Russert Discusses Media Errors in Election

HET OutKast scores Taking back the night? OutKast’s latest release, Stankonia, may be This Sexual Assault Awarenss Week, The Tuesday one of the best hip-hop albums to come out Observer takes a look at efforts to raise this year. awareness and stop rape on campus. NOVEMBER 14, Scene ♦ page 13 In Focus 2 0 0 0 O bserver The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIV NO. 55 HTTP://OBSERVER. ND.EDU Russert discusses media errors in election concerns to the forefront of the By HELENA PAYNE election process, said Russert. News Writer Now people question the signifi cance of the Electoral College The future of U.S. families and versus that of the popular vote. the voting process is at stake in Regarding the recount in the lengthy 2000 presidential Florida, the Secretary of State of elections, said Tim Russert, Florida announced that all 67 moderator of NBC’s “ Meet the counties’ votes must be handed Press” Monday. in by 5 p.m. today. But if for “Wake up, this is your life and some reason, the election in this is your country,” said Florida is not decided officially, Russert to a standing-room-only it could raise questions on Dec. crowd in Notre Dame’s 18 when the Electoral College McKenna Hall. meets. Russert said Election Day “Constitutional experts are 2000 was exciting after a cam having a field day with that," paign season when many voters Russert said. presented a disinterested atti Russert stated that now the tude toward the election. nation is in “the sequel, Election “It’s refreshing for our democ II,” but soon voters will demand racy and inspiring,” said a final decision about the elec Russert. “ Every vote truly does tion. count,” Russert said. Before Russert spoke, Russert commented that the University President Father U.S. was fortunate because, Edward Malloy jokingly held up amidst the jokes about the situa a dry erase board like Russert tion of the presidential election, used during the elections to the general mood of voters is keep track of electoral votes still a relatively calm one even if state-by-state. Russert respond they are slightly anxious to ed to Malloy’s joke by pulling out know the outcome of the elec a dry erase board of his own. tion. However, Russert later said “We don’t know who [the that the media’s eagerness to president is] going to be ... but discover the winner of the elec the democracy stands tall and tion through exit polls did play a vibrant,” said Russert. “You’ve large role in the inaccuracy of NAOMI CORDELL/The Observer got to love our founding election reports. “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert commented on the future of families and the voting fathers.” “It looked like Gore had a process during a lecture Monday night. He said the lengthy 2000 presidential elections may stir However, recent problems in interest in among the majority of apathetic voters. Florida have brought age-old see RUSSERT/page 4 San day: Alcohol, athletics factors of a rape-prone campus These factors included what guilt and force to coerce their er, often the most harmful atti By AMANDA GRECO Sanday referred to as the partners. tudes regarding rape are those News Writer “jock/macho culture” among “Americans struggle with a found within the administration. men that celebrates sex without sexual culture divided between Sanday noted that college Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s regard to how it is obtained. The Puritanical repression and administrations tend to silence have all the ingredients that alcohol subculture on campuses pornographic over-exposure,” incidents of sexual assault in make for a “rape prone environ nationwide facilitates males who Sanday said. “Alcohol and vio order to “save face.” ment,” according to University encourage one lence bridge “They are more concerned of Pennsylvania professor Peggy another to get that division, with their alum and the board of Sanday. Sanday visited Notre a fe m a le 7Vo one here is supposed especially on trustees,” Sanday said. “The Dame Monday to discuss the drunk, while college cam image of the institution matters components of rape prone cam appealing to to be having sex, but puses.” more than asserting any moral puses, including societal factors w om en w ho seemingly everyone is. ” Sanday authority.” Sweeping the issues contributing to the perpetration drink to lose also found under the colleges’ carpets does of rape and necessary changes their inhibi that within nothing but create pain and an Peggy Sanday for the prevention of rape. tions. athletic immoral atmosphere, Sanday Sanday’s studies of American “ Binge University of Pennsylvania team s and added. college campuses have deter drinking professor fraternities, For a Catholic community to mined that predictors of rape leaves people homophobia knowingly create an immoral statistics include binge drinking, u n a b le to often creates atmosphere greatly troubles NAOMI CORDELL/The Observer the presence of all-male groups decide and unknowing of what a need for men to “prove” their Sanday who was raised by Holy Peggy Sanday discussed ways and the importance of athletics they’re doing,” Sanday said. heterosexuality. Sanday con Cross Sisters. Sanday knows all to safeguard U.S. college cam within the community, factors “Men take the stance that ‘she cluded that for many college- too well the pain endured when puses against rape. whose prevalence in the Notre drugged herself; she is responsi aged men, the sense of competi instances of rape are silenced. sexual offense policies to be Dame community raise a red ble for her condition.’” However, tion and conquest makes for Her own conception was the enacted on college campuses flag to Sanday. Sanday said that a recent study of convicted date indulgence without respect for result of an acquaintance rape across the country. Her two the silence imposed by the rapists revealed startling statis their sexual partners. Other fac which forced her mother into books, “A Woman’s Scorn” and Catholic stance on sex perpetu tics; 75 percent of convicted tors, such as a tendency to hiding. At the age of 14, Sanday “Fraternity Gang Rape” have ates the sexual culture that con rapists admitted to having pur blame the victim or the belief narrowly escaped being the vic opened the forum for discussion tributes to rape. posely intoxicated their dates in that men are innately driven to tim of gang rape. It was not until of college sexual assault. Sanday highlighted main fac order to have sex with them. rape, complicate the attitudes 1983 when a student confessed Open discussion is the best tors evident in college communi Some reported the use of “ date our society holds regarding sex. to having been victimized that ties with high incidents of rape. rape” drugs, while others used On college campuses, howev Sanday began her crusade for see SANDAY/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, November 14, 2000 I n s id e C o l u m n T h is W eek At N o tre D a m e /S a in t M a r y ’s T hursday F riday Saturday Sunday The trouble ♦Play: “Love’s Fire,” 7:30 ♦Concert: SMC’s Music ♦ Concert: ND Band pre ♦Concert: ND Faculty p.m., Washington Hall Department presents sents “ Princes of Babylon,” Chamber Music, 2 p.m. with dating ♦Film: “East is East,” “Spirit of Baroque,” 7:30 10 p.m., Alumni Senior Annenberg Auditorium 10:30 p.m., DeBartolo 155 Little Theatre Bar ♦Concert: ND Brass I think that I’ve finally come to the conclu ♦ Film: “Scary Movie,” 8, ♦Exhibit: Guild of Saint Ensemble, 8 p.m., Basilica sion that relationships and college don’t mix. 10:30 p.m., DeBartolo 101 Dominic by Eric Gill, of the Sacred Heart I admit, the temptation is frequently there, especially when you catch eyes with some O’Shaugnessy Galleries, attractive member of the opposite sex in your all day philosophy class or that special someone that you always see in the dining hall. Everyone at one time or OUTSIDE THE Dom e Compiled from U-Wire reports another feels the need to get some extra lovin’, but the question that I’ve asked myself these last Students claim new FAFSA drug question unfair two years at Notre Dame is, it really worth it? The WASHINGTON, D C. of Oct. 15, 8.6 million students applied Kiflin Turner more I think about it, the Students applying for financial aid for aid this year. But as a consequence more I think I would have this year will be denied federal money of the new law, 1,311 of those stu to answer that question if they have been convicted of drug dents have been declared ineligible for with a resounding “no”. Copy Editor crimes. While the drug question added aid and 5,617 must complete a wait As of late, I’ve witnessed to applications in July has not affected ) r % c ing period before they can receive fed so much drama in the many George Washington University eral loans. The waiting period — relationship department that it’s becoming students, some say it is an unfair rule. which a student can determine on the really sickening. And then I thought, if this is Question 28 of the 104-question FAFSA Question 28 Worksheet avail happening to me, how many other people are 2000-01 FAFSA asks if the aid appli able online — depends on the number going through the same problems? cant has ever been convicted of selling and nature of a student’s drug convic Let’s take the breakup as a prime example.

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