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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 66 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2008 I NDSMCOBSERVER.COM New CSC construction underway McAdam_s After $14 million, revamped Center will be four stories high and provide needed space injured in current location in Hesburgh By KATE MCCLELLAND Library to the new building News Writer as well. Additionally, 25 per accident cent of the new space has A quick walk across the been designated for future north end of campus will growth. Notre Dame employee show that the new year has During construction, the hurt in car wreck brought more new construc esc will operate from tion to Notre Dame. Building No. 1042, which is Ground recently broke on located behind Rockne By KAREN LANGLEY the new Center for Social Memorial on the west side of News Editor Concerns building, which is campus. projected to be finished in In an e-mail, Jim Lyphout, the summer of 2009. vice president for business Longtime Notre Dame employ At four stories high and operations for the University, ee Patricia McAdams was badly 64,000 square feet, the new said the new esc will cost injured in a car accident Sunday Center will provide the much the University $14 million to while returning from the needed space and resources build. Most of the funding women's basketball game in that the old Center - at only was donated by Michael and West Virginia. McAdams, a computer support 11,400 square feet - lacked. Sheila Geddes and Thomas IAN GAVLICK!The Observer The Institute for Church Construction is underway for the new CSC building, sched technician in the Main Building, Life will be moving from its see CSC/page 6 uled to be finished in the summer of 2009. is in critical but stable condition in Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday afternoon. She was flown to Parkview from the SMC choirs recognized in holiday com_petition scene of the accident on Interstate 69 in Fort Wayne. Office of Information Women's Choir, Madrigal Singers place in top 12 nationally in 'Clash of the Choirs' Technologies phones have been deluged with calls from people inquiring about McAdams' con The competition was open to By KATIE KOHLER dition, A'lsociate Provost Gordon any choir, from five to 500 Wishon said. Saint Mary's Editor singers, Menk said. "We're just devastated to learn "We had to choose from of the accident," said Wishon, For a few moments, mem four or five pieces to sing, who is OJT's chief information bers of the Saint Mary's and we already had a couple officer. "Patricia is such a valued Women's Choir and Madrigal of them prepared once I member of our family and the Singers had their primetime heard about it, so we were whole Notre Dame family." television debut as winners all ready to go," she said. The accident occurred just of the NBC competition The Women's Choir per after 10 p.m. Sunday night. "Clash of the Choirs." formed "Amazing Grace" and McAdams was standing outside Both choirs were featured the Madrigal singers sang her parked car, between the pas on Dec. 17 as part of the "We Wish You a Merry senger's side door and the four-night competition. Christmas." guardrail, when a passing car Choir director and Music Each of the choirs was fea lost control and struck her car, Department chair Nancy tured in the national Holiday The Journal Gazette of Fort Menk heard about the com Challenge competition and Wayne reported Monday. courtesy Choir petition through a choral both were recognized as two McAdams was then struck by The Madrigal Singers perform at the annual Christmas dinner in Listserv and asked her choirs 2006. The group was one of the 12 choirs featured recently on NBC. if they wanted to participate. see CHOIRS/page 4 see ACCIDENT/page 4 College alumna ND students mentor community survives bombing Take Ten teaches conflict resolution through the Robinson Learning Center By MADELINE BUCKLEY floor all the way to the By KATIE KOHLER kitchen. There was a lot of News Writer Saint Mary's Editor blood in the lobby," Griffin told the Associated Press. As violence in schools contin Saint Mary's alumna "There were shell castings ues to trouble the American Suzanne Seidl Griffin sur outside." education system, Notre Dame vived a suicide bombing Last year, students are visiting South Bend attack in Kabul, Afghanistan S a i n t area schools to teach healthy while working as senior proj Mary's conflict resolution through the ect manager of education for awarded Robinson Learning Center. the Save the Children USA Griffin, a The center runs the Take Ten program in Kabul. 1967 grad program, a program geared The attack took place at the uate of the toward preventing violence in Serena Hotel in Kabul on Jan. College, the South Bend and Mishawaka 14 and was the deadliest Humanitas schools. Its mantra is "Talk it direct attack on a hotel in Award, an out, walk it out, wait it out," and Kabul since the fall of the Griffin award the the curriculum encourages stu Taliban in 2001. College dents from kindergarten to high Griffin was in the gym dur bestows on an alumna who school to "take ten deep breaths Photo courtesy of Ellen Kyes ing the attack. Notre Dame students participate in an annual bookmark "There was blood on the see ATTACK/page 4 see TAKE TEN/page 6 competition that took place before break as part of Take Ten. .--------------------------------------~~-- - page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS THE MOST EXCITING THING YOU DID OVER WINTER BREAK? Rock Band "We're going to Best Buy sometime today," my roommate Bobby told me. "Why?" ''I'm getting Hock Band." Saad Saffo Grant Schmidt Kayla Condeni Chris Vanderhurst Theresa Olivier [jttJe did I know my life would change sophomore forever. junior sophomore sophomore junior I'm the guy with Bill Brink off campus Knott Farley Knott PE no voice who still sings Nirvana in "! watched two "!got to eat '7 watched Ohio "!got my teeth "!represented the shower, so Sports Production , Hoek Band Editor whole Denzel Mom's cooking. State lose. whitened for my my undying oll'ernd the per- movies. There's nothing upcoming love for J. T. T. at , , feet solution to my subconscious yearn better. campaign. a 90s party. ings to lm a superstar. The iclna of my voice amplified to 120 decibels - whether in Madison Square Garden or my tiny room in Fisher Hall - excited me beyond belief'. Once American Gladiators was over Monday night, we went to work. It took three of us 20 minutes to decipher the destinations of the myriad wires and plugs befim1 we got going, but once we did, it was glorious. IN BRIEF Crnating our characters otlemd me anothnr escape from reality. My pale, skinny, 5-foot-11 frame has never Women's basketball will play exactly intimidated anyone. But my Villanova tonight at 7 in the muscular 6-fiJOt-8 alter-ego, with his Joyce Center. purplish-yellow mohawk, ripped jeans and tight black T-shirt. scams the beje Hegistration will begin sus out of people. Thursday for instructional When our band. Alliteration, got its classes from 8 a.m. to mid first gig, palpable tension rippled night at Rolfs SportsRec through the room. On our first song, Center at the HSRC registration Weezer's "Say It Ain't So," that tension desk. crackml; we failed miserably. The crowd throw things on stage in protest. Jeffrey Herbst, Provost and But the loss of a few fans eould not Executive Vice-President for d11ter us. Academic Affairs at Miami We soon masternd our respective University (Ohio) will deliver trades, and began to rock. We now play the lecture "Why We Were "Say It Ain't So" bPtter than Weezer Wrong About Zimbabwe" in Pver eould. And don't even think about room C-1 03 of the Hesburgh Hadiolwad's "Creep;" thanks to a cameo Center Thursday at 4:15p.m. by our RA, who busted out 98 percent of the notes correctly, you would swear The lilm "Golden Door" will Thorn Yorke was in the room. be shown Thursday at 7 p.m. Whether I pound out a beat on the in Browning Cinema, drums or anchor the tune with a steady DeBartolo Performing Arts ba<>s groove or unleash a powerful ren IAN GAVLICK!The Observer Center as part of "Immigration: dition of Metallica's "Enter Sandman," I Construction continues on the site of the newly demolished Center for Social A Notre Dame Perspective" feel like I'm a part of something. I'm a Concerns building near Siegfried Hall. The new center will be completed in two-part film series. Tickets cog in a gear, a piece of a puzzle, a the summer of 2009 and will also house the Institute for Church Life. are $3 for students. quarter of a string quartet. If that quar tet could replicate Nine Inch Nails flaw There will be a Family Guy lessly. Trivia Contest Thursday from What's more, I'm surrounded by 7 p.m. to 10 in the LaFortune superior talent. My friends are all more OFFBEAT Ballroom. Sign-ups will begin fake-musically inclined than I am, so at the door at 6:30 p.m. Test Alliteration ha'> nowhere to go but up. Talk about things going clerk wasn't injured. of duties, the Marion out your Family Guy knowledge We'll be taking home Electromusic really wrong A short time later, police County Sheriff's for a chance to win a life-sized Grammys in no time.