SUNNY Saint Mary's senior becomes an inventor Tuesday Sarah Kofflin will soon have a patent for a specific hydro gel used in HIGH 79° medical research and created during a summer internship. SEPTEMBER 11, LOWS0° news+ page 3 2001 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 11 HTTP:/ /OBSERVER.N D.EDU Officials confirm U2 performance • Ticket pre-sale lottery number at 4 p.m. If a student does not have a for students slip of paper, the student will begins Thursday not receive a lottery number. There will be a lottery num­ ber drawing held after all the By SAM DERHEIMER numbers are distributed. The News Writer number that is drawn will be the first student in line. Any student without a lot­ Putting an end to months of tery ticket will still have the rumors, Irish mega rockers opportunity to buy a ticket, U2 have been officially slated those students will simply fill to play the Joyce Center Oct. in behind students with lottery 10, according to Joyce Center tickets. events manager Joe Sassano. Sassano said this system Tickets for the show 'will go was put into place to keep stu­ on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. dents from being tempted to However, there will be a pre­ skip class and camp out for sale for-all Notre Dame, Saint tickets. "We've used this sys­ Mary's and Holy Cross stu­ tem for all the recent mega dents Thursday at 6 p.m. events," Sassano said. "It has General admission floor kept everybody happy." space will cost $45 while seats Sassano said that since stu­ will sell for $85. dents who start waiting in line Beginning at 3 p.m. before 3 p.m. are treated the Thursday, box office officials same as "those who show up at will distribute slips of paper 3:59 p.m., this method cuts that guarantee students will down on the mayhem and receive one of the first spots security risks that usually in line. Students can receive accompany ticket sales to one slip of paper for each stu­ major events. Anyone who dent ID they present. Students obtains a lottery ticket has an may present up to two IDs. equal chance to get front-row Starting at 4 p.m., those tickets. slips of paper will stop being Courtesy of StarPulse.com distributed. Anyone holding a The University confirmed that the Irish rock group, U2, will perform at the Joyce Center Oct. slip of paper will be given a see U2/page 7 10. A lottery ticket distribution will begin Thursday for Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross students. St. Mary's tops U.S. Judicial Council tries e-mail voting "We're trying new ways Voter turnout has been tra­ News rankings again By ERIN LaRUFFA ditionally low for off-campus Associate News Editor to reach this group. " elections, according to student to faulty ratio. McCarthy and Jarotkiewicz. By MYRA McGRIFF U.S. News & World Report Off-campus Notre Dame stu­ Tim Jarotkiewicz They said they hope the e-mail Assistant News Editor gave Saint Mary's an over all dents began sending in ballots Judicial Council president system will make it easier for score of 100, weighing in Monday to elect a student sen­ students living off campus to U.S. News and World Report above schools such as Taylor ator to represent them the vote. has named Saint Mary's University and St. Norbert rest of the year. Unlike previ­ tion, voters must use their "We're trying new ways to College the No. College. ous off-campus elections, own Notre Dame e-mail reach this group. We know 1 Midwestern " S a i n t however, students are voting accounts with their unique they want to stay involved in Comprehensive "We will look at the Mary's is via e-mail. AFS id and password. campus life, but turnout has College. categories and look becoming "We're trying something Students must also include been low in the past because Saint Mary's increasingly new," said Tim Jarotkiewicz, their full name and address in it's difficult to know how best has earned this for areas to improve." well known president of the Judicial the text of the e-mail, accord­ to reach them," said ranking six out for its excel­ Council, which oversees all ing to John McCarthy, Judicial Jarotkiewicz. "We've tried of the last seven Marilou Eldred lent faculty, undergraduate elections. Council vice president in having voting booths in years. small class In the past, off-campus stu­ O'Shag, LaFortune and College president charge of elections. Votes are "The ranking size and aca- dents have had to go to a cen­ checked against a list to make DeBartolo without a lot of suc­ is a verification demically tralized location on campus to sure that voters do in fact cess." of what we strong stu­ cast a paper ballot. reside off-campus. Otherwise, E-mail voting is not an know as the quality of Saint dents," said Karen Ristau, vice Jarotkiewicz explained that McCarthy said, a student's entirely new concept at Notre Mary's has remained strong president and dean of faculty, Judicial Council accessed stu­ vote will be thrown out. Dame. It has been incorporat­ over the years," said College in a press release. dent records through the "We know that everyone has ed into past elections, includ­ President Marilou Eldred. Even with the No. 1 ranking Office of the Registrar and an AFS id and e-mail account ing for students studying Saint Mary's reign at the top in hand, however, Saint created a listserv for all off­ issued by the University," abroad, according to John of list can be attributed to Mary's will still try to campus undergraduates. Jarotkiewicz said. Bauters, former Judicial what President Mary Lou improve. Monday, the council sent an e­ He and McCarthy will print Council vice president in Eldred calls, "a combination "We will look at the cate­ mail to the listserv to explain out each response and then charge of elections. He said he of factors." gories and look for areas to the off-campus senator elec­ count the ballots. They will believes the system works well U.S. News and World Report improve," Eldred said. tion. Voting began Monday at actually begin counting today, for off-campus elections. uses several factors to rank 8 a.m., and students have and plan to post the results on "E-mail is universally acces­ schools including first year until Wednesday at 5 p.m. to the Judicial Council Web site sible for off-campus students," retention rate and graduation Contact Myra McGriff at vote by replying to the e-mail. mcgrO 181 @saintmarys.edu. on Wednesday night, see ELECTIONS/page 4 rate as well as weighing the To guarantee a secure elec- McCarthy said. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, September 11, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "We weren't that "I want their "This is my favorite "Obviously, we Running on concerned with memories to live on place on earth. No weren't a very well times. We were just and I feel like this place compares to prepared football trying to drag the will help us all to Notre Dame. No place team. I take empty freshmen along. " remember and to I've been all over the responsibility for celebrate their lives. " world ... I think it's the that." It sounded something like this: glug glug Todd Mobley greatest place on sputter gurgle glug. Then: Nothing. cross country runner on the Lisa Sestile earth." Bob Davie And with that, my seemingly never-ending Valparaiso Invitational senior class secretary Regis Philbin head football coach on week of anxiety, stress and on T-shirt signing event television personality on losing to Nebraska trauma reached the ulti­ Notre Dame mate low point Friday when my car ran out of gas a mocking 25 feet from the gas station. Smack dab in the middle of the intersec­ BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports tion my car just bumbled to a stop - the first car in a long line waiting to take a Family, friends still hold hope for missing student left turn. Kerry Smith I closed my eyes and CHAMPAIGN, IlL For Ryan Katcher, the first weekend banged my head on the Ryan Katcher's photograph smiles in November last year was similar to steering wheel as all the Assistant upon all who enter the Katcher home every other. dreadful incidents of the Managing foyer in Oakwood, IlL Delicate silver He unloaded his dirty laundry in his past week flashed in my Editor chains drape over his immortal image house and went out with his girlfriend mind. and hold a pendant upon which the on Friday. On Saturday, he went hunt­ should Hypothetically, it word hope is inscribed. ing with his friend Travis and later have been a great week. I had just turned 21 Hope is the only word left for Ryan's joined some high school friends at a and classes hadn't really put a damper on mom, Linda Katcher. No one has seen local party; his friends said they being back yet. Ryan, her only son, since November of dropped him off early the next morn­ But. reality bites and last week it bit hard. As last year. ing. issues turned into problems and problems The sequence of emotions is an But no one has seen Ryan since turned into disasters, filling my deceptive gas unending cycle for his mother.