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OLUME 39: ISSUE 101 TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL Duerson Student Affairs refuses to endorse play law-yer Topic sparks question of CLC influence extends Poorman, vice president for By MADDIE HANNA StudP.nt Affairs, sent a letter to the Assistant News Editor committee stating the Ofl'ice of court date Student Affairs did not endorse the Backlash from The Vagina proelamation or "the activities of Monologues dominated discussion an unrecognized studnnt group." at the Campus Life Council meeting While Poorman said in the letter Former captain will Monday, a topie that sparked ques­ that "the University embraces tho face charges April 28 tions about the group's overall larger goals of thf1 V-Day campaign ability to make an impact on cam­ and calls ev!~ry member of this pus. community to participate in mak­ In response to tho resolution ing our campus a 'rape- and vio­ By CLAIRE HEININGER and HEATHER VAN TIM SULLIVANfThe Observer passed in support of V-Day and lence-free zone,"' he also said The Dillion rector Father Paul Doyle voted against the resolu­ The Vagina Monologues at the Fob. HOEGARDEN tion to endorse The Vagina Monologues. 14 CLC meeting, Father Mark see COUNCIL/page 6 News Writer~ Formnr Notre Dame foot­ ball captain and two-timn All-American Dave Duerson dofP.rred his eourt appear­ ance on Monday for misde- White House: Bush to stop at ND meanor assault charges President's stop is not Students plan to until April 2S. Un iversi ty-spo nso red honor, protest visit Michael Tuszynski or thn By MADDIE HANNA By KATIE PERRY South AssiMalll News Ediror News Writer Bend l'irm William P. Duerson Stanlny & AssociatPS l'n~sidnnt (;porgn W. Bush's President George W. Bush's plans to speak about Social confirmed visit to South Bnnd appeared in St. .Joseph Snl'urity at Notre Damn's has spurred a diverse mixture of County Superior Court .Joyen CPni.Pr Friday, accord­ ehattP.r, ranging !'rom speculation Monday morning to l'ile as ing to a WhitP llousn press on the motivation or tlw trip to I>unrson's private 1:ounsnl. rPIPaSP. the antidpatnd campus response. St. .Joseph County deputy prosecutor Sean Schill said. Notrt~ llamn is not aff'iliated According to a Whito llouse Schill, who rnpresnntnd the wHh the prnsident's visit to news rnloase, Bush is slated to pr·osecutor's of'fiee for lfw campus, University spokos­ speak at Notrn Dame Friday. man Matt Storin said. Given the diversity of opinion initial arraignmnnt. said a "This is not a Notre Danw­ on campus, student political separate defense attorney sponsornd event," Storin said, groups and thoir respective also triml to beconw involved n x pI a in in g that tlw pres i­ members will receive Bush in in the rase Monday but ulti­ mately did not l'ile on !ll~nt's visit would lw similar starkly divnrgent ways. Duerson's behalf. Schill to that of Vic!~ l'n~sident Dick Jan Honderos, co-prnsidnnt ol' doelined to give f'urtlwr Clwnny in Oetobnr 2003 - a the College Hepublicans, said thn businnss transaetion lwtween organization is eagerly anticipat­ details about the altnmpt or the University and the Bush ing Bush's visit to the University. the name of the second attor­ administration. "We are very excited to sno ney. "There was a bit of confu- "Thny'rn basically just AP such an amazing man and leader The White House confirmed George W. Bush's visit to South see BUSH/page 4 Bend Friday. The president will speak about Social Security. see RESPONSE/page 6 see DUERSON/pagc 8

Death penalty series features former Illinois governor George H. Ryan discusses capital punishnwnt

Whih1 snrving as Illinois By TRICIA de GROOT (;ennral Assistant in 1977, New' Writt•r Hyan still believed in the death penalty's importancn in the i\s part of' tlrn "Life in tlw criminal justice system, Balanrn Death Penalty although lw did not want to bn PPrspedivns" sPries that tho nxocutimwr. bngan last wonk. former llownvnr. Hyan had a change (;ovPrnor (;«Hlrge II. Hyan of of lwart al'ter lnarning about Illinois addressed tho Notre Anthony Portnr, who spent 16 Damn community Monday years on doath row until hav­ night on "Thn I>Path l'nnalty: !\ ing his easn ronvaluated and System of .Justice & nvnntua.lly round innoennt and Herond Ii al.i1in '?" relnased. Hy an began t h n f'o r urn by "It arnazod me that you saying that capital punishnwnt could conw so close to tho ulti­ was previously sonwthing hn rnato nightmare, and the sys­ thought about only in thn tem couldn't do anything TIM SULLIVANfThe Observer ahstrad with n~gard to notori­ Former Illinois Governor George H. Ryan speaks alongside panel members about his decision to ous erimns in the news. see RYAN/page 8 place a moratorium on the death penalty, thus exonerating the death row Inmates In his state. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, March 1, 2005

INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: IF YOU COULD BE A SUPERHERO, WHO WOULD YOU BE AND WHY? Too avvare? Violence against women. Heart disease. Animal righL'i. The death penalty. Eating disorders. These are all perfectly worthy causes and pressing issues in our society. And they have all become jokes to Chris Khorey Notre Dame students Maca rena Lindsay Joe Jost Jorge Villarreal Trish Murphy Julie McElroy because of the rash of lvanissevich Dougherty freshman junior junior sophomore Awareness Weeks Sports Writer freshman freshman Dillon Dillon Pasquerilla Breen-Phillips tlmt hit campus in the East month of February. Pasquerilla Walsh ~ It all started in January as the first West "Captain "I would be ''I'd be the round of Vagina Monologues letters hit the "I would be America, Dunigan.! "Bubbles. She invisible Observer. At that time the debate was does it all: flies, fresh. Students debated the merits of the "Spiderman, Wonder Woman because I'd would have woman so I performance, its relevance to issues of vio­ because it because I like want to work David Brent's shoots fire from could watch lence, the Catholic Church's position, and would be fun the costume. " with Wonder powers. her eyes and men undress. " the position of women at Notre Dame and tQ swing Woman in her speaks rapid in the world. Spanish." However, by the time the Monologues around the sweet outfit." were performed in mid-February, they city." had become at best a joke and at worst an annoyance. V-Day was everywhere. It put up giant posters in O'Shaughnessy, told people to wear red on Valentine's Day (don't we do that anyway?) and brought in Eve Ensler. Unfortunately for Ensler, when IN BRIEF she finally arrived, the campus was in a state of total apathy. Worst, female victims of violence, instead of being helped by usu­ Bud Welch, president of ally charitable Domers, became the topic Murder Victims Families for that no one felt like di'icussing any more. Human RighL'>, will give a presen­ Then came the other issues. tation entitled "Oklahoma City The Queer Film Festival had to deal Bombing: Two Fathers & with a letter from a Bishop denouncing it, Forgiveness" today from 12 p.m. but it created little dialogue among the to 1:15 in the Coleman-Morse student body. lounge. Proponents of heart disease awareness got totally overshadowed because, like V­ Marvin D'Lugo of Clark Day, they decided to have people wear University will hold a seminar (ga'>p!) red on Valentine's Day. Thursday in 207 DeBartolo Hall The week after tl1e Monologues com­ from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30. This sem­ memorated Student Government's Eating inar is in conjunction with the Disorder Awareness Week. No one screening of "La Mala edu­ seemed to notice. caeil)n/Bad Education" at 7 p.m. A symposium on the genocide in Sudan the same evening. wa'i held in Jordan Auditoriwn. Few stu­ dents attended. · Staged readings of "Dead Man A group of animal rights activists plead­ Walking" will take place tonight ed with seniors not to use sheepskins on from 7:30 p.m. to 9:15 in the their diplomas. People laughed. DeBartolo Center for the Finally, a: series oflnetures on the death Performing Arts. Tickets may be penalty have arrived, but by tl1en students purchased at the PAC box office were so burned out and busy with or by telephone at 574-631-2800. midterms that the discussion was muted at best. CHUY BENITEZ/The Observer ProHealth will conduct blood Oh yeah, and it was Black llistory Daniel Liem, left, defeated Kevin Loria in the 160-pound weight class in pressure and body fat screen­ Month too. Monday's preliminary round of the 75th annual Notre Dame Bengal Bouts. ings from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The goal of all of these events was to Wednesday in the Grace Hall promote awareness, but it seems they lobby. The wellness assessments failed. With all the issues jumbled togeth­ are available to all NO faculty and er, all students started to hear was "you're OFFBEAT staff, and no appointment is nec­ a bigot who doesn't understand the prob­ essary. lems of the world." Instead of focusing on Nude man covered in He also was given a judicial Kangeroo remains mystery the problems being presented, studenL'> cheese gets probation deferral, which means if he DODGEVILLE, Wis. - A panel discussion entitled scoffed at yet anotl1er awareness week. To MARYVILLE, Tenn. - A stays out of trouble for the Authorities in southern "National Debate on the Death paraphrase the stoners in Super Troopers, man caught by police last next three years the charges Wisconsin have discovered Penalty" will take place from "We're already aware! We can't get any sunm1er on his 23rd birthday will be expunged from his that capturing a kangaroo in 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 Wednesday in more aware!" running naked and covered record. Thomas warned a snowstorm isn't the hard the Hesburgh Center auditorium. It is truly a tragedy that these worthy in nacho cheese pleaded Monn that if he violates the part. It's finding out where Tho panel will feature Madison causes (some more worthy than others, guilty Monday to burglary sentencing requirements, he the animal came from. Hobley, found innocent of murder but that's a different colunm) could not be and four other charges. must serve the sentence in a Authoritins recently gave after serving 14 years on Illinois' evenly spaced throughout the year but Michael David Monn of state penitentiary. up their hunt for the owner death row; Dick Dieter, Notre instnad had to be lumped together and Maryville appeared before Early on the morning of of a red 130-pound marsupi­ Dame '68, director, Death Penalty thrown at the Notre Dame student body. Blount County Circuit Court July 18, 2004, Monn "was al, saying its origin will Information Center; and Bill I'm thinking that the week after spring Judge D. Kelly Thomas and highly intoxicated, broke into remain a mystery. Pelke, president, National break, we should have Awareness Week pleaded guilty to burglary, the John Sevier Pool snack The Iowa County Sheriff's Coalition to Abolish the Death Awareness Week. Perhaps then students theft, vandalism, indecent bar area, stole some suacks Office has given the Henry Penalty. would be more aware of the major prob­ exposure and public intoxica­ and did some damage and VIlas Zoo in Madison permis­ lem of under-recognized Awareness tion. In a plea bargain with was caught naked with some sion to keep the kangaroo, To submit information to be Weeks. We could put up posters and fliers prosecutors, Monn was sen­ stolen snacks," Blount County nicknamed Roo. included in this section of The and do a performance where people talk tenced to three years in District Attorney General Observer. e-mail detailed informa­ about their Awareness Weeks. prison but was given super­ Mike Gallegos told the court­ Information compiled tion about an event to We could even wear green on St. vised probation. room. from the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu. Patrick's Day! The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not TODAY TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY necessarily those of The Observer. a: Contact Chris Khorey at UJ ckhorey@nd. edu. ::r: ~ UJ CORRECTION 3: ....I Due to an editing e:mx; a lener thar appeared in the VIewpoint Los Angeles 68 I 52 Minneapolis 20 1 4 mems, whiffi did not spocifically mention the wrc, should not New York 36 I 26 Ph1ladelph1a 38 I 26 Phoemx 71 I 52 Seattle 54 I 42 St. Louis 37 I 19 Tampa 68 I 46 Washington 40 1 28 have appeared The Observer regrets the enm Tuesday, March I, 200'5 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS page 3 COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES Performer addresses gay issues

SUB, adtninistration love being gay." make that !sexual orienta­ By KATE ANTONACCI According to event organiz­ tion! question a little more Associate News Ediror ers, many University oflieials comfortable to me," Gomberg thought that it was important said. notninees approved To kick off Notre Dame's to have Bogaert speak on GLBQ Week eame about first Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual campus. through efforts by the Senate Student body president-elect Dave Baron and Questioning (GLBQ) "The administrators that I Diversity Committee and stu­ Awareness week, local per­ spoke with personally were dent body president Adam shows support for newly-appointed officials former Bradley Bogaert fairly enthusiastic about his Istvan, Vierig said. spoke Monday about living as coming, as they realized he Though Boganrt was asked a gay man in South Bend. would be dealing with many to speak on eampus snvnral Baron offered praise of By MARY KATE MALONE Bogaert, a 1979 graduate taboo subjects that perhaps weeks ago, ol'fieial approval Kozlow's eharacter and of' Marian High School in haven't been discussed in a for the event was not granted News Writer assured representatives that South Bend who currently meaningful way," said Chris until Thursday afternoon, she will go above and beyond works at Truman's Night Vierig, organ- said Gomberg, Thn Council of Hnpresen­ expectations. Club as a drag queen, dis­ izer of the who asked lalivns mol brinfly Monday "Liz is a good-natured, cussed coming out, gay bash­ week and " h b · Bogaerl to give night to approve two nomina­ friendly person. I feel like I ing and drug and alcohol member of the T ey say emg gay tho talk. lions for lhn upcoming sehool know the q uali lies needed to problems. lie himself suf­ s e n a t e is a choice. I wish it While Vinrig year. be a solid CEA, and Liz has fered from a drug and alco­ Diversity was a choice. " said it was dif'fi­ Tho Council approved got them," Baron said, refer­ hol addiction from age 16 to Committee. cu It to get the .Jimmy Flalwrty's nomination ring to his own experience as 36. In 1996, he entered a six­ "For exam­ University to for Student Union Board this year's CEA for current month rehabilitation pro­ ple, it was very Bradley Bogaert approve Bogaert Manager. This will be his sne­ student body president and gram, which led him to sobri­ important for featured speaker to speak on ond year in the position. viee president Adam Istvan ety. gay, lesbian eampus, lhn Student body prosidnnl-eleet and Karla Bell. "I was doing drugs and and bisexual event's turnout l>avn Baron told reprosenta­ thought I was the best enter­ students to hear the story of was greater than expected. livns that Flaherty will eontin­ In other COR news: tainer there was," Bogaert a gay man who was addicted Although the plan nnrs un to bring nnw nnnrgy into + Assistant direetor of the said. "IBut] I have never to drugs and alcohol but who expected a core group of' gay, SUB. Student Activities Ofnee Peggy been happier being sober." overcame his eircumstances lesbian and bisexual students "Wn want Jimmy to take llnatusko announced that her After discussing his person­ to find his true identity," to como, they said they were ovnr as rnanagnr onen again. office is seeking nominations al struggles, Bogaert said he Vierig said. pleased to see many straight lin has a l'rnshrwss with what for Student Leadership also had to deal with the Several audience members students attnnd. hn wants to do. flo's going to Awards. many societal struggles that seemed offended by parts of "Overall, I think the make SUB a brand name "This is a big honor. If you come with being gay. his talk, sueh as diseussions University is, however, open across campus," Baron said. are selected it means you are "They say being gay is a about drug and alcohol use, to a multiplieity of opinions COH also approved Liz in the top 1 pnrcent of student choice. I wish it was a gay bashing, prostitution and and welcomes numnrous dis­ Kozlow as Chin!' 1\xneutivn lnaders," she said. ehoice,'' Bogaert said. "I pornography. Others ques­ eussions of various diseours­ Assistant to Baron's upcoming Tho deadline for Student would choose l.o, and every­ tioned Bogacrt's choice to es so (hat studnnts may administration. Kozlow. who Leadership Awards applica­ one's going to hate me for eall on audience members to engage in a eritieal thought snrvnd as chairpnrson of tho tions is March 16. saying this, be straight. ask about their sexual orien­ proeess of' thnir own beliefs," Ovnrsight Comrnil.tee on the There are times I love to be tation, Vicrig said. "This: I believe, Sl.udnnl Snnaln. will begin her Contact Mary Kate Malone at gay.' b.~t it really isn't a "Personally, my support of is at the heart of any uniVI1r­ nnw position April I. [email protected] choice. GLBTQ rights has nothing at sity ndueation." Despite these difficulties, all to do with whether I am On Wndnesday, other Bogaert said that gay, les­ hetero or homosexual, it has events for GLBQ Awarennss bian, bisexual or transgender to do with human rights and Week will take placn, inelud­ individuals today live in a far civil rights at large," said ing students wearing orange more welcoming soeiety than Anna Gomberg, graduate stu­ shirts to support gay, lesbian Work for News. Call 1-5323. that of his youth. dent and co-coordinator of and bisexual students on "People today have so many the unofficial student group eampus and Theology on Tap opportunities that we didn't AllianceND. "I think that stu­ discussing homosexuality have," Bogaert said. "Still, dent leaders working in this within a Catholic context at. I'm proud to be what I am. I arena have a different Legends at 10 p.m. responsibility to realize that The l'ilm "In and Out" will this is a question that is real­ be screened Thursday in tho ly hard for someone who is LaFortune Ballroom. questioning or eloseted." Additionally, The Laramie However, the audience Project, a play about tho responded positively to murder of gay eollege studont Bo'gaert's often humorous Matthew Sheppard, will be speaking style, which made performed today, W11dnesday discussion of diffieult topics and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in easier. the DeBartolo Center for the "His entertaining style is Performing Arts. very candid and upfront, and his willingness to disclose his Contact Kate Antonacci at own orientation seemed to [email protected]

Fr. Sorin with Holy Cross priests and brothers "Thanks to the favor God showed tne I laid a foundation as a wise tnaster-builder tnight do, and now someone else is building upon it." ( 1 Cor 3: 10)

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BOARD OF GOVERNANCE Fire alartn Relief effort, new Student Center celebrated interrupts

Welton presented the final By KELLY BALE and ERICA check to history professor Dr. reception RANGEL Cyriac Pullapilly. News Writers . Pullapilly will pass the Saint Mary's funds onto the Salesian By KATIE PERRY Meeting for the last time in Fathers of India, who help News Writer the conference room of the raise and educate orphans and Haggar Student Center, Saint street children. University donors were sur­ Mary's Board of Governance "All of the student body prised to learn they would be celebrated on Monday its move cooperated and contributed ... asked to evacuate the Marie P. to the new Student Center and we should keep up this spirit," DeBartolo Center for the the end of its "Love Makes the Pullapilly said. "I thank you on Performing Arts during a recep­ World Go Round, Show Your behalf of the Salesian Brothers tion Friday evening due to a false Love" tsunami relief campaign. for the people of India who will lire alarm. "I know we were a little iffy benefit from this." The Edward Frederick Sorin at first," student body presi­ Pullapilly continued, "It's Society, which honors those who dent Sarah Catherine White such an amazing thing. I am so KELLY HIGGINS!The Observer annually give $1,000 or more to said. "But we pulled through proud of these girls for putting BOG members present Dr. Cyriac Pullapilly ·with a check for Notre Dame, was in the middle of and we are well beyond our together a successful cam­ the Salesian Fathers of India. a function in the Leighton goal." paign. It says a lot about the Concert Hall of the DPAC when Student body vice president ladies that come to Saint the fire alarm went off and guests Mary Pauline Moran attributed Mary's." went to each dorm room ask­ sion" tonight at 8 p.m. in the were forced to leave the premises much of the fundraiser's suc­ White, Moran and Welton ing each resident for $1. Le Mans Lobby. until safety could be assured. cess to the theme "Show Your also presented BOG with a BOG approved a co-sponsor­ + Saint Mary's Alumnae will Manager of Guest Services Love" and because the cam­ poster that will be signed by ship through the Student be on campus from March 14- Jacqueline Schmidt' said the paign lasted the entire month members and displayed in the Academic Council for three 20. Alumnae will participate in alarm went off at 7:30 p.m. of February. new student center thanking seniors and three freshmen activities like Midnight "Our staff followed all of our "I think the fact that we students for the funds they from the Social Work Madness and will also attend standard procedures appropri­ waited was good, it gave raised. Department to travel to Mexico lunch with current students ately and efficiently and evacuat­ everyone a chance to reflect on White also acknowledged during spring break. The stu­ throughout the week. ed the building," Schmidt said. the event," Moran said. "I Welton, whom White said put a dents will be attending the El + The second part of Senior "Once we had accounted for all of think people wanted to donate large amount of work into Salvador Encounter where Formal tickets are being sold our guests and confirmed that but didn't know when or organizing the fundraiser and they will do service work and this week. Money is due there was no threat to their safe­ where Ito donate] and this pro­ helping it run smoothly. attend various workshops. A Wednesday and table signups ty, we brought everyone back in vided them with the opportuni­ BOG placed containers in brown bag luJJ.ch presentation are due on Friday. and resumed all of our scheduled ty." each of the residence halls and about their trip is scheduled activities." BOG's gQal of $1341, or $1 other locations on campus to for when they return. According to Megan O'Hara, a per student, was nearly dou­ collect donations. A face-to­ Contact Kelly Bale at member of the event staff, a spe­ bled with a final total of face collection was also done In other BOG news: kbaleO [email protected] and dal efli~ct used in the play "The $2610.10. White, Moran and in a series of three "Night + Student Activities Board will Erica Rangel at Laramie Project" caused the lire executive treasurer Molly Knocks." Members of BOG hold a "write the troops ses- [email protected] alarm to falsely sound. The two evenL<> took place at simultaneous times in the building. "There is a scene that uses fog, • and apparently that is what set oil' one of the alarms below the Director named for Master of Science Program stage in the Decio Theater," O'Hara said. Special to the Observer University of Wisconsin at Green organizations. The program was Education named Harvey one of Despite the inconvenience, Bay. restructured in 2001 to include a the 51 leaders in the field of social Schmidt said the guests made no Thomas J. Harvey has been "Tom's experience, network, core curriculum of courses on work during the past 50 years. complaints and in fact gave com­ appointed director of the Master energy, and vision will be a grant writing, development, Harvey earned his bachelor's plimenL<> regarding how well the of Science in Administration tremendous asset for the MSA financial management, market­ degree in philosophy from St. situation was handled. (MSA) Program in the Mendoza Program and for efforts of the ing, accounting, human resource Charles Borromeo College in "It should've been mass chaos, College of Business at the College of Business and Notre management, communications, Philadelphia, master's degrees in but actually we got people reseat­ University of Notre Dame. Dame to serve the needs of the · and ethics, all tailored for the not­ sacred theology from the ed for the Laramie Project fairly Harvey most recently served as nonprofit sector," said Carolyn Y. for-profit sector. Gregorian University in Rome quickly, and the actors didn't miss senior vice-president of the mem­ Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Harvey, who has held a variety and in social planning and com­ a beat," O'Hara said. "The Sorin ber service division at the College. of professional and social service munity organization from Society performance was almost Alliance for Children and Established in 1954, the MSA positions for 35 years, served as Columbia University, and a certifi­ over anyway so the people just Families in Milwaukee. He also program is designed to hone the president of Catholic Charities cate in nonprofit management finished with the reception in the taught in a certificate program on administrative leadership skills of USA from 1982 to 1992. In from the Wharton School at the PAC lobby." nonprofit management for the people working in social service 2003, the Council on Social Work University of Pennsylvania. Contact Katie Perry at [email protected] Bush continued from page 1 DEBARTOLO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER using our facility," Storin said. "The original interest NCE SPRING was, I think, more coming to South Bend than Notre ~UNIVF..RS. ITY OF Dame." ARTSfest I WNOTREDAME Storin said the Century Center downtown was not TWO WEEKS OF MUSIC, FilM, THEATRE, AND DISCUSSION available for the president's , THE NOTRE DAME DEPARTMENT OF FilM~ TELEViSION, ANO THEATRE PRESENTS visit in the necessary time­ frame, so the JACC was the DEAD MAN WALKING next best option. THE LARAMIE PROJEO However, Storin added that BY MOISEs KAUFMAN BY TIM ROBBINS while the president's visit will DIRtcrfD BY ANTON JUAN DJRfaED BY SIIRt SCOTT AND JAY SKflfOH have no more connection to DEfo18v • ··:_{f#f:X ·;.;

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS IRAQ Iran's nuclear secrecy criticized VII·:NNA. Austria- Tlw ehinf U.N. atomie 115 killed in suicide car bombing watl'hdog chidnd Iran on Monday for dnlays in divulging kny information about its nurlnar program. saying tlw onus is on Attack is the single deadliest the country has seen since the fall of Sad dam Hussein TPhran to ovPrconw a "r~onl'idnn!'.!l dnfkit" causrHI hy past l'ovnr-ups. Associated Press As MohammPd Jo:IBaradni critidznd Iran at a rnnPt.ing ol' tho lntf'rnational Atomic Jo:norgy IIILLAII - Tho pile of Ag.-nr:y, tlw Bush administration suggnstrHI it sandals and shons told part was r:onsidPring a major stralngy shirt - or thn story. So did the joining l·:uropl' in ofTPring Tnhran Pl'onomir blood splattrwnd high on a · iJH'PntivPs to aband(m its uranium Pnrir:h­ wall and pooled in tlw mPnt program. stnwt. Tlwn thnre was tlw Hussia. nwanwhiln, sought to dismiss nm­ bomber's car, or what was r:Pms that an Iranian nuclnar rr1a!'tor it built lert ol' it - a twisted ongino and will supply with f'twl could he usr1d to block and ruinr~d frame. dnwlop wnapons. Tlw Ppartnwnt issund a about 60 milns south or dassifi.-d hullntin to oflidals ov11r tlw wnnknnd Baghdad presentnd the about llw intPIIigPIH:n, whir:h spokr1snuur Brian boldest challnngn ynt to Hodrrkass,. dnsr:rilwd as "erndibln hut not spn­ Iraq's nf'forts to ·build a dlk." Tho intPIIigPncP was obtained over tlw snr:urity !'oren that ean take past snwral wr1r1ks. thn oflir:ials said. ovt~r from tlw Americans. ThP govnmnH•nt has no immndiatn plans to Sonw or tho vielims worn raisP ilo.; national tPrTor alnrt lnvnl. Honhrkassn shoppers or vnndors from a said. But. h.- said, tlw intnllignnr:n "rr1itnratns rwarby outdoor stm11t. mar­ Llw dr'sir.- hy al-<)aida and ilo.; asso!'.iatns to tar­ ket sPIIing produce, sand­ gPtthP honwland." wkhns and othnr food. But most were recruits wailing outside tlw elinie. "I was lur:ky because I AP NATIONAL NEWS was thn last person in linn An unidentified woman grieves at the scene after a suicide bomber blasted a crowd whnn thn explosion took of police and national guard recruits outside a clinic in Hillah on Monday. The dead­ Suspect cannot be held indefinitely place. SuddPnly thnre was liest attack since the end of the war left at least 115 dead and 133 injured. WASIIIN<;TON- A fednral judge ordnrnd panic and many frightened !.1111 Bush administration Monday to nithnr people stepped on mn. I lost Empty shoos and sandals gnts. r:ivil war as Ayatollah al­ chargn tnrrorism suspect Josn Padilla with a consciousness and tho next of those killnd or wounded The Shiites have Sistani has said," said .Jalal c.rimn or rrdnasn him af'tnr morn than two thing I was aware of was worn thrown into a corner. rcf'rai ned from striking i•:ddin al-Saghrwr. a sPnior and a hall' yPars in eustody. being in the hospital," said Scorch marks infused back - mostly at tho dnrie and mPmlwr ol' tim U.S. l>istl'il't .fudge llnnry Floyd in Muhsin I ladi, 29, a recruit. with blood covered the din­ behest or their most SuprPnw Coundl for tlw Spartanburg. S.C., said thn govrli'IIIIJnllt can­ One of his legs was brokrm ic's walls. Morgue workers revered leader, Grand lslamk rPvolution in Iraq. not hold Padilla indnf1nitnly as an "nrHHIIY in thn blast. unloaded plastic body bags Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Allianen lr~adnr Ahdnl com hatanl," a dosignation l'rnsidont Bush Angry crowds gathnr:ed from pickup trur:.ks as who is,widnly credited with Aziz al-llakim rnr~nntly gavP him in 2002. outside the main hospital, weeping relatives looked bringing them this far. AI­ hint11d that thn Shiitns wPm "Tiw r:ourl linds that llw prnsidnnt has no chanting "Allah Akbar," on. Sistani wants nothing to waiting to takP pownr powPr, rwillwr nxpress nor implied, neillwr Arabic for "God is great," Thn bombing r:omos at a impede thn Shiites l'rorn boforn dnaling with tlw r:onstitulional nor statutory. to hold petition­ demanding to know their time when tho Sunni Arab gaining the polilir:al pownr insurgnney. lin indir:atPu PI' as an Pnnn1y c:ombatant," Floyd wroto in a rr~lativns' fate. Pnopln at thn insurgency is trying to dis­ thny havn eravnd in Iraq, that a first stnp would ill' to 23-pagP opinion that was a storn robukn to sitn or tho attaek roportndly rupt tho formation or a new and will not allow tlwrn to idnntil'y and purgn the secu­ thP govPrnnH•nt. liP gavn tho adrninistmtion chantnd slogans against tho government sot to be led by ongagn in a snetarian war. rity serviens ol' any insLII"­ 4!i days to takr> ar:tion. "Wahhabis," rnl'orring to majority Shiites for the lirst It's not that tlwy lack tho gnney sympathizers. adlwrrmts or the striet form timn in modern history. firnpower - nominally dis­ "We must dnpPnd on tlw Concerns aired over Medicaid cuts of Islam prear:hnd by Iraqi fon~es are eventually bandPd Shiito militias 1~ould sons o I' tlw I r a q i p eo pIP WASIIINCTON- Tlw Bush administra­ Osama bin Laden. supposed to takn over easily l'irl\d thousands or who bnlieve in thn nPW tion's proposal to f"Ul sonw $40 billion from Dozrms of pnople steppPd responsibility for snr:urity tough and Pfl'nctivn lightPrs Iraq, and not on thosn had MPdir:aid would rPdur:P ar:r:oss to lwalth r:ar11 through small lakes or the kny to Washington's exit that could dnal a crushing nlnmnnts that infiltratnd tlw for tlw poorPst Anwrir:ans, govnrnors said blood tha.t poolMI on tho stratngy - but they rnmain blow to the insurgrmey. security cirdes and turrwd Monday af'LPr IIIPPling with tlw pt11sident. stroot to rotriovo shattornd undnr-nquippnd, ill-pro­ "We saerif'ir:nd a lot ol' into a probiPm," al-llakim "I lis hu.1lglll would havn a dramatic pf'f'nct limbs, sPvnrnd fenl and pared to f'ight insurgents blood, we havP to bo told Tlw J\ssodatPd Press on l.lw lwalth r:arn ol' millions of Amnricans," hands. and often mako easytar- pationt and not drift into a on Sunday. said I>Pmor:rat Mark Warnnr of Virginia. Add11d ltr1publir:an Bob Tart or Ohio: "Tho governors arn vPry rwrvous about agrrwing to any sp11nding ruts." LEBANON Sorrw govPrnors. hownvm·. said l.hny real­ izPd tlwy rwnntually must r:ompromisr~. but thnir biggnr d11sir11 was to win l'r11ndonr. Prime minister resigns amid protest

Syria remained silent about the their ground and lwld it- tlwy Associated Press LOCAL NEWS rapidly changing atmosphere in plannnd to stay in Martyrs' Square BEIHUT - With shouts of "Syria Beirut. where Damascus ruled unop­ again Monday night. And likn out!" 25,000 protnsters massnd out­ posed for years, evnn deciding on tho Ukrainn, thnir movmnnnt had tradn­ Court sets convict's execution date sidn Parliament in a dramatic display Lebanon's leaders. mark colors: tho bright red and INiliANAI'OLIS - Tlw Indiana Suprnmo of d11Iianee Monday that forced out But tho dramatic developments - white of the Lebannsn l'lag, wavnd Court today s!1L an April nxer:ution datn for a LPbanon 's pro-Syrian prime ministm rominiseent of Ukraine's poaeoful high in tho air and worn as a scarf. man r:onvictnd in tim I

David Moss, assistant vice Democrats are working together ers like Chocola is to secure leg­ president for Student Affairs, with a coalition of other campus islative backing. Council said the council should have Response groups - such as the Peace "Chocola has been up front as continued from page 1 considered the administration's continued from page 1 Coalition and the Progressive a supporter of social security likely response more carefully Student Alliance - in order to privatization, but it may be that Vagina Monologues was when members crafted the V­ come to visit our campus," voice disapproval for Bush's I Bush) is becoming more wary housed under an academic Day resolution. Ronderos said. "I am really budget proposal and speak out of his support, having discov­ department only. "I think when we brought out excited about prospect of pass­ about concerns regarding the ered significant resistance "It is not and has never been the resolution to discuss - was ing tax reform and social securi­ proposed social security plan. among constituents," Arnold the role of the Ollice of Student it just there to push Student ty reform. I hope that the presi­ "The President's visit is a said. Affairs to officially 'approve' Affairs in a certain direction, or dent speaks on these issues." prime opportunity for us to gen­ Assistant professor of political particular speakers or events to have an effect on campus?" According to Rondoros, the erate dialogue on campus and science John Griffin said it is hosted by academic depart­ Moss asked. College Republicans are plan­ in the South Bend community hard to discern whether the visit ments," Poorman said in the let­ He continued, "I saw that the ning to attend the event itself in about some of the important will be equally beneficial for ter. administration would have a order to display their support issues at stake during this Chocola and his own political Poorman also said he saw the problem with The Vagina for the president. term," Bunick said. "We want to status in the area. CLC's resolution as seeking "to Monologues ... I was a little sur­ Anthony Salpino, a freshman ensure that all sides of the "Given Bush's popularity in circumvent the club recognition prised when that change !strik­ member of the College debate are adequately repre­ the region, it can only help process by asking the Office of ing the Monologues from the Republicans, has made plans to sented." Chocola," Griffin said. "On tho Student Affairs to endorse the CLC's resolution I didn't pass." see Bush speak at the JACC. Faeulty offered their own per­ other hand, the next congres­ activities of an unrecognized Moss stressed that members "I was pretty interested when spectives on Bush's visit. sional election is nearly two, student group." of the CLC would have to com­ I found out he was coming, but I Political science professor Peri years away, so any boost for "This [Poorman's response! is promise with the administration was surprised at how little pub­ Arnold said he believes the pri­ Chocola will likely have dissipat­ no surprise," said student body if they wanted to have an licity he got," Salpino said. "It mary motivation of the speech is ed by then. You also have to pre­ president Adam Istvan, who dis­ impact on campus. was only mentioned briefly in to garner support for the presi­ sume that in two years' time agreed with Poorman's state­ Istvan countered Moss's com- one email from the College dent's reformed social security that it will still be a good thing ment that the CLC was under­ ment. . Republicans, and then I had to plan, which was first unveiled to be associated with the prnsi­ handedly trying to win the "I think there's certain issues do a Google search to lind out during Bush's inaugural address dent, and a lot can happen in administration's support for a you can't compromise on," the president was actually com­ last month. Iraq and in the economy over spocilic group. Istvan said. "There's no room ing." "Republican members of that long period." "We're not asking them to for half-steps towards the goal." While Salpino and other stu­ Congress are discovering a While Chocola and other local approve a group, but to endorse Dillon rector Father Paul dents will show their support for great deal of resistance among Republican leaders are expected an ideal," he said. Doyle said that for him, the Bush and his stances, others constituents to changes in social to greet Bush with a warm Istvan continued to express decision to vote against the res­ have made preperations to security that would include pri­ reception, the Notre Dame com­ frustration with the administra­ olution was simple. protest the president's appear­ vate accounts and large increas­ munity's response is not as tion's lack of visible support for "I listen to the bishop - he's ance. es in the federal debt," Arnold dear. the V-Day campaign by describ­ our pastor," Doyle said. "If it Junior Jim Fobert, a member said. "Bush's hope is to try to Hero said that Bush's history ing an explicit reference in the l the play J teaches something of the College Democrats and lend his more visible weight to with the University - in con­ 'stall notes' of a men's dorm he contrary to Catholic teaching, I Progressive Student Alliance, this effort." junction with an expected inte­ did not identify. can't support that, and I don't altered his spring break travel Rodney Hero, political science gration of Catholic ideals in his "The defense to this type of know how Catholics can." plans upon receiving word of department chair, expects local rhetoric - will likely lead to a action, given by the rector, was Bongiovanni suggested the Bush's visit to Notre Dame. political figures to accompany cordial welcome. 'boys will be boys,"' Istvan said. possibility of Notre Dame taking "1 was plannillg on leaving for Bush as he pushes for his new "My sense is NO has been "I don't think the administration an approach similar to sa'int spring break on Thursday plan. seen as hospitable toward this really gets the problem here." Mary's, which created its own evening, but when I found out "I assume he'll have Mitch president - he was the com­ According to Istvan, this inci­ version of the Monologues that [Monday I that he was coming Daniels and/or other local politi­ mencement speaker in May dent was indicative of prevail­ was deemed acceptable by here, I changed my mind," cians appear with him, such as 2001," Hero said. "He may be ing sexist attitudes at Notre Bishop John D'Arcy of the Fort Fobert said. "I will be here for Governor [Mitch] Daniels, [Rep. seeking to implicitly link some of Dame, and of the council's Wayne-South Bend diocese. his visit on Friday, most likely to . Chris] Chocola, maybe his policies to ideas attractive to inability to combat them. "Maybe that's an avenue stu­ protest." [Michigan Rep.] Fred Upton," Catholics." "We have no powers beyond dents want to consider," Fobert and other students will Hero said. University spokesman Matt what we did [passing the V-Day Bongiovanni said. have ample opportunity to voice The White House has not con­ Storin said Monday that the resolution]." Istvan said. "I Regarding Istvan's comment their opposition to Bush as some firmed whether or not local president's visit is not affiliated don't know what we can do on Poorman~s supposed misunc on-campus groups plan to politicians will join the president with Notre Dame. from here." derstanding of the CLC's intend­ demonstrate upon the presi­ Friday. Several members expressed ed purpose of the resolution, dent's arrival. According to Arnold, Bush's concern that Istvan had placed Bongiovanni said future prob­ According to co-president motivation for possibly incorpo­ Contact Katie Perry at too much emphasis on a con­ lems in interpretation could be Nicola Bunick, the College r·ating local congressional lead- [email protected] nection between the adminis­ alleviated if Poorman was pres­ tration's failure to endorse The ent at meetings. Vagina Monologues and the "Since we are the advisory dorm incident. group to Father Poorman - "I don't think the two events shouldn't he be here?" are as strongly correlated as Bongiovanni asked. you make them out to seem," Lewis noted that Moss serves Cavanaugh senator Jordan as a representative from Bongiovanni said. Student Affairs and Poorman Knott rector Brother Jerome does attend one CLC meeting Meyer agreed with per year. Bongiovanni, saying, "To say all the administrators of the In other CLC news: University don't understand the + Members discussed issues problem, that's a sweeping involving transition and dorm accusation." elections. Senate Judicial Siegfried senator James Leito Council president Brin said he felt most disheartened Anderson said there had been with the resolution's lack of conflict between Judicial Board impact. members and rectors resulting "My fundamental problem from miscommunication over with this group is that it's election dates. always been a suggestion box "I don't see. the need for every ?h'e Department of Art, Art History and Design group," Leito said. "That's one dorm to hold it on the same day .. of the greatest weaknesses of -just tell us when you need it, is pleased to announce its annual competition for the this group as a whole." we'll get the names to you," Riley Prize in Art History and Criticism. Despite this dissatisfaction, Doyle said, other members emphasized the Anderson said it had been Current Notre Dame undergraduate and graduate fundamental importance of the hard to find a balance between CLC passing the resolution. allowing rectors to choose their students are invited to submit essays on any topic in "I think it was an important own election dates and follow­ the history of art or art criticism for consideration in step to make a proclamation," ing the constitution. Further said J.T. Arseniadis, co-chair of debate was postponed until the the competition. Essays must deal with the visual arts. the Hall Presidents Council. next meeting. "You have to take the good with + The "Flex 10" resolution has They may have been written in conjunction with a the bad. The vulgarities that been received by Poorman and course taken at the University, but need not have been. you mentioned in the stall director of Food Services Dave notP.s, that's what we're fighting Prentkowski, Istvan said. - we're trying to move away "1 can't give a timetable, but I from that." assume sometime after break Rules governing the competition are available in the Art Department Oflice, Carroll rector Father Jim we'll hear back from Student 306 Riley Hall. Lewis supported Arseniadis's Affairs," Istvan said. opinion about the gradual + The vending task force Two copies of the submission must be delivered to the Art Department Office by improvements taking place in chaired by Leito presented a 3:00 PM, Monday, March 21st to be eligible. student government and on resolution regarding laundry campus. and vending prices that was "I think as a campus, we're passed unanimously after slight growing. We're not necessarily changes to certain clauses. where we need to be, but we're moving in a healthy direction," Contact Maddie Hanna at Lewis said. mhannal @nd.edu THE OBSERVER

Tuesday, March I , 2005 USINESS page 7 ·~==~~~~======MARKET RECAP Federated will acquire May stores Dow }ones 10,766.223 -75.37 Stores will acquire the Macy's nan1e in an effort to create a nation wide brand up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: Associated Press 1,305 144 • 1,775,105,408 CINCINNATI - Fnderatnd AMEX I ,509.44 -7.04 Department Stores Inc. NASDAQ 2,051. 72 -13.68 plans to doubl1~ its sizn by NYSE 7,321.23 +40.66 acquiring May Department S&PSOO 1,203.60 -7.77 Storns Co. in what amounts to an $11 billion bet that NIKKEI(Tokyo) II ,740.60 +82.'35 department stores have a FTSE IOO(London) 4,968.50 -38.30 future nvnn as consumers increasingly shop at dis­ COMPANY %CHANGE I $GAIN I PRICE countel·s and speeialty stores. NASDAQ IOOTRSERI(QQQQ) -1.06 -0.40 37.22 "We bnlinvn passionately MICROSOFT CP (MSFT) -0.36 -0.09 25.16 that d11partmnnt storns have INTEL CP (INTC) -0.42 -0.10 23.99 a very important place in tho evnr-l'orming, ever­ YAHOO INC (YHOO) + 1.70 +0.54 32.27 changing retail nnviron­ CISCO SYS INC (CSCO) + 1.28 +0.22 17.42 ment," Tnrry .1. Lundgren, Fndnratnd's chairman, prns­ ident and chief executive 30- YEAR BOND + 1.38 +0.64 47.06 said Monday in announcing I 0-YEAR NOTE +2.04 +0.87 43.59 the eash-and-stock deal. Many of May's depart­ +2.41 5-YEAR NOTE +0.94 39.95 ment storns eventually will 3-MONTH BILL +0.56 +0.15 26.90 be convnrtod to thn Maey's Commodities name as Fnderatnd acceler­ ates its strategy of crnating LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +0.26 51.75 a nationwide brand that GOLD ($/Troy oz.) + 1.50 436.10 would give it pricing lever­ PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) +0. 78 89.38 age with suppliers. The transaction also would Excha Rates bring together the operator YEN I 04.5500 of Bloomingdale's with EURO 0.7553 May's Marshall Field's, Lord & Taylor and Hecht's POUND 0.520 I chains. CANADIAN$ 1.2331 Federated would not say how many jobs will bo cut or what the company would AP IN BRIEF do in eases where it would A sign for Famous and Barr, owned by May Department Stores Co., hangs above In control multiple department St. Louis. May was acquired by Federated Department Stores In a deal on Monday. Former CEO denies role in scandal stores in malls. Analysts at Smith Barney estimates that when~ their parents Fndorated already is al advertiser, Lundgren NI·:W YOHK- B1wnard Ebbers took the stand 94 malls have stores with shopped, retail industry spreading the Maey's name said. Tho combined mmpa­ at his trial Monday and flatly denind any rolf1 in Federated and May name­ analyst Kurt Barnard said. to its regional-department ny will be in tho nation's top tlw $11 billion accounting scandal that sank plates. lie said Lundgren has store groups, meaning that 6!> markets exeept. WorldCom, tnlling jurors his "marks wernn't too Tho company wants to driven Fndnrated to reach names inducting Lazarus, .Jacksonville, Fla. good" in school and that hn knows very little hear what regulators say out to young people with Rich's and Burdines will dis­ The merger is tlw latest. about ac1:ounting. about whother and how mnrehandise that appeals to appear this month. consolidation in tlw dnpart­ The fornwr WorldCom CEO said he faneied many of thn ovnrlapping them, an approach that Lundgren said Fednrated nwnt storn industry, partie­ hirnsPlf as "eoarh" of thn eompany and left the stores will havn to be dosed Federatnd ean use for May's donsn't plan to change May ularly tlw mid-th~r sector as nurnbnrs-1·.runching to lilrmnr linanm ehinf Seott or sold, Lundgren said at a stores. store names before 2006, companies se(~k to reduct> Sullivan. news conference in New "It is working," Barnard, but then will rename its total advertising spending Under qunstioning from his top lawyer, Ebbers York. the presidnnt of Barnard's stores - and even some and other costs whiln gain­ nxplidtly refutnd earlier tnstimony from Sullivan, Tho combined company Hetail Consulting Group, Bloomingdale's stores - as ing bargaining power with who dainwd that Ebbers pressured him to eook would have about 950 said from Nutley, N.J. "We Maey's. supplinrs. Just last Uw hooks to meet Wall Street expectations. department stores and an are seeing younger people That moans that May Novnmbor, Kmart Holding "I wasn't advisnd by Seolt Sullivan of anything additional 700 bridal and 11ocking to the !Federated! store nanws ineluding Corp. agreed to buy Snars, ewr hPing wrong," l~bb11rs said. formal wear stores. It would department stores." Fileno's, Foley's, Hecht's H01~buck & Co. lin· $1 I .5 bil­ "lin's nevnr told nw lw made an entry that operate in every state Still, Fednrated eould facn and Kaufmann's could dis­ lion. wasn't right. If lw had, we wouldn't bn horn except Alaska, along with a big ehallenge in revitaliz­ appear next year. And thnre may he mon1 today." Guam, Punrto Hico and the ing May, whose sales havn The nxtension of" tho dealmaking in tlw oiTing. The matter-of-fact dnnial was perhaps thn most District of Columbia. slipped, aeeording to Bob Maey's name takes advan­ Saks IIH~. may sell or spin dramatic monwnt to datn in the live-week-old Department stores have Buchanan, an analyst with tage or its fame and also ofT its 111 id dIn-market trial of J<:bbnrs, who is accused of orchestrating been losing sales in part A.G. Edwards & Sons Ine. will allow Fnderatod to department storn division to the accounting fraud that plunged WorldCom into because young people "It is not going to be easy to expand use of Macy's erndit concentrate on its Saks Fift.h tho largnst bankrupky in U.S. history in 2002. regard them a~ tho places turn that around," he said. eards and beeome a nation- Avenue unit. Fears over inflation decrease stocks NEW YOHK - Stocks skiddnd Monday as investors, concernml about rising prices and tlw threat of inflation, look profits after last we1~k's three-day rally. Volatility in pharma­ Entrepreneur charged with tax evasion cnutical stocks and an analyst downgrade of Dow .Jonns industrial Cennral Motors Corp. Associated Press paying Washington taxes, according government alleged he could bn also pressured the rnarkot. to the indictment for fraud, tax nva­ linked to at least seven aliases and Frnsh worries about inflation arose arter tho WASHINGTON - Teln-eommunka­ sion and obstrueting the IHS. that orticials seized from his apart­ Cornrnercn l>epartnwnt's latest reading on tions entrnprerwur Walter Anderson Arrested Saturday, Anderson plead­ mont forged idontilieation and manu­ eonsunwr in1:orno and spending. Personal was arrested and charged with evad­ ed not guilty Monday and was als detailing ways to ernate fake id!m­ ineonw fell loss than oxpoctml in January, but ing $200 million in federal and loeal ordered held without bail until a tilkation and hide from authorities. spnnding was flat and core consumer pricns taxes in what the govornmnnt said hnaring Thursday. Among thnm wore "Pool"! llow to rose 0.3 percent - tho fastest rate in morn was the largest eriminal tax case ovnr "lie was living the high life," said Disappoar and Croat!~ a Nnw Identity" than thrno years. against an individual in tho United the Internal Revenue Sorvien commis­ and "The ID Forgor: llomomado Birth Hising oil priens wmn also a eoneorn, as a Statns. sioner, Mark Everson. "Bncause of his Certifieates and Other Docunwnts barrel or light crudn settlnd at $51.75, up 26 The indictment announced Monday dishonest dealings, Mr. Anderson's Explained," thn doeunwnt said. c1mts, on thn Now York Mercantile Exehango. chargns Andnrson with hiding income lavish life style was subsidized by Anderson started a long distanen Tlw confluence or nows, along with nnrvous­ from tax collectors through offshore honest, hardworking Amerieans." tnleeommunieations business at thn rwss about a ran of important economic data corporations and bank accounts and If' convicted, Andorson could f'aee time the industry was bning deregu­ duo latnr in tlw wonk, triggered the slide. claiming to be a Florida residnnt to up to 80 years in prison. Messages lated. "Whnn you have the !Standard & Poor's 500 avoid paying ineome taxes in left with his lawyer, John Moustakas Whon his first eom pany nw rgnd indoxl up thrnn days in a row likn wn had last Washington, D.C. of' Washington, wore not immodiately with another eornpany in I

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to one year in jail and a $5,000 as well. After Notre Dame, Davf~ fine for each. Storin said Monday night Duerson went on to win two Duerson According to the prosecutor's that he was not sure if Dave Super Bowls in the NFL with Ryan continued from page 1 supplemental affidavit on the Duerson had officially resigned the Chicago Bears (1985) and continued from page 1 case, Duerson allegedly struck as the president of the the New York Giants (1990). sion this morning, so we'll his wife, Alicia Duerson, and Monogram Club but that he did Dave Duerson was also well­ about it," said Hyan, who see what transpires between pushed her out of their hotel not expect him to retain his known in the league for his couldn't understand how an now and April 28," he said. room during the early morning position. service activities. lie was innoc:ent man could sit on Activity on the ease could of Feb. 3. Alicia Duerson was "We were told by his repre­ named thA 19S7 NFL Man of death row for !'6 years. occur before this formal status treated at a loeal hospital and sontatives that a letter was in thA Year and 1988 NFL Hyan concerns grew even conference date because released, the proseeutor's the process of being done and Humanitarian of the Year for more after the Chicago Duerson chose to retain pri­ statement said. he was going to resign," Storin his work with substanen abuse Tribune released revealing vate r.ounsnl, Schill said. The Duersons worn staying said. prevention and Special statistics about the death Tuszynski did not return on campus for the wintnr Dave Duerson's two-year Olympics. penalty in Illinois. Thn infor­ calls seeking comment meeting of the Board of term expires in June, when He is also founder, president mation eausod Hyan to believe Monday. Trustees, which was held Feb. .Julie Doyle is set to take over. and CEO of Duerson Foods, tlw system was failing. Duerson, 44, nl' Highland 3-4. Dave Duerson, a trustne Storin said tlw Monogram Club LLC, a high-volume meat Aeeording to t.he Tribune Park, Ill., is chargod with two since 2001' resigned his post is not scheduled for any formal processor for major restau­ series, nnarly half of the capi­ eounts of battery and two Feb. 4. activity until its June menting. rants and retail ehains. tal eases in Illinois went. baek counts of domestic battery in Dave Duerson is also the A 1983 Notre Dame gradu­ Dave Duerson was the 2001 for a retrial, 33 perc.nnt of the allegations stemming from a president of the Monogram ate, Davn Duerson played recipient of the Sorin Award defendants wc~re rnpresented Feb. 3 incident at the Morris Club, but University defensive back for the Irish from the .Notre Dame Alumni by lawyers who were later Inn on the Notre Dame cam­ spokesman Matt Storin said at from 1979-83 and still holds Association. either disbarred or suspended pus. the time of the charges that he the all-time program record and blacks were being con­ All four of the charges arc expected Dave Duerson, the for career interception Contact Claire Heininger at victed by all white juries. Class A misdemeanln·s, carry­ 1990 Monogram Club Member yardage. lie also served as tri­ [email protected], Heather Van In January 2000, more ing a maximum penalty of up of the Year, to resign that post eaptain of the 1982 Irish team. Hoegarden at [email protected] death row inmates wen1 exon­ erated than executed in Illinois and this moved Hyan to action. "I did the only thing I could do," he said, which was to put Fourth 'Lavv and Order' series convenes an end to the death penalty in Illinois. He formed a commission to Associated Press innovative in how it echoes the threat of "Law & Order" Order." investigate the Illinois justice dualistic format of the original overkill. Whatever the risk of "There have been days when system, and after his evalua­ NEW YORK - There was a to a degree previous spinoff's hastening viewer fatigue, each I've shot scenes for both shows tion of this thorough two-year time when even two seemed never have. new show further enriches the in the same day," Thompson study, Ryan decided they like a lot. But "Law & Order" Through 344-and-counting world all the series share. said between setups in needed to fix the system. But didn't stop there. episodes over 15 seasons, Even as they snugly coexist in Branch's office - an exact after wrestling with the facts Taxing the show-biz adage "Law & Order" has always New York City, they expand duplicate of his office on the and figures, he concluded the "If they liked it once, they'll done things by the book: nab­ that realm. "Law & Order" stage in system was, in fact, irrepara­ love it twice," NBC went bing the bad guy in the first The boundaries of each Manhattan. But as Thompson ble. beyond "Law & Order: Special half, then hauling that series are a permeable mem­ spoke, he was looking ahead to "There was no doubt that it Victims Unit" (started in 1999) scoundrel into court. On "Trial brane, so stories and charac­ this week, when he expected to was arbitrary, capricious, and "Law & Order: Criminal By Jury," a comparable sym­ ters are free to roam. Already, shoot scenes for both his regu­ unjust, racist and unfair to the Intent" (2001) to add yet a metry is achieved by tracking crossover episodes of "Law & lar series, plus an appearance poor," said Hyan. fourth edition, "Law & Order: the opposing sides as the case Order" cum "Trial By Jury" are on "Special Victims Unit," Trial By Jury." ([t previews 10 unfolds. Each episode cross­ in the works for this spring. which films at yet another stu­ Contact Tricia de Groot at p.m. EST Thursday on NBC, cuts between the prosecutors Meanwhile, re-entering the dio in North Bergen, N.J. [email protected] with another episode 10 p.m. and the defense team (made franchise after a decade's Friday in what will be its regu­ up of guest stars like absence is Christopher Noth, a lar slot.) Annabella Sciorra and Peter charter "Law & Order" star "Trial By Jury" stars Bebe Coyote) as each side revs up who left in 1995 (along with Neuwirth ("Cheers") as New for the courtroom clash. his character, Detective Mike York Assistant District On Thursday's episode, will Logan, who was banished to a Attorney Tracey Kibre. She is the prosecutors nail a Staten Island precinct house). PLANNING AKIDS PARTY? joined by Amy Carlson ("Third Broadway producer for mur­ Starting next fall, Noth will Watch") as Deputy Assistant dering his actress girlfriend'? share top bill with Vincent District Attorney Kelly Gaffney. On Friday, will a wily defense D'Onofrio on "Criminal Intent," Kirk Acevedo ("Oz") plays attorney win the jury's sympa­ shooting at the same Detective Hector Salazar, an thy for his severely wounded Manhattan studio where he investigator for the D.A.'s client - a thug on trial for toiled on "Law & Order" for six REMEMBER: office who initially is paired killing a cop who complains of seasons. with Detective Lennie Briscoe police brutality'? Jerry Orbach transferred out (played, of course, by Jerry Each case will be decided by of "Law & Order" after last Orbach, who in December died hour's end. But a more sweep­ season, his 12th. Like Briscoe, of prostate cancer at 69), then, ing verdict will be rendered in his beloved character, he was after this week's episodes, due time by a jury of viewers: seeking lighter duty. Like teams up with D.A. Is "Trial By Jury" guilty of Briscoe, he found it on "Trial Investigator Chris Ravell (Scott being one "Law & Order" too By Jury" in a less demanding Cohen, of "NYPD Blue" and many? job. "Street Time"). Is the saturation point in Then illness claimed Orbach. As District Attorney Arthur sight, particularly with TNT Now Briscoe, too. In a future Branch, "Law & Order" veter­ airing hours of old "Law & episode, his passing will be an Fred Dalton Thompson will Order" episodes while ·reruns noted by other "Trial By Jury" be a regular here, too. of "Special Victims Unit" and characters as they return from Under the rule of Dick Wolf, "Criminal Intent" unspool on his memorial service - anoth­ grand pooh-bah of the "Law & USA? And forget cable. ln er example of "Law & Order" Order" empire, this latest entry thrall to all things "Law & mirroring real life. bears an unmistakable family Order," NBC typically devotes "It was unspeakably sad to resemblance: The New York nearly one-third of its prime lose Jerry," Neuwirth said last setting; the time-and-place title time to the various shows - week at the "Trial By Jury" cards and "ba-bing" signature; and this week will blanket studio in Queens. "But one of a solemn mission statement more than half its schedule the great examples that Jerry with which each episode with a "Law & Order" sprawl. set was a herc;ulean work begins: "In the criminal justice One early clue to how the ethic. It was beyond being a system, the most important jury might be leaning: or the trouper." After his death, "that right is a trial by jury. This is three established series, only example made it not so daunt­ one of those trials." Ba-bing! "Special Victims Unit" is ing for us to earry on." . The newest variation on an attracting more, not fewer, As they carry on at "Trial By ever-more-familiar theme, viewers now than a year ago. Jury," one cast member shut­ "Trial By Jury" proves most But there's a flip side to the tles between there and "Law &

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lETTERS TO THE EDITOR Meaningful debate Responding to 'unfair' finally arrives comparisons•

In honor of Notrn Damn's first Gay, Lnsbian, Bisi1xual and <)unstioning ((;UH)l Awaronnss Wenk, it is crueial to clear up any misrepresentations regarding tho Notrn Damn nvents that show­ case gay issues. First, as a former rnsident assistant, diversity educator and mul­ ticultural commissioner, I can assure you that the Catholic per­ spnclivo on homosexuality has had, and continues to have, many VIHILWS. Dialogue on discrimination, hate crimes and other issues ndatNI to homosexuality, however, has been severely lacking on cam pus. Secondly, tho various pnople that have responded to Bishop John D'An~y's rocnnt eommonts have highlighted valuable points, rang­ ing from J)'Arey's historically prejudiced stanee towards homosex­ uals in the priesthood to the Princeton Heviow's naming Notre Dame tho most homophobie cam pus in the U.S. With the hnlp of movemnnts like the Queer Film Festival and GLBQ Week, rnal and meaningful debate about the issues of homo­ In his column in Monday's The Observer, Armstrong Williams or Maggio Gallaglwr snxuality are finally becoming part of the Notre Dame dialogue. Joey Falco demonstrated a considerable for supporting his domostie agenda. But Notn1 Damn traditions are evolving in ord11r to preserve the ignorance of the political situation in again, tlwre is a huge dif'f'erenee botwoen moaning of Catholic ideals in modern society. I personally believe Russia and the United States with regards an admittedly underhanded attempt by that with enough sustained commitment and dialogue, Notre to a rreedom and independence of the members or the Departmont of Education Dame will be able to develop its "distinctive identity" in the "eon­ press. or Health to eultivatn support from a few firws of tlw truth and common good." One, President George W. Bush's point conservative syndicated columnists and tlw Tho eommon good is dearly not to disallow gay and lesbians stu­ was that when journalists in the United absorption of entire mndia outlets by the dnnts the right to organizo, raise awareness and support each States are fired, that are done so by their Russian state under President Putin. ot.lwr with tho resources offered to other organizations on cam­ editors, not by the United States govern­ Three, Mary Mapes was fired by hnr pus, sueh as tlw Multicultural Student Programs and Services ment. Either Faleo completely missed this superiors at CBS News for basing tho nntirn of'licn. point, or he fails to see the difference factual foundation of' tho 60 Minutes story lluman dignity is at stake, and Notre Dame must continue to between this and the ease in Hussia, where concerning Bush's serviee in the National ehangn and creatn a safer and more positivn environment for its Putin has brought all television news agen­ Guard on obviously forged documents fr-om (;I.IH) eommunity. cies and most newspapers under state con­ a former Texas national guardsman with a As an alum, it has boon encouraging to see national eovorage of trol. When Russian journalists are removed history of mental illness and threats to the Notre Dame's unprt~eednntnd series of events. This ineludes a from their posts, they are done so at the Bush family, not because the U.S. prnsidnnt. story in the New York Times, even though uninformed critics sueh behest of the government in Moscow. For personally ordered her to be fired becausn as Bill O'Heilly ridicule Notrn Dame. all of Faleo's warning that the situation in she had Dan Hather ask uneomf'ortabln Notre Damn, however, should be commended for its efforts America is analogous to Russia, he fails to questions about his war record. aimed at fostering inelusion. The ND Queer Film Festival is an provide one specific example where an Faleo, the next time you make sueh a nxcnllnnt way to heighten awareness of the issues and discrimina­ American journalist was removed from his elaim concerning the situations in the tion that race gays and lesbians, and this will provide a crucial job under the explicit orders of the U.S. United States and Hussia, make sure you pnrspnetive to the Notre Dame community. I ean only hope that government or the Bush administration, as have a better understanding of the use of tho monwntum to build a more compassionate, aeeepting, edueat­ there are none. The United States govern­ state power in both countries in order to IHI and tolerant campus for gay and lesbian students at Notre ment does not have the power to remove avoid making more ludicrously false claims Dame will continue and continue and continue. journalists from their positions, unlike as you did in your column. Anything less would be truly un-Catholic. Putin's government, whieh does so with impunity. Sean Brennan Ken Seifert Two, Faleo provides no evidence that Graduate Studem Class of 2003 Bush or members of his administration per­ Feb. 28 Feb. 28 sonally directed the compensation of

U-WIRE Democracy on destructive world tour led by U.S.

As the United States continues to The United States has helped money. We occupied both for several shirting attention and capital to Iraq. build and rebuild tho now Iraq with nations build democratic governments years, helping create better conditions The Unitod States is eurrnntly spend­ hnlp from the rest of tho world, hero's before. We helped both war-ravaged than either Iraq or Afghanistan had. ing $4.3 billion a month in Iraq J'ight­ a fun fact about another little country Germany and Japan emerge from We pumped in aid with the ing that war. The war in Iraq takes whern we just got dono waging a war. tyranny to republican govern­ ---- Marshall Plan. We brought money, soldiers and media attontion Afghanistan ranks ments after World War II. order, whieh led to peace away from the problems of' 17:{ out of 17S eoun­ John Jordan But. as Afghanistan and and stability, before giv- Afghanistan. trins on thn Unitnd Iraq show, Bush is not ing sovereignty. "The report has painted a gloomy Nations 2004 !Iuman University of taking this task as Afghanistan and pieture of the status of human devel­ I>nvnlopmnnt Index, Kansas seriously as the Iraq have neither opment in the country af'tnr two aee~,lrcling to a new University United States has advantage. Both deeados of' war and destruction," U.N. rnport. That Daily Kan.~an done before. require large secu­ Afghani President Hamid Karzai said puts Afghanistan at First of' all, the rity forces to main­ in a foreword of the report. thn bottom of the world trash barrel of United States did­ tain peace, yet· It's true that the Unitod States isn't human conditions. n't go marching both have already the sole reason for Afghanistan's As wn havn seen in both Afghanistan into Germany and had elections. plight- our war's only thn latest in a and Iraq, fighting the war is the easy Japan guns blaz­ Afghanistan is long series of eonl'liets there. part of "building" a dmnoeraey. After ing, the harbin­ lacking in every But if the United Statns and Bush it, tho rnal work starts. But this rnport gers of' demoeraey. measure of' a don't fully and patiently support shows that wn arn not committed to We we ron 't the nations develop­ human conditions and rebuilding al'ter focusing on tho hard work. aggressors of con­ ment, as shown by invading a eountry, democracy cannot l'residnnt Gnorgo W. Bush niet like we find its abysmal lluman survive. And our poliey of bringing announces the overthrows and nice­ ourselves today. Development Index domoeraey to the world beeomos a lions, but what good are they when After righting a global rating. sham. hasie living conditions arn some of the war the United States "The fragile nations worst in the world? -with help- took it eould easily tumble baek This column originally appeared But worse, how should Iraqis feel upon itself to rebuild and into ehaos," wrote the Feb. 28 in the University Daily about this? Where will our priorities encourage demoeraey on the authors of the report, Kansan, the daily publication at the be if' we invade Iran? And then North nations that attacked it. according to The New York University of Kansas. Korna'! Will Bush lnave us with a Second, we were serious about Times. The views expressed in this column dmnentnd domino chain of democra­ building a democracy. Building a new Ripe for democracy? I don't think so. are those of the author and not neces­ cy'! government takes both time and Yet Bush has already moved on, sarily those of The Observer. Tt--IE OBSERVER page 12 CENE Tuesday, March 1, 2005

DVD REVIEW Comedic magic of 'Seinfeld' shines in first two seasons

The 77th Academy Awards Ceremony was cer­ the awards, as Foxx's impeccable 1 tainly a memorable one, with music giant was the unquestioned more surprises and contro­ Brian Doxtader actor in this field turned in a great versy than in past years. and each will likely one day have ~ While there were some obvi­ Uette (With the pOSSible exception I ous winners who were Scene Columnist Eastwood). Foxx is now indisputat expected to take home stat- and though his performance show uettes, some of the biggest awards were uncertain slightly, it still remains one of the 1 until the moment the envelope was opened. in recent history. There was no do As for myself, I predicted exactly half of the was going to win the award, altho; major awards correctly. In every category where L have been fully undeserved had .it predicted incorrectly, I at least had the good sense other nominee. It also marks John to claim that the eventual winner was deserving of ond-consecutive loss; last year's "l the award, so I had narrowed the field down to Caribbean" was his first acting no1 two major contenders in each case - which was discounts the plethora of great per how most of the award ceremony played out. has given in the past, for films like Although this was two of five, at least I didn't think Scissorhands," "Ed Wood" and ''Ff that "Ray" would win Best Picture, as New York in Las Vegas." Times critic A.O. Scott did. Best Actress Unlike last year, when "Lord of the Rings: The Who won: Hilary Swank ("Millio Return of the King" took all eleven categories in Who I said would win: Hilary Sv which it was nominated, there was no clean sweep Dollar Baby") this year by any major film. Who I said should win: Kate Wil "Million Dollar Baby" overcame its dark horse Sunshine of the Spotless status to become the major winner, taking home Mind") Photo courtesy of sonypictures.com Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Hilary Swank goes two The antics of Kramer (Michael Richards), left, Elaine (Julia Louis Dreyfus), Supporting Actor. It lost the Best Adapted for two, taking home George (Jason Alexander) and Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) can finally be found on DVD. Screenplay award to Alexander Payne and Jim her.second Best Actress Taylor's "Sideways." It marked Eastwood's second statuette and once again known episodes li.ke "The Chinese Best Picture and second Best Director Award (both beating Annette Bening. By MOLLY GRIFFIN Restaurant," which chronicles Jerry, for 1992's "Unforgiven"). Though this award was Scene Critic Elaine and George's experience of wait­ "The Aviator" took home most of the technical much deserved and did­ ing for a table and "The .Phone awards, including Art Direction (Dante Ferretti), n't come as a major sur­ Few television shows, or even feature Message," in which George has to steal Cinematography (Robert Richardson), Costume prise, there was the Cli films, have been as highly anticipated an answering machine tape from a Design (Sandy Powell) and Editing (Thelma widespread belief that on DVD as "Seinfeld." The first three woman after leaving a message he does­ Schoonmaker). Its only major win was in th~ Best either Annette Bening "M seasons of the hit show are now avail­ n't want heard. Season 2 has five Supporting Actress category; it lost Best Picture, would upset Swank or able and have plenty of extras. Seasons episodes with commentary. These com­ Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Bening and Swank 1 and 2 are packaged together due to mentaries feature a variety of the· Screenplay. Martin Scorsese once again walked would split the vote and the short length of the first season, and show's creators, including writer Larry away empty-handed; this was his fifth Best Vera Drake's Imelda the extras are spread among the four Charles, the creative duo of Seinfeld and Director nomination since his first in 1980. Staunton would take the discs. David or the trio of Louis-Dreyfus, Best Picture award. As for Winslet, "Seinfeld" is frequently described as Richards and Alexander. What won: "Million Dollar Baby" she is a very fine being "about nothing," and in some The commentary from Seinfeld and Who I said would win: "The Aviator" actress, so there is no senses this is true. Instead of elaborate­ David, who has since gone on to success Who I said should win: "Million Dollar Baby" doubt that her time will ly-constructed plots, the show focuses with his own show, "Curb Your The success of this picture played out like its come - as long as she on the silly details and events that make Enthusiasm," is by far the most enter- , plot: a small film that nobody wanted to make sud­ keeps taking interesting a up the monotony of life for its main taining, while the commentary from denly rises to greatness, just as it follows a small­ roles and attacking characters -Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld). Louis-Dreyfus, Richards and Alexander time boxer whom nobody wants to train as she them with the same George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia is somewhat disappointing. They don't rises to greatness. The low-budget, extremely inti­ level of creativity as she Louis Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael really have much insight to offer and mate film obviously won great favor within the did in "Eternal Sunshine Richards). Episodes focus on everyday what they do have to say isn't really Academy voters, overcoming the Miramax market­ of the Spotless Mind." occurrences that usually wouldn't war­ interesting or engaging. ing machine to take home the highest honor. It Best Supporting Actor rant any examination on another televi­ The setup of the disc menus is was refreshing to see such a well-made, personal Who won: Morgan sion show, such as waiting for a table at extremely clever, as each one looks like film take home the Best Picture Oscar, since the Freeman ("Million a restaurant, leaving a bad phone mes­ a place or item from the series. winners in the past several years have all been . Dollar Baby") sage or having a new jacket ruined. However, they can be somewliat hard to major blockbusters ("Lord of the Rings," Who I said would win: Season 1 is rougher and, as a whole, navigate. The sound and video quality is "Chicago," "A Beautiful Mind," "Gladiator"). Thomas Haden Church less funny than other seasons from the much better than viewers would find Eastwood crafted a surprisingly affecting and ("Sideways") series. But it does give some insight into when watching syndicated episodes, but powerful film and was rewarded accordingly. The Who I said should Su the origins of the show and its later evo­ it isn't always perfect. Academy got it right. win: Morgan Freeman lution. At only five episodes, the first Along with the episode commentaries, Best Director ("Million Dollar Baby") season is extremely- .short, and the pilot there is a vast amount of extra material Who won: Clint Eastwood ("Million Dollar Baby") It was really good to Su is a throwback to a time when the show available along with the first two sea­ Who I said would win: Clint Eastwood ("Million see Morgan Freeman was actually called "The Seinfeld sons. First, there are "Inside Looks" for Dollar Baby") finally get his due. I did- Chronicles" and Kramer's name was various episodes, which are composed Who I said should win: Martin Scorsese ("The n't expect him to win Kessler. While it isn't really very good, it of interviews with cast and crew that Aviator") this award for a few does give a frame of reference that fans explain the episode's background. Ah, the irony runs deep and rich. It is only fitting reasons. Church's nomi- will appreciate. Season 1 has one "Master of His Domain" is a feature that that Scorsese lost his fifth Oscar nomination to nation seemed almost a episode, "The Stakeout," available with spotlights Seinfeld's stand-up and "How actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood. Eastwood dual nod for himself and commentary from Seinfeld and creator It Began" is a 64-minute feature that .. even claimed that Scorsese should have won for lead actor Paul Larry David. details how the show became a reality. Raging Bull, the director's 1980 boxing biopic. Giamatti, who failed to Season 2 shows the roots of the series' There is also a compilation of clips from Instead, Scorsese lost again to a director who receive a nomination. It slow evolution into the pop culture phe­ cast members' appearances on "The made ... a boxing biopic. At least the 62-year-old seemed that "Sideways" nomenon it would later become. Tonight Show" and a photo gallery. director remains in good company---' neither would've taken more Episodes include some of the more well- Overall, while the early seasons of Alfred Hitchcock nor Charlie Chaplin ever won a major awards than just "Seinfeld'1 aren't perfect, Best Director award. As for the 7 4-year-old screenplay. It didn't they show the seeds of Eastwood, who collected his second directing seem likely that "Million what the show would Oscar, he has aged like a fine wine, only getting Dollar Baby" would Seinfeld later become. The fact better and more astute with age. "Million Dollar have won as many that everything - includ­ Baby" marks his second straight winner, after last awards as it did, and if Season 1, 2 ing bad episodes - is year's "Mystic River." May both he and Scorsese one category was going included shows just how continue to make fine motion pictures for years to to be affected, it would much the creators want­ come. be this one. Despite this, Columbia Tri-Star ed to please their die­ Best Actor Freeman turns in one of hard fans. Who won: Jamie Foxx ("Ray") his strongest perform­ Who I said would win: Jamie Foxx ("Ray") ances and is justly Who I said should win: Leonardo DiCaprio ("The rewarded. He remains Contact Molly Griffin at Aviator") to this day one of [email protected] No surprise here. This was the most obvious of Hollywood's most reli- THE 0HSERVER

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TPalion of the ahln artors and his dignified pnrformancn in losing the Best Picture Oscar. lie could not havo voritP. Jo:vnry "Million Dollar Baby" is indicativn of his entire been more right than with this, a weleome sur­ •rft ll'lllarH~P earner. A solid and well-desnrvml Oscar. prise that awards Kaufman for what is undoubt­ acting stat- Best Supporting Actress edly thA Bost Original Screonplay of the year. In ( :1 i nt Who won: Catn Blanchett ("Thn Aviator") my original assossment, I daimod that "The a gn~at act.or Who I said would win: Virginia MadsAn Aviator" had a less-momorable script than pm­ al.Pd just ("Sideways") vious ScorsAsn films, and the Academy took rP nu•rutll'ahlt> Who I said should win: Catn Blandwtt ("The r)ol.ice, giving the award to the morn deserving I thai h•xx Aviator" I "Eternal Sunshine." This was a surprise, but · 1 it would not Hlandwtt ovnrr.amn eritieism of her pnrl'onn­ certainly a wekonw one. Kudos to Kaufman, liP to any ancn as Katlwrirw llnpburn to takn horne the Gondry and Bismuth for thoir wondnrfully origi­ llt>pp's StW- award. Virginia Madsen, a largely untt~sted nal work, and kudos to tho Acadnmy for having 1II'S of tlw actrnss, dot•s not havn thn strong body of work the good snnse to reeognizn it. · wtion. This that Blandwtt. dons, although onn imagines that Breakdown of the other awards: 'lllllllt'.I'S hi' lwr tinu• will t~onw nventually. Though I nxpeetnd +Spain's "Thn Sea Inside" won the Bnsl. ·:dward MadsPn to win this award since the Acadnmy Foreign Film award, dnfnating Mirarnax's and Loathing tPnds to fa~or artrnssns a~ u.~e.~ nnwrgn.. into grnat­ French fi I m "The Chorus." IWSS, as tlus aetrnss dons lll Srdeways, + Pixar's "The lneredihlns" won tho Best Blandwtt's win was more dnsnrvnd. llnr earnful Animatnd Feature award. This carne as no sur­ Iollar Baby" l rl'produetion of Katharine llnpburn 's quirks was priso as tho film was far and away the linost rk ("Million PxtrPnwly strong and thn Academy took notkn and aniinatnd lihn of the year. It was also ono of the gave this linn adrnss tho award. best pictures of the ynar, hut a nomination in Best Adapted Screenplay that category was unlikely (the only animatod Who won: film to ever be nominated for Bost Picture was -···------, Alnxandnr l'ayno and 1991's "Boauty and the Boast"). .I irn Taylor ("Sido­ +.Jan A.P. Kaczmarek won the Best Original ways") · Score Oscar for "Finding Neverland," beating Who I said would out such veterans as live-time Academy Award Photos courtesy of www.yahoo.com win: AlexandAr Payne winnnr .John Williams (for "llarry Potter and the Best Actress winner Hilary Swank and Best Attor win­ twood scores and .I im Taylor Prisonor of' Azkaban") and Thomas Nowman ner Jamie Foxx pose with their awards on Sunday. ("Sideways") (for "Lmnony Snieket's a Who I said should Series of Unfortunate Evonts"). arknockout win: Hiehard Link­ + .Jorge Drexlor's "AI Otro latnr. Hhan llawke, Lado Dol Hio" from "Tho Eastwood and Julin Dnlpy and Kim Motorcycle Diaries," por­ on Dollar Baby" Krizan ("Bnl'ore Sun­ l'ormed at the ceremony by set") Antonio Bandoras and Carlos d big with the As a picture, "Side­ Santana, won tho Best emy Sunday night, ways" was beaton out Original song. It was tho film's of tho gat.n. Bnforn. solo win in two nominations. e film about a female awards stmson rollnd The film was also nominated r and her trainer around, it was the for Bost Adapted Screonplay. bnst-rnvkwnd, bnst + Hobert Hiehardson won d Best Picture, rnt~nivnd motion pie­ Bost Cinomatography for "The turn of the year. Tlw Aviator" in a crowded field of tor and Actress backlash that set in enntnndors, whkh indudnd ds. all but killed its Zhao Xiadong for "llouse of chances of winning Flying l>aggnrs" and Caleb thn Best Picture Doschanel for "The Passion of award. As consola­ the Christ." "Tho Passion" ture "Million Dollar Baby" tion, and in recogni­ took neither award for which tion of the filni's it was nominatnd (Best ctor Jamie Foxx, stnmgths, tlw Aca­ Cinem!ttography, Best Mak­ demy awarded it the oup). Thomas Storn's beauti­ "Ray" Bost Adapted Semen­ fully dark, atmospheric cine­ play Oscar. a category matography for "Million Dollar ress Hilary Swank, Photo courtesy of movieweb.com in whieh it was the Baby" was not evon norninat­ Frankie (Clint Eastwood), left, coaches an eager Maggie (Hilary "Million Dollar Baby" lwavy favorite. od. Swank) in "Million Dollar Baby," which won the Best Picture award. Though "Million Doll­ + Zana Briski's "Born into rting Morgan Freeman, ar Baby" might have Brothels," a documentary "Million Dollar Baby" given it a run, the about the rod light district of Caleutta, won the ctor other awards given to Best Documentary Feature award, defeating it assurnd Sidoways Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me." "Farenheit rting Cate Blanchett, that it would emerge Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer and Screenplay Steve Cantamessa won Best Sound Mixing for pted "Sideways" Who won: Charlio "Hay," the film's only technical award. It was play Kaufman, Michol also the only technical nomination in which (iondry and Pierre "The Aviator" was defeatnd. inal "Eternal Sunshine of Bismuth ("Eternal + Michael Silvers and Handy Thorn won the play the Spotless Mind" Sunshino of the Bost Sound Editing for "The lncredibles." Spotless Mind") During their aecoptance speech, one of the ated "The lncredibles" Who I said would recipients derided claims that Sound Editing is a win: John Logan technieal award, calling it an art. ("Tho Aviator") + Thelma Schoonmaker won her second Best Who I said should Editing Oscar, this time for "The Aviator." It "Born into Brothels" win: Charlie Kauf­ comes 24 years after her first win for "Raging man, Michel Gondry Bull" in 1981. It also marks the seeond time that and Pierro Bismuth Schoonmaker won the editing award while eign "The Sea Inside" ("Eternal Sunshine of Scorsese failod to win Best Director and tho film the Spotless Mind") itself failed to win Best Picture. film Spain Quentin Tarantino once called the Best The views expressed in this column are those : Academy of Motion AP Original Screenplay of the author and not necessarily those of The Photos courtesy of www.yahoo.com rts and Sciences Oscar a consolation Observer. 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NFL DRAFT COMBINE Clarett's speed hurts stock Army hero hopes Miserable 40-yard dash time might drop for chance in NFL Associated Press Texans general manager running back in draft Charley Casserly said. "If he's Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS - When in the development stage, it Robert McCune hears football becomes a concern." INDIANAPOLIS- All that bag­ players talk about going to McCune wasn't even offered gage Maurice Clarett has been war, he just shakes his head. a Division 1-A scholarship carrying for years seemed to be Three years of Army service when he graduated from riding on his shoulders when he taught him LeFlore High School in ran at the NFL combine. that football Mobile, Ala. He earned a spot Clarett expected to blow away is a game, on the Louisville team as a everyone with his workout war a battle walk-on and finished with Saturday. Instead, he might have for survival. 320 career tackles. Some blown his chance to go early in McCune scouts wonder if the 6-foot, April's draft. lived on 245-pound McCune is big While fellow running backs J.J. AP military enough to play inside line­ Arrington and Ronnie Brown Maurice Clarett's best 40-yard dash at the NFL combine this bases in five backer, but no one has ques­ were running very quickly, week was 4. 7 seconds, harming his position in the draft. states and tioned his commitment or impressing scouts and personnel w a s McCune work ethic. directors, Clarett managed a 40- Such as challenging the when guys around him run 4.4s." deployed to "You assume he has a char­ yard time above 4. 7 seconds; league's draft rules in court, win­ That would be Arrington, of South Korea and Kuwait. He's acter that's very high, and because he was not among the ning early, then seeing an appel­ Cal, who ran a 4.46, and Brown, heard the crackle of nearby that's very important to all of five fastest, no official time was late court overturn the decision,. of Auburn, who turned in a 4.48 gunfire and camped on a roof us," Tennessee coach Jeff provided. making him ineligible for the on either side of Clarett's poky during a monsoon. He spent Fisher said. "People who not That's not nearly fast enough 2004 selections after he missed pace. days refueling only can avoid for a first-day draft prospect. the '03 season under Ohio State "After two years out, he has to military vehicles off-field prob­ Some runners. especially those suspension. get himself in football shape," and free "My plan was to go lems, but who with a history as cloudy as Or pleading guilty to lying on a Cardinals coach Dennis Green moments lifting a into the military can be produc­ Clarett's, don't get selected at all police report after claiming said of Clarett. "We don't even 50-pound rock. tive like that when they seem so slow for the $10,000 in merchandise was know how fast he has run before. McCune en- and walk on at are very valu­ position. stolen from his car. "If you look at the 2002 season, dured it all so he some Division 1 able." "It was a rough one," Clarett Or accepting benefits in college he can play football." could keep play­ school.,, McCune had told NFL Network. ''I've been to which he was not entitled. That's what Clarett hopes NFL ing football. His hoped to play in working so long to get to this day, Or accusing Ohio State of people do until his personal Army buddies college at doing better at practice, and I arranging for a no-work job and workout in two weeks. And he found that funny. Robert McCune Alabama or kind of mess it up. I'm frustrated. providing improper academic aid. might get the benefit of the doubt "I told them linebacker Auburn. The I've been working a long time, Or showing up unprepared for from some, such as Cardinals that after this I only offers waking up at 5:30 and going back last year's combine. executive Rod Graves. was going to go came from at 12:30 and then at 7 o'clock, Or not playing football in '04, "I will says this, because there to college and get my degree, places like Alabama A&M, and I totally busted." either. is a lot that goes on out there that I was going to play football, Alabama State, Southern He certainly didn't make any Those things are on his resume, you have to keep it within the and they laughed," he said. University and Grambling. teams think about drafting him in however. So is his spotty workout context," Graves said. "Maurice Now the linebacker might So McCune joined the Army a big-money slot. Instead, he Saturday in which he skipped Clarett, when he had the opportu­ be close to playing in the NFL. in 1997 and quickly started claimed he aced the interview several drills after his slow run. nity to perform without the dis­ McCune, among the 332 play­ moving. During the next three sessions with the teams, then "I think we were all as disap­ tractions that went on off the ers invited to this year's com­ years, he lived in Fort Lee, bungled the physical stuff. pointed in his time as he was," field, performed very well. I think bine, will be 26 by the time of Va.; Fort Stewart, Ga.; Fort "A lot of coaches said I was a Titans general manager Floyd you have to keep that in mind the April draft, and he might Hood, Texas; Fort Knox, Ky.; lot more humble and approach­ Reese said. "It looks like he's in when you're evaluating Maurice be the oldest player selected. and Fort Irwin, Calif. The able," he said. "I thought they'd better shape than last year. _It Clarett. That he is a good football "If the guy is a real good arduous training regimen ask a lot more about what hap­ wasn't quite what he hoped when player when his focus is there. football player, you don't included 4-mile runs, pened in the past." he ran 40s. And it doesn't help And when he's on the field." worry about it," Houston pushups and situps. New coverage rules favor speedy cornerbacks

ing the Patriots, either, as they it's a major adjustment because I being taken has changed," Auburn, Brandon Browner of NFL policy protecting won their third Super Bowl in try to do the majority of my dam­ Falcons general manager Rich Oregon State and Dustin Fox of wideouts from tight four years. age at the line of scrimmage any­ McKay said. "It may change what Ohio State. The upsurge in illegal-contact way." trait they bring to the table. The None of them believes it's a play will impact draft penalties had a side effect, He'd better do it there. Even trait of grab and pull and throw huge leap in style of play from because cornerbacks heading to though most of the cornerback the receiver to the ground, hope­ college to pro. Associated Press the pros had to made a signifi­ prospects can run with anyone­ fully that has been devalued." ''I'm a physical guy, and you cant adjustment in their tech­ including the Randy Mosses and What carries the most worth can put a hand on a guy the first INDIANAPOLIS - Grab that niques. It will affect this year's Chad Johnsons of the NFL- they these days, as always, is speed five yards," Rogers said. "Then I receiver and hold on tight. draft crop, as well. need to upgrade their fundamen­ and quickness on the corner. Size have the speed to run with him." .. That's how cornerbacks cov­ "It's different, because you tals before heading off to· the is an issue, too, ·because as Titans The biggest difference, of ered wideouts in the NFL before can't beat them up and down the pros. coach Jeff Fisher points out, most course, is the quality of who they last season. Then, after outrage field like you used to," said There is no contact at the com­ widf:Jout prospects are taller and have to cover. Wide receiver is over the way New England's Miami's Antrell Rolle, generally bine or at pro workouts. So heavier than the cornerbacks the deepest and strongest posi­ defenders mugged Indianapolis' rated the top cornerback this scouts and personnel directors who must cover them. tion in the league. Guys like receivers in the 2003 AFC title year. "But that just means you must go by the college tapes, "You always have to look for Rogers or Rolle or Jones played game, officials were instructed to have be physical in the first five where coverage rules and inter­ bigger cornerbacks to match up against top-level pass catchers in strictly interpret the no-contact yards." pretations are different. with elite receivers," he said. college, but rarely did they see coverage rules. Rolle says that's no problem. Has the premium for corner­ The best of this year's group one every week. In the pros, they They did, and it worked well "For me," he added Sunday at backs in the draft diminished? are Rolle, Adam "Pacman" Jones might see more than one each last season, not exactly hamper- the NFL combine, "I don't think "Maybe the type of cornerbacks of West Virginia, Carlos Rogers of week.

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Women's Cou1e2le t5as AP team 1 LSU (45) 2 Stanford 3 Ollio State . 4 Nortb Carolina AP 5 Tennea$e~'''''" 6 •· Duke Temple coach John Chaney has suspended himself for the upcoming Atlantic 10 Tournament. In a game last week, Chaney encouraged hard fouls that led to a broken arm for a St. Joseph's player. . .• •.: :•iii'!' ~~!~~~~~"~ate · 9 Rutgers • 10 NOTRE DAME Chaney suspends himself for A-10 tournament 11 ..... Texas 12 ··DePaul Associated Press Nehemiah Ingram in to declined to comment to The said. "But the unfortunate 13 ··rexasTe~;h···· "send a message" over Associated Press on fact is that John Bryant was 14 Connecticut PHILADELPHIA what he said was Saint Monday. injured. I have taken full 15 Minnesota Temple's John Chaney will Joseph's use of illegal Chaney had apologized to responsibility for my words 16 Temple not coach in the Atlantic 10 screens. Bryant and his family and and actions, and have apol­ 17 Kansas State The Hawks and Owls offered to pay his medical ogized from my heart." 18 Vanderbilt tournament, part of a self­ 19 N.C. State imposed punishment for could have met in the A-10 bills. Chaney originally sus­ Chaney apologized again 20 Iowa State ordering rough play by one tournament. penqed himself for one in his statement Monday to 21 Georgia of his players in a recent "I believe the fair thing is game before the extent of Bryant, both schools and 22 Boston College game that resulted in an for me not to coach during Bryant's injury was known. the conference. 23 Penn State opponent's injury. the Atlantic 10 champi­ When an MRI on Friday "Last week, my words 24 Gonzaga The Hall of Fame coach onship tournament in showed Bryant had a bro­ and actions were wrong, 25 Maryland was already suspended by Cincinnati," the 73-year-old ken arm, Temple suspend­ wrong, wrong," he said. the school for the final Chaney said in a statement ed Chaney for the final two Chaney is still coaching three games of the regular Monday. "John Bryant is games of the regular sea­ the Owls at practice, though season. Chaney sent in a unable to play in the tour­ son. he won't attend any of their Fenci.ng Coaches' player he described as a nament because of the "I never intended - nor games. Assistant Dan Association Rankings . "goon" against Saint injury he sustained last did any of my players Leibovitz is coaching the Joseph's last week, and week against Temple. intend - for anyone to be team. Women's Men':s Hawks' senior John Bryant Neither should I be able to injured, regardless of what The Owls (14-11, 10-6) 1 Ohio state 1 OhioState wound up with a broken coach." may have been said emo­ clinched a tie for second 2 NOTRE DAME 2 Penn State arm. Saint Joseph's athletic tionally before, during and place in the Atlantic 10 East 3 Penn State 3 St. John's (NY) Chaney had sent director Don DiJulia after the game," Chaney Division. 4 Harvard 4 NOTREDAME 5 C~Jiumbia 5 Colulll.bia 6 Northwestern · ·6 Princeton 7 St John's (NY) 7 Penn 8 Penn 8 HarVard IN BRIEF 9 Princeton 9 Staillortl 10 Temple. 10 Air Force Irwin comes from behind Venus Williams falls in first MLB plans to begin steroid to win Outback Pro-Am round of Dubai Open testing Thursday LUTZ, Fla. - When one aspect of DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - NEW YORK - Testing under Hale Irwin's game isn't working, he Venus Williams struggled with a baseball's new drug agreement simply turns to another. blister on her right palm and lost in will start Thursday, according to "I feel in my heart I have several the first round for the first time in the commissioner's office. around the dial 'A' games," he said. four years, beaten by Italy's Silvia Lawyers for players and owners Irwin, the career victory leader on Farina Elia 7-5, 7-6 (6) in the Dubai have been drafting the deal since the Champions Tour, finished a sec­ Women's Open on Monday. they announced the agreement for ond-round 68 Monday to slip past Williams' previous first-round tougher testing on Jan. 13. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Morris Hatalsky and win the rain­ ouster was to Barbara Schett at the "We're going to be in the camps Mississippi State at Arkansas, 7 p.m, delayed Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am 2001 French Open. She also lost her ESPN by one shot. opening match at Moscow in October testing starting the third of Saint Joseph's at George Washington, "It wasn't spectacularly played 2002 to Magdalena Maleeva but March; and I expect the language 7 p.m, ESPN2 golf. ... I didn't drive the ball well after a first-round bye. to be wrapped up in the next cou­ and I certainly didn't putt all that ple of days," Rob Manfred, man­ Indiana at Wisconsin, 9 p.m, ESPN Farina Elia had lost all nine of her well, but I did what I had to do when · previous matches to Williams since agement's executive vice presi­ I had to do it," he said. "Maybe the 1997. Williams, seeded fifth, made dent for labor relations, said bottom line to that is experience." 66 unforced errors in a match last­ Monday. Taking advantage of improved ing 2 hours, 4 minutes. NBA Michael Weiner, the union's gen­ Sacramento at Charlotte, 7 p.m., NBATV weather, which made the TPC of "It would normally have been a Tampa Bay course less demanding quick match," she said. "She really eral counsel, said the sides hoped than the previous three days, Irwin doesn't have the weapons to hurt to complete the drafting before the played his remaining 12 holes in 2 me. The blister was really a factor. I testing starts. The deal replaces PoKER under to end with a 36-hole total of just couldn't serve well and I just the agreement that began in 2004 World Series of Poker, 5 p.m., ESPN2 8-under 134. couldn't keep the balls in." September 2002. ------

Tuesday, March I,. 2005 The Observer + SPORTS page 17 NBA Knicks recover to defeat Lakers in overtime, 117-115

Bryant had :~0 points, night onds rnmaining. Nezv York lzolds on assists. fivn rnbounds and sevnn San Antonio 94, Cleveland 92 tu rnovnrs, and Lamar Odom had Tim Duncan made a IIJ-foot to zui n despite L4.s 2h points and IS rPhounds for jumpm just bn!'orn the linal horn co11Teback attenzpt thn I .aknrs. soundnd, giving tlw San Antonio Tim Thomas shot 13-for-1 9, Spurs 11 vietory Monday night Associated l'n·ss inrluding 4-for-S from :l-point over tho Clnvoland Cavaliers. rangn, and toppPd :{O points for who dropped thnir third Nl·:W YOHK- Tim Thomas t.lw lirst tinw this snason as tlw straight. .'>rorl'd a snason-high :J;) points. Knirks won at homn for thn firth Dunr:an missod his first snvnn and thn Nnw York Knirks n~rov­ straight limn. shots and didn't scorn in tho PrPd af'tf'r hlowing a 111-poinl Los Angt-~les has lost lhreP in a game's first I 9 minutns. But fpad in thf' linaf 4(, S!'I'OIHIS of row. with thn ganw on the linn, lw rPgulation to flpfpat tlw Los Tlw I .aknrs opPnPd a I 15-1 I I took a pass from Tony Pa rknr, AngPIPs LakPrs I 17 -I IS in ovnr- lna.d midway through ovnrtime gatlwred himself and calmly tinw Monday night. · on a thrnn-point play by Bryant, knocked down his shot without a Thn virtory was tlw third but tlwy didn't score again. hand in his race. straight for thP Knirks, matching Marbury's layup was goaltendml After going 0-l'or-7, Duncan tlwir longPst winning strPak of by Odom with I: I 0 lnft, and wont 9-for-1 0 from tho floor and tlw sPason. NPw York n~mainnd .Jamal Crawford eanw up with a added 11 n~bounds. Parknr in last plarP in thn Atlantie stnal whill' guarding Cbucky added 19 points, eight rnbourids Division hut pullnd within fivo Atkins. and 10 assists - none bigger ganws of tlw first-placn Boston Marbury missnd a shot and than his short pass to Duncan Cnltirs. Kurt Thomas missed a putbaek, after drawing Cavs cnntnr KoiJI' Bryant f'orrnd ovPrtimn but Tim Thomas eonwrtnd a tip­ Zydrunas llgauskas on a pick­ hy making a 3-pointnr With 4.4 in to tin it. Bryant lost control of and-roll. snconds 11'1'1 in mgulation. but he thn ball on t.lw Laknrs' rwxt pos­ Ilgauskas had 26 points and t~ou ld n 't ronw up with another session, and Marbury was foulnd LeBron .lames finished with 20 hig play at thn nnd. on thn perimotnr by Atkins with points, eight rebounds and seven Tlw Laknrs had a chance for 12. J soeonds remaining. assists for the Cavaliers, who thn fimtl shot. but Bryant passnd Marbury made both foul shots have lost four of five and are AP to l.ukn Walton on thP lnl't sidn of for a 117-115 lnad, setting up entnring a tough stretch of' The Lakers' Kobe Bryant sails between Kurt Thomas and tlw kny, and Walton tossnd the the Laknrs' final possession. upcoming games. Michael Sweetney of the Knicks In New York's 117-115 win. ball bark to Bryant rather than Atkins scored 11, Bryant 10 San Antonio's Manu Ginobli, taking a shot. Bryant wasn't and Odom 10 as the Lakers who finished with 17 points, ball back to Dum~an with more t~arnnr-high 12 mbounds for thn nxpnrl.ing thn pass and fumblnd outseorod thn Knieks 39-24 in could havo put the Spurs up by than two seconds left. Jazz, who hadn't won eonsneu­ it hrinlly -just nnough limn for tho fourth quartnr to force over­ l'our points, but missed a pair of Cleveland's defense was late tive games sincn boating San Kurt Thomas to rnrovnr and time frne throws with 19.2 seeonds to rotating toward Duncan, who Antonio and Phonnix Jan. 10 blork Bryant's look at the bas­ Los Angell's carne back from a go. had time to sot his font, measurn and 12. knt. I 0-point dof'ieit in the final The Cavaliers called timeout the distance and drill it. San Utah hasn't won more than Bryant trind to drihblo a few minute of' rogulation by hitting and after an inbounds play, Antonio's bench erupted onto two in a row sineo opening the stnps away fill' a buzznr-hnatt·1r, four 3-pointnrs - one eaeh by Spurs center Hasho Nesterovic the Gund Arena floor and season with li1ur straight wins. but Uw dock ran out. lin spiknd Atkins, Odom, Butler and left Jlgauskas wide open under­ swarmed Duncan. Simmons lf'd the Clippers with the ball to thn ground and shot Bryant. neath. James whipped a pass to The shot silenced the t:rowd of 17 points, induding a 3-pointnr an angry glancn at Walton as the The final 3 by Bryant eame Cleveland's big man, whose 18,216, and was a fitting ending to get l.os Angeles within a point Knkks t:f'lnbratnd. al'ter Marbury wont to the line dunk tied it 92-92 with 14.2 sec­ to Gordon Gund's ownership of in the last 10 seconds. Corey Michanl Swnotnny lind his with 17.8 sec:onds remaining onds remaining. the Cavaliers. Maggnttn added I (J points for ean1nr high with IIJ points ancT with a chance to put the Knieks With Duncan setting a pick On Tuesday, the tnam will olli­ the Clippers. grablwd a carPer-high 12 ahead by four. Marbury missnd near the top of thn key on JolT eially bn turned over to Detroit Haja Boll scornd 14. Andrei rnhounds, and Kurt Thomas had tho second of two from the line, Mcinnis, Parker dribbled to the mortgage magnate Dan Gilbert, Kirilenko had· II points, six IS points and 12 rnbounds as and Bryant stuck a 25-footnr right side and when llgauskas who paid $375 million l'or tho assists and four stnals and Okur Nnw York's front linn dominated. over Kurt Thomas with 4.4 sec- driftnd ovor, Parker passed the NBA franchise. Gund. who finishnd with ll points for Utah. bought the Cavs for $20 million Matt llarpring addnd I 0 points in 1983, will remain a minority and snvnn n~bounds for tlw Jazz. owner. Znljko Hnbraca· srorod 12 oiT During his 22 seasons with the thn bnnch and J<:lton Brand had The Office of Student Affairs is now accepting Cavaliers, Gund's tnams were I 0 points and night rebounds for beaton by some big shots, most thn Clippers, who havo won just nominations for the notably Michael .Jordan's once in tho Dnlta Cnntnr. · buzzer-bl1ater in tho 1989 Although it was sloppy at Easifwn Conferencn finals li11· tho times, thn ganw was intnnso Chieago Bulls. throughout. Nnitlwr tnam Jnd hy Denny Moore Aftnr starting slowly in losses morn than ninn and thn tnams at Indiana and New .Jersey, Silas wnnt back and forth with a lllln­ wanted his team to conw out point lnad for tlw first hall' of' thP with more energy. Cleveland's final pnriod. Award coachns reinforced tho mnssagn Tlw Clippers pullml alwad by by writing, "Start with dnspera­ thrnn twirn, but Bnll mado two tion" on the locker room's nra:sa­ fwn throws and a jumper to giw ble board. Utah an 82-81 lnad that emiPd For Excellence in The Cavaliers liJIIowed ordnrs up standing through tlw l'wnzied as llgauskas scored 13 points in finish. the l'irst qu.5 sec­ it to Okur li1r an oll'-balancn shot onds remaining. Hick Brunson that hou ncnd ofT thn rim t.IH'tH1 or fellow students. rushed the ball up thn court for times beforn dropping. the Clippnrs and the got through Okur was foult1d hy Brunson the Jane to Simmons. who had a on the play and made the fr·nn For a non1ination forn1, please visit our website at: good look but the ball bounced throw to put Utah up RS-X I with off the backboard and rim as the 21.7 sneonds rnmaining. horn sounded. It looked like tlw Jazz had the http://osa.nd.edu With the win, Utah's Jerry game wrapped up, but Maggettn Sloan passnd Dick Motta for sev­ hit a 20-l'ooter to get the enth in NBA coaching vietorins Clippers to XS-83, then al'tor Nonzinations are due by Friday, March 4, 2005. with (>36. Mel .nod hit two frn11 throws with McLeod had 18 points and l l.f> seconds loft, Simmons eight assists and rookie Kris mado a 3-pointor to mako it R7- Ilumphrios pulled down a 86. page 18 The Observer + SPORTS Tuesday, March I, 2005

MLB MEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL ·Franco returns to Majors, Panthers pummel Eagles

becom_es oldest player Associated Press 46-year-old infielder he can't see." BOSTON- No. 24 Pittsburgh . Franco's conditioning pro­ impressively snapped a three­ . . . gram is the stuff of legend. His game losing streak and made zs en;oyzng sprzng narrow waistline and rock-hard ·sure the Big East race will come training with Braves stomach meld into wide shoul­ down to the final weekend of the ders and massive biceps. In regular season. Associated Press fact, some skeptics - former Chris Taft had 12 points and major leaguer Andy Van Slyke eight rebounds to lead the KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Julio among them - have ques­ Panthers to a 72-50 victory over Franco was hanging out in the tioned whether it's possible to No. 5 Boston College on Monday Dominican Republic during the maintain such a physique at night. That kept the Eagles, who offseason, enjoying life with his that age through entirely natu­ are leaving for the Atlantic Coast family. Then that familiar urge ral means. Conference after the season, struck. Franco has always laughed !rom clinching a share of the Big "I got ofT that sort of talk, saying he East title. bored," has no need to use perform­ The Eagles (23-3, 12-3) could Franco said. ance-enhancing drugs. And no still win the conference outright "Well, I one can doubt his dedication to or share it if they beat Rutgers thought to the game. on Saturday. No. 15 Connecticut, myself, I "It is amazing," Pendleton which is a half-game behind BC, might as well said. "The only other guy I plays Georgetown on Wednesday start playing thought could do it was Willie and No. 13 Syracuse on a little winter McGee. Even late in his career, Saturday. ball."' Franco he still had great hand-eye Antonio Graves scored 13 So he did. coordination, and his body points and Carl Krauser and And now, baseball's oldest play­ weighed about the same as John DeGroat each had 10 points er is back at spring training when he came in." and seven rebounds for Pitt (19- with the Atlanta Braves, show­ But McGee was done at 40 7, 9-6), which has beaten Boston ing no signs of slowing down - after an 18-year career. College six straight tin1es, includ­ and preparing to make a bit of Franco just keeps on going. ing victories in the last three Big history at 46. "It's amazing the great shape East tournaments. Pittsburgh, Hetirement isn't even on the he keeps himself in," said Brian which had been. ranked as high radar for Franco, who wants to Jordan, no spring chicken him­ as 1Oth this season. lost three AP play until he's 50. There was self as he approaches his 38th straight to drop from 17th to Pittsburgh's Antonio Graves celebrates after nailing a long nothing in his performance last birthday. "He's an inspiration. 24th in the A<>soeiated Press poll. jumper in the Panthers' 72-50 victory over Boston College. season that would indicate it's Jordan, a former NFL player, Craig Smith scored 22 points time to trade in his bat for a still remembers his first for BC but, as a sign of the team's wasn't even close. ranking ever - No. 3 - before rocking chair - Franco batted encounter with Franco, as a failure, airballed a free throw Smith hit a jumper in the lane losing two of its last three games. .309 with six homers and 57 rookie outfielder going through with 5:4 7 left and the Eagles to make it 34-32 with 17:38 left.. Another sellout crowd came to RBis, sharing first base with a spring training with the St. trailing 59-45. The second shot But Pittsburgh scored the next say goodbye to the senior class guy young enough to bP his son, Louis Cardinals in the early hit the back of the rim and 11 points, getting consecutive and I-Ieisman Trophy winner 25-year-old Adam LaHoche. 1990s. Before an exhibition meekly rolled off. putbacks from DeGroat to make Doug Flutie jammed with the "We have to set goals that we game, Franco walked over with For BC, the loss was shockingly it 45-32. Pitt outrebounded the band, playing the drums on think we can reach," Franco Juan Gonzalez. similar to the one posted by its Eagles 49-27 overall and outshot • "Johnny B. Good." said after Monday's workout. "I "I thought a couple of guys football team in the Big East them 48 percent to 31 percent. It BC went 7:19 without scoring think that one's reachable." from the Dallas Cowboys were finale that knocked it from the was BC's lowest offensive output while Pitt ran off 11 consecutive Surely if he makes it to 50, visiting camp. That's the kind of lucrative Fiesta Bowl to the or the season. points - five from Krauser and he'll be ready to do something shape they were in," Jordan Continental Tire Bowl. Like that Boston College won its first 20 four from Chevon Troutman - else, right? Not necessarily. said. "And Julio is still in the 47-17 loss to Syracuse, this one games and attained its highest to take a 16-9 lead. "We'll see," Franco said, a same shape." mischievous look in his eyes. LaRoche, who platoons with "You never know what might Franco at first base. picked up happen." some valuable ofT-the-field les­ According to the Elias Sports sons as a rookie, things such as Bureau, nobody in major preparation and staying shar.p league history has been an mentally, even when you're on Attention Sophomores Interested in Business ... everyday position player at the the bench. · age of 46. It doesn't hurt to watch how Even back in his native coun­ Franco conducts himself at the Make Yourself Stand Out! try, Franco hears many of the plate, either. same questions he gets while "I learned from him that Here's an opportunity for you to learn about the University's playing for the Braves. you've got to stay within your­ accounting system while gaining valuable experience as "How can you still be doing self. Period," LaRoche said. this?" "There's a lot of ways to say Assistant Student Union Treasurer. "What in the world are you that, but basically it comes doing?" down to this: Don't try to do Franco always gives the same more than you can do. Don't try As an Assistant Treasurer you will: answer: He's playing for a high­ to make something out of noth­ er power, which decided to use ing. That's the biggest key." • Become an integral part of the Student Union Treasurer's Office, him as a conduit to show that Even Jordan, at this late the primary controlling body of student activities funds. anything is possible. While he stage of his career, figures he grew up in a religious family, can glean a lesson or two from • Be responsible for managing, consulting, and maintaining various the message didn't really take Franco. student organization accounts. hold until he was 31 - and "He's come to a point where already had the reputation as he really knows the game," said • Serve as a liaison for "The Shirt" Project ($200,000+ revenue someone who played just as Jordan, who still has that foot­ operation) or the Student Businesses (Adworks, Irish Gardens, Dome Designs) hard off the field as he did on ball mentality. "He doesn't play it. like I play, going all out for • Sit on the Financial Management Board, which is responsible for "I never wanted to make a every ball. You've got to pace allocating over $700,000 in student activity fees among various commitment and give myself to yourself. Hopefully I can learn organizations as well as controlling "The Shirt" Charity Fund. God," Franco said. "I made a from him." mistake. I should have done it During batting practice, This commitment requires approximately s-6 hours per week and is a when I was a little kid. It didn't Franco sits atop a bench behind possible two-year commitment, as one assistant shall take over the happen that way, but here I am the cage, focusing in on the today, serving the best way I · ball, studying the little nuances role of Student Union Treasurer the following year. can." of each hitter, doling out subtle Don't miss out on this great chance for extra-curricular involvement! Hitting coach Terry bits of advice. Pendleton, who's two years "Stay through it a little Applications are now available outside the Treasurer's Office (314C younger than Franco but longer," he tells second base­ LaFortune Student Center) and are due no later than spm on Friday, retired after the 1998 season, man Marcus Giles. said the secret to his longevity When Giles lines a pitch to March tSth. Interviews will be held Wednesday, March 23rd is simple: hand-eye coordina­ left field, he immediately turns (Please sign up for an interview upon submitting your application). tion. to Franco for validation. "I lis is better than a lot of 20- "Better?" Giles asks. Questions? Contact Michael Marshall at [email protected] or the year-olds," Pendleton said. "Better," Franco replies. Office of the Treasurer at 631-4557. "When Julio goes bad, it will be But when a rookie pops up because of his eyes. It's not two straight pitches off the top going to be because of his phys­ of cage, Franco shakes his head ical strength. It will be because in disgust. ------

Tuesday, March I, 2005 The Observer + SPORTS page 19

NFL NCAA Tuck gets attention at combine Colleges may lose Associated Press team scholarships INI>I;\N;\l'OLIS - Justin Tuck's dPdsion to IPavn Notre I >amn a ynar narly bncanw a lot More than 400 schools Brown said hn contacted llw nasinr wlwn thn Irish !'ired NCA;\ to point. out the ~~akula­ coach Tyrorw Willingham prior face penal ties for poor tion only induded thrPe to tlw Insight Bowl in l>ncnmbnr. indoor track athiPt.ns- not. "I think I would havn consid­ academic perfonnance tho 27 that participate in both PrPd corning back a lit.tl11 morl' if indoor and outdoor !.rack. lw would havn bnmr tlwrn. hut I Associated Press "It's very 11111 harrassi ng and don't think that had any bnaring it hurts our rneruiting," as far as my lin a I dndsion." tlw INDI/\NAPOI.IS - At lnast Brown said. "It's nxtrnnwly dPfPnsivn PrHI said. one team at hall' the nation's ups n t.t in g that tlw N C ;\ ;\ Tuck is taking part at the NFL Division I schools could lose relnasnd something to the rombhw with hopes of improv­ scholarships next yoar public wlwn t.hny know tlwrn ing his draft status. because ol' poor a('.adnmic pnr­ are somn f'laws." liP is projndnd as a latn lirst.­ formanen, according to a prn- Tlw now !'alculation givPs round or narly st1cond-round 1i m i n a r y r e p o r t r e I n as tHI athletns onn point oach snmns­ pirk. Monday by the NCAA. tnr f'or remaining nligihln and Tur.k, a sl'nior with one ynar Of thn 5, 720 teams at :~2X anotlwr point. nach smnnstPr ol' colll'gt' Pligihilit.y 1.-f't. said it Division I sehools, about 41 0 for staying in school. Tho was Willingham who lwlpnd tnams risk penalties. points f'or each tmun tlwn an~ pnrsuadn him to Pntnr the NI."L "We hope tho bn'havior dividnd by tho higlwst. possible draf't. changes and tho number of total of points a loam could "liP told ntP that I was rPady teams will actually go down scorn. That. pnrcnntagP is and thaI. thn dPcision ~~amn over time," NCA;\ presidnnt assessed a point total, with down t.o mn," Tuck said. "lin Myles Brand said in a confnr­ I ,000 bo in g tho h iglws t. wasn't. going to pull me eilhnr nnce call. Schools scoring bnlow 925, or way." CHUY BENITEZ/The Observer Most of the scholarship loss­ 92.5 percent. could face Tlw last Notrl' l>amn playnr to Former Irish defensive end Justin Tuck, shown here in a 2004 es, which would bo for onn . penalties. · l11avn school narly and got game against Washington, is ready to tackle an NFL career. year, arn expeetnd to eomn in The NCA;\ will usn a statisti­ pieknd in thn first round was football, baseball and mnn's cal adjustment., similar t.o thn cl'ntnr JpfT Fairw. who was play dnl'ensivn nnd in thn NFL, make a team," Lions coach basketball. margin of' error used in prnsi­ taken 21st overall in 2003 by but lw would b11 willing to move Stnvn Mariueci said. "Thny can't Thosn were the only sports dnnt.ial polls, to prnvPnt statis­ tlw Clnveland Browns. to outside linebacker in a 3-4 go baek to Ieollngn football I and with averages bnlow a 925- tical anomalies f'or teams with "Justin is a good guy, and he defensn. they arc far from graduating. point cutline at whieh pnnal­ few athletes. plays tho way hn's supposnd to "l would delinitnly rather play Thern is a risk involved." ties would be assessed. Corrections to the scorns are play." said LSU dl'fl'nsivn end clown in a 4-3, but I'm versatile Tuck did not specify which Baseball teams averaged 922, expoetnd to bn annourH~nd in Marrus Sp!'ars. who is expet~tnd and I can play both," he said. "I events he will take part in at the while football and men's bas­ April. Thn NCA;\ also will to lw a high first-round pick. played linebaeker sometimes combine, but he did say it was ketball were at 923. institute a yot-to-bo doter­ 'Tvn Sl'nn him play. and hn can · this year in dif'f'ernnt paekag(ls unlikely he would go through all The most prominent pro­ mined waivnr process to avoid play thl' gamn." that wn had. Either way, I'm of them. Defensive ends took grams below 700 were the penalties. Tlw 6-foot-5, 26S-pound Tuck going to be a steal in the draft." physieals on Saturday. wnight men's basketball teams at Schools arn nxpoetnd to bn showml his ability to get thn · NFL coaclws have varied lifting is sclwdull'd for Sunday Fresno State and Baylor. notif'ind by I>ocombnr of' tlw quartnrhack whill' at Notrn opinions about players that and running drills are on Fresno State received a (d 1, final results, whieh also Damn. lin snt tho Irish earner leav11 college after three years. Monday. while Baylor scored 64 7 - a ineludn l'igures from tho 2004- sack rneord with 24.5, and hn "Thn top guys will bn able to Tuek has a pro day planned ligure affected by the transfer 05 school yoar. Programs must hrokl' tlw single-season sack make it., but nvnry ynar we get X for March 16, whnrn NFL smuts of several players after the take the penalties as early as rncord in 2003 with 13.5. amount of juniors that don't get ean get a bntter look at his 2003 shooting death of Patrick possibln and those that arn far Tur.k said he would like to draltod and thny probably won't skills. Dennehy. below the eut.lirw now could But there immediately wern tako tho scholarship loss noxt concerns with the seores. fall. The Houston wonwn 's cross Tho 200:~-04 data only gives country team and tho Eastnrn sehools an indication of how Michigan men's indoor track thoy arc doing. Undor tlw nnw team both scornd ztiro. which format, NCA;\ of'f'idals hopo to NCAA ol'f1eials said might have improve both aeadnmic nligi­ been bncause thorn was only bilit.y and rotnntion of ath­ one athlete represented. lotos. Stronger ponalties, Maryland-Baltimore County induding postsnason bans l'or athletic director Charlns consistently poor acadnmie Brown said the NCA;\ miscal­ porl'ormancn, arl' nxpnctod to Notre Dame culatnd tho seorn for its men's bo nnfon~nd by tlw l'all ol' Disability Awareness Month traek team. which scored hOO. 200S. March 2005

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the sun of California for the CLUB SPORTS harsh winters of' Northeast Ruthrauff Indiana. continued from page 24 "There's just something spe­ cial about this place," she said. Water polo sweeps weekend mark was set despitn being "Whnn I took my recruiting trip rotated bntwnen positions - up here, I realized right away lluthrauf'f has playnd at f'irst that the people were friendlier Special to the Observer Kristen LaSota shared first in teams in their confnrnnce. Tlw hasn, shortstop and third base and the campus just had this noviee nat, Dorgant and J>iscal tournament, however, ended during hnr Notrn Damn earner. special feeling that I didn't sense The women's water polo dub tied for third, with Britany early in a tough throo-game Huthrauf'f might not bn thn from any of' the other schools I swept all four opponents this Gragg fourth and Katy Hyan match with firth seed Ball host ovorall hittor on the team, visited. weekend, defeating Western fifth. Heather LaDue won first Stato. Despite beating No. 22 hut it's hard to lind a player who "I r«~ally think it's one of' those Michigan, 15-2, and Eastern in walk-trot-canter, followed by Ball State in two games during is morn wnll-roundnd. things Notre Damn has that sep­ Michigan, 15-1 on Saturday. Katy Booth in fourth and Laura the regular season the Irish On a team that f'naturns a arates it from the other universi­ They then topped Grand Valley Hale fifth. Nicole Gonsalves fin­ could not pull ofT tho quarterfi­ national player of' the year ean­ ties." State, 15-4, and Eastern ished third in walk-trot. nal victory, dropping a tough didatn in Ciolli, HuthraufT has Despitn starting the season 5- Michigan 14-3, in a rematch on Gymnastics three gamo match 17-25, 25- still donn plnnty to prove her 6, albeit against several highly­ Sunday. The dub is preparing Tho Irish Gymnastics tnam 20, 11-15. Tho Irish eon tin un worth to the Irish. In 2003, she ranked tnams, Huthrauf'f for its trip to Cal San traveled to Bloomington to tournament play next weekend was named a mmnbnr of' the Big believes her team will prove Bernardino, to challenge both compete in Indiana's Big Hod at Indiana University, in tho 32- tnam I loosior-lllini dassie, tlw l•:ast all-rookie team as well as a itself' to be a formidable force the top clubs and some varsity Invitational this Wl~ekond. starter on the all-conf'nrence this season because of its dose­ teams in California. The Irish women were lnd by biggest tournament of tho year knit teammates. before the national champi­ t«mm. Shn rnpnatnd that all-Big Equestrian Caitlin O'Brien, who finished East honor in 2003, joining six "The camaraderie on this onships in March. The ND/SMC Equestrians first on floor, sixth on vault and team is stronger than it's ever lidlow Notre Damn teamrnatns. competed in a pair of IIISA fifth in all-around competition. Skiing been," she said. "I think that we Huthraul'f is onn of' several shows this weekend at Taylor Wendy Jo Svotanofl" also placed Marquette, Mieh. hosted thn trnat each other like sisters, Irish players from the statn of' University, claiming third on for the Irish with a fifth-place Hogional championships this California and was a prop super­ whethnr we win or lose, and Saturday with 31 points, and finish on beam. Also contribut­ weekend, as both varsity and that's really going to be a big star for La Serna High School in scoring 33 points on Sunday. ing for the Irish women were elub teams from 23 sdwols help fi1r us when we go into the Whittier, helping her tnam win These results all but guaran­ Mary Blazewiez, Ceeilia Torres, compotnd to advance to the two Division Ill statn champi­ postseason this year." teed the Irish will be crowned and Cigi Low. Purdue, Indiana, Nationals. Notre Damn's You ean be sure that Huthraufl' onships. Whiln at La Serna, Hegional champions and will and Virginia Tech took the top women finishod ninth, while will do her part to make surn thn Huthraull" set the school rneords qualify for the Zones champi­ three in team standings. thn men took 12th in thn field. Irish win morn than they lose. li1r batting avnragn and hits in a onships. In Saturday's competi­ Brian Dunn and Paul Kane Finishing in the top five in season. tion, Caitlin Landuyt earned were tho lone Irish representa­ women's com petition were St. It was Notrn Damn's atmos­ Contact Justin Schuver at I Iigh Point honors as the day's tives in men's competition, Olaf', Minnesota Deluth, plwrn that led Huthraull" to !nave [email protected] top scorer among all teams. which was won by Triton, with Northern Michigan, Minnesota Landuyt claimed first in Purdue and Virginia Tech plac­ and Wisconsin. In men's ... intermediate fences, with ing second and third. The Irish results, Michigan Tech, St. Andrea Oliverio second and will return to competition on Olaf's, Minnesota Deluth, Mollly Schmiege sixth. Landyut April 2, when they host the Minnnsota and St. Thomas and Oliverio tied for second in Clover Classic at Gymnastics daimnd the top five sports. intermediate nat, with team­ Miehiana. Daniello Clements finished mates Chelsea Brown third, Men's Volleyball 32nd in individual slalom Catherine Linn fifth and The Men's Volleyball tnam standings, followed by tnam­ Schmieg!~ sixth. tmvnled to Northern Illinois matos Lauren Daeoy, 42nd; Claire Freeman posted a first University this weekend Sarah Hauvenhorst, h7th, and in open flat to lead a strong to wrap up the seeond half' of Hita Morgan, 6Hth. Senior co­ Irish score as Katie Baron · their conference regular sea­ captain .Joe Payne turned in placed second, and Kelly son and to compete in the con­ the men's best slalom perform­ Ostberg, Oliverio and Molly ference championship. The ance, finishing 33rd. Brian Kopacz all tied for third. Baron Irish fell to 0-8 in eonforonce llodgos was next at ninth, with also took second in open play last year and worn dntnr­ senior co-captain Bill Life at Lilly fences. mined to return to the upper Leimkunhler, seventh, .Jason Luncht, 90th, and /\lox real. people doing extraordinary things Kristin LaSota, Marta Ascadi, echelons of conference play. and Megan Murphy all finished They accomplished that and Gloeckner, 93rd in a l"i«dd of' first in their dass of novice flat, more with a 6-3 confernnce more than I 00 racers. This Eli Lilly and Company with II ayden Piscal third, record and a strong t

nosebleed that kept coming back · back up to warp speed in the third the second round. Uhalde won a unanimous decision throughout the fight. The fight was round, when Christorforetti took Preston "The Punching Idahoan" over Sean Wieland. Wieland Bouts stopped and the decision awarded over for good. Christorforetti will Carter took a unanimous decision tripped in the first round, but continued from page 24 to Rooney just 1:22 into the second next take on junior Mark Basola, over Dan "You're Only Going to recovered to put up a challenge for round. Rooney goes on to face sen­ who earned a bye into the quarter­ Hear My Nickname Once" Olson. the more experienced Uhalde. in a split decision. Whiting ior Galen Loughrey, who had a finals. Olson recovered from a trip in the Uhalde goes on to the quarterfi­ fought well, but took too many of bye. Adam "The Steel Ghost" Burns, first round, but his late charge nals to face Bobby "The Polish I lagan's jabs in the face. 160 pounds one of the few southpaws in the wasn't enough to take out Carter. Pistol" Gorynski. Gorynski man­ Sophomore Mike Rooney came Joe Christorforetti, a law stu­ competition, took a decision from Carter will now face junior Daniel aged to force Stephen Barbera to out swinging right from the open­ dent, showed that prospective Conor "Con-man" McEvily with a Liem, who made quick work of take two standing eight-counts ing bell against Brian "The lawyers don't always need to use series of ferocious left hooks. senior Kevin Loria. Liem managed within the first ten seconds of the Southern Gun" Wierson. Wierson rhetoric and legal precedents to Burns will face law student Billy to knock Loria down twice, forcing second round. The fight was must have been shooting blanks, settle their disputes. l-Ie garnered "Excuses" Henderman, who the referee to give Loria two sepa­ stopped and awarded to Gorynski as he couldn't seem to stall a unanimous decision in his bout defeated freshman Hunter Land in rate standing eight-counts, one just 15 seconds into the second Rooney's attack. Wierson was against sophomore Kevin "Captain an absolute brawl of a fight that each in the second and third round. given a standing eight-count early of the Starship Enterprise" brought the crowd to its feet. The rounds. The fight was stopped 24 in the second round and was also Henderman. Henderman started fight was stopped numerous times seconds into the third round. Contact John Everett at sent to his corner twice to stop a strong but couldn't get his fists as both boxers were bleeding by Tim "The Nevada Nailer" [email protected]

Sophomore Zach "Phat senior Brad Amiri by unani­ points and 7.6 rebounds per Qunka" Jara unanimously beat mous decision. Grissinger's game, while registering 1.52 Fights Kevin "Big Red" Martin. Jara constant display of aggressive Pirates blocks per game as well. continued from page 24 initiated punches throughout jabs set up his attack against continued from page 22 The last time these two teams the fight, showing quicker foot­ Amiri, who spent all three met on Jan. 2, Seton Hall was at rounds. Bezouska responded work and better balance that rounds trying to setup his big right now, so I'm anxious to the peak of its season, with two of to a fan's request to "do it for avoided some of Martin's big right hand. Although Amiri keep playing." its three losses coming at the Marissa Cooper" by advancing but off-balanced swings - landed one shot that drew And while the Irish are red-hot, hands of ranked teams. Notre to Thursday's quarterfinals, almost knocking Martin down "Mongoose" blood, it was not the Pirates have struggled lately. Dame won that matchup, its Big using his quick footwork to in round three. enough to stop Grissinger. Seton Hall lost its third in a row East opener, with a 54-33 mar­ subdue Cea. _ Law student Guillermo MBA student and southpaw and fourth in five games gin, but since then the Pirates In a unanimous decision by "Mighty Memo" Tijerina defeat­ Brian Weldon overcame senior Saturday at Syracuse. The have struggled offensively - the five judges, junior Mike ed freshman Craig Panzica in a Joseph "Sweet Pea" Schuppig Pirates shot just 18.5 percent in averaging just 43.2 points per McCann beat senior Kevin "My split decision. Tijerina's big, in an RSC 58 seconds into the the first half, connecting on only game in their last five games, and Last Name Means Laxative" open punches made Panzica third round. Weldon's left hand five field goals, en route to the scoring above the 50-point mark Rycyna. McCann, an off-cam­ play defense early on. delivered big punches early on, 51-38loss. just once, against lowly pus resident, put Rycyna, from Although Panzica used his arm as Schuppig wildly fought off The Pirates are led by senior Providence. Keenan, on the ropes early and reach to fight off Tijerina's wild Weldon and the two traded swing player Ashley Bush, who Tipoff is 7 p.m. at Walsh used strong right hooks that attacks and get his own hits, blows for a while. Weldon's averages 13 points and 8.3 Gymnasium in South Orange, N.J. outmatched Rycyna's quick Tijerina's offense never ceased. hooks finally fatigued Schuppig, rebounds per game. Sophomore jabs. Rycyna went on the offen­ In unanimous fashion, sopho­ who failed to block his exposed forward Monique Blake also has Contact Heather Van Hoegarden sive in the third round but by more Brian Tyrrell beat fresh­ face before the referee stopped solid numbers, averaging 11.3 at [email protected] the bell had failing fists of man Jesse "The Brawler" the contest minutes after exhaustion. Brawer. Tyrrell bloodied Weldon knocked Schuppig to Sophomore Michael "My Real Brawer's nose in the first round the floor. Name is Meri" Hennig won by and, though often on defense, Sophomore Stephen RSC 35 seconds into round two stayed disciplined to record "Wiggles" Hutchings beat soph­ against junior Tim Jaeger in nice head and body shots. omore Ryan "Seoul Man" Smith the last Lightweight match of Tyrrell reopened Brawer's who, indeed, hails from Seoul, the day. Hennig knocked Jaeger wound later in the match, out­ South Korea. Hutchings, who into the corner early on. In the reaching Brawer's punches. was in control most of the fight, second round, Hennig's left Though Brawer came on strong effectively used his longer arm hook knocked Jaeger to the. in the third round, forcing reach to deliver his own jabs canvas, and later a Hennig Tyrrell into the ropes and and block Smith's efforts en combo put Jaeger down again almost knocking him down, the route to a unanimous victory. before the referee called the early damage was too much for fight. Brawer to overcome. RICHARD FRIEDMANfThe Observer Contact Tim Dougherty at Megan Duffy drives to the hoop against Boston College Feb. 2. Senior Timothy "The Irish 155 pounds [email protected] Frenzy" McKenzie won by The 155-pound Super Duffy is averaging 11.7 points per game. default, as his match against Welterweight class featured the sophomore James "Toaster" quickest fight of the night, as Hussell was forfeited. sophomore Chris Calderone 150 pounds overwhelmed junior John At the 150-pound Townsend in an RSC, when Welterweight division, fresh­ Townsend failed to respond to man Patrick O'Brien outlasted the referee's standing eight sophomore Greg "Busta" count at the end of the first Brown in a split decision. round. Calderone landed a pun­ O'Brien landed right hooks ishing series of left-handed jabs throughout the fight, and and hooks to Townsend's head despite Brown's offensive late before the fight was called. The College of Arts and Letters in the third round, O'Brien's Sophomore Bryan "The power was too much. · Mongoose" Grissinger defeated invites Student Nominations

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Tuesday, March 1, 2005 PORTS page 24 NO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Big East title lies within reach Irish need win, some help from conference foes

Dame has been a member of Wooden award, is averaging By HEATHER the conference. 17.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and VAN HOEGARDEN No. 10 Notre Dame (24-4, 12- 2.9 assists per game. Sports Editor 3 Big East) is red-hot coming "I can't even put into words off an 82-57 Saturday after­ what Teresa a-nd Jackie mean With just one regular season noon blowout of West Virginia to me," junior point guard game remaining, Notre Dame for Senior Day. The Irish have Megan Duffy said. "I don't even needs some help from a fellow won 11 of their last 12 games want to think about what it's Big East team if it wants to win coming into tonight's matchup going to be like next year with­ the regular season conference with the Pirates. During this out having my two sidekicks title. The Irish are currently in stretch, Notre Dame has been next to me. Their work ethic is second place behind No. 9 led by senior Teresa Borton. something I've always looked Rutgers (22-5, 13-2 Big East). Borton, named last week's up to." To claim a share of the title, Big East Player of the Week, Duffy has run the show this Notre Dame needs to beat had 18 points, nine rebounds season for the Irish, and is Seton Hall tonight, and have and five blocks in her home averaging 11.7 points per game the Scarlet Knights lose to finale Saturday on 8-for-9 and 5.6 assists per game. On Villanova. shooting. Borton, who has not Saturday, she had a double­ Regardless of how the missed a game in her four double against West Virginia Rutgers game turns out, If the years at Notre Dame, was hon­ with 12 points and 10 assists. Irish defeat Seton Hall (14-12, ored Saturday along with fellow ''I'm really pleased," Irish 6-9 Big East) tonight, Notre senior All-American Jacqueline coach Muffet McGraw said. RICHARD FRIEDMAN!The Observer Dame will finish in the top two Batteast. Batteast, who is a "We don't want to lose our edge GEOFF MATIESON!The Observer Guard Charel Allen looks to pass of the Big East for the ninth midseason candidate for the Forward Jackie Batteast shoots ...... inside against Boston College . time in the 10 years Notre Naismith Trophy and Women's see PIRATES/page 22 a layup against West Virginia.

BENGAL BOUTS First punches thrown at this year's Bengal Bouts ,- In 155-poundfight, Sullivan and Piery fought a fairly Lawrence Sully beats even first round. The second Calderone defeats Mike Fiery, referee round, however, saw Sullivan's trademark right hooks get the Townsend easily stops contest in third better of Piery's nose and forced thn ref to temporarily stop the By JOHN EVERETT By TIM DOUGHERTY fight. When the mateh rnsumed, Sullivan's power and punch Sports Writer Sports Writer combinations in the third and final round reopened Piery's Chris Calderone, a sophomore The first day of preliminary. wounds, prompting the referee's with a quick jab, needed little time rounds for the 75th annual decision. to come away the victor in a Notre Dame Bengal Bouts start­ Will "The Thrill" Bezouska match against John Townsend. ed off with a bang. defeated Richard Cea in a three­ The light was stopped upon the The first match showcased round split decision. The left­ conclusion of the first of three freshman Lawrence "Sully" handed junior from Dillon Hall scheduled rounds. Calderone will Sullivan defeating sophomore was the aggressor in each of the go on to !'ace Paul "Paulie Mike Piery. The referee stopped three rounds, using his quick Walnuts" Hagan, who whacked the contest (referred to as an r~et to position himself for Drew "Jermaine O'Neal" Whiting CHUY BENITEZ/The Observer RSC) 40 seconds into the third strong right jabs early in the Adam Burns, left, defeated Conor McEvily in Monday night's round. Fighting in the 140- see BOUTS/page 22 preliminary round of the 75th Bengal Bouts. pound Lightweight division, see FIGHTS/page 22

ND SOFTBALL Ruthrauff's early season success no surprise Springs Classic and were in dan­ prised. Ruthrauff has a history of first baseman is hitting .276 and set the Notre Dame single sea­ Irish record-holder ger of going 0-5 as they faced a making the big hit. has five RBI, second on the team son record for walks with 36. has proven her ability dominating Tennessee team with "When I go up to the plate, I to senior Megan Ciolli. But "When you see pitches well, a 16~ 1 record and a No. 5 just look for something in my Ruthrauff has already put her it's a lot easier to realize which to produce on offense national ranking. zone, and if it's there, I swing at name in the record books after pitches are ones you should lay But after Meghan Ruthrauff it," Ruthrauff said. "Against having 54 RBI last season and off of," she said. ''I'm a much came up to bat in the third Tennessee, the ball just looked placing herself second all-time more disciplined hitter this sea­ By JUSTIN SCHUVER inning and smacked a three-run like a beach ball on its way up for the Notre Dame RGI in a sea­ son." Associate Sports Editor home run over the left field there, and I really think I've son mark - Melanie Alkire's 64 And if that wasn't impressive fence, the team's snoozing bats been seeing the ball better just in the 2000 season is first. enough, she's also ranks first on The weekend did not begin at finally came to life and Notre in general this season and it's Ruthrauff has also proven her­ the all-time fielding percentage all as planned. Dame knocked off the vaunted really made me a better hitter self to be a patient hitter in addi­ list with a .995 mark. And that The Irish had already amassed Vols 5-2. overall." tion to coming through in the an 0-4 record at the Palm Not that anyone should be sur- Already this season, the junior dutch- in the 2003 season, she see RUTHRAUFF/page 21

NFL NCAA NCAA BASKETBAU. MlB NBA NCAA BASKETBAll. w Co) Notre Dame defensive More than 400 col- Pittsbu~h 72 At 46 years old, Julio Tim Thomas scored a John Chaney sus- z end Justin Tuck is mak- leges are in danger of Boston ollege 50 Franco reported to season-high 35 points to pended himself for the ing noise at the NFL losing scholarships for camp with the Braves as lead the Knicks in their A-10 tournament for his :s combine in Indianap- poor academic perform- The Panthers easily the oldest player in overtime victory over actions in a Temple = olis. ance. handed the Eagles their baseball. the Lakers, 117-115. game against St. cc third loss of the season. Joseph's last week !;: page 19 page 19 page 18 page 18 page 17 page 16