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/ ^ Y THE U b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys I OLUME 3 8 : ISSUE 37 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Faculty health insurance will change by January revisions, approved the bill. faculty members was addressed By BETH ERICKSON University President Father and assignment of writers will be News Writer Edward Malloy passed the revised discussed at next month’s meet resolution, which will undergo ing. final review by the Board of ♦ The Student Affairs Committee Faculty Senate devoted much of Trustees within this week. announced that a University ad its Tuesday meeting to the discus The proposed amendment will hoc committee will be formed to sion of changes in faculty benefits create provisions for hearings discuss changes in the format of which become effective January regarding severe sanctions against Teacher-Course Evaluations. 2004. faculty members. It will most like Faculty Honor Code officer profes The self-funded North American ly become an article by next year, sor Thomas Flint requested input Health Plan will replace Partners according to Faculty Senate chair from the committee for revisions Health Plan next year as the professor John Robinson. in the Honor Code. University Health Maintenance Faculty involvement in the ♦ The Academic Affairs Organization. NCAA Accreditation Report was Committee plans to invite Jennifer A new crisis management pro also discussed. Faculty input is Younger, director of University gram, Lifeworks, will be instituted necessary, “especially for those Libraries, to speak to the Senate as part of the University’s [professors] who teach a large about the allocation of and future Employee Assistance Program. number of athletes,” said outlook for library resources. Lifeworks will provide cost-free Professor Paula Higgins. ♦ The Administrative Affairs and confidential assessment and Concerns were expressed Committee is currently revising an short-term problem resolution for regarding pressure placed on fac amendment to the Academic faculty, administration, staff and ulty by the Athletic Department Articles. their family members. and the potential effects this pres ♦ The Benefits Committee plans to In September, the Faculty sure might have on academic free meet with Human Resources on Senate passed a resolution to dom. Monday to discuss insurance for amend the Academic Articles. The retirees._____________ ___________ University Academic Council In other Faculty Senate news: ALLISON NICHOLS/The Observer recently met to discuss the resolu ♦ The writing of Memorial Contact Beth Erickson at Faculty Senate members discuss faculty benefits at their Tuesday tion and, after making technical Resolutions honoring deceased [email protected] meeting. Among the potential changes was a new health plan. Findit suffers from GSU modifies graduate grants Adjustments made of money graduate students first before we give out grant, legal repercussions can receive from the GSU to so the graduate school budget to travel expenses cover travel expenses. director suggested we come Rather than allow each stu up with some way to avoid the Notre Dame students decrease use of file- dent to apply for a $500 grant ‘last resort policy,”’ said Tim By AMANDA MICHAELS — a policy that led to a short Dale, chair of academic sharing system due to fear of legal actions News Writer age of funds in years past — affairs. “This is it.” the GSU will now pay 50 per The lifetime cap of $1,500 Over the summer, the Office In just one of many budget By MATTHEW SMEDBERG cent of the individual’s per graduate student will of Information Technologies ary decisions made during News Writer expenses, up to $350. The remain, but allowances for changed the setup of the Tuesday’s Graduate Student departments will be expected daily lodging and food campus network to make Union meeting, members to pick up the rest of the cost. expenses have increased to Firewalls, student reluc computers more secure from passed the motion to adjust “Because of University poli $125 and $40 respectively, in tance and other factors have hacking and virus attacks. In funding for the Gordon cy, it comes across poorly that response to comments that negatively impacted the use doing so, they made it more Conference Presentation currently the departments of Findit at Notre Dame, and difficult for programs like Grant, changing the amount have to fund [student travel] see GSU/page 6 students said they are con Findit to operate. cerned and hesitant after Firewalls are operated by legal actions taken against closing all communication music sharers across the ports on a computer that country. users have not manually “I am definitely worried opened. Network sharing, like because of everything the that which Findit assists, SMC honors cancer awareness RIAA [Recording Industry depends on such ports to be Association of America] is open both for searching and 'Quilt for a Cure'promotes Breast Cancer Awareness Month doing,” sophomore Chris for file transfer. OIT asked Finch said. “I have started students to turn their fire taking all my music off the walls on to stop the spread of By ANGELA SAOUD shared network, and I actual the “Blaster w orm ,” one in a News Writer ly plan to take all my music family of viruses that do not off my com puter and put it on spread by email, but rather Saint Mary’s students, burnable discs.” by jumping to an uninfected faculty and staff are honor During the 2002-03 aca computer via an open port. ing Breast Cancer demic year, Notre Dame stu Findit is being run by Jon Awareness month with dents discovered Findit, the Hilliard, a senior engineering events scheduled through indexing service run out of a major. Hilliard said that, at out October. Dillon dorm room that the end of last year, there Linda Rakow, associate allowed those connected to were over 1000 computers director of financial aid, the campus network to “indexed” on Findit, of which m ade a quilt th a t is being search for and download files about 70 were “searchable,” raffled off to raise money from other students. No meaning that users could get for the Breast Cancer longer was it necessary to information on their files and Research foundation. “Quilt find music on such peer-to- access them like a folder on for a Cure” was originally peer networks as Kazaa and their own hard drive. Now, initiated by a woman whose burn it to CD. In stead , s tu halfway through the semes mother was a breast cancer dents could literally play ter, there are only 15 search survivor. music from a computer able computers, though 235 Rakow began the quilt across campus using users have indexed them last spring, after a family Windows Media Player or selves to the database. Many member suffered a reoccur Winamp as if it were in a of these have not turned their rence of breast cancer. She folder on their personal hard firewalls off, Hilliard says, or worked on it for several ALLISON NICHOLS/The Observer drive. Movies, music and even their folders are password- months and decided to The “Quilt for a Cure” was designed by Linda Rankow, the software were only clicks Saint Mary’s associate director of financial aid. It will be away. see FINDIT/page 6 see CANCER/page 6 raffled off to raise money for breast cancer research. - I X ' ’ r I . ~ . | - I , V page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 15, 2003 In s id e C o lu m n Question of the Day: W h e r e d o all o f the l a d y b u g s c o m e f r o m? Little Bro Syndrome Saturday, I noticed something about Notre Dame’s football opponents. For the second consecutive game, I heard obnoxious chants of “1-3, 1-3,” in Autie White Becky Winston Cardine Geist Caroline Reams Joe W yss Peter Cavadini addition to other derogatory and Senior Sophomore Sophomore Senior Senior Junior offensive remarks Off-Campus Holy Cross Hall Off-Campus Off-Campus Off-Campus Off-Campus from opposing fans. But I’m not here The ground. ” “They migrate “Bush says too “Fm not sure, “They are “COLLEGE.” to complain about here from many bad things but at least actually not how offensive the Pittsburgh or Kalam azoo, come from th e y ’ve ladybugs. They Purdue fans were. Michigan. ” France. I assure replaced the are som e I’m not going to you ladybugs sw arm s o f mutilated form make a call for action from the Chris Federico don’t come from bees. ’’ of a Chinese schools in _________________ France. They’re b e e tle ... the response to their definitely ND invasion has behaviors; and Sports Writer I’m not even natives!” begun!” going to brag about how nice and polite and welcoming the Notre Dame fans are. In B r ie f I just want to make a little observa tion about the little (-minded) fans of Enjoy free Krispy Kreme some of these other schools. doughnuts distributed by SUB After being jeered for a couple of today and Thursday mornings at hours Saturday and having personal LaFortune and outside of attacks cast toward my buddies and Debartolo. me, I realized that I can’t hate Panther fans or Boilermaker fans for The campus’ best comedians their actions. Hell, I can’t even dislike come together in the Cam pus them. Holding a grudge against them Comedy Contest for a night of would be like hating a monkey for not laughter to compete for the being able to do algebra. championship of campus comedy. Actually, I really just pity them. The competition will be held After all, they can’t help being little tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.