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p a g e 1 2 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL. XXXVI1 NO. 68 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.F.DU Senate criticizes First Year of Studies Notre Dame No. 1 in By MEGHANNE DOWNES Assistant Ne*s Editor students The Student Senate unani­ mously passed a resolution that urged the First Year of overseas

Studies to review its evaluation Special to The Observer processes because it feels that student needs were not being Notre Dame has the highest addressed. percentage of students partici­ Work began on this resolu pating in study abroad pro­ tion last year after Jeremy grams among American Staley, senator from Sorin Hall, research universities, according noted his disappointment with to a new report from the First Year of Studies. Staley Institute of International said, “First Year of Studies is Education (HE). not really in touch with what For 2000-01, the most recent the students need. There is a academic year for which statis­ big discrepancy over what it tics are available, 39.2 percent claims to do and what it does.” of Notre Dame students had Members of the Academic participated in study programs Affairs Committee met with in other countries. Yeshiva Eileen Kolman, dean of the LISA VELTE/The Observer University in New York City is First Year of Studies, and Sorin Hall senator Jeremy Staley shares his concerns about the First Year of Studies second with 38.8 percent, fol­ reported that the meeting was department and its evalutaion process. lowed by Cornell (28.2), Duke unproductive, said Staley. This (26.5) and Georgetown (26.5) led to the drafting of the reso­ requirements and expressed of a survey that freshmen are Senate offered itself as a universities. lution and Staley said, “It’s a uncertainty about the purpose asked to complete each spring, resource for First Year of With a total of 1,133 students recommendation and we want and quality of peer advising. said Staley. Last spring, Studies and asked it to conduct who studied abroad, Notre to use strong language because The Academic Affairs approximately 40 percent of a more thorough evaluation Dame is among the 24 universi­ we feel it is necessary and that Committee, which proposed the freshmen responded. The reso­ process that includes input ties with more than 1,000 stu­ the issues need to be amendment, said First Year of lution said, “First Year of from sources other than upper­ dents who studied in another addressed.” Studies could realize its mis­ Studies has expressed that ‘our classmen, new student focus country. Michigan State The resolution said students sion statement if increased stu­ efforts to understand the first groups and the Academic University ranks first for the were confused about the role dent input existed. First Year year experience are severely Affairs Committee of the actual number of students of their advisors, experienced of Studies makes many of its undermined by a low response Student Senate. (1,835) studying abroad but is inconsistent advising, were decisions and curriculum rate’ of first-year student sur­ 19th on a percentage basis at misinformed about classes and changes based upon the results veys.” ' see SENATE/page 3 19.2 percent.

Turnitin.com detects SMC sponsors religion forum Vitta explained there are tors. By MELANIE BECKER several obligatory prayers “A lot of times Christians student plagiarism News Writer but little ritual in Baha’i and will move into different that there are 19 days of denomination [of distrust that is at odds with the In order to increase reli­ fasting during sunlight hours Christianity] to find the prac­ By CAITLIN EARLY very spirit of the Honor Code,” gious awareness on campus in March. tice that fit their beliefs,” News Writer said Thomas Flint, faculty Honor during the holiday season, Cindy Mongrain, a member Doherty explained. Code officer. the Student Diversity Board of Campus Ministry present­ Junior Nila Ahmad, SDB In a recent e-mail sent to the Students’ reactions towards the (SDB) hosted a forum on ed Roman Catholicism and vice-president, represented entire student body, the Honor use ofTurnitin.com continue to be major world religions in the described the ritual practices Islam and explained how it is Code Committee addressed sever­ mixed. Haggar College Center last and sacraments of Catholics. practiced in daily life. al points of concern surrounding “We found that most students night. Catholicism is a faith com­ The six core beliefs of the University’s use of were initially weary when they “This was to provide munity that believes the end Islam are that there is one Turnitin.com, an online plagia- were informed about awareness of other religions, of life to be the beginning of God, belief in all prophets of rism-detection company. Turnitin.com. Some students feel some knowledge and to erase a new life, Mongrain said. all religions, belief in reli­ Turnilin.com enables professors that the plagiarism service is ben­ some “We believe gious books of all religions, and faculty members to submit a eficial because it ensures that m iscon­ kind of outra­ belief in all angles and ceptions geous things Mohammed as the messen­ student’s paper and to receive a their peers will be more honest. “This was to provide set of “Originality Reports" within Others, however, are concerned a n d w hen we ger and the Day of 24 hours, revealing if any Internet that use of Turnitin.com under­ stereo­ awareness of other think about it, Judgment. documents or resources are used mines the whole idea of honor,” types,” religions, some our God The five pillars, prayer five times a day (Salat), Charity in the student’s work. said Maura Kelly, a student mem­ S D B knowledge and to erase became The most contested aspect of ber of the University Academic spiritu- human,” (Zakat), a month of fasting Turnitin.com, however, is the Honor Code Committee. a 1 i t y some misconceptions and Mongrain (Ramadah), pilgrimage to said. Mecca (Ilajj) and the belief in direct submission of students’ The University decided to con­ repre­ stereotypes. ” work without any prior indication tract the services of Tumitin.com senta­ Doherty, one God (Kalima) are the of plagiarism. for this academic year in response tive spoke of her principles in which Muslims Anita Doherty The Honor Code Committee’s to the overwhelming problem of Anita experiences of live their lives. official response to the use of computer-related cheating that Doherty SDB spirituality representative being brought “We fast so that we may Turnitin.com recommends, “A continues to plague Notre Dame, said. up as a empathize and know what it student’s work be submitted to as well as many other colleges A Presbyterian means to be poor,” Ahmad Tumitin.com only if the instructor throughout the country. panel of students, faculty whose family was unable to said. of the course believes there are “In the past few years, many and staff represented six find a Presbyterian Church in Carla Johnson, professional reasonable grounds for suspecting professors have been looking for a religions. southern Indiana and joined writing specialist and academic dishonesty on the part tool, like Turnitin.com, to deal Johnea Brooks De-Vitta, a U nited M ethodist English Department assistant of the student.” with the rising problem of online senior humanistic studies Congregation. The congrega­ of writing proficiency profes­ As it currently stands, only plagiarism. The University has a major spoke about Baha’i tion was founded in 1968 sor, spoke on Judaism. about five professors are submit­ yearly contract with Tumitin.com and its origins. Founded in with the principles of Judaism was the first ting all students’ papers to and we will continue to re-evalu- Persia during the mid-19th abstaining from alcohol, ille­ monotheistic religion and the Turnitin.com. ate the use of its services in the century, followers of Baha’i gal drugs, gambling and root of Christianity and "With regard to Turnitin.com, years to come,” said Flint. believe that there is one God tobacco. They attend services Islam. the Honor Code Committee feels who created all messengers, that last from one and a half Jewish declaration of faith that automatic submission of or prophets to guide individ­ to two hours, receive com­ is through the Shema, the papers without prior suspicion of Contact Caitlin Early at ual search for faith during munion once a month and plagiarism expresses a degree of [email protected] times of spiritual crisis. De- have male and female pas­ see FORUM/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ WTtLAT’S UP Thursday, December 5, 2002

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CAMPUS W ORLD & BUSINESS SCENE SPORTS Can you NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT keep Turnitin.com Bush: al-Qaida United loses Scene rates Holidays Too close for d etects responsible loan newly should be a comfort promise? student for attacks on guarantee released time for plagiarism Kenya movies action and The end of the semester is approach­ ing and with it the shock for seniors, change like me, that pretty soon decisions are going to have to be A columnist voic­ Sarah Nestor ND has signed a During an inter­ United Airlines Scene reviews the Irish womens made about what finds itself on the es his opinions on life beyond South contract with view with reports newly released basketball defeats Bush remarked that verge of bankrupt­ motion pictures what the holiday Bend will be. With Turnitin.com to Valperaiso 74-68 in he believes al- cy after officials "Bowling for season should these decisions Saint Mary's help faculty cope a very close game. Qaida was respon­ denied the compa­ Columbine," mean to us and many commit­ Editor with cheating. The team will next sible for the attacks ny's request for that it should be a ments are being "Solaris" and "Die face Arizona State. in Kenya. loan guarantees. Another Day." time to remember made, and others broken. and a time to take While home over the break my best action. friend from high school shocked me with her pronouncement that she was page 1 page 5 page 7 page 1 1 page 12 page 24 becoming a nun. Now I shouldn’t say that it was a com­ plete shock because it is something she has been considering for a couple of years now but I never actually thought W hat ’s G oing D ow n she would do it. W hat ’s H a ppening @ ND Now it’s not like you can just wake up one day and say, “I think I’m going to Suspicious person case closed be a nun,” and you can just join a con­ ♦ UNICEF card and gift sale: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in The case reported on Nov. 21 of a suspicious per­ vent like that. It is a major commitment the Ilosburgh Library Concourse. son at the Loftus Center was investigated further and it will take her several years to and is being closed. The case has been reclassified actually receive the title of Sister. to soliciting without permission. Apparently there are three levels ♦ Lecture: “Critical Thoughts on the (Allegedly) Poor before you make final vows. First there Quality of Democracy in Latin America,” 4:15 p.m. in Car vandalism in parking lot is postulancy, when you live in the con­ room C-103 of the Ilesburgh Center for International A student reported vandalism to his vehicle while vent for one to two years, then there is Studies. parked in the Library lot on Nov. 30 between 11 novitiate, which is the beginning stage a.m. and 8 p.m. There are no suspects. of religious life and is another two years, and then there is the junior pro­ ♦ Movie: “The Man Who W asn't There,” 7 p.m. in the Citations issued for driving violations fessed stage, which is the first profes­ Carey Auditorium on the first floor of the Ilesburgh NDSP issued state citations for exceeding the post­ sion of vows of chastity, poverty and Library. ed speed limit and no driver’s license on Ivy Road on obedience. It is only after five years of Tuesday. yearly renewing these vows that per­ petual vows are taken and only then Occupational accident reported A University employee was transported to the will my friend give herself forever to W hat ’s H appening @ S M C God. University Health Center for treatment of a knee The time and contemplation that goes injury in the Lafortune Student Center on in to becoming a nun has made be ♦ Lilly Campaign Meeting: 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Wednesday. aware of the commitments many Stapleton Lounge. seniors are making, especially when I Vandalism case updated consider the amount of seniors becom­ The case of vandalism at the Stadium on Nov. 23 ing engaged. Marriage is just as an ♦ Religious Studies Christmas Party: 4:30 p.m. to has been assigned for a follow-up investigation. important commitment as a vocation 6 p.m. in the Stapleton Lounge. but it worries me when so many today seem to rush to get married. When you consider that the divorce rate in ♦ Moreau Chamber Ensemble and Wind Ensemble: America hovers around 50 percent, 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre. maybe a longer period of time between becoming engaged and married should Compiled from NDSP blotter be made. It’s not that I don’t believe young people are capable of making long term commitments; my parents were married at 18 and have been together for over 20 years but it seems like people just don’t take marriage as W hat ’s C ooking seriously. Consider all the celebrities that seem to easily marry and divorce, over and North Dining Hall South Dining Hall Noble Family Dining Hall over again. I’m not saying that celebri­ Today’s Lunch: Boiled thin spaghetti, Today Lunch: Turkey tetrazzini, Today Lunch: Spicy beef and rice ties are representative of most people boiled mostaccioli, pepperoni pizza, mushroom marinara, spinach cheese, soup, potato leek soup, cheese pizza, but that there even is the attitude that cheese pizza, vegetable pizza, four tortellini, calzones, pretzel sticks, gar­ pepperoni pizza, battered fried pollock, marriages can so easily be absolved is cheese pizza, cherry turnover, Texas den quiche, baby lima beans, baked golden fried catfish, chicken breast demonstrative of the lack of respect for chili, cream of broccoli soup, tomato potato neptune, beef tips and mush­ cordon bleu, yellow suah, California the institution of marriage. I mean look soup, chicken and dumpling soup, rooms, kluski noodles, roast top sirloin wrap, herbed pasta, dilled pea salad, at J-Lo, that girl really needs to slow Southern fried chicken, whipped pota­ of beef, long grain and wild rice, brownie bar, chocolate cookies and down before she turns into today’s toes, bacon slices, plain rice and fries. Italian chicken sandwich and Fries. cherry ribbon gelatin salad. Elizabeth Taylor. For me having a friend that is going Today’s Dinner: Boiled thin spaghetti, Today Dinner: Today Dinner: Spicy beef and rice to be a nun, and knowing the great boiled mostaccioli, pepperoni pizza, Turkey tetrazzini, mushroom mari­ soup, potato leek soup, cheese pizza, commitment she is making, has made cheese pizza, vegetable pizza, cherry nara, spinach-cheese tortellini, cal­ turkey pot pie, philly-style cheese steak me reevaluate the commitments in my turnover, breadsticks, Texas chili, zones, pretzel sticks, eggplant parme- sandwhich, BBQ pork ribs, corn own life and how I plan to fulfill them. tomato chili, corn, cherry crisp, steak- san, herbed vegetable medley, swiss falafels, dilled peas salad, poppy seed house fries, butternut squash, plain steak, grilled salmon fillet, rotisserie cake, Boston cream pie, citrus lentils rice, vegetable eggrolls, breaded chicken and roasted herb-garlic russet and rice, roasted butternut squash and cheesesticks and chicken patties. potatoes. french fries. 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Boston Priests Forum, which “I see the situation there He added that criminal said while priests may not Associated Press represents several hundred now as critical and it could priests are often expert know intimate details about clergymen. have deceivers, and can fool even each other, the culture also BOSTON Still, intervention been the people they live and eat reflexively protects itself, The Rev. John D’Arcy told by priests might “It’s the same kind of saved or with daily. keeping scandal bottled his superiors just what he have helped blunt prevent­ “These guy are incredibly inside. thought about a priest sus­ the damage of the blindness people have e d ,” he manipulative and they lie,” “It’s a little like a club or pected of sex abuse, alco­ current scandal, when it happens in wrote. he said. “They could get m ilitary u n it,” he said. “In holism and drug use so fre­ he added. fam ilies. ” I n Academy Awards.” general, there’s not much quent he was known as a “In hindsight, we church Dean Hoge, a Catholic whistleblowing.” “pothead.” could have been docu­ University sociologist who “If a man like this does not more responsive,” Rev. Thomas Reese ments has studied the priesthood, seek help, he should not be he said. church leader released given an assignment,” D’Arcy, who is e a rlie r, D’Arcy wrote in 1983 to now bishop of the D ’A rc y Bishop Thomas Daily about Fort Wayne-South also the Rev. Richard Buntel. Bend diocese in Indiana, wrote to Cardinal Bernard got news? 1-5323. The letter was not unusual was out of town and did not Law, warning him about for D’Arcy — he sent notes respond to calls for com­ reassigning John Geoghan, seeking to intervene in at ment. He explained his who was ousted from the least three cases of troubled rationale for coming for­ priesthood and has since priests in the Boston ward in a letter about been convicted of sexual Archdiocese, some of which Buntel, written while he was abuse. In the letter, D’Arcy were released Tuesday an auxiliary bishop in cited Geoghan’s history of among a cache of documents Boston. sexually abusing young related to the clergy sex “It is my conviction, as I boys. abuse crisis. believe it is yours, that we A spokeswoman for the But D’Arcy s outspoken­ who are in the position of archdiocese did not immedi­ ness was so rare among the responsibility have the ately return a telephone call Boston clergy, obligation seeking comment. it highlights to p r e ­ Roderick MacLeish, an the general “I see the situation there vent attorney for alleged abuse silence in now as critical and it scandal victims, said D’Arcy took a other parts of could have been saved or in th o se stand because he was one of the priesthood, cases few Catholic officials who observers said. prevented. ” w h e re it truly cared about the vic­ Explanations seems tims. But the Rev. Thomas for priests fail­ Rev. John D’Arcy almost Reese, a priest and editor of ing to call out definite the Jesuit magazine their errant church leader th a t it America, said many clergy­ colleagues will men may have called church range from a occur,” officials with concerns, but church culture he wrote. not wanted to go on record keen on avoiding scandal to In 1978, when Cardinal with a letter. simple ignorance that Humberto Medeiros led the Reese added that priests crimes were being commit­ archdiocese, D’Arcy wrote to are taught to be nonjudg- ted. church officials relaying mental as part of their pro­ Beach Party on the Border! There’s also little evidence complaints about the Rev. fession, and that could lead speaking out had an effect. Thomas Forry’s abrasive them to give other clergy a SOPADRE Buntel was reassigned manner, according to the pass when things seem mgbreak.sopadre despite D’Arcy’s warning church files released awry. that he was called a “pot- Tuesday. A year later, after “It’s the same kind of head” by members of a for­ Forry was accused of beat­ blindness people have when mer parish because of fre­ ing up a housekeeper, it happens in families,” quent drug use. D’Arcy wrote again. Reese said. Buntel was placed on administrative leave in March 1994. That year, an allegation from 1983 resur­ faced that he had offered TEN THOUSAND cocaine to a 1 5-year-old boy for sex. In most cases, however, priests had no direct knowl­ edge of their colleagues’ 5 minutes^ ______VILLAGES SALE crimes and were reluctant to act on distant rum ors of from O UTPO ST Campus ■ E H 'Z Z EMM problems, said the Rev. 1 _____ Cold Weether Experts Robert Bullock, head of the An opportunity to buy gifts that Call 259-1000 for more details support fair trade for developing University Resources countries. All profits support for Gay, Lesbian, & artists and help in paying a fair Bisexual Students wage for their work!

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Associated Press terror exists.” Since the first days after the WASHINGTON Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on In a grim update on terror­ Washington and New York, ism’s global reach, President Bush has said the war against Bush said Wednesday he terrorism is a global proposi­ believes Osama bin Laden’s tion. His remarks Wednesday network was involved in last indicated he believes the week’s Kenya attacks, and he Middle East peace process will complained that terrorists be in jeopardy until terrorism have been able to “stop the is curbed. peace process” in the Middle The remarks were made in East. advance of a Dec. 20 confer­ Pledging anew to fight ter­ ence in W ashington to plot rorism “wherever it exists,” peace moves in the Middle Bush sidestepped the question East. Even as they prepare for of whether bin Laden’s al- the summit of U.S., Russian Qaida organization has infil­ and European diplomats, trated the West Bank but said administration officials con­ terrorism in general has left cede there is little chance for its mark on the Israeli- headway in the talks amid vio­ Palestinian conflict. lence and terror attacks in the “I am concerned that terror­ region. ists have disrupted the ability Bush was asked whether he for peace-loving people to is concerned that al-Qaida, move a process forward.” the feeding off the harsh plight of president told reporters in a many Palestinians, may be brief exchange about Iraq and gaining a foothold on the West the war on terrorism. Bank. Bush said he understands “I am concerned about al- AFP Photo both Israel’s need to fight ter­ Qaida anywhere,” the presi­ rorism and the Palestinian dent replied. “I believe that al- President Bush answers a reporter's question during a White House ceremony to make the people's desire to improve Qaida was involved in the Internet safer for children’s viewing. During the ceremony, Bush remarked that he believes al- their living conditions. He African bombings in Kenya. I Qaida responsible for last week’s attacks on Kenya. pledged to continue working believe al-Qaida hates free­ similar to those on one Islamiya, may have played a make the Internet safer for on both fronts. dom.” involved in an attempted hit role in the Kenya attacks. children. "But the net effect of terror­ Evidence continues to mount on a military plane in May, “I believe al-Qaida will strike Afterward, spokesman Ari ism is to not only stop the that al-Qaida was behind the and al-Qaida has claimed anywhere they can in order to Fleischer said Bush was not peace process, but is to cause Kenya attacks — a bombing at responsibility for the hotel disrupt a civil society,” Bush making a definitive statement suffering amongst all the peo­ a hotel frequented by Israelis attack. said. “That’s why we re on the about al-Q aida’s link to the ple of the region,” Bush said. and the firing of missiles at an U.S. officials have suggested hunt.” Kenya attacks. “He’s sharing “And that’s why our war Israeli charter flight. that an affiliated Islamic Bush answered questions with you suspicions you’ve against terror must remain Experts said Monday the extremist network from during a White House ceremo­ heard from previous quar­ steadfast and strong wherever missiles had serial numbers Somalia, al-ltihaad al- ny for a new law designed to ters,” Fleischer said.

Iraq Iraq protests weapons inspections, calls experts spies

and Israel. that one of them will go off.” such armaments traced and controlled in Associated Press “Their work is to spy to serve the CIA Responding to Iraqi protests over the week-old round of new inspections. and Mossad," Israel’s intelligence ser­ Tuesday's palace visit, a U.N. official The inspections resumed last week BAGHDAD vice, Ramadan claimed to a visiting dele­ countered that the inspectors are taking after a four-year suspension, under a Iraq protested sharply Wednesday over gation of Egyptian professionals. the right approach — navigating new U.N. Security Council resolution U.N. weapons inspectors’ surprise intru­ Ramadan, known for his fiery state­ between Iraqi complaints and U.S. pres­ requiring Iraq to surrender any remain­ sion into one of Saddam Hussein’s presi­ ments, claimed to his all-Arab audience sure for more “severe” inspections. And, ing weapons of mass destruction and dential palaces, accusing the arms that the inspectors went to the palace said inspections team leader Demetrius shut down any programs to make them. experts of being spies and staging the hoping to provoke the Iraqis into refus­ Perricos, “we are getting results.” A critical deadline approaches this palace search as a provocation that ing them entrance — something he said Among other things, Perricos reported weekend for the Baghdad government. could lead to war. would be interpreted as a “material that on a five-hour inspection of a desert On Saturday, a day ahead of the dead­ The harshest criticism came from Vice breach” of the U.N. resolution that man­ installation his experts secured a dozen line, it is expected to submit a declara­ President Taha Yassin Ramadan, who dated the inspections, and a cause for Iraqi artillery shells — previously known tion to the United Nations on any Iraqi charged — in language reminiscent of war. to be there — that were loaded with a weapons of mass destruction, as well as clashes with inspectors in the 1990s — The resolution includes “several land powerful chemical weapon, the agent for on nuclear, chemical and biological pro­ that the new teams of U.N. monitors are mines,” Ramadan said, “and the aim is mustard gas. It was the first report of grams it says are peaceful. gathering intelligence for Washington

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Israeli troops murder suspected militant: Judge rules on “dirty” bomb suspect: Panel permits Law to file bankruptcy: Israeli helicopters blasted a Gaza City building with Overriding government objections, a judge ruled A financial panel of the Boston Archdiocese gave missiles on Wednesday, killing a suspected militant, Wednesday that a former Chicago gang member Cardinal Bernard Law permission Wednesday to file one of several violent incidents on a day also accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a for bankruptcy as the church tries to settle poten­ marked by Israeli statements about Palestinian radioactive “dirty” bomb can argue he was tially crippling lawsuits in the priest sex abuse scan­ statehood. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that as improperly detained as an enemy combatant. dal. Law would need approval front the Vatican part of the U.S.-sponsored “road map” for Mideast Although U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey before filing for bankruptcy. No Roman Catholic peace, Palestinians could set up a temporary state upheld President Bush’s authority to detain archdiocese in the United States has ever taken in part of the West Bank and much of Gaza. But enemy combatants, even if they are U.S. citizens, such a step, which would give a secular court con­ Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he also carved a role for the judiciary to make trol over its finances and open it up to unprecedent­ even before peace talks, Palestinians would have to sure the executive branch was doing so properly. ed scrutiny. give up their demand to relocate millions of refugees in Israel. Perilous snow forces school closings: Clouds delay landing of space shuttle: A vast storm spread freezing rain and up to a foot Thick clouds moved in at the last minute and pre­ U.S. plans Turkish army bases upgrade: of snow from the Texas Panhandle to Virginia on vented space shuttle Endeavour from returning to A top U.S. official said Wednesday that Iraq is “sur­ Wednesday, shutting down hundreds of schools, Earth on Wednesday with the former residents of the rounded” and that Washington is looking to spend making highways dangerously slick and knocking international space station. The delay added a 183rd hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade Turkish out power to nearly 100,000 people. “Everybody day in orbit for American astronaut Peggy Whitson bases that could be used in a war against the coun­ needs to stay home,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol and her two cosmonaut crewmates — and probably try. Lt. Jerry Treadwell said. a 184th day, given Thursday’s stormy forecast. The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEVA'S Thursday, December 5, 2002

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The $1.8 billion is the SUN MICROSYSTEM (SUNW) _2.81 -0 .1 1 3.76 largest request received by the board, double the 5PDR TRUST SER (SP Y )_q 4 5 -Q 4 2 92.45 amount that US Airways was conditionally granted earlier this year. The board was estab­ Getty Images lished by Congress last year Travelers wait in line at a United terminal. United Airlines finds itself on the verge to oversee a $10 billion loan program, part of an of bankruptcy after officials denied the company’s request for loan guarantees. airline industry bailout sions, and I certainly feel United is on course to hours trading, losing 55 In B rief after last year’s Sept. 11 for the effected employees,” exceed that loss this year percent of their value, or terrorist attacks. said Gramlich. "At the as it struggles amid a weak $1.72, to $1.40 each. Mechanists urge vote ratification The board, in its state­ same time, the loan board economy and a decline in The board’s decision United Airlines mechanic Ricky Taube drove ment, said United’s plan has a responsibility to tax­ business travelers. makes it “highly likely” that 70 miles to his union hall last week to vote “does not support the con­ payers and to fostering the A bankruptcy would be United will be forced to file against wage cuts the carrier says are neces­ clusion that there is a rea­ long-term health of the air­ unlikely to have any imme­ for bankruptcy, said Aaron sary to keep it out of bankruptcy. sonable assurance of line industry,” he said, diate effect on passengers. Gellman, an airline indus­ On Thursday, he planned to repeat that sce­ repayment and would pose explaining his decision to United has said it would try expert and professor at an unacceptably high risk reject United’s request. continue flying its normal Northwestern University’s nario in a second mechanics’ vote that could to U.S. taxpayers.” Fisher said: “This is not schedule, as US Airways Transportation Center. unravel United's effort to avoid a Chapter 11 Two of the three board just about costs; it’s about a has been doing since its But the decision doesn’t filing. members — Treasury’s business plan that is funda­ Chapter 11 filing in August. mean United’s schedule But a government panel took the urgency undersecretary for domes­ mentally flawed.” But United is trying to will be decimated, he said. out of the vote late Wednesday, rejecting the tic finance, Peter Fisher, The board’s executive avoid a filing because its “They will not stop (lying. airline’s request for a federal loan guarantee and Federal Reserve Board director, Daniel stock shares would proba­ When they come out of it needed to avoid defaulting on nearly $1 bil­ member Edward Gramlich Montgomery, told reporters bly become virtually worth­ bankruptcy, they’ll come lion in debt due next week. — rejected United’s that United still has an less and it would lose con­ out leaner and meaner.” The Machinist’s union had no immediate request. The third member, opportunity to file a revised trol of its restructuring to a The board in early comment on the decision by the Air Kirk Van Tine, the general request with the board judge. The airline is 55 per­ November sent a letter to counsel of the even if the airline were to cent owned by its employ­ United, seeking additional Transportation Stabilization Board, and cir­ Transportation file for bankruptcy. ees. information including cumstances surrounding Thursday’s vote Department, voted to defer There was no immediate United shares had risen 7 details on cost savings that were unclear. a decision until Dec. 9 to comment from United nor cents in regular trading could be achieved from allow United to submit its unions on the board’s Wednesday to close at labor unions and from American to fire flight attendants additional financial infor­ decision. $3.12 on the New York management, capital American Airlines will trim 1,100 flight mation. After losing an industry- Stock Exchange. But the spending commitments and attendants in coming months as it prepares to “These are hard deci­ record $2.1 billion in 2001, shares plummeted in after- pension obligations. operate fewer flights next spring. The company will offer voluntary options such as job sharing and leaves of absences to reduce the flight attendant numbers, American spokesman Todd Burke said Productivity expands 5.1 percent Tuesday. He said that the window for flight atten­ a rebound from the tepid 1.7 per­ ances, posted a 2.4 percent increase dants to take the options will begin Dec. 11 Associated Press cent pace in the second quarter. in October and “nondurable” goods, and close Jan. 7. After that, American will WASHINGTON Gains in productivity are helping such as clothes and food, rose 0.6 have a clearer idea of how many will be laid U.S. companies’ productivity grew to keep a lid on inflation, an impor­ percent. off. Any job cuts would take place Feb. 1, more briskly in the summer than tant factor for Federal Reserve poli­ “The reports show that the econo­ Burke said. previously thought and orders to cy-makers as they try to energize my by no means will go into a dou­ The Fort Worth, Texas-based company noti­ factories rose in October for the first the economy through low interest ble dip recession,” said economist fied the Association of Professional Flight time in three months, suggesting the rates. Clifford Waldman of Waldman Attendants, the union representing American struggling economy will avoid falling Separately, factory orders rose 1.5 Associates. “Consumers have flight attendants, on Monday. into a new recession. percent in October after falling in enough energy to stay alive and Productivity, the output per hour both August and September, the keep the economy going because Union spokesman George Price said of work, grew at a sizzling annual Commerce Department said. That wages are growing at a healthy American’s absence program will provide rate of 5.1 percent in the third quar­ provided a dose of good news for the clip.” flight attendants with all of their regular ter, the Labor Department reported nation's manufacturers, who have But on Wall Street stocks dipped employee benefits, but no paycheck. Wednesday. been trying to get through a late- on profit warnings from Disney and American has about 21,000 active atten­ The performance was even better summer rough patch. Hewlett-Packard. The Dow Jones dants. Layoffs would begin with the newest than the 4 percent growth rate esti­ Big-ticket manufactured goods, industrial average closed down 5 employees. mated a month ago and represented including cars and household appli­ points at 8,738. The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Thursday, December 5, 2002

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I was waiting alright - waiting for finals to be over, the semester to be done and for Christ­ 114 Coleman-Morse Center mas break to begin. But each year, when I finally made it home and joined my parish for the fourth Sunday of Advent, I was inevitably saddened by the realization that the season had, once again, passed me by with my hardly noticing it. And I would promise myself that the next year would be different. day Now almost one week into this year’s Advent season, and remembering the promise I made to myself so many times before, I would like to invite you to think with me about what exactly this time 807 Mass of the year signifies for us as Christians. During this season we are reminded that we know neither 8:00 p.m. the day nor the hour that Christ will come again, and Advent is meant, in part, to turn our minds and Hammes Student Lounge hearts to preparing for that unknown day. But the season is not simply about something far off and Coleman-Morse Center undisclosed; it is about remembering that Marriage Preparation Retreat Christ has already come, and that the King­ Co Friday-Saturday As the four Decembers of my dom, though not fully so, is already among Fatima Retreat Center us. During Advent we are urgently called to undergraduate career came let Christ be born in us today, so that, by our Freshman Retreat #44 and went, it’s not that I own work and by the witness of our lives, the Friday-Saturday building of the Kingdom continues here and Sacred Heart Parish Retreat Center wasn’t mindful of a spirit of now. The real challenge of Advent is making waiting. I was waiting alright straight the path of our own hearts so that we might be­ come Christ for one another. How do we do this? 12/08 - waiting for finals to be over, We can start by asking ourselves: Who is Christ? He the semester to be done and is the Lord of Love. If we want to let the Lord of Love KTTTildaw live in us, we must ourselves be defined by love. Perhaps RCIA Session for Christmas break to begin. we can say with confidence that we love our friends and 10:00-11:30 a.m. family well. And yet, Christ tells us to love even our Coleman-Morse Lounge enemies. How well do we love the person who has be­ trayed us in some way, the person who we find to be RCIA -Rite of Welcome stubborn, or hard of heart? “Love is the measure, ” 11:30 a.m. Basilica of the Sacred Heart Dostoevsky wrote. Let us make it our measure. Christ is the Prince of Peace. As violence and war increase in every part of the world, and our own country Advent Lessons and Carols prepares for war against Iraq, we are challenged to ask ourselves if we reveal the Prince of Peace in the way we live 7:15 p.m. and love. Or instead, do we argue that peace is not practical, and speak of waging a war we claim can be just. Basilica of the Sacred Heart Proclaiming a message of peace and non-violence - proclaiming God’s own mercy and forgiveness — is most certainly counter-cultural, but it is the message of Christ, and so for us who call ourselves Christians, can there be anything else? Christ is the Lamb of God. During Advent we are asked to think of how we make of ourselves a sacrifice for others. Do we give of our time and resources - which are economic, but are also spiritual, emotional, and ImMiday intellectual - to help others? Do we seek out the lonely, the despairing, the excluded, the poor, the sick, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception hungry, in order to offer what we have to care for what they lack? Are we liberators as Christ was, working on 11:30 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. behalf of the oppressed and marginalized, which includes people as close as our own community and as far as Basilica of the Sacred Heart other parts of the world? What gifts has God given each of us to offer for the sake of the rest of the Body, and do we use our gifts for this end, rather than for our own gain? Rehearsals to Sing at the These challenges are great, but they should not overwhelm. Rather, they should keep us hopeful, for it is in Basilica this Advent and Christmas accepting them that we accept the invitation to life in Christ, and Christ’s life in us. Our joy during this season 7:00-8:45 p.m. of Advent is in knowing that although we wait for Christ’s coming again in glory, we have the opportunity by 329 Coleman-Morse our own lives to let him come every day on earth.

i Basilica of the Sacred Heart ■ Around Campus Saturday, December 7 Sunday, December 8 5:00 p.m. Spanish Mass Basilica Vigil Mass 1:30 p.m., Zahm Hall Chapel S c h e d u le Rev. William M. Lies, c.s.c. Sunday, December 8 Law School Mass 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m., Law School Chapel CM Rev. William M. Lies, c.s.c. MBA Mass Campus Ministry 11:45a.m. 7:00 p.m., Mendoza COB Faculty Lounge Rev. Peter D. Rocca, c.s.c.

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V enezuela Protests escalate in The Year of the Euro strike against gov't A Conference of the Nanovic Institute crew anchored off the western for European Studies Associated Press city of Maracaibo, refusing to deliver gasoline. CARACAS Chavez’s government, howev­ Marches aimed at ousting er, insisted oil operations were President Hugo Chavez’s leftist The Year of the Euro will explore numberous ramifications of the normal. Thousands of Chavez government spread across supporters staged rallies in two introduction of the European Union’s new single currency in twelve Venezuela on Wednesday, with downtown Caracas plazas. tens of thousands of people Opposition and government participating countries in January 2002. This unprecedented project of banging on pots and waving delegates met with Organization flags to support an indefinite currency change emerged from a series of political and economic of American States Secretary general strike. General Cesar Gaviria to explore aspirations for transformation and convergence. With the introduction Under international pressure, resuming talks on an electoral strike leaders suggested they solution to the crisis. of the Euro as a circulating currency, this large project finally entered were ready to resume talks on Hopes for a solution grew early elections, but extended the fabric of daily life for milions of Europeans. after the national elections their strike for a fourth day. council voted 4-1 Tuesday to More businesses were open hold a nonbinding referendum Wednesday, even as the strike on Chavez’s rule on Feb. 2. began to affect production in the December 6-8, 2002 Council members said their vote world’s No. 5 oil exporter. should overcome objections by More businesses opened as the Supreme Court, which ruled McKenna Hall, CCE, University of Notre Dame the strike wore on, but disrup­ last week at least four votes tions began to affect Venezuela’s were needed. oil industry, the world’s fifth The opposition threatened to largest exporter. A shipping intensify the strike. For information or to register: agent claimed workers stopped loading tankers, and a tanker “We ratify the success of this active strike, and if necessary in contact the Nanovic Institute for European Studies the coming days it will become even more active,” said strike leader Carlos Ortega, president 574.63 E5253 of the country’s biggest group of labor unions. www.nd.edu/~nanovic oma Chavez, who canceled a planned trip to Brazil on Wednesday, has insisted that Co-sponsored by the European Union, the Graduate Schools Office of Research, the the constitution allows a binding vote only halfway into his six- Henkels Lecture Series, the Kellogg Institute, the Keough Institute, and the 5 minutes. ______year presidency, in August. He Departments of Political Science and Sociology. called the strike a “desperate” from OUTPOST effort to oust him and said it Campus would fail. Cold W e a t h e r Experta Call 240-1000 for more details

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To day ’s S taff NDT oday /O b se r v e r P oll Q u estio n Q uote o f the D ay News S ports Joe Trombello Matt Lozar Sarah Nestor Rachel Should University employees be allowed to “Marriage is the operation by which a Justin Krivickas Protzm an unionize? woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are V iew point S cene extracted without an anaesthetic." Kristin Yemm C. Spencer Vote at NDToday.com by today at 5 p.m. G raphics Beggs Helen Rowland Chris Naidus Lab T ech U.S. journalist Nellie Williams O b ser v er V ie w p o in t Thursday, December 5, 2002 page 11 Holidays should be a time for action and change

The “Holiday Season” is a time full of live. He acted as an example of how to Christmas in the traditional American or pray for workers' rights here or joy in which we are thankful for family live the good life. He ate with sinners, way: full of consumption and at the elsewhere. We have all heard this and friends. We show this love by visit­ healed the poor and criticized the same time joyfully? This Christmas will request, and many of us have followed ing our favorite shopping centers, wealthy and powerful for their habits still be Jesus’ birthday, the celebration through. 1 am asking more of each of whether it is the local mall or the local and lifestyles. In memory of His life most likely will still continue, but us. I am asking that we dedicate our­ bookstore, and and of what He did for us, we the authentic joy is gone. selves — starting now, starting this buying gifts for our Paul Graham take time off school and Instead, sorrow will Christmas season — to working for loved ones. We ______work to celebrate Him. permeate the lives of change. I am asking that we not only start off this sea­ We celebrate by those affected by remember others when we open our son by giving A n o th e r going to the mall to greedy economic presents, but also that we work for a thanks lor every- Perspective buy presents rep­ and foreign poli­ more just world. This is our gift to thing and every­ resenting our cy. Many of us those we will never meet in life. body. love for our will try to for­ We have an obligation to do more Thanksgiving is a family and get and go on and to work for more. We have an day dedicated to giving thanks for all friends. We shopping and obligation to fight for the poor of our that we have — it is a reflection on our buy buying and country and of the world. We have an lives. This past Thanksgiving, 1 gave Abercrombie consuming obligation to make sacrifices, to give up thanks for my parents and friends, for and Fitch, like the good some of our possessions — to opt for my brother and sister and for my safe Aeropostale, capitalist the poor by doing everything we can. journeys. I also gave thanks that I have Tommy Americans We have to change how we live. We a house, that I have food, that I have a Hilfiger, Nike we are, the cannot let Wal-mart tell us how to love job and that 1 have an education. and the likes. way our each other, nor should we allow Many people are thankful for similar We buy expen­ President so McDonald’s tell us how to eat. We must reasons and for similar possessions, sive chocolates, confidently start working for peace and justice. but this does not give us permission to plan large feasts commanded us to Christmas is meant to be a time of be apathetic about what others are with fat birds as the do. But how can joy, but how can we ignore what is unable to have. By being thankful, we center piece, decorate there be Christmas happening in the world right now? This are admitting to ourselves that we have a tree with ornaments when so many are is what Jesus asked us to do, and this is what others do not. and write cards to loved unemployed, in poverty, what we must do. We should not brush As we proclaim our thanks, we must ones. going hungry and left home­ off the widespread poverty and suffer­ realize that our gratitude comes from Many of us will go on consuming as if less? This is injustice. ing of this country. We have an obliga­ our recognition that others are not so there are no problems in the world; to How can we, as students at Notre tion to do more. lucky. This is recognition that others some, there are no major or unsolvable Dame, celebrate the Christmas season are victims of oppression and violence, problems in the world. But in the other when many workers on this campus Paul Graham is a senior sociology attend poor schools, live paycheck to “world,” the world where a majority of are afraid to speak up about their con­ major and a Catholic social tradition paycheck and are struggling just to people throughout our country live, the ditions, when they have no real voice minor. Contact him at make it. world of poverty and struggle, or bargaining ability with the adminis­ [email protected]. His column normally This Christmas season, in the memo­ Christmas will come with layoffs, lost tration and when they are often over­ appears every other Wednesday. ry of Jesus Christ, many of us will come homes, lower wages and bombings in worked? The views expressed in this column together with our families to feast and Iraq. I am not requesting that we remem­ are those of the author and not neces­ give presents. Jesus taught us how to How is it possible to celebrate ber and pray for others who have less sarily those of The Observer.

Letters to the E ditor Notre Dame should Registration system decline a BCS invitation frustrates freshmen

The Notre Dame Mission Statement claims, “The University is dedicated to Throughout this last summer, I wor­ My point is: Why should I, and other the pursuit and sharing of truth for its own sake.” A noble ideal by a noble ried about what classes I should take students like me, be penalized by some institution. But is Notre Dame willing to put life to those words when the during my first year at Notre Dame. But asinine class raffle simply because the issue is football? now that I am here, I am left to worry First Year of Studies program is not cre­ I am an Iowa Hawkeye. I graduated long ago, but black and gold runs whether or not I even have a choice. ative enough to come up with a just sys­ through my veins as strong as the green and gold that drives many a Notre The freshman class registra­ tem? Dame alum. Yours is a prestigious school. Its history, academic and athletic, tion system is seriously Now I don’t claim to have all is the stuff of legend. The University of Iowa is no lesser place, but it is less­ flawed in many the answers, but there has to er known. Our universities are now brought together in a controversy not of respects. (I exclude be a better way. Perhaps their own making, but real nonetheless. Although the issue will not be other classes’ regis­ students could register in framed until this Saturday’s contests are finished, the question will likely be trations because I intervals of two classes who is more worthy of a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bid: Iowa or Notre am not familiar at a time so as to allow Dame. Make no mistake, I recognize this is not a question of biblical propor­ with them; that a more equitable dis­ tions. But to those who love their school’s football (and no one loves it more does not mean tribution of the cours­ then the legions of Notre Dame), it is an issue of some importance. they are not as es. I’m not sure what We Hawkeyes are rightly proud of our team’s accomplishments this year. equally insane.) the solution is, but Lacking the opportunity to match talents in a playoff system, the Hawkeyes, I like to con­ then again, I’m not like the Fighting Irish, must rely on computers and pollsters to determine sider myself a being paid to come up their role in the year-end beauty pageant known as the BCS. realist. I know with an answer. But college football is big business, and the BCS is college football. So, the not everyone One would imagine question posed is whether Notre Dame, with a 10-2 record but unavoidable can be perfectly that for the average fan and media appeal, should be given a BCS berth over higher ranked 11-1 happy with their yearly tuition of Iowa. Such issues should be decided on the field, not through binary combat. schedules, but that $34,900 the University However, lacking that opportunity, record and ranking should be enough to shouldn’t mean that should be able to accom­ give Iowa the BCS bowl it deserves. Unfortunately, at this point, football some students have to modate our academic aspi­ apparently means less than the balance sheet of viewership and attendance. be miserable. I was one rations. I certainly don’t plan My purpose in writing is to ask this University to demonstrate its pursuit of of the unfortunate souls to pay $60 a class for courses that faith and truth. What better opportunity to rise above in a show of honor who was scheduled to sign up on I didn’t even want to take. I doubt much and courage then to say to the BCS, “Thanks, but no thanks.” Yours is a Dec. 3 at 4 p.m. As I frantically can be done to make matters better for school based on noble pursuits. Your coach is a man of integrity. Live your searched for open classes — any classes us freshmen, but for the sake of classes ideals of “truth for its own sake,” and tell the BCS that at least for this one — I began to realize how absolutely ter­ to come, I hope the First Year of Studies year, the University of Iowa is the better team and more deserving of a BCS rible my spring semester was going to program gets its act together. bid. be. I am currently facing the prospect of having all my academic classes on the Patrick Dunn Steven Leach same three days (which wouldn’t be so freshman Phoenix, Ariz. bad if I actually wanted to take those Keenan Hall Dec. 3 classes). Dec. 4 O b s e r v e r Scene page 12 Thursday, December 5, 2002

M ovie R eview Bond returns for 'Another Day' American secret agent. Jinx isn’t the run- By C. SPENCER BEGGS of-the-mill “oh, James” Bond girl, rather Scene Editor she’s Bond’s equal in every way. Of course, she’s still uncontrollably attracted to him. While “Die Another Day” is the 20th “Die Another Day” doesn’t really have an installment in the James Bond franchise, innovative plot, but it is an incredible trib­ this film pounds the final nail into Bond ute to the franchise. For example, when creator Ian Flemming’s coffin. The series Bond first sees Jinx emerge from the ocean has long since forgotten the heydays of ala Phoebe Cates from “Fast Times at Sean Connery’s dashing secret agent. The Ridegemont High,” the shot (and bikini) recent slew of Bond films seem to have are recreations of the entrance of the first dropped the secret part: Bond is more like­ Bond girl. Honey Ryder (Ursella Andrews), ly to pull out his from the first Bond Berretta and blast movie, 1962’s “Dr. his way through “Die Another Day” No.” Bond poses as 200 goons Rambo- an ornithologist for style than, God for­ about five seconds bid, make up a — a subtle refer­ cover story. But # ence to where even though the Flemming borrowed Director: Lee Tamahori new movies have the name of his Writers: Neil Purvis and Robert Wade become glorified hero: famous Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, action flick, they’re ornithologist, you still fun to watch Dame Judi Dench, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens, John Cleese guessed it, James and th ere’s still Bond. “Die Another plenty of classic Day” even come Bond elements that show through. deliciously close to parodying itself ala “Die Another Day” begins with Bond “Austin Powers;” the bad guy has a conve­ (Pierce Brosnan) surfing on typhoon-like niently placed Earth-destroying laser beam waves onto the coast of North Korea to in space. stop the sale of some high tech military “Die Another Day” suffers from a bit of equipment to a obtusely evil warmonger awkward acting. Surprisingly, a lot of this general by impersonating the moneyman. comes from Berry who sounds like she’s But Bond’s plan is botched when he’s reading from a children’s book at times. almost instantly recognized. After a slightly Even worse is a bit part written in for tough to swallow hovertank battle, Bond is Madonna; while she contributes a decent captured and tortured in a prison as the theme song, there should be a constitution­ classic opening sequence of writhing sil­ al amendment forbidding her from appear­ houettes of naked women dance to the ing in movies ever again. Bond theme song, this time covered by And like other recent Bond films, the bad Madonna. guy has to have a justification for why he’s Bond is eventually ransomed by M6 evil. This time it’s because his father didn’t when the name of one of their agents is love him enough. Seriously, audiences can broadcast from the prison. Thinking Bond probably accept an old school irrational Photo courtesy of MGM Films had cracked his cool, his boss, M (Dame drive to destroy the world from any guy Halle Berry as the American secret agent Jinx In “Die Another Day.” MGM Is Judi Dench), makes a prisoner swap. Back who has his own laser beam in space. considering spinning the character off and giving her a franchise of her own. in an M6 medical facility, M rescinds The film muscles through most of these Bond’s double-0 status. Bond, of course, difficulties. Brosnan has mastered his ver­ one of Bond’s conquests; there’s been a to let Jinx work her voodoo in just one film immediately escapes and begins an investi­ sion of Bond and carries the film. Of considerable buzz in Hollywood that MGM like the other memorable but oh so forget­ gation into who set him up, taking him all course, he’s aided by a bunch of cool new may spin-off the Jinx into a new franchise table Bond girls. around the globe including exotic locations gadgets like an invisible Aston Martin and of secret agent films. Perhaps this may end like Havana and Iceland. But Bond doesn’t a shockwave ring. And the Bond girls up being a profitable venture, but given have to take this one on alone; Halle Berry aren’t exactly unappealing either. Berry’s lackluster performance in “Die Contact C. Spencer Beggs at joins as the latest Bond girl named Jinx, an But Berry may end up being more than Another Day,” MGM might be well advised [email protected]

M ovie R eview 'Solaris' shines as an art flick ond day his wife is in bed with him. blend of romance, theology, philoso­ By C. SPENCER BEGGS Of course, his wife committed suicide phy and science fiction. Basically, this Scene Editor three years before. movie is a PLS major’s wet dream. The apparitions on board aren’t Unfortunately, “Solaris” really isn’t In the near future, NASA discovers monsters; they seem to be real flesh meant to be a mainstream movie. a planet deep in space called Solaris. and blood and have memories of Released over Thanksgiving week­ The planet is a glowing soft purple their former end in 2,500 the­ orb with vivid solar flare-like bands lives on Earth. aters nationwide, emanating from it. But when a team Kelvin and the “Solaris” the film w asn’t of scientists sent to analyze whether crew must well received by it Solaris can be harnessed as an unravel the audiences. energy source send cryptic and dis­ mystery of the “Solaris” was turbing messages back to Earth pulsating marketed as a sci- requesting that a psychiatrist be sent Solaris that Director: Stephen Soderbergh fi flick, but the to help the crew, Chris Kelvin seems to be Writer: Stephen Soderbergh movie really fits (George Clooney) is selected to make the key to the Starring: George Clooney, Natascha into a romantic or the journey to Solaris. visitors before McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis psychological Upon arrival, Kelvin discovers two they crack up drama genre. of the five crew members dead in the entirely. “Solaris” doesn’t morgue and one missing. The “Solaris” is a remake of renowned have brain-eating aliens or a prince remaining two are agitated, Russian filmmaker Andrei charming figure; it is a fairly complex depressed and unwilling to submit to Tarkovsky’s 1972 adaptation of movie that might disappoint audi­ Kelvin’s psychoanalysis of their space Stanislaw Lem’s novel. The film is a ences looking for run-of-the-mill for­ madness. But the lines between mad­ classic and the remake follows in its gettable Friday night date fare. ness and sanity get blurred as Kelvin footsteps nicely. Photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox begins to experience what has driven “Solaris” is a slow boiler. The “Solaris” is a decent movie, but may not appeal to the crew to its loopy state: when he movie requires a lot of thought to Contact C. Spencer Beggs at moviegoers looking for strict sci-fi or romance. wakes up in the morning of the sec­ come to terms with. It has a unique [email protected] O b s e r v e r Scene

Thursday, December 5, 2002 page 13

T he A r biter of Ta st e Moore bowls a strike in 'Columbine' Michael Moore’s latest documentary is a curious case of slovenly brilliance. The unanimous winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this spring, “Bowling for Columbine” became the first documentary to compete in the competition in 46 years. Ever since 1989’s “Roger and Me.” Michael Moore has offered us a candid and satirical look at the absurd in American cul­ Anne Hamilton ture. This time Moore sets a table of criti­ cal inquiry over The Arbiter America’s gun- o f Taste craze with servings of media mania and corporate controversy, invites president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston, James Nichols (broth­ er of Timothy McVeigh partner Terry Nichols) and Marilyn Manson for candid interviews and lays out the April 1999 Columbine High School tragedy as the Photo courtesy of United Artists centerpiece. Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine" Is a critical look at the epidemic of violent crime In America. The The film takes its title from reports film consists mostly of candid Interviews with celebrities on topics from guns and racism to corporate greed. that students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went bowling the morning McVeigh was “a nice guy" during the film is made up entirely by interviews against the Soviets. While all of this before they went on their killing spree in months he stayed at Terry’s house. and that is where Moore shows his information flashes on the silver screen, Littleton, Colo. “Columbine” follows Moore also serves up a few surprises. genius. Although he sometimes uses the we hear Louis Armstrong’s “What a Moore on his quest to find out why Dick Clark of “American Bandstand” camera as both a pulpit and as a way to Wonderful World” playing in the back­ America suffers from an epidemic of fame turns out to be not such a nice guy bully people, which happens when he ground. murder. and Charlton Heston reveals he is a takes his crusade to Kmart headquar­ Moore can either been viewed as tak­ Moore begins his search for answers racist, while Marilyn Manson (whose ters, Moore does his best work by simply ing things too far in this film about vio­ by opening an account at a Michigan music was initially cited as partly to getting people to speak candidly about lence in America or he can be seen as a bank that gives new customers a free blame for the shootings at Columbine) their views. Most of what was educa­ whistleblower who does not cut his gun. While flipping though their cata­ turns out to be thoughtful and eloquent. tional and terrifying in this film actually enemy any unnecessary slack. Rarely logue of rifles he asks incredulously, He also interviews a few students and a came from people just answering hon­ clean-shaven and always with his shirt “You mean you’re a bank and a licensed politician in Canada where 7 million estly about what they thought. un-tucked, Moore can sometimes come firearms dealer?” guns are present in 10 million house­ What makes “Columbine” a solid film across as a too slovenly and conde­ He then travels to one of the world’s holds but murder is practically nonexist­ is that Moore does his homework by scending to make an honest documen­ largest weapons manufacturer, ent about issues such as healthcare, sighting very interesting facts and statis­ tary. He points his finger sharply at both Lockheed Martin, which is located just a unemployment, welfare, the media and tics. Moore points out that the NBA was corporate America and American for­ few miles from Columbine High and why they think America has such a founded in 1871, the same year that the eign policy in both the recent Bush and takes a tour. While there he points out problem with guns. KKK was declared an illegal terrorist Clinton administrations, which has the that the United States dropped its While interviewing a college professor organization and that 33 million people potential to make some viewers a little largest amount of bombs during the war who recently wrote a book on what the in the U.S. live in poverty. He illustrates uncomfortable. in Kosovo the morning of the Columbine media chooses to cover and why, the that the requested Whatever your shootings. Moore also has a very scary man tells Moore that although gun relat­ increase for the views, while visit with Terry Nichols in which Nichols ed violence has decreased by 20 percent U.S. military “Bowling for Columbine” watching this film explains just how easy it is to make a in the last 15 years, news coverage of it budget for 2003 is it is good to bomb and later tells Moore how Timothy has increased 600 percent. Half of the $396 billion, remember that all which is more stories are told than enough to with a good deal adequately Director: Michael Moore of personal bias upgrade every Writer: Michael Moore and Moore’s is no wanting school in Starring: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, exception. It America. He also Marilyn Manson, Terry Nichols remains, however, gives statistics that “Bowling for showing the U.S. Columbine” is an to have had 11,127 firearm homicides in exceptional film that should be seen by the last year, which was around 100 anyone who wishes to take being an times the number of as other countries American or living in America seriously. such as Germany, France, Canada and “Bowling for Columbine” is a film that Japan; Japan, in fact, only had 39. is designed to affect its viewers and is The film is also served well by its edit­ hugely successful in this attempt. In my ing and music. Moore chooses clips from experience, it left most of its audience local and national news stations depict­ either walking out of the theater or in ing messages meant to scare and manip­ thankful applause. While no doubt ulate people. He points out that Moore certainly has his detractors, as Americans live in a media culture and will “Columbine,” his insights and irony contrasts relatively non-dramatic clips are brilliant. It is unfortunate that this from the BBC news with those from the film probably will be missed by those United States in which the anchor’s who need to see it most. voice carries shrill, alarmed tones and suspenseful music plays in the back­ ground. There is also a wonderfully put togeth­ The opinions expressed in this column er sequence of the history of U.S. bomb­ are those of the author and not neces­ ings and military campaigns in other sarily those of The Observer. countries over the years where Moore Anne Hamilton is an overly opinioned Photo courtesy of United Artists points out how many foreign people fdm critic who spends far too much time Moore doesn’t pull any punches against those who he sees as the causes of we’ve killed and how we trained the watching movies. She can be contacted violence like greedy corporate robber barons and corrupt government officials. young men in Afghanistan how to fight at [email protected]. page 14 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Thursday, December 5, 2002

B aseb a ll Sollmann tabbed as preseason Big East Player of the Year

.443 batting average with run­ Special to The Observer ners in scoring position, high­ lighted by the game-tying hit in The preseason accolades have the ninth-inning rally that elimi­ started to pour in for the Notre nated Rice from the College Dame baseball team, with junior World Series. second baseman Steve Sollmann Johnson — who earned and sophomore righthander Freshman All-America honors Grant Johnson earning individ­ from Baseball America and ual honors while the Irish have Collegiate Baseball — capped been picked to repeat as Big East his stellar rookie season by earn­ conference champions. ing a spot on the U.S. National The National College Baseball Team. He was part of the start­ Writers Association named ing rotation on an elite staff that Sollmann a preseason second set a Team USA record with its team All-American while the Big 1.48 summer ERA. East coaches tabbed him as the Johnson’s freshman season 2003 preseason Big East Player with the Irish included a 3.46 of the Year. Johnson was named ERA in 18 appearances. The 6-6, a third team NCBWA preseason 220-pounder led the Big East in All-American and joined overall innings pitched (101.1) Sollmann on the 15-player pre­ while ranking second among Big season all-Big East team. East players in overall wins (9- Sollmann — whose .362 career 5), third in starts (14) and sixth batting average ranks ninth in in strikeouts (86). His other 2002 Notre Dame history — overcame stats included 44 walks, 94 hits an injury-plagued first half of the allowed, a .249 opponent batting 2002 season by hitting .561 (23- average, five wild pitches and for-41) in nine 2002 NCAA nine hit batters. Tournament games. He also had Collegiate Baseball named 12 runs batted in, scored 15 Johnson the national pitcher of runs, made just one error and the week after his one-hit, one- did not strike out in those nine walk performance in the 25-1 NCAA games. NCAA Tournament win over After batting just .171 through South Alabama — becoming his first 11 games of the 2002 just the 13th pitcher, and fourth season, Sollmann recovered to since 1981, ever to toss a no-hit­ match his 2001 mark and post a ter or one-hitter in the NCAAs, .362 season batting average. He He followed up that win with an finished among the Big East opening-game victory in the overall 2002 leaders in hits Super Regional round at top- (fifth), runs (fifth) and triples ranked Florida State. (fourth). Sollmann’s other season Notre Dame received nine of a stats included 47 RBI, two home maximum 10 first-place votes in runs, eight doubles, 6-of-6 stolen the Big East preseason poll. bases and just eight errors in 59 Other top teams in the poll were ANDY KENNA/The Observer games played (.969 fielding pet.). Virginia Tech, Boston College Notre Dame second baseman Steve Sollmann jumps for the ball against In a game against His clutch hitting included a and Rutgers. Western Michigan last year. Sollmann was voted Big East preseason Player of the Year Tuesday.

NCAA F o o t b a l l Gesser's status uncertain as Cougars prepare for Bruins

The No. 7 Cougars (9-2, 6-1 Pac- today. He said he was feeling to go out there and show the Since then, Kegel has played Associated Press 10) will clinch a Rose Bowl berth if great,” Price said. “Jason will take coaches I can play and be produc­ sparingly in a dozen games. This SPOKANE, Wash. they beat UCLA (7-4,4-3). snaps and throw in practice tive.” season, he completed 26 of 39 Jason Gesser tested his sore Gesser, a senior who was picked today.” Junior Matt Kegel has had most passes for 203 yards, a touchdown right leg in practice, but as co-Pac-10 offensive player of the Gesser said he hopes to be able of the snaps with the first-team and an interception. Washington State coach Mike Price year, suffered a high right ankle to play, but would practice gingerly offense in practices since the Price said the Cougars plan to said it is still not known whether sprain, pulled calf muscle and so as not to exacerbate his sore leg. Thanksgiving break ended. practice some plays from the shot­ his star quarterback can play bruised knee when he was sacked “I’m just going to throw the ball Washington State faced a similar gun to accommodate Gesser’s lim­ against UCLA on Saturday. in the fourth quarter of a 29-26 and see how it feels. See if I can situation in 2000, when Gesser ited mobility. The decision on whether Gesser loss in triple overtime to transfer my weight,” he said. “I broke his right leg in the ninth Gesser said he has been in reha­ can play likely won’t be made until Washington on Nov. 23. don’t want to strain it by trying to game of the season against bilitation four-to-six hours a day, just before the game, Price said. Price said Gesser has been fitted hand the ball off.” Oregon. icing the injury and trying to build “It’s still 50-50 and no one’s with a special brace molded into Gesser said he feels he will be Kegel started the next two strength and mobility through going to know until Saturday at his shoe that will allow the lower able to play. games, leading WSU to a 33-27 massages and exercises. 1:30 p.m.,” Price said, referring to leg to be wrapped for some mobili­ “I think so. I told you guys I was victory over Southern California “I’ll do whatever it takes to play.” the scheduled kickoff. ty- going to play two weeks ago,” he before suffering a 51-3 loss to Gesser said. “I don’t know what I “He’s real good. I talked to him said. “I feel the same way. I’ve got Washington. can do with this type of injury."

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NBA Wagner scores 29 as Cavaliers end 15-game skid

time and said his outburst came Associated Press in the first half, Philadelphia of bounds under pressure from a 16-0 spurt that took up the first out of the frustration of losing. came back to tie the score at 60 Atkins, and Brendan Haywood half of the fourth quarter. Elden CLEVELAND Hill also returned after missing when Iverson made a 3-pointer fouled Robinson at the other end. Campbell had a jumper, a layup Rookie Dajuan Wagner scored two games with a sprained left with 6:40 left in the third. The Robinson missed the second of after an offensive rebound and a 29 points to help the Cleveland ankle. He had nine rebounds as Sixers scored 13 of the last 16 two free throws, leaving Detroit pair of free throws during the Cavaliers snap their 15-game Cleveland controlled the boards, points of the quarter to lead 75- down 84-83 with 16.5 seconds run, while Courtney Alexander losing streak with a 111-101 vic­ 56-38. 71 after three. left. hit two free throws and a 3- tory over the Chicago Bulls. After a 3-pointer by McCarty, Robinson then fouled Jordan, pointer that gave the Hornets a Rookie Carlos Boozer and Sixers 99, Celtics 93 Boston took a 54-38 advantage who made both shots to give the 77-60 lead with just under six Ricky Davis each scored 26 Allen Iverson had 27 points with 2:45 left in the first half. Wizards a three-point edge. minutes left. points for the Cavs, who won for and Derrick Coleman scored a The 76ers then scored 11 of the Atkins missed a long 3-pointer, Toronto failed to score on eight the first time since a home-open­ season-high 20 as the last 13 points to pull within and Stackhouse put the game straight possessions during the ing triumph over the NBA cham­ Philadelphia 76ers extended seven, 56-49, at the break. away with two free throws. run, missing seven shots — one pion Los Angeles Lakers on Nov. their winning streak to eight and after an offensive rebound — 5. The losing streak was four shy stayed perfect at home with vic­ Wizards 88, Pistons 83 Hornets 89, Raptors 74 and turning the ball over twice. of the franchise’s worst single- tory over the Boston Celtics. Jerry Stackhouse and Michael Baron Davis returned from a Jamaal Mashburn scored 10 season loss string, set at the end Eric Snow made a spinning 12- Jordan combined for 16 points in two-game absence to score 18 for New Orleans, as did of the 1981-82 season. foot jumper to break a 92-92 tie, the fourth quarter as the points as the New Orleans Campbell coming off the bench. Jalen Rose scored 37 points to and Coleman made a 3-pointer Washington Wizards beat the Hornets defeated the Toronto Both teams struggled in the lead the Bulls, who have lost with 1:10 left to cap a 9-0 run Detroit Pistons. Raptors. first half. eight straight and 14 of 16. and give Philadelphia a 97-92 The game marked Davis, who has a herniated Four minutes into the second Cleveland’s two rookies missed lead. Iverson made two free Stackhouse’s first regular-season disc in his back, started stow, hit­ quarter the Hornets were shoot­ all four of their shots in the throws with 28 seconds left to appearance at the Palace since ting one of his first four shots ing about 25 percent and looking fourth quarter as Chicago cut a seal the win. being traded from the Pistons to and turning the ball over once. sluggish compared to their victo­ 20-point deficit to four. Boozer Keith Van Horn had 13 points the Wizards for Richard But his ballhandling and passing ry in Chicago a night earlier. But went scoreless and Wagner had and matched a season-high with Hamilton in September. looked sharp after that, including the Raptors could only push their only one point in the period. 13 rebounds, and Snow added Stackhouse and Jordan each several spin and behind-the-back lead as high as nine. Rose sparked a 23-7 charge 13 points and eight assists for scored eight points in the final moves as he drove to the hoop. New Orleans then put together that brought the Bulls within the 76ers, who are 10-0 at home. period, and both finished with Davis also had eight rebounds, a quick 7-0 run to tie the game 103-99 with 1:38 to play. Davis The start is Philadelphia’s best 21. and his five assists could have at 31. It started with a 3-pointer drove for a layup 17 seconds since winning 22 in a row to Chucky Atkins led Detroit with been higher if several crisp pass­ from Mashburn. later for a 105-99 lead and hit begin the 1966-67 season. It is 17 and Cliff Robinson and es inside hadn’t been mishandled Davis followed with layup after two free throws with 41 seconds the longest home winning streak Richard Hamilton had 16 each. or ended up as missed shots. putting the ball behind his back left to make it 107-99. since 1999. The game was tied at 81 with Jamaal Magloire added 16 during the drive. The announced attendance of Paul Pierce had 34 points, 1:30 to play when Jordan points and P.J. Brown 15 for Davis then stole the ball and 7,295 was the lowest for a Antoine Walker had 19 points, rebounded a miss by Larry New Orleans, now 10-0 at home. dunked. Cleveland home game since Jan. nine rebounds and seven assists Hughes and was fouled by Vince Carter scored 26 for The teams fought evenly 6,1988, when 7,017 saw a victo­ and Walter McCarty scored 10 Robinson. He hit both free Toronto, but he had little help as through the rest of the period. ry over the L A. Clippers. for the Celtics. throws, and after Ben Wallace the Raptors shot 36 percent (30- After Carter caught a high pass Davis returned from a two- A driving layup by Walker gave missed at the other end, of-83) and went stone cold dur­ in the lane and converted a game suspension by coach John the Celtics a 92-88 lead with Stackhouse made one of two ing a critical stretch of the fourth reverse dunk, the Hornets Lucas for an on-court argument 3:36 left. Snow answered with a from the line to make it 84-81 quarter. Antonio Davis had 11 missed their next shot, but Davis with teammate Tyrone Hill last layup to pull the 76ers within with 54 seconds left. rebounds but shot only 1-for-15 stole the ball back quickly and Friday. two, and a leaner by Iverson Stackhouse fouled Hamilton, from the field. Alvin Williams fed Magloire for a tomahawk Before the game, Davis knotted the score at 92. who made one of two free scored 13 for Toronto. jam to give the Hornets a 41-40 addressed the issue for the first After trailing by as many as 16 throws. Jordan lost the ball out New Orleans took control with lead at halftime.

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NCAA Judge awards $506 million to 46 videotaped athletes

Associated Press Cindy Fluxgold, who repre­ light in April 1999, when the of how many athletes were Northwestern, Illinois, Illinois sents several of the athletes. Chicago Tribune reported that videotaped, but that the num­ State, Eastern Illinois, Indiana, U.S. District Court Judge hidden-camera videotapes, ber is “in the multiple hun­ Penn, Iowa State and Michigan CHICAGO Charles P. Kocoras’ decision, including footage taken during dreds of people.” State. A federal judge has ordered handed down last week, grants a 1995 wrestling tournament The lawsuit alleged invasion Kocoras' judgment was eight companies and three each of the 46 plaintiffs $1 mil­ at Northwestern University, of privacy, unlawful use of the entered against Franco people to pay $506 million to lion in compensatory damages were being marketed online plaintiffs’ images for monetary Production, Franko 46 male college athletes who and $10 million in punitive and by mail. gain, and mail and wire fraud Productions, Rodeo, Hidvidco, were secretly videotaped in damages. The remainder of No criminal charges were under the federal Racketeer Hidvidco-Atlas Video Release, locker rooms, restrooms and the $506 million award pays filed. Illinois has since enacted Influenced and Corrupt AMO Video, Atlas Video, showers. costs and attorneys’ fees. a law m aking it illegal to Organizations Act. Gamport/Earthlink, and indi­ The videotapes were sold Kocoras also ordered the secretly film anyone in locker The plaintiffs, who were viduals Daniel Franco, George through Internet sites advertis­ defendants to surrender the rooms or bathrooms. granted anonymity by the Jachem and R.D. Couture. ing “hot younger dudes.” videotapes and get out of the Fluxgold said that the 46 court, are described in the The District Court clerk’s “We look at this judgment as business of making and selling unnamed plaintiffs represent a lawsuit as 28 “John Does” and office said no attorneys had the court system sending a sig­ them. fraction of the men caught on “unknown Illinois State appeared on behalf of the nal to the sexual predators The tapes, with names such tape, many of whom have not University football players.” defendants since at least 2000. that they’re not going to get as “Straight Off the Mat” and been identified. She said she The lawsuit says they are No telephone numbers could away with this," said attorney “Voyeur Time,” first came to didn’t have an accurate count past or present athletes at immediately be found.

NCAA B a s k e t b a ll Webber s father admits receiving gifts from booster

Associated Press Michigan players, The Detroit District Court that the indict­ Now with the Sacramento of a plea bargain. News reported Wednesday. ment to be dismissed. Kings, Chris Webber told the U.S. District Judge Nancy Webber Jr., his son and sis- Morgan declined comment grand jury in August 2000 that Edmunds will meet with attor­ DETROIT ter-in-law, Charlene Johnson, Tuesday. he took gifts from Martin in neys Monday to decide when to The father of former were indicted in September for Webber Jr. testified in June high school, but couldn’t hear defense motions calling Michigan basketball star Chris conspiring to obstruct justice 2000. remember whether he took for the prosecution's indictment Webber acknowledged in testi­ and making a false statement to According to the News, a uni­ money while at Michigan, to be thrown out. mony before a federal grand a grand jury. All three have versity report said that Martin according to a partial transcript Keith Corbett, head of the jury that he took gifts from a pleaded innocent. Each charge paid for a hotel room for an of his testimony. U.S. attorney’s organized crime banned booster. is punishable by up to five years unidentified player’s father and Steven Levy, who represents strike force in Detroit, said if Mayce Webber Jr.’s admis­ in prison and a $250,000 fine. apparently was repaid in cash. Webber Jr.’s sister-in-law, the trials were scheduled dur­ sion in court documents was Webber Jr. “acknowledged Martin violated NCAA rules Johnson, said she wouldn’t ing the NBA season, Webber the first time he publicly that Martin had given some when he paid for the room. accept any plea bargain and would still be expected to show acknowledged taking anything gifts to him, and Martin put a Prosecutors said Martin gave doubted any of the three defen­ up. from Eddie Martin, who plead­ hotel bill on a charge card and the Webber family $280,000 dants would plead guilty to a The government may seek to ed guilty in May to money laun­ was paid back,” his lawyer, between 1988 and 1993, but lesser offense. delay Martin’s Feb. 20 sentenc­ dering and admitted lending Robert Morgan, said in a Webber Jr. denied the claims in Attorneys for the Webbers ing until after he testifies at a $616,000 to four former request last month in U.S. March. won’t comment on possibilities criminal trial. L a f a y e t t e S q u a r e T o w n h o m e S We have what you need in off-campus living! Lots of apartments available for 2003-04!

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NHL NFL Sharks hire Wilson Faulk may start Sunday vs. Chiefs

of the year for a game, I think whole heck of a lot better through Associated Press as new head coach we’d be very fortunate," the the rest of the season, so we’ll ST. LOUIS coach said. monitor that.” There’s a chance St. Louis Martz said rookie Lamar Quarterbacks Kurt Warner and Rams running back Marshall Gordon, despite continued fum­ Marc Bulger also were listed as Associated Press coaching job in Anaheim in 1993. In his fourth year with Faulk could make his first start in bling problems, probably would questionable, although Warner is SAN JOSE, Calif. the Mighty Ducks, Wilson four weeks Sunday at Kansas get his third straight start at tail­ expected to miss at least two Ron Wilson was hired to coached Teemu Selanne, who City. back. But he left the door open weeks with a broken hand. coach the San Jose Sharks, is now the Sharks’ leading goal Faulk played as a reserve last for Faulk, who again is listed as Bulger has made slow progress days after the team fired Darryl scorer. week after missing two games questionable. after spraining a ligament on his Sutter and his two assistants. Wilson had his greatest suc­ with a high sprain on his right “I don’t know where Marshall right index finger Nov. 18 against Wilson, fired by Washington cess in Washington, where he ankle, and he ran nine times for is for sure,” Martz said. “As the the Bears. Martz said he would last May after four mostly suc­ led the Capitals to the Stanley 29 yards. Head coach Mike Martz week goes on, if he feels real like to hold him out of practice all cessful seasons, coached the Cup finals in 1998. He won two said that Faulk was “no worse for good, then we’ll start him. But week. U.S. team in the 1998 Olympics division titles, and he led the wear.” that’ll be up to Marshall.” Martz added that Bulger’s fin­ and in two World Cups. He also Washington to 102 points in Offensive tackle Orlando Pace Martz said the injury isn’t going ger can be taped to allow him to spent four years as the first the 2000-01 season — more might miss the rest of the season to heal before the offseason. throw Sunday if needed. He’ll coach of division rival points than the Sharks have with what Martz characterized as “I think this is something he’s probably be the backup behind Anaheim. earned in any of their 12 sea­ a “significant hamstring tear.” going to have to deal with,” Martz Jamie Martin, although the Rams The Sharks moved quickly to sons. “If we have him back at the end said. “It probably won’t get a also re-signed Scott Covington. fill their vacancy with a veteran Wilson had been out of coach. Sutter, the winningest coaching since leaving coach in franchise history, was Washington, where the M ajor League B aseball fired on Sunday along with Capitals missed the playoffs by assistants Rich Preston and two points following a 36-33- Lome Molleken in a surprising 11-2 season. He apparently shakeup of a struggling team was the only candidate inter­ Sox' Thomas running out of time that aspires to be a Stanley Cup viewed by Lombardi, who contender. promised his search wouldn’t still out there exploring,” White "Ron Wilson is an experi­ take more than a few days. Associated Press his paychecks are going to have a enced NHL coach with a strong Wilson will make his debut as Sox general manager Kenny few less zeros. track record in both the regu­ the Sharks’ sixth permanent CHICAGO Williams said. “He will inform us Thomas signed a contract in lar season and the playoffs," head coach on Friday night, Frank Thomas is running out of on the seventh as to what he’s 1997 that was to pay him Sharks general manager Dean when San Jose hosts time to find a better deal. found and we’ll continue to moni­ $9,927,000 in each of the next Lombardi said in a release. Columbus. Following Saturday The two-time AL MVP has until tor it up until that date. At that four seasons, including The Sharks struggled to an 8- night’s home game against Dec. 7 to sign with another club point and time, on the seventh, I’ll $3,827,000 deferred with 7.73 12-2-2 start that put them in Nashville, the Sharks have four or return to his existing contract have more to say on the subject.” percent compounded interest. last place in the Pacific days off, which will allow with the Chicago White Sox. But odds are Thomas will find But because he didn’t make the Division, but they got a 3-2 Wilson to further implement Thomas is testing the free agent himself back in a White Sox uni­ All-Star team, didn't finish among overtime victory over Phoenix his plans. market for the first time in his form again next season. The free the top 10 in MVP voting and on Tuesday night with scout Sutter led the Sharks to five career after the White Sox agent market is tighter than in didn’t win a Silver Slugger this Cap Raeder and team executive consecutive seasons of invoked a contract clause that recent years with the luxury tax season, the White Sox invoked Doug Wilson coaching the improved point totals, but was allows them to defer most of his looming, and there’s been little what’s called the “diminished team. fired after San Jose’s slow $10 million salary. visible interest in the slugger. skills” clause, allowing them to Ron Wilson got his first head start. “Frank’s a free agent, and he’s If Thomas does stay in Chicago, cut his upfront salary.

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AP College Basketball Polls Associated Press R.C. Slocum on Monday, 6-6 regular season. That 10 years. wouldn’t go into detail matched the Aggies’ worst “I will not impede coach Mens Womens COLLEGE STATION, Texas about the plans for replac­ record in 14 seasons under Franchione in any manner Texas A&M president ing the 14-year head Slocum. if he wishes to talk to team team Robert Gates declined to coach. Franchione led Alabama A&M,” Moore said in a 1 Arizona (71) Duke(42) 1 confirm reports that school “We have a process to a 17-8 record over the statement. “However, 1 2 Texas LSU (1) 2 officials had received per­ under way in looking for a past two seasons, finishing want to stress that we want 3 Alabama Connecticut (1) 3 mission to speak with new coach,” Gates said. “I at 10-3 this season after coach Franchione to finish 4 Duke Tennessee 4 Alabama coach Dennis hope we’ll have some 21-16 victory at Hawaii on his coaching career at the 5 Pittsburgh (1) Stanford 5 Franchione about becom­ results soon. That’s all I’ll Saturday night. University of Alabama. 6 Oklahoma Purdue 6 ing the Aggies coach. say about the future.” The Crimson Tide, which “We have made what we Kansas State 7 7 Oregon Told that Alabama ath­ Gates also wasn’t specific is on NCAA probation for feel is a strong and fair Vanderbilt 8 8 Florida letic director Mai Moore about a timetable for find­ recruiting violations that contractual offer for him to 9 Maryland NOTRE OAME 9 confirmed Wednesday that ing Slocum’s replacement. occurred before stay.” 10 Indiana Texas Tech 10 A&M officials had asked for “I hope soon,” he said. Franchione took the job, Before going to Alabama, 11 Connecticut Penn Stale 11 12 North Carolina Minnesota 12 and received permission to Franchione has for sever­ isn’t eligible for a bowl Franchione was at TCU for 13 Marquette Arkansas 13 talk with Franchione, Gates al weeks been considered a game this year or next three seasons. He led the 14 Kansas Georgia 14 only replied, “That sounds possible replacement for year. Horned Frogs, 1-10 the 15 Missouri Louisiana Tech 15 reliable.” Slocum, even before the Franchione hasn’t yet year before he arrived, to 16 Xavier North Carolina 16 Gates, speaking face-to- coach was fired Monday, signed a contract extension three straight bowl games 17 Stanford Texas 17 face to reporters for the three days after a 50-20 with Alabama reported to and the share of the WAC 18 Kentucky Oklahoma 18 first time since firing coach loss to Texas that ended a be worth $15 million over title his last two years. 19 Tulsa BYU 19 20 Minnesota Mississippi State 20 21 Michigan State Arizona 21 22 Virginia Boston College 22 In B rief 23 Wisconsin South Carolina 23 24 Mississippi State George Washington 24 25 Illinois Cincinnati 25 LeClair out 10 to 12 weeks He is the team’s highest-paid play­ waived by the Vikings on May 2. Flyers star John LeClair had shoul­ er, signing a five-year, $45 million Prentice, 5-foot-ll and 221 der surgery and is expected to be out contract in 2001. pounds, set NCAA career records in 10 to 12 weeks. points, rushing touchdowns and The 33-year-old left wing left the Prentice signs with Arizona overall touchdowns in four seasons hospital in minimal pain within a few Running back Travis Prentice at Miami of Ohio. hours of the operation with his arm signed with the Arizona Cardinals on in a sling, Dr. Peter Deluca said. Wednesday after being cut by the Browns great Reynolds dies Whether LeClair immediately Houston Texans in training camp. Billy Reynolds, a kick returner on around the dial begins rehabilitation will depend on Thomas Jones broke a hand two the Cleveland Browns’ championship how he feels Thursday, Deluca said. weeks ago, leaving Arizona with just team in 1954, died at 71. Deluca, the team orthopedist, was two running backs — Marcel Shipp Reynolds died at the suburban one of two surgeons who operated at and Damien Anderson. Jones told the Bedford Medical Center. He had been C ollege F ootball Hahnemann University Hospital. Cardinals he slammed his hand recuperating from hip replacement LeClair injured his shoulder after against a counter while trying to surgery. Fresno State at Louisiana Tech colliding with Pittsburgh defenseman answer a phone at home. In 1954, Reynolds led the NFL in 9 p.m.; ESPN Marc Bergevin last week. To make room for Prentice, kickoff returns. He set up two touch­ A three-time 50-goal scorer, Arizona released safety Don Morgan. downs with punt returns in the M ens C ollege B asketball LeClair was plagued by back injuries Prentice has been out of football Browns’ victory against the Detroit Nebraska at South Florida 7 p.m., ESPN2 in recent years, twice having since the Texans cut him. He was Lions in the title game that season. surgery. He had 25 goals and 26 Cleveland’s third-round draft pick in The 5-foot-10 halfback played in assists last season and played every 2000 and led the Browns in rushing college at Pittsburgh, where he was NBA game. He has 11 goals and six assists as a rookie with 512 yards on 173 known as “The Rock.” Reynolds was Milwaukee at Atlanta 7:30 p.m., TNT this season. carries. drafted by the Browns in the second LeClair had surgery in July to clean He was traded to Minnesota last round out scar tissue and was pain-free year and appeared in 14 games, pri­ His funeral is Saturday in until his shoulder injury. marily on special teams. He was Northfield, Ohio. Thursday, December 5, 2002 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT page 19

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CHICAGO School of Architecture Careers 2003 - Chicago Thursday & Friday. March 20-21.2003 Monday. January 27. 2002 Bond Hall Gallery - Breakfast and Lecture • Joyce Center - Heritage Hall and Monogram Room - Fair and Luncheon Oak Brook Terrace Conference Center, Chicago IL • Planner Hall - Interview Center - Interviews held on the 21s' • More than 80 companies and organizations are confirmed to attend. •Transportation will be provided by The Career Center for the first 45 students • E-mail contact: [email protected] who sign up. • Application deadline has been extended for Notre Dame students: Monday. December 23.2003 bv 12:00 noon • E-mail contact: [email protected] VIRTUAL Hire Big 10 Plus - Live Event January 27-Februarv 24. 2003 Hire Big 10 Plus Consortium - Live Event • Full-Time and Internships Thursday. April 3. 2003 • Hire Big 10 Plus is a consortium of midwest universities including: University of University of Chicago Notre Dame, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Indiana • Hire Big 10 Plus is a consortium of midwest universities including: University of University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Notre Dame, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Indiana University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, • Apply online at: Available soon on careercenter.nd.edu. career fair link University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin • E-mail contact: [email protected] • Students are responsible for their own transportation • E-mail contact: [email protected] Hire Big 10 Plus - Virtual - Just-in-Time Career Event April 4-April 25. 2003 WASHINGTON • Just-in-Time hiring needs • Hire Big 10 Plus is a consortium of midwest universities including: University of Washington D.C. Metro Link Notre Dame, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Indiana Monday. March 31. 2003 University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Building, 1179 Massachusetts Ave, NW University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin • Participating Colleges: Notre Dame, Duke, Yale, Richmond, and William & Mary • Apply online at: Available soon on careercenter.nd.edu. career fair link • Careers in Media, Advertising, Publishing, Paralegal, Lobbying and Public Policy, etc. • E-mail contact: [email protected] • Apply on-line at Metro Link.erecruiting.com or link through the Go IRISH Homepage. • Application Deadline: Wednesday. February 12.2003 bv 12:00 noon • Transportation will be coordinated through the Career Center 1 7 1 • E-mail contact: [email protected] logon careercenfer.nd.edu at q page 20 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Thursday, December 5, 2002

tickets if selected. Gator Another, more unlikely, sce­ nario involves undefeated UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME continued from page 24 Miami losing to 9-3 Virginia Tech this weekend. Bowl, Washington State and The loss would move 11-1 Iowa would play in the Rose Georgia into the national WASHINGTON PROGRAM Bowl and USC and the Big 12 championship game and pos­ champ would meet in the sibly knock USC out of its Orange Bowl. automatic spot. The Irish still have a narrow Then the Sugar Bowl could chance of squeaking into a select Notre Dame. • Study in the nation’s •Applications for BCS bowl. If 7-4 UCLA beats Minutes after Notre Dame 9-2 Washington State, USC lost to USC 44-13, Irish coach capitol Fall 2003 & would win the Pac-10 title Tyrone Willingham started and the automatic Rose Bowl arguing his team’s case for a •Work in an internship Spring 2004 are now berth awarded to the confer­ BCS berth. ence champion, where they “The case is that we’ve would probably face Iowa. played 12 ballgames and • Fulfill philosophy being accepted online That frees up an at-large bid we’ve won 10 of those ball­ that would most likely be games,” he said. “We’ve been theology, and fine arts •Open to Freshmen, given to Notre Dame. a very improved and very If Miami makes the Fiesta sound football team. This one Bowl, the Orange Bowl would game can not be a true indi­ requirements Sophomores, and be able to select its at-large cator of that.” team first. But Willingham’s campaign­ • Study public affairs Juniors from all In addition to Notre Dame, ing won’t have any impact an Orange Bowl official said unless UCLA wins Saturday. • Live in an exciting city colleges the bowl is also considering 10-2 Kansas State, which promised the Orange Bowl Contact Andrew Soukup at it would buv 25.000 [email protected] John Eriksen, Director 338 O’Shaughnessy [email protected]

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M e n s S w im m ing r iip S id e Irish look to get back MEIJER on track at ND Invite tunity for the freshmen to see By LISA REIJULA what the championship format N ig h t Sports Writer is like at the college level,” The Notre Dame mens swim­ Obringer said. ming and diving team will At the Invitational, look for have plenty of chances to the relays to be close races. show its talent in the pool this Several teams from the com­ fUN! GAMES/ SHOPPINGf weekend. peting schools have similar The Irish host the Notre times, and winning the valu­ Dame Invitational starting able double relay points could Supermarket Sweep Scavenger Hunts today at Rolfs Aquatic Center. give a school the edge in win­ Five other teams will be in ning the Invitational. Eating Contests Oreo Stacking attendance at the three-day For the Irish, the 400-meter event — Virginia, Louisville, medley and 400-meter Much, Much Morel W y o m in g freestyle North Dakota relay teams and Saint “Having a good team have been Louis. atmosphere while we’re strong all | FRIDAY. DECEMBER 6TH 8 Junior Matt season long. 0 b r i n g e r out there has a bigger The team 9:30PM - l:OOAM cited Big East effect than other people has been tw.’HHHiWWWW'.i'XWWIVWtWWVW^'XVWSVWV1 rival West think. ’’ w orking on Virginia as a improving tough com ­ its relay Bus Pickups: LeAtons Circle @ 9:15pm petitor. Tim Randolph tim es in Freshman freshman practice in Libiar) Circle @ 9:30pm T i m preparation R a n d o lp h for the meet. ND SMC HCC Students ONLY! said Wyoming and North Several of the participating Dakota also have swimmers teams have faced one another You MUST ride the bus with Flipside to participate in the events with fast times. or common opponents already Notre Dame will look to this season. Louisville lost to Questions? Call Jeff 4-2174 dominate the field after a West Virginia and TCU — a Visit our website at www.nd.edu/~flipside close loss to a talented Purdue team the Irish defeated Nov. team. The three-day meet for­ 16. Wyoming beat North or on AIM-our screen name is FlipsideEvents mat is similar to the schedule Dakota in a dual meet earlier. of the Big East Championships The three-day format will be in February. a test of the swimmers’ “We feel really prepared for endurance and focus. Team this meet," Obringer said. “It unity and support is crucial in will be a good marker of keeping the athletes motivated where we are with our season all weekend. right now." “Having a good team atmos­ The Irish will concentrate on phere while we're out there qualifying swimmers for the has a bigger effect than other #r * / ( V - C as # Big East Championships, espe­ people think,” Randolph said. cially the freshmen. “Just staying motivated and “This will be the first oppor- cheering for each other is really huge.” The Notre Dame Invitational Notre DAME HOCKEY will be a great opportunity for Columbia the Irish (4-3) to make a state­ ment in the pool and prepare VS. BOWLING GREEN. themselves for important upcoming meets. The Invitational will take SATURDAY - 7 PM place all day today, Friday NOTRE DAME 5 minutesj ______and Saturday. FEDERAL CREDIT UNION from O UTPO ST *Come Rock the Rink!! Campus Cold Weather Expert* Contact Lisa Reijula at [email protected] *GREEN cow bells to the first 500 fans Coll 259-1000 for more details SUNDAY - 5 PM Hi 2 / 5 ♦MINI ZAMBONIS to the first 1,000 fans P lO PM s

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things [that didn’t go well] Ratay hit six field goals and Crusade Irish forward one trey on Jackie the way to a continued from page 24 Batteast said. “There were a number of team-high 21 “A lack of things [that didn’t go points. and they play defense like USC intensity at “I knew and we thought that would be the beginning well]. A lack of intensity th a t is was an advantage for us to have of the game at the beginning of the getting closer had a game like that, so we and we didn’t game and we didn’t come and closer thought we’d be a little more come out and and I knew I ready,” McGraw said. “But we match the way out and match the way had to actually looked really unpre­ they played.” they played. ’’ score,” Ratay pared.” It was senior said. The Irish saw domination Alicia Ratay, The Irish Jackie Batteast only once in the game. In the coupled with will have two opening minutes of the second Severe, who Irish forward days off half, after allowing the led the Irish before trav­ Crusaders to score on two on the court. eling to Jeanette Gray free-throws, Although Batteast and Katy Arizona State to face the Sun Notre Dame scored 12 unan­ Flecky each added 13 points, Devils on Saturday. swered points in three min­ Ratay took control of the ball utes, taking a 42-30 lead with to keep the score close and ADAM MIGLORE/The O bserver 15 minutes left to play. Severe took control of her Contact Katie McVoy at Notre Dame guard Alicia Ratay dribbles up the court against “We got out and were able team to keep them focused. [email protected] Valparaiso Wednesday night. The Irish won 74-68. to transition and got some easy baskets,” McGraw said. “That’s what we had not been getting and did not get outside of that little stretch.” After that, it was a struggle for Notre Dame to keep the LOFT SHOW CONCERT lead. With just under five min­ utes remaining, Le’Tania Severe, who had the best Notre Dame defensive perfor­ mance along with 15 points, scored Notre Dame’s last field goal. It was all foul shooting for the rest of the game. In fact, in the second half of play, Friday Dec Notre Dame scored 23 points on foul shots; the Irish only I LaFoitune Ballroom scored 20 points from the floor. Free “There were a number of 9 pm illiams FLEECE Selection. 5 minutes fr°m O U TPO ST Campus ■ E H 'Z Z O H ______Cold Weather Experts singersongwriterstoryteller Call 259-1000 for more details

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♦ No. 9 Irish have win. “We played fearlessly,” said trouble with Crusaders guard Kathy Valparaiso, but Knoester, who totaled 14 points in a strong second half escape with 74- of play. 6 8 victory Under the leadership of junior Suzie Hammel, who By KATIE McVOY scored 17 points, the Associate Sports Editor Crusaders played above and beyond the expectations of VALPARAISO, Ind. their opponent. In the first The war wasn’t holy. half, Valparaiso rebounded Nonetheless, the crusade from a nine-point deficit to was on. bring the game within three as Valparaiso was on a quest to the teams headed into the end its 15-game losing streak locker room. to Notre Dame, and the “I thought Hammel was out­ Crusaders almost reached the standing,” McGraw said. “She promised land. was impossible for us to guard With just under two minutes ... We just didn’t have an left, the answer for Crusaders her. She did were trailing “This has been a tough pretty much the ninth- place to play. ... We’re whatever ranked Irish thinking about not she wanted by only seven. to.” But the coming here anymore. ” The Irish, Irish won the on the other final battle, Muffet McGraw hand, and Notre looked any­ Dame m a n ­ Irish coach thing but aged the 74- ready to 68 victory. play and But right now, they don’t McGraw had to keep her team want to have to fight again. focused on the task at hand. In “This has been a tough place the first half, Notre Dame only for us to play,” Irish coach out-rebounded its much small­ Muffet McGraw said. "... er opponent by two. The Irish We’re thinking about not com­ looked sluggish and, despite ing here anymore.” facing a similar defense in Valparaiso came out ready USC, the offense looked like it to play. The Crusaders looked was completely unfamiliar intense, they looked prepared, with its opponent. ADAM MIGLORE/The O bserver and, most importantly, they “We watched them on film Irish coach Muffet McGraw covers her eyes during Notre Dame’s game against Valparaiso looked like they wanted to see CRUSADE/page 21 Wednesday night. The Irish were able to squeak out a victory against the Crusaders, 74-68.

A nalysis Gator Bowl will choose Irish if BCS overlooks them

Dame’s BCS hopes is that one reality and the Irish aren’t By ANDREW SOUKUP of the at-large berths may selected for a BCS berth, a Sports Writer have already disappeared. Gator Bowl representative Notre Dame’s bowl picture The Big Ten announced said the Gator Bowl would is slowly coming into focus, Tuesday 11-1 Iowa was guar­ choose Notre Dame. and the Irish may not like the anteed a berth in one of the Moreover, because a non- image they see. BCS bowls, most likely the BCS Notre Dame team falls The only way the 10-2 Irish Rose Bowl. into the Big East bowl can lock up a spot in a BCS Assuming Miami and arrangements, the Irish could bowl is by earning one of the Washington State win not reject a Gator Bowl invita­ two at-large spots and finish­ Saturday, each clinching their tion in favor of another bowl. ing in the top 12 of the final respective conference champi­ That means the Irish would BCS rankings released onships, USC would finish face 10-3 North Carolina State Sunday. If Notre Dame doesn’t fourth in the BCS standings on Jan. 1 in Jacksonville, Fla. qualify for a BCS bowl, the and automatically clinch the Under that situation, Miami team would probably be head­ final at-large spot. According and Ohio State would meet in ing for the Gator Bowl, to the BCS rules, a team that the Fiesta Bowl for the nation­ according to a Gator Bowl finishes fourth in the final al ch am p io n sh ip , the SEC official. rankings but doesn’t win its champ would play ACC champ NELLIE WILLIAM S/The O bserver The Irish officially learn conference championship is Florida State in the Sugar Irish running back Marcus Wilson rushes against USC. Without their bowl fate Sunday. guaranteed a BCS berth. help this weekend, the Irish will likely head to the Gator Bowl. The problem for Notre If that scenario becomes a see GATOR/page 20

( O u , BASEBALL MENS SWIMMING Notre Dame Invitational Irish second baseman Steve Sollmann was selected Big East Preseason Player c c 5 of the Year, and the Irish were selected to win the conference. Today-Saturday The swimming team will face off against competitive squads from across the o : country in the Notre Dame Invitational today, Friday and Saturday. page 14 page 21

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