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-------------------------- ---------- -------- Friday, October 4, 2002 Fisher THE Hall: 50 years page 11 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXVII NO. 28 HTTP:/ /OBSERVER.N D.EDU Former Ireland president Robinson visits SMC Robinson spoke about her not balanced, and having said. known for taking a stance on By SARAH NESTOR experiences as a former pres­ traveled the world for the In 1997 Robinson resigned issues, even in the face of Saint Mary's News Editor ident and her role in the past five years, I can tell you from her presidency to take opposition. Most recently U.N., tackling current issues that we all do not have digni­ her position as the U.N. High Robinson's opinion on Iraq Mary Robinson, former such as ty and worth." Commissioner for Human has come under scrutiny. president of Ireland and for­ the situa­ In 1990, Robinson was Rights, which she held until "I found it necessary to mer U.N. High Commissioner tion in inaugurated as the seventh September 2002. draw attention to the U.S. for Human Rights, no longer Israel and president of Ireland and "A great deal of what is and their treatment of.the holds a public position but Iraq. became known as the done at the International prisoners of Guantanamo Bay still plans to be an advocate "Lead­ "President of the people" level is to make sure coun­ and the immigrants who were for human rights, she said ership in bringing world issues to the tries are upholding their being held without being Thursday at Saint Mary's. the mod­ attention of the Irish and commitments," Robinson given lawyers for representa­ Robinson's speech, ern world becoming a world leader. said. "It is not about words tion," Robinson said. "Leadership in an should be "I thought of it as an oppor­ and rhetoric but about the "President Bush says he is Robinson Intercultural World," was thought of tunity to deepen the Irish law, which the countries fighting for the freedom of arranged by the Center for as in the serise of culture and to reach sign." the world but to do that you Women's Intercultural intercultural world," out to the communities of As the Commissioner for Leadership. Robinson said. "The world is Northern Ireland," Robinson Human Rights Robinson was see ROBINSON/page 4 Scientists unlock m_osquito gene Coach • Results affect malaria research wants sea Cam_ pus By ANDREW THAGARD of green News Writer By ANDREW SOUKUP A sequence of 260 million let­ News Writer celebrates ters, consisting of only A, T, C and G specifically arranged - that's what Notre Dame's Center When Notre Dame beat for Tropical Disease Research Michigan three weeks ago, coed and Training Director Frank Irish head coach Tyrone Collins and his fellow Willingham donned a green researchers have to show for shirt to match the over two years of work. Kelly green Week This sequence, however, isn't a "Return to random assortment of letters. It G I o r y " represents the genome of By JASON McFARLEY. shirts. · Anopheles gambiae, the primary Now, he's News Writer mosquito species responsible for calling for transmitting the malaria parasite Irish fans Events ranging from a screening to humans. It is the second insect to follow of "The Godfather" to a campus genome to be sequenced ever. kickball tournament will be part of his lead Willingham Collins and a team of and turn a weeklong student government­ researchers, including scientists JOYCE NAlTCHA YAN/Agence France Presse N o t r e organized celebration of the 30th at Celera Genomics presented Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy anniversary of co-education at & Infectious Diseases, announces the mapping of the malaria Dame Stadium into a "Sea of their findings earlier this week at Green" for Saturday's game Notre Dame. parasite, which kills roughly one million people each year. a Washington D.C. press confer­ against Stanford. Events begin Sunday with a ence sponsored by the National charity run to benefit breast can­ "Our fans should buy into Institute of Allergy and Infectious that's going to take years." been a massive collaborative making our stadiums some­ cer and end Oct. 13 with a Mass at Diseases (NIAID), the organiza­ the Basilica of the Sacred Heart The machines, however, do effort between scientists and lab­ thing special," he said tion that provided the bulk of the Wednesday. "When we have and an ice cream social in the din­ "shotgun" sequencing, printing oratories around the world and funding for this endeavor, and in 80,000 of them ... unifying ing halls. out sequences of DNA segments when the genome is presented in a series of articles featured in the around our colors and buy­ "We really want to recognize in the .order that they're database format it will be avail­ journal "Science." ing into the spirit and the this important anniversary, and processed. It ·was up to able to anyone interested in doing Getting started enthusiasm and participating we want students to talk about it researchers like Maureen additional research. 1 Sequencing the mosquito Hillenmeyer, a 2002 Notre Dame in the game, then you create I and participate in the events," said Assessing the implications ; genome involved a combination that special environment and Student Body President Libby graduate and assistant to Collins The mapping of the mosquito's of preliminary research, laborato­ that's w.hat we want this Bishop. at the Center, to ,put the genome, according to Besansky, ry work, computerized sequenc­ place to be, to be that special Organizers wanted the week to sequences together using bioin­ completes the genome sequenc­ ing machines and gene place­ formatics, a computational tech­ ing of organisms involved in the environment." be a balance of fun and serious To help Willingham's vision events, said Katy Hall, chairman ment. nique. malaria cycle. The disease, According to Collins, turn into a reality, Irish offi­ of the gender division of Bishop's "Our lab was involved in prominent in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers raised a laboratory assembling 50 to 100 scaffolds in is caused by the parasite cials printed 70,000 green office. population of genetically similar placards - similar to the Chandra .Johnson, assistant to the right order," she said. Plasmodium falciparum which insects, ground them up, extract­ flags printed to commemo­ University President Father In fact, the results presented by first resides in mosquito and then ed and amplifie-d the DNA and rate Sept. 11 last year - and Edward Malloy, will give a lecture Collins and other researchers are human hosts. used machines housed in Celera plan to distribute them on gender relations Monday. On just a rough draft of the mosqui­ Scientists recently sequenced to do the actual sequencing using Saturday at the Stadium Wednesday, Bishop will moderate to's genome. Scientists have to the human genome and human derived algorithms. gates. School officials are a panel Wednesday that includes analyze and present the informa­ researchers presented the 23 mil­ "I would say it [the sequencing also calling on fans to wear students, faculty and administra­ tion in a computerized database lion base pair sequence of the process) is really tedious," said complete with interpretative malaria parasite at a press con­ green clothes to the game. tors who were on campus in 1972, Nora Besansky, Associate The idea to create a single when Notre Dame first admitted information before it can be truly ference this week. Professor of Biology and fellow unified color inside Notre women as undergraduates. used by the scientific community. "This is a big milestone," researcher at the Center. "It's "[The genome) has got gaps Besansky said. "We've sequenced Dame Stadium started The week also includes a kick­ what you do with it [the genome] bouncing through adminis­ ball competition between quads and interpretations of what are the genome. All of these bits of afterward that's fascinating. Just trators' minds last year. on Tuesday and a Thursday show­ supposed to be genes based on data were integrated to give a determining the order of four After The Shirt committee ing on North Quad of "The software, not on biological experi­ product that is biologically real. It nucleotides isn't very interesting; selected a Kelly green design Godfather," the 1972 Best Picture mentation," Collins said. 'There's will enable us to locate genes of in fact it's mind-bogglingly bor­ and the Irish jumped out to a Oscar winner. going to be a continuing effort ... interest that affect specific biolog­ ing. It's deciphering the code and quick start, Willingham felt it "We were looking to do things of 'finishing' and some additional ical phenomena." figuring out what it means that's experiments to validate the data." was a good time to make a going to be interesting - and From the start, the project has see COED/page 6 see MALARIA/ page 9 see GREEN/ page 6 r~ ----c------- 1 page 2 The Observer+ WHAT'S UP Friday, October 4, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN WHAT'S INSIDE CAMPUS WORLD& BUSINESS Give NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE SPORTS education Anthropologist 5 killed In 16- Martha ND shows Learn about Womens explains hour period in Stewart hypocrisy in the Four soccer needs majors respect NGO's role in Washington, resigns its recognition Horsemen win When people hear education major, Bangladesh D.C. of clubs they instantly think it is a blow off easy major. However, secondary and W omens soccer middle school education majors do Progressive stu­ Take a look back not receive the credit they deserve.

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