US Revokes Visa for Ramadan
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/ ^ V T H E bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 39 : ISSUE 2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM University US revokes visa for Ramadan of Tariq Ramadan, a prominent granted a visa after passing a ethics beginning this fall at Notre welcomes Decision bars Muslim but contro- thorough investigation by both Dame. But Boyd said visas are v e r s i a 1 the Department of Homeland scholar from teaching typically revoked when a nonciti Muslim schol Security and the State zen poses a potential national 3 provosts at Notre Dame ar scheduled Department. However, his per security threat or a public safety to begin mission to work in the United risk — two suggestions that the teaching at States was revoked July 28 for University immediately denied. By CLAIRE HEININGER Notre Dame reasons not revealed to the “We know of no reason why he By TERESA FRALISH News Editor Tuesday. University. shouldn’t be allowed in,” Notre Associate News Editor Hired last Homeland Security spokesman Dame spokesman Matt Storin Drawing a national spotlight to sp rin g to Dean Boyd would not comment said. “If we did, we wouldn’t The University named the University and dealing a raise the pro- Ramadan on the specifics of the decision to have hired him.” replacements this summer for painful blow to the Kroc Institute file and diver bar Ramadan, a Swiss citizen According to State its three departing associate for Peace Studies, the State sify the curriculum of the Kroc who had been scheduled to provosts, all of whom are Department has revoked the visa Institute, Ramadan was initially teach Islamic philosophy and see PROFESSOR/page 9 a s s u m in g greater administra tive responsi bilities at either Notre Dame or Saint Mary’s. Two of the new associate p r o v o s t s , Jacobs Jean Ann Linney and C h r i s t i n e Maziar, come from outside t h e University, and the third, Dennis Jacobs, served previ Linney ously as a MICHELLE OTTO/The Observer c h e m is t r y Seniors gathered Tuesday morning to purchase football tickets at Notre Dame Stadium for the second time In two days. Some professor at students expressed concern overthe process and cost of tickets. Notre Dame. “It’s a chal lenge, but it also adds new Officials optimistic about ticket distribution insight and v i t a l i t y , ” Provost day’s outcome of this year’s foot do it right. We did virtually the methods of ticket distribution By KATE GALES Nathan Hatch Maziar ball ticket lottery distribution. whole [senior] class today in have been discussed, such as News Writer “On a one to io scale, it was a about an hour [and] 45 min completing applications online said of the 10,” said Cappy Gagnon, coordi and through the mail, the lottery changes occurring in his office. utes.” Despite some student confu ticket system allows students to A search process began after nator of stadium personnel. Josh Berio, director of ticket sion over lottery numbers and Carol Ann Mooney, form er asso- “We’ve been doing this process ing, said the process was rela choose their neighbors in the frustration about the price fo r several years now ... so tively time-effective, with stu increase, University officials dents waiting in line for 10 min see PROVOSTS/page 6 everybody, I th in k , is now so were optimistic about the first experienced with it that they just utes or less. Although other see TICKETS/page 4 No evidence found in Malloy celebrates opening mass sexual assault inquiry By TRICIA DeGROOT News Writer that she was unaware of the stu Seated by dorm to demonstrate Hospital tests reveal dent’s blood alcohol content upon the unity of the Notre Dame fami checking in to the hospital. “There female student was ly, students celebrated the start of was no evidence that she was the 2004-05 academic year in an not sexually attacked attacked.” opening mass held in the Joyce The student, whose last memo Center Tuesday evening. ry of the night was dancing at the Father Edward Malloy, who By CLAIRE HEININGER Linebacker Lounge, awoke in a presided over his final opening News Editor yard adjacent to the athletic fields mass as U niversity President, east of campus and requested the served as celebrant and homilist. Medical tests conducted on a tests after realizing that her He began his sermon by describ female Notre Dame student who clothes were missing and discov ing the ambitions of Father awoke naked near an abandoned ering bruises on her body, said Edward Sorin and his fellow home Saturday morning — lead Thirion. Hospital officials, who are founding Holy Cross members — ing Notre Dame Security/Police to required to report all rape exami even sharing one of Sorin’s own issue a campus-wide e-mail alert nations to police, notified St. letters with those in attendance. that afternoon — revealed no evi Joseph County authorities, Malloy read part of a letter that dence of sexual assault, St. Joseph prompting them to contact NDSP. Sorin wrote to Father Basil County Police Department spokes Phillip Johnson, assistant direc Moreau, founder of the woman Jaimee Thirion said to r o f NDSP, said he chose an Congregation of Holy Cross, about Tuesday. immediate e-mail because stu- his dream for the future of Notre “[The incident] was originally MICHELE OTTO/The Observer Dame du Lac. investigated as a potential rape The Notre Dame community welcomed the school year with a but was not,” Thirion said, adding see ASSAULT/page 4 mass celebrated by University President Father Edward Malloy. see MASS/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, A ugust 25, 2004 I n s id e C o l u m n Question of the Day: H o w was your firs t day o f class? Home at last There are some that say you can't go home again, but I'd beg to differ. Going home is easy—it’s being home that’s the test. Colleen Clark Chris Ragnl Scott Hagan Sheena Bowman Christian Burdziak Katherine Malkovsky During my freshman year, I did a lot of growing-up. After my tame and struc Junior Freshman Freshman Junior Sophomore Junior tured high school experience it was Walsh Morrissey Dillon Breen-Phillips Stanford PE. inevitable that college would change me, but I didn’t realize by how much until I tried to fit back "Fantastic, I “You could tell “Hectic. I had “Fun and “Short, most o f "It was into the world I Amanda Michaels only had one they were fo u r classes, eventful. I just the teachers let surprisingly left behind. --------------------------- class and it freshmen and my love Transport me out early. ” demanding. I I think 1 know Associate started at n .” classes because philosophy Phenomena, my already have Akw, E d ,o r everyone was class was chemical homework in in a round hole. there 15 really big. ” engineering fo u r classes. ” The air in my room felt stale; the scraps class. ” of paper and memory plastering its minutes early, walls seemed to be yellowing prema before the prof turely. Catching up with many of my old got there. ” friends was like being introduced to a group of strangers, as I was stuffed into a mold that I had shattered long before. Suffocating in the hand-me downs of a former life, 1 saw no possibility of I n B r ie f reprieve in the summer ahead, and no purpose at all to the hard-won changes. And then, a post office burnt down. Meet assorted Notre Dame A literal trial by fire, the day the athletic coaches and get a Warrendale Post Office went up in clean car at the Coaches Car flames was the first time I was able to Wash Thursday from 11 a.m. fully appreciate the work freshman year to 1 p.m. in the baseball had done on me. 1 was an intern at the parking lot. Proceeds from all Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, mainly relegat $5 donations w ill benefit ed to writing fluffy features for the United Way. weekly Suburban Living section, when I was sent out to report breaking news. It Play co-rec sand volleyball was a consequence of being in the right in a one-night only tourna place at the right time under the only m ent T hursday from 6 to 10 editor who would trust a newly-minted p.m. on the Riehle Sand freshman with a front page article, and Courts. Bring your teammates it petrified me. and register at Rolfs in Putting on a brave front, I made my advance, then bump, set and way to the scene, feeling smaller and spike under the lights. younger than ever as I clutched a note book and pen in one hand, and a cell Reserve your place for phone for desperate calls for help to my “Twilight in the Press Box," editor in the other. The area was a lim ited-seating event to swarming with reporters, many of benefit the Fischoff National whom I had watched on the nightly Chamber Music Association. news for as long as I could remember, CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer Open to all Notre Dame, Saint and hose water from the 10 fire trucks Football coach Tyrone Willingham selects 199 as the winning number In the lottery Mary’s and Holy Cross faculty, on the scene was flooding the street.