ND Drinking Matches Other Colleges Police Bust University Officials Say Level of Use, Abuse Consistent Over Years; Students Defend, Deny Consumption Underage
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/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 125 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND drinking matches other colleges Police bust University officials say level of use, abuse consistent over years; students defend, deny consumption underage 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.