The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 4 0 : ISSUE 13_____________________________________ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 2005 __________________________________ NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Local leaders welcome Jenkins ND airs for us to meet people in the By MADDIE HANNA community in a relaxed setting." ad during Associate News Editor Reception attendees munched and mingled informally with University President Father Jenkins and staff members in John Jenkins will be given an the name of community rela­ Pitt game elaborate inauguration steeped tions. And whim Jenkins made a in Notre Dame tradition in brief speech, one woman By KAITLYNN RIELY exactly two weeks. remarked that he stood next to a So upon first glance, the infor­ sign reading “SCABS.” News Writer mal Wednesday reception for Despite the laid-back atmos­ him and 70 prominent commu­ phere, there was a clear theme Numerous times during the nity members at South Bend’s - maintaining and building upon Pittsburgh-Notre Dame football HealthWorks Kids’ Museum - the existing relationship game Saturday, students gath­ featuring giant plastic intestines, between Notre Dame and its ered on North Quad erupted dangling skeletons and a trans­ surroundings. into cheers as Notre Dame parent box Ulled with cigarette “What I’ve seen in the last sev­ opened the season with a win. butts - might have seemed eral years is Notre Dame One of those cheers, however, strange. become a larger part of the was neither for the strategy of CLAIRE KELLEYZThe O bserver “Someone described this as a community,” Mishawaka mayor Charlie Weis or the talent of the University President Father John Jenkins mingles with community neighborhood block party,” Notre Dame players. members at the HealthWorks Kids’ Museum Wednesday. Jenkins said. “It’s just a chance see JENKINS/page 4 Students also cheered in reaction to a new television advertisement promoting a Notre Dame education. In the commercial, a girl is seen entering a church multiple CJ's Pub Local coffee shop honors Weis times to light a candle. By the end of the commercial, it appears that her prayers have By PETER DEVINE been answered, and she opens set to News Writer her mailbox to find the much sought after “big envelope” After the Irish victory last from the admissions office at weekend, head football Notre Dame. Dropping the rest coach Charlie Weis is more of her mail, she looks to the reopen popular than eVer. heavens as the university’s Nowhere is this more evi­ name and the words “A Higher dent than at the Chocolate Education” appear. By MARY KATE MALONE Cafe, where they are now Many students reported that News Writer serving a new mocha in the spot brought back memo­ honor of the Irish’s new ries of their own quest for admittance to Notre Dame and CJ’s Puh, a 21 - year-old coach, named the “Winning the rush of emotions that came restaurant and bar that Weis Mocha.” boasts a thick collection of A popular hangout and with receiving their acceptance letter after a long wait. Irish menjorabilia, will eatery for students, South Freshman Killen Lewis, who reopen to the public next Bend citizens and visiting watched the game on the North week after a seven, month fans, the Chocolate Cafe Quad, said “I felt chills,” after hiatus. invented this concoction The famous Irish landmark “just about a month ago,” seeing the ad. Notre Dame’s Office of News on Michigan Street has been said cale manager, Jessie and Information was involved closed since Jan. 19, 2004 Vance, to create Notre when a six-story building Dame football atmosphere in creating Notre Dame’s ad, or next door fell on top of it dur­ in South Bend. what they call an “institutional spot.” Matt Storin, the associate ing a demolition process gone “During football season, we’ll have different promo­ vice president for News and terribly wrong. KELLY HIGGINSZThe O bserver “It happened at 3:15 in the tions, especially if Notre Chocolate Cafe advertises its newest beverage, The Winning afternoon,” said Ricky Joe see COFFEE/page 4 Weis Mocha. The drink was invented during the preseason. see AD/page 6 Me dick, who co-own s the establishment with his sisters Judy and Cindy. “There were four of us inside. I had just walked in the back door and the whole back of the build­ Meal plan includes more flex points ing just collapsed. If I had been five seconds late walk­ ing in, my sister would be By KATHY LEE telling the story.” News Writer On Sept. 13, the pub will re­ open its doors in time for Students with the “Flex Notre Dame’s first home foot­ 14” meal plan were in for a ball game. The food will be pleasant surprise this fall the same, but a giant horse­ w hen they checked th e ir shoe bar and 92-inch televi­ balance at Notre Dame Food sion will give the place a new Services thanks to the allot­ look, Medick said. Three ment of 280 flex points plasma TV’s will also be rather than the 260 given in added. years past. Medick said customers will Flex Points, dollars set find the restaurant “opened aside in students’ accounts up.” Instead of two separate to be spent only at food ven­ rooms there is now one large ues on campus, are often one with the horseshoe bar in preferred by students who the middle. would rather eat at other A quarter of a million dol­ food establishments than lars worth of damage forced North or South Dining Halls the pub to close in order to for meals. repair the areas that were "Flex points are a lot more convenient than using cash, KIRSTEN HOELMERZThe Observer Freshman Joanna Emilian, right, pays with flex points at Reckers. Students with the Flex 14 see CJ’s/page 6 see FLEX/page 4 meal plan receive an additional 20 flex points each semester for the 2005-06 school year. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, September 8, 2005 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W h a t d id y o u d o d u r in g f o o t b a l l c o m m e r c ia l b r e a k s? Happily * disoriented No, I don’t know your name. No, I don’t know where I am. No, I don’t know what time it is. No, I don’t even speak » - « English all that well. Yes, I’m a fresh­ Tim Cummings Andrew Hoyt Beth Giudicessi Robert Scully John Park Tom Stiles man. freshman ‘0 5 alum junior freshman senior sophomore No one needs to help me in becom- Joe Piarulli Keenan off-campus Cavanaugh Alumni Zahm Carroll ing “disoriented.” ________________ I’m already disori­ “Refuel for the “Fondue. ’ “Fondon T.' “I went around “Fire it in p a l!’ “I made fun of ented. I’m the mas- wire editor ter of being disori­ excitem ent. ” and wrote all the stupid ented. In fact, I’m victory commercials. ’’ just striking random keys on my comput­ vandalism on er right now. everyon e’s You know, on a long enough timeline, any chimpanzee with a laptop could type m essage this article. I know, because I’m plagia­ board." rizing off that chimpanzee at this very moment. Listen: when you’re a freshman, you’re supposed to be ignorant and at least marginally useless. So embrace it. As the wise Billy Madison once said, “You gotta cherish it.” When the juniors down the hall want In B rief me to be more ignorant and even less useful, I graciously accept. Students who participated in Why? Well, ignorance is bliss — I’m Mexico TIES, a volunteer pro­ having an awesome time and I barely gram with Universidad de know what’s going on, considering that Guadalajara students, will give this place and these people are all presentations today in the entirely new to me. The best thing about Hesburgh Center in C-103 at 3 being a freshman from New Jersey is p.m. that I’m doing pretty much whatever I want. James Darsey, a professor of No one has a clue who I am. I can yell communication at Georgia at people, because no one will recognize State University, will give a lec­ me; I can ask ridiculous questions, ture titled “Cosmopolitansim because people will just assume I don’t and the Location of Moral know better; and I can write absurd Argument in a Post-Prophetic columns for The Observer, because no World” today at 4 p.m. in the one here has made the connection Hesburgh Center Auditorium. between my name and what I look like." It really has been a whirlwind meeting The film “Metropolis,” about so many new people and learning where a de-humanized proletariat everything on campus is located. I’m try­ laboring in a busy city, will be ing to enjoy it now before I eventually shone as part of the Physics realize that these are the people and and Film Series today at 7 p.m. places I’ll be seeing every day for four in the Browning Cinema years, and I’m eventually going to have Theatre in the DeBartolo to learn real names and stop calling Performing Arts Center. everyone ‘dude’ — especially the priests. People aren’t in college because they FRANCESCA SETA/The Observer New Yorker columnist Ken know exactly what to do with their lives. Students engross themselves in their reading assignments and coursework Auletta will give a lecture titled They’re in college because they’re trying Wednesday in the Coleman-Morse Center.