THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 40: ISSUE 83 TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 13,2007 N DSMCOBSERVER.COM Gas leak causes seven evacuations Athletics Radiation Laboratory, Malloy By KAITLYNN RIELY Hall, the Riley Hall of Arts and Associate News Editor Design and Decio Hall were all topic for evacuated. Students, faculty and staff The water line break was were evacuated from seven discovered Monday morning, buildings Monday afternoon ·said Director of Utilities Paul Malloy as the smell of gas filtered Kempf. After lunchtime, a through the air from a leak crew arrived to fix the break near the Hesburgh Library. and while they were attempt­ Former president The gas leak occurred at ing to fix it, hit a gas line. 1:40 p.m. on St. Joseph's "The gas main was not appears on Web cast Drive near the Library when a where it was purported to crew on the road repairing a be," Kempf said, according to broken water line struck a 4- the preparatory evaluation the By MARCELA BERRIOS inch gas line with a backhoe. crew made of the area. When Assistant News Editor The gas moved in a south­ the gas line was punctured, western direction and at University officials immediate­ approximately 2 p.m., Stepan University President ly called the Northern Indiana Emeritus Father Edward Chemistry Hall, QUENTIN STENGERfThe Observer Public Service Company (NIP- Malloy flew to the University O'Shaughnessy Hall, Workers stand near a gas leak that occurred Monday near the of Virginia Friday to partici­ Nieuwland Science Hall, the see GAS LEAK/page 4 Hesburgh Ubrary. Seven nearby buildings were evacuated. pate in a forum on college athletics, drawing from his experiences at Notre Dame to discuss racial integration in recent decades. the academic Election results in run-off for two tickets integrity of student athletes and the roles of the news media and the federal gov­ With what she described ernment in shaping the future BySONIARAO as two strong platforms, of athletic programs. News Writer Brown said she was not The "Intercollegiate surprised by the results. Athletics: Their Role, their The student body election "I think Maris and I were Status, their Future" discus­ results were revealed expecting a run-off," she sion, hosted by the Miller Monday night, but with no said. "We had some pretty Center of Public Affairs, was ticket obtaining a majority strong tickets." cybercast live and might be of the votes, frontrunners A total of 3,492 votes aired by the PBS affiliates Brown-Braun and Smith­ were cast Monday, which that regularly televise the Weiss will proceed to a was not quite up to centers' trademark forums. run-off election on Kozlow's expectations. Malloy said in an interview Thursday. "I think we were hoping with The Observer Monday Judicial Council presi­ [voting turnout! would be a that the Miller Center studies dent Liz Kozlow announced little bit higher," she said. American prPsidencies and . that Liz Brown and Maris Allowing students to vote public policy issues - and Braun received 45.8 per­ online and at various vot­ that its interest in intercolle­ cent of student votes and ing stations around cam­ giate athletics, though seem­ Danny Smith and Ashley pus, however, was an ingly unrelated to the center's Weiss received 38.3 per­ effective way to encourage field. is actually warranted. cent. Since candidates participation, she said. "It was appropriate for a need to obtain a "50 per­ "We tried hard to center focused on the cent plus one majority," encourage voting," Kozlow American presidency and the top two tickets will said. "We had some great public policy to talk about DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer compete in a run-off for results." intercollegiate athletics Candidates Danny Smith and Ashley Weiss examine the results after the position on Thursday, learning they-will advance to Thursday's run-off election. Kozlow said. see ELECTION/page 6 see MALLOY/page 4 Move not welcomed by Club Paige speaks on No By AARON STEINER News Writer Child Left Behind that it his responsibility to Notre Dame unveiled plans By KATE McCLELLAND change that statistic. last week for a $69.4 million News Writer Paige, the keynote speaker engineering building to be for Black History Month, built on land occupied by the When Lyndon Johnson described the achievement University Club, so for man­ gap between ethnicities in ager Debbie Colley - along signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of today's schools as "the most with more than 40 employ­ important civil rights issue of ees, members and a board of 1965 into law, he declared it was the our time." directors - the news means Paige described his own preparing to say goodbye. dawn of the "century of experience growing up in University officials notified Mississippi, where schools the privately owned Club and the educated person," but were segregated and minority its board of directors in a in 2007 the students received inferior Jan. 9 letter they would need school supplies and facilities. to vacate the building by same pro­ portion of Paige said he started actively Aug. 31 to make room for the children - working to change that situa­ new Stinson-Remick tion in college. He received a Engineering Hall. two-thirds - Paige are still not master's degree and a doctor­ The demolition will be a ate from Indiana University loss to Notre Dame and the reading at grade level. Former QUENTIN STENGERfThe Observer Secretary of Education Dr. and was eventually named The University Club will be tom down to make room for the new Rod Paige spoke at Notre see CLUB/page 6 Stinso~Remick Engineering Hall in fall 2007. Dame Monday and said he felt see PAIGE/page 6 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 13, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT NEW MAJOR SHOULD NOTRE DAME CREATE? Keep it shnple, lovers This Valentine's Day, KISS. Hold it, horny same-side sitters at South Dining Hall. Annie Pugel David Sonderman Jimmy Bettcher Joel Thielen Marc Campbell I didn't write that in all caps to encourage you locking lips over your spicy sea nuggets. senior junior senior sophomore senior KISS just happens to off campus Stanford St. Edward's Keenan off campus be an acronym for Eileen Duffy Keep It Simple, Stupid-an adage "Cooking and "How to Win a ''ATF: Alcohol, "Procrastinating. " "Chilling. " Assistant Baking. " Bowl Game." Tobacco and my high school News Editor English teacher Firearms. " pounded into us long- winded essay writers. Hold it again, horny same-side sitters: don't worn right over to the Question of the Day. This isn't a column about writing. It's a column for lovebirds. URAQT. Yes, you. Aww. Did you smile a little bit? Now imagine that simple message stamped onto a tiny, chalky, heart-shaped candy. Even sweeter. Necco's candy conversation hearts are the IN BRIEF archetype of simplicity, a sort of KISS Shangri-La, ifyou will. (I should admit here that "if you will" is the ultimate un-KISS, The Hungar.ian State Folk however. What does that phrase mean, any­ Ensemble will perform way? And why do professors use it, and that tonight at 7:30 in the other pretentious expression, "as it were," Leighton Concert Hall at the every three sentences? "As it were," you DeBartolo Performing Arts say? As what was? Where, and when? Center. Tickets are $36 for the Please, professors, tomorrow is Valentine's general public, $30 for facul­ 'Day. KISS.) ty/staff/seniors and $15 for Adorned with sweet nothings from BE students. MINE to TRUE WVE to the latest addition E-MAIL ME (say, those folks over at Necco Dale Recinella, a Notre sure are hip to the technology groove), the Dame graduate, will speak .28 square inch gems pack a romantic Wednesday at 7 p.m. in room punch. c-1 03 of the Hesburgh Center For example, back in third grade, each about his career as a lay student was required to give a valentine to chaplain to prisoners on every student in the class, ifhe was giving death row. them at all. (Or wait ... was this just true of my overly The student body presiden­ sensitive, feelings-obsessed Catholic gram­ tial election run-off debate mar school? That may be the case, as this will take place at 7:30p.m. on was the same institution that required us to Wednesday in the Main wear index cards on yarn around our necks Lounge of LaFortune. for three months proclaiming IAIAC: I Am Loving And Caring. Now, I'm all for VANESSA GEMPIS!The Observer The Ballroom Dance Club is acronyms, but Ms. Perez the art teacher Seniors Kristin Schwarz, left, and Serena Leahy dress up as Honest Abe to hosting a Valentine's Day ball shouldn't be growling at third graders, commemorate Abraham Lincoln's birthday Monday. Wednesday from 8 p.m.-10:30 "Either go back to your room and get your in the LaFortune ball room. IAIAC card, or I'm making you watch the The cost is $4 for the night. Renaissance Art video again.") Anyway, when a fellow third-grader The student body president offered me a Power Rangers card with a run-off election will take lavender DREAM GIRL heart scotch-taped OFFBEAT place Thursday. Students can to the top, I just about IAIACked him right vote online between 8 a.m. then and there. Imagine my horror when, as Coatimundi taken away America. days in a sensitive out­ and 8 p.m. at the Judicial I was calculating our love potential through from owner Possessing a coatimundi door area of Madrid's Council Web site or by click­ a game ofMAS.H., a classmate showed me RIVERSIDE, Calif.