Bookstore Teams Find Their Names Censored

PARTLY Fishing in the lake Friday CLOUDY The 16th annual Fisher Regatta officially begins Saturday at 1 p.m. HIGH 62° on Saint Mary's Lake. APRIL 12, Scene+ page 12 (~ LOW40° 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 123 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU Bookstore teams find their names censored Brian Coughlin, director of By MIKE CONNOLLY Student Activities, said that there Senior StaffWriter are no set guidelines for deter mining what teams will and will Junior Brandon Griffith was not be censored. The list of team very surprised to learn the name names is passed through three for his Bookstore Basketball people - Bookstore adviser team had been censored by Melvin Adams, Coughlin and Student Activities. Peggy Hnatusko, assistant direc His team's name wasn't pro tor of programming for Student fane. Activities - His team's and each name wasn't 'There is no policy to person cross sexually explicit. eliminate names that es out any His team's had 'Father Poorman, in name he or name wasn't them., she deems racist, sexist or offensive. anti-homosexu- Coughlin al. Brian Coughlin couldn't give Nevertheless, director of Student Activities specific rea Student sons for why Activities struck certain Poor Man's names were Blanket from the list of banned since he had to look at so Bookstore Basketball team many different teams. There names and replaced it with was. however, no specific bias Team 22. against team names containing "We made the name with the "Poorman." intention that even Father "There is no policy to eliminate [Mark] Poorman [vice president names that had 'Father for Student Affairs] would get a Poorman' in them," Coughlin laugh out of it," Griffith said. said. Poor Man's Blanket was one of He said the "Poorman" names about 70 teams that were cen were removed because there is a sored by Student Activities this general policy that Bookstore year. All references to Poorman Basketball team names should ANDY KENNNThe Observer were removed from the list as not contain the name of another The 31st annual Bookstore Basketball Tournament started Thursday. This year the names of 70 well as other names deemed too person without that person's of the over 500 teams were censored by the office of Student Activities for a variety of reasons, sexually explicit, insulting or including sexually explicit and profane names. profane. see BOOKSTORE/page 4 Intercom founder speaks Clark, Kroener design memorial on N. Ireland experiences synchronize our ideas and Sept. 11, 2002, and use the By SCOIT BRODFUEHRER enter the competition," said area surrounding the flagpole Murphy detailed the personal Assistant News Editor Kroener. on South Quad, the location of By MEGAN MARTIN tragedies that Maskey, one of A design jury consisting of the campus-wide Sept. 11 News Writer seven children, endured dur Four hours before the dead six members, including Mass that more than 6,000 ing his years in North Belfast, line for the deadline for the Indiana Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan, people attended. Imprisoned at 17 without confronting enmity and vio School of Architecture's. Sept. chose on April 5 Clark and According to Clark, his trial for being a Catholic lence with every corner he 11 Memorial Design Kroener's design would youth in a section of Belfast turned. "Despite that, he Competition, the winners had submission be set into the where it was an unofficial chose a path of peace," not yet decided to enter the as the best "Instead ofjust having a ground sever crime, Liam Maskey visited Murphy said. contest. of 20 pure base for the flag al feet and the Law School yesterday to In response to what he saw Over Easter break, winners entries. could be share his experiences of living as an escalation of the deep Kevin Clark and Meg Kroener, Michael pole, our design creates entered by in the Northern Irish town of seeded antagonism between both fifth-year architecture Harris, a sort of a room on the walking down North Belfast, one of the most Protestant and Catholic neigh students, conceived ideas to fourth-year quad, where you will be stairs. The explosive and violent locales bors in his community, create a circular space on architecture design itself is of the clash between Catholics Maskey founded, in coopera South Quad below ground student, sitting two feet below the a circle, with and Protestants in that coun tion with Billy Mitchell, his level, accentuating the flag won second ground level and can the flagpole in try. Protestant counterpart, pole and providing space for place, and quietly reflect. , the middle of Co-sponsored by the Law Intercomm, an inter-commu quiet reflection. They decided Aaron Cook a reflecting School's Irish Law Society and nity development project. to formalize this idea into a and Eric pool approxi the University's Keough "An intercom is a mode of design only after hearing vari Saul, fifth Kevin Clark mately 10 feet Center for Irish Studies, dialogue," Maskey said, ous professors' concerns that year archi architecture student in diameter. A Maskey's talk centered on the stressing the significance of there would not be enough tecture stu- circular bench current state of affairs in his the program's nomenclature. entries to the competition. dents, won would be native Northern Ireland, as Established in 1995 in the "I am really glad that Kevin third place. Honorable men located on the outer circum well his recent efforts to rem context of the peace process, said something about entering tions were awarded to Alan ference of the memorial. edy the intense hostility in Intercomm is, according to the competition. The night Ahles, Colette Arrendonto and "The design is circular so local neighborhoods through Maskey, the result of an before, professors had been the team of John Griffin, Neil that it doesn't give importance his collaborative lntercomm absence of a grassroots com concerned about getting Hoyt, Ariane Risto and Brian to anything except the flag initiative. munity communications cam enough entries. Once we Zant. pole," said Clark. While introducing the paign. decided to enter, we had two The competition asked In the middle of the reflec- speaker, outgoing Irish Law ideas in seconds. It was nice entrants to create a design Society president John see MASKEY/page 4 we could work together to that could be constructed by see MEMORIAL/page 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------~ page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, April 12, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN NOTRE DAME HISTORY Entertaining University refuses to comply with subpoena Election sparks controversy angels Tuesday, Aprilll, 1978 Monday,April8,1974 Notre Dame's refusal to comply with a subpoena The invalidation of an election held the week before to elect yesterday has sent the hearing concerning unfair labor the Board of Directors for the campus chapter of Indiana practices against the University to the Federal Courts. public Interest Research Group [lnPIRG] became the subject Angels. The hearing, held at the Country-City Building in South of a controversy over the weekend. The election was They're mentioned in our prayers. They're supposed to be publicized, howver, it was not. The lnPIRG mentioned in the Bible. They bring messages Bend, will not continue until the issue of the subpoena is to about good and bad news. They help us resolved. Structural Proposal stipulated that elections must be well and guide us on the road of life. They protect publicized in order to be valid. us and make sure that we are safe. One picture of angels that comes to mind is of two children walking across a bridge, followed BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports by an angel, arms spread, making sure they are safe on their journey. It shows us what ever-present life Harvard admissions unswayed by roses, gifts they are and how they are constantly around us. Angela Campos CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Some familiar with the admissions In the song Faced with the daunting task of process attribute the gimmicks to "Entertaining Angels" by standing out in a crowd of nearly media attention paid to applicants Newsboys, a Christian Lab Tech 20,000 Harvard University applicants, who employ such marketing strate alternative group, they tell some students each year resort to gim gies to catch the eye of the admis of how the angels are all micks - a dozen roses sent along with sions office. around, in all the big and little things that their application, for example - to "Whenever someone does a crazy happen, "24-7 you wait for me." win over admissions officials. stunt, it gets press [coverage]." said Oh great, you're probably thinking, she's Over the years the admissions office Connie Cooper, founder of College going to get all religious on us, and tell us has collected "a colorful set of items" Foundation Planners Inc., a college that they are everywhere all the time. Well, from applicants, Dean of Admissions counseling service based in Calif since angels are a religious subject, it would and Financial Aid William now guide books that instruct students ornia. "But these games don't be hard not to bring in religion when talking Fitzsimmons said - including various on how to get noticed in the applica work." about them. desserts, a size 17 athletic shoe and a tion process, which is often viewed as According to Cooper, reputable Think about it. They pervade our thought, photo of one applicant's bedroom wall, impersonal. college counseling services are not our art and the way we conceive of the super painted crimson to show school spirit.

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