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■ Can the Irish beat Stanford p R/XT§ Sc ALCO HL ®The ND volleyball team looks to con- this weekend? Check out the # After an MIT pledge died of an alcohol over- ^ ^ Big East dominance with the match-ups in today’s edition of , . r ..... beginning of conference play this week- dose, an international frat announced it is banning , , r , the Irish Insider. See insert , , • i end at the Joyce Center. Back pave alcohol rrom its houses. p. 7 O B SE R V E R Friday, October 3, 1997 • Vol. XXXI No. 30 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Working for aliving By HEATHER MACKENZIE ties to help afford the costs of a pri Assistant News Editor vate college education. Finding “I am basically working here “I need money!” because I need the money,” said In a setting such as Notre Dame, Patrick Villanova, a junior Keough the combined financial burden of Hall resident who works as a con tuition, room, board, books, and sultant at the La Fortune computer personal expenses can be over on campus is cluster. “I am not on financial aid The Observer/Kevin Dalum whelming to students. with the University, but I still have really need students to work at the With the 1997-98 school year personal expenses that this job dining hall, but to most people this is demanding a price of approximately helps me pay for. I feel like I need to hot an appealing job,’ says Alana $26,000, many students find it work to offset the cost of living e a s i e r Tubito, a dining hall student manager. Pictured above, desirable and even necessary to here.” earn money above what the Villanova, like many Notre Dame Seamus Higgins accepted a position working in the deli University or their parents supply. students, found the search for area of the dining hall. Another popular place of Thus, many students turn to on- and employment on campus is Irish Gardens (above left), off-campus employment opportuni- may seem see JOBS/ page 6 the florist in LaFortune Student Center. ND prof wins research prize Ten ND physicists help McAdams, who is the first other works, McAdams is in the McAdams wins political scientist to receive the process of completing his latest discover new particle prize, was drawn to German study on Germany, renowned DAAD studies early in life. “Retrospective Justice and the By MALIN STEARNS allow us to begin the detailed “I started off in German phi Spirit of Liberalism.” News W riter understanding of these prize for German losophy and, like a lot of Notre But his expertise in the field of forces.” German politics doesn’t stop Thanks in part to four Notre A meson is a very unstable, Studies, research 6 Ft’s interesting that a there. Dame professors and six Notre medium-mass elementary par By ERIN LUM Jtplace which ... has With a talent that extends Dame graduate students, a ticle with a short life span that beyond research into the realm News Writer been the source of some new sub-nuclear particle was is similar to but smaller than a of instruction, McAdams won a recently discovered. proton or neutron. A typical Turning what interests him of the greatest cultural Robert K. Root Preceptorship for Acting with a team of meson is composed of one most into the focus of his acade achievements ... has outstanding teaching at researchers from around the quark and one antiquark, mic career has been the key to Princeton University in 1989, country, the physicists uncov while the composition of this success for Notre Dame chair also been the source of and a Charles E. Sheedy Award ered evidence of a previously new exotic meson is somewhat and professor some of the world’s for Excellence in Teaching in the undetected particle, dubbed an different. of govern College of Arts and Letters at “exotic meson” because of its “We discovered a meson that m ent and greatest evils.’ Notre Dame in 1995. unconventional composition. we know is not made up of a international A. Jam es McAdams, According to McAdams, his Professors Neal Cason, quark and antiquark, which studies A. about Germany work on German politics William Shephard, John means it must be an exotic James attempts to understand the LoSecco and James Bishop, meson,” said Cason. “There McAdams. “German Question” more clear who make up the Elementary are a number of different In recogni ly. Particle Physics Group, kinds of exotic mesons and tion of his Dame students, went abroad to “The great thing (about study worked in cooperation with 47 we’re now going to begin work achievements, M cA dam s Berlin and learned German and ing Germany) is that the German other researchers from six to determ ine which kind this McAdams will had some wild experiences,” he question will never go away,” institutions to find evidence of is.” receive the prestigious DAAD said. McAdams said. “It’s interesting the new exotic meson. The experiment, titled E852, Prize for Distinguished These experiences, coupled that a place which has offered Their research was pub was funded by the High Scholarship in German Studies with unanswered questions the world so much and has been lished in the Sept. 1 issue of Energy Physics and Nuclear in a ceremony on Nov. 5 at New about Germany’s political history the source of some of the great Physical Review Letters. Physics Divisions of the York City's World Trade Center. and future, produced a fascina est cultural achievements of the “Our observation of the exot National Science Foundation Since his years as an under tion that led to McAdams living last few hundred years has also ic m eson is sig n ifican t to and the Department of Energy graduate interested in Germany in both East and West Berlin, been the source of some of the understanding the basic forces through the Brookhaven and its political questions, and authoring two books: “East world’s greatest evils. at work between the elemen National Laboratory on Long McAdams has brought more Germany and Detente” and “Both I and the Germans can tary particles,” Cason said. Island. The researchers used than two decades of research “Germany Divided.” In addition ask for years to come why this “Comparing our results with high-energy particle beams to and study to the field. to co-authoring and editing has been the case,” he said. current theoretical models will see M ESO N / page 6 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, October 3, 1997 N INSIDE COLUMN 0 W ORLD AT A GLANCE An issue Number of executions on pace to reach all-time high WASHINGTON concerned with what it says are Executions at U.S. prisons have Death Penalty inequities in how the death penalty is worth covering reached a 40-year high this year, Number of executions, by applied. with 57 convicted murderers put to state so far this year: There have been 415 executions death and three months to go. Mo. 5 Va. 6 nationwide since the Supreme Court My original intention with this column, my Dwight Dwayne Adanandus’ execu Ky.1 Md. 1 ended a four-year moratorium on first foray into journalism, was to raise a tion by injection Wednesday in Texas capital punishment in 1976. Of those, very serious issue, but the other night I got brought the nationwide yearly total 137 were in Texas, including 30 so so worked up over something that I had no to its highest level since 1957, when far this year. choice but to commit ——— . , „ ---------;— 65 people were subjected to capital “There really is overwhelming sup my thoughts to print. , ° n° “f punishment. port for the death penalty in Texas,” Although I Still plan Assistant V.ewpomt Editor This year’s total could surpass the said Ward Tisdale of the state attor to use The Observer 1957 number if executions continue ney general’s office. “That’s not to as my mouthpiece to the Notre Dame com at the current pace, aided by stream Okla. 1 say we jump for joy when there’s an munity on topics such as racism, urban lined appeal processes in federal Texas 30 Ark. 4 La. 1 Ala. 3 Fla. 1 execution. It’s a somber moment for decay, and other weighty issues, I must vent courts and some state courts. those involved.” my frustrations. “There are going to be more execu More than 3,200 people are on What, you ask, could deter me from my tions in the future as these cases get speeded up” as a death row nationwide, and 13 of the 38 states with envisioned diatribe on one of the most press result of federal and state laws shortening the appeal capital punishment laws have carried out executions ing issues of our lives? process, said Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty this year. Virginia ranks second to Texas, with six exe- The Notre Dame campus music scene. Information Center, a Washington-based group that is cutions. The other evening, at one of the local “cocktail and sandwich” establishments in Yeltsin hasn’t ruled out re-election bid Woman outwits police in standoff South Bend, I was enjoying a beer with my friends (while this concept flies in the face of NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia ROBY, 111. the ridiculous ideas expressed by some guy President Boris Yeltsin suggested When police were ordered to bring Shirley Ann Allen in who sounds like he has never had a warm Thursday that he hasn’t ruled out for a psychiatric exam, she turned out to be a whole lot Busch Light on a cold November morning another four years in office, despite more resourceful than they expected.