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~---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 38: ISSUE 97 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24,2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ,- OIT Internet upgrade breaks down Graduation Department tried to upgrade the connection again this morning speaker The failover sent all Internet invited By MATT BRAMANTI traffic on campus to ResNet's NowsWritor connection with GramTel, a By MAUREEN REYNOLDS South Bend-based Internet Associate News Editor The University's Office of service provider. That connec Information Technologies tion consisted of half of the installed a new Internet con An invitation has been University's bandwidth before extended to a graduation nection Sunday morning, but the upgrade. things didn't go as planned. speaker candidate, but the "The failover ... slowed Office of the President will not Just three hours after the con things down as demand fought nection was activated, a hard release any name until a con with capacity." Klimek said. firmation is received, accord ware failure disrupted the link, OIT was scheduled to reacti slowing campus-wide Internet ing to Executive Assistant to vate the new connection at 6 the President Matthew access to a crawl. a.m. today. Tom Klimek. manager of net Cullinan. "There will be two brief out "We're not ready to work engineering for OIT, said ages lasting about five minutes that after the new connection announce yet," Cullinan said. between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.," "Hopefully, we'll be ready to failed, there was a "failover" Klimek said. "We picked a time Observer a situation in which a failure Students work at computers In the cluster In Coleman Morse. announce in the next couple of weeks." triggers a backup connection. see OIT/page 4 OIT was scheduled to reinstall Its upgrade this morning. Cullinan said that every year several potential speak ers are identified, but the quality of names on the list is more important than the number. Elections reveal class inconsistencies "We always identify a Gouple of candidates," he said, "and because of the nature of the Presidential election candidates that we try to attract. the length of the list is has different impact less important than the quali ty of candidate." on each class An important aspect in the quality of the graduation By CLAIRE HEININGER speaker candidate, according to Cullinan, is the message Assistant News Editor delivered to the students, as Sophomores didn't care. well as the way they repre Juniors and freshmen spoke sent the University. Cullinan said he looks for up. From one extreme to anoth "someone of stature who will er, the fallout from Feb. 12 deliver a good message for student body presidential elec our students and someone tion - a neck-and-neck race who represents Notre Dame well." between Adam Istvan-Karla Bell and Charlie Ebersol The final decision as to the speaker lies with University James Leito that required an President Father Edward emergency meeting of the Student Senate to declare Malloy. Source· Judicial Council MIKE Istvan/Bell the winner - had Both juniors and freshmen revealed greater Interest In class council elections, while the sopho Contact Maureen Reynolds at more class showed greater Interest In the presidential primary than the run-off. see RESULTS/ page 6 [email protected] Crossin announces COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES 'The Shirt' winner Leaders mull basketball tickets "It's traditionally a big secret, By MATT BRAMANTI By STEPHANIE YAHN as there is always going to be a News Writer Nows Writor lot of hype surrounding its release." The Council of Represen While the catchphrase "Here Crossin was unable to reveal tatives discussed basketball Come the Irish" lingers in the any specific details as to the ticket distribution and a funding minds of Notre Dame football appearance of the new design, appeal for a Christian rock con fans, 2004 represents a new nor could she comment on cert at their Monday meeting. season for football and hope of whether the color selected The meeting also marked the new promise. It also signals the would continue to create "The first COR appearance by student traditional release of a new Sea of Green," a term coined by body president-elect Adam design for The Shirt. Coach 1)Tone Willingham in his Istvan and vice president-elect This year's design selection first season at Notre Dame in Karla Bell. has been made. but will not be 2002. Istvan said he and Bell have PAM!:: LA LOCK/The Observer revealed until a press confer The 128,000 shirts sold in begun their transition efforts to Student body president Jeremy Lao leads the Council of ence April 23 - the day before 2002 set an elevated bar for fill their staff. Representatives meeting, where they discussed basketball tickets. the Blue and Gold game - future year's sales, breaking "We're beginning to look at which officially kicks off a new previous highs. Although our appointments for next "Right now we're just meeting distribution policies - to dis season of football. acknowledging that sales won't year," he said. with a lot of people," she said. cuss potential improvements. "Until then, the design is "continue to climb exponential Bell said the pair has been in Student body president Chief of staff Pat Corker said being kept under wraps," said ly year after year," Crossin says contact with officials in student Jeremy Lao said he met with changes in the policies are nee- Kate Crossin, the 2004 presi government and the administra assistant athletic director Jim dent of The Shirt committee. see SHIRT/page 4 tion. Fraleigh - who oversees ticket see COUNCIL/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 24, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR MARDI GRAS? RandoIll thoughts So, this one time, at the dining hall ... How many times have you heard Ana marla Padralc that ubiquitous rip-off of the ubiq Noah Babin Louis Cavadlnl Tim Randolph Brad Wanchulak uitous line from that ubiquitous Scaperlanda-Rulz McDermott movie? One too Freshman Senior Freshman Freshman Sophomore Junior few, apparently, Will Puckett Howard Off Campus Stanford Keough Keough Siegfried so I decided to tell you again. Speaking of News Writer "I'm having an "Boxing "Playing hockey "Make out with "Ditto!" "Strip for movies, there 'ice cream for practice. , and doing this guy., beads!" hasn't been a really good one dinner' party. " homework. " out for a while. I don't work for Scene, so don't take that as exactly a scathing criticism. All I'm trying to say is that it's nearly impossible to find a good movie to watch nowadays that doesn't involve a copyright date of 1985 or some thing. Oh yeah, didn't you hear? The Motion Picture Association of America, in its anti-piracy ven IN BRIEF tures, has decided to make us all start calling movies by their copy UBWELL2 will host an after right dates. There's nothing like noon of free food, relaxing mas talking about "that great copyright sage and raffies. Participate in '79 movie with the cool thing," activities to challenge yourself except for maybe talking about and our culture's ideal of beauty "the even greater copyright '89 one today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in with the bald guy." Actually, we're the Sorin Room at LaFortune. not even allowed to say "movie" Prizes include a free massage anymore - we have to pay royal from Emerald Cut, Panera Gift ties if we do that. Certificate and Notre Dame So everyone's in the middle of Bookstore Gift Certificate. midterms, papers and whatnot right now. That would be great, Ambassador Francis Taylor, except for the insane number of Assistant Secretary of State for crazy awesome cool things to do on Diplomatic Security will give a campus ... exactly zero. I think I lecture today entitled • saw someone sun tanning on the "Perspectives on the Global ice on North Quad last weekend War on Terrorism." Sponsored from sheer frustration. by the Department of Political Thus, here's an idea of something Science, the lecture will take to do - take a grape, cut it nearly place from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in in half and microwave it. You 140 DeBartolo. should get enough amusement out of that to keep you going until International Student Services spring break finally arrives. and Activities will hold the Incidentally, those of you who PAMELA LOCK/The Observer International Film Series: voted to move your class midterm Marooned in Iraq today from 7 to the same day I have an eight Students take advantage of the free massages sponsored by UBWELL2 Monday In the Sorln Room of LaFortune. The club recognizes the need for stress relievers for to 9 p.m. The showing takes page paper due can take spring place in 117 DeBartolo . break early. How about two weeks .students during midterms. They will also offer free food and massages today. early? Urn, yeah ... I'm going to have to ask you to get off campus Come cheer on the men's bas right now.... If you could just go ketball team as they take on ahead and make sure you do that, OFFBEAT Providence tonight at 7:30 p.m. that would be just greeeeaaaat .... in the Joyce Center. All inanities from copyright 1999 Jeweler turns man's glass buying a new car and just Teton Village Fire Chief Watt aside, unpredictability is annoying. eye Into a ring taking my old car to the Hyersaid. Learn about the Student Union So how about we make the answers DUNCAN, Okla. - AI Nix dump.