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Jenkins delivers verdict President says he will not ban 'Monologues;' establishes guidelines; committee

Photo Illustration by GRAHAM EBETSCH, ClAIRE KELLEY and DUSTIN MENNELLA!The Observer

"We're going to have multiple "Accordingly, I see no reason a recognized organization of the to consider "context, frequency By MADDIE HANNA [viewpoints] in discussion. We're to prohibit performances of 'The University," he said Jan. 23. "A and balance," Jenkins told The News Writer also going to be serious about Vagina Monologues' on campus, reasonable observer would Observer Wednesday afternoon. including a Catholic viewpoint and do not intend to do so." assume that the University is "If someone wants to perform Future performances of "The and maintaining a balance.'' To further advance the goal of sponsoring an event that, in fact, 'The Vagina Monologues,' they'll Vagina Monologues" will not be The decision comes as a fol­ eliminating violence against is clearly and egregiously at have to make a presentation to prohibited on Notre Dame's low-up to addresses Jenkins women, Jenkins said he supports odds with its values as a Catholic the departments," he said. campus, University President delivered to faculty and students both the future production of a university." "Those who are interested in Father John Jenkins said in a Jan. 23 and 24 in which he ques­ play written by "Monologues" But in his Wednesday state­ putting on 'Loyal Daughters' are statement released Wednesday tioned the place of events "in student leaders entitled "Loyal ment, Jenkins said academic interested in working on that, morning - a conclusion to two name or content clearly and Daughters" and the formation of departments are "best situated and that's what we've talked months of impassioned debate egregiously contrary to or incon­ an ad hoc University committee to decide what events should or about. But we haven't consid­ about the complex relationship sistent with the fundamental val­ to address gender relations and should not be sponsored.'' ered any proposal about 'The between academic freedom and ues of a Catholic university" at sexual violence. "Sponsors have a role in com­ Vagina Monologues."' Catholic character at Notre Notre Dame. The committee will be com- municating the academic ration­ The proposal will be presented Dame. Jenkins, who in posed of administra­ ale for contro- to the University While the sexually explicit Eve February attend­ tors, faculty and versial events," Academic Ensler play lay at the heart of ed the third and "It's not on a students, and Jenkins said. "We're also going to be Council for final recent controversy, Jenkins' final on-campus compromise on the Jenkins will serve as "They also have serious about including approval. statement - which also estab­ student perform­ ideals of its chair. a responsibility a Catholic viewpoint Jenkins did, lished guidelines for sponsoring ance of this In the statement, to make clear - however, men­ academic events and announced y e a r s Notre Dame. ,, titled "Closing on campus and and maintaining a tion one type of the formation of an ad hoc com­ "Monologues," Statement on off- that spon­ balance., event in the clos­ mittee to prevent violence said the academ­ Father John Jenkins Academic Freedom sorship does not ing statement against women - held broader ic panels that fol­ University president and Catholic imply endorse­ Father John Jenkins that would be implications for future University lowed the per­ Character," Jenkins ment of the denied a place in policy and Notre Dame's identity. formances explained the role of views expressed University president future campus "It's not on a compromise on appropriately placed the play's academic departments with by a speaker or debate - an the ideals of Notre Dame," content in a Catholic context. regards to sponsorship - an of an event as a whole." expression "that is overt and Jenkins told The Observer "These panels taught me and issue he raised in his original The president said he has insistent in its contempt for the Wednesday afternoon. "Certainly perhaps taught others that the addresses when he examined "reached a written understand­ values and sensibilities of this there will be people disappoint­ creative contextualization of a the possibility of performing the ing" with department chairs University, or of any of the ed. Some people would have play like 'The Vagina anti-Semitic Daisenberger pas­ regarding guidelines for their diverse groups that form part of wanted 'The Vagina Monologues' Monologues' can bring certain sion play at Notre Dame. discretion in the sponsorship our community." banned altogether; some people perspectives on important issues "The difficulty, as I see it, is process - a separate proposal "I think there are some events are offended that the issue was into a constructive and fruitful that the play would be per­ that gives the chairs and College or speakers which just do not even raised. And as I said in my dialogue with the Catholic tradi­ formed at the University of Notre deans a large amount of respon­ meet the standards of contribut­ statement, to those [people) I tion," Jenkins said in the state­ Dame, using its facilities, implic­ sibility in handling contentious ing to serious debates," Jenkins say, 'This is a Catholic universi­ ment. ''This is a good model for itly or explicitly sponsored by the issues. ty.' the future. University, one of its units, or by Departments will be expected see DECISION/page 2

LLI c:l Church f~ures Jenkins didn't New committee Other Catholic Faculty, students Editorial: ..... respond o choice 'dream too small' to fi_ght violence universities vveigh in evaluate decision Uncovering a cause ;! agamst women should LLI Jenkins be Cl Fort Wayne-South The president's deci- Major religious insti- University communi- applauded for helping > Bend Bishop John sion lives up to lofty Jenkins will chair a tutions have varying ty reacts to presidential Notre Dame find a com- =c.,:) D'Arcy says he's inaugural goal, an group of administrators, policies, reactions to statement. mon goal - ending vio- en- "deeply saddened." Observer senior writes. faculty and students. ND. lence against women. z :::1 - u.= In Focus, page 2 In Focus, page 2 In Focus, page 3 In Focus, page 4 News, page 1 Viewpoint, page 13 ------~------

page 2 The Observer+ IN FOCUS Thursday, April 6, 2006 COMMENTARY Church figures upset with decision DreaiTI alive So it was more than an applause line after D'Arcy 'deeply saddened' by statement; Newman Society disapproves all. When University President Father John Jenkins dosed his Sept. 23, 2005 inaugural addmss by declaring, "Let no onn ever again say that we dreamed too small"- at once a nod back to the resolve of Notre I>ame f(JUnder Father Edward Sorin and a thrust fi>rward into Jenkins' own era - the ambitious, if.JY~>>Qv ,<:s unapologetic turn of Claire Heininger Atlfl-l~1#aU:. phrase sent the audi­ ence roaring to il-; fi1et. Senior Staff To bn in thn Joyce 11 Writer 0·/(: r:~~t~"L.. J'"\l{(,J\... -~ ,J -~~.: Center at that moment L.u;iA, .. I Nu.~~ ... '- t ~ ·1 1 was to gladly choke on ~~c·:r t(ro·· t1,'ft,.. 1 .'t/·, !-, h•lt ,·.,·dro/ :..,, jt . I . " the first-year presi­ As the Notre Dame commu­ ulates the only limitation of the CNS said Jenkins "point­ -who said he knows D'Arcy dent. Could the president- the whispers nity looks within to evaluate speech would occur "in the edly snubbed" Wednesday. "very well" - said he was not IL<;kl~d - who at his inauguration so boldly the impact of the closing case of expression that is Among these voices was Fort surprised by the bishop's vowed to advance academic excellence and statement on academic free­ overt and insistent in its con­ Wayne-South Bend Bishop statement, especially consid­ religious faith as "two indespensable and dom issued Wednesday by tempt for the values and sen­ John D'Arcy. ering his past thoughts on the wholly eompatible strands of higher learn­ University President Father sibilities of this University," D'Arcy was restrained in subject. ing" be reversing course, placing the two at John Jenkins, the Church is the CNS said "The Vagina his reaction to Jenkins' con­ "[To release the statement] odds? Could the priest who disdained standing without and judging Monologues" constitutes such cluding statement, issuing was not only [D'Arcy's] right "dmaming too small" be the same man now where this latest missive puts a case. only a two-sentence response but his duty as a bishop of the splitting hairs over the words "festival" and one of the nation's top "Without any explanation, Wednesday morning. diocese," Cunningham said. "queer"'? Catholic institutions in the Father Jenkins has either "As pastor of the diocese Cunningham did, however, Sum seemed that way. And Jenkins' initial spectrum of ideology. come to a radically different with the sacred responsibility offer another reading of faculty and student audiences largely Harsh critiques surfaced perspective on 'The Vagina for the care of souls of all our Jenkins' closing statement behaved IL<; though they a<>sumed as much Wednesday from several Monologues,' or has simply people, including the young and its relationship to Church - first peppering the president with narrow right-wing Catholics who ini­ abandoned Notre Dame's men and women at the teaching. questions in hostile tones, then pleading tially applauded Jenkins' Jan. Catholic mission," the CNS University of Notre Dame, "If I take [Jenkins'] letter at with or barking at him in defimsive pre­ 23 address on academic free­ statement read. '"The Vagina and with pastoral concern face value, what [Jenkins is] pared statement-;. Naturally, other admini<>­ dom and Catho.lic character, Monologues' and its author always for the Catholic identi­ trying to say is this: There arc trators, fitculty and students quiekly rushed which they read as an attack Eve Ensler exhibit obvious ty of Notre Dame, as is my certain things that the to laud Jenkins' judgment. Notre Dame on the controversial Eve contempt for the Christian obligation, I am deeply sad­ Catholic Church stands looked poised to tnar il<>elf down the middle Ensler play "The Vagina values that the University of dened by the decision of against, and does so vigor­ - the Catholic on one side, the university on Monologues." Notre Dame once fearlessly Father John Jenkins, CSC, to ously and adamantly, and it is the other, with "The Vagina Monologues" The Cardinal Newman embraced, only a few allow the continuing sponsor­ the responsibility of a the lea-;t of the ca-;ualties. Society (CNS)- the national, decades ago." ship of the Vagina Catholic university to be But then strange things sta.rtnd to happen. conservative Catholic organi­ The CNS then chastised Monologues by Notre Dame, aware of what the Church Hathnr than sulking or la-;hing out about zation most recently associat­ Jenkins for "giving Catholics the School of Our Lady," the stands for and doesn't stand their relocation to 101 DeBartolo, student ed with Notre Dame when it around the world false hope" statement reads. for," Cunningham said. and faculty organizers of "The Vagina accused theology professor in his inauguration speech D'Arcy then referred back He said this awareness of Monolo~-,rues" embraced the academic arm Hichard McBrien of plagia­ and January addresses- the to his previous statements Church teaching is accompa­ of tluJir purpose, organi7ing purposeful rism - issued a statement "false hope that Notre Dame condemning the presence of nied by an awareness of panel dL<>cussions to eomplement their Wednesday afternoon that would come to the same "The Vagina Monologues" at opposing viewpoints, by provocative performances. Hather than asked, "Where did Father appreciation for its Catholic Notre Dame for "further virtue of Notre Dame's posi­ shirking the responsibility of his self~ inflicted Jenkins go wrong?" identity" that has prompted understanding" of his posi­ tion as an academic institu­ spotlight, Jenkins attended the While "Jenkins rightly peer institutions like the tion on the matter. tion. "Monolo~-,rues," and al-;o met with diverse described 'The Vagina Catholic University of In February 2004, D'Arcy "There's a great line about t-,rroups of student-; and faculty to engage Monologues' as antithetical to America, Marquette called the play "antithetical to Cardinal Newman's idea of their eoneerns. And rather than rehash the the University of Notre University, Providence Catholic teaching on the the university," Cunningham same blaek-and-whitn, pro- or anti­ Dame's Catholic identity" in College and Seton Hall beautiful gift of human sexu­ said. "He said, 'The university "Monologues" argument-; of the past four his Jan. 23 address. the CNS University to ban "The Vagina ality and also to the teachings is a place where mind clashes years, this year- in classrooms, dorm statement read, in choosing Monologues" on their cam­ of the Church on the human [with] mind,' with the caution rooms, ollkns and dining halls - people not to ban their presence on puses. body relative to its purpose that discussion and so on who love Notre Dame debated respectfully campus, he "simply ignores Jenkins' decision, the CNS and to its status as a temple cannot turn into total advoca­ and inumsnly about what the "distinctive the facts." said, will force Notre Dame to of the Holy Spirit." cy." character and aspirations of Notre Dame" The CNS has campaigned "remain substandard as a And because it violates malty imply. About what Notre Dame stands for years against the per­ Catholic institution for the basic truths, D'Arcy argued Contact Amanda Michaels at for now. About what Notre Dame might and formance and reading of foreseeable future." in February 2006, the play [email protected] should beeome. Thankfully, Wednesday's closing statement doesn't begin to settle those questions. And that, it seems, wa-; part of Jenkins' idea all along. achieve the balance" of differ­ Jenkins said Wednesday the world," Jenkins said in the l>nseribing a conu~mporary Catholic uni­ ent viewpoints on campus - afternoon. "I don't see it as so statement. "For these rea­ versity a-; "where the Church does il-; think­ Decision but said that "balance" does­ much of a balance. I see it as sons, I am very determined ing," th1~ prnsident on Wednesday refused to continued from page 1 n't neces- an affirma­ that we not suppress speech suppress speech, but al-;o refused to neglect sarily char­ "/ think we can have tion of both." on this campus. I am also the Catholic teaching that lies at Notre said Wednesday afternoon. acterize the And that determined that we never Dame's rool<; and nurtured il'i growth. With "People whose rhetoric is relationship academic freedom in a affirmation suppress or neglect the his f.,TlJl<>y acceptane1~ of the dual challenges hateful or derogatory and between full sense, we can respect is essential, Gospel that inspired this to examinn thn world through the lens of possesses no serious intellec­ academic Catholic character in a Jenkins said, University." Catholidsm and to scrutinize Catholiei-;m in tual substance ... There are freedom to upholding Jenkins said he will stick by thn eonl.f1xt of the world - no topics or other events that may not fall a n d full sense - we want freedom of his decision as the Notre vinws barrnd -Jenkins came full circle to below that, but we need to Catholic them to enhance one speech at a Dame community observes its his imtuf.,rural promise to "rise up and embr­ think about the frequency of, character at another." Catholic uni­ impact. ace t11e [Notre Dame] mission in our timf1." and the context of them. N o t r e versity like "People want a kind of sim­ A'i long a-; that duality persisl-;, the mis­ "My questioning of 'The Dame. Notre Dame. plistic answer, but it's not a sion will be fullilled. And a-; long as the Vagina Monologues' in partic­ "I think Father John Jenkins "After all, simplistic situation," he said. dnbatn continues, Notre Damn and its leader ular was related to the ques­ we can University president a Catholic "Again, much will be decided, will be drnaming anything but small. tion of frequency and balance. have aca­ university is each proposal, on its own So different events have to be demic free- where the merits." The views expressed in this column are evaluated in different ways." dom in a full sense, we can Church does its thinking, and those of the author and not necessarily From the 10 weeks of dis­ respect Catholic character in that thinking, to be beneficial, those of The Observer. Contact Claire cussion, Jenkins said he has a full sense - we want them must come from an intellectu­ Contact Maddie Hanna at 1/eininger at [email protected] "a deeper sense of how we to enhance one another," ally rigorous engagement with mhannal @nd.edu THE

The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 40: ISSUE 118 THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Jenkins decision prompts campus approval Faculty members voice Many students say support for statement efforts were laudable

By MARY KATE MALONE By KAITLYNN RIELY News Editor News Writer

Convinced their academic University President Father departments will not be John Jenkins' closing statement stripped of their autonomy, fac­ on academic freedom and ulty members from all corners Catholic character came of campus expressed virtually Wednesday after two months of unanimous approval encouraging students to voice Wednesday for University their opinions to him through e­ President Father John Jenkins' mail, Viewpoint letters in The closing statement on academic Observer and open discussions freedom and Catholic character. - a proactive approach that After heated Faculty Senate ABOVE: ALLISON AMBROSE, BELOW: CLAIRE KELLEY!The Observer garnered praise from students. meetings, loaded Observer edi­ Student body president Lizzi torials and widespread debate Above, students gather for a V-Day event. Bottom left, professors discuss "The Vagina Monologues." Bottom right, University President Emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh sits at the Jan. 23 faculty address. Shappell said she was pleased among professors across cam­ with Jenkins' decision to pus in recent weeks, some of embrace both the Catholic and the strongest voices in those academic identities of Notre discussions praised Jenkins for Dame. his consideration of other opin­ "I think it sets the precedent ions in his decision not to pro­ of truly living out our mission as hibit "The Vagina Monologues" a Catholic university," Shappell at Notre Dame. said. "[He is] challenging stu­ "I can't remember the last dents, faculty and staff to pres­ time I saw a public figure say ent both religious and secular 'Here's a problem, this is what I presentations." think, let me know what you Shappell said she appreciates think and I'll pay attention,"' Jenkins allowing student gov­ history professor Gail ernment and the student body Bederman said. "And [he has] to be part of the conversation

see FACULTY/page 4 see STUDENT/page 6

STUDENT SENATE Representatives outline comtnittee goals for new term

week, as brand new members into better student advising, mittee, has a defined set of said she wants to use "new Members share visions were sworn in as senators. an alumni contact network goals. avenues" - like adding a at first group meeting A new group of students through Goirish, and a con­ "Our major issues are reli­ male co-chair - in order to representing the University's tinued push for improved stu­ gious, sexual and socioeco­ "really focus on breaking 27 residence halls took their dent/faculty relations. nomic diversity," she said. down the awkwardness By MARY KATE MALONE oaths and committee chairs The committee on "Those are the major fields toward male and female rela­ News Editor spelled out their goals for Community Relations, we'll be looking at." tions" at the University. their upcoming terms. chaired by Josh Pasquesi, Plamoottil also mentioned Chair of the Residence Life The first Student Senate Jim Grace, chair of the will be creating a South Bend looking into providing more committee Pat Knapp said he meeting under the new Academic Affairs committee, internship guide for students help for financially needy plans to work on "exciting administration of student said he hopes his committee and a guidebook to highlight students in terms of club new initiatives" including body president Lizzi Shappell can advance the goals different businesses and dues. extending the spring move­ and student body vice presi­ already set in place by previ­ restaurants in the area. Recent transfer student out times, extending Grab 'N dent Bill Andrichik was ous chair Chris Harris. He Sheena Plamoottil, who is Ashley Weiss, chair of the markedly quieter than last said his committee is looking chairing the Diversity com- Gender Issues committee, see SENATE/page 6

College Park changes its name Dorm phones -will be Popular housing complex now called Stadium Club Condominiums removed for fall 2006

the rewiring project and the By KATIE PERRY By BECKY HOGAN Assistant News Editor services that would benefit stu­ News Writer dents, [we found that] most stu­ The apartment complex formerly dents weren't setting up their Beginning this fall, on-campus voicemail or using their [room] known as College Park recently students will have to pay for announced its new name - Stadium phones," he said, room phone services in their res­ The Office of Residence Life Club Condominiums - as part of a idence halls - a change that series of changes under the direction of and Housing, the Office of accompanies the University's Information Technologies and a new management company, a repre­ current dorm rewiring project. sentative said Tuesday. the Office of Student Affairs Jeffery Shoup, director of the came to a consensus decision to Susan Miller, leasing agent and man­ Office of Residence Life and ager for Stadium Club Condominiums, remove physical room phones. Housing, said in the wake of the Shoup said a dorm phone serv­ said the Bulla Rd. housing complex offi­ University's recent rewiring proj­ cially changed its moniker March 20. ice would be available to stu- LAURIE HUNT!The Observer ect, room phones tend to be used A leasing agent said signs with the former College Park less frequently. logo will be changed "within the next two weeks." see CONDOS/page 8 "When we started to look at see PHONES/page 8 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, April 6, 2006

INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST COMMON RESLIFE OFENSE? (Not so) itsy bitsy spider

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" faced one from the wrong side of th!l arachnids. lin looknd like hn might rip up Charlotte's web, kiek her in the face, and thnn usn the watnrspout to clobber that iL'>y-biL'>y wimp. I lis nwnadng eyes, nestlnd in a thick, IN BRIEF sturdy shnll, llashnd at me. lie inehed The SMC Tostal, sponsored by dosnr. Student Activities Board, will I Inapt from my bnd and erouehed in begin at noon today in the tlw cornnr, sobbing, praying for deliver­ Student Center. The event will anee, and bursting anew into tears every include chair massages, carica­ time I glanend up. ture and henna tattoo artists, an Just kidding. indoor picnic in the Noble I brought my toddy boar, too, and Family Dining Hall and a con­ dutdwd it as I praynd for death. I even cert featuring Phantom Planet. thought. had the devil appnared and The doors to the ()'Laughlin om~rnd to east mn into thn eternal fires of Auditorium will open at 5:30 damnation, I would have wrapped my p.m. for the opening acts, with arms lovingly around his nnck and cried, Phantom Planet taking the stage "Onward ho, kmnosabn!" at 8:30. lin nnvnr shownd, the littl(~ devil. I was l.rappnd. My host liunily was aslnep; my Henowned Ameriean Chemist l'ri(~nds livn 20 minutes away; my father and 2001 Nobel Prizn Winnnr in livns 2,000 milns away. Chemistry K. Barry Sharpless .lust as irnagns of spidnr-l'rnn Angers will spnak on today at 4 p.m. in hot(~ls and my nmnrgmwy-only erndit 127 Nieuwland Seienec Hall. card wnn~ dandng in my hmtd, thn spi­ dPr cacklnd nvilly and whippnd out a Madison Center is sponsoring machirw gun. Wnll. nitlwr that or· he Alcohol Sereening Day, a one­ movnd a e!'ntirnntE~r to tlw lnll. The day outreach, education and dntails arn a littlE~ hazy. In any ease, he screening event designed to ndu­ rmnindmlme that lw'd still bn here whnn eatn the public about alcohol I canw baek thn nnxt day. ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer and allow individuals to seek Evnntually I camn to my sens!ls and Freshman Kelsey Larson gives blood Wednesday as part a drive held by the Fighting help in a non-threatening, easily grabbnd my cell phonn to call the Unitnd Irish Battalion at the Pasquerilla Center. The event was held with the specific aim accessible manner. Free, anony­ Statns (at the very sensible priee of five to aid United States soldiers. mous screenings will be held all dollars a minute). Between choking wails day today at the Center in South I managnd to explain that no, there was Bend. not a robbnr in the home, that the situa­ tion wa'> much graver than that indned. OFFBEAT Saturday from 3-7:00 p.m. My aradmid expert advised me to O'Neill and Lyons Halls will host eovnr my nntirn body to prevent skin-to­ Emlnem tells wife: 'Lose Mathers III, Eminem's real donkeys, and suggests the recess on South Quad. Bring spider contad and, when I was ready, Yourself' name. animals make better com­ back your childhood days with crush it with a mighty tnnnis shoe. Eminem 's dysfunctional The filing also states that panions as they complain free food, inllatables and school­ Socks on my hands, a ski hat on my relationship with wife Kim the 33-year-old rapper and less and are more loyal to yard games all afternoon. h1~ad, barely an inch of skin showing, I Mathers has hit another low his wife signed a prenuptial their "masters," The Times stood alom~ in my room in France clutch­ - he has filed divorce agreement a week before of India reported Tuesday. Hunners will race in the Holy ing a broom and my cell phone and sized papers, less than three their Jan. 14 wedding cere­ "A donkey is like a house­ Half Marathon Sunday begin­ up my opponnnt. months after remarrying mony in Rochester. It does­ wife ... In fact, the donkey is ning at 10 a.m. between South I took a swipe. And another. her. n't describe the specifics of a shade better, for while the Dining Hall and Welsh Family lin emerged unharmed, laughing at "There has been a break­ the prenuptial agreement, housewife may sometimes Hall. Students ean still enter by my attnmpl'>. "I laugh in the faee of dan­ down in the marriage rela­ other than to say that "the complain and walk off to e-mailing [email protected] ger!" he cried. tionship to the extent that property of the parties her parents' home, you'll or registering at 8:30 a.m. on My third swipe sent him flying to the the objects of matrimony should be divided in accor­ never catch the donkey race day. Proceeds will benefit f.,>TOund. With all my might I stomped on have been destroyed and dance with" the agreement. being disloyal to his mas­ Catholic Charities' Operation that villain, stompnd hL'> evil shell and there remains no reason­ ter," the newspaper report­ Helping Hands. eruel black nyes, stompnd f(>r Charlotte able likelihood that the mar­ "Loyal" donkeys better than ed, quoting a Hindi-lan­ and the il'>y-biL'>Y spiders of the world, riage can be preserved," ~ves,saystextbook guage primer meant for 14- To submit information to be stomped for myself. according to the filing, NEW DELHI - A text­ year-olds. included in this section of The And then it was aU over, and I had which was made in Macomb book used at schools in the Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ won, and in a daze I unravelnd the County on Wednesday on Indian state of Rajasthan Information compiled mation about an event to nquivalent of two redwoods in paper behalf of Marshall Bruce compares housewives to from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu towels and gathered the remains of my prny. Thnn I ate his liver with a side of fava beans - and a nice Chianti. TODAY TONIGHT FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY No, tnt's not get carried away. I put the a:: bketball-sized wad of paper in the LLI garbage, took the bag oul'iide, and :::1: rnturnnd to spnnd the entire night awake ~ watehing for my victim's family mem­ LLI bnrs. 3: But I did have a nice Chianti. I'm in J) ..... France, alter all. number, but at least ten Marines currently serving over­ Lecture will address opportunity imperils the people got turned down because seas, Fugate said. Medical per­ economic inequality health, stability and durabil­ The Fighting Irish ROTC of [issues] like cruises over the sonnel from Fort Knox, Ky. aided ity of the nation. Battalion offered the Notre break, going to Germany and in the blood drive. "While the United States Dame and South Bend communi­ being deployed." "They drive all the way up Special to The Observer remains a spectacularly rich ties the opportunity to fight Fugate said while there were here from Fort Knox [just for country by any standard," alongside them this week as part slightly fewer participants this this event]," Fugate said. "The Economic journalist James Lardner said, "we are drift­ of a blood drive that will ulti­ year, good advertising brought in Fort Knox people take [the Lardner will give a lecture ing toward a Third-World­ mately help United States sol­ a variety of people. blood] back to their hospital to on "U.S. Economic like distribution of our rich­ diers. "We had some people from the process the blood and make sure Inequality and Why it es. For tens of millions of The Notre Dame Army, Navy community, too, because there there's no hepatitis, just to make Matters" at 7 p.m. Tuesday Americans, the alternative and Air Force tri-military drive was an ad for [the drive] in the sure there's nothing wrong with (April 11) to unemployment has was held Tuesday from 12-6 South Bend Tribune, and we got it, and then they send it over­ in Room become a dead-end job that p.m. and Wednesday from 8 a.m. a lot of phone calls," Fugate said. seas." 127 of doesn't necessarily pay to 2 p.m. in the P asquerilla "There was one mother who Fugate said any surplus blood Hayes­ enough to cover basic living Center. The event gave cadets, wanted to volunteer to come in then returns stateside for use in Healy Hall. expenses." staff, students and area resi­ for the blood drive because she military hospitals. Lardner Lardner, a former New dents the opportunity to donate was the mother of a soldier." Cadet Lt. Col. Rachel Walters, is co-editor Yorker staff writer, is the blood that will be sent to mem­ Local television stations WNDU the tri-military commander, with David grandson of the sportswriter bers of the armed forces serving and WSBT also covered the emphasized how important A. Smith of and humorist Ring Lardner overseas. event. blood drives like this are to ser­ a new and son of Ring Lardner, Jr., vicemen. b 0 0 k . Lardner the screenplay writer who "I don't think the community "Inequality was blacklisted with the realizes that the only way the Matters: The Growing "Hollywood Ten" during the armed services get blood is Economic Divide in America Army/McCarthy hearings of through the armed service blood and Its Poisonous the 1950s. bank," she said. Consequences." A collection The lecture is sponsored Walters said she was thor­ of 21 essays by a variety of by Notre Dame's department oughly impressed by the interest contributors, the book of economics and policy in the drive and happy with the argues that increasing studies and the Higgins people who volunteered. inequality in education, Labor Research Center. "The support that we got from the community was amazing," she said. "And it wasn't just col­ lege students and professors, either. Several times I was walk- ·ing around the building and there were several older people wanting to give blood who just came in off the street."

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sibility to draw a distinction Mark Roche said he was between sponsorship and impressed with Jenkins' ability Faculty endorsement. to seek out the University com­ Nobel Prize vvinner to continued from page I "lllis final statement! seems a munity's opinion on the issue. continuation of where we were English professor Glenn modified his position based on rather than a change of policy," Hendler said the facilitation of give Freetnan lecture what people have told him." llolland said. "The crucial thing more dialogue is the solution Bederman. who has been an is that we keep explaining to when the University deals with advocate for acadmnic frnedom people- within the University events or programs that might Nobel Prize for his innova­ and a strong presence at many and outside it that sponsorship go against Catholic teaching in Sharpless will present tive contributions to the discussions. speeches and is not the same as endorse­ the future. free inaugural lecture development of broadly use­ forums on the topic in rncent ment." "One thing that was a pleas­ ful and commercially viable wonks, said slw was not sur­ English department chair ant surprise - instead of taking catalytic oxidation chemistry Special to The Observer prised with .knkins statement. Stephen Fredman said he had "The Vagina Monologues" to be for the selective production "My impression is that he's no qualms or unanswered ques­ the problem, !Jenkins] has held K. Barry Sharpless, the co­ of bioactive ehiral rnoleculns putting us in tlw context of tions after reading J1mkins' it up to be a model for the way recipient of the 2001 Nobel with the proper right or left what has been a normal aca­ statement. which he called "a it's been handled this year ... Prize in chemistry, will pres­ "handedness." demic procedure for the past 40 trem,;-ndously important ges­ not the play [itself! but the per­ ent the inaugural Jeremiah Chirality, or handedness, is years or so- )that is.! just ture. formance of it and the things P. Freeman Organic the structural characteristic becausn it's performed at a "I think maybe Jenkins is faculty and student have organ­ Synthesis Lecture at 4 p.m. of a molecule that makes it University does not imply coming to understand that one ized around it." today in 127 Nieuwland llall. impossible to superimpose it nndorsenwnt of points of view," of the hallmarks of his presi­ Bederman said Jenkins' state­ The lecture, which is free on its mirror image. Bederman said. dency will be a renewed focus ment is neither a compromise, and open to the public, hon­ Proteins, DNA and carbohy­ Bndnrman said similar lan­ on gender issues and a sense of nor a slanted decision in favor ors Freeman, a Notre Dame drates are all chiral mole­ guage is standard among the moving forward in that direc­ of one side, since that could professor emeritus of chem­ cules. Without the correct Arneric:an Association of tion," Fredman said. lead to the strict polarization istry and biochemistry and handedness, they will not University Professors' statn­ Frndman said Jenkins' leader­ that dominates modern polities 25-year secretary of Organic function as the basic mole­ rncmts on academic frnndom - ship "seems to be consultative, in the U.S, she said. Synthesis Inc., a publication cules of life. Many drugs also guidelirws brought up frequent­ which is good. lie has consulted "What we're supposed to do that provides the organic must be of the correct chi­ ly at Studnnt Senate and Faculty with as wide a group as possible at a university is to not let one chemistry community with rality. In some eases, the Senate meetings in rnennt before making a decision." side or another win, but to find detailed experimental meth­ wrong handedness can be wnc~ks. Across the board, professors truth," she said. "l-Ie's looked ods in a standard format for toxic. Philosophy professor Ed agreed with Jenkins' selection for the truth and put a frame­ the synthesis of organic Sharpless' methods allow Manier - who wrotn numnrous of the University's need to elimi­ work in place to find the very compounds. for the manufacture of safer )otters to the nditor in The nate violence against women as best way to be a university." Sharpless, W.M. Keek and more effective antibi­ Obsnrvc~r on the topic - said he its "most urgent goal." Professor of Chemistry at the otics, anti-inriammatory "wholeheartndly supports" Like Bederman, Dean of the Contact Mary Kate Malone at Scripps Research Institute in drugs, heart medicines and .Jnnkins' closing remarks, but College of Arts and Letters [email protected] LaJ oil a, Calif., received the agricultural chemicals. was skeptical that hn did not includn rnrnarks on studnnt academic frnndom. Maninr said .Jenkins' state­ mont moans students cannot The Notre Dame Law School sponsor discussions contrary to Catholic tnaching in the way Natural Law Ins ti tu te presents acadnrnic dnpartmnnts can. "Acadnrnie dnpartmnnts arn best situated to decide what events should or should not bn sponsored." .Jenkins said in his statcnnent. "Sponsors have a role in communicating the aca­ demic rationaln for controver­ sial nvcnts." The 2006 Natural Law Lecture For Maninr. that language left sornn questions unanswered. "This [statnmnntl. to me, has a tendency to implieitly label some of these topics as academ­ ic, rather than practical." Manier said. "In other words, it's something that academics can be trusted to investigate, but ordinary folks - students, the Catholic laity - don't have the same freedom to this inquiry. "We've got freedom in the area under the Provost, but not in the area of the Viee President of Student Affairs? That's an unanswered question." ral Justice Director of Student Activities Brian Coughlin said he never expected Jenkins to articulate a definitive statement on pro­ gramming standards for Student Activities, since his original statement was centered on academic department spon­ sored events - not events spon­ sorod by his office. "We don't really see the con­ versation that has been going on specifically addressing stu­ dent programs or student organization programs," bet Professor of Law and Coughlin said. "We saw it more as an issue affecting academic freedom." r of Philosophy Coughlin addressed the issue in a recent Campus Life Council meeting where he clarified that llinois College of Law his office hasn't had to - and doesn't plan to - apply stricter standards when considering what events or programs it will sponsor. "There hasn't been an oe~ur­ rence over the last live yeaJ's in Student Activities that we've turned down a program by a recognized student group or Dame Law School Courtroom organization for content ... we fall back on the Open Spoaker's policy in DuLac," Coughlin said. Film, Television and Theater departmont chair Peter Holland agrned with .Jenkins that it is an academic department's respon- ORLD & NATION Thursday, April 6, 2006 CorvtPILED FROM THE OBsERVER'S WJRE sERVJCEs page 5

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Comatose Sharon survives surgery JERUSALEM, Israel - Prime Minister Ariel Insurgents burn soldier's body Sharon underwent a successful operation Wednesday to reattach a piece of his skull, a day after the procedure was delayed because Video shows Al-Qaida supporters dragging the body of a U.S. helicopter pilot of a respiratory infection, hospital officials said. Associated Press Sharon, who has been comatose since suffer­ ing a stroke on Jan. 4, was in stable condition BAGHDAD - The camera after the procedure, Hadassah Hospital said. panned over bloodstained "The surgery that Prime Minister Ariel debris, then showed several Sharon was supposed to have yesterday took men dragging the burning place today and ended successfully a short body of a man across a field while ago," the hospital said in a statement. It as they shouted "Allahu said Sharon, 78, was taken back to his room in Akbar," or "God is Great!" the intensive care unit. As flames leaped from the Doctors removed the piece of skull to operate soldier's tattered uniform, on his brain after the stroke. Wednesday's sur­ voices could be heard in the gery was the eighth operation on the prime background shouting, minister since he fell ill. "Come, come, help me carry it!" Pakistanis, Mghans must join forces The body's face was not ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan and visible, but the camera Afghanistan must cooperate to defeat the zoomed in on what "common enemy" of the Taliban and Islamic appeared to be his waist­ extremists that control the shared border, a line, which showed a scrap senior U.S. official said Wednesday. of underwear with the The comments from Richard Boucher, U.S. brand name "Hanes." It assistant secretary of state for South and appeared the man was Central Asia, follow weeks of tensions between wearing digital camouflage the two countries - both key allies in fatigues, which are worn by Washington's war on terrorism - over mili­ U.S. troops in Iraq. tant infiltration along the rugged frontier. The horrific video was Boucher, who visited Afghanistan earlier in posted Wednesday on the the week, met Wednesday with Pakistan Web by a new al-Qaida­ President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. affiliated group that claimed responsibility for downing the AH-64D Apache Longbow last Saturday near NATIONAL NEWS Youssifiyah about 12 miles southwest of Baghdad, killing the two pilots. Republicans revise immigration bill A U.S. statement said WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans unveiled troops had recovered "all revised immigration legislation Wednesday night available remains" though clearing the way for legal status and eventual cit­ "reports of a Web site video izenship for many of the estimated 11 million suggest that terrorists AP men, women and children living in the United removed part of a body A collection jar sits atop a counter at a local convenience store in Orrick, Mo. in an effort States unlawfully. from the crash site." The to raise money for deceased Chief Warrant Officer Michael Hartwick Wednesday. Majority Leader Bill Prist outlined the proposal military expressed outrage after efforts at a bipartisan compromise faltered over the release of "such a spokesman for the com­ Venzke said the discrepancy On Jan 16, an AH-64 earlier in the day and the Senate teetered despicable video for public mand, said the wreckage could be simply a technical Apache conducting a com­ between accomplishment and gridlock on the exposure" and said it had shown on the video "does error in the setting. bat air patrol went down in most sweeping immigration bill in two decades. serious doubts that the appear to be an AH-64" but "Based on an initial Mishada, north of Baghdad, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid pledged footage was authentic. added that other helicopters review of the footage, it killing two soldiers. At least to review the GOP proposal overnight to see The flaming wreckage of of that type have been lost. would seem to indicate the 12 Apaches have crashed whether "it could be something we could all sup­ a helicopter could be seen "We have serious doubts downing of a helicopter and since the beginning of the port." The prospects appeared uncertain, how­ clearly in the video, includ­ about the authenticity of the removal of crew and war three years ago. ever, since the provisions appeared similar to ing outlines of the aircraft's this video, a common tactic passengers from the craft," U.S. officials first reported what he and other Democrats had earlier blades and jagged pieces of we see terrorist groups use he said. "On an initial Saturday that an American spurned. wreckage strewn over a to keep the stories they review, it does appear to be helicopter had crashed that field. want alive in the media," he what it purports to be." day about 5:30 p.m. during High benzene levels found in sodas But the time stamp that said. He said the large amount a cqmbat patrol southwest WASHINGTON - Cancer-causing benzene has shows the minutes and sec­ But in Alexandria, Va., of background chatter of the capital and that the been found in soft drinks at levels above the limit onds do not run sequential­ Ben Venzke, head of among those on the ground status of the crew was considered safe for drinking water, the Food and ly, and the scenes appear IntelCenter, a defense con­ suggested that "it was unknown. Ordinarily, U.S. Drug Administration acknowledged Wednesday. disjointed. The posting also tractor which monitors mili­ filmed closely after the officials refrain from report­ Even so, the FDA still believes there are no included bombing scenes tant statements, said it downing of the helicopter as ing helicopter crashes until safety concerns about benzene in soft drinks, or filmed elsewhere, indicating appeared on first viewing opposed to something that the status of the crew is sodas, said Laura Tarantino, the agency's direc­ the material had been edit­ that the tape was authentic. was found later and clear to avoid tipping off the tor of food additive safety. ed as a propaganda pack­ Although the date stamp on staged." insurgents that wounded "What we need to do is understand how ben­ age. the video was Sunday, April It was the second Apache survivors may be in the zene forms and to ensure the industry is doing Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a 2, a day after the crash, to crash in Iraq this year. area. everything to avoid those circumstances," she said.

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Mourning mother sues local store over a cell phone connection between 2001, that did not kill anyone on the SOUTH BEND - A woman whose son was Associated Press a passenger and a family member on ground. killed in an apparent gang shooting in a con­ ALEXANDRIA, Va. -The cockpit the ground. There has been debate over venience store's parking lot is suing the busi­ recording from the hijacked jetliner This cockpit tape was played pri­ whether the hijackers intended to ness claiming it failed to provide a safe envi­ that passengers tried to retake on vately April 18, 2002, for the families crash it into the U.S. Capitol or the ronment. Sept. 11 will be played in public for of Flight. 9 3 victims, but it has never White House. But last week the But the store manager said the 18-year-old the first time - at the sentencing trial been played in public. Family mem­ Moussaoui jury heard a government­ man and others who were shot had no busi­ of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias bers told reporters afterward they approved summary of statements ness being there. Moussaoui - the judge ruled heard "yelling and screaming" and made during interrogation of the cap­ Police said two carloads of young men asso­ Wednesday. muffied voices that were hard to iden­ tured mastermind of Sept. 11, Khalid ciated with a gang called the Wild Boyz were U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema tify. Shaikh Mohammed, who said it was to parked on a corner of the Marathon Food said the jury considering whether to "Listening to the tape confirmed for hit the Capitol. Center's lot in downtown South Bend shortly execute Moussaoui could hear the me that there was a heroic teamwork Prosecutors asked the judge to order after midnight on April 30 when two young recording from United Airlines Flight effort," said Alice Hoglan of Los Gatos, the tape and transcript kept sealed men carrying handguns walked up to the 93 and see a transcript of it. Calif., whose son, Mark Bingham, from the general public after it is cars and opened fire. The flight is best known for one pas­ called from the air before the plane played in open court, but Brinkema Lorenzo Reed died as a result of the shoot­ senger's rallying cry to other passen­ crashed into an empty field --' the only did not decide that question immedi­ ings, and four others were wounded. gers, "Let's roll," which was overheard one of four jets hijacked on Sept. 11, ately. ------page 6 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Thursday, April 6, 2006

hers of the "Monologues" pro­ dent Dave Baron said he was she was "extremely disappoint­ duction, engaged in dialogue pleased with Father Jenkins' ed" by Jenkins' decision to Student with Jenkins in the months decision to couple productions allow the play to continue in Senate continued from page 1 leading up to his decision. She that are not aligned with the future. continued from page 1 said Jenkins was open in his Catholic teachings with panel "Allowing 'The Vagina about aeadmnic frnedom. discussions with her and her discussions to stimulate conver­ Monologues' to continue is a Go options and investigating "I lwlieve that tlw entire group. sation and thought. scandal to our Catholic charac­ the use of Dorner Dollars process has provPn that stu­ "The fact that the president of Bar-on described Jenkins as ter and an insult to our status across campus. dnnt.s will bo lward on this the University is willing to an "introverted leader" and an as an academic university," Chair of the University campus," Shappell said. address this issue really says a "outstanding listener," impres­ Grossu said. "Pornographic Affairs committee, Aly During the two-month lot about this school and the sive qualities that should earn material should not be elevated Baumgartner, said she wants debat(~. Shappell. along with value of women on campus," the Notre Dame to an academic to plan student/alumni formor studPnt Liddy said. eomm unity's status." receptions before pep rallies body presidont Liddy has respect, he said. "Altogether he has Grossu said during football weekends DavP Baron, pre­ "The fact that the been tapped "I've come to proven himself a she will urge because "student/ alumni sPnted .lnnkins by Jenkins to respect him even Jenkins to relations seem to be in a big president of the very good listener, and othor top l lniversity is willing to serve as a more as I've gotten reconsider and issue." mnmhers of tlw member of a to know him," one who seems to retract his She will also take over the administration address this issue newly-created Baron said. "lie is have a very statement. ·catholic Think Tank- whkh with a "spoctrum ad hoc not the type of She said she brought Lou Holtz to campus really says a lot about thorough process for of studnnt views," this school and the University leader that gets his reeognized March 31. Shappell said. committee, motivation from making decisions. , that the Chris llollon, chair of the She said value of women on chaired by other people .... He Catholic Oversight committne, said he .lnnkins' approach campus. Jenkins, to finds his motivation Church does wants to make the Student to considoring tlw address gen­ from himself." Lizzi Shappell allow for con- Union constitution easier to implications of der relations Shappell said she student body president sideration of use. acaderni(·. free­ Madison Liddy and issues was also impressed dissenting "We want to make it more dom - orw that. 2006 director relating to by Jenkins after viewpoints, but simple and clear up the asked for· studont "The Vagina Monologues" v i o I e n c e working with him and seeing said "The Vagina Monologues" inconsistencies in it," llollon input - showN! against the level of respect he gave to does not present these different said. his n~spoct for tho women. The the student voice. ideas in an intellectual manner. Lastly, Destinee Delemos, opinions of tlw student body. committee will be a good step "Altogether he has proven "There's a difference between chair of the ad hoe Minority As slw lwgins lwr torrn as towards addressing the exis­ himself a very good listener, reading Martin Luther ... which Affairs committee, said her studont body pn~sident, tl~nee of sexual violence on one who seems to have a very is fine in an academic institu­ first goal is make her com­ Shappdl hopns to continue to campus, Liddy said. thorough process for making tion," Grossu said. " ... And mittee permanent- an issue coordinate dialogue lwtween ''I'm very proud to go to a decisions," Shappell said. watching a play that appeals to that has stirred dissent in studonts and nwmlwrs of tho university in which the presi­ She believes the current dis­ the passions and is porno­ recent days after a resolution administration. dent is willing to take this much cussion on academic freedom graphic." proposing such a measure "The dosing statenwnt time to address an issue that is will continue and hopes to work Grossu expressed concern was rejected in the Senate opmwd the door for studnnts so important to so many," Liddy with Jenkins and his adminis­ that in the future, non-intellec­ March 29. and studont lmtdnrs to continuo said. tration in furthering the con­ tual events that oppose Catholie She said she is also in the to lw in conversation with Sophomore Nicole Crnieh said versation. teachings will be justified by process of putting a large administration IPaders," she did not follow the debate "I would say it is a move in their presentation in an aca­ photograph of University Shappoll said. that elosely but is glad "The the right direction." Shappell demic setting. president emeritus Father Madison Liddy. the 2006 Vagina Monologues" will not be said. "However, I don't think Theodore llesburgh and Dr. director of "Tiw Vagina prohibited from campus. that all the issues are Joe Piarulli contributed to Martin Luther .King, Jr. in the Monologw~s." edwed Shappell's "I think it was good that he resolved." this article. first floor of LaFortune near praise, commending Jenkins for took input from a lot of differ­ Certainly not for Arina Starbueks. listmring to the opinions pre­ ent people like students and Grossu, the president of Notre sented by tlw studnnt body. teaehers," Crnieh said. Dame/Saint Mary's Right to Contact Kaitlynn Riely at Contact Mary Kate Malone at Liddy, along with other rnem- Former student body presi- Life. Grossu said Wednesday [email protected] [email protected]

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MARKET RECAP Stocks Guidant deal gets FTC consent Dow 11,239.55 +35.70 Boston Scientific's $27 billion acquisition of rival receives antitrust clearance jones Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Press 1,897 154 1,363 2,193,472,780 BOSTON Boston Aiill' ;,, ,...·.'''':·· ·,''·,•,·· 1;~5::~i ;; ; ~~~~~M , Scientific Corp. said Wednesday it has won antitrust clearance from the ..ail,lllll!llillllillli.!!i\ll!l!ll~iill•lm~~~~~~~·~~~~~•••~~~~~ Federal Trade Commission's S&PSOO 1,311.56 +5.63 staff for its $27 billion NIKKEI(r~J;j:ii!illlllitl~ll••ll,i l:~iil:.li!ll!l!l acquisition of former med­ FTSE IOO(London) 6,044.10 +39.40 ical devices rival Guidant Corp., but is still awaiting fmal approval from the full COMPANY %CHANGE I $GAIN I PRICE commission as well as NASDAQ 100 TR (QQQQ) +0.95 +0.40 42.61 European regulators. 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Scientific agreed before the and its portfolio of stents, warnings or recalled 88,000 its Xience stent; a $67 mil­ The verdict came after less than two days of regulatory reviews to sell a defibrillators, pacemakers defibrillators, which are lion to $77 million charge deliberations by the jury of six women and two piece of Guidant's business, and other medical devices. used to sense irregular for accelerated vesting of men. including its drug-coated In outbidding J&J, Boston heartbeats and shock the restricted stock; and a $40 The trial was the first dealing with plaintiffs who stents, to a third company. Scientific agreed to pay heart back to normal million research and devel­ blamed illnesses on long-term use of the painkiller. Abbott Laboratories Inc. Guidant shareholders near­ rhythm, since June. The opment charge related to a will pay $4.1 billion in cash, ly $4.5 million a day in company also issued warn- payment to AFx Inc. Nasdaq, S&P at new five-year highs NEW YORK- The Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes closed at five-year highs Wednesday after a positive report on the economy's service sector pushed stocks modestly higher. A jump in oil prices, however, minimized Wal Mart to cut advertising budget Wall Street's gains. The Institute for Supply Management's service index, an important barometer of that sector's Associated Press son. It placed a full-page color ad newspaper advertising "didn't give activity, came in at 60.5 for the month, up from for its electronics department in us a return," but didn't offer 60.1 in February and better than the 59 reading 336 smaller papers in Missouri and specifics about the tests. economists expected. The modest gains were CHICAGO- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Oklahoma between Nov. 30 and Buffington, past president of the enough to encourage Wall Street about that sec­ has decided against buying more Dec. 6. NNA and co-publisher of tor's growth, but did not appear to reignite the advertisements in local newspa­ "Our test showed that it did MainStreet Newspapers Inc. in market's interest rate worries. pers after a test in two states increase product sales but our Jefferson, Ga., said not all publish­ Yet trading remained tentative as the Energy showed the expense is not justified, margins are so thin that we didn't ers would agree that a company Department's weekly inventory report showed the world's largest retailer said even come close to offsetting the could reach a decision on costs lower stockpiles of gasoline and distillate fuels, Wednesday. cost of the ads," Wal-Mart spokes­ versus benefits after a single ad. which drove up crude oil futures. A barrel of light Wal-Mart's test run in woman Mona Williams told The "Our view is that a one-time test crude settled at $67.07, up 8.4 cents, on the New Midwestern papers had been close­ Associated Press Wednesday. is probably not a true way to eval­ York Mercantile Exchange - a 20 percent year­ ly watched by publishers who com­ Mike Buffington, a Georgia pub­ uate community newspapers. In over-year rise. plained publicly last year that Wal­ lisher who has been the point man fact we understand they had quite 'The tick up in oil prices hurts, but history has Mart sought free publicity from in talks with Wal-Mart by the a bump in sales. But the advertis­ shown that interest rates have a much bigger their newspapers but refused to National Newspaper Association, ing itself, the full-page color ads, impact on the stock market than oil," said Jack buy ads - all while driving out said Wal-Mart told him last week were expensive and they were Ahlin, chief investment officer at Harris Private local businesses that had been the company's return wasn't high advertising loss-leader type items," Bank. "And looking at the ISM services number, mainstays. enough. At the Newspaper he said. you're seeing the kind of gradual, lazy improve­ In a bid to improve community Association of America meeting at Wal-Mart declined to say how ment in the economy that's not going to really get relations, Wal-Mart agreed to run Chicago on Tuesday, Wal-Mart much it paid for ads used in the rates going." a test in the holiday shopping sea- Chief Executive Lee Scott said tests. page 8 The Observer + NEWS Thursday, April 6, 2006

noxt year, he said the change is unfair to students who do use Phones their phonos. Condos continued from page 1 "I think it's a shame that the continued from page 1 University is going to !remove dorm phones] because I know 20. Since then, current and dnnts for a ltlll. Additionally, stu­ that is one way a lot of students future residents have been dents who purchasn tlw service communicate with other stu­ notified of the name switch in will have to provide tlwir own dents on campus," he said. "I order to avoid confusion. phorw sd. don't have all my friends' num­ New signage will be posted Sophomore Sarah Hung<1r uses bers in my cell phone, but it is "within the next two weeks," lwr room phonn oncP a wonk at easy to look up their dorm phone she said. most. As a Iif I neod to call "We just felt that we liked rPstllt. slw said them!." [the name] Stadium Club shn would prob­ "! think it's a shame Shoup said because Notre Dame is all ably not pay ll1r that the University is some house about the stadium," Miller said. t.tw phonn snrv­ phones will be "College Park never had a logo LAURIE HUNT/The Observer ien. going to /remove dorm placed in the so there wasn't anything to The former. College Park housing complex on Bulla Rd. was Currnntly, res­ phones/ because I hallways of resi­ identify it with." renamed Stadium Club Condominiums on March 20th. idence halls pro­ know that is one way dence halls for College Park has never been vidn ea.c~h room a lot of students students who do known by another name, she management - that's a good make small changes as we go." with onn phone not have cell said. thing for an apartment com­ The apartment complex's for­ and on-campus communicate with phones or who Miller said Heal Estate plex," she said. "You'll notice mer management company - calls can lw other students on do not want to Management Corporation - that all other large apartment Paramount Management - rnadn for frne. campus. pay for the new the largest for-fee property complexes in the area have clashed with Notre Dame stu­ llownvnr. an $S4 phone service. management company in them." dents last year when a winter phonn fop pnr Students will be northern Indiana and south­ Miller said the addition of on­ storm severely damaged eight scmwstnr is Brendan Gorman able to make west Michigan - took over the site management - not the housing units. worked into sophomore local calls on housing complex in March as new name - would be the A company reprnsentative tuition costs. these phones in the result of an "everyday busi­ "biggest change" at the com­ said the failure of studnnts to Tho OITice of addition long-dis­ ness operation." The 20-year­ plex. And residents have heat their apartments during Studnnt Accounts Web site said tance calls, if thoy have pre-paid old company manages approxi­ already gotten used to these winter break caused ruptured tho cost of thn optional phone calling cards. These phones will mately 1 ,000 housing units modifications. pipes, but students contended sorvico would bn $161 pnr not be available to receive calls. throughout South Bend, ''I've met a few tenants and they were wrongly blamed for snn.wstor for tho 2006-07 aca­ An e-mail will be sent out to Plymouth, Logansport, Argos they're very happy that there's the damage. In a Jan. 28 arti­ dnrnk year - a figum that near­ students to ask them whether and Milford, Ind. on-site management and a dif­ cle, The Observer reported ly douhlns thn cost of the currnnt they would like to purchase the The shift in management has ferent management company," three students pursued a Jaw­ phone service. phone service for their room, resulted in a series of she said. "I think they are suit against Paramount in Sophomore Brendan (;orman Shoup said. "upgrades," ineluding both already seeing positive changes response to the incident. said he uses his room phone restoration projects and mana­ at the property. When you take about twice a wonk. While he Contact Becky Hogan at gerial changes, Miller said. over management, the changes Contact Katie Perry at will liknly not pay for tho service [email protected] "The first upgrade is on-site don't happen right away - we [email protected]

IRAQ Officials say parliament may have to sort out standoff

ment stalled after Sunni Arab democratic mechanisms no mat­ vote. presents his Cabinet to parlia­ Hopes for new unity and Kurdish officials said they ter whether they disagree with President Jalal Talabani, a ment for approval by a majority government deadlocks would not accept al-Jaafari, who the person." Kurd and an al-Jaafari opponent, of all 275 members. won the nomination of the domi­ More than 1,000 supporters of referred to the parliamentary Under the constitution, howev­ nant Shiite bloc in balloting al-Jaafari rallied Wednesday in option in an interview published er, parliament must first elect a Associated Press among Shiite lawmakers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Wednesday by the Saudi daily AI new president and two vice pres­ February. and speakers urged an end to Madina. idents by a two-thirds vote. With BAGIIDAD - Prime Minister AI-Jaafari told The Guardian "U.S. interference" in Iraqi poli­ "Consultations are taking place Talabani's term also ending, it is Ibrahim ai-Jaafari said in an newspaper that he was rejecting tics. quickly," Talabani said. "We hope unclear whether he would have interview with a British newspa­ calls to give up the nomination of During an interview Tuesday they will not take much longer the authority to appoint a prime per published Wednesday that he his Shiite bloc "to protect democ­ with the British Broadcasting than this, and if the (Shiites) stick minister, and the Shiites could was refusing to abandon his bid racy in Iraq." Corp., Vice President Adil Abdul­ by their stand on nominating block his re-election. for a second term to break the "There is a decision that was Mahdi said he met with al­ Ibrahim al-Jaafari, then we will Because of those legal uncer­ dCJadlock over a new govern­ reached by a democratic mecha­ Jaafari the day before and urged resort to parliament." tainties, several Shiite officials ment, and somn Iraqi leaders nism and I stand with it," he him to give up the nomination to However, it was unclear how said they were reluctant to take said parliament may have to said. "We have to respect our break the logjam. But Abdul­ parliament could legally resolve the issue to parliament. One decide his future. Iraqi people." Mahdi said al-Jaafari refused, the standoff. The constitution described the current standoff as llowevor, Shiite officials said AI-Jaafari added that the Iraqi insisting he wanted to take his states that the president must a crisis and said "nobody sees a tlwy am reluctant to dump the people "will react if they see the case to parliament, which must nominate the candidate of the way out." They all spoke on con­ issue on parliament until there is rules of democracy being dis­ approve the new prime minister largest bloc - the Shiites. The dition of anonymity due to the a eomprnhnnsive deal among all obeyed. Everyone should stick to and his Cabinet by a majority prime minister-designate then sensitivity of the issue. ethnic- and religious-based par­ tins, ineluding an agrnement on who will be the new president. That indicated little or no progress has been made in rnsolving the standoff over the nnw government since Secrntary of State Condoleezza Hice and - - - British ForPign Secretary Jack Straw f'lew to Baghdad last weekend and insisted that Iraqis agrnn on a new lnadership quick­ ly. U.S. oflieials believe a broad­ based government of Shiites, APRIL 8TH 2006 Sunni Arabs and Kurds oll'ers the only hope for reversing Iraq's slide into anarchy. Without such FROM 2PM 4PM a government, the Americans cannot begin withdrawing their troops. DEBARTOLO 335 Talks on a new unity govern-

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SouTH KoREA IRELAND U.S. in1patient on nuclear in1passe Spy's tnurder could Top American envoy expresses desire for international negotiations complicate nelV deal

Associated Press tained in a Korean-language Lee, the unification minister. transcript of the chat posted on "If it sticks to what it's doing been broken down. SEOUL- The top U.S. envoy a Web page maintained by the now, however . . . it would Power-sharing plan McGinn said detectives were in South Korea said Wednesday embassy but separate from its undermine pro-dialogue offi­ will still go forward combing a two-mile perimeter that Washington was "running official Web site. cials in the U.S." around the property and had out of patience" with the South Korean Unific.ation Lee also said he does not already found objects of poten­ impasse over North Korea's Minister Lee Jong-seok said the believe the United States has Associated Press tial evidence, which she nuclear program. North's policy of linking its shifted its North Korea policy declined to specify. The comments by U.S. return to the negotiating table toward seeking the communist DUBLIN - The assassina­ Earlier, Ahern told lawmak­ Ambassador to South Korea to the financial dispute was ill­ regime's overthrow. tion of a Sinn Fein official who ers that Donaldson appeared Alexander Vershbow came as advised and would only prompt North Korea has claimed that had admitted spying for the to have been hit twice by shot­ Seoul's chief official for North Washington to take a harder the United States maintains a British will make a new gun blasts at close range. The Korean relations urged the line. hostile policy toward it that is power-sharing deal in attack, he said, severed communist state to end its boy­ "I see there is a considerable reflected in the financial Northern Ireland more diffi­ Donaldson's right hand. cott of international talks on the problem in North Korea's judg­ restrictions. The United States cult, Irish Prime Minister He said Donaldson's betrayal issue. ment," Lee told a unification has said repeatedly it has no Bertie Ahern told lawmakers of comrades in Sinn Fein and North Korea has refused to forum, according to his min­ intention of attacking the North. Wednesday. the IRA meant he had many resume nuclear disarmament istry. "It has to give serious In other diplomatic efforts, Despite this, Ahern said he enemies. "But whoever was talks with the United States, thought to whether that's a wise South Korean Foreign Minister and British Prime Minister responsible for this evil deed China, Japan, Russia and South decision." Ban Ki-moon is visiting Moscow Tony Blair would reveal a was certainly no friend of the Korea, demanding that The United States and the to discuss the nuclear issue long-awaited new plan peace process," he said. Washington first lift financial North met in Beijing in January during a 10-day European trip Thursday in Armagh, In London, Blair called the restrictions on a Macau bank and again in New York in beginning Thursday. Northern Ireland, that aims to killing "a serious, appalling, and North Korean companies March, but no breakthrough Meanwhile, the North's main forge a Catholic-Protestant barbaric act." He said it would accused of involvement in the was achieved. Rodong Sinmun newspaper administration led by leaders have "serious implications" if North's alleged currency coun­ Another meeting between the accused the South on of Sinn Fein, the IRA-linked police determined that IRA terfeiting and other illicit activi­ two nations could occur next Wednesday of arming itself with party, and their bitter members were responsible, ties~ week when officials from the six nuclear weapons in cooperation Protestant rivals from the and emphasized that Sinn Fein The United States has countries assemble in Japan at with the United States and Democratic Unionist Party. "has to be clean of all this." rebuffed the North's demand, a privately sponsored security vowed to "harden its resolution "We have made it clear that But he said delaying saying the sanctions are a sepa­ conference. The participants to further strengthen its self­ the two governments will not Thursday's announcement rate issue from the nuclear reportedly include the top U.S. defensive nuclear activities." be deterred from efforts to would only reward the killers. talks. and North Korean nuclear In September, North Korea bring politics center stage in "The timing of this (killing) "All U.S. government officials negotiators. agreed in principle to give up Northern Ireland," Ahern said. does suggest that whoever did hope this problem will be South Korea has confirmed its its nuclear program in "So Tony Blair and I will travel this wants to derail the peace resolved through negotiation," nuclear envoy will attend. exchange for aid and security to Armagh tomorrow and get process. Our response should Vershbow said during an online "If North Korea shows a posi­ assurances. Talks on imple­ on with it." be to deny them what they chat Wednesday with South tive attitude after coming back menting the agreement stum­ Ahern said Tuesday's killing want," Blair said. Koreans. "At the same time, it's to the six-party talks, it will give bled as North Korea made of Denis Donaldson in north­ Blair added that dissident also true that many officials are rise to some room for other demands that included calling west Ireland had heightened IRA hard-liners opposed to running out of patience." countries to tell the U.S." not to for the lifting of U.S. financial Protestant opposition to shar­ Sinn Fein's political direction The comments were con- push the North too hard, said restrictions. ing power with Sinn Fein. He might have killed Donaldson said the killing "certainly specifically to sabotage the makes it more difficult." new diplomatic effort. Donaldson, 55, had been liv­ "Sometimes these things can ing alone at his family's vaca­ be perpetrated by people in tion home since December, disagreement with their lead­ when he went on national ership," he said. Irish television to confess he Sinn Fein deputy leader had been a British agent inside Martin McGuinness dismissed Sinn Fein for decades. The IRA the idea that the IRA had traditionally killed anybody sanctioned the hit on suspected of spying for the Donaldson. He argued that the British, but the outlawed IRA had taken difficult, land­ group last year declared it had mark decisions last year to renounced violence and dis­ disarm and renounce "armed armed _ and on Tuesday struggle" in hopes of promot­ denied killing Donaldson. ing power-sharing. The police officer leading the "It's hardly likely the IRA investigation, Chief would take these enormous Superintendent Terry McGinn, initiatives and then move on to said Donaldson "died from do something stupid like shotgun blasts to the body" attack Denis Donaldson," and that the front door had McGuinness said.

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THAILAND IRAN Colleague steps in as 'Top secret' tnissle test successful Pritne Minister leaves Safavi advises United States against any military strike on Iran Associated Press undermine regional security," "Great Prophet" - since Safavi said. Friday. out to show their support," a vis­ TEHRAN Iran said He reiterated that Iran could Some military analysts in Thaksin will not serve ibly moved Thaksin told the Wednesday it has successfully defend itself against any inva­ Moscow said it appears the amidst nzany protests crowd, which chanted back: "We test-fired a "top secret" mis­ sion and added: "I advise high-speed torpedoes likely love Thaksin!" sile, the third in a week, state­ Americans not to move toward were Russian-built weapons Associated Press The business community reg­ run television reported. a military strike against Iran." that may have been acquired istered its rHiief at his departure, The report called the missile On Tuesday, Safavi called for from China or Kyrgyzstan. BANGKOK - Outgoing Prime with the Stock Exchange of an "ultra-horizon" weapon and foreign forces to leave the Others have questioned their Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Thailand index rising 3.1 per­ said it could be fired from all region. The U.S. 5th Fleet is capabilities of evading moved quiekly Wednesday to put cent to 772.93, a two-year high, military helicopters and jet based in Bahrain. advanced radar systems such the burdens of office behind in extremely heavy trading. fighters. That same day, Iran tested a as those in Israel. him, deaning out his desk and Thaksin, a telecommunica­ The tests came amid war new surface-to-sea radar­ The United States said appointing a Cabinet colleague tions magnate who first swept to games being held since Friday avoiding missile equipped with Monday that while Iran may to servn as a caretaker leader power in a landslide in 2001, by the. elite Revolutionary remote-control and searching have made "some strides" in until a nnw government is said he would not serve again Guards in the Persian Gulf and systems, state TV reported. It its military, it likely is exagger­ formed. after a meeting Tuesday with the Arabian Sea at a time of said the new missile, called ating its capabilities. Thaksin announced Tuesday Thailand's revered King increased tension with the Kowsar, was a medium-range "We know that the Iranians night that he would not serve as Bhumibol Adulyadej. It is not United States over Tehran's weapon that Iran could mass­ are always trying to improve prime minister following a clear what role the monarch nuclear program. produce. their weapons system by both weekend election in which his played in his decision. Iranian television called it a It also said the Kowsar's foreign and indigenous meas­ party got most of the votns but "It's not that I'm not willing to "turning point" in its missile guidance system could not be ures," Pentagon spokesman millions abstained from casting fight, but when I fight, the tests but gave no other details. scrambled, and it had been Bryan Whitman said. "It's pos­ ballots as part of a eontinuing nation loses," Thaksin said after At the same time, the head designed to sink ships. sible that they arc increasing protest of the Thai IPader. who naming Chitchai to take over his of the Hevolutionary Guards, On Friday, Iran tested the their capability and making has been accused of corruption duties. "I don't need to see Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, said Fajr-3, a missile that it said strides in radar-absorbing and abuse of powPr. bloodshed among Thais - Thai the United States must recog­ can avoid radar and hit sever­ materials and technology." Thaksin told supporters out­ blood must not paint the land of nize Iran as a "big, regional al targets simultaneously using But "the Iranians have also side headquarters of his ruling Thailand." power." multiple warheads. Iran also been known to boast and exag­ Thai Bak Thai party that he Thaksin's foes, who staged Speaking on state television, has tested what it calls two gerate their statements about would not stay on in a caretaker almost daily large demonstra­ Safavi said Iran could use the new torpedoes. greater technical and tactical role but lnt Deputy Prime tions in Bangkok prior to the Straits of Hormuz to apply One of the torpedoes, capabilities," he said. Minister Chitchai Wannasathit election, remain wary of his pressure on foreign powers. unveiled Monday, was tested in Safavi on Wednesday reject­ b1H:onw acting prime minister. intentions, About two-fifths of the world's the Straits of Hormuz. That ed the U.S. claims that Iran "I havn decided that if I have A previously scheduled anti­ oil supplies pass through the seemed to be a clear warning had exaggerated its capabili­ to rest to let the country move Thaksin rally set for the capital 34-mile-wide entrance to the to the United States that I ran ties. forward, I want to rest now. I on Friday would go ahead. said Gulf. believes it has the capability to "They tried to say what is have appointed Chitchai to do Pipob Thongchai of the People's 'The Straits of Hormuz are a disable oil tankers moving · related to our equipment was my work from now on. I need to Alliance for Democracy, the point of control and economic through the Gulf. just a bluiT. But we announce rnst," Thaksin said. lin made it protests' organizers. pressure on the energy trans­ The Revolutionary Guards that the advanced equipment clear that he was not formally Another protest leader, fer route for those foreign have been holding their were based on a real and resigning. but just taking a leave Suriyasai Katasila, said the rally powers that might want to maneuvers - code-named the domestic industry," he said. of olliee. would be marked by an Since Chitehai is not a member "announcement of victory." of Parliament, he is legally "The crisis has been lessened unabln to hold on to the top job to an extent but it has yet to when the body mm~ts to name truly bring reconciliation and Thaksin 's successor. unity in thn country," he said. Chitehai, 59, who oversees Suriyasai said the next step seeurity all"airs, is a dose associ­ will be to destroy the "Thaksin ate of Thaksin. The two studied regime." Thaksin's critics want togNher in the United States and to jettison his policies promoting both joined the national police privatization, free trade agree­ force, where Chitchai rose to ments and CEO-style adminis­ senior positions. tration. After eollecting his belongings Complete results from from his oflice at Government Sunday's election were still not House, Thaksin went to party available, but Thaksin had said IH~ad quarters, when~ a few his party won 57 percent of the thousand supporters mobbed popular vote and virtually all of and cheered him. several in the 500 seats in Parliament. ll~ars. About 37 percent marked absent "I will rmnmnber on the day on the ballot, according to unof­ that I die that tlw people came ficial results.

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Thursday, April 6, 2006 The Observer + NATIONAL NEWS page 11 Govertnent releases Stolen WWII paintings returned tips to fight avian flu 90-year-old woman recovers $300 million offamily's possessions Associated Press Angeles has been my home­ her aunt and uncle. She said Human cases of bird flu have town for so long, so to have she didn't think much about 165 degrees will kill been rare, but authorities worry LOS ANGELES - For years, them here is beyond words. the material loss at the time, pathogens in poultry the virus could mutate into a Maria Altmann hung a I'm going to come here very because her husband was form that would spread easily framed poster of one of often and bring friends to see detained in the Dachau con­ among people and cause a glob­ world's most recognizable them." centration camp. The couple Associated Press al epidemic. paintings in her living room. Their arrival capped eventually escaped to safety WASHINGTON - Preparing The cooking recommendation It's an oil and gold-encrust­ Altmann's seven-year legal and resettled in Los Angeles for the arrival of bird flu, the came from a scientific advisory ed portrait of her aunt, Adele battle to recover her family's in 1942, where she ran a government on Wednesday gave panel that said raw poultry Bloch-Bauer, by Gustav possession, estimated to be clothing boutique. advice for making chicken safe should be cooked to an internal Klimt, who is best known for worth $300 million. Meanwhile, Gallery to eat: Cook it to 165 degrees. temperature of at least 165 his ornate painting, "The In Vienna, an Austrian Belvedere was made the for­ While the government has degrees. Kiss." advisory panel mal owner of the always offered "doneness" The department's "Is it Done The portrait of Bloch-Bauer handling claims paintings. advice, it has never before Yet?" campaign provides a serves as a reminder of for paintings, "/was very angry Altmann declared what it takes to kill range of temperatures, includ­ Altmann's childhood in sculptures and with what believed for viruses and bacteria that may ing 170 degrees for chicken Austria before the Nazis took other items many years that lurk in poultry. breasts and 180 degrees for over nearly 70 years ago and looted by the happened. But now little could be "It's not in response directly to whole birds. ripped it off the wall as part Nazis has rec­ that we have done to recover avian influenza, or bird flu, but Haymond said that's too con­ of a campaign to loot wealthy ommended that resolved it, I try to the paintings, so many people right now are fusing and from now on, the Jewish families. 6,292 artworks but her hopes concerned about bird flu and department will be sticking with Altmann, now 90, wel­ be returned to see the good side of were revived in will poultry bn safe to eat," said a minimum of 165 degrees for comed the original portrait their original it., 1998 when a Hichard Haymond, the depart­ all poultry. back to her family on owners, culture new Austrian ment's undersncrntary for food "That's based on the best sci­ Tuesday along with four minister Maria Altmann law required safety. ence available - 165 degrees is other Klimt paintings that Elisabeth museums to owner of paintings "It's a wonderful time to edu­ more than adequate to kill all were unveiled in a ceremony Gehrer said return valuable cate everybody out there that food pathogens found in poultry, at the Los Angeles County Wednesday. art objects loot­ there's lots of reasons to handle including avian influenza," he Museum of Art. The works, Only about a dozen of the ed by the Nazis. poultry properly and cook it to said. including another colorful requests received through With the help of attorney E. the right temperature," The department also strongly portrait of Bloch-Bauer and March 31 have been rejected, Randol Schoenberg, Altmann Haymond said in an interview recommends that people use three landscapes, will be on Gehrer said, adding that the sued for rightful ownership with The Associated Press. food thermometers and follow view until June 30. government usually follows of the paintings. Attorneys The government says the basic rules for kitchen safety: "To see them here is a the panel's recommenda­ for Austria argued that deadly strain of bird flu spread­ wash hands often, keep raw dream come true," Altmann tions. Altmann's aunt, who died in ing throughout Asia, Africa and poultry and meat separate from said with a smile as she sat Details on most of the art­ 1925, had specified that they Europe is likely to arrive this cooked food and refrigerate or in an exhibit room surround­ works and their claimants be donated to the govern­ year in the United States. freeze food right away. ed by the paintings. "Los were not released, but ment gallery. Gehrer said new investiga­ The case worked its way to tions have been launched in the U.S. Supreme Court, an attempt to clear up murky which ruled in 2004 that circumstances surrounding Altmann could sue the two of the rejected requests. Austrian government. The Those cases involve a pair of two sides began mediation figurines by Belgian symbol­ and Austrian authorities ist sculptor George Minne agreed in January to return and "Summer Evening at the the paintings after an arbi­ Beach," a painting by tration court ruled they must Norwegian artist Edvard be returned to her. Munch. Altmann said she has no ill The return of the Minne fig­ feelings toward Austria and urines was requested by the praised members of the arbi­ Altmann family. Marina tration court for their Mahler, a granddaughter of "courage and honesty" in vot­ the late composer Gustav ing unanimously in her favor. Mahler, is seeking custody of "I was very angry with the Munch. The Minne fig­ what happened. But now that urines and the Munch paint­ we have resolved it, I try to ing are in the possession of see the good side of it," she Gallery Belvedere. said. Gehrer said a Web site Displaying her sharp mem­ would be set up by the end of ory, Altmann giggled when the year to help owners track asked about the poster that down works they claim were will remain in her living confiscated by the Nazi room. regime. "It was given to me from Altmann was a 21-year-old what they called a boyfriend newlywed when she watched then, not what they call a the Nazis seize power in boyfriend now," she said. "He 1938 and then steal valu­ didn't even give me a kiss, ables from her family, includ­ but my mother was furious ing her wedding gifts and the when. .. she found out about paintings that belonged to hliD.

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Thursday, April6, 2006 IEWPOINT page 13 Uncovering a cause

Where did this come from? While all families have disagreements, successful ones have a common respect Ten weeks ago, many members of the Notre Dame community dismissed fpr the value of each individual. Jenkins respected both sides of this debate and University President Father John Jenkins' pledge to end violence against women did not come down hard on either camp. Refraining from punitive measures, he as window dressing -just an ambiguous remark made to please everyone before embraced an attitude of respect, acceptance and unity. He helped encourage he harshly came down on one side. every member of the Notre Dame family toward "the most urgent goal" - ending But something funny happened during the last two months. violence against women, a pervasive issue only now being brought to the fore­ The president of Notre Dame - a school whose name is synonymous with glorify­ front of the University's attention. ing the achievements of men on the football field - sparked a discussion that Catholic means "universal." Jenkins did not lay down a clear, black-and-white resulted in a monumental effort to end violence against women. answer on the issue of how a Catholic university should operate in When would anyone have expected Right to Life and Feminist O Jheuserver the secular, academic sphere - that would have caused nothing but Voice - a political mixture of water and oil - to host a dance rais­ division and conflict. ing money to help rape victims? Instead, he found common ground too often ignored in today's No, they will never agree on the legality of abortion or who to vote Editorial world. for in the next election. But in discussing what makes them differ- Debate will likely keep churning as the community watches how ent, the two groups found they have quite a lot in common - and it's just one the president's three stated initiatives - the proposed performance of "Loyal example of how this conversation has risen above party lines or strictly personal Daughters," formation of an ad hoc committee to address violence against women positions. and guidelines on sponsorship of academic events - play out over the course of Jenkins should be commended for steering the debate away from name-calling the semester and next year. Whether or not Jenkins will follow through is still to and bickering about our differences and toward an honest, civil discussion that be determined. achieved a commitment toward respect of women that has never been seen on But uniting the campus toward a single, honorable goal of ending violence this campus. against women is to be applauded. As Jenkins said, there is a "pressing need for He admitted he would not find a solution that would please everyone, but he did the University of Our Lady to be a rising force for defending and advancing the strive to bring the campus beyond its differences and back to what unites this rights and dignity of all women, everywhere." University- the Notre Dame family. Our Lady - as the real head of this family - is glowing brightly today. Internet porn is dangerous, LETTER TO THE EDITOR addictive, degrading Pandora's box University President Father John Jenkins attempted to close Yesterday, before a Congressional Committee, day in our country, most often at the hands of Pandora's Box in his "Closing Statement on Academic Freedom there was testimony of a 19-year-old man which family members, teachers, coaches, cantors, scout and Catholic Character." I, for one, had hoped that the was as gripping as it was appalling. When the leaders and strangers. Perhaps their overriding University community would cultivate the discussion that arose young man was a boy of 13, he was as knowl­ motive was to silence the often lonely voice of the out of Jenkins' speech on January 23, 2006 into a broad dia­ edgeable about the internet Catholic Church on moral issues in a permissive logue encompassing topics well beyond the initial issues. There and its technology as are many Richard V. society and culture, created mostly by the media, are many policies existing at the University of Notre Dame, of our own students. His testi- Warner, CSC in the face of which few voices were raised. And if both official and unofficial, that are repugnant to Catholic doc­ mony was basically a repeti- this was the intent of the editorial board of The trines. However, now that we've "settled" the gender issues, tion of a series of articles in FaithPoint New York Times, they accomplished it. Jenkins seems unwilling to tackle any of the more difficult top­ The New York Times last Secondly, internet pornography is a problem for ics. December. But instead of words filling pages in many students on our campus. I know that people Take, for example, the University's position on the war in black and white pages, there was the image of a do not realize this larger immoral context of Iraq. Oh yes, the University most definitely has a position, young man who could easily have walked among exploitation and abuse which lies just below the which it clearly expresses through the Notre Dame ROTC us without calling attention to himself. surface. What might initially appear to be rela­ Program. Now, anyone perceived as critical of the ROTC pro­ He was lonely at the tender age of 13, and had tively harmless, is anything but that. It is, in gram opens himself up to a tidal wave of counter-attacks of a hard time making friends. So he turned to the effect, participation in a growth industry that being "unpatriotic," etc. In order to keep the focus on the real internet where he thought he might find what exploits people only to make money one way or issue, academic freedom, I would like to clarify that I am not was absent in his life. the other. I am afraid that for a small but growing criticizing the ROTC program, only using it as a barometer of He quickly fell prey to the thousands of sexual number of our students, internet pornography is the University's support for the war. The University not only predators who use that media to satisfy their base one of the most prevalent addictions we face. allows, but encourages the armed forces to recruit students desires, and the next five years of his life went Finally, and most importantly, we are approach­ and prospective students into the ROTC program. The from bad to worse. ing the holiest week of our year. And it has every­ University works in conjunction with the ROTC program to use The first approach he received was from a man thing to do with the human body. Jesus Christ, the University land, facilities and staff to promote and execute that who offered him $50 if he would pose before his Son of God, became man so that, in the words of recruitment (these same things constituted "sponsorship" with web cam with his shirt off. "I took my shirt off at St. Paul, "he might become like us in everything regards to the Queer Film Festival and Vagina Monologues). the pool," he said, "so I did not see what harm except sin," and in another place, "so that God The University does this in spite of Fort Wayne-South Bend could come" from complying with the stranger's might see and love in us what he sees and loves in Bishop John D'Arcy's unequivocal sponsorship for the Vatican's request. That was the beginning of a five-year His Son, Jesus." position that the war in Iraq does not comport with Catholic journey into ever more demanding and degrading Jesus Christ not only left us a compelling com­ doctrine of just war. The University backs the war notwith­ requests from men who offered him more and pendium of teachings, but he "who knew no sin standing the fact that tlie Catholic Church considers it more money if he would comply with their became sin" so that we might be saved. This immoral, but withdrew its "sponsorship" for the Vagina requests through his web cam on the net. Over action took place when "Jesus Christ became obe­ Monologues and the Queer Film Festival because the Catholic the five years, he earned hundreds of thousands dient even unto death and death on a cross," Church considers them immoral. of dollars, and eventually met with men who according to St. Paul. Jesus willingly accepted the This apparent incongruity begs the question: what is so dif­ propositioned him - doctors, lawyers, business passion and death he endured, for love of us. And ferent about the war that President Jenkins closes debate men. His estranged father, who he said he visited he rose from the dead in a glorified body, and will before our community can discuss its place within the for a number of weeks, offered to help him share this reality for each of us and for all people University's Catholic character? If any issue merits vigorous increase his business, according to his testimony. who look to the cross and place their love and debate within the University's Catholic morality, it is the war. And he quickly became addicted to marijuana trust in him. The University's ROTC program has trained hundreds of offi­ and cocaine, as one inhibition after another van­ Our bodies receive the body and blood of Jesus cers who have gone on to tours in Iraq since the war began ished. each time we come together as a community of (there is even an Army ROTC Club of Iraq). Those officers have A reporter from The New York Times, who was believers to worship him through the Eucharist. bravely and dutifully executed the policies of their engaged in research about child pornography on As we remember his death and resurrection, Commander-in-Chief, policies that the Catholic Church consid­ the internet, discovered Justin, and ultimately through the ministry of the Church, this sacrifice ers unjust. Why isn't Jenkins leading (instead of stifling) the helped him to extricate himself from the morass of Jesus is made real for us as we remember. University in a discussion of how the University can maintain in which he found himself. The young man has Our bodies, in the image of Jesus, are the this support for the war in the face of its Catholic character? now completed his first semester in college, has a dwelling place of the Spirit. Is it because Jenkins' concern over the gender issues was girlfriend, and has begun to put his life together. We are members of the Body of Christ, united in just a veiled response to the Board of Trustees and other pow­ The Department of Justice has not followed up on faith with those who have gone before us, the holy erful alumni? Is it because the University cannot afford to lose the 1 ,500 names he gave them. Why is this sober­ men and women of all time, with those with the economic juggernaut that is the Notre Dame ROTC pro­ ing situation so important? For three reasons. whom we share our vibrant community of believ­ gram? I would like to believe the reason is simply that the First, Justin's situation is not unique. Fully one ers on campus and in our residence halls and University wishes not to offend its proud ROTC heritage. fifth of young people on the net are solicited, and with the generations of those to come from every However, I am not quite that optimistic. one in thirty three young people are offered nation and race and culture. I invite Jenkins to prove me wrong, and reopen the discus­ money in exchange for meeting with strangers. Because of this reality of our faith, we respect sion on academic freedom, starting with the topic of the Child pornography is, and has been, a massive our bodies, grateful for "how wonderfully we are University's position on the war. If he refuses, I would like to problem in our country. Yet three years ago, when made," and the bodies of all men and women. challenge the community to force the issue. If our community the inexcusable sexual abuse on the part of 4 per­ can engage in the sort of passionate and intelligent dialogue cent of Catholic clergy riveted the country's atten­ Father Richard V. Warner, CSC, is the director of that surrounded the Vagina Monologues and the Queer Film tion with The New York Times dedicating at least Campus Ministry. He can be reached at Festival, surely we can handle Iraq. one full page every day for a year to repetitive Warner.2@nd. edu stories about Catholic clergy abuse, that newspa­ The views expressed in this column are those of James Parrot per chose to ignore the larger picture of the mas­ the author and not necessarily those of The class of 1999 sive child sexual abuse which takes place every Observer. April5 ------~ -----~~------~--- ~------

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CD REVIEWS Joel box set sums up many musical'Lives'

and 1 Y83's "An Innocent Man" among By BRIAN DOXTADER the most notable), but the box set has a Scene Editor dill'erent mission -to show Joel in a dif­ ferent dimension, to illustrate the depth Tlw box set is supposed to be some­ and artistry of the writer and performer. thing special. a compilation that says, Though it mostly succeeds in that task, "This is a legitimatf), important por­ Joel simply isn't the revolutionary that fornwr." Ynt not everyone who gets a box Dylan was, nor does he have the fiery set quite fulfills those eriteria. dynamics of Springsteen - and that's Take Billy Jol'l for example. llis box set exactly why the box set is so problemat­ "My Lives" is a strong portrait of solidly ic. mliable artist, but it doesn't present Joel . Yes, Joel had an impressive string of as a legitimate, important pnrformer - hits (many of which are represented on though it eertainly tries. Spanning five the set in one form or other), but 11ve discs, four decades and over sixty tracks, discs worth of material is excessive. "My Lives" is the kind of box set that, Three discs of material almost seemed ipso faeto, attempts to put him on the excessive on "Greatest Hits Volumes I - level of Bob Dylan ("The Bootleg Series") III," but the demos, alternate versions or Bruce Springsteen ("Traeks"). The and live cuts get wearing after a while. problem is that Joel isn't quite in the Still, there's some great material scat­ same league- he's a talented and tune­ tered throughout the discs - most of the ful songwriter and a competent per­ gems are the unexpected tracks, the former, even if his music veers toward material that wouldn't be expected from commereial appeal. a polished craftsman like Joel. Among lin's had several good-to-great albums them are several interesting covers (The over the years ( 1 Y77's "The Stranger" Beatles' 'Til Cry Instead" and "A liard Day's Night," Leonard Cohen's "Light as the Photo Illustration by JARRED WAFER Breeze" and Elvis Having amassed an Impressive body of work over the course of his career, Billy Presley's "Heartbreak Joel's box set, "My Lives," pairs some of his classics with less-heard creations. My Lives Hotel"). The album tracks and The fifth disc is a live performance can all have box sets, then Joel certainly Billy Joel hits are all familiar, in from Hamburg in 1993. It's a solid con­ seems deserving enough, even if Joel's some cases, a little too cert by a solid performer, but nothing set is more purposeful than either of the familiar ("Piano Man," revelatory. If anything, it highlights how aforementioned performers. Sony anyone?) The best songs cheesy some of Joel's material was "My Lives" is a strong indicator of here are the lesser­ ("Pressure," "Big Shot," etc.) back in the Joel's work, and succeeds in painting known non-singles like day. The German crowd, oddly enough, him in different dimensions, but Joel .i "Easy Money" and "An seems more into the performance than himself isn't quite a strong enough •',' ·1 . ·" -- ,J ~r Innocent Man" (one of Joel himself, who seems to be going singer-songwriter to sustain momentum his very best songs), through the~motions a little. over the amount of material found on Recommended tracks: 'Piano Man,''Easy which don't have the After all is said and done, the question the discs. ••• disadvantage of being still remains - does Billy Joel's discog­ Money,' 'An Innocent Man' and 'Big Shot' incessantly played on raphy really warrant a box set? Well, if Contact Brian Doxtader at AM radio and at SYRs. Steely Dan, Rod Stewart and Chicago [email protected] Latest 'Romance' album lacks punk chemistry

Pelissier began writing songs together. By MARTY SCHROEDER They completed their lineup when gui­ Scene Critic tarists Hay Toro and Frank Iero and bassist Mikey Way joined. l'unk roek is dead. God save punk rock. Their first album was released on "My Chemieal Homanee" is the npitome of Eyeball Hecords, the label that also start­ what pooplo think is now punk rock. llow ed the "screamo" ("screamo" is a genre far from the truth they are. eombining "emo" music with screaming After tlwir hit single ''I'm not Okay (I for the unfamiliar) band Thursday's Promisnl" from the album "Throe Cheers career. Entitled "I Brought You My for Swnnt Hevnnge," My Chemical Bullets, You Brought You My Love," the Honmnce has rnleased a double-disk live CD showcased My Chemical Romance as album entitled "Life on the Murder a band with aggressive yet poppy Senne." This set also includes footage of melodies and introverted, love-lorn thnir TV appnaranees and musie vidnos. lyrics. Thnsn arn nicn pnrks, as most live But the lyrics and aggressive melodies albums arn merely a rehashing of music are exactly what are wrong with the that orw could obtain by purchasing the band. If one were to combine Iron

studio albums. I lowever, the video addi­ Maiden, Weezer and a healthy dose of Photo courtesy of zone1061.com tions cannot make up for the band's laek the Cure, this is the band that would The band "My Chemical Romance" represents the new wave of punk rock music. of musical talent as they rehash much of result- a group that sounds like all three As a "screamo" band, the band is a far cry from more traditional punk rock bands. the gothlpop-punk/emo that has become but does not have the musical ability to popular in rncnnt times. stand on their own. Based in Nnw Jersey, the band was Gone are the days of Iggy Pop, The one else while looking like everyone else. Chemical Romance conjures up images of formed in the early 2000s when lead Clash and Pennywise punk rock. Weezer is full of nerds, Dashboard a teenager with raging hormones lament­ singer Gerard Way and drummer Matt Mohawks, leather jackets, piercing and all Confessional is a one-man, clean cut ing that the girl in his math class did not things that made bleeding heart while My Chemical talk to him as he walked by her. punk rock the Romance looks and sounds like a sad rip­ If My Chemical Romance started singing rebellious music off of Green Day without the fame to back about aspects of life that did not relate to Life on the it was have been it up. broken hearts, they might have to change traded in for There is something that Weezer, their name. Murder Scene black jackets, red Dashboard Confessional and Green Day If one happened to be thinking about ties, and black all have in common: originality both in buying this album, your money would be My Chemical Romance eyeliner that can sound and image. These are two aspects better spent elsewhere. Go out and buy be bought at any essential to the music that My Chemical "London Calling" by The Clash or Reprise/Wea Hot Topic retail Romance definitely lacks. Weezer's first self-titled album (colloquial­ outlet. Granted, the songs are catchy and they' ly called "The Blue Album). Those bands Singing about know how to make a crowd enjoy music. at least have something to say aside from how your girl­ However, the crowd in question has prob­ the recycled pop that is passing as punk friend just broke ably never listened to anything related to rock. 4Jt)···>· up with you is punk rock since Blink 182 made it big. Recommended track: 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' fine. Just don't The name itself is a credit to the pigeon­ Contact Marty Schroeder at sing it like every- hole this band has put itself in. My mschroel @nd.edu THE OBSERVER

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CD REVIEWS Skilled composer finds inspiration while 'Lost'

Varese Records has released a compilation By RAMA GOTTUMUKKALA of Giacchino's original works from the Scene Critic show's first season. It's been a long wait, but thankfully, a worthwhile one. Jlurley is not having a good day. If being Except for the first track - the ominous, marooned on an island in the South Pacific foreboding music composed by series cre­ with 47 strangers isn't enough to complain ator J .J. Abrams that rises in pitch over about, the batteries in his CD player have the show's title card - every segment of just died - right in the middle of the CD is composed by Giacchino and lov­ "Ddicate," a song by Damien Rice. Such is ingly brought to life by the Hollywood life for the genial but hapless Latino, one Studio Symphony. of the principal characters in the hit televi­ When browsing through the names of sion series "Lost." the individual tracks, "Lost" fans should Poor Hurley has gone without an audito­ get a chuckle from Giacchino's quirky ry fix ever since the show's Feb. 23, 2005 titles. It's a trend the composer carried episode " .. .In Translation." Fortunately for over from his two "Alias" soundtracks. Photo courtesy of lost-media.com "Lost" fans, Michael Giacchino - the "Run Away! Run Away!" (incidentally, a Composer Michael Giacchino's score for ABC's "Lost" provides an ambience as show's electric young composer - has common theme during the show's first haunting and alluring as the mysteries which wreath the show's island. been filling the silence on every episode season), "World's Worst Beach Party" and since the pilot. Giacchino's work on the "Run Like, Urn ... Hell?" are three of the Jack, Kate, Sawyer and their fellow way­ down Hollywood soundtracks that clutter show has earned him rave reviews and more memorable titles. ward travelers. store shelves. garnered a 2005 Emmy for Outstanding Organized chronologically based on the Giacchino breathes life into these char­ Giacchino is easily one of the most versa­ Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic events of the first season, the soundtrack is acters through his deeply affecting themes, tile composers working in the entertain­ Underscore), beating out perennial comprised primarily of individual motifs granting them a power that rivals the ment industry today. He launched his favorites like "24" and "The Simpsons." for the show's many characters, punctuat­ words "Lost" scribes put in their mouths career in video games, of all places, with Finally, almost 18 months to the day ed by sweeping, grandiose pieces designed every week. Actor Terry O'Quinn's charac­ scoring work on "The Lost World," the since "Lost" premiered back in 2004, to engage the audience's emotions during ter, John Locke, merits not one but two sig­ eponymous Sony PlayStation game based the show's many nature tracks- "Locke'd Out Again" and on Steven Spielberg's 1997 film, and the dramatic - and "Crocodile Locke." "Locke'd Out Again" "Medal of Honor" series. Giacchino spun 1 silent- segments. especially wraps the listener in the same that work into his partnership with "Lost" Lost' Soundtrack Even the myste­ feelings of tragedy and pathos that sur­ and "Alias" creator Abrams, contributing rious, unnerving round the enigmatic character and perme­ orchestral scores to both those shows island gets its own ate his backstory. before making his feature film debut on Michael Giacchino individual track. As the soundtrack reaches its conclu­ Pixar's "The Incredibles." Cleverly dubbed sion, the recurring motifs reach a tri­ But with his work on "Lost," Giacchino Varese Records "The Eyeland," it umphant crescendo with "Life and Death," demonstrates something much deeper remains in line "Parting Words" and "Oceanic 815." The than his formidable talent. He reminds us with the thoughts latter two melodies were used to stirring · that even on a show as character-driven as of the "Lost" pro­ effect in "Exodus," the first season's two­ "Lost," all it takes is a few simple chords ducers, who all part finale, and illustrate Giacchino's from a well-versed composer to over­ acknowledge that impressive command over strings and soft, whelm the senses and linger in your imag­ the island is just lingering piano notes. Any one of these ination. Recommended tracks: 'Locke'd Out Again,''Life and as important a three tracks could have carried the climax Death,"Parting Words' and 'Oceanic 815' character in the of a big-budget feature film with more Contact Rama Gottumukkala at first season as panache than 90 percent of the watered- [email protected] Inspired Christian rock weaves through Webb's latest

McCracken, his fellow singer and song­ By DAN MOORE writer who also plays guitar on a number Scene Critic of songs. Webb hails from the band Caedmon's Derek Webb, critically acclaimed for­ Call, with whom he performed and wrote mer member of Caedmon's Call, has music for 10 years. The band, formed in released a third solo album that is rais­ 1993, is known for its strong, catchy ing eyebrows, pricking ears and snap­ acoustic folk and alternative rock, as well ping lingers- and not just because of its as its brilliant and unashamed lyrics. catchy, rhythmic melodies. To a greater extent, the messages on Webb has been known for a few years Derek Webb's new solo album are not now as an artist who is unafraid to pro­ usually what people are listening for and claim messages that make people feel can be touchy. Webb deals with war, rather uncomfortable, and his new poverty and loving our enemies, among a album, "Mockingbird," is certainly no variety of other things. But Webb exception. declares that his aim is not to please peo­ With tracks that emphasize such topics ple, and that he doesn't care about repu­ as social justice, politics and Christian tation. responsibility, "Mockingbird" continues The opening title track, "Mockingbird," the message of Webb's other albums, declares, ''I've got no new song to sing," "She Must and Shall Go Free" and "I See and "I just tell you what I've heard," and Things Upside Down" - which call the then the rest of the album goes on to Church to be what it is meant to be: echo an old message: "Whatever you did As controversial as he is faithful, Christian rocker Derek Webb uses his missionary Christ's body in the world. for the least of these brothers of mine, Webb wrote one of the tracks on the you did for me." · music to spread his messages of social justice and Christian responsibility. album with the help of his wife, Sandra Songs such as "A King and a Kingdom" declare that our interesting brass, strings and experimen­ (But You)" and "Please, Before I Go." (In first allegiance tal sounds. The resulting sound is very an interview with Christianity Today, Mockingbird should not be to a emotional, driving and often haunting, Webb said, "Why let MTV or the media flag, a country or but always catchy. have the only word [on sexuality]? Why a man, but to a Mostly featuring rhythmic acoustic gui­ can't we have something to say about it Derek Webb King and a tar and piano, Derek Webb showcases as well?") Slower ballad tracks like "Rich Kingdom. "A New his unique voice (which often mirrors his Young Ruler" and "Love Is not Against Law" convicts lyrics in its edginess) with clear, intelligi­ the Law" incorporate bells and strings Sony people of ignoring ble lines. It's convenient since the album for additional depth and richness. what is uncom­ unfortunately lacks lyrics in its insert. Derek Webb is a refreshing taste of fortable to think In "A New Law" and "Mockingbird," clarity and conviction in a business of about and to act the guitars strum energetically to mellow lukewarm and self-centered music, and upon. piano riffs, driving these upbeat songs his undeniably appealing melodies will The album's from start to finish as a cello and French keep "Mockingbird's" challenging lyrics Recommended tracks: 'Mockingbird/ /1 King and a music ranges from horn punctuate the music at intense bouncing around in your head all day. Kingdom,"Please, Before I Go' and /1 New Law' rock to folk, incor­ moments. Trumpets and horns also sup­ porating some port the love songs "I Hate Everything Contact Dan Moore at [email protected] r------·------

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MLB Griffey's blast passes DiMaggio, Rollins continues pursuit Junior lifts Reds over Cubs with No. 537, Arroyo hits No. 1, earns win; Rollins hits two doubles in Phillies' loss with the same routine, the same Associated Press philosophy. "I always say the frrst month of Cincinnati - Ken (;ri!Tey Jr.'s the season is very important for 5:~7th earner homer got any team. If we keep doing what upstagnd by Bronson Arroyo's we're doing and having a great first. first or second month and play Arroyo got the loudest and the game like we've been play­ longest ovations Wednesday - ing, we'll be in good shape." and a rnspectful bow from (;riffey - in a successful St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati debut. lin pitched into While Jimmy Hollins stretched the seventh inning and hit his his hitting streak to 38 games, first earner homer in his first at­ the Philadelphia Phillies bat, leading the Heds to an 8-6 remained winless. victory over the Chieago Cubs. Yadier Molina's two-out RBI ''I'll take that 50 timns over," single off Tom Gordon in the Arroyo said. ninth inning lifted the St. Louis llis do-it-all debut overshad­ Cardinals to victory Wednesday ownd a big moment for Grifl"ey, night. who movfld ahnad of two Skip Schumaker hit his first Yankees with his first homer of career homer and Albert Pujols the snason. again went deep for the CriiTey's solo shot was his Cardinals. Winner Brad 537th. breaking a tie with Thompson pitched a perfect Mickey Mantle for 12th on the eighth inning, and Jason career list. It also providnd his Jsringhausen escaped a jam in 1,538th HBI, moving him ahead the ninth to get his first save. of Jon DiMaggio for 31st on that Philadelphia loaded the bases list, whieh doesn't include any­ on a single by Pat Burrell and thing bdore 1920. when HBis walks by Hyan Howard and bneamn a statistic. David Hell, but lsringhausen retired Mike Lieberthal on a Cleveland 4, grounder to first base to end it. Chicago White Sox 3 Bell hit a tying, two-run homer Cincinnati second baseman Ryan Freel, right, dives Into home on a ground out by shortstop Forget last season. The off Mark Mulder in the seventh Felipe Lopez in the eighth Inning against Chicago Wednesday at Great American Ball Park. Cleveland Indians sure have. inning. But the Cardinals went They're ready from the start to ahead against Gordon in his firs.t mount a challenge to the appearance for the Phillies. Beckett got off to a rocky start, Wagner, and Jose Guillen's two­ and walked none. Chieago White Sox. allowing a leadoff double by run shot in the lOth inning sent "Our goal is to win each series Baltimore 16, Tampa Bay 6 Brad Wilkerson before throwing the Washington Nationals to vic­ Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 2 and it's nice to get this first one," Off to their best start since a wild pitch and allowing tory over New York on Prince Fielder proved it does­ Cleveland manager Erie Wedge 1997, the unbeaten Baltimore Michael Young's infield RBI sin­ Wednesday night. n't take a mighty swat to bust a said after Wednesday's 11- Orioles stand alone atop the AL gle. But the Rangers got only one Nick Johnson hit a three-run season-opening slump. inning victory over the defending East. runner to third base against drive in the sixth to start Fielder's looping single scored World Series champions. Jay Gibbons homered and Beckett after that. Washington's comeback from a Geoff Jenkins with the go-ahead Jason Michaels doublnd in the drove in four runs, and Making his first start for the four-run deficit against right­ run in the eighth inning go-ahead run - his fourth hit of Baltimore used a 16-hit attack to Red Sox not far from his home­ hander Brian Bannister. who Wednesday night and lifted the thn gamn - and the Indians breeze past the Tampa Bay Devil town of Spring, Texas, Beckett began his big league career with Milwaukee Brewers to a victory took two of three in thn opening Rays Wednesday night. allowed a run and scattered 5 1-3 hitless innings. that completed a season-opening snries between the AL Central Before they turn their atten­ seven hits. He had five strikeouts Left fielder Alfonso Soriano three-game sweep of the rivals. tion toward the remaining 160 and one walk, throwing 75 of his departed in the sixth, four Pittsburgh Pirates. Clevnland went 9-14 last April, games, the Orioles will savor the 109 pitches for strikes. innings after he was hit in the A highly regarded prospect falling 7 1/2 games baek. And first two. After opening the sea­ helmet by a pitch from who became the Brewers' start­ evnn though the Indians were son Monday with a 9-6 win over Houston 6, Florida 5 Bannister. ing first baseman when the team 39-18 during the seasons' final the Devil Hays, Baltimore Lance Berkman and Preston traded Lyle Overbay in the off­ two months, they fell short of the cranked up the offense another Wilson each hit two-run homers Seattle 6, LA Angels 4 season, Fielder was 0-for-9 with postseason after a 1-6 finish. notch against Seth McClung and and the Houston Astros held on Nothing was routine in this seven strikeouts when he walked a parade of relievers. for the win over the Florida early April game for Jarrod in the second to reach base for Detroit 14, Kansas City 3 Melvin Mora and rookie Nick Marlins Wednesday night. Washburn. the first time this season. Ivan Hodriguez powered the Markakis homered, Ramon Craig Biggio had two hits and After eight seasons with the He fell behind reliever Hoberto Detroit Tigers to a 2-0 start Hernandez went 2-for-2 with scored two runs as the defend­ Angels, Washburn faced his for­ Hernandez 0-2 before finally under new manager Jim two walks and three RBis, and ing NL champions took two of mer teammates for the frrst time breaking through with a broken­ Leyland. Brian Hoberts had two hits and three in their opening series and led the Seattle Mariners bat bloop hit. Hodriguez went 5-for-5 with a three HBis. Hernandez has yet to with the Marlins, the team with over Jeff Weaver and Los ''I'll take it," Fielder said. ''I'll homer, three doubles and five make an out this season. the league's lowest payroll. Angeles Wednesday. take four of those a day if they HBis Wednesday, helping the Brad Lidge got Josh "I'd be lying if I said I didn't come." Tigers to victory and two-game Boston 2, Texas 1 Willingham to ground out with want to win today more than Fielder, the son of former sweep of the Kansas City Hoyals. Josh Beckett pitched seven runners on first and second in any other of my starts," major leaguer Cecil Fielder, was "When you have a day like this innings to win his Boston debut the ninth to get his second save. Washburn said. dropped from fifth to seventh in early in the year, it's great," and Trot Nixon hit a two-run Signed to a $37 million, four­ the lineup Wednesday by Hodriguez said. "I've been homer in the Red Sox's victory Washington 9, NY Mets 5 year contract, Washburn Brewers manager Ned Yost, who swinging the bat pretty good in over the Texas Hangers on Ryan Zimmerman hit a tying allowed two runs and six hits in wanted to take some pressure spring training, so I just stayed Wednesday night. homer off new Mets closer Billy seven innings, struck out seven ofT of him.

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A Matt Leinart jersey for a Blue and Gold #10 and "Fight On" for "The Notre Dame What are Holy Week & the Sacred Triduum? Victory March"- these are the trades Junior Danielle Thomson made when she tmnsferred this past summer from USC to Notre Dame. Danielle's Near the conclusion of the season of Lent, Holy Week is this most journey from darkness into light, from degmda­ special time of year when we solemnly reflect on the passing of Jesus tion to redemption. from squalor to bliss, from Trojan to Leprechaun is a testament to her strong from life, to death, to new life. It begins with Palm Sunday, and culmi­ faith. Failed attempts at humor a'iide, Danielle nates in the liturgies of the Sacred Triduum (Latin for "three days") on discovered that she wanted to transfer to Notre Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, before Easter Sunday. Dame while she was participating in the Campus Ministry Leadership Institute (CMLI), a tmining Holy Week festivities begin on a high note this coming Sunday program for campus ministers and student leaders, with the remembrance of Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem at the which took place on Campus during the summer. Danielle's desire to study Theology and minister to Mass of Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. As its name might sug­ others is attested to in the immense courage it must gest, however. this Mass moves quickly to a much more somber tone, have taken to transfer after two years of previous studies, leaving friends behind, to go to a school as we hear the entire Passion narrative from the Last Supper through the where she knew almost no one. crucifixion, death, and placing of Christ in the tomb. Throughout Holy Even with the daunting nature of this new beginning. Danielle wasted no time living Week, Mass readings will spend additional time reflecting on each of out her faith at Notre Dame. One of Danielle 's these events: readings on Holy Monday & Holy Tuesday lead us to "Spy biggest contributions to Notre Dame this year has been her leadership role in the Four: 7 program. In Wednesday," when Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus is remembered. addition to helping run the Tuesday night sessions, Holy Thursday's Mass of the Lord's Supper recalls Jesus's in­ Danielle co-coordinated the Four: 7 retreat which occurred two weekends ago. In testament to her stitution of the Eucharist and the sacramental Priesthood, as well as His own modesty Danielle specifically requested that commandment (in Latin, mandatum) to serve others as represented by His 1not compile a laundry list of her various other endeavors; so of course that's exactly what [did. washing of the disciples' feet. Danielle's other ministries this year include being At the Good Friday Celebration of the Lord's Passion, we recall CSC student assistant. singing in the Keough Hall with mourning and sadness the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Those who Mass choir, being the Right to Life club liaison. .... the JPW Engineering Workshop chair and also a gather for this liturgy are invited to come forward to venerate the Holy member of the Take Back the Night Committee. Cross with a kiss, and Holy Communion is distributed using the Eucharist Danielle's commitment to her faith will carry into the summer as well as she participates consecrated on Holy Thursday. No where in the world is Mass celebrated in two very important ministry related programs. on this day, and churches are made to feel more like tombs as their taber­ Danielle will be present on campus for a week this summer as she helps to coordinate CMLI, the very nacles are left empty and open, sanctuary lamps snuffed out and altars left program that brought her to Notre Dame in the first bare. place. In addition to that, Danielle will spend six weeks as an Intern in the United States Council of On Holy Saturday evening, the Easter Vigil. as the most solemn Catholic Bishops' Office of Youth Ministry. All Liturgy of the entire Church year, celebrates Jesus's Resurrection and that Danielle has accomplished in her short time here serves as a great example of the effect that the salvation that He won for us. Beginning in darkness that is gradually person's care and concern can have on others. overcome by the Light of Christ the readings recount with great anticipa­ ing a time when it would have only been natural tion the story of salvation history. culminating with Christ's conquering for Danielle to look to others for welcome and .~.,.--~ ..,.she thought only of what she could do of sin and death. At this liturgy, the Catholic Church also welcomes new others. The Notre Dame family truly gained a members into the fold through the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirma­ special daughter this year. Thanks Daniell e. tion, and Eucharist. With much joy and many "Alleluias," the Church Let us know who out there proclaims the very heart of our Christian faith in Word. Song, and Sacra­ is making a difference! ment. Easter Sunday morning Masses all continue the great celebration Send nominations to that began at the Easter Vigil. 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home opener Thursday that would hurt a baseball track ever at Augusta Bonds sits eight HRs against the Atlanta Braves. player's career if it eame out, shy of immortal 714 Stevens, 88 and legally which it has," she said. "lie blind for 30 years, respectful­ would think you ought to do it Several hole changes provide formidable test ly doesn't want to be part of on your own. I still love base­ Associated Press celebrating Bonds' achieve­ ball and I always will, but I ment whenever it might hap­ wish it hadn't changed. That's SUN CITY, Ariz. - Julia pen. She hasn't spoken direct­ an old lady talking." B.uth Stevens sits in her ly to the team. After last month's release of favorite chair in her tiny, pale "I would say 'Thank you for "Game of Shadows," a book pink living room and happily the invitation. I just don't feel by two San Francisco shares details about more I could do it,"' she said. "That Chroniele reporters revealing than a dozen pictures of her is not a negative thing and Bonds' alleged longtime use famous father hanging on that's not taking anything of performance-enhancing every wall. from Barry Bonds. I do not drugs, commissioner Bud Lately, Stevens hears his want them to think, 'She's a Selig announced baseball name - she simply refers to poor sport,' because it's OK would investigate past steroid Babe Huth as "Daddy" - with me." use by players. mentioned almost daily on the Stevens and her son, Tom "I like to stay out of' any news, now that San Frandsco Stevens, are scheduled to be controversy- I'm sure you slugger Barry Bonds is closing in Chicago later this month. know what l mean," Stevens in on Huth's home run mark. Tom will throw out the first said. "I don't know enough "It doesn't matter what the pitch before the Cubs host the about it to make a judgment." record is, I don't think there Milwaukee Brewers, and For Stevens, nothing can is anybody who is going to that's as close as they plan to overshadow what Huth take Daddy's place," she said. get to any fanfare. accomplished in his 22-year "He was special. Daddy said "We've reached out to her big league career. records were made to be bro­ and she referred us to her ller eyes no longer allow ken. It's the first person who son," Giants executive vice her to read a newspaper, so people remember.... president Larry Baer said Stevens gets most of her base­ "As long as there is base­ Wednesday. "We're working ball information on a nnw 32- ball. Daddy's name is always with the son to see what if inch flat screen television sta­ going to be mentioned. He anything to do." tioned about live feet in front was one or a kind." B.uth always told his daugh­ of her chair. She watches Bonds entered Wednesday's ter, whom he adopted after close to 80 games a season. AP game at San Diego with 708 marrying her mother Claire Stevens has Huth memora­ Bright yellow flowers In the shape of the United States adorn home runs, seven shy of pass­ when Stevens was 12, that he bilia throughout her house, the lawn clubhouse lawn at Augusta National Golf Club in ing Huth. could accept players passing including a tabln with steins, Augusta, Ga. Even though Hank Aaron his milestones. beer and wine bottles, even a holds the all-time record of Still, Stevens believes her cereal box, featuring his face. And then there's the weath­ 755 home runs, there is still father would be upset by the There are figurines of his Associated Press er. something magical about the way the game has changed likeness and framed baseball Azaleas and dogwoods are Babe's 714. and how so many players, cards. AUGUSTA, Ga. - One by blazing even brighter under a "If you ask the average per­ most notably Bonds, are One picture in particular one, players trudgnd up the warm sun. The tightly mown son, the average person prob­ accused of using steroids to dates back to Ruth's initial hill leading to thn clubhouse at grass beneath the feet is firm, ably knows 714 more than boost their power numbers years wearing Yankee pin­ Augusta National, then paused not slippery. Not since 2001 755 - 714 kind of rhymes I and home run totals in the stripes in the 1920s, still in its and gazed back at a course has the Masters been contest­ guess," said Cubs manager last decade. original, worn wooden frame. that by now they should know ed over four days in relatively Dusty Baker, Bonds' former "If he came back, I person­ He's posing in his hitting all too well. dry, fast conditions. That's a skipper in San Francisco. ally think he would be disap­ stanee. But this Masters seems to significant date, because seri­ "But 755 is the record." pointed if there was the "You can see how slim he eontain more mystery than ous expansion at Augusta San Francisco plays its slightest tinge of anything still was," she said. ever. National didn't start until the Part of that is the sheer next year. lnngth. The tnes were pushed "We haven't really played back on six holes, stretehing many Masters with dry condi­ the eourse to 7,445 yards, the tions yet," Ernie Els said. "We second-longest course in might lind out this week." major championship history The final day of practice behind Whistling Straits (7 ,514 revealed some potential prob­ yards) two years ago at the lems, with wedge shots bounc­ PGA Championship. ing hard off the green, then Willi" The par-3 fourth hole now is crawling endlessly until they 240 yards, requiring most were off the putting surface. 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Associated Press is only the first step in what we are trying to do and what we NEW YORK- Jaromir Jagr are trying to accomplish," gen­ UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME was right. The New York eral manager Glen Sather said. Rangers are a playoff team. "There are more goals to The odds-on choice to be the achieve and there is a bigger SUMMER SESSION NHL MVP shook off the doubters picture ahead of us." and said so at the start of train­ The lockout is ultimately what JUNE 19-AUGUST 4, 2006 ing camp in September. Then he helped the Rangers produce a went out and made it happen. young, energetic team that The 2006 summer session will begin on Monday, June 19 (enrollment), and Anthropology His record-setting season is clicked right away with a road going to stretch longer into April win at Philadelphia on opening end on Friday, August 4 (final exams). Some courses- primarily in science and Architecture as the Rangers march into the night. languages-will begin and end before or after these dates. The Summer Session Art postseason for the first time Jagr was the established Bulletin contains complete schedule information. The Bulletin is available at the Biology since 1997. force, and the offense was com­ Summer Session Office (111 Earth Sciences Bldg.) beginning on Monday, February "I was 90 percent sure we plemented by fellow Czechs Business were going to make it," Jagr Martin Straka and Martin 27.1nformation on summer courses, as it appears in the Bulletin, is also available at Chemistry said after the Rangers locked up Rucinsky. Throw in veteran for­ the Summer Session website (www.nd.edu/-sumsess). Classical Languages a spot Tuesday with a shootout ward Michael Nylander and win over Philadelphia. ''I'm rookie Petr Prucha - who has Computer Applications Notre Dame continuing students-undergraduate and graduate students in glad. I got what I expected. I 29 goals - and the Rangers had Economics residence during the spring semester of 2006 who are eligible to return in the would be very upset if we didn't the makings of a potent offense, Engineering make it." especially with new rules imple­ fall-must use Web Registration (1) to register for summer courses and (2) to add English For seven seasons, the mented to open up the game. or drop courses according to the add and drop dates specific to each course. The Rangers were the NHL's face of "Nobody believed we could do Web Registration PIN (personal identification number) for summer is available on Film mismanagement and over­ any damage in this league and I insideND for all continuing students. Instructions for course registration (selection) French spending. It was because of think that worked to our advan­ German them that many smaller-market tage," Jagr said. are available at http://registrar.nd.edu. Course reference numbers (CRNs) are clubs claimed they couldn't The biggest addition was published in the Bulletin and at the Summer Session website. History compete in the same league. rookie goalie Henrik Lundqvist, Irish Studies Last year's lockout produced the who showed New York he could Web Registration will be available for summer registration from Wednesday, March Italian salary cap that leveled the be a big-time player months 15, through the add and drop dates specific to each course. Students may register Mathematics financial playing field for all 30 before leading Sweden to the teams. Olympic gold medal. Lundqvist or make schedule changes whenever they choose dur'1ng this period; no appoint­ Music Truth is, it was New York that wrested the No. 1 starting job ment times are necessary. Philosophy was noncompetitive. Payrolls away from Kevin Weekes and Physics that climbed into the $70-mil­ won over the home crowd. Air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned housing and (optional) summer meal lion range failed to produce He is the first Rangers rookie Political Science plans will be available. Forms for meal plans may be obtained at the Summer anything close to a winner. to win 30 games. Psychology Success couldn't be bought, at "The chemistry on the team is Session Office at any time during the spring semester. Students may apply for Sociology least not by anyone in charge at great, and so far it's been fun summer housing online at www.nd.edu/-sumsess Madison Square Garden. for everybody here," Jagr said. Spanish "Sometimes it's too much and He saw it come together Tuition fort he summer session of 2006 will be $598 per credit hour for undergradu­ Theatre it's not good," Jagr said. "I felt quickly and boldly predicted a ate students and $314 per credit hour for graduate students, plus a $50 general fee. Theology like there were too many super­ playoff appearance for a team stars on one team." other pegged for last in the New York snapped the league. longest-running playoff drought "I don't think you ever go into in the league and has a three­ a season admitting anything to point lead over Philadelphia in anyone that you're going to win the Atlantic Division with seven the Stanley Cup, you're not games left - including one going to make the playoffs or head-to-head matchup. you are going to make the play­ The Rangers aren't satisfied offs," Sather said. "I knew that with just making the playoffs. they were going to be a good "I feel really reluctant to talk team as soon as we had them too much about it because this together in training camp." OUND THE NATION Thursday, April 6, 2006 COMPJ LED FROM THE OBSERVER'S WIRE SERVICES page 20

NCAA MEN'S lACROSSE NBA Standings Eastern Conference, Atlantic Division team record pet. GB New Jersey 45-28 .616 Philadelphia 34-39 .466 11 Boston 31-43 .419 14.5 Toronto 26-48 .351 19.5 New York 19-54 .260 26

Eastern Conference, Central Division team record pet. GB Detroit 60-14 .811 Cleveland 45-29 .608 15 Milwaukee 37-37 .500 23 Indiana 35-38 .479 24.5 Chicago 34-40 .459 26

Eastern Conference, Southeast Division team t·l~<:ord pet. CB Miami 49·25 .662 Washington 38-35 .521 10.5 Orlando 29·44 .397 19.5 Atlanta 22-51 .301 28.5 Charlotte 21·54 .280 28.5

Western Conference, Northwest Division team record pd. GB Denver 41·34 .547 Utah 35-39 .473 2.5 Minnesota 31·43 .419 9.5 Seattle 31-43 .419 9.5 Portland 20-53 274 20

Western Conference, Pacific Division team reeord pet. GB AP Phoenix 49-24 .671 Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler heads out to practice March 29 in Durham, N.C. Pressler resigned Wednesday and the school cancelled the rest of the season amidst team rape allegations . LA Clippers 43·30 .589 6 LA Lakers 40-35 .533 10 Sacramento 38-37 .507 12 Golden State 30-43 .411 19 Duke coach resigns, season cancelled

Western Conference, Southwest Division Associated Press this afternoon, and I insults. after the alleged rape, a reeord pet. t()am GB DUHHAM, N.C.- Duke accepted it," Duke athletic Students and townspeo­ player apparently sent an San Antonio 58-16 .784 University's lacrosse coaeh director Joe Alleva said. "I ple have marched on cam­ e-mail saying he wanted Dallas 56-19 .747 2.5 resigned Wednesday and believe this is in the best pus and off in recent days, to invite more strippers to Memphis 43-32 .573 15.5 the school eanceled the interests of the program, angry over the school's his dorm room, kill them New Orleans 35-38 .479 22.5 rest of the season amid a the department of athlet­ handling of the allegations and skin them. It was not Houston 32-42 .432 . 26 burgeoning scandal ics and the university." and the team members' clear whether the message involving allegations that The rape allegations refusal to cooperate with was serious or a joke. three players on the highly have roiled the campus police. Investigators have "The court released said the athletes are stick­ ranked team raped a and the city, raised racial today a previously sealed tensions, and heightened ing together and keeping NCAA Women's Softball stripper at an off-campus warrant, whose contents the long-standing antago­ silent. No one has been party. · are sickening and repul­ Top 25 Mike Pressler spent 16 nism between the privi­ charged. The lacrosse team's co­ sive," said Duke President No·. t11am record points seasons at Duke and won leged students at the elite university and the poorer captains have denied that Hichard Brodhead said in three Atlantic Coast announcing the caneella­ 1 Texas 28-3 486 Conference champi­ people of Durham~ anyone was sexually 2 Arizona 30-4 469 onships. Last year, his The stripper is black and assaulted at the party, as tion of the rest of the sea­ 3 UCLA 30-3 460 team appeared in the said her attackers were have attorneys for the son. Last week, Brodhead 4 Alabama 32-4 456 national championship white. Investigators and players. suspended the team from 5 Tennessee 33-4 403 game. witnesses have said the Earlier Wednesday, play. 6 Oregon State 28-3 402 "Coach Pressler offered lacrosse players taunted authorities unsealed docu­ The stripper is a student 7 Cal 33-4 376 me his resignation earlier her with racial slurs and ments stating that hours at a nearby university. 8 Stanford 27-6 368 9 Arizona State 37-4 357 10 LA-Latayette 29-6 288 11 Georgia 31-9 285 12 LSU 35-5 278 BRIEF 13 Michigan 20-9 259 IN 14 Washington 26·10 248 15 Northwestern 22-8 243 Average MLB salary creeps That makes players more popular, glad it's over." 16 Nebraska 25-6 195 toward $3 million and in turn guys make more money." The Arizona Department of Public 17 Texas A&M 25-10 174 NEW YORK - Baseball's average This year's record $2,866,544 Safety analyzed evidence and results 18 Baylor 22-14 126 salary soared 9 percent this year to average was up 8.9 percent from last were negative for the presence of 19 Louisville 23-5 119 nearly $2.9 million, with Alex year's figure of $2,632,655. male DNA. The woman was unable 20 Auburn 24-10 111 Hodriguez topping a sport in which Cavs' Jones cleared of sex to deseribe any sex act, where it may 21 Oklahoma 24·13·1 105 more than half the players on open­ offense charges have taken place or who was 22 Fresno State 24-13 54 ing-day rosters make $1 million or CLEVELAND - Cavaliers guard involved, police said. 23 Southern Illinois 23-5 51 more. Damon Jones won't be charged in I.SU's Au~stus first _pick by 24 Virginia Tech 28-8 41 Hodriguez headed the list at $25.7 the investigation of an Arizona Minnesota in WNBA oraft 25 DePaul 14-7 37 million and was No. 1 for the sixth woman's claim that he committed a BOSTON - Seimone Augustus ran straight year, according to a study of sexual ofl'ense against her. the gamut of emotions this weekend major league contracts by The "Barring any new information, our in Boston. Associated Press. He was followed by investigation is closed with no Hoping to win the NCAA women's New York Yankees teammates Derek charges," Westlake police Capt. Guy title with LSU, the nation's leading around the dial Jeter ($20.6 million) and Jason Turner said Wednesday. scorer and the Lady Tigers were Giambi ($20.4 million). The 23-year-old woman, who was ousted in the national semifinal San Francisco's Barry Bonds was visiting Cleveland, filed a complaint Sunday night by Duke. Three days MLB fourth at $20 million, and Houston's against Jones when she returned to later, Augustus was back on top as Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m., TBS Jeff Bagwell - who might not play Chandler, Ariz., alleging an offense the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft. because of a shoulder injury - was was committed March 3. LSU's go-to player is going to next at $19.3 million. "The whole time I said that I was Minnesota. NBA "Baseball had record crowds last innocent," Jones said before the "After the semifinal loss, I mainly Detroit at Miami, 8 p.m., TNT year," Giambi said. "Probably with Cavs' game at New York. "I knew went back to my room and read LA lakers at Denver, 10:30 p.m., TNT Barry going to break the [home run] there was an investigation that had books to try to keep my mind off of record, it will bump it up and more to happen and I respect that process. what just happened," Augustus people will come out and watch it. 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BOOKSTORE BASKETBALL XXXV The Boy Band no longer singing after first-round loss Welcome to the Thunderdome tops The Boy Band 21-10; Lazy Sunday falls to Bone Thugz in lopsided game , Shame to breeze through the contributing to the lopsided By GREG ARBOGAST, JAY first round. loss. FITZPATRICK and CHRIS "Defense was definitely key Early on, the game was WILLIAMS in today's win," Naked with­ marked by sloppy play and Sports Writers out Shame captain Stephen turnovers as the teams both Currie said. "We started out worked to find an offensive Two teams entered McGlinn slow, but then picked it up rhythm. courts with hope of advanc­ and put our buckets in." "They came out of the gate ing to the second round, but One crucial factor in the a little sloppy," Bone Thugz only Welcome to team's defense was its tenac­ coach Mike Ortiz said. "But Thunderdome left with that ity. All five team members of they turned it on after a dream intact - overpower­ Naked without shame would while." ing The Boy Band in a 21-10 go all out for steals and After the slow start, Bone victory. rebounds against 133 - a Thugz stepped up their game Th underdome 's main main reason for the inaccu­ with Maurice leading the weapon against the slower, rate passing and shooting. way. With the game tied at shorter Boy Band was their The team's ability to get two apiece, Maurice scored strong transition offense. The down the court quickly was five of the team's next seven Boy Band was unable to get also decisive in Naked with­ points as they stretched their back on defense after com­ out Shame's victory. After lead to 9-2. Maurice finished mitting turnovers, giving forcing the turnovers, Naked with nine points. Every play­ Thunderdome the chance to was consistently er on Bone Thugz pull ahead. able to outrun "They came out of scored at least two "I think one main positive 133 down the points. in our game was that we court and finish the gate a little As for the Bone made the shots when they in transition sloppy, but they Thugz's chances in counted," Welcome to before 13 3 could turned it on after a the following Thunderdome captain Greg get back on rounds, Ortiz took Cochara said. defense. while." the brutally hon- Cochara's team shot well in Despite the est route. the second half after failing team's impressive Mike Ortiz ''I'm going to be to find their touch in the first win Wednesday, Bone Thugz coach honest: I think half. The Boy Band hung Currie remains we're going to lose with Thunderdome at the realistic about his in the next beginning of the game, keep­ team's ultimate chances in round," said Ortiz. "But if ing the score close for much the tournament. they play their game, they of the first half. But the team "We played well today, but I could go far." went cold in the second half still think we'll probably get DUSTIN.MENNELLA!The Observer and Thunderdome 's speed knocked out in section finals They All Said ... Jabroni 21, Above, Scott Cahill, left, and Tony Crosser battle in the game of outmatched the Boy Band. by the fifth ranked team," Rooster Blockers 2 "PC Load Letter" vs. "Remedys for Fraud." Below, Sean Mallin Despite the tough loss, The Currie said. In a highly anticipated of the "Typical Newbs" drives against "Four Men and a Baby." Boy Band still remained con­ match up of two bookstore fident for next spring's tour­ Bone Thugz 21, basketball titans, the mighty nament, where they hope to Lazy Sunday 8 Rooster Blockers fell to the have a much better showing. Bone Thugz used over­ mightier They All Said ... "The off-season starts whelming defense and a fast­ Jabroni. today," Boy Band center break offense to pace their Both teams played strong Conor McNamara said. way to a 21-8 victory over defense in the beginning. But Lazy Sunday Wednesday at the floodgates opened later Naked without Shame 21, Stepan. as They All Said ... J abroni Team 133 6 After a James Rudy jump went on an 11-0 run before Naked without Shame dom­ shot brought Lazy Sunday halftime. inated its opponent Team 133 within six points at 14-8, The Rooster Blockers in a 21-6 win Wednesday. Bone Thugz turned up their appeared to have energy and Team 133 showed signs of defense and scored four of enthusiasm throughout the promise, forcing key their final seven baskets off game, but their lack of size turnovers and grabbing steals. and skill were ultimately important rebounds against Bryan Good did most of the their Achilles' heel. Naked without Shame - but pick pocketing, as his long In the second half, the was never able to fully capi­ arms and quickness contin­ Jabronis continued to put up talize. Unlucky shots and ued to force turnovers and points with a 5-0 run. mistimed passes put the ball fast-break opportunities. But The biggest shift in momen­ in their opponent's hands, Lazy Sunday had trouble exe­ tum occurred when Rooster enabling Naked without cuting on offense all night, Blocker guard Tom "Cheese Whiz" Blanchette - executed a textbook fade­ away jumper. "I knew all those forearm workouts in the off season came out dressed with four In the second half, The would pay off," he said. ''I men donned in suits and a Typical Newbs appeared to really did." lone point guard dressed in regain momentum with a few Rooster forward Will Marra an adult diaper. well-placed shots. But the answered on the next The odds seemed to be strong play of forward Zeb J abroni possession with an stacked against the unortho­ Hunter proved to be too energy-charged block. dox Four Men and a Baby much for the Newbs. "In Soviet Russia, Marra, team, as members smoked The blue-collar and old how you say? Stuffed you!" and lounged around before school style play of Oregon Marra said after the game. the game, while The Typical native Ryan McCune brought The Rooster Blockers Newbs, practiced with lay-up back memories of all-time seemed poised to make a and shot drills. Oregon greats Danny Ainge Come to Damon's Grill Every Friday comeback when their shoot­ In the first half, it appeared and Steve Prefontane. ing guard, Eric "E-Rocker" that the suits and diaper "On that court, some boys Turner, netted an opportune restricted the shooters' range became men," said a teary­ basket. of motion, as Four Men and a eyed Mike Hopkinson after For All-You-Can-Eat In the end, however, "They Baby missed. The Typical the game. "And some men All Said ... Jabroni" squad Newbs quickly gained a size­ became babies. Period." finished the game with a 6-0 able five-point lead early on. A roaring crowd of specta­ Fish $10.99 run and advanced to the next The rest is history. tors cheered wildly as Hunter round. Four Men and a Baby point hit the game-winning shot Visit Our New Game Room guard Andrew "The Diaper with his patented "peanut Four Men and a Baby 21, Dandy" Forero, went on fire butter jelly" dance, as Four With Pool Table The Typical Newbs 17 and nailed several clutch Men and a Baby came away It has been said, do not shots. with a 21-17 victory to judge a book by its cover. "I don't know what hap­ advance to the next round. www.damons.com This was the case in the pened," Forero said. "I just game between Four men and started feeling it. I was hit­ Contact Greg Arbogast at (574) 272-5478 a Baby and The Typical tin' them baby hooks. Yeah, [email protected], Jay Newbs. While the Newbs baby!" Fitzpatrick at [email protected] came out dressed in athletic Forero led the team to an and Chris Williams at 52885 US 31/SR933 attire, Four Men and a Baby 11-8 lead at half. cwillill @nd.edu

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ND SOFTBALL MLB Akron blows past streaking Irish Braves come back Zips' four-hitter nips NO's nine game run to defeat Dodgers

By DAN MURPHY Langerhans steps up by .J.D. Drew and Mueller, a SpomWritcr run-scoring double by Alomar with eighth inning hit and a sacrifice fly by Olmedo Saenz. Notre Dame's nine-game Jose Cruz .Jr. hit a sacrifice win streak and its undefeated Associated Press fly in the second to make it 5- home record came to a halt 0, but the Braves tied it against Wednesday with a 4-2 loss to LOS ANGELES - Hyan Odalis Perez in the third on an Akron, proving the motto that Langerhans hit a two-out RBI double by Renteria, a sac­ all good things must come to ground-rule double in the rifice 11y by Matt Diaz, a run­ an end. eighth to drive in the go-ahead scoring single by Andruw Akron pitcher Megan run, and the Atlanta Braves .Jones and a two-run homer by Mackenzie led the Zips past beat the Los Angeles Dodgers Wilson Betemit. the Irish for tlwir first loss at 9-8 Wednesday night. Atlanta took an 8-5 lead and Ivy Fi1dd this season. Marcus Giles and Edgar chased Perez in the fourth, Mackenzie registen~d hnr 13th Henteria drew two-out walks scoring on an HBI single by corn plnte game of the season off Franquelis Osoria {0-1) Renteria, a bases-loaded walk while holding Notre Dame's before Langerhans, who to Jones and a sacrifice fly by oiTense to just four hits - entered the game in the sev­ Jell" Francouer. three corning in the last enth, hit a liner into the right­ Braves starter lloracio inning .. field corner that bounced into Hamirez allowed eight hits and "We didn't hit ball well all the stands. live runs in three innings. lie ganw." Notre Dame coach Oscar Villareal, who pitched Len in the fourth after straining Doanna (;umpf said. "Early out of a bases-loaded, one-out his lnft hamstring while run­ on, we didn't make any jam in the seventh, was the ning out a bunt single. Perez adjustnwnts and we pressed a winner. Chris Heitsma, the gave up nine hits and seven lot at tlw end." sixth Atlanta pitcher, got the runs in three-plus innings. Notre I>anw was unable to last five outs for his second The Dodgers, who already get a runner past first base save. have Kenny Lofton and Nomar until tho bottom of the sev­ ALLISON AMBROSE!The Observer The Dodgers, who blew an Garciaparra on the disabled enth. After hitting the ball Notre Dame catcher Mallorie Lenn receives strike three from early 5-0 lead, scored three list, lost Jeff Kent and Saenz hard all day, Linda Kohan got pitcher Brittney Bargar Wednesday at Ivy Field. runs in the seventh to tie the during the game. one to drop in for a double game. The first scored on an Kent was lil'ted for a pinch that drove in two runs - her like that you're bound to get ter decisions at the plate. error by shortstop Edgar hitter in the fourth because of I Oth and 11th HBis this Sl~a­ hit." Cumpf said. "You always have to go back Henteria, and Bill Mueller and the bruised left triceps he sus­ son. Irish junior Kenya to fundamentals when things Sandy Alomar .Jr. followed with tained when hit by a pitch in "The center l'ielder was Fuemrneler came on in relief are going well, that is what HBI singles. the first, and Saenz came out making great plays all day and did a solid job of holding it's all about." said Kohan. Villareal, who relieved Mike in the l'il'th because of a stilT long, tho bottom linn is we just thn Akron offense at bay for After reloading, the Irish Hemlinger and allowed back. Neither injury is bfllieved havo to get things going earli­ the remainder of the game. will look to begin a new win­ Alomar's single, hit Jason to be serious. er in tho game." Kohan said. Fuemnwler gave up one weak ning streak this weekend as Hepko with a pitch to load the Atlanta's Chipper .Jones was The Zips were able to get to hit in the seventh, but was they take their undefeated Big bases before retiring pinch hit­ held out of the game because Irish pitcher Brittney Bargar otherwise unscathed in her 2 East record on the road to ter Cody Hoss and Hal'ael ·of what manager Bobby Cox early - putting up three runs 1-3 scoreless innings. face Syracuse and Pitt. Furcal. called "a little soreness in his in the lop of' the third. The "Kenya did a great job- we The Dodgers scored four stomach." The decision was largest blow came when needed her to come in and Contact Dan Murphy runs in the first for the second made after Jones took batting Akron second baseman .Jamie slow things down and she did at [email protected]. straight game on RBI singles practice. Scandil't ripped a two run the job," Gumpf said. double to the right center gap. Despite a disappointing end, The Akron rally came after the eight-game homestand Bargar struck out the first two showed a lot of progress, batters of the inning. especially on the mound. The Akron struck again with two staff only gave up four runs in outs in the top of the fifth South Bend, including two no­ when right fielder Cali hitters and five shutout per­ Unplanned Pregnancy? Stratton singled up the middle formances. to get her second HBI of the According to Gumpf, the game. The hit gave the Zips a team will need to get back to 4-0 lead and ended Bargar's the basics to continue their Don't go it alone. day. success on offense as well as "She was flat and around defense. She is hoping that the the plate, when you come out team will be able to make bet- Ifyou or someone you love needs help or information, please call. 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WOMEN'S lACROSSE Foote kic_ks off 10-1 start, tied for best in school history Senior attack tallies four goals to claim Irish career record; Byers dishes game-high three assists to beat Ohio State

against Ohio State (1-9) in own - especially in the first faltering in the second half. tices that we can bring to the By JAY FITZPATRICK Columbus - the team's best half. The Irish were able to The Irish let in four goals field." Sports Writer start in school history. get more ground balls and while scoring only four after Despite a mediocre per­ Foote led all scorers in the draws while committing the break. formance in the second half, Notre Dame attack Christi game. Her four goals gave fewer turnovers than the "We definitely did not play the Irish still managed to win Foote's four goals led the No. her 13 2 goals for her Notre Buckeyes. as well in the second half as a hard-fought game against 10 Irish ( 10-1) to their third Dame career - moving past The Irish's ability to keep we did in the one of their big win in a row Wednesday 13-6 Danielle possession first," Foote "We have been focused rivals. Shearer on of the ball said. "We need "I am defi­ the career­ while keep­ to be able to and committed all nitely happy to goal list. ing it out of play consis­ season long, and plan get out of there Foote's the Buck­ tently well for to stay that way." with win," 188 career eye's sticks all sixty min­ Coyne said points are was crucial utes." after the game. also best to the early Coyne was Tracy Coyne "[Ohio State] for second N o t r e also very Irish head coach had everything all-time for Dame, who impressed with to gain and the Irish Foote Shearer started the her team's nothing to lose, behind game with ability to take but now we can Danielle four unan­ what they had worked on this move on and focus on the Shearer (196). swered goals by freshman week in practice and use it in games ahead of us." Foote now has 45 goals for midfielder Jane Stoeckert, game situations, something Notre Dame's road trip will the season with five games sophomore midfielder Caitlin they focused on this spring. continue with a trip to ·remaining, giving he.r time to McKinney and two by Foote. "We have been focused and Durham to face No. 2 Duke pass Lael O'Shaughnessy's The Irish took a 9-2 lead into committed all season long, this weekend. single-season the half and and plan to stay that way," record (50). held it for the Coyne said. "We have been Contact Jay Fitzpatrick at Notre Dame "What we worked on entire game. having very competitive prac- [email protected]. midfielder Mary in practice came out "What we Carpenter and worked on in attack Heather really well in the practice came Ferguson each game, especially in the out really well scored two goals first half" in the game, in the win. especially in illi{OiiiAII~ZIT Freshman the first half," Local Tradition Since 1975 attack Jill Byers Tracy Coyne Irish coach was shut out by Irish head coach Tracy Coyne the Buckeye's said. "Our Call for Campus Delivery: 273-3890 or defense, but led execution in the Irish with three assists. general was very good." Notre Dame played strong But Foote said the win throughout the game, limiting against Ohio State game was Ohio State's scoring opportu­ a tale of two halves, with nities while capitalizing on its Notre Dame's performance

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'The guy was saf(J at the plate, then he was celebrating with his Buck Nine teammates and bumped into our continued from page 28 continued from page 28 catcher," Mainieri said. "It was a no-brainer. It had to be interfer­ we had the potential Ito have a eighth save. ence." great season I and are hoping Notre Dame starter Wade The umpires ruled intnrference to keep it up until the NCAA Korpi, whose last start was a on Sullivan and called Singleton ITournamentl." complete-game shutout of out for the second out of the In doubles, the Irish trailed Western Michigan March 29, inning, killing the Cardinal rally. early but won two of three threw 5 1-2 innings, allowing one Notre Dame wasted no time matches to get out to a 1-0 lead run on three hits and striking out coming back, scoring three runs in the match. The No. 4 duo of eight while registering a no deci­ in the bottom of the inning. Irish juniors Christian and Catrina sion. rightfielder Danny Dressman Thompson downed the "[Korpi] wasn't quite as sharp walked and was driven in by a Wildcats' Fericl Esseghir and as he was last week and he didn't game-tying double by leftlielder Alexis Prousis X-4 at No. 1. have as much control of his Matt Bransfield. "We were down early in the changeup, so it was more of a Brezovsky then hit a curvn ball doubles point because we arc struggle for him," Notre Dame by Ball State lefthander Kory used to them being aggressive head coach Paul Mainieri said. Bucklow over the right field fence and coming to the net, but Overall, the Irish used l'ive to give the Irish a two-run lead today they were staying back pitchers, who allowed four runs they wouldn't relinquish. and lobbing tlw ball more," on a combined eight hil'i. "I think he was trying to throw Catrina Thompson said. "So we "That was by design," Mainieri it away, but he hung it inside and were the ones who had to be said. "I wanted to use some of I just turned on it," Brezovsky aggressive in order to get the those guys because they haven't said of tJu1 pitch. win." been on the mound for a whiln." The win was the seeond time in The second win eame from Notre Dame lnd 3-1 going into three games Notre Dame has Notrn Dame seniors Lauren the seventh but Ball State come back after falling behind in Connelly and Kiki Stastny over stormed back and took a 4-3 lead. the previous half-inning. Sunday Northwnstnrn's Nazlin Ghazal Cardinals right l'ielder Justin against Pittsburgh, the Panthers and .Jamie l'eisel X-5 at No. 3. Hogers led off the inning with a scomd thren runs in the ninth to The twosome now stands at single and shortstop Eric take an 8-7 lead, but Irish desig­ I X-1 in dual action this season. Earnhardt followed by being hit nated hitter Jeremy Barnes drove Thn only loss in doubles by a pitch. Designated hitter Matt in the game winning runs with a came from tho No. 39 duo of Gard laid down a sacrifice bunt to single in the bottom of the inning. Notrn Dame sophomorn Brook move the runners to second and "You have to have high charac:­ Buck and froshman Koley Tof'tt. third, and centerl'ielder Matt ter kids to be able to Itake the The Irish pairing was defeat­ Sullivan drove them in to tie the lead right backl." Mainieri said. ed by Aloxis Conill and (;eorgia game. "Plus, when you do it - it builds Hose X-5 at No.2. Sullivan stole second and eateh­ confidence that you can come In singlns, tho Irish found er Matt Singleton's singln brought back after giving up a lead." wins from Nos. 3, 4 and 5 to LAURIE HUNTfThe Observer him home. The ball rolled slowly Notre Dame struck first sncure the victory early on. Notre Dame junior Brook Buck returns a serve in a 4-3 win over between first and second base, Wednesday, scoring twice with The most impressivn win Northwestern Wednesday. Buck won the clinching match. where Brezovsky slipped and was two outs in the second inning and carne from Buck. who upset slow getting to the ball. then extnndnd tJ1eir lead to 3-0 in No. 24 Alexis Prousis 6-3, 6-3 Christian Thompson also failed "It was a hard fought match, "I broke on the ball up the mid­ the fifth on an HBI double by at No. :{. Iter win was followed to pull oil' the upset over No. 44 but we jumped out in front 4-0 dle and then [Irish reliever) Joey Barnes. Tdll at No. 4 over .lamin Peisel Hose 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (1 0-X). and it didn't come down to one [Williamson! blocked the ball with The Cardinals cut into the lead 6-3, 6-1. Tefl't now holds a 14-4 The final loss came from final match," Potts said. "So his foot," Brezovsky said. "I in the top of the sixth. rncord in duals matches. The Potts who was defeated by emotionally it was a lot easier slipped going baek the other way, Centerfielder Mike Sullivan start­ final win came from Stastny at Nazlie Ghazal 6-3, 6-2. than some of the other match­ and then [Notre Dame shortstop ed the inning with a walk, stole No. 5 who downed Esseghir 6- Despite the close win, Potts es." Gregl Lopez was yelling at me second and seored on a single by 3, 6-0. said the victory was not as The Irish take on DePaul that the guy was going home so I third ba'ieman C.J Webb. The run The three losses came from emotional as other 4-3 contests Friday at 3:30 at the Courtney just picked it up and threw it." was the first allowed by Korpi in the Irish's only two players in the past. The Irish were able Tennis Center. The throw was late getting 15 innings, dating back to a start ranked in singles. No. 30 to secure the victory early by home and Sullivan was safe with against Iowa March 13. 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making any rash judgments like Mitehell Thomas is our Football starting middle linebaeker, but continued from page 28 the reason why he was run­ ning first is beeause he was baek~r last season - both running best. play~rs have sat out mueh of "You don't run anybody out the spring due to injuries. But there first beeause you're pat­ Weis said their absenees have ting them on the back and allowed other linebaekers to saying, 'Hey, it's your turn eompete for a today, buddy."' position. "I think it's Weis said he "It lets you get a likes what he has look at some peo­ important to make seen from his ple who might sure, first things young safeties - have gotten a lot first, to eliminate who are compet­ lnss r~ps, and I ing against think that that's a communication returning starters telling tale," Weis errors on defense. " Chinedum said. "All of a sud­ Ndukwe and Tom d~n you're saying Charlie Weis Zbikowski. hey, !Crum's] not "We've been in here, Irish coach very pleased, - I Broekington 's] not almost surprising­ in here, who's going to win ly pleased with the play of these battles, who wants these [freshman] Ray Herring and spots. I freshman] David Bruton." Notre Dame sophomore Weis said. Anthony Vernaglia, junior Notre Dame has opted. to Mitehell Thomas and fresh­ simplify the defensive play­ man Steve Quinn have been book in hopes that communi­ playing as the first team line­ eation mistakes will be mini­ baekers, but Weis indieated mized as it looks for new con­ LAURIE HUNT/The Observer that eould ehange as the tributors. Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis observes players stretching before practice Wednesday. spring progresses. "When you're going through Spring practice was held outdoors as the Irish took advantage of mild spring weather. "I don't think just beeause the spring and a number of the first group was out [there] guys are rolling through, it's first, to eliminate communiea­ !Aldridge] is already here has advanced and progressed and the seeond group was out just not 11,12,13 guys you're tion errors on defense." [and] by the way, he was run­ mueh quicker than a year ago. Ithere I. that anything is etehed not playing out there, its 30," On offense, Notre Dame is ning around pretty good the "I think that's natural in all in stone," We is said. "I think Weis said. "I think it's impor­ still finding a replacement for other day," We is said. "What facets of our team. I think it's it'd be pretty premature to be tant to make sure, first things departing senior right tackle do you do with these guys? natural on offense and defense Mark Levoir. Irish senior Brian You don't want bring them in and special teams," he said. Mattes and freshmen Paul here and not have a plan." ''I'm finding on both sides of Duncan and Michael With junior Jeff Samardzija the ball [that], with the guys Turkovich have been working devoting time to the baseball who have played before, !pro­ at the position. team, Weis seemed unenthusi­ gression] has been pretty "If Brian Mattes hadn't been astic about his receiving corps good." banged up to start the eamp, - except for senior Hhema just by seniority, we would McKnight. McKnight is return­ Notes: have given him the first shot ing after missing most of last + Notre Dame walk-on at right tackle," Weis said. season with a knee injury. sophomore Wade lams has "But since he missed some "I don't think any of them been in the mix returning stuff early on, it gave both have stood out enough for me kickoffs for Notre Dame in Paul Duncan and Mike to go out of my way and say practice. Turkovic an opportunity to yeah, I'm fired up about so­ "I think you got to keep on both kinda play that position." and so," Weis said. "''m fired putting people out there and Duncan has seen more up about Rhema, how about giving them reps and try to action than his two teammates that?" find the ones that eventually this spring, but Weis said Special teams remain more that give you the most yardage there was a long way to go of an issue than offense or out of it," Weis said. before he would decide on a defense since the team has + Freshman safety Kyle starter. only practiced outside in McCarthy is being held from "I would not anoint [Duncan] game-like weather twice this contaet drills due to injury. the starting right tackle at this spring. "He's doing everything else point," he said. "When the "Though it's more realistic full speed, but we're not let­ spring's over, we'll evaluate to how games are going to be ting him hit as much as those where we are right now, and played, its not an idealistic other guys," Weis said. when the freshmen come in, way to come out of the box on + Weis and his coaching we'll slot them in there, and special teams, so I don't jump staff will hold a coaching clin­ may the best man win." to any rash conclusions as far ic for the second straight sea­ Weis also discussed his as specialists go," Weis said. "I son on April 7 and 8. One young prospects at running think the more we get outside, thousand coaches will attend, back that will compete against the more the kickers can be representing high sehools returning starter Darius turned loose and we can be from 28 states and three Walker. Walker rushed for able to judge that a little bit Canadian provinees. lAURIE HUNT!T.he Observer 1,274 yards last season. more." Quarterback Brady Quinn drops back to pass during practice "I got three running backs In his second spring prac­ Contact Eric Retter at Wednesday. The junior will start for the fourth straight year. coming in this year - James tice, Weis notieed the team [email protected]

SMC GOLF Belles take second straight title in tournament

to a strong start despite tough 360 to record a 334 - win­ score on the 5,981-yard, par- Fantom said the "prepara­ Mattia shoots record conditions and led the field ning by 25 strokes. 72 course, which is 40 yards tion, determination, and will score at Foxfire course after the first day. Otterbein (719) finished in longer than the Players of the team" contributed to "On Friday the course was seeond place and Course where the they players' ·consistent per­ playing tough," Saint Mary's Ohio Northern first round was formances. Fantom finished By BECKI DORNER senior Megan Mattia said. "It University (735) "Despite our played. sixth overall (174), Saint Sports Writer was raining and there were took third place. overall difficulty on Otterbein Mary's freshman Alex Sei fin­ really strong winds." Baldwin-Wallace the first day, we College's Rustie ished 13th (185) and Saint The Belles shot a tourna­ But the Belles remained Colleoge (781) fin­ Anderson earned Mary's senior Nicole Bellino ment-record 334 at the confident despite the elemen­ ished fourth and went out Saturday second place with tied for 17th (187). Foxfire Golf Club of Ohio in tal hardships. Wilmington knowing we could a 167 (87, 80). The Belles remain focused Saturday's final round to win "Despite our overall diffi­ College (796) play better." while her team­ and are already preparing for their second straight champi­ culty on the first day, we rounded out the mate Katie the upcoming match at onship in the Capital went out Saturday knowing top five. Johnson (89, 81) Illinois Wesleyan University. University Purple & White we could play better," Saint Mattia carded a Kirsten Fantom and first round "We are excited about going Invitational. Mary's captain Kirsten Foxfire course Belles co-captain leader O'Brien to IWU next weekend," Mattia The Belles are the second Fantom said. " ... [We were] reeord 77 on the (83, 87) tied for said. "We know the course team to win back-to-hack approaching the round one second day to lead third at 170. Two­ really well so we have high events in the tournament's shot at a time." Saint Mary's and her two-day time defending medalist expectations." seven-year history. On the second day, Saint total of 165 gave her Medalist Colleen Groomes (Otterbein) Saint Mary's sophomore Mary's improved 26 strokes honors. finished in fifth with a 171 Contact Becki Domer at Katie O'Brien got the team off on their first round total of Mattia shot her record (87 -84). [email protected] page 26 The Observer + SPORTS Thursday, April 6, 2006 Duffy Bender continued from page 28 continued from page 28

college snniors Monday. excel both on the eourt and in the "I feel that I played well [in dassroom, and will valun the mi<;sion the workouts!," Duffy said. "I of Saint Mary's College," Kachmarik just kind of stuck to my said. 'The new coach must al'>o undnr­ game and conenntrated on stand the framework of college athlet­ playing good defense and ics and the governing groups that running the teams out impaet college athletics . . . in our ca<;e there." the NC!\i\ a per­ collegiate career ended sonnel issue. March 1 !J with Notre Dame's Bender, who led Saint Mary's to an 7X-61 loss to Boston College 11-15 record (9-7 in the MIM), coach­ in the first round of the es tenni<; at Buchanan High School in NC/\1\ Tournament at his hometown of Buchanan, Mich. Mackey /\rena in West Saint Mary's nine league wins this sea­ Lafayette, Ind. She scored 15 son were a program record. Bender points on 6-of-15 shooting in went on vacation thi'l week and wa'l the loss. unavailable lor eomrnent Wednesday. Duffy became the sixth Kaehmarik infonnnd players of the Notrn Dame player selected decision Friday. Several players met in thn draft since 2001 - with Saint Mary's Presidnnt Carol i\nn and the second taken by Mooney Monday, said a member of the Minnnsota. Last year, the team who wished to remain anony­ Lynx drafted Duffy's former mous. teammate and Notre Dame "Whenever there is a change in alumnae .Jacqueline coaching staff, particularly the head Batteast. The forward played coach, there will be an impact," in just night games last sea­ Kaehmarik said. "Everyone involved son, accumulating six will have some adjusting to do. Student rebounds and three assists ALLISON AMBROSEfThe Observer athletes are resilient, however, and wn in 46 minutes or play. Notre Dame guard Megan Duffy, a third-round selection in the 2006 WNBA Draft, drives to are eonfident that they will continue to Minnesota traded Batteast the basket In a 79-64 loss to Connecticut on Jan. 17. be dedicated, engaged Saint Mary's to the Detroit Shock athletes who are committed to excel­ Wednesday for Ambrosia Former Notre Dame for­ Batteast in the second round selection to the All-Big East lence on and off the court." 1\ndnrson. a se1:ond-round ward Kelley Siemon was the last year. first team this year and won Bender replar.ed Suzanne Bellina a<; piek out of BYU. third Irish player selected in Duffy finished her career the Frances Pomeroy Belles head coaeh this season. Bellina The Miami Sol draftnd for­ 2001, going to the Los with an .859 free-throw per­ Naismith Award - given coached Saint Mary's li)r five seasons mer Notrn Dame center Huth Angeles Sparks in the third centage - second overall in annually to the nation's best from 2000-01 through 2004-05, lead­ Hiley in thn first round of the round. Irish history and No. 15 all­ senior shorter than 5-foot-8. ing the Belles to a 41-87 record overall 2001 draft, and Irish guard The Detroit Shock selected time in the NCAA - and led record with a 17-55 eonfi1rence mark. Niele lvey went to the Irish guard Ericka Haney in the conference in the catego­ Contact Ken Fowler at Indiana Fever in the seeond third round of the 2002 ry in 2005-06 (.888). kfowlerl @nd.edu and Eric Contact Ken Fowler at round that year. Draft, and the Lynx took She was a unanimous Retter at [email protected] kfowler [email protected]

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Thursday, April 6, 2006 PORTS page 28 < ND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Duffy selected in third round of WNBA draft

to go in the first round, Duffy name and [said] they wanted Thorburn at No. 7 overall. of up for grabs of who's going By KEN FOWLER and fell to the No. 31 pick overall me on their team." Duffy will compete with to make it. ... It'll be an excit­ ERIC RETTER in the draft. With the first overall pick in Augustus, Thorburn and ing, competitive training Sports Writers "Obviously it was a little the draft, Minnesota took two­ returning Lynx players for a camp, and I'm just thankful to nerve-racking, sitting there time Associated Press national spot on the active roster dur­ have the opportunity to go up The Minnesota Lynx selected for a few hours and not hear­ player of the year Seimone ing Minnesota's training camp, to Minnesota." Notre Dame senior point ing your name," Duffy said Augustus, a 6-foot-1 shooting which begins April 23. Minnesota and the 13 other guard Megan Duffy in the Wednesday in a telephone guard from Louisiana State. "I think I have a really good teams of the WNBA held pre­ third round of the WNBA Draft interview with The Observer. The Lynx used their second situation in Minnesota draft workouts with about 40 in Boston Wednesday. "But I was just really excited first-round selection to draft because they need a point Expected by many analysts when Minnesota called my Utah point guard Shona guard," Duffy said. ''It's kind see DUFFY/page 26

BASEBALL SMC BASKETBALL Nine is fine College to Ball State latest to fall search for in wake of Irish streak new coach By CHRIS KHOREY Associare Sporrs Editor By KEN FOWLER Sports Editor Notre Dame second baseman Ross Brezovsky broke a 4-4 tie in Saint Mary's athletic director the bottom of the seventh with a Lynn Kachmarik said in a state­ two-run home run that put the ment released to the Observer Irish ahead for good against Ball Wednesday the search for a new State Wednesday at Frank Eck head coach to Stadium. replace Steve Notre Dame (19-8, 5-1 in the Bender, whose Big East) earned their ninth contract was straight vktory with the 6-4 win, not renewed while the Cardinals (15-12, 5-1 in after his first the MAC) saw their eight-game season, will winning streak snapped. "begin immedi­ Notre Dame junior Mike Dury ately." earned his second win of the sea­ "It's impor- son in relief for the Irish. and tant to find Bender freshman closer Kyle Weiland got ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer someone who two outs in the ninth for his At left, Irish catcher Cody Rizzo receives a pitch will inspire the student athletes to Wednesday. At right, Notre Dame first baseman Craig see NINE/page 24 Cooper anticipates a ground ball. see BENDER/page 25

FOOTBALL ND WOMEN'S TENNIS Backups have chance Buck clinches win for Irish to shine in spring play Northwestern loses Weis observes progress in various players 4-2 to Notre Dame

going full speed," Weis said. By DAN TAPETILLO By ERIC RETTER "That full speed will come into Sports Writer A

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---- ~ Thursday, April 6, 2006 The Observer + IN FOCUS page 3 Committee to fight violence against women The group will be "charged hers, such as Vice President and "I just found out who was on it Besides Bederman, theology By MADDIE HANNA with fostering a wide-ranging Associate Provost Jean Ann in the statement," Bederman department chair John News Writer discussion of gender relations, Linney. said. "In terms of what he has in Cavadini, law school and theolo­ roles, and ways to prevent vio­ Linney said Wednesday she mind, he says what it's going to gy professor M. Cathleen Responding to two months of lence against women," accord­ believed the committee was put be about in the statement." Kaveny, anthropology professor debate surrounding "The Vagina ing to Jenkins' statement. together to "reflect the range of Emily Weisbecker, a junior Carolyn Nordstrom, Associate Monologues" that magnified the "In many conversations with perspectives on campus and and co-organizer of this year's Dean of the College of Arts and issue of violence against women students and faculty, it was also to reflect different roles on "Monologues" production, said Letters Dayle Seidenspinner­ on Notre Dame's campus, clear to me that it's important to campus." she was not apprehensive about Nunez, accountancy specialist University President Father address issues about and of con­ She believed the committee serving alongside top adminis­ Margot O'Brien, Assistant Dean John Jenkins said Wednesday cern to women in a way that's would first "formulate ways" to trators and faculty members. of the College of Arts and he will form a University ad hoc thoughtful, that's responsible, address problems of gender "I would have been before," Letters Ava Preacher and art committee to address the issue. that addresses those questions," relations and violence against Weisbecker said. "I wasn't sure professor Kathleen Pyne will The committee is one of three Jenkins told The Observer women, then strive to see those the first time I met with Jenkins. form the faculty contingent. initiatives - the others being a Wednesday afternoon. ways "translated to activities Now that I've met with nim I Jenkins has also selected stu­ student-written production enti­ "I really want to have a con­ and actions." feel much more comfortable .... dents in addition to Weisbecker. tled "Loyal Daughters" and versation that doesn't include While Linney did not know of I'm definitely ready for that kind Graduate student Alexandre departmental guidelines for people of just one point of view, the committee's official title or if of group. Not intimidated." Chapeaux, junior Gregory Floyd, sponsoring academic events - but includes people of a variety the first meeting had been The other administrators that junior Madison Liddy, sopho­ outlined in Jenkins' dosing of points of view to come togeth­ scheduled, she said her secre­ will serve on the committee are more Madeleine Ryland and jun­ statement on academic freedom er and have a serious conversa­ tary may have received the Associate Vice President of ior Danielle Thomson will be and Catholic character tion about those issues, to information. Student Affairs Ann Firth. members of the ad hoc commit­ Wednesday. enhance and advance that con­ History professor Gail Director of the Gender Relations tee. Jenkins will chair the commit­ versation." Bederman said she was also Center Heather Rakoczy and tee, which will include adminis­ Jenkins said he personally asked by Jenkins to serve on the Executive Assistant to the Contact Maddie Hanna at trators, faculty and students. selected the committee's mem- committee. President Frances Shavers. mhannal @nd.edu

JARRED WAFER/Observer Graphic 'Vagina Monologues' organizers focus on future plans

of "Loyal Daughters" would be "The Vagina Monologues" would By KAREN LANGLEY treated as an academic event and have to make a presentation to an Associate News Editor could not be used to raise funds. academic department. "That's the only thing we dis­ "Those who are interested in "The Vagina Monologues" may agree with," Redfield said. putting on 'Loyal Daughters' are be here to stay - unless Notre Redfield said past interested in working on that, and Dame's own "Loyal Daughters" "Monologues" organizers have that's what we've talked about," replaces it. tentatively planned a fundraiser he told The Observer Wednesday. Student organizers of past gala to replace the $15,000 that "But we haven't considered any "Monologues" productions at the production traditionally raised proposal about 'The Vagina Notre Dame reacted enthusiasti­ annually for local women's chari­ Monologues."' cally to the release of University ties. For now, the organizers are President Father John Jenkins' Weisbecker began the project totally committed to the develop­ closing statement on academic this fall and has completed 20 of ment and production of "Loyal freedom Wednesday. 50 planned interviews with male Daughters," said Madison Liddy, Jenkins said "The Vagina and female students and a few this year's director of "The Vagina Monologues" may continue on faculty members. Her research - Monologues." campus as an academic event, funded by a UROP grant - is "We are going to put all our but organizers said their own focused on women's experiences efforts into 'Loyal Daughters,' so I decision to further produce the at Notre Dame, including sexuali­ really hope it succeeds," she said. "Monologues" will depend upon ty and sexual assault but also "That's my goal for now." the November debut of "Loyal related issues like alcohol and Weisbecker and Liddy will both Daughters," a yet-to-be-written, mental health. serve on the ad hoc committee Notre Dame-specific play that "I believe very strongly that Jenkins has convened to address they hope will strike a personal when you come across difficult gender relations and violence note with audiences. issues, it is important to encour­ against women. "There are complaints that The age more discussion instead of Both her work with the Vagina Monologues' are divisive backing away," Weisbecker said. "Monologues" and her personal because of the political aspect," "It's obvfous 'The Vagina experience have prepared said Emily Weisbecker, an organ­ Monologues' does not communi­ Weisbecker to undertake the izer of the 2006 "Monologues" cate with everyone. I think it is research and writing of "Loyal Photos by CLAIRE KELLEY!The Observer who is researching and writing important to come across from Daughters." Top left and top right, Notre Dame students perform skits in a "Loyal Daughters." "I want to different directions." ''I'm very passionate about this February performance of "The Vagina Monologues." Bottom, bring the stories of actual Notre The play's form will depend in issue and I have a commitment to University President Father John Jenkins attends the third and Dame students and bring it closer part on the material gathered in making things happen," she said. final campus installment of the play this year. to home." the interviews, Weisbecker said. "I was sexually assaulted on cam­ Weisbecker said she and past After the November performance pus as a freshman [and] it gives process to provide resources and said "acknowledge[s] Catholicism "Monologues" organizer Kaitlyn of "Loyal Daughters," its organiz­ me a whole different perspective support in cases of sexual assault, isn't going to be threatened" by Redfield told Father Jenkins ers will decide whether their mes­ to approach this from." NDSP director Phil Johnson said controversial performances like about their idea for Loyal sage about women's sexuality and Her interviews for "Loyal Wednesday. "The Vagina Monologues." Daughters at a meeting immedi­ sexual assault has been delivered Daughters" have shown het that "It is our hope that victims of "It creates a much better ately before his Jan. 23 address to or if a production of "The Vagina people sometimes deny sexual sexual assault will stand together atmosphere both for women and the faculty on academic freedom Monologues" is needed. assault when it occurs, she said, and report the crime so we can campus and for people who dis­ and Catholic character. Jenkins did not specify to which points to one of the play's address this important matter," agree with parts of Catholicism "I think it was courageous of Weisbecker or the other organiz­ goals - awareness. Johnson said. "But we respect at but have reasonable opinions and him to meet with us," Redfield ers how frequently "The Vagina "People have to know [sexual any point a victim's decision not goals, to allow those people to said. "He was obviously truthful Monologues" could be performed assault] is not okay, and they have to go forth." express themselves at this in his request for dialogue." on campus, she said. a right to turn that person is," she After three years of organizing University," she said. Jenkins was enthusiastic about Under the guidelines outlined in said. "The Vagina Monologues," the idea, Weisbecker said, but he his statement, Jenkins said stu­ Notre Dame Security/Police Redfield praised the language in Contact Karen Langley at made it clear that a performance dents interested in performing (NDSP) engages in a victim-driven Jenkins' statement, which she klanglel @nd.edu page 4 The Observer + IN FOCUS Thursday, April 6, 2006 Other Catholic universities weigh in on policy

Jenkins said he still believes dent for Public Relations at the the play. in sponsoring the production. Religious institutions the production's "portrayals of University of' Dayton, said the The statement said Marquette's In February 2005, the Cardinal vary in guidelines sexuality stand apart from, and school "believe[sl that a Catholic Offiee of Student Affairs advised Newman Sodety - an organiza­ indeed in opposition to, Catholic university is a place of dialogue." two students that alternative tion dedicated to "renewing and and reactions to ND teaching on sexuality," but main­ A'i a result, she said the univer­ ways of promoting awareness strengthening the Catholic identi­ tained the Church has "nothing sity has "supported students' about "the serious issue of vio­ ty" of colleges in the United to fear from engaging the wider right<> to stage the play and draw lence against women" should be States- issued a statement ask­ By KATIE PERRY culture"- an attitude that dose­ attention to the larger issue of emphasized, rather than per­ ing Catholic women to condemn Assistalll News Editor ly parallels that of Georgetown. violence against women." formances of "The Vagina "The Vagina Monologues" at "As an academic community "Like Notre Dame, the Monologues." schools affiliated with the While peer Catholic institutions committed to the free exchange University of Dayton has con­ Father Andy Thon, vice presi­ Church. were reluctant to praise or pass of ideas, it is important that stu­ cerns about some of the material dent for Student Affairs, met with Notre Dame's present stance judgment on Notre Dame's dents, faculty and staff at in the play," Rizvi said. "When students on Feb. 14 and said reflects the approaeh to the issue understanding of tlw relationship Georgetown are able to engage in students did stage ["The Vagina while the University "unequivo­ of academic freedom and between academic freedom and dialogue on Monologues"]. cally supports Catholic Catholic character - as outlined important issues "Like Notre Dame, the they ran a number efforts by student character in University President Father of the day," of educational groups and uni­ "Georgetown University outlined in John Jenkins statement Smulson said. University of Dayton forums to address versity offices to does not endorse the the 1967 Wednesday - college spokesper­ For three has concerns about the serious socie­ address any views presented in The "Land 0' sons said the same discussion years, students some of the material tal issue of vio­ instances of vio­ Lakes" state­ ha.'i permeated campuses nation­ performed "The lence against lence against Vagina Monologues,· but ment. wide. Vagina in the play. ,, women." women," he still respects the rights of T h e "I am very determined that we Monologues" at Notre Dame ran had several con­ students to do so.,, assembly of not suppress spPech on this cam­ the University of Terl Rlzvi a similar series of cerns about per­ Catholic uni­ pus," Jenkins said in the state­ Dayton, where associate vice president discussions this formances of the versity lead­ ment. "I am also determined that the production February to paral­ play on campus. Erik Smulson ers that cre­ we mwer suppress or nPgled the stirred contro- Public Relations lel its own show­ His first con­ assistant vice president ated the c;ospnl that inspired this versy in the col­ University of Dayton ings of the "The cern, Thon said, Communications statement University." lege community. Vagina was the "short Georgetown University asserted that A number of parallels link the This year, students wrote and Monologues." time frame" universities situation at Notre Dame to that of performed an original production But not all Catholic universities before the pro- "must have othPr Catholic univPrsitics. - "UD Monologues" - that tolerate the play. posed March production date a true autonomy and academic I•:rik Smulson. assistant vice adapted the premise of' the for­ In March, Marquette University that "precludefdl the educational freedom in the face of authority president for Communications at mer play to fit student experi­ joined nearly a dozen other uni­ dialogue that needs to precede of whatever kind, lay or. clerieal, Georgetown University, said ences at the University. versities and forbade production such an activity." external or the academic com­ Ceorgetown has a similar posi­ On Wednesday, Jenkins said of "The Vagina Monologues," on Thon also said there were "bet­ munity it<>elf." tion on pnrf'orrnances of the con­ student leaders of "The Vagina its campus. ter ways" to address the issue of Leaders also urged universities troversial play on it'i campus. Monologues" have proposed pro­ Mary Pat Pfeil, senior director women's violence at Marquette. to uphold a "perceptively present "Georgetown University dons ducing their own play entitled of University Communication at The focus should be on the sub­ and effectively operative" not endorse the views presentP.d "Loyal Daughters," which would Marquette, declined comment stantive issue, rather than debate Catholic character. in 'Tiw Vagina Monologues,' but inte!-,'l'ate their own experiences Wednesday but referred to a pre­ over a particular play, he said. rnspeets the right'i of student<; to at the University. vious statement issued by the Furthermore, he said two aea­ Contact Katie Perry at qo so,'' he said. Teri Hizvi, assoeiate vice presi- school during its own debate over demic departments had no desire [email protected]

•1 THINK ITS A MEASURED STATEMENT AND IT SHOULD BE WELL RESPECTED BY EVERYONE. IT DOESNT FORECLOSE ANY QUESTIONS." FATHER THEODORE HESBURGH, UNMRSITY PRESIDENTEMERITUS

"THE STATEMENT CHALLENGES STUDENTS TO BEITER UNDERSTAND THEIR FAITH AND E.XPANO THEIRACADEMJC KNOWLEDGE: LIZZI SHAPPELL. S'ruDENT BODY PR.ESlDENT

•r•M CERTAIN HIS B.ESPONS.E TODAY DOESN'T MAn EVEP.YONE HAPPY. BUT THAT'S NOT HIS JOB ••• HE WENT RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE. • DANIEL SARACINO, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS

•1 HOPE THAT OTHER CATHOUC UNIVERSITIES LOOKING AT THIS CAN SAY. 'OH, THERI!'SAWAYTOWORKITOUT SO THAT NEITHER ACADEMIC FREEDOM NOR CATHOLIC CHARACTER NEED 10 BE COMPROMISED... GLENN HENDLER. ENGLISH PROFESSOil

JARRED WAFER/Observer Graphic Saint Mary's perfor111s alternate to 'Vagina Monologues'

While College administrators can occur." ed the format of the SMC logues," Pittman said. 'SMC Monologues' has never formally prohibited Jenkins said Wednesday a Monologues in a performance Snyder said while she "The Vagina Monologues," faculty advised student-com­ of "Loyal Daughters." believes a production of "Loyal promote awareness many students have said the posed production like "Loyal "I would hope that we could Daughters" could raise cam­ SMC Monologues are better Daughters" would help to eventually form a third joint pus-wide awareness of impor­ By KELLY MEEHAN suited to promote awareness of "eliminate violence against play that highlights the interac­ tant issues, she fears "not Saint Mary's Editor pressing campus and national women" - a statement sup­ tions among women in our col­ enough is being done to keep issues. ported by CARE faculty advisor lege community," she said. the women of Notre Dame or Mmnbers of the Notre Dame The SMC Monologues - pro­ and College psychology profes­ "Such a step would be enlight­ the women of Saint Mary's safe community with questions duced by Campus Alliance for sor Catherine Pittman. ening, healing and empowering from sexual assault." about "Loyal Daughters" - a Hape Elimination (CARE) and Pittman said a student-writ­ for women at Notre Dame, Warnings sent to women student-written play that could Feminists United and Straight ten play at Notre Dame would Saint Mary's and Holy Cross warning them to protect them­ be produced this fall, University and Gay Alliance (SAGA) - is a serve to address "the continued College. I think it is long past selves from sexual assault and President Father John Jenkins' play comprised of monologues problem of sexual assaults on time for such an event." rape are not sufficient in fixing said Wednosday- can see how written and submitted by stu­ [both] campuses, the conflicts The personal monologue the problem, she said. a similar production has played dents, faculty, staff and sisters raised in Catholic women's model has proved so successful The next step, she said, is out across the street. that are then performed by a experience of women's sexuali­ for the College that CARE stu­ addressing assault issues with In his closing statement on member of the College commu­ ty and the diversity of sexual dent officers, along with both men and women at Notre academic freedom and Catholic nity during three weekend per­ experience that is often not Pittman, have presented their Dame's freshmen orientation. character, Jenkins said leaders formances in February. respected, or even recognized, experience of creating the SMC "I hope that the women [of < of "The Vagina Monologues" "We are now at a new phase on campus." Monologues at two national Notre Dame] follow in Eve had proposed turning their own in our speaking out," senior Snyder said the SMC conferences and will do so Ensler's footprints to openly uniquo experiencns into a pro­ SMC Monologues performer Monologues are one of the first again this month at a Women's and honestly convey the truth duetion targeting issues of vio­ Stephanie Snyder said. "Those personally written performanc­ Studies workshop on develop­ of their lives," Snyder said. lence against women - an idea participating in the play are as es modeled after "The Vagina ing campus-focused mono­ "Speaking out against institu­ Saint Mary's has embraced for transformed - if not more so Monologues" and said they cur­ logues in Wisconsin. tionalized oppression is never the past two years. - than those watching the rently serve as a national "We would like to encourage easy. It takes a lot of faith in The SMC Monologues attempt play. When you have a play model for such productions. not only Notre Dame, but cam­ one's self, in God (and[ in the to increase campus-wide written, performed and attend­ Snyder, who was generally puses across the country, to community at large." awareness of sensitiVI) issues ed for and by a community with pleased with Jenkins' state­ speak out on issues related to like rape and viole111:e against a focus on that community, ment, said she would not be women's sexuality through the Contact Kelly Meehan at women. powerful and positive change surprised if Notre Dame adapt- venue of self-produced mono- kmeehaO [email protected]