The Choice 2000 New 24- Hour Space Guidelines

Guster Get out and vote! Guster pulls two Notre Dame students on For St. Joseph county voters, local polls close Tuesday stage during its performance at Stepan Center at 6 p.m. Make your voice heard and go to the on Friday. polls. NOVEMBER7, Scene+ page 12 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 50 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU CLC The Choice 2000 New 24- hour space guidelines By HELENA PAYNE News Writer Eleven senators attended the Campus Life Council (CLC) meeting to support the approval of a reso lution to post a policy about 24- hour space in all residence halls Monday. "We con- cluded that although a definition of 24-hour space does exist, it still is not abided by in Kirk some of the AFP Photos residence halls," said Lewis Hall Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush and Democratic presidential candidate AI Gore await results of one of the closest races in history. Results for the presidential election are expected to be in late tonight or early tomorrow morning. senator Luciana Reali. "The Senate came up with what we hope to be a solution to this." • Voter turnout Of course, college students process. • N D design class The CLC passed the 24-hour are not the only ones not vot Sophomore Matt space resolution, which the com low among 18 to ing. Only about half of all Wilkerson, who is also not encourages young mittee on gender issues of the 24-year olds Americans voted in the '96 voting this year, said that voters with posters Student Senate initially drafted, election. But when U.S. vot main-party candidates posi that defines 24-hour space as ers are broken down into age tion themselves too closely to areas available to the hall resi By ERIN LaRUFFA groups, the 18 to 24-year the political center in order By ERIN LaRUFFA Associate News Editor dents and their guest for all 24 olds have the lowest turnout. to get more votes. Associate News Editor hours. Students must abide by the Many observers of this "I don't really agree entire Every November, rules in duLac and exercise "good trend. and even non-voters ly with either !Bush or Concerned about the low voter judgement." Americans get to decide who themselves, attribute low Gore]." he said. "I really turnout among 18 to 24 year their leaders will be on local, The Office of Student Affairs has turnout to apathy. don't have much faith in the olds, a Notre Dame graphic to approve the resolution in order state and national levels. But "I didn't have any good presidential system." design class recently launched a most 18 to 24-year aids don't to implement the policy, but the reason not to vote. I'm just Similarly, despite labeling non-partisan campaign to CLC is going to further address seem to care. lazy," said Notre Dame himself as "lazy," Lambrecht encourage students to vote. In fact, 68 percent of issues about the 24-hour space junior Nick Lambrecht. did have reasons for not vot "Arguably, [voting] is one of the policy during its next meeting. Americans in that age brack Low voter turnout among ing in today's presidential most important things you do in et chose not to cast their bal However, assistant vice president this age group, however, election. your life," said the class's profes of Residence Life Bill Kirk had lots during the last presiden involves more than just lazi "My vote isn't going to do sor, Robert Sedlack, who comes tial election in 1996. positive comments about the poli ness. For example, many 18 anything," said Lambrecht, from what he describes as· a cy. Percentages are even lower to 24-year-olds simply do not in non-presidential years. "I think this is a really well have faith in the electoral see VOTING/page 7 see PROJECT/page 7 drafted and well thought out reso lution," said Kirk. "It clearly added something that we're still having a problem with." Kirk said that while he does not want to make 24-hour space a Internet outage frustrates ND community "passion pit," it is important to address some of the concerns that said. solved. student have. By TIM LOGAN Service was disrupted when a circuit Like students, OIT personnel were According to a survey regarding Senior News Writer upgrade at Ameritech's Chicago hub not pleased with the outage. 24-hour space conducted by the and SCOTT BRODFUEHRER was unsuccessful. As a result, high "This is a big black eye on Student Senate the majority of the News Writer bandwidth connec- Ameritech," Klimek dorms that lack full 24-hour space tions, including said. "We're not sure by the Senate's definition are The Internet outage that lasted from Notre Dame's, ''This is a big black eye what the long-term female dorms. Sunday morning to Monday evening which connects to on Ameritech. We're not fallout will be." "There is a disparity between prevented users from viewing Web that hub were cut sure what the long-term Resources outside of female and male residence halls," pages outside of the nd.edu domain off. Since the prob the Notre Dame net said Reali. and sending e-mail to persons outside lem occurred off fallout will be. " work that professors The most apparent distinction is of the Notre Dame community, and campus with the recommended for pro the presence of hall monitors in female dorms and Jack thereof in caused frustration among students. phone company, Tom Klimek jects were unavailable, The way the Office of Information Notre Dame's OIT which created some male dorms. Because the hall Technology communicated the outage was essentially manager of Telecomm Services additional work for monitors leave between 6 and 7 was not satisfactory to some students. helpless to fix it, students trying to com a.m., they have been known to ask "I wish that they sent out a notice as according to Tom plete assignments that male guests to leave the dorm soon as they found out about the out Klimek, manager of Telcomm Services. Internet access would have simplified. when they do. age, rather than waiting until Monday "We're somewhat at their mercy," he morning." freshman Aahren DePalma said Monday before the probiem was see INTERNET/page 4 see CLC/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, November 7, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "I think of my dorm "I noticed that the "We are light years "We don't think girls Web dependency as the place where I passion and spirit at ahead of where dorms should have live, study and work. Notre Dame was we were last year different rules from I never really bought into the whole "infor I'd rather go great. I wanted to do now that we guys dorms mation superhighway" hype about the Internet. somewhere else some Duke stuff are global." · and vice versa. I always thought the Internet was convenient here." There should not be and it was nice to be able to find information and party." quickly and easily; I never really thought it was any discrepancies. " very revolutionary. Meaghan Donovan Mike Brey Adam Frick Then the Internet went Pasquerilla East sophomore Men's basketball ':oach WVFI station manager Kevin Berchou away and I learned just Sorin Hall senator how much I really rely on the Internet. When the new college football Associated Press poll came out Sunday after noon, I was left in the dark. OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports I didn't know where the Irish were ranked in the Mike Connolly latest poll and what their chances of a Bowl Penn State 'Greens' plan to leave class to vote Championship Series were. I had no idea if my beloved Editor in Chief UNIVERSITY PARK. Pa. Leto said. "Since Election Day is so Pittsburgh Steelers were Some Pennsylvania State University close with Veterans Day, they could winning. But losing the students with a flair for the dramatic mingle the two together and tic in that convenience of readily plan to walk out of classes Tuesday to this is what vets fought for." available sports information was the least of cast their vote for the next president. At the Centre County Democratic my concerns. The move, initiated by the local Committee's headquarters, the feel I couldn't email my parents directions to Green Party organization. the Campus ings about a student walkout are where to meet me when they come up for the Greens, is bipartisan and encourages mixed. Boston College game this weekend. I was effec people of all political affiliations to "We certainly think voting is a gn~at tively cut ofT from my normal means of commu leave class and head to the polls. idea. Boycotting classes is never a nication. Justin Leto, a student activist, plans good thing, although it can be fun. It got even harder when I started working on to participate in the walkout. Leto said Sometimes it's important to make a Monday's Observer. The email system that lets the goal of the walkout is to mobilize dramatic statement," said Bob us communicate and send stories back and more students to get out and vote, and Shepherd, Centre County Gore 2000 forth between the two campuses was useless. to make voting their first priority on cent of the people don't vote. People chair. Gaining even the most basic information was Election Day.

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