/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 42 : ISSUE 22 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER26, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Course packet prices skyrocketCOR Fund may Students , professors outraged; Bookstore cites copyright and production fees for new costs see raise in ment for the Bookstore. ByJENN METZ Kirkpatrick said this Assistant News Editor markup is the same as that on other course materials, allocation The Hammes Notre Dame but said he could not dis­ Bookstore is defending its close an exact figure. pricing of course packets, Professors, many of whom Expenses covered for which increased nearly to apologized to students for the equivalent of textbooks the extra cost have few students who need it and angered students and options — besides course professors alike, saying packets and the libraries’ increased copyright and online reserves — to dis­ By JOHN TIERNEY production fees were tribute additional class News Writer responsible for the new materials, so the demand prices. for the packets remains The Council of Copyright clearance fees strong. Representatives (COR) dis­ and production costs con­ The legal basis for the cussed raising the amount of tribute to the overall cost of copyright costs is more than money allocated to the the packets for students, a decade and a half old. Rector Fund at its meeting but the Bookstore also adds In 1991, a federal court Tuesday. The Rector Fund is used to COLEMAN COLLINS/The Observer a certain percent markup, ruled that the reprinting of Peter Balestracci waits while a bookstore employee rings up his said Keith Kirkpatrick, cover expenses for hall purchase Tuesday. Prices rose for course packets this year. director of retail manage­ see PACKETS/page 4 events, football tickets, JPW event tickets, performance tickets and service trip regis­ trations for students who are financially unable to meet these costs, Vice President for Student Affairs Father Book of letters to Hesburgh releasedMark Poorman said in a let­ ter to student body president Liz Brown. led the crusade to keep women Besides the notoriety he gained Notre Dame alumnae to Eligibility for the fund is By NIC O LE O ’CONNOR from to the University. as the captain of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh, telling him how determined by the Office of News W rite r “Bless me, Father 1966 national championship their lives have been impacted Financial Aid, but it is [Hesburgh,] for I football team, Lynch by their undergraduate experi­ administered to students CHICAGO — About 60 Notre have sinned,” Lynch was an originator of ences at Notre Dame. through their rector. Dame alumni gathered at the said. “The 1967 the “Better Dead Included in the book are let­ Since its inception in the University Club here Monday to transgression I’m T h a n k in g Than Coed” move­ ters from the top 25 University 2001-02 school year, the celebrate the release of referring to was my F a th e r ment that swept the administrators in 1972, the amount of money used by the “Thanking Father Ted: Thirty- boneheaded, campus in 1967. first undergraduate women Rector Fund each year has Five Years of Notre Dame wrong-thinking Ted Only after the who attained leadership roles increased from $10,454 to Coeducation 1972-2007,” a opposition to the ft'. 'ly.f iv< y>:«>IX- Vxk: i merger talks broke on campus and famous mem­ $60,663 last year. More than book sponsored by the Notre decision to make down in December bers of the Notre Dame com­ $53,376 has already been Dame Alumni Association in Notre Dame coedu­ of 1971 did munity — including Regis allocated to 230 students so celebration of former cational.” Hesburgh make the Philbin, Lou Holtz and Anne far this school year. University President Father W hen N o tre decision to open Thompson, chief environmen­ Currently, the Rector Fund Theodore Hesburgh and his Dame announced undergraduate stu­ tal correspondent for NBC receives $35,000 per year decision to admit women into plans to merge with dent enrollment to News. from the first $100,000 The the University. Saint Mary’s women in the fall of The book retails for $26.95 Shirt Charity Fund collects. The keynote speaker, 1967 College, much of 1972. and is available for purchase at This year, the. Rector Fund graduate Jim Lynch, was the -the all-male student body at “Thanking Father Ted” con­ the Hammes Notre Dame has already spent more than same man that 40 years ago the time voiced its opposition. tains 150 letters written by see BOOK/page 6 see COR/page 4 NDTV launches year's lineupND among top schools Student-run television station increases original shows to seven for service program By NICOLE TAYLOR News Writer classrooms across the country By JOSEPH McMAHON through the program. News Writer NDTV, Notre Dame’s stu­ “ People are taking much more dent-run television station, is interest in making a difference, getting a facelift this year Notre Dame, a university that especially in a society where New with a new lineup of shows strives for academic excellence Orleans still remains in ruins, and a new leader behind the and social serivice, remains one millions of people go without switchboards. of the top feeder schools for post­ medical insurance and 38 per­ Executive Director Nick graduate service leader Teach cent of fourth graders cannot Andert, a sophomore, said for America. read at the basic level,” said ju n ­ he’s excited about the The national organization ior LuLu Meraz, one of four stu­ changes coming to the net­ works to create future leaders dents who are working this year work, which kicked off its new and eliminate educational as campus coordinators for season with a two-hour live inequalities between low-income Teach for America. broadcast Tuesday. The feed communities and the rest of the “The younger generation is featured a Guitar Hero con­ nation by recruiting college grad­ looking for a way to better the test, a performance by a live uates to teach in urban and rural country and make an enduring band, previews of the new schools for a minimum of two impact that can dramatically lineups and call-ins to the sta­ years. affect things on a systematic and fundamental level, and Teach for tion. COLEMAN COLLINS/The Observer Last year 2,900 recent college Nick Andert and Colleen Ferriera edit film together in the graduates — including 44 Notre see NDTV/page 6 NDTV studio. NDTV premiered Tuesday at 7 p.m. Dame students — were placed in see TEACH/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I n s id e C o lu m n Question of the Day: W h a t o r ig in a l s h o w w o u l d you l ik e to s e e o n N D T V ? First signs of apocalypse?

There are few things in the world that can really make me sad. Caitlyn Flanagan Jessie Robbins Lauren Theiss Mackenzie Sheets Noreen Sherred Shannon Hansen People eating babies. Racism. Those huge *80s-inspired belts girls wear with­ senior freshman sophomore junior senior ju nio r out realizing 10 years down the road Opus McCandless LeMans off campus LeMans LeMans they’ll look back at the pictures Marcela Berrios and wish they “The Fun Nun “Inside Edition: "College “The Real Wold: “Life as a “The Kitchen Style. ” M usical. ” Dorms. ” campus liachlorete. had read The Associate News Hour. ” Observer to squirrel. ” know better. Editor These things make me wonder about the future of our society and if bringing a child into this ill- fated world is just cruel. It all saddens me, but I can carry on with my life for now. But then there are a few earth-shat­ tering events that destroy what optimism I have left in me. Kiefer Sutherland was arrested on a DUI again. Ronaldinho’s performance I n B r ie f this year is merely good as opposed to spectacular. “Rock of Love” ends on Sunday. “Between Figurative and These are all tragic events that I’m not Abstract,” will feature paint­ sure I’m strong enough to handle. in g s by Gao Xingjian. T he But one particular event Tuesday real­ exhibit will run from 10 a.m. to ly did worry me and at the same time 4 p .m . in O’Shaughnessy got me thinking about more than how Galleries West in the S n ite stupid Real Madrid is leading the Museum today. The exhibit Spanish soccer league. w ill end Nov. 11. Bolivian President Evo Morales was a guest on “The Daily Show with John T h e re is a Post Graduate Stewart” and, while the man is undeni­ Service Fair today from 5 p.m. ably tied to the political turmoil of an to 8 a t th e Joyce Center. entire nation, he was greeted with Representatives from over 70 laughter in the same way George service programs will be pres­ Clooney would have been. ent for students who wish to Now I actually do step back and won­ commit to a year or more of der what the world has come to. full-time service after gradua­ I won’t use this space to talk about my tion. The event is sponsored personal opinions on Morales’ national­ by the Center for Social ization of the natural gas industry, his Concerns. socialist economic policies, his friendship with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Cuba's Stephanie Black’s film “Life Fidel Castro and El Salvador’s late and Debt” is playing tonight at Shcafik I landal, or how his presidency 7 in Browning Cinema, has prompted certain Bolivian states’ KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer DeBartolo Performing Arts push for autonomy. The tuba section of the Band of the Fighting Irish plays “America the Beautiful” Center. Love him or hate him, the man is a before kick-off at Saturday’s home game against Michigan State University. synonym for unrest — but he was on Fall intramural fees w ill Comedy Central Tuesday night making start being collected Thursday. people laugh at the fact he had a transla­ Money can be dropped off at tor. Rolfs SportsRec Center. CoRec Of course he had a translator. He grew basketball is $30 per team and up as a farmer without any formal edu­ O ffbeat Interhall volleyball is $20. The cation and now he’s running a country. final deadline is Oct. 4. Speaking English is just one of the Nerds to auction them­ site recently. restaurant, Chuck E. Cheese. many things he doesn’t know how to do. selves to women Ford acknowledged that The more than a dozen The film “El N orte” is play­ But America thought that was funny. PULLMAN, Wash. — some of the group’s 213 reg­ girls, between 13 and 16 in g T h u rs d a y a t 7 p .m . in And what’s even more disturbing, that Looking to recruit more istered members may not be years old, went berserk in Browning Cinema, DeBartolo was probably the first time many people women, and perhaps date ready for the auction block. the restaurant’s lobby Performing Arts Center. had ever heard him speak for an extend­ some sorority girls, the “The problem is that we’re Saturday night, police said. D ire c to r Gregory Nava is ed period of time. largest computer club at all still nerds. Let’s face it, Witnesses said the fight scheduled to be present. Sadly the interview was simplistic and Washington State University guys. If anyone’s going to bid erupted with two girls using Tickets are $3 for students. did not do justice to the levels of chaos hopes to hold a “nerd auc­ on us, we’ll need some spic­ profanities near the front Morales represents for Latin America. tion.” The idea is to trade ing up,” he wrote. “And who entrance and ended with Award-winning film m a k e r It took a serious issue and turned it their computer skills to better to help with that than several girls involved in a Stephanie Black, a pioneer in into an ongoing gag. sorority girls in exchange for sorority girls who like noth­ physical fight. documenting migration, will A man that has so much to answer to, a makeover and, possibly, a ing better than a makeover?” The group had apparently speak about her work in Room so much to explain — and who holds the date. been dropped off and left C-103 o f the Hesburgh Center fate of an entire country on his hands — “You can buy a nerd and Police break up brawl at alone at the restaurant, at 4: 15 p.m. Thursday. was reduced to being yet another guest he’ll fix your computer, help Chuck E. Cheese known for its singing and on a late show. you with stats homework, or GULFPORT, Miss. —Police dancing animatronic To submit information to be I le was another Tom Cruise, Kelly if you’re really adventurous, were called to break up a rodents. included in this section of The Clarkson or Usher giving a light-hearted take you to dinner,” Ben weekend fight among a Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ interview on late night TV. Ford, president of the Linux rowdy group of teenage girls Information compiled from mation about an event to And when society reaches the point Users Group, said on its Web at the family-themed pizza the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu where a punchline matters more than the lives of all the people who live in Bolivia, you know we have bigger prob­ lems than those awful belts. TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY a. The views expressed in the Inside in Column are those o f the author and not necessarily those o f The Observer. 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< C o r r e c tio n s o o HIGH 70 HIGH 65 HIGH 67 HIGH 75 HIGH 76 HIGH 73 In the Sept. 25 edition, South Bend Com m on Council LOW 53 LOW 48 LOW 45 LOW 48 LOW 53 LOW 42 member Ervin Kuspa was incorrectly identified as T im o th y Rouse on a photograph accompanying die story “ Council passes revised ordinance.” Atlanta 85 / 66 Boston 90 / 67 Chicago 70 / 57 Denver 88 / 51 Houston 92 / 67 Los Angeles 89 / 60 Minneapolis 80 / 66 The Observer regrets this error. New York 85 / 67 Philadelphia 88 / 63 Phoenix 92 / 76 Seattle 62 / 50 St. Louis 91 / 67 Tampa 88 / 75 Washington 85 / 62 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEVC^S page 3 Ecology lecture focuses on environmentalism

Professors , politicians discuss the importance of 'being green as a part of a faith-based college community

hosted by Saint Mary’s sibility,” said Regina Wilson, members to close their eyes Karl Hardy, another member By KATIE STAAK Campus Ministry in an effort assistant director of Campus and imagine a world where of the Green Party running for News Writer to promote environmental Ministry, before introducing people are literally tied to public office, said he believes awareness as an important the panelists in the Stapleton each other — and every step a the world is heading towards Four ecologically conscious aspect of a faith-based college. Lounge of LeMans Hall. person takes affects everybody an ecological crisis if society panelists stressed the impor­ “As a people of faith we have The speakers ranged from else. does not change its ways. tance of adopting a green a responsibility to our commu­ Saint Mary’s faculty members “Next time you are in the “Participatory democracy is lifestyle Tuesday in an event nity, an environmental respon­ to members of the Saint dinning hall, rather than see­ a must for a ecologically sound Joseph’s County Valley Green ing individual people think community,” Hardy said. Party. they have an elastic string tied He urged the students in the Tuesday’s panel, titled “What between each of them,” she audience and their generation Difference Does it Make to be said. “Every step taken either to think socially and to take Green?” was split into three tightens or loosens the steps towards making an eco­ sections that lasted about 15 strings.” logical difference throughout minutes each. The first speak­ She said humans’ smallest the community and the world. er, biology professor Naida actions have serious repercus­ The final speaker was Lehmann, began her segment sions on the environment. Director of Facilities Bill by explaining what led her to The second part of the lec­ Hambling, who shared with join the Saint Mary’s faculty. ture had members of the coun­ the audience his opinions on “1 struggled finding ways to ty’s Green Party speak about how each building on campus educate the community that their experiences working is suffering from the wear it they need to be aware of their closely with the city to undergoes by the environ­ environmental actions,” she improve the South Bend resi­ ment. said. dents’ knowledge of the envi­ Hambling said Saint Mary’s The College has allowed her ronm ent. is taking action to reduce this to share her research with Kathleen Petitjean, an occu­ deterioration and create an students who w ill contribute to pational therapist who is run­ ecologically sustainable cam­ shaping the future of a world ning for office, encouraged pus. on the brink of an ecological students to take personal steps Spes Unica Hall, the new crisis, Lehmann said. She toward environmental friendli­ academic building scheduled lamented how the world views ness because small, daily to be ready for the 2008-09 nature as an object, or some­ actions can add up to mean­ academic year, has many thing that can be controlled. ingful contributions in the long aspects that are environmen­ She said she hopes the run. tally conscious, he said. Some future will allow for a more Petitjean said she tries to of the green features are the intertwined relationship buy locally grown produce and hall’s dual toilets, designated between humans and the rides her bike for fuel efficien­ recycling areas and motion nature that surrounds them. cy purposes. detector lights, to help con­ To help students understand “If you change yourself peo­ serve energy.

KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer the relationship between ple will notice and even your Biology professor Naida Lehmann speaks during a lecture on the human actions and the ecolo­ small efforts may make a dif­ Contact Katie Staak meaning of evironmentalism Tuesday in the Stapleton Lounge. gy, Lehmann asked audience ference,” she said. at [email protected]

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fied prior to production if a The Notre Dame Business Arts and Letters committee This year, the price skyrock­ Packets packet w ill cost more than Operations Web site lists sev­ that will investigate the eted to $93. $50. eral benefits of course packet course packet issue in “I am not blaming anyone continued from page 1 The second problem, he sale through the bookstore October. in particular for gouging our said, is “the outrageously and its recent agreement His goal is to see if there is students, but I did apologize copyrighted materials for sale high” bookstore markup — with FedEx a way to return to my students on the first in academic course packets “in that it adds no value to K in ko ’s. to the old system, day of class for the price did not fall under fair use students, unless it’s worth T h e where course increase,” he said. and that permission was $20 for the convenience.” Bookstore “The bottom line is packets were He was told by people at required, according to the Kirkpatrick has been at his b e co m e s a sold at the cam­ the Decio copy center that Stanford University Libraries position at the Bookstore for single point of that my students pus copy center one of the articles he wanted copyright and fair use Web two months and said he could contact for had to pay $ 6 5 where they were to use, roughly 25 pages in site. The case, Basic Books not compare current course packet for a packet that printed, like in length, would cost each stu­ Inc. v. Kinko’s Graphics Bookstore policy to the poli­ submission P la n n e r II a ll, dent $8. Another article Corp..forces institutions to cies of the old Copy Shop in and purchase, w ould have O’Shaughnessy would cost $6. The publish­ obtain copyright clearance the LaFortune Student Center so students cost them $ 1 6 Hall, Decio ers, he said, are behind these for academic course packets. basement, which regularly can charge Faculty Hall and usage and copyright costs, last spring ." “Fair use” is defined as any produced course packets in course pack­ the old Copy which contribute to overall reproduction of copyrighted previous years. ets to their Shop. packet price. material for a “limited and Tim Wright of Copy Wright, student Chris Vanden Bossche Though he is With e-reserve, students ‘transform ative’ purpose,” Inc., owned the Copy Shop, accounts — English Professor not optimistic, can decide how much of the according to the Web site. which closed its doors last and faculty Bant said, he is material they want to print Distinguishing distribution of March after a long legal bat­ and staff need currently investi­ out, which is a method materials as fair use can be tle to renew the lease on the n o t sp en d gating electronic cheaper putting the articles used as a defense against University premises. time obtain­ means of distri­ into packets. copyright infringement. When he produced course ing their own copyright clear­ bution like the “electronic “1 think students are much No copyright packets for pro­ ance. reserve” (e-reserve) system happier paying for the cost of clearance fessors, he Through this system, the on the University Libraries’ paper instead of $94 for a occurs in-house said, he tried to University “bears no copy­ Web site to lower student packet,” he said. a t th e “/ didn ’I like keep the aver­ right clearance liability” and costs. “One of [e-reserve’s] advan­ Bookstore; high-priced age cost to $50 is not responsible for excess His committee is currently tages is that 1 am legally able rather, materi­ for course inventory. working on a student opinion to use a higher percentage of a ls “ a r e s e n I course packets. packets. University Custom survey that w ill come out a book’s pages for class mate­ out of retail They didn't help “I didn’t like Publishing (UCP) conducts the next week so students like rial than when I was submit­ walls,” the kids and high-priced copyright clearance and, in freshman Jim Hasson can ting material for a hard-copy Kirkpatrick course pack- doing so, collects royalties make their opinions on the packet,” he said. said. The copy­ they didn ’/, e ts , ” he said. and copyright fees from the matter heard. According to the Business right fee is help us. ” T h e y d id n ’ t Bookstore that contribute to Hasson acknowledged the Operations Web site, copy­ determined by help the kids the price of the course pack­ convenience of “one-stop right laws also apply to elec­ the number of Tim Wright and they didn’t ets. Due to the “comprehen­ shopping” but complained of tronic media, but the references in a help us.” sive copyright clearance by the high prices of course University Libraries pur­ given article on Copy Wright, Inc. He used th e UCP,” the Web site says, fac­ packets. chased licensing agreements a “per incident Copyright ulty may see an increase in Masson’s philosophy course that allow linkages to E- per use” basis Clearance the cost of their packets. packet cost $45, which he lleserves or reproduction. If and depends on C e n te r to The average turn-around said was “way too much the materials to be put on e- the publisher. ensure permission to use the time for production is three money for a bunch of photo­ reserve fall outside of fair use English professor Chris materials. The organization weeks. copies.” He did appreciate guidelines, copyright clear­ Vanden Bossche said the charged an administrative Student Government has the option of charging the ance is maintained. The turn­ copyright fees paid for each fee, which — like in the book­ taken on the issue of course packet to his student charge around for that process is of his packets was $28.24. store production process — packet prices as one of its account at the Bookstore. about ten days. “I was told the bookstore added to the overall cost of projects this semester. As a result of student out­ “1 w ill never use a hard­ then added 25 percent,” he the packets. Stephen Bant, Fisher Hall cry and his own discontent copy packet again,” said. Still, course packets were senator and a member of the with the price increase, Malkovsky said. That additional cost, com­ very profitable for the Copy Academic Affairs Committee, Theology professor Brad bined with printing fees, Shop, W right said. When is leading the initiative. Malkovsky now posts articles M eg Mirshak contributed would bring the packet total packets would be extremely “It feels like everyone is for students on e-reserve reporting to this article. to $59.69, Vanden Bossche expensive due to copyright being ripped off,” he said. through the Library. said. But the final cost of the fees, W right would sell the In his research, he discov­ Last year, his theology Contact Jenn Metz at packet was $65. packets for the price of print­ ered plans for a College of packet was less than $30. [email protected] “The bottom line is that my ing only. students had to pay $65 for a “We did a pretty credible packet that would have cost job at getting things cleared, them $16 last spring,” he getting it done quickly and at said. the least amount of cost to Vanden Bossche sees major students,” he said. problems with the increase in The Bookstore oversaw the packet price. First, he said, production of about 120 there were errors in paying classes’ course packets this the copyright fees. semester, Kirkpatrick said. lie said he was not consult­ There are other copy centers ed regarding “all items and on campus that can handle fees that were charged for the copyright clearance of Shape the lives materials that are in the pub­ materials and printing, but o f others and lic domain.” The Web site all retail sales take place in states professors will be noti­ the bookstore. your own.

to m ost COR m em bers. “A demonstrated tangible COR need should take precedence continued from page 1 over an unexpected or improbable medical the $35,000 it received from expense,” senator George waitin The Shirt Charity Fund. Chamberlin said. “It’s not Additional funding has come completely the school’s from the money that was not responsibility to take care of spent during the fund’s initial medical bills.” four years of operation. But the Council noted the To sustain the fund’s viabil­ final decision to change the ity, Boorman proposed Shirt Charity Fund’s allot­ increasing the $35,000 annu­ ments is beyond their control Teach with ACE al allotment to $60,000, as the fu n d ’s needs va ry each beginning in October. year, depending on the spe­ Most COR m em bers agreed cific medical conditions that with Boorman’s proposal, students encounter. which would mean the Shirt “You never can be at a safe Charily Fund — which helps amount of the Shirt Charity students pay for medical bills Fund,” Student Union Board — would receive $25,000 less treasurer Kadeja Gaines said. every year. This tradeoff, however, Contact John Tierney at seemed fair and reasonable jtierne 1 @nd.edu.edu

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I nternational N ew s Myanmar warns protesting monks Katrina reconstruction remains slow YANGON — Myanmar’s military government issued a threat Monday to the barefoot Buddhist Paperwork continues to hinder execution of FEMA rebuilding efforts monks who led 100,000 people marching through a major city in the strongest protests Associated Press against the repressive regime for two decades. The warning shows the increasing pressure the junta is under to either crack down on or NEW ORLEANS — Nearly compromise with a reinvigorated democracy 2,000 pages spell out in movement. The monks have taken their tradi­ excruciating detail some­ tional role as the conscience of society, backing thing that is plain to V irgil the military into a corner from which it may lash Tiller but not the Federal out again. Emergency Management The authorities did not stop the protests Agency: His school was Monday, even as they built to a scale and fervor destroyed and needs to be that rivaled the pro-democracy uprising of 1988 rebuilt. when the military fired on peaceful crowds and The pages are a piece-by- killed thousands, terrorizing the country. The piece inventory of everything government has been handling the monks gin­ wrecked by Hurricane gerly, wary of raising the ire of ordinary citizens Katrina — from the roof in this devout, predominantly Buddhist nation. right down to the bathroom fixtures — at Alfred Lawless Iran ignores U.N. Security Council High School in New Orleans’ UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President devastated Lower Ninth Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday Ward. that “ the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed,” But FEMA has yet to find and indicated that Tehran will disregard U.N. the school is 51 percent Security Council resolutions imposed by “arro­ destroyed — the clerical gant powers” and demanding suspension of its benchmark that must be uranium enrichment. reached before the agency Instead, he said, Iran has decided to pursue will pay to completely the monitoring of its nuclear program “through rebuild something. And so, its appropriate legal path,” the International two years after Katrina, Atomic Energy Agency which is the U.N.’s while the state and federal nuclear watchdog. government haggle over the The U.S. delegation was absent during the extent of the damage, the speech except for a note taker. school lies empty, a ruin of The Iranian leader spoke hours after French toppled bricks, sagging roofs President Nicolas Sarkozy warned the assembly and missing window panes. that allowing Iran to arm itself with nuclear “The kids here were used weapons would be an “unacceptable risk to sta­ to disappointment. Leaving bility in the region and in the world.” this school like this is anoth­ AP Alfred Lawless High School music teacher Virgil Tiller surveys damage to his old classroom er form of disappointment, in New Orleans on Monday. Bureaucratic red tape has slowed rebuilding efforts in the city. not just for them, but for the entire community,” said money hasn’t been spent?’ said. “And the focus should federal Stafford Act, which N a tio n a l N ew s Tiller, a 30-year-old former And the money’s been spent be on providing the money to has governed disaster- music teacher at what was building mountains of get public services restored. rebuilding since 1988. That Utah polygamist leader convicted the only public high school in paper,” said Andy Kopplin, But what we’ve got is a sys­ law says that federal money ST. GEORGE, Utah — The leader of a polyg­ the Lower Ninth. “How can executive director of the tem where we have thou­ can be used only to replace amous Mormon splinter group was convicted anyone look at this and say it Louisiana Recovery sands of federal, state, local what was damaged, not Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for is not 51 percent destroyed?” Authority. and contract employees improve a facility, or even performing a wedding between a 19-year-old The answer to Tiller’s About 20,000 project exchanging paperwork alter it cosmetically in many man and a 14-year-old girl. question lies in “project worksheet reports, common­ before the first nail can be cases. Warren Jeffs, 51, could get life in prison worksheets,” forms that are ly over 1,000 pages each, hammered." So for Alfred Lawless, after a trial that threw a spotlight on a rene­ used to inventory damage to have been w ritten since the Gil Jamieson, FEMA’s No. 2 reams of project worksheet gade community along the Arizona-Utah line a facility down to the small­ storm. According to the LRA, administrator for Gulf Coast pages take stock of items as where as many as 10,000 of Jeffs’ followers est pieces, and often go 83 percent of the state’s recovery, does not agree. He minute as “five 4-foot two- practice plural marriage and revere him as a through multiple versions as 13,200 general construction maintains that while the tube fluorescent ceiling light mighty prophet with dominion over their sal­ they wend their way through projects have been haggled project worksheet system fixtures, three vitreous wall vation. the bureaucracy. over at least once, tying up was slowed by early prob­ hung urinals, four plastic Jeffs stood and, like his 15 followers in the The PWs — w hich meas­ $469 million in rebuilding lems, such as a high rate of laminate partition stalls with courtroom, wore a stoic look as the verdict ure the rebuilding needs of funds. turnover among the FEMA four wall hung vitreous toi­ was read. thousands of Gulf Coast Kopplin has looked at workers who fill them out, lets.” Prosecutors said Jeffs forced the girl into schools, roads, hospitals, cases like Alfred Lawless and they ensure money is not All the damaged items marriage and sex against her will. firehouses and other public called for an overhaul, argu­ overspent. accounted for at the school projects — are the red tape ing that the system was ill- “The story could be written add up to $28 million in fed­ FBI investigates boat incident that politicians and policy equipped to handle a disas­ that the federal government eral funding that the school MIAMI — Four crew members were missing makers bemoan when they ter on Katrina's scale. is nitpicking,” Jamieson said. district can count on toward from a boat found adrift and two passengers, speak of the slow rebuilding “ There could be a cata­ “The other side is that we're rebuilding, Jamieson said. one of them a fugitive from Arkansas, were from Katrina. strophic earthquake in trying to be good stewards of All but two of the buildings being questioned by federal authorities “ People look at Louisiana C alifornia. There could be the taxpayer dollar.” on campus have reached the Tuesday after they were rescued in the and say, ‘W here is a ll the other unforeseen disasters, The worksheets are 51 percent benchmark, he Florida Straits near Cuba. rebuilding? How come all the and terrorists attacks,” he designed to comply with the said. Kirby Logan Archer, 35, of Strawberry, Ark., and Guillermo Zarabozo, 19, of Hialeah, were found in good condition Monday morn­ ing on a life raft. Japan They were brought back to land and FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said they were Fukuda elected nation's prime minister

Associated Press our opponents, if they are willing to ment’s powerful lower house, Fukuda Lo cal N ew s engage with us,” Fukuda said in his was defeated in the upper house, TOKYO — Yasuo Fukuda swept to first news conference after winning which voted for opposition leader Indiana sees improved test scores power as Japan’s prime minister election in parliament. “I believe the Ichiro Ozawa. It was only because of INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s fourth- and Tuesday, promising to use his skills as government and all parties can come a law that favors the lower house eighth-graders improved their scores on a negotiator to win approval for together to the negotiating table.” that Fukuda was named premier. national math and reading tests this year and extending Tokyo’s contentious mis­ But Fukuda, a proven survivor who It was the first time that parliament continue to do better than the national aver­ sion in support of U.S. troops in became the nation’s longest-serving had split in a vote for prime minister age. Afghanistan. chief Cabinet secretary in 2000-2004, since 1998, and only the fourth time The scores are based on the National The 71-year-old, who studied back­ faces daunting challenges at the helm since World War II. Assessment of Educational Progress, a test room politics at the knee of his prime of the world's second-largest econo­ Ozawa, head of the Democratic used to compare student progress across state minister father, cast himself as the my: a parliament split by opposition Party of Japan, made clear, however, lines. steady hand Japan needs after the control of the upper house and rock- that he was interested in wresting Indiana scores increased this year for stu­ scandal-scarred one-year term of his bottom public support for the long­ power from the ruling Liberal dents in eighth grade and fourth grade in both youthful predecessor Shinzo Abe, time ruling party. Democratic Party, not helping Fukuda math and reading, although eighth-grade who abruptly resigned two weeks One glaring sign of the troubles achieve his agenda. The opposition is reading scores improved by an amount not ago. ahead was his election Tuesday. pushing for snap elections for the statistically different than 2005 scores. “There is room for discussion with While easily triumphing in parlia­ lower house. page 6 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NFV^S Wednesday, September 26, 2007

founder of Teach for America, leadership in all areas, possess col lege-preparatory public Dame’s own backyard to realize has been so impressed by the strong critical thinking skills and schools in under-resourced com­ something had to be done about Teach work Notre Dame students have have maintained a GPA of at least munities throughout the United underprivileged schools. Gibson continued from page 1 done that she is actually [coming] 2.5.” States, according to its Web site. said 96 percent of students at to the University on Oct. 9 to host After completing their two-year TEA teachers that choose a dif­ Perley Elementary School on America is a perfect opportunity a student leader reception,” contract with Teach for America, ferent career path than education Eddy Street qualify for free lunch to do so,” she said. Herrel said. “ Really, the work the past recruits have gone on to have different options available to and only half of fourth graders And Notre Dame students have University has done through careers in and out of the class­ them, including the possibility of passed state exams in math and answered that call to service with things like the Center for Social room. Currently, there are more returning to school for an reading. great enthusiasm in past years, Concerns has made Notre Dame than 12,000 TEA graduates advanced degree at a lower cost “Many of the students that said Patrick Herrel, director of one of Teach for America’s top working all over the country in — a result of their work with attend Notre Dame went to great the Lake Michigan recruitment recruiting schools.” fields ranging from medicine to Teach for America. public schools or private team for Teach for America. Herrel said the Lake Michigan business to law, Herrel said. The Notre Dame Law School, schools,” he said. “For students “Notre Dame’s Catholic culture recruitment team is hoping to Sixty-five percent of former for example, will give a $5,000 that grow up in low-income com­ and the commitment to social recruit 60-70 Notre Dame seniors program participants choose to per year scholarship to any for­ munities, going to a school like justice that it instills have always for the program this year. stay in education, with many opt­ mer TEA teacher. Notre Dame is not possible created a strong sense of obliga­ “ One o f our m ajor goals is to ing to become teachers. Some, But for most students that because of the poor education tion in the students,” Herrel said. increase our Notre Dame num­ however, attempt to further choose to sign up for the two- they w ill receive.” He said Notre Dame’s 44- bers,” Herrel said. “Notre Dame address education problems as year commitment, the motivation Teach for America, he said, is teacher contribution last year students have always shown a principals or school chancellors, is not monetary compensation. “a part of Notre Dame’s call to was the fourth largest from any great commitment to giving the he said. Teach for America is an oppor­ service that resonates with us all. single school — and the three children a quality education. And One Notre Dame graduate and tunity to help out in some of the We can and should make a differ­ schools that produced more vol­ it is for that reason that they are former TEA teacher, Jim poorest, most downtrodden areas ence by helping to correct unteers than the University at always in demand.” O’Conner, recently established a of the country. America’s greatest injustice.” least tripled Notre Dame in the Meraz said the program looks Knowledge is Power Program Senior Matt Gibson, another size of their student bodies. for “outstanding college seniors (KIPP) charter school in Chicago. TEA campus coordinator, said he Contact Joseph McMahon at “ W endy Kopp, the CEO and who have demonstrated strong KIPP is a national network of free needed only to look in Notre [email protected]

years would stop by and visit grandchildren, other Domer M artino O’Brien — a 1977 grad­ Notebaert and many Chicago- the statue,” Palmer told the alumnae, particularly recent uate, president of the Mendoza based trustees. Book crowd at the book launch. graduates and women on cam­ College Business Advisory In addition to the newly ‘“Tell your children or grand­ pus today, what it was like to be Council and the president and released book, the Thanking continued from page 1 children your own story about one of Notre Dame’s co-ed pio­ CEO of Harris Alternatives, an Father Ted Foundation is sell­ Bookstore and online at being part of this history,’ Ara neers,” Palmer said. $11 billion Chicago-based hedge ing two posters for $16.95 each. Amazon.com and Barnes and said. ‘Stop a while and try to lis­ Several of the gathered alum­ fund — expressed their grati­ A ll profits from the poster sales Noble. ten to the echoes. They’ll be nae read from their own letters, tude to Hesburgh. will benefit the Notre Dame The book’s editor, 1973 grad­ here.’” including 1972 graduate Mary University President Father Gender Relations Center. uate Ann Therese Darin Palmer, She said Parseghian, who con­ Davey Bliley, the University’s John Jenkins w ill give a speech The first poster is a reprint of explained the idea behind the tributed a letter to the book, first female to receive an under­ here on “Notre Dame the 1972 poster recruiting the book and the goals the letters could have just as easily been graduate degree. Illinois Coeducation: The Past, Present first undergraduate women to hope to achieve among the talking about Hesburgh and his Appellate Court Justice Sheila and Future” here on Oct. 22. apply to the University. The sec­ younger Notre Dame genera­ contribution to the history of O’Brien — a 1977 and 1980 Palmer said the event will be ond poster commemorates the tions. Notre Dame. graduate and the winner of this open to all Notre Dame stu­ 35th anniversary of Notre Dame “Last Saturday, when Jim “We’ve got a similar goal. year’s Rev. Edward Sorin dents, parents and alumni. coeducation. Lynch unveiled the statue of Ara Besides thanking Father Ted for Alumni Association Award for Guests at the luncheon, she Parseghian, Ara said he hoped the tremendous gift he gave us, Distinguished Service to the said, w ill include Board of Contact Nicole O ’Connor at his former players over the we wanted to tell our children, University — and Roxanne Trustees Chairman Richard noconno 1 @nd.edu

That goal is key to one of the said it could be as early as accomplished at NDTV so far ming. We hope to improve the main purposes of “On later this week. and what is in store. production values as well, so NDTV Campus,” which is to create a And while many of the “It’s our biggest lineup yet. our shows look and sound bet­ continued from page I show with an ongoing plot to shows and the initiatives he We are expanding quickly, and te r.” hook viewers and keep them has in mind are still in the have a lot of members,” he Andert said one of this fall’s tuning in every week, Andert developing stages, Andert said. “We are trying to expand Contact Nicole Taylor at new additions is NDTV’s first said. said, he is proud of what has and improve our program­ ntayloO 1 @saintmarys.edu student-produced sitcom, “On “We hope that On Campus Campus.” The show is in draws a steady audience and “mockumentary” style, he that it draws people to our said, similar to the popular other shows as well,” he said. NBC series “The Office, ” Some of the other shows which in turn was a spin-off that will premiere on NDTV from a popular BBC show of this season include “Talk it the same name. Out,” a debate show. The show “On C am pus’” fo llo w s a g irl will feature two groups debat­ named Sarah and her transi­ ing a hot issue before a mod­ THE HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION tion to Notre Dame as a fresh­ erator — sophomore Dan man, Andert said. She has Rotar. cameras following her through In addition to the new her adjustment to the campus shows, all of the station’s old life, documenting the realiza­ programs will return with new tion of her dream to attend episodes, bringing NDTV’s Notre Dame — and the con­ original-show-count up to trast between what she seven. expected and what she NDTV News and NDTV receives. Sports were merged into one “On Campus” will air a new hour-long program, Andert episode weekly, starting next said. week, on Thursday nights. “Final Cut, ” a movie review Writing, producing, and taping show, will return to the lineup an entirely NDTV-produced this year, and new episodes of sitcom was always an idea “Humor Artists,” a live taping floating around the studio, of the campus improvisational Andert said, but it was diffi­ comedy group of the same cult to accomplish logistically name, w ill be a irin g as w ell. fo r years. The interview show “Office £1115 “We shoot whenever the cast Hours ” is also back with a H I ;:V: : is available,” he said. “It can season opener that will fea­ be anytime during the week. ture an interview with the We’ve even shot on Sunday band Plain White T’s, who mornings before. ” played at Legends on Sept. The show’s producer, sopho­ 14. It will also include a inter­ LnJn When it's the more John Minser, said devel­ view with members of local oping and filming “On band Umphrey’s McGee. prestigious Luce scholarship, finding you an Campus” is a challenge finan­ NDTV’s signature late show, cially and in time-wise, but he however, has a new host and a exciting 1-yrjob In the far east, strategically chosen to match said the cast and crew is new name. “The Mike excited about the upcoming Peterson Show” has been season. replaced by “Late Night ND,” your career goals. Apply by November 2,2007. “It’s a pretty ambitious proj­ which premiered Tuesday with ect,” he said. “We have an new host junior Joe Kwaczala. extensive cast and crew and Anderst said the NDTV staff Interested? 29 or younger? Have you now (or will you have by the end of May, 2008) an ND degree? have been able to pull in the is also w orking on a new Web No east-Asia experience? For more information, contact Mrs. Nancy 0'Connor( [email protected] ) biggest budget yet. We re hop­ site for the station that will ing to be able to have a new have a new streaming video half hour episode every section. The date for the site’s w eek.” launch is still unknown, but he T h e O bserver „ „ B usiness M ar k et R ec a p U.N. debates emissions solutions Stocks Bush looks to voluntary company reductions rather than accept Kyoto-style mandate J o n e s 1 3 , 7 7 8 . 6 5 + .9.5, Associated Press Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: 1,318 91 1,917 3, 187, 767,487 UNITED NATIONS — “Arnie” and “Al," AMEX 2,370.13 -0.87 Republican and Democrat, shared the world spotlight NASDAQ 2,683.45 +15.50 to press for climate action, NYSE 9,933.82 -12.60 adding a touch of star qual­ ity to the staid proceedings S&P 500 1,517.21 -0.52 of a U.N. summit. NIKKEI (Tokyo) 16,401.73 0.00 The two headliners, FTSE 100 (London ) 6,396.90 California Gov. 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LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) -1.42 79.53 The Republican GOLD ($/Troy oz.) -0.50 738.80 Schwarzenegger, on the PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) +1.23 88.73 other hand, has taken the lead on emissions caps at the state level, signing leg­ islation mandating such reductions in California. YEN 114.6300 “One responsibility we all EURO 0.7073 have is action. Action, action, action,” the former CANADIAN DOLLAR 1.0044 Hollywood action star said BRITISH POUND 0.4954 Former Vice President Al Gore gives a presentation on climate change during a « as he helped open the sum­ mit, winning warm lunch session at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Monday. applause from the assem­ annual U.N. climate treaty sions caps say a break­ research on clean-energy bled presidents and pre­ conference, scheduled for through is needed at Bali to technology as one answer. miers. December in Bali, ensure an uninterrupted On Thursday and Friday, I n B r ie f The Democrat Gore — a Indonesia, where the transition from the Kyoto Bush w ill host his own Hollywood figure himself as Europeans and others hope deal to a new, deeper-cut­ Washington climate meet­ Clear Channel buyout approved the lead in the Oscar-win­ to initiate talks for an emis- ting regime, something that ing, limited to 16 “major ning climate documentary sions-reduction agreement almost certainly would emitter” countries, includ­ SAN ANTONIO — It took just about three “An Inconvenient Truth” — to succeed the Kyoto require a change in the ing China and India, the weeks for the nation's biggest radio station took his star turn at a sum­ Protocol in 2012. position of the U.S., long first in a series of U.S.-led operator, Clear Channel Communications The 175-nation Kyoto the world’s biggest emitter gatherings expected to Inc., to accept a buyout offer after mit luncheon, where he cited a lengthening list of pact, which the U.S. rejects, of greenhouse gases. focus on those themes. announcing last fall that it was considering global warming’s impacts, requires 36 industrial Bush objects that Kyoto- “The Washington meeting "strategic alternatives." from the shrinking Arctic nations to reduce the heat- style mandates would dam­ is a distraction,” Hans It took another 10 months for sharehold­ ice cap to disappearing trapping gases emitted by age the U.S. economy and Verolme, climate cam­ ers to finally approve the deal. lakes in Africa. power plants and other says they should be paigner for the Worldwide On Tuesday they gave the OK to a $19.5 ' “The need to act is now,” industrial, agricultural and imposed on fast-growing Fund for Nature, told billion buyout offer from a private equity Gore told delegates to the transportation sources. The poo re r countries such as reporters here. The Bush group led by Thomas H. Lee Partners LP one-day summit, which 1997 agreement set rela­ China and India in addition administration needs “to and Bain Capital Partners LLC. drew more than 80 world tively small target reduc­ to developed nations. He show they are serious and The offer was first announced in leaders. “We need a m an­ tions averaging 5 percent instead is urging industry implement domestic legis­ November but was sweetened after some date at Bali.” below 1990 levels by 2012. to cut emissions voluntarily lation to reduce emissions,” large shareholders signaled they would The advocates of emis­ and is emphasizing he said. oppose earlier offers. He was referring the The latest offer was $39.20 per share in cash or stock in what would be a privately owned company. Current shareholders could end up with as much as 30 percent of the new company. Consumer confidence, home sales fall

Consumer info exposed to hackers A ssociated Press by a report from the National after hurricanes Katrina and Rita BOSTON — Hackers stole m illions of credit Association of Realtors that sales of devastated the G ulf Coast. card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. NEW YORK — Crumbling con­ existing homes declined for a sixth “Weaker business conditions com­ by intercepting wireless transfers of customer sumer confidence and slumping straight month in August, pushing bined with a less favorable job mar­ information at two Miami-area Marshalls home sales could prove to be a bad activity to the lowest point in five ket continue to cast a cloud over stores, according to an eight-month investiga­ combination for retailers, and for years. The Realtors showed a rise consumers and heighten their sense tion by the Canadian government. the broader economy going into the in median home prices, but a sepa­ of uncertainty and concern,” said The probe led by Canadian Privacy holiday shopping season, if the rate report done by S&P/Case- Lynn Franco, director of The Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart faulted TJX labor market contracts further and Shiller said home prices fell 3.9 Conference Board Consumer for failing to upgrade its data encryption sys­ chokes off spending, economic data percent in July in its 20-city index. Research Center, in a statement. tem by the time the electronic eavesdropping showed Tuesday. Economists said that decline was “Looking ahead, little economic began in July 2005. The break-in ultimately But markets took some heart from probably a better reflection of improvement is expected, and with gave hackers undetected access to TJX's cen­ the warning signs, hoping that they where the market stands now. the holiday season around the cor­ tral databases for a year and a half, exposing would goad the Federal Reserve to The New York-based Conference ner, this is not welcome news.” at least 45 million credit and debit cards to lower interest rates more. Board said its Consumer Confidence The Present Situation Index, potential fraud. Worries about jobs and the econo­ Index fell to 99.8, an almost 6-point which measures how shoppers feel Credit card associations have declined to my flared in September, driving a drop from the revised 105.6 in now about the economy, declined to disclose total damages from thefts that are key barometer of consumer senti­ August. The reading was below the 121.7 from 130.1 in August. The believed tied to the TJX breach. But some ment to its lowest level in nearly 104.5 that analysts had expected. Expectations Index, which meas­ banks have said they've learned of fraudulent two years, a private research group It marked its lowest level since a ures shoppers’ outlook over the purchases as far away as Hong Kong and said. 98.3 reading in November 2005, next six months, declined to 85.2 Sweden. The bad news was compounded when gas and oil prices soared from 89.2. "TT T The Observer page 8 V ie w p o in t Wednesday, September 26, 2007

T h e O b s e r v e r The In d tp tn tU n t, D a ily Newspaper Serving N otre D am e a n ti Sa int M ary's Assyrian suffering overlooked in Iraq HO. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 465% 024 South Dining Hall. Notre Dame, IN 46556 The Assyrians have lived in Iraq insurgents quickly pronounced him a asked about such a haven, the State since 5,000 B.C. Ethnically distinct “dirty Christian sinner” and, shouting Department’s Iraq policy coordinator, Ed it o r in C h ie f from Arabs and Kurds, they are “Allahu akbarl,” beheaded him. Also David Satterfield, told me that it is M addic Hanna Christians and speak neo-Aramaic, last October, Father Paulos Iskander ‘against U.S. policy to fu rth e r sectari­ M a n a g in g Ed it o r B usiness M anager similar to the language of Christ. They was kidnapped in Mosul. His head, anism.’ The administration has not Ken Fowler Kyle West include Chaldean arms and legs were severed from his even brought together ... leaders of

Asst. M a n a g in g Ed it o r : Kyle Cassily Catholic, Apostolic Charles Rice body. Iraq’s non-Muslim minorities to dis­ Catholic and Syriac ______AINA graphically described many Asst. M a n a g in g Ed it o r : Mary Kate Malone cuss solutions.” Orthodox churches. Riaht or attacks since 2003, which we can only Meanwhile, the mayhem continues. N ews Ed it o r : Karen Langley summarize here. Five priests have Father Ragheed Ganni and three dea­ V ie w p o in t Ed it o r : Joey King C h !? d e 2 " been kidnapped and released after cons were assassinated by gunmen as Sports Ed it o r s: Chris Khorcy Archbishop Louis ransom was paid. 33 churches have they drove from a church in Mosul Chris Mine Sako, of Kirkuk, said last April, been attacked or bombed since June after Mass on June 3, 2007. Their car Sc e n e E d it o r : Tae Andrews “Christians are dying, the Church is 2004. At least 13 young women have was bobby-trapped by the gunmen to

Sa in t M a r t ’s Ed it o r : Katie Kohler disappearing under ... persecution, been abducted and raped, causing prevent retrieval of the bodies. On threats and violence ... by extremists some of them to commit suicide. June 19, at a Mass for Father Ganni P h o t o Ed it o r : Dustin Mennella who are leaving us no choice: conver­ Female students have been targeted in and the deacons in Southfield, G r a ph ic s Ed it o r : Madeline Nies sion or exile.” Basra and Mosul for not wearing veils; Michigan, Chaldean Catholic Bishop A d v e r t is in g M anag er : Jessica C ortez Last June, the Assyrian International some had nitric acid squirted on their Ibrahim N. Ibrahim called for the

A n D esig n M an ag er : Kelly Gronli News Agency (AINA) issued a report, faces. Elders of a village in Mosul were w ithdraw al of U.S. troops from Iraq.

C o n t r o l l e r : Tim Sobolewski “ Incipient Genocide: The Ethnic warned not to send females to univer­ Bishop Ibrahim has a point. One result Cleansing of Assyrians in Iraq.” In sities. The Madhi Army circulated a of the Iraq War has been to expose the Systems A dministrator : Christian Sagardia 2003, Christians and smaller non- letter warning all Christian women to Assyrians and other Christians to O f f ic e M a n a g e r & G e n e r a l I n f o Muslim groups were about one million veil themselves. Al-Qaeda moved into genocidal repression by all the major (574) 631-7471 of Iraq’s 26 million people. Probably an Assyrian neighborhood and began Muslim groups who appear to be of F a x (574) 631-6927 50 percent have now fled the country. collecting the jizya tax and demanding one m ind on this. But the U.S. should A d v e r t is in g Persecution began after the Gulf War that females be sent to the mosque to not leave Iraq without ensuring the (574) 631-6900 [email protected] and escalated after the fall of Baghdad be married off to Muslims. Assyrian safety of those minorities in their E d it o r in C h ie f in 2003. AINA reported that from 1995 businesses have been targeted, espe­ homeland. (574) 631-4542 to 2002 there were 19 murders of cially stores selling alcohol, radios, Bishop Ibrahim is entitled to make M a n a g in g E d it o r Assyrians in Iraq, with none in 1996, TVs and music. On the night of Sept. 7, his point, because in December, 2002, (574) 631-4541 [email protected] A s s is t a n t M a n a g in g E d it o r 2000 and 2001. From 2003 to June 2005, a fire, with arson suspected, he warned the United Stales against (574)631-4324 2007 there were 370. 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High (574) 631-8839 cution has intensified, with the added The Assyrians and their supporters Commissioner on Refugees says is tar­ motive that many Iraqi Christians who urge, in the words of Doctor Nina Shea geted against them due to religion.” O b servero n l in e speak English have worked for of the Center for Religious Freedom, President Bush should have listened to www.ndsmcobserver.com Americans. The AINA study, however, the “establishment of a new the Chaldeans. confirms that the persecution is pri­ autonomous district,” in the Nineveh Policies marily religious. Last October, for Plains “that would be jointly gov­ Professor emeritus Charles Rice is on The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper instance, Ayad Tariq, a 14-year-old erned” by Assyrians and smaller reli­ the faculty of the Law School. He can published in print and online by the students o f the Assyrian in Baquba, was accosted at gious groups. 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L etters to t h e E d ito r Campus workers deserve stronger voice

In the all-staff town hall meetings con­ liant one — though it is not a new concept of the Church’s rich tradition and social prides itself on service learning, justice ducted this week, Executive Vice President for this campus; it is something dozens of teaching? A right to organize, a right to and faith put into action. John Affleck-Graves is quoted as saying, students have been doing for the past two bargain, a right to participate at the table 1 hope that visitors to campus pause and “It is critical and essential every member years, though their efforts have often been where decisions get made that affect your consider the people serving in the Subway of the Notre Dame family feels respected, of little success in attracting serious atten­ life (the technical Catholic social teaching line or cleaning up our mess after tailgat­ valued and understood.” tion or recognition from the University. term is subsidiarity) and a right to speak ing — more than that, I hope we will be I couldn’t agree more, and I applaud the They too have sought to give an “ ND on your own behalf without fear of reper­ moved to stand in solidarity with workers University's efforts to measure employee Voice" to employees who otherwise feel cussions in performance reviews, unjust in the Notre Dame family whose voice has satisfaction by conducting the ND Voice that they have no say in the decisions that consequences from supervisors or risk of yet to be fully proclaimed. surveys, as well as the development of directly affect them and their experience termination. These are rights that mem­ staff-generated action plans that seek to at work. bers of the Campus Labor Action Project Casey Stanton address concerns in the work force. How do we ensure that all members of — staff, students, faculty and alumni like Alum nus Similarly, the proposal for top adminis­ the Notre Dame family do in fact feel myself— are committed to upholding at Class o f 2007 trators to shadow staff members is a bril­ respected and valued? Especially in light Notre Dame, an institution that so greatly Sept. 20

Need to ensure Shirt solidarity day shows activism

In the past, Notre Dame students have generally several weeks ago when she claimed in this news­ proper recycling not been known for large-scale activism. With so paper that Notre Dame students only get organized much schoolwork, it’s hard to pay attention to and active when our social life is threatened (“You much else. But then an organized response to the gotta fight for your right,” Sept. 3). Cynics like I want to congratulate all of the volunteers that put proposed South Bend “party ordinance,” Laidman must now find a way to explain together the recycling campaign for the Michigan State boldly led by student government how — if Notre Dame students are game. It is great to see that type of activity happening heads Liz Brown and Maris indeed so apathetic and politically on campus. Braun, defied that reputation inactive — such a day of solidari­ That being said, I hope the students ensure that the of complacency. ty was so successful. bags of recyclables are being properly recycled by Brown and Braun didn’t It might be too early to tell, Notre Dame. In 1999, at the request of students, Notre stop there, though. On k but it appears that solidarity, W E A R f Dame installed recycling containers in Reckers, but it Friday, they brought us activism and battling adversity was only later discovered that the university was actu­ together yet again, this time together will be this student ally just disposing of all of the separated trash in the clad in green t-shirts, to stand Nn government’s legacy. Brown and same dumpster, regardless of the fact that the trash had in solidarity with our Irish foot­ Braun should be praised for their been sorted and labeled according to recycling stan­ ball team. As their campus-wide forward thinking and tireless pur­ dards. email instructed, hundreds of stu­ suit of unity and justice. dents showed their spirit and proudly Matt Hudson “battl[ed] the adversity of an 0-3 start” by wearing Mike Laskey alumnus The Shirt a day early. senior Class o f 2000 Friday’s day of football solidarity proved that Dillon Hall Sept. 24 Observer columnist Andrea Laidman was wrong Sept. 23 Legal education, institutional learning and the role of faith Forty years ago this autumn I began the greatest institutional honors, the people w ill meet your expectations; contact with your self, to become a lost law school. Between then and now I best job and highest salary or meeting avoid being judgmental. Cultivate and soul, to participate in your own de­ graduated, picked up two additional the expectations of others for they only maintain a faith life and relationship humanization. graduate degrees, successfully practiced create anxiety and frustration, impede w ith God, for absent this you w ill come The point is this: Do not be institution­ law, raised a family, owned a nice home, learning and, ironically, impede becom­ to depend on your own intelligence and alized or willy-nilly acculturated. Do not suffered the losses that come w ith living ing a good lawyer. ability, a losing wager as no one plays a live another’s life. God made you a full and joined vowed religious life. On the Satisfaction and happiness in life, fault-free, tragedy-less game of life. In human — use all your endowment and strength of the nostrum that even blind learning included, comes more readily to short: Trust God, do not worry, and be relish the liberating faith reality that you squirrels find acorns, I offer what 1 know those who do work they enjoy, or work forgiving. need not adopt the impossible burden of in retrospect about legal education and that they find virtuous. Like it or not, a Third, be leery of being an objective authoring a perfect, self-designed life of institutional learning in general. happy and satisfied life requires that one participant in life and learning. Do not self-engineered success. First, relying on external rewards will knows who he is uniquely made by God fall victim to thinking like a lawyer. Do God made you to know happiness and produce neither satisfaction nor happi­ to be, and to follow that divine reality. not let acquiring the analytical skills satisfaction. Lie seeks only your faithful­ ness. Rather, those who place a primacy Second, forget perfectionism. Disabuse required to practice any occupation sep­ ness. Put God at the center of your life on a relationship w ith God, while accom­ yourself of any notion that you will not arate you from a pre-canonical sense of and proceed with confidence. modating personal growth and caring make mistakes. Humans err and wisdom moral order, your values, ideals, instinct, for others, find both satisfaction and comes over time, often as a result of imagination, your conscience, feelings or happiness. So avoid the single-minded mistake and failure. Hence be patient emotions or, most significantly, from Br. Bob Sylvester focus on securing the highest grades and with others and yourself. Do not assume your faith. To do otherwise is to lose Sept. 20

E d it o r ia l C arto o n Call for lighter enforcement www.cagelcartoons.com/espanol unreasonable

I would like to comment on Tuesday’s argument, although I doubt the administra­ Viewpoint letter by Carla DeMarzo-Sanchez tion has the ability to rewrite Indiana law (“ Reasonable regulation is key,”). I take it with regard to underage drinking, any she would like the administration (“Notre more than it has the power to convince Dame, please listen ...”) to put pressure on upcoming Notre Dame opponents to let (A i the South Bend Police Department so that Notre Dame win, thus creating happier students who break underage drinking alumni and a healthier endowment. Nice laws w ill not be cited. try, though. According to her, this w ill lead to happier alumni who will contribute in direct pro­ Mary Waggoner portion to the positive memories garnered Notre Dame staff in their undergraduate years. Interesting Sept. 25 T he O bserver

page 10 S cene Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Notre Dame Kicks of Fall Fashion DUSTIN MENNELLA and CHRISTIE RITTEN / The Observer

Name: Alexa Doyle Name: Alyssa Moya Name: Meghan White Name: Javier Polomo Name: Heather Markel She’s wearing: Frosh O She’s wearing: Forever She’s wearing: Urban He’s wearing: Gap shirt, She’s wearing: Fisher t- Shirt, Old Navy flip flops 21 shirt, AE jeans Outfitters dress, flip flops Adidas shoes shirt, Old Navy bag 3

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Season * MADELINE NIES I Observer Graphic

Fa s h io n B o u t iq u e O f fe r s “ I n s p ir e d ” S tyle

suits for when the mood is more dressy, All Mankind, Citizens of Humanity and By AMELIA THOMPSON but there are still Michael Stars tees, AG Jeans. Scene W riter Rebecca Beeson tops, Vince cashmere For a funkier flair on denim, Inspire sweaters and great Me also offers For the avid Notre Dame shopper, it’s casual dresses by Velvet Locations: Rich&Skinny Jeans easy to come up short at good ol’ to choose from.” and the more popu- University Park Mall. Sure, the addition But the high-end 312 W. Cleveland Road lar-than-ever True of Cache, Coach and a shiny new names found at Inspire Granger, Ind. 46530 Religion. Striving to Forever 21 are appreciated, but for the Me shouldn’t scare bring all of the true devotee to fashion, South Bend is potential shoppers coolest fines and lat­ lacking. away. Inspire Me also 520 & 528 E. Colfax Ave est, freshest fashion Well, thanks to boutique owner Jeanne features affordable lines trends to South Bend, Skelton, South Bend’s fashion future such as Tulle, Kensie, South Bend, Ind. 46617 Skelton and her looks a little brighter. Located in down­ B.B. Dakota, Free assistant buyers town South Bend on Colfax and in People, Lacoste and Sugar Lips at its attend shows and buying events, such as Granger, Ind., on West Cleveland, Inspire Colfax locations for the more cash- the recent Coterie show in New York Me is one of the city’s secret gems. strapped college coed. City, as w ell as shows in Los Angeles, The boutique carries chic clothing, Skelton makes an effort to get great Dallas and Chicago. funky accessories and shoes, and plenty labels that are priced at $100 or less to Some of Inspire Me’s new items to of fun gift items. With a long list of high- encourage Notre Dame and St. M ary’s brighten the dreary South Bend winter end lines that is rivaled by none other in students to patronize the store. The include wide-legged jeans from Hudson the city, including LaRok, Nanette introduction of a student discount card and J Brand Jeans, embellished hoodies Lepore, French Connection and Diane this fall gives Notre Dame and St. Mary’s and tees from Christian Audigier and fun I Von Furstenberg, Inspire Me’s Granger students the opportunity to save even going-out pieces from Alice & Olivia. location is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue for more when shopping at Inspire Me. So, now when you’re moping past South Bend. With a valid and recent school ID, and Cinnabon at the UP Mall praying desper­ Going strong for 13 years, it strikes a the Inspire Me discount card, student ately for some sort of fashion inspira­ perfect balance between lavish formal- shoppers can save 10 percent off regular tion, you can head to Inspire Me. wear and the luxuriously casual. price purchases. The downtown location According to Skelton, Inspire Me also specializes in the latest denim Contact Amelia Thompson at Granger “has incredible dresses and trends with go-to brands such as 7 For [email protected]

Stylin’ Seniors Present 1 0 Things To “Fall” Into

metals can make the dullest of outfits sorize any casual outfit. From elabo­ By BRITTNY FLINT and AMELIA sparkle. rate prints to solid colors, this trend is THOMPSON Bright not black a great way to be fashion forward with Scene W riters The change in South Bend weather little effort. can rattle even the most fashionably Go goth for nails Even though that Fergie tune is faithful. Bring the sunshine back by As the saying goes, the darker the beyond played out, this season it is still accenting simple outfits with bursts of berry the sweeter juice. This season all about the G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S. Here orange, yellow and shades of green. the same applies for the latest nail col­ AE is a list of 10 tips that will help you Make a statement with your jewelry ors. Deep reds, purples and near stylishly embrace the upcoming fall When your go-to pearls just won’t do blacks embody fall sophistication. season. the job, make a statement with your Get juicy jewelry by wearing eccentric pieces This fall treat yourself to a comfort­ Sleppin’ out that speak for themselves. A heavy able yet stylish pair of lounge pants. This season is all about the wide leg necklace or a dramatic ring can make We suggest Juicy Couture or even Juicy jean and trousers. From the darkest you stand out in any crowd. look-a-likes for those casual class days. OLD NAV denim to a refined tweed, this sophisti­ Boot-a-licious Pile it on cated style dresses up any look. But With dresses, skirts and those skinny Remember last winter? Because we hold on ladies, don’t throw away the jeans we told you to hold onto, a chic sure do. The upcoming months wifi be skinny jean just yet; both styles can pair of boots are a great way to transi­ frigid and cold, but that doesn’t mean transform any fall outfit from blah to tion from a flirty summer to a fashion­ you have to be frigid or cold. Layer up breathtaking. able fall. With the addition of Macy’s this season by combining comfy tanks Heavy metal and an Aldo to the University Park Mall with lightweight sweaters and cozy Two seasons ago we became enam­ this look can easily be attained. hoodies. With this stylish yet highly ored with metafiles and that love affair Reach for the sky practical trend you w ill be able to is still going strong. Keep piling on the Don’t be blue, get blue! Shades of weather any storm as South Bend bangles, earrings and other accessories cobalt, royal and sapphire are just a snows approach in the coming months. for some extra shine. few options for this trend. With this A member of the metallic family, fresh alternative to last season’s red, sequins also adorn everything from you’ll definitely discover blue’s hues. Contact Brittny Flint [email protected] going out tops to nighttime dresses. Making the band and Amelia Thompson at LACOSTE Flashy, fun and funky; these precious Headbands are a fun way to acces- [email protected] J.CREW

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MLB Manny, Schilling return as Red Sox demolish Athletics

Willis leads Marlins past NL Central leading Cubs; Texiera, Chipper homer in Braves 10-6 win over Phillies

through on his plan to remove David Ortiz’s two-run homer, Associated Press him, Ramirez walked to the his 33rd. BOSTON — Manny Ramirez plate with one out in the first as Oakland scored twice in the returned to the Boston Red Sox the fans chanted, “Manny, ninth on Jack Hannahan’s dou­ lineup after a 24-game absence Manny.” ble and Kurt Suzuki’s sacrifice and helped cut their magic lie responded with a line- fly- number to four to clinch the AL drive single to right and scored I he game was the lirst East title. on Mike Lowell’s double that between the teams since June 7 After being sidelined by a tied the game 1-1. After pop­ when Schilling came within one strained muscle in his left side, ping out to second baseman out of his first no-hitter. Ramirez singled and scored Mark Ellis in the second, Shannon Stewart broke it up Boston’s first run in the first Ramirez led off the fifth with a with a line single to right with inning, then walked to start a w alk on a 3-and-2 pitch. two outs in the ninth at two-run fifth in a 7-3 victory Francona sent in Brandon Oakland, but the Red Sox won over the Oakland Athletics on Moss to pinch run. Chad Gaudin 1- 0 . Tuesday night. (11-13) then walked the next Curt Schilling also had plenty three batters w ith the last, J.D. Marlins 4, Cubs 2 of rest and it paid off with his Drew, forcing in a run. Ninety minutes before first win since Aug. 24. Ellsbury’s sacrifice fly drove in Tuesday’s game, Lou Piniella Pitching for the first time in Ortiz for a 3-1 lead. sat in the Chicago Cubs’ dugout nine days so manager Terry Kevin Youkilis pinch hit for reciting a familiar mantra few Francona could arrange his Eric Ilinske and popped out to believe. AP rotation for the playoffs, end the inning. Youkilis had “There’s no curse,” Piniella Cubs infielder Mark DeRosa argues with home plate umpire Schilling (9-8) allowed one run missed the previous seven said. “There’s no curse.” Mike Reilly in Chicago’s 4-2 loss to the Marlins Tuesday. and left after six innings with a games with a bruised right Keeping say it, Lou. 3-1 lead, lie struck out six and wrist sustained when he was hit Eager to sew up the NL Worst of all for Chicago, Willis inning and Andruw Jones fol­ allowed six hits and no walks. by a pitch from Chien-Ming Central, Piniella’s Cubs instead (10-15) delivered perhaps his lowed with an RBI single to tie But it was Ramirez's return Wang of the New York Yankees managed only two hits in eight best performance in a disap­ it. that excited the crowd that on Sept. 15. innings against Dontrelle Willis pointing season. He struck out Moyer pitched to one more came to Fenway Park with the The only run Schilling allowed and lost to the last-place seven to set a franchise career batter, retiring Brian McCann Red Sox having lost six of nine was Daric Barton’s third homer Florida Marlins. record, and won for only the on a bouncer to the mound. games and holding a two-game of the season in the first. Barton Given the Cubs’ tradition of third time in 15 decisions since Geoff Geary entered and Matt lead in the division over the has reached base in all 14 collapses, it takes little imagina­ May 29. Diaz lined his first pitch for an New York Yankees. With five games he’s played since being tion for their long-suffering sup­ RBI single to give the Braves a games left, the Red Sox had called up from Triple-A porters to envision another one Braves 10, Phillies 6 6-5 lead. After Yunel Escobar already clinched a wild-card Sacramento on Sept. 10. this week. More than an hour Mark Teixeira hit a three-run doubled with two outs, Edgar berth. Jacoby Ellsbury singled in a after the Cubs lost, their lead homer and Chipper Jones had a Renteria hit a two-run single to Batting second for just the run in the bottom of the seventh was trimmed to two games two-run shot, helping the make it 8-5. second time in his 1,995 games and the Red Sox pulled away when second-place Milwaukee Atlanta Braves keep their slim Utley’s solo homer off Manny so he could get an extra at-bat with three runs in the eighth on beat St. Louis 9-1. playoff hopes alive with a victo­ Acosta in the seventh cut it to 8- before Francona followed Bobby Kielty's sacrifice 11 y and “ T ha t’s why we had a three- ry over the Philadelphia Phillies 6. Chipper Jones connected off game lead when we came,” on Tuesday night. Tom Gordon in the ninth for Piniella said. “Now we squan­ The Phillies remained two insurance runs. dered a piece of it. You can’t games behind the NL East-lead­ Desperate to see their Phillies win every day. You w ant to, but ing Mets, who lost 10-9 to end a 14-year playoff drought, a it just doesn’t happen.” Washington. Philadelphia fell crowd of 39,129 cheered wildly Chicago’s magic number for 1/2 game behind San Diego in and frantically waved white- clinching the division remained the wild card race, pending the and-red “Fightin’ Phils” towels. four. Padres game at San Francisco But they left disappointed. “We’ve been playing really later. Moyer gave up six runs and good baseball lately,” right Jimmy Rollins hit a solo six hits in 5 1-3 innings. The fie ld er M att M urton said. “ We homer to become the second 44-year-old left-hander has one ran into a good pitcher tonight. player in team history with 30 win in five starts this month, We’ve got five more games. homers and 30 stolen bases in though he pitched well in his We’re still in a good position.” the same season. Ryan Howard, previous two outings. Florida knows all about the Jayson Worth and Chase Utley Braves starter Chuck James supposed Cubs curse. Four also connected for the Phillies didn’t fare any better. He years ago, Chicago blew a (85-72). allowed four runs and three hits three-games-to-one lead Atlanta (83-74) needs to keep — all homers — in 3 2-3 against the Marlins in the NL winning and get some help to innings. Bennett gave up one championship series. reach the playoffs after a one- run in 1 1-3 innings. The Cubs had won 10 of their year absence. The Braves won After Rollins hit a lead off past 12 games and four in a an unprecedented 14 straight homer, James cruised until the row, but bad luck — an omen? division titles, before missing fourth. He retired 10 straight, — helped beat them Tuesday. out last season. striking out live, before running Consecutive bloopers by the Pal Burrell’s sacrifice fly off into trouble. Marlins fell for hits in short Jeff Bennett (2-0) gave the The left-hander walked right-center field during their Phillies their first lead, 5-4 in Burrell on four pitches and fell four-run second inning against the fifth. But Atlanta answered behind Howard 2-0, prompting Ted Lilly. A sharp grounder by quickly against Jamie Moyer a visit from pitching coach Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez swings in the on deck circle Amaris Ramirez became a dou­ (13-12) in the sixth. Jeff Roger McDowell. Whatever he Tuesday during Boston’s 7-3 win over the Athletics. ble play. Francoeur doubled to start the said didn’t help.

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NCAA Football AP Top 25

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1 use 3-0 1 2 LSU 4-0 2 3 Oklahoma 4-0 4 4 Florida 4-0 3 5 West Virginia 4-0 5 6 California 4-0 6 7 Texas 4-0 7 8 Ohio State 4-0 8 9 Wisconsin 4-0 9 10 Rutgers 3-0 11 11 Oregon 4-0 13 12 Boston College 4-0 14 13 Clemson 4-0 15 14 Kentucky 4-0 21 15 Georgia 3-1 22 16 South Carolina 3-1 12 17 Virginia Tech 3-1 17 18 South Florida 3-0 23 19 Hawaii 4-0 19 20 Missouri 4-0 25 21 Penn State 3-1 10 22 Alabama 3-1 16 23 Arizona State 4-0 NR 24 Cincinnati 4-0 NR 25 Nebraska 3-1 24

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1 use 3-0 1 2 LSU 4-0 2 3 Florida 4-0 3 4 Oklahoma 4-0 4 Michael Vick talks in a news conference in Richmond, Va., after announcing his guilty plea for a federal dog- 5 West Virginia 4-0 5 fighting charge. Vick now faces more jail time from state charges. 6 California 4-0 8 7 Texas 4-0 6 8 Ohio Stale 4-0 9 Vick looking at more jail time from state 9 Wisconsin 4-0 7 10 Rutgers 3-0 11 dogfighting conspiracy covered by the federal told The Associated Press 11 Boston College 4-0 12 Associated Press 12 Oregon 4-0 13 charges, faces state charges indictment for which Mr. on Monday night that he 13 Clemson 4-0 14 SUSSEX, Va. — M ichael of beating or killing or caus­ Vick has already accepted would seek indictments on 14 Virginia Tech 3-1 17 Vick, already looking at a ing dogs to fight other dogs full responsibility.” different crimes than the 15 Kentucky 4-0 23 federal prison term for and engaging in or promot­ Martin said he will ones Vick admitted to in 16 Georgia 3-1 21 bankrolling a dogfighting ing dogfighting. Each felony “aggressively protect his federal court. He did not 17 Hawaii 4-0 18 operation in rural Virginia, is punishable by up to five rights to ensure that he is elaborate to reporters out­ 18 South Florida 3-0 24 now faces two state charges years in prison. not held accountable for the side court Tuesday. 19 Penn State 3-1 10 that could get him more Arraignments are set for same conduct twice.” The charges are the first 20 Missouri 4-0 25 prison time if he’s convict­ Oct. 3. Vick was convicted of a leveled against Vick in the 21 South Carolina 3-1 14 ed. The grand jury declined federal conspiracy count county where he built a 22 Nebraska 3-1 22 After a Surry County to indict the 27-year-old while the state indictment home that became the base 23 Michigan State 4-0 NR grand jury indicted the Vick and two co-defendants deals with the act of dog of the dogfighting opera­ 24 Alabama 3-1 20 Atlanta Falcons quarter­ on eight additional counts fighting, said Steven tion, where local investiga­ 25 Arizona State 4-0 NR back and three co-defen­ of killing or causing to be Benjamin, a Richmond tors first uncovered evi­ 25 Purdue 4-0 NR dants Tuesday, Vick’s killed a companion animal, defense lawyer who is not dence of the enterprise. lawyers indicated they will felonies that would have involved in the case. The None of the defendants fight the state charges on exposed them to as many as prosecution will argue nor their lawyers were at the grounds that he can’t be 40 years in prison if con­ th a t’s enough o f a d iffe r­ the Sussex County court­ MIAA Volleyball convicted twice of the same victed. ence to allow the charges to house, where the grand Standings crime. Vick defense attorney proceed, he said. ju ry met because the court­ The NFL star, scheduled Billy M artin said in a state­ S u rry C ounty house in neighboring Surry for sentencing Dec. 10 after ment that the state counts Commonwealth’s Attorney County is closed for renova­ team league overall pleading guilty to federal concern “the same conduct Gerald G. Poindexter had tions.

Calvin 6-0 11-3 In B rief Adrian 5-1 8-6 Hope 5-2 10-5 Tri-State 4-2 6-8 Pirates hire new general Carl Edwards’ car fails Rex Grossman could be SAINT MARY’S 3-4 6-8 manager inspection, docked points benched for next game Kalamazoo 2-4 5-8 PITTSBURGH — Neal Huntington, CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carl LAKE FOREST, 111. — Rex Albion 1-4 3-10 a former Cleveland Indians assis­ Edwards was docked 25 points Grossman still had his health when Alma 1-5 5-13 tant general manager who was Tuesday because his race-winning he walked off the field. But he may Olivet 1-6 2-13 moved to a mostly scouting role two car failed inspection at Dover not have his starting job much years ago, was hired Tuesday as the International Raceway. longer after his latest meltdown. Pittsburgh Pirates’ general manag­ The penalty drops Edwards from Grossman threw three intercep­ er. third in the Chase for the champi­ tions as the Chicago Bears fell to The 37-year-old Huntington onship standings to sixth. He’s now the Dallas Cowboys 34-10 on replaces Dave Littlefield, who was 28 points behind series leader Jeff Sunday night, and he did not get a fired earlier this month after failing Gordon. vote of confidence from his coach around the dial to produce a winning season since Team owner Jack Roush, who a day later. being hired in July 2001. The celebrated his 100th win Sunday Now, the question is: W ill he Pirates are finishing up a 15th con­ with Edwards’ victory, also was start this week at Detroit? secutive losing season, one short of docked 25 owner points and crew “Will Rex Grossman start the major league record, and their chief Bob Osborne was fined Sunday?” coach Lovie Smith asked fifth with 90 or more losses since $25,000. on Monday, repeating the question. MLB 2000 . Edwards’ No. 99 Ford was “Well, our evaluation process is Braves at Phillies Huntington once worked under deemed to be too low following going on right now, and if you 7:00 p.m., ESPN Littlefield in the Montreal Expos’ post-race inspection. Although come out to practice Wednesday, minor league system. NASCAR determined the height you’ll have a better idea of who Huntington was the surprise infraction was not intentional, the will be starting at all positions.” choice of new Pirates president team still was penalized in accor­ Has Smith made a decision? Frank Coonelly, who has been on dance with NASCAR’s strict inspec­ “I’m always thinking ahead,” he the job less than two weeks. tion policy. said. page 14 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Wednesday, September 26, 2007

NFL McAllister out for year, again, with torn ACL

to believe it, but just taking the blocked for McAllister since 2005, Associated Press walk to the locker room 1 could choked up while talking about his NEW ORLEANS — In Douce feel it just kind of giving way a lit­ teammate’s latest setback. McAllister’s locker, front-and-cen- tle bit and that was just kind of “ I hugged him and started cry­ ler on the top shelf, is a gold- reminiscent of how the other one ing,” Karney said, taking a deep painted wooden carving of the felt." breath. “ It’s tough to see a great word: “Believe!” McAllister said there was also guy, first and foremost, a great After his second season-ending some damage to his medial col­ player, have to suffer another knee injury in three seasons, the lateral ligament. season-ending injury. ... He’s the Saints’ 28-year-old all-time lead­ Five games into the 2005 sea­ best I’ve been around. It’s sad. It’s ing rusher wants to believe he son, McAllister tore his right ACL hard to take ... I play the game w ill return to the NFL as an elite during a run in Green Bay. After for guys like him. ” running back. It w on’t be easy, reconstructive surgery, he Head coach Sean Payton said it and he knows it. returned to rush for 1,057 yards is “way too premature to start “Obviously, the questions: Will in 2006, helping the Saints to the talking about where (McAllister) you ever be the same? Will you NFC South title and starring in is from a career standpoint.” ever be the back that you once their playoff victory over “He was able to come back off were? Those are the different Philadelphia. the right ACL. He’s the type of thoughts that obviously run Now McAllister needs recon­ guy that has the conviction and through your mind as a player,” structive surgery on the other the belief,” Payton said. “If he McAllister said. knee, likely a patellar tendon puts his mind to it, and 1 know he “I believe in myself. It’s just a graft, followed by the long, w ill ... it ’s going to take a long matter of me putting the time in painful rehabilitation that will time and he’s someone who’s and me putting the work in.” last almost until 2008 training tough enough to handle it.” McAllister said an MRI exam camp begins, if not longer. If McAllister leaves the Saints, Tuesday confirmed his worst In between, there will be an off­ he’ll do so with every significant fears: He tore his left anterior season, when uncomfortable career rushing record in fran­ cruciate ligament in Monday reminders that the NFL is a busi­ chise history. Although he played night’s 31-14 loss to Tennessee. ness resurface in greater fre­ sparingly his rookie season During the second quarter, quency. McAllister is in the third behind then-starter Ricky McAllister landed awkwardly year of an eight-year, $50.1 m il­ Williams, and although he missed Saints running back Deuce McAllister walks off the field after catching a short pass from lion contract. And the Saints also most of 2005, he has rushed for Monday after tearing his ACL against the Titans. Drew Brees. McAllister walked have Reggie Bush, who in his sec­ 5,678 yards and 44 touchdowns. o ff the field on his own, but hav­ ond season will now be the undis­ He is among the most popular there, is restoring a historic “You feel helpless because it’s ing torn his right ACL in 2005, he puted featured running back in players the Saints have ever had, downtown hotel, and runs his about making plays,” McAllister was worried. New Orleans for the remainder of having grown up a couple hours charitable Catch-22 foundation, said. “I can’t do that right now.” “I just told myself to get up off this year, at least. away near Jackson, Miss., and so named for his college jersey Those who can are fellow run­ the ground. One lesson I learned Bush, who had two short having been a star at Ole Miss. number. ning backs Bush, Aaron Stecker growing up was to never let your touchdown runs Monday night Although someone with his As for this season, it’s a poten­ and Pierre Thomas, an undrafted opponent see you hurt. but otherwise has struggled to money easily could spend offsea­ tially devastating blow to the rookie out of Illinois who made Regardless of what it is, if you find his game-breaking form this sons in Miami, Malibu or the Saints, who are 0-3 and in des­ the active roster as a long shot can walk, walk off that field, ” season, declined to speak with French Riviera, he continues to perate need of a victory to have following a string of impressive McAllister said. “Once I got to the reporters Tuesday. make his permanent home in any hope of rallying back into runs and kick returns in the pre­ sideline, I knew it. I didn’t want Fullback Mike Karney, who has Jackson, He owns car dealerships postseason contention. season. Uganda Information Session

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N C A A F ootball G olf Freshman Devine returns homePlayers prepared West Virginia phenom returns to south Florida to face No. 18 Bulls for Presidents Cup

be the 30-man field at the Tour MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Associated Press Championship. Before Noel Devine became a MONTREAL — One cup is Ten Americans were at East YouTube sensation, he lost both over. Another cup is about to Lake, the exception being Toms his parents to AIDS, witnessed begin. (No. 32) and Lucas Glover (No. a friend’s murder, rejected The question is whether a 35). The International team had Deion Sanders’ attempts to world-class collection of players only six players in the Tour adopt him and became a father at Royal Montreal have enough Championship, and two of the of two. left to fill the Presidents Cup players — Mike Weir and Retief His years of bouncing from with the kind of golf that has Goosen — didn’t even qualify for home to home, which included made these matches so com­ the 70-man field the previous a brief stop at Sanders’ Texas pelling over the last few years. week at the BMW ranch, eventually landed the Tiger Woods, who plays fewer Championship. former Florida prep star at golf tournaments than any other “Our team has been really West Virginia, where four star, will be competing for the playing well,” U.S. captain Jack games into his college career sixth time in nine weeks. Ditto Nicklaus said. “I think they are Devine has proved worthy of for Phil Mickelson, who usually well prepared.” the hype that followed him out shuts it down this time of year. Nicklaus tried to make the of high school. Even an ironman like Vijay case the International team is In a way, Devine’s journey Singh has spent an awful lot of stronger on paper, which is usu­ comes full circle Friday night, time inside the ropes, skipping ally the norm. Comprised of 120 miles from where he grew only two weeks since August. players from all but European up, when No. 5 West Virginia Blame that on the FedEx Cup, countries, the team has an aver­ (4-0) w ill play at No. 18 South a four-week bonanza that ended age world ranking of 18.5, with Florida (3-0) in a key Big Fast only nine days ago for 16 play­ Weir the lowest at No. 46. The matchup. AP ers in the Presidents Cup. It only United States has an average “ Look where he is now. It’s a West Virginia running back Noel Devine carries against figures to get tougher next year, ranking of 21.9, with Glover the success, in my eyes,” said Western Michigan in a 62-24 Mountaineers win on Sept. 1. with the Ryder Cup scheduled lowest at No. 61. James landoli, Devine’s coach fathered two children with dif­ to adopt Devine. But the teen for the week after the Tour International captain Gary at North Fort Myers High. “I ferent mothers. He saw a 15- quickly returned to Florida, Championship. Player, however, was quick to don’t wish the path that he had year-old classmate shot in leaving one of Sanders’ sport As much as players are curs­ point out the United States was to take on my worst enemy. December 2004 during a con­ utility vehicles at the curb at ing the schedule, it could turn top-heavy in the world ranking “I guess the old saying is, frontation with a rival group. the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, out to be a blessing. with Woods, Mickelson, Jim what doesn’t kill you only School officials brought the the engine still running. “You would think that you’re Furyk and Strieker the new “Big makes you better. And I believe incident to the attention of “It devastated our family,” pretty prepared to be here, Four.” It is believed to be the he’s becoming a wonderful Sanders, a 1985 graduate of said Sanders, who has maybe more so than years past, first time in the 21-year history young man.” North Fort Myers. remained in contact with because of playing so much golf of the world ranking Americans The attention of being a high­ Sanders got to know Devine Devine. “To get your family on recently,” David Toms said have occupied the top four spots. ly touted football recruit can be and brought him to training board isn’t easy. We made con­ Tuesday. “I think that’s some­ While the International team head-spinning to a 19-year-old, camp with the Baltimore cessions ... it was tough. You thing they need to take a look in looks good on paper, it hasn’t but it’s not much compared to Ravens in 2005. Devine then can’t allow someone into your the future, how much golf is looked good in competition late­ what Devine has been through went to Sanders’ ranch in home without allowing them being played at this particular ly. The most recent winner is outside of football. A past that Prosper, Texas, w ith the intent into your heart.” time. For us this year, I know we K.J. Choi at the AT&T National the polite, shy Devine prefers of starting over. Devine, whose ability to have a lot of guys who are com­ in July. Angel Cabrera hasn’t not to talk about. “We wanted to give him guid­ change directions with little ing in and playing well, and it done much since his U.S. Open His father died when he was ance and structure, something loss of speed has drawn com­ should be an advantage for us.” victory in June, and Singh an infant and his mother was not afforded him at the time,” parisons to another Sanders — Indeed, the FedEx Cup could played five consecutive tourna­ gone before he was 12. His Sanders said in a recent tele­ Barry — finished out his career be a good barom eter for these ments over par until finishing 10 maternal grandmother became phone interview. “We just felt where it started. matches when they get under under at easy East Lake. his legal guardian, but he that at that point in his life he Recruited since he was a way Thursday. Even so, Player had reason to thought she was too strict and needed a tremendous amount high school freshman, Devine’s Woods is playing a lot of golf, believe “the stage is set for he moved in with the family of of structure and discipline.” video clips made him an but playing well. He has won another great match.” an ex-teammate. With the approval of Devine’s Internet prodigy, and a must- four of the five tournaments he The last two have been so As a teenager, Devine grandmother, Sanders intended see for football fans on has played dating to the close they essentially were YouTube. He compiled 2,148 Bridgestone Invitational, includ­ decided by one shot — Chris rushing yards and 31 TDs as a ing his last two to easily win the DiMarco’s 15-foot birdie putt on senior at North Fort Myers. FedEx Cup. The other two play­ the final hole of the final match He also found trouble. A off events were won by Phil in 2005 at the Robert Trent school confrontation prompted Mickelson (Deutsche Bank) and Jones Golf Club in Virginia. The CENTER. FOR SMRfTUAU T Y a two-game suspension and a Steve Strieker (Barclays). matches ended in a tie in South locker room incident forced Since all 24 players from the Africa in 2003. SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE Devine to miss a postseason United States and International “I think that the whole on all-star game. teams are PGA Tour members, paper’ is kind of a farce,” Furyk “He’s no different than any an even better barometer might said. other high school football play­ Education of the er I’ve ever had,” landoli said. “The only difference is he was B ig P ic k in the limelight. He’s national Mind and Heart news and everyone wants to put it all over the paper. Everyone wants to pass judg­ Saint Marys College and Doxologym ent.” West Virginia coach Rich Why? How? Where? When? Rodriguez said his only worry after getting to know Devine was about his grades. “The school had a plan for Thursday, September 27 him and he was very deter­ mined to make it. So we hung 4 : 0 0 P .M . in there with him,” he said. Pushed by landoli and others, Stapleton Lounge Devine avoided prep school by qualifying for NCAA eligibility Le Mans Hall on his third attempt at taking the ACT. He then set aside overtures from Bobby Bowden at Florida State and other John Haughey, S.J., S.T. D. schools and ended up in Senior Fellow Morgantown, a decision Woodstock Theologial Center Sanders let Devine make on his own. Georgetown University “1 didn’t want to entice him. Washington, DC He would blame you for the rest of his life,” Sanders said. T,"'" “If it doesn’t go well, he can’t 0 0 Free (W open fu pwW;c. fault anyone but himself.” AP So far, it’s been a great fit on Irish safety David Bruton intercepts a Brian Hoyer pass the field. Saturday in the Spartans’ 31-14 win over Notre Dame. page 16 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Wednesday, September 26, 2007

MLB Devil Rays postpone celebrationPhiladelphia GM Win over Yankees keeps New York from clinching playoff berth not returning in '08

is widely considered the most Associated Press likely candidate to replace PHILADELPHIA — Phillies Gillick. Amaro’s contract is up general manager Pat Gillick after this season, and he has doesn’t plan to remain with the interviewed for other jobs. team after his three-year con­ Gillick brought a winning pedi­ tract expires following next sea­ gree to Philadelphia when he son. replaced Ed Wade after the “This is it for me,” Gillick said 2005 season. His impressive in Tuesday’s Philadelphia Daily resume as a general m anager News. “ I’ll fulfill my contract. It’s includes two World Series titles time to think about doing some with Toronto, seven division other things in life.” championships and nine playoff The longtime baseball man appearances with three teams will be 71 by the time his con­ — the Blue Jays, Baltimore and tract is up. He wasn’t immedi­ Seattle. If the Phillies make it to ately available to reporters the postseason, he’ll be 4-for-4 before the Phillies played guiding clubs to the playoffs. Atlanta. Gillick has come under heavy Gillick’s situation could affect scrutiny for a few of his person­ manager Charlie Manuel, who is nel decisions. His biggest mis­ in the final season of his con­ take was trading for Freddy tract. Manuel has done an out­ Garcia last offseason. The two- standing job keeping an injury- time All-Star righty was 1-5 depleted team in the playoff before needing season-ending race. shoulder surgery. Garcia cost The Phillies were tied with San the Phillies $10 million this sea­ Diego for the NL wild-card lead son. and trailed the East-leading Gillick’s two biggest free-agent Mels by two games. acquisitions last offseason — Manuel insists he’s not con­ th ird baseman Wes Helms and Devil Rays players mob catcher Dioner Navarro after his walk off home gave Tampa Bay a 7-6 cerned about his job status, and catcher Rod Barajas — didn’t win over the Yankees Tuesday. New York needs one win to clinch a playoff berth. he won’t talk about a contract pan out, either. Both were rele­ extension until after the season. gated to bench duty down the runs. “We’re going to get back have four hits and we’ve got “It’s not about me,” he said. stretch. Associated Press to the postseason, and we’re double digits, and we’ve got “It’s about the team. I don’t have Some of Gillick’s best moves ST. PETERSBURG. F la. — going to be going on all cylin­ the same number of runs. to w orry about anything else.” involved utility players and Nothing comes easy for the ders.” That’s when you know you’re Assistant GM Ruben Amaro Jr. relievers. New York Yankees this season, A-Rod’s homer was his in the charity business. especially against the Tampa major league-leading 53rd, a New York tied in the eighth Bay Devil Bays. shot that ended his longest on Melky Cabrera’s sacrifice THE CUSHWA CENTER Jorge Velandia hit a grand homerless drought in more fly off Dan Wheeler, but the FOR THE STUDY OF slam for his first career homer than a year. He has 151 RBIs, Yankees wasted an opportuni­ and Dioner Navarro added a the most by a Yankee since ty to regain the lead when AMERICAN CATHOLICISM solo shot in the 10th inning to Joe DIMaggio’s 155 in 1948. Jeter struck out with runners presents lift last-place Tampa Bay over Gary Glover (6-5) pitched at the corners after Damon f lt New York 7-6 and prevent the one scoreless inning for the singled. Yankees from clinching a play­ victory. Eight Yankees pitchers “We’ve stood toe-to-toe to all off berth on Tuesday night. yielded a total of five hits, but the contenders: Boston, to n r “ I can’t really rem em ber us hurt themselves with 11 Seattle, to L.A., then Boston having an easy time,” Yankees walks. and New York here, and 1 like American Catholic Studies Seminar captain Derek Jeter said. A-Bod, who had gone 55 at the way our guys have gone “Drawing the Line Between What Should, and “Regardless of who you’re bats since last homering on about their business against playing, no one likes to see Sept. 9 a Kansas City, circled them,” Devil Rays manager What Should Not Be Told in American Catholic you celebrate. They’re going the bases to a standing ovation Joe Maddon said. “It’s not History— John Tracy Ellis and David Francis to play you tough.” after driving an 0-1 pitch from about being the spoiler, it’s Coupled with Boston’s 7-3 Jason llammel off one of the about learning how to play Sweeney’s Life of John Lancaster Spalding" victory over Oakland, New catwalks that support the roof this time of the year. And our York fell three at Tropicana guys have risen to occasion.” C. Walker Collar, Xavier University games behind Field in the Kei Igawa, standing in for the first-place “We ’re going to get third inning. scheduled starter Roger Bed Sox in the back to the The stretch Clemens, pitched five scoreless AL East with w ith o u t a innings before New York’s Thursday , September 27, 2007 postseason, and five games to homer was A- bullpen let the Devil Rays back 4:30 p.m. pla y. The we ’re going to be Bod’s longest in the game. 1140 Flanner H all Yankees lead going on all since he also Clemens was scratched Detroit by 4 went 55 at bats because of a lingering left games in the cylinders. ” without one hamstring injury. He tweaked wild-card race, from May 27- the hamstring while running and th e ir Johnny Damon June 15 last last Thursday and has pitched magic number Yankees outfielder year. just once since Sept. 3, side­ to c lin c h a The ball was lined initially by a tender right playoff berth still rising when elbow that required two corti­ for the 13th consecutive year it hit the ring about 115 feet sone shots. remained at one. above the field. The Devil Bays Yankees general manager The Yankees trailed Boston estimated the grand slam — Brian Cashman said the 45- by 14 1/2 games on May 29 the 16th of Rodriguez’s career year-old, seven-time Cy Young * and have salvaged their sea­ and third this year — traveled Award winner could have son by going a major league- 428 feet. pitched Tuesday if it had been best 47-24 since the All-Star Trailing 5-0, the Devil Bays a m ust-win game. break. But they’re just 8-8 this rallied to take a 6-5 lead in the “We’re just playing it year against the pesky Devil sixth. smart,” Cashman said. “We’re Bays, who have baseball’s Navarro doubled off Edwar looking at the big picture, and worst record. Bamirez to drive in Tampa giving it more time to heal. Velandia’s grand slam off Bay’s first run, and Bruney The point is he’ll be better off Brian Bruney finished a six- walked Akinori Iwamura with with more time, and we’ll go run sixth and offset a the bases loaded before giving from there.” Rodriguez slam that gave New up the first homer the 32- Igawa made his first start York a 5-0 lead in the third. year-old Velandia had in 208 since pitching poorly in a loss Navarro, who had a RBI dou­ major league at bats spread at Kansas City on July 26. He Information Meeting ble in the sixth, hit the winner out over six seasons. worked out of a jam in the first on a 2-0 pitch from Jeff “It’s a helpless feeling, after walking two and allowing September 27, 6:00 PM Karstens (1-4). there’s no question,” Yankees the runners to move up on a Center for Social Concerns “It’s not easy, but we’re manager Joe Torre said of the wild pitch, then clung to New going to get the job done six walks issued by his York’s 5-0 lead when he got before too long,” said the bullpen. “You don’t give your­ Delmon Young to fly to center for more information visit www.peacecorps.gov Yankees’ Johnny Damon, who self a chance to get guys out. with the bases loaded in the or call 800.424.8580 was 5-for-5 and scored two You look up there and they third. Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Observer ♦ SPORTS page 17

SMC G o lf Belles finish 4th in MI AA tourney

Julie Hoogerhyde was the Belles remain in 2nd medalist, 10 strokes ahead of place heading into O’Brien at 74. Belles freshman Emily conference tourney Gore continued to impress in her rookie season as she fin ­ By JARED JEDICK ished second for the team Sports W riter two strokes behind O’Brien. Three more freshmen round­ ed out the scorers for the Saint Mary’s finished fourth Belles — Rosie O’Connor shot Tuesday but held onto sec­ an 89, Michelle Hird posted a ond in the conference stand­ 92 and Amanda Mainstone ings at the third and final entered the clubhouse with a MIAA Jamboree of the fall, 97. held at Buck's Run Golf Saint Mary’s junior Course in Alma, Mich. Meredith Fantom scored an The Belles posted a total 85, freshman Meghan Lehr score of 351 Tuesday and shot an 87, and junior Perri failed to gain any ground on Mamma came up with a 94 in KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer first-place Olivet College, the individual competition. Senior cornerback Terrail Lambert and a slew of other Irish defenders take down Javon Ringer which held on for the lead. The Belles now stand in during Michigan State’s 31-14 win Saturday. Weis said the defense was beginning to click this week. Saint Mary’s dropped 27 second place in the MIAA strokes in the overall MIAA conference with a total of led to the release of former said. standings but kept its overall 1,029 strokes in three defensive coordinator Rick One player that has been sur­ spot in second. Jamboree events. They trail Practice Minter. prisingly absent from the pass­ Olivet College led the day Olivet by 41 strokes. continued from page 20' Weis said some of the defen­ ing game is fifth-year senior with 324, Hope College fin­ The conference champi­ sive issues are caused by an tight end John Carlson. Carlson ished second with a 345 and onship is decided by the offense that holds the ball for was Notre Dame’s leading Tri-State University came in combined scores of the three both the team and the coach­ six minutes less returning receiv­ third with a 349. Rounding previous Jamborees and the ing staff, he wants to keep the than the oppo­ er coming into out the top five was host two championship rounds on team hitting each other at least sition every the year but has Alm a w ith a 376. Oct. 5-6 at Battle Creek, , once a week going forward. game. only seven Senior captain Kate Mich. “Last week’s schedule was “I think that “The better we run the catches for 63 O’Brien once again led the No players or coaches were different than anything we’ve last year there ball, the better the yards so fa r this way for Saint Mary’s with a available for comment fol­ ever done,” Weis said. “And I w e re a lo t o f protection is, the more season and has final round of 84, which was lowing the Jamboree think that this might be more times you could often been kept placed her sixth overall. Tuesday night. like the way we’re going to go count on the we’ll throw the ball.” in to block on Unfortunately for the Belles, the rest of the way, where we defense not pass plays. five Olivet players scored as Contact Jared Jedick at at least dedicate part of being on the Charlie Weis But, Weis said, well or better. Hope senior [email protected] Tuesday’s practice to have ones fie ld n e a rly as Irish coach Carlson is being going against one." much,” he said. patient. Notre Dame “ He knows the Players grasping defense has improved year’s not over,” C ycling Weis said that, after four on pass Weis said. “All games, the defense is starting defense, giving up fewer than he wants to do is anything he to feel comfortable in Corwin 120 yards per game through can to give us the best chance Brown’s 3-4 personnel scheme. the air. of winning.” Landis sticks to story, “ Some of these guys are get­ ting better just by pure reps out Pass catchers not griping Game time announced there playing,” Weis said. “It’s W hile they haven’t seen many The kickoff time and televi­ one thing to just practice it, but throws due to the offensive’s sion coverage for Saturday’s says he did no wrong I think another thing is actually line struggles and the switch to contest with the Boilermakers playing in the games.” a power running attack against was announced Monday. The Irish have given up more the Spartans, Notre Dame’s The game will begin at 12:02 not losing sleep over a deci­ Associated Press than 30 points to each of their wide receivers aren’t complain­ p.m. and will be carried live on sion to strip him of his title first four opponents and more ing, Weis said. ESPN. SAN DIEGO — Disgraced following a positive drug test. than 230 yards per game on “The better we run the ball, American cyclist Eloyd Landis A defiant Landis reiterated the ground — both worse than the better the protection is, the Contact Chris Khorey at says he won the Tour de on Tuesday earlier claims the 2006 defensive effort that more we’ll throw the ball,” he [email protected] France fairly and that he’s that the anti-doping watch­ dogs, and not him, are the ones not playing by the rules. NBC “I’m angry about the split decision ruling against me OLYMPICS last week,” Landis said. “I can sleep at night knowing that I won the 2006 Tour de INTERN France fair and square. I will always consider myself the PROGRAM rightful winner.” Landis won the 2006 Tour POSITIONS - Runner, Logger and Production Associate BEIJING, but tested positive for a steroids during the event. QUALIFICATIONS CHINA That forced Landis to go to an NBC Olympics is looking for enthusiastic students with a passion for Sports and arbitration hearing against the Olympic Games. Television Broadcast experience and proficiency in Mandarin the US Anti-Doping Agency. are preferred but not required. ALL MAJORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Last week the arbitration panel ruled two-to-one ASSIGNMENT AREAS against the San Diego-based Accommodations, Audio, Executive Offices, Information Technology, Press, Research, cyclist officially stripping him Production Support, Sports Venues and the Runner Pool of his title and slapping him with a two-year ban for using ASSIGNMENT LENGTH synthetic testosterone. Positions are approximately 4 weeks. The earliest start date is The verdict comes almost July 24, 2008 and latest end date is August 27, 2008. four months after the longest anti-doping hearing in US COST AND LOGISTICS history, a rare public session The cost of the program is $2,500 per student and must be paid prior to the assignment in which Landis' lawyers start date. This fee covers airfare, airport transfers in China, accommodations and meals. questioned the chain of com­ mand from the French labo­ TO APPLY- Access Go IRISH on The Career Center website http://careercenter.nd.edu/ for a more ratory that handles Landis’ complete description and application requirements. Online applications and hard copies must be testing. submitted to The Career Center by noon on Sept.28th. Questions? 574-631-5200 “We have shown that the anti-doping system is corrupt, INTERVIEW S-lnterviews will be held on-campus in The Career Center Oct. 15th and 16th. NBC will inefficient and unfair,” Landis hold an Information Session from 10:00 am-11:30 am Oct.15th to provide additional internship details. said. page The Observer ♦ SPORTS Wednesday, September 26, 2007

fresh man quarter back Kayla the extra point. Bishop, was unable to score. Walsh defensive coach Chaos After recovering the ball on Jeremiah Herman was pleased continued from page 20 their own 20, it took the Wild with the win. Women only “These are the on ru n n in g p la ys fo r bnl h three plays to games you’re sup­ posed to w in ,” he offenses. march down “The guarantee the field and said. “ We came in Walsh 14, Howard 12 score a touch­ definitely gave us No. 1, Howard A little rain and a lot of mud down on a run some motivation and came in number could not stop the Walsh by sophomore two. We really has us fir e d up. ” offense as the Wild Women ran Meghan m ade a s ta te ­ over Howard 14-12. Hadley. m ent.” Scattered showers, which “The offense Jenny Rolfs Jenkins had one began an hour before the was very good Farley junior final thought for game, caused many slips and with staying the Wild Women. slides on both sides of the ball, with the play “ We’ll see them but the teams’ offenses were until the whis­ in the playoffs,” able to create many long tle blew,” Walsh offensive she said. drives. coach Chris Cugliari said. The Ducks’ next opponent is “We love playing in the mud,” “Even if there wasn’t an open­ Farley on Sept. 30, and the Walsh junior defensive back ing right away, they waited and Wild Women hope to remain Mary Campbell said. found one.” unbeaten as they take on the Campbell played an integral The Ducks took over and put Finest on Oct. 2. part in holding the Ducks to together a nine-play touch­ Farley 7, Pasquerilla East 0 two touchdowns, including down drive but were unable to Defense was the name of the breaking up a long pass near convert the extra point. During game in this one. With a great the end o f the game. the drive, Bishop completed team effort, Farley beat Walsh, which seven-of-eight Pasquerilla East 7-0 Tuesday is now 4-0 and passes, including night and moved to 2-0-1 for in first place in a touchdown the season. pass to “Our defense has been amaz­ th e B lue We love playing in League, won Giezeman. For ing, our whole defense from the toss and the mud. ” the game, Bishop last year returned to play this elected to start was 14-of-19. year and their experience has KELLY HIGGINS/Ttie Observer off with the “ We show ed a been key,” Farley junior cap­ Mary Campbell Walsh quarterback Mary Sullivan runs down field during the football. But lot of promise on tain Jenny Rolfs said after the Walsh junior Wild Women’s 14-12 victory over Howard Tuesday night. Howard junior offense,” Ducks game. Laura sophomore cap­ Rolfs said that she felt the Giezeman inter­ ta in M a ry offense was im proving as well. pitching a shutout until Farley had us fired up, Rolfs added cepted Walsh Jenkins said. “Passes are starting to be scored near the end of the sec­ w ith a smile. senior quarterback Mary “ We made several good pass­ caught and people are starting ond half. But the unit’s pre­ Sullivan’s second pass to give es.” to come on the same page,” game guarantee of a win did Contact John W hitty at the ball to the Ducks. Both teams scored again in Rolfs said. not pull through for them. [email protected], Laura Myers at Although facing a short field, the second half, with the Ducks Pasquerilla East’s defense “The guarantee definitely [email protected] , and the Howard offense, led by once again failing to convert though was not shabby, either, gave us some motivation and Kevin Henry at [email protected]

Hinton and Micki Hedinger the Belles w ill be forced to digs, team high service aces, were kept from the game. play people in different posi­ Loss team high solo blocks. She and Britons Hinton is recovering from an tions. Lorna were our two most effec­ continued from page 20 ankle injury, and Hedinger “We’re still trying to sort it continued from page 20 tive attackers.” recovering from a hip injury. all out,” MacKenzie said. The Knights improved their “In a long term view, we “...We’re figuring out that record to 11-3 and a perfect 6- The tie brought the Belles hope to be more versatile in other people can put the ball ior middle blocker Kaela 0 in M IA A play. S aint M a ry ’s overall record to 5-1-3, and our attack when they come in the back of the net, which Hellmann tallied eights of her dropped to 6-8 and 3-4, respec­ their conference record to 1- back,” MacKenzie said. “But is a good thing with injuries.” own to go along tively. 1. short term it’s tricky to find To keep th e ir place as some with four serv­ The Belles With the ball constantly some consistent play up top.” of the top competition in ice aces and a have some work changing possession, it was ”... Playing physically the their conference, Saint team-best 15 “Kaela [Hellmanl did to do in the next no wonder Saint Mary’s way we have been, we’re Mary’s w ill rest these few digs. have a good game. few days before couldn’t find a rhythm. The always going to be fighting days before starting the Schroeder- matching up game was physical, with some injury, but right now weekend games. Biek was proud She played nice and with Tri-State m ultiple hard tumbles on we re a little roughed up,” “I hope we’re patched up of her starting aggressive in all and Bethel over both sides. Senior Justine MacKenzie said. "... We had enough to go out and win on blockers. aspects o f her game. ” the weekend. Higgins received a yellow the best outcome we could Saturday,” MacKenzie said. “Kaela Schroeder- card in the 39th minute and have hoped for being down a “Today we did what we had [Heilman] did B ie k w as was sent off because of a player, we stuck in it as well to do to secure the tie, and 1 have a good Julie Schroeder-Biek focused on second card in the first over­ as we could and ended with a liked our effort down the gam e. She Belles coach improving one time. She will miss the tie .” stre tch .” played nice and thing. Belles’ next contest, against With Higgins gone from the aggressive in all “ To put it sim ­ Olivet Sunday. game, as well as her team­ Contact Meaghan Veselik at aspects of her ply, our fight, Leading scorer Lauren mates Hinton and Hedinger, mveselO 1 @saintmarys.edu game,” Schroeder-Biek said. our competitive spirit,” she “ She played to win from begin­ said. ning to end. The stats tell her game well ... very few errors, Contact Dan Murphy at good kill percentage, team high @nd.edu/saintmarys.edu

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F o o tb a ll N o tebo o k SMC S o c c e r Hitting hard Brits score Weis stays with tough late goal to schedule early in week force draw By CHRIS KHOREY Sports Editor SMC drops to 1-0-1 After seeing improvement in in M IA A after tying the running game Saturday against Michigan Stale, Notre Albion on home turf Dame coach Charlie Weis has decided to stay with the formu­ By M EAGHAN VESELIK la that brought that improve­ Sports W riter ment — up to a certain point. Last week, the Irish spent three practices just hitting After playing two periods each other — including on overtime, Saint Mary’s and Sunday, a day usually reserved MIAA foe Albion finished in a for weight lifting and film 1-1 draw Tuesday night. study. This week, Notre Dame The Belles struck first with again practiced on Sunday and only three minutes remaining spent the first hour of Tuesday in the first half. Sophomore blocking and tackling. Katie Wehrli broke the score­ But, Weis said, that will be less tie when she took a pass the extent of physical practices over the middle from Mandy before the winless Irish take on Thompson and buried her undefeated Purdue Saturday in second goal of the season. West Lafayette, Ind. The Belles couldn’t keep the “We still have elements of Britons scoreless for long, last week in there, because I allowing a goal past senior think last week helped us,” goalie Amy Mahoney 12 min­ Weis said. “I didn’t do full utes into the second half. speed, take-them-to-the- “I thought we played slug­ ground on Sunday, because I gish today,” Belles coach had a bunch of guys beat up. It Caryn MacKenzie said. “It becomes counter-productive. ” was hard for us to find a Weis said that while the more rhythm, and one of the most physical practices are new to physical games we’ve played VANESSA GEMRISZThe Observer this season.” Irish linebacker coach Brian Polian runs senior linebacker Joe Brockington through drills during see PRACTICE/page 17 practice Sept. 20. Weis said physical practices continued for the team this week. see BRITONS/page 18

SMC V o lle y b a ll W o m e n ’s I n ter h a ll Belles drop below .500 in leagueCavanaugh holds No. 15 Calvin takes down SMC in three on with defense consecutive matches sideline erupted, only to hear Walsh, Farley come the signal from the referee that By SAM AN TH A LEONARD away with wins on time had run out before Sports Writer deGroot had hiked the ball. sloppy Riehle Field “Unfortunately, we used all Calvin came to Saint Mary’s our last time outs,” McGlinn Tuesday and stole the show — coach Brendan Ryan said. “ We the No. 15 Knights swept Saint By JOHN WITTY, LAURA had an issue with the referee, Mary’s (30-17, 30-23, 30-25). MYERS and KEVIN HENRY but we just needed a bit more Knights senior outside hitter Sports Writers tim e.” Kristen Kalb tallied a match- The only offensive production high 17 kills to go along w ith Two winless teams, plenty of for either team came late in her 12 digs, senior middle hit­ high spirits and a dash of rain the second half when ter Molly Krikke had 16 kills made Tuesday night’s game Cavanaugh drove down the and a match best .484 hitting between McGlinn and field with two long passes, two percentage in the winning Cavanaugh a close defensive fourth down conversions and a effort, and junior Libero struggle that went down to the touchdown pass from quarter­ Lauren DeGroot posted a wire. back Katie Dunn to team cap­ match high 17 digs in the vic­ In the end, Cavanaugh tain Tarah Brown. tory to round off Calvin’s big claimed its first win of the sea­ After a failed extra point performance. son with a 6-0 victory on a attempt, the score stayed 6-0 The seasoned veterans were controversial last-second call. in Cavanaugh’s favor the rest just what Saint Mary’s coach “We’re really excited for our of the game. Julie Schroeder-Biek wanted first victory,” Chaos senior Kim “This was our best offensive her team prepared for, but the Halpin said. “Our offense was game by far,” Chaos senior Belles simply never found a stringing plays together and it Katie Zedler said. “But we also rhythm . KRISTY KING/The Observer was our first shutout this sea­ stopped them in the red zone Senior Amanda David, right, sets a ball for sophomore “Play tonight was on the fiat son.” and had a couple intercep­ Kathleen Mills during a 3-0 Belles win over Olivet on Sept. 11. side. There were definitely With seconds remaining, tions.” good things happening but we McGlinn’s offense scrambled to Cavanaugh pressured the just didn’t build on those es was not on the court tonight was missing tonight.” line up near the Cavanaugh (1- McGlinn quarterback all night, things,” she said. “[We] didn’t to face the No. 1 squad in the Despite the loss, some Belles 2) end zone, but the Shamrocks and McGlinn’s defense came up get excited about those things conference. stood out individually. couldn’t get a final play off with two interceptions of its enough to build our momen­ “ Calvin is a good team, but I Sophomore outside hitter before the whistle. Junior own. The wet conditions at tum .” felt that overall our play Lorna Slupczynski notched a quarterback Sarah deGroot Riehle Field also contributed to The same Belles team that lacked heart tonight,” team-high 11 kills, while jun- hurriedly took the snap, then some dropped balls and slips saw four players post double­ Schroeder-Biek said. “There sneaked the ball into the end- doubles in the last two match- was that little extra spark that see LOSS/page 18 zone as the McGlinn (0-3-1) see CHAOS/page 18 yourticket toa

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Post-Graduate ServiceUSA—NATIONAL USA & INTERNATIONAL (CONT'O) AmeriCorps*VISTA Cabrini Mission Corps Greetings! On behalf of the like the Peace Corps and build relationships with new Claretian Volunteers Christian Brothers Lay Volunteer Program Center for Social Concerns, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, to friends and communities; to Dominican Volunteers USA FrancisCorps I invite you to consider con­ national teaching programs change your world. FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic Good Shepherd Volunteers tinuing your commitment to like ACE and Teach for As we seek to live in soli­ University Students) Holy Spirit Lay Missionary Program service and justice through America, to local Ameri- darity w ith our sisters and Lasallian Volunteers Humility of Mary Service post-graduate service. This brothers, we remember Lutheran Volunteer Corps Incarnate Word Missionaries year, the Center is celebrat­ Jesus called love the greatest Mennonite Mission Network Jesuit Volunteer Corps/Jesuit ing its 25th anniversary, but of all commandments—to NET M inistries Volunteer International the tradition of graduates love the Lord God with all Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly committing to post-graduate our hearts and to love our Americorps Marianist Volunteer Program service started long before neighbor as ourselves (M ark Providence Companions in Mission Mennonite Central Committee then. Post-graduate service 12:28-31). Il is not easy, Mercy Volunteer Corps offers you an opportunity to but it remains no less our USA—EAST Missionary Cenacle Volunteers enter into relationship with challenge and call. It is the A Simple House of Sts. Francis Providence Volunteer Ministry a new community where foundation on which we w ill and Alphonsus Puerto Rico Center for you w ill continue to learn build the justice we seek and Bethany Catholic Worker House Social Concerns and share the gifts and the peace we long for. Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry Fr. Bill Lies, C.S.C. talents you have nurtured at Be a part o f the transforma­ Capuchin Youth & Family Ministries INTERNATIONAL Notre Dame, Saint M ary’s corps projects and Catholic tion we are called to, and be Change a Heart: Franciscan Amigos de Jesus and Holy Cross College. Worker houses. They go on transformed. Give yourself Volunteer Program Farm of the Child It would be a chance to to become teachers, law­ away. One or more o f the Covenant House Faith Community Friends of the Orphans challenge yourself to be yers, doctors, community opportunities on these pages Franciscan Volunteer Ministry Maryknoll China Service Project transformed and, in return, organizers, social workers, could quite possibly change Maryknoll Lay Missioners transform the world. politicians, CEOs, mothers, you forever. You are in my USA—MIDWEST Passionist Volunteers International Annually, over 200 gradu­ fathers and so much more. prayers. God bless you well. Amate House Peace Corps ating seniors from Notre Consider joining this group Christian Appalachian Project Rostro de Cristo Dame, Saint M ary’s and o f outstanding graduates. Yours, Franciscan Outreach Association Salesian Lay Missioners Holy Cross commit to a There are opportunities to Franciscan Volunteer Program year or two of post-graduate serve among the young, the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers TEACHING service at over 100 sites old, the sick, the hungry, the L’Arche Chicago Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)* across the nation and world. homeless, the imprisoned, MercyWorks - Mercy Home for ECHO They serve wit h a range the lonely, the poor and the Father B ill Lies, C.S.C. Boys & Girls Inner-City Teaching Corps of programs and agen­ oppressed; to learn about Executive Director Misericordia Home Jesuit Alumni Volunteer Program cies, from internationally a new culture, language Center for Social Concerns Notre Dame Campus-Ministry Lalanne* recognized organizations or perspective on life; to Share Foundation LU CHOICE* Sister Maura Brannick Health Center Lutheran Education Alliance with St. Joseph Worker Program Parochial Schools (LEAPs)* Su Casa Catholic Worker M agis* Vincentian Service Corps - Central operation TEACH* Post-Graduate Service Fair Pacific Alliance for Catholic USA—SOUTH Education (PACE)*

Tonight September 26 5-8pm Joyce Center Casa Juan Diego PLACE Corps* Catholic Volunteers in Florida Providence Alliance for ABOUT THE FAIR representatives from more are interested in service. San Antonio Catholic Worker Catholic Teachers (PACT)* Considering post-graduate than 80 organizations Some placements are avail­ Red Cloud Volunteers service? Be sure to come to (whose profiles are in this able for summer service. USA— WEST Response-Ability the Post-graduate Service insert) that offer short and QUESTIONS? Bend Volunteer Corps St. Ignatius Loyola Academy Fair tonight, September 26, long term service opportu­ Colorado Vincentian Volunteers Contact Liz Mackenzie. Teach For America from 5-8 pm in the Joyce nities. Jesuit Volunteer Corps - Northwest Mackenzie. 12@nd. edu The David School Center. You w ill have the Maggie’s Place WHO SHOULD ATTEND? [p] The Haitian Project, Inc. chance to explore domestic The fa ir is not o n ly for se­ [w] socialconcerns.nd.edu The Neighborhood Academy and international service USA & INTERNATIONAL niors, but all students who University Consortium for opportunities and speak to ALIVE: A Lay Invitation to a Visitation Catholic Education (UCCE) Experience * UCCE program Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps

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Change a Heart: Franciscan Volunteer Program ECHO Contact: Michelle Basista [email protected] Contact: Leonard DeLorenzo [email protected] [ p ] 412.821.0861 [ w ] www.changeaheartvolunteers.org/ [ p ] 574.631.2915 [ w ] http://echo.nd.edu Post-Graduate Goal of Program: As they serve with the poor, rooted in the Goal of Program: Participants in Echo have the opportunity to spirit of St. Francis and the mission of the Sisters of St. Francis engage in ongoing academic, professional-ministerial, of Millvale, PA, volunteers are invited to accept the challenge communal, and spiritual formation while serving at a parish in of experiencing the power of God through relationships which one of our partner dioceses around the United States. This empower the powerless, promote peace and transform the ongoing formation and hands-on experience enables world around them. apprentices to develop the skills, insights, and capacities that Service Opportunities help promote the catechetical mission of the Catholic Church. Type of Placement: Education, Health care, Social Services, and Hispanic ministries. Type ot Placement: Full year placements in Catholic parishes A Simple House of Sts. Francis and Alphonsos Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry Length of Service: One to two years within partner dioceses. Contact: Ryan Hehman [email protected] Contact: Shannon Curran [email protected] Length of Service: Two years [p ] 202.6/8.5898 [w ] www.asimplehouse.org/ [ p ] 410.442.3161 [ w ] www.bonsecours.org/bsvm Christian Appalachian Project Goal ot Program: To wonderfully and radically fall upon the Goal of Program: Lay women and men offer "Good Help" to Contact: Amy Schill [email protected] Farm of the Child cross of Christ for grace and support, to serve the poor, those in need. Emotional and spiritual growth are encouraged [ p ] 1.800.755.5322 [ w ] www.chrisapp.org Contact: Felicia & Sean O'Brien [email protected] volunteers, and sponsors by proclaiming the gospel through and supported through living in a small Christian community Goal of Program: CAP strives to meet the needs of the Appalachian [p } 574.247.1018 [ w ] www.farmofthechild.org acts of faith, love, and charity, and to sanctify volunteers with other volunteers, and service focuses on the Bon Secours people while fostering their self-sufficiency. CAP offers a Goal ol Program: To care for and improve the physical, through friendship with the Lord, observance of poverty, and charism of Healing, Compassion and Liberation. strong cultural experience, an assortment of service placements, educational, spiritual and social needs of orphaned, abandoned obedience to the Holy Catholic Church. Type of Placement: Health care, human services, distinctive community living, and a flexible time commitment. and neglected children of Honduras so that they may become Type of Placement: Ministry, especially to those who suffer and education. Type of Placement: Long-term: Volunteers needed year-round productive, Christian members of Honduran society. from drug use, prostitution, and/or homelessness. Length of Service: One year to serve in a variety of programs, including child and family Type of Placement: Teachers, medical professionals, social Length of Service: 10 months development centers, adult education, elderly services, workers, pastoral ministers, construction/maintenance supervisors, Cabrini Mission Corps housing and home repair, youth services, substance abuse house parents, administrators, and business/finance skills. ALIVE: A Lay Invitation to a Visitation Experience Contact: Gina Pultorak [email protected] recovery center, domestic violence shelters, outreach services, Length of Service: 27 months Contact: Sr. Marilyn Medinger [email protected] [ p ] 610.971.0821 [ w ] www.cabrini-missioncorps.org educational programming, disability services. [ p ] 708.359.9299 [ w ] www.cnd-m.com Goal of Program: Missioners strive to be in solidarity with our Length of Service: Nine months to one year (long-term) FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) Goal of Program: In partnership with the Sisters of the sisters and brothers throughout the world, especially poor and Volunteers needed for summer camps and throughout the Contact: Angela Telthorst [email protected] Congregation de Notre Dame, you will work in educational marginalized women, children, immigrants, refugees and the year. Minimum stay ol three weeks (short-term) [ p ] 314.596.8100 [ w ] www.locusonline.org settings and share community and prayer. Your ministry and elderly. Missioners collaborate with the Missionary Sisters of Goal of Program: FOCUS is a national outreach to college community living are seen as ways of visiting: being present to, the Sacred Heart to bring the love and mercy of Jesus into Christian Brothers Lay Volunteer Program campuses, to secular and Catholic schools. Through small listening to, and serving others as the Christ among us. every situation in which they minister and in so doing, promote Contact: Br. Bob Koppes [email protected] group Bible studies, large group leadership training, and Type of Placement: Adult literacy, art/music educalian, Gospel values. [ p j 773.298.2520 [ w ] www.cbvp.org one-on-one discipleship, FOCUS brings the fullness of life and elementary/secondary education, Latino community minister, public Type of Placement: Education, elderly outreach, health care, Goal of Program: Grow spiritually, experience community living, truth in the Catholic Church to college students and gives the relations, social work, youth minister and others as the need arises. immigration and refugee services, child care, Hispanic work with the marginalized in educational or social service ministries. tools to help them share this good news with their friends. Length of Service: One year ministry, youth ministry, parish ministry, pastoral ministry, and Type of Placement: Teaching, youth ministry, social services, Type of Placement: Full-time missionaries on university/ social services. alternative school, and ministries with the Hispanic population. college campuses. Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Length of Service: One year I USA) Two years (Inlernational) Length of Service: One year (long-term j 6-8 summer weeks (short-term) Length of Service: Two years Contact: Christopher Kowalski [email protected] [ p ] 574.631.3386 [ w ] http://ace.nd.edu/ Goal ol Program: ACE recruits and trains highly motivated and ALUMNI REFLECTION Andrew Coleman (ND '04, BS in Biology)' talented students from all academic and religious backgrounds to teach In under resourced Catholic schools In order to help As I confront a new set of challenges as a first-year medical student, I often think back on my time spent in strengthen and sustain Catholic education. Southern Haiti as a public health volunteer and remember how overwhelming and frustrating my first few months Type ol Placement: Two years in a Catholic elementary or were. After only a few days of working for Program Filariose, an organization seeking to eliminate lymphatic secondary school while working toward a Master of Education filariasis from Haiti, I developed an understanding of the innumerable problems firmly entrenched within Haitian degree from the University of Notre Dame. society. I recall thinking, "How can anyone possibly make a difference here?" Length ol Service: Two years Over the course of the year, however, with the encouragement and guidance of a very committed and passionate group of people, I found many niches where I could effect positive change. I simplified and enhanced Amate House accounting practices in the guest house where I lived and coordinated mobile clinics and workshops for visiting Contact: Lisa Wolff [email protected] medical professionals. I became an English instructor at a local school and spent a few hours each week tutoring [ p ] 773.376.2445 [ w ] www.amatehouse.org my four Haitian orphan housemates. I revamped the serology lab at Hopital St. Croix and trained Haitian lab techs Goal ol Program: Inspired by the social mission of the Catholic Church, Amate House supports and develops men and women to perform body chemistry analyses, ELISAs, and manual CD4 counts. I served as the hospital HAART Program rooted in faith, dedicated to service, and committed to building liaison, facilitating communication with and procurement of materials from the USAID and CDC. a more just and loving society. Through my work, I contributed, if only on a microscopic level, to a program that has in the face of Type of Placement: Elementary and high school teaching, youth extraordinary obstacles improved the quality of life of an entire country. ministry, homeless services, work with immigrants and Andrew seived as a public health volunteer working for the Notre Dame Haiti Program and the Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Project In Leogane bom refugees, legal clinics, public health, community organizing, September 2004 to June 2005 when he was evacuated as a result of the political unrest. He is now in his second year of medical school at Duke University. work with women, children and elderly. Length ol Service: 11 months

Claretian Volunteers Franciscan Outreach Association AmeriCorps*VISTA Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps Contact: Deana Brewer [email protected] Contact: Danielle Simonetti [email protected] Indiana State Contact: [email protected] Contact: Shelly Roder [email protected] [p ] 312.236.7782 [ w ] www.claretians.org [ p ] 773.278.6724 [ w ] www.franoutreach.org [ p ] 317.226.6724 [ w ] www.cns.gov [ p ] 414.374.8841 ext. 29 [ w ] www.capcorps.org Goal of Program: We invite young adults to lay leadership by Goal ol Program: To provide a safe and established opportunity Goal ol Program: AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to Goal of Program: In the spirit of Jesus Christ and Francis of collaborating in service and ministry with the Claretian for volunteers who wish to help the city's poorest and most America) provides full-time members to nonprofit, faith-based Assisi, the Cap Corps is a community of women and men who Missionaries. Volunteers strive to grow spiritually within a neglected people with basic human needs of food and shelter and other cdmmunity organizations, and public agencies to serve among people in need as full time volunteers, sharing community of peers and in solidarity with the poor and those with respect and compassion. This setting provides the create and expand programs that bring low-income individuals common prayer and simple living. on the margins of society. opportunities for volunteers to develop relationships with our and communities out of poverty. Type of Placement: Environmental, Social Services, Homeless Type of Placement: Business, construction, community organizing, guests and persons with unique challenges and strengths and Type of Placement: Volunteer Recruitment, Resource Services, Teaching, Tutoring, Community Organizing, Parish health care, environment, legal, peace, teaching, youth ministry, the complexity of being poor and homeless. Development, Capacity building of non-profits to help bring and Youth Ministry, Legal Services, Health Care Services, and working with Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations. Type of Placement: Agencies serving people who are communities out of poverty. Engineering Projects. Length of Service: One year homeless. Length of Service: 12 months Length of Service: One year (USA) 18 - 24 months (International) Length of Service: One year Colorado Vincentian Volunteers Amigos de Jesus Capuchin Youth & Family Ministries Contact: Bill and Mary Frances Jaster [email protected] Franciscan Volunteer Ministry Contact: Kate Reiter [email protected] Contact: Br. Lake Herman [email protected] [ p ] 303.863.8141 [ w ] www.covivo.org Contact: Katie Sullivan [email protected] [ p ] 610.644.8237 [ w ] www.amigosdejesus.org/ [ p ] 845.424.3609 [ w ] www.CYFM.org Goal of Program: We are a community of faith and action that [ p ] 215.427.3070 [ w ] www.franciscanvoluntecrministry.org Goal of Program: To foster and model a Christian lifestyle of Goal of Program: CYFM Lay Assistants serve as positive role responds to the Gospel call in the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul. Goal of Program: FVM provides a setting for volunteers to grow spirituality, Amigos de Jesus provides education and health for models for our youth, giving witness to their faith, and sharing Our year-long program offers an opportunity for spiritual, in laith, love, and hope by serving the poor and working for their children. Amigos de Jesus is a Catholic home for children, in our mission of reaching out to young people and their emotional, professional growth, and a way of discerning and social justice. We provide a setting where gifts and talents are school for technical school and advancement, agricultural families. Volunteers gain experience in leadership and ministry living one's Christian vocation. exchanged with the people of God in a loving and joyful community, and presently is in the process of building a while living and working in a Christian community that is Type of Placement: Community organization, construction, Franciscan spirit, always being aware of how much we can Catholic primary school. supportive of their development as men and women of faith environment, health care, peace, teaching, and service with learn from and are blessed by the poor. Type of Placement: Construction workers, health professionals, and action. the homeless, Hispanic, and youth populations. Type of Placement: Adults' and Children’s Activities teachers, social workers and business/computer workers. Type of Placement: Youth ministry Length of Service: One year Coordinator, Community Organizer, Elementary School Teacher Length of Service: 12-24 months Length of Service: One year / Aide, ESL Instructor, Immigrant Minister, Medical Clinic Covenant House Faith Community Assistant, Mentor and Tutor, Music Minister, Outreach to Bend Volunteer Corps Casa Juan Diego Contact: Paula Rote [email protected] Shut-ins and Hospital Patients, Parish Assistant, Pastoral Contact: Charlotte Roe [email protected] Contact: Mark and Louise Zwick [email protected] [ p ] 212.727.4149 [ w ] www.covenanthouse.org Counselor, Prison Minister, Soup Kitchen Staff, Women’s Day [ p ] 541.318.4636 [ w ] www.bendvolunteercorps.org/ [ p ] 713.869.7376 [ w ] www.cjd.org Goal of Program: Faith Community offers people the opportunities Center Staff, and Youth and Elderly Outreach. Goal of Program: BVC needs people like you to carry on the four Goal of Program: To live out the Gospel by receiving in hospital­ to serve homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth of Covenant House; Length of Service: One year core values of simple living, social justice, community and ity and assisting immigrants and refugees, especially from live in a community living setting with other volunteers; and to spirituality. Your challenge will be to integrate these values with Latin America. spend time in daily personal and communal prayer/reflection. Franciscan Volunteer Program those in need by working in Christian faith with other volunteers and Type of Placement: To live as a Catholic Worker in the tradition Type of Placement: Direct care with Covenant House youth as Contact: Sr. Kathy McNulty [email protected] by examining the causes of social injustice in the Central Oregon area. of Dorothy Day, living and working with immigrants in need. resident advisors, youth workers, or case managers. Health [ p ] 312.628.1254 [ w ] www.thefriars.org/volunteers Type of Placement: Health care, peace, and working with Immersion in Spanish. services, kitchens, and various administrative/corporate areas. Goal of Program: Community, Simplicity, Spirituality, Service, Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations. Length of service: Three months to several years Length of Service: Three, Six, and Twelve months Outreach, Franciscan Life. Length ol Service: One year Type of Placement: Social services, education, elderly and Catholic Volunteers in Florida Dominican Volunteers USA HIV/AIDS ministry, peace and justice ministry, parish ministry, Bethany Catholic Worker House Contact: Candace Thompson [email protected] Contact: Anthony Butler [email protected] clerical duties, elder and child care and home repair. Contact: Donna Ecker [email protected] [ p ] 407.382.7071 [ w ] www.cvif.org [ p ] 708.524.5985 [ w ] http://dvusa.org Length of Service: One year [ p ] 585.454.4197 Goal of Program: CVIF is dedicated to providing people the Goal of Program: Together, we respond to the needs of our Goal of Program: Bethany House in Rochester, NY, offers opportunity to live out their faith by serving those with the sisters and brothers, especially those who are poor and emergency housing for homeless women and women with greatest need. Volunteers work towards justice and peace, marginalized. We live out the Dominican mission of proclaiming children. We also run an emergency food cupboard, a clothing positively transforming the communities they serve as well as the gospel through our ministry, common life, prayer and study room, and a drop-in center during daytime hours. themselves. within a diverse, intergenerational community. Type of Placement: Live-in staff person (female) to be in Type of Placement: Community organization, health care, legal, Type of Placement: Community organizing, environment, health community with poor and marginalized women and children. teaching, youth ministry and service with Hispanic, homeless, care, legal, peace, teaching, and working with Hispanic, We offer room, board, health insurance and a small stipend. and youth populations. homeless, and youth populations. Length of Service: One year Length of Service: One year Length of Service: 10 months, 12 months, or 24 months

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FrancisCorps Inner-City Teaching Corps LU CHOICE Maryknoll Lay Missioners Contact: Br. Jim Moore [email protected] Contact: Bridget Hogan [email protected] Contact: Lee Hubbell [email protected] Contact: Kathy Wright [email protected] [ p ] 315.426.0481, [ w j www.franciscorps.org [ p ] 312.491.9100 [ w ] www.ictc-chicago.org [ p ] 312.915.7049 [ w ] www.luc.edu/schools/education/choice [ p ] 800.818.5276 Ext. 114 [ w ] www.mklaymissioners.org Goal of Program: FrancisCorps volunteers are lay men and Goal of Program: By combining teaching and involvement in Goal of Program: To serve the needs of under-resourced Goal of Program: Maryknoll Lay Missioners is a Catholic women committed to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ after-school activities, such as coaching, we offer excellent Catholic elementary schools by recruiting, training, placing, organization inspired by the mission of Jesus to live and work through their actions: direct service to the poor. Volunteers opportunities to channel your enthusiasm toward children and supporting talented, highly motivated, enthusiastic men with poor communities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, live a simple lifestyle in community with other volunteers in from inner-city neighborhoods. Members live a simple and women as teachers in these schools. Participants are responding to basic needs and helping to create a more just i the spirit of Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi while serving the lifestyle in community residences and participate in an enrolled in Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education. and compassionate world. temporal needs of the local community. Alternative Teacher Certification Program. Upon successful Upon successful completion of their studies, they earn an Type of Placement: Lay and community formation, education, Type of Placement: Youth programs, drop-in elementary completion of requirements, Corps members earn a State of M.Ed. with certification. health/AIDS, peace and justice advocacy, pastoral work and programs, refugee resettlement, teaching, social services, Illinois teaching certificate. Type of Placement: Elementary school teachers within technical/vocational instruction. developmentally disabled adults, women’s shelter, medical Type of Placement: Full-time teaching positions in inner-city Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Length of Service: Three and a half years. Some Mission j and legal clinic. Catholic elementary schools in Chicago. ICTC schools Length of Service: Two Years Awareness trips offered, 5 to 15 days Length of Service: One year primarily serve low-income families in African-American and (visitwww.friendsacrossborders.org ). Latino communities. Lutheran Education Alliance with Friends of the Orphans Length of Service: Two years Parochial Schools (LEAPS) Mennonite Central Committee Contact: Katherine Harig [email protected] Contact: Mary Ann Dudzinski [email protected] Contact: Mary Ann Weber [email protected] [ p ] 847.690.1700 [ w ] http://friendsus.org Jesuit Alumni Volunteer Program [ p ] 219.916.9368 [ p ] 574.534.4133 [ w ] http://mcc.org Goal of Program: We send qualified individuals, couples and Contact: Katie Mitchell [email protected] [w ] www.valpo.edu/gce/graduate/programs/med-il-leaps.php Goal of Program: MCC seeks to demonstrate God’s love by families to support the staff and children living in the homes [p ] 773.890.6800 [ w ] www.cristorey.net Goal of Program: This program provides talented people the working among people suffering from poverty, conflict, of Nuestros Pequehos Hermanns/ Nos Petit FrAres et Soeurs Goal of Program: We strive to become men and women for opportunity to explore teaching as a lifelong vocation while oppression and natural disaster. MCC serves as a channel for (Our Little Brothers and Sisters). others through our service to the family of Cristo Rey, our serving as apprentice teachers in rural and urban parochial interchange by building mutually transformative relationships. Type of Placement: Teaching, childcare, construction, gardening, dedication to simplicity and community life, and our schools. The program has three components: academic and MCC strives for peace, justice and the dignity of all people by social work, therapy, medicine, dental and speech therapy. commitment to spiritual development. teaching preparation, community living experiences while sharing our experiences, resources and faith in Jesus Christ. Length of Service: One year or two months (summer) Type of Placement: Cristo Rey is an innovative new Jesuit serving the teaching needs of parochial schools, and Type of Placement: Community organization, peace, teaching. High School which serves the low-income, predominantly exploration of spirituality and faith in the context of service Length of Service: One week to three years Gateway Vincentian Volunteers Latino immigrant population of Chicago’s southwest side. and vocation. Contact: Jim Ryan [email protected] Volunteers serve the school in a number of ways, including Type of Placement: Teaching. Mennonite Mission Network [ p ] 314.771.1474 [ w ] www.vincentianvols.org teaching positions, facilitating student transportation and Length of Service: Two years Contact: Neil Richer [email protected] Goal of Program: To. provide young adults with an experience providing supervision, coaching sports, coordinating student [ p ] 574.523.3060 [ w ] http://mennonitemission.net | of living in community and working with the poor in the spirit activities, and implementing service projects. Lutheran Volunteer Corps Goal of Program: MVS attempts to match human resources to : of St. Vincent DePaul. It is our goal that by living in the spirit Length of Service: Two years Contact: Eric Bjorlin [email protected] human needs in obedience to Christ. MVS works to change of Vincent, these young adults will develop a consuming [ p ] 202.387.3222 [ w ] www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org oppressive social structures. Christians from many commitment to improving the lives of the poor and Jesuit Volunteer Corps— Goal of Program: Volunteers are matched with non-profit denominations serve with MVS. marginalized in our society. Jesuit Volunteer International organizations in ten metropolitan areas across the United Type of Placement: Accountants, after-school workers, business Type of Placement: Education, Mental Health Services, HIV/ Contact: AJ Cabrera [email protected] States. They work full-time in various positions ranging from and clerical workers, carpenters, construction workers, child AIDS Services, Immigration and Refugee Services, Social [p ] 410.224.1733 [ w ] http://jesuitvolunteers.org/ direct social services, to political advocacy, community care workers, staff for emergency intervention services, poverty Service Work in an Inner-City Parish, Prison Ministry, Social Jesuit Volunteer Corps - Northwest organizing, education, and activism while living in intentional relief services, group home staff, elderly ministries, Services and Poverty Relief, Social Work, Soup Kitchen and Contact: Leah Dahlin [email protected] community. environmental, migrant ministries, immigration/refugee service Food Distribution, Emergency Shelter, Teacher, Tutoring and [ p ] 503.335.8202 [ w ] http://jvcnorthwest.org/ Type of Placement: Community organization, environment, workers, teachers, social workers, peace and justice workers, Literacy Programs, Work with at-risk youth. Goal of Program: JVC offers men and women an opportunity health care, legal, peace, teaching, youth ministry, and work public relations person, volunteer coordinators. Length of Service: 11 months to work full-time for justice and peace by serving the poor with Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations. Length of Service: Two years preferred; one year minimum directly and by working for structural change. Volunteers live Length of Service: One year Good Shepherd Volunteers a simple lifestyle in community with other volunteers and MercyWorks - Mercy Home for Boys & Girls Contact: Lindsey Conlin [email protected] seek to develop spiritually. Maggie’s Place Contact: Elizabeth Dayton [email protected] [ p ] 888.668.6478 x 780 [ w ] www.gsvolunteers.org Type of Placement: Teaching, youth ministry and mentoring, Contact: Becky Fair [email protected] [ p ] 312.738.9526 [ w ] www.mercyhome.org Goal of Program: GSV, in collaboration with the Sisters of the homeless advocacy, domestic violence and sexual assault [ p ] 602.262.5555 [ w ] www.maggiesplace.org Goal of Program: Highly motivated individuals who are Good Shepherd, provides long-term volunteers with the counseling, prison ministry, legal aid, farm worker outreach, Goal of Program: Maggie’s Place is a house of hospitality for mission-driven and wish to make a difference in the lives of opportunity to work in social service ministries and to use refugee resettlement, elderly outreach, addiction recovery expectant women who wish to achieve their goals in a our children. Volunteers are provided the opportunity to grow their God-given talents, serving women, adolescents, and services, nursing and hospice ministry, AIDS services and dignified and welcoming atmosphere. As a community, we in their faith and spirituality through prayer and reflection children affected by poverty, violence, and neglect. community organizing. challenge one another to strive toward personal growth, to while being committed to a process of building community Type of Placement: Alternative Education High School, Length of Service: One year (USA) 2 years (International) welcome the gifts of every person who enters our door, and and living in simplicity. Residential Group Homes, After School Program, Domestic to promote positive social change. Type ot Placement: Residential youth care worker; case Violence Shelter, Foster Care and Adoption Services Program, Lalanne Type of Placement: Direct service to pregnant women, new worker; admissions case manager; volunteer coordinator; Fair-Trade Program, and Congressional Lobbyist. Youth Contact: Jacinta Mergler [email protected] moms and newborns in need. We also share the education & employment coordinator; family services Services, Human Services, Health Services, Economic/ [ p ] 937.229.3778 [ w ] www.udayton.edu/~lalanne administrative duties necessary to run the homes. representative. Psychological Empowerment Programs, Community Goal of Program: Lalanne teachers are assigned faculty Length of Service: 13 months Length of Service: One year Development, Education, Collaborative efforts with other local positions in urban Catholic schools and live in community for non-governmental and non-profit agencies. a supportive environment that fosters personal and Magis Mercy Volunteer Corps Length of Service: One year (USA) 2 years (International) professional development, and includes opportunities for Contact: Molly Davies [email protected] Contact: Maureen Kubicek [email protected] spiritual growth in order to make a positive impact on the [ p ] 402.280.3491 [w ] http://puffin.creighton.edu/edu/MAGlS/ [ p ] 215.641.5535 [w ] www.MercyVolunteers.org Holy Spirit Lay Missionary Program lives of students. Goal of Program: MAGIS is centered on community living, aca­ Goal of Program: In partnership with the Sisters of Mercy of Contact: Ray Gavin [email protected] Type of Placement: K-12 Education in urban Catholic schools. demic coursework, and Ignatian spirituality that prepares and the Americas, lay women and men of MVC, enter into [ p ] 847.441.0126 ext. 609 Length of Service: Two years supports highly motivated faith filled teachers to serve in relationship with people who are economically poor and Goal of Program: A new program that allows women to under-resourced Catholic Schools. MAGIS recruits talented marginalized. In a spirit of mutuality, volunteers cultivate mercy become involved with the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters as a L’Arche Chicago individuals from under-graduate programs who have a desire and justice in the world by embracing compassionate service, lay volunteer. Volunteers will live in community with the Contact: Alexandra Conroy [email protected] to teach in grades 7-12. social justice, spirituality and a simple lifestyle in community. Sisters and engage in meaningful ministry. [ p ] 708.863.1273 [ w ] www.larchechicago.org Type of Placement: Students are placed in under-resourced Type of Placement: Community development, education, hunger Type of Placement: Teaching, peace, youth. Goal of Program: L'Arche is an international federation of Catholic schools in the Omaha metro area and rural schools and homeless outreach, prison ministry, domestic violence Length of Service: One year or Summer communities where men and women with developmental in Nebraska. services and counseling, addiction recovery services, hospice disabilities and those who choose to share life with them live, Length of Service: Two years ministry, AIDS/HIV care, elderly outreach, programs for Humility of Mary Service work, play and pray creating a home together. Core individuals with special needs, border and integration ministries. Contact: Sr. Kathleen King, HM [email protected] members, persons with disabilities, make up the heart or Marianist Volunteer Program Length of Service: One year (USA) 2 years (International) [p ] 440.333.5373 [w ] www.humilityofmary.org/join_serv_OLhtm core of our communities. The assistants are those who live Contact: Daniel Richter [email protected] Goal of Program: The program provides women and men who and share life with them. [ p ] 314.533.1207 ext. 229 [ w ] www.marianist.com/mvp Misericordia Home are desirous of serving among poor and marginalized persons Type of Placement: Faith based community living with adults Goal of Program: MVP provides opportunities for men and Contact: Joe Ferrarra [email protected] an opportunity to work with Sisters of Humility and/or their with developmental disabilities. women of faith to share in the Marianist Charism by building [ p ] 773.273.3054 [ w ] www.misericordia.com colleagues in ministry as volunteers. Through a process that Length of Service: One or more years a community in mission for peace, justice, and solidarity with Goal of Program: To support individuals with developmental includes mentoring and shared reflection on the experience the poor and marginalized. MVP provides opportunities for disabilities in maximizing their level of independence and of service, the program fosters a lifelong commitment to Lasallian Volunteers faith, spiritual, and personal development; empowering a self-determination within an environment that fosters Gospel values and to bringing more abundant life to God’s Contact: Seth Whetzel [email protected] diversity of volunteers to be partners for peace and justice; spirituality, dignity, respect and enhancement of quality of people, especially the poor. [ p ] 202.529.0047 [ w ] www.lasallianvolunteers.org experiencing the Marianist vision of lay leadership and life. We promote development of natural family and Type of Placement: Social work, community outreach, home Goal of Program: To respond creatively to the educational community; living out an option for the poor and marginalized community support, community awareness, education and nursing, legal aide to Haitians, housing and homeless needs of the poor by providing volunteers who are generous through a simple lifestyle and cross cultural service. advocacy. services, literacy project, education, inner city neighborhood and talented, well trained and supported, from diverse Type of Placement: Education, social services, youth and Type of Placement: Support individuals with developmental ministry, jail ministry, parish ministry/outreach. backgrounds across the U.S., a unique and rewarding parish ministry, health care, peace and justice advocacy/com­ disabilities. Length of Service: Two months to two years experience. munity organizing, services for the homeless, services for Length of Service: 6 -12 months Type of Placement: Teacher/tutor in elementary schools, women and children, and other services. Incarnate Word Missionaries middle schools, high schools, adult education programs, Length of Service: One year (USA) 2 years (Mexico} Missionary Cenacle Volunteers Contact: Meghan Green [email protected] outdoor education programs and after school programs. Case Contact: Maureen Masterson [email protected] [p ] 210.828.2224 ext. 228 Managers/Social Workers; Campus Mirustry/Retreat Work/ | Maryknoll China Service Project [ p ] 216.252.4727 [ w ] www.tmc3.org/mcv.html [w ] www.incarnatewordsisters.org/iwmissionaries.htm Service Outreach coordinating; Development: Public Contact: Maretta McKenna [email protected] Goal of Program: To help Catholics and others become Goal of Program: An opportunity to respond to your baptismal Relations/Grant Writing/Fundraising; Coaching Sports [ p ] 973.889.1557 [ w ] www.chinaserv.org apostles by growing spiritually while in service to the poor of call to mission, and share in the mission, spirituality, and Teams; Adventure-based Recreation Leader, Support Staff at Goal of Program: Maryknoll is a Catholic organization which is all America. charism of the Congregation. Volunteers receive the gift of a Homeless Shelter and Soup Kitchen. deeply committed to service work in the People’s Republic of Type of Placement: Long-term: Catechists; teachers and cross-cultural community, and they are placed in ministry and Length of Service: One year China. We seek to place active and committed Christians in aides; pastoral ministry; office workers; retreat ministry; support services. universities where their dedication and personal example will youth and young adult outreach; maintenance; material Type of Placement: Environment, community organization, Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly be of service to the students and faculty. As a result of assistance; migrant ministry; soup kitchen; group home staff; healthcare, teaching, peace, work with Hispanic, homeless, Contact: Christine Bertrand [email protected] dedicated language teaching, we hope that foreign teachers Hispanic ministry; Native American ministry; social service; and youth populations. [p ] 312.455.1000 [ w ] www.littlebrothers.org will understand more about China and its people, and the homeless shelter; community development; thrift stores. Length of Service: One year (USA) 2 years (International} Goal of Program: Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) Chinese will understand more about the West and its values Short-term: Camp and recreation; family ministry; youth is a national network of non-profit, volunteer-based organizations and culture. ministry; summer Bible school; parish summer programs; committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. Type of Placement: ESI teachers. "alternative breaks.” We offer to people of good will the opportunity to join the elderly Length of Service: One year (long term) 5 weeks (summer program) Length of Service: 9-12 months (iong term) 2-8 weeks (shortterm) in friendship and celebration of life. Type of Placement: Work with elderly and Hispanic populations. Length of Service: One year

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NET Ministries PLACE Corps Salesian Lay Missioners Teach For America Contact: Mary Gabriel [email protected] Contact: Matthias Schildwachter [email protected] Contact: Adam Rudin [email protected] Contact: Patrick Herrel [email protected] [ p ] 651.450.6833 [ w ] www.NETusa.org [ p ] 310.338.3774 [ w ] http://lmu.edu/Page25802.aspx [ p ] 914.633.8344 [w j www.salesians.org/slm [ p ] 312.254.1000 ext. 381 [ w ] http://teachforamerica.org Goal of Program: To challenge young Catholics to love Christ and Goal of Program: To provide elementary and secondary schools in Goal of Program: Salesian Lay Missioners seek to answer God’s Goal of Program: To close the achievement gap that exists embrace the life of the Church by proclaiming the Gospel of Christ the Archdiocese of Los Angeles with highly motivated teachers. missionary call in their own lives by dedicating themselves to between children growing up in low-income areas and their peers through a personal witness of faith; inviting young people to live Corps members earn their Master’s degree in education and working full-time for the human development and evangelization in higher-income areas by placing recent college graduate into for Christ; forming young people in Christian character through preliminary California teaching credential while serving as among the poor and abandoned youth. rural and urban classrooms. the study and practice of our faith; equipping youth workers and positive role models for another generation of students and live a Type of Placement: Youth ministry, teaching, child care, religious Type of Placement: Teaching in all academic subjects and all young adults with the ministry skills needed for evangelization. single lifestyle in supportive communities. education, staff for recreation/camp services, counseling, grade levels. Type of Placement: Volunteers serve on teams which travel the Type of Placement: Full-time elementary and secondary school I pastoral/parish ministry, health care, social work, building trades, Length of Service: Two years

country proclaiming the Gospel through fun, high-energy retreats. teachers in under-served schools while attending classes at i Hispanic ministry. The retreats incorporate large group talks, small group Loyola Marymount University one or two evenings per week. Length of Service: One to two years The David School discussion, music, drama, personal faith sharings and the Length of Service: Two years Contact: Danny Greene [email protected] opportunity for each retreatant to respond to Christ in prayer San Antonio Catholic Worker [ p ] 606.226.9911 [ w ] www.davidschool.org and/or through the Sacraments of Eucharist and Reconciliation. Providence Alliance for Catholic Contact: Janet Trevino-Elizarraraz [email protected] Goal of Program: To provide non-traditional high school programs Length of Service: 10 months Teachers (PACT) [ p ] 210.532.0002 [ w ] www.sa-catholicworker.org to low-income youth who have dropped out of public education. It Contact: Brother Patrick Carey [email protected] Goal of Program: To provide care, comfort, and support to the provides opportunities for academic, and vocational training as Notre Dame Campus Ministry [ p ] 401.865.2657 [ w ] www.providence.edu homeless of San Antonio through our ministries of offering a well as community service. Summer programs include Vacation Contact: Darrell Paulsen [email protected] Goal of Program: To develop a corps of highly motivated and temporary home to homeless families and a weekday soup line to Bible School and Campus Improvement. [ p ] 574.631.5827 [ w ] http://campusministry.nd.edu committed young Catholic educators to teach and to serve in individuals in need. We do our work following the philosophy of Type of Placement: Teaching, coaching, volunteer recruitment & Goal of Program: Collaboration with the permanent full-time grades K-12 in understaffed Catholic inner-city elementary and the Catholic Worker Movement which emphasizes faith-centered coordinator, development, office, public relations. Campus Ministry staff members on programs for Notre Dame secondary schools throughout New England. action, personalism, community building, nonviolence, simple Length of Service: 6-24 months students. Type of Placement: Teaching. living, and a respect for the environment. Type of Placement: Internship Length of Service: Two years Type of Placement: Peace, working with Hispanic and homeless The Haitian Project Length of Service: One academic year populations. Contact: Reese Jarret Grondin [email protected] Providence Companions in Mission Length of Service: Six months to over a year [ p ] 401.351.3624 [ w ] www.haitianproject.org Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Contact: Sister Judith Connor [email protected] Goal of Program: THP provides a free secondary education to Americorps [ p ] 412.931.5241 [ w ] www.divineprovidenceweb.org Share Foundation students from the poorest areas of Port Au Prince who are Contact: Kristin Miodonski [email protected] Goal of Program: An opportunity for Catholic women to fully Contact: Robert Hess [email protected] academically gifted and demonstrate a commitment to service and [ p ] 773.273.6367 [ w ] www.ndmva.org participate in the community, prayer, and ministerial life of the [ p ] 219.778.2585 [ w ] www.sharefoundation.org leadership in their community. Located in the poorest country in Goal of Program: To empower the economically disadvantaged Sisters of Divine Providence. Goal of Program: To provide a peaceful, loving community for the Western Hemisphere, the mission of the school is to maximize and oppressed through education and personal hands-on support. Type of Placement: Health care, peace, teaching, youth ministry, developmental^ disabled adults where people’s self worth can the potential found in its students and enable them to work Our program holistically aims to strengthen the community legal services, retreats, and work with Hispanic and youth come to the surface and they can share in the joy of being valued toward building a Haiti where justice and peace thrive. through their families; every person has an important role to play. populations. for who they are, not what they can do. Type of Placement: Teacher/Staff at Catholic Boarding School. Type of Placement: Tutoring; after school programs; conflict Length of Service: One year, renewable up to six years Type of Placement: Live-in house manager, providing Length of Service: 10 months resolution; parent effectiveness; adult literacy. Educational companionship and guidance to two mildly to moderately mentally service may be in conjunction with Latino migrant worker ministry, Providence Volunteer Ministry ' retarded adults. Teach daily living and vocational skills. The Neighborhood Academy social services, volunteer coordination, AIDS ministry, counseling, Contact: Julie Szolek-Van Valkenburgh [email protected] Volunteers live in one of 9 homes on site and share in the joy of Contact: Jessica Blose [email protected] credit union and environmental agencies. VISTA positions: public [ p ] 317.577.2477 [ w ] www.P-V-M.org living in community. [p ] 412.362.2001 [ w ] www.theneighborhoodacademy.org relations; development; senior and college volunteer recruitment; Goal of Program: PVM provides opportunities for volunteer service Length of Service: One year (long-term) 6 weeks (summer) Goal of Program: In addition to classroom responsibilities, career counseling; computers and web design/maintenance. and spiritual growth in partnership with the Sisters of Providence Teaching Associates direct athletic and arts programming, run the Promise Fellows: community and college volunteer recruitment; of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Our volunteers through works of Sister Maura Brannick Health Center meal program, proctor evening study, and support the daily service-learning coordination; tutoring. International placements love, mercy and justice give witness to the spirit of Providence in Contact: Anne-Marie Rick [email protected] running of a grassroots nonprofit organization with the goal of are available in Kenya in partnership with Lay Mission Helpers. a world that is in need of hope, healing and transformation. [ p ] 574.239.5255 [ w ] www.sjmed.com/svc_outreach HC_SB.htm breaking the cycle of generational poverty through education. Length of Service: One year Type of Placement: Education and Day Care; Health Care; Organic Goal of Program: Provides primary healthcare services to Type of Placement: Education, youth. farming and Eco-Justice: Social Services; Youth Ministry and ! uninsured residents of St. Joseph County, IN. Our focus is on the Length of Service: 10 months operation TEACH Hispanic Ministry. unemployed or working poor, providing services for those that fall Contact: Sr. M. Karen Kelly [email protected] Length of Service: One year or Summer Program below 150% of the federally-designated poverty level. The Health Vincentian Service Corps— Central [p ] 410.532.5326 [w ] www.ndm.edu/academics/nd_abt_opTeach.cfm j Center addresses issues pertaining to prevention of disease and Contact: Sr. Teresa Daly [email protected] Goal of Program: Operation TEACH (Teachers Enlisted to Advance Puerto Rico Center for Social Concerns illness and focuses on the overall health and well-being of each [ p ] 314.533.4770 ext.103 [ w ] www.vscorps.org Catholic Heritage) seeks to develop a corps of highly motivated Contact: Sylvia Henriquez [email protected] patient. Goal of Program: To provide opportunities for women and men and committed young educators to meet the needs of the [ p ] 787.944.4444 [ w ] http://prcsc.org/ Type of Placement: Health care (Dr. Torn Dooley Service Award) who want to serve the poor, live in community with other VSC Baltimore area Catholic elementary and secondary schools. Goal of Program: Committed to improving the quality of life in Length of Service: One year members, and experience a simple lifestyle. While working Type of Placement: TEACH is a two-year commitment in a Catholic communities with limited resources through education and directly with the poor, VSC members are called to deepen their elementary or secondary school, while earning a graduate degree socio-economic development with the support of professional St. Ignatius Loyola Academy faith, grow in charity, work for justice, celebrate life and develop in education, and simple living in a small community of TEACH volunteers. By matching volunteer interests and skills with the Contact: Christopher Wilson close bonds. participants. needs of the community, the PRCSC promotes the well-being of [email protected] Type of Placement: Adult literacy, AIDS/HIV ministry and Length of Service: Two years the residents while providing enriching experiences for [ p ] 410.539.8268 [ w ] www.saintignatius.org outreach, case work for shelters and/or mentally ill, child care, volunteers. Goal of Program: An independent, tuition-free Jesuit Catholic coordinating volunteers, crisis counseling, fund-raising, health Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education (PACE) Type of Placement: Community organizing, environment, health middle school for boys of families of modest, means, diverse care, immigration/refugee counseling, maintenance, nursing Contact: Daniel Adams [email protected] care, teaching, work with Hispanic and homeless populations. races, ethnicities and religions. The Academy’s mission is to draw home, outreach to the homebound elderly, work with physically [ p ] 503.943.7417 Length of Service: One or two years from and share with its students the very best spiritual ideals and and developmental^ disabled, skilled labor, social work, teaching [ w ] http://education.up.edu/default.aspx7cid=4322&pid=278 moral values, knowledge and learning skills, discipline, character and teaching aides, parish social ministry, work with emotionally Goal of Program: To strengthen Catholic schools by providing Red Cloud Volunteers formation, and personal care, thereby providing its graduates the disturbed youth, work with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. talented educators committed to the vocation of teaching as Contact: Ian Mitchell, SJ [email protected] opportunity to pursue an excellent secondary education that will Length of Service: One year. service; to provide college graduates, including both those who [ p ] 605.867.5888 Ext. 216 [ w ] www.redcloudschool.org lead to college and to lives in which they will be Men For Others. have majored in the field of education and those who come from Goal of Program: Dedicated to the education of the Lakota (Sioux) Free tuition to the Loyola College in Maryland department of other academic disciplines, with graduate degrees in education on children on the Pine Ridge Reservation, traditional Lakota values education provided. scholarship; to provide participants with the opportunity for living are fostered in a positive academic atmosphere. Volunteers Type of Placement: Teaching, coaching, and advising middle in a supportive community of fellow professional educators. integrate their faith through service to others, the challenges of ! school boys. Network Organizations Type of Placement: Each PACE teacher earns a graduate degree in living in a cross-cultural environment and sharing a simple Length of Service: Two years education; serves for two years as a full-time teacher in a Catholic lifestyle in community. Catholic Network of Volunteer Service school in the Northwest; grows through the experience of simple, Type of Placement: Native American ministry worker, teacher, St. Joseph Worker Program Contact: Katie Eberhard [email protected] intentional, community living; actively participates in his/her own tutor, bus driver, communications and public relations, coaching, Contact: Suzanne Herder, CSJ [email protected] [ p ] 301.270.0900. ext. 11 [ w ] www.cnvs.org spiritual growth and the spirituality of their community. education. [ p ] 651.696.2762 [ w ] www.stjosephworkers.org Goal of Network: CNVS is a national membership organization of Length of Service: Two years Length of Service: One year Goal of Program: Work for justice within diverse communities Christian volunteer and mission programs that fosters and doing direct service that meets the needs of the poor and promotes full-time national and international service opportunities Passionist Volunteers International Response-Ability marginalized and actively work toward systemic change. Provide for people of all backgrounds, ages and skills. Contact: Karen Kosmski [email protected] Contact: Mary Scheuermann [email protected] | mentoring for young women to be leaders/change agents working Type of Placement: Business, communications, community [p ] 708 256.3013 [ w ] www.passionistvolunteers.org [p j 610.626.1400 Ext. 313 [w ] www.ravolunteers.org : for social and spiritual transformation in the world. Assist the organization, construction, environment, legal, health care, Goal of Program: PV1 invites people to share their gifts and Goal of Program: A ministry of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, Workers to deepen their own spirituality through retreats, prayer, service with the Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations, youth talents walking with the poor and accompanying the suffering in a Response-Ability trains, coaches, and inspires innovative and other experiences with the support of the Sisters of St. ministry, teaching, peace, health care, and more. cross-cultural setting. The Volunteers have the opportunity to volunteer teachers to provide quality education in inner city Joseph and others. Develop intentional community focusing on enrich their lives and enable their service by living in community, schools and international sites. Living in community, volunteers living simply and building just relationships with others and the sharing spirituality and faith. They serve in collaboration with the achieve spiritual, personal and professional growth. | earth. St. Vincent Pallotti Center Passionist Community. Type of Placement: Full-time teacher and co-teacher positions in Type of Placement: Working with immigrant communities, Contact: Jennifer Taylor [email protected] Type of Placement: School needs for children and remedial inner-city Catholic elementary and middle schools. I community organizing, health care, homeless, elderly; justice [ p ] 202.529.3330 [ w ] www.pallotticenter.org educational needs for adults, caring for the sick, visiting the Length of Service: One or two years i education and advocacy. Goal of Center: To promote lay volunteer service that challenges home-bound, training in hygiene and preventive care; youth Length of Service: 11 months the laity, clergy and religious to work together in the mission of ministry • organizing, coaching, mentoring; housing -building and Rostro de Cristo the Church. Our goal is to support lay volunteers before, during repair; prison ministry. Contact: Dan Kiers [email protected] Su Casa Catholic Worker and after their term of service. Length of Service: One year [ p ] 216.397.1571 [ w ] www.rostrodecristo.org Contact: Chantel deAlcuaz [email protected] Type of Placement: Business, communications, community Goal of Program: We invite participants to lead a simple lifestyle; [ p ] 773.376.9263 [ w ] http://sucasacatholicworker.blogspot.com organizing, environment, health care, peace, youth ministry, and Peace Corps build an intentional Christian community; be in relationship with Goal of Program: Su Casa Is a house of hospitality in the Catholic work with Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations. Contact: Liz Ateyou e [email protected] the Ecuadorian people and reflect on the face of Christ in their ^ Worker tradition that provides a space of healing and hope to [ p ] 312.353.7747 [ w ] www.peacecorps.gov joys and struggles; and work with the Ecuadorian people to find displaced Hispanic families. Responding to the Gospel call to University Consortium for Catholic Education Goal of Program: Peace Corps Volunteers live and work at a grass long-term solutions to the problems of poverty and together seek compassionate action, we are committed to a simple, non-violent [email protected] [ p ] 574-631-3165 [ w ] www.ucceconnect.com roots level in a community that has requested assistance with opportunities to improve the lives of the people. lifestyle as we live and work among the poor. Goal of Consortium: The consortium establishes and supports a their social, economic and human development. Type of Placement: Education, child care, religious education, Type of Placement: Business, communications, "community collaborative cadre of primarily Catholic colleges and universities Typo of Placement: Business, community organizing, construction, tutoring, working in soup kitchens, leading retreat groups, | organizing, environment, peace, and work with Hispanic, as they design and implement graduate level teaching service environment, health care, teaching, youth. assisting in parish activities, working at a hospital for Hansen's homeless, and youth populations. programs for the purpose of supporting Catholic/Parochial Length of Service: 7 months disease, visiting orphanages and nursing homes, and other social Length of Service: One year education in the United States. services. Type of Placement: Education (Catholic teacher service corps) Length of Service: One year Length of Service: Two years

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