One of our own Another tragedy in Littleton Scene reviews current St. Edward's Hall Two Columbine students are found dead in a Tuesday assistant rector Erik Goldschmidt local resturant and authories are looking new musical project. for answers. FEBRUARY 15, Scene ♦ page 13 News* page 7 2 0 0 0 O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 83 h t t p ://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Despite antics, election ends in run-off of favorites By TIM LOGAN News Editor Despite Darths, a “death” and the debate that many called a debacle, when all the votes were counted Monday evening, it was the two favorites who were left standing in the student body presidential race. Keough Hall senator Brian O’Donoghue and sophomore class vice president Brooke Norton will face Hunt Hanover and junior class presi­ dent John Micek in the run-off elections Thursday. O’Donoghue/Norton received 43 percent of the 3,818 votes cast. Ilanover/Micek garnered 34 percent. John Osborn and Mark Donahey, the Board of Trustees report chairs for student government, finished a distant third with 6.7 percent. The two tickets still alive from the original field of 10 promised to campaign diligently in the next three days. The Run-off “We’re going to keep ♦ What: final elec­ going,” O’Donoghue said. tion for student “We’re going to get our word out to the students body president and and we're going to keep vice president on pushing.” Micek had similar plans ♦ When: Thursday, for his campaign. results announced “I think things went at 9 p .m . well,” ho said. “We just have to work hard and keep our nose to the JOB TURNER/The Observer grindstone.” Surrounded by fellow presidential candidates, Hunt Hanover and John Micek discuss the results of Monday’s pri­ O’Donoghue/Norton received 400 more votes than their rivals, and, while that edge will not mary elections. They will face Brian O’Donoghue and Brooke Norton in a run-off election Thursday. count in Thursday’s voting, it does show that their support is stronger. But Hanover and Micek were not discouraged. “It’s definitely not over,” Hanover said. “Reducing it to two tickets brings in a lot of W a r a p i u s /C o p p i n g e k P a r d o n /H ig g i n s votes.” SHEPHERU/l'OCIfT 0 ‘d o n o g h i u /N o r t o n The other eight tickets split the remaining 23 percent of the vote, with Osborn/Donahey, Joe Shepherd/Jim Focht and “Darth” Todd Warapius/ “Darth” George Coppinger each receiving at least 100 ballots. Warapius, whose campaign goals included establishing a strictly despotic student govern­ P r i m a r y E l e c t i o n R e s u l t s ment, expressed hope for the future, even if O'Donoghue/ Norton 43% someone else would have to carry on his mis­ Hanover/ Micek 34% sion. MANDI POWELL/The O bserver “I guess I’ll have to name an apprentice for next year and hope they fare better,” he said. JOB TURNER/The Observer Osborn and Donahey have no plans for I Brian O’Donoghue and future despots, but they do say they will keep Brooke Norton examine the working in student government. The third- numbers of Monday’s stu­ place pair is still working on this semester’s dent body election. Their Board of Trustees report. They said they were ticket received 400 more not surprised by the results. votes than the second-place “I’m not terribly surprised,” Donahey said of finishers of Hunt Hanover their third-place finish. “We waged a good and John Micek. see ELECTIONS/page' Renewed theology professor McCormick dies at 79 ethics, joined the Notre Dame Ohio, McCormick entered the The recipient of a number of Theological Studies to Sports Special to The Observer faculty in 1986. He previoulsy Society of Jesus in 1940 and academic honors and awards, Illustrated. He made frequent was the Rose F. Kennedy profes­ graduated from Loyola McCormick was a member of the appearances on television news Father Richard McCormick, sor of Christian Ethics in University in Chicago live years American Academy of the Arts programs to discuss both ethical John A. O’Brien professor emeri­ Georgetown University’s later. He obtained a m aster’s and Sciences and past president issues in public policy and eccle­ tus of Christian ethics at Notre Kennedy Center for Bioethics degree from Loyola in 1950 and of the Catholic Theological siastical politics. Dame, died Saturday at from 1973-86 and a professor of in 1953 was ordained to the Society of America. He wrote Visitation will be on Colombiere Center in Clarkston, moral theology at the Jesuit priesthood. In 1957 he obtained numerous books and articles on Wedensday at Gesu Church in Mich. School of Theology in Chicago his doctoral degree in theology medical ethics, and his work was Toledo, Ohio, where a funeral McCormick, a moral theolo­ from 1957-73. from the Gregorian University in published in periodicals ranging Mass will be celebrated gian who specialized in medical Born Oct. 3, 1922, in Toledo, Rome. from Common-wealth and Thursday at 11 a.m. page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, February 15, 2000 In sid e C o lu m n Q u o t e s o f th e W eek “There is no denying “This place is a “It was an actual 7 was wondering, that problems often multimillion dollar circus — three rings. “Are we going to G et out lead to accomplish­ business ... a n d a I was pretty pack it in or are we ments being over­ Catholic institution, disappointed. ” going to make a last and vote looked, and that cer­ but sometimes it’s stand?” and we tainly has been true run more like a Kelly Folks decided we were Almost half of all American adults have no with respect to Mike multimillion dollar Judicial Council president going to fight. ” right to complain about being sick of Bill Clinton W adsworth ...” business. ” on the student body and his numerous scandals. presidential election Matt Doherty Why? Because 46 percent of Americans who debates Father Edward Malloy Vincent Slatt men’s basketball coach on had the potential to make Clinton go away in University president Dillion Hall junior the Irish’s win over UConn 1996 chose to do nothing. According to the U.S. Erin LaRuffa Census Bureau, only 54 percent of eligible voters Compiled from U-Wire reports chose to be part of the O u t s id e t h e D o m e presidential selection copy editor process that year. The sta­ tistics are even more pathetic among voters Hackers use UCLA computers to attack site between the ages of 18 and 24, a group among which only 32 percent voted in 1996. LOS ANGELES “At this time we are not hacked computers are directed to 1 am by no means lamenting Bob Dole’s defeat. Electronic attacks on some of the aware of the motives behind send a coordinated attack against a Internet’s most high-profile sites went victim, overloading the victim with In fact, if I had been old enough, I would have these attacks but they appear voted for Clinton. But this is not a commentary through UCLA, according to university information and blocking access to on the merits of one politician. I am concerned officials. to be intended to interfere legitimate users. UCLA computers are suspected to Part of an ongoing problem, denial- with something larger: the fact that millions of with ... legitim ate electronic have been remotely hacked into and of-service attacks were the subject of Americans do not feel the need to vote, even then used in at least one attack, most commerce. ” FBI alerts as early as December. though voting is one of the easiest and most likely the one that made Amazon.com “At this time we are not aware of important ways of participating in the American Inc.’s Web site inaccessible to cus­ Janet Reno the motives behind these attacks but republic. tomers for more than an hour last they appear to be intended to inter­ A major complaint of American colonists in the Tuesday. According to a statement U.S. Attorney General fere with and to disrupt legitimate 1770s was lack of representation in the British issued by the university, campus electronic commerce,” U.S. Attorney government. In later years, countless numbers of experts are “confident that the hack­ General Janet Reno said at a press Americans fought to ensure the vote for women ers are not based on campus.” Ramiro Escudero, a spokesman for conference last Wednesday. and minorities. Other countries look to the U.S. The attack was one of several per­ the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, The attackers are believed to have as a model for what a government should be. petrated against such companies as described the use of network comput­ used a desktop computer at UCSB to The right for all of a country’s citizens to vote in Yahoo!, eBay, BUY.COM, ZDNet, ers like those at universities as “tram­ assault CNN, and an Internet router E*TRADE and Datek early last week poline attacks” in which they are used at Stanford to launch an amplified free and open elections guarantees freedom in and comes on the heels of reports that as a platform to launch assaults.