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Hope fades... Reviewing the Revue Rescuers continue their search for survivors in Get the scoop on the2 3rd annual Keenan Wednesday the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 2 6 1. Revue, to be held at Saint M ary’s O’Laughlin Auditorium. FEBRUARY 2, WorldNation ♦ page 5 Scene ♦ page 12 2 0 0 0 O B SER V ER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 74 h t t p ://OBSERVER.ND.EDU E lection 2 0 0 0 McCain, Gore win New Hampshire primary “New Hampshire has long By RON FOURNIER been known as a bump in Associated Press the road for front-runners and this year will be no MANCHESTER exception.” After calling Arizona Sen. John McCain McCain with congratula scored a landslide victory tions, Bush told supporters, over George W. Bush on “I am better candidate for Tuesday in New having come to New Hampshire’s leadoff prima Hampshire and waging this ry, puncturing the aura of campaign and because of inevitability that had this competition.” buoyed the Texan’s drive Gore was winning 52 per for the Republican presi cent of the Democratic vote dential nomination. Vice and 13 delegates, Bradley President Al Gore staved off 47 and 9. a toe-to-toe challenge from “We’re going to march all Democratic challenger Bill the way down the field — Bradley. from state to state, from “We have sent a powerful coast to coast — all the way message to Washington that to victory in November,” the change is coming,” McCain vice president told support told cheering supporters. ers, as Democrats and He watched returns with his Republicans alike looked to teary-eyed wife, Cindy, who upcoming primaries that put a trembling hand to her could determine the nomi mouth and said, “It really nees by mid-March. happened.” The night’s winners, Gore With returns from almost and McCain, were flying all New Hampshire’s 300 from New Hampshire for Republican precincts, middle-of-the-night victory McCain had 49 percent of rallies — Gore in New York, the vote compared to 31 for McCain in South Carolina. Bush. Millionaire publisher Bradley lost badly in Iowa Steve Forbes was a distant last week and surrendered third at 13 percent and for the lead he once held in mer Amb. Alan Keyes was New Hampshire polling, but at 6. Tuesday night he found McCain’s 18-point margin solace in the narrower mar recast the GOP race for the gin and he vowed to contin larger states ahead. He won ue his challenge. “We’re 10 of the 17 GOP delegates moving forward,” Bradley KRT at stake, Bush 5 and Forbes told AP and indeed he has A New Hampshire voter casts his ballot Tuesday in the state's primary. Senator John McCain was 2. enough money to remain the landslide winner for the Republican Party, while Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill Of necessity, Bush took competitive in an expensive Bradley ran a tight Democratic race. the long view, telling AP, see ELECTION/page 4 B oard o f G o v er n a n c e Saint Mary’s initiates new ethnic diversity commission pus. When this idea was presented, I By MOLLY MCVOY thought, this is it.” News Writer BOG delayed acceptance of the new board’s constitution after Omarova pre Diversity has become a key issue on sented a preliminary draft. After offering Saint Mary’s campus, and Board of a few minor suggestions, the board Governance took its first steps to tabled the issue, electing to vote on it address the issue Tuesday, approving a next week, when it is expected to pass. new student diversity board as part of Omarova and Student Activities direc student government. tor Georgeanna Rosenbush researched The board will bring together ethnic constitutions of other similar boards minority groups already present on cam from other universities, and from those pus with the hope of giving them a more example created an organization to fit united and powerful voice on campus. the specific needs of Saint Mary’s. “I felt the need for [something like With the inclusion of the board, BOG this) before,” ethnic diversity commis members hope to improve faculty diver sioner Akmaral Omarova said. “In my sity and propose a world religions class freshman year, I saw there was not as part of the core curriculum. enough of a network of support for “The main goal of this board is for the NELLIE WILLIAMS/The O bserver Members of the board address a novel proposal for an ethnic diversity com underrepresented groups on this cam see BOARD/page 4 mission Tuesday. page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Wednesday, February 2, 2000 Inside C olum n T his W eek in S outh B end Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Give Bond ♦ Film: “Rousseau: ♦ Art: “Martina Lopez: ♦ Comedy: Rita Rudner; ♦ Charity: Adopt-A-Pet Surprised;” Krasl Art Passage of Time;” South Mendel Center Mainstage, Day, Pet Refuge Inc; 2300 a break Center, 707 Lake Blvd., St. Bend Regional Museum of Lake Michigan College, W. Sixth St., Misawaka; 10 Joseph; noon. Art, Century Center, South Napier Ave., Benton a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday night. Two guys. Two girls. And Bond. James Bond. ♦ Art: “In Praise of Bend; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Harbor; 8 p.m. ♦ Sports: Ice Fishing I don’t mean the movie. I really, really wish I Nature;” 18 Artist Gallery, ♦ Dance: Singles dance; Derby, Fish Lake did mean the movie. Unfortunately, my friend and I fell victim to a 564 Indian Boundary Rd., Elks Club, 3535 KcKinley American Legion Post 400, Notre Dame m an’s best friend: Goldeneye, the Nintendo 64 game. Chesterton; 10 a.m. Blvd, South Bend; 8 p.m.. (219) 369-9237 No one initially intended Lauren Berrigan to crowd around a televi sion screen to watch a video game. But, as the O utsid e the D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports boys grew tiresome with Production our “girl” entertainment (LFO, of course), they threatened revenge by means of their own Court rules LSU in violation of Title IX laws amusement. As the N64 sprang to life, the guys became suddenly entranced in Bond’s struggle BATON ROUGE, La. Following the university’s denial of to hunt out his foes and conquer some bunker- A court of appeals ruled Thursday that request, the students hired a type structure. that the Louisiana State University lawyer, she said. This, however, is not what I saw. Athletic Department intentionally In meeting with Athletic Director I watched a little man with a gun, supposedly violated a federal law when it denied Joe Dean about forming the new the “acclaimed” Bond, (although he looked several female students the same team. Dean allegedly repeatedly more like an awkward conglomeration of digi access to sports as men. JLBU referred to student Lisa Ollar as tal shapes) run aimlessly in circles, desperately A lower court judge, Rebecca “honey,” “sweetie” and “cutie,” and shooting at anything that didn’t resemble the Doherty, ruled in 1996 that while said the University should consider listless gray background of digital rocks and LSU’s athletic department was dents was intentional,” Judge Carl the formation of a varsity soccer stone. After finishing the level, the Bond figure “archaic,” the University did not Stewart wrote. team because players “would look proceeded to bungee jump off a cliff. I inquired intentionally violate Title IX. Title IX is a federal law passed in cute running around in their soccer as to how jumping off a cliff related to the The panel of judges from the Fifth 1972 that says no person should be shorts,” according to the court’s game. The boys, however, failed to supply any Circuit Court of Appeals reversed excluded from participation in any written opinion. thing that even resembled a satisfactory Doherty’s ruling, allowing the five federally-funded program or activity These statements added strength response. students who originally sued to seek on the basis of sex. to the Court of Appeals’ finding that So now it was two guys, two girls, Bond and “unlimited ” damages from the uni Three female students filed the LSU intentionally violated Title IX, random occurrences of extreme sports. versity. original lawsuits in 1994 after they according to the opinion. I shook my head and retreated to my boy “We conclude that LSU violated a p p ro a ch ed the LSU A thletic Rafuse said the judge’s ruling that bands. Title IX by failing to accommodate Department several times requesting LSU did intentionally violate the law Eventually, after suffering through what effectively the interests and abilities to form a women’s varsity soccer backed up her clients’ claims. seemed to be the exact same level 15 times, the of certain female students and that team, said Nancy Rafuse, a lawyer “It validates what they’ve been boys finally overcame the attraction of Bond. Of its discrimination against these stu- for the students. through,” she said. course, its spell was only able to be broken provided that they had first earned all of their “cheats.” (Though 1 was left thoroughly con fused at the time, 1 believe “cheats” are one of Investigators look into Aggie fire Columbia accepts sweatshop policy the main objectives of such games. They con sist of secret levels and modes hidden to the NEW YORK COLLEGE STATION, Texas normal player. And though personally I ques After an hour of often contentious debate, the The students in charge of building the 1999 Aggie tion their importance, I do know a boy who University Senate passed Columbia’s own code of con Bonfire at Texas A&M University will meet with inves spent three days straight, “missing class and duct for manufacturers of licensed apparel on Friday.