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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. “Who do journalists work to figure that out. for?” today at 7:30 p.m. in C- Sometime between throwing water 100 of the Hesburgh Center. balloons, yelling at the television during The talk is sponsored by the the football game, playing ‘apple fork’ in O ffbeat Gallvin Program in Journalism, the dining hall and trying to dodge the Ethics and Democracy. sprinklers, I realized that I was having Police officials find bus tional Indian medicine men. arrive and was told that ftm with people even if I forgot their loaded with animals The wildlife was discov­ they had been dropped off HAND, Notre Dam e’s improv names six seconds after they told me. MEXICO CITY — The bus ered when officers heard at the wrong address. comedy group, will put on a Sometimes you know the most about from Catemaco turned out odd sounds coming from But this week, police told show today at 10 p.m. at someone when you don’t know anything to be a wild ride indeed: the luggage compartment the man that his tickets Legends. Admission is free. about them. turtles and lizards, snakes of an ADO bus at a check­ were definitely at the This blank slate situation only comes and tarantulas, parrots and point in Chaleo on the east­ wrong address — they were Patrick Allit of Emory along once in a great while, so it’s not even an eagle rode along ern outskirts of Mexico City. at the home of Ronnie J. University will give a lecture sensible to act timid. I go out of my way with the apparently unwit­ Allard, 38, the delivery titled “Catholics and the to talk to lots of people, and I hope peo­ ting passengers. Delivery man steals prized man. Intellectual Life in Late 20th ple here aren’t afraid to come talk to me. Mexico’s federal attorney Notre Dame tickets Elkhart County Patrolman Century America” Friday at 4 Just because I’m in the dog book’ does­ general’s office said ELKHART, Ind. — A m an Jason Ray said Allard, who p.m. in the Eck Visitors Center. n’t mean I bite. Wednesday that federal whose prized University of faces a felony charge of It is sponsored by the Cushwa That joke was exceptionally lame, but police had seized more than Notre Dame season football possession of stolen proper­ Center for the Study of I’m serious — people keep telling the 130 wild animals they dis­ tickets failed to arrive ty, said he asked his girl­ American Catholicism. freshman class that we’ll settle in, that covered in the luggage found out from police friend to steal the tickets we’ll fit in and that we’ll find a place compartment of a bus where they ended up — at after he delivered them to To submit information to be somewhere. headed to Mexico City from the delivery man’s house. the man’s front porch. included in this section of The Don’t listen to any of that junk. It isn’t Catemaco, a region of east­ The Elkhart man called Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ fun to settle in or fit in, because if you ern famed for its diverse the delivery service Aug. 16 Information compiled mation about an event to don’t limit yourself to certain places and wildlife as well as for tradi­ after his tickets failed to from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu. people, then everyone can be your friend, and everywhere can be your home. TODAY TONIGHT FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY Contact Joe Piarulli at jpiarull@nd. edu. UJ The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and !ti not necessarily those of The Observer. 5 —l C o rr ec tio n s 5 O HIGH HIGH 82 HIGH 85 HIGH 89 HIGH The Observer regards itself as a professional publica­ tion and strives for the highest standards of journal­ LOW 63 LOW LOW 58 LOW 63 LOW 65 LOW 64 ism at all times. We do, however, recognize that we will make mistakes. 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S tudent S enate G raduate S tudent U nion Ticket distribution addressed Health care, parking

“so we can be better good thing.” By MADDIE HANNA informed.” Student government makes a discussed by members Associate News Editor Senators approved a second presentation on a topic of its letter regarding “Majors choice to the Board of Trustees Determined to avoid a repeat Night,” an idea proposed by the three times a year. insurance coverage and better of last spring’s long, heated and Academic Affairs committee. Senior Class Council officers By MAGGIE HYDE family medical care. We are also ultimately inconclusive basket­ “The committee hopes to cre­ took the podium at the begin­ News Writer revising and hoping to receive ball ticketing debate, Student ate an event that will be similar ning of the meeting to promote official approval for a medical Senate quickly decided to send to 'Activities Night,’ where stu­ the Walk for the Cure, a Sept. Bagpipe music came drifting leave policy.” a letter to director of ticket dents will have the ability to 18 benefit walk for people with through the window in the middle This initiative will also include a operations Josh Berio at come and learn about all pro­ diabetes. of the Graduate Student Union’s survey of married graduate stu­ Wednesday’s meeting. grams that interest them,” the Senior Class secretary Ben first meeting of the academic year dents to determine the insurance The letter, an updated ver­ letter said. Zerante, who has Type-1 dia­ Wednesday. The unexpected sur­ coverage of graduate students sion of one proposed last year, The proposal includes invit­ betes, asked senators to spread prise did not seem to rattle presi­ with spouses and families. focuses on increasing both stu­ ing local high schools in order the message to their dorms. dent Misty Schieberle or any “I hope to regularly meet with dent attendance and student to “not only provide a service to “Every year Notre Dame stu­ other representatives who were Anne Kleva to discuss relevant ticket options. the local community, but [also] dents participate, but it’s kind intent upon the agenda and issues issues, and what seems to me to “One of our top priorities is to demonstrate the importance of of disorganized,” Zerante said. of the 2005-2006 year. be disturbing patterns of growing improve the student ticket a post high school education in “This year wp would like one Scheiberle welcomed all attend­ costs and reduced benefits,” exchange,” the letter read. today’s world.” unified group walking.” ing the meeting and thanked Michael DeGruccio said in a “Although it was not very suc­ Academic Affairs committee Students can register online them for participating in such a report of the Health Care cessful last year, we believe the chair Chris Harris said details for the walk at www.jdrf.org . “worthwhile endeavor.” Committee. ticket exchange has great would probably change closer Union members unanimously The Union also plans to send promise, and with some modifi­ to the event’s projected date In other Senate news approved the 2005-2006 budget members to the Legislation Action cation, it could become one of next spring. ♦ Head of student activities and then outlined plans to tackle DayofNAGPSon the key factors in boosting stu­ Senators also confirmed the Brian Coughlin urged senators various issues this year. Graduate Sept. 21. Heather Eisler of the dent attendance at home topic for this fall’s presentation to volunteer to collect dona­ student health care/medical leave Publicity and Procedures commit­ gam es.” to the Board of Trustees — tions for Hurricane Katrina vic­ policy, improved parking for tee plans to attend and represent Another key issue proposed community relations. tims at the home Michigan graduate students and support of the Notre Dame Graduate Student in the letter is “Midnight Student body president Dave State football game Sept. 17, the Higher Education Union in lobbying for the Higher Madness,” an event open to the Baron said his experience this noting the success and impor­ Affordability and Equity Act Education Affordability and general public designed to summer talking to South Bend tance of the post-9/11 collection topped the list of agenda issues. Equity Act (HEAEA). pump up fans right before the residents about problematic that raised close to $280,000. Scheiberle distributed a report “I have been monitoring plans season begins. student parties off campus “It was really the public face to meeting attendees which by The National Association for “Most schools do this,” drove home a point. of the University,” Coughlin addressed health care, parking, Graduate and Professional University Affairs committee “Whether or not people said. “It was all over broadcast social activities, graduate student Students to lobby for a bill that chair Matt Walsh said. “And believe in the ordinance, it TV. It re fle c te d w ell on th e orientation and travel grants. would make stipends used for liv­ [Berio] actually seems pretty really brought issues [to light] University, and it was the right “Better health care remains a ing expenses tax-exempt, among excited about that.” about how we’re regarded in thing to do. And it’s not some­ core goal of the Graduate Student other positive education-related Walsh said his committee South Bend,” Baron said. thing that’s just going to hap­ Union,” Schierberle said in the reforms,” Schieberle said in the would like to survey the stu­ “We’re respected around the pen.” President’s Report. “We are con­ President's Report. dent body to find out how many world, but at our doorstep, if tinually in contact with Anne games the average student you say you’re from Notre Contact Maddie Hanna at Kleva, Director of University Contact Maggie Hyde at ticket-bolder actually attends, Dame it’s not necessarily a [email protected] Health Services to lobby for better [email protected]

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students.” Jenkins also referred to the Jenkins research park in his speech, call­ continued from page I ing it “a dimension of what we might do to connect with the local Jeff Rea said. “Both [University community.” President Emeritus] Father Robinson Community Learning [Edward] Malloy and now Father Center director Jay Caponigro Jenkins have done great things to said he appreciated the interac­ reach out to us. And tion with Jenkins. there are tremen­ “Father Jenkins dous economic ben­ has been really efits." “We are two sides supportive of what Ted Foti, senior we’re doing, so it’s vice president at of the same coin. ” great for people to Memorial Health know that,” System and co-chair Ted Foti Caponigro said. of the community senior vice president, “He came down [to relations advisory Robinson], met group that organ­ Memorial Health with our staff and ized the event, System reaffirmed the described the rela­ important role tionship as “one of a Robinson plays for kind." the University.” “We are two sides of the same Many community members met coin,” Foti said. “We will continue Jenkins for the first time at the to help each other.” reception, which Foti said meant

While Jenkins did not go into the event was “overdue.” KIRSTEN HOELMER/The Observer any specific goals, he emphasized “After Father Jenkins was Junior Dan Ward, right, hands his Notre Dame I D. to Huddle employee junior Matthew Pavlov the need to further strengthen appointed by the Board, we didn’t to pay using flex points. The Flex 14 meal plan allows students 280 flex points each semes- community rela­ know him and we tions. couldn’t find any­ “What we have to body who had services of the dining hall ments such as Reckers, and do first is develop a “What we have to familiarity with Flex might have to be cut to cover the Huddle were much more good, sound rela­ do first is develop him,” Foti said. the extra cost. accepting. tionship with the a good, sound “We’ve had a great continued from page 1 “A 10 meal plan was not Prentowski conceded that community,” relationship with adopted for a number of rea­ more flex points might produce Jenkins said. “Like relationship with the University in and offer variety from the din­ sons... [For one], The Office of more revenue but said it could with any neighbor, the community. ” past years, and we ing hall,” sophomore Amanda Student Affairs interest in hurt service. we have to work to want to make sure Deckelman said. encouraging community dining “While the campus retail The “Flex 14” plan provides hall based meals as much as operations may generate more make this a won­ Father Jenkins that continues.” derful community. Those who had students with 14 meals a week possible,” Prentowski said. revenue from added flex dol­ That’s the overarch­ University President their first conver­ and an allowance of flex “I didn’t even know about it lars in the system the addition­ ing goal.” sation with Jenkins points. As the default meal but it was a pleasant surprise. al traffic may, at times, over South Bend Wednesday, like plan for all residential students 1 feel like my schedule is busier tax the operation to the point mayor Stephen Luecke said he Rea, came away with positive approximately 96 percent of and I end up using more points of insufficient and slow serv­ was “just delighted that Notre impressions. students on campus choose the than in previous years,” said ice,” Prentowski said, citing Dame is a real partner member of “One thing I gathered from talk­ “Flex 14” plan over the 21- junior Ashley Kelly. the long lines as Subway as an the neighborhood.” ing to him was how much he meal plan, according to Dave While it is true that the stu­ example. He mentioned discussions with enjoys his job,” Rea said. “You Prentowski Director of Food dents have m ore nom inal Hex Along with the arrival of the University regarding spend your life searching for Services. points, the value of those more flex points, there are MetroNet, a fiber optic network something you love to do, so that’s The extra 20 points were points decreased slightly, now more venues on campus running through the community great.” added to the meal plan Prentowski said. accepting the points as a form to broadband capacity, and a pro­ because students complained “It should be noted that of payment. Starting this fall, posal for a new research park on that all of the allotted 260 Notre Dame increases the Flex the Bookstore Coffee Shop Edison, “something which could Contact Maddie Hanna at points were consumed before portion of the meal plan each began accepting flex points. provide opportunities for graduate [email protected] the end of the semester, year to assure that the stu­ Though the number of flex Prentowski said. dents do not lose purchasing points has increased, some stu­ In order to answer student power due to inflationary price dents still wish there were complaints, the Notre Dame increases,” he said. “In fact, more. Vance reports that the mocha Student Senate discussed last the increase, most years, is “There are enough to make a Coffee “does well” at the downtown spring the possibility of creat­ higher than general retail student have to learn to make cafe and hopes to see more ing a new “Flex-10” plan that inflation and is related to the decisions about spending. continued from page 1 wins for Weis in the near would give students only 10 percentage of the increase of They could give me 500 points future. meals a week, but grant stu­ the cost of room and board.” and I’d find a way to spend Dame gets a new coach, and The Chocolate Cafe is located dents a greater amount of flex He could not say if the pur­ them but with a more limited bring it back out when the sea­ in downtown South Bend on points. chasing power of student’s Flex supply, you become more son begins,” commented Jenny 122 South Michigan next to the The Senate was unable to points this year is greater than selective in your purchases,” Landry, assistant manager of College Football Hall of Fame. pass the movement for several or less than last. junior Ashley Kelly said. the cafe. reasons including objections While the dining halls were According to the cafe, a hint from the dining halls that said wary of the proposed new of Irish cream, rich chocolate Contact Peter Devine at the increased flex points would increased flex point meal plan, Contact Kathy Lee at and flavorful coffee are the [email protected] be too expensive and some other Food Service establish­ [email protected] ingredients to making the per­ fect mocha and the perfect coach. The invention was created by Christina Pier, who is in charge of marketing, advertising and other promotions for the South Bend Chocolate Cafe. In addi­ tion, Vance reports that the mocha goes well with a “piece of chocolate or Danish" from the cafe. “I think it’s a cool idea to sell this mocha because it supports the team and Coach Weis,” said sophomore Christina Marzo. “I hope that ‘Winning Weis’ actu­ ally holds true for the rest of the season.” Sophomore Meghan Kelly said she appreciated the new con­ coction. “1 think it’s nice that they’re integrating Weis into the Chocolate Cafe,” Kelly said. “It’s nice that he’s been accepted as a part of the South Bend com­ ,□ W hen it's th e munity.” Similar responses came from prestigious Luce scholarship, finding you an students who tasted the exciting 1-yr Job In the far east, strategically chosen to match “Winning Weis Mocha” at the Chocolate Cafe. your career goals- Apply by November 4, 2005. Freshman, Michael Huang, who tried the mocha, described Interested? 29 or younger? Have you now (or will you have by the end of May, 2005) an ND degree? it enthusiastically. “The mocha isn’t too sweet No easi-Asia experience? For more information, contact Mrs. Nancy 0'Connor( [email protected] ) and just right,” Huang said. WORLD & NATION Thursday, September 8, 2005 COMPILED FROM 1 H E OBSERVER’S W1 RE SERVICES page 5

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U.S. hostage freed after 10 months Rehnquist given final farewell BAGHDAD — Thu U.S. military, acting on a tip, raidod an isolated farmhouse outside the Presidentjustices lead mourners in honoring life, service of Chief Justice capital Wednesday and rescued an , American businessman held hostage for 10 months. The kidnappers, who had kept their Associated Press captive bound and gagged, escaped without a gunbattle. WASHINGTON — Chief The rescue came on a day that saw two Ju stic e W illiam H. deadly bombings around the southern city of Rehnquist was buried Basra, fueling fears the bloody insurgency Wednesday as President was taking deeper root outside Sunni-domi­ Bush led the nation in bid­ nated territory. A roadside bomb killed four ding farewell to the man American security agents. And an Interior who orchestrated a dramat­ Ministry official said 16 people were killed ic states rights power shift and 21 were injured in a car bombing at a in a third of a century on restaurant in a central market. the Supreme Court and set­ Roy Hallums, 57, was “in good condition tled the acrimonious 2000 and is receiving medical care,” a military election in Bush’s favor. statement said after U.S. forces freed him With more laughs than and an unidentified Iraqi from the farm­ tears, family and friends house 15 miles south of Baghdad. spoke poignantly of Rehnquist’s final days — Iran offer of oil rejected by U.S. when he cracked jokes in TEHRAN — Iran offered to send the United the face of death — and States 20 million barrels of crude oil in the after- proudly of the imprint of his math of Hurricane Katrina if Washington waived 33 years on the high court. trade sanctions, but a State Department official “We remember the said Wednesday that offer was rejected. integrity and the sense of In a gesture that mirrors American aid offers duty that he brought to after a devastating 2003 earthquake in Iran, every task before him,” Tehran’s envoy to the Organization of Petroleum Bush told the funeral audi­ Exporting Countries said his government would ence during a two-hour ship up to 20 million barrels of oil, state radio service at historic St. reported late Tuesday. Matthew’s Cathedral. "If U.S. sanctions are lifted, Iran is prepared to Rehnquist was a steady, send that quantity of oil to America,” the radio guiding presence on the quoted Hossein Kazempour as saying. court. Bush said of the But in Washington, the State Department’s nation’s 16th chief justice executive secretary, Harry K. Thomas Jr., said who died last Saturday at the offer was rejected because it was conditional. 80. The service drew Washington’s power elite, N ational N ew s including the eight Supreme Court justices and John Roberts, a former California passes gay marriage bill Rehnquist law clerk whom SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Bush has named to succeed Followed by family members, the casket containing the body of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Legislature on Tuesday became the first leg­ him. Justice William H. Rehnquist is taken out of Saint Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington. islative body in the country to approve a bill Rehnquist, a veteran of allowing same-sex marriages, but the meas­ the Army Air Forces in repeat after me,” Bush chief. He usually won,” said part by the chief justice ure faces an uncertain future with Gov. World War II, was buried in said. Justice Sandra Day before his death, had a light Arnold Schwarzenegger. a private ceremony in The chief justice, a solid O’C onnor, w ho d ated touch. A granddaughter There were loud cheers by gay-rights Arlington National conservative, was leader of Rehnquist when both were talked about learning poker activists in the Assembly gallery as lawmak­ Cemetery in a grave not far the “Rehnquist five” who in law school together in the tips from him. His son said ers voted 41-35 to approve the bill and send from those of several other often favored states rights 1950s. “I think the chief bet his dad “could forgive it to the governor. The Assembly had twice justices. His headstone was over federal government he could live out another almost anything in a person defeated similar legislation. not yet engraved. From the power, and in a bitter 5-4 term despite his illness. lie except being humorless.” A spokeswoman for the Republican gover­ grave site, where his wife vote handed Bush the 2000 lost that bet, as did all of us, “No one smelled more nor said Schwarzenegger believes the issue was buried in 1991, the election. There was only but he won all the prizes for roses than my dad,” James should be decided by the courts, not by his Capitol is visible. passing mention of that a life well lived.” Rehnquist told the funeral signature on legislation. A state appellate Despite battling thyroid during the service, as well Comparing Rehnquist to audience. court is considering appeals of a lower cancer, Rehnquist managed as his duties presiding over an expert horse rider, Cardinal Theodore court ruling that overturned California laws to attend Bush’s second President Clinton’s O’Connor said, “He guided McCarrick, in a welcome to banning recognition of gay marriages.” inauguration in January — impeachment trial in 1999. us with loose reins and used those assembled in the He will uphold whatever the court a gesture the president Instead, friends and fami­ the spurs only rarely.” He Roman Catholic church, decides, ” Schwarzenegger spokeswoman recalled with appreciation. ly talked about his penchant was, she added, “coura­ praised Rehnquist as a “lov­ Margita Thompson said. “Many will never forget the for wagers, jokes, sports, geous at the end of his life ing father and husband, an sight of this man, weakened geography, history, tennis, just as he was throughout outstanding legal scholar, a Tropical storm heads to Florida by illness, rise to his full and competition of any type. his life,” even joking with tireless champion of life and JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — Brisk wind height and say in a strong “If you valued your doctors in a final visit to the a true lover of the law: in and forceful rain from Tropical Storm Ophelia voice, ‘Raise your right money, you would be care­ hospital. every sense, a great moved through this beachside community han d , Mr. P resid en t, and ful about betting with the The service, scripted in American.” Wednesday, sending tourists scurrying inland and driving surfers out of the churning Atlantic. The tropical depression off the coast strengthened into a tropical storm early G a za S trip Wednesday and could bring strong winds and heavy rain to central and northern Florida over the next few days. Palestinian security chief killed

Local N ew s Adding to the tension, the Israeli Arafat’s oldest son, Manhal, a sen­ Associated Press military said the vital Rafah crossing ior security commander, was kid­ Tax amnesty to begin next week GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — point between Gaza and Egypt would napped by the gunmen. Officials said INDIANAPOLIS — Those delinquent on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas be closed Thursday until further negotiations, brokered by Egyptian Indiana taxes take note: The state will start vowed to hunt down the killers of a notice as part of Israel’s Gaza pull- security officials, were under way to a 60-day grace period beginning next week powerful former security chief out, which could be completed as secure his release. that will allow you to pay up without penal­ whose gangland-style slaying early as Monday. The killing raised new questions ties, interest or collection fees. Wednesday laid bare Gaza’s raging About 100 masked militants about the Palestinian Authority’s But Department of Revenue officials are power struggles just days before stormed Moussa Arafat’s heavily ability to take control of Gaza after warning those who do not come clean Israel hands over control of the guarded home in an upscale Gaza Israel completes its pullout next between Sept. 15 and Nov. 15 that they will coastal territory. City neighborhood early Wednesday, week. face double penalties and more aggressive In a brazen challenge to Abbas, a sparking a 30-minute gunbattle with It occurred a block from the head­ collection efforts. And there are no plans shadowy militant group claimed dozens of his bodyguards. The quarters of the Palestinian for another amnesty period in the future. responsibility for killing Moussa assailants burst into the home, Preventive Security Service, which “It was enacted as a one-time event not Arafat, cousin of the late Palestinian dragged out Arafat in his pajamas failed to respond, and 400 yards to be repeated, ” Revenue Commissioner leader Yasser Arafat, in a burst of and gunned him down in the dusty from Abbas’ Gaza residence, where John Eckart said Wednesday. gunfire. street. he was spending the night. page 6 The Observer ♦ N KV(7S Thursday, September 8, 2005

The initial feedback to the Office of News and Information Ad about the spot has been limited continued from page 1 so far, Storin said. “Some people with a bad Information, has been involved experience with admissions for several years in creating found the video personally dis­ video images for Notre Dame. turbing,” Storin said. “[The videos] show what Their interpretation is that Notre Dame is, what it strives to you must pray in order to get be and how it is different from into the University, he said. other universi­ Jenny Ehright, a ties,” Storin said. Notre Dame sopho­ Julie Flory, the more, says that the assistant direc­ commercial was tor at the Office “We were looking “maybe a little of News and for something to overdone, but a lot Information, was of people can relate involved in the resonate with to waiting for a production of the viewers, to create a response from col­ video. Her office lasting impression lege.” worked with an Storin said he a g e n c y in and show that hopes people Chicago to Notre Dame is a understand the ad design a concept, serious place for shows the faith- to cast the based aspect of actress and to learning and Notre Dame. edit the footage. fa ith." “We are a univer­ The actual film­ sity that attracts ing of the spot young people of Julie Flory JUSTIN RICE/The Observer took place in faith,” Storin said. After a demolition accident on Jan. 24, 2004, CJ’s Pub was forced to close down. The pub will New Jersey. Assistant director, Flory remarked reopen Saturday, Sept. 13, in time for the first Notre Dame home football game. “We were look­ Office of News and on the difficulty of ing for some­ Information bottling a message thing to resonate a b o u t th e specials for certain nights of “It’s been a little rough,” with viewers, to University in a 30 the week to help students get Ricky said. “But what hap­ create a lasting second ad. CJ’s reacquainted with the pub. pened has happened and we impression and “It’s hard to craft continued from page 1 “In the beginning we’ll be just have to move forward show that Notre Dame is a seri­ a message so perfect that no running a lot of drink spe­ and do the best we can with ous place for learning and one can dislike it,” Flory said. destroyed from the accident. cials,” Ricky said. “Tuesday what we have available - faith,” Flory said. Storin said he hopes viewers “A lot of people drove by night is student appreciation until business picks up.” Past spots have stressed the will focus on the words “a high­ and it didn’t look like a lot of night - with student IDs we’ll Bringing back old regulars close-knit nature of the Notre er education,” which appear at damage but we had very, take a dollar off any burgers shouldn’t pose a problem. Dame family, the devotion of the end of the spot. very extensive damage,” on the menu and Wednesday The pub has attracted students to the school, or “The kind of person attracted Judy Medick said. night is going to be margari- famous Domers since its focused on the fame and suc­ to Notre Dame is a person who Throughout the repair and ta n ig h t.” in c e p tio n in 1 9 8 4 . I t ’s a cess of alumni. Storin says that believes in prayer,” said Storin. renovation project the own­ Senior Andrew Harkins, favorite of television person­ the typical Division I school will This spot will be played ers have also had to combat who went to CJ’s when he ality Regis Philbin, athletic have an ad that shows “famous throughout the year during tel­ rumors circulating Notre was a sophomore, plans to director Kevin White and alums, lab beakers, people in evised Notre Dame sports. It Dame websites. visit once it reopens. office of student affairs pres­ white coats. They sound like can also be viewed in both the “There were lots of rumors “I liked CJ’s a lot, the food ident Bill Kirk, Ricky said. Oxford when they do their normal 30 second version and on NDnation - the bad ones was really good,” Harkins “I’m delighted that it’s spot.” an extended 60 second version being that Ricky is selling, said. “It was kind of dirty but reopening,” Kirk said. This year, the University at mms://streaming.nd.edu/can- the hospital is buying the that’s part of its charm. I am “They’ve got great cheese­ wanted to address the unique­ dlehO.wmv. property, they are retiring in excited that it’s opening.” burgers. I’m looking forward ness of Notre Dame and its Aruba,” Ricky Medick said. Since the accident, Ricky to it.” Catholic character in order to “Rut those aren’t true. We’re and his siblings have been be distinctive from other uni­ Contact Kaitlynn Riely at here for the long haul.” trying to cope without their Contact Mary Kate Malone at versities. [email protected] The owners are planning chief source of income. [email protected] RREERI d ^ University Resources for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Students

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YEN 1 10.2950 These impacts were described as “significant EURO 0.8061 but not overwhelming.” POUND 0.5453 S till, th e CBO c au tio n ed that the economy could CANADIAN $ 1.1889 suffer a more serious blow if energy supply dis­ ruptions along the Gulf In B rief Coast last longer than expected. AP Evacuees to receive debit cards “Last week, it appeared An aerial view of the refinery near Cowden, Miss., Sept. 1, shows the holding tanks sur­ WASHINGTON — The federal government that larger economic dis­ rounded by water. The force of Hurricane Katrina is rippling through the nation’s economy. plans to hand out debit cards worth $2,000 ruptions might occur, but each to families displaced by Hurricane despite continued uncer­ Katrina. tainty, progress in open­ That peak could be near, spending in other areas Katrina levels. Homeland Security Department Secretary ing refineries and restart­ given that the average by around $38 billion at Before the hurricane, Michael Chertoff, under lire for his agency’s ing pipelines now makes retail price of regular an an n u alized ra te , CBO private economists were response to the disaster, held a conference call those larger impacts less unleaded gasoline climbed estim ated. forecasting growth in the with governors of states with evacuees and likely,” CBO Director by 46 cents last week to CBO said overall eco­ second half would come in described the plan. While many details Douglas Holtz-Eakin $3.07 per gallon, 34 per­ nomic growth, as meas­ between 3 percent and 4 remained to be worked out, the plan was to wrote in a letter to Senate cent above the July ured by the gross domes­ percent following growth quickly begin distributing the cards, starting Majority Leader Bill Frist, nationwide average. tic product, could be of 3.6 percent in the first with people in major evacuation centers such R-Tenn., and other con­ The spurt in the cost of reduced by between 0.5 half of this year. as the Houston Astrodome. gressional leaders. gasoline will reduce over­ percentage point and a There have been some Michael Brown, the head of the Federal The CBO gave a ball­ all economic growth by full percentage point for promising signs on the Emergency Management Agency which is park estimate that gaso­ 0.4 percent in the current the second half of this energy front in recent administering the novel card program, said it line prices will peak in July-September quarter year but this downshift in days with crude oil prices is aimed at those with the most pressing September at about 40 and by 0.9 percent in the growth should be tempo­ dropping as more Gulf needs. percent higher than levels October-December period rary as long as gasoline Coast production “The concept is to get them some cash in in effect in midsummer. as consumers cut back on prices retreat to pre- resum es. hand which allows them, empowers them, to make their own decisions about what do they need to have to start rebuilding,” Brown said. Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who participated in the conference call, said the cards will be offered “to people in shelters Ford, Toyota announce major recalls as well as people who are not in shelters but who have evacuated the area and need help.” He said the hope is the cards will encourage plaints that a rod linking the steering Ford said its inquiry found brake Associated Press people to leave shelters voluntarily. wheel and the wheels could fracture fluid could leak through the cruise WA8LIINGTON — Ford and Toyota, when the steering wheel is turned control’s deactivation switch into the Harry Potter downloads available two of the world’s largest automak­ while the vehicle is stopped. The system’s electrical components, lead­ NEW YORK — Break out your iPods: Harry ers, on Wednesday recalled nearly 5 affected vehicles include the 1990- ing to potential corrosion. That could Potter is going digital. million pickup trucks and sport utili­ 1995 4Runner SUV, 1989-1995 truck lead to a buildup of electrical current I K. Rowling, once publishing’s greatest hold­ ty vehicles in separate moves to 4WD and 1993-1998 T-100 pickup. that could cause overheating and a out against the computer age, has made all six respond to concerns of engine fires In the Ford case, NLITSA said fire. Potter novels available for audio downloads. In a and problems with the power-steer­ Wednesday it was reviewing 1,170 Owners will be notified by mail message posted Wednesday on her Web site, ing system. allegations of engine fires related to immediately. Dealers will install a Rowling said she was concerned about online The recall by Ford Motor Co., the the vehicles and would continue a fused wiring harness to act as a cir­ piracy, included bootleg editions for which the fifth-largest auto industry recall in probe launched earlier this year. cuit breaker in the system. The com­ original text was altered. U.S. history, involved 3.8 million There have been allegations of three pany said the harness would cut off “Many Harry Potter fans have been keen for pickups and SUVs from the 1994- deaths in cases cited in news reports electrical current to the switch if the digital access for a while, but the deciding factor 2002 model years, including the top­ or lawsuits in Iowa, Georgia and current increases. for me in authorizing this new version is that it selling F-150 pickup. Arkansas. In January, Ford recalled nearly will help combat the growing incidents of piracy The National Highway Traffic Ford’s recall includes the 1994- 800,000 vehicles from the 2000 in this area,” Rowling wrote: Safety Administration and Ford have 2002 F-150, 1997-2002 Ford model year because of concerns over “There have been a number of incidents been investigating complaints of Expedition, 1998-2002 Lincoln engine fires. where fans have stumbled upon unauthorized engine fires linked to the cruise con­ Navigator and 1994-1996 Ford “We have a solution th at fixes the files believing them to be genuine and, quite trol switch system. Bronco equipped with factory- problem and we’re confident that apart from the fact that they are illegal, the Toyota Motor Co., meanwhile, installed speed control. It covers this is going to be the right remedy,” I larry Potter content of these can bear very little recalled 978,000 sport utility vehi­ most of the vehicles being evaluated said Ford spokeswoman Kristen resemblance to anything I’ve ever written!” cles and pickup trucks over com­ by NHTSA. Kinley. page 8 The Observer ♦ INTERNATIONAL NEVC^S Thursday, September 8, 2005

M exico London Ship delivers supplies Hurricane claims foreign lives to devastated regions Many European citizens remain missing in ravaged New Orleans

Associated Press of their people are missing. ww.nola.com. One message Welcomed gesture seen largely as symbolic Russia has confirmed contact tells his father: “There is a LONDON — Three weeks with 112 citizens through its plane ticket and a room ready have passed since Tom Noone consulate in Houston, and if you need it.” Associated Press neers carrying water treatment plants, mobile kitchens, food last heard from his 51-year-old Germany says it tracked down There have been joyful brother, Mike, who lived near NUEVO LAREDO — A and blankets. 70 people known to be in the homecoming scenes in Europe New Orleans. Mexican ship laden with hurri­ “This is just an act of solidari­ region. Denmark’s Foreign this week. cane relief supplies anchored ty between two peoples who are “As each day goes by, it’s just Ministry said Wednesday it had Christine Sabadello lost harder and harder. I've got to off Mississippi Wednesday night, brothers,” said Fox’s located the lone Dane who had notes, an outline and books she while an aid-bearing Mexican spokesman, Ruben Aguilar. make every effort I can to try not been accounted for. was using for her doctoral dis­ and find him,” Noone told The arm y convoy reached the U.S. Army press office employee None of the governments has sertation at the University of border in a journey marking the Francisco Aguilar said he did Associated Press from his confirmed any deaths of citi­ New Orleans. But she told the home in Abingdon, central first time its military has aided not have details of the convoy's zens. AP she was “just happy to be England. the United States. precise location. It originally At least five Australians alive” after returning home to Britain and other countries The Papaloapan, a navy ves­ was scheduled to arrive in remain unaccounted for, Austria. are working to account for sel, arrived in U.S. waters fol­ Houston to provide food for including 30-year-old Ashley She said she rented a mini­ their citizens who are missing lowing its voyage from the Gulf evacuees, but apparently had McDonald, van as the storm in the wake of Hurricane coast port of Tampico and been rerouted to Dallas. whose credit approached and began unloading rescue equip­ All of the convoy’s partici­ Katrina. For some relatives, cards and dri­ “I’ve got to make evacuated with ment by helicopter, the Mexican pants will be unarmed. In July the search has ended happily ver’s license some friends. “We as those once stranded begin every effort I can to navy’s press 2004, Mexican were found in a just thought we’d returning home. office said. troops interrupt­ hotel in Baton try and find him.” spend a nice Mike Noone, a mechanical Rouge. U.S. and Meanwhile, a “This is just an act ed the funeral of weekend in engineer for Lockheed Martin Australian convoy of 45 a Mexican-born Tom Noone Texas,” she said. of solidarity between Corp., has lived in Louisiana authorities are They got as far vehicles and 196 Marine killed in victim’s brother soldiers arrived two people who are Iraq. They for 28 years. His three children searching for as Alexandria, at the border city brothers. ” objected to the — Patrick, 24, Ryan 20, and him, A ustralia’s La., and took shel­ Marion, 16 — also have not of Nuevo Laredo nonworking, cer­ Foreign Minister ter with the par­ been in touch, Tom Noone said. Wednesday emonial rifles Alexander Downer said. ents of a fellow student. Ruben Aguilar The level of anxiety around evening. It was to carried by two South Africa says three of its “People showed up at the cross into U.S. Presidential spokesman Marines who the world is measured on a citizens are not accounted for. house and brought food and territory early came from the Web site for the Geneva-based Like Noone, Andrew Mclnnes money,” Sabadello said. “We Thursday, Gen. Francisco Ortiz United States for international Red Cross — of Devizes, England, is relying were invited over for dinner — Valadez told reporters as his the ceremony. http://www.familylinks.icrc.orA mainly on the Internet in hopes it was amazing.” men refueled at a local gas sta­ Mexico later apologized but atrina — which lists more than of tracking his 68-year-old Ten Russian college students 117,000 names of people who tion. said it has an obligation to father David. returned to a tearful welcome He said the troops would help enforce a ban on foreign troops haven’t been located. “We had a falling out, and in Moscow on Wednesday. Several hundred names have refugee operations in San carrying weapons in its territo­ haven’t had contact for about They had been stranded in a been deleted as people have six years, but I really wanted to second-floor apartment in New Antonio, Texas. ry- “Our mission is to give aid to The convoy has “a very high been found, said spokesman get in touch to make sure he Orleans for three days before the civilian population affected symbolic content, ” said Javier Florian Westphal. was OK,” Mclnnes told The being evacuated by helicopter by the disaster,” Ortiz said. Oliva, a political scientist at Britain’s list of 96 people is Associated Press. He believes and sent first to San Antonio, Federal police briefly blocked Mexico’s National Autonomous the largest number confirmed his father was living in New then to Atlanta. the highway in both directions University. “This is a very sensi­ by a European government. Orleans. “We swam on mattresses as the convoy arrived at the tive subject, for historic and Poland says it has yet to He said he posted a message across the street to a bridge gasoline station. political reasons.” account for 22 citizens, but on the Web site of the four days later and there we Radio talk shows and newspa­ Large Mexican flags were France, Germany, Russia and American Red Cross and were rescued by a military hel­ pers in Mexico buzzed with taped to many of the 35 olive- Italy are among the nations another on the New Orleans- icopter,” said Vitaly Nikiforov, excitement over news that this green Mexican Army trucks and which decline to say how many based Web site h ttp ://w - as his mother embraced him. country, long on the receiving tractor trailers as they rumbled end of U.S. disaster relief, was northward toward the border sending a hurricane aid convoy Wednesday. north. The convoy includes two The convoy represents the mobile kitchens that can feed first Mexican military unit to 7,000 people a day, three operate on U.S. soil since 1846, flatbed trucks carrying mobile when Mexican troops briefly water-treatment plants and 15 marched into Texas, which had trailers of bottled water, blan­ separated from Mexico and kets and applesauce. The 195 joined the United States. Mexicans taking part include It included military special­ military engineers, doctors and ists, doctors, nurses and engi­ nurses.

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F rance E ngland Chirac's health problems unclear Europe fearful of French President missed Cabinet meeting due to 'vascular accident' imminent attack Associated Press would be out of the hospital by With memories of those deaths week’s end, as expected. Officials strong, the media has accused the Continent not unified on terrorist dealings PARIS — President Jacques have not specified which eye was government of guarding details of Chirac’s condition like a state Chirac skipped a weekly Cabinet affected. but there are important dis­ It was still unclear whether secret. However, many politicians Associated Press meeting Wednesday for the first tinctions, like the war in Iraq,” Chirac would make his planned argue that France’s law on med­ time since taking office in 1995, as LONDON — The moments said Enzo de Martino, a civil trip to New York on Sept. 13-15 ical secrecy justifies guarding such authorities kept France in sus­ are carved in collective memo­ servant in Rome. for a U.N. summit. Cope said information. pense for a fifth full day about ry: Smoke billowing from the Perhaps most keenly, terror­ scheduling details would be clari­ If authorities are telling the what exactly ails the hospitalized Twin Towers. The charred ism has brought urgency to an fied when Chirac is released. truth and Chirac has a minor 72-year-old leader. husk of a London double- internal debate in Europe Senate President Christian problem — a retinal hemorrhage Officials have cryptically decker bus. Bombed out com­ about how to handle the conti­ Poncelet, the official who would — the main question is why is he referred to Chirac’s illness as “a muter trains in Madrid. The nent’s Muslim immigrant com­ replace Chirac if he still hospitalized, said Dr. Stephan small vascular acci­ convicted Muslim assassin of a munities. could not carry out A. Mayer, associate professor of dent” that affected Dutch filmmaker coldly telling The two main approaches his functions, said neurology and neurosurgery at his vision in one “VIPs, h eads o f the victim’s family in court: “I have been France’s activist he had “not for one Columbia University Medical eye. With little to go don’t feel your pain.” secularism, which demands slate, sometimes second” imagined Center in New York. on, doctors not But if the language and that newcomers assimilate to they get he might need to “One possibility is the VIP syn­ involved in Chirac’s iconography of terror haunt the French way of life, and the treatment suggest a step in. drome,” Mayer said. “VIPs, heads over-treated, to us in our shared fears, it does liberal multiculturalism of Chirac is “going of state, sometimes they get over­ range of possible not necessarily follow that the Britain and the Netherlands, their detriment. to get back on his treated, to their detriment. They problems from carnage has forged a common which teaches that society is They don’t get one horse, to use the don’t get one doctor, they get 17.” minor — a rup­ front. enriched when immigrants customary expres­ Other possibilities “are dicier,” tured blood vessel doctor, they get If Europeans were separat­ preserve their traditions. sion, and then take Mayer said. For example, if Chirac in a retina — to ed from 9/11 by the Atlantic As the London attacks and 1 7-” charge again,” had a brain aneurism — a form of serious — a stroke. Ocean, Madrid (3/11), the slaying of Dutch filmmak­ Poncelet told stroke — he likely had coils insert­ Officials of-the Amsterdam (11/2) and London er Theo van Gogh suggested, Dr. Stephan A. Mayer France-Info radio. ed to prevent further bleeding, presidential Elysee (7/7) have awakened them to the multicultural approach The French pres­ and officials are simply keeping Palace have associate professor, the reality of 21st century ter­ that can inject vigor into a ident, like other quiet about it. worked to portray Columbia University rorism. The question most country’s economic, social and former chiefs of Monday’s update said Chirac the president, people are asking is not “will artistic life can also lead to a state, has often had a small-sized hematoma, or admitted to Val de there be another one?” — but kind of self-imposed ghettoiza- kept quiet about buildup of blood, with an “isolated Grace military hos­ “who’s next?” tion: Communities sealing details of his health. Two years and limited vision problem.” pital Friday night, as active and Yet the London attacks do themselves off from the tradi­ ago, Chirac reportedly dressed Authorities have never clarified deeply involved in the affairs of not appear to have pushed tions and values of the host down a former minister who hint­ where exactly the bleeding state. Europeans closer to the nation. ed publicly that he wore a hearing occurred, although most French Chirac met for about an hour United States or its govern­ Three of the four July 7 aid. media have concluded it was in with Prime Minister Dominique de ment’s view of the world. bombers grew up in insular For years, Socialist President his brain. Villepin ahead of the Cabinet Many are, if anything, inclined Muslim communities in the Francois Mitterrand covered up “If he’s had a hemorrhage in the meeting — held, unusually, at the to deride the Bush north of England. Mohammed the prostate cancer that eventual­ brain, he’s had a stroke,” said Dr. premier’s office and presided over Administration’s attitude as Bouyeri, the man convicted of ly killed him in 1996, the year Philip Steig, neurosurgeon in chief by Villepin. simplistic and belligerent, and stabbing Van Gogh in the after he left office. Former conser­ at New York Presbyterian Hospital Officials took a reassuring tone to argue that the U.S.-led war chest on an Amsterdam street vative President Georges and president of the Society of about the president’s condition. in Iraq has provoked the for making a film critical of Pompidou died in office in 1974 University Neurosurgeons. The government spokesman, Muslim world against the Islamic practices, was born in without ever revealing he had ter­ Chirac has not said whether he Jean-Francois Cope, said Chirac West. Holland to Moroccan parents minal cancer. will seek a third term in 2007. was in “very good form ” and And among themselves, and was drawn into the Europeans are divided over Islamic radicalism that has how to pro­ been allowed to ceed. flourish there. Unlike for “History separated “Multiculturalism Americans, has meaning only if who largely us a long time ago it results in a form rallied togeth­ and it is hard for of social harmony,” >! er and behind even such a painful Gilles Keppel, a their govern­ professor at the ment in the case as terrorism Institute of Political months after to bring us back Studies in Paris Castle'Point S ep t. 11, together." wrote in a com­ 2 0 0 1 , th e mentary in Le recent terror­ Monde. “In this ism in Europe Carlos Sosa sense, the trauma h a s u n d e r ­ mechanical engineer of British society is 1801L Cleveland Road * South Bend, Indiana 46637 scored differ­ greater than that of ences in polit­ American society Corner of Cleveland and fronwood Road ical outlook, culture and secu­ after Sept. 11. In the United Phone (574) 272-8110 • Toll Free (888) 642-6110 rity strategy. States, the 19 hijackers were “I have the feeling that foreigners. 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We are all Close to Everything Towers, just as few will forget humans, ” said Robert Norden, the London woman clutching a 55-year-old teacher in Fan* F r o m O irditiairy a burn mask to her face in a London. chilling evocation of Edvard Some experts, however, Munch’s painting, “The argue that until the July 7 bus Scream .” and subway bombings, the 1-2 BEDROOMS/2 BEDROOMS WITH LOFT «& PENS But rifts remain. British government had been “The public feels closer to playing a dangerous game of MONTHLY EXECUTIVE SUITES the United States because of appeasement with Islamic what it suffered on Sept. 11, radicals. page 10 The Observer ♦ NATIONAL NEWS Thursday, September 8, 2005 Thousands evacuated Hurricane separates loved ones by military, police Pregnant women, terminally ill apart from families during storm

Associated Press north of Anchorage, Alaska, has After a week, Angie Holman New Orleans residents holding out in homes been searching the Web to find in Jacksonville, Fla., had given Rachal Watson is 19 years old her half brother, Hayward up hope. Four family members and nine months pregnant. Her Smith, who lives outside in the New Orleans area, Associated Press fire on almost a daily basis, so 1 -year-old daughter is missing. Gulfport, Miss. They weren’t including one who is blind and we needed to get in here and So is her boyfriend. She paces close, and she weeps admitting diabetic, hadn’t been heard NEW ORLEANS — Using the clean this thing up,” said Capt. the floor of a Houston motel, far that. from. Ham on had registered unmistakable threat of force, Jeff Winn, commander of the from her former home in New “He’s old and he has prostate their names on every Web site police and soldiers went house police SWAT team. “We’re put­ Orleans, rubbing her belly cancer and he’s got dementia,” she could find. She monitored to house Wednesday to try to ting a lot of people on the street while her worries run wild. she said. “He lives by himself in television news broadcasting, coax the last 10,000 or so stub­ right now and 1 think that we “I just can’t take it no more,” that trailer.” She has called and searching the background for born holdouts to leave storm- are bringing it under control. she says in a high-pitched wail. called, but the circuits are too faces she recognized. shattered New Orleans because Eight days ago this was a mess. “I really can’t. I have no busy to get through. He has “1 would just be looking to see of the risk of disease from the Every day is getting a little bit momma and no three grown if I could see someone who putrid, sewage-laden floodwa- better.” daddy. That’s the daughters who belonged to me,” she said. “It’s ters. The police chief boasted that only family I live nearby, but just the not knowing and not “A large group of young men 7,000 more military, police and have.” 7 ju s t can ’t Bartholomew being able to do anything. We armed with M-16s just arrived other law officers on the streets Her posting, on take it no doesn’t know were helpless. We all just want­ at my door and told me that I had made New Orleans “proba­ the Web’s National their married ed to get in the car and go, or have to leave,” said Patrick bly the safest city in America Next of Kin more. ” names. She has get on a plane and fly down McCarty, who owns several right now.” Registry: “I am another brother there. But where would we go? buildings and lives in one of Across miles of ravaged neigh­ safe in Houston Rachal Watson in Bay St. Louis What would we do? How would them in the city’s Lower Garden borhoods of clapboard houses, hotel looking for hurricane victim on the destroyed we look for them?” District. “While not saying they grand estates and housing proj­ baby girl.” Mississippi On Monday, just before mid­ would arrest you, the inference ects, workers struggled to find She is one of shoreline, but he night, the Red Cross called is clear.” and count corpses sniffed out by thousands upon can’t get out of Holman’s grandmother. A frail-looking 86-year-old cadaver dogs in the 90-degree thousands looking for the ones the area to check on Smith. “They’re all accounted for. Anthony Charbonnet grumbled heat. The mayor has said New they love in any way they can. “It’s horrifying,” she sobbed. They’re in some kind of shelter as he locked his front door and Orleans’ death toll could reach In the wreckage of Katrina, “Just horrifying.” in Lafayette, La. They’re all walked slowly backward down 10,000. Already, a temporary not much works, especially the On Wednesday, she got word together,” Holman said the steps of the house where he w arehouse m orgue in rural St. phones. So desperate families he was OK. “I found him,” she Tuesday, her voice breaking in had lived since 1955. Gabriel that had been prepared try to reach the missing said. relief and exhaustion. “We “I haven’t left my house in my to take 1,000 bodies was being through television or the On national television, rela­ haven’t been able to speak with life,” he said as soldiers took readied to handle 5,000. Internet. tives stand in front of the them, but they’re OK. They lost him to a helicopter. “I don’t The enormity of the disaster Most pleas on the Web begin Houston Astrodome and other everything, but they got out want to leave.” came ever-clearer in neighbor­ the same: “Where are you?” evacuation sites, holding card­ with their lives.” Mayor C. Ray Nagin ordered ing St. Bernard Parish, which The only difference is the num­ board signs bearing names of And then there is Rachal law officers and the military late was hit by a levee break that ber of question marks. the missing and phone numbers Watson, who thought things Tuesday to evacuate all holdouts brought a wall of water up to 20 Eleanor Sawyer of New for them to call. couldn’t get much worse than — by force if necessary. He feet high. State Rep. Nita Hutter Orleans writes, “I am staying at Others look having to live warned that the combination of said 30 people died at a flooded the Hirsch Coliseum in directly into camera in th e fetid water, fires and natural nursing home in Chalmette Shreveport, Louisiana and I lenses and beg for “We all just Louisiana gas leaks after Hurricane when the staff left the elderly looking for my son Darrell information, or try Superdome Katrina made it too dangerous residents behind in their beds. Saw yer...” to give it. w an ted to g et in without power to stay. And Rep. Charlie Melancon said On another site, Patty Hein “Your mother and the car and go ... or food or In fact, the first government more than 100 people died at a looks for her sister and brother- daddy are headed But where would water. She dove tests confirmed Wednesday that dockside warehouse while they in-law, from Long Beach, Miss. for the convention u n d e r a the amount of sewage-related waited for rescuers to ferry “Any info about where they center,” said Bettie we go? What would National Guard bacteria in the lloodwaters is at them to safety. lived, if it’s intact, any word, we Perrier of New w e do?” truck when least 10 times higher than The fioodwaters continued to are so worried,” she wrote. Orleans, as she people in the acceptable safety levels. Dr. recede, though slowly, with only On the Web site of the headed for a bus, Angie Holman surging crowd Julie Gerberding, chief of the 23 of the city’s normal contin­ National Center for Missing and trailing tears of outside shot at Centers for Disease Control and gent of 148 pumps in operation, Exploited Children, photo­ frustration. “We Jacksonville, FL rescue helicop­ Prevention, warned stragglers along with three portable graphs have been posted of 20 don’t know what resident ters. “I was so not to even touch the water and pumps. The water in St. Louisiana children whose par­ we’ll do there.” scared I forgot pleaded: “If you haven’t left the Bernard Parish had fallen 5 ents are missing. Trina Sutton, I was preg­ city yet, you must do so.” feet. Some are toddlers. Others are looking angry and frantic, stood nant,” she said. “I landed on my As of midday, there were no Because of the standing water, teenagers. Most are in between outside the Astrodome and stomach, like a baseball slide.” reports of anyone being doctors were being urged to — 8, 9, 10 years old. The recited her phone number on Not long after, she started removed by force. And it was watch for diarrheal illnesses youngest grin at the camera. CNN. She was separated from having contractions. She was not clear how the order would caused by such things as E. coll The teenagers try hard not to her two children, Marice and taken by ambulance to New be carried out. bacteria, certain viruses, and a look scared. The kids in the Deverenisha, as they were Orleans’ airport. “The wouldn’t Active-military troops said type of cholera-like bacteria middle just look bewildered. being evacuated. She has no let my baby or my boyfriend on they had no plans to use force. common along the warm Gulf Liz Bartholomew, who lives in idea w here they are. “No one the ambulance. They said I had National Guard officers said Coast. a small town about 50 miles can’t tell me nothing,” she said. to get on by myself.” they do not take orders from the mayor. And even the police said they were not ready to use force just yet. It appeared that the CO mere threat of force would be #16 MEN'S SOCCER the first option. H “We have thousands of people hJ Z who want to voluntarily evacu­ w MIKE BERTICELLI ate at this time,” Police Chief < Eddie Compass said. “Once they Q MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT are all out, then we’ll concen­ p d trate our forces on mandatory P evacuation.” O H Mindful of the bad publicity u o FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 @ 7:30PM that could result from images of weary residents dragged out of VS. BOSTON UNIVERSITY their homes at gunpoint, Compass said that when his offi­ Free Sc h e d u l e G lasses cers start using force, it will be the minimum amount necessary. GO TO FIRST 250 FANS “If you are somebody who is u n 350 pounds, it will obviously M take more force to move you than if you are 150 pounds,” the chief said. 3 SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 @ 2:00PM The stepped-up evacuation Q came as workers trying to get v s. #25 Sa i n t Lo u is into the city to restart essential services came under sniper fire. Free N D m e g a p h o n e s f il l e d More than 100 officers and GO seven armored personnel carri­ ers captured a suspect in a WITH POPCORN TO FIRST 500 FANS housing project who had been firing on workers trying to Q South Bend Tribune restore cell phone towers, Discover what's in it for you. authorities said. Z “These cell teams are getting WWW.NOTREDAMEPROMOTIONS.COM Thursday, September 8, 2005 The Observer ♦ INTERNATIONAL NEWS page 11

S outh A frica E gypt U.N. says anti-poverty goals unmet Elections take step Rich-poor gap widens, one-fifth of humanity living on one dollar pertoward day democracy

Associated Press the single greatest reversal in Such disparities present one of human development. the greatest barriers to progress, Associated Press to the citizens and ask for their JOHANNESBURG — Time is Eighteen countries — 12 in Watkins said. At the current rate, support. This is a positive thing. ” running out for world leaders to Africa and six in central-eastern 115 countries with a combined CAIRO — Amnah Mohammed Osama Attawiya, spokesman keep their promises to roll back Europe — registered lower population of almost 2.1 billion walked out of the polls, proclaim­ for the country’s election com­ poverty and millions of people scores on the UNDP’s human are off track by more than a gen­ ing she had voted for President mission, said the panel had will die needlessly over the next development index than in 1990. eration on at least one millenni­ Hosni Mubarak “because I love received no major complaints or decade without drastic changes, The index ranks 177 countries um goal. him.” Then the 35-year-old reports of problems. the U.N. warned in a major based on income, life expectancy Reducing the number of chil­ widow rushed away to get the Nine candidates ran against report Wednesday. and education figures from 2003. dren who die before 5 is project­ bottle of cooking oil and packet of Mubarak this time, but only two The stark findings were pre­ Norway tops the list, while Niger ed to take until 2045. That trans­ sugar a ruling party official had were considered significant — sented to the 191 U.N. member is last. The United States ranked lates into 41 million more child promised her in return for her Nour of the al-Ghad Party and nations a week before they meet 10th. deaths over the next decade than vote. Noaman Gomaa of in New York for a summit to South Africa, which has more if the target were met. It was one of a the Wald — and the review progress toward the people living with the HIV virus Missing the target on reducing n u m b er of 7 think it’s safe to president was Millennium Development Goals. that causes AIDS than any other poverty would mean 380 million instances of say that Egyptians expected to win The targets set in 2000 include country, has dropped 35 places more people surviving on less pressure, intimi­ have not seen a handily. Final halving extreme poverty, reduc­ on the development index since than $1 a day, the report said. dation or incen­ results were not ing child deaths by two-thirds 1990. Governments of developing tives to vote presidential due until Saturday. and achieving universal primary Life expectancy in Botswana countries must take responsibili­ reported by both election like the El-Badawy and education by 2015. has fallen by 20 years since the ty for reversing these trends by citizens and one they have just several independ­ The goals were promised by 1970s to just 36. A Zambian has tackling inequalities, respecting opposition par­ ent monitoring 189 governments to the world’s less chance of reaching 30 than a human rights, encouraging ties across Egypt seen in their groups said they poor people, and the countries person born in England at the investment and rooting out cor­ on Wednesday lifetimes. ” thought turnout have less 10 years to make good dawn of the Industrial Revolution ruption, the report said. But as the country w as low, contrary on them, said Kevin Watkins, in 1840. their success will depend on held its first Sean McCormack to government pre­ chief author of the 2005 Human Despite growing global pros­ wealthy nations making major presidential elec­ dictions of high Development Report. One land­ perity, more than 1 billion people changes in aid, trade and securi­ tion in which U.S. State turnout. The num­ m ark will be next week’s m eet­ still survive on less than $1 a ty policies. voters had a Department ber of voters might ing. day, 10.7 million children die This year saw the eight richest choice of candi­ spokesm an indicate whether lie said that “without the before their fifth birthday and nations devote unprecedented dates. recent calls for required investment and political 115 million are not in school. attention to poverty at their sum­ The United reform have shak­ will,” the promises will not be In many instances the gap mit in Gleneagles, Scotland, States hopes the vote will be a en Egyptians out of an apathy met. between rich and poor is widen­ including a pledge to double aid key step toward democracy generated by years of stagnation. Progress is being made overall, ing, the report said. One-fifth of to $50 billion by 2015. across the Middle East. But the In Washington, State the document shows. Life humanity live in countries where But aid levels are still far from ballot was marred by charges of Department spokesman Sean expectancy has increased by two many think nothing of spending keeping pace with growing fraud and the near-certainty that McCormack said the U.S. govern­ years in developing countries, $2 on a cappuccino. Another fifth incomes in the wealthiest coun­ Mubarak will win another six ment was following the election and more than 130 million peo­ survive on less than $1 a day. tries, the report said. Much of years in office. closely and called the vote “a ple have been lifted out of pover­ In many countries that are the help is poorly coordinated The leading opposition candi­ beginning.” ty since the U.N. Developm ent making progress, it is only the and comes with too many strings date, Ayman Nour, charged the “These elections really mark a Fund’s first report in 1990. wealthiest who are benefiting. attached — including the pur­ elections “are not fair at all,” and historic departure for Egypt, in There are 2 million fewer child The gap between child mortality chase of goods and services from vowed to reject rigged results. the fact that you have multican­ deaths annually and 30 million rates among rich and poor is donor countries, which reduces However, a top official in didate presidential elections. I more children in school. increasing in countries like the value of aid by almost $2 bil­ another major opposition party, think it’s safe to say that But many countries are falling Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. lion in sub-Saharan Africa alone. El-Sayed el-Badawy, said that Egyptians have not seen a presi­ behind, especially in sub- In India, the death rate in chil­ Improving aid will be meaning­ while fraud and intimidation dential election like the one they Saharan Africa, where the dren under 5 is 50 percent high­ less without giving poor coun­ were apparent, "This is the first have just seen in their lifetimes,” HIV/AIDS pandemic has inflicted er for girls than boys. tries a fairer share of world time for a president to reach out he said.

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Thursday, September 8, 2005 V» ie w p o in t^ page 13 Open letter to Father Jenkins: Burnishing the public image

The first installment of this letter traced responses from specific audiences, like that meeting such a commitment cannot be makers. the connection between the tendency of of a successful candidate in recent national measured by numerical rankings among Another consequence is that the top aca­ some administrators to run Notre Dame elections? Or is the University better served like-minded universities. demic officers must become thoroughly like a business and certain problems faced by presenting itself to the world as it really Nor can it be measured by statistics inter­ acquainted with what is actually going on in by the university at the beginning of your is, like an old-style presidential candidate nal to a particular university. Notre Dame the classrooms, the laboratories, the dormi­ presidency. Of particu­ on the back of a campaign train? takes pride in the increasing SAT scores of tories and the various social venues where lar concern are prob- Kenneth Put otherwise, the question is whether its entering students (up an average of intellectual and character formation of indi­ lems of image-making, Sayre the University’s publicity managers should about .01 a year). It also tracks the gradua­ vidual students is taking place. A sizeable of grade inflation and of concentrate on fabricating an image that tion rates of these students once they number of veteran professors share the misleading TCEs. This Guest will attract donors and potential students, matriculate (currently about 93%), their impression that the intellectual formation of second installment Columnist or whether their efforts should be directed average cumulative GPAs at graduation Notre Dame students has deteriorated sig- focuses on problems of primarily toward making known the gen­ (currently over 3.4 and rising), and the per­ • nificantly over the past twenty years. The image-making specifically. uine worth of a Notre Dame education. centage of Bachelor Degrees received with shared view is that there has been a distinct Like all institutions of higher learning, While the implicit goal in both cases is to I lonors (more than doubled in the past 20 diminution in intellectual curiosity, in ability Notre Dame has a stake in maintaining a advance the interests of the University, the years). But there is no attempt to evaluate to think critically, and in skills of speaking favorable public image. The power of a two approaches differ on how that goal is to these figures in light of the well-known facts and writing coherently. More students are Notre Dame degree to open doors and to be accomplished. The difference is analo­ that high schools are increasingly intent on getting higher grades for less effort expend­ influence people depends upon the gous to that between trying to boost sales of coaching their college-bound students to do ed on their studies, and too many are University’s reputation, as does its success a brand of cereal by gimmicks like fancy well on the SATs, that institutions can adjust receiving credit for classes they seldom in recruiting students and in raising funds. packaging and deceptive pricing, and trying their graduation requirements to let attend. The new administration should The degree is in sufficient demand to to improve sales by enhancing the actual through almost any percentage they please, make a sustained effort to find out whether prompt the thought among administrators quality of the product. Although profession­ and that grade inflation is ram pant among impressions such as these have an objective that Notre Dame is in the business of mar­ al image-managers would be quick to even the best colleges and universities. basis, and if so what corrective actions keting an attractive commodity. To the embrace the latter as their “official ” posi­ As informed observers have stressed time would be effective. extent that Notre Dame is run like a busi­ tion (e.g., in mission statements), there are and again, the genuine quality of education As far as character and personal values ness, its fortune is determined by the kind signs that the former may be emerging in cannot be measured in quantitative terms. are concerned, current student mores seem of image it presents to the public at large, practice as Notre Dame’s dominant publici­ This limitation would be beside the point if to support binge drinking, four-day week­ especially to prospective students and ty strategy. the purpose of an educational institution ends and cheating on exams if you can get donors. Consider, for example, a recent web-post- wore conceived mainly as a commercial by with it. In a typical daily routine, too Some manifestations of Notre Dame’s ing ( http://und.collegesports.com ), which venture. In point of fact, the success of a much time seems to be spent keeping up image are relatively constant and not likely observed that “Notre Dame’s commitment commercial enterprise is gauged by the with pop culture and too little in developing to change. Others are more fluid. Durable to academic excellence, values, service and number of potential customers it attracts habits of discernment and recreation (often components include the Golden Dome, the character development” places it among and the percentage that end up buying the called “good taste”) that will provide nour­ Leprechaun and the Notre Dame logo. To the nation’s top 25 institutions of higher product. But ii’ND’s primary purpose is to ishment and staying-power in later life. these might be added episodes from its sto­ learning. Evidence offered to that effect provide a high quality education, and not Among religiously active students, in turn, ried past that can bo encapsulated in the included Notre Dame’s being one of only merely to market a product, its success can­ there appears to be more emphasis on form of a picture (the Four Horsemen) or nine schools in the nation that admit less not be measured by a set of statistics. judging the desert of other people than on sound bite (“win one for the Gipper"). As that half their freshman applicants, its In the months to come, Notre Dame’s new charitable practices that would inspire oth­ long as they remain unsullied, symbols like ranking consistently among the top 25 in administration will be examining its priori­ ers to share their faith. If misgivings of this these are effective in generating good pub­ the survey conducted annually by “U.S. ties regarding the academic mission of the sort turn out to be well founded, the. licity. News and World Report, ” and its repeated University. It is not unreasonable to hope University might want to rethink the man­ More fluid are impressions of the high ranking among the nation’s “Most that top priority will be given to providing ner and extent of its involvement in student , University generated by its involvement in Wired College." the best education possible, as distinct from culture. newsworthy current events. A recent exam­ Not mentioned in the web-posting was the most efficient marketing of a Notre These are only a few suggestions of possi­ ple is the unfavorable publicity caused by the fact that a dozen or so of the nation’s Dame degree. If a commitment is made to ble shortcomings your new administration the firing of Coach Willingham, which was best institutions (including Harvard, the goal of a top quality education, however, might want to look into as it takes charge of countered by a PR effort focused on the suc­ Princeton, Yale, and Stanford) refused to a number of practical ramifications will fol­ the University’s public image. If correction cess of replacement Coach Weis in the last participate in the “Most Wired” competition low in its train. These need to be considered is needed, it should be undertaken with the Super Bowl. Special bailiwicks like the because it included no evaluation of how as part of the self-examination process. goal of making the education Notre Dame Athletic Department have their own publici­ well technology meets their educational One ramification is that primary responsi­ provides so attractive that it needs no fur­ ty offices. Image-management for the needs. Also relevant is the fact that the bility for maintaining Notre Dame’s public ther embellishment. The public image that University at large, however, is handled “U.S. News” rankings have come under image will no longer rest with the News and results would attract both students and mostly by the News and Information Office. extensive criticism among educators for Information Office and similar PR opera­ donors with a genuine interest in education. Some publicity work is also farmed out to allowing institutions to fudge in reporting tions. Their services will still be needed in This is quite different from an image calcu­ dedicated organizations like Golden Dome data and for measuring factors extraneous overseeing news releases, and in providing lated to attract potential consumers and to Productions, which have assisted in numer­ to genuine education. As far as admission advice on how the way University conducts enhance the commercial value of a Notre ous capital campaigns and other PR ven­ rates are concerned, the fact that Notre its business will be perceived by the general Dame degree. tures. Dame can be selective indicates that many public. The persons primarily in charge of There is no doubt that the task of main­ students want to come here, but says noth­ the University’s image, nonetheless, will be Kenneth Sayre is a professor of philoso­ taining a positive public image should be ing about whether they come for academi­ its top academic officers. Their main task in phy. This column is the second in a four- managed in a professional manner. The cally sound reasons. this regard will be to make sure that what part series addressed to new University question of present concern is what kind of Commitment to values like academic really happens at Notre Dame is worthy of President Father John Jenkins. He can be image Notre Dame should be trying to proj­ excellence and character development being made known to the public at large. contacted [email protected] ect, and to what purpose. Is it in the unquestionably is a good thing. Indeed, few The upshot will be that Notre Dame will The views expressed in this column are University’s best interest to construct an self-respecting institutions of higher learn­ have the reputation it deserves, rather than those of the author and not necessarily image tailored expressly to elicit desired ing would want to gainsay it. But success in one constructed by professional image- those o f The Observer. Expanding our communities

This past weekend, Nate Wills, C.S.C. pro­ should. Early and often, as they say in Cross, Deacon Nate was ready to be his final vows liturgy the passage from 1 fessed his final vows in the Congregation of Chicago. You may find that you’re already ordained a deacon the following day. He Samuel where God calls Samuel. The first I loly Cross and was ordained a deacon in exactly where you should be and doing can lake the next step in his life’s vocation three times Samuel doesn’t understand and the Catholic Church. On Saturday in the what you should be doing, but chances are as a priest from within a community. No thinks his mentor Eli is calling him (1 Sam. Basilica, Nate made a “profession of per­ you will find that God hopes and wishes for matter how much he struggles, no matter 3:1-10). Finally, Eli figures out what’s going petual vows” in Holy you to live out your baptismal promises what he finds almost too difficult to bear on and tells Samuel, “If it happens again, Cross, promising to live Kate more fully, to follow Christ more closely, to and no matter what amazing truths he say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listen­ the vows of poverty, Barrett serve and love others more deeply and learns through his service, he will have ing.’” If we’re lucky, we all have wise Eli’s in celibacy and obedience freely. around him brothers in Christ with whom our communities, someone who can point throughout his lifetime Faithpoint We might learn something along the way he can live out his joy, or sorrow, or fear. us toward God and encourage us to listen within the community about how to do this by thinking about how So who are your communities? And if when God speaks to us. Look around for an of Holy Cross. On Deacon Nate moved forward in his vocation that word sounds too formal for you, you’re Eli or two in your life, or be one for some­ Sunday in the Moreau Seminary Chapel, he this weekend. Just as Jesus began his pub­ still not off the hook. Just substitute “group body else who needs a push in the right was ordained to the Order of Deacon, to lic ministry by choosing a group of disciples, of friends.” Who do you hang out with, who direction. We all need each other, to hear . serve in that capacity until his ordination to Deacon Nate was welcomed into Holy Cross do you talk about the future with? Can you God’s call and to become servants who lis­ the priesthood next Easter Saturday. and promised his heart and his life to them ask each other the question, “To what has ten. May wo find, as Deacon Nate has, com­ Most likely only a small percentage of our through his perpetual vows. Think about God called me? ” If your closest chums munities from within which we can reach Notre Dame community will ever feel called most anything you do — aren’t burdens would laugh you off the couch for asking, out to others in service of the Kingdom of to religious life as their vocation, but each eased, aren’t sorrows lifted, isn’t the mun­ perhaps that might give you a reason to God. of us who has been baptized has a vocation dane more interesting and aren’t joys mag­ pause. And if you’re already a part of a nonetheless. Part of our life task as mem­ nified when shared with others? Even more great, thoughtful, faithful group of friends, Kate Barrett is the Director of Resources bers of the Body of Christ is to answer the so, then, can we answer and live out the then look around. Who might need an invi­ /v Special Projects for Campus Ministry. She question, “To what has God called me?” question, “To what has God called me? ” if tation to join you? Anybody look a little can be contacted [email protected] I lave you asked yourself this question late­ we do so in a community that supports, lonely in your section or in your 9 a.m. The views expressed in this column are ly? Maybe you — or others you know — challenges and encourages us. class? those of the author and not necessarily have never asked it of yourself, but we each I laving made those promises to I loly Deacon Nate chose as the first reading for those o f The Observer. T h e O bserver page 14 S cene Thursday, September 8, 2005

CD R ev iew s British dance band broadens U.S. horizons

It wasn’t until 1996’s “Traveling By VINCE LABRIOLA Without Moving” that Jamiroquai (Jay Scene Critic Kay and his consistently-changing band mates) reached a wide American audi­ Famous in the late 1990’s for their ence. Backed by the eye-catching video VMA-winning single “Virtual Insanity,” for “Insanity” and a dance hit with the British-born dance group “Cosmic Girl,” the band could be seen Jamiroquai has since been largely on MTV for quite some time. ignored by American audiences, Jamiroquai’s next few albums, howev­ despite attaining superstar status er, never became popular in the U.S., across the pond some years ago. It may and as a result the band faded into rel­ come as a surprise then that ative obscurity until very recently. “Dynamite,” the group’s latest, is actu­ Enter Napoleon Dynamite. That song ally their sixth album and will be in Napoleon dances to? That’s “Canned stores on Sept. 20. It's a perfect start­ Heat,” off of Jam iroquai’s excellent ing point for anyone who would like to 1999 release “Synkronized.” discover, or re-discover, one of the pre­ Riding on the heels of their cameo mier dance groups out there. appearance in one of the biggest suc­ Jamiroquai revolves around its cess stories in independent film comes tabloid-friendly front man, Jay Kay. “Dynamite,” an album that is edgier Discovered in near poverty, a single and less musically complex than some Photo courtesy of rockpalastarchiv.de demo disc he created bought him an of its predecessors, but thrilling Jay Kay, the lead singer and song writer for Jamiroquai, a British dance/funk unprecedented eight-CD deal from nonetheless. band, performs on stage. The band will release their sixth album on Sept. 20. Sony/BMG. The group’s initial offering, “Dynamite” is a synthesizer-based “Emergency on Planet Earth,” was album, and Jay Kay’s signature bass lighter pop fare that characterized guy looking for love in all the wrong released in the UK with considerable machine riffs are featured on nearly Jamiroquai’s earlier albums, replaced places. Tracks like “Feels Just Like It European success thereafter. every track, swirling furiously beneath with a relentless, darker sound that Should” and “Black Devil Car” deal the melodies. explores new avenues in the band’s with the sexual aspects of the lifestyle, T h e a lb u m musical possibilities. while “Seven Days In Sunny June” begins with the The next track, given the same name deals with the emotional aspect, as Jay Dynamite excellent open­ as the album, is a traditional dance Kay croons, “ I’ve wanted you so long / in g n u m b e r club number filled with repetitious cho­ Why’d you have to drop that bomb on “Feels Just Like ruses begging to be shouted out loud. me / You said we’ve been friends too Jamiroquai It Should.” A Again, the darker, more explicit lyrics long.” slick, dirty, dis­ make appearances in highlights like There is something blatantly honest torted disco- “Black Devil Car” and “Electric about the lyrics in “Dynamite,” even Sony influenced track Mistress,” which again call attention to when they seem to move from one end that has Jay Kay the hyperactive musical arrangements of the spectrum to the other. The shouting, “Slips Jamiroquai prefers. album exudes the feeling of a group in, feels good / I However, the highlight of the album that really wants to make good music, love it when you is the fantastic “Seven Days In Sunny and the result is an exciting new album Recommended tracks: 'Seven Days in Sunny June,' tell me / It feels June,” a dynamic ballad that is master­ that doesn’t disappoint. just like it fully crafted and filled with sad, 'Black Devil Car'and 'Electric Mistress' should.” intriguing lyrics that reveal what the Contact Vince Labriola at Gone is the entire album really is about: a single [email protected] Hold Steady's creativity shines in latest effort

it out. Though, the man can write good By JOE LATTAL poetry. His he-said-she-said lyrics Scene Critic dress up an album driven by an over­ used narrative — traveling around the After the release of “Separation country and watching stuff happen. Sunday” last spring, The Hold Steady Here’s the good news. “Separation became the kings of low and medium Sunday” has some of the most fun gui­ market media. tar riffs from the last year. The music The band received a “best new recalls themes from nearly every era of music” tag from the influential rock, with distortion, Hammond organ Pitchfork Media, as well as an inter­ and piano. Each song appeals to large view. They performed on “Last Call audiences — upbeat, but not heavy with Carson Daly.” In Target’s latest ad enough to offend anyone. None of the campaign, a series of online videos songs drag, and there is enough variety called “Odds Against Seven,” college between each song to keep the story freshmen drive across state lines to see interesting. (Which is good because The Hold Steady play live. Finn’s voice never changes.) However, none of the hype matters if An a cappella opening of “Hornets! you can’t get used to frontman Craig Hornets!” starts off the album before Finn’s hard-hitting yet rangeless voice. exploding into a guitar-driven verse His half speaking, half singing delivery about bitter post-breakup thoughts: is a “love-it-or-hate-it” stain on the “She said I won’t be much for conver­ New York by-way-of Minneapolis sation ... I kinda dig these awkward band’s debut. It takes time to get used silences.” to Finn’s voice, or at least time to tune The track, “Cattle and Creeping Photo courtesy of dinosaurintrouble.blogspot.com Things,” makes The Hold Steady, an indie rock band out of New York City, released its second it apparent that full-length album, “Separation Sunday,” in May of 2005. Separation Sunday this is really how ■u Finn sings. It album and also the choice for the Steady comes off more sincere and wasn’t just one band’s performance on Carson Daly’s Finn’s storytelling delivery makes each song. Finn refus­ show. It is the best song because of the track more interesting. The Hold Steady es to be distract­ likeable, brief, palm-muted measures Not many bands sound like The Hold ed by the tri­ in the chorus immediately after the Steady, and it’s probably because they umphant and simple chord progressions. It is the don’t really want to sound like them. French Kiss hectic chord strongest because it’s the closest Finn The description of the band is simple — changes of the comes to actually singing a tune. a singer who tells stories over rock chorus, always “Stevie Nix” and “Chicago Seemed music. maintaining his Tired Last Night” are other highlights But their creative geniuses were aim­ storytelling tone. on the album. Both bank on the latest ing in that direction. They remain the “Your Little trend in indie rock — songs about one band people can be certain aren’t Recommended tracks: 'Hornets! Hornets!,"Cattle and Hoodrat Friend ” songs. Each works better than the lip-synching on stage. Creeping Things'and 'Stevie Nix' is the strongest Statistics’ “Final Broadcast” or Trail of song on the Dead’s “Worlds Apart.” The Hold Contact Joe Lattal [email protected] T he O bserver .

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CD R eview Bigger label gives Death Cab room to grow

emotional scenes on the show. By BRIAN DOXTADER and MOLLY Ben Gibbard’s role as part of the GRIFFIN emo/techno blend The Postal Service and Assistant Scene Editors the success of their album, “Give Up,” also created a greater awareness of Brian: It must be tough to be Death Cab Death Cab for Cutie in the musical com­ lor Cutio. Appearances on “The D C." and munity. The group’s song “Such Great the runaway success of bandleader Ben Heights,” was covered by Iron and Wine Gibbard’s side-project The Postal Service for the soundtrack to the film “Garden have made Death Cab’s latest, "Plans,” State.” the other hotly-awaited pop/rock release While the band’s image and direction of the year (the first being Cold play’s lat­ are changing, the songs on “Plans” are est). still up to the caliber of the bands prior Death Cab never sounded like a band albums. The band continues to stay true intended for superstardom, so the band’s to its emo roots with contemplative lyrics hesitancy is understandable, but a little about love, death and the afterlife. The disappointing nonetheless. “Plans” is evi­ tone of the album is more upbeat than dence of a band in transition, making the some of the band’s other efforts, and the jump almost, nearly seamlessly to the songs sound much more polished and put major label but tripping just slightly on together, which speaks to the experience the landing. In effect, it is the sound of a of the band. band that, for the first time, sounds a lit­ The stand-out track on “Plans” is “1 Will tle unsure of its direction. Follow You into the Dark, ” a simple but Accordingly, Death Cab’s latest isn’t potent ballad about love that transcends “Transatlanticism,” (their last album and the boundaries of life. There are images their best thus far) nor is it The Postal of heaven, hell, nuns and lyrics like, “If Service’s “Give Up. ” Instead, the band there’s no one beside you when you when tries to progress forward within the con­ Photo courtesy of deathcabforcutie.com your soul embarks / I will follow you into fines of its sound, which works in some Death Cab for Cutie’s latest album, “Plans,” was released on Aug. 30 under the dark.” The powerful effect of singer cases but not in others. It doesn’t have Atlantic Records, a different record label from their previous CDs. Ben Gibbard’s boyish voice coupled with the immediacy of either of the two afore­ the lone guitar on the track makes it sim­ mentioned albums, but it does have a speaks before I know what it will say,” he when you succeed, you fail. Small bands ple but immensely powerful. warm and inviting sound that suits sings on “Crooked Teeth,” the most usually accumulate fans on their way up, Other great songs on the album include Gibbard’s starry-eyed romanticism. straight-ahead song on the entire album. and some of the luckier groups must “Marching Bands of Manhattan," a warm, If anything, Death Cab sounds more Additionally, several tracks take cues decide if they want to stay true to their soaring song about trying to live in the understated than ever, which is apparent from the title track on “Transatlanticism,” roots and remain independent or sell out moment and not being entirely success­ from the outset. “Marching Bands of in which a single lyrical phrase gets the and sign with a bigger record label. ful. “Different Names for the Same Manhattan.” the opening salvo, is as qui­ Philip Glass treatment, to great effect: The album “Plans” marks this cross­ Thing,” a piano-driven song that is about etly agreeable as “The New Year” was “Your love is gonna drown,” Gibbard road for the band Death Cab for Cutie. traveling in a foreign country and being bombastic on “Transatlanticism.” intones repeatedly on “Marching Bands of They stand on the brink of commercial frustrated by the language barrier is Thankfully, the production doesn’t mute Manhattan,” while the droning repetitive­ success with their new album, but they another song that sticks in your head. everything into obscurity, as the songs ness on “Different Names For the Same are also leaving the small label and the “Brothers on a Hotel Bed ” is notable delineate themselves quite clearly. This Thing” is more agreeably melodic than small underground scene where they because it originated from Chris Walla, clarity is welcome and even necessary, as merely ingratiating. were first embraced. The album is the which is the first song the band has ever there are certainly some fantastic songs “Plans” is ultimately an album of mod­ group’s first departure from the Seattle- had the came from someone other than on “Plans.” Among the best are the pseu­ est pleasures. There’s nothing as bracing- based label Barsuk Records and their lead singer Gibbard, and it deals with the do-epic “Different Names for the Same ly catchy as “The Sound of Settling,” nor first album for the much larger Atlantic themes of love and growing older. Thing,” the lovely and understated “I Will is there a lighter-waving Records. Death Cab is known for its dark and Follow You Into the Dark ” and especially anthem like “Transant- Death Cab, sometimes depressing lyrics as well as the staggering “What Sarah Said,” lanticism,” but the Plans from a small col­ arrangements. Their latest album still has undoubtedly the album’s masterpiece. album holds together as lege town in lyrics that will bring tears to your eyes, Like most Death Cab albums (and also, well as anything Death Washington but the arrangements are filled out and incidentally, symptomatic of U2 albums), Cab has ever cut. It is State, gained a give the album a greater sense of warmth “Plans ” runs a little too long, and the the sound of a band in loyal following and of hope and revealing the band’s new overall quality starts to dip towards the transition, and while the Artist: Death Cab for Cutie over the course maturity. end. transition sounds inter­ Record label: Atlantic/Wea of five albums “Plans” is ultimately a meditation on Gibbard’s lyrics are better, though they esting and pleasant, it’s Release date: Aug. 30 and little com­ dealing with aging and about the poten­ still tend toward mawkishness at times not quite the bold leap Recommended tracks: 'I Will Follow mercial success. tial that love can die at any time. The and incomprehensibility at others. forward that might’ve You into the Dark/'Marching Bands This all changed band’s audience is growing and expand­ Gibbard’s dreamy idealism — a heady been hoped for. Death of Manhattan' and 'What Sarah Said' . with the release ing to include a more diverse fan base. If mixture of universality and oft-bizarre Cab For Cutie has of 2()03’s “Trans­ they continue to achieve the same musi­ specificity — could be considered embar­ always been a good band and atlanticism,” which found a more main­ cal and emotional quality that “Plans” rassing, but his honest delivery and over­ “Transatlanticism” indicated that they stream audience. manages to reach, they will not only find all earnestness keep “Plans” afloat. Like might be a great band. “Plans” isn’t quite The fact that the television show “The success with their loyal fans, but with Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Gibbard is the fulfillment of that promise, but it’s a O.C.” embraced the band and mentioned people who appreciate good music every­ best in sound bytes, as he’s capable of a solid set of songs that will appeal to long­ them constantly introduced the group to a where. killer line or two, even when spinning time fans and new listeners alike. new, wider audience. The band per­ dangerously close to cliche: “I’m a war of formed on “The O.C.” during the second Contact Brian Doxtader at head verses heart and it’s always this way Molly: The independent music scene is season and songs like “Lack of Color” [email protected] and Molly Griffin at / My head is weak and my heart always a difficult place for bands, and sometimes were featured during prominent and [email protected]

Photo courtesy of deathcabforcutie.com Photo courtesy of deathcabforcutie.com The band members of the indie-rock band Death Cab for Cutie include, from left Death Cab began as a solo project for lead singer Ben Gibbard, left center, In to right, Chris Walla, Jason McGerr, Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer. 1997. Since then, they have enjoyed both critical and commercial success. page 16 The Observer ♦ CLASSIFIEDS Thursday, September 8, 2005

M L B — A m erica n League Giambi slugs homer in eighth to beat D-Rays

Playing from behind and Yankees keep lead in pressing at the plate, the AL wild card after Yankees wasted a couple of scoring opportunities and win over Tampa Bay appeared headed to another puzzling loss. Associated Press Down by one, they loaded the bases with one out in the sev­ NEW YORK - Jason Giambi enth, and an angry Lou Piniella and the New York Yankees cer­ dispatched Devil Rays pitching tainly never figured it would be coach Chuck Hernandez to pull such a relief to beat Tampa Bay. reliever Trever Miller. Giambi hit a go-ahead, two- run homer with two outs in the Boston 6, Los Angeles 3 eighth inning, and New York ral­ BOSTON — The Boston Red lied past the Devil Rays 5-4 Sox are getting what they need Wednesday night for a much- from their starting pitchers: long needed victory against a surpris­ outings and strong performanc­ ing nemesis. es. “I love being in that spot, and Bronson Arroyo became the it's great to come through,” fourth Boston pitcher in five Giambi said. “Hopefully, this will games to pitch at least eight get us going and get us on a little innings, and the Red Sox over­ bit of a tear.” came a three-run deficit with Hideki Matsui hit his 400th the help of David Ortiz’s two-run professional homer and drove in single to beat the Los Angeles three runs for the Yankees, who Angels Wednesday night. fell behind 4-0 in the first inning “You go eight innings, you are and lost slugger Gary Sheffield doing something really well,” to a tight hamstring. manager Terry Erancona said. But New York fought back and During Boston’s last five improved to 5-10 against last- games, Arroyo and Matt AP Alex Rodriguez congratulates Jason Giambi after his eighth inning home run Wednesday. The two place Tampa Bay this year after Clement each went eight run shot put the Yankees up 5-4, after New York had fallen behind 4-0 in the first inning. beginning the season 80-31 innings, and David Wells and against the low-budget Devil Tim Wakefield pitched complete Rays, who began play in 1998. games. Ervin Santana (8-7) gave up all Chicago White Sox 5-4, accord­ Rodriguez drove in two runs Knocked out of his previous Curt Schilling was the only six of Boston’s runs. ing to the Elias Sports Bureau. each for the Twins, who trailed outing when he was hit in the member of the current rotation “That shows you right there 5-0 in the second inning for the collarbone by a line drive, Jaret to fall short of eight innings in Oakland 8, Seattle 7 how big a w in th is w a s ,” A’s second game in a row. On Wright settled down after a his last start, but showed OAKLAND, Calif. — Nick closer Huston Street said. “In Tuesday, they took a one-run shaky start. improvement in working 6 1-3 Swisher planned on having an order to score five runs you have lead into the ninth before losing “That’s the most important innings in Monday's 5-3 loss to easy afternoon Wednesday after to do a lot of things and get a lit­ to the Rangers 10-7. thing. He didn’t lose his compo­ the Chicago White Sox. Oakland manager Ken Macha tle lucky. It was unbelievable. Brad Radke became the sec­ sure,” manager Joe Torre said. “You kind of feed off each told him he had the day off. You saw everybody coming ond straight Twins starter to last Tanyon Sturtze (5-3) worked 1 other,” said Arroyo (12-9). “I was going to use it to get my through.” just two innings, following Kyle 1-3 scoreless innings for the “You’re thinking about head right, and the next thing Seattle led 5-0 after three Lohse. Radke allowed five runs win, and Mariano Rivera pitched Wakefield going nine last night. you know I’m up there hitting,” innings and was on the verge of and eight hits. a perfect ninth for his 36th save ... I’m sitting down on the bench he said. sweeping its first series at Joe Mays, J.C. Romero, Juan in 40 tries. The Yankees thinking the same thing, trying Swisher walked with the bases Oakland since April 2001 before Rincon and Joe Nathan com­ remained four games behind to get deep in the game.” loaded to force in the final run the comeback against Eddie bined for seven innings of one- first-place Boston in the AL East Mike Timlin got three outs for as the Athletics overcame a four- Guardado (1-2), who blew a save run, five-hit relief. Mays pitched and a half-game ahead of his seventh save, but a rotation run ninth-inning deficit in a win for the third time in 34 chances, 3 2-3 scoreless innings, his Cleveland in the wild-card race. battered by injuries to Schilling for the first time in 48 years, and Jeff Nelson, who walked longest stint since he was With Tampa Bay ahead 4-3, and Wade Miller and inconsis­ beating the Seattle Mariners. Swisher on a 3-2 pitch. removed from the starting rota­ Joe Borowski (1-3) retired his tency earlier in the season is just “The way things have been tion late last month. first two batters in the eighth where Erancona wants it with going, to pull off a win like this Minnesota 8, Texas 6 Romero (4-3) got three outs, before Alex Rodriguez reached 24 games left. Boston main­ gives us momentum and confi­ MINNEAPOLIS — The and Nathan pitched the ninth for out and punched a single to cen­ tained its four-game lead over dence,” Swisher said. “The way Minnesota Twins came back his 36th save in 41 chances. ter. Giambi then drove an 0-1 the New York Yankees in the AL it happened was cool.” from a five-run deficit for the Nathan allowed Hank Blalock's pitch down the right-field line East. Mark Kotsay and Eric Chavez second straight day. This time two-out single and Alfonso for his 27th homer. “Obviously, early in April we hit two-run doubles before they won. Soriano’s double before striking “It was a slider that didn’t didn’t let pitchers go as deep Swisher's walk. The last time Minnesota took advantage of a out Kevin Mench. slide. It stayed right there on the into games, Erancona said. “We the Athletics came back from throwing error by pitcher Doug Minnesota, which avoided get­ inner half. It was a nice pitch to don’t want them to get into the four runs down in the ninth to Brocail on a bunt to score two ting swept in the three-game hit,” Borowski said. “I tried to dog days of September and have win was in a doubleheader runs in the sixth inning, beating series, began the day 5 1/2 blow it foul, but it stayed true them dragging. So we really try opener on July 4, 1957, when the Rangers Wednesday. games back in the AL wild-card right down the line.” to monitor them closely.” the Kansas City A’s beat the Mike Redmond . and Luis race.

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NFL City agrees to Colts' Moss poses challenge to Pats new stadium in '08 Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Associated Press ber of the state stadium New England Patriots marvel at board, said he believed that the talent of Randy Moss. They’ll INDIANAPOLIS — T he the stadium would be fin­ see it up close Thursday night Indianapolis Colts and the ished on time even though when the receiver who grabs state board overseeing con­ continued negotiations pre­ attention as well as passes struction of a new downtown vented the planned Aug. 1 makes his debut with the stadium have reached an groundbreaking. Oakland Raiders. agreement clearing the way The team and the city Yet if anyone should know that for work to start on the $500 announced an agreement last one star can’t win a game by million project, a state sena­ week on a new stadium lease himself it’s the Super Bowl tor said Wednesday. that will keep the team in champions, who built their suc­ The deal is expected to be Indianapolis for at least the cess on the team concept. formally announced next 30 years. The state is “We played a team sim ilar to Thursday by the Indiana overseeing construction of that before in Philadelphia and Stadium and Convention the new stadium, but it will Terrell Owens is one of those Center Building Authority, be operated by the city. players, dynamic players that said Senate Tax Committee Demolition work already can change the game,” line­ Chairman Luke Kenley, R- has started near the RCA backer Willie McGinest said, Noblesville. Dome to make room for the “and I don’t think one guy can AP Kenley said the biggest new stadium. control everybody else.” Randy Moss celebrates during an Aug. 26 preseason game hurdle in negotiations was a The state Legislature had Owens caught nine passes for against Arizona. Moss’ Raiders take on the Patriots today. proposed $3 per ticket tax authorized the ticket tax, but 122 yards in the Super Bowl 6 for Colts games, which is not the Colts argued against the 1/2 weeks after ankle surgery, around on a reverse on me. My “LaMont’s impact could be the included in the deal. The it, saying that ticket holders but the Patriots beat the Eagles job is to contain him and it was a key for us,” Collins said, “could ticket tax would have already pay a 5 percent 24-21 for their third title in four little frightening.” give us that balance that we brought in about $2.5 mil­ admissions tax, which is years. The Patriots have managed the lacked to make defenses play us lion, and Kenley said officials going up to 6 percent. Thursday night’s NFL opener past two seasons to handle a little more honestly. ” wanted to make sure they The team will pay $100 begins the Patriots’ quest to teams with exceptionally talent­ That would make the combina­ would have enough money million toward the stadium, become the first team to win ed individuals. They’re 34-4 in tion of Collins, who has thrown without it to cover expenses. with the other 80 percent of three consecutive champi­ that stretch, including 6-0 in the for more than 3,000 yards the “The revenue sources have the cost coming from restau­ onships. playoffs. past five seasons, and Moss even enough of a cushion that they rant taxes in central Indiana, In March, the Raiders obtained “The type of character we have more dangerous — as long as will probably be all right,” as well as on hotels and Moss from Minnesota, where he around here, guys don’t quit,” Moss’ tendency to draw attention Kenley said. rental cars in Marion County. averaged 82 catches for 1,306 McGinest said. “Guys play hard to himself and his controversial Colts spokesman Craig Several counties surround­ yards and 13 touchdowns in and they look forward to chal­ comments and actions don’t get Kelley said he did not imme­ ing Indianapolis have seven seasons, although he was lenges like that.” in the way. diately know about any plans approved a new 1 percent slowed by a hamstring injury last The Raiders were 5-11 last He said last month he had used to announce a stadium deal food and beverage tax, and year. year and 4-12 in 2003, but made marijuana but “it’s in the past.” with the state. Marion County raised its His rare combination of speed, it to the Super Bowl the previous He was fined $10,000 last season An agreement between the restaurant tax from 1 per­ jumping ability and excellent season and lost to Tampa Bay. for pretending to pull down his Colts and the state was the cent to 2 percent to help hands drew raves from the Moss is just part of the chal­ pants and moon the crowd in last significant step prevent­ finance the project, which Patriots. lenge posed by the Oakland Green Bay during a playoff win ing major work from starting also includes expansion of “He doesn’t really have any offense. There’s also quarterback by Minnesota. And he was criti­ on the 63,000-seat the downtown convention real weakness,” coach Bill Kerry Collins’ strong arm and cized for leaving the field with 2 retractable-roof stadium, center. The suburban coun­ Belichick said. running back LaMont Jordan’s seconds left in a regular-season which is slated to be com­ ties will keep half the money “He’s a special player, ” line­ chance to show he can be a pro­ loss to Washington. pleted before the 2008 NFL raised by the tax with the backer Chad Brown said. “He ductive starter after four years Collins thinks coming to a new season. rest going toward the stadi­ can do things no other player as Curtis Martin’s backup with team can be “a rebirth” for Kenley, a nonvoting mem­ um project. can. I’ve actually had him come the New York Jets. Moss.

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NCAA F o o t b a l l Texas' Young is early season Heisman hopeful

ered a lack of leadership in Brown has watched Young throwing motion isn’t pretty. you’ve almost got to make Longhorns' standout the Sooners’ loss to Southern mature as a player and a He throws a soft deep ball, but them one-dimensional and begins year Saturday California in the national title leader, which makes him more sometimes gets lazy on the make them throw the ball on game this past January. comfortable as a coach to let shorter passes, dropping to a every down.” visiting Ohio State “As a leader and as a quar­ him loose. sidearm delivery. Even when Young drops terback, you’ve got to keep “He flipped the switch and Even so, he completed near­ back to pass, defenses soon Associated Press everybody in the game,” he took over our team,” Brown ly 60 percent of his passes last -realize that forcing him into said. “Jason White should said. “It’s fun to have a season and was 13-of-15 in the pocket and keeping him AUSTIN, Texas — Vince have done more.” mature guy who’s not (just) the first half of the season there can be two different Young calls it the Texas Two- He’s taken his charge to the surviving at quarterback. He’s opener. Young bristles at challenges. Even Young’s Step. coaching staff as well. getting better every play.” questions about whether he’s teammates sometimes don’t A quick fake followed by a Young was part of a group of Young rushed for 1,079 a “complete” quarterback. know where he’s going. burst of speed and the Texas players who went to coach yards last season, with 14 “If you’re completing the “There’s been a couple of quarterback is past a defend­ Mack Brown and urged him to touchdowns, to go with 1,849 ball downfield to your times we got caught standing er and dancing all the way to listen to some hip-hop music yards and 12 TDs through the receivers, you’re a quarter­ around and he’s still back the end zone. the players like. Brown says air. In a 60-3 season-opening back,” Young said. there running,” said tackle At 6-foot-5, 233 pounds with he downloaded the music him­ win over Louisiana-Lafayette, But defenses fear his legs Justin Blalock. “It gives us a 4.4 speed, he’s the most dan­ self into his iPod digital music he passed for 173 yards and m ost. lot of confidence to know gerous running quarterback player. three TDs and scored another “Vince Young is definitely there’s a playmaker back in the country. In Texas’ 38-37 “I was telling him sometimes on the ground. the heartbeat of that team,” there. Rose Bowl win last season, he what 50 Cent be saying, it’s If there’s a knock on Young, said Ohio State defensive line­ “When the chips are down,” ripped off dazzling TD runs of similar to some of our guys’ it’s his passing. He threw 11 man Mike Kudla. “You’ve defi­ Blalock said, “he can pull 20, 60, 10 and 23 yards, leav­ lives,” Young said. interceptions last year and his nitely got to contain him and something from nowhere.” ing Michigan defenders punching the air in frustration or bent over gasping for b reath . Now a top contender for the Heisman Trophy, Young leads No. 2 Texas back into Big 10 country for Saturday night’s matchup with No. 4 Ohio State. The glamour non-con­ ference game of the season is the first meeting of the elite programs and has national title implications just two weeks into the schedule. “It’s going to be a game you’ll always remember,” Young said. “I sense a great opportunity for our team.” And for himself. Stoking the flames of this blockbuster matchup, Ohio State players have said they want to knock Young out of the Heisman chase. “Our goal is when Vince Young leaves here, he won’t be a candidate for the Heisman,” said Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter. “I’m not too much getting into the Heisman right now,” Young said. “It’s all about my teammates right now. Whatever they want to say, let them talk, man.” Young has been talking to his teammates about this game for months. When the players trickled back to cam­ pus for summer conditioning, u he left them a written mes­ sage in the locker room: “If you want to beat Ohio State, meet me here every night at 7 p.m .” He is now the undisputed leader of a Texas team searching for its first outright national title since 1969. The Longhorns shared the title in 1970. “This is Vince’s team,” said defensive end Tim Crowder. 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NFL Browns look to Crennel for leadership, success

Associated Press after former owner Art Modell moved them to Baltimore and CLEVELAND — With a whistle six years since their expansion hanging from his sweat-soaked reincarnation, the Browns, once neck, Browns first-year coach one of the league’s giants, are Borneo Crennel began his post­ only a few months removed practice news conference during from bottoming out. training camp with a quick Since 1999, they’ve lost a weather report. league-high 66 regular-season “Nice, warm sunny day,” he games, changed coaches three said, smiling. “How’s everyone times, endured innumerable doing?” personnel moves and gutted Fine, thanks. In July and their front office. There have August, Clevelanders usually been costly injuries, blown draft feel pretty good about life in picks and assorted off-the-field northeast Ohio — and the disruptions, the latest being Browns. But in September the Kellen Winslow Jr.’s season-end­ climate changes, football season ing motorcycle crash. arrives and the wind off Lake To some fans, Cleveland’s Erie offers a chilling reminder of three years without the Browns colder, harsher days ahead. were better than the past six Crennel senses them coming. watching them. Just days before making his “It has made me sick,” offen­ NFL head coaching debut after sive tackle Ryan Tucker said. 24 years as an assistant, New “Losing stinks worse than any­ AP England’s former defensive thing, man. I’m tired of it.” Romeo Crennel looks on as the Browns stretch during practice Aug. 22. The ex-New England coordinator insists he’s still As was owner Randy Lerner, defensive coordinator will coach his first game Sunday as head coach in Cleveland. enjoying being the man in who along with team president charge of reviving the Browns. John Collins, hired general man­ generation of Browns fans out on the field. He and Savage have Crennel isn’t expecting die-hard “Sure, so far,” Crennel said. ager Phil Savage away from the there,” Savage said. “They overhauled the roster, getting Cleveland fans to be very patient “The honeymoon is still going Ravens, stripped Crennel from haven’t enjoyed the feel-good rid of 22 players who made at with him. right now. Ask me in a couple the Patriots and changed almost atmosphere of having a quality, least one start last season. The “They want to win,” the 58- weeks, and the answer may be everything about the Browns winning product. That is really club will open 2005 with 26 new year-old said. “Everyone in the different." but their orange helmets. our objective.” faces — 10 rookies. NFL wants to win. Like I told the No doubt. B ecause 10 years “In my opinion, there’s a lost Crennel’s job is to fix the mess The coach is new, too. But team, this is a new beginning. If

NFL Indianapolis' defensive schemes challenge Simon

his first full practice with the rest He skipped all of Philadelphia’s it and not have to worry about Tripplett, a second-round pick Ex-Philadelphia star of the team Wednesday after­ minicamps and its training camp anything.” in 2002, started every game two running out of timenoon. and agreed to a five-year deal Coach Tony Dungy listed years ago, but was a reserve last He still doesn’t know how with the Colts with­ Simon behind season. He said he wasn’t wor­ before start of season much playing time he’ll see dur­ in days after the starter Larry ried about losing his starting ing the opener Sunday night at Eagles released “I feel like Tripplett at left spot again to Simon. Associated Press Baltimore. him. Superman. I feel tackle and said “Just having a player of his “We’re going to roll and see Since then, h e ’s Simon would capability, I’m excited to be INDIANAPOLIS — The what happens,” Simon said. “I been scrambling to like I could go all probably be on the around him,” Tripplett said. “I’m Indianapolis Colts playbook is as feel like Superman. I feel like I familiarize himself day. But that’s not field for 20 to 30 taking this as a learning experi­ important to Corey Simon as his could go all day. But that’s not w ith th e my deal [to plays on Sunday. ence. I know he’s a good football helmet or pads. my deal [to decide].” Indianapolis defen­ “He did fine,” player and ready to go, so I The former Pro Bowl defensive Simon was the Eagles’ first- sive schemes. decide], ” Dungy said after wouldn’t be surprised if we saw tackle, signed last week after he round pick and the sixth overall “I think I’m doing Wednesday’s prac­ a lot of Corey on Sunday." was released by Philadelphia in selection in the 2000 draft. In really well, ” he Corey Simon tice. “He’s really Quarterback Peyton Manning a contract dispute, is hurriedly five seasons with Philadelphia, said. “It’s different Colts’ defensive end learning what we said Simon’s presence on trying to learn the Colts’ system, he had 270 tackles and 32 sacks, than I played in do very quickly. defense will likely help the as well as get back into football but he would not sign a one-year Philadelphia, not He’s a big power­ offense, too. shape. He went through a couple franchise tender the Eagles as much blitzing and things of ful guy, something we had not “Coach Dungy’s philosophy is brief walkthroughs Monday and offered him because he wanted a that sort, so you’re able to really had inside. I think it’s going to to get the best players out Wednesday mornings and had long-term contract. pin your ears back and get after help us.” there,” Manning said. “The more good players we can get on this team, the better we ll be as a team. Corey’s a veteran, he’s a player who has made big plays in his career, he’s used to win­ Summer Internships in Mexico ning.” The Colts, 0-5 in their first winless preseason since 1990, Notre Dame - Universidad de Guadalajara used few starters in those games. Several players, includ­ ing center Jeff Saturday, missed USAID Program for Small Agricultural Producers the entire preseason with injuries. “I’m ready to get back,” said Saturday, who was sidelined by a hamstring injury. “I probably What: Team Presentations of Summer 2005 could have come back a while ago, but it just wasn’t quite ready.” projects (with reception to follow) Another player expected to return is receiver Brandon Why: Opportunity for ND students to work with Stokley, who missed the presea­ son with a shoulder injury. Stokley, one of three Colts Mexican students in agribusiness projects receivers with at least 1,000 yards and 10 TD catches last season, returned to practice When: Thursday, September 8th, Monday and expects to play against the Ravens. 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. “Right now it looks that way,” he said. “I’m just waiting for a coach’s decision. ... But it’s as Where: C-103 Hesburgh Center good a time as ever to try it out. It feels good. It’s either going to bo healthy or it’s not, so it’s time to play football.” Around the N ation Thursday, September 8, 2005 COMPILED FROM THE OBSERVER'S WIRE SERVICES page 20

NFL Preseason Standings MLB AFC East team record perc. PF PA NY Jets 3-1 .750 89 53 Buffalo 2-2 .500 63 54 New England 2-2 .500 80 80 Miami 1-4 .250 78 105 AFC North team record perc. PF PA Cleveland 3-1 .750 74 56 Pittsburgh 3-1 .750 86 68 Baltimore 2-2 .500 64 62 Cincinnati 2-2 .500 92 67 AFC South team record perc. PF PA Jacksonville 2-2 .500 74 84 Houston 1-3 .250 56 96 Tennessee 1-3 .250 71 78 Indianapolis 0-5 .000 72 143 AFC West team record perc. PF PA Denver 4-0 .764 113 80 San Diego 2-2 .654 87 74 Oakland 1-3 .543 59 63 Kansas City 0-4 .432 73 101 NFC East team record perc. PF PA Dallas 3-1 .750 77 52 NY Giants 3-1 .750 83 55 Philadelphia 2-2 .500 92 106 Washington 1-3 .250 64 88

NFC North AP team record perc. PF PA Mariners’ rookie shortstop Mike Morse dives for a ground ball in an Aug. 24 game against the Rangers. Morse Minnesota 3-1 .750 90 81 was suspended for ten games on Wednesday for violating the leagues’ steroid policy. Chicago 3-2 .600 86 86 Green Bay 2-2 .500 41 78 Detroit 1-3 .250 50 75 Mariners' rookie suspended for steroids NFC South team record perc. PF PA Associated Press was denied by arbitrator in the trade that sent the Athletics, Morse apolo­ Shyam Das. pitcher Freddy Garcia to gized to “the fans, my Atlanta 4-1 .800 107 72 OAKLAND, Calif. — “This result is unfair and the Chicago White Sox. teammates, the Mariners Carolina 2-2 .500 89 78 Seattle Mariners rookie unfortunate. It punishes “We think you cannot organization, baseball and Tampa Bay 2-2 .500 89 68 Mike Morse was suspend­ Michael Morse again for evaluate a program based to my family,” and he New Orleans 1-3 .250 64 95 ed 10 days Wednesday for conduct for which he has on the results of a single offered an explanation. NFC West violating baseball’s already been punished,” case, that overall, the rules “Back in November 2003 steroids policy, and said he said Michael Weiner, the that we negotiated are when 1 was 21 years old, I team record perc. PF PA was still being punished union’s general counsel. designed to be strict but made an enormous mis­ Arizona 3-1 .750 75 74 for an “enormous mistake” “The PA does not believe fair with the overall goal take in my life: I took St. Louis 3-1 .750 102 85 he made in 2003. the parties ever intended being to deter use,” said steroids while in the minor San Francisco 2-2 .500 82 80 Morse became the ninth for the Basic Agreement to Rob Manfred, executive leagues,” he said. “My Seattle 2-2 .500 88 73 major league player penal­ compel such a harsh vice president of labor thigh muscle, whichI had ized under the sport’s result.” relations in the commis­ previously torn, had never tougher drug rules. Morse, 23, was batting sioner’s office. “To the healed and I was scared He hit a go-ahead single .287 with three home runs extent that anyone dis­ that my career was over. I MIAA Women’s Soccer in the seventh inning for a and 23 RBIs in 209 at-bats agrees with the result in a was desperate and made a 3-2 win over Oakland on since being called up from particular case, it might be terrible mistake which I Tuesday, and on Triple-A earlier this sea­ the result of our desire to deeply regret. Overall Standings Wednesday the grievance son. deter use.” “In May 2004,1 was pun­ team record points GF GA by the players’ association The infielder-outfielder In a statement before ished and suspended, Calvin 2-1-0 6 9 3 to overturn the suspension was acquired last season Wednesday’s game against which I deserved.” Hope 2-1-0 6 3 1 Tri-State 2-1-0 6 8 6 Alma 1-0-1 4 1 0 ST. MARYS 1-2-0 3 4 8 In B rief Kalamazoo 0-1-1 1 2 4 Adrian 0-2-0 0 2 10 Albion 0-2-0 0 1 7 Big 12 coaches satisfied good after initially ruled an incom­ NBA stars to play charity Olivet 0-3-0 0 3 12 with instant replay plete pass. game for Katrina victims DALLAS — Nebraska coach Bill Tressel undecided on HOUSTON— LeBron James, Kobe Callahan was one of the staunchest starting quarterback Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett proponents for instant replay in the COLUMBUS— Sometime before No. and other NBA stars will play in a Big 12. He still is, even after five 4 Ohio State meets No. 2 Texas on game Sunday in Houston to benefit plays were reviewed in the Saturday night, Buckeyes coach Jim Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Cornhuskers’ season opener. Tressel must decide who will be his TNT basketball analyst Kenny “They were possession calls and starting quarterback. A lot of people Smith organized the game at the around the dial boundary calls and things of that will be watching closely, reading a lot Toyota Center. It will start at 5 p.m. nature. I think it was well done,” — maybe too much — into what is EDT and will air on TNT at 11 p.m. Callahan said. “The calls were well- behind his decision. EDT. represented and logically thought out On one hand is Justin Zwick, the Organizers said Wednesday that NFL before they pulled the trigger and steady starter from last week’s 34-14 participating players will donate Oakland at New England 9 p.m., ABC asked for a replay. What occurred beating of Miami (Ohio), a bright kid money and supplies valued at more was valid, was logistical.” who quietly lends direction to the than $1 million to aid Katrina vic­ MLB There were eight Big 12 home offense. tims. games in which instant replay was He’s got a good but not great arm Florida at Washington 7:05 p.m., ESPN Players are scheduled to hand out used for the first time last weekend. and at 6-foot-4 and 225 pounds will truckloads of supplies to shelters There were seven plays reviewed, never be mistaken for an Olympic across the city before the game. Tennis the five at Nebraska and one each in sprinter. He is dependable, not spec­ Other players set to play include: US Open Day 11 Coverage 11 a.m., 7 p.m. the Texas and Oklahoma games. tacular. Steve Francis, Sam Cassell, Jermaine USA Network Two calls were overturned in the On the other is Troy Smith, the star O’Neal, Ron Artest, Stephon Cornhuskers’ 25-7 victory over of last year’s upset of No. 7 Michigan Marbury, Chauncey Billups, Paul Maine on Saturday. An interception whose name has been linked to Pierce, Lindsey Hunter, Alonzo by Maine’s Daren Stone was called NCAA investigations ever since. Mourning and Charles Oakley. Thursday, September 8, 2005 The Observer ♦ SPORTS page 21

NFL Robinson receives second chance with Vikings Ex-Seahawks xvideout currently in alcohol treatment after being released by Seattle

Associated Press from the charge, but the Vikings are confident his troubles with EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — alcohol are behind him. Stuck in an alcohol treatment He was cut by the Seahawks, center in South Carolina, Koren three seasons after showing so Robinson wasn’t sure where his much promise when he caught life was headed. 78 passes for 1,240 yards and Overcome with anxiety, guilt five touchdowns. and embarrassment, Robinson “I definitely got caught up in tried to figure out how he went the NFL lifestyle,” Robinson from ninth overall draft pick in said. “That didn’t get me where 2001 to sitting on the brink of I wanted to go, where I wanted career ruin. to be. I had to do something Then the phone rang. else, man.” Vikings coach Mike Tice was Robinson checked into the on the other end and, after a treatment facility and spiraled few conversations, Tice told the into a pit of self-doubt. troubled young receiver that he “It was tough,” Robinson said, may have a second chance swallowing hard, his eyes waiting for him in Minnesota welling up with tears. “I was when he checked out of rehab. afraid, I was scared. The fear of Suddenly, Robinson had hope. the uncertainty, not knowing if I “To have someone like Coach was ever going to get the oppor­ Tice call you and say they’ll give tunity to play ball again. me an opportunity once you get Knowing that I had to do some out of there, it’s that much bet­ things to get myself right, per­ ter to go in and do what you sonally, as far as being a better have to do and get out of there,” father, a better son, a better Robinson, his voice quivering a brother. I felt like I had to get bit. “It gives you motivation to that right first and foremost get everything handled, because before any of the football you have someone waiting on things. you when you get out. In any “I felt like I was embarrassing situation, any aspect of your my family. My parents didn’t life, to be wanted feels good.” raise me like that, for the things Koren Robinson stretches during an April workout with Seattle. The troubled receiver was picked Robinson signed with the I was doing. They didn’t raise up by Minnesota after being released earlier this year by the Seahawks. Vikings on Tuesday. Now the me like that. It was time for a former North Carolina State change.” back Daunte Culpepper said. close friend of Robinson’s from think this young man has done star is looking to resurrect a A player with Robinson’s “His off-the-field things, every­ their days at North Carolina that. I think he deserves a sec­ career — and a life — that was speed and talent will always get body goes through something to State. Williams encouraged Tice ond chance.” overwhelmed by the tempta­ a second chance. That it came get where they want. We have to pursue Robinson and Hearing that, Robinson could tions of pro football during his with the Vikings, who dumped to welcome him and embrace vouched for him on a personal only express appreciation and four years in Seattle. Randy Moss in the offseason him and hope that he under­ level. gratitude toward Tice for giving Robinson pleaded guilty in because they were tired of the stands the importance of him Now it’s up to Robinson to him that chance. July to drunken driving and had distractions he created, came as being successful and doing the prove his friend right. Wearing “Being down there in that all but one day of his yearlong a mild surprise. right thing. ” No. 18, Robinson is currently treatment facility, man, it just sentence suspended. He has a “Koren Robinson is a guy who Easing the transition will be listed as sixth on the depth made me reflect on everything Sept. 14 court date stemming has such great ability, ” quarter- cornerback Brian Williams, a chart at receiver and Tice said as far as growing up as a little he did not expect him to suit up kid to that point, ” Robinson for at least the first two games. said. “I’d been taking a lot of “We’re not going to rush him things for granted. I see that. because I have some pretty I’m just ready to move forward good receivers ahead of him with my life and my career. ” right now who are really com­ But he knows it will be a long ing on quite strong,” Tice said. time before anyone lets him for­ What ultimately convinced the get about his troubles, and DRAFTING DIVERSITY coach to give Robinson another before he gets a complete han­ shot was his humble demeanor dle on them himself. and willingness to admit he For now, he’s just happy that ENHANCING OUR CULTURAL COMMUNITY needed help. some sense of normalcy has “He voluntarily went into returned to a life marked by too rehab and knows that he many highs and lows for too messed up,” Tice said. “You long. A Leadership Training Retreat deal with those spoiled athletes “Very chaotic,” Robinson said,, and a lot of times even though describing these last few Friday-Saturday they’ve made mistakes and months, before pausing to com­ they’re caught, they still don’t pose himself. “It’s been sad, it’s September 30-0ctober 1 want to admit they need to get had its ups and downs. But I’ve some things squared away. I learned a lot from it.

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U S A H ockey Four goalies try out for spot vacated by Richter

Young netminders filling out Olympic rosters in for the Turin Games in is 27 and has the most NHL m anager Don Waddell said. “If 1998. February. experience. He has played 128 you watch what we have going vie to replace 1996 It was a simple choice. He A young crew of four goalies regular-season NHL gam es and on right now with the four guys grew up in the USA Hockey was invited to this week’s helped the Flyers reach Game 7 we have here, three are experi­ World Cup MVP program, played in the Olympic hockey orientation of the Eastern Conference enced NHL players and one is Olympics as an amateur in camp and all like their chances. finals in 2004. on his way to what will be a Associated Press 1988 and then won a Stanley “These are young kids. This is The other three are 23-year- very bright NHL career. Not since 1994 has a mystery Cup with the New York the foundation,” three-time old Rick DiPietro of the New “The goaltending end of it, surrounded who would be the Rangers. He sealed his position Olympic forward Keith York Islanders, 29-year-old Ty where it might have been a United States’ top Olympic as “the guy” with an MVP per­ Tkachuk said Wednesday. “You Conklin of Edmonton, and question a few years ago, I goalie. formance in the 1996 World need great goaltending, and Buffalo’s Ryan Miller, who is think is starting to answer Mike Richter was a given, a Cup. that’s what we’ve had over the only 25. itself. I think it will be a true constant for the American But he couldn’t play forever. years with Mike Richter.” “There are going to be some strength for us come team once NHL players starting Now there isn’t a clear choice Robert Esche of Philadelphia tough choices,” U.S. general F ebruary.” FAITHPOINT Thursday, September 8, 2005 W fiat's

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minute of play, on an unassisted the ball more. Brewster welcomes the shot from Caroline Leighton (1 “1 think when it’s I the challenge. She sees it as an Titans goal, 1 assist). Brewster match] on the line, she wants opportunity, and she has no The Belles had trouble dealing continued from page 28 continued from page 28 the ball,” Brown said. “And fear of other American with a quick Titans offense — a she just does smart things. It’s Volleyball Coaches Association team much faster than Saint with a lot of intensity. We made week. her experience, her leader­ Top 25 teams — just respect. Mary’s customary competition. the needed adjustments in the On Sunday night, Brewster ship, the way she’s leading by “It is such an opportunity to “They made it very difficult for second half. collected a career-high 28 exam ple. play a team in the top 25,” us in terms of trying to figure out “In terms of the outcome from kills, also the second-highest “She was outstanding [last she said. a way to slow them down a bit,” a coaching perspective, we had total ever by a Notre Dame weekend |.” Now, the Irish themselves Mackenzie said. “They were a players positionally not in com­ middle blocker. There’s not much of a break are in the top 25. They very technical team, they just fortable places.” The senior middle blocker for Notre Dame — just this entered at No. 19 this week played a better brand of soccer The Titans put away their third has been “unbelievably valu­ week in practice to prepare after their successful week­ than we did tonight.” goal to go up 3-0 in the 36th able to the team for another end. The Belles held the Titans minute. Midfielder Lyndsay right now,” tough tourna­ The ranking is their highest scoreless for the remaining 30 O’Brien pocketed a pass from Brown said. ment. since Nov. 2003 when they minutes of regulation, making “I think when [the forward Amy Slott past Belles’ While she had a The Irish will were No. 17. They are 3-0 for the necessary changes to handle goal tender Laura Heline. few lapses in her match is] on the travel to San the first time since the 2002 the explosive Titans Mackenzie credited Heline usually excep­ Antonio this season. attackers.This was the last tune- line, she wants the with playing a strong game. tional serving weekend for the Notre Dame hopes to have up before the Belles begin MIAA ball." “She made a great effort, han­ over the week­ University of sophomore starting outside conference play on Saturday dled a lot of shots,” Mackenzie end, the 6-foot-3 T e x a s S an hitter Ellen Heintzman back against strong rival Hope said. Brewster gained Debbie Brown Antonio Dome by this weekend. She injured College. Mackenzie feels her Also coming up with strong confidence as Rally in the her medial collateral ligament team will come ready to play and Irish head coach performances for the Belles were the matches Alamodome, the in the Michigan match and sat start of their season strong. seniors Carrie Orr, Shannon went along. site of this y ear’s out the Shamrock Invitational. “We have to take two steps Culbertson and Maura Schoen. Already equipped with out­ volleyball Final Four. As a team with momentum, back before we take a step for­ On offense, Carolyn Logan and standing talent and work Continuing its already gruel­ with a national player of the w ard,” she said. “We will sort it Lauren Hinton pressured the ethic, she is nearly unstop­ ing schedule, Notre Dame week and a returning starter, out. We have the ability to be a Wesleyan defense but could not pable on offense and impassa­ takes on No. 8 ranked the Irish might be the ones to really good team.” find the back of the net. ble on defense as matches Southern California Friday at be feared in San Antonio. The last goal for Wesleyan progress. 7 p.m., Oklahoma Saturday at came near the start of the sec­ Contact Kyle Cassily at Some athletes might tire 1:30 p.m. and No. 6 ranked Contact Tom Dorwart at ond half, just past the 50th [email protected] and fade, but Brewster wants Florida Sunday at 11 a.m. [email protected]

MLB Matsui slams 400th career home run in win

of Japan’s Central League doesn’t think Matsui had been cutting New York’s deficit to Japan for his power, Matsui Yankees slugger hit from 1993-02. pressing to reach the mile­ 4-3. He finished 2-for-4 with was a three-time Central 332 homers in Japan “The feeling itself, it is the stone. three RBIs, and the Yankees League home run champion same,” Matsui said through a “Knowing him as we do, I rallied to win 5-4 on Jason and hit 40 or more three Associated Press translator. “I don’t really add doubt that, he was goal-orient­ Giambi’s two-run shot in the tim es. Hideki M atsui’s milestone the statistics that I had in ed there _ especially getting eighth. But after hitting a career- made news on two continents. Japan and the home runs up in situations where base “The home run was one high 50 in 2002, he had only The New York Yankees out­ h e re .” hits were so important to us,” thing, but to come back with 16 homers in his first season fielder hit his 400th profes­ But he did keep the ball as a Torre said. “He’s too profes­ the double the next time, that in the major leagues. sional home run Wednesday souvenir. sional, just too good at what was the one that got us back He has 104 RBIs this year, night, connecting in the fourth “To me, it’s not that impor­ he does.” to where we felt we could win his sixth straight season with inning against the Tampa Bay tant,” he said. “Perhaps my Matsui also hit a two-run the game,” Torre said. at least 100 going back to his Devil Rays. father will be pretty happy if 1 double in the sixth inning, Nicknamed “Godzilla” in career in Japan. Matsui’s drive to right-cen­ give it to him.” ter off Doug Waechter gave Waechter retired his first 10 him 21 home runs this season batters before Matsui’s homer, and 68 since joining the his first since Aug. 23 against Yankees in 2003. He hit 332 Toronto’s Miguel Batista. But homers for the Yomiuri Giants Yankees manager Joe Torre Unplanned Pregnancy? Don’t go it alone.

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PGA T o u r Canadian Open struggles to attract big names

player in the world is huge. when Tiger doesn’t come, but schedule puts it right in the man tour player who scored a Woods, Mickelson, Singh injured his back a cou­ the field is as good as it’s ever middle of a pair of tournaments rare win at the Deutsche Bank, others pull out for aple of weeks ago playing ping been,” said Stephen Ross, exec­ on the East Coast — the pulled out. pong with his son and withdrew utive director of the Royal Deutsche Bank Championship Stephen Ames, a native of variety of reasons from last week’s Deutsche Bank Canadian Golf Association, in Boston and next week’s 84 Trinidad who now is a Canadian Championship. Singh’s decision which runs the tournament. Lumber event in Pennsylvania. citizen, said Wednesday the Associated Press to defend his title in the Maybe so, but Mickelson, It also didn’t help that the PGA Tour schedule favors tour­ Regardless of what happens Canadian Open was great news Kenny Perry and Davis Love III Deutsche Bank’s final round nam ents on U.S. soil. the rest of the week, Vijay Singh for a tournament short on are among the tour’s household wasn’t played until Monday. “It feels like we’re being has already given the Canadian headliners. names who played the Some players apparently kicked back into a secondary Open a huge lift — just by “The back is fine,” Singh said Canadian Open last year at Glen weren’t willing to make the long category,” Ames said. “I wish showing up. Wednesday. “I could have a Abbey and aren’t here this trip west after the extended (PGA Tour com m issioner) Tim With Tiger Woods, Phil slight herniated disc, but at my week. With a few extra spots to stay in Boston, then have to (Finchem) would look at that. Mickelson and other top players age, the guy says everybody has work with, 16 Canadian play­ travel back across the U.S. to We have so many foreign play­ passing up the world’s third th at.” ers, including three amateurs, play in Pennsylvania. ers now that we should share oldest pro tournament, the Tournament officials insist are in the field. “It definitely hurt us,” Ross the wealth rather than just presence of the defending this year’s field is just fine, too. Part of the Canadian Open’s said of the PGA’s scheduling. thinking Americans all the champion and second-ranked “I’m always disappointed problem is th a t the PGA Tour Even Olin Browne, a journey­ tim e.”

T ennis Ginepri continues Cinderella U.S. Open run with victory

points after a double-fault to but during the match, the said he was worn out by his body was hurting. It was hard Unseeded American love-40 in the 10th game of more I serve, the more it gets five-set victory over Massu two to keep up the same speed I reaches semifinal the final set as the two play­ tight — the forearm, the shoul­ days earlier — at 4 hours, 32 had. But I gave it all — ran, ers, each wearing white caps der. I knew it could happen. minutes the longest match of tried hard and gave it all I with win over Coria backward, engaged in long That’s just the way it is.” the tournament. could. He won because he rallies. Coria, who missed last year’s “It was a tough break that deserved it. He’s been waiting Associated Press Coria was involved in a tem­ Open because of a shoulder the match with Massu was so for a moment like this for a NEW YORK — Hobby pest with Chilean Nicolas injury that needed surgery, lo n g ,” C oria said , “My w hole long time.” Ginepri, an unsung, unseeded Massu in his previous match, American toiling hard through but against Ginepri there was the U.S. Open, gutted his way nothing but respect. On one out of trouble and got the gift point earlier in the fifth set, of Guillermo Coria’s 13th and the players gave each other a 14th double-faults on the last high-five at the net when they two points to reach a Grand combined for a particularly Slam semifinal for the first thrilling point — a beautifully time. angled drop shot by Coria, a Ginepri, a 22-year-old who full-court running scoop by had never gone beyond the Ginepri feathered barely over third round of the Open, won the net, and a putaway back­ his third straight five-setter hand half-volley winner by u ra against a seeded player, 4-6, Coria. mm 6-1, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, Wednesday Now trailing 4-5, Coria saved and guaranteed that an the second match point with a American will play in the final. backhand, and the third with a Ginepri’s opponent in the brazen overhead from the semis Saturday will be the baseline that skipped off the winner of the Andre Agassi- top of the net cord. James Blake night match. lie hold to 5-5 after one “The last three matches took more long rally. so much out of After serving me. I’m just his ninth ace dead right at 124 mph to now,” Ginepri “The last three hold for a 6-5 told the crowd matches took so much lead in the as his family, fifth set, suffering and out of me. I’m just dead Ginepri celebrating on right now. ” jumped out to alternate his fourth points, watched Robby Ginepri match point at from the play­ 3 0 -4 0 on Tennis player ers’ box. His Coria’s serve sister, Jenni, w h e n th e look photos as wearying he spoke. “1 don’t know how I Argentine slapped a forehand got through that match. just wide. Nervous, Ginepri “I don’t know what’s going pulled the front of his yellow on right now. I’m a little foggy, shirt up to chomp on it with a little dizzy. It’s crazy. Crazy!” his teeth, then tried to close Mary Pierce, the 2000 out the match. French Open and 1995 Instead, he saw Coria save Australian winner, advanced to the point with a forehand that her first U.S. Open semifinals, Ginepri stretched to reach but beating fellow Frenchwoman netted. Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-1. Three points later, Coria Pierce, seeded 12th, will play mishit a backhand wide to give Friday against the winner of Ginepri a fifth match point. the Lindsay Davenport-Elena Coria saved that with a sur­ Dementieva match. prising serve and volley. That “It’s amazing,” said Pierce, was all Coria had left. He dou­ who reached the French Open ble-faulted to set up the sixth final in June. “I’m 30, 17th match point and double-fault­ year on the tour, and there’s ed again to lose. still firsts for me. That’s pretty Coria said he had been hav­ MIDNIGHT exciting.” ing problems with the nerve in G inepri’s victory over the No. his right hand and wasn’t able 8 Coria, the Argentine who to grip the racket hard. cm ittpfoZ was a French Open finalist last “I was losing feeling on the year, took just over three hand,” Coria said in Spanish hours and ended with a dra­ while motioning with his right matic series of six match pinkie. “It has been happening points. for four days. LEGENDS Coria overcame three match “I had a lot of treatment ... No Cover >0) F NOTRE DAME page 26 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Thursday, September 8, 2005

there,” the coach said. “They showed some heart, but we need­ Hope ed to do that throughout the Rushing continued from page 28 match. We had too much of that continued from page 28 in spurts.” ence match of the 2005 season. The Belles could not carry this “One head would go down and momentum into the final game, Irish head coach Charlie Weis then another head would go however. An early Saint Mary’s 3- said his defense will be prepared down,” Schroeder-Biek said. 2 lead was quickly washed away not only for a strong running “That was contagious unfortu­ by ten consecutive Hope points. game, but a diverse one, as well. nately.” Schroeder-Biek eventually called “[Grady] holds about every The Belles looked strong at the a timeout with her team down 28- Michigan rushing record there is outset, jumping to an qarly 4-1 14. known to mankind,” Weis said. lead in the first game of the The Belles came out of the time­ “So you can’t just be concerned match. The Plying Dutch quickly out digging their heels in once with just one guy. They could run responded, though, with a 9-1 again, going on a 5-1 run to bring the ball inside. They could run run, forcing Schroeder-Biek to the score to 29-19. It was too little the ball outside. They could run call the first timeout of the to late, however, as a kill by with speed.” evening. Hope’s Lindsey Schaap brought Weis is not far off in his Saint Mary’s battled back and the match to a close. description of Grady, who holds cut the Hope lead to 19-16 on a The Flying Dutch attack was the Michigan high school state kill-block from freshman orchestrated by junior setter records for carries (1,154), rush­ Catherine Kurczak. Hope Stephanie Poll, who logged an ing yards (8,431), touchdowns regained control from there, how­ astounding 42 assists and a (151), scoring (924) and consecu­ ever, and closed out the game match-high 24 digs. Outside hit­ tive 100-yard rushing games with a final score of 30-18. ters Julie Vanderslice and Kim (24). The second game held more of Brandes caused problems for the When he and Hart are both the same with Hope posting an Belles all night, recording 22 and clicking, that means more oppor­ early 11-5 lead that it would 11 kills, respectively. tunity for second-year quarter­ never surrender. Flying Dutch For the Belles, junior Kristen back Chad Henne to throw the outside attacker Kim Brandes Playko led the way with a team- deep ball — something Notre dominated the Belles front line, high 8 kills and 5 digs. Junior Dame struggled against last sea­ Amanda David, who is a setter for and Hope easily took the game, son and still appears prone to, as TIM SULLIVAN/The O bserver 30-21. the first time in her career, had 21 Pittsburgh exposed on its first Irish linebacker Corey Mays intercepts a pass in practice Aug. Saint Mary’s came to life in the assists and 16 digs for the Belles. series last Saturday. 19. Mays will be key in stopping Michigan’s running game. third game. Hope again estab­ Saint Mary’s next competes in “If we’re running the ball well, lished an early 11-5 lead, but the the Wooster College Invitational the safeties have to come up, Belles refused to give up on the this Friday and Saturday. which open up things for Chad,” Against Northern Illinois last mistakes this week against Notre match and battled back to tie the Schroeder-Biek hopes that her Hart said. Saturday, though the Wolverines Dame. They’re going to definitely game at 14-14. The two teams team can learn from its failures Minter aims to make Michigan rolled, their fifth-year senior left capitalize more on them.” stayed neck and neck until the against Hope and enter the tour­ one dimensional in the passing tackle Adam Stenavich felt his All aspects of football including Belles finally pulled away in the nament with greater confidence game because he knows when group turned in a sub-par per­ preparation, adjustments, coach­ closing points. Freshman middle and focus. Notre Dame did so last season, formance. ing, special teams and others will blocker Kaela Heilman delivered “Maybe this is a good lesson for the result was an extra stroke in “I felt we were just kicking come into play in the heated the final blow for Saint Mary’s, us to see that most sports are the win column. ourselves in the foot a lot,” rivalry Saturday. But the truth, ending the game in a 30-27 Belle m ore m ental than physical. We As opposed to 2003 in Ann Stenavich said. “When we’d get evidenced by recent and all-time victory. beat ourselves before we walked Arbor, when Michigan ran 54 down there, and then that history, is simple. The resiliency shown by Saint onto the court,” Schroeder-Biek times to its 24 pass attempts, the fourth-and-one we didn’t get, When Michigan runs well, Mary’s in the third game stood out said. Irish forced the Wolverines into that stopped the drive. Michigan wins. to Schroeder-Biek as the night’s the air last September — they “Then we had a fumble on the one bright spot. Contact Kevin Brennan at threw 40 passes and ran the ball goal line that stopped another Contact Pat Leonard at “They showed some spirit [email protected] 30 times. drive. We just can’t make those [email protected]

Annual Drinking Water Quality Report

University of Notre Dame Contaminants that might be expected to be in source water (untreated water) Regulated at Point of Entry (Well) include: S ubstance Highest ERA’S ERA’S Range Source of ■ Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, which may come Level MCL MCLG Contamination Annual Drinking Water Quality Report from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock Detected operations and wildlife. Barium (ppm) 0.12 2.0 2.0 0 .0 5 7 - 0 .1 2 Erosion of natural deposits Arsenic (ppm) 0.0025 o .o i < 0.0020 - Erosion of natural deposits 2004 Consumer Confidence Report ■ Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which can be naturally- ° occurring or result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial or domestic Gross alpha 3.8 15 0 1 .9 - 3 .8 Naturally occurring wastewater discharges, oil, pesticides and herbicides. (pCi/L) ■ Organic chemical contaminants, including synthetic and volatile organic G ro ss b e ta (pCi/L) 21.2 50 0 3 .2 - 2 1 .2 Decay of natural and manmade deposits The amendments to the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act require each public water chemicals, which are by-products of industrial processes and petroleum Nitrate (ppm) 0.72 10 10 <0.1 - 0 .7 2 Runoff from fertilizer, septic supply to produce a water quality report titled the Consumer Confidence Report production or can come from gas stations, urban stormwater runoff, and tanks, natural deposits (CCR). Following is the University’s annual report for the 2004 calendar year. septic systems. • Radioactive contaminants, which can be naturally-occurring or are the Unregulated Substances The University's water system is a privately owned public water supply operated result of oil and g as production and mining activities. S ubstance Highest ERA’S ERA’S Range S ource of by the Utilities Department. The University's system provides water to the Level MCL MCLG Contamination University community and the nearby C S C. properties. Questions regarding the Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the Detected Sodium (ppm) 58 100 4 1 - 5 8 Erosion of natural deposits system or sampling results can be directed to Paul Kempt, Director of Utilities, general population. Persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons 102 Facilities Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556, phone 574.631.6594 or Mike who have undergone organ transplants, persons with HIV/AIDS or other immune McCauslin, Assistant Director, Risk Management and Safety. 636 Grace Hall, system disorders, some elderly and infants can be particularly susceptible. Regulated at User Tap These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care Notre Dame, IN 46556, phone 574.631.5037. S ubstance Highest ERA’S ERA’S Range Source Of providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of Level MCL MCLG Contamination There are currently six wells serving the water system, all located on the campus infection from Cryptosporidium and microbial contaminants are available from the Detected proper. The water is drawn from deep aquifers surrounded by substantial clay Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1.800.426.4791) or at the EPA's website at Copper (ppb) 90"r " 350 1300 1300 5 .2 - 350 Corrosion of plumbing www.epa.gov/safewater . percentile sy ste m s barriers that serve to protect the groundwater supply. We do not believe that our Lead (ppb) 90,n 12 15 0 < 1 .0 - 1 2 Corrosion of plumbing source is vulnerable to contamination. We are also taking steps to ensure that percentile sy ste m s our water source does not become contaminated and are in the final stages of a Infants and young children are typically more vulnerable to lead in drinking water Wellhead Protection Program. This program assists in defining where the water than the general population. In general, if you flush your could tap until the water supply comes from and methods to protect the aquifers from potential gets as cold as it is going to get, you will have eliminated the potential metal Definitions contamination. contamination. Additional information is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1.800.426.4791) or at the EPA's website at www.ena.aov/safewater . MCL: Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL). The highest level of a contaminant The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled) include rivers, lakes, allowed in drinking water. streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and wells. As water travels over the surface We have tested for over 150 parameters regulated by the EPA and the State of of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and, in Indiana. Included in these tests were metals, volatile organics, pesticides, MCLG: Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG). The level of a contaminant some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from herbicides, synthetic organic chemicals and cyanide. at which there is no known or expected health risk. animal and human activity. Water Quality Data ppm: parts per million. Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at PPb: parts per billion. least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does The table below lists the EPA's regulated and unregulated contaminants not necessarily indicate the water poses a health risk. More information about detected in the University’s drinking water. All of the contaminants are below 90 - Percentile: 90% of the samples were below the number listed. contaminants and potential health affects can be obtained by calling the allowable levels. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Hotline oCi/L: picocuries per liter. (1.800.426.4791) or at the EPA's website at www-epa.gov/safewater. Not included in the table are the more than 150 other contaminants including pesticides, herbicides, metals, synthetic organic chemicals, volatile organic Since 1993, the University has been granted a Standardized Monitoring chemicals and others which were tested and not detected. Framework (SMF 1), monitoring waiver. Due to the high quality of the water, the monitoring frequencies are significantly reduced. Thursday, September 8, 2005 The Observer ♦ TODAY page 27

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Football SMC V olleyball Wolverine rush Dutchmen Notre Dame defense aims to keep Michigan offense one-dimensional, preferably off-ground get best of

By PAT LEONARD the Belles Sports Writer

The last time Notre Dame played Michigan in Ann Arbor, Schroeder-Biek says the Wolverines ran the ball 54 team mental approach times. Michigan won the game, 38-0. was "disappointing" It’s no secret Michigan coach Lloyd Carr is most comfortable By KEVIN BRENNAN when his team is running the ball Sports Writer efficiently. Even last Saturday, with Michigan up 27-10 at half- Sometimes your head just isn’t time of an eventual 33-17 win in ft. over Northern Illinois, sopho­ Belles coach Julie Schroeder- more running back Mike Hart Biek said that was exactly the had 27 carries for 117 yards and case for the Saint Mary’s volley­ one touchdown. Freshman back ball team last night at the Angela Kevin Grady also had nine car­ Athletic Center. Hope College ries, 42 yards and a touchdown. downed the Belles in four quick “They always had a great games: 30-18, 30-21, 27-30, 30- offensive line, so in the last 15, 19. 20 years they started recruiting “It’s disappointing,” Schroeder- nationwide and the skill has Biek said. “We are capable of so come on board to give them as much stronger play. We didn’t go much speed as most of the mar­ into this mentally as strong as we quee teams in the country,” Irish needed to.” defensive coordinator Rick The coach was upset with the Minter said. “I think it’s all about low level of confidence displayed stopping the run.” CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer by Saint Mary’s in its first confer- Irish defensive end Victor Abiamiri fights off a block against Pitt Saturday. Abiamiri and fellow see RUSHING/page 26 linemen Trevor Laws, Derek Landri and Chris Frome will be key against Michigan’s running game. see HOPE/page 26

SMC S occer ND V olleyball Shorthanded Belles Brewster honored by CVU fall to Illinois Wesleyan Preseason Big East player of the year “Our kids played hard, but we St. Mary's falls 4-0 were missing bodies in the first continues to shine to defending national half that would have really influ­ enced the game,” Belles coach By TOM DORWART Caryn Mackenzie said. “It was champion Wesleyan Sports Writer just one of those games that we took on the chin, and we will By KYLE CASSILY continue to grow and get better.” It’s coaching instinct. Sports Writer Three of the Titans’ goals When preseason All- came in the first half, a sign that American Lauren Brewster Normally, dealing with a the Belles made on-the-fly slips up — which is rarely — defending national champion is adjustments to fight back and Debbie Brown almost wants more work than most teams can take control of the game, to scold her star player. Wesleyan’s Katie Kelly opened handle, but the Belles’ soccer But the 15-year Irish head DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer team had other factors at play in up the scoring quickly, netting coach thinks twice. Irish players Lauren Kelbley, No. 9, and Carolyn Cooper block their 4-0 loss the Titans’ first barely into the “I think it’s interesting a spike against Arizona Sunday. at Illinois third minute of the game. Kelly because there are so many Wesleyan on was assisted by Carissa aspects of the game, and I w eekend against then No. 11 ritory for a Notre Dame vol­ . Wednesday Nemmers on the goal. wouldn’t get down on Lauren ranked Texas (1-1) and leyball player. night. Tina Rodriguez followed that for anything,” Brown said. Arizona State (1-4). But she On Tuesday, Brewster Due to per­ up five minutes later with the “But she struggled with her also had 46 kills, a .310 became the first Irish player sonnel issues, Titans’ second goal, notching the serving. Usually we get a lot attack percentage, 10 digs ever to be named the S ain t M ary’s tally on a pass from Caroline of points on her serving. and 11 blocks on the week­ CVU.com National Player of was forced to Leighton. The Belles would hold “Both last [Saturday] night end, earning tournament MVP the Week by Collegiate put players in back the powerful Wesleyan and tonight [Sunday, in the honors. Volleyball Update and the sec­ unfamiliar Mackenzie attack for nearly the rest of the Shamrock Invitational], she She has led the Irish to a 3- ond ever to be named nation­ positions, a half. started off not serving as well 0 start this season including al player of the week by any recipe that created some distress “We played a tremendous sec­ as she could have, but then last weekend’s sweep of their organization. She was also on the field. The Belles never got ond half, had really good ener­ she finished so strong.” own invite and a victory over named the Big East a feel for the game and despite gy,” Mackenzie said. “We played Brewster, the preseason Big archrival Michigan in the sea­ Conference’s player of the strong play all around, fell to the East player of the year, had a son opener. Her performance highly-touted Titans. see TITANS/page 24 total of six service errors last landed her in unmatched ter­ see BREWSTER/page 24

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