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Welcome, freshmen! a, C L O U D Y S a tu r d a y Looking for an opportunity? Learn the ins and outs of student government HIG H 74° and then catch up on the events that affected campus last year. A U G U S T 2 4 , LOW 63° News ♦ page 4 & 5 2 0 0 2 O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL. XXXVII NO. 1 HTTP;//0BSERVER.ND.EDU New class brings leadership to campus ♦ 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.