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--------~---------------------------------_..,.----------...., Get out of the gutter Accepting the results Looking for things to do now that the home Republican presidential candidate and Texas Friday football season is over? Check out some movie Gov. George W. Bush announced that he will not theatre and bowling alley reviews. contest electoral results in Iowa. NOVEMBER 17, Scene+ pages 14 & 15 News+ page 11 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 57 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Students to travel to Georgia for SOA protest Pax Christi members will make third cross-country trip to fight US. Army program before. Last year, 12,000 peo­ By MYRA McGRIFF ple participated in this peace­ News Writer ful demonstration; this week­ and end even more are expected. TIM LOGAN "It's amazing, the diversity Senior StaffWriter of people who are there," said Sheila McCarthy, a Pax Christi This afternoon, dozens of Notre Dame member who Notre Dame and Saint Mary's went last year. "You've got students will pile into vans for priests, nuns, punk high a 780-mile ride down to school kids, Catholic Workers, Columbus, Ga. anarchists ... It's just an When they arrive, they will amazing variety of people who join thousands of other pro­ come ·out and say we should testers from across the coun­ not pay our tax dollars to sup­ try in a two-day prayer vigil to port this." denounce the School of the The SOA was founded in Americas [SOA]. a U. S. Army 1946 in Panama to spread program at Fort Benning democracy throughout the which has been accused of Western Hemisphere. In 1984 teaching Latin American offi­ it was moved to Fort Benning, cers the arts of torture and on the border of Alabama and human rights abuse in the Georgia. From its beginning, name of democracy. the school has taught Latin PETER RICHARDSONfThe Observer This is the third year that American soldiers about Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students who are members of Pax Christi will depart South Bend students from the two schools United States military tech­ have gone to the vigil. niques and discipline, and, as today for Georgia. There, they will participate in protests against the School of America, a U.S. Twenty-four made the trip Army-run program that the students claim violates human rights. last year and nine the year see PROTEST/page 4 Communication ELECTION 2000 focus of education Court allows recount to continue • Question remains recount totals from Democratic Harris to declare Bush the winner controlled counties. Saturday. conference at ND if results will aid in In the overtime campaign Cheney dismissed the determining a winner between Bush and Al Gore, the Democrats' litigation. "You can't ruling was a victory for the vice change the rules in the middle of By ALISON HEINZ president, who had pressed for the game, and we shouldn't try," News Writer Associated Press manual recounts in four counties Cheney said Thursday night on in hopes of overturning the Texas ABC's "Primetime." The University will hold its fifth annual Excellence in governor's 300-vote lead. About The seven-member Florida Teaching conference at McKenna Hall this weekend. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 2,600 overseas absentee ballots court, all chosen by Democratic The theme of this year's conference is "How to Florida's high court gave the go­ remain to be counted, but so far governors, issued its unanimous, Communicate More Effectively with Students." ahead Thursday to ballot recounts there is no dispute about them. one-paragraph order as Bush The conference is sponsored by the Notre Dame in the state's chaotic presidential "The Supreme Court's clear and lawyers looked to a federal Alumni Association and consists of lectures and all-day election but left unanswered the unambiguous ruling that the coun­ appeals court in Atlanta to stop workshops. question of ties are authorized to proceed the recounts altogether. More than 170 educators from across the country whether the with a manual recount is a victory One of the four counties, will be in attendance this year. Forty-six of Notre results will See Also for everyone who wants to see the Volusia, completed its new tally in Dame's Alumni Clubs are sponsoring 68 teachers this matter. "Miami-Dade votes counted clearly and fairly time to meet a 5 p.m. Tuesday year. "There is no reconsiders here in Florida," Gore campaign deadline established by Harris. "The convention reflects Notre Dame's concern and legal impedi­ chairman William Daley said. She has said the state will not commitment to quality education at all levels," said ment to the recount" "The one-paragraph, interim include any of the post-Tuesday Kathleen Sullivan, associate director of the alumni recounts con­ page4 order of the Florida Supreme recount figures in its official tabu­ association and director of alumni continuing educa­ tinuing," the Court has just been presented to lation, which she intends to tion. court said in a you as the best thing since night announce on Saturday. In accordance with the theme, co-authors of the case brought by Palm Beach baseball," said Bush's recount In another county, Miami-Dade, book How to Communicate More Effectively With County. Within minutes, county manager, former Secretary of officials said they would meet Students Adele Faber and Elaine Mezlish, will present officials announced they would State James Baker III. He said, in Friday to decide whether to pro­ a workshop, "How to Talk so Kids will Listen and join adjacent Broward County in fact, the order "does nothing more ceed. Listen so Kids Will Talk." reviewing hundreds of thousands than preserve the status quo." Republicans, meanwhile, Notre Dame English professor Paul Rathburn will of ballots byhand. Bush running mate Dick Cheney released federal court affidavits present a lecture titled, "Teaching Values: The Dignity The Palm Beach count began said the state's official count and from at least five witnesses who of Our Profession." Thursday evening. A state judge recount showed Bush was the contend they watched earlier "This conference provides an opportunity for gen­ was to decide as early as Friday winner - with the overseas hand recounts in Palm Beach uinely gifted teachers to get together and exchange whether to overturn the absentees still to come - and bar­ County this week and observed Republican secretary of state's ring any change he expected irregularities and possible ballot see CONFERENCE/page 4 decision to reject any further Secretary of State Katherine tampering. I page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, November 17, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S HISTORY Real Christmas trees prohibited Students stand vigil outside Indiana prison Dumb and Nov. 27, 1973 Nov. 21, 1997 The student life council voted to prohibit the use of While the clock counted down the minutes until Gary Domer natural evergreen trees as Christmas ornamentation in Burris' execution early Nov. 20, more than 60 members of order to comply with federal Occupational Safety and the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's community prayed qui­ So they say students at Notre Dame are sup­ etly together near the Indiana State prison in protest of posed to be smart? Future leaders in business, Health Act of 1972 which make the custom illegal at government and community are supposed to Notre Dame. The committee suggests the use of fire capital punishment. A jury had convicted Burris in 1980 develop the ability to think on their feet and make quick, sound judgments. proof artificial trees and trimmings where such for the execution-style murder of Kenneth Chambers. an This being so, I wonder Christmas decorations are desired. Indianapolis taxi-driver. why it appears at times that my brain sends signals to my body via an absentee ballot from overseas. The worst example of my OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U.Wire reports unintelligent behavior has to be an incident at a local fast- food establishment a few weeks ago. Following a Marquette freshman retracts claim of fraud Noah leisurely drive to Hesburgh · MILWAUKEE, Wis. said David Scott, field producer for Library from D-6 -why Amstadter Just one day after telling ABC News ABC News. walk when you can spin the he voted for himself four times in the "We reported the representations wheels of a '97 Altima- I Nov. 7 presidential election, as [BosworthJ reported them to us," headed to Wendy's to Assistant Sports Editor Marquette University freshman Scott said. Scott did not wish to com­ indulge myself in a feast of Robert Bosworth has retracted his ment furt-her on the matter cholesterol and saturated statement. Wednesday. fat. In a statement issued by Bosworth's University president Father Hobert I placed my order through that ever-so-clear attorneys Wednesday, the law offices Wild also issued a statement sounding intercom. pulled the vehicle around to of Kohn and Arbuckle, Bosworth Wednesday regarding the situation. the window, paid and left. I just forgot one final expressed his regret for his comments "I am shocked. disappointed and detail- the food. So of course I did an always and insisted he meant no ill will by frankly angered by the actions of safe and legal U-turn on Michigan Street, turned them. those Marquette students who claim around, and re-entered the drive-through. "His motivation was to draw atten­ to have voted more than once in last "VVow, in all my years working here at tion to the flaws he observed in the "He crossed the line by making a week's presidential election," Wild Wendy's I've never seen that," said my friend, election process," the statement read.

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