THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 40: ISSUE 9 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER2. 2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Fans and band flock east to Pittsburgh Students travel to Heinz Field is first of support Irish football bands' two season trips By KATE ANTONACCI and By KELLY MEEHAN MARCELLA BERRIOS News Writer News Writers Notre Dame fans heading to At noon today, Alumni jun­ Pittsburgh this weekend won't be iors Mike Fnrkovie, H.J. the only ones trying to turn llninz Kornhaas, 1' . .1. lloffman, Field into. a home game atmos­ Chris Disbro, Liam Moran phere - the Band of the Fighting and sophomore Steve Irish chose the game as one of its Barbnra will pile in a Buick two road trips this fall. l'ark Avenue and endure a The 380-member marching six-hour ear ride to the band will be pulling out of Notre University of Pittsburgh. Dame at 8 a.m. Saturday morning Al"ter buying season ticket and leaving Pittsburgh immediatn­ booklets for Pittsburgh in ly af'tnr the Saturday night game mid-.July for $85, the Notre to return to campus at approxi­ Dame students arn ready to mately 6 a.m. Sunday morning. cheer on the Irish in their "We are vnry excitnd to start ofT opening football game. the new season and to support Nothing - not cwPn a city our team by doing our best to that Fnrkovic calls "the dirt­ Above, the band rPcreate the essence of a Notrn ic1st eity of all time" - will Dame home game," assistant stand in their way. For these practices. At left, director of bands Larry Dwyer and hundreds of other Notre said. Damn students driving east students enter The decision to send the band to t h i s w 11 e k n n d , see i n g the Pittsburgh game was made Saturday night's game up Michigan raffle. after thn directors analyzed which closn and pnrsonal is a a way games were within a rna­ nec~essi ty. son able traveling distance and "I definitely havn to see • which games would be most bene­ Charlie's first game," PHOTOS BY fieial to attend to boost student Kornhaas said. and team spirit, said Dwyer, who "Charlie Wnis is the man," BETH WERNET, will be accompanying the band to said Fnrkovic, who will wear TIM SULLIVAN Pittsburgh, along with director of see PITT/ page 8 see BAND/page 4 New Web site sho"Ws Males adapt to SMC catnpus life com_plete ND calendar All-encompassing schedule includes arts, entertainment, academics, religious events By JOE TROMBELLO take administrative ownership News Writer of the project," Laiber said. "The Office of News and Information did this year." Studnnts will have another The Agenda has been the link today to add to their outgrowth of a number of KELLY Observer lntnrnnt favoritns of espn.com other more specifie calendars. Students, faculty, staff, sisters, alumnae, donors and the Board of Trustees congregate and nytimns.com: Thn Under the Dome calendar, outside the newly opened Saint Mary's Student Center during opening ceremonies last April. agnnda.nd .mlu. begun in the spring of 2003, Dirnetnd by univnrsity calen­ was an attempt to classify the dar nditor .Jennifer Laihnr, the majority of events that would Editor's note: This is the a handful of male students Sodexho General Manager i\gc>mla is the University's nnw pertain to students. The second in a three-part series who comprise part of the small Barry Bowles, thn man in ~~ o m p r n h en s i v e c a I n n d a r McKenna Center for exploring the role (~{men at faction of men at the all­ eharge of dining snrvkns at tlw launclwd today encompassing Continuing Education used to .')aint Mary's. women's sehool. These men Collnge, sees tho Saint Mary's evnnts from arts and entnr­ sponsor a calendar - well facn the challenge of being a women who nat in tho Noble tainnwnt to rcdigious life to before Under tho Dome -that By NICOLE ZOOK minority among the school's Family Dining I Iall more oflen lc>cturns and confernncns. listed academic oven ts. A<sistant News Editor students, faculty and stall'. than nven their professors do i\lthough thn nned for a com­ llowover, no calendar existed and notiees all tlw quirks and prPiwnsivn calniular has been to integrate thesn kinds of "IIi, I'm Tony Sylvester, and I Big man on campus habits that como with 1,500 rnc~ogn iznd for some timn, events with other activities go to Saint Mary's." Of eourse, there are chal­ fmnalos. Lailwr said the nncnssity to sueh as arts and entertain­ While this statement may bP lenges presented to men in an "Yes, it was a culture shock," first complde the University ment and religious life, and a joke for Notre Dame senior all-fnmale environment outsidn hn said. "But I think wn deal ovnrhaul of thn accounting the Agenda will serve to fill history major Tony Sylvester the classroom. Professors on with thosn ehallengns nxtrc~mn­ system prnvent11d attention that gap, Laiber said. and his friends, it also rings campus find they have a hard ly well." from hning focused on new "lWei needed something to true when Sylvester enters his time in the small men's locknr Bowles, who worked at calnndar software. bring the two sides together," education classroom - and room or even finding a men's Notre Damn for nino years "Anothnr rnason that a nnw Laiber said. "So lwei decided sits at a desk in the middle of bathroom - of which most before coming to Saint Mary's, all-nnc~ompassing calendar to have student, faculty, and 25 women. buildings only have one. There said the dill"nrc1nces betwnen a nnver got off the ground was staff events !listed I. and if a Sylvester. who is a social are challenges for men that mixed-gender population and bncausn no othnr officn on studies secondary education are specifically tailored to an campus appeared to want to see CALENDAR/page 6 student at the College, is one of all-women's school. see SMC/page 3 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, September 2, 2005 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT SONG DO YOU WANT THE BAND TO PLAY AT HALFTIME THIS SEASON? Culture for outlanders We were a ragtag bunch. We few, we happy few, we band of ausliinder. We came from all over. Some of us Dave Tagler Jeff Paone Drew Cook Analise Lipari Kathleen Martinez Ryan Curley met in the airport and suffered through a transatlantic flight in junior junior junior freshman sophomore junior coach. Others we Dillon Dillon Knott Howard Welsh Family Siegfried first encountered Matthew at curbside, grin­ "Metallica 's ,.. Immigrant ,.. My Humps,' ,.. Love Shack'- ,.. Bohemian "The 'Jurassic ning through the Smedberg , 'Master of Song, Black Eyed pure '8os Rhapsody' and Park' theme sun as it filtered , Trumpets' ... er Zeppelin." Peas. awesomeness. have the choir song. over the tops of , , the mountains. Photographer Puppets. sing along. Still others we waited a while to meet- our room- mates and hall buddies, the ones we tentatively introduced ourselves to over a bubbling pot of noodles, a dubbed American TV show in the lounge, a cigarette. We were the foreigners. French, German, Swedish mostly - and of course American. Little held us in IN BRIEF common. For every one of us who skied or rode the breathtaking slopes overlooking the Inn valley, another had tried and given up on the idea, or Senior finance and business not felt compelled to even try. For economics majors Stephanie every one who spoke perfect German, Madia and Brian Mattes have there was anothel'" who halted and been named the 2005 recipi­ stumbled over pronouns picked at ents of Notre Dame's Eugene random from frantic searches D. Fanning Scholarships. through his or her brain. Madia and Mattes each rece­ Well, I guess there was one common vied $3,500 towards tuition, thread. Not a one among us had a awarded for excellence in clue what the Tirolers were saying. communication skills and per­ They say Notre Dame is a conserva­ sonal characteristics. tive place, and it is. But socially Austria, and mountainous Tirol in the NO Cinema will host the crit­ west especially, is a place charitably ically acclaimed documentary described as "tight-knit;" more hon­ "Murderball," about quad estly, "slow to welcome," at least from rugby Team USA's bid in the my perspective. Even their language 2004 Paralympics, in the is something other: German, yes, but DeBartolo Performing Arts like no German you've ever met in a Center's Browning Cinema classroom or an old war movie. When tonight and Saturday at 7 and they want it to be, it is a secret code. 10 p.m. Tickets are $5 for fac­ They say it is all about preserving ulty and staff and $3 for all the old ways, when each valley had its students. own argot - no, that's French, let's go with dialekt. And old ways they TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer The Notre Dame women's were - ways which celebrated same­ Players from Carroll Hall and Thunder Roosters compete in one of the final rounds of the soccer team will face off ness and defended against too much five vs. five soccer tournament held at Stepan Fields Thursday. against Florida tonight at 7:30 cultural innovation, ways which had p.m. at Alumni Field. protected the rugged mountaineer civilization from collapse, but perhaps The Notre Dame volleyball at the cost of mobility, both spatial team will play Texas at 5 p.m.