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^ Friday, January 24,2003 S tu d en t G o v t g ets a O bserver grade 7 7 z e Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL. XXXVII NO. 80 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU Shipwrecked: Boat Club busted Druker drops By JASON McFARLEY News Writer complaint South Bend police raided The Boat Club early Friday morning, apparently issuing dozens of underage drinking citations to By TERESA FRALISH Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Assistant News Editor students. The bar at 106 N. Hill St. had WNDU reporter Bonnie long been a weekend beacon for Druker has dropped her freshmen and sophomores and complaint against Father other students under 21 years Tim Scully, Notre Dame old. The popular campus belief executive vice president. was that the club would never Druker filed a report with be busted. Notre Dame Security Police wouldn’t comment on Police yesterday afternoon the raid, but students said it indicating that she did not happened at about 12:30 a.m. want the case sent to the with hundreds of students county prosecutor’s office inside the bar. for review, said Matt “The lights came on, the Storin, a spokesperson for music stopped and the police the University. told everyone to get in two Druker could not be lines,” said a 19-year-old Notre reached for comment on Dame freshman who received T hursday. an Indiana minor in a tavern Druker filed an initial citation. “There were two or Above: South Bend Police report with NDSP around three cops at every exit.” raided The Boat Club 1 a.m. on Dec. 17 after the More than a half-dozen squad Fisher Hall mass held Dec. cars surrounded the bar, and Friday morning with a 16 for missing Notre Dame police led some patrons into a van for prisoner freshman Chad Sharon. van for prisoner transport. In transport. Druker and WNDU cam below freezing temperatures eraman Patrick Hartney outside, police administered alleged that Scully Breathalyzer tests and arrested Right: Officers discuss grabbed them by the arms at least one student. and forcibly escorted them For more than an 90 minutes, student citations outside outside Fisher Hall. dozens of people, most carrying the bar. Hartney said he smelled blue, minor in a tavern cita alcohol on Scully’s breath tions, emerged from the bar. and felt that Scully over Many cried as they walked out, ♦ reacted to the situation. and some called friends on cell Scully was apparently phones. upset about the location of The bar closed following the PHOTOS BY WNDU vehicles parked in raid, but at 2 a.m., many reserved spaces behind TIM KACMAR see SCULLY/page 4 see BUST/page 6 Senator to speak N e w s A nalysis Alcohol changes affect dorm life off-campus residences. About pus, but dorm parties are fun, on foreign policy By KEVIN ALLEN 80 percent of undergraduates too,” she said. News Writer currently live in residence Other freshmen have been filled with ‘hawks and doves,”’ By TERESA FRALISH halls — a figure unchanged in disappointed with the social said Steven Brady, a diplo Last spring, when University several years. But many stu life on campus. Assistant News Editor matic history professor and administrators revealed pro dents acknowledge a changed “For a true social life, you one of the talk’s organizers. posed changes to Notre atmosphere in dorm life this have to go off-campus,” said Nebraska Senator Chuck “[Today], we have a chance to Dame’s alcohol policy, stu year, resulting from the week freshman Andrew Vihtelik of Hagel will speak on campus hear one of the ‘owls,’” he dents immediately protested. end exodus to off-campus Alumni Hall. today about U.S. foreign policy said. One of the main concerns bars and parties. Recalling his visit to campus issues that the United States Planners of the event said emphasized by students was “I’ve noticed that there last year as a high school will face they expect the Senator to that the new policy — which have been a lot more people senior, Vihtelik said this year in the speak about global terrorism banned hard alcohol on cam going off-campus, especially he has found the campus c o m in g and tensions in North Korea pus, restricted tailgating and underclassmen. The dorms scene at Notre Dame less y e a r s . and Iraq. Joe Heieck, a sopho eliminated in-hall dances are pretty much empty on the vibrant on the weekends. H a g e l’s more who helped organize (SYRs) — would be detrimen weekends,” said Erin Fisher, Dangers of the exodus talk, Hagel’s visit to campus, said tal to the social life and sense assistant rector of McGlinn Rather than reducing binge titled he believes Hagel may focus of community in Notre Dame’s Hall. drinking, students like “U.S. on the importance of multilat residence halls. Despite noticing a small F o re ig n eralism and the need to pre Now after a full semester Vihtelik argue that the new increase in students going off- policy pushes parties off-cam P 01 icy: Hagel sent international problems to under the new policy, stu campus, Alumni Hall resident M eeting the United Nations and the dents, adm inistrators and pus. assistant Ken Allinson insists But recently, this has raised t h e UN Security Council. local police are seeing both that a strong sense of dorm Challenges of Change,” will Senator Hagel, one of just the positive and negative con questions as to whether the community remains. off-campus party scene leaves take place at the Library three Vietnam veterans cur sequences. “We haven’t lost anything by Auditorium today at 11 a.m. students vulnerable to new rently in the U.S. Senate, has Empty on the weekends [banning hard alcohol]. We Hagel was invited to speak dan g ers. had much experience in inter According to Scott lost a bit of our character by on campus because he is one Such dangers have been national affairs and foreign Kachmarik, associate director losing SYRs,” he said. of the leading voices in the highlighted by recent events policy, serving on the Senate of Residence Life and Many freshmen, like Jamie U.S. Congress on m ajor for involving freshmen, like the Foreign Relation Committee Housing, the new alcohol poli Peters of McGlinn, are still eign policy issues, organizers mugging of a Notre Dame stu- and previously as deputy cy does not seem to have finding ways to entertain said. pushed students to move to themselves on campus. “Wartime Washington is see HAGEL/page 3 “A lot of people go off-cam see ALCOHOL/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ VTLAT S UP Friday, January 24 , 2003 In sid e C olum n W hat ’s In sid e CAMPUS WORLD & BUSINESS Less hype, NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE SPORTS more football Jill Long Earthquake in American Examining Experience Spartans the French invade the If you’ve been a part of a top-secret Thompson Mexico is Airlines SUVs link to mission to Mars with your best friend speaks at devastating reports a loss terrorism theatre JACC Mono the chimp for the past week, no Saint Mary's of $3.5 billion doubt it’ll come as a surprise to you that Oakland and Tampa Bay are playing in the Streaking Mexican earth The Notre Dame Super Bowl on 2002 Indiana 2nd The parent com Letter examines Michigan State quake leaves 28 French Theatre Sunday. That District Democratic pany of American recent debates brings a four-game people dead, 300 class presents 17th winning streak to seems to be about nominee Long Airlines reports about SUV owners injuried and 10,000 century playwright this weekend's the only way any Thompson opened another profit loss and alleged links to homeless. The M o 1 i e r e ' s games against the thing from Earth the Play of the Mind due to the decrease terrorism. earthquake regis "Tartuffle." struggling Irish. could have avoided Conference at Saint in travel demand. tered at 7.8 magni hearing about this Mary's. tude. apparently cata clysmic event, the Will Puckett likes of which have never been seen N ew s page 3 page 5 page 7 page 9 page 10 page 20 before and never P roduction will be again. At least, according to ESPN, the great and wise Magic 8-ball W hat ’s G oing D own of the sports world. W h a t’s Happening @ND Before you regurgitate your heaping plate of Blazing Sea Nuggets, I’d just Student loses wallet like to ask one question: Could the ♦ Lecture with Dr. Tariq Ramadan On Wednesday a student reported Super Bowl maybe, possibly, be a little “Oh Diversity: The Necessary Dimension of Peace Building losing her wallet in North Dining overblown? The Fox network has to be 5 p.m. at llesburgh Library Auditorium Hall. salivating madly at all this promotion. Knowing Fox, the halftime show will no ♦ Student Film Festival 2003 doubt include Simon Cowell in the lock 7:30 p.m. and 0:45 at llesburgh Library Property lost on campus er rooms, telling both teams that if they A uditorium On Wednesday a University don’t play better, they’ll be stoned. employee reported losing her ring While this might be a bit of a stretch, ♦ SUB Movie at Grace Hall. even for Fox, it probably isn’t too far “J a c k a s s ” from reality for Tampa Bay and 8 p.m.