Spade Show Cost About $100K Cheney's

y ^ X THE U b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 38 : ISSUE 36 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Exec Cab, Senators make progress on resolution ment infrastructure. concerns. presidents, four senators, the that addresses multiple issues By MEGHANNE DOWNES Sunday, the Student Senate The original proposal called Hall President’s Council chair, that student government is News Editor voted 14-9 in favor of the res for a Council of the Student Union Board facing and the outcome of olution, introduced by Representatives to be empow manager, the Club Sunday’s meeting did not Members of the Executive Student body president Pat ered with deliberating issues Coordination Council presi affect his overall report. Cabinet and Student Senate Hallahan, but the resolution related to the Collaboration dent, the Student Union Sarah Reefer, Hall made progress toward reach failed because two-thirds Fund and Constitution of the Treasurer, the Judicial President’s Council Chair and ing a compromise regarding a were needed for passage. Student Union - powers cur Council President, the off- Executive Cabinet member, proposal to create a collabo Hallahan invited senators to rently held by the Student campus president and the said there was a need to have rative body composed of all Monday’s Executive Cabinet Senate. The Council, which chief of staff for the Office of a body that represents every seven branches of student meeting with the hope that intends to be an expanded the Student Body President. branch of student government government that would con Executive Cabinet could form of the current Executive Hallahan will present a in order to discuss and solidate and redirect power explain its desire to create Cabinet, would consist of the report to the University’s within the student govern this body and address Senate vice president, four class Board of Trustees Thursday see CABlNET/page 4 Spade show cost about $100K Cheney's the money lost by the concert. visit was By TERESA FRAL1SH SUB intended for the Spade con Assistant News Editor cert to be one of the more costly events for the year and budgeted Future programming for appropriately. a success Student Union Board events will “We knew the event would be not significantly be affected by expensive. This only affects one low turnout at the Oct. 4 David section [of SUB’s budget),” By BETH ERICKSON Spade event, said Charlie Ebersol said. News Writer Ebersol Student Union Board Total ticket sales for the Spade president. show were no more than 1,400, In his fundraising appearance Ebersol said the budget for the a figure well below what SUB at the Joyce Center last performance allowed a cushion had planned for, Ebersol said. Thursday, Vice President Dick for overall loss, and that the final And some people who bought Cheney raised more than cost was within the range speci tickets didn’t even attend the $200,000 for Congressman Chris fied in SUB’s yearly budget - show, he added. Chocola’s 2004 re-election cam even though the final budget for Ebersol said couldn’t say for paign. the Spade show was not sure where the rest of the money The success of Cheney’s recent approved by the Financial to pay for the Spade show, which visit increased Chocola’s cam Management Board. could be as much as $50,000, paign fund substantially, advanc The total cost for the event was would come from because of the ing his total past the $500,000 approximately $100,000, Ebersol uncertainty regarding SUB’s final mark. More than a year before the said. That figure accounted for a budget for the year. What variety of fees, including the department that money will be election, Cheney’s assistance has rental cost for the Joyce Center, drawn from won't be clear until armed freshman Chocola to which totaled about $15-20,000. the fiscal year ends in June, he defend his highly contested seat The remaining expenditures added. However, the money SUB and the Republican majority in included the speaker’s fee for spent to cover the cost of the Congress. Spade, production costs, techni event came from a fund the The event was surprisingly cal rider and miscellaneous organization uses to defray pro lucrative for a fundraiser held during a non-election year. A costs. gramming costs. TIM KACMAR/The O bserver Ebersol said SUB spent rough “They will just have to always Comedian David Spade performs on Oct. 2 at the Joyce non-election year appearance ly $15,000 to $20,000 of its Center. According to Student Union Board President Charlie $234,000 annual budget to cover see SPADE/page 4 Ebersol, the total cost of the event was about $100,000. see CHENEY/page 4 Vatican may prohibit female altar service According to reports, in addition "The final version is expected by By AMANDA MICHAELS to banning applause and dancing Christmas, and at least for now it News Writer at Mass — both of which often says nothing on altar girls.” occur at papal services — the doc Though the news of the propos Only nine years after the ument specified that the use of al’s rejection is cause for much Vatican gave women permission female altar servers should be relief among female acolytes, the to serve beside their male coun avoided “unless there is a just mere suggestion of restricting terparts at the altar, a new pro pastoral cause,” and that “priests their use has stirred up controver posal threatens to force them should never feel obliged to seek sy all over the United States and back into the crowd. girls for this function.” Western Europe, where the prac On Sept. 23, the Italian Catholic However, both the Catholic tice has become commonplace. monthly, “Jesus,” released News Service, the media exten Since 1994, the USCCB has held advanced text of an article featur sion of the United States that each individual bishop has ing excerpts from a draft docu Conference of Catholic Bishops the power to decide whether or ment, or directive, written by the (USCCB), and the National not females within their diocese Vatican congregations for Divine Catholic Reporter (NCR) stated should be altar servers — a ver Worship and the Sacraments and that the directive was almost dict based on the interpretation of for the Doctrine of the Faith. immediately sent back for revi 1983 Canon Law 230.2, said Distributed on June 5, the docu sions. Sheila Garcia, USCCB Secretariat ment was an expansion on the “On June 29, the cardinals in for Family, Laity, Women and papal encyclical published in April charge of the two offices working Youth. To this date, very few dio that cut down on abuses during on the document had a meeting ceses across the country have pre- TIM KACMAR/The O bserver A female altar server carries a candle In the Basilica. A new Mass, specifically during and rejected it,” said John Allen, Communion. Rome correspondent for the NCR. see ALTAR/page 4 Vatican proposal may eliminate female altar servers. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, October 14, 2003 In sid e C olum n Question of the Day: D o you use Findit? Confession I’m about to make a confession that could be considered scandalous, shock ing or even blasphemous — at least on this campus. It’s not something I’ve told many people, though that is obviously about to change, Amanda Michaels and believe me, Cristina Fuji Hope Feher Matt Searle Paul McDonald Sarah Lathroe Paul Crltser my views have ' Junior Senior Senior Junior changed since Production Senior Junior Off-campus Off-campus then. With that Editor Off-campus Lewis Off-campus Off-campus said, here it goes. I wasn’t thrilled to be coming to Notre Dame. That’s right. I got my letter on the day my family went out to get our “Why isn’t it “I’ll exercise my Christmas tree last year, and in a “Not really, I “No, I use “My brain “I thought it moment that was made even more have a Mac. ” Loseit. ” doesn't work didn’t work working 5th amendment anti-climactic by the visible ‘congratu right now. ’’ anymore. ” anymore. ” right ." lations!’ in the address window, I was accepted. 1 smiled, my mom cried, we bought a tree. I fulfilled the expecta tions set for me by my friends, family and teachers, and was off to one of the finest academic institutions in the country. I gave wary smiles to Notre Dame fanatics and half-heartedly affirmed how excited I was, and how In B r ie f much I loved it. About 9,000 seniors across the country would kill to be in my position as a future Domer, but that U.S. Court of Appeals Judge didn’t seem to matter. John Noonan Jr. will give the I still wasn’t ecstatic. Erasmus lecture entitled 1'Out For a while, I blamed it on the fact of Difficulties Comes that Notre Dame had never been my Development” today from 5 to 7 ultimate college goal. I was no legacy. I p.m. in the Court Room of the never wore a Notre Dame cheerleading Law School. The lecture is spon outfit as a toddler and didn’t write sored by the Erasmus Institute. essays in elementary school about why Rudy was my hero. I worked and stud Robert Frederick, manager of ied and joined every activity under the corporate responsibility at Ford sun in high school because I was obses Motor Company, will give a lec sive and wanted to be the best, not ture on “Corporate because I thought they would improve Responsibility at Ford” as part my chances of getting in here.

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