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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 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. Working other, more unique options. Where you never right now. That I was not supposed to be the yearbook shipped out to our publishing with the Career Center to prepare for the future is likely the best way to Published biweekly at the University of Notre Dame dress like anyone else because there are too class of 2000, but perhaps the class of 2003 company. n, and printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, many boutiques and thrift stores to match or 2004. I could feel more comfortable Take from this what you will. I just had to assure you won't need to depend on some guy who's heartily laughing at j I 46556. The entire contents of Scholastic magazine is I I Copyright © 2001. All rights reserved. No contents of outfits. Where your confusing choice of what surrounded by a community that once say thank you, and try to embrace a clear you as he's providing direction. I i this magazine, either in whole or in part, may be I Ireproduced in any manner without written consent of to do isn't for lack of opportunity but for provided a feeling of security through so picture of beauty, a shared sense of the publisher. Scholastic magazine does not assume abundance. And where you should find many other personal trials. Sure, it would be community or a balanced maturity Now hiring I Iliability for unsolicited manuscripts or material. All I correspondence should be sent to Scholastic beauty in a sidewalk, a park bench or a fruit one hell of a trip home for breaks (seeing as somewhere on campus. I promise I'll keep In the coming weeks, Scholastic will be interviewing students to fill some 'magazine, LaFortune Student Center, Notre Dame, IN I 146556. To be published in the next issue, letters must stand. I miss seeing this city. I miss living in though I no longer want to fly, I'm thinking looking for it here. But in the meantime, my positions opening up next semester. Everyone - whether you've written i ,be received by 5:00 p.m. Monday before the issue. All this city. But I no longer see it nor do I want that I'd be taking that 14-hour road trip for thoughts are with the grotto, the lakes, for us before or not - is encouraged to apply for the following positions: , jletters must include the writer's name, address and II phon.e number. All letters must be signed. Names will to live in it. I see something darker, more every major holiday). But barring that one Stonehenge and the sunsets over South Quad. departments editor, photography editor, assistant photography editor and i be Withheld upon request in certain instances. I I Scholastic reserves the right to edit letters for space. sinister, more vulnerable and more problem, I envy those who can still call ND -Alison Main '00 assistant entertainment editor. Please call us at 1-7569 or e-mail at I I Jen~y Wahoske-Timberlake is the ottical office anthrax frightening. Our esteemed mayor would like home for a while .. Sure, anthrax can tum up 2000 Dome Editor [email protected] with any questions, or just stop by our office in the base carner. Requests for corrections made more than 21 Idays after publication cannot be guaranteed. The us to move on with our lives. Our restaurants, anywhere. A bomb can explode anywhere. ment of South Dining Hall to pick up an application. I : subscription rate is $35 per year. Available back issues I II are $2.50 per copy; please specify volume and boutiques, theaters, sidewalks and storefronts B lIt Notre Dame lends itselfto a sense of aid, Opinions expressed in this letter are those Have a safe Thanksg;v;ng. ! number: or date: Copies of the annual football review are all, for the most part, still standing. But comfort, spirit, security and community. And o/the author and not necessarily those of p / .n are available at $5 per copy. AdvertiSing rates I, I available on request. The opinions expressed in the same spirit that has been burning I do not find that here in New York: I miss Scholastic. Scholastic magazine are not necessarily those of the UUniversity of Notre Dame or the student body. Michael P. Griffin, Editor

2 SCHOLASTICFROM THE EDITOR SCHOLASTIC LETTER TO THE EDITOR 3 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. Working other, more unique options. Where you never right now. That I was not supposed to be the yearbook shipped out to our publishing with the Career Center to prepare for the future is likely the best way to Published biweekly at the University of Notre Dame dress like anyone else because there are too class of 2000, but perhaps the class of 2003 company. n, and printed at Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, many boutiques and thrift stores to match or 2004. I could feel more comfortable Take from this what you will. I just had to assure you won't need to depend on some guy who's heartily laughing at j I 46556. The entire contents of Scholastic magazine is I I Copyright © 2001. All rights reserved. No contents of outfits. Where your confusing choice of what surrounded by a community that once say thank you, and try to embrace a clear you as he's providing direction. I i this magazine, either in whole or in part, may be I Ireproduced in any manner without written consent of to do isn't for lack of opportunity but for provided a feeling of security through so picture of beauty, a shared sense of the publisher. Scholastic magazine does not assume abundance. And where you should find many other personal trials. Sure, it would be community or a balanced maturity Now hiring I Iliability for unsolicited manuscripts or material. All I correspondence should be sent to Scholastic beauty in a sidewalk, a park bench or a fruit one hell of a trip home for breaks (seeing as somewhere on campus. I promise I'll keep In the coming weeks, Scholastic will be interviewing students to fill some 'magazine, LaFortune Student Center, Notre Dame, IN I 146556. To be published in the next issue, letters must stand. I miss seeing this city. I miss living in though I no longer want to fly, I'm thinking looking for it here. But in the meantime, my positions opening up next semester. Everyone - whether you've written i ,be received by 5:00 p.m. Monday before the issue. All this city. But I no longer see it nor do I want that I'd be taking that 14-hour road trip for thoughts are with the grotto, the lakes, for us before or not - is encouraged to apply for the following positions: , jletters must include the writer's name, address and II phon.e number. All letters must be signed. Names will to live in it. I see something darker, more every major holiday). But barring that one Stonehenge and the sunsets over South Quad. departments editor, photography editor, assistant photography editor and i be Withheld upon request in certain instances. I I Scholastic reserves the right to edit letters for space. sinister, more vulnerable and more problem, I envy those who can still call ND -Alison Main '00 assistant entertainment editor. Please call us at 1-7569 or e-mail at I I Jen~y Wahoske-Timberlake is the ottical office anthrax frightening. Our esteemed mayor would like home for a while .. Sure, anthrax can tum up 2000 Dome Editor [email protected] with any questions, or just stop by our office in the base carner. Requests for corrections made more than 21 Idays after publication cannot be guaranteed. The us to move on with our lives. Our restaurants, anywhere. A bomb can explode anywhere. ment of South Dining Hall to pick up an application. I : subscription rate is $35 per year. Available back issues I II are $2.50 per copy; please specify volume and boutiques, theaters, sidewalks and storefronts B lIt Notre Dame lends itselfto a sense of aid, Opinions expressed in this letter are those Have a safe Thanksg;v;ng. ! number: or date: Copies of the annual football review are all, for the most part, still standing. But comfort, spirit, security and community. And o/the author and not necessarily those of p / .n are available at $5 per copy. AdvertiSing rates I, I available on request. The opinions expressed in the same spirit that has been burning I do not find that here in New York: I miss Scholastic. Scholastic magazine are not necessarily those of the UUniversity of Notre Dame or the student body. Michael P. Griffin, Editor

2 SCHOLASTICFROM THE EDITOR SCHOLASTIC LETTER TO THE EDITOR 3 "Gh, so that's Christopher Columbus on top of the dome." Meet me at the Crossroads - Tennessee fan, 37 Years Ago I Debating the merits of a high-speed train connecting South Bend to Chicago and Cleveland > after viewing the Main Building's Columbus murals Way Harsh ccording to a story in the March 6, MATTHEWZIEGLER ing track to meet the demands of high-speed room, freedom to use electronic equipment A1964 issue of Notre Dame Scholastic, at travel runs at around $500,000 per mile in (airlines ban the use of electronics during "Perhaps Mario and Luigi had a past troubled with drug one time Notre Dame sophomores were aster than a speeding bullet. More pow flat, rural sections of the state - and sig ascent and descent) and the improved food addiction," . . .' . subjected to "Sophomore Interviews." Ferful than a locomotive ... in South nificantly more in cities and hilly areas. Ob and beverage services available on trains. - film professor, explaining the abundance -'The re'sults of the interVIews often were Bend? taining this initial funding to begin upgrad But they don't seem to mention the fact > of mushrooms in Super Mario Land retained in students' permanent records The Indiana Department of Transporta ing rails will be a challenge for the member that airliners travel at about five times the for "use in future appraisals of students tion, in conjunction with other Midwestern states, which range fronl,Nebraska and Iowa speed of even the fastest trains. And with a for professional and graduate studies." states, is promoting legislation that would to Ohio and Michiga'n. Tom Beck, an travel time of roughly four hours between "Daddy already cut mommy's penis off, and, if I'm not good, The story railed against the demoralizing bring a high-speed (80-to-100 mph) rail net INDOT spokesman, says that the total bill Indianapolis and Chicago - as opposed he'll cut mine off too." effects onhe comments contained in the work through Indiana. One of the proposed for construction of the network could be as to the 50 minutes on a jet, which is shorter - English professor, "student profiles" interviewers produced. explaining Freudian theory lines, which would connect Chicago and high as $5 billion. Participating states ex even with the new two-hour airport check > These included: Cleveland, could stop right here at our door pect the federal government to cover as in time - the freedom to blip away at your The student is apparently a mental step, effectively linking us to the outside much as80 percent of the cost, with the rest Game Boy will be greatly appreciated. 0 cripple and, at least, is not visibly capable world. Naturally, the possibility has caused to be paid by individual states depending on "He went to Iowa, where he became a fanatic of corn." of the type of work involved in the aca quite a stir in local politics. their level of involvement. . . . - government professor, demic situation. Unfortunately, the dream of a fast, reli According to Beck, Indiana would end up explainihg Khrushchev's affection for Midwestern grains ... doesn't deserv.e to live. able train service throughout the Midwest with about $100 million to raise for the > ... certainly shouldn't be in college. probably will result in little more than pork project - a hefty sum·for a line that will ... won't ever make the honor role [sic]. barrel bickering and, ultimately, failure. primarily serve Illinois and Ohio. So far, no ... should drop out of school to stop To begin with, the magic number of 110 decisions have been made as to how this "Soccer is an exercise in futility." wasting your parents' money, your time mph, which spews with regularity from pro money would be acquired, but it would un .:..- overheard student and our time. ponents' lips, is really only a theoretical doubtedly put a burden on the state. possibility. In reality, says INDOT, the train Were the network built, the costs of up > I wonder if they had TCEs back then as will cruise at between 80 and 100 mph, with keep would mean ticket prices slightly be well. brief spurts at a higher velocity. low those of the cheapest discount airlines. Furthermore, the cost of upgrading exist- Proponents sing the praises of increased leg- - Cristin Fenzel and Cecilia Hadley

Meet Frank Franko. Wielding a mean high school - upon which my father took over from him after that. with the school that I would just walk friends over there. Ten Questions pair ofclippers in the basement ofLaF or wouldn't hire me! I ended up getting ajob around and take pictures. It's hard not to. with the stylist with the mostest ... tune, he'll shear you clean in only 10 min in Kent, Ohio and went to Kent State. What's your typical cut? Do you have a We hear that you've got a lot of loyal utes, and, if you're lucky (ora nosy Scho target time? How much does your standard cut cost? clients. What's someone got to do to FRANK lastic staffer), he just might offer you a What brought you to clip hair in this The majority are Domer cuts - you know, Eleven dollars for a haircut, $6 for a beard get an appointment with you? piece of chocolate from his bait jar. With bumping locale of the LaFortune base those short crew cuts? I allow 15 minutes, trim. Just come in two or three days beforehand FRANKO one of the most loyal customer bases on ment? but I can do it in 10. and put your name in the book. I'm here shown here campus, he must be doing something I moved to South Bend in 1980 for my Do your fingers get itchy when you see from 9 to 5, riding the clippers. I call trimming a right. Maybe it's those Oster clippers. job. Then, nine years ago, I was looking Do you cut any famous heads around a guy walk by with long hair? myself a "clipper jockey" because that's customer's Then again, there's always the chocolate for work, and I actually had a calling in beard. campus? No, actually I get a little jealous! My dad just what I do. and Frank's cheerful banter. Visit him in the middle of the night to come over I'd love to cut one of the major sports always cut my hair because I was the the basement of LaFortune Student Cen here. I still had my barber's license, so . coaches, like football or basketball, but barber's son and I had to look like one, Who's your dream haircut? ter. I came here the next day, and I met Joe they don't come here, although some of and then I am a barber, so I wouldn't feel Jon Gruden. No, I can't say that. Ah, I'll D' Angelo - they used to call him the minor sports coaches do. right having a ponytail. just go ahead and say it - Jon Gruden.I' d Did you always harbor dreams of wield "ROTC Joe." He was the guy who used also love to cut Bob Stoops [head coach of ing a sharp pair of scissors? to work down here, and he told me a What's up with all these pictures on the Vl[ho cuts your hair? .. the Oklahoma football team]. I grew up in a barber shop. My dad had a secret that no one else knew, which was walls? I do, except when I want it done right; shop, and I went to barber school after that he was going to retire. And I just That's my hobby. I was just so impressed then I go .over to the Salon. They're my - Kristin Kramer

4 SCHOLASTICNOTEBOOK SCHOLASTICNOTEBOOK 5 "Gh, so that's Christopher Columbus on top of the dome." Meet me at the Crossroads - Tennessee fan, 37 Years Ago I Debating the merits of a high-speed train connecting South Bend to Chicago and Cleveland > after viewing the Main Building's Columbus murals Way Harsh ccording to a story in the March 6, MATTHEWZIEGLER ing track to meet the demands of high-speed room, freedom to use electronic equipment A1964 issue of Notre Dame Scholastic, at travel runs at around $500,000 per mile in (airlines ban the use of electronics during "Perhaps Mario and Luigi had a past troubled with drug one time Notre Dame sophomores were aster than a speeding bullet. More pow flat, rural sections of the state - and sig ascent and descent) and the improved food addiction," . . .' . subjected to "Sophomore Interviews." Ferful than a locomotive ... in South nificantly more in cities and hilly areas. Ob and beverage services available on trains. - film professor, explaining the abundance -'The re'sults of the interVIews often were Bend? taining this initial funding to begin upgrad But they don't seem to mention the fact > of mushrooms in Super Mario Land retained in students' permanent records The Indiana Department of Transporta ing rails will be a challenge for the member that airliners travel at about five times the for "use in future appraisals of students tion, in conjunction with other Midwestern states, which range fronl,Nebraska and Iowa speed of even the fastest trains. And with a for professional and graduate studies." states, is promoting legislation that would to Ohio and Michiga'n. Tom Beck, an travel time of roughly four hours between "Daddy already cut mommy's penis off, and, if I'm not good, The story railed against the demoralizing bring a high-speed (80-to-100 mph) rail net INDOT spokesman, says that the total bill Indianapolis and Chicago - as opposed he'll cut mine off too." effects onhe comments contained in the work through Indiana. One of the proposed for construction of the network could be as to the 50 minutes on a jet, which is shorter - English professor, "student profiles" interviewers produced. explaining Freudian theory lines, which would connect Chicago and high as $5 billion. Participating states ex even with the new two-hour airport check > These included: Cleveland, could stop right here at our door pect the federal government to cover as in time - the freedom to blip away at your The student is apparently a mental step, effectively linking us to the outside much as80 percent of the cost, with the rest Game Boy will be greatly appreciated. 0 cripple and, at least, is not visibly capable world. Naturally, the possibility has caused to be paid by individual states depending on "He went to Iowa, where he became a fanatic of corn." of the type of work involved in the aca quite a stir in local politics. their level of involvement. . . . - government professor, demic situation. Unfortunately, the dream of a fast, reli According to Beck, Indiana would end up explainihg Khrushchev's affection for Midwestern grains ... doesn't deserv.e to live. able train service throughout the Midwest with about $100 million to raise for the > ... certainly shouldn't be in college. probably will result in little more than pork project - a hefty sum·for a line that will ... won't ever make the honor role [sic]. barrel bickering and, ultimately, failure. primarily serve Illinois and Ohio. So far, no ... should drop out of school to stop To begin with, the magic number of 110 decisions have been made as to how this "Soccer is an exercise in futility." wasting your parents' money, your time mph, which spews with regularity from pro money would be acquired, but it would un .:..- overheard student and our time. ponents' lips, is really only a theoretical doubtedly put a burden on the state. possibility. In reality, says INDOT, the train Were the network built, the costs of up > I wonder if they had TCEs back then as will cruise at between 80 and 100 mph, with keep would mean ticket prices slightly be well. brief spurts at a higher velocity. low those of the cheapest discount airlines. Furthermore, the cost of upgrading exist- Proponents sing the praises of increased leg- - Cristin Fenzel and Cecilia Hadley

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orty-three albums later, Bob Dylan has stage with a guitar on his shoulder and a THANKSGIVING Freturned to his Minnesota musical harmonica to his mouth. With Love and. t This year there are lots of things roots, employing soul-driven blues, twangy Theft, Dylan's lyrics and the strength of the for which we can be thankful - bluegrass and swing. After dabbling in other band, which includes guitarist Charlie Sex like the end of Davie's face genres during the 1980s, Dylan has decided ton, quickly cause the listener to forget about sullying Notre Dame Stadium. to stick with what he does best: a dedica the lack of harmonica. Instead, lyrics and tion to evocative lyrics backed up by an im musical range form the core pressive band. Those who have criticized of the album. The album's. /fyoulike him of late for being a lJ\urned-out folkster diversity is especially appar- early ~ MIDNIGHT DRUM CIRCLE will retract those comments after listening ent in the song "High Wa- Bo b D'Y,an ,I ... There is nothing better than loud to his remarkable new album, Love and Theft. ter," which utilizes a banjo drum cadences at midnight on the With music reminiscent of his early days in the background. Further main quad - unless you live in You'll love as "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," Dylan returns into the album, "Floater ! Sorin and have to take the LSAT in his latest ·1 the morning. to the folk sound that brought him his origi (Too Much to Ask)" reso nal fame. This self-taught musician first nates with Louis Arm- demonstrated his talents at age 21 with clas strong's style. sic tunes such as "Don't Think Twice, It's From the beginning of Love and Theft, the All Right" and "Blowin' in the Wind." His listener is in for a blissful musical experi LAST HOME FOOTBALL ceaseless need for change and travel is ex ence that will touch all ranges of emotion, t GAME hibited on this new album in "Mississippi," from the highest elation to the lowest mis For once we're actually looking in which he sings, "You're the reason I'm. ery. The second track, "Mississippi," falls forward to spending our Saturdays traveling on." Dylan's voice resonates with somewhere in between the emotional ex in the library. At least there you can't be cited for tailgating. the memories of a traveler, an original beat tremes, bringing the listener to a meditative nik who still remembers his days of deprav state with Dylan's thoughtful lyrics. I ity and debauchery. Although he claims he has "been feeling Noticeably missing from the album is like a stranger that nobody sees," Bob Dylan DINE WITH THE DEANS Dylan's definitive harmonica. Thoughts of returns to the spotlight with this tremendous MR GING ~ Does anyone actually do this? Dylan bring to mind the musician's solo on and inspired new albu~; CJ THE RISKS I DomeLights COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL Source: The Career Center. Reporting rate for the Class of 2000 was 87.4 percent. The OIT has made changes in its leadership, but is the Notre Dame According to the Career Center's most recent Annual Future Plans Survey, the average salary for a 2000 Notre Dame network still headed for disaster? graduate was $39,541. Here is the average salary breakdown by college:

- Arts and Letters: $34,402 _ Architecture: $34,841

_ Science: $36,598

- Business: $43,243 - Engineering: $48,883 By Jared Rizzi

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Ii Judgment Calls THE CD REVIEW I Opinions and observations Love and Theft ~ WEB DARTING LABEL: Sony/Columbia No more of the soothing DART RELEASE DATE: 11 SEPT 2001 guy's voice. We'll miss him so dearly. The ... spring ... semester Story by ... code ... is ... . Joanne Davidson orty-three albums later, Bob Dylan has stage with a guitar on his shoulder and a THANKSGIVING Freturned to his Minnesota musical harmonica to his mouth. With Love and. t This year there are lots of things roots, employing soul-driven blues, twangy Theft, Dylan's lyrics and the strength of the for which we can be thankful - bluegrass and swing. After dabbling in other band, which includes guitarist Charlie Sex like the end of Davie's face genres during the 1980s, Dylan has decided ton, quickly cause the listener to forget about sullying Notre Dame Stadium. to stick with what he does best: a dedica the lack of harmonica. Instead, lyrics and tion to evocative lyrics backed up by an im musical range form the core pressive band. Those who have criticized of the album. The album's. /fyoulike him of late for being a lJ\urned-out folkster diversity is especially appar- early ~ MIDNIGHT DRUM CIRCLE will retract those comments after listening ent in the song "High Wa- Bo b D'Y,an ,I ... There is nothing better than loud to his remarkable new album, Love and Theft. ter," which utilizes a banjo drum cadences at midnight on the With music reminiscent of his early days in the background. Further main quad - unless you live in You'll love as "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," Dylan returns into the album, "Floater ! Sorin and have to take the LSAT in his latest ·1 the morning. to the folk sound that brought him his origi (Too Much to Ask)" reso nal fame. This self-taught musician first nates with Louis Arm- demonstrated his talents at age 21 with clas strong's style. sic tunes such as "Don't Think Twice, It's From the beginning of Love and Theft, the All Right" and "Blowin' in the Wind." His listener is in for a blissful musical experi LAST HOME FOOTBALL ceaseless need for change and travel is ex ence that will touch all ranges of emotion, t GAME hibited on this new album in "Mississippi," from the highest elation to the lowest mis For once we're actually looking in which he sings, "You're the reason I'm. ery. The second track, "Mississippi," falls forward to spending our Saturdays traveling on." Dylan's voice resonates with somewhere in between the emotional ex in the library. At least there you can't be cited for tailgating. the memories of a traveler, an original beat tremes, bringing the listener to a meditative nik who still remembers his days of deprav state with Dylan's thoughtful lyrics. I ity and debauchery. Although he claims he has "been feeling Noticeably missing from the album is like a stranger that nobody sees," Bob Dylan DINE WITH THE DEANS Dylan's definitive harmonica. Thoughts of returns to the spotlight with this tremendous MR GING ~ Does anyone actually do this? Dylan bring to mind the musician's solo on and inspired new albu~; CJ THE RISKS I DomeLights COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL Source: The Career Center. Reporting rate for the Class of 2000 was 87.4 percent. The OIT has made changes in its leadership, but is the Notre Dame According to the Career Center's most recent Annual Future Plans Survey, the average salary for a 2000 Notre Dame network still headed for disaster? graduate was $39,541. Here is the average salary breakdown by college:

- Arts and Letters: $34,402 _ Architecture: $34,841

_ Science: $36,598

- Business: $43,243 - Engineering: $48,883 By Jared Rizzi

6 SCI~OlAS'nCI~Ol~Blbo impede off-campus users from accessing structure. His long-term plans include ganization, a restructuring, and refocus information, and they can prevent legiti policy changes involving student and fac ing of the Office of Information Technolo LOCK DOWN Users are often mate users from accessing certain infor ulty education for effective computer use. gies." Scully also is optimistic. "We have unaware of how to protect mation. These quandaries are not the norm Personnel within this group would be re the right leadership now," he says. themselves on the network. in the corporate world, where information sponsible for targeting incidents and in "[Wishon] is looking for additional tal is not shared because of its value. Wishon trusions and well as serve as the primary ent to help run his plans." » points to these differences as a major rea investigators for computer forensics in the This comes as news to many students, son for security problems on college cam case of computer crime. most of whom avoid the OIT unless they messy domain is Gordon puses. Wishon knows that the technology side have a significant computer problem. But Wishon, Notre Dame's chief According to Wishon, the problem be of the problem is just as complex as the will new structures for security infringe information officer, associate gins with computer vendors. Operating administrative. "The key to success in upon students' freedoms? Will programs vice president of information systems simply are not made with the many cases comes down to the more-ef scanning e-mail compromise privacy? technologies and associate quality control needed to prevent virus fective administration of individual com When will these changes be made? How provost. Notre Dame re and hacker vulnerabilities. Major operat puters and servers across campus," he will they affect the individual user? Good cruited Wishon in mid-August ing systems, like Microsoft's Windows, says. However, the OIT also is pursuing intention aside, the quality of service still 'from Georgia Tech, where he Apple's Mac OS and Linux, all contain the acquisition of a device for the cam is on the same shaky foundation that it . held a similar position in net- design flaws that put users at risk. Fur pus network "border" capable of inspect was on a year ago, even if Wishon's paint work administration. That ther, many oJ the machines on campus ing incoming data for viruses. There are job is better. For example, on the critical

school requires every student '. " utilize default settings, which are not al many other options, such as scanning topic of Web registration for classes, to own a computer to enable ways conducive to a safe computing en technology to search for weaknesses in Wishon admits that "we [at the OIT] just faculty to make course ma- vironment. Default cOl1figurations often the network and intrusion-detection sys cross our fingers and hope that nothing terial available online. The leave vulnerabilities exposed, and Wishon tems that sound an alarm when there is a goes wrong." impetus for Georgia Tech's feels that Notre Dame needs to "have con belligerent entity. on the system. However, One cannot deny that the gears of computer systems upgrade versations with our vendor partners to . all of these options are costly and require change are turning. Wishon is proactive was the 1996 Olympic close holes in operating systems before large staffs to monitor and analyze the and knowledgeable, and his experience Games in Atlanta: The campus served as feel that the administration is taking the the university administration." Both they appear on college campuses, and information obtained. Over time, the in has qualified him as one of the best in his the Olympic Village and needed a com initial steps to prepare to deal with this Scully and Wishon are confident that new even in homes." With such a wide variety creased budget would allow for such an field. It also seems that the administra-· munications infrastructure that could ac complex problem. Wishon acknowledges funds will be allocated soon. The OIT's of computing systems, Notre Dame's net office. tion has acknowledged the problem and commodate athletes, coaches, media and that there are gaps in the security system, annual budget currently hovers around work requires multi-level solutions. Then In all of these pursuits, Wishon recog wants to work with _students and faculty Olympic officials. Notre Dame has never but he is hopeful that he can correct them. $15.2 million; Wishon has requested ap there is the technology. Wishon feels that nizes and appreciates student efforts to to create an effective solution. It might had such an incentive to upgrade its net But this will be no easy task. Currently proximately $750,000 for network-secu "this is more of a journey that has no real understand and cooperate in network se take another year's time for the OIT to work. there is no university document directly rity issues alone. This includes disaster endpoint because of the pace at which curity. He realizes the student awareness come up with a definitive plan as to Wishon says his new challenge at Notre addressing network security. With con relief funds as well as the initial moneys technology is changing." He says, "As we that has spearheaded this issue to the ad what they intend to do, how they intend Dame is to create a computing strategy stant new problems and 2,000 new com to establish what he hopes will be the fu close one security hole, new technology ministration. He puts the students on no to do it and how they're going to pay that assumes effective use of network fa puters each year, new technologies make ture of systems administration on campus. comes along." tice: "There are going to be big changes for it. Until then, users should keep their cilities by all members of the community. advancement difficult. In addition, Further increases, according to Scully, are What does this mean from a user's per with my arrival here. There will be reor- fingers crossed, too. 0 But there are two impediments to this pro Wishon notes that with hacking on the part of a four- to five-year improvement spective? Should they assume that since cess. First, the university is playing catch rise, "it does not take a rocket scientist to plan costing about $30 million. technology keeps changing, they can up, rewiring old buildings for modern use. expose a known vulnerability." Notre Scully also talks of the need for a whole never hope to have a reliable system? But an even more immediate problem is Dame's network is vulnerable to anyone new mainframe system - hardware and Even though approximately 90 percent of the threat of computer violence wreaked who wishes to corrupt or misuse the sys software. The university is dealing with students bring their own computer to cam upon any entity, including students, via tem, even the most juvenile computer what Scully calls a "significant deferred pus, there is a significant ignorance of the Notre Dame's network. The environment amateurs. And while Notre Dame may be maintenance problem." The university is appropriate actions to take against vulner at Notre Dame is diametrically opposed comparable to other universities, Wishon worried about antiquated hardware and in ability at the desktop level. to everything a secure network needs. Of admits that "in absolute terms, we're not compatible software, but in the future it. Wishon suggests the creation of an Of course, there is no perfectly secure com very good." He says that "we're neither hopes to engage in wireless communica fice ofInformation Security, reporting di puting environment, but the collegiate well-organized nor equipped yet to deal tions, make online video available in all rectly to him, responsible for developing norms of file sharing and open attitudes with the variety of threats." classrooms and other introduce other Notre Dame's defenses against network toward information create many access Some of the problems with Notre technologies. These are unfathomable vulnerabilities. Suchan office could rec points for trouble .. Dame's network security can be traced to with the campus's dated network. ommend policy changes, highlight secu Scully says that he does not believe 1\ WAKE-UP CALL lax funding. "We needed to change our This need for new technology is insepa rity matters, regulate network access, 1\. Last spring, Scholastic "that Notre Dame is unique with security leadership ... The shortcomings in the rable from the problem of security, which monitor specific security incidents and revealed problems problems regarding information technol program weren't keeping up with the de brings its own questions. In every case, . assess vulnerabilities that exist on the with network security ogy, ... [but] we as a university have not mand," says Scully. "We needed, need, the balance must exist between users' network. This entity also would be re at ND. spent the resources we need to, to protect and will invest more funds." Yet there is freedoms and personal and general secu sponsible for developing an education- . from invasion and viruses." So, Wishon hope. Wishon has put in a request for ad rity. But what is an appropriate balance? and-awareness program for computing DON'T BLINK faces a daunting task: protecting an im ditional money to accelerate his plans. "I Making file_ sharing more difficult or im safety. By setting the guidelines for use Constant changes in mense network that is far behind in tak feel optimistic that I will receive approval possible has been dismissed because of and executing these standards, Wishon te-chnology require ing the precautions it should have taken to take immediate action," he says. "This the benefits file sharing creates. Elec hopes that such an office could handle the constant vigilance in long ago. Both Scully and Wishon now order to maintain is a priority for me, certainly, and [for] tronic firewalls can pelp, but they often needs of Notre Dame's information infra- security.

8 SCHOLASTICNEWS impede off-campus users from accessing structure. His long-term plans include ganization, a restructuring, and refocus information, and they can prevent legiti policy changes involving student and fac ing of the Office of Information Technolo LOCK DOWN Users are often mate users from accessing certain infor ulty education for effective computer use. gies." Scully also is optimistic. "We have unaware of how to protect mation. These quandaries are not the norm Personnel within this group would be re the right leadership now," he says. themselves on the network. in the corporate world, where information sponsible for targeting incidents and in "[Wishon] is looking for additional tal is not shared because of its value. Wishon trusions and well as serve as the primary ent to help run his plans." » points to these differences as a major rea investigators for computer forensics in the This comes as news to many students, son for security problems on college cam case of computer crime. most of whom avoid the OIT unless they messy domain is Gordon puses. Wishon knows that the technology side have a significant computer problem. But Wishon, Notre Dame's chief According to Wishon, the problem be of the problem is just as complex as the will new structures for security infringe information officer, associate gins with computer vendors. Operating administrative. "The key to success in upon students' freedoms? Will programs vice president of information systems simply are not made with the many cases comes down to the more-ef scanning e-mail compromise privacy? technologies and associate quality control needed to prevent virus fective administration of individual com When will these changes be made? How provost. Notre Dame re and hacker vulnerabilities. Major operat puters and servers across campus," he will they affect the individual user? Good cruited Wishon in mid-August ing systems, like Microsoft's Windows, says. However, the OIT also is pursuing intention aside, the quality of service still 'from Georgia Tech, where he Apple's Mac OS and Linux, all contain the acquisition of a device for the cam is on the same shaky foundation that it . held a similar position in net- design flaws that put users at risk. Fur pus network "border" capable of inspect was on a year ago, even if Wishon's paint work administration. That ther, many oJ the machines on campus ing incoming data for viruses. There are job is better. For example, on the critical school requires every student '. " utilize default settings, which are not al many other options, such as scanning topic of Web registration for classes, to own a computer to enable ways conducive to a safe computing en technology to search for weaknesses in Wishon admits that "we [at the OIT] just faculty to make course ma- vironment. Default cOl1figurations often the network and intrusion-detection sys cross our fingers and hope that nothing terial available online. The leave vulnerabilities exposed, and Wishon tems that sound an alarm when there is a goes wrong." impetus for Georgia Tech's feels that Notre Dame needs to "have con belligerent entity. on the system. However, One cannot deny that the gears of computer systems upgrade versations with our vendor partners to . all of these options are costly and require change are turning. Wishon is proactive was the 1996 Olympic close holes in operating systems before large staffs to monitor and analyze the and knowledgeable, and his experience Games in Atlanta: The campus served as feel that the administration is taking the the university administration." Both they appear on college campuses, and information obtained. Over time, the in has qualified him as one of the best in his the Olympic Village and needed a com initial steps to prepare to deal with this Scully and Wishon are confident that new even in homes." With such a wide variety creased budget would allow for such an field. It also seems that the administra-· munications infrastructure that could ac complex problem. Wishon acknowledges funds will be allocated soon. The OIT's of computing systems, Notre Dame's net office. tion has acknowledged the problem and commodate athletes, coaches, media and that there are gaps in the security system, annual budget currently hovers around work requires multi-level solutions. Then In all of these pursuits, Wishon recog wants to work with _students and faculty Olympic officials. Notre Dame has never but he is hopeful that he can correct them. $15.2 million; Wishon has requested ap there is the technology. Wishon feels that nizes and appreciates student efforts to to create an effective solution. It might had such an incentive to upgrade its net But this will be no easy task. Currently proximately $750,000 for network-secu "this is more of a journey that has no real understand and cooperate in network se take another year's time for the OIT to work. there is no university document directly rity issues alone. This includes disaster endpoint because of the pace at which curity. He realizes the student awareness come up with a definitive plan as to Wishon says his new challenge at Notre addressing network security. With con relief funds as well as the initial moneys technology is changing." He says, "As we that has spearheaded this issue to the ad what they intend to do, how they intend Dame is to create a computing strategy stant new problems and 2,000 new com to establish what he hopes will be the fu close one security hole, new technology ministration. He puts the students on no to do it and how they're going to pay that assumes effective use of network fa puters each year, new technologies make ture of systems administration on campus. comes along." tice: "There are going to be big changes for it. Until then, users should keep their cilities by all members of the community. advancement difficult. In addition, Further increases, according to Scully, are What does this mean from a user's per with my arrival here. There will be reor- fingers crossed, too. 0 But there are two impediments to this pro Wishon notes that with hacking on the part of a four- to five-year improvement spective? Should they assume that since cess. First, the university is playing catch rise, "it does not take a rocket scientist to plan costing about $30 million. technology keeps changing, they can up, rewiring old buildings for modern use. expose a known vulnerability." Notre Scully also talks of the need for a whole never hope to have a reliable system? But an even more immediate problem is Dame's network is vulnerable to anyone new mainframe system - hardware and Even though approximately 90 percent of the threat of computer violence wreaked who wishes to corrupt or misuse the sys software. The university is dealing with students bring their own computer to cam upon any entity, including students, via tem, even the most juvenile computer what Scully calls a "significant deferred pus, there is a significant ignorance of the Notre Dame's network. The environment amateurs. And while Notre Dame may be maintenance problem." The university is appropriate actions to take against vulner at Notre Dame is diametrically opposed comparable to other universities, Wishon worried about antiquated hardware and in ability at the desktop level. to everything a secure network needs. Of admits that "in absolute terms, we're not compatible software, but in the future it. Wishon suggests the creation of an Of course, there is no perfectly secure com very good." He says that "we're neither hopes to engage in wireless communica fice ofInformation Security, reporting di puting environment, but the collegiate well-organized nor equipped yet to deal tions, make online video available in all rectly to him, responsible for developing norms of file sharing and open attitudes with the variety of threats." classrooms and other introduce other Notre Dame's defenses against network toward information create many access Some of the problems with Notre technologies. These are unfathomable vulnerabilities. Suchan office could rec points for trouble .. Dame's network security can be traced to with the campus's dated network. ommend policy changes, highlight secu Scully says that he does not believe 1\ WAKE-UP CALL lax funding. "We needed to change our This need for new technology is insepa rity matters, regulate network access, 1\. Last spring, Scholastic "that Notre Dame is unique with security leadership ... The shortcomings in the rable from the problem of security, which monitor specific security incidents and revealed problems problems regarding information technol program weren't keeping up with the de brings its own questions. In every case, . assess vulnerabilities that exist on the with network security ogy, ... [but] we as a university have not mand," says Scully. "We needed, need, the balance must exist between users' network. This entity also would be re at ND. spent the resources we need to, to protect and will invest more funds." Yet there is freedoms and personal and general secu sponsible for developing an education- . from invasion and viruses." So, Wishon hope. Wishon has put in a request for ad rity. But what is an appropriate balance? and-awareness program for computing DON'T BLINK faces a daunting task: protecting an im ditional money to accelerate his plans. "I Making file_ sharing more difficult or im safety. By setting the guidelines for use Constant changes in mense network that is far behind in tak feel optimistic that I will receive approval possible has been dismissed because of and executing these standards, Wishon te-chnology require ing the precautions it should have taken to take immediate action," he says. "This the benefits file sharing creates. Elec hopes that such an office could handle the constant vigilance in long ago. Both Scully and Wishon now order to maintain is a priority for me, certainly, and [for] tronic firewalls can pelp, but they often needs of Notre Dame's information infra- security.

8 SCHOLASTICNEWS the NDSPD, warns that "we can't draw system, it was easier to match inferences just based on statistics." Al bikes with their owners, and this J:Dt=t= IIIIUt=t=1 IAI' though theft has increased, he says that resulted in many arrests. But • "there are more bikes on the Notre popular discontent with the high If IV •••' • III'•••• Dame campus than ever before." One arrest rate for such a seemingly • • ..'_.'- would assume that the more bikes there trivial crime led to the end of » Dude, where's my bike? are on campus, the more bike thefts will this system. The new system occur. makes it much more difficult for Rakow cites an additional reason for the police, the source says. Now, DAN ROBER the NDSPD's lack 9f results in appre ber 2001, the most since the 37 thefts re the trends: The current bike racks are in the SBPD must rely on serial hending thiefs on its inactivity: "After ported in May 2000. This is the reversal sufficient to accomodate the increasing numbers, ~hich many bicycle or many Notre Dame students, bi searching around Keenan and Stanford of a downward trend in bicycle-theft rates number of bikes. More bicycles are owners do not record or remem Fcycles are a staple of college life. and looking all over campus, I called during the 2000-01 school year: Only 18 parked free-standing; thus, they are easier ber. Many thieves scratch out Whether riding their own bikes campus security," he says. "I gave them bicycles were reported stolen in May to steal. serial numbers or strip the bikes from class to class or nearly being run my registration and serial number, and I 2001. Another cause for the increase, accord for parts, which further exacer down by others' , Domers take this haven't heard from them in months." It is impossible to sterotype bike ing to Hurley, is that bicycle-theft appre bates attempts to track down the form of transportation for NDSPD Assistant Director Chuck thieves, which makes it hard for security hensions tend to come in bunches, since stolen merchandise. granted. Yet for many students, Hurley admits that "bicycle theft to spot them on campus. According to many bicycle thieves work in groups. Since apprehending bikes biking at Notre Dame has a is a continuing problem for us." Hurley, some students bring a cheap, old Once one apprehension is made, theft thieves is so difficult, the downside: bicycle thefts. They This especially is true, he says, bike to school and hope to steal a nicer tends to decline, since thieves are spooked NDSPD recommends two major are on the rise this school year, in the first and last months of bike sometime during the school year. into behaying - at least for a while. It steps to prevent bike theft. First, but apprehensions by the Notre the school year, when the More often, however, the culprits of bike comes as no surprise, then, that the re Hurley suggests the use of a U Dame Security-Police Depart weather is warm. Indee~, theft are local 14- to 16-year-old kids. cent lack of apprehensions has type lock, which he says is al- ment are down. Is anything South Bend's arctic climate They often use bolt cutters to break stu emboldened bicycle thieves. most impenetrable to the bolt cutters ment in the country to trace a bike stolen being done to stop this? might beat the police for dents' bike locks. Professional, adult bi Rakow says that the low apprehension many bike thieves often use. The other from campus. Hurley recalls the story of It doesn't seem so, best theft deterrent during cycle thieves are rare at Notre Dame, rate results from a lack of vigilance. Most important procedure is to register the bi- one bicycle that was found by police in many students complain. the winter months. Recent since a pedestrian campus makes it diffi apprehensions come Arizona and was subse Sophomore events confirm Hurley's cult for someone to drive up and load a when the crime is wit quently returned to cam Keenan resi observations: There truck with bikes. nessed, and it's hard to pus because it had-been dent Charlie were 36 Although most bike thieves are ama track down eyewit registered. Longanecker, reported teurs, apprehension rates by the NDSPD nesses - if they even Longanecker, whose whose bike bicycle have been markedly low. Since January exist - to bike thefts. bicycle was registered, was stolen in thefts in 2000, more than 360 bikes have been re He encourages stu wishes that he could be mid-Septem Septem- ported stolen, yet only 18 juvenile arrests dents to keep a keen . so lucky. "I feel like ber, blames and one adult arrest have been made in eye on areas where bi . [the NDSPD] gets hun connection with these thefts. This is a cycles are stored and JU dreds of theft reports a five-percent apprehension rate. note any suspicious arrest have day and just tosses them But most of these arrests hap activity. in a pile," he says. "It pened last year - in the first According to a rep connection with these seems like people are 10 months of 2001, there resentative of the taking bikes .left and have been 131 stolen-bike South Bend Police right - there ought to reports but just_one arrest, Department's detec- be something they can a O.7-percent rate. What tive bureau who refused to give his name, cycle with the NDSPD. If a stolen bike is do about it." Given the current situa are the reasons behind this recent legal developments have made it registered, or if a student at least knows tion, however, students can do little increased theft rate and de more difficult for the SBPD to track down its serial number, a theft report can be more than register their bikes, buy a creased apprehension rate? and apprehend bicycle thieves. Accord~· filed with the National Crime Information good lock and pray that bike thieves pass Rex Rakow, director of ing to the source, under the former legal Center. This enables any police depart- their Huffys by. . Cl

10 SCHOLASTICNEWS SCHOLASTICNEWS 11. the NDSPD, warns that "we can't draw system, it was easier to match inferences just based on statistics." Al bikes with their owners, and this J:Dt=t= IIIIUt=t=1 IAI' though theft has increased, he says that resulted in many arrests. But • "there are more bikes on the Notre popular discontent with the high If IV •••' • III'•••• Dame campus than ever before." One arrest rate for such a seemingly • • ..'_.'- would assume that the more bikes there trivial crime led to the end of » Dude, where's my bike? are on campus, the more bike thefts will this system. The new system occur. makes it much more difficult for Rakow cites an additional reason for the police, the source says. Now, DAN ROBER the NDSPD's lack 9f results in appre ber 2001, the most since the 37 thefts re the trends: The current bike racks are in the SBPD must rely on serial hending thiefs on its inactivity: "After ported in May 2000. This is the reversal sufficient to accomodate the increasing numbers, ~hich many bicycle or many Notre Dame students, bi searching around Keenan and Stanford of a downward trend in bicycle-theft rates number of bikes. More bicycles are owners do not record or remem Fcycles are a staple of college life. and looking all over campus, I called during the 2000-01 school year: Only 18 parked free-standing; thus, they are easier ber. Many thieves scratch out Whether riding their own bikes campus security," he says. "I gave them bicycles were reported stolen in May to steal. serial numbers or strip the bikes from class to class or nearly being run my registration and serial number, and I 2001. Another cause for the increase, accord for parts, which further exacer down by others' , Domers take this haven't heard from them in months." It is impossible to sterotype bike ing to Hurley, is that bicycle-theft appre bates attempts to track down the form of transportation for NDSPD Assistant Director Chuck thieves, which makes it hard for security hensions tend to come in bunches, since stolen merchandise. granted. Yet for many students, Hurley admits that "bicycle theft to spot them on campus. According to many bicycle thieves work in groups. Since apprehending bikes biking at Notre Dame has a is a continuing problem for us." Hurley, some students bring a cheap, old Once one apprehension is made, theft thieves is so difficult, the downside: bicycle thefts. They This especially is true, he says, bike to school and hope to steal a nicer tends to decline, since thieves are spooked NDSPD recommends two major are on the rise this school year, in the first and last months of bike sometime during the school year. into behaying - at least for a while. It steps to prevent bike theft. First, but apprehensions by the Notre the school year, when the More often, however, the culprits of bike comes as no surprise, then, that the re Hurley suggests the use of a U Dame Security-Police Depart weather is warm. Indee~, theft are local 14- to 16-year-old kids. cent lack of apprehensions has type lock, which he says is al- ment are down. Is anything South Bend's arctic climate They often use bolt cutters to break stu emboldened bicycle thieves. most impenetrable to the bolt cutters ment in the country to trace a bike stolen being done to stop this? might beat the police for dents' bike locks. Professional, adult bi Rakow says that the low apprehension many bike thieves often use. The other from campus. Hurley recalls the story of It doesn't seem so, best theft deterrent during cycle thieves are rare at Notre Dame, rate results from a lack of vigilance. Most important procedure is to register the bi- one bicycle that was found by police in many students complain. the winter months. Recent since a pedestrian campus makes it diffi apprehensions come Arizona and was subse Sophomore events confirm Hurley's cult for someone to drive up and load a when the crime is wit quently returned to cam Keenan resi observations: There truck with bikes. nessed, and it's hard to pus because it had-been dent Charlie were 36 Although most bike thieves are ama track down eyewit registered. Longanecker, reported teurs, apprehension rates by the NDSPD nesses - if they even Longanecker, whose whose bike bicycle have been markedly low. Since January exist - to bike thefts. bicycle was registered, was stolen in thefts in 2000, more than 360 bikes have been re He encourages stu wishes that he could be mid-Septem Septem- ported stolen, yet only 18 juvenile arrests dents to keep a keen . so lucky. "I feel like ber, blames and one adult arrest have been made in eye on areas where bi . [the NDSPD] gets hun connection with these thefts. This is a cycles are stored and JU dreds of theft reports a five-percent apprehension rate. note any suspicious arrest have day and just tosses them But most of these arrests hap activity. in a pile," he says. "It pened last year - in the first According to a rep connection with these seems like people are 10 months of 2001, there resentative of the taking bikes .left and have been 131 stolen-bike South Bend Police right - there ought to reports but just_one arrest, Department's detec- be something they can a O.7-percent rate. What tive bureau who refused to give his name, cycle with the NDSPD. If a stolen bike is do about it." Given the current situa are the reasons behind this recent legal developments have made it registered, or if a student at least knows tion, however, students can do little increased theft rate and de more difficult for the SBPD to track down its serial number, a theft report can be more than register their bikes, buy a creased apprehension rate? and apprehend bicycle thieves. Accord~· filed with the National Crime Information good lock and pray that bike thieves pass Rex Rakow, director of ing to the source, under the former legal Center. This enables any police depart- their Huffys by. . Cl

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ootball season is winding down, Vice President for Student Affairs the Rev. FDART .has reasserted itself as every Mark Poorman appointed the 16-year vet student's worst nightmare and seniors eran of managing higher-education career are finally facing the question that fam placement at Colgate and St. Lawrence ily, friends and professors have been a,sk- universities to Notre Dame's struggling . ing them since the beginning of the sum center. "I had two problems that we needed mer: "So, what are you doing after gradu to solve, one internal and one external," ation?" Some have the lUxury of the pat Svete says. "Externally, 'How do we bring ented response of graduate, medical or law more employers in?' Internally, 'How do school, but others are searching for ajob we bring more students in?' " in an economy whose downswing has The first step in solving these problems been exacerbated by the attacks of Sep was to re-centralize a service that hadsuf tember 11. Yet Lee Svete believes that fered as a result of an increasing number Notre Dame's Career Center, which he of students turning to their colleges for directs, is up to the challenge. "It could direction. "You saw the College of Busi very well be the most competitive job ness, the school of architecture and the market since 1991," he says. "We're go school of engineering start their own in ing to have our challenges, but we're dependent job fairs," Svete says. "We were going to come out of it a lot better than supposed to be a centralized service, but a Michigan State or Indiana Univer we were quickly becoming a distributive sity." . one." In response, Svete asked the colleges Svete is facing these challenges using a to co-sponsor their events, and both the combination of resources that have been center and the fairs benefited from the in development since spring 1999, when partnership. Svete says, "We utilized tech-

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nology, people power, natural resources and space management "I have worked with students in nearly every profession, and we proved in providing more opportunities outside of the Midwest Despite all of these improvements, some Notre Dame students to make these fairs stronger, to get more employers here and [to] are probably the most aggressive center in the country to de area, which is good for someone not from the Midwest," says - especially those in the College of Arts and Letters - feel ex actually create two new career fairs that never existed before: velop employers. If they have jobs, I will fly them here, and I senior finance and government major Angelyn Guanajuato, who cluded from the use of the Career Center's resources. "I can see the College of Science and the College of Arts and Letters." guarantee there are not too many people doing this on a consis is from Del Rio, Texas. "I hope that they continue to work in why Arts and Letters majors feel the way they do," says senior Svete also immediately faced a disorganized resume-submis tent basis." providing ND students with national opportunities." Colleen Flood, an American studies and CAPP double major sion system. Prior to his appointment, business majors predomi Individual counseling sessions also are offered as not all re Perhaps the most large-scale improvement the center has been who attended the Chicago tour. "Arts and Letters majors are nated the center, and students were charged $25 to build a re cruiters, such as government agencies and publishing houses, the creation of the New York Metro Link Career Consortium, constantly hitting a sort of brick wall where companies will limit sume - which were all paper. Students would print out resumes, are registered on Go IRISH. (See Looking Elsewhere on page which was developed in conjunction with Yale University, Duke their searches to business majors, and it can be very frustrating." put them in bins in Hesburgh Library and wait to be contacted 16.) Students do not need an appointment if they visit between University and the University of Richmond. Held on February Discrepancies in the dates of the career fairs also have been ques for an interview. This messy process often resulted in lost re the hours of 1 :30 and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays, and the center is 26, 2001, the career fair was designed to assist students inter tioned. Some wonder why the business and engineering career sumes, application-status confusion and long walks to and from open until 7:00 p.m. three days a week. "Student Government ested in pursuing careers in advertising, publishing, public rela fairs are held in September while the Arts and Letters Career helped us with that," Svete says. "We won the Irish Clover tions, law, fashion and communications in the New York metro fair does not occur until late March. award for student service our first year when I was director, politan area. Svete is proud to say that of the schools involved in According to Svete, this mainly is due to the hiring schedules and so it is obvious that the new improvements have been the partnership, only Notre Dame sent students to the fair all of the companies involved. "Publishing, advertising and even the CIA hire within six to 12 weeks of graduation because they THE CAREER CENTER well-received." expenses paid. This was also the case with the Chicago trip. Over the past few years the center has capitalized on a strong economy and was able to grow easily and make many new contacts. "Now that we are facing a cutback in recruit ing with the failure of dot-com companies as well as an approaching recession, we are utilizing our alumni connec tions and allowing students to spend time with alums in their areas of interest," Svete says. Irish Online, which has a section devoted to alumni net OPPORTUNI working, is the new program behind the Career Center's With the creation of Go IRISH, the job search gets convenient recently acquired ability to access Notre Dame's complete alumni base. It is now easier for students to link up with ours of waiting by the telephone and mailbox, endless stacks of paper, long walks to Flanner Hall - fortunately, alumni and spend a day at work with them, an experience Hthanks to Go IRISH, Notre Dame students who want to take advantage of Career Center resources no longer have with dual benefits. First, students can confirm or reject ca to endure any of these. Go IRISH (Internet Recruiting and Interview-Scheduling Hotlink) is a Web-based system reer goals, and they can build their resumes. Second, ac powered by Experience.com Inc. that allows students to search through job opportunities, find upcoming information cording to Svete, if "the alum is impressed with a student, sessions and career fairs, and post their resumes and cover letters for more than 2,000 employers. According to Allison [he] can take [a] resume to human resources and put it on Keller, a counselor at the Career Center, Go IRISH received 3 million hits, registered 6,000 students and helped set up an astonishing 14,000 on-campus interviews during the 2000-01 academic year. NETWORKING Since the Career Center's move to Flanner Hall, it has been the top of a stack of 500 and say, 'Please take a look at this able to expand its online resources with their first floor computer cluster. Students Use of Go IRISH can begin when a student opens an account on the system, which is accomplished by filling student; he or she spent a day with me, and I was very im- can use resume building programs and utilize Go IRISH from this location. out a small card with one's name, birthday and e-mail address. These cards can be obtained by attending a Career pressed.' " Students approve. "It's really nice knowing that Center workshop or by scheduling an appointment with a career counselor. From there, students can create a there are so many alumni out there who are more than will profile through the Web site consisting of basic personal and academic information along with descriptions of future the library. Svete and others worked hard to improve this sys ing to help ND students learn more about a job or industry, find plans. The Career Center uses these profiles to send targeted e-mails concerning interviews, information sessions tem, eventually replacing it with Go IRISH. This paperless re a job or secure an internship," says junior finance and account- and so on specific to their areas of interest. cruitment system allows students to review jobs and internship ing major Julie Babonas. -- After uploading their resumes to Go IRISH, students can schedule job interviews by searching though the Go descriptions, locate employers by career field and geographic Babonas and 13 other students attended an investment-bank IRISH database for specific companies, job titles, regions and fields. Go IRISH users also can enter their major preference, upload resumes and sign-up for interviews - all ing and financial-services tour in Chicago over fall break, visit or degree into the system to browse a list of companies that are interested in hiring students with their background. online. Svete says that during the launch of Go IRISH, "we ba ing such firms as Goldman Sachs, Salomon Smith Barney, Mor After finding an employer, students get dates of upcoming information sessions, job descriptions, application sically lived here." He adds, "There were a few times when I gan Stanley Dean Witter, William Blair and Robert Baird. Says requirements and contact information. didn't go home for three days; we didn't see our families, but we Babonas: "The experience was really valuable. . .. Each firm "Resume books" also are available to students. These databases are divided into categories by areas of got it turned around, and we have come a long way." presented us with an overview of the industry, what life is like in interest and allow students to post their resumes accordingly. Employers then can browse the books and contact Svete and Go IRISH have strengthened the Career Center's their firm and what positions they have available." Students on attractive candidates. Once the student has contacted possible employers (or vice versa) to express interest in an programs exponentially in the nearly three years since appoint the trip met primarily with alumni, and they report that this com interview, students can use Go IRISH to monitor employer decisions. ment. "We found that in 1998 only 19 percent of the student monality made it easier to talk to them and say that the alums To maintain and improve the system, Keller says that the Career Center is "always looking to develop population was utilizing the Career Center," he says. "Now 86 gave good career advice and interview tips. Babonas says relationships with a variety of employers." While opportunities for business and engineering majors always have percent of the student population utilizes our services." In raw that this made the trip truly beneficial. "We were able to ex been numerous, the center has made great strides in recent years in making connections for Arts and Letters and numbers, the student registration wfth the center has grown from perience what the industry is really like and meet people who science students. Thanks to Go IRISH, such connections have become increasingly easy to maintain. 2,000 to 6,000. Also, students can use Go IRISH to reconfmn will probably be able to help us if we need a future contact," According to Keller, students should begin using Go IRISH as soon as possible. As early as freshman year, interview times, increasing reliability. "We went from having she says. students can open an account, create a profile and familiarize themselves with the general workings of the system. To accomplish this, 15-minute appointments with career counselors are available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday 280 missed interviews to 65 no-shows in just two years," Svete The Chicago tour is not the only program that allows students through Friday, and daily walk-in hours are from 1 :30 to 4 p.m. Students encouraged to search for internships after says. "Students and employers are both happier, and our num to view the business world firsthand; the Career Center has been sophomore year and for professions once they become seniors. . bers of interviews and recruiters have quadrupled." (See Oppor- setting up career tours in all regions of the country. Since 51 . While Go IRISH doesn't eliminate the anxiety of internship and job searching, it certainly ameliorates the ..tunities to Go on page 13.) percent of Notre Dame students do not remain in the Midwest process. This new technology, paired with the intelligence and drive of the typical Domer, could spring many ND The Career Center has worked very hard to pull in more re following graduation, this has become essential, and the center's graduates to places that they never imagined. cruiters to cater to this increase in registered students. Svete says, efforts have not gone unnoticed. "The Career Center has im- • ,I" "",

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14 SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY 15 cannot predict their hiring needs until that time," he says. He letter, they know how to use Go IRISH,'' he says. "They can concedes that Arts and Letters majors might have a more diffi come to the table with a greater awareness." cult time finding interviews; however, he stresses that they are Many other students, even those planning on attending gradu just as qualified for many jobs in business and that companies ate, medical or law school, can benefit from the center. "I had are interested in them. For example, Goldman Sachs's top ana one appointment with Anita Rees, a career counselor, for my lyst last year was a 1999 American studies graduate. That six resume," says senior peace studies and government major Eden out of the 14 students selected for the Chicago tour were Arts Essex, who plans to apply to law school. "It was extrel,l1ely helpful EAD and Letters majors says a lot. "Each firm [on the tour] stressed - her advice for pulling together my resume was excellent. She Array of internships gives students that a finance background was not necessary," Babonas says. was very attentive, diligent and followed up with me to make a crack at the real world "They will teach you what you need to know; each firm said sure I was happy with the finished product." This year the Ca they were looking for people that would fit well within the orga reer Center set up panels for students applying to grad schools nce upon a time the summer was about hanging out, having nization, regardless of their undergrad major." and for students facing the challenges of medical-school inter Ofun and making some cold cash on the side. Increasingly, A company that recruits exclusively at the Arts and Letters views. The latter drew more than 100 students. however, Notre Dame students are using their summers as spring Career Fair is McKinsey & Co., a strategy-consulting firm that So, with services abounding, why do many students choose boards for post-graduate career opportunities through internships. works on international high-importance strategic issues for some not to attend Career Center workshops? Why don't they try to While the type of internship can vary widely, ranging from cor of the largest companies in the world. Geno Fernandez, currently meet with counselors? The most common answers to these ques porate to non-profit to service-oriented, they bring benefits to an engagement manager at McKinsey, was a '97 Notre Dame tions are students' feelings of uncertainty and, often, a sense of both students' resumes and their educations. "It's becoming a graduate in philosophy, theology and classics. "Students directly not belonging. "I think you feel out of place when you are just very important component of a student's education," says Robin out of college are generally hired as analysts, a job that requires browsing in the Career Center," Flood says. "The center is great Sullivan, internship coordinator for the Career Center. "I tell stu a lot of face time with the client," he says. "We are looking for if you know what you want, but otherwise it doesn't seem to dents that it's a building process that you can't skip. It makes the SEARCHING Two students seek last-minute tips from a career well-rounded, intelligent students who can communicate .... We know what to do with you." transition much easier, to quote the real world." counselor before approaching recruiters at the 2001 Business Forum. are open to [Arts and Letters majors] because we know the type Svete acknowledges this difficulty, especially in the Arts and Internships allow students to preview a potential career and of person we want can be found in any major - science, engi Letters area. "It is true that Arts and Letters majors must do more make connections within the field for the future. "Especially where students can find internships. The Summer Service Project neering, liberal arts or business." groundwork because they often don't know what they want to when you're in the College of Business, an internship is a good Internship program, run by the Center for Social Concerns, pro Obviously, the perception that Arts and Letters students can't do, and their academic major is not necessarily what they end up way to preview your major without making a commitment, and vides a wholly different experience, but one that program direc compete with business majors doesn't seem to be true. This is doing in their careers," he says. "For example, I'm a history it's a good way to get your foot in the door with a company and tor Sue Cunningham argues is equally marketable. Roughly 190 not to say, however, that O'Shaggers can dismiss the amount of major, and I am now directing the Career Center.... I've been make connections," says Lindsay Wing, a senior accounting students participate each summer volunteer at sites - ranging time they should spend trying to find a career. "If you are, say, a there, No one wanted to interview me when I was on campus, so major who worked as an audit intern last summer with from homeless shelters to AIDS hospices - all over the coun philo major, we might need to write more cover letters and do you just have to work hard." PricewaterhouseCoopers. try. "Having this on their transcript and resume gives them the more research to be prepared, and it may be three times the The center is cont~nuing in its quest to make finding a job Notre Dame's Washington program allows students to attend heads-up over anyone who has not gone outside their field or amount of work," Svete says. "It is not difficult, but it is time easier for the entire Notre Dame community, not just undergrads. classes and intern for 20 to 25 hours a week in Washington. Ac classroom," Cunningham says. "It's a very important part of the consuming. Students are bright, they can figure it out, but they "Our efforts for graduate students - our comprehensive career cording to program director John Erikson, it strives to match educational process ... recognizing the different issues that just have to devote time to it." service - is just beginning," Svete says. "We are building a site students' placements with their interests. "Sometimes students plague so many people. That doesn't mean you have to be a This time is admittedly difficult for many students to find. on Go IRISH for graduate students, and the first graduate-stu come here thinking they want to do one thing, have an intern social worker. It means you're an educated person and you know Svete says: "I think we are such a well-rounded university that it dent career fair will be held in the next year." The center also is ship in it, discover they don't like it and switch mid-semester to how to vote and which organizations you might want to donate is difficult to create time. You are challenged academically, are looking into services for alumni. "We are also going to have a another internship," he says. "Students can actualize what they're your money to." expected to be in community service and many of you were stu job-posting board for alums, so when they conie out of medical learning in classes and tangibly figure out what they want to do Senior Colleen Clarke's participation in an SSP during the dent leaders since high school. Those three elements and a little school or law school, they can jump on Irish Online and find during their careers." summer after her sophomore year lead to her interest in gaining bit of sleep takes up 99 percent of your time." He contends that jobs and positions just for ND alums," Svete says. Senior government major Maureen McCulloh initially chose an internship in Washington the following summer. Her direct students should treat finding a job like an independent study, The Career Center makes the challenge of finding a job a lot to intern at a non-profit organization for her semester in Wash experience working in a home for abused and neglected chil carving out time to devote to career searching. easier, and the only way students can find out what it has to offer is ington, but switched early on when she found the organization dren for eight weeks led to an interest in child-welfare policy. "I Students who have had some success with the center concur. by trekking over to Planner Hall. The most important thing any had misrepresented some of its views. "I also realized that being decided that an internship [in Washington] would allow me to "I do feel like I have to put in extra work," Flood says. "The student - senior or freshman - can do is visit the center. "They in Washington, I really wanted to do something directly govern see what I experienced working with the children from a differ CAPP major will open a lot of doors to jobs in the information have an amazing amount of resources and many different contacts ment-oriented," she says. "So I went to our program director ent angle," she says. Clarke's concentration in the Hesburgh Pro technology field, but I know I'm not looking at that. I constantly and connections," Babonas says. "Once you get to the Career Cen and he helped me to secure an internship with Congressman [Pe gram in Public Service provided her with the funding and con have to search for companies that are will- ter and start asking questions, they will point ter J.] Visclosky [D-Ind.].'! tacts to secure an internship with the Child Welfare League of ing to talk with Arts and Letters majors and you in the right direction and give you people While students from the colleges of Business and Engineer America. "I was primarily a research intern, although I was able almost convince them that a liberal-arts de THE N - usually ND grads, which is nice - to con ing generaily have the highest rates of participation in summer to do some lobbying work on Capitol Hill for the league," she gree can be an asset." Flood began working tact." Students must realize that the center is internships, these opportunities allow Arts and Letters students says. with the Career Center during her sopho In 1998 only ·190/0 still improving. It certainly has probleins to to get business experience. PLS major Paul Schofield, for ex Cunningham also recommends the Accion internships that the more year by registering on Go IRISH, of students used the solve, but compared to the Career Center of ample, spent the summer writing Web text and recruiting bro CSC runs for junior business majors. A micro-lending organiza searching the Career Center's books and Career Center three years ago, this one is much improved. chures for a Manhattan consulting firm. "I decided that if I wanted tion serving those without a credit history, Accion has several meeting with counselors. Svete says that this "Certainly we have our challenges, but, com to work in the corporate world after graduation, I should use my sites across the United States, most of which are connected to a is the ideal situation for students. "If we have bined, [the staff] has over 80 years of profes summer to gain some experience," he says. "My experience local bank. "Most [business majors] think they have to go to a an Arts and Letters senior who has been in NOW sional experience," Svete says. "We don't didn't relate to my schoolwork, but was rather more oriented Big Five firm," Cunningham says, "but if you go to one of these, the office for three years, they have gone to Over 860/0 uti Iize claim to know all the answers, but we do toward educating me about what I might do after college." you're hands-on in everything: helping people set up their books, the internship fair, they have written a cover its resources promise to find out." D The corporate and governmental spheres are not the only places account, credit lines, etc." "', ": ':.' " ;.. "'" ..'" ' ... ' .. ,.' .j., '::':""'" .' ": "'I ; ," ~ ..• :,,' ",";\ . "., ,:' I. 16 SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY SCHOLASTICCOVER STORY 17 cannot predict their hiring needs until that time," he says. He letter, they know how to use Go IRISH,'' he says. "They can concedes that Arts and Letters majors might have a more diffi come to the table with a greater awareness." cult time finding interviews; however, he stresses that they are Many other students, even those planning on attending gradu just as qualified for many jobs in business and that companies ate, medical or law school, can benefit from the center. "I had are interested in them. For example, Goldman Sachs's top ana one appointment with Anita Rees, a career counselor, for my lyst last year was a 1999 American studies graduate. That six resume," says senior peace studies and government major Eden out of the 14 students selected for the Chicago tour were Arts Essex, who plans to apply to law school. "It was extrel,l1ely helpful EAD and Letters majors says a lot. "Each firm [on the tour] stressed - her advice for pulling together my resume was excellent. She Array of internships gives students that a finance background was not necessary," Babonas says. was very attentive, diligent and followed up with me to make a crack at the real world "They will teach you what you need to know; each firm said sure I was happy with the finished product." This year the Ca they were looking for people that would fit well within the orga reer Center set up panels for students applying to grad schools nce upon a time the summer was about hanging out, having nization, regardless of their undergrad major." and for students facing the challenges of medical-school inter Ofun and making some cold cash on the side. Increasingly, A company that recruits exclusively at the Arts and Letters views. The latter drew more than 100 students. however, Notre Dame students are using their summers as spring Career Fair is McKinsey & Co., a strategy-consulting firm that So, with services abounding, why do many students choose boards for post-graduate career opportunities through internships. works on international high-importance strategic issues for some not to attend Career Center workshops? Why don't they try to While the type of internship can vary widely, ranging from cor of the largest companies in the world. Geno Fernandez, currently meet with counselors? The most common answers to these ques porate to non-profit to service-oriented, they bring benefits to an engagement manager at McKinsey, was a '97 Notre Dame tions are students' feelings of uncertainty and, often, a sense of both students' resumes and their educations. "It's becoming a graduate in philosophy, theology and classics. "Students directly not belonging. "I think you feel out of place when you are just very important component of a student's education," says Robin out of college are generally hired as analysts, a job that requires browsing in the Career Center," Flood says. "The center is great Sullivan, internship coordinator for the Career Center. "I tell stu a lot of face time with the client," he says. "We are looking for if you know what you want, but otherwise it doesn't seem to dents that it's a building process that you can't skip. It makes the SEARCHING Two students seek last-minute tips from a career well-rounded, intelligent students who can communicate .... We know what to do with you." transition much easier, to quote the real world." counselor before approaching recruiters at the 2001 Business Forum. are open to [Arts and Letters majors] because we know the type Svete acknowledges this difficulty, especially in the Arts and Internships allow students to preview a potential career and of person we want can be found in any major - science, engi Letters area. "It is true that Arts and Letters majors must do more make connections within the field for the future. "Especially where students can find internships. The Summer Service Project neering, liberal arts or business." groundwork because they often don't know what they want to when you're in the College of Business, an internship is a good Internship program, run by the Center for Social Concerns, pro Obviously, the perception that Arts and Letters students can't do, and their academic major is not necessarily what they end up way to preview your major without making a commitment, and vides a wholly different experience, but one that program direc compete with business majors doesn't seem to be true. This is doing in their careers," he says. "For example, I'm a history it's a good way to get your foot in the door with a company and tor Sue Cunningham argues is equally marketable. Roughly 190 not to say, however, that O'Shaggers can dismiss the amount of major, and I am now directing the Career Center.... I've been make connections," says Lindsay Wing, a senior accounting students participate each summer volunteer at sites - ranging time they should spend trying to find a career. "If you are, say, a there, No one wanted to interview me when I was on campus, so major who worked as an audit intern last summer with from homeless shelters to AIDS hospices - all over the coun philo major, we might need to write more cover letters and do you just have to work hard." PricewaterhouseCoopers. try. "Having this on their transcript and resume gives them the more research to be prepared, and it may be three times the The center is cont~nuing in its quest to make finding a job Notre Dame's Washington program allows students to attend heads-up over anyone who has not gone outside their field or amount of work," Svete says. "It is not difficult, but it is time easier for the entire Notre Dame community, not just undergrads. classes and intern for 20 to 25 hours a week in Washington. Ac classroom," Cunningham says. "It's a very important part of the consuming. Students are bright, they can figure it out, but they "Our efforts for graduate students - our comprehensive career cording to program director John Erikson, it strives to match educational process ... recognizing the different issues that just have to devote time to it." service - is just beginning," Svete says. "We are building a site students' placements with their interests. "Sometimes students plague so many people. That doesn't mean you have to be a This time is admittedly difficult for many students to find. on Go IRISH for graduate students, and the first graduate-stu come here thinking they want to do one thing, have an intern social worker. It means you're an educated person and you know Svete says: "I think we are such a well-rounded university that it dent career fair will be held in the next year." The center also is ship in it, discover they don't like it and switch mid-semester to how to vote and which organizations you might want to donate is difficult to create time. You are challenged academically, are looking into services for alumni. "We are also going to have a another internship," he says. "Students can actualize what they're your money to." expected to be in community service and many of you were stu job-posting board for alums, so when they conie out of medical learning in classes and tangibly figure out what they want to do Senior Colleen Clarke's participation in an SSP during the dent leaders since high school. Those three elements and a little school or law school, they can jump on Irish Online and find during their careers." summer after her sophomore year lead to her interest in gaining bit of sleep takes up 99 percent of your time." He contends that jobs and positions just for ND alums," Svete says. Senior government major Maureen McCulloh initially chose an internship in Washington the following summer. Her direct students should treat finding a job like an independent study, The Career Center makes the challenge of finding a job a lot to intern at a non-profit organization for her semester in Wash experience working in a home for abused and neglected chil carving out time to devote to career searching. easier, and the only way students can find out what it has to offer is ington, but switched early on when she found the organization dren for eight weeks led to an interest in child-welfare policy. "I Students who have had some success with the center concur. by trekking over to Planner Hall. The most important thing any had misrepresented some of its views. "I also realized that being decided that an internship [in Washington] would allow me to "I do feel like I have to put in extra work," Flood says. "The student - senior or freshman - can do is visit the center. "They in Washington, I really wanted to do something directly govern see what I experienced working with the children from a differ CAPP major will open a lot of doors to jobs in the information have an amazing amount of resources and many different contacts ment-oriented," she says. "So I went to our program director ent angle," she says. Clarke's concentration in the Hesburgh Pro technology field, but I know I'm not looking at that. I constantly and connections," Babonas says. "Once you get to the Career Cen and he helped me to secure an internship with Congressman [Pe gram in Public Service provided her with the funding and con have to search for companies that are will- ter and start asking questions, they will point ter J.] Visclosky [D-Ind.].'! tacts to secure an internship with the Child Welfare League of ing to talk with Arts and Letters majors and you in the right direction and give you people While students from the colleges of Business and Engineer America. "I was primarily a research intern, although I was able almost convince them that a liberal-arts de THE N - usually ND grads, which is nice - to con ing generaily have the highest rates of participation in summer to do some lobbying work on Capitol Hill for the league," she gree can be an asset." Flood began working tact." Students must realize that the center is internships, these opportunities allow Arts and Letters students says. with the Career Center during her sopho In 1998 only ·190/0 still improving. It certainly has probleins to to get business experience. PLS major Paul Schofield, for ex Cunningham also recommends the Accion internships that the more year by registering on Go IRISH, of students used the solve, but compared to the Career Center of ample, spent the summer writing Web text and recruiting bro CSC runs for junior business majors. A micro-lending organiza searching the Career Center's books and Career Center three years ago, this one is much improved. chures for a Manhattan consulting firm. "I decided that if I wanted tion serving those without a credit history, Accion has several meeting with counselors. Svete says that this "Certainly we have our challenges, but, com to work in the corporate world after graduation, I should use my sites across the United States, most of which are connected to a is the ideal situation for students. "If we have bined, [the staff] has over 80 years of profes summer to gain some experience," he says. "My experience local bank. "Most [business majors] think they have to go to a an Arts and Letters senior who has been in NOW sional experience," Svete says. 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While the assertive action needed to get an internship might '~."' .... " be useful down the road for job searches, it can also deter some students from cashing in on this invaluable experience. So, in a move to make more internship resources readily available to stu To love and to Serve dents, the Career Center has begun consolidating the multiple Father Bill Lies returns to Notre Dame, bringing years of experience with him internship opportunities currently available around campus. The colleges of Business and Engineering, for example, both hold r MICHELLEOTTO a concentration in Latin America. He has Latinos on the near-west side of Chicago. career and internship fairs at which students can learn about the o, you get all set up on Go IRISH, your upload your a diverse background in political sciences There he taught classes, focusing on such Career Center and Go IRISH. Likewise, several departments sresume and you are now searching for the career of I hich of the Lies (pronounced and Latin American studies, particularly adult-education programs as high-school within the College of Arts and Letters coordinate their own in your dreams - only now you discover that there is not W lease) brothers did you see walk with an emphasis in religion and poli equivalency and English as a second lan ternships, and the Career Center is beginning to get on board. a single job on Go IRISH that interests you. Or, maybe ing across South Quad last tics. guage. A few years after his Chicago ex The Career Center also offers The Odyssey - a quarterly Intern you want to work in Albuquerque. Traditionally, specific week? Was it the Rev. Jim Lies, who in Largely as a result of this experience, perience, Lies evaluated his chosen path. ship newsletter mailed to Notre Dame students - online re companies recruit at Notre Dame, and those companies recent years has been rector of Zahm Hall, he has been chosen as a candidate to take "I knew that my faith was central and de sources, specific internship descriptions with application dead are usually larger financial service firms based in the or was it the Rev. Bill Lies, a resident over the executive directorship of the cided that if I didn't look into the priest lines and feedback from former interns. Midwest and Northeast. "If you are interested in small priest in Alumni Hall? If you answered Center for Social Concerns next year hood, given what my priorities were, I The Internet potentially is the most valuable resource for pro to medium-sized companies, an industry that has limited Father Bill, you're probably right, be while the Rev. Don McNeill - the cur would be doing myself, and God, a dis spective interns. The Career Center utilizes two databases for opportunities, or a specific geographic location then your cause it's his turn to hang around Notre rent director - pursues other projects. "I service," he says. "By sheer grace, this is the coordination of internship information: The ND Intern Cen job search must extend beyond Go IRISH,'' says career Dame for a while. will follow in the rather large footsteps the path God had in mind for me." qounselor Paul Reynolds. Here are some tips to make ter - a database of 100 schools nationwide that can be useful of Father Don," he says, "which won't While on the Notre Dame campus for the search a whole lot easier. The Rev. William Lies, CSC, has often for students looking to spend their summer in a specific part of ~ ;: been mistaken for his twin brother around be easy, as he's a formidable character the first time - during his candidate year the country - and Go IRISH. "I found the Career Center very ';): " around here and with the Congregation of the Holy Cross e, N~~£.9W your options. It. is imp?rtant to focus on a useful," says Wing, whose interview with PricewaterhouseCoop has done an amaz - Bill Lies began to form ties to the CSC W;!3 nageable number of industries and geographic ~:.~ ers was set up online. "I set myself up on Go IRISH and had ing job of devel through the Community of International them review my resume. In my experience, a lot of people use it ~" cations. A good place to start is a self-assessment ~j: session with a counselor in the Career Center. You have :;I oping the center Lay Apostolate, where he worked with because it's really helpful, and it's difficult to make contacts ~: ;. through the students and helped organize service sometimes." to know what you're looking for before you start the search. ~;' years." Bill Lies events. Shortly thereafter, he began work 'i~:~ The Career Center is also looking to expand into the local describes the job on his masters of divinity degree. While sector. "Typically our office has been focused on the summer," ·:,'f • ! ,U~jlhe Career Center. Located on the first floor of .. " as "a great posi pursuing this degree, Lies traveled to Sullivan says. "We're looking at spring and fall internships now :'. ~~~hner Hall, there are direc!ories, ~omputers and tion for me. . .. It Chile for a year and a half, where he says in the local business arena so we can utilize what we have here." ~unselors there to help you With your Job search. excites me to put he "experienced the Latin American cul International internships are another possibility that the center i., the CSC at the ture and reality: the poverty, the people, can help students look into. ~:~:. Suji,f"he Web. With hundreds of job-hunting sites, the ,', heart of my apos political situations, everything." He An important opportunity for Notre Dame students could be L ~,rnet is a va!uable resource. Some th~ care~r center tolic life, as well worked in Povlacion, a poor sector of Career Center Director Lee Svete's proposal to create an intern \@jj:~commends Include Monster.com, RlleygUlde.com, A as making it part Santiago, and particularly in Collegio ship endowment of $15 million to $20 million, thus yielding ~,';'. Vault.com and Wetteet.com. General searches on Yahoo .,", of the focus of my Andacollo, a Holy Cross-sponsored K-12 $150,000 to $200,000 to spend each year. "That's 200 intern and Google also can be worthwhile. J) academic and in school. He taught in the elementary ships we wouldn't normally have," he says. "I can send you to ".; ;1:,' tellectual pur grades and helped in campus ministry, all the Mayo Clinic and have you do an internship without having All 92Jthe family. Notre Dame boasts one o'f the largest l~{ HELPING HAND The Rev. Biil Lies made the decision to enter the suits," the while doing his own studies at the . to worry about living away from home, having money to live on t1%~r~ps of active alumni. There is an alumni club in just ~,!: :-,,; priesthood after working with the underpriviledged in Chicago after his Bill Lies's long Catholic University of Chile. and doing your internship in Rochester [Minn.]" ~t)out every corner of the globe. Contact a club or attend 1~i., ....,., college graduation. His experience in service has led to his being named a standing passion Eventually he had to leave Chile and Despite the Career Center's work, many students have used one of the Career Center's alumni-networking sessions. ~.\:: candidate to replace Rev. Don McNeill as executive director of the Center '(:' for volunteer ser return to Notre Dame, where he finished personal contacts to instigate the interview process. Senior chemi Before contacting a club, meet with a career counselor :;,,'. for Social Concerns. vice makes him an his degree. And after spending nine years cal-engineering major Johnny Kutney did not use the Career to help you with the letters and follow-up. t;~; ideal candidate for in both California and Pittsburgh, Bill-Lies Center to obtain his summer job with a small engineering-con r: Id.:2e/pfy an~ contact. Once you find a company that ;:.. ;: campus because since the mid-1980s, one this job. His extensive volunteerism drew is back on campus, in Alumni Hall. "The sulting firm. He says that although "they [the Career Center] .:~ ~.qwould like to work at, get a nam~. Call up human ;~~ of the Lies brothers almost constantly has him to the priesthood. Despite strong ties guys in Alumni are great, and, because I'm have a lot of resources which can be helpful, ... you have to be ~" ~esources or the specific department and ask to whom been on campus. "We have literally traded with the church growing up, he says, he on the first floor hallway, I see a lot of them aggressive and get out there in front of the companies." you send ajob inquiry. This makes sure your cover letter :·i~ places four or five times," Father Bill didn't really consider the priesthood dur as they wander by," he says. "Unfortunately, Perhaps the most valuable internship resource the Career Cen and resume get to the right desk .. says. "Some people joke that there is re ing his college years at St. John's Uni I don't get to spend as much time there as ter provides is knowledge what one needs to get to the inter ~F 1 ally just one of us. The mix-ups go both versity in Minnesota, his home state. Af I'd like; I'm mostly researching and writ view. "It is easy to say, 'I know how to write my resume' or, 'I Be persistent. In these slow economic times,the job ways. Thankfully, it doesn't bother us, be ter graduation, however, he had a few ex ing." know where to look to apply,' but the people at the Career Cen \ m,.l.aa~£ t is small, but there are companies still hiring. Just cause if it did, we would both be total periences that he often describes as "for Although he hasn't had much time to ter spend their lives doing these things," Schofield says. "They ~~~P looking and it will all work out. If you have psycho basket-cases." mative." They guided him to his deci make new friends, Bill Lies doesn't have know how to write a resume and find a job better than you do." ~hausted all possible resources in a certain direction Bill Lies returned to campus this year sIon to become a priest. to worry about being lonely. "I, of course, ''The value [of internships] to the student is self-development," it might be time to change tactics, and, once again: as a guest scholar at the Kellogg Institute Right out of college, Bill Lies spent a am running into 'friends'that I've never Sullivan says. "It is a different kind of learning - by observing meeting with a career counselor can help. for International Studies, working on year working at the House of Connec seen before at all, because they think I'm w~at those around you are modeling and by skill-building. The scholarly writings and his dissertation for tions, an adult-education center that works Jim," Bill Lies says. "But that's OK with importance of internships is huge. It's out of control. It's not his doctorate in comparative politics with primarily with African-Americans and me .... It's half the fun!" 0 going to go away." - Kristin Kramer - Crissy Manary

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I chose to come to Notre Dame be Jerry's Jabber cause: it was the best academic school on my list of schools. I didn't want to go The men's soccer team to an established soccer school and be secured its first Big East semifinal berth since 1997, just another player. I wanted to go to a defeating Georgetown 1-0 program in the early stages and help it on Alumni Field last Satur build. day. M Chad Riley scored ood day, Gipplings. The Gipper would volved both of the pranksters in the tree, the that people say when they don't think anyone's G his first goal of the season, like to commend you all for your re second following his companion after a few listening. The Gipp would like to pass along I prepare for a game by: doing what which stood as the game newed vigor - this week the Gipp's mail seconds'delay. two such tidbits for your delight. The fIrst: Coach Clark calls the "wee" things - winner. The Irish face S1. box was positively packed with stupendous The second: Apparently a number of Overheard at a recent home game, uttered get a good night's sleep, a good meal and John's in Storrs, Conn. on scandal and sordidity. So, without further Keenan's latest batch have developed an ob by two young women attired in SMC gear: get mentally and physically prepared for Friday .... The women's ado, let's get into the thick of it. session with grappling hooks and self-abuse. Girl 1: "You are such a slut. You had sex the game. soccer team won its (Not the kind of self-abuse the Catechism talks with that guy for some dope!" seventh consecutive Big Reviewing Volunteers about.) The young would-be ninjas, accord East title on Sunday, edg Girl 2: "Man, I was just taking one for the My most memorable experience at The fIrst tip gets special attention because ing to a plethora of bewildered tipsters, would team. You smoked it, too." ing West Virginia, 2-1. M Notre Dame is: this past Saturday night, Randi Scheller scored the it was delivered by not one, but two residents hook their bikes to a st~tionary bike rack and The second quote is, as the tipster himself when we hosted our first playoff game winning goal on a rebound of Farley HaIl, who have the fortune of occu pedal away as fast as'they could, until the grap suspected, "too foul to print," so allow the and beat Georgetown, 1-0. after M Mia Sarkesian's pying rooms that overlook North Food Court. pling rope went taut and the rider was flipped Gipper to merely suggest its contents. Ayoung One of them writes: "Some Tennessee fans header clanged off the over the handlebars onto the quad. The Gipper woman attendee of Boston College was at a crossbar. The Irish host were walking around campus ... when The biggest difference between Coach bar the night before the ND-BC game, their NCAA Tournament they stopped by one of the comers of Clark and former Coach Apple is: that doing plenty of what people do in bars, first-round matchup [NFC]. To our surprise and disgust, these a good coach needs to not only be knowl and decided that she needed a good pick against Eastern Illinois on men decided to share some of their edgeable of the game, but also have a up line to grab a young man's attention. Friday .... The Irish fencing 'Southern Hospitality' by relieving them way with 18- to 21-year-olds, and Coach She was successful. Let's just say, the team defeated host Penn selves on the dining hall." The other tip- Clark has that understanding. State en route to a first Gipper will never think of a Wiffle-baIl ster continues, "[We] started screaming, place finish at the Penn bat again without calling to mind this and the windows being open, we thought The most satisfying game of the year State Open last Saturday woman's colossal boast. If you're hav perhaps they might hear us and decide was: when we went to Indiana Univer and Sunday. Ozren Debic, ing trouble fIguring this one out, maybe Jan Viviani, Alicja Kryc their little 'private viewing' was not so sity. We were 6-4, and we battled them that's for the best. zalo and Carianne McCul private. We even pulled down the shades, and beat them at home when they were lough all won their individ but not before two more of their little or , , . ..': ...... , ·t<-' :~- sixth in the country . Well, Gipplings, that's about it for ;1-'.,. :~'.";"'- ual events at the competi ange buddies stepped up and took their . " this issue. Before going, though, the '~ . . tion .... Last week, the • • ~ _ • r ., ' , The final score of the Big East semifi tum. And we thought Michigan State fans men's basketball team Gipp would like to ask you for help in ...... " , were horrible!" nal Saturday against Saint John's will concluded its perfect pre overturning an,oppressive administra . . - . You thought right, dears - Michigan be: in our favor, if we do everything we season with a 95-70 vict tive precept. You see, Gipp fans, the State fans are horrible. You just couldn't can possible right. ory over the EA Sports Gipper is almost 107 years old, and he see them because their green apparel Midwest All-Stars. F David is having a bit of trouble coaxing his helped them blend into the bushes better The winner of the 2002 World Cup Graves scored 26 points aging manhood back into its old and freshman PG Chris than the Tennessee crowd. H will be: Argentina. France has a team, IERylSE Thomas added 16 points "Wiffle-ball bat" glory days. To his S ':::'~"::::'-,::':~':~;:;'/»)~ but Argentina has looked really good in '- • ,.;~. ~: " .' ~l, ~'i\:.:: ':- ~ ~(' great delight, he received a Viagra of the qualifiers. in the victory. The Irish Idle hands :~:<\ ~.:~<:;-'\ '"I." fer in his e-mailbox last week with the .. ,' ;,', open the season on Friday The Gipp has received widespread re claim that "in less than 5 minutes you at home against New ports of pointless freshman stunts in the After graduation, I hope to: play soc Hampshire .... Irish volley can complete the on-line consultation last few weeks and has chosen two of the cer. Hopefully it will be an option. If not, ball clinched its third can only imagine the accompanying conver and in many, cases have the medication in more-notorious among them to share with sation. ON iiJiiii I'll fall back on accounting. straight Big East title last 24 hours." Unfortunately, after he built up you. Saturday, defeating Seton Idiot Keenan Frosh: "Ouch. I think I swal his courage and clicked on the link, the Junior Justin Ratcliffe is a versatile weapon in The ftrst: A pair of young practical jokers If I could play another sport, it would Hall 3-0. Kristy Kreher lowed my retainer. Also, I'm blind now. I want Gipper was met with a distressing message: the Irish backfield, splitting time between the two and Kim Fletcher led the of the Sorin ilk decided to clamber up a tree be: football, just because I played when to do it again." Users of the campus network are banned fullback slots; as well serving as the center of the Irish attack, each contrib behind La.Fortune and stage a round of cherry I was young, and it's a fun sport, maybe Idiot Keenan Frosh's Dopey Sidekick: from visiting the provider's site. uting 11 kills. The victory drops into crowds of passers-by. One of the defense. He came to Notre Dame after a highly just a little too brutal. "No, it's my turn. I'm already starting to feel Looks like ~he OIT has been cutting was Notre Dame's 19th fresh-fellows would stand aside and give a decorated high-school career that included play my arms again." straight to the jugular with this new security straight at the Joyce Cen signal when a group was approaching, and the ingforthe U.S. under-18 national team. As an Irish The hardest class I've taken at Notre ter and fifth overall this initiative. Dame is: Theology 200. The class is other would come toppling out of his hideout Gipp's own Listening In season. The Irish next Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Remem player, Ratcliffe has been a constant, appearing in taught from a Catholic perspective, and in the branches, flattening himself on the side One of the great things about being the take the court on ber your old' Uncle Gipp once the gravy is all but six games since joining the team in 1999. I'm not Catholic, so it's a little harder. Saturday in the Big East walk in mock agony. 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In the most owners, a collective of which he is - unethi disgusting act oflustful greed since the lock ? cally - still a member. The "unbiased" head out of 1994, baseball owners renewed their of baseball and 35-percent owner of the Mil war with the players' association just as the waukee Brewers announced that owners would latest labor contract expires. This time, they vote whether or not to excise two teams from aren't going to stop baseball games every Major League Baseball. In that vote, baseball's where for a limited time, though. Instead, they owners almost unanimously decided that two want to stop baseball games in two cities teams would be eliminated. For the good of forever. Selig claims that contraction is neces the game, that is. Or sq they say. silly because baseball has expanded too quickly Although the victinls have not been se and too many venues are losing money. This lected yet, the most likely choices are the would be a plausible argument, except that Montreal Expos and the Minnesota Twins. Montreal and Minnesota aren't exactly new The Expos have drawn baseball's smallest comers, and the Twins turned a mild profit last crowds for several years now and are an year, which I'm sure went directly from the Just last month, the only things baseball obvious choice. On the other hand, the Twins ticket gates to Pohlad's pocket. fans associated with the word are likely to go because billionaire owner Jim Truth be told, contraction has nothing to do "contraction" were birthing pangs. But Pohlad cannot get the community to fund a with failed expansion or lost revenue. If that times, they are a-cbangin'. Don't let new ballpark, and he refuses to stretch a hand were the case, baseball's owners would be in into one of his own deep, deep pockets. But no rush to push teams out the door and would . Commissioner Bud Selig fool you into then, this isn't surprising, considering the man instead use 2002 to make sure that contraction thinking contraction is for the good of made his fortune by collecting debts during is properly negotiated, aptly aimed at teams the game. Contraction is good for only the GreatDepression. And so, because of their that need the boot, and implemented smoothly SCHOLaSTIC one thing: lining owners' pockets. owner's greediness, the Twins likely will be so as not to bump any elbows. Surprise! The w a n t s -v o u eliminated. These same Twins are the team owners don't give a damn about doing things that won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. smoothly, because contraction has nothing to The same team that looked down at the rest of do with improving baseball. The labor Now accepting applications for: On November 4, America was treated the American League Central for much of the contract's up, and the owners are flexing their to one of its rare and truly great occa 2001 season. muscles in yet another attempt to control the Departments Editor sions. The 2001 World Series advanced to And it makes me sick. MLB Player's Association. a seventh game. We saw two amazing come But the owners, especially the one pretend Alas, Selig, the owners and the players Photo Editor backs in Games 4 and 5 by the New York ing to be a commissioner, aren't the only ones alike have proven once and for all that Yankees, both coming by way of a long ball to blame. You don't need to look any farther baseball - the game - is dead. All hail Assistant Photo Editor with two outs in the ninth inning. We were than your own favorite club to find the rest. baseball the corporation, where the fiercest treated to see one ofthe game's best pitch Men are earning obscene salaries to play a battles are fought by men in suits in a court Assistant Entertainment Editor ers, Randy Johnson, throw in Game 7 de game for a living. Alex Rodriguez is slated to room, not men in uniforms on a diamond, spite having started Game 6. We saw a make $252 million to fulfill his contract with and where the only people with any say are dramatic comeback by the Diamondbacks the Texas Rangers. The dead-last Rangers. those on a panel, not those in the stands. 0

Pick up an application in the basement of South Dining Hall I or call 1-7569 for more information. It's safe to say the Irish The season is in shambles, This weekend, seniors have not played up to their but the Irish still are talented tailgate for their final potential this year. Luckily, enough to handle Navy, home football Saturday as * Only students need apply. SPORT: FOOTBALL their opponent Saturday is which doesn't have the students. The party will be OPPONENT: NAVY winless Navy, a team that athletes to compete on complete as the Irish WHERE: NOTRE DAME STADIUM doesn't even have poten either side of the ball. The demolish the Midshipmen, WHEN: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER tial. The Irish take their team emphatically ends its 48-21. 17,2:30 PM 38th straight from the Mid string of tough losses, win shipmen, 21-17. ning 41-6. - Gerard Meskill - David Murray - Michael Griffin Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Editor in Chief

22 SCHOLASTICSPORTS in the ninth inning to dethrone the three After just one year, that contract doesn't look time champion Yankees. And then, just 48 all that great. But fortunately for Rangers' , T~E •• -'-., .•. :•.••••.••.•. ••..•••.•••. ·••• ,i:,· hours after one of the game's greatest battles owner Thomas O. Hicks, he doesn't need to reminded us of those forgotten days when worry. After all, it's Rangers' fans that pay baseball was pure, puppet master Bud Selig Rodriguez's salary, and a little bit extra for pulled up the curtain, reminding everyone that Mr. Hicks himself. And each year, some RANT so long as he is pulling the strings, the game teams win and some teams lose. And each BY GERARD MESKILL can never again be great. year some owners and players win, and all Selig, baseball's commissioner, marched fans lose. to the podium and spoke on behalf of all the And then there's contraction. In the most owners, a collective of which he is - unethi disgusting act oflustful greed since the lock ? cally - still a member. The "unbiased" head out of 1994, baseball owners renewed their of baseball and 35-percent owner of the Mil war with the players' association just as the waukee Brewers announced that owners would latest labor contract expires. This time, they vote whether or not to excise two teams from aren't going to stop baseball games every Major League Baseball. In that vote, baseball's where for a limited time, though. Instead, they owners almost unanimously decided that two want to stop baseball games in two cities teams would be eliminated. For the good of forever. Selig claims that contraction is neces the game, that is. Or sq they say. silly because baseball has expanded too quickly Although the victinls have not been se and too many venues are losing money. This lected yet, the most likely choices are the would be a plausible argument, except that Montreal Expos and the Minnesota Twins. Montreal and Minnesota aren't exactly new The Expos have drawn baseball's smallest comers, and the Twins turned a mild profit last crowds for several years now and are an year, which I'm sure went directly from the Just last month, the only things baseball obvious choice. On the other hand, the Twins ticket gates to Pohlad's pocket. fans associated with the word are likely to go because billionaire owner Jim Truth be told, contraction has nothing to do "contraction" were birthing pangs. But Pohlad cannot get the community to fund a with failed expansion or lost revenue. If that times, they are a-cbangin'. Don't let new ballpark, and he refuses to stretch a hand were the case, baseball's owners would be in into one of his own deep, deep pockets. But no rush to push teams out the door and would . Commissioner Bud Selig fool you into then, this isn't surprising, considering the man instead use 2002 to make sure that contraction thinking contraction is for the good of made his fortune by collecting debts during is properly negotiated, aptly aimed at teams the game. Contraction is good for only the GreatDepression. And so, because of their that need the boot, and implemented smoothly SCHOLaSTIC one thing: lining owners' pockets. owner's greediness, the Twins likely will be so as not to bump any elbows. Surprise! The w a n t s -v o u eliminated. These same Twins are the team owners don't give a damn about doing things that won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. smoothly, because contraction has nothing to The same team that looked down at the rest of do with improving baseball. The labor Now accepting applications for: On November 4, America was treated the American League Central for much of the contract's up, and the owners are flexing their to one of its rare and truly great occa 2001 season. muscles in yet another attempt to control the Departments Editor sions. The 2001 World Series advanced to And it makes me sick. MLB Player's Association. a seventh game. We saw two amazing come But the owners, especially the one pretend Alas, Selig, the owners and the players Photo Editor backs in Games 4 and 5 by the New York ing to be a commissioner, aren't the only ones alike have proven once and for all that Yankees, both coming by way of a long ball to blame. You don't need to look any farther baseball - the game - is dead. All hail Assistant Photo Editor with two outs in the ninth inning. We were than your own favorite club to find the rest. baseball the corporation, where the fiercest treated to see one ofthe game's best pitch Men are earning obscene salaries to play a battles are fought by men in suits in a court Assistant Entertainment Editor ers, Randy Johnson, throw in Game 7 de game for a living. Alex Rodriguez is slated to room, not men in uniforms on a diamond, spite having started Game 6. We saw a make $252 million to fulfill his contract with and where the only people with any say are dramatic comeback by the Diamondbacks the Texas Rangers. The dead-last Rangers. those on a panel, not those in the stands. 0

22 SCHOLASTICSPORTS Can youth and tenacity lead the Irish as they enter the post-Riley-Ivey-Siemon era?

BRENDAN BARKER obviously need to shoot the ball a lot." to the basket, and she's also a really good Ratay has benefited from Riley's rebounder." year ago, expectations ran high presence for the past two years as de A team, however, is not made up of two A for the Notre Dame women's fenses have focused on stopping Riley players. The team's success will depend basketball team. Led by Naismith at the low post. This allows Notre Dame on how quickly the younger players come College Basketball Player of the Year to utilize an inside-outside game, with into their own. Sophomore point guard Ruth Riley and senior point guard Niele Ratay nailing open looks at the top of Le'Tania Severe will be asked to step up Ivey, the Irish glided to a 34-2 record and the perimeter. With defenses now ex- her play. Ivey played nearly all the point- captured the national championship in \ guard minutes last season, dramatic fashion by beating Purdue last and her departure creates April in St. Louis, 68-66. During their a great void in that posi ascent to the top, Riley & Co. generated The team's success will tion. Severe missed a large tremendous levels of excitement around portion of last season due campus as students, faculty and admin depend on how quickly to injuries, but she is ready istrators became swept up in a frenzy of to step into the place Ivey support for the Irish women. the younger players vacated. McGraw is con But the team faces a new challenge this come into their own. fident that the transition year. After graduating Riley, Ivey and will be relatively easy. three-year starter Kelley Siemon, coach She says: "Severe is going Muffet McGraw must incorporate a new to be the leader of the group of players to the team, including a pected to key in on the sharpshooter, team at the point guard position .... It's a freshmen class that produced three Pa McGraw says that Ratay will need to tough spot to fill because Niele I vey was rade All-Americans. Without the triuin-, work harder this year in order to be the the point guard for five years, and it will virate of Riley, Ivey and Siemon, most scorer the Irish need. "I think that other be difficult to replace her leadership and of the leadership responsibilities will fall defenses have got to focus on stopping all the other things that she did. It's such on junior guard Alicia Ratay and the her," she says. "She's the best shooter a critical position. But I feel a lot better team's lone senior, Erika Haney. "Since in the country. They're not going to give about the point guard spot with our team is so young, it's so important her any open looks, so she's going to Le'Tania." , for someone with some experience to have to work harder to come off screens Severe will not handle the point-guard lead the team on the court," says junior and we've got to work harder to get her duties alone, though. Fellow sophomore guard Monique Hernandez. open." Jeneka Joyce also will have some of the Last year, Ratay set the NCAA three Senior guard/forward Erika Haney is ball-handling responsibilities. Joyce is an point field-goal percentage mark by con the only other returning starter from the excellent compliment to Severe, accord necting on 54.7 percent of her attempts national championship squad. As the ing to McGraw. "Jeneka is going to be from beyond the arc. She will be pushed team's only senior, Haney must playa the backup point guard," she says. "She's into the role of key player in Riley's ab larger leadership role than in past sea a good leader and an intelligent player. I sence, For the second consecutive year, sons. After averaging 11.0 points and think she compliments Le'Tania well. she has been selected as a preseason can 5.7 rebounds per game last year, she Le'Tania's a great athlete who can drive didate for Naismith College Basketball also is ready to step into her new role. it, and J~neka's more of a three-point Player of the Year Award. After averag Haney is an excellent player at both shooter." McGraw envisions Severe and ing 12.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per ends ·of the court. With the ability to Joyce combining to fulfill the point-guard game and earning third-team all-Big East drive to the basket and pull up for the responsibilities in a way that will create honors last season, Ratay will shoulder jumper, she is difficult to defend, a trait match-up problems for opponents. "I much of the scoring and leadership bur of which McGraw hopes to take full ad think they'll share the point, but they'll den this year. "We're expecting Alicia vantage. "Erika has some skills that also play together some," she says. "It's Ratay to be our go-to player," McGraw nobody else on the team has," says just a matter of what we need in each par says. "I think she's somebody that we McGraw. "She has the ability to slash ticular game." »

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24 SCHOLASTICSPORTS All-American from Washington, also will we've got a lot of people that can help » start and be an immediate contributor. her. In the past, we've relied heavily The Wizard of OZ "Jackie and Teresa are going to be playing on Ruth. But this year we have the While Ratay and Haney will provide a lot of minutes for us," McGraw says. ability to play more people. We don't NO fencer makes a name for himself in South Bend and beyond . the Irish with some familiar faces in the "Those two are playing very well." have to worry about protecting some backcourt, the frontcourt will be consid- With such a high turnover in players, the one from trouble like we did with DAVIDMURRAY Irish fencing coach Yves Auriol erably different. Junior center Amanda atmosphere surrounding the team this sea Ruth, and we don't have to worry was in Nimes to watch Debic com Barksdale is the only player on the ros- son is starkly different from the champi- about someone getting tired like we did nless you are a member or a close pete at the World Championships, ter who had any SPORTSINFORMATION-MATTCASHORE onship expecta- with Niele." supporter of the Notre Dame fenc and he was impressed by what he playing time down tions that hounded U The Irish will need that balance in a ing team, you probably have never saw. "Croatia is not really a big low for Notre last year's squad. talented Big East Conference that in heard the name Ozren Debic - but with a fencing country, so he is by far the Dame last season. Last season's edi- cludes preseason No.1 and defending stellar summer full of notable fencing accom biggest fencer for the country," Barksdale played tion entered the Big East champion Connecticut, which plishments, this junior foilist's name could Auriol says. "He is really a good well during last year as one of the held the nation's top billing last year soon become as familiar to the Irish commu fencer at the international level. season's stretch elite teams in the until Notre Dame defeated it in the Fi nity as it is in the fencing world. The big fencing countries realize run, but she has country. After sus- nal Four to advance to the champion Since the end of last season, the talented that he is a rf;!al challenge for them. been hampered bye.,taining the losses ship game against Purdue. Notre Dame Debic has displayed his ability at a number of I think it was a great performance." injuries so far this ' of three starters, also will face other tough Big East op tournaments. The most notable of these was Debic feels that the tournaments season. "We really however, the Irish ponents such as Boston College, the World Championships in Nimes, France. in which he competed during the miss her out . fell to 14th in the Georgetown, Villanova and Virginia Competing with the best fencers in the world, last offseason have been instru there," McGraw preseason coaches' Tech. including a number of representatives from mental in building his confidence says. "We need poll. Some might "We're picked to finish second, but the 2000 Olympics, Debic managed an out as well as in providing him with that presence in EN GARDE This summer, Ozren Debic competed against . view this season as to even come in the top five in the con standing 24th-place finish. The Croatian na valuable experience. "In the first the world's best on his way to a stellar 24th-place finish at the lane, that shot . a rebuilding year. ference will be hard with so many good tive finished higher than all of his fellow coun two years that I was at Notre Dame, the World Championships. blocking ability. ~ Indeed, there will teams," Hernandez says. "I don't think trymen and all American competitors, and he I didn't attend a lot of World Cups We're really anx be some learning any game will be easy this year." placed only one spot below the 2000 Olym or go to a lot of tournaments," he says. "When The friend eventually became an assistant ious for her to get pains for this But Notre Dame's toughest opposition pic gold medalist, Korean Young-Ho Kim. I did, they didn't go too well, so I wasn't re coach for the Irish fencing program and urged back." Without . group, particularly might not be on the schedule, though. Prior to fencing in the World Championships ally sure how good I was. This offseason, I Debic to consider coming to South Bend. "I Riley, Barksdale on the defensi ve The unparalleled success of last year's several weeks ago, Debic competed in the gained a lot of confidence and enthusiasm." didn't even look at any other colleges," Debic also will be asked side of the ball. . championship team leaves a large Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, and As a result, Debic says that his next goal is says. "It was the one college that I felt I knew to do more on the "Right now shadow over the Joyce Center. The pres in the University Games in Beijing. Debic to qualify for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. enough about, so I decided thatI would go there." offensive end of we're on a learning sure of living up to the standard of the enjoyed success in both of these competitions "It will basically depend on how well I do Debic joined the Irish fencing team in the the court, but it is curve, especially Riley-and-Ivey-era Irish is a lot to ask as well, placing fifth in the Mediterranean over the next two seasons," he says. "The fall of 1999, and his presence only has helped unlikely that any on defense," of anyone. But McGraw believes that Games and 28th in the University Games. hardest part for me will be to qualify because an already-strong program. One year ago, the single presence on HANGIN'TOUGH Senior forward Erika McGraw says. her team will not be affected by any In the preliminary round of the World fencing is a team event, and in the European Irish combined men's and women's fencing team the court will Haney stays in triple-threat position during last year's national championship season. As '~We've got a lot of ghosts of the past. "I feel that we're a Championships, Debic lost only one bout. zone, with all of the other big fencing coun finished third overall at the NCAA Champion match Riley's the Irish gear up for another run at the titie, high-school defen whole new team, in a whole new era," This earned him an automatic bid in the sec tries, for someone from Croatia to qualify [is ship Tournament. The stellar fencing of Debic numbers from last Haney, the only senior on the Irish squad, sive players out she says. "If we had more returning play ond round, where he fenced against Ukraine's very difficult]." was one of the key components in the team's season. "We're will provide invaluable leadership. there, but this is a ers then maybe it would be different, but Alexei Bryzgalov. Though Debic felt that he Debic has come a long way since he began strong performance last season. He competed going to have to different level of we don't talk about last year very much. had control of the match, Bryzgalov capital fencing in his hometown of Zagreb, Croatia with a fracture in his foot and still mustered a have a team effort play. So as soon as I don't knowhow the players feel about ized on some of his mistakes and took a 14-9 when he was 11 years old. After seeing a tele fifth-place finish. The previous year, a healthy to replace what she did for us," McGraw they understand how to play better defense it but we try not to bring it up at all." lead - and the 15th point is the match. Debic vision segment on the sport, he decided to Debic placed second in the same event. says. "I don't think anyone person is we'll be a better team." The Irish are ready to look toward calmly fought his way back, scoring the six begin fencing in the gym across the street from "He's a natural fencer," Auriol says. "He is going to be able to come in and do But the Irish are unwilling to accept this the future and continue to build on last consecutive touches necessary to win the his house. After about five months of prac very fast, quick, strong, and he is proving that [that]." season as a rebuilding year, and they ex year's championship, rather than be match and advance to the round of 32. tice, Debic entered his first tournament, the besides training at this level, he is a very good Enter two nationally regarded fresh pect nothing less than their best effort. "Our distracted by it. And with another Unfortunately, his run ended there, as he under-14 national championship of Croatia, student. At Notre Dame, we stress that a lot. men, Jackie Batteast and Teresa Borton. No. 1 goal is to play to our potential, to strong freshmen class and a solid core was eliminated 15-10 by Italy's Salvatore and he eamed a fifth-place finish. Within a Sometimes he's missing a week or two, but he Batteast was a first-team Parade All playas a cohesive unit, and as a team," of returning players, they come into Sanzo, the eventual champion of the tourna year of learning the sport, he won the open manages to keep his grades up. He's a great kid." American a year ago, coming out of Ratay says. McGraw agrees: "We're an ex this season bent on hanging another ment. Though Debic had suffered defeat by a championship of Zagreb. This would be the There can be no doubting that Debic' s fenc Washington High School in South Bend. tremely balanced team," she says. "We~ve championship flag in the Joyce Cen rather large margin to the highly touted Sanzo first of many victories in his career. Overall, ing future is promising. Despite the disadvan Leading this talented group of freshmen, never really had the kind of depth that we ter. 0 in their first confrontation several years ago, he has collected more than 35 medals in his tage offencing for a relatively weak Croatian she will be expected to playa major role have now. We're not going to rely on one the Domer was not apprehensive about fac 11 years of fencing and has garnered more national team, his dream of fencing before a for the Irish in filling the void left by person, although we certainly expect Ali Gerard Meskill contributed to this ing him again. "I went into the bout not ex than a dozen first-place finishes. large international crowd in the Olympics Riley. Borton, a second-team Parade cia to be doing a lot of scoring for us. But story. pectingtoo much of it," Debic says. "I was Debic first considered attending Notre might very well become reality. But for now, feeling good. I was just trying to do my best Dame after one of his good fencing friends he will focus his talents on dazzling the Irish and see how far I could go." came to the school to do chemistry research. faithful back in South Bend. 0

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-. ':. - , ,~. - '.• -' , - : '0 ' All-American from Washington, also will we've got a lot of people that can help » start and be an immediate contributor. her. In the past, we've relied heavily The Wizard of OZ "Jackie and Teresa are going to be playing on Ruth. But this year we have the While Ratay and Haney will provide a lot of minutes for us," McGraw says. ability to play more people. We don't NO fencer makes a name for himself in South Bend and beyond . the Irish with some familiar faces in the "Those two are playing very well." have to worry about protecting some backcourt, the frontcourt will be consid- With such a high turnover in players, the one from trouble like we did with DAVIDMURRAY Irish fencing coach Yves Auriol erably different. Junior center Amanda atmosphere surrounding the team this sea Ruth, and we don't have to worry was in Nimes to watch Debic com Barksdale is the only player on the ros- son is starkly different from the champi- about someone getting tired like we did nless you are a member or a close pete at the World Championships, ter who had any SPORTSINFORMATION-MATTCASHORE onship expecta- with Niele." supporter of the Notre Dame fenc and he was impressed by what he playing time down tions that hounded U The Irish will need that balance in a ing team, you probably have never saw. "Croatia is not really a big low for Notre last year's squad. talented Big East Conference that in heard the name Ozren Debic - but with a fencing country, so he is by far the Dame last season. Last season's edi- cludes preseason No.1 and defending stellar summer full of notable fencing accom biggest fencer for the country," Barksdale played tion entered the Big East champion Connecticut, which plishments, this junior foilist's name could Auriol says. "He is really a good well during last year as one of the held the nation's top billing last year soon become as familiar to the Irish commu fencer at the international level. season's stretch elite teams in the until Notre Dame defeated it in the Fi nity as it is in the fencing world. The big fencing countries realize run, but she has country. After sus- nal Four to advance to the champion Since the end of last season, the talented that he is a rf;!al challenge for them. been hampered bye.,taining the losses ship game against Purdue. Notre Dame Debic has displayed his ability at a number of I think it was a great performance." injuries so far this ' of three starters, also will face other tough Big East op tournaments. The most notable of these was Debic feels that the tournaments season. "We really however, the Irish ponents such as Boston College, the World Championships in Nimes, France. in which he competed during the miss her out . fell to 14th in the Georgetown, Villanova and Virginia Competing with the best fencers in the world, last offseason have been instru there," McGraw preseason coaches' Tech. including a number of representatives from mental in building his confidence says. "We need poll. Some might "We're picked to finish second, but the 2000 Olympics, Debic managed an out as well as in providing him with that presence in EN GARDE This summer, Ozren Debic competed against . view this season as to even come in the top five in the con standing 24th-place finish. The Croatian na valuable experience. "In the first the world's best on his way to a stellar 24th-place finish at the lane, that shot . a rebuilding year. ference will be hard with so many good tive finished higher than all of his fellow coun two years that I was at Notre Dame, the World Championships. blocking ability. ~ Indeed, there will teams," Hernandez says. "I don't think trymen and all American competitors, and he I didn't attend a lot of World Cups We're really anx be some learning any game will be easy this year." placed only one spot below the 2000 Olym or go to a lot of tournaments," he says. "When The friend eventually became an assistant ious for her to get pains for this But Notre Dame's toughest opposition pic gold medalist, Korean Young-Ho Kim. I did, they didn't go too well, so I wasn't re coach for the Irish fencing program and urged back." Without . group, particularly might not be on the schedule, though. Prior to fencing in the World Championships ally sure how good I was. This offseason, I Debic to consider coming to South Bend. "I Riley, Barksdale on the defensi ve The unparalleled success of last year's several weeks ago, Debic competed in the gained a lot of confidence and enthusiasm." didn't even look at any other colleges," Debic also will be asked side of the ball. . championship team leaves a large Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, and As a result, Debic says that his next goal is says. "It was the one college that I felt I knew to do more on the "Right now shadow over the Joyce Center. The pres in the University Games in Beijing. Debic to qualify for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. enough about, so I decided thatI would go there." offensive end of we're on a learning sure of living up to the standard of the enjoyed success in both of these competitions "It will basically depend on how well I do Debic joined the Irish fencing team in the the court, but it is curve, especially Riley-and-Ivey-era Irish is a lot to ask as well, placing fifth in the Mediterranean over the next two seasons," he says. "The fall of 1999, and his presence only has helped unlikely that any on defense," of anyone. But McGraw believes that Games and 28th in the University Games. hardest part for me will be to qualify because an already-strong program. One year ago, the single presence on HANGIN'TOUGH Senior forward Erika McGraw says. her team will not be affected by any In the preliminary round of the World fencing is a team event, and in the European Irish combined men's and women's fencing team the court will Haney stays in triple-threat position during last year's national championship season. As '~We've got a lot of ghosts of the past. "I feel that we're a Championships, Debic lost only one bout. zone, with all of the other big fencing coun finished third overall at the NCAA Champion match Riley's the Irish gear up for another run at the titie, high-school defen whole new team, in a whole new era," This earned him an automatic bid in the sec tries, for someone from Croatia to qualify [is ship Tournament. The stellar fencing of Debic numbers from last Haney, the only senior on the Irish squad, sive players out she says. "If we had more returning play ond round, where he fenced against Ukraine's very difficult]." was one of the key components in the team's season. "We're will provide invaluable leadership. there, but this is a ers then maybe it would be different, but Alexei Bryzgalov. Though Debic felt that he Debic has come a long way since he began strong performance last season. He competed going to have to different level of we don't talk about last year very much. had control of the match, Bryzgalov capital fencing in his hometown of Zagreb, Croatia with a fracture in his foot and still mustered a have a team effort play. So as soon as I don't knowhow the players feel about ized on some of his mistakes and took a 14-9 when he was 11 years old. After seeing a tele fifth-place finish. The previous year, a healthy to replace what she did for us," McGraw they understand how to play better defense it but we try not to bring it up at all." lead - and the 15th point is the match. Debic vision segment on the sport, he decided to Debic placed second in the same event. says. "I don't think anyone person is we'll be a better team." The Irish are ready to look toward calmly fought his way back, scoring the six begin fencing in the gym across the street from "He's a natural fencer," Auriol says. "He is going to be able to come in and do But the Irish are unwilling to accept this the future and continue to build on last consecutive touches necessary to win the his house. After about five months of prac very fast, quick, strong, and he is proving that [that]." season as a rebuilding year, and they ex year's championship, rather than be match and advance to the round of 32. tice, Debic entered his first tournament, the besides training at this level, he is a very good Enter two nationally regarded fresh pect nothing less than their best effort. "Our distracted by it. And with another Unfortunately, his run ended there, as he under-14 national championship of Croatia, student. At Notre Dame, we stress that a lot. men, Jackie Batteast and Teresa Borton. No. 1 goal is to play to our potential, to strong freshmen class and a solid core was eliminated 15-10 by Italy's Salvatore and he eamed a fifth-place finish. Within a Sometimes he's missing a week or two, but he Batteast was a first-team Parade All playas a cohesive unit, and as a team," of returning players, they come into Sanzo, the eventual champion of the tourna year of learning the sport, he won the open manages to keep his grades up. He's a great kid." American a year ago, coming out of Ratay says. McGraw agrees: "We're an ex this season bent on hanging another ment. Though Debic had suffered defeat by a championship of Zagreb. This would be the There can be no doubting that Debic' s fenc Washington High School in South Bend. tremely balanced team," she says. "We~ve championship flag in the Joyce Cen rather large margin to the highly touted Sanzo first of many victories in his career. Overall, ing future is promising. Despite the disadvan Leading this talented group of freshmen, never really had the kind of depth that we ter. 0 in their first confrontation several years ago, he has collected more than 35 medals in his tage offencing for a relatively weak Croatian she will be expected to playa major role have now. We're not going to rely on one the Domer was not apprehensive about fac 11 years of fencing and has garnered more national team, his dream of fencing before a for the Irish in filling the void left by person, although we certainly expect Ali Gerard Meskill contributed to this ing him again. "I went into the bout not ex than a dozen first-place finishes. large international crowd in the Olympics Riley. Borton, a second-team Parade cia to be doing a lot of scoring for us. But story. pectingtoo much of it," Debic says. "I was Debic first considered attending Notre might very well become reality. But for now, feeling good. I was just trying to do my best Dame after one of his good fencing friends he will focus his talents on dazzling the Irish and see how far I could go." came to the school to do chemistry research. faithful back in South Bend. 0

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-. ':. - , ,~. - '.• -' , - : '0 ' rf .....• .--. ... ~.r. .. Although the characters, setting and basic situation invite Audiences also should not focus on the controversial nature of I comparisons to Rent, the similarities end there. Unlike the mu the play. Lane says: "This show really isn't about the controversy sical, Wilson's play IS not plot-driven. There is no major con or the jokes, it's about basic human emotion. The rest is window flict, instead there is a series of confrontations between the char dressing." acters. "Burn This is a play about people," Hoeplinger says. Wilson puts his cast of artists in an abandoned lower Manhattan "There aren't any extraordinary special effects. There's no great loft, a typical home for New York's struggling bohemians. As Wil moral theme." son writes in the stage directions, "It is the sort of place that you "The play just deals with how people live and love," he adds. would kill for or wouldn't be caught dead in." The character Pale "Specifically, how four people cope when a friend or relative dies." gives his own frank impression of Anne and Larry's apartment: Lane brings the one-time Broadway play to campus as a final "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be arty. Look at it -:- you project for her advanced-directing class, an elective, independent should make automobile parts here." study course that requires the student to choose, research and ulti The set design is one of the most unique aspects of Lane's mately direct a play at the Washington Hall lab theater. Although rendition of Burn This. The lab theater works as Anne and students are not required to do an advanced-directing final, Lane Larry's loft, and the audience sits in the center, surrounded by chose to take the class as she would like to pursue a directing career the action. Lane wanted the audience to experience Burn This after graduation. in an up-front manner. "I want the audience to feel like Burn The purpose of the task is for the student to put the production This is a very honest, realistic look at life," Lane says. "It's not together on her own, but visiting professor Tony Lawton does serve always perfect, it's usually messy and emotional, and you can't as Lane's faculty advisor for the project. "I meet with him periodi always control it." Putting the audience in the middle of the cally, and he comes to some of the rehearsals," Lane says. "We action allows its members to enter the realm of personal con discuss how things are going and he gives me advice on how I can frontation that the play addresses. improve the show. Once the show is over, he will grade my direct The lab theater environment presented a challenge for set de ing." signer Chris Sinnott. "My hardest task in designing this set was Lane read through many scripts before finally choosing Burn This. to emphasize the architecture of the room," Sinnott says, "which "I prefer drama, with some humor," she says. "Burn This had the I hope I'v,e accomplished by placing the audience in the middle dry, sarcastic wit I was looking for." She also was attracted by the of the room, sitting on the floor, where they may become envel truth she saw in the script. One doesn't have to be an artist living in oped by the set and the a New York loft to relate to the struggles of the characters in Burn show." He and lighting ALEXANDRAGIERAK This. "I think everyone feels the conflict of what they think they designer Stephanie Buffa want versus what they actually want at some time," Lane says. "It's worked with the architec ture of the Washington Ou've been there: You've been in the middle of a heated about an argument between your brain and your gut. I think this Hall lab to evoke the de , argument when, from out of nowhere, someone throws a show portrays that feeling while still making the characters likable Y sired atmosphere. "The , verbal punch that leaves you silent, exposed and hurt. Your to the audience." setting described in the automatic response is to shrink back. But playwright Lanford Wil The realistically imperfect characters of Burn This particularly drew Lane to the play. "Burn This is a funny, honest show that script is that of a New son .er;tco~rages th~ members of his audience to bring their deepest York industrial room that feeli?gs mto the light, to accept their imperfections and to hold portrays people as fallible, emotional people, not some shiny, happy, nothmg back. unrealistic group," Lane says. "It shows that no matter how messed has been converted into a up our lives are, and how much we screw up, things can still work loft," Sinnott says. "As ":-r~e i~as pers~nal as you can," he writes. "Believe me, you luck would have it, the can t Imagme a feelmg everyone hasn't had. Make it personal, tell >Student production o(BurnThis' out, and life goes on." the truth, and then write 'bum this' on it." "All the characters are pretty flawed individuals, just like our architecture of the lab prqhiiSElS fiery entertainment . theatre has something of Wilson puts these lines in the mouth of a character from his 1987 . ",. selves," Hoeplingeradds. But this didn't make the actors' jobs any that quality to it already." play Bu.m ~his, a production of which senior FIT major Kathleen easier. Magnani, ajunior, has to step in the shoes of the 32-year-old So, there you are, seated ~ane wIll dIrect here at Notre Dame. Personal it is, and con trover Anna, a dancer who is at a transition point of life. To prepare for the in the middle of Anne and sI~1 as well, but it is more truthful and thought-provoking than any role, Magnani spent fall break taking classes at the Broadway Dance thmg else. Theater in New York. The lessons allowed her to "feel what kind of Larry's loft. You cannot es cape the cutting insults nor ~h~ title stems from the actions of Wilson himself, who would life" her character leads. the uncomfortable honesty, wnte r?e w~rds "bum this" at the top of his own preliminary scripts Other cast members have the challenge of portraying characters but you know them all too well. You nurture bruises and bandage ~o ren;nnd himself not to hold anything back in his writing. Think with controversial lifestyles and habits. For example, Nelson's char wounds along with the characters and see the love heal but leave a mg that no one else would read his work allowed Wilson to write acter Pale is a trash-talking cocaine addict. "[Pale is] not who 1 am, scar. You experience Wilson's personal writings spared from the more ;openly. In Bum This, Wilson sets out to tell a realistic story but something new," Nelson says. "He gives me room to expand flames, and walk away from Bum This as you would from fight, about.honest characters learning not to hide their imperfections. my acting range." a: stronger than you were before. . Th~ play follows the self-discovery and growth of a Ne~ York Wilson wanted Bum This to display real characters in real situa- "I want the audience to relate to what we show them and go away danc~r and choreographer, Anna (Tara Magnani), after the death ,tions. To do this, he treats homosexuality and explicit language as thinking about it," Lane says. "A really good show leaves you think of he~ gay roommate Robby. While she and her other roommate accepted aspects of daily life. This up-front depiction has sparked ing about it long after the lights go down." 0, LarrYi (Steve Hoeplinger), who is also homosexual, cope with controversy with some audiences, but Lane does not expect such a ~obby's dea~h, Anna's romantic life takes an unexpected turn reaction at Notre Dame. "Some of Bum This is controversial, but over Peliormances oJBum This will be held on November 16 and 17 when! Robby s older brother, Pale (Sean Nelson), comes into all I think it will be well-received," she says. "Our audience, for the at Washington Hall in the Lab Theater (back oJ Washington Hall). th.e p~cture and makes her reconsider her current relationship most part, will probably be other people who are involved in theater wIth ~urton (Chas Grundy). and they are always willing to offer an objective point of view." Doors open 7 p.m., curtain at 7:30 p.m. The show isJree.

28 SSHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 29 rf .....• .--. ... ~.r. .. Although the characters, setting and basic situation invite Audiences also should not focus on the controversial nature of I comparisons to Rent, the similarities end there. Unlike the mu the play. Lane says: "This show really isn't about the controversy sical, Wilson's play IS not plot-driven. There is no major con or the jokes, it's about basic human emotion. The rest is window flict, instead there is a series of confrontations between the char dressing." acters. "Burn This is a play about people," Hoeplinger says. Wilson puts his cast of artists in an abandoned lower Manhattan "There aren't any extraordinary special effects. There's no great loft, a typical home for New York's struggling bohemians. As Wil moral theme." son writes in the stage directions, "It is the sort of place that you "The play just deals with how people live and love," he adds. would kill for or wouldn't be caught dead in." The character Pale "Specifically, how four people cope when a friend or relative dies." gives his own frank impression of Anne and Larry's apartment: Lane brings the one-time Broadway play to campus as a final "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's supposed to be arty. Look at it -:- you project for her advanced-directing class, an elective, independent should make automobile parts here." study course that requires the student to choose, research and ulti The set design is one of the most unique aspects of Lane's mately direct a play at the Washington Hall lab theater. Although rendition of Burn This. The lab theater works as Anne and students are not required to do an advanced-directing final, Lane Larry's loft, and the audience sits in the center, surrounded by chose to take the class as she would like to pursue a directing career the action. Lane wanted the audience to experience Burn This after graduation. in an up-front manner. "I want the audience to feel like Burn The purpose of the task is for the student to put the production This is a very honest, realistic look at life," Lane says. "It's not together on her own, but visiting professor Tony Lawton does serve always perfect, it's usually messy and emotional, and you can't as Lane's faculty advisor for the project. "I meet with him periodi always control it." Putting the audience in the middle of the cally, and he comes to some of the rehearsals," Lane says. "We action allows its members to enter the realm of personal con discuss how things are going and he gives me advice on how I can frontation that the play addresses. improve the show. Once the show is over, he will grade my direct The lab theater environment presented a challenge for set de ing." signer Chris Sinnott. "My hardest task in designing this set was Lane read through many scripts before finally choosing Burn This. to emphasize the architecture of the room," Sinnott says, "which "I prefer drama, with some humor," she says. "Burn This had the I hope I'v,e accomplished by placing the audience in the middle dry, sarcastic wit I was looking for." She also was attracted by the of the room, sitting on the floor, where they may become envel truth she saw in the script. One doesn't have to be an artist living in oped by the set and the a New York loft to relate to the struggles of the characters in Burn show." He and lighting ALEXANDRAGIERAK This. "I think everyone feels the conflict of what they think they designer Stephanie Buffa want versus what they actually want at some time," Lane says. "It's worked with the architec ture of the Washington Ou've been there: You've been in the middle of a heated about an argument between your brain and your gut. I think this Hall lab to evoke the de , argument when, from out of nowhere, someone throws a show portrays that feeling while still making the characters likable Y sired atmosphere. "The , verbal punch that leaves you silent, exposed and hurt. Your to the audience." setting described in the automatic response is to shrink back. But playwright Lanford Wil The realistically imperfect characters of Burn This particularly drew Lane to the play. "Burn This is a funny, honest show that script is that of a New son .er;tco~rages th~ members of his audience to bring their deepest York industrial room that feeli?gs mto the light, to accept their imperfections and to hold portrays people as fallible, emotional people, not some shiny, happy, nothmg back. unrealistic group," Lane says. "It shows that no matter how messed has been converted into a up our lives are, and how much we screw up, things can still work loft," Sinnott says. "As ":-r~e i~as pers~nal as you can," he writes. "Believe me, you luck would have it, the can t Imagme a feelmg everyone hasn't had. Make it personal, tell >Student production o(BurnThis' out, and life goes on." the truth, and then write 'bum this' on it." "All the characters are pretty flawed individuals, just like our architecture of the lab prqhiiSElS fiery entertainment . theatre has something of Wilson puts these lines in the mouth of a character from his 1987 . ",. selves," Hoeplingeradds. But this didn't make the actors' jobs any that quality to it already." play Bu.m ~his, a production of which senior FIT major Kathleen easier. Magnani, ajunior, has to step in the shoes of the 32-year-old So, there you are, seated ~ane wIll dIrect here at Notre Dame. Personal it is, and con trover Anna, a dancer who is at a transition point of life. To prepare for the in the middle of Anne and sI~1 as well, but it is more truthful and thought-provoking than any role, Magnani spent fall break taking classes at the Broadway Dance thmg else. Theater in New York. The lessons allowed her to "feel what kind of Larry's loft. You cannot es cape the cutting insults nor ~h~ title stems from the actions of Wilson himself, who would life" her character leads. the uncomfortable honesty, wnte r?e w~rds "bum this" at the top of his own preliminary scripts Other cast members have the challenge of portraying characters but you know them all too well. You nurture bruises and bandage ~o ren;nnd himself not to hold anything back in his writing. Think with controversial lifestyles and habits. For example, Nelson's char wounds along with the characters and see the love heal but leave a mg that no one else would read his work allowed Wilson to write acter Pale is a trash-talking cocaine addict. "[Pale is] not who 1 am, scar. You experience Wilson's personal writings spared from the more ;openly. In Bum This, Wilson sets out to tell a realistic story but something new," Nelson says. "He gives me room to expand flames, and walk away from Bum This as you would from fight, about.honest characters learning not to hide their imperfections. my acting range." a: stronger than you were before. . Th~ play follows the self-discovery and growth of a Ne~ York Wilson wanted Bum This to display real characters in real situa- "I want the audience to relate to what we show them and go away danc~r and choreographer, Anna (Tara Magnani), after the death ,tions. To do this, he treats homosexuality and explicit language as thinking about it," Lane says. "A really good show leaves you think of he~ gay roommate Robby. While she and her other roommate accepted aspects of daily life. This up-front depiction has sparked ing about it long after the lights go down." 0, LarrYi (Steve Hoeplinger), who is also homosexual, cope with controversy with some audiences, but Lane does not expect such a ~obby's dea~h, Anna's romantic life takes an unexpected turn reaction at Notre Dame. "Some of Bum This is controversial, but over Peliormances oJBum This will be held on November 16 and 17 when! Robby s older brother, Pale (Sean Nelson), comes into all I think it will be well-received," she says. "Our audience, for the at Washington Hall in the Lab Theater (back oJ Washington Hall). th.e p~cture and makes her reconsider her current relationship most part, will probably be other people who are involved in theater wIth ~urton (Chas Grundy). and they are always willing to offer an objective point of view." Doors open 7 p.m., curtain at 7:30 p.m. The show isJree.

28 SSHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT SCHOLASTICENTERTAINMENT 29 Double Dipping Do-it-yourself dining at Mishawaka's only fondue restaurant

KATHLEENCORTE thick batter and then gently lowering each talgic center. The building is all that's left piece into the peanut oil. The waitress also of the now-defunct Kamm and he waitress sets a silver contraption left us with six different dipping sauces, Schellinger Brewing Company, which Tlike a Bunsen burner on our table and from barbeque to horseradish and honey was destroyed by a fire in 1950. Today, lights a fIre in front of our eyes. She mustard to sweet-and-sour sauce. After a the building is the home of several restau carefully positions a silver vat filled with few minutes, we each reached for our rants and shops. peanut oil on top of the flame, hands us skewers (color-coded, to avoid confusion) But Fondue will not be upstairs for skewers and leaves us with a plate of raw and pulled out the glistening, golden- long. Van Vynckt plans to move the res vegetables and a bowl of dipping batter brown pieces. \ taurant, which has become crowded as its to make our own meal. Entree prices range from $15.95 per popularity grows, downstairs in the spring "You guys do all the cooking," G~no person for the vegetarian medley to of 2002. Plans for extended hours, per Van Vynckt, co-owner of the restaurant $24.95 for the gourmet combination (a haps including a lunch menu, are in the Fondue, told us as we scooted into our sampler with each different kind of meat), works as well. cushioned booths at the beginning of the but Fondue also offers items that are a The regular dinner menu also will un meal. Most people go out to dergo a change, with the eat to avoid cooking, but at a addition of vegetable broth fondue restaurant, doing it as an alternative to the yourself is what brings you cooking oil used for fry there. ing. "The broth to me is a Located on the third floor tastier, more-healthy ap of the historic 100 Center in proach to fonduing," Mishawaka, Fondue lives up Van Vynckt says. to its claim as "Michiana's Fondue will open any most unique dining experi night of the week to host ence." The restaurant origi special parties of over 20 I: nally opened in 1983 as people. The restaurant al , Fonda-U-Fondue, but the ,I ready has been the scene of owners closed after several several wedding rehearsals II years of business. Van Vynckt - as well as a few wedding and his parents, who own the proposals - and Van Vynckt 100 Center building, received suggests the locale for up so many calls asking about coming graduation parties. the closed fondue restaurant DO YOU FONDUE? Seniors Jacki Kiefer and Kat Corte sample apple slices and bread cubes dipped in three-cheese fondue. As all added bonus, stu that they reopened it them dents receive a 20-percent selves in January 2000. discount off any entree All entrees at Fondue start with a tradi better fit for the student budget. The when they present their student IDs on THERE Is A WAY. tional cheese fondue appetizer, which cheese-and-chocolate combination Wednesday and Thursday nights at the res consists of three different cheeses blended ($13.95 per person) is a good introduc taurant. with white wine and spices. Along with tion to the fondue experience, beginning We left Fondue three hours after we ar the dish of hot cheese comes a basket with the cheese fondue appetizer and fol rived, surprisingly full and eager to come filled with assorted bread cubes and apple lowed by a salad. Like all other meals, back with all of our friends. Who knew Tom Eckert, C.S.C. wedges. Apples dipped in cheese sauce the finale is a pot of dark chocolate, that cooking your own food' could be so 2003 Ordination Class might sound strange, but they turned out coated with orange liquor that the wait much fun? 0 to be a surprisingly good combination. ress lights at the table. The chocolate is The second round is where the cooking accompanied by marshmallows, which Located at 100 North Center in begins. Entree choices include scallops, can be toasted in the flame, and a platter Mishawaka, Fondue is open Wednesday shrimp, beef tenderloin, chicken and a of pound cake, strawberries, cherries and Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. and Friday vegetarian .selection. We chose the veg other fruits that can be dipped into the Saturday from 5 to 10p.m. For reserva etarian medley and found ourselves spear chocolate sauce after the flame dies out. tions or directions, call (219) 257-1792 ing fresh mushrooms, onions rings, broc Fondue is a surprisingly romantic res or log on through the Internet at www.nd.edu/-vocation coli and potatoes, soaking them in the taurant in the otherwise country-ish, nos- www.100center.com.

30 SCHOLASTIC ENTERTAINMENT Double Dipping Do-it-yourself dining at Mishawaka's only fondue restaurant

30 SCHOLASTIC ENTERTAINMENT I ":'.-" / 1 .,". ,".) ,":,;, Going His Own Way You'll Go Down in (Alternate) History Ask "What if?" and watch the events unfold With the help of friends, former Percy Hill drummer Aaron Katz finds his voice his story is 791 words long. Let's say you read at a rate COLUMBUS RETURNS FROM SUCCESSFUL VOy CARRIESWEENEY Tof 275 words per minute. That means it will take you about AGE WEST TO CHINA three minutes to read it. Right after you finish reading, "It was a bit farther than we thought, but we found a few ans of Percy Hill, a New Hampshire you head over to the library to catch up on some reserve reading. islands along the way where we picked up supplies. No new Fbased jam band that has been around While crossing St. Joseph's Drive, you're hit by a truck deliver continents though." since the mid-1990s, have been feeling gummy bears to the Huddle. Your leg is broken. If you'd ar ing a little uneasy as of late. The chat room rived a millisecond earlier, you would have escaped unscathed. BOSTON TEA PARTY on the band's Web siteis filled with worried If only this story had been a few words shorter. Welcome, Saturday 4 p.m. - admission $1.50. questions that have gone largely unan my friends, to the world of alternate history. Alternate history swered: "When are the guys going to per is, according to Alternatehistory.com, "the exercise of looking HOWARD STERN BLASTS OBSCENITY form again? Are they even still together?" at the past and asking 'What if?' " What if some event had gone "No place in society," he says of decision to ban shock-rock With the release of his first solo album, differently? How might the world have been changed immedi ers Tipper and the Gorefests from White House Simplest Warrior, former Percy Hill drum ately, and how might it be different in the long run? mer Aaron Katz hopes to provide his own The most commonly asked alternate history questions are Alderman reads "tons and tons" of real history. This is im response to such questions. The CD is a such things as, "What if the Nazis had won World War II?" portant, he says, because "when you consider one 'what if,' mixture of reworked Percy Hill tunes and and, "What if the South had won the American Civil War?" you sometimes have to consider six or seven others." He says, new originals, most of which are edgier and But any event can begin an alternate-history timeline. For ex "History doesn't go in a straight line - it goes in forks." An tighter than the long jams associated with ample, your unfortunate run-in with the candy truck means in-depth knowledge ofthe "forks" in real history is key to mak Percy Hill. Even with these changes, how you'll be on crutches for a few months. Because you now travel ing an alternative timeline nuanced and plausible. ever, Katz remains true to his roots, and to to class in a golf cart, you miss a chance encounter with your With his love of history, extensive knowledge of history and understand his current sound is to understand future spouse on the way to DeBartolo. Had you met, you would flair for writing about history, Alderman is, of course, an archi where he's come from. COURTESY OF have eventually produced a child who might have grown up to tecture major. Delve deeper into the philosophical implications The band Percy Hill has undergone sev BREAKING AWAY After the band Percy Hill (above) dissolved, drummer Aaron Katz (second become Dictator of the World. I just might have broken your of alternate history, and you'll find the two areas are not unre from right) wandered the music scene for a while, finally forming the Aaron Katz Band. eral confusing evolutions since its origina leg with this column, but I have saved humanity from your lated. "They say the American Indians would plan their actions tion in 1993 at the University of New Hamp From the remnants of Percy Hill and Earth now heading west, stopping in Ann Arbor, cruel, tyrannical offspring! imagining the repercussions seven generations into the future," shire, but it has always managed to resusci Suits Off, Katz started his own band, which. Mich.; Chicago; and St. Louis before com If this intrigues you, consider getting in touch with freshman he says. "I've learned [that] a lot of thought of that nature goes tate its sound somehow. In its original six consists of Leccese (bass and vocals), Andy ing to Notre Dame. "I've never been to Notre Matt Alderman, an alternate-history aficionado who currently on when you're designing buildings." (As one of my fellow man incarnation, the band debuted its first Gallagher (saxophone and keyboard), Josh Dame, so we're actually excited to get is trying to set up an alternate history discussion on campus. editors recently pointed out, Stepan Center's designers must've album, Setting the Boat Adrift (1994), and it Pryor (guitar) and Pete Koeplin (drums). The there," Katz says, who admits that his knowl Alderman says he got into alternate history because he always missed that day in architecture school.) followed up with 1996's Straight On Til Aaron Katz Band was born. edge of the school begins and ends with the has been interested in "things that didn't quite make the cut." There are other deeper implications of alternate history as Morning and Double Feature. But in 1997, It released Simplest Warrior last fall. "Re- football team. "I'd read about things, like these elaborate plans people had well, such as the idea that one person's life really can make a four of the six band members quit, leaving cording Simplest Warrior was totally differ- After the repeated disintegration and re to divide up the Ottoman Empire that didn't pan out for some difference, for good or bad. Every individual action is some music critics and the group's loyal fans alike ent than my previous experience," Katz says. incarnations of his recent bands, Katz is feel reason, and wonder why not," he says. Alderman believes the how part of the intricate web of world events. Of course, infus certain that the band was done. "With Percy Hill, we did our album in a re- ing pretty content and philosophical. He is most interesting scenarios are produced by amateur alternate ing your daily routine with this type of thinking will drive you Katz joined the band at this point, after cording studio, whereas this one was produced eager to spread his new sound. "Right now,. historians. He is part of a thriving e-community of such histori nuts. That's why Alderman tries to restrain analysis of the in being recruited, along with John Leccese, in a friend's bedroom, using a computer, and we're just focusing on this album," he says. ans, who post their questions and timelines on the Internet for numerable repercussions of his actions to when he's making by remaining band members Nate Wilson so we pretty much did it all on our own. We "We just got an RV, so we're committed to discussion and critique. One site (http://home.hiwaay.net/-billfll really big decisions. In the interest of my own sanity, this is the and Joe Farrell. In 1999 the new Percy Hill also recorded the live drum tracks in the local some road work and getting out and touring altlines.html) even receives alternate-history newspaper head strategy I'm going to adopt right now. This column could be released Color In Bloom, which critics high school's band room, so the whole expe- a lot." lines from a variety of contributors and posts them under the shorter; it could be longer. The possibilities are infinite, so I warmly received as a skillful, polished and rience was pretty personal." With or without Percy Hill, count on Katz flag The Neiuw Amsterdamme Times, whose slogan is "All the might as well live for the moment. And at the moment, I'm focused album. However, the success was Katz used the album as an opportunity to to keep showing up on the music scene. "My News That Might Have Been." Many of the postings are hu quite hungry. I think I'll go to the Huddle for some gummy not enough to keep the group together, and, explore his own singing and songwriting goal in life is to always write and always be morous. A sampling: bears. 0 in 2000, it.disbanded again. "People were skills. More than just a talented drummer, creative," he says. "I always want to be in going in different directions," Katz says. he contributed to more than half the songs there, making music, recording and getting AZTECS, MAYANS CLASH E-mail Alderman at [email protected] to find out about his "After Percy Hill was on the road for two on Percy Hill's Color in Bloom, and his voice songs on paper." 0 Mayans win third straight Super Bowl championship 41-17. alternate-histOlY discussion group. years, we decided to take a break, and right has been described as reminiscent of Sting now, [we] have no plans for the future." and Paul Simon. Katz has been exploring ... Aaron Katz will peiform on November 16 J:Q1lQwing the breakup, Katz_worked with his new roles since September, when the from 8 to 10 p.m. in the LaFortune Ballroom. the band Earth Suits Off. "In that group, I group began touring the east coast to pro Notre Dame's Danielle Rose Skorich will focused more on guitar," Katz says, "but that mote Simplest Warrior, performing at clubs open the concert at 7 p.m. An optional $3 band broke up when the drummer left to do and colleges throughout New York, Massa donation will benefit Catholic Relief Ser different stuff." chusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. He's vices for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

32 SCHOLASTICNEWS SCHOLASTICOUT OF BOUNDS 33 I ":'.-" / 1 .,". ,".) ,":,;, Going His Own Way You'll Go Down in (Alternate) History Ask "What if?" and watch the events unfold With the help of friends, former Percy Hill drummer Aaron Katz finds his voice his story is 791 words long. Let's say you read at a rate COLUMBUS RETURNS FROM SUCCESSFUL VOy CARRIESWEENEY Tof 275 words per minute. That means it will take you about AGE WEST TO CHINA three minutes to read it. Right after you finish reading, "It was a bit farther than we thought, but we found a few ans of Percy Hill, a New Hampshire you head over to the library to catch up on some reserve reading. islands along the way where we picked up supplies. No new Fbased jam band that has been around While crossing St. Joseph's Drive, you're hit by a truck deliver continents though." since the mid-1990s, have been feeling gummy bears to the Huddle. Your leg is broken. If you'd ar ing a little uneasy as of late. The chat room rived a millisecond earlier, you would have escaped unscathed. BOSTON TEA PARTY on the band's Web siteis filled with worried If only this story had been a few words shorter. Welcome, Saturday 4 p.m. - admission $1.50. questions that have gone largely unan my friends, to the world of alternate history. Alternate history swered: "When are the guys going to per is, according to Alternatehistory.com, "the exercise of looking HOWARD STERN BLASTS OBSCENITY form again? Are they even still together?" at the past and asking 'What if?' " What if some event had gone "No place in society," he says of decision to ban shock-rock With the release of his first solo album, differently? How might the world have been changed immedi ers Tipper and the Gorefests from White House Simplest Warrior, former Percy Hill drum ately, and how might it be different in the long run? mer Aaron Katz hopes to provide his own The most commonly asked alternate history questions are Alderman reads "tons and tons" of real history. This is im response to such questions. The CD is a such things as, "What if the Nazis had won World War II?" portant, he says, because "when you consider one 'what if,' mixture of reworked Percy Hill tunes and and, "What if the South had won the American Civil War?" you sometimes have to consider six or seven others." He says, new originals, most of which are edgier and But any event can begin an alternate-history timeline. For ex "History doesn't go in a straight line - it goes in forks." An tighter than the long jams associated with ample, your unfortunate run-in with the candy truck means in-depth knowledge ofthe "forks" in real history is key to mak Percy Hill. Even with these changes, how you'll be on crutches for a few months. Because you now travel ing an alternative timeline nuanced and plausible. ever, Katz remains true to his roots, and to to class in a golf cart, you miss a chance encounter with your With his love of history, extensive knowledge of history and understand his current sound is to understand future spouse on the way to DeBartolo. Had you met, you would flair for writing about history, Alderman is, of course, an archi where he's come from. COURTESY OF have eventually produced a child who might have grown up to tecture major. Delve deeper into the philosophical implications The band Percy Hill has undergone sev BREAKING AWAY After the band Percy Hill (above) dissolved, drummer Aaron Katz (second become Dictator of the World. I just might have broken your of alternate history, and you'll find the two areas are not unre from right) wandered the music scene for a while, finally forming the Aaron Katz Band. eral confusing evolutions since its origina leg with this column, but I have saved humanity from your lated. "They say the American Indians would plan their actions tion in 1993 at the University of New Hamp From the remnants of Percy Hill and Earth now heading west, stopping in Ann Arbor, cruel, tyrannical offspring! imagining the repercussions seven generations into the future," shire, but it has always managed to resusci Suits Off, Katz started his own band, which. Mich.; Chicago; and St. Louis before com If this intrigues you, consider getting in touch with freshman he says. "I've learned [that] a lot of thought of that nature goes tate its sound somehow. In its original six consists of Leccese (bass and vocals), Andy ing to Notre Dame. "I've never been to Notre Matt Alderman, an alternate-history aficionado who currently on when you're designing buildings." (As one of my fellow man incarnation, the band debuted its first Gallagher (saxophone and keyboard), Josh Dame, so we're actually excited to get is trying to set up an alternate history discussion on campus. editors recently pointed out, Stepan Center's designers must've album, Setting the Boat Adrift (1994), and it Pryor (guitar) and Pete Koeplin (drums). The there," Katz says, who admits that his knowl Alderman says he got into alternate history because he always missed that day in architecture school.) followed up with 1996's Straight On Til Aaron Katz Band was born. edge of the school begins and ends with the has been interested in "things that didn't quite make the cut." There are other deeper implications of alternate history as Morning and Double Feature. But in 1997, It released Simplest Warrior last fall. "Re- football team. "I'd read about things, like these elaborate plans people had well, such as the idea that one person's life really can make a four of the six band members quit, leaving cording Simplest Warrior was totally differ- After the repeated disintegration and re to divide up the Ottoman Empire that didn't pan out for some difference, for good or bad. Every individual action is some music critics and the group's loyal fans alike ent than my previous experience," Katz says. incarnations of his recent bands, Katz is feel reason, and wonder why not," he says. Alderman believes the how part of the intricate web of world events. Of course, infus certain that the band was done. "With Percy Hill, we did our album in a re- ing pretty content and philosophical. He is most interesting scenarios are produced by amateur alternate ing your daily routine with this type of thinking will drive you Katz joined the band at this point, after cording studio, whereas this one was produced eager to spread his new sound. "Right now,. historians. He is part of a thriving e-community of such histori nuts. That's why Alderman tries to restrain analysis of the in being recruited, along with John Leccese, in a friend's bedroom, using a computer, and we're just focusing on this album," he says. ans, who post their questions and timelines on the Internet for numerable repercussions of his actions to when he's making by remaining band members Nate Wilson so we pretty much did it all on our own. We "We just got an RV, so we're committed to discussion and critique. One site (http://home.hiwaay.net/-billfll really big decisions. In the interest of my own sanity, this is the and Joe Farrell. In 1999 the new Percy Hill also recorded the live drum tracks in the local some road work and getting out and touring altlines.html) even receives alternate-history newspaper head strategy I'm going to adopt right now. This column could be released Color In Bloom, which critics high school's band room, so the whole expe- a lot." lines from a variety of contributors and posts them under the shorter; it could be longer. The possibilities are infinite, so I warmly received as a skillful, polished and rience was pretty personal." With or without Percy Hill, count on Katz flag The Neiuw Amsterdamme Times, whose slogan is "All the might as well live for the moment. And at the moment, I'm focused album. However, the success was Katz used the album as an opportunity to to keep showing up on the music scene. "My News That Might Have Been." Many of the postings are hu quite hungry. I think I'll go to the Huddle for some gummy not enough to keep the group together, and, explore his own singing and songwriting goal in life is to always write and always be morous. A sampling: bears. 0 in 2000, it.disbanded again. "People were skills. More than just a talented drummer, creative," he says. "I always want to be in going in different directions," Katz says. he contributed to more than half the songs there, making music, recording and getting AZTECS, MAYANS CLASH E-mail Alderman at [email protected] to find out about his "After Percy Hill was on the road for two on Percy Hill's Color in Bloom, and his voice songs on paper." 0 Mayans win third straight Super Bowl championship 41-17. alternate-histOlY discussion group. years, we decided to take a break, and right has been described as reminiscent of Sting now, [we] have no plans for the future." and Paul Simon. Katz has been exploring ... Aaron Katz will peiform on November 16 J:Q1lQwing the breakup, Katz_worked with his new roles since September, when the from 8 to 10 p.m. in the LaFortune Ballroom. the band Earth Suits Off. "In that group, I group began touring the east coast to pro Notre Dame's Danielle Rose Skorich will focused more on guitar," Katz says, "but that mote Simplest Warrior, performing at clubs open the concert at 7 p.m. An optional $3 band broke up when the drummer left to do and colleges throughout New York, Massa donation will benefit Catholic Relief Ser different stuff." chusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. He's vices for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

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Don't be caught idle without one! - COM I N G ,0 1ST RAe T to N S . , _ " , ',i COMPILED BY CRISTIN FENZEL --~'-'- MEGHANGOWAN to add "spice" to their away messages with profanity: This rarely adds anything to the overall cleverness of the message. EDITOR'S CHOICE LECTURES am writing this column today because I feel compelled to 4. Another disturbing trend I have observed is away messages • Thu 15 Author Nicholas delBanco, Icall a complacent student body to action. I have observed expressing love to boyfriends or girlfriends. Please realize that no 7:00 PM, Hospitality Room, Reckers. you ignoring a brilliant form of self-expression available to one wants to read these. If it is necessary for you to express love Oh, Scrap It • Thu 15 Donald Buliough,"Twenty most all of you today, and every day. You might now be thor Five Years With Alcuin," 4:00 PM, constantly to your better half, write an e-mail, or, better yet, talk to he ND Crafting Comer folks had better oughly confused and wondering what I am referring to. I speak Medieval Institute Reading Room, your schnookums. Tthank their lucky stars that I'll be busy of AOL Instant Messenger, and more specifically, away mes 715 Hesburgh Library. 5. I have also encountered a four-page away message that relates this Friday night searching for a theater sages. "great high-school memories." This person actually changes it that's playing Harry Potter and the CINEMA I am addicted to away messages. Seriously. I spend many an hour weekly. This should scare you. Sorcerer's Stone. I am a scrapbooking • Thu 15 Girlfight, 7:00 PM, Hesburgh on 1M. But, unlike the rest of you, I don't usually converse with my I feel compelled to share with you what to do to combat these machine! Craft-store employees shudder Library Auditorium. old high-school friends, current away-message problems. at the mere mention of my name. Their • Thurs 15 The Score and The Usual college friends housed in other Learn from observation: See supplies would be wiped out in half an Suspects, 10:00 PM, 101 and 155 dorms, my friends down the hall the light at the end of this very hour, tops. Since I won't be there hogging DeBartolo. or even my roommate seated at • Fri 16 and Sat 17 The Score and dark tunnel of bad away mes the scissors, why not head over yourself? the desk next to mine. (I take the The Usual Suspects, 7:30 and 10:00 sages and rage against the dy Feel like you ODed on male composers last one back - I did this once, PM, 101 and 155 DeBartolo. ing of this light. I will now at last week's campus concerts? Check and it was fun.) No, I rarely type • Tue 20 La Sentinelle (from France), I share with you, my reading out the Notre Dame Trio this Sunday. messages to anyone. If I do ven 7:00 and 9:00 PM, Montgomery public, a few of the brilliant Faculty members Carolyn Plummer (vio ture to begin a conversation, I am Theatre, LaFortune. I away messages I have seen lin), Karan Buranskas (cello) and Maria • Tue 27 Crows (from Poland), 7:00 usually thoroughly confused by over the past few months. Stablein (piano) will perform works by and 9:00 PM, Montgomery Theatre, the process, become uninterested Many of these messages are Clara Schumann, Amy Beach and Fanny LaFortune. and go feed another of my ad --,a courtesy of the very funny Mendelssohn. • Thu 29 Into the Arms of Strangers: dictions: consumption of Diet people I feel privileged to call Stories on the Kindertransport, 7:00 Coke. I spend most of my hours PM, Hesburgh Library Auditorium. my friends. - Cristin Fenzel on 1M making - you guessed it c1 • Thu 29 Clueless and Legally Blonde, seebs2**: "Even though you .""J .. j 10:00 PM, 101 and 155 DeBartolo. (or didn't, I cannot really be sure may have to pee really, really -, ~ with you all) - away messages. "'I 'j badly, sometimes the bathroom If you don't mind, at this point SPORTS • Sat 17 Football: NO vs. Navy, 2:30 PM, STUDENT LIFE is just too far. So you suffer." • Thurs 15 Culture Fest, 6:30 PM, in this story I am going to be • Thu 15 Swimming: NO men vs. Notre Dame Stadium. seebs2**: "Watching the sun • Sun 18 Basketball: NO women vs. LaFortune Ballroom. quite conceited. My away mes Western Ontario, 7:00 PM, rise is a beautiful thin'g. Except Rolfs Aquatic Center. Valparaiso, 1 :00 PM, Joyce • Fri 16 Scrapbooking at NO Crafting sages are great. They are bril when you. are trying to write a • Fri 16 Swimming: NO men vs. Center. Corner, 9:00 PM, Dooley Room, liant, fabulous, glowing ex paper, and you find yourself do Texas Christian University, • Man 19 Basketball: NO men LaFortune . amples of college humor, bea ing everything else but writing 7:00 PM, Rolfs Aquatic vs. Cornell, 7:30 PM, Joyce • Fri 16 WVFI Benefit Show, 7:00 PM, cons in a whirling sea of pro that paper. Here's to the nap I will Center. Center. LaFortune Ballroom. foundly dull away messages. If be taking when I get home to • Fri 16 Basketball: NO • Man 26 Basketball: NO THE ARTS you are ready to admit that you day." men vs. New Hampshire, women vs. Army, 7:00 PM, Joyce Center. • Fri 16 Pranita Jaim, Classical Indian are among this dull and boring Ry***: "Put your damn pants 9:00 PM, Joyce Center. • Wed 28 Basketball: NO men vs. Dance Demonstration, 11 :45 PM, group and are looking for simple back on." , • Fri 16 Swimming: NO women at Minnesota Invitational, All Army, 7:30 PM, Joyce Center. Annenburg Auditorium. guidelines about which "types" of messages you should shy away LeslieAn***: "Hove." • Sun 18 Faculty Chamber Music from, here they are: Day, Minneapolis, Minn. eliz******: "I am not a 'study slut.' I don't know what that means, • Fri 16 and Sat 17 Concert: Notre Dame Trio, 2:00 PM, of 1. Abstain from making any references to your current state but I know I could not be it because it involves the word 'study.' " Hockey: NO vs. Annenburg Auditorium. being (~.g., "napping"). ***nd83: "I'll bust your ass Mr. Short Pants." Western Michigan, Tony Fisher scores • Sun 18 Notre Dame Brass Ensemble 2. Avoid bland references to your impending failure on any test ***082: "Pirates Only." 7:05 PM, Kalamazoo, a touchdown Fall Concert, 8:00 PM, Basilica. i, , !~ .:r. everyone else is taking (e.g., "Studying so I don't fail Chem!!! !"). Mich. against Nebraska. Your complaining about your own sad state is obvious and better Now that you have been witness to greatness, go forth and change left unsaid. the away-message world. Rebel against the voice in your head Post your event in Scholastic's 3. Some important advice for those wily individuals who attempt screaming at you to cling to AOL Instant Messenger normalcy. 0 THE WEEKENDER What: LeE; Miserables ' Coming Distractions. When: Thu 15 at 7:00 PM, Fri 16 and Sat 17 at 7:30 PM Get the recognition your event deserves. E-mail your Where: Morris Performing Arts Center Cheapest Seats: $20 submissions to Cristin Fenzel at [email protected]. For Tickets: Stop by the Broadway Theatre League Box Office, located at 120 W. LaSalle Ave., or call 234-4044, or toll-free (877) 315-1234. • All submissions are subject to Scho/aslic approval. Submit an BOO-word story for Week in Distortion. 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"I would call that changing the world." - Bono teacher acts, both inside and outside the classroom. Two weeks ago I stood in front of the Basilica and I learned what it means to be a role model. I learned the biggest rock star in the world walked up to me, how to manage a room full of angry 12-year-olds, introduced himself, and thanked me for doing ACE. and how to get them excited about memorizing link He told me that the Alliance for Catholic Education ing verbs. I learned how to calm angry parents. I is "an inspiration" and said it was "a pleasure and a learned how to lead a prayer. I learned how to re blessing to spend some time" with ACE teachers. late to a child whose parent died. I learned how to Later that night, Bono stood on a stage before a crowd , ; juggle a full-time graduate course load with a full ! of thousands and announced that, in his opinion, time teaching position while coaching 34 varsity ACE is "changing the world." and JV soccer players on the side. I learned how to I thought it was ridiculous at first. This certainly keep a gradebook. I learned how to cook. I learned wasn't why I joined ACE four years ago. I didn't when to tease the girls I lived with and when to have such lofty ambitions - I just wante'd to see leave them alone. I learned how tQ ask for help. if I really wanted to be a teacher. I didn't want to And ultimately I discovered, much to my surprise, change my major and go through a lengthy certi that teachers are able to change the world pro fication process, and I thought ACE provided a foundly, without even realizing it. good way for me to get some quick experience After ACE, I had the opportunity togo to and determine whether teaching was the job for Bangladesh with three other guys from my class, me. ACE had so many other benefits that ap and we taught English to teachers and seminarians pealed to me as well. I could get a free master's for a year. It wasn't until I was in the middle of my degree. I could get an AmeriCorps voucher to chip year in Bangladesh that I realized how well ACE away at my student loans. I could live with other had prepared me for life abroad. Since I've been people with similar inter back I've been working for ACE and spending a ests in an interesting and lot of time working with ACE graduates. In my in ACE changed the world by different culture. I could teractions with ACE graduates, I hear a common changing me, and I tried to learn to grow in my faith. refrain: Being an ACE teacher prepares you for any I could do something that thing. All these experiences, all that we had learned pass some of that on to my I felt good about. I could over two years - these lessons prepared us to do just students. combine a full-time job about anything. I lived with five other ACE members with full-time graduate in Biloxi, and now we're spread- across the country. school and call the whole One of them is in medical school in Ohio, one is a Christian Dallavis thing "service." Where else could I get all of these salesman in Chicago, another is in his first year of graduated from things? law school at Georgetown, one is getting her Ph.D. in Notre Dame in 1997 So I joined ACE, along with 60 other people, biology at Michigan, and the other one still is teach~ with a double major all of whom had their own ambitions and motiva ing at his ACE school in Mississippi. in English and tions. I'm pretty sure none of us jumped into ACE It's hard to imagine that a teacher in a small Catho Japanese. As a with the sole ambition of changing the world. lic school in the South could change the world in any member of the ACE In short, I guess I joined ACE because I wanted real way. But when I think about it, and I consider program, he taught I· to try my hand at teaching, and I quickly discov how much I've changed as a result of being in ACE, il middle-school ered that there were so many better reasons to join and when I think about how well ACE has prepared Ii English and high the program - reasons that had never occurred to me for life beyond ACE, I can start to understand what school theater in me when I applied. When I reflect on my ACE Bono's getting at. And when I look at the scope of the Biloxi, Miss. He experience now, I can see that I learned far more program, a strong sense of being a part of something currently is the than I ever expected. I learned what it means to far bigger than myself gives me some perspective. associate· director of serve. I learned how good it feels when you see a For me, ACE changed the world by changing me, and the ACE program. child figure something out. I learned a lot about .I tried to pass some of that on to my students. When I humility. I learned that fifth-graders will throw up consider that over the past eight years, more than if you make them do relay races involving Hershey 500 ACE teachers have taught more than 40,000 bars, free throws and grape Kool-Aid. I learned students, and that these teachers have all grown in that students will not remember the subject mat the same ways I did, Iget excited and proud that, in a ter nearly as much as they remember how the very real sense, Bono is right. 0

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