------------------- ---~----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 24, 2003 Follow THE the wartn• Iraq page5 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL.XXXVII NO. 115 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Irish set milestones with weekend performances players could talk about was • Mens basketball how they weren't satisfied • Fencing wins advances to the with merely making the first national title Sweet Sixteen NCAA Tournament - they since 1994 wanted to make some noise in it, too. By ANDREW SOUKUP ByMATT LOZAR ''I've been in this game, I Associate Sports Editor Sports Wrirer lost this game two years in a row and it wasn't something INDIANAPOLIS I didn't want to have happen COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Mike Brey won't forget his again," senior Matt Carroll Maybe Notre Dame coach 44th birthday anytime soon. said. Janusz Bednarski should think As the final seconds of the To do so Saturday, the about taking up a job as a sta­ Irish's 68-60 win ticked off Irish turned tistics professor. the clock Saturday, Brey to Dan ''Before the competition we pranced around on the side­ Miller, who thought we line of the RCA Dome, swing­ See Also played on a needed 180 See Also ing his fist through the air Final Four points and it before giddily walking over "Shaved Irish team at turned out "Fencers win to shake hands will Illinois scalp lllini" Maryland that way," national coach Bill Self. The grin on Bednarski page24 before his face was almost as big as transfer- said. championship" Notre Dame's win over ring. With N o t r e page 24 Illinois. sharpshoot­ Dame won "Tonight. I was probably er Matt Carroll plagued by a the 2003 going to have a beer any­ sore ankle, Miller scored a Above: The fencing team N C A A way," the birthday boy said career-high 23 points, gathers to celebrate their Championships with 182 points. Saturday. "Now I might have putting the Irish on a colli­ Penn State was second with two." sion course with Arizona, the national championship 179. Chances are pretty good top seed in the West win over Penn State. That's scary. Brey won't have to buy a Regional. Bednarski did something in drink in South Bend for a When the regular season one year that former Irish while, not after he took a ended, however, the Irish COURTESY• OF coach Yves Auriol couldn't do team that spend most of the looked like they were headed in seven years at the helm - 1990s in the NIT to the for an early exit in the SPORTS win a national title. Sweet Sixteen in just three Tournament. They had lost INFORMATION "It feels great and I'm a little years. three of their last four games Right: Notre Dame bit tired," Bednarski said. "I Back in June, back when and left the Big East lost my voice from giving so the memory of a narrow sec­ Tournament after a first­ Basketball players cele- many comments. It was not ond-round loss in the tour­ round loss against St. John's. brate as they advance to easy and we had a lot of great ney to Duke was still fresh in But as the Big East opponents. To win in such great the players' minds, the Irish Tournament continued in the Sweet 16 after defeat­ competition, it's a pleasure." made it their collective mis­ New York, the Irish searched ing the Illini Saturday. As the competition pro­ sion to advance to the second for the formula that enabled gressed, everybody knew it weekend of the NCAA them to knock off three top- would come down to the last Tournament for the first 10 teams in one week in • round of bouts. Bednarski pre- time since 1987. And when PHOTO BY the season began, all the see BASKETBALUpage 4 TIMKACMAR see FENCING/page 4 Split to Students pray for peaceful solution somber tone to the service. occur By ANDREW THAGARD Malloy used his homily to News Writer remind those present of Jesus' commitment to peace and love Notre Dame students, faculty of all people. He also urged stu­ next fall and staff gathered in the dents to pray for an end to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart conflict and the safety of those By TERESA FRALISH Friday evening to pray for involved. Associate News Ediror peace. "We pray for peace, for an University President Edward end to the violence that we see Notre Dame's Malloy presided over the 45- around us, for a calming of Economics Department minute service, which featured fears," Malloy said. "We pray will split next fall into prayers, hymns and readings for the well being of those who two departments with from scripture and came amidst represent our country. Most of separate faculty and a increased military action in all we pray for peace that, in the single undergraduate Iraq. During the day on Friday, end, will be a gift from our lov­ major, following a 39-3 U.S. forces continued the bomb­ ing God." vote by the University's ing campaign over Baghdad, the Closer to home, Malloy Academic Council in Iraqi capital, and British and encouraged students to consider favor of the split American forces moved into the their own actions and question Thursday. country from Kuwait. whether they were in line with Current faculty will be "May the God of peace be with Jesus' teachings. separated into the new all of us," Malloy said at the "We pray ... that we may rec­ departments of start of the service. "We join in ognize our call, our need to Economics and prayer with our Holy Father change our hearts," he said. Econometrics and John Paul II who recently plead­ "Jesus taught us over and over KEVIN BURKE/Notre Dame Photographic Economics and Policy ed, 'Violence never again, war again that the call for peace The Notre Dame Community paused Friday afternoon to pray for Study, said Carol never again, terrorism never begins with each one of us." peaceful solution to war. Mooney, University vice again."' After the homily, the lights in president and associate A moderate number of people the Basilica were turned off and peace marked the beginning of days, a traveling rosary for provost. filled the center row of pews in those present knelt with lit can­ a series of religious services peace will be held in a residence Mooney is responsible a Basilica already stark for the dles. Two students read prayer scheduled around campus for hall chapel. The series of rosary for recording the min­ Lenten season. Spotlights that intercessions modeled after the the duration of military action and prayer services will begin utes of the Council's typically illuminate the ceiling Beatitudes and members of the in Iraq. Earlier Friday, people meetings; the Council is paintings were turned ofT Friday congregation exchanged signs gathered in the Basilica for a evening and lights over the alter of peace. special Mass for peace and Contact Andrew Thagard at see SPLIT/page 4 were dimmed, adding a more Friday's prayer service for throughout the coming week- [email protected] page 2 The Observer+ WHAT'S UP Monday, March 24, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN WHAT'S INSIDE CAMPUS WORLD& BUSINESS Floating to NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE SPORTS freedom Student Allied troops Iraqi oil not Columnist Latin Irish Imagine being 60 miles or more government hit setbacks ready for questions Expressions knock off away from land, drifting in a small chief of staff on road to world activists brings Wildcats rubber raft with just a straw hat to guard you from the harsh Caribbean appointed Baghdad market actions together a sun. Thousands variety of acts find themselves The womens bas­ in this very sce­ Student body Iraqi troops used Once war is over, Columnist Mike This year's Latin ketball team heads nario every year president-elect Pat surprise tactics to experts expect it Marchand ques­ Expressions to the second as they attempt Hallahan kill and capture will take months tions anti-war pro­ "Lacura Latina" is round of the to make their announced that U.S. troops before Iraq's oil testers and demon­ a show that brings NCAA tournament way to the United freshman Emily Sunday. However, will be prepared to strations which can togetherta len ted for eighth straight States. Few make Chin will be chief U.S. leaders say enter world mar­ be construed as Iatino acts, show year after beating it, many die and war on Iraq on tar­ kets. civil disobedience. casing music and of staff for his the Arizona some are res­ office. get despite set­ dance. Wildcats. cued. backs. This spring Shannon break, I wit­ Nelligan nessed such a page 6 page 5 page 7 page 10 page 12 page 24 scene as my cruise ship News stopped to rescue Production five Cubans float­ Editor ing in the dis- WHAT'S GOING DOWN tance in some- thing that appeared to be a black Car towed from Joyce dot. The accounts of people risking A student's car was towed from the Joyce their lives for the slight possibility Center parking lot Friday for a parking viola­ of something better became a reali­ tion. ty. For a moment, nearly all the peo­ Employee reports theft of decal ple on the ship ceased sunning A University employee reported the theft of themselves, put down their his parking decal from his vehicle while ofT Caribbean concoctions and gathered campus. on one side of the ship to witness the rescue.