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Say Ahhh Irish fall to Volunteers Take a look behind the scene of Tennesse proved too strong for Notre Dame, Monday University Health Services. pulling off a 38-I 4 victory in Saturday's game. Scene+ page 14 Irish Insider+ pullout NOVEMBERS, 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 47 HTTP:! /OBSERVER.N D.EDU CAPACITY CROWD SMC hosts Fall Day festivities By KATIE MILLER News Writer While touring Saint Mary's on Sunday, visiting students sampled academics, commu­ nity and student life while participating in the annual Fall Day on Campus. Admissions department representatives were pleased with the large turnout of prospectives. "We had close to 300 prospective students here today; this is the largest program we've ever hosted," said admissions director Mary Pat Nolan. Nolan hopes the large turnout will bring in a larger applicant pool. "We are always looking to increase our pool of appli­ cants. Last year, 1,041 women applied. This year, we hope to match those numbers or increase them," said Nolan. Fall Day on Campus began with continental breakfast followed by a formal wel­ come by College president Marilou Eldred along with a prayer service. The prospec­ KEVIN DALUM!The Observer tive students and their fami- The Irish defense lines up during Saturday's game at Tennessee. The stadium attendance, 107,619, was the second highest In Tennessee history. see FALL DAY/page 4 WVFI vies for FM status, respect Lecturer: MTV, rap covered three weeks ago, with that on an FM station." By MATTHEW SMITH University administrators lim­ John Forgash, station man­ distract black youths News Writer ited access to WVFI to Notre ager of WVFI believes the Dame students with current period of global broadcasting Achievement Gap." It brought Years ago, WVFI was an AM AFS IDs, muting the station to allowed the station to show ofT By ERIN LaRUFFA station with a loyal listeners, social scientists from around Domers and fans without cur­ its work ethic. Employees News Writer but after the introduction of rent campus connections. learned a lot about what it the country together to discuss powerful electronic devices in Now, station managers' only takes to bl'ing in an audience. the discrepancy in achieve­ dorms - computers and TV's, In 1988, MTV first aired a ment between minorities and recourse to a "I think the show featuring hip-hop music. stnreos and refrigerators - its larger listen­ best part of it their white and Asian counter­ signals wmtkened with outdat­ Around the same time, the parts. ing audience "In my mind. they should was it was increase in the test scores of ed equipment. The University­ is to wait for unexpected, Ferguson funded station struggled to have a year to prove African- said that WVFI to and it made American stu­ rngain listeners. come up on what they can do." the DJ's real­ ':4 lot of the black kids black youth After a few weeks with a dents that began imi­ a list of ly focus on began in 1980 are trying to figure out world-wide audience, student­ organiza­ what they tating what run WVFI will have to be satis­ Adele Lanan started to drop what it means to be they saw in t i o n s were doing," ofl'. fied with on-campus broad­ requesting media advisor he said. "We black." rap artists, casting until it gets the oppor­ "Hip-hop hit who in turn FM dial h a v e really big in tunity to become an FM sta­ space. received a lot imitated tion. 1988," said Robert Ferguson trends they According to of emails, Robert In Snptember, "Tho Voice of Adele L<tnan, the station's mostly from parents and Harvard economist saw among the Fighting Irish" moved from Ferguson, an youth. Student Activities' media advi­ alumni. asking why we economist at its traditional home at 640 AM sor, students should use the couldn't broadcast globally "It's not and to an lntnrnet broadcast. Harvard's Kennedy School of proof of anything," Ferguson down time to hone their skills. anymore. The University Government. Ferguson spoke Although its agreement with "In my mind, they should doesn't know the impact we said of the correlation bntween the University only allowed about trends in academic test the explosion of hip-hop and have a year to prove what they made and how serious we scores as they relate to youth broadeasting to people within can do," she said. "There is a would take it [if given the the leveling of gains made by culture during a conference black students. However, he the Notre Dame systnm, due to difference between profession­ chance to broadcast globally Saturday at McKenna llall. said that researchers are a loophole. programming was al and unprofessional. and again I." The conference, sponsored searching for more evidence. available in cylwrspaee world­ they have got to show up for However, the University's by Notre Dame's Institute for "There's some evidence ... wide. shifts so there aren't hours of When tho mistake was dis- see WVFI/page 4 Educational Initiative, was dPad air. You can't get away entitled "The Black-White see LECTURE/page 4 -------- - ----------·---- page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Monday, November 8, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday WeareND + Lecture: "Culture and + Lecture: Stories of for- + Performance: Tom + Performance: "A Night of Irish Entertainment," Irish Burps. Gunshot wounds. Horror films. These Euopean Integration," 129 mer sweatshop work, DeLuca, hypnotist, Stepan things don't disgust me. DeBartolo, 4:30p.m. Le Mans Hall, Saint Center, 7 p.m. story tellers and muscians, What disgusts me is greed - greed and ego­ tism. How ironic that these two vices I disgust + Poetry reading: Charles Mary's, 7 p.m. + Lecture: "The Garden as Reekers, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. most exist in a University I thought I loved Bernstein, 138 DeBartolo, + Performance: Michael Myth: Villa Lante at + Theater presentation: "A entirely. Lacapa, Native American Bagnaia," 104 Bond Hall, Piece of my heart." Moreau I have recently just been Christine Kraly 8p.m. afforded the opportunity to Center, Saint Mary's, live, work and study in our +Concert: Janet Packer, flute player, LaFortune 4:30p.m. nation's capital, arguably Associate violinist, Hesburgh, 8 p.m. Ballroom, 7:30p.m. 8p.m. the best place in the world News Editor for journalism students. The program, through another university, has been established for years and has a great reputation for placing OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports students in rewarding internships during their stay in Washington. The problem is that Notre Dame established its own D.C. program a few years ago and Penn State minority students sent racist e-mails doesn't like to be passed over for another. I was UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. "If you're feeling uncomfortable class. wait-listed by Notre Dame's program and Penn State officials have traced "Why would he send it to Penn fought through the following months to get a racist e-mails some students received in classes, it causes you to State? It doesn't make any sense," realistic idea of my chances. Realism hit when this week to a specific computer in the think about things other than Darby said. numerous unanswered summer e-mails led me Philadelphia area, but have little your education. " For some black students, the mes­ to near apathy. information about who might have sage is another example of the racism But I didn't give up. sent them. they say pervades the University Park One sunny summer day my mailman returned At least 68 black and Hispanic stu­ Shannon Ingram campus. Junior Shannon Ingram, hope to my life with a letter from another uni­ dents received one of two versions of junior who heard about the message from a versity offering a semester in Washington, D.C. the anonymous message, said friend, said she received a similar e­ Somewhere in between receiving the universi­ Thomas Sowerby, investigator for mail as a freshman. She is consider­ ty's application and working, the summer Penn State Police Services. Security Office in investigating the ing withdrawing from Penn State ended with the application untouched. When I One version includes racial slurs, source of the messages. because of several racial incidents. returned to school, however, I decided this is implied threats and the salutation, "I Students who got the e-mail are also For example, on a recent weekend, what I really wanted to do. I knew my parents will be on patrol. Long live trying to uncover more about it, Ingram said a group of men said "the would be upset if I pursued it and that it might Amerikkka." including why the racist targeted coons are out tonight" and other slurs be a difficult process to complete. But some­ That message came from an e-mail those he did. One student is trying to near her while she was walking thing inside me told to push on. "Never live in account labeled "the patriot," the organize a meeting of those who downtown with friends. regret," I told myself. "Don't roll over and die same name a person used to send a received the message. "It's a combination of everything," simply because Notre Dame said 'no."' racist message to The Daily Collegian Junior Kenji Darby, a student who Ingram said. "If you're feeling You can imagine how happy I was to get my columnist Laura Hennessey in March. received the racist message, said wor­ uncomfortable in classes, it causes acceptance letter.

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