Good Bye Ben Happy Thanksgiving 9 ■ Scene music critic Geoff Rahie says goodbye to The Observer will resume publishing Tuesday, Tuesday one of the most innovative and energetic November 28. Have a safe and happy holiday. bands of last decade, Ben Folds Five. NOVEMBER 21, Scene ♦ page 13 2 0 0 0 O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIV NO. 59 H TTP://0 BSE RVER.ND.EDU MPs detain 8 ND, SMC students Police arrest 1,700 at By TIM LOGAN w here the base is located, to Most of the students went to join in that remembrance. Once a vigil Saturday afternoon at Senior Staff Writer SOA protest in Georgia there, they participated in a the base gate where speakers two-day vigil with an estimated discussed some of the atrocities mander, said. “Romana Nicholas. Age 2. 6,500 other protesters from committed by SOA graduates. A ♦ Martin Sheen Police arrested 1,700 protest­ Guatemala,” a voice cried out across the country. number of the school’s 60,000 among arrested ers, including actor Martin when the drum roll stopped. “It was pretty powerful," said graduates, including former Sheen — about half the num­ “Presente,” replied the thou­ junior Rachel Soltis. “It’s a Panamanian dictator Manuel demonstrators ber that entered the west-cen­ sands of marchers, each one diversity of people, but you can Noriega and Roberto tral Georgia post Sunday. An raising a little white cross into see in their D’Aubisson, who is widely Associated Press estimated 3,000 others contin­ the air to eyes it's all believed to have ordered the ued the protest outside the s y m b o liz e the sam e assassination of Archbishop COLUMBUS, Ga. "It was pretty powerful. gates. that the tod­ why they’re Oscar Romero, have been Wearing white masks and Most of those arrested were dler was pre­ It’s a diversity of people, there.” accused of human rights abus­ black robes and carrying card­ sent in spirit. charged with trespassing, given The 33 es. board coffins and crosses, but you can see in their a warning and released, said R o m a n a travelers, The big event came Sunday, thousands of demonstrators eyes it’s all the same why Col. G.T. Myers, Fort Benning’s Nicholas was th eir n u m ­ on a cold and rainy afternoon. m a rc h e d one of thou­ provost marshal. Some who they’re there. ” bers up That was when the “funeral slowly poured fake blood on the street sands of from 24 a procession” and march onto through the were charged with damaging i n n o c e n t year ago, the base itself would take g ates of Rachel Soltis government property, he said. people killed had a long place. As the demonstrators Fort junior " The annual demonstration by graduates j o u r n e y . took their places in line, more Benning. commemorates the Nov. 16, of the School They left speakers, including actor A s 1989, killings in El Salvador of of the Friday after­ Martin Sheen, encouraged t h e y ’ve S. Army six Jesuit priests, to which Americas (SOA), a U noon. After a brief prayer ser­ them and denounced the SOA. done every some of the school’s graduates program located in F ort vice and procession through The marchers lined up, linking year since Bcnning, Ga., which trains S heen have been linked. the snow from the Center for arms five across, and the pro­ 1989, they Though the school is sched­ Latin American officers in Social Concerns to Library cession was ready to begin. came uled to close Dec. 15 and be human rights, democracy, and, Circle, they piled into four vans Then it started, and the line Sunday to demand the closing replaced by the Western some speculate, torture. And and headed south. marched towards the base, of the Army’s School of the Hemisphere Institute for Sunday, Nicholas and every On the way, the travelers while a drum rolled and Americas, which trains Latin other innocent victim of SOA Security Cooperation, oppo­ anticipated the upcoming singers shouted out the names American soldiers. Critics nents vow to keep up the graduates was remembered at demonstration, sang songs, of victims of SOA graduates. blame the school for human a vigil and mass demonstration protests. slept and got to know each “It was really powerful rights abuses committed by “We see this as cosmetic,” calling for the school to be other. because we’d hear the whole some of its graduates — said Roy Bourgeois, a co­ closed. “It was totally like your clas­ family, one by one,” Soltis said. charges the Army calls absurd. founder of School of the Thirty-three students from sic road trip,” Soltis said. This went on for more than an “I’d characterize it as false Americas Watch who has Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Nineteen hours later, at noon and as propaganda,” Maj. Gen. traveled to Columbus, Ga., on Saturday, the vans arrived. see STU D EN TS/page 4 John LeMoyne, the post com­ see PROTEST/page 4 In m em ory of Brionne moved on to a better place,” ♦ Mass honors University president Father Welsh junior who Edward Malloy said to a crowd succumbed to cancer comprised mostly of students and Clary’s fellow Welsh Hall residents. By JASON McFARLEY Malloy, who presided over the Assistant News Editor 50-minute Mass, also delivered Clary’s homily. He lauded Clary Two months to the day of her as a symbol of courage and per­ death, Brionne Clary’s friends, sonal strength. family and neighbors gathered “She was courageous in fight­ to celebrate ing her med- the life of the ical dilemma. former Welsh “Although it is with great She d id n ’t Family Hall sadnes that we gather want it to be a r e s id e n t at a strike against well-attended here today, it is with h e r or an memorial Mass great confidence that we obstacle. She Tuesday. understand Brionne has fought grace­ T he a t te n ­ fully and with dees filled the moved to a better place. ” a sense of Basilica of the purpose; and Sacred Heart Father Edward Malloy in doing that, to more than she serves as half capacity University president a model for all and r e m e m ­ of us,” Malloy b ere d the said. Notre Dame junior whose Sept. Malloy praised Clary, of Tyler, 20 death marked the end of a Texas, as an asset to the years-long battle with leukemia. University. “Although it is with sadness “To the members of Brionne’s Photo courtesy of Sarah Miller that we gather here today, it is family: Thanks for the gift of Brionne Clary (second from right) spends time in a Welsh Hall dorm room with friends, from with great confidence that we left, Sarah Miller, Elisabeth Parker, Kate Downen and Kate Stephan. A mass in honor of her understand that Brionne has see BRIONNE/page 4 memory was held at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Monday night. page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, November 21, 2000 In sid e C o lu m n Q u o t e s o f th e W eek 7 could talk about 7 absolutely endorse "You can play bigtime “Americans struggle Holiday Blues the hostile the idea that a loss of football at Ohio State with a sexual culture environment but let's faith or the criticism or Florida, but 1 divided between skip all that. Let’s of faith can wanted a bigtime Puritanical Two years ago this Thanksgiving eve was ." my family's day from hell. My big brother was just get down to the ultim ately degree repression and gone visiting friends. My mom had taken our teachings of the strengthen it. ’’ pornographic over­ truck to work and then to help her friend church." exposure. ’’ pack for a move. My dad had gotten a ride to Dean of the College of Ron Israel, Notre Dame work because his car was Sarah strong safety in the shop. Father John Harvey on Arts and Letters, Mark Peggy Sanday on ‘rape- R ykowski It was a dark, rainy, cold homosexuality at Notre Roche on questioning prone’ campuses day. I left the house with Dame religion plenty of time to get to my Saint Mary's doctor’s appointment. News Editor Until I realized that the entrance ramp was backed up to who knew where, and I decided to cut OUTSIDE THE Dom e Compiled from U-Wire reports across town. I knew I was going to be late once I realized that traffic was a mess. Smack in front of my high school, I pan­ San Diego State mascot receives criticism icked. 1 switched lanes none too subtly and SAN DIEGO through a human symbol,” Weber bumped a black sedan that had somehow “Monty” Montezuma will continue said. “But we must do so in a way snuck up on my left. Since it was my first the San Diego State University tra­ that respects and accurately por­ accident and the people were not friendly, I dition of running through the stands trays the individual represented and was a basket-case in no time flat. and twirling his flaming spear dur­ his or her culture. Meanwhile, my mom was on her way to her ing football games.