O B S E R V E R P a G E 3 the Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL

4 ^ n p T T_ inursaav,October3,2002 M a s s c a u g h t o n c a m e r a O b s e r v e r p a g e 3 The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL. XXXVIII NO. 27 h t t p ://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Philbin, King to visit campus Father Joyce improving Dame. after suffering a stroke By HELENA PAYNE “Oh, I’d love to introduce you to it,” Philbin News Editor told King. Joyce is trying to restore After some conversation about attending a By HELENA PAYNE strength in his arms. He has Two prominent talk show hosts will be football game. King eventually told Philbin, News Editor retained his ability to speak. making appearances this weekend for the “Whenever you go, I’ll go.” The priest’s younger broth Notre Dame football game against Stanford. Dolins said the exact itinerary for Philbin Father Edmund Joyce er, Lyle Joyce, arrived yester 1953 graduate Regis Philbin will follow has not been decided. Last year’s campus remains in the South Bend St. day from Paris, where he through on a promise to homecoming by Philbin included trips to the Joseph Regional Medical resides, to visit his ill brother. give CNN talk show host lake, the Grotto, the football locker room Center, but his condition is According to Seetch, Lyle, Larry King a taste of and the Stadium, as well as a visit to his old improving, said Father also a Notre Dame graduate, Notre Dame culture this room on the second floor of Zahm Hall. William Seetch, religious is Joyce’s closest living kin. weekend. Philbin visited Notre Dame last year to superior for the Holy Cross Joyce’s second brother, Jack, “Regis is excited to show tape a show for “LIVE” and attend the Community. is deceased. He also has l.arry Notre Dame,” said groundbreaking ceremony for the Marie P. Joyce, the executive vice nieces and nephews that live Debbie Dolins, publicist DeBartolo Performing Arts Center that is president emeritus and a in the United States. for “LIVE with Regis & currently still under construction on the 1937 Notre Dame graduate, Joyce, a former resident of Kelly.” A south end of the DeBartolo quad. was hospitalized Sept. 20 Spartanburg, S.C., was the Philbin is scheduled to Philbin Philbin, who has won Emmys for both after suffering a stroke. first student from South arrive from New York on “LIVE” and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” The hospital moved him Carolina to attend Notre Friday and King will come from Los Angeles donated $2.75 million last year to go toward Friday from intensive care to Dame, Seetch said. on Saturday. a 100-seat studio theater in the center that the rehabilitation unit where Since graduating with a The host and executive producer of “LIVE” the University is naming after him. Joyce, 85, is undergoing bachelor’s degree in account proposed that King visit the University dur The center will cost an estimated $50 mil physical therapy. ing, then called commerce, ing a May 13 show of “Larry King Live,” lion to construct and it is scheduled to open The hospital has not yet set Joyce has spent 35 years at where he was a guest. next year. a date for his release. Notre Dame as a University Philbin was reminiscing about his under “It depends on how he administrator. His former graduate days at Notre Dame when King responds to physical thera mentioned that he had never been to Notre Contact Helena Payne at [email protected] py,” Seetch said, adding that see JOYCE/page 3 S M C P ride B oard o f t r u st e e s Dorms topic of student report ♦ Bishop plans to suggest graduates live on campus. Because adminis trators want to increase that figure to 85 per new buildings are needed tocent within 10 years and in light of recent Board of Trustees today enrollment trends, the report said, there is a need for more dorms. School officials in the past have acknowl By JASON McFARLEY edged that they depend on students to move News Writer off campus because the 27 residence halls can’t accommodate Notre Dame’s 8,500 Notre Dame should build new residence undergraduates. But even with about half of halls to alleviate overcrowding, and the the senior class living off-campus this year, University should equip current halls with most dorms are at or beyond capacity. apartment-style amenities, according to a The report relies heavily on a Campus Life report that student government officials will Council study last year that surveyed student present today to the interest in types of on-campus housing other Board of Trustees. than traditional, single-sex residence halls. The “Plan to Improve Of the more than 2,000 respondents to the Residential Life” from the CLC survey, most listed suite- or apartment- office of Student Body style living as better alternatives to the cur President Libby Bishop rent residence halls, Bishop said. If such recommends construction alternatives existed, about 80 percent of sur of several new dorms that veyed students who either lived off-campus include suites, kitchens, or were planning to move off campus said private bathrooms and Bishop they would consider moving back or remain other apartment-type ing on campus. conveniences. It proposes The report includes historical data that that existing dorms be renovated to include tracks upgrades to the halls. Overall, the those features as well. dorms have changed little, said Linville, who On-campus housing is at 102 percent will oversee the writing of all three student capacity, the 52-page report said, and most government reports to the trustees this year. dorms were built to accommodate far fewer “I was surprised by the relatively small residents than the number who occupy them amount of changes that have taken place over now. the years,” he said. “We expect the report to be a catalyst, to The report also includes data from focus start the wheels turning in their heads to group interviews with students, hall rectors, think about new dorms, ” Bishop said. administrators, facilities officials and the Bishop, Vice President Trip Foley and University architect. report chairman Jordan Linville will present Senior administrators from the Office of the plan to the Student Affairs subcommittee Student Affairs and Brian Coughlin, director of the Board of Trustees at a closed 1 p.m. of Student Activities, are expected to attend meeting in McKenna Hall. The trustees are the hour-long report presentation. Bishop’s on campus today and Friday for their annual chief of staff, Pat Hallahan, is also scheduled fall meeting. to attend. Trustees received copies of the report as The fall and spring trustees meetings at early as Wednesday, but Bishop said she Notre Dame have traditionally served as the wouldn't make the document available to the only formal contact between student leaders public until after the presentation. and the Board. Trustees have rarely followed The report comes at a time when the student government proposals to the letter. ALLISON NICHOLS/The Observer University is finishing a 10-year strategic plan “If nothing else, they’ll start looking at our Tone Cox paints Taylor Kachmarik’s face at Belles pep rally to show and amid concern among officials that upper plan seriously and allocating the resources Saint Mary’s school spirit. classmen are moving off campus in increas for these improvements,” Linville said. ing numbers. About 77 percent of Notre Dame under Contact Jason McFarley at [email protected] page 2 The Observer ♦ WTIAT S UP Thursday, October 3, 2002 In sid e C olumn W hat ’s In sid e CAMPUS WORLD & BUSINESS M ajor changes NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE SPORTS Movie review or staying Basilica Mass Iraq maintains Notre Dame’s Don’t believe Freshmen and Bruce goes cable incapability of MBA program SYR spin making an Springstein w i t h it? with Hallmark producing disputes early impact concert weapons Stanford study When freshmen come to campus, most have a feeling of high expecta tion for their next four years. We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t excel in The Basilica Mass Iraq continues to Notre Dame's MBA Dan Degen, social The Scene review The womens golf is now being tele high school so most of us think that deny speculation program discounts commissioner of the acclaimed hit team is getting a we’ll breeze vised on the that the are capable the notion posed Keough Hall, "My Big Fat Greek boast from its through college Justin Krivickas Hallmark channel of producing sounds off on a Wedding," and too. But, then ________________ every Sunday to by a Stanford freshmen players again if everyone viewers around the nuclear, chemical study that conclud stand that ques then joins which are proving here did well in Assistant country. or biological ed an MBA degree tions the adminis Springstein in to be a valuable high school then News Editor weapons. provides "little real tration's new Chicago as he rocks asset. things should be world experience. dance policies. the Windy City. harder here, and I for one didn’t take that into account. page 8 page 5 page 7 page 13 page 14 page 28 Reality is starting to set in as stu dents begin to take their first exams this year. Would-be engineers now get the sudden shock that they did poorly on a test, and other students W hat ’s G oing D ow n begin to see that their majors may not W hat’s Happening @ ND be the best thing to do with their lives.

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