Is Pierce Brosnan enough? Texas A&M mourns Bonfire victims See what Scene has to say about the 1 9 th Family, faculty members and friends gather to Monday installm ent in the James Bond series, “The remember the 1 2 students killed when a 4 0 -fo o t W orld Is Not Enough. " bonfire collapsed Thursday. NOVEMBER 22, Scene ♦ page 11 News ♦ page 3 1999 O BSERVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 57 HTTIV/O BSE RVER.ND.EDU Mo ld in ’ B ack Native American art exhibit opens at Snite ♦ Student exhibit Dinardo, a stinior art history major taking the class. For gives practical example, one tribe donated a gallery experience pipe to the museum but request­ ed the object not be placed on By ERIN LaRUFFA display because of its sacred News W riter n ature. “This [exhibit] was all done with the help of the professional An exhibition of Native museum staff,” said Mack, who American art opened at the added that typically teams of Snite Museum on Sunday. people, never an individual, Notre Dame students in a work to create an exhibition. Native American art history The current exhibit, which will course created the exhibit. be on display until Dec. 12 is an Joanne Mack, an anthropology extension of the museum’s per­ professor and museum curator, manent collection of Native teaches the class. American art. “Students dealt in different The students’ exhibit includes ways with Native American art," Alaskan Eskimo carvings, Mack said. Lakota Soiux bead work, and The students each picked a southwestern pottery. Many specific area to study. After the objects in the collection were students had completed not just pieces of art but were researching their topics, they actually used daily. were able to select pieces from Senior anthropology major the museum’s storage to display. Courtney Banks even went out­ Students also wrote the labels side the museum to find the explaining and describing each pieces for her display. Two piece. Navajo wool rugs accompanying “It’s like a paper without as her project are currently on loan much writing as you would nor­ to the Snite. mally have for a paper,” Mack Despite the great deal of time said. and research that went into the The class had to consider a project. Banks said she enjoyed wide variety of factors when working on it. KEVIN DALUM/The Observer creating their displays. “If I work in an art museum, I Senior saxophone player Jim Kwiatt (right) helps hold leprechaun Mike Brown to avert a “There were certain restric­ have experience in the basics,” fight with the Boston College eagle during Saturday's 31-29 loss to Boston College. tions on what you could and said Banks. couldn’t display,” said Laura P enn S tate U n iv e r s ity Penn State bus crash kills 2, sends 106 to hospital a fourth hit a guard rail. A dent killed, whose name was Associated Press pickup truck and two cars also not released, was in the first became tangled in the wreck­ row of seats on the bus behind age. Burge’s, Spanier said. W HITE HAVEN, Pa. “Everybody A t le a s t Four charter buses loaded wanted to see five people, with Penn State University 7 saw a girl holding her R o c k d e l lo r i n c l u d i n g students crashed on a foggy Center before teeth in her hand. It was another bus i n t e r s t a t e Christmas. We driver who early just unbelievable. ” Bus Crash were really u n d e r w e n t Sunday, looking for­ surgery, k illin g a s tu ­ ♦ Driver, stu­ ward to get­ Jessica Miller r e m a i n e d d e n t a n d a dent killed ting away,” Penn State freshman hospitalized bus driver ♦ 106 injured said Jessica in serious and injuring Miller, a fresh­ c o n d i t i o n at least 106 ♦ Four buses, m a n fro m Sunday, people, three cars York, Pa. She said many of the Spanier said. Police didn’t authorities students on her bus, the sec­ know the conditions Sunday of said. involved ond to crash, had been asleep. the drivers and passengers in T h e I'o u r “The fog was awful — we the cars. buses were among six carry­ got off the bus and we couldn’t Most of the other injuries ing 280 students home from a even see each other right were minor, Spanier said. shopping trip to New York away. We didn’t realize the Students who weren’t City. University President extent of it until we got off the injured gathered at the nearby Graham Spanicr said the bus,” she said. “I saw a girl Church of Saint Patrick after buses drove into a “very thick holding her teeth in her hand. the crash until more buses wall of fog” on Interstate 80 It was just unbelievable.” arrived to take them back to just after midnight. DARYL LANG/The Daily Collegian The driver of her bus, State College. The trip had In the ensuing chain-reac- Charter buses involved in Sunday’s fatal accident line the Robert Clifford Burge, 50, of tion wreck, three buses shoulder of 1-80. Altoona, was killed. The stu­ smashed into one another and see CRASH/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Monday, November 22, 1999 I n sid e C o lu m n T h is W eek on C a m p u s Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Open your ♦ Competition: College ♦ Discussion: “ I Don’t ♦ Film: International Film ♦ Dinner: Thanksgiving Bowl, Notre Dame Room, Have an Eating Disorder ... Festival, “Virgin Spring,” Buffet, North Dining Hall, minds, people LaFortune, 7 p.m. yet!” Room 300, Montgomery Theatre, ♦ Performance:“Dialectics Counseling Center, 4 p.m. 8 p.m. for Piano,” Ethan Haimo ♦ Session: International I love this school, but I can’t stand some of the and Babette Reid, Faculty Summer Service Learning holier-than-thou little snobs that go here. Patrick Makeover, in his letter to the editor last Lounge, Hesburgh Library, Program, Center for Social Wednesday, “Cowboy Mouth is washed up,” offi­ 7:30 p.m. Concerns, 7 p.m. cially announced that he is just way too cool for this campus. He decided that he is so cool, in fact, Sam Derheimer that he can trash the O u tsid e the D o m e Compiled from U-Wire reports one with musical tastes other than his. Well, sorry, buddy. This time you were wrong. Alcohol, morphine, codeine kills Illinois student This time your elitist attitude failed you. This CHAMPAIGN, 111. “Aspiration is actually a unclear whether Novella was driving time your fear of accepting anything other than Coroners announced Thursday the car. function your body goes what pop society happens to be embracing at the morning that alcohol, codeine and Five people helped carry Novella up moment caused you to miss an unbelievable con­ morphine caused the death of Javier through when you’re three flights of stairs to his apartment, cert. Cowboy Mouth rocked. The band’s energy Novella, a former University student dying slowly ." where he was put in bed on his stom­ was incredible, and their music had the entire who died in September. ach. Morgan said Novella returned to audience moving. 1 guarantee not a single person Although his death looked similar to his apartment by 1:45 a.m. left that concert regretting either the many valu­ an alcohol overdose, Novella’s blood Roger Swaney Novella’s roommates came home able hours of television they missed or the killer alcohol content at the time of his Champaign County coroner during the early morning hours. $10 they had to part with to see a live rock show. death was 0.107. That level is consid­ They heard heavy breathing from But in Patrick’s defense, he had never heard of ered legally intoxicated for driving in Morgan explained what police believe Novella’s room and checked on him. Illinois, but is generally not consid­ Novella was aspirating — inhaling Cowboy Mouth before; obviously, this implies happened in the hours before Novella ered lethal by itself. was pronounced dead shortly after fluid into his lungs. His roommates that they couldn’t possibly be any good. Cowboy The opiates in his system were at a noon on Sept. 19. hung his head over the side of the Mouth doesn’t even have a track on the latest therapeutic level, which means they Novella worked until around 9 or bed because they did not want him to Abercrombie & Fitch promotional CD. Damn, might have been from prescription 9:30 p.m. After work, Novella drank choke. they must suck. U-93 doesn’t play them every medication. A police investigation did two or three Long Island iced teas, “Aspiration is actually a function hour on the hour; let’s trash ’em. And unlike our not find any prescriptions for codeine Morgan said. He added that Novella your body goes through when you’re friend Patrick, Cowboy Mouth has refused to sell made out to Novella. Investigators left the restaurant intoxicated around dying slowly,” said Champaign out. They must not have any talent at all. assume the morphine appeared in midnight. County Coroner Roger Swaney. “He Honestly, people like Patrick confuse me. I Novella’s system because codeine Novella and a co-worker then drove was actually dying at that point.” don’t know whether I want to laugh at them or breaks down into morphine over time.