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/ ^ \ THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 38 : ISSUE 108 THURSDAY, MARCH 18,2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Student falls from balcony Baron selected Police arrest 6 at College Par as chief By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER Senior Staff Writer of staff A student attending a St. Patrick’s Day party at the College Park apartment com­ : ; : By AMANDA MICHAELS plex was seriously injured after News Writer he fell from a second story bal­ cony at approximately 4:30 Fresh from a semester in p.m. Wednesday, prompting Angers, sophomore and for­ police to bust the party and mer freshman class presi­ make six arrests. dent David Baron wasted no St. Joseph County Police time in immersing himself Spokesperson Jaimce Theiriln back into the waters of said the student, senior Michael Notre Dame student govern­ Seiler who lives in College ment. After being the cam­ Park, was tran sp o rted by paign manager for the am bulance to St. Joseph Charlie Ebersol-James Leito Regional Medical Center. The ticket, he will take on the hospital declined to release new role of chief of staff for Seiler’s condition and multiple student body president-elect calls to his apartment were not Adam Istvan and vice presi­ answered. dent-elect Karla Bell. Sgt. John Pavlekovich, shift Picking Baron was an easy supervisor for the St. Joseph decision Istvan said — so County Police, said he was much so that he was the already at College Park only candidate seriously responding to a noise com ­ considered for the job. plaint when the student fell. He Above, Michael Seiler “I kind of had Dave in said students approached him mind,” Istvan said. “He lived to report that a person had fall­ is wheeled to an ambu­ across the hall from me last en. year, so I’ve known him for "So I ran over there, and the lance after falling from awhile. He knows student kid was lying on the ground. He government better than any­ had numerous abrasions to the a balcony. A t right , a one I know, and I trust him mouth, missing teeth; he was to help us. He’s my first hurting,” Pavlekovich said. fire truck arrives at choice for the position, and Pavlekovich said that the stu­ the best choice.” dent was playing catch with College Park. Though Baron’s previous fruit on the upper balcony and affiliation with Ebersol-Leito fell off while trying to catch a ♦ might be seen a conflict of piece of fruit. interest elsewhere, Baron Pavlekovich said that when PHOTOS BY insisted that it was not. sec BUST/page 6 TIM KACMAR see CHIEF/page 11 Groups continue to support homosexual students Students show A dialogue deferred: solidarity with 'Gay? the path of gay Fine by me.'shirts organizations at ND By KEVIN ALLEN By CLAIRE HEININGER News Writer News Editor On Saturdays in the fall, the cam pus is bom barded by a “Gay? Fine by me.” reads the “Sea of Green” in which slogan of solidarity proclaimed Notre Dame fans don identi­ on the more than 1,600 orange cal T-shirts to demonstrate T-shirts saturating campus their unity and support for today. the Irish. Today, a “Sea of But for the past 15 years, the Orange” will flood campus to relationship between gay and show solidarity and support lesbian organizations and the for gay and lesbian members University administration has of the Notre Dame communi­ been anything but smooth. ty. The sh irts b e a r the Ten years after the first gath­ inscription, “Gay? Fine by ering of students who formed me,” and are being worn in Gay and Lesbian Students of reaction to Notre Dame’s Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s recent distinction in the (GLND/SMC) in 1985, a nation­ Princeton Review as the most ally publicized recognition dis­ homophobic campus in the pute surfaced that led to the formation of the Ad Hoc and United States. CHUY BENITEZ/The Observer Kaltlyn Redfleld, left, delivers an orange shirt to Lynsay Bensman. Students are wearing the see GSA/page 9 shirts today In support of homosexual students and organizations. see HISTORY/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, March 18, 2004 In sid e C olum n Question of the Day: D id the cold weather dam pen your S t. Patrick ’s Day ? Orange, not clockwork Look around you. You are in the dining hall getting ready to dig into your food, when something catches Joe Nohner your attention. You see a few people Mike Merrit Scott Howard Aaron Laviana Julia Jenkins Steve Howenstein around you — or maybe more than a F resh m a n S o p h o m o re S en io r F resh m a n S o p h o m o re S o p h o m o re few. “They’re S ie g frie d St. Edward’s O ff-C am pus Pasquerilla East S ta n fo r d S ta n fo rd orange,” you say M atthew to yourself. Sm edberg Bright orange. “It pisses me off “You can't be “No, hut losing "No, nothing “It dampened it “Look at this And whoever said P roduction th at it’s dam pened m y lucky could ruin St. in a GOOD smile. What do that orange was the new pink was E d ito r snowing. ” when you’re charm s did. ” P atrick’s Day. ” way. ” you think?’’ seriously dis­ lit.” turbed. Look around you. Maybe you’re in class, surrounded by fifteen, or fifty, or five hundred fellow students, and again you can’t miss the orange glare emanating from a brave few — or perhaps, not-so-few. You look closer, and find a message you did not see before: “Gay? Fine By Me.” It shocks you for a moment. It shocks you, in fact, for more than a In B r ie f moment. You’ve heard about these shirts: The Kroc Institute for Peace heard a whisper that something like Studies, the Department of this was coming. More than a thou­ History and the McAnaney Chair sand sold, someone said. You didn’t are sponsoring a lecture entitled think they sounded too happy about “Religious War and the Cultural it, but they were just walking by on Politics of Peace,” which takes the quad, so you weren’t sure. No place today at 12:30 p.m. in 119 one you know is wearing one, so you O’Shaughnessy. haven’t had to think about where you stand. Valeria Tohver Milam of the There were indeed more than a University of Pennsylvania will thousand sold. hold a seminar entitled But you do not see that many. In “Colloidal Constructs in the fact, right now, you only see one: the Absence and Presence of DNA” one on the girl who you usually sit at 3:30 p.m. today in 138 next to. She’s smart, pretty, a good DeBartolo. The seminar is spon­ conversationalist; you even ate sored by the Departm ent of lunch with her at the dining hall Chemical and Biomolecular once and were impressed by how Engineering. many things she’s interested in. “But she’s gay?” you ask silently. Then The women’s tennis team you catch yourself. She’s just show­ takes on Iowa today at 4 p.m. in ing solidarity. She thinks she’s the Eck Tennis Pavilion. speaking out against injustice. But the thought keeps nagging at you as Photo courtesy of Pat Quill Hear the Glee Club perform in you steal glances all through class Several students formed an Impromptu St. Patrick’s Day parade Wednesday, which a concert tonight at 8 p.m. in from across the room. included band members who played the Notre Dame Fight Song. The group eventu­ Washington Hall. And now your classes are done for ally paraded through DeBartolo. the day, and it’s home to your dorm. The Saint Mary’s Women’s You know you have work to do, but Choir will give a Homecoming there’s a good movie on cable and Concert tonight in the Little you have all night to get down to Theatre of the Moreau Center at business. 8 p.m. And so you’re sitting there — O ffbea t relaxing, minding your own business — when your roommate walks in. A Rooster limited to one the rest of the season. “It’s a pleasant surprise,” Ruiping Fan of the Department second later, it registers to you that S.C. baseball game “We received some com­ Ren Xiuhua, a 102-year-old of Public and social his (or her) shirt is vividly orange. COLUMBIA, S.C. — At plaints regarding the roos­ woman from Lanzhou, the Administration at the University With feigned ignorance you least one Gamecock is no ter at the games, from not provincial capital, was of Hong Kong will host a lecture remark that she (or he) is looking longer welcome at all only a health but a safety quoted as saying by the at 4 p.m. today in the auditorium bright today. Then the look on his South Carolina baseball concern — smell, feces, official Xinhua News of McKenna Hall entitled (or her) face stops you. games. animal in a public facility,” Agency. “My family and I “Beyond Liberty and Equality: “Is something wrong?” Cocky-Doodle-Lou, a 6- said senior associate ath­ are all grateful to govern­ Some Confucian Reflections on “I’m gay,” your roommate says.

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