3. in the top singles battle. Aaron Talarico and Andrew new management of head 35th-ranked doubles team of Andrew Carlson and Porter, who look to take away the Visit The Observer online at http://observer.nd.edu doubles point when they meet the Irish in dual-match play. But the Irish's 48th-ranked pair of Taborga and Talarico hopes to alter the Buckeye game plan. Notre Dame Q:ragan'~ Full Tuition Scholarship proved the importance of gar­ nering the doubles point in Through the Navy ROTC Program dual-play, after doing so lr!~ lm__port Shop helped them secure their Scholarships are currently available for sophomore students i recent upset. ',..-s -I ( ~ 11..~ ) .---~-a.....,...le_n___,ti,....-~-e one of the following majors: "It is important to stand up Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, to them early," coach Bayliss \ '"1 Specwl said. "And let them know "~ Physics, Chemistry who we are and that we are '~ 14%0FF To be eligible, a student must have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 here to play." Tlil~Store Everything or greater. Also, the student's college transcript must reflect a grade of C or better in all courses attempted. 'til the 14th J_. off Ca.cr.qnu Contact Lieutenant David Rowland of the Navy ROTC unit at 16U .Ed..Woa ~load When you 2U..UOO 631-6061 or by email at [email protected]. Check out our mention web page at www.nd.edu/-nrotc for details about our battalion. this ad

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WOMEN'S TENNIS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Terrapins Irish look to improve against Red Storm "I don't think we'll have tho same ensure a win over St. John's. By KERRY SMITH performanee against St. John's," said "A lot of the players on the team serve up Assisram Spans Ediror Irish center Huth Hiley. "We learned weren't ready to play on a lot from our game Wednesday Wednesday," said Riley. "Each time When the time ran off the clock night. You never want to say that you play a team twice it's harder to competition against Pittsburgh Wednesday, the playing bad is a good thing, but there beat that team a second time. It's a Irish were able to put another notch is a lot we can take from that game." great opportunity for St. John's to in the win column. but their sloppy The Irish are all too aware NCAA come here and gain some respect in By KEVlN BERCHOU play left a mark on the fifth-ranked that the Big East and tournaments the polls because we are ranked Spans W rirer squad. are looming and reeognize the fifth." Faltering for the first time in con­ importanee of staying on top. When the Irish traveled to New The Notre Dame women's tennis team ference action, the Irish allowed the MeGraw will look for more consis­ York in January for the teams' first won't have to wait much longer to lind Panthers hang with them too long tent play from her starters in the game, they handed the Red Storm a out exactly where it stands in relation to and let the unranked 13-9 squad lane and an improved effort from the crushing 69-49 loss. Guard Danielle its competitors. come too close to an upset in the 81- beneh against St. John's. The Irish Green teamed up with Riley to lead The Irish women will take on the tal­ 7 4 contest. have struggled reeently getting the the Irish with 16 points apiece. ented Maryland As the final stretch of the regular ball to the post. The Red Storm's Latasha Terrapins this after­ season brings a flurry of tough "We've been working in praetice Thompson scored a game-high 20 noon at the Eck matchups for Irish head coach Muffet now for weeks on throwing the ball points and has continued to lead the Tennis Pavilion in a McGraw's 20-2 team, tonight's game high," said Ms.!iraw. "It's not that St. John's squad in their three games showdown that against Big East rival St. John's may difficult. We continually throw it to since last matching up with the Irish. - should serve notice just be what Notre Dame need to get the defender. We'll have to keep The Red Storm, at 8-13, has won as to exactly how far back on track. working on that." only three conference games this they have come. or Defending an undefeated eonfer­ Riley seored 19 points in season. The unranked squad is corn­ perhaps how far they ence reeord and looking to inerease Wednesday's game, but didn't play a ing off an overtime loss to Syracuse need to go. an already record-breaking 16-game major role on offense until midway Wednesday. Coming off an easy winning streak, the Irish play host to through the second half. The Irish have never lost to the Hed 9-0 trouncing of Yale, Dasso the Red Storm in the teams' second Hiley knows that she and her team­ Storm, holding a 7-0 advantage in Notre Dame will be meeting this season. mates will have to stay focused to the series. provided with a much more daunting test when they take on Maryland this after­ noon and attempt 1fo run its season record to 4-1. 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WOMEN'S SWIMMING Belles compete in second day of MIM Championships • Sullivan exceeds expectations after year-long layoff

By NOREEN GILLESPIE Saint Mary's Editor I i Colleen Sullivan stepped I - onto the pool deck in I September convinced that she wasn't going to live up to ~ what she used to be. After a year abroad in r Ireland, the junior sprinter was looking to return to swimming because she missed it; but after a year and a half without serious train­ ing, she knew that achieving the standards she was used to was close to impossible. "She came in. first day, and said flat out that she didn't know if she could do what she had done in high school," said coach Gretchen Hildebrandt, who admitted that she didn't know what to immediately expect from Sullivan. Sullivan wasn't sure what she could expect from herself, - ~ either. NELliE WILLIAMS!The Observer "I was very worried," she Freshman Lane Herrington dives into the water during yesterday's MIAA swimming and diving championships. Herrington and said about her return to com­ the other members of the 400 medley relay team broke a 15-year-old record in the race. The team surpassed the former record petitive swimming. "I had got­ by more than six seconds. ten in to do a 500 over the summer, and it killed. I hadn't done anything in the + Record-breaking Maybe it was the unexpected this - this kind of day - this Hildebrandt said. "Every sin­ water in a year and a half. It fourth place standing the is what you hope for." gle day is different, and we definitely affected my confi­ performances lead Belles found themselves in at Rebounding from a sixth don't have anyone in the 400 dence." Belles' dominance the conclusion of Thursday's place MIAA finish in 1999, the individual medley tomorrow, So easing back into the finals. Maybe it was the fact Belles sought to advance with which will hurt us. But we will that Saint Mary's swimmers sport, Sullivan trailed in her By NOREEN GILLESPIE the home court advantage in have fantastic performances dropped more time than any their corner in 2000. After tal­ tomorrow." lane, unsure of what her Sainr Mary's Editor capabilities would allow her other team in the conference lying dual meet scores and Regardless, Saint Mary's rise championship. Or maybe it analyzing expected perfor­ to fourth place does make to do. Coach Gretchen Hildebrandt "As far as training, at the was the four record-breaking mances, a fifth-place finish for Alma and Albion Colleges, had one wish for her swim­ performances the athletes the weekend was not an both of which defeated the beginning part of the season, mers leading into the MIAA I'd volunteer to go last in my posted throughout the course unreasonable goal. But when Belles in regular season com­ swimming and diving champi­ of the day that led Hildebrandt Thursday's tallies put the team petition, take this team a little lane," Sullivan said. "l had onships: That they would lost confidence in my training to believe that maybe her high in fourth place ahead of Alma, more seriously. attack their races. expectations for the weekend Albion, and Olivet Colleges "This shows a couple of more than my races. It took After Thursday night, attack me awhile before I could lead just weren't high enough. after day one, the team admit­ teams that we are really was no longer the word she "This is what I dream of," ted that it might be time to tough. They may not be the lane." could use to describe her But under Hildebrandt's said Hildebrandt, first-year reevaluate that goal. tapered as well, and that's swimmers' performances. coach for the Belles. "You can "It's hard to say if we're - see SULLIVAN/page 23 It was more like destroy. never guarantee anything, but going to stay here," see SWIMMING/page 23

MEN'S BASKETBALL Irish seek season's second win over Connecticut Notre Dame (14-10, 5-5 Big on the list of teams taken down real. It pumped up Irish fans, everyone around Notre Dame is By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN East) scored a huge upset victo­ by Notre Dame. drawing in hordes of people to getting more excited about bas­ Assistant Sports Editor ry in knocking off conference "We just get up for those the Joyce Center. This ketball." rival Connecticut 75-70 Jan. 5. games," sophomore star for­ Saturday's Notre Dame-UConn The Irish stunned the Huskies The Irish are within striking "When our kids feel threat­ ward Troy Murphy said. "We rematch sold out just a week by beating them earlier in the distance of going 2-2 against ened, they really bear down relish the fact that a top-ranked after the first contest between season, handing the Huskies the defending national champi­ and play hard and execute," team like Connecticut can come the two teams, leaving those their second defeat of the sea­ on, a feat never before accom­ Doherty said. "Maybe it's the into our court. We look forward without tickets out in the cold, son and the first on their home plished by a men's basketball fear factor." to playing the teams like a rare occurrence during court. team at Notre Dame. That win was Notre Dame's Connecticut, Syracuse, St. recent years of mediocrity in Murphy opened their eyes "We're going to try," first second of the season over a John's." Notre Dame basketball. with 33 points and 16 year head coach Matt Doherty team that danced its way to the The Cinderalla-esque win "We've been playing pretty rebounds. With that spectacu- said. "I think the crowd will Final Four last year, adding caused Irish fans and enemies well," junior point guard Martin definitely help us." UConn (17 -5, 6-3) to Ohio State alike to realize this squad is for Ingelsby said, "and I think see HOOPS/page 24

Swimming/Diving vs. Maryland vs. Connecticut MIAA Championship '('if\·~ Today, 5 p.m. Saturday, 12 p.m. ~ vs. St. John's SPORTS e Finals Today, 6:30p.m. ~ t ATA 9 Saturday, 7 p.m. at Defiance College r Track and field vs. Nebraska-Omaha Saturday, 3 p.m. at Butler Invitational Today, 7:05p.m. sra I GLANCE Friday-Sarurday ~ l •