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SUNNY To date or not to date? Wednesday This is the question that Scene answers as it explores the dating HIGH 31° scene on campus. FEBRUARY 13, LOW23° Scene+ pages 10 and 11 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 78 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Tickets face off at run-off debate Malloy opens Ethics Week By JASON McFARLEY News Editor at Mendoza In private, the two remaining tickets for Notre Dame student body president and vice + Weeklong series president were amiable in the 10 minutes will address ethics immediately prior to their debate Tuesday. The four candidates, all and morality in acquaintances, joked and Voting info business laughed with each other +Thursday, Feb. as they probably had at 14 By JOHN FANNING student government News Writer meetings or residence +On-campus hall parties in the past. students vote in They looked and sounded University President Father more like pals than politi- residence halls Edward Malloy outlined the qualities that lead to profes cal opponents. + Off-campus Then, in public, running sional success at a keynote mates Brian Moscona and students vote address Tuesday Keri Oxley and Libby near 1st floor SONIA WALLACE/The Observer The remaining tickets, Bishop/Foley and MoscanajOxley, make some last Impres t h a t Bishop and Trip Foley computer clusters kicked off lined up on opposite sides sions on the student body In debate before the final run-off election on Thursday. of the Hesburgh Library in DeBartolo from Ethics Week in auditorium stage and did 12:30-3:30 p.m. bringing them to completion. cracked down or presented a clear defmition for the first time what "I just wish students knew how many of the school's tailgating rules. That wasn't t h e they had wanted to do hours you were putting in," Bishop said, true, according to Moscona, because Mendoza College of since the campaign season began last month: emphasizing the need for student govern Poorman in a full-page Observer advertise Business. compete. ment to communicate more effectively with ment last fall addressed the concerns. Malloy The debate, a face-off between the tickets its constituency. Bishop and Foley further Foley rebutted, "He didn't say what the Ethics that emerged as the top vote-getters in contested their rivals' ability to communicate policy was in clear language." Week, in Monday's primary election, was candidates' well, asking whether Moscona and Oxley The Bishop-Foley ticket, which has cam its fifth consecutive year, is a first chance to question directly each other's would represent student concerns to admin paigned on the idea of eliminating repetitive week-long series of talks experience and goals. istrators. student government-sponsored program sponsored by the college to They took full advantage of the opportuni "Absolutely," Moscona said. "Keri [the cur ming, faced questions from Moscona and encourage morality and ethi ty. rent sophomore class president] and I have Oxley about a lack of spiritual-, service and cal practice both in job set Vice-presidential candidate Oxley chal established relationship with administrators. academic-oriented goals on its platform. tings and other areas of life. lenged several of Bishop and Foley's platform We'll work to improve the lines of communi Bishop and Foley said objectives such as "The practitioners of vari ideas - revamping Freshman Orientation, cation with students." "Grab 'n Give" food collections and distin ous professions should be organizing a "Welcome Ty Willingham" tour Bishop replied with a swift barb: "I just feel guished lecturer series satisfy those areas. held to the highest standard," for the new head football coach and installing like it's a little late," she said, apparently in "I think we spoke earlier about overlap ... ," said Malloy. However. detex entry systems for residence halls - as reference to student displeasure with Oxley responded, pointing out that many Malloy warned that one's code of ethics must not only plans student leaders and University admin University officials' crackdown on tailgating. University clubs and departments already istrators have already begun. "I wish communication had been open more sponsor Grab 'n Gives and lecture series. be applied to oneself, but also "Initially, we weren't aware [that the pro last semester." Moscona pressed Bishop and Bishop said their opponents' platform pre to the actions of others. jects were underway]," presidential hopeful Foley on the tailgating issue. He asked how sented discrepancies of its own. Moscona and "Judgements about hard Bishop responded. "That's a fundamental they expected to interact next fall with Oxley have campaigned on the issue of creat cases involving people you problem - no one was aware of these administrators who have vowed to continue ing less programming and facilitating other know are very difficult to make," said Malloy. things. But work on these issues is not fin their tough stance against underage drinking cluhs' events. ished." and alcohol-focused tailgaters before home "It's contradicting to say that you're not Malloy said the safety and Moscona, the current student body vice football games. going to sponsor programming, as I feel most care of others must come president, countered, saying that his office Bishop answered that Father Mark of your platform is," Bishop said about before hiding the wrongdo had spent countless hours researching and Poorman, vice president for Student Affairs, -ings of a colleague. If a doc- planning the initiatives and looked forward to hadn't offered an explanation of why officials see DEBATE page 4 see MALLOY/page 4 "Sex and the City's" author advises aspiring writers threw that plan out the window would eventually lead her to a readers turning the pages. She Blondes." She is currently work By SHEILA EGTS and had the audience in the career as a novelist. She began attempts to look at human ing on her third novel and has News Writer palm of her hand as she told per writing a regular column that nature without being shy about nearly completed the first draft. sonal anecdotes from her climb addressed relationships between discussing the "underbelly" of She advised aspiring writers to Candace Bushnell, author of to the top of her field. men and women among human nature. be disciplined by getting up the popular best seller "Sex and Bushnell started working as a Manhattan's elite. The columns Bushnell did not design her every day and writing something the City," stared blankly at the journalist because she needed to were later combined into her novels to encourage people to go even if it's just a term paper. crowd in Washington Hall last pay her rent, but she knew from first book, "Sex and the City." out and have random sex. "Follow your dreams, or at night after receiving some age 8 that she wanted to be a "My column started out in first Rather, she portrayed characters least chase some hunky guys," notable information about her famous writer. She started small, person, but then I created Carrie that would make readers think Bushnell said. audience. and one of her first jobs actually Bradshaw because I didn't want twice about what they are get In response to popular demand "I sort of don't know what I'm involved sharpening pencils for my parents to read it and know ting themselves into. from the audience, Bushnell con doing here because I just found other writers in the office. what I was really doing," said "I am trying to get people to cluded by reading two clips from out this school is really conserva "I don't know if anyone really Bushnell. "It was horrifying, the ask what they will really get out her novels featuring characters tive and well, I'm not," Bushnell wants to hear about the ethics of dating experiences that hap of these kinds of relationships. I based on real-life dating disas said frankly at the opening of the journalism and how it has pened to me and my friends. But at least recommend that they ters. Bushnell was the last lecture. "I was going to read changed. But I guess that's one every bad date lead to at least 2 don't end up like any of my char speaker featured in the week from my books, but I've been way the field of journalism has or 3 good characters, so you can acters because these women are long Sophomore Literary told maybe I'm not supposed to changed. Twenty years ago, peo get some use out of those guys." really messed up," Bushnell said. Festival. do that either." ple used pencils," Bushnell said. As a writer, Bushnell said she Bushnell said she felt pressure While she planned on dis As she advanced in the jour tends to find the uncommon from her empty bank account to cussing the ethics of journalism nalism field, Bushnell planned character that is interesting to produce another novel and wrote Contact Sheila Egts at in the 21st century, Bushnell her whole career in a way that write and read about to keep her second best seller, "Four [email protected]. t""""""------------------- ----------- - page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Wednesday, February 13, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Wednesday Thursday Friday Meatless Fridays + Ash Wednesday - Notre Dame + Lecture - "Partisan Bias in + Worskshop - "2002 Dance Basilica Mass at 11:30 a.m. and Policy Convergence: Privatization Spectrum," guest artists, faculty 5:15pm. Saint Mary's Mass at noon Choices in Latin America," Marie and student works, O'Laughlin Ash Wednesday kicks off one of the most important and longest running traditions at Notre and 6 p.m., Regina Chapel Victoria Murillo, room C -103 Auditorium, Moreau Center, Saint Dame and Saint Mary's.