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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 89 MONDAY. FEBRUARY 18,2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Two students die in unrelated cases Diversity in University releases little information; rectors inform halls during Sunday Masses classroo InS
McGrath's death did not take p.m. and did not make a trans cult time." By KAREN LANGLEY and place in Siegfried, Conley said. port, she said. The University will release MARY KATE MALONE His address was the first offi No name has been released further information once the encouraged News Writers cial notice to Siegfried resi in the second death, but a immediate families of the two dents of McGrath's death. number of dorm rectors said students have contacted other Two Notre Dame students Local news outlets reported the student was not an under family members, University Cole delivers closing died this weekend in separate that a student died in Dillon graduate. spokesman Dennis Brown said. and unrelated incidents, Hall Sunday. This was uncon University President Father Local news outlets reported keynote speech at DSLC University officials said Sunday firmed Sunday night by John Jenkins expressed condo that Notre Dame evening. University officials, who also lences to the families of the Security/Police responded to By KATLYN SMITH One of the students, Connor had not released McGrath's two students through a state the scene Sunday, but The News Writer McGrath, was a sophomore name. ment Sunday night. Observer was unable to reach who moved to Siegfried Hall in A call reporting an unre "On behalf of the entire the NDSP spokesman Sunday The only woman that has January. He died Sunday sponsive male at Dillon was University, my deepest condo night. served as president of both morning or early afternoon, placed to the South Bend Fire lences go out to the families of America's historically Siegfried rector Father John Department at 1:39 p.m. and friends of these two mem Contact Karen Langley at black colleges for women Conley told students gathered Sunday, a fire department bers of the Notre Dame fami [email protected] and Mary urged Saint Mary's and all at the dorm's Mass Sunday spokeswoman said. The ambu ly," Jenkins said. "Our prayers Kate Malone at schools to night. lance arrived at Dillon at 1:53 are with them during this diffi- [email protected] take steps to improve both diver sity and the sense of inclu Policy bans profs from teaching relatives siveness on campus Provost hopes to avoid 'perception of bias' in the classroom; new rule to be enacted this fall during the c I o s i n g Cole said last week. in the fall 2007 semester, handle her relationship with keynote By DAVIS RHORER, JR. Pope-Davis referred to the entrepreneurship professor her daughter, who is currently address of the Diverse News Writer "perception of bias" that might Gerald Frieling had his grand taking her class. Students' Leadership come up among students in a son, senior Grant Frieling, as a On the first day of school, Conference (DSLC) Friday. Besides major and class classroom if they knew their student in one of his classes. DeRidder introduced her Johnnetta Cole - who has restrictions, students register professor was teaching a "It was obviously different daughter to the rest of the led Spelman and Bennett ing for classes this fall will also direct relative. than a normal class," Grant class to avoid any misunder College focused her have to consider blood ties to The new policy is part of the Frieling said. standings. address on issues of diversity the instructor, as a new policy complete re-evaluation of aca As an entrepreneurship "I thought that was impor and inclusion in higher edu prohibits students and profes demic policies the University's major, Frieling was required to tant. I didn't want people to cation. sors who are related from Academic Council conducts take his grandfather's course think I was playing favorites," "It is not our differences. It being in the same classroom. every 10 years. Pope-Davis to get the degree. He said that DeRidder said. is our silences about our dif In a letter to University fac referred to the review as a before the semester began, he She said that when she start ferences that harm us," Cole ulty and staff members, the chance to "update with the and his grandfather decided to ed working at Notre Dame, she said. Office of the Provost times." keep a strictly professor-stu asked about the University's The first woman ever elect announced last month a policy While he said no particular dent rapport in class. policy regarding professors ed to the Board of Coca-Cola that will go into effect begin incident triggered the new pol "I was more attentive," teaching their own children - Enterprises, Cole said she ning with the 2008-09 aca icy, Pope-Davis referred to the Grant Frieling said. "I didn't a policy she said is good to decided to adopt a hands-on demic year prohibiting profes change as "proactive," com want to go through the have to avoid problems. approach to deal with this sors from teaching relatives. mon among other universities motions." But it is also important problem, or what she calls "We think its better not to and the product of a council of Professor Martine DeRidder, schools remain flexible in cer the "Noah Principle." put faculty in that position," Notre Dame faculty members. who teaches an introductory tain cases, she said. "No more credit for pre- Vice President and Associate The new policy will affect public policy course, had to Provost Donald Pope-Davis several students. In one case make a decision about how to see RELATIVES/page 4 see DIVERSITY/page 4
Parents flock to bars, restaurants ND Inoves forward JPW results in increased with green projects sales for local businesses Sustainability office looks into energy efficiency By THERESA CIVANTOS and part of the Energy and News Writer By EMMA DRISCOLL Environmental Issues com News Writer mittee, said some of these Married people over the age of projects will focus on waste 45 were the ones crowding the Notre Dame is giving its disposal, recycling; environ dance floor at The Backer this affinity for the color green a mentally friendly landscap weekend, as Junior Parents new meaning with plans for ing and buildings and water Weekend brought waves of par various sustainability and and energy conservation. ents to campus - and to the conservation efforts across He said about 25 buildings bars, too. campus. - or 40 percent of the gross "There were a lot more older The University recently. square footage of campus - people here this weekend," said established the Office of are currently being audited Hoxanne Szczechowski, a bar Sustainability and a $2 mil to identify potential conser tender at the Linebacker lion green loan fund, and "is vation projects for the Lounge. "At least half our cus evaluating plans for numer future, Kempf said. Some tomers were parents. Usually we ous projects and initiatives" buildings being evaluated have none." for these new developments, are the library tower, But most South Bend bars and Amy Coughlin, project man Flanner Hall, Notre Dame restaurants were unfazed by the agement director, said in an Stadium, the Snite Museum exceptionally large number of Photo courtesy of Julie Anne Cannon e-mail. and the Hesburgh Center for From left, Scott Weber and juniors Matt Storey and Mark Paul Kempf, director of see JPW/page 6 Weber share a laugh at Oyster Bar Saturday night. utilities for the University see GREEN/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Monday, February 18, 2008
INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT JUNIOR PARENTS WEEKEND? What's ina natne?
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with Meghan Corley Nate Forte Stephanie Nienaber leAnne Parson Katie Rollins creatures of' Iogie," writes Dale Carnegi11 in one of' the first best-sell junior junior junior junior junior ing self help off campus O'Neill Walsh Walsh Walsh books, "llow Joey King to Win Friends and "When my dad "The gala." "Making my "Sister Janet's "The gala." lnlluenee Viewpoint Editor thanked me for parents endure invocation at People." "We are teaching him the South Bend the Saturday dealing with the fine art of February night dinner." creatures of emotion, creatures bris 'pong beer.'" weather." tling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." The book explores various conse quences of that principle, one of which is the importance of calling people by their first names. Only Carnegie puts it in grander terms, writing, "Hemember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any IN BRIEF language." He gives plenty of examples. Most As part of the Margaret Hill notably he chronicles how another endowed lecture series, Emmy Carnegie- Andrew, Steel King Award-winning actress and applied the principal. When he author Camryn Manheim will wanted to sell rails to the speak tonight in the Little Pnnnsylvania railroad, he built a Theater at Saint Mary's at 7:30. steel mill in Pittsburgh called "Edgar Manheim is most known for her Thompson Stnel Works." The presi work on "The Practice." dnnt of' the Pennsylvania Railroad at Recently, her book, "Wake Up, I'm the time was J. Edgar Thompson. Fat," was named to the New York Let's just say that when J. Edgar Times bestsellers list. Student Thompson needed to buy rails, he tickets am $5. didn't go to Bob's llousP.-0-Steel. Dale Carnegie lived out his les As part of the fireside chat sons, having changed the spelling of series "Telling HERstory," theolo his name from "Carnegey" at a time gy professor Catherine Hilkert when unrelated Andrew Carnegie will speak Wednesday at noon in was a widely revered and recognized the Coleman-Morse Center name. lounge. One doesn't have to look far to see the principle in action today. The men's basketball team will DeBartolo, Jordan, Guglielmino, and play against No. 22 Pittsburgh others are recognized f'or linaneial Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Joyce donations. But Notre Dame also rec Center. ognizes non-financial contributions. Examples inelude The Bockne WU YUE!The Observer As part of the Ten Years Hence Memorial Gymnasium, The A bird rests on a South Quad tree Sunday, enjoying a short-lived break from snow lecture series, professor Karen showers. Notre Dame can expect snowfalls and very low temperatures in the next Hunt Ahmed from the depart llesburgh Library, and even the few days. name of' the University itself. ment of finance at DePaul I want to highlight this whole nam University will speak at 10:40 ing business because, elsewhere, the a.m. Friday in the Jordan linaneial contribution is beginning to Auditorium of the Mendoza bfl a driver. I'm referring specifically College of Business. to the James Webb Space Telescope OFFBEAT (JWSTI. scheduled for launch no There will be Stations of the flarlier than June 2013. 301 pennies auctioned looked frightened. pies renewed their vows Cross Friday at 7:15 p.m. in the It's not that I have anything off for $10.7 million That coin and a 1794 near Columbus. Basilica of the Sacred Heart. against James E. Webb, NASA's sec LONG BEACH, Calif. - cent with tiny stars added Sheila Smith's husband, Stations will be held each Friday ond administrator. It's just that, pre A penny saved is not nec to prevent counterfeiters Bob, had to go away on during Lent. viously, such projects were named essarily just a penny each raised hundreds of business and couldn't for scientists- like its predecessor, earned: One man's collec thousands of dollars, make the Valentine's Day The 50th Annual Collegiate the Hubble Telescope (named for tion of rare American according to the Dallas recommitment service at Jazz Festival will begin Friday at astronomer Edwin Hubble). But now cents has turned into a based auction house Grove City United 7 p.m. with a concert featuring at funding the sciences in general is $10.7 million auction Heritage Auction Methodist Church. So least four different bands. The becoming less and less of a priority windfall. Galleries, which held the friends brought a life-size festival will conclude Saturday in America (we're not competing The collection of 301 sale in Long Beach on inflatable doll to serve as with an afternoon concert at 1 with Iraq the way we competed with cents featured some of Friday night. a stand-in. p.m. and an evening concert at 7 the USSHI. Extra steps need to be the rarest and earliest They dressed Blow-up p.m. All events will be in taken. And naming an expensive tel examples of the Blow-up doll stands in Bob in dress pahts, a Washington Hall. escope after an administrator makes American penny, includ for groom shirt and tie, and taped it much easier for current adminis ing a cent that was mint GROVE CITY, Ohio - If on a head-shot photo of To submit information to be trators to sign the necessary checks. ed for two weeks in 1793 one bride felt lighter than the real Bob Smith. included in this section of The The JWST is one of the most but was abandoned air in her wedding gown, Observer, e-mail detailed sophisticated machines our society because Congress her groom certainly felt Information compiled information about an event to has produced that wasn't designed thought Lady Liberty like air itself as 19 cou- by the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu to kill people, and this sort of nam ing nicety shouldn't have been nec essary. 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New York 56 I 33 Philadelphia 58 I 33 Phoenix 73 I 49 Seattle 56 I 37 St. Louis 31 I 16 Tampa 77 I 50 Washington 54128 Monday, February 18, 2008 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS page 3 NOAA appeals to seniors ND astrono111er helps Class of 2008 can start establishing connections to alumni clubs online discover new planets
Dame, your nd.edu address Chicago, for example, will ets orbit a star half the mass of By GENE NOONE will only be good until early be hosting an event called Special to The Observer the sun located 5,000 light years News Writer July," Mousaw said. "E-mail "Chicag-O" - spun off from The simultaneous discovery of from Earth. This star, called forwarding is a free service "Frosh-0" - "so that the two exoplanets slightly smaller OGLE-2006-BLG-1 09L, and its As graduation nears, sen available to all Notre Dame newest alums can be wel than Jupiter and Saturn by an planets were discovered using a iors can begin to take alumni that only requires comed to their new city," international team of technique known as gravitational advantage of opportunities users to obtain an e-mail Mousaw said. astronomers that includes David micro lensing. offered by the Notre Dame address in the form, your Seniors who wish to par Bennett from Notre Dame gives Early calculations by the Alumni Association (NOAA), [email protected]." ticipate in these events astrophysicists an important clue report's lead author, Scott Gaudi smoothing their transition Any e-mails sent to the across the country must that solar systems like ours might of Ohio State University, and the into life after college. student e-mail will automat provide Irish Online with be quite common. MicroFUN group indicated that Seniors can use the ically be forwarded to the their personal information, The report, to be published in most of the telltale brightness Alumni Association's online user's new address. Mousaw said, so they can be the Feb. 15 issue of the journal variations were due to a planet network. Irish Online, to Mousaw said this is an contacted by their respec Science, describes the series of with a mass similar to that of begin establishing connec important - and easy - tive alumni club, she said. observations that began March Saturn, but that there was a brief tions to Notre Dame alumni way of staying connected to Seniors will receive in 28, 2006, when a collaboration additional brightening observed around the world. the University and other March a copy of "Onward to known as Optical Gravitational from Israel and Chile that could "We would really like to graduates. Victory," a newsletter that Microlensing Equipment (OGLE) only be explained by an addition encourage the Class of 2008 Mousaw also said the details each of these oppor detected a signal, possibly due to al planet with nearly the mass of to register and login to Irish Alumni Association will be tunities. a planet in microlensing event Jupiter. However, Gaudi's calcula Online before they gradu giving out free gifts to all Also in March, voting will OGLE-2006-BLG-109, that the tions did not provide a perfect fit ate," said Meeghan Mousaw, seniors who register with conclude for the 2008 researchers had discovered and to the data and involved several assistant director of Early Irish Online and select their Alumni Board of Directors announced two days earlier. approximations. Alumni Services. "It only future alumni club. Students elections, she said. Each After the OGLE group Subsequently, Bennett per takes a few minutes to reg who do not know where they member on the board serves announced this possible detection formed more sophisticated calcu ister and after logging in will be living next fall can a three-year term and rep of a planetary system via e-mail, lations in his office at Notre they will be able to see all select up to four clubs, in resents all graduates on other astronomers from the Dame using his own advanced the things available." case they at least have a few alumni issues. Seniors have Microlensing Follow-Up Network computer program that included Through Irish Online, sen possible locations in mind. until March 12 to cast their (MicroFUN). Microlensing an important additional feature: iors can look for an alumni But no matter where stu ballots. Observations in Astrophysics the orbital motion of the Saturn m1mtor, search for a job, dents go after graduation, The Alumni Association (MOA) and Probing Lensing mass planet. find a former classmate or the Alumni Association is will be holding a Senior Anomalies NETwork (PLANET) "Even though we observed the alumnus, update their con hoping to welcome them Open House on April 3 at collaborations also began inten micolensing eiTect of the Saturn tact information and create there - especially in larger the Eck Center where stu sive, round-the-clock observa for less than 0.3 percent of its a personal Web page. cities - as clubs host dents can learn more about tions of this event. The combined orbit, the observations simply Irish Online also allows "Young Alum Orientations" these opportunities. data from these four groups could not be explained without snniors to sign up for e-mail in August and September, revealed a series of brightness accounting for the orbit," said forwarding. Mousaw said. Contact Gene Noone at variations over the ensuing 11 Bennett, a research associate "After you leave Notre The Notre Dame Club of [email protected] days that indicated that two plan- professor of astrophysics.
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compact fluorescent light taskforces. Mulholland, along bulbs can last up to 10,000 bulbs. with several other students, is hours, while the average Green "Com pact fluorescent light heading one of these task incandescent bulb lasts about Relatives continued from page I bulbs, for example, have forces in Lewis Ilall, where a 750 hours, according to continued from page 1 almost one-fifth energy input test case is currently under Kempf. The extended lifespan International Studies. as incandescent light bulbs," way to determine "how much of compact fluorescent light "The policy shouldn't be you "Typically, these are older Kempf said. of a financial savings (Lewis) bulbs cuts down on how many can't (teach relatives!." she buildings that have constant Students are taking their would have by switching to times the bulbs must be said. "You should do it only if volume air handling systems own steps to make lighting these bulbs," she said. replaced, and thus on labor there is no other way." that could benefit from more changes on campus. As part of Mulholland worked with costs for replacing bulbs. While Pope-Davis empha efTieient variable air volume the Gigot Center for other students to inventory all "I think what's exciting and sized thn practice of rotating handling systems. These Entrepreneurial Studies busi the light bulbs in Lewis, and is interesting is that we 'II start professors in and out of cours buildings also have the poten nnss plan competitions, sen in the process of preparing a to not look at things purely on es - in such a way that it ti h ---- ~1-• ~ ., . mki,' :1:<"::",+\i ':(;...... Spelman College has a stu ::;,,.Ih,~, ~r"ograf'l"' ___ gf Liberal Studies ':: ~ -. ~- ' ..... «'' ~ «' ,., '.:.'' - < dent body of about 3,000, Diversity while Bennett serves fewer continued from page I than 650 undergraduates. Cole drew parallels Why a Great Books dieting rain. It is time to between businesses that ben build an ark," Cole said. "It is ef'it by promoting diversity time for me to ofTer at least a and roaching out to diverse Education? few planks." customers, and colleges She said minority enroll embracing students and pro ment at colleges is up - but fessors from other races and that despitn this significant backgrounds to improve the gain, "students of color" still quality of education. lag behind. Without a diverse student "There is absolutely no body and fac.ulty and an contradiction between excel inclusive atmosphere, educa lence and diversity," Cole tion will fall short, Cole said. said. "But more black men To improve that feeling of PLS Alums & St:uden.t:s are entangled in the criminal rounded inclusiveness at justice system than in the Saint Mary's, Cole said, the Speak Out: dormitories of our class Office of Multicultural Affairs rooms." needs more support. In addi Tuesday,Feb. 19t:h Even with decades of af'fir tion, she proposed visiting mative action programs in professorships and mini-resi 7:00-9:00 PM place, colleges across the dencies at the College. country remain predominant Cole also spoke of the Co-Mo Lounge ly white. And monumental financial discrepancies at changes in minority faculty premier institutions that hin representation arn necessary der diversity and inclusive Feat:uring: to eorr·ect that, she said. ness. Kevin Becker (Duff Capital Advisors, Partner & "(Minority faculty mem She talked about the Chief' Investment Strategist) bers( fear bringing their schools' moral obligation to TJ & Emmeline (Schoen) D'Agostino wholn self to their profes address issues of racism and (Institute Cor Educational Initiatives, sion," Col(~ said. "W1~ cannot socioeconomic barriers. Programs Coordinator; ACE Leadership sit around and wait for pro "Doing for others is the Program, Assistant Director) fessors of color to teach rent you pay for living on this Jay Dunlap (Author, Raising Kids in ~he .Media experiences of color." Earth," she said. "Living a Age; Sacred Heart Apostolic School, Teacher) But the pownr to f'ix prob good life means learning to Erin Flynn (ND W"eb Group, Content Strategist) lems of underperformanc1~ 1~mbraee those who are ·dif Sean O'Brien (Notre Dame Lavv School, among minority students also fen~nt from you." Assistant ProCessor; Center Cor Civil and lies with the students. Cole serves as the chair of Human Rights, Assistant Director) Students have to choose the board of the Johnnetta B. Margaret Culhane {PLS I Biology) schools that are right for Cole Global Diversity and Anna Curtis {PLS I ALPP) them to make sure they will Inclusion Institute at Bennett. Julia Vogelheim {PLS Senior) be able to succeed then~. slw She has received morn than said. 50 honorary degrees. "If she is a woman and R.ef"reshmen.t:s wise, slw can choose a small Contact Katlyn Smith at & Con.versat:ion. women's college," Cole said. ksmithO [email protected] ORLD & NATION Monday, February 18, 2008 Cotv\P!Lf:D FROM THE OBSERVER'S WlRf: SERVICES page 5 INTERNATIONAL NEWS China concerned about spy satellite Thousands mourn NIU victims BEIJING - China said Sunday it was con cerned about U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite that is hurtling toward Suburban Chicago churches hold religious services; residents wear Huskies' red, black Earth with 1 ,000 pounds of toxic fuel. The U.S. military has said it hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week - just before Associated Press it enters Earth's atmosphere - with a single missile tin')d from a Navy cruiser in the northern CICERO, Ill. - The mid Pacific Ocean. dle-class Chicago suburbs The official Xinhua News Agency quoted that send their sons and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu daughters to Northern .lianchao as saying the Chinese government was Illinois University struggled monitoring the situation and has urged the U.S. Sunday with the closeness to avoid causing damages to security in outer of the country's latest mas space and in other countries. sacre - this time the gun "Relevant departments of China are closely man grew up among them, watching the situation and working .out preven in a community some con tive measures;" Liu said. Xinhua did not elabo sider "Mayberry." rate. Thousands mourned in church services across the U.N. employee falls from 19th floor region, including some in UNITED NATIONS -A woman who worked for DeKalb, the university town the UnitPd Nations died Sunday after falling from where residents have taken the 19th floor of the U.N.'s Secretariat Building, to wearing the red and authorities said. black of the NIU Huskies Police and U.N. security officers at the scene, since five people were mur who spoke on condition of anonymity because dered in the middle of a they were not authorized to talk to the media, said science lecture Thursday. the woman in her 40s had jumped from a window Parishioners at Our Lady after showing up to work early in the morning. of the Mount Catholic "A U.N. agency staff member died after falling Church in blue-collar from the 19th 11oor of the U.N. Secretariat Cicero, on Chicago's south Building," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie ern fringe, prepared for the Okabe said. "At this time there is no suspicion of funeral of Catalina Garcia, foul play." the youngest of four chil dren of parents originally from Guadalajara, Mexico. They're longtime parish NATIONAL NEWS ioners at Our Lady of the Mount, a tight-knit group of Georgia refinery explosion kills 9 low and middle-income SAVANNAH - Dust that collected in a piece families, many of them of safety equipment caused a small explosion young, with some older at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly Czech and other immi Northern Illinois University lab supervisor Mary Wyzard offers comfort during a church blast that killed nine workers, a federal inves grants. service held at Cathedral of Praise Church in Dekalb, Ill., Sunday for shooting victims. tigator said Sunday. "Their parents are mak Stephen Selk, investigations manager for the ing all sorts of sacrifices to better their lives," he said. had stopped taking some lived in Elk Grove Village U.S. Chemical Safety Board, had few details make sure the kids get into They worried more about kind of medication in the for 39 years. "It's just a about the previous explosion at the Imperial colleges. They're selling their children getting days or weeks before the friendly town. I guess there Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth. He could things, they're taking out caught in gang crossfire at shooting. are sick people every not say whether the earlier blast contributed second mortgages on their home than away at college His family has moved where." to the massive explosion Feb. 7. homes," the Rev. Lawrence "in the cornfields" of away, but the shooting still Kazmierczak attended "It is far too early to reach conclusions about Collins said at the church. DeKalb. echoed in the Elk Grove NIU, studying sociology. the relationship between that event and this Garcia, 20, followed a "It's like the all-American Village, near O'Hare Three semesters back, he one," Selk said. brother, Jaime, to NIU, dream cut short," he said. International Airport. transferred across state to No one was injured in the earlier explosion, choice of many working Investigators still haven't Resident Pat Egan, a heat the more prestigious Selk said. He did not know the exact date, but class Chicago-area fami determined what set off 27- ing and cooling repair man University of Illinois in said it happened "weeks ago." lies. She was studying to be year-old shooter Steven whose son goes to NIU, Champaign. Most students The Chemical Safety Board investigates a teacher, and had talked Kazmierczak, who killed described the suburb as and professors on both industrial accidents for the federal govern about coming back to five students and injured "Mayberry." campuses remembered him ment and makes safety recommendations to Cicero to teach first grade. more than a dozen other People there seemed to as a promising student. industry and trade groups as well as federal "It hits really close to people with a shotgun and feel a sense of disbelief and Yet he'd begun assem regulators. home," Collins said. pistols and took his own confusion over the attack bling an arsenal in August, The Garcias were the life, that thrust their communi buying a shotgun and three AFA to close hospital services "typical Mexican-American Kazmierczak grew up to ty into the news, said the menacing handguns from a AIR FORCE ACADEMY - The military is shut family," working low-wage the west, in Elk Grove Rev. Hwa Young Chong at small Champaign gun shop. ting down the Air Force Academy's emergency jobs to help put their chil Village, and played saxo the Prince of Peace United He added oversized ammu room and it.<; hospital's inpatient services. dren through school, Jaime phone in the school band. Methodist Church. nition clips in an Internet Two nearby civilian hospitals have the capacity Garcia said Sunday on the He spent time in a mental "I couldn't believe coming purchase from the same to take over its more than 100,000 patients, porch of the family's two health facility in his late from a pla'ce like Elk Grove dealer that sold the authorities said. story red brick home. teens, and police have said he could do that," said Virginia Tech gunman a The academy will phase out the services start "My parents came here to without elaboration that he Judy Glomski, who has weapon. ing April 1, The Gazette of Colorado Springs reported. Outpatient services will still be offered. By the end of June the academy hospital will no longer admit patients, except for a few Kosovo cadets, said Col. Alan Berg, commander of the 1Oth Medical Group. Country declares independence frotn Serbia LOCAL NEWS Associated Press Serbia called the declaration illegal tumes and played trumpets and and its ally Russia denounced it, say drums, and an ethnic Albanian couple Clergy adds marriage prerequisites PRISTINA - Revelers fired guns, ing it threatened to touch off a new named their newborn daughter FORT WAYNE - Getting married just got waved red-and-black Albanian flags conflict in the Balkans. Russia called Pavarsie - Albanian for "independ more complicated for couples in the Fort and set off fireworks over Kosovo for an emergency session of the U.N. ence." Wayne area. Sunday after parliament proclaimed Security Council, which met later "This is the happiest day in my life," Clergy from 37 churches in the region independence in defiance of Serbia Sunday. said Mehdi Shehu, 68. "Now we're signed an agreement Friday to require cou and Russia, which condemned the In the capital, Pristina, the mood free and we can celebrate without ples to undergo counseling and take other declaration of the world's newest was jubilant. Thousands of ethnic fear." steps aimed at increasing the chances of life nation. Albanians braved subfreezing tem By contrast, police in the Serbian long marriages and stable families. The pact A decade after a bloody separatist peratures to ride on the roofs of their capital Belgrade fired tear gas and was developed by llealthy Marriages of Allen war with Serbian forces that claimed cars, singing patriotic songs and rubber bullets in skirmishes with pro County. 10,000 lives, lawmakers pronounced chanting: "KLA! KLA!" the acronym testers who opposed the declaration. I Iealthy Marriages of Allen County is part of the territory the Republic of Kosovo for the now-disbanded rebel Kosovo Groups of masked thugs ran through the Indianapolis-based Indiana Healthy and pledged to make it a "democratic, Liberation Army. They waved downtown Belgrade smashing win Marriage and Family Coalition Inc., which last multiethnic state." Its leaders looked American flags alongside the red dows and ransacking tobacco stands. year obtained a five-year, $540,000 demon for swift recognition from the U.S. and Albanian banner imprinted with a At least 30 people were injured, about stration project grant from President Bush's key European powers - but also black, double-headed eagle. half of them police officers. hospital faith-based marriage promotion initiative. braced for a bitter showdown. Many dressed in traditional cos- officials said. page 6 The Observer + NEWS Monday, February 18, 2008 ents impressed by how their JPW ehildren had adjusted to col lege life. D A orders frozen beef recall continued from page 1 "You could definitely tell how proud everyone was of eustomers. their kid making it this far," "We plan for Junior Parents she said. California slaughterhouse subject of animal abuse investigation Weekend," said Shawn Many students took their Diekens of Tippeeanoe Plaee. parents to parties with their Humane Society of the United Federal regulations call for Associated Press "We expeet more people." friends and the friends' par States surfaced showing crip keeping downed cattle out of But that doesn't mean the ents. LOS ANGELES - The U.S. pled and sick animals being the food supply because they popular restaurant - and "The parents really liked Department of Agriculture on shoved with forklifts. may pose a higher risk of others like it - was able to being able to re-visit their col Sunday ordered the recall of Two former employees were contamination from E. eoli, serve everybody in town this lege experienee," Lang said. 143 million pounds of frozen charged Friday. Five felony salmonella or mad cow dis weekend. "For a lot of juniors, this was beef from a California slaugh counts of animal cruelty and ease because they typically "My mom called Bonefish our first time being able to go terhouse, the subject of an three misdemeanors were wallow in feces and their Grill at least a week in out and drink with our par animal-abuse investigation, filed against a pen manager. immune systems are often advance to make dinner ents. You really get to see how that provided meat to school Three misdemeanor counts - weak. reservations," junior cool your parents can be.'' lunch programs. illegal movement of a non About 150 school districts Catherine Twetten said. "They And many parents enjoyed Officials said it was the ambulatory animal - were around the nation have laughed and said they'd been the opportunity to eut loose largest beef reeall in the filed against an employee stopped using ground beef booked for weeks, and that with their kids. United States, surpassing a who worked under that man from Hallmark Meat Packing every restaurant in town was "A lot of parents were act 1999 ban of 35 million ager. Both were fired. Co., which is associated with probably ing like college pounds of ready-to-eat meats. Authorities said the video Westland. Two fast-food t. o t a I I y kids, just drink No illnesses have been linked showed workers kicking, chains, Jack-In-the-Box and booked for ing and having to the newly recalled meat, shocking and otherwise abus In-N-Out, said they would not .I u n i o r "A lot of parents were f u n . " and officials said the health ing "downer" animals that . use beef from Parents acting like college kids, Szczechowski threat was likely small. were apparently too sick or Westland/Hallmark. Weekend." said. The recall will affect beef injured to walk into the Jack in the Box, a San Twetten just drinking and That also led to products dating to Feb. 1, slaughterhouse. Some ani Diego-based company with and her par having fun." bigger profits for 2006, that came from Chino mals had water forced down restaurants in 18 states, told ents ended bars and restau based Westland/Hallmark their throats, San Bernardino its meat suppliers not to use up at T. G. I. Roxanne Szczechowski rants. Meat Co., the federal agency County prosecutor Michael Hallmark until further notice, Friday's said. Ramos said. but it was unclear whether it bartender "The parents instead. are definitely Secretary of Agriculture Ed No charges have been filed had used any Hallmark meat. But even Linebacker Lounge bigger spenders, Schafer said his department against Westland, but an In-N -Out, an Irvine-based though it especially when has evidence that Westland investigation by federal chain, also halted use of the was hard to it eomes to alco did not routinely contact its authorities continues. Westland/Hallmark beef. get a table hol, beeause veterinarian when cattle Officials estimate that about Other chains such as anywhere, junior Allison Lang most students aren't over 21," became non-ambulatory after 37 million pounds of the McDonald's and Burger King said the weekend left her and Dickens said. "We had a gross passing inspection, violating recalled beef went to school said they do not buy beef her parents with wonderful profit of about $10,000 each health regulations. programs, but they believe from Westland. memories. night on Friday and "Because the cattle did not most of the meat probably Raymond eountered a claim "It was too short," Lang Saturday." receive complete and proper has already been eaten. leveled by Humane Society said. "What's really cool about Diekens said. that inspection, Food Safety and "We don't know how much President and CEO Wayne .Junior Parents Weekend is Tippecanoe had "about seven Inspection Service has deter product is out there right Pacelle, who said a USDA taking your parents to some times our usual number of mined them to be unfit for now. We don't think there is a inspector was at the Westland of your favorite plaees on eustomers. It added up to human food and the company health hazard, but we do plant for about two hours eampus. It's not like Frosh-0 about 700 more customers is conducting a recall," have to take this action," said each day. USDA inspectors where they bring you to cam over the weekend than Schafer said in a statement. Dr. Dick Raymond, USDA are there at slaughterhouses pus and say 'Well, this is usual." A phone message left for Undersecretary for Food "continuously," Raymond Notre Dame.' Now, two and a The Bonefish Grill also said Westland president Steve Safety. said. half years later, you're show it saw its number of cus Mendell was not immediately Most of the beef was sent to Federal lawmakers on ing them, 'This is the Notre tomers skyrocket during the returned. distribution centers in bulk Thursday had called for the Dame I know, this is why weekend. Federal officials suspended packages. The USDA said it Government Accountability Notre Dame is like my second operations at will work with distributors to Office to investigate the safety home."' Contact Theresa Civantos at Westland/Hallmark after an determine how much meat of meat in the National School S~e said she saw many par- [email protected] undercover video from the remains. Lunch Program. A Catho~ic-Protestant Wildfire victims still Exchang-e a-waiting FEMA homes H'lwt is the current stme of the ecumenical movemellt between Pratexttmts & Catholics, MondaFt February 18 ing about one area with sewage Associated Press 7:00-8:30 pm and water and other places that HAMONA, Calif. - Patty are very rural." Hoedy is still waiting for some The mobile home delay is Coleman-Morse Student one at the Federal Emergency another blemish on a belea Management Agency to send guered agency. her the mobile home she was When the fires broke out in promised before Christmas. live Southern California coun In December, agency inspec ties, forcing half a million peo Feat tors said she wouldn't get a ple to flee, many thought FEMA government house to replaee - still bruised from its per the one she lost during last formance after Hurrieane Dr .. Larry year's wildf"ires beeause it Katrina - had a golden oppor Professor of Theology would be too difficult to haul tunity to repair its image. the 60-foot, three-bedroom pre But the fires blaekened about & fabrieated home up a winding 800 square miles and destroyed road to her remote mountain nearly 2,200 homes, a fraetion top property. of the 90,000 square miles and Dr. Mark Heedy isn't alone. FEMA roughly 500,000 homes rav of Histor brought dozens of mobile aged by the hurricane, and left -~~/ homes to Southern California roads, power lines and sewage after the fires, only to find their systems largely intact. ·,¢: own guidelines prevented them "FEMA wasn't really tested with Moderator: from putting them on many here," said Paul Light, a profes properties in rough terrain. San sor of public service at New Diego County officials say York University. "It really was Dr. Tim Matovi.na dozens of applicants were n't a dry run for sustained Associate Professor ofj Theolqgy denied homes because their response and reeovery." properties were inaccessible to FEMA spokesman James & Director, Cushwa ce,nter for trucks, didn't have conneetions Melntyre said the agency ' . ~~h-!&$: ,,=.;:. into the eleetrieal grid or were applied lessons it learned in the tudy f·Arnepi:l..can on hillsides deemed at mudslide Katrina to streamline its opera .tholic:i srn ·.' ;~ risk. tions in Southern California - "They don't have any famil like the need to respond quick Sponsored by: iarity with these areas so they ly. Two days before President llaptist Collegiate can't eonceive of the needs Bush declared a federal disas being dil"l"erent," said Deena ter, FEMA crews were moving Haver, a contractor who was into lire-stricken zones and set hired by San Diego County to ting up at San Diego's help lirn victims. "You're talk- Qualeomm Stadium. Campus Minist:ry THE OBSERVER Monday, February 18, 2008 USINESS page 7 MARKET RECAP Stocks Economic confidence declines Dow -28.77 Fears of recession, high prices of gas weigh over American consumers Jones 12,348.21 Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Press 751 67 2,590 3,654,373,246 Even when experts were declaring the economy healthy, many Americans voiced a vague, but persist ent dissatisfaction. True, jobs were relatively S&P 500 1,349.99 +1.13 plentiful over the last few 'NXKf~l(IQfw'Q~ ~rii :, ,~i,iiijli:, ~~~~~~B years. It was easy to borrow FTSE 100 (London) 5:787.60 -91.70 and very cheap. The sharp rise in the value of homes COMPANY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE and plentiful credit cards S&P DEP RECIEIPTS (SPY) -0.02 -0.03 135.14 encouraged a nation of con sumers to get out and buy. FINANCIAL SEL SPDR (XLF) +1.59 +0.42 26.83 But to many people, some POWERSHARES (QQQQ) -0.34 -0.15 43.82 thing didn't feel right, even if they couldn't quite explain -6.42 -0.17 LEVEL 3 COMM INC (LVLT) 2.48 why. Now the economic tide is Treasuries receding, and the undertow that was there all along is 10-YEAR NOTE -1.00 -0.038 3.780 getting stronger. 13-WEEK BILL -4.05 -0.090 2.130 Take away the easy credit and consumers are left with 30-YEAR BOND -1.25 -0.058 4.595 paychecks that, for most, 5-YEAR NOTE -0.22 -0.006 2.764 haven't nearly kept pace with their need and propen Commodities sity to spend. LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +0.04 95.50 The frustration of $3 gas and $4 milk, the worries GOLD ($/Troy oz.) -4.70 906.10 about health care costs that PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) +1.18 92.00 have risen four times the' rate of pay, become much more real. The retirement Exchange Rates security that is only as good as the increasingly volatile YEN 107.8450 stock market seems much EURO 0.6809 less certain. CANADIAN DOLLAR 1.0070 Americans' declining confi dence in their economy is Programmer Rennie Sawade takes the bus home to Woodinville, Wash., from triggered by a storm of very his job in Seattle Wednesday in order to save money. recent pressures, including to go away even when the tion with assurance, and they means or what a boom IN BRIEF plunging home prices, tight economy improves." appraise it with a sense that means," says Apodaca, a ening credit, and heavy debt. Much of that anxiety is the they are less in control of the counselor for Colorado Oprah offers free e-book download But it is compounded by anx uncomfortable, but expected outcome. Housing Enterprises. NEW YORK - The Oprah touch doesn't just iety that was there all along, jolt of the economic roller In Westminster, Colo., a "They're worried about buy work for traditional books. the result of a long, slow drip coaster. During a downturn, Denver suburb, George ing the groceries, buying the More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's of worries and vulnerabili people become less confident Apodaca hears that uncer gas." "Women & Money" were downloaded after the ties. about keeping their jobs or tainty from the maintenance A year ago - months announcement last week on Winfrey's televi "The economy is currently being able to find new ones, workers, drivers and others before economic alarms sion show that the e-book edition would be in recession or arguably meeting household expenses enrolled in the home budget went off - nearly two of available for free on her Web site, close to recession and that's and about the prospects for ing class he teaches. Most three Americans polled by www.oprah.com, for a period of 33 hours. certainly weighing on the the future. have steady jobs, but are just The Rockefeller Foundation "I believe 'Women & Money' is the most collective psyche," says Mark But there may be more to getting by. They talk about said that they felt somewhat important book I've ever written," Orman said Zandi, chief economist of it than just cyclical ups and challenges like the rising cost or a lot less economically in a statement released Saturday by Winfrey. forecaster Moody's downs. of getting to work or medical secure then they did a "So this was not about getting people to buy Economy. com. "But ... I do What does the economic bills, not as new problems decade ago. Half said they the book, but getting them to read it, and that think there is an increasing future hold? Many but as a continuing struggle. expected their children to was the intention behind this offer." level of angst that is more Americans feel increasingly "People in my class, they face an economy even more The download offer "has built excitement for fundamental and is not going unable to answer that ques- don't know what a recession shaky. Suze's book across all formats," Julie Grau, the book's publisher, said in a statement. According to Saturday's statement from Winfrey, more than 1.1 million copies of Orman's financial advice book were down loaded in English, and another 19,000 in Homeless live in foreclosed properties Spanish. The demand compares to such free online sensations as "The 9-11 Commission Associated Press ing fires from using candles and con prised that homeless might be taking Report," which the federal government made frontations with drug dealers, prosti advantage of vacant homes in resi available for downloads, and Stephen King's e CLEVELAND - The nation's fore tutes, copper thieves or police. dential neighborhoods beyond the novella, "Riding the Bullet." closure crisis has led to a painful "Many homeless people see the reach of his downtown agency. irony for homeless people: On any foreclosure crisis as an opportunity to "There are some campgrounds and EPA refuses to reduce mercury given night they are outnumbered in find low-cost housing (FREE!) with creek beds and such where people WASHINGTON - While arguing in court that some cities by vacant houses. Some some privacy," Brian Davis, director of would be tempted to walk across the states are free to enact tougher mercury con street people are taking advantage of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the street or climb out of the creek bed trols from power plants, the Bush administra the opportunity by becoming squat Homeless, said in the summary of the and sneak into a vacant house," he tion pressured dozens of states to accept a ters. latest census of homeless sleeping said. scheme that would let some plants evade clean Foreclosed homes often have an outside in downtown Cleveland. Bertan, who doesn't like shelters ing up their pollution, government documents advantage over boarded-up and dilap The census had dropped from 40 to because of the rules, said he has been show. idated houses abandoned because of 17 people. Davis, a board member of homeless or in prison for drugs and A week ago, a federal appeals court struck rundown conditions: Sometimes the the National Coalition for the other charges for the past nine years. down that industry-friendly approach for mer heat, lights and water are still work Homeless, cited factors including the He has noticed the increased avail cury reduction. It allowed plants with excessive ing. availability of shelter in foreclosed ability of boarded-up homes amid the smokestack emissions to buy pollution rights "That's what you call convenient," homes, aggressive sidewalk and street foreclosure crisis. from other plants that foul the air less. said James Bertan, 41, an ex-convict cleaning and the relocation of a home He said a "fresh building" - recent Internal Environmental Protection Agency and self-described "bando," or some less feeding site. He said there are an ly foreclosed - offered the best documents and e-mails, obtained by the advoca one who lives in abandoned houses. average 4,000 homeless in Cleveland prospects to squatters. cy group Environmental Defense, show attempts While no one keeps numbers of on any given night. There are an esti "You can be pretty comfortable for a over the past two years to blunt state efforts to below-the-radar homeless finding mated 15,000 single-family homes little bit until it gets burned out," he make their plants drastically reduce mercury shelter in properties left vacant by vacant due to foreclosure in Cleveland said as he made the rounds of the pollution instead of trading for credits that foreclosure, homeless advocates agree and suburban Cuyahoga County. annual "stand down" where homeless would let them continue it. the locations - even with utilities cut In Texas, Larry James, president in Cleveland were offered medical An EPA official said the agency's job "is not to off- would be inviting to some. and chief executive officer of Central checkups, haircuts, a hot meal and pressure states." There are risks for squatters, includ- Dallas Ministries, said he wasn't sur- self-help information. THE OBSERVER page 8 IEWPOINT Monday, February 18, 2008 THE OBSERVER 'Monologues' discussion important P.O. Box 779, Nmr< Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 First of all, I would like to express my world had experienced violence and To quote Evelyn BBatrice I Iall, para EDITOR IN CHIEF appreciation for the courage that Rob were living through it. It was important phrasing the attitudes of Voltaire, "I Maddie Hanna O'Brien ('"Monologues' promote non for me to be a part of something that may disagree with what you say, but I MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER violence," Feb. 12) and Christina gave such support to those women and will defend to the death your right to Ken Fowler Kyle West I Iolmstrom ("Monologues encourage to have a support system myself in the say it." Promoting this discussion in an mistreatment of women of the 2005 cast and crew. They academic setting and in the context of AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Kyle Cassily women," Feb. 11) Jordy Brooks taught me that when I was ready, I the University's Catholic character, and A~ST. MANAGING EDITOR: Mary Kate Malone showed in writing Guest could share my story, but that it was studying the play in social, anthropo Nt:ws EDITOR: Karen Langley articles on the Columnist mine and my healing was a process logical and psychological contexts is VIEWPOINT EDITOR: Joey King "Vagina Monologues" that could go at my own pace. They extremely important. It gnts to the core SPORTS EDITORS: Chris Khorey and sharing their gave me back the power and dignity of what being a university is about. Chris Hine experiences. This is clearly an issue that the rape had taken away. Those Each pnrson 's expnrience and opinion ScENE EDITOR: Tae Andrews that fosters differing opinions on our women, and that experience, turned is different, but all should be welcomed campus, and this creation of discussion my life around and brought an entirely in the discussion of the signilieanee or SAINT MARY'S EDITOR: Katie Kohler is the purpose of it being on campus new perspective to my then broken the Vagina Monologuns and thn issues PHOTO EDITOR: Dustin Mennella this year in an academic setting. I am spirit. I can say with all certainty, that surrounding it. GRAPHICS EDITOR: Madeline Nies certain that the majority, if not all of without that experience, without that This is simply my experience with ADVERTISING MANAGER: Jessica Cortez the people at Notre Dame, believe that support. I would not still be at this uni healing and my opinion on the issues. violence against women is wrong, but versity. My hop1~ is that in sening thn "Vagina AD 0F$1GN MANAGER: Kelly Gronli pnrhaps disagree about the methods This is my experience with healing, Monologuns," if you choose to do so, CONTROLLER: Tim Sobolewski that can be used to stop it. My personal and it's not over. Of course. for every you will listen. form your own opinions SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR: Christian Sagardia experience with the "Vagina person, this healing process is differ and share them. This diseussion only OFFICE MANAGER & GENERAL INFO Monologues" has been a very important ent. For many people, the "Vagina further raisns awarnnnss about vio (574) 631-7471 one in the shaping of my college years, Monologues" does aid in the healing lencn against womnn and tnaehes us all fAX and the person who I have become. process after sexual trauma. For some invaluable lnssons about rnspncting (574) 631-6<)27 My freshman year, I was raped. For a people it doesn't. And for those people, other people's opinions and discussing ADVERTISING (574) 631-6900 obst·[email protected] number of months, I denied that it had I sincerely hope that they lind their works of art or litm·ature in an aea EDITOR IN CHIEF happened and placed it out of my mind. own partieular path to healing. But for demie setting. ('574) 6.'\ 1-4542 A few months later, I joined the cast of those pnople that it does help to heal, I So thank you for your discussion and MANAGING EOITOR the "Vagina Monologues," something hope it always finds a home here. In my debate; this is the very rnason why this (574) 631-4541 obsme~l>nd.cdu that would come to have a monumental experience, it was what ultimately got play is so important. And thank you to ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR impact on my life. It was only then that me through. To be in a community of all thosn bravo women and men who (574) 651-4324 BUSINESS OFFICE I began down the long road of recovery women, who were working to end vio are survivors and supporters; to those (574) 631-5313 and healing. I cannot stress enough lence against women, and who were who are struggling or have struggled. NEWS DESK how important my friends, my family supportive of me, whether or not they You have given mn courage and a voice. (574) 631-5323 obsnews.l @nd.edu and other support systems were at that had experienced similar violence, was VIEWPOINT DESK time. But the "Vagina Monologues" was incredibly empowering and healing. Jordy Brooks is a senior and co (574) 631-5303 vit·[email protected] SPORTS DESK a dill'erent and very powerful kind of The most important aspect of.all this organizer of ''The Vagina Monologues. " (574) 631-4543 sportS. I @nd.edu support. As a cast member, I was sur is the discussion. This is the very rea She can be contacted at SCENE DESK rounded every day by these issues, and son the organizers wanted to. bring the jbrooks@nd. edu (574) 631-4540 scene. [email protected] was forced to face my own healing. It play back to campus. We believe that The views expressed in this column SAINT MARY'S DESK was comforting to know that I was not everyone is entitled to their position on are those of the author and not smc.l @nd.edu alone, that many women all over the the issue of the "Vagina Monologues." necessarily those of The Observer. PHOTO DESK (574) 631-8767 [email protected] SYSTEMS & WEB ADMINISTRATORS (574) 631-8839 THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR 0BSERVERONL/Nf www.ndsmcobserver.com POLICIES Yatarola should check fascism facts The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper published in print and online by the students of the University of Notre Dame du L1c and Saint Mary's Most of the time, I am more than happy to be taking on and Ron Paul, but rather the current president and somB of College. Editorial content, including advertisements, is the loans that are paying for my Notre Dame tuition. his congressional supporters who clearly do not base their not governed by policies of rhe administration of either Sometimes, though, I wish I had settled for "two-fifty in late philosophy on small government. Right or wrong, these con instirution. The Observer reserves the right to refuse fees" at the local library. Reading Greg Yatarola's Feb. 12 servatives want to determine who people can marry and advertisements based on content column ("Are you fascist?") provoked such a response in me. what they can put in their bodies. They want a government' The news is reponed as accurately and objectively as To be clear, I am not writing to defend liberal values or so limited, in fact, that they wanted to pass legislation to tell possible. Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of criticize conservative ones, but rather to decry the fact that a man he could not take his wife ofT a ventilator. Further, the majority of the Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, a 30-year-old man and graduate of Notre Dame could pen a the PATRIOT act and its propagandist naming has caused Assistant Manal\ing Editors and departmenr editors. piece so stunningly devoid of critical thinking. Yatarola's col even Republican Presidential candidate Bon Paul to use the Commt·ntarics, letters and columns presenr the views of the aurhors and not necessarily those ofThe umn was tlawed from the start. One of the keys to good label "totalitarianism" and draw similarities to Orwell's Observer. argument is credible sources and his choice of Jonah "1984." Viewpoint space is available to all readers. The free Goldberg and George Will - two hyper-conservative parti Lastly, Yatarola also forgets two tenets of fascism - a expression of all opinions through letters is encouraged. sans- to asperse modern liberalism leaves much to be strong nationalism and a thirst for military glory. Yet, liber l.t•tters 10 the Editor must be signed and must include desired. This bias clearly affects the editorial when, like a als often derided for "hating" America are labeled as contact information. child mimicking the arguments he heard his parents make, "peaceniks" for their opposition to war while conservatives Yatarola unquestioningly accepts Will's "ferocity gap" claim tend to display a gung-ho version of patriotism and display a Q11estions rrgarding Obsm'" policies sho11/d be that liberals are "meaner" than conservatives. Yet aren't lib glorified "bring it on" (as President Bush saidl approach to dirrcted to Editor in Chief Maddie Han1111. erals the ones branded as "hating our troops" and "baby military encounters. I have touched on a lot of issues. but POST OFFICE INFORMATION killers"? And was it not Ann Coulter who labeled a my argument is not that conservatives are wrong or liberals Democratic Presidential candidate a "faggot"? Liberals are are right on any of these subjects. I simply wished to point Tho; Obt.crvcr (~/Si•S ~~9l-411tltl) 11 i'uhhllho;c\ Muml.1y th!Uu~h hido~y cxu:pt dunn~ not much, if any, better, but to claim there is some sort of out that Yatarola's column. which amusingly laments "gross l·um ;~ml v,u,:;u11111 periods. A 'IUI1114np•i•H• 10 '11•~ tJt)..crvcr 11 $!nO for one :u... dcmk yl';&r:S55fllronckrue'lr'-'t. large discrepancy between the groups is ignorance, whether misunderstanding," displays an ignorance of faet and, more Th~ (>bkrver u ~lUhli1ht:d .u I'OS'rMASTt~R willed or inadvertent. (Neither would surprise me.) importantly, a lack of' comprehension of fascism and how 1124 South lJinmg Ho1ll Send Jddrt"5\ c.:urrct:dcuu m: Nmrt ()amc, IN TODAY'S STAFF News Sports OBSERVER POLL QUOTE OF THE DAY Marcella Berrios Jay Fitzpatrick Joe McMahon Sam Werner What is your favorite local pizzeria at Notre Dame? Claire Heising Meaghan Vesclik Submit a Letter "Question with boldness even the Emma Driscoll Scene Bruno's existence of a God; because, if there Graphics Tac Andrews Rocco's be one, he must more approve of the Matt Hudson to the Editor at homage of reason, than that of Polito's ·blind-folded fear." · Viewpoint Barnaby's Lianna www.ndsmcobserver.com Vote by Thursday at 5 p.m. at Thomas Jefferson Brauweiler American president www.ndsmcobserver.com ~------·---·· - THE OBSERVER Monday, February 18, 2008 IEWPOINT page 9 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Since when is exercise bad? In the Feb. 14 Inside Column, Mary Kate Malone ("Be your valentine") encour night in the library because of some quiz that is only worth five percent of your aged everyone to love their bodies by not working out. It's obviously important to grade, you climb the StairMaster for four straight hours at Rolfs trying to look like a love who you are whether we're talking about body image or who you are as a per model so that other people will think you're hot or if you get super upset because son. but that doesn't mean its impossible to love yourself and still strive to be better. you get called out on the fact that your liberal views are borderline fascist, every I hope that no one who wanted to go for a run but then read Malone's article decid one needs to stop taking every little detail so seriously. Ronald Reagan didn't save ed that it would be wrong for them to workout. Working out is great for you as long America from communism for everyone to live their lives in fear of being judged for as it's done for the right reasons. being themselves. Reagan fought to sustain a nation where people are free to be Everyone knows that exercise gives you endorphins and endorphins make you unique and to only care about how they look if they want to care about how they happy. If someone wants to lose a couple of pounds because it will make them feel look. I think Peter La Fleur summed it up pretty well when he said: "You're perfect better about themselves or because they get winded playing Wii Tennis, then there just the way you are. But if you feel like losing a few pounds, getting healthier and is nothing wrong with going for a jog or not having frozen yogurt after every meal. making some good friends in the process, then Joe's is the place for you." Along those same lines, if someone who loves their desserts is happy with their body image, then they shouldn't feel pressured into working out just because of Tom Martin what others think. senior My main message here is that everyone, including most of us at Notre Dame, off campus needs to stop worrying so much about what others think. Whether you spend all Feb. 14 Respect bishops' wishes, move 'Monologues' Something is wrong here. The University is plan but lead us into an authentic search for truth. Sam that attempts to empower women through sin. ning on hosting the "Vagina Monologues" on cam Cahill said it best in his Feb. 13 Letter to the Editor This is a wake up call, Notre Dame. If our own pus at the expense of a visit from our esteemed ("'Monologues' promote discussion"): "We are at Church officials refuse to even step foot on our Catholic bishops. Last year our own Bishop John Notre Dame to find the truth: Let's seek it with campus, something has got to be wrong. Our bish D'Arcy said no to the "Monologues" and the recent courage and charity, trusting that God will not mis ops sincerely said no to the "Monologues" because actions of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops lead us." I, for one, wholeheartedly trust that God they see something that no one else apparently (USCCB) to move their theological seminar off cam will not mislead us. Therefore, we must put our sees: encouraging promiscuity is not the way to end pus reiterate what our Church has been telling us search for truth on the shoulders of God's Word, violence against women. The "Monologues" should all along. The "Monologues," despite its good inten not Eve Ensler's "Monologues." As such, we must be moved back off campus so there is no confusion tions, "violates the truth about women, the truth find a uniquely Catholic way to end violence against on where we stand. Let's come to our senses, listen about sexuality, the truth about male and female women and empower men and women to live in the to our bishops and help end violence against and the truth about the human body" (D' Arcy, fullness of their sexuality. For example, the Edith women through embracing our Catholicity. not 2005). Stein Project is one way that the Notre Dame com shunning it. We hear a lot about "discussion," but do we even munity already discusses issues of human sexuality stop to consider the statements of our own bishop in a respectful and fruitful way. Saying no to the Craig Borchard or the actions of the USCCB? By avoiding the mis "Monologues" does not imply that we are saying no senior conceptions and vulgarities contained in the to women's issues. Instead, we respect the dignity Morrissey Manor "Monologues," our bishops are not trying to censor of women so much that we must deny any material Feb. 14 Yatarola Climate change a oversimplifies 'very real' problem I was disappointed - but not surprised - may not emerge unscathed. As Professor to read Matt Gore's Letter to the Editor ("Stop Darcia Narvaez hinted in her Feb. 5 letter ("A complex political the climate change propaganda," Feb. 7). Like call to conserve"), there is widespread accept many in the dwindling group of people who ance among the scientific community that cli continue to resist mounting evidence of the mate change will severely and adversely affect negative global impacts of climate change, he many human communities. ideas has chosen to downplay the severity of a very Admittedly, most reports acknowledge that real problem. certain areas of the world could benefit: Some In his column "Are you a fascist?" (Feb 12), Greg Yatarola As any discerning reader should, Gore ques economies may boom as agriculture yields claims that liberals are more similar to fascists than con tions the validity of the claim that climate increase with warmer weather and reduced servatives are. Not only is this a gross oversimplification of change could cause mass extinction. He men precipitation in some areas may limit transmis a complex set of ideas into a single, number-line-style con tions a study by Chris D. Thomas that found sion of diseases like malaria. The cost for other cept, but it also represents a fundamental misunderstand that only the Costa Rican Golden Toad has gone communities, however, will be profound. As we ing of what that spectrum represents. extinct due to "global climatic shifts." Being the all have heard from various media sources, Yatarola clearly takes offense at the fact that conser climate change believer that I am, I double people around the world are at risk for reduced vatism is placed closer to the fascist end of the scale of ide checked this citation. To my surprise, however, water supply in already water-stressed areas, ologies. This scale, however, is not meant to condemm con in the first line of Thomas's report "Extinction loss of arable land due to increased tempera servatism as fascism; there is nothing wrong with conser Risk from Climate Change" (Nature, 2004, Vol. tures, and massive flooding due to sea-level vatism being "two steps away from fascism" so long as it 427, p. 145), the author concedes that indeed, rise. (For a detailed summary, read the execu does not cross the line. Likewise, there is no problem with climate change has caused the extinction of tive summaries of reports by the United liberalism sitting close to socialism on the scale. The two only one species over the last three decades. Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate extreemes are both bad. Positions with some of their attrib But alas! All is not well for Gore, for later on Change.) The potential consequences of climate utes are not. Yatarola uses only one issue - gun control - the same page of the same report, Thomas change, even if only potential, are not to be as an example of "liberal fascism." He fails to realize that, states that even in the minimum expected cli taken lightly. While I appreciate Gore's ultimate on many issues, both parties advocate regulating and not mate change scenarios (read: inevitable), agreement that we should take steps to con regulating things. For example, liberals tend to desire regu between nine and 31 percent of species are serve energy, I worry that his resistance to the lation of guns, various industries and actions that involve predicted to go extinct, depending on their dis potential consequences of climate change is environmental harm, while conservatives tend to desire persal abilities. While I grant that nine to 31 indicative of a mindset that denies sans reason more regulation on issues such as flag burning, abortion percent of species is not most or all of the glob the gravity of our situation. By labeling people and marrige. The regulation of things such as these may be al species community, the climate change who voice concern as "fear mongerers" and by seen as important, unimportant, stupid or brilliant to dif induced extinction of such a significant portion exaggerating their claims, naysayers in the dis ferent people, but none of these regulations make one of global biodiversity would be a large blood cussion prevent others from working to curb group inherently "fascist." If they did, then this country stain on the hands of humanity. human-induced climate change. If we are going would certainly be run by a fascist government no matter Gore also argues against the claim that cli to make a positive difference, however, we all which party was in charge. mate change will threaten the existence of life must work together. It is true that no one Before trying to turn generally accepted political concepts on Earth. He is right to point out that species knows the future and the exact impacts of cli upside down, Yatarola should carefully check his facts and have persisted through more intense climate mate change, or how severe they will be. make sure that he truly understands the issue he is trying changes than are expected in the next few cen Personally, however, I choose to err on the side to deal with. turies. I agree -just look at cockroaches. The of caution. larger point at hand, however, is not how life in Jackson Bangs general will fare, but individuals. Although the Erin Burns freshman majority of species, including Homo sapiens, alumna Stanford Hall could likely persist through expected climate Class of 2008 Feb. 13 change scenarios, individuals of those species Feb. 8 THE OBSERVER page 10 CENE Monday, February I 8, 2008 CONCERT BRINGS CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA BACK TO FANS On Friday night my fifth grade dreams how much fun (woryonn wa'i having. Some came true at the Spice Girl<; concert in people wen~ morn into it than oiliers, espe Chicago. When I found out that my favorite cially two guys sitting near us who woro girl group of the 90s was reuniting for a world home-made Spice Girls '!'-shirts and Union tour, I was desperate to get tickets. I missed Jaek b Monday, February 18, 2008 CENE page 11 RISQUE SHOW 'SPICES' UP UNITED CENTER Walking into Chicago's United Center Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz. for the Spice Girls concert Friday night The song concluded with Brown run was, I can only imagine, very similar to ning up to her prisoner and mimicking going to a Cher concert. There were oral sex before the lights went down. almost as many men in teeny-tiny out During the song "Holla" which was f"its and heels as released after Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell) left the group, the four Spice there were women Mandi Stirone in the same attire. Girls got extremely touchy-feely with Among the many the dancers. At one point they walked drag queens in Scene & Heard down the "catwalk" portion of the stage attendance were with the four male dancers crawling in four dressed as the front of them on leashes. Spice Girls, something I expected of the Despite being in their 30s, all five girls in attendance, not the boys. There sported the same type of skimpy outfits was also a man dressed up as Wonder they wore during the 90s. In the open Woman, which may or may not have ing few songs, the girls all wore metal been a tribute to "Spice World" the lic-inspired outfits that mimicked their movie, in which one of the girls dresses signature styles. up as Wonder Woman for a photo shoot. For "Lady is a Vamp," the Spice Girls Not every male in attendance was sported 1940s lounge inspired outfits · dressed in drag; there were, surprising which included Halliwell wearing what ly, several groups of appeared to be a man's guys scattered dress coat. They also sport throughout the arena All in all, the Spice ed classic outfits. such as dressed perfectly Posh Spice (Victoria normally. These Girls lived up to their Beckham) wearing her usual were definitely the name, bringing fans the tight little dresses and minority, though. type of show they Halliwell wearing her well By the time the five known Union Jack dress. Spice Girls rose to might've expected Baby Spice (Emma the stage and began during the height of Bunton) was probably the the concert with their popularity, with a most mature looking with "Spice Up Your Life," dresses that reached mid I had already seen few twists and turns. thigh as opposeci to just more sequins, leop- above the "butt: The Spice ard print, pigtails, and crimped hair, on Girl who changed the least~Sporty girls and guys, than I ever wanted to. Spice {Melanie Chisholm); stfil seemed For their part, the Spice Girls them content to wear studded track suits or, selves seemed more than aware that if she absolutely had to. some form of their fan base had grown up. The show pants suit. featured quite a bit more risque impli Then, they decided to throw a curve cations than would've been expected of ball at fans. During the sqng,fMama" the girls when they were catering to the the four Spice Girls who a .moth· 12-year-old audience of the 1990s. ers bnmgl)t their childre ge to Though not every act featured it, the demonstrate that they ar ·...... up girls demonstrated the sexual nature of now. even if their wardrobes don't their songs. During "Two Become One," demonstrate as much. .··. the girls danced on platforms with All in all, the Spice Girls liyed up to candy-striped stripper poles while their name, bringing fans the type of dancers used feathered wings for show they might've expected during the accompaniment. height of their popularity, with. a few In Scary Spice Melanie Brown's solo twists ~lld .turns. act, an unsuspecting man was strapped to her "machine," a giant metallic "A" the. ii~ilws expressed i~ . shaped stand. "He has no idea what I'm are th(iife of the author and/...... going to do," she said while she danced necessarily those ofThrlObsrltver. around the stage in her signature leop Contact Mandi Stirone at.·· · · ·· ard print with a whip singing "Are You astiroOJ@saintmarys. edu· - t f I page 12 The Observer + CLASSIFIEDS Monday, February 18, 2008 NHL Red Wings' woes continue in 1-0 loss to Dallas Blackhawks win third straight against Colorado; Rangers get back in playoff hunt with crucial victory over Sharks third period, notching his career "A loss is a loss. Howard gave us Associated Press best 21st of the season and a chance to win but we came up DALLAS - Dallas Stars goal eighth game-winner from a short. It's terrible, what can you tendnr Marty Turco savored a sharp angle to the left of DP.troit's say. We have to find a way to get rare win over the I>ntroit Hed third-string goaltender Jimmy out of this slump." Wings. !toward. Turco made 2X saves for his lloward failP.d to the control Blackhawks 2, Avalanche 1 32ml canwr shutout and seeond the rebound of Jere Lehtinen's Blackhawks coaeh Denis victory in 16 tries against Detroit, shot, and llagman lifted the puck Savard just wants his team to and Niklas lla~-,rman seon~d as the over the sprawling Howard, continue playing the way it's nheim Stars handed the BPd Wings their making his first start of the sea benn playing. season-high sixth straight loss, 1- son. Patrick Lalime stopped 21 0 on Sunday. "Lehtinen drove it toward the shots and defenseman James "That team's had my number net and they forgot about me on Wisniewski had two assists in so it was satisfying to beat them," the back door," Hagman said. "I Chicago's win over the Colorado said Turco after registering his got a good bounce and it was Avalanche on Sunday. 201st victory. "Now I'm focused easy for me to put in." Martin Havlat and Dustin on evening things up against lloward stopped 30 shots, play Byfuglien scored for the them." ing in his seventh career game Blackhawks, who won their third Tureo nudged his reeord to 2- and getting his fourth career straight game and are 4-0-1 in 9-5 against the Bed Wings, help start in place of Detroit No. 1 their last five. ing the Stars improve to 9-1 in goalie Chris Osgood. Chicago, with 60 points, is six their last 10 games overall. "We missed by a couple of points behind eighth-place "It's not like he's not trying, inches on some of our shots, and Vancouver - and the final play he's trying his tail off," Dallas Marty played really well," off spot - in the Western coach Dave TippPtt said. "But it I toward said. Conferenee. was good to see him get resull'i. Coach Mike Babcock gave "Hopefully we'll continue to I~~~ had saves at the right time. lloward the assignment after play that way all down the This has to help him get momen Osgood lost his four previous streteh," Savard said. "We're tum against this team." starts and had been replaced by gelling. Whether we get in Ithe Turco preserved his shutout Howard in the previous two playoffs) or not, we're going to against the Hed Wings with 48.X games. Backup Dominik Hasek is pay the price every night." seeonds left, falling on his baek to out with a hip injury. Several injured Chicago play Rangers center Blair Betts attempts to hit a puck past San Jose make a sliding stop on Detroit's !toward was fighting the puck ers, including rookie forward goalie Evgeni Nabokov during New York's 3-1 over the Sharks Sunday. Brett Lebda. Tureo also denied early, but the Stars were unable Jonathan Toews. have come baek Johan Pranzen with 34.8 seconds to capitalize. to help spark the Blackhawks, Hyan Callahan scored twice night. remaining. "The first couple of shots came who have missed the playoffs in and Chris Drury added a power "These are two big wins to ''I'm running out of words to off him like crazy, but that's just a eight of the last nine seasons. play goal and an assist Sunday build on," he said. "We have a describe how Marty is playing," kid being nervous," Babcock Lalime lost a bid for his first for the Hangers, who finally boat long road ahead of us, but we flagman said. "At the start, mid said. shutout this season when a Western Conference team with can move forward and go from dle and definitely the end they Babcock also switched up his Jaroslav Illinka scored with 2:25 a solid effort against the San Jose here. We have a lot of charaeter had good chances. I don't know lines in an attempt to spark his left in the third. Chicago's top Sharks. in this room from top to bottom. how he managed to get some of struggling team, but the Red goalie, Nikolai Khabibulin, is day That came on the heels of a You have to follow your leaders those saves. We've always had a Wings fell to 0-5-1 in their last to day with a right knee sprain. relatively easy 5-1 rout over and go from there." tough time against Detroit. It was six games. "It's our hard work and dedica Buffalo at home Saturday. New Lundqvist, who also stopped 29 a huge win." "We had lots of chances," tion," Lalime said. "We're bat York is back in the mix after Saturday, is 2-0 since signing a Hagman seornd at 3:13 of the Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom said. tling right now. A lot of it is buy dropping to ninth. six-year contract extension with ing into the system; finally we're "It was defmitely a tough game, New York. playing as a team." the second of back-to-backers, Jonathan Cheechoo had the Jose Theodore made 25 saves especially playing against a big, lone goal for the Sharks, who for Colorado, which lost its third physical, talented team," forward have the fewest road losses in the straight and failed to eonvert any Brendan Shanahan said. "It was NHL (17-6-3). San Jose is 4-18-3- of il'i six power plays. a real good test for us and we 0 against New York and hasn't The Avalanche have 65 points really responded well." beaten the Hangers since Oct. 22, and are in ninth place in the con Henrik Lundqvist made 29 2001. ference. saves for the Rangers, who beat Evgeni Nabokov stopped 30 a Western team in their last shol'i in starting for the 57th time Rangers 3, Sharks 1 chance after going 0-7-2 in the in San Jose's 58 games this sea A week off did wonders for the first nine. son. The Sharks are 3-3-1 in New York Rangers and their Drury helped set up Callahan's their past seven. playofT hopes. first-period goal to tie it before "When you lose a game you During a five-day break from sending the Hangers on their way always want to say it wasn't games between last weekend and to another win with a goal in the enough. I know we're trying this one, the Rangers eould only second. Callahan added an hard, but it wasn't enough," watch as teams pushed them empty-netter with 1.6 seconds Nabokov said. "Defensively I below the postseason cutoff. left. think we played well. They were With a pair of home wins, New Callahan has four goals in five forecheeking, and it was surpris Dallas goaHender Marty Turco stops Detroit right wing Jlri Hudler York is right back in the thick of games after going 25 without one ing a little bit how hard they In the second period of Dallas' 1-0 Sunday. the hunt. following a score on opening played." The Observer accepts classifieds every business day from 8 a.m. ro 3 p.m. at the Notre Dame office, 024 South Dining Hall. Deadline for next-day dassifieds is 3 p.m. All dassifieds must be prepaid. CLASSIFIEDS The charge is 5 cents per character per day, including all spaces. The Observer reserves rhe right to edit all classifieds for content without issuing refunds. 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GB lastten Boston 41-9 .820 &-2 Toronto 28·23 .549 13.5 64 New Jersey 23·30 .434 19.5 5·5 Philadelphia 23·30 .434 19.5 7-3 New York 15·37 .288 27 1·9 Eastern Conference, Central Division team record pet. GB last ten Detroit 39·13 .750 10·0 Cleveland 29-23 .558 10 6-4 Chicago 21-31 .404 18 4·6 Indiana 21-32 .396 18.5 2·8 Milwaukee 19·34 .358 20.5 2·8 Eastern Conference, Southeast Division team record pet. GB last ten Orlando 33·21 60 6·4 Washington 25·27 59 7 2·8 Atlanta 21-28 58 9.5 3·7 Charlotte 19-34 57 13.5 2·8 Miami 9·42 54 22.5 1-9 Western Conference, Northwest Division team record pet. GB last ten Utah 34·19 87 9-1 Denver 32·20 66 1.5 6·4 Portland 28·24 61 5.5 3·7 Seattle 13·38 58 20 4·6 Minnesota 10·41 54 23 3-7 AP Penske driver Ryan Newman celebrates after winning the Daytona 500 Sunday at Daytona International Speedway. Western Conference, Pacific Division The victory ended Newman's 81-race winless streak and was owner Roger Penske's first victory at the event. team record pet. GB last. ten Phoenix 37-16 .698 7-3 LA Lakers 35·17 .673 1.5 8-2 Penske scores big with Newtnan's 500 win Golden State 32-20 .615 4.5 7·3 Sacramento 23·28 .451 13 5·5 "We did something very LA Clippers 17·33 .340 Associated Press allies. with us. It's hard to 18.5 4-6 special for the Captain So at the last second, he explain. It's probably one DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. tonight," runner-up Kurt dropped low on the track of the most disappointing Western Conference, Southwest - Ryan Newman snapped Busch said. to line up in front of Kyle moments in my racing The Penske cars were record pet. GB last ten an 81-race winless streak Busch. The JGR teams had career." team Sunday, using a huge push quiet for 199 of the 200 talked about using team And for Joe Gibbs New Orleans 36·15 .706 7-3 from teammate Kurt laps, letting Joe Gibbs work all week, and Racing and the entire San Antonio 34·17 .667 2 6.:..1 Busch to give car owner Racing stars Tony Stewart Stewart thought he'd need Toyota camp. Dallas 35·18 .660 2 5·5 Roger Penske his first and Kyle Busch race each Busch to make it to the Toyota seemed destined .615 Houston 32·20 4.5 9·1 Daytona 500 victory. other in a battle of checkered flag. to win its first points race Memphis 14-38 .269 22:5 2·8 Penske, the most suc Toyotas. With one lap to But the decision back in NASCAR's top series cessful owner in open go, it appeared Stewart fired when the two Penske behind the strength of wheel history with 14 wins finally would get a cars flew past him on the JGR, which joined the in the prestigious Daytona 500 win in his top, and Newman pulled manufacturer this season Indianapolis 500, now has 10th try. away for his first win since and gave it instant credi a victory in NASCAR's Running out front in the New Hampshire in bility. After a strong month MIAA Women's Basketball showcase event. high line, he held off the September 2005. of testing and a Denny Conference Standings It only took him 23 years two Penske cars as they "I just made the wrong Hamlin win in one of. to get it. circled the famed speed decision on the back Thursday's qualifying rank team conference overall It came in the historic way. With a pair of team· stretch," a dejected races, the JGR cars 50th running of The Great mates closing in on him, Stewart said. "My inten· seemed poised to battle Hope 1 14·0 22-0 American Race, and it Stewart didn't feel safe tion was to get in front of mighty Hendrick 2 Albion 12·3 19·4 came in thrilling fashion. running out alone with no Kyle and pull Kyle along Motorsports for the win. 3 Calvin 10·5 14-B 4 Adrian 6·8 8<14 5 Alma 6·8 9·12 6 Olivet 6·8 8·14 7 SAINT MARY'S 6·8 10·12 IN BRIEF 8 Tri-State 3·11 6~16 9 Kalamazoo 1-13 4·18 Swimmer Hoff sets second IU president in SP.Otlight Tige~' Rogers. starts strong American record in 2 days with Sampson scanital at spnng ttaimng COLUMBIA. Mo. - Katie Hoff set INDIANAPOLIS - College presi· LAKELAND, Fla. -Kenny her second American record in as dents aren't athletic directors, but Rogers threw a pitch and pivoted to many days Sunday when she and sports can be .a big part of their job - get back on the mound to throw six-time Olympic gold medalist as Indiana University President another one. Michael Phelps each cruised to a Michael McRobbie is finding out. Detroit Tigers pitching coach -- pair of victories at the Missouri McRobbie says the school will con Chuck Hernandez stepped between Grand Prix. duct a new investigation into NCAA Rogers and the bullpen catcher, Both easily won their respective accusations that men's basketball ending the session on Sunday. around the dial 200-meter freestyle and 400 indi coach Kelvin Sampson committed five "Get out of here!" Hernandez MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL vidual medley races on the second major rules violations. The announce shouted. Syracuse at Louisville day of the meet. ment Friday came amid mounting Hogers reluctantly walked away, 7 p.m., ESPN Hoff set an American record in calls to fire Sampson. with sweat on his brow and grass the 200, finishing in 1 minute, That puts pressure on McRobbie, stains on his knees. Texas A&M at Texas 56.08 seconds to defeat five-time who took office as IU president seven "I just keep going until Chuck 9 p.m., ESPN Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin months ago, but it also creates oppor stops me," Hogers said with a for the second time in two days. tunity, said Louisiana Statp University smile. WoMEN's CoLLEGE BASKETBALL Coughlin set the previous mark. system President Jolm V. Lombardi. Hogers has spent three-plus Purdue at Ohio State On Saturday, Hoff broke the old "Everybody is unhappy now - years of his life at spring training est American record on the books boosters, alumni, the athletic depart - a fact he said was "scary," - 7 p.m., ESPN2 in the 400 freestyle. ment," Lombardi, who has taught a and still enjoys rolling around on In Sunday's medley, Hoff beat course on the history of college sports, the infield like a kid during pitch· Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who told The Indianapolis Star for a ers' fielding practice. a day earlier set a world record in Sunday story. "This is a moment In fact, Hogers said that's his the 200 backstroke. where he can go in and take charge." favorite part. ------ page 14 The Observer + SPORTS Monday, February 18, 2008 MLB SMC SWIMMING Hampton tries comeback Belles svvitn to fifth in Veteran pitcher readies for last attempt after missing 2 seasons MIAA Championships Calvin takes top spot, Hope earns second time of 17:47.50, beating her By PETE REISENAUER closest competitor by more SportS Writer than 10 seconds. She also reached the final in the 500 Saint Mary's ended its season freestyln - whore she eventu with a disappointing fifth-place ally finished sixth - and the finish in the MIAA 400 freestyle, whern she fin Championships this weekend in ished fourth. Holland, Mich. Maggie Williams also helped Calvin won the meet with a her team with a fifth-place fin score of 660. Hope was the only ish in the 100 backstroke. She close challenger at 556. Saint also finished 1Oth in the 200 Mary's finished with a score of backstroke. 182. Meanwhile, freshman Going into the weekend, the Caroline Arness had her best Belles had high hopes after showing in the 200 backstroke posting top times in many with a time of 2:18.62, and fel events during the season. They low freshman Casey NiezPr felt that they were primed to clocked in at 2:13.77 for a sixth AP make a push toward the top of place finish. Niezer also fin Atlanta pitcher Mike Hampton pitches during the Braves' spring training workout on Friday. the pack. ished in 11th in the 100 back Hampton Is attempting to pitch this year after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2006. The Belles had finished the stroke. year with a four-meet losing Sophomore Lindsey Nelis put clubhouse cracking jokes or rib ing day without getting hurt again. streak but believed that the two up a strong showing in the Associated Press bing teammates. ''I'm sure he'll be rusty a little weeks between their last meet 1,650 freestyle with a time of KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Mike "When you feel sorry lor yourself' bit," Cox said. "But we're not look and the championship would 18:38.40. Hampton rubs down the ball, and at the end of the day you're ing for that. We're looking for provide them vital time to rest The strongest relay for the stares toward home plate and still li~eling son-y liw yourself, well, health." and prepare for the event this Belles was the 400 freestyle dnlivers a pitch that ~weeps across your mind is mnssed up and your Actually, the aborted stint in weekend. They were not able team, whieh finished third, only thn out<;ide corner. Mark Kot<;ay arm still hurts. It doesn't really Mexico boosted Hampton's confi to put in a strong enough effort one-tenth of a second behind nnver gnl<; tlw bat on· his shouldnr. hnlp anything," Hampton said. "I dence. His arm didn't hurt, and to capture the crown. Kalamazoo for second. The outfinldnr nods approvingly dncidnd to keep a positive mind when he watched a video of the Despite the loss, Melissa toward thn mound. "That's better," set. get it taken cam of and look inning that popped up on YouTube, Gerbeth defended her 1,650- Contact Pete Reisenauer at Kol<;ay says. forward to thn day when I eould he was relieved to see that his yard freestyle crown with a [email protected] Brayan Pena is nven more compete again." mechanics looked basically the enthusiastic. "That-a boy!" the A cynic might lind it hard to same as they did before all the ratdmr barks, giving a slight pump muster a whole lot of sympathy for injuries. of'thn ft<;t. li SMC BASKETBALL ND SOFTBALL Saint Mary's blasts Kala111azoo Irish battle to 2-2 Kessler scores 22 as Belles ride 34-8 run to blowout victory split in Arizona Kammrath, who pulled Rashid finished with 13 By GRIFFIN DASSATTI down a game-high 12 points, and classmate Erin Game against No. 1 Wildcats rained out Sports Writer rebounds to go along with Newsom netted 11 to go her six points, said the along with seven rebounds. (7-1) to snag a 6-2 win in the Saint Mary's was actually Belles' success in the first The Belles also got a solid By JARED JEDICK half was a result of the performance from fresh opener on Friday. down four to Kalamazoo at Sports Writer one point in its 71-39 win team's laid-back style. man guard Liz Wade, who "It was important to get our Saturday. "We were definitely more scored seven points, feet wet," Gumpf said. "It Then, five and a half min relaxed [than in previous grabbed seven rebounds In a rare rainy weekend in was a good chance to see utes into the game, the games]. which is easier to and had seven assists off Tempe, Ariz., Notre Dame where our problems are in a Belles (10-12, 6-8 MIAA) do when everyone was the bench. came up even in Arizona real game situation." decided it was time to start clicking," Kammrath said. Kammrath said after the State's Kajikawa Classic, Junior Brittney Bargar got playing. In the second half, the game that the win was a defeating Utah and Cal but the win, allowing three hits With 14:37 left in the first Belles continued their dom big one for the Belles, losing to Western Kentucky and two earned runs in seven half and the score tied at 8- inance. The Hornets never especially with the end of and No. 3 Texas A&M to start innings. Bargar fanned six 8, Saint Mary's senior got within 26 points, and the MIAA season coming the 2008 season. and surrendered two solo guard Alison Kessler scored many of Saint Mary's closer. Officials cancelled Friday's homeruns for Utah's only two of her game-high 22 on reserves saw the court for "[Getting this win] means game against top-ranked scores of the game. a layup. It was the last time the latter portion of the we are for sure playing on Arizona because of the rain. The offense slugged 10 hits Kalamazoo (4-18, 1-13 game. Tuesday once [the] confer "I like how the girls came off the Utes and opened the MIAA) sniffed the lead. The blowout victory was a ence [tournament] starts out," Irish coach Deanna game with a four-run first That's because Kessler's big change for the Belles, next week," Kammrath Gumpf said. "They really inning. Freshman Brianna layup began a 34-8 Saint who have an average mar said. "It also helps team showed a lot of fight, and I Jorgensborg ripped a three Mary's run that sent the gin of victory of 6.6 points morale, a win like this." think it was a great learning run double down the right Belles into the locker room in their MIAA wins this experience." • field line in the first at-bat of with a 42-15 lead. season. Contact Griffin Dassatti at The Irish jumped all over her college career. Fellow Sophomore forward Anna Belles junior guard Katie [email protected] previously undefeated Utah freshman Sadie Pitzenberger went 3-for-5 and stole three bases. Western Kentucky beat Notre Dame 6-5 and scored Announcittg the Year the final run after an Irish throwing error in the seventh inning. 2008 Annual Awards of "We lost due to some things that are really controllable," Gumpf said. "We have some the Albert Ravarino growing pains that we need to work on." The Irish jumped out to a Italian Studies Travel 3-1 lead off a Pitzenberger double and a sophomore Christine Lux sacrifice fly, Scholarship but the lead would not stand. Western Kentucky's Rebecca Horesky hit a grand slam off of freshman Jody Valdivia to give the Hilltoppers a 5-3 advantage. Sophomore Heather Thanks to a generous gift from the Albert Ravarino family, the Italian Studies Program Johnson tied the game at 5-5 is pleased to announce the year 2008 annual competition for travel in support of summer in the seventh with a two-run homer, but the Hilltoppers research and foreign study in Italy. Grants will be made in amounts not to exceed responded for the win. $3,000, and will not non11al1y cover all expenses. Notre Dame graduate and The Irish lost 4-1 to the fearsome Aggies. undergraduate students who are planning to pursue research or a formal program of Bargar kept Texas A&M sum.mer study in Italy are invited to apply. Students must have completed at least one scoreless through four innings, before allowing year o( Italian language. The course work will normally be in Italian; \Vill involve the three earned runs in the final study of Italian la.nguage, literature, and culture; and must be applicable to a student's three frames. Bargar also struck-out nine. degree program at the University of Notre Dame. "Brittney really gave us a chance to win both games," Gumpf said. "It was just Recommended programs for foreign study include, but are not limited to: Loyola three or four pitches that University in Rome, Boston University in Padua, UCLA in Pisa, Miami University in went wrong for her." The final game on Sunday Urbino, Columbia University in Scandiano. Interested students are encouraged to against Cal was a chance for consult the materials on Italian foreign study in the Department of Romance Languages, the Irish to make up for the previous day's mistakes, and 343 O'Shaughnessy HalL they took full advantage. Senior second baseman Katie Laing went 2-for-4 and had Students are invited to submit a Jetter which should include: RBis, including a two-run 1) an explanation of how the proposed research or foreign study wiU enhance their homer in the third inning to propel the Irish to a 4-3 degree program at Notre Dame; comeback win. 2) a personal statcm.cnt indicating their background, interests, and long-term goals; In the bottom of the sev enth, Laing showed her poise 3) a description of the research project or the program they intend to folknv; in the clutch, knocking the 4) a budget indicating the costs involved; first pitch she saw into right center field to plate freshman 5) two letters of rccomtnendation Katie Fleury. 6) a transcript showing all grades and courses completed "Katie really led this team all weekend," Gumpf said. 7) a list of other sources of funding (being sought or confirmed) for the same project "She single-handedly scored (i.e. Office oflnten1~tional Studies, Nanovic [nstitute, etc.) three runs for us in the last game and led the team to vic tory." The Irish will spend the week working on the little 27~ Application Deadline: Wednesday,... February.... ' 2008 things before traveling to AJber·t Ravarino Italian Studies Travel Scholarship Gainesville, Fla., next week end to participate in the Prograrn in Italian Studies Aquafina Invitational. 343 O'Shaughnessy Hall University of Notre Dan1e Contact Jared Jedick at [email protected] .r------ page 16 The Observer + SPORTS Monday, February_18, 2008 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL NO WOMEN'S TENNIS Wake Forest upends Irish earn two-game sweep second-ranked Duke Wins over Wisconsin, South Florida put ND back on track Junior Katie Potts started sin stepped it up. Brook and Kelcy Freshman Teague scores 26 for Deacons By LORENZO REYES and gles play with a 6-2, 6-0 vietory, have been playing well all year, so DAN MASTERTON and Ciobanu and Rielley followed it wa'i good to sec our other pairs Sports Writers suit with convincing wins to dinch playing well." the match for Nolre Dame. Buck returned to action and For now. at least, No. 14 Notre Having won the match, there paired up with Tefl't to eomprise Dame is back on track. was no pressure as freshman the No. 3 team in the nation, After struggUng to a pair of loss Kristin Hafael, who primarily defeating sophomore pair Allyn es last week, the Irish swept plays No. 2 or 3 doubles, made Mueller and Jessiea Zok 8-0. Wisconsin and No. 31 South her singles debut in the No. 6 slot. Krisik and Hafael sealed the Florida at home .this weekend. Rafael took advantage of the doublns point with an 8-2 win With the defeat of its Big East opportunity and easily disposed or over Janette Bnjkova and Natalia rival, Notre Dame (6-4) is now rid her opponent 6-1, 6-2. Guevara. ing a three-game winning streak. The sncond half of singles play ''I'm impressed with the play of Irish head coach Jay also included wins from Krisik our f'rnshman, Kristen Hafael," Louderback thinks his team is and Tefl't. Louderback said. "She played real swinging on all cylinders. TefTt played No. 1 singles fiJr the well all wnnkend. I think she "I feel like we've gotten better second straight day and is now 2- gained a little confidence winning every match," he said. "We've 0 from that slot for the dual sea her singles match against become tougher and tougher as son and a perfect 9-0 in singles Wisconsin, and that carried over the matches go on. We played overall. ller 6-3, 6-0 win finished into the rest of the wonk." some soUd competition this week the 7-0 sweep for the Irish. and Ciobanu and Hinllny upnnded end and we'rn looking to build on five loyal fans celebrated the win junior lcri Hai and snnior Liz Cruz our momentum." for Tef'!l and the Irish with tradi X-5 in the final doubles match. AP tional student seetion push-ups. No. 62 Ciobanu beat Mueller 6- Duke's Kyle Singler blocks Wake Forest's James Johnson in the Notre Dame 7, Wisconsin 0 It was Notre Dame's second 1, 6-2, and No. 64 Buck dropped first half of the Deamon Deacons' 86-73 win. Despite playing without senior straight 7-0 victory over the lirst two games of tlw lirst set captain Brook Buck, the Irish Wisconsin. The Irish improved to but turned her play around Deacons held Mike Krzyzewski's cruisnd to victory Friday, sweeping 3-0 at home and broke the .500 against Zok for a 6-2, 6-0 victory. Associated Press team without a field goal for No. 74 Wisconsin, 7-0. mark for the first time since a sea No. X2 Potts secured the third WINSTON-SALEM. N.C. morn than 7 minuti1s in building With Buck injured, the Irish son-opening win over Louisville. win of the wnekend with lwr 6-3, Frnshrnnn J1]fT Tnagun and the first double-figuro lead of the lineup shifted around and ofTered 6-3 dnfnat of Hai. Jamns Johnson showPd no f1]ar gamn for either team. with opportunities for the players to Notre Dame 6, South Rorida 1 Notre Damn will travnl to of Duke. Instead. they helped Teague's three-point play with contribute in dillimmt slol'i. Looking to complete the week Durham, N.C. to face a surging coach Dino (;audio daim a victo 4:5X left making it 72-62. Sophomore Kali Krisik moved end sweep, the only thing left for Duke tnam Thursday. The Blue ry that sur11ly would have made Af't1~r Kyle Singler's layup at up to No. 1 doubles with junior the Irish to take care of wa'i South Devils topped No. 6 Florida earlier his late bPst friend proud. the 11:20 mark gave the Blue Keley Tefl't, and the pair started Florida. in the week, and Louderback is Teague scored 26 points and Devils their largest lead of the the Irish dominance with an 8-3 With a victory against the Bulls, not taking them Ughtly. t.he I>mnon DPacons shocked the half at 60-55. they missed 11 victory. Sophomore pair Cosmina the Irish remained undcfeatnd in "Duke is going to be a tough, No. 2 Blun Dovils Sf>-7:~ on consecutive shol'i beforn Paulus Ciobanu and Colleen Hielley Big East play, and improved their tough match up," he said. " ... Sunday night. snapping tlw Blue nnded tlw drought with a 3 with moved up to No. 2 doubles and overall record to 6-4. They're really under ranked. With Devils' 12-garne winning st.nmk just over 4 minutes left. They secured the doubles point with a Louderback said doubles play their talent, they arn definitely a and giving tlw first-ymtr coach didn't get doser than six points swift 8-2 win. was key in the victory. top live team, so we have a tough his signature victory a.•; thn hnir the rnst of the way. The Notre Dame singles attack "We're feeling really good about test ahead of ourselves." of the late Skip Prosser's pro 'Tonight, we played like we've won each match handily. Despite our doubles play," Louderback gram. alnmdy done something, and the the lineup changes, the Irish won said. "We played really well. We "I watdwd thnm on 'IV (and) I team that had to win won," all six matches in straight sets won all but one match all week Contact Lorenzo Reyes at dn~amnd about (North) Carolina Krzyzewski said. "We have to with no Wisconsin player winning end. I'm especially impressed with [email protected] and Dan and Dukn," Teagun said, adding always play like we have to win. more than three games in a set. our No. 2 and 3 spots really Masterton at [email protected] that he and Johnson "talked That's the sign of a champion. about that when we first got That's a part of learning. We hen~. 'Playing Duke. they're have some young guys who going to prnssurn you.' haven't been champions before, "That's why I want to play. I'm and they're trying to learn how not an AII-Amnrican or nothing. to bn that. Sometimes the best hut I want to go out and try to lnssons are ones that aro taught lwat 1me." in dnli1at." Johnson addnd 24 points and a Smith, a freshman, scored a pnrsonal-best 16 rnbounds for sca'ion-high 21 points, DeMarcus the Demon I>Paeons (16-X, 6-5 Nelson had 18 poinl'i and Singler Atlantic Coa.'it Conli~rencn), who finished with 17 for the Blue daimnd their first victory against Devils, who had all five starters a top-fiVf~ team sincn Chris Paul's foul out in thn dosing momenl'i sophomore season in 2004-05. in losing for the fourth time in This timn, the tin-dyn-clad five visit'i to Winston-Salem. "Scrnamin' Demons" studnnt "The foul trouble caught up section poun~d onto the eourt to with us. and they continued t.o enlnbratn thn pro)...rram 's biggnst play hard and well," Krzyzewski win sinen thny knocknd ofl' tho said. "The team that fought thnn-No. 4 Blue Dnvils on Fob. 2, harder and had more energy 2005. won .... I don't think it meant The Dmnon Deacons' third that wn just laid down and died. straight victory improved them Our kids fought. At this time of to 14-1 on thoir homo court and the year, you have to match or snapped a f'ivn-gamc losing be better than the other team." stn~ak in tho series. They did it In a way. the Demon Deacons on the strnngth of a 17-2 run beat th11 Blue Devils at their own ·.M.··.. ·.· ... ··.• ·.· .• midway through the second half game, spreading things out on .. and some smothering defense, the offensive end of the court •I fi>rdng Duko into a season-high and turning up the pressure on Minut~ fmm c;ampus at 22 turnovers. defense. Singler, who entered Salon~ Spa 1639' N.lron.wood Or. "(Teague) did a great job on having made 15-of-28 attempl'i dnfimse, but I think it was just us from 3-point range in his previ not bning Monday, February 18, 2008 The Observer+ SPORTS page 17 Dame lead to 12-9, the Irish MEN'S TENNIS needed to regroup. Record With Notre Dame hanging continued from page 20 onto its slim lead, the Irish Irish lose tvvice in ITA tourney made the necessary adjust goals in her first collegiate ments. Notre Dame rattled off game, and senior Heather 10 consecutive goals, pushing By MIKE GOTIMER Ferguson scored twice. the lead to 22-9. The rally Sports Writer Notre Dame came out strong included three goals from and looked to bury the Griffins Byers and two from McKinney. early, notching the first six Ashley Gray led the Griffins Facing some of the toughest goals of the game and racing with three goals, and Whitney competition in the country, out to the big advantage. Card and Chelsea Martinez Notre Dame split its first two Canisius fought back and tal scored twice each. matches in the ITA National lied the next four goals, closing Notre Dame topped the Team Indoor Championships the gap to 6-4. Canisius held Dukes 16-4 behind six goals this weekend in Seattle and close until a Byers goal with from Irish attack Jill Byers. All earned a spot in the consolation three seconds left in the first 100 wins have been under final before falling to No. 12 half gave the Irish a 10-5 lead Coyne. North Carolina Sunday. and momentum heading into On Friday, the Irish faced ofT the break. Contact Andy Ziccarelli at against No. 8 UCLA in the first After Canisius cut the Notre [email protected] round and lost a tough one to the Bruins. 4-0. The Irish began the match by losing the doubles point despite beginning their home slate against a strong showing from senior Laxers Penn State at 1 p.m. in the Loftus Sheeva Parbhu and junior Brett Center. Helgeson, who beat UCLA sen continued from page 20 ior I !are! Srugo and freshman Notes: Niek Meister 8-2. while picking up the victory. +Loyola held an advantage on Notre Dame senior Andrew VANESSA GEMPISfThe Observer "My performance was pretty total shots over Notre Dame with Both and freshman Stephen Irish senior Sheeva Parbhu returns a volley during Notre good," Kemp said. "I give credit to a final tally of 34-32. The Irish Havens lost a close match to Dame's 4-3 win over SMU on Feb. 10. my defense." were slightly better in face-ofl"s, Bruins senior Mathieu Dehaine Koppens and junior attack Jake however. They won nine of 17 and freshman Holden Seguso by and Helgeson lost to Penn State James in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, Wilcox led Loyola offensively. attempts. a score of 8-6. junior Adam Slagter and fresh which gave the Irish a 3-1 lead. Koppens finished the game with +Notre Dame has now won six The final Irish pair of fresh man Eddie Bourchier, 8-5. The Penn State took the next point one goal and three assists while straight season openers, a school man Tyler Davis and junior second Irish doubles pair of as Lynch defeated Roth, 6-2, 6- Wilcox added two scores and one record. The Irish have also beaten Santiago Montoya came up Davis and Montoya dropped the 3. assist. Freshman attack Matt the Greyhounds in two straight short against UCLA junior Mike second match 8-4 to Nittany Notre Dame earned its fourth Langan and sophomore attack openers. Last year, Notre Dame Look and senior Jeremy Dean lions senior Michael James and point when Parbhu defeated Cooper MacDonnell each netted won in Loftus, 9-7. by a score of 8-4. junior Brendan Lynch. Slagter in three sets, 6-1, 4-6, 6- one goal to aid the effort. In net, The Bruins took the momen Despite the slow start in dou 3, to clinch the Irish victory. Hagelin finished with 11 stops. Contact Pat O'Brien at tum from their doubles win into bles, the Irish came back strong The Irish could not keep their The Irish play next on Sunday, [email protected] the singles and won their first in singles play to surge ahead of momentum from the Penn State three matches to secure the 4-0 the Nittany Lions. The Irish win going against North win. picked up their first two singles Carolina and were shut out 5-0 The Irish loss to UCLA set up wins from Havens and fellow Sunday against the Tar Heels. NBA ALL-STAR GAME a Saturday match in the second freshman Dan Stahl. Parbhu and Helgeson won the round of the consolation brack Havens earned the first Irish No. 1 doubles point 8-5 against et against No. 16 Penn State, win after Bourchier withdrew North Carolina's David Stone whom the Irish defeated on Jan. from the match. Stahl then and Lenny Gullan. But the Tar LeBron natned MVP 20. The Irish were able to defeated Penn State freshman Heels dominated the rest of the rebound from the tough loss to Jake Toole in straight sets, 6-2, match, taking every other point UCLA on Friday to pick up a 4-2 6-2. in both doubles and singles. win. The Irish dominance in sin in close East victory The Irish started slowly and gles continued with No. 11 Contact Mike Gotimer at lost the doubles point. Parbhu Helgeson, defeating No. 51 [email protected] of his own. sending the home Associated Press town crowd into a frenzy. NEW ORLEANS - In a proud Allen finally missed and city still restoring its unique James poked away the ball, "BELOVED" beauty, the Eastern and then came up with the Conference repaired its own night's most stirring moment. Lenten Dap of Reflection image. Slashing through the lane, Ray Allen scored 28 points, Cleveland's me gas tar rose and making three straight 3-point dunked over several West ers in the final 3:15, and defenders, much like he did in LeBron James added 27 as the Game 5 of last year's Eastern East, widely considered the Conference finals in Detroit NBA's weaker half, beat the when he scored the Cavaliers' February 24, 2008, 2pm-7pm Western Conference 134-12 8 final 25 points. Location: Cree~ House in Sunday night's All-Star Paul was called for an offen Game. sive foul on the West's next Last year, the West humiliat trip. Dwyane Wade hit a layup ed the East in a 153-132 rout and Allen scored to make it Do you ~:?now that you are beloved by the One who made you? in Las Vegas when Kobe 131-125. Roy's 3-pointer with Bryant and Co. rewrote the 8. 7 seconds brought the West event's record books. However, within three, but Allen made Do you REALLY bnow? this time led by Allen's 14 three free throws to close it fourth-quarter points and a out. stunning dunk by James with The weekend in New Orleans The office of Cross Cultural Ministry invites you to tal:?e a few 55 seconds left, the East sal was about much more than hours this Lent and spend time thinbing about who loves you. vaged some pride and can spectacular dunks, a, game Come to the quiet and let that Love soab in. return to the season's second featuring marginal defense or half with bragging rights. collecting strings of beads James, who added nine while strolling down boozy For an application or more information, contact Judy Madden in assists and eight rebounds, Bourbon Street. The NBA was the MVP for the second came to the Big Easy hoping to the Cross Cultural Ministry Office -1!02 Coleman-Morse Center. time in three years. He also help this special city continue won the honor in 2006. its comeback from Hurricane Email: [email protected]_ "We didn't want to come out Katrina, the effects of wnich here and get beat up on are still being felt 2? years again," James said. since she blasted through. Applications can also be picbed up in Retreats Office in 114 Amare Stoudemire, Brandon On Friday, the world's Roy and Carmelo Anthony biggest basketball names as Coleman-Morse Center. scored 18 points apiece to lead well as hundreds of volunteers the West, which trailed by 13 fanned out to all sides of the *There is no cost for this Day of Reflection. entering the fourth quarter city to help refurbish play and rallied behind New grounds, paint houses and *Space is limited to the first 20 people so don't wait. Orleans' Chris Paul. The lend a hand with whatever guard's seventh assist of the they could on a day devoted to final period set up Roy's layup community service. to give the West a 122-119 Many of the players were lead. moved by the experience and But Boston's Allen, the final came away with a greater player added to either roster, sense of what the area has CM knocked down his second 3- gone through and the monu Campus Minisn·y pointer in 48 seconds to tie it mental work that lies ahead in before Paul answered with a 3 the Gulf Coast Region. i I _j page I 8 The Observer + SPORTS Monday, February I 8, 2008 remained 1-0 until 9:55 into the third period, when sen Rutgers Alaska ior Mark Van Guilder tied continued from page 20 continued from page 20 tlw gamn on Notre Dame's seventh power-play ehancP nnd, but the ball rkodwtnd out totaled 32 saves in the con of tlw night. Van Guilder of bounds ofT three Scarlet test. The score would carried the puek down the Knights. remain tied until Thang's left boards and !'ired a shot On thn nnsuing Notre Dame winner. from the left cirele that possession, junior guard Kyle The Irish kept the momen defleeted ol'f' an Alaska McAiarney drained two l'ree tum up Saturday night, rip del'enseman and past throws. Scarlet Knight Corny ping off a season-high 20 Hogers. Chandler missed a desp1wation 3, shots in the l'irst period. Irish eoach Jd'J' Jackson and thn Irish lnft Piscataway with None of them got past was traveling back from the win . Rogers, though, and the sen Fairbanks, Alaska. and .Jackson was a bright spot on ior linished with 40 saves. could not be reached l'or an otherwise ugly day for Notre While Notre Dame was comment. Dame (I 1J-5, 9-3 Big East). The busy shooting, the Nanooks The three points give the sophomore point guard had 17 were busy scoring in the Irish 31 on the season, only points. 10 assists and eight first period Saturday. After four points behind second rnbounds - two boards shy or an apparent Adam Lee goal place Miami (Ohiol and his first triple-double. at 6:22 of the period was Michigan State with four "My opportunities carne and I wiped off due to interference games remaining in the sea knocknd down sonw shots." on Pearce, Alaska made its son. Notre Dame only needs .Jackson said by phonn al'ter the next chance count. two points next weekend in game. On a power play, defense two games against Ohio .ladson's biggest play came man Tyler Eckford found State to secure a top-four with lnss than a minute rnmain freshman Landon Novotney seed and first-round bye in ing and the Irish dinging to a 67- alone in the slot, and the CCHA playoffs. The Irish h6 lead. lie nearly lost the ball Novotney unleashed a back take on the Buekeyes at 7:35 between a double-team but hand that beat Pearce on Friday night and 7:05 on meoven~d enough to get it to sen between the lPgs at 8:24 of Saturday night at the JACC. ior forward Hob Kurz, who the period. knocked down a wide-open Hogers' stnllar net-mind Contact Sam Werner at jumper l'or a thrnn-point lead. ing ensured that the seore [email protected] "I was driving and the guy readwd in and knocked it away," .lackson said. "They thought it was going to be a stmtl. ... It went IAN GAVLICK!The Observer through my legs and nobody Irish guard Kyle McAiarney defends Friars guard Brian McKenzie dur grabbed it, so I tippml it up and ing Notre Dame's 81-74 overtime win over Providence on Jan. 31. boun1:ml passed it to Hob." Kurz. who battled the flu last After Kurz's jumper, two free struggled with a Big East bottom wnek, linishnd the ganw with 1 I throws by Hutgers guard I'Pnder this weekend, def1~ating points and 14 rnbounds. Anthony Farmer brought the lowly South Florida 74-73 in "lin knocknd down some big Notre Dame lead back to one at overtime Saturday. shots," Jackson said of' Kurz. 69-68. +The Irish wore their blue "That's what he dons on a daily Farmer, who scored 16 point<>, road uniforms Sunday. Notre basis." and forward .I.H. Inman, who Dame is just 2-4 in blue this sea Notre Dame started slow but scored 14, led Hutgers (1 0-17, 2- son- with wins over Monmouth usnd a 12-3 run midway through 12 Big East). and Hutgers and losses to the first hall' to open up a 10- Notre Dame will put its 34- Marquette, Georgetown, Baylor, point lead at :~4-24. The Irish lnd game .Joyce Center winning and Georgia Tech. by night. 42-34. at half'timn. streak on the line Thursday By contrast, Notre Dame is 2-1 In the second hall', the against Pittsburgh. wearing its alternate road black Piscataway crowd came alive as uniforms, with wins over their team went on a 14-2 run to Notes: Villanova and Seton Hall and a take a five-point lead at 55-50 +The win moved the Irish into loss to Connecticut. with 11: I l remaining. a tin for third place in the Big The Irish are 15-0 wearing The Scarlet Knights held the East with Connecticut. At 9-3, the white this season, with 14 home advantage f'or live minutes until a Irish and II uskies are a half wins and a victory over Kansas tip-in by llarangody and back-to game back of conference co State in Madison Square Garden. hack :~-pointers by Kurz and leaders Georgetown and McAlarney put the Irish ahead Louisville. Contact Chris Khorey at 65-57 with six minutes to play. Like Notre Dame, Connecticut [email protected] Charel Allen led the Irish Sophomore forward Nicole with 22 points and 12 Michael scored 14 points, and Orange rPbounds. It was the lirst time senior center Vaida Sipaviciute continued from page 20 an Irish player had had at added 12. least 20 points and 10 McGraw said Morrow hurt and passed the Orange (19-5, rebounds since Allen did it last the Irish early, but switching 7-4 l to move into fourth place season, on Feb. 11 against to the box-and-one style of in the conference. DePaul. defense limited Morrow's Notre Dame has won at least "This was the best game of effectiveness. 20 games in 14 of' tho past 15 hPr Big East season," McGraw Notre Dame had previously seasons, and in 18 of' Muffnt said. "She was aggressive, she used a box-and-one against McGraw's 21 seasons as head was looking for her shot. and Marquette to shut down coach. she took care of the ball. She Golden Eagles guard Krystal "I think it's great l'or this was wire to wire the best play Ellis. group.. that,we got.12<~. wi?sl er on the floor." Notre Dame led 58-51 with early, Md,raw sa1d. We ve Sophomore center Erica 8:50 remaining but committed always· used that as a baromn Williamson hit eight of' her 12 three turnovers and allowed tnr for getting into the NCAA free throws and had 14 points Syracuse to come back. The Tournanwnt." and 11 Orange went on a 10-3 run The Irish took rebounds. Notre and made the score 61-60 over in the "f;lllen/ was aggres DamP hadn't with 5:13 lert in the game. paint on both sive, she was looking had two players Mallory's 3-pointer with 2:12 nnds of tho floor manage double left in the half put the Irish up and had 14 for her shot, and she doubles since 28-21, but four free throws more robounds look care of the ball. Jan. 26, 2005, and a layup from Michael than tlw Orange She was wire to wire against St. again elosed the gap to one - who have the best player .John's. point. avnrag1~d an Junior guard Senior guard Tulyah Gaines advantage of on the floor. " Lindsay had eight assists - four more IJ.S hoards per Schrader had 12 than her season average - game this sea Muffet McGraw points, and and two steals in the game. son. They kept freshman guard McGraw said despite reach tlwir rebound Irish coach Brittany Mallory ing the 20-win mark, she and ase recycle ing totals bal- hit three 3- her team aren't caught up in anced as well - they had 20 pointers for nine points. records or rankings. on oiTnnse and 25 on defense. "(Mallory's! been shooting "We're playing really good "That was critical." McGraw the ball well lately at prac basketball right now," she said. "We really needed that, tice," McGraw said. said. 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THE OBSERVER Monday, February 18, 2008 PORTS page 20 NO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL MEN'S BASKETBALL Orange crushed Irish avoid upset in Allen, Williamson get double-doubles in win Piscatavvay By BILL BRINK Spons Writer By CHRIS KHOREY Sports Editor It just hadn't been Melissa Lnehlitner's night. Luke Harangody struggled The sophomore guard was mightily, but sophomore Tory 0-for-5 from the floor, and her Jackson's big game and a kny only two points came on free blunder by Hutgers allowed No. throws. But moments after 18 Notre Dame to escape eoming off the bench late in Piscataway, N.J., with a 71-68 the sP.eond half, two quick road win Sunday. jump shots salvaged her The sophomore, who was game. avera1:,>ing more than 20 poinl<; a Lnehlitnnr hit a jumper with game, was stymied by the 2:52 remaining and another Scarlet Knight defense all day. with 2:17 left to spark No. 16 He finished the game with only Notre Damn's offense on a 15- 10 poinl<> on 5-for-16 shooting. 3 run en route to a 79-67 win Harangody even had a chance over No. 21 Syracuse to redeem his day with 15 sec Saturday at the Carrier Dome. onds remaining. The Irish led The Irish hit 1 I foul shots in 69-68, and the forward stepped the final 1:20 to widen the to the free-throw line for a one gap. and-one and a chance to put the Notre Dame improved to 20- lead at three points. 5 IR-3 Big East) on the season WU YUE!The Observer Harangody missed on the front Irish guard Charel Allen drives past Huskies guard Ketia Swanier during Notre Dame's 81-64 loss to see ORANGE/page 18 Connecticut on Jan. 27. Notre Dame beat Syracuse 79-67 Saturday in the Carrier Dome. see RUTGERS/page 18 HOCKEY Team gets three goals from 71 shots in weekend series CCHA) unleashed a combined with 5:11 left in the third night, notching his seventh Notre Dame goalie Jordan By SAM WERNER total of 71 shots, including a period Friday night. Thang goal of the season on the Pearce managed to keep the Sports Writer whopping 41 Saturday night, received a backhand pass in power play at 15:19 of the Nanooks scoreless until 10:19 in two games against the the slot from defenseman Kyle first period. Forward Evan of the third period, when Notre Damn got in its shots Nanooks (8-17-5, 8-14-5 Lawson and launched a one Rankin fed the puck to Regan, Alaska forward Nathan against Alaska this weekend. CCIIA), but netted only three timer past Alaska goalie Wylie who was positioned at the Lawrence tied the score at 1- Unfortunately, only a few of goals in a 2-1 win and 1-1 tie. Hogers, who made 28 saves bottom of the left circle. 1. Lawrence pushed a them managed to get in the Notre Dame scored late on the night. Regan fired a low shot that rebound past Pearce, who rwt. goals in both games, induding Garrett Regan got the Irish beat Hogers just inside the far The Irish (21-10-3, 14-7-3 a Hyan Thang game-winner on the board first Friday post. see ALASKA/page 18 WOMEN's lACROSSE MEN'S lACROSSE Notre Dame notches lOOth victory ND has 7 scorers By ANDY ZICCARELLI Sports Writer in win over Loyola Notre Dame got oil' to a fast - and record-setting - start ing. this wm1kend. By PAT O'BRIEN The Irish stopped the bleeding The Irish tied a school Sports Writer when freshman midfielder Zach rnmrd for goals in a 22-10 win Brenneman put one past Loyola ovnr Canisius on Friday, and Senior attack Alex Wharton freshman goaltender Jake I Iagelin then registered the program's sealed a 7-6 victory for the Irish for a 6-5 Notre Dame advantage. I OOth win on Sunday against over No. 17 Loyola (Md.) Saturday Senior attack Shane KoppHns fimd Duquesne. Both games were in Baltimore by scoring with 3:33 right back and tied the game at played at the Loftus Center. remaining in the season-opener six with fewer than seven minutes Tnn diiTernnt players scored for both squads. left in regulation. for Notre Dame in its season The Irish used a variety of "It was a good win," Irish senior opening win over Canisius. weapons oflensively, finishing with goaltender Joey Kemp said. "(;enerally, wn likn an up a different player scoring each of "[Loyola! is top-20. They will beat tnm po, aggrnssivn-on -dnf'ense the seven goals. a lot of teams (this season(. It's a type of team," Irish coaeh No. 10 Notre Dame started the win, and it's a learning experi Traey Coyne said before the ftrst quarter strong, netting three ence." Canisius ganw. "I guess we'll scores before the Greyhounds tal Junior midfielder Dan Gibson, find out tonight what our lied any. Loyola ended its scoring sophomore attaek Colin Igoe, jun style's going to be." drought with an early second ior attack Dunean Swezey and If Friday was any indication, quarter score courtesy of sopho Wharton all recorded one goal the Irish look like they will be more attack Collin Finnerty. Alter and one a<>sist lbr the Irish. Junior pushing tlw tempo all season. trading a few more goals, Notre attack Hyan Hoff also netted a Midf'inlder Caitlin McKinney Dame found itself ahead of Loyola goal while sophomore attack Neal and Byers led the team with 5-2 at the half. Hicks added an assist. five goals apiece. Freshman The third quarter, however, was On tlw defensive side. Kemp Shaylyn Blaney added four WU YUE!The Observer all Loyola's. The Greyhound attaek made 13 stops for Notre Dame Irish attack Jill Byers shoots during Notre Dame's 22-10 win over scored three times to tie the game see RECORD/page 17 Canlslus on Friday. at five with one quarter remain- see LAXERS/page 17