fordhamobserver.com October 6, 2005 Fordham University at Lincoln Center Volume XXIV, Issue 3 Admin, denies Fordham to pro-choice ties drop Social led to speaker Security as cancellation primary ID By Natalie Rodriguez By Laura Di Orio Features Editor News Editor Fordham administrators deny that Students at Fordham University the cancellation of a lecture on Irish will no longer have to worry as immigration by a high-profile schol- much about identity theft. Begin- ar and Irish politician was related ning Oct. 24, Fordham will is- to her affiliation with Ireland's pro- sue new Fordham Identification choice movement, Safe and Legal. Numbers (FIDN) that will re- Ivana Bacik, professor oflaw at the place Social Security numbers as University of Dublin's Trinity Col- the primary identification num- lege, was scheduled to give the inau- ber for all students. gural address of a lecture series put Students will be able to use together by Fordham's Irish Studies their FIDN, a randomly gener- Institute on Sept. 29. According to ated eight-digit number, for ac- several Fordham administrators, cessing OASIS. the event was cancelled due to a "Identity theft has become a last-minute family emergency with Benjamin Traslavina/The Observer serious problem throughout the the alumni sponsors of the John M. College students made up a large portion of the attendance at SepL 24's anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. nation facilitated by the wide- Kehoe and Mollie Denning Kehoe spread use of Social Security Lecture Series, Veronica Kehoe, numbers as a primary basis for FCLC '02, and Jack Kehoe, FCRH Anti-war protestors continue to rally on identification," Gene Fein, senior '60andFCLC85. By Benjamin Traslavina East coast, with legions of activ- activists tried to exit the Ellipse, a associate director of technology "Because of personal health prob- Contributing Writer ists. Months of planning from liter- city green-like plaza, where they of Fordham's Enrollment Group, lems with the family, the Kehoes felt ally hundreds of organizations had had initially gathered. The phrase said in a letter to the univer- that they could not host the event and Benjamin Translavina, FCLC' culminated to what organizers es- circulating through the crowd was sity community. "The use of the •asked if we could move the inaugural '09, has been active and interested timate was an attendance of more "surround the White House." In ^FIDN reduces the risk of others to another time," said the Rev. Robert in politics since the 2000 election. than 100,000 people from around1 fact, passing the White House was gaining access to your personal R. Grimes, S.J., dean of FCLC. He has covered political rallies the country. a privilege which was permitted information." Assistant Vice President of Pub- and events since high school. Last This was the national anti-war in this rally, for the first time in Students will receive their new lic Affairs Elizabeth Schmalz said, year, he covered the Republican rally against the continued occupa- years. FIDN in the mail by the middle of "the university felt compelled to National Convention in New York tion of Iraq, as well as a plethora Heather Cottin, a veteran activist October. Resident students will not hold the lecture in [the Kehoes'] City. He spent the weekend of Sept. of other issues. It was put together and Hofstra University alum, said receive their letter at their off- absence since they wanted so much 24 at the anti-war rally in Wash- primarily by the three anti-war that she had "never seen so many campus or residence hall address, to attend." The Kehoes donated ington, D.C. movement giants: Troops Out buses going to Washington, even and commuters will receive their the money to fund an entire year's Now Coalition, United for Peace during Vietnam." letter at their permanent address. worth of lectures in memory of Mr. WASHINGTON—A cloudy sky, and Justice, and Act Now to Stop Among these 100,000 people, Fein also urged students to keep Kehoe's father, according to Grimes which promised rain, hung over the War and End Racism. This was there was a significant number of their FIDN confidential as to en- and Schmalz. nation's capital on the morning of the country's political catharsis, college students from virtually all sure no one else will have1 access to An e-mail was subsequently sent Sept. 24. In the streets an armada charged with emotion, in the wake over the nation. The motivation their personal information and re- to Bacik on Fri., Sept. 24 informing of buses unloaded thousands upon of so much. and expectations of these students cords. Once the FIDN has become her of the emergency and that her thousands of protestors. Trains, The number of protestors swelled was surprisingly consistent. , effective, Social Security numbers lecture had been cancelled, accord- packed like the number one line at to such size, that for nearly half-an- Rachael of Durham Tech, in- will no longer be accepted when ing to Grimes. 4:00 p.m., arrived from all over the hour there was human gridlock, as see ANTI-WAR on pg. 03 logging in to OASIS. • Due to time differences, the e-mail was not received until Monday, ac- Rose Hill cording to Bacik. "Of course, lam Howie Day plays at Rose Hill campus very sorry to hear about the illness, student raped By Dave Graver but I cannot accept that reason as By Monique Diman Assistant Arts & Culture Editor sufficient," said Bacik, who alleged News Editor that an earlier dialogue about her Rising singer/songwriter pro-choice affiliations make her ROSE HILL—A student en- Howie Day played at the Lom- doubt the reasons given by Fordham rolled in Fordham College at Rose bardi Field House on Oct. 1 as administration. Hill was raped in the early morning the Verizon Wireless Music Un- Bacik told The Observer she re- hours on Sept. 23 as she entered leashed Campus Tour set down ceived a request by e-mail on Sept. her off-campus apartment. on Fordham University's Rose 22 asking her not to speak about The 20-year-old student who Hill Campus. abortion at her lecture, due to con- lives on Belmont Ave., was as- The Concert Committee of cerns that had been raised from the saulted by a man with a pipe in his Rose Hill's Campus Activities sponsoring couple about her af- possession, according to published Board (CAB) co-sponsored the filiation with a pro-choice group. "I reports. Police arrested Mercelino event. Co-Chair of the Con- was simply told that my comments Cortez, 20, during the attack. cert Committee Brian Carney, should not stray from immigration," "The police were summoned and FCRH '06, explained that the Bacik said. "I was surprised and their immediate response resulted co-sponsorship allowed the Music Unleashed/Vertzon Wireless concerned about this, but since I had concert to also function as a in the arrest of the perpetrator," Howie Day and the Music Unleashed campus tour hit Rose Hill on Oct 1 - not intended to speak about or even said John Carroll, director of secu- Hurricane Katrina relief effort mention abortion anyway, I agreed rity for Fordham University. "The event. two album catalogue as well as said they believed the Rose Hill to this." student was treated at an area hos- With a suggested donation en- cover songs. concert was his best tour perfor- Schmalz and Gale Swiontkows- pital and released the same morn- trance, approximately $750 was Notably, the i troubadour mance to date, ki, director of the Institute of Irish ing. She is receiving continual care raise by CAB, Around 1,000 charged along with his own Day's first album, "Austra- Studies, both state that the e-mail and is with her family. people attended the event. rendition of Celine Dion's "Ti- lia" came put in 2000, He sold in question, which was sent by an "The University is grateful for the Following his opening act, fe- tanic" soundtrack hit "My Heart 30,000 albums before being Irish Studies administrator, did not swift action of the NYPD and for male singer/songwriter Tristan Will Go On." signed by Epic Records. ask Bucik to withhold comments on their continued vigilance in keep- Prettyman, Day entertained the Although the size of the venue His next album, "Stop All The abortion, but instead raised concerns ing our neighborhood as safe as crowd with an 80-minutc set may have been a vacuum on his World Now" was recorded in 20 soo SPEAKER pg. 04 possible," Carroll added. • that included tracks from his sound, Day's production crew 03. • 02 NEWS | October 06,2005 I THE OBSERVER fordhamobserver.com Pledge of Allegiance to be eliminated from some schools By EmiFy Genao not believe in God (and indeed INSIDE Staff Writer some see it as promoting a spe- U.S. District Judge Lawrence. cific God, a Christian God)." THE OBSERVER Karlton in San Francisco "ruled Michael Gonzalez, FCLC '07, on Sept. 14 that the Pledge of Al- who is majoring in education, legiance should, not be recited in agrees with Karlton's decision. "I public schools because of its ref- believe that [Newdow] should get DEAN'S erence to God. Attorney General justice out o/ it, which would be Alberto Gonzales said the Justice that 'under God' be taken out of Department will fight to overturn the Pledge of Allegiance," he said. LIST the court decision. "The government fighting it is3 Karlton "ruled that the pledge's wrong. They should take into con- reference to one nation 'under sideration all sides, including their DILEMMA God1 violates school children's own.