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♦ Official says variety of socioeconomic back­ ♦ Nolan: new grounds, and roughly 75 per­ University’s class cent of the students are on Saint Mary’s is destined for financial aid, he said. class is strong However, Saracino said the leadership office has come up short in the academically area of minority recruitment. By HELENA PAYNE Students from ethnic minori­ By LAURA CORISTIN News Editor ty groups in this year’s fresh­ News Writer man class comprise 17 percent of the class, the same percent­ After a yearlong process of age as last year. This week will mark the scouring through academic “That’s the one area that beginning of a new phase in records and recommendations, we’re still not the lives of 377 first-year the director of pleased students, 11 linkage stu­ Notre Dame with,” dents from Holy Cross and undergradu­ “They’re involved in such Saracino said. 42 transfers who will call ate a d m is ­ a myriad of activities.” “We just have Saint M ary’s home this fall. sio ns Dan to sp e n d The Saint Mary’s class of Saracino said Dan Saracino m o re tim e 2006 is strong academically, the class of and energy in said Saint Mary’s director of 2006 is des­ director of undergraduate that area.” admissions Mary Pat Nolan. tined for lead­ admissions W hile the The middle 50 percent of ership. admissions the class has a grade point Ninety percent of the 1,948 office has sponsored a visita­ average ranging from 3.33 first-year students expected to tion weekend in the spring for to 3.91, SAT scores from enroll this fall participated in some minority applicants, 1060-1230 and ACT scores community service during high Saracino said the office is from 22-27. school. planning to get high school While the majority of the “They’re involved in such a minority students on campus students are from the myriad of activities,” Saracino before the spring. He said the Midwest, the first year stu­ said. office also wants to include dents come from many other Forty-four percent of the current undergraduate stu­ areas. NELLIE WILLIAM S/The O bserver freshmen were in student gov­ dents in the recruitment Freshman Colleen Check from Savannah, Ga., moves into her ernment and another 44 per­ “The class is geographical­ process more by having them cent were involved in music, ly diverse, represen tin g all Breen-Phillips room, eager to begin her first year of college. call potential applicants from art or drama. of the regions of the United the admissions office phone He added that the admis­ States,” Nolan said. center. of geographical diversity is strategies to target minority sions office was happy with There are also students Other statistics about the interesting, “especially in a and international students. the “general diversity” of the from five foreign countries class of 2006 include: year following the Sept. 11 These include a direct mail new freshman class. The stu­ including Ecuador, India, ♦ The class is 53 percent terrorist attacks.” campaign toward students dents represent all 50 states Hungary and Brazil, with male and 47 percent female. She added that many peo­ abroad, the College Board and 44 foreign countries, one American student living ♦ The middle 50 percent of ple would be more inclined Student Search Program and mostly from Latin America, as abroad in Korea. The 42 the class scored between a to stay closer to home for college fairs. well as Europe, Southeast Asia transfers include students 1300 and 1450 on the SAT and Canada. from the countries Georgia, safety reasons. In addition, students in the Albania and Rwanda. Saint Mary’s also has Contact Laura Coristin at class of 2006 come from a see NOTRE DAME/page 9 Nolan said the high degree implemented a number of [email protected] . LaFortune opens popular eateries

faculty. eatery, Sbarro. Located in the By MIKE SCHMUHL A second big name to move basement, where an old sub News Writer into LaFortune is the national sandwich shop, Allegro’s oper­ submarine sandwich chain, ated, Sbarro will try to lure stu­ Although Notre Dame’s din­ Subway, where customers can dents to the basement of ing halls offer a grand cuisine, “eat fresh” and have a “sand­ LaFortune. sooner or later, every student wich artist” design their meals. Construction on the new needs a change. With the Tomasitos, the former occu­ restaurant is scheduled to start recent additions of three new pant of the LaFortune shop, at the end of August and be eating establishments and $230 was replaced because of completed around fall break in Flex points to burn, students Subway’s “overall national pop­ October. Pizza delivery will also may find themselves spending ularity, the company’s willing­ begin in January 2003. more time at LaFortune than ness to grant us franchise Sbarro was chosen for many the dining halls. rights and because of their reasons, according to Last spring, a small study healthy, quick serve menu,” Prentkowski. First, they could lounge was completely trans­ Prentkowski said. “satisfy the ‘slice’ pizza meal formed into a Starbucks coffee However, long lines have business during traditional shop, one of the first in the been a problem at prime meal meal time periods.” Secondly, South Bend area. times during the summer, with their menu boasts much more Dave Prentkowski, director of people waiting in lines for 30 than pizza, with pasta-type Notre Dame Food Services, said minutes or longer. Yet, dishes and calzoni, a pizza dish Starbucks was chosen “in an Prentkowski seems confident similar to Hot Pockets. attempt to bring people to that “people appreciate the Lastly and most importantly, LaFortune at nontraditional idea that they can customize Sbarro will serve pizza until 4 meal time periods.” their sandwich exactly the way a.m. “We w ere looking for a “NELLIE WlLIAMS/The Observer Its popular Coffees, CappUCCi- they want it.” concept that had a student- A worker at the new Subway in Larfortune prepares a ham-and- nos and teas have already been Another establishment com­ cheese sub sandwhich. a huge hit with students and ing to LaFortune is the Italian see EATERIES/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Saturday, August 24, 2002

I n s id e C o lu m n It’s t-o-w-n-i-e Orientation Weekend 2002

Oh, good, you made it past the front page. T oday T oday Now, only 26 more pages of advice, welcome let­ 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. Hesburgh Library tour 8 a.m. Mass, CmKcH-ofLorettd ters, campus maps and athletic team previews to go. 10:30 a m. & 11:30 a.m. Snite Museum tour 11 a m. Tech WQSM oriental tonri Auditorium It’s all very useful in that “thanks for giving 11 a.m. Campus tour, Eck Visitors Center Noon to 1: Green me even more stuff to read 1 p.m. Official Orientation program, Joyce Center 1:30 p.m. liege" this weekend” kind of way. Poor freshmen. At this 4:30 to 6 p.m. Information fair, DeBartolo Hall presentation point, some of you have 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. “Knute Rockne: All American," 3:30 to 4: probably received so many LaFortune Montgomery Theatre / mailings and information Athletic Fad packets that going to the 8 p.m. Students meet with hall rectors and staff 5 p.m. Mas. bathroom without a list of 9:30 to 11 p m. Jazz Coffeehouse, LaFortune Ballroom 9 p.m. "About detailed instructions is pos­ 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. "Frosh O' Fiesta," Stepan Center ing a problem. Auditorium Just for kicks, here’s Jason McFarley another list. Don’t worry, S unday S unday it’s a fun one. But just because I’m no 10 a.m. Mass, Joyce Center 10:45 to 1 p.m. Brunch, Noble Family Dining Hall Editor in Chief “Dear Abby” don’t think 11:30 a.m. Box lunch, Joyce Center 1 p.m. South Bend bus tour, LeMans bus stop that these aren’t wise words. In fact, consider Noon to 1:15 p.m.Spirit of Notre Dame performances, 3 p.m. International student welcome, 303 Haggar clipping the column and saving it in a nice Joyce Center College Center frame, wooden if you have one. Just a thought. 1:30 p.m. Minority student reception, Joyce Center 5 to 6 p.m. "Dinner and Discourse," Noble Family Anyway, on with the list of dos and don’ts for life at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Of course, Monogram Room Dining Hall life at the University and the College means life 2 p.m. Hesburgh Library Tour 8 to 11 p.m. "Jamaica Shaka," Library Green in South Bend, so we’ll call this “the good, the 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. LaFortune Student Center open house 9 p.m. Mass, Regina Hall chapel bad and the Bend.” First, an admission. I know a Notre Dame stu­ dent who’s from the Bend. We’ll call him Jason M onday M onday McFarley since he’s me. Sure enough, I’ve lived here for almost a decade now and in northern 9 a m. & 10:30 a.m. Academic-life discussions 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. Enrollment, LeMans Hall Indiana for all my life. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enrollment, Joyce Center Stapleton Lounge So here’s rule No. 1: Remember, the term Concourse 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Football ticket applications and “South Bend resident” is tops with me and my ilk. But if you must refer to us by the “t” word, 2 p.m. Hesburgh Library tour yearbook distribution, Haggar College Center please spell it “townie” and not “towny.” 3,4 & 5 p.m. Gender-issues presentation, Washington 5 to 6:30 p.m. Multicultural students orientation, 303 We may not have much choice in the matter of Hall Haggar College Center being from South Bend, but darn it, we will have some control over our indigenous nickname. Another rule: I don’t care what the sign says; T uesday T uesday for the next four years, you live in South Bend — not Notre Dame, Ind. Get used to telling people 8 a.m. Classes begin 8 a.m. Classes begin that South Bend is where you live and go to 5:30 p.m. Year-opening Mass, Joyce Center 1 to 5 p.m. Choir auditions, 309 Moreau Hall school. And say it with pride, for crying out loud. You’re going to college in the Midwest, not being 7 p.m. Picnic dinner, DeBartolo Quad 4:45 p.m. Mathematics Department exam banished to a Siberian prison. Deal with it. On that note, if by Siberian prison you imagine cold weather and strict rules, then disregard that last thought. Sorry ‘bout that. But you’ll thank me for these next observations., Here’s the first: Townies are people, too. It’s Film advisers to include Scorsese not all that necessary to go out of your way to shun us. ed in 2004 with the completion of the television host and 1953 Notre Dame Inevitably, you will venture off campus late Special to The Observer University’s new Marie P. DeBartolo graduate; a 200-seat cinema theatre; one weekend night, destined for a downtown Center for the Performing Arts. and a 100-seat organ and chorale South Bend bar. In the back of your mind will be Film directors Sydney Pollack and Now under construction, the hall. the story that some junior told you about the 35- Martin Scorsese and actress 123,000-square-foot DeBartolo Center An accomplished actor, director and year-old townie with two teeth, a mullet and no Catherine Hicks are among the mem­ will cost more than $50 million and producer, Pollack is a two-time shoes who tries to pick up unsuspecting coeds at bers of a newly established Advisory has been underwritten with a portion Academy Award winner, as both Boat Club. Council for the Performing Arts at of a $33-million gift to Notre Dame in director and producer of the 1985 Fear not, the story’s bogus. That guy has at Notre Dame. 1989 from the late Edward J. film “Out of Africa.” Other films he least three teeth and got a better haircut this Other council members are DeBartolo, a 1932 Notre Dame gradu­ has directed include “They Shoot summer. Jeannelle Brady, Elkhart, Ind.; John ate, in honor of his wife, Marie. Horses, Don’t They?” “The Way We Unless I’ve blown it at this point, all this is S. Cullen II, Buffalo, N.Y.; John The center will be home to the Were,” “Three Days of the Condor,” meant to get you to realize the charm of life Goberman, New York City; Martha University’s Department of Film, “Absence of Malice” and “The Firm.” here. Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s long have Head, Vail, Colo.; Jeremiah P. Television and Theatre and will house A South Bend native, he is chief exec­ realized that they are inextricably linked to O’Grady, Radnor, Pa.; Mark five performance spaces: the 900-seat utive officer of Mirage Productions, South Bend, and both schools have invested a lot Radcliffe,Tulsa, Okla.; Edward R. Leighton Concert Hall, underwritten which has produced such films as of money and other resources in the community. Smith, San Francisco; Susan St. by South Bend civic leader and phil­ “Presumed Innocent,” “The Fabulous Someplace before the cornfields and fiat farm­ James, Litchfield, Conn.; Timothy L. anthropist Judd Leighton and his late Baker Boys” and “Sense and land begin, there’s a city beyond the University, Strader, Corona del Mar, Calif.; and wife, Mary Lou; the 350-seat Patricia Sensibility.” the College and Turtle Creek and College Park Christine R. Swanson, Pasadena, George Decio Drama Theatre, under­ Scorsese is the director of such apartments. You’d do well to explore more of it Calif. written by Notre Dame Trustee notable films as “Taxi Driver,” which than the bars, stores and restaurants. The advisory council will guide Arthur J. Decio in honor of his wife; won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Welcome, freshmen, to top-notch schools and Notre Dame’s future endeavors in the the 100-seat Regis Philbin Studio Cannes Film Festival, “Raging Bull,” a wonderful city. You’re in a great place. Take it performing arts, which will be boost­ Theatre, underwritten by the popular “Goodfellas” and “Casino.” from a towny, er, townie.

Contact Jason McFarley at [email protected] .

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and undergo a similar applica­ the College are required to fin­ parallel the freshmen in terms Both Notre Dame and Saint By TERESA FRALISH tion and admission process to ish a minimum of 68 credits on of quality and geographic dis­ Mary’s offer special orienta­ News Writer first year students. Saint campus. Both Saint Mary’s and tribution,” said Nolan. tion events tailored to specific Mary’s admits about 50 stu­ Notre Dame will admit a Three international students, issues and concerns that trans­ While Notre Dame and Saint dents each fall semester and sm aller group of transfers in from Georgia, Albania, and fers have. Notre Dame’s trans­ Mary’s begin to welcome about admission is not based on indi­ December for the spring Rwanda, have also made their fer orientation began 2,500 new freshmen, another vidual class size or total semester. way to Saint Mary’s. Thursday with a mass at group of newcomers, transfer enrollment, according to Like the freshmen, transfer After being admitted, trans­ Sacred Heart Basilica and lun­ students, prepare to make Nolan. students bring sound creden­ fers must begin the search to cheon with parents, while their way on campus. This fall, Notre Dame bases the num­ tials and diversity to their new find local housing, as both Saint Mary’s program began 131 transfer students will ber of their admission deci­ schools. Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Friday with a luncheon for stu­ enroll at Notre Dame and 43 at sions on a variety of factors, “Academically, they’re prob­ do not guarantee on-campus dents. The College’s Office of Saint M ary’s. These num bers including revenue costs, stu­ ably the most competitive housing to transfer students. Student Activities and Notre are average figures for the fall dents study­ ever,” said Despite having a high percent­ D a m e ’s Office of semester. ing abroad Gantt of the age of on-campus students, all Undergraduate Admissions All transfers are entering as “[Transfer students bring] and the num­ University’s students at Saint Mary’s who handle the preparations for either sophomores or juniors a sense of maturity and ber of stu­ incoming wish to live in a residence hall transfer orientation. and bring previous experience d e n ts w ho a variety of experience. ” transfers. have been able to, according to at another college to Notre Planners for the orientation leave Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. The admis­ Gerry Madsen, assistant direc­ programs said they hoped the Dame. “Transfers are very special Michael Gantt sions office tor of residence life at Saint events would acclimate the “We looked looks for stu­ Mary’s. “We’re in the 90th new students to campus life. because they have had an assistant director of admissions at at to ta l d en ts who percentile for capacity, but I “My biggest hope is that they experience somewhere else,” Notre Dame said Mary Pat Nolan, director enrollment have closely wouldn’t say we’re at a short­ feel like they belong at Notre of admissions at Saint Mary’s. and said it matched age,” said Madsen. Dame,” said Gantt. “We want “When they come to Saint w ould be their course While some transfers at them to feel welcome and Mary’s, they adjust faster to ideal to enroll 150 [transfer selections to the University’s Notre Dame have been acclimated to the Notre Dame the Saint Mary’s family and students],” said Gantt. Both requirements and a high col­ assigned to a residence hall, culture.” seem very happy with their Gantt and associate director lege grade point average, usu­ the majority of students have Both schools’ programs college choice.” Susan Joyce work closely with ally above 3.5. Once at Notre been forced to look for other include transfer orientation Along with experience at the undergraduate colleges Dame, transfer students per­ options. According to Gantt, counselors who were once another school, transfer stu­ when deciding which appli­ form as well as regular stu­ Notre Dame faces a severe a transfer students themselves. dents also contribute a wide cants they will admit. dents, Gantt said. Notre Dame housing shortage as last year Georgeanna Rosenbush, range of views and a sense of Both Notre Dame and Saint prepares to welcome two due to fewer students living off director of student activities at assuredness about their deci­ Mary’s accepted more sopho­ international students as well campus than the University Saint Mary’s, said the coun­ sion, according to Michael more transfers than juniors. as students from across the had originally planned for. selors help provide incoming Gantt, assistant director of The University does not accept country, including many from In a reversal from last year, students with the best possible admissions at Notre Dame. senior transfers, while Saint Indiana. Four direct foreign women transfer students are opportunity to feel welcome at “[Transfer students bring] a Mary’s will admit senior stu­ exchange students will also being given on-campus hous­ their new school. sense of maturity and a variety d en ts, a lth o u g h th e case is students at the University this ing much more slowly than “We hope it helps them to of experience,” Gantt said. rare, said Nolan. fall. men. “This year it’s a problem m ake a sm ooth transition to “They can bring a diversity of Students at the University At Saint Mary’s, transfer stu­ for women,” said Gantt. our college,” Rosenbush said. opinion.” must complete at least half of dents’ qualifications match Residence Life officials at Transfer students must meet their degree requirements at first years’ qualifications Notre Dame declined to com­ Contact Teresa Fralish at stringent admissions standards Notre Dame and transfers at according to Nolan. “Statistics ment. [email protected] .

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Who we a r e... Some of what we have planned for The Office of the Student Body President consists of this year ... President Libby Bishop and Vice President Trip Foley, along with a staff of other students. We serve as a primary voice for undergraduates at Notre Dame. Our job includes •Celebration of 30 years of representing students in University affairs, assisting other coeducation at Notre Dame campus organizations, and planning special events. •Improved Web site ^ •Working with administrators on Where we’re located... policy areas important to students The Student Government office is located on the 2nd floor •“Who Knew?” ads inThe Observer of LaFortune Student Center. Stop by or call 1-7668 to get every Wednesday involved! •Establish Distinguished Lecture Series On the W eb... •Effective communication between Student Government and the Visit www.nd.edu/~studegov ... Over the semester, we’ll be student body adding information and new ways for you to give us your feedback. page 4 The Observer ♦ STUDENT GOVERNMENT Saturday, August 24, 2002 ins and outs of campus leadership

Finding where first-year students fit in the big picture

S P E S UNICA

Libby Bishop Trip Foley Kim Jensen Elizabeth President Vice President President Jablonski-Diehl Vice President

story by JASON McFARLEY

Your new roommate was senior class president in high school. You were the student council secretary last year. If either of you wants to get involved in politics at Notre Dame, you’re in luck. There’s a leadership position here for anybody who wants one. But freshmen, take note: Notre Dame student government is a complex tangle of acronyms, committees and boards. Here’s a basic sketch. Office of the President The different branches of campus government make up the Student Union. At the head of the Student Union this year are Student Body President Libby Bishop and Vice President Trip Foley. Elected every February by the majority vote of the undergraduate student body, the pair elected to these positions take office April 1. The Office of the President staff includes Bishop and Foley’s appointees to the chief of staff position and other posts in divisions such as academics, policy and technology. After leading a campaign in the spring against changes to the alcohol policy, the office’s key concern this fall will be helping students understand the new rules, Bishop said. “These are such big changes, we want to make sure everyone knows the rules and is clear on them,” she said. Student Senate The Senate includes one elected student from each of the 27 undergraduate residence halls as well as one senator who represents off-campus students. Senators are elected every spring semester and begin their terms April 1. The Senate proposes and considers resolutions, which, if approved, are for­ warded to administrators or the Campus Life Council. Members must serve on two of the Senate’s seven standing committees that target such issues as resi­ dence life and University affairs. Last spring, the Senate was part of the student movement against changes to the alcohol policy. This fall, the group will continue the effort to give students a

voice in campus changes, said Foley, Senate chair. O bserver file photo Beginning Aug. 28, the body meets each Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Notre Student Body President Kim Jensen (middle) and Vice President Elizabeth Dame Room of LaFortune Student Center. Meetings are open to the public. Jablonski-Diehl pass out fliers in Regina Hall before the student body elec­ tions in January 2002. Campus Life Council The CLC’s membership reflects all sides of Notre Dame residence life and includes administrators, faculty, rectors and students. Council members are story by LAURA CORISTIN elected to the group from other bodies, such as the Faculty and Student senates and the Hall Presidents and Club Coordination councils. During the next four years, first year students at Saint Mary’s will become The CLC drafts its own resolutions and considers those forwarded to the coun­ very familiar with the acronym “BOG.” cil from other groups, generally the Student Senate. In the past, the CLC has been BOG, short for Board of Governance, is the primary student board on Saint one of the few bodies with student membership to make policy recommendations Mary’s campus. All other boards and clubs, including other major boards, directly to the Office of Student Affairs. class governments, hall councils, and academic clubs, branch off of BOG. Work that began last semester on alcohol and tailgating issues will likely carry In order to change, enhance or add a board, it must first be passed by over this year, said Bishop, who chairs the CLC. BOG. BOG also serves as the communication link between students, admin­ Starting Sept. 2, the council meets every other Monday at4:30 p.m. in the istration and the faculty. Notre Dame Room. Meetings are open to the public. “BOG this year is working to strengthen all of its ties,” said Kim Jensen, Student Union Board student body president. “We are also working on building ties with Notre Think concerts, movies and other fun stuff. SUB, the programming arm of the Dame’s student body President [Libby Bishop] and Vice President [Trip Student Union, brings this entertainment to campus. Foley].” In past years, SUB has brought actor James Earl Jones and singer Ani Jensen, along with vice president Elizabeth Jablonski-Diehl, sat on the DiFranco to the University’s Stepan Center. Last winter, “Sex and the City” committee that has put the detex system into the washers and dryers author Candace Bushnell spoke as part of SUB’s annual Sophomore Literary throughout Saint Mary’s campus, which Jensen says was one of their goals Festival. from the beginning. Through the detex system, Saint Mary’s ID cards work Other annual events include the Collegiate Jazz Festival and Antostal, the like a debit card for laundry services. weekend spring carnival. The pair has also been working on a new method to prepare the study proposal that includes a campus-wide survey with responses from over 700 More student government students. Finally, Jensen and Jablonski-Diehl are working to bring designat­ If those groups don’t bring out the student leader in you, there are other options. ed driver cards and other alcohol safety policies to Saint Mary’s campus. Getting involved in class council is one way to get a foot in the student govern­ Other major student boards at Saint Mary’s include: ment door. Each fall, 27 first-year students are elected to class council through Student Activities Board their residence halls. The freshman representatives then elect from among them­ This board, led by President Adrienne Dorbish, aims to enhance campus selves the council’s four executive officers. culture with entertainment and social events for students. SAB serves stu­ Every spring semester, rising sophomores, juniors and seniors are elected on a dents by planning student activities for SMC Pride Week, Midnight Madness, four-person class council ticket. The officers then appoint other students from SMC Tostal and Twilight Tailgate. Weekends are spiced up with smaller their class to committee positions on the council. events including entertainers at Dalloway’s coffeehouse and the occasional Two other important branches of the Student Union are Judicial Council and free off-campus movie. the Financial Management Board. “J-Council” oversees elections and runs the Student Diversity Board peer advocate program for students facing University discipline. FMB allocates This board sponsors campus events to increase diversity awareness among money to student clubs and supervises the Student Business Board and the annu­ students. In addition, President Sara Mahoney and other members of SDB al football “Shirt Project.” work toward policy changes. And finally, the most basic unit of campus leadership is hall government. There are many dorm commissioner positions and hall president posts available to stu­ Residence Hall Association dents. Hall presidents also are part of the campus-wide Hall Presidents Council. Under President Jillian Kamaski, the RHA oversees hall councils and plans Bottom line: If you’re unwilling to leave student government memories behind activities such as the All School Formal and Little Sibs Weekend. with your high school yearbook, or if you just want be able to distinguish CLC Student Academic Council from SUB or FMB from HPC, the opportunities are there. This board deals with student concerns related to academics and faculty. Start by attending a meeting or looking for announcements around your dorm. SAC plans the Major of the Week and also works on policies. Student body Happy hunting. Vice President Elizabeth Jablonski-Diehl is the president of SAC. Saturday, August 24, 2002 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEV^S page 5 Key Events: Last Year on Campus

It’s tough enough finding the way from the dorm to the class to the dining hall and back. First-year students don’t want to get lost in the conversation loop, too. Here's a brief look at last year’s news at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s that might still come up in conversation on both campuses.

Chaotic coaching search After years of inconsistent performance from for­ mer football head coach Bob Davie, the University decided that the football team needed a new leader. Athletic Director Kevin White fired Davie and put his confidence in former Georgia Tech head coach George O’Leary. But embellishments on the newly hired coach’s resume led to a quick res­ ignation and a widely reported embarassment for the Notre Dame football team. Over the course of a month, White reconsidered an earlier candidate, former Stanford head coach Tyrone Willingham, as someone to fill the void O’Leary left behind. On Jan. 1, the new year rang in a new leader for the Irish as Willingham was formally introduced to the pub­ lic as the team’s head coach.

Sexual assaults Sexual assault cases emerged early in the 2001-2002 school year with reports of an alleged rape in Keough Hall and sexual misconduct in an off-campus student apartm ent. Yet when a Notre Dame female claimed she was raped by four Notre Dame foot­ ball players in an off-campus house, the issue attracted attention both on and off campus. As the case rem ained in the St. Joseph County prosecutor’s hands, the University arranged its own disciplinary procedure. It resulted in the expulsions of former D ykes Crawford students senior Donald Dykes, sopho­ mores Lorenzo Crawford and Abram Elam and Justin Smith, who was taking gradu­ ate-level classes while finishing a fifth year of athletic eligibility. On May 24, prosecutor Chris Toth charged all except for Elam with rape. All four were charged with conspiracy to Sept. 11, 2001 commit rape among other charges. The images of terrorist planes crashing into the World Trade Dykes, who would have graduated last Center towers and the Pentagon have become icons in American year, had a prior incident with the police history, but during that time of sadness and mourning, thousands last July when he was arrested for crimi­ gathered on South Quad for a Mass to pray and reflect on the nal trespassing. events of Sept. 11. A similar Mass was also held in Saint Mary’s The first trial begins in October. Regina chapel with about 400 people attending. Many students also embraced a patriotic spirit and displayed flags in their dorm windows. A collection at the Notre Dame-Michigan State game Elam raised almost $300,000 for the families of New York firefighters Smith and police.

JASON MCFARLEY/The Observer Senior Jesse Hensley holds a flaming copy of Notre Dame’s student handbook, duLac, as senior Ryan Schildkraut looks on during the alcohol town hall meeting. Students gathered to protest the announcement of a new alcohol policy that takes effect this fall.

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News Editor: Helena Payne Viewpoint E ditor: Lauren Beck Sports Editor: Chris Federico Scene E ditor: C. Spencer Beggs Photo Editor: Nellie Williams Graphics Editor: Katie McKenna Savoring Notre Dame’s seasons Advertising M anager: M att Lutz Ad Design M anager: Meghan Goran Most people who think of Notre winter’s activities demonstrate frus­ tors’ — is most sincerely felt on cam ­ Systems A dm inistrator: Ted Bangert Dame think of fall. trations and cabin fever. pus. W eb A dm inistrator: Todd Nieto Football games with pep rallies and But traditions prevail nonetheless. By mid-March they swarm campus C ontroller: Lori Lewalski tailgate parties bring more than From Bengal Bouts, an annual cam­ for events like Bookstore Basketball, 80,000 fans to campus every Saturday pus boxing tournament to benefit mis­ the largest five-on-five basketball C ontact U s morning for bag sions of Bangladesh, to snowball tournament in the country, Christmas Office M anager/G eneral Info ...... 6 3 1 - 7 4 7 1 pipes, burgers, fights on the quad and the Keenan in April, a day of service in the South F a x ...... 6 3 1 - 6 9 2 7 beer and the Revue’s comedic quips at Notre Dame Bend community, and dorm events A d v e r t i s i n g ...... 631-6900/8840 band. But among and Saint Mary’s stereotypes, jabs of like the Fisher Regatta, Alumni Wake o [email protected] the chaos of face the physical and the verbal variety or O’Neill’s Mardi Gras. E ditor in Chief ...... 6 3 1 - 4 5 4 2 paint, footballs, give students a cathartic escape from These are the events that alumni M anaging Editor/A sst. M E ...... 6 3 1 - 4 5 4 1 little girls in Notre finals and freezing weather. remember, but never recreate. They B usiness O ffice ...... 6 3 1 - 5 3 1 3 Dame cheerlead- But winter is also a chance to settle are solely for students, and the stu­ N e w s ...... 6 3 1 - 5 3 2 3 ing uniforms and into Notre Dame. With little motiva­ dents make them their own with big­ o bserver.obsnews. 1 @nd.edu old men in plaid tion to leave the dorms, winter allows ger and more eccentric additions V i e w p o i n t ...... 6 3 1 - 5 3 0 3 pants there is a Kate time to relax and really get to know each year. o bserver, viewpoint. 1 @nd.edu certain rever­ N agen gast the people you meet in the stands at Dillon had couches on the quad S p o r t s ...... 6 3 1 - 4 5 4 3 ence shared by football games or in Calculus 105. freshmen year, someone planted a o bserver.sports. 1 @nd.edu alumni, students Managing Winter is for friends. palm tree in front of O’Shaughnessy S c e n e ...... 6 3 1 - 4 5 4 0 and fans alike — There is nowhere like Notre Dame sophomore year, and junior year o bserver.scene. 1 @nd.edu Editor a respect for in the spring. brought kiddy pools and slip n’ slides Saint M ary’s ...... 6 3 1 - 4 3 2 4 Notre Dame’s When I decided to study abroad to the grass in front of Alumni Hall. o bserver, smc. 1 @nd.edu history as well as its present. during my junior year most people Spring is the time for students to cre­ P h o t o ...... 6 3 1 - 8 7 6 7 S ystems/Web A dm inistrators ...... 6 3 1 - 8 8 3 9 For every heated debate about thought I was crazy to go to London ate their own traditions and “act their Bobby Brown’s “excessive celebra­ during the fall semester and miss a age” with the greatest abandon. tion” in ’99 carried on in the parking football season. As it turns out, 2001 This was my first summer at Notre T h e Observer Online lot next to Senior Bar, another con­ was the season to miss. But that cir­ Dame. But it was also my last, just as Visit our W eb site at http://observer.nd.edufor daily updates of campus news, sports, features and opinion versation about how difficult it must cumstance aside, I would have much I am about to experience my last fall, columns, as well as cartoons, reviews and breaking news be to be admitted to Notre Dame can preferred to miss a football season winter and spring here. Though I from T he Associated Press. be heard on the steps of the Dome. than a spring semester on campus. wouldn’t trade the time I’ve had at But this is fall — a time for students Of course the excitement of football Notre Dame, I’m slightly jealous of SURF TO: weather for up-to-the movies/music for to stand and scream and embrace the season cannot be replicated, but it the seasons freshmen have left to see. m inute forecasts weekly student reviews most well-known of Notre Dame’s tra­ can be experienced throughout life. Although August may seem full of ditions, while alumni knock at their Many Notre Dame alumni are football anxiety over meeting roommates and advertise for policies online features for spe­ old dorm room doors to remind new ticket holders, and a few have even finding classrooms or even something and rates o f print ads cial campus coverage residents that Walsh wasn’t always a attempted to reclaim the traditions of edible in the dining halls, before you girls dorm, or retrace their favorite their undergraduate days, such as realize it, football season will become archives to search for about The Observer path to the Grotto as the nation standing through games and doing February and winter’s frustrations articles published after to meet the editors and watches on NBC. Fall is for fans. push-ups after points, by requesting will become springtime festivities. August 1999 staff Most students at Notre Dame dread tickets in this season’s inaugural Weather is one of the most talked winter. Alumni Alley section of the stadium. about and unpredictable aspects of P olic ies The first snowfall always seems Current students and alumni alike life in northern Indiana, and it’s The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper innocent, but lake-effect snow brings feel the same swell of emotion as the impossible to predict what each sea­ published in print and online by the students of the permanent cold, endless papers, band steps off from the Dome steps or son will bring to Notre Dame through­ University of Notre Dame du Lac and Saint Mary’s impossible exams and a general the basketball team beats a Big 10 out the next four years. Even campus College. Editorial content, including advertisements, is inability to recognize your closest rival — which is why fall is for fans of traditions and rules will likely not governed by policies of the administration of either friends beside you on South Quad due all ages, but spring is for students. change, but for the most part, Notre institution. The Observer reserves the right to refuse to excessive layers of clothing and a Only those who are in the midst of Dame is for its students — so make advertisements based on content. The news is reported as accurately and objectively as constant need to eye the ice beneath the four short years during which sure your time here is full of m emo­ possible. Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of your feet. they call Notre Dame home can truly ries to reminisce about when you the majority of the Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, Melted snow floods the halls of appreciate the traditions of spring. return to Notre Dame in the fall of Assistant Managing Editor and department editors. DeBartolo and students who come to The first sunny day when thermome­ 2006 as a fan. Commentaries, letters and columns present the views Notre Dame from anywhere between ters break 65 degrees bring dozens of of the authors and not necessarily those of The Tampa and Los Angeles question couches, stereos and Frisbees to the Kate Nagengast is a senior and the Observer. their own sanity every time they pass quads. Managing Editor at The Observer. She Viewpoint space is available to all readers. T he free a dorm door whiteboard with a spring Attendance in Friday afternoon can be reached at [email protected] . expression o f all opinions through letters is encouraged. break countdown on it. Campus can classes can get sparse surrounding The views expressed in this column Letters to the Editor must be signed and must include contact information. feel tired and bleak, and in the same spring break, but students are not are those of the author and not neces­ Questions regarding Observer policies should be direct­ way the fall’s traditions reveal a entirely absent. In fact, spring is the sarily those of The Observer. ed to Editor in C hief Jason McFarley. nationwide enthusiasm for Our Lady, time students’ presence — not specta­

T o d a y ’s S taff O b se r ve r P oll Q uo te of th e D ay News Viewpoint Architecture Helena Payne Teresa Fralish Justin Krivickas Lauren Beck In which colleges “Education is not preparation for life; Sheila Egts Scene are incoming education is life itself." Laura Coristin Mike Schmuhl freshmen planning to Sports Graphics John D e w e y enroll? Chris Federico Katie McKenna philosopher Katie McVoy Lab Tech Poll appears courtesy of First Year of 10% Studies, and data is based on Science Joe Hetter Tim Kacmar 1,958 incoming freshmen. O bserver V ie w p o in t Saturday, August 24, 2002 page 12

Letters fr o m A dministrators Student Affairs Presidents welcome extends blessing freshmen to community

I would like to extend to you a w arm welcome on behalf of Welcome to Notre Dame. We have a beautiful Welcome to Saint Mary’s for the all of us who work in the Division of Student Affairs — the campus and a talented faculty. 1 am sure that you 2002-2003 academic year. I hope Offices of Alcohol and Drug Education, Campus Ministry, the will grow in every way as a thoughtful and reflec­ that the summer for every student Career Center, Counseling Center, Health Services, tive person preparing to make your way in the included a combination of rest and International Student Services and world. We are also proud of rejuvenation, a Activities, Multicultural Student our residence tradition on time to think Programs and Services, the Office of campus and the many activi­ about your acade­ Residence Life and Housing, Security, ties available for you to use mic life and your Student Activities and the staffs of your your God-given talents in future — and I’m residence halls. Although we provide a leadership and service. sure for all of you variety of services, we share a common It is my hope that during earning money desire to do everything we can to help your time with us you will was a high priori­ facilitate your intellectual, spiritual and make some of the best friends ty. personal growth. of your life. We welcome Now that we We extend a special welcome to our students from every state in are back into the Poorman Malloy Eldred new students — first-year students, the union and from a wide new year, I hope transfer students and new graduate and array of foreign countries that it will be professional students. We welcome back the sophomores, and cultures. We are enriched by the different very challenging and rewarding for juniors and seniors, as well as the returning graduate and experiences and perspectives that you bring to our you. In particular, I welcome our professional students. As a community, we draw our strength common life. new first-year and transfer students from the unique and diverse gifts offered by each of you. We I will have the privilege of teaching some of you and assure you that your experience hope that all of you — both those who are new and those who in my seminar class. Others 1 will come to know at Saint Mary’s will be an important are returning — will be able to achieve the goals you set for through my residing in Sorin Hall. I hope to have a time in your life. yourselves this year. chance to interact with all of you in some way or I look forward to meeting with stu­ I hope that I will have the opportunity to come to know as another during your time at Notre Dame. dents and faculty throughout the many of you as possible in the months ahead. Until 1 am able Once again welcome to Notre Dame. I am confi­ year and continuing our good rela­ to greet you in person, please know that you have my very dent that this will be a great year for all of us. May tionships with Notre Dame and Holy best wishes for a year filled with all God’s blessings. God bless our life together. Cross College.

Father Mark Poorman Father Edward Malloy Marilou Eldred Vice President for Student Affairs President President Notre Dame Notre Dame Saint Mary’s August 20, 2002 August 20, 2002 August 20, 2002

Learning what brochures don’t tell you

This summer, you probably received test will still kick your butt. rant. And the best thing about being There are thousands of other things dozens of mailings from the place Nowhere in Notre Dame’s packet of away from home is when fall break nobody told you about, either. You’ll you’re going to call home for the next goodies did they tell you the two most rolls around, the folks will be so eager discover that girls have a recessive four, five, maybe six years. If you took popular sentences around campus. The to see you they don't mind washing the gene that, when triggered by Bon Jovi the time to read any of it, you’d learn first is, “There’s nothing to do on cam ­ three duffel bags of laundry you or other ’80s music, causes them to the dining hall actually employs taste pus.” And after you’ve gone to the dragged home with you. It’s called scream ecstatically, jump up and down testers, your first mall, the movie theater and freeloading. Learn to do it. hysterically and dance together obnox­ year advisor really Grape Road, you realize, Did you know that iously. did spend lots of “There’s nothing to do off among the Y-chromo- You’ll find out that the best thing time making your campus.” Welcome to somes, the second about a high-speed Internet connection excuse for a sched­ South Bend, Ind., the most popular pas­ isn’t easy access to hundreds of ule and your fresh­ armpit of America. time on campus is research sites, it’s the ability to down­ man orientation I didn’t know complaining load MP3s before you can say “copy­ staff thinks your about God’s gift to about the gen­ right infringement.” dorm is the coolest procrastinators der relations Yes, your dorm is the coolest on cam­ on campus. — Instant and whining pus, unless the word “Zahm” is etched All those Andrew Soukup Messenger - that you in stone on your building. And the two brochures, pam­ until I got to can’t get a greatest words in the English language phlets, letters and campus. With date. The are “free food.” other items you Assistant this wonderful first is play­ The greatest irony of college is that used to line your Managing program, you ing video the one thing everyone told you is the pet’s cage this can communi­ games. one thing you brushed aside. When summer served cate with If you’re your four years are up, you’re going to one purpose — your room­ a guy in a wish you could do it all over again. adjusting you to college life. But mate without female You’re not here to get good grades; nowhere will you read the stuff you opening your dorm when you’re here to get an education. really have to know. mouth, leave parietals There’s a difference. For example, this weekend, your fel­ witty away rolls So get involved in an organization. low classmates don’t care about what messages so around, Make friends that don’t care if you music you like, what your hobbies are, everyone knows expect a turn your socks inside out to save a or your views on how to achieve world what you’re highly dan­ load of wash. Take classes in whatever peace. They want to know four things: doing at any gerous and seems fun. Lose your voice screaming name, hometown, dorm and major, given moment and lethal team of at football games. and that’s it. appall your gram­ commandos But always remember the most Did they tell you you’re going to mar instructors with known only as important thing of all: spend three days cramming for your gibberish like “ok, gtg, “female RAs” to It’s pop, not soda. first test, and you won’t study half as be back 18r.” descend upon your long for any other test during the rest Yes, you may be thrilled location and fire dirty Andrew Soukup is a junior and the of your college career? You may think to have your parents out of stares in your direction until Assistant Managing Editor at The you will, but it’s so much more fun to your hair now and pumped to expe­ you leave their innocent dorm Observer. He can be reached at complain about how bad you’re going rience this wonderful thing called inde­ mate alone. If you’re a girl in a male [email protected]. to fail rather than actually study. pendence, but by late fall you can’t dorm, make sure you say goodnight to The views expressed in this column Besides, in most cases, it’s inevitable wait for them to come back to campus the RA when he closes the door at two are those of the author and not neces­ — no matter how much you study, the so you get a free meal at a real restau­ in the morning. sarily those of The Observer. V ie w p o in t page 13 O bserver August 24,2002

Letters f r o m S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t Exploring fresh opportunities

It is with warmest wishes that we, Libby and Trip, welcome you to Notre Dame. We took office as Student Body President and Vice President this past April, and we are excited about being your representatives this year. Even as two seniors we still vividly remember what a big transition this first weekend is. We remember the excitement, underlying anticipation, and the pressure of meeting hundreds of your classmates at orientation mixers and not remembering anyone’s name. But the good news is that you're not alone — no one remembers anyone’s name from those mixers and every freshman is probably just as nervous as you are this first week. Once you do get settled in, with your new roommate, friends, and class schedule (and once you finally think you know your way around the dining hall), then we hope that you will take time to sit down and think about what activities, clubs and organizations you want to be a part of during your next four years at Notre Dame. The Activities Fair that will be held in the JACC is a great place to start researching all the opportunities to get involved in everything from community service to the swing dance club. And our one piece of advice to you is this: Don’t be afraid to try something new this year. This is your year to start over if Move beyond cliches to you want, exploring things that you always wanted to do but never did for whatever reason. And here at Notre Dame there are numerous opportunities to do the extraordinary. The Student Government office is located in 203 LaFortune, make the best of college and we invite you to stop by sometime to introduce yourself. We would be more than happy to talk with you about student government or other opportunities to get involved on campus. Welcome to planet Notre Dame. I’m sure you’ve heard all the hype before: “Notre Dame is great; it’s different from anywhere else on the planet;” “You’re entering the best years of Elizabeth Bishop your life,” etc. True to any such cliche, each contains its own kernel of truth. But I urge you Notre Dame student body president not to buy into them as a whole. Trip Foley I’m entering my fourth year as a Domer, and I can tell you for absolutely certain, there Notre Dame student body vice president really isn’t any other place quite like Notre Dame. Love it or hate it, August 20, 2002 it’s different. You’ll find in the coming months as you try to explain Notre Dame’s dorm setup to your state school friends, they just don’t John Litle quite understand it, and no matter what you say, you just can't get the whole idea across to them. Some of you might have experienced my first night's horror as my mother was removed from my dorm by Observer RAs at midnight. I’m sure I was a little bit different from you, howev­ Columnist er, as it was at that very moment that I first learned of parietals. Some people claim that Notre Dame never changes. That’s true Use individuality and false at the same time as well. You’ll be joining Notre Dame with no graffiti dance, no football ticket campout and, most shockingly, no hard liquor. You will, however, have a con­ cert by a famous funk legend. I never got that. Those are changes for sure, but at the same time, for all the alumni — many of your parents as well — Notre Dame seems just the same to contribute as the day they left (or so I hear). I’m sure that among other things not to change, during your time at Notre Dame, both Alumni Hall will remain the greatest dorm on campus and Father Poorman will retain his likable personality. I guess what I’m saying is that, while cir­ Welcome to Saint Mary’s activities, do not forget to take cumstances at the University may change, the Notre Dame we all love will always be the College. a little time for yourself each Notre Dame we all love. It is our joy and privilege to day to reflect on who you are Lots of people will give you lots of advice these first weeks of school, so I’m not sure if be two of the many to extend a and who you are becoming. what I’m saying will have much meaning. However, there are a couple of things I wish warm welcome on behalf of Get involved on campus, but someone had said to me when I was a freshman that might have helped me in my first year. Saint Mary’s College. Here you rather than assimilating your­ The first thing is, welcome to college. You just got a chance to start out again from zero. will find a close-knit communi­ self into a group, focus on No one here knows you, and everyone had great accomplishments in high school. The good ty, rich in history, tradition, what your unique personality thing is that now that you’re here, you don’t have to worry about all those things from high and opportunity. The campus and abilities will add to it. school, because no one cares. I wish I had gotten that through my head, as I might not have is small, but far-reaching, and If you ever have any ques­ spent my first few weeks being intimidated by all these popular-looking, high-achieving peo­ the year ahead will be every­ tions, please stop by our office ple around me without realizing I was just the same as all of them: in a new place, alone, thing you make of it. Each stu­ on the third floor of Haggar and wanting to meet some new people like me. Alternatively, and perhaps more upsetting in dent will find something to suit College Center or give us a the long run, I might not have spent those first few weeks remembering how great I did in her interests, be it in acade­ call. If we do not have the high school and how popular I was, only later to be brought down to earth realizing again, mics, sports or extra-curricu­ answer, we’ll make one up. that I was just the same as everyone else, in a new place, alone, and wanting to meet people lar activities. Just kidding, but we will do like me. We are blessed with a very our very best to help you in The next piece of advice I might have wanted was the advice to go out and meet friends accomplished faculty, always whatever way we can. We love and not to be afraid to be yourself. Some might criticize my advice, but so be it. Notre Dame willing to talk to and help stu­ hearing from you. Bring your is a college, but whatever you hear from your state school friends, not all colleges are just dents. We as students have thoughts, cares and problems huge meat markets. (You know what I’m saying). Notre Dame is such a college. If you’re a access to some of the most to us. If you'd like to be a part guy, I’ve seen it done both ways, and I tell you, you’re much better to start off here by going amazing people around, and of Student Government out and meeting ladies on a friendly basis. This is as opposed to hoping to find meaningless they are willing to share their Association, keep your eyes sexual encounters. Of course, this advice holds true for the ladies as well. Notre Dame isn’t knowledge and experience open for applications or for like most schools, and you’re going to be meeting some of the best friends of your life here. both in and out of the class­ information on SGA. Making guy friends is very important. In the words of one of my best friends (who also hap­ room. Reach out and hold On behalf of the student pens to be female), “Don’t get all focused on academics and only hang out with girls.” 1 tightly to the opportunities and body, we would like to wish all couldn’t agree more. friendships that lie ahead of of you the best of luck for the My last point, of course, is that whole statement “the best years of your life.” I’ve never you. year ahead. Welcome to the liked that statement, because if it’s true, the rest of your life will just be a constant look Each person on this campus academic year of 2002-2003. back on the past. But what I can say is this: It should be your goal to make every year of has something unique to con­ Let’s make the most of it. your life the best year of your life. Notre Dame will give you the tools to complete that task. tribute to our community. It’s up to you to make it happen. Your individuality is such an Kim Jensen asset to the College, so take Saint Mary’s student body president John Litle is a senior management information systems major and a bi-weekly columnist care to maintain it. While you Elizabeth Jablonski-Diehl for The Observer. He can be reached at jlitle@notre dame.edu. are getting continually more Saint Mary’s student body vice president The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of occupied with classes and August 20, 2002 The Observer. O bserver

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24 hours a day. By C. SPENCER BEGGS and MIKE SCHMUHL Scene Editor and Assistant Scene Editor Pizza A traditional staple of the college diet, pizza delivery is available from Y ou made the grades. You survived the stress-relat­ a number of establishments across ed, heart attack-inducing application process. You the Bend. A few student favorites got accepted. You stuffed all your worldly posses­ are: sions into the family station wagon or a few suitcases. You Papa John’s Pizza: Call (574) 271- finally made it. And now you might want to know how to 1177 for delivery or carry out. Ask escape. about campus specials, generally a Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s offer their residents a large one-topping pizza for $7 late complete life. Any necessity you require is almost certainly night. Papa John’s is open Monday available on campus. There are numerous restaurants, through $aturday from 11 until 2 stores, salons, banks, laundry mats and doctor’s offices a.m. (depending upon demand), and that offer a student access to all of his or her needs. from 12 p.m. until midnight Sunday. Hypothetically, a student could never set foot off campus Domino’s Pizza: The closest to until the end of the semester. In fact, as the workload campus, Domino’s delivers from 4 to increases, many freshmen will find that they spend more 1 a.m. on Monday through Thursday time on campus than they realize or would like. and 4 until 3 a.m. on Friday and Despite the material conveniences on campus, inevitably Saturday. Call (574) 271-0330. students will want to break away from the campuses’ iso­ Marco’s Pizza: A bit farther from lated bubble. Luckily, The Observer’s Scene staff has com­ campus, but often a needed break piled a brief guide to living large in and around the Bend. from the hegemony of Papa John’s Shopping and Domino’s. Call (574) 243-1122 South Bend has the average Mid-West array of shop­ for delivery or carry out. Marco’s ping. Students particularly frequent the University Park Pizza is open from 11 a.m. to mid­ Mall and its surrounding shopping centers. Busses to the night, Sunday through Thursday, and mall leave from campus from the street side entrance to from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and the Hesburgh Library. Take bus No. 7 to the University Saturday Park mall; tickets cost $.75. The United Limo shuttle that East of Chicago Pizza: A newer runs between Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame also stops at player in the delivery scene, most Hesburgh Library. The shuttle is free on weekdays, but students either love it or hate it. Call there is a small fee after 6:00 p.m. on weekends. Bus (574) 271-1277 for delivery. East of schedules are available at the information desk in Chicago is open Sunday through LaFortune Student Center at Notre Dame and in the Thursday from 4 until 10 p.m. and Security Office or Haggar Hall at Saint Mary’s. Friday and Saturday from 4 until 11 LaSalle St For the uninitiated, the most popular student pit stop is p.m. Meijer. Originally a small chain of general stores sprinkled Ethnic Food across the Midwest, Meijer has been reborn as the apogee South Bend is a bit short on quality of capitalism. The new mega-stores sell everything: gro­ ethic meals, but a few establishments Western Ave ceries, clothes, furniture, hardware, gardening supplies, hide out here and there: CDs, electronics and more. There are three Meijers in The Golden Dragon Restaurant: South Bend area; of the two closest to campus, one is The quickest and cheapest Chinese located at 3600 Portage Road off Lincolnway and the other food near campus; located at 3302 is at 5020 Grape Road about a half mile south of the mall. Portage Avenue. The Golden Dragon Late Night Munchies delivers very quickly too, call (574) As the dining halls close at 9:00 p.m., most students are 243-8800 to place an order. just opening their books. An all-nighter might require a lit­ The Malabar: Located on the cor­ tle brain food and, if you aren’t in the mood for a Recker’s ner at 1640 S Bend Ave adjacent to pizza, South Bend offers a number of tasty and sometimes campus, The Malabar serves deli­ colorful late-night dining experiences. cious but moderately pricey Indian Boracho Burrito: The legendary Boracho Burrito is a food. culinary Mecca for weekend after-parietals partiers. Co­ Star of India: Located at 620 W. owned and operated by two Notre Dame graduates, Edison Road near Grape Road, Star Boracho Burrito regularly has students standing in lines of India has decent and cheap Indian out the door on Thursday through Saturday nights for fists food. They have a wonderful lunch full of Mexican goodness. A burrito with chicken, steak, or buffet from 11 until 2:30 p.m. for ground beef costs about $4.75. Boracho Burrito is located about $6 per person. A mango shake on at 1724 N Ironwood Drive, near Hollywood Video. is a delicious meal topper for the culinary adventure. at 2610 Prairie Avenue, Bruno’s Hypotheticalh serves the “largest” small a pizza Nick’s Patio: Open 24-hours a day, Nick’s Patio offers Student Favorite Dining never set foot oj cheap American grill food. But there’s not much more to lover will ever see. Grape Road has a strip of American chain restaurants end o f the say than the fact that it’s always open and has American frequented by many students including T.G.I. Friday’s, M ovies grill food. Nick’s Patio is located at 1710 N. Ironwood Dr. The Olive Garden, The Outback Stcakhouse, Chili’s, Lone South Bend has three major Despite the ma conveniently next to Boracho Burrito. Star Steakhouse and Don Pablo’s. All are located on the multiplex theaters showing A- of campus, inevi The White House Restaurant: Most students will never main drag of Grape Road. run movies. The Cinemark want to break a hear this place called by its official name, but those names CJ’s Pub: Greasy burgers in this favorite South Bend Movies 14 is closest to campus, are secrets unto themselves and are best left unspoken in haunt cost about six bucks. The pub has a live musician located at 910 West Edison. The puses’ iso the restaurant itself. The White House restaurant is per­ perform on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, as well theater is often a week or two haps the ultimate example of the American greasy spoon; as a DJ that spins on Fridays and Saturdays. CJ’s is locat­ slow to release some features, eat your heart out Jack Kerouac. Serving all American ed at 417 N. Michigan St., just south of Memorial Hospital but is conveniently located and diner food and a slice of South Bend culture to boot, The in downtown South Bend. offers student tickets for $5 with a valid Notre Dame oi White House Restaurant stays open around the clock. It’s Rocco’s: Serving Notre Dame students and alumni since Saint Mary’s ID. The nearby “dollar theater” or Cinemarl located at the intersection of Mishawaka Avenue and 1951, Rocco’s pizza is a popular hang out. With school 6 at 3464 Grape Road shows slightly older movies at < Twyckenham Drive. memorabilia decorating every wall, it doesn’t get much reduced price. The largest and nicest movie theater ii Denny’s is located at 52626 US Highway 33 just north of better than a great pizza with friends. Rocco’s is located town, Kerasotes Theatres Showplace 16 at 450 Chippew, Saint Mary’s and Steak and Shake is on the main drag of on the corner of St. Louis Street and South Bend Ave. Drive, is a 10-minute drive from campus down State Rout Grape Road between 180-90 and N. Edison. Both are open Bruno’s: Located about 15 minutes southwest of campus 20. Not as central and a bit more expensive than either c O bserver

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because if you return safety concerns, send a security vehicle off campus or con­ movies late you are tact South Bend or County police. Students are expected to charged late fees for all reimburse the Security Office within 48 hours. three. Cleveland Rd Contra Bans Getting Far Away Campus stores offer most amenities students want with If you need to get out of a few notable exceptions: Indiana Chicago is about Cigarettes: Both campuses are non-smoking and no two hours by train, the stores sell cigarettes. For smokers, the cheapest place to South Shore Train, which buy cigarettes is Low Bob’s Campus Tobacco located on leaves from the South State Road 23 behind the Turtle Creek apartments. All Bend airport. A round trip night gas stations sell packs and cartons at higher prices ndiana East-West Toll Rd ticket to downtown but are open all hours. During the day some cabbies with Chicago costs a little drive to a gas station and buy cigarettes and deliver them iemc under $20. Unfortunately, to campus for a surcharge. c the late trains out of Women’s services: The medical facilities at Notre Dame Chicago don’t all stop in and Saint Mary’s can treat most minor colds and infec­ South Bend so check the tions, set broken bones and fill most prescriptions. timetables for information. However, neither facility will prescribe or fill prescriptions Also, keep in mind that for birth control pill regardless of whether they are pre­ during the winter months scribed for contraceptive or other medical purposes. there is a time difference Meijer, Wal-Mart, and Osco Drug mart all can fill any pre­ between South Bend and scription. The Planned Parenthood at UrbanCare at 818 S. Chicago. Heading west Miami offers a full array of medical services for women. you’ll lose an hour, so be A word to the wise sure to note the change. College can offer brand new experiences to students. It’s Chicago is about 90 min­ easy to forget that bad things can happen both on and off ison utes by car, heading west campus when you are surrounded by such a unique, on 180-90. Parking in friendly and open campus community. Freshmen year is a Chicago, run by organized major transition for many students and many may find the crime, is the biggest rip off bubble bursts when they don’t want it to. Binge drinking, ever. If you can’t find a drug abuse and rape are present on both campuses. metered space you might Neither campus nor South Bend are particularly danger­ be paying up to $48 a day ous, but it’s important to be responsible and safe inside to park in a garage. and outside the bubble. The fabled trip to cKinlev Hwv. Windsor, Canada takes Editor’s note: The listings in this article do not repre­ about four hours by car. sent all the available services in South Bend. The informa­ Windsor has a number of tion in this article was checked carefully but may change casinos, bars, clubs and without notice. efferson Blvd. other nightlife to offer in a For more information check the yellow pages and The country where the drink­ Observer. ing age is 19. Remember to bring ID or you may be St. Joseph River turned away at the board­ Contact C. Spencer Beggs at [email protected]. er by the grumpy Contact Mike Schmuhl at [email protected] Canadian boarder patrol. If you look like a seedy Lincolnwav East American student expect you and your car to be searched. Taxis: Walking home from late night off-campus parties in South Bend can be both a pain when the weather he Bubb is bad and dangerous any­ time of year. While South Ace Cab Lines Bend isn’t Hell’s Kitchen, y, a student could the Cinemark theaters, the drunken students on foot 295-6886 Showplace 16 has stadium style get mugged occasionally on their way back to campus. The f campus until the seating and love seats. It also is safest way home is a cab. Most offer about $2 per person semester. ... more in sync with current movie for groups of three or more to and from campus. Sharing University Cabs erial conveniences release dates. cabs with strangers has been known to cause problems. Vicker s Theater is 20 miles Don’t get in a cab if you feel unsafe; request an empty cab 233-4004 ably students will north of campus on Route 20 at instead. If you are in an uncomfortable situation in a cab, vay from the cam- 6 North Elm Street in Three ask for service directly to your dorm. There are a number ated bubble. Oaks, Mich, and is the closest art of cab companies operating in South Bend: theater for movie snobs and Ace Cab Lines: 295-6886 A B C Cabs Scene editors alike. University Cabs: 233-4004 The closest places to rent A-B-C Cabs: 233-4000 233-4000 movies are Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video, Shamrock Cabs: 243-5500 which are both located on the corner of Ironwood Drive If a Saint Mary’s student is broke after a late night out, State Road 23 near Boracho Burrito and Nick’s Patio. Both the campus offers an honor system with local cab compa­ rent VHS and DVD as well as video games. Blockbuster nies where students can ride for free and pay the next Shamrock Cabs has a better selection but higher prices and shorter rental day. Saint Mary’s students can call campus security, (574) 243-5500 periods than Hollywood Video. Hollywood Video offers a 284-5000, and explain the situation to the dispatch that rent two VHS or DVDs and get a third free. Be careful will call a cab for the student or, in case of immediate page 16 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Saturday, Augsut 24, 2002 Sports 101: An introductory course

Welcome, freshmen, to Notre Distance That’s loooong dis­ Dame. tance, or what the Irish cross You’ve already toured the country teams run. Last year, the campus, learned about the class­ men finished sixth in the nation es you will take and even spent a and the women placed 19th. The night in a dorm in preparation mens squad may suffer from the for your first graduation of All-Americans year in col­ Luke Watson and Ryan Shay, but lege. You have one of the top recruits in may feel a the nation this year in Michigan bit over­ stale champ Tim Moore. whelmed, Epee Along with sabre and excited, ner­ foil make up the three weapons vous, bewil­ used in fencing, a sport in which dered, terri­ the Irish are always contending fied or possi­ for the national title. After hold­ bly even ing the top spot in the nation last year, the Irish dropped to third confident. Chris Federico You've in the NCAA Combined Fencing taken all of Championships but placed 10 the top members on the All-American team, a school record. Fencing is classes in Sports high school one of the sports offered in P.E. to prepare, Editor rotations — mandatory for fresh­ talked to men — and those that excel have friends and a chance of making the squad as family members about their col­ walk-ons. lege experiences and even said a Fights Not what most room­ ANGELA CAMPOS/The Observer few prayers on the trip to South mates inevitably do after a few Sports, whether they be varsity, intramural, club or a pick up game on a nice day, are a key part Bend. months together, but the Bengal of life at Notre Dame. Nice weather finds athletes and non-athletes alike giving sports a shot. But to truly fit in beneath the Bouts. The Bouts are the exhibi­ gleam of the Golden Dome, there tion tournament for the Notre nization of students formed last Freshman 15. Willingham, Tyrone a.k.a. is one more area of knowledge Dame boxing club held in the year. The group stakes out front South Bend Old Boys While “The Man.” Coach Willingham is that may not be required at the 1ACC around the end of row seats to the home games, not officially associated with the the head coach of the football Ivy Leagues and Tech schools — February. These three-round pulls' for the Irish and tries to University, this rugby club is team and looks to revive a pro­ sports. And we’re not just talking fights draw huge crowds, and give the team ANY advantage it composed entirely of Notre gram that has slowed in recent football, first down and field proceeds benefit Holy Cross can over opponents. Dame students and competes years. He’s got a tough task at goal. Missions in Bangladesh. Michigan Whether the against other college clubs. hand. Last year, the Irish fin­ No, at Notre Dame — a place Coif courses There are two on University of Michigan or Tailgate parties What was ished 5-6 and begin the season where 85 percent of us were campus, one 9-hole and one 18- Michigan State, we hate them in once a Saturday morning cer­ this year against six consecutive varsity athletes, a place where hole, and everyone should try to anything athletic. tainty is now becoming a more 2001 bowl teams. on any given sunny afternoon get out to one at least once a National championships The questionable subject. Xebec It’s a three-masted the quads are packed with peo­ year. Even if you’ve never Irish have won more in football Crackdowns on underage drink­ Mediterranean boat. Bet you ple throwing footballs, baseballs played, there’s nothing like skip­ — 11 — than any other school. ing and unruly behavior have didn't know that. Come on ... and, yes, even Frisbees — sports ping a Friday class to spend a Recent titles include fencing in driven many students into the what else could I have done for are often as much a part of life beautiful afternoon on the links. 1994, women’s soccer in 1995 dorms on game days. But don’t “X"? as the classes and parties. Helmets Golden ones. The and women’s basketball in 2001. miss out on this fine tradition. Young The Notre Dame So we here at The Observer most beautiful sight is Irish foot­ Observer Where you can There’s still nothing like a hot women’s basketball team. When have compiled a little list'to help ball helmets glowing in the sun keep up with the campus sports brat on a crisp fall morning Ruth Riley, Niele Ivey and Kelley you, the Class of 2006, get up to on a Saturday afternoon. scene, covering everything from while the fight song booms from Siemon graduated after Notre speed on the campus sports Ice football Combining the Notre Dame football to every tailgate in the parking lots Dame’s championship season scene. two things for which Notre Dame Bookstore Basketball. and soccer fields. Just don’t get two years ago, it left the team Athletics The reason we’re is best known. After that first big Playstation 2 As much a part caught drinking if you’re under­ with a roster full of freshmen. making this list, the reason many snowfall, bundle up in raggy, of sports life on campus as any­ age and don’t stay over during This year, the Irish have only of us are here. Sports are as warm clothes, head out to the thing else. Most Irish men will the game. A new Notre Dame two seniors — guards Alicia much a part of life up here as quad of your choice and play spend more time studying their rule prohibits tailgating on cam­ Ratay and Karen Swanson — snow, mutant squirrels and that around in the snow like a five- Madden 2003 playbook than any pus grounds during game time. and eight of the team’s 12 mem­ noxious ethanol plant. year-old until your face goes textbook this year. NCAA Ultimate Frisbce This club bers are sophomores or fresh­ Brey, Mike The third-year numb. Football 2003 — need I say sport has become very popular men. The good news is that coach of the Irish mens basket­ Juggling Hey, you’ve got four more? on campus, especially when the many of these youngsters saw ball team. After years of years, what else are you gonna Quick The perfect way to sky is clear and weather is significant playing time last sea­ mediocre play, Brey has restored do? Might as well learn some­ describe mens soccer forwards warm. As a great athletic activity son and should be ready to chal­ the Irish to national prominence thing useful. Steal three apples Erich Braun and Devon Prescod, for both guys and girls, the game lenge conference rival with two trips to the NCAA tour­ from the dining hall and teach the team’s two leading scorers combines recreational Frisbee Connecticut, who lost four nament in his two years at the yourself a party trick. from last year’s squad that fin­ throwing with football, making seniors from last year’s National helm, including last season’s Kachmarik, Lynn Saint ished 12-7 and advanced to the most games very fast and Championship team. near upset of No. 1 Duke. Mary’s director of athletics. With NCAA Tournament for the first intense. Zero The number of reasons Coxswain The “quarterback" a contracting budget and the time in five years. The squad Volleyball The Irish squad you have to not get excited about of rowing. It’s the coxswain’s job turnover of three coaches in soc­ only lost two starters from last captured the Big East title last the year ahead. Fall is in the air, to keep the rowers in stride and cer, golf and softball, the A.D. year and looks to continue the season for the sixth time in seven the first football game is just order them when to make a run may have a tough time keeping program’s return to prominence years. That’s domination. This around the corner, and you’re or lay back. Last year’s womens the Belles competitive. Even so, under second-year coach Bobby year, the Irish enter the season right in the middle of the best crew finished 16th in the NCAA the Belles are still able to excel Clark. ranked 25th with an incoming environment a sports fan could Championships. Although rowing in sports such as tennis. Last RccSports We have two great freshman class considered one of ask for. is just a club sport for the men, year Saint Mary’s won its second recreational facilities on campus the best in the nation. Attend both the mens and the womens consecutive MIAA title and at Rolfs and The Rock. They some games this season, see The opinions expressed in this team look to take walk-ons, advanced to the NCAA tourna­ offer club and intramural sports them win their seventh confer­ column are those of the author offering a great chance for stu­ ment. as well as various exercise and ence title and do push-ups for and not necessarily The dents to join the Notre Dame Leprechaun Legion The mens aerobic classes. Take full advan­ every point like at the football Observer. Contact Chris Federico athletic scene. basketball cheeringjeering orga­ tage to help stave off the games. at [email protected] .

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Team Key returners Key lo ss e s Key freshmen Outlook

QB Carlyle Holiday, RB Ryan QB Matt LoVecchio, RB Julius QB Chris Olsen, RB Nate First-year head coach Tyrone Grant, FL Arnaz Battle, C Jeff Jones, RB Tony Fisher, RB Schiccatano, WR Maurice Willingham inherits a team Football Faine, DE Ryan Roberts, LB Terrance Howard, WR David Stovall, WR Rhema McKnight, that went 5-6 last season and Courtney Watson, CB Shane Givens, WR Javin Hunter, DE DL Chris Frome, DL Travis had one of the most tumultuous Walton, CB Vontez Duff, K Anthony Weaver, DE Grant Leitko off seasons in program history. Nicholas Setta, P Joey Hildbold Irons, LB Rocky Boiman, LB The Irish will need to overcome Tyreo Harrison, SS Ron Israel, that off season and learn FS Abram Elam W illingham ’s new offense to succeed.

Forwards Eric Braun and Defenders Andreas Forstner Midfielders Nick Tarnay and The Irish lose only two Devon Prescod, Midfielders and Griffin Howard Jon Mark Thompson, starters from last year’s 12-7 Justin Detter, Justin Ratcliffe, Defenders Ben Crouse and Dale squad. The offense should be Mens Soccer Chad Riley and Chris Sawyer Rellas solid with a year of experience in coach Bobby Clark’s scheme.

Defenders Vanessa Midfielder Mia Sarkesian, Midfielder Katie Thorlakson, The Irish return five of their Pruzinsky, Forwards Amanda Defenders Monica Gonzalez Defender Catherine Sigler, top six scorers from the 2001 Guertin, Melissa Tancredi and and Lindsey Jones, Goalkeeper Goalkeeper Erika Bohn sqaud that suffered a shocking Womens Soccer Amy Warner Liz Wagner season ending loss to Cincinnati in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Defensive Specialist Keara Outside Hitter Marcie Middle Blocker Lauren The addition of an incoming Coughlin, Middle Blocker Kim Bomhack, Middle Blocker Brewster, Outside Hitter Meg class that is rated fifth nation­ Volleyball Fletcher, Setter Kristen Kinder, Melinda Goralski, Opposite Henman ally should help the Irish in Outside Hitter Emily Loomis Kristy Kreher their quest for a fourth straight Big East title.

Brian Farrell, Matt Scott, Javier Taborga, Casey Smith, Steve Roszak With the loss of All- Luis Haddock, Brent D Amico Aaron Talarico Americans Taborga and Smith, who led the Irish to the NCAA Mens Tennis Tournament, coach Bobby Bayliss will look to incoming freshmen to help fill the void. irruiu yuok x i .p.not

Katie Cunha, Caylan Leslie, Becky Varnum, Nina Lauren Connelly, Liz The Irish finished the season Alicia Salas Vaughan, Lindsey Green Donohue, Kelly Nelson, 23rd last year, but lost their Womens Tennis Jennifer Smith, Kristina top three players — Varnum, Stastny Vaughan and Green — to grad­ uation. The five freshmen com­ ing in will need to contribute right away.

John Keane, Todd Mobley, Ryan Shea, Luke Watson, Tim Moore, Tom Lon go, Replacing five of their top David Alber Patrick Conway, Mark Kaleb VanOrt seven runners will be tough, Striowski, Sean Zanderson but the Irish have several strong runners to fill the void. Mens Cross Country With a strong freshmen class that includes the Michigan state champ, Moore, the Irish should again field a competitive squad.

Jen Handley, Jennifer none Stephanie Nadia The womens squad returns Fibuch, Megan Johnson, all seven competitors from the Lauren King 2002 NCAA Championship’ Womens Cross Country race. With incoming freshman Nadia, Notre Dame can only improve on last year’s 19th place finish.

Brandon Lunhe, Steve Steve Ratay Tom Balderston, Scott The Irish hosted the Big East Colnitis, Ryan Marshall, K.C. Gustafson Championship last spring and Wiseman finished an impressive second. M ens Golf Losing Ratay, who set the Notre Dame record for single season scoring average, will be tough.

Karen Lotta Lauren Fuchs, Kristin Sarah Bassett, Lauren The Irish had an up-and-, McMurtrie Barbir, Kathleen Brophy down season in 2001-2002, highlighted by a second place Womens Golf finish at the 22-team Northern Illinois Snowbird Invitational in Tampa, Fla. The team returns its leading scorer, Lotta, and hopes to get immediate contri­ butions from the four incoming freshmen. page 18 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Saturday, August 24, 2002 WELCOME BACK PRICES GOOD THRU SEPT. 8 , 2002

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good players, but that’s some­ their top six scorers from last thing w e’ve got to deal with,” season. Forwards Erich Rraun Soccer Clark said, “We have had to do and Devon Prescod — the team’s continued from page 28 some shuffling there over the two leading scorers in 2001 — spring and summer.” have already begun to assert Sophomore Jack Stewart, who, their offensive potency, scoring County and Aberdeen FC Under along with defender Kevin eight of Notre Dame’s 19 goals in 2-1 by respective scores of 1-0 Goldthwaite and goalkeeper Scotland. and 2-0. The Irish then tied Chris Sawyer, moved into start­ Freshman striker Tony Megna, Dunwoody United 1-1, surren­ ing roles last season and fresh­ who has shown the promise of dering the lying goal with just men. Stewart, Goldthwaite and being an early contributor to the three minutes to play. fellow defender Kevin Richards Irish offense, has been sidelined “Of all the teams I’ve taken on should secure three of the back­ since the start of summer prac­ the Scotland trip — I took field spots. The final slot is up in tice with a back injury that kept Dartmouth twice and Stanford the air since the likely starter, him out of his entire senior sea­ once — that was certainly our Roughen, will be tem porarily son in high school. best performance over there,” sidelined with a bout of mononu­ At midfield, the Irish finally Clark said. “That means this cleosis. Contenders for the spot have the advantage of depth and could be the best team that I've are sophomore Christopher High consistency, returning all players taken there, or that American and freshmen Dale Rcllas and at that position and not having to soccer is really improving. " Ben Crouse endure a coaching change for The Irish lost only two starters “The position that’s up for the first time in three years. Tri­ from its 2001 squad — defenders grabs in the backfield is the captains Justin Ratcliffe and Griffin Howard and Andy other central defender,” Clark Greg Martin, and juniors Justin Forstnor. said. “Luke Roughen has really Detter, Chad Riley and Filipo Some position shifting in the played well there in the spring, Chillcmi, have had a full year to off-season and summ er exhibi­ but he came down with mono, so learn Clark’s offensive and tions. combined with the addi­ lie w on ’t be able to go right defensive schemes and play tion of a couple of freshenen away. Christopher High played together as a unit. defenders who could push for in Scotland in that spot and did This depth will allow incoming playing time make the backfield pretty well. We’ve also got a cou­ fresh men Nick T am ay, Jon the most unstable area of the ple of fresh men coming in that Mark Thompson and the injured preseason. could play in that spot as well.” John Stephens time to settle into “It's never easy to replace Offensively, the Irish return both Clark’s system and the pressures of college life. “[The freshmen] are all work­ Join the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre for ing away, and I think it’s far too early to say right now how much NELLIE WILLIAMS/The Observer they’ll be able to do right away,” Freshman goalie Justin Michaud makes a save during presea­ A TALE OF TWO CITIES Clark said. “They’re all young son practice. and are still excited to be out A 16-day Theatre/Art Tour to London & Paris there. We’ll let them settle in, belts, the Irish hope to take be our goal]. But I think every­ Friday, December 27, 2002 - Sunday, January 12, 2003 and they’ll basically tell us when another step this season toward one realizes that we want to play achieving national prominence well in every game, because if Last day to register: October 23, 2002 — or until tour is filled they’re ready. They’ll tell us by the way they come out to prac­ as a soccer program. we play well in every game, I join us for a Theatre/Art tour to London (7 nights) and Paris (8 nights), tice every day. I’ve never been in “We want to win every game believe we have a fair chance of a hu rry to rush freshm en in as they come up, and we can’t winning every one.” or choose just London. The tour includes a balance of theatre because I think it’s good to let look beyond our next game,” performances, museum visits, and sightseeing - with ample free time. them settle into school life first.” Clark said. “1 think we all know With the returning starters what we want to do. I never try The trip is open to students, parents, faculty, staff, Contact Chris Federico at and the confidence of a success­ to jinx myself by saying [that a [email protected]. and community members ful first year together under their certain accomplishment should Single, Double, and Triple Rooms available

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about until later,” Duffy said. from Dayton, Ohio, will have her play under Coach McGraw and we’re going to run is perfect for By KATIE McVOY In addition to getting to know work cut out for her, both physi­ play with LeTania [Severe], I’m her,” McGraw said. “I think she’s Associate Sports Editor their teammates, Duffy and cally and mentally. She suffered excited to learn completely new going to fit in really well. We LaVere got an added bonus — a a season-ending knee injury information.” only have the three post players This summer, there were more leg up on the rest of the fresh­ midway through her senior sea­ Duffy should be able to step up and we can play three at a time. old faces than new. Following a man class hitting campus this son at Chaminade-Julienne High to the challenge. She ended her We really need to sure up our season with six new freshmen to week. They both have two col­ School but was back on the court high school career with an aver­ depth. She should get a lot of break in, the Irish were glad to lege classes under their belts, in time for sum m er workouts. age of 15.1 points, 4 rebounds, playing time as a freshman.” welcome just two new recruits have worked on balancing prac­ She will continue to rehabilitate 3.8 assists and 3 steals a game. LaVere, a third-team Parade this summer as Megan Duffy and tice with academics and, most the knee through the preseason. In addition to the statistics, Duffy All-American selection, wrapped Courtney LaVere joined last importantly, they know where “[My kneel is getting there,” also has a good head for the up her high school career aver­ year’s returning veterans. the dining hall is. Duffy said. “It’s starting to feel game. aging 26.5 points, 11.4 rebounds The two incoming freshmen “Yeah, I’m going to be a pro at pretty decent. I'm excited to get “She’s someone I’m confident and 3.5 blocks per game. got their first taste of college life freshman orientation,” Duffy back and start playing full go.” has a great mental game, some­ She and Duffy should both find this summer, taking classes, said. In addition to making sure her body that I feel I can really themselves right in the thick of training in the weight room and Duffy and LaVere both seemed knee is in working order, as a relate to and I just feel like we’re things. practicing with teammates. to take to college life without point guard, Duffy will have to going to have a really good “I’m excited about both of Unlike last year, the veterans much trouble. not only learn her position on chemistry,” McGraw said. “I them and I see both of them outnumbered the rookies. “I was so pleased,” McGraw the floor, but also get to know really like her attitude.” jumping right in,” McGraw said. However, being new to campus said. “They didn’t seem to go her way around the whole offen­ LaVere will add to the depth at The Irish will begin individual was a memory that was still through that normal period of sive scheme, to know what the Irish post position, in an w orkouts next w eek and will fresh in the minds of most of the freshman homesickness. There everyone is supposed to be doing offense that often plays three begin practice officially on Oct. players. w eren ’t a lot of bumps in the at any given moment. women at post. The 6-foot-3 for­ 12. “It was so much easier mainly road. So that seemed almost too “It’s definitely going to be ward from Ventura, Calf, should because our sophomores did easy.” exciting,” Duffy said. “It’s com­ feel right at home. such a fantastic job with them But there is still much to do. pletely new. That’s why I came “Not that it’s going to be easy Contact Katie McVoy at and I think that was really a Duffy, a 5-foot-7 point guard here — for the opportunity to for Courtney, but the offense [email protected]. great thing,” said head coach Muffet Met 1 raw. “They really fit in well. The chemistry was tremendous.” Duffy and LaVere spent the $ summer rooming with post play­ er Teresa Borton and guard Allison Bustamante. Borton and Bustamante, along with the other four returning sophomores who still rem em ber being the newbies, were more than willing to share those important bits of knowledge with the new recruits — like what time curfew is dur­ ing away games. “They’ve told us just the little team rules, roadlrips, things that will help us that they didn’t learn

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23, 1-13 in the MIAA. Shelly team will have to step up to By KATIE McVOY Bender, Julianne Miller, Talia make up for some serious loss­ challenging season Associate Sports Editor Matury-Vicaro and Heidi es. During the course of the sea­ Superczynski will team up with son last year, the Belles lost There is only one word to the eight returning members of team leader Angie Meyers to a along to a very young team. describe the Saint Mary’s volley­ the team, including lone senior season-ending ACL tear. With By KATIE McVOY Saint Mary’s graduated three ball team — young. With one Elizabeth Albert. graduation, they also said good­ Associate Sports Editor key seniors and lost senior senior returning and no player Tryouts for the team conclud­ bye to co-captain Jolie Lebeau, Heather Muth, who suffered with more than one year of col­ ed Thursday, leaving three of setter Jaime Dineen and defen­ New faces are not unusual several injuries last season and legiate play, experience will not the seven women who came out sive specialist Denise Langlois. on the soccer field at Saint decided not to return after be on the Belles’ list of assets. for the team without a position. Meyers and LeBeau were both Mary’s. Johnston announced his resig­ “Everyone returning is only a “All that tried out were very four-year players. Following a year that saw nation. second year player with this talented and hard-working,” The Belles will be looking to major improvement marred by This season, the Belles will program,” coach Julie Schroeder-Biek said. “[It was] a recover from a last-place finish the departure of key seniors, be welcoming six new recruits Schroeder-Biek said. “So, in very difficult cut this year — in the MIAA last season. They starters and the head coach, to the playing field. terms of experience, [we’re] nothing was clear cut. It just open play on Aug. 30 at the fresh players and coaches will Leading the incoming class is very young.” came down to how much depth Alma Tournament. be as commonplace as return­ freshman Carrie Orr. The mid­ Four new freshmen will be was needed at the various posi­ ing veterans. fielder from Dayton, Ohio, joining the team, which finished tions.” Contact Katie McVoy at For the third time in for four stands a good chance of start­ last season with a record of 4- The four players joining the [email protected]. years, the Belles soccer team ing this season. Fans may also will be adjusting to a new see freshman Shannon coaching style — this time Culbertson blocking opposing under the leadership of Chris players at a defensive position. B a c h a t a • Samba Pfau. Pfau, who came to Saint Pfau identified Orr and Mary’s from Mount Marty Culbertson as “big impact play­ College in South Dakota, will ers” for the class of 2006. <8 take over a team that saw Lynn Taylor, the only senior improvement under coach and four-year member of the Tired Of The Same Old Steps? 9 Bobby Johnston, who left Saint % MM squad, will undertake a heavy Mary’s for the University of leadership role. However, the « Tampa last spring. Belles will also be counting on Free Dance Lessons .* 3 With so many changes the sophomore Jen Concannon, past four years, Pfau recog­ who led the team in scoring 0 nizes that the focus this season last season. Chicago's Best % can’t be fancy footwork or long Following the tumultuous shots on goal. It must be noth­ off-season, it’s back to the Salsa DJ's ing other than laying the first drawing board with hopes of % n stones of a foundation neces­ finding something stable NIGHT CLUB 3* sary for success. enough to bring home some “All I’m going to do is give victories. % » them a structure, something “There’s been a lot of * solid, a foundation on which turnover, so [I want] something ft they can play,” Pfau said. “It they can always fall back upon M iclriana’s B est % might take a month, it might and some stability,” Pfau said. 9* take the whole season. That’s a my biggest goal.” Contact Katie McVoy at Salsa D ance P arty % Pfau will be passing that goal [email protected]. 5 ND Freshman Ladies Every Thursday 8 pm % @ $5 CoverI $3 with Student ID #. $ Cheerleading Tryout 3 Must be 21 with valid ID e §) Two positions available - Fall Semester t i Cheer & Tumbling Experience Needed Club Landing • 1717 Lincolnway East * South Bend. IN 9 ® Joyce Center, Gym 2, August 29 at 6:30 p.m. % ^ . % @ Pick up forms to complete before tryout at #• #* #• *#* #• #* #• Samba - 5 a 1 # a • Combi Joyce Center - Above Gate 3 - See Beverly

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C ro ss C o u n tr y N D V olleyball Same goal, different Recruits stand above rest

Brown knows the freshmen who we need to talk to. They paths for 2 squads By MATT LOZAR are about to experience an made the transition easy.” Sports Writer entirely new level of competition. “They are great,” Kelbley “The ball is coming a lot faster, agreed. “They gave us a little For the women, graduating After graduating the starting hitters are bigger,” Brown said. booklet telling us what we need By JOE HETTLER All-Americans won’t be a prob­ front row from last year’s Big “The front row is significantly for preseason. They are really Associate Sports Editor lem because the team lost no East Championship team, Notre bigger than the past. We play helping us on and off the court.” one from last season when they Dame volleyball coach Debbie above the net. The power is a lot Even before the freshmen The Notre Dame mens and finished ranked 19th. Coach Brown recruited six tall players more than their high school and arrived on campus, the upper­ womens cross country teams Tim Connelly has high expecta­ to comprise her nationally- club teams. classmen were making their new will start their respective sea­ tions for his team. ranked freshman class. And “Also, in term s of their high teammates feel welcome. sons trying to reach the same “We’re in a pretty good posi­ their impact in summer prac­ school season, the duration of “There has been a great job by goal — a national champi­ tion, we finished 19th at the tices has shown instantly. the season and the intensity is the returners making the fresh­ onship. Each will be eyeing NCAA Championships last year “They have fit in really well,” different. That is very taxing men feel at home.” Brown said. that goal from very different and we’re bringing everyone Brown said. “Even though we mentally. Not being used to play­ “Even before the first day, dur­ standpoints, however. back,” Connelly said. lost considerable experience, we ing at that level for an extended ing the summer, the returners The mens team graduated The Irish return top runners have more depth than we have period of time can be difficult.” sent them stuff to let the fresh­ five of its top seven runners such as All-American Lauren had in a long time. The practices Besides making the transition men know what to bring.” from last season’s fifth-ranked King as well as NCAA qualifier have been very competitive.” on the court, the freshmen have Overcoming the adjustment to squad and hopes to use a Jen Handley. Connelly also Outside hitters Meg Henican to adapt to the change of living college volleyball will allow the strong incoming freshman expects large contributions and Lindsay Peterson, setter at college. Their upperclass freshmen to contribute to the class to turn more than a few from Megan Johnson, Jennifer Kelly Burrell and middle block­ team m ates are attem pting to Irish’s goal of winning a third heads this season. Fibuch, Christ! Arnerich, ers Lauren Brewster, Carolyn make that transition as smooth consecutive Big East “Are the [freshmen] going to Melissa Schmidt, Julia Schmidt Cooper and Lauren Kelbley were as possible. Championship and make its 11th be able to replace five All- and Rachel Endress. rated fifth-best by Volleyball “The upperclassmen are stra ig h t NCAA T o u rn am en t Americans that graduated? No, Freshmen Molly Huddle, Magazine. amazing. They have all been appearance. of course not,” national coach Stephanie Nadia, Laurie King Each player is at least 5-foot- great,” Brewster said. “They of the year Joe Plane said. and Jean Marinangeli will all 10 and Student Sports Magazine were helpful in knowing what is Contact Matt Lozar at “[But] I think w e’ll be better be counted on to contribute as ranked the class as third in the going on — finding our classes, [email protected]. than people give us credit for.” well. country. The Irish do return All- However, Connelly does not Henican earned Louisiana American Todd Mobley and top expect to start his full team at Player of the Year honors in her runners David Alber and John Notre Dame’s first meet, the junior and senior years. Keane as well as Eric Morrison adidas Invitational hosted at Brewster was named the state and Brian Kerwin. Kerwin was Notre Dame on Sept. 6. tournament MVP in 2000 and bothered by injuries last sea­ “To be honest, we probably 2001. 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M e n ’s B a sk etb a ll Freshmen add depth to talented roster

that finished second in the Big to do it and make the transi­ in wanting to sit on the play. He’s a big-time guard, By ANDREW SOUKUP East West Division last spring tion in a laid-back atmosphere bench.” and he’s ready right away. Sports Writer and narrowly fell to top-seed­ rather than in the fall with the While Francis and Cornett Our older guys are unbeliev­ ed Duke in the NCAA tourney. rest of the other freshmen. In banged away on the inside, able confident in him, and Mike Brey called his team in For the first time since Brey the fall, we’re not really new Quinn quickly established him­ there’s the endorsement right for a meeting just before the took over as Irish head coach, students, we know the place.” self on an Irish perimeter that there.” group concluded summer three of the four Irish fresh­ The 6-foot-10 Francis, from includes tri-captains Matt Brey admits he’s concerned w o rk o u ts . men — Francis, Cornett and Boston, is the most heralded Carroll, Dan Miller, Thomas, about how Peterkin, who com­ As he Quinn — came on campus to recruit arriving on campus and junior Torrian Jones. mitted to the Irish in May, will loo ked at participate in summer work­ this fall. He joins W hen the adjust to the team. While th e 11 outs with the rest of the team. sophomore point “I think [Chris Quinn’s] team Francis, Cornett and Quinn players So when Brey stood in front of guard Chris played are completely immersed with gathered in his team in early August, he Thomas as the going to be one o f the pick-up the rest of the veterans, Brey fro n t of could praise the team’s depth second straight amazingly pleasant games, said he would pay close atten­ him , he since a talented crop of fresh­ McDonald’s All- surprises of our program. Quinn tion to see how Peterkin k n ew th e men had spent all summer American to play m a tc h e d adjusts. If necessary, he said Irish were practicing with the veterans. for the Irish. Six- People talk about him a up against he would consider holding the in good During the six-week summer foot-9 Chicago little bit, but he can T h o m a s , 6-foot-9 freshman out of shape. session, the freshmen played native Cornett really play. ’’ last year’s games his freshman year to “I sa id , nearly every day with the rest could also help n a t i o n a l preserve a year of eligibility. “Everybody here can play,’” of the team. The increased tal­ Notre Dame on fre sh m a n But when Quinn, Francis the third-year mens basketball ent level m eant pick-up games the boards. Mike Brey of the and Cornett join Peterkin on coach said. “I didn’t feel that were significantly more With the gradu­ Irish head coach year. campus this weekend, Brey way my first intense. And ation of Ryan “It w as laughed at the thought of the year, I couldn’t 7 think if you have a w h en the H u m p h rey , a a lot of other three freshmen helping look all 12 in Irish first-round pick of the Orlando fun, knowing that you’re going Peterkin adjust to college life. the eye and say major prospect out of weren’t on Magic, and Harold Swanagan, up against one of the best in After all, Brey said, they spent I feel comfort­ high school, you expect the court, the Irish have only senior tri­ the nation every day,” Quinn six weeks on campus and can’t able with you them to be contributors. they were in captain Jere. Macura, junior said. “He’s so good, and when wait to help their teammate in the game, class. Tom Timmermans and sopho­ you play against other players out. b e c a u s e I Everyone wants to make Francis, for more Jordan Cornett returning like that, it makes you better.” “I think it was a giant help didn’t. Last a contribution. You don’t example, on the inside. The trio only Quinn himself earned the just getting acclimated to the year, same come in wanting to sit on begins averaged 11.7, 8.3 and 14.9 respect of his teammates college level,” Quinn said. “We thing. This classes this minutes per game last year quickly with his maturity and got to learn about how a col­ year, I really the bench. ” fall with 12 respectively and Brey expects poise on the court. Brey thinks lege class would go, and ath­ feel that way.” credits Francis and Cornett to come in Quinn plays like a junior and letically, we got to play against The addition Torin Francis u n d e r his and compete for playing time. says the Ohio native is going to guys day in and day out. It just of freshmen belt. “I think if you have a major surprise a lot of people. kind of set up the process of freshman Torin Francis, “I think it prospect out of high school, “I think he’s going to be one learning about what we have Rick Cornett, w as very you expect them to be contrib­ of the amazingly pleasant sur­ to do.” Chris Quinn and Omari beneficial,” Francis said. “It utors,” Francis said. prises of our program,” Brey Peterkin strengthen an was really laid back, and I “Everyone wants to make a said. “People talk about him a Contact Andrew Soukup at already talented Irish roster think that was good to be able contribution. You don’t come little bit, but he can really [email protected].

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♦ Freshmen look to schemes, coverages, pass routes, audibles - the list piled up quickly. In adjust to new offensive, many cases, the newest members of defensive schemes the Irish squad learned more schemes in a week than they did during their By ANDREW SOUKUP senior seasons. “It’s a lot to learn, and at some Spores W riter point, that overload hits, and then they don’t respond very well to the Chris Olsen was nervous. conditions around them, ” Willingham In the corners of team meeting said. “Most freshmen go through it, rooms and on the summer practice and ours are no different. They’re fields, upperclassmen hinted what going through it, and they’re trying to kind of initiation routine the freshman find their way to break through it and quarterback would have to go really start to find their place on this through. Some hinted at shaving team .” heads, others mentioned climbing up Four freshmen - Olsen, running on tables and singing high school fight back Nate Schiccatano, safety Jake songs. Carney and offensive lineman Scott Rookie quarterback Olsen and the Raridon — spent the summer with the other 17 freshman recruits weren’t rest of the team participating in con­ quite sure what to expect. But they ditioning drills. That gave them a bit didn’t plan on first-year head coach of a clue about what to expect when Tyrone Willingham banning freshman fall camp started in August. hazing. “Anything is going to be difficult at “I think that made the freshmen feel first,” Carney said. “But once we got a lot better,” Olsen said. “There were in and got some reps, we started to a few worries that we were going to grasp it a little better, and having the have to do something things hazing- team around makes it a little less wise, but most of the upperclassmen nerve-racking.” told us that there would be none of “The first few days it’s real intimi­ that this year, and they wanted to dating being out there with the other make it easier on us as freshmen. I guys, but I got more comfortable with think that put everyone at ease.” them,” Olsen added. “They always say Besides, the freshmen had enough good job and try to make it easier for to worry about trying to learn the m e.” complex new offensive and defensive Highly touted wide receivers schemes thrown at them by Irish Maurice Stovall and Rhema McKnight coaches. have the greatest chance of playing as When the first-year players arrived freshman. Under the option-oriented ' on campus nearly three weeks ago, offense former head coach Bob Davie the coaching staff handed the entire used during last year’s 5-6 season, playbook to the young recruits, forc­ the Irish finished 114th in the nation ing them to try to understand every­ in scoring offense and rarely threw thing to which the rest of the team the ball. Only Omar Jenkins and TIM KACMAR/The O bserver had eight months to assimilate. Arnaz Battle had at least five catches. That’s a ton of information to learn Freshman quarterback Chris Olsen drops back to make a pass during practice. in a short period of time. Blocking see FOOTBALL/page 21 Olsen, like the other first years, is trying to adjust to Willingham’s schem es.

M e n ’s S occer W o m en ’s S occer Irish return with depth Waldrum looks to

er. The Irish played to a 7-3 that two of those guys [senior By CHRIS FEDERICO record in the Big East and fin­ Alan Lyskawa and sophomore rediscover focus Sports Editor ished in a tie for second by Luke Boughen] were unable to advancing to the Big East play because of an injury, and be led by some highly-competi- After a very successful inau­ Tournament Semifinals before two were goalkeepers, that left By JOE LICANDRO tive and driven players,” he said. gural season for men’s soccer dropping a 1-0 decision to the us with 14 players. Since Sports Writer “I’d be very surprised if we don’t coach Bobby Clark in 2001, the eventual conference champion European rules don’t allow us rediscover that focus and consis­ sophomore coach will return to St. John’s University. to have free substitution like A shocking second-round tency that’s so important to what Alumni Field this fall with a The 2002 campaign actually we do in the states, that can be NCAA Tournament upset loss to Notre Dame soccer is all about.” young, but experienced squad began for the Irish on Aug. 2 in very exhausting for the guys.” Cincinnati ended Notre Dame’s Of 23 players, only Ashley "looking to build on last season’s Scotland with a two-week, five- The Irish went 4-0-1 during frustrating 2001 campaign. This Dryer and Vanessa Pruzinsky are NCAA T o u rn am en t a p p e a r­ game exhibition tour for the the trip, knocking off semi-pro season, with ten new names on ance, the program’s first in five seniors, meaning leadership returning upperclassmen. squads Formantine United 6-1 his roster and thirteen returning could be an issue for the Irish. years. “On the Scotland trip, the and Banks of Dee 8-1. Notre players, Irish coach Randy However, Waldrum is confident The Irish return nine starters guys worked very hard. They Dame then faced the heavier W aldrum is hoping that his from last season’s team that in the leadership abilities of the played five games in 11 days competition of the full-time squad is ready to retu rn to other veterans to help the incom- shocked many in the collegiate with only an 18 man roster,” professionals, beating Ross national prominence. soccer world by turning a 7-8-2 Clark said. “When you consider “Our freshman class also will team in 2000 into a 12-7 finish­ see SOCCER/page 19 see IRISH/page 25

MENS BASKETBALL SM C SOCCER SM C VOLLEYBALL WOMENS BASKETBALL IRISH SPORTS COLUMN Freshmen add Young team Belles look to Fewer freshmen Checking out the Sports 101 depth to talented expects challeng­ start fresh fit in just fine Irish £ ! roster ing season Following last year's Two freshmen, rather A lesson in sports jar­ Peterkin, Francis, With a new head disappointing last place than six, spent the sum­ A quick glimpse at a gon that any Irish fan Quinn and Cornett add coach and a young ros­ MIAA finish, the young mer with the Irish gear­ whole year of Irish ath­ needs to know to sur­ OS their talents to the Irish ter, the Belles will have squad w ants to bring ing up for the season. letes. vive freshman year. CL# S team. a tough season ahead. home some wins. page 16 w page 26 page 23 page 23 page 21 page 17