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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. - An is illegal in California international airport - ing on a link in an e-mail the conversation heart he'd given her: exotic animal with a long without a license, and fish one of Europe's busiest from the Council. MARRY ME. Suddenly, the lavender residue snout, bear-like claws and and game ofncial Kyle air hubs - scurrying on the back of my tongue didn't taste a5 a tail like a raccoon Chang said the animal's about with a dog's eye The men's basketball team sweet scared the heck out of owner, 29-year-old view of landing planes. will play Providence College I'm telling you, these things pack a punch. some narcotics investiga­ Norman James Vollan, He managed to dodge Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Someone once criticized me for the one­ tors searching a home for will have to give it up to a security personnel until Joyce Center. liners I graffiti on friends' Facebook walls. Of drugs. zoo or to someone with an he was finally captured him I ask, how would the following look on a Riverside County sher­ exotic animal license. In Sunday, after authorities Junior Parent's Weekend .28 square inch heart? iff's investigators said the the meantime, the animal called in dogcatchers. will commence Friday with Since the dawn of time, man has loved "strange looking," "sloth­ was taken to an undis­ The Jack Russell terrier the Opening Gala and will woman; so, too, does my heart burn for like" animal emerged closed animal sanctuary. became lost at the airport end Sunday with the Closing yours with the fiery passion of a hundred from its hiding place in on Jan. 31 after arriving Brunch. burning suns. Blue as the sea are your eyes; the Lakeland Village Dog gets lost at airport on an Iberia cargo plane like spun gold is your hair; redder than the home on Saturday. MADRID, Spain from Britain. To submit information to be sweetest cherry are your lips. It would give It was eventually identi­ Snowy the terrier knows included in this section of The me the greatest of pleasure ifyou would be fied as a coatimundi, usu­ all about the hassle of air­ Information compiled Observer, e-mail detailed so kind as to bestow upon me the honor of ally found in the forests of port security. The brown­ from the Associated information about an event to your valentine-ship, as it were. Central and South and-white pooch spent 11 Press. obsnews@nd. edu Huh? Just KISS. And okay, horny same-side sitters-ifyou want, kiss. TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY a: Contact Eileen Duffy at IJ.I eduffy 1@nd. edu :c The views expressed in the Inside !ci: Column are those of the author and IJ.I not necessarily those of The Observer. 3: ....

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people out of spaces where "This is natural gas, like University of Mississippi, the concentration of the gas you would use in your home. Robert Khayat, was the other Gas leak may be higher, Kempf said. Outside, there are no harm­ Malloy guest speaker. continued from page 1 In circumstances like this, ful effects from breathing it, continued from page 1 "I spoke at Robert [Khayat'sl said Associate Director Phil as long as we keep a safe ini;tuguration and we were on SCO) to repair it. The gas Johnson, NDSP evaluates the distance away from the rup­ the NCAA foundation board for distribution system on cam­ particular circumstances and ture. There have been no because periodically Congress, many years," Malloy said. pus belongs to NIPSCO, he then chooses a course of complaints of ill effects as of and in rare cases the White "When we each heard the other said. action. yet," he said. House, have intervened to insti­ one was the second speaker we For about two hours, gas "In an emergency response Fire alarms were turned tute reforms when things aren't both agreed to do it." streamed up into the air in we take the measures that on to evacuate people from going in the right direction," he He said their experiences as large amounts from a small we think are necessary to the buildings, including said. former student athletes and area between Stepan protect the public safety," Stepan Chemistry llall, He offered the 1906 creation leaders of their respective uni­ Chemistry Hall, the Johnson said. where graduate student of the National Collegiate versities added weight to their Radiation Laboratory and While the buildings were Brian Wilson was at the time Athletic Association (NCAA) at arguments. the Hesburgh Library. being evacuated, NIPSCO of the leak. the urging of President "When you're an insider you People inside were- told to could not find the valves to "People went outside, but Theodore Hoosevelt as an illus­ don't buy into the totally leave the buildings and then turn the gas off, so instead when the alarms stopped, we tration of the role the federal romanticized view that some shortly afterward told to they exposed undamaged went back in," Wilson said. government has played in people have about athletics or leave the area. Students in sections of the line and "Then we smelled the gas. intercollegiate athletics in the the utterly cynical view that class and professors in their squeezed the gas line togeth­ and left the building again." past. other people have," he said. offices streamed out of the er to shut it off. It takes time Faculty, staff and students Roosevelt was concerned by "You understand the pluses and buildings to do either who were in the buildings the levels of violence, serious the minuses because you've and then method, so when they were evacuated injuries and deaths related to been through it yourself." walked away "In an emergency the amount of were allowed to n~-enter football in a given year and Some of those minuses from the time it took later in the afternoon to threatened to ban the sport if include the scrutiny that young area that response we take the NIPSCO to obtain items they had left regulations and supervision student athletes undergo under was soon measures that we think repair the behind. As of approximately were not immediately estab­ the lens of the rapidly prolifer­ blocked off are necessary to leak was not 5 p.m., the seven buildings lished, Malloy said. ating sports media, Malloy said. with caution unusual, were available for use. "If things in intercollegiate In recent years, specialty tape. protect the public Kempf said. The buildings are expected athletics don't go well, presi­ magazines and publications, The build­ safety.'' At 3:25 to be fully re-open today. dents and people in Congress T.V. stations and the Internet's ings were p.m. NIPSCO There should be no odor of get interested." chat rooms, blogs and Web evacuated as Phil Johnson was able to gas remaining in the build­ He also noted throughout his sites have tracked student ath­ a precaution­ put a clamp ings, Kempf said. When tho lifetjme the changing landscape letes and made them household Associate Director ary measure, on the pipe gas leak was occurring, the of intercollegiate athletics in names. Kempf said. NDSP and the leak fans in the building were light of the gradual integration "This is a huge change in the " J u s t "diss..ipated quickly turned off so outside of women's programs and reality of intercollegiate athlet­ bec:;ause you substantially air would not circulate in. racial minorities over the last ics because when student ath­ can smell the gas doesn't at that time," said Dennis NIPSCO went through each decades. letes come to Notre Dame, if mean there is a great con­ Brown, assistant vice presi­ building after the leak was A former Notre Dame basket­ you read all these materials, centration of it, he said. "If dent for News and contained and tested the air ball player, Malloy recalled you know so much about them we can smell the gas, we Information. for traces of gas, Kempf said. there was only before they set a typi~ally will evacuate people There were no injuries as a Only Stepan Chemistry hall one African- foot on the cam­ out. result of the incident. Notre had very low traces at the American player "The greatest changes pus," he said. Notre Dame Security/Police Dame Associate Vice time. in the team dur­ in my lifetime in "Or when an (NDSP) blocked off entry to President for News and ing his years as athlete gets into the space between Information Don Wycliff said an undergqtdu­ athletics have been trouble it's O'Shaughnessy, Malloy and the gas was "not harmful" to John-Paul Witt contributed ' ate student, and racial integration and instantaneously Decio Halls and between the anyone, but people were to this report. no African­ the opportunities for news around the Radiation building and being evacuated from nearby American coach­ , country. That Stepan Chemistry Hall. They buildings as a precautionary Contact Kaitlynn Riely at es in any school. women. just never exist- blocked off this area to keep measure. [email protected] "The greatest ed before." changes in my Father Edward Malloy When asked lifetime in athlet­ University President for his opinion ics have been regarding the racial integration Emeritus proper discipli- and the opportu­ nary treatment nities for women," Malloy said. given to student athletes in the "And they both still need work spotlight, Malloy only said that done to be fully implemented." athletes should be subjected to He said he accepted the cen­ the same rules and yardsticks ter's invitation to participate in as non-athletes. the forum because he thought He declined to comment on it was important to discuss the recent controversy sur­ these changes and the future of rounding former Irish point collegiate athletics, as they are guard Kyle McAlarney, saying an auxiliary unit of the univer­ he spoke at the forum about sity and affect the way people intercollegiate athletics in gen­ relate to the institution. eral and didn't address specific However, he was also driven Notre Dame issues. to Virginia after he found out McAlarney's suspension fol­ his friend and Chancellor of the lowing his arrest in December for possession of marijuana was considered excessive by some critics - a result, they said, that was directly related ' Dt1ringJunior Parent Weekend to the basketball player's celebrity. Experknceelegantd1ningon However, disciplinary issues are not the only ones where student athletes are known to the Notre Dame Campus receive special considerations - to the advancement or detri­ ment of the athlete's career. During the forum, Malloy also raised the question of academic integrity for student athletes - a cause supported by NCAA The perfect setting for Junior Parent 'Weekend President Myles Brand. is Sorin,s. Our d:~oughfuJJy prepared meals, He said Brand's steps to guarantee every member insti­ serf!--ed by a professionally trained staff, tution in the NCAA protects the ensure the ultiinate Notre Dan1e experience. impartiality of its athletes' aca­ demics have echoed Notre Dame's own decision to demand from every student - athletes and non-athletes alike - the same academic perform­ ance. Former NCAA .president and Notre Dame athletic coordina­ tor Gene Corrigan attended the forum, among 150 Virginia stu­ dent athletes, students, faculty ReserJratio.ns recon11ue.t1ded members and outside specta- tors. 574 631-2020 emhraciny /he seasons TVWTv.so.rinsndcorn Contact Marcella Berrios at [email protected] ORLD & NATION Tuesday, February 13, 2007 CoMPrtr::o FROM THE ()nsERVER'S WIRE SERVJCES page 5

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Olina fails to meet environmental goals Layoffs at Chrysler imminent BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog admitted Monday the country had failed to Employees fear company's restructuring effort to cut 10,000 workers reach any of its pollution control goals for 2006 and had faJien further behind as the nconomy pieked up speed. Associated Press The State Environmental Protection Agency DETROIT - Chrysler said fastnr-than-nxpectPd economic growth workers have taken to can­ meant that sulfur dioxide emissions increased ing it the "Valentine's Day by nnarly 1.8 percent, or 463,000 tons, over massacre." th(~ previous year, according to a report on its They are referring to Wnb sitn. Wednesday's restructuring ChPmical oxygen demand, a water pollution announcement from index. rosn by 1.2 percent. the report said. Chrysler, one that some China had set a goal of cutting the emission analysts say could cost of major pollutants by 10 percent by 2010. 10,000 production workers with the two main pollutants to be reduced by their jobs. 2 percent in 2006. the first year of the plan. As workers await the Sulfur dioxide emissions are chiefly caused news, rumors fly: Two by coal burning. China is the world's largest plants to be shut down; buy­ producer and consumer of coal, depending out or early retirement !wavily on coal-fired plants for electricity. offers similar to what Ford Motor Co. and General Explosions occur near U.S. base Motors Corp. did to reduce TOKYO - JapanesP police were investi­ their hourly work forces; gating a suspected extremist attack on the llat-out layoffs. U.S. Army after two small explosions "We hear they're going to occurred outside a military base south of call it the Valentine's Day Tokyo, police said Tuesday. massacre," said Steve There wern no reports of injury or damage Laube on Monday, as he at Camp Zama or from nearby residents, and other laid-off workers Kanagawa prefectural police spokesman reported to "jobs bank" lliroyoshi Ichikawa said. duty, for which they'll get Investigators found a pair of metal tubes most of their pay to perform planted in the ground at a nearby park. community service work or They were believed to be used as rocket sometimes just hang around launchers and pointed toward the base, the union haiJ. Ichikawa said. At 49, Laube has eight He said investigators suspect an attack by years in as an electrician at leftist extremists, but cannot rule out a pos­ DaimlerChrysler AG's sibility of a terrorist attack. Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, but he's so low on the seniority list that NATIONAL NEWS he was laid off Jan. 1 due to slumping demand for the AP plant's Jeep Cherokees and A Chrysler worker inspects a jeep at the company's Daimler Chrysler Jeep plant in Veterans' information missing Commanders. Toledo, Ohio on Aug. 28, 2006. Restructuring could cut 10,000 employees. BIHMINGHAM, Ala - The Department of "They don't clue us into Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million anything," he said. "You just and bigger SUVs historically would be part of a joint ven­ two other plants that make vPterans and doctors Monday that their per­ hear rumors, rumors, account for about 70 per­ ture with Getrag Corporate the Ram. sonal and business information could be on a rumors." cent of the company's U.S. Group of Germany. Chrysler won't say which portable hard drive that has been missing Analysts predict another sales, more than any other Atop almost everyone's plants are on the blocks. It from an Alabama hospital for nearly three 1,000 to 1,500 salaried manufacturer. list for closure is the 2,100- says details will be released weeks. workers also could lose Kevin Reale, an industry worker plant in Newark, Wednesday morning in tan­ The hard drive may have contained Social their jobs as Chrysler Group analyst for AMR Research Del., that assembles the dem with the company's Security numbers and other personal infor­ joins its two domestic rivals Inc., said Chrysler probably slow-selling Dodge Durango 2006 earnings. mation from about 535,000 individuals and in trying to downsize facto­ has 15 percent too much and Chrysler Aspen mid­ But most vulnerable are billing information on 1.3 million doctors ry capacity to match lower manufacturing capacity. sized SUVs. Analysts say the plants that make the mid­ nationwide, the VA said. That's more than 37 demand for its products. "They'll have to trim out Mack Avenue Engine Plant sized SUVs, which have fall­ times more peoplP than authorities initially Much of the shrinkage, some assembly facilities to 1 in Detroit, with about 530 en out of favor with buyers, believed were affected. analysts believe, will come bring their capacity to pro­ employees, also is a possi­ said Catherine Madden. an An employee at the VA medical center in at plants that make truck­ duce vehicles in line with bility because it makes the auto industry analyst at the Birmingham reported the external hard based products, victims of demand," he said. 4. 7 -liter V-8 engines that go consulting company Global drive missing on Jan. 22. The drive was used the change in consumer DaimlerChrysler has two in slow-selling trucks. Insight Inc. to back up information on the employee's tastes from sport utility large manufacturing com­ Erich Merkle, an industry The Durango and Aspen oflice computer. It may have contained data vehicles and trucks to more plexes in Kokomo that analyst with the auto con­ underpinnings are exclusive from rnsearch projects, the department said. fuel eflicient car-based vehi­ employ nearly 7,000 people, sulting company IRN Inc. in to those vehicles, contrary cles. including a plant that Grand Hapids, said a 2,330- to Chrysler's movement Bush honors Black History Month Chrysler lost $1.5 billion makes transmissions. The worker plant near St. Louis toward more flexible manu­ WASJllNGTON - To honor black history, in the third quarter of 2006, company also has said it is in Fenton. Mo., that makes facturing plants that can President Bush on Monday focused on people and its sales were down 7 considering Kokomo for a Ram pickups also is on his build multiple vehicles on contributing today - those who are seizing percent last year. Trucks new transmission plant that Jist because Chrysler has one platform, she said. opportunities gained at great price, he said. "Our call and our need is to continue to remember the promise belongs to every­ body," Bush said. "And our call for this coun­ CHINA try is never to rest until equality is real, opportunity is universal and every citizen can realize his or her dreams." North Korea closer to disarmament

Associated Press program. In the last few days, the talks had LOCAL NEWS The draft agreement contained com­ appeared to be on the verge of founder­ BEIJING - Six countries reached a mitments on disarmament and energy ing and envoys made clear that thPir State braces for heavy snow storm tentative agreement Tuesday on initial assistance along with "initial actions" to frustration was increasing and their INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana readied more than steps toward North Korea's nuclear dis­ be taken by certain deadlines, Hill said. patience growing thin. The current 300 snow plows to hit the highways and can­ armament that could usher in the first Working groups will be set up, hopeful­ round was to conclude on Monday but celnd statn troopers' days off as a major winter concrete progress after more than ly in a month, laying out a framework as they progressed toward a deal. nego­ storm bom down on much of the state. three years of talks marked by delays, for dealing with regional tensions, he tiators extended it late into the night About a dozen ollicials from the Department of deadlock and the communist country's added. and then into the early hours of llomeland Security and other state agencies first nuclear test explosion. He declined to give further details of Tuesday. hunkered down in the basement of the state The U.S. envoy to the talks, Assistant the draft. Hill said the draft agreement still government center in Indianapolis on Monday Secretary of State Christopher· Hill, The agreement could herald the first must be reviewed by the home govern­ night to direct emergency operations as the emerged in the early morning hours of step toward disarmament since the ments of the six cmmtries at thP talks. storm swept into the state from the southwest. Tuesday looking weary after a talks began in 2003. The process but he was upbeat about it. I Ie said he "If the storm hits as predicted we know there marathon 16-hour negotiating session reached its lowest point in October was in "constant communication" with will be problems but every resource state gov­ and announced that a tentative deal when North Korea conducted its first Secretary of State Condoleezza Hire. ernmPnt ha<> is ready to go," Gov. Mitch Daniels had been struck at the latest round of nuclear test explosion, alarming the "We feel it's an exceiJent draft, I don't said in a prepared statement. six-party talks on the North's nuclear world and triggering U.N. sanctions. think we're the problem," he said. page 6 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, February 13, 2007

feasible, given the size of the Many of the Club employees cafe and the different purpos­ - some who have worked Club es each establishment serves. there for more than two Snow, ice result in continued from page 1 "We were hoping for the decades - are disappointed, Club to continue at another she said. She said this wasn't location, if that was a work­ an expected course for the surrounding community, said able deal with the University, building's future. falls at Saint Mary's Paul Conway, a retired finance but the one that they've In 2004, University President professor and the Club's cur­ offered us isn't very work­ Emeritus Father Edward every weekday - though able," she said. "We feel that Malloy appointed a committee rent president. By MANDl STIRONE sometimes an hour or two they want to get rid of us." to determine the future of the "We consider that building to News Writer earlier - and continue to be a part of Notre Dame," he Conway said the suggested Club, according to documents proposal had too many finan­ on the Club's Web site. Af!leck­ work around campus said, calling the Club a perfect throughout the day. cial stumbling blocks for the Graves was named chair of the With sub-zero tempera­ example of Notre Dame cul­ The entranceways are Club to handle. committee. The Club's mem­ tures and heavy snow accu­ ture. shoveled by hand and then "We would go out of business bers were notified of the mulation this winter, walk­ While Executive Vice the walkways are done in a short time [if we accept­ University's intent to move the ing or driving around Saint President John Affleck-Graves using the College's three stressed the necessity of the ed]." he said. Club at that time. Mary's campus has been plows - two ride-on plows building plans, he acknowl­ Affleck-Graves said the In response, the Club formed particularly dangerous. and one that's pushed, he University has discussed sev­ the Committee for the Future One College sophomore edged the difficulty of asking said. eral options with the Club, in of the University Club. The suffered a hairline fracture the University Club to relocate. Every entrance has its addition to the group produced a report stat­ after she slipped on the ice. "It's not easy to own container of de-icer, change anything proposal to ing the Club should remain "as Lisa Anderson was walk­ which is used as needed, that people like," move to it is, where it is," Conway said. ing from the Student Center but in sub-zero tempera­ "We can't imagine Greenfield's. This committee gathered to LeMans last Thursday he told The tures the de-icers don't that the University He did not dis­ more than 400 signatures to when she fell and hurt her Observer work very well, Kubacki close the other petition against the relocation arm. Anderson didn't go to Monday. of Notre Dame said. The crew also juggles Much consider­ wouldn't have a options, but of the Club, including the sig­ Heath and Wellness until said the Club nature of University President the next day, but went to a between being environmen­ ation went into tally conscious and being as the new build­ University Club. ,, must first Emeritus Father Theodore hospital over the weekend safe as possible, he said. make a deci­ Hesburgh. while she was home in ing's location, After spending the day sion how to In 2006, the Club was Chicago. said Affleck­ Debbie Colley working on campus, the Graves, who tied proceed. informed that they would need Sophomore Beth manager crew comes back in the the decision to The board of to vacate by June 2008. The Alexander said she also has evening around 8 p.m. or Notre Dame's University Club directors is board and Club employees had trouble walking down currently were surprised when they the sidewalks. later to work on the side­ mission. walks, especially for late Fulfilling an aca- working on a received the Jan .. 9 letter that "I have to leave 15 min­ night events, he said. They demic need is more important counter proposal to present to moved the demolition date up utes early so I don't fall in also always have at least University officials, "to see if to Aug. 2007, Colley said. heels outside," she said. than preserving a social space, one person working on which can be relocated, he there is any possibility in [the Conway said he is optimistic Senior Ayslinn McGovern University] changing their the Club will continue, even said she has to travel at a Sunday. said. Judith Johns, the execu­ terms," Colley said. while a decision on new loca­ slower pace to avoid slip­ Affleck-Graves said officials tive director of the Sisters "We can't imagine that the tion is "still up in the air." ping on the snow and ice. worked extensively with facul­ of the Holy Cross, said the ty and the dean of the University of Notre Dame The Club was founded in "It's dangerous to walk wouldn't have a University 1958. The current building more than briskly," she sisters also hire a grounds Engineering School to find crew to take care of the Club," she said. was donated by former said. "The steps are horri­ alternative sites for the new roadways and the parking building, but none were appro­ Club employees - as well as Indiana governor Hobert Gore ble because those are cov­ lots. They arrive at various priate. employees of Greenfield's - and designed by Robert ered with ice." times, often around 2 and University officials have pro­ did not find out about the relo­ Schultz, a former architect College Grounds sometimes 4 a.m. to work cation proposal until it was with the School of Supervisor Mark Kubacki is posed the Club relocate to on the main roadways and Greenfield's International Cafe printed in the South Bend Architecture. It serves faculty, in charge of keeping all the parking lots, she said. inside the Hesburgh Center. Tribune, Colley said. staff, alumni and community sidewalks and entrances "They kind of got a slap in members who pay a member­ safe. There are five other Johns also said that there is Notre Dame leases the current a priority list of what gets the face, as well as us," said ship fee to gain access to the people who help take care building to the Club, which done first. operates independently of the Vicki Lodyga, office manager Club. of the entrances and walk­ University. at the Club for 14 years and ways, he said. Kubacki said But Colley said the proposal one of the Club's 33 full-time Contact Aaron Steiner at he and his crew begin Contact Mandi Stirone at to move to Greenfield's is not employees. [email protected] working at about 7 a.m. astiroO [email protected]

late 2000, Paige was asked by made huge advancements in He also spoke about the Every child must have U.S. President George W. Bush holding schools accountable importance of choice of school access to a good education Paige to be the Secretary of for making sure that children in regard to No Child Left because it is their civil right, continued from page 1 Education in his administra­ are at the appropriate grade Behind. If a given public Paige said. He said a society tion. Bush was sworn in on a level in their capabilities. school is not reaching the cannot consider itself just if it superintendent of the Houston Saturday, and by Tuesday, Paige defended the stan­ required standard.s after two does not provide equal educa­ Independent School District. Paige said he was already dardized testing by citing that years of testing or if the child tional opportunity for all of its Paige said his mission was to addressing the issue of "No learning deficits tend to accu­ is not receiving fair treatment citizens. improve public schools Child Left Behind." mulate, so they must be iden­ and help at that school, par­ because doing so would While Paige admitted that tified early and continually ents have the option of moving "strengthen the social and the No Child Left Behind Act is measured so that they can be their child to another public Contact Kate McClelland at economic fabric of the city." In "not perfect," he said it has properly fixed. school, he said. [email protected]

which could be helpful in LaFortune. The debate will determining where candi­ have the same format as the Election dates are lacking support, one held last Wednesday, but continued from page 1 Brown said. the focus may shift to "more "Dorm breakdowns are specific topics" in addition to The narrow majority of very usel'ul for us ... we will a re-evaluation of each tick­ voters were be using that et's platform, Kozlow said. freshmen. One in the next The run-off election is thousand "We will be using f dorm 48 hours left Thursday, with the same eighty-nine breakdowns] in the next in the cam- technology access as freshmen, paign and Monday's elections. Every Tuesday enjoy our 1,066 sopho­ 48 hours left in the use those Like election protocol, the mores, 803 jun­ campaign and use those numbers to candidates seem to be stick­ specialty Sizzlelini with Chicken, iors, 533 sen­ numbers to our our advan­ ing to the status quo when it iors, and one tage," she comes to run-off strategy. .Sausage or both. fifth-year cast advantage. ,, said. "I think we're just going to their ballots. The run­ keep doing what we're Frosty Bellinis only $2 Each of the Liz Brown off debate doing," Brown said. "I think will take we have a lot to offer the candidates candidate Try raspberry. green apple or peach. received a com­ place at 7:30 student body." prehensive student body president p m breakdown of Wednesday Contact Sonia Rao at votes by class and by dorm, in the main lounge of [email protected]

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Lawrence Tomlinson and S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) -0.34 -0.49 143.45 his wife Elizabeth, accuse ONYXPHARMINC(ONXX) +96.98 + 11.89 24.15 the Northbrook, 111.-based MICROSOFT CP (MSFT) company of bad faith and -0.14 -0.04 28.94 say the company under­ paid them for wind damage that tore holes in their roof and let water rain into I 0-YEAR NOTE +0.42 +0.020 4.804 their home in the New 13-WEEK BILL +0.1 0 +0.005 5.020 Orleans suburb of Marrero. 30-YEAR'BOND +0.43 +0.021 4.886 The Tomlinsons also say Allstate didn't start adjust­ 5-YEAR NOTE +0.38 +0.0 18 4.796 ing their claim after the Commodities Aug. 29, 2005, storm until LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +0.18 59.89 Nov. 28 - more than the 30 days allowed by law. GOLD ($/Troy oz.) +9.50 672.30 "The whole house was a PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) + 1.23 104.80 mess," Tomlinson said, Excha Rates describing how water had pooled inside the home. YEN 121.4100 "There was a lot of damage EURO 0.7715 to everything." POUND 0.5132 Allstate disputes the extent of the wind damage CANADIAN$ 1.1758 to the Tomlinsons' home and accuses the couple of misrepresenting parts of AP BRIEF their claim. Boats remain piled up in the Municipal Yacht Harbor in New Orleans Thursday. IN Jury selection was com­ It has been almost 18 months since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. pleted quickly Monday morning, despite U.S. spread damage to the fied the company when which Allstate adjusted Bush advocates free-trade agreements District Judge Martin WASHINGTON - Free-trade policies that Tomlinson home. She they moved into his office and paid their claim, but Feldman's early fears that denied Allstate allegations building and misrepresent­ not how the company make it easier for U.S. companies to sell their there were potential prob­ that the couple tried to bill ed nothing. interpreted its policy products are important to the economy's lems in finding an unbiased Allstate for renovation Cross-examination of terms. In Mississippi, vitality, President Bush said Monday as he panel in southeast work not related to the Tomlinson was scheduled meanwhile, hundreds of projected a year of goo<} - though somewhat Louisiana, where Katrina storm. to resume Tuesday morn­ homeowners have filed slower- economic growth. caused widespread death Allstate attorney Judy ing and was expected to similar lawsuits challeng­ Bush, in his annual economic report to and destruction. Barrasso said Allstate last several days. ing insurance companies' Congress, made a, fresh pitch for breaking The seven-member jury already has paid $151,133 Tulane Law School pro­ refusal to pay for damage down trade barriers and energizing global first heard arguments from to the couple. fessor Ed Sherman said a from Katrina's storm trade talks. He also called on Congress to the Tomlinsons' lawyer, "You're going to see that victory for the Tomlinsons surge. extend his authority to negotiate free-trade Christy Howley, who said Allstate has paid them could embolden other The companies say their deals, a request likely to face an uphill battle the Tomlinson's 'paid their more than enough, but homeowners to sue their policies cover damage from premiums in a timely man­ in the Democratic-controlled Congress. they want more," Barrasso insurers, but he down­ a hurricane's wind but not ner but didn't get paid for said. She said the rising water, including "This authority is essential to completing played the possible legal their Katrina claims until Tomlinsons misrepresented implications for the rough­ wind-driven surge. This good trade agreements," Bush wrote in the after they sued in January parts of their claim and ly 4,000 other Katrina law­ wind versus water debate introduction to the report. "The Congress 2006. . that Allstate paid them suits awaiting trials here in - a central issue for many must renew it if we are to improve our com­ "And the one time they more than $30,000 for federal court. of the roughly 350 federal petitiveness in the global economy." needed Allstate to step up additional living expenses "These are very person­ lawsuits still pending in With the United States racking up record to the plate, it didn't hap­ after th_ey moved to office al, individual issues," he Mississippi - isn't a factor trade deficits and facing intense competition pen," Howley said. property that they already said. in the Tomlinsons' case from rapidly growing China and India, global Howley said Allstate owned. The Tomlinsons are chal­ because their home didn't trade tensions have intensified. ignored evidence of wide- Tomlinson said they noti- lenging the manner in flood. Democrats blame Bush's free-trade policies for contributing to the trade deficit, costing U.S. jobs and exposing U.S. workers to urifair competition from low-wage countries. Stocks fall, Nasdaq-LSE merg~r fails House acts to install solar panels WASHINGTON - Thirty years ago, Rep. Jim Oberstar testified in favor of legislation Associated Press a dearth of acquisition announce­ possibility that inflation could lead to to install solar panels at federal buildings. ments to give the market a lift. higher interest-..rates. With fourth­ Now, as chairman of the House NEW YORK- Wall Street extended Instead, investors had to deal with quarter earnings reports nearly over, Transportation Committee, he's able to its losses Monday as investors await­ news that the Nasdaq Stock Market investors have traded hesitantly as make it happen- at least on a small scale. ed a stream of key economic data Inc. failed in its bid to buy the they wait for some kind of catalyst to On Monday, the House approved this week and were left disappointed London Stock Exchange and that give them direction. Oberstar's bill to create a solar energy sys­ by the collapse of several closely French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis "With all the data coming out, and tem at the Energy Department building, watched acquisition deals. called off talks for a possible deal Bernanke possibly taking a more with the hope that the project could serve as . The markets, which pulled back with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. hawkish tone, this causes the mar­ a model for all federal buildings. last week amid concern about infla­ Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. and kets to be very cautious and tenta­ "What better symbol than the Department tion's impact on interest rates, trad­ Bayer AG advanced after the compa­ tive," said Alan Gayle, senior invest­ of Energy .itself, to operate on renewable ed cautiously with Federal Reserve nies released data from a clinical ment strategist for Trusco Capital energy?" Oberstar, D-Minn., asked in an Chairman Ben Bernanke set to testify trial that shows an experimental Management. "There's just been a lot interview. "Let's showcase this project. Let's about the economy before Congress drug is effective in fighting liver can­ of nervousness going into this week, show definitively this works." on Wednesday. Government data due cer. Apple Inc. moved higher after and the weak start is a carryover Oberstar's new bill directs the General Friday should shed light on whole­ being upgraded in anticipation of big from last week." Service Administration to spend $30 million sale inflation and the state of the product launches set this year. The Dow Jones industrial average to install solar panels on the south wall of housing market. Wall Street fell last week on con­ fell 28.28, or 0.22 percent, to the Energy Department headquarters. Unlike recent Mondays, there was cerns about higher oil prices and the 12,552.55. THE OBSERVER page 8 IEWPOINT Tuesday, February 13, 2007 THE OBSERVER Saint Mary's- we need to talk P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 For anyone who has been in a rela­ name, and numbPr two, you don't want Dame game before I was a student, I EDITOR IN CHIEF tionship, the words "we need to talk" to live with us. That's not marriage."' In would watch them in fascination. Then MikeGilloon bring with them the possibility of argu­ 1971, frustrated with a lack of when I got to be a part of that, it was MANAGING EDITOR BusiNESS MANAGER ments, insults, honest conversations progress, Notre Dame broke off the amazing. I'll always remember when Maddie Hanna Jim Kirihara and sometimes a reconciliation that can merger. In 1972, Notre Dame went co­ the leprechaun threw a Rice Krispie sustain the relation­ educational unilaterally and the historic treat at me and when we gave James AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Rama Gottumukkala ship well into the first class of women enrolled at the Aldridge push-ups last year when he AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Robert Griffin future. Uttering University. was in the recruiting section." This sen­ those dreaded four It has been more than 30 years since timent is not a fluke: In a 2005 Letter to NEWS EDITOR: Kate Antonacci. words is unpleasant, Notre Dame and Saint Mary's broke off the Editor, Saint Mary's student VIEWPOINT EDITOR: Joey King but it has to be done their ephemeral engagement. Though Christine Herdman wrote, "That's what SPORTS EDITOR: Ken Fowler in order to move the phrase was not in usage at the time, I love about those boys that make up SCENE EDITOR: Brian Doxtader forward. the best term to describe the current our Notre Dame Football team." Notre Dame and relationship is "friends with benefits." 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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Students urged to attend hockey playoffs

To the Notre Dame community, on JACCO's WACCOs in section 6 has made quickly! The team has appreciated and In closing, this weekend we head to behalf of the Notre Dame hockey team, I our rink a feared place for opposing thrived on your efforts all season long Alaska in pursuit of Notre Dame's first­ would like to thank you for your help in teams. As a result, the second round of and they need you now more than ever. ever regular season conference champi­ energizing Irish hockey this season. Your the CCHA playoffs will be played at the The hockey band will be there so please onship. Upon our return, we look for­ support, combined with the hard work of Joyce Center March 9-11 and although join them, wear gold and be loud! We ward to seeing you for our last home our players, has helped us earn a first we don't know our opponent, we know would love to see a sea of gold cheering regular season series (including Senior round bye in the CCHA playoffs, a goal we will need our fans to be louder than us on during this important playoff Night on Feb. 24) versus Ferris State, we set at the beginning of the year. ever. weekend. As with all of the games this and then again at our CCHA playoff Our fans have a lot to do with our suc­ I realize that many of you have been season, admission is free to all Notre games in March on our "Road to the cess this season. The atmosphere that looking forward to that weekend Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross stu­ Joe" and beyond. Go Irish! you have created in the Joyce Center has because of spring break and the oppor­ dents with their ID as long as seats are carried us to a 9-0-2 league record at tunity to leave campus for a few days. available. As always, I'm sure there will Jeff Jackson home. The Notre Dame hockey band has Your classmates on the hockey team and be some great prizes and I can assure Notre Dame hockey head coach been phenomenal and the cheering of I are asking you to hold off on leaving so you there will be some great hockey. Feb. 12

U-WIRE Alternative Valentine's plans worthwhile

It is that time of year again, people. This year, I suggest that all single guys find about as interesting as a cement who makes you smile when you think Valentine's Day, which I'm convinced was and girls, instead of awkwardly calling block. about them, the person whose good looks devised by a consortium of greedy choco­ last weekend's booty call in hopes of a Yet, in spite of the fact that I suspect are matched by their intelligence and late and flower companies, is nearly upon date, try something novel for a change. many people share my feelings, people sense of humor, the person who lights up us. Find that girl or guy who has always been still go to the ends of the earth to please your world when they come into your Conventional wisdom Chris there for you, because there certainly is their dates, only to fmd that they don't orbit, even if you never show it. states that it is not a Mueller one, and take them out. Maybe you've really like them so much when they aren't If you want this day to mean something good feeling to be sin­ always wanted to date this person, and drunker than Mel Gibson at traffic school. for once, and you aren't already taken, gle on Valentine's Day. [Jaily things just never worked out, or maybe Also, don't think that because I'm sug­ make sure the person you're out with is I disagree. Collegian you've only liked them "as a friend" or gesting you take out a good friend for the the one who gets you where it counts, For me, Wednesday vice versa, but they probably deserve a night means you can skimp on them romantically or not- the heart. of this week is simply "the day before my nice night out. It's the least you can do because your company is already gift dad's birthday," and that is the way I like after dragging your sorry rear end to enough. This column originally appeared in the it. them after making another bad life When you're sitting down tonight trying Feb. 12 edition of the Daily Collegian, the However, just because V-Day is a funda­ choice. to flesh out some plans for Wednesday, daily publication at Penn State mentally stupid holiday that probably I've always felt that V-Day would be remember the girl or guy who you can University. yields as many hurt feelings as it does better spent enjoying the company of pass out next to, the one you like more The views expressed in this column are happy nights doesn't mean that it serves someone you can have a coherent conver­ sober than drunk, the one you would step those of the author and not necessarily no purpose. sation with as opposed to someone you in front of traffic for. Think of the person those of The Observer.

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winner follows a Japanese POW camp Private Hyan," which was released around By BRIAN DOXTADER that forces British soldiers to build a the same time. Japan Scene Ediror bridge in Burma. Highlighted by a bravu­ 7. "Grave of the Fireflies" {1988): A ra performance from Alec Guinness, it Saipan tragic look at the civilian side of the war, The European Theater tends to domi­ explores the descent into madness that 5. "Windtalkers" (2002): Directed by this moving anime, directed by Isao nate cinema, but there are a handful of accompanies war. John Woo and starring Nicholas Cage, Takahata, follows two children struggling films that explore the Pacific Theater as "Windtalkers" follows Najavo soldiers to survive alone in Japan during the wan­ well. Here are a few of the most memo­ Midway whose native language became a code ing days of World War II. Despite being rable and most recent to grace the screen. 3. "Midway" (1976): A star-studded cast used by the Allies. Less realistic than animated, it is considered a classic, with led by Henry Fonda and Charlton Heston other modern war films, it was also con­ mature approaches to adult themes. lwoJima highlights this film about the Battle of sidered less effective. 1. "Flags of Our Fathers/Letters From Midway. Produced in the vein of "Tora! Shanghai Iwo Jima" (2006): Like "Tara! Tara! Tara! Tara!" it heavily features both sides Hawaii 8. "Empire of the Sun" (1987): Steven Tara!," Eastwood's pair of films explore of the conflict, though the soap opera dra­ 6. "From Here to Eternity" (1954)t'Tora! Spielberg's coming-of-age story is about a both sides of the conflict, with the matics tended to diffuse some of its Tara! Tara!" (1970)/"Pearl Harbor" spoiled British boy (Christian Bale) living American perspective in "Fathers" and impact. (2001 ): All three of these films explore the in Shanghai, who eventually becomes sep­ the Japanese perspective in "Letters." attack on Pearl Harbor in different ways, arated from his parents and winds up as a "Letters" is considered the stronger pic­ Guadalcanal · with varying emphasis on the battle itself. prisoner in a Japanese camp. Not a ture, despite its "art-film" sensibilities, 4. "The Thin Red Line" (1998): Terrance "From Here to Eternity" is a classic, with Spielberg classic, it is still a very good and has been nominated for the Best Malick's ethereal meditation on war and strong performances, especially from film, anchored by a surprisingly mature Picture Academy Award. nature is set against the backdrop of the Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra. performance from a young Bale. Allied invasion of Guadalcanal. It received "Tara! Tara! Tara!" was a joint project Burma a mixed critical and commercial recep­ between American and Japanese studios, 2. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" tion, partially due to the overwhelming which produced a complex, but inconsis­ Contact Brian Doxtader at (1957): David Lean's classic Best Picture popularity of Steven Spielberg's "Saving tent film. bdoxtadel @nd.edu THE OBSERVER

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 CENE page 11 Eastwood's latest effort is an Academy favorite

the subsequent fundraising. By ERIN McGINN The film is based on the book by Assistant Scene Editor James Bradley (the son of "Doc" Bradley) and Hon Powers. Editor's Note: This is the second in a Screenwriter Paul Haggis ("Crash") five-part series on the 2007 Oscar chose to structure the film around nominees for Best Picture. flashbacks, as opposed to the linear storyline that the book followed. He In a rare filmmaking move, Clint and Eastwood decided this structure Eastwood decided to make two movies would better allow for parallels to be centered around the battle at Iwo drawn to the current war in Iraq as Jima during the second World War. well as wartime hypocrisy and the "Flags of our Fathers" has an manipulated propaganda. American point of view, while the The second film, "Letters from Iwo companion film, "Letters from Iwo Jim a," is based on the book "Picture Jima" is from the perspective of Letters from Commander in Chief" by Japanese soldiers. Although the two General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. The films are centered on the same battle, film follows various soldiers, includ­ they each have a decidedly different ing infantry soldier Saigo (Kazunari Photo courtesy focus and agenda. Ninomiya) and General Tadamichi Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort, "Letters from lwo Jima," is one of a The first film, "Flags of our Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) as they few films that are considered favorites to win the "Best Picture" award. Fathers" portrays not only the prepare for and subsequently fight in American side of the battle of Iwo the battle to protect Iwo Jima. As they Several scenes directly correlate with Both films serve to question the Jima, but the stories of the three sur­ realize that they are outmanned and each other, and seeing one film deep­ greater motivations behind war, as viving flag-raisers in the famous "pho­ ill-prepared to fight, they begin to ens the level of understanding that well as individual belief systems. In tograph. After the photograph was question why they are fighting and comes from those scenes when the both films the characters make diffi­ published, and subsequently revital­ what they believe their own priorities perspectives of both sides are taken cult decisions where they must choose ized support for the war effort, are. into account. They also bring to light to follow what they believe is impor­ Marines Franklin Sousley (Joseph "Letters from Iwo Jima" is a nomi­ different aspects of war, and by focus­ tant, regardless of what their govern­ Cross) and Rene Gagnon (Jesse nee for an Academy Award for Best ing on the same battle these issues ment or others are saying. Even out­ Bradford) and Navy medic John "Doc" Picture, and has garnered nomina­ are brought to greater clarity. "Flags side of the context of war, these are Bradley (Ryan Phillippe) are pulled tions for director Eastwood and of our Fathers" questions the motives increasingly valuable questions to ask from their units and sent back to the Original Screenplay. of propaganda and perception and the and are not only timeless, but timely United States to help raise funds for Although the films can be watched consequences of those actions, while with the current state of affairs in our the war effort. The film is told in a independently of each other without "Letters from Iwo Jima" concentra­ world. · series of interviews and flashbacks to any loss of understanding, they do tions on decisions that are made in both their time in battle and during serve as complimentary works. the situation of battle. Contact Erin McGinn at [email protected]

Trashy tabloid would be a welcome addition

Britain's The Sun is a daily newspa­ really that interested in what hap­ per with the world's highest circula­ pened at the latest Student Senate tion and more than three million meeting anyway. copies sold a day. We want the juicy stuff: who is This is for good reason, given its hooking up with who at TC, detailed focus on sex, celebrities, sports, sex, coverage of quad snowball fights, tips politics and sensa­ for using Wikipedia on papers and the tional crime. People Bob Costa latest exploits of a certain football in Britain are player. unashamed about Forget AP stories as well - we'll reading tabloid Scene Writer have columns on Anna Nicole-Smith, newspapers - in JT and Scarlett, and whether fact, most people University President Father John read little else. All Jenkins is preparing to adopt a baby of the top papers in with Madonna and the Pitts after his the country are what Americans recent trip to,Uganda. would consider just a notch above the Forget seemg racy photos of the National Enquirer. tramp troika starring Lindsey Lohan, Reading The Sun every morning Paris Hilton and Britney Spears jump­ over my healthy full English breakfast ing out of cars in LA in next to noth­ of eggs, beans, bacon, sausage, toast ing. and Guinness, I've come to the con­ Under the Dome, we could feature clusion that we need a tabloid at our most noble triumvirate of Notre Dame. Please - Scholastic's Jenkins and former University "The Gipper" is anonymous, usually Presidents Father Ted Hesburgh and Photo courtesy of hol/ywoodrag.com obscure and lacking photos. Father Edward Malloy sneaking into David Beckham and wife Victoria are constant centers of the London press. I know, I know. A tabloid would Rocco's for a quiet dinner. Just imag­ Publications such as The Sun are known for their interest in celebrities never fit in at Notre Dame. That's ine the banner headline - "Popped what Facebook is for, right? But since Collars: JJ, Ted and Monk spotted at here?" is Notre Dame. Domers seem to love trawling photo spaghetti Yalta!"· It would almost be Let's also please leave out As you can tell by now, Notre Dame albums and wall posts every night for too much for the boys over in Corby. paparazzi photos of Charlie Weis at really is need of a tabloid to truly hours, I think they'd enjoy reading a The Notre Dame Enquirer could the beach. I think we'd all agree some encompass our sometimes crazy stu­ scandalous newspaper at the dining cover Jimmy Clausen the way The things are better left unpublished. dent life beyond placid Student hall next to their flank steak and stir­ Sun covers David Beckham. The big For revenue, we could have the Activities stories and banal coverage fry as much as any Brit. race would be to see what girl Bookstore advertise its fair and hon­ of "that diplomat guy who spoke to Contrary to our commercials, we're became his Posh. est prices. Nothing prepared me bet­ your class. Something that is funny, not all smiley geeks from some sub­ The initial time someone spotted ter for the horrible British exchange inane and trashy. urb of Chicago interested only in God Jim Caviezel (star of the Passion of rate than shopping at our Bookstore. Wait, we have the Irish Hover. and our studies. I've seen many stu­ the Christ} it would be "tres cool," as In Britain, every day a nice girl who Never mind. dents browse the latest on Britney Notre Dame Angers program alums lost her clothes is featured on Page 3 and Kevin at Meijer, and dining hall would say. But eventually, students of The Sun. With our tab, we could conversations rarely focus on class - would get tired of this D-list actor have a new girl every day modeling Contact Bob Costa at [email protected] much more on the previous Friday showing up all the time on campus the staple of every girl's wardrobe on The views expressed in this column are and Saturday (and Thursday). wearing the Rudy jacket. The head­ campus - her favorite North Face those of the author and not necessarily I love The Observer, but no one is line? "Students: Why is Jesus still fleece. Nothing too sexy, of course. It those of The Observer.

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NBA Pistons top Clippers, claim seventh straight win

want to do is sit in their hotel Carmela Anthony rooms all day. That's just how we like it." hurts thigh as Denver The Clippers, who haven't bests Golden State played a home game yet in February, went 2-5 on the Associated Press marathon trip, and one of the victories came against the strug­ AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The gling Boston Celtics. Los Angeles Detroit Pistons got the Los hosts Atlanta on Wednesday. Angeles Clippers at the right "This is the longest trip of the time, and they knew it. year, and we wanted it to turn Chris Webber had 19 points out better than it did," Clippers and nine rebounds and the coach Mike Dunleavy said. Pistons beat the short-handed "There were a couple games on Clippers 92-74 Monday night for the trip that we played against their seventh straight victory. teams that we felt we could beat, The Clippers staggered in for but we didn't get the job done." their last stop on a seven-game Detroit, which has beaten the trip and fell to 8-19 on the road. Clippers eight straight times, They were missing Elton Brand, improved to 11-2 since Webber who was a late scratch with joined the starting lineup. back spasms. "There was a period where "We reminded our guys of all Chris was just attacking the bas­ that this morning, before the ket and making great plays," game, during the game and after Tayshaun Prince said. "We the game," Pistons coach Flip caught the Clippers on the back Saunders said. "We've been in end of a long road trip, where that situation too - it isn't easy we knew they couldn't sustain to be at the end of a trip like for 40 minutes and we took that, especially without Elton." advantage of it." Saunders even got the weather Richard Hamilton scored 15 he wanted - a chilly, snowy day points and Prince added 14 for AP with a winter storm about to roll Detroit, which had all of its Pistons guard Chauncey Billups, right, drives past Clippers guard Cuttino Mobley during Detroit's in. starters score in double figures. 92-74 win Monday at Detroit. "The teams from the East go "They played team ball, and out west early in the season, and when you do that, you can wear we literally get our heads beat a team down," Clippers guard points and nine rebounds before the opening quarter and was Jackson started the second in," Saunders said. "But it is Cuttino Mobley said. "Before we fouling out midway through the down by 12 before the end of the half and quickly picked up a even harder for the Western knew it, we were down 15 and fourth. first period. By the fourth, it was technical for arguing a call with teams, because they come they were keeping that lead." The Pistons led 45-38 at the just a battle of the reserves as official Jess Kersey. He finished through here around the All-Star Mobley led Los Angeles with half, holding the Clippers to :H.2 the Jazz beat the Hawks for the with nine points. break, and they go from 7 5 17 points, and Corey Maggette percent shooting, and took over ninth straight time. Nene had 24 points for Denver degrees to 10-below, and all they added 15. Chris Kaman had 13 in the third quarter. Utah outrebounded Atlanta and Marcus Camby had eight Webber had eight points and 52-32 and the Jazz went 32-for- points and seven rebounds in his Hamilton scored five as Detroit 36 from the foul line. return from a four-game opened the seeond half with a Marvin Williams led Atlanta absence with a pulled groin and 13-3 run. with 15 points. Williams also got the flu. He looked like he hadn't The Pistons led 71-56 after a bloody nose when he took a missed a minute, playing loose three. Sam Cassell started the forearm by Utah's Rafael Araujo and free and several times dish­ fourth with a three-point play early in the fourth quarter, ing the ball behind his back for for the Clippers but Webber which resulted in Araujo getting big baskets before taking a seat scored the next four points to ejeeted and Atlanta's Josh Smith when the game got out of hand. put the game away. getting a technical as Williams AI Harrington, who started 24 "Webber gives them another remained down in the lane. hours after taking an elbow to dimension because he creates After Araujo left to a standing the head from Hawks center easy baskets," Dunleavy said. ovation from the Jazz fans, both Zaza Pachulia, led the Warriors "That was a good pick up for coaches pulled their starters with 24 points, and Kelenna them, and they are playing very before anybody else could get Azubuike added 23. well." hurt or in trouble before the All­ Golden State was without its Star break. leading scorer, guard Baron Jazz 102, Hawks 76 Davis, who will undergo surgery Mehmet Okur had 19 points Nuggets 123, Warriors 111 on his left knee Tuesday, eoach and six rebounds before sitting Carmelo Anthony and J .R. Don Nelson said. out the fourth quarter and the Smith scored 28 points apiece "The surgery is to clean out Utah Jazz won their fifth in a and the Denver Nuggets beat the some debris in his left knee. We row, beating the Atlanta Hawks Golden State Warriors Monday won't know the length of time Monday night. night. he'll be out until they go in Deron Williams added nine Anthony sat out the much of there," Nelson said. "We won't assists and Andrei Kirilenko had the fourth quarter after his make a roster move. We won't ll·points and four blocks for the bruised right thigh, which he do anything until after the sur­ Jazz, who are on their longest hurt in the first half, tightened gery." winning streak since eight in a up on him. The absences of Jackson and row in November while opening Warriors guard Stephen Davis didn't prevent the the season 12-1. Jackson was late for the game Warriors from running their The Hawks had won five after testifying in the trial in high-octane offense in the first straight on the road, beating the Indianapolis of a man who hit half, when they shot 59 percent Warriors 106-105 Sunday night him with a car during a fight only to trail 65-59 at the break AP in Oakland, but they had very lit­ outside a strip club last fall. The when Smith and DerMarr Warriors guard Stephen Jackson looks to pass the ball in the tle left for the Jazz. man was convicted Monday in a Johnson hit back-to-hack 3s in fourth quarter of Golden State's 123-1111oss to Denver. Atlanta was just 4-for-17 in ruling by a judge. the closing seconds.

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NFL Men's Basketball...... Associated Press Top 25 team record points 1 Florida (72) 23·2 1800 2 Ohio State 22·3 1668 3 Wisconsin 24-2 1637 4 North Carolina 22-3 1604 5 UCLA 21-3 1465 6 TexasA&M 21-3 1462 7 Pittsburgh 22-3 1415 8 Memphis 21-3 1272 9 Kansas 21-4 1268 10 Washington State . 21·4 1090 11 Nevada 22·2 1084 12 Marquette 21-5 916 13 Butler 23-3 831 14 Georgetown 18-5 782 15 Oregon 20-5 689 16 Southern Illinois 21-5 660 17 Air Force 21-4 538 18 Oklahoma State 19-5 503 19 Arizona 17-7 438 20 Kentucky 18.(1 387 21 Boston College 18-6 325 22 usc 18·7 290 23 West Virginia 19-5 272 24 Indiana 17-6 223 25 Alabama 18·6 158

Men's Basketball ESPN/USA Today Top 25 team record points 1 Florida (31) 23·2 775 2 Ohio State 22·3 727 3 Wisconsin 24·2 698 4 North Carolina 22·3 664 AP 5 Pillsburgh 22·3 642 Former Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer shouts instructions at practice in San Diego Jan. 12. The veteran 6 Texas A&M 21·3 628 7 UCLA 21·3 622 coach was fired Monday as a result of a long-time feud with general manager A.J. Smith and a history of playoff failure. 8 Kansas 21·4 547 9 Memphis 21·3 531 10 Nevada 22·2 485 Schottenheimer fired after 14-2 season 11 Washington State 21-4 466 12 Butler 23·3 400 13 Marquette 21·5 Associated Press lion. untenable situation and ·Chudzinski became 14 Air Force 21-4···; "When I decided to move create an environment." Cleveland's offensive coor­ 15 Southern Illinois 21·5 SAN DIEGO - Chargers ahead . with Marty The firing was first dinator, and linebackers 16 Georgetown 18·5 coach Marty Schotten­ Schottenheimer in mid­ reported by ESPN. coach Greg Manusky was

17 Oregon 20·5 ======w:;:;.~r= heimer was fired Monday January, I did so with the Schottenheimer didn't hired as San Francisco's 18 Kentucky 18·&···················· night in a shocking move expectation that the core of immediately return mes­ defensive coordinator. 19 Indiana 1H by team president Dean his fine coaching staff sages left on his office and Running backs coach 20 Oklahoma Stale 19·5 Spanos, who cited a "dys­ would remain intact," cell phones. Clarence Shelman, who's :·::·>:::· 21 Boston College 18-6. !·!·!··=;::::: .•·:·····=:qr:······· functional situation" Spanos said in a statement. Defensive coordinator never been a coordinator, 22 West Virginia 19·5 between the coach and "Unfortunately, that did not Wade Phillips was hired as was promoted to replace 23 usc 18·7 general manager A.J. prove to be the case, and head coach of the Dallas Cameron. Shelman accept­ 24 Arizona 11·1 Smith. the process of dealing with Cowboys on Thursday, fol­ ed only a one-year contract 25 Virginia Tech Less than a month after these coaching changes lowing offensive coordina­ due to what had been San Diego's NFL-best 14-2 convinced me that we sim­ tor Cam Cameron and two Schottenheimer's lame­ season was wrecked in a ply could not move forward other assistants out of duck status. . Men's Basketball home playoff loss to New with such dysfunction town for better jobs. Three days after the 24- . England, Spanos cited the between our head coach Although Schottenheimer 21 playoff loss to New Big East Standings exodus of both coordina­ and general manager. said last week that change England, Schottenheimer tors and other assistants in "In short, this entire was inevitable, Smith declined the team's offer of Big East overall firing Schottenheimer. The process over the last sounded concerned, say­ a $4.5 million, one-year team record record coach had a year left on month convinced me ing, "Bo~h in the same year extension through 2008, 1 Pittsburgh 10-2 22-4 his contract and will be beyond any doubt that I -Wow. which came with a club­ 2 Georgetown 8-2 18-5 owed more than $3 mil- had to act to change this Tight ends coach Rob option $1 million buyout. 3 Marquette 8-3 21-5 4 Louisville 8-4 18-8 5 West Virginia 7-4 19-5 6 NOTRE DAME 6-5 18-6 IN BRIEF 7 Syracuse 6-5 17-8 8 Villanova 5·5 17-7 Time Warner reaches deal to Underdof.( Yates Racing takes Man convicted of hitting 9 Providence 5-5 15-8 sell Braves to Uberty Media top pole piaces at Daytona Warriors' Jackson with car 10 .DePaul 5-6 14-11 NEW YORK - Time Warner Inc. ·DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - It INDIANAPOLIS - A man who hit 11 St. John's 5-7 14-11 reached a deal to sell the Atlanta seemed certain at times last season former Indiana Pacers guard 12 Connecticut 4-6 15·9 Braves to Liberty Media Corp. after that Robert Yates Racing was going Stephen Jackson with a car during a 13 Seton Hall . 3-7 12-11 more than a year of negotiations, The to close its doors. fight outside a strip club last fall was 14 South Florida 3-8 12-13 Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The once-proud NASCAR team convicted Monday in a ruling by a 15 Rutgers 3-9 10-15 The agreement, which must still be had hit rock bottom, and owners judge. 16 Cincinnati 1-9 10·14 approved by Major League Baseball Robert and Doug Yates couldn't Dean Willford waived his right to a owners, would involve Time Warner stand coming to the race track any­ jury trial, allowing Marion Superior transferring the Braves, a group of more. Court Judge Patricia Gifford to ren­ craft magazines and $1 billion in But that seemed ages ago on der a verdict. She found the 23-year­ cash to Liberty in exchange for about Sunday after David Gilliland and old man guilty of felony battery and around the dial 60 million shares of Time Warner, Ricky Rudd put Yates cars on the failure to stop at a scene of an acci­ the Journal reported, citing an front row for the Daytona 500. dent, a misdemeanor. unidentified person familiar with the "Robert has got a little bit of a He will be sentenced Feb. 28. He NCAA BASKETBALL deal. bounce in his step again because he faces two to eight years in prison for Based on the closing price of Time has a program that is working, it is the felony and up to a year for the Warner's stock Monday, the market clicking," Rudd said. misdemeanor.' Kentucky at Tennessee value of those shares would be about It was far from working last sea­ Jackson, who now plays for Golden 7 p.m., ESPN $1.27 billion. son, when Yates lost his drivers, a State, left the courtroom to catch a Liberty Media spokesman John Orr sponsor and both of his crew chiefs flight to Denver, where the Warriors Michigan at Michigan State and Time Warner spokesman Ed in a tumultuous year that featured play Monday night. 9 p.m., ESPN Adler declined to comment on the the team collapsing to the point "I leave everything in God's hands report, which the Journal posted on that Yates was convinced he was and continue to work on playing bas­ its Web site Monday. dying. ketball," he said. page 14 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, February 13, 2007

NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL NFL Duke unranked after recent skid Andy Reid takes Associated Press Duke's Top 25 streak is over. leave from Eagles Saddled by its first four-game losing skid in 11 years, Duke fell out of The Associated Press poll our own guys," Banner said. Monday for the first time since Coach takes time to "We'd also put together our the end of the 1995-96 season. address sons' problems preliminary plan for the non­ The Blue Devils had been in the Eagle players that we could media poll for 200 straight Associated Press be interested in." weeks - the second longest General manager Tom streak behind UCLA. Heckert and the team's assis­ The Bruins' run lasted 221 PHILADELPHIA - Andy tant coaches will handle the weeks, from the 1966-67 pre­ Heid is facing a crisis far interviewing of playE)rs at the season poll to Jan. 8, 1980. tougher than a quarterback scouting combine in North Carolina is third all-time controversy or a disruptive Indianapolis, though Reid with 172 straight weeks from player. might be able to meet with the 1990-91 preseason poll to The Philadelphia Eagles some players at another time. Jan. 17, 2000. coach will leave the team for Garrett Heid, 23, tested "If you do it for a long period a month to deal with develop­ positive for heroin after he of time, it means you've been ments that have rocked his caused a traff'ic accident Jan. good that long," Duke coach family the past two weeks _ 30, police said. No charges Mike Krzyzewski said of his one son tested positive for have been filed, but prosecu­ team's streak that began in the heroin, another was tors are looking at the case. 1996-97 preseason poll. "We AP arraigned on drug and Police have said he could be never bring it up. It's a nice stat Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski argues a call during Duke's weapons charges. charged with driving under thing." 72-60 loss to Maryland Sunday. The team said the leave will the influence of a controlled UCLA and Memphis are now last until mid- substance, a mis­ tied for the longest active streak record crowd of 24,465. It was beating then-No. 25 Stanford March. demeanor. at 34 straight weeks in the Top the Gators' fifth straight victory and California. Washington "He's not going "lle,s not going to Britt Reid, 21, 25. over their rivals. State is only a half-game behind to come into the come into the was arraigned on Duke was No. 8 two weeks It had been 20 years since the first-place UCLA as the Cougars office. His prior­ office. His priorities drug and ago before losing in the final Wildcats, college basketball's chase their first league title. ities will be his weapons charges. seconds to Virginia and Florida winningest program, lost five Nevada was No. 11, followed family for that will be his family He is accused of State. The Blue Devils lost to straight games to an opponent. by Marquette, Butler, period or time, for a period of pointing a hand­ then-No. 5 North Carolina 79~73 Tennessee was the last to do it Georgetown, Oregon, Southern but he will be time.,, gun at another on Wednesday and fell 72-60 at from 1975-77. Illinois, Air Force, Oklahoma available to driver following a Maryland on Sunday for their UCLA fell to fifth after splitting State, Arizona and Kentucky. have a eouple of dispute and faces first four-game losing streak games this past week. The Georgetown made the biggest calls with us and Joe Banner a felony charge since Jan. 3-13, 1996. Bruins beat then-No. 19 jump, moving up eight spots to collaborate and Eagles president of carrying a "We travel a narrow road Southern California 70-65 on No. 14 after convincing wins if he needed to firearm without a between winning and losing," Wednesday, but lost to West over Louisville and then-No. 11 be here for a license as well as Krzyzewski said. "We were in a Virginia by the same score Marquette. The Hoyas have won visit of a free agent," Eagles misdemeanor charges of lying position to win, you have to Saturday. seven straight. president Joe Banner said to authorities, simple assault, make sure the kids know that. The Bruins had to fly across ~·we're getting better, and our Monday. "He will retain final making terroristic threats They are doing a lot of things to the country and play an early guys definitely have a eomfort say over whatever we do." and possession of a controlled put themselves in a position to afternoon game. UCLA found level with how we want to skin Reid, who is also the team's substance. · win." itself down by 19 early in the the cat, so to say," said head of football operations, Asked if this leave could Duke received 150 points, second half before clawing Georgetown coach John will miss the NFL scouting lead to a longer one, Banner falling just eight short of No. 25 back. Thompson III after Saturday's combine and the start of free said: "No. I don't know if he's Alabama. "I was really pleased with the win over Marquette. "We're agency. Teams may begin vol­ coming back on (March) 13th The Blue Devils will try to end way we fought back," UCLA more poised. A lot of times early untary offseason workouts or the 17th or the 18th. their slide Wednesday against coach Ben Howland said. in the season teams would March 19. Reid plans to That's why that's a little bit Atlantic Coast Conference "Obviously it's a long way to make a run, and we'd stand attend the NFL owners' meet­ vague, but he will be return­ leader Boston College. The come to get beat." around looking starry eyed." ings in Arizona in late March, ing in and around that time Eagles (18-6, 9-2) are finally With UCLA's loss, Ohio State Oregon fell two spots after and will be back for the NFL frame." back in the poll at No. 21 after moved up to No. 2 - its highest splitting games with Arizona draft April 28-29. Reid has led the Eagles to falling out in week 3. ranking since 1991. State and then-No. 24 Arizona. The Eagles have 11 unre­ the playoffs six times, includ­ Florida remained a unani­ Wisconsin and North Carolina Southern Illinois moved up five stricted free agents, notably ing four trips to the NFC mous No. 1 for the second also gained a spot, moving up to spots to No. 16. wide receiver Donte' championship game and one straight week, garnering all 72 No. 3 and No.4, respectively. Boston College was followed Stallworth and backup quar­ Super Bowl, in eight seasons first place votes. Texas A&M was No. 6, fol­ by Southern California, West terback Jeff Garcia. as head coach. He's dealt Florida beat Georgia 71-61 on lowed by Pittsburgh, Kansas, VIrginia, Indiana and Alabama. "Before any of this had hap­ with several challenges the Wednesday and won at then­ Memphis and Washington State. Besides Duke, Vanderbilt and pened, we had finalized our past two seasons from the No. 20 Kentucky 64-61 on The Cougars (21-4, 10-3 Pac­ Stanford also dropped out of the own plans as to what we're Terrell Owens' soap opera Saturday in front of a raucous '10) moved up four spots after rankings. going to do and not do with and a series of key injuries in 2005 to losing five-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb in Week 11 this past season. Turtle Creek Apartltlent Holtles Despite McNabb's injury, the Eagles won their final five games behind Garcia, fin­ ished 10-6 to capture their fifth NFC East title in six years and reached the second THE Place to be at ND!! round of the playoffs. Many Join us at the Clubhouse on February 14th for a considered it Reid's best coaching job in Philadelphia. Players credited his steady Valentine's Day Open House approach for helping them overcome a difficult midsea­ From 10 am to 6 pm! son stretch and the season­ ending injuries to McNabb All Current & Future Residents are and star defensive end Jevon Kearse. Invited to Dip into a BUFFET of "People deal with circum­ stances in life of all different kinds, some more serious, CHOCOLATE GOODIES some less serious, some more preoccupied and less so, and are still able to carry on with TREATS, their careers and their pro­ fessions," Banner said. "I think that's the kind of guy OHMY! that Andy is, that he'll both be able to have his priorities in the right place, do what he 1710 Turtle Creek Drive needs to do, do the right thing, and also be able to South Bend, IN 46637 return as the head coach and Ph 574-272-8124 do the same quality job he's always done." Tuesday, February 13, 2007 The Observer + SPORTS page 15

INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL Pound denounces Cardinals crush No.7 Panthers Associated Press didn't recognize." confident in this team and this What Pitino didn't recognize coaching staff. I don't foresee IOC's reprimand PITTSBURGH - A young was the lack of attention for his this happening again." Louisville team has improved Cardinals, who need to win only So much for comparative steadily all season and is in posi­ twice more to get to 20 wins. scores. Louisville lost to Dayton tion for a first-round bye in the "We had to play Pitt, or some­ and Massachusetts, teams that report filed by Armstrong's Big East tournament. Still, coach one like Pitt, because everybody Pitt easily beat. WADA head says he's lawyer. Rick Pitino couldn't believe what is talking about signature wins "How we played is not indica­ "The executive board approved he was hearing about the and not paying attention to us," tive of this team," Gray said. not responsible to a recommendation of the ethics Cardinals. Pitino said. "We "But we're going to group for comments committee to remind Dick Pound Nothing. No buzz. No hype - think that when get past it. Maybe to take care regarding his public at least until now. we go to DePaul it's something we Associated Press declarations. He should be a bit David Padgett and Derrick and South "I didn ,t recognize needed to show us careful concerning his declara­ Caracter neutralized Aaron Gray Florida and win that team.,, how good we LONDON - The head of the tions," IOC spokeswoman inside while Louisville's 2-3 zone in the fashion we aren't." World Anti-Doping Agency said Emannuelle Moreau said. defense was taking away No. 7 win they're great Or maybe how Monday the International Pound said he felt the IOC mis­ Pittsburgh's outside shooting, wins, but nobody Jamie Dixon good Louisville can Olympic Committee was wrong understood his role. and the Cardinals dominated else does. As I Panthers coach be. to reprimand him for criticizing "I don't do anything in relation both halves to rout the Panthers watched TV, I Padgett, who Lance Armstrong last year. to doping for the IOC," he said. 66-53 Monday night. realized I should- sprained a foot "This has nothing to do with "All I've ever said is, 'Lance, if The Panthers (22-4, 10-2 in n't coach or play Saturday against either the IOC ethics commission the analysis was right ... there Big East) sustained their worst anymore because we don't even South Florida and was question­ or the IOC board," Dick Pound may be a case to answer to."' loss since moving into the get mentioned. The writers don't able to start, had 16 points and told The Associated Press by tele­ Pound also said he will discuss Petersen Events Center in 2002, even mention us for the NCAAs." four blocked shots. phone from Montreal. "Anything the matter with the IOC. where they had been 78-7. Their Pitino told his team there was Caracter, a highly recruited I do or say in relation to doping is 'Til tell them with the greatest worst previous defeat there was only one way to get that recogni­ freshman just off a six-game sus­ done in my of respect, 'I think 73-64 to Connecticut on Feb. 26, tion. pension for violating various capacity with you've got it 2005. They hadn't lost by double "I told the guys that if you team rules, played his second WAD A. "All I've ever said is, wrong,"' Pound figures at home since an 81-67 want to dance (in the NCAAs), strong game in a row with eight ''I'm responsi­ said. "People are defeat to Georgetown on Feb. 5, you've just had Christmas come points and four rebounds. He· ble to WADA, not 'Lance, if the going to wonder if 2001. early because you have to play had 16 points and 10 rebounds the IOC," he analysis was right ... the IOC is serious This one was never close, a Pitt _ and you have to beat in substantial playing time added. there may be a case or not." stunningly easy romp for them," Pitino said. "And that's Saturday after Padgett was hurt. "Everything I've Armstrong said Louisville (18-8, 8-4) that tight­ the hard part because they are a Pitt was similarly sloppy for done has been in to answer to.,, he appreciated ened the Big East race. The great team." much of its 74-68 victory accordance with some of Pound's Cardinals raced to a 13-2 lead The 6-foot-11 Padgett and 6-8 Saturday over Providence, its instructions or Dick Pound efforts to clean up that they increased to 33-14 late Caracter, effective together in the fifth consecutive win and 12th in approval from World Anti-Doping Agency sports, but he in the first half, partly because same game for the first time 13 games, but Gray bailed them WADA." thought the IOC conference-leading Pitt had since early in the season, were out with 22 points and seven The IOC chas- had also sent more turnovers than points for too much for the 7 -foot Gray to rebounds. He couldn't do so this tised Pound last week for com­ Pound an important message. most of the half. handle by himself inside. Gray time, finishing with 12 points ments about the seven-time Tour "It's been a long process," Pitt ended with 19 turnovers, drew his fourth foul with 14:06 and 10 rebounds, and Pitt had de France winner, suggesting he Armstrong said. "Considering the 15 before halftime, as its Big remaining as Caracter scored no success shooting long 3-point­ should be "a bit careful" with his IOC rarely does something like East lead over Georgetown inside to make it 42-27, and ers over Louisville's effective words. this, it's a significant gesture and slipped to a half game. The No. Gray wasn't a factor again. zone. A frequent critic of cycling's I appreciate it. I hope he learns 14 Hoyas beat No. 23 West "It was just a bad day. It's Pitt came into the game shoot­ doping record, Pound criticized a his lesson." VIrginia 71-53 on Monday. going to happen sometime," ing a Big East-best 42.6 percent Dutch report last year that The French sports newspaper "I didn't recognize that team," Gray said. "Maybe it's better it from 3-point range, but missed cleared the seven-time Tour de L'Equipe rep·orted in August coach Jamie Dixon said, refer­ happened now rather than down its first 13 shots from beyond the France winner of doping allega­ 2004 that six of Armstrong's ring to how sluggishly his team the road. The true test is how we arc until Ronald Ramon hit one tions. Pound said the report was urine samples from the 1999 played at the start. "Some of the respond to this _ not what hap­ with about seven minutes prepared by a lawyer with no Tour de France tested positive turnovers we were committing, I pened out there. I'm still very remaining. expertise in doping control and for EPO. There was no reliable that WADA was considering legal test for EPO at that time, but action against him. urine samples were preserved Armstrong then sent an eight­ and analyzed later when page letter to IOC president improved testing technology was Jacques Rogge and the executive developed. board last June 9 accusing The International Cycling Pound - a senior IOC member Union then appointed Emile from Canada- of "reprehensi­ Vrijman to investigate the han­ ble and indefensible" conduct. dling of the samples by a French Armstrong asked that Pound be anti-doping lab. His report forced to step down as chairman released on May 31 exonerated of the doping agency. Armstrong "completely" of any The IOC said it reviewed the doping infractions.

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MLB NFL Union asks for Arrington released from Giants decision reversal Associated Press EAST HUTIIERFOHD, N.J.­ The New York Giants released linebacker LaVar Arrington and two other starters Monday in the first major shako-up under new general manager Jerry Heese. Nnw York also cut linebacker Carlos 1\mmons and of'fensivn tackle Lu kn Pntitgout. both of whom were slownd by injuries ovnr thn last two snasons. The rnlnase of Arrington endnd a brief and unsatisfying tnnure with the <;iants for the former Pro Bowler. who was signnd last ynar for $49 million over seven ynars hut suff<'n~d an Arhillns injury against Dallas on Oct. 23 and playnd in only six gamns. "LaVar's situation is unfortu­ natn bncausn lw was just start­ ing to really becomn a factor in our defense at the time of his injury," Hoose said. Heese, who last month rnplacod the retired Ernie AP New York's Lavar Arrington writhes in pain after tearing his ACL Accorsi, snrv1~d notice that lw will not stand pat with a team Oct. 23 against Dallas. The linebacker was released Monday. that won tho NFC East in 2005 but was humiliated in a first­ pursuH free agnnts this of'fsea­ became expendable when round playoff loss to Carolina, son. Emmons had two years guard David Diehl switched to then squoaked into the playof'fs remaining on a five-year con­ left tacklP and played well in last season with an 8-8 n~eonl tract worth $16.5 million and his absence. and again lost in the first was to make $2 million this Dumping Petitgout's contract round. year, and Petitgout had two could give the Giants a better

AP "These are eli !Tie ult de ci­ years lof't on his contract and shot at re-signing free-agent Giants slugger Barry Bonds, seen reacting to a call, was one of sions," Giants head r~oach Tom was due $5 million for 2007. center Sh~ CRoss MISSION LEGU\JRE AT NoTRE DAME more than 100 to the Detroit players who test- Tigers, the ed positive for Yankees' Jason performance "If the majority's Giambi and seven enhancing drugs. decision is allowed other playPrs. TERESA 0KVRE, SHC) The 2-1 deci­ to stand, it will When they raided sion in December the testing labs for CAtHOLIC INSTIT\JTE by the 9th U.S. create circuit law those 10 results; Circuit Court of giving the investigators also OF WEST AFRlCA Appeals in San government carte seized computer Francisco over­ files containing the turned three blanche to use a test results of near­ lower court deci­ warrant for some ly 100 other players sions and could piece of data on a not named in the help authorities government's sub­ pinpoint the computer as the poena and war­ source of steroids pretext for seizing rants. in baseball. the entire "If the majority's Investigators decision is allowed seized computer computer." to stand, it will cre­ files containing ate circuit law giv­ the test results in MLBPA ing the government 2004 during carte blanche to raids of labs use a warrant for involved in MLB's testing pro­ some piece of data on a comput­ gram. The samples were collect­ er as the pretext for seizing the ed at baseball's direction the entire computer and perusing previous year as part of a sur­ its contents," attorneys for thP vey to gauge the prevalence of union and lab wrote. steroid use. Players and owners The testing was part of base­ agreed in their labor contract ball's effort to determinP that the results would be confi­ whether a stricter drug-testing dential, and each player was policy was needed. Because 5 assigned a code number to be percent or more of the tests [or matched with his name. steroids came back positivP, it Quest Diagnostics of automatically triggered the start Teterboro. N.J., one of the of testing with penalties in largest drug-testing firms in the 2004. nation, analyzed more than The lower courts had declarod 1,400 urine samples from play­ the use of the data beyond thn ers that season. Comprehensive original 10 names harassment Drug Testing of Long Beach, and unreasonable. Calif., coordinated the collection There is no timeline for the of specimens and compiled the court to decide whether to ~)/ data. Comprehensive joined the rehear the case. SPONSilfifD fJY ····· players in their petition to the -~ The case is United States v. HOLY CROSS MISSION CENTER appeals court to rehear the case Comprehensive Drug Testing with 15 judges. Inc., 05-10067. Tuesday, February 13, 2007 The Observer + SPORTS page 17

next few games. They're going to be tough games." Carter The Irish also have trips to Banquet continued from page 20 conference bottom-feeder continued from page 20 Cincinnati (10-14, 1-9) on strong note. Sunday and Rutgers (10-15, year's team has worked very Notre Dame is currently 3-9) March 3, both of whom hard to adjust to the new sys­ sixth in the Big East stand­ would fall into the "bad loss" tem he has instituted. "There ings, tied with Syracuse and category if Notre Dame were are new coaches, new terms, half a game behind West to drop a game to either one. new plays," Shrage said. ''I'm Virginia. The Irish hold However, both games are on really proud of these players. head-to-head tiebreakers the road, where the Irish are They've worked very hard." with both the Mountaineers just 3-6 this year. · Shrage, who coached at and Louisville, which is in Carter said that hard work Northern Illinois and Northern fourth place at will help the Iowa before spending the last 8-4. "Getting there my Irish win away four seasons at Evansville, Experts at from the Joyce expressed enthusiasm for a ESPN.com senior year would Center, which season that is sure to include believe that the be big since we will be important new faces in the Irish lineup Big East would haven't been there at neutral sites of card. get six teams in the Big East and "Isn't it great to talk about and that the before., N C A A baseball on a night when a Irish would be Tournament. winter storm's coming in?" he slotted in the 7- Russell Carter "There's always joked. 10 seed range if On a more serious note, the Irish guard room for the NCAA improvement," new coach outlined the major Tournament he said. "We goals that he has for his play­ began today. A Big Dance bid need to improve as a team ers. He stated that he wants would be the first for the and as individuals to achieve all of his players to graduate Irish seniors. our goals from the beginn~ng and win a championship ring. But Carter said that he and of the season." At the banquet, members of his teammates are focused As for the teams competing last year's team received Big on more pressing matters. with the Irish for the fourth East Championship rings. "Getting there my senior first-round bye, the Orange Shrage also said he wants his year would be big since we have four games left before players to leave with a "great haven't been there before," the conference tournament. feeling in their heart about he said. "But that isn't what They play at South Florida Notre Dame." we're focusing on right now." ·Wednesday, then host In their speeches, Leyland The Irish face Providence Connecticut Saturday. They and Counsell touched on their Thursday, DePaul Feb. 20 have a week off, then a trip experiences at many different and Marquette Feb. 24 in to Providence, and finish levels of baseball. Leyland, 62, games that will be tough but with second place spoke about his eleven years could also provide Notre Georgetown. as a coach in the minor Dame with more quality wins The Mountaineers have leagues, as well as his fifteen to impress the tournament only three games left. They seasons as a major league PHIL HUDELSONfThe Observer committee. also have a road game with manager. Leyland, who was Irish pitcher Brett Graffy delivers to the plate last season. In 2006, Those games are also key the Friars, but they get to named the 2006 American the right-hander threw 26.2 innings while giving up 11 earned runs. in the race for a bye in the host Seton Hall, who is only Le&gue Manager of the Year, Big East tournament. 3-7 in conference. West led the Detroit Tigers to the Monday aftern~on before the ·mater. He applauded the state Providence is just a half Virginia finishes its season World Series last season after banquet. of the school's baseball pro­ game behind the Irish at 5-5 against first place they had finished 30 games "I was telling them that gram, saying that it had defi­ and DePaul is a full game Pittsburgh, who may have below .500 in 2005. "[The they're good players but I nitely progressed in the past back at 5-6. Both teams clinched the Big East title or 2005 Tigers] had good players want them to develop a confi­ several years. would suddenly be .con­ at least a bye in the tourna­ but they didn't have a good dent swagger," he said. "What I remember about tenders for a bye again with ment by the time that game team," said Leyland. "It took Counsell, who captained the being here is how hard we a win over Notre Dame. is played. a while to make them realize Irish to within a game of the worked and how we wanted "We're in contention for they were good." College World Series in 1992, Notre Dame baseball to mat­ the fourth spot," Carter said. Contact Chris Khorey at Leyland also said he spoke told the audience that he was ter," Counsell said. "The pro­ "We have to worry about our [email protected] to Irish baseball players honored to be back at his alma gram is obviously in great shape." Shrage has adopted the motto "Tradition Never * Graduates" for this year's () team. He repeatedly stressed * his high expectations for his players, including his first M Irish recruiting class. 2 * "There's a sense of responsi­ bility that comes with putting on a baseball jersey at Notre A * Dame," he said. "These play­ ers have it." R Contact Fran Tolan at 2 0 [email protected] 0 I G 2 R ~~\~~~\'. .. your major~ 0 A . 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Tournament. The most pressing issue for DePaul Surge the Irish is to win their three continued from page 20 continued from page 20 remaining road games against Villanova, Providence and conference. The Wildcats and South Florida at 7-4. But in DePaul Feb. 26. Notre Dame is dropped their last game against the top-heavy conference, the only 3-7 on the road, and none Seton Hall 56-51 in the final Irish sit only a game behind the of its road wins are against a seconds, and they are just 3-7 Cardinals, Marquette and ranked team. The Irish will on their home court. But they Hutgers, all of which are in a have to prove they can win lost those nine games by an three-way tie for second. away from the Joyce Center to average of just 7.6 points, and "That's why every game is so impress the selection commit­ five games were decided by 10 important to keep our stand­ tee. points or less. ing," Irish coach Muffet Notre Dame will also have to "Villanova's always a tough McGraw said. "And to be picked beat No. 23 Rutgers at home game for us to play," Irish coach to linish eleventh and still have Feb. 24 to round out its home Muffet McGraw said Sunday a chance at linishing second schedule. The Irish have seen after Notre Dame's win over this late in the year I think talks success in the Joyce Center, DePaul. about the resilience of this including wins over Louisville, • The last six regular-season team." No. 18 Bowling Green and No. meetings between the' teams After its toughest stretch of 16 Purdue, and their only loss have been decided by an aver­ the season Jan. 23-31- when came to Indiana Dec. 3. age of 2. 8 points per game. it played three ranked teams But another big win over a Notre Dame leads the overall and got steamrolled by all of ranked opponent would do series 13-8, but Villanova has them - Notre Dame has a rela­ .nothing but help the Irish won five of the last seven tively easy schedule to linish cause. games. out its regular season. "It's important to take care of McGraw was pleased with the The Irish begin this stretch your home court when the Irish play against DePaul, but tonight against Big East-bottom NCAA selection committee felt improvement was needed. feeder Villanova. The Wildcats starts looking at where they're "I think we got to continue to are 1-10 in the conference and going to seed us," McGraw said. work on our defense," she said. have not won a game since "It's important to know that "We gave up 70 points tonight, beating the Mountaineers 70-64 we've been able to do the job at and I don't know how many Jan. 6. Villanova has lost its last home." they scored in the last two min­ ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer nine games by an average of With seven conference wins utes but it was way too many." Irish center Melissa D'Amico elevates for a shot against 7.8 points to stay cement their and a relatively easy remaining Recently, the Irish have great­ Syracuse Jan. 20. Notre Dame faces Villanova tonight at 7:30. place in the Big East basement. schedule in the Big East, the ly improved other facets of their After the Wildcats, the Irish Irish are almost a lock to make game. Notre Dame out­ not," McGraw said. "They've previous year. will travel to Providence the NCAA Tournament. But, if it rebounded its opponents 41 to been pretty effective so far." Traditionally, the Irish play Saturday for a game against the can round out its schedule with 29.7 in the past three games, McGraw also acknowledged strong in February. The team is ninth-place Friars. Providence three road wins and a win over and it held Louisville, the top the need for stronger inside 68-17 in the month since joining ended its own seven-game los­ another ranked team, Notre rebounding team in the Big play. the Big East in 1995. ing streak Saturday with a 93- Dame could be seeded as high East, to a season-low 29 boards. "I think we need the post," With an Irish win and losses 77 win at St. John's for only its as seventh come March. "We're doing a much better she said. "We need the post from both South Florida and third Big East win this season. Not bad for a team originally job on the boards and we're scoring and we've got to be able Pittsburgh, Notre Dame could Notre Dame will be playing projected to barely make the doing a good job executing the to score on the block." move into a tie for third place. It some of the worst teams in the Big East tournament. offense," McGraw said. Villanova's frontcourt players is currently tied for lifth in the conference, but McGraw is not But before the Irish can real­ Notre Dame's offense under­ all average in double figures Big East standings with five looking past either opponent. ize any pipe dreams about the went a slight shift against and are led by forward Jackie games to go before the tourna­ "Now we've got to win some Tournament, they have to stay DePaul, featuring a higher dose Adamshick, who scores 13.8 ment. games on the road and it's focused on the game at hand of freshmen guard Ashley points per game. Forward "Now we've got to win some going to be a tough stretch for and take care of business Barlow in place of center Stacie Witman averaged 17.5 games on the road," McGraw us," McGraw said. "Villanova is tonight in Philadelphia. Melissa D'Amico to offset the points in her last six games and said. "It's always a tough stretch always a tough game for us to Blue Demons' smaller lineup. scored a career-high 26 points for us." play and is plqying everybody The views expressed in this "This a group that we can against Seton Hall. Witman has close." column are those of the author play with at times during the averaged 12 points per game on Contact Bill Brink at Even with a strong season so and not necessarily those of game whether we start them or the season, up from four the [email protected] far, the Irish still have some The Observer. work to do to ensure a good Contact Jay Fitzpatrick at seeding in the NCAA jfitzpa5@nd. edu Con~.e and Listen

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NO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Clawing back Notre Dame looks to Three game winning halt road troubles in streak has Irish Philadelphia tonight poisedfor postseason On Jan. 31, the Irish season By BILL BRINK was on the verge of collapse. Sports Writer The team had lost three straight games to ranked oppo­ The Irish recovered from a nents and was set to face a three-game losing streak on the surging road by winning their last three West home games, including Sunday's Virginia victory over DePaul. They will team in the try to put an end to their away­ Joyce Center game troubles tonight at Feb. 4 in a Villanova. game it had Notre Dame's offense will be to win. led by guard Charel Allen, who Notre this week was named Big East Dame rose Player of the Week for her play Jay Fitzpatrick to the occa­ against Louisville and DePaul. sion. Allen averaged 23 points and 10 The Irish rebounds per game in those two Sports Writer won that games while shooting 51.5 per­ game, and cent from field-goal range. won again Against DePaul, Allen dropped against No. 17/16 Louisville 25 points and grabbed 13 three days later. Those wins, rebounds in the team's 7 8-70 coupled with another home win win. against DePaul Sunday night, Villanova (7 -17, 1-10 Big East) have Notre Dame's season back has sputtered of late, losing a on track. school-record nine straight The Irish are tied for fifth in games to fall to last place in the the Big East with Pittsburgh TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer Irish guard Ashley Barlow drives around Louisville's Kala Faulkner during Notre Dame's 64-55 win over the see VILLANOVA/page 18 Cardinals Feb. 7. Notre Dame will try to extend its winning streak to four tonight against last-place Villanova. see SURGE/page 18

BASEBALL MEN'S BASKETBALL Questions abound at Carter focuses on one goal season-opening banquet Irish senior has drive to play in NCAAs comers and three veterans who By FRAN TOLAN . did not play last year. before leaving ND Sports Writer At the banquet, where Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland By CHRIS KHOREY Despite the departure of the and Milwaukee Brewers out­ head coach who guided Notre fielder Craig Counsell also Associate Sports Editor Dame to Big East titles in each spoke to the crowd of about of the past five years, as well as 1,500, Schrage talked about his N otrc Dame guard 10 letterwinners from last sea­ adjustment to life at Notre Bussell Carter has just one son's team. Dame. goal for thn last fivfl regu­ first-year "I've only been here seven lar season games of his senior year- "Five wins." Irish coach months but I'm honored to be Dave Schrage your coach," he said. Carter and the Irish are expressed Schrage, who led Evansville riding a two game losing high hopes of the Missouri Valley streak, which dropped for his new Conference to a 43-22 record them to 6-5 in the Big squad at the last season. also declared that East and 18-6 ovPrall. sixth-annual he has "got the Notre Dame Carter, who is averaging "Opening spirit." 17.3 points per game to N i g h t Counsell Shrage, whose wife Jody lead the team, has had Dinner" in passed away this January. break out senior ynar. He the Joyce Center Fieldhouse introduced his two daughters has improved his scoring Monday night. to the crowd. average by almost six "It's always tough when "I want to thank you all pub­ points per game and is there's a transition," said licly for the support you've being looked at by NBA Schrage, referring to the given us," he said. "When they teams. change that saw him replace say Notre Dame's a real com­ But none of that will Paul Mainieri as Irish head munity, they really mean it." matter to him if the Irish do not finish this season coach in the fall. Shrage also said that this ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer The squad will also have to Irish forward Rob Kurz slams the ball home during Notre Dame's adjust to the arrival of 15 new- see BANQUET/page 17 see CARTER/ page 17 67-66 loss at DePaul Feb. 8.

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