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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 41: ISSUE 129 TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM White keeps 1unique' role in mind Student's Under his watch, school has captured four national titles, attained best-ever Director's Cup finish fihnchosen his media access and public By KEN FOWLER Significant athletic events at Notre Dame persona. White only occasion­ under Kevin White News Writer ally holds press conferences at Tribeca and is not the main person March 13, 2000 White hired as Director of Athletics. Editor's note: This is the third reporters who cover Notre December 5, 2000 Bob Davie signs extension as football coach. story in a four-part series look­ Dame sports call for comments. January 1, 2001 Notre Dame loses in Fiesta Bowl, its first BCS appearance. That role is often filled by April1, 2001 Notre Dame women's basketball captures National ChllntJJiontshi]p~ ByJENNMETZ ing at Notre Dame's athletic December 2, 2001 Davie fired after football fmishes 5-6. department under the direction Associate Athletic Director News Writer John Heisler, whose primary December 9, 2001 Notre Dame hires George O'Leary to replace Davie. of Kevin White as he enters his December 14,2001 O'Leary resigns after admitting he embellished on his resume. eighth year at the school. responsibilities include media Senior Daniel Negret was in duties. January 1, 2002 Notre Dame hires Tyrone Willingham to replace O'Leary. attendance at the world premiere Some interpreted from Fall2002 Notre Dame wins eight straight games to open the football season of "Towards Darkness (Hacia la In a market where a confer­ but falls short of a BCS bid and finishes 10-3. ence of one often draws more White's answer in the session oscuridad)" at the Tribeca Film March 23, 2003 Notre Dame fencing captures National Championship. Festival in New York Oty Saturday, attention than a conference of that he would rather not dis­ Fa112003 Notre Dame finishes 5-7 in football. where he watched his family's cre­ 10 or 12 or 16, Notre Dame cuss every detail about the ath­ Fall2004 Notre Dame goes 6-6 in the regular season. Athletic Director Kevin White letic department. But in an November 30, 2004 Notre Dame frres Willingham. ative vision materialize on the big takes a measured approach to interview with The Observer, December 5, 2004 Notre Dame women's soccer wins National Championship. screen. "Towards Darkness," a 94- all his public comments out of White stressed that his avail­ December 1~, 2004 Notre Dame hires Charlie Weis to replace Willingham. necessity. ability isn't primarily a person­ March 20, 2005 Notre Dame fencing captures National Championship. minute film, is an offiCial 2007 Last May, White met with­ aL choice but a decision based October 29,2005 Mter 5-2 start, Weis signs 10-year contract extension. selection in the World Narrative media members on campus to on his unique role and standing January 2, 2006 Notre Dame football loses in the Fiesta Bowl to complete 9-3 Feature competition at the festival. talk in detail about the athletic among the nation's athletic season. It stars America Ferrera of "Ugly department's "master plan" for directors. A case in point is the June 22,2006 Notre Dame earns best-ever finish in Director's Cup at No.6. Betty" fame. Bowl Championship Series' December 3, 2006 Notre Dame women's soccer loses in national title game. Negret - who was born in new facilities and opened up January 3, 2007 Notre Dame football loses in the Sugar Bowl to complete 10-3 questions on an array of sub­ Colombia - and his older brother, season. Antonio, founded their production jects. One of the first was about see WHITE/page 4 MATT HUDSON/Observer company, Negret Films, la..'it year. Headquartered in Panama, their parents serve as officers, making their company truly a family-run business. Alum joins race for Indiana governor A Film, Television and Theatre and finance double major, Daniel Governor Frank O'Bannon. Negret has background in both the By AMANDA GONZALES Kernan took over the office business and creative side of film­ making. In this undertaking, he News Writer after O'Bannon's death in 2003. After Schellinger graduated steered more toward the business Jim Schellinger, a 1984 Notre with an architecture degree, he angle, working substantially dur­ ing the pre-production stages with Dame architecture graduate. went on to work for CSO investors and actors, while Antonio has entered the race to become Architects - one of the top five ·_ who wrote and directed the film the 50th governor of Indiana architecture companies in with a "moderate to conserva­ Indianapolis - and became the -took the creative reins. But there was some overlap of tive Democrat" platform and a firm's president in 1996. the·two areas, Daniel Negret said. strong desire to serve the elec­ Schellinger said he hopes to The brothers started the compa­ torate, he said. defeat the Republican incum­ Born in South Bend, bent, Mitch Daniels, after he ny with the "goal of making films [they've] always wanted to see," he Schellinger would become the defeats his competition in the second University graduate to Democratic primary, State said. "With our own company, we ascend to Indiana's executive Senator Richard Young and for­ office. Joe Kernan, a 1968 mer Congresswoman Jill Long. have the freedom to make these graduate and former mayor of "To put it simply, Indiana films," he said. adding the compa­ AP ny is "willing to take risks" with South Bend, was elected in Jim Schellinger submits his official paperwork seeking 1996 as lieutenant governor to Democratic nomination for governor in Indianapolis March 19. see GOVERNOR/page 4 see FESTIVAL/page 6 Wedding bells ring for SMC loses official, tw-o professors students in springtime Chief information officer to take job at l.JV-Wise; 2 teachers also to leave

helping the couple mature By MANDl STIRONE By JOHN-PAUL WITT enough to the point where mar­ News Writer News Writer riage seems like the next logical step in the relationship. A top Saint Mary's official and If not through personal experi­ "We had a good community of two professors will leave the ence, most Notre Dame students people around us - we were College in the coming months. are familiar with the tradition able to build friendships and face Chief Information Officer Keith that fmds seniors engaged by the challenges together," Miller said. Fowlkes and communication end of spring semester - "ring Amiri also credited Notre and performance studies by spring." And while Grotto pro­ Dame's spiritual atmosphere Department Chair John Pauley posals and Basilica weddings are with allowing the couple to pur­ will finish their service at the common among seniors and sue a deeper relationship. College this term. In addition, alumni who met at Notre Dame, "In general, !Notre Darnel has communications professor Ann - some students are choosing to been a big part of our spiritual Plamondon, who has been at set a wedding date as early as growth - the Basilica, Mass and Saint Mary's since 1981, will sophomore year. praying together," Amiri said, retire after fall semester next One such couple, sophomores "It's a perfect place for us to year, Pauley said. Dan Amiri and Rachel Miller, has focus on the spiritual aspect of Fowlkes. who has been at already decided to get engaged. the relationship, something that Saint Mary's for more than five The two met in high school and often gets left out." years, completed his last day at began dating during their senior The sophomores plan to grad­ the College Monday and will

year after both decided to attend uate a semester early so they can become the vice chancellor of KATE FENLON!The Observer Notre Dame. Professor John Pauley speaks with a student at the College last Miller credits Notre Dame with see WEDDINGS/page 6 see LOSSES/page 3 month. Pauley will leave Saint Mary's at the end of this semester. . .. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, May I, 2007

INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ARE YOU DOING DURING STUDY DAYS? Off the chest You know, I'm graduating this semes· ter. It's coming up fast. As stated several times before in various places, as a paid Observer employee I am entitled to write Cliff Harris Peter Hoffman Katie Mounts Kathleen Krcmaric Ryan Duffy an Inside Column. I reserved this Inside Column space solely graduate student graduate student senior senior senior for the purpose of off-campus off-campus off-campus Farley Stanford cleaning house of all loose ends from my undergraduate years. 'Ttl be taking 'Tm going to be "Hanging out "Hanging out "Sleeping and Here is a list of my take-home in the basement with Kathleen." with Katie." forming an things I need to get final, doing of Fitzpatrick, alliance with off my chest before I move on to a new research, making Quad Duck." chapter in my life: grading exams breakthrough Adam Fairholm and watching discoveries." + To James: I told you I'd turn in that Cartoonist the NBA receipt for a reim- playoffs." bursement for the hat. I lost the receipt and the deadline passed. Sorry. + To the Subway workers: I have tried very hard to enunciate clearly and vividly describe what my sandwich should be like in a non-demeaning way. However, IN BRIEF you frequently seem sad as a collective whole. I have failed to cheer you. I'm The Notre Dame Jazz Band sorry. will perform tonight at 7:30 in + To the ND chapter of Amnesty the Leighton Concert Hall in International: I signed up for your e-mail the DeBartolo Performing Arts list when I was a freshman but never Center. The Band will be joined joined. However, I've been reading your by jazz musician Jeff Clayton. frequent e-mails all the way through for Tickets are $5 for the general four years. Also, thank you for the free public, faculty, staff and stu­ pen. dents. +To the guy who runs the students with disabilities center: I'm sorry I signed The Notre Dame baseball up to be a note taker for class and then team will play against Illinois­ stopped turning in notes after a few Chicago tonight at 6:05 in months. There really wasn't anything to Frank Eck Stadium. take notes on. I didn't put any hours into Ultra time, so I hope everything is cool. The last day of classes at + To the one guy in the football office Notre Dame is Wednesday. whose fax machine I used in 2004: Sorry for the inconvenience. You seemed kind Finance professor Sophie of pissed. Shive will deliver the lecture + To Marty: My public deconstruction titled "Good Dollars Chasing of your headshot was·out of line. I'm Bad Dollars: The Impact of sorry. Venture Capital Funding on + To Joe Rabbitt, my freshman year Industry Stock Returns" Philosophy TA: My paper on Voltaire FRANCESCA SETNThe Observer Thursday at 11:30 a.m. in 339 sucked. I know it did. I'm sorry. I tried. Members of the Notre Dame and South Bend community mourn South Bend Cpl. Mendoza as part of the + To the security guard I verbally Nick Polizzotto at his funeral, held in the Joyce Center Monday. Polizzotto was Finance Seminar Series. chastised for not letting me into D2 one killed April 24 while he investigated reported shootings at a motel. football Saturday morning: I'm sorry. I Penny Peng, the mother of had a bad night, and you also had an the first woman from mainland attitude. China to graduate from Notre + To the old man who told me it wasn't Dame, will lead a presentation safe to stand out on St. Mary's lake when OFFBEAT and discussion of her book "On it was frozen: l don't know who you are, the Great Wall," Thursday but you really annoy me still to this day. Honey bun used to catch alone and keep their Under the prison policy, afternoon from 4 to 5 in +To the dining hall card swipers: I'm bear in West Va. garbage inside. When that inmates are restricted to Montgomery Theatre in sorry one time my cousin and I went into CHARLESTON, W.Va. - didn't work, DNR officials four rolls of toilet paper LaFortune. This event is free the side of North where you can't pay to Ending a 200-pound bear's decided it was time to find a each month or on an "as­ and open to the public. get someone in, knowing fully well that I nightly ramblings through a new home for the bear. needed" basis. couldn't pay for him on that side, and subdivision required just a Steve Schneider, public Purdue University finance then had you tell me to go to the other trap and some tempting Inmates take swipe at information officer for the professor Laura Frieder will side, and then I just walked into the din­ bait: a honey bun and toilet paper cuts prison, said officials also deliver the lecture titled ing hall with him. That was wrong but bacon grease. HUTCHINSON, Kan. - restated restrictions on "Separating Up from Down: also surprisingly easy. For three nights, the bear Toilet paper is becoming a other personal items, New Evidence on the + To my Drawing I teacher: I never rummaged through sought after commodity at including soap and tooth­ Idiosyncratic Volatility - paid my $70 art fee from 2005. But I e­ garbage cans, climbed on the Hutchinson Correctional paste, as a result of stock­ Return Relation" Friday at mailed you about it and you never got porches and tore down bird Facility after oflicials began piling and overuse. 11:30 a.m. in 339 Mendoza as back to me. So I'm sorry, but I'm not feeders in the subdivision limiting inmates to one roll The increased enforce­ part of the Finance Seminar sorry at the same time, because we had outside Clarksburg, said at a time to trim costs. ment has angered many of Series. to buy all of our art supplies anyway. Gary Foster, a wildlife biolo­ Officials say the prison the more than 1,600 gist with the state Division has long had a limit, but inmates housed at the facil­ To submit information to be Thanks for letting me get that off my of Natural Resources. they !carried recently that it ity. included in this section of The chest. I feel a lot better now. Alarmed residents called hadn't been enforced. Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ Oh yeah, and thanks for reading the DNR. which advised Increased enforcement Information compiled mation about an event to CroissantWorld for the past two years them to leave the bear began this month. from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu blah blah I'll miss it blah blah I love Notre Dame etc., etc. I love all of you yadda etc. blah. TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and 0:: LLI not necessarily those of The Observer. ::c: Contact Adam Fairholm at !ci: afairhol@nd. edu LLI 3: .... 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While initially he had no inten­ classrooms has increased. Losses tion of taking the job, he said a Students in the communication conversation with members of and performance studies major Rossman named continued from page 1 his church caused a change of expressed their sadness at losing heart. Pauley, and many wish him well, become the vice chancellor of "I really felt that I needed to including junior Natalie Grasso. Information Technology and be open to that possibility, so I "Dr. Pauley has had a huge chief information officer at the went, and I was open and really impact on my academic experi­ top in senior class University of VIrginia at Wise, he felt that this was where God was ence at Saint Mary's," she said. said. The job's appeal grew, he leading me. So the rest, as they "Though I was disappointed to 2007 valedictorian will graduate with 4.0 said, with its added proximity to say, is history," he said. hear of his departure from the his family in Tennessee. While he is looking forward to College, I wish him all the best. Special to The 0 bserver Notre Dame's Center for Faculty and staff members his new job, he said he intends Eastern University is lucky to Social Concerns and served held a banquet yesterday to send to stay in contact with the Saint have such a talented professor Michael Rossmann, a dou­ as a volunteer at the Our Fowlkes, his wife and their two Mary's women that befriended and honorable man coming its ble major in theology and Lady of the Road Worker children off amid good luck him during his 16-year tenure at way." economics from Iowa City, Drop-In Center and Logan wishes and farewell hugs. the College. Sarah Barnes, a .sophomore Iowa, has been named vale­ Center in South Bend. Fowlkes said he will miss Saint "I hope that the relationships communication studies major, dictorian of the 2007 Notre He taught English in Mary's, especially the many that we have formed will tran­ also expressed how much she Dame graduating class and Uganda, where in 2005 he friends he made during his five­ scend the fact that I'm no longer would miss Pauley. will present the valedictory completed a program in year stint at the College. on faculty," Pauley said. "After my freshman year, I address during Development Studies at the "I hope I've helped Saint The administration was still actually transferred to Notre Commencement exercises at School for International Mary's to be a better place," he searching for a permanent Dame, but after a semester 2 p.m. May 20 in the Joyce Training in Kampala. He also said. "It's been an honor for me replacement Monday, he said, there and after many discussions Center arena. studied abroad in Morogoro, to serve the college community but it will appoint a temporary with Dr. Pauley, I decided to Rossmann earned a 4.0 Tanzania, and Krakow, at Saint Mary's. I wish the replacement for him in the inter­ transfer back to Saint Mary's," grade-point average and was Poland, where he completed College so much success in the im. Barnes said. "He was a huge fac­ a member of the Dean's List programs in the Kiswahili future. My thoughts and prayers The College's third loss, tor influencing me to come back each semester. He also is a and Polish languages, will be with you in the coming Plamondon, originally planned to SMC. I am very sad that he is member of Notre Dame's respectively. years. Thank you guys for being to retire at the end of this leaving, but I trust that he is Arts and Letters Honors Upon graduation, friends and colleagues." semester, but when she heard making a decision that is in his Program, International Rossmann plans to study for The department of communi­ that Pauley was retiring, she and his family's best interest. I Scholars Program sponsored the priesthood, joining the cation and performance studies decided to stay and teach one also trust that Saint Mary's will by the University's Kellogg Jesuits at the novitiate in St. must also deal with the loss of its more semester, Pauley said. do the best possible job in the Institute for International Paul, Minn. chair, Pauley, who will take a job With the loss of two of its best­ attempt to find a replacement Studies, Theology Honors The Commencement invo­ at Eastern University as the known professors, Pauley said, for Dr. Pauley, although that per­ Program, and Omicron Delta cation will be offered by department head of communica­ the department would be "in son will have very big shoes to Epsilon Economics Honors Carlin Hebert, a civil engi­ tion studies. trouble" if it didn't fmd suitable fill." Society. neering major from Pauley said he wasn't looking replacements in the near future, Among his service activi­ Bennington, Vt., who will for a new job, but that a friend as the demand for communica­ Contact Mandi Stirone at ties, Rossmann participated graduate with a 3.96 grade­ approached him with the offer. tion courses and the size of the astiroO 1 @saintmarys.edu in six seminars through point average.

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vision that reflects their values," his brother who is the head never had any political aspira­ visit his family and attend foot­ he said. football coach at LaPorte High tions. But after he became a ball games - and he hopes to Governor Schellinger said he believes School. partner in the architecture firm, talk to more students during his continued from page 1 his major contributions to the The campaign it was "a catalyst campaign, he said. state of Indiana will be to listen for the primary to help people Schellinger and his wife, should be doing better and to the problems and ideas of his elections, which "To put it simply, develop their core Laura, live in Indianapolis with should have better leadership," constituents. will be held in May Indiana ... should person" from a their three sons, Nick. John and Schellinger said. "Running for "I will put forth common 2008, has taken have better top administrative Zack. He is the sixth of eight governor is an opportunity to sense to solutions and tackle over his agenda position, he said. children and one of three that step out of my comfort zone and problems in order to unite the these days, leadership. " lie credited attended Notre Dame. llis take a greater social responsi­ state and move it forward," he Schellinger said. Notre Dame with brother, Joe, an alumnus, works bility." said. Even though Jim Schellinger helping him culti- at the University as director of He said he is prepared to give His campaign co-chairs are catering to the Democratic candidate vate social academic space management. Indiana what it needs to Indianapolis Mayor Bart needs of 6.4 mil­ responsibilities Schellinger's mother, Pat, for Indiana governor improve the state and obtain Peterson, U.S. Representative lion Indiana citi­ and a commit- worked at tHe University for 19 better leadership. Julia Carson of Indiana's sev­ zens keeps him ment to making years, he said. "One of my goals is making enth congressional district, for­ busy, he said that it is a "fun contributions to the community. sure I listen and I hear what mer Indiana House Speaker busy." Schellinger said he often Contact Amanda Gonzales at Hoosiers want. ... I reflect a John Gregg and Bob Schellinger, While growing up, Schellinger returns to his alma mater to [email protected]

would be highly problematic as it person that you just evaluated in the coach's introductory news more than those by any other relates to intercollegiate athlet­ that way is here for the long conference. "To the recruiting athletic director's in the coun­ White ics." term. It's very simple." gurus, he's among the very best try, receive an unwavering level continued from page 1 When asked last month if any in attracting talent even while of scrutiny. There are com­ A response's value commentators criticizing Weis' maintaining the highest SAT plaints by columnists and com­ committee, which includes the But there are other times when deal had asked if Willingham scores in the nation, he's a disci­ mentators, message board commissioners of the 11 Division a cost-benefit analysis says that received an extension, White plinarian whose players love posters and letter-writers about I-A conferences and White, who putting the effort into responding declined to comment on the issue him." everything from scheduling con­ is the only member representing to criticisms from afar isn't as a whole. Like in other cases, Those virtues were not ques­ siderations to basic word just one institution. worth the benefit. And most of White had to decide if defending tioned in 2004, but Willingham's choice. But that's what happens "What I tried to say to the the criticism of Notre Dame is Notre Dame - and himself­ ability to lead the Irish to football at the highest-profile athletic media on that given day is that directed at its football operation. from written or verbal attack success was. White walked a fme department in the nation. I'm not going to chase every White has sealed deals (either would only fuel the fire, or if a line between presenting a posi­ "To respond to every little issue because of the unique posi­ initial contracts or extensions) response could be worthwhile. tive image of the University while issue, all I would be doing all tion we're in, especially in the with four football coaches in his At least in part because of not unnecessarily insulting day long - I would be in a sport of football - we're sort of seven-plus years at Notre Dame Notre Dame's independent status Willingham. responding mode, I would be in in a conference of one - and it's - one with Bob Davie in 2000, and history of success, the "But I think I need to say, as I a defending mode. Sometimes if just not in our best interest for one with George O'Leary a year University is a large target for was thinking about it this morn­ you let yourself get into that me to take later, at least pundits, White recognized. ing, from Sunday through Friday, mindset, you fall into a state of strong positions one with Tyrone "I listen to the conversations on our football program has exceed­ paralysis. And we've got a lot of on lots of "... I'm not going to Willingham and the other side of the table. I ed all expectations in every way," things to do here," White said. issues," White two with Charlie knew how people felt about White said in the news confer­ "Our competitors are USC, said. "But if it's chase every issue We is. Notre Dame - I kind of had a ence to announce the firing. 'The Michigan, Syracuse. We've got an issue that because of the unique Some colum­ good sense before coming," academic performance is at a to spend our time and energy warrants a position we're in, nists criticized White said. "If I went public with fever pitch; it's never been better. on people to compete with. strong position, Notre Dame for everything I think or feel, it Tyrone has done some wonderful That's what I think our coaches I'll take it." especially in the sport signing a 10- wouldn't be very smart. It would things. try to do, and that's what I think For White, the offootball- we're year contract not be very bright." "But again, on Saturday, we our administrators have to do. benefit of his sort of in a conference extension with struggled. We've And not get into backing- and Weis in 2005 Public image at ND been up and down those conversa­ thus the force of of one - and it's just after he started But there have been times and sideways a tions when you the University's not in our best interest 5-2. They point­ when White has been forced into little bit, a little bit "Our competitors don't get a lot of support for me to take strong ed to a much more visible role, and for inconsistent. I are USC, Michigan, return on invest­ would have to Willingham's 8-0 an athletic director, that often think the program ment. Maybe outweigh the positions on lots start three years indicates hard times for a pro­ is closer than Syracuse. We've got that's an arrogant cost of respond­ of issues." earlier and said gram. In December 2001, after when he arrived, to spend our time way of saying it, ing and perhaps it was inconsis­ Notre Dame fmished 5-6 in foot­ and I think we and energy on but if there's not appearing defen­ Kevin White tent that Notre ball, White fired Davie as head were making a lot return on sive. Among the Dame would coach 12 months after signing progress, by my people to investment, I'm things that athletic director reward Weis and him to a multi-year extension. view and view of compete with. " not going to would meet his not Willingham. When White announced the University, just spend a lot of criteria for a But Notre O'Leary as a successor within 11 doesn't make time worrying Kevin White public response would be a chal­ Dame's contracts have mutual days of Davie's dismissal, things enough progress." about it." lenge to the tax-exempt status of confidentiality clauses, which seemed to be under control. But The "Sunday athletic director What he is wor­ university athletic departments. opens up possibilities of gray five days hence, O'Leary admit­ through Friday" ried about is After Alabama hired former areas and unannounced contract ted to lying on his resume - he comment struck increasing the Louisiana State and Miami details. For instance, Weis' falsely claimed to have earned a some both success of Notre Dolphins coach Nick Saban for a extension has been the subject of master's degree from New York inside and outside Notre Dame Dame's 26 sports teams - $4 million annual salary, interest great speculation, its total com­ University and said he was a circles - and critics of the school something that has happened about the possibility of revoking pensation estimated between three-year letterman on the New claimed it indicated the under his watch to a level never the not-for-profit status of college $20 million and $40 million. Hampshire football squad, University was compromising its before seen in school history. sports piqued in Congress. "I think all the indicators there though he only attended New academic values in pursuit of In 2006, Notre Dame finished Within a day of Saban's hiring, were when we hired Charlie - Hampshire for two years - and football success. an all-time best No. 6 in the White responded in a statement and certainly shortly thereafter promptly resigned. Since then, White has been Director's Cup, which measures about the fear of college sports - that he is going to be, I think, With national attention fixated vocal in his support for the job success based on point values losing its non-profit status. an outstanding college football on Notre Dame once again, Weis has done with the football for finishes in all NCAA sports. "At some point, there was coach. He is going to be a White issued a brief statement team on the academic side - the Notre Dame has won four some concern that the academy tremendous recruiter. And he on December 14, 2001. athletic department has boasted national titles under his leader­ itself, that the University, would­ really does all understand all the "I have accepted the resigna­ about all-time-high team GPAs ship - women's basketball in n't catch the virus from athletics uniqu~messes of Notre Dame, tion of George O'Leary as head under Weis. Nevertheless White's 2001, fencing in 2003 and 2005 ... and there might be some and he has the ability to market football coach at the University of words have been used against and women's soccer in 2004. attempt at Congressional inter­ the tradition and culture," White Notre Dame," White said in the him. The hockey team reached No. vention," White said, explaining said last month. "And if that's the statement. "George has acknowl­ But that's life as Notre Dame's 1 for the first time ever this sea­ his decision to vocalize his opin­ read you make, then you want to edged inaccuracies in his biogra­ athletic director. son, which was the second for ion on the issue. "If we were to protect your investment, and you phical materials, including his "Whenever you throw some­ coach Jeff Jackson. Women's lose our non-profit status ... it want to make darn sure that the academic background. I under­ thing out there, just because it's tennis has established itself as a stand that these inaccuracies Notre Dame, it's going to realize national power, and men's soc­ represent a very human failing, a pretty loud sound," White said. cer reached the national quar­ nonetheless, they constitute a "Had I been at Arizona State, we terfinals for the first time in ELIA~s breach of trust that makes it wouldn't be having this conver­ 2006. Football has been to Mediterranean Cuisine impossible for us to go forward sation. back-to-back BCS bowl games, with our relationship. "You make the very best deci­ and the men's and women's ------~~~~~------­ "I intend to restart our search sions that you can with all the swimming squads have com­ Open: Tues.-Sat. 11am-2pm & 4pm-9pm for a new head football coach information that's in front of you, bined for more than a dozen Big (Sun. and Mon. closed) immediately." and you just work really hard to East titles. It was the measured response make those decision work out in But challenges remain ahead, Dine-In • Take-Out • Catering that has became a trademark of a successful way and do every­ the biggest of which may be in ------~~~~~------­ White's tenure at Notre Dame. thing you can to support the terms of facilities. We offer: Shish Kebab, Shish Tawouk, Two weeks later, on Jan. 1, decision you made. That's what Vegetarian and Meat Grape Leave Rolls, 2002, White introduced you do because that's what your Part IV of the series will look Willingham as Notre Dame's new competitors are doing. This is not at White's "master plan" for Falafel, Hoummos, Tabouli, Meat Pie, Spinach Pie, coach. That marriage lasted for a precise or exact deeision-mak­ Notre Dame sports facilities, Baklawa and many delicious dishes ... three seasons, and White was ing profession. A lot of variables, and what the future may hold Our address: 115 Dixie Way North faced with another tough chal­ lots of elements to weigh in a for the athletic department and lenge. dedsion." White. (574) 277-7239 South Bend, IN 46637 "To the people at the NCAA Accepting reservations for graduation parties he's a man of impeeeable integri­ Worry about "our competitors" Contact Ken Fowler at ty." 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INTERNATIONAL NEWS IRAQ 5 al-Qaida terrorists jailed for life LONDON - Five al-Qaida-linked men were sentenced to life in prison Monday for plot­ Increased troops meet greater violence ting to bomb a nightclub, power plants and a company doing work in Iraq - a plan that 104 American troops killed in April in sixth deadliest month since start of war exposed links between their terror cell and the suicide bombers who attacked London's transit system in 2005. Associated Press The five, all British citizens, were convicted Monday of plotting to attack the London tar­ BAGHDAD - Five U.S. gets with bombs made from a half-ton stock­ troops died in weekend pile of fertilizer after a yearlong trial in attacks, pushing the death toll which prosecutors and an FBI informant past 100 in the deadliest claimed the group was linked to al-Qaida month for American forces leaders. It was Britain's longest terror case. since December, the military Surveillance teams tracking the five men said Monday as a wave of vio­ stumbled onto the transit attackers over a lence battered Iraqi civilians year before they killed 52 commuters on July including a suicide bombing 7, 2005, but officials failed to piece together at a Shiite funeral. intelligence in time to halt the blasts. , The attack against the mourners north of Baghdad Ohnert criticized over Lebanon war - claiming more than 30 JERUSALEM - In extraordinarily strong lives - was the deadliest in a language, a high-level investigative panel series of bombings and shoot­ sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister ings that killed at least 102 Ehud Olmert on Monday for "severe failure" people nationwide. in his handling of the war in Lebanon - a The rising toll for U.S. sol­ potentially fatal blow to his political survival. diers also pointed to a poten­ Whether Olmert can hang on to his job will tially deadly trend: More depend on how the Israeli people respond to troops exposed to more dan­ the panel's report, which blamed him for gers as they try to reclaim "hastily" rushing into a war the army was control of Baghdad. not prepared to wage - and that many All but one of the latest U.S. Israelis think emboldened the Jewish state's deaths occurred in Iraq's cap­ enemies. ital, where a nearly 11-week An expressionless Olmert stared straight security crackdown has put ahead and slumped against the back of his thousands of additional chair as the panel's chairman read the American soldiers on the report, which cited "a severe failure in the streets - making them tar­ lack of judgment, responsibility and cau­ gets for both Shiite and Sunni tion." extremists. After sunset, thunderous explosions rocked central Baghdad - apparently from NATIONAL NEWS rockets fired toward the U.S.­ controlled Green Zone. AP Bush still to veto withdrawal timetable Warning sirens sounded in Spc. Jeff Delaroy, 20, of the 1st Cavalry Division searches a building to determine the cause WASHINGTON - President Bush said the heavily protected district, of bombings Monday in Mosul. Monday he wants to work with Democrats on and witnesses saw smoke ris­ compromise legislation to pay for the Iraq war ing from the area. The U.S. Sunday in Anbar province, a but he is facing legislation by 50 miles north of Baghdad. but will carry through on his threat to veto any military said it had no imme­ Sunni insurgent stronghold the Democratic-led Congress The bomber walked into a spending bill that sets a timetable for U.S. troop diate information about dam­ west of the capital, the mili­ calling for U.S. troops to begin tent filled with mourners and withdrawal. age or casualties. tary said. withdrawing from Iraq by detonated a belt of explosives ''I'm optimistic we can get something done in a The rockets appeared to The deaths brought the Oct. 1. Bush has promised to hidden beneath his clothes, positive way," Bush said in a Rose Garden news come from a part of eastern number of American service veto the measure. police said. conference with leaders of the European Union. Baghdad where Shiite militia­ members killed in Iraq during While American casualties Attacks on funeral gather­ The bill, which Bush has long threatened to men operate. But the barrage April to 1 04 - eight fewer are rising, U.S. officials say ings are not uncommon. veto, was expected to reach his desk on Tuesday. suggested that Shiite gangs than December's toll of 112 the Baghdad crackdown has Suicide attacks are the hall­ The House and Senate voted last week to could be regrouping after and the sixth-highest figure reduced civilian deaths in the mark of Sunni religious approve the $124.2 billion measure, which also falling back when the for a single month since the capital since the security extremists, notably al-Qaida calls for troops to begin being pulled out in Baghdad security sweeps got war started in March 2003. operation was launched Feb. in Iraq. October. underway. Last week, the top U.S. 14. "I saw panicked people Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., In a statement Monday. the commander in Iraq, Gen. But figures compiled by running from outside the urged the president to reconsider his veto. U.S. command said three David Petraeus, warned in The Associated Press from tent," said a mobile telephone American soldiers and an Washington that "there is the police reports show a rise in dealer who was talking More offshore drilling to be allowed Iraqi interpreter were killed very real possibility" of civilian casualties outside the toward the tent when the WASHINGTON - The Interior Department by a roadside bomb the day intense combat in the coming capital, where extremists to bomber struck. "It was the announced a major expansion of offshore oil before in eastern Baghdad. months and "therefore, there refuge to avoid the Baghdad most horrible scene I ever and gas development Monday with proposed Another U.S. soldier was could be more casualties." operation. witnessed. I was shocked that lease sales covering 48 million new acres off killed Saturday by small arms President Bush has com­ Police said 32 people were somebody could commit this Alaska, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and in the fire in the same area, the mitted some 30,000 extra killed and 63 wounded when crime against people who central Atlantic offVrrginia. statement said. American troops to the secu­ a suicide bomber struck the were honoring a dead per­ The 3 million acres that are 50 miles off A Marine died in combat rity operation in Baghdad, Shiite funeral in Khalis, about son." Vrrginia's coast would require Congress to lift a long-standing drilling moratorium that has cov­ ered most ocean waters outside the western Gulf of Mexico for decades. The Democratic-con­ trolled Congress has given no indication it is will­ Tenet Revitalize Palastinian peace efforts ing to lift the longstanding moratorium.

Associated Press care about." Tensions between Iran and the "The Palestinian-Israeli peace United States have grown. The Bush NEW YORK - Former CIA Director process has to be resuscitated at some administration accuses Tehran of LOCAL NEWS George Tenet says the United States point," said Tenet, whose new mem­ helping destabilize neighboring Iraq needs to revitalize the Palestinian­ oir, "At the Center of the Storm," pro­ by supplying deadly weapons and stir­ 220 prisoners transfered after riot Israeli peace effort and do a better job vides details about his involvement in ring sectarian strife. On Monday, the NEW CASTLE, Ind. - Prison officials leveraging its own diplomatic and eco­ the peace talks during the Clinton State Department released a report have transferred a total of about 220 nomic strength to offset Iran's grow­ administration. saying that Iran remains the biggest inmates from the New Castle Correctional ing influence in the Middle East. Tenet said Monday that he worries supporter of terrorism around the Facility in the wake of Tuesday's riot, in In an interview with The Associated about Iranian influence for a number world, with elements of its govern­ part to free up room in segregation units Press, Tenet said discussions about of reasons, including Iran's sway over ment backing groups throughout the for inmates who took part in the distur­ Iraq need to be broadened to consider Syria and an influence in Palestinian Middle East. bance. the entire region - with an eye politics that affects Israeli security. Although recent tension has raised Eighteen inmates who had been in segre­ toward "cauterizing and minimizing" He said U.S. political, diplomatic and the prospect of a military confronta­ gation cells at the New Castle prison were Iranian political influence. economic strength is enormous - and tion between the United States and transferred to the Miami Correctional His to-do list for the Bush adminis­ can be used to offset Iranian influ­ Iran, Tenet said he could not recall Facility on Wednesday to free up space for tration is long: "Change the political ence. "We need to look at this region. that any senior Bush administration the inmates involved in the riot, said Ann dialogue. Create a better sense of Iraq's a problem. We are working officials were thinking along such Hubbard, a spokeswoman for that prison, hope for the region. Talk to the through a difficult environment lines when he stepped down in July which is near Kokomo, officials said. regional partners about issues they today," he said. 2004 after seven years as spy chief. page 6 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, May 1, 2007

the younger Negret brother had to ly," Daniel said. Though the narra­ do. Though he didn't have any have any new projects planned for return to campus to prepare for tive is fictionalized, the film is a major celebrity encounters, he said the near future. Festival final exams. The judging of the symbolic account of the "human Elijah Wood and Eva Longoria "We want to see how our first continued from page 1 competition will take place Friday. side of a kidnapping," according to were both premiering movies that film does first ... economically, The film's production was a two­ the film's Web site. weekend as well. emotionally," he said. "Our goal is the films they produce. and-a-half-year-long process, The film's shoot lasted 24 days on "It was a bit surreal, being to make more films eventually." "Towards Darkness" is Negret Daniel said, but the concept began location in Panama. Daniel Negret there," he said. To accomplish everything neces­ Films' first production. It was one long before - when his 'older couldn't be on location because it The brothers hope a studio will sary to make the film took a lot of of 4,500 submissions to Tribeca brother was still in college. conflicted with his classes, but he pick up the film, which also stars work, Daniel Negret said the com­ and was among the 18 chosen to "Towards Darkness," a bilingual flew to Los Angeles various times Tony Plana of "Ugly Betty" and pany needed "a lot of contacts" in compete in its category, which also film, follows the kidnapping of a throughout the production. David Sutcliffe of "Gilmore Girls," the film industry just to get people features a film produced by young man (played by Roberto He flew to New York Friday night at the festival. to read the script. Leonardo DiCaprio, called Urbina) in Colombia and is "the for the premiere, and said he "tried On Sunday, critics and potential "As unrealistic as it sounds, "Gardener of Eden." story of what a family goes to keep [his] expectations at a real­ buyers had a press and industry sometimes you just need to pursue "It was exciting to be a part of through," Daniel Negret said. istic level." screening of "Towards Darkness." it." Daniel Negret said of his child­ something that also included some­ The brothers were able to land "I saw a lot of people at the cine­ The critical reviews have not yet hood dreams. "We didn't know thing made by one of the greatest Ferrera as the female lead before ma on line and then was so excited. been released, but Daniel Negret whether or not to go through with actors of our generation," Daniel she gained national recognition on The premiere sold out. They even said the audience reaction - it because of money, but sometimes Negret said. the ABC sitcom. had to refund some people," he which was "fabulous and very you just have to hold your breath The festival, founded by Robert "Towards Darkness" deals with a said. emotional"- was "as good as it and jump." De Niro, will continue throughout reality that is very personal to the He and his brother walked the gets and everything we have ever the week. Antonio Negret and his Negret family and is inspired by red carpet into the cinema, some­ wanted." Contact Jenn Metz at parents are still in New York, but "experiences we shared as a fami- thing he said he never expected to He said Negret Films does not jmetzl @nd.edu Weddings continued from page 1

be married in the Basilica during what would have been their senior spring semester. They decided to wait so they could be "financially independent" of their parents, who supported the couple's idea to get married, Miller said. And, Miller said, their parents have continued to support them even after MIV unveiled a show docu­ menting the troubles faced by engaged couples under 22 years old. "Our families were surprised but they know that we know what This way u we're doing," Miller said, "The I· show 'Engaged and Underage' I t came out a week after we were I I engaged, but that's the opposite of I what we are - we have an obvi­ ous calling to each other." Amiri and Miller plan to be mar­ ried in the Basilica, one of three venues available for weddings at Notre Dame, according to Basilica Wedding Coordinator Amy Huber. "Campus weddings may only be performed in the Basilica, the Lady Chapel [inside the Basilica], and the Log Chapel," Huber said. Students, alumni, and staff - people with an "association with Notre Dame"- are the only ones allowed to get married in the Basilica, Huber said. While she fields many calls from seniors and Start at Ernst &Young, and your career is headed in graduate students, most weddings the right direction. With our award-winning training in the Basilica involve alumni. "I think the reason why most programs, you'll have the resources you need to alumni chqose to get married here enhance your skills. It's an environment that is because Notre Dame is close to their heart and a lot of times this is promotes your personal and professional growth where they have made that con­ nection with that special some­ and success. So there's only one way to go-up. one," Huber said. Visit us on campus or at ey.comjusjcareers. Interested couples are also advised to book early, Huber said. She schedules weddings a year or LLI f:C)RTUNE~ more in advance - while 2008 has "a few dates open," 2007 is 100 BEST "totally booked." COMPANIES~ Undergraduate students who choose to marry cannot remain in TO WORK FOR~ their residence halls, according to z Molly O'Neill, rector of University Village, which provides housing for married students. Students that are engaged but not married are allowed to remain in their dorms. 0 "Undergraduate residence halls are intended for single students," O'Neill said. "Students who get married are therefore invited to move to University Village, to live among a wide variety of student families." Married students who decide to live in University Village are sub­ ject to similar conditions and rules as residence halls, but also benefit from events catering to married students, O'Neill said. "We also follow many of the same rules that undergraduate dorms follow - except parietals, of course," O'Neill said.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007 USINESS page 7 MARKET RECAP Wolfowitz has no plans to resign Dow 13,062.91 -58.03 jones World Bank president says he acted transparently in securing girlfriend's promotion Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Ptess 1,387 160 1,815 2,757,310,313 WASHINGTON - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz decried what he NASDAQ 2,525.09 -32.12 called a "smear campaign" NYSt 2~tattl:l!liilil'liili~ilil~ll~·lmll~!!lllllll~lllllllijillll against him Monday and told S&P 500 l ,482.37 -11.70 a bank panel he had acted in good faith in securing a pro­ 1 1 NIKKEI(J"okyo) ~i> f1]4.oo;iillll 1!1(1 ~~~~~~~~ motion and pay raise for his FTSE IOO(London) 6,449.20 -20.20 girlfriend. He said had no plans to resign, and COMPANY %CHANGE I $GAIN I PRICE President Bush gave him a S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) fresh endorsement. -0.83 -1.24 148.29 In a statement prepared POWERSHARES (QQQQ) -1.31 -0.61 45.96 for the panel. Wolfowitz said ISHARE RUS 2000 (IWM) -2.11 -1.74 80.74 the institution's ethics com­ mittee had access to all the LEVEL 3 COMM (LVLT) -3.47 -0.20 5.56 details surrounding the MICROSOFT CP (MSFT) -0.60 -0.18 29.94 arrangement involving bank employee Shaha Riza, "if Treasuries they wanted it." 10-YEAR NOTE -I .45 -0.068 4.630 Wolfowitz told the panel, "I 13-WEEK BILL -1.46 -0.070 4.725 acted transparently, sought and received guidance from 30-YEAR BOND -1.39 -0.068 4.817 the bank's ethics committee 5-YEARNOTE -1.66 -0.076 4.516 and conducted myself in good faith in accordance Commodities with that guidance." LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) -0.75 65.71 The special bank panel is GOLD ($!Troy oz.) +1.70 683.50 investigating Wolfowitz's PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) +0.58 I 03.48 handling of the 2005 promo­ tion and pay package of Riza, Excha Rates who was assigned to duties YEN 119.4750 at the State Department to EURO 0.7325 avoid a conflict of interest. Riza, who appeared before POUND 0.5000 the panel late in the day, said CANADIAN$ 1.1097 she didn't want to move in the first place and wasn't sat­ p.p isfied with the arrangement. World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is under investigation for promoting and giving a raise "I continue to believe that I to his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, shown above in a photo released Aprilll.. IN BRIEF should not have been asked to leave and that I was calls for the resignation of campaign, I believe, is to cre­ did not come up during a unjustly treated for reasons Wolfowitz, who was an ate a self-fulfilling prophecy U.S.-European Union meet­ Supreme Court sides with Microsoft that I had no control over architect of the Iraq war in that I am an ineffective ing at the White House. The WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sided and still do not understand," his previous job at the leader and must step down European Parliament has with Microsoft Corp. on Monday, finding that she said in a statement to the Pentagon. The bank's 24- for that reason alone, even if called on Wolfowitz to resign. U.S. patent law doesn't apply to software sent panel. She also defended her member board is expected to the ethics charges are As part of his defense, to foreign countries. pay. make a decision this week. unwarranted," Wolfowitz Wolfowitz, among other In a 7-1 decision, the court rejected AT& T's "I should not be singled out Bush, meanwhile, said said. things, cited a Feb. 28, 2006, position that it is entitled to damages for every for isolated finger-pointing Wolfowitz "ought to stay. He "I will not resign in the face letter that he characterized Windows-based computer manufactured out­ when my salary level is with­ ought to be given a fair hear­ of a plainly bogus charge of as showing that bank's ethics side the United States using technology that in the same range as staff in ing." conflict of interest," he said. committee had looked at the compresses speech into computer code. my grade level who were not Wolfowitz contended that As to his future leadership, arrangement. The telecom company had said computers forced to leave their jobs," the controversy over the pay Wolfowitz said: "only when The panel's chairman, Ad running the Windows operating system Riza said. She said the package was part of an effort the cloud of these unfair and Melkert, said in the letter infringe on AT&T technology for a digital "media circus" over the issue to oust him from the office, untrue charges is removed, that an allegation relating to speech coder system. has done "significant harm to which he has held for nearly will it truly be possible to "a matter which had been The decision could impact other lawsuits my career, my personal well­ two years. The institution's determine objectively previously considered by the against Microsoft and save the company bil­ being and my prospects to mission is to fight global whether I can be an effective committee did not contain lions because of the global scope of its opera­ continue the work I love." poverty. leader of the World Bank." new information warranting tions. The controversy has led to "The goal of this smear Bush said Wolfowitz's fate any further review." The Supreme Court said software should be treated like exported blueprints and schemat­ ics, to which U.S. patent law does not apply. The court cannot say that Congress intended "to place the information Microsoft dispatched from the United States in a separate category" Consumer spending weak as gas surges from blueprints, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion. "The presump­ Associated Press "People spent more in March but large gains in May, the second­ tion that United States law governs domesti­ may be enjoying it less as the rising quarter consumption number is cally but does not rule the world applies with WASHINGTON Consumer price of energy is cutting into what practically guaranteed to be awful," particular force in patent law." spending rose at the weakest pace they actually take home," said Joel said Stephen Stanley, chief econo­ in five months in March as a surge Naroff, chief economist at Naroff mist at RBS Greenwich Capital. He Delta exits bankruptcy protection in gasoline prices left shoppers with Economic Advisors, a private con­ predicted that consumer spending ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines Inc. wawed little left over for other items. sulting firm. will rise at an annual rate of farewell to bankruptcy protection Monday and The Commerce Department On Wall Street, the Dow Jones around 1 percent, far below the 3.8 put down a welcome mat for a redesigned logo reported Monday that consumer industrial average fe·ll 58.03 points percent rate of spending growth in after surviving a hostile takeover bid during a spending on all items was up 0.3 to close at 13,062.91. But even with the January-March quarter. 19 1/2-month reorganization that saw it shed percent last month, the slowest the loss on the final trading day of Stanley said such a sluggish billions in costs. increase since a similar rise in the month, the Dow still posted a growth rate for consumer spending, The board of directors of the Atlanta-based October. That lackluster gain came 5. 7 percent gain for all of April, its which accounts for two-thirds of company will now turn its attention to picking even though personal incomes rose best peformance since April 2003, total economic activity, will trans­ a new leader to replace outgoing Chief by a healthy 0. 7 percent last as investors put aside worries late into overall economic growth Executive Gerald Grinstein and deciding month. about weak economic growth to as measured by the gross domestic whether to sell or spin off regional feeder car­ The spending performance in focus instead on strong corporate product of slightly above 2 percent rier Comair. March was even weaker when the earnings reports. in the current April-June quarter. Grinstein, 74, said in an interview during a effects of higher gasoline prices The weaker-than-expected con­ The government reported last bankruptcy exit celebration at Delta's head­ were removed. After adjusting for sumer spending report on Monday week that the GOP expanded at an quarters that he expects choosing a successor price increases, consumer spending added to worries that the economy anemic 1.3 percent annual rate in for him to be the first priority for the board. actually fell by 0.2 percent in could be in danger of stalling out if the January-March quarter, the He said he believes the board, which consists March, the poorest showing since consumer confidence falters further weakest showing in four years, of seven new members, will spend May getting September 2005 when the economy in the face of rising gasoline prices raising new worries about the acquainted with the candidates and make a was suffering the aftershocks of and a slumping housing market. durability of the current five-year­ decision sometime after that. Hurricane Katrina. "Unless spending posts unusually old economic expansion. ------

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Proud of strides made by gender-relations committee

Dear Members of the Notre Dame tled Sex and the City of God, used an History special assistant to the President Community: episode of the popular television series Eileen Botting, assistant professor, Gregory Floyd, student In April 2006, I formed an ad hoc Sex and the City, to bring Catholic teach­ Political Science Madison Liddy, student committee to foster a wide-ranging dis­ ing into conversation with contemporary John Cavadini, department chair and Madeleine Ryland, student cussion on our campus of gender rela­ issues of sexual morality, feminism and associate professor, Theology Anamaria Scaperlanda-Ruiz, student tions, roles and ways to prevent violence relationships between women and men. Ann Firth, associate vice president, Danielle Thomson, student against women. The committee dis­ Taken together and in conjunction Student Affairs Emily Weisbecker, student cussed, and various members of the with offerings of various departments M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy As we approach the end of this aca­ committee helped plan and produce, such as the Gender Relations Center, I Foundation professor, Law School; pro­ demic year, committee members believe three events. In November, the student­ believe these initiatives were valuable in fessor, Theology there is still work to do. At our last produced play Loyal Daughters contributing to a deeper awareness of Jean Ann Linney, vice president and meeting, the consensus of the committee addressed issues of sexual assault and the tragic reality of sexual violence, a associate provost; professor, Psychology was that the group should continue its other forms of sexual coercion that more serious engagement with ques­ Carolyn Nordstrom, professor, work for another year, building on the affect members of the Notre Dame com­ tions of sexual morality, and a greater Anthropology successes of this year. I concur. We will munity. In February, two events were openness to addressing questions and Ava Preacher, assistant dean, College of continue the work of the committee for presented. The Edith Stein Project host­ issues with the resources of both reason Arts and Letters another year, replacing some members ed a two-day conference, Toward and faith guided by the Catholic tradi­ Kathleen Pyne, professor, Art, Art who are graduating ur, for other rea­ Integral Healing for Women and Culture, tion. I am proud of the efforts of the History and Design sons, can no longer serve. focused on ways in which victims of vio­ committee as it worked together, shar­ Heather Rakoczy, director of Gender My thanks as well to everyone in the lence may be healed, extending its dis­ ing perspectives and plans. My sincere Relations Center, Student Affairs community who contributed to these dis­ cussion to the healing of all who are thanks go to the members of this com­ Dayle Seidenspinner-Nuiiez, associate cussions. negatively impacted by a social context mittee for their commitment and serv­ dean, College of Arts and Letters; pro­ In Notre Dame, which promotes eating disorders, ice. I chaired the committee, and its fessor, Romance Languages and pornography and sexual violence. Later members are the following: Literatures Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. in that month, a panel discussion, enti- Gail Bederman, associate professor, Frances L. Shavers, chief of staff and University President

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EURO~OGICAt. Society has progressed toward Dey Bones PQOSL.EM ------.. rejecting conformity EUROPE HAS JUST ... AN ISLAMIC WARNED THE TURKISH TAKEOVER ~ These days, it's tempting to think individualism is The cynics say TV continually promotes the dead here in corporate America. Spend a few min­ homogenization of American culture. They used to ARMY NOT TO MODERN SECULAR utes on the Quad and you can't help but notice all be right. Almost all our grandparents watched "I PREVENT ... TURKEY/! the North Face jackets and the Ugg boots. And of Love Lucy." Almost all our parents watched "The course, don't forget the white earphones wrapped Brady Bunch." But thanks to cable TV, most of us around people's heads, signify- watched a list of shows so long there isn't enough ing their status as iPod Zac Cummings room on this page to print them. We weren't groupies. On first thought, you spoon-fed one or two messages. We had a buffet to might think the "i" in iPod rep- Daily Orange choose from. resents individualism. But if you While we're talking about media, let's not forget consider the millions of other people sporting the the Internet, specifically pages like MySpace and same device, you'll quickly change your mind. Facebook. Sure, we all feel pressured to join the The cynics see all this, too. The problem is they same network, but we can customize our own cor­ see only this, while ignoring how different people ner of it however we'd like. The "About Me" sec­ are today compared to past generations. There tion of my Facebook profile is chock-full of my was a time, a few generations ago, when all the favorite quotes and snippets of poetry I've written. girls wore dresses and headbands and all the guys Even the insidious world of iLife contributes to wore slacks and dress shirts. True, not everyone our own individualism. iTunes allows us to access REMEMBER WHEN WE was wearing the same designer label, but almost a greater array of music than any previous genera­ WERE WORRIED THAT everyone wore the same style. Thankfully, that's tion ever dreamed of. We can tailor our iPod not true today. playlists to our exact tastes and rock out to the TURKEY WOULD MAKE There was a time, a few decades ago, when drug beat of our own bass line. EUROPE ISLAMIC .. use was not only cool and common, it was also Members of our generation not only have more expected. If you didn't smoke dope, then you freedom to be ourselves, but we can prove it, too. weren't an individual. You were a goody-two-shoes Unlike past generations, we won't have trouble loser. If you couldn't play an instrument- specifi­ identifying our differences. Our greatest challenge cally, the guitar- you weren't called an individual. will be identifying- and building upon- our sim­ You were called an outcast. True, people weren't ilarities. all buying weed and guitars from the same person or store, but a lot of people were buying them. This column first appeared in the April 30 Thankfully, that's not true today. edition of the Daily Orange, the daily newspaper at You might say the same is true today of alcohol. Syracuse University But I disagree. I've always been surprised by the The views expressed in this column are those of number of straight-edge people on campus and the the author and not necessarily those of The level of acceptance they receive from their peers. Observer. DryBonesBiog.com

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'Samurai' simply The good, the Films stunning cinema bad and the ugly have uni

There comes a time in every art. There are a lot of good movies too, and the movie wasn't the hit I didn't arrive at Notre Dame man's life when he realizes that As a disclaimer, I am going into coming out this summer, the studio thought it would be. as a film student, but I leave as only his friends read what he what is called "auteur" theory in "Spiderman 3," "Shrek 3," And now they're making a sec­ one. writes and everyone else ... well, the biz of film studies, which - Pirates 3," "Transfi>rmers" - ond one? Do we need to see People have said that I'm they just don't care. - for those of you who know me- and the list goes on. more bad writing, poor effects obsessed with cinema, and These are the life I think is mostly a load Its another summer and lame acting tar­ they're right - but and times of an assis- of horse dung. of sequels (it seems nishing the genre of why not? What other tant scene editor at Kurosawa, however, like every summer is superhero movies? medium speaks to us The Observer. Some restores my faith that the summer of Unfortunately, the with such force and people have devoted . cinema can be master- sequels these days, answer is yes. power? It evokes most of their college fully done as both an which makes you emotion with such career to this paper, art form in style and wonder ifthere's any "Underdog" (Aug. 3) clarity and vigor that whereas I made out pleasurable in story. creativity left in This remake of the we are moved. No like a stowaway and The samurai master not Hollywood}, many of old television show other medium is jumped onboard only only composes and cuts which will bring sto­ where a dog receives capable, on such a this year. The experi- shots together well, but rylines to an end that super powers already consistent basis, of have been in progress promises to be a ence has been fun, Marty he knows how to weave Sean Sweany making us laugh or heartwarming and all Schroeder an engaging yarn that for years, perhaps smash hit - in cry - or to make us around scene-tastic. shifts from drama, to even as long as some Disney's pocket book. react in fear or anger of us have been in Assistant While the original car­ Working for the best, Assistant humor, to tragedy and Scene Editor or disgust. yet oft ignored section Scene Editor all those little emotional college. toon was fun, and I'm often asked if Senior. in the paper has nooks and crannies in While these will sometimes even funny, studying film as a Wri made me realize that between. surely pull in billions this look's like it will discipline has inured a good graphic goes a long way If I sound like a fan-boy, it's of combined dollars and domi­ have fairly mediocre computer me to it; if rigorous and not everyone will agree with because I am a fan-boy. The nate news headlines (see tomor­ graphics and a storyline filled and detailed examinations of you. three-disc set of "Seven Samurai" row's Scene section), I would with so many spoofs that it'll get movies I love have made it One of the foremost jobs of any may be one of the best DVD like to take this chance to inform lost alortg the way. impossible for me to simply Scene writer is to review DVDs. releases, well, ever. The people readers of some other, lesser­ enjoy them. I've reviewed some good ("THX who run the Criterion Collection known sequels premiering this "Daddy Day Camp" (Aug. 10) If anything, it's been the 1138," "Patton") and some bad know what they are doing and summer that "could" be just as This sequel to 2003's "Daddy opposite- I've spent much of ("Stick It," "Night at the have set the benchmark in film to worthy of our money as any of Day Care" brings back none of my time here watching films, Museum"}. That being said, there DVD transfers. the "tentpole" movies coming the main original cast, instead reading about films and writing is one DVD I never reviewed, but My time at the Scene section of out in the next month. placing Cuba Gooding Jr. in about films, all of which has wish I had. It is a Criterion The Observer now comes to a Eddie Murphy's role as the boss only deepened my apprecia­ release (read: "totally badass if close but I would like to leave "Surf's Up" (June 8) of a Day Camp for kids. Fred tion. As with most things, you're a nerd like I am"), and it The Observer with a few parting Maybe this isn't exactly the Savage (yes, that Fred Savage) understanding how something comes from the one and only words. sequel to "Happy Feet," but it's directs what should be a poor works only adds to the intrigue master of the samurai film - the In the immortal lines of close enough. Hero, animated sequel to what was originally and sense of wonder - seeing oft-impersonated, never-duplicat- Emmett "Doc" Brown, "And so, penguins will compete at the quite an entertaining film. a particularly well-made film ed Akira Kurosawa and his leg- The Observer, I now say farewell Penguin World Surfing can be a breathtaking experi­ endary :·seven Samurai." and wish you Godspeed. You've Championships in what is being Hopefully this list will help ence. This three-disc set was given to been a good, kind and loyal termed an animated mockumen­ the discerning moviegoer There are few things more me one Christmas, and it is one friend to me, and you made a tary. Shia LeBouf (who's in pret­ keep in mind ALL of the magical than being swept away of the best gifts you could give a real diflerence in my life. I will ty much every movie these days) sequels coming to theaters by a great movie. I can remem­ cinema buff- ever. The film is always treasure our relationship voices the lead surfer penguin in this summer and maybe even ber sitting in theaters watching spread across two DVDs, restor- and think on you with fond mem- what is the third or fourth pen­ help whittle down the list to films like "Children of Men," ing the flick to the glory it had ories, warm feelings and a spe- guin movie to come out in the what needs to be seen in the­ "The Departed," "300" and when first released. cial place in my heart. Your last few years. I'll admit that aters ("Underdog," anyone?) "Eternal Sunshine of the If you take an introductory friend in time, Marty Schroeder." penguins are cool animals, but - and what might be a more Spotless Mind" with a sense of course on filmmaking and then Whoever knew I could write this has seriously gone too far. of a wait-for-it-to-come-out­ awe, while I thought to myself, watch this film - your enhanced something so touching. on-video thing. "There are men and women appreciation would make it like "Fantastic Four: Rise of the out there who made this." Men watching Pollack paint or The views expressed in this Silver Surfer" (June 15) The views expressed in this and women who dreamed of a Beethoven conduct. It is like column are those of the author I'll admit, I haven't seen the column are those of the great picture, and found a way watching a genius that has a and not necessarily those of first movie, but that's because it author and not necessarily to make it reality. knowledge of the cinema that The Observer. looked really, really awful. those of The Observer. When I interviewed leg­ moves beyond mere technicality Contact Marty Schroeder at Pretty much ev'ery critic in Contact Sean Sweany at endary cinematographer and enters an arena that we call mschroe 1@nd. edu American seemed to think so ssweany@nd. edu Haskell Wexler earlier this

MATI HUDSON/Observer Graphic MATI HUDSON/Observer Graphic "Patton" and "Seven Samurai" are two films that fall into the Along with movies such as "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and The unique viewpoint afforded an f category of classics, and both films approach an art form. "Spiderman 3," this summer's lineup will inevitably include busts. films such as "Children of Men" a~ THE OBSERVER

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dents Criticism proves a The movies ue view• hard pill to swallow that shape us

mester, he told me that it's Criticism is a dangerous dish - they address any actual problems As far back as I can remem­ Sandlot," it captures the that so many great it's easy to serve, but hard to with the article. ber, movies have been the lan­ never-ending wonders of lms are made every year- digest. As college students at Notre guage I've never been able to childhood innocence. It was d he's right. We are fortu­ The biggest element of writing Dame, it's nice to think that kind of unlearn. Over the years, I have the film I watched on repeat because the golden age of for Scene is being a critic - mak­ childish behavior would have had my fair share of dialects for afternoons on Bnd. (I can't cinema is not behind ing personal judg­ ceased by now. go in one ear and out say the same for its us in some distant ments and assess­ The hardest event<> to the other. But more two billion sequels.) mystical world, it's ments and conveying review are those that than English, Hindi, + "The here and now. those to the readers. take place on campus, Telegu and Spanish Shawshank It's not unfath­ As with any subjective since negative criticism - all tongues I can Redemption" omable to me that in opinion, there are a can be taken personally (or could at one time) (1994) a hundred years peo­ lot of people who dis­ and not objectively. The speak fluently- film I ·have yet to meet ple will watch the agree with our views. difference between has become one of a person who dis­ films being made We frequently run reviewing a campus my fluencies, as it is likes this gem, which today, turn to each multiple reviews of a event and reviewing a for millions of others. is a rare distinction. other and say, "Wow single movie since we movie, however, is that More than the No movie holds the ... they sure don't recognize divergence the makers of "Robin words of any particu­ Ram a human spirit more Erin McGinn lar region, film has highly than this one. make 'em like that of opinion, even with­ Hood" aren't likely to Gottumukkala anymore." in our staff. read my review at all­ been the most useful It's the very defini­ I didn't arrive at One of the biggest Assistant let alone take it as a per­ and effective cognate tion of a modern Notre Dame as a film lessons that I have Scene Editor sonal attack. When it's a in my life, one that Senior Scene classic, a film that student, but I leave learned in working as campus event that bridges the barriers Writer will be talked about as one -I don't just a staff member is how you've taken part in, of culture, class and for decades to come. mean the kind of to deal with criticism and backlash however, it's easy to take the particularly lan- + "Fight Club" udent that sits in a classroom regarqmg stories I have written. smallest amount of criticism per­ guage. {1999) takes tests. I mean the kind Generally speaking, the most feed­ sonally. To say I was raised as a No movie speaks to teenage student who learns from the back that I have received has been But this should not happen. global child would not be rebellion quite like David who understands and through e-mail (and once, Much like the rabid Kellie Pickler much of an exaggeration. I Fincher's dark masterpiece. orn.on£>·""' its power, who Viewpoint). These tend to directly fans, calling someone a "slow-wit­ was born in India, raised in Those looking for pointers on in its endless capabili­ address specific problems or ted numbskull" doesn't actually England and matured in how to win a fistfight are and (most importantly) its debate a point within an article. address complaints against an America. All told, I've called missing the point. Edward to inspire us to dream. It's amazing though how often individual article. 10 different cities home on Norton's conflicted but well­ once said that the - and how easily- criticism can So as we seniors go out and three continents. Now, on the intentioned protagonist is the a is life. I believe this to transform from a constructed enter the world, there's one lesson eve of graduation, I'm set to star of the show, despite how true, even more now than I argument against a piece of writ­ that I would like to make sure all find a new home. close Brad Pitt's smoldering id when I arrived at Notre ing and into a personal attack. Notre Dame graduates carry with To mark the occasion, here's Tyler Durden comes to steal­ four years ago. I believe We've all seen it happen on the them- gracefully accept criti­ a look back at a few films that ing it. the power of cinema, and I grade school playground where cism. If a boss or a co-worker mattered to me. + "The lord of the Rings" ow that there are men and arguments quickly devolved into doesn't like your report, that does­ + "Mr. India" {1987) {2001-2003) out there who believe scathing attacks of "well, you're n't mean that you should go and Think "Indiana Jones" meets I was 14 when I saw my first I do - men and women with fat!" or "so, you're stupid!" write graffiti in the bathroom. "Inspector Gadget." My par­ "Star Wars" film. As a result, I like Coppola, Fincher, A quick and easy Google search Instead, learn, listen and respect ents inspired me with their tragically missed the golden fsky, Nolan and Cuaron. will lead to one of American Idol the opinions of others - even if deep love for Indian cinema, hour in my childhood for one Men and women who believe Kellie Pickler's fansites, on whose they aren't the same as your own. and this story of a 30-year-old of the cinema's great fantasy d dream that there's still message boards one of my reviews And if you disagree, then find con­ man who looks after orphaned epics. Fortunately, Peter e magic dust left in that old has been quite unpopular. structive ways to make your own children is the optimistic per­ Jackson's epic filled that gap­ screen, and if there is, Although I positively reviewed her voice heard - without resorting to son's "Oliver Twist." Both ing hole nicely, sweeping us at they're determined to album, the uber-fans misunder­ attacking another person. rousing and heartwarming, it away on an epic adventure tch it and mold it and bring it stood many comments in my After all, we are heading out continues to remind me of my that felt as real and tangible life. review and retorted with lots of into the real world - not to heritage, no matter how far I as the one in George Lucas' Believe it. negative feedback. A few are legit­ recess. may travel from it. far-flung galaxy. imate comments, while the rest + "The land Before Time" The views expressed in this have simply mocked me for my The views expressed in this {1988) The views expressed in this or:tii'.IJ."''" are those of the author apparent lack of understanding column are those of the author Yes, the death of Littlefoot's column are those of the author d not necessarily those of about the music industry, or that and not necessarily those of The mother traumatized me, like and not necessarily those of The Observer. the article came from a student Observer. Mufasa's plummet would a few The Observer. Contact Brian Doxtader at newspaper. These insults don't Contact Erin McGinn at years later. But more than any Contact Rama Gottumukkala 'bdoxtade@nd. edu actually solve anything, nor do emcginn@nd. edu other movie outside of "The at rgottumu@nd. edu

MATI HUDSON/Observer Graphic MATI HUDSON/Observer Graphic MATT HUDSON/Observer Graphic major affects the way great l;ven within the protective environment of the Notre Dame bubble, Films like "Fight Club" and "The Shawshank Redemption" are "300" are seen. harsh criticism of musicians - and critics - is a fact of life. more than just flicks - they can shape who we truly become. .I '. I page 12 The Observer + CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday, May 1, 2007

CLUB SPORTS Irish spring teams wrap up regular seasons

Special to The Observer road race were held Saturday The fell to the back of the peloton and seconds between themselves and 8-6 lead at the half. But the road race finish was on top of finished outside of placing. second-place Northwestern Buckeyes controlled the second Sailing Bean Blossom Hill, rated the Perricone and Johnson started the (7:34.9). The first novice eight also half and prevailed 15-10, despite For the first time in over a toughest climb in Indiana by Women's 'N criterium and fell on· won their petite final over Dayton, strong play from Chris O'Neill. decade, Notre Dame qualified for Bicycling magazine. In the men's the fast pace early. They chased Miami, Butler and Northwestern. Notre Dame finished tied for fifth the National Championships by fin­ 'B' race, Ty Baker competed and hard, but were pulled towards the in the conference, ending the sea­ ishing second in a tough 11-team finished with the pack. end of the race and unable to fin­ Uttimate son with a 32-19 record. field to earn one of two automatic Meghan Johnson and Jenn ish. This weekend Notre Dame trav­ This weekend, the Notre Dame bids. Perricone lined up for the elite Campbell, Steves and Prygoski eled to Rantoul, Ill., to compete in women team played in their The Irish fought tough battles in women's 'N race. Johnson finished took the line in the 65-minute elite the Great Lakes Regional Regional qualifYing tournament in both divisions. In the 'N division outside of placing, and Perricone men's 'N criterium. Prygoski took Tournament of the UPA College Rantoul, Ill. The tournament fea­ Saturday, Irish skipper John Dailey came just short of scoring points in lOth, while also collecting a prime Series to compete for a spot at the tured the top 12 teams in the began with crew Ali Donahue. But 21st place. sprint and securing his spot as the national championships. Great Lakes region, with the win­ as the breeze built, heavier crews Andy Steves, Matt Prygoski, top rider in Notre Dame's division. The Irish were the seventh seed ner of this tournament advancing Jaci Chase and Joe Peris rotated in Mike Lavery, Neil Griggs and Tim Steves raced well, finishing 16th. in the 16-team field, but failed to to the Ultimate Players Association to help deal with the 20-knot Campbell took the line in the 65- with Campbell behind him just qua.lilY for nationals after two loss­ National Championship in winds. 'B' Division skipper Tim rider, 60-mile 'A' race field. The out<>ide of placing. es in the double elimination tour­ Columbus, Ohio. Roy began Saturday's racing sail­ race consisted of four laps of a 15- nament. Notre Dame played in five games ing with Kerry Kilbourn, but went mile circuit, requiring the riders to Men's Rowing Play started Saturday with a Saturday during pool aetion. The to the heavier Chris May as the climb Bean Blossom four times Based on its performance rematch against sectional oppo­ wind proved to be a tough oppo­ day progressed. during the race along with another through this past weekend, all live nent Northwestern. Notre Dame nent all day, with upwind break At the conclusion of first day, tough climb in the middle of the of Notre Dame's boat<> qualified for had lost to the No. 1 0-seed points the difference in many Notre Dame held second, with course. Campbell kept the Irish the Eastern College Athletic Wildcats two weeks ago. Notre games. Notre Dame went 3-2 on Northwestern, Michigan Stat, and represented in breaks that Conference Championships. This Dame came out firing with strong the day, beating Wheaton 9-3, Minnesota all close enough to attempted to escape the peloton, past weekend's Indianapolis offensive play from sophomore Oberlin 11-6, and North Park 11-6. make a move Sunday. but none of them managed to stay Collegiate Invitational was an Daniel Reimer and took an early 8- The toughest games for the Ir:ish Racing Sunday was postponed away. This allowed the rest of the ECAC qualifYing regatta, and the 3 halftime lead. But Northwestern were against Illinois and Ohio. until mid-morning due to lack of Irish team to rest inside the polo­ Irish turned in stellar performanc­ responded in the second half with Notre Dame faced Illinois frrst, a wind. When the breeze filled to ton and exhibit their climbing skills es. added intensity. Notre Dame kept team with a signifieant height eight to 12 knots, the Irish skippers for the hill finish. Radhika Deva raced the varsity­ its composure and held on for a advantage that had shut down the went back to their light air crews. Prygoski came on strong for a four with Taylor Donaldson, Josue 17-15 win. Irish throughout the season. The In the final 'A' division race, fifth place finish. Lavery was Rodriguez, Craig Wiborg and The next game was against sec­ Irish kept the game close and were Dailey and Donahue used their caught behind a slow group but Tomas Castillo, and earned a ond-seeded Illinois, who had tied 9-9 as the game neared its cap superior speed to overcome ques­ still placed 15th, with Griggs close fourth-place finish during the defeated the Irish in the sectional at 11. But Illinois scored a final tionable tactical decisions and fin­ behind at 18th. Campbell was morning heats, qualifying for the finals. The Irish fell behind early upwind point and the subsequent ish second. Roy and Kilbourn won forced off the road into a ditch petite finals. on sloppy play, eventually losing downwind to take the game 11-9. the final 'B' division race, easily before the climb and finished with Notre Dame's top novice boat 15-5 despite strong scores from Notre Dame entered Sunday's holding the lead from the begin­ Steves, both a minute off the lead. barely missed qualifying for the captain Steve Kurtz. bracket seeded third and slotted to ning. Prygoski, Girggs, Lavery and grand finals, taking fourth in a Notre Dame entered its match play Northwestern - another sec­ The Irish finished second behind Campbell started the 12-mile time tightly contested race. Julie with No. 16 Ohio Northern, which tion rival and frequent opponent. Wisconsin, holding off Minnesota trial also. The course was difficult, Lambe's second varsity-eight qual­ just came off an upset win. The The teams had met twice in the by seven points. Northwestern and being primarily uphill and into the ified for the afternoon grand frnals Irish started off strong with solid Sectional tournament two weeks Michigan rounded out the top five wind. Speeds were slow for the 'N by finishing fourth in their morn­ handler play from junior Mike prior, with Northwestern winning finishers. teams and the Irish hit the time ing heat. Florack and sophomore Thomas both matches. Notre Dame came checks ahead of the competitors. Lambe's crew finished just over Rivas, cruising to a 15-3 win. out strong, keeping the game close Cycling Unfortunately for the Irish, time two seconds behind two Michigan In Notre Dame's next game, early. Notre Dame took the first Notre Dame headed south to trial specialist Mike Lavery's chain boats and a Minnesota boat. The Miami came out with intensity and half 8-7 and struck first after the Morgan-Monroe State Forest, Ind., malfunctioned, causing the rest of varsity-eight crew also qualified took an early 5-1 lead. Notre break. this weekend for the Midwest the team to take off without him. for the grand finals by tq.king third Dame then began to dominate on Northwestern threw a zone that Collegiate Cycling Conference Without Lavery's power sticks, the in their heat, behind Marietta and both offense and defense and shook up the Irish, shifting the championships, and secured start­ team slowed and limped into an Purdue. slowly took control of the game. momentum away from Notre ing spots for the USA Cycling eighth place finish. The first final of the afternoon Miami could not recover as the Dame. The Irish lost 15-10 to Collegiate National A mile loop at a small park in was the second novice-eight, Irish went on to captun1 a 15-8 Northwestern, who then went on Championships. Junior Matt Mooresville, Ind, was host to which earned a fifth-place finish in win. to defeat Illinois and Michigan to Prygoski also earned an individual Sunday's criterium. its final. Deva's varsity-four Sunday morning saw the Irish take the Regional Championship conference championship. Baker signed in for the Men's B (7:26.1) dominated the four-boat challenge top-seeded Ohio State. and the Great Lakes bid to A 12-mile team time trial and a race and rode aggressive early, but petite finals, putting nearly nine Inspired play by the Irish led to an Nationals.

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NCAA Div.l CRICKET FILA team 1 Stanford 94.29 1 2 Georgia 87.81 3 3 Georgia Tech 87.30 ' 2 4 Florida 84.57 4 5 Northwestern 82.18 5 6 Clemson 80.21 7 7 NOTRE DAME 79.50 6 8 usc 78.04 8 9 Miami 75.34 9 10 California 73.6& 10 11 North Carolina 72.67 12 12 UCLA 69.90 11 13 Baylor 61.70 15 14 Fresno State 58.79 16 14 William and Mary 58.79 13 16 Vanderbilt 58.50 14 17 Florida State 48.43 18 18 Arizona State 47.39 19 19 Wake Forest 47.26 17 20 Pepperdine 46.82 21 21 Tennessee 44.10 20 22 Duke 42.59 22 23 Michigan 42.39 26 24 Indiana 37.30 25 25 South Carolina 36.18 23

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team conf ouer- percent 1 Alma 14-2 27-9 .875 2 Tri-State 12-4 28-8 .750 3 Hope 12-4 24-11 .750 4 SAINT MARY'S 8-6 23-7 .571 AP 5 Olivet 7-8 19-12 .467 Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, right, speaks to player lmran Nazir March 13 after a loss in the Cricket 6 Calvin 6-8 10-18 .429 World Cup. Woolmer, 58, was murdered March 18 in his hotel room after Pakistan was knocked out of the Cup. 7 Adrian 4-8 15~11 .333 8 Albion 3-13 10•24 .188 9 Kalamazoo 1-15 4-23 .062 Drugging unconfirmed in coach's tnurder

Men's Div. I Baseball Associated Press NOT confirmed anything," Shields has not yet heard by police in Jamaica. .•:•;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::!::·: the former Scotland Yard back from the British labora­ Shields has said in the past USA Today Poll SAN JUAN, Puerto llico - policeman said in a text mes­ tory. He would not discuss that foreign investigators The top Jamaican policeman sage to The Associated Press whether the toxicology tests would examine theories that team record pts. investigating the homicide of from his cell phone. "Work is indicated the presence of a Woolmer may have been Pakistan's cricket coach said ongoing." drug that could have incapac­ drugged. He said that would 1 Vanderbilt 39•8ik 761 on Monday he has not con­ Woolmer. 58, was found itated Woolmer. have made it easier to stran­ 2 Rice 3H1 711 firmed that Bob Woolmer unconscious in his room in An employee who answered gle a man as large as 706' 3 Florida State 3lF1 was incapacitated by a drug Jamaica and within an hour the phone at the laboratory's Woolmer, a former England 4 Texas 37-12 681 before being strangled. declared dead in a hospital headquarters in Birmingham, test batsman. 5 Virginia 37-10 &14 5 North Carolina 37-10 614 The British Broadcasting on March 18, the day after England, after business hours "A lot of force would be 7 Arkansas 3542. 578 Corp. reported that a toxicol­ his squad was upset by said nobody was available to needed to do that," Shields 8 South Carolina 3343 510 ogy test on Woolmer's body Ireland and eliminated from comment. told the BBC. "Bob Woolmer 9 Oregon State 34i9 507 shows the presence of a drug the World Cup. Police said he The BBC's Panorama pro­ was a large man and that's 10 Arizona State 34-12 463 that would have incapacitat­ was strangled. gram did not identifY the drug why one could argue that it 11 Wichita Slate 36-12 428 ed him. Shields said toxicology tests or the source of its informa­ was an extremely strong per­ 12 TexasA&M 35-11 396 Mark Shields, the deputy were done in Jamaica and tion, and said toxicology tests son, or maybe more than one 13 Mississippi 3tH6 317 police commissioner in sent with British police offi­ were due to be given to person. but equally the lack 14 Pepperdine 30-15 287 Jamaica, emphatically said cers to a government-owned Jamaican police next week. of external injuries suggests 15 Arizona 3241 281 his investigators have not laboratory in their country, In London, Scotland Yard said that there might be some 16 San Diego 34-14 280 concluded that Woolmer was The Forensic Science Service, it has no information and that other factors and that's what 17 Clemson 29-15 272 drugged. to be "independently veri­ the investigation and all we're looking into at the 18 Coastal Carolina 36-9 214 "No results and we have fied." inquiries are being handled moment.." 19 Oklahoma State 31-13 186 20 Cal State Fullerton 2H5 182 IN BRIEF

Steinbrenner backs Torre Ginn Jr. unsure if he'll be Tank Johnso11 pleads guilty despite Yankees record healthy by training camp to weapons misdemeanor around the dial NEW YORK - George Steinbrenner DAVIE, Fla.- Miami Dolphins coach WAUKEGAN, Ill.- Chicago Bears has spoken: For now, Joe Torre has Cam Cameron might want to brace for defensive tackle Terry "Tank" Johnson his backing to turn around the another round of boos: Top draft pick pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Yankees following a start the owner Ted Ginn Jr. says he's unsure whether weapons charge Monday as part of an NBA termed "clearly not acceptable." he'll be healthy for the start of training arrangement with prosecutors that will Nets at Raptors Torre was joined by general manag­ camp. keep him from serving additional time 7 p.m., TNT er Brian Cashman on the team's char­ Ginn paid a visit to the Dolphins' in jail. ter flight to Texas for a three-game complex Sunday and said his sprained The 25-year-old Johnson pleaded series against the Rangers that starts left foot will be in a boot for about a guilty to one count of possessing a Warriors at Mavericks Tuesday night. month. Rehabilitation will follow, and firearm without an owner's identifica­ 9:30 p.m., TNT Steinbrenner challenged players and Ginn said there's no guarantee he'll be tion, said Mary Stanton, chief of the staff "to show me and the fans what ready to practice when camp begins in Lake County Court's misdemeanor divi­ they are made of' and said of his $195 three months. sion. NHL million team: "I believe in them." "It's whatever the training staff says," He was ordered to serve 45 days in Steinbrenner previously had refused the speedy Ohio State receiver-returner jail, which will be served concurrently Sabres at Rangers comment on the last-place Yankees, said. "I hope that I'm going to be able with a four-month sentence he's 7 p.m., Versus who went 1-5 against the Boston Red to be there day one." already serving in the Cook County Jail Sox the past two weekends. New York Ginn will miss mini-camp May 4-6, for violating his probation, she said. Ducks at Canucks has lost eight of nine and is last in the but the Dolphins said they expect Ginn Johnson also was ordered to donate 10:30 p.m., Versus AL East at 9-14. Entering Monday to be healthy for the start of training $2,500 to the Gurnee Police night's games, only Kansas City and camp. Department and $2,500 to the Gurnee Washington (both 8-17) had poorer "We feel good about Ted's foot," gen­ Exchange Club's child abuse preven­ winning percentages. eral manager Randy Mueller said. tion program. page 14 The Observer+ SPORTS Tuesday, May 1, 2007

NBA Spurs headline Cavs complete sweep of Wizards hadn't been there in my NBA playofT series with Utah. Rockets defeat Jazz career, and Z hadn't been there Tracy McGrady had 26 points defensive squad to take 3-2 lead in since his rookie season, so that and a career-high 16 assists, was our main focus, 'Let's make and the Rockets beat the Jazz their first-round series the playoffs, let's make the play­ Monday night to take a 3-2 lead Associated Press Bryant earned his seventh oil's.' We've got bigger and bet­ in their best-of-seven series. selection and Bell his first. Associated Press ter things now. It's about win­ Yao Ming scored 21 points, NEW YORK- Tim Duncan Duncan is tied with former ning (the) championship, and sealing the victory with two free made his lOth straight NBA All­ Chicago Bull Scottie Pippen for WASHINGTON - It's sweeps we're one step closer." throws with 11 seconds left. Yao Defensive first team the second most All-Defensive week in the NBA. Even the The Cavaliers beat the also grabbed 15 rebounds, the Wednesday, and San Antonio team selections. Kareem Abdul­ Cleveland Cavaliers got in on Wizards in the first round a last one in the closing seconds teammate Bruce Bowen was Jabbar is first with 11. the act. year ago - winning three after Deron Williams missed a the top vote-getter in being Bowen and Duncan helped The Cavaliers completed a games by one point - but desperation 3-pointer. selected for the seventh time. the Spurs hold opponents to playoff sweep for the !irst time Washington had Gilbert Arenas Back home after two lethargic Completing the team were: 90.1 points (first in the NBA) in franchise history Monday and Caron Butler, who both losses in Utah, the Hockets Denver Nuggets center Marcus and .433 shooting from the night, boating the Washington missed this year's series with rediscovered their shooting Camby and guards Kobe Bryant field (third). San Antonio has Wizards 97-90 with yet another injuries. Washington had its touch, going 35-for-75 from the of the Los Angeles Lakers and finished in the top five in both unconvincing performance, season end with a playoff loss field (47 pnrcent) and 12-for-24 Haja Bell of the Phoenix Suns. categories in each of Duncan's doing just enough to beat a on its home court for the third from 3-point range. They also Bowen, a forward, received 10 seasons. depleted team that nearly emp­ straight year, but this one will outrebounded Utah 42-39. 42 votes, six more than Camby led the NBA in blocks tied its bench in the !irst half. be remembered with an aster­ The Hockets can clinch their Duncan. Camby, the Defensive per game (3.30) and was tied LeBron James labored isk because of the two missing first postseason series victory Player of the Year, was chosen for fourth in rebounds (11. 7). through an 8-for-22 shooting All-Stars. since 1997 in Game 6 on for the first time. Bryant ranked 17th in steals night, but he made 14 of 17 free Once again, Antawn Jamison Thursday in Utah. Utah domi­ "Honestly, besides winning a (1.44). Bell often matches up throws to finish with 31 points carried the Wizards, and once nated the first two games there championship, that was the against the opposition's best for the Cavaliers. lie also had again his team came close to and hasn't lost to Houston at only other goal I had," said ofl"ensive player. 11 rebounds and seven assists, pulling the upset. home since March 2005. Camby, who had made the All­ The second team was: including back-to-hack assists Washington trailed by one Carlos Boozer scored 26 Defensive second team the last Chicago's Ben Wallace and Kirk to Zydrunas Ilgauskas in the point with less than two min­ points but had only eight two seasons. Hinrich, New Jersey's Jason decisive linal minute. utes to play, but two doses of rebounds, denied a double-dou­ Kidd, Detroit's Tayshaun Prince Ilgauskas finished with 20 the .James-to-llgauskas combi­ ble for the first time in the and Minnesota's Kevin Garnett. points and 19 rebounds, and he nation essentially settled the series. Derek Fisher added 17 Voting was done by the and Larry Hughes ( 19 points) game. In between those two and Williams had 13 for the storage league's 30 head coaches, who scored 18 of Cleveland's linal 20 baskets, Jamison had the hard­ Jazz, who've lost three straight were not allowed to vote for points. luek moment of the series whnn Game 6s. space their own players. The Cavaliers became the hn committed a turnover by Utah's last win in a Game 6 • Lighted & Paved third Eastern Conference team dribbling the ball off his left was a 103-100 victory over • Free J..ock with Every Unit in three days to finish a first­ foot. 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MLB Toronto beats Texas thanks to Halladay's gem Atlanta's Hudson pitches well a day after the death of college teammate; Pirates down Cubs in late innings

Associated Press Braves 5, Phillies 2 Tim Hudson honored college TORONTO - Roy Halladay teammate Josh Hancock with threw a five-hitter, Aaron Hill hit another strong outing and a two-run homer and the Andruw Jones won it for the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Braves with a three-run homer Hangers 6-1 Monday night. in the ninth inning, giving Troy Glaus and rookie Adam Atlanta a win over the Lind also homered for the Blue Philadelphia Phillies on Monday Jays (13-12), who secured their night. third straight winning April with Pitching with a "JH" on the the victory. front of his jersey, Hudson Halladay (4-0) struck out eight allowed only four hits in eight - and walked none in his second innings though he didn't get a complete game of the season. He decision. went 10 innings in his frrst one, In the bottom of the ninth, leading Toronto to a 2-1 victory Kelly Johnson led off with a sin­ over Detroit on April13. gle, Chipper Jones walked and Halladay has worked at least Andruw Jones hit a towering seven innings in each of his past drive into the left-field seats off five starts. He retired eight in a Antonio Alfonseca (1-1). row between the frrst and fourth Chipper Jones also homered and 11 straight between the for the Braves. fourth and the eighth against the Hudson was good friends with Rangers. Hancock, the St. Louis pitcher AP Toronto got to Vicente Padilla who died early Sunday in a car Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay delivers during Toronto's 6-1 triumph over Texas at the Rogers (0-4) for three runs in the sec­ crash. The two played together Centre Monday night. Halladay struck out eight batters in nine innings. ond. Glaus led off with his third at Auburn in 1997, when homer, Matt Stairs followed with Hudson was the Southeastern 12 with a career-worst 4.86 her funeral. field bleachers, was his fourth of a single and Hill homered into Conference player of the year ERA. the season and his 100th with the second deck in left, his fifth. and Hancock was a freshman. This season, Hudson has last­ Pirates 3, Cubs 2 the Pirates. Bay is the 20th play­ Padilla then retired three in a Together, they helped lead the ed at least seven innings in each Jason Bay hit a one-out homer er in club history to hit that row to get out of the inning. Tigers to the College World of his frrst six starts, not allow­ in the eighth, an inning after many. Lind hit a two-out solo drive to Series. ing more than three runs in any Pittsburgh tied it on Ronny Salomon Torres, the Pirates right in the seventh, his third. All While Hudson failed to ofthem. His ERA is 1.40. Paulino's double, and the Pirates closer who had been scored three of Lind's homers have improve to 4-0 for the frrst time Hancock's death wasn't the came back from a two-run upon in six of his previous eight come in the past four days. in his career, he has clearly only loss on Hudson's mind. The deficit to beat the Chicago Cubs appearances, pitched a scoreless Padilla gave up four runs and regained the form that made right-hander's long-ailing grand­ Monday night. ninth for his eighth save in 11 six hits over seven innings. He him one of baseball's top starters mother also died over the week­ Bay's homer, an opposite-field opportunities. walked four and struck out four. in Oakland. He struggled last end, and he'll be heading to shot off Michael Wuertz (0-1) Matt Capps (2-0) won it by season for the Braves, going 13- Columbus, Ga., on Tuesday for that barely reached the right- pitching the eighth.

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LOUIS - Rick Majerus got former New York Mets club­ grand jury also investigating defendant." agreed to cooperate with the out of coaching three years ago house worker who admitted slugger Barry Bonds for per­ Hadomski's attorney, John ongoing federal investigation because of health concerns. Now selling performance enhanc­ jury. Hiley of Hauppauge, N.Y., as well as baseball's internal his biggest worry is putting Saint ing drugs to Major League "The government intends to declined to discuss his probe headed by former Sen. Louis on the basketball map. Baseball players testified last call the defendant before the client's testimony. George Mitchell. It's widely Majerus replaces Brad week before a federal grand grand jury on April 26, The court records were expected that he will divulge - Soderberg, who won 20 games jury investigating steroid dis­ 2007," they wrote in request­ unsealed when Radomski, 37, names of players who bought in the last of his five seasons but tribution to elite athletes, ing to seal Hadomski's court pleaded guilty on 1-'riday to drugs from him. failed to generate even an NIT bid his last three years. •t .. :X ;: 3: _, Soderberg was fired April 17. ...o .. Ill ... VI Majerus, an ESPN analyst the :ral-< • VI last three years, agreed to a six­ ~o•8 !; ,.o:tz Ill year contract Friday. z 4 :a "I saw this as an opportunity," 0"' '\ the 59-year-old coach said at a :J ~ news conference Monday. "I don't think I forgot how to do it. I love practice and I love the kids and I like the game." Majerus led Utah to 10 NCAA appearances in 15 seasons. 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a 10-3 thrashing of the Bulldogs. Riding the momentum from Sweep game one, the Belles came out continued from page 20 swinging. Rashid knocked a two­ run shot to left - her fifth homer said. of the season. Healy scored on a The first game went scoreless wild pitch, and Davison scored an until the third inning when Belles unearned run. senior shortstop Sarah Miesle The Belles continued their spec­ doubled to right center, driving tacular play as Miesle drilled a sophomore pitcher Calli Davison grand slam in the second; fresh­ home. man outfielder Ashley Peterson, Adrian responded with a homer Davison and Healy scored on the from sophomore play. Miesle and Carmen Batway, Peterson scored pulling the "We had momentum the fmal two runs Bulldogs into the and I think we'll in the game dur­ lead at 2-1. The carry it to Alma and ing the fourth Bulldogs scored inning on Reline's again in the fifth the tournament." double. Hungry for more information? on a sacrifice fly. In 2006, the In the sixth Katie Rashid Belles were 11-5 Visit MUSIC.ND.EDU inning the Belles first baseman in MIAA - a win Belles' most suc­ better than this cessful this season season - but they HISTORY & THEORY - senior designated player Laura are still content with their regu­ Heline, Rashid, sophomore Cathy lar-season performance, PERFORMANCE Kurczak and freshman Maureen "We're happy with how we're Healy all scored unearned runs to finishing the season and heading MUSIC & CULTURE vault Saint Mary's to a 5-3 win. into conference play," Rashid Belles sophomore pitcher said. Kristin Amram was dominant in the second game, fanning 10 bat­ Contact Rebecca Slinger at ters while giving up seven hits in rslingO 1 @saintmarys.edu

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The sec­ because the success is bigger seemed like it would work per­ ond and third spots are inter­ than a relay," he said. "The fectly," Postel said. changeable. success of a relay is split into ''I've always kind of looked "You want to have a really four parts." up to Ryan as kind of a leader strong leg to start off because The competition to make a and example, especially in TIM SULLIVANfThe Observer you want to be in the race," relay team is fierce; Powell running," Powell said. "I Irish shortstop Brett Lilley throws to first during Notre Dame's Powell said. "We were having said six or seven members thought living with him would 1-0 win over Purdue April 18 at Frank Eck Stadium. problems with that last year, were in a tight race for four probably improve my running we didn't have a strong lead­ spots since late August. But and overall lifestyle." 5.13 ERA. He has struck out 22 off and after the first leg we rather than hurting the team, Heading into the Big East batters in 33 1-3 innings of weren't in the race and we the competition can serve to Championship meet, the team UIC work. couldn't compete." improve their running, he said. hopes to add to the Irish point continued from page 20 Whoever that starter is, he The difference between relay "We're always competing in total. To do so, they require will attempt to cool down a races lends itself better to practice and always competing the support of every member. hope to maintain their mome-n­ Flames offense that has plated some runners than others. to be top runners," Powell "Sometimes we speak about tum before taking on Seton Hall at least six runs in eight of the "Relays are really fun com­ said. "I think it's really helped the relays, especially right in a three-game series at Frank team's last nine contests. pared to a regular race," probably everyone's perform­ before the competition," Eck Stadium beginning Friday. VIC also had not announced Postel said. "You definitely ance." Molnar said. "We always "We just want to keep playing its probable starter Monday don't feel as tired when you Relays can also breed friend­ shouted, 'Come on, lets win', like we have been the last three night. But it may not matter run, there's a team aspect to it ship. Powell and Postel, who all together, all members of the weeks," Schrage said. who take the hill against the and your adrenaline's pumping have run the 4x400 relay team. And it's like touching my The Irish took the rubber Irish. more. You typically run better together since Powell's fresh­ heart and I'm gaining a lot of match against Rutgers on The Notre Dame ofl'ense, like in a relay just because it's men year, live together off­ energy before the race. It's Sunday after splitting a double­ that of UIC, comes into the con­ more fun. But sometimes I just campus. Postel lived ofT-cam­ kind of helpful and the atmos­ header Saturday. Sunday's win test on a roll. The Irish scored like the idea of running by pus last year and, when look­ phere is better if you run more was the SOOth of Schrage's in each of the final two innings myself." ing for a roommate, felt Powell relays." career and put the team in a against Rutgers to pull o·ut the Molnar agreed with that sen­ would be a good fit. sixth-place tie with West 6-4 win. timent. "We'd been good friends Contact Bill Brink at Virginia in the Big East stand­ Shortstop Brett Lilley and "I really prefer the individual since freshmen year, and it [email protected] ings. 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Tuesday, May 1, 2007 PORTS page 20 NFL Five undrafted former Irish players sign free agent deals

Observer Staff Report and defensive end Chris Frome Walker had a year of eligibility ior season - seven rushing and Freeman caught nine passes for signed with the Chicago Bears, remaining but dedded to f(Jrgo his one receiving 98 yards and two touchdowns in Four former Notre Dame play­ wide receiver Rhema McKnight senior season to enter the draft. McKnight sull'ered a knee injury 2006, seeing action in all 13 ers who were passed over during inked a deal with the New Orleans During his final season, Walker and earned a medical red-shirt in games. the NFL draft this weekend signed Saints. Tight end Marcus Freeman had 1,267 yards rushing and was 2005. He returned as a fifth-year Frome returned from a season­ free agent contracts late Sunday and defensive lineman Travis third on the team with 56 recep­ senior in 2006 and caught 67 ending injury against USC in 2005 night, and a fifth signed Monday. Letiko were picked up by the tions lor 391 yards. Walker also passes for 907 yards and 15 to play in all 13 games last sea­ Running back Darius Walker Baltimore Ravens. scored eight touchdowns his jun- touchdowns. son.

TRACK BASEBALL Relaytnen Fanning the Flantes thrive on ND faces surging UIC teatnw-ork in non-conference game 3 of 4 on squad that set By FRAN TOLAN school indoor record Sports Writer After taking two of three from Rutgers this weekend in By BILL BRINK Piscataway, N.J., Notre Dame Sports Writer returns home today at 6:05 p.m., looking to cool ofl" the red­ Track and field is a sport hot Illinois-Chicago Flames, filled with individual perform­ who have won 17 of their last ances. Athletes compete 20 games. against time, distance and The Irish are on a winning themselves. In an arcane sport streak of their own, coming out such as this, relays are the on top in 10 of their last 13; exception to the rule. including taking a majority in Rather than pitting athlete their last three conference against· athletes, relays com­ series. bine the athletic ability of four Notre Dame feels it is playing runners with the skill of pass­ at its highest level of the season ing a baton between them at heading into the matehup with high speed. The Irish men's UIC, a team the Irish have beat­ 4x400 meter relay fits the bill en 25-of-29 times in the all-time nicely. series. Irish coach Dave The team - comprised of Sehrage said his team looks to fifth-year senior Ryan Postel, continue its solid play until the senior Jordan Powell, junior Big East tournament, which will Austin Wechter and freshman be held in Brooklyn, N.Y., May Balazs Molnar - has enjoyed 22-26. great success this season. This "This is what we needed to is the team - with junior Bob do," Irish coach Dave Schrage Kueny running in place of said after the Rutgers series. Molnar - that set the school "You want to be playing your indoor record at the Alex best baseball when it comes Wilson Invitational earlier this close to tournament time." season, posting a time of VANESSA GEM PIS/The Observer Against UIC (23-15), the Irish 3:08.38. Irish pitcher Brett Graffy pitches against Toledo during Notre Dame's 8-7 win over the Rockets After Kueny suffered from an April 17 at Frank Eck Stadium. The Irish face Illinois-Chicago today at Eck Stadium at 6:05 p.m. see VIC/page 18 allergy problem that affected his running and breathing, the team picked up right where it left off when Molnar joined. SMC SOFTBALL The new group of four ran its relay in 3:09.38 - the second­ fastest outdoor time in school history- at Arizona State's Clif Bar Invitational. Belles gear up for tourney after sweep "We run just as fast, pretty much, with Balazs," Postel said. "As far as Bob versus Balazs, Clutch hitting, strong pitching it's not going to make a differ­ ence." guide team in doubleheader The ability to switch runners may be due to the similarity By REBECCA SLINGER between the legs of the relay Sports Writer and the 400 meter dash. The training remains the same for Saint Mary's (25-7, 10-6 MIMI proved it both events. belongs in the league tournament by "You don't train for a relay. sweeping Adrian 5-3 and 10-3 Monday in Period," Postel said. "A relay is Adrian, Mich .. just a juxtaposition of four The fourth-seeded Belles will l"aee top­ 400s. There's no additional seeded Ahna College (27-9, 14-2 MIMI in training for a relay. The only their first matchup of the MIAA league thing you train for.on a relay­ tournament this weekend. The Belles lost to and I wouldn't even call it Ahna 9-1 in their first conference game of training, I would call it prac­ the season, and then lost 4-0 on March 31. tice, because training is some­ Belles sophomore first baseman Katie thing completely different than Rashid says the team's strong finish boosts just practice - that would be its confidence. just handoffs. You run a 400 "We had momentum and I think we'll relay just like you would run a carry it to Ahna and the tournament," she KATE FENLON/The Observer Belles first baseman Katie Rashid stretches to record an out during Saint Mary's win see RELAY/page 18 see SWEEP/page 17 against Adrian April 24. The Belles swept a doubleheader Monday at Adrian.