/ ^ V THE O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 39 : ISSUE 60 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Tragedy strikes Ebersol family University expresses sorrow after crash By AMANDA MICHAELS Associate News Editor A testam ent to the bonds of the Notre Dame community, the University was shaken by the tragedy that struck members of its own Sunday, and is extend­ ing its support to the Ebersol family in its time of grief. The charter plane carrying Notre Dame senior Charlie Ebersol, 21, his father, chair­ man of NBC Sports Dick E bersol, 57, and Map of Accident Site C harlie’s b r o th e r H ospital Crash Site Dick and Charlie A Mass will Teddy Ebersol are E bersol, COLORADO be held for in stable 14, c r a ­ condition at a the Ebersol ■8-D enver i hospital in family at shed on G r a n d Ju n c t io n Grand takeoff Junction, while 10 p.m. M o n t r o s e a n d the co-pilot tonight in is at a hospital Keough erupted in Denver. Hall Chapel in flames MIKE HARKINS/Observer Graphic at M on­ Photos courtesy of the Associated Press and the Observer Archives tro se Right, officials from Montrose Airport and the National Transportation Safety Board search wreckage Monday. Top left, Teddy Ebersol, Susan Regional Airport Sunday. Saint James and Dick Ebersol attend a movie screening. Middle left, Notre Dame senior Charlie Ebersol poses for a student government photo. The Ebersol name is well known on campus and in the wider Notre Dame community, Plane crash leaves N D senior Charlie, father Dick injured; youngest brother dead and the family’s influence reaches from the wording of condition at St. Mary’s Hospital airport is located 185 miles Montrose Coroner Mark Young the new Student Union consti­ By CLAIRE HEININGER in Grand Junction, Colo, and are southwest of Denver and serves told the Montrose Daily Press. tution to the details of the new News Editor expected to make a full recovery, the Telluride Ski Area. The younger Ebersol was NBC television contracts. according to Kim Williams, The pilot and a flight attendant ejected from the plane and died In a statement released Notre Dame senior Charlie director of public relations at the of the CL-601 Challenger plane instantly, Young said. Monday, University President Ebersol survived a plane crash hospital. were killed on impact, the “He didn’t lay there and suf­ Father Edward Malloy offered th a t injured his father, NBC The private jet, carrying six Montrose County Coroner’s fer,” Young said. “The pilot and his condolences to the Ebersol Sports chairman Dick Ebersol, people, crashed during takeoff Office said in a press release. flight attendant were both eject­ family on the loss of their and killed his youngest brother from Montrose Regional Airport A body matching the descrip­ ed from their seats. The only one youngest son Teddy. Teddy Ebersol and two crewmen at approximately 10 a.m. tion of Teddy Ebersol, 14, was not ejected was Mr. Ebersol, and “The Ebersols have been in Montrose, Colo. Sunday. Mountain Standard Time, recovered underneath the his son, Charles, pulled him longtime friends of the The family said in a release according to a press release wreckage at 5 p.m. MST out.” Monday night that Dick and from the Montrose Fire Monday, following an extensive Charlie Ebersol were in stable Protection District (MFPD). The search of the wooded crash site, see CRASH/page 4 see EBERSOL/page 4 C ouncil of R epresentatives Students feel pain of Group discusses updates USC losing streak Members will send card prayers to Ebersol family , By M ADDIE HANNA place on an as-necessary of your respective groups to News Writer By MARY KATE MALONE basis, and members chose not come to our meetings. We News Writer to remove it. cannot vote if we do not have After watching the football COR discussed the issue fur­ enough members present,” team lose to USC on Saturday, The Council of Represen­ ther Monday, and representa­ she said. Notre Dame students returned tatives discussed business tives agreed the current con­ Representatives agreed to from Thanksgiving break sad­ from last week and coordinat­ stitutional requirement for do so. dened by the season-ending loss. “That was an absolute embar­ ed various events being FMB to meet on a bi-weekly In other COR new s: rassment,” sophomore Mac planned for the week Monday. basis is necessary and no con­ ♦ Cavanaugh senator Jordan Murray said of the football 41-10 At last w eek’s meeting stu­ stitutional changes should be Bongiovanni asked represen­ loss to No. 1 USC. dent body president Adam made. tatives to sign a card for sen­ Murray, who is from Chicago, Istvan presented a resolution Still, hall president’s co­ ior Charlie Ebersol and his traveled to Los Angeles with his to representatives that pro­ chair Claire Fadel, who family, who were involved in a family to watch the Irish play the posed changes that the attends FMB m eetings, said plane crash over the holiday Trojans. Council felt needed to be although last week’s meeting weekend. made to the new constitution. was very effective, many in “We shouldn’t have even been TRE “We bought a card to show on the same field with that Before members approved the the past have failed to be pro­ support for Charlie. Let’s all team,” Murray said. resolution, Student Union ductive due to poor atten­ keep them in our prayers,” MP Junior Steve Sweeney, who Board manager Jimmy dance. she said. Flaherty had expressed con­ “If we are going to meet on traveled to USC from northern CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer cern with one provision that a bi-weekly basis, then the California with his dad, shared A football fan expresses dis­ suggested Financial Manage­ representatives here are going Contact Mary Kate Malone appointment after Notre ment Board meetings take to have to push the members at [email protected] see LOSS/page 3 Dame’s 41-10 loss to USC. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W h at did you th ink o f th e fo o tball g a m e ? 'Saved by the Bell' bliss Tim Feldmann Daniel Klauer Kat Moravek Gabriel Samudio Roger Knight Chris Dougher In recent weeks, my friends and I have devoted a good chunk of time to ju n ior jun ior junior sophom ore junior sophom ore watching every episode from every Dillon Dillon Caven Keenan Siegfried Zahm season of “Saved by the Bell." Pathetic? Perhaps a bit. But. watching 7 don’t think “D.J. Fitzpatrick “Expected.' “Go Irish!’ “I didn’t watch “It was the show now, it’s appropriate is awesome. ’’ it. ” foolball-rific.' when I am mature Kate Antonacci enough to recog­ fo r the nize that I will newspaper to never actually N ew s become Kelly Production print. ” Kapowski and Editor date the ever- desirable Zack Morris, it is interesting to see how our culture has changed in just 10 short years. The show had a real innocence and sweetness to it. All of the episodes had reassuring morals and the characters In B rief always made the right decisions — no drugs, no racism, no sex and no seri­ ous problems. The Center for Social Concerns Our generation seems utterly out of will sponsor a summer service control in comparison. And while I am project meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. glad that my wardrobe does not con­ in the Coleman-Morse lounge sist of fluorescent spandex and tacky tonight. patterned dresses, at times, I wish life mirrored “Saved by the Bell” just a lit­ UNICEF will sell Christmas tle. The perfection of the characters, cards and other materials from their relationships and their morals, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today in no matter how “made-for-TV” they the Hesburgh Library concourse. may have been, were enviable. Proceeds will benefit needy chil­ For one, Kelly and Zack’s “going dren throughout the world. steady” was the epitome of pure, high school love. Zack solicited parental Theology professor Bob Krieg permission before asking Kelly out will lead a seminar on “Catholic and made deals with her boss to get Theologians and Nazi her out of work early for a dance. A Germany,”Wednesday from 3:30 kiss on the cheek was always followed to 5:30 p.m. in C-104 Hesburgh by an “ooooooo” from the audience. Center. Now, such courting and dating is a virtual has-been, while random hook­ Sally Winn, vice president of ups and casual, meaningless relation­ Feminists for Life of America, will ships dominate high school and col­ speak today on the topic “Refuse lege life. When and how did that to Choose: Reclaiming become the norm? Fem inism ” from 7 to 9 p.m. in Jessie took caffeine pills, Screech 126 DeBartolo Hall. RICHARD FRIEDMAN/The Observer made fake IDs to get everyone into an Notre Dame students eat dinner in South Dining Hall Monday underneath a balcony of new 18-and-up dance club, and Zack Christmas decorations, which went up across campus over Thanksgiving break. Pasquerilla East Hall will spon­ snuck out of detention. Today, people sor its Silent Night Silent deal with police citations, court hear­ Auction Wednesday from 7 to 9 ings and Res Life trials all the time p.m.