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2001 Indiana Collegiate Pre~s Association SCHOLaSTIC • Notre Dame Reacts 03 News Magazine of the Year TABLE Of CONTENTS by Scholastic staff " INFORMED. INTELLIGENT. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. ISenior staff members reflect on Tuesday's » Closing the Gate? by Kristin Kramer 13 tragedy,. .

0~C5 » Through the Looking Glass by Jacklyn Kiefer 14 ll® ISSUES ,~~) DOLLARS London Time.S .: '. :. . . ··16 by Jacklyn Kiefer .' » Let's Rally by Jessica Oaues 24 . Wantto stUdY.. in London? a r-----~--~~----~---~------~~~----~ Schola~tic'takes Ilook. at the programs that are available to .... , PLEASE PLACE ME ON YOUR ~i£I~::©Xl:(pi1(@r~1 LIST. . SEND THIS FORM AND , » Up Against the Wall by Gerard Meskill 26 " interested students.""' ". .... $35.00 PAYMENT TO: , NAME: SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE . .' "., , 315 LAFORTUNE STUDENT CENTER ." » Summer Lovin' by Sheila Flynn 32 ,. ADDRESS: NOTRE DAME, IN 46556 . ". " ·Hole in One .. ."' .... '28 by Kathleen Corte. ,."" " .' . .' From the Editor 2 Out of Bounds 31 ND Notebook 8 Week in Distortion 34 ITom Coyne, a Notre Dam!,) graduate, adapts . 'I'.' Campus Watch 19 Calendar 35 . his r~cently pUblished bb.ok into a movie. '. I... I '" .. Splinters 21 Final Word 36 . . .~..:. COVER DESIGN COVER PHOTO TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO PAGE MIKE MIKE NICOLE SUBSCRIBE TODAY GRIFFIN GRIFFIN KINNEY v16 to the only student-produced magazine serving Notre Dame students, parents and alumni

0~C5 » Through the Looking Glass by Jacklyn Kiefer 14 ll® ISSUES ,~~) DOLLARS London Time.S .: '. :. . . ··16 by Jacklyn Kiefer .' » Let's Rally by Jessica Oaues 24 . Wantto stUdY.. in London? a r-----~--~~----~---~------~~~----~ Schola~tic'takes Ilook. at the programs that are available to .... , PLEASE PLACE ME ON YOUR ~i£I~::©Xl:(pi1(@r~1 LIST. . SEND THIS FORM AND , » Up Against the Wall by Gerard Meskill 26 " interested students.""' ". .... $35.00 PAYMENT TO: , NAME: SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE . .' "., , 315 LAFORTUNE STUDENT CENTER ." » Summer Lovin' by Sheila Flynn 32 ,. ADDRESS: NOTRE DAME, IN 46556 . ". " ·Hole in One .. ."' .... '28 by Kathleen Corte. ,."" " .' . .' From the Editor 2 Out of Bounds 31 ND Notebook 8 Week in Distortion 34 ITom Coyne, a Notre Dam!,) graduate, adapts . 'I'.' Campus Watch 19 Calendar 35 . his r~cently pUblished bb.ok into a movie. '. I... I '" .. Splinters 21 Final Word 36 . . .~..:. Vol. 143, No. 02 • 14 SEPT 2001 SCHOLaSTIC Editor In Chief Michael P. Griflin

Managing Editor Matthew Barr

Associate Editor Jessica L. Daues

Executive Editor Sarah Childress F R.O M THE E D ITO R News RESPOND TO: [email protected] Matthew C. Ziegler, editor Jeffrey Drocco, assistant Katie Freddoso, assistant

Campus Life Jacklyn D. Kiefer, editor From Belfast to Hell Kristin A. Kramer, assistant Sports Gerard J. Meskill, editor "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children." David Murray, assistant

surround the depiction of his long hair and strong features. Instead, it was the , Design i Crissy Manary, editor words that frame him. The thought of Belfast's children laughing - I dare say, I Katie Browning, assislant living a normal life - is refreshing, and hopefully prophetic, optimism. But ! Jessica A. Chamberlain, assistant i Jen Banday . Belfast's children are both Protestant and Catholic. 1 Brendan Condon i Nick Dailey Laughing and living aren't easy when an angry mob pickets outside a school : Eric Doversberger i Nicole Kenney for young girls, keeping the pupils in their homes, terrified. It is especially difficult when such events are not out of the ordinary - or even a welcome . i Photography I i Katherine A. Foster, editor change from bombings and dead civilians. ! j Graphic Arts Sadly, the "revenge" will prevent the very laughter of the children. Not until I Michael M. delaRosa, editor the two groups decide to come to an understanding of each other will the chil iCopy look for I Adam M. Aroian, editor ISSUE 3 dren be permitted to walk on the streets. Not until the riots, killing and oppres- . !Jennifer L. Wahoske, assistant on i Cecilia Hadley sion are stopped will the night air be touched by innocent laughter. Until then, ,J Aaron Trulley SEPT 27 I the children will walk quickly along the streets with curbs painted with the ! Distribution colors of their parents' allegiance. The Protestant children follow the red, white !Felisia Johns, manager and blue of the British Union Jack. The Catholic children follow the green, 1 Advertising ! Jessica B. Potish, manager white and orange of the Republic. And a wall cordons off the young, leaving i Kyle Zuaro, assistant them to learn of each other through murals on buildings' walls. iOnline ! F. Brian Scofield, manager After Tuesday's horrific events, the United States is left with a choice. Will ! Jamie L. Moran, assistant we teach our children to further hate those who already detest us for our past I I : : Marketing actions? Or will we, through careful deliberation, hold our war-mongering horses L.J Kristen D'Arcy, manager and earn the respect of the world? Action must be taken, but rationality, not Disce Quasi Semper Vic/uflls revenge, must be behind the decisions. If the wrong choice is made today, I Vive Quasi era.; Mari/u/'lls worry that the only sound to be heard from our children's mouths will be whim pers and screams. 'Published biweekly at the University of Notre Dame n! and printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, I i 46556. The entire contents of Scholastic magazine is I ! Cop\::right © 2001. All rights reserved. No contents of More to Come ! ! this magazine, either in whole or in part, may be This issue is arriving on the newsstands a day later than normal. The edito i Ireproduced in any manner without written consent of I ,the publisher. Scholastic magazine does not assume rial board of Scholastic chose to publish late to permit the inclusion of a re : liability for unsolicited manuscripts or material. All i correspondence should be sent to Scholastic sponse to the atrocities that have been committed against the United States. These, however, are just the beginning. i~6~g5~i~~e L~~~~U~~n~~~:~~~ee~~e~h~~~:W~~:eb~N i publish~d in the next issue, letters must be received by In two weeks, Scholastic will be releasing our Terrorism Memorial Issue. 15:00 p.m. Monday before the issue. All letters must i include the writer's name, address and phone number. And we need your help. We intend to record the Notre Dame response. How , ! All letters must be signed. Names will be withheld upon are students feeling? What do professors have to say? Share with the Notre i i request in certain instances. Scholastic reserves the I ; right to edit letters for space. Requests for corrections Dame community your pairi and your midnight prayers. See pages 3 through 7 I I made more than 21 days after publication cannot be t ! guaranteed.The subscription rate is $35 per year. for information on submitting essays, narratives, poems and thoughts. ! .i Available back issues are $2.50 per copy; please Be well. i I specify volume and number, or date. Copies of the : I annual football review are available at $5 per copy. I i Advertising rates available on request. The opinions ! .r expressed in Scholastic magazine are not necessarily ! J! those of the University of Notre Dame or the student !.. body. Michael P. Griffin, Editor

2 SCHOLASTICFROM THE EDITOR SCHOLASTICNEWS 3 Vol. 143, No. 02 • 14 SEPT 2001 SCHOLaSTIC Editor In Chief Michael P. Griflin

Managing Editor Matthew Barr

Associate Editor Jessica L. Daues

Executive Editor Sarah Childress F R.O M THE E D ITO R News RESPOND TO: [email protected] Matthew C. Ziegler, editor Jeffrey Drocco, assistant Katie Freddoso, assistant

Campus Life Jacklyn D. Kiefer, editor From Belfast to Hell Kristin A. Kramer, assistant Sports Gerard J. Meskill, editor "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children." David Murray, assistant

A mural on the wall in West Belfast was dedicated to Bobby Sands, a Entertainment young man who, along with a group oflike-minded comrades, died on hunger Kathleen Corte, editor i Carrie E. Sweeney, assistant strike in 1981. To some Irish, he is a hero. To others, he is a terrorist. , Departments What struck me were not the elaborate, almost trippy, swirls of color that . Cristin E. Fenzel, editor surround the depiction of his long hair and strong features. Instead, it was the , Design i Crissy Manary, editor words that frame him. The thought of Belfast's children laughing - I dare say, I Katie Browning, assislant living a normal life - is refreshing, and hopefully prophetic, optimism. But ! Jessica A. Chamberlain, assistant i Jen Banday . Belfast's children are both Protestant and Catholic. 1 Brendan Condon i Nick Dailey Laughing and living aren't easy when an angry mob pickets outside a school : Eric Doversberger i Nicole Kenney for young girls, keeping the pupils in their homes, terrified. It is especially difficult when such events are not out of the ordinary - or even a welcome . i Photography I i Katherine A. Foster, editor change from bombings and dead civilians. ! j Graphic Arts Sadly, the "revenge" will prevent the very laughter of the children. Not until I Michael M. delaRosa, editor the two groups decide to come to an understanding of each other will the chil iCopy look for I Adam M. Aroian, editor ISSUE 3 dren be permitted to walk on the streets. Not until the riots, killing and oppres- . !Jennifer L. Wahoske, assistant on i Cecilia Hadley sion are stopped will the night air be touched by innocent laughter. Until then, ,J Aaron Trulley SEPT 27 I the children will walk quickly along the streets with curbs painted with the ! Distribution colors of their parents' allegiance. The Protestant children follow the red, white !Felisia Johns, manager and blue of the British Union Jack. The Catholic children follow the green, 1 Advertising ! Jessica B. Potish, manager white and orange of the Republic. And a wall cordons off the young, leaving i Kyle Zuaro, assistant them to learn of each other through murals on buildings' walls. iOnline ! F. Brian Scofield, manager After Tuesday's horrific events, the United States is left with a choice. Will ! Jamie L. Moran, assistant we teach our children to further hate those who already detest us for our past I I : : Marketing actions? Or will we, through careful deliberation, hold our war-mongering horses L.J Kristen D'Arcy, manager and earn the respect of the world? Action must be taken, but rationality, not Disce Quasi Semper Vic/uflls revenge, must be behind the decisions. If the wrong choice is made today, I Vive Quasi era.; Mari/u/'lls worry that the only sound to be heard from our children's mouths will be whim pers and screams. 'Published biweekly at the University of Notre Dame n! and printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, I i 46556. The entire contents of Scholastic magazine is I ! Cop\::right © 2001. All rights reserved. No contents of More to Come ! ! this magazine, either in whole or in part, may be This issue is arriving on the newsstands a day later than normal. The edito i Ireproduced in any manner without written consent of I ,the publisher. Scholastic magazine does not assume rial board of Scholastic chose to publish late to permit the inclusion of a re : liability for unsolicited manuscripts or material. All i correspondence should be sent to Scholastic sponse to the atrocities that have been committed against the United States. These, however, are just the beginning. i~6~g5~i~~e L~~~~U~~n~~~:~~~ee~~e~h~~~:W~~:eb~N i publish~d in the next issue, letters must be received by In two weeks, Scholastic will be releasing our Terrorism Memorial Issue. 15:00 p.m. Monday before the issue. All letters must i include the writer's name, address and phone number. And we need your help. We intend to record the Notre Dame response. How , ! All letters must be signed. Names will be withheld upon are students feeling? What do professors have to say? Share with the Notre i i request in certain instances. Scholastic reserves the I ; right to edit letters for space. Requests for corrections Dame community your pairi and your midnight prayers. See pages 3 through 7 I I made more than 21 days after publication cannot be t ! guaranteed.The subscription rate is $35 per year. for information on submitting essays, narratives, poems and thoughts. ! .i Available back issues are $2.50 per copy; please Be well. i I specify volume and number, or date. Copies of the : I annual football review are available at $5 per copy. I i Advertising rates available on request. The opinions ! .r expressed in Scholastic magazine are not necessarily ! J! those of the University of Notre Dame or the student !.. body. Michael P. Griffin, Editor

2 SCHOLASTICFROM THE EDITOR SCHOLASTICNEWS 3 •... , , .' ..' _ . , .....• ;-' ..< ...•... ' .' .• ' .·c .•....• "., ...' ...•... ' _~,', .:_ ", .•...... '" '......

End of the Innocence Seeking to Comprehend What should we do, now that the unthinkable has happened? Full understanding must take into account America's complex global image

KIMBERLYBLACKWELL my last semester in London, a bomb from a are unaware of world affairs simply because KRISTIN KRAMER ter how many of them we kill, they will go people have become blinded by this hatred dissident IRA faction went off in front of a we do not have to be aware of them. If a to their deaths believing they have accom because, for all their blustering, Americans was late hearing the news; CNN.com BBC office, and several tube stops were civil war is raging in Sri Lanka, if a multi or a brief period on Tuesday night I plished much good with Tuesday's attack. are a great people. The United States is an Iwould not load on my Web browser evacuated because of threats. Both of these national war is fought in Congo, if kidnap Fwas ableto forget about the "Attack Punish the ones we can find. Increase air incredible country, and people who are not when I checked it at 8:05 a.m., so I for- countries saw the height of these internal ping is rampant in Colombia, it is a life on America." I began my morning port security. Step up intelligence efforts to proud to be Americans, although they do got about checking the news for a little terrorist actions in the 1970s and 80s and and-death reality for them. But we don't see on Wednesday with a clearer mind, or at quell terrorist activity before it hits. But have that right, are unappreciative of what while. After all, the top news for the past continue to live with the violence. it here because those countries do not have least one less focused on the previous day's showing everyone how big and bad we are they have. Things, places and people can 24 hours had only been a decline in the stock The new terrorism here has been directed, immediate impacts on us - we are physi horrors. Then my professor brought it up in won't stop the source of Tuesday's attack. always be worse, and, in much of the world, market - not a fascinating subject for a gov however, not by internal factions - we saw cally and psychologically far removed from class, and I remembered. I remembered it ail. We'll be holding a people responsible for they are. The spirit of magnanimity, ernment major. I showered, read and got ready that in Oklahoma City-but, in all likeli them. What we do in America, however,just A nervous feeling fluttered in my stomach. the actions of a few, and such a modus volunteerism and courtesy that we have here for class. It wasn't until 11 o'clock that I heard hood, by radical Islamic fundamentalists. because of our size and influence, usually It all came back to me as we talked in operandus is exactly what has helped breed isn't found everywhere else in the world. people saying in the hallway that the univer (At press time, Bush-administration offi does have ramifications for them. It is per class. The obliteration of the towers. The hatred of the United States in the past. Nor is our freedom. sity was closed. "What's going on?" I de cials have identified associates of Saudi ex- haps inevitable that resentment of us would hostage-bearing planes turned into weap The United States has a history of get I am proud to be an American. I, too, sat manded with the first ons of terror. The footage of Palestinians ting involved in the internal affairs of other shocked watching the events unfold on TV stirrings of alarm. "The celebrating in the streets. The morning was nations - whether they want us to or not. for much of Tuesday. And the more I bombs!" was the how-can down. Towers collapsed. Thousands a deluge of perverse activities that were all In many cases, our meddling in Third-World learned, the more I hated them for it. Even you-not-know? response I re o ~~nes stunningly devastating and of images pow countries during the Cold War era more than now, I hate them for what they've done and ceived. I ran into my room, LJnlssiing. In the first moments it seemed apoca erful by themselves. Oddly, the nervous justifies their dislike of us. We've used our for the terror and the death they have and now CNN came up. feeling in my stomach worsened when the superior economic and technological re brought to thousands of innocent people. I The Pentagon is burning. lyptic in scale; I could only wonder, along with class discussion turned to talk of retribu sources to help overthrow South American hate them for how vulnerable they've made My hand flew to my tion against the enemy - of a possible dec governments, exacerbate tensions in the me feel. But I don't even know who. "they" mouth as I scanned the list millions of others, what further tragedies wbuld laration of war. One of my classmates said Middle East and keep Southeast Asia frag are yet, and until I do, striking out blindly of terse statements on the something to the effect that we had to "go mented. This much I have learned in my with my hatred won't make me much bet Web page: Planes down. be visited. . ~ 6J in there and hit them so hard that they would American history classes here at Notre ter than they are. Towers collapsed. Thou never think about doing anything like that Dame. Spending a semester in Europe also I fully realize that I do not bear the bur sands missing. In the first moments it tremist Osama bin Laden as the suspects.) build up in the rest of the world, that we to the United States of America ever again." taught me that Americans do not always den of responsibility that political and mili seemed apocalyptic in scale; in the next, like Ordinary Americans have done nothing to would be blamed for others' problems and How foolish, I thought to myself. How typi leave the best impression behind them. A tary leaders in our country do at this point. the nightmarish fiction scenarios of Tom them; nevertheless we have all incurred our ignorance of those problems. But even cally American but foolish. lot of American tourists tramp around, de Nor do I possess the leadership and deci Clancy novels come to life. I could only their hatred and now, possibly, have borne if government policies might be faulted Punishment - harsh and exacting pun mand their Burger Kings and speak to Eu sivene.ss such positions ·demand. It takes wonder, along with millions of others, what the brunt of their wrath. (though I sometimes wonder why America ishment - should be meted out to those ropeans in loud English, assuming every stronger stuff than I have, and judging is all further tragedies would be visited. I quickly A friend who has studied in Israel and shouldn't work to further America's inter who have committed these abominations. one must speak our language. Why wouldn't too easy from the sidelines and in hindsight. went to a friend's room and, for three hours, lived among Palestinians has a unique in ests in the world), average citizens are not But the attitude of "let me hit you as hard they -the rest of the world revolves around I only ask, as an American, that they put with the TV on one station and his com sight into the emotions surging there. By the guilty ones. On Tuesday, terrorists pun as I can to remind you of who's really in us and our big economy, doesn't it? forward America's best face - intelligence puter transmitting live feed from another, no means can these excuse the acts of which ished them anyway. In the process, they charge of the world" is inappropriate when It is such past transgressions and attitudes and compassion - rather. than her sheer we watched the news unfold. And then we they are accused, but perhaps they can shattered our distance, our innocence. dealing with terrorists. As should be abun that are at the root of much of the hatred brute force. 0 headed out to Mass to pray. Out on the quad, somewhat explain their thinking. What As we begin to recover from the week's dantly clear by now, such radical terrorists that some groups and peoples have for the The views of the author do /lot reflect those of my eyes remained focused on the flag, flut bothers Palestinians most, she says, what devastation, the world stands with us to con do not care whether they die or not. No mat- United States. The real tragedy is that many Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame. tering gently in the wind, at half-mast. I was feeds their helpless frustration, is not so demn the despicable acts of terror and ex shaken: This isn't supposed to happen here. much American support of Israel as Ameri act punishment from those who supported The rest of the world, including the West, cans' utter ignorance of the situation. and harbored the offenders. However, per .has long lived with terrorism. This is dif Twenty-five percent of adult Americans haps another consequence of this terrible 00 ferent, of course - never has such a mas cannot even point to the Pacific Ocean on a day will be that we learn that we now stand . l_JOe:J0f my classmates said something to the effect that w~ had to sively destructive terrorist attack been world map; the vast majority must surely with the world. We may begin to seek a grow _"goLin there and hit them so hard that they would never think about launched on any nation. But terrorism is be unable to locate Israel, much less dis ing awareness and understanding of the world, common in many places. I remember sit play any awareness of the complex history friendly or hostile, beyond our shores. doing anYthing like that to the United States of America erex; agajin." ting in my Spanish family's living room in of the Middle East and America's involve It wasn't supposed to happen here, but it Toledo in January 2000 when we learned ment there. The United States is the lone gi has, and now we must go forward together. 0 How foolish, I thought to myself. How typically American lf~h. that the year-long truce kept by ETA, the ant on the world stage, and international af- Basque separatist group, had been violently . fairs are just so many flies to be brushed away. The views of the author do not reflect those of broken by an explosion in Madrid. During We can't help who we are. Most people Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame.

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End of the Innocence Seeking to Comprehend What should we do, now that the unthinkable has happened? Full understanding must take into account America's complex global image

4 SCHOLASTICNEWS SCHOLASTICNEWS 5 Never the Same Tragedy forever alters everyone's life A SPECIAL ISSUE CRISTINMANARY Hiroshima and Nagasaki because we were next week they will be sent to a country right in our belief to protect democracy. halfway around the world to fight a war t has been 24 hours since my mother Now this country and its leaders are about against a cowardly and evil enemy. Though to cope with a tragedy Icalled me and told me to turn on the to make a plan of retaliation, and we hope my family is not from New York or Wash news. I dress in an exhausted state of once again that our truth triumphs. ington, I am just as devastated and terrified. numbness and try to shake the feeling that I After class, I head to Reckers for my usual The Catholic doctrine that this university just woke up from a nightmare. I leave for smoothie. Every television is tuned into a has been built on teaches us that the world's class and walk past the library and onto news program just as they are across cam suffering is our own. It is our responsibility to South Quad. The campus seems strangely pus, and the scenes of Tuesday's horrible continue serving each other through support, normal. The dining halls are open, athletes tragedy flicker across the screen. I watch prayer and comfort. whiz by on bikes and students gossip as they again as one of the planes crashes into the I finally arrive back 'at my room. As al walk to class. But the flag is at half-mast World Trade Center. Still, I can't help but ways, the door is unlocked. For the first time in four years, I tell myself to lock it the next time I leave. doctrine that this university has During the entire Lf),~atholic course of my life I been built on teaches us that the world's suf have taken for Essays granted the security fering,is our own. It is our responsibility to con that I have been provided by living Narratives in the United States. tinue serving each otherthrough sup,poL!fl D,"" Before September prayer and comfort. 11, 2001, security Poems 0 CJ was a word we used when referring to and an eerie tension hangs in the air. On a think it looks like a movie scene. That stuff the Notre Dame police force or a large fund deeper level, nothing is how it had been happens in Independence Day and Passen of money set aside for retirement. Never Thoughts fewer than 48 hours before. The United gel' 57, not in real life. It is simply unfath again will any of us treat it with such flip States ofAmerica and the'NotreDame com- omable. I find myself still struggling to pancy. Now it is a question on everyone's munity will never be the same. My life arid " make all the pieces fit. I know I am not the mind. Perhaps we are not safe anywhere yours will carry the scars of September 11, only one overwhelmed. I draw upon the past even the Pentagon, the very height of mili 2001 for as long as we live. tragedies I have watched in my life: the San tary power and defense, is vulnerable to ter In class, the syllabus is thrown out and Francisco earthquake, the Oklahoma City rorist attack. For the rest of my life I will our professor allows an open discussion to bombing and the Columbine High School wake up each morning and wonder: Will it begin. I find myself near tears several times, shootings. None of these has readied me for happen again? trying to comprehend the tragedy. Theories this, and not one compares to the tragedy At the end of the day, there are no more are tossed around and solutions are dis- that all of us tuned into on Tuesday. answers, only questions, fears and confu SCHOLaSTIC cussed. War is on everyone's mind. Many As I enter my dorm, I want to fall back sion. I feel helpless as I watch the news. Contributions will be accepted from all for a memorial issue believe it is necessary, and the question is on and find security in this campus we call My only solace comes in my prayers. As whom ought we go after. Others hold a dif- "The Bubble." It seems so easy to turn off members of the Notre Dame community, we that will address the tragedies of Sept. 11 and their effects Jerent opinion and believe we should main- my television and focus on the most recent will triumph because our faith in God, in on our lives and our community. All submissions can be tain peace through negotiation. Suddenly debate over parietals, but that is impossible. democracy and that the American way of left in the drop box outside the Scholastic office (in the the truth is very cloudy. As someone told As an American and as a Christian, I sim life will not be harmed by any evil. As Presi me today, the truth can be a very dangerous ply cannot ignore how much the destruc dent Bush did, I draw on Psalm 23: "I shall basement of South Dining Hall), or they may be e-mailed thing. On Tuesday, those terrorists believed tion of the World Trade Center and the at walk through the valley of the shadow of to [email protected]. they were doing the right thing. They died tack on the Pentagon will change - and death, and will fear no evil for You are with and killed thousands of people because they already has changed - my life. Many of me." 0 believed in something. The Japanese, my fellow students are still not sure if their backed by their set of truths, bombed Pearl loved ones are safe. Many of my friends are The views of the author do not reflect those of 21., Harbor. We dropped atomic bombs on in the military and ROTC. I don't know if Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame. Deadline: Friday, September 2001

6 SCHOLASTICNEWS SCHOLASTICNEWS 7 Never the Same Tragedy forever alters everyone's life A SPECIAL ISSUE CRISTINMANARY Hiroshima and Nagasaki because we were next week they will be sent to a country right in our belief to protect democracy. halfway around the world to fight a war t has been 24 hours since my mother Now this country and its leaders are about against a cowardly and evil enemy. Though to cope with a tragedy Icalled me and told me to turn on the to make a plan of retaliation, and we hope my family is not from New York or Wash news. I dress in an exhausted state of once again that our truth triumphs. ington, I am just as devastated and terrified. numbness and try to shake the feeling that I After class, I head to Reckers for my usual The Catholic doctrine that this university just woke up from a nightmare. I leave for smoothie. Every television is tuned into a has been built on teaches us that the world's class and walk past the library and onto news program just as they are across cam suffering is our own. It is our responsibility to South Quad. The campus seems strangely pus, and the scenes of Tuesday's horrible continue serving each other through support, normal. The dining halls are open, athletes tragedy flicker across the screen. I watch prayer and comfort. whiz by on bikes and students gossip as they again as one of the planes crashes into the I finally arrive back 'at my room. As al walk to class. But the flag is at half-mast World Trade Center. Still, I can't help but ways, the door is unlocked. For the first time in four years, I tell myself to lock it the next time I leave. doctrine that this university has During the entire Lf),~atholic course of my life I been built on teaches us that the world's suf have taken for Essays granted the security fering,is our own. It is our responsibility to con that I have been provided by living Narratives in the United States. tinue serving each otherthrough sup,poL!fl D,"" Before September prayer and comfort. 11, 2001, security Poems 0 CJ was a word we used when referring to and an eerie tension hangs in the air. On a think it looks like a movie scene. That stuff the Notre Dame police force or a large fund deeper level, nothing is how it had been happens in Independence Day and Passen of money set aside for retirement. Never Thoughts fewer than 48 hours before. The United gel' 57, not in real life. It is simply unfath again will any of us treat it with such flip States ofAmerica and the'NotreDame com- omable. I find myself still struggling to pancy. Now it is a question on everyone's munity will never be the same. My life arid " make all the pieces fit. I know I am not the mind. Perhaps we are not safe anywhere yours will carry the scars of September 11, only one overwhelmed. I draw upon the past even the Pentagon, the very height of mili 2001 for as long as we live. tragedies I have watched in my life: the San tary power and defense, is vulnerable to ter In class, the syllabus is thrown out and Francisco earthquake, the Oklahoma City rorist attack. For the rest of my life I will our professor allows an open discussion to bombing and the Columbine High School wake up each morning and wonder: Will it begin. I find myself near tears several times, shootings. None of these has readied me for happen again? trying to comprehend the tragedy. Theories this, and not one compares to the tragedy At the end of the day, there are no more are tossed around and solutions are dis- that all of us tuned into on Tuesday. answers, only questions, fears and confu SCHOLaSTIC cussed. War is on everyone's mind. Many As I enter my dorm, I want to fall back sion. I feel helpless as I watch the news. Contributions will be accepted from all for a memorial issue believe it is necessary, and the question is on and find security in this campus we call My only solace comes in my prayers. As whom ought we go after. Others hold a dif- "The Bubble." It seems so easy to turn off members of the Notre Dame community, we that will address the tragedies of Sept. 11 and their effects Jerent opinion and believe we should main- my television and focus on the most recent will triumph because our faith in God, in on our lives and our community. All submissions can be tain peace through negotiation. Suddenly debate over parietals, but that is impossible. democracy and that the American way of left in the drop box outside the Scholastic office (in the the truth is very cloudy. As someone told As an American and as a Christian, I sim life will not be harmed by any evil. As Presi me today, the truth can be a very dangerous ply cannot ignore how much the destruc dent Bush did, I draw on Psalm 23: "I shall basement of South Dining Hall), or they may be e-mailed thing. On Tuesday, those terrorists believed tion of the World Trade Center and the at walk through the valley of the shadow of to [email protected]. they were doing the right thing. They died tack on the Pentagon will change - and death, and will fear no evil for You are with and killed thousands of people because they already has changed - my life. Many of me." 0 believed in something. The Japanese, my fellow students are still not sure if their backed by their set of truths, bombed Pearl loved ones are safe. Many of my friends are The views of the author do not reflect those of 21., Harbor. We dropped atomic bombs on in the military and ROTC. I don't know if Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame. Deadline: Friday, September 2001

6 SCHOLASTICNEWS SCHOLASTICNEWS 7 "I just can't stand her. She gets on my nerves all the time. I ~ II Left Stranded? could just give her a makeover." 124 Years Ago mNew policy forces hobbling students to crutch it to class ) - student overheard in South Dining Hall tHJ Tree Hugger elling reusable Grab 'n' Go bags pales KATIEFREDDOSO At $3,000 to $5,000 per cart, this was no is to students with permanent disabilities." The Sin comparison to the efforts of Notre minor issue. Locke estimates that the OSD budget must be spent accordingly. Dame's earliest environmentalists. In the April hile watching Regis ride spent nearly half oflast year's budget on golf In the future, the OSD hopes to expand "Better to abandon the. use of the phone for the rest of your . life than to let that happen again." 28, 1877 issue of Notre Dame Scholastic, around campus in his golf cart repairs and replacements. its ride-service hours and possibly arrange W - philosophy professor, chastising a student whose cell writers carfay about drinking - I The grove just n0/1h ofthe upper lake will, ill the OSD has been forced to revoke that privi only. That means students drink." a few years, when the trees planted this year will lege due to problems with stolen and vandal with temporary injuries are ---'- rector, during freshman orientation have attained some growth, look more beautiful ized vehicles last year. left without transportation ) than ever. It would Iwt be a bad idea to plant a According to Scott Howland, program co on weekends and between number ofNO/way pines, balsam and spl'uce firs, ordinator of the OSD, the carts were "abused, 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. on week hemlocks, etc. throughout the groves about the mistreated and stolen," often by students un days. lake. They would add greatly to the shade; and der the influence of alcohol. Howland's as Howland acknowledges "So, do you come here often?" - overheard student to person meditating at the Grotto then if any man dare cut dowll one ofthe trees, sistant, Moura Locke, says that carts were that this is a problem. "At [we would] shoot him on the spot! even stolen from right outside the OSD's this point, [the OSD] can ) Badin Hall office. "It's not as though these not effectively meet all stu All this, years before Birkenstocks came to were just unattended golf carts; people were dents' needs," he says. America! 0 actually cutting off the locks," she says. "Our primary commitment - Cristin Fr;nzel

Ten Questions Who's the new little guy in the green What are your own Lucky Charms that ing forward to maintaining that standard. metal, rap or just a good Irish jig to get stole his pot of gold? with the new Leprechaun ... suit at football games? Well, he's not ex helped you beat out the competition? going before the game? Oh yeah. actly little, but senior Adam Urra will It helped just watching Mike and C.J. Describe the Nebraska experience for I listen to the Rudy soundtrack, actually, ADAM embody the role of the Leprechaun this because they were both fantastic and good us. Did you have to get your fight on but if you have to try hard to get excited Suffer any occasional identity crises? yew'for the Irish. The senior philosophy examples. I als(l think you can't be afraid with any of those Husker fans? about Notre Dame, this probably isn't the No, but everywhere I go, people always URRA and government major from Westerly, R.I. to have a good time, and, yeah, you look We actually had a really rough trip. Our job for you! say that line, "I'm the leprechaun." Do sat down recently with Scholastic to talk a little silly, but it's for Notre Dame, so flight was cancelled, so we had to take a you know it? You do? I hate it! about his new job. it's not all bad. You just have to be ex Greyhound bus instead for nine hours or Have you always wanted to attend Notre cited and talk like you're on speed all the so, but it ended up being a great time. It Dame? Two words that will describe ND's home What made you go for the Leprechaun time! was rough in their stadium, but the fans From the time I was in third grade. I opener against MSU on September 22. role? Is it something you've always there were very classy. They knew our watched the ND-Michigan game with my Total domination. wanted to do? A lot of people probably don't envy you, football, and we saw a lot of Irish fans. It parents, saw the gold helmets, and I was I used to be a cheerleader, so I was around stepping into Mike Brown's shoes. Do was a big college atmosphere, almost like just sold right there. How many push-ups can you do? [2000-01 Leprechauns] Mike and C.J. you feel any pressure to live up to him? a bowl game. A few of the fans were rude, As many as we need to - hopefully [Brown and Lanktree]. I think I always kind Mike did leave big shoes, but I look at but you just tip you hat at them and smile So have you ever seen those horror about 42 a game! 0 of had it in the back of my.mind, but they that as a challenge. He raised the bar and and move on. "Leprechaun" movies where the lepre j. encouraged me to go out for it. got people really excited, but I'm look- Does this Leprechaun need some heavy chaun goes around killing pe.ople who -Kristin Kramer 11",...... -- 8 SCHOLASTICNOTEBOOK SCHOLASTICNOTEBOOK 9 "I just can't stand her. She gets on my nerves all the time. I ~ II Left Stranded? could just give her a makeover." 124 Years Ago mNew policy forces hobbling students to crutch it to class ) - student overheard in South Dining Hall tHJ Tree Hugger elling reusable Grab 'n' Go bags pales KATIEFREDDOSO At $3,000 to $5,000 per cart, this was no is to students with permanent disabilities." The Sin comparison to the efforts of Notre minor issue. Locke estimates that the OSD budget must be spent accordingly. Dame's earliest environmentalists. In the April hile watching Regis ride spent nearly half oflast year's budget on golf In the future, the OSD hopes to expand "Better to abandon the. use of the phone for the rest of your . life than to let that happen again." 28, 1877 issue of Notre Dame Scholastic, around campus in his golf cart repairs and replacements. its ride-service hours and possibly arrange W - philosophy professor, chastising a student whose cell writers carfay about drinking - I The grove just n0/1h ofthe upper lake will, ill the OSD has been forced to revoke that privi only. That means students drink." a few years, when the trees planted this year will lege due to problems with stolen and vandal with temporary injuries are ---'- rector, during freshman orientation have attained some growth, look more beautiful ized vehicles last year. left without transportation ) than ever. It would Iwt be a bad idea to plant a According to Scott Howland, program co on weekends and between number ofNO/way pines, balsam and spl'uce firs, ordinator of the OSD, the carts were "abused, 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. on week hemlocks, etc. throughout the groves about the mistreated and stolen," often by students un days. lake. They would add greatly to the shade; and der the influence of alcohol. Howland's as Howland acknowledges "So, do you come here often?" - overheard student to person meditating at the Grotto then if any man dare cut dowll one ofthe trees, sistant, Moura Locke, says that carts were that this is a problem. "At [we would] shoot him on the spot! even stolen from right outside the OSD's this point, [the OSD] can ) Badin Hall office. "It's not as though these not effectively meet all stu All this, years before Birkenstocks came to were just unattended golf carts; people were dents' needs," he says. America! 0 actually cutting off the locks," she says. "Our primary commitment - Cristin Fr;nzel

~ Judgment Calls THE CD REVIEW I Opinions and observations I CAKE " "I CAKE Comfort Eagle t NEW STUDENT IDS LABEL: Sony/Columbia They're nice - unless you're a RELEASE DATE: 24 July 2001 senior who had to get a new one because yours broke. Now everyone thinks you're a fresh Story by Joanne Davidson Photo courtesy of amazon. com man. It has been awhile since the members of ety of talents, ranging from clapping to DEAN'S-LiST GPA HIKE Cake have tantalized listeners with their trumpeting, the attention has been always So much for my resume. Being an whimsical lyrics and creative musical abil- on the lyrics of the songs. Surreal and engineering major has never ity, but they are back into the music scene sometimes silly tunes transport the listener looked more appealing. with their new album Comfort Eagle. to vivid imaginary lands. Lead singer John McCrea claims in The current hit single "Short Skirt/Long their first track that he is an opera singer. Jacket" is reminiscent of Perhaps this is true, but this quintet's classic Cake songs, with a HANDLESS O'SHAG genre is difficult to classify, crossing bar- loud background chorus CLOCK riers of pop, jam, rock and even ska. AI- and a humorous storyline. If you like It was never right anyway, but though Comfort Eagle explores new ter- However, Cake quickly Beck... now it's even uglier. ritory, Cake stays true to its original, fan- follows up with an instru- You'll love ciful nature as introduced in its debut al- mental, "Arco Arena," Cake. bum, Motorcade of Generosity. which demonstrates mem- ... FARLEY THE DOG Comfort Eagle is an enjoyable journey bers' ability to use mul It's nice having animals on to make with the members of Cake. Be- tiple sounds. Towards the campus, but when a comatose dog stretches' its leash across , tween trips to a,concert hall'with "Opera ,end of the album; Cake slows down their the sidewalk and lies in wait for Singer," visiting Austrian nobles, and get- tunes to a more descriptive and emotional students going to lunch, that's ting stuck in traffic with a "Long Line of tempo. dangerous. Cars," Cake provides another all-around fun Cake's fourth album shows its matura album to toss in while you are driving or tion into a well-formed band. Members taking that necessary break from studying. have stayed true to their musical roots, JACKARUTE McCrea and the members of Cake pro- maintaining their typical story-telling This isn't Survivor. But if it were, claim that "somebody's got to say it all," style of songwriting mixed with heavy we'd vote this bug-eating football and they certainly do with their narrative guitar and eclectic musical instruments. analyst off the island. songwriting. Cake subscribes to a distinc- Comfort Eagle is an essential piece to a tive style through epic musical fantasies. true Cake fan's collection and a welcome While Cake's music incorporates a vari- musical surprise to new fans. 0

I, DomeLights Mr. Rogers told me I was unique and special, like a snowflake. Then I came here. Now when I hear my name called, I usually turn around and find someone talking to another Cristin (or, II COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL more likely, a Kristin or Kristen). Sound familiar? Here are the most common undergraduate THERE Is AWAY. names on campus this fall: " Source: Office of Kn'ow/edge Management

» FEMALE: » MALE: Tom Eckert, C.S.c. Four 1. Elizabeth 1. Michael 2003 Ordination Class Michaels 2. Katherine 2. Matthew . ANSWER .:.~ ponder the 3. Jennifer 3. John popularity of 4. Sarah 4. Christopher THE CALL '\(!)!'. their names. 5. Erin 5. Brian

* The Office of Knowledge Management based its research on the, spelling of names, not the sound. Therefore, the names "Cristin," "Kristin" and "Kristen" are each categorized seperately. www.nd.edu/-vocation

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" PAID ADVERTISEMENT I 1 "Because we call Notre Dame a family. • • " Closing the Gates? II The Standing Committee on Gay and Lesbian Student Needs offers some opportunities to stand in solidarity with gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual members of our Notre Dame community. Uncovering the hazards of a venerable tradition ]1 Featured Speaker: KRISTINKRAMER tailgates. "I don't know if I would walk all dump their burning coals down the sewer, Mrs. Judy Shepard the way over there," says senior Breen which causes the sewer system to catch on j ntimately related to Notre Dame's sto Phillips resident Kristen Sullivan about fire," Rakow says. "We've also had car fires, Thursday, September 27,2001 Iried drinking tradition are the six Pendle Field. "Maybe if it was a big, orga field fires and Dumpster fires. If you don't Saturdays of tailgating that take place on nized tailgate with all my friends. Half the want your brats sprayed down with a hose, 7:30 p.m. in the Hesburgh Library Auditorium campus every fall during football season. fun of tailgating, though, is being right you'd better use propane." But if. you add sexual assault, robbery, around campus and Admission is FREE brawls and sewage-system fires to the usual feeling like you're Reception with Mrs. Shepard/ollowing the presentation beer and brats, you'll understand why "tail~ really in the middle gating" has a different connotation for Rex of Notre Dame foot Rakow, director of the Notre Dame Secu ball." rity-Police Department. Students, how Mrs. Shepard's story: "We're very concerned as an institution ever, will be able to In October 1998, Judy Shepard lost her twenty-one about binge drinking, and every year we try continue to partici year old son, Matthew, to a murder inspired by to tighten up our policies," he says. "We pate in tailgating ac anti-gay hate. Her ordeal moved thousands of people want Notre Dame football to be a celebra tivities. "If your par across America to attend vigils and rallies in tion, a good time, but there's got to be a ents come in and Matthew's honor. limit. We're looking at [drinking] more~g host a little picnic gressively this year. We're getting lots of tailgater with a complaints about huge tailgates of 200 to dozen or two of your Determined to prevent their son's fate from befalling 300 people that keep others from enjoying friends, we're not other people, Judy and her husband, Dennis, themselves." going to notice that," established the Matthew Shepard Foundation to help Acting "more aggressively" this year will Rakow says. "If carryon Matthew's legacy by embracing the just mean increased security on the. perimeter we're there, and your causes he had championed. This includes working for of campus as well as stepped-up monitor dad is dancing on top gay and lesbian equality and helping to prevent ing for open containers of alcohol in the of the car with a hate crimes. center of campus. "There will be more cit lampshade on his ing, either students to ResLife or more head, we're probably Judy is determined to use her grief over her son's death criminal ticketing, or both," Rakow vows. going to notice." Another change, targeted more directly Such loud, rau- to make a difference. She is now speaking to audiences at student tailgating, prohibits students from cous gatherings, EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY Irish often enjoy an elaborate nationwide about what they can do to make their schools tailgate before and after Notre Dame football games. Notre Dame parking anywhere but D2, D6 and Pendle which often are fu- officials want to prevent rabble-rousers from spoiling such festive and communities safer for everyone, regardless of their Field, which is located east of the Notre eled by binge drink- occasions. race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. Dame Federal Credit Union off of Douglas ing, can become a Road. Although the Blue Field, located off detriment to safety. Edison Road, has been a popular location According to Rakow, NDSPD has dealt As game time approaches, NDSPD tries September 30, 2001, is SOLIDARITY SUNDAY. for student tailgates in the past, the area is with sexual assaults, fights and robberies to break up any remaining tailgates. Ex "Notre Dame, ~ur Mother, in sharing your name, we claim that we are family. " Solidarity Sunday invites the Notre off-limits this year to anyone with a Notre that have been aided by alcohol consump pulsions from the stadium generally re Dan:e COmmU?Ity to pray and grow as one family. On this Sunday, we recognize the-value of bur community's gay, Dame parking permit. "If we find student tion and the anonymity afforded by large sult in only five or six arrests per game, lesbIan, and bIsexual members. All Masses on campus will express the commitment of Notre Dame to stand with cars there, we'll tow them," Rakow says. tailgates where strangers can mix in with but the 32 city and county officers, 12 Christ, in community, with all her brothers and sisters. Prayer cards and rainbow ribbons will be distributed at all Although the university forbids any stu the crowd. "Most people are just here to NDSPD officers and 800 ushers inside the stadium keep a fairly close watch. ''I'd say Masses to serve as symbols for the Notre Dame community to display their commitment to stand together and dent or student organization from hosting a have a good time, but, unfortunately, there are those who come here to take advan the average number of put-outs is maybe make Notre Dame a place for all people to grow in faith, hope, and love. ..' tailgate, many do so anyway. "Tailgating with the guys in my section defines foot tage of others," he says. 15 to 20;" Rako.», says. "Boston College ball season for me," says senior Keough Another lesser-known tailgating regula always seems to be the record; we've been Thur~day, ?ctob.er 11, 2001, is National COMING OUT Day. resident Paul Schofield. "I don't think it's tion is the prohibition of charcoal grills, an up to 100 with that one." smart of the university to regulate tailgat apparent necessity for the brats-and-burgers For now, tailgating at Notre Dame still On the occaSIOn of NatIOnal Commg Out Day, October 11, 2001, we the Standing Committee on Gay and Lesbian ing. I don't see what they're trying to ac menu of football Saturdays. Tailgatersare seems safely ensconced within the para Stu~ent Needs joi~ Notre D~me's gay, lesbian, and bisexual students in gratitude for the love and support they have complish." instructed to use propane grills instead. In meters of the blue-and-gold tradition. But receIved from famIly and ffIends. We urge all members of our community to redouble all efforts to make our Pendle's distance from the stadium as this instance, the safety of both crowd and come game day, the uniformed and plain campus a safe and welcoming place free from harassment of any kind. well as the prohibition of alcohol in student grounds is the main concern. "What we've clothes officers out in the lots will be there lots might cut down on student-sponsored had is a couple of instances where people with an eye towards safety. o

SCHOLASTICNEWS 13 PAID ADVERTISEMENT I 1 "Because we call Notre Dame a family. • • " Closing the Gates? II The Standing Committee on Gay and Lesbian Student Needs offers some opportunities to stand in solidarity with gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual members of our Notre Dame community. Uncovering the hazards of a venerable tradition ]1 Featured Speaker: KRISTINKRAMER tailgates. "I don't know if I would walk all dump their burning coals down the sewer, Mrs. Judy Shepard the way over there," says senior Breen which causes the sewer system to catch on j ntimately related to Notre Dame's sto Phillips resident Kristen Sullivan about fire," Rakow says. "We've also had car fires, Thursday, September 27,2001 Iried drinking tradition are the six Pendle Field. "Maybe if it was a big, orga field fires and Dumpster fires. If you don't Saturdays of tailgating that take place on nized tailgate with all my friends. Half the want your brats sprayed down with a hose, 7:30 p.m. in the Hesburgh Library Auditorium campus every fall during football season. fun of tailgating, though, is being right you'd better use propane." But if. you add sexual assault, robbery, around campus and Admission is FREE brawls and sewage-system fires to the usual feeling like you're Reception with Mrs. Shepard/ollowing the presentation beer and brats, you'll understand why "tail~ really in the middle gating" has a different connotation for Rex of Notre Dame foot Rakow, director of the Notre Dame Secu ball." rity-Police Department. Students, how Mrs. Shepard's story: "We're very concerned as an institution ever, will be able to In October 1998, Judy Shepard lost her twenty-one about binge drinking, and every year we try continue to partici year old son, Matthew, to a murder inspired by to tighten up our policies," he says. "We pate in tailgating ac anti-gay hate. Her ordeal moved thousands of people want Notre Dame football to be a celebra tivities. "If your par across America to attend vigils and rallies in tion, a good time, but there's got to be a ents come in and Matthew's honor. limit. We're looking at [drinking] more~g host a little picnic gressively this year. We're getting lots of tailgater with a complaints about huge tailgates of 200 to dozen or two of your Determined to prevent their son's fate from befalling 300 people that keep others from enjoying friends, we're not other people, Judy and her husband, Dennis, themselves." going to notice that," established the Matthew Shepard Foundation to help Acting "more aggressively" this year will Rakow says. "If carryon Matthew's legacy by embracing the just mean increased security on the. perimeter we're there, and your causes he had championed. This includes working for of campus as well as stepped-up monitor dad is dancing on top gay and lesbian equality and helping to prevent ing for open containers of alcohol in the of the car with a hate crimes. center of campus. "There will be more cit lampshade on his ing, either students to ResLife or more head, we're probably Judy is determined to use her grief over her son's death criminal ticketing, or both," Rakow vows. going to notice." Another change, targeted more directly Such loud, rau- to make a difference. She is now speaking to audiences at student tailgating, prohibits students from cous gatherings, EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY Irish often enjoy an elaborate nationwide about what they can do to make their schools tailgate before and after Notre Dame football games. Notre Dame parking anywhere but D2, D6 and Pendle which often are fu- officials want to prevent rabble-rousers from spoiling such festive and communities safer for everyone, regardless of their Field, which is located east of the Notre eled by binge drink- occasions. race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. Dame Federal Credit Union off of Douglas ing, can become a Road. Although the Blue Field, located off detriment to safety. Edison Road, has been a popular location According to Rakow, NDSPD has dealt As game time approaches, NDSPD tries September 30, 2001, is SOLIDARITY SUNDAY. for student tailgates in the past, the area is with sexual assaults, fights and robberies to break up any remaining tailgates. Ex "Notre Dame, ~ur Mother, in sharing your name, we claim that we are family. " Solidarity Sunday invites the Notre off-limits this year to anyone with a Notre that have been aided by alcohol consump pulsions from the stadium generally re Dan:e COmmU?Ity to pray and grow as one family. On this Sunday, we recognize the-value of bur community's gay, Dame parking permit. "If we find student tion and the anonymity afforded by large sult in only five or six arrests per game, lesbIan, and bIsexual members. All Masses on campus will express the commitment of Notre Dame to stand with cars there, we'll tow them," Rakow says. tailgates where strangers can mix in with but the 32 city and county officers, 12 Christ, in community, with all her brothers and sisters. Prayer cards and rainbow ribbons will be distributed at all Although the university forbids any stu the crowd. "Most people are just here to NDSPD officers and 800 ushers inside the stadium keep a fairly close watch. ''I'd say Masses to serve as symbols for the Notre Dame community to display their commitment to stand together and dent or student organization from hosting a have a good time, but, unfortunately, there are those who come here to take advan the average number of put-outs is maybe make Notre Dame a place for all people to grow in faith, hope, and love. ..' tailgate, many do so anyway. "Tailgating with the guys in my section defines foot tage of others," he says. 15 to 20;" Rako.», says. "Boston College ball season for me," says senior Keough Another lesser-known tailgating regula always seems to be the record; we've been Thur~day, ?ctob.er 11, 2001, is National COMING OUT Day. resident Paul Schofield. "I don't think it's tion is the prohibition of charcoal grills, an up to 100 with that one." smart of the university to regulate tailgat apparent necessity for the brats-and-burgers For now, tailgating at Notre Dame still On the occaSIOn of NatIOnal Commg Out Day, October 11, 2001, we the Standing Committee on Gay and Lesbian ing. I don't see what they're trying to ac menu of football Saturdays. Tailgatersare seems safely ensconced within the para Stu~ent Needs joi~ Notre D~me's gay, lesbian, and bisexual students in gratitude for the love and support they have complish." instructed to use propane grills instead. In meters of the blue-and-gold tradition. But receIved from famIly and ffIends. We urge all members of our community to redouble all efforts to make our Pendle's distance from the stadium as this instance, the safety of both crowd and come game day, the uniformed and plain campus a safe and welcoming place free from harassment of any kind. well as the prohibition of alcohol in student grounds is the main concern. "What we've clothes officers out in the lots will be there lots might cut down on student-sponsored had is a couple of instances where people with an eye towards safety. o

SCHOLASTICNEWS 13 Story by Jacklyn Kiefer Scholastic uncovers a time capsule from the '50s Yb_Q1Q~J)yJ:

ey guys, do you know anything about the time capsule I e-mailed my London rector, who told me the dorm and gen "H ...;'_i~... ,.'" .. in the dorm?" eral area it was in. It turned out that I knew some people on the . - This was the question that started the search. My floor, but finding it proved to be a challenge, as the rooms had ~'- friends and I knew that many of the dorms on campus have since been renumbered. As my friends and I investigated the formal time capsules of the "do not open until the year 2050" first medicine cabinet, we were encouraged to see that the mir variety, but we hadn't heard of any that were informal. It turns ror had only two screws intact. They were removed easily. We out that one of the rectors of the Summer London Programme, found a large space that would certainly have been a good loca in which I participated, also was a rector of the residence hall tion for a time capsule, but the approximately 4-foot-by-4-foot on campus for a few years during the 1990s. She told me of a space was cluttered with nothing but boards and a few beer cans. capsule in a dorm that had been added to almost every year We decided to try the next room. The residents had heard f' since 1959. nothing of a time capsule but agreed to help us in our quest. Several summers earlier, she had set out to find the capsule Again, the medicine cabinet had only two screws anchoring it herself. Other rectors had told her which floor the capsule was to the wall, but these screws looked brand new. They were also on and the approximate room number. She and an assistant rec easily removed. We were greeted by a gray object fluttering tor pulled the medicine cabinet out of the room in question and about due to an air shaft in the wall. It was identified as found a huge pile of newspapers, letters and other items. The "Frederick the Sperm," an addition made by past male residents assistant rector even crawled back into the space to retrieve of the hall. We found several bookstore sacks containing news everything, getting stuck in the process so badly that they al papers dating as far back as 1959, a 1966 football program and most had to call the fire department. She organized everything many other items ranging from pictures to bras. in the capsule for future residents, and for almost every year We removed all bf the items and took some pictures. The most since the seniors in the dorm have added their own items exem recent item dated back to 1996. We reorganized the items by plifying their experiences. year, replaced some of the sacks that were deteriorating and Once I returned to campus, I got the idea of doing a photo then placed everything back inside the wall for future genera essay on the items in the time capsule, but I had to find it first. tions to enjoy. 0 MEMORABILIA Perhaps the most valuable items that we found were a program for the 1966 Notre Darnel Army matchup as well as an Observer from the 1988 National Championship win (upper). We also found two bras left behind by previous residents (lower).

BLACK HOLE Sophomore Matthew Ziegler climbs into the void between -the walls to retrieve the last items in the time BEYOND THE WALL We found everything from soda capsule (left). cans from the '60s (aboveleff) to "Frederick the Sperm" (directly above) behind the medicine cabinet. ,.,.,.,. Everything was crammed into old bookstore bags and : ..... ,,:. piled b-etween the room wall and hallway wall (righn.

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JACKLYNKIEFER The semester-long London Program was dents from that department has grown athletes who are bound to the main from Friday to Monday, allowing for founded in 1981 for Arts and Letters juniors, significantly," she says. "We're also de campus during the regular school year more travel. "W hen I look back on my time in Lon and in 1997 it was expanded for students in veloping courses related to student inter as well as for pre-med students who Everyone involved believes that the don, I can see things so vividly, all university colleges. Last year, 150 jun est." The latter group of courses will in feel that they should stay on-campus program was a huge success. "The pro and I miss it so much," says se iors participated in the program each semes clude a new course targeted for pre-med and prepare for the MCAT." The pro fessors were first-rate; though some were nior finance and international business major ter. The program offers about 60 courses on majors called "Medical Practice and gram also offers students the chance initially reluctant, all said that they re Kristen Sullivan. "I can't imagine not know topics ranging from Shakespeare to the Eu Policy in the UK." to have an abroad experience without ally enjoyed teaching during the pro ing the friends that I made there. We got to ropean Union. Each student takes approxi- The courses offered are an integral part missing out on campus life during the gram," Swartz says. know each other so quickly of the program, but perhaps the most school year. If numbers are any indication, the pro and easily, and even though I unique aspect of the semester program is Ellspermann says that he chose to gram has another successful year ahead. didn't expect it when I got the opportunity it offers to students to extend his stay in London "for the op Already 35 of the 60 spots have been there, these people became the obtain internships, especially in the portunity to pick up a few extra cred filled, and Swartz expects that the pro largest part of my London ex~ House of Commons. Because members its before senior year." He added, "I gram will be full by mid-October. The perience." of Parliament have smaller staffs than wanted to see what the sun looked like program accepts applications from all This chance to meet new their American counterparts, interns in in London!" undergraduates. "This is a great program people is just one of the aspects teract more with the members and might The weather aside, the summer pro for first-years who may want to study abroad in one of the language programs," that has attracted more than have !l greater responsibility than a con gram allowed students to spend five 3,000 students to the new Sum gressional intern would. weeks in London without interfering Swartz says. "The freshman who are ac mer London Programme, the Tuition and room and board fees re with other summer plans. "Students cepted will be the youngest undergradu 'I semester London Program and main the same as on the main campus, had no problems with finding intern ates studying abroad at the university, the Summer Engineering Pro and in addition to program costs and ships and jobs that were flexible and London· will give them a soft land gram. housing, a weekly food allowance and enough to allow participation, and ing and instill confidence before.they are Another well-liked feature of the program mately 15 credit hours while in London, and roundtrip airfare from New York to Lon most people knew far in advance that completely immersed in a language pro is that the buildings are co-ed. Most students certain majors are targeted for different se don is included. There are, however, other they were accepted, so they were·able gram." enjoy having members of the opposite sex mesters. For example, pre-med and engineer costs involved. "The advantage of the to negotiate dates of employment eas nearby, something they definitely can't get ing majors attend the program in the fall, and spring program is that you really get a ily," Swartz says. Bridging the Gap on Notre Dame's main campus. As a result, PLS and business students are targeted to at chance to travel all around Europe if you The program consists of six credit The Summer Engineering Program "students often share tasks such as meal cook tend the spring semester. want," says Scott Ellspermann, a senior hours in one of several university re was founded in 1988 by Ed Jerger and ing and shopping," says senior John Bauters, But what if you're a science major? Many finance major who participated in both quirements offered. One of these John Lucey. It has just complete.d its 14th a government and psychology major. such students have concerns about complet the spring 2001 semester program and the courses must include a travel portion. summer. It is set up much like the Sum The programs share more than a growing ing their requirements; however, with plan Summer London Programme. Many stu Last summer these courses traveled to mer London Programme, but it offers pool of applicants and the opportunity to ning, science majors can go study in Lon dents choose to do this during their two destinations throughout England and only two courses. These courses are both make new friends - they also share a class don. Alexandra Amaro, a senior biology week-long breaks, and, as a result, bring Scotland. The travel expenses for this accepted as technieal electives in all en room building. The Marian Kennedy Fischer major, says that she did not feel as if she was extra money along. . course, tuition, housing, a weekly sti gineering curricula. Hall is a 27,000-square-foot facility located behind in her studies upon returning to cam pend and airfare are included in the Approximately 25 students participate near Trafalgar Square in the heart of London. pus. "I always knew that I wanted to study Here Comes the Sun $5,300 fee. in this program each summer at the cost It was formerly the home of the Oxford/Cam abroad somewhere from the beginning of my Despite the... extended period of time In the past weeks Swartz has met of $4,100. This covers airfare, housing bridge Club; it now is leased to the univer sophomore year," she says. "I held off tak participants h_ave to become immersed in with Risk Management about includ and program costs. Most participants are sity from the Crown. The groups also share ing some of my university general require the-British culture, many students feel ing a course that traveled to the Con students who could not go to London in British faculty from the University of Lon ments [and] by doing that, all the classes I that they would have difficulties complet tinent. "The proposal was approved, the autumn due to campus commitments. don and the London School of Economics, took in London were classes that counted ing their majors if they went abroad for a and we are considering several poten The summer program offers some spe among other institutions. toward my major and graduation." full semester, and others do· not want to tial courses that could travel out of the cial benefits to the participants. "We do take trips to sites of technical interest that With Il!a:ny features in common,many stu- . Though the. London Program consistently miss ~ut on life at "the main campus. UK," he says. "We have considered dents inight wonder what differentiates the offers· the same classes, program director The.Summer London Programme was expanding the Concert Life in London aren't part of the autumn program such three programs and what benefits one pro Anastasia Gutting says that she always is . created for these reasons. "The program· course into the Concert Life of Two as the Thames Flood Barrier and a satel gram offers over the others. The programs looking for ways to improve the course of is great for students who want to go Cities, where the class will visit Paris lite manufacturing plant in Stevenage," are quite diverse, and each has uniq~e quali~ ferings. "Currently, we're developing re abroad but can't during the regular se during their travel time." Another ma Lucey says. tiesto offer the students who participate. search opportunities for psychology majors, mester," says program founder T.R. jor change to the program will be an The group also has sufficient time to Soaking up the G!llture ~ince the number of London Program stu~ option for a long weekend, running travel during two long weekends. "I trav-» -: -~ , -'.~ ...,-.,-- Swartz. "It is especially good for student-

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16 SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE 17 ello, football-starved Gippsters, and welcome back pus liquor store. Surely that would make the money back in Hto this ethanol-soaked bubble so fondly referred to no time, enabling us to fund an Emmaus rock concert fea as "home." Hopefully by now you have settled back turing Marilyn Manson and Tool. into your old campus routine. Things are just as you left But enough of that tripe - let's get on to the nUdity. Ap parently, a group of Pangborn and Alumni residents, des THE LONDON PROGRAM them last May - the mattresses still are mysteriously Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 stained, the football players still are bigger than you and perate to escape the furiously fluctuating forces of fall fash Prep Sessions, 101 DeBartolo: dining-hall eggs still are pumped full of laxatives - wait, ion and the South Bend weather, decided to take a little skinny dip a couple of weekends ago. Unfortunately, they October 2,2001 - Group Travel did the Gipp say "dining hall?" Apparently, some habits die November 6, 2001-Housing hard. What he meant, of course, was either North Food Court chose beautiful St. Mary's Lake for the shindig. The Gipper Application Deadline: or - his favored pseudonym - South Food Market. At first, will not be surprised if reports of third nipples and sixth October 19, 2001- Regular these new titles aroused images of live cows milling around toes begin to pile up in his mailbox during the next few October 29,2001- Late the salad bar and card-swiper ladies with giant fruit baskets weeks. Want more? Well, this tip comes all the way from last April, Acceptance Notification: on their heads. What they amounted to, unfortunately, was February 2002 little more than a strained effort to convince students that after the year's final Scholastic had been issued. According to this tipster, he and some of his engineering comrades were burn- Director: Anastasia F. Gutting what they're putting in their mouths was, at one point, actu ally edible. ing the midnight oil at the Of course, there is one DeBartolo computer cluster, en food item that even NDFS gaged in their studies, when they noticed something odd over at the THE SUMMER LONDON cannot contaminate, due its consultant's workstation: lots and, PROGRAMME entirely inorganic nature: lots ofInternet porn. Now, perhaps Summer 2002 YoCream. According to one these hard workers were simply hal Informational Meeting: loyal tipster, a group of stu lucinating after a long evening of October 3, 2001, 7 p.m, dents has resorted to per crunching numbers; or else Application Deadline: forming "Yo-stands" in DeBartolo has begun offering jobs Rolling; expected to be full by mid- SFM. They are similar in October or November 2001 . nature to keg stands, not to last year's horny Hesburgh high schoolers. Acceptance Notification: only because of the bodily Unfortunately, Gipplings, Two weeks after applicationsubmission position involved, but also that's it for the tip supply. To his Director: T.R. Swartz because the standee has to » eled to Germany, Ireland, Rome, Scotland and are not as abundant as on the main campus. be carried away by his own great disappointment, Paris during my breaks," says senior civil en The engineering program has recently re friends ifhe's had too much. everyone's favori~e source ofsor gineering major Kathy Cogan. "I didn't get ceived an endowment to provide financial Now, Rally in the Alley did scandal has gone dry. Why? to spend much time in London, but only be Because so few people remem aid for its students, and students can apply SUMMER ENGINEERING evidently did not amount to cause I spent most of my breaks traveling for financial aid for the Summer London PROGRAM much, because the Gipper bered to share their favorite sto elsewhere." Overall, the program has been Programme. ries with their 01' Uncle Gipp. Summer 2002 received just one tip con a success and is well-liked by students. "We Now, the Gipper understands the Studying abroad in London is feasible Informational Meeting: l cerning the event, and it fell all got to know each other fairly well since pressures facing students at the for virtually everyone due to the wide October 3, 2001, 7 p.m., 356 Fitzpatrick just short of the Gipp's scan- there were only 25 of us, we got some elec beginning of the year. You've got range of programs available. The new pro Application Deadline: dal quota. People getting tives out of the way and we saw and expe 1 important things on your mind, and it's easy to forget those gram especially makes this possible when Thanksgiving Break 2001 extra-friendly after a party happens all too much; it might have rienced Europe without the snow and cold," tips. But these early days also produce the wildest, most a semester seems too long. Bauters says, Acceptance Notification: made the cut had they, say, fallen out of a window or used a keg Cogan says. "I got to stay and be an active part of all Before Christmas Break 2001 tap in creative ways. shameless behavior on campus, so it's vital to keep 'em com the things I wanted to do at ND during Director: John W. Lucey Perhaps the lack of Rally excitement was due to the huge ing. Therefore, the Gipp has decided to hold a motivational All of the London programs offer stu the school year while still managing an draw of Flipstock, which encouraged sobriety through a se contest: the Gipper will send one autographed photo - that's dents unique opportunities, and all have fi international study experience .... It is the ries of bands singing about drunkenness and drug use. Evi right, you'll be the only one on campus to have one - to nancial aid available. Students who receive perfect amount of time to both experience dently, 3,000 students showed up for the free concert, which the person who sends in the juiciest tip before the next regu financial aid during the regular semester the city, life and culture while not being cost the university approximately $150,000. If the Gipper's lar issue. (The Gipp will not be appearing in the memorial also will receive it in London, and jobs can gone from home for so long that you find math is correct, that amounts to $50 per person. Always look issue.) This is a rare event, tipsters. Please include a sug be found at the London Centre, though they yourself missing ND." 0 ing out for his beloved campus, the Gipp proposes a solu gestion on how the Gipper or one of his Scholastic colleagues tion to help cover the cost of such a flop: open an on-cam- can verify your claim. Good luck! 0

18 SCHOLASTICCAMPUS LIFE SCHOLASTICCAMPUS WATCH 19 ello, football-starved Gippsters, and welcome back pus liquor store. Surely that would make the money back in Hto this ethanol-soaked bubble so fondly referred to no time, enabling us to fund an Emmaus rock concert fea as "home." Hopefully by now you have settled back turing Marilyn Manson and Tool. into your old campus routine. Things are just as you left But enough of that tripe - let's get on to the nUdity. Ap parently, a group of Pangborn and Alumni residents, des THE LONDON PROGRAM them last May - the mattresses still are mysteriously Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 stained, the football players still are bigger than you and perate to escape the furiously fluctuating forces of fall fash Prep Sessions, 101 DeBartolo: dining-hall eggs still are pumped full of laxatives - wait, ion and the South Bend weather, decided to take a little skinny dip a couple of weekends ago. Unfortunately, they October 2,2001 - Group Travel did the Gipp say "dining hall?" Apparently, some habits die November 6, 2001-Housing hard. What he meant, of course, was either North Food Court chose beautiful St. Mary's Lake for the shindig. The Gipper Application Deadline: or - his favored pseudonym - South Food Market. At first, will not be surprised if reports of third nipples and sixth October 19, 2001- Regular these new titles aroused images of live cows milling around toes begin to pile up in his mailbox during the next few October 29,2001- Late the salad bar and card-swiper ladies with giant fruit baskets weeks. Want more? Well, this tip comes all the way from last April, Acceptance Notification: on their heads. What they amounted to, unfortunately, was February 2002 little more than a strained effort to convince students that after the year's final Scholastic had been issued. According to this tipster, he and some of his engineering comrades were burn- Director: Anastasia F. Gutting what they're putting in their mouths was, at one point, actu ally edible. ing the midnight oil at the Of course, there is one DeBartolo computer cluster, en food item that even NDFS gaged in their studies, when they noticed something odd over at the THE SUMMER LONDON cannot contaminate, due its consultant's workstation: lots and, PROGRAMME entirely inorganic nature: lots ofInternet porn. Now, perhaps Summer 2002 YoCream. According to one these hard workers were simply hal Informational Meeting: loyal tipster, a group of stu lucinating after a long evening of October 3, 2001, 7 p.m, dents has resorted to per crunching numbers; or else Application Deadline: forming "Yo-stands" in DeBartolo has begun offering jobs Rolling; expected to be full by mid- SFM. They are similar in October or November 2001 . nature to keg stands, not to last year's horny Hesburgh high schoolers. Acceptance Notification: only because of the bodily Unfortunately, Gipplings, Two weeks after applicationsubmission position involved, but also that's it for the tip supply. To his Director: T.R. Swartz because the standee has to » eled to Germany, Ireland, Rome, Scotland and are not as abundant as on the main campus. be carried away by his own great disappointment, Paris during my breaks," says senior civil en The engineering program has recently re friends ifhe's had too much. everyone's favori~e source ofsor gineering major Kathy Cogan. "I didn't get ceived an endowment to provide financial Now, Rally in the Alley did scandal has gone dry. Why? to spend much time in London, but only be Because so few people remem aid for its students, and students can apply SUMMER ENGINEERING evidently did not amount to cause I spent most of my breaks traveling for financial aid for the Summer London PROGRAM much, because the Gipper bered to share their favorite sto elsewhere." Overall, the program has been Programme. ries with their 01' Uncle Gipp. Summer 2002 received just one tip con a success and is well-liked by students. "We Now, the Gipper understands the Studying abroad in London is feasible Informational Meeting: l cerning the event, and it fell all got to know each other fairly well since pressures facing students at the for virtually everyone due to the wide October 3, 2001, 7 p.m., 356 Fitzpatrick just short of the Gipp's scan- there were only 25 of us, we got some elec beginning of the year. You've got range of programs available. The new pro Application Deadline: dal quota. People getting tives out of the way and we saw and expe 1 important things on your mind, and it's easy to forget those gram especially makes this possible when Thanksgiving Break 2001 extra-friendly after a party happens all too much; it might have rienced Europe without the snow and cold," tips. But these early days also produce the wildest, most a semester seems too long. Bauters says, Acceptance Notification: made the cut had they, say, fallen out of a window or used a keg Cogan says. "I got to stay and be an active part of all Before Christmas Break 2001 tap in creative ways. shameless behavior on campus, so it's vital to keep 'em com the things I wanted to do at ND during Director: John W. Lucey Perhaps the lack of Rally excitement was due to the huge ing. Therefore, the Gipp has decided to hold a motivational All of the London programs offer stu the school year while still managing an draw of Flipstock, which encouraged sobriety through a se contest: the Gipper will send one autographed photo - that's dents unique opportunities, and all have fi international study experience .... It is the ries of bands singing about drunkenness and drug use. Evi right, you'll be the only one on campus to have one - to nancial aid available. Students who receive perfect amount of time to both experience dently, 3,000 students showed up for the free concert, which the person who sends in the juiciest tip before the next regu financial aid during the regular semester the city, life and culture while not being cost the university approximately $150,000. If the Gipper's lar issue. (The Gipp will not be appearing in the memorial also will receive it in London, and jobs can gone from home for so long that you find math is correct, that amounts to $50 per person. Always look issue.) This is a rare event, tipsters. Please include a sug be found at the London Centre, though they yourself missing ND." 0 ing out for his beloved campus, the Gipp proposes a solu gestion on how the Gipper or one of his Scholastic colleagues tion to help cover the cost of such a flop: open an on-cam- can verify your claim. Good luck! 0

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'I' i SCHOLASTICSPORTS 21 i , . · " " So what makes up a Husker fan? students approaching m~, all wearing Until I arrived at Nebraska on Satur red of course. "It's OK that you're here, day, I wouldn't have been able to tell so long as you don't look for me after THE . you. As my bus rolled through the the game to cry on my shoulder when streets of Lincoln, I got my first we kick your ass in there," continued impression of one. Two in fact, and the speaker, pointing to Memorial RANT both of them were flipping us off. They Stadium. Then he smiled and walked BY GERARD MESKILL appeared to be students and were, of away. I've heard much worse in New The Scholastic staff course, wearing red. I began to think York, I figured, and I continued that I was entering a hostile environ walking to the stadium to take my place ment. A third Husker gave us the finger in the press box. as we pulled into the parking lot. No It was 50 minutes until game time, offers its deepest other Husker fan made a crude gesture and already the stadium was a mass of the rest ofthe day. red. Four quarters later, the stadium We arrived on campus around 1 p.m. appeared the same way. Long after the After a few hours of hanging out with suspense of the much-hyped, highly condolences other Domers, I decided to go for a disappointing rematch between Notre walk around the campus before enter Dame and Nebraska was over, Husker ing the stadium. Without a map or a fans remained in their seats, in the rain, clue, I went over to the parking cheering for their team. From kickoff to to all those who lost attendant for directions. I was wearing the last whistle, there was never a a blue-collared shirt with Notre Dame's wrinkle in the blanket of red that crest on the left side of my chest, and I wrapped the Memorial Stadium bleach .. -;" ..... soon realized this made me quite ers, which is more than could be said First-quarter fumbles weren't the visible, as everyone else on the block for Notre Dame Stadium a year ago. family members, only surprising sights in Lincoln for was wearing red. Nevertheless, I Many of you remember the contest this hish fan. The warmth and needed directions. The attendant was between Notre Dame and Nebraska one very friendly. In fact, he even wished year ago, held in South Bend. Thousands welcoming shown by Nebraska fans "my team" the best of luck. of alumni, faculty, and students sold their friends and loved ones was enough to melt even the I continued walking, passing a red tickets to Nebraska fans, who proceeded staunchest anti-Husker heart. "Husker Power" truck from which to turn our beloved football stadium into some Nebraska fans were having a Little Lincoln. Husker fans did not allow tailgate. They all smiled, said hello and the same thing to happen in their house. in Tuesday morning's once again offered Notre Dame luck. Despite thousands of the Irish faithful ed is the color of fury. It brings As I walked down the street, some of seeking to buy tickets, very few Husker Rforth images of fire and brimstone the Husker fans had megaphones from fans allowed the promise of a few and blood. The mere sight of red drives which they yelled, "Go Huskers!" But hundred bucks to come between them tragedy. a bull mad and can cause grown men to one also yelled, "Good luck, Irish." My and witnessing their boys beat Notre cringe. impression had definitely changed. But Dame for the second straight year. On Saturday, these men blue and there were more surprises to come. When the game ended, the entire gold. As the day progressed, I noticed Irish Husker crowd remained to cheer one Surrounded by a red sea that even fans at Husker tailgates and vice versa. more time as its boys ran into the locker Moses himself could not part, the Irish A bond had begun to form between the room, and then the fans headed back were doomed to drown. This sea was two opposing sides. As I was admiring home to whichever of the five corners not of water, but of men, women and it, however, I heard a voice shout, of Nebraska from which they came. But children all sharing a common bond: "There you are!" before they left, they cheered our boys, Our love for Cornhuskers football. I spun around to see 10 Nebraska ~o: 0 prayers

" . " " Frustrated by its last two Michigan State's TB T.J .. Unlike the Irish, MSU ~'-'-'--'~~<------i "» performances and its Duckett will have a tough seems to understand the are with recent history against _ time against the Irjsh strengths and weaknesses SPORT: FOOTBALL Michigan State, the defense, which held of its duo of quarterbacks, OPPONENT: MICHIGAN STATE" football team is going to Nebraska to a mere 182 Jeff Smoker and Peter Van you. WHERE: NOTRE DAME STADIUM come out hard for the yards rushing last weekend. Dyke. Unless the Irish play WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER home opener. The Irish The Irish offense will take their own duo more wisely, 22, 1 :30 P.M. finally defeat the Spartans better care of the football. the Spartans will take this this time, winning 38-17. Notre Dame wins, 24-10. game, 31-28. - Gerard Meskill - David Murray - Jessica Daues Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Associate Editor

22 SCHOLASTICSPORTS , . · " " So what makes up a Husker fan? students approaching m~, all wearing Until I arrived at Nebraska on Satur red of course. "It's OK that you're here, day, I wouldn't have been able to tell so long as you don't look for me after THE . you. As my bus rolled through the the game to cry on my shoulder when streets of Lincoln, I got my first we kick your ass in there," continued impression of one. Two in fact, and the speaker, pointing to Memorial RANT both of them were flipping us off. They Stadium. Then he smiled and walked BY GERARD MESKILL appeared to be students and were, of away. I've heard much worse in New The Scholastic staff course, wearing red. I began to think York, I figured, and I continued that I was entering a hostile environ walking to the stadium to take my place ment. A third Husker gave us the finger in the press box. as we pulled into the parking lot. No It was 50 minutes until game time, offers its deepest other Husker fan made a crude gesture and already the stadium was a mass of the rest ofthe day. red. Four quarters later, the stadium We arrived on campus around 1 p.m. appeared the same way. Long after the After a few hours of hanging out with suspense of the much-hyped, highly condolences other Domers, I decided to go for a disappointing rematch between Notre walk around the campus before enter Dame and Nebraska was over, Husker ing the stadium. Without a map or a fans remained in their seats, in the rain, clue, I went over to the parking cheering for their team. From kickoff to to all those who lost attendant for directions. I was wearing the last whistle, there was never a a blue-collared shirt with Notre Dame's wrinkle in the blanket of red that crest on the left side of my chest, and I wrapped the Memorial Stadium bleach .. -;" ..... soon realized this made me quite ers, which is more than could be said First-quarter fumbles weren't the visible, as everyone else on the block for Notre Dame Stadium a year ago. family members, only surprising sights in Lincoln for was wearing red. Nevertheless, I Many of you remember the contest this hish fan. The warmth and needed directions. The attendant was between Notre Dame and Nebraska one very friendly. In fact, he even wished year ago, held in South Bend. Thousands welcoming shown by Nebraska fans "my team" the best of luck. of alumni, faculty, and students sold their friends and loved ones was enough to melt even the I continued walking, passing a red tickets to Nebraska fans, who proceeded staunchest anti-Husker heart. "Husker Power" truck from which to turn our beloved football stadium into some Nebraska fans were having a Little Lincoln. Husker fans did not allow tailgate. They all smiled, said hello and the same thing to happen in their house. in Tuesday morning's once again offered Notre Dame luck. Despite thousands of the Irish faithful ed is the color of fury. It brings As I walked down the street, some of seeking to buy tickets, very few Husker Rforth images of fire and brimstone the Husker fans had megaphones from fans allowed the promise of a few and blood. The mere sight of red drives which they yelled, "Go Huskers!" But hundred bucks to come between them tragedy. a bull mad and can cause grown men to one also yelled, "Good luck, Irish." My and witnessing their boys beat Notre cringe. impression had definitely changed. But Dame for the second straight year. On Saturday, these men blue and there were more surprises to come. When the game ended, the entire gold. As the day progressed, I noticed Irish Husker crowd remained to cheer one Surrounded by a red sea that even fans at Husker tailgates and vice versa. more time as its boys ran into the locker Moses himself could not part, the Irish A bond had begun to form between the room, and then the fans headed back were doomed to drown. This sea was two opposing sides. As I was admiring home to whichever of the five corners not of water, but of men, women and it, however, I heard a voice shout, of Nebraska from which they came. But children all sharing a common bond: "There you are!" before they left, they cheered our boys, Our love for Cornhuskers football. I spun around to see 10 Nebraska ~o: 0 prayers

22 SCHOLASTICSPORTS A new twist on Irish volleyball

JESSICADAUES scoring that the team 20th in the USA TODAY/AVCA poll, has is sure about. For one fallen to No. 23 after starting the season 3-3. or Irish volleyball fans who have fol thing, there will be But records can be deceiving. The team be Flowed the sport in the past, this year more of an emphasis gan the year winning three straight games en might look like a whole new on staying error-free. route to capturing the Shamrock Invitational ballgame. "With rally scoring, tournament title. Senior middle blocker Well, maybe not an entirely new ballgame. every play counts," Malinda Goralski and sophomore middle The basics will be the same: Players will serve, senior opposite blocker Kim Fletcher both were named to the bump, set and spike to score. What is differ Kristy Kreher says. all-tournament team, and Fletcher was named ent, however, is how the teams will score. The "Every error means a the tournament's Most Outstanding Player National Association for Girls and Women in point for the other team .... In the past, play will be shorter as well. Under the side-out after posting 35 total kills to lead the Irish of Sports, the official rule-making organization ers just were swinging freely to make kills, system, if a team had good defense, games fense. Goralski, meanwhile, was named the for women's collegiate volleyball, made some but players can't do that anymore. To win, a could last three-and-a-half to four hours. Big East Player of the Week for September 3 changes to its rule book during the offseason. team will have to minimize errors and have These games, according to Brown, were "te after recording 37 kills and 25 blocks during Gone is the traditional "side-out" system of much more controlled play." dious and boring because no one scored any the tournament. scoring, in which only the team with the serve Senior outside hitter Marcie Bomhack points." She says: "You're not going to see The Irish did not fare quite so well this is able to score points. In its place, the asso doesn't see remaining error-free as much of those long marathon matches anymore. Now past weekend. Brown's team lost three con ciation has implemented what is known as the a problem for the Irish. "For our team, thls games can be televised more easily, and it is secutive games in the U.S. BankiArby's In "rally-scoring" system. is very beneficial," she says. "Our defense in general more fan-friendly." vitational in Lincoln, Neb. But in all three In this new format, a point is awarded ev is excellent and we are very good at getting Along with the scoring change, the asso instances, the team faced highly-ranked teams: No. 7 UCLA, No. I Nebraska and I ery time the ball either touches the opposing side-outs." And what was once just a side ciation has implemented a few other minor • team's court or is hit out of bounds . This means out under the old format now will mean an rule changes, including legalizing serves that No. 15 Pepperdine. Not to be overlooked, also, was the outstanding performance of J that for every play, a point will be scored, re other point for the Irish. touch the net but continue their path to the gardless of which team serves the ball. Secondly, the new format will create more opponent's court and not allowing a second many Irish players. Kreher posted a team This new system of scoring is not foreign parity and a greater chance for upsets. This toss for service. Another more-interesting high 13 kills and six digs and two blocks in to the Irish players, who have some experi especially will be true for teams facing higher rule is optional; it can be implemented by the loss to Nebraska, giving the impression ence with rally scoring. Under the old side ranked teams. If those elite teams don't start mutual agreement of the coaches before the that she had nearly fully recovered from a out system, the fifth game of a best-of-five off with their best stuff, they might be in match. Known as "international pursuit," the nagging ankle injury. Freshman outside hit game match, if it was necessary, was played trouble. "Before, when a team got off to a slow new rule allows a player to retrieve a ball, ter Emily Loomis continued to emerge as using rally scoring instead of side-outs. In start, they could sort of Climb back into it, but provided it has been touched at least once, one of the team's top freshman, posting eight addition, the freshmen and sophomores on now, with the fast-paced game, they don't that has crosse~ the net into the opponent's kills to help lead the Irish offense in the loss the team played with this type of scoring necessarily have the time to [recover]," Brown out~·of-bounds.area. The player can then hit to Pepperdine. Sophomore defensive spe with their junior clubs in high school. There says. This was good news for the Irish, whose the ball back only to her team's side to keep cialist Janie Alderete had a career-high 19 remain some uncertainties, however, as to schedule includes several highly ranked teams the ball in play. While all these new rules digs against Pepperdine. When the team re how this change will affect the way the team such as Nebraska, Pepperdine, UCLA, Florida will affect how the game is played to some sumes its play (after the terrorist attack plays, and these uncertainties likely won't and Northern Iowa. extent, the difference in scoring likely will caused the postponement of Wednesday's be resolved anytime soon. The team knows the new rule will make be the ~ost pervasive rule change. game against Michigan and this weekend's "People ask if we are training differently," the game much more interesting for its fans. Will the team be able to succeed under the tournament in Purdue), the team won't let head coach Debbie Brown says. "I say, no, Brown is particularly excited about this as new format? The Irish think so. This year's this three-game losing streak keep them we're not training differently, because the pect of the scoring change. She says: "When team set high expectations for itself; its goals down. "We're a tough team," says sopho skills we need to play are still the same. It's· ever we playa fifth game, whether its on include finishing in the top 10, winning the more setter Kristen Kinder. "If a team is big just a different way of scoring. I think the the road or here, people always come up af Big East conference and tournament and ad ger than us or stronger than us, we're going more experience we get with it, we'll feel terwards and say, 'Wow, that fifth game was vancing as far as the Elite Eight in the NCAA to keep on fighting." Clearly, the Irish aren't more comfortable and maybe think about so exciting; there was so much tension and Tournament. "And once we get that far, any going to let anything - especially adjust changing the strategies." excitement in the air.''' Not only will the thing can happen," Kreher says. Right now ing to a little scoring change - stand in the There are, however, some aspects of rally games be faster-paced, but they generally the team, which started off the year ranked way of their goals.- 0

24 SCHOLASTICSPORTS SCHOLASTICS PORTS 25 A new twist on Irish volleyball

24 SCHOLASTICSPORTS SCHOLASTICS PORTS 25 HALLOWED GROUND Recently. trips all the Up Against the Wall -way into the endzone have been few and far between for the Irish offense. Tony Fisher . To succeed this season, the Irish will have to overcome themselves scored the only/touchdown against Nebraska.

passing game mixed with the run, while GERARDMESKILL "[The Fiesta Bowl] was disappointing," men on the field - both occurring on Holiday's demand a heavy-option offense. says Notre Dame offensive coordinator Nebraska's first offensive drive into the red It appears the jury is still out in Davie's mind hat a difference 120 minutes can Kevin Rogers. "I heard the complaints about zone. - Notre Dame will have to wait at least two W make. That's how much playing the game plan, that we had a poor game plan, "Obviously, we weren't a very well-pre more weeks before defining an offensive time has elapsed between the end and maybe it was, but I know this: Regard pared football team, and I take responsibil scheme. of Notre Dame's seventh straight victory last less of what game plan you implement, ity for that," Bob Davie said. "I don't care Another point of trouble for the Irish of season and its embarrassing defeat against you'd better block them. We didn't block how many games Nebraska has played, I fense involved its receivers. Notre Dame Nebraska on Saturday. Prior to Notre them. The thing I feel bad about as far as don't care how many people there are in the struggled to shake the Huskers' secondary, Dame's first-ever the game is con stands, I don't care what the crowd noise is. preventing the Irish quarterbacks from mak BCS game at the "Obviously, we weren't a very well cerned: If Or There is no excuse, no excuse." ing effective passes downfield .. Fiesta Bowl, the prepared football team, and I take egon State is a If Davie wants to remain head coach of the "We just weren't able to execute as a 2000-01 Irish responsibility for that. ... There is no better team than Irish, he will need to do more than accept whole," said senior receiver Javin Hunter. looked like the excuse, no excuse." us, and obvi blame after humiliating losses. The Irish have "We weren't able to get the running game team that would ously that night been outscored 68-19 in their last 120 min going, and we couldn't get a consistent drive bring football they were a utes of football - a margin of seven touch going. Thus the passing game was ineffec glory back to -BOB DAVIE much better downs: After tying the NCAA record last year tive and it threw the quarterbacks out of South Bend. team than us, I for least turnovers in a season (8), Notre Dame' sync, and we had no momentum. How hard Freshman quarterback Matt LoVecchio had certainly don't believe that if you play them has turned the football over nine times in these is it to play defense when nothing is going won seven straight starts, leading Notre again that that kind of thing is going to hap last two games. Their last two opponents have right for the offense?" Dame to a 9-2 finish after the team had split pen. If they were better than us, they weren't more than doubled the team in total yards, Indeed, the Irish also face questions on its opening four games. Throughout Decem that much better than us." amassing a 716-317 margin. Notre Dame the defensive side of the ball. Their ttighly ber, th~ Irish faithful eagerly anticipated the After the embarrassing loss to Oregon never even held a lead in either game. touted defensive linemen were almost use New Year's Day contest against No.5 Or State, the Irish had eight months to prepare After a brief seven-game renaissance, the less against Nebraska running back Da:hrran egon State. Unfortunately, the same could before facing No.5 Nebraska in Lincoln to future of Notre Dame football finds itself Diedrick, who seemed able to advance at not be said for the Irish coaching staff. What open the 2001 season. Nevertheless, Notre back at a level of doubt similar to that at the Shockingly, the defeat on Saturday was regular season; in which he completed 73 will against Notre Dame. ever they did anticipate, it was not what Dame still appeared unprepared on Satur end of 1999's 5-7 campaign, a season that only the sixth-worst Irish defeat of the Davie of 125 passes for 980 yards and just one in "For us, we didn't execute as well as we Oregon State brought to Tempe on January day, as the Huskers capitalized on four Irish stands as the worst year of Irish football era. Notre Dame suffered worse losses in terception in eight games. After LoVecchio could have," said senior defensive end Grant 1 - the Irish appeared confused and unco turnovers, including Terrance Howard's since Joe Kuharich led the Irish to a 2-7 fin 1997 at Stanford (33-15) and in the Inde showed his ineffectiveness in the first quar Irons. "Nebraska made plays, and they ex ordinated against the Beavers. Despite a fumble on Notre Dame's first offensive play, ish in 1963. Since Kuharich, only Gerry pendence Bowl against Louisiana State (27- ter on Saturday, Davie opted to replace him ecuted." month to prepare, it was obvious that Notre to cruise to a 27-10 victory. The most dis Faust (30-26-1) has compiled a worse coach 9), in 1998 at Michigan State (45-23), in with fellow sophomore Carlyle Holiday in With a quarterback like Nebraska's Eric Dame was not ready for Oregon State, as turbing signs of the Irish rust were two in ing record at Notre Dame than Davie (30- 1999 at Tennessee (38-14) and in the 2001 the second quarter. Holiday drove to the Crouch calling the plays, it is discouraging the Beavers won in a 41-9 blowout. excusable penalties - offsides and too many 20). Fiesta Bowl. Nebraska seven-yard line before taking a de that an opponent could run so easily on Notre However, no other two-game stretch of lay-of-game penalty that forced the Irish to Dame since Crouch rarely throws the foot .... PHOTOS BYMICHAEL STRETCHED TOO the Davie era can match this one in medioc kick a 29-yard field goal for their first score ball: The Irish knew the run was coming and THIN The struggling rity. If Davie is to turn things around, there of the year. Despite this success, Holiday re still could not stop it. This problem will need Notre Dame offense are several questions about the 2001 Irish turned to the bench in favor of LoVecchio immediate attention if the Irish hope to stop leaves little margin anyone on defense this year. for defensive error.'< that he must answer, and answer quickly. on the next Irish possession, proving that Thelrishare.,> . First is the quarterback situation. Lately, Davie has not yet decided who will be the The conglomerate effect is that Notre .countihgbn their ..•.• Lo Vecchio has not been the same quarter 2001 quarterback. When asked after the Dame has erased all of last year's progress ... defensive backs, J.ed back that guided the Irish to seven straight game, he indicated that he will start with two horrific games. No one knows who by senior co-captain will become this team's starting quarterback . Rocky Boirnan (Ieff), wins in 2000. He was the obvious choice to LoVecchio against Michigan State but and sEmiorTyreq ...•.. start in Lincoln on Saturday, since only he, quickly added, "We have to do whatever's down the stretch. Special teams, not so long . Harrison (right) to trip flanker Arnaz Battle, and tight end Gary necessary to turn this around." ago the pride of Irish football, showed signs up future opponents. . Godsey had taken at least one collegiate snap The longer it takes to find out what will of weakness against Nebraska. The offense to that point. However,. LoVecchio looked turn the Irish around the longer Notre Dame was at best mediocre both on the ground and shaky for the second straight game, com football will remain in turmoil, as it is diffi in the air in Lincoln. The defense looked pleting 11 of 24 passes for 78 yards and one cult to choose a singular offensive scheme clueless trying to stop Nebraska's one-di interception. His passing numbers for the last when the quarterback position is split be- mensional offense, namely Diedrick. And two games are 24 for 57 for 216 yards and tween two men with very different styles and the one man who needs to answer these ques three interceptions, compared to the 2000 capabilities. LoVecchio's skills favor a short- tions, Davie, has little to say at this time. 0

26 SCHOLASTICSPORTS SCHOLASTICSPORTS 27 HALLOWED GROUND Recently. trips all the Up Against the Wall -way into the endzone have been few and far between for the Irish offense. Tony Fisher . To succeed this season, the Irish will have to overcome themselves scored the only/touchdown against Nebraska.

26 SCHOLASTICSPORTS SCHOLASTICSPORTS 27 country club for three summers during high cast and crew of the film descended on the The movie currently is in the test school and was forever changed by the ex Coynes's home, which had to be completely screening stage and will be released in perience," Mandel says. "Tom told me about redecorated. "No one on my block slept for Spring 2002. One advance review, from A HOLE IN ONE A Gentleman s Game at the party and sent three weeks," Coyne says. "Each time the www.aint-it-cool-news.com. touts the me the manuscript soon after. I stayed up all trucks rolled down the street, my neighbors film as "the antithesis of Caddyshack." Notre Dame grad scores night reading it and knew right away that it became a little less enchanted with Holly It says that "A Gentleman s Game is much I was.something special." wood." more like the sport of golf itself: leisurely, GrovelAtlantic Monthly Press quickly The results of art meeting life sometimes contemplative and largely serene with as his debut novel hits the snapped UR the novel and Mandel sent the were hectic, but they sometimes were hu small spurts of excitement." manuscript to Hollywood, where Mills morous, such as the filming of one late-night Now, a year later, Coyne has his house big screen Goodloe - who had made movies like Le scene that was supposed to take place in the back and is busy polishing up some of thal Weapon 3, Conspiracy Theory and Mav front yard during a rainstorm. "We were his short stories. "I'm always finishing erick and who is a golfer himself - came doing the poor man's rain effect," Coyne up," he says. In the fall, he plans to head KATHLEENCORTE comes from a writer who didn't even get into ent stories that were basically chapters." across it. "Dan called and was like, 'The says. Firemen pointed water hoses up in the to his family's beach home on the New Notre Dame's MFA program when he first In October of his second year in the gradu producer's going crazy about the book,' " air above the actors to create the illusion of Jersey shore, where he will begin work n an early August morning, Tom applied in 1997. ate program, with the rough draft of his the recalls Coyne. "I didn't even know people rain. on a new novel. OCoyne is sleeping soundly in the "There were five spots that year for fic sis due in four short months, Coyne told were looking at it." "We're out there holding every hose we "It was such a great experience," he basement of his parents' home in tion writers at Notre Dame," Coyne says. "I Sayers that he wanted to change his thesis. The next day, Goodloe flew to Philadel can find," Coyne says. "When we say, 'cut,' says of his foray into the world of mov Philadelphia. His own room is upstairs but was No.6." In the character of Timmy Price and the phia to play golf with Coyne and make plans the firemen move the hoses away so they're ies. "But would I do it again? No way." he hasn't slept there in weeks. That bedroom He did get accepted to an English program world of country clubs, Coyne had found for the movie version of A Gentleman's not on the actors." Unfortunately, no one re Tom Coyne, James Ellis Thomas and now belongs to Dennis the Menace, who is at Trinity College, however, and he was pre his subject. Game. alized where the hoses were pointing instead Dan Mandel will appear in a panel dis shaking Coyne awake for another long day pared to head to Ireland when he got a call Although the novel is not autobiographi Goodloe promised to leave his job at Warner - directly into the open window of Coyne's cussion on Friday, September 21 from 3 of filming. from Notre Dame's English department in cal, and Timmy is not a younger version of Brothers to make the movie independently, father's bedroom. p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Notre Dame Room Only Mason Gamble, the actor who early August. One of the students had Coyne, the country-club setting was famil with himself as the director and Coyne as the Despite the occasional soaking, Coyne in LaFortune. Coyne and Thomas will played the famous comic-strip character in dropped out at the last minute, freeing up a iar to Coyne. "I knew what it felt like to walk screenwriter. "It wasn't us just signing the and his parents made the most of the film read from their works and answer ques the 1993 movie, is no longer Dennis the spot in the program for Coyne. across a golf course at six in the morning, rights over to a studio and taking a big pay ing. Coyne's father became friends with tions about publishing and writing. Menace, but Timmy Price, the main charac "I wanted to thank, in my book, the per and I knew what it was like to come in from check," says Coyne. "This guy was actually Baker while his mother brought her friends Coyne will be signing copies of A ter inA Gentleman's Game, the movie based son who dropped out," Coyne says. "With caddying in August," he says. "When I found going to make the movie." over to take pictures with Gamble. Gentleman s Game at the Hammes Book on Coyne's first novel. And out that, I would've been my subjects, the invention part was much With the plans well under way, the movie Life finally began to return to normal store on Saturday, September 22 from 11 Coyne's house is no longer off to Trinity." less intimidating." needed a cast. Coyne got to sit in on casting when filming ended in late September, but a.m. to 12 p.m. 0 just a home to himself and Back at Notre Dame, the ButA Gentleman s Game was never a typi sessions, although he says, "I was probably it was a slow process. "It took us two or his parents, but a movie set. idea that would become A cal golf book. "The expectation would be no help at all because I loved everybody." three months to really get the house back "It was bigger than any Gentleman s Game began Bagger Vance," Coyne says. "Life is messed In the end, the cast included big-name ac together," Coyne says, "because when the one expected," Coyne says. to take shape. "I would say up, you hit a good golf shot, the caddy whis tors like Gamble, Baker (Thirteen Days), movie leaves, it leaves." He means the movie, which that as an undergraduate, pers the secret of life in your ear and you go Sinise (Forrest Gump) and invaded his family's home he was still looking for his home with the girl and the money." Philip Baker Hall (Magno from mid-August to late subject," says Valerie Say Instead, A Gentleman s Game is a quieter, lia). September 2000, but he ers, Coyne's thesis direc more literary novel that explores the rela Early on, Goodloe de could also be describing the tor. But she noticed some tionship between Timmy, his father, his an cided to film the movie in whirlwind debut that turned thing different upon gry football-player brother and his depressed Philadelphia. "The frrst pri Coyne, a 1999 graduate of ority in location was the : ; Coyne's return. "I thought mother. At the same time, Coyne probes be : 1 Notre Dame's instantly that neath the genteel surface of country clubs golf course," Coyne says. MFA Creative "It's one of those books that something pro to explore the less-glamorous world of cad The directors ultimately Writing Program found had dies in contrast to the wealthy club mem chose the course where with one pub transports you very quickly into clicked for him. bers for whoJI? they work. Coyne himself once cad lished short story He knew what to "It's one of those books that transports you died. "In my imagination, to his name, into a particular and peculiar world." write about at very quickly into a particular and peculiar that's what I think a golf an up-and-coming - Valerie Sayers that point." world," Sayers says. "[It is] a world I don't course looks like because novelist and a A former know anything about, but he conveys it eco that's where I grew up screenwriter with caddy himself, nomically and sharply." playing," he says. actors like Gary Sinise and Dylan Baker ap Coyne didn't start out with the intention to Coyne's talent for illustrating this world Next they began looking pearing in his movie. write a golf novel. In fact, he was hard at ultimately sold the work. He finished the for a house, but without any Coyne, who also received his undergradu work on a short-story thesis when the char b90k in February, then reworked it for an luck. "We finally went to ate degree from Notre Dame in 1997, pub acter of Timmy Price appeared on the scene .. other four months before submitting it to my house at the end of the lished his first novel, A Gentleman s Game, "I put together a story collection, and one of several literary agencies the summer after day, and one of the scouts with GrovelAtlantic Monthly Press last the stories I started working on was about a he received his MFA. In the end, however, said, 'This is the house in spring. The novel, which relates the story of 13-year-old golf prodigy," Coyne says. "I Coyne found agent Dan Mandel at a pub the story,' " Coyne says. a young golf prodigy, recently went into a realized it wasn't very good because it didn't lishing party in New York, where the two "Thus, the fun and the second printing in hardcover and also was have an ending, so I wrote another story. The . began talking about golf. movie came." released in the United Kingdom. All of this next thing you know, I had all these differ- "I had worked in the pro shop at a local In mid-August 2000, the

28 SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 29 country club for three summers during high cast and crew of the film descended on the The movie currently is in the test school and was forever changed by the ex Coynes's home, which had to be completely screening stage and will be released in perience," Mandel says. "Tom told me about redecorated. "No one on my block slept for Spring 2002. One advance review, from A HOLE IN ONE A Gentleman s Game at the party and sent three weeks," Coyne says. "Each time the www.aint-it-cool-news.com. touts the me the manuscript soon after. I stayed up all trucks rolled down the street, my neighbors film as "the antithesis of Caddyshack." Notre Dame grad scores night reading it and knew right away that it became a little less enchanted with Holly It says that "A Gentleman s Game is much I was.something special." wood." more like the sport of golf itself: leisurely, GrovelAtlantic Monthly Press quickly The results of art meeting life sometimes contemplative and largely serene with as his debut novel hits the snapped UR the novel and Mandel sent the were hectic, but they sometimes were hu small spurts of excitement." manuscript to Hollywood, where Mills morous, such as the filming of one late-night Now, a year later, Coyne has his house big screen Goodloe - who had made movies like Le scene that was supposed to take place in the back and is busy polishing up some of thal Weapon 3, Conspiracy Theory and Mav front yard during a rainstorm. "We were his short stories. "I'm always finishing erick and who is a golfer himself - came doing the poor man's rain effect," Coyne up," he says. In the fall, he plans to head KATHLEENCORTE comes from a writer who didn't even get into ent stories that were basically chapters." across it. "Dan called and was like, 'The says. Firemen pointed water hoses up in the to his family's beach home on the New Notre Dame's MFA program when he first In October of his second year in the gradu producer's going crazy about the book,' " air above the actors to create the illusion of Jersey shore, where he will begin work n an early August morning, Tom applied in 1997. ate program, with the rough draft of his the recalls Coyne. "I didn't even know people rain. on a new novel. OCoyne is sleeping soundly in the "There were five spots that year for fic sis due in four short months, Coyne told were looking at it." "We're out there holding every hose we "It was such a great experience," he basement of his parents' home in tion writers at Notre Dame," Coyne says. "I Sayers that he wanted to change his thesis. The next day, Goodloe flew to Philadel can find," Coyne says. "When we say, 'cut,' says of his foray into the world of mov Philadelphia. His own room is upstairs but was No.6." In the character of Timmy Price and the phia to play golf with Coyne and make plans the firemen move the hoses away so they're ies. "But would I do it again? No way." he hasn't slept there in weeks. That bedroom He did get accepted to an English program world of country clubs, Coyne had found for the movie version of A Gentleman's not on the actors." Unfortunately, no one re Tom Coyne, James Ellis Thomas and now belongs to Dennis the Menace, who is at Trinity College, however, and he was pre his subject. Game. alized where the hoses were pointing instead Dan Mandel will appear in a panel dis shaking Coyne awake for another long day pared to head to Ireland when he got a call Although the novel is not autobiographi Goodloe promised to leave his job at Warner - directly into the open window of Coyne's cussion on Friday, September 21 from 3 of filming. from Notre Dame's English department in cal, and Timmy is not a younger version of Brothers to make the movie independently, father's bedroom. p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Notre Dame Room Only Mason Gamble, the actor who early August. One of the students had Coyne, the country-club setting was famil with himself as the director and Coyne as the Despite the occasional soaking, Coyne in LaFortune. Coyne and Thomas will played the famous comic-strip character in dropped out at the last minute, freeing up a iar to Coyne. "I knew what it felt like to walk screenwriter. "It wasn't us just signing the and his parents made the most of the film read from their works and answer ques the 1993 movie, is no longer Dennis the spot in the program for Coyne. across a golf course at six in the morning, rights over to a studio and taking a big pay ing. Coyne's father became friends with tions about publishing and writing. Menace, but Timmy Price, the main charac "I wanted to thank, in my book, the per and I knew what it was like to come in from check," says Coyne. "This guy was actually Baker while his mother brought her friends Coyne will be signing copies of A ter inA Gentleman's Game, the movie based son who dropped out," Coyne says. "With caddying in August," he says. "When I found going to make the movie." over to take pictures with Gamble. Gentleman s Game at the Hammes Book on Coyne's first novel. And out that, I would've been my subjects, the invention part was much With the plans well under way, the movie Life finally began to return to normal store on Saturday, September 22 from 11 Coyne's house is no longer off to Trinity." less intimidating." needed a cast. Coyne got to sit in on casting when filming ended in late September, but a.m. to 12 p.m. 0 just a home to himself and Back at Notre Dame, the ButA Gentleman s Game was never a typi sessions, although he says, "I was probably it was a slow process. "It took us two or his parents, but a movie set. idea that would become A cal golf book. "The expectation would be no help at all because I loved everybody." three months to really get the house back "It was bigger than any Gentleman s Game began Bagger Vance," Coyne says. "Life is messed In the end, the cast included big-name ac together," Coyne says, "because when the one expected," Coyne says. to take shape. "I would say up, you hit a good golf shot, the caddy whis tors like Gamble, Baker (Thirteen Days), movie leaves, it leaves." He means the movie, which that as an undergraduate, pers the secret of life in your ear and you go Sinise (Forrest Gump) and invaded his family's home he was still looking for his home with the girl and the money." Philip Baker Hall (Magno from mid-August to late subject," says Valerie Say Instead, A Gentleman s Game is a quieter, lia). September 2000, but he ers, Coyne's thesis direc more literary novel that explores the rela Early on, Goodloe de could also be describing the tor. But she noticed some tionship between Timmy, his father, his an cided to film the movie in whirlwind debut that turned thing different upon gry football-player brother and his depressed Philadelphia. "The frrst pri Coyne, a 1999 graduate of ority in location was the : ; Coyne's return. "I thought mother. At the same time, Coyne probes be : 1 Notre Dame's instantly that neath the genteel surface of country clubs golf course," Coyne says. MFA Creative "It's one of those books that something pro to explore the less-glamorous world of cad The directors ultimately Writing Program found had dies in contrast to the wealthy club mem chose the course where with one pub transports you very quickly into clicked for him. bers for whoJI? they work. Coyne himself once cad lished short story He knew what to "It's one of those books that transports you died. "In my imagination, to his name, into a particular and peculiar world." write about at very quickly into a particular and peculiar that's what I think a golf an up-and-coming - Valerie Sayers that point." world," Sayers says. "[It is] a world I don't course looks like because novelist and a A former know anything about, but he conveys it eco that's where I grew up screenwriter with caddy himself, nomically and sharply." playing," he says. actors like Gary Sinise and Dylan Baker ap Coyne didn't start out with the intention to Coyne's talent for illustrating this world Next they began looking pearing in his movie. write a golf novel. In fact, he was hard at ultimately sold the work. He finished the for a house, but without any Coyne, who also received his undergradu work on a short-story thesis when the char b90k in February, then reworked it for an luck. "We finally went to ate degree from Notre Dame in 1997, pub acter of Timmy Price appeared on the scene .. other four months before submitting it to my house at the end of the lished his first novel, A Gentleman s Game, "I put together a story collection, and one of several literary agencies the summer after day, and one of the scouts with GrovelAtlantic Monthly Press last the stories I started working on was about a he received his MFA. In the end, however, said, 'This is the house in spring. The novel, which relates the story of 13-year-old golf prodigy," Coyne says. "I Coyne found agent Dan Mandel at a pub the story,' " Coyne says. a young golf prodigy, recently went into a realized it wasn't very good because it didn't lishing party in New York, where the two "Thus, the fun and the second printing in hardcover and also was have an ending, so I wrote another story. The . began talking about golf. movie came." released in the United Kingdom. All of this next thing you know, I had all these differ- "I had worked in the pro shop at a local In mid-August 2000, the

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working there kicked our butts (Noah had three sons? THEO Success Stories It's a Fest Fest 100 was so long ago ... ), but they were nice enough to give us consolation prizes. I got a peppermint and a bracelet with Creative Writing Program boosts young writers to early publication Look what OOB brought you! colored beads symbolizing heaven, purity and sin. Eternal utumn swiftly approaches, and with it comes week salvation and minty fresh breath! KATHLEENCORTE April 2002. stuff that's good enough to get there." Aends practically bursting at the seams with local festi Souvenir 4: A Slightly Green Tinge All this success comes from a small, young The program also offers students the op vals. Of course, OOB wouldn't dream of letting you If anything, I was expecting to return home from our es hen Tom Coyne finally found program in a field that is notoriously difficult portunity to work as editorial assistants at hit the road without first subjecting at least one festival to rig capade stained blue, but it actually took us half the day to Whis former classmate James to enter. "In any Creative Writing Program, its literary magazine, the Notre Dame Re orous testing. So my cohorts and I took advantage of Labor find any berries. In the meantime, I couldn't help but sample Ellis Thomas, Thomas was you're going to get success stories," Boully view, which Sayers started in 1995. Notre Day weekend's brilliant weather and ventured south to Ply some traditional festival fare: elephant ears, butterfly fries teaching developmental writing at a com says. "But it usually takes about 20 years for Dame students are not allowed to submit mouth, Ind., home of the Marshall County Blueberry Festi (a whole potato cut into one giant spiral, then deep-fried) munity college in Arizona. "He said he had grads to start making a name for themselves. work until after they graduate, but the val. and corn on the cob smothered in honey and melted butter. to go out and buy a $5 phone to call me," Here, they've managed to produce success magazine has published the works of We arrived early and baked in the sun until dusk. We And, of course, when we finally found Blueberry Central, a Coyne says, "and less than two months ful writers in six years or so." Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and squealed. Often. We stuffed ourselves. We were kids again, sundae topped with homemade preserves was in order. I'll later, his picture was in the New Yorker." The program got its start in 1990 under the Czeslaw Milosz. Most recently, a short with one notable exception: Mom and Dad weren't there to spare you the details, but I hasten to offer one final festival The reconnection between Coyne and direction of O'Rourke, Sonia Gernes and John story by Marilyn Krysl that originally ap- pick up the tab. Admission to most local festivals is free, tip: rides first, food second. Thomas, a 1998 graduate of Notre Dame's Matthias. "I looked around and it but if you go you'll need to bring some cash for food, games, UPCOMING FESTIVALS MFA Creative Writing Program, put Tho was obvious to me that Notre Dame rides and purchasing local kitsch. Fret not, however. I prac Wizard of Oz Festival: September 14-16, Chesterton, Ind. mas in touch with Dan Mandel, Coyne's should have a Creative Writing Pro ticed considerable pocketbook restraint and still came home There's no place like Chesterton! Have breakfast with the agent, who showed Thomas's work to an gram," says O'Rourke, who joined with some souvenirs, all of which were free, or nearly so. original Munchkins, enter a Wicked Witch cackling contest, editor from The New Yorker. In July 2000, the English department in 1981. NO MFA grads in print Souvenir 1: Ringo the Fish have L. Frank Baum's great-grandson sign a copy of the book Thomas saw his first published story, 'The 'They had a long history of teach One dollar, five Ping-Pong balls. Land a white bowl, win that started it all and catch the film on the big screen. Free Saturday Morning Car Wash Club," ap ing creative writing to undergradu Nominated for Booker Prize a crab. Land a purple bowl, win a fish. One of our number admission. pear in The New Yorker. ates." Michael Collins, The Keeper of Truth warned me that crabs are particularly smelly, so at purple I Greentown Pump Fest: September 15, Greentown, Ind. "James is a natural storyteller who has Nine years later, O'Rourke and his diligently aimed. I hit a white bowl on my second toss. Luck Celebrate Greentown's Town Pump, which once served a gift for creating beautiful prose with a colleagues managed to get their pro" Published by Little Brown ily, we managed to coerce a towheaded ,youth who had just as a popular downtown gathering place. Polish up your Hans wildly comedic' flair," Mandelsays~ He 'gram on its feet. "The program, "MatkBehr,Embrace' won a fish into swapping with us, and we became the proud and Franz impression and get ready to participate in various wasn't the only one to notice. A week af started as a grassroots effort out of owners of our first dorm-approved pet. We named him after pump-related activities, such as playing a pump organ, a ter Thomas's short story debut, he sold a the English department," says the most expendable BeatIe, assuming that he would soon pump art show and, yes, pumping iron. Free admission. still-unfinished novel to Simon and O'Rourke. University funding came Featured in Seven New Poets fall prey to the infamous Flush of Death. He has proven Sunflower Fair: September 15, La Porte, Ind. Schuster. a few years later. RobertAfchambeau, Joe Francis Doerr, surprisingly hardy, however, and still was alive at press time. Features entertainment; kiddie rides (age, schmage!); arts, To most aspiring young writers, Tho The program, which graduated Jere Odell and Michael Smith Something to keep in mind while perusing the festival game crafts and collectible booths; an art show; and a rib cook mas' success story reads like a fairy tale. only two fiction writers its first year, booths: beware of lustful carnies. Pickup lines we fielded off. 'The average age of first novelists in this currently admits five fiction writers Appeared in The New England Review ranged from "Hey, you dropped your bellybutton! Fooled Remembering James Dean Festival: September 27-30, country is 34," says William O'Rourke, and five poets every year to the two Michael Smith you! You can't drop your bellybutton!" to "I don't want your Fairmount, Ind. founding director of Notre Dame's pro year program. AlII 0 students are of money, I just want your phone number." One even offered James Dean grew up in Fairmount, so while you're there gram. "It is still quite surprising when stu fered a full tuition waiver, which al Forthcoming Short Stories my roommate a "free ride" just for being redheaded. you can visit his boyhood home, his grave and the James dents a year or two out of school start ap lows students to concentrate solely Dean Memorial Gallery at the Fairmount Historical Museum. Tony D'Souza, Dark House and Souvenir 2: Pine Mountain Railroad CD pearing in print." on their writing while in the pro Try as they might to rile the crowd with a communal rebel Features a classic- and custom-car show, a James Dean look Barbaric Yawp Yet Thomas and Coyne are not alone gram. "We regard this as a sort of yell, the boys from the bluegrass band Pine Mountain Rail alike contest, art and dance contests and screenings of Dean among their fellow Notre Dame graduates. time-out from life in general," says road just couldn't get anyone to do-si-do. So we shut our films. Free admission. Michael Collins, a member of the professor Valerie Sayers, who eyes tightly and raced to the stage. They rewarded us with End of Summer Bluegrass Festival: September 28-29, program's first graduating class in 1991, came to Notre Dame in 1993. peared in the Review was chosen for the free copies of their latest CD and a possible PBS dancing Plymouth, Ind. published the novel The Keepers of Truth But the thing that really sets the program anthology The Best American Short Sto debut: turns out some people are following them around the Meet my new friends, Pine Mountain Railroad. Also per last March in Great Britian, where it was apart has nothing to do with numbers. "One des of2000. "That's as good as it gets for country and making a documentary. forming: Ashlea Romano, Flintlock, Apple Blossom, Echo shortlisted for the prestigious Booker of the really distinguishing things is what a literary magazine," O'Rourke. "We've Souvenir 3: Good-News Bracelet and Peppermint Valley and Bluegrass Impressions. Alas, admission's a bit Prize. Mark Behr, another graduate, has Tom and James embody," says Sayers, arrived." Candy pricey: $10 Friday evening, $10 Saturday daytime and $10 Sat published two novels, The Smell ofApples "which is the desire to help others get pub The Creative Writing Program has come Late in the day, we passed on free samples at the Spam urday evening, but you can buy an all-weekend pass for $20. (1997) and Embrace (2000). lished." a long way since it began in 1990, but it Mobile and headed next door to spin the Tri-County Child For more information about these and other festivals taking Current students of the MFA program "Everyone wants everybody else to s,uc doesn't intend to rest on its laurels. "I think Evangelism Fellowship's Bible-trivia wheel. The folks place in this fine state, check out www.indianafestivals.com. 0 are finding literary success as well. Jenny ceed," Coyne adds. "The bookshelves are ~e'rejustready to shoot ahead," says Say Boully, a second-year student, was one of plenty big and it's too damn hard to get pub ers. "We're planning to really get ourselves 16 poets nationwide to win the Associated' lished. You can't look at this business as if better known." Writing Program's Inter-Journals Pro we're all fighting for the last book jacket Successful, published alumni like gram. Boully also has a book contract for they're going to print. Sure, we all want The Coyne and Thomas only can help. As her experimental work, The Body, which New Yorker, we all want the cover of the book Thomas says, "That's a badge. That's it will be published by Slope Editions in review, but I also want to read and love the , right there." 0

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30 SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICOUT OF BOUNDS 31 SUMMER Students hit the road with their own original LIKE A BOY BAND The cast of Chance musical at Love kicks back

SHEILAFLYNN Cunningham took care of the script, and two years later, Chance at ! sons. "We drove about an Love was complete. hour and a half south of he auditorium of Detroit's Andover High School buzzed with The musical follows the romantic adventures of three Pittsburgh to go to our T the electrifying energy that only can be created by star-struck twentysomething male roommates with what Curtin calls "stereo show, which we discov teenage girls. Pointing and giggling, an excited throng of typical Saved by the Bell personalities." The main characters are ered was not in the safest girls cheered wildly - not for the Backstreet Boys, Ricky Martin Brett the player, Tom the nice guy and Adam the clown. The writ place ever," Cunningham or even 0-Town, but for Chance at Love, an original musical writ ers, dissatisfied with a show that revolved solely around dating, says. When the cast fi ten by two Notre Dame students, and for sophomore Raymond added a little conflict and variety by moving an elderly brother advertisements in their newsletters and on their Web sites. nally found the building and the priest who helped them set up the Areaux, who just had appeared onstage wearing only a towel. and-sister duo, Elmer and Gwen, into the apartment next to the In late June, the cast reunited at McShane's house in Minnesota, performance, they were led into "a bingo hall with an odd amount "It's like we were 'N Sync for a day," says Tommy Curtin, who roommates. The characters poke fun at everything from junk mail minus Maginn, who was unable to join the tour. His replacement, of grapefruit in it," according to Cunningham. The cast ended up co-wrote the musical with fellow senior Ryan Cunningham. "I'd to musicals themselves throughout the show. J.J. Area, had only a few chances to run through the show - in performing for an audience of eight, with Curtin in the back comer say at least half the autographs we signed on the tour were at that For the cast, Curtin and Cunningham looked no further than their McShane's basement. "We were standing about three inches from of the stage between a potted tree and an American flag, playing a show." musical-company friends. Tiana Checchia, Betsy Kahl and Heidi the wall, yelling at it," Curtin says. "I don'teven think we got through miniature keyboard on his. lap. Detroit was the fifth stop on Chance at Love's summer tour, which Kellner were assigned roles as the guys' romantic interests, while a full show." "We were almost glad it happened, though, because we just sang started in Minneapolis on July 2 and made its way across the coun Matt Baggetta and Molly McShane played Elmer and Gwen. Yet, only two days later, the cast took the stage at Minneapolis's through the show and had a great time," Checchia says. "It reminded try to New York for the grand finale on July 27. Packed into two Cunningham took on the role of Adam, while Alan Maginn stepped Visitation High School, performing for an audience of about 150 us of what we were really doing andhow much fun we were hav cars and an SUV, the nine performers, two couches, six folding into the shoes of the character Brett. A slight dilemma arose when people. After one more show in Minnesota - and a trip to Cereal ing." chairs and other props traveled from Minneapolis to Chicago; the Curtin opted to oversee the music rather than play Tom, the charac Adventure in the Mall of America - the Chance at Love tour hit Warsaw was the location of another unusual performance. "It is a Indiana cities of Warsaw and South Bend; Detroit; Cleveland; Pitts ter loosely based on himself. But when Areaux joined the cast of the road, unknowingly headed toward some unusual experiences very conservative little town, so we were asked to tone down the burgh; Philadelphia; Boston; and the New York locales of Albany, the musical company's spring musical last year, Curtin and and places. content," Cunningham says. "It made for a highly improvised pro Saratoga and Long Island. At each location, the cast stayed with a Cunningham realized they had found their Tom. "When Ray came "We think of ourselves as just college kids, but we were l~e duction." Towards the end of that show, McShane changed her line host family - usually relatives or friends - and performed one or along, we stopped stressing, and we knew he'd be fantastic," says celebrities when we got to some of these places," Curtin says. "They "I'm going to come in case Tom kicks his ass," to "in case Tom two shows. From reserving venues to scheduling performances, the Curtin. Finally, Chance at Love was ready. must've thought we were famous - hey, we're hip, we're cool, gives him a big 01' knuckle sandwich." trip was quite an undertaking, and it was a far cry from the musical's In March, the cast performed two dinner-theater shows in the we're from ND, we have a musical!" Twenty-three shows later, the tour finally made its way to Long humble beginnings during Curtin and Cunningham's freshman year Lafortune Ballroom. While watching a tape of the production sev The frenzied crowd in Detroit was one example. The cast partici Island for the last two performances. "There was a certain charm at Notre Dame. eral weeks later, someone suggested that Chance at Love go on pated in a workshop with a teenage theater camp before the show, about ending in New York," Curtin says. After a month of traveling Both members of the Pasquerilla East Musical Company and resi tour. "My response was, 'That's ludicrous, but what a great idea!' " and the campers, most of whom were girls between the ages of 14 and performing, the cast was ready to invest all its remaining en dents of Keenan Hall; Curtin and Cunningham decided to collabo Curtin says. That night, the group mapped out a route, putting each and 16, flocked to the performance, friends in tow. "We just laughed ergy and emotion into the last production, which proved to be full rate on the endeavor after they performed together in the company's member of the cast in charge of setting up performances in particu- because they were absolutely in love with the boys," Checchia says. of intensity, especially for recent graduates Checchia, Kahl, Baggetta and Area. "Tiana was on stage singing so loud, with so much feel ing and intensity, that you could practically cut it with a knife," "We think of ourselves as just college Curtin says. "To have already graduated and have the chance to go kids, but we were like celebrities when out with a bang in the summer, with theater as your last experience, is an amazing opportunity." we got to some of these places." So ended the writers' first true foray into the theater industry. - -Tommy Curtin Curtin and Cunningham have no immediate plans to resurrect Chance at Love at Notre Dame, but they have sent the script and CD out to several sources. "Since we're not relying on this, we're not too impatient," says Curtin, who currently is working production of Godspell during their freshman year. "Ryan just came lar cities, and preparations began. "We were like a boy band." on another musical. Cunningham also is busy with another up to me and said, 'Hey Tommy, want to write a musical?'" Curtin An encore performance at Notre Dame was scheduled for April The play enjoyed another successful run outside of Boston, in project, this time in collaboration with McShane. However, both recalls. "I said, 'OK.' " in Washington Hall. Revenues from ticket and CD sales (a cast re Cunningham's hometown. The 14th show on the tour, it sold out to now are turning their attention to the musical company's spring Curtin and Cunningham used their experience with theater to try cording of the musical score was made) went towards such tour an audience of 300 people. "It was really special for me to have my production of Damn Yankees, for which auditions will begin in i\, to make their musical as appealing as possible to its potential audi expenses as plane tickets, gas money and down payments on ven high-school director and music director [there], so I could show mid-September. Cunningham will be directing the show and , ence. "We've been in the audience before, and we know what people ues. Little to no money was spent on publicity. Instead, the per them that I have continued in theater and shared the gift that they Curtin will be supervising the music, so ND audiences will be like arid what they want to see," Curtin says. "People want to be formers relied on coverage in parish bulletins and local papers - had given me with so many other people," Cunningham says. provided with another "chance at love" with the talented duo's entertained, and that's what we did." Curtin wrote the music, and on word of mouth. Also, several Notre Dame alumni clubs ran Other shows proved to be just as memorable, if for different rea- theatrical work. 0 32 SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 33 - I ...... I My Summer as a Shill and More /-~--.. -. ----.~.-~--.. -·---).>,,---,,·····----·~.----7Lr--_-_~:.:..-_-::..-_-.:..-=-__·-_"_--_--·_--==_-·...!,l ______A corporate summer dissolves into an awkward fall ~-.U.,.J' ;.H.i.J#...... 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You know, the guy who sat • Wed 19 Poetry reading by Cynthia nglophiles rejoice: This installment of bold stride of becoming a corporate whore. That's right - I behind you in economics tutorial and who constantly made fun A Hogue, 7:30 PM, Hesburgh Center took an office job. of your TA Sanjiibar's accent. Or the girl you sat next to in Coming Distractions brings you all Auditorium. Don't let the above griping throw you off. I thoroughly en- theology class on whom you had a crush and with whom you things British. Attend a lecture by Shirley • Thu 20 Shirley Williams, "Christians joyed my tenure at the downtown Cincinnati accounting firm. desperately tried to act cool and detached while subtly hinting Williams, the Baroness Williams of and Politics," 4:00 PM, Hesburgh The firm was gracious enough to hire me even though I'm not· .... at yoifrown virtues, hoping to get offered at least an 1M name Crosby, who is deputy leader and foreign Center Auditorium. • Thu 20 Justine Steinberg, "Dante's an accounting major. Its employees did, however, feel obliged - but while she was always nice, she never seemed to be in policy spokesperson for the Liberal First Editors: The Memorali to make the occasional snide comment about my being a FTT terested in anything beyond platonic friendship. You couldn't Democrats in the British House of Lords. Catch Bridget Joness Dimy on Thursday Bolognesi and the Politics of major. "So where do you understand it because Vernacular Transcription," 4:30 PM, and witness Renee Zellweger trying her want to work after you there seemed to be no Department of Special Collections, graduate?" they asked. other guys she liked and darnedest to sound like a Brit (read: Watch 102 Hesburgh Library. "BlockbusterT' I laughed - whoa, sorry. It got too Renee Zellweger systematically scream with them, of course, but personal. "Bugger!"). Then see some real ones at CINEMA as I left the room I choked Either way, there is no Friday's performance of A Midsummer • Fri 14 and Sat 15 Evolution and back tears - I do want to greater fear known to Night's Dream, presented by Actors from Spacebal/s, Thurs 10:00 PM, Fri 7:30 PM and 10:00 PM, Sat 7:30 and work at Blockbuster. mankind than walking to the London Stage. Saturday morning grab 10:00 PM, 101 and 155 DeBartolo. I was hoping that they class and seeing a face a cuppa at the Huddle on your way to see them again, this time for an Interactive • Tue 18 International Film Series: would toss me some ac- you recognize. Your After Ufe, 7:00 and 9:00 PM, Audience-Performance Experience. Still counting work, but mostly thought processes be- Montgomery Theatre. they tossed me lunch or- come a study in para- not satiated? Feast your eyes on our new • Thu 20 The Dish, 7:00 PM, ders. Probably the lowest noia: Do I know that guy, "Weekender" feature for more. Hesburgh Library Auditorium. day of the summer came or do I just recognize • Thu 20, Fri 21, Sat 22 Bridget I ~ Cristin Fenzel Jones's Diary and Save the Last when they made me pick him because he's weird JACKI KIEFER up dead birds from the looking? Should I ac- Dance, Thurs 10:00 PM, Fri 7:30 and II 10:00 PM, Sat 7:30 and 10:00 PM, ~1 roof. (Author's note: In all knowledge this girl and )' • Men 19: Soccer: NO men vs. Cleveland 101 and 155 DeBartolo. ,I seriousness, this was one risk being sketchy if she SPORTS • Sun 16 Soccer: NO men vs. Akron, 2:00 State, 7:00 PM, Alumni Field. I doesn't recognize me, or of my duties. You may PM, Alumni Field. • Fri 21 Soccer: NO women vs. Villanova, THE ARTS continue to pity me.) You should I ignore her and • Sun 18 Volleyball: NO vs. Valparaiso, 7:00 PM, Alumni Field. • Thu 20-Sat 22 A Midsummer Night's haven't lived until you've let her feel snubbed? 7:00 PM, Joyce Center. • Sat 22 Football: NO vs. Michigan State, Dream, 7:30 PM, Washington Hall. picked up a bird by the leg I decided that the saf- 1 :30 PM, Stadium. • Sat 22 Actors from the London and the rest of the body est way to get to class Rocky • Sat 22 Volleyball: NO vs. Syracuse, 6:00 Stage present "From Page to Stage: falls onto your shoe. I'd like to use this forum to apologize to without dispensing dozens of unwarranted head nods, "what's Boiman PM, Joyce Center. An Interactive Audience-Perfor any joggers who were startled that day by the most girlish up" chin thrusts and half-waves was to take the path where I • Sat 22 Soccer: NO men vs. Rutgers, mance Experience," 10:00 AM, Hesburgh Center Auditorium. scream ever to grace the streets of downtown Cincinnati. am least likely to run int9 people. Sudqenly 1 found myself 7:30 PM, Alumni Field. • Sun 23 Soccer: NO women vs. • Sun 23 The Vermeer Quartet, 2:00 And it didn't help that the swim club had replaced me with walking to class at off-peak times, such as at nine o'clock the Georgetown, 1 :00 PM, Alumni Field. PM, Annenberg Auditorium. four nubile 16-year-old girls. On my frequent trips to myoid night before. Also, 1 was taking small detours, sometimes pass • Tue 25 Soccer: NO women vs. Ne • Sun 23 Christian Ringendahl, organ, stomping grounds, 1 watched the new Barbie-esque guards get ing through the Saint Mary's campus on my way from West braska, 7:00 PM, Alumni Field. 8:00 PM, Basilica of the Sacred in and out of their guard chairs ,while 1 weighed the pros and Quad to DeBartolo. Heart. cons of going to prison. (I determined that prison wasn't for So, after a stressful summer, I appear to be in for an even me. While I'd enjoy all of the free time, I'd probably spend more stressful school year. How will I cope, you ask? Actu THE WEEKENDER Post your event in Scholastic's the majority of it getting violated in the showers.) ally, I made a contingency plan last year when 1 DARTed. Get What: Mary Stuart, a play by Frederich Schiller. Story of the deadly struggle Coming Distractions. So that was my summer jn a nutshell.I'm 'back, and'l'ma ·.ready to hale me -"-Ihave nCi.clrisses on Fridays. Now, I know between Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. . Get the recognition your event sophomore. I think sophomore year is the most awkward one. most of you now want to fill one of the new, reusable Grab 'n' When: Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM through October 14 (see Web site for deserves. E-mail your submissions to You're not a freshman, so no one holds your hand, and you're Go bags with rocks, pull the convenient drawstring and beat weekday times). not deep enough into your major for any of your teachers to me with it until my senses abandon me and I begin to think Where: The Court Theatre, located at 5535 S. Ellis Ave. on the Cristin Fenzel at [email protected] by give a crap about you. Also, you've go to deal with Core. I'm that having parietals is a good policy. But before you do, re University of Chicago campus. Friday, September 21. approaching Core as I would a prostate exam: I don't really member this: 1 wield a mean dead bird. 0 Cheapest seats: $24 . Tickets: Buy online at http://courttheatre.uchicago.edu or call the box All submissions are subject to Scholastic office at (773) 753-4472. approval.

34 SCHOLASTICWEEK IN DISTORTION SCHOLASTICNEWS 35 - I ...... I My Summer as a Shill and More /-~--.. -. ----.~.-~--.. -·---).>,,---,,·····----·~.----7Lr--_-_~:.:..-_-::..-_-.:..-=-__·-_"_--_--·_--==_-·...!,l ______A corporate summer dissolves into an awkward fall ~-.U.,.J' ;.H.i.J#...... COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL \ .' ...... i ,"'-..:_.-:-.~__'_ __ .."____~.~._. __ ~.~, __ ~ __ .. ___ .~. ___ ,____ .__ ,__ ... __ .__ ...::~ __ ~ __ ._~ .. _~ __ ~~._~~~. __ ~ __ ~_._. __ .__ ~ __ .~~_.~._------_._-----_.--1 JOEMUTO want to do it, but I still have to; hopefully, if I'm lucky, I can get a little thrill out of it. here comes a time in every young man's life when he For me, the most awkward thing about coming back to school EDITOR'S CHOICE LECTURES . • Tue 18 Shirley Williams, "Enter Eve," feels he has to mature. He needs to go beyond his bor is seeing people again. I'm not talking about the people with T 4:00 PM, Hesburgh Center Audito ders. Grow up. That's what I had in mind this summer whom you were really good friends, I'm talking about the British Invasion rium. when I quit my longtime position as a lifeguard and made the people whom you barely knew. You know, the guy who sat • Wed 19 Poetry reading by Cynthia nglophiles rejoice: This installment of bold stride of becoming a corporate whore. That's right - I behind you in economics tutorial and who constantly made fun A Hogue, 7:30 PM, Hesburgh Center took an office job. of your TA Sanjiibar's accent. Or the girl you sat next to in Coming Distractions brings you all Auditorium. Don't let the above griping throw you off. I thoroughly en- theology class on whom you had a crush and with whom you things British. Attend a lecture by Shirley • Thu 20 Shirley Williams, "Christians joyed my tenure at the downtown Cincinnati accounting firm. desperately tried to act cool and detached while subtly hinting Williams, the Baroness Williams of and Politics," 4:00 PM, Hesburgh The firm was gracious enough to hire me even though I'm not· .... at yoifrown virtues, hoping to get offered at least an 1M name Crosby, who is deputy leader and foreign Center Auditorium. • Thu 20 Justine Steinberg, "Dante's an accounting major. Its employees did, however, feel obliged - but while she was always nice, she never seemed to be in policy spokesperson for the Liberal First Editors: The Memorali to make the occasional snide comment about my being a FTT terested in anything beyond platonic friendship. You couldn't Democrats in the British House of Lords. Catch Bridget Joness Dimy on Thursday Bolognesi and the Politics of major. "So where do you understand it because Vernacular Transcription," 4:30 PM, and witness Renee Zellweger trying her want to work after you there seemed to be no Department of Special Collections, graduate?" they asked. other guys she liked and darnedest to sound like a Brit (read: Watch 102 Hesburgh Library. "BlockbusterT' I laughed - whoa, sorry. It got too Renee Zellweger systematically scream with them, of course, but personal. "Bugger!"). Then see some real ones at CINEMA as I left the room I choked Either way, there is no Friday's performance of A Midsummer • Fri 14 and Sat 15 Evolution and back tears - I do want to greater fear known to Night's Dream, presented by Actors from Spacebal/s, Thurs 10:00 PM, Fri 7:30 PM and 10:00 PM, Sat 7:30 and work at Blockbuster. mankind than walking to the London Stage. Saturday morning grab 10:00 PM, 101 and 155 DeBartolo. I was hoping that they class and seeing a face a cuppa at the Huddle on your way to see them again, this time for an Interactive • Tue 18 International Film Series: would toss me some ac- you recognize. Your After Ufe, 7:00 and 9:00 PM, Audience-Performance Experience. Still counting work, but mostly thought processes be- Montgomery Theatre. they tossed me lunch or- come a study in para- not satiated? Feast your eyes on our new • Thu 20 The Dish, 7:00 PM, ders. Probably the lowest noia: Do I know that guy, "Weekender" feature for more. Hesburgh Library Auditorium. day of the summer came or do I just recognize • Thu 20, Fri 21, Sat 22 Bridget I ~ Cristin Fenzel Jones's Diary and Save the Last when they made me pick him because he's weird JACKI KIEFER up dead birds from the looking? Should I ac- Dance, Thurs 10:00 PM, Fri 7:30 and II 10:00 PM, Sat 7:30 and 10:00 PM, ~1 roof. (Author's note: In all knowledge this girl and )' • Men 19: Soccer: NO men vs. Cleveland 101 and 155 DeBartolo. ,I seriousness, this was one risk being sketchy if she SPORTS • Sun 16 Soccer: NO men vs. Akron, 2:00 State, 7:00 PM, Alumni Field. I doesn't recognize me, or of my duties. You may PM, Alumni Field. • Fri 21 Soccer: NO women vs. Villanova, THE ARTS continue to pity me.) You should I ignore her and • Sun 18 Volleyball: NO vs. Valparaiso, 7:00 PM, Alumni Field. • Thu 20-Sat 22 A Midsummer Night's haven't lived until you've let her feel snubbed? 7:00 PM, Joyce Center. • Sat 22 Football: NO vs. Michigan State, Dream, 7:30 PM, Washington Hall. picked up a bird by the leg I decided that the saf- 1 :30 PM, Stadium. • Sat 22 Actors from the London and the rest of the body est way to get to class Rocky • Sat 22 Volleyball: NO vs. Syracuse, 6:00 Stage present "From Page to Stage: falls onto your shoe. I'd like to use this forum to apologize to without dispensing dozens of unwarranted head nods, "what's Boiman PM, Joyce Center. An Interactive Audience-Perfor any joggers who were startled that day by the most girlish up" chin thrusts and half-waves was to take the path where I • Sat 22 Soccer: NO men vs. Rutgers, mance Experience," 10:00 AM, Hesburgh Center Auditorium. scream ever to grace the streets of downtown Cincinnati. am least likely to run int9 people. Sudqenly 1 found myself 7:30 PM, Alumni Field. • Sun 23 Soccer: NO women vs. • Sun 23 The Vermeer Quartet, 2:00 And it didn't help that the swim club had replaced me with walking to class at off-peak times, such as at nine o'clock the Georgetown, 1 :00 PM, Alumni Field. PM, Annenberg Auditorium. four nubile 16-year-old girls. On my frequent trips to myoid night before. Also, 1 was taking small detours, sometimes pass • Tue 25 Soccer: NO women vs. Ne • Sun 23 Christian Ringendahl, organ, stomping grounds, 1 watched the new Barbie-esque guards get ing through the Saint Mary's campus on my way from West braska, 7:00 PM, Alumni Field. 8:00 PM, Basilica of the Sacred in and out of their guard chairs ,while 1 weighed the pros and Quad to DeBartolo. Heart. cons of going to prison. (I determined that prison wasn't for So, after a stressful summer, I appear to be in for an even me. While I'd enjoy all of the free time, I'd probably spend more stressful school year. How will I cope, you ask? Actu THE WEEKENDER Post your event in Scholastic's the majority of it getting violated in the showers.) ally, I made a contingency plan last year when 1 DARTed. Get What: Mary Stuart, a play by Frederich Schiller. Story of the deadly struggle Coming Distractions. So that was my summer jn a nutshell.I'm 'back, and'l'ma ·.ready to hale me -"-Ihave nCi.clrisses on Fridays. Now, I know between Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. . Get the recognition your event sophomore. I think sophomore year is the most awkward one. most of you now want to fill one of the new, reusable Grab 'n' When: Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM through October 14 (see Web site for deserves. E-mail your submissions to You're not a freshman, so no one holds your hand, and you're Go bags with rocks, pull the convenient drawstring and beat weekday times). not deep enough into your major for any of your teachers to me with it until my senses abandon me and I begin to think Where: The Court Theatre, located at 5535 S. Ellis Ave. on the Cristin Fenzel at [email protected] by give a crap about you. Also, you've go to deal with Core. I'm that having parietals is a good policy. But before you do, re University of Chicago campus. Friday, September 21. approaching Core as I would a prostate exam: I don't really member this: 1 wield a mean dead bird. 0 Cheapest seats: $24 . Tickets: Buy online at http://courttheatre.uchicago.edu or call the box All submissions are subject to Scholastic office at (773) 753-4472. approval.

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The Notre Dame Scholastic Let's Do Our Part December 12, 1941

ur Country is now at war. The catastro To assume that we shall bear a disproportionate Ophe we have feared and hoped against has share would be idiotic. A bomb is no respecter of been thrust upon us. Cloaked in perfidy age. It is in fact a thoroughly impersonal instru and hypocrisy, an alien foe has ravaged our coun ment of destruction. try. We have only one task, only one duty - to What, specifically, shall we do during this in support our country to the utmost of our ability. terim of relative inactivity? First of all, we must This we can, must, and will do. study. That is the fundamental purpose of our There is no abstraction of justice or truth in present status in life. If we have been given the volved. We are en opportunity to attain the ends inherent in intellec gaged in that most re tual activity. This is our heritage and we have nei alistic and most just ther the right nor the privilege to abandon it. of all wars - a fight Neglecting assignments and failing to prepare "We must refrain from all to defend our very properly the daily work required might seem at first lives and the freedom glance to be sensible; but. actually it is extremely melodramatic gestures without which there childish. Pettishly dropping a half-completed task is no life. Win we is a clear indication of adolescent irresponsibility. and strive as best we can must and win we will. But we are presumed to be men - able and will These basic truths ing to finish any work we undertake. Let us, then, realized, we are faced be men and not "quitters," and finish the job we to maintain our normal then with the imme have begun. diate problem of how Then, too, we must remain at all times as calm as life. Until our government we may best help our possible whenever a personal crisis arises. Some of country. The solution us may well be called into the armed forces sooner actually calls upon us for is simple and singu than others. Inevitably, this will be due to the me larly undramatic. chanics involved in the draft procedure itself. How Truth generally is. ever, the separate inductions of individual students more tangible services, We must refrain from should definitely not be made the basis for unfounded all melodramatic ges rumors concerning the prospective induction of the we must endure the more tures and strive as entire student body. Nor should the individual so in best we can to main- ducted feel that he has been prematurely singled out trying bond of patience." tain our normal life. for service. We repeat again that the enormous effort Until our government which will be required to meet the onslaught of the actually calls upon us totalitarian powers necessarily precludes any consid for more tangible ser- eration for the individual. vices, we must en Finally, we must aim at a moral rejuvenation This editorial dure the more trying bond of patience. which will e~able us ultimately to succeed in the appeared under the We know that this will not be easy. We, our above program. We must develop to the fullest both Jenure of Editor selves, find it difficult enough to avoid dramatiz a Spartan simplicity, and an intensity of ideals 10hnA. Reilly in ing the jssue, and adopting an apathetic attitude which will be able to withstand any future moral response to the toward the ordinary problems of campus life. The crisis. In short, we must strengthen our faith until December 7, 1941 cry of the "lost generation" may already have been it is so deeply planted in our hearts as to be im bombing of raised by some. But this slogan simply will not pregnable. Then only will our ultimate triumph be Pearl Harbor. stand under the present circumstances. This is to assured. tal war - involving not a generation but a people. These words are addressed to a student body Every mim,woman and child in this nation will whose reaction so far has been undeniably splen bear a proportionate share in the conflict. Before did. You have faced the crisis magnificently. We this war is brought to an end, each one of us will appeal to you now to maintain that spirit and not have contributed something - no matter how large to falter .. We are being tried - let us not be found or small it may be - to its successful conclusion. wanting. 0

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