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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 1 TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11,2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Students, officials will celebrate Moreau Cell phone Founder of the Congregation of the Holy Cross to be beatified in Le Mans, France reception Dame community. University President Father John By JOSEPH McMAHON "For all of us, it is a very special Jenkins; Richard C. Notebaert, News Wrirer moment," he said. "He was a chair of the University's Board of inconsistent great educator, and during our Trustees; Executive Vice One hundred seventy years time as priests and brothers we President John Affleck-Graves; after Father Basil Moreau found have been educators." Associate Vice President Father College wants student nd the Congregation of lloly Cross Warner is a member of the offi James E. McDonald; Provost in Le Mans. France, Notre Dame cial party that will be closely Thomas G. Burish; John Cavadini, response to fix problem students. l'aeulty and administra involved in the weekend's festivi the director of the Institute for tors will travel to the site to cele ties. The official party consists of Church Life; and Vice President brate his beatification for three 800 people - 15 from each Holy for Student Affairs Father Mark By MANDl STIRONE days ol' ceremonies to celebrate Cross province across the globe, Poorman. News Writer Mornau's life, beginning Friday. as well as administrators from In addition to the official group, Father Hichard Warner, direc each of the Holy Cross schools 65 Notre Dame students studying After cutting ol'f service to tor of campus ministry at Notre and all the Holy Cross bishops. in Europe - mainly in Angers, all dorm phones this sum Dame, described the importance In addition to Warner, Notre A banner of Father Moreau mer, Saint Mary's is respond of the beatification for the Notre Dame's delegation will include see MOREAU/page 3 waves over South Quad. ing to student complaints that cell phone service is unavailable in their rooms. Students were required to disclose their cell numbers during room picks last spring, though they could opt ROTC program bucks national trend out from having their num ber listed on the directory. Information Technology has Applicants for L[niversity's divisions remain high despite ongoing violence in Iraq requested student participa tion in a PRISM survey designed to locate problem education through military schol By MARCELA BERRIOS areas, said Sandy Handley, arships is the ultimate dealmak • Associate News Editor telecommunications coordi er. nator. Across the United States, as Army on pace "At this point, the objective is to define the areas that the war in Iraq continues and Capt. Sean Straus, in charge of there are problems in," she the country mourns on the sixth the Army ROTC's recruiting said. "We need to know anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist operations at Notre Dame, said attacks, college ROTC programs he expects to have as many as 30 where the difficulties lie for every carrier.... We are look are scrambling to attract incom freshmen enrolled in the pro ing students. gram by the end of the 2007-08 ing at all the options." At Notre Dame, however, ROTC academic year. No solution will be programs have received steady Currently, he said, there are attempted until student input arrives, so students are rates of applications - generally only 24 new recruits at Notre encouraged to participate, surpassing national averages Dame, but more should arrive since before the war began. next semester- putting the she said. "We understand the difl'i Students who consider joining class of 2011 on the higher end a ROTC program must weigh of the program's averages. culties that students are hav ing with Lcell phone] service, tuition benefits and an accelerat Straus said since 2001, the and we would like to resolve ed career start with likely Army ROTC program has wel deployment after graduation. For comed between 20 and 25 new those problems as quickly as possible," she said. some Notre Dame students, a recruits out of more than 200 Students seemed generally sense of duty sounds stronger applicants each year. receptive to the new policy, DUSTIN MENNELLA!The Obse!Ver than any fear of serving over "The admissions standards at Members of the Army ROTC salute their superior officer in a drill seas. For others, the chance to in August 2006. make affordable a Notre Dame see ROTC/page 6 see PHONES/page 4
Writers say art transcends all NBC, FIT team up for Nobel Prize winner, New York native discuss homeland, heartland ND conunercial contest By SARAH MAYER News Writer "This is a popular concept these By PUJA PARIKH days," Heisler said. "Go back to the News Writer Superbowl Doritos commercial and Two famous writflrs - one you see a lot of organizations doing an au thor raised in the For the first time, NBC will air a these things. Video is accessible to Dominican Hepublic, the Notre Dame commercial created everyone these days, and everyone other an artist who was born and directed entirely by a has a camera or an editing pro in China - came together University student. gram on hi.:; or her computer. Monday to discuss the ways in Students ean enter the contest "Everyone is into making movies which creative expressions through the the Film, Television and videos." can transcend cultural bound and Theatre department, which is This is the first time NBC and aries and other borders. working collaboratively with NBC. FTT have worked together in The "Betwelln llorueland The proposed spots, which are 30 order to sponsor a student-made and Heartland" literary and seconds long, are due Friday. commercial. arts event featured author Three scripts will be chosen, "NBC's idea is to target the 18-to- Julia Alvarez and artist Gao greenlighted for production and 24 year old demographic," Hei.:;ler Xingjian Monday in McKenna posted on nbcsports.com - where said. "They are trying to drive peo Hall. The presentation kicked fans will be able to vote on them ple to their Web site ... and make it off a !'our-day celebration of and decide the final winner. more interactive to get students the arts that will explore the Karen Heisler, supervisor of the and other people to their web site." concept of home and identity. CHRISTIAN SAGUARDIANfrhe Obse!Ver FTT internship program, is one of Heisler and NBC Sports decided Author Julia Alvarez speaks at the "Between Homeland and the faculty members who will see CULTURE/page 4 Heartland" literary and arts event in McKennna Hall Monday. review the films. see NBC/page 4 ------~------~ ------
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INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WOULD BE YOUR IDEAL NOTRE DAME TELEVISION COMMERCIAL? Pardon 111e if I svveat
It's 10 o'dock on a Thursday which ean only mean mw thing: I am getting dressed and n~ady to go to Fever. What's my higg~~st wmry at the Adam Carlson Chris Vanderhurst Emily Lyons John Mrugala Kate Zinsmeister Mary Frances Popit monwnt'! Will Jesus Cab be avail sophomore able'! No. Do I have enough money to junior sophomore senior sophomore junior take a twenty out of tlw ATM'? No. Dillon Knott Pangborn O'Neill McGlinn Welsh Family Will nverymw be Kelly Higgins able to son tho "Nudity." buckets of swoat I "Father Jenkins "It would show "Touchdown "Thurty seconds "Everyone in am inevitably Associate doing a keg the closeness Jesus and First of Brady the student going to leave on Photo Editor stand." and uniqueness Down Moses Quinn. " body wearing this shirt.'! Yes. As of the different a rule, I will most doing pushups Jimmy Clausen likely choose something white or dorms, like at in the stadium jerseys. " black; those garments mask the wet the pep rallies. " with the spots tho host. student Since I hogan going to dances in middle school. I have boen strategi section. " cally been choosing my clothing basod on how badly I antieipate my sweat to hn. I gauge my choice on a row factors: temperature outsid!~. number of poopl1~. amount of dancing I plan on doing, and dogree of dark IN BRIEF ness. From my experience with my frionds, tlwse are not eonsidnrations The Notre Dame Peace that all girls must make on a regular Fellowship will host a candle basis. light prayer service of solidar Bocause this fall has benn unusual ity on Tuesday at S p.m. in ly warm, I have not had a reprieve front of Stonehenge at the from my bouts with sw1mtinnss. Fieldhouse Mall. Prayers will Although I must say it is comforting be offered for the victims of to look around the Backer at 1 :30 and the 9/11 attacks and their realize 1woryorw is as sweaty as I am, families, as well as for anyone that d1H~s not always make up for my affected by events in the discomlin·t at. the fad that I have Middle East. been this swPaty since I got thern at 11 . I>on 't g1•t me wrong, I am not orw There will be a student of thos1~ people who is sweating next mixer Tuesday nvening at to you sitting in class. I am a motion 6::H) p.m. for nntrnprnneurial sweater. The instant I start in on that minded students at Legends. elliptical or I start shaking it on the The mixer will eombine short dancn lloor it starts. First it is my speeches, information tables back. tlwn my dwst. face, and neck. I from the Gigot Center for know I am ollidally out of control Entn~preneurial Studies, MBA wlwn my thighs join tlw party. Now I Club and the Four Horsemen know what you arn thinking and no. I Club. am not an overwPight man. I am just a little lady with a big problem. Thnre will be a staged per Just last wonk, I must have apolo IAN GAVLICK/The Observer miern performance of gized at least six times for being so Near to Hayes-Healy Hall, a grounds maintenance worker reaches from a cherry "Ballade Nocturne" by play sweaty. I was even om~red a friends picker to prune the trees. The cherry picker is also known as a boom lift or, rarely, wright Gao Xingjian shirt to wipe tlw beads from my brow. as a hydraladder. It was invented for use in orchards - though not just cherry Wednesday at 3:45 p.m. in Those interactions are most likely to orchards. McKenna Hall. The event is happm1 wlwn I have stopped dancing. free and open to the public. Somehow my sweat snnms morn prornirwnt while I am standing in line The English I>npartment and for thn bathroom. at the bar, or out OFFBEAT Career Placement will present side cooling ofT (maybe it is just that English Career Night for all on the dam~e lloor I am too lost in the Accused mugger licks four blocks away. The not going to make it in the Arts & Letters majors moment to notice). No matter what, if woman's toes woman identified the sus yearbook because props Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the you happen to brush up against me at ST. PAUL, Minn. ~ Police pect and police were able to aren't allowed. LaFortune Ballroom. Notre one of tlwsn locations I reitnrat!~ what said a man who robbed a recover her keys and In the photo, Morin, 17, Dame alumni and representa I have stat1~d above: pardon me if I woman of her keys and cell phone. who loves acting, is sitting tives from several carenrs will sweat on you. phone then took orr her The man is in custody and on a costume trunk back be available to answer ques I have come to terms with the shoes and licked her toes. has not yet been formally stage at the Palace Theatre tions. increasnd activity of my sweat glands Commander Kevin Casper charged. in Manchester. She wore a and I will obviously hn the first to said the attack was "weird black and white sundress Actors from the London joke about it. By now, my friends sexual b11havior." Teen's yearbook photo and clutched the !lower. Stage will present "Macbeth" havn eonw to aecPpt it~ although I The 24-year-old woman banned for flower The policy stemmed from at 7:30 on Wednesday, am sure they arn all looking forward was leaving work around 1 MERRIMACK, N.ll. ~A a 2005 controversy in Thursday and Friday at to the wnather eooling oil' so they a.m. Saturday when the 27- New Hampshire teenager's Londonderry, where a stu Washington Hall. Tickets can don't have to be snPn with the sweaty year-old man approached yearbook photo has been dent posed with his gun. A be purchased by calling (574) girl mud1 longer. What I would like is her and demanded her keys rejected, because she's judge ruled in favor of the 631-2800. for nvnryonn to aecept those of us and phone. After that he holding a flower. Merrimack school, but Merrimack offi who aro swnaty; it is probably not removed her shoes. High School student Melissa cials said they didn't want To submit information to be 1wnn our fault. Blame our pan-mts Police say the woman was Morin's senior photograph to face similar seuffies. included in this section of The and the genes thny passed down. We not hurt. featured her and a small Observer, e-mail detailed arn normal peopln who just happen to Police arrested the man a red flower. School officials, Information compiled information about an event to get a little hotter than you. When you few minutes later about however, said the picture is from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu. see me on the dance floor remember: I am not gross, I am glistnning, and please, dear a spot of us by the fan. TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. Contact Kelly 1/iggins at khiggiO 1@saintmarys. edu _, ------~ Tuesday, September 11 , 2007 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS page 3 BOG Pope Benedict XVI establishing Moreau as blessed. A five-foot Moreau painting of him will then be continued from page 1 unfurled in front of the entire Group looks at funding crowd, which organizers expect Dublin, London, Toledo and Home to number around 8,000. - will attend the beatification Subsequently, a wine and cheese ceremony. reception will be held for all those Co-sponsorships discussed at weekly Board of Governance meeting A dinner will be held for Notre in attendance, after which the Dame students and the delegation students and the official party will The second proposal for "Food for Thought." Student Thursday night. On Friday, stu go out to dinner in downtown Le By ASHLEY CHARNLEY funding was for a trip to El body president Kim Hodges denl<> will visit historic sites in Le Mans. News Wrirer Salvador for the organization spoke about the purpose of Mans, including Notre Dame du The schedule of events will con Christians for Peace in El the group. Sainte Croix (the mother t,hurch clude Sunday with a Mass of Discussion among Board of Salvador. "[The forum! creates a of the Congregation of the Holy Thanksgiving at the cathedral in Governance (BOG) members The proposal was presented venue for the student body to Cross), the birth- Le Mans by Monday night on Saint Mary's by Kimmy Case and Colette address questions or concerns place of Moreau Cardinal campus focused on co-spon Zavala, representatives of a they may have in order for and the Holy ''The entire town will Theodore sorship - the requests for group of nine Saint Mary's our students to discuss the Cross cemetery. McCarrick, arch funding students hot topics around campus," Also on Friday, be filled with music bishop emeritus from clubs and two she said. the ofiicial Notre and the great of the or societies faculty This week's forum will be Dame delegation medieval walls will be Archdiocese of on campus. members held Thursday, from 5 to 7 will attend a Washington. Chrissy "{The forum] creates a who hope to p.m., and will focus on restricted service completely lit up., Students will Homo, eo venue for the student body make the "Booze, Bands and Boys." in Notre Dame du then return to president of trip during + Campaigning for the Sainte Croix Richard Warner their study to address questions or before meeting abroad locations, La Fuerza, fall break. first-year board will begin director of campus s p o k e concerns they may have in W e Tuesday, elections commis with the students and the Notre about the order for our students to would focus sioner Maggie Siefert said. Six to attend a sepa ministry Dame delegation group's on the poli groups are campaigning, and rate service held will return to the hope to discuss the hot topics tics of El the vote will be held Sept. 17. at the Catheclrale United States. bring the around campus.,, Salvador, + A five-kilometer walk for St-Julien. Celebrations will continue, how salsa band and meet Making Strides Against Breast Jenkins will then host a recep ever, during the remainder of thn year as different groups host Orqunsta Kim Hodges with politi Cancer will be held on Oct. 6, tion for the official party and the Caribe to cians. health and wellness commis students. Afterwards. the towns campus events to honor Moreau student IJody president S a i n t church sioner Penelope Trethewey people of Le Mans will put on a and his legacy. Mary's on leaders and said. Saint Mary's is sponsor sound and light show. "I don't think Father Moreau Sept. 27. social ing a team called the Belle "The entire town will be filled ever could have expected what he The event activists Brigade. with music and the great started 170 years ago," McDonald would be lwld in recognition while there," Case said. + A heritage display in the medieval walls will bn completely said. "It really shows that you of Hispanic Heritage Month, The trip is part of the social Student Center will feature a lit up," Warner said. "It will really never know what your life's work which runs from Sept. 15 to work program at Saint display in honor of Father be quite a sight, and it really will amount to. It is a great honor Oct. 1 5. The group aims to Mary's. Upon their return, the Basil Moreau, Campus shows how much respect the peo for Notre Dame and all those afftl bring awareness of Latina students would present their Ministry commissioner Mary ple of Father Moreau's town have iated with the Order of the Holy eulturn to campus. findings at the spring social Frantz said. Exact dates for for him." Cross, and it provides us with "I believe it will try to diver work luncheon. the grand opening have not On Saturday, Bishop Jaques great motivation for the future." sify but also educate the stu been set, but fliers will be Maurice Faivre will preside over dent body," Romo said. In other BOG news: posted around campus. the Mass of the beatification in Students from Notre Dame + The BOG will hold forums the Centre Antares arena, during and lloly Cross would also be every other week in the din Contact Ashley Charnley at which Cardinal Jose Saraiva Contact Joseph McMahon at invitml to attend. ing hall under the theme acharnO 1 @saintmarys.edu Martins will read a letter from [email protected] What are you doing next summer? from May 14 to June 15,2008 ../All r.:~turning ND & St. Mary's undergraduates eligible ../Four and one-half week study in London ../Mid session study/travel to Paris, Normandy, Belfast, or Amsterdam ../Earn 6 credit hours ../Still have 2 months of summer left when you return! ][nformation Sessions for 2008 & 2009 Programmes: s t 11:45 to 12:30' P.M. DeBartolo 101 ' or 5:00 to 6:00P.M. DeBartolo 131 Applications are available at 305 Brownson Hall or on-line at www.nd.edu/,..,sumlon page 4 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, September 11, 2007 long as they produce the aetual The only phones that will Culture NBC film themselves. Phones remain in dorms are those "The student is responsible for located in the hallways for continued from page 1 continued from page 1 producing the entire thing ... continued from page 1 nmergency use, she said. At from graphics. sound, musie, and least some students use the Though Alvarez and Gao on thrne finalists because they editing," Heisler said. "We're though not all reported hall phones, she said, como from difTnrent cultural wanted to allow many students excited to see the products." trouble with their serviee. though she did not know backgrounds and use dif'rnr the opportunity to enter, while NBC has not yet decided if the "I get really good serviee the extent of their use. Staff ent nwdia, they agrned during making the final commercial here. actually," said Megan will also continue to have the leeturn on a eommon videos easily will be aired on Griffen, a freshman who phones in their offices. thorne of art. Neither lan aeeessible television or on uses Verizon. Pauline Kistka, a resident guagn nor eulturn nor soeion- online fi1r vot "We don't know if we the Internet. Still, Griffen said shn assistant in LeMans hall, 1: on om i c status. they said, ing. will get five "NBC will look plans to fill out the survey. said that she has not had qualify or disqualify people Two submi'i submissions or so." at the quality of "I get a lot of dropped any problems with the from tlw ability to under sions had been the video and the calls." said fresh man Katin phone being in the hallway. stand, apprnciatn and critique received by company will Brown, whose earrinr is She has not received any art. Monday night, Karen Heisler make a decision Sprint Nextel. complaints about nighttime !;ao. tho ;woo Nohnl Prize but Heisler FTT internship on where and Brown said she had not calls and snveral girls in in Literature winner, was said she coordinator when it will air," filled out the survey but her half have been using horn in China. lin often takes expects more Heisler said. planned to soon. ' the phone. a philosophical approach to by the due lleisler said she Information Technology is She does miss having thn his arl. as lw dnnwnstratnd in datn. welcomed contact also planning to oversee the landlinc, though. his 1:ollnction on display and "Wn don't know if wn will get from students with questions. removal of remaining dorm "I actually appreciated Uw Shitn MusPum. five submissions or 50," lleislnr Shfl can be reaelwd at phonns in the Il!lar future, the room phone," slw said. lin nxplairwd thn "rn-nduca said. "It will be interesting to [email protected] or (574) 631- shn said. While no phones "It was nice be1:ause I did ti on" l hat h P r IH: Pi v n d in SP.P." 74S6. are operational. phone snts n ' t h a v e to u s e m y c 1d I China. whieh evPntually drove Students who wish to make remain in rooms in LeMans phone." him out of tlw rountry. With their own video but do not have and McCandless llalls, thn 111~w nrlturn that was the necessary equipment are Contact Puja Parikh at llandley said. They will bn Contact Mandi Stirone at lwginning tlwrP, almost all of allownd to use FT"r equipment so [email protected] removed around Christmas. astiroO I @saintmarys.edu his writings wnrn destroyed h1~cause thPy wPre philosophi cal and diffnrPnt from the norm. Alvarez, though born in New York, lived in then war torn Dominiean Bepuhlie from thn time he was an infant until age 10. Alvarez is most famous for her novel, In the Time of the .. Butterflies, which uses fie .··':.r tiona! eharaeters to describe ·:",:... I what her and her family actu • ally went through as a ehild. "The Mirabal sisters may be fietional people but the hang ing of Trujillo and enduring dictatorship were all things my family and I went through," she said. Each artist expressed iden til'ieation with a home that was filled with turmoil and despair. Alvarez and c;ao both over came fhe forms of govern ment they endured and still found love in their homeland and expressed it through tlwir art. "We many speak the same language but we ean still nxpcri,~Jn,en ~aeh others' homes, (,ao said. Remaining Schedule: Sept. 11 2 p.m. - Mabel Lee, a liter ary translator of Gao's work, will provide context to his film "Silhouette/Shadow." 4 p.m. -Alvarez will deliv er a lecture titled "Stories I Steer by as a Writer." 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. - Alvarez will sign copies or her books. Sept. 12 l :45 p.m. Scholars If you like free, you'lllove U.S. Cellular'!" lloward Goldblatt from Notre That'& because we'll give you a brand new Dame, Gilbert Fong a transla Samsung a870 phone. for·tree: not to tor of Gao's plays from the mention FREE. ltteomfhg lext & Pix on all Chinese University of Hong plans plus FREE Incoming Calls on select plans. Kong and Claire Coneeison Yes, free. Honest!}. That's because, at U.S. Cellular, from Tufts University will we. respect you and your hard·eamed money. serve as panelists for a pres entation on Gao's plays. U.S. Cellular is wireless :~:45 p.m. -The staged where yp.u matttl'lr moat."'" rnading and pn~miere of Gao's "Balladn Nocturne," dirneted by Coneeison. 3:45 p.m.- Performance of scenes from selected plays of -(<:.US Cellular !iao, directed by Anton .Juan fimiD of Notre Damn, at the Hegis getusc.com 1·888·BUY·USCC Philbin Studio Theatre in the $5999/month DeBartolo C!\nter for the National Plan Performing Arts. This is a • 900 Anytime Minutes frnn but ticketed !Went. • Unlimited Night and Weekend Minutes Sept. 13 (starting at 1 p.m.) 7 p.m.- Screening of Gao's f'ilm "La Silhouette Sinon • With $60 mail·in reba1B & $9.1l5 Unltmited •syedge"' aa:e. pt.n. l'Ombre" in the Annenbnrg Auditorium. lllh.,._ __W~MJIII>"'"-:~ICJIII INTERNATIONAL NEWS Musharraf defies national court Petraeus recommends troop cuts ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-- President Gen. Pervez Musharraf defied Pakistan's Top general says 2,000 Marines will come home, but more cuts would be dangerous Supreme Court on Monday, sending com mandos to the airport and tossing out a Associated Press bitter rival hours after he returned from WASHINGTON - The top exile in hopes of making a political come U.S. general in Iraq outlined back and opposing the military leader. plans Monday for the with The expulsion of Nawaz Sharif, who was drawal of as many as 30,000 ousted as an elected prime minister by troops by next summer, Musharraf in a 1999 bloodless coup, drawing praise from the could deepen the general's unpopularity White House but a chilly and undermine the legitimacy of upcom reception from anti-war ing elections. Democrats. Gen. David Petraeus said a Guatemalan elections down to 2 2,000-member Marine unit GUATEMALA CITY - A tough-on-crime would return home this former general and a businessman who month without replacement wants to solve Guatemala's problems by in the first sizable cut since a fighting poverty will meet in a Nov. 4 2003 U.S-led invasion top presidential runoff, according to results. pled Saddam Hussein and Monday from a first round of elections. unleashed sectarian violence. Alvaro Colom, a businessman making Further "force reductions his third run for the presidency. had a 28 will continue," he told a percent to 24 pereent lead over Otto nationally televised congres Perez of the conservative Patriot Party, sional hearing that was fre with 96 percent of the votes counted. quently interrupted by anti Sunday's vote shflared away 10 other war protesters. less-popular candidates, among them Petraeus said it would be Nobel Laureatfl and Mayan activist "premature to make recom Higobnrta Menchu. who got 3 percent. mendations on the pace," Perez has stressed the need to crack and he recommended that down on crime as a way to create growth, President Bush wait until while Colom says tlw fight against crime March 2008 to make any should start with job creation in a country decisions. where 51 percent of the population lives The cuts he outlined would on less than $2 a day. return the U.S. foree appoxi Guatemala is Central America's most mately to levels in plaee violent country and a corridor for when Bush ordered a Colombian cocainfl heading to the United buildup last winter to allow States. the Iraqi government time to forge a reconciliation among · feuding factions. NATIONAL NEWS Petraeus slid into the wit ness chair at a politically piv AP Mob ring prosecuted in Chicago otal moment in a war that A small girl walks walks under American flags inscribed with the names of the vic CHICAGO -A federal jury found five aging has claimed the lives of more tims of the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 flying in Battery Park, Manhattan. men guilty Monday in a racketeering con than 3,700 U.S. troops in Inside the crowded con adequate governmental Petraeus is both the archi spiracy that involved decades of extortion, more than four years. The gressional hearing room, capacity, lingering sectarian tect and the commander of loan sharking and murder aimed at rubbing Pentagon reported nine Rep. Tom Lantos, the chair mistrust and various forms last winter's change in strat out anyone who dared stand in the way of deaths on Monday. man of the House Foreign of corruption add to Iraq's egy, and private Republican the ruthless Chicago mob. The president invited con Affairs Committee, told challenges." polls show him with greater The verdicts capped an extraordinary 10- gressional leaders to a meet Petraeus his proposal As for the much-maligned public credibility that the week trial that laid bare some of the inner ing Tuesday at the White amounted to only a "token Iraqi military, he said it is president. withdrawal" after years of workings of The Outfit. House, and is expected to slowly gaining competence Majority Democrats make a nationwide speech war. and gradually "taking on returned from a summer The prosecution's star witness was an on the war in the next few "What I recommended was more responsibility for their vacation determined to call admitted hit man who took the stand against days. White House press sec a very substantial withdraw security." for a troop withdrawal dead his own brother to spell out the allegations, retary Tony Snow said Bush al," the general replied even Petraeus didn't say so, but line, and the administration crime by crime. Over 10 weeks, the jury will place a lot of weight on ly from the witness chair, his Ambassador Ryan Crocker, has been laboring to prevent heard about 18 killings, including the beat his general's recommenda uniform adorned by four the day's only other witness, wholesale Republican defec ing death and cornfield burial of Tony "The tions. gleaming general's stars and strongly suggested that the tions. Ant" Spilotro, the inspiration for Joe Pesci's Snow said Bush "liked nine rows of medals. "Five administration's troop In long-awaited testimony, character in the 1995 movie "Casino." The what he heard last week" Army brigade combat teams, buildup had prevented a the commanding general of jury deliberated for only 20 hours. when he was briefed on a Marine Expeditionary Unit debacle. the war said last winter's Petraeus' plans. "But he is and two Marine battalions Crocker said 2006 was a buildup in U.S. troops had commander in ehief and it represent a very significant "bad year for Iraq. The coun met its military objectives "in Hillary to return campaign funds will be up to him to make force." try came close to unraveling large measure." WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham final determinations about Petraeus referred only politicall~ economically and As a result, "I believe that Clinton's presidential campaign said Monday what he will recommend," obliquely to political .difficul in security terms. 2007 has we will be able to reduce our it will return $850,000 in donations raised by the spokesman noted. ties in Iraq, saying, "Lack of brought improvement." forces to the pre-surge level." Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation for allegedly vio lating election laws. Clinton, D-N.Y., previ ously had planned only to give to charity $23,000 she received from Hsu for her presi Officials warn of possible attacks dential and senatorial campaigns and to her are constantly revising their tactics and ticularly how to identify and track the political action committee, HillPac. Associated Press adapting their strategy and their capa nuclear materials. Chertoff also said the WASHINGTON - Weapons of mass bilities," said Homeland Security department is putting in place new LOCAL NEWS destruction, small boats packed with Secretary Michael Chertoff. "And if we screening regulations that would explosives and Islamic radicalization stand still - or worse yet, if we retreat require providing information on flight Man r~ceives 260 yt~ar sentence are the greatest terrorist threats facing - we are going to be handing them an crews and passengers before a private SOUTH BEND -A man convicted of killing four the country, top U.S. security officials advantage that we dare not see them aircraft departs from overseas bound other homeless men and then dumping their bod said Monday on the eve of the sixth hold." for the United States. ies in manholes maintained his innocence and anniversary of the September 11 terror He said the threat of a USS Cole-type The radicalization of potential new asked for the death penalty before a judge sen ist attacks. attack on U.S. ports - where a small terrorists, in the U.S. and abroad, is The officials told Congress the country tenced him to 260 years in prison. boat packed with explosives detonates another growing concern, the intelli is much better prepared to face terror Randy Lee Reeder, 51, did not testify during his in a harbor - is one of his top con gence officials said at the hearing on the threats than it was then, but that terror cerns. nation's terrorism preparedness. trial last month, but told a judge Friday that his ists' desire to attack the United States And while the department's goal is to FBI Director Hobert S. Mueller said trial was unfair. Daniel J. Sharp. who pleaded remains strong - an assertion that has keep nuclear weapons from entering there is already a problem with radical guilty in May to the deaths, testified during yet to be fully accepted by the American the country, he said it also is focusing on ization in the United States, and the Heeder's trial that he and Reeder killed the four public, according to a new poll. how it would respond should a nuclear Internet makes recruiting people to the men in December. "The enemy is not standing still. They device get through and explode - par- radical cause much easier. page 6 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Tuesday, September II, 2007 Iraq completely," he said. "I did And, like Piscal, he said his But for him and the other stu oll'er a student full tuition at a ROTC n't feel that we as a country positive experiences in the pro dents at Notre Dame that choose state school, or we can take that could allow this to happen. So I gram have expanded his views that path of service, HOTC was a money and not even pay half of continued from page 1 joined ROTC, hoping to fill one of about the Army beyond being a calling. what it costs to go to Notre the empty ranks in the military." way to make eoJlege affordable. Dame," he said. Notre Damn wend out a lot peo Statistics show this sentiment "I feel proud to give something Budget cuts hit Air Force More than fear of going to ple," he said. "It's easier to get is not the consensus among stu in return to my country that has Lt. Col. Shawn Braue of Notre Iraq, he said, the current finan tho IArrnyl scholarship than it is dents in the United States. blessed me with so much free Dame Air Force ROTC said he cial limitations of the program to get into Notre Dame." In April, Time magazine dom," Fu said. "I feel honored to could not quantify the effect of were responsible for the But students still try, despite reported that the non-partisan say that I defend this freedom for the war in Iraq on Air Force decreases in recruiting numbers. tho possibility of serving amid Government Accountability myself and my fellow country ROTC recruiting because "there Senior Tony Crosser, a member the sectarian violence in Iraq Office (GAO) had announced men." is not a mechanism in place to of Air Force ROTC, said the Air after their college years. there were only 25,100 HOTC poll students on their reasons for Force is currently cutting schol Senior !Iayden Piseal said she cadets in universities nationwide Navy funding limited not enrolling in ROTC." arships for HOTC "because of a decided to join Army HOTC when in 2006 - 6,000 shy of the tar The Naval ROTC program has The war in Iraq, he said, may need to cut the numbers in the she was a high school junior get. Representatives of the GAO had limited growth because of be one of a number of reasons Air Force and increase the num beeause tlw program would also said the Army would dis tightening budgets. why students choose not to bers in the Army and Marines." make a Notre Dame edueation burse about $1 billion in 2007 to Todd Willebrand, deputy pub enroll, though there's no way of "The cutting of scholarships is all'ordable fi1r her family. attract new soldiers and retain lic affairs officer at the Naval verifying that. hurting enrollment in the Air "At first I deeided to do it its old ones. A portion of those Service Training Command What he did eonfirm, however, Force ROTC program, but is bn1:ause it would pay for school, funds will go directly to ROTC (NSTC) in Great Lakes, Ill., said is that budget cuts to Air Force making those who want the and it would bn a job right out of scholarships across the country. approximately 1,000 new schol HOTC programs everywhere scholarship go to tho services college that I would not have to "The Army in general is grow arships were issued to new have been bringing down the that need more people," he said. worry about," she said. ing," Straus said. "It's adding Naval ROTC students across the recruiting numbers annually. Crosser pointed out the abun Piseal said she is happy with 60,000 soldiers and of those, a nation, a 20 percent drop from "Air Force scholarship money dance of full tuition scholarships her decision to join HOTC decent amount of those are the 2003 figure. is less [than that of] other servic ti1r Army cadets and Marines - bm:ausn she has found the lead going to have to be officers. So as But, he said, the war in Iraq es, and that might have a bigger who are in high demand in Iraq ership skills and sense of patriot a rnsult, they're going to turn to was not responsible for that impact on the numbers," Braue and are more likely to deploy ism developed in the program the ROTC more to try to meet plunge, as the number of appli said. after graduation - an incentive have been rnwarding. Iter feel those needs." cations the office received each He said the 2007 national the Air Force can't afford ings toward the program, she A war in the Middle East year had actuaJly increased. The average of total students presently. said. havn moved beyond the requires manpower, he said, and NSTC's ability to cover the enrolled in any given school's Air But as is the case with the financial perks it oll'tlrs. the Army HOTC programs will expenses of all the students, Force ROTC program is 92, a Army, there are still students The possibility of b11ing sent to oll'er full-tuition rides to students however, had not. sharp decline from the 2003 who join the program for more the Middle East never influenced in exchange of an eight-year But Naval ROTC senior mid average. Since the war in Iraq than the money, like junior her decision. commitment to the military after shipman Dan Justice said he still began, the Air Force has seen its Nathan Loyd. "We have morn or less been graduation. believed fear of being deployed is average ROTC program shrink ''I'll admit, the scholarship told to nxpnd to dnploy within a Senior Bussell Fu said he a factor that plays into a high from 115 members in 2004 to 95 potential was very entieing," he year or two of commissioning," switched to Army ROTC at the school student's decision to in 2006. said. "I Iowever, when I entered Piseal said. "But that has never end of his freshman year apply. The budget cuts have affected HOTC, I did not have a scholar made mn think twiee about join because the program offered "I can certainly sec how [Iraq] the Notre Dame detachment, ship .... I wasn't given one until! ing the military." him more money than the Air would, especially for the Marines which was larger than the had been in HOTC for a while, For senior Guy llippleheuser, Force HOTC did. and Army, affect kids' decision to national average in 2003, but is and so I developed a strong the war in Iraq was a motivation "I had been part of Air Force join the military," Justice said. "I now below the mean with only sense of purpose. I see that pur to join Army HOTC at the end of ROTC my freshman year but vol understand that concern and it's 83 students, Braue said. pose in almost all of the cadets his freshman year. untarily left due to them having something you have to consider The budget cuts, paired with and midshipmen." "Around the time that I began no more scholarships available," when you look at all the pros and the rising costs of a Notre Dame " ... We are men and women thinking about HOTC, there were Fu said. "Army ROTC called me cons of joining the service. education, he said, have made it training for a profession of rumors spreading throughout at the beginning of my sopho "If it's such an important factor impossible for the Air Force to arms." the media about how our forces more year, offering me a slot for you and it outweighs all the offer more scholarships at the were spnmd thin enough to war with a full scholarship, so I pros then the service probably University. Contact Marcela Berrios at rant a draft or a pull-out from quiekly jumped on." isn't for you." "We can take $15,000 and [email protected] Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Presents ... K~ng's A Panel Discussion of the Final Harry Potter Book "Harry Potter and the Cross of Christ" john o•callaghan, University of Notre Dame "love Bears All Things: Thomas Aquinas, Harry Potter and the Virtue of Courage" Rebecca DeYoung, Calvin College Reflections on the Series by Emerson Spartz, Founder of Mugglenet.com Wednesday, September 12 DeBartolo Hall Room 102 7:3 0 PM For more nforrnat on go to eth cscenter.nd.edu THE OBSERVER Tuesday, September 11, 2007 USINESS page 7 MARKET RECAP Companies scrutinize health Dow New added insurance charges given to obese, heart unhealthy employees Jones 13,127.85 +14.47 Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Press 2,2284 65 1,002 2,396,630,975 CINCINNATI - First they AMEX 2,229~28 *12.86 tried nudging. Now compa nies are penalizing workers NASDAQ 2,559.11 -6.59 who have high health risks NYSE 9,457,64 -28.80 such as obesity and high S&P 500 I ,451.70 -1.85 blood pressure or choles terol as insurance costs NIKKEI (Tokyo) 15,746.20 -18.77 climb. FTSE 100 'London~ 6,134.10 -57.10 Lee Morrison, 51. doesn't COMPANY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE mind the push, which came in the form of added insur S&P DEP RECIEIPTS (SPY) -0.19 -0.28 145.79 ance charges !'rom his POWERSHARES (QQQQ) -0.06 -0.03 48.20 employer, Western & INTEL CP (INTC) -0.447 -0.12 25.35 Southern Financial Group. "I knew if I wanted to be SUN MIROSYS INC (JAVA) +0.37 +0.02 5.39 healthier and pay less, it was up to me to do some Treas ries thing about it," said Morrison, who has lost 54 10-YEAR NOTE -1.01 -0.044 4.324 pounds and lowered his 13-WEEK BILL -1.78 -0.070 3.870 body mass index enough to 30-YEAR BOND -1.11 -0.052 4.641 earn refunds the past two 5-YEAR NOTE -0.92 -0.037 3.983 years. A small number of com Comma ities panies have linked health factors to what employees LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +0.79 77.49 pay for benefits, but the GOLD ($/Troy oz.) +2.50 712.20 practice is expected to PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) +0.10 87.10 grow now that some feder al rules have been final ized, spelling out what's Ex chang Rates allowed by law. Employee 113.5700 advocates worry that other YEN anti-discrimination laws EURO 0.7251 such as the Americans with POUND 0,4934 Disabilities Act won't cover CANADIAN DOLLAR 1.0525 the person who is 20 or 30 pounds overweight. The businesses are AP deducting from employees' Workers at the Tortilleria Chinantla factory in Brooklyn, New York. Because of hard IN BRIEF paychecks, adding insur economic times, employers will begin penalizing workers like these for health risks. ance surcharges or offering the United States is esti- employees. Otherwise, will be required 'to com Wall Street suffers volatile Monday insurance discounts or mated to reach $2.2 trillion wellness programs had plete an annual health risk NEW YORK- Wall Street finished a volatile rebates only to low-risk this year, with at least 54 been primarily voluntary, assessment and can appeal session mixed Monday as investors grappled workers. percent of spending in the offering in-house fitness to have their fees dropped with the possibility that the Federal Reserve "Employers know they private sector, and is centers and free health if they show improvement. might not lower interest rates as much as they have to do something," said expected to nearly double screenings, for instance. "We want more people to hope. Garry Mathiason, a senior by 2016, according to the But many employees of participate so that they can The stock market racheted up and down partner at the national National Coalition on Indianapolis-based Clarian take control of their throughout the day, with Wall Street still nerv employment and labor law Health Care. Health didn't use the pro- health,' Wide said. firm Littler Mendelson, A 2003-2004 National grams, hospital spokesman Some workers and ous after Friday's dismal employment report. based in Boston. "I believe Health and Nutrition James Wide said. employee advocates say The data, which showed the first monthly that in just the next two Examination Survey In 2009 the company will companies are intruding in ·decline in jobs in four years, rekindled fears years more employers will showed about two-thirds of start reducing pay for workers' private lives. about housing and credit market weakness turn to penalties to change adults in the United States employees in its health The National Workrights bleeding into the overall economy and squeez employee behavior." were overweight and plan by $10 per paycheck if Institute says employers ing consumer spending. Mathiason said more almost one-third were their BMI - a measure- adopting the charges are Speeches from Fed offidals Monday seemed than 300 companies have obese. A U.S. surgeon gen- ment of body fat through a trying to control private to give investors a bit more reason to be opti sought advice on creating eral's report said health height and weight ratio- behavior and amassing mistic, but the officials avoided hinting at how more aggressive wellness care costs of obesity totaled is in the obese range of huge amounts of personal programs since the firm the central bank might alter rates. more than $117 billion in more than 29.9. The health information. released a study in April on 2000. deduction will be $5 per "It's a backdoor approach legal issues and trends More employers have check if they don't meet to weeding out expensive Disney to start testling its own toys associated with requiring charged higher insurance required cholesterol, blood employees," legal director LOS ANGELES- Following the recall of mil healthy practices. premiums the past few pressure or blood glucose Jeremy Gruber' said for lions of toys by Mattei Inc., The Walt Disney Health care spending in years for tobacco-using measurements. Workers them. Co. said Monday it will independently test toys featuring its characters. The media and entertainment conglomerate will hire companies to randomly buy Disney branded toys from store shelves and test for Apple sells its millionth iPhone lead paint and other safety issues such as small parts that could come lose, Disney con sumer products spokesman Gary Foster said. noted in a statement. dreds of early buyers who bought the Associated Press Last week, Apple knocked $200 off touch-screen gadget for top dollar. In He said the ultimate responsibility for safety SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Inc. sold the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone, response to all the negative reaction, still lies with companies that license Disney its millionth iPhone over the weekend, bringing its price to $399, and discon Jobs issued an apology the next day characters for toys. days after it slashed the price by a tinued the 4-gigabyte version. Apple and offered customers $100 credits. "But Disney wants to give an added level of third to spur sales. spokeswoman Natalie Kerris declined Apple had said it was lowering the scrutiny and assurance to parents that a prod The milestone was reached weeks to comment on whether the price cut iPhone price to attract more cus uct with a Disney character has gone through earlier than expected and sent shares helped spur sales. tomers, in time for the holiday sea this process," Foster said. of Apple up $4.94, or 3.8 percent, to The price cut may have helped a son. Disney's move comes as retailer Toys 'R' Us $136.71. The stock regained some of hit, but Apple clearly was on track The move, which many analysts had Inc. has stepped up its toy inspection efforts. the ground it lost after the price cut already to exceed its own expecta predicted - but not quite so quickly Disney will also start requiring licensees spooked investors as a sign of weak tions, analysts say. - aqds pressure to Apple's rivals, but demand and slimmer margins. "I'd argue that sales have been fair it also was possibly part of a broader such as Mattei to submit their own test results It took just 7 4 days for the combina ly strong, and this alleviates concerns strategy for its entire product lineup. before allowing products to hit shelves. tion cell phone-iPod to hit the 1 mil that sales were weak,'' said Shaw Wu, On the same day Apple slashed the Foster said the company would be hiring lion mark, which Apple ha9 said it analyst at American Technology iPhone price to $399, it unveiled a more people in its product integrity office to would achieve by the end of Research. new iPod, also for $399. The iPod oversee the program. September. By comparison, it took The swift price cut - not surprising Touch is basically the same as the The tests will begin in the next two weeks two years for the company to sell 1 in the cell phone industry but rare iPhone but without the cell phone and will include all categories of products. million iPods, Apple CEO Steve Jobs behavior for Apple - angered hun- capability. page 8 The Observer+ INTERNATIONAL NEWS Tuesday, September II, 2007 - -·------~ --===-======Drug lord arrested in bust Viking burialn1ound Montoya's leadership of Columbian cartel put him on most-wanted list exhlill1ed for research ance when the army finally to bring down the cartel. Associated Press Cultural History told the cornered him in the cartel's Washington welcomed the Associated Press BO<;OTJ\, Colombia stronghold of Valle del Cauca news. "Colombia's capture of Norwegian news agency NTB. Soldiers swarrllt~d onto a farm state in western Colombia, cocaine kingpin Diego OSLO, Norway "We hope the casket and the Monday and 1~apturnd one of of'ficials said. lie is to be ques Montoya shows what can be Archaeologists opened a Viking remains are intaet. We won't t.lw world's most wanted drug tioned bnfore being extradited accomplished by a govern burial mound on Monday, seek lind out until tomorrow." lords hiding in bushes in his to the U.S., a process that ment that is relentless, ing to learn more about two The casket was transported undPrWPar. Colombian ol'f'i Santos said would take at focused and skilled in the women - possibly a queen and baek to the Viking Ship Museum cials called it thPir biggest most two months. effort to dismantle threats to a princess - laid to rest there and will be opmwd under con drug war victory sirH~e tlw After months of planning, its democracy," said White 1,173 years ago. trolled conditions on Tuesday. IIJ 1H slaying of MPdPllin car elite commandos raided the House "drug czar" John P. In 1904, the mound in south The remains will b1~ kept at the tel leader l'ahlo 1-:scohar. small farm before dawn Walters. eastern Norway's Vestfold musnum for study. Dingo Montoya, who sits Monday and nabbed Montoya Better known as "Don County surrendered orH~ of the As many as 300 JH~ople, with Osama bin l.adPn on the along with his mother, an Diego," Montoya is said to be country's greatest archaeologl including schoolchildren, 1.-Bl's 10 most- unele and in a bitter turf war with his ·eal treasures, the Oseberg attended the grave opening. wantPd list and three other cartel's other leader, Wilber Viking longboat, which is now Wangen said sei!Hltists hope has a $5 million cartel mem- Varela, who goes by tho nick on display at the Viking Ship the remains are intact enough bounty on his "IJrug traj]ickers take bers, said name ".Jabon," or "Soap," and Museum in Oslo. to give more information about lwad, allPgPdly note: This is the }i1-ture the army is reported to be living in The 65-foot vessel was buried who the women were and how !Pads uu~ NorlP that awaits you." chiel', Gen. Venezuela. Hundreds have in 834 in the mHirmous mound they lived. c!Pl Valle rartl'l. Mario died in fighting between thei~ as _the grave ship l'or a rirh and An earlier study ol' a few frag It is dnPml'd Montoya, rival armed bands along powerful Viking woman, ments of the remains that were Colomhi~t's most Juan Manuel Santos who is not Colombia's Paeifie coast. according to the museum. not reburied, led by Per llolck dang .. rous drug Columbian Defense related. A U.S. indietment unsealed The remains of the two at tlw University of Oslo, sug gang and is Minister The gov in 2004 against Montoya and women, one believed to have gested the older woman was arr.usl'd of ship ernment has Varela said that over the pm been in her 60s and the other in thn pownful Viking <)ueen ping hundr!'ds b1~en elosing vi()US 14 years, their cartel her 30s, were l'irst exhumed J\asa, while the younger orw of tons of in on the had exported more than 1.2 during the ship excavation. could have been lwr daughter. corainP to thl' U.S. sinrn tlw cartel since last year, when million pounds - 600 tons - They were reburied in the J\notlwr tlwory is that tlw sel: I 1J9tls. soldiers killed eight members of cocaine worth more than mound in 1948 - in a modern ond woman was a slave, killed ()pfpnsn MinislPr .Juan of a private militia believed to $10 billion from Colombia to aluminum casket placed inside to aeeompany her master into Mantwl Santos told a n<'WS lw protecting Montoya. But a Mexico and ultimately to the a five-ton stone sarcophagus - the aftPrlife. conf<'I'PIH'I' at Bogota's airport wide rwtwork of 1~artel United States for resale. in hopes that future sdentilk Later in the week. the archae that Montoya was n•sponsible informants had frustrated the Colombia's government has methods might reveal their ologists plan to reopen a second for I ,500 killings in his search for the alleged drug made major gains against the secrets. burial site, called the Gokstad earner. boss h i m s n If. I. o 1: a I media cartel this year. When experts opened the sar Mound, on the opposite sidn of "Drug traJiirkPrs takP notP: hav1~ recently carried stories Montoya's brother, Eugenio cophagus Monday, it was filled the Oslo fjord. Viking-era bonn This is tlw future that awaits on the eartel's allegpd infiltra Montoya, was captured in with water, although the casket fragrnt~nts wen~ n~buried therP you," Santos said IJI'forn thn tion_ of Colombia's army _and .January. Former cartel leader itself may not havn been flood in 192S, nearly 50 years after hPavy-sPI, 4'J-ypar-old navy. Luis Hernando Gomez ed. tlw grave was opmwd to exca Montoya limpnd out of an air Santos said the operation Bustamante, known as "We were surprised when .wn vate another Viking Ship in forTe plano wParing plastic was kept lop secn~l to avoid "Hasguno" or "Seratehy," was removed the lid ol' the sarcoph 1 SSO. That 79-foot ship, handrul'f's and PscortNI by leaks and was run entirely by extradited to the U.S. in July agus that it was filled with believed burind about 900, is livP c~ornmandos. an elite army commando unit after pledging to cooperate water," project leader Vivian also on display at the Viking Montoya put up no rnsist- that works with prosecutors with U.S. authorities. Wangen of the Museum of Ship Museum in Oslo. HOULIHAN ·LOKB¥ i NVESTM E:NT BANKING. :S ERVIC!tS You Are Our Future .. Your Future Is Here. Employer presentation for u Tuesday, September 11r 2()07, 6:00""~~()() P: rn,tCRi'. -; Fall Career Expo Wednesday, Septemt;:uar: 19, 200 e:OO.@:m,iiJO Re~ume sub d~C!Idlir1;; Wednesday. S~[Rt~rr!:p~r Full-time intervieW day Thursdayi :Sep~~mb~~ ?-"/;. 2QQ7 M.S.::A Advi.sor for U·~S- 'l"'r:ausact:ioa:,s Under $1. Billion M&A Fairness Ot;>i'ilion Advisor: ······· No.1 Restructuring 1:,.-,ves.t:~nef'l:C: B~nkit:Jg Fjrtn Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The Observer + NEWS page 9 Private search begins Bin Laden to release video for acclctillled aviator Second in a week will glorify terrorist, remember attacks of Sept. 11 Associated Press tyrs of the New York and Qaida lieutenants. Among them in the rugged, sparsely populated Washington attacks: The testa were Mohammed Atef, who was Associated Press areas where Fossett is believed to CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin ment of the martyr Abu Musab later killed in a November 2001 MINDEN, Nevada be lost. Government-backed Laden will appear for the second Waleed al-Shehri, presented by U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, and Authorities worried Monday that searchers also have followed time in a week in a new video to Sheik Osama bin Laden, God Ramzi Binalshibh, who was cap a call for private volunteers to false leads submitted by people mark the anniversary of the Sept. preserve him," the banner read. tured in 2002. help the government search the looking at satellite images of the 11 attacks, presenting the last Al-Shehri was one of the The documentary also included rugged Nevada wilderness for area available on the Internet, he will and testament of one of the hijackers on American Airlines the last testimonies of two Sept. missing aviator Steve Fossett may said. suicide hijackers, al-Qaida Flight 11 that crashed into the 11 hijackers, Hamza al-Ghamdi attract people who don't have Sanford said Monday that a announced Monday. World Trade Center's north and Wail al-Shehri, brother of proper training and could ulti lack of oversight sometimes leads Each year, al-Qaida has tower. Waleed al-Shehri. The video was mately need saving themselves. to the official search effort cover released videos of last statements The Web banner included a accompanied by another with an A private search effort is being ing ground already searched by by hijackers on the anniversary still image of bin Laden from the address by bin Laden's deputy, driven in part by hotel magnate the private effort. He said the pri of the 2001 attacks, using the upcoming Ayman al Barron Hilton, who has opened vate effort was still welcome, but occasion to rally its synlpathiz video. Shown Zawalrri. the mile-long noted that it is ers. raising his fin "Coming soon, God willing, 0 n airstrip at his "impossible to But this year's releases under ger, he wears Sunday, Flying M Ranch track." line how bin Laden is re-emerg the same from the testaments of the President ing to tout his leadership - - the same run "/ am confident in his Officials also dyed-black martyrs of the New York Bush's way Fossett took expressed con whether symbolic or effective - beard and the and Washington Attackes: homeland off from a week ability to survive. " cern that partici of the jihad movement. While same clothes security ago - to search pants in the past anniversary videos featured -white robe The testament of the adviser, planes and heli old footage of bin Laden, the lat Maj. Cynthia Ryan National and round martyr Abu Musab Waleed Frances copters. On Championship Air est appears likely to include a cap and beige al-Shehri.' presented by F r a g o s Sunday, a notice Civilian Air Patrol Races and Air newly made speech. cloak- that Townsend, was posted on Show in nearby Bin Laden had not appeared he had on in Sheik Osama bin Laden, sought to Fossett's Web Reno starting for nearly three years until a new the video God preserve him." play down site calling for Wednesday could video was released over the posted on the bin Laden's pilots, helicopters and vohmteers weekend. In that video, he hamper the search effort. They Web on AI-Qaida advertising banner new appear to supplement the search. pleaded with race participants addressed the American people, Saturday. ance in a While the private effort has and other pilots attending the telling them the war in lraq is a Saturday's video and worked side by side with the gov event to stay away from the failure and taking on a new anti video was probably filmed in questioned his importance, call ernment during the eight-day search area. globalization rhetoric. He urged early August and it is likely "that ing the al-Qaida leader "virtually hunt, offichtls said they are The 63-year-old Fossett, a for Americans to abandon capitalism the (upcoming video) shows bin impotent." .becoming worried that the latest mer commodities trader who was and democracy and embrace Laden in the same setting," But terrorism experts say al eall for volunteers eould bring in the first to circle the globe in a Islam. Venzke said. Qaida's core leadership is people who have no experience balloon, was last heard from Al-Qaida's media arm, Al Al-Qaida's media operations regrouping in the Pakistan with combing the vast -- and Sept. 3, when he took off from Sahab, announced the impend have become increasingly sophis Afghanistan border region. The often dangerous - landscape. Hilton's ranch. Authorities believe ing second video Monday with an ticated, as have the anniversary latest National Intelligence "It has not been condoned, nor he was carrying only one bottle of advertising banner posted on an videos. Estimate says the network is is it necessarily helpful to the law water, but he is considered an Islamic militant Web forum Last year, al-Qaida released a growing in strength, intensifYing enforcement community," Lyon expert pilot and survivalist. where the group often posts its 55-minute documentary talking its effort to put operatives in the County Undersheriff Joe Sanford "I am confident in his ability to messages. about the planning of the attacks U.S. and plot new attacks. said Sunday. "We don't want survive this," said Civilian Air The video was likely to be that hit the World Trade Center Bin Laden's video Saturday searchers to have to go out to Patrol Maj. Cynthia Ryan. released within 24 hours to coin and the Pentagon. was his first message in over a look for searchers." The search would continue cide with Sept. 11, said Ben The video included old but pre year - since a July 1, 2006, On Monday, Sanford explained indefinitely, she said, adding that Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a viously unreleased footage show audiotape. The images came he was most concerned with the the effort will stop when U.S. group that monitors and ing bin Laden strolling through under close scrutiny from U.S. possibility that untrained searchers have "exhausted every analyzes militant messages. an Afghan training camp where intelligence agencies, looking for searchers would begin conduct square inch, and we aren't even "Coming soon, God willing, the attacks were apparently clues to the 50-year-old's health ing independent ground searches close to that." from the testaments of the mar- planned and chatting with top al- and whereabouts. I Did You Know? Parents may be charged in case * China surpassed Mexico in 2003 as the United States' second most important supplier, behind Canada? Father, mother now suspected in disappearance of daughter * China achieved 1'2 percent of the world economy on purchasing powE:r parity basis in 2004 (second to the United States)? sister, accused the police of Until Friday, suspicion had Associated Press "clutching at straws" to clear centered on Robert Murat, a Between 2000 and 2005 China represented nearl.y 40% * ROTHLEY, England the case up. British man who lived near the of the global growth in world demand for oil? Documents on the investiga "Kate and Gerry have been a hotel from which Madeleine The Mendoza College of Business tion into the disappearance of thorn in their sides for a long disappeared and who was the time. What better than to cast only formal suspect. He has presents 4-year-old Madeleine McCann won't be given to Portuguese them as the villains?" she told not been charged, and he has prosecutors by police until GMTV. said he is innocent. Tuesday, and her parents The McCanns, who are both Gerry McCann said Sunday it waited at their British home to medical doctors, have hired a was "heartbreaking" to come see if they would be charged. high profile legal team that home without Madeleine, Portuguese police had been includes Michael Caplan, who despite an extensive effort to expected to hand-deliver to represented Gen. Augusto find her. His voice shaking, he prosecutors on Monday the Pinochet, the former Chilean said "it does not mean we are results of their investigation dictator, when Spain tried to giving up the search for her." into the girl's disappearance extradite him from Britain in "We have played no part in May 3 from a hotel in southern 1999. the disappearance of our love Portugal. Police named Kate The administrators of a $2 ly daughter, Madeleine," he and Gerry McCann as suspects million fund set up to help find said. Friday. Madeleine were investigating In an interview with the But police spokesman whether some of the money Sunday Mirror, Kate_ McCann Olegario Sousa said the prose could be used to help pay the said Portuguese police pressed cutor would not receive the McCanns' legal bills, Britain's her to confess that she had case until Tuesday, and he Press Association quoted an killed Madeleine accidentally, declined to provide further unidentified family friend as then hid her body and pre details, citing Portugal's secre saying. tended the girl had been cy law covering ongoing inves Sousa said he expected the abducted in a massive cover tigations. public prosecutor to "quickly up. She accused police of Portimao District Attorney decide" on what action to telling her that if she pleaded Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e take. The prosecutor's office guilty she would only face a Meneses will then review the df:!termines whether charges two or three year suspended case files, which contain should be brought against sentence. details of forensic evidence anyone, whether more investi "They want me to lie. I'm and police interviews with the gation is needed, or if the case being framed," she was quot parents. should be dropped. ed as telling the newspaper The McCanns, who returned Madeleine's disappearance, after her first police interroga to Britain on Sunday with their and her parents' campaign to tion. 2-year-old twins, kept a low find her, has attracted world Although Portuguese police profile Monday, avoiding wide attention. The story took named the McCanns as sus reporters camped outside a startling twist Friday when pects, they did not confiscate their home. Portuguese police formally their passports or restrict Philomena McCann, Gerry's named them as suspects. their movements. THE OBSERVER page I 0 IEWPOINT Tuesday, September 1 1, 2007 THE OBSERVER Free· the Jena six 1~0. !lox 779, Nmrc D>mc, IN 46556 014 South I lining I fall, Notre Dame, IN 46S56 In .lena, Louisiana, a blaek high five other black students, among them battery, he still faces up to 15 years in EDnon IN Cmm: school student faces up to 15 years Mychal Bell. Barker took a beating. prison. For a school fight. Maddie Hanna imprisonment for lighting a student but he was released from the hospital Let me be fair: the studnnts should MANAGINI; EI>I'I'OII BUSINESS MANAGEII that slurred him. Earlier in the year, that same day with minor injuries and be charged for their violent actions, Ken l'owl<•r Kyle West white students taunted black students attended a school ceremony in the and they ought to pay a price. But for with nooses. This is evening. The six black students were juvenile crimes, not severe fnlonios; by Ass1; MANA<;ING EDITOR: Kyle Cassily 2007. not 1 H50. II' James arrested. a fair jury, not a racist all-white panel; AssT. MANAI;)N(; ElliTOR: Mary Kate Malone you haven't heard or Dechant Bell enjoyed all the benefits of our without a DA who aeeusod tho stu NI'.WS EDITOR: K.tren L1nglcy tlw .lena Six or if' you foregone justice system: prosecuted by Heed dents of attempted murdnr, for (;od's VIEWI'OINT EIIITOII: joey King believe the fantasy Conclusion Walters. who raised the charges from sake, and grossly abused his pownr for SI'OIUS EDITORS: Chris Khorcy that racism is dead, battery to attempted second-degree the sycophantic sake of appealing to Chris !line read on. murder (he later reduced the charges his racist white friends. And the stu Sn:NE EDITOR: 'Etc Andr<·ws The key events: In August 2006, a to "merely" second-degree battery and dent who produeed a sawed-off' shot black student asked permission to sit conspiracy to commit the same); a lazy gun from his truck'! I low about some SAINT MARY'S EDITOR: Katie Kohler under an oak tree on campus at court-provided defense lawyer who repercussions for thrnatening otlwrs I'IIOTO EDITOR: Dtmin Mennella lunehtime, hithorto the unoflieial callnd no witnesses; trial by an all with a firearm? GRAI'IIICS EDITOR: Madeline Nics domain of whitn students only. When white jury; and no mention, in over 40 So what should happon'? Bell and the ADVI·I!TISING MANAGER: )<'"ict C:onez black students sat there~. three nooses court documonts, of Septnmber's noose others should bn nH.ried for simple An DI'.SJ(;N MANAI;fR: Kelly Cronli hung from tho tree the following incident. Unsurprisingly, they found battery. perhaps do sonw c:orreetional morning. The principal reeommended Bell guilty of battory and conspiracy, time, and nnter a probation program. CONTIIOL.IJ-.R: Tim Sobolewski nxpulsion, but the sehool board and earrying up to a 22-year prison sen The superintendent should step down SYSTEMS ADMINISTRAI'OR: Christian Sagardia superintendent overruiPd him, opting tence. and leave nducation forever so he can OFFICE MANAGER & GENERAL INFO instnad for throe days in-school sus Not indignant yet'? In order to classi dedieate his life to tlw rc~smtrch of hate (~74) (>.~ 1-7·171 pension. The superintendent called the fy as battery, Walters had to domon erimes. The school board should issue FAX incidtmt a "prank" and "not a threat strate the use of a "dangerous a formal apology for its inadequate~ (~74) 631-6'127 weapon" by Boll, so he argued that n~sponse noosc~s beconH~ ADVERTISING against anybody." This outright idioey to the and (574) 6.11-6')00 ohst•[email protected] and dospieablo license for hate led to Bell's l!mnis shoes used to kick Barker extras in movies featuring seenos with EDITOR IN CHIEF months of' raeial tension. were just that. Tho all-white jury ate gallows. DA Heed Walters should (574) 6.>1-4542 I loping to quell unrest, a school this up. Hemember tho party where a rnsign and movP to Myanmar to prac MANAGING EDITOR assembly brought in District Attorney white male attacknd Bailey's head with tiee law more lwfitting his porsonality. (~7 1 i) (d 1-4~41 ohsrnclfllnd.t·du Heed Walters, one of tlw murky play a beer bottle? Not as dangerous as All .lena students (and adults) should ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR ers in this story. fie told students "I tennis shoes, in Jnna- at least when attend a mandatory racn-relations (574) 6.~ 1-4.124 BUSINESS OFFICE can end your lives with the stroke of' a you're black. seminar from now until kingdom (574) 631-~3 u pnn," words that would prove prophet If you don't believe this story exposes come. Louisiana Governor Kathleen NEWS DESK ic. On Sept. 10, black students Jena's racist environment, consider Blanco, conspicuously and willingly ('\74) 6.11-'i323 [email protected] attempted to addrnss the school board the town's large soeioeconomic gap, oblivious to this egregious scandal, VIEWPOINT DESK but were denied. The board believed it where the 12% black population lives must stop shirking responsibility and ('574) 63 1-530,'1 vicwpoim.l (0nd.edu SPORTS DESK had. in its infallible wisdom. resolved mostly in a concentrated lower-quality step in to end this disgraeeful blot in (S74) 631-4'i43 [email protected] the situation by ignoring it and housing area. Consider that one bar her state. She should do what politi SCENE DESK encouraging racist attitudes. bershop in town, according to cians eonsider anathema: make a deei (574) 631-4540 [email protected] On Dec. 1. several white men insti Newsweek, does not give haircuts to sive statement and aceompany it with SAINT MARY'S DESK gated a fight with black students at a blaek people because white eitizens strong action. smc.l @nd.<·du PHOTO DESK local party. One reportedly broke a might object. Consider the great start As for us: spread the word. Learn (574) 6.11-8767 [email protected] beer bottle over the head of Robert Jena's high sehool has made to the more online. sign petitions and SYSTEMS & WEB ADMINISTRATORS Bailey, a black student. The attacker new school year, banning "Free the demand that these tragedies don't fly (574) 631-8839 was later charged with simple battery Jena 6" t-shirts from campus. A great under the radar in the future. Stop rHE and put on probation. The next day, move by the same edueational institu buying into the fantasy that racism is OBSERVER ONUN£ Bailey was involved in an argument at tion that considered nooses "just a eradicated and help eut the tree of www. ndsmcobserver. com a convenience store with a white stu prank." Over the summer, the school prejudice and inequality at its very dent who grabbed a pistol-grip shot chopped down the infamous "white root. Help free the .lena Six. POLICIES gun (honest) from his pickup. 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" Viewpoint Antoine de Salnt-Exupery Karct King Vote by Thursday at 5 p.m. French writer at www.ndsmcobserver.com ------. THE OBSERVER Tuesday, September 11, 2007 IEWPOINT page 11 LETTERS TO THE IEDITOR In defense of North c~iversity matters Tear down South Salutations to all students, facul to discover such culinary treasures Equality, liberty and fraternity. These recessed television lounges. Perhaps it ty and staff of this fine University! as pasta stir-fry, make-your-own are the tenets upon which North Dining is only idle speculation on the author's I offer an alternative to Mr. pizzas, crepe weekends and, of llall was founded. part, but the natural sunlight present in Timothy Gotcher's article "Tear course, Fajita Fridays! Equality with, although distinct from, North Dining Hall seems to induce a down North" (Sept. 10). Despite Lastly, "Stone Age" South only South Dining Hall. Surely, South Dining warm, welcoming atmosphere of fellow claiming South as a "true colle has newspapers for information. llall boasts excellent pasta, diverse ship. giate dining hall ... systematically North has long moved into the salad choices and consistently delicious Notre Dame is founded on the belief arranged for the benefit and satis Technological Age by presenting grilled cheese sandwiches, but North that diversity and competition are the faction of all," it is, in fact, the both newspapers AND televisions, offers students Fajita Fridays, make gateways to a better society. It would be lesser of the two dining halls for letting diners follow the latest your-own-pizza, crepes and easier a shame if tyrannical elements were three (quite obvious) reasons. news or football scores. cooked to order burgers. Although the allowed to undermine that sacred foun Despite the dining area's allure I therefore propose that South be food in South is all maintained in a cen dation. Diversity in students, diversity to the Harry Potter fans here torn down and replaced with a tral corral-like area, North's sprawl in faculty and diversity in dining hall (myself included), eating dinner at dining hall built to correct its makes for less clustering between lines. choices are what make this University South without a wand or broom is flaws. This new dining hall would Liberty, to make your own decisions great. Tearing down North would lead a traffic nightmare. With a dozen appropriately be named "North on such weighty matters as ice-cream to a more totalitarian state of uniformi food stations crowded into the cen Dining Hall South" to acknowledge l1avors. North always keeps five to six ty on campus. tral room, it creates a veritable its lesser status. It would contain different choices in its freezers, while You're not a totalitarian, are you? funnel of humanity, resulting in all the amenities its frequenters South is only equipped for four. In addi spills, chills and general discon have grown to love, yet still be tion, North allows for the dissemination John Minser tent. North, with its separate spacious enough to please all resi of free speech through its several con sophomore rooms and pleasantly open, well-lit dents of the other half of campus. venient television sets. Siegfried Hall rooms, is a far better choice to After all, it hasn't been a real din Fraternity, in allowing assembly Melissa Cruz experience the true pleasures of ner until someone from Zahm where and when you wi.sh. North Dining junior college dining. knocks a cup down the stairs. Hall not only plays music at a reason Cavanaugh Hall Secondly, the food at South is far able level for conversation, but accom Oscar Garcia less satisfying than the offerings Nick Hussey modates three distinct areas, so that semor available at North. All a discerning senwr student groups can be seated on the off campus food critic (or a picky eater!) needs Keenan Hall main level, the balconies or in the Sept. 10 to do is browse the rooms at North Sept. 10 EDITORIAL CARTOON Ordinance illegality Reading the articles and letters Colt\ebOJt~f Adam Istvan Pe,twx.,eu.5 v-epov-t alumnus Class of 2005 Sept. 10 THE OBSERVER page 12 CENE Tuesday, September II, 2007 JOS RITTER ment of the record to fully appreciate its Hittnr's songwriting abilities. By JAMES COSTA power. The roughness of some of the record A songs, there are a few songs that stand By MARK MANLEY out. Scene Writer "The People" is probably one of the best tracks on the album. This song focuses on Common's nnwnst album brings mom the daily struggle of the working class and mack than StPv<~ .Jobs. describes how Common relates to them. "Finding ForPwr" is a solid piece that Musically, it flits in between major and ••• < ,J.j• you can put on and run through even if' minor, betwnen the mon~ syncopated feel ',,'''V'~. you'n~ not a diPhard hip-hop f'an. It putnpS or hip-hop and the smoothness ol' H&B - ,_~. out rn~ativP and grabbing beats and thus illustrating the ups and downs of life iii mixns in smooth amas with jazz voieings, nonvnrbally. Meanwhile, the lyrics paint a iff,-:Nt~ .~-:.K~.<,{--.l"~ crnating a song that is rnminisennt of Tlw similar picture. Boots. "I Want You" starts ofT with a heavy Tlw proclurN bPhind this work is none beat but quickly puts smooth voeals on ot.lwr than Kanyn West, so nxpnd nothing top. This is one of the dearest examples of lnss than a gn~at Iiston. Though the Common's pnnehant for contrast. A song Photo courtesy of hiphop.popcrunch.com strongnst part or tlw album is dnfinitnly its about lingering desire after a breakup, it Popular rapper Common's latest effort, "Finding Forever," was produced by ability to hn playPd without skipping deceptively sounds upbeat and the only Kanye West. The album is equal parts rap, R&B and social commentary. lyrical hook is "I want you." job. Although this song fits in well with Common takes another tone in this album. Finding Forever Another of the singles is the album, it does not seem to cateh the While both artists tackle similar sub Common "The Game." If you have ear that much. jects, Fiasco tends to take a more violent listened to even the tini Lyrically, the album doesn't break much stance, calling police "pigs," criticizing the Released by: Geffen Records est bit of rap, you can new ground, despite Common's solid government in an unprofessional, and Recommended Tracks: The People, I Want guess what this one is delivery and tendency to stay away from likely inefleetive, way. Common, on the about. In this song, the typical themes of misogyny and vio other hand, talks with self-respeet and You, The Game Common's lyrics fail to lence. Thus, he keeps his lyrics from being keeps away from bning too negative. impress. Here he focuses ordinary. Prevalent themes include strug Overall, Common does a great job with on his desire to overcome gling amidst poverty, black-on-black "Finding Forever." lie creates a cohesive all obstades and his need raeism, lost love and self-affirmation. work that strikes the listener on many of to be recognized as After a few listens, the album's content difl'ernnt levels and proves, despite a few strong. As far as the sounds similar to Lupe Fiasco, who low points, to largnly be a suc<:ess. music is eoncerned, recently performed as part of "The Show" Common does a mediocre last Friday at the Joyce Center. However, Contact Mark Manley at [email protected] THE OBSERVER page 13 CENE Tuesday, September 11, 2007 the U.S. like a tidal wave. The band was By CHRIS MCGRADY formed by Ed Roland (lead singer/song Assistant Scene Editor writer and keyboardist), Dean Roland (guitar), Joel Kosche (guitar), Will Turpin With the explosion of grunge in the (bass/percussion) and Shane Evans American Northwest, a multitude of bands (drums/percussion). They exploded onto emerged, either from within 1:he grunge the scene with their first album, "Hints movement or as a by-product of the new Allegations and Things Left Unsaid" an sound sensation that was beginning to album that blew up to a multi-platinum sweep the country. One of these bands, opening. By the end of 1994, the group was Collective Soul, who has just released had played with Aerosmith and was fea their latest, and 13th, effort entitled tured as part of Woodstock. "Afterworld." After a series of albums that varied in Collective Soul formed in Stockbridge, success, Collective Soul is back to its origi Georgia in the early '90s, a by-product of nal form on "Afterworld." The CD opens the grunge/punk movement that had with the track "New VIbration." Ironically, Photo courtesy of cavalierdaily.cam started in Seattle and was cruising across the song has strong influences from early Collective Soul has been around since the mid-90s and returns to form with the work by the group, par album "Afterworld." The CD is available only online and in Target stores. ticularly from the group's Afterworld self-titled 1995 release. sound, it does not stop it from being any nious, the song closes the album on a CollectivH Soul The song features the more addictive or fun to listen to. Roland's superb note. It is always depressing when driven rock-riffs that falsetto breaks the song into manageable, a CD ends on a bad note, leaving a sour Released by: Handleman Entertainment helped the band establish and enjoyable, chunks. taste in the listener's mouth. "Adored" Recommended Tracks: All That I Know, New itself. The ninth song, "Persuasion of You," does just the opposite - it makes the lis The fifth track, "All opens with a gain-heavy guitar and tener wish the album weren't over. Vibration, Persuasion of You, Adored That I Know," is another Roland's forceful singing. This might be All in all, "Afterworld" is a fine effort strong effort. The song the most nostalgic of the songs on the ·and the best to come out of Collective Soul opens with a quirky album and will invoke memories of in years. For anyone wishing for a dose of drumbeat, before Roland Collective Soul's previous-efforts "She nostalgia circa 1997, this is the album to echoes in with some well Gathers Rain," "Where the River Flows" buy. placed doo-wops. While and "Gel." the song is a bit cookie The album closes with "Adored," a fit Contact Chris McGrady at cutter in its overall ting end to a fine CD. Mellow and harmo- cmcgradl @nd.edu MATT HUDSON I ObseJVer Graphic so unique. Created by Notre Dame By TAE ANDREWS graduate Charlie Eberson, the film Scene Editor delves inside the hype and hysteria of the 2006 team and tails some Domers Maybe it's Touchdown Jesus. Maybe who bleed blue and gold. it's the leprechaun. Or maybe it's just The camera follows the shenanigans sonwthing alluring about those gor of Kevin Brau, last year's mascot, as he geous gold helmets. Whatever it is, bounces around on and off the field and there <:an be no denying that there is attempts to whip the Irish faithful into something spedal that separates Notre a frenzy. It also tracks the progress of Dame from a myriad other programs the Notre Dame marching band its per dotting the college football landscape. cussive drumline, and of course, the "Tradition Never Graduates" is a master of ceremonies himself, Charlie behind-the-senncs documentary follow We is. ing the 2006 Fighting Irish football sea There's something a tad nostalgic son. Beyond the gridiron action itself, about watching the film and seeing the Photo courtesy o1 kankassports.blogspo\.com the film attempts to answer a question late and great Brady Quinn raining six "Tradition Never Graduates," directed by Notre Dame alum Charlie Ebersol, about what exactly makes Notre Dame pointers on opposing secondaries, or follows the 2006 Notre Dame Football team through the entire season. watching Jeff Samardzija vault into throughout it all, the loyalty to this yelling in unison. There will be the Tradition Neve'r Graduates the end zone past a football team, this nation and this uni finest band in all the land on the field, An Insider's Look Into UCLA defender as Notre versity remains the same, whether it's featuring a drum line loud enough to Dame Stadium erupts the student section inside Notre Dame pop your eardrums. And at the end of Notre Dame Football 2006 into mass hysteria. Of Stadium or the roving Ramblers who every home game, win or lose, every course, like last season made the trips out to Southern Notre Dame student will wrap his or itself, the film is a California or down to Louisiana for her arms around the people standing Directed by: Charlie Eb,arsol rollercoaster, soaring to matchups with USC and LSU. next to them and sing the alma mater ecstatic highs during Regardless of the numbers posted in while swaying to and fro. improbably come-from the win and loss columns, there remain In other words, everyone here drinks behind wins and sinking certainties about every Notre Dame the Kool Aid, and it's green. So love to very low lows after football game. There will be legions of thee some Notre Dame and check out suffering drubbings at Irish faithful showing their colors in the "Tradition Never Graduates." the hands of far superi student section, wearing their hearts or opponents. But, on their sleeves and fist-pumping and Contact Tae Andrews at tandrew I @nd.edu page 14 The Observer + CLASSIFIEDS Tuesday, September 11, 2007 MLB- NATIONAL LEAGUE Ramirez blasts two clingers in rout of Cards Howard caps Philadelphia's 3-run comeback against Colorado; Armas shuts down Brewers .in easy Pirates' victory was a thing of beauty. We hit Associated Pre'-' thn ball for power. We hit the CIIICACO- Tlw Cubs will ball in the gaps. We hit the gladly pardon tlw interrup ball with men in scoring posi tion ol' tlwir I 0-ganw trip. tion," Cubs manager Lou Chicago got 17 hits during a l'iniella said. "A game like ono-ganw stopovnr at Wriglny this ean rnally get you going." Finld. lwlping Tnd Lilly win St. Louis, which started the his I !ith ganu~ and bnating the day three back of the St. Louis Cardinals 12-3. Brewers, lost its fourth "It is WPird." said Aramis straight and dropped to 69- Bamirez, who honwrnd twice 72. and had four hits. "We were Both teams made a quick supposed to lw in Houston dntour to play the makeup, having a day ofT today, and caused by an Aug. 19 rainout. wn're hnrP playing a game in The Cardinals came to Chicago." Chicago from Arizona and Hamirnz wasn't complain didn't land until around 11:30 ing, just happy to see his p.m. Sunday night. Next, the tnammatns join him in a rare World Series champions have ofTnnsivn outburst. three games at the Reds. "WP struggled the last cou "There's no doubt in my ple ol' weeks to put runs on mind we'll be ready to play in the board and we lost a cou Cincinnati," Cardinals manag ple of' tough games," Hamirez er Tony La Russa said. "I said. "It's fun when everybody know we're going to play is getting their hits, for per hard enough, but then you sonal rnasons and for the have to play good enough. We team." were close in Arizona. This AP It was just the third win in was a game that got out of Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, center, is surrounded by teammates after hitting a game night games for Chicago, control. It was ugly." winning double in the 10th inning of Philadelphia's 6-5 win Monday over Colorado. which fell out of first place Sunday for the first time since Phlllles 6, Rockies 5 (10) inning after Burrell tied the within 1 1/2 games of the idle back by losing two of three in Aug. 16 and began the Pat Burrell's second-half game with a dramatic homer wild card-leading Padres. The Pittsburgh over the weekend. Monday one gamf~ behind surge has Philadelphia on the in the seventh, leading the Hockies are 3 1/2 games back. Armas and relievers Milwaukee in the NL Central. brink of the wild-card lead. Phillies to a victory over the "I think we've kind of shift Franquelis Osoria and Homulo Derrek Lee and Ramirez More games like this one and Colorado Hockies on Monday ed our attention away from Sanchez combined on the homered in a five-run fourth, the Phillies just might get night. the [NL East-leading] Mets," four-hitter, blanking a team and Hamirez added another there. "We've got to keep winning Burrell said. "I think six that broke loose at Cincinnati solo shot in a four-run eighth. Hyan Howard doubled home and playing hard," Burrell games at this point is too on Sunday with eight extra "Whore's that been? That the winning run in the 1Oth said. much. So we had to regroup. base hits in a 10-5 victory. While Burrell knew his Sometimes that's hard." "That's how it goes like home run was gone from the that," Brewers manager Ned moment it left his bat, Yorvit Pirates 9, Brewers 0 Yost said when asked how his Torrealba's shot left too much The Pittsburgh Pirates are team couldn't advance a run doubt about clearing the in the middle of the NL ner past second after scoring fence in the fourth. The Central race despite being I 0 runs the day beforn. "lie Hockies' catcher ended up two losses from a 15th con located his pitches very well. with a controversial ground secutive losing season. changed speeds, kept tlw ball rule double, allowing Burrell's They're not close to first down and was on the attack swing to set up another plac·e, but they keep beating early in the count." thrilling win f'or the Phillies. the teams fighting for it. Armas (4-5), winless until Chase Utley led ofT the 1Oth Tony Armas pitched six Aug. 1, allowed three singles with a single off Taylor sharp innings a day after in shutting down tho Brewers Buchholz (6-5). the seventh Milwaukee hit six home runs, for his f'ourth victory in five pitcher for Colorado. After and Nate McLouth's two-run career decisions against Burrell struck out, Howard homer carried Pittsburgh to them. lie has won !'our of' his lined a double to left, and the another home-field victory last six overall after going 0-3 speedy Utley hustled all the over the Brewers, on Monday during the first half' of' the way around for the winning night. season. run as the Phillins continue to Milwaukee's loss, its fourth "You're soeing a very conn gain ground in their playoff in five games in Pittsburgh dent pitchnr right now and a push. this season, dropped the pitelwr who's vnry comfort The Hoekies and Phillies are Brewers back into a first able with his pitches," Pirates jostling in the NL wild-card place tie in the NL Central manager .Jim Tnu:y said. "lie standings, and Philadelphia with the Chicago Cubs, who kept them of'f' stride. 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Giants 0·1 .000 35 45 Philadelphia 0·1 .000 13 16 NFC North AP team record perc. PF PA Orthopedic surgeon Andrew Cappuccino describes the injury Bills tight end Kevin Everett suffered in Buffalo's loss to Detroit 1·0 1.000 36 21 Denver Sunday. Everett recieved a life-threatening spinal cord injury while trying to make a tackle. Green Bay 1·0 1.000 16 13 Minnesota 1·0 1.000 24 3 Chicago 0·1 .000 3 14 Everett likely to be paralyzed NFC South team record perc. PF PA Associated Press off. Everett dropped face lessen. Cappuccino said it Everett showed no signs of Carolina 1·0 1.000 27 13 first to the ground after his will take up to three days to movement as he was placed Atlanta 0·1 .000 3 24 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - helmet hit Hixon high on determine the severity of on a backboard and, with New Orleans 0·1 .000 10 41 Kevin Everett sustained a the left shoulder and side of the injury and the recovery his head and body immobi Tampa Bay 0·1 .000 6 20 "catastrophic" and life the helmet. process. lized, carefully loaded into threatening spinal-cord Cappuccino noted the 25- Cappuccino repaired a an ambulance. NFC West injury while trying to make year-old reserve tight end break between the third "It brought tears to my team record perc. PF PA a tackle during the Buffalo did have touch sensation and fourth vertebrae and eyes," Moorman said after Bills' season opener and is throughout his body and also alleviated the pressure practice. He said the sight SeaHie 1·0 1.000 20 6 unlikely to walk again, the also showed signs of move on the spinal cord. In of Everett's motionless body Arizona 0·0 .000 0 0 surgeon who operated on ment. But he cautioned that reconstructing his spine, brought back memories of .000 San Francisco 0·0 0 0 him Monday said. Everett's injury was life doctors made a bone graft Mike Utley, the former St. Louis 0·1 .000 13 27 "A best-case scenario is threatening because he was and inserted a plate, held in Detroit Lions guard, who full recovery, but not likely," still susceptible to blood by four screws, and also was paralyzed below the orthopedic surgeon Andrew clots, infection and breath inserted two small rods, chest after injuring his neck Cappuccino said. "I believe ing failure. held in place by another in a collision during a 1991 MIAA Women's Soccer there will be some perma Everett is in the intensive four screws. game. nent neurologic deficit." care unit of Buffalo's Doctors, however, weren't Utley, Moorman recalled, Everett was hurt Sunday Millard Fillmore Gates able to repair all the dam at least was able to give team record after he ducked his head Hospital, where he is under age. what's become a famous while tackling the Denver sedation and breathing Bills punter Brian "thumbs up" sign as he was 1 Albion 4·0·0 Broncos' Domenik Hixon through a respirator as doc Moorman immediately taken off the field. Everett 1 Kalamazoo 4·0·0 during the second-half kick- tors wait for the swelling to feared the worst when didn't. 3 SAINT MARY'S 3·0·0 4 Olivet 3·1·0 5 Alma 3·1·1 6 Hope 2·2·0 IN BRIEF 6 Adrian 2·2·0 8 Galvin 2·3-0 MLB requests meeting with Hart remains certain that Rules relaxed on Rugby 9 Tri-State 0-4-0 Gibbons regarding steroids Michigan will win World Cup videos NEW YOHK - Baltimore Orioles ANN ARBOR Mich. -Mike Hart did PARIS - International news outfielder Jay Gibbons joined the list n't meet with the mBdia Monday, but agencies reached an agreement of players asked to meet with base Michigan's star running back has said Monday with organizers of the ball officials after being linked to a enough to last the rest of the week. Rugby World Cup on relaxing Florida pharmacy that distributed Hart guaranteed the Wolverines restrictions for posting video on prescription performanceLenhancing would beat Notre Dame in a packed, Web sites. drugs. postgame news conference Saturday Under the deal, The Associated A day after Sl.com reported after they iell to 0-2. Press, Heuters, Agence France around tl1e dial Gibbons received steroids and human He didn't back off his comments Presse and other agencies that growth hormone from Signature when a handful of reporters surround cover tournament news confer Pharmacy after both substances ed him for follow-up questions. ences, training sessions and other were banned, baseball requested a "I honestly think we're not going to non-match activities now can dis POKER meeting with the Orioles outfielder. lose," Hart said after the Ducks domi tribute as much of their video as World Series of Poker No timetable was set for the meet nated Michigan 39-7. "There's really they think their subscribers need. ing, a person familiar with the situa no doubt in my mind. After you go 0-2, Previously, rugby officials had 8 p.m., ESPI\1 tion said Monday, speaking on condi there is nowhere to go but up. sought to limit the agencies to three tion of anonymity because no "Get beat again? It's not going to minutes of video per day of the 20- WNBA announcement was made. happen." nation championship in France. Detroit Shock at Phoenix Mercury On Friday, baseball asked to meet Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis said "We're very glad this issue has 9 p.m., ESPN 2 with St. Louis' Rick Ankiel and he might have made the same guaran been resolved and that the right of Toronto's Troy Glaus after reports tee if he watched his team get routed news organizations to manage the that they received performance in its fJrst two games, but he certainly video they shoot has been enhancing drugs from Signature plans to use the bulletin-board materi affirmed," said the AP's executive Pharmacy several years ago. al. editor, Kathleen Carroll. ~------ page I6 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, September II, 2007 NFL FIFA WoMEN's WoRLD CuP Despite vvin, schedule Germany sends message play set for five cities around attention to top striker Kristine keeps Titans focused U.S. team takes notice China. The final is Sept. 30 in LiUy. of Germans' record Shanghai. "They treated her like David Kerstin Garefrekes, and mid Beckham," Hampone said. setting win in opener fielders Melanie Behringer and "Everywhere you go, even the Renate Lingor scored the other stairs, there's a security guard goals. there." Associated Press The Germans dominated mid Ameriean coach Greg Hyan SHANGHAI, China field and knocked balls over the said the seeurity was much like Germany sent an emphatic mes smaller Argentine defenders. th~t ~t ~he Ath~m~ Olymp_ics ... sage with its 11-0 romp over "It was easier than expected," Its fantastic, he sa1d. We Argentina in the Women's Prinz said. "We can travel very World Cup opener: The defend had a lot of quickly with the ing champions will not give up open space police escorts and their title easily. and we used "It was easier our players feel And contenders like the No. 1- that space. We very secure." ranked Americans, who play took our than expected. " Defender Kate North Korea fn Group B in chances well." Markgraf said the Chengdu on Tuesday, will cer A d d e d Birgit Prinz Americans have tainly take notice. Germany German forward grown accus Germany set a Women's coach Silvia tomed to the spe- World Cup for goals by one Neid: "Our eial attention. AP team and the largest margin of offense never ''We feel very Titans quarterback VInce Young scrambles by Jaguars safety Brian victory. The previous record for stopped going safe here in Williams during Tennessee's 1.3-10 win over Jacksonville Sunday. the most lopsided result was 8-0 forward, and we played well China," Markgraf said. "When twice: Sweden over Japan in down the wings." you are in another country play 1991, and Norway over Nigeria One of the world's top strik ing in such a big tournament Associated Press holes against Jacksonville. Chris Brown, back on a one in 1995. ers, Prinz scored with a thump there are already so many pres NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The year contract after finding lit Birgit Prinz and Sandra ing header, knocked in a loose sures on you that the last thing Tennessee Titans have no time tle interest as a free agent, ran Smisek each scored three goals. ball at the far post and then you want tb think about is that to enjoy their season-opening the ball better than anyone The last by Prinz was her 12th slipped a glancing header past you are unsafe." victory over AFC South rival else Sunday in the NFL. His overall in the World Cup fmals, Argentine goalkeeper Vanina "Everywhere we go we wind Jacksonville. Not with the career-high 175 yards rushing equaling American Michelle Correa. up getting a lot of security," she defending Super Bowl champs on 19 carries - a staggering Akers' record for World Cup For the Americans, in particu added. "We all pretty used to it. up next. 9.2-yard average - was more goals. lar, security is evident at the It's become more normal. It The Titans watched their 13- than his 156 yards in 2006. It was no contest from the World Cup. The U.S. team is fol doesn't faze us but we are 10 victory over the Jaguars, a Starter LenDale White ran 12th minute in the Group A lowed by a Chinese security grateful it's there." game in which they ran for 18 times for 66 yards and game when Argentina goal force dressed all in black, sport The 21 American women 282 yards and held the ball for couldn't gain a yard at the keeper Vanina Correa tipped a ing bulletproof vests and carry seem rnlaxed as they prepared nnarly :H minutes. to identify Jags 1 on fourth-down. Fisher corner kick into her own net. ing sidearms and large auto to start playing. Twenty-four tlw few mistakes that must be said he wants to split carries She gave up another own-goal matic weapons. hours before the opening game, corroded. 60-40 and left open the chance in the final seconds of the game. The heavy security could be a the main activity was painting But tho home opener against that Brown might have earned "It was a nightmare start for test for next year's Beijing fingernails red, white and blue. tho Colts kept the Titans from his first start in nearly a year. our team," Argentine coach Olympics or in anticipation of "I know, we're very rough and enjoying their "It is a week Jose Carlos Borrello said. the team's opening on Sept. 11 tough aren't we," Markgraf first season- to-week thing," Japan and England, the other in a highly charged game joked. "It's kind of really girlie, opening win Fisher said. teams in Group A, open play against North Korea. and that's what we like to do." since 2004 for As happy as Tuesday in Shanghai. Play in "It's like we have a SWAT Hyan, who is undefeated in 46 too long. "Indy's a big week Fisher was with Group C and D begins team behind us when we go to games since taking over as "Indy's a big around here." the running pro Wednesday, getting the 16-tour practice," defender Christie coach, has had to tell his team week around duction, he nament up to full speed with Rampone said, noting the extra to ease up in practice. horn," deftmsive Kyle Vanden Bosch wants better end Kyle production near Vanden Bosch Titans defensive end the goal line. said Monday. They got inside "Everybody gets the Jaguars 13 excited for it. four of their It's the defending Super Bowl first seven drives and scored U.S. AIR I'ORCE champs. If we really want to only two field goals and one R•O•T•C make a name for ourselves, touchdown. we h~ve to play well this "You can't do that. Granted, week. their defense is a good The Nf'L didn't help the defense, but we left points (om Titans much in the scheduling the board yesterday," Fisher department. said. The Titans' first two games Fisher said Vince Young did are against AFC South oppo a good job managing the nents. a start that could trip a game, even though completing IF YOU SPEAK A team up quickly. Coach Jeff 11-of-18 for 78 yards didn't Fisher noted the Colts (1-0l seem like much. Fisher said have had a few extra days to Young was very accurate on prnparn for their first road some tough throws that kept FOREIGN LANGUAGE, trip after optming the season drives alive. last Thursday night. The defense that gave up ''I'm sure they got a good more yards per game than any start.. and we have to catch other in the NFL in 2006 held SEE THE WORLD. up." Fislwr said. Jacksonville to 272 and only Tho Titans couldn't have got 72 of those on the ground in tml off to a mueh better start what Vanden Bosch said they thmnselvns a year after start hope sets the tone for this sea ing 0-5 before winning six of son. its final snvnn. That left them "We said the type of team we a gamn short of their first want to be, we want to stop playoff berth sinee 2003. the run. We want to run the So they opened up 2007 with ball on offm1se. That's exactly If you speak a foreign Language or are currently learning one, we tlw sncond-bnst rushing game what we did. Hopefully, that's have countless opportunities awaiting you in Air Force ROTC. in team history. form f~.r us e_very game this Tlw ofTPnse. hadn't held the season, he sa1d. hall this long since Oct. 11, The Titans split with • Tuition assistance • Officer. commission 2004, wlwn tho Titans had it Indianapolis last season, los • Monthly living allowance • See the world. 38 minutes against Green Hay. ing 14-13 on the road and A big improvement for an pulling out a 20-17 win here in o!Tense that avPraged 27 min December on a 60-yard field Our current language needs include Chinese, Persian. Hindi, ut.Ps ol" time of possession in goal. Indonesian and countless others. 201H>. last in tlw NFL. The game plan will be Tlw Titans ranked fifth in changing against Indianapolis, tho lnagw~ rushing the ball last but not by much. Call1-866-4AF-ROTC or visit AFROTC.COM. snason. They cut Travis Henry "As we've shown, one way of in Mareh ~~vPn though he ran effectively playing the Colts is for 1,211 yards, but each keeping their offense off the starter on tho offensive line field," Fisher said. "To do that. n~turned. They opened huge you have to hand the ball ofT." Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The Observer+ SPORTS page 17 TENNIS Federer receives high praise from Sampras Record holder for all-time major championships says it's a matter of when, not if, Federer will break record sages Federer received after Associated Press ward was one from his pal NEW YORK - Some advi,ce, Tiger Woods, whose career is sports fans: Be sure to appre in many ways defined by his ciate Roger Federer, to relish pursuit of Jack Nicklaus' his brilliance with a racket. to record for golf majors. understand exactly what a How quickly could Federer rare treat a champion of his pass Sampras? caliber and character is. Consider .this: In 2004, 2006 Don't just take my word for and 2007, Federer won three it. of each season's four majors. Listen, instead, to someone "It's exciting. Very exciting. I who knows a lot more abqut mean, I used to not like it so tennis, someone who figures it much. All that, 'He's the one is a matter of when - not who can break it.' Or, 'He will whether break it. He's so talented,' and Feden~r will stuff. And you're break P(~te like, 'Ooof, my Sampras' "If there's a player God, I'm so far records of 14 and a person that I'd away.' It's just Grand Slam hard, and it titles. like to see break this, wears on you," Listen to it would be Roger." Federer told a Pistol Pete him group of r e p ·o r t e r s self. Pete Sampras "I did all I Monday at a could do in the forme•· tennis player Times Square '90s, and I real- restaurant. ly thought the "So to have 14 would be tough to beat. caught up so quickly to Pete is Little did I know Hoger would a big bonus for me, already come along and dominate the early on in my career.... And way he has - and that could the focus is becoming more last a while longer," Sampras and more. the Grand Slams." said Monday in a telephone In the next breath, Federer interview from Los Angele.s. made sure to point out that he "If there's a player and a takes all tournaments, big and person that I'd like to see small, seriously. With 51 total break this, it would be Hoger. titles, who could argue? But lie's a great guy. Lets his rack he clearly is signaling that he is finally ready to embrace the Roger Federer. falls to the ground in celebration of his victory over Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final et do the talking. One of those of the U.S. Open. It was Federer's fourth consecutive U.S. Open title and 12th Grand Slam. humble champions I like." chase. Still only 26, Federer collect So, to his credit, is the man ed his 12th Grand Slam title whose mark is being pursued. at 14. Or 15. records are made to be bro seem to be generating more Sunday at the U.S. Open by And Sampras; who was 31 "I won't be disappointed - ken," Sampras said. "He'll win buzz Stateside than in the beating Novak Djokovic 7-6 when he won the 2002 U.S. it's more respect than any a ton more. Motivation will be past. (4), 7-6 (2), 6-4. Among the 40 Open for his last major title, thing. Would I like my record his biggest hurdle, but he He drew notice for his Man or so congratulatory text m!~s- doesn't expect Federer to stop to last forever? Of course. But could win 17,18 majors the in Black outfits at the Open. way he's going, if he's He chatted Monday with Matt healthy." and Meredith on "Today," then If there's a knock on spent time with "Regis and Federer, it's pretty much the Kelly." He was greeted with (Sizzlelini®) same as the only one people applause when he walked into Siz~le'ne could come up with when the Oscar de Ia Renta show at Every Tuesday enjoy our Sampras ruled tennis. New York Fashion Week and He's kinda boring, they say. sat next to Vogue editor-in Sizzlelini® Specialty (enough Doesn't berate linesmen on chief Anna Wintour, a friend. for two) for just $10.95 the court the way Connors and Federer's bid to catch McEnroe did, doesn't raise a Sampras resumes in January A sizzling skillet of tender chicken. ruckus off it the way Becker at the Australian Open, a tour savory sausage or both served with and Borg did. 1-Iasn 't married nament the Swiss star has an actress (Brooke) or a tennis won three of the past four a zesty tomato sauce accented star (Steffi) the way Agassi years. Win again, and Federer did. (Well, actually, Sampras will have 13 Slams come with peppers and onions on top did marry an actress.) March 10, when he and of a generous por-tion of spaghetti. Not surprisingly, Federer Sampras meet in an exhibition and Sampras think that sort of at Madison Square Garden. criticism is unwarranted. They played for real only Bd- I<~ fie (Bellini) - "That's really searching for once, at Wimbledon in 2001, something to say. Will he when Federer beat Sampras A frosty raspberry, green apple or make headlines with his antics in five sets. At the time, peach Italian work of art for $2 like some past champions? No, Federer had yet to win a but that's not what he's about. major; Sampras would go on That's why I like watching to win one more. Tiiz-dEz (Tuesdays) him," Sampras said. "I know "I knew he was extremely Visit us EVERY Tuesday for what that's like. I wasn't excit talented then - a lot of ing enough. I didn't do enough power, didn't have holes in his lunch or dinner to celebrate on the court or off the court." ·game," Sampras said. "He fig During the U.S. Open, the ured it out kind of how I fig Sizzlelini® Bellini Tuesdays! mild-mannered Federer was ured it out in my early 20s. seen in contrast to the gregar Then, the way he started win ious Djokovic, he of the per ning majors pretty much with fect impersonations of Maria ease, I just accepted that he Sharapova and Hafael Nadal was going to break my right there in Arthur Ashe record." Stadium after a quarterfinal Now 36, Sampras knows he KITCHEN match. can't keep adding to his Slam After Sunday's victory, count. e. Pederer said, "It's good to Sure would feel nice to put Unmistakably Italian \Unbelievably Good have a character like him out the kid in his place for one there," but he also noted that, day in the Big Apple, though. "some guys weren't happy" "I still serve well. Roger's 5110 Edison Lakes Parkway about the late-night lounge Hoger. It's going to hopefully act. You almost got the feeling be competitive tennis," Federer's thinking might be: Sampras said. "We both want Mishawaka 57 4-271-1692 "How about winning a Slam or ed to do it because our names two before you start goofing have been linked and will be Reservations Accepted around?" linked for the next couple of Federer, meanwhile, does years." page 18 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, September 11, 2007 PGA NCAA FOOTBALL N evv baby can't break UW's Bielema seeing red Tiger'? winning ways Badgers' head coach wants home crowd to ously contending at the British Associated Press Open, thorn was talk that swing dress as one Saturday LEMONT, Ill. - Tlw massive eoaeh I lank Hanp,y was holding gallery chasing Tiger Woods him back. Never mind that Woods Associated Press around Cog llill indudl'd his wife, had won four of the previous Jo:lin, who was on tho golf' coursn eight llH\jors, and none of' his eon MADISON, Wis.- Wiseonsin for t.lw lirst limn siJl(~O giving birth temporaries have more than coaeh Bret Bielema doesn't to llwir daughtPr. It was a sign thr1~e for tlwir career. want his players dwelling on thny ar·p snttling bark into a rou Woods quieted that talk with the Badgers' 11-game winning tinn, 1wen if' Woods rwvnr got out his victory at the PGA streak. of OIW. Championship. lie doesn't want them worry lie's still winning. And lhr those who question his ing about dropping two spots to For thosP wondering how ability oil' the tne, he missed only No. 7 in the AP poll this week, fatherhood might al'fnrt him, two fairways the entim wnekend dnspite a 2-0 record. Woods is !ih undPr par in thn six at Cog llill. Asked the last time he Mainly, he donsn't want them tournamenl" lw has playnd sinn~ had struck tho ball that well. thinking Saturday's opponent, Sam AIPxis was horn a day after Woods mnntionnd Southern I !ills, The Citadel, will be an easy win tlw U.S. 0 pn n. That i ncludns noting that the I'GA fairways just boca use the team comes thnw victories, orw of tlwm a worn morn narrow. from tho Football nH\jor, and anothPr milestone. Memories can bn short. Championship Subdivision. Woods donsn 't keep track of tlw Justin Hosn has played with the Instead, Bielema wants his numhnrs. so lw was mildly sur world's No. 1 player on big stages tnam to see rod. Wisconsin quarterback Tyler Donovan throws a pass during the pl'isPd to lnarn that his two-shot likn MuirliPid and Carnoustic. But ''I'd love to walk irito Camp Badgers' 42-21 win over Washington State on Sep. 1, 2007. victory owr Aaron Baddeley in this was the first time in a final Handall [Stadium[ and see a thn BMW Championship on round. and he noticed a difl'nr sea of red." Bielnma said While time will toll if' Snpt. 1, Tlw Citadel is a mem Sunday was No. hO in a PGA Tour nnen. Monday. "One of the things I Bielema's color scheme catches ber of the Football ('.amer that lwgan II years and "lin's so intense. but he's also bngan to see and expmience in on, the Badgers arn riding an Championship Subdivision. for I:~ days Parlinr. inerndibly relaxPd," Hose said. eollegn football is people walk 11-game winning streak that is merly Division 1-AA. Only four otlwr players have "You can see ho lets his round into an environment like that, tops in the nation. Bielema, Tlw Citadel knows all about won that many times - Sam build. lin starts ofl' vnry relaxed, with everybody all in one color, calling the stroak a "big thing." making history, too. It's 76-0 Srwad, .lark Nicklaus. Ben I logan very ealm. doesn't let anything it's kind of an overwhelming said he talknd to his team about thrashing of Webber and · Arnold bother him. And thing for everybody to be a part it on the plane after the lntPrnational on Saturday was then as the round ... l'alrnnr - and no 0.1 Badgers returned from a eorne its highest scoring game since orro has rc~aehPd "And to have gnts on and he Bielerna broke with tradition l'rom-behind 20-13 vietory 1909. The win puts The Citadnl that numlwr so gnts morn into it, this many wins, I for the Badgers' home opener against UNLV on Saturday at 2-0, the best start for the quickly. Woods is he get~ more ~nd two weeks ago against night. Southern Conl'ernnce team ;{I. Nicklaus was never could have more loeused. Washington State, dressing the "I knew they wore going to sincn 1997. ;{!i and in his forseen that. " That's what players in all red instead of red hear it, so I wanted them to Ikspite dropping two spots in 14th season on coach Butch and white. While the new uni hear it out of my mouth first. ... ran kings, Binlema said he's not tour when lw !Iarmon was try form drew a mixed reaction I wanted them to have it in the thinking about trying to make a Tiger Woods rnadwd his hOth ing to share with from fans, the players loved it, context of' the way we think statement against The Citadel. lour victory. American Golfer Phil Mickelson and Bielema said it will be baek around here," Bielema said. "I don't even worry about "I nnvnr, ever about his former against The Citadel. Not taking anything for grant stating the ease. I worry about would have client. "I love to see just red swarm ed is the message this week as one game at a time," Bielema drnamt that this W h e n ing the football," Bielema said. Wisconsin plays The Citadel for said. "If Wfl ever bngin to think wuld havn happened this soon." Mickelson won the Deutsche "As this thing hopefully gains the first time. Like Appalachian about a statnment or thinking Woods said aftor making eight Bank Championship last week momentum, it will have a huge State, which shocked Michigan beyond where we're at right hirdios, missing only one fairway outside Boston while playing ell'ect at Camp Randall." with a victory in Ann Arbor on now, we'll never get there." and posting a h3 that neither three rounds with Woods, he Baddeley nor Steve Stricker eould madH it sound as though Harmon matdr. had shamd some secrets. ''I've been out horn what, 11 In fact, Harmon said the tips years'! And to have this many wen-1 the same thing Rose discov wins, I nnver could have liJrese1m ered. that," lw said. "I've exceeded my "One of the things he expectations, and it's bmm a lot of [Mickelson] can learn trom Tiger fun to mrjoy that road, that whole is he doesn't let anything bother process to get to 60. It's been a lot him," Harmon said in a telephone of' work. Thorn have been some interview last week. "Tiger's changes along the way. But I greatest strength is what you Student International think that's all been grnat." can't see - his mind, his heart, The Tour Championship will be his desire. I explained things I Business Council his final ollidal start of 2007, so learned in my 1 0 years being Woods will have to wait until next around Tiger, and it was geared year to surpass Palmer, who is toward making Phil more com fin1rth on thH career list with 62 fortable in that environment." victories. If he eontinues at this Along with reaching his 60th pac11, he also will pass I logan (64 tour victory, the timing could not SIBC All-Council Informational Meeting vietorins) next year. have been any better for the PGA Odds arn he will break Snead's Tour. rneord of 82 victories before he The FedEx Cup now has the TONIGHT!!! gets to Nicklaus' meord of 18 pro No. 1 player atop the standings filssional majors. going into the Tour Tuesday, September 11th @7 PM Ac.; long and as often as Woods Championship, with Stricker and has bmm winning, the rate is no Mickelson right behind and l;>oth less alarming. capable of winning the $10 mil Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza Hemernber, it was only 13 lion prize. Woods winning the cup months ago at the Buick Open would lend some measure of that Woods reached his 50th credibility for the skeptics. .f Become involved in the largest student-run organization on campus earner victory. Since thon, he has Stricker or Mickelson as the won 1 0 times in 19 starlc.;. FedEx Cup champion would .f Work on projects with BIG NAME companies (Deloitte, Starcom, etc.) "Not bad, p,h'!" was the best mean they won two of the four response Woods could lind. playoff events. There's nothing .f Build your resume But he smiled and half:-jokingly wrong with that, either. said another slump was eminent Having those three among the .f Intern abroad if he wAnt a coupiH of tourna top contenders will help take menlc.; without winning. some attention away from the Woods has been dealing with greens at East Lake, which are in such expectations for the last bad enough shape that practice ALL Majors and Years Welcome! eight years, and there are times rounds effectively have been he gets too sensitive over any cri banned. sibc.nd.edu tique of' his game. A little subcu Woods helped promote the "' PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE "' taneous fat is better than thin FedEx Cup by doing TV spots for skin. the tour, the first time he had But it's amazing how quickly done a commercial for free. He is public opinion can changn. After among players who wonder failing to win while playing in the about the shelf life of these PGA final group at the Masters and Tour PlayoiTs. But if there's a tro the U.S. Open, then never seri- phy on the line, he wants it. Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The Observer + SPORTS page 19 NFL Turnovers help Bengals defeat rival Ravens McNair leaves with injured groin, replacement Boller throws last-minute interception to end comeback effort Associated Press CINCINNATI - With wound ed players shuffling orr in waves, what was left of the Cincinnati Bengals rallied for a win that hurt so good. Steve McNair's intercepLion - his fourth gaffe of the game - set up Carson Palmer's fourth-quarter touchdown pass, and Cincinnati's suspect defense pulled off a goal-line stand Monday night that pre served a 27-20 victory over the Baltimore Ravens.z In a bruising season opener matching the last two AFC North champs, the Bengals were the last one standing - barely. "We know it's going to be a hard-fought game when we play these guys - tough, physical," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. "It's important to in the physical football games because you put so much into it." Kyle Boller took over after McNair strained his groin in the fourth quarter - the last in a nonstop run of injuries for both teams - and led the Ravens to the 1-yard line in the closing seconds. A pass interference penalty AP on Todd Heap negated his Bengals defensive tackle Michael Myers, right, intercepts a tipped pass in front of Ravens tackle Adam Terry. The pick stopped catch in the end zone, and Baltimore's last-minute drive in the fourth quarter of Cincinnati's 27-20 win over Baltimore Monday night. Boller's final pass deflected off Heap's shoulder and was ter. They also briefly lost kick came up big for the Bengals, game to a frantic finish. fewest points and yards in the intercepted in the end zone by er Shayne Graham, costing catching five passes for 95 Safety Ed Reed returned a NFL. It was poised to assert diving lineman Michael them on an extra-point try. yards, including a 39-yard punt untouched 63 yards for a itself against the Bengals, who Myers. Even receiver Chad Johnson touchdown. touchdown that put the won it in 2005. The Bengals had to work limped off at one point, evi "I told you I would give you Ravens ahead 20-19 early in Ravens linebacker Ray with a makeshift offensive dently suffering from a a show," Johnson said. the fourth quarter and Lewis got himself in the mood line that was missing three cramp. The Pro Bowl receiver Both teams overcame signif silenced the crowd of 66,093, for the matchup by hopping starters by the second quar- and incessant self-promoter icant injuries to send the the second-largest in Paul and waving his arms in the Brown Stadium's history. Reed orange-striped end zone like a had to return kicks because heavyweight getting ready for B.J. Sams sprained a knee. the opening bell. STUDENTS The emotional lift didn't last He was the first one long. McNair had the most to knocked out of the game. do with that. On Cincinnati's first pass, In his second season run-. Lewis lowered his shoulder Transportation Services will be offering ning the Ravens' offense, he and leveled Houshmandzadeh. two L•river Training Sessions in September. had one of his worst .games. 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Cincinnati made the 2-point The Bengals' offensive line conversion on Rudi Johnson's was missing three starters at run. one point: tackles Willie If you have any questions on the Driver Training McNair strained his groin on Anders,on and Levi Jones, as sessioltls or the Motor Pool you may contact the next series and finished well as center Eric Ghiaciuc. the game 20-of-34 for 203 Ravens 10-time Pro Bowl left Transportation Services at 631-6467 yards. tackle Jonathan Ogden left in Baltimore won the division the second quarter; he missed by five games last season with most of preseason with a sore a defense that gave up the big toe on his left foot. page 20 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, September 11, 2007 NFL CLUB SPORTS 49ers rename field Ultimate wins eight games after former coach Sailing takes second place at Fast Fury Regatta in Wisconsin Special to The Observer early lead and never looked ceeded to score 12 of the and memorialize what Bill has back on its way to a 12-6 next 14 points on its way to Associated Press done," 49ers owner John York Ultimate Frisbee win. a 15-7 rout. Junior Daniel SAN FHANCISCO - The said of the club's weeks of This weekend Notre Dame Notre Dame had one more Reimer continued to provide names on the Bay Area's sports memorials to its former coach traveled to Naperville, Ill., game Saturday, against the same spark that he had arenas sometimes change faster and general manager. "I think for the Chicago Heavyweight Wheaton. all weekend, and the other than the names on the back of this is very appropriate for Bill, Championships, a presti Familiar with Wheaton team couldn't find an players' jerseys. and I'm glad we were able to do gious club tournament that from multiple games answer. The an~a·s live major-league it." brings teams together from between the two teams last By posting an 8-0 record, Vfmuns have had a total of 17 The 49ers made extensive across the country. spring, the Irish were able to the Irish hope to use this oflieial nanws since 1995, with prnparations in recent weeks for The. team was seeded low capitalize on their under success as a springboard at least three appellations for their regular-season tribute to in the 48-team field, but standing of the opponent. toward greater achieve nvnry building. When Northern Walsh, the Hall of Fame coach proved over the course of Led by graduate student ments during the College California's thriving high-tech and the architect of the 49ers' the weekend they deserved a Steve Kurtz, who played in Series in the spring. economy gets together with Super Bowl dynasty. Walsh died little more respPct. 18 of the 22 points of the The club will travel to m o rwy- hungry landlords, they of leukemia on July 30, and the Play started Saturday with game, Notre Dame held on Whitewater. Wis., for its next create monikf~rs ranging from city of San Francisco announced a game against a masters' for a 13-9 victory. tournament Sept: 29-30. tho euphonic (l'adlic Bell Park. its plan to change the name of club team from Milwaukee. The 5-0 record Saturday Orade An~nal to the grating the field during a memorial The game was elose early put the team in great posi Sailing ( NetworkAo.;sodatPs Coliseum I to servic1~ at Candlestick several on, but once Notre Dame tion for play on Sunday. The Notre Dame finished sec the hopnlnssly obtuse (Compaq days later. settled down with the help of first game matched Notre ond in a 12-team field at tlw Cmrtnr at San ./osP, anymw'!). The dub printnd up commem steady play from sophomore Dame with a club team from Fast Fury Hngalta in Thn most bdoved and historic orative programs and posters Andrew Schroeder, they Oklahoma. Again, a fast Wisconsin this wenkend. venue is aging Candlest.ir.k Park, for the regular-season debut of pulled away with a 13-7 vic start gave the team the nne The Irish trailed only whkh will spPrHI cme morn olli the nowly named field, and they tory. essary edge to come out on Minnesota at the end, with rial year as Monster Park - put together a video tribute. The win was followed by a top. Solid produetion from Wiseonsin Bed, Wisconsin nvnn though tlw San Francisco Thanks to a whole lot of behind second match against a mas graduate student John Cardinal and Northwt\stern 4 1Jt•rs and tlwir ronlractually thn-scnrws jockeying by York, ters' club team from Goodwin contributed to the rounding out the top fivn. obligatml broadrastnrs arn the tlw NFk also allownd the 49ers Chieago. Play was very simi 12-7 final score. Michigan State, Miami of only pnopiP who don't still call it to wear their cherry-rnd throw lar to the first game, and it The team now had to win Ohio, Michigan, St. Thomas, by its birth IHLIIIC'. back jerseys _ tho same colors wasn't until junior Danny in order to stay in con Iowa, Marqueltn and But lnaw il to Bill Walsh to be worn by the dub that Walsh led Collom made some key plays tention. Michigan Tech rounded out the source of tlw first new narnn to three titles in just 10 seasons. that the team was able take In a tough game against a the field in that order of lin that Bay Area sports fans can Thn 49ors also will wear black a 13-8 win. club team from Cleveland. ish. The Irish B division rc~ally support - Pvnn if it's only "BW" patches on the back of The final pool play game leadership from senior eo boat finishnd first in two of tho nanw of tlw grass inside the tlwir helmets throughout the was against sectional rival captain Nick Chambers the five races and third in Monster. season. Walsh was selected last Northwestern. Notre Dame proved to be the difference the remaining three races. Though tlw swirling wind is weHk as an honorary team cap had more experience, and it as the Irish held on for an The A division boat fin still an unprPdictable mnnace tain against the Cardinals, to be showed in the result, 13-6 in 11-8 win. This put Notre ished top l'ivn in each of its and tlw turf always seems to bn represented by former team favor of Notre Dame. Dame· in its final game races, including one sncond erratically slick. Bill Walsh Field executive John McVay. This strong start put the against a club team from plaee finish. Captain John is the San Francisco 49ers' new ''I'm glad the NFL got behind team in good shape heading Minnesota. The team strug Dailey led the Irish contin horne inside llw verwrable stadi us and let us wear the uniforms into the second series of pool gled at the start and had to gent to their strong showing. LIIll with the tom porary name, as a tribute," quarterback Alex play. The next game was overcome fatigue from the The sailing club also pro starting with Monday night's Smith said. "I think it's a good against _Wisconsin. With brutal weekend tournament vided rescue launch support ganw against the Arizona idea to remember what he solid play from junior schedule. for the Notre Dame Biathlon <:ardinals. meant to this league and this Thomas Rivas at the start, After getting into an early this wAekend on St. Joseph "We 'vn just trit~d to recognize franchise." the team jumped out to an 3-1 hole, Notre Dame pro- Lake. NASCAR A bit of Ireland in Earnhardt Jr.'s faulty your own backyard. engines raise fans' ire idea that she would intentionally Associated Press derail his season wouldn't sur CHAHLOlTE, N.C. - If not for prise anyone. And because the five blown engines, Dale DEI motors never even seem to Earnhardt Jr. would be racing lor sputter under the hoods of his a Nextel Cup ehampionship in this teammates, it's actually believ ' final season driving for his late able. litther's c~ompany. But DEI officials call the entire s Instead, thrne failures in the last idea is preposterous. snven races - inducting one with "I can assure you that's not the six laps to go Saturday night at case," general manager John Hichmond - knocked NASCAR's Story said Monday. "We under most popular driver out of the stand that there might be a natu Chase for the championship. ral assumption that because he is "We broke anothnr motor, and leaving, the team would say 'Who thny seem to litll apart when they cares? We are not going to try for Just seconds from campus. With its many choice beverages, hearty food plug 'em into my ear," Junior said. him.' and lively conversation, Brigid's is the place to be. Plus there's "It's just really frustrating." "But if anything, it's the other It's also morn than a little suspi way around. We tried hard to get live music on weekends, overstuffed leather chairs to cozy up by the cious to his legion of fans, who him in the Chase. We wanted him fireplace and lots of big screen TVs to watch all the games. have wondered for weeks if this to win a championship. We was sabotage on the part of his always said that would have been And we're open seven night'> a week, too. stepmother. the most appropriate way for him Aftnr all, his relationship with to leave DEI." Teresa Earnhardt "ain't a bed of Of course, DEI is going to say (WaterfOrd Estates l..od~ has hotel rooms at reasonable rates fur upcomi~ ND n.JOtball we.ekends.) roses," and .Junior's impending that. And conspiracy theorists will split isn't exactly amicable. forever be convinced Earnhardt Thny'vn publidy feuded since was the victim of an intricate and I>m~mnht~r- lw daims she's been evil plot to punish him for his unreasonable during negotiations bntrayal. and 1m's bolting ((,r rival Ilendriek It sounds awfully good. But it's Motorsporlo.; at the end of the sea probably not true. son. Sure, seeing Junior fail might Thn squabbling has been so bring a slight smile to Teresa intensn on so many issuos _ most Earnhardt's face, but it would be rtH~ently Ternsa's rdusal to let one of the most foolish business Earnhardt take his bdoved No. 8 deeisions she could possibly with him to llnndriek - that the make. Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The Observer+ SPORTS page 21 ND WoMEN's GoLF Strong round puts squad in second Park is currently atop the By LORENZO REYES entire field with a combined Sports Writer total of five-under-par 139 in her first collegiate tourna Notre Dame is three strokes ment. off the lead after the second Sophomore Annie Brophy round of the Cougar Classic at had a one-stroke improvement the Yeamans Hall Golf Club in of her first round total and sits Hanahan, S.C. in a tie for 38th with an over A team effort of four-over all score of 149 (75-74). par on the day has the Irish Fellow sophomore Kristin sitting in second place at 579 Wetzel also shaved· a stroke off (287-292) heading into the of her first round perform final day. ance, with a three-over par Tennessee currently controls 75. She is in a tie for 47th the leader board with a score overall. of 576 (288-288). Behind Notre Freshman Katie Conway is Dame in third is Texas with a tied for 58th place after shoot total of 581 (288-293), and ing a three-over par 7 5 Alabama, in fourth, which shot Monday - three strokes better 584 (286-298). LSU (286-299) than her first-round score. and North Carolina State (294- The Irish will tee off the 291) are tied for fifth at 585. third and final round today at A pair of young golfers - 9 a.m. After the Cougar KRISTY KING!fhe Obse!Ver junior Lisa Maunu and fresh Classic, Notre Dame will only Belles junior middle blocker Kaela Hellman reaches for the ball in Saint Mary's 3-0 win over man So-Hyun Park - is lead have six days to prepare for Olivet on Sept. 7, 2006. ing Notre Dame's effort. A day their second invitational of the after the junior co-captain had season - the Napa River Grill on the opponents strong middle blocking position, the best round of in program Cardinal Cup in Louisville, Ky., attacker," Schroeder-Biek where her defense is history - a six-under 66 - which begins on Sept. 17. Ho01e said. always on the net," Maunu shot a two-over par 7 4 continued from page 24 Hellmann has been a Schroeder-Biek said. leaving her in a second-place Contact Lorenzo Reyes at strong defensive threat, She said she hopes her tie. [email protected] Watson from the outside to posting her first double team will gel quickly with the right side," Schroeder double of the season the two players in different Biek said. against Geneva College, in places on the floor. Schroeder-Biek has put last weekend's Hiram "We need to adjust to our SMC GOLF much responsibility on her Tournament. new positions, but more freshmen this year, espe "Kaela's floor defense is than anything play to win cially Watson. so solid moving her to the as a team," she said. "Watson is such a strong left-side will allow her to Close to lead, Belles blocker and the right-side really play more floor Contact Samantha Leonard at gets good blocking action defense as opposed to the sleonaO 1 @saintmarys.edu prepare for round 2 mined to win. He has high By KATE ARNOLD expectations for his team, for Sports Writer both this tournament and the season as a whole. After a second-place fmish in "Although we are a young Kalamazoo, Mich., over the team, there is no reason to think The Next Stage® weekend, Saint Mary's hopes to that we can't be among the top continue its strong play today in teams in the league," Hamilton Angola, Ind. said. "There is a lot of talent on Tri-State University hosts the this team to not only to be suc- second leg of cessful in the the MIAA MIAA but also Jamboree, the nation." which began at "Although we are a In the first S""Joy Kalamazoo on young team, there is round, senior Saturday. no reason to think that captain Katie MY cl«/ci.1~ ,~,.cout"t Today's round, we can ,t be among O'Brien took at the Zollner first place over wfll ~ok fA.f 'otd t.l golf course in the top teams in all by five Angola, begins the league. ,, strokes. "'Y h~.ir. at 1 p.m. The Hamilton is Belles are cur confident that rently second Mark Hamilton she will contin only to Olivet Belles coach ue this perform- out of nine ance. MIAA squads in "Katie has the the Jamboree. experience and skill necessary With a score of 345, they to help us get back to the top," scored only 10 points higher he said. "She knows what it than the first-place Comets. In takes to win at this level, and Talk with a Wells Fargo Banker and third place, Tri-State trails only she will prove to be a valuable two strokes behind Saint Mary's. asset for this team in a variety of get your PhD in Money-omics. After that, only 18 strokes sep ways." arate the Belles and sixth-place The third and final round of Albion, with Hope and Alma in the MIAA Jamboree will be held With College Combo®, designed especially for college students, you get: fourth and fifth, respectively. 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Member FDIC. - page 22 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, September II, 2007 with strength of' sehodule and Long Island before hoading to strategy," he said. tho U.S. Virgin Islands to play in Brey "You r.an't sit there and say. thn Paradiso Jam tournament. continued from page 24 "Boy, we want to schedulo so Notrn Dame will also take on our send is higher in tho NCAA Kansas Stato at Madison Squaro "With sc!H·duling, I always sit Toumamnnt,' you better sdwd Garden in New York City, but down with I Big Hast ulP to gJ~t in tlw tournament," the rest of' the Irish schedule is Comrnissionnrl MikP Tranglwsn, Bn~y said. "You have to be filled with easy wins. who is fomwr IH•ad of thn com strategic about a bid and smart The coach also said that Notre mitten, and IAssociate about it and not ovorschedulo, Dame might play a series of Commissioner( Dave (;;tvitl and ospocially this first yqar games with traditional l'oe say. 'llnn~·s what I"m thinking. benwse it's new territory." UCLA in coming years in an What do you think'!' I always Tho Irish begin with two exhi effort to play a more challeng sign off on guys that am nxpnrts bitions and a gamo against ing early-season schedule. Brey said tho soft non-confer once schedule this snason will be balanced by the 1 H-game Big East slate, which includes games against all 15 other schools in tho league - and two games against DePaul, Marquetto, and Connecticut. "I like that we play everybody. I like our repeat games. I think DePaul and Marquette are nat urals for us as repeat games," Brey said. "So thoro's Pnough on tlw schedule to play your way in and do your thing. I Observer think whnn wn play ovnrybody, Irish junior point guard Kyle McAiarney drives to the basket in Notre it'll be a truer picture of one Dame's 9045 win over Winston-Salem State on Nov. 29, 2007. through twelve when we go to New York, and maybe the old sclwduln won't convolute who's Tournament. again'! This is a tough league to first S!H:ond and third, which "First year (of the 1 f1-team coach in if you'r!' only getting can cost peopln NCAA Big East), wn got eight bids, six bids out of H1 and only 12 Tournamnnt bids and has in the could've argued for nine. We g1~t to go to tlw IBig Hast! tour past." thought f:ineinnati should have narnPnt. and it's not smart for Brey said he hopes the got in. Last y1mr, only six bids, long-term longevity." expand o d s elw d u In is good could have argued for snven," Notre Danw begins Big 1-: This season. Karas has at fault. The young defense allowed two goals per ganw needs some time to get itself Keepers and has just a .500 save pnr togPilwr, he said. continued from page 24 cnntage. Lysander has "It's a wholn unit thing, it's allowml four goals per game, not just the goalkeepers," eonsistnntly shown what and Weiss has let in 1.11 per Waldrum said. "We've got Waldrum said lw is looking game. some things we've got to sort for - somnonn who can step As a team last season, out defensively for sure. up and makn plays in tho Notre Dame allowed seven We've got a young defense pnnalty box. percent of shots to result in a back there. We've got players "Bight now tlwy're afraid to goal. This season, 19 percent we've been moving around." como up to tlw linn and make of shots have The defense has mistakns," rt~ ac bed the so far allowed the he said. back of the keepers to see "Wn 'vn got net. Last sea many more shots to havt~ son, the team "It's a whole unit than last year. somnonn goals-against thing. It's not just Last season oppo that slw's average was the goalkeepers. " nents got off 5.9 going to 0.4. This sea shots per game; step up son, it has this year they've and take allowed 2.09 Randy Waldrum managed 11.8. chargn." goals per Irish coach Waldrum said Thn lev1d Karas game. junior defender of play in Waldrum Carrie Dew still goal fnll significantly in rnla was happy hasn't fully tion to last snason. Karas with the keeper's play early recovered from her ACL startnd 25 gam1~s last stmson in the season but said their injury, and that has ham as a junior. a year in which performance has fallen orr pered the defense as well. tlw Irish WPnt 25-1-1 and lost since then. While the offense returned to No. I North Carolina in the "Lauren was great for us fairly intact, the Irish lost NCAA championship game. against Florida. We got that, two senior defenders - During tlu~ season, shn and we were excited about Christie Shaner and Kim allownd an i t • Lorenzen. The team also lost average of Waldrum senior Jill Krivacek, a defen 0.41 goals said. "She sive midf'ielder. Losing play ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer per gam!~, came out ers of their caliber created a Irish senior goalkeep Lauren Karas punts the ball In Notre made 41 Friday, and defensive vacuum that so far Dame's 2-0 win over Rutgers on Oct. 8, 2006. savns and she really the team has not been able to had u .H04 struggled fill. Sophomore defenders three top-10 teams in the herself. save per in the first Haley Ford and Amanda first six games, including the "We've got to get some con centage. half. Kelsey Clark and junior defender preseason), the relatively sistency," he said. "We've got Lysander had a great Elise Weber, along with Dew, green defense or a drop-off in to get someone who can dom Lysander Weiss saw b;u~ k preseason, make up the current defen goalkeeping talent from last inate the penalty box for us." up duty in night games, and she really struggled." sive unit. season, the Irish face a chal allowing one goal and making Waldrum said that the Be it the caliber of their lenge that Waldrum said Contact Bill Brink at four saves. keepers might not be entirely opponents (Notre Dame faced requires someone to assert [email protected] Write sports Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The Observer+ TODAY page 23 • MICHAEL MIKUSKA HENRI ARNOLD BLAcK DoG JUMBLE MIKE ARGIRION THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME 0 HI CJi!.AP/ by Henri Arnold and Mike Argirion WAS I $VPP~EI> To TAKe A 11'..1&-HT Unscramble these four Jumbles, one .e. T Tl1E BE t;.6N I.As? letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. THYIC I I I ©2007 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 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City ______State__ Zip ______r------ THE OBSERVER Tuesday, September I I, 2007 PORTS page 24 ~======ND WOMEN'S SOCCER MEN'S BASKETBALL Brey reacts Up for grabs to released Waldrum opens up keeper job to three contenders as defense struggles in early games schedule By BILL BRINK Sport' Wri1er Irish will play 18 !'our gamns into tlw snason, Notrn Damn still doesn't have Big East ga1nes for a bona l'idn starting goal knnpnr. first tirne in 2007 Irish roach Handy Waldrum has rotated threl' candidates, By CHRIS HINE snnior l.aurnn Karas, sopho Spons F.di10r morn Knlsny I.ysandnr and freshman Nikki Wniss, but This season, the Big East has not found an answer. expands its schedule to an 1H Walrlrum said thn void at game regular season - a move knPpnr has east a shadow of that has ehangnd Irish coach doubt over thn entire Mike Brny's sclwduling philoso dPfnnsn. "Wn'rn at a point right now phy. whnrP dPfnnsivnly, nvery The expanded Big East body's worrind," Waldrum sc h ~~ d ule meant N.otn~ DamP could not sclwdult~ as many out said Sunday. of conference games. Brny said Waldrum gave Weiss the he ehose not to burden Notre I.Pntativn starting nod for Friday's Inn at Saint Mary's Dame with a heavy workload before January, but feels the Classic, hut said tho battle is schedule is challenging enough "still wide o1wn." with the two extra Big East None of the keepers have ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer games. Irish senior goalkeeper Lauren Karas punts the ball during Notre Dame's 2-0 win over Rutgers see KEEPERS/Page 22 on Oct. 8, 2006 at Alumni Field. Karas is in a three-way race for the starting job. see BREY/Pge 22 SMC VOLLEYBALL ND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Belles return hollle to Irish unveil '07 schedule face conference rival By JAY FITZPATRICK Associate Sports Editor Notre Dame Women's Basketball Notre Dame will face 11 2007 .. os Schedule teams that made the 2007 NCAA Tournament - including 11/1 Southern Indiana - Exhibition five that reached the Sweet 16 11/5 Hillsdale - Exhibition - in its 2007-08 schedule, released Sunday at'ter approval Preseason WNIT from the University's Faculty Miami-Ohio Board on Athleties. 11/9 The highlights of the Irish 11/11-11/13 Second Round/Consolation home schedule are games 11/14-11/15 Semifinal/Consolation against Connecticut and defend 11/17-11/18 Final ing champion Tennessee on Jan. 5 and Jan. 27, rflspectively. 11/20 @Central Michigan Notre Dame is one of only two 11/24 Boston College schools, along with DePaul, that 11/27 Canisius plays both Tennessee and 12/2 Michigan Connecticut this season. 12/5 @Bowling Green The Irish non-conference 12/8 @Purdue schedule also features games 12/12 Valparaiso against Boston College on Nov. 12/21 @IUPUI 24, Michigan on Dec. 2 and a road game against Bowling 12/29 St. Francis (PA) 1/2 @Richmond KRISTY KINGfThe Observer Greenan Dec. 5. The Falcons Saint Mary's senior defensive specialist Marisa Gross bumps were a Sweet 16 team a season 1/5 Tennessee the ball In the Belles' 3-1 win over Tri-State on Sept. 26, 2006. ago. 1/8 @Louisville Notre Dame will begin its sea 1/13· @West Virginia Villanova two losses, the Belles are son in the preseason National 1/16 Invitational Tournament on Nov. Olivet visits for first looking to improve their 1/19 @Georgetown 9 against Miami (Ohio). The record in the conference. 1122 DePaul preseason NIT changed formats contest of the fall at Saint Mary's is currently in 1/27 Connecticut this season, and the Irish are the Angela Center last place in the MIA/\, with 1130 Providence an 0-2 record in the league guaranteed at least three 2/2 @Cincinnati games. and a :3-6 overall mark. 2/10 Pittsburgh ~SAMANTHA LEONARD Coach Julie Schroeder Notre Dame begins Big East play on Jan. 8 at Louisville. The 2/13 Marquette Sports Wri1er Biek said there is a great Irish will play DePaul in a con 2/16 @Syracuse deal the Belles will need to 2/19 @Rutgers work on against the Cornets. ference home-and-home series Aftnr nin1~ garnPs, Saint !'or the third consecutive season. 2/24 @DePaul Tho coach will shuffle la~r DePaul and Notre Dame split 2/27 South Florida Mary's is finally corning lineup to better take advan the regular season series last 3/1 Seton Hall horne. tage of Olivet's weaknesses. The Bnllns host Olivnt "I moved !junior! Kaola year. but the Blue Demons beat 3/3 @St. John's the Irish 76-71 in the first tonight at 7 in tlw Angela llnllmann to the outside 3/8 Big East Championship round of the Big East tourna Athlntir Cnntnr for their attacking position from the 3/22-3/25 NCAA First and Second Round ment in Hartford last season. first honw ganw of thn sea middle and !freshman] Jacee 3/29-4/1 NCAA Regionals son. 4/6 NCAA Semifinals Coming oiT a busy wonkend Contact Jay Fitzpatrick at 4/8 NCAA Championship Final t h at i n clu d 1HI two w i n s and see HOME/Page 21 [email protected] ' l ------~