Trage.Dy Strikes Ebersol Family University Expresses Sorrow After Crash
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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 39: ISSUE 60 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER30, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Trage.dy strikes Ebersol family University expresses sorrow after crash By AMANDA MICHAELS Associate News Editor A testament to the bonds of the Notre Dame community, the University was shaken by the tragedy that struck members of its own Sunday, and is extend ing its support to the Ebersol family in its time of grief. The charter plane carrying Notre Dame senior Charlie Ebersol. 21, his father, chair man of NBC Sports Dick Ebersol, 57, and Map Accident Site Charlie's brother Hospital Crash Sik> Dick and Charlie ; A Mass will Teddy Ebersol are be lwld tor Ebersol, COl.OMOO in stable 14, cra condition at a th(' Eb('rsol i·DENVER • hospital in family at shed on •' GRANO jUNCTION Grand takeoff Junction, while lOp.m. MONTROSE a n d the co-pilot ·: tonight in is at a hospital , Keot1gh eruptPd in Denver. ' Hall Chapel in flames at Mon- Photos courtesy of the Associated Press and the Observer Archives t r o s e Right, officials from Montrose Airport and the National Transportation Safety Board search wreckage Monday. Top left, Teddy Ebersol, Susan Regional Airport Sunday. Saint James and Dick Ebersol attend a movie screening. Middle left, Notre Dame senior Charlie Ebersol poses for a student government photo. The Ebersol name is well known on campus and in the wider Notre Dame communitv. Plane crash leaves ND senior Charlie, father Dick injured; youngest brother dead and the family's influenc'e reaches from the wording of condition at St. Mary's Hospital airport is located 185 miles Montrose Coroner Mark Young the new Student Union consti By CLAIRE HEININGER in Grand Junction, Colo. and are southwest of Denver and serves told the Montrose Daily Press. tution to the details of the new News Editor expected to make a full recovery, the Telluride Ski Area. The younger Ebersol was according to Kim Williams, The pilot and a flight attendant ejected from the plane and died NBC television contracts. ·In a statement released Notre Dame senior Charlie director of public relations at the of the CL-601 Challenger plane instantly, Young said. Monday, University President Ebmsol survived a plane crash hospital. were killed on impact, the "He didn't lay there and suf that injured his father, NBC The private jet, carrying six Montrose County Coroner's fer," Young said. "The pilot and Father Edward Malloy offered his condolences to the Ebersol Sports chairman Dick Ebersol, people, crashed during takeoff Office said in a press release. flight attendant were both eject family on the loss of their and killed his youngest brother from Montrose Regional Airport A body matching the descrip ed from their seats. The only one youngest son Teddy. Teddy Ebersol and two crewmen at approximately 10 a.m. tion of Teddy Ebersol, 14, was not ejected was Mr. Ebersol, and "The Ebersols have been in Montrose, Colo. Sunday. Mountain Standard Time, recovered underneath the his son, Charles, pulled him The family said in a release according to a press release wreckage at 5 p.m. MST out." longtime friends of the Monday night that Dick and from the Montrose Fire Monday, following an extensive Charlie Ebersol were in stable Protection District (MFPD). The seareh of the wooded crash site, see CRASH/page 4 see EBERSOL/page 4 COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES Students feel pain of Group discusses updates . USC losing streak Members will send card, prayers to Ebersol family By MADDIE HANNA place on an as-necessary of your respective groups to News Writer By MARY KATE MALONE basis, and members chose not come to our meetings. We News Writer to remove it. cannot vote if we do not have After watching the football COR discussed the issue fur enough members present," team lose to USC on Saturday, The Council of Represen ther Monday, and representa she said. Notre Dame students returned tatives discussed business tives agreed the current con Representatives agreed to from Thanksgiving break sad from last week and coordinat stitutional requirement for do so. dened by the season-ending loss. ed various events being FMB to meet on a bi-weekly "That was an absolute embar In other COR news: rassment," sophomore Mac planned for the week Monday. basis is necessary and no con + Cavanaugh senator Jordan At last week's meeting stu stitutional changes should be Murray said of the football 41-10 Bongiovanni asked represen loss to No. 1 USC. dent body president Adam made. tatives to sign a card for sen Istvan presented a resolution Still, hall president's co Murray, who is from Chicago, ior Charlie Ebersol and his traveled to Los Angeles with his to representatives that pro chair Claire Fadel, who family, who were involved in a posed changes that the attends FMB meetings, said family to watch the Irish play the plane crash over the holiday Trojans. Council felt needed to be although last week's meeting weekend. made to the new constitution. was very effective, many in "We shouldn't have even been "We bought a card to show on the same field with that Before members approved the the past have failed to be pro support for Charlie. Let's all resolution, Student Union ductive due .to poor atten team," Murray said. keep them in our prayers," Junior Steve Sweeney, who Board manager Jimmy dance. she said. Flaherty had expressed con "If we are going to meet on traveled to USC from northern CLAIRE KELLEY!The Observer cern with one provision that a bi-weekly basis, then the California with his dad, shared A football fan expresses dis suggested Financial Manage representatives here are going Contact Mary Kate M~one appointment after Notre ment Board meetings take to have to push the members at [email protected] see LOSS/page 3 Dame's 41-10 loss to USC. l page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE FOOTBALL GAME? 'Saved by the Bell' bliss Tim Feldmann Daniel Klauer Kat Moravek Gabriel Samudio Roger Knight Chris Dougher In rocnnt weoks, my f'rionds and I have dovotnd a good chunk or time to junior junior junior sophomore junior sophomore watching every episode from every Dillon Dillon Caven Keenan Siegfried Zahm season of"Savnd by the Boll." Pathntk'? Perhaps a bit. But. watching "/ don't think "IJ.J. Fitzpatrick "Expected. " "Go Irish!" "/ didn't watch "It was tho show now, whnn I am mature Kate Antonacci it's appropriate is awesome. it." football-rifle." nnough to recog- for the nize that I will newspaper to never actually News bnconw Kelly Production print." Kapowski and Editor datn th1~ evnr dnsirabln Zac:k Morris, it is intnresting to see how our culture has changnd in just 10 short years. Tho show had a roal innocence and sweetnnss to it. All of tho episodes had n~assuring morals and tlw characters IN BRIEF always made the right decisions- no drugs, no racism, no sex and no seri ous problems. The Cm1ter for Social Concerns Our gnnnration seems utterly out of will sponsor a summer service eontrol in comparison. And while I am project meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. glad that my wardrobe does not con in the Coleman-Morse lounge sist of fluorescent spandex and tacky tonight. pattnrnod dresses, at timos, I wish life mirrorod "Savnd by the Bell" just a lit UNICEF will sell Christmas tin. Tho perfnction of the charaetnrs, cards and other materials from their mlationships and their morals, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today in no matter how "made-for-TV" they the lleshurgh Library concourse. may have bnen, wnre enviable. Proceeds will benefit needy chil For onn, Knlly and Zack's "going dren throughout the world. steady" was the epitome of pure, high school love. Zack solieitod parental TheoJ(,gy prol'nssor Bob Krieg permission before~ asking Kelly out will lead a seminar on "Catholic and nuuh~ deals with her boss to get Theologians and Nazi hnr out of work early for a dance. A Germany," Wednesday from 3:30 kiss on tho cheek was always followed to 5:30 p.m. in C-1 04 I Jesburgh by an "ooooooo" from the audience. Center: Now, such courting and dating is a virtual has-bonn. while random hook Sally Winn, vicn prnsident of ups and casual, mnaningless relation Feminists liw Ute of Ameriea, will ships dominate hi!{h school and eol speak today on the topic "Hefuse lngo lifo. When and how did that to Choose: Reclaiming b(H~onw tlw norm'? Feminism" from 7 to 9 p.m. in eam~ine .Jnssio took pills, Scronch RICHARD FRIEDMAN!The Observer 126 DeBartolo llall. mado fako IDs to get everyone into an Notre Dame students eat dinner in South Dining Hall Monday underneath a balcony of new I H-and-up dan co dub, and Zack Christmas decorations, which went up across campus over Thanksgiving break. Pasquerilla East llall will spon srlllck out of detention. Today, poople sor its Silent Night Silent deal with police citations, (~ourt hear Auction Wednesday from 7 to 9 ings and Hnsl.ifn trials all the time p.m. The event will inelude fr.ee without blinking an eye. Though at food, karaoke and a free !Pod tho corn the problems seem the same, OFFBEAT giveaway. everything today is in excess and taken much more casually. Smiling frowned upon in "The subject's expression said.