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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 40: ISSUE 6 TUESDAY, AUGUST 30,2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Hurricane slams into New Orleans GayND
llurrieann Katrina had a[rp,ady N 0 students worry demonstrated its violenco by student about loved ones in Thursday - claiming scwnn lives in Florida as a morn Category I path of violent storm storm. honored That samn statnmcmt warnnd of thn storm's ability to obliterate By KATIE PERRY mohiln homes and other "poorly Sophomore is one of Ntws Wrilt'r c:onstructnd dwellings." Morn sta ble buildings were also labeled as 19 national finalists at-risk areas as the National As thn Big Easy bracnd Monday Wnathnr Snrvien warned residents !ill' Katrina -tho Catngory 4 hur By MARY KATE MALONE of' Now Orleans that Katrina also News Writer. riearw purportnd to be tlw most had thP eapadty to eausc~ serious c·atastrophic~ cwnnt to strikn tho damage to even wnll-built struc rngion in dneadns - wary Nnw tures. Thnrn's a ccdnbdty of sorts OriPans on Notrn Damn's campus. nativPs of Keeping in touch I In is fnaturc~d in Tinw maga N otrc> llanw See Also Senior Brandon Hall - who zinn next month and is tlw and Saint livns within thn New Orleans city subject of a feature~ story in a M a ,. y · s "Weaker Katrina limiL'i -said he h New First Year of Studies dean comes from experience Hugh Page, Jr. replaces Eileen Kolman as chief leader of the University's award-winning program for freshman students bnlinvns the position fits his who served as dean since 1990. By JANICE FLYNN personal aspirations as an edu llis appointment rounds out the News Writer eator. list of new senior administra "I see myself as a scholar, as tors that includes University An J·:piscopal priest. A har a teacher and as an adminis president and provost. monica playPr and a blues lyri trator, and if there is a place Page saw firsthand the signif cist. A translator of llebrow within the University where icance of the program - from texts. An assistant mon 's tennis scmior administrators feel that I the advisors' dedication to the coach. A pont, a theologian- and can be of service, then I'm students' potential - during martial arts black boiL more than willing," he said. the summer when he worked And now dean of the First Page came to Notre Dame in with the staff to build student Year of' Studies. 1992 to teach in the theology schedulns. llugh Page, Jr., a poised man department. In 1999, he was "Heading through the files. of varind inturests, steps into appointed the direetor of the you hear the stories that indi his lirst year of overseeing the African and African-American vidual first year students tell program that guides freshman Studies program, and in 2002 about their own academic or through their first Notre Dame he became an associate dean personal growth," he said. ar.ademic year. · for undergraduate studies in "They come with such incredi- FRANCESCA SETNTho Observer Page said he feels fortunate the College of Arts and Letters. Hugh Page, Jr. recently became dean of the First Year of to have been chosen and Page replaces Eileen Kolman, see DEAN/page 8 Studies. He has worked at Notre Dame since 1992. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, August 30, 2005 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ATHLETIC FACILITY DO YOU FREQUENT? Golden senior• year Watching the freshmen as they walked around eampus for tho past week or so - they looked a bit seared the first few days, then a bit morn confident as they Ken Kuo Meghan Paladino Ryan Bravo Bettina Patena Pat Carey Mike Hopkinson settled into campus life over the week freshman sophomore junior sophomore freshman freshman end I was reminded less of Nicole Zook Kennan Pangborn Fisher Farley Zahm Zahm how I felt my first few weeks on earn Associate "Rolfs.,, 'Tve been to the "South Dining "Rolfs. Fm too "I use the sam·e "North Quad. I pus and more of Rock. No, wait, I Hall.,, lazy to walk facilities as all get a great how while this is a news editor new beginning for live by the anywhere else.,, the BP girls.,, workout some students, it is the beginning of an Rock.,, running from end for the seniors. NDSP.,, As the freshmen are looking forward to an amazing four years here, we just have one precious year of life in our bub ble left before we are harshly thrust into the real world. Luckily for us. before we have to face that reality, we are blessed with what I'm told may be the most amazing year of our lives - senior year, a title that should be not only capitalized but capi IN BRIEF talized on. Senior year is a magical time, a year full of firsts, last firsts and very lasl<>. Notre Dame's annual For me in particular, senior year Activities Night will take place shines ahead of me like a bright promise. today at 7 p.m. to 9 in the JACC. Why? Because I had a very special birth All students are welcome to day this summer that allows me to enter attend. any of South Bend's fine establishments legally. The first of six lectures on This leaves me in a somewhat unusual business ethics this fall at Notre situation ___:__ I'm that senior who has Dame will take place Wednesday never been to the South Bend bars. For at 7 p.m. in the Jordan the past three years, I have been desig~ Auditorium of the Mendoza nated driving those lucky ducks of legal College of Business. It is entitled age to Heartland, Fiddler's, "Business Schools are Partially RumRunners, State and Finnegan's, then to Blame for the Corporate sadly sighing, shifting and heading back Ethics Scandals: Multiple to my dorm. Viewpoints" and will feature I'm even that extremely rare senior several Notre Dame faculty who never got to sail on the legendary members. Boat. Oh, once last year when I took about 15 people there in the back of a NO Cinema will host the criti pickup truck, I got up those long stairs cally acclaimed documentary and got a peek inside, but my ship could "MurderbaU," about quad rugby n't sail any further. . Team USA's bid in the 2004 But I heard the stories. Fantastic tales Paralympics, in the DeBartolo MATTHEW SMEDBERGrThe Observer Performing Arts Centers of a magical senior year - of penny From left to right, Sophie Alexandrou, Emmanuel Sifakis, Luis Montestruque and pitchers, dancing all night, ridiculous Browning Cinema Friday and Alexandria Garripoli relax .at the welcome back picnic for international students Monday. Saturday nights at 7 and 10 p.m. pick-up lines and somewhat shady but Notre Dame has roughly 1,000 international students from more than 100 countries. wonderful bars where everyone could Tickets are $5 for faculty and link arms and sing my favorite Bon Jovi, staff and $3 for all students. Def Leppard and Billy Joel tunes before heading home in a haze of happiness .. The Notre Dame women's soc Tales of a particular drink at the Backer cer team will face off against that could prevent you from ever even OFFBEAT Florida Friday at 7:30 p.m. at making it home at all. And most of all, Alumni Field. tales of the good times at Corby's, where Human cannonball flies port of entry, Smith Sr. was mean, I was in my auntie's the Woodchuck flows freely and I could over U.S.-Mexico border n't crossing illegally. car, in the middle of all of The Notre Dame volleyball never get in. UANA, Mexico - David this traffic and we were team will play Texas at 5 p.m. But now ... now all these places lay Smith, Sr., who already Women gives birth in midst evacuating from a hurri on Saturday as part of the before me like a beacon of light shining holds a world record for the of traffic jam cane. Besides, my due date Shamrock Invitational in the hope into my very own senior year. I longest distance traveled by HATTIESBURG, Miss. - wasn't until the beginning of Joyce Center. want to utilize the little time I have left a human fired from a can Eight-and-a-half-months September." here - and, of course, my ID - to the non, now has another feat pregnant, Bianca Doucett Doucett's aunt, Anna An exhibit entitled. Two Italian best of my ability. The promise of senior on his record. had been on the road for Jones, called family mem Hardbodies: Sports Cars Clad year leads me to believe that my last Smith was shot across the seven hours in bumper-to bers in other ears, and they by Scaglietti and Frua will be on football season will be an amazing one, U.S.-Mexieo border on bumper traffic fleeing New called 911. Jones put on her display in the Snite Museum of that I will spend many hilarious nights Saturday, soaring about 150 Orleans in advance of emergency flashers and Art Entrance Atrium Gallery with my friends making memories and feet and landing uninjured . Hurricane Katrina when her tried to get into the break until Sept. 18. The exhibit fea that the establishments of South Bend in a net in San Diego with worst-ease scenario began. down lane. tures a 1958 Ferrari and a 1955 will live up to the legends. · U.S. Border Patrol agents Stuck on Interstate 59, "She kept saying that the Maserati. Admission is free. It leads me to believe that in two short and an ambulance waiting nowhere near a hospital, baby was coming and to semesters, I will look back and wonder nearby. she went into labor in hurry, but I couldn't go any To submit information to be where the time went. That this will in Although it is against the Mississippi. where," Jones said. included in this section of The fact be the best year of college yet. That law for anyone, including "There was no way that Observer, e-mail detailed infor in the end, these are the days I will U.S. citizens, to enter the this was happening," said Information compiled from mation about an event to remember for the rest of my life. country outside an official the New Orleans resident. "I the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu. Senior year glitters ahmid of me, and as much as I know I won't want it to be over, I sure can't wait to get it started. TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Contact Nicole Zook at a:: zook892 8@saintmarys. edu LLI The views expressed in the Inside :I: Column are those of the author and !;;: not necessarily those of The Observer. LLI ~ ...J <( ~ ~ ~ CORRECTIONS (,) 0 HIGH 82 HIGH 80 HIGH 78 HIGH 80 HIGH 81 HIGH The Observer regards itself as a professional publica ..... 79 tion and strives for the highest standards of journal LOW 63 LOW 60 LOW 62 LOW 57 LOW 58 LOW 57 ism at all times. 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Cordes said students from New for hls own safety and the safety of upwards of 130 miles per hour But Katrina's massive storm Orleans have kept the lines of his family, he too struggles with and a storm surge exeeeding 20 surges exceeded the height of the communication open when deal the expected unease that eomes feet, the hurricane fell into a pow levee system. Hall predicted the ing with the hurricane and its with a natural disaster of this scared, and others are dealing erful Category 4 elassifieation on entire city to be in jeopardy of aftermath. magnitude. with the situation well. None of my the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane "serious flooding." "Two girls from New Orleans I "Two of the biggest feelings I family or friends have been Scale. "The only preventive measure to know have both told me they're have are anxiety and uneertainty through a hurrieane this intense, The hurricane lost some of its keep New Orleans from complete scared, and one will try to drive as to how bad the damage and so a lot of people are really pan vigor as it battered Alabama, ly submerging is a levee system home as soon as reasonably possi casualties will be since this is an ieking." Mississipi and other parts of the that is only 18 feet above sea ble," Cordes said. ''I'm going to try unprecedented storm for New Other students, like freshman Gulf, but still caused heavy dam level," Hall said. "If you can do the to talk with more [people from Orleans," Cordes said. "As a fresh Paul Cordes, have al<>o faced diffi-. age as a Category 3 storm. math, you know we're in serious New Orleans] and help eaeh other man, thls event puts my new life culty in contacting friends and Katrina had weakened to a trouble." out as much as we can." and new home in perspective family baek home. Category 2 hurricane Monday Many students have been glued since I don't know how much of "I've spoken with my immediate afternoon. Coping with disaster from afar to their television sets. my hometown will still exist." family three times, but it has been The Big Easy was especially sus As residents of New Orleans "I have spoken with [my family] Cordes said he visited the Grotto extremely difficult to get in touch ceptible to Katrina's immense grapple with the assured destruc many times, and they had to tell Sunday to pray for hls hometown. with them beeause the eell phone strength given its geographic: tion surrounding Hurricane me to turn off the television . . . I circuits have been overloaded," makeup. Approximately 70 per Katrina, students some 800 miles was getting more nervous than Contact Katie Perry at Cordes said. cent of New Orleans is below sea- away in South Bend must also they were," Nolan said. "I am [email protected] Sophomore Calleen Jones said her family is handling the situation "pretty well." "They tried to bring as many family mementos as possible," Jones said. "My main focus is knowing that my family is safe. Other material things ean be replaeed, but my family eannot." Although students were out wardly concerned about the hurri eane's eapaeity for widespread damage, some, like senior Meg Heniean, found solaee in the assured safety of their loved ones. "Of eourse I'm nervous about the damage that will be done, but I know my family and friends are safe, and that's what is impor tant," Heniean said. Aeeing or facing Katrina New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency in the region Sunday and told the more than one million residents of the greater New Orleans area not to panic but also to demonstrate extreme vigilance. A mandatory evaeuation ordered loeals to flee the region immediately. Mueh of Cordes' extended family - ineluding grandmothers, aunts, uneles and cousins - live in the greater New Orleans area. His immediate family left town Sunday and will stay at hls father's piano teaeher's mother's house. "My immediate family has been on the road and [staying] in Laurel, Miss., after driving in grid loek traffie [Sunday]," Cordes said. "My other relatives have the means to evacuate and are also taking refuge away from the city." Hall said his immediate family and some of his extended family drove to Houston - a seven-hour trek from New Orleans - to flee the hurrieane. "Because of traffic it took them over 12 hours to get there," he said. "I talked to a lot of my friends, and most of them are going to Atlanta. I don't know any one who is staying behind." Heniean said her entire family hails from the greater New Orleans area and have evacuated to places such as Houston, Nashville, Mississippi and even At Ernst &Young we know each employee is integral South Bend. "Luckily my parents decided to to the strength of the firm. come here with me to get away from the storm," Henican said. New Orleans resident and Saint Every individual matters. That's why we've created an environment that's conducive Mary's junior Erin Nolan said her to personal and professional growth and success. At Ernst & Young, we're offering family chose to remain in the city an opportunity to learn from some of the best talent in the industry. Look for us despite the mayor's call for imme diate evacuation. on campus if you'd like to connect, or visit us on the Web at ey.comjusjcareers. "My family aetually stayed and went against the evacuation order," Nolan said. 'They are on the third floor of our condomini- wn." Nagin said 80 percent of New Orleans residents evacuated the FORTUNE. city. Approximately 9,000 of those 100 BEST who ehose to remain or were COMPANIES~ unable to eseape sought refuge in TO WORK FOR~ the Louisiana Superdome, which faced moderate damage as Katrina slammed the area Monday. A menacing stonn ORLD & NATION Tuesday, August 30, 2005 CoMPILED FROM THE ()BsrRvnrs WIRE srRvtcrs page 5 INTERNATIONAL NEWS Weakened Katrina floods New Orleans Pope talks with conservative society VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI met Hurricane not as harsh as feared but caused massive damage down Gulf Coast Monday with the head of the ultraconserva tivo schismatic movement founded by the Associated Press lah~ Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and both sidos said Uwy had agreed to take steps. to NEW ORLEANS rosolvn Lhnir difl'nrnncns. Hurricane Katrina was not Both Lhn Vatican and Bishop Bernard the apocalyptic storm that Fellay, supnrior gmwral of Lefebvre's Sodety New Orleans has been of St. Pius X said the meeting was hold in a dreading all these years. spirit of lovo for Lhn church. But tho society But it was still a night has spurnnd pnwious ofl'orts by tho Vatiean mare for the city and a to bring it back into its fold. 200-mile stretch of the I.nfnbvrn founded the Switzerland-basnd Gulf Coast. sodety in 1969, opposed to the libnralizing Some neighborhoods in rnf'orms of' tho I 1HJ2-h5 Sncond Vatiean the Big Easy were sub Council. particularly its call for Mass to be merged up t{) their roof's. cnlnhratnd in local languages and not in Floodwaters gushed into Latin. Mississippi's flashy beach lin was excommunieatnd in 19SS arter eon front casinos. Sailboats sncrating f'our bishops without Horne's con were 11ung across a high snnl and dind in IIJIJ I. ;\II four bishops, way liko toys. Dozens of induding Fnllay, also wnrn exeommunieatnd. people had to be rescued Vatican spoknsrnan .Joaquin Navarro-Valls from rooftops and attics said tlw nwnting was hold with "a desire to as the water rose through arrivn at pnrfnct <~ommunion." their homes. And an untold number U.S. blamed for condom shortage of people were feared NAIHOBI, Knnya - Tho Bush administra dead. tion's mnphasis on abstinnnee in its intorna "I was so happy that the Lional AIDS polidos has worsened a eondorn worst-ease scenario didn't shortago in Uganda and could lead to an unfold, but then when I incrnase in its IIJV inl'oetion rate, a top U.N. started I ooking around, mJVoy said Monday. you see buildings col Stophnn Lewis, tlw U.N. Secretary lapsed or with holes (;nneral's spncial envoy for IIIV/;\II>S in punched in them and it's Africa, said U.S. cuts in funding for condoms really kind of sad," New and a new emphasis on promoting absti Orleans Mayor Hay Nagin rwnce had contributed to a condom shortago said. in Uganda. Katrina barreled into the Gulf Coast just outside AP New Orleans around day A resident stands in an upper-story window and surveys floodwaters In the wake of break Monday as a mon Hurricane Katrina after a tidal surge overwhelmed a levee Monday in New Orleans. NATIONAL NEWS strous, 145-rnph storm, making a right turn at the Coast. up power. section over the next few Four killed near Texas church last minute to spare the "Some of them, it was The fe-deral government days, it may spawn torna S;\SII, Texas-;\ gunman killed four people Big Easy the doomsday their last night on Earth," began rushing baby for does ovor the Southeast nnar a small-town ehureh, then killed himsell' scenario it has long Terry Ebbert, ehief of mula, communications and swamp the Gulf Coast narly Monday aftnr a nino-hour standoll' with feared. llad Katrina not homeland security for equipment, generators, and the Tennessee and police, authorilios said. shifted, hurricane waters New Orleans, said of peo water and iee into hard Ohio Valleys with a potnn Police said witnnssos told them that Freddie could have spilled over ple who ignored orders to hit. areas, along with doc tially ruinous R inchns or 1.. Cranshaw, who lived across the strnet from Ievens and swamped the evacuate the city of tors, nurses and f'irst-aid morn of rain. tlw Sash A'isembly of Cod church, exchanged saucer-shaped city in a 480,000 over the week supplies. The l'ontagon Oil n~linors said damagn words in the church parking lot Sunday night toxic soup of refinery end. "That's a hard way to sent <~xperts to help with to their equipment in tlw with church mmnbnr Wos Brown, who asked chemicals, sewage and learn a lesson." search-and-rescue opera Gu If region appmtrnd to be Cranshaw to leavo. human bodies. Katrina knocked out tions. minimal. and oil prices Cranshaw, 54. who authorities said had only At least five people were power to more than three'" Katrina was later down dropped back from the a partial right arm, returned a short time later known to have died in quarters of a million peo graded to a tropical storm day's highs above $70 a and shot Brown, 61, at dose range, and then Mississippi and Alabama ple from Louisiana to the as it passed through east barrel. But the rel'iners shot the pastor, James Armstrong, 42, witness because of the storm. Florida's Panhandle, and ern Mississippi, moving were still assessing tho os said. Because of high water, authorities said it could be north at 21 mph. Winds damagn, and the Bush Deputies found both men dead in a grassy rescuers could not imme two months before elec were still a dangerous 65 administration said it aroa next to tho parking lot, Fannin County diately reach some of the tricity is restored to every mph. would eonsider releasing Shnrifl' Kenneth Moorn said. most hard-hit areas in one. Ten major hospitals Forecasters said that as oil from the nation's emer Cranshaw then drovn to an intersection, New Orleans and else in New Orleans were run the storm moves north geney stockpile if neees wlwrn he shot at a truck towing a horse trailer where along the Gulf ning on emergency back- through the nation's mid- sary. and then killeCI tho two women in the truck ~ after thny tried to flee and hide. President promises post-storm aid ISRAEL EL MIHAGE Ariz. - President Bush plodgnd extensive assistance for victims of Ilurrieane Katrina on Monday and urged those in areas all'eetod to rnmain safe until the dan Gaza unrest continues despite Israeli withdraw ger "from this devastating storm" passed. The government put into eff'eet a massive emer Associated Press elear message that terrorism won't be Palestinians together after live years gtmey assistance program that included rush tolerated and that major West Bank of trust-destroying violeneo. ing baby formula, eommunieations equipment, JEHUSALEM - ;\ lethal arrest raid, settlement blocs will remain Isr.aeli. Both sides say thny'rn still prepared gmwrators, wator and iee into hard-hit areas. a suicide bombing, fresh land expro "Israel cannot return to the '67 or to talk, however. Oflicials said a moot priations, a threatening llamas video: '48 borders, because of the settle ing is possible bntweon Sharon and So far, that's the follow-up to Israel's ments," Sharon said in a TV interview Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas historic Gaza pullout. Monday, referring to Israel's frontiers when the two are in New York next LOCAL NEWS Hather than seize the moment to before it captured Gaza, the West month to address tho United Nations. jump-start negotiations, Israelis and Bank and other lands. "The settle And Sharon's withdrawal, ending Children's hospital to expand Palestinians appear to be falling into ment blocs will remain in sovereign 38 years of Israeli civilian presence in INDIANAPOLIS - ;\ planned $500 mil a familiar pattern of violence and Israel. They are of vital strategic the Gaza Strip, is likely to have long lion nxpansion of Riley Hospital for rhetoric. Still, the withdrawal from importance." lasting ripple effects on Mideast Children would include a 10-story building Jewish settlements in Gaza is of such He added, however, that some other peacemaking that could weather and more clinics for specialty care across significance that even the latest settlements would have to go in a some setbacks. With the settlers gonn, the stale. spasms are unlikely to torpedo all final peace deal. the army is expected to complete its The projeel, formally announced Monday, momentum for peace. Sharon's critics say now is the time own pullout in the eorning days. would make it one of the largest children's Ariel Sharon won praise for fulnii to capitalize on the goodwill created "We understand that Mr. Sharon hospitals in the nation. ing his pledge - in a dramatic, by the Gaza evacuation, not to 11ex has to show the Israeli people that he "This bold and ambitious plan is really breakneck sweep that ended last muscles. Many fear the two sides is conceding on one side and designed to reach out to children through week - to evacuate 8,500 settlers already have begun to squander a strengthening his position on the out tho state," said Dr. Ora Hirsch from the Gaza Strip and another 500 unique historical opportunity. And the other," Hafiq Ilusseini, the Palostinian l'eseovitz. Riley's president and chief exec from the northern West Bank. Now recent friction has brought home the chief of starr, told The Associated utivo oflicer. the Israeli leader wants to send a very pitfalls of trying to get Israelis and Press. page 6 The Observer + Paid Advertisement Tuesday August 30, 2005 --~~~- ~------. ----~----~··------·------····-- 1 TuesdaV, August 30 h ••• 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM ••• JOYCE CENTER FIELDHOUSE A Life Uncommon Hispanic Business Student Association Shirt Project. 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Sailing Club Hancibell Choir Saint Edward's Hall Players Harmonia Srhola,lic Magazine Online info: Hawaii Club - Na Pua Kai 'Ewalu Science -Business Club sao.nd.edu/studentgroups/programs/an/index.shtml Health Occupations Students of Amerka Shades of Ebony ACTIVITIES NIGHT IS COORDINATED BY THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE AND COSPONSORED BY RECSPORTS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CLUB COORDINATION COUNCIL ------ Tl···f E ()BSERVER Tuesday, August 30, 2005 USINESS page 7 MARKET RECAP Former KPMG execs charged with fraud Dow 10,463.05 +65.76 Accounting firm avoids indictment despite admitting to tax shelter activity }ones "'' Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Press 2,052 167 • 1,600,112,920 NEW YOHK - Eight for AMEX I ,389.67 -227.69 mer executives of account NASDAQ 2,137.65 +16.88 ing firm KPMG were NYSE +34.12 indicted Monday and the 7,413.98 l'irm agreed to pay $456 S&PSOO 1,212.28 +7.18 million as it admitted it NIKKEI(Tokyo) 12,300.83 0.00 sold fraudulent shelters to FTSE IOO(London) 5,228.10 -27.60 help wealthy clients avoid paying billions in taxes. The firm, part of the COMPANY %CHANGE I $GAIN I PRICE accounting industry's so NASDAQ I 00 (QQQQ) +0.78 +0.30 38.76 called Big Four, itself MICROSOFT CP (MSFT) +0.67 +0.18 27.15 avoided a potentially dev astating criminal indict CISCO SYS INC (CSCO) + 1.38 +0.24 17.64 ment. agreeing to submit INTEL CP (INTC) + 1.26 +0.32 25.73 to an independent monitor SUN MICROSYS INC (SUNW) + 1.09 +0.04 3.71 and not to commit further wrongdoing. Treasuries KPMG admitted it helped 30-YEAR BOND -0.39 -0.17 43.64 "high net worth" clients evade billions of dollars in 10-YEAR NOTE -0.38 -0.16 41.73 capital-gains and income 5-YEARNOTE -0.15 -0.06 40.78 taxes by developing and 3-MONTH BILL +0.52 +0.18 34.85 marketing the tax shelters, and coneealing them from Commodities the Internal Revenue LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) + 1.07 67.20 Service. GOLD ($rfroy oz.) -0.70 441.40 The $456 million fine includes $128 million in PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) + 1.20 82.83 forfeited fees that KPMG Excho Rates earned by selling the YEN I I 0.5650 fraudulent tax shelters. EURO 0.8174 Also Monday, federal prosecutors released an POUND 0.5567 indictment of nine men - CANADIAN$ 1.1975 eight former KPMG execu tives and an outside tax lawyer who worked with AP IN BRIEF the firm - charging them U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, right, and IRS Commissioner, Mark Everson, meet with conspiring to defraud with the media to discuss indictment of former KPMG executives Monday. Stocks rebound after hurricane the IRS. NEW YOHK - Wall Street rallied Monday Among those charged crimes, but agreed not to subject of the investiga the late 1990s that after llurrieane Katrina weakened, easing was Jeffrey Stein, who was seek a grand jury indict tion," he said. "KPMG is a allowed its elients to concerns about refinery outages along the named deputy chairman of ment. better and stronger firm report tax losses to offset Gull' of Mnxieo and pulling oil prices baek KPMG in April 2002. Under the deal, known today, having learned big profits elsewhere,. from reeord highs. There was no immediate as a deferred prosecution much from this experi thereby avoiding paying Stoeks opened lower but quickly rebound word on when the nine agreement, prosecutors ence." taxes. nd as crude oil futures cooled after surging men would appear in can seek an indictment of The company's monitor KPMC stopped providing past $70 a barrel in early trading on news court. the firm through Dec. 31, will be Richard Breeden, a the shelters in 2002. In that the storm shut down about 8 pereent of Judge Loretta Preska of 2006, if it violates the former Securities and June it said that some of U.S. refining capacity. A barrel of light crude Manhattan federal court terms of the agreement. Exchange Commission its former partners had sot.tl11d at $(,7.20. up $1.20 on the New York said KPMG's board had In a statement, KPMG chairman who has also engaged in "unlawful con Mercantile Exchange. unanimously agreed to the chairman and CEO served as a court-appoint duct" and pledged to coop Investors found some relief in reports that deal. Timothy Flynn noted that ed monitor for MCI Inc., erate with the Justice Prosidnnt Bush was mulling whether to off Federal prosecutors had the men indicted in the the post-bankruptcy incar Department. set the supply disruption with oil from the filed what is known as a scheme are no longer with nation of WorldCom Inc. Attorney General Alberto nation's petroleum reserve, but energy and criminal information the company. The investigation cen Gonzales and Manhattan insurance stocks still carne under pressure charging the firm with "We regret the past tax tered on a type of tax shel U.S. Attorney David Kelley as the market tried to gauge the hurricane's conspiracy and other practices that were the ter marketed by KPMG in and IHS Commissioner li naneial irn pact. .Jim Dunigan, chief investment officer for PNC Advisors, said the market had braced for the storm and started looking elsewhere for direction after the Gulf Coast got "hit full force and survived." EU approves Johnson & Johnson acquisition "It's not likely this is going to have a signif icant impact on growth," Dunigan said. Associated Press when Indianapolis-based Guidant, llemant Shah of IlKS & Co. in which makes pacemakers and defib Warren, N . .J ., said he believes the Last day for GM employee-pricing TRENTON, N.J. -The European rillators, this summer had to issue acquisition is still on track. DETHOIT - General Motors Corp. will Union cleared Johnson & Johnson's several recalls covering tens of thou "If J&J was not interested or had extend its employee-pricing discount plan planned purehase of heart device sands of the devices, which are second thoughts, they would have on select 2005 models until Sept. 30, a maker Guidant Corp. on Thursday, implanted in patients' chests. said so" by now, he said. spokeswoman said Thursday. provided some operations are sold, Last month, J&J's chief financial Shah said analysts and investors The world's biggest automaker also plans but J&J said the deal closing will be officer, Robert J. Daretta, hinted dur don't know the financial impact of to apply the discount to select 2006 full-size delayed because key U.S. regulators ing an analysts' conference call that the recalls, but if it appears they will trucks and sport utility vehicles, said have yet to sign off. the deal might be delayed beyond still be hurting sales six months or so spokeswoman Brenda Hios. The program Johnson & Johnson spokesman September. from now, "without a doubt the lets customers buy vehieles at the employee Jeffrey Leebaw would not give a On Thursday, Leebaw repeated the value of the deal will change." ratn. timetable for completing the $25.4 same company line that J&J has Guidant spokesman Steve Tragash GM was tho first of the Big Thren to offer billion cash and stock acquisition, issued since the Guidant problems declined interview requests nmployne prices for all consumers in June. but said it could not be finished until first surfaced. Thursday. GM's sales shot up 4l percent that month. after the U.S. Federal Trade "We continue to work with Guidant The deal already has been Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Commission makes a decision. to understand and evaluate the approved by Guidant shareholders, Chryslnr Group followed with their own "We're now focusing on obtaining impact of the various lrecallsl that and did not require approval by J&J mnployen-prieing plans in July. the FTC clearance," said Leebaw. they have announced in the last sev stockholders. GM and Ford had nxtended discount plans "We expect that in October." eral months," Leebaw said. Thursday's approval by tho in August. and Chrysler had extended the The New Brunswick-based maker Guidant has recalled 88,000 defib European Union's executive commis deal indel'initely. GM's incentives had been of medicines, skin and baby care rillators and 2 8, 000 pace rn akers sion eame with the condition that the scheduled to run through Sept. 6; Ford's products, contact lenses and medical beeause of malfunctions. At least two combined company sell operations in also are set to nxpirn that day. devices had been aiming to wrap up patient deaths have been linked to some niche markets for cardiovascu Messagns seeking comment were left the deal by the end of September. the faulty defibrillators. lar devices to guarantee fair eompn Thursday with Ford and Chrysler. That timetable became questionable Independent healtheare analyst tition in the EU's 25 mPrnber states. page 8 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, August 30, 2005 University also does not him since childhood. He spent for shepherding the student 2,000 people open up applica include sexual orientation in its his high school years trying to through the college and gradu tions - which indicates the Student legal non-discrimination please his parents by ignoring ate school period,." Lancaster scope of the problem," he said. continued from page 1 clause. his passion for the arts. He said. "A lot of the students "There is a tremendous need However, the University has says he does not have a work have been disowned by their out there because having the I've gone through." published a statement, "The ing relationship with his par parents, so the mentors are right to an education is the He said he has had no sup Spirit of Inclusion of Notre ents - who learned of his there for things like parents' birthright of every young per port - emotional, financial or Dame," that supports gay and homosexuality last October. weekend and for .holidays." son. Unfortunately, a lot of gay otherwise - from his parents. lesbian members of the "The scholarship gives me Lancaster noted that more and lesbian kids don't have the His experience as a gay male at University community. Notre emotional backing and than 40 percent of homeless opportunity." Notre Dame is what set him Dame's Standing Committee on acknowledgment of who I am teenagers are gay or lesbian Janecek must maintain a 3.5 apart from the droves of other Gay and Lesbian Student Needs which I just don't receive from and The Point Foundation grade point average in order to applicants who applied, said also strives to make homosexu this school or at home," seeks to reach out to them. The continue receiving the scholar Vance Lancaster, executive al students feel welcome. Janecek said. "It gives me this organization has experienced ship money. l-Ie is also required director of The Point Sister Mary Louise Gude, inner strength and affirmation tremendous growth since its to design and implement a Foundation. chair of the Standing to stand up and show my inception in 2001. The majority community service project. "The fact that Brett decided Committee and Assistant Vice strength that I always have had of its funding comes from pri Janecek's project is still in the to go to Notre Dame and is President of Student Affairs, is but was just been too afraid to vate donations, and the non works. attending a university that thrilled for Janecek. show." profit organization has bal "I'm just standing up and doesn't recognize the gay and "Notre Dame is a top 20 Janecek's scholarship is looned to be worth over $2.5 being the example that can lesbian organization on cam school, and we have lots and renewable for the duration of million with a $1 million help other gay men be happy pus and is not supportive of lots of very smart and gifted his undergraduate education. endowment fund, he said. with themselves," Janecek gay issues on campus is some people that go here," Gude He estimates he will receive Lancaster attributes its said. "I want to show people thing we support," Lancaster said. "So it's no surprise at all $57,000 total. In addition, he growth to the large number of that it's OK to be gay, it's not a said. that one of our gay or lesbian will be paired up with one of students in the U.S. who have terrible lifestyle. It's who I am. In recent years, Notre Dame students would receive this 51 professional Point been "disowned" from their It's who God made me to be." has denied requests to recog [award]. They are a very tal Foundation mentors who will parents. The number is so nize AllianceND, a campus gay ented group." serve as a coach, confidant and great, he said, that the founda straight alliance, as an official Janecek's sexual orientation friend. tion cannot help them all. Contact Mary Kate Malone at student organization. The has been an extra burden on . "The mentor is responsible "This year we had more than [email protected] COR continued from page 1 and has voting rights, while the other three are restricted to speaking. Vijay Ramanan, the Arts and Letters repre sentative, is the current Academic Delegate. Crossin, whom Baron described as "excited and enthused," is a marketing major who headed The Shirt project in 2003-04 and served on the Academic Council last fall. "The Academic Council needs to make students more aware of what it does - a back and forth exchange, not just reporting," Crossin said. Delegates from the schools of engineering and science will be chosen as soon as the college deans submit nomina tions. Judicial Council president James Leito introduced soph omore Peter Van Loon as the nominee for vice president of elections. "He was a great help to· [former Judicial Council pres ident] Brin [Anderson] in last year's elections," Leito said of Van Loon, who previously served on Judicial Board. Van Loon said he would work to ensure greater atten dance at Judicial Board meetings during student gov ernment elections. "I think there's a real prob lem there," he said, noting that key votes could not be taken due to inadequate attendance. Although Van Loon's nomi nation met no spoken opposi tion, the vote was postponed until next week due to a for mality. In other COR news: + Chief executive assistant Liz Kozlow said she met with Matt Adams, manager of the Student Business Board, to discuss the ownership of the NDBay Web site, run last year by recent graduates. Kozlow said the "kinks with the AFS ID" were being fixed, and Baron mentioned the possibility of online ticket sharing. COR voted 8-7 to buy NDBay last spring. The Web site cost student government $5,000, $1,000 of it for a consulting contract. Contact Maddie Hanna at [email protected] Tuesday, August 30, 2005 The Observer + NEWS page 9 become really responsible ment and in their blues band, stewards of knowledge," he "The Oblates of Blues," Dean said. "Coming to university expresses complete confidence U.S. Supreme Court continued from page I involves being an aetive learner in Page. rather than a passive learner "Hugh is a wonderful choice ... Those are the biggest things for FYS dean for several rea blo dreams here, and all of us l wanted students to get, along sons," Johnson said. "He is a Justice speaks out at tlw first yoar want to make with finding time for silenee, well-balanced individual who sun~ we do everything to hnlp the opportunity to disengage knows the importance of 'hav thnm riHtlize their dreams." from the world, from the inter ing a life' outside of his job. He Antonin Scalia blasts 'judge moralists' in ;\t freshman oriolltation, hi~ net, from lM, so that they ean is a first-rate teacher who likes law school speech at Chatham University was able to finally put faces on in some sense have the oxperi to say that 'a university is a tllis group. The orientation enee of communion with God." place of dreams,' and is willing wnnt smoothly, he said, and he Himself a person of varied and able to assist others to Associated Press for moderate judges, main felt blnssed to partieipatn in the interests and accomplishments, dare to dream their dreams stream judges. What in the oxpnrierH:n. Page encourages the talented and go after them. lie has a ORANGE, C;\ U.S. world is a moderato inter "It's rnally quito a wonder, I first year Glass to pursue edu great sense of humor and deep Supreme Court Justice pretation of a constitutional found mysnlf getting sort of cation outside of the classroom. respect for people." Antonin Scalia blasted what text? Halfway bntwoen what choked up on "l like to be Throughout the year, Page he called "judge moralists" it says and what we'd like it late Saturday involved in so will participate in individual and the infusion of politics to say?" he said, to laughtnr afternoon as I "f think he has a many things student advising, staff meetings into judicial appointments and applause. was talking to rea/love of because each of and curriculum planning. lie Monday after joining law Scalia didn't make any parents and them has taught also plans to visit first year students in a re-enactment direet references to the watching tlw stu learning and is me something classes, residence halls, of a 1 00-year-old landmark looming confirmation battln dents and realiz sensitive to issues incredibly impor LaFortune and other student case. for Supreme Court nominee ing what a won of student tant about the events to get a better sense of Speaking before a packed John Hoberts. but hn did ~le~ful pla~:n ~!l.is world, about God, student interests and life. auditorium at Chapman allude to it. rs, lw s EJj 'JietlnesdAy, 6f,ugust 31 lfrid11y. Wepteml.er 2 "MINI CARNIVAL" ON SOUTH QUAD 2-6PM t} DALE K - THE COMEJ?~YPONOTI6T WA6HINGTON HALL~ .LAE... NlG..I::Il.G.RI.L.L.. AND DRIVE-IN MOVIE NORTH QUAD 8PM SUB MOVIE: "61N CITY" 8PM AND fOPM IN fOf DEBARTOLO •events will be located in Stepan Center if it rains! llhursJ."!I• :eptemllter 1 W«turday, Weptemher a &U8 TICKET LOTTERY FOR MICHIGAN GAME 6UB MOVIE: "61N CITY" f2PM-5PM AT LEGEND& 4:30PM AND 7:30PM IN 101 DEBARTOLO TASTE or LAFORTUNE AND ACOUSTICAFE LAFORTUNE BALLROOM fOPM 6UB MOVIE: "61N CITY" AT fOPM IN DEBARTOLO 101 Assignments/To-Do: BUY "THE 6HIR"T' GET FOOTBALL TIX BUY BOOK6 ------, THE OBSERVER page 10 IEWPOINT Tuesday, August 30, 2005 THE OBSERVER Of patriots and tyrants P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notte Dame, IN 46556 Wisdom often comes from the most fraud. Just this last Sunday, protesters of Enforcement Agency from his country. EDITOR IN CHIEF unlikely of sources. Extremist and semi electoral fraud and supporters of reform The danger posed by Hugo Chavez is Claire Heininger mad preacher Pat Roberston quite ing the chavista-dominated National clear; the solution is not. Assassination is MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER recently said something that made sense: Electoral Commission were marching messy and carries.ihe danger of causing Pat Leonard Paula Garcia remove Venezuelan President Hugo peacefully when supporters of the gov much blood as the factions struggle for Chavez. While his ernment assaulted them with rocks and revenge and power. It would be ideal to AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Maureen Reynolds call for assassination tear gas. This sort of violence is now remove Chavez without the shedding of AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Sarah Vabulas was certainly too tragically not an uncommon occurrence blood, yet we do not live in an ideal AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Hearber Van Hoegarden extreme, he was cor in Venezuela. My dear friend from world and must be willing to make deci Venezuela had two of his friends abduct sions based upon realist considerations. SPORTS EDITOR: Mike Gilloon rect to suggest that it is time that ed at a protest and beaten in a van for However, it should not be disregarded as ScENE EDITOR: Rama Gouumukkala America takes more three hours by the National Guard. Hugo an option if the alternative involves more SAINT MARY'S EDITOR: Megan O'Neil affirmative steps for Chavez has done nothing to restrain his blood and suffering. PHOTO EDITOR: Claire Kelley regime change in dogs and has often condoned and sup An armed insurrection within GRAPHICS EDITOR: Graham Ebetsch Venezuela. lan Ronderos ported the use of violence as a means of Venezuela is another very undesirable, ADVERTISING MANAGER: Nick Guerrieri Hugo Chavez is a political oppression. yet entirely possible alternative. The AD DESIGN MANAGER: Jennifer Kenning brutal dictator and The Right Vzew Hugo Chavez's infatuation with Cuban United States should begin taking steps CONTROLLER Jim Kirihara demagogue who has dictator Fidel Castro and his praise for to strengthen the opposition in Venezuela WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Damian Althoff manipulated a segment of the socialistic measures are the most dis (with arms if necessary) and try to con Venezuelan people in a mad attempt to turbing and foreboding signs for what vince some of the generals to desert OFFICE MANAGER & GENERAL INFO satiate his own base lust for power. the future might deliver. He is desperate Chavez. If the United States should com (574) 631-7471 There is no shame, no illegality, no out ly clinging to a failed, moribund philoso mit air support and possibly a division of FAX rage he will not commit to remain in con phy that has never succeeded anywhere Marines, if need be, the war would be (574) 631-6927 trol. save academia. Chavez is now in a con ended swiftly and the opposition could ADVERTISING (574) 631-6900 [email protected] The Venezuelan constitution, courts solidated position to follow step with his begin the process of rebuilding democra EDITOR IN CHIEF and military have both been changed to hero Fidel and move to nationalize pri cy in Venezuela. The best solution would (574) 631-4542 cement his rule. November, 2000 saw vate industry and towards a communist be the peaceful one whereby ChavPz MANAGING EDITOR Chavez be so bold as to pass a measure economy. This would not only crush the loses the next presidential election. It is (574) 631-4541 [email protected] through his freshly-stacked legislature Venezuelan economy, but would lead to the most expedient course for the United ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR allowing him to rule by personal fiat for widespread destabilization in the region. States to funnel vast sums of money to (574) 631-4324 BUSINESS OFFICE an entire year. Protected by his also Faced with a self-inflicted eeonomic col the opposition candidate to ensure they (574) 631-5313 reconfigured kangaroo courts, Chavez lapse, Chavez would have little choice but get as strong a running as possible. For NEWS DESK was free to chip away at the block of to blame the United States. the interests of peace, pray this last (574) 631-5323 [email protected] Venezuelan democracy. Are these the To overshadow the domestic squalor option works. Yet as Thomas Jefferson VIEWPOINT DESK actions of a president or a tyrant? presiding. he would likely try utilizing his said, "The tree of liberty must be (574) 631-5303 [email protected] The fact that Chavez has won several oil wealth to spread his "revolution." refreshed from time to time with the SPORTS DESK (574) 631-4543 [email protected] elections and referendums does not Venezuela has indeed caused much harm blood of patriots and tyrants." ScENE DEsK decrease the egregious nature of his to the region already and helped to prop (574) 631-4540 [email protected] crimes against liberty. Democracies are up Cuba's failing economy with cheap oil. Ian Ronderos is a senior majoring in SAINT MAAV'S DESK not made of elections, but of freedom and Securing Venezuela would indeed ensure the Classics with a supplementary major smc. i @nd.edu self-government. The fact that a violent the security of a key American oil suppli in Ancient Greek and Roman PHOTO DESK (574) 631-8767 [email protected] and disgruntled portion of the electorate er. Civilizations. He is the current president SYSTEMS & WEB ADMINISTRATORS is willing to vote away their freedoms Chavez has sympathized with leftist emeritus and chair of the education com (574) 631-8839 and God-given rights, while at the same rebels in Colombia and given them free mittee for the Notre Dame College time using violent and illegal measures to reign to operate along his border. This Republicans. He can be contacted at suppress the opposition, only makes the only further complicates the drug war in irondero@nd. edu. THE situation in Venezuela more sad. Colombia and ultimately America. He The views expressed in this column are OBSERVER ONLINE Chavez's victories at the polls have also recently dealt the drug war another blow those of the author and not necessarily www.ndsmcobserver.com been marred by reports of electoral when he ejected the U.S. Drug those of The Observer. POLICIES The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper published in print and online by rbe students of rbe University ofNorre Dame duLac and Saint Mary's EDITORIAL CARTOON College. Editorial content, including advertisements, is not governed by policies of the administration of eirber institution. The Observer reserves rbe right to refuse advertisements based on content. The news is reported as accurately and objectively as possible. 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SPIN TODAY'S STAFF News Sports Megan O'Neil Bobby Griffin OBSERVER POLL QUOTE OF THE DAY Mary Kate Tom Dorwart Malone Ryan Kiefer What will the Notre Dame Lisa Schultz Scene football team's regular "To cherish what remains of the Earth Viewpoint Mark and to foster its renewal is our only Becca Rosswurm Bemenderfer season record be? legitimate hope of survival. " Graphics Ram a Wendell Barry Graham Ebetsch Gottumukk.ala Vote by Thursday at 5 p.m. author at www.ndsmcobserver.com THE OBSERVER Tuesday, August 30, 200'5 IEWPOINT page 11 U-WIRE The latest casualty in the war on civil liberties For tlwsn of you sitting in tho ba1:k of tho classroom. Connecticut. That's right. library roeords. Thankfully, Thn British c.itizons startnd WPb sitns with photos of /\nwril:a has init.iatml anotlwr'l'ront to its war. there are organizations like the /\meriean Civil people holding signs that say, "Wn an~ not afraid" and Oru·o tlw doubil' takn is ovnr. go bark and read that Liberties Union to step in. continued on with thnir daily liws. Anwri!:ans pPrsisl. in sPntnn1:n again. Tlw ACLU has brought a lawsuit to protect the rights surrendering rights to thn War on Civil Libnrtins in Y1ts, anothnr front in tlw War on ol' tho citizens involved. but tho ease is still pending. hope ol' somn protoelion. Tnrror. This Limn around. hownvnr. Crockett Cobb II' the government f'eds threatened by a person who is Benjamin Franklin put it most. Dorm living requires patience- deal with it Bnfon1 !wading into tho dorm daze, y~ur mind years from now, though they their doors and they disappear, but many of' the buildings have thick walls please hnnd the following advice: Life in may bo even more creative. roommates are still there even after you that offer some sound-proof' protnetion, a dorm l'llquirns things far from the Tho fact of the matter is dorm living elose your own door. but living in a communal-style dorm norm. requires tremendous patience and To be asked to live with a complete means as a community you share thn What oxaetly do wn nwan by this? understanding of others especially when stranger can be a difficult task indeed. same noise. Existnnen in thn rosidenee halls brings some guys below you play Halo 24-7, However, this job can be made one stop Noise al'feeting your ability to study'? A about situations far Staff Editorial swearing included. Be prepared for easier by going into the lire with a good suggestion is to move elsewhere, like the diiTernnt than semn- things that are beyond normal, if not attitude. Don't get all hot and bothered eommon area or dare we say, the ingly normal things Daily fbrty outright insane. by every little outlandish thing your library. Many of us get very little done in before and after it. Niner People become very odd once you live roommate does. Just deal with it. our rooms with the distraction of friends You will son and do Cal{fornia with them. This is an indisputable fact. If something bothers you enough to the and other trinkets, so going somewhore things no apartmnnt State Consider the scenario of a dorm: many point of screaming, communicate with else is the only way to get down to busi or house ean o!Ter. Long Beach students usually around the same age that other person who is only three feet ness. No one can say get crammed together from different away. Set up boundaries and guidelines. So whether you're an ineoming fresh oxactly what those little occurrences will hometowns. Few people know each Your roommate can either be your man or transfer student, on-campus liv be. hut rest assured, years from now other already, but are forced to some worst eneiny, a complacent dose-by ing for a year can be the time of your lil'e you'll reminisce about those dorm days. how coexist and maybe even become neighbor or a lifelong friend. It's never if you choose to head into its fantastical Hommnbor the slip-n-slide with show friends. good to make enemies and a quiet com fury with the right mindsnt. In short, or curtains down tho hallway? You'll see the ins-and-outs of personal panion isn't much fun. make the most of it. Honwmbnr whnn hundreds of crickets lives you wouldn't get by sitting next to That leaves the third option whieh is worn dumped in tho hall at 4 a.m. and him or her in history. Dorms are like a by far the best- view your roommate This column originally appeared in the ernpt into tho rooms? Who can forgot boot camp where you and your newly with an open mind. So what if he looks Aug. 29 issue of the Daily Forty-Niner, thn dead squid left in tho bathroom loek found neighbors will share the same and smells funny or she wears odd-col the daily publication at Cal{f'omia .'·)tale nr and that smell? adventure and stress for nine months. ored dresses on the first day? Long Beach. Trash eans on lire? Fire alarms every With dorms come neighbors, and with Another thing- dorms are noisy The views expressed in this column Thursday at 2:30a.m.? neighbors eome roommates. Roommates plaees and this is the norm. Noise is the are those of the author and not neces Such memories may bo popping into are a different breed. Neighbors close nature of the beast. Deal with it. Luekily, sarily those of The Observer. EDITORIAL CARTOON THE OBSERVER page 12 CENE Tuesday, August 30, 2005 ters, perhaps as recurring opponents. By MARK BEMENDERFER Levels, enemies and weapon designs are Assistant Scene Editor repetitive throughout the game. The sin gle-player game's boss battles, which Video game manufacturers typically are massive and actually intimidating, release their bread and butter games at are the only positive aspects to the the same time as the initial release of game. It's a shame there are only three the game system itself, hoping to rope in of them. customers. In the months following a Control is also a hindrance in the By MARK BEMENDERFER system's release, there is usually a game. Aiming can be tricky due to the Assistant Scene Editor major dropoff, with most of the subse lack of any auto-aim or target-lock fea quent games hardly worth shelling out tures. This hindrance affects everyone Creativity is at an all-time low in any money. The X-Box followed this over multiplayer equally, so it's not Hollywood. The biggest movies of the trend, as "Halo" was arguably the only much of a disadvantage in multiplayer summer have been remakes, sequels game worth owning for at least a year mode. Multi-player mode is where the and spin-o(Ts. But they also tend to be following the system's release. game shines, as it supports four-player some of the most successful movies. The PSP, Sony's powerful, pocket-sized game modes for an action experience on The runaway success of "Spider-Man gaming system, is no exception to this the go. 2," a sequel that improved on the trend. Following the impressive launch The last game released was also the original, proved this trend. titles, there has been a famine of new most hyped of the trio. "Death Jr." was The video game industry is no dif titles. The games released since the originally supposed to be a launch title ferent. When games like "Halo 2" and PSP's launch have been mediocre at for the system, but missed the original the legion of "Final Fantasy" games best. date as the developer wanting to fine sell as well as they do, it's a knee-jerk Over the summer, three action games tune it more. reaction for the producers to create were released for the PSP, hoping to "Death Jr." definitely shows the love more sequels and spin-offs. This sum buck the trend. They were all games and care invested by its developers, as it mer has exemplified that, with the that held promise, backed by reputable is by far the best of the three games biggest sellers falling into that catego "NCAA Football 2006" is the latest manifestat companies popular with garners. released and has the most robust game ry. However, of the three, only one is worth play. The story is filled with such weird the "Race for the Heisman" feature, which .... ,u.... the $40 price tag. and interesting characters as Pandora, Madden 2006 The first game released was "Dead to Dead Guppy and Death's son, the game's With Madden franchise being the year's incarnation, leaving players on Rights: Reckoning." The "Dead to namesake. On a class field trip, Death Jr. current 800-pound gorilla of football familiar ground. Offensive players Rights" series is an established brand accidentally releases an ancient evil games, its yearly release is highly also sport the ability to use the "truck name, but it hasn't been a positive brand from a box after Pandora fmds herself anticipated by fans. It is the most suc stick," their version of the defensive sion. as oflate. The two previous games in the unable to open the box herself. cessful football license in gaming, and hit stick. With careful timing, the run series, series have received lukewarm praise. The gameplay revolves around the has been that way for many years. ning back can slam the defender off impact To be honest, the story is merely player controlling Death Jr. as he The latest Madden capitalizes on of him, but it slows him down more the zo superficial. No character depth is ever attempts to save his friends and return updated rosters and new gameplay than a simple juke. - B there by introduced, nor does hero Jack Slate the evil back to the box. Failure could mechanics. lent plays. ever do more than go from point A to mean losing his friends, getting into Of the updated changes, perhaps NCAA Football 2006 to the game point B. A plot twist is introduced at the trouble at school or, most importantly, the largest would be EA, the game's "NCAA Football" is to college sports opponent a end, but it fails miserably to bear any ticking off his dad. Honestly, who would developer, choosing to revamp the games as "Madden" is to professional For your real impact. want to tick off Death? passing design. In previous years, ones. It's the most successful college until the The plot should not be the draw for Controlling Death Jr. is a fun experi passing was relatively simple, if a lit franchise, and like "Madden," a new Michigan this game, however. The action is clearly ence and surprisingly deep for a hand tle unrealistic. Scrambling quarter incarnation is released every year. In A the main draw here. On harder difficulty held platform game. His weapon of backs could deftly sling the ball the past, it has always been in the settings, "Dead to Rights" becomes a choice, the scythe, can be used in a vari across their body with ease, millisec shadow of its EA big brother, a trait Conker: heavily skill-based shooting feast, with ety of situations, be it sliding down lines onds before sacked. that has, fortunately, been overcome. The only bullets and slow-motion diving serving or climbing up ledges. The scythe can A new level of realism has been The new selling point for the series, under the up the main course. even be used as a pogo stick. introduced with the new quarterback beyond being faster and more respon Live and But although the action can be enter The game's developers stated that they vision feature. In order to complete a sive that previous versions, is the Nintendo taining at times, "Dead to Rights: wanted to create an original, recogniza pass in "Madden 2006," the quarter inclusion of the "Race for the Fur Day." Reckoning" fails to be a worthwhile pur ble mascot, akin to Nintendo's Mario, back has to be looking squarely at the Heisman" mode. As in "Madden been left chase. On the normal difficulty setting, but with a gun. Of course, since the receiver. Making sure that the pass 2006," the gamer now has the ability some the game can easily be beat in under an famous plumber was already taken, they connects is now fully controllable. to create a player and follow him the origin hour. The higher difficulties and unlock had to come up with a new mascot. Even the quarterback's line of sight through his career. After creating an never played able cheats add some replay value, as Hence, as the player goes through the must be taken into account. athlete, it is the gamer's responsibility version, the does the four player multiplayer mode. game, an increasing collection of guns is "Superstar," a new feature of the to get him into a decent school, based highly reco "Coded Arms," released within two found, much to Death Jr.'s delight. gameplay, is a welcome addition, as it upon his performance in training adventurous weeks of "Dead to Rights," has the dis Two complaints hinder "Death Jr." and allows the player to develop a football drills. A shoddy performance means itself too seri tinction of being the first and only true prevent it from being the outright game persona from scratch, and build his poor offers, as well as decreased However, first-person shooter on the PSP. "Coded to own for the PSP. The camera can be a career. Everything from training stats. A good performance means bet still find t · Arms" follows in the vein of "Doom," chore to control at times, and there's a schedules to the player's parents play ter offers, and excellent starting stats. purchasing another popular monster-based first disappointing lack of a multiplayer a role in this process, adding an Fortunately, even if you don't er mode person shooter. But many problems mode, something that could have really almost role-playing quality to the impress Notre Dame with your play revamped,· plague this game and prevent it from made this game a must-own. game. er's performance, you can pull a Rudy Live, the X rising above mediocrity. But as it stands, "Death Jr." is still the Not many significant defensive and walk on to any team. It makes it munity. Thr The single player storyline is even current cream of the crop and bucks the changes have been made from last harder, however, to get on the fast Nazi-like Te more forgettable than "Dead to Rights," trend of disappointing games released are the pla} if that is possible. Valuable plot informa soon after a system's release. Hopefully ferent cha tion is only revealed in the game manu other game developers will take notice diversifying al. and follow suit. Fans of" There is too much missed potential in in general, "Coded Arms." It could have been vastly Contact Mark Bemenderfer at the game. improved by incorporating other charac- [email protected] sions and the lumbe looking for choose the is the jack gibles, ther Creating a wealth o upon onlin opposition then open abilities fo teammate machinery combinati Photo courtesy of gamespot.com Photo courtesy of gamespot.com affects ra A summer action-adventure game released on Aug. 16, "Death Jr." follows Conkers, the rude anti-hero squirrel, sits atop his throne In "Conker: Live motions an the misadventures of the title character as he tries to save his friends. and Reloaded." This remake Is based on a popular Nlntendo 64 game. "Conkers" c THE OBSERVER Tuesday, August 30, 2005 CENE page 13 EVENT REVIEW Scripted events, performers Heat Index doom Video Music Awards I the summer t .. have games ------~ purchase bncomcs more worthy of considnration. But for those with Live, there's relatively little reason to pick this up, as the primary contnnt can be downloaded free of charge. - C- The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction While playing "The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction," it's almost impossible to not stop and feel awed AP by the sheer chaos garners can cre Members of Green Day pose for photographers as they arrive on ate. While controlling the llul"k, the the white carpet of the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. gamer gets a great feeling of control ling a multi-ton wrecking ball of destruction. Cars, pedestrians and superstars. even busses are sent !lying with the By BRODERICK HENRY The suits at MTV did away tap of a button. Scene Writer with the customary awards show Immensely impressive is how well monologue and supplind dips of Photo courtesy of gamespot.com the Hulk's animations were designed. Although hurricane Katrina Beavis and Bullhead for cornndy the popular sports franchise. This year's version introduces Unable to fly, the Hulk travels by and the shooting of notorious rap relief. The two animated charac .,.l<>v•a.•c:t to create and train their own superstar athlete. bounding throughout the city, off label head Suge Knight did their ters were not amusing ten ynars buildings and over rooftops. This cre best to thwart the 22nd MTV ago, and they delinitnly wern not nan status. The only drawback to the game is ates a fluid, very dynamic mode of Video Music Awards, the show amusing on this night. elsn is improvnd or at the steep learning curve, and a depth transportation, with plenty of realism was nevertheless broadcast Iivn Performers were all over the bl11 to last year's ver that does not quite match "llalo." But as the Hulk lands. Land next to or on from Miami Sunday. For the sec place when the time came to a cue from the Blitz those factors aside, "Conker: Live and a car, and the shockwaves sends the ond year in a row, American aetually entertain viewers. .tns can now bncome Heloaded" is a great experience for car !lipping away. Concrete cracks, Airlines Arena played host to Shakira sung her nominated nssnntially going "in action fans.- A- and people run from the Hulk's some of the largest acts in music, hit "La Totura" in Spanish, a n impaet player gets arrival in terror. It is truly an enter television and film. VMA first, and reminded men t11dly performing excel- Halo 2 Map Pack taining and humorous experience. Over the years, the live pro and women alike why they love brings an added layer While not a game per se, the "Halo However, the gameplay by itself is duction has come to be less her so much. ng both you and your 2" map pack offers new levels and not necessarily enough for an enter about honoring outstanding Ludacris, accompanied by for which to watch. updates weaponry for "Halo" veter taining game. A decent story was music videos from the previous Bobby Valentino and dancers football fix, at least ans, giving enough content to warrant tossed in as well, with rogue govern year and much more about armed with moves from cultures t home game against heavy consideration. Nine new multi ment officials and the military breath celebrity, fashion and fabricated the world over, performed , hem's your tieket. - player maps round out the "Halo" ing down Bruce Banner's neck. The "surprise moments." In fact, it is "Pimpin All Over the World." He experience, with updates on classic missions aren't incredibly varied, and the surprise moments that have lived up to his billing as the most levels like Wizard and Longest. There most of them revolve around the Hulk made the show most memorable. versatile rapper in the game and Reloaded are new maps as well, with some smashing something. Then again, the On this night, the surprise with his extravagant perform here that truly falls standouts being the train station Hulk was never really known for espi moments were few and far ance. catngory, "Conker: Terminal, and Gemini. onage or subtlety. between. It appears the people in H. Kelly decided acting out nd" is a remake of the Terminal is a fairly symmetrical The closest comparable game is charge over at MTV made sure "Trapped in a Closet" sans a classic, "Conker's Bad level, with train tracks that go "Spider-Man 2." Both of the games that the show went on without a microphone or actual supporting single-player story has through the center of the map. Items have free-roaming environments that hitch. actors would be compelling. tivnly untouched. with are placed near the tracks, forcing can be manipulated and explored. The orchestrated pageantry for Viewers are probably still asking s tossed to fans of players to risk their digital lives to However, "The Incredible Hulk" may artist arrivals provided viewers a themselves about the latest For those who have obtain key weapons. It's also highly have the more immersive environ glimpse of what was to come. chapter in the life and times of the Nintendo 64 amusing to see an opponent go flying ment due to the Hulk's ability to Stars like Orlando Bloom, Usher, Hufus, Kathy and Chuck. X-Box remake comes from the speeding trains. smash and modify his surrounding. Alicia Keys and lil Jon arrived in "Gold Diggnr," the Hay Charles mendeq. It's a fun, Most of the content on the DVD can Even the skyscrapers can be leveled yachts and pimped-out rides that inspired hit by Kanye West and mp that doesn't take also be downloaded for free off X-Box by the Hulk's power, drastically alter the artists did not actually own. Jamie Foxx was palatable. Foxx Live. Already, most of the maps are ing the game area. Solely because it was MTV, a seems to be basking in the glory of the original will free, with the remaining maps For comic-book fans, this game is a white, rather than red, carpet of his rncent Osear win a little gs to draw them into released free of charge shortly. A must-have. Blowing the previous Hulk greeted celebrities who posed for too much though. n game. The multiplay "Halo" animated short is also includ games out of the water in every way, photographers, conducted inter Yet the most eyebrow-raising s been completely nd on the disc, and is worth a look for "Ultimate Destruction" lives up to its views and mingled with fans. performances of the night have is playable over X-Box hardcore fans. title. -A+ The award show began rather to go to Mariah Carey and Kelly 's online gaming com However, the map paek is not worth awkwardly with a performance Clarkson. Carey, who continues dueling faetions of the the disc's $20 retail price. Without Contact Mark Bemenderfer at by Green Day from their latest to be promoted as one of the top iz and the good squirrels Live to download the content, the [email protected] CD, "Boulevard of Broken selling fernaln artists of all time, characters, with dif Dreams." Green Day, the big appnarnd to bn more like a teen acter classes further winners for the night, would go pop tart. While performing an ganwplay. on to collect seven awards for out-of-tune medley of her hits lalo," and onlinn gaming the song's music video, including "We Belong Togeth(H" and ill lind plenty to enjoy in Video of the Year, Viewer's "Shake it OfT," she showed more indirwd to nxplo Choice and Best Hock Video. skin than a daneer at a strip artillnry can choose Master of ceremonies for the club. ing l>nrnolislwr. Others evening was super mogul and Kelly Clarkson was the littltl morn linnssn might self-aggrandizer, Diddy. True to evening's final pnrforrnnr. The tkPr. Finally, tlw Crunt form, Diddy did not disappoint. American Idol winner dncided all tradtlS and for intan- lie was his usual conceited, that since her rnicrophorw was 's tlw Tlwrmophile. flamboyant self. The fact that the not to her liking, she would .play within the game is three and a half hour show scream, yell and kiek her way unloekabln fnaturns basnd seemed like a commemoration of through her hit "Since U Benn ~ pPrformanen. Killing the Diddy should have benn no sur Gone." Clarkson nnver found the garnnrs mndals, which prise to viewers. right key, and as rain poured up improved weapons or Combs' indulgences consisted from the an~na's cPiling onto ' the charactnrs. llcaling of nine outfit changes, a dance Clarkson and fans, viewnrs at and repairing critical off with H&B impresario horne got the picture. She was narns rnndals as well. A Omarion, conducting an orches dreadful, and tho night was a 111 of all those factors tra to Notorious B.I.G hits, giving total wash. ings, which leads to pro- Photo courtesy gamespot.com a fan a Jacob the Jeweler watch more prnstige with the The Incredible Hulk, a misunderstood green goliath, evades relentless and a $100,000 award for the Contact Broderick Henry at Immunity. attack choppers and ground forces In "Ultimate Destruction." best dressed male and female bhenry 1 @nd.edu ~~-----~-- --- 1 page 14 The Observer + CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday, August 30, 2005 I I MLB- AMERICAN LEAGUE Indians have big first inning, keep pace in playoff race Wickman records his league-leading 35th save after Cleveland outhits Detroit Associated Press Athletics 10, Orioles 5 Four home runs and a baserunning gaffe by the CLEVELAND Jhonny Baltimore Orioles enabled the Peralta, Coco Crisp and Ben Oakland Athletics to take a Broussard drove in two runs wealth of momentum into their apiece as the Cleveland Indians showdown with the Los kept up their late-season surge Angeles Angels. by outslugging the Detroit Nick Swisher and Mark Ellis Tigers 10-8 Monday night. homered off Jorge Julio in a The Indians overcame a five five-run 12th inning, and the run deficit in the first inning by Athletics completed a four scoring six times in their first game sweep of the Orioles with at-bat and improved to a major a victory Monday. league-best 19-7 in August. Jay Payton and Dan Johnson After finishing April at only also homered for the A's, 9-14 and in fourth place in· its whose sixth straight win diYision, Cleveland has moved extended their lead in the AL imo a small group of teams West to one full game over the chasing the AL wild card head idle Angels. The teams begin a ing into the season's final three-game series Tuesday month. night in Anaheim. However, the turnaround has "We battled to get in this not yet captivated the imagina spot, and we've got to feel tion of Cleveland fans, who are proud about what we've staying away in large numbers. accomplished," Swisher said. Attendance was announced as "We just want to keep it going 22,713, but 5,000 tickets were right now; we just need to keep giveaways. riding that wave." Rookie Fernando Cabrera (2- Oakland scored all its run on 0) cleaned up after Indians homers. Payton hit a two-run starter Scott Elarton, allowing shot in the first inning and one run in 2 2/3 innings. Rafael Johnson connected with two on Betancourt pitched 1 1/3 score in the sixth. The A's have 18 less innings and Bob Howry home runs in their last six worked a perfect eighth. games. Bob Wickman pitched the Kiko Calero (3-1) worked two ninth for his league-leading perfect innings to seal 35th save in 40 attempts. Oakland's first four-game Indians' relief pitcher Fernando Cabrera throws a pitch in the six inning of his team's win Wickman, who walks a sweep in Baltimore since the Monday night. Cabrera earned the win as he held the Tigers to just one run in 2 2/3 innings. tightrope almost every time A's moved from Kansas City in out, gave up a one-out single to 1968. Magglio Ordonez and walked The Orioles had a chance to the double play no matter said. "This is where the fun Mark Buerhl~ (14-7) gave up Carlos Pena with two outs. The break a 5-all tie in the eighth, where the ball is hit." begins." seven runs - four earned - right-hander got Craig Monroe putting runners at the corners Third base coach Rick and nine hits in seven innings. to hit a grounder to third base with no outs against Justin Dempsey, who moved from first Rangers 7, White Sox 5 He came in 7-0 with a 2.21 man Aaron Boone, whose Duchscherer, but pinch-runner base shortly after Perlozzo Rookie Juan Dominguez ERA in 10 career appearances throw to second nipped pinch Luis Matos held at third base took over for Lee Mazzilli on allowed seven hits in eight against Texas. Down '7-2, runner Nook Logan for the when Sal Fasano hit into a August 4, took the blame. innings, and Mark Teixeira had Chicago closed in the ninth off final out. double play. Brian Roberts fol "It was bad judgment on my three hits and two RBI to lead Steve Karsay on Juan Uribe's Broussard hit an RBI triple in lowed with a groundout. part," Dempsey said. "It wasn't the Texas Rangers over the RBI single, Scott Podsednik's the first off Jeremy Bonderman The A's were amazed that [Matos'] fault at all. It was 100 Chicago White Sox Monday run-scoring grounder and (14-11) and Casey Blake had Matos didn't break for home as percent my fault. He did exact night. Iguchi's RBI single. three hits for Cleveland. soon as Fasano's grounder ly what I told him to do. I have Dominguez (2-3) gave up two With on one, Doug Brocail Dmitri Young had a grand headed toward shortstop. to live with that." runs, struck out three and retired Carl Everett on a slam and five RBI, and Carlos "We felt like we were playing "The third base coach tells walked two in his 11th major groundout for his first save Pena homered for Detroit. with house money when they you to stay, you stay," Matos league start. since August 17 last year Down by five before getting failed to run home on that said. "I don't want to look like Mark DeRosa and Kevin against Cleveland. to bat, the Indians rallied for ball," third baseman Eric a bad runner." Mench homered for the six runs in the bottom of the Chavez said. "That was defi Oakland finally took advan Rangers, who have won five of Twins 3, Royals 1 first, with Blake's RBI double nitely miscommunication on tage of the mistake in the 12th. seven on their 10-game homes Nick Punto hit a two-run dou capping the early comeback. their part. We got lucky; they Johnson led off by reaching tand after a 1-12 trip that ble in the lOth inning leading the As the Indians took the field for had a brain cramp on that third base when Eric Byrnes dropped them from contention. Minnesota Twins over the the top of the second, the small play." dropped his liner to left, and Geoff Blum homered for the Kansas City Royals Monday but appreciative crowd gave Orioles interim manager Sam Swisher followed by hitting a AL Central leaders, who have night. them a rousing ovation that Perlozzo, who spent 14 years 2-2 pitch from Julio (3-4) over lost 10 of their last 15 and are Shawn Camp (1-4) walked lasted more than a minute. as a third base coach, was the right-field wall. Marco 0-3 at Texas this year, getting: Jason Bartlett and Michael Ryan Crisp and Peralta hit RBI quick to acknowledge that Scutaro and Jason Kendall outscored 25-8. with one out in the 1Oth and doubles and Victor Martinez's Matos should have been run both singled before Ellis hit his Chicago made four errors, Punto, in a 2-for-17 slide, dou sacrifice fly sparked the rally, ning on the play. eighth homer, the fifth in six matching its season high, three bled to gap in left-center. which was helped by Detroit "That's normally an automat games. by second baseman Tadahito Juan Rincon (6-4) worked out shortstop Omar Infante's field ic situation that you go, and Three outs later, the A's Iguchi. The three errors by of a bases loaded jam in the ing error. Broussard followed obviously we didn't, so I guess turned their attention toward Iguchi were the most by a ninth and pitched two scoreless the miscue with an RBI triple that comes back to me," he the Angels. 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Eckstein goes 4-for-5 .lefT Conine drove in Florida's with three RBI in win run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth, ending a streak of 24 Associated Press consecutive scoreless innings MIAMI - Chris Carpenter pitchnd by the Cardinals. came up with another gem for Albert Pujols went 0-for-5 for the St. Louis Cardinals, and he St. Louis, but Eckstein hit an hnlpnd the Philadelphia Phillies, HBI single in the third and too. tripled home two runs in the Carpnntnr become thn first 19- fourth. Teammate Larry Walker gamo winner in tho major hit his 12th homer over the cen leagues and David Eckstein ter l'ield wall leading off the went 4-for-5 with thrne HBI to third. lwlp St. Louis beat the Florida A.J. Burnett (12-8) lost his Marlins (,-J on Monday night. seeond start in a row after win Florida missod a chance to tie ning seven consecutive starts. Philadelphia for the NL wild lie gave up a season-high six l:arrllnad. walks, and foul' led to runs - "If Carpnntnr hadn't been out including one to Carpenter, a tlwrP, it might haw bonn easi .031 hitter. er," Marlins managnr .lack Burndt throw 95 pitches in McKnon said. "lin got in a cou fivn innings and departed trail ple of jams, and hn got out of ing 6-1. Ho lnrt the stadium tlwm. lin was tough in the without talking to the media. clutch. That's why lw's a 19- "Too many bases on balls are ganw winnnr." going to hurt you," McKeon Carpnntnr ( 1 1J-4) beat the said. "lie wasn't on his game." Marlins for the second time in MeKeon saved most of his August and improvnd to ll-0 in annoyance for first base umpiro his past 14 starts. lin allowed Tod Barrett, who ojeeted Paul s1wnn hits but only onn run in 7 Lo Duea for arguing from tho 2/3 innings, stranding fin1r run dugout after grounding out in nnrs in scoring position. the ninth. "I had romnmnd or my sinker, "11<1 was looking for trouble," command or my cuttnr and com MeKnon said of Barrett. "What mand or my brnaking ball, and I is this game turning out to be? It was abln to throw it whnn I used to be you muld argue and wantnd to throw it and keep have some fun. Today you can't tlwm ofT-balance all night." say a word. We've got to sit in Carp1~11tnr said. the dugout with our Sunday sehool Bibles." AP lin thrnw 94 pitchns bef"ore David Eckstein tags Juan Pierre during Monday's victory over the Marlins. In addition to his managnr Tony La Hussa glove, Eckstein led the Cardinals with his bat, going 4-for-5 at the plate. mmovml him with two outs and Arizona 7, San Diego 5 nonn on in tlw nighth. SAN DIEGO - Troy Glaus, Chad "We ·n~ not going to push it," Tracy and Shawn Green clearly Diamondbacks beat San Diego Arizona has won thn~e Fans sitting in the first two La Hussa said. "That was drovn balls out of Petco Park. to trim the Padres' lead in the straight following a six-game rows in lnft field said the ball enough for today, and we'll try Kelly Stinnett's high fly ball NL West to four games. losing streak. The bounced ofT a strip of chain-link to sav11 a fnw bullets for the next wasn't quite as clear-cut, leav "I'll take them any way I ean Diamondbacks and Los Angeles fencing stretehnd horizontally time hn pit1:hes." ing him with a bizarre inside get them," Stinnett said. "A Dodgers, who beat tho Chicago between the top of tho padded Carpnnt11r will bid for his first the-park home run Monday home run's a home run. It does Cubs 9-6, are tied for second fenee and a eoncrete retaining 20-win season Saturday at night as the Arizona n't matter." place. wall. San Diego fell to 64-66. It's the "I ruled it in play," Welke said. latest in a season that a team Klesko left the elubhouso has led a division with a losing before reporters were let in. The Center for Ethics and Religious Values in record. · "It's a tough eall beeause I hit With Traey hitting his 20th it so high and it just camn B11siness homer, Arizona is the only NL straight down," Stinnett said. "I team to have four players with just knew I hit it high. I didn't and 20 or more. Russ Ortiz (5-8) know if it had tho distanen, so I won for the first time in seven just ran hard. I got to sncond decisions. and I saw no sign and I kind of" Stinnett's homer with two outs lot up for a second and thnn all Proudly Present in tho fourth, off Woody of' a suddnn I saw thn third basn Williams, followed Tracy's two umpirn go 'saf"e.' So, I startnd run shot,· capping the four-run turning it back on and Carlos inning for a 5-1 lead. !third base coach Toseal at third Stinnett hit a high lly ball to basn was waving nw in, so I Berges Lecture Series in Business Ethics left field. which Hyan Klesko took of"l'. (Sponsored by the .John A. Berges Endowment) leaped for at the fence and "lin gave the 'saf"e' sign like it missed. Tho ball bounced high was in the park," lw said. into the air and foil back onto Welke said that's his way of" "'Business Schools are Pat-tially to Blame for the the field. Third base umpire Bill indicating a ball is rair. Corporate Ethics Scandals: Multiple Viewpoints" Welke stretched out both arms Sinen Wnlkn ruh•d that thn ball horizontally to signal a l~tir ball did not go ovnr Uw renee, tlw and didn't gave tho circular decision on how to scorn it was motion indieating a homer. left t.o ofTicial srornr Bill Stinnett nnver brokn stricto as Zavnstoski, who eaiiPd it an Panelists include: he rounded the bases, and insidn-tlw-park honwr. Welke appeared to point to "I saw it hit what!wnr and Robert Audi, Gallo Professor of Business Ethics home plate. Klesko, appan~ntly bounce up in tlw air, and Kl1~sko Oliver Williams, C.S.C., l)irector ofthe Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business thinking the ball had landnd obviously thought it was a honw Michael Crant, Professor of Management beyond the fence before bounc run," Arizona manager Bob Barry Keating, Professor of Finance ing baek, walked over, picknd it Mnlvin said. "But they said up and flipped it into the stands maybe it hit behind tlw pad on as Stinnett was rounding third concrete. So they should do All four are faculty members in the Mendoza College of Business at the University base. something about that." of Notre Dame. Patrick E. Murphy, Smith Co~Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Attention Seniors: Worldwide will serve as moderator. The Fulbright Teaching Assistantship Programs and the Romance Languages: Programs and Application Procedures Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Information Meeting with Professor Alain Toumayan 7:00p.m. Tuesday,August 30,2005 Jordan Auditorium 6:30PM Mendoza College of Business Room I 18 DeBartolo ------ AROUND THE NATION page 16 CoMPILED FROM THE ()BSERVDrs WJRE srRvJcrs Tuesday, August 39, 2005 NSCAA/Adidas Preseason Men's NFL Soccer Poll team prev. record prev. rank 1 Indiana 18·4-2 1 2 Maryland 17-6-2 3 3 Duke 18·6·0 4 4 UC Santa Barbara 21-2·2 2 5 St. John's 12-6·4 T-5 6 Virginia 18·5·1 T-5 7 Southern Methodist 16·4·1 11 8 New Mexico 1H·2 10 9 UCLA 14·4-2 14 10 Wake Forest 14·5·2 12 11 VA Commonwealth 12·6·3 7 12 Creighton 14-4·2 13 13 UNC·Greensboro 19-3-1 9 14 Tulsa 12·7·4 8 15 Boston College 13~5~2 15 16 NOTRE DAME 134-'3 17 17 North Carolina 1·9·2 NR 18 Ohio State 12·7-2 16 19 Connecticut 12·8·3 22 20 California 13·4·3 18 21 Santa Clara 15·6·0 NR 22 Old Dominion 13·6·2 19 23 Penn State 1·4·8 T-20 24 Northwestern 15•6-2 NR 25 Saint Louis 9•8"1· NR NSCAA/Adidas Preseason Women's Soccer Poll team prev. recorci prev. rank 1 NOTRE DAME 244•1 1 2 North Carolina 20·1-2 5 3 UCLA 18-7·0 2 4 Virginia 17·3-2 7 AP 5 Santa Clara 18-5-2 3 Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson responds to reporters at a press conference Monday. The former 6 TexasA&M 18-6-8 15 University of Texas star became the last first round pick to sign when he inked a contract Sunday night. 7 Portland 20-4·0 6 8 Penn State 19·3·1 9 9 Connecticut 18-7-1· 13 10 Ohio State 19•4•3·· 8 Benson ends holdout, signs five-year deal 11 Tennessee 17~5-2 T·11 12 Duke 15-8~0 T·11 13 Illinois 16-6-2 14 Associated Press offered between $17 mil the process. A four-year starter at 14 Stanford 13-6-3 T·19 lion and $17.5 million "This did take a lot Texas, Benson ranks sixth 15 West Virginia 15-6-o NR LAKE FOREST, Ill. - guaranteed on a deal that longer than what we had on the NCAA's and second 16 Boston College 15-.7-1 17 With a five-year contract could pay $35 million. anticipated," Angelo said. on the Longhorns' all-time 11 Nebraska 14-9-0 22 in hand and an ear-to-ear The sides agreed to "We never really found rushing lists with 5,540 18 Arizona 15·6.;0 25 grin crossing his face, terms Sunday, ending a that common ground. yards. He was the fifth 19 florida . 16~4~3 21 runniog back Cedric 36-day impasse. That hap Usually, you find that com back in NCAA history to 20 Washington 17•5·1 10 Benson joined the Chicago pened just three days mon ground at some point rush for more than 1,000 21 Princeton 19-3·0 4 Bears on Monday and put after an impromptu meet the first couple weeks. We yards in each of his four 21 Wake Forest 10·7·2 NR a drawn-out negotiation ing between Benson and didn't really find anything seasons and his 64 touch 23 Kansas 18-5-0 18 behind him. general manager Jerry that we agreed upon for down runs r.ank third all 24 California 11-6-3 NR The fourth overall pick Angelo at the practice quite some time. That cre time. 25 Wisconsin 16-6-1 NR and the last first-rounder facility - and less than ated the long holdout." Benson was expected to to sign, Benson called it "a two weeks after Angelo Benson took a condition challenge starter Thomas great relief" and said it released a statement say ing test Monday but did Jones for minutes, but the "feels good to be here" ing the team had made its not practice. c;oach Lovie Bears' plans changed as Women's College Volleyball during. a news conference final offer and would start Smith said he will not play the impasse dragged on. at the team's practice pulling money off the in Thursday's preseason For now, he's third on the Big East Conference facility. table. game against Cleveland depth chart behind Adrian team conf. overall Terms of the contract Thursday's meeting was and is questionable for the Peterson, and in his own were not revealed, but the· not a negotiating session, season-opener Sept. 11 at words, starting "from the Villanova 0-0 2·0 Bears reportedly had but it might have sped up Washington. bottom." Georgetown 0·0 1·0 NOTRE DAME 0·0 1·0 St. John's 0·0 1-0 Marquette 0·0 2·1 Pittsburgh 0·0 2·1 IN BRIEF Seton Hall 0·0 1·1 Rutgers 0·0 1·2 Manning's injury not serious, quarter Saturday. The Colts starters Wells loses suspension West Virginia 0·0 1·2 QB will not miss action did not return after that series, and appeal Cincinnati 0·0 0·0 INDIANAPOLIS - Coach Tony Manning later did a sideline inter BOSTON - Red Sox pitcher David Connecticut 0·0 0·0 view, not mentioning being hurt. DePaul 0·0 0·1 Dungy can breathe easier now that Wells will sit out six games for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Palmeiro benched due to pushing an umpire, failing in his Louisville 0·0 o~o South Florida 0·0 0•0 Colts offense appear to be fine. shimp attempt to shorten the suspension Syracuse o-o 0·0 Dungy said Monday that Manning's SAN FRANCISCO Rafael on Monday and then blasting Bud bruised left shoulder isn't serious Palmeiro has lost his job as the Selig for the appeals process and enough to .keep him out of games or Baltimore Orioles' regular first base accusing the commissioner of delay practices and that the two-time MVP man, the result of a prolonged slump ing Rafael Palmeiro's steroids sus should be ready when the Colts open that began after he returned from a pension. the regular season at Baltimore. 10-day suspension for testing posi "I don't know what the point was around the dial "He has been examined, and he's tive for steroids. even having a hearing," Wells said fine," Dungy said. Mired in a 2-for-22 skid in which before Boston's game against the Dungy said Monday after practice he has gone hitless in his last 14 at Tampa Bay Devil Rays. "They said I that he misspoke Sunday when he bats, the left-handed hitting Palmeiro clearly bumped him and sprayed MLB told a local reporter that Manning did not start Monday against him with spit. That's coming from a White Sox at Rangers (DH) 4:05 p.m., had undergone an MRI, which he Oakland right-hander Kirk Saarloos. guy that works for the commission Com cast had not. Asked if he sees Palmeiro as the er, so what can you do?" Dodgers at Cubs 7:05p.m., WGN Manning declined interview team's everyday first baseman for Wells accused Selig of retaliating · requests after Monday's brief prac the rest of the season, Orioles inter for past criticism and discipline czar tice but was expected to speak im manager Sam Perlozzo respond Bob Watson of "turning against the WNBA PLAYOFFS Tuesday. ed, "No, I don't, but if he would players." He expanded his grievance Indiana vs. New York 6 p.m., ESPN2 The injury occurred when Denver swing the bat he would be. I don't to include Selig's role in declaring Seattle vs. Houston 8:30p.m., ESPN2 cornerback Darrent Williams sprint have a problem with playing every the 2002 All-Star game a tie and for ed, unblocked, into the Colts back one that can help us on a regular the commissioner's handling of the field and sacked Manning in the third basis." sport's steroid scandal. r------~------~------ Tuesday, August 30, 2005 The Observer+ SPORTS page 17 NFL MLB Saints try to keep Wood to have shoulder surgery focus amid storm Cubs pitcher's season-ending operation his latest arm problem Associated Press behind in the hurricane-buffet CHICAGO - Chicago Cubs New Orleans preps ed conditions. Most of the play right-hander Kerry Wood will ers spent Sunday night in their undergo season-ending arthro on road for Oakland hotel rooms watching television scopic surgery on his right preseason game to see what was happening shoulder Wednesday and hopes back in New Orleans. Attempts to be ready to pitch by spring Associated Press to phone home were largely training. unsuccessful because of over With the Cubs nearly out of SAN .JOSE. Calif. - With two loads in the phone system. playoff competition - 7 1/2 holes ripped in the roof of their "I slept for only about an games back in the wild card stadium and their city devastat hour, if that," said punt return before Monday night's game nd by Hurricane Katrina, focus er Michael Lewis, a New with the Dodgers -- the team ing on football was not an easy Orleans native. "I watched wanted to give Wood as much task Monday for the New about everything I could on TV. time as possible for recovery Orleans Saints. I had the Weather Channel on and rehab. With Nnw Orleans hit by 145 all night." Wood concurred with the mph winds, heavy rain and The storm even ripped two decision, general manager Jim llooding, tho Saints wPre across holes in the curved roof of the Ilendry said. Wood was not tho country under dear skies at Louisiana Superdome, where immediately available for com t.lw San .Jose State campus, an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 ment. prnparing for Thursday night's refugees went for shelter. Wood, who made· his first prnseason game against the Saints general manager Mickey major league relief appnarance Oakland Haidnrs. Loomis said the team was Aug. 5 in a switch from the "This has bonn on every uncertain if the stadium would rotation to alleviate the sore Kerry Wood delivers a pitch on Aug. 3 against the Colorado body's mind," said corrwrback be ready for the home opener ness in his shoulder, was avail Rockies. The Chicago pitcher will undergo shoulder surgery. .Jimmy Williams, who used to Sept. 18 against the New York able to pitch Monday night play for tho San Francisco Giants. before he is sidelined for the pitehes, if that ean bo reetified, pitehers in tho majors to have 49nrs. "From whnrn did they Coach .Jim Haslett was rest of the season. then you are going to have the fraying or irritation in tho rota lnavn thnir car parknd because pleased with his team's work The surgery will be per same guy you arn seeing for tor cull' anm. it's probably going to bn under during the 2 1/2-hour practice formed by Dr. Timothy. one inning for seven or eight. A cleanup pron~dure may bn watnt: bncause of the llood to and thinks it could help the Kremchek at Beacon That's really everybody's priori all that is necessary. That's alligators in your house. I players bond. Orthopedics outside of ty." what tho Cubs oxpnet. ll(Wilr had to worry about that "The effort in practice today Cincinnati. Wood, the 1998 NL Rookie of "We aro going to go in and try stuff when I played in San was good," he said. "If we can "None of us, including Dr. the Year, missed the entire to lind out what is going on," Frandsen." deal with this, we'll be a better Kremchek, are anticipating 1999 season after elbow liga O'Neal said. "That's why wn arn Williams said his wife, football team in the long run." anything significant, but it is a ment replacement surgery. lie doing what wn'rn doing-- to Chandra, and two Yorkshire Joe Ilorn said the team gave shoulder," llendry said, adding was put on the DL with a tri find out why he dons have this tnrrinrs accompanied him on the players enough time to that the long-range plan is for ceps injury last season and has breakdown whon tho piteh tho trip W(~St on the last plane move their families out of the Wood to return to the rotation been on the disabled list twice count gnts up a littln." to leavn Nnw Orlnans on city if they chose to. lie said he once he recovers. this year with the sore shoulder. O'Neal said if nothing signifi Sunday. Slw was staying at the sent his family to Mississippi. "I think that is what we all Wood is 3-4 with a 4.29 EIV\ cant is diseovered during tho honw of Haidnrs ofl'onsivn line lie added that despite the want him to do. I think that's this season. lie has started 10 proeedurn, Wood will bn rnady man Hon Stone, anothor former tragedy back home, the players what he would like to do," games and made 10 relief' for spring training aJtnr an oll' 49(~r. need to focus on their jobs and Hendry said. appearances. llis fastball in snason of' rehab. Otlwr playors wore uncertain get ready for the season opener "If he can pitch pain-free and relief' has been popping in the As a 20-year-ofd rookie, about relatives and frinnds left Sept. 11 at Carolina. this ongoing discomfort he's high 90s, and he's had no Wood stunned tho baseball had after a certain amount of recurrenee of the arm soreness, world in his fifth major lnaguo which generally would start start whnn he struck out 20 after 50 or 60 pitches. llouston Astros and pitclwd a "I certainly don't think it one-hitter. lie missnd tho fol could be a real significant lowing S(mson al'tnr elbow sur injury. It's hard to believe some gery and then had win totals of one could throw 98 mph and 12, 12 and 14 from 2001 to have a serious arm problem. lie 2003, a year in which when ho hasn't had any discomfort at won two games in the division all," Hendry said. series against Atlanta. Castl~~oiot Trainer Mark O'Neal said it's But with his arm problems APARTMENTS not uncommon for a piteher and those of teammate Mark who throws as hard as Wood Prior, the Cubs have not made it and who has thrown as many back to the playofl's. 18011 Cleveland R~ad • South Bend, lndiana 46637 Corner of" Clevefand and Ironwood Road Phone (574) 272-8110 • ToJI Free (888) 642-6110 www.cppj.coro Slz~le'ne (Sizzlelini®)- ' ' On Tuesdays, get our specialty for TWO for only $10.95! Sizzle inb A sizzling skillet of tender chicken, • Ru.~ines ... 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Contact Ryan Kiefer at their first-ever college volley different parts of her team will "It will be a good gauge for "They just brought so much [email protected] ball experience," Schr-oeder be one of the main focal points Hick said. "[The scrimmage] during tonight's match. will be a good environment for "It'll be a great start because NFL Talk It Oat..•. r 0 n?gister online Walle It Out••. visit 01Jf ~·ebsite~ Titans' Odo111 cures Walt It Out. •• '''il\~'"'\N .• taketen, org sleep apnea disorder Associated Press difficult on him. lie was not in training camp shape when he NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Antwan returned. for obvious reasons. Make a difference in a lifer Odom finally feels alive. But he's worked himself into Thanks to surgery that shape now, and he's doing the *S pe:nd an hOUf a '.:Week "~"'1ritz:"'l yout removed a bone from his nose things we expect him to do," and fixed a crooked septum in Fisher said. tean1 in EU1 atea. school teaching June, the sleep apnea that kept Odom had known he suffered violence prevention sk:iDs the Titans defensive end from from sleep apnea, which stops taking a deep breath or sleeping people from breathing while *Choose from a variety ofs,chod..s 1 for more than a couple hours is they sleep, since his sophomore gone. Now he can sleep more year at Alabama. Doctors gave age groupsi and n1e:et:ll1g t:llnes than five hours at a stretch. him a machine to blow air *T:rainit1g \\'"ill be pro,tid.ed Tragically, his 24-year-old sis through his nose, but it didn't ter Melissa died of complications help him sleep because the air *Federal '\Vork srudy positions from sleep apnea days before dried out his nasal passages and training camp opened in July. led to sores. available Odom, 23, missed the first three It didn't stop him from racking days of camp to be with his fam up 21 sacks, 26 tackles for loss ily before returning for his sec es and 40 quarterback pressures ond NFL season. in college, and the Titans drafted He said Monday that being him in the second round last with his teammates has helped year with the 57th pick overall. him through his grief. The 6-foot-5, 27 4-pound Odom "Nobody ever died close to me led the rookies with 11 quarter like that, and I kind of dealt .with back pressures and had two Come mit onr tillde at acm"ities night:!' Tuesday -~ugu.st 30~ it pretty good. I couldn't deal sacks and a forced fumble. But with it if I wasn't here. It's taken he was so tired he would stand my mind off of it, and I don't up during meetings to keep from think about it as much. I could falling asleep. n't have done it if I wasn't here," "I always felt dead tired," l·.l.irr""n~,~ Cuifl;a~ Odom said. Odom said. ''I'd go to the side mq~l fl£it~@'n~_eq Li Coach Jeff Fisher said Odom line, catch my breath and come has a had a lot to overcome. back out. The first play, I'm dead 57 4.6 3'L9 4.2 4 574-.631 '9432 "At the start of camp, it was tired again." '" Watch all Notre TH:E CHOICE IS YOURS Dame Games Never a cover IMPACT· Mos~ and Largest with Student ID YOUR. 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He lunged to return a 123 three-set victory over Andre the title, she sprayed shots the tough things make you Rafael Nadal and the U.S. mph serve by Reynolds, a for Agassi in the final. wildly in a 6-3, 6-2 loss to fel grow stronger and make you Open are made for each other. mer Vanderbilt All-American, "The last two years when I low Russian Ekaterina learn. What do I do, kill He is high-energy personified, leapt to catch up to two over was coming here, I was play Bychkova and became the myself? No. a New York kind of guy- big, heads and keep them in play, ing very, very bad ... but the first U.S. Open defending "I know how you feel when bold and muscular on court, then sprinted in from beyond worst moment in the year women's champion to fall in you don't have any gas and impossible to ignore in his the baseline to pounce on [was] when I come to the U.S. the first round. you can't go anymore. I think skintight, sleeveless, Big Reynolds' drop shot and pass Open," Nadal said. "I think There was little surprise in it's something else," she Apple red shirt and black him with a winner. The crowd now is a little bit different, · Kuznetsova's early ouster. added. "I have to find out toreador pants. in Arthur Ashe Stadium no?" She's been struggling to find what that is. It just takes a The king of clay, who cap roared as Nadal dropped dra Yes, it is very different. her rhythm all year and came while to learn it. It takes a tured the French Open two matically to his knees and It is very different, too, for into the Open with a mediocre while to play with pressure." days after he turned 19 in bounced to his feet, punching June, showed in round one of the air with a left-handed the year's final Grand Slam uppercut just as Connors once event Monday that he can be did. Vehicle Rentals for Community Service just as dominating on hard Nadal is a far more mature, ~.,...... -;.z"':"" .. 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To learn about the new policies, procedures, and WNBA bus routes to specific sites, please come to the TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION NIGHT on September 1st from 7 to 8 in the multipurpose room at the Connecticut looks to Center for Social Concerns. The first vehicle rental day will be on Tuesday, September 6th. continue dolllinance The new deadline for the submission of vehicle request forms is Thursday by 5:00 p.m. Associated Press two teams through the course of the last two years are usual After coming within a shot of ly separated by a couple of If you need transportation before the first vehicle rental day, please winning the WNBA champi baskets each game. It comes call 233-2131 for bus route information. onship last year, the down to who executes." Connecticut Sun hope to use Sacramento will face fourth the experience to their advan seeded Los Angeles (17 -17) in If you have any questions, please contact Joanna Basile, CSC tage this postseason. Game 1 of their series Transportation Coordinator, at [email protected] Connecticut steamrolled Wednesday in a rematch of last or by phone at 1-5319. through the regular season, year's opening-round series. improving by eight games from The roles are reversed this a year ago and setting the year, however, as the Monarchs Eastern Conference record for were the No. 4 seed when they wins with a 26-8 mark. upset a Sparks team that had Are you interested in learning more about being "We are definitely ahead of the league's best record. Confirmed here at the University of Notre Dame? ~ last ·year because we know "There are no sure things in what to expect," coach Mike the WNBA," Sacramento coach " ' Thibault said. "We know now John Whisenant said. "It's been that even the little things are two straight years that we very important when it comes knocked off a higher seed in to winning a championship. the playoffs, so we know how Turnovers, rebounds and fouls slippery that can be." are all very essential." Los Angeles, loser of three of Connecticut and the West four to the Monarchs in the champion Sacramento regular season, has been Monarchs (25-9) were domi inconsistent due to injuries to nant in the regular season and forward Mwadi Mabika and figure to be the teams to beat point guard Nikki Teasley. The in the playoffs. Both had their Sparks also had a coaching postseasons ended by the change earlier this month, defending champion Seattle when first-year boss Henry Storm last year. Bibby was replaced by Joe Sacramento fell in the West Bryant. finals, the Sun in the champi "We're just happy to be in the onship series. playoffs," Los Angeles' "We are a lot more confi Chamique Holdsclaw said. "It's dent," Connecticut forward a whole new season now. Nykesha Sales said. "Last year We've got to go out there and we always had to prove our bring our best game from this selves. This year we know point on. Sacramento what we need to get to the (Monarchs) is a. good team, but championship." they're a team that we know Information Sessions: - The playoffs get under way we can beat." Tuesday night, with the New Despite winning five of their York Liberty (18-16) hosting last seven games, the Sparks the Indiana Fever (21-13) in a needed a loss by Phoenix on best-of-three East matchup, Saturday to get in the playoffs. Sunday, September 4th - 2:00-3:00pm and Seattle (20-14) visiting the "They have a new attitude Tuesday, September 6th - 7:00-S:OOpm Houston Comets (19-15) in a about the game again, and West series. they've tried to gather them Connecticut opens a tough selves and dominate like they Room 330 Coleman-Morse Center first-round series at Detroit on have in previous years," Wednesday night. The Shock Sacramento's Yolanda Griffith (16-18) won three of the teams' said. "We just have to play as a Contact: Fr• .John Conley 631-7888 four meetings during the regu team (and) not have a lot of or lar season, and start five All turnovers against them. Stars. "We have to take care of John 8t Sylvia Dillon 631-7163 "I don't think it means much what we need to take care of because we took three out of defense, offense -and then go four from them the year from there. It's the playoffs, C-M before," Thibault said. "The both teams are 0-0." Tuesday, August 30, 2005 The Observer + SPORTS page 21 trails. NFL But Piane is not eoneerned. Piane "You don't have to run hills continued from page 24 every day to be good hill run ner, especially if your kids are Broncos call Clarett a mistake moot. good athletes like ours are," "[Our goal is to finish) bettor the eoaeh said. "But we are than elnventh," he said. working on th11rn." Denz;er coach Shanahan lets go of his third rounder Notrn Dame roturns six of Piano also said the team will snvnn rogulars from last soa run hills at Tuesday's praetiee. Associated Press son. induding front-runners The Burke eourse loops Kurt Bonninger, Tim Moore around itself several times, and Kaleb Van Ort. The trio cris-crossing around the golf DENVEH - The reason run linislwd 42nd, 43rd, and 96th, course's nine holes. ning back Maurice Clarett respnctivPiy, at tiHl NCAA's. Onee into October, the Irish isn't with the Denver Broneos The Irish open thn s1mson as gear up for snveral important anymore is pretty simple. tlw lwavy favoritn to win tho post-season meets. First, tho "We have four guys I believe Valparaiso Invitational on pre-national meflt will take ean play," eoaeh Mike Snpt. 1J. l'iarw said ho is plan place on Oet.15 in Terre Shanahan said. ning to rnst Bnnningcr and Haute, Ind. There the Irish And Clarett never made his Van Ort for tlw nwnt in ordor will compete with teams from way into that mix. to havn thnm frnsh for thn rnst across the country and be The Broneos returned to of the soason and to give able to judge whern thoy practice Monday and youngor runrwrs a chanee to stand with regard to the Shanahan answered questions shirw in regular snason eom national championship eon about why he deeided to lllltition. tnnders. waive Clarett. the surpriso A wonk latM, Notre Damn Two wneks later, Notre third-round draft ehoiee who hosts thn National Catholie Dame will travel to Van was slowed by a groin injury Championships at tho Burke Courtland Park in Bronx, N. Y and never made any impaet in Memorial c;olf Course. The for the Big East Denver's training eamp. Irish havo won nach of the last Championships. The Irish are That Clarett was a bust isn't tnn installnwnts or this meet. defending champions and a shock to most around the which dat11s back to 1 9SO and should be favored to repeat, league. He was out of football is a nxturn in the early part of although Georgetown, who for two years and performed tho schoduln. Moore won the. finishnd only one point out of badly at the NFL seouting 11vnn t last ynar. and, as one of first in 2004. could present a eombine - and that's to say Notro Damn's l'astost runners, major challenge. nothing of the troubles he is' poisnd to do it again. Piano said thn tllarn is exeit endufed ofT the field. Two wonks latnr. tho Irish nd to run at Van Courtland In Denver. tho piek is being will host the 50th running of Park, a vnnerable course the viewed as a bad example of tho Notrn Dame Invitational at Irish know wnll. hubris for Shanahan, "the Burkn. Tlw mont is one of th11 Two wneks after the Big Mastermind," who has turned oldnst continuously run com East moet, Notrn Damn travnls lower pieks - like Terrell pnti lions in tlw n a lion. The to Indiana University for the Davis. Hueben Droughns and Irish will compote with Creal Lakes Hegional. a prn Mike Anderson - into stars Stanford, the dnfonding cham eursor to the NCAA and probably thought he pion, for the top spot. Championships. After that could do the same, even with comes the IC4A AP Tlw two meets are pnrma a prospeet as eheekered as Maurice Clarett, a once standout running back at Ohio State, Championships baek in the nnnt l'ixturns on tho Irish Clarett. was cut by the Denver Broncos Monday. slatn, l'iann said, whieh gives Bronx, follownd by thll elimax To his eredit, Shanahan did Notrn Damn two guaranteed of the season - the NCAA n't linger on this mistake, home n11wts a year - some Championships in Terre deeiding to eut ties quiekJy you feel like you made a mis he planned on getting Clarett thing ho says is helpful to tho llaute. instead of forcing something take," Shanahan said. "When some playing time Friday in lllillll. Favorites to win include to work. And the eoach eon you do that, you make a mis Denver's preseason f'inaln Sinco Burke is a golf course, Colorado, Wisconsin and ceded he did err by pieking take and you go on. At least against Arizona. But when its trail is almost eompletely Arkansas. the star of Ohio State's 2002 you evaluate it. That's not to Quentin Grif'lin made his pre flat, and coaches often worry national championship. say that Mauriee doesn't have season debut last Saturday tlwir teams will fall behind Contact Chris Khorey at "I think any time you eut a ehance to go to another against the Colts and showed whnn foreed to run on hillier [email protected] somebody in the third round, football team and make that his surgically repaired knee team and eon- was healthy, the tribute. But in a Broneos knew true evaluation they had their of your own "/think an.lJ time foursome at tail organization, . you cut somebody back: Grillin, Hon Make a difference ... when you use a in the third round, Dayne, Tatum third-round you feel like you Bell and Mike draft ehoiee and Anderson. he does not made a mistake. Meanwhile, Tutor a child make your When you do that, Cecil Sapp can team, obviously you make a play tailback and it's not good." fullback and will The Broneos mistake and you likely earn a ros • Tl'TOR :..ron & \\ed had not offieial move on. " ter spot. or T ues & Thurs, ly announced "I felt so good 3:30-4:30 or their euts as of about the run Mike Shanahan ·U0-5:30prn Monday after- ning baeks and noon. When Broncos coach what they've Clarett does done," Shanahan t Work StudY and officially land said. "I wasn't Vohmteer positions on waivers, teams will have going to give him playing time aYllili. ble 24 hours to daim him and the and take away from our other incentive-laden eontraet he four."· t Three different signed with Denver. Seeond-round draft piek tutOring sites in the More likely is that Clarett Darrent Williams said Clarett c6mmunitv will beeome a free agent, free got down about his lack of to negotiate a new deal with reps during practices. anyone. "I tried to give him encour t Tutor training the \\'hen you become a tutor, you become a mentor. ''I'm not real confident of agement. At times he was week of Sept. 5-9 anything at this point," down beeause he was used to Help a child leam to read and make a difference in Clarett's agent, Steve Feldman starting," Williams said. + Transportation said Sunday. "We 'II see what Hardly anyone thought he prmided FREE by their life. Impact the South Bend community! happens now." had a ehanee to start for the Transpo Bus "' Clarett missed about two Broneos. That he never played weeks of praetiee with a nag a down, not even in the pre Get involved ... tutor at the RCLC! ging groin injury that prevent season, came as a surprise. ed him from making the trip "We've made mistakes ROBINSON to Houston. where the before," Shanahan said. CO:\l:MtiNITY Broneos praetieed three days "We'll make mistakes in the LEARNING CENTER and played the Texans in their future. Just beeause we draft preseason opener. somebody in the third round When the Broneos returned doesn't mean they're auto 921 North Eddy Street from the trip, Shanahan was matically going to be on our South Bend, IN 46617 no longer in the mood to football team. We've eut our defend the player he took a first-rounders, second ehanee on, saying instead that rounders before. You don't Celebrating Learning ... Contact Kim Croy he eouldn't evaluate Clarett if f'nel very good about those Volunteer Coordinator at One Relationship he wasn't at praetiee. scenarios, but they do hap Phone: 631-9427 Last week, Shanahan said pen." Email: [email protected] at a time! page 22 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, August 30, 2005 things that we need to work age and little things like that. on." [And] some blocking that we Henican Henican, who also serv()d need to work on." continued from page 24 as a captain last season, is So, despite all the possible only the lOth multiple-year distractions this week, the posure on the court, 1-Ienican captain in Notre Dame volley even-keeled Ilenican has kept has tried to stay focused and ball history. She needs 485 her cool. easy-going throughout this digs this season to break the While she is concerned trying week. Irish career record. about her hometown and hnr "It was just really fun to After a solid first game, friends, when the Irish take finally play [Saturday]," she Henican is eager to take on the court against the said. "-We've been having two top teams this weekend Longhorns and the Sun double days and practieing in No. 11 Texas and Arizona Devils, llenican plans to keep for so long since the begin State. her mind on volleyball - a ning of August, so it was nice "We're just excited to get welcomed distraction from to get out on the court and back on the court." she said. life's worries. kind of let our team develop a "We have a lot that we can little bit. We did a lot of good just fix !this week in prac Contact Tom Dorwart at things, and we saw a lot of tice I. Just being low on cover- [email protected] NCAA FOOTBALL Purdue guard files lawsuit hearing takes place. They court. Boilermaker Nwaneri were not seeking damages. "It is especially hard for me was suspended after The 6-foot-3, 313-pound left because I love Purdue and I guard started all 12 games respect and admire my pro fighting a teammate for the Boilermakers last sea fessors and coaches who are son and was to be a senior giving me a first-elass educa GEOFF MATTESON!The Observer Associated Press this year. If he is not reinstat tion - in the classroom and Travis Thomas prepares himself during practice on Aug. 19 for ed, his Purdue on the football Saturday's game against Pittsburgh. INDIANAPOLIS - Purdue career would field." football player Uche Nwaneri be over. 'This is pretty Noblet, a 6-foot- "There's some uncertainties believes the school's decision Justice said 6, 291-pound jun We is going in, but I think it's really to suspend him could rob him the suspension devasting to his ior, was granted a important in your own prac of his pro football dreams. will cost chances to do well release from continued from page 24 tice to cover both the schemes So he's taking the school to Nwaneri valu after college. " Purdue after the you're going against on court. able time on altercation and Irish 41-38 on Nov. 13, 2004. offense and defense while not Purdue suspended Nwaneri the field. has enrolled at Weis and his squad will forgetting about the speed of for a semester after a July "This is pret Courtney B. Justice Arkansas. He was finally get their opportunity the game," Weis said. fight with teammate Ryan ty devastating attorney listed as a sec Saturday when Notre Dame Weis focused much of last Noblet left Noblet with a bro to his chances ond-team offen- takes on Pittsburgh at Heinz Friday's practice on pre-game ken jaw, and the Campus to do well after sive tackle after Field. He intends to focus his routines and also how to han Appeals Board upheld it last college," Justice said. "That's Purdue spring practices. attention this week on what dle end-of-game and special week. one of the things he's deeply Arkansas athletics plays and packages first-year teams situations. A preliminary hearing in a concerned about."· spokesman Kevin Trainor said Pittsburgh coach Dave "Some of it was pretty, some Tippecanoe County court was Purdue spokesman Brian Noblet intends to play football Wannstedt and his Panthers of it wasn't pretty, but it was a scheduled for Tuesday morn Zink said the school does not and was scheduled to take a will run against the Irish. very good learning experi ing. Nwaneri's attorney comment on pending law physical this week. He would "One [of the things you have ence," Weis said. "Although Courtney B. Justice said he suits. be ineligible this season to do when you get to a game you can't practice every hoped Nwaneri would be Nwaneri said in a statement because he transferred from week] is you have to get ready unforeseen thing that happens reinstated until a formal that he did not want to go to another Division I program. to play your in a game, I feel opponent in the this team has schemes they "One [of the things shown the abili use," Weis said. ty to adapt men "The only prob you have to do when tally and be International Study Programs lem with doing you get to a game ready to go. I just that in week] is you have to went through 35 practice is that substitutions on you can't simu get ready to play consecutive late the speed of your plays on differ the game. opponent in the ent special Because when teams, and there you put show schemes they use." was not one sub teams out there, stitution error." it's always at a Charlie Weis Weis will not much slower Irish coach work the team pace then when physically hard you're going this Friday, as first [team) he hopes to keep against first [team]." them fresh for Saturday To combat this problem, night's game. Weis scheduled time for the "Friday has to be mental, first-team offense to run not physical," We is said. against the first-team defense. "Friday is a day you're saving He also has had each first [the player's] legs and hydrat INNSBRUCK and team unit run against reserves ing them and getting them - resulting in practices that ready to go so there are no address both the speed of the excuses on Saturday." game and the schemes Berlin Pittsburgh will run. Notes:· "I think you've got to have + Weis dined separately in 2006-2007 Academic Year enough ammunition on the past two weeks with for offense and defense to do a lot mer Notre Dame coaches Ara Please Join Prof. Hannelore Weber and returnees of of different things," Weis said. Parseghian and Lou Holtz, "Because what I don't want to who both captured at least the program do is go into a game with a one national title during their game plan and then all of a time in South Bend. Information Session sudden be pigeonholed "These are people that because they're doing some understand Notre Dame as thing different than I expected much if not more than I do, Wednesday, August 31,2005 and not having somewhere to and I'm trying to use them as turn - that's when you get resources to help guide me in 118 DeBartolo stomped on." the right direction," We is said. Though Weis' former team, "Just hearing Ara's approach 7:00PM the New England Patriots, from the first year he got here faced Wannstedt's Miami to the last year he left was a Dolphins twice a year while very educational experience." Applications Available www/nd.edu/-intlstud both were coaching in the AFC East, he is still unsure about Questions?- [email protected] Application Deadline: Nov. 15,2005 what to expect from the Contact Mike Gilloon at Panther defense. 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Please complete the accompa nying form and mail it today to receive The Observer in your home. ------:---;-:-----, THE OBSERVER Tuesday, August 30, 2005 PORTS page 24 FOOTBALL ND CROSS COUNTRY Irish poised for Panthers Excite111ent Notre Dame eager to kick off season Saturday at Pitt high about By MIKE GILLOON ho111e races Sports Editor Notre Dame will be He's moved into his house. at home in two of lie's spoken to students and alumni. lie's roerui~ed play three Sept. meets ers. Irish coach Charlie Weis By CHRIS KHOREY has done Sporrs Writer everything he's been The men's cross country expected to team has three meets in do in his September. Two of them are first eight at home, and the other is a months on mere 60 miles away in the job Valparaiso, Ind. except one Coach Joe Piane feels com thing peting early on familiar turf is coach a foot- Charlie Weis a g-ood way to prepare for ball game. road trips to New York for the "''m just looking forward to Big East Championships and getting into the season and the IC4A Championships. giving these players the ~ "The meets progressively opportunity to go out there get more important as the and have some fun," We is season goes on," he said. said. "Because the last I Piane expects a successful checked, they didn't have a season, as the Irish try to whole [heck] of a lot of fun improve on their eleventh the last time [Pittsburgh and place finish at last season's Notre Dame] played." NCAA National Championship The Panthers defeated the CLAIRE KELLEYfThe Observer Tom Zbikowski, right, and Maurice Crum work on defensive drills in practice on Aug. 17. see WEIS/page 22 Notre Dame will open its season Saturday night at Heinz Field against Pittsburgh. see PlANE/page 21 SMC VOLLEYBALL NO VOLLEYBALL Belles begin year Hurricane-hits close to Henican against Maroons New Orleans native's family stays safe during storm By TOM DORWART Playko are expected to lead Sports Writer Saint Mary's and the hitting for the Belles, Chicago renew their while Shelly Bender is So far, Meg Henican, a native expected to provide senior of New Orleans, La., has dealt rivalry tonight leadership at middle attack with hurricane Katrina's bat er. Junior Amanda David will tering of her hometown just as shift positions and handle the she deals with the game of vol By RYAN KIEFER setting for the Belles. leyball - calmly. Sports Wri rer Tonight's scrimmage will "It's actually a pretty good allow coach .Julie Schroeder distraction - something else The Saint Mary's volleyball Biek the flexibility to try to focus on," she said. team will begin its season players at different positions "My family has all evacuat tonight when the Belles take and to get a feel for her ed. They are doing well ... and on the University of Chicago team's strengths and weak most of my friends, too. They in a home scrimmage. The nesses. While her rotations are all safe. I haven't really match against the Maroons may be different from a reg been able to keep in touch will continue a recent tradi ular game, Schroeder-Biek with anybody because the tion of opening the season was quick to point out her phones don't work, so that's a with a scrimmage between desire to see the players pre little frustrating, a little nerve the two teams. pare as though the contest wracking." The Belles are anxious to counted. Her parents were in town return to the court this year, "I want [the players] to last weekend for the Michigan WER attempting to improve upon approach this as they would match, so they decided to stay Meg Henican goes up for a spike in an Aug. 27 match against last year's six-win campaign. any other game. I want them for the week, long enough to Michigan. The Irish won 30-24, 30-16 and 30-26. Saint Mary's looks to have an to compete," Schroeder-Biek keep their daughter company excellent chance of both said. and to watch this weekend's here to help me cope with She enjoys the game. She improving their win total and She also viewed this match Inn at Saint Mary's Shamrock everything." relaxes. And she certainly moving up the MIAA stand as an opportunity to work Invitational. The senior libero/outside hit doesn't panic. ings. out some early season jitters. "I try to keep my friends ter and co-captain is already .Just as she keeps her com- Junior outside attackers around, and my parents are showing why she was given Michelle Turley and Kristen see MAROONS/page 18 here," 1-Ienican said. "They are her title. see HENICAN/page 22 NFL ATP TENNIS MlB NFL MUS MlB LLI u Denver released back Rafael Nadal, French Kerry Wood will have The New Orleans St. Louis 6 Cleveland 10 z Maurice Clarett on Open champion, is season ending surgery Saints are preparing in Florida 1 Detroit 8 Monday after failing to ready to compete in the in order to get a head San Jose for their game St. Louis defeated Cleveland defeated ::5 perform well this fall. U.S. Open. start on his rehab. Thursday with Oakland Florida as Chris Detroit to stay in wild = despite the hurricane in Carpenter won his 19th card contention. ~ their home city. game of the season. !i page 20 page 20 page 17 page 17 page 15 page 14