WINDY Playstation 2 Wednesday Getting bored with your games already? Scene reviews Kinetica, Metal HIGH 64° Gear Solid 2 and Grand Theft Auto 3. Find out which are worth trying out. DECEMBERS, LOW 47° Scene+ page 10-11 2001 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 51 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Victim lectures on date rape 'DARTing + Nationally-renowned becomes speaker shares story By KATE RAND Web-based News Writer Katie Koestner was just like every other student By KEVIN SUHANIC in the room during her freshman orientation at News Writer the College of William and Mary. She had spent the last few days meeting new people and finding In an effort to make DARTing her way around campus, and was partially enjoy­ more convenient, the Office of ing the movie "Monty Python and the Quest for the the Registrar implemented web­ Holy Grail" when she spotted a guy who she now based class registration for the describes as "straight out of GQ magazine." The first time this semester. two became friends and saw each other for the Most students like the new sys­ next few weeks to study chemistry. tem. Rather than dialing in to "We were not dating, not hooking up. We were already congested phone lines or hanging out. It's a very technical term," said trudging over to the Main Koestner, who gave a lecture entitled "No-Yes" at Building, senior Sean McCarthy Saint Mary's Tuesday about her experience as a was able to register as he ate sexual assault victim. lunch in his apartment. The pair eventually decided to go on a real date "I don't know why we didn't to a French restaurant, but while the evening have this before," he said. began like a dream, it ended like a nightmare. University Registrar Harold According to Koestner. her fancy evening out with Pace shared in students' enthusi­ "Prince Charming" ended when he raped her in asm. her own bedroom. "We have been really happy The first thing Koestner realized was that her with Web registration, and we 'friend' was 60 or 70 pounds heavier than she hope th~ students have too," he was, and that she could not move her legs out said. from under him even if she tried. He began kiss­ He added that the best compli­ ing her and with one hand pinned her arms above ment his office could get was that her head. She asked what he was doing, and he "[students] just started using it." responded "nothing," and told her that everything Using the system without time­ would be fine if she would just relax and stop consuming training was a key thinking so much. element to implementing Web According to Koestner, she eventually got him to registration, and the Registrar's stop, and he slept for five hours while she sat ner­ office feels they have accom­ vously in the corner pressed against the wall. plished this goal. When he awoke, he took advantage of her scared, McCarthy agreed with the sleep-deprived state and raped her. Koestner did KRISTINE KAIVThe Observer Registrar's Office. not flail her arms around, but rather kept them, Katie Koestner, a date-rape victim, presented a talk at Saint Mary's Tuesday "DARTing was pretty much the tight fiSted, crossed against her body. She pressed night. Ten years since the incident, Koestner said that it is still very hard to same as past years; but I didn't publicly share her story. see RAPE/page 4 see DART/page4 Welch: Values build a winning team Former GE CEO says experience?" one MBA student asked Welch + jokingly. family, growth and Welch suggested Jon Gruden as a better winning form successful alternative, but turned the joke into an opportu­ nity to tell the Mendoza College of Business that business philosophy running a business isn't that much different from sports - it's a game. The teams with the By NORREN GILLESPIE best players and the most drive win, and win­ News Writer ning is the objective, according to Welch. "I think this whole game of business is no dif­ Jack Welch knows the game. ferent of a game than the game you play across During his tenure at General Electric as .the street," Welch said. chairman and CEO, Welch set three priorities Welch emphasized player development in for himself and the corporation in the game of business leadership. This is accomplished only business: create a family atmosphere, make by having a clear set of values and treating growth a priority, and always, always win. each person individually, he said. His strategy was so successful that it catapult­ "Every person should be treated fairly in an ed General Electric - and Welch - to become organization, but every person should be treat­ one of the most respected business leaders in ed differently in an organization," Welch said. corporate America during his term from 1981 Welch earned both praise and criticism dur­ to 2001. ing his term at General Electric. GE spent more His philosophy was so well received among a than $20 billion on new acquisitions, including standing-room-only crowd in Jordan the purchase of the National Broadcasting KRISTINE KAAVThe Observer Auditorium Tuesday night that Welch even Company, RCA and the Kidder Peabody & Co Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, brokerage firm. While he earned some enemies received a job offer to work here in South Bend. addressed the Mendoza College of Business Tuesday night at "Do you have any head football coaching see WELCH/ page 4 Jordan Auditorium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Wednesday, December 5, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday It is in giving + Concert: ND Chorale + Performance: Not-So- + Lecture: Nancy + Recital: Glee Club and Chamber Orchestra: Royal Shakespeare Cartwright, (voice of Bart Christmas Concert, Stepan It's that time of the year again. Thanksgiving Handel's "Messiah," Company, "Othello," Simpson), Jordan Center, 6 and 8:30 p.m. has come and gone. The Christmas lights are up. The shopping sprees have begun. Finals, Hesburgh Center Hesburgh Center Auditorium, 7 p.m. $5 papers and projects plague students as the Auditorium, 8 p.m. $5 Auditorium, 7;30 p.m. $5 winter holidays approach. In the midst of it all, we somehow have to make things work. One thing that has helped me get through times like this is tradition. Before you think I'm going to go on and on about Notre Dame tradi­ tion, I'm not. Notre Dame's tradition is great. Although BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports there are many wonderful activities at Notre Dame in the coming Christmas sea- Angela Campos son, they are not tradition Brown grad investigated for having Anthrax for me. PROVIDENCE, R.I. years at Brown and is now studying Christmas time is when Lab Tech Tomas Fora! '99 did nothing out of in England as a Marshall Scholar. "I my brothers, my sister and the ordinary when he placed two believe that a lot of this is just the I get together and practice vials of anthrax he found in a unfortunate coincidence of Tomas our music for the prelude to University of Connecticut laboratory having kept a. vial of something that the children's Mass. We sing Christmas carols in his personal freezer, said Kirklyn happens to be the cause of a very and watch the Nativity pageant performance. Kerr. large public scare at the moment." For me, Christmas tradition is making cook­ Kerr, the University of Connecticut Heuer described Forctl as a "very ies with my brothers, sister and my parents. Dean of the School of Agriculture and studious person," methodical and We mix them from scratch and bake them until Natural Hesources, said, "Graduate conscientious in whatever he did. He the house smells like a confectionary. students, and faculty for that matter, said he saw Foral's storing the vials Christmas means going out and picking a tree put samples away in case they need in line with his interest in animal dis­ together, putting up lights around the house them for future grants and that sort eases, including West Nile virus and and putting up all the pieces of artwork that of thing." Eastern equine encephalitis, samples we've made dating back to preschool. We roll But when federal and state investi­ research in the pathobiology build­ of which Fora! also kept in his freez­ piecrusts for pumpkin, apple and cream pies. gators closed in on the Wilbur 0. ing. er. We sit together around the table spreading Atwater building on campus to test Those who knew Fora! as an "When he saw anthrax !about to b<) tamales. for anthrax exposure and question undergraduate at Brown were sur­ destroyed! he was thinking we need Part of that tradition includes giving. My fam­ Fora!, university officials were more prised to hear he was under govern­ more sci<mtists who know about ily makes tamales at Christmas. My mother and than willing to accommodate them by ment scrutiny. anthrax, not fewer of thnm." lleuer father have practiced this since before they canceling classes and halting ''I'm stunned," said Tad Heuer '99, said. were married. We've always left a glass of who roomed with Fora) for three milk, a plate of cookies and a plate of tamales for Santa. And while we make some tamales for us to eat ourselves, we make most of them to give to friends of the family as Christmas MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HARVARD UNIVERSITY gifts.