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/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 39 : ISSUE 59 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM SMC to close underground campus tunnels Campus Officials cite changed utility regulations recruiting By ANGELA SAOUD tunnels, Saint Mary’s must now abide by the changes and close increases Saint Mary’s Editor the tunnels to the campus. After nearly a century of use, While Saint Mary’s owns the Saint Mary’s underground College classroom and admin­ Improved job market tunnel system, which connects istrative buildings, the tunnels many buildings on campus, are ow ned by and are the leads to hiring push will close to pedestrians Dec. responsibility of the HCSC. 18. “The tunnels were originally Judith Johns, CEO of the Holy designed to provide utilities By JANICE FLYNN Cross Services Corporation, between buildings on campus News Writer made the announcement and, as such, they contain Monday in a written press steam lines, electric power, After several years of a stag­ water lines, communications release. Due to changing codes KELLY HIGGINSYThe O bserver nant job market, many Notre and regulations on the under­ After a century of use by students, Saint Mary’s announced Dame seniors now find them­ ground utilities housed in the see TUNNELS/page 6 plans to close underground campus tunnels Monday. selves amidst the most active fall recruiting season in recent years. In fact, competitive tactics by employers have forced the Notre Dame Career Center to intervene on the behalf of stu­ Students welcome Thanksgiving dents being asked to decide on job offers in very short periods of time. By KATIE PERRY This year’s 25 percent News W riter increase in recruiting at Notre • Dame is particularly welcome Planes, trains and automo­ after two years of difficult job biles will unite many Domers markets, when students some­ with their families Thursday, times could not land a job until but for some Notre Dame stu­ three months after graduation. dents, going home for The hiring surge can be attrib­ Thanksgiving is not just uted to the recovering economy gravy. and pending retirement of baby Nicky Harrison, a freshman boomers, according to The from Rochester, N.Y., will not Associated Press. be making the trip back home In contrast to previous years, for Thanksgiving dinner. For this fall several employers gave Harrison, the time it would job offer deadlines for several take to drive or fly back to days after the initial offer, New York did not seem logi­ prompting the Career Center to cal given that the University implement a policy requiring only allots a two-day break employers to give students at for Thanksgiving. She added least two weeks to decide. that plane tickets were also “What was happening was simply too expensive. that students were getting job Instead, she will spend the offers on Nov. 3, and were hearing ‘Tell me by the 10th,’” r ic k FRiEDMAN/The observer holiday with her friend who Students eat dinner surrounded by festive Thanksgiving decorations in North Dining Hall on -------------------------- Monday in anticipation of the upcoming break. see HOLIDAY/page 4 see RECRUITING/page 6 Fire safety standards Students protest Pride Week shirt are up-to-date at ND Group finds College T-shirt offensive Georgetown fire prompts national discussion By MEGAN O’NEILL News W riter fire safety program, he added. By KATE ANTONACCI Many necessary technology A handful of Saint Mary’s News Writer upgrades were made in the students protested the wake of the Jan. 19, 2000 fire College’s Pride Week T-shirt In the wake of an Oct. 17 fire at Seton Hall University, which in a Washington D C. row house Monday in the LeMans Hall killed three students and Lobby and in front of Madeleva that killed a Georgetown injured 58, Antonucci said. University student, the issue of Hall. “Before the Seton Hall disas­ The student group, named fire safety has sparked debate ter, every residence hall was on college campuses — includ­ Women Objectively Moving to either partially or completely Eradicate Negligence of ing at several of Notre Dame’s protected by sprinkler sys­ student housing options. Knowledge, handed out flyers tems,” Antonucci said. “After criticizing the shirt for failing The Notre Dame Fire Seton Hall, we chose to leap Department responds to rough­ to represent the student body into the forefront and have all accurately and asked students ly 1,200 campus calls per year, of our residence halls fully pro­ of which about 300 are emer­ to sign a petition requesting an tected by automatic sprinklers. apology from the Student gency medical calls and about We embarked on a very aggres­ 90 are actual fires, said Activities Board, which over­ sive retro-fit program. ” sees the shirt design and sales. University fire chief John Prior to the Seton Hall fire, 12 Antonucci. KLLLY HitiU lN ti/1 ne O bserver Notre Dame is confident in its A Saint Mary’s student protests the Pride Week shirt see SAFETY/page 6 Monday in front of Madeleva Hall. see PROTEST/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 23, 2004 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W hat a r e you d o ing fo r Thanksgiving ? Who says the NBA is dull? Frankie Bott Sarah Twedell Ted Lawless Geof Grubb Mary Ann Meunninghoff Zhiguo Ge Coming off a post-season that saw senior senior sophom ore senior rector graduate student my Detroit Pistons, the paragon of Keenan Pasquerilla East Off-campus basketball boredom, win a champi­ Welsh Family Off-campus Knott onship by inducing a coma, that same team helped bring national attention “I’m going home “I'm going home “I’m planning “I’m going to “Being grateful “Because I have back to their watch Notre fo r life. ” some projects to sport. Saturday’s Matt Mooney to Minnesota. ” to St. Louis. ” to fall into a prizefight with the ________________ tryptophan- Dame blow out do most of the b est street thugs Sports induced coma the Trojans. ” time I will stay the NBA could find Thursday. ” in m y lab. ” signaled a new Production trend in sports Editor marketing. Why use those annoying Thunder- Sticks to get the fans involved when active participation works just as well? The word on the street is that David Stern has contacted Sylvester Stallone about bringing back the Rocky charac­ ter for promotional events. In B rief However, basketball is new to the whole fighting scene. George Mikan, one of the first pro-basketball stars, NDTV will air Episode 0.3, wasn’t exactly the brawling type. Plus, their fall season’s last, today at 7 as a sport that prizes height, the p.m. on cable channel 15. physics just aren’t conducive to fight­ ing. Tall people, with their high cen­ International Student ters of gravity, can be knocked over Program s and Services will much too easily. It took a long time for sponsor a free showing of the the NBA to cultivate a talent/thug like Russian film “House of Fools," Ron Artest to carry the torch. with English subtitles, today Basebrawl has perhaps the longest from 7 to 9 p.m. in 117 tradition of mid-game rumbles. Ty DeBartolo Hall. Cobb, one of the greatest players of all-time, started the tradition early in The Notre Dame Ballroom the 2()th century when he went Dancing Club will sponsor waltz­ Indiana Pacer, charging into the ing lessons today from 8 to stands after a heckling fan. Nolan 10:30 p.m. in 301 Rockne Ryan didn't let a batting helmet intimi­ Memorial. There is a small date him when he turned Robin charge for the lessons. Ventura’s head into a bongo drum. Then there’s hockey. Fighting is as The Notre Dame men’s soccer old a tradition in this sport as the team will play Ohio State in the word "eh.” The draw of hockey is not second round of the NCAA com­ the ability to execute a perfect one- petition today from 7 to 9 p.m. at timer or the artistic skating. If that Alumni Field. were the case, SportsCenter would Notre Dame political science show a lot more Brian Boitano high­ RICHARD FRIEDMANAThe O bserver lights. No, the beauty of hockey is the Andrew Sheehan, left, Andrew Hartnett and Ken Walsh throw a frisbee on South professor Michael Coppedge will give a lecture on “The ability to fly down the ice on a sliver of Quad on Monday afternoon. metal, control a little rubber disk and Conditional Impact of the still avoid the goliath that thinks he Economy on Democracy in heard something said about his moth­ Latin America,” today from er. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in C-103 The one sport in which fighting O ffbeat Hesburgh Center. absolutely confuses me is football. wich bore the image of the Every player on that field is heavily Camden, N.J., named most important contributing factor North Dining Hall will serve a armored in pads and, more important­ dangerous city to its high crime rate. Virgin Mary will be getting a special Thanksgiving buffet ly, a helmet. Obviously, once a fight TRENTON, New Jersey — Atlanta, Georgia, St. Louis, lot more bread after the item Thursday from noon to 3:30 sold for $28,000 on eBay. gets started, as seen in Saturday’s Camden has been named the Missouri, and Gary, Indiana, p.m. GoldenPalace.com, an South Caroiina-Clemson game, the nation’s most-dangerous city, rounded out the top five in online casino, confirmed that goal becomes something like capture- snatching the top spot from the most dangerous city The Notre Dame m en’s bas­ it placed the winning bid, the-flag with helmets.

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