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INSIDE COLUMN A common 'Events of the Weekend .·...... 5·6:30 p.m.. i«.. ·~·t:::;~>~:. Friday, May 17 // ...... ·•··. COMMENC~~'ft{~SS bond 2·4 p.m. ·· 6:45.,;8 p.m. Joyce Center - spu~mei' .. COLL&QE OF ARTS AND LETTERS GRADUATION DINNER \.*~ '':ft~· :./' Four weeks ago, I gathered at the South Bend ~~:/· ··liPN;9RS £0NVOCATION Joyce Center and North Dining Hall .,..., ....,, Marriott with 100 other current and former .{r /:: :.:w11 ~9ittgto~ Hail Observer staff workers to celebrate the 35th •·t·:> .. ·.... 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19 anniversary of the founding of the paper. Although many of us had never met before, we .j:~:1~:~ !:~~a~~~~~f;ss 9:45 and 11:45 a.m. .r ·f.:·.:::t·~?\ shared a common bond. The ··oR.ADOATION MASS t..:, 'Mr.~''!''""'<-·'-·· coMMENCEMENT LliiJRo¥ problems of the paper 30 :;~; . . . =::.. ~{~::::::.::··." . / • p m Church of Loretto \.:,. ~"":.'f.:\::··. ::>~ years ago were very similar 12• 15 .. • ·~·. .. ~? .. ··:J Joy"" ee.ter _North,~r~~ ~ 4 to the problems of the paper DISTRffiUTION OF BACHELOR ANf5:.;;..· · today. The war stories were MASTER DIPLOMAS all different but everyone Century Center ·· understood them. !oyce.Center - North Dome There was a connection Saturday, May 18 / Guests may begin entering Gate 10 between us all. Ten days later, a smaller ·· 2;.4p.m. group of Observer editors Mike Connolly . COMMENCEMENT AND CONFERRING from around the country OF DEGREES gathered again in Sacred Joyce Center - South Dome Heart Basilica. Ryan Ver Senior Staff Berkmoes, one of the manag -;~li,;~:::MO~~~:s~ 4:30p.m. Writer .· · · J~ 12:00 noon 1 ,r. ·:t'; ~ } ing editors from the early COMMENtt':E...... -ki LAW SCHOOL DIPLOMA CEREMONY 1980s, had lost his mother to Hesburgh library Reflecting Pool a stroke. Two editors and I Court of LeMJ;;t:.;....afW arrived at the Basilica a little after 9:30 a.m. for the funeral. A few other faces from the reunion were there as well. We didn't really know Ryan very well. Other than a few short conversations before and during the reunion, I didn't really Smyth wins Laetare Medal ND, SMC award have a connection to him. But for some reason, we knew we had to be at the offer, however, to enter the the funeral. By ANDREW THAGARD honorary degrees When I told people I would be attending a priesthood. Assistant News Editor Since his ordination in 1962, Notre Dame wiH present 11 honorary funeral that morning, many expressed sorrow for degrees at its Commencement exercises on my loss. When I explained to them that I didn't Smyth has worked at Maryville Notre Dame alumnus Father Academy in the Chicago archdio Sunday. and Saint Mary's will award three know the deceased at all and only barely knew on Saturday. one of her family members, no one questioned John Smyth will receive this cese. He entered into service at year's Laetare Medal at the 2002 the academy in 1962 and Notre Dame recipients include: journalist why I was attending the funeral. They understood and principal Commencement speaker Tim that somehow there was a connection that oblig Commencement exercises. The assumed the job of executive Chicago director in 1970. Russertt; Margaret Bent. the first female ated me to be at the funeral. senior research fellow at All Souls College in As I walk away from this school with my degree priest has "The Notre Dame family has spent the last been proud of Father John Smyth Oxford; Lord John Browne, group chief exec in hand, I take with me much more than a sheet utive of BP Amoco; Alfred DeCrane. retired of paper. There is a strong bond I have between 40 years since his days as a student here working at 50 years ago," said University chief executive officer of Texaco; Cardinal those who graduate with me. those who will Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical graduate after me and those who have graduated Maryville President Edward Malloy. "[TJhis Academy, a year we particularly wish to cele Commission for Promoting Christian Unity; before me. Helen Lieberman, founder of a nonprofit I am not going to throw out cliches and pre residence for brate the exemplary manner in orphaned which he has served Christ in the organization serving the needy of South packaged Go Irish sappiness. I don't believe in the Africa; Sydney Pollack, an actor, director and Notre Dame Family and I could fill this entire and homeless Smyth children who are victims of children. neglect, prostitution, sexual abuse producer; Helen Quinn, a renowned physi issue with bitter, spite-filled prose about this cist; Diarmuid O'Scannlain, a member of the school and the administration that runs it. "Father Smyth is a man who and family violence." has spent his entire adult life in Smyth was selected to receive U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, But as I graduate I get to leave that all behind. William Sexton, outgoing vice president for Now, I get to treasure the connections that I have ministry to vulnerable, disadvan Catholic America's oldest honor in taged children," said University March. A committee of Notre University Relations; Patrick Toole, a devel made and the experiences I have shared. oper at IBM; and Cicely Tyson, an actress, When I call The Observer's phone number in 15 spokesman Dennis Moore. Dame staff, faculty, and adminis "Maryville Academy has been one trators made the recommenda activist and humanitarian. years, I know that I will be speaking to an editor The College is honoring James Jack, execu who has not slept more than five hours in the last of the most successful institutions tion, which was approved by the in the country." Officer's Group. The medal, estab tive vice president and chief financial officer four days, whose professors wonder if he is brain of Medallion Financial Corp.; Marjorie dead and who has listened to countless com Smyth, who graduated from lished in 1883, is named after Notre Dame in 1957, was a stand Laetare Sunday, because the Hamel, an alumnus and former national plaints about the crossword puzzle from angry chair of the Madeleva Steering Committee; history TAs. out athletically. He served as bas recipient is announced on the ketball team captain and was rec fourth Sunday of Lent on the and Sister M. O'Flynn. a Holy Cross Sister There will be a shared experience that will and adviser to former College presidents. somehow bond us together. Any way he can help ognized as an honorable mention Church calendar. All-American player. After gradu Saint Mary's will also award the me, he will. Any way I can give him assistance, I President's Medal to Dorene Hammes, a will offer it. ation, Smyth was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the third round Contact Andrew Thagard at College donor and confidant to College The same guys that I lost Bookstore Basketball [email protected]. President Mary Lou Eldred. games with will somehow still be there for me NBA draft pick. He turned down when we are all 20 years old, 30 pounds heavier and hoping to God that our kids never do the same things we did in college. So as I transition from tuition-generating entity LOCAL WEATHER NATIONAL WEATHER into donation-generating entity in the eyes of the University, I will hold fast to the connections that 5 Day South Bend Forecast really matter. I will bind my checkbook to Notre The AccuWeather"' forecast for noon,Friday, May 18. Dame because if I don't, I won't get any football tickets. But my heart will remain connected to 40mw;.~~F~~:=;;c;:.:;:~::::- those common experiences, those shared memo ries and those in the future who will feel the same way. None of us will be able to explain it or justify it, but we all understand the bond. The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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The Observer regards itself as a professional publication and FRONTS: strives for rhe highest standards of journalism ar all rimes. We do, C2001 AccuW eather ,Inc. COLD WARM STA TIONAR Y however, recognize rhar we will make mistakes. If we have made a Pr•••ur•: mistake, please contact us at 631-4541 so we can (jj) 57 Las Vegas Ponland 44 The ObK:rvc:r (USPS 599 2-4000) is published Monday through Frid.ty cxo:pr durmg exam u.J Atlanta 76 93 68 66 va..:2t1on pcno Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 3 Notre Dame class of 2002 leaves its mark election as well as the accomplishments of By HELENA PAYNE fellow classmates, has made the class of News Editor 2002 stand out. "It just seemed like the turn of the cen The 1,872 members of the Notre Dame tury, the turn of the millennium equals a undergraduate class of 2002 will enter a new phase, a new destination for Notre new phase of their lives. leaving four years Dame," senior Tambre Paster said. of memories filled with academics and Paster, who was the first African service. along with tragedy and hope. American head drum major in the Notre Since the day they stepped foot on the Dame marching band, said she believes 1 .250-acre Notre Dame campus in August her accomplishment was significant but 1998, prepared or unprepared to attend one that began with members of the previ their freshmen orientation graffiti dance ous class of 2001, such as the first African or the Sunday mass for American Leprechaun students and families, "We're ready to make a Mike Brown or the first the class of 2002 has female Irish Guard Molly seen many changes at big impact on the world Kinder. Paster identified the University. They outside of Notre Dame." these individuals as rep entered a campus with resentatives of a trend toward increasing diversi a new South Quad Drew Gawrych restaurant, Recker's, a ty in the University as well recently opened Eck senior as discovering new types Visitors' Center and a of leadership. renovated Morrissey Hall. The same class "With our class in particular, we're just AMANDA r-IUGHES /The Observer is leaving the campus with the one-year carrying on that trend," Paster said. Many of Notre Dame's Class of 2002's 1,872 seniors will have their final con old Coleman-Morse Center, Malloy Hall, "We're carrying on the torch and hopeful versations during this 2002 Commencement Week, while others will remain in Hayes-Healy and a renovated Fisher Hall. ly this will be something continues on for touch years beyond graduation. While witnessing the construction of the years to come." University, the class of 2002 has also left In addition to sprinkling new flavor to broken traditions, as well as coped with conscious effort to get involved with com its own marks. Included in the class of the leadership roles of the University, the tragedy. munities outside of Notre Dame. 2002 was the first female student body students of the class of 2002 banded "We've dealt with the loss of three class "Being so blessed at the University, we president and the first African-American together during times of heightened mates," said Gawrych. "We're also the need to share those blessings with other drum major among other firsts and stu tragedy in the nation and on campus. The graduating class in the year of one of the people and help make this world a better dents who added new things to the death of three students in the class of greatest tragedies in our history." place," said Gawrych. University. 2002 inspired bone marrow drives, cancer Gawrych said the events of Sept. 11 As Gawrych prepares for the candidate ''I'm really glad that I decided to run for walks and runs, scholarships and masses challenged the class and also bonded them program at the Moreau Seminary, he said student body president," said Brooke to deal with the losses. together to help the world. he is excited to hear about the future Norton. the first female student body pres "I think that is one of the most difficult He added that social activism was a way accomplishments of the class of 2002. ident during the 2001-2002 academic things our class had to deal with," said that students addressed the issues of "We're ready to make a big impact on year. "It's an amazing experience to be Norton, referring to the deaths of Brionne poverty and inequality in the world. the world outside of Notre Dame," said able to meet so many different people," Clary, Conor Murphy and Miranda Gawrych, who conceived the idea for the Gawrych. said Norton of her four years at Notre Thomas. University's first Blessing Unto Others Dame. Senior Drew Gawrych said that die class Week to fight poverty and promote social Contact Helena Payne at Norton, a graduating senior, said her of 2002 has shown resilience as they have service, said the class of 2002 has made a [email protected]. + CONGRATULATONS TO THE 2002 OBSERVER GRADUATING CLASS + THE BSE~ R BETH AMER ERNESTO LACAYO NOAH AMSTADTER MYRA MCGRIFF DUFFY-MARIE ARNOULT ALEX MENZE ANGELA CAMPOS MATT NANIA KYLIE CARTER KENT NELSON RICO CASARES MATT 0RENCHUK PAHVEL CHIN LIZ OVERLAN MIKE CONNOLLY PAT PETERS RYAN CUNNINGHAM PETER RICHARDSON STEVE CURASCO LAURA ROMPF SAM DERHEIMER SARAH RYKOWSKI BROOKES EBETSCH CHRIS SCOTT COLLEEN FAHERTY CHAD SILKER VAN GILES KERRY SMITH NOREEN GILLESPIE MAUREEN SMITHE CHRISTINE KAAI KIMBERLY SPRINGER TOM KEELEY ADAM TURNER Thank you for years offriendship, hard work and commitment to the pursuit of quality journalism. Your contributions will be missed. Best wishes in all that you do in the future. From the 2001-02 staff page 4 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, May 17, 2002 Dolezal, Furman to be honored as valedictorians ball games. age. His father, Fred. gradu was hired after speaking to + Furman achieves Furman said that she spends a + Dolezal balances ated in 1965 and his grandfa his applied investment man highest GPA while great deal of time studying when academics, service ther, Robert, graduated in agement professor, Scott working as she is not traveling and said that and spirituality 1926. Malpass, who is also the being busy helps her be more "My only dream my whole University's chief investment baseball manager productive. life was to come to Notre officer. Dame. It was the only school I "I take a computer on the road By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER "I started thinking about and I do a lot of work before I am applied to, it was the only the idea of working for the By SCOTI BRODFUEHRER Assistant News Editor on the road and I spend a lot of school I wanted to go to," he mission of Notre Dame and Assistant News Editor hours in the library. I also think said. "[Being valedictorian] is using what Notre Dame has that when your time is filled up Valedictorian Tim Dolezal definitely a storybook ending given me to help put the In addition to having the high with other activities like [base has lived in Carroll all his to my dream come true." University in a position where est grade point average of all of ball]. I get more stuff done. I life. While at Notre Dame, it will be able to achieve it's her classmates, Saint Mary's think if I sat at home and didn't In fact, he's lived in two Dolezal served as Carroll Hall dreams and that was all I valedictorian Katie Furman also really do anything, I wouldn't be communi- president during his sopho needed," Dolezal said. "I was serves as motivated. In a way being really, t i e s more year and as hall liturgi so excited and I told Mr. the head really, really busy has been a named cal commissioner this year. Malpass that if he offered the manager of benefit to make me do my work," Carroll - He was involved with Campus job that I'd take it on the spot N o t r e she said. a small Ministry, where he led a team and a few weeks later I was Dame's Furman said that her speech at Iowa town at a Notre Dame Encounter able to talk him into hiring baseball Saturday's commencement exer and Notre retreat, coordinated a senior me." team, the cises will be a fun one. Dame's retreat and served as an ele Eventually, Dolezal said he equivalent "The main focus is on the smallest mentary school catechist for plans to attend graduate of a full-time memories that we have had over residence two years. He also participat school to obtain his master's job. the past four years. It will be hall. Both Dolezal ed in the Appalachia Seminar of business administration Furman Furman kind of light-hearted; there will h a v e this spring, helping a family and said one day he hopes to has a 3.98 be sad parts, but not a whole lot. helped Dolezal become the in Dungannon, Va., to manage an endowment fund grade point average and is dou Furman, an Akron, Ohio member of the senior class improve their home. or a pension fund. ble majoring in marketing and native, attended Our Lady of the who will deliver Sunday's Dolezal said that he is The selection of the Notre management with a minor in Elms High School and knew valedictory address. extremely satisfied with his Dame valedictorian begins in mathematics, but she said she Saint Mary's was her first choice Dolezal, a finance and busi four years at Notre Dame and February, when the regis was very after visiting the ness economics major with a said the only thing he gave up trar's office generates a list surprised campus. 3.97 grade-point average, on during the last four years of the two students with the to be 'The main focus [of the "I liked the said his address will highlight was sleep. highest grade point average named speech] is on the atmosphere, I the significance of the Notre "What we all strive for is to in each college. These candi valedicto liked how friendly Dame experience and discuss really just milk the Notre dates then submit recommen rian. memories that we have everyone is and I the responsibilities that are Dame experience for all it's dations from the dean of their "I obvi- had over the past four like how challeng connected with earning a worth - in every facet, start college, a peer and a draft of o u s I y years. It will be kind of ing Saint Mary's Notre Dame degrees. ing with dorm life, socializ a 3-minute speech. The vale d o n ' t is," said Furman. Dolezal said he is very ing, spiritually and with ser dictory selection committee t h i n k light-hearted; there Following grad humbled to be named vale vice and student govern then anonymously ranks the about that will be sad parts, but uation, Furman dictorian. ment," he said. "If you want candidates and the committee kind of not a whole lot. " will work with the "I don't think anybody with to look at what a successful interviews the final two or s t u f f baseball team their feet on the ground can Notre Dame career is, you three students. From these because I through the end look at the mirror and feel have to look at all those ele finalists. the committee am [at the Katie Furman of their season, worthy of being the valedicto ments and all those have an selects the valedictorian and baseball Saint Mary's valedictorian which could last rian in the class of so many equal weight." the second place candidate is field] all until late-June if wonderfully talented people, After graduation, Dolezal asked to give the invocation the time, the team reaches so it's a very humbling feel will stay at Notre Dame and at graduation. so I would the College World ing," he said. work in the University's never really have thought about Series. Furman said she has A third-generation Notre Investment Office where he being valedictorian," said aspirations to work in the man Dame student, Dolezal knew will help manage the Contact Scott Brodfuehrer at Furman. agement of a professional base that he wanted to come to University endowment and brodfuehrer.l @nd.edu. Since her freshman year, ball team. Notre Dame at a very young analyze the market. Dolezal Furman has been a manager. "I would actually like to work During her freshman and sopho for a baseball team in the front more years, she worked with office. I would like to own my many sports but for the past two own baseball team someday, but years she worked solely with the that's a really, really long time baseball team. away and a lot of money away The baseball team was her from me right now," she said. main extracurricular activity, The Saint Mary's valedictorian requiring her to work almost 10 is the student with the highest hours a day during the season grade point average in the grad and travel extensively for the uating class. first part of the season, when the team is on the road for the first Contact Scott Brodfuehrer at 22 games because South Bend brodfuehrer.l @nd.edu. weather is not conducive to base- Congratulations Seniors! From the Notre Dame Club of Minnesota Be proud! Years of hard work have finally paid off. For those of you heading to Minnesota, the Notre Dame Club of Minnesota would like to welcome you to the area. On July lih and 13th we will have an alumni tent at the Cities 97 Basilica Block Party in Minneapolis and you are invited. This yearly event is a great time, with 12 bands Congratulations Past and playing during the two days. Some of this year's bands include Big Head Todd and The Monsters, Dishwalla, and Midnight Oil. Tickets are Present Lewisites! ,....-: .L / ~.... t. available at a discounted price for alumni. ( ; .... . ;. · \ ., ... .. >' . ·... ·· ' '·. ' ·\o ' .. For more information, please contact the Club's Young Alumni Coordinator, Brian Matzek, at (612) 825-1077 or YO u w I LL B E M I ss E D checkout our website at http://www.ndmn.org. FOUR YEARS IN REVIEW Friday, May 17, 2002 The Top I 0 Observer news stories from the I998-2002 academic years page 5 I Campuses react to terrorist attacks September II, 2002 Notre Dame and Saint Mary's respond Phone lines and Internet connections at event televised nationwide by NBC Sports. ed in a dramatic fashion to the terrorist both Notre Dame and Saint Mary's were Four alumni were killed in the attacks: attacks on the World Trade Center, the overwhelmed as students called home to Robert Ferris, class of 1962, who worked Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania. check on their family and friends. on the 102nd floor of the south tower of Classes were cancelled mid-session as Like all athletic events nationwide, the World Trade Center; Army Lieutenant representatives from the registrar's office Notre Dame's football game against ColonelS. Neil Hyland Jr., class of 1977, visited individual classrooms. Seven-thou Purdue on the following Saturday was who worked at the Pentagon; and Peter sand students and faculty attended a mass cancelled as the nation mourned the loss Batacan, class of 1983, and Dora Marie on South Quad at 3 p.m. on the day of the of thousands of citizens. At the Sept. 22 Menchaca, class of 1977, who were killed attacks, which was concelebrated by all home football game against Michigan on American Airlines Flight 77, which 111\0.:"""_..,,t( :W..V~-.c;;v,.» w- ol(q-..,)1'• (oo;?p,,, ·"":"-.:'' :X,.:t, '.l•~l~'(i! ,\·~ X.el.; Y..::?o:i.;!1c. New alcohol Trustees reject NCAA sanctions 2 policy unveiled 3 Big Ten 4 ND for violations .. :::~ Father Mark Fearing the loss ---·~'.~!0''"'-.... ::::{g!~:.:~~ ..... Y? ... The NCAA handed . Poorman introduced of a unique identity Notre Dame it's first sweeping changes to as a university, the OBSERVER ever major violation in ds~iRVER,..,,.,.,.,. ..."-'''~""·""' ~N'"NYMYA ...... ,., the alcohol policy Notre Dame Board connection with Poorman unveil.; new alcohol policy including a ban on of Trustees voted lrlsb rE'tlpond to NCAA t~~mction,; Kimberley Dunbar's hard liquor, a can against joining the gifts to a number of cellation of in-hall Big Ten conference. Irish football players. dances and a revi If Notre Dame had Dunbar's membership sion of the tailgaiting joined the Big Ten in the Quarterback iilili1i Club made her official policy to allow of-age it would have been students to host tail one of only two pri University representa gate parties in speci vate universities tive, said the NCAA. fied lots. The new and the only mem The University lost policy will take effect ber with a religious two scholarships and in August. affiliation. received a two-year probation. March I8, 2002 February 8, I999 Jan. I9, 2000 Student alleges Bush speaks at Norton elected 5 gang rape 6 Commencement 7 first female pres. A 20-year-old Last spring Brooke ~ -~~;~~{, ·~·~~::];;~;:::····~· . ~ ::~~~·:. :~::=fi1ffil~=-=: ~Zf?.J¥: ~ President George Notre Dame student W. Bush spoke at Norton accepted a Oif~ER.v£R.. alleged that four Oif~E-IiVEiZ······- Class of 2001 position no female football players Commencement, before her had held ND student alleges gang rape gang-raped her at becoming the fifth - student body pres an off-campus President to speak at ident. Norton and house. The a Notre Dame com her vice president University expelled mencement. House Brian Moscona won the students and representatives and 56 percent of the University President Notre Dame alumni votes. Father Edward helped to court Bush, Norton is also the Malloy denied their whose visit was gen first incumbent vice appeals. The prose erally welcomed but president to win the cutor's office is still protested by some role of president deciding whether to who objected to his since 1973. press charges. policies. Feb. IS, 200 I April II, 2002 May20, 200I 'Monologues' Class loses three Hesburgh 8 spark controversy 9 to leukemia 10 receives medal This year, Notre IJ··"'.:;?.§F" "-'' Sfli'""" ,;•, Three members of University offi Dame held a perfor the Class of 2002 - cials, Congressmen mance of the Brionne Clary, Conor and former "Vagina . Qb~$IBY£R Murphy and Miranda President Bill Monologues" under Thomas - died of Clinton gathered in protest from various leukemia during the the U.S. capitol groups, including the class' four years at rotunda July 13, Knights of Columbus. Notre Dame. 2000 to award the Last year, Saint Memorial services Congressional Gold Mary's President were held for all Medal to Father Mari!ou Eldred can three and the class Theodore Hesburgh. celled "The Vagina has worked to estab president emeritus Monologues" but it lish an annual bone of Notre Dame, for a was performed marrow drive that lifetime of public despite her decision. will be held in their service. memory. 200I-2002 I999- 200I Aug. 23, 2000 page 6 The Observer+ THE YEAR IN REVIEW Friday, May I 7, 2002 Campuses respond to Sept. 11. University completes construction. Coaching fiasco. U2 plays at the Joyce. ear 2001. The three-level, 80,000- By KATE NAGENGAST square-foot, $17 million struc News Writer ture will be built in two phases. Phase I is construction of the new Sept. U Attacks Noble Family Dining Hall, which By far the most shocking and is scheduled for completion in memorable event of 2001, the June 2003. Phase II, which Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the includes demolition of the old World Trade Center towers in dining hall and construction of New York and the Pentagon in the student center, should be fm Washington canceled classes for ished by December 2004. Saint one day, but traumatized Mary's student government Americans forever. Notre Dame donated $12,000 to the project. and Saint Mary's initial response to the tragedy was prayer as approximately 7,000 people U2 Elevation Tour gathered for Mass on South Quad After months of anticipatio-n and an additional 400 filled and another chaotic ticket distri Regina Hall's chapel that unfor bution, U2 kicked off the third leg gettable Tuesday afternoon. of their Elevation Tour on Oct. 10 In the months that followed, as at Notre Dame's Joyce Center. airport security tightened and The crowd of 11,000 with the White House press conferences most fortunate packed inside a revealed information about the heart-shaped catwalk that lead hunt for Osama bin Laden in the singer Bono and guitarist The caves of Afghanistan, the cam Edge strutted across throughout puses continued to pray and the show, was awed by hits from started to act. U2's most recent album All That A series of panel discussions, You Can't Leave Behind as well prayer vigils and fundraisers as their classics. filled the fall semester - includ In their typically politically sen ing one such effort during the sitive manner, the band paid Notre Dame-Michigan State tribute to the heroes of Sept. 11 game that raised $270,981 for by bringing New York police and the families of firefighters and firefighters on stage when they police killed when the towers performed a verse of "Peace on crumbled. In the spring, a num Earth" as an introduction to their ber of classes were created closing number, "Walk On." across academic departments to Bono also honored students who focus on the history and after participate in service programs math of the attacks and such as the Alliance for Catholic America's relationship with the Education and "change the KYLIE CARTER/The Observer global community. world" with their dedication to University President Father Edward Malloy presides over the campus-wide Mass on Sept. U, 2001 Now, more than eight months teaching. on South Quad. Over 7,000 students and faculty attended the Mass. later, soon-to-be graduates Senior Tim Collins was reunit searching for jobs continue to ed with Bono after first meeting feel the economic effects of the the legend while visiting his girl attacks on the American econo friend who studied abroad in my. Dublin during the spring of 2000. In Dublin with Collins Bono had said of Notre Dame, "It's a place Campus Construction with a lot of soul." Notre Dame and Saint Mary's also continued campus expan sions and renovations this year. Coach Fiasco Notre Dame completed construc If any chapter in Notre Dame tion on Malloy Hall, renovations history could be erased, the ath on Hurley Hall and the Hayes letic department would probably Healy Center and broke ground pick the coaching search that for the Marie P. DeBartolo Center rocked the University in for the Performing Arts. The December. University also began additions The torrid month began when to the Hesburgh Center for Bob Davie was fired less than 12 International Studies and the hours after coaching the final Stepan Chemistry Building. The game of his five-year career at Stepan and Hesburgh centers' Notre Dame. Davie had led the renovations arc scheduled to be Irish to a BCS berth in the Fiesta complete in the fall. The Bowl a year before, but after a 5- DeBartolo Center will not be 6 season last fall - the second ready until summer 2004. losing season in three years - Saint Mary's broke ground for fans clamored for his head. PETER RICHARDSON!The Observer the Student Center/Noble Family After Athletic Director Kevin Bono and his group U2 performed at the Joyce Center this fall, playing classic hits to those present. Dining Hall April19. White fired Davie, he launched a 30: SMC responds to DOE complaint about sexual assault reporting procedure Nov. 28: Hoadley sues University for a lift on his suspension Oct 12: Rego banned from campus despite Notre Dame West virginia game for alleged rape of NO alumna Sept. 6: Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts ground breaking ,:. ::: :· :· 1: ~~ ~1~ Sept. 11: World Trade Center attacked by terrorists Sept 21: State and local police begin tailgating crackdown at ND-MSU game Aug. 31: SMC student reports alleged rape in Keough Hall Oct. 10: U2 performs at ND Dec. 14: O'Leary resigns Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 7 Vagina Monologues performed. Officials introduce new alcohol policy. Campus deals with sexual assault. e e ID ev1e • 2002 nationwide search for his replace This year's performance, too, a divisive issue. ment. A week later, White was not without controversy. Since September, four cases of returned with former Georgia Representatives from the Pro-Life alleged rape and sexual miscon Tech head coach George O'Leary. Action League of Chicago distrib duct have fueled debate at Notre At a public press conference uted fliers to play-goes as they Dame and Saint Mary's and where O'Leary was introduced, entered the theater, describing prompted some tough stands the University distributed T -shirts their belief that the "Monologues" from administrators. that read "By George, it's is steeped in vile sexual language, It began in September with the O'Leary." denigrates heterosexual love and alleged rape of a Saint Mary's stu But while Davie's reign lasted marriage and is verbal pornogra dent in Keough Hall. Saint Mary's five years. O'Leary's lasted only phy that donates its proceeds to security officials indicated that the five days. pro-abortion groups. Members of After a reporter discovered that the Knights of Columbus also woman may have ingested a date O'Leary's biography contained wrote letters to The Observer's rape drug while at an Aug. 31 false information about his college Viewpoint section and prayed in party in the 4A section of Keough. playing career and academic cre DeBartolo's upstairs chapel The student also reported the dentials. O'Leary resigned in dis before performances of the play. alleged assault to Notre Dame grace after he admitted to Notre Security/Police, whose crime log Dame he had lied about earning a Alcohol policy made no mention of a drugging. master's degree and playing foot . For a student body typically The incident prompted scores of ball for New Hampshire. criticized for its apathy, Notre letters to The Observer from stu White then resumed the coach Dame students responded vicious- dents, many upset about the ing search. In December, White . ly to alcohol policy changes paper publishing the hall room had said he had seven candidates Father Mark Poorman, vice presi numbers where the alleged rape on his list and he had interviewed dent for Student Affairs, occurred. The allegation eventu five face-to-face. He offered the ally was referred to the St. Joseph JASON McFARLEYfThe Observer announced March 19. The new Jesse Hensley holds a flaming copy of dulac as Ryan job to two. The first was O'Leary, policy targets drinking among County Prosecutor, and NDSP the second was Stanford head undergraduate students by ban closed the case after the prosecu Schlldkraut looks on during the alcohol town hall meeting. coach Tyrone Willingham. ning "hard" liquor in residence tor declined to move forward with White actually interviewed halls, eliminating in-hall dances criminal charges. suspension. surfaced at Notre Dame during Willingham during the first phase and rewriting the tailgating policy Controversy also swelled in In December, a St. Joseph the year , the U.S. Department of of the coaching search, but didn't to permit students of legal age to October, when a former Notre County Superior Court judge Education's investigation into feel he had a strong love for Notre drink in designated parking lots Dame football player planned to denied Hoadley's request for a crime reporting procedures con Dame. When the two talked in on football weekends. visit campus as a member of preliminary injunction that tinued at Saint Mary's. late December, Willingham More than 600 students another school's team, despite his would have temporarily lifted his The DOE completed an on-site opened up about his love for the marched to the Main Building alleged expulsion and permanent punishment. investigation into the way the Irish, and White had found his chanting, "We need a voice" ban from campus in 1998.. Hoadley was expelled on College compiles and reports man. March 21 and lit copies of the stu Kori Pienovi, a 2001 University grounds of sexual misconduct. crime statistics. The review Willingham was formally intro dent handbook, du Lac, on fire. graduate, brought to light Cooper The allegation stems from a came in response to a complaint duced as Irish head coach on New This initial rally was followed by Rego's possible return to campus female Notre Dame student who filed by a Saint Mary's student Year's Day, finally ending the student speeches at a Campus for the Oct. 13 Notre Dame-West accused him of touching her in who claimed the school wasn't in month-long nightmarish coaching Life Council meeting with Virginia football game. She called an inappropriate manner and compliance with the Cleary Act. search that publicly embarrassed Poorman present, a petition with for administrators to uphold the subjecting her to a 30-minute The act mandates that schools Notre Dame. more 4,000 student signatures punishment they imposed on sexual assault at Hoadley's update crime statistics annually, and Student Senate resolutions Rego following a campus discipli Turtle Creek apartment follow give students timely warning Monologues strike back proposing alterations to the pro nary hearing for the athlete's ing a night of drinking in about crimes that have occurred When Saint Mary's banned the posed policy. none of which alleged rape of Pienovi. September. on campus and educate students performance of Eve Ensler's con inspired any change to date. The After three days of public out Meanwhile, four former mem about sexual assault. troversial play "The Vagina policy is to be formally written cry, Notre Dame officials released bers of the Notre Dame football The Saint Mary's student Monologues" on campus in winter this summer and take effect next a thinly veiled threat that didn't are awaiting word of whether claimed she reported to Saint 2001, students protested with a fall. mention Rego by name but the county prosecutor will file Mary's security officials in 1999 speak-out, a sit-in and a petition. The spring policy changes were implied he would be arrested if he criminal charges against them in that she was raped but that the Although 20 women eventually foreshadowed, however, by tail travele&[ to campus with his West connection with a March 28 College's crime statistics listed gathered to read the play before gating crackdowns this fall when Virginia teaminates. Rego did not alleged gang rape of a female no incidents of rape for that approximately 150 students in the state and local police cited hun come to South Bend. Notre Dame student. year. lobby of Regina Hall, the show dreds of students for violating du In November, a Notre Dame The men were expelled follow Saint Mary's and the DOE never received any official recog Lac's rule banning students from student who allegedly fondled and ing an April 25 campus discipli exchanged correspondence for nition from the College. organizing tailgaters where alco sexually assaulted another stu nary hearing. Officials on several months prior to the In February, however, Notre hol is served. In a full-page letter dent turned the tables on the Tuesday upheld the decision on agency's on-campus investiga Dame welcomed to its campus the published in The Observer in University by suing the school fol appeal. tion. While the DOE said in show sponsored by the depart November, Poorman said alcohol lowing his October expulsion and A 20-year-old woman claim December that results of the ments of Film, Television and use and abuse has become the ban from campus. - the men took turns raping her investigation wouldn't come for Theatre Department and Gender most serious health and safety Former student Ryan Hoadley after luring her under false pre at least 30 days, officials to date Studies as part of a nationwide issue at Notre Dame and that tail appealed Notre Dame officials' tenses to a house east of cam have released no results. initiative also developed by Ensler gaters had become "an opportu decision in late October to pus. Expelled were former called, "V-Day: Until the Violence nity to engage in behavior that University President Father sophomores Lorenzo Crawford Jason McFarley and Andrew Stops." would not be tolerated at any Edward Malloy, who reduced the and Abram Elam, senior Donald Soukup contributed to this Directed by senior Kerry Walsh, other time on our campus or any punishment in to a two-year sus Dykes and Justin Smith, a 2001 report. 35 women performed Ensler's where else." pension without guarantee of graduate who was taking gradu work in DeBartolo Hall before readmission. Hoadley's ongoing ate courses while finishing a fifth standing-room-only audiences Sexual Assault suit seeks a court order to bar the year of athletic eligibility. Contact Kate Nagengast at two nights in a row. Campus sexual assault also was University from enforcing the As allegations of sexual assault [email protected]. Jan. 1: NO hires Willingham April19: SJ4C.;Gr.Q.undbreaking for Student Center/ No~~· Family fJJfJing Hall March 28: ND student allegedly gang rap~d **·~~~~~r ::·:'1 by four NO football players 1.·· .' •.:}(]1:/f..' : •}. <::.·· ..:l>«<·.··~· ... , Feb. 25: NO performs "Vagina Monologues" ~ .;~~t··>Mi;~ 3: Four ND football players ~·-·""' accused of rape expelled March 19: Poorman announces alcohol policy changes March 21: Students hold alcohol policy protest May 14: Malloy denies all four alleged rapists' appeals to overturn their expulsion ------, page 8 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, May 17,2002 Notable ND seniors will tie the knot of Norton is what made him real Grotto before Mass at Siegfried ... By MAUREEN SMITHE ize that she was "the one." The Well, one night we went down and Senior SrafT"Wrirer two planned a trip to South Dakota said the rosary and at the end I to visit his family. Norton's flight just asked Mary to pray for our At last count, graduating seniors got there 10 hours before his, and marriage and gave her the ring, Alison Lasseter and Jess Donnelly she had to make herself comfort and she said yes," Urra said. figured 25 couples from the Oass able -without hin1. Urra and Affleck-Graves said of 2002 are engaged. Like many Norton said she knew Lais was that Notre Dame's focus on faith Notre Dame women. they've been "the one" for her during a big mil and communitv enabled them to keeping the count since the first lennium celebration with her fami envision married life in a special day of senior year. ly. way. "We were talking about it one "It was a great time, and he "Notre Dame has definitely night over a few drinks. and we really hit it off with all of my fami impacted us and will impact our realized that there were a lot of ly," Norton said. married We. Religion has become people getting engaged," Lasseter Just two years later, they shared such a part of our relationship. said. another important New Year's cel and that is due to the role it plays Their unofficial grapevine calcu ebration - their engagement. Lais here on campus. It has definitely lation provides insight into this proposed to Norton on New Year's brought us closer together." unsurprising trend. Eve at a hotel party in Chicago. Aflleck-Graves said. Each spring, Notre Dame and The two were dancing \\ith a few The two have planned a wed Saint Marv's students await to of his good friends, but when the ding for Aug. 10 at Notre Dame's hear which. couples will be among 10-second countdown came, Lais Basilica of the Sacred Heart. A a different rank - engaged. prepared to pop the question. At reception at the South Dining Hall Popular estimates among the stu the stroke of midnight, he asked will follow. dent body suggest that up to 60 Notron to be his wife. "Apparently I didn't get enough percent of Darners marry a fellow The two plan their wedding for of the SOH on campus." Affieck Domer, although exact figures June 28, 2003, at the Basilica of Graves joked. BRIAN PUCEVICHflhe Observe• remain elusive. the Sacred Heart. Notre Dame student Margaret Soulen shows off her engagement ring. So far, it is estimated that 25 student couples will tie the knot. According to a study published The 'Double Domers' by Notre Dame Magazine, howev The Leprechaun When Chad Silker met Beth him. but he also knew he'd have to together, sat on her regular bench er, co-education at Notre Dame Notre Dame Leprechaun Adam Sheehan in a history class sopho ask her father first. An opportunity and began talking about their rela caused a drop from 1 in Saint 4 Urra usually never has a problem more vear. he knew she was "the to drive to her hometown of St. tionship. Before she knew it, Mary's students marrying a Notre voicing his excitement. The spirit one" ilnmediately. Louis seemed unlikely - until a Silker was down on one knee with Dame man to 1 in 10 by the late ed voice of the student body, Urra "She'd never believe me. but the stray cat came into the picture. a ring in his hand. 1980s. is known for doing pushups on the frrst time I felt she could be 'the "No one had claimed the cat so I Sheehan and Silker agree that · Without a doubt, the sacrament crowd at football games and pep one' was long before we were dat was going to keep him. Since he the Notre Dame experience pre of marriage is an important one in ping up fans at basketball games. ing. She finished up an exam was only 6 months old and not . pared them for marriage. the Catholic Church. Campus The person who would initially before me, and after I finally fin declawed he couldn't really stay at "Once I came to NO and grew to Ministry offers five retreats a year silence this vocal titan, however, ished up sometime later I walked my house here," Sheehan said. love it and everything special for both married and engaged turned out to be his future wife the out of the classroom, and she was "We got home to St. Louis in time about it, I hoped that I would couples. Most of the retreats fill up night they met at an in-hall dance. waiting there for me. It would be for dinner and left early the next marry someone who also had the quickly. "She was only there for two sec much longer before we finally morning, but after dinner my Notre Dame experience," Sheehan onds, but I saw her smile and just started dating, but I somehow mom and I went to check on the said. The student body president was blown away," Urra said. knew that day that Beth was dif cat and while we were gone Chad In fact, Notre Dame's impact on When former student body pres His fiancee, graduating senior ferent from other girls," Silker asked my dad." the couple will continue this fall ident Brooke Norton met her Sarah Affieck-Graves, also noticed said. A week after that fateful trip to when they both start law school fiance Andrew Lais for the first the instant attraction even though The two remained friends for Missouri, Silker popped the ques here. Notre Dame was a perfect fit time, she wasn't necessarily she attended the dorm dance with another year before they started tion at Sheehan's favorite place on -just like them. dressed to the nines. Out on an someone else. Initially attracted by dating in March of their junior campus, the Grotto. It had always Appalachian house-building trip, his good looks and personality, year. been a special place for them, so the two were living under less Aflleck-Graves soon learned that A year later, Silker knew he after his last time as a campus Contact Maureen Smithe at than-desirable conditions. there was more to this green-tuxe wanted to ask Sheehan to marry tour guide, they walked down [email protected]. "We were both wearing old, doed mascot. ratty clothes that we cared nothing "[My favorite thing about Adam] about. I was wearing no make-up. is his sense of humor and laid When you showered, you smelled back attitude. I'm the exact oppo worse [the showers had a putrid site, and he helps me relax and sulfur odor]," Norton said. have fun," she said. Lais, a 2001 graduate, said the Three months after they started sloppy appearances turned out for dating, Affleck-Graves said she Prom sundown to sunrise ... the best. knew Urra was "the one" for her. "We were both able to be our Urra knew for sure that summer selves when we first met, and that when he told his sister in confi made all the difference," Lais said. dence that Affleck-Graves was The two hit it off and began dat "the one" for him. ing shortly after their return to "My sister laughed at me then, campus, despite some major dif but I proved her wrong," Urra ferences. said. "He's from South Dakota, I'm The two dated for a year and a from southern California. He's a half before getting engaged in last Republican, I'm a Democrat," fall. Urra planned the big moment Notron said. with their faith in mind. Lais said his family's impression "Sarah and I always go to the you were a(ways there. Late niBhts .... ear(lf morninBs ... San 'Francisco ... 'l'fewsyayer ~f the Year ... worn arm on the ~ffice chair ... the ''Backer ... Sun'ivor cuys ... 'Bookstore 'Basket6a(f... Shame[ess activity ... So, Buys, want to yfan a reunion? ... rnesk ~f Shame ... rnfc{ we rea{{y {ose the jish6ow{ contest? ... Los 'Anae(es ... 'BecominB regu{ars at ''Backer {unch ... The ;printer Grofe a3ain? ... iJ wou{ctn't have d~mc it with anyone erse .... Love, 'lforeen gan1es • DJJou~eg ·~~It[;]® Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 9 Senior Army- cadet earns national distinction + Cadet enters Awards Ceremony ... Nate Transportation received the Society of Corps of Army as American Military Engineers Award, and he received the No. 1 cadet in U.S. Distin-guished Military Graduate Certificate," said Mosinski. By JUSTIN KRIVICKAS "I feel like Notre Dame's News Writer ROTC program prepared me extremely well for the Army," Graduating Notre Dame said Hicks. "One of the many senior Nathaniel Hicks has good things about the pro been ranked nationwide as gram here at Notre Dame is the No. 1 cadet entering the that the combined academic Army's Transportation Corps. rigors and demands of ROTC N o t r e force cadets to develop time Dame pro management skills and grow fessor of to be very balanced individu military als." studies Lt. Hicks will be graduating Commenc Col. David from Notre Dame wHh a Mosinski chemical engineering degree, Videotapes are contacted and although his position in Hicks and the Army will not make use of told him this education directly. Hicks available! about the Hicks plans to use the degree after award. he leaves the service. "I was really surprised," "The management training I Commencement said Hicks. "My parents were will receive in the army will very proud of me, and they help me with job opportuni Commencement Mass are really excited for me both ties in the future," said Hicks. for the award and for my On July 17, Hicks will begin ROTC Commissioning opportunities training at Law School Ceremony with the Ft. Eustis Army." "One of the many good and after MBA/EMBA Diplmna The Office things about the wards will be stationed of the Chief program here at Notre Ceremony of the in Germany Transpor Dame is that the as a Second Architecture Graduation tation Corps, combined academic Lieutenant. , The Army Latino Ceremony in Fort rigors and demands of Eustis, Va. transpor will present ROTC force cadets to tation officer works with Order online at: the award to develop time Hicks at the management skills and logistics and bttp://www.nd.eclu/-gradvideo Association of is in charge the United grow to be very balanced of the man Or contact: States Army individuals." agement and movement of i'lultimedia Services Center Logistics Transfor people and Office of Information Technologies mation Nathaniel Hicks goods with B002 DeBartolo Hall Symposium, senior air. rail and held May 20- 2002 top cadet in nation to enter truck. This University of Notre Dame officer pro 22 in Transportation Corps of U.S. Anny Notre Dame, IN 46556 Richmond, cures, pro- Va. v i d e s • 219.631.0961 Hicks has arranges or manages all surface trans- [email protected] also received other awards through the ROTC program portation assets required to this year. support and sustain the "At our own Army ROTC armed forces in peace and war. Branch assignments in the military are determined dur ing the cadets' senior year of college after they have com pleted Advanced Camp. This The University of Notre Dame's exercise is the culmination of ROTC training and takes place at Ft. Lewis in The John J. Reilly Center Washington the summer after each cadet's junior year of college. These cadets are for evaluated numerous times while at Advanced Camp on various leadership roles and Science, Technology and Values training exercises, and these Is pleased to announce that the following students have scores are then added to all the other evaluations that been awarded the distinction of each cadet receives through out their four years of ROTC. All these evaluations, physi fohn Reilly Scholar cal fitness test scores, ROTC J. class performance, ROTC In activities and academic per formance are included in a The Five Year Double Degree Program in packet that is sent to Cadet Command in Washington, D.C. Arts and Letters/Engineering Included in the packet is each senior's requests for branch assignments and duty loca tions. Cadet Command then Class of 2003 ranks all the cadets nation wide into an Order of Merit List. There are 16 different branches in the Army, and Mellissa A. Geppert based on this order of merit list, cadets are branched into their choices until the needs David P. Saracino of the Army are satisfied. Jennifer s. Spanbauer Contact Justin Krivickas at [email protected]. -- ---~------ page 10 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, May 17, 2002 ~(!h11vcrh tn .:.H ... •'-"..., -~ •,._, • •"""... • • 0~~ 1 l.V receive his 150th honorarv de~ree "I think no president before • President or after him could have done emeritus holds it," Hesburgh said. record for most In addition to working on the civil rights legislation of the honorary degrees 1960s, Hesburgh has also helped lower the number of By HELENA PAYNE nuclear arms in the world as News Editor well as reduce world hunger. "He's an optimistic person at Just one day before his 85th heart," said Conklin. "No mat birthday, University President ter what the issue, be it a civil Emeritus Father Theodore rights issue or whether it be the Hesburgh will receive his 150th proliferation of nuclear honorary degree weapons, from the University "There is hardly a h e ' s of San Diego during always May 26 university president, and been a Commencement certainly none alive, who person exercises. can match that double w h 0 Hesburgh, who w o u I d received an hon career of [higher believe orary doctor of education] as well as that you laws degree from public service. " can make the school in 1980, things will receive a doc better." tor of humane let Richard Conklin At the ters degree and fanner associate vice president University deliver the princi for University relations 1 e v e 1 · pal address during Hesburgh graduation. was an Hesburgh currently holds the instrumental force in elevating record for having the most hon the national status of Notre orary degrees, according to the Dame and overseeing its many Guinness Book of World changes. Under his 35-year Records. tenure from 1953 to 1987, the "I think the reason he's University went from an all received so many honorary male undergraduate liberal LISA VEL TE!The Observer degrees is he's had a distin arts college governed by the Father Theodore Hesburgh, 84 years old, stands in his office on the 13th floor of the library guished career in public service Congregation of Holy Cross to named in his honor. as well as education," said a major co-educational He added that Hesburgh has Richard research university governed garnered respect because of Conklin, by a lay board of his willingness to take a public To Katie_, )usttini., Kat )ana., Paul., former "! think the reason he's trustees. stance on moral issues. associate received so many "His presidency "He was unafraid to speak Nathan., )enn ana Raul vice presi saw the transi out on moral issues," said dent for honorary degrees is he's tion of Notre Conklin. University a distinguished career in Dame from an Hesburgh's involvement in Thanks for everything. You are Relations, public service as well as undergraduate public issues has received w h 0 school to a uni much attention. In addition amazing managers., co-workers., but most worked education. " versity in the to his honorary degrees, u n d e r proper sense with Hesburgh was also awarded of all., wonderful friends. We"'ll keep your a graduate and Hesburgh Richard Conklin the Congressional Gold from 1967 research compo Medal in July 2000 and the legacy alive. Congratulations., and best fonner associate vice president n e n t. and he · s to 1987. Medal of Freedom in 1964. of luck in all your future endeavors. Conklin for University relations managed to do c i t e d that without los Contact Helena Payne at Hesburgh's national and acade ing the Catholic character of [email protected]. mic work as reasons why he the place," said Conklin. Love, Adrienne, Sisco, Bianca, Lucy, fen, Christina, has stood out among other Travis, John, Cole, Meghan, Marlayna, Anna, and Bronx university leaders. "There is hardly a univer sity president, and certainly none alive. who can match that double career of [higher education] as well as public Congratulations Graduates service," said Conklin. Hesburgh, who still works for Notre Dame in several _)capacities, spends many of - his days presiding over Masses, writing or auto graphing books and traveling South Bend's for various international and national committee meet ings. Best Although Hesburgh sits high in his campus office on the 13th floor of the library Breakfast named for him, he said he tries to remain humble. With 16 presidential appointments and Lunch under his belt, and soon, 150 honorary degrees, he even commented sarcastically, "I think it's time to quit." GO IRISH! But Hesburgh was refer ring to receiving honorary degrees, not to the work that he has done to earn the dis tinctions. He said he was most proud of his role in the Weekends Open passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 7:00am-2:00pm "I think that legislation changed the face of this country," he said. Monday-Friday Through that act, a civil Outdoor Seating Available rights commission was 6:30am-2:00pm established. Hesburgh, who chaired the commission, said most of the credit goes to 127 Michigan 288 PEEP President Lyndon Johnson's s. ~· yo'" '1 r : e:-. :..._, ·:.~ ,-, .-, V.' T'' ·~. c~ t... leadership during the . L-1··· L)L t::CA..l···.. L<.-:.<.0 T.. tE:=: B:ClU1.C J:1. IjE: T..f ·u.:nc :h. process of passing the act. Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 11 ND, SMC seniors respond to call to serve service in the coming months, vice through Catholic Charities, Notre Dame Service by the Numbers By ANDREW THAGARD according to Andrea Smith Jesuit Volunteer Corps and Assistant News Ediror Shappell, director of Senior Dominican Volunteers. What students are doing Transition Programs at the Center Indeed, many seniors cite their Not long after Nick Fonte for Social Concerns. experiences volunteering at Notre Amate House: 4 Americorps: 4----, receives his diploma, the upcom "It's pretty amazing. It's one of Dame and Saint Mary's as a rea China Teaching Program: 4------c ing Notre Dame graduate will pack the best things about Notre son for considering post-graduate Holy Cross Associates: 11------. his bags and head to Honduras to Dame," Shappell said. service. Jesuit Volunteer Corps: 8 work 27 months in an orphanage Saint Mary's also boasts a post Fonte, for example, has worked that serves 60 children. graduate volunteer rate of about with the Center for Social Nativity Prep Academy:5 ----J Fonte was accepted into the 10 percent. This year between 25 Concerns since his sophomore Farm of the Child program, and 30 graduating seniors are year. Peace Corps: 13 ------!l*;;;ii:;:;~:;:;:;:::: named for the site's farm where planning to volunteer, according to The PLS major has also spent Teach for America: 12--- participants grow food. The pro Sister Linda Kors, director of summers performing service, vol gram also operates a Catholic Volunteer Services and the unteering in Chile and living in a school and health clinic serving S.U.R.V. Center, a volunteer house for disabled homeless peo surrounding villages. resource center. ple not far from his home in "We're doing all kinds of things," "Some said they hadn't had a lot Orange County, Calif. Men vs. women Fonte said of the service program. of time in their college years and "It was absolutely insane," Fonte "I know I have gifts and I want to now is the time," Kors said of those said of his experience in California. Ten percent of Notre share them with poor children." who are pursuing service. "There were over 40 people who Dame students choose But Fonte is just one of many This year's Notre Dame group, lived in the house and yard. I've to pursue service after Notre Dame and Saint Mary's which is 60 percent female and 40 grown up in a fairiy affiuent family thev 2raduate. graduates who choose to pursue percent male wm volunteer and this was right in my back :: ~ ser.,.~e after tl-J.eir time in South through 40 different programs in yard." Bend. This year, graduates are 20 nations. Aside from big-name Saint Mary's senior Katrina continuing a long-standing trend programs like the Alliance for Weibel agreed that time spent of giving back after they graduate Catholic Education, Americorps, doing service through the College Information courtesy of Andrea Smith Shappell, Director of Senior Transition Programs at the Center for Social Concerns - about 180 seniors at Notre Peace Corps and Teach for influenced her decision to travel to Dame, 10 percent of the graduat America, graduates from both China in August to teach English ANDY DEVOTO/The Observer ing class, have committed to do institutions are also pursuing ser- with the Maryknoll Mission. The psychology and MIS double major attended an Appalachia service trip one summer and worked at Pet Refuge, a no-kill animal shelter in South Bend. Students were also motivated to pursue post-graduate service for social and religious reasons. 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PHI sena Jorge Castaneda, who is backed Vicente Fox would be the princi tors have said that Fox is spend by Fox. reportedly said that the pal speaker at Sunday's ing more time on trips to seek gates of the Mexican embassy Commencement exercises, Fox foreign investment than work were "open to all Cuban citi became the first speaker in ing on domestic issues. zens." Following that comment, recent history to cancel his Officials have speculated that a number of Cubans stormed speaking appointment. In late Fox canceled his speech at the embassy, seeking political April, Mexican embassy officials Notre Dame because he would asylum in an action that told the University Fox would be not be granted permission to angered the Cuban government unable to travel to the and members of the PRI. speak due United States. In March, a United Nations to political "We don't know what Albert LeMay, meeting was held in Monterrey, circum made the United States a Kellogg Mexico, and LeMay said prior to stances in leg of [his] trip Institute Fellow, the conference Fox held a pri Mexico. outlined three vate phone call with Cuban According untenable. " reasons for the leader Fidel Castro. During that to Joan Congress' frus conversation, Fox said Castro Bradley, Dennis Moore tration with should not spend too much time officer University spokesman both the United in Mexico and told him not to assistant to States and Fox. complain about Bush. After one AFP Photo University LeMay said day at the copference, Castro Mexican President Vicente Fox shakes hands with Cuban President Mexicans are left, saying that the Mexicans leader Fidel Castro at a United Nations meeting in March. Father Edward Malloy. the frustrated with the United were not very welcoming. In Castro's release of a private conversation with Fox prior to Chicago Consul General and the States because President Bush late April, Castro released a that meeting has been cited as one of the reasons that the Mexican Ambassador to the made Mexico and Latin America tape of the conversation, embar Congress has limited Fox's travel outside of Mexico. United States informed Malloy a high priority before the Sept. rassing Fox. that Fox would be unable to 11 terrorist attacks. Now that LeMay said these incidents, decision is certainly politically thought we would have been in speak. Fox also called Malloy U.S. attention has been diverted combined with problems with motivated, these votes serve as good shape. We don't know personally to apologize for being to the war on terrorism, Uruguay, have added to the a wake-up call to tell Fox that what made the United States leg unable to speak and said he Afghanistan and the Middle conflict between Fox and the he has to pay attention to of that trip untenable," said hoped that he would be able to East, Mexicans feel neglected. rival PRI congress, which is domestic issues," said LeMay. Moore. speak in the future. "A great deal was promised using the country's domestic According to University Officials from the Mexican Fox, a candidate from the but has not been delivered. The problems to ensure Fox does spokesman Dennis Moore, Fox Embassy in Washington, D.C., National Action Party (PAN), Mexicans feel slighted by the not travel to other North was scheduled to speak at Notre did not return phone calls seek took office Dec. 1, 2000, to end fact that the United States has American nations. Dame immediately after travel ing comment on Fox's cancella the 71-year rule of the not paid too much attention to "There is no question that ing May 14-18 on a European tion. Institutional Revolutionary Party them," said LeMay. Mexico has domestic problems. tour. (PRI), which still has a small LeMay also said that there are What the Congress is saying is "[Fox] was to come here majority in Mexico's Congress. increasing tensions between that 'we need you here to deal directly from Spain, an official Contact Scott Brodfuehrer at On April 9, the Mexican Senate Cuba and Mexico. Cuba and with these problems.' While the state visit, which is why we brodfuehrer.l @nd.edu. ------Congratulationsto the following Citation of Merit Wlnners: I Joseph Jarvis Alumni Hall Christa Gray McGlinn Hall Kristie Gleason Badin Hall Mathew W ohlberg Morrissey Hall Kathleen O'Connor Breen-Phillips Hall Bill Ferreira O'Neill Hall Dominic Angiollo Carroll Hall Jennifer Roberts Pangborn Hall Anne McGrath Cavanaugh Hall Emily Rhyner Pasquerilla East John McKiernan Dillon Hall Amy Heckel Pasquerilla West Robyn Harridge Farley Hall Nick Sciola St. Edward's Hall Neil Ruddock Fisher Hall Christopher Lux Siegfried Hall Rachael Rothrauff Howard Hall Brent Smith Sarin Hall Michael Collins Keenan Hall Matthew McMerty Stanford Hall Jeff Steedle Keough Hall Angela Hurley Walsh Hall David Wainman Knott Hall Kendahl Lund Welsh Family Hall Lisa Jansen Lewis Hall Ryan Becker & Zahm Hall Elizabeth Emerson Lyons Hall Brian Clemency ------.1 ·······················••ttl.1111·1~11tll:t~!1~!11111tl~~~t~ltlllllllllillll~llll811~1111·············································· .------ page 14 The Observer+ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Friday, May 17, 2002 Have You Had a Professor Who Has Changed Your Life? For many students at this university, Laura Crago is this professor. She accepts nothing less than the best from her students and works tirelessly to bring out their excellence. "I fully credit Professor Crago with making me the student I am today." - Andrejz Bednarski "In a university with many impressive teachers who have taught and touched me in so many ways, I have never had a professor with as much brilliance, dedication, and concern fro her undergraduate students." - Christopher Rupar "Professor Crogo embodies the ideals for which all Notre Dame professors should strive."- Bridget G. O'Brien Professor Crago has written 73 letters of recommendation for her students in this year alone, she has helped 6 students win Fulbrights in the past six years, 19 of her students have received various grants and research awards in the past eight years, and more than half of the senior history award recipients in the past nine years have been students of Professor Crago. Despite all of this, Professor Laura Crago was denied tenure. To be denied tenure is to be essentially fired; Professor Crago must leave Notre Dame after next year. Notre Dame has prided itself and often boasts that it is committed to undergraduate teaching. In fact, the May 2002 Provost's newsletter remarks, "a distinguished team of external reviewers - including faculty members from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Berkeley- emphasized that ... Notre Dame ... must not neglect the crown jewel, the University's traditional strength in undergraduate education." The present situation leaves us with the following questions for the Dean, the Provost, and the President: • Do you truly care about undergraduate education, "the crown jewel" of Notre Dame? • Do you seek to recognize and reward the selfless dedication of this University's faculty? • Do you want the University's students to achieve success beyond the classroom through the acquisition of grants and fellowships and admission to prestigious post-undergraduate institutions? • Do you believe in the Catholic character of this university, one that is committed to service, concern, and generosity of spirit? Ifyour answer to the above questions is "yes," why did you deny tenure to Professor Laura Crago? As students, parents, alumni, and faculty members, please voice your concern that the university has compromised its commitment to its undergraduates and proved false its rhetoric with this decision to the administration. For Further Information, Please Contact: Katharine Ortega and Phil Tedesco [email protected] and [email protected] Paid for by the Polish Club Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 15 Journalist, Labor secretary speak at Commencements • Tim Russert to address Notre + Sec. of Labor Commencement planning committee that a Saint Dame 2002 graduates Sunday Chao to speak at Mary's student accompany Saint Mary's Chao for the day to repre sent the College. Observer staff report Chao will also deliver the Observer staff report Commencement address at Tim Russert. moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" will Depauw University in address the Notre Dame Class of 2002 as the keynote U.S. Secretary of Labor speaker for Notre Dame's 157th Commencement on Elaine Chao will deliver the Greencastle, Ind., following Sunday. commencement address at her visit to Saint Mary's. During the graduation ceremony. Russert will receive an Saint Mary's on Saturday. As the head of the honorary doctor of law degree along with 11 other hon Chao, Department of Labor, Chao orary degree recipients. A graduate of John Carroll a manages issues such as University, Russert also has a law degree from the native wages and work hours. Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and is a member of the of Tai workplace safety and pen bar in New York and Washington. wan, is sion and health benefits. His career with NBC News began in 1984. Seven years the first Before coming to the later, he joined "Meet the Press," the longest running pro Asian Department of Labor. Chao gram in television history, currently in its 53rd year. He Amer also serves as a political analyst for NBC news programs, was a distinguished fellow Photo courtesy of Kev1n Burl • CONGRATULATIONS LONDOIV PROGRAM STUDENTS in the Class of 2002 . . .. - ~ - :; ... page 16 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, May 17, 2002 Nanni to assume ND expels alleged rapists support Cotter, By HELENA PAYNE new VP position N o t r e said the News Editor Dame" evidence a n d will show • Current vice Advancement and Special Notre Dame expelled four "encour that his Events. former football players age peo client is president of Public Last July, Public Affairs and allegedly involved in a March ple to not guilty Affairs replaces Communication and 28 rape, University come to of raping retiring William University Relations were split spokesman Dennis Moure school the female into two separate divisions, confirmed Wednesday. here." Dykes Crawford student. Sexton and since then, Nanni has Senior Donald Dykes, Respond "We're been involved in developing sophomores Lorenzo ing to the hoping the the four departments that Crawford and Abram Elam, r u m o r prosecutor By HELENA PAYNE emerged out of the restructur and Justin Smith, who was a b o u t will recog News Editor ing. The University has not taking graduate-level classes offers nize that yet decided on the person to while finishing a fifth year of made to and not Lou Nanni, vice president replace Nanni in public affairs athletic eligibility, were all his team charge in for Public Affairs and commu and communication. teammates at one point on the m a t e s the first nication, will replace retiring "Change is never as smooth Notre Dame football team. from other pI ace , " Vice President for University and easy as you'd like it, but I The University's latest deci schools, Elam s a i d Relations William Sexton July believe that it's been in the sion is final and came one Smith Smith Cotter. 1. University's best interest," week after University said that Cotter "I am both excited and hum said Nanni. "I think that in President J:iather Edward the other three students still said Crawford returned home bled by the the long run Malloy reviewed the appeals have options to attend other immediately after he took his n e w that we're submitted by the four stu schools despite the expulsion final exams. which will no responsibil "Change is never as going to be dents after Notre Dame ini from Notre Dame. longer count due to the expul ities," said smooth or easy as you'd m u c h tially expelled the men follow "They can go anywhere in sion. Cotter added that Nanni, who like it, but I believe it's in stronger." ing an April 25 closed discipli the country. They have their Crawford's mother received a was recent Nanni is a nary hearing with Notre choice," Smith said. phone call from the University ly elected the University's best 1984 Notre Dame's Office of Residence Still pending, however, is notifying Crawford that his by the interest. I think that in Dame graduate Life and Housing. the county decision of appeal was rejected. Board of the long run that we're and has been According to Smith's whether or not to file charges Dykes, who would have Trustees. affiliated with lawyer, Tony Zappia, the in response to a 20-year-old graduated this weekend. had After 19 going to be much Notre Dame University reported the deci female student's claim that a prior incident with the years in the stronger." over the years sion to his client Tuesday the four students gang raped police last summer when he position, as a Holy Cross night. her March 28 at a house on was arrested last July for Sexton will Associate in "I confirmed with him last Warrick Street. The case has criminal trespassing. He return to Lou Nanni Santiago, Chile, night that he did receive a been under investigation in pleaded guilty to a misde teaching vice president for Public Affairs a University telephone call from the the prosecutor's office since meanor charge last August full-time as Trustee and University that his appeal has April19. and was placed on probation a manage- the executive been denied," said Zappia Prosecutor Chris Toth is still for six months. ment professor in the director of the Center for the Wednesday. interviewing people related to DeCleene maintained that Mendoza College of Business. Homeless. Smith, who already received the case, which could delay the prosecutor's investigation "It's an understatement to He resides in South Bend a bachelor's degree from the his decision another week, was separate from the Notre say that [Sexton] leaves a big with his wife, Carmen, the University in 2001, said the said Toth's spokesman Randy Dame disciplinary process. pair of shoes to fill," Nanni assistant director of decision will affect him the DeCleene. Dykes' and Elam's attorneys said. International Study Programs least because he had planned "Chris Toth is not going to did not return phone calls Nanni's position will involve and a 1993 graduate. to leave Notre Dame at the make a decision on whether made by The Observer. the direction of four general end of the year. or not to charge the individu areas in University relations: "Notre Dame has to do what als until all his questions are Development, Alumni Contact Helena Payne at it has to do," Smith said,. answered," DeCieene said. Contact Helena Payne at Relations, Internal [email protected]. adding that he would "still Crawford's attorney, Ken [email protected]. Great Japanese food I at great prices. I Cleveland Con1e ioin us for our N j ~ 402 us 31 North lunch specialg! ~ 1/) J\:South Bend, IN 46637 $1.00 off for h.L.TJ.ch !!:' "Ci. X L~ (219) 272-2535 $2.00 ofHor dinner "' B RUN 0 'S Congratulations Graduates Still Accepting Reservations 273-3890 IISTILL THE BEST" Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 17 Linebacker bouncer to launch new Web site time security work. He not By V. VAN GILES only works at the Linebacker, News Wrirer but also as a short-order cook at the Olive Garden Jaime Grayson is a fixture restaurant on Grape Road. He at the Linebacker Lounge, the has worked there for 16 famous Notre Dame bar that years. sports the best Long Island The main joy in his life is iced teas and plays the fight writing and trying to get his song at the end of every publishing company off the night. Grayson is 37 years ground. "I wrote a few things old and stands at a towering as a yo u n.g c h il d ; p I a y s , 6 feet, 7 3/4 inches tall. He scripts and so on," Grayson has lived in South Bend his said. "I would never show it whole life and is known to anyone, but now I feel a throughout the Notre Dame need to get my work out community there as well as having "I am really excited about as advance worked as the work of a bouncer a this project. It has been a anyone who at the long time in the making might need Linebacker and I expect it to be a help." for the past The name of 11 years. great success." his company is Grayson Writing graduated Jaime Grayson Unlimited f r o m linebacker Lounge bouncer Publications. LaSalle His Web site h i g h will be school, and much to the dis launched in the near future. belief of his many friends and "I am really excited about LISA VELTE !The Observer co-workers, he has never this project. It has been a Jaime Grayson, a bouncer at the Linebacker Lounge, is starting a new Web site called Writing played sports. long time in the making and I Unlimited Publications. Grayson is well-known to many students by his job at the Linebacker as "People always ask me if I expect it to be a great suc well as a neighbor to students living in Turtle Creek Apartments. played football, and I tell cess," said Grayson. them, No. They can't get over Grayson only employs seri come in, they are curious "Living at Turtle Creek, the punch at anyone while work this," he said. "My friends ous writers who want to pro about me, and though I am a Linebacker is so close, so my ing here. I don't want people and family are used to it by duce quality work and make private person, I am more friends and I always walk now, but people who frequent money. "Much like the name to be afraid of me. I want than willing to share myself over and immediately say, them to know I'm cool, but I the bar always feel a need to of the company, the writing is with those who are willing to hit me on the shoulder and unlimited, I only want to pub 'Hi' to Jaime upon entering. don't like being referred to as listen with an open mind," There is definitely a great a friendly giant. A lot of peo tell me about their glory days lish quality and interesting Grayson said. on the athletic field." deal more to him than just ple know me as, 'The chief,' work," he said. The Linebacker Lounge is Grayson has three children Grayson has enjoyed his the immense figure standing or 'The Big Samoan Dude.' I one of- if not the most - pop and has had the same girl time at the Linebacker. He in the back with the flash would like to be known sim friend for the past 18 years. views it as a learning experi ular public house in South light. He has many intelligent ply as Jaime." "I like being characterized ence. He admits that he has Bend. "I love the 'Backer, no views on philosophy, politics Grayson plans to continue as a family man," he said. met many interesting and weekend is complete without and social issues," said senior working at the Linebacker "People see me as a big intelligent people along with a late night visit. My friends Ryan Keegan. until he can support himself brute, but I am very much the a great many loudmouths and and I always see Jaime there. Though Grayson works at a completely on his writing same way at work as I am drunks. Walking over and saying loud and crowded bar that enterprise. with my kids, Rachel, Jaime "It has been a hassle deal hello is part of the experience often hosts many supportive and Taylor." ing with inebriated students just like buying a beer and and discouraged Notre Dame Grayson has many other as well as older bar patrons. sweating on the dance floor," fans, he detests violence. Contact V. Van Giles at interests besides his night- I enjoy the students who said senior Patrick Coan. "I have never thrown a [email protected]. the NOTRE DAME CLUB of ------~------ORANGE COUNTY OUTSTANDING CLURA\VARD ('"A"" CLUBS) 2000 NOTRE DAME CLUB OF THE YEAR IQ~I. 1983. 198-l. JQS6 CH.'\RLES F. LENNON. JR. A\VARD OF MERIT FOR SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE IN AlU!'viNI CLUB PERFORf..IANCE 1990 CLLIB PRUUHAtvl EXCELLENCE Jl}~5. J'J87. JQRR. i9SQ_ 1990. 1':>91. J9Q2. !91.).3. i91.J4. J9Q5. 1996. JQlJ7. 1998. 199Q, 2000 SPECIAL CIT.\TJON t'>'J4. 1995. 19~ti. Jll96. 1997. 199S. 1999. 201lll THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF ORANGE COUNTY CONGRATULATES THE CLASS OF 2002 Best wishes to our Orange County graduating seniors: Keith Anderson Joseph Collins Nathaniel DeNicola Nicholas Fonte Gina Gajdos Christopher Gonzalez Natalie Hallett Allison Henisey Katherine Henze Kristen Larsen Alison Lasseter Michael McNair Mayra Mendoza Elisabeth Parker Robert Pazornik Hilary Poan Kathryn Prizio Laura Sobchik Thank you for helping out at Matthew Strickroth Marcos Suarez Aaron Talarico David Turner Nina Vaughan Melissa Vincent The Career Center! Hillary Wozniak We appreciate your time and Best wishes to our Orange County graduate students receiving degrees too! efforts, and will miss you terribly!!! Please plan on joining us for our "Class of 2002 Graduation Celebration" beach party and BBQ to be held on June 22"d. Check our website at www.ndcoc.com Congrats to: for more details on this and all of our other exciting activities, including happy hours, community service opportunities, and athletic events. Matt Brewer Elizabeth Jackson Moving to Southern California after graduation? Let us know - Kristen Corcoran Crystal Nobles send an e-mail to mike(ii)ndcoc.com. Kristin Devaney Mary Schreck We look forward to meeting you! Quynh Ha Casey Wendeln P.O. BOX 7191. ORANGE. CALIFORNIA 92863 Robyn Humphrey VOICE MAIL TEL: 17141 5b3-6321 ------~ THE OBSERVER VIEWPOINT page 18 Friday, May 17, 2002 THE OBSERVER P.O. Box Q, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 EDITOR IN CHIEF Jason McFarley MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Kate Nagengast Kevin Ryan AsST. MANAGING EDITOR OPERATIONS MANAGER Andrew Soukup Bob Woods NEWS EDITOR: Helena Payne VIEWPOINT EDITOR: Lauren Beck SPORTS EDITOR: Chris Federico SCENE EDITOR: C. 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Women in formal dress observer.smc.l @nd.edu love it or you Senior Staff College was fun, but it left some es, men in cowboy hats, couples in PHOT0 ...... 631-8767 don't. If you love Writer thing to be desired. jeans and sneakers, girls with boas SYSTEMS/WEB ADMINISTRATORS ...... 631-8839 it, you're addict Then I learned how to live. and guys in shorts mix together hav ed, and if you're I didn't even notice it occurring. I'm ing fun without worrying what the THE OBSERVER ONLINE addicted, chances are you've got not even sure its catalyst; maybe I man across the room thinks. The Visit our Web site at http:lloburver.nd.~du for daily things pretty well figured out, even if just grew tired of the unconscious dance floor is usually so packed, you updates of campus news, sports, features and opinion can't see beyond the person in front columns, as well as cartoons, reviews and breaking news you haven't realized it yet. acting, the dancing out of sync with from The Associated Press. Unlike other student-favorite hang the music in my head. of you, even if you tried. There are no outs, the 'Backer doesn't call for The inevitable process of growing expectations, no stares, no judg SURF TO: women to dress up in their tightest apart with my instant freshman ments. People come to be themselves weather for up-to-the movies/music for friends occurred during my sopho and be with their friends. They don't minute forecasts weekly student reviews pairs of black pants and skimpiest tops; it doesn't ask men to tuck their more year, leaving me with two come to show off or put on an act. advertise for policies online features for spe shirts into their freshly-ironed khakis choices: I could continue to be the And that's how life should be. and rates of print ads cial campus coverage and comb their hair. It simply asks person I had thought I should be, or I The things I have learned in college them to come and have a good time. could be the person I wanted to be. have been priceless. archives to search for about The Observer There is no viewing deck and there is I chose to be myself. My academic pursuits have been articles published after to meet the editors and no stage; people don't come to watch, And in that moment it happened. more than rewarding and my degree August 1999 staff they come to live. I realized true friends were the is invaluable. I spent half of my college experi ones who liked me in jeans and a But the one lesson I will walk away POLICIES ence watching. sweatshirt, not those who thought with in my heart is that living doesn't The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper My best friends were the ones geo black pants and high heels should be occur in the quest to be accepted. published in print and online by the students of the graphically closest to me, not the typical Monday night attire. They It doesn't thrive in the attempt to University of Notre Dame duLac and Saint Mary's ones I had the most in common with weren't the ones who I hung out with do things the way others would. College. Editorial content, including advertisements, is or those who challenged or intrigued because I was looking for someone to And it doesn't happen when you nor governed by policies of the administration of either me the most. I had friendships of talk to, but the ones who I couldn't think about it too much. institution. 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I put on my cutest outfit and hit the mates' approval of or participation in And it is dancing no matter who is Commentaries, letters and columns present the views random dorm party on Friday night, the activities I took part in or the looking. of the authors and not necessarily those ofThe looking for the ice-cold trash can of groups I joined; real friends needn't Observer. Natty Light. be attached at the hip. Kerry Smith is a graduating senior Viewpoint space is available to all readers. The free I wore my pajamas to the dining I found studying didn't have to be a and former Assistant Managing expression of all opinions through letters is encouraged. hall and turned a meal into a social social event. In fact, if it wasn't it Editor. Letters to the Editor must be signed and must include event, gossiping with section mates went a lot faster. 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Service writer Katie McVoy Brian Pucevich 8% ------~------~------~ THE OBSERVER VIEWPOINT Friday, May 17, 2002 page 19 Saying the hardest goodbye Wrapped in a dark gray hooded sweatshirt, chin taking long walks around a tree-lined campus. In minute car ride, I am terrified of leaving the place length brown hair swinging back and forth around college we dream of the future, sometimes boldly, where I constructed who I've become. But if I can my face and tears sticking to my cheeks in wet trails, other times tentatively, picturing ourselves working put aside that fear, throw away that apprehension, I I held my stepbrother tightly when I said goodbye to a dream job in a dream location. know that college will have been about more than him four years ago. I wouldn't let go as I began to But when we actually get to the next step, the next just a step. I want to walk away from college know sob harder, suddenly not wanti step we've spent our lives working toward, that tran ing not to be scared of life and embrace the next ng to leave home. sition is never comfortable, never easy. When we step rather than mourn the one I've left "Come on, now," he said to me, arrive, we wish we could stay at the step behind. trying to get me to stop my tears. we've completed, because it's always easy I don't know if that's happened. I My vision was becoming blurry to stay in what we've mastered. guess I'll know when I look my puddles of tears, impossible to I learned quickly when I came to col best friend in the eye to say the see through. I didn't want to cry. lege that scared or not, life will keep hardest goodbye. I will know I was the girl who was leaving going. I could either hang on or hang when the tears start puddling home and never coming back, back, lamenting the phase I'd left, in my eyes, causing my vision who was going places no one or grabbing the new one head on. I to blur and tear tracks to run had ever been and no one Noreen went to classes and parties, met paths down my cheeks. I will would dare to go. That girl, I Gillespie friends and boyfriends and dedi know when I'm told not to told myself, never cried. But cated my time to writing stories in cry and I won't be able to right then, in the pre-dawn a basement with an obsessed pas stop, letting four years of hours of my first day of college, Senior Staff sion for the newspaper. And one this last step cascade in a with bags packed and waiting Writer day, I woke up and realized that I waterfall of tears. I know downstairs, I would do any- was in the next step, that I had I'm going to do it. But if I thing not to leave home. completely left the last one and I can stop by the time I pull my I cried that morning because I was scared about loved where I was. car onto I-80 east to begin the what came next. I cried because I was afraid of leav Saturday, I will walk away from car ride to the next phase in ing the friends who knew me best, leaving the family college with a degree under one arm my life, I'll know I've cried that had raised me and leaving everything I knew. I and a car packed full of dorm remnants. because it's over, not because I spent my life working toward the next step, and now I will leave with volumes of photo albums want to stay. that it had come, I didn't want to be there. In the 18 and CD mixes, books from classes and a sup years I had spent constructing that girl who was ply of college T -shirts to last the rest of my life. I Noreen Gillespie is a graduating senior going to leave home and never come back, I had for will leave with boxes full of artifacts from this step in at Saint Mary's College and former Managing gotten to consider what happened when-she actually my life, doomed to a fate of a storage box in my attic Editor. She will return to Connecticut to work for The existed. at home, found years from now under clouds of dust Associated Press following graduation, and plans to We spend our lives working toward the next step. bunnies. make the best time ever on the 712-mile road trip In grade school we dream of high school, wearing a I hope I leave with more. I am terrified, even more back east, hopefully avoiding speeding tickets. varsity jacket, going to prom. In high school we than in high school, about leaving this step. I am ter The views expressed in this column are those of the dream of college, living in a dorm, going to classes, rified of not having my best friends within a five- author and not necessarily those of The Observer. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Graduation brings freedom to choose I think I slipped through the cracks. I Student Affairs in order to be excused Dame must accept the idea that some of ficult, yet independent, decisions. Notre transferred into Notre Dame as a con while I am away at the funeral? I was its students can and will choose to follow Dame fails to recognize the maturity of its firmed, believing Catholic. I expected required. I guess there is a possibility that their own beliefs as far as their over student body as well as its independence, challenges that encourage intellectual I could've been lying because I hadn't priced meal plans and faith journeys are seeking to institutionalize its students in a growth, spiritual progression and matura done my homework. Student Affairs was concerned. Those of us who have cave that doesn't even reflect the real tion. What I found proved to be disheart there to check on me and keep me in line. received the sacrament of Confirmation world. ening. Give me a break. are seen as adults in the eyes of the Thanks, Notre Dame. Thank you for Coming from the University of Furthermore, one might imagine Roman Catholic Church, but are holding my hand through my academic Michigan, I looked for conservatism, that Notre Dame would be an we really left to make deci career. You were always there to make Catholicism and intelligence. Before ideal place for a practicing sions that reflect such a sure I went to class. The comfort of TCEs thinking of the Wolverines as your mortal Catholic to pursue an edu status? allows me to sleep at night. Thank you for enemy, consider the idea that the stu cation, but I submit to Parietals suck. They making the holes in Catholic teaching far dents of that university are just as eager you that this is not the suck because they more evident. Thanks for imposing your and driven as Notre Dame students, case. Instead-of continue to deprive beliefs and ideals into my life while I am despite a conflict that involves football of deciding for our students of the left stranded without a choice. What will I all useless scenarios for comparison. selves the way in right to make do after graduation when I am confronted In spite of U.S. News and World Report which our sound, adult with an issue and du Lac no longer rankings that judge Notre Dame among Catholic faith decisions. applies? How will all of the Catholics who the top-20 universities in the country may shape our Catholics are graduating keep themselves from eat (above Michigan), I will submit to you that lives, we are should know ing meat on Fridays during Lent without Notre Dame is losing in its pursuit of forced from the by the time the help of the dining halls? becoming more academically challenging. moment we they enter col I guess now that we are graduating we Ever heard that while the hardest grade arrive to accept lege that pre are mature enough to handle these choic to achieve at Notre Dame is an A, an F the Catholic marital sex es. Too late. The last several years here ranks as the second-hardest? Believe it. teaching goes against have made me realize that I do not want Why do we bother to fill out TCEs? Look imposed by the traditional to be a Catholic. I want the freedom to at NDToday.com and see how many administration. teaching, so make my own choices about the way in incompetent professors remain available Deciding that why is there a which I will live my life. Life, after all, is for classes next semester. Why would it non-Catholics rule? Arguing our most precious asset; treat it as such be necessary for students to have their may attend Notre that parietals because, no matter what your faith, this own outlet for teacher evaluations if the Dame. the admin increase com life is all that we are guaranteed. administration were concerned with stu istration sets the fort for some stu I leave you with words of Bob Marley: dent input on teacher performance and table for diversity dents by offering a "Most people think great God will come education? It makes sense that our school and discussion, but single-sex living from the sky, take away everything, and has recently introduced an increased ded the sad fact remains environment is ludi make everybody feel high. But if you ication toward research while employing that we are left hungry crous. All of the dorms know what life is worth, you would look those with publishing credentials. The at the table -literally. do not have to be co-ed. for yours on earth. And now you see the actual learning and feedback of the stu Whether or not red meat Those students who favor light. you stand up for your right, yeah." I dents is overlooked. appeals to the student body, we parietals and a single-sex implore you to ask questions, be yourself "You had better come to class, Mike, or should have a right to eat it on any environment should be allowed to and live for what you are -not for what you will face the penalty of losing 3 points day we please, regardless of liturgical choose their housing restrictions just as you hope. One love. for an unexcused absence." Sound famil season. Why not offer Catholic teaching those who want a realistic setting may opt iar? I am not sure about you, but I consid but, at the same time, offer a choice? If for co-educational living arrangements. Nick Linstroth ered unexcused absences ridiculous in the University intends to offer multiple There comes a point in a parent's life semor high school. If a relative dies, I am points of view by admitting culturally and when one must rely on nurture and virtue Alumni Hall required to get a note from the Office of religiously diverse students, then Notre to guide offspring through a course of dif- May 14,2002 ..------ THE OBSERVER VIEWPOINT page 20 Friday, May 17, 2002 Notre Dame defines memories In my swan song, (final exam here at tinues to progress, similar to, but differ day that petrified the most powerful leave a place that has most definitely Notre Dame). I was asked to read an ent from the way it did before. But, the nation in the world. These and 100 nurtured us. and the rude awakening article from a magazine called "The progression ensues and people move other memories will line my mind when that looms ahead is scary. Commonwheel" by a writer named Bob forward. I think back on my senior year of col In the outside world, there aren't peo Greene and to discuss how writers like For me, I'll remember 2001 and sub lege at Notre Dame. ple who will care deeply for your well Henry David sequently the start of 2002 as my The truth is that for the gradu being. There certainly won't be a com Thoreau and Walt Joe Larson senior year at Notre Dame. I'll ating class of 2002, our last munity to join together in an attempt to Whitman would remember time spent with four years have been make sense of such an unprecedented perceive the ter friends accumulated over most succinctly defined turn of events as Sept. 11. rorist attacks of Senior four years. I'll remember by this University. This year was my senior year of col Sept. 11. Columnist tailgating in the rain When we think lege and it will be marked by many In this article, a before the West about the things things, but the most important mark recap of 2001, Virginia football game. that have hap will be left by the place I've spent the Greene reminds us I'll remember a pened in the last last four years. That place has been the that the year 2001 in America will be hodge-podge group four years. most University of Notre Dame. and for that marked by personal experience, not by of guys who, in no likely. those indelible mark I'll be forever grateful. the attacks on the Twin Towers in New way affiliated with things have The things I've learned both in the York or the Pentagon in Washington. this University, occurred in the classroom and out have shaped me into Greene asserts that babies were born, wiped the floor with context of a better person than I would have oth family members passed away, career Bowling Green's Notre Dame. erwise been able to become. changes happened and that all these men's club hockey We've laughed, My goal here is not to sound sappy, are the memories that will most likely team. I'll remember cried, celebrat but to try to express my gratitude for a stand out to the majority of Americans driving 22 hours ed and place I dreamed about attending, and when they reminisce about the year from South Bend to mourned as part then was able to attend. For this, I con 2001. Sanibel, Fla. and I'll of a community. sider myself lucky. I hope that my fel This by no means belittles the loss especially remember And now, by low graduates will acknowledge the and pain that our country felt on Sept. the 26-hour drive from graduating, we mark of this place and also carry its 11, no matter if you knew someone or the southern-most remain a part of tradition with them wherever they go. were far removed from anyone who point in the United the community, but Congratulations, class of 2002, and experienced the attacks at all. The States back here one week a level removed. God love thee, Notre Dame. point is that each personal experience after that. There's a hint of is different, and there will be a lot of I'll remember walking down apprehension that accom Joe Larson is a senior English and people who will remember 2001 as the stairs in my apartment on Sept. panies no longer being at the history major. He will be pursuing his year they met their husband or wife or 11 on my way to class and seeing my heart of this community. Although master offine arts in fiction writing bought their first house or went to their roommates huddled around the televi it has its problems and its overprotec next year at Bowling Green State first baseball game. And these are sion watching one of the Twin Towers tive tendencies, some of those feelings University. things that will matter the most. Even collapse. I'll remember that same after add a hint of security to a world that The views expressed in this column in the midst of such a horrifying and noon when my University banded may not always feel or even turn out to are those of the author and not neces harrowing disaster as Sept. 11, life con- together in prayer and reflection on the be that way. As graduating seniors, we sarily those of The Observer. Following a feminist path EXCERPTS FROM PAST ISSUES My four years at Notre Dame have for an hour or so. taught me more than I could ever As soon as I told my dad that I didn't Campus reacts to squeeze into a final column. From the think women should be priests, he ques immigrant experience of the Irish to the tioned why. Stuck in my 5-year-old philosophies of ancient Chinese scholars, Barbie haze, I don't think I gave him a I've gained a worldly satisfactory answer. But the fact that I Sept. II attacks experience worth still remember that brief exchange today more than the hefty means that he really got me thinking. A sense of horrifying dread set in. People had been injured and killed: tuition. With the best Once I arrived at Notre Dame, I revis people just like me with problems and dreams and families. The casualties friends of my life and ited my dad's question time and time of the attack were not soldiers sent with an understanding of combat and a the boyfriend of my again. Why can't women be priests? willingness to die. The casualties were people who had rolled out of bed, dreams. I know I'll What about our "nature" makes us maybe hit the snooze button a couple times and traveled to work under a never be alone unsuitable for the job? What about a blue sky like they had every day ... thanks to Notre man's character makes him the only I realized the broad implications of the attack when I heard commenta Dame. I am so potential candidate? Even though Notre tors discussing America's precious balance of civil liberties and security grateful for these Maureen Dame is a strictly Catholic campus, I still as though the price of freedom had just increased exponentially. four years. Smithe found the opportunity to rigorously The most impor question the doctrine of my faith. In Eric Long tant thing I learned such questioning I found the solace I Senior Staff senior at Notre Dame. never knew I longed for. Viewpoint columnist however, is that I Writer I hope that someday women like me Sept. 12, 200 I am a feminist and I will feel fully welcome in the Catholic never even knew it. Church. Yes. I do believe that general As the whole campus sang the Alma Mater with arms around their neigh One professor in particular. Heidi differences between the sexes exist, but bors, the sense of community radiated out and blew me away. Ardizzone, encouraged me to recognize that doesn't mean one is better suited This is what Notre Dame is all about. The togetherness and unity in our who I am and what my capabilities are. for the task than the other. All people University cannot be matched anywhere else ... To me, being a feminist means that I should find appropriate and fair repre All that I thought was safe and a constant in my life has suddenly been have the right and obligation to create a sentation and leadership in the Church. questioned. The only thing I can do is to turn to my Lord. In this time of life's path in whatever direction my spir By welcoming women into the priest trouble and turmoil, the Lord is the one we must turn to. He is that one that it moves me. I shouldn't have to feel hood, many wandering feminists such as can shine light into the darkness. He did not cause this destruction - trapped. myself could find resolution to their humans did through free choice, but He can bring great things out of it. I remember when I was little - no questions. older than five or six - and my dad was Whel) I have daughters of my own Paul Sifuentes watching the nightly news. Playing with someday, I'll be sure to ask them the freshman my Barbies or my kitchen set, I was same question my dad asked me when I Alumni Hall oblivious to the forces changing the was little. I want them to question the Sept. 13,2001 world that night. Looking back, I assume norms and fight for what they know is a story about women in the priesthood right. Military force is the only viable response available to us. came on. All I remember. however, is And I want them to come to Notre I'm no warmonger. A war is horrible for everyone involved. But some my dad asking me if I thought women Dame. times the cause of peace can only be advanced by war. should be allowed to be priests. And I This is not about revenge; it's about bringing criminals to justice and pre said no. Maureen Smithe is a graduating venting further crimes. My young mind at the time had never senior and a former Associate News even thought of having a woman as a Editor. She will work as a buyer for MikeZodda priest; I had never been exposed to that Abercrombie & Fitch after graduation. sophomore idea. Our weekly trips to church consist The views expressed in this column Alumni Hall ed of my sisters and I trying our best to are those of the author and not neces Sept. 18, 200 I behave ourselves while some man talked sarily those of The Observer. THE OBSERVER VIEWPOINT Friday, May 17, 2002 page 21 EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies Should a Catholic Tragedy confirms university host ROTC? Notre Dame family exists ROTC students, as well as pre-med students, will most likely face decisions New students are bombarded with somewhat cheesy talk about the "Notre Dame with life-or-death consequences someday. While moral education is important family" and the "spirit of Notre Dame." To me, this talk seemed rather hollow ... I for all students, it seems clear to me that it is absolutely crucial for these stu had not yet been enveloped in the "spirit," as it was called. I would not be for almost dents, who will hold so many lives in their hands. Any university would be negli two years, until three weeks ago, when we learned that my good friend Conor gent in not providing a moral education for ROTC students, and a Catholic uni Murphy, a Zahm Hall resident, has leukemia. versity would be negligent in not providing a Catholic moral education, especial Although my realization of the Notre Dame family is just one of many latent effects ly since just-war theory is so clearly defined and so tailored to ROTC students' of this horrible news, it is an important and a comforting one. At home in Cleveland future careers. over spring break, I was able to visit Conor in the hospital and witness firsthand the strength he draws from his connection to Notre Dame. Sheila Payne Letters and cards, many of them from people somehow connected with Notre junior Dame, brighten the walls of Con or's room ... Cavanaugh Hall There is a sense of community and family at our school that is hard to find else April 28, 2002 where. I hope you don't have to go through hard times to appreciate it. Maybe you will never find it. But know it's out there if you ever need it. In our society there exist many injustices that will go unchecked without the power of a just military ... Katie Sanders That is the very reason we need ROTC at this school. We need to have people sophomore with morals who will give those orders and have the will to disobey unjust Farley Hall ones ... March 29, 2000 ROTC at Notre Dame is essential to ensure that the future leaders of our mili tary will conduct war in a just manner with Christian values guiding their deci I have never been so proud to be a part of the Notre Dame community as I am sions. today. The way that students have responded to one of our own in need is overwhelming. John Dues I stood today in LaFortune and felt tears sting my eyes as I saw how many students freshman came to show their support for Conor Murphy. Dillon Hall I want to thank everyone who came today to show their love and support for a fel April 25, 2000 low Notre Dame student. I thank God that I am here among so many wonderful peo ple. We should all be proud of the Notre Dame family today. Amber Holleman sophomore Administration must reach Lyons Hall March 29, 2000 out to homosexual students When we learned of the policy implemented by the administration of systematic discrimination against any advertisements from GAI.A, our hearts were deeply sad Students beg: 'Dump Davie' dened and angered ... Where is the justice in censoring an ad that congratulated gay and lesbian stu In light of the recent losses by the My point is that whenever someone dents upon their graduation? What is it that makes this university scared to allow Notre Dame football team, I felt com is hired for a job, they were hired to free inquiry of ideas? And why can a group of gay students not assemble while non pelled to rewrite the lyrics to a Blink do a job. I am not saying that ethics, Catholic religious groups are invited to gather? We beg to know what differentiates 182 song called "What's My Age integrity and morality mean nothing; us from any other student group on campus ... Again?" they are important for every job, Besides being a censorious act of questionable nature, this is a concrete example I ran 'em out, it was a Saturday, I especially in the accounting and med of why the administration refused to guarantee the legal protection of the rights of wore headphones, so I could call the ical industries, and Notre Dame foot gay, lesbian and bisexual people here at Notre Dame. It is clear that this university plays. We started playing well, we had ball. However, no matter how ethical, is not one which is prepared to stand up for the rights of its gay people. almost scored, but then I called the last moral and good of a person you We, yet again, feel out of place and awkward being active in an institution which time out ... are, you should not be hold proscribes ads from the alumni club which will one day likely be our own. This is a And that's about the time we ing those jobs if you can't clear violation of the Spirit of Inclusion's promises. We are excluded. lost because of me. Nobody add numbers, can't prop loves you when you're Bob erly diagnose diseases L. Matthew Blancett Davie. And you still coach like and can't be eligible sophomore it's your first year here. for and can't win bowl Morrissey Manor Where the hell's my passing games. Sept. 10, 1999 game, the crowd says I Some have said should lose my job ... that Notre Dame Where's my job again? preaches and should Where's my job again? preach that charac And later on, on the bus ter and integrity are Let students choose home, I called Scholastic more important than Allow 21-year-old students to drink alcohol while tailgating, no matter the tailgat from a cell phone. I said it wins and losses. No, ing "sponsor." On the whole, Notre Dame students are pretty responsible. Allow was Bob and we had lost they don't preach those of us who are legal to support our storied football program and have a good again, but this time only by that, and no, they time doing it. After all, in less than a year we will be in the real world, and I think a yard ... shouldn't preach that ideal. Rather, they we would benefit from learning for ourselves to make wise decisions regarding alco And that's about the time should preach and do hol ... they all gave up on me. Nobody loves you when you're Bob preach that character and Without our student body, what would Notre Dame be? ... The University needs to integrity are integral, vital grant us the courtesy and leniency needed for us to develop as members of society Davie. You choose to punt when you have one to go, What the hell is and fundamental parts of win during the course of our four years here. To be ready for the real world, students ning and success. By firing Mr. Davie make choices, and sometimes make mistakes. Above all, most schools recognize that special teams? The crowd says I should they only supported these fundamen part of college life is in being free to explore who we are ... lose my job ... Where's my job again? Where's my tal ideals that are foundational to this The Notre Dame traditions of family and faith will never die, but unless we make job again? institution. our voices heard, the independent spirit of our student body may soon fade away. Danica Skeoch Edward Prusiecki Matthew Smith sophomore semor sen10r Breen-Phillips Hall Alumni Hall off campus Sept. 19, 1999 Dec. 6,2001 Nov. 26, 200 1 ------ THE OBSERVER rs page 22 Friday, May 17, 2002 This is the cl he will spend one week at the Mary Knoll priest What makes the David School stand out in Zajac's Scene Staff Report house attending a tutorial for teaching English. Prall eyes is its approach to education. Founded over 20 will then be assigned to a post either near North years ago, the David School provides an alternative This Sunday as Notre Dame graduates its 1,872 Korea or in southern China where he will spend four for disadvantaged youths who have fallen through seniors, it will scatter a group who have shared an weeks administrating an intensive teaching course to the cracks of the public education system. The pri experience. Though each has understood, dealt, grade school and high school students, before vate school runs on donations and volunteer labor come to terms with and loved the University in a dif returning to the novitiate in Cascade, Co., to take his and provides a close, family-like atmosphere for its ferent way, for a moment, they all will share a piece first vows. students from grades 8 to 12. of their lives with each other. And even though they Though Prall is aware that his life as a student "It's a non-traditional approach to education, but it will all walk different paths, they can all say that varied greatly from that of most of the people he will works," Zajac said. they are the class of 2002. This is who the class of be graduating with on Sunday, he is proud of his Volunteers from Notre Dame spend their time at 2002 was. This is who the class of 2002 will be. And choice and the path he has followed. the David School working one-on-one with the stu this is the class of 2002. "I've never had any doubts," Prall said. dents and pitching in on maintenance projects around the school. Over her many visits Zajac has Devout Dedicated formed friendships with the students, and it was this This is what defines dedication to faith: every This is why Lauren Zajac sense community that made morning of his undergraduate career, Tom Prall rose doesn't regret not spending her Zajac want to give more in ser early to attend a prayer service at 7:15 a.m. At least freshman year spring break on vice to the David School. once each day of his college life, Prall attended the beaches of Florida like so 'Tve become committed to "I always knew I wanted to do Mass. His days at Notre Dame were unlike those of many of her classmates: she service [post-graduation]. After most students. went instead to a poor rural social justice because the my first time at David School, I As a member of Old College, Notre Dame's pro town in eastern Kentucky and University has made it hard for just knew it was right," Zajac gram for undergraduate men considering a vocation ended up falling in love with a me, as an activist, to justify my said. "I fell in love with the as a Holy Cross priest or brother, Prall lived his faith place called the David School, place, and I kept coming back to the fullest. where she'll now be spending a beliefs and my convictions and to make sure." "My college experience was very different than year of service after graduation. through that opposition they've Eventually she decided to other undergrads," Prall said. "I followed a different As one of the experiential ser made me more of an activist. " return to the school as a full path where God was calling me at such an early age vice seminars run by the Center time volunteer. Zajac will begin and I'm glad to have had that seriousness in my for Social Concerns, the as the school's science teacher life." Appalachian Seminar program Krista Schoening this fall and hopes to stay on While many students filled their free time with sends hundreds of Notre Dame senior for two academic years. She parties and socializing, Prall spent his time helping and Saint Mary's students each will also be working with the out with various community programs and forming fall and spring break to sites female students in a women's close bonds with other members of the seminary and throughout the impoverished studies class and supervising the Holy Cross Congregation. Appalachian region. The students volunteer in vari college volunteers groups like those from Notre Prall helped out at the Circle K soup kitchen and ous ways, from building homes to visiting the elder Dame who come to the school throughout the year. frequently visited retired Brothers at the Dujarie ly, and some like Zajac even find that the experience Volunteers like Zajac are essential to the David house. Since November he has spent two evenings changes them forever. School. "It's important for the kids to have role mod per week with an ailing patient as a Hospice volun Since her first trip to David School in 1999, Zajac els and mentors close to their age, so they can see teer. Two evenings per week were also devoted to has returned to the site at least once a year and that they can succeed," Zajac said. dinners with other seminarians, brothers and even joined the Appalachian Task Force to become Zajac will be part of one of the largest groups of fathers. even more actively involved in the program. "I felt a full-time volunteers the school has seen in recent Not only was Prall's undergraduate experience special connection with the David School," Zajac years. After her time at the David School, Zajac unique, his future plans are equally out of the ordi said. "I believed strongly in what they were doing." hopes to work in the field of environmental justice, nary. In July, Prall will leave for Hong Kong where drawing on what she has seen and experienced throughout her time in Appalachia. "The Appalachia program and other CSC programs were an absolutely integral part of my time at Notre Dame," said Zajac. "The emphasis on service is one ,":'',:,'itt, ..,;.rat, of the best things about ND. When I talk to my friends at bigger state schools, I realize that oppor tunities for service just aren't fostered there." Zajac is not alone in her sentiments or in her plans for next year. Each year, approximately 10 percent of Notre Dame's graduating class commits to one or more years of full-time service in the United States or abroad. Programs like the Alliance for Catholic Education and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps attract many seniors considering service, but some like Zajac strike out on their own and find the service opportunity which is right for them. "I can't wait to get back to the David School this fall," said Zajac. "It's just such a special place." Reminiscent This is who the class of 2002 will remember. Miranda Thomas, Brionne Clary and Conor Murphy, all members of the class of 2002, died of leukemia during their undergraduate years. Thomas lived in Walsh Hall during her freshman year at Notre Dame, but remained at the University only one month before discovering that she was sick. She returned home to Sturgis, Ky., for treatment, but passed away during the summer of 1999. Residents of Walsh say they clearly remember her friendly nature and smile. Clary, an "enthusiastic" mechanical engineering student from Tyler, Texas, and an active participant in interhall basketball was re-diagnosed with leukemia approximately one week before the begin Senior Krista Schoening (left) and junior Jenny Stahl at Schoening's first attendance of the Dhra' pre-pot ning of the fall 2000 semester after going into remis tery Neolithic-A excavation in Jordan. In late July, Schoening will travel to Israel and Palestine to work for sion during high school. She passed away Sept. 20, a human rights organization. 2000. THE OBSERVER rs Friday, May 17, 2002 page 23 ss of 2001 ... After his condition inspired 610 people to join the favorite place on campus. They sat and casually dis attempt to join human rights workers for a year in National Marrow Donor Program in an on-campus cussed plans for an upcoming ski trip. Just when Israel and Palestine. Though Schoening loves the sci drive during March 2000, Murphy developed pneu O'Neill got up to continue walking, Friedman told entific side of anthropology in archeology, Schoening monia that compromised his immune system. her to wait and got down on one knee. feels that her experience at Notre Dame has given Murphy was remembered as a "fun loving guy with Following a time-honored Notre Dame tradition, he her a larger passion: cultural anthropology. strong faith" after he died on Jan. 31, 2001. pulled out the ring and asked O'Neill to marry him. ''I've become committed to social justice because All three students are honored in an annual Clary Although -the couple had talked about marriage, the University has made it hard for me, as an Murphy-Thomas Run. In 2001 the race raised more O'Neill hadn't been expecting a proposal so soon and activist, to justify my beliefs and my convictions and than $5,000 for leukemia research. On-campus mar her speechlessness eventually provoked a worried through that opposition they've made me more of an row drives and memorial masses have also contin "Are you going to answer me?" But the ring that activist," said Schoening. ued in their honor. now shines on her finger proves that the rest is his But Schoening doesn't feel that her interest in tory. human rights work is merely a reaction to University Creative The couple will be married in the Basilica on Oct. doctrine. Schoening, a four-year member of the This is a day that is long overdue for Rachel Jones. 19. It will be a true Domer wedding; O'Neill's father University's Amnesty International chapter and a The 24-year-old Department of and grandfather both attended Notre Dame, as did participant in other campus activist groups such as Film, Television and Theatre Friedman's twin brother Scott, the Progressive Student Alliance and the Peace major (theatre concentration) his younger brother and many Coalition, feels that her views are also in synthesis other relatives. with a campus that strongly supports the ideals she has completed her degree six "/followed a different path years after matriculating at the After the wedding, they will works for, in spirit at least. University. The South Bend where God was calling me at live in Boston where Friedman Schoening plans to arrive in the Middle East in late native will be joining the Detroit such an early age and rm glad will finish medical school and July, but has no definite program to work with yet touring chapter of the improvi O'Neill looks to begin graduate because communication with human rights organi to have had that seriousness in studies. What she won't be zations in the area has been disrupted by the war. sational comedy group Second my life.,, City as an understudy. doing is returning home to Schoening believes that she can help the situation by When Jones entered the Midland, Texas, thus fulfilling a spreading her experience of commitment to social University she never dreamed Tom Prall prophecy from long ago: when justice by interacting with and listening to the vic O'Neill was just five, her moth tims of the war. she would be joining Second senior City. In fact, she had never had er's childhood friend admon- Schoening plans to stay for a year and eventually any stage or acting experience. ished her, "No matter what you would like to get her physical doctorate in anthro She originally wanted to be a do, do not let her go to Notre pology. She admits that she is a bit scared of her pharmacist. But when a friend asked her to audition Dame. She will meet a boy upcoming work in Israel and Palestine, but she is for a play, "The Colored Museum," during her from Connecticut and never come back to Texas." more afraid that she will be unable to handle a new sophomore year, Jones was hooked and dropped her In the world of Notre Dame romances, things or tense situation than of becoming a casualty of the troubled and floundering pre-medical program. sometimes just work out that way. war herself. Jones took a year and a half off from the University "I don't know how I can hurt the situation," to regroup after troubled grades. Living close to Conscientious Schoening said. "It's so bad I don't think I can make home had made it easy for Jones to shirk her This is not what Krista Schoening imagined she a difference [as an individual] positive or negative. I responsibilities. But the time away gave Jones the would become when she stepped onto the Notre don't kid myself." perspective she needed to return and complete her Dame campus four years ago. The 22-year-old, who C. Spencer Beggs, Amanda Greco, Laura Kelly education. double-majored in anthropology and Spanish, and Kate Nagengast contributed to the article. "I wish I would have known that having fun all the entered the University a confused freshman hoping Contact C. Spencer Beggs at [email protected], time shouldn't have been my main goal," Jones said. she had made the right decision and will leave a Amanda Greco at [email protected], "I wish I didn't have to take that year and a half off, confident woman hoping she can make a difference. Laura Kelly at [email protected] and Kate Nagengast but it made me realize how much the education real In July, after she participates in the Dhra' pre-pot at nagengast.3@nd. edu. ly meant to me." tery Neolithic-A excavation in Jordan she will Jones hopes to eventually act on "Saturday Night Live" or work behind the scenes at a movie or music production company. She is glad that FTT has given her the opportunity to express herself and feels that she is more mature leaving the University than when she came in. "I think the whole experience at Notre Dame with the people and culture and lack of diversity some times is a real eye-opener," Jones said. Committed This is why Casey O'Neill is glad she went to Farley's Freshman "Disorientation" in Keough Hall during her first week at Notre Dame: she met her future husband. When asked if she ever thought she'd end up with the typical Notre Dame romance, O'Neill laughs and says no, remembering back to that first week of freshman year when she told one of her friends that there was no way she was looking for a boyfriend. But things soon began to change after the fateful "Dis-0" party where she met Kevin Friedman, then a junior pre-med major from New Milford, Conn. The two began hanging out and attending Mass together. O'Neill credits Father Poorman's daily Masses in Keough with, not only bring she and Kevin closer, but ultimately giving them the priest who will celebrate their wedding. The couple dated through out Friedman's time at Notre Dame and stayed together when he headed to Harvard Medical School after graduating in 2000. Friedman's unexpected visit to campus this November brought more than just the surprise of sharing another football weekend together. On Photo courtesy of Casey O'Neill Sunday afternoon the couple strolled around the Kevin Friedman '00 (left) and Casey O'Neill are engaged and will be married in the Basilica on Oct. 19. The lake, as was their habit, and eventually came to the couple met at Farley Hall's freshman "Disorientation" four years ago. Friedman proposed to O'Neill by Saint bench in front of Carroll Hall; it was O'Neill's Mary's Lake. "::.{"' ..,..,."-- ·yr- FOOTBALL MEN'S BASKETBALL Secondary weakened as Peterkin selects Irish Malloy upholds decision never know what's going to happen," By ANDREW SOUKUP Brey said. "This is a great example of a Sports Writer While coaches refuse to discuss guy coming out of the woodwork. and By ANDREW SOUKUP you can't analyze him. In recruiting, anything related to the expelled foot Omari Peterkin was hoping to walk Sports W ricer ball players, it is clear that the Irish you're forced to make a decision quick, on to Miami's basketball team. Or he and we made a quick one." have a depth problem. Since the was, until someone sent a two-minute What was one of the strongest and Irish return both starting corner What made Peterkin pick the Irish deepest positions on the Irish foot videotape of the Virgin Islands high over Indiana and Connecticut was backs and have six scholarship back school senior to several college basket ball team heading into the spring ups, Lionel Bolen, the lowest player Notre Dame's strong academic pro could become one of the weakest ball programs in the United States. gram. He hopes to major in biology and on the depth chart, could move to Including Notre Dame. and thinnest after University was impressed that Notre Dame had a safety. Incoming recruit Jake Carney After visiting Indiana, Connecticut President Father Edward Malloy could also fill the gap. solid combination of athletics and aca upheld a University decision to expel and Notre Dame, Peterkin officially demics. The third player expelled, wide signed a letter-of-intent last week to three football players accused of receiver Lorenzo Crawford, wasn't Brey compared Peterkin to graduat rape. play for the Irish. The 6-foot-8, 250- ing senior Harold Swanagan. He expected to make significant contri pound Peterkin joins Torin Francis, Entering the spring, the secondary butions next season. but his depar praised his size and the way he could was seen as one of the strengths of Rick Cornett and Chris Quinn as fresh catch and handle the ball. ture hurts a woefully thin wide men in the fall. the Irish. But after the expulsions of receiver corps. Crawford had yet to But he added that the forward still "Our players who played with him has a lot of work to do. Peterkin only projected starter Donald Dykes and catch a pass and didn't have an key backup Abe Elam, the Irish only felt great about him as a player. But started playing basketball five years impressive spring. even more importantly, they felt like he have two scholarship safeties on ros ago, and Brey said he needs to physi But the Irish lack a quality stand was our kind of guy," said Irish head ter. out wide receiver. Arnaz Battle cally prepare for the pace of the col Dykes and Elam, along with coach Mike Brey. "He's got the total lege game and get used to the competi looked the most impressive in the package." Gerome Sapp and Glenn Earl, were spring game and Omar Jenkins and tion level. Brey didn't expect to land another expected to be major contributors on Ronnie Rodamer both have some "One of the things we've discussed defense. Dykes had started at safety recruit this late in the year. While the was putting him on a five-year pro game experience. But Jenkins has Irish had scholarships to spare and eight games last year for the Irish the most receptions of any returning gram," Brey said. "We have to be and Elam was a key backup who had were looking to add a high school patient with his development. But he's receiver- and he has just seven. senior or college transfer to the team a knack for being at the right place In the fall, the Irish will benefit got the summer to get ready and he'll on the field at the right time. by April, they had pretty much given have a month of practice. It probably from highly touted recruits Maurice up on adding another player so late in Now, Sapp and Earl are the only Stovall and Rhema McKnight, who won't even be decided until the night scholarship safeties on the roster. the recruiting season. before the first game." will be expected to contribute imme That is, until assistant coach Anthony Walk-on Matt Sarb, who has signifi diately. cant special teams experience but Solomon heard rumors about an over looked player from the small island of never played a down, is the lone Contact Andrew Soukup at backup. St. Thomas. Contact Andrew Soukup at [email protected]. "Recruiting is a day to day thing, you [email protected]. FOOTBALL Devine remembered as fine man and coach coach, and he had a marvelous very friendly man," said former play in that game we portrayed and led the Irish to 23 unan By CHRIS FEDERICO record at Notre Dame," said Irish running back Vagas in the movie, and he even tried swered points and a 35-34 win. Sports Editor Father Edmund Joyce. Notre Ferguson, who played under to get me in when the offense "[Devine] was a great leader, Dame vice president emeritus Devine from 1976-79. "He had the ball. but it just didn't and I think that shows through The Notre Dame community who hired Devine in 1975. recruited me out of high school, work because I was a defensive some of the people around him suffered a great loss on May 9, "People seem to forget that. and my family got to meet him player." like his assistant coaches and when former football coach Some of the subway alumni, and they fell in love." During his tenure, Devine players that went on to such Dan Devine died after suffering maybe even regular alumni, Despite Devine's less-than coached some of the biggest great things," Ruettiger said. from a prolonged illness. He didn't accept him immediately. flattering portrayal in the movie names and most important Devine left this world respect was 77. Maybe the only explanation for "Rudy," those who knew him games in Notre Dame history. ed by many as a football coach Devine spent six years with that is the fact that Ara best remember a different He led the Irish to a national and a man. the Irish from 1975-80, winning Parseghian, his predecessor, Devine than the man that sat championship season in 1977 "He was a splendid man - a a national championship and was such a charismatic figure behind the desk in the film. The that ended with a Cotton Bowl fine family man," Joyce said. "I three bowl games. Assuming and so exciting, while Dan was movie portrayed Devine as a victory against undefeated, top admired him very much both as the position of head coach at rather low key." mean-spirited coach who reluc ranked Texas. a gentleman and as a coach - Notre Dame following the ever Unlike expressive figures tantly gave Rudy his one shot. Devine also coached arguably he was a great football coach." popular Ara Parseghian was a such as Parseghian, Gerry "Coach Devine cared a great one of the greatest comebacks Devine spent 14 months in daunting task for Devine. Faust and Lou Holtz, Devine deal that people worked hard to in college football history in the the hospital before he asked the Despite his success on the foot had a quiet way about him. He make themselves better." 1979 Cotton Bowl. The Irish hospital staff for permission to ball field - a 56-13-1 record often kept to himself, staying Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger said. trailed Houston 34-12 with 7:37 die at home. and three top ten fmishes in six out of the public spotlight. To "He valued hard work and remaining in the game. After years - he didn't have the those that knew him, however, determination, and I think missing the entire third quarter undisputed support of the fans. 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Heading into the final Big But he did very well, and I East weekend of the regular think he struck out four in a season, the Notre Dame base row at one point." ball team is in complete control In the concluding game, sec of its own destiny regarding ond baseman Steve Sollmann the postseason. went 3-for-5 with four RB!s The Irish currently stand in a and two runs scored in leading three-way tie for the Big East the nine-run Irish attack. lead with Virginia Tech and Junior Peter Ogilvie started this weekend's opponent, the game and gave a solid 6.2 Boston College. The Irish can inning, four-run outing before take .care of the Eagles by win yielding to relief help. After a ning the weekend series. They stint by junior Brandon Viloria, also hold the tie-breaker Gagne was called upon from advantage over the Hokies if the bullpen after the difficult the two teams finish the season outing the previous day. The with the same conference junior right-hander entered the record. game with runners on first and "It's nice to be in that situa third and two out, but got the tion at the end of the year," first batter to strike out to centerfielder Steve Stanley escape from the inning. said. "I think these will be the Gagne stayed in the game three biggest games of the year and pitched two scoreless for us like we've said all innings with four strikeouts to along." earn the save. The Irish only need to win "J.P. [Gagne] has as much one of the three games against courage as any player I have Boston College this weekend to ever coached," Mainieri said. be assured of a spot in the "After that game Saturday, BRIAN PUCEVICH/The Observer four-team conference tourna there was no one more upset Sophomore first baseman Joe Thaman receives a pickoff attempt in a game earlier this season ment. A three-game sweep than him. But I told him that if against Valparaiso. Thaman hit a pair of home runs last weekend against Villanova. would guarantee them the reg that same situation came up ular season Big East title and the next day, he would be get the No. 1 seed in the tourna ting the ball again. That's ment...... :?: exactly what happened, and he Winning the regular season came in and did a great job. title and the Big East He's been outstanding for us Tournament could be very this year, and I wasn't going to l11 II important for Notre Dame's let one unfortunate outing PROPERTIES hopes of hosting its second affect what he does for us." consecutive NCAA Regional at In midweek action _-._ ~wettmaintained houses near campos Frank Eck Stadium. Wednesday, the Irish outplayed ~ •>Washers and dryers proyid(;)d -- - "For us to host a regional, we a much smaller 13-man have to win the regular season Rochester College squad for a h Security systems - Big East title," Stanley said. 10-3 victory. With many --·• •24~ho~;r maintenance staff "That's a prerequisite - we reserves getting a chance to have to do that. I think this start, Notre Dame committed -•Everybody gets their own bedroom! year we even have to win the four errors but made up for the ;'•2*,4", 5-,-6",7",-8",9"t 10•bedroom houses Big East Tournament, so there defensive struggles with 17 are some things we haven't hits, led by the efforts of desig accomplished yet. But right nated hittter Mike Holba's 3- Only 3 left for the 2002~.goo3school year now we can't even think about for-4 day. JA/so leasing tor the 2003.;2004 school year hosting a regional because we Freshman Martin Vergara don't even know if we're in pitched six innings and allowed one." one run on three hits for the --· Ca.llls:lay,· bi,C&sare .. _- In their last Big East win. matchup, the Irish traveled to In the second game of the - - >;,· '- ,... , ::- - ltl•eei11• -_ i - - _- ~ J}~~'ut' -_--: _-__ • Villanova and came away with day, the Irish erupted against .....····:···· two wins from the three-game Detroit, defeating the Titans Contact Kramer:. Office: 234~2436 series. 23-1 in a game that was called The Irish stumbled a little in after seven innings. The 22-run Cell: 274~99.55 Volcemaih 674~2571 the opening game Saturday, difference was the largest mar blowing a 7-5 lead in the bot gin of victory for the Irish since tom of the seventh to allow the 1922. Wildcats to tie. In the next Senior third baseman Andy inning, pitcher J. P. Gagne Bushey set a Notre Dame gave up three straight singles record by driving in seven runs to Villanova batters to allow in the game. Right fielder Brian the go-ahead run to cross the Stavisky was 5-for-5 with five plate in the Wildcat 8-7 victory. runs scored in the contest. In the doubleheader Sunday, The two wins move the Irish Irish bats exploded for five to 38-14 on the season. home runs, including two from The first game of Notre sophomore first baseman Joe Dame's series with Boston Thaman, as Notre Dame College is slated for 6 p.m. knocked off the Wildcats 8-1 Friday evening. The double and 9-5. header is set to begin at noon The first game saw dominant Saturday. pitching performances from freshmen John Axford, who picked up the win going 4.2 Note: innings and allowing one run, + Senior centerfielder and co and Chris Niesel, who con captain Steve Stanley set two tributed 2.1 innings of hitless more Irish records Wednesday. relief. Niese! made his return In the first game against to the mound after a month Rochester, he surpassed J.J. long absence due to mononu Brock on the career games cleosis. started list with 239. In the "Niese! was outstanding," nightcap against Detroit, Irish coach Paul Mainieri said. Stanley appeared in his 240th "During the week we let him career game to pass former do some side work, and he teammate Alec Porzel and looked very good and felt good. move into first place on that The ideal situation would have list as well. been to put him in for two innings with a nice lead. But Contact Chris Federico at Axford ran into a bit of trouble [email protected]. ------, page 26 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, May 17, 2002 FOOTBALL Tumultuous season brings coaching change "A year ago at this time, I By ANDREW SOUKUP believed that we had turned the Sports Writer corner under Bob and that we were prepared to reclaim our Everybody knew Bob Davie traditional standing among the would be fired. Few people nations' elite college programs," knew who would be hired. White said. "Today I can no But nobody expected what longer say that." happened in December. White fired Davie on a When Notre Dame started the Sunday, and by Monday he dis season with losses to Nebraska, appeared from view as he Michigan State and Texas A&M launched a massive coaching - the worst start in school his search. A week later, White tory - Davie's fate seemed returned to South Bend with sealed. Notre Dame athletic former Georgia Tech head director Kevin White met with coach George O'Leary. Davie shortly after the Irish ''I'm very happy to be at Notre were embarrassed by Texas Dame," O'Leary said. "I think A&M 24-3 and essentially told the two best jobs in America are Davie his job status would be the head football coach of Notre evaluated at the end of the sea Dame and the manager of the son. New York Yankees." News of the impending evalu The fiery O'Leary was intro ation leaked to the media, and duced at a public press confer the Davie Watch was on. Irish ence where hundreds ofT-shirts fans printed T-shirts with were printed with "By George, "Dump Davie" written across it's O'Leary" emblazoned on the the back. He was booed during front. the 1812 Overture. Reporters But his reign only lasted five grilled him at weekly press con days. A reporter from New ferences. He stopped speaking Hampshire writing a story about at pep rallies. O'Leary's college football days But Davie didn't quit coaching started a chain reaction of and the Irish didn't quit playing. events that caused O'Leary's Notre Dame won its next three resignation after he admitted games against Pittsburgh, West that he lied about obtaining a Virginia and USC to even their master's degree and playing record at 3-3 but dropped three football at New Hampshire. The of the final five games, beating shirts printed five days before only lowly Navy and Purdue and stopped appearing on student's losing to Boston College, backs and started showing up Tennessee and Stanford to fin on eBay. ish the season 5-6, the second The nightmarish resignation time in three years the Irish shocked the nation and sent failed to break .500. White scurrying around the Players quickly pointed out country again. This time, the that the losses weren't the search was slower and more PETER RICHARDSONfThe Observer coaches' fault. Quarterback cautious. While it took White Graduating senior running back Terrance Howard is tackled by a Stanford defender as former Matt LoVecchio started the first only a week to hire O'Leary, it Irish head coach Bob Davie looks on in the background. two games of the season, but took him 16 days to hire Tyrone Carlyle Holiday took over as Willingham, the former Stanford starter at the Texas A&M game. head coach. However, Holiday tended to win "This is an exciting moment," more games with his feet than Willingham said on New Year's his arm. By the end of the sea Day, the day he was formally son, opposing defenses were announced as Irish head coach. focused on shutting down the "It is a moment that you often Graduates: option and daring the Irish to go back in your life and you try beat them in the air. to figure out what has brought They couldn't. The offense you to this moment." couldn't execute the niost basic Now Willingham faces the plays and killed themselves with challenge of trying to resurrect No Matter Where You May Go, Or turnovers. After an atrocious an Irish program that hasn't game at Stanford where Holiday won a national championship What Your Financial Needs May Be ... completed just 1-of-16 passes, since 1988. But his straightfor offensive coordinator Kevin ward, no-nonsense attitude and Rogers angrily said, "The kid West Coast offense already has couldn't throw the damn ball." Irish fans excited. So when Notre Dame athletic However, Willingham doesn't We'll Always Be As Close As director Kevin White announced spend too much time thinking Davie's frring less than 12 hours about what could happen. He's www.ndfcu.org after the Irish beat Purdue, it too busy trying to make things was a remarkable turnaround happen. for Davie, who's job seemed "I don't think," he said after secure after White gave him a one spring practice. "I just go." five-year contract extension in 2000. But the extension was a mis Contact Andrew Soukup at take, White said. [email protected]. ~ 574/239-6611 NOTRE DAME 800/522-6611 FEDERAL CREDIT UNION You can bank on us to be better G:tlttiLIOUSIIC LENDER Independent of the University Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 27 - problematic for the Belles. At the end of last season, But this year, Blair sur Blair was a consistent con Blair prised everyone, including tributor to the Belles, but continued from page 44 herself, and she wasn't ------became the MIAA leader the "I never was the strong first-team Although Blair was named team really quality. to the all-MIAA first team needed. leader or able to be However, for her play during the "I never outgoing; now I'm able to a sum- 2001-2002 basketball sea was the take care of anything." m e r s son, it's more than her skill strong worth of on the court that has leader or work paid impressed coaches and able to be Anne Blair off and teammates. outgoing; forward w h e n Blair became a much now I'm B I a i r needed confidant for players able to take returned and coaches alike. care of anything," Blair said. for fall camp, she was an "She's a very unselfish Blair has become the go-to improved player. person, just very caring person on the court and off. Blair was the Belles second about those around her and Her openness has made her leading scorer, averaging she puts a lot of pressure on the perfect person for team 12.6 points-per-game and herself to do things right," mates to go to with prob grabbing six rebounds a said head coach Suzanne lems and she's Smith's No. 1 game. Her .464 shooting Smith, who has worked with choice for discussing possi percentage was third on the Blair for the past two sea ble problems with the team. team and Blair was in sons. "That just makes a As one of three seniors, almost every minute of the g r e a t Blair was game. example." the one "I was blown away at the At the "She has been fantastic who took beginning of this year at end of the both seasons I've been the leader how hard she had worked 1999-2000 here as far aas being ship role. on her skills, around the season, As a cap basket and post moves," Roeder that link between the tain, she Smith said. resigned players and myself She's proved to Although Blair has no defi and Smith never been afraid of con be the nite plans to play or coach in stepped in. missing the future, her love for bas With a veying their needs to I i n k ketball is something the new coach me. between Californian turned South and anoth players and Bend fan will never lose. er young coach. ''I'll always love [basket t e a m , Suzanne Smith "She has ball] but I don't see it as the B l a i r Belles basketball head coach done fan most important part of my found her- tastic both future," Blair said. "But the self in a seasons love for it will go on." leadership position that she I've been here as far as wasn't used to. being that link between the With mediocre retention players and myself," Smith rates, keeping seniors - said. "She's never been CHRISTINA REITANOfThe Observer especially seniors who could afraid of conveying their Contact Katie McVoy at Senior Anne Blair combined her love for basketball with her love for be leaders - may have been needs to me." [email protected]. teaching by coaching a fifth grade basketball team. 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PAUL DOYLE CSC AND ALL YOUR FELLOW DILLONITES - page 28 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, May 17, 2002 MEN'S BASKETBALL Tourney appearance lands Irish back on map Humphrey, David Graves and Georgetown. Brey even shuffled By ANDREW SOUKUP Harold Swanagan and junior the starting lineup around, SportS Writer Matt Carroll more than replace replacing Graves with Torrian Murphy's leadership. With Jones. The year started with a ques Murphy, the Irish deferred to The switch worked. Brey tion. It ended with a statement. their All-American. Without him, always keys his teams to make a And as a charter plane flew a they challenged themselves to strong run in February, and the basketball team that fell in the produce on their own. Irish won eight of their final 11 second round of the NCAA The Murphy-less Irish were a games of the regular season, Tournament back to Notre different team, indeed. including a marathon four-over Dame, the Irish basketball team Part of the reason they were so time victory over Georgetown. definitively told the nation it was successful was the emergence of Thomas made the Irish flashy back on the map. highly touted freshman Chris and quick. He energized the Nobody thought that after for Thomas. Thomas arrived at offense and played inspired mer Irish All-American Troy Notre Dame with the highest defense. But Thomas couldn't do Murphy declared for the NBA expectations on his shoulders. At it all, and Graves, Humphrey, draft, skipping his final year of times, it seemed he wasn't asked Swanagan and Carroll helped college, that the Irish would to replace departed point guard him realize that. By the end of return to the NCAA Tournament. Martin Inglesby, but Murphy. the year, Thomas was winning And this was a team that, before But if anyone buckles under games not with his shot but with head coach Mike Brey arrived pressure, it's not Thomas. The his decision-making skills. two years ago, hadn't been to flashy freshman easily surpassed The Irish finished second in the NCAA Tournament since every prediction and every Big East West Division and easily 1990. expectation. In his first college handled St. John's in the quar "I think the theme since last game, Thomas merely recorded terfinals of the Big East spring has been, 'Is there life the first triple-double in Notre Tournament. But they fell to after Troy?"' Brey said a· few Dame history. By the end of the Connecticut in the semi-finals days before the Irish started season, Thomas earned multiple and anxiously awaited news DUFFY-MARIE ARNOULTfThe Observer practice. "We really feel there Freshman of the Year honors. about whether or not they would Freshman point guard Chris Thomas attempts to elude Duke is." "I think what helped Chris be back in the NCAA guard Chris Duhon in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Brey and the Irish might have Thomas was those four guys up Tournament. been the only ones who felt that front," Brey often said during the Players were disappointed against the top-seeded Blue and showed how much the Irish way. National publications left season. "He's playing with four with the No. 8 seed in the South Devils - even leading by seven had improved from the day the Irish out of their preseason men." Region that the Irish received, points late in the second half - Graves and Swanagan first tournament projections. Coaches Thomas and the Irish started matching them up against before falling for the second arrived on campus as freshmen. picked Notre Dame to finish out red-hot. They won nine of Charlotte in the first round in straight year in the second round "This is pride," Graves said. third in the Big East. And fans their first 10 games and Duke in the second round. All of the NCAA Tournament. pointing to the word 'Irish' on across the country thought Notre appeared poised to break into season long, the Irish had One of the goals the Irish his uniform minutes after Notre Dame's one-year resurgence was the Top 25. claimed they were underrated. established for the season was to Dame lost to Duke. "This means a fluke and that Murphy had Then, the Irish started strug But they didn't dwell on the put themselves "back on the something now. It didn't before." carried the Irish. gling. They dropped five of their low seed or feel sorry for them map." More than anything else, But those so-called experts next eight games, including selves. The Irish blew out Notre Dame's strong showing couldn't sit in on Irish practices embarrassing defeats against Charlotte in the first round and against Duke laid the foundation Contact Andrew Soukup at and watch seniors Ryan Syracuse, Kentucky and turned in a scrappy performance for a surging basketball program [email protected]. ''I hope you come to find that which gives [ije a deep meaning for you. Something worth fiving for. .. something that energizes you, enthuses you, ena6[es you to ~ep moving ahead. I can't te[[ C E N T E R F 0 R you what it might 6e- I can just encourage you to start (and/or continue!) [ookjng, and support SOCIAL you in the search. " CONCERNS -Ita Pore{, 9vf..9vf.. ~6e staff of tije Center for Social Concerns congratufates afT tije mem6ers of THE 2002 SENIOR CLASS on tijeir graSuation! ~(essinBs to you, as you 30 forth from 1'fotre 'Dame, to create, in your own way, "a more just and humane war(!." Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 29 NO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Inexperience leads to disappointing season group of women led by sopho point loss to Villanova as the reg By KATIE McVOY more guards, a non-vocal Alicia ular season concluded. Associare Sporrs Ediror Ratay and senior Ericka Haney Post-season play was less than who struggled with her own a storybook ending. Notre Dame The uniforms Notre Dame game in the first months of the fell in the first round of the Big wore during their final loss of season. East tournament to Syracuse, the season in round two of the The beginning of the season after working its way up to sec NCAA tournament told the tale was less than perfect. On Dec. ond place in the Big East. The of the 2001-2002 Irish. 28, Notre Dame fell 72-61 to team fell in round two of the They were green. Rice, a school the 2000-2001 NCAA tournament, losing to For the Irish, who took home a Irish had destroyed. The Irish Tennessee by the biggest margin national championship last year, were barely at .500. A game that in McGraw's career. this season was anything but a was supposed to be a warm-up The season was over, but the replay. It was a transition year. after Christmas break left the transition had made serious It was a year for a young team. It Irish cold. McGraw left the press progress and even the unsettling was a challenge. conference in tears. Her young loss to Tennessee had its place in With six freshmen and only team just didn't seem to be get the learning process. one returning senior, the Irish ting the job done. "Our team is young, this is a knew they would have their Just five days later, however, learning experience for us." work cut out for them heading things began to turn around. McGraw said after the game. into the 2001 season. Head With a 69-65 victory against Big "This is how you grow as a team, coach Muffet McGraw, who East opponent Miami, the Irish to go through something like knew she could count on her vet had their first road win and this. You go back, watch the film erans last year, didn't know who found their groove. and figure out what you have to or what she could count on this If they weren't dominant in the do to get better and how to get to season. Big East, the Irish were at least where we want to be. That's "Because nothing is expected, holding their own. After decisive what we're going to work on." when something good happens victories against Virginia Tech, As the Irish look ahead to next everybody gets excited about it Syracuse and Boston College, the year, they will find themselves because it's not like last year Irish managed to move to second feeling more like a team than where we expected to win by place in the conference, hanging they did at the beginning of this 20," McGraw said at the begin behind the Huskies, the undis season. Haney graduated, and ning of the season. "This year we puted best team in the country. junior center Amanda Barksdale just have to play hard and see By Feb. 26 the Irish clinched a transferred, but the Irish are what happens." first-round bye in the Big East returning the rest of the team. It was a whole new Irish team Tournament and were riding a Notre Dame may be returning that took the court in November. nine-game winning streak. They the green uniforms to celebrate There was no Ruth Riley, no had won 51 home games in a St. Patrick's Day next year, but Kelly Siemon, no Niele Ivey. row, the longest active home win the team won't be quite as Instead, there was Jackie streak in the NCAA. But once green. NELLIE WILLIAMS!The Observer Batteast, who was named Big they hit that peak, the young Freshman forward Kelsey Wicks attempts to get around a East Rookie of the Year, Kelsey team found themselves at the Tennessee defender during Notre Dame's second-round Wicks, Alison Bustamante, bottom again. The win streak Contact Katie McVoy at loss in the NCAA Tournament. Teresa Borton. It was a young came to an end with a three [email protected]. !!!THANK YOU!!! SOCIAL To all the students who are giving their summer to service-learning. Your dedication to compas CONCERNS sion and social justice is evident. 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Two other members of that [NCAA] final and scoring," Connelly team is sending a number of ath team, juniors Kymia Love and said. "She's still learning how to letes to Georgia Tech this weekend Kristen Dodd, will compete in the race." for a final tune-up before the NCAA 400 meters. Junior Jennifer Handley and Championships. But head coach Millar is also confident that his sophomore Megan Johnson will Joe Piane made one thing clear women's 4x100 meter team will compete in the 5,000 meters. when the weekend's lineup was make the cut without a final com Handley already has reached the compiled - graduating seniors Liz petition. That team, comprised of NCAA provisional mark, and is Grow, Luke Watson and Ryan Shay Grow. Boyd. Love and junior ranked 27th in the countrv with will be staying put in Indiana. Tameisha King, is currently ranked her March 29 time of 16:28.55. "I tell these kids all the time, the eighth. "Right now, Jen's going to have graduation isn't for them, it's for King, who already provisionally to run a little bit faster." ConnP.lly their parents," Piane said. "The qualified for the NCAA meet in the said. parents want to be there for this long jump with a leap of 6.31 On the men's side, sophomore and this is something the parents meters on March 30, is looking to Kevin Somok and fn~shman Eric have been dreaming about longer end the regular season on a high Morrison will compete in the 1,500 than [the students] have. I'm not note. After competing in the hur meters. Neither has reached an going to try to snatch that away dles and relay events at the Big NCAA qualifying standard yet this from any parent." East Championships, King can use year. so the Georgia Tech meet is Without Grow, who has already this meet in her hometown of meant as a sort of capstone to their automatically qualified for the Atlanta to concentrate on one seasons. NCAA meet in the 400 meters and event. "What are their chances of quali is a a key member of the Irish "She's been struggling on her fying for the NCAA's? To be can 4x1 00 and 4x400 teams, the other approach a little bit, hitting the did, I don't think they're great," members of Notre Dame's sprint board." said sprints coach Scott Piane said. "That's not our reason group will concentrate on their Windsor. "She's been jumping far, for going down there. Our reason individual events. but she's either fouled it or she's for going down there is to try to get That includes sophomore Ayesha been missing the board. This week them to run faster." Boyd, who reached the NCAA pro end, we're just looking for Sophomore Todd Mobley also visionally qualifying time in the 200 improvement." reached the provisionally qualify meters in late March. Boyd, whose Another woman, freshman ing standard in the 10,000 meters time of 23.6 seconds ranks her Lauren King, looks to use the earlier this season at Stanford, but 31st in the country heading into Georgia Tech meet as a spring Mobley is ranked so low that nei the weekend, likely needs to board for the NCAA ther he nor Piane anticipate he will improve upon that mark to sneak Championships in the 1,500 making the cut. Mobley has into the NCAA meet. meters. King currently sits on the already returned home to "I want to give her another shot bubble with the 4:21.10 time she Michigan. at improving her time," said BRIAN PUCEVICH!The Observer posted at the Big East Julie Schmidt runs at a recent Irish track meet. Members sprints coach John Millar. Championships on May 5. But King Contact Noah Amstadter at Without Grow, the 4x400-meter won that race with little competi- of the Notre Dame team will compete this weekend at amstadter.l @nd.edu. 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Shay pared for Notre Dame when he ple," Shay said. "You have to But when he arrived, Shay, who As time went on, Piane began continued from page 44 arrived that fall, his mental motivate other people, communi was coached by his father in high to work with Shay to adapt the expectations were different. cate with them, help them out. school, found that Piane's coach team's workouts to those Shay designed for himself. Shay also Central Lake High School in "I thought as a runner, if you're Let them feel like this is a team, ing philosophy differed greatly Northern Michigan. While he running at the NCAA I level, like everyone counts." from that of his father, who had began spending more and more placed first at the state cross you're there to run because you It was a decision that helped already helped four of Shay's time in Piane's office suggesting practices. country meet all four years and want to try to become like the the team, which returned to the older siblings earn college schol arships. won seven state titles in track, elite," Shay said. NCAA Championships with the "Sometimes I have a hard time Shay - whose graduating class But not all of the Irish runners same core of runners as the pre Shay wanted to go out hard and getting Ryan to leave the office," numbered 26 - only competed shared Shay's enthusiasm. They vious year. And it was a change treat every lap in practice like it Piane said. "He's here as a lot. against other small Class D didn't go out as hard in practice. that ultimately helped Shay. was the final turn at the That's good, I would rather have schools. And some didn't seem to regard "When you're just thinking Olympics. Piane was more cau that as a problem than trying to "I think he felt that he had a lot track and cross-country as priori about what you need to do indi tious. pull kids in." to prove coming in as a fresh ty No. 1, which irked Shay at first vidually, you can get caught up in But working with Piane, whose "I think that's great to have a man," said Irish head coach Joe but he later came to understand. that too much," Shay said. "Its athletes have earned All-America coach that will work with you like that and listen," Shay added. "A Pian e. "I realized that that's not the almost like you're putting too status 40 times in his 27 years at goal of everyone out there run much pressure on yourself. When Notre Dame, soon began to pay lot of coaches will be like, 'It's my ning, especially at a school like you spread that out amongst off for Shay. way or no way, you have no Something to prove Notre Dame where athletes are some of your teammates, it's less At the Big East Cross Country input.' I'm just not that type of The first time Luke Watson and coming here to get an education stress on you." Championship in New York City athlete, I like to have a hand in Pat Conway saw Shay run, the and their passion is maybe in These days, Shay shares an during Shay's junior season, everything I do." didn't exactly see a runner they their major, to get a job or what apartment with teammates Keith Kelly of Providence took a Piane also points out the differ would expect to become a captain ever," Shay said. Watson, Nate Andrulonis and dominating lead from the start. ence Shay has made for the pro by his junior season. Shay's frustration continued Sean Zanderson. And he regards Shay wanted to catch up with gram in setting the bar for the It was the 1997 National their friendship as one of his most him, but Piane kept urging Shay team's younger athletes. Catholic Invitational, Shay's first into his sophomore year. By that time the senior leaders from the important memories of Notre to stay back, counting on Kelly "I think it'll have a positive home meet of his collegiate Dame. falling behind later. effect for years to come because career. Shay took it out hard from cross-country team had graduat ed, and the team performed "We feel comfortable communi On the fmal hill, Kelly - who the new kids are going to learn the start, leading the race by a from the old kids. who learned below Shay's expectations. cating with each other, letting won the NCAA Championship in wide margin from end to end. cross-country a year later - did from Ryan," Piane said. Whereas Shay advanced to the each other know what's going in That was the way Shay always on in our lives," Shay said. ''I'm drop back, and Shay caught and After the NCAA Championships, ran in high school, so he thought NCAA Championship race with passed him for his first and only Shay plans on pursuing a profes his team as a freshman, he had to always going to be there for them nothing of doing the same in col first-place Big East finish. sional running career - hiring an qualify individually as a sopho and they're always going to be lege. there for me." "I think Coach Piane taught me agent and signing on with a shoe But some of the older Irish run more. that in my racing to be patient, company to sponsor him. ners who weren't competing that "We had no leadership on the that some races are tactical and Whoever he signs with. he plans day thought Shay should have team," Shay said. "The guys who leaving a legacy its not always the best strategy to on heading to Chula Vista, Calif.. stayed back and run with the were the leaders were seniors When Shay started looking for go right to the front as hard as and working out at the ARCO other Notre Dame runners. And who already graduated and -the a place to run in college, he you can from the start to fmish," Olympic training center. they yelled at him to do so seniors that year weren't really looked for a mix of academics Shay said. Piane. for one, is excited to see throughout the race. Finally leadership material. I was still and athletics. Wake Forest, Junior year was also around Shay compete at the next level. be around the two-mile mark, Shay just a sophomore, I was still in Tulane and Stanford were among the time when Shay started to in in the 10,000-meters, or the had had enough. that state where I was really indi the schools on his list. But Shay, become a student of the sport. He marathon. "I got upset and I just flipped vidually focused." who grew up with his friends and read books by various experts in "Notre Dame should take great them off," Shay explained. "It just By Shay's junior season, he family cheering for Michigan and distance running and soon was pride in this kid when he makes happened that Pat Conway and knew that if the team was to per Michigan State, never thought suggesting different workouts to the Olympic team," Piane said. Luke Watson were on their form at the level he expected, he about Notre Dame. Pian e. recruit visits that day standing had to take some of the leader "I probably wouldn't have even "At first he'd be like, 'Well next to those guys." ship role upon himself. considered Notre Dame if Coach okay, we'll do this workout. we'll Contact Noah Amstadter at While Shay, who trained for the "I realized that if I really want Piane hadn't called me because I see how you feel and if you want amstadter.l @nd.edu. 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Sports Writer The Irish defense was the team's strength and was consistently one of It was a miracle season for the Notre the best nationally thanks to captains Dame women's lacrosse team. The Lam and Fedarcyk, along with Irish started the season ranked 17th Henwood. This threesome has started and finished as one of the Elite Eight every game since arriving their fresh teams in the country at 13-5 and sec man year and holds the 1-2-3 spots all ond in the Big East. In their first-ever time in groundballs. This year they NCAA tournament appearance, the only allowed an average of 7.3 goals seventh-ranked Irish defeated Ohio per game. State 11-7 and then went on to face The team rolled through the early top-seeded Princeton. part of the season, superbly regroup While Princeton won the national ing after a sub par preseason weekend quarterfinal contest it did not lessen in Loyola. The women opened up by the sense of pride that the senior led defeating Ohio 15-3 and then traveled squad had. to California and beat rival Stanford "Our seniors have been the heart and 10-5. After beating George Mason 10-8 soul of this team," head coach Trace the women opened up a five game Coyne told UND.com. "They've played homestand which started with a 14-5 a lot over the past four seasons and smacking of Big East opponent Boston have gotten the program where it is College. today .... They took a chance on us Cornell had come in ready for 4-0 four years ago and along with the sup Notre Dame and opened up to a quick port the university has given us are lead. The Irish struggled back but time responsible for getting us here today." ran out before the comeback was fin The seven seniors on this year's team ished and the Irish lost by one goal, Defender Kassen Delano scoops up the ball during a first-round NCAA Tournament - Maureen Henwood, Kate Scarola, 10-9. It would not be the only heart victory over Ohio State. The Irish lost to Princeton in the second round. Natalie Loftus, Maureen Whitaker, break of the year. Delaware provided a Tina Fedarcyk, Kathryn Lam and bit of a challenge 9-7, but the Irish teams in 11 days. Georgetown, then ranked No. 2, Alissa Moser - came into a program found their shot against Virginia Tech The women lost another heartbreak proved to be too much for the Irish and four years ago which had left club sta and sent the Hokies home losing 15-4. er to Ohio State 12-11, and then had to for the first time, they lost a game by a tus only two years before. Since their At 6-1, Notre Dame faced the come home to face the then sixth-seed large margin, 17-8. The 9-4 Irish arrival, the team has gone 36-25. They Syracuse Orangewomen, a Big East Duke. In the tightest game of the year picked up and destroyed Northwestern have proven they were the backbone of team they had never beaten. But the girls again came from behind to and Rutgers and beat Vanderbilt in a team which would go on to a team Syracuse, picked to finish second in the push the game into overtime with 20 overtime to finish the regular season best 13 victories. division, looked a bit flat, and the Irish seconds left. In the third overtime, 12-4 and second in the Big East. Moser was a tri-captain and finished came out strong and finished the same Duke snuck in a goal after Loftus' last this year second in scoring with 27, to win 12-7. After beating Connecticut attempt rang off the post. Pumped up moving up to fifth on the all-time scor on the road, the team began the tough after their third one goal loss the Irish Contact Chris Coleman at ers list. Loftus also had a career year, est part of the schedule - four ranked came out and defeated Yale 11-8. ccolemal @od.edu. 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We Tournament after Virginia Tech, and had .to also have the revenge factor defeat the Hokies twice to win which doesn't hurt." losing first game the title. In the doubleheader. Other teams in that bracket the pair of freshman Irish included three previous Irish By CHRIS FEDERICO pitchers demonstrated the opponents: top-seeded and No. Sports Editor command on the mound they 7 Nebraska, second-seeded had shown most of the season. and No. 15 Oregon State, After a disappointing start to Stenglein pitched 10.2 innings fourth-seeded and No. 22 Iowa its 2002 season, the Notre in the doubleheader and and sixth-seeded Illinois Dame softball team has come allowed two runs while pick <;:hicago. Wisconsin is the fifth on strong down the stretch of ing up the two wins. Wisen seed in the bracket. Big East play. came in to earn the saves in The first day of play at Iowa The Irish got off to a rocky both games, contributing 3.1 was Thursday. start while facing one of the innings of scoreless work. The games were completed - ,. --- ...... ,...+co "rn,.rh r.umnf and [catcher] toughest slate 01 uppuut:an" after The Observer went to they had ever seen. In the first J ar-;:;;h-·[My-;;~~1 really heiped press. 20 games, the Irish faced me out," Stenglein said. "They eight ranked helped me to Notes: opponents be more + Senior catcher Jarrah Myers and went 8- "Coach Gumpf and mentally became the fourth Irish player 12. Jarrah [Myers] really and physi to earn the Big East Player of S i n c e cally pre the Year award during the Big beginning Big helped me out. They pared. I East Tournament weekend. East play, helped me to be more mixed my She led the conference in bat however, the pitches up ting average, home runs. runs Irish have mentally and physically more in prepared. I mixed my scored, RBI, on-base percent been on fire, those games age and slugging percentage. going 34-3 pitches up more in those to keep their Myers also was the only and pushing games to keep their hitters more unanimous pick for the all-Big their season confused hitters more confused East first team. record up to and off-bal + First-year Irish head coach 42-15. and off-balance." ance." Deanna Gumpf and her staff During Big The victo - Charmelle Green, Kris East play, ry earned Steffanie Stenglein McCleary and Bill Roggeman Notre Dame the Irish an - claimed the second consec knocked off pitcher automatic utive coaching staff of the year fourth bid to the award for the Notre Dame. r a n k e d N C A A + The Irish dominated the all Nebraska in Tourna Big East first-team list, land Lincoln, Neb., and captured ment. Notre Dame was award ing seven players on the the Big East regular season ed a third seed in the Region squad. Myers joined team title by going 18-2 in confer VII bracket in Iowa City, Iowa. mates Bledsoe, Loman, Lisa ence play. The Irish faced regional-host Mattison, Jenny Kriech, Ciolli Last weekend, at the Big Iowa in their first game. The and Stenglein in earning the East tournament, the Irish Hawkeyes defeated the Irish honors. Ciolli, Stenglein and again encountered some early twice last year in the same Wisen also were named to the troubles by dropping their venue to knock them out of all-rookie team. first game to fourth-seeded the tournament. Virginia Tech 8-3. "(Playing Iowa again] BRIAN PUCEVICH!The Observer The usually solid Irish pitch worked out very nicely," Third baseman Andrea Loman makes a throw during a recent ing struggled in that first Myers said. "I think we just Contact Chris Federico at Irish game against Oakland. After losing their first game, the game. Freshman Steffany need to show up, relax and [email protected]. Irish rallied to win the Big East Tournament. Stenglein gave up three home runs in three innings before being replaced by classmate Carrie Wisen, who allowed another four runs over her four innings pitched. The University of No-tre Da~ne's "My pitches really weren't moving that day, so that allowed their hitters to be more effective," Stenglein & said. "I don't know what my Science:1 Technology Values problem was that day. I just couldn't get the movement I ProgranJ usually do." With the first-game loss, the Irish realized they would have in -the to win the next four games to avoid elimination and win the tournament. "Losing that first game College of Ar-ts & Le-t-ters wasn't exactly the path we wanted to take, but we knew we had the ability to win four Is pleased to announce the following graduating students for the straight," catcher Jarrah Myers said. Class of 2002 The Irish warded off elimi nation by Syracuse in the sec- ~ and day of play on the Monica M. Burt:chaell Hannah f. La1nbiot:t:e strength of three home runs Tho~nas J. Ca~npbell Jr. AndreU' L. Larson from third baseman Andrea Loman. Myers and right field Brian M. Cle1nency Michael P. McCabe er Megan Ciolli. Ciolli's long ball came in the last inning Bridgid T. Curry Lisa I~. Murphy with a tie score to put the Theresa P. Dang Cat:herine J. o:~Neill Irish on top. In their next game that day I~rist:in M. Furrie I~rist:ina M. o:~Neill the Irish again stood on the brink of elimination. Down 4-3 A~ny E. Heckel Pat:rick H. Whit:e in the last inning against I~ari F. Jerge Nicole M. Wilson Villanova. Notre Dame rallied with and RBI single from Lillian M. I~idane Lauren M. Zajac Loman and an insurance RBI double from shortstop Andria ..------ Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 35 captains and I really tried to go would do since I learned the pitch. like anything there is. she will almost assuredly out there and lead through strategy from her," Myers said. whatever she tells me I try to break the most games played Myers actions and creating an "This [past] summer I called figure out and make it work." record in postseason action. continued from page 44 intense, but fun environment," my own games. 1 think. ii helps Myers is second on the all- Myers said. "That was pretty out my coach to make her job Enjoy the Ride time list in runs scoreti. ~!iii~ easy with the freshmen. It's easier. I still look over at her to in batting average and stolen dropped both games to Iowa Playing four full seasons for been easy to lead this year get some suggestions." the Irish, Myers has also made bases, fourth in at-bats and and saw their chance at earn since we haven't had any prob Myers is having the best sea fifth in hits. ing the school's first trip to the her mark on the career lems." son of her career. Starting records. But despite all of her on-field College World Series vanish. every one of Notre Dame's 52 statistical Myers knows the team under Against Smooth Transition regular season games, Myers Virginia Tech records, achieved in the postseason. led the team with 45 runs ''Annything you need to Myers takes "There was no reason why Gumpf was the Irish pitching on April 20, coach for four seasons before scored, 11 home runs and 28 Myers hit know about pitching, the most we shouldn't have won last walks. She was second on the pride in an year," Myers said. "It's not taking over as head coach on three home Jarrah knows." July 3, 2001. With a leader like team with a .384 batting aver runs and accomplish always talent. There are a lot age and 14 stolen bases. Myers on the team, Gumpfs job broke the ment she of other things when it came "Offensively, I haven't seen a Steffany Stenglein earned off down to it. was easier. Notre Dame "Having better catcher than her. She is pitcher the field. We just unbelievable," Irish pitcher record for Jarrah as one career home- [ M y couldn't get "/ think the other two Steffany Stenglein said. favorite is it done as a senior captains and I of my seniors "Defensively, there is no col runs. After is like a the regular season, Myers had the] first team." really tried to go out lege player I would have rather team Academic All-American. After for- dream come as my catcher. I have total 34 homers, but she doesn't true with this think that mark will stand for That just shows [the reason] I mer head there and lead ... " complete confidence. She'll came here was for the acade coach Liz being my first long. block everything I throw up mics," Myers said about the Miller retired year," Gumpf "I look at the girls younger Jarrah Myers there." award she won in 2001. "To be after eight said. "The than me and they are going to Myers has also helped make able to achieve a little bit in seasons at catcher seniors. the transition to the college crush it, and I hope they do," Notre Dame. including Myers said. "They should be softball and achieve even game much easier for greater in academics, that's Myers and Jarrah, made Stenglein. better than me when they get fellow captains Jenny Kriech the transition very easy." to my age. I think it is kind of really what matters. That's "Jarrah has helped me out what I will remember in 20 and Kas Hoag knew they need Showing confidence in her tremendously." the freshman neat to be in the record years. I won't remember any ed to make the transition as catcher, Gumpf lets Myers call pitcher said. "Anything there is books." easy as possible for new head her own pitches. to know about pitching, Jarrah For her career. Myers is the of the other personal awards." coach Deanna Gumpf. "I don't think it's much dif knows. She's helped me with Notre Dame all-time leader in After playing softball for "I think the other two senior ferent ·from what Deanna my fundamentals, what to RBis, walks and putouts. And more than 15 years, Myers has enjoyed the numerous parts of her journey. "It's been a ride. I have come in contact with many great people who have each shaped my life in a weird way that I probably don't even know," DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR. Myers said. 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Contact: david.a.melkey.3@ nd dodge.com SEE YOUR DODGE DEALER TODAY 800-4 A DODGE .edu or 574.273.2059 ------ page 36 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, May 17, 2002 ND WOMEN'S TENNIS Wisconsin badgers its way to a victory Connelly into a starting role by stepping up their games bles lineups in hopes of season, the Irish had attained By COLIN BOYlAN for the duration of the year. and combining to go 13-2. in increased doubles success and a 13-12 record and were set Sports Writer Connelly handled the move singles matches against the the move almost paid off. Even ting their sights on the Big in stride, and the team jumped next five opponents. though the Irish lost the cru East Championships. The Notre Dame women's out to a couple of early wins. Their performances were cial doubles point, they Under the intense sun in tennis team saw its turbulent Most notable among these enough to ignite a six-match stormed back in singles to tie Coral Gables, Fla., the team season come to an end last early season performances winning streak and turn the match 3-3 before the easily disposed of Boston Saturday with a 4-2 loss to the was the team's 5-2 victory around a season that looked to Demons' Karin Coetzee topped College before running into a Wisconsin against top-ten opponent USC be on the brink of collapse. junior Katie Cunha in the brick wall against Miami. Badgers in in the USTA National Team However, the most difficult deciding singles contest. Aside from winning the dou the first Indoors Championships. part of the schedule still The Irish could not translate bles point, the team looked flat round of Senior Nina Vaughan and loomed on the horizon with a this close call into success and failed to capture a singles the NCAA sophomore Alicia Salas pro three-match road stretch later in the weekend, however. match in the 4-1 loss. playoffs. vided fuel for the victory by against top ten teams Duke, Both the Tar Heels and Blue Louderback suggested that The loss winning their doubles match North Carolina and Wake Devils handed the Irish 6-1 the low 90s heat may have had dropped and· proceeding to score Forest. losses. a negative impact on the Irish the team's impressive singles wins At 10-5, the Irish may have A large home crowd and the players. but was quick to point final record Louderback against Luana Magnani and found themselves looking emotional advantage allowed out that Miami was a very to 14-14, Tiffany Brymer. ahead to the Irish to tough opponent. and while Unfortunately for the Irish, those teams, score an Seniors Varnum, Green and the .500 winning percentage that match would stand as the as they "/ don't think we were important Vaughan played tough all sea may have been mediocre by high-water mark of the season dropped the looking ahead, we just Big East vic son and withstood the pres Irish standards, their gritty rather than an indication of ball in a cou didn't come prepared to tory against sure of playing in the 1-3 sin performances in most matches things to come. ple of surpris Miami only gles spots. this season were anything but In their next three matches, ing losses to play against those days later. Moreover, the play of under average. all against top 10 opponents, San Diego teams." The match classmen gives hope for an ''I'm really proud of how the Irish were defeated con State and was desig improved showing next year. hard this team has fought this vincingly by Vanderbilt, North Purdue. nated "Ace Salas' spectacular year saw year," Irish coach Jay Carolina and Tennessee. The "I don't Jay Louderback for the her easily top 20 wins, while Louderback said prior to the lone bright spot during this think we were Irish head coach Cure," in Cunha and Connelly proved NCAA tourneys. "We've had stretch was Salas, who contin looking honor of capable of handling the pres some key injuries this season, ued her torrid streak, winning ahead, we Cunha's sure in tough match situa but we've always played her singles matches in all just didn't come prepared to mother who has been afflicted tions. through them." three of the contests and play against those teams," with colon cancer for almost a And the expected return of Indeed, the season started extending her winning streak Louderback said at the time. year. Leslie next season combined out on a disappointing note to eleven. After briefly righting the As hundreds of fans came to with a solid recruiting class when starter Caylan Leslie At this point in the season, ship with a 4-3 win against support the event, Cunha fit makes the future pretty bright saw herself sidelined for the the Irish sat at 4-5 and were Illinois, the team traveled to tingly won the clinching match for the Irish. year by shoulder problems. looking for a spark to turn North Carolina for an Easter to assure the team a No. 1 The injury robbed the team of things around. Seniors Becky weekend showdown against its seed in the Big East tourna its No. 4 singles player and Varnum, Lindsey Green and top opponents. ment. Contact Colin Boylan at forced freshman Sarah Jane Vaughan provided that spark Louderback juggled the dou- At the end of the regular [email protected]. ets 200 Moving to Cincinnati after Graduation? We want to welcome you! Please join us for our Student Send-off Picnic Sunday, August 4th Quality Diainonds ® For any questions on the Cincinnati area, we'd be glad to point you in the right direction. John M~ Marshall's Contact President Melinda Sinclair Incorporated 1965 at [email protected] Jewelers I Gemologists Goldsmiths I Platinumsmitlhs K~y Bank Building, Suite #HH South Bend, Indmna 46601 287-1427 The Greater Cincinnati Notre Dame Club Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 37 SMC TENNIS Serving up a new chapter in history • Belles make first set. we really belonged," "We would have liked to Stevenson said. "I think we trip to NCAA walk awav with a 'W, '" said caught a few people's eyes." tournament, but senior A·nnie Knish, who Still, there is no exact sci dropped both No. 1 singles ence to the nominations, and fall in first round and doubles matches in the the Belles could only sit back competition. "I think we all and wait after winning the By NOREEN GILLESPIE wanted to advance to the sec MIAA crown. Senior Staff Writer ond round." Stevenson found out one Denison, ranked 19th day after the MIAA tourna nationally, fell 7-2 in the sec ment, and the team ST. LOUIS ond round of the tournament announced their nomination The national stage proved Saturday to Washington at a school pep rally last harder than conference com University, who will advance Monday. petition for the Belles tennis to the final round of national "I knew we had a chance," team, which fell in the first competition this weekend. Stevenson said. "It's a politi round of the NCAA Division III But while the Belles left the cal decision. so vou can never Tennis tournament last week court without a victory, they be quite sure. But I knew we end. couldn't erase the euphoria of had a shot to get the invite Saint Mary's earned its bid being the first team from the before I got the cal!:" for the national tournament school to I m after clinching its second con compete in thrilled with secutive MIAA title earlier the national "Obviously I'm not the way the this month. The team. which tournament. pleased. !like to win. We team has won the first conference title For senior didn't come here to lose." progressed." in school history in 2001, is Knish, she Knish said. also the first team from Saint remembered "Coming in Mary's to qualify for any laughing at Dee Stevenson my freshman NCAA tournament. Stevenson head coach year, we had But the national tournament three years an okay wasn't as kind to the Belles as ago when he team, but the conference championship, said making didn't place as they struggled from the it to the tournament was his that high in conference. This onset of competition, losing to goal. At his first practice, is a great note to end on." Denison University 7-2. Stevenson took out a list and While Knish will graduate "Obviously, I'm not read to the team three goals: Saturday, sister Jeannie pleased," said Saint Mary's beat Hope, win conference, Knish, Kaitlin Cutler, Kris head coach Dee Stevenson. "I and make it to the NCAA Spriggle, Elise Ryan and like to win. We didn't come tournament. For a team that Angela Sander and hope to here to lose." hadn't yet beat MIAA power make a return trip to the The No. 2 doubles team of house Hope, those goals tournament next year, and Kaitlin Cutler and Elisa Ryan seemed far off. Stevenson will work on won the first match of the day The Belles secured the nom recruiting Division !-caliber fur Saint Mary's, defeating ination following the second players well into the summer, NOREEN GILLESPIE!The Observer AUison Lesnett and Kristen conference title, but a berth he said. Sophomore Jeannie Knish bats back a ball during the first Hanto 8-1. Ryan also walked in the tournament was never "We're happy to be here, to round of the NCAA Tournament. The Belles first trip to the tour away with a victory in the a guarantee during the sea represent the school." nament ended in a first-round loss. singles competition, when son. Stevenson said. "It's some Hanto deferred after the third The Belles defeated two thing to build on for the Division I schools at the future." Midwest Invitational earlier in the season, and that may have propelled them into the The Notre Dame chapter 'of Phi Beta Kappa national spotlight. Contact Noreen Gillespie at "We got in there and proved [email protected]. congratulates and welcomes its new members of the class of 2002 MAIL BOXES ETC. Mr. Dominic Steven Angiollo Mr. Nikhil Gupta Ms. Michelle Marie Petersen "MAY MOVE OUT '02" Mr. Alejandro Aquino Mr. Brendan Patrick Harris Ms. Kathleen Anne Ponto Mr. Anthony John Baldea . 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It seventh place finish, and they fm And they delivered. was a season that could have been ished as high as third in 1997. But After starting the season 1-2, the first step on the ladder to with only one victory this year, the Irish cruised through the regu national prominence. But ulti eighth was where the Belles found lar season by winning 11 of its last mately, it was a season that ended themselves. 14 games en route to a 12-5 regu in near-despair. It was a tough end to a tough lar season. Notre Dame concluded. In February, the Belles soccer season for the Belles volleyball its Big East season with a 7-3 team, a team that was hopeful team. After a season of hard record, qualifying them for second that it would finally move from the fought, losing battles, Saint Mary's place in the Big East - its highest bottom of the MIAA to national found itself in the basement of the finish ever - and earning a first prominence, watched its hopes fly MIAA- a place they hadn't been round bye in the postseason tour away on the same plane head since they joined the MIAA. In nament. coach Bobby Johnston to his new their last game of the year - a A 1-0 win over Georgetown in job in Tampa, Fla. first-round playofl' game against the Big East quarterfinals earned Johnston had led his team to the the Alma Scots - the Belles finally the Irish its first spot in the Big best finish in recent history, even came together as a team, but it East semifinals in four years. if that finish only included six happened too late. Unfortunately, the Irish fell in the wins. "We played better as a team semifinals to St. John's. The first-year head coach led than we have played probably all That same week, new Irish his team to a seventh place finish season," said head coach Julie coach Bobby Clark was named Big in the MIAA, just one game behind Schroeder-Biek. "Alma was good East Coach of the Year. league rival Hope. competition for us and I felt like After the Big East tournament, it But then he left. we finished the season with our was announced that the Irish "I do have to make a living in heads held high." qualified for the NCAA tourna this profession," he said. - Katie McVoy ment for the first time since 1996: Due to financial reasons, In a hard-fought defensive battle Johnston accepted a full-time Men's Cross Country with Maryland in the first round, head-coaching position at the CHRISTINA REIT ANOfThe Observer After the Irish took home the Head soccer coach Bobby Johnston resigned following his first the Irish succumbed to a Terrapin University of Tampa. Big East title on Oct. 26 by nar goal with 1:41 left in regulation, -Katie McVoy rowly beating out Villanova, 52- season. The Belles doubled their number of wins under him. dealing the Irish a heartbreaking 49, senior Ryan Shay, referring to 1-0 loss. ND Volleyball his teammates, said, "Those guys MIAA Jamboree, they had their But the Notre Dame women's - Bryan Kronk It was a season of personal defmitely know how to step it up hopes set high for the MIAA golf team has minimal regrets accolades and conference success ... and [theyJ weren't going to let Tournament. But conditions were from its first season under head ND Women's Soccer for the Notre Dame volleyball anything deter them from win cold, wet and muddy and the coach Debby King, the program's The 2001 season was a difficult team before head coach Debbie ning." All season the Irish asserted Belles found themselves without first full-time coach. year for the Notre Dame women's Brown's team fell to Michigan their individual strength and com three of their top runners. Despite In one particular tournament, soccer team as the Irish failed to State in the first round of the bined depth. the fact that their seventh place everyone on the team seemed to duplicate the success of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Ranked No. 4 going into the finish was a far cry from victory, be able to play well at once. The squad that reached the Final The Irish ended the season with national meet, the Irish had hoped they were still proud of the sea Irish finished second at the Four. an impressive 22-7 record, which the return of Ryan Shay, who had son-ending performance. Snowbird Invitational in Florida The underdog Cincinnati included an undefeated Big East been suffering from an injured "Considering we were, missing over Spring Break, with Lotta fin Bearcats upset this year's edition regular season and the team's Achilles, and senior Pat Conway, three of our top seven [runners], I ishing filth after shooting rounds of the Irish in the second round of seventh Big East Tournament who had been battling a chest think we did really well," head of77 and 73 on the par 72, 5,940- the NCAA Tournament. Head Championship. The Irish, howev cold, would be enough to upset coach David Barstis said. "I think yard Pebblecreek Golf Course. coach Randy Waldrum's team fin er, struggled against ranked oppo Colorado and Stanford. we could have beat [sixth place McMurtrie, junior Terri Taibi and ished 17-3-1 on the season. nents throughout the season, Luke Watson and Shay's finish finisher Adrian and fourth place Byrne each finished tied for Defense was the trademark of falling to Florida, Northern Iowa, es in the NCAA meet earned them finisher Alma] had it been a good eighth, 13th and 25th, respective the 2001 campaign as the Irish UCLA, Nebraska and Pepperdine. All-America Honors. It marked day weather-wise and if we had ly. gave up only 18 goals in 21 Senior middle blocker Malinda the second straight All-America our top seven. We were pre Notre Dame's last tournament games. Offensively, sophomore Goralski was named Big East honor in cross country for Watson, pared." was rained out, leaving the Irish Amanda Guertin led the Irish in Player of the year.Before the sea who finished seventh individually - Katie McVoy tied for 9th place. scoring with 14 goals and 6 son, senior Kristy Kreher was in 2000. It also was Shay's second - Joe Lindsley assists. Defender Candace named Preseason Big East Player All-America recognition, after he Men's Golf Chapman was named to the fresh of the Year. finished 12th in 1999. Watson's The 2001-2002 golf season was SMC Golf man All-American team, while The team's undefeated confer NCAA finish marked the highest an educational one for the Notre It was a bittersweet end to two junior Vanessa Pruzinsky was ence record earned Brown Big by an Irish runner since Bill Clark Dame men. With an inexperi successful seasons. At the end of took second in 1964. enced squad consisting in part of their fall season. the Belles took - Katie Hughes three freshmen and first year home a disappointing third place head coach John Jasinski, the finish on their home course in the ND Women's Cross Country team had low expectations and MIAA Championship tournament. The Irish started the season treated the spring as a learning But worse than that, at the end of missing four seniors, but fresh process, preparing for future suc their spring season the Belles had man Lauren King, juniors Jen cesses while forsaking present to say goodbye to their coach. Handley and Jen Fibuch and glories. "I wasn't expecting it," said ·sophomore Megan Johnson While the team's inconsistent freshman Stefanie Simmerman. "I stepped up and Jed the team to play generally reflected its lack of thought it would be a given that exceed early expectations. experience, senior captain Steve she would be here for all four King, Handley, junior Jen Ratay quietly put together the best years, but I realize family priori Fibuch and sophomore Megan single season in school history, ties came up." Johnson were the consistent core shooting a glittering 73.03 aver Under Teresa Pekarek's leader at the head of the pack for the age. ship, the Belles took home a third Irish, though they didn't start While Ratay was consistently place finish in the MIAA following competing in the first few meets. great, his young teammates were a championship tournament at The Irish went on to qualify for consistently inconsistent. At their Brookwood golf course on Sept. the NCAA National Championship, best, freshmen K.C. Wiseman, 28. They began the season by tak which they had failed to do the Ryan Marshall and Steve Colnitis ing home a first-place finish at an year before. They had started the demonstrated that they could MIAA tournament at Hope. But at season unranked, and finished a compete with almost anyone. the end of the fall season, despite respectable 19th in the national However, when off their games, the disappointment, Saint Mary's meet in Greenville, S.C. King took the talented trio couldn't compete had high hopes. home All-American honors after at all. Too often, bad rounds But they'll have to carry those fmishing 23rd. Handley fmished in would become atrocious rounds threats without Pekarek, the 101st place and Johnson finished and scores would spiral into the coach who launched Saint Mary's right behind her. Jennifer Fibuch 80s, an unacceptable level in col golf program. and Christi Arnerich wrapped up lege golf. On March 28, Pekarek the top five Irish runners. - Kevin Berchou announced that she would not be - Katie McVoy returning for the fall season, citing ND Women's Golf family reasons and the fact that A season that began last fall she just didn't have enough time SMC Cross Country to give to a team that was moving ERNESTO LACAYO/The Observer The Saint Mary's cross country with great expectations ended in The Irish cross country team took home a Big East title and late April with a rainout and dis forward. team got stuck in the mud. After - Katie McVoy finished sixth at the national meet. finishing in seventh place in the appointment. ------, 2002 IN REVIEW Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer looks back on Notre Dame and Saint Mary's winter and spring seasons page 39 Notre Dame, also undefeated in Observer Staff Report won an individual title as she won the dual meet season, sent seven the women's epee title. Men's Swimming athletes to the NCAA Senior Carianne McCullough They didn't get the second Championships in Austin, Texas, closed her career by earning place fmish they were hoping for in March. Senior diver Heather third team All-American honors at the Big East Championships, Mattingly and senior sprinter for the first time in her career. but the men's swimming and div Carrie Nixon earned individual On the men's side, only junior ing team was satisfied with its All-America accolades at the Ozren Debic was named a first performance. meet, where the team placed team All-American. Junior Jan Rallying from sixth place during 19th overall. Viviani, freshman Derek Snyder the three-day competition, the - Noreen Gillespie and senior Andre Crompton Irish wrapped up their season in earned second team honors. Uniondale, N.Y., with a fourth SMC Swimming - Mike Connolly place overall fmish. The Belles made a major move "We got faster and scored more this season, a move from being a Hockey points, we just stayed in the same nameless team into a team that is After starting out the season a place. It's clearly a sign of how a real threat to the MIAA. Last disastrous 1-5-2, the Notre Dame much improvement is taking season, the Belles fmished at the men's hockey team fmally found place throughout the Big East bottom of the pack - last place in its groove with a productive Conference," said Irish head the MIAA. This season they December and January and a coach Tim Welsh after the com moved up to fifth and are looking five-game winning streak to end petition. "We are getting better to finish next season in the top the regular season. and so is the meet." three. The turning point of the season Irish senior co-captain "I think a few more divers and came after a two-game sweep by Jonathan Pierce set a Notre a few more swimmers next year Alaska-Fairbanks in early Dame school record in the 400- and we'll be right there with February. The Irish lost consecu yard individual medley at the everyone else," said junior tive games, 7-5 and 6-5. Irish meet, lowering the mark to 3 Lauren Smith. " ... Anything can head coach Dave Poulin was not NELLIE WILLIAMS/The Observer minutes, 56.34 seconds. Pierce happen next year. Everyone's happy with the defensive effort. The Notre Dame men's lacrosse team, which reached the Final also placed high in the distance working really hard and I think The week after the Fairbanks Four last season, finished 6-8 during a rebuilding year. events at the meet, earning a fifth our team will prove [that we can sweep, the Irish changed up their place finish in both the 1,650- compete]." defensive scheme. The scheme ent things and just basketball in Men's Lacrosse yard freestyle and 500-yard Saint Mary's ended the three worked and Notre Dame ended general, but I think we overcame The 2002 season for the men's freestyle. day MIAA conference meet with up finishing eighth in the CCHA it all and came together well as a lacrosse team was a rebuilding "It will be hard to replace great eight top 12 finishers, four who and qualifying for the CCHA post team," three-year captain Anne campaign as the squad struggled swimmers like Jonathan Pierce, fmished in the top six. The strong season. Blair said. "We kept on building to replace the departure of eight but we have a lot of youth in this third-day fmish left an impression In the first round of the best-of on the ladder that Saint Mary's starters from a team that reached team," said sophomore distance on the MIAA. three series, the Irish were paired basketball is trying to reach." the NCAA Final Four only a year swimmer J.R. Teddy at the meet. "Especially on the third day, I up against the Nebraska-Omaha -Joe Hettler ago. 'This was a growing experience had so many coaches come up Mavericks. Rowing This year's team, comprised for us." and say, 'Wow, what a day you The Irish drew Northern A strong spring season for the predominantly of freshmen and - Noreen Gillespie had,"' said head coach Greg Michigan in the semifinals. Notre Dame women's rowing sophomores, finished with a mod Petcofi. Although they lost that game 3-1 team should provide a spring est 6-8 record. Four of Notre NO Women's Swimming - Katie McVoy to end their season, it didn't take board at this weekend's Central Dame's losses were heartbreak The Irish again established away from a great season. Region Championships at Milton ing one-goal setbacks. their dominance in the Big East in Fencing -Matt Orenchuk Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Sophomore Dan Berger led the February, collecting their sixth Despite a strong start by the The meet is one of the most team in scoring with 20 goals consecutive conference champi women's side, the Notre Dame SMC Basketball important of the year for Notre while senior captain John onship. fencing team finished third at the The last two games of the 2001- Dame as some of the best teams Flandina paced the Irish with a The team, which graduates NCAA Championships for the sec 2002 season summed up the kind in the nation compete with the team-high 14 assists. Both play eight seniors this weekend, ond straight year. The third-place of team that the Saint Mary's bas 14th-ranked Irish to earn an invi ers. tied for the team lead in secured the championship by finish marked head coach Yves ketball team had become over the tation to the NCAA points with 24. more than 275 points ahead of Auriol's seventh- and last- top year. Championships, held from May Although the Irish failed to second-place Rutgers. five finish since taking over as After losing by 23 points to rival 31 to June 2 in Indianapolis. recapture the Great Western "It feels pretty good," said Irish head coach of both the women Kalamazoo two weeks earlier, the The spring season began with a Lacrosse League title and return head coach Bailey Weathers after and men in 1996. The Irish coach Belles used a 37-24 second half bang for the Irish in Knoxville, to the NCAA Tournament, the the meet. Weathers also won his retired after the tournament. scoring advantage to pull off the Tenn., where Notre Dame took future looks bright with the Irish fifth Big East Coach of the Year Although the third place finish stunning 66-53 upset in their last four of five races from the losing only four starters from this award at the championship. was disappointing for a team that regular season game at home. Volunteers. year's team. Next season will It was the stroke specialists expected to win the national Two days later Saint Mary's near Later in the season, the Irish mark the first year that Notre who propelled the Irish to the top championship, several individuals ly upended another opponent, first varsity eight competed in the Dame will offer scholarships in of the podium at the Goodwill turned in strong finishes. The before losing 62-54 in the first San Diego Crew Classic and held men's lacrosse. Games Aquatic Center in women's foil team won 45 of 46 round of the MIAA tournament their own against some of the -Joe Licandro Uniondale, N.Y. The backstrokers bouts. The only loss came when against Adrian College. best squads in the nation. were the powerhouses of the undefeated freshman Alicja The Belles battled through Notre Dame ended the two-day SMC Softball weekend, with senior Kelly Kryczalo beat her teammate, injuries to key players, players meet in fifth place behind top The Belles softball season may Hecking, sophomore Danielle freshman Andrea Ament. quitting the team and a tough. ranked Washington, No. 3 Ohio have looked like it was canceled. Hulick and freshman Kristen Kryczalo beat Ament again in the MIAA schedule to play their best State, No. 11 California and No. In a one-week period during Peterson capturing the top three finals to win the individual foil basketball at the end of the year. 13 Stanford. The weekend includ which the Belles were supposed places in both the 100-yard and championship. "We went through a lot of ed race victories over No. 6 to play six games, all six were 200-yard backstroke. Sophomore Kerry Walton also obstacles, team issues with differ- Virginia, No.9 USC, No. 14 Texas either canceled or rescheduled. and No. 19 Oregon State. Despite the cancellations, the In the Big East Rowing Belles managed an 8-15 overall Challenge over the last weekend record, although their 3-11 MIAA of April, the Irish fell just short of record left them in seventh place then 13th-ranked Syracuse to in the league. take second place in the meet. The Belles won their fmal game Notre Dame won one event as the of the season, defeating An cilia 6- varsity four crew of coxswain 2. Kathryn Long, Sarah Keefer, Kati "The season ended really well," Sedun, Elizabeth Specht and senior Kristin Martin said. "In the Maureen Carr finished five and a last game, we all played really half seconds ahead of Syracuse's well. I am happy with the way it first boat. all ended." The field at the Central Region The game was the last one that Championships this weekend will head coach John Ganef! coached. be another tough competition for With two weeks in the season left, the Irish as it includes five teams Ganeff resigned, effective the end in the national top 20 - No. 3 of the season, citing a mix of Ohio State, No. 5 Michigan, No. financial reasons and a need for 11 Michigan State, No. 20 Duke time to further personal goals. and No. 14 Notre Dame. In total, "Part of it is financial," said 19 teams are competing this Saint Mary's athletic director weekend including, Texas, Lynn Kachmarik. "But he's going Wisconsin, Clemson, Cincinnati, back to college and that's a big Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas part of his goal and he'll lose his State, Miami, Minnesota, Murray flexibility when it comes to class State, North Carolina, SMU, time." NELLIE WILLIAMS/Toe Observer Tennessee and Tulsa. Ganeffs resignation prompted The Notre Dame men's swimming team rallied from sixth place on the first day of the Big East Racing begins Saturday at 9:15 three softball players to request Swimming and Diving Championships to finish fourth overall. a.m. releases in order to transfer. - Chris Federico - Katie McVoy FOUR YEARS IN REVIEW page 40 The Top I 0 Observer sports stories from the I 998-2002 academic years Friday, May 17, 2002 Humiliating coaching I ···.··.··.·····oN~-Eitv£·£t··-·.·.··· ):0. M....-...... 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During his ment, which can Notre Dame the 2001 •. tenure, the Irish barely pay its head women's basketball _:® ·~ • recorded back-to-hack coaches $6,000 a national champions. ~l~~~ 20-win seasons, two year has been unable 1,500 fans showed straight NCAA to attract and retain up to welcome the Tournament appear quality coaches. team back and ances, a Big East West Bobby Johnston, President George W. Division title and a John Ganef!' and Bush honored the near upset of top-seed Theresa Pekarek all team two weeks later ed Duke in the NCAA left Saint Mary's dur at the White Hosue. tournament. ing the spring. April 2, 2001 2000-2002 Spring 2002 Football earns Irish teams earn Berticelli dies of 5 Fiesta Bowl bid 6 No. I rankings 7 heart attack After a horrendous When the Irish Irish men's soccer 1999 season, it looked SPORTS ""'ttf"' • baseball squad head coach Mike like the end of the road ~ ...... -...... ~.... 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I, 200I m.t~<:r 2000-2001 Jan. 26, 2000 Wadsworth Men's lacrosse Saint Mary's cuts 8 resigns as AD 9 makes history 10 track program When Michael The Irish recorded Under the recom Wadsworth resigned their best finish in mendation of athlet as athletic director, school history, reach ic director Lynn University President ing the Final Four for Kachmarik, Saint Edward Malloy the first time in Mary's President announced a school history before Marilou Eldred restructuring of the falling to Syracuse. decided to discontin athletic department. The feat was even ue the track and Later that year, more remarkable field program fol Malloy named Kevin considering the Irish, lowing the 2001 sea White the new ath who didn't have a son. letic director and single scholarship Kachmarik made said White would athlete. defeated sev the decision, in part, report directly to eral powerhouse to keep two full-time him. squads filled with coaches. scholarship players. Feb. 8, 2000 May 2001 Feb. I, 2001 ~ ------______.Ji!liHlfi'HHtt:ti! H.iUliiilliiUiHHLd.iilLU~tUUUU.;L.llii!iWit.:.. ~~L __j Friday, May 17, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 41 page 42 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, May 17, 2002 MEN'S TENNIS No. 14 Irish hope to eliminate lllini in rematch stems from the momentum of their 13- By JOE LINDSLEY match winning streak. That streak might Spores Writer have included their win over Notre Dame had the Illini not lost to No. 1 Georgia on After beating Michigan and Purdue last March 22. weekend, the 14th-ranked Notre Dame "J think we can win [on Saturdav]," men's tennis team partakes in the Round said Bayliss. "We'll have to play very well of 16 at the NCAA Championships at for the doubles point, [having] won it on a Texas A&M this weekend in College tie-breaker last time." Station. Texas. But Bayliss said losing the doubles Consequently, the Irish are making point will not kill Notre Dame's hopes. their third encounter this season with Taborga, ranked 15th nationally, has Illinois. currently ranked third nationally. never lost to Illinois' No. 1 player, Amer For seniors Javier Taborga, Casey Delic, whom he will play on Saturday. Smith. Aaron Talarico and Andrew In addition, Bayliss believes Laflin, Laflin, Saturday will be the last time they Smith, Talarico and sophomore Matt take on Illinois. with the match taking Scott will be able to avenge their earlier place on the same day as Notre Dame's losses to Illinois players. commencement. It is fitting that Notre Dame has the "We're really excited," Irish coach Bob opportunity to play Illinois in the NCAA Bayliss said. "[Illinois is] obviously one of tournament, given that Bayliss consid the two or three best teams in the coun ered the win over the Illini the proudest try, but we feel we can win. We'd like to moment of a season in which Notre Dame prove that it wasn't a fluke beating them tennis achieved its highest ranking since earlier." 1994. Notre Dame split with Illinois during A win on Saturday, allowing the Irish to the regular season. with the Irish win move one step closer towards the nation ning an outdoor match and the Illini win al title, would probably surpass that ning indoors. March 7 victory as Notre Dame's best When Notre Dame defeated Illinois on memory of the season. March 7, the triumph was narrow, with Bayliss is confident in his players, call the Irish snatching the victory because ing this squad one of the better teams he BRIAN PUCEVICH!The Observer they won the tiebreaker for the doubles has ever coached. Senior Aaron Talarico returns a serve during the first round of the NCAA points. The singles matches were split "In most teams, by the end of the sea Championships. The Irish will face the lllini this weekend in Texas. evenly, and four of them were decided in son. you will have one or two dead spots three sets. in the lineup, where you know that that setbacks, the major one being the upset With the exception of Michigan, we were Just over a week later, the Illini sought guy is not going to step up," he said. "We and won revenge, striking the Irish, who loss to No. 46 Michigan. really able to keep our nose above the really don't have that." "I think dealing with the expectations water and keep floating," Bayliss said. were without the services of senior A lack of holes in the lineup, along with Talarico, with a 4-2 victory at the Blue that come from high rankings was our the leadership and tenacity of seniors, toughest challenge," Bayliss said. 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Visit The Observer on the web at http://observer.nd.edu/ © 2002 Universal Press Syndicate Fridav, Mav 11 6 pm and Saturdav, Mav 1812 pm [DHJ ~11 No-tre DarY\e Bos-ton Collec:.e Friday @ "PACK THE ECK" Saturday Free Tickets available at Meijer, Boy Scouts "Scout-0-Rama" Blimpie's, and Between the Buns!! 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. outside Eck Stadium *Mini ND Baseball Bat (First 250)* *ND Leprechaun Bobble Head (First 100)* South Bend lli.bune .------ THE Campus Sports Campus Sports OBSERVER + Four Years in Review, p. 40 + NO Track, p. 31 + Year in Review, p. 38, 39, 41 + NO Basketball, p. 28, 29 + Football, p. 26 +Tennis, p. 36, 37, 42 + Baseball,p.25 +NO Softball, p. 34 +Sports News, p. 25 PORTS +Women's Lacrosse, p. 32 Friday, May 17, 2002 OuTSTANDING SENIOR ATHLETES Best of the class • All-American • Myers leaves Shay is most name all over decorated runner the Notre Dame in Irish history record books By NOAH AMSTADTER By MATT LOZAR Sporrs Wrirer Senior SraffWrirer One look at his resume As she prepares to leave quickly makes it obvious why the Irish, Jarrah Myers left the Michigan license plate on her name all over the soft Ryan Shay's car reads "U.S. ball record book. At the end SHAY". of the regular season, the With eight All-American fin senior captain's season sta ishes under his belt already tistics in walks, horne runs and a chance to add two more and RBI were in the top 5 in later this month, Shay is the Irish history and Myers was most decorated runner in the just out of the top 5 in bat history of an Irish track and ting average and stolen field program that was once bases. coached by Knute Rockne. But the records mean Shay, who competed in the nothing to Myers. The 2000 Olympic Trials in the Observer's 2001-2002 10,000 meters, won that event Outstanding Notre Dame at last year's NCAA Outdoor Senior Female Athlete Track and Field wants her name left in Championships, Notre Dame's Notre Dame softball history first individual national cham for only one reason- quali pion outdoors since 1954. He fying for the College World earned All-America honors in Series. the 5,000 meters during both "World Series. That's all I the indoor and outdoor sea want," Myers said. "I don't sons as well as two All care if I go 0-for the rest of America finishes in cross the year. I just want to go to country. the World Series; that's fine With that list of accomplish with me. I just want to be ments, it was not difficult to there." select Shay as The Observer's 2001-2002 Outstanding Notre An Ending to Forget Dame Senior Male Athlete. After the most successful Not as simple, though, is season in school history last telling Shay's story. BRIAN PUCEVICHfThe Observer season, Notre Dame, with a Shay was not one of the Ryan Shay (left), The Observer's Outstanding Notre Dame Male Senior Athlete, will graduate from 51-3 regular season record, nation's top recruits following Notre Dame as the most decorated runner in Irish history, with eight All-American finishes and a trip earned the top seed at the four successful seasons at to the Olympic Trials. Despite the overwhelming number of records she broke, Jarrah Myers (right), the NCAA Regional. The Irish Outstanding Notre Dame Female Senior Athlete, is still looking for a trip to the College World Series. see ~HAY/page 30 see MEYERS/page 35 Staying home and taking the lead + Blair became a er didn't quite agree with Dave Roeder asked the ers and it would be good if her. By the time she was a South Bend local to think they were close." leader on a team senior, her brother and sis about joining the Belles. In addition, staying near in transition ter had moved back to the Four years of playing for horne Blair made the con West Coast. South Bend St. Joseph High School had nection between the two doesn't hold any long-term indoctrinated Blair into the great loves in her life - By KATIE McVOY prospects for the 6-foot-1 South Bend community and basketball and teaching. As Associare Sporrs Ediror graduating Saint Mary's staying at Saint Mary's an education major, Blair senior, but it gave her offered her an opportunity began her student teaching something she will always to keep that feeling of com at McKinley grade school, Compared to California, be grateful for - four munity alive. helping teach the first South Bend doesn't seem to years of learning how to Not to mention that being grade. But her teaching have much to offer. It's lead and live. just minutes away from didn't end in the classroom. cold half of the year and "I think I grew a lot free laundry service is a She also began coaching rainy or humid the other throughout the four years," perk any local would list in the fifth grade basketball half. On the other hand, a said Blair, The Observer's her reasons to stay close to team. Californian may not seem 2001-2002 Outstanding horne. ''I've student taught and I to have much to offer South Saint Mary's Senior "I just wanted to stay was able to bring a lot of Bend. But for one West Athlete. "Senior year we close to horne and it was community kids in," Blair Coast resident, corning to really needed someone to kind of an easy decision," said. "I helped coach a South Bend was right on be a leader. I needed to Blair said. "The coach team and a lot of those kids target. have that leadership." wanted me to play and I were interested in corning NELLIE WILLIAMS/The Observer Anne Blair moved to Blair came to Saint figured it would be good to [to support the team]." Outstanding Saint Mary's Senior Athlete, South Bend after seventh Mary's in the fall of 1998 be close to horne. My par Anne Blair, graduated as team captain and grade and found the weath- after former head coach ents are really big support- see BLAIR/page 27 the link between coach and players.