Tuesday, October 29, 1996 • Vol. XXX No. 41 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S • CAMPus l!FE Com~cn. Divided CLC vote defeats NDLGS resolution By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN 22 years old that voted against ment by the Standing Council debate centered cial coordinator of the CLC and Assistant News Editor it," Bigelow elaborated. Committee, created in O'Hara's around the necessity of such a sponsor of the resolution. "but Seven of the eight student response to last spring's AdHoc report and the importance of it takes away from the original In a divided vote that CLC representatives present voted Committee report. the Standing Committee in both intent which was simply to pro Student Senate Representative for the resolution, while six fac Many representatives ques assessing the progress of vide Professor O'Hara with a: Shane Bigelow said "may signal ulty and staff representatives tioned the logic of asking NDLGS and making that assess time frame for the report that possible problems for the voted against and two Professor O'Hara to assess a ment public. she said she would eventually future." the Campus Life abstained. The split tally ulti group which she created. "The Standing Committee and give." Council defeated a resolution mately fell short of the two "When you put together a their dialogue are the key A friendly amendment to regarding the University group thirds majority needed. group, it doesn't make much issues here," asserted Sister Mcinerney's resolution pro Notre Dame Lesbian and Gay The defeated resolution had sense to ask you to be the one Mary Jane Griffin, Howard posed moments before the vote Students (NDLGS). called for Vice President of that makes an objective judge Hall's rector. "They are really changed its purpose from solely "I noticed that there is a defi Student Affairs Patricia O'Hara ment as to its progress," said the most important group to providing a time frame to ask nite split in the vote between to present a report every Ava Preacher, associate dean of pay attention to." ing for a specific report from the students who voted for the semester on the group's the College of Arts and Letters "This debate is really good," resolution and everyone above progress including an assess- and CLC faculty representative. offered Ryan Mcinerney, judi- see VOTE I page 4 Gentlemen, start your engin-es Congressman anticipates Automotive engineers raced into their first campus speech By LORI ALLEN competitive season Saint Mary's News Editor By MARILYN ALIOTO Congressman Tim Roemer of News Writer Indiana's Third District will speak tonight at Saint Mary's College in The Notre Dame Society of Automotive Carroll Auditorium at 6 p.m. Engineers (SAE), under Dr. Michael Roemer, who Stanisic. completed its first mini baja obtained his vehide competition in Milwaukee this Masters and PhD in past summer. Although the nationwide International event is three years old, this summer Relations from the marked the first entry by a University University of Notre team. Dame, will speak Notre Dame finished 54th out of 65 on his experiences teams in the overall event, but received in politics and how a tenth place finish in the accelerated they have influ event. Competition included both stand enced him to run by rivals like University of Michigan and Observer File Photo for office. The former professor who Florida State, as well as more exotic Powered by an eight horsepower engine, SAE members built their car to exacting taught at American University is look teams arriving from countries as far as specifications for last summer's race. ing forward to the speech. Brazil. Corporation and local SAE divisions are team member Chad Brandengurg (SAE). ''I'm very excited about the chance The competition challenged teams to two main sponsors for the event," "It is a tremendous first-hand learning to talk to the students of Saint Mary's construct the smallest, functional, one Dell'Osso said. experience." College and the University of Notre passenger, ofT-road vehicle within a list Although the start up cost is about SAE currently has fifty members, most Dame. Young people in college today of guidelines. The final design was seven thousand dollars for materials of whom are mechanical engineers, are our nation's best and brightest as actually one of five original projects the and labor expenses, it usually decreases although membership is open to all con we move into the 21st century," said automotive engineers produced, ace after the first year because many parts centrations. "It is a great opportunity to Roemer. "I often get my best feed cording to team member Renato are reusable. "The project is recycled get to know your major," Brandenburg back from students." Dell'Osso. every two years and the team is already added. The event is being sponsored by the Students are involved in every aspect beginning to work on the car for next This summer's race will be held in Student Academic Council who have of development from the concept and year," Dell'Osso said. Dayton, Ohio. Those interested in arraigned a question-and-answer design to the actual manufacturing, The group works throughout the becoming members of the Notre Dame series immediately following repairing, and driving of the vehicle. school year preparing and testing the team are encouraged to call Renato Roemer's speech. Obtaining funds was a similar group new vehicle for the summer's race. Dell'Osso at 634-1758. "Roemer will not be campaigning or responsibility. "The Chrysler "We learned a lot this year," said see ROEMER I page 4 Maynooth' program mixes students with true Irish Editor's note: This is the first being a Saint Mary's alumna over 100 faculty members and an experience I never could've in a three-part series focusing and Irish native, McCarthy more than 4,000 students. got at Notre Dame." on Saint Mary's and Notre anxiously agreed. This year, 16 Saint Mary's One of Boland's close friends Dame students studying in "My parents sent me to Saint "st.Across students and nine Notre Dame also studies in Ireland, but is Ireland. Funding for Caroline Mary's in America because students are taking advantage one of five independent Notre Blum's trip to Ireland was pro they were afraid my brother 'Wthe Sea of the program. Dame students studying at the vided by the Saint Mary's was losing his faith," she l of 3 Although designed for sopho nearby Trinity University. Board of Governance. remembered. "But I enjoyed mores, five of the participants This puts Boland in a favor my time at the College, which McCarthy said. "They take the are juniors. Regardless of their able position to compare the By CAROLINE BLUM was why I was excited to start classes with Irish students, and class, all students live in five two approaches to Irish stud Saint Mary's Editor a program with Saint Mary's are encouraged to join the col bedroom apartment flats with ies. that would bring students over lege's societies and clubs." Irish students as well as ''I'm so glad I came to MAYNOOTH, Ireland to Ireland." St. Patrick's College, often Americans. Maynooth instead," Boland In 1977. Peggy McCarthy was Nineteen years later, referred to as Maynooth Notre Dame students Nick said. "This program allows us teaching English at St. McCarthy still works as the College, was founded in 1795 Becker and Mike Boland, the to make friends with the Irish Patrick's College in Maynooth, advisor for the Ireland when the British king allowed only males on the program, live students and to travel. At Ireland, when she received a Program. its construction as the Emerald with three Irish students and Trinity, students are so struc phone call from Saint Mary's Each year, she helps the 25 Isle's first Catholic college. feel the experience has given tured that they never really get College. students selected from Notre Located just 14 miles west of them a world of opportunities. to experience all of the won The caller asked if McCarthy Dame and Saint. Mary's to Dublin, the institution evolved "Living with people different ders of Ireland." would oversee a program that adapt to a new lifestyle _in into one of the world's largest than the typical Notre Dame But because Maynooth's would allow Saint Mary's and Maynooth. seminaries, and in 1910 it was student has done a lot for me," studies are conducted in years Notre Dame students to study "The whole essence of this recognized as the- National Boland said. "It's fun to see the rather than semesters, the pro- at St. Patrick's for a year. With program is for students to University of Ireland. different ways in which people the nearly ideal background of experience Irish student life," Today, St. Patrick's boasts live and view the world. That's see IRELAND I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, October 29, 1996
• INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE Weare Tutsi, Hutu clashes cause refugee exodus to Zaire CYANGUGU, • Refugee spilled over into Rwanda Kibumba Zaire, now home to Tutsi rebels traded many of the NOT dating! mortar and small- refugees. There have been arms fire with U.N. officials say numerous campus issues Zairian troops in the developing situa- addressed so far this eastern Zaire, as tion in eastern Zaire semester. among them 500,000 refugees could rival the toilet flushing. fan apathy, fled the fighting and 0 humanitarian disas- and drinking-in all its warehouses of U.N. camp , Lake ter of 1994, when forms. But there is anoth food were reported Kivu hundreds of thou- er that was recently looted. sands of Hwandan brought to my attention Sporadic gunfire llutus fled into Zaire yet again: dating. could be heard today after their compatri- Dan Cichalski There are people who in Bukavu, a provin- ots slaughtered say dating does not hap- Assistanr Accenr Editor cia! capital in eastern 500,000 Hwandan pen at Notre Dame. Zaire. Fighting Tutsis. Then there are others Sunday sent thou- The 1.2 million who say either you're single, or you're practi sands of Bukavu resi- refugees in Zaire are cally, if not literally, engaged. There is no dents streaming west mainly Hutu, and for middle ground. and north, as the two • at least the last two The problem here is just the opposite of the sides clashed a few years they have been one in that "Seinfeld" episode. Jerry kept get miles to the south. housed in 40 U.N. ting upset because a guy would ask Elaine out The U.N. refugee c, refugee camps along without even considering that Jerry and agency said at least ~ the border. From Elaine might be dating because they were four people were those camps, mili- together at the sandwich shop. killed and 100 10miles tant Hutus have A couple of the opposite sex cannot walk wounded in that ~ launched attacks on across this campus or sit in a dining hall with fighting Sunday. 10km the Tutsi-led govern- out other students in the vicinity assuming Witness reports that [S;i2:J:m.:uLJJ2B!.LJL.;.L:.lRiWJ~amL;;;.:Z:::llllllittt.::iJ<::::::=:::=:r::::=:~JLL;;;._j me n t s in B u r u n d i that they are "together." More likely, they are many more had died and Hwanda. simply enjoying lunch or a conversation with could not be confirmed. Now the government of Zaire, with the help of some one another. It does not mean that they can A struggle for land and power ,between ethnic Tutsis militant Hutu refugees, has ordered out and attacked only have lunch or a conversation with that and Hutus - which has left thousands dead in the last ethnic Tutsis who have been living in ea,stern Zaire for at one person of the opposite sex. Just because three years in neighboring Rwanda and Burundi - has least 200 years. · a couple dines together does not mean that neither party may dine with anyone else. Ailing Yeltsin goes on the offensive Woman sues for unwanted surgery Consider this scenario: While waiting for some friends in the lobby of Washington Hall MOSCOW BATON HOUGE after "Barefoot in the Park," my play-going President Boris Yeltsin on Monday Mary Ann Turner thought she was going into the hos partner (whom we will call "Jen" to protect canceled all meetings for the week so pital for simple surgery to repair damage from the birth her anonymity} said hello to someone she he can rest and take medical tests of her third baby. Instead, she claims in a lawsuit, sur knew. lie said hello back, saw me, then low ahead of heart surgery. "But it didn't geons mutilated her genitals at the instigation of her ered his eyes and said good-bye as he ran for stop him from punishing an ex-confi anesthesiologist husband, who was present during the the door. dant who says the president is too sick procedure 24 years ago and treated his wife afterward. "We forgot to bring our signs that say 'NOT to govern. Yeltsin lashed out at "He told them she had some sexual problems and this DATING,"' said "Jen." Alexander Korzhakov, his bodyguard would fix it," said Turner's lawyer, Richard Ducote. The Even my mother has trouble with the con and close friend for 11 years, accusing . lawsuit against Alan Ostrowe, her ex-husband, goes to cept of a platonic male/female relationship. him of making slanderous statements and ordering him trial Tuesday after eight years in the courts. It has divid After I told her that "Jen" and I were nothing relieved of his military duties. His offensive against ed the couple's four children - two of their sons side more than friends, she still thought, five Korzhakov, who has openly allied himself with ousted with their father while the eldest son, Michael months later, that we were dating. And every security chief Alexander Lebed, was the latest in a series Constantine, and their daughter back Turner. Turner, time I mention a woman's name that's new to of actions aimed at showing that Yeltsin is still running now 56, claims Ostrowe persuaded the two surgeons to her, Mom asks, "What happened to [insert Russia despite his ailing heart. On Monday, Yeltsin perform a female circumcision, removing the clitoral most recent woman's name here]?" spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said the president was hood, while she was sedated. Her lawsuit doesn't offer a But I am not spewing all these thoughts calling off all his meetings and would undergo tests to motive for Ostrowe's alleged actions, but Constantine without a way to remedy the situation. prepare for surgery. says he knows why it happened. First, let's put a ban on same-sex fraterniz ing. Everyone put forth your best effort to be KKK lives on in the South Asiatic ladybugs attack Hoosiers seen at least once a day with someone of the opposite sex. Hopefully, the sight will become PELION, S.C. ELKHART so commonplace that no one will ever assume A statue of a Ku Klux Klansman and a Confederate Those cute little ladybugs are turning into real pests. two fri\"lnds are dating because they merely battle flag adorned the front yard of a white man Swarms of ladybugs have been covering northern are alone together. charged with firing into a mostly black crowd at a night Indiana homes, front porches - even inside walls - Better yet, opposite sex friends should make club, his cousin said Monday. The flag and statue had recently in their last stop before hibernating. The it a point to emphasize their Not Dating sta been in the yard of the trailer home in Lexington for insects are a species of ladybugs, the Asiatic lady beetle, tus. Try these lines out, and say them loud some time until Clayton Spires Jr. was arrested in the that have migrated north from Tennessee, said Jeff enough for everyone in the area code to hear shootings, said !von Harsey, a neighbor and distant Burbrink, Elkhart County extension educator. While you: cousin. Spires was arrested along with Joshua England most residents aren't thrilled with hundreds of bugs cov • "I had a great time tonight, even though of New Holland in the shootings early Sunday that ering their homes, the good news is the ladybugs only WE ARE NOT DATING!" injured two people and left Gary Jones, 17, of Gilbert stay for a day or two. "Basically, it's a good old ladybug • ''I'd like to make a reservation for two hospitalized. He was in stable condition. Lexington except for the nasty habit of swarming or crawling all people WIIO ARE NOT DATING!" County Sheriff James Metts asked a task force of state over the house two days a year," Burbrink said. "It's the • "Even though WE ARE NOT DATING, I and federal authorities to determine if Spires and perfect insect, until a person finds 1,500 of them on a thought Hobert DeNiro's portrayal of an ex England can be charged under federal hate crime window." The best defense is resigned patience, convict-turned-priest was outstanding!" statutes. The FBI was investigating. Both men remained Burbrink said. "There's no way to completely seal off a • 'That was a great run by Kinder, even in jail on $250,000 bond. home," he said. "They find their way in." though WE ARE NOT DATING!" • "The Yankees arc the best team in base • SOUTH BEND WEATHER • NATIONAL WEATHER ball, and WE ARE NOT DATING!" 5 Day South Bend Forcast • "Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame. WE AccuWeather.,forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures AHE NOT DATING; we're friends. Send a vol The AccuWeather<~~>torecast for noon, Tuesday, Oct. 29. ley cheer on high .... " You see what I mean? 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Although advertising strate and three years later went on News Writer Buckets of the candy will be gies for comedian Michael Petit Father Joseph O'Donnell, for active duty, joining an amphibi placed in each residence hall. have not been set, the artist's mer Navy chaplain and now ous squadron of seven ships Publicity efforts for Saint Several SAB members will be appearance on campus was dis religious superior of Holy Cross operating in the coastal waters Mary's Student Activities Board invading classrooms bearing cussed at the meeting. Petit will House, received the University of Vietnam. From 1969 until events are steadily improving, cbokies, encouraging students perform on Thursday Nov. 7 at of Notre Dame Alumni his retirement from active duty according to the SAB. Earlier, to attend the evening's events. 6 p.m. in the Haggar Snack Association's Corby Award on in 1994, O'Donnell served in in August, the Board made a The party will take place in Bar. Saturday, October 19, during naval installations in Iceland, resolution to increase and Haggar Parlor and Haggar Singer, storyteller, and lectur halftime ceremonies at the Okinawa, Pearl Harbor, San improve publicity for the year. Game Room from 7 until 9 p.m. er Jack Gladstone will appear at Notre Dame/Air Force football Diego, Portsmouth, Va., and "Publicity makes or breaks Winners of the murder mystery Saint Mary's Haggar Parlor at game. Washington D.C. the (success oO events," said game will receive gift certifi 4:30p.m. on Thursday Nov. 14. The Corby Award, named in His 27 years as an active duty Coordinator Lori McKeough, cates and discount coupons Gladstone's "Native Reflections" honor of Father William Corby - chaplain included pastoral work who applauded the board's from local restaurants and tells the story of the Native Notre Dame's third president in medical facilities, administra efforts thus far. stores such as Francesco's, American people in a unique and chaplain to Union troops tion, teaching and graduate For example, Traditional Sunny Italy, Spiece, Grains & and entertaining approach. during the Civil War - is given studies in ethics at Texas Events chairwomen Jen Ligda Grinds, BW3's, Fazoli's, Papa Ethnic Diversity Chairwoman annually by the Alumni Medical Center in Houston. For and Jessi Lentych are trying John's, and Java Juice. Bronwyn McAuliffe also dis Association to a Notre Dame the last two years of his naval creative methods to attract stu Other innovative publicity cussed the possibility of a sec graduate "who has exemplified career he was executive assis dents to the SAB Halloween efforts will be seen for the "You ond semester performance by the values and true spirit of tant to the Chief of Chaplains. party. Laugh, You Lose" game show. Emmy Gay, a multicultural, Notre Dame while serving in the O'Donnell's numerous military On Thursday, each Saint Gretchen Moore and Lori Riebe pro-gay lecturer/performer. active or reserve armed forces." decorations include the Legion Mary's student will receive an have ordered a large number of McKeough and McAuliffe A Chicago native, O'Donnell of Merit, the Meritorious Service invitation to the evening's party wax lips in hopes of sprucing up stressed the importance oflook was a Naval ROTC student who Medal, the Navy Commendation which includes a murder mys mundane campus publicity. ing at diversity from more than graduated from Notre Dame in Medal, the National Defense tery game. Public Relations The game show will take one perspective, pointing out 1956. Ordained a priest for the Medal. a Combat Action Ribbon, Coordinator Kelly Medlin, place Thursday Nov. 14 in the that Gay's appearance might Congregation of Holy Cross in a Navy Unit Commendation, and dressed as a witch, will be Dining Hall during dinner benefit the Saint Mary's com 1960 he did graduate work in various awards and ribbons handing out candy with hours. munity in that regard. pastoral psychology at Notre from the former Republic of Dame and served on the Vietnam. Stanford residence hall staff for At Holy Cross House, the a year before beginning seven retirement and medical facility Gift funds Latino literature years of ministry in parishes, for the Congregation of Holy schools and retreat houses in Cross, Father O'Donnell pre Special to The Observer Thomas Corson, chairman lection is its reconstruction of the Midwest. In 1965 he sides over 44 resident Holy and chief executive officer of the library owned by Garcilaso received a commission in the Cross religious and a staff of 35. The University has received Coachmen Industries Inc. of Inca, the first prominent rues a $520,000 gift from the family Elkhart, has been a member of tizo intellectual of the 16th and of Tom and Dottie Corson of the advisory council for Notre 17th centures, whose writings Middlebury, Ind., to fund the Dmae's Law are widely con acquisition of the Jose Durand School since------sidered indis- Collection, a unique library of 1985. pensable to an rare Latin American books and His wife, 'The generosity of understanding manuscripts. ~ottie, is a reg- the Corson family of the mestizo "The Tom and Dottie Corson 1stered nurse . ( m i x e d Family Program for the Jose and former Will wonderfully European and Durand Collection is a mile small business enhance the scholar- N a t i v e stone in the history of the owner. Their h" d . ll l Amerian) roots reported University libraries," said daughter. s lp an mte ectua of Latin call. Notre Dame President Father Claire Corson life of the Notre Dame American cui- 4:27 p.m. Seeurlty Edward Malloy. "The generos Skinner, gradu- •t £ ture. cle that hlld been broken ity of the Corson family will a ted from the commum y or years to Born in Cuzco parked In the. 02 South lot. wonderfully enhance the Law School in come." as the son of a 6 p.ri't {St)eiifltY scholarship and intellectual 1981. She has conquistador 9 life of the Notre Dame commu been a member and an Inca .. ~~~~i~ rit~~~~ nity for years to come." · of the Law Father Edward Malloy P r i n c e s s , School advisory ------Garcilaso Inca council since 1993. traveled to Spain in 1560, Assembled over some 40 eventually settling in years by the late Jose Durand, Andalucia where he remained a professor of Spanish at the until his death. The collecton • University of California at includes more than 500 books Berkeley, the collection published in the 16th century includes. four incunabula and read and absorbed by ' . . / :_ / ; ·W' (books printed before the 16th Garcilaso. le century), hundreds of books There are early editions of and monographs from the classical writers like Aristotle, 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries, Ovid, and Virgil, and of Latin American government Renaissance writers like We have started to take documents and historical trea- Boccaccio, Catiglione, and pa~tments tises, at least 19 unpublished Tasso on subjects ranging applications for next year. manuscripits, including 11-n from architecture and religion early 17th century Peruvian to language and literature. work entitled "Tragiocomedia In the wider collection, there de la Ystoria de Joseph," 18th are also chronicles, histories, • Furnished apartments ·~ and 19th century broadsheets grammars, and dictionaries "'i'i -~t and pamphlets, several issues reflecting Garcilaso's role as a • Swimming pool of "Gaceta de Lima," the oldest colonial historian and Iinquist, r1t newspaper in Latin America, along with some of Garcilaso's •Jacuzzi ;~~ and numerous first editions of own works, such as "Historia works by contemporary Latin General del Peru," his 1617 American authors. history. 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page 4 The Observer • CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, October 29, 1996 SMC names College editor Organ concert set for Special to The Observer publication support to academ graphic communication at the ic departments and administra same institution. In the Kate Hancock has been tive offices of the College. English department there, Basilica on Sunday named college editor/director Hancock received a bachelor Hancock served as assistant to of publications for Saint Mary's of arts degree magna cum the director of composition, Special to The Observer Cesar Franck. The concert is College. Hancock's responsibil laude from Morehead State assistant director of the· free and open to the public. ities include University in Morehead, Ky. Macintosh computer lab and David Dahl, university Dahl. also the director of managing all and a master's degree in teaching assistant. She also organist. at Pacific Lutheran music ministries at Christ official publi English and doctorate in was a stafT writer in the office University~ will present an Episcopal Church in Tocoma, cations, serv American literature from Ohio of publications at Morehead organ recital Sunday at 8 Washington, has been per ing as editor University in Athens, Ohio. State University. p.m. in· · Basilica of the forming for more than 30 of the Saint Most recently, Hancock served Hancock is a published poet Sacred Dahl is also a years. Mary's as assistant to the president for with a chapbook "The Lazarus at Pacific Among Dahl's many dis College publi communications at Ohio Method" due out in October tinctions, he was a recitalist cation, University. from Kent State University Hancock include of the 1994 National Courier, and Prior to that, she was publi Press. She is also a copy editor Lubeck. Convention of the American providing cations editor in the office of for The Ohio Review. ~· Hans Guild of Organists in Dallas, Fanny Texas, and has performed for Michel national conventions of the besides being away from their out." Dupre· and family and friends for a year. Saint Mary's sophomore Lisa Organ Historical Society. Ireland "I had to take a year's Zacharias admits that some of continued from page 1 absence from ROTC," junior what she expected to Roemer. Bridget Murphy explained. "I encounter in Ireland was far Roe01er With the quickly approach gram requires that students can't say I'm not glad I came. from reality. ing election, a Congressman commit an entire year to study My family began here, and I "I had this awful misconcep continued from page 1 taking the time to speak to the in Ireland. will get to retrace their steps." tion that Ireland would be just students should have a defi They receive a three-week Like Murphy, many students like America, I guess because giving an election speech, he nite influence. break for Christmas and a two study in Ireland to learn about they speak English," Zacharias will be speaking on how his It's unusual to find students week break during the spring. their Irish heritage and to explained, "But the languages experiences in politics have with a vast knowledge of poli "At first I thought l would retrace their family's name. are not at all alike, and I defi changed his life," said SAC tics, and according to Student miss out on time with my One Saint Mary's student has nitely experienced some cul member Genevieve Morrill, a Academic Council's Tina friends if I left for a whole an additional personal factor ture shock when I arrived." senior. Hajtek, SAC hopes that year," Saint Mary's junior for studying in Ireland. "It's not just adapting to a The Student Academic Roemer's appearance will Carrie Minogul said. "But com "Actually, I want to be a new culture and a new way of Council strongly encourages help to heighten political ing to Ireland was something sheep-herder in Ireland," life, Saint Mary's sophomore both students and faculty to awareness on campus. that I always wanted to do, and Moire Lanigan insisted. "My Mary Liz Tully added. come out and listen to so I thought. 'Why not do it?' I cousins own a sheep farm "You have to get used to liv spent my sophomore year sav here, and it's always been ing on your own and traveling ing up my money, and at last, something that I wanted to do. across hemispheres. Going here I am." There is a sheep farm across abroad requires· a lot of Many of the participating the street from the College, responsibility." students had to make sacrifices and I often go there and help Vote continued from page 1 Have something to the Standing Committee. Preliminary subcommittee reports also marked last night's say? Use Observer CLC meeting. The Alcohol, Student Life and Diversity Committees presented their classifieds. agenda issues for the remain der of the semester.
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And another dose of good news to ~ his party does not have the pub the campaign trail Monday, • 1984/or J992for 0 J996for WASHINGTON lic's support for wanting a con saying he has steered the Ronald Reagan George Bush Bill Clinton Voters are of many minds this stitutional abortion ban. budget deficit to its lowest year on what they most need to • EDUCATION: Clinton wants level since 1981. Republicans GPO----- Unemployment - Inflation ---- know. They want the candi a strong federal role; Dole also claimed credit for the dates' plans on taxes. Schools would close the Education drop, but the administration are a concern to many. They're Department and give more con said they don't deserve it. anxious about crime. To a moti trol to local officials. On a sunny fall day, the vated minority, abortion matters Dole, in a 15-state pilot pro president pumped up thou most. gram requiring matching state sands of supporters at a city But no one issue towers over money, would offer $1,000 ele hall rally in a St. Louis sub the others in this presidential mentary and $1,500 high school urb, his first stop on a day campaign. So what's left to dis vouchers to help parents pay for long swing through three cuss? Plenty. private or religious school, or to Midwestern states. "Bear • TAXES: The hardy perennial send their children to better down, eight days," shouted squeaked to the top in the Pew public schools. Clinton, far ahead in the polls Center poll on subjects voters Clinton opposes vouchers. He with the election fast wanted to hear more about. likes charter schools, which can approaching. Dole promises big tax reduc be set up by parents, teachers With the help of two stu tions plus a balanced budget by or other groups and get no dents, Clinton literally 2002 without painful spending strings government money as unveiled a huge chart with a cuts. But important details are long as they meet standards. He graph showing the deficit had missing. As well, the plan also talks about stepped-up dropped to $107.3 billion in requires both an accelerated repair, literacy and technology the fiscal year that ended economy and a pliant Congress programs for public schools. Sept. 30. to work. • CRIME: Clinton won a major "The deficit was a ball and Clinton broke his 1992 anti-crime package that includ chain holding back our econo promise for a middle-class tax ed money for more local police my," the president said. cut. He raised taxes on the and more prisons. He stiffened "Well, today we got some new wealthy, gave the working poor gun control and expanded the good news about exactly how more tax relief and boosted the death penalty. But he saw teen far the deficit has dropped gasoline tax. age drug use double in his term. since I took office." • ABORTION: The non-parti Dole pledges to cut teen-age Speaking over a small san group Project Vote Smart drug use by half, using the group of hecklers in a huge Clinton implored voters, "Will Congress which fought for fields thousands of hotline calls National Guard and perhaps the crowd of supporters, Clinton you be there on Tuesday? God spending constraints," party from people wanting to know military to fight supply. Like cited the $107.3 billion figure bless you, Minnesota." As he chairman Haley Barbour said. where candidates stand. This is Clinton, he favors a constitution and said, "So today, Missouri, talked about America's global But the administration dis the topic most in demand. al amendment to strengthen the you don't have to listen to the responsibilities, a woman shout agreed. "The spending reduc Clinton vetoed a bill that rights of crime victims and the shouting. You can look at the ed back, "Tell me about it, draft tion since the Republican major would have banned most uses of idea of prosecuting violent showing." 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ORDER ANY TIME TOLL-FREE 1-800-528-2345 page 6 The Observer • INTERNATIONAL NEWS Tuesday, October 29, 1996 • EGYPT Dozens missing in collapse By SALAH NASRAWI Anaheed Abdel-Messih, a owners often add floors beyond Associated Press Writer woman in her 20s, said her par the number allowed on their ents were in an x-ray clinic in permits, contractors cheat on CAIRO the building when it collapsed. materials and there is little gov Using cranes, shovels and "I don't know if they are still ernment enforcement of zoning their bare hands, rescue work alive," she cried. "It needs a or construction codes. ers pulled 15 survivors Monday miracle." Gen. Mukbil Shafri, comman from the ruins of a collapsed 12- Dr. Adel el-Sharouni, Cairo's der of the army's engineer corps story apartment building in a chief of emergency aid, said he who was supervising the rescue Cairo suburb, but dozens more had to amputate the arm of one work, told Egypt's Middle East were still missing. victim and the leg of another to News Agency he believed By nightfall. a total of 15 bod free them from the debris. "We changes had been made to the ies had been found in the rubble couldn't get them out without columns supporting the front of of the concrete-block and plas the operation," he said. the building, causing the col ter building, which collapsed Police detained a building con lapse. Sunday in Heliopolis, an upper tractor and an engineering con A neighbor, Ahmed Jordan middle-class residential and sultant for questioning Monday, Mohammed, said some residents River commercial suburb on the east saying they may have been of the building jumped from side of Cairo. responsible for weakening the their balconies as the building Police said more than 60 oth 30-year-old building's structure crumbled Sunday evening. He Map ers were still unaccounted for. by ordering the removal of walls said he heard two loud noises, ...... ,'1fi>,;.._...,Jrl detail I -.4 Six people were rescued during the renovation of an then could seen nothing but a Sunday. apartment. huge cloud of dust being thrown ...... it) Scores of anxious relatives The building's owner also was up by the collapsing walls. ' stood in the street Monday, arrested, police said. All but the back side of the many weeping and others too Many buildings in Cairo are building fell, piling debris five I stunned to talk. poorly constructed. Building stories high. ~ • AFGHANISTAN Afghan civil strife intensifies By ANDREW SELSKY raids on the Kabul airport, on Peace envoys from the United Associated Press Wrirer the northwestern edge of the Nations and Pakistan are trying city. It was the third straight to broker a cease-fire, but talks KABU day Dostum's jets bombed are deadlocked. Allied forces seeking to pre Kabul airport. On Monday, Dostum's forces vent the country's takeover by "Our forces are participating moved multiple-rocket launch an army of religious students fully, whether on the defense or ers into place north of a key massed Monday 10 miles north on the attack," said Gen. Yusuf, pass that the deposed govern of Kabul, while their fighter a spokesman at Dostum's head ment has been trying to cap jets bombed Taliban positions quarters in the northern city of ture for nearly a week. on the edge of the capital. 1 Mazar-e-Sharif. "It's our Taliban soldiers are fiercely Soldiers loyal to warlord planes that are bombing." guarding the Khair Khay pass Rashid Dostum fought along There have been no reports area, whose hills overlook side former government troops of injuries. Kabul, repulsing repeated led by the ousted military chief, The Taliban army seized the attempts to claim it. Ahmed Shah Massood. capital on Sept. 27, ousting the In Kabul, two bombs landed AP/Car1 Fox The anti-Taliban forces were government, and have cap near the airport shortly after several thousand strong, tured two-thirds of the .country midnight. A third - a cluster ''If there is a redeployment, reporters there said. Soldiers in their campaign to impose bomb - hit a runway. Airport there will be no way to prevent from a smaller Islamic sect their version of strict Islamic workers swept up the shrapnel bloodshed," said Baruch known as Jsmaili Muslims also rule. so the airport could reopen, Marzel, a leader of the Hebron arrived at the front line The military alliance against they said. community, . ;1~1 Monday to link up with Dostum the Taliban formed soon after and Massood, they said. the capital fell, combining the Pilots loyal to Dostum con forces of Dostum, Massood, the ducted bombing runs outside Ismailis led by Jaffar Nauderi the capital Monday. The and a small Shiite sect led by CAREER OPPORTUNITIES attacks followed night bombing Karim Khalili. - CS FIRST BosToN -- "As far as you want. As fast as you can. "
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Scalia's statement wouldn't fails to curb violence WASHINGTON Legal ethics expert Geoffrey disqualify him from hearing If a department took the time The Constitution does not Hazard, a University of the case because he already Two years after to apply, came up with the create a "right to die," says Pennsylvania law professor, wrote forcefully in a 1990 minimum 25 percent matching Supreme Court Justice opinion that the Constitution passage, reforms money, demonstrated it could Antonio Scalia, who with the doesn't recognize a right to prove ineffective retain the officer after the fed rest of the court will soon 'All sorts of rights die. eral money ran out and showed decide whether states may that clearly did But Gillers added, "If he By LAURA MECKLER a commitment to community ban doctor-assisted suicide. had called me, I would have Associated Press Writer policing - which aims to con In a recent speech at not exist at the time of said 'you don't need this.' It nect officers with the neighbor Catholic. University, Scalia the Constitution have will give the public less confi WASHINGTON hoods they serve - it was sure said it is "absolutely plain dence in the objectivity of his Children murdered. to get a grant. that there is no right to die. been held by the court vote." Neighborhoods terrorized. A Crime rates were not consid There were laws against sui and are thought by jus Scalia told the Catholic violent crime every 22 seconds. ered. cide" when the Constitution University audience that Those were the images invoked Given the political reality, the was drafted. tices of the court to courts should not recognize as Congress passed, and results are not surprising. The high court agreed earli exist today.' constitutional rights - such President Clinton signed, a bill About half the officers - just er this month to decide as the right to abortion - that to put 100,000 police on the over 20,000 - went to cities whether doctors can be did not exist when the streets. with 1994 crime rates above barred from prescribing life Supreme Court Justice Constitution was drafted. But two years later, by spe the national average of 7.14 ending drugs for terminally ill Antonin Scalia "All sorts of rights that cific intent, those police officers violent crimes per 1,000 peo patients who no longer want clearly did not exist at the are just as likely to end up in ple. to live. said today that while Scalia time of the Constitution have quiet small towns as in dense Departments with below Most states forbid doctor had a right to speak, he been held by the court and city neighborhoods devastated average violent crime received assisted suicide, but lower thought the justice's state are thought by justices of the by violence. an additional 18,450 officers. courts have struck down such ment was "very poor form." court to exist today," he said. Of the 43,028 cops funded by And the rest went to·depart bans imposed by New York For those with a case com Last April - before the high August, more than half went to ments that don't report their and Washington state. ing before the court, "I think court agreed to decide the cities with below-average vio FBI statistics. Scalia did not mention the they would feel that his mind doctor-assisted suicide issue lent crime rates or to towns so Crime rates tell only part of assisted suicide issue, accord is closed to them and that is - Scalia warned students at small they don't even report the story, said Joe Brann, ing to a transcript of his Oct. an unfortunate feeling to have Bridgewater College in their crime data to the FBI, director of the program within 18 speech to an audience at when you're going before the Bridgewater, Va., against according to an Associated the Justice Department. Police Catholic University's school of court," Hazard said. relying on law to resolve all Press computer analysis. also work with communities in philosophy. But he repeated Another legal ethics expert, societal problems. And one-third of the addi other ways, and the grants fur tions to police departments - ther the goal of spreading com counted as more than 14,000 munity policing, no matter officers - aren't new cops at what a town's crime level is, he all. Instead, that money went to said. hire civilians for office work, Besides, he added, even a pay overtime or buy equip small amount of crime is unac ment. Cities calculated the ceptable to most people. hours gained in officer street Small towns agree. time, added them up, and the Briarwood Beach, Ohio, with Justice Department counted 690 residents and one violent that toward the 100,000 goal. crime in 1994, has started see Yet all of that was what ing drug problems, said Mayor Congress intended. Terry Biddle. Its three-person "Quite simply put, it's the force doubled with the grant - only way the bill would have one of 312 departments that passed," said Bob Scully, exec received at least one officer for utive director of the National every violent crime in 1994. Association of Police "One fulltime police officer Organizations. "Everyone in might not make any difference this country has a concern in Philadelphia, Washington or about crime and everyone New York, but I guarantee that wanted to have a piece of the one fulltime officer makes a pie.'' tremendous impact in our vil Few applications have been lage," he said. turned down as the govern Yet that's a far cry from the ment awarded $2.24 billion - rhetoric that surrounded the early installments on a six-year program as it moved through program that adds officers Congress, strongly pushed by gradually. Clinton.
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page 8 The Observer • NATIONAL NEWS Tuesday, October 29, 1996 FBI clears Jewell of New drug sparks optimism By MATT CRENSON University School of Medicine. damage, including paralysis bo01bing suspicion Associated Press Writer Animal experiments have due to spinal cord injury, By RUSS BYNUM became the center of intense shown that the immunosup carpal tunnel syndrome, neu Associated Press Writer coverage. BALTIMORE pressive drug FK506 and rodegenerative diseases and "Your cameras and the FBI Scientists are encouraged other drugs derived from it stroke. ATLANTA followed my every move," he by early studies that show can improve the regeneration Now researchers are begin Richard Jewell, cleared of said. "I was numb, sick. I was drugs used in organ trans of facial and other nerves that ning to test the drugs in mon suspicion in the Olympic Park in shock and felt helpless. I felt plants can regenerate cells have been crushed. keys that have a disorder sim bombing, said today the FBI like a hunted animal, followed damaged by Alzheimer's, In test tubes, the drugs have ilar to Parkinson's. and the media engaged in a constantly, waiting to be Parkinson's and related dis also stimulated regrowth in_ If those tests go well, "mad rush" that nearly killed." eases of the nervous system. the kind of nerve cells that Snyder said, human tests of destroyed his life. The effort to clear his name Test-tube experiments, as are important in Alzheimer's the drug could begin in a year "I did not set e n d e d well as trials using rats and and in Parkinson's disease. or so. out to be a------..,;,--- Saturday when monkeys, are showing that Bruce Gold, a pioneer in the "It's preliminary, but let me hero," Jewell 'In their mad rush_ to federal prose- modified versions of drugs field and professor at the tell you it's working," he said. said in a state- cutors sent such as FK506 and Oregon Health Sciences Researchers found in the ment to fulfill their own Jewell a letter cyclosporin can help restore University in Portland, cau 1960s that they could shut reporters, his personal agendas, the clearing him of damaged nerve cells in the tioned that it will be a while down the body's immune sys voice breaking suspicion. brain and nervous system, before the drugs are used in tem by interfering with a bio at times. "I set FBI and the media "In their neuroscientist Solomon humans. chemical pathway that even out to do my 1 t d t d mad rush to Snyder said Monday. "It's in the early experi tually causes an attack on job." amos es roye me fulfill their "It's clearly something mental stages," he said. materials alien to the body, The onetime and my mother.' own personal worth studying," said Snyder, But the properties that have such as a newly transplanted Olympic securi- agendas, the a professor of neuroscience, been discovered so far sug kidney or liver. ty guard tear- . h I FBI and the pharmacology and psychiatry gest that the immunosuppres Without the drugs that do fully thanked Rzc ard Jewel media almost at the Johns Hopkins sant relatives could be useful that, organ transplants his mother and destroyed me in any case involving nerve wouldn't be possible. his law.fers for and my moth- their faith in him through his er," Jewell said. 88-day effort to convince the lie said that during his world of his innocence. ordeal, "the knowledge that I "For 88 days I lived a night- did my job and in the process mare," Jewell said. "For 88 might have saved lives kept days, my mother lived a night- me going. My faith in God gave mare, too. Mom, thanks for me peace of mind. I thank God sticking behind me and believ- it is now ended." ing in me." ''I'm glad that the emperor The July 27 explosion during has finally admitted that he a late-night concert in has no clothes," said one of Centennial Olympic Park killed his attorneys, G. Watson one person and injured more Bryant Jr. than 100. Jewell did not take questions Jewell, a security guard for after reading the statement. AT&T, found the suspicious Earlier today, prosecutors knapsack minutes before it released FBI affidavits that 8' This exploded, but then he came were used to gain warrants for under suspicion. While he was searches of Jewell's home and ~'.iweek never charged, his name was other property after the bomb leaked to the media and he ing. §>ri: at Kickers
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• THE.MIGHTY OAK Ecology-minded turtle is somethin·g to be admired Consider the wisdom of the turtle. path, driven by instinct or necessity to He has quietly and unobtrusively complete some errand that is beyond ..... ·... .· .... . ' •I"• .. ,. • o I plied the waters and forests of this plan our knowledge. I admired this turtle, ...... • • • • 10 ~ ; et for millions of years. There is a cer- · and empathized with him because of his tain intelligence hidden in the deep old affiiction. brown pools of his eyes. A noble, horny After several summers, we did not see brow cradles these wells of secret him again. Though our subdivision retained its own little fastness of nature in the form of a second-growth woodlot, the neighborhoods around us were rapidly being scraped clean of anything that grew while I myself was growing Sean up. There was nothing for an old turtle, wizened warrior though he was, in a O'Connor sterile landscape of raw clay. I do not know what happened to him, though I can guess it was not a good fate. Where once we caught four or five turtles each summer, now I have seen knowledge, the glasses through which none for five summers. The last I saw in the collective conscience of his ancient my yard was attracted to our strawber order has viewed the entire evolution of ries; our resident turtles had always dis our species, the proliferation of our played an uncanny ability to seek them technology, and the rise of our civiliza out when they were ripe. I saw this tions. same turtle crushed dead in the street The turtle has always complied with in front of our house several days later, the natural order. He has been success probably on his way home from our gar E. .J. L~F\OE:"R, ful in his own way, having to change lit den. tle through the millennia even as every If that old battler the turtle, undefeat destruction. Regardless, there are obvi The tvrtle is a silent witness to the thing around him was altered drastical ed for millennia, can so easily disappear ously fewer and that is not good. It is in unhinging of the natural order. He must ly. His way is modest, yet undeniably even from a suburban area that retains fact perilous, for who can know what realize that something is drastically awesome, for he has ruled his little some semi-natural areas, imagine how greater calamity their demise foretells? wrong, that some catastrophe is looming niche for a time that we cannot even much easier something much more sen This planet has evolved an inconceiv in the future. fathom. sitive can meet its end. My mother ably complex set of interactions over Though the turtle's few acres of trees As I sit and think of the life of the tur swears that only several years previous, several billion years. Within several are mercilessly stripped by the tle, I am reminded of his admirable per the butterflies in our yard were manifold thousand years, and especially the last machines of a species whose entire rise sistence, the will to live which is present more. The flowers of our gardens at the several hundred, these interactions have to prominence occurred within only a in the quiet determination of his eyes. height of summer were graced with flut been seriously upset, perhaps irrevoca fraction of the turtle's long reign, he can When I was young, my friends and I tering caucuses of swallowtails the size bly so. This alarms me greatly; I know do nothing, say nothing. His reservoir of repeatedly caught a particular box turtle of my hand. earth and life have a remarkable elastic wisdom is locked within his old horny in our neighborhood over a span of sev Later, during the annual late summer ity in general, but many individual head. While the turtle will go on, incon eral summers. This fellow only had migrations, the monarchs would hang species are not so malleable. Surely, the spicuously earning a living among leaf three legs, the fourth lost in some old from the trees by the thousands, cloth accumulated losses of many species will litter and water weed in the few wild accident of his, yet it did not seem to ing them in a brilliant, dripping shower cause the whole system to crash. places left to the world, we will go on bother him. He was fast and bold, not of orange that gently swayed with the Remember the analogy of the plane; one upsetting, destroying. It is a pity we do retracting into his battered shell when wind. Now the swallowtails are fewer can pull rivets from its wings and it will not have the wisdom of the turtle. we plucked him from his path. though our flowers are more, and the still fly, but who can predict the key When we returned him to his former monarchs gather in multitudes of three. rivet, the removal of which will compro Sean O'Connor is a senior Arts and position, he would resume his progress Perhaps pesticide use has reduced them, mise the integrity of the entire body? It Letters major. His column appears every without pause, staying true to his same or maybe a more direct form of habitat would appear profoundly logical not to other Tuesday. pull rivets .
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-Karl Kraus page 10 ;ACCENT Tuesday, October 29, 1996 Has baseball struck out with Pirates' shortstop Jay Bell proves that good gu~
diums and many fans still griping about players' behavior both on and the National League East Division By MELANIE WATERS off the field, is there anything left to like about baseball? Baseball changed quickly, thou: Assistall! Accent Editor Many players demand salaries that contain more O's than a can of 1994 players' strike. Like many c Chef Boyardee's finest, and while they appear to be willing to strike the lower decks of Three Hivers for their financial rights, each passing year brings new incidences of Pittsburgh Steelers. I As triumphant Yankee fans party in the streets of New York and less-than-million-dollar behavior. To lure baseball fans, manage1 Braves fans hang their heads along with their ever-waving toma Spitting on umpires? Punching out photographers and cursing the giveaways, at which Bell shakes h hawks. another season of Major League Baseball draws to a close. media? Drug rehab? And we used to think that bat corking was a "Gimmicks are not the ansv And while some fans enjoyed the success of their favorite teams or trauma. major thing, other than getting a were content that there even was a World Series, While Major League Baseball remains in dire need of a true commis ment for a new stadium, would others remained leery of the sport and its sioner, there are still plenty of good reasons to love the sport. This put a winning team out on the J continuing conflicts between man past summer, Accent spent the day with one of those reasons: That's what people will pay to set agers. owners. players and the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Jay Bell, who has not only been rec Could the construction of a media. The 1996 season ognized repeatedly for his community service efforts, but also new base- marked a return to a full served as the National League players' representative during ball-only schedule of games, much to the 1994 strike. As a player, negotiator, and dad, Bell speaks stadium the relief offans who were out on what is still great about baseball and what can be be the frustrated by a shortened done to keep it that way. key to a 1995 season and furious winning with a 1994 season that ''I'm sorry," says Pirates Media Helations Director .Jim season left them without a Trdinich as he hustles into the dugout at Three b 0 t h World Series at all. Rivers Stadium. "Jay's on his way. lie's with !lnancial !Jut with attendance his family." ly and still struggling in It is hours until game time, and the outlield athleti I m a n y grass is basking in the warmth of the mid-afternoon cally for I major August sun as a handful of players trickle onto the field t h e .----1 league . : ~ ~~~;: ~:~-: ·,-· for an impromptu round of fielding practice. . • - .. I sta- ·- . Bell's teammates explain that while his talents help to lead the team on the field each night, his first priority is _:. . ~-~1 with his family. Minutes later, the locker room door opens .. ---=----.. . and the Gold Glove Award winning shortstop emerges, 'f-! : ... --,.:;~. -::~1 ~~~. ------already changed into his crisp white, black and gold uniform ~-. . --~·-:- ·-1 that sports the number three. A large contingent of fans have started to gather in the cen '-;;· ~ .. -, -.. ~~ ter field grass in preparation for the Pirates' annual "Camera Night," Polaroids in tow, hoping for the chance to meet their -~--· .. - ~. favorite player. .-- Clearly a favorite of many Pittsburgh fans, Bell knows that a Pirates'! · -..,.... =- professional athlete's life is subject to constant scrutiny "A new ·--;::;.· · - whether or not they feel the need to act accordingly. stadium in . .;O.~~c·~~ _ "I don't care if you're out on the baseball field or the beginning <:'~~~ ·:: ,:::...~~.:...~,. if you're reporting on somebody or anything!" he will be a pick-me . ~"t :;},3,2·~:'"::.::;;~~:.?:_'?:"-: says firmly. "You're a role model! And so that's up,'' says Bell, "but ~;;:..,..~-:-~ ~, ~-·~~,- .~-=$::R~·-f-:\ when you have to say:., h~ve a responsibility: you have to maintain it ~~'::-"~~i::.~'-'..;-~~- -- ,=·•·:~·-· _: _·- ..._ ..... - :;_· - ·ff .e~·::'"'~.:O not because of the situatiOn, but because you by putting a good team .· .. · '· ::~·::·.· -_ ._,..: ~-- -: ;-~~~;.~ are a human being with responsibilities. And on the field. We don't have : ;:;.~_~"'-=-'::=:. --: ~- -~~--'- -;.. :.;.._7·-_ -.~ .. because I ~'? who I am, I have a responsibility a very good lease and it ~---~"'-"-_;"..;~~~··---· -2:·· _,_....._ . -~.- · =--..., ~: to be a positive role model." doesn't matter how many fans · ·- ::...__ -= · · .---:.·, ::_,~~: ~ ~ "The people who are watching me the clos- come to the game, !the Pirates) ru .. . ·. :.,;·-. --~-- -:~~'~ est are my children and my wife," says still not making great money from ~~~~§;.:;~~::J:-.ffJ~~'£1~·~~-~~~ · ~-:;..:",?;;:_-~-;.__7 Bell, "and so I have a responsibility to ticket sales because they have to 1 ~ -.~., them." much money elsewhere. If the ~_;~ In addition, Bell's faith as a Christian has team owned their own stadium; ·-:. ..:;:;: been a source of inspiration to him both on would have all the revenue - pa and off the field, shaping his personal conduct sions, tickets - so that's a major and his commitment to service work. In 1993, want this new stadium." the city of Pittsburgh awarded him the If Bell seems comfortable with tl Pittsburgh Points of Light Foundation Award no surprise that he was a natura for his extensive efforts. representative during the strike. Currently, Bell works closely with a at a winter meeting of all the tear Pittsburgh charity led by a local minister that his colleagues at the center of an 1 provides necessary goods and services to low and labor disagreements. income city residents at a greatly reduced eost. "The players' strike was not n "The emphasis is not on giving things away, Bell, "it was about the whole. Am but it's 'work for what you get,' and we'll help you time, but the whole to come. I J in the process," explains Bell. "It's a great charity - it whole, as well as to me individual! does some major things for the city." "Nobody can see the future. I 1 In addition, Bell manages to do some pretty great things a bad decision. And in the proces for the team that he has been a leader of for the past eight for a while. Hopefully, we can gel seasons. Consistently ranked at or near the top of all short period of time so we won't even stops in the majors in assists and fielding percentage, Bell was labor bickering back and forth in t an integral part of the Pirates teams of the early 90's that won Baseball is a notoriously vola!
maps of where you are going. Check out "MapQuest" (www.mapquest.com) for • WEB SITE OF THE WEEK free web site that provides city to city driving directions for anywhere in the "South Bend" and "Chicago," and MapQuest will take care of the rest. MapQu detailed maps ofyour entire trip, and can even provide points of interest, and loc. On the Road to the Windy City stations and fast food restaurants along the way. Before you leave, though, check the traffic in Chicago by visiting the Illinois D( Transportation (IDOT} Traffic Systems Center Detailed Expressway Cong (www.ai.eecs.uic.edu/GCM/CongestionMap.html). Updated every minute, IDOT's 1 with Ferris, Jake and Elwood will tell how long your drive might be and indicates places of heavy congestion l what to expect. By JASON HUGGINS But getting to Chicago is only half the fun. To lind out what to do with the othe World Wide Web Correspondent are hundreds of web sites you can visit dedicated to indexing the cooler parts of ( of these sites is "Biancago" (biancago.tezcat.com). According to Bianca, the web ~ "You won't lind any museum reviews or tourist sites here. Biancago is the real ( "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack-et of cigarettes, it's dark, Chicago you want to live in, not just visit: The neighborhood bars and clubs, the and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it." stores, the tattoo parlors, the performance art theatres, the indie music and mov: Even though you might not have the same traveling habits as Jake and Elwood Blues, road part of Chicago you won't find on the corporate servers." trips to Chicago can be an exciting experience for many Domers. Armed with a computer and One the best places recommended by Bianca is "Brew and View.'' Where else Cl this article, you can plan (through the Internet, of course) an impressive itinerary for a day.trip two movies for $2.50 AND drink beer'! The real deal, however, is on Thursday r to Chicago. triple bill and .25 cent beers. "At least we're close to Chicago," is a common phrase we hear around campus; but how If you're the type that does want museum reviews and tourist sites, visit the Cit many people really know what to do once they get to the Windy City? This week's web site official "Chicago Mosaic Home Page'' {www.ci.chi.il.us). Here you can find then review will help. and phone number for almost all of the theatres. museums, and places to visit in First you need to know how to get there. By train, car, or bicycle you'll need directions to and area. If you're thrifty, don't forget to check out "What to do in Chicago c Tuesday, October 29, 1996 ACCENT page 11 fans in the '90s? can wear black ... and gold title three years in a row. trades and relocation. As the July trade deadline approached this past , alienating hordes of fans with the summer, Bell was mentioned in a possible trade to the San Diego , the Pirates are struggling to fill Padres that ultimately never materialized. At least until next season, ium. which they share with the Bell, his wife Laura, and their daughter Brianna and son Brantley will continue to call Pittsburgh "home." often resorts to gimmicks and "I love being in Pittsburgh," Bell says with a smile. "I have some head. great friends here, so along with the excitement about going to a team er. The that might have a chance to win, there's a down side to it too. If you do get traded, you want to go to a place that's winning. If I go some where, I'm going to make the best of the situation, and I'll probably enjoy the places I'll go." Bell's crystal blue eyes light up as he reflects on his career, which has included time in the Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins orga nizations. · "This has been a terrific time. I've played base oUJr ritJorlim.ate mafdo]t. Your best .Pvtm IJnU'I' nt~l'A.nt ·and ·s~i.entists beUevetha.t The Art Institute of Chicago is a great road trip ~""'·~ ...... -. 1 to dot: Re$(larchers claim tion. While you can't take a virtual tour of the museum through the web. you can sriltQkin,g c(]~ntJ'ill\Itels to· the buildup •of cholesterol in museum hours and information about the latest exhibitions. thole,stEir'ol .buildup then. results in •a Another great Chicago destination is the Second City Comedy Club (www.secondcity ::il>letrtt$1:S believe that smokers are Second City is the home of some of the funniest young comedhms in the country. . <>'>'t... t ..... risk ofh~vingastroke than page includes the complete playbill, show hours and prices, and .even includes Second City Aptitude Test," where you can lind out how Second City got its name~ · · Even though there are a million things to do in Chicago (and not enough time to do them.in) Ferris Bueller and his pals did not let that bother them. To iind out how F~rris, Cameron, . half, there Sloane did it all in one day, read "The Time Problem" ess:ay on the "Ferris Bueller's Day ~'"'·""~<:u. One Home Page" (www.dartmouth.edu/-buellerl). . · ·· s author. For an adventure, try to match what Ferris and friends did in only eight hours: 1} Go to :hicago! The top of the Sears Tower: 2) Visit the stock market; 3) Visit museum of art; 4) Lunch at second-hand Louis; 5) Catch (at least part of) a Cubs game; 6) Take part in parade. ~ stores; the By the way, the home page of the original Chicago road trippers, Jake and Elwood Blues, ) the "alt.fan.bl ues-brothers FAQ" fwww.cs.monash.edu.au/ ~prlngle/bluesbros/faq watch Whether or not you're on a "mission from God," planning an action-packed trip to loe""'"••l'l"'·'"l , with a easy when you have an Internet connection. " Chicago's Jason is a junior MIS major•from Thousand Oaks,CA. , address, Jason.R.Huggins. 3®nd. edu. downtown a Budget" .... -- page 12 The Observer • SPORTS Tuesday, October 29, 1996 Vikings fumble game away as Bears hang on ByRON LESKO trips to the Metrodome. "This Vikings because of the injuries But Harris charged through "Brad did a courageous job," Associated Press Writer football team deserved to win and their second-half schedule, virtually untouched "to block said Vikings coach Dennis this game." which includes Kansas City and Scott Sisson's 48-yard field goal Green. "He tried to get us into MINNEAPOLIS The battered Bears, who got a Denver at home and Oakland, attempt. the end zone. But we needed to All season, the Chicago Bears boost from the return of several Detroit and Green Bay on the "I feel every time I have a score points, and we didn't." have found ways to lose. On injured players, built a 15-3 road. chance," said Harris, a rookie. Although the Vikings got a Monday night, they watched the .halftime lead behind Dave "It comes down to poise," "I got a real good jump off the career-high 11 catches for 153 Minnesota Vikings do the same. Krieg's passing and their first said Qadry Ismail, who caught a ball. I think (Sisson) took his yards from Reed, they managed After losing Robert Smith and rushing touchdown of the sea 54-yard touchdown pass from time to make sure he made it." only 11 rushing yards on 14 Warren Moon, the Vikings lost son, a 1-yard dive by Rashaan )\1oon in the third quarter. The Vikings defense, which carries. Flanigan, one of the the game 15-13. Walt .Harris Salaam. They held the Vikings "Unfortunately, we didn't have played well in the second half, injured Bears making his blocked a field goal attempt (5-3) to a franchise-worst 11 any." immediately got the ball back. return, had one of Chicago's with 3:47 to play, and Bryan rushing yards, and they The Vikings lost Smith, the John Randle stormed in to five sacks along with his game Cox forced and recovered a watched the Vikings bumble to NFC's second-leading rusher, deflect a Krieg pass and backup ending hit on Moon. fumble two minutes later as the their third loss in four games. late in the first quarter with an defensive tackle Jason Fisk Krieg, who took over for Bears held on to beat slumping Minnesota was penalized 12 injured left knee. With torn liga dove to intercept it at the injured Erik Kramer four games Minnesota. times for 75 yards, had two ments, he might be done for the Chicago 49. ago and was playing eight days It was only. the second win for kicks blocked, gave up five season. Johnson's 18-yard pass to after his 38th birthday, was the Bears (3-5) since a season sacks and committed two After Moon rallied the Vikings Jake Reed gave Minnesota a outstanding in the first half, opening victory over the turnovers, both of which proved with 10 third-quarter points, he first down at the Chicago 31. completing 18 of 26 passes for defending Super Bowl champi costly. reinjured his right ankle when But on third-and-14 at the 35, 152 yards as the Bears built on Dallas Cowboys. The first, Mark Carrier's div he was hit by Jim Flanigan Cox stripped a scrambling their surprising lead. "I don't know how we stack ing interception of a Moon pass while throwing an incompletion. Johnson and pounced on the Krieg was just 5-for-9 for 35 up against other teams in the with 23 seconds left in the first Brad Johnson, who led the fumble. yards after halftime. league, but I do know that half, led to the second of Jeff Vikings to a comeback win in Johnson, who might find him Fortunately for the Bears, their there's not any team in the Jaeger's two field goals. the season-opener after Moon self in the middle of a quarter defense stiffened when it had league that plays harder than The last, Cox's fumble recov was hurt, came in to loud back controversy after to. this group," said Chicago coach ery, ended Minnesota's last cheers with 11:58 left in the Minnesota's offense continued "This win does a lot for this Dave Wannstedt, who won for chance. game and twice led Minnesota to sputter with Moon, complet team," Krieg said. "I think it's the third time in his last four . It was a costly loss for the into scoring range. ed 10 of 15 passes for 79 yards. big." 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By RAYNER PIKE fans, including Pee Wee the trade that sent Cecil Fielder wasn't hitting enough homers "There's very little downside Associated Press Writer Scheidt, who was first on line to the New York Yankees, went - 11 in 98 games. · to this deal," Bowden said. for playoff tickets, and Freddy to his third team of the year Reds general manager Jim Sierra played for Texas from NEW YORK "The Fan" Schuman, a pot Monday when the Cincinnati Bowden said Sierra, a switch 1988-92 before being traded to After 18 years, the New York banging regular in the upper Reds acquired him to bat hitter with 232 homers in 11 Oakland as part of the deal for Yankees will hear the roaring deck at Yankee Stadium. cleanup. seasons in the American Jose Canseco. He went to the echoes in the "Canyon of When the procession reaches The Reds sent two low-level League, fit the Reds' need for a Yankees for Danny Tartabull in Heroes" on Tuesday when City Hall, Giuliani said each minor leaguers to the Detroit reasonably priced cleanup hit July 1995. baseball's newest champions Yankee will receive his own Tigers for Sierra, 31, who hit ter. Sierra has averaged 21 receive the city's trademark key to the city, the same as 12 homers and drove in 7 2 "I've always liked reclama homers and 93 RBis during his homage, a ticker-tape parade. with the Rangers, hockey's runs for the Yankees and tion projects. I consider him a career. He hit a career-high 30 Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a Stanley Cup winners, two years Tigers last season. little bit of one," Bowden said. homers for Texas in 1987 and lifelong Yankees fan, said he ago. The Tigers agreed to pay The Reds lacked a proven drove in 119 runs in 1989. was aiming to throw "the "And very appropriately, most of Sierra's $5.5 million cleanup hitter last season. They Sierra hit .258 with 11 biggest parade in the history of each one of them deserves a salary for 1997, the final year could not afford to keep Ron homers and 52 RBis in 96 the city." With pleasant weath key to the city because this was on his five-year contract. The Gant after the 1995 season, games for the Yankees and er predicted and the mayor's a team victory. Everybody con Tigers will pick up $4.875 mil and Reggie Sanders missed half . 222 with one homer and 20 people counting the crowd, it tributed," Giuliani said . lion, leaving the Reds to pay of the 1996 season because of RBis in 46 games for Detroit. could turn out to be just that. Giuliani talked about having $625,000. injuries. Cincinnati got Kevin Bowden thinks Sierra struggled When the 1978 Yankees got 3 million people, enough to fill The Reds gave up outfielder Mitchell from Boston in a trade in New York because he wasn't their ride up Broadway, short Yankee Stadium 53 times, Decomba Conner, 23, who hit last July, but he went AWOL playing every day. stop Bucky Dent was the focal along a parade route of just .281 for Class A Winston-Salem during the final road trip and "It was kind of tough to get point of cheers. In this parade, under a mile. last year, and right-handed was suspended the rest of the the playing time he was used the Yankee relief pitchers will Extravagant crowd estimates pitcher Ben Bailey, 22, who season. Mitchell is a free agent. to," Bow den said. "I don't have the most eye-catching have been a staple of past pa was 10-11 last year with Cincinnati expects to trim its think there's any question that transportation - a vintage fire rades, with the most out Winston-Salem and Charleston. payroll to around $32 million a guy who has 11 homers at truck. landish, 4. 7 million, put forth The Yankees gave up on next year, down from $38.5 the halfway point still has Also among the floats for the for the Gulf War welcome Sierra last July, sending him to million on opening day this power." rest of the team members will home of 1991. be one for special Yankees Another measure of success has been the tonnage of confet ti cleaned up after the parade. The heaviest paper storm, more than 1,200 tons, fell on the American hostages re turned from Iran in 1981. The Gulf War parade was the last in which actual ticker-tape fell. Two hundred miles of the thin paper ribbon that used to spout from old-time stock-quo tation printers were specially purchased for the parade. For years now, the paper blizzard has consisted of shredded tele phone books, computer print outs and toilet paper. The Yankees parade will be the fourth of the 1990s, follow ing the Rangers, the Gulf War vets and Nelson Mandela in 1990. Ticker-tape parades date from early in the century, but became an institution with the lionizing of aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927. The honor has been extended frequently to pioneering avia Plus, we ha·ve loaded tors, from Amelia Earhart and Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan in the 1920s and $13.99 CD in hundre~ds of CD 1930s to astronauts John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and titles pric1ed from Michael Collins in the 1960s. $5.99 to $9.99 each. Check out 4lUr selec $13.99 CD tion filled lvith great artists and. some of their finest work. ------· ----~--- ~~-~--- page 14 The Observer • SPORTS Tuesday, October 29, 1996 Jets get one for Controversy surrounds Fontes By HARRY ATKINS "He sat down and we had a Coast, meaning their chances of Associated Press Writer great meeting," Fontes said. making the playoffs are remote, the win column "We talked like two civilized at best. By BARRY WILNER game, and I'll put my foot itt PONTIAC, Mich. people. It was a great conver "We are better than we've Associated Press Writer my mouth again and say One day after perhaps the sation. I told him it probably played in the last two weeks," we're going to win some biggest coaching blunder of his embarrassed him, and I apolo defensive tackle Henry Thomas HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. more." ... career, Wayne Fontes had dam gized for doing that." said. "I hope everybody under The New York Jets went Perhaps. But beating:the age control operating in high Fontes said he and Mitchell stands that. Why should things out to Arizona and blew it. Cardinals doesn't make you a gear. shook hands and parted amica be changed? We know we have They won. playoff contender; OJ;' even a Fontes, in danger of losing the bly. Mitchell, who made it a a great team. There's no sense Obviously, this team has no favorite to win again; Pa.rtf¢": confidence of his quarterback, point to hang around and speak in tearing things apart." sense of histor.y. Now, the ularly against a diffic~lt the loyalty of his team and with reporters after the game, Not all the players shared worst the Jets can do is 1-15, schedule; the reri),11in~ng maybe, his job - spent a lot of did not appear in the dressing Thomas' enthusiasm, however. and that's been done before. seven opponents have a ·t();tn~ time explaining and apologizing room while it was open to re Immediately after Sunday's Not that they wanted to be bined recordof30·18. . )liN to Scott Mitchell and the Detroit porters on Monday. game, wide receiver IIerman the first NFL team to. run the The Jets have improved'thf> Lions on Monday. Several other players, how Moore said he was sick of the table or, rather, be run over last three weeks. losing· close This latest controversy ever, confirmed that Fontes trauma. for a full 16-game season. games to Jacksonvme ·and stemmed from an incident in apologized to the. whole team "It's just not fun anymore," They'll leave that opportunity Buffalo before finally break-' the second quarter of Sunday's during a morning meeting. he said. "It's embarrassing. It for the Atlanta Falcons. ing through. Of course, after surprising 35-7 loss to the New There also was a meeting be goes beyond embarrassing." "It's a relief," said Adrian management committed York Giants. tween the coaching staff and a A day later, Moore wasn't Murrell. the main hero of more than $80 million in Mitchell had already thrown committee of veteran players to backing off. He had, however. New York's 31-21 victory at long-term contracts in the three interceptions. Fontes had iron out some problems. cooled down. Arizona that ended a 12- offseason, 8~1. not 1·8, would backup Don Majkowski warned So, what happens now? "I said some things yesterday. game slide, eight of the losses be more in line with expecta,. up and ready to go. But he The Lions are 4-4 halfway I'm not sorry about that," this season. Murrell rushed tions. didn't make the switch on a through the season. They are 1 Moore said. "I don't think I for a team-record 199 yards, But these are the Jets,' of change of possession. 1/2 games behind Green Bay in crossed any lines." including a 78-yarder that course. And their litany of Instead, he let Mitchell begin the NFC Central, with two ''I'm sure it doesn't so much clinched the team's first win failure for the last 2 1/2 a series. Mitchell threw an in games against the Packers shake his confidence as it does since just after last decades makes any victory complete pass on the first snap, ahead, starting with Sunday's make him wonder if he has the Thanksgiving. tasty. Particularly in the then Fontes sent in Majkowski. game at Lambeau Field. backing of the coaches," Moore "It's a relief." Murrell re 1990s, when they are 36-69. That gave the 63,501 fans who There also are trips to said. "Scott is still here. His peated, "because people "We've been through so booed Mitchell when he took Chicago, San Diego and San mindset is still winning. I think were thinking we'd go 0-16. much adversity," veteran the field a chance to cheer and Francisco. The Lions have lost he still has as much confidence But we knew that wasn't safety Lonnie Young said, jeer as he made the long trek to 11 of their last 12 on the West as ever." going to happen." "that we've learned how to the sidelines. To their credit. despite all handle it." After he had time to think the underachievement and And actually getting to talk about it, Fontes apparently A Saint Mary's College I John M. Duggan Series Event injuries and poor coaching, about a win was fun for them realized his mistake. the Jets have stuck together. Monday. Having a bye this "I have no regrets about tak When victory finally came, week allows them to savor ing him out of the game. None they were thinking in terms the victory even more. whatsoever," Fontes said. Huv~ of how it helps for the future And, as Murrell indicated, "What I do regret is taking him rather than how it reminds be expects it to be a spring· out when I did. I've never people of how pitiful the team board for the rest of the year. blamed or put a finger on one was for two months. "lt's a big boost for. this player. And I realize now it "This win should have a team and for its morale," might have seemed like I was ~wt:' domino effect for us," said Murrell, who has 744 doing that to Scott." Murrell said. yards rushing, third in the Fontes sent word around the The Delany Sisters' "' "I said we weren't going to AFC. "We showed we can Silverdome he wanted to know go 0-16," added Keyshawn stick it out and keep plugging when Mitchell arrived, so he First 100 Years Johnson. the top pick in this with the mentality to stay in a could go to the locker room and year's draft whose enthusi game. We showed it early on, talk with him. He needn't have Friday, November 1 asm and improving play have but blew some games. This bothered. Mitchell made a bee been bright spots in a dismal time, we stayed rightin there line for the coach's office the 8 PM season. "We finally won a and won the game." · minute he arrived. O'Laughlin Auditorium \ ·il""':.,.,....~-. Provocative and entertaining ... a dramatic experience to jOIN THE be shared with the entire family. 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Conducted by: Ms. Christine Derwent-Junior Achievement l Tuesday, October 29, 1996 The Observer • SPORTS page 15 • COllEGE fOOTBAll Bracing foJr battle of Michigan Associated Press the last three games, including perception that Michigan State a 28-25 decision last year in has closed the gap with ANN ARBOR, Mich. East Lansing. Michigan. But Carr said For 51 weeks a year, former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, Monday that won't change how high school football teammates however, doesn't see revenge he approaches the game. Sam Sword and Marvin Wright a.s his team's primary motivat "Since I've been here, I can are the best of friends. l.ng factor. tell you that every single year This week, however. is the "I don't think revenge is a you know going into the game exception. This is the week big issue," Carr said Monday. that everybody's going to play that Michigan plays Michigan 'I think this game is for this hard," Carr said. "All those State. year's teams on both sides; point spreads have never This week, Sword, a that's what motivates people. meant anything. Michigan linebacker. and "It doesn't have a lot to do "All it means is obviously Wright, a safety at Michigan with what happened last Michigan State has an State, won't be burning up any :year." outstanding football team and phone lines between Ann That doesn't mean Michigan it means we're not going to Arbor and East Lansing. players have forgotten what have to read about all the rea "We keep in contact," Sword happened last year. sons we should dominate the said Monday. "When times are Linebacker and co-captain game. bad, we try to cheer each other Jarrett Irons still cringes at the "They have an outstanding up. memory of Michigan State's football team, and we know "But we've got to kind of winning touchdown drive in we're going to have to play our shut it down this week. We the final minute. very best to win." won't talk to each other until "We had that game won, and Michigan (6-1 overall, 3-1 after the game, when we shake the defense let down in the Big Ten) is ranked ninth in the hands." end," Irons said. "It was a latest AP poll after a 44-10 win This year's renewal of the hard loss because we gave at Minnesota. long intrastate rivalry between great effort." The Spartans (5-3 and 4-1) the Wolverines and Spartans is Sword remembers looking haven't cracked the rankings, Saturday at Michigan Stadium. into the eyes of teammates but they are on a roll. Last Although it's always been an who would never have another weekend's 30-19 win over intense rivalry, it has been his chance against Michigan State. Wisconsin was their third torically lopsided. Michigan "It was tough watching the straight victory. has a 57-26-5 lead in the all seniors and how disappointed "They've been playing great time series. they were with that loss," football, and you're going to But the teams have split their Sword said. "It was tough on see their best effort against six meetings in the 1990s. And everybody." us," Irons said. "That's what Michigan State has won two of There's a noticeable public we're expecting." Celebrate a friend's birthday with a special Observer ad. 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Pippen, one of basket won't think of it as any less of It's only October, and already year. Then in the offseason, the ested to have the kind of sensa ball's best all-around players, an achievement." the Indiana Pacers are hurting. Pacers spent millions to re-sign tional start that carried them to was questionable for the Nov. 1 Already, the Bulls have had Rik Smits, who had surgery unrestricted free agents Reggie their history-making 1995-96 opener. some controversy. Rodman, on his feet last month, still isn't Miller, Dale Davis and Antonio season. "A year ago, we were trying who injured his hamstring, de practicing, and first-round draft Davis. "Being that we've had some to establish ourselves. Michael cided not to show up for a pre pick Erick Dampier is recu The major roster change was injuries and some surgeries and Dennis were really trying season game. Jackson was up perating from a hernia opera the trade of Jackson and Ricky and we haven't had time to to reassert themselV CANDAX McNAIR PROGRAM Organizational Meeting with DR. MARIO BORELLI DIRECTOR, CANDAX WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1996 7:00P.M. ROOM 141 DE BARTOLO This space is for you! Stop FOR STUDENTS I NTERESTED IN GRADUATE STUDIES by the Club Council to take WHO ARE EITHER advantage of your free FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS advertising space in this ON FINANCIAL AID OR column. FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS Stop by our 2nd floor LaFortune office to All INTERESTED STUDENTS ARE WELCOME see what the Club Council has to offer you REFRESHMENTS AFTER TilE MEETING AT 8:00P.M. and your organization! ---~------ page 17 I ~ I I'm not trying to make excuses. We should be playing better Hawaii than we are. There's no ques continued from page 20 tion about that." Coming off an upset is a diffi saw one of NO's worst serving cult thing to do, but that task matches of the year. The Irish was even harder as they had to shot themselves in the foot at deal with the Rainbow All the service line, usually a American Angelica Lundquist. strength for the team. They The top ranked team in the had only five aces as opposed nation enjoyed an incredible to 16 service errors. team hitting percentage of .476 "We didn't execute in any as en route to a 15-5, 15-8, 15-2 pect of the game," Brown sim triumph. In front of a crowd of ply stated. "We had a lot of 7,916 the 'Bows racked up 11 service errors and not many blocks. to just two for the aces and we dug a big hole for guests. ourselves." Notre Dame freshman middle In addition to the problems blocker Mary Leffers hit .357 at the service line the team on 14 attempts. Leffers also committed 38 hitting errors as led the Irish the next night well as a season high eight ball with .269 hitting and six handling errors, four by the blocks. Brown saw her team setter, May. come back after a dismal game With the opportunity that lay in game one to challenge the . • The Observer/Mike Ruma ahead in the Pacific, one could home team in the next two, 15- Thmgs were up m the air over the break as the men's soccer team dropped two games to Big East oppo understand if the team was 1, 15-9, 15-13. nents, but managed to escape the road trip with a 2-1 victory over Georgetown. looking ahead, but apparently Hawaii pushed their record that wasn't the case. to 22-0 with 18 of those in else in mind. on an assist from midfielder "I don't think we were look three game sweeps. The Paul Miraggia beat Velho Joe Gallo. The game was then ing ahead. We just didn't play Rainbow Wahine have won 57 Big East just three minutes into the forced into overtime as neither very well," Brown explained. of their last 59 matches dating match and fellow midfielder team could break. the tie back to the 1994 campaign. So continued from page 20 "I'd almost feel better if we Mike Paskey tallied just 17 before the 90:00 mark. were looking ahead, but we there is no shame in losing at minutes later on an assist from Two minutes into the second were playing hard and .we just Special Events Arena. made three save to prevent "It's a great environment to Rutgers from gaining the early Miraggia. half of the extra session, a fa haven't been able to get into a The 2-0 Villanova lead stood miliar hero stepped up for the rhythm since really the whole play in," Brown observed. advantage. However, just 43 "They are very consistent and until the 88:30 mark of the Irish. Once again, senior cap season." seconds into the second half, The netters have stared ad made us earn every point and Scarlet Knights forward game, when junior Ryan tain Tony Capasso registered a it really wasn't until the sixth game-winning goal and Notre versity in the eye for practical Michael Shaw beat Velho with Turner scored an unassisted ly the entire season as injuries game when we challenged one of his four shots in the goal for the Irish on his fifth Dame salvaged a 2-1 victory to have plagued the team. them. We were down 0-6 and game. shot of the game. move back up into second Outside hitter Angie Harris is showed a lot of character to Despite going on to outshoot Notre Dame finished the con place in the Big East. The still not a .hundred percent come back like that." Rutgers 6-3 in the second half, test with 18 shots on goal to goal, assisted by fellow senior after her knee surgery in the With just eleven matches re the Irish were unable to beat the Wildcats' 10, but dropped Konstantin Koloskov, was off-season and May is just get maining, the character of the their second straight game by Capasso's seventh of the year. ting back into things as a dislo team will have to shine goalie Jonathan Conway and through their somewhat aver Rutgers escaped with the 1-0 the score of 2-1. He leads the team in scoring cated shoulder has kept her with 20 points. sidelined the entire year. age 13-8 record. One of the win. Needless to say, things were thorns in the Irish side has not looking well when The Irish are now 10-4-2 The team was ranked sixth From New Jersey, Notre to start the season and filled been their hitting,· but as Dame traveled across the Georgetown opened up the overall and 6-2-2 in the Brown discusses, her players conference, with one Big East with potential, but has failed to Delaware River to Villanova. scoring in the third and final beat a ranked team and has realize the season is not over. for a contest that appeared to game of Notre Dame's East match remaining at Boston dropped several matches to "My perception is the team is offer the Irish a break before Coast trip. College. The Irish will close out unranked opponents. The hanging in there. We are not they faced rival Georgetown. However, Bill Savarino their home schedule on Irish were talking Final Four hanging our heads saying our season's over. We are saying The Wildcats had something evened the score about five Thursday against defending possibilities and may now find minutes into the second half national champion Wisconsin. themselves slipping out of the we have a lot of room for im top 25. Coach Brown dis provement. I think the attitude cussed what it would take for and work ethic is good. this squad to turn things Sometimes it takes some trials jPiease Recycle The Observer j around. and the team that perseveres "We're still working on it. I comes out on top. We are just think it is just a matter of time. going to keep working on get It has been hard to switch from ting better and persevering Jaimie to Carey. I think all of even though things aren't go us were hoping in the back of ing our way." TONIGHT! TONIGHT! our minds that it would click Hopefully the team's attitude right away but that wasn't can overcome their recent play realistic. That's part of it and as they only have three non TONIGHT! we haven't been 100% healthy. conference matches before post-season action begins. Ma~c and Mind Garnes!!!! IF YOU SEE John Fabjance will mess SPORTS with your mind AND your valuables HAPPENING, (beware he's also a CALL THE pickpocket) ... OBSERVER AT Tuesday, October 29 1-4543. Washington Hall 7:00pm Sponsored by: Office of Alcohol and Drug Education ------~------~-~ page 18 The Observer • SPORTS Tuesday, October 29, 1996 shutouts over all three. The team had a game the • CROSS COUNTRY Records sunday before break against continued from page 20 one of the tougher Big East opponents, Rutgers. Rutgers is Irish capture seventh place Currently Daws has scored 51 the third-ranked team in the goals and she has 59 assists in Big East. The Scarlet Knights By WILLY BAUER is making improvements." Notre Dame's "B" team ran in her Notre Dame career for 161 were manhandled by the Irish, Sports Writer The Irish were also able to Michigan on October 18 at the points. She surpassed the pre 6-0. defeat some opponents. Central Collegiate Conference vious record of 154 points, Notre Dame was without The Irish returned from "We beat the teams that we meet. The "B" team once again which was held by Michelle freshman sweeper Jenn Grubb, Arizona after finding out how needed to jump in Wake Forest ran admirably against other McCarthy. who was serving her one game they stack up compared to the and Texas," said Piane, "and schools' "A" teams, finishing in "I am happy for Cindy," said suspension for receiving a yel top ranked cross-country teams we did that handily. There was sixth place. Tom Englehardt Petrucelli. "She has done so low card in the game against in the nation. fantastic competition. It was was the first Irish runner to fin much for us in the past four Santa Clara. Besides Daws' hat The 11th ranked Notre Dame great to see the course and we ish, qualifying in 20th place. years. It is statement of what trick, senior Stacia Masters net cross-country team finished the hope to be back there for the "They did all right, all things she has done for us in these ted her first goal of the season. Arizona Invitational, October NCAA championships." being considered," said Pian e. four years." Junior Jean McGregor found a 19, in seventh place. The Matt Althoff was the first Irish This was the last regular sea "It is great for her," said wide-open Masters in front of Invitational hosted five top 10 runner to cross the finish line in son meet for Notre Dame's "A" senior Kate Fisher. "This just the net. and nine of the top 20 cross 26th place, and Derek Seiling team, as it now prepares for the proves that she works really The following day the team country teams in the nation. was right behind him in 27th. Big East championships hard, and that she is one of the took on the West Virginia This was the lowest finish of the Jason Hexing followed his November 1 in Boston, top players." Mountaineers. The West season for the Irish, but this teammates closely in 31st place Massachusetts. Last year the Sophomore Monica Gerardo Virginia women's soccer pro was also the toughest competi and Joe Dunlop rounded out the men finished in third place and tied her own record in the gram is in its first year of exis tion that the team has faced or top four Irish runners in 60th are looking to improve. game against Seton Hall. She tence. will face until the NCAA cham place. There were 216 runners "It should be a great meet," scored four of the ten goals in pionships. representing 32 schools. said Piane. "There are four the game, which she previously The Mountaineers could not "It was okay but not great," Stanford won the meet scor teams ranked in the top 25, set last season in the Irish's keep pace with the Irish, and said coach Joe Piane. "Matt ing 53 points, compared to the with Providence being the most game against Indiana. lost 10-0. Junior midfielder Althoff ran great. (Derek) Irish score of 238. Nebraska's underrated. They are number Also igniting the Irish offense Holly Manthei chalked up two Seiling and (Jason) Hexing ran Cleophas Boor won the race, nine but could be in top three at this past week was freshman goals in the contest. She put well but not great. (Joe) Dunlop but his team finished in sixth the NCAA's. Georgetown and Jenny Heft. In her second the in the initial goal for the also ran well, and Antonio Arce place, just ahead of the Irish. Villanova are also top teams." career start, she scored the Irish, when she connected with second fastest goal ever for the a pass from freshman Jenny team. Almost instantly, Heft Streiffer. darted through the Rutgers Streiffer also put a goal of her WaV\ted: Repo~te~s photog~aphe~s aV\d defense and nailed a shot from own. Gerardo made a double 1 1 about 10 yards out. goal contribution in the game The goal was the second in also. edito~s. 3oiV\ the Obse~ve~ staff. her career. A week later in the This past Sunday, Notre game against Seton Hall, Heft Dame defeated Seton Hall, 10- netted two more goals. 0. "Jenny is a spark for us off Besides Gerardo's four goal the bench," said Petrucelli. effort, Streiffer and Heft con "She is really coming on right tributed two goals apiece. now." Grubb and senior Amy Freshman Kara Brown set VanLaecke made their pres and tied two school records in ence known with a goal a piece. the Seton Hall game. She had With the victory, the Irish's four assists in the first half of record rises to 16-1-0, and 8-0- the game, and finished the 0 in the Big East. They only game with five. have two regular season games In their three games over left, before the Big East tourna break, the Irish registered ment. Have you ever wanted to learn to OVEMBER 1 U.Aftii-4:00PM 1 he College of • . . .. . Administration I , ; ::}and 2nd Floors I. t come to Lafortune Ballroom on October 29th from what is right 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and learn with the OfJ! Ballroom Dance Club. $3 for non-members, and members are free!! 98UPDATB Tuesday, October 29, 1996 The Observer • TODAY page 19 MIXED MEDIA JACKOHMN..J" YOUR HOROSCOPE JEANE DIXON HAPPY BIRTHDAY! IN THE financial rewards from an unexpect NEXT YEAR OF YOUR LIFE: ed source. 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Sign U]p at the RecSports office. Your involvement is appreciated. Please contact 1-5965 if you would like to receive the survey. 631-6100 ·(,1·'· ... SPORTS page 20 Tuesday, October 29, 1996 • WOMEN's SOCCER • VOllEYBAll Champs sweep Big East trip Brown, Daws set pace, break school records By KATHLEEN LOPEZ Sporrs Writer Practice makes perfect. The top-ranked women's socce.r team can say just that, as they clinch their first Big East regu lar season title. The Irish claimed the title after defeating - the Seton Hall Pirates this past Sunday, 10-0. They claim the title based on the team's 2-1 victory over the second-ranked Connecticut Huskies. With this past victory over Seton Hall, the Irish move to 8-0-0 in the rank ings. The Irish are looking to ride this wave of victories into post season play. "We are starting to peak right now, which is important," said head coach Chris Petrucelli. "It is impor tant to play well when it counts." "We are on a roll right now," said senior Kate Fisher. "We are on a roll offensively and defensively, and it will all come .. together at the right time." Numerous Irish players had outstanding offensive efforts this past week. Senior mid fielder Cindy Daws was named Big East OITensive Player of the Week. She turned in two hat tricks this past week in the team's contest against Rutgers and West Virginia. In the game against West Virginia, Daws ObsE>rven1Mike Ruma became the Notre Dame all Sports Information Photo Freshman Kara Brown registered four first half assists against Seton time leading point scorer. Senior captain Jenny Birkner recorded 11 digs against West Virginia Hall to break a Notre Dame record. Her efforts were instrumental in to move into third place on the Notre Dame career list. The Irish defeated the Mountaineers 15-0, 15-3, 15-11. the 10-0 victory for the Irish. see RECORDS I page 18 • MEN's SOCCER Optimism abounds Rough waters on the east coast despite tough losses Capasso, Irish By JOE CAVA TO With juniors Jaimie Lee and salvage third Sports Writer Carey May back at their nat ural positions, the sometimes After a fall break itinerary stagnant offense showed signs game of trip which found the women's vol of improvement as they By BRIAN REINTHALER leyball squad weary of travel enjoyed a team hitting per Sports Writer across the continent and half centage of .284. May picked of the Pacific Ocean, coach up 31 assists with no ball han While most students were Debbie Brown finds her squad dling errors while 6-5 Jen packing their bags and prepar down but not out. Rouse had a tremendous day ing to leave campus for fall The Irish setters went 1-3 chalking up seven kills with a break, the Irish men's soccer over the week with the win .545 percentage. team was heading east for an coming in Big East play at Senior captain Jenny important three-game road West Virginia. The Birkner's team leading 11 trip consisting of all confer Mountaineers totaled 14 digs moved her past '93 grad ence matchups. points in the three games uate Alicia Turner into third The trip did nat begin exact which represents the lowest place on the Irish career digs ly as planned. total scored by an Irish oppo list with 1,200. The first hurdle for Notre nent this season. Unfortunately, the team Dame was No. 6 Rutgers. A In the first two games the didn't fair as well on the West win in the contest would cer Domers hardly knew there Coast as the Big East leaders tainly have boosted the Irish was a team on the other side learned that they were defi into the top 10 of the national of the net as Brown's squad nitely not the best in the West. poll. took the match by the final of They were upset by Cal State Sophomore goalkeeper Greg 15-0, 15-3, 15-11. With the Northridge and dropped two Velho helped Notre Dame sur sweep, they improved their to the top-ranked Hawaii vived a tirst half in which they Big East record to a perfect 5- Rainbows. 0 this season and 18-0 total in The Matadome of Cal State were ou tshot 7-1. The starter The Observer/Mike Ruma Senior midfielder Tony Capasso was responsible for yet another game their first two seasons in the see BIG EAST I page 17 winning goal as Notre Dame beat Georgetown in overtime, 2-1. conference. see HAWAII I page 17 vs. Navy • Cross Country competes in Arizona SPORTS November 2, 8:00a.m. i vs. Wisconsin see page 18 ~ - Big East Championships October 31, 7:30 p.m. ATA • Tigers deal Sierra to Cincinnati r November 2 I see page 13 ~ '.