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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 38: ISSUE 26 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND Stadium suits settled out of court University finalizes settlement against expansion contractors tractor and construction man­ By CLAIRE HEININGER agement firm. News Writ<r In response, the two compa­ nies sued over a dozen sub­ Six years, 17 law firms and contracting firms involved in three feet of paperwork later, the stadium renovations. lawsuits arising from faulty Ellerbe Becket also filed a construction work on the 1997 separate suit against the expansion to Notre Dame insurance carriers of these Stadium were !1nally resolved various companies. last Thursday without a trial. More than four years of The settlement - the terms complex deliberations later, a of which were kept confiden­ $1 0,000-a-day mediator from tial - sought financial com­ Boston helped over 30 attor­ pensation for damages sus­ neys piece together a deal this tained during the $50 million, past June. After a summer of 20,000-seat expansion's deliberating about details, debut. Serious flaws in con­ checks were distributed in struction and engineering early September, as the attor­ caused water and sewage to neys signed the necessary flood the stadium on Sept. 6, documents to put an end to 1997. These flaws and others the cases. that appeared later required St. Joseph Circuit Court more than $4 million in Judge Terry Crone then made repairs, including the installa­ the dismissals official tion of waterproof joint seals Thursday, when he signed the and the destruction and briefs "with prejudice," which rt•building of cracknd concrete means they cannot be refiled slabs on the stadium's upper in any court of law. concourses. ramps and stair A trial addressing the 11 landings. separate files of litigation Notre Dame filed suit to could have taken several more cover these expenses in 1999 months, Crone said. against Ellerbe Becket Inc., "We're pleased that the mat­ the expansion plan's project ter has been resolved," said architect, and Casteel University spokesman MIKE GIORDANOfThe Observer Construction Corp. of South Notre Dame Stadium, expanded In 1997, sustained damages due to engineering and construc­ Bend, the plan's general con- see STADIUM/page 4 tion flaws after the expansion opened. The resulting lawsuits were finally settled last Thursday. Author discusses Latino awareness Wang speaks about Catholics in China In 1974 Wang arrived in By MATT BRAMANTI the Archdiocese of San News Writer Francisco, becoming the first Chinese-American pastor in The Catholic Church's first that diocese. In December of Asian-American bishop, last year, Pope John Paul II Ignatius Wang, spoke appointed Wang auxiliary Monday about relations bishop of San Francisco. between Eastern and Wang instituted celebra­ Western cultur.e and tradi­ tions for the Chinese New tional religion in the Jordan Year that blended Catholic Auditorium at the Mendoza liturgy with traditional College of Business. ancestor veneration for the The Beijing-born bishop Chinese Catholic community discussed the history of in San Francisco. These cel­ Catholicism in China and in ebrations provoked an unex­ his own family. Wang repre­ pected backlash among sents the 13th generation of Chinese clergy and laity in Catholics in his family, and the diocese, prompting Wang Western missionaries con­ to rethink the relationship STEPHANIE GRAMMENSfThe Observer between Eastern and Author Marla Melendez speaks to an audience at Saint Mary's College Monday. verted his ancestor, an Western Catholics. Melendez used the opportunity to discuss aspects of her Chicana background. emperor of China, to Catholicism. "We have to tell people to recognize the College's was sponsored by La Fuerza, However, controversy soon that Catholicism is for the By ANNELIESE WOOLFORD Latina population and height­ the College's Latina student arose in the Chinese church, whole universe," he said. Saint Mary's Editor en cultural awareness on cam­ organization. said Wang, as the Vatican Wang said he began an pus According to Terri Johnson, condemned ancestor venera­ approach of "enculturation," Author Maria Melendez Melendez, visiting writer director of the Office of tion. which was widely prac­ encouraging the Church and spoke Monday at Saint Mary's and Center for Women's Multicultural Affairs, Hispanic ticed among Chinese Chinese culture to adapt to College in the first in a series Intercultural Leadership fel­ Heritage Month is celebrated Buddhists and Christians at each other. of events scheduled by the low, discussed aspects of her annually at Saint Mary's. In the time. This prohibition He also addressed the College throughout October in Chicana background in her past years, Johnson has lasted for 300 years, until modern Christian movement honor of Hispanic Heritage presentation, titled "Chicana noticed an increase in the Pope Pius XII declared the in mainland China. The Month. Falsa: Rebellion Against number of Latina students rituals secular and not in Patriotic Church, which is Several Saint Mary's organi­ Tradition in Contemporary conflict with Catholic doc· zations scheduled the events Chicana Poetry." The lecture see SPEAKER/page 4 trine. see BISHOP/page 4 -----------~------------------- r I r page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: How LONG UNTIL IT SNOWS IN SOUTH BEND? 'f The problematic PSA Alex Garrlpoll Michael Dewan Laura Sonn Andrea Oliverio Ryan Adams, Michael Toomey I've got a beef with the Progressive Joe O'Connell Student Alliance and its propagan­ dists. While normally they stay below sophomore freshman freshman freshman freshmen freshman my radar, their latest mouthpiece (BJ Regina Hall Sorin Hall PW Hall Lewis Hall Sorin Hall Sorin Hall Strew) has really got my gander up Tom Haight "A month." "Before we get "526 hours, ''I'm ready for "When da Bears "I'm by insulting me. I've listened to our second minutes, 24 snow now." bring da lrlnce disappointed it the PSA moan Ad Design win." seconds." Lombardi hasn't already. " Manager about the trophy back to Univers1ty'Sabuse of campus workers for years now, the city of da but this is truly obscene. To claim Big Shoulders." that Notre Dame is an institution that puts profit above people is absolutely off base. Maybe I'm not as informed as they are, but I don't recall ever hearing about the University paying out dividends. Or selling stock. Or offering lucrative retirement deals to its former Board IN BRIEF of Directors and CEO. Maybe that's because we don't pay Watch the Irish women's our board of directors so much as soccer team take on Indiana they pay the University through con­ State at 7 p.m. today at tributions. And as for Father Edward Alumni Field. Malloy? First, I'm pretty sure that the assertion that he is paid 20 times Come cheer on the Belles as the salary of campus workers (which the Saint Mary's volleyball would put him at close to a half-mil­ team takes on Manchester lion annually) is hot air. I might not College today at 7 p.m. Pizza get out enough, because I'm still will be provided for fans by under the impression that Malloy the Student Activities Board. lives in the smallest chambers occu­ pied by a priest on campus. I guess Watch the movie "24-Hour it's possible that the PSA has photos Party People" in the of him driving his new Porche to his Montgomery Theater at off campus mansion, but somehow I LaFortune Student today at 7 doubt it. p.m. The showing is part of The Congregation of the Holy Cross the International Film Series, is a world-wide congregation doing sponsored by International works of charity and supporting mis­ Students Services and sions on six continents. Is the Activities. University trying to make money? Yes. Is it doing so at the expense of Learn about post-graduate people? No. Take off your blinders, service opportunities at the PSA. Holy Cross Associates You're probably wondering why MIKE GIORDANOfThe Observer Information Session, taking I'm annoyed about all of this. It's Students stop Monday for a late night study break and snacks at Reekers after place today from 4-5 p.m. at quite simple actually: I'm the son of studying for most of the evening. the Center for Social some ofthose "disfranchised work­ Concerns. ers" they always tell you about. My parents combined income was barely Listen to the CEO of Ethan above the "living wage" mark they Allen, Inc., Fa rook Kathwari, claim is all-important for one parent OFFBEAT speak on "Leadership to make. That's a novel concept, ]sn't Principles" today from 7:30-8 it? That both parents have to work CNN's Tucker Carlson unlisted home number on State Department p.m. in the Jordan to make a "living wage?" angry over phone flap its Web site. After his wife Issues mouse alert Auditorium. The talk is spon­ Heaven forbid that those without was inundated with sored by the Cardinal O'Hara college educations have to do the WASHINGTON­ obscene calls, Carlson WASHINGTON - As if Lecture Series in Business same. Before you start trying to tell Conservative CNN com­ went to the Fox News the State Department Ethics. me of my other advantages, take into mentator Tucker Carlson's bureau to complain. He didn't have enough to account that the cost of living was snide humor backfired on was told the number worry about with Iran, Learn about "The the same where I grew up as it is him- and his wife. While would be taken off the Iraq and the French: the Changing Face of here (trust me, I live off campus) and defending telemarketers Web site if he apologized onset of cooler weather Leishmania," a lecture tak­ I went to public schools, yet some­ during a segment on on the air.

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