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MARY KATE MALONE Just Like It / ^ V THE O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 40 : ISSUE 26 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Freshmen adjust to honor code, challenges First year students often First Year of Studies overlook Honor Code program offers guidance By JO E PIARULLI By PETER N IN N EM A N News Writer News Writer Despite its often-emphasized Notre Dame’s First Year of importance and the severe conse- Studies (FYSI program is meant to qnonces that can accompany its vio­ be a guiding force for freshmen, lation, the Academic Code of Honor the University’s attempt to stabi­ is something many freshmen over­ lize the potentially unstable. look during their transition to Notre While some freshmen are taking Dame — a problem the University is full advantage of the resources, working to address, officials said. others are unaware of their exis­ Vice president and associate tence or skeptical of their bene­ provost Dennis Jacobs, co-chair of fits. the University Code of Honor The FYS Learning Resource Committee, said freshmen especial­ Center (I RC) provides small-group ly must take the Honor Code seri­ workshops and individual appoint­ ously. ments to help students learn bet­ “The vast majority of students ter strategies for studying and found responsible for Honor Code adjusting to the academic life at violations at Notre Dame are first- Notre Dame. Help topics include year students or sophomores,” he time management, test prepara­ said. tion, efficient reading and getting Left, a student speaks with a secretary at the First Year of Studies office. Right, see CODE/page 4 students study together in the first floor Coleman-Morse lounge. see FYS/page 9 Married students find University experience fulfilling and have breakfast together. I By MARY KATE MALONE just like it. It’s made me feel News Writer very happy.” Married couples like the They seem like the typical Dreyfusses are uncommon Notre Dame couple. She’s a among Notre Dame under­ sophomore; he’s a graduate graduates, but wedding student. They go to Student engagements between seniors Union Board movies on Friday tend to peak as graduation nights, study at the library nears. together and cheer with the Marriages are far more com­ best of them at Notre Dame mon among graduate students, football games. said Elly Brenner, an assistant The only difference? They do rector at University Village it all with wedding rings on and Gripe Road Apartments. their fingers. Brenner said there are only Andrea, 2 1, and Andrew one or two undergraduate Drey fuss, 26, are newlyweds. couples living in those resi­ The couple was married in dences. The rest of the close to , COM August and live as husband 100 couples are graduate stu­ and wife in a house on dents. Napoleon Street. The complexes cater to spe­ “It’s so nice to have someone cific cases. University Village to share everything with,” is designed for students mar­ Andrea Dreyfuss said. “It’s ried with children, while Cripe ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer nice to wake up with some­ Andrew Dreyfuss, left, and his wife, Andrea, were married in August. Despite the demands of body and sleep with somebody see MARRIED/page 6 schoolwork, the couple manages to make time for their marriage. Notre Dame junior spins to success on popular game show Angeles on Sept. 15 and will was pretty confident.” By JOE PIARULLI air Oct. 25. The day of filming Unlike some other contest­ News Writer started at 6 a.m. for Fetta. ants, Fetta was not at all She and about 25 other col­ nervous before going on It may have been the luck of lege students went through stage. the Irish that landed Badin make-up and hair sessions “I was just antsy. They try Hall junior Lisa Fetta a spot and hours of practice. to touch you up every two on Wheel of Fortune, but her They also filmed several seconds. I just wanted to play ensuing $11,060 in winnings commercials, including pro­ the game,” she said. “Some had more to do with skill. motions for local channels girls were shaking, one girl The wheel itself wasn’t and a commercial for Ford. threw up. I was more nervous exactly a lucky charm for the Fetta’s father, brother and during the audition.” political science and engi­ two younger sisters met her Fetta said she was pleasant­ neering major. She spun five in Los Angeles to cheer her ly surprised this past summer lose-a-turns or bankrupts but on. when she received an e-mail took second place against stu­ “My family all thought I granting her a private audi­ dents from Indiana and would win a lot of money,” tion in Chicago. She was in ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer Kansas as part of Wheel of Fetta said. “My brother Philadelphia at the time for a Lisa Fetta won $11,060 on Wheel of Fortune as part of the Fortune’s College Road Trip. missed school and flew from game show’s College Road Trip series. The show was filmed in Los Dayton [Ohio]. They knew I see FORTUNE/page 9 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: If you could compete on a game show ; which one would it be? Greatest hits When Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler first saw the Stanley Cup in person, he couldn’t help but be amazed at its Matt Mattare Jeff Hausfield Joe Garlock Matt Plaska Andrea Lee Marcus Jackson pedigree, quipping, “This is the only thing that has seen more parties than sophomore sophomore junior junior senior senior us.” O’Neill O'AW f off-campus Keough off-campus Fisher The National Kyle Cassily Hockey League’s ________________ g lorified drinking “Most Extreme “American “Legends of the “The Price is “Blind D ate... “What is cup, first awarded Sports Writer Elimination Gladiators, so I Llidden Temple, Right, because unless I get set Jeopardy? No, by Canada’s gover­ Challenge, can get in because Kirk Bob Barker up with a guy really?” nor-general Lord Stanley in 1892 to the country’s top no pain, shape for Fogg is my rocks my like this. ” hockey team, has been handed out all no gain ... hero ." world. ” but two years in its lifetime. except at broomball. ” The first absence came in 1919 when the Spanish flu epidemic made it impos­ Farley!” sible for the top two NHL teams to field an entire team; the llu even killed the contending Montreal Canadians’ captain “Bad” Joe Hall. The second, regrettably, came about from less dire conditions in 2004-05 with an owner-induced lockout. Many supposed pundits labeled the In B rief eventual season-long lockout the demise of what had been a league already in Oncsimo Almeida, professor decline. They threw the NHL and its of Portuguese and Brazilian iconic trophy onto the dirty jersey pile in Studies at Brown University, will the corner of the national sports scene give a lecture titled “Language locker room. — A post Colonial Tool?” today Hockey was soon forgotten in the at 12:30 p.m. in C-103 national consciousness; the Cup left dry Hesburgh Center. of ice shavings and champagne. The memory of national unity forged There will be a Post-Graduate by the 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’ upset over Service Fair Wednesday from 5 the invincible Red Army was lost in a to 8 p.m. in the Stepan Center. sense of apathy for the sport. More than 50 domestic and While the analysts were busy bashing international organizations will the greediness of the players and the be represented. stubbornness of the owners, the images of Bobby Orr’s Cup-winning goal, Wednesday’s Margaritaville stretched in a Superman pose, teeth event for seniors has been can­ beaming, were filed away in a cabinet celled. few bothered to check. Wayne Gretzky’s 92 goals in 1981-82, The m en’s soccer team will a single season record comparable only face Bradley University with Chamberlain’s 50.4 average points Wednesday at 7 p.m. on Alumni per game for the 1962 season, Field. DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak and Gretzky’s own 215 point season in 1985- The film “La Cueca Sola,” 86 , is incredible when a 50 goal scorer is directed by Chilean director labeled one of the best in the league, but SOFIA BALLON/The Observer Marilu Mallet, will be shown is rarely mentioned in ‘Best Of...” compi­ Sophomore Tom Blanchette rubs Vaseline on his torso before lighting himself on fire Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the lations anymore. in Farley’s “What Would You Do for Purdue Tickets?” event Monday. Hesburgh Center Auditorium. It And who could forgot Super Mario is the second in the series Lemieux’s performance in the 1995-96 “Women Make Movies: a Latin season that led to his capture of the Hart American Perspective” spon­ Trophy, the hardware awarded to the O ffbeat sored by the Kellogg Institute. season MVP, less than a year after he overcame the crippling effects of Reindeer injures old, her son on a mobile Watcharaphong Khae- University President Hodgkin’s Disease? Well, evidently the Finnish couple phone, Kittila fire chief wka, a 21-year-old office Emeritus Father Edward majority of the sports world could, no HELSINKI, Finland — A Jorma Ojala said. The son worker, filed a complaint Malloy will sign copies of his problem. reindeer injured an elder­ alerted rescue workers with police saying that the new book, “Monk’s Notre Now with the NHL’s return, many can­ ly couple in the wilds of who arrived in helicopters two men put a knife to his D am e” from 4 to 6 p.m.
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