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---., THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 41: ISSUE 23 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER22, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Fans still support Irish on road trip Freshmen Student Union Board. win SMC Students will travel to Regardless of Notre Dame's East Lansing Saturday loss last week, LeBlancq is hopeful the Irish will get back elections on their feet and bring home By MEGHAN WONS a win. News Writer ''I'm still fully in support of Gepert, Meade take the team and excited to go to The Notre Dame vs. the game," LeBlancq said. race without runoff University of Michigan "Game LeBlancq, who is road trip Day" T-shirts are on sale at ping to the game on Saturday, By KATIE KOHLER the Bookstore at a greatly has plans to tailgate before News Writer reduced price - perhaps an kickoff. LeBlancq and other effort to get rid of the apparel students who won tickets Camille Gebert and Rebecca as quickly as Irish fans want through the lottery paid $70 Meade dominated the Saint to get rid of the memory of a ticket, she said. Mary's student government last Saturday's devastating Senior Preston Carter, who elections for freshman presi blowout. also won a ticket through the dent and vice president Despite the loss to that SUB lottery, said he is Wednesday, winning 50.8 per Michigan school, many faith "extremely confident" about cent of the vote and avoiding ful Notre Dame students will the outcome of Saturday's a runoff by collecting the 50 flock to Spartan Stadium in game and looks forward to percent-plus-one vote neces East Lansing on Saturday to watching the Irish in East sary to win. cheer Notre Dame to victory Lansing on Saturday. It is uncommon for one tick against Michigan State. Carter said he is leaving for et to win the majority in the Senior Kari LeBlancq won the game on Saturday and preliminary election, but this the chance to buy tickets to then spending the night at· Observer file photo year Gebert and Meade were the game through the ticket Fans pack Notre Dame Stadium at the Michigan State game last able to secure an overwhelm lottery sponsored by the see MSU/page 4 September. This year, the matchup is in East Lan5ing on Saturday. ing amount of votes early. "I was very surprised with the results because everyone running was more than quali fied for the position," Gebert said. Students grapple with visual impairments Christin Molnar, Board of Governance elections com missioner, was also surprised Lockwood is one of the visu by the early majority win. By EILEEN DUFFY ally impaired (including two "It is quite unusual to not Assistant News Editor blind) students feeling their have a runoff election when way through their college you have more than a few Junior Jim Lockwood is sit careers at Notre Dame. tickets running ... and with ting on a bench in the lobby Through a combination of five tickets, I was surprised to have a winner in the first of the Hesburgh Library. their own skills and the election," Molnar said. Through the window Notre University's support, they Dame Stadium looms above seem to be succeeding. Leslie Youngdahl and Katie the pool reflecting Dr. Tim Cordes, who is O'Brien won 23.2 percent of the votes. Brianna Ry·an and Touchdown Jesus' out- blind, felt his way right to the Natalie Bui came in third with stretched arms. Lockwood's top of his class - he was the 14.6 percent of the votes. dog Scout gazes up at him valedictorian of the Class of affectionately. 1998, earning a 3.99 in bio Hilary Petcoff and Kathleen But Lockwood has no idea. chemistry. He then went on to Cullins and Jennie Hiatt and In fact, he's never seen the earn a medical degree from Lauren Kominkiewicz split the remainder of the votes. Stadium, Touchdown Jesus - the University of Wisconsin, ALLISON AMBROSE!fhe Observer or Scout (his dog} for that Junior Rachel Heneghan, lett, helps blind sophomore Ashley matter. see BLIND/page 6 Nashleanas read her biology book Thursday. see ELECTIONS/page 4 Honor Code violations Actress promotes persistence high among first-years 'Selena' co-star, TV personality speaks at Hispanic Heritage event By SONIA RAO 06 academic year. Of those, 40 News Writer By AMANDA MICHAELS were from 100- and 200-level A~sistant News Editor courses - classes predomi nately populated by freshmen The keys to success are Incoming University students and sophomores, Flint said. persistence, the ability to who sign the Academic Code of Of the remaining 18, 10 came stand up for yourself and Honor pledge - "As a member from 300-level courses, seven having the courage to make of the Notre Dame community, I from 400-level and one from a your own decisions, said will not participate in or toler 500-level (an undergraduate actress, author, TV host and ate academic dishonesty" - taking a graduate level course). jewelry designer Jackie are assumed to be familiar with "The vast majority of students Guerra, who spoke at the all the Code entails. found responsible for Honor Hesburgh Center for However, based on statistics Code violations at Notre Dame International Studies collected by the University are first-year students or soph Wednesday as part of Honor Code Committee, that omores," Vice President and Hispanic Heritage Month. assumption may not be entirely Associate Provost Dennis Guerra, perhaps best correct - especially for first Jacobs, also co-chair of the known for her role alongside year students. Honor Code Committee, told Jennifer Lopez in "Selena," Thomas flint, faculty officer The Observer in September described her transition from growing up as a "Mexican for the Honor Code Committee, 2005. Jacobs could not be LAURIE HUNT!The Observer · 3aid 58 honor code violations Actress, author and TV host Jackie Guerra talks about her personal were reported during the 2005- see HONOR/page 6 see GUERRA/ page 4 experiences with her audience In the Hesburgh Center Thursday. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, September 22, 2006 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: ARE YOU GOING TO THE MSU GAME THIS WEEKEND? WHY OR WHY NOT? What are yourunn1ng• from? Rachel Stewart Peter Kelly Paul Macias Kelly Short Lindsey Timpone Paul Laughlin "I ran until my muscles burned and sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore junior my veins pumped battery acid. Then, Badin St. Ed's St. Ed's Lewis Pasquerilla West Alumni I ran some more." There's a nice Fight Club quote for you. I know what Chuck Palahniuk was talking about "No- it's "No, because I "No. because I "Yes. since I "Yes. because "No. Tm going with the burning pretty difficult don't want to don't want to want to watch Kelly Short is to watch a muscles, although Allison Ambrose without a car miss the miss Peter the Irish teach my ride.·· girls' swim I would be lying if ,, or any Flip side Kelly. that state a meet at Rolfs, I said I had per , sonally experi Photographer money. bowling trip! .. lesson! .. since they enced battery acid actually know going through my veins. There have been other harmful how to beat liquids in my bloodstream - and by teams from that, of course, I mean that one time I Michigan.,, drank pancake syrup as a child - but no battery acid thus far. Honestly, I don't like running. I wish I did. I wish I could run five miles every day like it was nothing. The IN BRIEF only redeeming part of running, I think, is finishing. That's really a good Dr. John Seely Brown, for feeling. I have plenty of reasons why I mer Chief Scientist of Xerox don't run: I don't have time (I'm PLS; Corporation and the Director of enough said), my friends are all going its Palo Alto Research Center out to eat, I'd rather take a nap, will be speaking at the Jordan "Anchorman" is on TBS ... and yet, Auditorium in the Mendoza last year I ran the Holy Half School of Business at 3 p.m. Marathon. It was the most uncharac today. The workshop is entitled teristic thing I have ever done in my "High Tech, Higher Ed, and the whole life (if this statement is an New World Order." exaggeration, it's a very small one}. I did it for the cause (Hurricane Rising star and Chicago Katrina relieD and the promise of native comedian Sebastian ending on the 50-yard line of the sta Maniscalco will be perform dium, a promise which was unfortu ing tonight at Legends at 10 nately later broken. p.m. All ND, SMC and HCC I called my father to tell him that I students are welcome at no was doing it and the first thing he charge. said was, "I'll pray for you next week at Mass." He hardly even believed me. Legends will be having a Furthermore, since I've played bas Reggaeton Night starting at ketball my entire life, I run like a midnight tonight. All ND, sprinter, landing on the balls of my SMC and HCC students are feet and not the heels. This is not the welcome at no charge. best skill to have when you have 13.1 KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer miles to go. My feet burned, my legs Pinwheels filled Alumnae Green at Saint Mary's College Thursday as part of The Domer Run will kick ached- even my arms hurt from Pinwheels for Peace. Participants were asked to write either a prayer for peace or off on Saturday at 11 a.m.