Tuesday, March 17, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 107 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE D E AND SAINT MA English professor Erskine Peters dies at 49 By COLLEEN McCARTHY Don Sniegowski, director of under- from the English department but from was easily the principle faculty member Saint Mary's News Editor graduate studies, recalled Peters' across campus. in the English department dealing with desire to "He tried to all areas of African American litera A loss was dealt to increase cul get us to think ture," Sniegowski said. the Notre Dame com tural diversity more positive Sniegowski also attributed an munity on March 9 in the curricu 'HE TRIED TO GET us TO THINK MORE ly and criti increase in faculty members specializ when the man who lum. POSITIVELY AND CRITICALLY ABOUT cally about ing in Afro-American studies and liter helped to nncourage "One of the cultural ature to Peters influence. culture diversity in things 1 CULTURAL DIVERSITY WITHIN THE CLASs- diversity "The fact that there are now extra the University's cur r e m e m b e r ROOM.' within the faculty members here is part of his riculum as well as most about classroom," doing. He made us more aware of cul DoN SNIEGOWSKI Notre Dame's first L___....I/C:.!L___ _, him is that he Sniegowski tural diversity," Sniegowski said. specialist in African Peters directed a Ford said. "He was a man of great professional American literature Foundation summer institute on cultur In addition to specializing in Faulkner ism. He was a scholar through and died. al diversity in the curriculum for Notre studies, Peters was also a scholar of through. He also had a great deal of Erskine l'etf)rs, 49, was a professor of Dame faculty. It dealt with how to American literature to 1930, Afro commitment to the African American English and member of the Notre Dame introduce cultural diversity into the American literature, 18th century community as well as the Notre Dame faculty since 1987. lie died of pneumo classroom," Sniegowski said. British literature and Afro-poetics. community," Sniegowski added. nia in his hometown of Augusta, Ga., He added that through the institute, "From the time he became a faculty Peters met with professors not just member here until last semester, he after becoming ill in South Bend. see PETERS I page 4 McDOWELL MISSION
The Observer/John Daily 13ridget's offe:nders tace court se:ntencing By ALEX ORR News Writer
On March 6, while many students were preparing for a week of relaxation at points tropical, 165 of the University's underage drinkers were feeling the ramifications of their police capture at Bridget McGuire's Filling Station on Jan. 30. Most students avoided the rigors of an actual trial by declar ing their guilt and opting for a "pretrial diversion agreement." Through this agreement, guilty parties could avoid the harsh er. penalties of court trial and also maintain a relatively clean criminal record, bearing only the stigma of a "dismissed" case for their efforts. The town of Gary tucks into a mountain valley in southern West Virginia. A lack of resources often Pretrial diversion is, according to Rita Glenn at the St. leaves damaged and delapidated houses abandoned. Joseph County Court House, "basically a program for first time offender. If they do their community service, pay their fines, and have complied with the program, the charges will be dismissed. Their records will show that they were on the otre Dame students and program, but that the case was dismissed without pleading guilty or a conviction." alumni traveled to the But the diversion was by no means a painless process, nor a Appalachian region on a mere slap on the wrist. The divertees showed up at the court house at 8 a.m. on Fridav, and stood in a line that, with its variety of Spring Break inelusion of traffic violati~n cases, at times extended out the door of the court house. Service Seminars. One of theses places They were then processed in groups of 12, brought before an officer and delivered what was, on the whole, the same was the McDowell mission in Gary, punishment, varying in severity only if the use of a fake dri ver's license was involved. West Virginia. By 1 p.m., the last of the students emerged from the court see Irish Focus, pages 12-13 John Heasly and Mary Clark work on house. They left saddled with a one-time $52 fee, a monthly the mission's damaged wharehouse.
see BRIDGET'S I page 4 ND celebrates with St. Patrick's Day festivities
By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN play until 2 p.m. "These guys have sold out 14 of 16 shows across News Editor From 4 until 7 p.m. the Math Club will bring the the country," said John Kennedy, of I'll Learn to Fly Blarney stone out into the Huddle area for students Productions, which is sponsoring the festival. Notre DamP students can look forward today to to kiss. "Shows in Washington D.C., Dartmouth, New York, enltic fiddlers. a bagpipe band, a multi-talented Irish Then, at 7:30 p.m. at the State Theatre on S. San,rrancisco, major cities have sold out for this musician. thn blarney stone and an all-ages dance Michigan Street in South Bend, the Notre Dame act. party at Alumni-Senior Club in celebration of St. Bagpipe Band will open a Celtic Fiddle Festival. From 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Student Activities will fin Patrick's Day. "We are really excited," said Daniel Murphy, the ish off the evening with an all-ages, alcohol-free The day's festivities begin with free events leader of the band. "This is a premier opportunity dance party in the Alumni·Senior Club. There will planned by Student Activities. At noon in the Huddle for us." be a pool tournament, a leprechaun look-alike con area of LaFortune Student Center, Tom Dahill will The Bagpipe Band will play for 10 or 15 minutes test and dart contests. Admission is free and open to perform traditional Irish music on the fiddle. button, before the festival. They will also play during the every member of the Notre Dame community. · accordion and guitar. Dahill, who has performed at intermission. Tickets for the celtic fiddle festival can be bought the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Gaelic Park and Indiana The main act in the festival will be the three celtic at the LaFortune Information desk or at the door of University, Northwest's coffee house, boasts a reper fiddlers, Kevin Burke, Christian Lemaltre and the State Theatre. They cost $16 in advance, $18 at toire of more than 1000 traditional songs. He will Johnny Cunningham. the door and $14 for students and seniors. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Tuesday, March 17, 1998 • INSIDE ColUMN The truth
about St. Police investigate student's death as possible homicide CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Janice and James Ware, masters of Patrick's Day Harvard junior David Okrent, a Cabot House, held an informal meet physics coneentrator in Cabot House, ing in their residence last night for was found stabbed Sunday morning Okrent's dose friends. James Ware on Revere Beach in Boston. said more than 50 students eame to HAPPY ST. Nora Regina Meany Okrent, a native of Evanston, III., express their feelings of grief and loss. PATHICK'S DAY! Do Saint Mary's Writer was pronounced dead on arrival at The Wares told students last night you know what that Massaehusetts General Hospital short that Okrent's roommates will be flying means'? Okay, barring the obvious ... Do you ly after 6:30a.m. He was 20. to Chicago today to visit his family and know tiHl ABC's of this popular ethnic holiday? According to the Suffolk County attend funeral services, which are ten I low is St. Patrkk's Day celebrated di!Terently District Attorney's oflice, a man walk by the Massaehusetts state police as a tatively planned for Wednesday. in America than in the Emerald Isle'? Who ing his dog found Okrent, who had a "possible homicide," said James M. Lawrence Okrent, David's father, began the popular parade tradition'! More single stab wound to the neck. Bourgesanie, press secretary for the said the family learned of their son's importantly, who the hell is St. Patrick? Officials said Okrent was still alive Suffolk County district attorney's death early yesterday morning. Well. let's tackle the last question first, when authorities arrived on the scene. oflice. "I was sitting at the breakfast table bdiml we separate traditions of diiTerent According to several Cabot House Bourgesanie did not rule out the when somebody from some sort of countries. Now, I could give you a long and residents, students were told at an possibility of suicide, saying Okrent's Massachusetts organ donor organiza detailtld explanation of the works of St. informational meeting last night that wound could have been self-inflicted. tion called," he said. The call came Patriek. However, it's really not that interest Okrent had been present at Saturday's Harvard spokesperson Alex Hupp between 8 and 9 a.m. The caller ing and would be quite a challenge to jam that "Cabot Underground" dance and was said the Harvard University Police asked Okrent if he would like to con into the space of an inside column. Basically, last seen at 1:30 a.m. Any students Department is assisting in the investi tribute his son's organs, but hung up Paddy is known for two big historical accom who saw Okrent after that time are gation. when he realized that the father had plishmcnb. instructed to contact police. Autopsy results are still pending and not yet learned the news of his son's Firstly, he is credited as one of the religious Okrent's death is being investigated are expected to be released today. death. forefathers of Irnland, bringing Christianity to the country. As a chain reaetion. through the monasteries that they set up, the Irish brought widespread Christianity to the rest of the • MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOlOGY • UNIVERSITY OF CAliFORNIA-BERKElEY world. Next, as legends go, St. Patrick was the man Police think death may be suicide Prof caught in credit card scam to drive all of the snakes out of the country. Now, I made the mistake of questioning how CAMBRIDGE, Mass. BERKELEY, Calif. snakes could have ever survived in such harsh, Philip Gale, a 19 year-old MIT undergraduate, appar A former visiting professor at the Lawrence Berkeley damp and cold vegetation at all, and I got my ently jumped out of a 15th floor window of an MIT science National Laboratory was arrested Wednesday following a head bitten off by Irish friends. So, the one building shortly after 7:30p.m. last Friday. Gale was pro six-month investigation by police into his role in a crndit lesson I learned was to never question Irish nounced dead on arrival at Massachusetts General card scam that cheated university faculty. Randy Baadhio. tradition. Hospital at 8:05 p.m. According to Robert Sales, assistant 32, obtained a number of faculty credit cards under false But how do you celebrate the holiday like a director of the MIT news oflice, MIT police consider the pretenses, and in an elaborate scheme, bilked banks and true Irishman'? Woah there, Seamus, put down incident an apparent suicide. "The case will stay open credit card companies of nearly $200,000 over a two-year that pint of Guinness! Contrary to popular until the medical examiner signs the death certificate," period, UC police said. Baadhio was chargtld Wednesday bnlief, St. Patrick's Day is not traditionally Sales said. "I don't imagine there is much more to investi with 26 counts of forgery, grand theft and cheek fraud. lie known as a party day across the pond. In actu gate." Gale is thought to have thrown a chair through the is currently held in Santa Rita .Jail in Dublin on $140,000 ality, March 17th is a national holiday in the thick plate glass window of the green building before he bail. According to university police, Baadhio would pose as country, but it is a day of rest. St. Patrick's Day supposedly jumped. Students in east eampus dormitory an LBNL oflicial in an attempt to gain aecess to laboratory traditionally falls around Mother's Day in the across from the green building heard the breaking glass. credit eard accounts. Two of the oflicials Baadhio allegedly country, so it is another opportunity to spend "I heard the glass break, but people had been smashing defrauded were laboratory director Charles Shank and time with one's family. It is one of the only glass bottles for a couple of days so I didn't think anything Piermaria Oddone, the deputy director for research. times in the year when the pubs arc brimming of it," said Brian Sniffen, an MIT sophomore. "Right after During a five-year stay at LBNL from 1991-96, where with little children! that I heard the crash of something hitting the ground," Baadhio began as a visiting scholar in the laboratory's Don't get me wrong ... I don't mean to imply said Sniffen. physics division. that the people of Ireland arnn't drinking today. When do they not drink? I lowever, St. • DUKE UNIVERSITY • UNIVERSITY OF FlORIDA Patrick's Day is not like a "spring break" for the entirn country. There is a debate between my Irish friends Minor claims rape at frat party Spinal meningitis takes student's life over the origin of the parade - whether that was in Ireland or New York. Some maintain DURHAM, N.C. GAINESVILLE, Fla. that the parade began in Ireland, and the idea A 16-year-old girl who was visiting a female university Phillip Butler had his life planned out- from the song was then exported to New York (possibly student alleged that she was raped March 7 at the Sigma that would play at his wedding to his first son's name to through Boston?}. Others stand by the claim Alpha Epsilon fraternity section while attending a mixer what he would do in the world of publie administration. that the Irish would have never given the between SAE and the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Capt. Charles But while visiting his Tampa home for spring break, the thought of such a pointless exercise as having Nordan of the Duke University Police Department said an 24-year-old public affairs administration master's stu a bunch of bands, celebrities and floats march investigation is in progress. As a result, no charges have dent died unexpectedly of spinal bacterial meningitis. ing in a straight line. And if this ever did hap yet been filed. During the mixer, Nordan said, the victim Butler, who had started putting the 11nal touches on the pen, the citizPns of Ireland would never will reportedly eonsumed about five cans of beer and some outline of his thesis project, left Gainesville the first ingly stand in thn cold for hours watching it. vodka between 10:30 p.m. and midnight. At about mid weekend of spring break showing no signs of illness, However. after reading the Aer Lingus mag night, the victim and a male individual at the function roommate and UF sophomore Hache) Gliekman said. On azine during the flight, I have eome up with struck up a conversation. The victim reported to police Monday, Butler started showing flu-like symptoms that my own hypothesis over the birth of the that she remembers very little between the time the two developed into a coma by Wednesday night. At around 6 paradn. The "modern" St. Patrick's Day began their conversation and when she awoke the fol a.m. Thursday, Butler died in St. .Joseph's Hospital in parade, with the marching bands, the free lowing morning. The female student whom the victim Tampa, Glickman said. llis family held a memorial ser candy being thrown from floal'i, and the loud was visiting also spoke with police. vice in Tampa on Saturday. musie being piped in from bad sound systems is definitdy an American thing. Aside from that, does anything else happnn. • SOUTH BEND WEATHER • NATIONAL WEATHER Oh. and here is a little fun fact that you can 5 Day South Bend Forecast wow your friends with when you are out eele AccuWeather® forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures The AccuWeather<~~>forecast for noon, Tuesday, March 17. brating tonight. Chicagoans can attest to the Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. ugliness seen with the dyeing of the Chicago Hiver to a Kelly green every year. But, for the .. ~_"' __ /~.:.:...... -# H L first time, Disney is giving the people of Dublin I The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. Tuesday c 44 29 ''' '' • TODAV's STAFF WednesdayQ, 51 39 News Graphics Bill Uniowski Melissa Weber Thursday c 49 36 Colleen McCarthy Production ' ' ' ' ' ·"i'~~k?.'f" . Anne Hosinski FRONTS: Ka[hleen Lopez ...... ,...... _ Spons Lab Tech Friday q_, 43 32 ~ ' ? 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University President Father Edward Malloy addressed a wide rango of topics last night in an informal discussion with resi donts of Keough II all. Malloy discussed the challenge posed in maintaining Notre Dame's Catholic character, the University's efforts to increase financial aid availability and sev thell' eral residential life issues. :od1~S'iif.c:orililUt•ti:•. Tfiis book, "Wo're becoming a greater uni · one.of the versity each year. our greatest vU<~1U,11!'>1~"! Of OUt times," Said challenge is to sustain that improvement and to still take our member. ofthe Notre Dame religious eharacter seriously," 1984,. Murphy spe said Malloy. studying how ethics lie pointod to the school's rnarkc;;ting decision unique position as a way in which in both business and this challenge can be met. oq~anJZauor.1s. He also "1 don't think there's any other especially Catholic university in the world orre!lrul
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Wednesday, March 18 One D(IY 6:00-7:30 P.M. Table TeJ~nis Tournaa1ent Monogram Room - JACC Saturday, Marc~h 2l. 1998 JJ :OOam-6:00pm Advisors from every Major, Concentration, Area Rolfs Sports Recr1eation Center Studies Program and more (ALPP, Pre-Law, RegJ;ster in Advance crt RecSports Career & Placement. ... ) will be present to provide Deadline for RegisterJng is Thursday, March J9, at 6:00pm information and answer questions for students interested in the Arts & Letters curriculum page 4 The Observer • NEWS Tuesday, March 17, 1998 was similarly critical of the fees and community service. Bridget's "I thought the punishment Political fundraiser pleads gulity was way too severe for what it designed to allow prosecutors sentence usually is determined continued from page 1 was we did. After all. I'm just a to continue questioning Chung by how much useful informa college kid in a college bar in LOS ANGELES and to perhaps to call him tion the defendant provides. fen to be paid in fivn install an otherwise worthless and Democratic fundratser before a grand jury or other . The charges against Chung ments of $22, $50 court costs, boring town. It's frustrating," Johnny Chung, who has investigative body in connec were substantially lower than and requisite community scr he noted. agreed to help prosecutors tion with the campaign finance those he could have faced vke of 20 to 30 hours at one of A local police officer sympa probing campaign finance scandaL given the extent or his contri four local charitable institu thized with the students when abuses, pleaded guilty Monday "Thank God, this is a new butions to Democratic c:auscs. tions. he said, "I did the same [stufO to charges of funneling beginning of my life," Chung lie actually donated some A freshman who was in court when I was that age. The only $20,000 in illegal contributions said later outside court. "I $400,000 to Democratic causes that day said of thn proePss, "I di l'ference was that I didn't get to the Clinton-Gore re-election want to put all of this behind and candidates lwtween 1994 think that tlw prntrial diversion caught." bid. me as quickly as possible so and 1996. is a good program. but to For thoS!) who were caught, Chung also pleaded guilty to my family and I can get on A Taiwan-born U.S. citizen, charge $200 from each student the ramifications will be felt charges involving an $8,000 with our lives." Chtmg was the fourth person ... It S!)!~ms likn tlwy arn simply until Aug. 15 of this year, when donatiqn to the campaign of His lawyer said Chung would charged in the campaign out to make monny. I havP to the last of the money is due, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., tax cooperate in the investigation, finance scandal but the first to pay tlwm so I ran do communi the community service is fin evasion and fraudulently and if asked to detail the o per agree to eooperate with inves ty snrvicn." ished, and their debt to society obtaining a $157,500 loan on ations of the Democratic tigators in an ctl'ort to avoid a Anothnr student, a junior, is finally repaid. his home. National Committee, he would lengthy prison sentence. Chung, 43. stood before lJ.S. provide whatever information In recent years Chung was a years where he served as District Judge Manuel Real he could in that regard. frequent visitor to the White chairperson of Afro-American and answered "Yes" repeated The judge stressed that he House. Once he escorted Peters Studies and assistant dean of . ly when asked if he was plead• was not promising Chung any Chinese businessmen who ing guilty because he was specific sentence and that the wanted to watch President continued from page 1 the College of Letters and Science. indeed guilty. · plea agreement did not require Clinton deliver a radio l'ntnrs, who graduated from Funeral services for Peters The judge~ scheduleli sen him to grant leniency. Chung address. tencing for July 20 at the l'airw Colh~g(~ in 1969, earned were held March 13 at the said he understood. He has said that in 1995 he his doctorate in English from Hock of Ages CME Church in request of defense attorney Chung could face 37 years in was solicited for money by a Princeton University in 1976. Augusta. Memorial contribu Brian Sun, .who cited sections prison and $1.45 million in White House staffer and deliv Additionally. he was a faculty tions can be made to Paine of the plea agreement Which fines, but plea bargains usually ered a $50,000 check to first mom her at University of College, 15th Street, Augusta remained sealed. involve a request for substan lady Hillary Rod ham Clinton's California at Berkeley for 11 Ga .. 30901. The delay in sentencing was tially reduced penalties. The office. Lawmakers question CIA role in drug trafficking Associated Press of its report on whether the CIA urban America in the 1980s. later wrote a column that cri McDonald, D-Calif'., who mpre colluded with allies of Allegations of CIA links to drug tiqued the series, saying it "did sents some of the poornr areas WASIIINGTON Nicaraguan Contras to raise dealers surfaced in an not meet our standards" in key of Los Angeles. The information CIA findings that its agents money by bringing crack August1996 series published by areas. Among other things, in the report, she said, shows had no role in bringing crack cocaine into the United States in the San Jose Mercury News Ceppos said the series often pre that "the CIA turned a blind eye cocaine into tlw United States the 1980s. which concluded that a San sented only one interpretation of at best to Contra drug activities." mnt with serious contention CIA Inspector General Francisco Bay area drug ring complex evidence, oversimpli Waters, who rnpresents South Monday from I louse lawmakers Frederick Hitz, repeating the sold cocaine in Los Angeles and fied the spread of crack and Central Los Angeles and has who qtwstioned the agency's conclusions of the report, funneled profits to the Contra used graphics and language been the leader in pursuing ability to investigate itself. stressed that the 18-month rebels for the better part of a "that were open to misinterpre alleged CIA links to drug deal "In my informed opinion. the investigation found no evidence decade. tation." ing, blasted the llitz report, eit CIA inspector general report and of any conspiracy by CIA agents The newspaper series also The articles were followed by ing exhmsivn findings from her t.lw investigation lack credibility, or assets to bring drugs into the reported that two Nicaragutan a storm of protests in urban own inquiry of connections and il'i conclusions must be dis United States. cocaine dealers, Oscar Danilo areas such as South Central Los between the CIA-backed Contras missed," said Hep. Maxine lie added that he had uncov Blandon and Norwin Meneses, Angeles, with citizens demand and the now of drugs. Waters, D-Calif., at a hearing of ered no information that the CIA were civilian leaders of an anti ing answers as to whether their "This report's sweeping dnnial the I lousn Select Committee on in any way hindered the arrests communist commando group communities had been ravaged of the CIA's knowledge of drug Intelligence. or convictions of drug traffick formed and run by the CIA dur by drugs to help pay for a for trafficking related to tlH~ Contras The hearing was the first since ers, including several with ing the 1980s. eign policy goal. defies the evidence and the logic the CIA inspector general on Contra connections, who helped The executive editor of the "The public remains skepti that the CIA should have .January 2R issund the first part start the crack epidemic in Mercury News, Jerry Ceppos, cal," said Juanita Millender- known."
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The secretary lauded Cohen ordered the Army, values - must be improved, the military aspects and not re1~ruiters and female train the Marines for emphasizing Navy and Air Force to house he said. He complained that the social," Cohen said. ers; improve selection the "transformation" that is male and female trainees in even though male and female Queried about how processes for trainers and supposed to take place in "separate areas, if not sepa trainees live in separate quar increased separation might counter any notion that a turning a civilian into a mili rate buildings" to cut down on ters or on separate floors, teach young men and women training assignment would be tary man or woman. improper activity. He also doors had been removed at to work and fight together, detrimental to a military Cohen's directives came in demanded tougher physical some sites and privacy was Cohen shot back, "They don't career, Cohen said. response to the December training. inadequate. have to sleep together." The services must also report by a panel headed by Cohen said Monday he "They have not had ade The secretary also told the "develop a system of rewards former Sen. Nancy would not require that men quate supervision ... There three services to toughen and incentives" to make work Kassebaum Baker, R-Kan. It and women undergo separate has been an attitude of a lack their physical training and put ing as a trainer more of a step had recommended separating basic training during their of discipline. And so what we more emphasis on "core mili- to advancement in a military men and women in the most elemental units of training, as well as separate housing dur ing both basic and advanced training. 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( :llllllnl"lll Education Degree A Necessity GLND/SMC t\fl!~r rPading a coupln letters to the editor in give credit to elementary teachers who have to deal Viewpoint on Mar. 2 from classmates of mine in the with energetic, c:urious and sometimes stubborn kids Saint Mary's l·:dw:ation Program, I felt compelled to day in and day out. Status Quo lind out what Mr. Sp GARRY TRUDEAU • 0.UOTE OF THE DAY I'M NOT A5!<1NG 7H13RIGHT 'I remember once I drank 49 P'131i?!30N, Guinnesses straight off and AMir I I came home on top of a bus. Right on top of the bus, too, not just the upper deck.' -Dylan Thomas, as quoted by Peter Walsh in his book Guinness. Tuesday, March 17, 1998 VIEWPOINT' page ll • So, WHAT's Mv PO!NT? • TABLE TALK Journalism: A Toys fc~r Tots? Dying Art, or Only Time Will Good Acting? T(~ll Tolevision journalism. Veterans' groups are outraged by the recent disclo An oxymoron if ever there was one. sure that up to 400,000 U.S. troops may have been Especially when it comes to interviews. Have you exposed to radiation during the Gulf War. A study by seen a TV intPrview recently?. the National Gulf War Resource Center reports that The biggest problem with interviews is the "fake" U.S. service personnel were at risk from the depleted qu11stions that the interviewers ask their subjects in uranium used to increase the armor-piercing capabili all seri- ty of U.S. artillery shells. ousness. ======~~~~~~~~ Mthough During = relatively the stable Olympic when man Nakasha coverage David ufactured on CBS into the this year, shells, the Ahmad the net uranium work Weiss oxidizes aired a into a toxic little seg -----======--- and ment radioactive about the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding scandal airborne dust when it explodes, coating the shell frag the night bnfore the ladies' figure skating program. ments and the nearby area. Nearly one million such Pseudo-reporter !larry Smith had the lovely job of shells were fired from aircraft and tanks during brief interviewing and r11hashing the whole event with conflict. Troops were exposed by friendly fire Tonya Harding herself. Ncar the end of the interview, mishaps, during close combat, or in post-combat Smith put on his dramatic face, sighed deeply, and weapons-recovery and clea.n-up operations. said something to this effect to Harding: "Can you look While short-term symptoms of uranium exposure me in the eye and tell me that you didn't know about include "only" nausea, vomiting, weakness and diar the attack on Nancy Kerrigan before it happened?" rhea, long term symptoms include damage to the I won't leave you in suspense of the answer. Of liver, kidney, chromosomes and immune system, as course she said no. well as cancer and birth defects. What kind of a question was that? Did CBS (or I, too, am dismayed at the seeming reckless aban I larry Smith) really think that after all the question don with which the military at times treats its own, ing, by both police and the media, all the hoopla sur ~::::::=::=:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~'::::::=:=~~==:, hav~ng already put them in harm's way- as though rounding the 1went, that four years later Tanya our troops were at greater risk from the designs of I larding would break down and confess to a crime their own superiors back home than from the enemy (that is, if she did it) just because she was intimidated in the desert. by looking into Harry Smith's eyes? But what is most striking in these recent news Give me a break. accounts is what isn't in them: any word about the This is not the only example of a reporter asking Iraqis, soldiers or civilians, for whom exposure to stupid and obvious questions. uranium radiation can have been neither infrequent In a recent interview with two parents suspected of nor short-term. possibly being involved with their five-month-old Enough of the perversely lame excuses about their baby's disappearance, reporter Debra Roberts flat-out misfortune being the responsibility of their leader. asked them (after all the dramatic preparations, of Look around you. You see students, nurses, plumbers, course} whether they had anything to do with their office workers, electricians, teachers, store clerks, baby's disappnarance. fathers, mothers, children. Now look at Iraq. Look Of course they said no. beyond the soldiers, beyond the demonizing rhetoric. Most reporters snem to think it their duty to ask sus You will see, I swear, students, nurses, plumbers, pected people the straightforward, obvious, "did you office workers, electricians, teachers, store clerks, do it" question. Unfortunately, these type of "no fathers, mothers, children. brainer" (no-brainer because nobody will admit to Now look more closely. According to an early report wrongdoing) questions make for better and more dra by the British Atomic Energy Authority, 40 tons of matic television than they do for better journalism. depleted uranium in empty or fragmented shells First of all. this country operates on the assumption would result in an increase in cancer deaths in Iraq that people are innocent until proven guilty. To ask -of 500,000 persons. Not enemies, persons. But those pnople who have only been suspected of a crime more recent estimates of the amount of depleted ura and have not bi)CJl proven guilty is akin to harass nium actually left behind run as high as 300 or even mnnt. An interview is not a trial and should not be 700 tons. With a radioactive life measured in millions made to sound like one. These kinds of questions, of years. especially on tnlevision, can harm an innocent per The birth defects already being noted with increas son's reputation. ing frequency echo those seen in the Bikini and On the other hand, if the person is guilty and simply Pacific islands after nuclear testing half a century hasn't admittnd, they will hardly be stupid enough to ago. We could have foreseen this. admit it just because a nice little television reporter Iraqi children who come down with cancer because asked them to. Asking the obvious question is a kind ~:::::=:::;=:::;=:::;:;:::;:;:::::;:;:::::::;:;:::;:;:::;:::::;:;======~ of uranium exposure receive a largely unneeded tuto of symbolic act- it lets the viewers know that this rial in the intricacies and twisted ironies of economic report1~r is doing his or her job and asking the right sanctions. For while they are deemed eligible to suffer kind of questions, the tough kinds of questions, while the effects of radiation, cancer treatments (which providing a great dip for the commercial advertising themselves contain minute traces of curative radia the "exclusive interview." We the viewer see the tion) are forbidden under the present sanctions. I try reporter asking the fatal "did you do it?" question, to imagine my own children in such a predicament, and then are left hanging while a disembodied voice and I cannot. The horror and the rage overwhelm me. tdls us to tune in to lind out the real truth. Reading a news story filed by a British journalist I The real truth, whether innocent or guilty, is always find myself reduced to silence and shame. Felicity that they didn't do it. This, of course, is the obvious Arbruthnot, touring Iraq after the war, recounts how answer to a yes-or-no type of question. The rest of the nearly every Iraqi household has somewhere on a interview is usually just a rehashing of the story that shelf a "black souvenir" of the war, a spent bullet or a the audience already knows. bit of missile. They stand as grim reminders to Iraqi This is not to say that television journalism serves families of the days of hell dluring the Gulf War. no purpose. In some eases interviews are helpful and Truthfully, they stand as "gl\fts that keep on giving," by interviewing experts can confirm the veracity of continuing to percolate with silent but deadly radia the reported story. Hidden cameras and other such tion. devices are also helpful in simply confirming what the She was particularly struck by a visit to a counseling reporters are claiming. However, when reporting center set up to help traumatized children after the crimes, interviewing suspected criminals is rarely edi war. There, on the center's shelves, interspersed with fying to the audience in any way. If anything, the audi colorful donated toys, stuffed animals, and books, sat ence makes a decision, not based on what the sus dozens of such "black souvenirs." When she inquired pects say, but on what they look like (much like politi about them, the psychotherapist explained, "The chil cal campaigns}. This is a disservice both to the audi dren pick them up and brin:g them in. It is their way of ence and to the interviewee. Good television doesn't coming to terms with their fear, their way of healing necessarily make for good journalism. themselves." If only they knew. God have mercy on those among us who did know. Nakasha Ahmad is a sophomore English major from Saint Mary's. Her column appears every other David Weiss is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian ethics. Tuesday His article appears every other Tuesday. The views expressed in this column are those of the The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. author and not necessarily ,~hose of The Observer. page 12 The Observer • IRISH FOCUS Tuesday, March 17, 1998 he 13 hour Tdrive to the mission was exhausting for all, including Chris Butera, Scott Potter, and Kate Duffy. he mission invested in a 69-foot warehouse, but it collapsed under heavy snow before it could be completed. Some of the students and alumni endured blizzard conditions to T help take apart the warehouse; they were back the next day to start putting it back together. • Outreach Ill Appalachia Notre Dame alumni Walter Smith reads a story to Jonathan Cole, the son of one the mission employees. Students, alumni trade break for service This past spring break, over McDowell mission in Gary, works in the area doing vari 200 Notre Dame students and West Virginia. Gary has been ous construction projects for a collection of Notre Dame ravaged by the withdraw of the local people. The Notre alumni went to the the coal industry from the Dame students and alumni Appalachian mountains to Appalachain region. helped them prepare for the work on one of 12 different The McDowell mission was summer by renovating the service projects. This the story establish to serve this impover mission and beginning the of the 11 students and eight ished community. During the reconstruction of their col alumni who went the the summer months, the mission lapsed warehouse. ne evening, the students and alumni treat D ebecca Mitsch, Laura Reding and others Oed the town to a spaghetti dinner, pre· ~pent the week working in the basement pared here by Peter Cullen and Walter Smith. of the mission. Tuesday, March 17, 1998 The Observer • IRISH FOCUS page 13 cott Potter Shangs out over the Appalachian sky to drive in one of the ware house's almost 3,500 bolts. After dismantling the collapsed warehouse, the volunteers went to work putting it back together. The job was quite difficult; only three sections could be placed per day. .I otre Dame student Katie Wood and Gary resident Anna Gergely Nlead the entire community in song after the spaghetti dinner. ourtenay CMyers and Katie Wood take a break from the 20 degree tem peratures to warm their hands by the alter and Jonathan also propane heater. Wspent time playing house under the crucifix in the chapel. Photography by John Daily page 14 The Observer· SPORTS Tuesday, March 17, 1998 • GOLF • COLLEGE BASKETBALL Woods endorses Wheaties Boilermakers Associated Press World of Sports complex by is more involved and consists past Wheaties pitchmen of commercials and public LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Walter Payton, Bruce Jenner appearances. steam past Rams Tiger Woods, whose face and Mary Lou Retton. Woods The association with the already is on everything from lives in Orlando and is part cereal generally lasts a life Associated Press In their only prnvious meet billboards to magazine covers, owner of the restaurant. time, said Bart Heed, ing this season. Notre Dame now will grace American Woods joins an elite list of leg Wheaties' marketing manager. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. b1mt Purdue 77-71. breakfast tables. endary American athletes who "Anyone who enters the With Colorado State putting Colorado Statfl led by 13 in Woods on Monday became have been Wheaties' spokes Wheaties' family is always a on a shooting clinic from 3- the first half. thanks to six just the eighth permanent men. member," he said. point range, Purdue needed straight 3-pointers - includ spokesman in the nearly 75- They include baseball's Pete The details of Woods' con someone - anyone - to step ing three from Hammon. But year history of Wheatins - the Hose; tennis' Chris Evert tract weren't disclosed. A up. Mackenzie Curless figured Purdue ended the first half breakfast cPreal pitched as the Lloyd; basketball's Michael source told The Associated it might as well be her. with a 13-4 run to cut the lead "breakfast of champions." Jordan; football's Payton; and Press on Friday that Woods The sophomore center to 38-34 at the brnak. Wheaties will carry three former Olympians Bob will be paid by General Mills scored 12 of her 18 points in And thn Boilermakers start cereal box covers showing Hichards, Jenner and Retton. through contributions to the the second half Monday as ed the second half just as they Woods swinging an iron, hold "What's kind of cool is that Tiger Woods Foundation, Purdue beat Colorado State ended the first - on a tear. ing his putter in the air and golf is now considered an ath which helps minority youth get 77-63 in the second round of Sparked by Curless. they carrying a trophy. letic sport," Woods said. "I involved in golf. the women's NCAA tourna scored eight unanswered "This. in a sense, is like was always called a 'wuss' for Woods, the youngest winner ment. points before Cronin finally hit being part of a Hall of Fame playing golf, but I'm here." of the Masters Tournament, Ukari Figgs and Stephanie a 3-pointer. her first basket of kind of crowd." said Woods. While dozens of other ath endorsements since turning White each had 20 for the the game. Woods was joined at an letes and sports teams have pro in August 1996, including Boilermakers (22-9), and Back-to-back baskets from announcement at The Official appeared on the front of the deals with Nike, Titleist, Michelle Duhart added 10. Curless gave Purdue a 49-45 All-Star Cafe at Disney's Wide cereal box, a spokesman's role American Express and Rolex. Becky Hammon led the lead, its largest of the game. Rams with 23 points, 19 of with 12:52 left. But Colorado which came in the first half. State wasn't done y11t. Cronin Katie Cronin, Colorado State's hit a 3-pointer and then Nicklaus receives redemption second -leading scorer. fin dished ofT to Hammon for a ished with 12 after going layup. Associated Press the Masters and the PGA play all four majors but it also scoreless in the first half. Heather llaanlln's layup Championship and can play the means he will play other tour Jacque Johnson also had 12 gave tlw Hams' a 52-49 lead NEW YOHK British Open until he is 65. naments to get. ready. for Colorado State (24-6). with 10:48 left. but that was it .Jack Nicklaus can play in the This year's U.S. Open is June That is likely the decision he With 21 seconds left, rookie for Colorado State, which U.S. Open. after all. The USGA 18-21 at The Olympic Club in will consider over the next few Purdue coach Carolyn Peck couldn't handle Purdue's pres on Monday gavo Nicklaus spe San Francisco. The 1999 Open days. went down thn bench, sure. The Boilermakers were cial exemptions for the next is at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Scott Simpson, the winner of exchanging high-lives with her all over the floor, making three tournaments through the Carolina, and the 2000 tourna the 1987 U.S. Open at Olympic players. The Boilermakers shots and thnn stealing the year 2000. ment is at Pebble Beach. who took the Buick Invitational play Notre Dame on Saturday ball at the other end. W h e n .------. "The invitation was a sur in February for his first PGA in the Midwest Regional in By the time Colorado State Nicklaus was prise to Jack," Nicklaus Tour victory in five years, was Lubbock, Texas. The Irish scored another field goal, a 3- not among spokesman also granted a special exemp defeated top-seeded Texas pointer from Johnson with those given Scott Tolley said from Golden tion. Tech on Sunday night. 1:53 left, Purdue led 69-60. exemptions Bear offices in North Palm "I am grateful to the USGA by the USGA Beach, Fla. "He told USGA offi for this invitation and its faith in January it cials he would call them back in me as a past champion," appeared his this week." Simpson, 43, said. streak of con- L~~::!!llllll•~ Tolley said Nicklaus felt the Nicklaus has played in every Please see tomorrow's s e c u t i v e Nicklaus position he was being offered Open since he was a 17 -year major cham- was an important spot for a old amateur in 1957 and has pionship would end at 145 after young golfer and that he want said he would play as long as Observer for women's this year's Masters. ed to feel certain he was physi he feels competitive. Now Nicklaus can extend that cally able to play before accept At Dora! two weeks ago, streak through the 2001 ing. Nicklaus shot rounds of 70, 7 4, tennis and women's Masters, if he chooses, pushing The U.S. Open is the center 72 and 77, finishing in 58th it to 157 consecutive major piece of Nicklaus' season. If he place at 5-over-par 293, 15 championships. decides to play in the Open it strokes behind winner Michael lacrosse coverage. lie has lifetime invitations to not only means he will likely Bradley. 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Prof or Grad Student who com- 272-7233 Tuesday, March 17, 1998 The Observer • SPORTS page 15 • MEN's lAcRossE Loyola ruins team's hopes of unbe.aten rc•ad trip By TOM STUDEBAKER first faced the Pioneers from Ulrich added one a piece to and DAN LUZIETTI Denver University and won by give the Irish an early 5-1 Sports Writers a score of 12-7. Senior .captain lead. Jimmy Keenan put Notre Dame Notre Dame never lost the The break was full of ups on the scoreboard first, scoring lead. despite a strong effort and downs for the 11th ranked only 21 seconds into the game. from the young Pioneer team. Notre Dame men's lacrosse The Irish attackers, following Denver freshman Mike Law tnam. Tlwy endnd the week Keenan's example, got out to a had two goals and one assist with a n~cord of 3-1 with the quick lead thanks to a well on the game. only loss hand1HI to them by balanced attack. Junior Chris Next up for the Irish was the Loyola this past wc1~kcnd. Dusseau scored twice in the Air Force Falcons. Notre Dame Tlw Irish started the week !"irst period, and junior Ben relied on the strong play of with a trip to Colorado. They Savage and freshman David Keenan and Dusseau to soar past the Falcons. Keenan scored a career-high six goals during the contest, while Dusseau tied his career-high by adding four goals. The Irish again took the lead early, scoring five goals in the first period to Air Force's one. Notre Dame received strong play from senior captain goalie Alex Cade who tallied 10 saves. Ulrich again had a strong contribution adding one goal and three assists. Although early leads helpe.d the Irish in Colorado, they were not so fortunate in Maryland. Notre Dame was down 12-2 at half-time against a superior Loyola team. It was an impor tant game for the Irish, as Loyola was ranked just above them at 10. The Greyhounds dominated the game, outshoot ing the Irish 44-19, had 67 ground balls to 31 for Notre Dame and won 21 face-offs to the Irish six. The Observer/Jeff Hsu Ulrich recorded his second Senior midfielder Jimmy Keenan reachE!d a personal high with six hat-trick of the season and goals against the Falcons. added two assists to pace the Irish for a comeback. Keenan be too much for Notre Dame as from the tough loss at home and Savage added two goals a the Irish fell by a score of 16-8, against the Rutgers Scarlet The Observer/Jeff Hsu piece along with Dusseau however. Knights Saturday at 1 p.m. at Notre Dame blasted Denver and Air Force, ending their week at 3-1. adding one. Loyola proved to The Irish hope to rebound Moose Krause Stadium. • SPORTS BRIEFS Gymnastics Club - The 4:30 p.m. and Wednesdays in our work with poor Clover Classic Home Meet is from 8 to 9 p.m. in Activity on Saturday, March 21. at Room 2 of the Rolfs Sports 4:00p.m. It will take place at Recnmtion Center. The fee is Gymnastics Michiana, on $20 and no experience is nec Home Street across from the essary. Open to all Notre .United Limo Office. Daml~ students, faculty and Drop.;.Jn Volleyball staff. RecSports will be sponsoring Christmas in April Benefit Drop-In Volleyball every Run - March 28 is the date Wednesday night for the rest for this SK or 10K run and two of the semester. Play will be mile walk. The run begi.ns at from 8 to 11 p.m. in the Rolfs 11 a.m. at Stepan Cent~r. The Sports Recreation Center. cost of the run is $6 in Open to all Notre Dame stu advance and $7 the day of the dents, faculty and staff. event. All registration/waiver Modern Dance - RecSports forms can be obtained in the will be sponsoring a class that RecSports office and will also will meet Sundays from 3 to be ava.ilable at the event. 4th Annual South Bend Center for Medical Education NOW AVAILABLE Mini Medical School Series FREE ROOM & BOARD! NEED A PLACE TO STAY Join us for 6 informative evenings as leading doctors and university & medical school COMMENCEMENT VvEEK professors discuss the hottest topics in medicine today. 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Coming on Southwest Texas the following with two outs in the eighth and a lhmvy rains forcE)d the cancel day, with a five-hit, seven-strike 4-2 Irish lead, the righty gave up lati the Diamond Classic by fanning the Irish Baseball Classic, the in recent years, and that dnpth The Observer/Jeff Hsu nine over four and two-thirds Irish downed Southern Illinois 4- should carry the team as the Notre Dame sluggers brought home three out of four wins to up their innings. 3. conference season commences. record to 5-7 . • SOFTBALL Sluggers slip into deeper slump with 4-6 slide By BRIAN KESSLER ed Western Illinois 7-0. Pitcher Melanie Alkire was brilliant as scored a pair of runs in the vic But the Irish, the third-snnd Sports Writer Jennifer Sharron recorded the she pitched a complete game tory. in the bracket play, couldn't shutout for the Irish. and allowed just one run on In the win over Tulsa, fresh repeat their pr.rformance of the .:rhe Notre Dame women's They then traveled to Los three hits for the first win of man Jennifer Sharron pitched previous night, and Tulsa put s(Jftball team continued to Angeles to take on UCLA in a her career. her third complete game of the together a 4-3 victory. Bessolo struggle as they dropped six non-conference game. The Alkire also went 3-4 at the season, allowing just one run took the loss for the Irish, games over spring break and Irish couldn't put together plate with two doubles, three on five hits, as she picked up falling to 1-6 on the season won only four. The team now back-to-hack wins as they fell RBI and a run scored. Jenn her second win of the week. despite an impressive 2.06 stands at 8-13 for the season. to the Bruins in a close one, 4- Giampaolo hit two hits, includ Alkire again led the Irish to vic ERA. The Irish kicked ofT the week 3. Kelly Nichols took the loss ing a triple, and scored two tory with two hits, an RBI and a The team will take on Tolndo at thn Fresno State Classic for the Irish. runs. She leads the team in run scored. Laboe scored on Saturday before Big East where they dropped their first Notre Dame ended the week batting with a .309 average. another pair of runs in the 7-1 play gets undnr way against three games. On Friday, March on a bit of an upswing as they Amy Laboe and Lisa Tully also win. Rutgers later this month. 6, the team lost a heartbreaker. played five-hundred ball, tak falling to South Carolina 1-0 ing three out of six in the Bank despite an outstanding pitching of Hawaii Invitational held in performance by Angela Honolulu. Hawaii. Bessolo. The Irish outhit the The Irish started off round - Gamecocks 5-4, but Notre robin play with a 3-1 loss to Dame couldn't seem to get run Tokyo last Thursday, but split a ners into scoring position. pair of games Friday night. The~ followed up the loss The Irish beat Chattanooga 9-7, with a double header on the but dropped the nightcap to next day in which the Irish fell host Hawaii 11-1. Nichols • • victim to Oregon State and improved to 3-3 with the win Oklahoma State. Bessolo lost over Chattanooga and lowered her second game in as many her ERA to a team best 1.18. days and fell to 1-5 on the sea Saturday saw the Irish pick son. up a pair of victories as they St. Patrick's Day The team did end the classic knocked off Loyola Marymount on a high note as they dominat- 9-1 and Tulsa 7-1. Freshman Have something to Dance Party!! J1.G \ \ \ W[~l? say? Use Observer You, 'I? GJ?. classifieds. 9:00PM - 1:00AM ~tfV.~~~ Alumni-Senior Club The Riley Prize in Art History and Criticism $500 in prizes The Department of Art, Art History, and Design is pleased to announce its annual competition for the Riley Prize in Art History and Criticism. Current Notre Dame undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit essays on any topic in the history of art or art criticism for consideration in the competition. Essays must deal with the visual arts. They may have been written in conjunction with a course taken at the University, but need not have been. Rules governing the competition arc available in the Art Department Office. A total of $500 in prizes will be awarded. Two copies of the submission must be delivered to the Art Department FREE! Office, 132 O'Shaughnessy Hall, by 3:00PM. Monday. March 30, to be eligible. 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The teams were deadlocked road trip over break, Notre Outside the ball keeps moving at one goal apiece at the end Dame seemed to be set on so they have to keep moving of regulation. cruise control. advancing to 9- their feet." Freshman forward Dan 2. The echoes indoors also must Carlson gave the Irish their After gaining valuable out be subtracted from outdoor only goal, which was a short door experience in the Pacific play. Not being able to hear a handed one in the first peri Coast Doubles Tournament in boom after serves, players od. California, the Irish steamrolled often suffer from hurt egos and "I had a great chance near Penn. 7-0. tend to overhit as a result. the end of the game," "!Thi~ doubles tournament) "You don't realize how much recalled Dhadphale, "but a was a high level of competi [sound) helps indoors," Bayliss great savH was made." tion," coach Bob Bayliss said. said. "It's an adjustment The teams battled for 19 "We basically made the week process." scoreless overtime minutes end a transition for outdoor In their first outdoor dual before Muckalt ended the settings." match, the Irish had no trouble madness with his game-win The Irish were the fourth adjusting to nature as they ning goal. seed at No. 1 in college compe breezed by Penn. Although And so the stage was set for tition for the open event in La both teams were equally disad Sunday's dramatic, decisive .Jolla, Calif. vantaged on outdoor courts, game. The Irish were not in the Notre Dame had the definite This night's goals by Eaton most conducive situation. arriv edge. and Dhadphale gave the Irish ing at 10 p.m. Thursday and After winning the doubles a 2-0 lead early in the second beginning play at 9 a.m. the point with three straight wins, period. next morning. the No. 1 and 2 positions But Michigan struck back Still. Notre Damn put on a proved strongest as Sachire with two goals of its own to good showing in the tourna and Pietrowski quickly came up tie the game just eight min ment that featured college with two-set wins in singles. utes later. teams, professionals and junior Sachire terminated Marc Michigan surged ahead in competitors. Fisicaro with ease, 6-2, 6-0, The Observer/Joe Stark the third period 3-2, but Danny Hothschild and Vijay and Pietrowski put on a flaw Senior Jakub Pietrowski proved perfect over break, devouring his Dolder knotted the game. Freeman advanced to the quar less performance to defeat Penn opponent 6-0, 6-0. Michigan· s power play proved terfinals before losing to San Mike Klatsky, 6-0, 6-0. to be too much for the Irish, to become a weapon." Diego State. Brian Patterson "Ryan continued with his courts for the past two match and they recorded their third In addition, the rest of the and Jakub Pietrowski lost in high level of play," Bayliss said. es, Andy Warford put another power play goal of the game tho second round, as did Ryan "Jakub's been on something of lineup also was able to defend win under his belt, 7-6, 4-6, 6- to earn the 4-3 victory. themselves against Penn. Sachire and Matt Horsley. a roll." 1. "We were using a couple of Brian Patterson came back "The important thing is that Improving his backhand and Eric Enloe's match was lines, so we might have got from a first set 4-6 loss to take we put oursnlves into a differ level of aggressiveness, retired at the No. 5 position ten tired a bit," Dhadphale the next two sets, 6-1, 6-4, ent situation," Bayliss said. Pietrowski's self-assurance has with a 6-2, 5-0 lead. said. "But we could have against Joey Zupan. "Playing outside is an extreme boosted along with his win "I was very pleased we took won either Saturday or ly hard transition." record. Danny Rothschild continued them out early," Bayliss said. Sunday's game." making impressions as he built Although the modifications "His confidence has really "We were the better team. Unfortunately for the Irish, seem minor, adjusting to wind jumped," Bayliss said. "He's on his perfect winning streak, We've had the tougher sched 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. they will have to wait until and different sounds outdoors hitting with more authority, ule to date. We had more depth next year to find out. takes practice. and his backhand has started After being absent on the and talent." Anytime Anyti you call between you call between 5:30 & 7:00, 10:30- 12:!;9, the price of your the price of )'Our large 1 topping pizza 2 large 1 toppinlg pizzas is the time you call. is the time you call. * Plus tax * Plus ta": ND store 271-1177 Drive-In and D~elivery Saint Mary's/ VisajMaste•·card Accepted North Village Mall 271-PAPA page20 The Observer • PAID ADVERTISEMENT Tuesday, March 17, 1998 If you believe UNIVERSITY= a UNion of diVERSITY Then come join the MULTICULTURAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Pick up Applications in the Student Activities Office 315 LaFortune Deadline: March 20th ------·------All Students are Welcome to Apply ------·------ For every difference that makes us unique, there is a common thread which connects us all. We share the need for home and community, for love and respect. May these common threads form a beautiful world in which all people and all cultures are honored. -Hallmark Tuesday, March 17, 1998 The Observer • SPORTS page 21 • TRACK AND fiELD .. Williams races to all-America status at l'~CAAs By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN last weekend in Indianapolis, pionships, while sophomore Williams automatically earned expect at outdoors." Sports Writer one of whom came back an JoAnna Deeter took 15th in the honor by qualifying for the Deeter had somewhat of an all-American. the 3000-meter run. finals. off meet, running 9:50.24 in Notre Dame qualified two Senior captain Errol Everyone who finishes in the He placed third in his pre the :WOO-meter run, her slow runners for the NCAA indoor Williams placed eighth in the top eight at nationals receives liminary heat with a time of est time of the season. track and field championships 55-meter hurdles in the cham- the title of all-American. 7.34 to make it into the finals. Distance coach Tim Connelly llis mark of 7.38 left him in attributed her lagging time to eighth place. a lack of experience in this Early in the race, Williams kind of race, which is an event was among the top four but with an unusual amount of dropped baek after one of the pushing and fighting for posi "Don't be blind. Open your mind." hurdles slowed him down. tion. Larry Wade of Texas A & M "She just ran like she was won the event in 7 .11. real inexperienced in that type 1998 "The race went as well as I of race," Connelly said. "It was could possibly have hoped real physical. People were CHuman ~ts and CurtuPaC for," Williams said. "This hap more concerned about place pening this early in the season than running fast, and she'd q)tverstt'l 1998 ADVERTISEMENT IN CREATING SPORTS1/2PAGE, NIKE MAKEi EVERY EFFORT TO BE ACCURATE. WE REGRET ANY ERRORS, IF YOUil TEAM WASN'T COVERED, lET YOUR NIKE STUDENT REP I --®--•0---~---o---o-----e--- n !"'" 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EcK STADIUM, 5:05 PM ANN ARBOR, Ml ~- '··· ...A> ~1'/1\~SJ~RN.Af:IE.N> . r+ '< ..... n II Hi, I'm Colleen Henshaw, your NIKE student rep. Check out DOING IT n Sports1/2Page every two weeks for the latest scoop on sports and Anyone who thinks you need varsity status to be a fierce c C" NIKE events at Notre Dame. Are you or your team setting any competitor hasn't met Notre Dame's Gymnastics Club. records? Breaking any new ground? If so, I want to hear from you The team swept its first meet of the season on February - especially if you're a Club or Intramural athlete. Drop me an email at 7 in Miami, Ohio, beating men's and women's teams II [email protected]. You just end up featured in the next :I from nine Midwest rivals. Senior Bryce Emo placed first overall for the men; r+ issue. To reach NIKE HQ directly, try: [email protected] ... freshman Ryanne Cox took third for the girls. Ill Keep your eyes open when you're working out this month. The club practices three days a week, working through individual routines 3 Spot me or my Swoosh Team members wearing a "race me for and wrapping up each day with intense abs, strength and cardiovascular ...c a tee" t-shirt. Challenge us to a race. If you beat us, a Nike tee workouts. Co-presidents Molly Russell and Tom Purekal are sure their hard Ill is coming your way ... Reuse-A-Shoe drive is coming! Round work and effort will pay off with a top finish at the national meet in Buffalo, up your old athletic shoes (don't forget to check your closets if New York, April 3-4. Plus, it should bring some much-needed exposure to you're home over Spring Break), and drop them in the collec Notre Dame's outstanding gymnasts and others like them around the nation. tion box in your dorm. More details to come. Wish them luck! -Patrick C. Paquette THE GOAL OF THIS SPORTS112PAGE IS TO INFORM STUDENTS ABOUT SPORTS ON CAMPUS. NIKE DOES NOT SPONSOR ANY VARSITY. INTRAMURAL OR CLUB SPORTS ON THIS CAMPUS AND THIS PAGE DOES NOT IN ANY WAY IMPLY SUCH SPONSORSHIP. The Observer • SPORTS Tuesday, March 17, 1998 ----~--~------~~ ity and we ran away from it." will still host tho Midwest The loss also ended a 12- Regionals, whic:h an~ set to Irish game winning streak for the begin this wneknnd. Notre continued from page 24 Lady Raiders, and ended a 9- Damn will head baek to 0 run in NCAA tournament Lubbock this weekend to faen "You have to give credit to home games. Entering the Purdue in the rngional snrnifi Notre Dame," Texas Tech match, the Irish was 0-5 nal. head coach Marsh Sharp said against ranked opponents The elash bntwcwn the Irish about thn loss. "They came this season. and the Boilermakers is set out with a Final Four mental- Despite the loss, Tc~xas Tech for this Saturday, at a timn X y I I The Observer/Joe Stark The Irish squad will have to take a strong stand against the early sign-ups Boilermakers Saturday in the regional semifinals. march 2-5 11-2 pm One &Two Bedroom Apts Available for the '98,'99 School Year and January '98. 7-9:30 pm Summer Rentals June,August. .:r (Check our summer storage specials) Lafortune elevator lobby • Furnished/central afr • Flexible leas¢ . . . ~(". $10 • All utilities included •Shuttle to campus/city lWD /.:'&''"· '·.· ..·• At • Indoor pool/spa •More info: 272 .. 1441 •Tennis, volleyball, & • Mon,fri 9,5, SatJO .. J basketball courts ://!'••·:'·· • 24 hour laundry •Fax: 272,1461 Is Your Spanish Good? Are You Interested in Latin America? 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SPORTS page 24 Tuesday, March 17, 1998 • WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Cinderella Irish continue fantasy season By BILL HART Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. scored all 23 of her points in Assisrant Spom Ediwr Despite having a 29-26 dis the second half. After picking advantage going into the lock up her second foul, she did Last year, the women's bas er room. McGraw was pleased not receive another for the ketball tnam shocked every with how the team played in rest of the game. one by advancing to the Final the first half. "It was really frustrating to Four and beco'ming the "We felt pretty good about sit on the bench," Hiley said Cinderella of the NCAA our position," she said. "Even about her thoughts in the first Tournanwnt. though we hadn't really half. "I felt bad to just sit This season, the Irish are played well, we were only there. I felt like I had to come proving that the glass slipper three points down. We really out the second half and do may still lit. didn't change our strategy something for the team." A 7H-64 win over No. 8 seed that much in the second half. During the first half, the Southwest Missouri State in We had less perimeter shoot brunt of the Irish momentum the first round set up a ing. and concentrated more was carried by junior Sheila matchup between Notre Dame on the insidn." McMillen and freshman Kelley and top seed Texas Tech, who In the second half, the Irish Siemon, with 13 and 10 points acted as host for half of the took the lead early but were respectively. Senior Mollie first and second round games unable to hold on. For most of Peirick had a game-high 11 in the Midwest region. the half. the game stayed tight assists in 34 minutes of Tlw Irish had their work cut as both teams jockeyed for the action, while junior Diana out for them, as the sixth lead. Bracndly posted nine for the ranked Lady Haiders were led Notre Dame's tenacious Irish. by Alicia Thompson, who tal defense kept Tech's perimeter Thompson. a first team all lied 3 • HOCKEY leers fall short in CCHA semis By CHARLEY GATES play percentage 6.2%, and sophomore John Dwyer Spons Writer were the least-penalized team nicked home a high shot from in the CCII A, yielding only the slot. pushing the lead to 2- The Notre Dame hockey 4.03 power plays per game. 0. Freshman forward Hyan team came within a lucky The Irish also t'inished with Dolder and sophomorn bounce of advancing to the an eight point first period defenseman Nathan Bornga t semifinals of the Central scoring margin, compared dosed out the scoring for the Collegiate llockey Association with the 13-point dnl'icit of Irish. playoffs. last season. Stnllar senior goaltender .The Irish dropped a heart Notre Dame also was only Matt Eisler turned in a breaking serins to Michigan one of two teams to finish in tremendous third period, stop two games to one. Both losses the top four overall in power ping 15 Wolverine shots, were by one goal. play percentage and penalty including a penalty shot by "It really could have gone killing. CCIIA lnading scorer Bill either way," said junior for "We were a young team this Muckalt. ward Aniket Dhadphale, who year," Dhadphale said, "and "Eisler was the key all : notched his 25th goal this sea next year we arc looking to wceknnd," Dhadphaln said. son on Sunday afternoon. make even bigger strides." "My mindset corning into tlw But the Irish completed the On Friday night at Yost Ice game was trying not to do too eighth-best turnaround in Arena, the Irish captured the much. This year, l have a CCHA history, improving on first game of the playoff series great team in front of me. I last year's 6-20-1 mark by 15 with a 4-2 victory. just wanted to let thn team points in the standings. The Irish jumped out to a 4- win this game, which they "It is good to see that we're 0 lead by the end of the sec did." making progress," Dhadphale ond period. Freshman "This was an enormous win .. said. del'enseman Mark Eaton, for our young program," head The Irish can point to many strong candidate for CCHA coach Dave Poulin added. other statistics to demonstrate Rookie of the Year accolades, "We have been building conti the improvement they have started the onslaught in the dence over thn last four made this season. They aver first period with his 11th goal weeks. We played v1~ry well." The Observer/Kevin Datum aged 8.5 more shots per of the season. Michigan tripped up the Irish in CCHA playoffs, beating them two games to one. game, improved their power- Early in the second period, see HOCKEY I page 19 vs. Purdue Fencing March 21, TBA ®w at NCAA Championships, Q) Men's tennis advances to 9-2 vs. Rutgers at Angela Athletic Facility, • ~ March 21, I p.m. Marchl9-21 .....~ see page 19 at Toledo • Track -"' ~w ~ Williams earns all-American honors March 21, 12 p.m. at Wabash College • ~ 8f"' see page 21 at Providence ~ March 21 , TBA ~: March 21, 12 p.m. ~