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VOLUME 40 : ISSUE 62 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Lovitt granted clemency by Va. governor

Notre Dame students bought him time on death row Lovitt was slated to be the Approximately 40 Notre Whitewater independent coun­ — until the day before his 1000th person executed in the Dame students have met Lovitt sel Ken Starr. worked on death row scheduled execution, when United States since the — who was convicted in 1999 Finlen returned to D C. this Virginia Gov. Mark W arner, Supreme Court reinstated the of murdering a man with a pair summer as an intern for case, met convict troubled by death penalty in 1976, a dis­ of scissors — while taking Kirkland & Ellis, where he the destruc­ tinction that drew national Professor Tom Kellenberg’s spent 10 weeks working on tion of DNA media coverage in recent capital punishment litigation By MADDIE HANNA Lovitt’s clemency petition. He e v i d e n c e , weeks. course in the Washington had been at Kirkland & Ellis Associate News Editor granted “In this case, the actions of Program. Two of those stu­ for slightly more than a month Lovitt an agent of the dents, seniors Christin O’Brien when the Supreme Court Convicted murderer Robin clemency. Commonwealth, in a manner and Ryan Finlen, have been granted Lovitt a stay on July Lovitt watc­ Warner contrary to the express direc­ following Lovitt’s case closely 11, his original execution date. hed waves of S e e A ls o issued a tion of the law, comes at the since meeting him in fall 2004. “We were pretty excited I in Notre Dame s t a t e m e n t expense of a defendant facing “I’m ecstatic,” O’Brien said. the office],” Finlen said of the students “Va. governor Tuesday Lovitt society’s most severe and final “I think it’s definitely the right July 11 decision, which came come and go spares man’s evening that sanction,” Warner said in the decision. They worked tireless­ hours before the scheduled through the commuted Lovitt’s sentence to statement. “The ly on that ... He’s a great guy.” execution. University’s life ” life in prison without parole, Commonwealth must ensure Kirkland & Ellis, a D C. law The Court’s Oct. 3 decision Washington page 3 just before his scheduled that every time this ultimate firm headed by double Domer not to hear Lovitt’s case came Program Wednesday night execution by sanction is carried out, it is Tom Yannucci, handled Lovitt’s while cycles of legal appeals lethal injection. done fairly.” defense, and so did former see LOVITT/page ND offers elective aviation course SEA seeks

The course is currently By RYAN SYDLIK to lower taught by Dillon senior Lauren News Writer Centioli. “I got involved my freshman F l YUKE Posters publicizing year when I saw the posters emissions Fundamentals of Aviation — a for NDPI. ” Centioli said. “Since A C H A M P I O N relatively unknown course rFriel 1 was graduating that offered through the Notre year, the course would have Group joins Campus Dame Pilot Initiative — read ceased to exist if I had not Climate Challenge TODAY “Fly Like a Champion Today” come around. lie asked me if and encourage students to would teach it and I said yes.” rntnia itftjp learn to fly for elective credit. Centioli, a certified commer­ By JOE PIARULLI Though the University first cial pilot, flight instructor and offered a ground aviation ground instructor, said the News Writer course in 1973, the course program is an advanced iwdif.n Annual ended in 1977 because no ' ground school. When it comes to Notre professor remained to teach it. Holy Cross "Other programs teach you Dame, the word ‘admission’ But in recent years, the Missions just what you need to know to holds much more bearing than course has returned, thanks to pass the private pilot’s exam,” the word emission.’ But the the efforts of former Notre he said. “This class goes above Students for Environmental Dame students and currently wre Dame and beyond that. The scope is Action (SEA) are trying to give licensed pilots Joe Friel, Jeff i Folk Choir beyond that of simply passing the latter more attention. Newcamp and Brian the FAA test.” SEA co-president Nichole McCarthy. The purpose of the course is Mitchell recently decided to gel While at Notre Dame, the to fulfill one of the major Notre Dame involved in men taught the undergraduate 3 requirements for a pilot’s Campus Climate Challenge, a PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer course, under the guidance of license, Centioli said. With campaign through U.S. Public Notre Dame sophomore Christine Scacco reads the infor­ Air Force Reserve Officers’ Fundamentals of Aviation Interest Research Groups mational sign posted around dorms about the Training Corps (ROTC) profes­ (PIRG), with the hope of reduc­ Fundamentals of Aviations course offered at the University. sor Col. Michael Zenk. see AVIATlON/page 4 ing emissions on campus. Greenhouse gases naturally occur in the atmosphere and include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous Students begin planning for spring break oxide and ozone. But certain human activities add to the levels of these naturally occur­ ring gases — and become the Anthony Travel books students emissions the Campus Climate early for vacation destinations Challenge is aiming to control. The goal of Campus Climate Challenge is to get over 500 By LAURA BAUMGARTNER universities to lower their News Writer emissions by 2 percent each year below their 2005 levels in The holiday season has arrived and order to eliminate global brought with it a cold, snowy South Bend warming pollution. There arc winter — leaving many students dreaming currently 139 campuses of sun, sand, surf and 80-degree tempera­ involved nationwide. tures as they make spring break vacation “Energy conservation is a plans. worldwide initiative right Nearly 100 students have already booked now,” Mitchell said. “We have vacations through Anthony Travel, said a very ambitious and intelli­ Kayleon Carr, leisure manager for the gent student body and we agency. could really make a big differ­ “Typically we see about 600 students ence.” book through us per year,” Carr said. Some schools have gone as Carr said cruises and destinations in far as switching to renewable Mexico are usually the most popular vaca- PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer energy sources, while others Anthony Travel, the travel agency located in LaFortune Student Center, see BREAK/page 4 already has planned spring break trips for nearly 100 students. see CHALLENGE/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, November 30, 2005

In s id e C olu m n Question of the Day: W hat a r e you d o in g fo r s p r in g b r e a k? All I want for Christmas 'M6

I can still hear the warnings, the strict advice that I would receive E: every holiday season as a child. It Patrick Kaiser Jim Bochnowski Nate Origer Gessica Hufnagle Jimmy Wilson Greg Ramsower came from my parents, teachers and virtually every adult I knew, and it sophomore sophomore senior junior freshm an sophomore was the art of Fisher Fisher Fisher Walsh Alum ni Keough getting every­ Kelly Meehan thing you wanted “What kind of from Santa “I don’t know. “Visiting the “I’ll be playing “I’m going to “Touring with question is that softball in the Canada with Clause. A ssistant How many Rue McLanahan the Glee Club in “If you are a News Editor months away is before Museum. ” Kia Classic.” some friends. ” southern bad girl, you will Christmas get nothing but it?" California. ” coal from Santa,” break?" they scolded me. I could not even escape the questioning from the old man himself, for there is not a child in the world that sits on Santa’s lap without him asking if they had, in fact, been a good boy or girl that year. For the first seven years of my life, Santa Clause was pretty much In B r ie f equivalent to God in my mind. I was constantly told that he was watching my every move, knowing if I had Joseph Antcnucci Becherer, been bad or good. I sang songs Ph.D. will give two lectures on about him, baked cookies for him, “Between Silence and Strength, and even wrote long detailed letters the Sculpture of Dietrich to him. I was basically worshipping Klingc.” The first will be at 6 the man. p.m. tonight while the second As the years passed, the letters will be at 6:30 p.m. tonight. stopped, I realized I cannot sing and Both will be at the S n ite I ate the Christmas cookies that I Museum of Art. baked. 1 learned that I was a bit naive in first grade when 1 burst Kevin Ducey, 2004 winner of into tears days before Santa’s the Honickman First Book Prize arrival and confided in my mother in Poetry, will read at 7:30 p.m. that I did not believe I had done tonight in the Hospitality Room enough to please this mysterious all of South Dining Hall, Reckers. knowing man to receive the coveted A reception follows. American Girl Doll that I so desired. I learned if 1 was relatively well NDtv will present the “Mike behaved, I would rip open my gifts Peterson Show Christmas on Christmas morning to find that 1 Special” Thursday at 10 p.m. at had been deserving of Go-Go My Legends. The Late Night Talk Walking Puppy, a Cabbage Patch Show season-end special will Doll and even Molly, my American include live and taped comedy Girl Doll. segments and will feature the As a college student, however, the campus band Summersaults. holiday season sometimes becomes a jaded time filled with finals and PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer The Pittsburgh Symphony projects. I might have to shape up One of the first signs of Christmas on campus are the dorm decorations, including Orchestra will perform at 7:30 my behavior a bit or carve a large an inflatable snowman recently set up in front of Howard Hall. p.m. Thursday in the Leighton chunk of time out of my schedule to Concert Hall of the DeBartolo bake some gourmet cookies to get Performing Arts Center. Tickets my name on the good list. Even if I are $60 general public, $51 fac­ had the time to write a letter to O ffbeat ulty or staff, $51 seniors and Santa, what would I ask for? $20 all students. For starters, nothing I want would Man accused of deliberate incident occurred. deer. come from Toys-R-Us. finger severing The suspect told police Friz Konieczka doesn’t The Dance Company of Notre I would probably ask for Albert SALZBURG, A ustria — he was riding his bicycle want to take any chances Dame will perform Thursday Einstein or any other genius from Prosecutors on Tuesday when he lost control and because he heard about a and Friday at 7 p.m . in the past few centuries to miracu­ accused a former finger­ rolled down an embank­ neighbor’s horse being shot Washington Hall. The perform­ lously take my final exams for me. nail designer of deliberate­ ment and onto railroad during hunting season sev­ ance, entitled “Soul,” will fea­ Next would possibly be the reloca­ ly putting his hands tracks just as a train was eral years ago. ture various genres of dance, tion of South Bend to somewhere a beneath a passing train so passing by, losing a thumb Konieczka, a Clinton including jazz, lyrical and mod­ little more exotic than Indiana ... his fingers would be sev­ on one hand and an index County farmer, wants his ern. General admission tickets perhaps Costa Rica? ered and he could collect finger and a pinky on the animals to stand out — and are $3 and preferred seating is And finally, I would ask for that on a $1.17 million insur­ other. they do. Fluorescent $5. Tickets are available at the blue Volkswagen Jetta I have ance policy. orange paint lines their door or in advance by contacting desired for so long. The 35-year-old defen­ Farmer protects animals backs and heir sides. Ashley Lucchese at My wish list is definitely nothing dant from the town of St. with orange paint Konieczka said he’d [email protected] . that any Santa I know could fulfill, Johann, whose name was OGANTON, Pa. — With rather spend $5 for a can but Christmas is all about miracles, not released in line with deer hunters out all over of orange paint than have To submit information to be right? Oh, I would also let Santa Austrian privacy laws, is the woods, a farmer has one of his animals killed or included in this section of The know that this year he does not being tried on federal decided to paint his cows, injured. Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ need to travel all the way to Poland, charges of insurance fraud horses and even his dog mation about an event to Ohio from his humble abode in the stemming from claims filed bright orange to make sure Information compiled from [email protected] North Pole — just as long he has in Nov. 2003, w hen the they aren’t mistaken for the Associated Press. someone in the likes of Brad Pitt or Jake Gyllenhaal fill in for him.

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< C o r r e c t io n s o * # o HIGH 36 HIGH 27 HIGH 35 HIGH 33 HIGH 36 HIGH 34 In a Nov. 29 article, a broadcast journalism class was LOW 29 LOW 20 LOW 21 LOW 25 LOW 2 2 LOW 23 incorrectly identified as a broadcast journalism program. N o such program exists at the University. The Observer regrets the error. Atlanta 55 / 34 Boston 59 / 38 Chicago 37/ 30 Denver 43 / 24 Houston 70 / 57 Los Angeles 69 / 53 Minneapolis 26 / 18 New York 57 / 38 Philadelphia 56 / 34 Phoenix 70 / 47 Seattle 41 / 32 St. Louis 43 / 32 Tampa 69 / 49 Washington 52 /34 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 The Observer ♦ NATIONAL NLWS page 3 Va. governor spares man's life Convicted murderer

Lovitt, set to become 1,000th person executed in U.S., granted clemency indicted for '83 slaying

Associated Press since 1976. hall and the home of Lovitt’s Associated Press Cruz was acquitted during a The 1,000th execution is • cousin. third trial in 1995 after RICHMOND, Va. now scheduled for Friday in Lovitt admitted grabbing WHEATON, 111. — A convict­ spending almost a decade on Virginia’s governor on North Carolina, where the cash box but insisted ed murderer was indicted death row, and prosecutors Tuesday spared the life of a Kenneth Lee Boyd is slated someone else killed Dicks. Tuesday for the 1983 beating later dropped the charges convicted killer who would to die for killing his DNA tests on the scissors at death of a 10-year-old girl in against Hernandez. have been the 1,000th per­ estranged wife and her the time of the trial were the Chicago suburbs, the lat­ DNA testing was among the son executed in the United father. inconclusive. But more est development in a case factors that made the indict­ States since the Supreme The 999th execution since sophisticated DNA tech­ that put a spotlight on ment possible, Birkett said. Court allowed capital pun­ capital punishment resumed niques are now available. Illinois’ capital punishment “The past is the past. We’re ishment to resume in 1976. a generation ago took place The governor, who is con­ system. going forward. This indict­ Robin Lovitt’s death sen­ Tuesday morning, when sidered a possible Brian Dugan, 49, was ment is about the evidence tence was commuted to life Ohio put to death John Democratic presidential con­ charged with 15 counts in the available now, today,” Birkett in prison without parole a Hicks, who strangled his tender in 2008, said he was killing of Jeanine Nicarico of said. little more than 24 hours mother-in-law and suffocat­ “acutely aware of the tragic Naperville, whose slaying He planned to seek the before he was to be execut­ ed his 5-year-old stepdaugh­ loss experienced by the attracted national attention death penalty if Dugan is con­ ed by injection Wednesday ter to cover up the crime. Dicks family.” after two men were convicted victed. “I could not stomach night for stabbing a man to Lovitt’s lawyers, who “However, evidence in Mr. and sent to death row, then seeing this crime go unpun­ death with a pair of scissors include former independent Lovitt’s trial was destroyed freed years later. ished.” during a 1998 pool-hall rob­ counsel Kenneth Starr, and by a court employee” before “This is the result of a full Thomas McCulloch, Dugan’s bery. anti-death penalty advocates post-conviction DNA tests and open-minded investiga­ defense attorney since 1985, In granting clemency, Gov. had argued that his life could be done, he said. “The tion of the facts and circum­ said Dugan would projpably Mark R. Warner noted that should be spared because a actions of an agent of the stances of this case,” DuPage enter a plea of not guilty. evidence from the trial had court clerk illegally commonwealth, in a manner County State’s Attorney “I’m saddened but not sur­ been improperly destroyed, destroyed the bloody scis­ contrary to the express Joseph Birkett said. prised,” McCulloch said of the depriving the defense of the sors and other evidence, direction of the law, comes Nicarico was home alone indictment. “I think it’s a ter­ opportunity to subject the preventing DNA testing that at the expense of a defen­ from school recovering from rible waste of time and ener­ material to the latest in DNA they said could exonerate dant facing society’s most the flu on Feb. 25, 1983, gy. I wish they sp en t their testing. him. severe and final sanction.” when she was abducted, leav­ time and money elsewhere.” “The commonwealth must Ashley Parrish, another of The state attorney gener­ ing no sign but fingernail A message left at the home ensure that every time this Lovitt’s attorneys, called al’s office released a state­ scratches on the wall near the of Jeanine Nicarico’s parents ultimate sanction is carried Warner’s decision “entirely ment acknowledging the kicked-in front door. was not immediately out, it is done fairly,” proper, given the extraordi­ governor’s authority to grant Birkett said Dugan raped returned. Warner said in a statement. nary circumstances of Mr. clemency and adding, “Our and bludgeoned the girl to After Cruz’s acquittal, seven Warner, a Democrat, had Lovitt’s case.” thoughts and prayers are death. Her body was later DuPage County prosecutors never before granted Lovitt was convicted in with the victim’s family.” found in a nature preserve. and law officers were charged clemency to a death row 1999 of murdering Clayton In addition to Starr, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro in 1996 with lying and fabri­ inmate during his four years Dicks at an Arlington pool Republicans such as Mark Hernandez were convicted of cating evidence against Cruz in office. During that time, hall. Prosecutors said Dicks Earley, Warner’s GOP oppo­ the crime and condemned to in what prosecutors described 11 men have been executed. caught Lovitt prying open a nent in the 2001 gubernato­ death in 1985, but appeals as a conspiracy to railroad Virginia is one of the most cash register with the scis­ rial election, had also courts over the following him for the crime. All seven active death-penalty states, sors, which police found in denounced the planned exe­ decade twice reversed the were cleared in 1999 after a having executed 94 people the woods between the pool cution. convictions. high-profile trial.

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ever projects they propose from enrolling, as there is Farrand, one of the most sea­ that might make the Notre room for 30 students. soned pilots in the United Challenge Dame community aware of Aviation “Most people do not think of States and the first to fly a continued from page 1 the potential impact of global continued from page 1 an ROTC class as an elective,” powered parachute; Richard warming,” she said. “That he said. Levy, a Boeing 777 captain; have focused on increasing might consequently help us to being counted as ground Though the ROTC runs the and Col. Mel DeMar, a former environmental awareness. reduce our contribution to the school, a student is able to course, it is intended for civil­ Marine One pilot who served Since Notre Dame just causes of global warming.” continue to flight school and ians. Students are not two tours in which he trans­ joined the challenge, the pri­ For Fuderer, the motivation get his or her license. required to be in the armed ported now-former Presidents mary focus this year will be behind the movement is quite “We cover everything need­ forces to take it. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, on education, specifically in clear. ed for a private pilot’s “If more people knew people George H.W. Bush and Bill the dorms. “It’s because we believe, as license,” Centioli said. about the class, more people Clinton. “The Students for stewards of this earth, we can Topics covered in the course would take it,” Centioli said. In addition to visits by Environmental Action has find a more sustainable bal­ include aerodynamics, sys­ “The supply is there to meet guests, the students also get to had this ongoing ance between tems, performance, weight the demand.” take a trip to the South Bend competition consumption of and balance, navigation, flight A ground school course Regional Airport to see the between the the Earth’s planning, emergencies, weath­ taken elsewhere runs between control tower and static air­ dorms to reduce “We have a very resources and er, airports, airspace and com­ 200 to 400 dollars. With the craft displays. electricity, so ambitious and humanities munication, among others, Notre Dame Pilot Initiative, For those interested in the whatever dorm needs for a Centioli said. the cost is already covered by course, AS 30098 is offered wins gets some intelligent student healthy environ­ There are currently 18 stu­ tuition. Monday and Wednesday from form of a prize," body, and we could ment,” she said. dents registered for the course Fundamentals of Aviation 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. Mitchell said. really make a big “As a major pro­ in the spring — nearly triple also features guest speakers, “That’s been difference. ” ducer of the the number who had enrolled such as Sam Pavel, President going on for a world’s carbon in the fall. Centioli said stu­ of Experimental Aircraft Contact Ryan Sydlik at really long time, dioxide our dents should not be deterred Association in Elkhart; Lowell [email protected] but not many Nichole Mitchell country has an people know SEA co-president obligation to the aboutit.” rest of the world Part of the to mitigate that dents are concerned with Emily Addis, a Saint Mary’s goal this year is output.” Break when planning their travels. sophomore. “Our spring to increase awareness of that Mitchell said Notre Dame Some students said they are break will be two weeks of competition, but in the follow­ and other college campuses continued from page 1 waiting to final­ nonstop travel ing years, SEA will need more ■ are obviously parts of that ize their plans throughout as large-scale projects to reduce output, and there are many tion choices among students. because they are much of Europe emissions, Mitchell said*. ways they can help reduce “Puerto Vallarta and Cabo search in g for a “Our spring break as we can possi­ While the students will be carbon dioxide emissions. San Lucas have also been deal on airlines will be two weeks bly see.” the ones actually working “Notre Dame is becoming very popular,” she said. and hotels on of nonstop travel Other students toward emission reductions, more and more [environmen­ Following this trend, Joey popular Internet throughout as are using their the SEA will need cooperation tally conscious] through fac­ Maher, a junior at Notre travel sites. break to get from others around campus. ulty and students, but energy Dame, is planning a trip to “1 might be much of Europe asaw ay from “Hopefully the teachers are is a big issue we need to take Acapulco with several of his going to Montana we can possibly school and visit going to be the ones who talk into consideration,” Mitchell friends. with friends to see. ” family or rela­ with me to administrators,” said. “We were deciding between go skiing at Big tives. Mitchell said. “That’s who it The SEA hopes to raise Jamaica, Acapulco and one Sky,” said Kat “I’ll probably really needs to go through, is attention about the Campus other place,” he said. “But Kindt, a Saint Emily Addis just go to administrators.” Climate Challenge and get because of the hurricanes, we Mary’s junior. “It Notre Dame Arizona to visit decided it’s going to be depends on what my grandma,” Laura Fuderer, a member student input next semester sophomore of the Environment Group of by starting an educational Acapulco 2005, baby.” kind of price I Saint Mary’s jun­ the PFSA (Progressive campaign.. Maher said 15 to 50 people can find for ior Emily Faculty-Staff Alliance), said “For this year, we only have will be flying to Acapulco for flights. It’s really Griesemer said. the environmental groups on four months left, so education spring break. just all about the money.” “My friend and I are planning campus should work together of energy conservation would “We have a package that Not all students are plan­ on going on a summer abroad to come up with ways of be a big enough goal for us,” includes everything,” Maher ning the stereotypical trip to program, so I have to do reducing greenhouse gas Mitchell said. said. “We’re trying to get as paradise, including those who something inexpensive, like emissions. many people as possible to go will already be studying go to Arizona. “The Environment Group of because the more people we abroad. the PFSA is indeed hoping to Contact Joe Piarulli at have, the cheaper it will be.” “My roommate and I will be Contact Laura Baumgartner at work with the SEA on what­ [email protected] Cost is an issue many stu- in Rome next semester,” said lbaumgO 1 @saintmarys.edu

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International N e w s Vatican C ity

French tighten immigration rules PARIS — The French premier on Tuesday announced Lightened controls on immigration, Vatican defends policy on gay priests part of his government’s response to the coun­ try’s worst civil unrest in four decades. Authorities will increase enforcement of Policy will bar incoming gay priests, but will not apply to current gay priests requirements that immigrants seeking 10-year residency permits or French citizenship master the French language and integrate into society, Associated Press Dominique de Villepin said. France also plans to crack down on fraudu­ VATICAN CITY — The lent marriages that some immigrants use to Vatican defended a policy acquire residency rights and launch a stricter statement designed to keep screening process for foreign students, Villepin men with “deep-seated” said. homosexual tendencies Anti-racism groups widely opposed the meas­ from becoming priests, but ures, saying that greater government scrutiny said there would be no of immigrants could stir up racism and racist crackdown on gays who are acts. already ordained. Roth Villepin and Interior Minister Nicolas The Vatican document, Sarkozy have announced law-and-order meas­ the first major policy state­ ures since the rioting broke out this month in ment of Pope Benedict XVI’s depressed suburbs where many immigrants papacy, was officially live. The two — both members of President released Tuesday after Jacques Chirac’s conservative party — are being leaked earlier. expected to run for president in 2007, and both Conservatives have said it want to appear firm in response to the violence may help reverse the “gay and France’s broader social problems. culture” of many U.S. semi­ naries, while liberal critics Opposition group quits election bid complain the restrictions CARACAS, Venezuela — Three Venezuelan will create morale problems opposition parties pulled out of congressional among clergy and lead to elections Tuesday, live days before the vote, say­ an even greater priest ing the conditions are tilted toward President shortage in the United Hugo Chavez’s allies. States. The government insisted Sunday’s elections The Rev. James Martin, a will be clean, but the parties’ defections appear U.S. Jesuit who has written to set up a major political confrontation before on the issue, said American a vote long predicted to be a resounding victory theologians, canon lawyers for pro-Chavez candidates. and other Roman Catholics will “hope that the docu­ ment won’t really mean what it says.” But he N ational N e w s believes it’s clear the Vatican wants to keep gay men from being ordained — Deacons of the Rome Diocese lie in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican during ordination cel­ Clinton defends vote on Iraq war even if they’re committed to WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham ebrated by Pope John Paul II in 2004. The Vatican released a document Tuesday prohibiting celibacy — and hopes bish­ Clinton on Tuesday defended her vote to men with “”deep«eated” homosexual tendencies from becoming priests. ops and seminary rectors authorize war in Iraq amid growing unease will act accordingly. abuse.” more likely than heterosex­ tion of long-standing church among liberal Democrats who could deter­ Martin predicted “a slow, The official “Instruction” uals to molest young peo­ teaching, saying that “in mine the potential 2008 presidential candi­ silent attrition among celi­ from the Congregation for ple, but that did not stifle this field, in today’s world, date’s future. bate gay men who cannot Catholic Education was questions about gay semi­ there is some confusion.” “I take responsibility for my vote, and I, accept the idea of staying in released a week after an narians. “Many defend the position along with a majority of Americans, expect an organization that con­ Italian Catholic news The Instruction said men according to which the. the president and his administration to demns their existence in the agency posted a leaked “who practice homosexuali­ homosexual condition is a take responsibility for the false assurances, priesthood.” copy on its Web site. ty, present deep-seated normal condition for the faulty evidence and mismanagement of the Matt Foreman of The document has been homosexual tendencies or human being, as if it were war,” the New York senator said in a America’s National Gay and in the works for years, but support the so-called ‘gay nearly a third gender,” lengthy letter to thousands of people who Lesbian Task Force called its existence came to light in culture’” cannot be admit­ Cardinal Zenon have written her about the war. the document “appalling,” 2002 at the height of the ted to seminaries. The only Grocholewski told Vatican At the same time, she said the United saying it was an affront to clergy sex abuse scandal in exception would be for Radio. States must “finish what it started” in Iraq. thousands of gay priests. He the United States. A study those with a “transitory He also made clear the accused the Vatican of “a commissioned by U.S. bish­ problem ” that had been Instruction was intended for City launches new wireless network calculated campaign to ops found most abuse vic­ overcome for at least three candidates for the priest­ NFW — To help boost its stalled ORLEANS blame gay men for the tims since 1950 were ado­ years. hood and not someone who economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is church’s own criminal con­ lescent boys. The head of the education “discovers his homosexu­ offering the nation’s first free wireless duct in fostering and cover­ Experts on sex offenders congregation defended the ality after having been Internet network owned and run by a major ing up decades of sex say homosexuals are no document as a clear reflec­ ordained. ” city. Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the system would benefit residents and small businesses who still can’t get their Internet service restored over the city’s washed out telephone network, while showing the nation “that we Bush: Military to not leave Iraq without victory are building New Orleans back. ” The system started operation Tuesday in the central business district and French Associated Press tinues to claim American lives has And I want our troops to come Quarter. It’s to be available throughout the contributed to a drop in Bush’s pop­ home,” the president said. “But I city in about a year. WASHINGTON — President Bush ularity, to its lowest level yet, and to don’t want them to come home with­ said Tuesday a U.S. military pullout growing doubts about the war. It out having achieved victory.” from Iraq would be a terrible mis­ also has led to a debate in Congress His speech Wednesday at take, beginning a new push defend­ about when the 160,000 U.S. troops Annapolis, Md., was to focus on Local N e w s ing his embattled war policy. His there should begin to come home. progress in the effort to train an Pentagon chief said, “Quitting is not The GOP-controlled Senate voted Iraqi security force and allow the an exit strategy.” 79-19 this month to urge the presi­ gradual exit of U.S. military forces. County to impose jury duty fines Defense Secretary Donald H. dent to outline a strategy for “the Later speeches over the next two INDIANAPOLIS — Marion County’s judges Rumsfeld said of the Iraqis, “They successful completion of the mis­ weeks are to emphasize the strides might begin imposing fines or community know that they’re the ones that arc sion.” Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., being made in establishing a stable, service next year to punish the growing going to have to grab that country. attracted attention with his call for a democratic government and creating number of people failing to show up for jury And it’s time.” withdrawal within six months. a viable economy. duty. The administration is under pres­ The administration has responded In June, Bush delivered a prime­ Since May, the number of residents sure to convince increasingly skepti­ by counseling patience while also time address from Fort Bragg, N.C., ordered to report for jury duty who actually cal Americans that the president’s signaling it is planning for a way on the first anniversary of Iraq’s sov­ showed up has dropped more than 20 per­ strategy for Iraq is headed in the out. Bush, speaking to reporters ereignty. Later in the summer, the cent in the county. Court officials are at a right direction. The president is to from El Paso, Texas, rejected any president tried to blunt the message loss to explain why fewer than four of every give a speech on the subject immediate withdrawal in unusually of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, 10 Marion County residents now bother to Wednesday at the Naval Academy. personal terms. who camped outside his Texas appear. The unrelenting violence that con­ “I want to defeat the terrorists. ranch. The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEVCS Wednesday, November 30, 2005

present for decades, but not have been executed] innocent,” seriously considered, since Arnold said. “Have we sent Lovitt capital punishment is included some people to their deaths?” Professor sheds light continued from page 1 in the U.S. constitution. Law professor Jay Tidmarsh But in 1972, the landmark said while “there’s always as “kind of a blow, really,” Furman v. Georgia case argument about whether or not on infant co-sleeping Finlen said. “One more option prompted the Supreme Court [the death penalty] is really a not available.” to void the death penalty deterrent,” innocence is a dif­ Lovitt’s case focused largely statutes of 40 states and com­ ferent kind of argument. on an Arlington court clerk’s muted 629 death row sen­ In an imperfect world, “we Special to the Observer Dame’s Mother-Baby destruction of DNA evidence tences, according to informa­ struggle with the fact of imper­ Behavioral Sleep Laboratory that defense attorneys said tion provided by the Death fection,” he said. If sleepless nights and and a renowned expert on could have been used in his Penalty Information Center. And Tidmarsh said innocence stretch marks aren’t enough, infant co-sleeping, breast­ appeal to prove the innocence Garnett said while the doesn’t necessarily mean free­ new mothers also can expect feeding and sudden infant Lovitt has maintained from the Furman case did not say the dom from punishment. a litany of unsolicited and death syndrome (SIDS), beginning. death penalty was “always and “You don’t have a federal often uncompromising opin­ served as one of three expert Other controversial aspects everywhere unconstitutional,” constitutional right to be ions and judgments on the panel members for the AAP of the case included the validi­ it required the modification of released from custody because best way to care for their committee that made this ty of a jailhouse snitch’s testi­ state statutes to include two you’re innocent,” Tidmarsh babies. most recent recommendation mony against Lovitt and the key legal buzzwords: “narrow­ said. “It may sound bizarre, Even the medical communi­ against bed-sharing. initial, defense team’s failure to ing” and “individualization.” but it’s true ... as long as pro­ ty is divided on questions of However, he voted against the investigate Lovitt’s troubled “The death penalty has to be cedural [aspects] are fair.” infant care, with conflicting recommendation. childhood background — administered using statutes Garnett mentioned debate information and shifting Based on his scientific stud­ something the Supreme Court more narrowly crafted,” about racial issues, that some directives issued every few ies and familiarity with how has explicitly required in the Garnett said. “It’s not for every people argue the current sys­ years to new parents. mothers bed share and what past, Starr told The Observer murder, but ‘aggravated’ mur­ tem is not “colorblind.” Should babies be breast-fed it means to families, McKenna last April. ders ... and the jury must con­ Arnold also cited a religious or bottle-fed? For how long? points to the differences Finlen is “absolutely thrilled” sider potential mitigating cir­ aspect to recent discussion — Is it safe to sleep with new­ among contemporary cultural with W arner’s decision and cumstances.” the Catholic Church’s stand borns? If so, for a few months practices, personal prefer­ called it “great news” for both In 1976, the Gregg v. Georgia against capital punishment, a or for several years? Are ences and just good science. Lovitt and his attorneys. case presented revised state position voiced by the late Pope babies safest sleeping on “The truth is, not all fami­ Kirkland & Ellis released a statutes to the Supreme Court, John Paul II. their backs or their tummies? lies and babies are the same,” statement Tuesday commend­ which approved the changes For Garnett, who believes the The American Academy of he said. “Bed sharing is a het­ ing Warner’s decision as and made the death penalty death penalty should be abol­ Pediatrics (AAP), regarded by erogeneous practice with out­ “entirely proper given the permissible as outlined by the ished because “it distorts our many as the authority on comes ranging from lethal extraordinary circumstances of new statutes. law, and it costs too much, and infant well-being, recently when practiced unsafely to Mr. Lovitt’s case.” “The pipeline started again,” it doesn’t yield significant ben­ reversed recommendations it being beneficial and protec­ But while Lovitt’s sentence Garnett said. “Capital cases efits,” it’s this last point that is issued earlier this year, and tive when practiced safely. was commuted, Finlen said he take a long time ... [so it] took the most important, the “deep­ now cautions against “any McKenna considers infant thought the decision could a while for the pipeline to start er reason.” and all mother-infant bed co-sleeping unsafe when actually strengthen Virginia’s flowing.” “I’m inclined to agree with sharing.” Along with that either or both parents are capital punishment system. The complex process meant a the late Pope, ” he said. “It’s reversal came the recommen­ chemically impaired; if the “Robin is saved, but on the “backlog” of cases, which more consistent with the cul­ dation that all babies use m other smokes, sleeps in a other hand, this may provide a aqcounts for the increased rate ture of life.” pacifiers during sleep — quite chair, sofa or recliner with a legitimacy to the death penalty of executions in the 1990s, Finlen said his experience a change from its earlier baby; when babies are placed in Virginia,” Finlen said. Garnett said. working on Lovitt’s case and position issued in February of on thick pillows; when other “Proponents [of the death researching the death penalty this year that encouraged, children are permitted to penalty] will likely say that the The now for a project through the among other things, “exclu­ sleep in the same bed; or if governor’s actions indicate that Political science professor Hesburgh Program in Public sive breast-feeding for the baby is placed in the clemency power is providing Peri Arnold said he felt debate Service opened his eyes to dif­ approximately the first six prone — or tummy — position the necessary failsafe to capital about capital punishment has ferent sides of the issue and months and support for to sleep. punishment.” increased in recent years. shifted his perspective. breast-feeding for the first “The AAP ‘one-size-fits-all’ In his statement, Warner said “We increasingly become “You have to have a foolproof year and beyond as long as recommendation certainly clemency should be reserved sensitive to the racial disparity system, or you can’t have one mutually desired by mother shows that Western medical for “the most extraordinary in capital punishment,” Arnold at all,” he said. and child.” authoritative knowledge has circumstances.” said. “That leads some people Confusing, isn’t it? failed to learn tragic lessons “Among these are circum­ to think there’s injustice in the Contact Maddie Hanna at Anthropologist James from our past,” says stances in which the normal death penalty.” mhannal @nd.edu McKenna, director of Notre McKenna. and honored processes of our The other major point of judicial system do not provide d eb ate, Arnold said, is adequate relief — circum­ “increasing suspicion that not University of Notre Dame Department of Music Presents stances that, in fact, require everybody who goes to their executive intervention to reaf­ death is not necessarily found firm public confidence in our guilty.” U n i v e r s i t y o f N o t r e D a m e justice system,” Warner said. The potential for innocence was a key point in Lovitt’s case The then and the reason former Illinois C h o r a l e &Chamber O rchestra Notre Dame law professor governor George Ryan institut­ Richard Garnett said chal­ ed the nation’s first moratori­ A l e x a n d e r B l a c h l y , D i r e c t o r lenges to the death penalty — a um on state executions in practice currently allowed in 2000. 38 U.S. states — have been “We’ve found some [who HANDEL'S

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CANADIAN $ 1.1 691 Opening statements for the plaintiff — Irvin’s widow, Evelyn Irvin Plunkett — took about an hour and Evelyn Irvin Plunkett, the plaintiff in the Vioxx trial, leaves the Federal Court In In B r ief Merck’s opening took Houston on Tuesday. Plunkett claims Vioxx caused her husband’s fatal heart attack. about the same time. U.S. eases ban on poultry imports The case is in Houston “There was nothing that the drug doubled risk of lems before it was WASHINGTON — The United States has rather than its original would have triggered a heart attack or stroke if launched. Birchfield quot­ relaxed a ban on poultry imports from British venue of New Orleans fatal heart attack except taken for 18 m onths or ed from internal e-mails, Columbia initially sparked by the discovery of because of damage for Vioxx,” Plunkett’s longer. By then, more than including some from bird flu in a duck raised in the Canadian wrought by Hurricane attorney Andy Birchfield 20 million Americans had Merck scientists who province. Katrina. told jurors. used Vioxx. raised warning flags about The strain of bird flu is now known to be Jurors will be asked to This is the third trial Birchfield told jurors its cardiovascular risks, to low-pathogenic and poses no threat to human decide whether Vioxx con­ Merck is facing over that Merck likes to cherry support his assertions. health, unlike the more virulent form in Asia tributed to the fatal heart Vioxx’s safety. It lost the pick the 18-month hall­ Merck made a “premedi­ that has killed dozens of people, the attack Irvin suffered in first state trial in Texas mark to demonstrate that tated, financial decision” Agriculture Department. May 2001. The 53-year-old last August, but scored a the drug could not have not to warn patients about U.S. officials said they banned on Nov. 21 all manager of a wholesale victory in its home state of caused problem s in the drug’s risks because it poultry imports from British Columbia until seafood distributor in St. New Jersey earlier this patients who look it for a wanted the revenue the their Canadian counterparts could identify the Augustine, Fla. had been month. shorter time. But he told former $2.5 billion seller virus, later found on a second, nearby farm as taking the drug for about a Whitehouse Station, N.J.- jurors a study showed would generate, and well. Several Asian countries that quickly fol­ month to alleviate back based Merck withdrew Vioxx can cause problems longed to beat Pfizer Inc.’s lowed the U.S. lead now are expected to relax pain when his co-workers Vioxx from the market in after just seven days. competing drug Celebrex their bans as well. found him dead at his September 2004 after a He said that Merck knew in the m ark etp lace, In the days after the Nov. 18 discovery of the desk. long-term study showed about Vioxx’s safely prob­ Birchfield said. virus, Canadian officials killed nearly 58,000 ducks and geese on the two farms, located outside Vancouver, said Brian Evans, Canada’s chief veterinary officer. Disability benefit programs declared outdated Goldman Sachs builds headquarters NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs broke ground Tuesday on its $2.4 billion headquarters near Associated Press benefit programs are based on a pol­ recommendations,” Social Security the World Trade Center site, which state lead­ icy principle that assumes that the Administration spokesman Mark ers hope will serve as the catalyst to lure WASHINGTON — Federal rules presence of a significant disability Lassiter said. other financial companies to millions of used to determine who’s disabled are and lack of substantial earnings Congress and the agency have square feet of proposed office space. nearly 50 years old and need to be equate with a complete inability to made it easier for Americans who "If Goldman builds here, others will come. updated to reflect economic, medical work, ” council chairman Lex Frieden collect disability to make more while And we need others to com e,” U.S. Sen. and technological advances, a gov­ wrote President Bush in submitting retaining their benefits, according to Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said at the ceremony ernment panel says. the report, which assesses efforts to the council. However, less than half to mark the beginning of construction on the Many Americans with disabilities promote employment among the dis­ of one percent of those receiving 43-story tower just south of the site. are willing and able to work but abled. either supplemental security income State and city officials went through months remain thwarted from seeking jobs Also, federal efforts to make it eas­ or disability insurance ever leave the of negotiations to persuade Goldman Sachs to by Social Security Administration ier for the disabled to work have had rolls to seek work, the council said, build and struck a deal in August that includes guidelines that discourage economic little effect since few people are citing Social Security and General $ 1.65 billion in tax-exem pt governm ent independence, according to the aware of the incentives and how they Accounting Office reports. bonds. National Council on Disability report affect access to benefits and health “The bottom line, from my per­ The headquarters, with 2.1 million square being released Wednesday. care, the report found. And the spective, is the biggest programs that feet of office space to house at least 9,000 Applicants for disability insurance months and years it can take benefi­ serve people with disabilities are employees, is scheduled for completion in must prove a complete inability to ciaries to convince Social Security from an era when expectations were 2009. engage in “substantial gainful activi­ that they are disabled and cannot not as great as they are today.” said “Goldman Sachs has called Lower ty,” according to rules adopted in work can leave them leery of Andrew Imparato, president of the Manhattan its home for 136 years and we are 1956. About 6.5 million people enrolling in any employment or American Association of People with proud to reaffirm our commitment to this received disability benefits in 2002, training program that might jeopard­ Disabilities. There was no expecta­ neighborhood and to the city of New York,” according to the latest available ize their benefits, including Medicaid tion that the disabled would over said Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chairman and data. or Medicare, it said. want to buy a home, have a career CEO Henry M. Paulson. “Our nation’s current disability “We will be looking carefully at the or start a family, Imparato said. page 8 The Observer ♦ NATIONAL NEWS Wednesday, November 30, 2005 Teen pleads guilty to ABC, CBS to air movies on Pope school shooting Networks go head-to-head with controversial movies about John Paul II Associated Press CBS’s more leisurely pace after a right-wing death squad Associated Press “Unfortunately, some of it allows storytelling flow and murders Romero. Third, when might be perceived as threat­ NEW YORK — Controversial narrative context. Filmed in America’s molestation scandal MINNEAPOLIS — The ening or inappropriate,” he depictions of romance, hero­ Poland and Rome, it also bene­ erupts in 2002, an aide says teenage son of a tribal chair­ said. “And that is basically ism, anti-Communism and fits from Academy Award win­ “they accuse you too” and man pleaded guilty Tuesday to what he’s decided that he is molestation scandals are part ner Jon Voight’s portrayal of John Paul replies, “I accept a criminal charge for his role admitting to today.” of two new biopics on the life John Paul from his elevation to this criticism.... I have asked in shootings that left 10 people The rampage started when of Pope John Paul II. his death. for forgiveness.” dead on an Indian reservation Weise killed his grandfather When TV networks pursue However, it’s disconcerting There’s no corroboration for last March. and his grandfather’s girl­ the same ideas they typically that CBS has Cary Elwes (Dr. either incident. Louis Jourdain, 17, pleaded friend, then went to Red Lake pretend otherwise. But there Lawrence Gordon from “Saw”) Though most previous popes guilty to threatening interstate High School, where he killed was unambiguous rivalry as playing Wojtyla as an adult were cloistered young adults, communications, according to seven people in the nation’s ABC and CBS ru sh ed th eir through the conclave that Wojtyla was a handsome am a­ a docket released by a federal worst school shooting since movies through production made him pope. All of a sud­ teur actor at university, and all court in St. Paul. Columbine. after John Paul’s death April den, Voight materializes as the three TV depictions toy with Two other charges — con­ Jourdain was arrested a 2. brand-new pope on the bal­ his relationships to women. spiracy to commit murder and week after the shooting and Now they’re airing almost cony overlooking St. Peters The Hallmark Channel had conspiracy to commit offenses remained jailed Tuesday. His head-to-head: ABC’s two-hour Square. Wojtyla kiss a woman, but only against the United States — trial had been expected to “Have No Fear: The Life of CBS sought and received to fool Nazi soldiers. ABC’s were dropped. begin in mid-December in fed­ Pope John Raul II” at 8 p.m. Pope Benedict XVI’s blessing racier Wojtyla delivers a warm The docket, some of which eral juvenile court. EST on Thursday, and CBS’s at a Nov. 17 screening, while kiss to a classmate, but she had been blacked out, gave few Floyd Jourdain said his son two-part “Pope John Paul II” ABC emphasizes that it pro­ says no liaison is possible details of the charge, saying “admits to his wrongheaded at 9 p.m. Sunday and the fol­ ceeded without Vatican assis­ because she’s Jewish. With only that Jourdain used a com­ and inappropriate use of the lowing Wednesday at 8. tance. For the most part that CBS, Wojtyla walks arm in arm puter to conduct interstate Internet, but he does not Both productions portray a makes little difference _ but with a woman, but says he’s communications that “could be accept responsibility for the 10 remarkable man who worked three ABC scenes will spark too occupied with Nazi occu­ taken by an objective observer lives lost at Red Lake on March with Christian colleagues to debate. pation to think of romance. as threatening” sometime 21 because he is not responsi­ outlast brutal tyranny under When Polish workers rise The most intriguing bit, between Jan. 1, 2003 and ble.” both Nazis and Communists, against their Communist over­ plausible but hard to prove, is March 2005. Carol Stillday Spears, whose preaching resolute resistance lords and Soviet troops mass on CBS: Most of the proceedings 15-year-old daughter, without descending to terror­ near the border, ABC has John Warsaw’s indomitable involving Jourdain have been Thurlene, was killed, said she ism. He then becam e one of Paul notifying the Kremlin that Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, closed to the public because of was frustrated to hear that the history’s great popes. if it invades Poland, “I will who was incarcerated by both his age, and the release of the more serious charges against Neither film measures up to relinquish the throne of St. Hitler and Stalin, omits docket marked the first time Jourdain were dropped. the Hallmark Channel’s “A Peter and stand at the barri­ Wojtyla on his list of bishop the charges were even dis­ “I think he should be pun­ Man Who Became Pope,” a cades with my fellow Poles.” candidates submitted to the closed. ished. 1 lost my baby over four-hour European epic that There’s no evidence for that Polish Communists for Jourdain is the son of Floyd there,” Spears said. Her two aired in August. But both new implausible claim. approval. The regime rejects Jourdain Jr., the tribal chair­ other teenage daughters do not films are lavishly produced, CBS avoids such mythologi­ all names on the list and man of the Red Lake Band of attend the school because they well-acted and eminently cal heroics, but perpetuates Wojtyla becomes a bishop at a Chippewa. He was also a friend are still scared. watchable for believer and the equally debatable claim notably young 38. of 16-year-old Jeff Weise, who Red Lake Principal Chris skeptic alike. that after meeting President Did Wyszynski bypass shot and killed nine people on Dunshee said he hopes the plea ABC’s effort, filmed in Reagan in private, John Paul Wojtyla as too nave about the northern Minnesota reser­ “will lend to the healing Lithuania and Rome, casts reported that “we decided to Communism, or too liberal on vation before killing himself. process and not be something Thomas Kretschmann (Captain work together” against church issues? Or did he know Floyd Jourdain said authori­ that will cause more divisive­ Hosenfeld in “The Pianist”) as Communism. his endorsement would be the ties examined about 400 pages ness.” Wojtyla. It suffers from cram­ Second, ABC has John Paul kiss of death and purposely of text messages from his son Messages left at the office of ming vast material into limited b e ra tin g El Salvador plot to make sure Wojtyla that covered everything “from Jourdain’s attorney, Jon time, with the tale jerking Archbishop Oscar Romero over became a bishop? girls to music to video games to Hopeman, were not immedi­ along from one vignette to the his Marxist-tinged theology, The question lingers after movies.” ately returned. next. then being stricken with guilt the credits fade. Possibility of cocaine trafficking on the rise Stop Shopping! Associated Press tive and better prepared because these are routes that WASHINGTON — More not only move illicit drugs cocaine is likely to come into today, but can easily move the United States from South other more dangerous com­ America as the U.S. diverts modities such as terrorists in resources from its drug-control the future,” said Sen. Charles strategy to hurricane relief and Grassley, R-Iowa, who request­ the war on terror, congression­ ed the study. al investigators say. In the report, the GAO point­ The report prepared by the ed in particular to reduced use Government Accountability of the Navy’s P-3 maritime Office, an investigative arm of patrol aircraft “due to struc­ Congress, found th at U.S. tural problems,” a slowing w cocaine seizures from 2000 to Coast Guard response because 2004 increased by 68 percent of aging ships, and a surface : to a record 196 metric tons in radar system on Coast Guard the “transit zone,” the area aircraft that is “often inopera­ between the U.S. and South ble.” America. Since fiscal year 2000, the But the Pentagon’s attention number of hours flown by the to arm ed conflicts in Navy P-3s has decreased near­ Afghanistan and Iraq and the ly 60 percent to about 1,500 monthly tuition Homeland Security hours in fiscal year 2005, m & board payments, Department’s focus on according to the study. Hurricane Katrina threaten to “Various factors pose chal­ hair c u t and grab undermine recent achieve­ lenges to maintaining the cur­ ments, the GAO said in its rent level of transit zone inter­ at LaFortune report. diction operations,” the GAO The report, an advance copy said in calling on the Pentagon Center! of which was obtained by The and Homeland Security to Associated Press, offers a develop a long-term strategy to sobering look at the future of plan for a likely shortfall in NOTRE DAME government efforts to stymie ships and aircraft. FEDERAL CREDIT UNION America’s $65 billion illegal In their official responses, drug habit. It notes that while the departments said they You can bank on us drug seizures have increased, were working to boost U.S. cocaine supplies and the resources for drug control but to be better number of users (2 million) acknowledged they were con­ 021 LaFortune Student Center have not fallen, apparently due strained partly by the per­ 574/631 -8222 • www.ndfcu.org to a rise in shipments. ceived threat level as well as “We need to be more effec­ availability of funding. ______Independent of the University ______Wednesday, November 30, 2005 The Observer ♦ INTERNATIONAL NEWS page 9

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Associated Press ernment want to keep some issued early in the summer of nuclear plants going, although 2006 and will address the pos­ activists held hostage LONDON — Prime Minister the Social Democrats in the sibility of a new generation of Tony Blair opened a fierce power-sharing Cabinet insist nuclear reactors that could debate on energy and the on sticking with a plan to shut­ help provide enough energy Associated Press The group’s first activists environment Tuesday, saying ter all those facilities by 2021. for Britain, Blair said. BAGHDAD, Iraq — After a went to Iraq in 2002, six the British government will Italy’s industry minister said Energy Minister Malcolm monthslong hiatus in the kid­ months before the U.S.-led consider building a new gen­ earlier this year that the pub­ Wicks, who is leading the napping of foreigners, televi­ invasion, Phillips said, adding eration of nuclear power lic’s negative feelings about review, said it will also look at sion footage once again that a main mission since the plants. atomic power were weaken­ coal, gas, renewable energy showed Westerners held cap- invasion has been document­ In a speech briefly delayed ing. sources and other new tech­ live: A German archaeologist ing alleged human rights by anti-nuclear activists, Blair Opponents, including many nologies. It will also examine — bound and blindfolded — abuses by U.S. forces. said an energy study due to be in Blair’s governing Labour energy efficiency and the knelt among masked gunmen Loney, a community worker, finished next summer would Party, worry about accidents energy used for transporta­ in one video and four fright­ was leading the Christian look specifically at nuclear or terrorist attacks at nuclear tion. ened peace activists were group’s delegation in Iraq. power. plants and the need to dispose Nuclear power now provides shown in another blurry tape. Fox, the captive from He acknowledged that of radioactive waste safely. a fifth of Britain’s electricity, The latest attacks are part of Virginia, has two children, reconsideration of a long­ Advocates say nuclear but the country’s 12 nuclear a new wave of kidnappings plays the bass clarinet and the standing move away from the power, which does not gener­ power plants are aging and police fear is aimed at disrupt­ recorder and worked as a pro­ use of atomic reactors to gen­ ate greenhouse gases that con­ unless replaced will provide ing next month’s national elec­ fessional grocer and at a erate electricity is a “difficult tribute to global warming, is only 4 percent of electricity by tions. Quaker youth camp, according and challenging" issue. environmentally beneficial. 2010. There was other violence to the statement. “What we need is a serious They also believe it will David Willetts, trade and Tuesday: Two American sol­ Sooden was studying for a debate, not one conducted by become increasingly necessary industry spokesman for the diers were killed by a roadside masters degree in English lit­ protest or demonstration to as world oil supplies tighten. opposition Conservative Party, bomb north of Baghdad, a erature at Auckland University stop people expressing their “The issue back on the agen­ said the energy review was Sunni cleric was assassinated in New Zealand to prepare for views,” he said, referring to da with a vengeance is energy crucial. as he left a mosque, and a sui­ a teaching career. two Greenpeace activists who policy,” Blair said. “Energy “People want to know that cide car bomber killed eight Kember is a longtime peace climbed into the rafters of a prices have risen. Energy sup­ when they (lick the switch the Iraqi soldiers and wounded activist who once fretted pub­ London conference hall, forc­ ply is under threat. Climate light will come on, that their five. licly that he was taking the ing Blair’s speech to be moved change is producing a sense of fuel bills are affordable; and But while assassinations and easy way out by protesting in to a nearby site. urgency.” that we meeting our targets to car bombings have raged on, safety at home while British Many Europeans have For Britain, the problem is cut (carbon dioxide) emis­ abductions of foreigners had soldiers risked their lives in strongly opposed nuclear getting worse as oil and natu­ sions,” he said. fallen off in Iraq as most Iraq. He and his wife of 45 power plants since the 1986 ral gas production in its own Greenpeace rejected the idea Westerners lied the country or years have two daughters and Chernobyl reactor disaster North Sea fields declines. Blair of building new nuclear plants. took refuge in heavily guarded a grandson, the group said. increased fears about its safe­ said that by 2020, coal and “Nuclear power is not the compounds. The brief, blurry tape was ty, but Britain is not alone in nuclear plants that now gener­ answer to climate change — Since Friday, however, 11 shown the same day a televi­ beginning to rethink that aver­ ate more than 30 percent of it’s costly, dangerous and a foreigners, including an sion station displayed a photo sion. the country’s electricity supply terrorist target,” said Stephen American, have been abduct­ of the German hostage. The Finland this year became the will be decommissioned. Tin dale, director of the group’s ed. Six were Iranian pilgrims kidnappers threatened to kill first western European coun­ “Some of this will be British branch. — though Iranian television Susanne Osthoff and her Iraqi try to begin construction of a replaced by renewables, but The two Greenpeace protest­ said all were later released. driver unless Germany halts reactor since 1991. France, not all of it can,” he argued. ers delayed Blair’s speech On Tuesday, A l-Jazeera all contacts with the Iraqi gov­ which already generates much “In Britain, on any basis, we when they got up in the rafters broadcast video of the four ernment. of its electricity with nuclear also have the issue of our of the conference hall and peace activists held by a previ­ Osthoff and her Iraqi driver plants, plans to start building transition from being self-suf­ unfurled a banner reading: ously unknown group calling were kidnapped Friday, and a new-generation reactor in ficient in gas supply to being “Nuclear: wrong answer.” itself the Swords of German’s ARD public televi­ 2007. an importer.” Police said they were detained Righteousness Brigade. sion said it obtained a video in The conservatives in A government policy paper on suspicion of aggravated The group claimed its which the kidnappers made Germany’s new coalition gov­ on energy resources will be trespassing. hostages were spies working their threats. The station post­ under the cover of Christian ed a photo on its Web site peace activists. The captives showing w hat appears to be — the American, a Briton and Osthoff and her driver blind­ two Canadians — were mem­ folded on the floor, with three bers of the Chicago-based aid masked militants standing by, group Christian Peacemaker one with a rocket-propelled Teams, which confirmed they grenade. Want to be in charge disappeared Saturday. A German newspaper, the The footage showed Norman Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung, Kember, a retired British pro­ reported that Osthoff had of the largest concert fessor with a shock of white received a kidnap threat last hair, sitting on the floor with summer from extremists three other men. The camera linked tt> al-Qaida in Iraq on campus? revealed the 74-year-old leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Kember’s passport, but the and that U.S. soldiers brought other hostages were not iden­ her from Mosul to Baghdad for tified. her own safety. However, Christian Lt. Col. B arry Johnson, a Peacemaker Teams confirmed U.S. military spokesman, said that the others were Tom Fox, he was unaware of the report THE SHOW 54, of Clearbrook, Va.; James but if true, such a move would Loney, 41, of Toronto; and have been with the knowledge Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, a of the German government Canadian electrical engineer. and “we would ultimately In a statement, Christian leave it to them ” to comment. P eacem ak er Team s said it Os th off’s m o th er told strongly opposed the U.S. Germany’s N24 news station invasion of Iraq and blamed that her daughter was an the kidnapping on coalition archaeologist who was work­ forces. ing for a German aid organi­ “We are angry because what zation distributing medicine has happened to our team­ and medical supplies since mates is the result of the before the 2003 U.S. invasion actions of the U.S. and U.K. of Iraq. government due to the illegal Germany has ruled out send­ attack on Iraq and the contin­ ing troops to Iraq and opposed uing occupation and oppres­ the U.S.-led war, but has been sion of its people,” the group training Iraqi police and mili­ said. tary outside the country. Christian Peacemaker Teams Iraq was swept by a wave of does not consider itself a fun­ kidnappings and beheadings damentalist organization, a of foreigners in 2004 and spokeswoman said. early 2005, but such attacks “We are very strict about have dropped off in recent this: We do not do any evan­ months as many Western gelism, we are not missionar­ groups have left and security Apply to be the chairman of THE SHOW 2006. ies,” Jessica Phillips told The precautions for those who Associated Press in Chicago. remain have tightened. Applications available at theshow.nd.edu. “Our interest is to bring an Insurgents, including al-Qaida Applications are due December 12th by 4 pm to the Student Activities Office. end to the violence and in Iraq, have seized more than destruction of civilian life in 225 people, killing at least 38 Iraq.” — including three Americans. ""V T The Observer page 10 V» ie w p o in^ t Wednesday, November 30, 2005

T h e O b se r v e r The Independent, Daily Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Privately public RO. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 One of the things I think I’ll miss the office can be so boring. You are in a place and meet new people. Yet be advised, this E d ito r in C hief is not dating. People looking for relation­ Claire Heininger most about college will be the sheer joy of surrounded by people, but it is not normal having your friends run around with you to be talking with them. The loneliness of ships had better keep looking. Errand M anaging E d ito r B usiness M anager on your mundane errands. So many times, errand-running probably explains why pairing is about livening up those every­ Pat Leonard Paula Garcia friends have asked me to walk with them parents drag their unwitting children to day, boring tasks that could use some

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S ports E d ito r : Mike Gilloon Our lives are not inun­ Also, errand loneliness disorder has Let us use the errand pairing service for Scen e E d ito r : Rama Gottumukkala dated with so many caused the rise in cell phone usage. In what the Internet is best at: impersonal, Sa int M ary ’s E d ito r : Megan O ’Neil personal tasks daily so absence of actual people to talk to, people short and efficient communication and P h o t o E d ito r : Claire Kelley we gladly share each shop and dial, most annoyingly on those task completion (anti-technology rant on other’s tasks. Also we hands-free things, bewildering the other the way.) G raphics E d ito r : Graham Ebetsch turn every thing into a shoppers braving the errand-running on Besides the cell phone usage in stores, A dvertising M anager : Nick Guerrieri chance to be with Kamaria their own. When people are looking right there is the whole bucket of worms pro­ Ad D esign M anager : Jennifer Kenning each other and con­ Porter at me, talking right at me, and there is no vided by the iPod. My unease with the iPod C o ntro ller : Jim Kirihara verse — hence study­ one else around, I usually speak back — to probably comes from the fact I do not W eb A dministrator : Damian Althoff ing groups, cooking K-Mart’s Blue my embarrassment. have one, but it’s crazy how many people parties and errand Light Special Therefore, a friend and I have devised a are plugged up to those trendy white ear­ O f f i c e M a n a g e r & G e n e r a l In f o pairing. way to keep errand pairing alive and well. phones everywhere. I think there should (574) 631-7471 However, I fear we shall see the last of With so many searching for dates on be a mandate that everyone on head­ F a x errand pairing when college is over. For Match.com, Yahoo personals and the like phones should sing what he is listening to. (574) 631-6927 A d v e r t i s i n g example, one day I went with a friend to for what Mother Nature intended to occur Then public places would be more like a (574) 631-6900 [email protected] the salon while she got her hair cut. I had in bars, parties and coffee shops, why not Tower of Babel musical than a silent E d i t o r in C h i e f nothing else to do and it was on campus. use the internet to match people who crowded place. (574)631-4542 Yet, if I were living in Chicago and my want an errand companion together? This So maybe taking out an ad for someone M a n a g i n g E d it o r friend asked me to come to watch her get could be the answer for so many dreading to sit with you to got your oil checked is (574) 631-4541 [email protected] her hair cut on the other side of town, I going to the farmers market one more not a great idea. Neither is singing Dolly A s s i s t a n t M a n a g i n g E d i t o r (574)631-4324 would definitely decline. time without someone to compare fresh Parton’s Jolene on the subway — unless B u s i n e s s O f f i c e When you leave a place like Notre squash with. The website could also list you have a killer voice. Yet, never speak­ (574)631-5313 Dame, which is extremely communal and what type of errands you like to do and ing to people in public places sounds pret­ N e w s D e s k sharing, your identity and time use would find an adequate partner for you. If you ty ridiculous too. (574) 631-5323 [email protected] be most tied with the things you need and love going to used record stores, weird V i e w p o i n t D e s k (574) 631-5303 [email protected] want to do. The question is not “How can I alternative spirit stores for tarot cards or Kamaria Porter is a senior history major. S p o r t s D e s k spend as much time with others as possi­ street fairs, your errand profile would This piece goes out to everyone writing (574) 631-4543 [email protected] ble?” but, “How can I spend my time most state that. You could also vary the people long papers cram-style. especially Ben S c e n e D e s k wisely to maximize my goals?” While we you run errands with as well. If you spark Zerante — You can do it! Also, Stephen (574) 631-4540 [email protected] may still strive to wind the hours with in conversation with a fellow bulk shop­ Smith, the last action hero. Good luck on S a in t M a r y ' s D e s k companions, the demands of work and per, but cannot take him to the record the 11th. Thanks for the emails and shoot [email protected] P h o t o D e s k rest may keep us from late night grocery store, set up a second errand friend for outs, Notre Dame — you’re beautiful. (574) 631-8767 [email protected] runs with our friends. the second thing on the list. The views expressed in this column are S y s t e m s & W e b A dministrators Yet, there is a distinct beauty of errand I cannot imagine a better way to reduce those of the author and not necessarily (574) 631-8839 pairing. Going to the store or the post cell phone costs, get your errands done those o f The Observer.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 V* ie w® p o in t ® page 11 Le t t e r s to the E ditor Why fight drugs?

Rector I completely agree with Ian Ronderos (“The cost of the inability to defer gratification now for more the real war lost,” Nov. 29) that the drug war has gratification later, how can the state not treat people been a fiasco, and that everything up to and includ­ with that outlook like infants? If everyone is equal ing cocaine, meth and heroin should be legalized — under the law, how can the law not cater to the low­ relationships assuming that the vast majority of people are est (significant) common denominator? rational. I have never had the “pleasure” of trying I am as libertarian as the next guy, but the fact is cocaine myself, but I knew plenty of people who did, that not all people care enough about the future not Two weeks ago, The Observer ran a seriers of articles discussing and the vast majority of them still lead normal (or, to go off a cliff (and be high at the same time) in the residence life infractions and punishments at Notre Dame (“Crime to most people, quasi-normal), functional lives, even present. And while “you should be able to do what­ and Punishment,” Nov. 11-18). One of the issues that seemed to be if they might still indulge in it one to a few times a ever you want as long as it doesn’t harm anybody addressed, both directly and indirectly, was the role of a rector in year. Ditto for the one person I knew who occasion­ else,” legalized drugs definitely will be my problem students’ lives. ally dipped into OxyContin, the Midwest’s “hillbilly when my Medicare dollars start paying for over­ It’s hard to define the role of a rector because they are discipli­ heroin. ” (I honestly believe that most students at coked livers and new teeth for meth tweaks. (Don’t narians, but they are not the cops. Rectors play a much more inte­ this school could occasionally use cocaine and lead see it? Treating obesity is now a Medicare liability. gral role in our lives than the cops. They know us better than the otherwise functional lives, and ditto for most other Do you think obese people need treatment more cops. They’re there for us when we need someone to talk to about hard drugs. After all, studies show that only heroin than drug addicts do? Have you no compassion?) big issues or emotional distress — definitely not like the cops. rivals nicotine in terms of addictive potential.) Even You can either allow people a wide berth to poten­ The problem is, that ambiguity makes it very tempting to think mildly future-oriented people can cope as one per­ tially destroy themselves or coddle them with a of a rector like a mother or a father. But rectors are not mothers son described: “My girlfriend didn’t see what the big sprawling welfare state, but you can’t do both. and fathers, either. Thinking of a rector in that way is what can deal was with crack, she tried it three times and The legalizers’ beef isn’t really with America's cause people to get so angry when their rector “doesn’t trust” then she started to crave it, so she stopped.” drug laws, but rather with America’s values, which them or “doesn’t forgive” them or “doesn’t let something slide.” Unfortunately, there is another side of America, have pretensions to “rugged individualism” but Maybe our moms forgive us for having hard alcohol in the dorm, the significant “underclass” — both urban and rural actually enthusiastically embrace trial lawyers and but our rectors don’t. — whose people have little to live for and who per­ welfare sprawl. To see what happens when a society This is something that has been really hard for me personally to ceive no chance of advancing beyond dull, low-pay­ does a 180 from collectivism to individualism, liber­ deal with: Defining my rector’s role in my own life. When she ing menial jobs and distinctly unglamorous tarians should take a look at Russia, where the responds to things that I do, it is hard for me to understand her lifestyles, who don’t value the future because they fittest are certainly thriving — and the unfit can join responses, because she doesn’t treat me like the cops do, but she have no rational basis to do so. When I did menial the mafia, overdose to death or starve. doesn't treat me like my mom does, either. I guess the important labor at a large business over several high-school It’s a small wonder that the legalization diohards thing to keep in mind is, if I’m having trouble defining my rector’s summers with a lot of “low-SES” people, I saw a ignore the real costs of legalization (they’d have no role in my life, think of how much harder it must be for her to play mindset utterly opposite from that of a student at a audience), and a great irony that those who hate Big that ambiguous role. I realize more and more: A rector is a role top-50 college. One worker had to pay garnishments Brother the most have been- most blind to its infan- that deserves just as much respect as a cop — and just as much to five different women for six different children (all tilizing effects on three generations of Americans. gratitude as a mother. illegitimate). The overwhelming majority of the workers there had illegitimate children. Alex Forshaw Kathryn Kemnetz Now, if you care so little about the future that sophom ore junior you’d rather repeatedly risk a lot of future income Sr. Edw ards Hall Lewis Hall for illegitimate kids than use condoms, and if the Nov. 29 Nov. 29 definition of childlike behavior — stay with me — is

U-WlRE Football kills brain cells

A high concentration of football fans in fortably nestled in my left armpit.) couple of times, I was ready to call the they’re fully convinced that the players will one place turns us into cavemen, shedding Butot all fans are filled with the bloodlust Creep police. But instead, I just adopted hear them. “He’s wide open!! How could our intelligence like a bad habit. We swag­ of competition. For example, I saw a blonde Faux Fur’s technique: staring vacantly at you not see that?!” they scream, spit flying ger, we swear, we scream epithets at the who I swear was losing brain cells by the the press box every time Invade-your-space as they try to relive their high school glory other team — and that’s just the girls. minute, but that may not have been wanted to chat. It worked beautifully. days. Take the BYU-Utah because of the football game. She had a I regret to report ignoring didn't work so But let us not forget the stupid referee at game; When I got close Laurie high-fashion outfit — as out of place at a well with the Wild Woman. The Wild the U game. With my own eyes, I watched to the stadium entrance, Frost football game as a prom dress at Denny’s — Woman — who was probably in her late 50s the U running back dive out of bounds, and I felt myself regressing — ; ------with a faux fur-lined marshmallow jacket — cheered louder, jumped higher and then watched the ref call it a touchdown. into a more primeval Brigham Young and color-coordinated heels. “Faux Fur, ” as screamed fouler insults than any one of us I froze. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t breathe. form. I locked eyes with University I like to call her, came with a balding college kids. All my intelligence, all my higher thoughts a Ute fan and I had an The Daily boyfriend with his hat on sideways (batter­ Only once I was genuinely concerned for and feelings evaporated as my wrath urge to go for the jugu- Universe ies not included). my safety around the Wild Woman. There poured out of my very soul in one syllable: lar. It didn’t matter that This couple supplied the surrounding fans was an announcement to check under your “Booooooo!!!!!” this fan was eight years old and had big with a stream of witless conversation. When seat for a prize voucher. Sixty-five thousand So why in heaven’s name do we, as the Bambi eyes. He was the enemy. Faux Fur wasn’t asking, “What just hap­ fans idly looked under their seats, but only heads of the food chain, keep subjecting As I went to find my seat, I gripped my pened?” she was staring vacantly in the one made a point to elbow three people in ourselves to the de-evolution of the LaVell ticket stub in my sweaty hand and looked at direction of the press box. During the half- the process. I guess you can’t expect more Edwards Stadium? where my seat should have been. There time show the marching band played from a woman who, when the cougar growl I have no idea. Could somebody pass me was a girl standing on the bench, cell phone America the Beautiful, and she snapped out came over the loudspeaker, clawed at the my loincloth? glued to her ear and Louis Vuitton bag slung of it for a minute. air and yelled, “ROWR!!! ROWRH!” over one shoulder. I felt my fists clench and I “Did somebody die?” she asked her But Wild Woman wasn’t the only one real­ This column originally appeared in the waded into the crowd to claim my seat. boyfriend. ly getting into the game. The stands were Nov. 29 issue o f The Daily Universe, the I stood before her, hands on my hips, and Then there was a girl I’ll just call “Invade- packed with the ex-high school football daily publication at Brigham Young looked her dead in the eye. I grinned mani­ your-space.” We hadn’t even exchanged players who probably played third string University. acally and shoved her out of my seat. (It names and she wanted a high-five after water boy. These guys, gut hanging over The views expressed in this column are wasn’t much of a victory, especially since I every good play and commiseration after belt buckle, scream out plays and advice those o f the author and not necessarily spent the next quarter with her purse com­ every bad play. After she patted my head a from the 35th row. What’s incredible is that those o f The Observer. Pointless petition

Referendums are clearly being used well by our student inhabit. But this is out of the question — ASUC only rents take any more fast food crusades into their own hands. body when they force the Associated Students of the out its campus space. Thus, ASUC hasn’t dealt with In-N- Political movements do have their place. But you can't University of California to waste time Out for good reason: There’s no point. legislate commercial negotiations and you definitely can’t bargaining for lost causes. A student Staff Why does a group of students feel the need to push for force them through a referendum. The petitioners’ short­ group’s petition to authorize negotia­ Editorial revitalization of the Bear’s Lair? Perhaps because it sightedness doesn’t help, either — they have no plan tions with ln-N-()ut Burger would do seems as if student government isn’t doing enough to beyond forcing ASUC to attempt negotiations and don’t just that — if it garners the requisite University of revive the tired student union. For example, in seem to have considered the negatives. These students 1,000 signatures to put it on the bal­ California — September the ASUC Auxiliary announced that Cheese N’ should let their elected representatives do the job they lot. Berkeley Stuff would be joining the Bear’s Lair. The popular sand­ were chosen for. This petition is pointless. For one Daily wich joint, however, has yet to make an appearance. thing, ln-N-Out isn’t really interested Californian Students, who haven’t seen tangible results come out of This editorial originally appeared in the Nov.. 29 issue in coming to UC Berkeley. The fast ASUC efforts are getting frustrated. While ASUC has of the Daily Californian, the daily publication at the food chain is reluctant to set up shop at a site that would made important strides by getting Gelateria Naia and University of California — Berkely. not allow a drive thru. What’s more, ln-N-()ut would like­ Cheese N’ Stuff to actually sign up for a spot on campus, The views expressed in this editorial are those of the ly want to own the property that its new branch would it needs to bring these plans to fruition before students author and not necessarily those o f The Observer. T h e O bserver

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M ovie R e v ie w s Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic is money

and his country music predecessor, June By GRAHAM EBETSCH Carter, inspire the most touching scenes. Scene Critic Every event depicted in the film after their first interaction reflects Johnny’s obvious With the recent rise in biography films, desire to be with her, a desire which even­ this holiday’s “Walk the Line” has some tually ends his marriage to Vivian, isolat­ hard acts to follow. But the cast of James ing him from his two daughters. The Mangold’s story of country music legend movie does not drag on through the death Johnny Cash has risen to the occasion and of Cash in 2003. Instead, it concludes with proved itself to be as good, if not better, a resolution between June and Johnny. than similar musical biopics. Inevitably, “Walk the Line” will be com­ “Walk the Line" stands in a different pared to last year’s stand-out picture, class entirely, telling an honest tale of a “Ray.” While they both incorporate the troubled musician, leaving out the typical same basic musician biopic formula of a Hollywood bells and whistles. hard childhood, overcoming obstacles, Though the opening shots are of the failed romantic relationships and the infamous Folsom Prison concert, the actu­ eventual substance dependency, the simi­ al plot begins with Cash’s upbringing in larities end there. Arkansas. At a young age, Johnny, or J R. To compare the performances by the as his family called him, loses his older two leading men would be an injustice. In brother Jack. As if such an event weren’t portraying an iconic celebrity, an actor is traumatizing confronted with the enough, JR’s difficult line father, a heavy Walk the Line between becoming Photo courtesy of movieweb.com drinker and harsh the individual and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon) and Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) perform man, tells the being able to doing onstage together in “Walk the Line,” James Mangold’s biopic of the music star. young boy that **** great imperson­ God “took the ation. While who genuinely want the story to be told. former and the southern girl longing for wrong son.” Joaquin’s speaking It is quite refreshing to see Joaquin real love beautifully. Hopefully this wifi be Cash’s father Director: James Mangold voice isn’t dead on, Phoenix in a role not written by M. Night the gateway to better roles for the talent­ continues Writers: James Mangold and Gill Dennis the mannerisms, Shyamalan. Phoenix shows his strength in ed actress — then again, Jamie Foxx did throughout the Starring: Joanquin Phoenix, Reese personality and dramatic acting giving an eerie glimpse in go on to star in “Stealth.” movie as the Witherspoon and Robert Patrick singing voice he the mind of Cash, especially since Phoenix Every aspect of “Walk the Line” proves token parental picked up from himself lost his own brother River to a it is the most devoted biopic in recent antagonist whose years of studying drug addiction. Any Oscar-buzz for this years. Johnny Cash fans will have all of son’s achievements will never meets his Cash make for an excellent performance. role is well deserved. their expectations fulfilled, and non-fans expectations. While the basic character is Jamie Foxx, a trained comedian, seems But Reese Witherspoon has the stand can’t help but be sucked in by the per­ a common one in writing, actor Robert to be more focused on making the most out role of the movie and of her career - formances, the music and the direction. Patrick does a fantastic job in not over­ spot-on imitation with the very familiar as June Carter, Witherspoon has finally Though 2005 has been a slow year in acting the role. After some slow plot pro­ traits of Ray Charles. “Ray” seems to use decided to fly her acting flag. This role movies, “Walk the Line” is easily the best gression of Cash’s marriage and rise into the standard Hollywood template for an might seem like a stretch for the actress yet. fame, the story takes off into the main individual beating adversities and suc­ who is two-deep in the “Legally Blonde” focus of the movie. ceeding. But “Walk the Line” is instead a franchise, but she tackles it head-on. Contact Graham Ebetsch at The cat and mouse game between Cash gripping story of Cash made by people Witherspoon captures both the witty per­ [email protected] Thriller 'Derailed' barely stays on track

a financial consultant with a beautiful By JAMES COSTA baby girl and a negligent husband. Scene Critic Charles feels attracted because he too has a beautiful daughter and faltering Audiences who expect a simple and marriage. obvious thriller in “Derailed” might be Following some innocent commuter in for a pleasant surprise. While it flirtation, the two meet for drinks after encapsulates many of the common ele­ work. The drinks lead to phone calls to ments of the thriller, with surprise their respective spouses detailing their twists and obvious methods of fore­ plans to not come home till morning. shadowing, it succeeds on a far deeper Building on their lies together, the two level of connecting the viewer with plan a night in a hotel and the begin­ common human emotions and then nings of an affair. interweaving them into a state of con­ After sobering up a bit, Lucinda fusion and mayhem. Still, the film falls decides she cannot follow through with short where it really counts. the affair. But after standing with The film does have a certain B-movie Charles in the street for a bit, they both vibe that seems reminiscent of such see a seedy hotel and decide to get the films as “Unfaithful” with Richard Gere room. and “A Perfect Murder” with Michael After beginning their interaction in Douglas. But it the room, a sud­

succeeds in its den burst erupts Photo courtesy of movieweb.com own right at pre­ D e ra ile d from the door Charles (Clive Owen) and Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), who meet on the Chicago senting a surpris­ and a violent, commuter train, begin an ill-advised affair in Mikael Hafstrom’s “Derailed. ” ingly fresh per­ gun-bearing spective to the stranger breaks seedy underworld in. He brutally well. climax, which is difficult to predict. of sexual infidelity pistol-whips After deciding not to go to the police The film then begins to expose a and deception. Director: Mikael Hafstrom Charles into a because of the danger of exposing their series of less-important and even more The film essen­ Writer: Stuart Beattie state of semi-con­ planned infidelity, the two return to shocking events until ending at a scene tially begins on Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, sciousness and their regular lives until the rapist — a that is rather outlandish, though some­ the commute to Vincent Cassel and Melissa George then proceeds to French man named Laroche (the dis­ what satisfying. Like most Hollywood Chicago when, viciously rape turbing Vincent Cassel) demands huge thrillers, it thrives on the suspense it late for work, Lucinda. sums of money from Charles in order builds. Charles (Clive Owen) is out of cash and The rape scene is especially powerful to protect his family from further vio­ But on a more important note, cannot buy a ticket. He is about to be and disturbing because it is shot from lence. “Derailed” fails to say anything new, kicked off the train when a gorgeous the perspective of Charles. Drifting in From this point on in the film, relevant or insightful about the human woman (Jennifer Aniston) offers to pay and out of consciousness, he is power­ “Derailed” builds slowly and deftly with condition that the viewer did not liis fare. less to stop the horrible acts being per­ tension and fear until the shocking already know before seeing the film, After a few pleasantries, the two formed on Lucinda. He wishes to stop truth is revealed. The twist is actually though it seems to try. learn they are both successful business them but simply cannot, and the cam­ completely surprising. Audiences will people in the city. Lucinda (Aniston) is era and direction conveys this quite very likely be taken in by the shocking Contact James Costa at [email protected] T h e O bserver

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the ensemble of characters featured in drag queen takes a backseat to the their artistic ambitions in New York By MARY SQUILLACE “Rent" is the fluidity of sexuality among devotion between himself and Collins. City, the characters also endure the Scene Critic them. The three romantic storylines This representation is particularly devastation of AIDS. The play was origi­ feature a straight couple, a gay male relevant today in a world where, not nally written when AIDS in America With people spontaneously bursting couple and a lesbian couple. But what only are homosexual relationships hotly received an enormous amount of atten­ into song and chorus lines materializing makes this portrayal so innovative is disputed in the political realm, but most tion. out of thin air in the background, it can not the presentation portrayals of gay men Today, though discussions about the be difficult to take the average musical of their sexuality as and women tend still to issue have somewhat subsided, audi­ seriously. But “Rent" is a musical that something novel, but Nearly io years after it be stereotypical, and ences are still reminded of the serious can, and should, be taken seriously. as something that is first came to life, Larson’s are usually peripheral toll AIDS continues to take on the “Rent is about a community celebrat­ almost insignificant. to a central romantic world’s population. ing life, in the face of death and AIDS at Each relationship music remains fresh and storyline between Larson penned his musical in part to the turn of the century," said Jonathan consists of tribula­ the show’s underlying straight characters. pay tribute to the friends he’d lost to Larson, the musical’s creator, prior to tions as well as tri­ themes still ring true Similarly, though the AIDS, an issue which takes particular his death. umphs, regardless of cast is multiracial, the relevance this week at Notre Dame. Larson worked for seven years to nur­ the sexuality of char­ among audiences across characters Larson cre­ Students will have the opportunity to ture the show into being but died sud­ acters. In fact, each the nation. ated fail to represent assert themselves as part of the cure at denly the night before it was ever per­ couple could conceiv­ any particular racial a number of events that are being held formed for an audience, which effec­ ably be replaced with archetype. Instead, in conjunction with World AIDS Day tively added another dimension to the one of a divergent sexuality without sig­ Larson forefronted how, despite their 2005, on Thursday. play’s “seize the day ” attitude. nificantly altering the show’s plot. diversity of experiences, the characters The words, music and spirit of “Rent ” Now, nearly 10 years after it first Arguably, the least tumultuous and connect with one another. They ulti­ have withstood time, and, thanks to the came to life, Larson’s music remains most tender relationship is between mately share the same goal of thriving feature film’s wide-release, arc now fresh and the show’s underlying themes Tom Collins and Angel, a drag queen. in the face of adversity, instead of available to the population at large. still ring true among audiences across While it’s difficult to overlook the fact merely surviving in the wake of a large the nation. that this is a man dressed in opaque breadth of challenges. Contact Mary Squillace at One of the most defining features of tights and a wig, Angel’s status as a In addition to struggling to afford [email protected]

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For those who have had prior exposure (“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone") avoided a potentially sub-par perform­ By MARY SQUILLACE to “Rent ” — and particularly for self-pro- is creative with the locations that he ance, but has given fans an opportunity to Scene Critic claimed “Rent-heads” — the film has a shoots. see the original cast recording come to slightly different effect, as it certainly Many of his choices work well, such as life long after they’ve left Broadway. “How do you measure a year in the can’t embody the all of the various visions the use of a subway car as the location While most of the cast has earned noto­ life?” of its extensive fan base. Diehard fans will for the playful song “Santa Fe,” and riety in the Broadway realm, people who The recently released “Rent," which notice a few song omissions and might depicting Mimi’s solo “Out Tonight" as are unfamiliar with the original cast will brings Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical initially be thrown by the lines that are progression from her show at the Cat probably recognize the faces of Jesse L. from the stage to the screen, first poses spoken instead of Scratch Club to Martin (Law and Order) and Taye Diggs then answers this question. sung in the film. But her attem pts to (How Stella Got Her Groove Back). The film follows a year in the life of a for the most part, R e n t persuade Roger Newcomers to the cast are Rosario group of struggling artists who live in the film provides a to take her out. Dawson, who plays Mimi, and T rade New York City in the midst of their own solid adaptation, But some of the Thoms, who plays Joanne. Thoms is a AIDS epidemic. With an eclectic selection which is true to #####Columbus’ vision perfect fit with the original cast and deliv­ of music ranging from rock to salsa, Jonathan Larson’s seems out of ers in-full with her powerful voice. “Rent" chronicles the joys and strifes of musical. Director: Christopher Columbus place with the Dawson’s vocals aren’t as strong and lack these young people, but ultimately con­ In fact, because Writer: Steve Chbosky rest of the musi­ the uniqueness of the original Mimi, but veys its underlying theme living life to the the stage version is Starring: Anthony Rapp, Rosario cal. In particular, she still manages to turn-out a compelling fullest. under a number of Dawson, Adam Pascal and Jessie Martin a number that and emotional performance. But it’s possible that audiences will see constraints — as illustrates a heat­ Together, the cast is truly explosive. The two different movies depending on the viewers are fair­ ed lover’s quarrel ensemble numbers range from being out­ whether or not they have previously seen ly removed from the action and only a between Maureen and Joanne lakes place rageously hilarious, to chill-inducing with “Rent ” performed onstage. For those who number of locations can be portrayed — at a country club luncheon seems out of the emotion they’re able to convey will receive their first glimpse of the criti­ there are a number of opportunities for synch with the rest of the action that through their collective voices. cally acclaimed musical via the local enhancing the show in its cinema version. occurs in the gritty and boisterous city. As a result, the film is worth taking 135 movie theatre, “Rent ” will not disappoint. Through flashbacks and montage, the A treat for Rent-heads and “Rent” neo­ of this year’s 525,600 minutes to watch. The combined fortitude of catchy songs film is able to account for lime and events phytes alike is Columbus’ idea to use and a moving message make the movie that the play can only allude to. most of the original cast members for the Contact Mary Squillance at unforgettable. Additionally, director Chris Columbus movie. In doing this, he has not only [email protected]

Photo courtesy ot movieweD.com Photo courtesy of movieweb.com Jonathan Larson’s beloved musical “Rent" comes to theaters with most of its Roger (Adam Pascal) and Mimi (Rosario Dawson) deal with relationships in original Broadway cast intact. The film is directed by Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus’ “Rent, ” which is based on the acclaimed musical. T he O bserver

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DRAG S p o t l i g h t Fellini's masterpiece showing at DPAC

staggeringly decadent Rome. He By BRIAN DOXTADER becomes increasingly drawn into the Assistant Scene Editor heady hedonism of the world around him, as he finds himself entrenched The brief years between 1959 and with socialite Maddalena (Anouk 1960 were staggeringly important and Aimee), his mistress Emma (Yvonne groundbreaking in the burgeoning film Furneaux) and a bisexual prostitute world — Jean-Luc Godard’s “A Bout de (Adriana Moneta). Souffle,” Michelangelo Antonioni’s As Rubini descends into the deca­ “L’Avventura” and Francois Truffaut’s dence surrounding him, he stops trying “Les Quatre cents coups” were all to resist and starts accepting the shal­ released in that brief span of time. lowness of his life, eventually indulging Equally important among them was in “the sweet life” described by the Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (“The title. Sweet Life”), the film that catapulted Critic Lucia Bozzola notes that “La its director to international prominence Dolce Vita” was a major success par­ and one of the tially due to its towering and “then-frank sexu­ enduring motion La Dolce Vita ality,” and while pictures of its time. that may be true, JL . ..4, Though not as such an analysis inscrutably bril­ vw yw yjy ^ suggests that it is Photo courtesy of img.photobucket.com liant as his 1963 badly outdated. “La Dolce Vita,” Federico Fellini’s 1960 international breakthough, will be m asterpiece “Otto When: Saturday, Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. Surprisingly, the screened in the Browning Cinema at the DPAC as part of the PAC Classic 100. e Mezzo” (“8 1/2”) Where: Browning Cinema, DPAC film holds up or as poignantly remarkably well period, “La Dolce Vita” was shot silent­ Fellini and a Best Original Screenplay beautiful as 1954’s nearly half a cen­ ly and dubbed later, which grants a Oscar nomination. Though it may be “La Strada,” “La Dolce Vita” may stand tury later, thanks to the unique vision slightly detached quality that serves argued that the seminal director’s as the Fellini’s best film, and, subse­ of its director. Admittedly, some ele­ Fellini’s stylistic tendencies surprising­ other films (“Otto e Mezzo, ” “La quently, as one of Italy’s best films. ments of the plot haven’t dated well, ly well. Strada,” “Amarcord”) are more person­ Eschewing the “cinema veritae” ten­ but the stunning widescreen cine­ “La Dolce Vita” is thoroughly an art al, few would argue that “La Dolce dencies of Italian Neo-Realism, “La matography and Fellini’s eye for com­ film, beautifully shot and deliberately Vita” is not a masterpiece, and it Dolce Vita” may be the archetypal position and pacing keep the whole paced. At 174 minutes, it’s also quite endures as one of the defining films of Fellini film: at once serious and whim­ affair afloat. long, but Fellini’s directorial sense, and the 1960’s. sical, realistic enough to be engagingly There are some indelibly iconic Mastrioanni’s strong presence keep the “La Dolce Vita” is being screened on grounded, yet just flighty enough to moments sprinkled throughout the audience engaged throughout. Saturday as part of the PAG Classic keep its audience unbalanced. film, especially the evocative opening It was a major success international­ 100. The film follows gossip columnist and closing shots, which have helped ly, as it won the Palme d’Or at the Marcello Rubini (Fellini’s alter-ego define a style justifiably called “Fellini- Cannes Film Festival and garnered a Contact Brian Doxtader at Marcello Mastrioanni) as he explores a esque.” Like all Italian films of the Best Director Oscar nomination for [email protected]

DVD R e v ie w 'Stewie Griffin' feature is a hilarious treat for fans

Man and, of course, Greased-up Naked By BETSY SIMON Deaf Guy. Scene Critic The appearance of these characters indicates the movie is directed specifi­ In the face of cancellations, censor­ cally at fans of the series and not at ships, and critical disapprovals, those who aren’t well versed in the “Family Guy” has emerged with a DVD “Family Guy” world. classic in “Family Guy Presents Stewie The movie itself does not hesitate to Griffin: The Untold Story” — giggity, dive immediately into humor as the giggity- overweight son, Chris Griffin, executes Keeping to the standard and now- a perfect triple somersault into the familiar “Family Guy ” format, creator Quahog Public Swimming Pool and the Seth MacFarlane parodies pop culture, infant son, Stewie Griffin, comes face to such as “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” face with death. “Lethal Weapon” and “The Sound of Normally obsessed with killing his Music,” and ridicules current contro­ mother and dominating the world, versial issues such as politics, abortion Stewie’s attitude begins to change. and incest. After a glimpse into his future as a While the animated Griffin family sat­ changed, 30-year old virgin, Stewie irizes religion, race and physical dis­ becomes the protagonist who attempts ability with the most unnecessarily to change his past. This provides the inappropriate and politically incorrect crux of the film’s plot. humor, it is humor nonetheless and The movie’s unforgettable clips are very funny humor at that. While it linked together by Stewie’s desire to maybe offensive, it is also very funny, erase his near-death, life-changing which helps overcome the inevitable experience. criticism. From the graphic murder of Bugs In classic Hollywood style, the Griffin Bunny to the blinding of Ray Charles, family arrives at their own movie pre­ the family’s flashbacks reek of Photo courtesy of img.photobucket.com miere via the red carpet. The laughter extremely clever postmodern satire. Stew ie Griffin (voice of Seth MacFarlane) tak es center sta g e in “Family Guy begins with the appearance of “Family Although somewhat offensive, the Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story,” which is based on the Fox TV series. Guy ” favorites, including Mayor Adam provocation of the flashbacks pales in West, Drew Barrymore, the Kool-Aid comparison to scenes such as Jesus’ tained in the movie does not (totally) Like the weekly Fox show itself, miracles represented as exceed what “Family Guy” enthusiasts “Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: mere magic shows or are exposed to on a weekly basis. But The Untold Story” only gets better with Walt Disney depicted as for the easily offended viewer, a cen­ repeated viewings. The more the movie Stewie Griffin: outwardly anti-Semitic. sored version is provided on the DVD. is seen, the more missed jokes and The memorable jokes The only other special feature includ­ cleverly placed comedy is enjoyed by RU-MfiW. WWfiF.OVS. VNCF.NSORF.Dt The Untold Story and passionate humor ed is a commentary by show creator alert viewers. make up for the movie’s Seth MacFarlane (who is also the voice While more inappropriate than offensive material, espe­ Stewie, Peter and Brian) and other var­ breaking parietals, “Stewie Griffin: The Fox Home Video cially since the makers ious cast members, show writers and Untold Story” gets two thumbs up — a seemed to be having so crew. While more special features high-quality reward for “Family Guy ” >, K ' K ' K much fun. would have been welcome, the movie enthusiasts. yiy yi^j yjy y^y The insulting and inap­ itself is funny enough that they aren’t propriate material con­ really missed. Contact Betsy Simon at [email protected] Wednesday, November 30, 2005 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT page 15

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N C A A M e n ’s B a sk etb a ll UConn overcomes slow start to beat Army, 68-54 Kentucky blasts overmatched High Point; Wake Forest edges Wisconsin, 91-88; Aldridge leads Longhorns to win

Associated Press UConn opened the second half Saturday at Rupp Arena against with a 10-0 run and appeared defending national champion HARTFORD, Conn. — Rudy to be headed for a rout, leading North Carolina. Gay had 17 points, 10 rebounds by as many as 18. But the Black Arizona Reid had 29 points and five steals, and Connecticut Knights refused to fold. Brown and 16 rebounds _ each a shook off a sluggish start to beat scored eight points during an 8- career high _ for High Point, a Army 68-54 on Tuesday night. minute stretch and Army cut member of the Big South The third-ranked Huskies (5- the UConn lead to 56-46 with Conference and the alma mater 0) were coming off victories 6:21 left. of Kentucky coach Tubby Smith. over Arizona and Gonzaga to The Huskies went without a It was the third time the win the Maui Invitational, but field goal during that stretch. Panthers (3-2) played Kentucky they struggled for long periods Freshman guard Craig Austria since Smith became the against the scrappy Black ended the drought, hitting con­ Wildcats’ coach in 1997. Knights (2-3). secutive baskets with 5:01 left Kentucky’s average margin of Jarrell Brown had a career- and Army was unable to mount victory in its previous two meet­ high 26 points for Army, includ­ much of a threat after that. ings with the Panthers was 36.5 ing four 3-pointers that helped UConn dominated the paint, points. High Point went l-of-19 the Black Knights stay close for outscoring Army 30-8 in the from 3-point range but kept much of the first half. lane. The Huskies outrebounded things interesting for a half Brown had four of Army’s the Black Knights 41-26 and before wearing down against seven first-half 3s that helped scored 31 points off turnovers. the Wildcats’ defense. put the Black Knights up by as A nderson finished with 16 High Point outrebounded many as six points in the period. points, and Hilton Armstrong Kentucky 20-19 in the first half He repeatedly found the open added 10 for UConn. and trailed only 34-30 at half- spot in the UConn defense, Corban Bates had 10 points time, but Kentucky finished with prompting coach Jim Calhoun to for Army. a 43-35 edge on the boards. frequently swap defenders on him. Kentucky 75, High Point 55 Wake Forest 91, Wisconsin 88 The Huskies finally got their Point guard Raj on Rondo had Justin Gray scored a career- up-tempo game going with the 14 points, 10 rebounds and six high 37 points, including six help of Rashad Anderson, who assists Tuesday night to lead No. free throws in the final 28 sec­ scored 11 points in the final 10 Kentucky past High Point. onds, to lead No. 22 Wake Ramel Bradley scored 14 Forest past Wisconsin in the 3:43 of the period. He had three Texas forward P.J. Tucker goes up for a layup during the points and Patrick Sparks added ACC/Big Ten Challenge on 3-pointers and a steal in a 16-5 Longhorns’ 82-54 win over Texas Pan-American Tuesday. UConn run, and the Huskies 13 for Kentucky (5-1), which Tuesday night. closed the half with a 35-27 won its third straight game Kyle Visser added all of his 13 lead. while propping for a showdown points and five assists after half- mask, but soon took it off and shot just 37 percent in the first time for the Demon Deacons (6- showed no ill effects in leading half, including 2-of-12 from 3- 1), who led by 10 in the second the Badgers back in a game that point range. Texas missed half but had to hold on for their came down to the final play. layups, threw passes into the 21st straight home win. stands and turned the ball over Wake Forest has won 51 of 52 Texas 82, eight times. home games against non-con­ Texas Pan-American 54 Tucker, who hit all nine of his ference opponents, and LaMarcus Aldridge scored a shots against Louisiana-Monroe improved to 3-0 against the career-high 23 points and three days earlier, missed his Badgers in the seventh annual grabbed 11 rebounds, and No. 2 first two Tuesday night and event. Texas shook off poor shooting in Texas trailed 11-10 before seiz­ Alando Tucker scored 23 of the first half to beat Texas-Pan ing the lead with a defensive his 27 points in the second half American Tuesday night. effort that kept Pan American for the Badgers (4-1), while P.J. Tucker added 19 points scoreless for six minutes in a Brian Butch added 19 points and 11 rebounds for the 10-0 run. Aldridge converted a and 10 rebounds. Longhorns (6-0), off to their best three-point play and Connor Kammron Taylor’s 3-pointer start since winning their first 14 Atchley’s putback made it 20- pulled Wisconsin to 89-88. Gray games in the 1981-82 season. 11. then made his final two free Aldridge has a double-double Pan American cut it to 26-21 throws, and Taylor missed a in every game this season. Mike before Aldridge and Williams long 3 at the buzzer that would Williams also had 10 points and helped Texas end any threat of have tied it. 10 rebounds. an upset. Aldridge scored the Gray was unstoppable all Johnathan Chatman and Longhorns’ final six points of night, hitting 11 of 20 shots and Dexter Shankle each scored 10 the half, including a dunk, to knocking down all 13 free points to lead Texas-Pan send Texas into halftime leading throws in 37 minutes. The sen­ American (2-4). 32-23. ior got some big help from The Longhorns have made a Texas slowly stretched the Visser, a 6-foot-ll junior who habit of beating up on their lead in the second. Williams turned in a strong second half weaker state rivals _ they are scored eight points as the with Eric Williams picking up 56-5 against Lone Star oppo­ Longhorns continued to struggle his fourth foul soon after the nents under coach Rick Barnes shooting but built a 48-30 lead break. _ and the Brones hardly figured with rebounding that produced Meanwhile, Tucker scored to be much of a match for second and third shots. J.D. only four points and sustained Texas. Lewis’ 3-pointer and Aldridge’s AP an apparent injury to his nose But Pan American made it rebound and putback off Lewis’ Wisconsin forward Alando Tucker skies past two Wake Forest defend­ in the first half. He came out of anything but easy in the early miss made it 56-36 with 9:29 ers in the Badgers’ 91-88 loss to the Demon Deacons Tuesday. the break wearing a protective going for the Longhorns, who left.

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AFC East team record pore. PI- PA

New England 6-5 .545 243 279 Buffalo 4-7 .364 223 223 Miami 4-7 .364 217 217 N Y. Jets 2-9 .182 248 248

AFC North team record pore. PF PA

Cincinnati 8-3 .727 289 208 Pittsburgh 7-4 .636 243 187 Cleveland 4-7 .364 169 194 Baltimore 3-8 .273 145 226

AFC South team record perc. PF PA

Indianapolis 11-0 1.000 331 159 Jacksonville 8-3 .727 235 187 Tennessee 3-8 .273 236 194 Houston 1-10 .091 168 325

AFC W est team record perc. PF PA

Denver 9-2 .818 283 190 San Diego 7-4 .636 323 219 Kansas City 7-4 .636 270 230 Oakland 4-7 .364 239 262

NFC East team record perc. PF PA

Dallas 7-4 .636 243 188 N Y. Giants 7-4 .636 302 208 Washington 5-6 .455 217 224 Billy Wagner responds to questions at Shea Stadium Tuesday after inking a four-year deal worth $43 million Philadelphia 5-6 .455 229 246 with the Mets. New York also has an option to keep him for a fifth year.

NFC North team record perc. PF PA Mets sign new closer Wagner Chicago 8-3 .727 182 120 Minnesota 6-5 .545 198 257 Detroit 4-7 .364 174 220 Associated Press and some comforting friends. “Our secret weapon this Green Bay 2-9 .182 232 223 words from a country boy The 54-year-old year was Jimmy NEW YORK — When he’s of its own. Plummer grew up near Plummer, ” the GM said. not blowing 100 mph fast- Done deal. Wagner’s hometown in Wagner saved 38 games NFC South balls by big league hitters, “It seemed like all roads Virginia, so he popped in for Philadelphia last sea­ Billy Wagner likes to relax kind of led to New York,” to chat when the four-time son and turned down an team record perc. PF PA with his family on their Wagner said Tuesday after All-Star was in general offer of just more than $30 Carolina 8-3 .727 266 188 quiet Virginia farm. slipping on his new No. 13 manager Omar Minaya’s million over three years to Tampa Bay 7-4 .636 216 196 So the New York Mets Mets jersey at a Shea office during a two-day stay with the Phillies. Atlanta 7-4 .636 271 213 knew it was going to take Stadium news conference. visit last week. New York’s proposal New Orleans 3-8 .273 180 285 some serious convincing to “I think it was always the “It was going to be 2 included a club option for bring him to the bustling Mets’ ball to lose.” minutes, it turned into 30 2010 that could raise the NFC W est Big Apple — even though Maybe one reason was minutes,” Plummer said. “I value to $50 million over he spent the past two sea­ James Plummer, director don’t know about recruit, I five seasons. sons in another tough city, of corporate services for just try to help out.” While the Mets offered a team record perc. PF PA Philadelphia. the Mets and a longtime But Minaya thought that no-trade clause, Wagner Seattle 9-2 .818 296 208 To lure the free-agent team employee. A Mets bat conversation helped do the said Philadelphia was will­ St. Louis 5-6 .455 285 327 closer, New York offered boy in 1965, he still counts trick, making Wagner feel ing to include it for only Arizona .273 292 3-8 222 $43 million over four Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan more comfortable about the first two years of a San Francisco 2-9 .182 173 323 years, a no-trade clause Ryan among his good New York. contract.

I n B r i e f W om en’s Volleyball Top 12 No. Team Points Colts downplay importance win them, we know there will be a lot better than what we produced this 1 Nebraska 1459 of undefeated season of talk about ‘Can you go undefeat­ year.” 2 Penn State 1452 INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning ed?’ But that’s never really been our The letter was gleaned from 10 3 Washington 1399 and the Indianapolis Colts would goal.” pages of notes from a speech Fulmer 4 Florida 1270 define perfection as winning a Super Fulmer apologizes to gave Monday to the Knoxville 5 Stanford 1252 Bowl title. Anything more would be a Tenneessee fans Quarterback Club. That speech also 6 Arizona 1220 bonus. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee expressed his concern over finishing 7-tie Hawaii 1079 But with five weeks left in the regu­ football coach Phillip Fulmer’s 5-6, the first losing record and lack 7-tie Texas 1079 lar season, the Colts’ arduous, three- acknowledgment that the 2005 sea­ of a bowl bid since 1988. 9 Louisville 1001 decade quest to return to the Super son was “unacceptable” has been put Solich receives probation 10 Missouri 966 Bowl now carries an added burden in writing to the fans. for drunk driving 11 NOTRE DAME 950 — trying to join the 1972 Miami Fulmer wrote a 300-word letter ATHENS, Ohio — Ohio coach Frank 12 use 810 Dolphins as the only unbeaten teams that was e-mailed Tuesday to about Solich will be put on probation by in NFL history. 38,000 season ticket holders and the university following his drunken Forget that the Colts are already 11- other fans signed up to receive peri­ driving conviction. 0, could clinch the AFC South title in odic newsletters from the athletic Athletic director Kirby Hocutt said the next two weeks and may soon department through its Web site. at a news conference Tuesday that wrap up a first-round bye and home- “This year was a disappointing Solich also will publicly address his around the dial field advantage throughout the play­ season for everyone in the arrest and conviction and become offs. Tennessee family,” wrote Fulmer, involved in alcohol education initia­ COLLEGE BASKETBALL The big question now around Indy — echoing what he’s been saying on the tives on campus. and the NFL — is whether anyone can radio and television and in speeches. “I cannot crawl in a hole. I cannot beat this team. “We started this season with great take a step backward,” said Solich, Georgia Tech at Michigan State 7:00 p.m., Coach Tony Dungy wants everyone to expectations and failed to live up to whose team went 4-7 in his first year ESPN keep things in perspective. those expectations. after six seasons at Nebraska. “I can Minnesota at Maryland 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 “Hopefully we win the next two “I assure you that no one is happy try to use this as an experience in Duke at Indiana 9:00p.m., ESPN because that means we will wrap up about our season — especially me, my life that has happened. There’s the division,” he said Tuesday. “If we and I know that our fans deserve no way I can take it back.” page 18 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Wednesday, November 30, 2005

NFL Shockey blossoms in fourth season with NY Giants tight end and Miami product has matured since bursting onto the professional scene in 2002

Associated Press team they’re going to still point he has been plagued by nagging out the negatives. People in this foot injuries. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — locker room understand that’s They also include Manning’s Jeremy Shockey’s career the baggage that comes with growth as an NFL quarterback appears to be settling into its tri­ being a part of the New York and the addition of wide receiver umphant third act. Giants. Plaxico Burress, signed as a free In Act I, the free-spirited rook­ “But the good thing is when agent in the offseason. Burress ie from a small town in you start doing good, people leads the team with 60 recep­ Oklahoma comes to the big city probably give you a little more tions for 928 yards, and has and unleashes his vast talents on praise than in other cities.” opened up room in the second­ the NFL, making the Pro Bowl Worshipped as a rookie in ary for Shockey. and setting team records at his 2002 when his 74 receptions set “I think they are very much position. team marks for rookies and tight helping each other in the atten­ Act II is the inevitable fall from ends, Shockey has had a some­ tion that teams have given grace as the team stumbles and times uneasy relationship with them,” said Giants tight ends the hero’s brashness begins to Giants fans, though the team’s coach Mike Pope. “Both of them look more like self-aggrandize­ 10-22 record in 2003 and 2004 are pretty tall and good jumpers, ment. Several ill-timed — some undoubtedly fueled their discon­ so teams have to think about would say vulgar and inflamma­ tent. putting those 5-9 guys out there tory — public comments only fan “All I can really control is what to cover them.” the flames. I do on the field, how I play on He won’t come out and say he AP Now comes Act III, in which Sundays and how I work during has learned from his public mis­ New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey runs off the field after the chastened hero minds his the week,” Shockey said a day takes — such as throwing a cup the Giants’ overtime loss to the Seattle Seahawks Sunday. manners, is rededicated to his after his 10-catch, 127-yard, of ice into the stands in San craft, and again becomes a star one-touchdown performance in Francisco that inadvertently hit and even a team leader of sorts. last Sunday’s overtime loss to two children or calling Cowboys With five regular-season the Seahawks. “I can’t really coach Bill Parcells a derogatory games remaining, the New York control what people think of me. name in a magazine article. Giants tight end already has They praise me now, but I guar­ But it’s clear the new Shockey seven touchdown catches, one antee if I start not doing well, has adopted an all-business, all- more than his career best. His they’re going to start bashing the-time attitude when it comes 713 yards are second among me.” to football and is a respected NFL tight ends behind San That may be a harsh assess­ part of the team. He and Barber Diego’s Antonio Gates (823), and ment considering that, from were the two players invited to NEVER STOP EXPLORING his 14.9-yard average is the best almost any perspective in the the deathbed of Wellington in the league among tight ends Giants Stadium parking lot, Mara, the team’s owner and the with more than 18 receptions. Shockey’s No. 80 reigns supreme NFL’s patriarch, on the day Not coincidentally, the Giants, before home games, ahead of Eli before he died — and he was are 7-4 and tied for the first Manning’s No. 10, Tiki Barber’s one of the straight-laced Mara’s A thick fleece place in the NFC East with No. 21 and Michael Strahan’s favorite players. Dallas as they prepare for No. 92. The old Shockey occasionally Sunday’s showdown with Dallas And the jerseys won’t become resurfaces, too, as it did near the coat is perfect at Giants Stadium. obsolete — Shockey signed a end of the Seattle game. He “This game’s hard, especially five-year, $31.2 million contract mugged for the sideline cameras for winter. being in New York on the No. 1 extension in October. as Jay Feely’s attempt at a stage in America,” Shockey says. Shockey’s increased numbers game-winning field goal “People are going to criticize this season are the product of appeared to be sailing through Ask any yak- j you no matter what; even if you several factors. the uprights, only to look on in get a win and you barely beat a They include better health — disbelief when the kick missed. 300 Weight Polartec® fleece provides exceptional warmth. Wear it on its own or zip it into a shell for wet-weather protection. Denali Jacket

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SMC B a s k e t b a l l Slow start dooms Belles in loss to Carthage Lady Reds jump out to 24-2 lead as Saint M arys shoots 8.5 percent from the field in first half— Belles lose third of season

“There’s no way we had a its shots on the night, and the points for the Lady Reds. essarily expecting this soon,” By FRAN TOLAN chance after such a poor Belles, who dropped their Bender said his team took Bender said. Sports Writer start,” Bender said. second straight game, shot at least one positive away Sophomore guard Alison Carthage (1-1), meanwhile, ’ just 26 percent. from the Carthage loss. \Ue Kessler was the only Saint Stevo Bender didn’t want to knocked down 12-of-18 shots Carthage said several Mary’s player to reach double start this way. in the first 20 minutes to take sophomore underclassmen digits, scoring 15 points. The first-year Belles coach a commanding 30-17 lead at Jenny Wuest 7 realized we have a played well Junior Bridget l.ipke added saw Saint Mary's fall to 1-3 the half. led all scor­ lot of depth that we and saw more eight points and three assists on the season Saturday. Saint Mary’s battled back in ers with 21 were not necessarily playing time in the losing effort. Saint Mary’s team lost 63- the second half, cutting the points to go Saturday and Guard Bridget Boyce scored 45 to Carthage in a game in lead to 34-2 8 with 16:11 along with expecting this soon. ” th a t he five points and Erin which the Belles never got on remaining. h e r six believes the Newsome, Emily Light, Katie track. But Carthage’s strong rebounds. Steve Bender fresh m en and Rashid each chipped in four In their first home game of shooting was too much for Wuest domi­ Belles head coach sophomores points. the young season, the Belles them to handle. n ated the showed poten­ The Belles will next be in came out struggling, hitting The Lady Reds went on a Saint Mary’s tial to con­ action against Hope today at ju s t 4 - o f - 2 4 field goal 25-5 run to ice the game defense all game, missing tribute significantly this sea­ the Angela Athletic Center. attempts in the first half. after Saint Mary’s cut the just two of her 11 shots. son. They fell behind 24-2 and Carthage lead to six. Freshman guard Shana “I realized we have a lot of Contact Fran Tolan at were never able to recover. Carthage made 53 percent of Lieberman also chipped in 17 depth that we were not nec­ [email protected]

NCAA M en’s Basketball Blue Devils and Hoosiers to square off in Bloomington Indiana students anticipate first ever Duke visit to Assembly Hall as part of Big Ten-ACC Challenge

Associated Press freshman Josh McRoberts he want to work on and make INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s made a mistake by choosing sure that we execute the things Marshall Strickland can the Blue Devils over his home- we need to do to win the already envision Assembly Hall state Hoosiers, and he hopes game,” Killingsworth said. on Wednesday night. the Indiana students swarm What makes this game spe­ lie expects the wild, later the court in a postgame cele­ cial? Everything. night crowd to taunt Duke’s top bration. Duke (5-0) will become the players, J.J. Redick and Welcome back to college bas­ first nonconference team to Sheldon Williams. He expects ketball, Indiana style. ever visit Assembly Hall with the sold-out crowd to remind “When Assembly Hall gets the No. 1 ranking. 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Lenny Kravitz power this season, it must start come out and get after us,” Saturday December 17, ZOOS with a strong showing in one of freshman guard Greg Paulus Van flndel Arena • G ran d R ap id s the ACC/Big Ten Challenge’s said. “The crowd is going to get Those memories have Earl Calloway or versatile 6-5 marquee matchups. into it and playing uphill is already prompted McRoberts swingman Robert Vaden on On Sale Now “We have things that we never good on the road.” to ask his parents to stay Redick. Bui Ttlp package! on sale at Coveleikl Stadium or The bigger question may be home. Meanwhile, Indiana has con­ charge by phone S7A/235-998S what the Blue Devils, and par­ “I don’t think I’m going to be nected on 16 3s in each of its ticularly McRoberts, a native of the favorite person,” he said. “I last two games and might get a Carmel, Ind., receive. always followed Indiana bas­ boost if sophomore guard A.J. 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Killingsworth, Indiana is still without D.J. at 6-8, 268, wants to prove he White, who broke his left foot can match up with Williams in the Hoosiers’ first exhibition N eal McCoy ' s “As You Wish”. When Hurricane Stan devastated and has also demonstrated the game. White was last year’s the Guatemalan village where we ability to pass and hit 3-point- Big Ten freshman of the year. Christmas Sh o w ! Imports '<5Xwork, we pledged at least $2000 ers. Whatever happens, toward the relief effort. Please Loads of Silver & Beaded Jewelry, Tapestry Neal will perform Christmas classics plus But the key could be the Strickland and his teammates Wall Hangings, Hand Crafted Gift Items, come visit, and maybe even help his hits Including, "Billy's Got His Beer figure this is what big-time col­ Accessories, and Much, Much More!! us surpass our goal! perimeter. Goggles On" and “The Shake" Redick, a 6-4 guard, aver­ lege basketball is all about. DIRECT IMPORTS! 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ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer At left, Tulyah Gaines applies the full court press against Iona’s Lauren DeFalco. Gaines had five points and a steal in 18 minutes of action Wednesday. Lindsay Schrader, right, takes a Jump shot over Anna McLean (50) and Martina Weber (24). Schrader had 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the contest.

without your head coach,” ty stripe. Washington said she extremely nervous when Notes Gaels Washington said. “I think in does not think the problem will informed she would have to fill ♦ Before the game Tuesday the first half, we were all a lit­ continue. in for McGraw. But the associ­ night, Duffy was presented continued from page 24 tle nervous. We didn’t really “It’s not really a concern of ate head coach eventually was with a plaque commemorating find out until just before the ours,” Washington said of the calmed, she said, by her confi­ her accomplishments with the team’s second leading scorer game that coach McGraw was­ team’s free throw shooting. dence in the players. USA World University Games behind Duffy. n’t going to be there. I think it “We’re pretty good in practice, “When you have players like Team. Duffy, elected a captain Duffy led the Irish charge to took us the first half to kind of so sometimes it’s just when the Megan Duffy, it’s easy to be of the team before the tourna­ pull away from the Gaels early get used to the way it was lights go on a little nerves. And relaxed and confident because ment, led the United States to in the second half. Iona scored going to be tonight.” that’s just something that I I know no matter what, they an undefeated record and a the first four points of the half McGraw has stressed all sea­ think, as the season goes on, are going to give us the best gold medal victory in Izmir, to cut the Notre Dame lead to son the need to improve team we’ll get used to that and we’ll effort that they have,” Turkey. She started all seven 36-32, but Notre Dame rebounding. The Irish edged knock them down. Washington said. games at point guard, averag­ responded with the Gaels 42-35 “I’m totally confident in our No update on McGraw’s con­ ing 6.1 points per game. a 16-4 run on the boards, players. They can go to the line dition or timetable for return keyed by pres­ but DAmico and make free throws.” was available following the Contact Kevin Brennan at sure defense “We didn’t really find said the margin Washington said she was game. [email protected] and Duffy’s out­ out until just before should have side shooting. been even With 14:34 left the game that coach greater. in the game, McGraw wasn 'I going “Rebounding Duffy connected to be there. I think it has been an on her second issue all year,” straight three- took us the first half to the center said. point shot to kind of get used to the “It’s something stretch Notre way it was going to be we w ork on in Dame's advan­ practice a lot. I tage to 52-36 tonight." think sometimes and put the [when] we box game out of Coquese Washington out, we just reach. Irish a ssociate head coach don’t go after it. In the first And that’s some­ half, Notre thing we really Dame relied on have to improve the inside play of center on, especially against the bet­ Melissa D Amico and forward ter teams.” Courtney LaVere. The pair Iona point guard Toni each recorded eight points in Horvath had a productive out­ the first half. D Amico pulled ing, leading the Gaels in scor­ down eight rebounds in the ing with 14 points and con­ game, while LaVere added five. necting on 4-of-6 three-point But despite the strong interi­ attempts. Iona’s 6-foot-5 for­ or play early on, Iona hung ward Martina Weber pitched in with the more talented Irish in with 11 points and nine the first half. Washington rebounds. attributed her team’s first half The Irish struggled with free ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer struggles to McGraw’s absence. throws Tuesday night, shooting Breona Gray, left, forces Iona guard Toni Horvath to the baseline during Notre Dame's win over “It's tough when you play just 62 percent from the chari­ the Gaels. Gray finished the game with two steals in 23 minutes.

compiled a 7-2 record against tribute. their top opponents. “We just had two or three Seed The Irish were down after players that didn’t have a good continued from page 24 their loss to Tennessee Saturday, match for us,” she said. “And but they’ve gotten over it. this time of year, we need to “I think it [the high seed] really have everybody. That’s why Texas, which will take place lifted our spirits,” Brown said. we’ve won the tough matches in Dec. 9 and 10. The Final Four “We were all pretty down about the past, like the Big East cham­ will be the following week in the it I the Tennessee loss], and to pionship because it was a just a Alamodome in San Antonio. kind of be able to look ahead great, solid team effort. Notre Dame’s strength of I was good |. Obviously we’ll have Everybody contributed really schedule may have been a key to look back at [the loss] and well.” factor in the team’s high seed­ learn from it and not pretend With a solid week of practice ing. Eight of its regular-season that it didn’t happen — because and extra energy because of opponents made the NCAA field. it did.” their unexpected high seed, the Those include Louisville, Texas, The saying goes, “You win as a Irish will be back in action Tennessee, l.SU, Loyola-Chicago, team, you lose as a team.” But Thursday, ready to make a run Valparaiso, Florida and against Tennessee, the Irish did­ — as a team. HY PHAM/The Observer Southern California. n't lose as a team, Brown said. Lauren Brewster, left, watches as Adrianna Stasiuk sets a ball Playing Louisville twice and This time of year, she said, Contact Tom Dorwart at during Notre Dame’s victory over Louisville on Nov. 20. the other eight once, the Irish they need everybody to con­ [email protected] page 22 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Wednesday, November 30, 2005

backup q u a rte rb a c k T.C. Abiamiri finished with a snaps Saturday. The junior Saturday. Ostrander, ending any chance team-leading 10 tackles, responded with arguably the “We were able to get good Sacks of a Cardinal comeback with including six solo tackles, play­ best game of his Notre Dame pressure up the middle all continued from page 24 his fourth sack of the day. ing most of the game because career. day,” the defensive lineman “We w ere in a th ree-m an Ronald Talley sat out with an Abiamiri was around said. “We stayed true to our rush and Brian Beidatsch was injury. Stanford quarterbacks Trent gaps and didn’t let I the quar­ relief that the game was over,” in getting three guys on him, The defensive end position Edwards and Ostrander the terback] run around, and our Abiamiri said Notre Dame’s and I was free on the outside was already thin after Chris entire game and ' ends just got 38-31 win Saturday. “Glad to one-on-one,” Abiamiri said. Frome was injured for the sea­ was one of the upfield, did what come out of here with a victo­ “And you just have to take son against USC, and so with reasons Edwards “We were in a three- they’re supposed ry.” advantage of the one-on-one backup Justin Brown starting, had to leave with to do and made He had just sacked Stanford matchup, and I did that.” Abiamiri saw most of the an injury. man rush and Brian plays, and that’s He credited the Beidatsch was in all you could hope interior line with getting three guys for.” helping him As a result, make plays on on him, and I was Abiamiri had by the outside. free on the outside far the best statis­ Beidatsch, Derek one-on-one. And you tical game of his Landri and career. As a fresh­ Trevor Laws just have to take man, he registered fought off double advantage of the 22 tackles and one teams all game, one-on-one sack in 12 games, leaving Abiamiri starting five. Last isolated on the matchup, and I did season, rotating outside, and he that. ” with NFL draft was able to capi­ pick Justin Tuck talize on the Victor Abiamiri and senior Kyle opportunity. Budinscak, he “1 think I tried Irish defensive end played in all 12 to take advan­ games, registering tage of one-on- 15 tackles and two one matchups,” Abiamiri said. sacks. And after Saturday’s “A lot of times, my teammates game, he had doubled his sack were getting double-teamed — total on the year to eight, and my hat’s off to my teammates his numbers this year have for hanging in there and nearly tripled his career stats. throwing punches back and “He played real solid,” forth. Them getting double­ Landri said. “He stuck true to teamed freed me up on the his keys, [and] he played solid. outside to get one-on-one We got push up the middle, the blocking. And you have to win quarterback would flush out the one-on-one battles to be and Vic was right there, and successful, and we did that he made a play when we need­ [Saturday].” ed it.” CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer Landri also said he was Victor Abiamiri raises his helm et in salute of Irish fans after Notre Dame’s 3 8-31 victory over the pleased with the pressure the Contact Heather Van Hoegarden Cardinal Saturday. Abiamiri led the Irish defense with 10 tackles and four sacks. Irish got up the middle on at [email protected]

do your own thing. Coach NCAA tournament. Amado Jackson is a lot more into disci­ “Ultimately, your goal is to pline and accountability and always win an NCAA champi­ continued from page 24 overall work ethic, big-time sac­ onship, but that might not always rifice.” be totally feasible,” Amado said. tive ranking. Despite the big changes, one “Our goal is to get to the tourna­ Irish head coach Jeff Jackson thing remains the same — his ment and see what we can do has worked with Amado to fine- wingman. Amado has been from there.” tune certain aspects of his game paired with right wing Tim That may seem like a tall order in the hope that Amado will Wallace for most of this season, in the midst of Notre Dame’s cur­ reach the 20-goal plateau for the and the duo has been explosive. rent four-game winless skid, season and average one point a Wallace currently leads the team including two losses to Ohio State game. in points with 11 (five goals, six and a loss and a tie to Miami “I’m kind of on pace to do assists). University on back-to-back week­ both,” Amado said. “I started off Amado describes Wallace as ends, but Amado knows what it a little slow the first couple the bigger, more physical guy takes to make the national stage. games, so I think if things keep that’s not afraid to get dirty, In his sophomore season, on going the way they will, I’ll while he is more adept at finish­ Amado was an integral part of reach those goals. Then hopeful­ ing with a solid shot and setting the 2003 Notre Dame NCAA ly I can do something after this up teammates. Tournament berth that resulted year with hockey, either in “Me and Timmy have played in a loss to Minnesota in the first Europe or North America.” together all the time pretty much round, and he recalls vividly the The 5-foot-ll, 197 lb. left­ from day one,” he said. “Being excitement of playing in big rinks winger is undrafted but has seri­ back with him, it’s good. We get with big crowds. ous aspirations to reach the pro along off the ice, [and] we hang “[It was] just a totally different level. When the time comes to out a lot. We’re not really total atmosphere,” he said. “Thee fans take that next step, he feels his opposites, but were different were awesome.” time spent under Jackson will enough that we help each other To get to the tournament this pay off in his play. out and bring something differ­ year, Notre Dame has a long At the same time, it h asn ’t ent.” road ahead, but the early season been easy for Amado to adjust to Wallace and Amado have seen woes against nationally ranked a new coach with a new style in two centers shore up the middle teams will give way to a much his last year with the Irish. of their line, first Mark Van lighter schedule, beginning this “It’s a tough transition,” he Guilder and now junior captain weekend against Western said. “We go from a coach [Dave T.J. Jindra. But no matter who Michigan. JENNIFER KANG/The Observer Poulin] who was a lot more laid lines up to take the faceoff Irish left winger Matt Amado looks to receive a pass during back and supposedly more of a between the two, Amado has one Contact Kyle Cassily at Notre Dame’s 9-4 victory over Bowling Green on Nov. 10. pro-style coach where you can goal for the team in sight —- the [email protected]

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ND W om en ’s B asketball SMC B asketball Gaelstrom Bender sees Washington coached Irish a new Hope Tuesday against Iona in McGraw's absence in big game

By KEVIN BRENNAN By FRAN TOLAN Sports Writer Sports Writer Notre Dame was forced to take on the Iona Gaels without its leader at When Saint Mary’s hosts Hope the Joyce Center Monday night. College tonight in its first confer­ Irish head coach Muffet McGraw ence game, Belles coach Steve had to stay at home because of an ill­ Bender knows his team cannot ness, but associate head coach afford a repeat of its previous out­ Coquese Washington guided Notre ing. Dame to a 74-55 win over the Gaels. “We absolutely See A lso Senior point guard Megan Duffy led have to come out the Irish with 21 points and out three playing hard this “Saint Mary’s assists. The Irish captain did not time,” Bender falls to commit a single turnover in the game. said. That’s because C arth ag e Freshman guard Lindsay Schrader continued to light up the scoreboard Saint Mary’s fell page 19 early in her Irish career, adding 14 behind 24-2 to points in 22 minutes. Schrader, who Carthage ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer Saturday, in a start Bender called averages 10 points per game, is the Irish guard Megan Duffy dribbles against an Iona defender Tuesday during Notre “pathetic.” The Belles never Dame’s 74-55 win over the Gaels. Duffy shot just 2-of-10 in the first half but finished regrouped, and Carthage sailed to strong for the 5-0 Irish, connecting on 7-of-10 attempts in the second period. see GAELS/page 21 a 63-45 victory. Hope, the defending M1AA cham­ pion, is undefeated at 2-0 as it enters Angela Athletic Facility for a ND V olleyball 7:30 p.m. tip-off. Bender said in addition to start­ ing well, his team must shoot bet­ ter to have any chance at winning. Irish happily surprised with No. 6 seed On Saturday, Saint Mary’s shot 17 percent in the first half. 15-match winning streak for Dame’s highest-ever NCAA take it.” Bender, who is now 1-3 in his Team enters NCAA most of September and seed — despite dropping their The national seed was the first year as Saint Mary’s head tournament with its October. They won both the final match of the regular sea­ fifth top-16 seed in program- coach, called the young season a Big East regular season and son to Tennessee (21-8). The history for the Irish and sec­ “roller coaster” for the Belles. He highest-ever ranking tournament titles for the ninth Irish will host the first two ond in the past four seasons. said, in spite of the rough start, the and 10th times, respectively, in rounds of the 64-team tourna­ This is the seventh time the team needs to “keep going for­ the past 11 years. ment, beginning Thursday at ward.” By TOM DORWART Joyce Center has hosted the But the most important news the Joyce Center. Notre Dame’s early rounds. Notre Dame is 6- And despite the poor record, he Sports Writer they received so far this sea­ early-round bracket includes 2 all-time at home in the said the team has been improving son — their most exciting Dayton, Texas A&M and NCAA tournament. in practice and must translate that High expectations are noth­ achievement — was Northwestern. The winner of Friday’s sec­ progress into game situations ing new for Notre Dame. announced Sunday afternoon. “I was surprised, I was ond round will advance to the beginning tonight. The No. 7 Irish have been The Irish (28-3) nabbed the thinking we’d get maybe about round of 16 in College Station, Bridget Boyce and Alison Kessler ranked in the top-10 for most No. 6 national seed for the a 10 or 12 [seed],” Irish coach of the season. They went on a NCAA tournament — Notre Debbie Brown said. “But we’ll see SEED/page 21 see HOPE/page 20

Football Hockey Abiamiri gets it done out West Amado makes a mark Notre Dame's junior for squad as a senior defensive end had his State, scoring a goal in each of best game Saturday By KYLE CASSILY the back-to-back home games. Sports Writer “Maybe in the past 1 haven’t By HEATHER performed as well as I should VAN HOEGARDEN Matt Amado has been one of have, and now I am,” Amado Sports Writer Notre Dame’s top scoring threats said of his recent touch. “So it’s throughout his career, but only all coming together. It’s nice to Notre Dame defensive end this season has the senior for­ see.” Victor Abiamiri walked off the ward truly become a force to be Although Amado is fourth in field drained. His jersey was reckoned with on the ice. points for Notre Dame with nine, no longer white, and his face Amado has already scored he is tied for the lead in goals was drenched with sweat as seven goals in 12 games this sea­ with Josh Sciba and boasts a +2 he carried his helmet. son, compared to five goals in 31 plus/minus rating — one of only GEOFF MATTESON/The Observer “Huuuuuge, many sighs of games during the 2004-05 cam­ seven Irish players with a posi- Victor Abiamiri sack s T.C. Ostrehander on Stanford’s final play paign. He notched two of his tal­ against the Irish Saturday. Abiamiri finished with four sack s. see SACKS/page 22 lies last weekend against Ohio see AMADO/page 22

C /3 m SMC Basketball NCAA Basketball NFL NCAA Basketball NCAA Basketball NCAA Basketball Carthage 63 Duke at Indiana Kentucky 75 Wake Forest 91 Connecticut 68 Saint Mary’s 45 Wednesday, 9 p.m. Giants tight end High Point 55 Wisconsin 88 Army 54 Jeremy Shockey comes ■M l - J A slow start doomed The Blue Devils invade of age in his fourth pro­ The No. 10 Wildcats Justin Gray scored 37 Connecticut overcame the Belles to their third Assembly Hall for the fessional season. extended their winning points to lead the a slow start to beat the loss of the season. first time ever tonight. streak to three Tuesday. Deacons past the Badgers. Black Knights. page 19 page 19 page 18 page 16 page 16 page 16 * 5