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Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 43: lSS E 11 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM University revises smoking policy New ad • Update bans lighting up within 25-foot perimeter to protect buildings, comply with ordinance prermeres

The new perimeter will help Joseph County ordinance that ordinance," McCauslin said, By)ENNMETZ prevent the "influence or the establishes a perimeter where which "helps keep [regulations] during News Editor entrainment of smoke within smoking is prohibited around consistent across St. Joe the building," he said. "Many of public buildings, he said. County." The University's policy our buildings have pretty pow­ McCauslin said the county's The revisions to the policy regarding smoking on campus erful intake systems for venti­ ordinance also prohibits smok­ also incorporate requirements first game has been updated to include a lation, cooling and heating." ing within public buildings, for Leaders in Energy and ban on smoking within 25 feet These systems are oftentimes restaurants and athletic ven­ Environmental Design (LEED) of the outside of any building. located on the service side of ues. The ordinance was put certifications, McCauslin said, By AARON STEINER The change, according to a the building, the side that is into effect in April of 2006. which are part of sustainable News Writer News and Information release, frequently used as a smoking On campus, the Department campus design. was approved on Aug. 26. area, and there have been of Risk Management and Safety "Each building during the The University asked millions The primary reasons for the some incidents of smoke enter­ was charged with investigating design and construction phase of Irish football viewers what revision are two-fold, Michael ing buildings, McCauslin said. concerns regarding smoking seeks LEED certification," he they would 'fight for' in a new McCauslin, assistant director of A second reason for the near buildings. This change in said. "We only have a small television commercial that aired Notre Dame Risk Management change of policy is to bring the policy brings the University during Saturday's game cover­ and Safety, said. University in line with a St. "more into concert with the see SMOKING/page 6 age on NBC stations across the country. Notre Dame will air a new two-minute spot, like the one seen this weekend, during each home game this season, associ­ Authorities arrest 34 during first home game ate vice president of marketing Todd Woodward said. The commercials feature the Public intoxication chief cause of detainments University's "What Would You Fight For?" ad campaign, which alcohol. One person was cited was created last fall. The ad By JOHN-PAUL WITT near the stadium for posses­ campaign is designed to inter­ News Writer sion of marijuana and posses­ twine the University's athletic, sion of drug paraphernalia. Catholic and academic reputa­ Police made 34 arrests on Eleven custodial arrests tions. campus this weekend and were made for alcohol relat­ "Most people know us as the ejected nine people from the ed offenses including public Fighting Irish; most people know stadium for alchohol-related intoxication and disorderly us as a Catholic university," violations, said Dave conduct; those arrested were Woodward said. But through the Chapman, the assis';ant direc­ transported to the St. Joseph football broadcasts, Notre Dame tor of the Notre Dame County Jail according to an e­ is able to "shine a light" on aca­ Security Police (NDSP). mail received from Chapman demics and research at Notre NDSP, working with Indiana on Monday. Dame. State Excise Police, St. Twenty-two people were The ads showcase the rela­ Joseph County Police and arrested inside the Stadium tionships between students and South Bend Police, issued 28 on Saturday, most for public faculty members as well as the tickets to adults in the park­ intoxication, and those plethora of research opportuni­ ing lot of the stadium for arrested were also transport- ANDREA ARCHER/Observer Graphic ties on campus - all while tying alcohol related offenses, such Alcohol was the major reason for the number of arrests this as providing a minor with see ARRESTS/page 4 weekend. A total of 46 people were stopped for related offenses. see NEW AD/page 6

ND Votes '08 receives SMC students return fron1 abroad enthusiastic response Travelers readjust to life in South Bend; return to College community

election. By AMANDA GRAY "We have political respon­ By KATIE KOTARAK News Writer sibility to be involved in 'the News Writer political process and to be Amid empty pizza boxes educated on the issues," As the fall semester gets and pop cans, students Romero said. underway, many well­ crowded into the first floor Laurel said the event's traveled Saint Mary's stu­ lounge of the Colern an Morse informal atmosphere and dents find themselves Center Monday night for question and answer session readjusting to campus life "Pizza, Pop and Politics: picqued the interests of stu­ in South Bend after Race to the White House," an dents. spending time abroad. event sponsored by ND Votes "This event has an infor­ According to Saint '08. mal atmosphere," she said. Mary's Center for The seating was ;gone well "It's low key, and makes peo­ Women's Intercultural before the starting time of 5 ple feel more comfortable Leadership (CWIL), during p.m. and the standi.ng-room­ asking questions." the 2007-2008 academic only rear section of the As the high turnout year, 114 students partici­ lounge quickly filled to showed, the event certainly pated in the college's capacity. appealed to a wide variety of eight study abroad pro­ ND Votes '08 co-chairs students. Freshman Lincoln grams in Australia, Mallory Laurel and Christine Robinson said he attended Austria, France, India, Romero s'aid the goal of the because he was "interested Ireland, Italy, South event was to help educate in what the speakers had to Africa and Spain. prospective student voters say." Junior Maureen Healy, KATIE KOTARAK/The Observer about key issues as well as Saint Mary's junior Alison Russell, left, Beth Corneglio, center, drum up enthusiasm for the see ND '08/page 6 see ABROAD/page 4 and Jenny Hoffman visit the Island of Capri in Southern Italy. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, September 9, 2008

INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR AND WHY? Why We Bake

The other night, two guy friends observed ND women's spontaneous urge to bake. They noted that every so often we Domer-girls have a Bradley McDonald David Zimmer Hannah Ha Patrick Martin KC Hunt strange desire to return to tradition­ Sophomore Sophomore Sophomore Senior Senior al domestic ways. Welsh Pam Pasquerilla Center Off-Campus According to their O'Neill O'Neill theory, ND girls Jess Shaffer constantly fight "Emerald "Sherbert "Cerulean "Yellow because "Pink. Duh!" homemaker Assistant because it Orange because because it is the it makes me stereotypes look­ Scene Editor ing to instead reminds me of it's the only most sought happy.~· become success- after crayon in the Emerald color that tastes , ful in academia and/or in the career City in Oz. ,, like it sounds." the box. life after college. But every so often, we can't deny the cultural cliches ingrained into us from childhood. We must pick up the nearest whisk and come up with something sweet and savory to satisfy our Domestic Goddess longings. It's like those monkeys that were trained for space travel, every so often they just want to eat a banana and swing on trees IN BRIEF for a while. I don't know if this assessment is completely fair, but it is at least The Provost's quite interesting. From what I can Distinguished Women's tell, many loyal daughters of Notre Lecture, titled "The Idea of Dame do have an atypical itch to Black Culture," is to be given bake once in a blue moon. I know I by Hortense Spillers, do. It's gratifying and mostly mind­ Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt less work, at least when you use Toll Professor of English at House. So it is true that we do have Vanderbilt University, at 5 a sporadic tendency to bake. Why p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9 in else would girls' dorm kitchens be so the auditorium of McKenna well equipped for said past time? Hall. This event is free. The real question is why do we do it? Is it because we have a strange Altar server training will fear that if we abandon our tradi­ be held in the Basilica of the tional housewife roles too much we Sacred Heart today at 8:30 will never achieve that "perfect fam­ p.m. The training is mandato­ ily" image factored into our ten year ry for all servers. plan? Maybe for some. Though that's reading a lot further into the GreenND will hold an matter than I think is reasonable. informal meeting Wednesday, It's not like we also wear pearls and Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. in the heels while pulling out brownies for LaFortune Ballroom. our respective sweethearts. On my end, though I'm a poor The Career Center will host example when it comes to anything NICK PAXTON/The Observer the Fall Career Expo on The Notre Dame Marching Band rehearses inside the Loftus Arena during Monday's Wednesday, September 10, in traditionally domestic, I bake when rainstorm. necessity calls for it. Like for the Joyce Center from 4:00- friends' birthdays. Honestly there 8:00 p.m. isn't a more sincere or affordable way to celebrate special days than Army ROTC through the with homemade sweets. Or in a sim­ American Red Cross will ilar train of thought, baking is espe­ sponsor a Blood Drive on cially good for bribery. Please move OFFBEAT Sept. 10 and 11 in the Grand my furniture; I made cookies. Or Ballroom, LaFortune Student help me write a paper; would you Oregon man finds giant County sheriff's office or fleeing. Center from 9:30 a.m. to like some pie? Honestly no one deadly lizard in back yard Grants Pass police. Fresno County sheriff's Lt. 2:30 p.m. Sign up online at needs the power of Wonder Woman GRANTS PASS, Ore. - An But officials say whoever Ian Burrimond says 22-year­ www.givelife.org, sponsor or femme-hots when you have a Oregon man playing in the lost the lizard should have old Antonio Vasquez was code "irish," to schedule an killer cake recipe. Okay bad imagery yard with his toddler sons immediately reported it found hiding in a field wear­ appointment. Walk-ins are there, but you get what I mean when captured a 6-foot-long lizard because the Nile monitor's ing only a T-shirt, boxers and also accepted but those with I say that a "to-die-for" treat can do capable of killing pets and teeth and claws make it dan­ socks after the Saturday appointments will be seen wonders. Or perhaps, baking is just injuring humans. Ryan gerous to pets and people. morning attack. first and will take less time. a nice break from reading and equa­ Nelson said he thought it was The lizard is now on dis­ He says deputies arrested Doners must be at least 17, tion solving. It's comforting in its a crocodile when he first play at the pet store. Vasquez after finding a wallet weigh a minimum of 110 reminder of home-life when dorm spotted the Nile monitor by containing his ID in the ran­ pounds and be in good gener­ living is getting you down. the rose bushes. Burglar rubs one with spices, sacked house. al health. Doners are asked hits another with sausage Unfortunately for us, baking seems He was able to capture it The farmworkers told to bring their donor cards or FRESNO, Calif. to evoke every Domer girl stereotype and wrestle it into a large deputies the suspect woke positive identification when Authorities say they've there is. Insert joke here about metal dog cage with the help them Saturday morning by they come to donate. arrested a man who broke baked goods making us overweight. of Dalton Brown from MB rubbing spices on one of Insert joke there about Saint Mary's Reptiles, a pet store in Grants into the home of two them and smacking the other To submit information to be California farmworkers, stole girls finding the way to our loyal Pass. with an 8-inch sausage. included in this section of money, rubbed one with son's hearts through their stomachs. No report on missing The Observer, e-mail detailed spices and whacked the All distasteful generalizing aside, lizards has been illed recent­ Information compiled information about an event to who really cares? The real question ly with either the Josephine other with a sausage before from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu. is what's there to complain about when you get a sweet treat fresh baked with love and care. TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY The views expressed in the Inside a: LLI Column are those of the author and ::z:: not necessarily those of The Observer. ~ Contact Jess Shaffer at LLI jshaffe 1@nd. edu 3: ...... ~

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Associate Director of Global in my head first. After seven and contact NDSP at 57 4- Education Dr. Alice Siqin Yang a half months of being away 631-5555 or by using Abroad said she was pleased with the from America, it was quite a Arrests a call box in one of continued from page 24 smooth transition abroad stu­ shock," said junior Jenny continued from page 1 the parking areas if dents are making to their lives Hoffman, who studied in Rome. you see unruly or who went to Seville, Spain, dur­ back on campus. Junior Laura ed to the county jail. unlawful behavior." ing the fall of her sophomore "I think adjustment Morris said her In addition to the "Don't let alcohol year, said studying abroad was a has been great. No "It has been such a time abroad arrests, two people get in the way of great opportunity one said blessing to come back helped her had to be transported your safety or fun or to fine-tune her they had develop a deep­ to a keep you to Saint Mary's - a Spanish. "After being abroad, I a huge er appreciation I o c a I f r o m "I am so fortu­ problem supportive of the Saint hospital "Don't let alcohol enjoying a nate to have had am more thankful of with re­ community that Mary's commu­ due to get in the way of great foot­ the opportunity to entry cul­ nity. intoxica­ ball game the professors at allows me to share your safety or enhance my SMC. They make t u r e "After being tion. n e x t understanding of shock. my experiences and abroad, I am After fun or keep you Saturday the Spanish lan­ themselves available Students continue to grow." more thankful of t h e from enjoying a when the guage and cul­ ·to {students] and are are more the professors at game, a great football Iris.h take ture, as well as concerned with our mature SMC. They make I o c a I on the explore many dif­ and inde­ Jenny Hoffman themselves man was game next Wolverines ferent parts of the individual prog~ess." pendent, junior available to [stu­ arrested Saturday." 0 f world," she said. and they dents] and are. f o r Michigan," "This experience, proved to concerned with assault­ he said. Laura Morris Dave Chapman along with my junior their parents they our individual progress," Morris ing an H e Spanish and busi­ could do it," Yang said. S D S U assistant director warned ness majors, will said. Hoffman also said going fan, and NDSP students to hopefully help me After returning to abroad has allowed her to see a "be respon- in my future career." the United States, students are Saint Mary's in a new light. woman sible for For the students returning to often taken aback by the over­ "It has been such a blessing to was arrested near your conduct" and said campus this semester, CWIL whelming familiarity of their come back to Saint Mary's - a Main Circle for public that "underage hosted a "Welcome Back" party surroundings. supportive community that intoxication and pos­ drinkers will be arrest­ during the second week of class­ "Flying straight from Rome to allows me to share my experi­ session of marijua­ ed on campus and at es. The get-together gave stu­ Philadelphia and stepping off ences and continue to grow," she na. tailgate parties." dents a chance to discuss their the plane, I was instantly able to said. Chapman urged time abroad. share stories and read every sign, understand those attending address concerns of reverse cul­ every conversation around me, Contact Katie Kotarak at Notre Dame football Contact John-Paul Witt ture shock. and converse without translating kkotarO 1 @nd.edu games to "please at jwittl @nd.edu

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Civilian casualties from raid rise Ike turns west, avoids Florida Keys KABUL, Afghanistan - The bodies of at least 10 children and many more adults cov­ Hurricane, downgraded to a category 1 storm, still may hit Gulf Coast states ered in blankets and white shrouds appear in videos obtained by The Associated Press on Associated Press Monday, lending weight to Afghan and U.N. allegations that a U.S.-led raid last month KEY WEST, Fla. - killed more civilians than the U.S. reported. Residents in the Florida The sounds of wailing women mixed with Keys breathed a sigh of relief Monday as a fierce the voices of men shouting inside a white­ Hurricane Ike turned west walled mosque in the western village of on a path away from the Azizabad, where an Afghan government com­ low-lying island chain. But mission and U.N. report said some 90 civilians Gulf Coast states watched - including 60 children and 15 women - anxiously to see if the were killed. storm was gunning for The two grainy videos, apparently taken by them instead. cell phones, showed bodies lying side-by-side Forecasters at the on the mosque floor, covered by floral-pat­ National Hurricane Center terned blankets and black-and-white check­ warned that, after passing into the Gulf of Mexico ered shawls. One young boy lay curled in a sometime Tuesday night, fetal position; others looked as though they Ike could make landfall in were asleep. One child had half its head blown the U.S. over the weekend off. near the Texas-Louisiana border, possibly not ·far Three convicted in bombing attempt from Houston. LONDON - Three British Muslims with ties Texas Gov. Rick Perry to Pakistan were found guilty Monday of con­ pre-declared disasters in spiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing cam­ 88 counties to aid storm paign but jurors failed to reach a verdict on preparation and put 7,500 National Guard members whether they plotted to blow up multiple on standby. trans-Atlantic airlinen: with liquid explosives In Louis.iana, where disguised as soft drinks. thousands remain without The failure to get convictions on the more power after Hurricane serious charges was a major setback to the Gustav hit last week, Gov. British government, which has struggled to put Bobby Jindal urged resi­ suspected terrorists behind bars with intelli­ dents to start stockpiling gence from multiple c01mtries. food, water, batteries and other supplies. The state also was readying shelters and making plans for trains, buses and planes in NATIONAL N EWSi case a coastal evacuation is Residents make their way through a flooded street after Hurricane Ike hit called later in the week. Camaguey, Cuba, Monday, causing the evacuation of some 900,000 Cubans. "It is still too early to be U.S. to pull 8000 troops from Iraq evacuating certainly, but it should remain inside, and it appears it all will be hurricane ruin or not, WASHINGTON - President Bush plans to is not too early to be mak­ tourists should wait for the OK." there's financial ruin." keep U.S. troop levels in Iraq near their current ing sure you've got food weekend to return. Businesses were not as Dietrich said the level through the end of the year and will pull and water and batteries. Roughly 20,000 tourists cavalier. It was the second Croissants de France bak­ home about 8,000 U.S. troops by February when It's not too early to be left over the weekend time in a month vacation­ ery would be lucky to tally the next president will be in charge of wartime checking your car," Jindal when it looked like Ike ers left en masse. Tourists $300 in sales for the week­ decision-making. said. could make a direct hit. also cleared out of the Keys end. They usually bring in If security in Iraq keeps improving, Bush says, With the storm on a new Many storm-hardened last month ahead of more than $6,000 each day locals just rode out the Tropical Storm Fay, and of an average weekend "additional reductions will be possible in the first track, Keys officials let an evacuation order expire hype the way they usually their departure means a with no storm looming, she half of 2009." Monday. By late afternoon do - drinking. Key West hit to the bottom line. said. The president's decisions amount to perhaps Ike had weakened to a residents are a hardy Officials estimate tourists Monroe County Mayor his last major troop strategy in a war that has Category 1 storm, and a bunch, generations of spend about $17 5 a day in Mario Di Gennaro said he come to define his presidency. hurricane warning for the whom have lived through the Keys. With some didn't regret telling tourists He was to announce the details in a speech island chain was discontin­ storms. They typically take 20,000 having fled for Ike, and residents to get out of Tuesday, the text of which was released in ued. a wait-and-see stance. that's about $3.5 million town ahead of Ike, though advance by the White House. Ike is still supposed to "Us folks have lived here for each day they're gone. he acknowledged that such deliver heavy rain and for years. We worry but we "I think they called the orders are costly. He esti­ Detroit mayor evic:1:ed from mansion wind, and authorities sug­ always think it will be OK," guns out a little too soon. mated businesses through­ They killed business," said DETROIT - Detroit's mayor has a deadline gested residents who had said 80-year-old Barbara out the Keys lost about $10 left stay away until Kellner while walking her Deborah Dietrich, the man­ million because of evacua­ for moving out of the city's official mayoral resi­ Wednesday. They said dog. "And we see the ager of a nearly empty tions for Tropical Storm dence now that he has pleaded guilty and is those who stayed behind weather report today, and bakery. "Whether we have Fay last month. resigning. Officials say Kwame Kilpatrick, his wife and three sons are expected to be out of the city's Manoogian Mansion by midnight on Sept. 18. Kilpatrick also has until that day to vacate his RUSSIA City Hall offices. . City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr., who is set to take over as mayor Sept. J 9, says Kilpatrick told him Monday he'd have no trouble Medvedev pledges Georgia withdraw meeting the deadline. with Medvedev in Moscow in an effort of a cease-fire agreement last month. Associated Press to salvage the cease-fire that ended The short war between Georgia and MOSCOW - Russian President last month's war between Russia and Russia has turned into a critical event LOCAL NEWS Dmitry Medvedev pledged Monday to Georgia. in the post-Cold War world, as Russia withdraw Russian troops from key Questions remained whether the asserts its new economic and military 6 children escape apartment fire areas of Georgia after 200 European Russians would follow through in clout and the West struggles to INDIANAPOLIS - A mother tossed several Union monitors are deployed later this totally pulling troops from regions sur­ respond. children to waiting neighbors as a fire spread month, part of a revised cease-fire rounding the disputed territories of Sarkozy flew to Moscow for meet­ in their third-story apartment in Indianapolis. agreement to end conflict in the South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russia ings with Medvedev to try to salvage The fire broke out about 7:15 a.m. Monday region. has already recognized the two the Aug. 12 deal, which ended a con­ at the Bradford Square apartments on the Georgia President Mikhail regions as independent and Medvedev flict that saw Georgian forces attack­ Saakashvili countered by stressing city's east side. Six children in all, ranging said that decision would not be ing South Ossetia and Russia then that any final settlement with Russia rescinded. invading and routing Georgia's mili­ from 23 months to 13 years old, escaped from must respect Georgia's territorial Still Russia's pledge, announced by tary. the apartment without injuries. integrity. Medvedev after more than four hours Georgia and many Western nations Firefighters arrived in time to help the moth­ Saakashvili was speaking alongside of talks with Sarkozy, appeared to be a complained that Russia had failed to er down a ladder. It took crews about 10 min­ French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who concession to international demands withdraw troops and follow through utes to bring the fire under control. flew to Tbilisi Monday after meeting that Russia fulfill pledges made as part on other earlier pledges. page 6 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, September 9, 2008

viewers - Martin Sheen. ing on the fact that there Sinoking New Ad Sheen, an actor and self­ ND '08 have been very few female described human rights candidates for national roles continued from page 1 continued from page 1 activist, is the University's most continued from page 1 like president and vice-pres­ recent Laetare Medal recipient. ident. handful of buildings right now the "fights" going on at Notre "I was talking to [Associate Professor Jack Colwell of Professor Matt Storin, also that are going to meet it, but it Dame to the University's foot­ Vice President] Father Jim the Gallivan Program in of the Gallivan Program, is something all new buildings ball heritage, Woodward said. McDonald, and said 'boy, Journalism, Ethics and concluded the discussion will incorporate." The ads also attempt to [Sheen] would be a great nar­ Democracy opened the dis­ with a talk on the media After campus-wide notifica­ "show the real world effect of rator,"' Woodward said. "I do cussion with an and its influ­ tions of the policy are released, research at Notre Dame," hope people recognize his overview of the ence on this the new perimeter will begin to Woodward said. voice." campaign sea­ "The viewer ratings and past be enforced, McCauslin said. The most recent ad explained Woodward said the son thus far elections. The Department of Risk the work of 2008 graduate University strives to create and a discus­ [for the conventions] Storin said Management and Safety is not Pablo Nava and spots that sion of the were high than the modern the office that will handle viola­ his fight for "make alumni Democratic and 'American Idol."' technology of tions or consequences of smok­ improved stan­ "We expect people to proud" while Republican today is hav­ ing in prohibited areas, he said dards of living say, 'Wow, I didn't telling other conventions. ing a "tangi­ The department "acts as a in Mexico. know that was the sports and Irish Colwell said he Jack Colwell ble effect" on Iinder of fact," McCauslin said. In the ad, fans something was amazed by professor elections, "We perform the investigation, Nava narrates kind of work going on new about the the American especially determine the causes, the the storyline at Notre Dame."' University. public's enthu- b e c a u s e effects." that led him to "We expect siasm about the race for the blogs help spread the news He said his oflice will investi­ his current Todd Woodward people to say, White House. faster, and to more people, gate smoking complaints and work, stating 'Wow, I didn't "The viewer ratings [for than ever before. refer the information gathered the average associate vice president know that was the conventions] were high­ The event was also used to whom it applies in each indi­ worker in of marketing the kind of work er than 'American Idol,"' by NO Votes '08 as a plat­ vidual circumstance - in the Mexico works going on at Colwell said. form to talk about the data­ case of a student,_ information 12-hour shifts Notre Dame,"' Political science professor base that they are compil­ will most likely be referred to and is paid two dollars an hour. Woodward said. Christina Wohlbrecht dis­ ing. The database is going the rector. he said, and the res­ "I knew I wanted to help the Prior to the "What Would You cussed how gender has to be used to help students idence hall's internal policy people of Mexico," Nava said in Fight For?" campaign, the become a major theme in register to vote, and assist regarding violations will take the ad. University produced one­ this year's campaign. in absentee ballot casting. over from there. Nava also won Notre Dame's minute spots working with an "We know little about how "We get accurate information Social Venture Competition and outside ad agency. voters respond to fema:Je Contact Amanda Gray at and share that with the appro­ started his own company, Por Starting last fall, though, the candidates," she said, focus- [email protected] priate person, and then those Fin Nuestra Casa, which takes University began to work with branches of the University use unused shipping containers NBC to create the spots as part their own processes," and converts them into small, of the contract between the McCauslin said. four-walled homes complete University and NBC that gives The University !irst adopted a with electricity and running NBC exclusive rights to broad­ policy about smoking on cam­ water. cast all home games. pus in 1992, after a committee Of the remaining five com­ "We work directly with NBC comprised of faculty, staff and mercials scheduled to air this for over six months to produce students that dealt with envi­ season, four will feature stories the six spots," Woodward said. ronmental issues reviewed like Nava's, while one will focus The University receives help information about smoking and on the importance of voting, from NBC at a "very inexpen­ the health concerns of second­ Woodward said. sive" rate. hand smoke, McCauslin said. This year's commercials also This first policy prohibited feature a familiar voice to Contact Aaron Steiner at smoking in all campus build­ many American television [email protected] ings, he said, with few excep­ tions, like private offices and dormitory rooms. Not long after this initial poli­ cy was established, these exceptions wnre removed, and tho poli(:y was left unchanged for about ten years, he said. The policy continuos to pro­ hibit the saln, distribution and advertisement of tobacco prod­ ucts on campus as well as smoking in all University build­ ings. According to the News and Information release. the policy regarding smoking as well as instructions for filing com­ plaints will be made available online for students, faculty and employees of the University. Smoking cessation programs for faculty and stan· through the Office of !Iuman Hesources, as well as programs for students through the Offices of Alcohol and Drug Education will contin­ ue to be made available upon request. Contact Jenn Metz at [email protected]

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FREDDIE MAC (FRE) -82.75 -4.22 0.88 The announcement S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) +2.07 +2.57 126.99 Sunday that the Treasury Department was seizing asuries control of the companies, which own or back about 10-YEAR NOTE +0.147 0.00 3.660 half the nation's mortgage 13-WEEK BILL +1.83 +0.03 1.670 debt, brushed aside 30-YEAR BOND ;0.16 -0.007 4.269 investors' long-simmering 5-YEAR NOTE +1.40 +0.04 2.960 worries that the pair would be felled by a spike modities in bad mortgage debt. LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +0.11 106.34 Investors were hoping that the plan to inject up GOLD ($/Troy oz.) -0.30 802.50 to $100 billion in each of PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) -2.45 83.650 the government-chartered mortgage financiers could not only help lower mort­ Exch nge Rates gage rates but perhaps YEN 107.5150 help buoy the overall EURO 0.7094 economy. The move could CANADIAN DOLLAR 1.0668 help banks feel more open to write new mortgages BRITISH POUND 0.5696 and to refinance existing mortgages at lower rates, offering a possible lifeline to consumers struggling with increasing payments. The move appeared to Gregg Maloney of LaBranche & Co. trades ·shares in Freddie Mac on the floor of IN BRIEF have an immediate sooth­ the -New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Stocks surged following the U.S. gov­ ing effect on mortgage ernment's buyout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. City switches to digita}.()nly broada9ing · rates. The national aver­ WILMINGTON, N.C.- With th(i flick of an 8- age interest rate for a 30- confidence in sectors like rose 289.78, or 2.58 per­ against other major cur­ year fixed rate mortgage financials and home cent, to 11,510.74 after rencies, while gold prices foot switch at midday Monday, this Southern city builders, it doesn't imme­ became the first marmt in the U.S. to make the dropped 0.3 percentage being up nearly 350 rose. diately aile via te worries change to digital-only broadcasting. point to 6.04 on Monday, points in the early going. Common shares of The switch wasn't r,eally connected to anything, according to financial about other areas of the Broader stock indicators Fannie Mae and Freddie but it did serve as a centerpiece for a downtown publisher HSH Associates. economy. Still, he said the were also higher. The Mac will be made virtual­ ceremony at noon EDT marking the moment that But the government's move was far more wel­ Standard & Poor's 500 ly worthless by the plan, commercial TV broadcasters voluntarily turned steadying hand for two come than a collapse of index advanced 25.48, or which will dilute the off their old-fashioned .. inefficient analog signals. institutions that many Fannie Mae or Freddie 2.05 percent, to 1,267.79, stock. But the companies' Wilmington volunteered to be a canary in a digi­ Wall Street observers had Mac. and the Nasdaq composite shares had already suf­ tal coal mine - a test market for the national con­ said were simply too big "It saves Armageddon index added 13.88, or fered huge declines in the version to digital broadcasting. to let fail isn't likely to from happening," he said. 0.62 percent, to 2,269.76. last year so many share­ The rest of the nation's full-power television sta­ alleviate troubles for "If you think about it, this Bond prices edged high­ holders have already tions won't be convmting until Feb. 17, 2009, a homeowners who have helps the financials, this er in late trading on endured the majority of date set by Congress. fallen far behind on their helps the housing market. Monday. The yield on the their losses. Tech took a huge hit last benchmark 10-year "This switch is the biggest change in television mortgages. Fannie Mae shares since it went from black and white to color back in Dave Rovelli, managing week. Does this really Treasury note, which plunged $6.34, or 90.1 the 1950s," Federal C[)mmunications Commission director of U.S. equity affect tech? I don't think moves opposite its price, percent, to 70 cents, Chairman Kevin Martln told the ceremony at his­ trading at Canaccord so." fell to 3.68 percent from while Freddie Mac fell toric Thalian Hall in downtown Wilmington. Adams in New York, said At the close, the Dow 3.69 percent late Friday. $4.21, or 83 percent, to that while the plan boosts Jones industrial average The dollar was higher 89 cents. Mortgage rates falll, homeowners happy WASHINGTON - Mortgage rates fell sharply Monday, as investors reacted to the government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And WaMu's Killinger ousted as CEO that's exactly what homeowners like Jim Chereskin had been w'l.iting for. Associated Press will not require the company to raise plummeted, sparking an outcry from Chereskin, who live!: in Naperville, Ill., took out capital or increase liquidity, WaMu said. shareholders. an adjustable-rate loan in 2003 and has been WaMu shares fell 15 cents, or 3.5 per­ The board's splitting of the CEO and worrying about how much his mortgage pay­ NEW YORK- Washington Mutual Inc., ravaged by losses from sour mort­ cent, to close at $4.12, after dropping as chairman roles in June was an effort, at ments will rise once the loan resets. to market much as 24 percent earlier in the ses­ the urging of shareholders, to improve rates in about 18 mon1hs. gages, removed Kerry Killinger as chief executive of the nation's largest savings sion. Its shares have fallen 90 percent corporate governanee. At WaMu's "I don't want to have to worry about it any­ and loan on Monday, adding him to the since early July of last year, right before shareholder meeting in April, a non­ more," said Chereskin. who expects to switch to a growing list of banking bosses ousted by the rapid erosion in the credit markets binding resolution calling for the instal­ fixed-rate loan as soon as this week. That way, he began. lation of a non-employee as board chair­ said, "I can sleep at night and I'm good." their boards. Battered by rising mortgage delin­ man passed with 51.5 percent of the The government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Killinger, 59, is being replaced by Alan quencies and defaults, and by the sink­ votes. Freddie Mac - mortgage titans that own or guar­ H. Fishman, the former president and chief operating officer of Sovereign Bank ing value of its mortgage portfolio, But Killinger- who received compen­ antee about half of all U.S. mortgages- will help WaMu has -lost nearly 70 percent of its sation valued at $14.4 million in 2007- borrowers who had been nelfously waiting for and president and CEO of Independence market value this year. held on to his post as CEO, even as the the best ti_me to get [)Ut of the adjustable-rate Community Bank. Killinger, who was stripped of his list of other top banking executives mortgages they took out during the housing Also Monday, WaMu said that it has entered into a memorandum of under­ ehairman title in June, became CEO of shown the door eontinued to grow. boom. standing with the Office of Thrift the Seattle-based thrift in 1990 and built After backing Killinger for so long, the But it will do little to stem the dramatic rise in WaMu into one of the corn1try's largest board's sentiment finally changed. foreclosures. And so Jar, the government's other Supervision concerning aspects of its banks. But with a heavy focus on sub­ "The board and Kerry mutually· programs to assist distressed borrowers in refi­ operations. WaMu has committed to prime and option adjustable-rate mort­ agreed that this was the right time for nancing have had minimal impact. And that has provide the OTS with an updated, multi­ gages - the types of mortgages at the Kerry to leave the company," said consumer advocates calling on Fannie and year business plan and forecast for its earnings, asset quality, capital and busi­ heart of the housing bust - WaMu's spokesman Brad Russell in an e-mail to Freddie to do more. ness segment performance. The plan losses began to mount and its shares The Assodated Press. THE OBSERVER

page 8 IEWPOINT Tuesday, September 9, 2008 THE OBSERVER Selfishness vs. self-sacrifice P.O. Box n9. Not« Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall. Notre Dame, IN 46556 As I watched John McCain give his He was the first African American edi­ But five years of imprisonment and acceptance speech at the Republican tor of the Harvard Law Review. He torture taught him otherwise. When he EDITOR IN CHIEF National Convention, I was struck, not helped draft a few insignificant pieces vows to fight for his country for as Chris Hin~ just by this man's story of exceptional of legislation as a state senator. Oh, long as he draws breath, there is no MANAGING EDITOR BUSINFSS MANAGER strength in the face of fierce adversity, and prior to that, he wrote an autobi­ question his promise is genuine. Jay Fitzpatrick Kyle West but by how drasti­ ography. Again, personal gain is the Throughout his many years as a sena­ cally it differed focus here. tor, McCain's devotion to America and AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Katie Kohler Christina from that of his Pesavento Now I'm not saying that there is any­ its people, rather than to his party or AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: D~irdre Krasula rival. To be fair, thing inherently wrong with the pur­ to himself, remains just as steadfast as NEWS EDITOR: Jenn Merz Barack Obama's suit of self-interest; in fact, our nation ever. VlliWPOINT EDITOR: Kara King rise to political Right was built upon it. It is embodied in the On the other hand, when Obama SPORTS EDITORS: Dan Murphy fame is inspira­ Winging It proverbial American Dream. Millions claims that this election "has never Bill Brink tional as well. The of immigrants risked everything for a been about me; it's about you," I can't ScENE EDITOR: Analise Lipari difference, though, glimpse of Lady Liberty lifting her help but doubt his sincerity. This is a lies here: One man has clearly dedicat­ lamp, guiding them to the shores of a man who falsely claimed that his uncle SAINT MARY'S EDITOR: Liz Harter ed his life to serving his country; the land where freedom and opportunity helped liberate Auschwitz; who spoke PHOTO EDITOR: Jessica Lee other. not so much his country as him­ reign, in search of a better life for at the Brandenburg Gate, where GRAPIIICS EDITOR: Mary Jesse self. themselves and their families. President Heagan demanded that ADVERTISING MANAGER: Maddie Boyer Obama's life journey reads like a Furthermore, our continued dedication Gorbachev "tear down this wall;" who AD DESIGN MANAGER: Mary Jesse fairytale. The self-described "skinny to free-market capitalism has resulted tried to use a logo resem.bling the kid with a funny name" that later in unfathomable progress by channel­ presidential seal during a roundtable CoNTROLLER: Tim Sobolewski becomes the first African American to ing selfish impulses toward the better­ discussion with Democratic governors; SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR: Mike. Moriarity be nominated by a major party for the ment of society as a whole. who announced his candidacy at the OFFICE MANAGER & GENERAL INFO office of the presidency. And there are Finding a politician who harbors no Old State Capitol where President (574) 631-747I surprisingly few steps in between: narcissistic tendencies is an extreme Lincoln gave his famous "House fAX Columbia graduate, community organ­ rarity, especially when it comes to Divided" speech. (574) 63I-6927 ADVERTISING izer, Harvard Law graduate, lawyer, presidential elections. Anyone who Talk about audacity. As syndicated (S74) 631-6900 [email protected] constitutional law lecturer, state sena­ volunteers to assume the role of leader columnist Charles Krauthammer asks, EDITOR IN CHIEF tor, U.S. senator. of the free world must think rather "Has there ever been a presidential (574) 631-4542 Yet what troubles me about Obama highly of him or herself. But this year nominee with a wider gap between his MANAGING EDITOR is that he has done nothing that sepa­ is different. This year, we have a can­ estimation of himself and the sum total (574) 631-454 I [email protected] rates him from the crowd, at least didate who nearly sacrificed every­ ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR of his lifetime achievements'?" The (574) 631-4324 before gaining prominence by speak­ thing for his country. And, like he says, answer is no. BUSINESS OFFICE ing at the 2004 Democratic National he has the scars to prove it. Our country needs a hero. Not one (574) 631-5313 Convention. Nothing in his background Which brings me back to the speech. who seeks to use the opportunities it News DESK suggests that he has gained the wis­ Sure, McCain is no great orator; offers for service of himself. but one (574) 63 I-5323 obsnews.l @nd.edu dom necessary to lead a nation, let Obama's speaking style far outshines who has sacrificed for an idea greater VIEWPOINT DESK (574) 631-S303 [email protected] alone the most powerful nation on his rival's. After getting off to a shaky than himself, whose every waking SPORTS DESK earth. Never has his judgment been start, however. McCain's account of his moment is dedicated to serving his fel­ (574) 631-4543 [email protected] put to the test, nor has he truly had to time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam low Americans. John McCain is that SCENE DESK sacrifice his own well-being for the was truly moving. He didn't need to hero. (574) 631-4540 [email protected] sake of others. In fact, most of his life prop up vacant promises and hollow SAINT MARY'S DESK seems to have a particularly self-inter­ achievements with fancy rhetoric Christina Pesavento is a junior smc.l @nd.edu PHOTO DESK ested slant. because his actions speak loudly American studies major. She can be (574) 631-8767 [email protected] And what does he have to show for enough to stand alone. contacted at cpesavent@nd. edu SYSTEMS & WEB ADMINISTRATORS it? There was a time in his life, McCain The views expressed in this column (574) 631-8839 Well. he graduated from two cele­ admits, when he didn't think there was are those of the author and not brated institutes of higher education. a cause more important than himself. necessarily those of The Observer. OBSERVER ONLINE www.ndsmcobserver.com POLICIES EDITORIAL CARTOON The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper published in print and online by the students of the University of Notre Dame du Lac and Saint Mary's College. 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LETTERS TO 'fHE EDITOR 1Visitors afforded Football should learn enjoyable game day from soccer

Last Saturday (Sept. 6) was our first time attending a Notre Dame football game. We just This past Sunday evening, as I slogged through the security line at the want to thank all the folks associated with the event for being so nice and helpful. From the Raleigh-Durham airport, I found myself weighted down by reflexive con­ parking lot attendants to the shuttle drivers and all the ushers at the stadium, everyone was sideration of the bizarre and disappointing performance of Charlie and most polite and hdpful. Actually, it started off campus when one of your photographers the Notre Dame football team from the day before. Just then, as if sent helped us with directions outside a South Bend store. Our San Diego State shirts were no straight from "Wake Up the Echoes," an iridescent platoon of kelly green­ impairment. and-blue clad lady athletes came bounding by my flank and, low and Thank you again. behold, it was the Notre Dame women's soccer team, fresh off the destruction of local pretenders to their throne, UNC and Duke. I told all of Steve and Ginny Woods them within earshot that I was a Notre Dame alum and that we were all Noblesville, IN very proud of them and rooting for them to go all the way. I was struck by Sept. 8 the matter-of-fact nature in which these women described how they had rolled over the vaunted Tar Heels and Blue Devils and I could see a confi­ dence, poise and overt aura in this Notre Dame team that reminded me of the Notre Dame football teams of my youth. Such auras come from teams that annually reside at or near the top of the national rankings and play for or win the national title, it seems, every other year. Get Clausen a 'bowl' cut We should all celebrate and congratulate the Notre Dame women's soc­ cer team, for they embody all the ideals of our great University: excel­ In response to Ryan Bailey's letter, "Get thy ears lowered," (Sept. 8}, I couldn't care less lence in athletics, academics and in life. Ironically, the Notre Dame whether or not Jimmy Clausen gets his hair cut. As long as he wins us games and leads our women's soccer team has become the "Notre Dame football" of women's team to a bowl game, he could dye his hair pink for all I care. I will donate my $20 to soccer, as Rockne himself once imagined it. Perhaps Charlie and his staff Hannah and Friends and watch our team compete in a bowl game. I think it's a win-win. can study the women's soccer team tapes and how they do their business and learn what it means to "Play Like a Champion Today." Matt Babcock junior John Chute M.D. Stanford Hall Chapel Hill, NC Sept. 8 Sept. 8 Dude, where's my proportionality?

Catholics comme:11ting on American politics often point out, correctly, that a faith­ all that attractive to Catholics who believe in subsidiarity (or even balanced budgets, ful Catholic may only vote for a pro-choice politician if the following two criteria are for that matter}? satisfied: 1) The Catholic is voting for the politician in spite of the latter's support for Lastly, there's that intangible quality that Obama seems to possess. Isn't he the permissive abortion policy, not because of it, and 2) There are "proportionate rea­ candidate of change and hope? Maybe he would be able, through the force of his sons" to support the pro-choice candidate over his rival. In other words, in the 2008 personality, to usher in a new Era of Good Feelings, during which a united citizenry presidential election there must be some good quality that the pro-choice candidate will root out all forms of injustice. But if you look at his actual record, you will see (i.e. Barack Obama} possesses that is so good that it outweighs his support for abor­ that he is actually a fairly typical career politician, unwilling to challenge the corrupt tion-on-demand. So once we've agreed that there are circumstances in which a status quo in Chicago politics, unwilling to challenge the demagoguery of his own Catholic may in goc'd conscience support pro-choice politicians, the next question is, powerful local preacher (until, after many, many years, public opinion forced him how can this reasoning be applied to Barack Obama's candidacy? Is there a reason to}, unwilling even to vote yes or no on many issues, instead choosing to vote "pres­ to support Obama that is so powerful that it outweighs his abortion-rights zealotry? ent." If he didn't shake things up in Illinois or in the Senate, what evidence is there As far as I can tell, the answer is no. that he is an effective agent of reform? Some supporters point to Obama's foreign policy judgment. Yet, one could argue Perhaps there is a good that he would promote that would outweigh the great evil that Obama's oppo~ition to the troop surge of the last year and a half was a pretty that he would perpetuate by protecting Roe v. Wade and otherwise expanding abor­ spectacular misjudgment on his part. And, anyway, it seems to me that no matter tion "rights." But I have yet to hear what it is. The next time a Catholic Obama sup­ who is president, America's Iraq policy will be a gradual withdrawal over the next porter says that abortion isn't the only issue in 2008, the correct response is, "Well, few years. what selling point does Obama have that outweighs his moral blindness on abor­ Obamaniacs might rejoinder that Obama has a superior energy policy and that tion?" Good public speaking ability isn't enough. energy is the central economic and national security issue of our time. But Obama's tepidity towards nuclear power (among the "greenest" of energy sources} and off­ Gregory Barr shore drilling isn't Yery reassuring. seniOr Some people are enamored of "Obamanomics" (mostly because the word has a Knott Hall nice ring to it, I think}. But is a massive expansion of the federal government really Sept. 7

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ANDREA ARCHER I Observer Graphic of "Homeo arid Juliet" was a standard By MICHELLE FORDICE ladder to serve as the famous balcony. Assistant Scene Ediror The actors remain on stage for the entire performance, sitting at the back if That tinw of yPar has come again. they are not performing. Props are also Notre Damn students are falling into a kept to a minimum; the swords in their rhythm with tlwir classes, summer is 2006 production of "Hamlet" were sym­ putting out its last l"nw nlTorts of good bolized by a glove on the actor's hand. weather. and it is time for the Actors The actors wear basic, functional, mod­ from tho London Stage to grace ern clothing and simply add a small Washington llall once again. This season piece or prop to indicate the character they bring Shak1~speare's "The Winter's they are portraying. Tale," onn of Shaknspnarc's later roman­ The actors provide all of their own tie works with a tragic center, but a sound effects as well. In the 2007 pro­ happy ending. duction of "Macbeth," actors played sim­ Thn Actors from tlw London Stage are ple instruments behind their colleagues to associatnd with the DeBartolo create some of the play's eerier moments. l'nrl"orming Arts Center, which serves as With so few embellishments, the produc­ tlwir booking agnnt and home in the tion is clean and centers on the acting and Unitnd States for thnir annual tour, but the language rather than the decoration. are actually housnd and work in London. Sometimes it has its issues - there are so In addition to their performances, they few environmental cues that a first time visit and teach elassps at universities. viewer of Shakespeare may get lost - The actors hail from such companies as but to even the recently initiated it is an the Hoyal Shahspnare Company, the interesting new perspective. Hoyal National Theatre of Grnat Britain Not only do the actors create their and Shaknspearn's Globe Theatre, and environment onstage in front of the audi­ have performnd on stages in the West ence, but they try to involve their audi­ l~ncl and around the world. Since AFTLS ence as much as possible. In several of performances do not usc a director, the the productions, the house lights are left MARY JESSE I Observer graphic I Images courtesy of http://nd.edu/-aftls actor's skill is on full display. high, the actors walk through the audi­ The five-person cast of "A Winter's Tale" will each play multiple roles in the Tlw AFTLS are recognized for their ence to get to the stage, and on occasion stripped-down production. The set and props are also minimal in style. minimalist, but eiTnetivn. production the characters directly address the styh While there are more than 25 char­ crowd. persuade his friend to stay. But while she than a show; they arc a conversation acters in Shakespearn's original play, the While "The Winter's Tale" is one of only speaks to Polixenes, Leonates with the audience. A rdreshing change company consists of only five actors. This Shakespeare's less famous plays and not believes she is too easily successful and from many Shakespeare performances, ynar tlwy indudl) Erin Brode, Matthew as infused into our pop culture as past accuses her of adultery, plotting to kill his which turn the plays into true period Douglas. William Hoyland (best known selections, such as "Hamlet" and "Homeo friend. Polixenes escapes, but Hermione is pieces or lind other ways to embellish the for his Shakespeare, but also has and Juliet," don't let its unfamiliarity imprisoned, where she gives birth to her stage, these productions feature nothing appearnd in films such as "Gandhi," "Hell scare you away. It is filled with jealously, daughter. Leonates orders the baby - but Shakespeare's words and the actor's Boy" and "A Mighty Heart"), Hobert love and betrayal. "The Winter's Tale" which he believes to be a bastard - to be ability. The usual excellence of the com­ Mountford (anyone here in the fall of straddles the line between comedy and killed. pany, paired with the freshness of "The 2006 will rm:ognize him from "Hamlet"), tragedy. It is not as farcical and light as Though an oracle declares Hermione Winter's Tale" to most audience mem­ and Eunice Hobnrts. ''The Comedy of Errors" and a innocent and she finds an advocate in bers, is a sure sign of a good show this The stage is kP.pt nearly bare; one of "Midsummer Night's Dream," dealing another lady of the court, Paulina, week. thn only snt piP.cns for their production with violence and an ever-present sense Leonates refuses to rescind his accusa­ Considering the usual minimalism of of death, but neither is tion. Before anything can move forward, the Actors from the London Stage's pro­ it as tragic as a servant announces that Leonates' son ductions, one can't but look forward to The Winter's Tale "Macbeth" and has died. This brings the king to his sens­ see how they handle one of "Othello," ultimately es, but not before Paulina can announce Shakespeare's most famous stage direc­ When: Tuesday, Sept. 9- Thursday, ending joyously. to the court that Hermione has died. tions: "Exit, pursued by a bear." "The Winter's Tale" Meanwhile Antigonus, Paulina's husband "The Winter's Tale" will run in Sept. 11 at 7:30 pm opens with Leonates, charged with the killing of Hermione's Washington Hall from September 9 Where: Washington Hall king of Sicilia, trying to daughter, finds himself unable to com­ until September 11. To purchase tick­ convince his friend plete his task. Unfortunately, he ends up ets for these performances, contact the Price: Students - $12 Polixenes, king of being chased by a bear (and later drowns DPAC ticket office at 574-631-800. Faculty/Staff/Senior Citizens - $18 Bohemia, to remain at in a storm), forcing him to abandon the Tickets are $12 for students and $18 his court for a longer baby after naming her Perdita. The play for faculty and staff. General Public - $20 visit. In one last attempt, then passes through the next sixteen he sends his pregnant years, leaving in question Perdita's fate. Contact Michelle Fordice at wife Hermione to try to AFTLS performances become more [email protected]

Photo courtesy of www.nd.edu/-aftls Photo courtesy of www.nd.edu/-aftls The cast of the Actors From the London Stage production of "The Taming of the From left, Will Ashcroft, Charlotte Allam, Chris Donnelly, Brigid Zengeni and Dan Shrew" came to the University In the spring of this year. Winter performed in the fall AFTLS 2007 production of "Macbeth."

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MLB Lester's gem brings Red Sox to 112 game of Rays Huff's grand slam sparks seven-run sixth inning; helps Baltimore defeat Cleveland ending eight game losing streak

ble to Carlos Pena, putting run­ Associated Press ners at second and third. BOSTON - Jon Lester pitched Jonathan Papelbon came in and into the eighth inning, Jason Bay struck out Rocco Baldelli, who homered in a three-run first and fanned in all four at-bats. the surging Boston Red Sox beat Papelbon finished up for his 36th the Tampa Bay Hays on Monday save in 40 opportunities. night to move within a half-game Lester outpitched Edwin of the struggling AL East leaders. Jackson (11-10), who settled Playing before their 456th down after the three-run first straight regular-season sellout and finished with six strikeouts erowd, a new major league while giving up eight hits and reeord, the Red Sox closed with­ two walks in seven innings. in a half-game of the division Jackson had won six of seven lead for the first time since July decisions before his worst start 23. of the season, a 9-3 loss to the Boston improved to 6-1 in its New York Yankees last last seven games while Tampa Wednesday in which he allowed Bay is 1-6 in that same stretch six runs in 3 1-3 innings. after losing its fourth straight. Mark Kotsay, the first batter The Rays were shut out for the Jackson faced, started the rally second consecutive day for the with a walk and then scored on a first time this year, having lost 1- one-out double by David Ortiz. 0 at Toronto on Sunday. Ortiz scored on a single by Kevin They dropped to 0-7 at Youkilis, who was thrown out in Fenway Park this season and a rundown between first and could fall out of first place on second. Tuesday night in the second Bay followed with his sixth game of the three-game series. homer since being traded by The teams wrap up their season Pittsburgh on July 31 and his series with three games at 28th of the season. Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester throws a pitch during Boston's 3-0 win over Tampa Bay Monday. Tampa Bay starting next Before the game, Red Sox Lester pitched 7 2/3 innings and had nine strikeouts. Monday. owners John Henry and Tom Boston leads th~ majors with Werner, president Larry Baltimore 14, Cleveland 3 ting streak to 12 games. Choo that." 14 shutouts. Lucchino and players greeted It's been this kind of year for has reached safely in 28 Huff is close to having a Lester (14-5) matched his sea­ some of the 3 7,662 fans who Aubrey Huff: After missing two straight games since Aug. 25. career year; his best season son high with nine strikeouts, attended the record-breaking games to attend the birth of his Baltimore trailed 3-2 before came with Tampa Bay in 2003, accomplished in his no-hitter sellout. Since the streak began first child, he went 3-for-5 with sending 10 batters to the plate when he had 34 home runs against Kansas City on May 19. on May 15, 2003, the total atten­ a grand slam. in the sixth. After two walks and 107 RBis. He allowed six hits and three dance at the 456 games is Huff's fourth career slam and a single loaded the bases "We've been repetitive in walks in 7 2/3 innings. 16,336,192. capped a seven-run sixth with no outs, Fausto Carmona saying he's been a legitimate With two outs in the eighth, The Cleveland Indians set the inning, and the Baltimore (8-6) struck out Lou Montanez. No. 4 hitter for us," Trembley Lester gave up a single to Ben previous record from June 1995 Orioles ended an eight-game Pinch-hitter Oscar Salazar said. "He's just been real good, Zobrist and a ground-rule dou- to April 2001 at Jacobs Field. losing streak by defeating the then bounced a two-run single especially with guys on base." Cleveland Indians Monday to left, and Carmona was Jones hit a three-run homer night. removed after walking Brian and Hernandez added a two­ Back in the cleanup spot Roberts to reload the bases. run shot in the eighth, both off after welcoming a boy into the "Fausto was doing OK," Brendan Donnelly. world, Huff hit his 31st homer Cleveland manager Eric Wedge Orioles starter Garrett Olson and upped his RBI total to 102. said. "When he got to the sixth (9-7) allowed three runs and Last season he finished with 15 inning, it got away from him." eight hits in six innings. The home runs and 72 RBis. Speaking through a transla­ left-bander was 0-2 with an "Last year was just one of tor, Carmona said: "A lot of 11.81 ERA in his previous four those years where everything times, it's been one inning starts. stunk. This is one of those where they've scored a lot of "My biggest focus tonight years when everything's been runs. Next time out, I'm going [was] not trying to press, just pretty good," Huff said. "That's to concentrate on getting going out there and being just baseball." through that inning." myself the whole time," Olson Luke Scott, Adam Jones and Jones greeted Juan Rincon said. "Not trying to do too Ramon Hernandez also home­ with an RBI single, and after much, being aggressive and red for the Orioles, who had Nick Markakis struck out, Huff letting my defense play behind lost 13 of 14. Jones ended an drove a 2-0 pitch into the me. When you do that and you 0-for-16 skid with three hits right-field seats. It was the keep the team close as the and four RBis. 11th grand slam allowed by game goes on, eventually the Only 11,181 watched Cleveland, a club record and bats will start to come through. Baltimore's second win since the most in the majors. And sure enough, they did." Aug. 20, but manager Dave "Sometimes things come in After Cleveland got a two-out Trembley said the long-await­ bunches, and that has this RBI double from Cabrera in ed win was "good for the team year. I don't think it's one par­ the second, a run-scoring and good for the fans. We ticular thing you look at," grounder by Scott tied it in the played very good baseball Wedge said. "Obviously, we've bottom half. tonight." had our struggles in the Cabrera hit an RBI single Asdrubal Cabrera went 3-for- bullpen this year - put a lot of and Franklin Gutierrez fol­ 3 and drove in two runs for the people on base. The more you lowed with a sacrifice fly to put Orioles third baseman Aubrey Huff hits a grand slam helping Indians, and Shin-Soo Choo do that, the more there's an the Indians up 3-1 in the Baltimore to a 14-3 win over Cleveland Monday. had two hits to extend his hit- opportunity for somebody to do fourth.

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NFL NSCAA ~lien's Soccer T4)p 25

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1 Wake Forest 2-0 1 2 Boston College 1-1 4 3 Connecticut 1-0-1 2 4 Creighton 1-0 6 5 Akron 1-0-1 12 6 Indiana 1-0-1 7 7 SMU 2-0 17 8 NOTRE DAME 1-1 3 9 Maryland 1-1 8 10 · Ohio State 2-0 9 11 California 2-0 NR 12 Brown 0-0 11 13 Virginia Tech 1-0-1 10 14 South Florida 1-0 18 15 North Carolina 2-0 24 16 Northwestern 2-0 20 17 Bradley 2-0 21 18 Tulsa 1-0-1 23 19 UCLA 1-1 14 20 Santa Clara 0-2 5 21 UC Santa Barbara 1-0 21 22 St. John's 2-0 NR 23 Saint Louis 0-0-2 19 24 Charlotte 2-0 NR 25 Illinois-Chicago 1-0-1 16

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team record previous AP 1 usc 2-0 1 Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers makes his first career Lambeau Leap after rushing for a touch­ 2 UCLA 2-0 3 down in the Packers' 24-19 win over Minnesota Monday night. Rodgers also thre~ for a touchdown in 3 North Carolina 3-0 2 4 Aorida State 3-11 5 5 NOTRE DAME 3-11 4 Rodgers gets the win in Packer debut 6 Virginia 2-o 1 Stanford 3-11 Associated Press ''I'm happy we won, and zone. the electric atmosphere : ~~:!nd . , ;#• ·t~ that he played well," Grant then broke free that we had, it was a 10 Penn State 2-1. GREEN BAY, Wis. - Packers coach Mike for a 57 -yard run midway pretty special night." 11 Texas A&M 3-1 Aaron Rodgers passed his McCarthy said. "That's through the fourth quar­ . •After scoring on the 12 Duke 3-11 first test as the Green Bay what's important. I don't ter, giving the Packers (1- sneak, Rodgers emphati­ 13 West Virginia 2-1 Packers' new quarter­ really get caught up in all 0) first-and-goal at the 2. cally spiked the ball and 14 Boston College 2-1 back, throwing for 17 8 the other things. And it's After a penalty against jumped into the stands 15 llfinois 3~o yards and a touchdown important for him not to, the Vikings (0-1), Rodgers for a "Lambeau Leap" as 16 Santa Clara 2-1 and scoring on a game­ too." was stuffed on his first Green Bay took a 24-12 17 Wake Forest 3-0 20 clinching sneak in a 24-19 Will Blackmon's 76-yard attempt at a quarterback lead with 6:03 remaining. 18 Oklahoma State 2-o 23 victory over the punt return gave Green sneak but plunged into "I've been dreaming 19 Connecticut 1-2 12 Minnesota Vikings on Bay a 17-6 lead going into the end zone on the sec­ about that for four years, 20 Tennessee 1-2 14 Monday night. the fourth quarter. ond try. to be honest," Rodgers 21 California 2-1 17 Rodgers, who was 18- Minnesota's Ta:rvaris Rodgers acknowledged said. 22 Georgia .2-1 19 ...... of-22, got help from the Jackson answered with a he was happy to get his Jackson then led the 23 Aorida 2,14 ...... ••.••••..•.•.•,. .•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•••.. 22 Packers' special teams, 23-yard touchdown pass first start out of the way, Vikings on an 11-play 24 cs Fullerton 3-0 NR running back Ryan Grant to Sidney Rice on fourth­ but generally seemed to drive that ended with a 3- 25 Kansas 2-0 NR and safety Atari Bigby to and-1 to cut the Packers' be enjoying life as the No. yard touchdown run by beat a bitter division rival lead to five with 14:12 1 quarterback. Adrian Peterson, cutting in his first regular-season remaining. But a 2-point "Tonight, knowing I was the Packers' lead to 24- start, which came in the conversion attempt failed going to get the first snap 19 with 2:39 remaining. MIAA Women's Soccer wake of Brett Favre's off­ when Jackson threw a was pretty special," An onside kick attempt season unretirement pass slightly behind Rice Rodgers said. "And run­ by Ryan Longwell Conferen«~e Standings saga. in the back of the end ning out of the tunnel to bounced out of bounds,

Team Record IN BRIEF W-L 1 Kalamazon 3-1 Phelps donates S I Armstrong wants to Bolt receives hero's 2 Adrian 2·1 million to own charity return to cycling welcome in Jamaica 3 Calvin 2-1 BALTIMORE - Michael Phelps is Lance Armstrong's reported KINGSTON - Prime Minister 4 Alma 1-2 starting his own charity and the comeback won't take place with the Bruce Golding and hundreds of 5 Hope 1-3 swimmer who won a record eight Astana cycling team. Jamaicans welcomed triple Olympic 6 Olivet 1-3 "He is no part of our team," 7 Albinn 0-2 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics gold medalist Usain Bolt home on 8 SAINT MARY'S 0-3 made the first donation by commit­ Astana team press officer Philippe Monday after his triumphs in g. Trine 0·4 ting the $1 million bonus he earned Maertens told The Associated Press Beijing. for his golden haul. in an e-mail. "Team Astana has no "We're planning some great The Michael Phelps Foundation plans with him." . things for Usain and the other· will launch an eight-city U.S. tour in The cycling journal VeloNews, cit­ members of the Jamaican team collaboration with Speedo, Phelps' ing anonymous sources, reported who made us so proud at the swimsuit sponsor that paid him the on its Web site Monday that the 36- Beijing Olympics," Golding said. bonus, to visit children and share year-old seven-time Tour de France Hundreds of flag-waving his Olympic experiences. champion would compete in the Jamaicans waited along the road around the dial The tour will feature an education Tour and four other road races outside the airport hoping to get a program called "Dream, Plan, with Astana in 2009. glimpse of Bolt as he was taken by WINBA Reach" to give children a game plan But Astana team director Johan a convertible in a motorcade to a to lead healthy, active lives. Bruyneel, who was with Armstrong hotel where he will hold a news Pheonix vs. Detroit "My goals reach beyond the pool, for all seven Tour wins from 1999- conference. 7:00p.m., ESPN to helping others realize their 2005, told cyclingnews.com that he "I am happy to be back home. I dreams, and continuing to grow the was unaware of any Armstrong expected some amount of support IVILB sport I love so much," Phelps said in comeback. but I never knew that so many peo­ a statement. "I feel it's only appro­ "I don't know where the rumors ple would be here to meet me," Bolt Cubs at Cardinals priate that I continue the momen­ come from," the Web site quoted told Reuters before his motorcade 7:00 p.m., WGN tum that Speedo helped to create." him as saying. departed the airport. page 14 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, September 9, 2008

us OPEN Federer silences doubters with convincing win Swiss champion wins fifth consecutive U.S. Open, 13th Grand Slam title, one shy of Samprass' all-time record

Slam titles: Lleyton Hewitt, Andre But Federer, who might have But there was no call, and no - which included his pal, Vogue Associated Press Agassi, Andy Roddick and Novak benefited from an extra day to reprieve, because Federer stayed Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour - NEW YOHK- No matter what Djokovic. rest because his semifinal wasn't steady enough to save the third and bellowed, punching down anyone else said or thought, ''I'm sure we're going to see affected by Tropical Storm break point there and go on to with his right fist. Hoger Federer knew he was still much more of Andy in the Hanna, was simply too much for hold serve. - This is how he is supposed to capable of elite tennis. future," said the second-seeded Murray. "That was key," Federer said. play. Knew he was still capable of' Federer, who dominated every Too good. "After that, I began to play freely, This is how these Grand Slam winning Grand Slam titles._ facet of this fmal. Too smart. the way I usually do." fmals are supposed to go. Knew he was still Roger He accumulated a 36-16 Too experienced. In the next game, Murray Not his lopsided loss to Nadal Federer. advantage in winners, a 7-2 Too, well, Federeresque. began flexing his right leg, on day at Roland Garros. Or his Back at his best. back at the count in breaks of serve, and At only one juncture did clutching at that knee and look­ heartbreakingly narrow loss - top of tennis, Federer easily beat won the point on 31 of 44 trips to Murray really throw a scare into ing up at his substantial support 9-7 in the fifth set as the light dis­ Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 the net, compared with a 7 -for- his opponent on this day, taking group in the guest box, a gather­ appeared - on grass at the All Monday to win his fifth consecu­ 11 showing by Murray. 11 of 12 points to go from 2-0 ing that included his mother, his England Club. Those were two of tive U.S. Open championship and Murray - assured of rising to down in the second set to 2-all two coaches and his two fitness Federer's 12 losses by August in 13th major title overall. a career-best No. 4 in the rank­ and love-40 on Federer's trainers. 2008, more than he had in any Federer is the first man since ings - stood about 10 feet serve.Federer saved the first of Federer later broke Murray at entire season from 2004-07. He Bill Tilden in the 1920s to win behind the baseline to return those break points, and on the love in the last game of the sec­ also .arrived in New York with the tournament that many times serves, exactly the way he did in second, they engaged in a 14- ond set, closing it on a 10-stroke only two titles from minor events, in a row. lie also moved within upsetting Nadal in their two-day, stroke rally that ended with point that was a thing of beauty. and none on the type of hard one major championship of' tying rain-interrupted semifinal over Murray missing a backhand. TV First, Federer extended the point courts used at the U.S. Open. Pete Sampras' career record of the weekend. And Murray did replays, though, showed one of with some superb court cover­ Federer's year began sluggishly 14. display flashes of' the get-to­ Federer's shots during the rally age, and then - shifting from as he dealt with a bout of "One thing's for sure," Federer every-ball defense he used should have been called out - defense to offense in a blink - mononucleosis, something he said in an on-court interview. against Nadal, including one and had it been, Murray would he ended it with a forehand pass­ said affected his preparation ''I'm not going to stop at 13. That pretty flick of a lob by Federer have had a break and a 3-2 lead ing winner. later in the season as he played would be terrible." with his back to the net. in the set. Federer turned to his guest box catch-up. The victory dearly came as something of a relief to Federer, who has struggled during a lack­ luster-only-for-him season. He lost in the semifinals at the Australian Open, and to nemesis Haf'ael Nadal in the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon, meaning Federer was on the verge of' his first year since 2002 without a major title. And his record streak of 237 consecutive weeks at No. 1 ended last month when Nadal surpassed him. "I had a couple of tough Grand Slams this year ... so to take this exceptional experience for exceptional people one home is incredible," Federer said. "It means the world to me." But the sixth-seeded Murray upset Nadal in the semifinals at A career at Stryker is exceptional because Flushing Meadows to reach his first Grand Slam championsqip our business is exceptionally important. match, and Federer had no trou.: ble this time - even though he As a global leader in medical technology, Stryker advances had lost two of his previous three matches against the Scotsman. meaningful innovation in orthopaedic implants, surgical "I came up against, in my opin­ ion, the best player ever to play and medical devices, patient handling equipment, the game," said Murray, who tried to give Britain its first men's medical communications and imaging systems. major champion in 72 years. "He definitely set the record straight We hire people who have a driving passion to make Positions avaitabte to suit today." a difference. People who thrive when given clear At 21, here's how young he is: all majors! 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With his bushy hair peeking ~ ::--"'~ out from under his gray-and­ white baseball cap, unshaven whiskers on his face, and that loping gait, Murray looks much like the college student he other­ wise might be if not so talented at tennis. Federer, coincidentally, was the same age when he played in his first Grand Slam final, back in 2003 at Wimbledon. Except www.stryker.jobs Federer won that, and has kept winning major championship matches against everyone except Nadal. Text STKND to 30364 Indeed, Murray can consider himself in good company: to start the hiring process. Federer's other four finals at Flushing Meadows came against four men who have won Grand Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The Observer + SPORTS page 15 ~~~~~~~~~~~==~~====~~~~~~~~~~~~===== NFL ii Pollard says Brady's injury was an accident

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AP Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard injures Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during New England's 17-10 win Sunday.

Pollard's teammates were Associated Press making a point to console him. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The "Bernard feels terrible" said man who delivered the hit that quarterback Damon Huard, ended Tom Brady's season who came into the game in the insists he was not trying to hurt third quarter when Chiefs last year's NFL MVP. starter Brodie Croyle sustained "It was really an accident," a shoulder injury that could said Kansas City's Bernard sideline him for a while. Pollard. "I can't change what Huard, a former backup to happened. I can't do anything Brady and a good friend of the but pray for him and hope he Patriots star, said the injury has a speedy recovery." was just an unfortunate acci­ Early in the Patriots' 17-10 dent "that happens in football." victory, Pollard came on a safe­ "When you're making a long ty blitz and was fighting throw, you usually take a bigger through the block of running stride," he said. "And Tom was back Sammy Morris. Crawling just totally stretched out and forward, he got hold of Brady's extended and Bernard just tried left knee just as Brady was to reach out for him and caught planting to make a long throw him at the right time. to Randy Moss. "Bernard feels bad about it. "As soon as the play hap­ He really does." pened, I said, 'Oh, man.' When Cornerback Patrick Surtain, I heard him scream, I knew it an 11-year veteran and leader was serious," said the third­ of the youthful secondary, said year safety. "I came back to the no one who knows Pollard sideline and told (coach Herm would think he tried to hurt Edwards) 'That dude's hurt. anyone. But it was not intentional, "It could have been any quar­ coach, man, I'm sorry.'" terback in the league," Surtain The league said Monday the said. "The guy was on his hit was clean. kne~s, ~asically crawling to get Tired of getting homework? "It is not a foul because the to h1m. defensive player was coming off Pollard said he would not be and affected by a block by the surprised if he comes to be offense, said NFL spokesman known around the country as Then give some~ Greg Aiello. The replay was the player who knocked Brady reviewed by Mike Pereira, the out for the year. supervisor of officials. "He's a really good guy. He's But Pollard said he's sure that not only the NFL face, but he's many people will agree with the face of magazines, and peo­ Moss that it was a dirty hit. ple love him.'' But it still doesn't "I know one of their team­ sidestep the fact that he plays mates called me a dirty player. for the National Football If you see the play, I was not League. He plays football. He being dirty at all," Pollard said. ties his shoe just like I tie my "I was trying to get up and my shoes to get ready for a game. momentum took me forward He puts his mouthpiece in to with 230 pounds on my back. keep all his teeth in, just like I I've never been a dirty player. do. You ask my teammates. You ask ''I'm not talking any trash on any of my coaches." him at all. He is the face of the Drafted in the second round NFL. But at the same time, he in 2006 out of Purdue, Pollard is a player. I just hope for a became a starter in 2007 and speedy recovery. I hope it's not has acquired a reputation as a as bad as everybody is say­ quiet, studious young player ing." and hard-hitting tackler. Pollard said he would not do He said he'd received mes­ anything different. sages of support from friends "My thing is, the ca11's been and fans. brought in by our coaches and "Everybody is saying, 'Keep I just lay on the ground, then your head up,"' he said. "My everybody's saying, 'Bernard's head's up. I do still have a little showing no effort on this play.' bit of pain that he's down and Then I'm not a dirty player but out right now. But I have to be I'm a bad player, or not a good a pro. If I'm going to be a play­ teammate because I don't er for the Kansas City Chiefs, have effort. my teammates expect me to go "We can't turn back the out there and do my job every hands of time. I just wish him play, every game." a speedy recovery." page 16 The Observer+ SPORTS Tuesday, September 9, 2008

NFL -wANT YOU TO Browns pick up pieces NATE BLOOD!" after Dallas debacle In the spirit of Notre receiver Brayton Edwards Associated Press dropped several passes, me, show your BEREA. Ohio - For kicker including one that would have support and help save Phil Dawson, it was a Monday been a sure TO, and line­ likfl so many others over the backer Andra Davis had a pos­ .,., ...... s on Patriot's Day ... past decade. sible interception of Tony One day after Cleveland Romo slip through his hands. began a season of great expec­ Crennel was doing his best tations by unexpectedly get­ to put a positive spin on his ting embarrassed 28-10 in its fourth straight loss in openers opener by the Dallas Cowboys, since taking over the Browns Dawson. a Browns lifer and in 2005. But the truth of the the only player who has been matter is that his team, espe­ wilh thn club since its 1999 cially his defense, was no (/1ROSSBLOOD DRIVE expansion reincarnation, match for a Dallas: galaxy of offered some perspective on a offensive stars. '+tAmber 1 0-11, 2008 loss that isn't sitting well with Cleveland's pass rush, a the locals. major concern heading into "It's not time to panic," said the season, was nonexistent. Lafortune Center Ballroom Dawson. l-9 in NFL openers. When the Browns rushed "It's time to figure out how to three linemen in the first half, , 9:30am-2:30pm improve. We just did not play Romo had enough time to drop good enough. back, go This is a 16- through his ehapter book downfield and yesterday checks and was the first "It wasn ,t a good one, even revisit a chaptfJr. but we still have a lot few before American "It wasn't a of the book to read. ,, finally throw­ good one but we ing. He fin­ Red Cross still have a lot of ished 24-of-32 the book to Phil Dawson for 320 yards. read." Browns kicker Without safe­ "r To Lit:Af:u.~MoRE; ABOUT ARMY ROTC AND With a nation­ ty Brodney QPPORTUNITIES ally televised Pool (concus­ St:titil-A~SHlP Sunday night sion), the ,.• "''""··.-=-. EK (N D '0 1 ) game with the Pittsburgh Browns didn't have anyone to Steelers up next, the Browns cover tight end Jason Witten, can't turn the pages on the who blistered them for huge Dallas debacle fast enough. gains. And because they The 'Boys manhandled them. couldn't get to Romo, it put Now, they have to make sure more pressure on cornerback the Steelers don't, too. Brandon McDonald, who did Pittsburgh has dominated all he could to stay with wide Cleveland in one of the receiver Terrell Owens. league's most bitter rivalries. "We couldn't stop Witten. We The Steelers have won nine couldn't stop T.O. We couldn't straight, 15 of 16 and 22 of 25 stop Romo," Crennel said. since 1994. "Those are the guys we knew "You could put this game in they were going to go to, and April and Browns-Steelers is we couldn't stop them." important," Dawson said. Because of injuries, the "This isn't just any week, it's Browns' first-team offense Steelers Week and I think didn't take one snap together that's a good thing. I think it during the exhibition season will help us move forward. If and the lack of playing time we had a bye week or some­ hurt their cohesion. Edwards thing right now I think that missed three preseason games we'd sit around and think with a cut foot and quarter­ about how horribly we back Derek Anderson sat two played." with a concussion. Their time Putting aside the frighten­ apart contributed to a few ingly lopsided statistics - miscommunications. Dallas prevailed in first downs Making matters worse, the Club Information Meetin s 30-11; total yards 487-205; Browns were without Pro and time of possession 37:22 Bowl kick returner Josh and will be held in the gM arf mandatory for all clubs to 22:31 - the Browns are Cribbs (ankle) and they lost LaFortune Student Centero(n gomery Auditorium in taking comfort in that they've wide receiver Donte' across from Starbucks) been through something simi­ Stallworth when he injured his lar. Last season, they were leg during pregame warmups. Schedule · overrun 34-7 by Pittsburgh in Crennel said Stallworth, one of the season opener but the club's biggest offseason ~~gay, ~eptember 8th at 5:30 pm bounced back to win seven acquisitions, was expected to straight at home and finish undergo further tests. 10-6. Their absences forced the As they prepared to watch Browns to use Steve Sanders Sunday's film, the Browns and Syndric Steptoe - two Yei~~ ~~:~~I~:: !}8g~ were looking ahead by practice squad players a year remembering their past. ago - in their offensive rota­ "Same thing happened last tion. Wedne:g;~ ~:g:::g:~ Jg:~: g;gg g: year," defensive tackle Shaun Cribbs was "heartbroken" Smith said. "We gave up a lot when Crennel told him shortly At least two members fi more yards against Pittsburgh. before kickoff that he wouldn't Club Information Me~?n~ e~ch club must attend a You've got to look at the posi­ play. Standing on the sideline tive note. There's still 15 more in street clothes, he watched any of the meetings ~~~;~ub cad n attend games left. We should be all helplessly as his teammates ue1 . right." laid another giant egg in Please contact Miry Kate Ll-o~:r_ Smith's recollection is a bit another opener. But there's in fhe Student Activities,.;.~""' f~.edu} fuzzy since the Steelers only always next week, and for the VIIJ\OU With any cruestions. gained 365 yards a year ago. Browns, that's all that mat­ But he's on the mark in point­ ters. ing out that the Browns have a "When the clock ticked to lot of schedule left to turn zero and we knew the game things around - or completely was out of our hands, the fans fall apart. were saying, 'You got seven Just as he did Sunday, days to get it right for Browns coach Romeo Crennel Pittsburgh,"' Cribbs said. lanwnted missed opportunities "We're going to do everything against the Cowboys. Wide we can." ------

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tonight they face off against MLB Olivet at home on Thursday Belles night. The team needs to put continued from page 20 their rough start against Adrian behind them and build on the non-conference wins to keep Wagner done for the year Kaela Hellman, who leads the momentum going this week. Saint Mary's squad with 69 No members of the team kills. were available for comment. Saint Mary's will diive right in to their conference schedule Contact Pat Stynes at this week. After takhg of Hope [email protected]

shining through in the distance. Let's not forget the effect a Faith win has on a team. Notre Dame continued from page 20 can begin to rid itself of the ------maqtbre atmosphere it must Rudolph didn't get beat pass­ have carried last season. The blocking. Asaph Schwapp made team has confidence now. two or three big blocks to open Confidence doesn't necessarily running lanes. translate into production, but it So what does this mean? It translates into emotion. doesn't forecast another 3-9 Whether the Irish can channel season, but it also doesn't lock emotion into production up a BCS bowl remains to be for the Irish. It seen. means the The outcome team's improv­ Notre Dame can begin of Saturday's ing. The offen­ to rid itself of the . game doesn't sive line didn't indicate a win AP get great push, macabre atmosphere over Michigan, New York closer Billy Wagner is scheduled to have surgery on the MCL in his pitching elbow in the running it must have carried nor does it pre­ which will most likely land him on the bench until the beginning of the 2010 season. game, but kept last season. The team dict a defeat. But Clausen on his when you take by facing teammate Gustavo they'll be showing you tears." feet. That's an has confidence now. the good with The New York closer Molina, Wagner hit the Wagner is owed $10.5 mil­ improvement. the bad, it says could be done for all reserve catcher on the left lion next year, the final guar­ Clausen threw the Irish have foot with his 13th pitch, then anteed season of a $43 mil­ two intercep- their problems, of next season as well walked off the field. lion, four-year contract with tions (neither of which were but they have improved and "The tear is now big the Mets, and the team holds really his fault) but led an effec­ will continue to do so as the Associated Press enough that the doctors are an $8 million option for 2010 tive no-huddle offense. That's season progresses. recommending so-called with a $1 million buyout. an improvement. When that sun pokes through NEW YORK - Billy Wagner Tommy John surgery," Minaya thought there was a Robert Hughes and Armando the clouds is up for debate, but is out for the rest of this sea­ Minaya said. "If all goes well, chance Wagner might return Allen each fumbled, but gained the sky in the distance look son and likely all of next. he will be able to return to to the mound next September. decent yardage on the ground. much friendlier. The New York Mets closer pitch in about a year's time While Minaya mentioned That's an improvement. will have surgery after an following the surgery." that the Mets could go with At this point it's all about The views expressed in this MRI on Monday showed a The left-bander has con­ internal options, the best improvement. The storm clouds column are those of the author torn medial collateral liga­ verted 101 of 118 regular­ available closer on the mar­ are still swirling overhead, but and not necessarily of The ment in his pitching elbow season save chances since ket will be K-Rod, who began the lightning bolts are becom­ Observer. Contact Bill Brink at has gotten worse during signing with New York before Monday with 55 saves for the ing less frequent and mn is wbrink@nd. edu. more than a month of reha­ the 2006 season, but has not Los Angeles Angels. He could bilitation. His injury could pitched since Aug. 2. get a four- or five-year con­ send the Mets into the free­ When the Mets pu.t Wagner tract in excess of the $15 mil­ agent market fm; a top reliev­ on the disabled list three days lion average Mariano Rivera er this winter, perhaps later, they described the is making with the Yankees. prompting them to pursue injury as a strained left fore­ "You have certain allotted Francisco Rodriguez. arm. Minaya said ·Monday dollars that you're gfling to "It does change your think­ .., that an MRI that day revealed invest in putting the team ing," general manager Omar the tear but that Wagner and together," Minaya said. "That Minaya said. "Any guy that the team thought there was a was an area that I was not we run out there is not going chance he could pitch expecting that I was going to to be a proven guy. So, you through it. need to have to have a lot of know, until you have a proven "There's a lot of guys that dollars." guy, you can't say you're pitch with tears, especially Before Monday night's comfortable." when you're 37 years old," home game against the New A five-time All-Star, Wagner Minaya said. "The question is York Yankees, Rodriguez did­ also has a torn flexor prona­ how these tears hold up and n't want to comment on the tor, which is a muscle in the in what areas. But if you Mets' situation. forearm. When he tested his were to take an i'l1RI of a lot "I don't want to answer that arm Sunday at Shea Stadium of 37-year-old pitchers, question. Right now I only want to talk about today's game. I don't know what's going to happen in the D - D [ The Ce~Z,er for .E'hics ai'Zd Religious Values ii'Z ..B usi~Zess future," he said. - D- UI'Zd While Wagner has repeat­ r-1 - ,----, The I~Zs'i'u'efior .E'hicai..Bu.si~Zes.s ~orld...,ide edly said he intends to retire ~ ~ ------~------~ when this contract concludes, Proudly Present Minaya wasn't certain that would be the case, caution­ Berges Lecture Series in Business Ethics ing: "How many guys have • (Sponsored by lthe John A- Berges Endo""..-.ent) said, 'That will be my last year,' and then come back?" Minaya also thought Wagner would want to reach 400 saves-he is 15 shy. Pan4~1ists: "If Billy wants to pitch JVIark l.VI:cCready, Professor and Chair of Chemical and again, he will pitch again. It's Bioa1raolecular Engineering going to be in Billy's court," he said. "I still think Billy, Ger~ard Pannekoek, JVIan.agement Department and former CEO of t:he he's a good enough athlete, Chi<::ago Climate Exchange he's a hard worker, deter­ Patrick E. JVIurphy, Co-Director, Institute for Et:hical mined, I think if he wants to Business 'World_..ide pitch, he will have the oppor­ tunity to pitch." JVIodlerator: New York began Monday with a two-game lead over Geotrges Enderle, Ryan Chair of International Business Ethics Philadelphia in the NL East All participants are faculty members at the University of and is 22-11 since Wagner's Not•·e Dame- last appearance. Luis Ayala, acquired from Washington Tuesday, September 9, 2008 last month in a trade, is 5- 7:00p.m_ for-6 in save chances for the 141 DeBartolo Hall Mets. "The guys have done a very good job stepping up," Minaya said. page 18 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, September 9, 2008

history. at home against Boston, weekends are a time when He skipped his senior season Delaware State and Savannah many highly-touted recruits Dantley to enter the NBA draft. Schedule State before kicking off Big come to campus, but not just continued from page 20 The Buffalo Braves drafted continued from page 20 East play at DePaul on Dec. for football. Brey received a Dantley sixth overall in the 31. verbal commitment this week­ points per game as a sopho­ 1976 draft, and he won the smacked a couple times, and In the Big East, Notre Dame end from 6-foot-8 forward more and is second behind NBA Rookie of the Year in we're going to have to be will play Connecticut, Mike Broghammer. Austin Carr on Notre Dame's 1977. lie went on to play for resilient and not panic."' Louisville and St. John's as its Broghammer joins Joey all-time scoring list with 2,223 the Pacers, Lakers, Jazz, Notre Dame returns four home-and-home oppon!)nts Brooks and Jack Cooley as points. Pistons, Mavericks and Bucks starters from last season, and will close the year with verbal commitments Brey has Irish basketball coach Mike in his career, led the NBA in including Big East Player of three of their last four games lined up for this year's senior Brey, who was at the induction scoring twice and was named the Year Luke Harangody, and at the Joyce Center. class. Brey can't comment on ceremony in Springfield, Mass. an All-Star six times. From is expected to contend for the In all, Notre Dame will play the recruits until the recruits along with for- 1981-1984 conference title· this year. But 14 games on the ESPN family sign their letters of intent in mer coach Dantley aver­ to win that crown, the Irish of networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and November. Digger Phelps, aged over 30 will have to navigate the ESPNU) and will have two said he attend­ points per game always tough Big East sched­ games on CBS (at UCLA and at Bill Brink contributed to this ed DeMatha "It was just a and is still 18th ule. Connecticut on Jan. 28). report. (Md.) High powerful night for on the all-time Notre Dame will face a cru­ School basket­ scoring list. cial test early in its Big East + Note: Contact Chris Hine at ball camps our program and After his play­ schedule, when it faces a Notre Dame home football [email protected] when Dantley me personally." ing days were daunting five-game stretch was a high over, Dantley beginning on the road· at school player Mike Brey went on to Louisville on Jan. 12. The Irish there. Dantley coach as an follow that with a trip to the was always Irish coach assistant at Carrier Dome to take on around working Towson Syracuse on Jan. 17, then out and practic- University for return home for games ing, hn said, two years. He is against Connecticut on Jan. 24 and he would sometimes come currently an assistant coach and Marquette on Jan. 26 and and talk to the campers. for the Denver Nuggets. finish the stretch with a trip to "The thing I remember Dantley was inducted thfs Pittsburgh on Jan. 31. ESPN's about him was his work weekend along with a slew of College Gameday will visit the ethic," Brey said. "The guy household hoop names includ­ Joyce Center for the first time was a flat out machine as a ing llakeem Olajuwon, Patrick for the Connecticut game. worker. lie was one of the first Ewing, Pat Riley, Dick Vitale, "There's so many good ones guys that was into weight lift­ Detroit Pistons owner Bill on our schedule ... " Brey said. ing. lie was one of the first Davidson and women's basket­ "It's going to be an unbeliev­ guys that was into nutrition." ball coach Cathy Rush. able experience and a great In his junior year with the "It was just a powerful night challenge." Irish, Dantley was fourth in for our program and me per­ On Feb. 7, Notre Dame will the nation in scoring, averag­ sonally," Brey said. "I thought head to Los Angeles to renew ing 28.6 points per game. lie the talk he gave us was fabu­ its rivalry with UCLA. It'll be averaged 25.8 points per lous.~' the first meeting between the game in his career and made two teams since 2004. 615 free throws, more than Contact Bill Brink at The Irish will face Indiana anyone else in Notre D.ame [email protected] on Nov. 24 to open the Maui Invitational and depending on how they fare, will play either Texas or St. Joseph's in round match play at that tourna­ two, and possibly North ment. Carolina in the Finals. USF Santos-Ocampo scattered After two games at home continued from page 20 J,hree birdies, two double against furman and South bogeys, and a bogey over the Dakota, Notre Dame heads to Francisco. Their 14-over 298 rest of the round to finish the the new Lucas Oil Stadium in trails leader California by 11 day 4-over at 75. Indianapolis on Dec. 6 to take IAN GAVLIK/The Observer strokes. Sophomore Co.nor Alan Lee on Ohio State. Then, Notre Sophomore forward Luke Harangody yells during Notre Dame's The Golden Bears (287) go shot a disappointing 7 -over 78, Dame has three more games 61-41 loss to Washington State in the NCAA Tournament. into tlv1 second round with a with no birdies. Fellow sopho­ narrow 4-stroke lead over host more Tyler Hock sat at 3-over USF, who sits in second with a after 15 holes, but birdied two 7 -over 291. Senior Adam West of his final three to end the of UAB shOt the low round of day with a solid 72, the low STUDENTS the day with a 2-under 69. Irish round of the day. Although erratic, the Irish Sophomore Jeff Chen's day golfers showed flashes of bril­ began promisingly, taking the liance and head coach Jim turn one under par, but Transportation Services will be offering Kubin.ski is confident in his bogeyed four of his final eight young squad. holes to end up at plus 3 with two Driver Training Sessions in September. "As with any sport, you're a 74. In total, the underclass­ not sure exactly what you have men put up the two low until you begin to compete," rounds of' the day for Notre If you have not attended a Driver Training session Kubinski said. "I like our Dame. young group, though. They've "Both [sophomores] Connor conducted by Transportation Services, and you shown signs already of being a Alan-Lee and Tyler Hock special group. We're excited to played multiple events last plan on driving a University owned, leased, or get started and will just try to season and put together rented vehicle, you must attend a Driver Training keep improving throughout the impressive stretches at times," season." Kubinski said. "They look to session BEFORE you operate a vehicle. Irish junior Doug Fortner, be stronger players this season whose 67 at Ballybunion last as both have worked hard and month is quickly becoming the gone through a natural matu­ Sessions will be held on Sunday, September 7th stuff of Notre Dame legend, ration from their frosh cam­ bogeyed seven of his first paigns. Jeff Chen is the new­ and September 14th, at 7:00pm in Room 102 of eleven holes to start the day. comer to the lineup. He's a lie responded with a birdie on very consistent player with a Debartolo Hall. 12 and finished the first round very, very good short game. with a 6-over 77. Jeff plays intelligently. I look Junior Carlos Santos- for him to be very steady in The session will last approximately 45 minutes. Ocampo began the day with a our lineup." Please bring your drivers license and a pen brilliant eagle at the 533-yard, The second round finished par 5 first, but shot two late Monday night. The third bogeys and a double bogey in and final round begins this Transportation Services rents vehicles to students, quick succession. He is fresh morning at 11 a.m. with a off his appearance in match shotgun start. faculty, and staff who are in need of play at the U.S. Amateur ·Tournament - the first Irish Contact Mike Blasco at transportation while on official University golfer in four decades to reach [email protected] business. See our website at: ta:~ntsportation.nd.edu

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MEN'S BASKETBALL Hard future, smooth past

Team releases tough ND legend inducted schedule for 2008-09 into Collegiate HOF

By CHRIS HINE By REBECCA SLINGER Spores Writer Spores Writer

The Irish should certainly be Former Notre Dame basket­ battle-tested come Tournament ball player Adrian Dantley, a time. two-time All-American, was Notre Dame's 2008-09 sched­ inducted into the Naismith ule was released Monday, a Memorial Basketball Hall of schedule that not only includes Fame Friday. the rigorous 18-game Big East The United States Basketball schedule. but also non-confer­ Writers Association named ence match-ups against UCLA, Dantley the national player of Ohio State and a trip to the the year in 1975-76, his junior Maui Invitational that could season, and he played on the include potential games U.S. Basketball team that won against Texas and North a gold medal in the Montreal Carolina. Olympics in 1976. "With the veteran group that Dantley played for the Irish we have, they deserve a chal­ from 1973-76 and was a lenge like this," Irish coach freshman when the Irish beat Mike Brey said. "I told the UCLA in 197 4, ending the team, 'The thing to keep in Bruins' record 88-game win­ mind, we're going to take some ning streak. He averaged 30.4 bullets. We're gong to get see SCHEDULE/page 18 see DANTLEY/page 18

FOOTBALL COMMENTARY MEN'S GOLF Fans should keep Shaky start for Irish in California

By MIKE BLASCO the faith for now Sports Writer After tearing up the infa­ For the lirst time in three last season, and based on mously treacherous local football seasons, I went to a Saturday's game, there are courses during their trip to midnight drum cirele per­ reasons for it. Clausen didn't the Emerald Isle early last formance. I got thnre early look ofl" his receivers and month, Notre Dame is wishing and still stood behind throngs threw two interceptions. The it brought home a little bit of eager "pound it" run game amount­ more of the luck of the Irish as fans ready ed to much ado about noth­ a souvenir. to hear the ing: The Irish averaged 3.1 The Notre Dame squad sits cadences. yards per carry and fumbled in ninth place in a field of 15 A friend twice. The field goal unit went after the first ·round of the told me 0-2 with a botched snap. USF Intercollegiate the pep Penalties extended multiple Invitational at the 6,833-yard, rally was San Diego State drives. The par 71 Olympic Club in Daly sick, that fancy blitzes produced one City, Calif., just outsjde San IAN GAVLIK!fhe Observer it was the sack. Senior Josh Sandman and coach Jim Kubinski talk during the lirst time Bill Brink The game left us asking see USF/page 18 Gridiron Golf Classic at Notre Dame on September 30, 2007. he'd ever questions. Why was John len one Ryan the down lineman in the more Sports Editor nickel set for the whole game excited instead of an actual lineman? SMC VOLLEYBALL about a Where was Duval Kamara game looking when Clausen's pass than when he'd come. In the was intercepted over his stadium the fans were crank­ head? Will we be able to con­ ing the team up, chanting and vert third-and-shorts against Belles look to keep trucking gesturing with the best of teams that don't have its them. entire defensive line injured 1993. victory. Then the game started, and like San Diego State did'? SMC faces Hope after The team is still 0-1 in con­ Hope head coach Becky people turned into Debbie And most importantly, ference play after losing three Schmidt picked up her lOOth Downers. shouldn't we have blown out big victory over local straight games in the confer­ career victory on Saturday will Cirls in front of us left after San Dingo State? ence opener to Adrian on Sept. look to keep her team's .Jimmy Clausen threw his sec­ Plenty of reasons to be skep­ rival Bethel College 2. The Belles will look to keep momentum going strong en ond interception. People start­ tical. But there are also rea­ things rolling and pick up their route to a 5-1 overall record ml calling for Dayne Crist and sons to rejoice in the fact that, By PAT STYNES first MIAA win against the and a 2-0 record in the confer­ Nate Montana. My friend from at the very least, Notre Dame Sports Writer Flying Dutch tonight. ence. The Flying Dutch are cur­ home tnxted nw midway wasn't embarrassed in its first Saint Mary's will look to the rently in first place in the through the second quarter game. Saint Mary's will look to build offensive efforts of freshman MIAA. asking if I'd Inn yet. Support Thf1 offensive line didn't off of a big win against Bethel standout Dani11lle Brink and Spearheading her team's for Charlie Weis was shaky allow a sack. Clausen threw College when they take on Hope Junior Kathleen Mills to help strong defense is senior during the "1812 Overturn" in three touchdown passes. tonight at 7 p.m. in Jlolland, attack a formidable Hope Meghan Winer, who pulled ofT a thn fourth quarter. Michael Floyd looked good in Mich. defense. Mills was an integral 30-dig performance in thf1 Surticn it to say the fans his first time out, and may The Belles moved to 4-2 with part of the team's fifth set Flying Dutch's victory this past wnrmd PnthraiiPd with tlw have had two touchdowns if a hard fought victory earlier comeback victory over Bethel weekend. llowevnr, Winer will team's production. Clausen had unglued his eyes this week against non-confer­ last week with a game-chang­ have a difficult time dealing They have reasons to be from Golden Tate. Kyle encf1 opponent Bethel. The win ing kill, and the team will count with the power of Belles senior stingy with their praise. The was the first time Saint Mary's on her veteran leadership on tnam is on a short leash after see FAITH/page 17 had taken down Bethel since the court to lead the team to see BELLES/page 17