.------~---- --------------------------------------------------------~ THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 5 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER3, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM NDFCU members hit by e-mail scam EG college Unknown fraudster prompts customers to give out sensitive banking information online changes mail message that appears to [email protected] - telling them may have given more credence By MARCELA BERRIOS have originated from Notre that a computer with a foreign to the fraudulent e-mail that Associate News Edi ror Dame Federal Credit Union IP address had unsuccessfully appeared to come from the leadership telling you that 'your access attempted to access their NDFCU. Students with Notre Dame has been limited' or asking you online account. The phone number listed on Federal Credit Union (NDFCU) to participate in a survey, The second wave of e-mails the second set of e-mails is the New dean Kilpatrick bank accounts may have been please do not click on any links told members to "sign in to our correct national number for victims of what appears to be a that ask for your personal secure server at onlinebank­ NDFCU, but the hyperlink redi­ to arrive in early 2008 complex, multi-part Internet information," the warning ing.ndfcu.org and review your rects users to a non-NDFCU scam. said. account(s) for any irregular Web site designed to look On Friday, NDFCU's Web site That warning, it appears, activity. If you do not recognize exactly like the real NDFCU By MARCELA BERRIOS posted a message that warned could have played into the any transactions, please con­ homepage - except that, as of Associate News Editor members against clicking on hands of the hacker's scheme. tact us immediately at 800- press time, it lacked the warn­ certain links in e-mails ostensi­ By late Friday, some mem­ 835-5373." ing message carried on the The College of Engineering is bly from the credit union that bers received fraudulent e­ Some members, perhaps actual site. awaiting the arrival of its new actually originated elsewhere. mails - from an address that concerned after seeing the dean and its new building, but "If you have received an e- appears to users as warning posted on ndfcu.org, see NDFCU/page 3 while it may be in a period of transition, Interim Dean James Merz called the college's future "brighter Sbarro employee publishes memoirs than ever before." University President 'A Boy Amidst The Rubble' offers Porter-Young's childhood perspective of London Blitz Father John Jenkins Porter-Young said, a response announced Kilpatrick ByJENN METZ he found alienating. in August the News Writer "I felt a bit like well, my appointment of Peter Kilpatrick, name's not Charlie Weis or the chair of chemical and biomol­ Growing up in World War II­ Rudy or Knute Rockne, but I ecular engineering at North era London, George W. Porter­ still should be recognized [at Carolina State University, as the Young faced innumerable suf­ the University]," Porter-Young new dean of the College of ferings and sacrifices. The said. Engineering. LaFortune Sbarro employee So he wrote a letter to the Kilpatrick will replace former has worked for 13 years to book's printer, Xlibris Corp., a dean Frank Incropera and Merz record his memories in the subsidiary of Random House. in January. semi-autobiographical novel "I knew something needed "Peter Kilpatrick is an accom­ "A Boy Amidst the Rubble," to be done to help authors get plished teacher and researcher which was published in their books out to the public," who is a long-standing chair of March. he said. one of the top chemical engineer­ Porter-Young, now 73, strug­ The outcome of his letter ing departments in the country," gled to get his novel on the was a return-ability program University Provost Thomas Burish shelves in the bookstore of the that would allow bookstores, said in a news release. university he had served for like Hammes, to carry self­ He was expected at Notre Dame seven years. As a self-pub­ published books. Without this in September, but previous com­ mitments pushed Kilparick's lished book, the novel was not program, books could not be DUSTIN MENNELLAfThe Observer originally accepted for sale at Sbarro employee George Porter-Young talks about his self­ the Hammes Bookstore, see AUTHOR/page 4 published memoirs Sunday in LaFortune Student Center. see DEAN/page 4 SMC celebrates opening year Mass SNL co111edian 111uses Professors, students, administrators gather for service, prayer on college, pop culture By LIZ HARTER a futon to the ongms of the News Writer By SARAH SK1LLEN Fighting Irish's name, Meyers tied News Writer his humor to college-related top­ Saint Mary's students, faculty ics. and staff gathered at the Church of South Quad served Friday night The comedian interacted with Our Lady of Loretto Sunday to cel­ as a comedic stage for Seth audience members by drawing ebrate Mass and ring in the new Meyers, a skit actor and con­ from his own college experience academic year. tributing writer for the television at Northwestern University to Father John Pearson, CSC, show Saturday Night live (SNL). reflect on the lives of students - presided over the Mass at which The Student Activities Office (SAO) but he emphasized his added President Carol Ann Mooney brought the television personality insight into the Midwestern col­ spoke, and both the Loretto and to campus after the Student Union lege experience. Saint's Mary's College choirs pro­ Board got some of Meyer's fellow "I do a lot of colleges, but it was vided music. SNL castmates to speak in a pop­ a lot of fun to come back to a Father Pearson spoke of Father war lecture series last semester. school that I have a connection Basil Anthony Moreau's life and "I thought he was hysterical," to," he said. "I am super psyched the creation of the Holy Cross reli­ sophomore Margaret Burke said. about the football game tomor­ gious order that he founded in "His randomness was great and row." 1840 during hi'> homily. how he got involved with the In his discussion of Notre Dame "This is the year of Father crowd .... I just love comedy, so it in particular, Meyers noted Moreau," Pearson said, in relation KATE FENLONfThe Observer was great." Touchdown Jesus and the fear Members of the Saint Mary's community congregate at the Touching on everything from a see MASS/ page 4 Church of Our Lady of Loretto for the annual opening Mass Sunday. Frenchman's lovemaking skills on see SNL!page 4 -----~-- ~- --- -~- --~--- ___ _] r---------------------------------~--- -- -~-- --~-- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Monday, September 3, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT FOOD WILL YOU BE LOOKING FOR IN THE DINING HALL THIS YEAR? Notre Daille and the Rover ofDooill Jocelyn Claycomb Justin Browne Kevin Stein Laura McCarty Michael Troy Rosabelle Conover The other day, I had thn mi'>lilrtunn of rnading the Aug. :m edition oi'Thn Irish freshman freshman sophomore freshman freshman freshman Hover. While pnnt'>ing the Chners <md Jners McGlinn Dillon Dillon McGlinn Alumni Pangborn sm:tion of that seldom-mad paper, I r,ame cu:ross a blurb nntitlnd "One Dining II all Dons Tae Andrews "!think we "! really like the "Uh ... I like the "Snickerdoodle "How about "[ really wish , not a IloJ,'Warl'> need some tacos." buffalo wings_ cookies. That's haggis? We they had fruit Maim" -jm~ringThn Scene Editor " Obsnrvnr lilr a sprmu:l sirloin steak. " all! require. need some salad and about the I larry haggis. " berries. " Potter serins. Tlw first thought to enter my mind was which ol'tlll~ thme Unli1rgivable Curses I would use in mtaliation. Fortunately for the sta.IJ' of tlmt alleged newspaper, I am not a I>ark Wizard. nor do I believe in tlw m;e of I >ark Magic, so your mntinued hna.lth is J,'U<trmlt.nnd -so long a.o; you stay on emn­ pus. (Onen you step ru:ross that emnpus bound<try. all bnl'i an~ oil" thesn days.) I Jowevnr. I now believe you may bn under IN BRIEF some smi of spell: perhaps an lmpt~rius Curse, which would explain your obnoxiou'i The Summer Shakespeare bdmvior <L'i your being placed under tlw company will perform "Love's mntrol of a l><trk Wwtrd. or maybe just a Labour Lost" tonight at 8:30 mnunonplw:n Stupdy or Conlundus Clutrm. Hngardless of how confused or con.I(Jurul­ p.m. in the Debartolo Performing Arts Center. Tickets arn $20-35 ed you may haw bnen at pms.'i time, for faeulty/staffi'seniors and $12- IloJ,'Wart.s School ofWitchrralt and Wt:t.anlry i'i not, <L'i you daim, "an antiquat­ 15 for studnnts. Performances will run through Sept 2. ed, upper d<L'iS Engli'ih lxmrding school ((If magic." lloJ,'W<trL'i enjoys continued rnhwtm­ cy in l.he hearL'i and minds of iL'i readers, Thn rosary will be said tonight at 6:45 p.m. at the Grotto. This tul(l <L'i litr <L'i lx~ing uppt•r d<L'is, any I larry event is open to the publie. Potter lim would know Hon We<L'iley comes lhnn a working-d<L'>s liunily. (I lis litthl'r Them will be free fitness dass­ works li1r tl1e Ministry of Magic. and we all know how govnmmPntjobs pay.) es oiTernd at Holfs Spol'tsHcc Allt·r reading your (•mbitt.nrnd and non­ Center this we11k starting at 7::lo sensical diatribe, it i'i dear that if Notre a.m.