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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXVII NO. 4 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU ND letter responds to Catholic pri_est scandal decided to address these issues Dame community to take, there The letter noted "there is no the youth, which would be By MEGHANNE DOWNES at its annual June conference had been discussions by single measure which, if taken, open to review and improve Assistant News Editor in Dallas. What many are not Malloy's office, and bishops will restore the Church's prac ments. This policy would aware of is that as these accu had responded that they would tices and reputation to a state include consultation from Throughout the spring and sations were unfolding in the be receptive to input. of wholeness." This is because members of the clergy and laity summer, as Americans tuned press, University President of the complexity of the prob and non-Catholics and would into watch the late-night news, Father Edward Malloy had Letter full of questions lem and the variances between require the bishop to hear each they were informed of accusa called for the formation of a the particulars of each case victim's complaint. A National tions and The extended letter was sent Church Study Committee. to the bishops on May 22 and and the manner in which indi Policy Review Board would be cover-ups The committee compiled a vidual cases were and will be established to facilitate the pol of priests during the June conference, 13-page document entitled the Appleby was invited as a guest handled. icy. The letter also suggests sexually "Challenges and Opportunities In addition, the letter states that bishops who decline to abusing speaker, where he reiterated Arising from the Current part of the proposals from the that a single measure will be "follow the recommendation of minors. Crisis." The committee chaired effective because of the lack of the board should be required Following letter, by Carol Mooney, law professor The letter opened with a tes uniformity in the organization to provide a written statement t h e s e and vice president and associ between the different branches of his reasons for doing so to reports, timonial of belief in the ate provost, included the fol Church, which was followed by and dioceses and their inde the board." they were lowing members: Scott pendence. The addition of laity is pre given the Mooney questions directed towards Appleby, John Borkowski, John priests and bishops. "How, Restoring trust and bolster sumably to ensure that the vic opportuni- Cavadini, Father John Jenkins, then, can a priest, who partici ing the confidence of the laity, tims are heard and to dispel ty to laugh at the Catholic M. Cathleen Kaveny, Dennis pated by grace of ordination in especially the youth, is essen the pattern of covering up Church as late-night comedy Moore, Patricia O'Hara, Father the priesthood of Christ, possi tial according to the document. accusations. used these scandals of a Mark Poorman, Robert bly subject a child to sexual Suggestions for accomplishing According to the letter, "the minority of priests to seemingly Schmuhl, and Father Richard abuse and the physical and this included a listening session consequence of sexual miscon stigmatize the entire clergy. Warner. psychological harm that comes (where statements from victims duct with a minor child now or As this was unfolding, the In mid-March, the committee in its wake? ... How, then, can would be heard at the confer in the future should be immedi American Catholic Church was met with a lawyer, psychologist a bishop, who is called to be a ence), victim outreach, a ate lacization following the in a serious state as members and journalist in order to get shepherd to Christ's flock, pos National Day of Penance and provision of appropriate treat of the laity were developing a different perspectives. sibly allow such abuse to con Hope and study/discussion ment." mistrust for the Church that "The consultations helped tinue without protest - or what packets. The letter also states that it they looked towards for guid our ideas to gel," said Mooney. is worse, to transfer an offend The committee strongly sug would be irresponsible to ance. According to Mooney, er to a situation where he has gested the adoption of an inter remove a priest from the As a result, the United States although this was an unusual access to a new group of im national policy that would Conference of Catholic Bishops step for members of the Notre unsuspecting victims." err .on the side of protecting see LETTER/page 8 Saint Mary's Many issues factor into off-campus moves
against this line of thinking. passes IX)E By JIM GAFFEY "While it's true that in a limited News Writer number of cases it is possible to live more cheaply off campus," he inspections More than 20 percent of the said. "When you add it all up, the Notre Dame student body and cost isn't that big of an issue." half the senior class will call Another consideration for By SARAH NESTOR South Bend, and not the Notre many moving off campus is the Saint Mary's News Editor Dame campus, home this semes opportunity for co-ed housing. ter. Kyle Fager, a senior English More than a year after Sarah The move has increased migra major, thinks a co-ed living Alter, with the support of the tion ofT campus in recent years arrangement would be beneficial. Security on Campus organiza and has administrators con "I think living with the opposite tion, filed charges with the cerned. sex brings things to the table that Department of Education Scott Kachmarik, associate you would not otherwise think claiming that Saint Mary's mis director of the Office of Residence about," he said. "Living with represented its sexual assault Life and Housing, thinks the women oilers a different perspec statistics, the DOE has said the trend is fueling a gradual loss of tive that a guy wouldn't have." College complies with report an important aspect of the Notre Increased independence is one ing procedures. Dame experience. of the primary motives upper The DOE determined that "When alumni meet, the first classmen mention for moving off the College "has not substan thing they ask each other is what campus. "Throughout high tively misrepresented the dorm they lived in," he said. "At school, I had a parent watching crime statistics" and "the Notre Dame we are very fortu over me, punishing me for doing College's current overall inter nate and blessed to have our irresponsible things," Fager said. est and efforts in the area of upperclass students as role mod "It was the same feeling at Notre campus safety were impres eL<>. The movement of seniors off Dame [before I moved offl." sive." campus hurt.<> the sense of com Mike Brown, a senior finance The complaint filed against ~~:~" mwrlty on campus. We lose some major, said living on-campus was ':1-,:~ Saint Mary's on May 13, 2001, valued community members." too restrictive for the things he alleged that Saint Mary's secu But Kachmarik also notes that enjoyed doing. • • • e • f f I rity was not in compliance the high number of student.<> mov "Parietals didn't exactly figure • ...... ~, • .. • • • •• ., ~- - # with the Jeanne Clery Act, ing off campus alleviates a des into my decision to move off cam which requires that crime sta ... ·.··.~-·· perate space crunch in the pus," Brown said, "but it figures tistics be updated yearly and dorms. into the increased indepen students be educated about "We are over 100 percent sexual assault and safety. dence." capacity in the dorms," he said. "I Alter reported an assault to Relatively few students, howev need 1200-1300 people each campus security in 1999. er, directly blame the new alcohol year living off-campus," When the crime statistics came policy as a motive for moving off Kris Payovich and Patrick Dunnigan wash dishes together in Kachmarik said, adding that 25 out in the fall of 2000, Alter campus. The Office of Residence their house on St. Peter's Street. They moved off campus with students are on a waiting list to found there was a zero under Life and Housing reports that three other girls to have more freedom and responsibility. get into dorm rooms. the 1999 forcible rape statis only 38 students took up their tics. This was the basis of her For some, the choice to live off offer to refund housing contract already made the decision to there are only a limited number complaint with DOE. campus was based on financial deposits for those students who move off-campus beforehand. of people living in the same dorm "The thing they had found considerations. Senior Ben Rickie, chose to live off campus as a Increased social opportunities and many more social events off technically were things we had for example, said he moved off result of the new alcohol policy. also weigh into the decisions to campus. And, Wilkerson said, "A already been in the process of campus, "No. 1, for the money, Although senior Jesse Hensley move out of the dorms. Senior nice perk is not eating dining hall and No.2, for the freedom." was not pleased with the intro Matt Wilkerson, a former Knott Kachmarik cautions students llall resident, cited the fact that see DOE/page 6 duction of the new policy, he had see MOVE/ page 4 page 2 The Observer+ WHAT,S UP Friday, August 30, 2002
INSIDE COLUMN WHAT'S INSIDE CAMPUS WORLD& BUSINESS SPORTS SYR in a tent? NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE
I'm sure that years from now when I Police provide Skakel gets Boeing refuses Off-campus Concert at ND Notre Dame at look back on my time at Notre Dame, I'll tips for home 20 years to to resume living may be gets campus Maryland always have a special place in my heart for that SYR at the Rock. There's nothing security life in prison negotiations dangerous funked up quite like dancing the night away in a non-air-conditioned gym scented with Andrew Thagard South Bend police A judge sen Federal media The Observer George Clinton Notre Dame the sweat of past and local property tenced Michael tors ask the Boeing editorial examines with P-Funk, Better begins its 2002 foot workouts and bas ball season against Assistant owners collaborate Skakel to prison for to extend the con the problems with than Ezra and The ketball games. to help off-campus murdering his tract, but Boeing living life outside Green Room get Maryland at the The scary part is News Editor students avoid neighbor with a would not comply. of the protective ready to rock at Kickoff Classic in that this may not be becoming victims golf club in 1975. bubble on campus. Joyce Center. East Rutherford, far from the truth. of burglary and N.J., Saturday. In case you've literally been living other crime. under the Rock, University officials insti tuted sweeping changes to the alcohol policy last spring. Although the new rules now permit student-hosted tailgates, offi cials forbade "hard" alcohol on campus page 4 page 5 page 7 page 10 page 12-13 Insider and in-hall SYR dances. Since that declaration, the University has published a list of alternate campus venues to host the popular dorm event. You've got to give the University credit. WHAT's GoiNG DowN They may have instituted a draconian WHAT'S HAPPENING @ NO policy but they're determined not to kill the campus social scene ... at least not Injury requires hospital care Cars collide in parking lot just yet. +Volleyball Shamrock NDSP transported a student from NDSP responded to a two-car acci In all seriousness, there are several Invitational at Joyce Center Keenan Quad to St. Joseph Medical dent in the Student South Stadium decent locations on the list. Dorms have Center for treatment of a sports parking lot. already hosted successful on-campus for 4:30p.m. game -Cincinnati vs. injury early Thursday evening. The mals at Alumni Senior Club and the University of \Visconsin, cause of the accident was not includ 2 trespassers arrested LaFortune Ballroom. Milwaukee ed in the report. A 20-year-old and a 19-year-old And some of the locations, like the were arrested by NDSP for trespass Main Building rotunda and the Warren 7 p.m. game- ND vs. University Harassing messages left ing on University property. Golf Oub House, sound pretty cool. of \Visconsin, Milwaukee On Aug. 28, a victim reported But quite a few seem to be a stretch. receiving a harassing telephone The Morris Inn outdoor tent? That should message on her answering Traffic violations cited be fun come February. machine at an off-campus loca NDSP issued four separate state Stepan Center? The building's held tion. citations for seat belt violations together by duct tape, for God's sake. I'm Thursday afternoon on Douglas and already praying Hail Mary's so the thing Property lost off campus Edison roads. Two more state cita doesn't collapse when I take my exams Two victims reported losing their tion were issued later in the day for University Kontrol Kards at off missing tail lights and exceeding there. And that's in complete silence. I WHAT'S HAPPENING @ SMC can't even imagine cramming a couple of · campus locations Thursday morn the posted speed limit on Edison hundred people under there with move ing. Road. ment and loud music. + Exhibition of SISTAH Grant Or how about the first floor of Project (Sandi Ginter and Lisa Palm Pilot reported missing Hitter) in the exterior of NPSP received a report of a palm Hesburgh library? One incident of an Moreau Center for the Arts intoxicated student puking on a book or pilot being taken from the victim's computer and that location gets crossed room in Breen-Phillips Hall between off the list real quick. + C\VIL Diversity \Vorkshop Aug. 10 and Aug. 18. There are no Officials also list the DeBartolo 134 Luncheon-discussion and suspects. The case is open and pend Lounge, Grace Hall basement and the dialogue with Dr. Kendall 12:00 ing. Knights of Columbus building as potential noon, Haggar Parlor. locations. Those places sound great if you're a relatively small dorm like Badin or Howard and then half the residents don't bother to show up. However, if your dorm plans to have more than six cou Information compiled from the Notre Dame Security/Police blotter. ples attend, you better think twice before. reserving those venues. I can think of a few more locations for the administration to put on their list. WHAT'S COOKING They skipped right over the water tower and power plant. Let's not forget the North Dining Hall South Dining Hall guard gates. Combined they may have Today's Dinner: Tomato Soup, Today's Dinner: Boiled Thin Spaghetti, Boiled Shells, Boiled Mostaccioli, Boiled more square footage than the Notre Chicken and Dumplings, Meatballs with Tri-Color Rotini, Boiled Linguine, Boiled Fettuccini, Pastaria Meat Sauce, Dame Room at LaFortune - which is on Sauce, Buffalo Chicken Lasagna, Spaghetti Sauce, Alfredo Sauce, Meatball with Sauce, Baked Cheese Ravioli. Pesto the list, incidently. Roasted Turkey Breast, Bread Stuffing, Sauce, Pepperoni Pizza, Cheese Pizza, Vegetable Pizza, Pretzel Sticks, Mexican I'm not wasting my time arguing for Peas, Cherry Crisp, Chinese Noodles, Beef Pizza, Whipped Potatoes, Cut Corn, Brown Sauce, Turkey Gravy, Plain Rice, University officials to renege on the alco Broccoli and Tofu, Tuna Casserole, Baked Potato, Broccoli Cuts, Baby Carrots, Frozen Cut Green Beans, Roasted hol policy. I've already gotten that e-mail. Potato Pancakes, Applesauce, Baked Vegetables, Macaroni & Cheese, Cauliflower, BBQ Chicken, Grilled Tuna with All I ask is for an ounce of respect. In Sweet Potato, Spinach, BBQ, Rib Le~on, Turkey B~east, Bread Stuffing, Long Grain & Wild Rice, Hamburger, their fervor to find SYR locations, officials Sandwich Grilled Hotdog, Chicken Patty, Grilled Cheese on White, Natures Burger, Reuben have slipped in some crazy options. Sandwich, Seasoned Fries, Onion Rings, Grilled Chicken, Chinese Noodles, SDH It's fine to require dorms to have their Saturday's Lunch: Chicken Chowder, Oriental Noodles, Vegetable Eggrolls, Chinese Steamed Rice, Fried Rice, Oriental dances outside the hall, but don't insult Tomato Soup, Chicken Fajita Pizza, Vegetables, Cantonese BBQ Pork, Chicken Taco, Taco Meat, Spanish Rice, SDH our intelligence by offering locations that Fried Cheese Ravioli, Mushroom Mexican Bar, Arroz con Pallo are both impractical and downright crap Stroganoff, Kluski Noodles, Green Beans, py. Apple Cobbler, Gyro, Sausage Links, Saturday's Lunch: Turkey Tetrazzini, Mushroom Marinara, Spinach Cheese By the way, I went ahead and reserved Blueberry Pancakes, Scrambled Eggs, Tortellini, Pizza, Garden Quiche, Beef Tips with Mushrooms, Roast Top Sirloin, the Port-o-Johns outside the Joyce Center Tater Tots, California Vegetable Blend Italian Chicken Sandwich, Szechuan Chicken Stir-Fry, Chicken Enchilada for the next Board of Trustees meeting. You may want to add that to the list as well. The views expressed in the Inside TODAY TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Column are those of the author and 0:: not necessarily those of The Observer. I.IJ Contact Andrew Thagard at :t athagard@nd. edu. ti I.IJ 3: ...I c:r: CORRECTIONS (.) 0 HIGH HIGH HIGH 81 HIGH 81 HIGH 82 The Observer regards itself as a professional publica -I 81 79 77 tion and strives for the highest standards of journal LOW 60 LOW 60 LOW 64 LOW 66 LOW 67 64 ism at all times. 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Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS page 3 SMC will OIT upgrades boost student resources open lot the dorms for incoming fresh the Multimedia Service Center release stations run on an old By JUSTIN KRIVICKAS men and other students at the will now provide CD/DVD dupli NT domain that is not connected Assistant News Editor beginning of the semester. cation, offer printing services to the new Windows domain. So for seniors Also, instead of the previous and take passport photos. for the first few weeks of school, Notre Dame's Office of system of a resident computer Computers on campus have while the problem is being consultant living in and han been given Windows XP fixed, students using the print By EMILY FORD Information Technologies made dling computer problems within upgrades and Macintosh com ers will not have to "release" News Writer a series of changes over the summer to designed to increase a particular dorm, OIT will dis puters were given memory their print jobs in the clusters efficiency patch technical support from a upgrades. for the first few weeks of school. Age can have its pnvl centralized location to improve Flat panel monitors were This system might be a hassle leges, as seniors at Saint a c r o s s OIT Upgrades campus. efficiency. Now, students do not installed in large clusters and for some students in large clus Mary's will soon learn when + Internet Explorer A new have to wait for a single person, classrooms and a new system is ters where printers are scat a parking lot across from change 5.5 SP2 upgraded to who might be backlogged with in place to allow laptop support tered and cannot direct their the Angela Athletic Facility imple work, to trouble shoot a prob for classrooms. With this func print job to a specific machine. constructed specifically for 6.0 mented lem. tion, professors can readily use "We are working around the seniors opens. this year + FileMaker Pro 5.0 For the first time, new stu their laptops to do Power Point clock to develop a fix for this Senior class Vice helped dents, faculty and staff will be presentations and work with problem and expect it to be President Candace upgraded to 5.5 many required to read and take a other programs without the back to normal soon," said McElligott attributes the students +Microsoft short online quiz. This exercise unplugging the computers pro Shiree Moreland, director of idea's origin to her oppos configure Publisher 2000 pertains to the Responsible Use vided in the classrooms to use Education and Communication. ing candidates. t h e i r of Information Technologies at their laptops. "Our goal is to provide better "Originally, it was on the upgraded to XP comput Notre Dame. Only after complet Because of the XP upgrade in service to students. We are anx Prezioso-Harms ticket when ers for + Corel Office 2000 ing the quiz will new members the computer clusters, printing ious to get student input into they were running for office the Notre of the University receive their from these stations has changed how we can improve our sys last spring," she said. "At upgraded to Dame AFS password, certifying that slightly from previous years. tems." "Meet the Candidates" the network. WordPerfect Office they will comply with the rules The new operating system speaker asked us, 'What ResNet 2002 for using Notre Dame's net required a modern Windows would you want to do if you installa- work. domain to be added to the cam Contact Justin Krivickas at win that's on somebody tions were performed in each of In the basement of DeBartolo, pus network. However, the print [email protected] else's platform right now,' and we had said we would like to implement the senior ..,. parking because we thought that was a really good idea." Surveys distributed to the \' senior class were inundated ' .. with inquiries regarding senior parking. McElligott ' and Senior class President Rachel Finley communicat ed the students' desire for reserved parking and col laborated with their senior board members and the administration. "We were happy to work with [Nicole] Prezioso because it was her ticket's idea and we were happy to sort of collaborate our ideas regarding that because the whole point of this, the whole point of student gov ernment is to make the rest of the students happy," Welcome to Notre Dame. McElligot said. "Hopefully this is just a stepping off Your life just went from 0 to 90. point in doing that." Their efforts resulted in 180 spaces reserved for seniors, which will be allo cated on a first-come, first serve basis, according to Linda Timm, vice president of Student Affairs. Though the institution of a student reserved lot can be viewed as a partial victory for ) DIGITAL WALKIE-TALKIE seniors, some wish more ) SPEAI\ERPHO NE Wh"'tevev twists "'~J. hw~s col\e.~e could have been done. ) WIRELESS WEB ACCESS t.llil • I Hwows "'t yov. - yo!.\ c"'~ J.e"'l. A~.:A Senior Anne DeCleene had ) AOL8 INSTANT MESSENGER"' service WelcGm Many of the students who when living off-campus becomes a choose to live off-campus are not hassle, such as last October when Police provide tips for Move really prepared for the level of a tornado hit the Michiana area continued from page 1 independence required of them, and knocked out power for much said Kachmarik. "Some students of the region. off-campus students off-campus students food." living off-campus try to have it flocked to campus to avoid the Kachmarik thinks this transi both ways," he said. "They're still inconvenience of power outages. students are opportunists, tion occurs. more smoothly in the hanging out in the halls, seeing By HELENA PAYNE looking for a chance to get first few years after college rather friends, trying to still be a part of News Editor money or valuable items from than during junior and senior campus culture." Contact Jim Gaffey at an unsuspecting and often vul year. Kachmarik also points out that [email protected] In light of recent crimes nerable student. According to involving Notre Dame stu Shock, many of the criminals dents, South Bend police and know the students will not be Come To Papa local off-campus property able to identify them, and they owners are teaming up to might not even be around ensure that students know when the case goes to court. how to take the right safety Since the end of July, Shock For A Celebration precautions to avoid becoming said there have been three victims. burglaries to student homes, Of Great Taste! Students living in Lafayette which happens when a crimi Square Apartments and the nal steals while the residents 0 houses of Domus Square are either not around or not At Papa Vino's 1talian Kitchen you'll enjoy Properties will learn about aware of the criminal's pres generous portions of Italian entrees and home security during upcom ence. pastas like: ing safety meetings, South More recently, around mid Bend Police Capt. Wanda night on Sunday, three Notre • Chicken Parmesan Shock said. Dame students were robbed at Domus Properties, which gunpoint after parking a car • Shrimp Farfalle Owns about 100 houses with near Corby Street. two to six students in each In order to avoid future home, was the first to propose crimes, Shock suggested the • Veal Marsala ~ making safety information fun following: by going beyond passing out + Be aware that crime hap- • Salmone alia Griglia information door-to-door, she pens everywhere and be said. Domus' information responsible for your own safe • Chicken Scallopini event will occur at a ty. September cookout. + South Bend is a safe place • Shrimp & Scallop Scampi ~ "We've been asking for but be reasonable. Do not be years for some apartment publicly intoxicated or invite owners to help us," Shock strangers into your home. And remember. Papa recommends you said. + Mark property and keep complement your meal with our delicious Recently, Lafayette received track of serial numbers so the appetizers. desserts and wines. Magnifico! an abatement notice from the police can return stolen prop city of South Bend to control erty to the owner. the nuisance to locals caused "It seems like common sense by student parties. advice, but I guess students "Lafayette Square has been get a little careless when a real problem for us," Shock vt.~~t;~;;,~®---- they're with other students," said, adding that weekend keg Shock said. AllAN KITCHEN parties have caused non-stu dent residents to complain. In response to the negative Contact Helena Payne at MISHAWAKA attention the apartment com [email protected] 5110 Edison Lakes Pkwy. plex has received, Lafayette's ·=·, :~:m:~st:l:r:mtm¥=@1:1: managing agent, Real Estate 574-271-1692 Management. has teamed with local law enforcement to RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED address the problem. "Things just seemed to get HOURS: Sunday-Thursday 11:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Friday-Saturday 11:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m. out of hand in many different communities last year, and we don't want to be put in that light this year," said Tracy Clark, vice president of Real Estate Management. On Wednesday, Lafayette Original Sin and the police will sponsor an Theo. 340J. hour-long block party starting 1 credit. S/U at 6:15 p.m., where police will answer questions about law Instructor: enforcement during parties J. Matthew Ashley and tailgating. "They need to do their job, Wednesdays and we're not going to stop September 4, 11, 18, them," Clark said. In addition, Clark said 25, & Oct. 2, 9 Lafayette would invite a Notre Time: 6:00 p.m.-8:05p.m. Dame administrator to attend Coleman-Morse Center, Room 331 the block party. "We're all on the same team here," she said. Clark added Lafayette and Faith the police would not tolerate kegs "outside every door" or One-Credit Courses Theo. 340K. 1 credit. S/U underage drinking. Shock said that alcohol con offered by the Department of Theology Instructor: Rev. David Burrell, C.S.C. sumption can make students a in cooperation with the Office of Campus Ministry Mondays prime target for criminals. September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, and Oct. 7 She recalled two separate incidents last year when stu Time: 7:00p.m. - 9:05p.m., dents were so intoxicated that Coleman-Morse Center, Room 330 they couldn't remember their addresses. "We couldn't even take them home. We had to find out through campus security," Shock said. God Prayer Another problem Shock cited was students throwing Theo. 340M. 1 credit. S/U Theo. 340A. 1 credit. S/U large parties and inviting Instructor: Rev. Brian Daley, S.J. Instructor: Lawrence Cunningham everyone to their home. "It becomes an open house Weekend: September 27-28, Sundays, September 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13 for criminals," Shock said. Friday, 4:00-10:00 p.m. & Saturday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00p.m. Time: 6:00 p.m.-8:30p.m., "People just come and go." She said many of the crimi Coleman-Morse Center, Room 103 Coleman-Morse Center, Room 330 nals who take advantage of For further information, contact Dorothy Anderson in the Theology Department, 631-7811. Syllabi for the courses can be obtained at the Theology Dept., 130 Malloy Hall. Register through DART or go to the Registrar's office. Friday, August 30, 2002 COMPILED FROM THE OBSERVER WIRE SERVICES page 5 Skakel gets 20 years to life for Moxley murder Associated Press Skakel, who did not testify at his trial, gave a rambling, tear NORWALK, Conn. ful speech in which he said he A judge sentenced Michael had screamed at God to protest Skakel to 20 years to life in his fate. prison Thursday for bludgeon Responding to prosecutors' ing his teenage neighbor with arguments that Skakel was a golf club in 197 5 after hear rarely employed, Skakel said, ing the Kennedy cousin tearful "And as far as a job is con ly proclaim his innocence and cerned, I mean, what did Jesus link his suffering to that of Christ do? He walked around Jesus Christ. the world telling people that he Skakel told Norwalk Superior loved them. Should he go to jail Court Judge John F. for that?" Kavanewsky Jr. he could not Skakel also said that when apologize for a crime he had he explained to his son on not committed. Easter that he might go to "I would love to be able to prison, he said the holiday was say I did this crime so the about "God's child, and they Moxley family could have rest put him in prison." and peace, but I can't," he "It sounded to me like he was said, sobbing. "To do that trying to compare himself with would be a lie." someone being crucified," Kavanewsky said he was prosecutor Jonathan Benedict imposing a substantial sen said later. Benedict had urged tence on Ethel Kennedy's the court to impose a maxi nephew because of the brutali mum sentence of 25 years to ty of the crime and because life, calling the murder "cold Skakel was unrepentant. bloodedly evil." "For the last 25 years or Under 197 5 sentencing more ... the defendant has guidelines, Skakel will become AFP Photo been living a lie about his eligible for parole on April 27, Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel (far right} leaves court in Norwalk, Conn., behind the Moxley guilt," the judge said. "This 2013. Kavanewsky rejected a family Thursday, after a judge sentenced him to 20 years to life in prison. Skakel was convicted defendant has accepted no defense motion to free Skakel this summer of the 1975 murder of his 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley. responsibility, he has on bond while the conviction is expressed no personal appealed. Michael was growing emotion extraordinary generosity." courthouse, Martha's mother, remorse." Defense lawyer Michael ally destitute," she wrote of Sherman also noted a pre Dorthy Moxley, called the sen Skakel, 41, was convicted in Sherman submitted letters Skakel's difficult childhood. "It sentencing report compiled by tence reasonable. Brother John June of killing Martha Moxley from numerous supporters, pains me that others miss his a probation officer, which Moxley said he was numb. when they were 15-year-old including Robert F. Kennedy sweetness, kindness, good Sherman said did not recom "There's no celebration," neighbors in wealthy Jr. and Ethel Kennedy. cheer and love of life; his per mend a life sentence. John Moxley said. "There's no Greenwich. He plans to appeal. "Financially privileged, ceptiveness, exuberance and In a steady rain outside the party to go to." Bush wants congressonial support on Iraq sion?" State Department spokesman Constitution prescribes, and that is what Associated Press ambassadors, said unilateral action Richard Boucher said. "No. But there against Iraq would be contrary to "the the American people expect." are plenty of questions and answers cooperation of states, the respect of law Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., a member WASHINGTON around." and the authority of the {U.N.) Security of the Senate Foreign Relations The Bush administration struggled "Does that surprise us?" the Council." Committee, said nothing short of formal Thursday with an increasingly skeptical spokesman went on. "No." If Iraq continued to refuse to permit approval of an attack on Iraq would be Congress and international community Vice President Dick Cheney, who has unfettered inspection of its suspect acceptable. as it tried to gain support for deposing struck the most hawkish stance publicly, weapons sites it would be up to the China on Wednesday joined Germany, President Sad dam Hussein of Iraq. offered reassurances in a speech Council to decide on a response, Chirac Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Turkey in French President Jacques Chirac said Thursday to Korean War veterans in San said. urging restraint. In Japan, seeking he was worried President Bush might Antonio, Tex. Even with Congress in recess the internnational support, Deputy Secretary order a unilateral attack on Iraq. And a Cheney said Bush welcomes debate at prospect of a U.S. attack raised ques of State Richard Armitage said he could senior Democratic senator, Patrick home on attacking Iraq. "I know that he tions and doubts. Leahy, chairman of the not provide a "laundry list" of countries Leahy of Vermont called for a full debate will proceed cautiously and deliberately Judiciary Committee, said "the adminis that back the United States. even though Bush has yet to decide how and consider all possible options to deal tration should not expect to commit In Washington, Secretary of State Colin to seek regime change in Baghdad. with the threat that Iraq ruled by American troops to war with a wink and Powell telephoned Foreign Ministers Administration officials showed no Sad dam Hussein represents," the vice a nod to Congress." Dominique de Villepin of France, Jack sign of being flustered. "Is this a defini president said. "There should be a full debate and a Straw of Britain, Anna Palacio of Spain tive moment of consultation and deci- Chirac, in a speech in Paris to French vote," he said. "That is what the and Joschka Fischer on Germany. WORLD NEWS BRIEFS NATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS U.N. chief wants AIDS under control: Efforts to Poll shows free spee-ch support down: Muslim woman convicted of menacing: A Muslim uplift the world's poor will be meaningless without Support for the First Amendment has eroded woman has been convicted of threatening sheriff's a massive international campaign to fight the AIDS significantly since Sept. 11 and nearly half of deputies during a clash on an eastern Ohio high pandemic ravaging Africa and other developing Americans now think the constitutional amend way just hours after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. nations, a top U.N. official said Thursday. ment on free speech goes too far in the rights it A judge Wednesday sentenced Jamilah Ali, 38, of The pandemic is reducing life expectancies, dev guarantees, says a poll released Thursday. Baltimore, Md., to the eight days she served in jail astating families and destroying economies, accord The sentiment that the First Amendment goes last September and suspended the rest of a 180- ing to a report UNAIDS released Thursday in an too far was already on the rise before the ter day sentence after finding her guilty of aggravated effort to emphasize how crucial the AIDS fight is to rorist attacks a year ago, doubling to four in 10 menacing. development. between 2000 and 2001. During her trial, Ali called the officers "bullish The poll found that 49 percent think the First and aggressive" and said she feared for her life. Bomb destroys Zimbabwe radio office: A bomb Amendment goes too far, a total about 10 The deputies testified they felt threatened, too, attack Thursday gutted the office of a radio station points higher than in 2001. especially when Ali screamed she was a "warrior critical of President Robert Mugabe's government, "Many Americans view these fundamental for Allah, and at war with the U.S." and authorities raided a human rights group and a freedoms as possible obstacles in the war on The Council on American-Islamic Relations said camp for displaced farm workers run by a private terrorism," said Ken Paulson, executive direc Thursday it will help Jamilah Ali appeal. charity. tor of the First Amendment Center. based in "The judge had the opportunity to correct this The actions heightened tensions in Zimbabwe, Arlington, Va., which commissioned the survey. travesty of justice, but he chose ... to continue this where independent media outlets and opposition Almost half also said the media has been too charade," said Jad Humeidan, executive director of activists say they have been subject to attacks by aggressive in asking the government questions the group's Ohio chapter. ruling party militants during n_early two years of about the war on terrorism. political unrest. page 6 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, August 30, 2002 New South Bend skate park hopes to attract students United States. hold an amateur skating competi provide a safe place for those in Also, in order to ease concerns By JOHN FANNING "Around 300 skate parks a year tion for both inline skaters and the·· South Bend area to come and of skeptical parents, the facility News Wrirer are being built across the U.S.," skateboarders called "SK8 Jam practice a sport that is not tradi invites parents to come in and McMinn said, "In fact, a lot of 2002." The two-day event, which tionally provided for. The park is watch and provides snack bar Student skaters' and Notre Dame students probably takes place on Sept. 14 and 15, is staffed at all times in case of facilities as well as an extensive rollerbladers' prayers for an area have them in their hometowns." sponsored by Pepsi and will fea injury, and all participants are stereo system. skating park have been answered. Though at first South Bend offi ture professional skateboarding required to wear helmets, though South Bend Parks and cials were skeptical that the facili superstar Mike Frazier. McMinn said, "We have only had Recreation recently opened the ty would be able to pay for itself, However, according to McMinn, a few minor injuries since we Contact John Fanning at O'Brien Skate Park on Michigan as was the intention of the park the primary focus of the park is to opened in July." [email protected] Street just north of the bypass. board, McMinn does not see this .------The 13,000-square-foot concrete as a problem. The park, which park, designed by the California opened in July and cost about Skate Company, features quarter $400,000 to construct, charges a pipes, half-pipes, bowls, steps, small entrance fee and is already ramps and rails and caters to all generating around $4,000 per ages and skill levels. week. Admission during the week "Skateboarders are probably costs $2 for residents and $3 for the most neglected recreational non-residents - the category facilities users that there are. most Notre Dame students fit into They grow up being chased out of - while on the weekends entry is more public areas, and so we $3 and $5, respectively. wanted to provide a safe place for In addition to the daily skating, them to skate," said Paul McMinn, which is available from 10 a.m. to a member of the city parks board 9 p.m Monday to Wednesday, 10 who was a driving force behind a.m. until 10 p.m. Thursday to the park's construction. Saturday and 12 p.m. until 9 p.m. In addition to providing for the on Sunday, there are also events needs of a typically neglected and competitions periodically recreational group, McMinn also scheduled for more serious cited skate park construction as skaters. an increasing trend across the In the near future, the park will DOE continued from page 1 correcting before the charges were filed," Linda Timm, vice president for Student Affairs said. "There were no incidents that were not represented, but they were represented in the wrong year." The DOE sent a representa tive to Saint Mary's last November and found the College fulfilled its promise to correct the statistics and had plans to implement new pro grams to teach students about safety. If Saint Mary's had been found not to be in compliance with the Clery Act, the College could have faced a fine as large as $25,000 and the loss of fed eral financial aid. In its final report, the DOE noted "significant efforts" by the College to improve its ~·· reporting had been made even learn how to be a nurse, before the agency became involved. by being a [nurse]m "I felt the College responded very openly, and I appreciated the way the DOE evaluated our responses," Timm said. "The fact remains the Ia w is there and we are in compliance and that has been confirmed by the DOE." Although Alter has not been Here's your chance to do what other students only read about. in contact with Saint Mary's since the DOE released its find To get hands-on clinical experience, one-on-one training, and a shot at a ings in June, she told the South Bend Tribune she believed scholarship worth thousands_ It's all part of the Army ROTC Nursing program. Saint Mary's was more respon Talk to an Army ROTC advisor today to find out more. Because it's time sive to her and was satisfied that changes had been imple you put your passion into practice. mented. In its effort to improve stu dent interaction with campus security. the College made Unlike any other college course you can take. ... '!' ARMY ROTC changes this summer so that campus security is now a divi sion of the Student Affairs office. Through this collabora tion, the College has plans to implement new programs, the first being a personal security forum in O'Laughlin Auditorium on Sept. 4. "I think it is important that we have contir.ued to look at w-ays to heighten awareness about what students can do to be attentive to themselves at For more information, contact Captain Bart Hennessey all times and in all situations," Timm said. at (219) 631-4656 or 1-800-UND-ARMY Contact Sarah Nestor at [email protected] THE OBSERVER Friday, August 30, 2002 page 7 MARKET RECAP Market Watch August 29 Boeing refuses to negotiate Dow jones • Union leaders 8,670.99 • -23.10 vote to accept Boeing's offer N4SDAQ Associated Press SEATTLE 1,335.77 +21.39 Federal mediators asked * Boeing Co. and its largest union to extend their con S&P500 tract and resume negotia tions, but the big airplane 917.80 • -0.07 maker refused Thursday, setting the stage for a pos sible strike next week. AMEX "There is nothing left to negotiate," the company said in a statement. 862.98 +2.87 Negotiators from Boeing and the machinists union NYSE were asked Thursday morning to report to the 495.20 -0.66 Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service head quarters in Washington, D.C., next Wednesday. TOP 5 VOLUME LEADERS The union already was voting Thursday on COMPANY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE whether to accept 23.79 Boeing's "best and final" tttt\??? offer, made Tuesday, or 0.74 strike at midnight Sunday, when the current contract 3.83 expires. + 3 . ::>l:.l!:tth'i~t:S: 14. 20 A letter from mediation service director Peter !lll~i!illllll~.l~.l-!lll~i... ~l.:.::li.l:.. :.l,_.,:.\!.:~11-.~ 17 . 14 Hurtgen said the agency was stepping in because "any job action threatens to cause a substantial dis AFP Photo IN BRIEF ruption of commerce." Boeing officialsrefused Thursday to resume negotiations and extend the contract The union quickly of the airplane giant's machinist union. The move could lead to a strike next week. Bloomberg Ordered to Sell Stocks agreed to take part in the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg must talks, said Richard process, but that the cerned about the econom ble pensions and to secure sell at least $45 million in publicly traded Barnes, the mediation ser results of Thursday's vote ic impact that a strike job guarantees linked to stock and his interest in a hedge fund to com vice's deputy director. should be released. could have. aircraft deliveries, rev ply with the city's conflict of interest laws. a But Boeing refused. Calhoun also contended "We are just trying to enues or other business panel ruled Thursday. "The teams spent that the union had head off a train wreck," benchmarks. Boeing's The Conflict of Interest Board ruled that months negotiating in requested the intervention said Barnes. "We're hop final offer would have Bloomberg's stake in companies that do busi good faith," Boeing said. and was using it to manip ing that cooler heads will raised pensions by 20 per ness with the city violated the City Charter. "The Boeing negotiating ulate the outcome - prevail. ... Thirty days will cent by the third year of The mayor was ordered to sell his holdings in team has done everything encouraging "no" votes to not hurt." the contract and included some 95 publicly traded stocks within 90 possible and within reason strengthen the machinists' The agency similarly no substantial changes to days. to craft an offer that is position in continued called both sides into its job security contract "Because Mr. Bloomberg owns his stock fair, competitive and negotiations. negotiation three years language, inciting union directly and not, for example, through a respectful." The mediation service ago for talks between leaders whose member mutual fund, because many of the firms in In anticipation of resum has said its decision was Boeing and its engineering ship has been slashed by his portfolio have business dealings with the ing negotiations, the union made independently and and technical workers 25 percent since Sept 11. city's executive branch, and because of the had said it would seal the not in response to a union union. The union ended The contract also calls size of his holdings, many of Mr. Bloomberg's ballots without counting request. up striking for 40 days for changes in employee stock ownership interests violate" the City them Thursday night. The The machinists union before resolving the dis health care costs, includ Charter, the report said. union and federal media asked Boeing earlier this pute. ing increases in monthly After he was elected last year, Bloomberg tors had no immediate week to extend the exist Boeing's contract offer premiums. resigned as chief executive officer of comment on Boeing's ing contract day-by-day as on Tuesday wrapped up In addition, Boeing Bloomberg L.P., the financial services infor refusal. talks continued. The com two weeks of intensive offered an 8 percent ratifi mation company he founded. The mayor is At a news conference, pany refused, saying negotiations for a contract cation bonus for accepting estimated to be worth more than $4 billion. chief Boeing negotiator negotiations had been to cover 25,000 machin the contract, and raises of Jerry Calhoun said he under way for months. ists. 2 percent and 2.5 percent United Asks Workers to OK Pay Cuts thought federal interven Barnes said the media Machinists had been in the second and third United Airlines said Thursday it is asking tion had tainted the tion service was con- seeking to more than dou- years of the contract. its employees to approve cutting its labor costs by $1.5 billion annually over the next six years as part of its emergency restructur ing plan. MEXICO The labor cutbacks, to include pay reduc tions and the scrapping of recently negotiat ed raises, would provide the bulk of $2.5 bil lion the struggling carrier has targeted in Nation hit by U.S. slowdown annual savings in order to ensure its recov ery. the plants employed 1.22 million sent. Salaries are also on the rise in But the powerful pilots union harshly criti Associated Press people. Mexico, making the country less cized the proposals as unacceptable, illus But the institute concluded that attractive to manufacturers who can trating the challenges United faces in win MEXICO CITY the industry's month-to-month aver look for cheaper work forces around ning the concessions. Employment at Mexico's assem age employment for the first half of the globe. The first specifics of United's plan to trans bly-for-export plants dropped a star the year had dropped even further, Average salaries and benefits at form itself into a smaller, more cost-efficient tling 15 percent during the first six falling 15.4 percent, before some maquiladoras, the vast majority of carrier came at the halfway point of its self months of the year compared with workers were rehired in June. Those which are located in cities and imposed 30-day deadline for reaching agree the same period in 2001, authorities recently rehired were not likely to towns along the U.S. border, rose 6 ments with labor and other groups on far said Thursday. keep their jobs very long, the insti percent in the first half of this year. reaching cutbacks. As of the end of June. 1.09 million tute concluded in a four-page report. Manufacturing salaries, padded with Without a consensus on cuts, CEO Jack Mexicans worked at the plants, The maquiladora industry has things like food vouchers, average Creighton reminded employees this week, the known as maquiladoras. That tally been hit by the economic slowdown $5.20 per hour in Mexico. Without airline might be forced to file for Chapter 11. represented a nearly 11 percent in the United States, where close to the subsidies, workers make about bankruptcy. drop from late June last year, when 90 percent of Mexican exports are $2.40 an hour. ..------~------· ------"""""".. I t ~ II. i i page 8 The Observer+ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, August 30, 2002 ~ moral failure on the part of undergo psychological evalua for his healing. However, if that these points be consistent some priests and bishops ... tion. A member of the clergy dismissal is not applied the ly applied, and a Review Board I Letter [which] was fostered by a who is found - past, present, offender will "lead a life of will assist. f continued from page 1 closed clerical culture that or future- to be guilty of sex prayer and penance." An office ~ infects the priesthood." ual abuse will be removed from for Child and Youth Protection Contact Meghanne Downes at ~ ~ priesthood if it is possible that Appleby stated that some ministry and offered assistance will be established to ensure mdownes [email protected] he would cause harm to the bishops have "behaved atro ~ public. "To just abandon bad ciously" and that the "Church's ~ actors is not the most responsi credibility on social justice as ble thing to do," said Mooney. well as sexual teaching." ~ The committee suggested "They [Catholics] are not ~ that cases be reviewed individ comparing you to Christ and ~ ually and that the circum his apostles," said Appleby. ) stances should be considered. Appleby went on to state that The letter focuses solely on the protecting abusive priests was ~ sexual abuse of minors and "a sin, born of the arrogance of does not provide suggestion for power." the sexual abuse of adults by Appleby recognized that the ocacaooccaocooocoaoocoooaooooooooaocoooooococooo I c 0 ~ priests because the latter was laity is frustrated by the 0 0 ~ D September Topic: 0 not to be addressed at the June enlarging rift between church D 0 conference. and society. ! The committee called upon He highlighted in his address : Finding Your Niche ~ the bishops to set stricter that the fault lied with the bish ocoocooccoooccoooooooccocooocoaoooococooccoooooo guidelines and psychological ops and that victims were cor The Interrace Forum is a discussion and support group examinations for the recruit rect when they stated that the for people who are biracial. multicultural. involved in an ment of seminarians and bishops were more concerned interracial relationship, or interested in any of these re priests and suggests that the about their accused priests. lated issues. The group meets the first Wednesday of low number of men choosing to each month for discussion over dinner. An Advisory enter clergy has led to more lax One voice among many screening. Board sets the agenda for the discussion and selects the Mooney was careful to state ethnic meal. The letter also called for an that this letter was just one of examination of the relationship many voices that the bishops between church policy and sec heard from. "Our document ular law. It was suggested that may have been influential, but each diocese and priest be it would be presumptuous to Date: Wednesday September 4th required "to report any current say they followed what we Time: 5:30 pm and future allegations of sexual said," said Mooney. Place: Center For Social Concerns abuse to civil authorities." Under the "Charter for the (Coffee House) Further suggestions included Protection of Children and the creation of a national reg Young People," the Bishops set Ethnic dinner will be provided. Please istry of members of the clergy forth the following standards. RSVP at 1-684 I by Tuesday who had sexually abused a Dioceses are required to reach September 3rd. minor, the formation of a out to victims for healing and national resource team, a reconciliation and the bishop is panel of expert witnesses, and to meet with victims. A review updating the financial struc board will be established; a tures of the Church to possibly majority being members of the form a national fund to com laity. pensate victims. A confidentiality agreement will not be granted unless The root of the problem under certain situations when Appleby stated at the Dallas requested by the victim. conference that the "root of the Dioceses will be required to problem is the lack of account report accusations to the ability on he part of the bish authorities. Those who are ops, which allowed a severe accused will be required to •····~································· • • • . /\ • N -~· :'r,·-. • .~,\;\\:~ • :~::~~· • • • • SATURDAY. 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Off-campus is ple move off-campus, the parties will go with them. NEWS EDITOR: Helena Payne the place for virtual freedom. Lost in the thrill of going to bars, wild parties or Rally in VIEWPOINT EDITOR: Lauren Beck However, as the recent robbery near the Alley is the stark reality that just beyond SPORTS EDITOR: Chris Federico Corby Street illustrated, there is a darker Jhe campus is the same crime that plagues all urban ScENE EDITOR: C. Spencer Beggs O side to off-campus life few students are areas. Both South Bend police and campus secu PHOTO EDITOR: Nellie Williams aware of. rity officials say certain areas of South Bend, GRAPHICS EDITOR: Katie McKenna At Notre Dame and Saint Mary's, stu lfaitorial especially areas around the Lafayette apartment ADVERTISING MANAGER: Matt Lutz dents live within a protective bubble that complex and other popular off-campus sites, saw AD DESIGN MANAGER: Meghan Goran shields them from the dangers of South Bend. Perhaps the a dramatic increase in criminal activity over the summer. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR: Ted Bangert reason so few crimes occur on campus is because so few Unfortunately, many students will forget that South Bend WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Todd Nieto people have access to campus. Face it- at night, both is a city. As the Corby Street robbery showed, students CONTROllER: Lori Lewalski campuses are fairly safe places. Zealous security guards wandering away from a party can be easy targets for crim restrict access to visitors driving on-campus and most inal activity. dorms post guards at the main entrances on weekends. For students still living in the residence halls, the off CoNTACT Us In fact, there is little practical reason for students to campus life can provide an exciting alternative to regular OFFICE MANAGERIGENERAL INF0 ...... 631-7471 move off-campus. Almost everything the average student campus activities. 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Editorial content, including advertisements, is not governed by policies of the administration of either institution. The Observer reserves the right to refuse advertisements based on content. The news is reported as accurately and objectively as Attacking claims of media bias possible. Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the majority of the Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, Assistant Managing Editor and department editors. This letter is in response to the letter by Anthony editor is to run the old "sick pedophiles" panic warning up Commentaries,letters and columns present the views Carbone from the Aug. 29 issue of The Observer. the flagpole. of the authors and not necessarily those of The It is intriguing that Carbone believes that there are two We know that most sexual assaults of children occur by Observer. primary lessons that should be learned from a young gay someone who knows them (and is often related to them) Viewpoint space is available to all readers. The free man being beaten to death. The first is that there exists a and who are heterosexual males. However, what is differ expression of all opinions through letters is encouraged. huge liberal bias in the U.S. media. This lesson is, of ent is that the general public, when it hears about a hor Letters to the Editor must be signed and must include course, so much more important than any commentary on rific act of rape, torture and murder of a child by a hetero comact informacion. Questions r'Karding Obsnver policies should be dir(ct U.S. society's struggle to tolerate and integrate differ sexual male, doesn't make the sweeping generalization ed to Editor in Chiefjason McFarley. ences, the fragility of contemporary masculinity or the that all heterosexual males are pedophiles. Get them out commonplace nature of violence in U.S. society. of the Boy Scouts, Youth Ministries and Little League The second lesson is that murder is clearly justifiable if sports! POST OFFICE INFORMATION someone makes a pass at you that you find disgusting. However, I do think Carbone and I agree on one thing. The Ob~erver (USPS ~99 2·4000) is published Monday rhrou1h Friday aa-pr durin& This argument would have given most of the women at The media has gone too far to the left when someone who exam and vacarion pniocb. A subscription ro Tht ObKrVcr il SIOO ror one academic Notre Dame the license to have tortured and killed any really wants to say, "I hate gays" has to wrap it up in so yar; S55 foe one ocmarcr. where from 10 to 150 heterosexual men by the time that n.. Oboe.,... is publi·hcd at: POSTMASTER much verbiage just to get it into print. OH South Dinin& Hall Send~ wnn:rions w: they have reached college age. Norr< Dame, IN 46556.0779 The Obccrv.r Pcriodical po•toc< paid or Nou.: Dame P.O. Box Q While he is correct that the media gave little coverage to N. Eugene Walls and addition.! mailina offices. 024 South Dini01 Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556.0779 the atrocious act of child rape, torture and murder that graduate srudenr took the life of Jesse Dirkhising in Arkansas in 1999, the sociology The Obs.rrwr ls a member of~ Associauxl Paus. All rqtrodu(:rion righu arc rcscrv TODAY'S STAFF NDTODAY/OBSERVER POLL QUESTION QUOTE OF THE DAY News Sports Sheila Egts Chris Federico Sheila Flynn Matt Lozar To what extent do you ··~vhen we got into office, the one thing that Shannon Joe Lindsley understand the new surprised me most was to find out that Nelligan Scene alcohol policy? things were just as bad as we'd been saying Viewpoint C. Spencer they were. , Kurt Bogaard Beggs S()Il]~'fhat Graphics Lab Tech *Poll appears courtesy of NDToday ·..•.••.. 48%. and is based on 214 responses. John F. Kennedy Andy Devoto Tim Kacmar president THE OBSERVER Friday, August 30, 2002 page 11 Learning political survival in the Big Apple Thirty years ago this week, after an exciting sum ment for change. in politics. mer of volunteering in a New York City congressional As the June primary approached, the election On election night of the special primary Rooney won campaign, I returned to Notre Dame to begin my turned nasty. Our campaign staff wore small green by just about the same margin of a few hundred votes. senior year. For me, the summer had been an oppor buttons to identify ourselves. I wore mine on the Upon an analysis of the precinct results, the same tunity of a lifetime. I met national celebrities. partied inside of my suit jacket and flashed it only when I poor and minority precincts had similar irregularities at Irish bars in Manhattan with fel needed to identify myself. As I entered polling places, despite federal marshals located in each of them. low Darners. worked the tough many thought I was a Rooney worker. Voting machines malfunctioned in those precincts but political neighborhoods of Brooklyn Workers in both camps carried concealed not in Rooney's strongholds. In Lowenstein's and learned how my four grand handguns. The Lowenstein campaign precincts, poll workers conducted busi parents who immigrated from Italy worried their candidate might suffer ness at an extremely slow pace, lines in the early 1900s survived in the the same fate as Robert F. of voters circled the block and once melting pot society of a large city. - Kennedy, being gunned down to again, busloads of unknown A pied piper had enticed us stu silence his opposition to the Hassidic Jews stormed their dents the spring of 1972 to help establishment. Ironically, it local polling places to vote for him in his quest to regain a con was not until a decade later Rooney at each neighbor gressional seat. AI Lowenstein, Gary J. Caruso when Lowenstein was mor hood precinct. former Democratic congressman tally shot in his New York Despite our frustration from Nassau County on Long office by, of all people, a and disappointment, Island expressed such conviction Capitol former campaign worker Lowenstein showed us against the Vietnam War and for Comments of our 197 2 campaign that standing on one's his vision of a just America that effort. principles and convictions dozens of Ivy League and Notre Lowenstein lost the pri can make a difference, if Dame students made up legions of political volunteers mary election by just a only in ordering a new that summer. few hundred votes, but he primary election. And Lowenstein. as a sitting Democratic congressman, successfully challenged while that contest was spearheaded the "Dump Johnson" movement to the election in federal bitter. it did not include unseat President Johnson in 1968. As a consequence, court. For the first time in the personal destructive the Democratic political bosses in New York redrew our nation's history, an elements that became his seat and successfully opposed his candidacy in election was nullified based vogue in 1994 when Newt 1970. In 1972, Lowenstein moved to Brooklyn to on violations of the Voting Gingrich changed the politi oppose an aging incumbent, John Rooney, the chair Rights Act enacted the previ cal landscape. man of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. ous decade. He proved that Thirty years ago this week, The district comprised affluent Brooklyn Heights, eth irregularities had systematically our nation was more turbulent nic working class neighborhoods of Italians, Jews and occurred only in his strongholds of than today. faced a more horrific Polish along with the African-American poverty strick poor and minority persons. threat of nuclear war than today and en Bedford Stivesant. So my senior year began with me despite the bitter differences between us The primary election campaign featured notables spending only two weeks at Notre Dame radicals and the hardhat silent majority, was such as Dustin Hoffman, Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., before I returned to New York City for a special pri more politically civil than today. As a potential war Kathleen Kennedy and other national figures visiting mary election in Brooklyn. With much anticipation I with Iraq overshadows the upcoming congressional on Lowenstein's behalf. Voter registration and get yearned for the excitement of the campaign trail and elections, it will be interesting to see if the politics of out-the-vote efforts were the campaign headquarters' the expectation of a certain win, a win for sanity in personal destruction maintains a foothold in our polit top priorities. Lowenstein had to appeal to the poor foreign policy and compassion for those least able to ical system or if a good old fashion Lowenstein versus and anti-war sentiments of the day while teaming with help themselves in our society. Rooney brawl is the order of the day. local ethnic neighborhood social clubs. During my freshman year in college, when students Rooney's support came primarily from out-of-state were killed at Kent State by National Guardsmen, I Gary J. Caruso, Notre Dame '73, served in President special interests who had benefitted from appropria had changed from a conservative who supported the Clinton's administration as a Congressional and pub tions related to the Brooklyn Naval Ship Yard, con Vietnam War to a liberal anti-war activist. That spring lic affairs director. His column appears every other struction workers and what President Nixon had day of my junior year, when Lowenstein articulated Friday. He can be reached at [email protected]. called the "Great Silent Majority." The election was a what it meant to sacrifice a political career for one's The views expressed in this column are those of the classic clash of the status quo versus a populist move- conviction, assured me I had made the correct choice author and not necessarily those of The Observer. GUEST COLUMN Sustainable growth: bad for people, environment RALEIGH, N.C. to clean up their environments, just as reforms in them. That way, capitalism is citizen of the greatest, most advanced As the World Summit on Sustainable we have. Placing lots of "sustainable working at its best and Americans and nation in the world. We have come a Development gets underway in growth targets" and other restrictions developing countries both benefit. long way in the last hundred years, and Johannesburg, South Africa this week, I on these countries will only prolong Only when these countries are well on unlike Europe, the United Nations and can't help but wonder why so many their period of environmentally damag their way to industrialization will they the antiglobalization activists, I would developed nations want to handicap the ing development. have the luxury to worry about the envi very much like to see the rest of the developing nations President Bush has made the right ronment. It's odd that left-wing groups world do the same. in the name of Darren choice in not attending this summit. It is who claim to want to help the world's Worldwide prosperity and develop ment is good for everyone, and it's the "saving the planet." O'Connor shaping up to be a combination of indig poor are the chief proponents of policies The delegates nant Europeans scolding the United that would keep them in perpetual surest way to improve the state of the from the industrial- States for not doing more for sustainable poverty. (But, hey, as long the trees environment. ized world ostensi development and leaders of corrupt aren't being hurt, right?) These organi This is not a trivial issue as we enter bly want to make Technician Third World nations demanding more zations (Greenpeace, Friends of the the 21st century. The next time one of sure the Third U.S. aid money, which they will subse Earth, etc.). as well as the socialist (and your professors spouts off a self-right World continues to quently blow on weapons and palaces even not-so-socialist) European coun eous criticism of President Bush's oppo develop but with all sorts of environ and other purposes to which foreign aid tries, are being incredibly disingenuous sition to economically damaging policies mental restrictions. The goal is econom is typically diverted. in their empty rhetoric. They ought to like the Kyoto Protocol or sustainable ic growth without environmental dam If we really want to help alleviate just come right out and say it: They're development targets, challenge him to age. Well, guess what. It doesn't work poverty and reduce environmental not interested in helping these countries provide some logical reasoning behind that way in the early stages of industri degradation in developing countries, the develop at all. his position. It should be amusing to alization, and that's OK. last thing we want to do is continue to Judging by conversations I've had with hear the subsequent jumble of Marxist There will be some pollution and other subsidize their current practices by people in similar groups around here. catch phrases that pours out. damage as these countries develop, just throwing money at them. I'd bet money that these activists would as there was when the United States and Last I checked, the government like nothing more than for these coun The column first appeared in the Aug. Britain started to industrialize. It's not already confiscated far too much of our tries to remain as they are and for the 28 edition of Technician, the campus that big of a deal. people. The planet paychecks for such purposes domesti rest of the world to degenerate to that newspaper of North Carolina State and the human race have been through cally. The best thing to do for these same level. Human suffering seems to University. It is reprinted here courtesy a great deal over the millennia, and it countries is reduce trade barriers (espe be irrelevant to these people as long as ofU-WIRE. . turns out they're both pretty resilient. cially in industries in which those states we aren't choking our "Mother Earth" The views expressed in this column Besides, the faster these countries are have a comparative advantage) and with our evil, evil SUVs. are those of the author and not neces able to develop, the sooner they'll begin encourage democratic and market I can safely say that I'm proud to be a sarily those of The Observer. ,,~ r~I THE \ \ OBSERVER I Jj' I) 1\ •I 1\ 1\~~ 1\ 1'\ I' I I 1\ s 1\ r\ page 12 Friday, August 30, 2002 r\ t\ :~ 1\ :l I' II ,,•\ :~ ·') I} :~ i,, ) ') ,, AFP Photo Funk legend George Clinton and P-Funk will play in The Show tonight at the Joyce Center. Clinton has been honored by artists in almost every music genre. Notre Dame George Clinton with P-Funk, Better Than Ezra and The Gt and P-Funk along with Better Than pioneers of disco, hip-hop, rap and "Sincerely Me" and "Misunderstood" By MIKE SCHMUHL and EMILY Ezra and The Green Room. most modern dance music. Last sum are the stand-out singles on the HOWALD Originally named Par liam en t, mer, Clinton and all the P-Funk mem album. Assistant Scene Editors Clinton formed another group, bers appeared on Nike commercials Opening for George Clinton and P Funkadelic, after some difficulty with with rapper Snoop Dogg. Funk and Better Than Ezra is The The first official weekend of college competing record labels. Shortly after, Although P-Funk has influenced Green Room. a local band with obvi is upon us and the question that however, Clinton fused both groups many artists and recorded hundreds ous ties to alternative rock, punk and lingers is everyone's mind seems to into Parliament Funkadelic or "P of songs, it is probably best known for emo. be, "What are we going to do Funk." their extravagant stage performances. No matter what kind of music a per tonight?" The group has Wearing vibrant cos- son likes. While the been sharing its tumes and landing a they will cer first weekend mixture of "mother ship" on stage, tainly find of the year "We didn't want [the stigma of '7 it blues, soul, R & P-Funk is certainly a something to offers the stu think ·s unfair the only time B and rock with show from another enjoy at The dent popula the Flipside name] going into the school puts on events like listeners for dimension. this. We wanted everyone to Show. tion the tradi this is when they want to deter over 30 years. Better Than Ezra, a Even so, tional ally to Their success popular mid-90s rock know that it is for both many stu- rally, there's students from parties. They peaked in the trio, will also perform. drinkers and non-drinkers. It's dents won one word on should do events like this mid '70s with Operating out of New just an opportunity for people der if this the mouths of hits like "Flash Orleans, Better Than concert is students all around other times. like as a Light," "P-Funk Ezra is similar to mod to see George Clinton.,. merely a over campus: break from finals.. , (Wants to Get ern rock groups such ploy by the funk. Funked Up)," as Matchbox Twenty Brian Adams administra Funk. The "Give Up the and Third Eye Blind. tion to lure word itself pro Tom Reid Funk (Tear the The group achieved The Show committee treasurer students vides I ush sophomore Roof Off the much popular success away from images of the Sucker)" and with their 1995 debut the usual days of disco, "Aqua Boogie." album Deluxe, which included the hits parties that occur the first weekend crazy clothing Multiple musi "Good", and "Roselia." back and bring them into a non-drink trends and one thumping' bass line. cians are involved in creating the lay The band's sophomore effort, ing, regulated environment. The com Notre Dame's campus, on the other ered grooves of the world's premiere Friction Baby, was not as successful in mittee putting the concert on, howev hand, is not really known for having a funk ensemble. Percussionists, gui sales, but included the chart-topper, er, simply sees this as a chance for funky attitude, unless the antics of a tarists, various synthetic technicians, "Desperately Wanting." After a slight students to see a good concert. football Saturday or an off-campus back up vocalists and the amusing remission. Better Than Ezra surfaced "We were told that the university celebration are taken into account. vocals of Clinton create a unique again in 2001 with their most recent wanted to have a big event as kind of Funk or no funk, the "mother ship" sound album, Closer. Keeping with the pop a continuation of freshman orienta will arrive tonight with George Clinton P-Funk is also considered one of the rock rhythm of their early work, tion," said Brian Adams. treasurer of THE OBSERVER Friday, August 30, 2002 page 13 . . . I...... AFP Photo Better Than Ezra will perform along side Clinton and local band The Green Room at tonight's concert. ets nked up reen Room get ready to rock at the Joyce Center tonight The Show committee organizing the Jar to last year's Flip Stock that was ''I'm assuming George Clinton will do mittee decided to charge $5 to help to concert. "It is the first weekend that held on this same weekend. something that would provoke his cover the costs. 22 dorms did not raise freshmen are entirely on their own "We wanted to have the big event banishment from the University and enough money to cover the entire cost with what they want to do and the but we didn't want to put Flipside's I'd like to be there to see it," Tony of the concert. university just wanted to have this name with it because of the stigma DeVito said. The concert will be held at the Joyce event as an option available to them." involved with the name," Adams said. Other students are upset the Center and Notre Dame, Saint Mary's Senior Jenna Spanbauer also said "We didn't want a stigma going into University is planning the concert on and Holy Cross identification will be she and her friends would be attend this. We wanted everyone to know that this weekend because they feel that required at the door. ing the concert just because the par it is for both drinkers and non- they are intentionally trying to take Doors will open at 6 p.m. and The ties that take place drinkers. It's just an students away from the traditions of Green Room, a local band, will begin at the beginning of opportunity for people the past and they are playing at 6:30 p.m. the year have to see George not holding the con- Better Than Ezra will become a bit old and ·Tm assuming George Clinton." cert for entertain be on at 7:30 p.m. she isn't expecting Clinton will do some Last year, several ment purposes. "It's not like Rally won't followed by George anything new from students mocked "I would go if it Clinton and P-Funk still be raging at I I :30 them this year. thing that would provoke Flipstock for trying to wasn't the same day at 9:30 p.m. The con "My friends and I his banishment from the provide an alternative as Rally," sophomore p.m. after Better Than cert is expected to are going just University and rd like to to Rally in the Alley, a Tom Reid said. "I Ezra and P-Funk. ·· run until midnight. because we have massive party at the think it's unfair the Although contro been doing the same be there to see it. .. nearby Turtle Creek only time the school versy remains as to thing for the past apartment complex. puts on events like Steve Salwierak why exactly the three years and this Tony DeVito "It's not like Rally this is when they sophomore University chose this is something differ won't still be raging want to deter stu weekend to hold a sophomore ent," Spanbauer at 11:30 p.m. after dents from parties. concert, students said. "I can see Better than Ezra and They should do now have more where the adminis- P-Funk," sophomore events like this around other times, options for the first night of the first tration would want to hold the concert Steve Salwierak said. like as a break from finals." weekend of the school year. on this weekend, however, because it Many others appear to be choosing Many students, especially the fresh "This is just a big event for every is offering alternatives to the fresh the concert over parties as well, some men, have little information about one," Adams said. "They should have men who don't want to go off campus. because of the music and some just to informed of what occurs the first week fun and what they do afterward is There is a lot of pressure these first see George Clinton in person. on campus. their prerogative." couple of weeks for the freshmen and "I think it would be interesting to "I am not going to the concert this concert will give them something see George Clinton because he is kind because there are off-campus parties to do and not make them feel left out." of a weird guy and it would be fun. I'm that I would rather go to and l didn't The event is organized by an inde also looking forward to seeing Better know about it in time," freshman Brett Contact Mike Schmuhl at pendent concert committee and is not Than Ezra just because I like their Hummel said. [email protected] and Emily Howald at associated with Flipside, nor is it simi- music," sophomore Nick Dailey said. While Flipstock was free, the com- howald.l [email protected] page 14 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, August 30, 2002 MLB Bellhom makes history with pair of homers 10 in seven innings. giving him swings by manager Lou Piniella. was one of those games you play said. "I try not to do too much Associated Press 187 for the season, third in the "I told the players before the in the back yard as a kid grow thinking out there." MILWAUKEE NL behind Arizona pitchers game that I'm buying steaks for ing up, and you think about who The circumstances were tough Mark Bellhorn expected to Randy Johnson and Curt RBls," Piniella said. "I guess I'm you are batting against." to ignore. spend the afternoon watching Schilling. buying two steaks. I was hoping Phelps and Carlos Delgado There were several strike Sammy Sosa return to Chicago's Among the many signs in the to have to buy eight or nine." both hit long shots against related banners in the crowd of lineup and give the Cubs some stands relating to the strike was The Mariners left the Clemens. helping prevent the 20,503, including one in the out pop. one that read: "Savoring the last Metrodome to return to Seattle, Rocket from earning his 292nd field that read, "We'll Still Instead, with Sosa sidelined by day of baseball." where they're scheduled to play career victory. Come." A young girl held up a a sore neck, Bellhorn provided a Kansas City this weekend - pro A crowd of 32,679, including sign that said, "Strikes Make vided a strike doesn't wipe out many Yankees fans, watched the Little Girls Cry." pair of home runs - and history. Giants 10, Rockies 6 Bellhorn became the first play the series, or more. final game at SkyDome before Several other banners deemed A four-game sweep and anoth "Let's hope we swing the bats Friday's strike deadline. derogatory were confiscated at er in National League ever to er home run barrage by Barry homer from both sides of the as well or better in our own ball "When you are playing the the gates. . Bonds and Jeff Kent should have park and start getting on a roll," game you don't have time to There was one concession to plate in the same inning as the made for a happy team. There Cubs beat the Milwaukee Piniella said. "It was good to win think about it," Phelps said. the possibility that it was the was little joy, however, in the a ballgame, but the best thing we One fan held up a sign refer final game at the stadium. Brewers 13-10. San Francisco Giants clubhouse. "Sosa was going to play, but could all get would be to play a ring to Yankees owner George Ushers punched holes in fans' With the specter of a strike ballgame Friday night. We'll see Steinbrenner that read: "Save tickets instead of tearing them, when he took some swings off hanging over baseball, the the tee, there was no way he was what happens on that front. But Baseball. Contract the Yanks. leaving them intact as a sou Giants found it hard to talk about we go home on a good note." Sell George the Expos." venir. going to go," Cubs manager their win over the Colorado Bruce Kimm said. Moyer, who struck out seven, Alfonso Soriano hit his 32nd Haynes (13-8) was an unlikely Rockies. gave up five hits and one walk in homer for the Yankees. who saw star- he hadn't won since Aug. So, Angel Echevarria moved "We're fighting for a playoff from first base to right field to seven scoreless innings. Winning their three-game winning streak 3 and had never won 13 games spot, and this cheapens the thrill for the first time in four starts, end. Bernie Williams went 0-for- in a season during his career make room for Bellhorn, who of beating a good team," Kent ignited a 10-run burst in the Moyer (13-6) improved to 10-5 in 4, finishing his season-high 19- with Baltimore, Oakland and said. "And I think the Rockies his career against the Twins. He game hitting streak. Milwaukee. fourth inning with a two-run are a good team. Guys really shot off left-hander Andrew gave up an infield single to "We couldn't do anything He gave up seven hits in eight aren't focused on the wins. Denny Hocking leading off the right," said New York manager innings and struck out a season Lorraine that traveled 410 feet to They're focused on whether center field at Miller Park. eighth before yielding to Arthur Joe Torre, who was optimistic high seven before leaving for a we're going to play (Friday)." Rhodes. the Yankees would be playing pinch-hitter. By the time he came up again Bonds hit his 40th homer of with two outs in the inning, Jacque Jones sacrificed and Friday. the season and Kent went deep Luis Rivas moved Hocking to "Both sides are at the table Lorraine had given way to right twice. Pirates 4, Braves 1 hander Jose Cabrera. Batting third with a groundout, but and I think that's significant." Unfortunately for Tom Glavine Bonds hit his fifth homer in Corey Koskie ended the inning Loaiza (7 -7) pitched his second from the left side, Bellhorn con three games and Kent homered and Greg Maddux. the strike - nected on a full-count fastball for with a lineout to Jeff Cirillo at complete game of the season. He at least that by the Atlanta in his fourth straight game. They third and Kazuhiro Sasaki gave up nine hits, walked three a three-run, 380-foot drive that went back-to-hack for the third Braves' offense - started two ' ( made it 9-0. pitched the ninth for his 33rd and struck out five. days early. straight game. The Giants won save in 38 attempts. Phelps' second-inning homer :, ~ "Sometimes it's tough," their fifth straight to move within Glavine's wildness led to I~ "Not a lot of offense today," off Clemens (11-5) landed in the ( Bellhorn said of switching Pittsburgh's first two runs and i two games of Los Angeles in the Twins manager Ron Gardenhire first row of SkyDome's upper stances in the middle of a game. NL wild-card race. the Pirates. helped by Bronson ''I've been facing a lot of left said. "That's what happens deck in left field, just the 10th Arroyo's effective start and Greg Norton had a three-run when you get two high-caliber time in SkyDome history a ball banders lately. You get used to homer and Todd Zeile had a Aramis Ramirez's homer, shut seeing the ball that way. Then teams like we did in here." has reached the fifth deck. down Atlanta's offense again to two-run shot for the Rockies, Minnesota, 1-8 against Seattle Phelps' ninth homer, a solo · you step in the box against a who lost their sixth straight. beat the Braves. righty and you feel kind of weird. last year, won two of three in the shot off Clemens in the fifth. gave Playing their third straight Fans, upset at the possibility of series - a crisply played, well Toronto a 7-2 lead. After that first swing, I'm fine." a strike Friday. displayed several game without injured outfielder Bill Mueller followed attended series that had a post Clemens, who entered the Gary Sheffield (sprained thumb). signs during the game, including season feel to it. That's some game 7-1 against his former Bellhorn's second homer with one reading "Field of Greed." the Braves again struggled for one of his own, giving the Cubs thing fans here could miss out on team since being traded to New runs. They scored only one run The crowd of 26,300 was the if there's a lengthy strike, but the York, allowed seven runs on 10 their biggest inning since Sept. smallest in Rockies' history. in the final 21 innings of the 11, 1990, when Chicago scored Twins, who have a 16-game lead hits in just five innings. three-game series, losing 1-0 10 times in the second inning on Chicago in the AL Central, "He just had bad location," Wednesday night in 10 innings against Montreal. Mariners 2, Twins 0 were confident they'd be back Torre said. "He was laboring." to the recently recalled Brian Richie Sexson hit a grand slam The Seattle Mariners might go this year. Meadows and two relievers. for Milwaukee, highlighting a on strike Friday, but they won't Reds 7, Cardinals 0 "I think our offense went on six-run ninth. be going hungry. Blue Jays 7, Yankees 4 The final memory from strike a few days ago," Jones With the teams combining to Desi Relaford ruined Rick Rookie Josh Phelps was too Cinergy Field might be: Jimmy said. "It's fru.,trating. We're not bat around three times, the Reed's masterpiece with a lead busy living out a boyhood dream Haynes hitting. getting too many opportunities game lasted 3 hours, 40 minutes. off homer in the eighth inning, to think about a strike. The right-hander singled and when we do, we're not com "It seemed like the game start helping Jamie Moyer and the Phelps homered twice off twice, driving in three runs, and ing through. It hasn't been real ed at 10 this morning," Brewers Mariners salvage a disappointing Roger Clemens, leading Esteban pitched eight innings as the fun." reliever Ray King said. "I though week with a win over the Loaiza and the Toronto Blue Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Ramirez doubled and scored in it would never end. It was ugly." Minnesota Twins. Jays over the New York Louis Cardinals in their final the first, then hit a two-run The game featured 22 hits, Relaford and Ben Davis, whose Yankees. game before the players' strike homer - his 12th - off reliever four errors and 15 runners left sacrifice fly gave Seattle insur "It was just one of those fairy deadline. Tim Spooneybarger in the eighth on. ance in the ninth, will be tales that actually came true," "I just wanted to make pitches to make it 4-1. The Pirates have Matt Clement (11-9) struck out rewarded for their run-scoring the 24-year-old Phelps said. "It and win the ballgame," Haynes won five of six. The Observer accepts classifieds every business day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Notre Dame office, 024 South Dining Hall. Deadline for next-day classifieds is 3 p.m. All classifieds muse be prepaid. 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So Action didn't get under way who won the Open in 1994 and first time. called by Johnson. did fellow U.S. Open champions until 4 p.m., five hours late, 1 999, had 27 winners to six for Hewitt beat Blake in five sets "We put it behind us the next Lleyton Hewitt, Venus Williams, forcing postponement of all Gimelstob. at the 2001 U.S. Open in a sec day in the locker room," said Lindsay Davenport, and scheduled doubles matches and "It's nice not to spend more ond-round match tainted by Blake, who won his first career Martina Hingis. creating a logjam of stars on [time] than you need to," Agassi remarks the Australian made title last week in Washington. Once the rain stopped, the court. Jennifer Capriati was up said. "You're glad you're not that were perceived as racist. "Since then, I don't think we've routs were on. The surprises first at Arthur Ashe Stadium him. You're glad that it's not Hewitt demanded that linesman really talked about it. We just were rather limited, too: fourth and set the tone with an easy happening to you." Marion Johnson be removed moved on." seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov lost victory, despite nine double Hewitt's 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-1 vic after calling two foot faults. Williams, the two-time to Dominik Hrbaty, and French faults. tory over Noam Okun put the Blake and Johnson are black. defending Open champion. Open champion Albert Costa With Agassi's wife, Steffi defending champion into a "Look at him, mate," Hewitt improved her 2002 match was knocked off by Wayne Graf, and 10-month-old son, Saturday rematch against 25th- said to the chair umpire, refer- record to 56-6 - she's 0-3 against sister Serena - with a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Alicia Molik; 1998 winner Davenport wrapped up her 6-4, 6-2 victory over Petra Mandula in a match halted by rain Wednesday night at 2-2 in the second set; and 1997 champion Hingis eliminat ed Antonella Serra Zanetti 6-4, 6-1. Seles won the U.S. bpen in 1991 and 1992 and had the crowd firmly behind her as she worked her way out of a big deficit to construct a 1-6, 7-6 NON ERVI E activities w•ll roc (5), 6-2 win over Schwartz, who was two points away from vic Important Policy Change. S ·c s Vehicles ONLY for d t Transportation ... ervt e d t tory in the second set. c ·. , erns .will schedule an rcn . de artments with bu ge Capriati hopes to add an The Center for ...-,o~t<:tl <:one. . ogramming transportatton. ?TO\lps or h PTransportation Services use for service ano socml acti~Il pr h. Center: s cost of renting from t e Open trophy to the three Grand Slam titles she's won in t m ay be asked to contnbute tot c suppor Australia and France in the Department. past two years. But she'll need Trainin2 to serve better than she did in T s ortation Services Department, attend ousting Tina Pisnik 6-4, 6-2. Jest avehicle that the Center will rent from the e~~~; ~or Social Concerns lnust comple~e a Still, her biggest flub of the For additional informat~on 0~ howb~~::qt All dl"ivers of vehicles scheduled ~hroughs~~~~on on esc policies and procedures whiCh day came on a news conference of the training sesstons hsted . . . . T . ·ng Course as well a bnef pre one . D artment Defensive Dnvmg rami Transportation ep question that had nothing to do with the match. Instead, it was ,Jollows... ,1_.,, .. Sunday, September 1 Sunday, September 8 a query about Title IX. federal Sunday, September 15 legislation mandating equal Sunday, September 22 opportunity for women in col Sunday, September 29 lege sports. The law marked its 6:45 p.m., Room 102 Dellartolo 30th anniversary last month. Capriati's reply: "I have no idea what Title IX is. Sorry." . • ' - J , - ~ Cong~egation of Holy Cross "The footsteps of those men who called us to waE~ in their company left deep prints, as of men carrying heavy burdens, but they did not trudge; they strode. l For they had the hope." 1 (Constitutions of the Congregation ofHoly Cross, VIII.l22) ~ j . . . Tom Eckert, C.S.C. Sam Peters, C.S.C. .,. Diaconate/Priesthood Ordination at the Basilica on Sunday, September 1, 2002 at 2:00p.m. www .nd. edu/""'vocation ANSWER ® > \ I \ page 16 The Observer+ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Friday, August 30, 2002 ' Students who 'Will be driving any university vehicle are required to attend a mandatory training/orientation session sponsored by transportation services! >'' ) . ) >, ) ' 1( If you are going to operate rental vehicles :~ ),1 I from the new motor pool or drive a depart I mental vehicle, you must attend one of the training/ orientation sessions! 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Pressure rises as strike hour approaches baseball's chief operating close to a deal. players to that stadium to Associated Press officer. ''I've been prepared A union official told take batting practice and NEW YORK to stay for the night all ESPN.com's Jayson Stark open up the gates and all Baseball negotiators week. that the union is unlikely to that stuff, where if a deal worked relentlessly "Of course there is an agree to an extension. doesn't get worked out they Thursday to avert a strike increase in sense or "I think that would have would have to leave," just hours before the dead urgency," he said. "No one to be a decision at the last Tampa Bay player repre line, leaving players, own wants to lose a single game minute," Loretta is quoted sentative John Flaherty ers and fans across the or a single day of games." as saying on MLB.com. "It said. "We wouldn't want to country wondering whether Milwaukee Brewers could happen. Anything is put anyone in that situa the season would continue. infielder and union execu possible at this point." tion." Lawyers for both sides, tive board member Mark There was no set time for After five bargaining ses carrying proposals and Loretta told a reporter from the start of a strike, which sions Wednesday and three umbrellas, shuttled MLB.com that the strike would be the sport's ninth on Thursday, the sides between the commission deadline could be extended work stoppage since 1972. remained apart on the key er's office and union head past 3:20 p.m. ET on The first game affected issues: levels for a luxury quarters on a gray. rainy Friday, the scheduled first would be St. Louis at tax and revenue sharing. day, trying to reach agree pitch of the first game at Chicago, which is scheduled Other unresolved issues ment on a labor contract Wrigley Field. Loretta said to begin at 3:20 p.m. ET. were the owners' desire to before Friday's games. the players had not formal Fourteen games are sched fold two teams and the "We're just going to keep ly discussed the plan, but uled at night. expiration date of any new working," said Bob DuPuy, could if the sides seemed "We're not going to send settlement. IN BRIEF Mickelson to sit out said. "Though he had indicated to Mexico City in November, and all Canadian Open us earlier that he hoped to come, three endangered sports are vowing around the dial injuries do occur and we under to fight for their Olympic status. Phil Mickelson will not play in stand that his health is a priority." Aldo Notari, the Italian president next week's Canadian Open after of the International Baseball TODAY slightly injuring his back. Federation, said Thursday he was Mickelson felt a twinge in his Base ball leaders appeal to "surprised and worried" by the TENNIS back while lifting luggage after IOC moves to get rid of his sport. U.S. Open 11 a.m., USA returning from the NEC Invitational "We have 113 countries officially in Seattle earlier this week. Baseball's international federa playing baseball in the world," he SATURDAY Mickelson spokesman T.R. Reinman tion is seeking urgent meetings in told The Associated Press. "Now it seems that the IOC Olympic pro COLLEGE FOOTBALL said the injury is not serious. but Lausanne, Switzerland with base doctors recommended a few weeks ball leaders around the world to gram commission doesn't want to Maryland at NOTRE DAME 8 p.m., ABC of rest. save the sport from being eliminat recognize it." Central Florida at Penn State noon, ESPN Reinman said Mickelson had a ed, from the Olympics. Notari said he would call meet Washington at Michigan noon, ABC similar injury two years ago, and it Baseball is one of three sports, ings with officials of international Colorado at Colorado State 1 p.m., ESPN2 didn't last long. He's expected to along with softball and modern baseball, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Major League Baseball, Virginia at Florida State 3:30p.m., ABC return in three weeks to play at the pentathlon, being recommended for American Express Championship in removal from the summer games. players associations and pro Ireland, followed by the Ryder Cup. Golf and rugby are being consid leagues in Japan and other coun TENNIS Mickelson has not played in the ered for addition to the program. tries. U.S. Open 11 a.m., CBS Canadian Open since 1994 and was The International Olympic "All the baseball officials must expected to be the top attraction at Committee executive board is work together to keep our sport on SUNDAY Angus Glen Golf Club near Toronto. studying the proposals made by its the program," he said. "We must . "Naturally we are disappointed program commission. make IOC members understand COLLEGE FOOTBALL that Phil won't be joining us this No final decisions will be made why baseball cannot be excluded LSU at Virginia Tech 2:30p.m., ABC year," tournament director Bill Paul until the full IOC assembly in from the Olympic program." page 18 The Observer+ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Friday, Augusr 30,2002 o en: n- am us ranc ---~ n e a or une . :· :r,r ... . ~-- .. ~-- . ~ :' ' . . . : -·: ( u en en er! -. ~ ...... ,.(_-,=.: . -.- -... ·.. . _.. :_. .. ·. ·-- __.- ·. __.-: .. _.._,... ·< .., ·. ··-··-~ -; _. --: ·,',--·_ .. 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I I ., ..· -~ - . ; . :") ~:_~-: .. -~ ,:: ~;·: . . . . ; :: . . . . . ; NOTRE DAME FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 574/239-6611 • www.ndfcu.org Independent of the University Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 19 MENS SoccER Join the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre for A TALE OF TWO CITIES Team's season looks bright A 16-day Theatre/Art Tour to London & Paris Friday, December 27, 2002- Sunday, January 12, 2003 ed in exhibition games during goals from Rafael Garcia, Greg Last day to register: October 23, 2002 - or until tour is filled By CHRIS FEDERICO the summer. Notre Dame fin Martin, Devon Prescod and Sports Editor ished a two-week tour of Justin Detter. Join us for a Theatre/Art tour to London {7 nights) and Paris (8 nights), Scotland in early August with a The only starters the Irish or choose just London. The tour includes a balance of theatre The Irish mens soccer team 4-0-1 record playing against lost from last year's squad are performances, museum visits, and sightseeing- with ample free time. kicks off its 2002 season this both professional and semi-pro defenders Andreas Forstner weekend in the Diadora fessional teams, outscoring and Griffin Howard. The team The trip is open to students, parents, faculty, staff, Challenge in Omaha, Neb. opponents 18-3. returns its top six scorers. Notre Dame will play Last weekend at Alumni With a year of experience and community members Southwest Missouri State in its Field, the Irish won a pair of with second-year coach Bobby Single, Double, and Triple Rooms available season-opener Saturday and exhibition matches against Clark, the Irish look to continue will wrap up the tournament Bethel and Michigan, 5-1 and the climb in the national soccer THE TOUR INCLUDES: with a match against No. 19 4-1, respectively. rankings that they began a year - Roundtrip transportation from Notre Dame Creighton. In the first game, 2001 lead ago. - 7 nights Mornington Hotel (Lancaster Gate)- Buffet Breakfast Notre Dame enters the sea ing scorer Erich Braun netted After the tournament this son ranked No. 23 by Soccer - 8 nights Hotel Ia Beaugency - Continental Breakfast all five goals for the Irish weekend, the Irish return for - Tube and bus passes in London and Paris America following last year's against Bethel. Braun, the their home opener on Sept. 7 - 4 plays/musicals in London 12-7 performance that culmi senior tri-captain has been hot against Big East opponent nated with the team's first during the preseason, netting Seton Hall at Alumni Field. - Round trip transportation to Canterbury for a guided tour appearance in the NCAA nine of the team's 28 goals. -Tour of New Globe Theatre, National Gallery, Tate Gallery Tournament in five years. In the match against - One-way ticket on Euro Star to Paris The Irish will hope to contin Michigan, the Irish displayed a Contact Chris Federico at - Theatre ticket in Paris ue the play they've demonstrat- more balanced attack, getting [email protected] - Evening at the Moulin Rouge -Tour of the Paris Opera House, Louvre, Orsay Museum - Day trip to Versailles ATTENTION SENIORS i For more Information contact: Rick Donnelly, Dept of Ftlm, Televtston, and Theatre, .108 Washtngton Hall,1 interested in I Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (574) 631-5958 [email protected] RHODES, MARSHALL, & MITCHELL SCHOLARSHIPS Prof. Brad Gibson will have a final meeting to inform you of deadline dates and the application process on Sept. 2nd in Haggar 117 at 4:30 p.m. If you are unable to attend this meeting, information may be obtained at the Fellowship office in 99 O'Shaughnessy Hall. . ( • f' ·-t " .... :-: - ...... - ...... -. : ·_:: -;. 4 - •••• 1I ==-'•,-... • -·------,-·.. ------~- page 20 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, August 30, 2002 season for several games, Batteast struggled to play at Irish peak form. But when she hit the continued from page 24 courts in Italy, she was back. "She played with the brace, Joyce, who prefer a long warm but she looked great," McGraw up period, didn't enjoy the on said. "In the last game, she just the-spot playing as much as the took over the game." sophomores did. But the young Batteast scored 23 points in members of the team flourished, that game. rao even under the changed condi In addition, McGraw saw some tions. McGraw tried some new other young members of the offensive schemes, one of which team stepping up. involved letting whomever got "Katy Flecky came out and the ball try to score. shot on the perimeter," McGraw "Alicia was one of the leading said. "She ran the floor, she scorers, then Kelsey was or looked great." Katie was," McGraw said. "We Although Flecky and fellow had a lot of different people, and teammate Theresa Borton found that's the good thing about this themselves in foul trouble more team is the balance ... I think than once, and teammates were what the sophomore class jokingly referring to Flecky as learned was that I need to be the "Euro-hacker," McGraw was more aggressive· scoring ... very impressed with the overall They're capable of scoring, so I improvement her young team think this season you will see showed. them." "Those five really played well," Although she was playing with McGraw said. "That was good." a knee brace, sophomore Jackie Batteast was finally back at full strength. After a knee injury Contact Katie McVoy at arao sidelined her in the middle of the [email protected] Every Saturday trom \ lO:OOpm to 1:00am in the > ~ ~ ' Huddle in LaFortune Student Center Sponsored by 'the S'tudent Ac-tivities Office. For more information contact the S'tuden't Activi-ties at 631 -7308. Are you a Notre Dame undergraduate student interested in tailgating? If so, be sure to check out the Student Tailgate web site at: www.nd.ed u/~tailga te/ On the site, you'll find: Joyce Parking )' t • On-Line Application to host ~ EDISOIAOAD I tailgate (available 8 a.m. Mon.) • Policies • Frequently Asked Questions • Map (Blue Field So. -"radio towers") • Home Football Schedule of Events In order to apply, you will need: • Your AFS ID • Auto make/modeVlicense plate number N/A=Non-alcohol entrance A=Aicohol entrance • ND decal number (if the car to be used has one) • Names of up to 3 co-hosts. (Host and co-hosts must beND students. 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The 2002 Football Student Registration process is a joint collaboration between the Office ofResidence Life and Housing and the Student Activities Office . . ! - Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ SPORTS page 21 VOLLEYBALL Irish begin season at Shamrock Invitational By MATT LOZAR Tournament appearance this players at least 5-feet-11 to our young players to be tested Even with two untested weekend as they host the replace the graduated seniors. in match situations. We want freshmen in the starting line Sports Writer Shamrock Invitational. One volleyball magazine to win the tournament and up, Brown feels confident that After graduating the starting ranked the Irish freshmen think the competition will be her team will be ready for the A taller, deeper, but inexpe front row from last year's class third in the nation and good. We want to get comfort challenges that lie ahead. rienced Notre Dame volleyball team, coach Debbie Brown another publication ranked it able with playing the starting "I am not worried because of team opens its march toward compiled a nationally ranked fifth. lineup we the great scrim an 11th consecutive NCAA recruiting class filled with six With the added depth pro have decid mages we have vided by the freshmen comes ed on and "I am not worried had in presea inexperience. The Irish have to get the because of the great son," the coach only three seniors, and nine key subs said. "I know it team members are under some play scrimmages we have had is different in a classmen. ing time." in preseason. I know it is live match, but I "The balance between the Starting different in a live match. feel they have seniors and freshmen is differ for Notre been tested ent this year," junior Kim Dame this but I feel they have been well." Fletcher said. "But it's really weekend tested well... A change this exciting [to start the season], on the front year involves and we are going to have a row are the libero posi great time this year_" junior set Debbie Brown tion. This defen The new-look Irish are eager ter Kristen Irish coach sive specialist to finally be facing somebody Kinder and wears a differ other than themselves after a outside hit- ent color jersey, summer filled with intrasquad ters junior Jessica Kinder and plays in the back row and can scrimmages. sophomore Emily Loomis. In not serve, spike or block the "We want to get out and the back, junior Katie Neff and ball. play. We have only been freshmen Lauren Brewster Creating the new position scrimmaging against our and Lauren Kelbley will earn serves as an advantage to selves," Brown said. "We want the start. teams because substituting the libero into the game does not count as an official substitu "'1/ _ ... ,. I M-3 tion. Notre Dame plans on ?16 ~(MUt! - . 'l'tlf ~~· rotating its defensive special fresh baked and buttery-topped with cinnamon LOOKING TO BE ists into the game to improve sugar. Complete with a side of vanilla topping. Mmmm ... try some their defense. Senior tri-cap Medium PiZZa PART OF A GROUP? tains Janie Aldrete and Keara Coughlin and junior Christa Cheese & 1 Topping o Moen will be used in the new libero position. "It definitely helps our team because it allows us to have better defensive players and -., ball-control players on the :;>e£ court a larger percentage of fresh-baked bread strips with 3 kinds of the time," Brown said. "We cheeses & garlic butter; topped with Parmesan ____ ,.; • & Roma . Served with a side of Pizza can replace our two most sauce & sauce. ~' . ~.·· t. . inexperienced players with our two most experienced Large Pizza defensive specialists. It allows Cheese & 1 Topping more flexibility in substitut ing." • The new rule also changes . ,-_' the style of play on the court . "It is a little bit different. It Serving Notre Dame & St. Mary's makes the passing a little bit different on both sides of the 52750 IN 633 ...... 574-243-1122 AIR FORCE ROTC net," said Fletcher, the 2001 Now Open Until 3:00am Friday & Saturday! Shamrock Invitational MVP. No (;()upon N~sary. Plus Till FRH DELIVERY. $7.00 Minimum For Delivery Not Valid With My Serving Bethel College "We are able to run a quicker Other Offer. Valid On~ At Usted Marco's Pizza Make your decision I Locations. Expires 12-15-D2. offense, but it is also harder to 326 N.lronwood ... 574-243·1111 defend since the other team Corner of Ironwood & McKinley can pass faster." Cl3 allliiJ ACCEPTED HERE .. 1Lt. Alan Acree @ 631-...IIDI...II" l.luSI prCNide credrt calli ilf!JIIIition ll11en ordering f!J deiM!ry Kathy Litzau coaches HAVING A BIG PARTY? . or [email protected] Wisconsin-Milwaukee and WE CAN CATER YOUR EVENT! returns to Notre Dame, where - ..... ' < ~' ~- 1 - -..; T she had a successful career in the mid-80s. The Panthers have qualified for the NCAA Tournament the past four sea sons and prove to be a worthy season-opening opponent for the Irish. Cal-Poly coach Steve Schlick also returns to Notre Dame this weekend. Schlick worked as a top assistant for the Irish from 1990 to 1995. "With Wisconsin-Milwaukee, we need to make adjustments in the match as we go on and learn how to make adjust ments," Brown said. "We will have no game tape prior to that match. "Cincinnati and Cal Poly both return five starters. Cincinnati has a good defense and is strong serving. Cal-Poly is a good blocking team. They had an individual player in the top five in the country and I .. think they were top 10 in blocking as a team." No. 25 Notre Dame plays at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3:30p.m. Sunday. All of the games are at the Joyce Center. Contact Matt Lozar at [email protected] • page 22 The Observer+ SPORTS Friday, August 30, 2002 r"\,\ '\ would be like telling [Notre ignite the Irish attack from the '\ I Dame mens basketball coach] midfield. ~,~ Soccer Mike Brey to play Duke with "Amy Warner and Randi \ out [point Scheller were ~ (\ \ continued from page 24 guard] really good this \ \ \ '\ the first time the Irish have C h r i s "'We want to come out last weekend -~ ever played the Hokies. Thomas," strong this weekend. We [against North "\ Despite the relative obscuri Waldrum Carolina and \ ty of their opponents, the Irish s a i d . need to set the standard Kentucky]," said "\ players plan to focus on their "We're in the Big East again., Waldrum. "Amy own play before worrying going to has her fitness about the unknown playing be very and speed back \ Ashley Dryer ~ styles of their opponents. young, but from her fresh ( "We want to come out strong o u r Irish captain man year, while this weekend. We need to set younger Randi will step the standard in the Big East players into the national again," captain Ashley Dryer have really come along in the picture this year. We hope said. "We have a lot of fresh preseason. Because of the "Guerty" can have a repeat of !r men in the program this year. injuries, these younger players last year. I look for her to These games will be a good have had the opportunity to score a lot of goals again for opportunity to integrate them step up and really help us." us this year." into our style of play. To be Another question mark for BRIAN PUCEVICH!The Observer honest, we do not know very' the Irish entering this week Contact Joe Licandro at An Irish player slide tackles her teammate in practice this much about our opponents end's games is the starting licandro.l @nd.edu summer at the fields along Edison Road. even though they are in our goalie. The Irish must replace ' conference, but we need to two-year starter Liz Wagner l. focus more on ourselves." from last year's squad. Junior I I ~ ·------·I I Notre Dame will not be play Lauren Kent and heralded < ing at full strength this week freshman Erika Bohn are still : Have you thought about : end. Pruzinsky, forward battling for the starting posi I I Melissa Tancredi and midfield tion. ! er Mary Boland are not Kent has seen extremely lim : teaching Religion and : ~ . expected to return to action ited playing time over the past I I this weekend after sustaining two years while serving as I I pre-season injuries, and Wagner's backup. The starter Gudrun Gunnarsdottir's avail for Friday's game against : becoming a Catechist? : ability for the weekend is also Providence will be a game I I !' a question mark. time decision, but both players I I To make are expected to I I matters see action. I I worse, ..Playing without players "We have not I I 1 (tMPUS 1 highly tout like Gunna, Vanessa and yet made a deci sion on the goal I MINISTRY I ed fresh I I man Annie Candace would be like keeping situa I * Do you enjoy working with children or adolescents? I Schefter is telling [Notre Dame mens tion," said I I expected to basketball coach] Mike Waldrum. " We I *Can you give one-two hours ofyour time each week? 1 miss the Brey to play Duke want to find 1 *Do you welcome the challenge to articulate and share your faith? 1 entire sea someone who I * Would you like to be a valuable asset to a local parish? I son after a without Chris Thomas. •· will give us con severe ACL sistency. Neither : * Would you like to work towards catechist certification? : injury. Two one separated I I Randy Waldrum o t h e r themselves from I I expected Irish coach the other. The I I defensive battle is still : If you can answer YES to any or all of these questions, I starters. on." sophomore Candace Chapman While defense and goalkeep I come find out more about being a Religion Teacher. I and freshman Katie ing are the two primary con I I I I Thorlakson, are currently cerns for Notre Dame as the I I competing with the Canadian team enters the season, the I I national team at the under-19 Irish will look to their offense World Championships. Both to carry them to victory this : Important InLormational Meeting: : players will miss Friday's weekend. Junior forwards game, but their status for Amanda Guertin and Warner : Thursday, September 5 I Sunday's game is still up in will be expected to carry the the air. scoring load this season, while I 5:00-6:00 P.M. I The injuries and absences junior Randi Scheller and have been so devastating that Dryer will be relied upon to I Room 330 Coleman-Morse Center : . . . ~ the Irish may be forced to play .~ . I I this weekend with a starting I I defensive line completely dif I I ferent from last year's. I I Waldrum hopes this last week : Call .John or Sylvia Dillon at 631-7163 : of practice, coupled with the I I experience of the exhibition games will remedy last week end's defensive mishaps and ·------~~ acclimate some of the new players to the system. "Playing without players like Gunna, Vanessa and Candace, A perfect meeting place throughout the weekend. Open Friday and Saturday D.rring ND. Home Football Weekends. Everyone Welcome Live Music Fridays, 2 - 6p.m. Grilled Burgers, Brats, and Other Specialties j, ~ '\ Cold Beverages & Spirits f.·k;:i t ' ,,, 60" Screen TV's Fully Enclosed Tent ·¥fir:~ariii#_iff 631-2000 next to the N.D. Bookstore. www. themorrisinn.com Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ TODAY page 23 CLARE O'BRIEN HENRI ARNOLD JUMBLE MIKE ARGIRlON Unscramble these tour Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. 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The team had a By KATIE McVOY chance to ride the gondolas in Venice, Associate Sports Editor visit St. Peter's in Rome and view the Alps in Como. The Irish ended the summer with But when they were involved in bas more than some new plays. ketball, the Irish had the opportunity to As June began, coach Muffet McGraw try some new things they wouldn't nor and her team had something complete mally have been able to try during the ly new to add to their list of basketball season. ,,I experiences - dribbling in Italian. Or "It was, 'I want to try this, and if it I\ more appropriately put, playing bas doesn't work, I can throw it away'," ketball in Italy under some new rules, McGraw said. "You can't do that in the :~ with refs speaking a different language season, you have to know what you're :~ and with a whole scrapbook full of new going to do." ;ll~ ,, team memories. Since there were already differences ~ ' 'The objective was we wanted to do in the playing style, not knowing exact I ' I I something with a young team," said ly what they were going to do didn't t: I' McGraw. "Traveling overseas and see seem detrimental to the Irish. Italian I I ing a different lifestyle was, I thought, speaking opponents weren't the only j I really educational I think for the difference for the Irish playing in Italy. ' team,and for me." The lanes were wider, substitution The Irish spent two weeks in Italy rules were different and the ball was :ll ~~ I . and France, ending their European bigger. I ~~ tour with a 3-1 record. Headed by Because of playing style and rules in 1\'I~~\ McGraw, who had never travelled to Italy, there was no time for the Irish to Europe before, the Irish traveled to warm up before the games. After get I X :.I:.~' ·, cities such as Niece, France, Venice, ting lost a few times, McGraw said, the :(I ' Milan, Bologna and Como, Italy. team would arrive at the arena, get the I, The Irish opened their European tour ball and get under way. with a 79-63 win against Acquarino "The facilities were horrible," Palestrina and ended the trip with an McGraw said. "But we'd get to the gym 82-76 victory against Pool Comense and they say 'OK, let's play.' " 1872. But the wins and losses weren't Senior Alicia Ratay and junior Jeneka Observer file photo the focus of the trip. Irish players, from left, Alicia Ratay, Le'Tania Severe and Amanda Barksdale watch What was? see IRISH/page 20 from the bench last season. Notre Dame went 3-1 on its European tour this summer. WOMENS SOCCER Irish to begin season with conference games Program hopes hopes his team will use the + games to re-establish to add 8th supremacy in the Big East. straight Big East Since joining the conference in 1995, Notre Dame has won Conference title seven straight Big East Championships. "We need to re-establish our By JOE LICANDRO dominance in the Big East this Sports Writer weekend," Waldrum said. "I thought we had a very strong After a month of grueling pre-season in certain areas practices and two tough exhi ,especially offensively. bition games last weekend, "Ultimately, I was extremely the Notre Dame womens soc proud of the effort given by .. cer team is ready to begin its the girls in the pre-season and ~~-· quest for a trip to the Final that some real leadership has ''t Four. started to emerge among our The No. 7 Irish open the veterans particularly Ashley 2002 regular season this Dryer, Amy Warner, and weekend with two pivotal Big Handi Scheller." '' East contests. Notre Dame last played Today, the Irish travel to Providence in 1998 when the Providence, R.I., to take on the Irish trounced the Friars 8-0. Friars. Two days later, the Virginia Tech is new to the Big f), Irish will return home to host East this year in womens soc BRIAN PUCEVICH!The Observer the Virgina Tech llokies for a cer. Sunday's game will mark The womens soccer team runs through drills during summer practice. The Irish begin play this Sunday afternoon clash. weekend with two Big East Conference games. Irish coach Randy Waldrum see SOCCER/page 22 (' II' VOLLEYBALL MENS SOCCER FOOTBALL t--1.1.1 Notre Dame at Notre Dame at Notre Dame at Maryland f, a:~ Shamrock Diadora ~r',, Invitational Challenge Saturday 7 p.m. I' ' =~ All weekend All weekend The Irish travel to East Rutherford, N.J., to take on Maryland in the Kickoff Classic. The game marks the a..cs: The Irish start season Team to open play in first of Notre Dame's season and the first of the Tyrone Willingham era. The Irish hope to improve on last as tournament hosts. Omaha, Neb. year's 5-6 record by opening their season with a win over the Terps. cntt page 21 page 19 Insider '··"' .....e , l \...., espite enduring the rock1est off-season in ollege football, the Irish claim they are more of a ream than ever. ut is that enough? photo illlustration by BRIAN PUCEVICH and KATIE McKENNA '!:' or· ,·~,..;., '··" page 2 The Observer+ IRISH INSIDER Friday, August 30, 2002 Tradition worth bell---- • m• game hype Why believe? Because when the Irish That's life as the deity of foot over, the Dome is still gold, Why believe in a team charge out of the tunnel ball tradition. Touchdown Jesus hasn't cov "J know we kicked around more than a Saturday night with gold hel The American populace can ered his eyes, Corby is still have to start soccer ball during the off-sea mets glinting under the glare be divided into two groups - waiting for the punt and the son, a team that should be of thousands of flashbulbs those who love Notre Dame date of the next game is out fast out talking and the watchful eye of and those who hate Notre already circled on the calen there and we about a national television cameras Dame. There's no gray area, dar. have to get winning capturing their every move, no room for the faint of heart That's when Notre Dame season, they'll captivate the nation to straddle a fence. Pick your fans start clamoring "Wait 'till the season off not a once again. side and stick with it. next year." They wait, excite Carlyle Holiday to a good national Around 7 p.m. Notre Dame Those who love to hate ment coiled tighter than a start.,, champi time, Irish fans will flip on Notre Dame have plenty of spring, expectation waiting Irish quarterback onship? the television, turn to ABC, reason to laugh at the other like a tiger for his prey. Why see Brent Musberger waxing group. NCAA sanctions, the And when game time rolls believe in poetic, watch the Irish warm Fiesta Bowl debacle, the around, everything explodes. Saturday night, Irish fans players Andrew Soukup ing up in their white road coaching scandal, players "There are a who uniforms booted for across America will buckle lot of guys watched and forget Find a die hard who lost academic themselves in for a wild 12- The about every reasons, game roller coaster ride. who will have Associ Irish bad thing his enthusiasm for Notre players They'll analyze, criticize, their hands on Insight ated Press that has Dame. Look for a fan who booted for hypothesize and say they can the ball.'' give them happened to doesn ,t believe the Irish criminal do a better job than Tyrone Arnaz Battle a meager Notre Dame reasons, Willingham. They'll rip every Irish receiver three votes in the preseason during the will return to greatness. players aspect of the Irish team that poll, one ahead oftoilet-bowl off-season. Discover someone who booting stinks, call for the head of the worthy Bowling Green and Instead, isn •t filled with optimism. themselves position coach and bemoan Boise State and two votes they'll to other everything about college foot ·Tm looking Right next the them, ahead of Sun Belt powerhouse remember schools ball in South Bend. at this game Middle Tennessee State? the lore of you'll find Elvis, Amelia wonderful But Saturday afternoon, like we'll be Why believe the Irish Rockne, Earhart and good dining fodder for a those same armchair quarter seniors, who have endured Leahy and Michigan backs believe anything is pos playing hall food. two losing seasons in three Parseghian. fan. Pious sible. The family of four mak against our years, can transform their They'll hear Notre Dame ing its first trip to campus Scooter Monroe careers, their tradition, their 7-11 and had been believes. The 80-year-old Com husker scout team. " legacy from forgettable to think Heisman trophy winners caught eating meat on a Irish immigrant believes. The receiver respectable? and national championships, Friday. subway alum believes. The Why believe Tyrone not Slurpees. They'll think But find a die-hard who lost helmet-painting manager Willingham can awaken the back to the days when the his enthusiasm for Notre believes. The stadium-sweep "J may be like echoes, when Notre Dame Four Horseman stood out Dame. Look for a fan that ing janitor believes. The Steve insultingly appears headed lined against a blue-gray doesn't believe the Irish will Internet junkie believes. The [Spurrier] and straight for a level on college October sky and swept Army return to greatness. Discover campus believes. football's pantheon usually over the precipice at the Polo someone who isn't filled with Why believe? say you'll find reserved for teams like Grounds. optimism. Right next to them, Why not? out[who the Purdue or Ohio State - Notre Dame is a funny you'll find Elvis, Amelia The opinions expressed in starter is] schools that are good, but place. The saying, "Nowhere Earhart and good dining hall this column are those of the when the guy that struggle to reach great else but Notre Dame" is strik food. writer and not necessarily Ralph Friedgen ness. ingly accurate. Few institu Notre Dame teams can lose. those of The Observer. Contact takes the Why believe this team has a tions receive criticism for fail They can fall short of expecta Andrew Soukup at field." TerTapins shot? ing like Notre Dame does. tions. But when the season is asoukup@nd. ed:u. _ , _" ____ ~ head coach '·. I Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ IRISH INSIDER page 3 Staying focused Despite a tumultous off season, Notre Dame's focus remains locked on the game By ANDREW SOUKUP Sports Writer By all rights, Notre Dame defies reason. It boggles the mind to imagine that the team that endured the most difficult ofT-season in col lege football is just that- a team. However, Irish players claim that they are closer now than they have ever been. As the Irish prepare to take on Maryland Saturday, as Tyrone Willingham gets ready to make his Notre Dame debut, as the pro-style offense moves from Xs and Os to actual plays on the field, the Irish are arguably more united now than at any point in TIM KACMAR!The Observer their careers. The Notre Dame defense breaks from a huddle during fall camp. This year's team, despite a season and an off-season to forget, Granted, it is the preseason. Granted, hope springs eternal has managed to become more unified than any of the players can remember being before. under a new coach. Granted, every tradition-rich institution wasn't going to a bowl and Davie finding the final result, I myself "The Prophet," the man who was and says the media will make a opens the season thinking nation wasn't going to be back. prayed that justice would be one-third coach, one-third bigger issue of the season opener al championship. done for everyone involved." teacher and one-third philoso than he will. But those teams didn't ha.ve to An off-season to forget The hits kept coming. In late pher. He constantly reminded But despite all the positive talk endure eight months of intense When Willingham was hired, May, Matt LoVecchio transferred players they were a team, not a coming out of fall camp, the Irish scrutiny and constant criticism. players fell in love with his no to Indiana without a word of group of individuals. During two know their team strength means Those teams didn't resist every nonsense approach on the foot explanation to teammates or a-days, one offensive player nothing if they don't win. And opportunity to fracture apart and ball field. He used PowerPoint coaches. Shortly thereafter, tail roomed with one defensive play they only need to glance back one become separate individuals. presentations to illustrate the back Cory Jones left for er to build unity rather than year to see the importance of "Imagine, if you will, that this ideal Notre Dame athlete to his Washington. The final straw establish the typical rivalry that leaping out to a fast start. team has taken everything that players and created a fountain of came when Julius Jones was exists between offense and "I know we have to start fast has happened to it and somehow enthusiasm by kicked out of defense. He expected certain out there and we have to get the turned it into a positive," visiting dorms Notre Dame things from his team, and his season off to a good start, and Willingham said. "I know that across campus. "We're just tired of for academic team responded. I'm really anxious to do that," may not be believable, and it But the rug losing. This is Notre reasons. "I heard other players say they Holiday said. "We have to set the doesn't make for interesting writ was yanked As the loss would run through a wall for team off on a positive note. ing, unfortunately. But somehow, from beneath Dame, we're not es kept piling him," center Jeff Fainc said. Everybody put [what happened the negative has been turned into Notre Dame's supposed to lose., up and the "Before, I didn't really under last year! behind them. We tried a positive." feet even before criticism stand it. Now I do." to step aside and work hard for the Irish started grew more Willingham also erased the tra this upcoming season, and I think Gerome Sapp we did that for the most part. I A year to forget spring practice. intense, ditional notion of selecting team captains. He ridiculed the notion think everybody's excited, we just For the Irish, 2001 opened with When police Irish safety Notre Dame players could that a team could only have four have to wait and see how we're a crushing 41-9 loss to Oregon and University only stand in leaders. Instead, Willingham going to do." State in the Fiesta Bowl. It ended officials began the middle and watch their pro planned to select game captains "Games are what counts. You with Willingham signing a six to investigate one former and gram get torn to pieces. to emphasize leadership across really rmd out how people handle year contract. In between, three current Notre Dame foot ball players for their alleged "There was so much negative the board. situations in a game," nobody really knows what went "I feel like the core of our team Willingham said. "So there will wrong. All they know is Notre involvement in the rape of a stuff going on outside of us, and there's this small group of guys in was always in place while the be mountains that we will learn Dame finished 5-6 - its second female Notre Dame student, the the middle who can't do anything outside stuff was going on," Sapp about our football team, not only losing season in three years - and shadow Willingham and Co. so about it," Watson said. "You can't said. "But when Coach this game, but I would probably the former head coach headed desperately hoped to chase away go anywhere, and no one else Willingham came, he calcified say in about the first three games for an ESPN broadcasting booth. had moved back over South knows how you feel except the the whole process, he made us that we will have a gigantic "When we reached the Fiesta Bend. 100 or so other guys on the team. into a team." amount of learning that will take Bowl in the BCS, I think we kind "There were a lot of negative things going on in the press that And I think that makes us bond place about the true personality of thought we were there as a ofthis team." team, and now it's time to reap people who weren't directly affili more when you have things like A season to remember? that." Yet dozens of questions the benefits as individuals," line ated with Notre Dame know Anticipation for the start of nothing about," Watson said. Notre Dame's 2002 season is remain, questions that Notre backer Courtney Watson said. Dame has been waiting more "Now we realize, after what "They pick up a paper and read A summer to remember higher now than it has been at · about that stuff, and that's the Over the summer, things began any other point in recent Notre than eight months to answer, we've gone through last season questions that cannot be and this off-season, that's not it only thing they may know. In that to click into place. Players Dame history. Tickets for the aspect, its kind of embarrassing, learned to shut out the distrac Kickoff Classic at 80,000-seat answered on a practice field in at all. It's all about us as a team 90-degree heat. How will Holiday and a coaching staff." you get one chance to reach peo tions and focus on practice and Giants Stadium sold out in less ple, and it came out to be a nega conditioning. Part of the emotion than a half-hour. Students plan handle the new offense? How will The Irish didn't run into the the lack of depth at running back 2001 season as much as they tive." came from a frustrated senior to caravan out to see Shortly after spring practice class who endured a very un Willingham's Notre Dame debut. and safety, two positions deci stumbled into it. After a 0-3 start. mated by off-season problems, ended, Donald Dykes, Abe Elam Notre Dame-like two losing sea "There's an added dimension the worst in school history, play affect the Irish as the season and Lorenzo Crawford were sons. of excitement that the game's ers started to give up and lose wears on? How will Willingham expelled from Notre Dame for "We're just tired of losing," rmally arrived," Willingham said. focus. It was hard to stay moti handle the intense spotlight that vated on playing while questions sexual misconduct. At the end of Sapp said. "This is Notre Dame, "Now is the time to crank it into May, the St. Joseph County we're not supposed to lose. I gear. That everything you've comes with being a Notre Dame about the future of Bob Davie coach? Can Notre Dame ever Prosecutor's office decided to know that's a bold statement, but been working for has now started swirled around the team. become a national championship "There were some times where charge the three expelled players its true. That's how we're to have a real focus point." and Justin Smith with rape-relat approaching the season, we're Ironically, the only person who contender again? guys got emotional struggle," The Irish start answering ques ed charges. tired of losing and we're not doesn't seem particularly excited quarterback Carlyle Holiday said. tions Saturday. "They would break off and think "It was hard at first." safety going to settle for anything other for the season opener is of themselves." Gerome Sapp said. "That's like than winning." Willingham himself. Notoriously By the time the Irish lost to mwcr seeing your friends again. I At the center of the team-build tight-lipped about the status of Contact Andrew Soukup at Willingham's Stanford squad in didn't know what was going to ing project stood Willingham - his team, Willingham claims the [email protected] late November, Notre Dame happen, and as hard as it was the man whose proteges called game will be just another game L. E ·'f"'- page4 The Observer+ IRISH INSIDER Friday, August 30, 2002 Notre Dame Fighting Irish EADT Record: 0-0 AP: unranked Coaches: unranked Tyrone Willingham NOTRE DAME first season at NOTRE DAME Notre Dame OFFENSE 2002 Schedule TAILBACK career record: 4-Grant LEfT TACKLE CORNERBACK 11-WIIson 78·Black &-Foxworth 44-36-1 Aug. 31 Maryland 73-LeVoir 38-McPhearson at Notre Dame: STRONG SIDE 0-0 Sept. 7 PURDUE ~R Willingham against head coach Maryland: 0-0 Sept. 14 MICHIGAN ; ' r/ . Sept. 21. at Michigan State FULLBACK Roster 36-loplanski ... STRONG 47-McNair SAFETY No. Name Pos. Ht. WI. YR 13-WIIson Oct. 5 STANFORD 29-Stewart 1 Jared Clark TE ~ 228 JR MIDDLE LINEBACKER 2 Carlos Pierre-Antoine lLB 6-3 245 SR ' 42-Henderson 2 Dan Novakov QB 6-1 218 SR Oct. 12 PIITSBURGH 51-Henley 3 Amaz Battle FL 6-1 213 SR 4 Ryan Grant RB 6-1 211 so 5 Rhema McKnight WR 6-2 190 FR 6 Carlos Campbell WR 5-11 194 so Oct. 19 at Air Force 7 Carlyle Holiday QB 6-3 214 JR FREE 8 Matt Krueger QB 5-10 180 JR SAFETY 9 Pat Dillingham QB 5-10 209 so Oct. 26 at Florida State 40-Willlams 11 Marcus Wilson RB 5-11 199 so 26-Custis 12 Chris Olsen QB ~ 220 FR 13 Nick Setta K/P 5-11 1757 SR Nov.2 BOSTON COLLEGE WEAK SIDE 14 Gary Godsey TE 6-6 259 SR LINEBACKER 32-Joe 15 Preston Jackson DB 5-9 176 JR 15-Wllliams 16 Stan Revelle QB 5-11 182 so Nov.9 at Navy 17 Joey Hildbold p 5-10 191 SR 18 Ronnie Rodamer SE ~ 206 JR 19 D.J. Fitzpatrick K/P 6-1 192 so Nov. 23 RUTGERS 19 Glenn Earl FS 6-1 205 JR 20 GeromeSapp ss 6-0 218 SR 21 Maurice Stovall WR 6-5 205 FR Nov. 30 at USC 23 Chris Yura TB 6-0 220 SR 25 Nick Schiccatano RB 6-3 220 FR 26 Josh Schmidt FB 6-1 207 so 26 Garron Bible CB 5-10 197 JR 27 Lionel Bolen CB 6-0 195 so 27 Mike Profeta TB 5-11 208 so 30 Mike Richardson DB 6-1 180 FR 31 Jake Carney DB 6-0 180 FR 32 Jeff Jenkins RB 6-0 195 FR 33 Courtney Watson ILB 6-1 232 SR COACHING QUARTERBACKS IRISH RUSHING IRISH PASSING 34 Vontez Duff CB 5-11 194 JR 35 David Miller K 5-11 210 SR 35 Tim O'Neill TB 5-6 172 SR 36 Tom Lopienski FB 6-1 245 SR 37 Dwight Ellick CB 5-10 179 so Holiday is the Noti·e Notre Dame lost its two The Irish head into the• 39 Brandon Hoyte ILB 6-0 226 so Willingham, the first Dame starter after out leading rushers in Julius season with a new pro 39 David Bemenderfer DB 5-11 195 JR 1.&.1 year head coach, has 40 Nate Schomas WR 5-11 165 JR lasting LoVecchio and Jones and Tony Fisher. style offense but without 41 Mike Goolsby LB 6-3 :E managed to unify the 243 so Clark in the race for the Grant has, at best, limited any experience. Holiday 42 Shane Walton CB 5-11 185 SR c( players' spirits, but it is 43 Rashon Powers-Neal TB 6-2 224 position. He struggled game experience. D<~spite was mainly a rushing so Q unclear if he's made a 44 Justin Tuck OLB 6-5 238 so through the end of last the fact that the rush will quarterback last season 46 Corey Mays ILB 6-1 235 so 1.&.1 real winning football season, rushing most of be less vital to the Irish and receivers Battle, 47 Mike McNair FB 6-0 230 SR c::: team. Only two coaches 48 Jerome Collins OLB ~ 256 JR 1- the way. His limited pass offense, it remains to be Jenkins and Campbell have lost their first 49 Derek Curry ILB 6-3 233 JR 0 ing experience may ham seen whether Grant and have only two TDs and 50 Cedric Hilliard NG 6-2 290 SR z game with the Irish. Will per him in Willingham's Wilson can get the job 51 Jamie Ryan OL 6-5 285 FR Willingham join them? 13 career receptions 52 Jeff Faine c 6-3 298 SR new pro-style offense. done. between them. 53 John Crowther C/LS 6-2 239 SR 54 David Fitzgerald OL ~ 280 FR 54 Jason Halvorson DL 6-1 246 SR 55 Zachary Giles c 6-3 281 so The signal caller is the 56 Pat Ryan lLB 6-3 231 SR Friedgen, last season's Last season Maryland Maryland's pass defense 57 Justin Thomas OLB 6-1 243 SR Coach of the Year, is big question mark for the had the best rushing and is about as questionable 58 Chad DeBolt ILB 6-0 202 SR c entering his second Terps. Kelley was the scoring defense in the as Notre Dame's pass 59 James Bent OL 6-2 260 FR front-runner this spring ACC. The Terps return offense. The Terps lost 60 Darrell Campbell DT ~ 288 SR z season at Maryland 61 Charles Hedman LB 6-1 215 SR :3 after leading his team until an injury sat him their most recognizable three of its four starters 62 Scott Raridon OL 6-7 285 FR > to a BCS berth last sea down. It will be a game defender - E.J. at defensive back. 63 Brennan Curtin O'T 6-8 305 SR c::: son. He's worked with day decision whether Henderson - but follow However, Williams, who 64 Casey Dunn OT ~ 255 so c( 65 Sean Milligan OG ~ 300 SR his team for over a year Friedgen goes with Kelly ing back surgery, how had to sit out last season 66 Derek Landri DL 6-2 275 FR and, with his new or southpaw McBrien, much playing time he due to NCAA regulations, 67 Ryan Gillis OG 6-3 305 SR :E 68 Ed O'Connell LB 6-3 212 SR weight loss program, who had some game will see on Saturday is may prove to be ample 69 Darin Mitchell OG 6-3 280 so he's in great shape. experience. still questionable. trouble for the Irish. 70 Jim Molinaro OT 6-6 297 SR 72 Ryan Scarola c 6-5 310 SR 73 Mark LeVoir TE 6-7 309 so 75 Chris Fromt' DL 6-5 240 FR With Coach of the Year If Henderson was for It's a matter of who is 76 Bob Morton OL ~ 305 FR Since Notre Dame has 77 Greg Pauly DT 6-6 280 JR honors an Lightning in a bottle - that's what the The 2002 Maryland squad is much different Terrapins caught last year. Maryland had than the one that beat out Florida State for a freakish year, and they've taken too the ACC title last year. They return only five Irish many personel hits in the off-season. While starters on defense, don't have a solid starting Henderson will wreak havoc on an Irish quarterback and ACC Offensive Player of the offense that will probably sputter out of the Year Bruce Perry is injured. experts gate, Maryland's offensive woes will tip the balance toward the Irish. FINAL SCORE: Notre Dame 24 Andrew Soukup FINAL SCORE: Notre Dame 24 Chris Federico Maryland 10 assistant managing editor Maryland 13 sports editor ,t,- r1!!"'.;> Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ IRISH INSIDER page 5 ------Maryland '0 EAD Terrapins Record: 0-0 AP: No. 21 Coaches: No. 20 Ralph Friedgen Maryland MARYLAND second season at OFFENSE ~) FULLBACK Maryland '------~~. career record: CORNERBACK 42-Walloa 37-EHiek Aug. 31 Notre Dame 10-2 &0 at Maryland: ~ LEFT GUARD ,- 16-Wike \ Sept. 7 AKRON 10-2 61-Tyler - against Notre Friedgen RIGHT END 95-Roberts Dame: 0-0 head coach 44-Tuck Sep. 14 FLORIDA STATE Roster Sept. 21 EASTERN MICHIGAN No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. YR 1-PenyTAILBACK~ FREE SAFETY 1 Bruce Perry RB 5-9 1% JR 9-Crawford - RIGHT GUARD 19-Earl 2 Chris Kelley QB 6-2 213 so 73-Brpnt INSIDE 29-Burrell 3 Rob Abiamiri WR 6-3 216 so 69-Kemp LINEBACKER Sept. 28 WOFFORD 33-Watson 4 Latrez Harrison WR 6-3 219 )R 39-Hoyte 8 :i':,:lfJ;[tf>c ... 5 James Lynch FB 5-11 271 so 6 Domonique Foxworth CB 5-11 175 so Oct. 5 · Ill West Virginia 7 Scott McBrien QB 6-0 180 JR f• ~ ~-- 8 Mario Merrills RB 5-10 197 FR ;~ 9 jason Crawford RB 6-2 220 so 10 Madieu Williams FS 6-1 193 JR Oct. 17 ,~:~:t Gf.RGIA TECH 11 Orlando Evans QB 6-0 202 JR ;~~'STRONGSAFETY 20-SaPJ '::.f . 12 Sal Aragona WR 5-8 183 JR Q 26-Bible \ 12 Marcus Wimbush FS 5-11 190 FR " 1¥ 13 Dennard Wilson SS 5-11 186 JR Oct. 26 / -4' at Duke 14 Sam Hollenbach QB 6-5 215 FR OUTSIDE LINEBACKER 14 Matt Brant FS 6-0 170 FR 49-CIIny 15 Curtis Williams FS 6-2 199 so 57-Thomas Nov. 2 at North Carolina 16 Brooks Bernard P 6-2 188 SR LEFT END CORNERBACK 17 Hunter Cross QB 6-3 211 JR 92-Budlns.:ak 34-Duft 17 Reuben Haigler CB 6-0 179 JR 90-Beidatsch 15-Jackson 18 Chris Choice WR 5-11 17.5 FR Nov. 9 NCSTATE 18 Maurice Shanks WR 6-4 191 so 19 }afar Williams WR 6-2 195 JR 20 Chris Downs RB 5-8 193 SR 21 Luke Kim CB 5-9 190 SR 21 Joel Statham QB 6-1 185 FR 22 Rich Parson WR 5-10 174 so 23 Andrew Smith, Jr. SS 6-0 197 so 24 Leroy Ambush LB 6-1 229 JR 25 Scooter Monroe WR 6-2 194 SR 26 Raymond Custis FS 5-8 194 so 27 Jo Jo Walker WR 5-10 165 FR 29 Ty Stewart SS 6-0 202 SR TERPS RUSHING TERPS PASSING SPECIAL TEAMS INTANGIBLES 30 Curome Cox CB 6-1 199 JR 31 Chad Killian FB 6-2 265 SR 32 Leon Joe LB 6-1 223 )R 33 josh Allen RB 5-11 194 FR 34 Steve Suter WR 5-9 187 so ~ '' . • . '. ~ i: ' The· lrlshrsettmdnry hhs The Irish have the benefit 35 J.P Humber RB 5-11 1% FR The Irish return three 35 Michael Miller LB 6-0 225 FR its strong points in The kicking game will be of a fresh start. In addi 36 Adam Podlesh P 5-10 185 FR starting linemen and returning starters Duff, a strong point for the tion to the game being z 36 Alan Grantham FS 5-9 185 FR one starting linebacker. 36 David Holloway LH 6-4 210 FR Walton and Sapp. Irish again this season, Willingham's first as the 0 They allowed an aver -1 37 Jamal Chance CB 6-1 196 SR However, the safety with the return of Setta head eoaeh, the Irish will :a 31! Gerrick McPhearson CB 5-11 190 FR age of 1 32 rushing yards position still has its and Hildbold. Duff be looking for redemp ITI 38 Paul Stellacci WR 6-2 208 FR per game and sacked 39 Drew Phelan PK 6-0 195 FR returns at the kiek tion. The team has been 250 FR the opposing team's weaknesses and Earl, c 41 Justin Duffie FB 6-2 who was plagued with returner position, but the talking about unity all fall J> 41 Kevin Eli DE 6-4 260 so quarterback 26 times 42 E.J. Henderson LB 6-2 250 SR inuries, is the only other Irish will miss Julius camp and Saturday will 3: for a loss of 126 yards 44 Bernie Fiddler FB 6-1 234 JR give them the chance to m 4.5 Shawne Merriman LB 6-3 240 FR last year_ safety with game experi Jones at that position. ence. showcase it. 46 Nick Novak PK 6-0 189 so 47 jon Condo LB 6-3 237 so 48 William Kershaw LB 6-3 205 FR 49 Richard Benjamin LB 6-1 241 JR 49 Jamahl Cochran LB 6-0 241 S<.:> Maryland's rush game The Terps return all but Maryland returns one of The Terps are coming 50 Andrew Wojcik LB 6-2 240 )R looked to be a solid sitck one of their receivers the best kickers in the off a fairy-talc season. 51 Andrew Henley LB 5-11 237 )R 52 D'Qwell jackson LB 6-1 220 FR ing point for its offense who saw significant country in Brooks Maryland defeated 53 Reggie Holmes LB 6-1 234 FR until junior Bruee Perry playing time last season. Barnard. He and Novak Florida State to become 54 Scott Smith DE 6-4 262 )R was sidelined due to an Monroe and Williams should provide the the first team to take the 56 Jesse Kluttz LS 6-3 232 FR 57 Randy Starks DT 6-4 302 so injury during fall camp. both had their best sea Terps with a solid kick ACC title away from the 58 Ricardo Dickerson· l.B 6-3 230 FR Who will step up to fill sons in 2001. Williams ing game while Merills Seminoles since 1991 59 Maurice Smith LB 6-0 218 so 60 Akil Patterson OL 6-3 294 FR the ACC Player of the has the size and and Suter will be taking and they start the sea 61 Ed Tyler OC 6-3 304 JR Year's position is unclear strength Friedgen looks the lead at the return son ranked in both the 63 Patrick O'Brien OG 6-5 310 FR as Maryland heads into for. Monroe should be a position. Both had game AP and the Coaches 64 Nathaniel Clayton C 6-5 310 FR 65 Matt Powell OT 6-4 319 FR the game. good compliment. experience last year. polls. 66 Todd Wike ex; 6-3 303 SR 67 Mike Steele OG 6-5 291 FR 70 Stt>phon Heyer OT 6-6 290 FR 71 Durrand Roundtree DE 6-3 256 SR Notre Dame's run Despite the question The Irish special teams 72 Kyle Schmitt C 6-5 298 so Neither team has home 73 Lamarr Bryant OG 6-3 302 )R defense was quite possi mark at quarterback, will still be adjusting to field advantage, but the 74 C.). Brooks OT 6-6 309 so bly its strongest asset Mary~and..h.M,_a, strong the new system and spe 75 Eric Dumas OT 6-6 308 )R ·t.>:?-:··,· :·· ' ~--.·,• Irish should have a 76 Henry Scott DE 6-1 248 so last season. Without core ·. of roturning qialteam~ i~ usuaJ)y a stronger fan base. And, 77 Russell Bonham OT 6-4 297 FR Perry, Maryland doesn't receivers. The .Irish sec behind rest of 78 Matt Crawford OT 6-6 313 SR little ~the. despite what Willingham boast having much of a ondar).<6tha,t* took a the team.! 116wever:, the 79 Lou Lombardo OT 6-6 303 so says, the fact that !10 Onnie Onwuemene WR 6-0 194 so running game. The rela heavy blow ln the off ifisli stili h'fre~''~stl·ong 191 FR Saturday is his first game 81 Paschal Abiamiri WR 6-2 82 Jeff Dugan TE 6-4 261 )R tively experienced Irish season ..· will··.··;:;;;::::::··· have its players. Maryland's ' will have an effect on the 83 Derrick Fenner WR 5-11 183 FR defense should be able work cut otil as it tries to kicking game, however, team. The Irish have the 84 Derek Miller TE 6-8 257 FR catch up with the experi will present its own set 8.5 Aaron Smith WR 6-5 203 FR to contain what the drive to win. Terps throw at it. ence Maryland brings. of problems. 85 Dan Melendez WR 6-2 175 FR 86 Brad Schell TE 6-5 220 so 87 Ryan Flynn TE 6-4 262 FR 88 Dave Quantaince DT 6-5 266 FR 92 Darren Sanders TE 6-4 220 JR 93 Davian Bryan DT 6-3 281 so 9.5 William Shime NT 6-3 285 SR % C.). Feldheim NT o-2 282 JR 97 Tosin Abari DT 6-3 259 JR 98 Randy Earle LB 6-3 229 FR 99 Landon Jones DE 6-3 259 JR Saturday's game does not promise to be an Willingham will have the troops ready for a depleted - offensive extravaganza. Neither the Irish, Maryland team that is missing it's best offensive with a new scheme, or the Terps, without player. Look for Notre Dame's ofl'ense to break open - n Perry, can boast that they have an offense a close game in the second half and give Willingham that is tried and tested. But once the Irish get his first victory as Irish head coach. into the game, they should settle into the new FINAL SCORE: Notre Dame 27 \:'',,.,. t~ e.· scheme and manage to squeak by the Terps. Maryland 17 FINAL SCORE: Notre Dame 17 Katie McVoy Maryland 14 Joe Hettler associate sports editor associate sports editor ~ \ ' .. \ • ' ' ' ' \ \ \ " ~ ~ • ~ \ " ' -' - • l <~,{.,) page 6 The Observer+ IRISH INSIDER Friday, August 30, 2002 Sizing up the Irish and the Terrapins , by the numbers NOTRE DAME'S OFFENSE MARYLAND'S OFFENSE number of consecutive night games the Irish vs have lost 9 AVERAGE PER GAME MARYLANci~ DEFENSE NOTRE DAME'S DEFENSE \ l number of quarterbacks that could start for l total yards gained 2 the Terrapins on Saturday I total yards allowed \ I l ) . rushing yards gained ' career receptions by Battle, Jenkins and 13 rushing yards allowed Campbell combined ! \ passing yards gained 219.0 : I passing yards allowed consecutive years Florida State won the ACC ll 9 before Maryland won it last season i . I I ' kick return yards gained 24.3 kick return yards allowed L-...o.;----- 26.1 26.1 AP preseason rank the last time the Irish 2 played in the Kickoff Classic punt return yards gained punt return yards allowedL._.:..:.._----±::.~ilL..-~~~~-__j yards per punt number of votes the Irish received in the AP 3 preseason poll this year punts blocked ~I turnovers lost Notre Dame coaches who lost their first turnovers recovered 2.1 2.1 game - Lou Holtz and Elmer Hayden 2 yards penalized yards penalized number of times E.J. Henderson was named I . ACC Defensive Player of the Week last season f ( 6 i \ f '· points scored I ! . points allowed percent of passes starting quarterback 5Q 7 Carlyle Holiday completed last season • It ~ -~ --- -- ____ ;:;,. ·------··-·--- r l ~ \ I ( I I ~ . I , scrt e to server l I Make checks payable to: The Obseruer ·<\ and mail to: P .0. BoH Q Notr Dame, IN 46556 D Enclosed is $1 00 for one academic year D Enclosed is $55 for one semester Name ______Adress ______City ------State ____ Zip ___ ~ iI ) - ·:- ..... ""--.:L • "i . _; Friday, August 30, 2002 The Observer+ IRISH INSIDER page 7 Goolsby relishes chance to finally contribute and cornerback Vontez Duff for." By ANDREW SOUKUP were the only freshmen to earn Although Goolsby hasn't Associate Sports Editor monograms two years ago. played a down, the Irish are But over Notre Dame's 5-6 expecting big things from the Finally. campaign last year, Goolsby junior linebacker. Essentially That's what junior Mike grew increasingly frustrated. the quarterback of the defense, - Goolsby thought when defen Slotted on the depth chart the linebackers are responsible sive coordinator Kent Baer told behind Tyreo Harrison at line for getting the defensive cover him earlier this week he would backer, Goolsby could only age from the coaches and start at middle linebacker stand on the sideline as his sec relaying it to the team while against Maryland. ond year of eligibility spun making sure players line up in College football has been a away with the rest of Notre the correct spots. rough life for Goolsby, a highly Dame's season. "Mike is probably as quick as recruited linebacker out of high "I W(\S pretty upset at the end anyone ... and mastered our school who expected to come in of the year, especially with the defensive system in terms of and make an immediate contri way.the season went and the understanding what has to take bution. But when he came to fact I couldn't do anything to place, adjustments and changes Notre Dame, Goolsby only saw turn the season around," he that have to take place, and duty on special teams and grew said. "It was pretty frustrating." that has given him a real frustrated that he couldn't get Perhaps no player benefited advantage on the other players into the game as a linebacker. more from the coaching change at his position," coach Tyrone Saturday will be the first day he than Goolsby. He was waiting Willingham said. "Along with plays a down at linebacker for for a chance to prove himself, that, he has been physical, Notre Dame. and when head coach Tyrone which we expected out of a "Me and Coach Baer had a Willingham said players would linebacker, and that is very conversation I at the end of have to earn their playing time, pleasing to have him bring all spring practice]," said Goolsby, Goolsby seized his opportunity. of those ingredients together." who beat out fifth-year senior During spring practice, Goolsby doesn't have to go far Carlos Pierre-Antoine for the Goolsby initially impressed the for advice if the pressure of starting job. "He told me I had Irish coaching staff with his being a first-year starter begins done some good things up to grasp of the system and his to bother him. Fellow line that point, and that's what I brash style of play. Teammates backer Courtney Watson, worked on, being more consis describe him as a Chicago-style whose locker is adjacent to tent." linebacker, someone who plays Goolsby's, was in a similar situ He's just lucky he had a in the mold of legendary Bears ation last season. Largely chance to show what he can do. linebacker Dick Butkus. unproven, unknown and unreli Goolsby expected more when ··1 guess you could say I got able, Watson had to fill the he arrived in South Bend. lucky in the sense of the new shoes of a solid graduated vet BRIAN PUCEVICH!The Observer Coming out of high school, he staff and everything else and I eran. He surprised the Irish Notre Dame linebacker Mike Goolsby, who was highly recruit was on virtually every major got another shot. I thank God with good play throughout the ed coming out of high school, will finally get his chance to prospect list and earned Parade for that," Goolsby said. " I kept season and, after just one sea start at linebacker for the Irish on Saturday. All-American honors. As a line my nose to the grindstone, and son on the field, has established backer and a tight end, he led everything worked out for me. himself as a pivotal player on past few years, it's been rough there and showing what I'm his Joliet, Ill., high school team With the new staff, there's a the Irish defense. to the state title his senior year. on me. Football is such a big about." new fresh start over for me. It's an example Goolsby is part of my life here at Notre Initially, Goolsby was pleased Everybody had to go out there hoping to duplicate. with his college debut. Goolsby, Dame, and there's a tremen Contact Andrew Soukup at and prove themselves, and "[Starting is] a tremendous dous amount of pride lining up quarterback Matt LoVecchio that's kinda what I was looking deal for me," he said. "Over the [email protected] Maryland looks to revisit its fairy tale season ation looked much brighter By CHRIS FEDERICO heading into the first couple of Associate Sports Editor weeks of summer camp. The Terps return eight starters Last season, Maryland from an offense that scored shocked the college football 35.5 points a game in 2001, world, finishing 10-2 and with the only real question beating perennial powerhouse mark coming at quarterback. Florida State for the ACC title. Maryland must replace Shaun The Terps played in the H ilJ, the leader of that 2001 Orange Bowl, where they were Terp offense. pounded by Florida 56-23, but The original choice for the still finished 1Oth and 11th in spot was sophomore Chris the USA Today Coaches and Kelley over West Virginia Associated Press polJs, respec transfer Scott McBrien. After tively. Kelley suffered a torn ACL in They won seven conference the spring game, people fig games for the first time in ured the left-handed transfer school history and became the McBrien would take the helm, first team other than Florida but Kelley has made great State to win the ACC title since progress despite the injury, 1992. and the two quarterbacks are The question weighing on a dead even at week's end, as lot of minds heading into this coach Ralph Friedgen has not season is: Can Maryland put committed to a starter for up the same performance as Saturday. last year? "Today was so close," said The 2002 squad will be one coach Halph Friedgen about much different from the team the race for the starting quar the Terps fielded just a year terback spot after an Aug. 20 ago. Maryland returns only scrimmage. ••t may be like five starters off last season's [Redskins coach] Steve defense that held opponents to [Spurrier] and say you'll find just 90.6 yards rushing per out [who the starter is] when game and ranked second in the guy takes the field [against the ACC. Notre Dame!." Gary Rothstein/lcon SMI A bright spot for the Terps is If there was one area where middle linebacker E.J. Maryland felt confident head Terrapins receiver Jafar Williams makes a carry during Maryland's 56-23 loss to Florida during Henderson, the 2001 ACC ing into the Kickoff Classic it the Orange Bowl. The question is whether or not Maryland can succeed two seasons in a row. Defensive Player of the Year was tailback, as the Terps and Butkus Award candidate. return ACC Offensive Player of "Bruce's injury is very mined to rehab and get back season battered and bruised, Henderson, however, under the Year Bruce Perry to the unfortunate for us as a team," on the field as soon a possi many questions remain as to went back surgery in April lineup. But just over a week Friedgen said following the ble." how good they can be and and sat out the entire spring ago, Perry - the Terps lead injury. "The good news is that The injury leaves a gaping whether they can match last and most of summer drills ing returner in both rushing he did not tear the tendon off hole at the position. year's stellar performance. because of the injury. Even if and receiving - injured his of the bone, and it looks like Sophomore Jason Crawford Henderson plays against the groin muscle and was side he will be able to come back and freshman Mario Mills will Irish Saturday, he will proba lined for four to eight weeks, at some point this year. If be the leading candidates for Contact Chris Federico at bly be less than 100 percent. keeping him from action in the there is some silver lining, I the starting tailback job. [email protected] Offensively, Maryland's situ- opener against the Irish. think that's it. Bruce is deter- With the Terps entering the ~ t ~ -, - .... ~ ;. .. I THE page 8 OBSERVER Friday, August 30, 2002 ' ======i I !~ .~ : 6 I (. I ~. "- f I' . t~ '. ~ \-. .' . ' . looking for : ~ I t ' \ I ;, l . r '· [ . ! '~ something to do : ~ I I I I . I: \.1(., I \ ~ - : ~ ' : I \ I I with your free time? I ' I iI . : ~ I '. 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