Pictures of the Past

ROTC at ND? Happy Easter Lecturers Baxter and Whitmore explore the This is the last edition of The Observer until Thursday role of military training on campus, as Wednesday, April 26. well as perspectives on warfare. Have a safe and happy holiday. APRIL 20, News ♦ page 3 2 0 0 0 O BSERVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint M ary’s VOL XXX11I NO. 126 H T T P ://0 BSERVER. ND.EDU Notre Dame freshman Jake Cram has spent the past year trying to move on after the tragedy at Columbine High School. But for Jake and his classmates, the memories live on like Pictures of the Past mountains to get away. A lot of By MOREEN GILLESPIE people w ant to forget, want it to go News Writer away, but it won’t.” Packed away in Jake Cram’s high Columbine High School is a dif school scrapbook arc pictures of ferent place than it was a year ago; smiling graduates, freezing the cul art has replaced the bullet holes in mination of a four-year journey in the concrete, lockers line the walls a flash of film. Yellow tassels and that once were windows to the shimmering royal blue caps and library. But underneath the new gowns robe post-adolescent schol paint and sparkling exterior, the ars, beaming with the pride of their tainted memories of a year ago still accomplishments. linger in the hearts of the survivors, today w ill be Jake's third return to if The pictures are not unlike See Also Columbine since the shootings, but those in any it never gets any easier. “Hope, pain other high “Right after, nobody ever wanted school gradu mark Columbine to go back, ever,” Jake said. “I didn’t think I could ever go back ate's memory anniversary" capsule. They there. Slowly, as everything hap page 9 tell a story of pened and we found out what [Eric friendships. Harris and Dylan Klcbold'sl plan accomplishments and success. But was, we said ‘No, we’re not going m underneath the pictures, behind to let them have what they wanted.’ 0 the smiling graduates, lay maga If we didn’t go back, we were let zines that tell another story. As a ting them have what they wanted.” graduate of the Columbine High Jake’s first return was to collect School Class o f 1999, those maga his belongings just weeks after the zines tell the story of the day Jake shootings. With his parents on watched 15 of his classmates lose either side of him, he spent an hour their lives — the day hi' nearly lost in the building walking through the his own. hallways, still untouched. Today, on the one-year anniver “It was really scary ... nothing sary of the Littleton shootings, Jake had changed. There was still blood and his classmates w ill return to and bullet holes everywhere. There Columbine High School for a were half-eaten sandwiches in the memorial service that will bring cafeteria. In the parking lot, there back the horror of April 20, 1999. were shoes everywhere. It was While the memories are now really hard to be in there.” packed away in a scrapbook, they Even after a summer of recon are anything but old for the Notre struction. some still will not return. Dame freshman and his class While some students, Jake includ mates. ed, watched the re-opening of the “It doesn’t seem like a year at building in August, it is still impos sible for some members of the class all." Jake said. “Some kids will be LIZ LANG/The Observer there, others are going up to the Freshman Jake Cram looks at the magazines reporting the shooting at Columbine. Cram see LITTLETON/page 4 wanted to read such articles to help him understand the events he lived through. Rape survivors: ResLife system proves ineffective “These people did the right how often is that going to hap do everything they can not to The consequence of that trust By ANNE MARIE M A T T IN G L Y thing’ for me,” she said, pen?” she asked, noting with make that decision.” is that when the panel chooses News Editor explaining her h in d s ig h t In the cases of the two friends not to take action, the victim decision to th a t h e r whom Pienovi encouraged to begins to think that may be the -Systems cu rre n tly in place fo r encourage fel 7 don't understand how attacker’s pursue channels in Residence right decision, said Pienovi. addressing rape and sexual low victims to they can sleep at night ... a d m is s io n Life, the panel took no action, McGeever said that one assault through the Office of pursue action th a t she leading her to the conclusion Residence Life official told her Residence Life are inappropri through They raise these girls' refused his that the system provides vic that “the only reasons women ate and inadequate, said rape Residence Life. hopes up ... and then a d v a n c e s tims with a false belief that jus go through ResLife is that they survivors Kori Pienovi and But after fol they say, ‘We fo u n d no likely tice w ill be served. wanted revenge or that they Kelly McGeever at a panel dis lowing the forced the “They say that there’s this wanted to heal themselves.” cussion Wednesday. cases of two violation of DuLac. p a n e l to range [of offenses] and that The Office of Residence Life Pienovi, who was raped in such victims dismiss there’s this range of punish justifies its system on the basis 1997 and pursued disciplinary through the Kori Pienovi him. ments, but from what I’ve seen, that it is not a legal organiza action against her alleged process, she is rape survivor “They it’s all or nothing,” she said. “I tion, according to McGeever. assailant through Residence no longer con fdon’t] find don’t understand how they can “[They say that] ResLife is an Life, explained that she initially vinced. I t h e m ] sleep at n ig h t ... T h e y ra is e academic system [and that vic believed the system was ade “As fa r as I’ve seen, the only guilty because they don’t want these girls’ hopes up ... and tims shouldn’t] come there for quate because her attacker was way they’ll kick someone out is to ... They do it only if they then they say, ‘We found no dismissed from the University. if he’ll admit she said ‘No,’ and have to,” she said. “They will violation of DuLac.’” see SURYTVORS/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Thursday, April 20, 2000 I n sid e C o lu m n T h is W eek on C a m p u s Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Move over, ♦Event: Saint Mary’s Wind ♦ Good Friday: Mass ♦ Holy Saturday: Mass ♦ Easter Sunday: Mass and Chamber Ensemble; 11 a.m. and 1, 7 p.m., 11.am. and 7 p.m., 11:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Playstation 7:30 p.m.; Little Theater, Basilica; Stations of the Basilica; Paschal Vigil Church of Our Lady of Cross, 7:15 p.m., Basilica; Mass, 9 p.m., Basilica; Loretto, Saint Mary’s; Saint Mary’s Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A- Celebration of the Lord’s Vigil, 8p.m.; Church of Mass 8 a.m., 10 a.m., ♦ Lecture: “E-Commerce Start. Passion, 3 p.m., Basilica Our Lady of Loretto, Saint noon, Basilica; Mass 6:30, A few of you might have just looked at that first in Warehousing Market," line and wondered if there was some sort of a M a ry’s 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m.. Crypt 7 p.m., Jordan Auditorium typo. But I am willing to bet that the majority of readers (especially male readers) saw that line and immediately one thing sprang into your minds: 30 lives in “ Contra.” OUTSIDE THE Dome Compiled from U-Wire reports How is it that 1 (and many others Domers) can remem ber these fairly complicated codes to video games that Duke researchers find new use for old drug they haven't played in years yet the names of my profes DURHAM, N.C. affect the pleasure-inducing quali sors slip my mind on a regu Mike Connolly A drug prim arily used to help ties of other drugs, including lar basis? people quit smoking may also cocaine. Memories of the glory of reduce cocaine addiction, based on “[Mecamylamine] indirectly 8-bit Nintendo came flood Editor In recent tests on rats. affects the system that cocaine nor ing back to me a few weeks Chief “This research opens a new mally stimulates,” explained ago when my friend brought approach to the treatment of Edward Levin, lead researcher and his Nintendo back from cocaine abuse, which has been associate professor of psychiatry home and hooked it up. resistant to treatment in general," and behavioral science. Soon the flashier, more technologically advanced said Jed Rose, chief of the Medical A paper about his research on the and more complicated Playstation and N-64 Center’s Nicotine Research topic is currently being reviewed by were discarded in favor of the simplicity, yet bril Program . several journals in the field. liance, of 8-bit Nintendo.

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