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PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. Postage Notre Dame Archives PAID 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN Notre Dame IN 46656 Permit No.2 'T E FIFTEEN H OF N VE 'BER . , Managing the Risks 07 'TABLE OF CO.NTENTS ~ by Jared Rizzi , Scholastic re-evaluates safety of Notre Dame's , Icomputer n~twork since last year's expose » Free Wheelin' by pan Rober 10 revealed its' extreme vulnerability. » To Love and to Serve by Michelle Otto 19 » The Wizard of Oz by David Murray 27 Career-Wise by Jacklyn Kiefer » Slow Burn by Alexandra Gierak 28 12 COVER: Graduation is looming on the » Double-Dipping by Kathleen Corte 30 hori,zon, and_ the Career Center is ready to » Going His Own Way by Carrie Sweeney 32 help students with their job searches. The Rest Splinters 21 Recr.eating;t'1e .MagiC . 24 by Brendan Barker:. From the Editor 2 Out of Bounds 33 Letter to the Editor 3 Week in Distortion 34 IA' look at last. year's national- champions and ND Notebook 4 Calendar 35 their goals for the season. Campus Watch 20 Final Word 36 'T E FIFTEEN H OF N VE 'BER . , Managing the Risks 07 'TABLE OF CO.NTENTS ~ by Jared Rizzi , Scholastic re-evaluates safety of Notre Dame's , Icomputer n~twork since last year's expose » Free Wheelin' by pan Rober 10 revealed its' extreme vulnerability. » To Love and to Serve by Michelle Otto 19 » The Wizard of Oz by David Murray 27 Career-Wise by Jacklyn Kiefer » Slow Burn by Alexandra Gierak 28 12 COVER: Graduation is looming on the » Double-Dipping by Kathleen Corte 30 hori,zon, and_ the Career Center is ready to » Going His Own Way by Carrie Sweeney 32 help students with their job searches. The Rest Splinters 21 Recr.eating;t'1e .MagiC . 24 by Brendan Barker:. From the Editor 2 Out of Bounds 33 Letter to the Editor 3 Week in Distortion 34 IA' look at last. year's national- champions and ND Notebook 4 Calendar 35 their goals for the season. Campus Watch 20 Final Word 36 Vol. 143, No. 06·15 NOV 2001 LETTER TO THE EDITOR SCHOLaSTIC 1 Editor in Chief The Spirit of New York is Dead r, IMichael P. Griffin Managing Editor Consider yourself lucky, says one recent NO grad, to still be a student right now I : Matthew Barr I IAssociate Editor wanted to say thank you for creating throughout all of America is practically non my dorm. I miss my roommate. I miss I IJessica L. Daues the September 11 memorial issue of existent in what was once one of the most walking to class and not commuting on II I Executive Editor I ISarah Childress Scholastic. spirited cities in the world. NYC public transportation. I miss having II News New York has always been my home, and "But you can't run away," I have been the option not to move to NYC after i IMatthew C. Ziegler, editor , Jeffrey Drocco, assislant it's where I chose to live and work after told. True. Our problem is bigger than New graduation. I miss the comfort of being i Katie Freddoso, assistant graduation. You can't go into publishing York. It's bigger than America. But, if I surrounded by friends while living through a I Campus Life I I Jacklyn D. Kiefer, editor unless you head to New York - "Center of can't run away, I can wish to be somewhere ridiculously difficult time. I miss the ability I IKristin A. Kramer, assistant the Universe" as it tends to be. And now I more friendly, less threatening, less of a to still see beauty where I live. Helpless - and loving it? I I Sports regret choosing or even being raised in New constant reminder of what has happened, I don't know why I have written as much I II Gerard J. Meskill, editor I David Murray, assistant York during and post September 11. I need what is still happening and the horrors of as I have. Perhaps it's because this is the first e li~tened ~opefully as the b~s pushed southward from Dublin Inter W i i Entertainment not address what happened on the 11 th, but what may be to come. time I have tried to put anything into words. natIOnal AIrport toward the CIty center. My friend and I were expect Kathleen Corte, editor ing the bus driver to start sputtering the names of suburbs and districts. II Carrie E. Sweeney, assistant more so what has come to be after it. It's The reason I am writing to you is in part to Re-reading this letter, I feel ungrateful. I did not lose my life, a loved one or my job. But However, the bus simply pulled up to stops, people confid6ntlY got on and ! I Departments practically impossible to ignore the unceasing thank you for dedicating your first issue of I I Cristin E. Fenzel, editor off, and it continued its trip, almost mechanically. The driver remained quiet. sirens, subway shutdowns, National the year to those who lost their lives or their I did lose my city, my spirit and my II Design Guardsmen and road blockades everywhere. spirits on September 11, but also, as an ND Willingness to discover what is good here. Meanwhile, we stared out the windows, our luggage in piles on our laps, I Crissy Manary, editor Jessica A. Chamberlain, assistant I work down the block from NBC studios, alum, to let you know that it's extraordinarily So, I tum to thoughts of college, of a campus excited and confused. It became perfectly clear that we had no idea where Brendan Condon I Eric Doversberger and I consequently wonder how safe my difficultto be away from we were going. Ryan Greeenberg mail is, considering it's filtered through the Notre Dame at a time All I really knew of Dublin were historical images and place names out I Photography I Katherine A. Foster, editor same midtown post office. like this. At work, my of songs. Now we were heading down the wrong side of a mysterious road. ' ... The same spirit that has been So we waited until something looked familiar. Graphic Arts I used to love my city. The streams of manager and I await to I Michael M. delaRosa, editor Well, nothing ever looked familiar, and we ended up staying on the bus , Maryn Necel sunlight barely make it through the hear word of our all the way to the end of its route. When we finally maneuvered our bags I, Copy impressive feats of architecture commonly potential transfer to our burning throughout all of America is I Adam M. Aroian, editor referred to as skyscrapers as you wander or sister office in a small down the steep black steps, we found ourselves along a street behind a bus I Jennifer L. Wahoske, assistant ' Cecilia Hadley rush or purposefully walk down the street to town in New Jersey. I look for terminal. We looked up' and down the street, at the terminal and finally at "I Soquel Harding practically non-existent in what was ISSUE 7 each other. Our bags dropped as we dug through our pockets for the city Aaron Trulley one of many offices, coffee shops, bars, have just registered to on , Distribution take-out joints, shops - alone, or with a take graphic design map we had picked up before leaving. I, Felisia Johns, manager DEC6 friend, a co-worker, a parent or a stranger. You classes at Fairfield once one of the most spirited cities in But as we had been the last passengers off the bus, the driver'soon'fol Advertising lowed. The old red-faced Irishman approached us, laughing. I'm sure it Jessica B. Potish, manager see an ironic clash of cultures as you make University in small I Kyle Zuaro, assistant wasn't hard to tell that we had no idea where we were. He asked us where your way from the shady comers ofthe East town Connecticut. the world .... Online I Jamie L. Moran, manager Village, to the artistic mecca of the West These two states border we wanted to go. "Dublin, City Centre," I replied. He laughed again, in i forming us that we had already found it. .I Marketing Village, to the power-hungry silverreflective my home in suburban i Kristen D'Arcy, manager That Saturday morning was the beginning of a stressful week of search towers ofWall Street, to the way-too-crowded Westchester,N.Y. Two II' Advisor midtown businesses, to the Hollywood states that are not as exciting, not as fulfIlling that is surrounded in natural beauty, of a ing. Getting a job and finding an apartment upon arrival seemed suchh .~. Robert Franken simple process when we were back on the shores of America, but standing romanticized Upper West and East sides. and not where I want to be, but where I will community that is composed of scholars and It's the city where you never have to eat at wind up in a month. Since September 11, I the faithful, and of a time when my biggest there helpless in a pub-filled city, we felt quite unprepared. Disce Qllasi Semper Viclllrlls With this week's cover story, Scholastic hopes to help ease your journey Vive Qllasi eras Moritllrtls McDonald's because there are too many keep wishing that I could be a student at ND worry was getting the next deadline of the from college to wherever you plan to go after these four years.