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-------------- ------------------------~-------------, THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 39: ISSUE 68 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12,2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM NDSP, Post Office move to new quarters Housing Notre Dame Security/Police By KATE ANTONACCI Department (NDSP) and the crunch Assistant News Editor Notre Dame Post Office. After nearly two years of work and Hammes Mowbray Hall, the $10.97 million, the project is 40,000- now complete and was officially lessened s q u are - f o o t See Also dedicated in a ceremony held building locat "Construction January 4. ed near gives campus A great deal of preparation By AMANDA MICHAELS Stepan Center was done to ensure that the Assistant News Editor on Holy Cross new look" building was open for the spring Drive, opened page4 semester. After a semester of decidedly its doors this 'The first week is very hectic TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer cramped quarters, the housing past week to Hammes Mowbray Hall, the new home to NDSP and the Post Office, crunch that forced many dorms reveal the new home of the see BUILDING/page 9 was officially dedicated on Jan. 4 and is now open for service. to make use of every inch of available space came to an end in the new See Also year, as stu d e n t s "Winter storms returned to Campuses feel tsunami effects severely campus to damage student find a little extra breath- residences" ing room. Students, alums NO, SMC aid page 3 In the fall, increases in I . • • the numbers in area unharmed waves vzctzms of seniors staying on campus and female applicants left almost 70 freshmen in increased occupancy rooms or By EILEEN DUFFY By JEN ROWLING converted study lounges, and News Writer Assistant News Editor left 20 female Notre Dame transfer students to live in The tsunami that tore through In the wake of the tsunami that Regina Hall at Saint Mary's. Southeast Asia on Dec. 26 affected pummeled South Asia and Africa Hesitant to declare the Notre Dame abroad programs and Dec. 26, Notre Dame and Saint squeeze for space truly over, alumni, but there are no reported Mary's students are anxious to help director of the Office of Notre Dame student or professor casu - and have plenty of opportunities Residence Life and Housing Jeff alties, said lreneo Bong Miquiabas, on both campus- Shoup said the situation has director of International Student es. See Also improved, but not as much as Services. The most "Catholics some would hope or like. The tsunami devastated the home immediate stu "However, we do have [room] lands of 105 Notre Dame students, dent response to respond" openings and have been able to Miquiabas said in an e-mail. These stu the disaster took page 6 take care of everyone on the dents live in India, Thailand, Indonesia, place Monday waiting list, so everyone who Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and night, when Saint wanted housing this semester Somalia, he said. Mary's refocused was able to get housing," he According to Miquiabas, none of the the theme of its annual late night said. students' immediate families were breakfast - replacing the usual fes Shoup said that all but three affected. ISS still awaits news from a tive celebration with a more serious dorms -Badin, Howard and few Indian students. he said. tone. Students brainstormed ways to Lewis - ha.ve at least one room Miquiabas said most international help as they dined on a refugee's typ open, with open spots for 16 Notre Dame students from the affected ical breakfast: wheat tortillas, rice students in the women's dorms nations do not live in the coastal areas and lentils, apples and bot tea. and 58 in the men's. that were impacted by deadly waves. The Office of Civil and Social Because the number of stu "Most of them do not live on the Engagement, the Center for Women's dents going abroad in the affected coast," said Miquiabas. "We Intercultural Leadership and Campus spring semester is roughly have heard from all fthel students from Ministry refocused the event after equal to that of students return Thailand. Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer receiving requests from students ing from abroad, Shoup attrib- There has been an outpouring of support for tsunami vic see TSUNAMI/page 8 tims by both Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students. see RESPONSE/page 8 see HOUSING/page 9 ND -will still pursue Boat Club shuts doors for good controversial scholars By TERESA FRALISH Associate News Editor sue international and Muslim By CLAIRE HEININGER scholars of distinction, said H. After two police raids and over News Editor Scott Appleby, director of the 250 underage drinking citations in Kroc Institute for International recent years, the bar many stu Despite a semester-long Peace Studies. dents said would never sink finally struggle with "Certainly we won't be dis lowered its sails for good in late the U.S. couraged in any respect from December. S t a t c hiring international scholars, The Boat Club stopped doing Department Muslim scholars or controver business by D11c. 22 after agreeing over the sial scholars," Appleby said. to place its liquor license in escrow, revoked visa Notre Dame sought out said chief assistant South Bend city of Tariq Ramadan not to stir up contro attorney Alladeane DeRose. Hamadan, versy but to provoke critical While the license is held in who resigned discussion between religions, escrow by llu~ Alcohol and Tobacco from the fac- which remains a goal, Appleby Commission (ATC), the bar will ulty Dec. 13, Ramadan said. And though the scholar's have up to five years to sell the CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer t h e After its most recent raid on Dec. 9, The Boat Club offi University will continue to pur- see RAMADAN/page 9 see BOAT CLUB/page 8 cially shut down Dec. 22. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 12, 2005 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION? Ode to Boat With The Boat Club linally sinking, I feel moved to reflect on the most wonderful estab- lishment known Jamie Holland Scott Breunig Mary Kingsbury Molly Powers Marcela Berrios John Henderson to South Bend, junior junior junior junior freshman sophomore and perhaps, the world. St. Edward's ofF campus McGlinn off-campus Walsh Basil Hall I low do you deseribe Boat "Eat more ice "Steal his "Catch up with "Hang out with "To survive "To be more Club to someone who's 1wver cream. girlfriend.'' Molly and my Mary more engineering. positive." been'! That's other Domer often." easy. Boat Club is friends. " God's way of Joe Hettler showing the magnitude of Assistant heaven's great Managing ness. Boat is like Editor a small slice of the afterlife. Boat is simply Boat. My lirst experience at Boat was like that of many others. It was my lirst attempt at entering a bar with a IN BRIEF fake m. I heard rumors about how people simply ne1~ded to be the same gender of the person on their ID to The Saint Mary's basketball get through the so-called " bounc team will tip oJT against Adrian ers." I heard how, once inside, pitch College tonight in the Angela ers of beer were a nwasly $1. I Athletic Facility at 7:30p.m. heard how you would never forget the distinet smell of In Club de Boat. The Notre Dame women's bas When I showed the bouncer my ID ketball team faces Conneeticut that fateful night, he looked me tonight at 8 p.m. in the Joyce straight in the eye for a moment, Center. pondering whetlwr I really was Chris Wellington of 1243 Everhard ND Cinema will present the Drive in Scranton, N. .1. Then, I Jilm Motocycle Diaries Thursday heard the words that would change and Friday in the Browning my life forever- "That'll be $5, give Cinema in DeBartolo Center for me your right arm for the bracelet." the Performing Arts. The film will I was in. be shown at 7 and 10 p.m. That lirst night was magkal. I ord1wed and consumed $1 pitchers. I Saint Mary's College will host a played pool whih~ others around me symposium in conjungtion with competed in intense "!lip-cup" this weekend's presidential inau games. And I even danced upstairs guration titled "Educating in a room that had to be at least 134 Women, Transforming Lives: degrens. The Liberal Arts in the 21st Despite tlw conditions, there is Centruy." Featureed speakers TIM SULLIVAN!The Observer include Nancy Bnkavac, president simply nothing better than holding a Hammes Mowbray Hall houses the post office and is the new headquarters for l 00-cent pitcher in onn hand, a cup of Scripps College, and Thomas NDSP. Among its many unique features, the new building has an updated dispatch Gerety, executive director of the full of beer in the other, and hearing center (above), a 24-hour ATM machine, an interview room and safe building entry .Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" on Brennan Center for Justice, New areas through the garage so those in custody can avoid the public if needed. the bar's speakers. York Law School. The symposium Now that Boat is dosed, I've will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. looked into options to have it rnopened. Basically, someone must Senior Vice !~resident of the buy the place and start all over. That OFFBEAT Center for Strategic and would costly roughly $500,000 or so.