THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 39: ISSUE 72 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19,2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Keough freshman remembered in donn mass Friends, classmates honor Kish's memory "Corning to Notre Dame was By CLAIRE HEININGER probably a risk" for Kish, News Editor who received a heart trans­ plant when he was a sopho­ llan Kish. tlw IIJ-year old more at Penn High School in Notre llame freshman who Mishawaka and know he died early Saturday morning would soon need another, from heart surgPry complica­ .!arret said. But in Kish's tions, was living on "bor­ mind, it was a risk worth tak­ rowPd timl'." ing. But. lw madl' the most of a "Living in a coeoon proba­ lifl' that lw knew could be bly would have been easier, short, Keough riH~tor Father but Dan didn't want to do l'ntnr Jarrnt said during a that," .!arret said. rnnmorial Mass hPid for Kish Instead, he eame to the in thn dorm's ch;qwl Tuesday Father Peter Jarret celebrates mass in memory of Dan Kish in the Keough Chapel Tuesday evening. night. see MASS/page 6 Kish, a Notre Dame freshman and Keough resident, died Jan. 14 from heart surgery complications. Students buy texts on Internet SMC increases efforts to Lower prices, resale opportunities draw students from bookstore 111eet enroll111ent goals "Wn seareh for used pricf1, but students have to By JOliN EVERETT books first and have the realize that online they may Nt·w' Writt·r buybaek program to pass not get the right book, savings along to the stu­ espndally when a new edi­ <;rumblings about the dents and rnmain price­ tion comes out," he said. prkns of textbooks at the eompntitive," Wiatrowski Both directors stressed rampus bookstores at Notre said. the importance of faculty in llarnn and Saint Mary's are Wiatrowski credited the the textbook buying so common they an~ deeid­ rise of online sales to stu­ process, stating tho sooner Pdly elir.lu\. dents' Internet savvy. She professors tell the stores This senwster. many stu­ also noted now textbook which materials students dnrrts continue to turn to prices arn set by puqlishors will need l'or their elasses, growing numbers of "who are publishing new the better it will be for the lntnrnnt sitos in search of editions to undercut the students. lwtter deals. Tho impact of used-book market." "We have to facilitate the online hook rntailing on Saint Mary's Bookstore faculty, and order the books rampus textbook sales director Mike Hicks recog­ the professors want," Hicks n~mains undnar. nizes the competition and is said. Ilamnws Notre I>amo interested in getting the Prol'essor Sara Maurer, ol' Bookstore director Sally students the books they the English department, Wiatrowski knows online nend at a n~asonable price. said she understands how sitns are beeorning inereas­ "Some books are over­ costly books ean be, and ingly popular, but bdioves priced, and when that hap­ always tries to take that thn bookstorn is competi­ pens we'll recommond stu­ tive. dents to look l'or a better see BOOKS/page 4 Panel discusses racial issues Bowe. By MEGAN O'NEIL Saint Mary's is snnding out 7,000 Assistant News Editor By PETER LEAHY applications to high S<'hool studnnts Nl'ws Writl'r in thn nnxt coupln of weeks. The After disappointing admissions Saint Mary's marknting dnpartnwnt. ThP fif'l' of' Martin Luther numbers in 2004, Saint Mary's paid for tlw rights to rnprodueP a King .Jr. was rPIPbratl'd in the College is back on eourse this year Nov. 1 Chicago Trihurw art.ide rna­ CoiPrnan-Morsn Center and dose to reaching its recruitment turing sueeess story alumnae Diann TuPsday in tlw Town llall goal of 1,000 applicant'>. Aigotti, tlw trPasurPr ol' Aon Corp., nwPting Pntitlnd "And Still We The numbers thus l~tr are eonsis­ which will ac~eompany tlw applica­ I! is I' .. I! n m P mlw ring is Not tnnt with past years but the applicant tions. t·:nough." pool itself is strongnr than in 2004, H0eruitnwnt has always hewn a l.nd hy l!irhard Pinren, said Mona Bown, intorim direetor of c·.onr.ern for tlw small wonwn's eol­ assistant din~l'lor of African admissions. SAT and ACT sc~ores lngn. llownvnr, t.hP drop in the size of AmPrican Studios, Notrn have risen eomparnd to thosn ol' last this ynar's frnshmnn dass, by about DamP studPnts joirwd in tlw year's applkants. 50 students, has causPd Pwn more~ OfH'II forum to discuss issues "We already have 700 appfieants, worry. that King was passionate and our goal is 1,000," Bowe said. College Prc~sidPnt Carol Mooney about. Topir.s rangPd from the "But we are well on our way citnd raising thn national profiln of' i 111 pact and reasons for alrnady." tlw collngn and improving rncruiting stnrnotyptlS, divnrsity on cam­ Though admissions ol'liccws arn tndmiquns as sonw of hnr goals. pus and in thP U.S. and why it waiting for applications l'rom stu­ Thn Saint Mary's admissions oflkn snnms likn peopln of the same dents who will apply to Saint. Mary's has rnspondml to an ever-changing races sit. logPlhPr at tlw din­ rngardless of' rneruiting dl'orts, Bowe rec~ruiting arnna by making dmngns ing hall. said they arn also pursuing studcmts to its stratnh'Y· Studnnts nott~d that sterno­ who may not have eonsidnrnd Saint One of the most notable is tho types an~ an intngral part ol' Mary's one of their top choices. addition ol' tho Vmag, a virtual online human naturP, a way for pen- PHOTOGRAPHERfThe Observer "Probably one of the biggest things magazine sent to prospective stu- Panelists Colleen Case, Melissa Hentges and Richard wn are doing is that we are sending sec KING/page 4 Pierce reflect on civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. a seeond application mailing," said see RECRUIT/page 6 . ' page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CLASS SO FAR AND WHY? Tin1e to let go It's time to finally let go. Recently, I lost something that was a part of my life, but, after nearly two months of searching, worrying and Adam Cummins Rebecca Cashore Justin Doyle John Welsh Brad Laney Alexandra Pennington sleepless nights, I think saying sophomore senior junior senior sophomore junior goodbye is the . only thing left for EriC Retter Keenan Welsh Family Dillon off-campus Alumni Pasquerilla East me to do. Two weeks "C.A.P.P. courses "Logic - I'm "Prof Carl "Freshman "Instrumental "I hate 'em all." Sports before because we get just like that. Ackerman, Seminar- the Conducting. It's Christmas Production Editor break, my to play with the Don'tjudge Finance, gave Rev. Gary 'Flapping Your black Pacific computer." me. tests in gorilla Hamburg Arms for Cyclone, the bicycle I had had since ' suits and stumbling into Credit."' sixth grade, went missing. Although this loss meant that I had covered himself desks." no speedy campus travel and was with water forced to wake up 12 minutes earli­ during er for class, a tragedy in itself, I was even more distraught about the lectures." terrifying experience my poor bike must have been going through. Thinking about it wandering about all alone on our cold campus or, IN BRIEF worse yet, chained to some God-for­ saken lamppost without acce~s to any maintenance and abandoned by Notre Dame assistant music everything it's ever known tore at professor John Blacklow will my heart. Like a boy who had lost present a concert Wednesday his pet, I immediately hit the pave­ from 8 to 9:15 p.m. in the ment, searching out the spots on Leighton Concert Hall of the our familiar campus that we used DeBartolo Center for the to frequent together, but my bike Perfi>rming Arts. was nowhere to be found. There's an old saying: "if you love The Center for Social Concerns something, set it free. If it comes is holding a Social Concerns back to you, it's yours; if not, it Festival Wednesday from 7 to 9 never was." Because what I set p.m. in Center for Social free is a bicycle and not a living Concerns classroom. The festival being of any kind, I don't think that is an event similar to Activities saying applies to my case, but at Night, where local agencies from the same time, it's comforting to around the community will think that perhaps one day I could encourage Notre Dame students be reunited with my old friend. to get involved in service. I can still remember the day it became mine. For my birthday, my Welsh Family will present the mom took me to K-Mart to pick out Welsh Family Dance Show from a bicycle, and there it was, destiny. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Friday and We took it home that day, and the Saturday in Welsh Family Hall. rest, as they say, is history. GEOFF MATIESON!The Observer Siegfried Hall will hold a Another thing that is history is The recent cold weather left the quad in front of Bond Hall nearly deserted. Though the fact that, perhaps because of the paths are cleared after each snowfall, students elected to stay inside rather Dance-a-Thon Friday night from the suspect quality of their wares, than out in the snow.