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sumption matches the national By MARCELA BERRIOS trends — and that’s been a consis­ drinkers Associate News Editor tent pattern, University officials said. The Office of Alcohol and Drug m SPRING 06 POLL, 1900 STUDENTS POLLED IN TOTAL Education (OADE) has been telling Notre Dame students about the dan­ 90% of males drink more than 3 times per week Over 40 citations given 12% of females drink more than 3 times per week Editor’s note: This is the first story gers of alcohol abuse for more than in 2005, these numbers were 25% and 17% respectively at different locations in a three-part series examining the 10 years, but the results of its surveys use and abuse of alcohol at Notre every year match the results of previ­ Average number of drinks per week Dame, the University’s attempts to ous years, and the trends observed at male: 9.42 female: 5.04 By KEN FOWLER solve alcohol-related problems and other universities. News Writer Have you ever driven under the influence of alcohol? the future of the campus’ drinking “Our statistics and the national sta­ 80% of males said no culture. tistics are the same,” said Annie 86% of females said no Eaton, an OADE assessment coun­ Police cited more than 40 How many times have you had memory loss fro While Notre Dame differs from selor. “All the other colleges in the alcohol consumption throughout the V' people for a range of drinking thousands of colleges in academics country come up with the same 13% of males said 3-5 times violations early Sunday morn­ and athletics, in terms of alcohol use 10% of females said 3-5 times ing at 1016 South Bend and abuse, its students’ beer con­ see ALCOHOL/page 4 ;e of Alcohol and Drug Education ______Avenue. Earlier Saturday JEFF ALBERT/Observer graphic afternoon, approximately 15 minors were also cited for underage drinking in the parking lots used for the Blue- Gold Game. Anti-abortion ruling sparks debate Sgt. Tim Cleveland of the Indiana Excise Police said police gave citations to 38 which an intact fetus is partially minors and five adults at the By MEGHAN WONS removed from the uterus before a off-campus location. NeWs Writer doctor cuts or crushes its skull to He did not specify how many complete the abortion. Notre Dame or Saint Mary’s The Supreme Court’s ruling last “To talk about this [ruling] as a students were involved. Wednesday upholding a nation­ big pro-life victory is ridiculous,” Cleveland said at least one wide ban on a particular form of Notre Dame Law School profes­ of the five adults were custodi- late-term abortions has created a sor emeritus Charles Rice said. ally arrested for public intoxi­ firestorm of reactions from both “Innocent human beings should cation, disorderly conduct and anti-abortion and abortion rights not be executed. All that this rul­ resisting arrest. Because he activists and has generated ing does is ban a certain method did not have all the reports diverging responses from faculty of execution.” from Sunday, he could not members at Notre Dame. Rice, who is also a columnist confirm that only one person The Court’s 5-4 decision ruled for The Observer, said that “in was arrested at the site. that the Partial Abortion Ban Act any sane society,” the Cleveland said police issued — passed by Congress and made Constitutional question should not citations on a total of 51 law in 2003 — does not violate a be whether an innocent person charges. The five adults faced woman’s right to an abortion in can be executed by a particular charges that included furnish­ light of previous abortion rights method, but how to define per- ing alcohol to a minor, resist­ cases, including the landmark sonhood. ing arrest, disorderly conduct, 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling and the But Donald Kommers, a consti­ inducing minors to possess 1992 Planned Parenthood v. tutional law professor in the Law alcohol and maintaining a Casey decision. School, was more positive about common nuisance. The most recent ruling upheld the decision. The citations at the Blue- AP a ban on a method of abortion “The ruling simply sustained a Gold Game and at the South Prochoice activists march near the Supreme Court last Wednesday used most commonly after the after last w eek’s ruling upholding the ban on partiaFbirth abortion. 1 2 th week of a pregnancy, in see ABORTION/page 4 see ARRESTS/page 4 MFA students showcase theses Former NDSP officer Ten graduate presenters read poetry, fiction writing pieces killed in shootout Fautz said. By MEGHAN WONS By KEN FOWLER and NDSP Director Phil Johnson News Writer MARCELA BERRIOS said Polizzotto, 34, joined NDSP News Writers in the late 1990s, though he After two years studying and couldn’t provide specific dates. honing their craft, 10 Notre Dame Polizzotto had worked for South MFA students in fiction and poetry Cpl. Nick Polizzotto, a South Bend police for nine years. writing presented their theses Bend policeman who formerly “On behalf of everybody at Tuesday night to a captive audi­ worked for Notre Dame NDSP, I offer my condolences to ence in the Gold Room of North Security/Police (NDSP), was shot the family, friends and co-work- Dining Hall. and killed by a gunman early ers of fallen Corporal Polizzotto,” Mini-biographies of the gradu­ Tuesday morning. Johnson said. “His is a tragic loss ates were included in the thesis Polizzotto was killed during a for our police force and for any­ reading’s program, titled “Masters shootout in which an armed sus­ one who had the pleasure of of the Universe and Fine Arts.” pect died and another officer — knowing him, and our hearts will The program’s cover featured Patrolman Michael Norby — was always remember him. ” the faces of the MFA students on wounded, South Bend police According to The Officer Down the bodies of superhero figures — said. Memorial Page, a Web site devot­ a clue to those unfamiliar with The officers were investigating ed to keeping records of slain law Notre Dame’s program that the a report of gunshots near the enforcement officers, 52 officers thesis reading would not be like Wooden Indian Motel on Lincoln nationwide were killed as a those of other departments. Way East at 1:37 a.m., Police result of gunfire in the last year. Fiction writers included Jackson ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer Chief Tom Fautz told the Polizzotto became the 23rd offi- MFA student Kathryn Pilles-Genaw reads a poetry selec­ Associated Press. A gunman shot see MFA/page 6 tion Tuesday in the Gold Room of North Dining Hall. at the officers, who returned fire, see SBPD/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W h at do you th in k ‘A n t o st a l ' m e a n s ? We're not all champs ■

There is a very special sign mounted in the most hallowed, publicized hallway on Notre Eileen Walsh Diva Hira Clarissa Negrete Tim Loh Blair Majcina Nathan Loyd Dame’s campus. It’s not the Main Building or the Basilica, nor is it freshman sophomore sophomore senior sophomore sophomore w ritte n by Walsh Lyons Welsh Family Keough Sorin Keough accomplished Dan Murphy authors, past ______“Anti-drinking. ” theologians, or “I think it “I think it “I think it “When Notre “I think it means even an ABC Associate m eans ‘toast to means tossing a m eans ‘get Dame used to a large wooden morning show Sports Editor spring. woman named drinking. be fun. ” ship. ” host. I’m talking, of Ann. ” course, about the football locker room and the famous “Play Like A Champion Today” banner. It has been slapped more times, and by more famous hands, than a baseball player’s backside. But unfortunately, the sacred plaque is slowly losing its luster, not due to the slaps, but thanks to endless imitation and parody. A long line of not-so-clever In B rief knockoffs has left the saying all but meaningless. It seems the Notre Dame baseball will entire Notre Dame community play Valparaiso tonight a t feels it is necessary to live every 6:05 at Frank Eck Stadium. moment of our waking lives as For tickets, call 631-7356. “champions.” This first came to my attention Notre Dame women’s soft­ last week when my roommate ball will play UIC tonight at returned home from the library in 6:30 at Ivy Field. Admission his typical whirlwind of frustration is free. and swearing that would make Bob Knight look like Bob Saget in his The Ballroom Dance Club days of Full House. He had had will host the Spring Ball enough. tonight from 8 to 1 0 :3 0 in The poor soul had just been th e LaFortune Ballroom. asked to “Log off like a champion ” Dancers of all skill levels are in one of Hesburgh’s computer invited. The cost is $4 per clusters. And he could not — for night or $35 for the semes­ the life of him — figure out how to ter. The club is open to all log off well enough to be consid­ Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s ered the very best. and Holy Cross students with As a Notre Dame student I have a cam pus ID, as w ell as fac­ been asked to eat, drink, sleep, ulty and staff. study, experiment, pray, save, and even clean like a champion. The Badin Hall will host its other day, former Irish All- ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer a n n u a l Badin Breakdown American Mike Colic even asked Sophomore Liz Crosby, left, fouls her opponent during a Bookstore matchup Monday Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 on the Lyons courts. Her team, “The Pentateuch,” lost the game. me to “Live like a Champion on South Quad. Today” via a billboard. Now, Mr. Colic, will buying into SUB will hold a free salsa your newest promotional project dancing e v e n t Friday from really put me in the elite company 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on of Rockne, Parseghian and Holtz? I O ffbeat Fieldhouse Mall. doubt it. Somewhere along the way, the Drunk man parks horse in “It was late, it was already pastry led to Wheeler’s arrest Notre Dame men’s soccer once-inspirational adage lost its German Bank dark and cold, ” he was quot­ in a 2004 car theft. will play the Mexican U -20 way, and I say enough is enough. BERLIN — An early-morn­ ed as saying. The 40-year-old Detroit National team Friday a t 7 So if for nothing else than my ing German bank customer Confronted with the lack of resident already was serving p.m. a t Alumni Field. roommate’s sanity I’m begging you had a bit of a shock when he a hitching-post, he brought time for another auto, theft Tickets are $5 for adults and Notre Dame, just accept it — we’re found a horse already in line the 6 -year-old horse, named when authorities made the $ 2 for youth 18 and under. not all champions. And despite at the automatic teller Sammy, in along with him. DNA match. Wheeler plead­ For ticket information, call what Vince Vaughn and the machine in front of him. It When a customer came ed guilty earlier this month, 631-7356. Wedding Crashers rulebook might seems the horse's owner, across the horse and sleeping and he now faces sentencing say, there is absolutely nothing identified only as Wolfgang rider in the bank at 4:15 a.m. May 22. T h e Notre Dame Jazz wrong with that. H., had a bit too much to Monday, he called police, Eastpointe Officer Ed Lulko Band will perform Friday at I encourage all of you to eat like drink the night before and who then came and woke the was investigating the car- 7 :3 0 p.m. in Leighton a heathen, drink like an Irishman, decided to sleep it off inside owner up and sent him on theft report when a witness Concert Hall in th e sleep like a grizzly bear, study like the bank’s heated foyer, his way. described seeing a man DeBartolo Performing Arts an engineer, experiment like a hor­ police said Tuesday. arrive in one car and then Center. For tickets, call 631- monal 13-year-old and pray like a The 40-year-old machinist DNA left on cinnamon bun break out the windows of the 2800. monk today. I don’t really care how told Bild newspaper he had nabs car thief other car and steal it, accord­ you log off in that computer had “a few beers” with a EASTPOINTE, Mich. — ing to police in the Detroit To s u b m it in fo r m a tio n to library, but just make sure you do friend in Wiesenburg, south­ Norman 0. Wheeler probably suburb. be included in this section of — wouldn’t want anyone messing west of Berlin, and decided to wishes he had finished that The Observer, e-mail with that Facebook profile. hit the hay in the bank on his cinnamon bun. DNA evi­ Information compiled from detailed information about way home. dence from the partly eaten the Associated Press. an event to [email protected] The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Contact Dan Murphy at dmurphy6@nd. edu

C o rrectio n s Lil 5 Due to a reporting error, the article in the April 24 —i edition of The Observer titled “Team posts 41 top < marks” said Jake Walker, not Jake Watson, placed O first in the 5,000 meters at the Central Collegiate O HIGH HIGH 45 HIGH HIGH 57 HIGH HIGH Championship. Also due to a reporting error, the article in the April 24 edition of The Observer LOW 48 LOW 38 LOW LOW 45 LOW 50 LOW 48 titled “Flogging Molly to perform” identified Rich Jacobs as the general manager of Legends. Aaron Atlanta 48 / 59 Boston57 / 46 Chicago 52 / 44 Denver52 / 34 Houston77 / 6 6 Los Angeles 75 / 55 Minneapolis 61 / 42 Perri is the general manager of Legends. The New York 61 / 51 Philadelphia 6 6 / 52 Phoenix 91 / 62 Seattle 60 / 43 St. Louis 70 / 62 Tampa 84 / 67 Washington 70 / 57 Observer regrets these errors. Wednesday, April 25, 2007 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS page 3

C ouncil of R epresentatives B oard o f G overnance Leaders allocate 2007-08 funds Executives approve two Judicial Council , College Readership Program to receive money more co-sponsorships Program. dent government groups. By SONIA RAO Gaines noted that the Off-Campus Council — a News Writer amount of money available smaller organization — Tortorello presented the $10,000 for allocation is a conserva­ received $1 ,0 0 0 . By LIZ HARTER co-sponsorship proposal to the News Writer Student Union treasurer tive estimate. board. The estimated total cost of Kadeja Gaines presented the “We don’t want to over­ In other COR news: The Show for 2007 is $145,000. Saint Mary’s Board of 2007-08 budget allocation to allocate or run too close so ♦ Student body president “Last year The Show was the Governance (BOG) members members of the Council of that we have money to allo­ Liz Brown announced plans biggest it has ever been,” approved two co-sponsorships at Representatives (COR) d u r­ cate again in the fall,” for a revamped student gov­ Tortorello said. “It was huge. The their final meeting of the semester ing Tuesday’s meeting in Gaines said. ernment Web site, which she Show went really well, quality-wise Tuesday night. One will help fund LaFortune. As a result, money avail­ hoped to have running by and attendance-wise.” an etiquette dinner for the student Following Tortorello’s proposal, Gaines and other members able to FMB August. body, and the other will go to sup­ board members discussed BOG’s of the Financial is based on a “It would have “We don’t w ant to port The Show 2007. past financial involvement with Management Board (FMB) p r o j e c t e d been the fall of The first co-sponsorship will help The Show. met with student club mem­ n u m b e r of over-allocate... so 2005 the last fund a dinner hosted by the The board placed stipulations on bers familiar with their 7,355 s tu ­ time there was that we have College’s Young Executive’s Club BOG funding of the event. The con­ clubs’ expense needs in dents attend­ an updated Web money to allocate (YEC) that will educate those who ditions included having The Show order to determine how best ing the uni­ site,” Brown attend on dining etiquette and advertise for Saint Mary’s orienta­ to divide $479,383.56 versity next again in the fall. ” said. “It had a encourage communication between tion weekend event “Jamaica between the groups. The year. list of headlines students and College administra­ Shaka,” having a Saint Mary’s stu­ total came from student “T his is with major Kadeja Gaines tion. dent on the planning committee activities fees, proceeds from i m p o r t a n t events going on, Student Union The dinner will be a five-course and selling tickets in the Saint sales of The Shirt and the because some of the meal with College President Carol Mary’s student center. recently created endow­ things like treasurer minutes from Ann Mooney, if her schedule per­ Student body executive treasurer ment. Those three revenue student various meet­ mits, YEC CEO Erica Rath said. Courtney Kennedy was not sure streams added up to a c t i v i t i e s ings, and a list of calendar “I think events and building rela­ how much money is left in the co­ $840,925, but fixed expens­ fees are 95 dollars per stu­ events that were going on. It tionships [are] a huge part of what sponsorship account, but the board es for budget items — dent, and this is part of the was a pretty simple page.” the Saint Mary’s community is,” voted to award The Show the including technology fees of money that goes into the Several members of COR Rath said. remainder of the budget — up to $361,541.44 — left a little total FMB can allocate,” offered suggestions for the The Board motioned to give the $8 , 0 0 0 with the stipulations. over $479,000 for allocation. Gaines said. content of the Web site, club $1 , 2 0 0 after stipulating that Among the student gov­ The amount student gov­ including a frequently asked the proposed attire of the event be ernment groups receiving a ernment committees questions section about stu­ In other BOG news: changed from cocktail dresses to piece of the allocation funds received from the allocation dent government, links to ♦ SMC Tostal will take place business casual. were the Treasurer’s Office; varied greatly. Larger other organizations, infor­ Thursday with events going on Judicial Council; Club The second co-sponsorship will groups in charge of high- mation about how students throughout the day. The day will Coordination Council; the help fund The Show 2007 — a tri­ cost events received more can get involved and pic­ culminate in a fireworks display Classes of 2008, 2009 and campus event that looks to bring money from FMB’s alloca­ tures from recent activities over the Angela Athletic Center at 2010; Senior Week 2008, thousands of students together to dusk and a screening of the movie tion; the Student Union taking place around campus. Hall Presidents Council; Off- experience a “wonderful music Campus Council; Student Board, for example, received “Dreamgirls” on Library Green. $239,827.92 — a little more event,” according to the co-spon­ Union Board; Council of Contact Liz Harter at Representatives and the than half of the total amount Contact Sonia Rao at sorship application. College Readership of money available to stu­ [email protected] Notre Dame junior Steve eharteO 1 @saintmarys.edu The Observer is now accepting applications for Controller, Web Designer and Systems Manager for 2007-08.

The Controller position, which provides great accounting experience, is open to rising juniors. It is a two-year position; the 2007-08 Controller will become the 2008-09 Business Manager.

The Web Designer position is open to any student with advanced scripting skills. Systems Manager applicants should be highly adept at computer troubleshooting.

Please contact Maddie Hanna at 631-4542 or [email protected] if interested. page 4 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Wednesday, April 25, 2007

in South Bend and at Notre underage drinking at two sep­ including “limitations that are Dame. arate residences south of cam­ quite proper and that most Arrests “With the weather getting pus — one on St. Peter Street Abortion advanced European democracies continued from page 1 nice and [being] close to the and one on Washington Street continued from page 1 impose, like waiting periods, doc­ end of school, we start seeing — in South Bend Saturday tors informing the woman of all Bend Avenue property were more and more of these types night. particular Constitutional statute. I the risks associated with abortion just two incidents in a 24-hour of things,” Cleveland said. do think the decision is proper; 1 and childbirth and counseling for span in which excise police Excise police also issued Contact Ken Fowler at think the Supreme Court had a a woman before she makes a cited approximately 70 people approximately 15 citations for [email protected] duty to sustain the congressional decision to terminate a pregnan­ majority,” Kommers said. “This cy-” statute would probably be sus­ “There are a number of social ward to any run-ins with the Office been used by millions of collegians tained in any other advanced and economic policies that would of Residence Life and Housing or for decades as a way to describe the dem ocracy in the w orld ... encourage a pro-life culture in the Alcohol the county hospital, their fear of disgruntled local citizens. They are Canada, Germany, England, Italy, United States, but no agenda of this sort has ever been present­ continued from page 1 these consequences does not only disgruntled because they see France, and even the detract from their desire to drink on the fun we are having and are jeal­ Scandinavian countries would find ed.” Kommers said. Friday nights. ous that they can­ the ruling quite proper.” On campus every October, a sea results we get.” “Students drink not partake.” Kommers said the details of the of white crosses are hammered Those statistics include a 20 per­ because it’s fun,” “The majority of our The notion that procedure’s method — known as into South Quad by Notre Dame’s cent of students that in an annual said Katie Lancos, students drink at a college fun is tied to medically intact dilation and Right to Life club as a demonstra­ campus-wide survey say they a 2006 graduate. “I moderate rate, and alcohol use is one extraction, but as “partial-birth tion to bring attention the fates of absolutely refuse to drink, another can’t give you a that has been pop­ abortion ” by its opponents — led the aborted fetuses. 2 0 percent that may be labeled as better answer than not to intoxication. ” ularized by the to the Court’s ruling. The club draws attention to alcohol-dependent and a 60 percent ‘It’s just fun, and it’s media and one that “The fetus is disassembled after many life issues — though it that falls in between the two something you end Father Jim Lewis is not consistent it emerges from the woman’s focuses on abortion, euthanasia, extremes — numbers that Eaton up having in com­ Carroll Hall rector with Notre Dame’s womb,” Kommers said. “At that and capital punishment — in a said stay pretty much the same, mon with a lot of mission. Associate point, I’m not sure you can distin­ variety of ways, said senior Tim year after year. people you ordi­ Vice President for guish this procedure from infanti­ Wymore, who has served as the “Anybody in the middle 60 per­ narily wouldn’t associate with,’” she Residence Life Bill Kirk said. cide.” club’s political commissioner dur­ cent may abuse alcohol on occa­ said. “That concept that ‘college is all Women can still use a different ing past school year. sion,” she said, “especially at Notre Lancos and her friends created about getting drunk and rolling out method, during which the fetus is He said one of the ways the club Dame. The binge drinking here the “I am the 21.7% of ND Students of bed to go to class the next day’ is dismembered in the uterus, for is most publicly and politically seems to be very event-oriented. That Drink More Than lx Per really sad and it’s something that to abortions after the first trimester. involved in promoting a life- Just look at this weekend — with Week” group on Facebook.com, a great degree has been promoted Many people in the U.S. feel that affirming culture is through its PigTostal and the tailgating — and which had 542 members as of by the popular culture,” Kirk said. rulings on abortion are based on participation in the “March for you can confirm this.” Tuesday. “If you think of some of the movies theological or moral arguments, Life,” held every January in Rather than developing ongoing The OADE’s 2006 survey, howev­ out there, like ‘Animal House,’ that’s Kommers said. He said in most Washington, DC. alcohol dependencies, she said, er, indicated that approximately 20 the message they’re sending out — western European countries, “I think it has the potential to Notre Dame students engage in percent of the 1,900 Notre Dame but that’s not in tune with what arguments against abortion are save several thousand fives per excessive consumption on isolated students it polled drank more than Notre Dame stands for.” seen to be more biologically and year,” Wymore said. This figure, dates — including hall dances, three times a week — which many Somewhere in between physiologically based — they he said, is approximately equiva­ spring break and birthdays. students would not condemn, Rybarczyk and Kirk’s support of speak of “germinating life in the lent to the number of partial birth But because these students are including Lancos. temperance, and Lancos and womb,” instead of using the term abortions performed annually in not heavyweight drinkers, she said, “People become a lot friendlier, McMaster’s uninhibited endorse­ “fetus.” the U.S. their one-time heavy ingestion of and at Notre Dame, with such a ment of alcohol use to enhance Like Rice, however, Kommers While Wymore said he was alcohol may result in hospitaliza­ competitive academic environment, social life, an approximate 60 per­ said he believed defining person- hopeful about the ruling’s implica­ tions, stomach pumps and, in the or even with stressful classes, cent of Notre Dame students will hood is a main issue at stake in tions, he questioned whether worst of cases, death by severe whether you’re competing or not continue to follow a pattern alcohol the abortion debate. some of those abortions that alcohol poisoning. with people, it might not be as easy counselors say wavers between “Roe v. Wade said the fetus is would have been performed by “We’ve been very fortunate to make good friends with people,” moderation and abuse. not a person within the context of intact dilation and extraction because we haven’t had more she said. “When you’re out at a * the Constitution, but the Court did would be carried out by other deaths occur, but we’ve had some party or a bar, people are all on the The second story in this series admit in the third trimester, the means. recent hospitalizations that came same level. No one is smarter than will examine the effects of policy state has an interest in protecting “1 think it sets a good precedent very close,” she said. another, it doesn’t matter who got changes on the drinking habits of life,” Kommers said. for possibly abolishing more late Eaton said in the last 30 days she an A or not, who shows up — Notre Dame students in recent Kommers said he does not fore­ term abortions in the future,” he had seen four different students everyone is in a different environ­ years. see the Court overturning Roe v. said. who were hospitalized — and that ment, which can be a very relaxing Wade in the near future, but he figure did not include the hospital­ feeling.” Contact Marcela Berrios at does see states continuing to Contact Meghan Wons at ization cases her fellow OADE coun­ Eaton said many students she [email protected] impose certain regulations, [email protected] selors may have seen. sees consider the weekend outings “On most occasions, the majority and the weekend intoxication a of our students drink at a moderate break from the weekday workload. rate, and not to intoxication,” said “Students, because of the stress Father Jim Lewis, rector of Carroll level and the workload, really get Hall. “I don’t believe that alcoholism more into immediate gratification,” — the actual dependency one has she said. “They’re all looking for on alcohol — is any more of a prob­ that ‘buzz’ point.” lem here than national norms Not all students, however, think would indicate.” alcohol is vital to facilitate conversa­ Like Eaton, Lewis — an OADE tions at parties, including sopho­ assessment counselor — said a big­ more Megan Rybarczyk. ger concern at Notre Dame is the “I agree that there is nothing students’ sporadic “high risk con­ inherently wrong with alcohol, and sumption of alcohol.” I will admit, I have seen reserved “Such a characterization would individuals open up in a social situa­ include practices of drinking games, tion involving alcohol, but I would For all of your skin care needs ... competitive drinking, drinking to argue that it is no longer deemed Now COLOURS by Jane Iredale makeup comes to our the point of intoxication, drinking ‘socializing’ when the individuals South Bend office, located just minutes from campus on too fast and not knowing the alcohol involved are intoxicated and are not North Michigan Street. COLOURS by Jane Iredale is content of a given drink, ” he said. in control of all of their faculties,” the # 1 mineral-based makeup used by such stars as A resident assistant at a male hall she said. “It is the abuse of alcohol Halle Berry, Ashley Judd, and Sharon Stone. who asked to remain anonymous that is wrong and dangerous, not agreed with Lewis, saying uncon­ alcohol itself.” Along with this new line of makeup, our Licensed strained and unaware consumption In a March 23 letter to The Aesthetician Peggy Dibble offers facials, waxing, a — though it may be infrequent for Observer, Rybarczyk said, “Eight is complete line of skin care products and more! the student — is usually the fast the number of students (to the best track to a disciplinary hearing or of my knowledge) who paid their From your face to your legs, Peggy will have your skin the hospital. respects to the Emergency Room in looking sensational this Spring! Call today for your “Some of my freshmen ran into a a local hospital last semester in one girl coming back from a soccer night due to intoxication.” FREE skin care consultation! game and she was really drunk so As a volunteer at the emergency Peggy Dibble they were going to just walk her room, Rybarczyk said she was dis­ home,” the resident assistant said. appointed to see the University’s Aesthetician Peggy is available: “Well, by the time they got to the reputation falling among hospital Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm LaFortune she was so drunk they staff members and the South Bend Saturday: 8:30am - 12:30pm couldn’t even move her anymore so community as a result of the stu­ they went into a building and got a dents’ “death-defying” blood-alco- rolling desk chair. They put her on hol contents when they were rolled it, and rolled her to the lobby of the in on gumeys. MlCHIANA EYE CENTER dorm to come get me.” Her stance against alcohol abuse The resident assistant did not sparked a chain of responses from want to give his name in order to different students with different protect the confidentiality of the vic­ opinions, including sophomore tim, but he said he “had to call Patrick McMaster. Ca// Peggy Today/ NDSP immediately because we “Zero is the number of times I 574.282.2020 tried to talk to her and all she could regret vomiting during spring & FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY do was vomit on herself, without break,” he said in a March 28 .and don’t forget to mention this adl! even speaking.” Letter to the Editor. “As you may or “College is about drinking” may not know, the term ‘townie- is 401 N. Michigan St. | South Bend, IN .| 574.282.2020 While students do not look for- not unique to Notre Dame. It has WORLD & NATION Wednesday, April 25, 2007 COMPILED FROM ITlE OBSERVER'S WIRE SERVICES page 5

International N ew s Iraq U.S. may allow Iran to keep uranium ANKARA, Turkey — The United States and Al-Qaida's new methods' kill 9 other world powers may be ready to allow Iran to keep some of its uranium enrichment program intact instead of demanding its Terrorist group claims responsibility for deaths of paratroopers from 82nd Airborne complete dismantling, foreign government officials said Tuesday. Officials said some willingness to compro­ Associated Press mise might advance talks Wednesday in the Turkish capital between top Iranian envoy BAGHDAD — An al-Qaida- Ah Larijani and Javier Solana, the European linked group claimed Union’s foreign policy chief. Tuesday that it used “new Recognizing that Iran would never accept a methods” in staging a dou­ complete freeze, the powers are considering ble suicide bombing with “a new definition of enrichment,” one diplo­ dump trucks that blasted a mat said. Under the proposal, Iran would paratrooper outpost in could keep some of its program intact with­ volatile Diyala province, out actually producing enriched uranium. killing nine Americans from State Department spokesman Sean the 82nd Airborne Division McCormack denied that the United States and wounding 2 0 . was “considering any proposals that would The attack underscored allow the Iranians to retain any enrichment- the ability of guerrillas of the related activities.” Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency to wage war in Rebels attack Chinese-run oil field Iraq four years after the ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian rebels who U.S.-led invasion, and it have fought alongside Islamic militants in came in a region that has neighboring Somalia stormed a Chinese-run seen violence escalate since oil field at dawn Tuesday, killing 74 people U.S. and Iraqi troops and destroying the exploration facility in a launched the security crack­ restive border region. down in Baghdad. It was the first such attack on a foreign The first truck hit outlying company in this Horn of Africa nation, in concrete barriers surround­ contrast to Nigeria on the western side of the ing the outpost at Sadah and continent, where rebel groups frequently exploded after soldiers attack international oil concerns. opened fire. A second truck Chinese officials said nine Chinese oil rammed into the wrecked workers and 65 Ethiopians died and seven vehicles, dragging it and Chinese were taken away by the rebels. It other rubble before it wasn’t known if the rebels suffered any casu­ exploded 30 yards from the alties. building housing the post's troops, said Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly, U.S. military spokesman in north Iraq. N ational N ew s According to a senior Pentagon official, at least AP Cheney: Reid making war political some of the casualties may Major Jim Brisson, an 82nd Airborne Deputy Division chaplain, speaks to the media WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick have been caused by two Tuesday. Nine paratroopers from his division died in a suicide attack Monday. Cheney accused Democratic leader Harry walls of the former two-story Reid on Tuesday of personally pursuing a schoolhouse collapsing from porting the families during 7,000 people near the capi­ pattern of al-Qaida but he defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home Monday’s blast. The official this time of loss, praying for tal of Diyala province, said an investigation was — a charge Reid dismissed as President said 15 of the wounded sol­ them and continuing our Baqouba, has been an al- under way into who was to Bush’s “attack dog” lashing out. diers had returned to duty. mission,” Donnelly told The Qaida stronghold. blame and exactly what hap­ The particularly harsh exchange came just All the casualties were in Associated Press in tele­ The Islamic State of Iraq, pened. hours after Bush said he would veto the latest the 5th Squadron, 73rd phone interview. “The an umbrella group of Sunni When asked about the war spending bill taking shape in Congress, Cavalry Regiment, 3rd enemy brings nothing to militants that includes al- “new methods” claimed by which includes a timetable for withdrawing Brigade Combat Team, benefit the people — noth­ Qaida in Iraq, said it was the group, he said the mili­ from Iraq. which has been conducting ing.” behind the suicide attack. Its tary was on heightened alert “Some Democratic leaders seem to believe operations in largely impov­ The attack at Sadah inflict­ account on the Internet was for dump trucks as they had that blind opposition to the new strategy in erished villages in the area ed the biggest loss on the sim ilar to th a t of the U.S. been used in several recent Iraq is good politics,” Cheney told reporters at as part of a security push to 82nd Airborne since June military, but claimed it used high-profile attacks. the Capitol after attending the weekly tame insurgent activity in 1969, when 12 paratroopers new techniques. “The use of dump trucks Republican policy lunch. “Senator Reid him­ Diyala. were ambushed and killed in “Almighty God has guided seems to be a recurring self has said that the war in Iraq will bring his The deaths made April the Vietnam, a spokesman, Maj. the soldiers of the Islamic theme recently in the last party more seats in the next election.” deadliest month of the year Tom Earnhardt, said at the State of Iraq to new methods few weeks,” he said. for the U.S. military. It was division’s base at Fort Bragg, of explosions,” the statement He said the military had Plea deal reached in lobbyist scandal also the single deadliest N.C. said without elaborating, foiled several attempts to WASHINGTON — A form er congressional attack on U.S. ground forces Donnelly said the patrol while claiming 30 Americans use the large vehicles, men­ aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting tens since Dec. 1, 2005, when 10 base was set up less than a died. tioning the discovery earlier of thousands of dollars in gifts from lobbyist Marines were killed by a month ago after an opera­ Lt. Col. Christopher this month of a dump truck Jack Abramoff in an influence-peddling scan­ bomb inside an abandoned tion that sought to drive mil­ Garver, a U.S. military filled with barrels of gasoline dal that has touched the White House, flour mill near Fallujah. itants from the area. Sadah, spokesman in Baghdad, said that overturned north of Interior Department and congressional “We are recovering, sup­ a rural Sunni town of about the style of the attack fit the Baghdad. Republicans. Mark Zachares was the 11th person to be convicted in the Justice Department probe. Zachares admitted engaging in official acts on Abramoffs behalf while working for Rep. Tillman's brother alleges coverup Don Young, R-Alaska, who chaired the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Associated Press “Roger that, Sir,” replied O’Neal, tions. dressed in his Army uniform. “We don’t know what the secretary of WASHINGTON — An Army Ranger The revelation came as committee defense knew, we don’t know what the Local N ew s who was with Pat Tillman when the for­ members questioned whether, and White House knew,” Waxman said. mer football star was cut down by when, top Defense officials and the “What we do know is these were not a Prisoners riot, injure two officials friendly fire in Afghanistan said Tuesday White House knew that Tillman’s death series of accidents, these stories. They NEW CASTLE — Inmates staged a two- a commanding officer had ordered him in eastern Afghanistan three years ago were calculatedly put out for a public hour riot at a medium-security men’s to keep quiet about what happened. was actually a result of gunfire from fel­ relations purpose. ... Even now there prison Tuesday, injuring two staff members The military at first portrayed low U.S. soldiers. seems to be a cover-up.” and setting fires in a courtyard. Tillman’s death as the result of heroic Tillman’s death received worldwide Kevin Tillman was in a convoy behind Indiana Department of Correction spokes­ combat with the enemy. Army Spc. attention because he had walked away his older brother, a former NFL star, on woman Java Ahmed said more than one Bryan O’Neal told a congressional hear­ from a huge contract with the NFL’s April 22, 2004, when Pat Tillman was cell house was involved in the disturbance ing that when he got the chance to talk Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the Army mistakenly shot by other Army Rangers at the New Castle Correctional Facility, to Tillman’s brother, who had been in a after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. who had just emerged from a canyon about 43 miles east of Indianapolis. nearby convoy on the fateful day, “I was His family was initially misled by the where they’d been fired upon. Kevin Corrections officials sent emergency ordered not to tell him what happened.” Pentagon and did not learn the truth for Tillman didn’t see what happened. squads and county and state police to the “You were ordered not to tell him?” more than a month. Tillman was O’Neal said he was ordered not to tell prison. New Castle Mayor Tom Nipp said repeated Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., awarded a Silver Star based on fabri­ him by then-Lt. Col. Jeff Bailey, the bat­ the entire city police force was also activat­ chairman of the House Committee on cated accounts — who fabricated them talion commander who oversaw ed. Oversight and Government Reform. still isn’t clear after several investiga­ Tillman’s platoon. The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEVCS Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Hattrup’s tight, vivid lines awarded the Sparks Prize After reading her poems, painted unique scenes; one in Fiction, has taught Chien said, “It feels really MFA poem was dedicated to “the English in West Africa for good. It’s great to get to SBPD continued from page 1 time in college when half of the Peace Corps, survival see the culmination of continued from page 1 my face was paralyzed,” he English to Cuban refugees, everyone’s work; we don’t Bliss, Tim Chilcote, Beth said before reading a poem and adult literacy to really get to see what peo­ cer killed by gunfire in 2007, the Couture, Pablo Ros and about his experience with M e x i c a n - p le h a v e site said. Sheheryar Badar Sheikh. B ell’s Palsy. A m e r i c a n been w o rk ­ Polizzotto was killed a year and a The poets included Lynne Colorful prose such as immigrants in g on day after the death of South Bend Chien, Colby Bliss’s chap­ before “The reading is a formal cross- Cpl. Lee Severns, who was shot Davis, Kevin ter, “Paris is arriving at wag to recognize the g o n re .” while off duty on April 21, 2006. H a t t r u p , “Tonight we get to Burning,” and Notre Dame students and [their] hard “ T h e Before Severns’ death, only one Kathryn Hunter Couture’s to p u r s u e reading is South Bend officer had been killed and Kathryn celebrate with [the selection his MFA. work. ” a fo r m a l by gunfire since 1973. Cpl. Paul Pilles-Genaw. students] but we fro m h e r A c c o rd in g way to rec­ Deguch was killed by a suspect he Faculty mem­ also have to let go of b o o k , “An to the MFA Frances Sherwood ognize the was questioning on August 24, ber and poet Encyclopedia p r o g r a m ’s s t u d e n t s 1997. visiting professor Cornelius Eady them. ” o f L iv in g W eb s i t e , and see all Polizzotto’s death sparked introduced the G h o s t s , ” the Sparks th e h a r d responses from local leaders. student read­ Cornelius Eady s h o w c a s e d P riz e is w o rk th e y “I am deeply grateful for the life trem endous a w a r d e d to h a v e p u t ers. associate professor and service of Corp. Nick Polizzotto. “It's a bitter­ s ty le a n d one N otre Dam e MFA g ra d ­ in,” said professor Frances He was an outstanding officer and sweet moment unique narra­ uate every year to afford Sherwood, who served as his life was far too short,” South for all of us tive voices. that graduate a year’s time thesis advisor for two of Bend Mayor Stephen J. Luecke said who teach these students,” Ros, who said he is “one to w rite. the graduating students. in a statement. “I am also deeply he said. “Tonight we get to of the few Mexicans in the Couture plans to begin Eady thanked and con­ grateful that Patrolman Michael celebrate with them, but world to claim ‘double work on her PhD at the gratulated the students, but Norby will recover from his we also have to let go of Domership,”’ drew from his University of South expressed mixed emotions. wounds. Our thoughts and prayers th e m .” knowledge of Mexico in his M i s s i s s i p p i ’s C e n te r fo r “We’re very, very happy are with these officers, their fami­ Students demonstrated selection about a Mexican W riters next year, where that they’ve made it lies and friends. creative and masterful use woman who sells chewing she will also teach on an through, but we’re also sad Luecke requested that all area of language as they read gum on the Excellence they’re leaving,” he said, establishments lower their flags to from their poetry, painting s tre e t. Fellowship. later telling the students, half-staff in honor of Polizzotto. scenes of everything from Hunter will Chien, who “This really is a wonderful cats making biscuits to the also be able to received the moment in your careers.” Information from the Associated body as a map. claim “double 'It’s great to see the Mitchell Notre Dame’s Master of Press was used in this report. Chien captured the D om ership” culmination of Award at the Fine Arts in Creative bizarre world of dreams this May, as everyone’s work.” end of the Writing is “a two-year Contact Ken Fowler at while reading part of a she received thesis read­ degree program centered [email protected] and Marcela sequence of dream poems. h e r BA in ing, said she around workshops in poet­ Berrios at [email protected] Davis evoked nostalgia in English and Lynne Chien is m o v in g ry and fiction and offering describing a childhood Spanish from master’s student h o m e to literature courses, transla­ scene in her poem, Notre Dame in Sacram ento, tion, a literary publishing “Christmas Eve Mass at St. 2004. looking for an course, and twelve credits F ra n c is .” This year’s adjunct teach­ of thesis preparation with Write for News. Hunter shared a couple of MFA graduat­ ing position, an individual faculty advi­ poems on when she and her ing class comes from a and “of course, writing sor,” according to the pro­ E -m a il mother drove to Notre wide variety of back­ p o etry .” gram ’s Web site. Dame from her home state grounds and have plans The Mitchell Prize is [email protected] of Alaska — “a long trip,” just as diverse for next “given to the student who she said, “well worth a year. gives that extra measure Contact Meghan Wons at p o e m .” Bliss, who was recently during the year,” Eady said. [email protected]

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Toyota sold 2.348 mil­ COMPANY %CHANGE | $GAIN | PRICE lion vehicles worldwide in the January-March quar­ MEDIMMUNE INC (MEDI) +0.11 + 0 .0 6 56.63 ter, company official POWERSHARES (QQQQ) +0.51 +0.23 4 5 .7 0 Satoshi Yamaguchi said, surpassing the 2.26 mil­ S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) + 0.04 + 0 .0 6 148.12 lion vehicles that GM said SIRIUS SATELLITE (SIRI) -1 .0 7 -0.03 2 .7 7 it sold during the same INTEL CP (INTC) + 0 .1 4 +0.03 2 1 .9 4 period. The results mark the first time Toyota has beat 10-YEAR NOTE -0 .6 0 -0 .0 2 8 4 .6 2 2 GM in global sales on a 13-WEEK BILL -0 .1 0 -0 .0 0 5 4 .8 3 5 quarterly basis, he said. While the figures repre­ -0 .0 2 4 30-YEAR BOND -0 .5 0 4 .8 0 4 sent only quarterly sales 5-YEAR NOTE -0 .7 0 -0 .0 3 2 4 .5 1 2 results, they foreshadow a tough challenge for GM as it fights to hold onto it LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) -1.31 64 .5 8 title as world's top GOLD ($/Troy oz.) -6 .5 0 6 8 7 .7 0 automaker — a claim usu­ PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) -0 .7 0 102.45 ally staked on annual pro­ duction figures. ■■■E225ZT3 In 2006, Toyota’s global YEN 118.3700 production surged 1 0 p e r­ EURO 0 .7 3 3 5 cent to 9.018 million vehi­ cles, while GM and its POUND 0 .4 9 9 4 group automakers pro­ CANADIAN $ 1 .1 2 1 2 duced 9.18 million vehi­ cles worldwide — a gap of about 162,000. In the first quarter, Toyota made AP In B rief 2.367 million vehicles Katsuaki Watanabe, president of Toyota Motor Corp., sits in a Camry in Lafayette, worldwide, while GM had Ind., April 20. Toyota passed General Motors as the world’s No. 1 auto seller. Dow sets new high, nearing 13,000 expected to produce 2.335 NEW YORK — Wall Street was mixed Tuesday, million. lar Camry, Corolla and it leads sales in China. GM. recovering from an early loss as investors It’s no time to start pop­ Prius gas-and-electric In the vital American GM hasn’t released a shrugged off disappointing housing and con­ ping the champagne, how­ hybrid. market, Toyota's sales forecast for this year, but sumer confidence data to focus on stronger- ever, because overtaking GM, meanwhile, cut rose 12.9 percent last Toyota is shooting for than-expected quarterly earnings. The Dow GM is not Toyota’s first production last year as year, catapulting it past global output of 9.42 mil­ Jones industrials set a new trading high, and priority, said Paul high fuel prices drove "DaimlerChrysler AG as lion vehicles and sales of resumed their trek toward 13,000. Nolasco, a spokesman for people away from its the No. 3 seller of autos in 9.34 million units. The market picked up momentum in mid- the Japanese company. trucks and sport utility the U.S. Toyota’s sh are of While Toyota appears afternoon. Investors seemed to lose some of the “Our goal has never vehicles. To shore up the U.S. market climbed on course to supplant earlier caution they adopted after the National been to sell the most cars earnings, it has cut jobs to 16 percent in March, General Motors this year, Association of Realtors reported sales of existing in the world,” Nolasco and closed plants. behind GM's 22 percent GM’s moves to boost over-. homes in March had their biggest one-month said. “We simply want to Toyota has been gaining and Ford Motor Co.’s 17 seas production could decline since January 1989. Also, the be the best in quality. steadily on GM in recent percent. keep it in the running. Conference Board reported consumer confi­ After that, sales will take years, and analysts have A copy of Toyota’s “glob­ The company’s sales in dence fell more than expected in April due to care of themselves.” been saying it is only a al master plan” leaked to China jumped 32 percent higher gas prices and broader economic con­ Indeed, it is Toyota’s matter of time before it the news media late last last year to 876,747 units, cerns. sterling reputation for eclipses its Detroit-based year calls for grabbing 15 and it is also building a Robust first-quarter earnings reports have quality and fuel efficiency rival, which has seen its percent of the world car new factory in India, been driving the market higher over the past that has lifted its global market share shrink in m a r k e t by 2 0 1 0 in th e another market with week, allowing the Dow to approach 13,000, sales, including the popu- the United States even as company’s quest to unseat tremendous potential. and there were more upbeat results cheering the market on Tuesday: from U.S. military con­ tractor Lockheed Martin Corp., Dow industrials AT&T Inc. and Dupont Co., and chip m aker Texas Instruments Inc. Bank of America set to buy LaSalle SEC: Apple officers backdated options SAN JOSE — The Securities and Exchange Associated Press acquisitions that would give it more Bank of America down 63 cents or Commission filed civil charges Tuesday against than 10 percent of all U.S. deposits. more than 1 percent to $50.41 in two former Apple Inc. officers over their alleged CHARLOTTE — A year after making The bank, which is the nation’s sec­ afternoon trading on the New York roles in backdating stock options. One of them a successful $34.2 billion move into ond-largest after Citigroup, recently Stock Exchange. immediately settled the case and cast some credit cards, Bank of America Corp. controlled just over 9 percent. Analysts at Friedman, Billings, blame on Apple CEO Steve Jobs. found yet another multibillion oppor­ “I think there is a huge opportunity Ramsey & Co. said “we like this deal, Former Chief Financial Officer Fred tunity to grab more customers. here, but the near-term costs are what particularly as this strengthens BolA Anderson, 62, has agreed to pay about $3.5 mil­ The Charlotte-based bank said people initially see,” said Jefferson in the third-largest deposit market in lion in fines and penalties to settle, the SEC Monday it will purchase LaSalle Bank Harralson, an equity analyst with the U.S.,” referring to Chicago. They said. Corp. from ABN Amro North America Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. in maintained their “outperform” rating The case against former general counsel Holding Co. for $21 billion in cash. Atlanta. “Long term, it’s a great strate­ on the stock. Nancy Heinen, 50, will proceed. Her attorneys The deal, initially announced by gic move for them .” For the past several months, Bank of have vowed to fight the charges. ABN Amro Monday when the Dutch The net cost to Bank of America will America Chairman and Chief The commission accused Heinen of participat­ bank agreed to sell itself to Barclays be $16 billion after a return of $5 bil­ Executive Ken Lewis has expressed his ing in fraudulent backdating and altering com­ for nearly $91.2 billion, fills a big hole lion in excess capital. bank’s interest in the Chicago market, pany records to conceal the fraud. The charges in the bank’s nationwide branch net­ Bank of America said it expects the particularly the strength of LaSalle, in were in connection with two large options work by making it Chicago’s largest deal to immediately enhance its earn­ speeches and conference presenta­ grants that caused the company to underreport bank. ings per share and about $800 million tions. its expenses by nearly $40 million, the SEC said. Bank of America also will acquire in after-tax cost savings. Restructuring While not desiring to be the leader The grants in question were a February 2001 LaSalle’s six offices in Indiana. costs also are expected to be around in every m arket in the U.S., “Chicago grant of 4.8 million options to Apple's executive The deal also raises questions about $800 million, the bank said. is attractive to us,” Lewis said during a team and a December 2001 grant of 7.5 million Bank of America, who is up against a Investors and Wall Street offered call with analysts. “The opportunity options to Jobs. federal cap that bars it from making mixed reactions, sending shares of arose and we acted.” page8 The Observer ♦ NE^WS Wednesday, April 25, 2007 M exico Riot erupts in Indiana prison facility Abortions legalized Two officers, seven inmates injured by transferred Arizona prisoners inmates from Arizona took suffered cuts and scrapes, Associated Press off their shirts in the while the inmates’ injuries during first trimester prison’s recreation area to involved tear gas exposure NEW CASTLE, Ind. — show staff they wouldn’t and minor cuts. All seven About 500 inmates staged a comply with orders. They inmates were treated at the Associated Press Mexico City is dominated by two-hour riot at a medium- had been told to keep the prison, said Trina Randall, the leftist Democratic security men’s prison sh irts on. spokeswoman for GEO Revolution Party, at odds with Tuesday, injuring two staff Donahue said he has Group Inc., a Florida com­ MEXICO CITY — Mexico City President Felipe Calderon’s members and setting fires delayed the transfer of pany that contracted last lawmakers voted to legalize conservative National Action in a courtyard before offi­ another 600 inmates from year with the state to man­ abortion Tuesday, a decision Party, which opposed the abor­ cials used tear gas to Arizona until authorities age the prison. likely to influence policies and tion measure. restore order. can reassess the condition The prison, built in 2002, health practices across Mexico “We go to great lengths to Authorities were investi­ of the prison. can house about 2,2 0 0 and other parts of heavily protect (sea) turtle eggs,” said gating whether the riot at “This system is different inmates. It currently has Roman Catholic Latin America. city lawmaker Paula Soto, a the New Castle Correctional than what they are accus­ ab o u t 1 , 0 0 0 prisoners from The proposal, approved 46- member of Calderon’s party. Facility started because tomed to,” Donahue said. Indiana and 630 from 19, with one abstention, will “Lucky turtles! It appears they prisoners newly arrived Some of the newly arrived A rizona. take effect with the expected have more people willing to from Arizona were upset inmates had complained In March, Arizona and signing by the city’s leftist defend them than some unborn about their treatment. about a lack of recreation Indiana reached an agree­ mayor. Abortion opponents children.” Two staff members and and other programs, said ment on housing up to have already T he law seven inmates suffered Trina Randall, a spokes­ 1,260 Arizona inmates. vowed to appeal “It appears [sea alarmed minor injuries. The riot woman for GEO Group Inc., Arizona Department of the law to the C a l d e r o n ’s the Boca Raton, Fla.-based turtles] have more involved inmates from both Corrections spokeswoman Supreme Court, a p a rty and states, and none escaped, company that manages the Katie Decker said at least move likely to people willing to prompted officials said. p riso n . some of the transferred extend the bitter defend them than authorities to Indiana Department of Corrections officials sent inmates had complained and emotional send ranks of some unborn Correction spokeswoman emergency squads and about being moved, a step debate in this pre- riot police to Java Ahmed said more than county and state police to her agency said was neces­ dominantly children. ” separate chant­ one cell house was involved the prison. New Castle sary because of the state’s Catholic nation. ing throngs of in the disturbance at the Mayor Tom Nipp said the shortage of prison space. “Decriminalizing opposing Paula Soto prison, about 43 miles east entire city police force was “They’re obviously resent­ abortion is a his­ demonstrators also activated. ful because they had to National Action Party of Indianapolis. toric triumph, a outside the city Prison guard Larry Helicopter pictures leave the state,” she said, triumph of the lawmaker legislature. Savage said he, two guards showed officers in riot gear adding that it was too early left,” said city leg­ A crowd of and three maintenance standing outside the prison to say whether the trans­ islator Jorge Diaz abortion-rights workers barricaded them­ fence and at least two fires fers played any role in the Cuervo, a leftist social democrat supporters chanting “Yes, we selves in a room as dozens burning in the courtyard. riot. who voted for the bill. “Today, did it!” gathered at a monu­ of inmates tried to break in Authorities secured the Decker said the inmates there is a new atmosphere in ment to 19th-century anti-cleri­ before a prison response prison perimeter and con­ sent to New Castle were this city. It is the atm osphere of cal reformer Benito Juarez in team arrived about 15 min­ firmed that no inmates “carefully picked ” before freedom .” downtown Mexico City after the utes later. escaped, although some being transferred and could Nationally, Mexico allows vote. “They were wrapped up in were still out of their cells, have “no predisposition to abortion only in cases of rape, “I feel happy, because this is a masks, with sticks, knives, Indiana State Police Sgt. violence.” The inmates severe birth defects or if the step forward, not backward, for shanks,” Savage said of the Rod Russell said. All staff arrived about six weeks wom an’s life is at risk. Doctors a woman’s right and freedom to inmates. “They were just members were accounted ago, officials said. sometimes refuse to perform choose ... about h er body and flexing their muscles and for. The prison housed an the procedure even under those her life,” said demonstrator they wanted to show that Authorities did not average daily population of circumstances. Gabriela Cruz, 36. they could take the prison release the conditions of 450 in 2005, according to The new law will require city The Roman Catholic church over at any time, and that’s the two injured staff mem­ the DOC web site. It also hospitals to provide the proce­ has protested the measure and what they did.” bers, though Donahue said has a psychiatric facility dure in the first trimester and Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Correction Commissioner neither suffered serious that treats inmates who are opens the way for private abor­ Rivera led a march through the J. David Donahue said the in ju rie s. bused in from other pris­ tion clinics. 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Associated Press which an Air Force surgeon was Associated Press Carnegie Institution of planet. If it is an iceball, as Mayor assigned typing chores after Washington where a U.S. team of suggests, it would be even bigger. WASHINGTON — The Air three days at her new post. WASHINGTON — For the first astronomers competed in the Based on theory, 581 c should Force’s top general expressed “We got her back,” Moseley time astronomers have discovered hunt for an Earth-like planet, have an atmosphere, but what’s frustration on Tuesday with the said. a planet outside our solar system called it “a major milestone in this in that atmosphere is still a mys­ reassignment of troops under Others are being assigned to that is potentially habitable, with business.” tery and if it’s too thick that could his command to ground jobs for help the Army provide security Earth-like temperatures, a find The planet was discovered by make the planet’s surface" temper­ which they were not trained, in Iraq and Afghanistan. researchers described Tuesday as the European Southern ature too hot, Mayor said. ranging from guarding prison­ Moseley said he didn’t mind a big step in the search for “life in Observatory’s telescope in La However, the research team ers to driving trucks and typing. the use of airmen as drivers as the universe.” Silla, Chile, which has a special believes the average temperature Gen. Michael Moseley, the Air much as some of the other new The planet is just the right size, instrument that splits light to find to be somewhere between 32 and Force chief of staff, said that duties usually performed by the might have water in liquid form, wobbles in different wave lengths. 104 degrees and that set off cele­ over 2 0 ,0 0 0 airmen have been Army, such as guarding prison­ and in galactic terms is relatively Those wobbles brations among assigned worldwide into roles ers. nearby at 1 2 0 trillion miles away. can reveal the astronomers. outside their specialties. “Not only do we not have a But the star it closely orbits, existence of other “It doesn’t mean Until now, all 220 With President Bush and prison, but very rarely do we known as a “red dwarf,” is much worlds. there is life, b u t... planets astronomers have Congress in a standoff over Iraq have anybody in prison,” he smaller, dimmer and cooler than W hat they it’s Earth-like ... in spending, the Pentagon is shift­ joked. our sun. revealed is a plan­ found outside our ing money among services and “So, to take our people and There’s still a lot that is et circling the red terms of potential solar system have accounts, including drawing train them to be a detainee- unknown about the new planet, dw arf star, Gliese habitability. ” had the “Goldilocks down funds earmarked for guarding entity requires ‘x’ which could be deemed inhos­ 581. Red dwarfs problem.” They’ve other later purposes. amount of time away from then- pitable to life once more is known are low-energy, been too hot, too Chris McKay “Somebody’s going to have to normal job,” said Moseley. about it. And it’s worth noting that tiny stars that give cold or just plain too pay us back,” Moseley said. “I “Those are the things that are scientists’ requirements for habit­ off dim red light NASA astrobiologist big and gaseous, don’t have to want to have con­ very frustrating,” he said. ability count Mars in that catego­ and last longer like uninhabitable cerns about getting that money He said the swap-outs come at ry: a size relatively similar to than stars like our sun. Until a few Jupiter. back.” a time when the Air Force’s Earth’s with temperatures that years ago, astronomers didn’t The new planet seems just right In a breakfast session with a budget is burdened, when there would permit liquid water. consider these stars as possible — or at least that’s what scientists group of reporters, Moseley said is little money for new aircraft However, this is the first outside hosts of planets that might sustain think. he was trying to be realistic. and when maintaining an aging our solar system that meets those life. “This could be very important,” “We live in a joint world. We live fleet of older planes, some of standards. The discovery of the new plan­ said NASA astrobiology expert in a military that’s at war. And them going back to the 1950s “It’s a significant step on the et, named 581 c, is sure to fuel Chris McKay, who was not part of we live in a situation w here, if and 1960s, is getting increasing­ way to finding possible life in the studies of planets circling similar the discovery team. “It doesn’t we can contribute, then sign me ly expensive. universe,” said University of dim stars. About 80 percent of the mean there is life, but it means it’s up for it.” “Operational and mainte­ Geneva astronomer Michel Mayor, stars near Earth are red dwarfs. an Earth-like planet in terms of Still, the Air Force general nance costs have gone up 180 one of 11 European scientists on The new planet is about five potential habitability.” added, “I’m less supportive of percent over the past 1 0 years, the team that found the planet. times heavier than Earth. Its dis­ Eventually astronomers will things outside our competency.” operating these old aircraft,” he “It’s a nice discovery. We still have coverers aren’t certain if it is rack up discoveries of dozens, He said people were being said. a lot of questions.” rocky like Earth or if its a frozen maybe even hundreds of planets assigned to jobs they weren’t As part of Bush’s troop The results of the discovery ice ball with liquid water on the considered habitable, the trained for. He cited Air Force buildup in order to try to secure have not been published but have surface. If it is rocky like Earth, astronomers said. But this one — airmen being used to guard Baghdad and nearby hot spots, been submitted to the journal which is what the prevailing theo­ simply called “c” by its discover­ prisoners and to serve as driv­ there are currently about Astronomy and Astrophysics. ry proposes, it has a diameter ers — will go down in cosmic his­ ers and cited one instance in 146,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Alan Boss, who works at the about 1 1/2 times bigger than our tory as No. 1.

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Letter to the E ditor Natural law Submit a Letter to the Editor or Guest proves fallible Column to [email protected] or online at Charles Rice tells us that natural law, both clergy and laity to own slaves; in www.ndsmcobserver.com . as interpreted by the Pope, must guide 1866 Pope Pius IX specifically declared our thought and action (“Natural law that “slavery in itself, considered as still applies,” April 24). I agree, as long such in its essential nature, is not at all as we remember that until 1888, that contrary to the natural and divine law, Letters to the Editor should be no more would mean condoning slavery. In the and there can be several just titles of fourth century, St. Augustine thought slavery, and these are referred to by than 350 words in length. Guest Columns slavery could be beneficial to both approved theologians and commenta­ slaves and masters; in 650 Pope Martin tors of the sacred canons. ... It is not should be no longer than 800 words and I forbade people to help slaves escape; contrary to the natural and divine law in 1179 the Third Lateran Council for a slave to be sold, bought, must include a byline with name, year and decreed the enslavement of anyone exchanged or given.” helping the Saracens; in 1226 Pope So much for natural law, as interpret­ major. All submissions must include the Gregory IX incorporated slavery into the ed by the Pope or by anyone else, as an Corpus luris Canonici (Canon Law), infallible, self-evident, unproblematic, author’s name and contact phone number. where it remained until 1913; in the unquestionable guide to moral action. In 13th century, St. Thomas Aquinas con­ interpreting natural law, we must not sidered slavery to be in accordance with forget that the term, like the word natural law and a consequence of origi­ “God” itself, often serves merely as an Submissions must be in by 3:00 p.m. to be nal sin; in 1454 Pope Nicholas V’s bull amplifier for our own historically and Romanus Pontifex allowed the King of culturally conditioned prejudices, fears, considered for publication the next day. Portugal to enslave Saracens and and judgem ents. pagans at war with Christians; in 1493, Pope Alexander VI gave the same right Christian Moevs to the King of Spain in lighting native associate professor of romance languages Americans; in 1548 Paul III allowed April 24

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Our generation has been around for the exhaustively than ever before. However, is Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine •there such a thing as too much informa­ massacre, September 11, a tsunami claim­ tion? Are our media outlets in danger of ing 225,000 lives, Hurricane Katrina. Each further desensitizing a nation whose blood have forced us to stop and contemplate lust is already insatiable? our own mortality The perpetrator of the Virginia Tech and the condition of Clay Kraby shootings certainly expected such expo­ the human heart. ------sure, as he sent a video manifesto to NBC Add to this list Dakota which was aired numerous times by events at Virginia Student numerous networks. What could be gained Tech last Monday, by repeatedly showing photos of the killer where more than 30 of our collegiate pointing pistols at the camera just two brothers and sisters were senselessly days after pointing those same pistols at gunned down on a campus much like our students? own. While VT was awarding the victims with Every generation has their tragedies, posthumous degrees, the media was and I would not attempt to claim that ours awarding a killer with the posthumous has experienced more pain than another. notoriety that he sought. The result? More Ours, however, is perhaps newly cursed to hits on the Web site, more viewers tuning become intimately familiar with the details in — and quite possibly copycats willing to of a crisis. Twenty-four-hour news net­ attempt similar evil acts for a perverse works, Internet news sites, cell phone legacy of infamy. This goes far beyond videos, YouTube, and other technological questions of the media misbalancing advances have assured that disastrous respect and reporting. Overexposure can events will be replayed until they have all lead to indifference, and the indifference but lost their impact. of the just can far outweigh the damage of This overexposure to tragedies can the evil. eventually cause us to become less The media is not to blame — they’re shocked and outraged by such horrible providing a service to customers, giving occurrences. Eventually we may begin to the public what it wants. What we want. accept these incidences as the inevitable When will we examine our entertainment, byproduct of living in an open society. our society, and ourselves in order to cor­ Apathy can result, and the results of apa­ rect a culture that seems to demand such thy towards evil are too difficult to bear. coverage from our media? The news has a responsibility to inform And at what point does the media’s pan­ the public to the best of its ability, and has dering to our nation’s obsession with vio­ certainly taken advantage of the resources lence cross from being informative to dis­ at their disposal. Those resources have respectful, to being destructive to the increased exponentially, and so has the moral fiber of an increasingly immoral news’ ability to provide viewers with in- society? depth coverage of live events. Last Monday It is a simple case of supply and began with not knowing how many shoot­ demand, and until we cease demanding ers there were, and before long I was able overexposure to tragedies, the supplies to read a creative writing assignment will remain abundant — and so will the written by the gunman himself. costs. It could be argued, and indeed has been, that media outlets have overstepped the This column first appeared in the April bounds of informing the public when 24th edition of The Dakota Student, the tragedies occur — that for want of profits daily newspaper at the University of North they exploit a nation’s unseemly appetite Dakota. for violence and aid in our desensitization. The views expressed in this column are Yes, the media has the responsibility to those of the author and not necessarily report the news, and is doing so more those of The Observer. TH E OBSERVER

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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Every day is St. Patrick’s Day if you pop Robert Schmidt is a jack of all trades, ply­ some Flogging Molly into your head­ ing his skills with the mandolin, banjo, By MARTY SCHRC phones. With a sound alternating from bouzouki and mandola. Behind it all, Assistant Scene Editor frenetic, pumping anthems to slow drummer George Schwindt bangs out the brogue ballads, Flogging Molly creates its beat. Also, Regan, Casey, Maxwell and The best way to distinct Irish music by making an unlikely Schmidt chime in on backup vocals. Flogging Molly would couple out of the folksy feel of the old With so many bells and whistles to musical bodyflow with country and modern up-tempo bumping their music, combining everything in its scions lyrics mixed v drums and strumming guitars. In other proper time and place is a complicated punk sound make words, it’s ethnic punk rock — simulta­ effort — but one with a huge payoff. Flogging Molly one of neously a celebration of traditional Irish “We’ve developed a really unique the most creative and heritage and distinctly American let-it-rip sound,” King said of his band. “The first unique bands to hit rock ‘n’ roll. This back-then in the here- time we all got together to play, there stages in the United and-now amalgamation feels very gen­ was an energy in the room that I’d never States. uine — it’s first-generation Irish authen­ experienced in any other band I’d ever ticity paired with a third-generation rock been in and it wasn’t due to any single Alive Behind the sensibility. ingredient, instrument or individual. We Green Door (1997) On the Web site iloggingmolly.com, started playing in a bar and just played This live album Dave King wrote about his inspiration in and played and played. We’re a live marked the debut creating such a unique musical project. band. We’ll always have that. Flogging Molly “My family would go to the pub and “If it didn’t have mandolin, accordion, release. It was gather up people to come back to the fiddle and recorded at the (bar | house to play tin whistle, mandolin, fiddle whistle, it See Also where Flogging Molly | and spoons, with my mom on piano and w ould be “Flogging Molly’s ‘Whiskey’ first formed, L.A.’s my uncle on accordion,” he said. “But 1 punk-rock, Molly Malone’s. It fea­ wanted to run away from that. As you get and if it did- goes down smooth tures many of the older, you want to pick up electric guitars n’t have gui- page 74 songs that would and play loud. You rebel against those tar, bass become Molly staples. traditional elements.” and drums, it would be traditional Irish “Every Dog Has His D To this end, Flogging Molly is a creative music. Flogging Molly has both.” would feature pron lot, mixing and matching from a variety If Flogging Molly’s boisterous ballads Molly’s next album \ of instruments in order to build their sound as if a ruddy-faced, freshly import' “Swagger,” would feai eclectic musical medleys. At one time or ed Irishman somehow got his hands on a Why buy this albui another, Flogging Molly has grabbed all couple of guitar amplifiers and found a are on its later studii manner of instruments of mayhem from garage in which to let all hell break loose, of the songs on “AI its musical bag of tricks, which includes that’s not too far from the truth. Born Door” are on later — among other things — flutes, fiddles, and raised in Dublin, Dave King came to notably, the epic “Del accordions, harmonicas, banjos, tin whis­ Los Angeles from London in 1989 before Flogging Molly has h< tles, mandolins, bodhrans, uilleann pipes creating Flogging Molly. a live show or on t and, yes, even spoons. Singing songs about youthful rebellion, never been recorded That number of instruments requires drinking and being merry, Flogging one really knows wh; a lot of nimble fingers and strong lungs. Molly’s toe-tapping music may even remains a Flogging IV For that, the band has six additional inspire you to cut a jig or two. Riddled n’t be missed. members in addition to creator Dave with fiddle strings and the spirit of King. With King on lead vocals, acoustic Ireland, the drinking band with a rock Swagger (2000) guitar, banjo and spoons, Bridget Regan problem remains as Irish as corned beef The first studio a bows away on the fiddle (in addition to and cabbage. Just like St. Paddy’s day released took the pun blowing away on tire tin whistle and the itself, everyone’s a little bit Irish when it was released in 1 uilleann pipes), while Dennis Casey rocks Flogging Molly comes to campus. bands such as Penn out on the electric guitar and Matt specializing in str Hensley plays the accordion. Nathen Contact Tae Andrews at Flogging Molly’s Irish Haxwell is the band’s bass player, and tandrewl 0nd.edu like something that (

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and everyone loved it. It toured with the band flexes its musical muscles and explores EDER likes of punk legends Anti-Flag and was able the musical realm Flogging Molly has creat­ to build up a sizable fan-base. The band ed. began touring with the punk festival Warped Bridget Regan stars on the violin and tin lescribe punk band Tour and was able to make itself better whistle, George Schwindt on the drums, )e a Guinness-soaked- known because of it. Dennis Casey on guitar, Nathan Maxwell on a brain. Socially con- Swagger is regarded by some to be its bass, Matt Hensley on accordion (since ith a raucous Irish- best, though not its most accessible album. replaced by P.J. Smith) and Bob Schmidt on Tracks such as mandolin and banjo. Larger than most “Salty Dog” and bands, Flogging Molly does not see this as a “The Likes of You burden, but as a boon — every instrument Again” keep the and musician is allowed to explore its full tempo at a break­ range. neck pace while others, such as the Within A Mile of Home (2004) FLOGGING MOLLY moving final track, The third album in four years saw Thursday, April 26, 2007 “Far Away Boys” Flogging Molly branching out from its tradi­ remind you of the tional musical mode. The “I just want to get Doors: 9pm influence that tradi­ up and dance” music is still there in tracks tional Irish music like “Seven Deadly Sins” and “Tobacco Show: 10pm has had on the Island.” band. Songs like “Factory Girls” (about King’s mother) and “Light of a Fading Star,” how­ Sponsored by: Drunken Lullabies ever, put the brakes on the band in terms of (2 0 0 2 ) tempo but not in terms of creativity. This “Drunken album is a more introspective one, and it’s Lullabies” marked clear King put his heart and- soul into the the breakout into lyrics and the whole band into the music. ry ' and “Selfish Man” the m ainstream for Flogging Molly. This The band also pays heed to the musical inently on Flogging does not mean, however, that the band greats that have come before by dedicating hile others, such as began making mainstream music. Its cre­ the album to the late and great Johnny Cash me on later albums, ative blend of punk, rock and Irish music and Joe Strummer, frontman of the seminal if many of the songs stayed just as creative and catchy. punk band the Clash. Flogging Molly looks albums? Well, not all Mainstream means kids outside of the punk not only to its Irish cultural roots but also its e Behind the Green scene began to take notice — and loved seemingly disparate musical roots — some­ tudio albums, most what they heard. Perhaps a more personal thing mentioned frequently in its live shows. D runken lab.” While any fan of album for primary songwriter and frontman ard “Delilah” either at Dave King, “Lullabies” has more to say Flogging Molly is reportedly working on Lullabies lis live album, it has about the Catholic Church and the history of what would be its fourth studio album, and for a studio album. No the Irish people in general. the future looks nothing but bright. Having 2002 ' this is the case, but it Tracks such as “Rebels of the Sacred entertained audiences for more than 1 0 oily staple that should- Heart” not only keep the toes tapping but years, Flogging Molly doesn’t just know how also put your fist in the air as King tears to write good music. It performs to perfec­ through the fast-paced chords and smart tion. lyrics. With a refrain like, ‘“Cuz we find our­ The band’s live shows are raucous and lbum Flogging Molly selves in the same old mess / singing drunk­ loud — exactly the way it wants them to be. k world by storm when en lullabies,” the album’s eponymous feel­ Not just a concert, a Flogging Molly show 000. In a time when good jaunt sings about friends, alcohol and will change your perceptions of what con­ wise and NOFX were getting into trouble — and the relationship certs should be. light up punk-rock, between the three. -infused punk sounded This song also clocks in at 5:11, the Contact Marty Schroeder at Within a Mile ame from the moon — longest track on the album, as the rest of the mschroe 1 @nd.edu of H o m e 2004

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Photo courtesy of floggingmolly.com CASEY CARNEY I The Observer and founder Dave King, left, and Legends will be opening up its patio area Thursday in order to ' rock out to their unique sound. make room for the estimated 1,200 people expected to attend. / " ! T h e O bserver page 14 Scene Wednesday, April 25, 2007

DVD R eview Flogging Molly's 'Whiskey' goes down smooth

“Whiskey on a Sunday” follows the band By SEAN SWEANY through two years of touring and studio Assistant Scene Editor recording, giving viewers insight into the formation of the band and thoughts from World renowned Irish punk band the band members on Flogging Molly’s sen­ Flogging Molly didn’t always command the sational success. attention and top billing they do now. In The documentary starts with and focuses fact, their humble beginnings in a Los on King and his role in forming the band. Angeles bar led music industry executives Born in Dublin in 1961, King lived in a poor to believe that their style of music would neighborhood with his widowed mother. never work. Musically inclined from an early age. King Critics be damned, Flogging Molly — led often used his lyrics to talk about his trou­ by vocalist David King — ignored naysayers bled childhood. and quickly became one of the most recog­ After moving to Los Angeles in 1989, King nizable Irish bands in the world. “Whiskey befriended fiddle player Bridget Began and on a Sunday” is the band’s newest DVD the two entertained notions of forming a release, chronicling their emotional, often punk band with Irish roots. They quickly difficult journey from their bar-band begin­ found five other band members and in 1997 nings to unparalleled fame. began playing out of a local bar named Molly Malone’s. Their unique blend of punk, folk and Irish music was an instant hit and made Molly Malone’s one of the most popu­ lar bars in southern California. The DVD goes on to show how the band Photo courtesy of floggingmolly.com faced initial difficulties in touring through­ “Whiskey on a Sunday” follows the seven members of Flogging Molly from their out California because of reluctance from bar scene beginnings in L A. to the top of the Irish punk-rock music world. record companies. Various band members express how their belief in the music of their passion for music and comes across as Flogging Molly concert can be. Flogging Molly drove them to pursue their honest in the documentary, not necessarily The final scene of the documentary shows goals no matter how many people stood a given in such a DVD. Flogging Molly playing a concert in the against them. This honest, raw feel is what makes Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. This home­ The watershed moment for the band was “Whiskey on a Sunday” such a successful coming — in a locale slightly bigger than when their first studio album, “Swagger,” and refreshing DVD. There is no feeling that their original home at Molly Malone’s — sold more than 50,000 copies — five times it is glossy press material meant to make allows the band to reminisce on their first the expected total — to put Flogging Molly money. It makes the viewer feel like he is 10 years as a band and how Flogging Molly on the map. King describes the moment as another band member — swearing, drink­ will be viewed in the future. one of realizing he was no longer just some­ ing and touring with Flogging Molly. King, in a way only an Irishman can, per­ one who loved music, but was now a “rock While the film is brief, it features numer­ haps sums it up best: “As humble of a band star” — something which he had never ous live video recordings of many of as we are, in the sense of our heritage and envisioned. Flogging Molly’s best songs, including where we’ve come from ... 1 would not be As “Whiskey on a Sunday” continues, the “Drunken Lullabies,” “Swagger” and “Black sitting here if I didn’t think we were the various interviews show how humble Friday Rule.” The inclusion of these driving, greatest rock and roll band in the world.” Flogging Molly is in spite of their immense catchy songs lends the whole DVD a lively popularity. Each band member displays tone and the video shows how much fun a Contact Sean Sweany at [email protected]

BEAT ABROAD Studying abroad lacks fine American culture

After spending an entire semester abroad American movies and television not in Spain, I’ve discovered that I don’t miss as dubbed in Spanish much about the States as I thought I would. Okay, “Walker, Texas Ranger” dubbed in I could do without the 27th season of “Real Spanish is one thing, but when I sit down World” and the special six-hour episode of for a pleasant evening of “Bad Boys II” with “Deal or No Deal. ” my host family, I don’t want to hear a high- Of course, I miss the pitched Spanish voice coming out of Will staples of my life — Smith. Ever hear of subtitles, Spain? Will chips and salsa, Smith with any other voice does not sound “Entertainment as sweet, and I want my Fresh Prince to Weekly” and my dar­ sound like he always does. Don’t make me ling DVR. But I’ve also listen to “Miami” to get my fix! learned now that I took too many things for “My Super Sw eet 1 6 ” granted during my 2 0 Guilty pleasure alert! I admit that I didn’t years residing in the Cassie Belek realize how much I missed this delicious United States of package of American materialism and America. I eagerly Assistant excess until I turned on the T V. in Florence await the following Scene Editor and caught an episode. Yes, I was in Italy. upon my return. No, I don’t regret spending an hour in my hostel watching a suspiciously busty blonde Mullet hunting as a legitimately pick out some pink concoction in Paris thg.t Photo courtesy of movieweb.com competitive sport she could have bought in the dress-up sec­ Only when the sonorous voices of Martin Lawrence, left, and Will Smith in “Bad Boys It’s just too easy in Spain. By my own tion at Toys ‘R’ Us. And despite the fact that II” are dubbed over in foreign countries does one appreciate cinema in the U S expert calculations, 7.4 out of every 10 the network built on music has now turned Spanish men prefer business in the front to churning out trashily scripted “reality” and dance numbers. Trust me, if there were daytime television only to realize what I’ve and a fiesta in the back. I have seen more shows, I still have to say, I want my MTV! musical acts, I would totally join in. But, I’d dope once it’s too late, getting angry at the variations of the mullet than I ever thought much rather almost trip over an overweight local grocery store because the new issue of possible, my favorite being the mullet- Notre Dame squirrels squirrel that has lost its fear of humans “US Weekly” isn’t stocked when it should be dreadlock power combo. But in the States, I do in fact possess a fear/hatred for the than be chased by mangy cats whose only and absent-mindedly drinking six Diet finding a mullet is like finding a diamond in Notre Dame squirrels, but that hatred in no goal is to make me suffer. Apologies to cat Pepsis in one day and later wondering why the rough. It becomes a competitive sport way surpasses my hostile feelings toward lovers out there, but not really. my heart feels fiinny. when out with friends, and the mullet man cats. I’m allergic, and if I can’t hold one God Bless the U.S.A. is the perfect victim for the “your boyfriend” without sneezing then it’s not worthy of my And now that I’m returning to the United game. love and affection. However, gangs of cats States in just a short while, I can return to The views expressed in this column are Spain has taken something precious away roam free in the peaceful streets of Toledo these gems and some of my favorite sum­ those of the author and not necessarily from me, and it’s up to the Land of the Free and follow me wherever I go. It’s like mertime activities that can only happen in those o f The Observer. to give it back. “Oliver & Company” without the fun song America — sitting through five hours of Contact Cassie Belek at [email protected] Wednesday, April 25, 2007 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT page 15

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NBA Parker's play helps Raptors even series at one Bosh adds 25 and 13 in Toronto's first playoff win since 2002; Gordon and Deng combine for 53 points as Bulls win

Associated Press to Jersey and get one.” New Jersey’s Bostjan Nachbar missed a 3-pointer from the TORONTO — The Toronto corner that would have tied the Raptors celebrated with Sam gam e w ith 8 seconds to play. Mitchell, then went out and Game 3 is Friday night in New played like him. Jersey. After starting the night with “We felt very confident com­ an award ceremony for their ing down the stretch that we coach of the year, the Raptors could win this game, but unfor­ beat the New Jersey Nets 89-83 tunately we didn’t,” New Jersey Tuesday to even their first- guard Jason Kidd said. “We’re round series at a game apiece. not disappointed. We came up “He wasn’t the prettiest play­ here to win Game 2 and we er but he got the job done and gave our best effort.” that’s kind of how the playoffs Mitchell said he was touched are,” forward Chris Bosh said. when his players joined him at “You just have to get the job center court for the pregame done, no matter what happens.” award ceremony with commis­ Anthony Parker scored 26 sioner David Stern. points and Bosh added 25 “None of this could have hap­ points and 13 rebounds in pened without those 15 guys in Toronto’s first playoff victory the locker room,” Mitchell said. Toronto forward Chris Bosh knocks the ball away from New Jersey forward Richard Jefferson since a 94-84 home win over “The best part other than win­ during the Raptors’ 89-83 win Tuesday. Bosh had 25 points and 13 rebounds in the game. Detroit on April 27, 2002. It ning the basketball game was came hours after Mitchell was the presentation when those tion comes along with it.” eree Eddie F. Rush after Game Home teams that have taken honored as the NBA’s coach of guys came out, because we T.J. Ford scored 13 points for 1 , but said it was a “perfect the first two games in a best-of- the year for leading the Raptors really care about each other. I the Raptors, including four key game today” for the officials. It seven series have gone on to to a 2 0 -win improvement and work them hard but they also free throws in the final minute. was anything but that for the advance 95 percent of the time, their first Atlantic Division title. know how much I care about Parker also made three free Heat and their superstars. but the Heat and Bulls have “We definitely turned a corner them .” throws in the final 8 seconds. O’Neal and Wade had subpar bucked that trend in recent sea­ as a team tonight because we Bosh said the gesture was a performances again after strug­ sons. gutted it out, especially when sign of team unity. Chicago 107, Miami 89 gling through foul trouble in the Miami dropped the first two things weren’t going well,” “He dedicated that award to This time, Shaquille O’Neal opener, finishing with 17 and 21 games at Dallas in last year’s Parker said. everyone,” Bosh said. “He had nothing but praise for the points, respectively. O’Neal was finals, then won four straight to “This was a game we had to knows and we know that it opponent and the officiating. just 6-for-14 from the floor with capture the championship. Two have. We couldn’t go to Jersey takes a team. If you do team The only finger he pointed eight rebounds. Wade, who led years ago, the Bulls opened down 0-2. Now we’ve got to go things well, individual recogni­ was at himself. a late charge in Game 1, never with two wins at home over He realizes he needs to do really got going, hitting 9-of-19. Washington but lost the next more if the Miami Heat are And both had seven turnovers. four in their first playoff going to climb out of another 2 - “We really can’t make any appearance since the Michael 0 playoff deficit. Dwyane Wade excuses tonight,” O’Neal said. Jordan-Scottie Pippen era. needs to step up, too. “It was a well played game. “We’ve got to be mature Ben Gordon scored 27 points They just outplayed us. I had enough to understand that and Luol Deng added 26 to lead way too many turnovers. They Miami has been in this situa­ the Chicago Bulls to a victory shot the ball extremely well.” tion,” said Deng, who was 2-of- Tuesday night and a 2-0 lead Trailing 85-71 through three 7 with six points in the first over the defending champions quarters, the Heat were within half. “We can’t relax. We have in this first-round series. seven after Wade’s layup early to keep playing aggressive.” “I have been around a long in the fourth, but they had no The Bulls fell into this time and I’ve been in all these answer for Deng. Quiet in the matchup when they lost the situations before,” O’Neal said. first half after scoring 33 in the season finale to New Jersey and “Basically, the Bulls did what opener, Deng scored the Bulls’ dropped from the second seed they’re supposed to do and pro­ first eight points in the fourth to fifth. But what looked like tect their home court. We have before Thabo Sefolosha hit a trouble for them has, so far, to play smarter basketball. We jumper that made it 95-82 mid­ looked rather easy. got to come with a lot more way through the quarter. As they did in Game 1, the energy and play with a lot more The best-of-seven series shifts Bulls beat the Heat with quick effort and a lot more passion.” to Miami for two games, with passes that led to open looks. Gordon scored 11 in the third Game 3 Friday night. They were 43-for-78 overall quarter, hitting three 3-point- “We’ve been here before, you and ll-of-17 on 3-pointers after ers, and the Bulls built a 17- know what I’m saying?” shooting an uncharacteristic 3- point lead. Deng scored 14 in Miami’s Alonzo Mourning said. for-17 from long range in the the fourth as Chicago sent “I have the utmost confidence in opener. AP Miami halfway to elimination. my teammates and this team “We don’t have a choice with Chicago guard Ben Gordon handles the ball while guarded by O’Neal accused the Bulls of that we can pick ourselves back our ball movement game,” Miami guard Eddie Jones during the Bulls’ 107-89 win Tuesday. flopping and lashed out at ref­ up and get back on track.” coach Scott Skiles said.

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1 Georgia 97 2 Virginia 90.84 3 Ohio State 89.67 4 Baylor 85 5 NOTRE DAME 78.65 6 North Carolina 74.84 7 Mississippi 72.78 8 UCLA 69.26 9 Illinois 66.41 10 Southern California 65.16 11 Texas at Austin 62.11 12 Oklahoma State 61.57 13 Wake Forest 60.83 14 Louisiana State 58.38 15 Duke 58.23 16 Tulsa 54.91 17 Alabama 54.74 18 Florida State 53.85 19 Florida 52.5 20 Michigan 52.22 21 Pepperdine 51.07 22 Clemson 46.54 23 Boise State 44.22 24 Tennessee, Knoxville 40.93 25 Virginia Commonwealth 39.19

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1 Stanford 94.18 2 Georgia Tech 88.99 3 Georgia 87.4 Toronto coach Sam Mitchell smiles as he accepts his NBA coach of the year award Tuesday. Mitchell, a former 4 Florida 84.35 player for the Indiana Pacers, led the Raptors to a 47-34 record and a playoff berth this season. 5 Northwestern 80.83 6 NOTRE DAME 79.7 7 Clemson 79.18 8 Southern California 77.53 Former player wins coach of the year 9 Miami 74.51 10 California 73.9 Associated Press broadcasters. Sloan had 301 for Indiana in three seasons. the Raptors’ coach on June 11 UCLA 70.77 points followed by Dallas’ Guard Anthony Parker 29, 2004. 12 North Carolina 70.38 TORONTO — Former Avery Johnson with 268. praised Mitchell for building “He’s done a great job 13 William and Mary 60 Indiana Pacers player Sam “We recognized him for it unity on a team that added with the ball club,” forward 14 Vanderbilt 59.82 this morning, “ forward nine new faces before the Morris Peterson said 15 Baylor 57.48 Mitchell was honored as the 16 Fresno State 57.07 NBA coach of the year Chris Bosh said. “But the season. Monday. “He’s really grown 17 Wake Forest 48.27 Tuesday after leading the thing 1 love about him is he “From the summer, after I a lot over his first couple of 18 Florida State 48.06 Toronto Raptors to a fran­ said it was a team effort.” signed, his focus was trying years coaching. If anybody 19 Arizona State 45.86 chise-record-tying 47 victo­ Mitchell, the sixth coach in to get us all in and get the in the NBA deserves it, it’s 20 Texas 44.92 ries and their first Atlantic Toronto’s team ’s history, chemistry going early,” him. He’s proved a lot of 21 Pepperdine 44.59 Division title. guided the Raptors to an Parker said. “Throughout people wrong.” 22 Duke 41.91 “It’s a great honor,” NBA-best 20-game improve­ the course of the season we Guard T.J. Ford said 23 Texas A&M 37.89 Mitchell said. “It floors you. ment (27-55) over the 2005- seemed to come together Mitchell puts his faith in the 24 Indiana- Bloomington 37.17 You’re thankful. Words just 06 season. The Raptors trail pretty nicely. Sam obviously players. 25 Michigan 34.38 can’t express it.” New Jersey 1-0 in a first- was a huge part of that.” “He’s going to give us the Mitchell won the Red round playoff series, with During a 13-year playing structure offensively and Auerbach Trophy in a deci­ Game 2 Tuesday night in career that ended in 2 0 0 2 , defensively, but it’s up to us sive vote over Utah’s Jerry Toronto. Mitchell was held in high to go out there execute,” he MIAA Softball Sloan. He picked up 49 first- Mitchell played for the regard around the league as said. “He puts it in our place votes for a total of 394 Pacers during 1992-95. The a student of the game. hands and lets us control it. C onference R ecords points in balloting by 128 6-foot-7 forward averaged Following two seasons as an He’s been great in that team record basketball writers and 6.2 points and 2.9 rebounds assistant, he was hired as aspect.” 1 Alma 11-1 2 Hope 9-1 3 Tri-State 11-3 4 Calvin 6-6 I n B r i e f 5 Saint Mary’s 5-5 6 Adrian 4-8 4-year-old OK after taking big worried about the little boy. Caden Vick m isses flight, testimony 7 Olivet 4-8 hit from receiver was bleeding from a deep cut on his with Congress Albion 3-10 8 FORT COLLINS — A 4-year-old boy head, but he was conscious, and his ATLANTA — Michael Vick gets an 9 Kalamazoo 1-11 who was inadvertently blitzed by a neurological exams were normal. incomplete from Congress. college football player during a game The Falcons quarterback was has 30 stitches in his head, but he’s Rutgers women’s hoops team scheduled to lobby on Capitol Hill, recovering well, his father said honored with leadership award hoping to persuade lawmakers to Tuesday. ORLANDO — Rutgers coach C. Vivian increase funding for after-school It was the spring youth football fes­ Stringer and the women’s basketball programs. But Vick missed a con­ tival at Colorado State on Saturday, team are the inaugural winners of the necting flight in Atlanta and failed around the dial and Caden Thomas was wandering Eddie Robinson Leadership Award. to show for his Tuesday morning along the sidelines with his father The Board of the National Consortium appearance. during the team’s intrasquad game. for Academics and Sports (NCAS) Vick’s publicist, Susan Bass, said They were near the end zone when announced the winners on Tuesday. it wasn’t his fault. The quarter­ wide receiver George Hill, trying to “Eddie Robinson was a pioneer and back was in Tampa, Fla., on catch a touchdown pass, didn’t see his legacy is one that will be remem­ Monday to play in teammate NBA the boy in time and crashed into him. bered for generations to come,” Stringer Warrick Dunn’s charity golf tour­ Denver at San Antonio “Weil, there’s the sickening thud,” said. “I believe the 10 young women that nament, then caught a flight to represent the Scarlet Knights epitomize 7 p.m., TNT Caden’s father, Michael Thomas, said Atlanta that was supposed to Tuesday. “I was just tremendously the leadership and courage coach arrive in time for him to make Golden State at Dallas worried about the rest of his life. You Robinson taught his players.” another flight to Reagan National 9:30 p.m, TNT make automatic assumptions there The NCAS inducted Robinson in the Airport in northern Virginia. will be some damage when you see first class of inductees into its Hall of But the AirTran flight was late something that horrific.” Fame in 1999. Robinson, who died earli­ leaving Tampa, Vick missed his The team ’s trainer and doctor er this month, coached Grambling for 57 connection and wound up stuck in rushed in to help Caden as his father years before retiring in 1997 with a Atlanta, Bass said. held him and Hill waited nearby, Division I-record 408 wins. “He was really mad,” Bass said. page 18 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Wednesday, April 25, 2007

SM C G olf SM C S oftball Belles finish in sixth Team takes two from Albion

marathon inning. The Britons place in MIAA tourney were unable to get a second out, and the Belles’ runs multi­ plied. O'Brien finishes fourth, shoots team-best 80 “We just had a huge sixth inning and it sucked the life very good.” right out of Albion,” Belles head By KATE ARNOLD Shooting a team-best 80 and coach Erin Sullivan said. Sports Writer making 10 pars, captain Katie The Belles had nine hits and O’Brien placed fourth overall 12 runs in the sixth. The first Although the season may be for individual shooters. The three runs scored in the inning over, the work has only just race for first was close, as she were off of Healy’s triple which begun for the Belles. finished only five strokes worse ran in sophomore Cathy Saint Mary’s th a n A lb io n ’s Kurczak, Rashid and Corrigan. carded a team Elizabeth Kreger, Fusaro ran in Calli Davison score of 382 in the medalist for after she was walked by Briton the third and “The team came Tuesday’s round. pitcher Christa Scott, who final round of the with a good “She has no relieved Andrea English. MIAA NCAA qual­ major weakness­ After Davison scored, attitude, ready KATE FENLON/The Observer ifying tournament es,” Hamilton Corrigan singled, and Miesle Saint Mary’s first basemen Katie Rashid extends to receive a to play. The said of O’Brien. and freshman Ashley Peterson to finish sixth in throw during the Belles’ doubleheader sweep of Albion Tuesday. the conference outlook for Sophomore scored. Senior pinch hitter Julie with a total of next year is Meridith Fantom against Olivet, when the Belles Rowan ran in senior Laura 1142, 81 strokes followed O’Brien, By REBECCA SLINGER scored 13 straight runs to beat Heline to make the score 11-1. behind champion very good. ” firing a 93, and Sports Writer the Comets 13-7. The Belles continued pound­ Olivet. placing 19th for The chanting worked, ing away at the Britons’ poor In the first two Mark Hamilton individual shoot­ Saint Mary’s is finally .500 in because the Belles came storm­ defense, scoring three more rounds, held at Belles coach ers. Perri Hamma conference. ing back in the sixth. Freshman times in the inning before the Medalist Golf shot a 103, plac­ The Belles beat Albion College outfielder Ashley Peterson hit Rowan was out at home and Club in Marshall, in g 3 0 th . 5-3 and 14-1 Tuesday at home one out of the ballpark, as did Miesle popped up to second Mich., from April 20-21, the Meaghan Fontein returned to to improve their MIAA record to sophomore catcher Ashley base. Belles scored a 374 and 386, MIAA play after a semester 5-5 and 20-6 overall. Fusaro. “Kristin Amram had 14 respectively. abroad in Rome by scoring a Albion started the game with Fusaro’s homer also ran in strikes in six innings, so she did Tuesday’s final round was 106, placing 32nd. one run in the first inning and senior Sarah Miesle. With junior a great job and our defense was held at Tri-State University’s In the final few weeks of the two runs and three hits in the McKenna Corrigan and Laura solid. We were just hitting the Zollner golf course. Saint school year, the team will con­ second. Sophomore pitcher Calli Heline on base, Rashid singled ball hard,” Sullivan said. Mary’s finished behind Olivet, tinue practicing and training Davison pitched a full seven to left centerfield and ran in the The Britons could not get Tri-State, Hope, Albion and for next fall, although the innings, giving up eight hits but two runners. Davison did not another hit in the sixth, and the Kalamazoo. schedule will work around the just three runs. Sophomore give up another hit in the sev­ slaughter rule ended the game The Comets won the tourna­ players’ finals. Jenna Hogg and reliever Traci enth to end the game at 5-3. 14-1. ment with a total score of Although competitive play is McGwire gave up a total of 11 The Belles began the second The Belles tarped the field 1061. They will advance to the over, the team remains enthu­ hits and five runs. game strong as freshman sec­ Tuesday night to make sure it is NCAA Cham pionships held May siastic. Fantam said the Belles Sophomore first baseman ond baseman Maureen Healy ready for their game Thursday 8-11 at El Campeon Golf hope to compete for a national Katie Rashid brought the scored on Ashley Peterson’s sin­ against MIAA opponent Hope Course at Mission Inn Resort & title in coming years. momentum back on the Belles gle in the first. MIAA Pitcher of College (21-8, 9-1 MIAA) at 3:30 Club in LIowey-in-the-Hills, Fla. “We are all very excited to be side as she dove into the splits the Week sophomore Kristin p.m. at Gainey Field. That game But for Saint Mary’s, there one of the top competitors in to tag Briton inficlder Morgan Am ram held the Britons to four will be a makeup for an April 4 was reason for hope. the fall next year,” Fantom Barnes for the third out in the hits. 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back as they take on the University of lllinois-Chicago Wildcats Flames tonight at 6:30. The game continued from page 24 will be the final contest of the year at Ivy Field and senior day Fuemmeler said. “To be success­ for the four graduating seniors. ful you can’t leave the ball over “It’s a huge game. We don’t the plate, and that just con­ leave a losing record on Ivy tributed to a long F ie ld ,” day.” Fuemmeler said. At one point, the The right- senior was forced “We didn’t give handed pitcher to work through will have even eight consecutive enough to win a ball more motivation full counts. game against for to m o rro w ’s The Wildcats anybody tonight." game if she faces tacked on five off against her more runs against younger sister the senior in the Deanna Gumpf Chelsea, a fresh­ top of the fifth Irish coach man pitcher for before the game the Flames. The was called due to younger the mercy rule. Fuemmeler is the “We didn’t give enough to win a third starter for UIC and current­ ball game against anybody ly has a 3-12 record in 25 tonight,” Gumpf said. “We just appearances. have to move on. The only way to TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer regroup is to move on.” Contact Dan Murphy at Notre Dame shortstop Katie Laing belts a single during Notre Dame’s 3-0 victory over Ball State The Irish will look to bounce [email protected] April 1 8 at Ivy Field. The Irish lost to Northwestern 12-0 Tuesday.

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Isban joins former Irish player Mark Baldwin as the Squander Second only three-time All-Big East continued from page 24 selections in program histo­ continued from page 24 ry- place Cardinals. The Irish “I’ll be sad if [my career is] 70, tying them for the lowest overcame Marquette and over,” Isban said. “But I’m round score of the tournament. Saint John’s in the second still hoping to see us called The Irish held a six-stroke round, but Louisville’s 16- for the Regionals.” advantage over Louisville after stroke lead left it comfort­ Sophomore Josh Sandman the first round, but the ably ahead of the Irish. fired a 6 8 in the final round Cardinals cut the lead in half Tuesday’s to capture 1 0 th on the second day. With the round may have place and a win, Louisville recorded its sec­ been may have “We’re on the bubble spot on the all- ond consecutive Big East title. been the last of right now, but I’d say conference By the time the Irish reached the season for team alongside Tuesday’s back nine, Louisville the Irish, who we’re on the outside I s b a n a n d had neutralized the small lead, hope to receive of the bubble. ” Gifford. and the final nine holes turned an at-large bid Sandman fin­ into a rollercoaster back and to the NCAA ished with an forth between both teams. PHIL HUDELSONAThe Observer Cole Isban R egionals. overall score of The action heated up on the Notre Dame sophomore Lisa Maunu takes a shot in the Irish “W e’re on th e Irish senior one-under-par last two holes. Sophomore Lisa Invitational Sept. 23. bubble right 215 for the Maunu came through with a now, b u t I’d say event. timely eagle on the last hole, mate with a tournament per­ 82-78). we’re on the outside of the Junior Greg Rodgers, giving the Irish a much-needed formance of three-Over-par 219 All five Irish golfers received bubble,” Isban said. meanwhile, shot a 69 on the boost. (73-74-72), ranking her fifth All-Big East honors for their The fields for three, 27- final day of play to tie his After both teams’ scores were overall in the field of Big East performances in the three-day team regional groupings will career low for a round and added up, they found them­ golfers. tournament. Nakazaki has be announced moving him into selves in a deadlock. Freshman Julie Kim also received the all-conference May 7, and a tie fo r 1 1 th Notre Dame’s overall score of made significant contributions honors each of her four years Isban placed place for the 891 (292-302-297) was a sea- with her eighth-place score of with the Irish. his te a m ’s odds “I’m still hoping to tournament. son-best mark for a 54-hole 12-over-par 228 (72-78-78). Notre Dame will return to the Freshman Doug of being select­ see us called for the tournament. Maunu came in a tie for 10th, course for the NCAA Regionals ed a t“about 1 0 Fortner rounded Both teams headed to the shooting a 14-over-par 230 (77- starting May 10, with the main p e rc e n t.” Regionals. ” out the field for par-four ninth hole for a playoff 77-78). It marked the first time goals of reaching the NCAA But if the the Irish with an to decide the champion. Notre all season that the Irish had Finals. s e a s o n is Cole Isban eight-over-par Dame shot a one-over-par on four of their five golfers in the Irish coach Susan Holt and indeed over for 224, the second- the hole, while Louisville scored top 1 0 . the players were unavailable Irish senior the Irish, they best three-day even par, taking the title. Rounding out the list for the for comment Tuesday due to went out with a mark of his Freshman Annie Brophy led Irish was freshman Kristin travel. strong finish. rookie season. the way for the Irish over the Wetzel, who came in 15th over­ Three Irish players finished Daryl Fathauer conference championship with all in the field of 33 golfers with Contact Lorenzo Reyes at in the top 1 0 on the individ­ of Louisville won the individ­ her season-best score of even- a score of 19-over-par 235 (75- [email protected] ual leaderboard after solid ual title on his home course, par 216 (72-73-71), good final rounds in Louisville. carding a seven-under-par enough for third place behind Isban and fellow senior co­ 209 as he led his team to a LaCrosse and White. The fresh­ captain Adam Gifford ended team score of 2 0 -under-par man’s final round of one-under- DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME up tied for fifth with identi­ 844. par 71 marked her lowest cal scores of three-under-par round of the season. The R ecSpys 213, earning them each All- Contact Fran Tolan at Irish senior co-captain Noriko Big East honors. [email protected] Nakazaki followed her leam- VOTE ONLINE APRIL 26-29 @ http://web.recsports.nd.edu/recspy/index.php

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game, the score 21-20, Forr for us to win,” he said. nine innings, which made it effortlessly drove into the paint difficult for the Irish to get a Bookstorepast two defenders to sink the South Bend Orthopedics 21, I Cardinals handle on their bats. continued from page 24 final shot. Can’t Believe We’re So Butter continued from page 24 “It’s difficult to hit and get Craig Fencing forward 16 into a rhythm and all,” Schrage numerous uncontested points Anthony Bartolacci spoke South Bend Orthopedics used “Coach wants us to be selec­ said. “It’s tough on your hitters within minutes. By halftime, about his team’s efforts and a big second half to beat I Can’t tive and not get ourselves out,” when you’re facing a new guy Team 110 gave up just five expectations for the next round Believe We’re So Butter 21-16. Dury said. “But these guys are every time you go up there.” points to Dropping Trout, leav­ of play. The first half was a back- college pitchers — they’re Dury took the mound for the ing the score at a commanding “We’re ecstatic for having and-forth contest, with neither there for a reason, they’re Irish in the eighth with a 11-5. made it to the Sweet 16,” team seizing a sizeable lead. gonna throw strikes.” career ERA of 1.92. Dury, Dropping Trout forward Dave Bartolacci said. “We’ve been Both teams had many fouls in Starting pitcher Sam Elam Notre Dame’s starting first Post spoke at halftime about together since freshman year, the first half, and a Butter free turned in a strong 4.1 innings baseman, hasn’t seen action his team’s strategy. and now w e ’re hungry. W e’ll throw gave the team a slim 1 1 - from the mound before Tony from the mound in more than “We need to score more beat you in basketball, and 1 0 lead at the break. Langford took over in the mid­ two weeks. He allowed two points than the other team,” he we’ll put up a damn good “It’s only shots not falling,” dle of the fifth. Schrage said runs off three hits before end­ said. fence.” SBO guard Pat Lopez said at the coaching staff wanted to ing the inning. But Dropping Trout’s strategy While Craig Fencing basked halftime. save Elam for this weekend’s Dury said he hoped to find proved faulty. Though it battled in its victory, We Play for Lopez, who led the team in road series against Rutgers, more consistency in his pitch­ intensely, Team 110 continued. Winabi players spoke about scoring, would see his team’s and so Elam came out near the ing and become a stronger all to dominate offensively, with their plans for next year. shots start falling in the second 70-pitch mark. Elam walked around player for his team­ guard Pete Dolan sinking sev­ “You win some, you lose half. two runners in the fifth, allow­ mates. eral outside shots. Dropping some,” Streit said as he wiped Three quick baskets by SBO ing both to advance to second “I haven’t been out there in Trout grew physically more tears from his Rec Specs. let the team retake a 13-11 and third base, respectively. two weeks or so and it was just aggressive in the second half Fan Brianna Muller was lead, and I Can’t Believe We’re Elam hit the next batter and frustrating,” he said. “I made a and earned more points, but hopeful for We Play for So Butter slowly fell further then walked in a run, letting couple of bad pitches, walked a also accumulated more fouls. Winabi’s next season. behind. SBO stretched the lead Zach Dygert score. guy, [it was] just not how I usu­ Team 110 forward Mike Henry “With this year’s experience to 18-14, working hard on the Langford, who missed all of ally throw and it’s frustrating. dominated defensively, allow­ and Mike Streit with his sports offensive boards and sharing 2006 with an elbow injury, took I’ll get back to work with coach ing the team to finish 21-14. goggles, the team definitely will the ball well to generate points. the mound with the bases [Sherard] Klink[scales] and “It was a dirty, dirty game have Specs appeal and will be Behind more solid play from loaded but was able to deliver iron some things out, ‘cause I with a lot of fouls,” Team 110 unstoppable,” she said. team members Matt Henry, two strikeouts to end the want to be one of those guys to fan Megan Krizmanich said. Tim Capecchi, Joe O’Connell inning and protect the Irish come in in that situation, so I Team 110 has great expecta­ Break Yo Neck 21, Nunc and Casey “Pistol” McGushin, lead. just gotta keep proving myself tions for the next game. Dimittis 17 SBO was able to hold off Butter The fifth inning brought suc­ when I get out there.” “We’re really happy with Break Yo Neck held on to its for the 21-17 win. cess again for the Irish offense. Even with a few mistakes, making it to the Sweet 16 as lead tightly down the stretch to “It was a very hard-fought Second baseman Jeremy Dury continues to be a force freshmen, and one sophomore. take a hard-fought win over game,” said O’Connell, the Barnes drove in an RBI for the for the Irish at first base and It’s a real honor,” Henry said. Nunc Dimittis. team captain. “They were very Irish, and catcher Ryan Smith on the pitcher’s mound. “One thing’s for sure though — Nunc Dimittis, composed of physical and attacked our zone grounded out to shortstop to Dury and Notre Dame next we’ll definitely be the prettiest five members of Moreau w ell.” send Dressman home. face Valparaiso tonight at 6:05 team in the Sweet 16.” Seminary, struggled to score at That was the end of the at Frank Eck Stadium. the game’s outset against Contact Ellyn Michalak at offensive drive for Notre Dame. Craig Fencing 22, We Play for Break Yo Neck’s defense. Break [email protected] and Michael Ball State cycled through a Contact Deirdre Krasula at Winabi 20 Yo Neck worked hard to deny Bryan at [email protected] total of seven pitchers in the [email protected] It was a neck-and-neck com­ interior passes and force Nunc petition Tuesday night for top Dimittis to shoot long jumpers. Bookstore teams Craig Fencing After Nunc Dimittis recov­ - 7 - V 'TY -'- and We Play for Winabi, but as ered from the poor start to tie both teams lost energy, it was the game at 3-3, Break Yo Neck , Craig Fencing’s heart and hus­ went on an 8-3 run to take a tle that allowed it to grasp the 1 1 - 6 lead into the half. win 2 2 -2 0 . Guard Zack Capozzi led Prior to the game, We Play Break Yo Neck with five points for Winabi guard freshman at the half, mostly on outside Mike Streit spoke about his jump shots. team’s strategy. Break Yo Neck’s up-tempo “We drew up a really com­ offense was key to its success plex alley-oop play for [for­ in the first half, and Nunc ward] Jimmy Wilson. We’re Dimittis showed a resolve to planning on catching them off slow the game down in the sec­ guard and running it on the ond half. With both teams play­ first possession,” he said. ing in half-court offenses, Nunc Though the “complex alley- Dimittis cut the lead to 13-12. oop play,” We Play for Winabi Break Yo Neck went on a 5-0 earned the first point off of a run at that point, taking advan­ i m h fast break. It continued to dom­ tage of Nunc Dimittis’s foul inate throughout the first half trouble. Zach Mady led Break and never lost the lead. Yo Neck offensively on the run, Wilson’s stellar defense com­ controlling the paint and pass­ bined with Joe Statz’s domi­ ing well out of double-teams. I student groups nance in the paint allowed the “We weren’t very nervous and residence halls team to stay in the lead until down the stretch,” Mady said. halftime, when the score was “We had a comeback last game (hat plan (opgpa# 11- 10. and we know what it takes to or serve food for Craig Fencing began to take w in.” control deep into the second Nunc Dimittis showed its *Tts and had food, half. With Mike Kaiser’s defen­ resiliency yet again, grinding service operations sive prowess and Tommy Forr’s the lead away to 19-17, but a next year must offensive intensity, the team Mady free throw and a lay\up entered — and left — the sec­ put away any chance of a nave reps trained. ond half unstoppable. The comeback and clinched the game became a physical battle, win. and each team went into bonus Mady said the early defense student grot free throw shooting rather and focus were crucial. concession stands need quickly. “The intensity and our good In the final minutes of the hands were really important at least 2 reps trained

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B aseball Happy at new position, Brezovsky leads team to win

lineup — as evidenced by Notre having fun out there.” Dame on the board. Austin in a three-run homer to extend By DEIRDRE KRASULA Dame’s 7-3 win over Ball State Brezovsky opened up scoring Pearce and shortstop Brett Lilley Notre Dame’s lead to 5-0. Sports W riter Tuesday. for the Irish in the win Tuesday scored off Brezovsky’s drive. “He threw one at my chest “I just wanted to be in the line­ night. After Cardinals starting Lilley, who reached base after level and I just put a good swing The transition from infield to up everyday, so I don’t really pitcher Jay Broughton retired being hit by a pitch, is now sec­ on it and I got it pretty good,” outfield hasn’t fazed Ross care where I play as long as I’m from the mound in the middle of ond in the nation in hits by pitch­ Dury said of the hit. Brezovsky. on the field,” Brezovsky said. the third, leaving three on base, es. Even though both Brezovsky The junior, who had played “It’s been fun. It’s been a chal­ Brezovsky faced Adam Quinn. At 6-foot-9, Quinn posed a and Dury turned in solid hits at mainly at second base until this lenge getting to know how to Quinn, fresh from the bullpen, threat to the Notre Dame the plate, Dury said they were up season, has made the transition play everything, where to play looked to finish off Brezovsky, offense, but the Irish bats contin­ against a formidable bullpen. to left field almost seamlessly, and when to dive, when not to but the Irish outfielder drove in a ued to bring heat in the third. and it’s been a boost in the Irish dive, but it’s been fun and I’m two-RBI single to put Notre First baseman Mike Dury drove see CARDIN ATS/page 22

ND G o l f — Big East Tournaments So close, and yet so far

Women squander lead, Men card low round lose to 'Ville in playoff but come in second

By LORENZO REYES By FRAN TOLAN Sports Writer Sports Writer

Notre Dame squandered a Notre Dame carded the low three-stroke lead and lost in a round of the Big East cham­ one-hole playoff to Louisville in pionships with a 10-under Tuesday’s final round of the Big par 278 Tuesday in East championships at the fl Louisville, but the host Oxmoor Country Club in the Cardinals’ 16-stroke lead Cardinals’ hometown. heading into the final round Heading into the final round, was too much for the Irish to Notre Dame had a comfortable overcom e. lead for the top spot, but by the The Irish finished the end of the day the Irish fell three-round tournament in behind and found themselves second place, 12 strokes finishing second in the confer­ behind Louisville. ence. Above, Lisa Maunu lines up a “It just wasn’t going to The Cardinals received clutch happen for us this tim e,” performances from their stars, putt. A t right, Cole Isban senior co-captain Cole Isban with sophomore Cindy LaCrosse said. “We just had too little, and senior Adrienne White finishes his shot. too la te .” greatly aiding them on their Notre Dame was never able way to the victory. Both golfers ♦ to rebound after finishing shot a day-best two-under-par, the first day in fourth place, PHOTOS BY eight shots behind the first- see SQUANDER/page 20 PHIL HUDELSON see SECOND/page 20

Bookstore Basketball XXXVI ND S o f t b a l l Contests come down to the wire Wildcats shut out

By ELLYN MICHALAK and MICHAEL BRYAN Irish at Ivy Field Sports Writers on second and third. The fresh­ Bookstore Basketball By DAN MURPHY man eventually stole home on a returned to the courts Tuesday Associate Sports Editor first-and-third play to cap off for Super-Regional Finals the opening frame. games. The action was typified Northwestern pitcher Eileen In the following inning, first by close games and rough play, Canney fanned seven Irish bat­ basemen Garland Cooper hit an with the winners earning a day ters while picking up her 21st opposite field home run with off before Thursday’s Round of win of the year in a 12-0 two outs and two runners on. 16. shutout Tuesday at Ivy Field. The blast was her 19th of the Canney used her fastball and year and the 51st of her four- Team 110 21, Dropping Trout riser effectively to hold Notre year career. 1 4 Dame to two hits in her four Northwestern added one With intensity and effort, innings of work. more in the third inning against Team 110 prevailed over “I think we chased some bad starting pitcher Brittney Bargar Dropping Trout 21-14 in pitches. I didn’t think our timing before senior Kenya Fuemmeler Tuesday night’s Bookstore was that bad — we just chased took over in relief. game. her rise ball too much,” Irish Fuemmeler found herself in Team 110 wasted no time coach Deanna Gumpf said. trouble early when the first gaining a substantial lead over The No. 8/10 Wildcats posted three Northwestern batters Dropping Trout. Forward three runs before Canney even reached safely. However, she Andrew Cavanaugh’s fast took the field and added three battled back by striking out the break layups combined with more in their half of the second side in three long battles. guard Chad Breeden’s offen­ inning to put Notre Dame in a “They were very selective hit­ sive intensity in the paint 6-0 hole out of the gates. ters, and that’s just the mark of allowed Team 110 to score DUSTY MENNELLA/The Observer Second basemen Nicole Pauly a good hitting ball club,” Air Force One guard Richard Ybarra dribbles around a Team picked up two of her four RBIs see BOOKSTORE/page 22 Jubilee player in API’s win April 20 at the Bookstore Courts. when she doubled with runners see WILDCATS/page 19