OBSERVER.COM Men Charged with Ticket Counterfeiting Students

/ ^ V THE O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 21 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER20, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Men charged with ticket counterfeiting Students and will remain in the St. Joseph Saturday, Gabrielse said in the two home football games. By MARY KATE MALONE County Jail until their arraign affidavit. While Conyers was arrested register News Editor ment at 1 p.m. today in the St. Notre Dame Security/Police Saturday, he was charged in con Joseph County Superior Court, (NDSP) plain-clothes officers nection with counterfeit ticket The St. Joseph County according to a supplemental affi apprehended Friday, and Lang sales before the Penn State game Prosecutor’s office filed charges davit filed by St. Joseph County was caught after Associate Vice one week earlier. Gabrielse said to vote Tuesday against three New York Deputy Prosecuting Attorney President of Student Affairs Bill Conyers sold three counterfeit men related to the sale of coun Joel Gabrielse. Kirk witnessed him selling coun tickets Sept. 9 to a football fan terfeit Notre Dame football tick Associate Athletic Director terfeits. who was not aware they were 'Rock the Vote/ CSC ets. John Heisler sent the affidavit The tickets Friday and Lang invalid. The fan took a picture of Arnold Conyers, 27, Dennel along with a press release to sold matched the counterfeit the seller after he bought the plan political events Friday, 27, and Timothy Lang, members of the media Tuesday. tickets that NDSP gathered after tickets, which allowed police to 22, of the Bronx, N.Y., were each Friday and Lang were both the Sept. 9 Notre Dame-Penn identify Conyers as he walked By JO H N TIERNEY charged with forgery and could caught selling “very good quali State game. Altogether, police near Dorr Road and U.S. 31 News Writer face up to eight years in prison. ty” counterfeit tickets before the have recovered roughly 170 Notre Dame-Michigan game counterfeit tickets for the last see TICKETS/page 8 They were arrested Saturday With Election Day just seven weeks away, Rock the Vote is revving up to increase turnout at the polls. Junior Mike McKenna, director of Rock the Vote operations at University lags in low-income study Notre Dame, said the group has already registered 200 voters and hopes to have 1,000 signed ND ranked 49th for percentage of students with Pell Grants; administrators defend policies up by mid-October. Aso taking part in the effort to those loans. “rock the vote” is the Center for By EILEEN DUFFY Berea College’s unique admis ates Holding Social Concerns, which is spon Assistant News Editor sions policy only accepts stu 2005 soring a series of political lec dents that “fall below a certain tures and events to involve stu Out of the 59 wealthiest pri income,” said Luke Ilodson, eo.8% dents and support the aims of vate institutions, The Chronicle assistant director of admissions the campus Rock the Vote cam of Higher Education ranked at Berea. But other academical paign. Notre Dame 49th in its ability to ly elite colleges — Smith College Rock the Vote’s “principal goal enroll low-income students. (25.9 percent), Columbia (16 is to mobilize students to be But that low ranking might percent) and Stanford (13 per responsible voters and to not accurately portray the cent), as well as peer schools increase the level of political University, said administrators like Georgetown (10.4 percent) engagement on campus,” who criticized the method and Boston College (10.3 per McKenna said. researchers used to create the cent) outranked Notre Dame. A national non-partisan organ 2004-05 report, which exam Director of Financial Ad Joe ization founded in 1990, Rock ined institutions with endow Russo noted that Notre Dame is the Vote is designed to help ments of $500 million or more. still “pretty close to its peers.” young people exercise their The publication used the But Tom Mortenson, a senior rights as citizens and to make a number of students holding scholar at The Pell Institute for positive difference in the com Federal Pell Grants — which, the Study of Opportunity in munity. unlike government loans, do Higher Education, thinks the McKenna will address the pro not need to be paid back — as University can do better. gram ’s goal this fall both by edu an indicator. Mortenson has published cating students on the issues and In the study, Notre Dame’s 9.7 extensively on low-income stu candidates of the election and by percent of students holding Pell dents in post-secondary educa registering eligible voters. So far, Grants lagged far behind Berea tion. In a December 2005 study, McKenna said he has spent most College in Kentucky, the No. 1 which also used the percentage H5C33I of his efforts registering eligible school, where 80.8 percent of icy only admits students of a certain income or below students reportedly receive see PELL/page 6 Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education JEFF ALBERT/Observer Graphic see VOTE/page 4 Football lawn parking debated Core Council structure City commission calls encourages dialogue resolution unfavorable Magee, a fifth-year senior who Group reaches out to served on the Standing By MADDIE HANNA homosexual students Committee on Gay and Lesbian News Writer Student Needs for two years, said the new layout of the council, with By KAITLYNN RIELY a coalition to bridge the gap Proponents of lawn parking News Writer during Notre Dame football between the council and the stu games received a minor victory dent community, will allow the As members of the recently Tuesday when the South Bend group to reach out to more stu restructured Core Council for Gay A ea Plan Commission decided a dents. and Lesbian Students look at the resolution to prohibit most forms “We are in the process of build new academic year, many see it of lawn parking — save for city- ing the coalition, contacting inter as an opportunity to improve approved exceptions — would ested student groups, student gov communication with the student likely present more problems ernment, et cetera, and trying to body — an essential task that will than it could solve. solidify that group so we can start include the creation of a coalition The commission passed a meeting and figure out where to composed of representatives from motion to forward the resolution go from here,” Magee said. student government and student to the South Bend Common The Core Council’s Web -site groups. Council with an unfavorable rec describes the history of the “I think the largest thing that ommendation. University's approach to address can be done is simply raising What it came down to, a ing needs of gay and lesbian stu Observer file photo awareness that there are gay and dents. Notre Dame first organized Football crowds, like the one outside the stadium at last lesbian students on this campus,” year’s DSC game, cause parking problems in South Bend. see PARKING/page - council co-chair Aidy Magee said. see COUNCIL/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, September 20, 2006 In sid e C olumn Question of the Day: If you cou ld c h a n g e yo u r n a m e to a n y t h in g , w h at w o u ld it b e ? But I like my bubble... It was my golden birthday yesterday. I spent it sexing fruit flies and writing 500 Jackie Mirandola words to fill some space in today’s Brian Hagerty Elizabeth Berger Lisa Floran Nick Kovachevich Tara Gilbride Mullen newspaper. If you were to ask me a year freshman sophomore sophomore sophomore freshman ago if I were bitter about my unfortu Keough Walsh freshman Lyons St. Ed’s Lewis nate weekday Howard birthday I probably jessica Lee would have “John Jacob “I’d change my “I’d change it to “Nick “Brady “Preferably responded in lan- Jingleheimer first name to Lauren, because Kovachevich. If Zbikowski. It’s something that Smith, because Youwanna, my last name is it ain’t broke, the best of both actually fits in sorship. However then his name because who Floran. ” don’t fix i t ... worlds, ignoring since my last birth really would be doesn’t? ” standardized Serb power!” the fact that I’m day, I’ve come to realize that studying is test forms. ” only one of many inevitable components m y name, too. ” a girl. ” of life as a student at Notre Dame which, despite my whining, really just makes this year a little more golden. In the past year, I’ve learned that col lege is the great equalizer — a rudimen tary form of intellectual socialism, if you will. It’s a celebration of the average, where you’ve been displaced from run In B rief ning in the academically/socially/athleti cally elite circles to being a dot smack in the middle of your (insert class) first The Kaneb Center for exam bell curve. And if you’re anything Teaching and Learning is spon like me, you don’t like that dot. So as a soring a conference entitled necessary matter of consequence, “The Ardent Search for Truth studying is the only remedy for college and its Unselfish mediocrity. Transmission” today from 1:30 In the past year, I’ve also learned that p.m. to 5 in the Hesburgh studying isn’t everything, and that much Center. This conference marks like your physical nutrition, your mental Notre Dame’s launching of health in general needs generous allot OpenCourseWare, which makes ments of playtime.

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