/ ^ \ THE U b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 42 : ISSUE 29 FRI DAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM College launches identity campaign ND Forum 'She's Saint Mary's' new taglinefor publications elicits in attempt to make College more well known
the attention of prospective interest By KATIE KOHLER and LIZ students and parents. The ini HARTER tiative was part of College Afhtencs temmiwi ure News Writers President Carol Ann Mooney’s But students not active inaugural platform to make in immigration debate On the heels of two national Saint Mary’s a nationally rankings — by US News & known institution. HE ADI WES World Report and the “What this [campaign] goes We’re fi FAiHfit MCRIAiTS 6$A7SKATH)H Msone/5 pwscetise By BRIAN McKENZIE Sam t Mary's cn the event
In s id e C o lu m n Question of the Day: W hat is your favorite theme for a n S Y R ? 'Dear Jimsie../
I’m sun; there arc many students out there who are seeking advice from Caitlin Sajbel Megan Krizmanich Kelly Waclawik Courtney Sullivan Amy Holt Liz M organ classic outside sources such as Dear Abby and Dear Amy either daily or junior sophomore freshman junior sophomore freshman whenever they pick up The Chicago Badin PW Badin Badin Badin Badin Tribune, or whatever other Liz H arter newspapers “Disney “A soda pop “The Roarin' "A form al, “A sports theme “Halloween are delivered Princesses, theme, because / 920 s, because because girls — but the girls costume parly, through the News Production because I love drinking it’s a fun period love to dress up, can ’t be because 1 love Readership Editor 12 with really cool and we get to cheerleaders. ’’ dressing up. ” programs on ever one loves delicious -oz. both campus wearing pretty cans o f cola. ” clothes. ” see guys es. Or maybe I’m just the only one. dresses — boys dressed nicely If there are others out there, I pro fo r once. ” pose that those of you who read the included. ” insipidly bland advice columns in national papers seek out one of your own. “Dear Jimsie ” is a salacious advice column written by a Notre Dame stu dent, mainly for his friends and In B r ie f acquaintances on Facebook. “Dear Jimsie” is primarily driven by Facebook and text messages, which The men’s and women's swim began doling out advice in early teams will take part in the Dennis September in response to a text mes Stark Relays at Rolfs Aquatic sage prank making fun of his nick Center at 5 p.m. today. Admission name. After that text message, Jimsie is free and open to the public. became so much more than a nick name, it became an advice column for Filmmaker Leandro Firmino da the history books, much like Abby is flora will present a screening of just a name, but “Dear Abby” conjures the film “City of Men” at 10 p.m. up images of a frail, old lady who today at the DeBartolo answers letters in the ilk of “yes Performing Arts Center. Tickets Virginia, there really is a Santa Claus.” are $3. Those who know about “Dear Jimsie,” who are also Jimsie’s An informal lunchtime concert Facebook friends or know his cell featuring advanced students from phone number, have easy access to the Department of Music and Jimsie’s excellent advice. pianists Katie Palumbo and Mark Which is also part of the shtick. Only Cerenzia in Penote Performers' those who are friends with Jimsie can Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts leave him wall posts and while every Center today at 12:10 p.m. The one else who is friends with Jimsie on audience is welcome to bring their Facebook can see that post, they can lunch to the performance. not always see his response. Due to the privacy measures of Facebook, it is “No End in Sight," the first film impossible to see a specific person’s IAN GAVLICK/The Observer of its kind to chronicle the reasons wall if he is not your friend. This Long time Notre Dame fan Keith Penrod, left, motivates quarterbacks Evan behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla makes “Dear Jimsie” that much more Sharpley, bottom and Jimmy Clausen, right, during football practice Thursday war, warlord rule, criminality and exciting because he always keeps you afternoon. anarchy will be screened Saturday wondering what advice he has given at 7 p.m. in DeBartolo Performing other people. Arts Center. Tickets are $3. In the short history of the “Dear Jimsie” column, he has given advice on Army ROTC will host its annual relationships, social drinking, manag O ffb ea t Firm Fit Challenge Saturday from ing time conflicts, sleep deprivatio. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The triathlon will Alcoholics Anonymous and resolving Confused moose thinks he’s 20 miles south of officer who took a close kick off outside Lyons Hall. conflicts. a cow Mandan. look at a consignment of Proceeds will benefit the Wounded He provides blunt, straightforward CANNONBALL, N.D. — It’s not the only such more than 100 large, Warriors Project. retorts to questions that could poten When Beverly and Ernie incident in south central dead bugs sent from Peru tially become heated arguments Fischer gathered up their North Dakota this year. to the Netherlands discov The men’s soccer team will play between friends and quick responses cattle this fall in Morton Emmons County rancher ered cocaine had been West Virginia Saturday at 7 p.m. at problems that could prove detrimental County, they rounded up a Sam Gross recently stashed in their backs. Alumni Field. to the asker’s health were he to have to little more than they reported a lone bull “We see a lot of things, live with them for long periods of time. expected. We were mov moose in his cattle herd, but this was a first for The Black Cultural Arts Council "Dear Jimsie” may seem to be a ing some cattle, and we and a moose also was us,” customs spokesman is holding auditions for its annual crass, oftentimes inappropriate sala got a moose,” Ernie spotted in a cattle herd in Kees Nanninga said talent show, Black Images 2007. cious column, but in reality there is no Fischer said. “He thinks McIntosh County. Thursday. The auditions are Monday and better advice you could get. “Dear he is a cow, ” said his wife. “It looked like they were Tuesday from 8 p.m. to 10 in the Abby’s” advice is too fluffy, and “Dear Ernie Fischer said it Smugglers try to use bugs cut open, the drugs hid LaFortune Gold Room. All talents Amy’s” advice is too non-confronta- was difficult to get the as drug mules den in their backs and are welcome to audition. tional. At least Jimsie tells it like it is, young bull moose away AMSTERDAM, then they were glued and isn’t shy about making enemies from the cattle, and work N etherlands — As drug back together again,” he To submit information to be just to avoid telling the truth. What ers put it in a separate mules, bugs don’t carry said. included in this section of The better advice could you get then the corral until it could be much. And they didn’t get Observer, e-mail detailed informa truth? released. The moose also by customs in the Information compiled from tion about an event to broke fences on the ranch Netherlands. A customs the Associated Press. obsnews@nd edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. 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Due to a photographers error, a picture on the last page < of die Oct. 4 edition ofThe Observer incorrecdy identi o fied the Notre Dame soccer player as Ryan Miller. The o player is actually Justin Morrow. Due to a reporting HIGH 87 HIGH 77 HIGH 88 HIGH 87 HIGH 82 HIGH 75 error, the Faculty Senate article in the O ct 4. edition of LOW 70 LOW 60 LOW 70 LOW 67 LOW 63 LOW 50 The Observer quoted professor Judy Fox as saying “there is serious disfunction in the law school administration.” W hat she said was “there was serious disfunction in the A tlanta 80 / 67 B oston 81 / 63 C hicago 86 / 66 D enver 85 / 51 H ouston 92 / 70 Los Angeles 70 / 59 Minneapolis 79 / 63 law school." The Observer regrets these errors. New York 82 / 68 Philadelphia 84 / 64 Phoenix 93 / 74 S eattle 57 / 43 St. Louis 90 / 68 Tampa 90 / 77 Washington 84 / 65 Friday, October 5, 2007 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEV(^S page 3 Ticket sales strong SMC hosts 1st 'Light the Night7 walk
dusk, and each participant majors called “Team El-Ed.” By NIKKI TAYLOR and carried a red balloon with a “IThe walk] is really cool,” KATLYN SMITH despite 0-5 record light inside. Blood cancer sur Jespersen said. “It’s a really News Writers vivors carried a white bal good turnout. It’s really won loon. derful seeing all the T-shirts Saint Mary’s hosted the “It was very moving, which for the different teams.” By KRISTEN EDELEN the tickets, he said, and they will continue being sold at their face South Bend “Light the Night” I wasn’t expecting,” Call said. Notre Dame sophomore News Writer value of $64. walk Thursday — a 2.3-mile “Meeting people face to face Bryan Hoffman also did the But the support from some stu walk to raise money for the is the really powerful stuff.” walk. Notre Dame’s 0-5 record in dents of the team does seem to Leukemia and Lymphoma “Light the Night” had 330 “My brother’s girlfriend is a football will not endanger the be waning. Junior Kristen Society, with all funds raised people registered this morn survivor, and we did the walk team’s sellout streak of 194 Brickley said she thought the going toward research to cure ing, but at walk time approxi in high school,” he said. “It games or affect pricing, Assistant student section has become apa blood cancer. mately 450 people showed was fun community building Athletic Director Josh Berio said thetic. Saint Mary’s freshman up, said Crystal Jones, before the walk.” Thursday. “I know a lot of people who Kathy Chlebda, who was Indiana’s “Light the Night” Prior to the walk, survivors Notre Dame have been diagnosed with lymphoma in director. of blood cancers shared their has sold all its leaving the 2006 and finished treatment The youngest survivor pres stories. Each year’s event tickets for the home games in April, e- ent was an honors a person who is or has team ’s five early,” she mailed Saint eight and a battled a blood cancer. This r e m a i n i n g said. Mary’s over “It was very moving, half month-old year’s South Bend Honored “We are sold out for all of home games B r ic k le y the summer to which I wasn’t girl. She was Hero was Paige Robinson. this season, our remaining home said she has see if the diagnosed at Diagnosed with leukemia at though re expecting. Meeting games and still receive strong nos “Light the four and half the age of five, Robinson has sales do occur talgia for Night” walk people face to face is months. The been in remission for five through the calls daily from those to u ch d o w n took place in the really powerful oldest survivor years and will attend seventh Ticket Office looking for tickets. ” pushups South Bend. was a man in grade at Trinity Lutheran when cus from her The walk stuff.” his seventies, School in Elkhart, Ind. tomers return f r e s h m a n has happened Call said. She encouraged students to Josh Berio tickets they and sopho in South Bend Carrie Call Many Notre raise money for research of assistant athletic director have pur more years. before, but director Dame and the disease. chased. this was the Saint Mary’s Founded in 1959, the “I have not Office of Civic and Tickets are gone up for first year the students par Leukemia and Lymphoma still selling and pushups once event was held Social Engagement ticipated in Society has raised more than Berio, who this year,” at Saint the walk. $550.8 million for research runs the office, is busy taking she said. “I miss the excitement.” Mary’s. Participants targeting blood cancers. calls from fans inquiring about Berio said the Ticket Office Until Chlebda’s e-mail, “I enter individually or as part Jones summed up the football tickets, he said. continues to have people signing had never heard of the walk of a team. evening’s events as a success. “We are sold out for all of our up for the Season Ticket Lottery before,” said Carrie Call, the “Team Kathy,” named for “This turnout and this com remaining home games and still and he does not anticipate any director of the Office for Chlebda, raised the most munity really came our and receive calls daily from those decline in interest in the coming Social and Civil Engagement money, Call said. wrapped their arms around looking for tickets,” Berio said. years. at Saint Mary’s. “It’s beauti Other student groups walk us,” Jones said. The Notre Dame name and “We sincerely appreciate the ful.” ing included athletic teams brand has not suffered from this ardent support of the Notre Call, along with head soft and the Saint Mary’s Board of year’s losing season, Berio said. Dame fans,” Berio said. ball coach Erin Sullivan, Governance. Contact Nikki Taylor at Ticket sales and demand for tick helped organize the event at Saint Mary's senior Maggie [email protected] and ets have remained consistent. No Contact Kristen Edelen at Saint Mary’s. Jespersen walked with a team Katlyn Smith at plans exist to reduce pricing on kedeleOl @sain tmarys.edu The walk took place at of other elementary education ksmithO 1 @saintmarys.edu
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Smith described the extreme with whiteness in the area. for SMC weekend By NICK BOCK reactions of the white settlers Sleeper-Smith also described News Writer to interracial children. the reaction of the judicial The early 19th century atti system to the “paranoia” of dad-like things,” Megan Welsch In the early 19th century in tude about mixed racial her Indian “tainting.” A Michigan By MOLLY LAMPING said. “It’s great that we can do the upper Midwest, people itage transformed from “cru Supreme Court judge, she News Writer things like this together now.” were either white or American elty to racism,” Sleeper-Smith said, charged many fur- Most of all, students seem to Indian. said, adding that “domesticity traders with “lewd behavior” Saint Mary’ seniors will host be looking forward to spending “There was no in between,” and issues of cleanliness and because of their sexual rela their fathers this weekend dur some alone time with their said Michigan State history whiteness defeated the allure tionships with American ing the annual Senior Dads’ fathers. professor and author Susan of sexuality [for American Indian women. Weekend, an event Monica “I’m the only girl, so we don’t Sleeper-Smith in a lecture Indian women].” “A perpetual fear that white Mastracco said she has been really gel to spend a whole lot of Thursday at the Eck Center Two years people waiting for — and so has her time one-on-one,” Jespersen Auditorium. after the dis would father. said. Sleeper-Smith quoted a appearance of become “My dad is really excited,” Other than the official events famous nursery rhyme by a white child Indians cre Mastracco said. “He's been talk for the weekend, many students songwriter Septimus Winner name ated this ing about it are planning to describe the state of racial Casper, local “A perpetual fear that rhetorical probably as other activities conflict in the Midwest in the white settlers white people would paranoia,” much as I “I’m excited to spend with their early 1800s. “Ten Little claim ed a become Indians created Sleeper- have.” time with my dad not fathers. Indians” traces the demise of mixed-race Smith said. Throughout “Instead of a group of “Injuns,” with the Indian youth this rhetorical Sarah the weekend, doing typical dad-like going to the Hall last remaining Indian’s was the miss paranoia. ” Jenkins, a seniors will par things. ” of Fame for the removal an important view ing boy, who senior ticipate in sev game watch, my point. probably had Susan Sleeper-Smith American eral activities dad and I are “One little Injun living all drowned in a studies Megan Welsch with their dads. just going to alone, he got married and local river. history professor major, Tonight, there SMC senior watch it with then there were none,” the Originally, the Michigan State attended the will be a beer some of my rhyme says. mother and event for her garden on friends and their Sleeper-Smith said the line father denied “Woman and Library Green for seniors and dads, ” Jespersen said. reflected the views of white that the new Work in their dads, along with a silent “I My roommates and I] are all A m ericans in the N ortheast boy was their Early auction to benefit the Class of having a nice steak dinner in that intermarriage with the son, but the mother later America” class. After study 2008. On Saturday, activities Opus Hall before the beer gar American Indians would even claimed that the boy’s sup ing how daily bathing prac include rounds of golf in the den. ” Welsch said. “I’m hoping tually destroy Indian culture posed mother had abused tices had only begun in the morning, as well as tailgating this weekend will be a throw — something that was seen as Casper and tainted his skin 18th century, she said, the and a game watch at the College back for my dad to college a positive at the time. and physical characteristics to idea of bathing white children Football Hall of Fame. The because we will be going out In Wisconsin, however, the the point he was no longer was “more radical than it may weekend’s festivities wrap up and doing things together that I opinions were different. easily recognizable. seem.” Sunday morning with Mass at typically do on the weekends There, settlers viewed inter A physician testified at the She said she enjoyed the the Church of Loretto. anyway.” marriage as a threat to the trial that skin color could be presentation and found it “fas Seniors said they are looking Students are excited about white race. changed. One doctor said “the cinating to see primary docu forward to the variety of activi sharing their experiences at the An influx of white fur application of nitrate and sil ments.” ties planned for the weekend. College with their fathers and traders in the Fox River valley, ver can make white men Sleeper-Smith used pictures, “I think I’m most excited giving them a glimpse into their whose business hinged on almost as dark as a Negro,” testimonies and case studies about the golf,” Maggie lives while they’re here. healthy social relationships Sleeper-Smith quoted court as visual aids. The Jespersen said. “I don't really “This event is very unique to with the local Indians, “points records as saying. Department of American like to golf, but my dad is pretty Saint Mary’s,” Mastracco said. to an increase in mixed-ances- While mothers believed that Studies hosted the event and a good, so I think it will be a good “Not a lot of schools have some try births” from the 1600s to bathing children daily would reception following the learning experience and a lot of thing like this.” the mid-1800s, Sleeper-Smith keep them white and pure by speech. fun.” said. keeping these stains from “I’m excited to spend time Contact Molly Lamping at Using court records and cap their skin — and thus frequent Contact Nick Bock at with my dad not doing typical [email protected] tivity narratives, Sleeper- bathing became associated [email protected] Dengue fever breaks out in Caribbean region THE HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION looked upon as a stellar Special to The Observer example of how to prevent, or One of the worst dengue control, dengue infections. fever outbreaks in decades is Oddly enough, Cuba has one spreading across Latin of the best dengue prevention America and the Caribbean, programs and it specifically and a University of Notre targets Aedes aegypti control. Dame biologist who was I was there in August and instrumental in mapping the some of their people are being genome of the Aedes aegypti tapped as advisers for mosquito that transmits the Singapore.” dengue parasite to humans The Aedes aegypti mosquito believes the outbreak is part spreads an estimated 100 mil of a larger trend. lion cases of dengue fever “There is clearly an upswing each year. Dengue fever usu in cases in the C aribbean ally starts with a high fever region, partly due to recent and chills and may include hurricane activity, but case headaches, backache and numbers and fatalities were muscle and joint pain. Dengue already going up there and hemorrhagic fever is a poten across the globe," biologist tially deadly disease charac David Severson said. “There terized by a high fever and has been a lot of discussion on may be accompanied by loss recent outbreaks in of appetite, nausea, vomiting, Singapore, for example. abdominal pain and nose or □ Singapore was previously gum bleeding. Ln_b When it's the
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International N e w s S outh K o r ea Iraqi official killed in bombings BAGHDAD — Roadside bombs killed the top Shiite official in a volatile area south of North Korea ready to disarm weapons Baghdad and an anti-al-Qaida Sunni sheik to the north Thursday as internal power strug DPRK pledges at Pyongyang summit to shut down major nuclear facilities by end of year gles within both Islamic sects threaten to complicate U.S. efforts to stabilize the coun Associated Press try. Car bombs, meanwhile, struck Iraqi civil ians in Baghdad and the northern city of Tal SEOUL — North Korea Afar, with at least 31 people killed or found pledged Wednesday to detail dead nationwide, according to police reports. its nuclear programs and Abbas Hassan Hamza, a political moderate disable all activities at its and the top official in the Iskandariyah dis main reactor complex by the trict, was killed by a bomb that struck his end of the year, its firmest convoy while he was going to work, a police commitment to disarm after officer said. Four of his bodyguards also decades seeking to develop were killed and one was wounded, the offi the world’s deadliest cer said, speaking on condition of anonymity weapons. because he feared retribution. The agreement at talks in China came on the same day Stolen da Vinci painting recovered North Korean leader Kim LONDON — Detectives on Thursday Jong 11 held talks in the com recovered a Leonardo da Vinci painting munist nation’s capital of that was stolen from a Scottish castle in a Pyongyang with South daring daylight raid four years ago. Korean President Roh Moo- Officers raided an address in Glasgow hyun at the first summit and seized “Madonna with the between the two countries in Yarnwinder,” Scotland's Dumfries and seven years. Galloway police said. Three men from In Washington, President England and one man from Scotland were Bush hailed the nuclear deal arrested. and said it reflected the The painting appeared on the FBI’s 10 “common commitment” of most-wanted list of stolen art and on the the talks to shut down North Art Loss Register's list of stolen m aster Korea’s atomic weapons pieces, where it was valued at $65 million. program. Police said art experts had confirmed Under an agreement the recovered painting was the Leonardo reached in February, masterpiece, stolen from Drumlanrig Pyongyang was required to Castle in southern Scotland in August shut down and seal its sole 2003. operating reactor at its main nuclear complex, which it did in July after the U.S. reversed its hard-line policy N ational N e w s against the regime. The sec ond phase required it to dis AP Prosecutors prepare O.J.’s case able the reactor and provide South Korean president Roh Moohyun, left, meets North Korean leader Kim Jong II. North a full description of all its Korea said Wednesday it would disclose and discontinue its major nuclear operations. IAS VEGAS — A judge Thursday scheduled a nuclear programs. hearing next month for prosecutors to pres Wednesday’s agreement ness to remove North Korea million tons of fuel oil. On cient extent can be used to ent evidence against O.J. Simpson and five calls for that to happen by from a list of countries that Friday, in anticipation of the make bombs. other men accused of kidnapping and rob the end of the year. sponsor terrorism, a key new agreement, the United The North then quickly bing two sports memorabilia dealers at gun The North said it would demand of Pyongyang. States also announced it restarted production of point. allow the U.S. to lead a No timetable was set for would spend up to $25 mil weapons-grade plutonium at Justice of the Peace Joe Bonaventure Jr. group of experts to this action, but a joint state lion to pay for 50,000 tons of its main nuclear complex, ordered the defendants and their lawyers to Pyongyang within two weeks ment said it will happen “in heavy fuel oil for North leading to its first-ever test attend the hearing on Nov. 8 and possibly the “to prepare for disablement” parallel with” the North Korea. nuclear explosion in October next day. of its nuclear facilities, Korean government follow This is not the first nuclear 2006. Experts say the North Rejecting a request from one of the defen Chinese Vice Foreign ing through on its commit deal Washington has struck may have produced more dant’s lawyers for a later date, Bonaventure Minister Wu Dawei said in ment. with the reclusive, commu than a dozen nuclear said, “I have to consider the state, co-defen Beijing. The U.S. wants the “The two sides will nist regime. In a previous bombs. dants, witnesses [and] the general public.” dismantling process to be so increase bilateral exchanges U.S. attem pt to halt the Wednesday’s agreement Clark County District Attorney David Roger thorough that a nuclear and enhance mutual trust,” North’s nuclear weapons commits the North to make did not oppose the date. He could present facility could not be made the statement says. development, Pyongyang a “complete and correct dec evidence behind closed doors to a grand jury operational for at least 12 Besides the U.S. and simply froze its arms pro laration of all its nuclear before Nov. 8 instead of making it public. months. China, three other countries grams under a 1994 deal. programs ” — which the U.S. The United States was — Russia, South Korea and The latest nuclear standoff has said would include the Safety questioned after factory fire secretive about w hat it Japan — participated in the began in 2002, after uranium issue. GEORGETOWN, Colo. — Federal investi promised in return. talks with the North. Washington accused the There was no immediate gators focused Thursday on working con The U.S. has agreed to The five countries reiterat North of a secret uranium comment on the nuclear ditions and safety procedures inside the lead disablement activities ed a commitment to deliver enrichment program — in deal from Pyongyang, where hydroelectric plant tunnel where five and provide the initial fund aid under the February dis addition to its known pluto- leaders of the two Koreas workers died after a fire erupted on the ing for them. Washington armament deal granting the nium-based facilities. Either met for four hours to further equipment they were using. also reiterated its willing North the equivalent of 1 material enriched to a suffi reconciliation efforts. Autopsies were pending, but authorities believe smoke and fumes from Tuesday's fire killed the workers as they sat trapped deep underground. Communication from the crew ended about an hour after the fire broke out. Dozens arrested on child porn charges
Associated Press Superintendent Rick Puentes said. arrested was a referee for girls high Lo c a l N e w s “This operation places a roadblock in school volleyball, state police said. TRENTON — More than three their path.” No one has been charged with cre ' dozen people in New Jersey have The investigation, dubbed ating the images and videos, though Indiana to cut mercury emissions been charged with sending child Operation Silent Shield, encom state Attorney General Anne Milgram INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana will cut mercu rape photos and videos over the passed 15 of New Jersey's 21 coun said the investigation is continuing. ry emissions from coal-fired power plants by Internet, officials said Thursday. ties and numerous law enforcement She said officials will scour thou two-thirds over the next two decades under The arrests cap a two-month inves agencies. The arrests began 10 days sands of DVDs and more than 80 a federal rule approved by a state panel that tigation in which a state police tech ago and continued through videotapes confiscated during the turned aside calls for even deeper cuts. nology investigations unit combed Thursday, state police said. arrests. The Indiana Air Pollution Control Board the Internet for New Jerseyans who The 41 people, who range in age Milgram said the videos last up to voted 11-1 Wednesday to adopt the mini distributed such images. Forty-one from 14 to 71, were charged with 15 minutes and feature children esti mum federal Clean Air Mercury Rule. people were arrested. child pornography possession and mated to range in age from 4 to 9 Environmentalists have said the reduction Officials said the photos and videos distribution and face 18 months to years. goal falls short because mercury is a potent have been made available world 10 years in jail. They have jobs rang She said officials have identified neurotoxin that ends up in the food chain wide. ing from elevator repairman to car some children involved. She declined and can lower the intelligence of children “Many who have sexually assaulted salesman to security guard to land- to discuss any details about the chil whose mothers eat tainted fish during preg children started down that road with scaper to deli owner to auto mechan dren, but said the images are dis nancy. child porn,” State Police ic. A W oodbridge man who was turbing. page 6 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NE'WS Friday, October 5, 2007
in the broadest aspect of Saint before.” new image.” that can work best for stu Belles Mary’s constituents,” The main issue was commu One of the most accessible dents,” McDonald said. Rodriguez said. “Everybody nicating the benefits of the changes, McDonald said, is the While the new tagline will be continued from page 24 saw a way to connect.” College in an effective manner, redesigning of the Web site, the prom inent theme, it will The brand features the per McDonald said. which officially re-launched not be absolute, McDonald the first phase and ‘She’s Saint sonal stories of students and “We didn’t have an issue Monday. said. M ary’s’ is a way to present what their time at Saint Mary’s with the benefits,” she said. “The site is more than just “We w on’t see ‘She’s Saint ourselves to our external audi means to them. “Those have not changed. We the look,” she said. “There are Mary’s’ everywhere, but it will ence. ... It is how we will cor “[The alumnae] love the sto just didn’t communicate them also content changes that be the common thread. We are rectly communicate our ries and they love the fact that correctly. This is a campaign to reflect the research we did to looking for consistency and strengths and weaknesses.” we re telling stories about bring these characteristics and refine our image and meet the constancy of our messaging,” The new tagline, “She’s Saint what students experience quality to the forefront.” needs of the students.” she said. “Over time, things Mary’s,” is now present on all here,” Rodriguez said. “We’re The timing of the campaign Director of Web and may change slightly, but we College publications, ads, ban focusing on the rigorous aca is meant to attract the Interactive Communications are trying to make sure we’re ners and Web pages. demic experience and the rela prospective applicant pool for Dan Miller said there are some consistent.” The campaign was co tionships students have with the Class of 2012. pages still linked to old con “We have some very engaged chaired by Vice President for each other and with faculty. “This is a time when many tent. alumni and prospects that College Relations Shari Those are things that they felt young women are exploring Many of the pages that have noticed the changes and Rodriguez and Vice President really strongly about as they colleges,” haven’t been have had a positive response,” for Enrollment Management look back on their experience.” McDonald said. updated are she said. “Internally, faculty Dan Meyer. The implementation of the “The Web can be “Our biggest next the depart and students are eager to see “We really were looking at campaign was a continuous used as a key step is further m ent home the future improvements.” our m es improve resource for high refinement of the Web pages, which Although the campaign was sages and ment, school students are regulated just recently launched, they were all “We won't see 'She's Saint M c Donald who haven’t had site that can work by each increased efforts to increase authentic, M ary’s’ everywhere, but it said, sparked a chance to visit best for students.” d epartment. enrollment and national status but they by the desire our campus yet.” Miller said began early last year. This were all so will be the common thread. to cater to B rochures to departmental year marks the largest class at Karen McDonald d i ffe re n t , ” We are looking for the needs of recruit high feedback has Saint M ary’s in 17 years at acting vice president R o d r ig u e z consistency and constancy the student school seniors been positive, 481. s a id . “It body. were the first Integrated Marketing and he To further promote the new wasn’t the of our messaging. ” “The c a ta materials carry Communications believes most campaign, this week was best practice lyst was the ing the slogan, administrators dubbed “She’s Saint Mary’s” for an insti Karen McDonald research,” McDonald said. w ant to move week with several activities tution like acting vice president she said. The brochures, known as their sites into the “new look.” aimed at familiarizing the stu Saint Mary’s “T hrough a “viewbooks,” were first distrib The new pages are being dents with the tagline. T-shirts, Integrated Marketing and we series of sur uted in July. designed using the Drupal Web banner unveilings and a cam became con Communications veys and “They were important engine, a content management pus-wide “She’s Saint Mary’s” vinced that a evaluations because they included infor system. shirt day are among the series unified mes last year, we mation the prospects wanted “The [Drupall system allows of events. sage would help students were able to pinpoint our to hear and know about the update of content from a Web “We are trying to create understand all that is Saint strengths and weaknesses. College,” McDonald said. browser rather than propri some excitement on campus Mary’s.” “Our strengths, we found, The new slogan and the etary software,” Miller said, this week to give everyone a Throughout the search for a were academics. Our faculty is designs have a “more contem adding that the system broad chance to be part of the cam new brand, the College used strong, we have small classes, porary and cleaner look,” ens the spectrum of who can paign,” McDonald said. market studies and surveys of strong career prep and some McDonald said. update pages and from where. alumnae, faculty and students pretty am azing alum ni. We “We have already started The campaign is far from to find out what Saint Mary’s found out that these were the using our new ads in the Notre over, although the next steps Contact Katie Kohler at m eans to them — the result things that are important to Dame football programs and are slightly ambiguous. [email protected] and was the two-word slogan. our prospects and we weren’t the South Bend Tribune,” she “Our biggest next step is fur Liz Harter at “It really seemed to resonate effectively communicating it said. “They already reflect our ther refinement of the Web site eharte01@ saintmarys.edu
2 0 0 7 - 0 8 SEASON “It’s a great way to let peo ple who are studying abroad NOTRE DAME FILM, TELEVISION, AND THEATRE PRESENTS Care know their friends are think continued from page 1 ing of them and sending them a little part of home,” Behr University handled everything said. else, including shipping Kennifer said she sent six charges. separate care packages. The event was a great way “I decided not to tell my to support the full junior class, friends about sending those Reish said, because most stu packages because I think it dents studying overseas are would be more fun for them to part of the Glass of 2009. The get a surprise,” she said. class council hopes to have the The opportunity to send care packages delivered before packages will also be available Thanksgiving, which would be during the spring semester, enough lime to sort out all the Reish said. packages and get them to their specific destinations, Reish Contact Amanda Gonzales at said. agonza [email protected]
enough staffers ready to work the events. SYR While campus services may not continued from page 1 have a difficult time adjusting to busy SYR weekends, students, weekend, Hnatusko said. But a like sophomore Ryan Lavorgna, large number requires a great often find it difficult especially deal of work from campus when it comes to finding a date. resources used for dances. “It’s hard to find someone to go Campus services, like Catering to an SYR with when it seems by Design, have been preparing like every dorm is having their for the busy weekend. own SYR,” Lavorgna said. “Catering is attempting to work Three of the dances will be with students as llexibly as possi held off campus, Hnatusko said. ble to accommodate the needs Some of the themes of this they have during these week weekend’s SYRs include “Catholic Monday, October 8 through Friday, October 12 ends,” said Lisa Wenzel, Catering School Girl ” for Walsh Hall, by Design’s assistant director for “Rock star” for O’Neill, “Disco” Evening shows at 7:30 ♦ Friday shows at 4:00 and 7:30 special events. for Keenan and “Party Like a Philbin Studio Theatre in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Catering by Design tries to plan Rock Star" for the dance co-host ahead and to be proactive when ed by the four dorms on Mod $12 General Public • $10 Faculty, Staff, and Seniors • $8 Students residence halls begin to coordi Quad. nate a dance, she said. For tickets, call the DPAC Ticket Office at 6 3 1 -2800 or visit: http://performing arts.nd.edu Although demands on campus Contact Gene Noone at /^DEBARTOLO services will be high, Wenzel \U-iy N OT R E DA ME v - m performing arts center said, the catering service has [email protected] T % T he O bserver „ B usiness
M a r k et R e c a p Stocks Woman found guilty of file sharing
D o w +6.26 Six record companies win $222,000 lawsuit against online illegal music downloading J o n e s 13,974.31 Associated Press Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: DULUTH — The recording 1,976 114 1,234 2,690,420,626 industry won a key fight AMEX 2,396.76 +13.36 Thursday against illegal music downloading when a NASDAQ 2,733.57 +4.14 federal jury found a NYSE 10,142.93 +41.90 Minnesota woman shared copyrighted music online and S&P 500 1,542.84 +3.25 levied $222,000 in damages NIKKEI (Tokyo) 17,092.49 0.00 against her. FTSE 100 (London) 6,547.90 + 12.70 The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 30, to pay the six COMPANY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE record companies that sued her $9,250 for each of 24 S&P DEP RECEIPTS (SPY) +0.16 +0.24 153.02 songs they focused on in the POWERSHARES (QQQQ) +0.23 +0.12 51.77 case. They had alleged she INTEL CP (INTC) -0.81 -0.21 25.60 shared 1,702 songs online in violation of their copyrights. MICRON TECHNOLOGY (MU) -1.21 -0.13 10.61 Thomas and her attorney, Brian Toder, declined com Treasuries ment as they left the court house. Jurors also left with 10-YEAR NOTE -0.44 -0.02 4.523 out commenting. 13-WEEK BILL -0.13 -0.005 3.835 “This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and 30-YEAR BOND -0.42 -0.02 4.767 distributing our recordings is 5-YEAR NOTE -0.38 -0.016 4.208 not OK,” said Richard Gabriel, the lead attorney for Commodities the music companies. In the first such lawsuit to LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) +1.50 81.44 go to trial, the record compa GOLD ($/Troy oz.) +8.01 743.80 nies accused Thomas of PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) -0.58 87.33 downloading the songs with out permission and offering them online through a Kazaa Exchange Rates file-sharing account. Thomas denied wrongdoing and testi YEN 116.45 fied that she didn't have a EURO 0.7073 Kazaa account. Record companies have CANADIAN DOLLAR 0.9967 filed some 26,000 lawsuits BRITISH POUND 0.4904 since 2003 over file-sharing, Jammie Thomas, left, who was sued by six record companies for sharing copyrighted which has hurt sales because music online, was ordered by a federal jury Thursday to pay $222,000 in damages. it allows people to get music for free instead of paying for the record companies pre “We don't know what hap “willful.” Jurors ruled that recordings in stores. Many In B r ief sented evidence they said pened,” Toder told jurors. Thomas’s infringement was other defendants have set showed the copyrighted “All we know is that Jammie willful but awarded damages tled by paying the companies songs were offered by a Thomas didn't do this.” of $9,250 per song; Gabriel Chinese roducts with lead recalled a few thousand dollars. Kazaa user under the name Gabriel called that defense said they did not explain to WASHINGTON — More than a half-million The RIAA says the lawsuits “tereastarr.” Their witnesses, “misdirection, red herrings, attorneys afterward how Chinese-made products were recalled Thursday, have mitigated illegal shar including officials from an smoke and mirrors.” they reached that amount. including “Pirates of the Caribbean” and Baby ing, even though music file- Internet provider and a secu He told jurors a verdict Thomas, of Brainerd, Einstein toys, because they contain dangerous lev sharing is rising overall. The rity firm, testified that the against Thomas would send works for the Mille Lacs els of lead. group says the number of Internet address used by a message to other illegal Band of Ojibwe's Department Coin-shaped “Pirates of the Caribbean” flash households that have used “tereastarr” belonged to downloaders. of Natural Resources. lights and soft, textured Baby Einstein blocks were file-sharing programs to Thomas. “I only ask that you consid Before the verdict, an offi among the 555,200 products recalled, the download music has risen Toder said in his closing er that the need for deter cial with an industry trade Consumer Product Safety Commission announced. from 6.9 million monthly in that the companies never rence here is great,” he said. group said he was surprised The recall also includes Totally Me! Funky Room April 2003, before the law proved “Jammie Thomas, a Copyright law sets a dam it had taken so long for one Decor Set decorating kits imported and sold by suits began, to 7.8 million in human being, got on her age range of $750 to $30,000 of the industry's lawsuits Toys “R” Us Inc. and a variety of wooden toys March 2007. keyboard and sent out these per infringement, or up to against individual download imported and sold by KB Toys Inc. Aluminum During the three-day trial, things.” $150,000 if the violation was ers to come to trial. water bottles, imported and sold by The Sports Authority Inc., were also recalled. The flashlight's leather strap, the back of the decorating kit’s mirror, the blue Baby Einstein block, the water bottles and the wooden toys have surface paint that contains high levels of lead, U.S. dollar falls after factory slump which is toxic if ingested by young children. Under current regulations, children’s products found to have more than 0.06 percent lead accessible to Associated Press cy weakens. undermine the dollar by lifting users are subject to a recall. Gold and silver prices rose. expectations for futher interest rate NEW YORK — Gold and oil prices December gold added $8.10 to finish cuts. U.S. embassy plans delayed in Iraq rebounded from three days of at $743.80 on the New York The August employment report, WASHINGTON — The opening of a mammoth, declines Thursday as the dollar Mercantile Exchange, reversing which came out Sept. 7, shocked the $600 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which had resumed its slide against the euro direction after three days of declines. markets with the first net decline in been planned for last month, has now been and other major world currencies. Gold has added about $100 an ounce jobs in four years. The data pushed delayed well into next year, U.S. officials said Industrial metals fell, while agricul since mid-August. the Dow Jones industrial average Thursday. ture futures ended mixed. “People are looking for a major down nearly 250 points, the dollar The Vatican-sized compound, which will be the After the U.S. government reported correction, but we're still seeing even lower against its rivals, and world’s largest diplomatic mission, has been beset an uptick in jobless claims and the strong investor demand,” particularly gold sharply higher. by construction and logistical problems. biggest drop in factory orders in from Asian and European buyers, ' “All it takes is one more bit of evi “They are substantially behind at this point,” seven months, the dollar fell against said ME Global gold trader Kevin dence of economic anemia to have and it would be surprising if any offices or living the euro. At the same time, the euro Grady. some funds flock to the refuge of quarters could be occupied before the end of the got a slight boost when the European December silver rose 30 cents to gold,” said Jon Nadler, senior analyst year, one official told The Associated Press. Central Bank agreed to keep interest $13.50 an ounce on the Nymex. with Kitco Bullion Dealers. Problems identified so far are related to the rates steady at 4 percent. The was Trading was choppy throughout the Oil prices also rebounded after complex's physical plant, including electrical sys widely expected, but some political day, however, as investors positioned three days of losses, as the dollar fell tems, and do not pose a security risk, said the offi and business leaders had called for a themselves ahead of the Labor and as traders bet that energy sup cial, who was not authorized to speak publicly. rate cut — which would have made D epartm ent’s report Friday on plies might get tighter when the heat The official also said the delays would have no the euro less attractive to invest in. September payrolls. Good news in the ing season begins. On Wednesday, the direct cost to taxpayers because contractor First Commodities, which are bought job market could bolster the U.S. dol U.S. Energy Department said crude Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Co. had and sold in dollars, are cheaper to lar and therefore pressure commodi oil inventories rose last week but agreed to deliver for a set $592 million price. foreign buyers when the U.S. curren ties prices, while weak data could gasoline inventories shrank. page 8 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Friday, October 5, 2007
which Fahy considered a awareness of this important Lauren Weber. “They say X “great number for an Memorial Catholic issue as well as amount of women ‘tragically’ Forum unstructured, straight aca express our sorrow for those get abortions every year and who have passed.” portray women who have continued from page 1 demic event.” continued from page 1 “I’m much more interested Toates agreed. abortions in a negative light. now, and I got that impression season. “One of the important things It’s a tough choice that some students are “not critically from a lot of people there,” “Two displays was a pro about it is it makes people women make, and they should engaged” outside of classes Fahy said. found way of recognizing how think,” she n ’t be villainized and library-based reading. However, that interest isn’t large the numbers truly are,” said. “And for making the He unfavorably contrasted always evident. At a Sept. 25 said senior Adam Hoock, the whether their “The large crosses decision that’s this year’s immigration forum screening of a film on club’s other vice president. reactio n is best for them.” with past forums on global Jamaican immigration, an Around the crosses and flags negative or and the roses were This year, the health and religion. This award-winning documentary stood signs with statistics positive, it still dedicated to those Right to Life club forum has done “a poor job” filmmaker had an audience of about abortion. One read: “In stops people women who have received help of generating student interest, the time it takes to play one from being from the only two people — both suffered. ” he said, lie had been excited Observer staffers with assign Notre Dame football game, 600 passive.” University to plan to learn that ments to cover children are aborted.” Student its observance immigration or photograph The signs also advertised reaction was Mary Walter week. had been “It wasn’t until the lecture. Project Rachael and the mixed. Some president “In the past the selected as the Women’s Care Center — both interviewed University was ITuesday] that I saw Political sci Right to Life club topic this groups that help women deal thought the not very proac forum posters. And ence professor summer, but Tara Lavallee with emotional and physical display raised tive,” Walter said. said that pub I’m really involved said she was problems that may arise from awareness and “Now, Cam pus licity had been with this issue. ” encouraged the having an abortion. was tasteful. Ministry is co-sponsoring Right “poorly University was Roses were collected in “I really like the fact that it is to Life week with us. In addi planned.” taking more memory of the women who a memorial, not a protest,” tion to giving us their full sup Michael Angulo “It w a sn ’t steps to interest have suffered and died said freshman Sandra port, they will be distributing u n t i 1 Progressive Student students in the because of abortion or devel Nazareth. “It speaks for itself prayer cards and encouraging [Tuesdayl that Alliance immigration oped post- and really priests to say pro-life homilies I saw forum issue. She abortion syn grabs your on Sunday.” posters,” he thought that it drome, a psy 7 think the pro-life a tte n tio n The Right to Life club will said. “And I’m really involved chological dis as you continue its efforts to encour was particularly important for supporters have a right to with this issue. students to understand how order. walk past.” age discussion on all anti The Center for Social the scope of immigration “The large express their views with Others abortion issues. Right to Life Concerns “knows how to do would affect America’s for crosses and the crosses and flags, but I thought Week’s keynote speaker is something like this,” he said. the roses were eign policy and economy. have a problem with the changes Dawn Parkot, a double Domer “The administration knows The U.S., she said, has a dedicated to could be with multiple disabilities. how to put together a good “real opportunity to increase those women language on some of the m ade to “We are trying to examine all football weekend.” its pluralistic character by who have suf posters. ’’ the memo different types of pro-life Angulo said the forum’s enfranchising immigrants, fered,” said rial. issues, and although abortion Web site “looks awesome” but within the framework of the Mary Walter, “I think is the one we focus most on, Lauren Weber lacked a book list. The forum American political system.” president of it’s a good we do branch out,” Walter had suggested articles, he Archbishop of Los Angeles the Right to freshm an show, but said. “But all we are trying to acknowledged, but he said Cardinal Roger Mahony, Life Club. “To you need accomplish right now in the that reading articles was “like A rizona Gov. Jan et be pro-life is to to display sh o rt term is reach in g out class.” Napolitano, Sen. Melquiades not only care about the more information, ” said senior within the Notre Dame com Fahy said the forum’s pub Rafael “Mel” M artinez (R- unborn, but to care about any Brian Bak. “They had some munity and helping people licity left room for “decent cri Fla.), and Louis Barletta, loss of life, across the entire signs up, but they needed more learn about this important tique.” But he contrasted that mayor of Hazleton, Penn., will spectrum. And that includes in order to really inform peo issue. with the University’s “notable speak at Monday’s forum at 3 the women who have suf ple about the issue.” “Notre Dame students are effort ” in printing posters for p.m. in the Joyce Center fered.” Other students simply dis proven leaders, and we know if each of about 15 dorm-spon Arena. Ray Suarez, Jr., senior The club’s primary goal with agreed with the premise of the we can raise their awareness sored immigration discus correspondent for The the display was to raise aware memorial. now then, in the long term, sions. These events are most NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ness of abortion-related issues. “I think the pro-life support they can help us expand our ly unstructured, hour-long will moderate the panel. “Although we know there ers have a right to express work far beyond our communi conversations with University- will be some negative feed their views with the crosses ty,” she said. provided facilitators. back, we are not trying to start and flags, but I have a problem The event drew roughly 15 Contact Brian McKenzie at a controversy,” Waiter said. with the language on some of Contact Joe McMahon at students at Stanford Hall, [email protected] “We are just trying to raise the posters,” said freshman [email protected]
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stand and predict the impact M o n d a y , O c t o b e r 8 Ahsan Kareem receives of natural hazards on the con award for his research structed environment. Dr. David Fagerberg Kareem, who joined the "h e T h e o l o g y o f t h e E u c h a r i s t Notre Dame faculty in 1990, Special to The Observer has served in the administra The International tion, management and organi T u e s d a y W e d n e s d a y Association for Wind zation of numerous profes c t o b e r Engineering has named Ahsan sional societies including the O c t o b e r 9 O 10 Kareem, Robert M. Moran American Society of Civil R e v . M i c h a e l R e v . P e t e r D . Professor of Civil Engineering Engineers (ASCE), as well as and Geological Sciences at committees of the National D r is c o l l R o c c a , C .S . C Notre Dame, the inaugural Research Council, National T h e F o r m a t io n o f t h e T h e L it u r g ic a l Academies of Engineering and recipient of the Alan G. Re f o r m s o f t h e S ec o n d Davenport Medal. Sciences and the American V a t i c a n C o u n c il Kareem, who also serves as Association for Wind director of the Natllaz Engineering. Fie also has Modeling Laboratory at Notre served as a senior consultant P iz z a a n d S oft D r in k s Dame, was cited for “funda to major oil and insurance w il l be a v a il a b l e mental contributions to quan companies, engineering com tification, modeling, simula panies and the United Nations. A RECITED T ridf:ntink ass w ill be celebrated tion and analysis of wind load In addition to this most M effects for structural design.” recent honor, Kareem was most Sundays of th e Academic Y far for th e lie received the award during appointed advisory professor members of th e Notrf. Damf. Com m unity the recent 12th International to Tongji University, Shanghai, at 8:00 a.m . in th e A lum ni H all Ciiapfx China, in 2006. He received Conference on Wind beginning Octobf;r 14, 2007. Engineering in Cairns, the Robert II. Scanlan Medal Australia. for outstanding original con S t u d e n t s a r e REQUESTED t o e n t e r t h e An internationally recog tributions to the study of A l u m n i C h a p e l d o o r w h i c h FACES nized scholar, Kareem special wind-load effects on structur t h e S o u t h Q u a d . izes in probabilistic structural al design in 2005 and the Jack dynamics, fluid-structu re E. Cermak Medal in recogni interactions, structural safety tion of his contributions to the T h i s extraordinary f o r m o f t h e R o m a n R i t e and mitigation of natural haz study of wind effects on struc- IS OFFERED IN RESPONSE TO THE DIRECTIVES OF tu res in 2002. Both the ards. Using computer models th e m otu proprioSummorutn pontificum and laboratory and full-scale Scanlan and Cermak awards experiments, he studies the are sponsored by the ASCE. of Pope Benedict X V I issued July 7, 2007. environmental loads of wind, His receipt of all three medals P l e a s e r e f e r t o t h e i i o m e p a g e o f waves and earthquakes on is an unmatched recognition C a m p u s M i n i s t r y f o r m o r e information CM Campus Ministry structures in order to under in this field. Friday, October 5, 2007 The Observer ♦ NEWS page 9 Development institute founder describes work Father Bill Christensen discusses how poverty he encountered in Bangladesh moved him to start organization
The Institute has 300 young directors from Bangladesh. By ASHLEY CHARN1EY Bangladesh volunteers The IIRD also provides one- News Writer between the ages of 15 and 18 room schools that hold 30 chil who work directly with the dren. The problem of poverty is families. “The children are from the “immense,” Father Bill “They have all the connec poorest families,” Christensen Christensen, who founded the tion with the poor people,” said. “In order to make them Institute of integrated Rural Christensen said. One hundred enjoy school, we do poetry Development (IIRD), said at professionals, who are experts exercises. We teach them Saint Mary’s Wednesday. in agriculture, finance, engi Bangla, our language, and Strengthening and aiding the neering and many other fields, mathematics in the first year. people of Bangladesh was the help organize and run the We then add English and envi topic of Christensen’s lecture Institute. ronmental science.” Wednesday evening, titled The services provided to The schools taught more “Working for Change: each family are dependent on than 13,000 children in 2005. Empowering the Poor of their income and the number However, that number is down Bangladesh.” of meals the working members to 4,000 students this year Christensen, who is also the can provide per day. The IIRD because of recent donor shifts. consultant to and treasurer of has set up a model. Parents provide the bamboo the Institute, has been work “We have the bottom poor, and grasses necessary to build ing in Bangladesh since 1986. called one-meal-a-day fami the schoolroom as part of their On a global scale, 18,000 chil lies,” Christensen said. “The monetary contribution. The dren and 12,000 adults die next level is two meals a day. IIRD then pays for the labor to every day as a result of pover The next level is three meals build the school, which comes ty and malnutrition. for nine months and two meals to $7 for the whole project. KELLY HIGGINS/The O bserver “1 knew as an individual, I during the difficult season. “The biggest industry Father Bill Christensen speaks at Saint Mary’s Wednesday could not do much,” Then the fourth level of poor presently is the silk industry,” about the organization he founded in Bangladesh. Christensen said, “so I was are the less poor who have C hristensen said. The IIRD most interested to start an three meals a day but who are also provides jobs for the organization that would be on the borderline.” woman in Bangladesh. The ect is the creation of a worker- has taken up what they con committed to the poor.” The number of meals in the men and women make equal owned factory. sider the main economic prob The IIRD works in 1,250 vil model refers to the number amounts and this allows some “[IIRD] has linked with a lem in Bangladesh, which is lages with 75,000 families. the family can provide for families to increase their group of professionals in the garment industry.” “We help the poorest fami itself. Other organizations that income by almost 150 percent. Bangladesh, and we call our lies to get housing,” he said. use this model include the The jobs consist of embroidery selves the Institute of “The simplest housing for United Nations World Food and tailoring. Economics and Social Justice,” Contact Ashley Charnley at them costs $60 per family.” Program and government The Institute’s newest proj Christensen said. “This group acharnO 1 @saintmarys.edu Dems demand to see memos Charges for Haditha Secret papers allegedly authorize torture techniques for terror suspects Marines may lessen
similarly approving such meth “Neither Attorney General prison. A count of negligent Associated Press ods,” Conyers, D-Mich., and Gonzales nor anyone else with Soldier faces murder homicide carries a maximum fellow House Judiciary mem in the department modified or charge for Iraq assault sentence of three years, WASFIINGTON — Senate and ber Nadler wrote in a letter withdrew that opinion,” Puckett said. House Democrats demanded Thursday. Their letter to Roehrkasse said in a state “This is a major blow to the Thursday to see two secret Keisler requested copies of the ment. “Accordingly, any advice Associated Press prosecution,” said Tom memos that reportedly author memos. that the department would SAN DIEGO — An investi Umberg, a retired Army ize painful interrogation tactics The two Democrats also have provided in this area gating officer has recom colonel and former military against terror suspects — asked that Steven Bradbury, would rely upon, and be fully mended that a Marine who prosecutor. “Negligent homi despite the Bush administra the Justice Department’s acting consistent with, the legal stan led his squad in an assault cide is at the lowest end of tion’s insistence that it has not chief of legal counsel, “be dards articulated in the that killed 24 Iraqi men, the spectrum,” he added, not violated U.S. anti-torture laws. made available for prompt December 2004 memoran women and children should ing that Ware could have rec White House and Justice committee hearings.” dum.” not be tried for murder, a ommended manslaughter Department press officers said The memos were disclosed in “This country does not tor defense attorney said charges. legal opinions written in 2005 Thursday's editions of The ture,” White House spokes Thursday. The killings occurred Nov. did not reverse an administra New York Times, which report woman Dana Perino told If that recommendation and 19, 2005, after a roadside tion policy issued in 2004 that ed that the first 2005 legal reporters. “It is a policy of the an earlier one made by the bomb hit a M arine convoy, publicly renounced torture as opinion authorized the use of United States that we do not same officer is accepted by killing the driver of a Humvee “abhorrent.” head slaps, freezing tempera torture, and we do not.” the general overseeing the and wounding two other Senate Intelligence tures and simulated drown- Perino would not comment case, which is likely based on Marines. Wuterich and Sgt. Committee Chairman Jay ings, known as waterboarding, on whether the 2005 opinions past practice, no one will face Sanick Dela Cruz allegedly Rockefeller sent a letter to the while interrogating terror sus authorized specific interroga murder charges in the shot five men by a car at the acting attorney general saying pects, and was issued shortly tion practices, such as head- biggest case involving civilian scene, then Wuterich ordered the administration’s credibility after then-Attorney General slapping and simulated drown deaths in Iraq. his men into several houses, is at risk if the documents are Alberto Gonzales took over the ing. She initially said the first Lt. Col. Paul Ware recom where they cleared rooms not turned over to Congress. Justice Department. classified opinion was dated mended that Staff Sgt. Frank with grenades and gunfire, The memos are “critical to That secret opinion, which Feb. 5, 2005, but White House Wuterich, charged with the killing unarmed civilians. an appropriate assessment” of explicitly allowed using the spokesman Tony Fratto cor unpremeditated murder of 17 Ware reviewed evidence interrogation tactics approved painful methods in combina rected Perino's statement later Iraqis, should be tried against Wuterich in a prelim by the White House and the tion, came months after a Thursday to say the memo was instead for negligent homi inary hearing known as an Justice Department, December 2004 opinion in dated months after February cide in the deaths of five chil Article 32. His recommenda Rockefeller wrote to Acting which the Justice Department 2005. Another administration dren and two women in the tion is nonbinding, and the Attorney General Peter D. publicly declared torture official later said it was dated Iraqi town of Haditha, final decision about whether Keisler. “Why should the public “abhorrent” and the adminis May 2005. Wuterich’s attorney Neal Wuterich should stand trial have confidence that the pro tration seemed to back away The dispute may come down Puckett said. rests with Lt. Gen. Jam es gram is either legal or in the from claiming authority for to how the Bush administration Wuterich, 27, of Meriden, Mattis, the commanding gen best interests of the United such practices. defines torture, or whether it Conn., has said he regrets the eral overseeing the case at States?” the West Virginia A second Justice opinion was allowed U.S. interrogators to deaths but had operated Camp Pendleton. Democrat asked. issued later in 2005, just as interpret anti-torture laws within combat rules and Puckett said Ware also rec House Judiciary Chairman Congress was working on an beyond legal limits. CIA “made the best decisions I ommended dropping charges John Conyers and Rep. Jerrold anti-torture bill. That opinion spokesman George Little said could have at the time.” against Wuterich of making a Nadler, D-N.Y., promised a con declared that none of the CIA's the agency sought guidance “We’re both very pleased false official statement and gressional inquiry into the two interrogation practices would from the Bush administration and also not surprised, given telling a squadmate to do the Justice Department legal opin violate the rules in the legisla and Congress to make sure its how the other cases have same. ions that reportedly explicitly tion banning “cruel, inhuman program to detain and interro gone,” Puckett said. “There Of four enlisted Marines authorized the use of painful and degrading” treatment of gate terror suspects followed has never been any inkling initially accused in the case, and psychological tactics on detainees, The Times said, cit U.S. law. that any of these Marines lost charges have been dropped terrorism suspects. ing interviews with unnamed “The program, which has control or went on a ram against Dela Cruz and Lance “Both the alleged content of current and former officials. taken account of changes in page.” Cpl. Justin Sharratt. Ware these opinions and the fact that Justice Department U.S. law and policy, has pro A Marine Corps spokesman, has recommended that all they have been kept secret spokesman Brian Roehrkasse duced vital information that Lt. Col. $ean Gibson, declined charges, including murder, from Congress are extremely said neither of those memos has helped our country disrupt to comment. be dismissed against Lance troubling, especially in light of overruled the December 2004 terrorist plots and save inno If convicted of murder, Cpl. Stephen Tatum, but the department’s 2004 with legal opinion that he said cent lives,” Little said in a Wuterich would face a maxi Mattis has yet to act on that drawal of an earlier opinion remains in effect. statement. mum sentence of life in recommendation. T The Observer
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T h e O bserver The Independent, Daily Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Jenkins can take a stand PO. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Fifty years ago, a young priest at the helm of a growing mitment to immigration reform means. Social attitudes on E d i t o r i n C h i e f University took a stand. this campus are subject to the dual influence of Catholic Matldie Hanna Notre Dame President Emeritus Father Theodore social teaching and a vocal conservative population. M a n a g i n g E d i t o r B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r Hesburgh claimed bis seat on the inaugural United States The topic of immigration reform is sure to generate strong Ken Fowler Kyle West Commission on Civil Rights. He would serve on the and opposing responses from members of the University Commission for 15 years, acting as a public face for both the community — like it has in the nation as a whole. Though A s s t . M a n a g i n g E d i t o r : Kyle Cassily University and the fight for civil equality for all Americans. the University may not want to take a controversial stand A s s t . M a n a g i n g E d i t o r : Mary Kate Malone Hesburgh's action, though political, was an essentially because of marketing concerns, it must ultimately lake such N e w s E d i t o r : Karen Langley moral stand. On an issue that was sadly all too controver stances to legitimize its claim as a leader on issues both
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Friday, October 5 ,2 0 0 7 V^ ie w p o in t^ page 11 The Cubbie bandwagon
The Cubs are in the playoffs and, as somehow a pitcher, not to mention a What happens when a call is made to Henry slips on the ball and lands on his usual, Notre Dame has become a breed closer, is single handedly able to bring the bullpen or a pitching change needs arm, causing him to lose his special ing ground for Cubbies bandwagon hop them back into the pennant race. to be made? This, however, never seems power. Still, the coaches leave him in pers. With brand new Cubs hats and Something that spectacular would be to be a concern for this team of destiny. despite the fact that his velocity had jerseys invading campus like the tantamount to a 12 year old walk on Moving on, let us not forget how much dropped from 103 miles per hour to plague, one can’t with a mysterious calf injury banging of a dweeb this kid is. He is equivalent about 40. This leads one to question: help but recall the out 70 yard field goals and taking us to to your little brother’s friend who How bad must the Cubs’ bullpen have last time the Cub a national championship at 7-5. always tries to talk to you about how been? Who else did they have avail bandwagon In the movie, Henry’s special “talent” many babes he gets in junior high and able? Terri Schiavo? So there is Henry, achieved this level is discovered when he uncorks a 450- how drunk he gets all the time. It is one out to go, and who comes to the of popularity: 1993, foot frozen rope from the center field completely unbelievable to portray a plate to the gasps of the crowd? The in the movie bleachers to home plate after the team of thirty year old men liking this best hitter in the league — Hedo! “Rookie of the opposing team’s batter hits a home run kid. From the d-bag in “American Pie” Apparently nobody realized who was up Year.” While no one and the surrounding fans urge him to to the d-bag in “Kid in King Arthur’s next in the order — as if nobody in the can deny that this K essler throw the ball back (a Wrigley Field court,” Thomas Ian Nicholas (Henry) stadium including the pitching staff, movie is thoroughly and ... custom). The catcher then proceeds to has been almost unbearable to watch. radio broadcaster, and Henry himself entertaining, the attempt to tag out the batter who has On the other end of the spectrum, how looked at the Mets’ on-deck circle. In a plot has more holes Smooth as Silk not yet finished rounding the bases but ever, we have Gary Busey. Never before fairy-tale ending, Henry realizes he was than our offensive nevertheless has the wherewithal to has a movie had such a dichotomy in using his mom’s softball glove all along line (too soon?). It’s slide under the tag prompting the terms of coolness between the two main and strikes Hedo out throwing an important to address these issues, not umpire to issue an enthusiastic safe characters, with the possible exception underhand lob (which would be a balk). only to enrich our loyal readers, but call. Apparently, all three parties of Motocross Kids ... also starring Gary In conclusion, it is a great movie but also because we need to write this arti involved did not understand the stan Busey. flawed, Busey is cool, Henry is a weiner. cle before 6 p.m. on Thursday and it is dard ruling for when a ball goes over We end with the final game where Go Diamondbacks. currently 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. the fence and how fans in attendance John Candy, the radio announcer, As the movie begins, Henry attends a do not serve as 40,000 additional field declares: “This game is for all the m ar Kessler a n d ... is a non-profit game at Wrigley field with the stands ers. bles! The Division Championship! The pharmaceutical organization in search less than half full. However, as many of Next, we come to Daniel Stern’s char winner goes home and the loser goes on of a cure for male pattern baldness. you know, the Cubs sell out no matter acter: the eccentric pitching coach who to the World Series!” So apparently, Fritz Shadley, David Ferron, Matt how bad they are. Henry is out of always seems to be getting himself what we have here is a one game play Lisowski and Pat Canna contributed to school, so the game must be in mid- trapped in odd places. Not only is there off to win the division and go to the this column. They can be contacted at June, and with the stands that empty no way that a person in real life could World Series. During this game, we find [email protected] the team must have been at least 20 get stuck between the doors of adjoin Henry in his usual spot trying to close The views expressed in this column games under .500, with next to no ing hotel rooms, how does the team not out the game for the Cubbies. When are those of the authors and not chance of making the postseason. Yet realize their pitching coach isn’t there? walking back to the mound, however, necessarily those of The Observer.
Le t t e r s to the E ditor Drinking debate First-hand facts about continues the Irish langauge Someone quips at a hall council meeting, “We can’t do that activity on Brendan Behan is probably performing triple salchows in his grave hearing an Saturday morning because people we be bung-over. I’m sorry, but it’s just a Irishman say this — but the Irish language is as dead as Pope John Paul II, the only dif fact.” A student is taken to the hospital with a blood-alcohol content two or ference being there are very few Paddies that are consequentially in mourning. three times the legal limit and leaves the next morning as if nothing hap Irish, for the duration of my years of education here in its homeland, was a chore — a pened. The data presented in the article “ND Drinking Habits under Scrutiny” poorly taught, ludicrously complex language that was rammed down our throats by dis (Sept. 7) and subsequent articles in The Observer should have made students interested teachers and in contexts that nobody could relate to. (Have you a personal more aware of the seriousness of the current situation concerning the use, connection to a centuries-old poem about a guy who’s lost his donkey? I'm not judging.) and often abuse, of alcohol. Unfortunately, according to these observations, Furthermore, from college age onwards, you have absolutely no more use for the lan nothing has changed. Nothing will change, however, unless the abuse of alco guage, unless you elect to continue on with it in undergrad study, or if you live in a hol ceases to be an acceptable form of socialization among students. Gaeltacht. And what peeves me personally is that my years spent laboriously gaining DeMarzo-Sanc.hez’s Letter to the Editor (“Reasonable regulation is the key,” some form of proficiency in oral Irish could have been spent acquiring a mastery of a far Sept. 25 ) demonstrated the extent to which this common mentality of the more useful international language. Yes, the option to study European languages normalcy of the consumption of alcohol by minors is ingrained within college becomes available in secondary school, but this must be done concurrently with continu society, and it even went as far as stating that the behavior is “inevitable.” ing obligatory Irish study and at an age that is vastly beyond the golden years of language This implies that abusing alcohol (1 would characterize using alcohol as a acquisition. minor as a form of abuse) is not a choice, thereby removing any and all Now I cannot dispute that Gaelscoileanna are in such demand that, in many cases, they responsibility from the individual under the “involuntary grip” of this “nor have waiting lists. However, this has absolutely nothing to do with an overwhelming pub mal” social activity. lic interest in Irish. There are two significant reasons: First, Gaelscoileanna are plumped Obviously, the gross error of these ideas demands a complete change in the with staggering amounts of government funding, which allows them offer teaching stan mentality associated with this issue. Across the nation, one program that dards and resources comparable to private schools. Second, safety-conscious parents in many institutions have been implementing in an effort to change the way stu disadvantaged areas (where many of the Gaelscoileanna are located) will often send their dents view the use of alcohol is “AlcoholEdu.” One million college students children to a Gaelscoil, since the overwhelming majority of troublemakers in the area will have already participated in this online alcohol prevention program that go to the local English medium schools. Their popularity, therefore, is not contingent on strives to educate beyond impersonal statistics. widespread interest in Irish, but parents’ desire for optimal education, from both an eco Although this is one example of an excellent program, very little that is nomic and social standpoint. done through external programs or organizations in the effort to change the I offer that anyone whose knowledge of Irish life or culture is completely biased current “acceptability” of alcohol abuse will result in a complete change in through some romantic personal affinity with the “Emerald Isle” should actually spend the mentality. Ultimately, the responsibility through the implementation of some time in Ireland. Take a bus into town from Tallaght, Finglas, Clondalkin or some one’s maturity lies within each and every student no matter what age. I agree other working-class satellite suburb of Dublin and see how much Irish you hear. Dodge with the view that it seems absurd for individuals to be able to smoke, vote, the scores of junkies on O’Connell Street, in fact, tell them you have no spare change, in and be involved in the military but not to be able to drink. However, it is Irish, and see how far that gets you. Why not grab a tall latte in Starbucks and wander upsetting that while the. ages set for activities, such as voting, assume that down Grafton Street, counting how many anorexic teenagers are discussing the latest most individuals involved have adequate maturity, students of college age episode of Laguna Beach, in Irish? Or listen to our state radio stations and observe how across the country have repeatedly shown that they lack the intellectual capa often you hear our most popular sport (English soccer) being discussed, in Irish? Then, bilities for consuming alcohol responsibly at that same time. Again, this cap your day off with a stay in one of our Hiltons before taking a taxi ride to the airport in demonstrates that it is one’s mentality toward a specific activity that is impor a Dodge Nitro SUV. While you’re at it, tell your driver how much you enjoyed your stay — tant. in Irish. As I stated before, as a result of the present situation, a change in the cur Even without going near the subject of its erosion through Anglicization, it is clear as rent mentality associated with alcohol is essential. All it takes are a few voic day that the language is wholly and unequivocally dead — TG4 opting to dub Irish voices es to have the courage and the maturity to speak out against the status quo. over South Park, or the occasional Bebo entry including a “Conas ata tu” not withstand To change the behavior, we must change the mentality. After all, we had so ing. many speak out against the South Bend ordinance that threatened the “well- P S. — Inis Oirr, for anyone who is interested, is one of three small, sparsely populated being” of our individual freedoms, so why do we not speak out about our islands in Galway Bay, which, admittedly, has a thriving Gaeltacht community. But citing physical, emotional, and social well-being being that is being threatened by it as proof of Irish being anything more than a cumbersome relic, would be akin to prof alcohol abuse? fering the entire population of the U.S. is of casino-owning Native-American extraction, following a trip to Foxwoods. Megan Rybarczyk junior Neil Dundon Lyons Hall Dublin, Ireland O ct. 4 O ct. 4 T h e O bserver
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began to notice the disturbing might add) takes the skill of a ious gentlemen tied a skate By KAITLIN SPILLANE amount of near collisions trapeze artist. Lose your focus board to the back of a bike and Scene Writer between bikers and innocent for just one second, and you rode around campus, one on JULIE GRISANTI I Observer Graphic pedestrians, bikers and fellow might find yourself sprawled the bike and one on the skate It’s 10:40 on Monday morn bikers, and bikers and inani out on the grass as amused board. Though hilarious, one ing. As soon as my painfully mate objects (read: trees and on-lookers pass you by and try must be shocked at the danger By TAE ANDREWS long calculus class ends, I race squirrels). not to laugh. Not to mention occurrences like this pose to Scene Editor toward the exit of I layes-Healy I used to envy students with the fact that you have to worry the pedestrian community. lie’s had appearances on The Hall, eager to avoid the rush of bikes for the ease at which about someone breaking your And it undoubtedly begs the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The people. Of course, this is a they could travel around cam lock and stealing your precious question: Will we ever be com Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn futile quest, for as soon as I get pus. Now, 1 am starting to fear Schwinn. pletely safe on our own Notre and performed on Comedy out I am pushed and jostled them. Of course, bikers are not the Dame sidewalks? Central’s Premium Blend. Now, in- every which way by fellow stu For all intents and purposes, only ones who cause or face To be sure, I am not at all demand comedian Ben Bailey dents determinedly heading bicycles are an excellent mode danger when they set off on suggesting that bikes are takes the stage at Legends tonight. for his or her own destination. of transportation at Notre their ways across campus. “bad.” Perhaps I am simply That’s a whole lot of comedy to Finally, I make it out to South Dame. Having a bike means Pedestrians, like myself, are jealous of the people who go around. Bailey is a 6-foot-6 Quad, where it seems as if the you can sleep that extra 10 forced to remain alert to the breeze by me at 10:40 on a beast of a man with short-cropped traffic llow is a little clearer. minutes or talk a little longer perils of straying across a Monday morning. But one hair and an intense demeanor. His Turning in the direction of the with your friends between biker’s path, the consequences thing this week of observing material ranges from the profane Loftus Fitness Center, I pause classes, instead of rushing off. of which may include the fol the relationship between bik and the inane to the just plain to take a sip of coffee when ... You can laugh at those lowly lowing: getting run over, being ers and non-bikers has taught awkward, and all of it is funny. bam! — a less-than-observant walkers trudging their way splattered with mud/puddle me is this: Be alert at all times, But don’t take one critic’s word for cyclist plows into me. from DeBartolo to Rockne water, chance it to be a rainy else you can end up with a it — check out the tube (YouTube, “Sorry!” the culprit casually while you speed by. day, and suffering verbal sharp pain in your leg and lliat is) to watch some clips of yells over his shoulder as he Still, the owner of a bike abuse (least vulgar example: what was to be a blissful sip of Bailey’s rilfs. pedals merrily away, leaving faces many perils. Balancing “Watch out!”). Though most coffee all over your shirt. Bailey’s humorous takes make me with a bruising leg and on two wheels with a thirty- risk is experienced during the keen and candid observations much more than a sip of coffee pound book bag upon your hectic hours of the morning The views expressed in this about everyday life, with a healthy all over the front of my shirt. back, Starbucks in one hand, and afternoon, a pedestrian column are those of the author sprinkling of salty language into Suffice it to say, the rest of my and your cell phone in the must be on guard even at the and not necesshrily those of the mix. During one of his funnier morning was spent simmering other all while navigating most unexpected times. I The Observer. bits, Bailey talks about the awk in anger. And for the rest of through the throngs of stu recently was told about an Contact Kaillin Spillane at wardness of prematurely ending a the week, I inadvertently dents (without a helmet, 1 incident in which two ingen kspillan@nd. edu conversation on the street and then finding oneself still headed in the same direction as the person with whom he just finished speak ing. Commenting on day-to-day absurdities like this one is the heart of Bailey's humor. Bailey also has a comedy show on the Discovery Channel entitled “Cash Cab,” on which he drives people around New York city while asking them trivia ques tions. People who answered cor rectly won prizes of $25, $50 and $100, although those who answered incorrectly found them selves summarily dumped out onto the street, regardless of JULIE GRISANTI I Observer Graphic weather or location. On his web site, Bailey has a col hours spent scrutinizing the NBC after accidentally wearing show The awkward introduction lection of articles written about By JESS SHAFFER broadcast — and could easily er flops to the dining hall. Word The winner of “best month him, including a gag ’lime maga Scene Writer save me the identity crisis. Yet it of advice: This is a “no-no” when ever” clearly isn’t Notre Dame zine cover which bears his stern is good to know someone’s considering sanitation and the Football. Thanks to the welcom countenance in an old-fashioned Two things I can’t complain exploiting the vast market that is functionality of shoes designed ing of the Class of 2011, the photo and the words: Ben Bailey: about from this past month: the empty-nesters. for shower-going. awkward introduction wins out. Comedian of the Century. He tells beautiful, if freakish, weather Somehow I thought that its Web surfers, however, “Don’t and the underwhelming amount du Lac Gold prevalence would subside with worry, the rest are real. ” of work of an undecided fresh What’s so great about a place No I’m not talking about our the end of orientation. Good one Stand-up comedy is a tall order man. And, yes, you should be that sells smoothies and sand freshman footballer, Golden awkward introduction, you got for any aspiring comedian, but very jealous all you pre-engi wiches, while repeating the Tate; think color. Not since the me! Despite my illusions, the Bailey has enjoyed a meteoric rise neering and pre-med majors. In same mix of ‘80s, ‘90s, and 1970s disco scene has the uncomfortable (and redundant) to stardom. He has also released a fact, my slight excess of free today? The answer becomes metallic hue so often been introduction has not met its end. compact disc, entitled “Ben Bailey time allows me to recap some clear in du Lac. Nothing else so adorned by the male masses. I still use the words, “Jess, DC, Blvd.” on which he describes awk personal and general highlights dramatically dictates Notre A little feminine sparkle is Farley, Undecided,” far too often. ward process of applying for jobs of Notre Dame life this month. Dame social life, except for usually explainable, but the This month has proven that per and then botching the applica Apologies to those who don’t find maybe MTV and football. Props same cannot often be said for sonal identity can be reduced to tions, sending the whole affair these highlights enlightening, to a book that has successfully guys. Maybe the trend started four words. Of course, we can all horribly astray, to hilarious effect. but they seem enthralling as a linked the jingle of keys to the with our football players, who remember one (or half a million) If you do end up checking out campus newcomer. absence of the opposite sex. The dawn their spandex take on introduction (or reintroduction) the show, just make sure you slightest lanyard rattle, and I can the color. Snaps to the fashion that entailed an excess of laugh hard and keep any negative NBC no longer legitimately explain risk of an entire roster “ummms ” and interrogatives. It comments to a minimum — the Who else thought nationally the presence of males. adorned in skin tight, stretchy is a reminder of Frosh-0 on the brawling Bailey has been known televised home games would be golden pants! Yet the color’s whole. Congrats, awkward intro to go after hecklers and trade a personal shout out to everyone Flip flops persistence extends pass the duction, you’re having the best punch lines for actual fisticuffs. back home? Alas, the sea of Since arriving, this word has stadium here at ND. Take a month ever! Cheers to a year Whether or not Ben Bailey actu green is causing serious psycho gained meaning outside of sum look around, you’ll notice the that can only keep improving! ally socks you in the gut at his logical issues for me. It was a mer and John Kerry criticism. sweatpants, shorts, and, yes, show tonight, you may still get a sad revelation when I described The influx of (lip flops since my more spandex in the same The views expressed in this bellyache from laughing until your myself as “the one in the green arrival to ND is incomprehensi hue. Who knew something so column are those of the author stomach hurts. shirt,” at my first home game. ble. I’ve never had to set limits shiny could be so appealing to and not necessarily those of But really, why can’t my mom for where I can wear a specific male class-goers, game-goers, The Observer. Contact Tae Andrews at just lie to me? She should at set of sandals. But I learned the and players alike. Contact Jess Shaffer at tandrewl @nd.edu least disguise the failure of her lesson of “shoe boundaries” Only at ND. jsh [email protected] T h e O bserver
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INTERPOL STAYS TRUE AND KEEPS OUR \ ADMIRATION
JULIE GRISANTI I Observer Graphic lose interest. Instead, it adds keyboards By RYAN RAFFIN in small doses, varies its tempos from Scene Writer song to song, and sticks to what it knows works. Lead singer Paul Banks’ tenor is Interpol has a lot to live up to. unchanged, guitarist Daniel Kessler Widely acclaimed from the major brings the jagged sounding guitar-work, JULIE GRISANTI I Observer Graphic music publications to the online and drummer Sam Fogarino and bassist tastemakers, its first record, “Turn on Carlos D. are as tight and efficient as By MICHELLE FORDICE the Bright Lights,” was ever. Assistant Scene Editor heralded for its gloomy yet Only occasionally The album opens to a danceable songs and its slow burn of guitar and does the band step Whether it is through a New York tight rhythm section, but keyboard on “Pioneer to Times article on the shrinking amount of mostly just because it outside what it the Falls” which sets the arctic ice, the constant questioning of sounded like Joy Division. knows, making sure listener up for nearly six- presidential candidates on their policies Their sophomore record, minutes of Doors-infiu- that, when it does, its or the upcoming meeting of 70 govern “Antics,” continued in this enced bliss. Easily the ment heads to consider a replacement vein, but was slightly pop- experiments actually alb u m ’s best song, it for the Kyoto accords, issues concerning pier, so sales increased. work for the band. stands among the finest the energy crisis hold a strong sway over Interpol then signed a the band has ever written. Interpol knows that a world interest. Beginning this Sunday, major label, so the trifecta Don’t get the idea that Notre Dame is offering its own forum for was complete. Critical radical change in this is an album with only discussion of energy related issues with acclaim? Check. Potential style will alienate one good song though. the Notre Dame Energy Week. hitmakers? Check. Major The first single, “The fans and an To open the events, the Notre Dame label debut forthcoming? Heinrich Maneuver,” Energy Center, the Energy and Check. All these loaded the unchanging sound brings the dance-y up Photo courtesy of lbunion.com Interpol’s third album stays true to its Environmental Issues Committee, Joint dice against Interpol, but will cause them to tempo pop the band has sound without becoming tired. Engineering Council, Students for luckily for the band and lose interest. always had, a la older Environmental Action and Notre Dame the listeners, they’ve songs “Obstacle 1” and few between (and likely tongue in cheek Student Government will present a decided to stick to what “Evil.” This continues anyways). showing of “A Crude Awakening: The Oil made them (semi) famous. most notably on “Mammoth,” once again By the time the final two songs roll Crash.” The film offers a perspective on Throughout “Our Love to Admire,” the showing off the band’s arena-sized ambi around, the tempo has slowed to a crawl one of the most contentious facets of the listener hears much of the same sounds tions. Such has always been Interpol’s and it’s time for the atmospherics. energy debate. of the first two albums. Only occasionally dichotomy — the atmospheric gloom Preceded by the peppy “Who Do You Produced and directed by European does the band step outside what it contrasting with slightly danceable pop. Think?” the band ends the album in typi journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke knows, making sure that, when it does, And similar to their prior work, it is pres cally gloomy fashion. “Wrecking Ball” and Ray McCormack, “A Crude its experiments actually work for the ent here in spades. notably uses backing vocals and key Awakening” is a 90-minute documen band. Interpol knows that a radical Another constant carried over from boards to create a huge sound, taking tary that uses archival footage, recent change in style will alienate fans and an previous albums is obscure lyrics. the group’s epic aspirations in a slightly film from around the world and a wide unchanging sound will cause them to Interpol has never been easy to interpret; different direction. “The Lighthouse” range of interviews to argue that society its songs have always closes out the album on the opposite is addicted to oil, a resource that is seemed to be about some extreme, starting with only swelling gui One Love to Admire about to peak, if it has not already, and combination of liquor, tar and Banks’ vocals, finishing five min begin running out. Advocating an over Released by: Capitol Records women and New York utes later in an instrumental crescendo haul of industrial society, the film City. This time around it that leaves you ready to hear the album Recom mended Tracks Pioneer to the Falls, attempts to illustrate the possibly dire looks like the excesses of all over again. economic and political effects of ignoring The Heinrich Maneuver, Who Do You Think?, a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle Is the album perfect? Not quite, but this issue for too long. Students for can be added to the mix, and Wrecking Ball close enough to be called great. The Environmental Action co-president if song titles like “No I in album lags in its second half, but picks Thomas Furlong says that the film Threesome” and “Rest up nicely for the final three songs. Minor “shows a different perspective; instead My Chemistry” are any filler issues aside, this is definitely one of of focusing on the issue of global climate indication. Don’t worry the best albums of the year. Interpol change it narrows the focus to an issue though, Interpol have not should be proud to add such a fine piece that no one can deny. Oil is running out become Motley Criie, and of work to its already stellar discography. and steps must be taken to prepare for w w m the lyrics about such decreased supply.” decadence are far and Contact Ryan Raffin at [email protected] The film includes interviews with Colin Campbell, a petroleum geologist who predicts that oil production will peak this year; Matt Simmons, the chairman and CEO of Simmons & Company International; Roscoe Bartlett, a Maryland congressmen who supports renewable energy legislation; Fadhil Chalabi the former Iraqi Oil Minister, former Secretary-General of OPEC and current director of the Centre for Global Energy Studies; and Terry Lynn Karl, a Stanford University political scientist who wrote “The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-Sates.” Winning prizes at seven film festivals, Photo courtesy of wendylynchphotography.com Photo courtesy of brooklynvegan.com “A Crude Awakening” is being hailed as American rock band Interpol has attained both commercial Interpol performs in New York City, where its members first the next “Inconvenient Truth.” Whatever and critical success with its past three albums. formed their band while students at New York University. one’s opinions on the world’s energy sit uation, films like this these bring aware ness and sponsor the debates that lead to innovations and solutions, so don’t McGlinn hosts Meal of Nations Sunday miss this Sunday’s screening. “A Crude Awakening” is a free event Observer Staff Report national cuisines. This year’s proceeds from the event go to formances we’re going to event will also feature per benefit the Our Lady of have, and the most challeng that will show at 8 p.m. in DeBartolo McGlinn Hall hosts its formances by on-campus stu Fatima Parish in Hondo Valle, ing part is getting the word 101. It will be followed by “Kilowatt annual Meal of Nations in dent groups VSAND in the Dominican Republic. out — it’s hard encouraging Hours,” which reviews America’s ener LaFortune from 6 p.m. to 9 (Vietnamese Student McGlinn Hall Multicultural people to come on a Sunday, gy-related problems. p.m. Sunday. Association of Notre Dame) Commissioner Lai-Nin Wan but it’s going to be for a good The Meal of Nations is a and FASO (Filipino-American urged students to attend. cause,” she said in an e-mail Contact Michelle Fordice at food tasting of different inter Student Organization). All “The best part [is] the per- Thursday. [email protected] page 14 The Observer ♦ CLASSIFIEDS Friday, October 5, 2007
W o m e n ’s In terhall F oo tba ll BP erases 18-point deficit to tie Pangborn at 24
Babes convert two 3-point conversions in second-half comeback; PW blanks Badin; Lyons and Lewis play to a draw stepped up in the pocket and Bescher said. offensive plays for this game, yard line. By MATT CAMBER, hit freshman Jasmine Williams “We checked out at the end and just stick to getting the The Lewis defense held with EUGENIA ALFONZO, and in stride for a 60-yard touch .of the game, and they didn’t,” fundamentals,” Martinek said. a sack by freshman q u arter SAM WERNER down pass. Forced to go for a Bescher said. “Give them cred “We’re already looking for back Sarah Ceponis and a Sports Writers three-point conversion from it. They stuck to their game ward to our game on Sunday.” tipped fourth-down pass by the 15-yard line, Meagher plan, and they deserve the senior Danielle Spellman, who It was a tale of two sidelines threw it up to freshman tie.” Lewis 6, Lyons 6 also tallied an interception in after the final snap of Gabriela Moriel, who made a Lewis and Lyons fought to a the game. Thursday’s tie between leaping catch in traffic to cut Pasquerilla West 16, Badin 0 6-6 tie under the lights But Lewis failed to capitalize Pangborn and Breen-Phillips. the lead to 24-15. Pasquerilla West proved Thursday in a game dominat on the shift in momentum, While the Phoxes (2-1-2), “We almost rely on long Thursday it’s not giving up its ed by defense. unable to move the ball past who are all but ensured a plays as an offense because playoff spot to anyone. An Both teams struggled to get midfield. Lyons had the ball playoff spot, trudged to the that’s where we feel we have early interception by senior started offensively, exchanging with 12 seconds left, but sidelines as if their season had an advantage,” said Meagher, Anne Fournie set the tone in punts until late in the first half Chicks junior Sarah Trent ended, the Babes (1-4-1) cele who completed 16-of-38 pass the first half, and the Purple when Lewis returned a Lyons intercepted Connell. Trent brated as if they had won the es for 201 yards. “The offen Weasels defeated Badin 16-0. punt to the opposition’s 35- streaked down the sideline title after miraculously erasing sive line and wide receivers “We’re obviously glad to get yard line. Sophomore quarter before finally being tackled an 18-point deficit in the final played (lawlessly, which gave a win; we came into this pretty back Catherine Guarnieri near the Lyons 20-yard line, minutes. me a lot of time to make good pissed off [because] we’ve had scrambled 20 bringing the For much of the game, it decisions.” suc[i close losses,” senior cap yards to move game to a close. looked like the Meghan The BP defense forced a tain Tina Martinek said after the Chicks into Lewis head Bescher show, as Pangborns quick three-and-out, and the game. scoring range. coach Perry sophomore captain scored four Williams returned the ensuing Pasquerilla West went to After a false “You p la y to Shoemaker was touchdowns to put the Phoxes punt 1 5 yards to the Pangborn score again in the second half, start and two win the game. ” proud of his in control and up 24-6. 26. Meagher’s next three pass running in another touchdown short pass team’s effort, Bescher scored attempts fell and widening its lead over plays, Matt Gelchion calling it the on a pair of 45- incomplete, and Badin. However, Badin didn’t Guarnieri, with best gam e Lyons offensive coach yard punt “We work on our it looked as if let PW get its win that easily. lots of time to they’ve played returns, a one- hurry-up offense in the Babes’ The Bullfrogs stopped the throw, found all season. yard run and a comeback Weasels twice in the red zone freshman “Lyons is a three-yard pass practice all the time, would fall short in the second half. Freshman receiver Chrissy really good from fresh man and today we finally until Meagher, Anne Spont blocked multiple Nypaver wide open in the cor team and we played them quarterback got the hang of it.” again on fourth passes, and sophomore ner of the end zone for a Lewis wire-to-wire,” Shoemaker Gabby Tate (9- down, found Melissa Yisak made an inter touchdown. After a failed con said. “Everyone did their job.” of-16, 82 yards). Moriel, who got ception to halt a Purple version, the Chicks held a 6-0 The Chicks need two more “Our offense Melissa Meagher all the way to Weasel drive. lead with only 55 seconds left wins this weekend — one in a was really strug Breen-Phillips the two. On the offensive side, Badin in the half. suspended game against Badin gling early on, quarterback On the next senior quarterback Katie Rose After halftime, Lyons m an and another in a playoff posi and we could play, Meagher Hackney connected a few aged to put together a scoring tion game Sunday — to secure barely scrounge scrambled to times with junior Courtney drive of its own. Following themselves a playoff berth. out a first down her left and Rains, but Badin couldn’t keep two incomplete passes to “We’re in this thing,” until the second half," said went untouched for a two-yard its flags from Pasquerilla freshman running back Neva Shoem aker said. “We’ve just Bescher, who finished with touchdown run. The Babes West. Lundy, sophomore quarter got to execute and keep doing four catches for 44 yards. “At again went for three to make “[Pasquerilla West] has a back Claire Connell finally what we’ve been doing.” the time, those punt returns it 24-24, and Meagher again very strong defense, and connected on a 20-yard pass On the other side 'of the ball, were pretty big for us.” got the ball to Moriel, who fin although our defense did real to put the Lions on the Chicks’ Gelchion was not as pleased It looked as if Pangborn ished with nine catches for 93 ly well tonight, [our] offense 35-yard line. Three plays later, with the result. would cruise to an easy win, yards — not including the two just couldn’t get stuff going,” Connell found Lundy in traffic “We’re really not satisfied,” since the Babes hadn’t so 15-yard three-point conver Hackney said. over the middle. Gelchion said. “You play to win much as threatened since jun sions. Hackney looks forward to Lundy avoided three Lewis the game.” ior quarterback Melissa “We work on our hurry-up the team’s future since Badin defenders and ran into the end This weekend, Lyons must Meagher hit freshman Amber offense in practice all the time, is a long shot to make the zone to even up the score. defeat defending champion Rosenberg for a 13-yard and today we finally got the playoffs. “Neva is really very athlet Pasquerilla West in order to touchdown pass late in the hang of it,” Meagher said. “I think that since our team ic,” Lyons offensive coach Matt clinch a playoff spot. first half. “We’ve gotten down almost this season was young, we def Gelchion said. “In open space, “We’ve got to come out and The Babes, however, had every game, but we always initely have had to make a lot she can really do some dam play with energy,” Gelchion other ideas. Junior Christy seem to get back in it. Usually of progress,” Hackney said. age.” said. “This game is our sea Golubski and freshman Katie time runs out on us, but we “Hopefully we’ll be able to With an opportunity to take son.” McNelis had interceptions that got lucky that tonight we had learn and win more games the lead on the conversion, kept the Babes in the game just enough time.” next year”. Lundy mishandled an option Contact Matt Camber until the offense could find its By the time Pangborn got the Pasquerilla West, on the pitch from Connell and the at [email protected] , stride. ball back, Tate only had time o th er hand, is plan n in g to score remained tied at six. Eugenia Alfonzo at On a l’ourth-and-19 from the for a desperation heave, which stick to what it’s been doing. Later in the half, Lyons [email protected] , and Babes’ 21 following Bescher’s fell incomplete — much like “We’re not going to change threatened again, moving the Sam Werner at fourth touchdown, Meagher the team’s second-half effort. anything. 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T r a c k and F ield College Football Polls
AP USA Today team team 1 LSU (33) USC (45) 1 2 USC (32) LSU (14) 2 3 California California 3 4 Ohio State Ohio State (1) 4 5 W isconsin W isconsin 5 6 South Florida Boston College 6 7 Boston College Florida 7 8 Kentucky Kentucky 8 9 Florida South Florida 9 10 Oklahoma Oklahoma 10 11 South Carolina Georgia 11 12 Georgia West Virginia 12 13 West Virginia Oregon 13 14 Oregon Virginia Tech 14 15 Virginia Tech Hawaii 15 16 Hawaii Texas 16 17 M issouri Missouri 17 18 Arizona State South Carolina 18 19 Texas Arizona State 19 20 Cincinnati Purdue 20 21 Rutgers Rutgers 21 22 Clem son Clem son 22 23 Purdue Nebraska 23 24 Kansas State Cincinnati 24 25 Nebraska UCLA 25
NCAA W omen’s S occer Top 2 5 team record previous 1 Stanford 9-1-0 3 2 UCLA 5-1-2 8 3 Texas 8-1-1 61 AP 4 Virginia 7-1-2 61 Marion Jones, a medalist in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, reportedly admitted to using a steroid called “the clear” two years 5 Santa Clara 7-1-1 1 prior to the Olympics in which she won three gold medals. She had previously denied using performance-enhancing drugs. 6 T ennessee 7-1-1 111 7 Texas A&M 7-2-1 4 8 Boston College 7-0-2 9 Marion Jones admits to doping before '00 Olympics 9 Purdue 10-1-1 11t 10 Portland 7-3-0 2 steadfastly denied she ever In her letter, Jones said Thompson, was not imme 11 Penn State 7-2-1 13 Associated Press took any kind of perform 12 Missouri 8-2-0 16 she’d used performance- diately returned. Marion Jones admitted ance-enhancing drugs. 13 North Carolina 7-3-0 7 enhancing drugs until she “It’s funky, because you 14 USC 8-1-1 19 using steroids before the Jones is scheduled to stopped training with wanted to believe she was 15 Florida State 6-3-1 141 2000 Olympics in a recent appear in U.S. Southern Graham at the end of 2002. clean,” said Jon 16 California 8-2-0 22 letter to close family and District Court on Friday to She said she lied when fed Drummond, a gold medalist 17 Brigham Young 8-0-2 141 friends, The Washington plead guilty to charges in eral agents questioned her in the 400 relay in Sydney. 18 Clemson 8-1-1 23 Post reported Thursday. connection with her steroid in 2003, panicking when “It’s like that old saying, 19 Connecticut 7-2-0 25 Jones, a triple gold use, a federal law enforce they presented her with a ‘Cheaters never win.’ So no 20 South Carolina 8-3-0 10 medalist in Sydney, said ment source told The sample of “the clear,” matter how glorious or 21 Georgia 9-1-0 NR she took “the clear” for two Associated Press. The offi which she recognized as glamorous things look, 22 Oklahoma State 7-2-1 17 years, beginning in 1999, cial spoke on condition of the substance Graham had you’ll get caught and pay a 23 West Virginia 6-3-1 20 and that she got it from for anonymity because the given her. price for it. 24 Marquette 9-1-1 21 mer coach Trevor Graham, investigation is ongoing, “Red flags should have “It caught me by total 25 Florida 4-4-2 18 the newspaper reported. and would not provide spe been raised when he told surprise,” he added. “It’s a Graham told her it was cific details about the plea. me not to tell anyone,” the shock. I thought it was a flaxseed oil. “I want to apologize for Post reported, quoting the closed case. It doesn’t help “The clear” is a perform all of this,” the Post report letter. track and field at all, MIAA W om en’s S o ccer ance-enhancing drug ed, quoting a person who No one answered the except maybe by letting the Standings linked to BALCO, the lab at received a copy of Jones’ door at Jones’ Austin home world know, people always the center of the steroids letter and read it to the Thursday evening, and a get to the bottom of things. team league overall scandal in professional paper. “1 am sorry for dis message left by the AP for a We shouldn’t be afraid of sports. appointing you all in so phone number registered the truth, but it’s sad it Calvin 3-0-0 7-3-1 Until now, Jones had many ways.” to her husband, Obadele came to this.” Albion 2-0-1 8-1-2 Hope 2-1-0 6-6-0 Kalamazoo 2-1-0 7-3-1 SAINT MARY’S 1-0-2 5-1-4 In B r ie f Adrian 1-2-0 4-7-1 Alma 1-2-0 6-4-1 Daniel will captain U.S. Diener’s family a source of Rockies to compensate Olivet 0-2-1 5-5-2 women’s golf team help, competition minor league widow Tri-State 0-3-0 0-9-2 DANVILLE, Calif. — Hall of Famer INDIANAPOLIS — If Indiana PHILADELPHIA — The Colorado Beth Daniel will captain the U.S. Pacers guard Travis Diener needs Rockies voted a full playoff share Solheim Cup team for the 2009 advice on basketball, he doesn’t for the widow of minor league matches at Rich Harvest Farms in have to look far for answers. coach and former Indianapolis Illinois. Diener, who signed as a free Indians player Mike Coolbaugh, who Daniel, a three-time LPGA player agent with the Pacers on July 23 was killed by a line drive this sea around the dial of the year and 33-time winner on after spending the past two years son while coaching first base. the tour, assisted Nancy Lopez and with Orlando, can pick any number Coolbaugh played with the Indians Betsy King in the last two matches of relatives if he wants to talk bas in 2001. against Europe. ketball. Some of the veteran Colorado “I am honored,” Daniel said His sister Rachel, 23, played col players decided to award a full MLB Wednesday. “The Solheim Cup holds lege basketball at St. Louis and his share to Amanda Coolbaugh. Their Yankees at Indians a very special place in my heart. other sister, Brittney, 22, played at two sons, 5-year-old Joseph and 3- 5 p.m., TBS And, as I said after we won in Lewis University in Chicago. year-old Jacob, will throw out the Halmstad, there are a lot of very Diener also had three cousins first pitch in Game 3 at Colorado. Angels at Red Sox deserving players in position to cap play Division 1 college basketball, Coolbaugh was a first base coach tain the U.S. team.” and he was coached by his uncle, for the Rockies’ Double-A affiliate, 8:30 p.m., TBS The United States will be seeking Dick Diener, at Goodrich High the Tulsa Drillers. The former its third straight victory in 2009. In School in Fond du Lac, Wis. major leaguer was killed July 22, NCAA 2005, Lopez captained the winning “Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve when a line drive struck him in the Utah vs. Louisville side at Crooked Stick in been playing,” Diener said this head. 8 p.m., ESPN Indianapolis. Last month, King week at Pacers training camp, Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki said directed the U.S. team at Halmstad which began Tuesday and runs awarding the family a share was in Sweden. through next week. the right thing to do. page 16 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Friday, October 5, 2007
MLB P l a y o f f s ND S w im m in g Matsui's grand slam Irish start season with Relays lifts Rockies over Phils Men and women defend last season's victory over Ball State
straight road victory. relay and placed second in more Andrew Hoffman, jun Associated Press Matsui fell a single short of the By CHRIS DOYEN the synchronized diving ior Sam Pendergast, senior PHILADELPHIA — Done chas cycle, and Troy Tulowitzki and Sports Writer competition in last year’s Jay Vanden Berg and senior ing that wild-card spot, Kaz Matt Holliday homerod on con Relays, will also compete Rob Seery. Matsui and the relentless secutive pitches in the first Notre Dame gets its season this weekend. The Irish men’s diving Colorado Rockies are playing inning off Kendrick, who got a started today at 5 p.m. with The 2006-07 women’s team also returns all-confer like champs. "quick hook from m anager the 43rd team won its ence performers — junior Matsui hit his first career Charlie Manuel. annual record-setting Michael Bulfin and senior grand slam and drove in five Booed out of New York after 2 Dennis Stark 11th Big East Sam Stoner, who swept the runs, leading the Rockies over 1/2 seasons with the Mets, relays at the “This is an title — by 228 diving events at the Relays the Philadelphia Phillies 10-5 Matsui is a perfect fit in calmer Rolfs Aquatic outstanding points, over last year. Thursday for a 2-0 lead in their Colorado. Center. freshman class.” nearest com In addition to the returning NI. playoff series. “I couldn’t make good results At last sea petitor Rutgers. talent, the men’s team has a A day after taking a pitchers’ in New York,” Matsui said son’s edition The men, who large freshman class. duel, Colorado outslugged the through a translator. “I’m glad I of the event, Tim Welsh set five Stark “We’re looking for all of Phils and got a big effort from its have a good environment and a both the men Irish coach Relay records them to contribute,” Irish bullpen. With 16 victories in 17 good team in Colorado.” and the while winning coach Tim Welsh said. “This games, the Rockies are winning The Phillies had a chance to women 11 of the 13 is an outstanding freshman every which way. make it interesting in the eighth, claimed vic events last year, class.” “We believe we’re going to win loading the bases with two outs. tory over second-place Ball have plenty of Welsh said every game,” manager Clint But closer Manny Corpas came State. The men won the title talent return the Relays will Hurdle said. “We’ve been play in and retired Carlos Ruiz. for the 10th time in 11 ing from a “After all the provide a good ing in the loser’s bracket for a Corpas worked around a pair of years, and the women swept 2006-07 squad training we’ve done, barometer for month.” two-out singles in a scoreless all 11 swimming events that fell only 4 measuring M atsui connected off Kyle ninth for his second save in as while claiming one of the 1/2 points shy we want to see where w h ere the Lohse, rushed in to relieve many days. two diving events. of a third w e are." Irish men cur struggling rookie Kyle Kendrick Before the game, Corpas came Both the men and women straight Big rently stand. in the fourth inning. under scrutiny because he was have the personnel to defend East champi “We have a Lohse was the Phillies’ sched caught by TBS cam eras on their titles. onship. Tim W elsh lot of looking uled Game 4 starter. At this rate, Wednesday pouring a liquid on All-Big East swimmer At the 2007 Irish coach to do,” Welsh the best-of-five series may not the front of his jersey and pat Katie Carroll has graduated, conference said. “After all get that far. ting his chest and rubbing his but the Irish women return champi of the training Rookie Ubaldo Jimenez will try fingers before throwing a pitch. four swimmers who compet onships, sophomore John w e’ve done, we want to see to pitch Colorado to a sweep I le didn’t appear to do anything ed in the NCAA Lytle set school records in where we are. ... Saturday night at Coors Field shady in this appearance. Championships last season the 800-yard freestyle relay, “We’re going to focus on against veteran Jamie Moyer. Jimmy Rollins homered and — junior Christa Riggins, 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle going faster and getting each Making just the second post drove in four runs and Ryan sophomore Megan Farrell, and 400 freestyle relay. man to improve his lifetime season appearance in the fran Howard also went deep for junior Claire Hutchinson and Junior Daniel Rave set a best time. We re just excited chise’s 15-year history, Colorado Philadelphia, which ended a 14- senior Caroline Johnson. The school record in the 200 to get the season started.” is on the verge of going to its year playoff drought by captur sophomore diving duo of breaststroke. Other return first NL championship series. ing the NL East title on the final Tiffany Robak and Natalie ing all-conference swimmers Contact Chris Doyen at The Rockies posted their eighth day of the season. Stitt, who won the diving are junior Jeff Wood, sopho [email protected]
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(2-0) this weekend in an effort with sophomore Jared Carter MLB P l a y o f f s to ruin the Gentlemen’s perfect contributing to the effort. Burns season at 3 p.m. at Riehle Field. Zahm’s offense, highlighted continued from page 24 Coming off a bittersweet vic by junior running back Theo tory over Zahm in which their Ossei-Anto, hopes to forget the Indians take 1-0 lead and getting our offense some quarterback, Aidan Fitzgerald, loss and bring back the magic momentum this weekend.” tore his MCL, the Juggerknotts of the first game of the season. Burns expects continued con hope to build on the positive The two teams will meet tributions from Keenan’s strong aspects of their game against Sunday at 2 p.m. at Riehle after 12-3 beatdown offensive line as the offense the Zahmbies. Field. looks to improve. “We need to sustain our Alumni had a bye last week offense throughout the entire Morrissey vs. O’Neill Four home runs lift Tribe over Yankees end, and it is 0-1 heading into game,” said Fitzgerald, who is The last time Morrissey and this weekend’s game after an the Knott captain. “We need to O’Neill shared the field, both Oakland in 2000. Associated Press opening weekend loss to make sure that our offense were at the pinnacle of their “We needed to stop them,” Morrissey. runs correctly the entire seasons after making it all the CLEVELAND — At times, it said Johnny Damon, who hit a “To beat Morrissey, Keenan game.” way to the Stadium. looked like 1995 again. Or disputed homer leading off the stopped the pass, which is Due to Fitzgerald’s injury, the This time, however, neither 1997. Or 1954. Or 1948. game. “We couldn’t stop their something we could not do and Juggerknotts will rely heavily team is satisfied with the situa Back in the playoffs after a offense. Everything they were is the reason why we lost on on new quarterback freshman tion it faces. six-year absence, the Cleveland hitting went out of the park. three long bombs,” Alumni sen J.T Redshaw. However, he will Coming off a shocking 9-6 Indians came out swinging like You definitely don’t want to see ior captain Bret Shapot said. inherit an offense that seems to loss to Keenan in which it was Octobers past. that happen in the first game.” “We expect to play a tough have worked out whatever denied at the goal line with C.C. Sabathia recovered after Indians manager Eric Wedge, game on defense and put kinks they had at only seconds giving up a homer on his fifth another playoff first-timer, was together several solid offensive the start of the remaining, pitch, Kenny Lofton drove in prepared to ride Sabathia as drives,” he continued. “Beating season. M orrissey is four runs and Cleveland home- long as needed. If that meant Morrissey does not give Keenan “Our passing “This is a must-win hoping to get red four times to stun the New 120 or 130 pitches, Wedge was an easy game against Alumni.” game really game for us, so back to its win York Yankees 12-3 in their AL willing to let his left-hander Shapot said senior linebacker stepped up last we’re not taking ning ways and playoff opener Thursday night. push his limit. Nick Fanslau and senior defen w e e k . ” gain momentum On an unusually warm night Wedge never could have sive end Dan Ott will be solid Fitzgerald said. any chances.” as it heads into that felt more Indian summer imagined that would come contributors on defense. “The backs, the final stretch than fall, the AL Central cham after five innings. On offense, quarterback Pat receivers, and Alex Duffy of the regular pions looked as though they Not only did Sabathia, who Rushford should keep the linemen got their season. just might be the team to beat entered 1-7 with a 7.13 ERA in Dillon captain Keenan defense on their toes. gam e plan in “We need to as they chase their first World his career against New York, The freshman has emerged as sync and started bounce back Series title in 59 years. have to deal with New York’s a strong dual threat signal to click more as from last week’s “They just were hitting every awesome lineup, but plate caller. a unit.” game and get focused on thing,” Yankees slugger Alex umpire Bruce Froemming’s Fitzgerald preached the phys Sunday’s game because we Rodriguez said. “Even their strike zone was paper thin for Keough vs. Dillon ical style of defense that he said cannot afford another loss,” outs were hard.” the left-hander, who battled Entering this weekend’s game Knott needs to play. senior captain Nick Bencomo A-Rod will have to wait at through 114 pitches, allowing against Dillon, Keough finds “We need to come out and hit said. “We have to win out from least another day to repair his three runs and four hits in five itself in a slightly unfamiliar someone in the mouth. Try to here in order to make the play tarnished postseason image. innings. position. get them as frustrated as Zahm offs.” Sabathia and three Cleveland “He had to work about as Keough is coming off its first was last week.” Fitzgerald said. As for O’Neill, this season has relievers silenced his powerful hard as he’s ever had to work,” win in years, “We just need to been everything but successful. bat. Wedge said. after the go out and play Starting out 0-2 was unexpect On Friday, the Yankees turn Sabathia walked six (his total Kangaroos beat football.” ed just one season removed to Andy Pettitte, who is 14-9 in for September), allowed two West Quad “We need to make On the other after reaching the finals. postseason play. Fausto homers — both to lefties — and rivals O’Neill 9- sure that our offense side of the ball, “Our team is coming off of a Carmona, Cleveland’s other 19- had one of his worst outings all 6 last Sunday runs correctly the St. Ed’s is confi devastating three-point loss. game winner, will oppose him. season. on the heels of dent with its 2-0 We have to win to keep our “Let’s just get over it and lick “He bent but he didn’t their first field entire game.” start and thinks it playoff hopes alive. Last week our wounds and then we’ll fig break,” Torre said. goal attempt of has a strong team against Keough, we did not ure it out,” New York manager The Yankees were facing the season. Aidan Fitzgerald despite barely bring our best game,” senior Joe Torre said. Sabathia for the first time in T heir 1-1 Knott captain squeaking out a captain Patrick Conley said. The Indians’ playoff inexperi three years, and unless they get record current win last week. “Hopefully this week will be dif ence was never a factor. their offense untracked in the ly has them in While St. E d’s ferent.” Cleveland’s kids were all next few days, it might be the top four in was led by its Morrissey’s strength this year right. many more months before they the Men’s Gold League, which offense last week, it will need has been its defense, which has “They just went out there and see him again. would be good enough to send freshman quarterback Matt allowing just three points total played the game,” said Lofton, New York has lost four the Kangaroos to the playoffs if Abeling to rebound from the to opposing offenses this year. a postseason veteran. “You straight playoff games and 11 they can maintain their suc two-interception effort he had Its weakness, which was don’t have to have a whole lot of 14 overall dating to their cess. against Carroll. exposed last week, is its special of experience to understand 2004 AL championship series Other teams aren’t selling the Both teams are trying to get teams play and its offensive that the game hasn’t changed. collapse against Boston, a skid Kangaroos short. their offense on track and say execution. That’s what I’ve been talking to rarely seen for a decorated “From what I’ve seen, this this will be the week they final Just as Morrissey’s defense the guys about: Go out there franchise that hasn’t added to Keough team is very good,” ly break out. The game may was putting together an inspir and play baseball.” its collection of 26 World Series Dillon junior captain Alex Duffy come down to whose freshman ing performance, holding Playoff newcomer Victor titles since 2000. said. quarterback is able to break Keenan to minimal yardage last Martinez hit a two-run homer Rodriguez’s hopes of follow Keough plans to send Dillon through first. week, its lack of special teams and rookie Asdrubal Cabrera ing up a certain MVP season home in the same way that it practice allowed a huge punt had a solo shot off ineffective with a glittering postseason is sent O’Neill home last weekend. Zahm vs. Siegfried return for a touchdown, which starter Chien-Ming Wang. on hold. He went 0-for-2 and To do so, it will have to see con The Zahmbies and Ramblers put the Manorites down by six. Travis Hafner and Ryan Garko walked twice, once intentional tinued good play from quarter are no strangers to shutouts “We were right there, but we homered later, and the Indians ly in the fifth when Sabathia back Matt Briggeman. coming into Sunday’s matchup. just couldn’t come away with knocked the Bronx Bombers wriggled out of a serious jam. Dillon looks to earn its first The two teams have not yet the victory,” Bencomo said. flat. A-Rod dropped to 4-for-43 victory of the season against played a game O’Neill has The 40-year-old Lofton raced (.093) with no RBIs in his last Keough after it lost its opener that did not end put itself in dire around the bases they way he 13 postseason games. to Stanford 6-0 last week. in a shutout — straits with its did in two previous stints with The Yankees’ best chance “We played well on both sides Zahm on both “Our p a ss defense 0-2 start and its Cleveland. Casey Blake added was in the fifth. Trailing 4-3, of the ball,” Duffy said, “but we sides. The must improve in inability to two RBIs for the Indians, ener they put runners at second and kept shooting ourselves in the Zahmbies have come through in gized by a towel-waving crowd third with one out against foot when we had chances to beaten Carroll order for us to win the clutch with eager for more. Sabathia. With first base open, take over the game.” 12-0, but lost 6-0 on Sunday. ” a vital score. A few Cleveland fans even he intentionally walked Duffy, who serves as the to Knott on The Mob was turned on Cavaliers superstar Rodriguez to face Jorge Dillon running back, said Dillon Sunday. Siegfried not far from LeBron James, a devoted New Patrick Conley Posada. has a very talented defense that blanked Knott winning either York fan who boldly came to Posada got ahead 3-0 in the played very well against 21-0 on Sept. 23. O’Neill captain of its first two Jacobs Field wearing a count, then fouled off a pitch. Stanford. The offensive line is Ramblers sen games, which Yankees cap. Early on, fans sit Sabathia fought back for a also very strong and athletic ior captain Tom w ere each ting near James behind home strikeout. and opened up holes for Duffy Martin hopes to continue his decided by only one possession. plate chanted “Take off the Then, he got behind 2-0 to to run through last week, and team’s dominance when they However, with a struggling cap,” and by the sixth inning, Hideki MatsUi before getting should give quarterback Joe play Zahm. offense, Conley said it will be he did. the Yankees’ DH to pop to Garigliano lots of time to throw “Zahm’s a very strong team,” imperative for the defense to When Hafner’s homer off shortstop, ending New York’s as well. Martin said. “We’re preparing step up and make some plays. Ross Ohlendorf gave the last rally. Although Duffy gives Keough very hard in practice.” “Morrissey is a great passing Indians a 10-3 lead, James “Posada helped me out a lit credit for its strong perform While the defense has obvi team. They have showed that turned to his entourage and tle bit,” Sabathia said, “and I ance last week, he is still confi ously been strong, Martin in all of their games this year,” ordered an exit. was able to get out of it. These dent in his team. points to the offense as a major Conley said. “Our pass defense The Yankees, 6-0 against the guys swung the bats and “This is a must-win game for contributor to the team ’s suc must improve in order for us to Indians during the regular sea picked me up huge.” us, so we’re not taking any cess. win on Sunday.” son, went nearly as fast. Down The Indians put it away v !i chances.” he said. “They are “Our offense is very b al 4-3 in the fifth, they managed five runs in their half of the very big, but we will be ready anced,” Martin said. “We are Contact Eric Prister at only a meaningless, two-out fifth, the big blows coming on for them.” able to use the run and pass [email protected], Mike Gotimer single in the ninth after Martinez’s two-run homer off Keough and Dillon play at 2 equally well, which makes it at [email protected], Peter Cleveland broke away. Wang, a 19-game winner dur p.m. Sunday at Riehle Field. difficult for teams to defend Reisenaur at [email protected] , It was the first time New York ing the regular season, and against us.” Laura Myers at [email protected] lost by more than eight runs in Blake’s two-run double, a shot Knott vs. St. Edward’s Zahm’s defense has shown and Alex Barker at the postseason since an 11-1 that sent the crowd of 44,608 Knott (1-1) takes on St Ed’s promise in its first two games, abarkerl @nd.edu first-round drubbing by into a frenzy. page 18 The Observer ♦ SPORTS Friday, October 5, 2007
SMC G o l f SMC S o c c e r 1st place not focus Belles hope to down Dutchmen at conference meet Saint Mary's seeks revenge after losing to Hope 1-0 last season By MEAGHAN VESELIK Sports Writer nitely ended badly. We had a By JARED JEDICK couple big scores that cost us,” Saint Mary’s will take the Sports Writer Hamilton said. field against Hope Saturday at Senior Katie O’Brien hopes to noon, looking to avenge its 1-0 Saint Mary’s travels to continue her strong play up to loss to the Flying Dutch last Bedford Valley Golf Club in this point in the season and season. Battle Creek, Mich., today to lead her team m ates to a win This will be the Belles’ third begin the tw o-day MIAA this weekend. She owns two of conference game of the season. Championship. The team tees the best rounds in MIAA play The Belles (5-1-4, 1-0-2 MIAA) off in the first round today at 1 this year with a 76 and a 78. tied their last two games in p.m. and the second round at 9 She finished sixth at Buk Run double overtime against con a.m. Saturday. with an 84. ference foes Albion and Olivet. Saint M ary’s is in second Also providing veteran lead Hope (6-6-0, 2-1-0) lost its place in the MIAA standings ership will be junior Meredith game against Calvin 3-0 last after the three conference Fantom, who had the second- Saturday, but defeated Tri- Jamborees with 1,029 total best round for the Belles at State University 6-1 Tuesday, strokes — 41 strokes behind Buck Run with an 85. putting itself in third place in first place Olivet with 988 The team’s biggest surprose the MIAA. strokes. has been the substantial contri “I expect a well coached Making up the deficit will be a bution being made for this team team with a lot of discipline,” tall order for the Belles, and by freshmen Emily Gore, Megan Saint Mary’s head coach Garyn coach Mark Hamilton wants the I.ehr, Rosie O’Connor, Michelle Mackenzie said. “1 expect them team not to focus on trying to llird and Amanda Mainstone. to bring nothing less than their catch up with Olivet. Saint Mary’s ranks first in the best.” “Our goal is to win the two- Division i'll NCAA/NA1A/JC Two of the Belles’ key players day tournament, that is it," Women’s Freshman Class have been hampered with Hamilton said. “We would like Impact Rankings, with an aver injuries the past few games — to maintain our second-place age freshman score 88.15. The sophom ore forw ard Micki position in the conference, Belles have four freshmen in lledinger and junior forward because then we will be able to their top five players. Lauren Hinton, who did make KATE FENLON host a qualifying tournament Hamilton would like this an appearance in last Belles midfielder Katy Durkin, right, goes after the ball in Saint next year.’’ weekend to be the tournament Saturday’s game against Olivet. Mary’s DO tie against Olivet on Sept. 29. The team is coming off a lack where his players come of age Hinton managed to take four luster showing at the third and excel. shots on goal, including a shot against Albion Sept. 25. a lot of good things, and play Jamboree of the year at Buck “We would like to play well, to that was tipped off the cross Saint Mary’s has struggled to ing well right now. Bun Golf Course, in which it play to our potential. 1 think the bar and headed in by freshman convert in front of the goal, but “We’re expecting a good watched its then-14 stroke girls are anxious to show their Julia Gragtmans, but was it has m anaged to post 12 1 game from a very good team deficit stretch almost out of potential, ” Hamilton said. saved by Olivet goalkeeper shots with 13 goals by nine dif who we won’t beat unless we reach. Sarah Weston in the 87th ferent players, with Hinton bring our best. After ending “It was a little disappointing. Contact Jared Jedick at minute of play. Hinton will be leading the way. The Belles their last two games in a tie, We started off well, but we defi [email protected] back in again for a portion of have shown their strength, the Belles are fired up to score, Saturday’s game. defeating Kalamazoo (7-3-1, 2- and ready after a week’s rest Last Saturday, the Belles 1-0) in their conference open to show Hope the Belles are a were also missing senior er. fire that keeps burning.” PGA Tour defender Justine Higgins, who “We’re still trying to sort out was sidelined after receiving a our lineup up top still,” Contact Meaghan Veselik at Parnevik fires career red card in Saint Mary’s game Mackenzie said. “We’re doing [email protected] round in Texas Open
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SMC Cross-Country M e n ’s T e n n is Belles ready for Parbhu drops first-round match Senior captain falls in prestigious Intercollegiate Championships first 6K of season , r % l \
with Gray, freshmen Catie By MATT CAMBER Salyer and Sam Wieczorek, Sports Writer sophomore Megan McClowry and senior Olenka Bilyk have T hough to d a y ’s scored in all four of the Benedictine Invitational in Belles’ meets. I- Lisle, 111., w o n ’t directly Junior Caitlin Stevenson affect S aint M ary’s MIAA had a “breakthrough per standing, the formance” last six-kilometer w e e k e n d , meet will be Bauters said, one of the "This m eet is and is hoping Belles’ most to continue valuable train important because her improve ing experi it’s the first 6K that m ent. The ences leading we will have run this r u n n e r up to the six- B au ters is kilometer con season .” really keeping ference cham her eye on, pionship on Jackie Bauters how ever, is Oct. 27. Belles coach freshman “This meet is Anne Maguire. important “1 really because it’s believe Anne $ .... ## : lli "■ ' the first 6K is ready to TIM SULLIVAN/The Observer that we will have run this have a great race,” Bauters Irish senior Sheeva Parbhu lines up a forehand in Notre Dame’s 7-0 victory over Indiana on Nov. season, which is a jump for said. “I think the longer 24, 2006. Parbhu lost Thursday in the first round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Championships. freshmen who were running course will be of benefit to 4Ks just this past year,” her.” coach Jackie Bauters said. Ideally, it will prove to be a said before the tournament. “I this rule and that he is going to “Because it’s the only 6K we benefit to the whole team. By KATELYN GRABAREK want to keep the good season Oklahoma this weekend,” Irish run before championships, “It’s important to find out Sports Writer going, and get some experience coach Bobby Bayliss said earlier we need to use it as a learn how ready we are to tackle against some of the best players this week. “[The Fallon ing tool and hopefully come the slightly longer race, if it Notre Dame senior captain in the country.” Invitational] gave us a chance away with some success to really impacts us at all,” Sheeva Parbhu fell in his open Due to the NCAA’s 25-tourna- to see some of the younger feel better going into cham Bauters said. “If we’re not ing round match Thursday 6-3, ment limit, Parbhu did not par players. We also got to see [jun pionships.” there yet, we have three 6-0 to Bojan Szumanski of ticipate in last weekend’s Tom ior Brett] Helgeson play and he A fourth-place finish in more weeks to get ready for Texas Tech in the Fallon Invitational so he could came up big.” last year’s meet propelled the big show. Intercollegiate Tennis take part in the Intercollegiate Parbhu and Helgeson are co the Belles to fifth place in “Hopefully we’ll discover Championships. Championships. The Irish domi number ones in the Irish lineup, the MIAA standings, the best what our weaknesses are Parbhu is the lone Irish repre nated singles play without Bayliss said. result in school history. and how to improve upon sentative in the double-elimina Parbhu, capturing a 26-14 vic The Irish will resume tourna As she has in virtually them during the next few tion Tulsa, Okla., tournament. tory. ment play on Oct. 18 in the ITA every meet of her Saint weeks.” He is guaranteed at least one “The athletes are only Midwest Championships. Mary’s career, senior stand more match. allowed to play 25 matches, and out Megan Gray probably Contact Matt Camber at “I am looking to continue to he would have had to miss Contact Katelyn Grabarek at will lead the pack. Along [email protected] play at a high level,” Parbhu some duel matches because of kgrabaO 1 @saintmarys.edu
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By MICHAEL BRYAN clobber Belles 3-0 Sports Writer Notre Dame will look to rebound from a disappointing eighth-place performance at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Golf Classic last weekend when it competes in the Coca-Cola Duke Golf Classic Sunday in Durham, N.C. The Irish will be part of a strong 15-team field that includes host No. 13 Duke and ■ No. 19 Wake Forest. Other top teams in the field include Ohio State, Virginia Tech and Maryland. Irish coach Jim Kubinski said the team enjoys playing chal lenging fields that include ranked teams. “The guys get excited about it,” Kubinski said. “That’s why IAN GAVLICK/The O bserver they come to Notre Dame, to Irish senior Greg Rodgers watches a putt in the Fighting Irish play against the top national Gridiron Classic last weekend. competition.” The 54-hole event begins at the Warren Golf Course after a several underclassmen partici the Duke Golf Club with two strong opening round, falling pating in the tournament as rounds Sunday on the par-72 from third Sunday to an eventu individuals. Sophomore Kyle course. The tournament will al tie for eighth Tuesday. Willis and freshman Tyler Hock end Monday with the final 18 Michigan Stale won by 14 shots finished in the top 20 for the holes of the 7,105-yard course. in the only home tournament Irish in the tournament.
KATE FENLON/The O bserver Last year’s Duke Golf Classic for the Irish this year. “Tyler’s been playing very Belles outside hitter Jacee Watson (1) and blocker Cathy Kurczak champion, Coastal Carolina, Kubinski said the Irish will well, ” Kubinski said. “He’s (6) attempt a block in Saint Mary's 3-0 loss to Tri-State on Sept. 29. will not return to defend its look to sharpen some areas of going to be playing in his first title. their game at the Duke Classic travel event this week and 1 Morris led the defensive effort This is Notre Dame’s first that the team struggled with think he’ll do very well.” By SAMANTHA LEONARD with 1 I digs. Team offensive time playing in the Duke Golf this week. Kubinski also said he expect Sports Writer leaders were sophomore out Classic, but Kubinski has high “I think the main things we ed junior Josh Sandman and side hitter Lorna Slupezynski expectations for the team’s per want to improve are our putting senior Greg Rodgers to continue The Flying Dutchmen of Hope with 12 kills and junior middle formance. and iron play,” Kubinski said. their good play. killed any hope Saint Mary’s blocker Kaela Heilman with 11. “Our No. 1 goal would be to The highlight of the tourna Many young Irish golfers will had Thursday of winning, domi The Belles combined for 38 kills have all five players in con ment for Notre Dame was the play this fall as Notre Dame nating the Belles 3-0. on the night. tention for a counting score,” play of sophomore Doug looks to find its top performers. Once Hope — which entered Besides the deadly attacks by Kubinski said. “A top-five score Fortner, who tied for second. “With so many players with the match third in the MIAA — Hope, the Belles also faced would be good as far as NCAA Fortner’s finish was the best of so little experience, a lot of guys gained a lead in a gam e, it some internal struggles. standings.” his Notre Dame career, and his will get a chance to contribute,” never relinquished it. The 3-0 . “It was the mental part of the Notre Dame enters the tour 54-hole total of 210 tied for Kubinski said. sweep made it the seventh con game, lack of trust, and lack of nament coming off a setback third lowest in Irish history. secutive match Saint Mary’s, unity on the court, which was this week at the Gridiron Golf Another bright spot for the Contact Michael Bryan at which entered the match fifth in our greatest weakness,” head Classic. The Irish struggled at Irish was the performances of [email protected] the conference, has lost to coach Julie Schroeder-Biek Hope. said. Hope was unstoppable, send In order to fix these internal ing kill after kill to the feet of struggles, Schroeder-Biek said, the Belles. Leading attackers the Belles are going to need to for Hope were junior outside make some changes within C H EC K I IMG hitter Nora Slenk with 17 kills their team. and sophomore middle blocker “We need more desire to play w Teresa Burst with 15. Hope had to our ability,” she said. “We a combined 60 kills in the need to bring our game.” match. The Belles head to Olivet Open a Notre Dame Federal Credit Union Cheeking Account Saint Mary’s tried to ward off College on Tuesday. the Flying Dutchmen with a today and we’ll treat you to an awesome Tailgate Party team-high 46 digs and 12 Contact Samantha Leonard at blocks. Sophomore libero Laura sleona 1 @saintmarys.edu Package, including chair, umbrella, cooler, seat cushion, and football.
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for comment Thursday. F o o t b a l l This contest is crucial for NCAA C h ic k s both teams’ playoff aspira continued from page 24 tions and should be well fought. Pasquerilla West and get a win Sunday, the playoffs Lyons face off Sunday at 6 Gamecocks down Kentucky may be a possibility. p.m. on Biehle Field. This year, Lewis has been led by sophomore quarter Welsh Family vs. Badin Norwood sets NCAA record with two touchdown returns; back Catherine Guarnieri, Welsh Family will go up who threw a game-winning against Badin this Sunday at Wildcats's perfect season comes to end in 38-23 loss to SC touchdown against the Babes. 4 p.m. at Riehle Field in a Pangborn’s stellar group of contest with playoff-seeding underclassmen, led by sopho implications on the line for more receiver and captain one team and a possible play Meghan Bescher, will also off berth for another. carry the brunt of the load. Undefeated Welsh Family could be playing for the No. 1 Pasquerilla West vs. Lyons seed in the Gold League play Sunday’s matchup between offs — which it currently has Lyons and Pasquerilla West — while Badin could be play features two teams fighting ing for its'playoff life. for their lives. Welsh Family Both are on the senior captain cusp of the play Kelly Bushelle offs and a loss ‘We’ve worked on all feels very con could mean aspects of the team, fident about somebody is Sunday’s game going home. not anything in and the play Pasquerilla particular. ” offs. West continued “We’ve been its momentum Kelly Bushelle doing the same from last season things in prac and defeated Welsh Family captain tice that we Breen-Phillips have done all and Lewis in its year and are first two games, However, it well prepared to play,” has since been slow ed by Bushelle said. “We’ve worked back-to-back losses to Welsh on all aspects of the team, not Family and Pangborn. anything in particular.” AP The defending champions Bushelle also mentioned her South Carolina’s Patrick DIMarco, left, celebrates with Mike Davis, center, and Jarnon Meredith are led on offense by fresh junior quarterback, Jenni after scoring a touchdown during the Gamecocks’ 38-23 win over Kentucky Thursday. man quarter Gargula, who has led the beat Kentucky 73-7 in 1994, ran 53 yards for his second back Grace Associated Press Orians, who offense and the then 65-0 two years later. Even score and a 24-10 lead. has has “We’ve been doing team to five COLUMBIA — South Carolina this summer, Spurrier rankled Norwood’s touchdown accounted for the sam e things in wins this year. coach Steve Spurrier spoiled Kentucky fans with his words: returns matched an NCAA all of the Badin’s junior Kentucky’s perfect start and “We thought we did something record accomplished three Weasels’ touch practice that we captain Katie found himself right where he big beating Clemson, then times before, the last by downs this have done all year Rose Hackney loves to be — in the thick of Kentucky beat them, also.” Southern Methodist’s Alvin year, both and are well said th e re is the Southeastern Conference The Wildcats beat Clemson 28- Nnabuife against Nevada in through the air still hope for race. 20 in the Music City Bowl last 2004. and on the prepared to play. ’’ her team to “Our guys are starting to December. Norwood had a blocked punt ground. make the play believe the ball can keep With both teams ranked for that changed the momentum Pasquerilla Kelly B ushelle offs. bouncing our way,” Spurrier the first time when facing each in South Carolina’s 38-21 win West’s superb Welsh Family captain “We know said. other, Spurrier got the best of over Mississippi State last defense has that everything It certainly did Thursday Kentucky for the 15th time. Saturday. His play is even also created has to go our night in the 1lth-ranked “It’s extremely disappointing more critical since the offense, recording numerous way the next two games, but Gamecocks’ 38-23 win over to be in a position to go two Gamecocks have lost defensive interceptions as well as a we are going to play hard previously undefeated No. 8 and oh in the league and now starters in linebacker Jasper safety. anyway and go out with confi Kentucky. we’re way back in the pack,” Brinkley and lineman Nathan Lyons is in a similar situa dence,” Hackney said. “That’s Defensive end Eric Norwood Brooks said. Pepper since Sept. 15. tion as the all we can do.” tied an NCAA record with two It was the poorest perform “I knew it was time to step Weasels after Hackney said touchdown returns and ance of the season for up,” Norwood said. “When also losing to “We know that the Bullfrogs Spurrier stayed unbeaten Kentucky (5-1, 1-1), which was they went down, I think it was Welsh Family everything has to go hope to be the against the Wildcats (5-1, 1-1 held to half its SEC-leading pretty evident that I had to do and Pangborn. our way the next two first to take SEC). average of 46.6 points a game. it along with the other guys on Sophomore down almighty While Spurrier was excited Andre Woodson, the hero of defense.” quarterback games, but we are Welsh Family. with South Carolina’s eighth- the Wildcats’ surprising start, Woodson finished 23 of 40 Claire Connell going to play hard To do that, they straight victory over Kentucky, was pressured into several for 227 yards, but was sacked and freshman anyway and go out knew they had he brushed aside talk of what errors. three times. Rafael Little had receiver Neva to work hard in could be ahead in the SEC race He fumbled after Jonathan his fifth 100-yard game of the Lundy lead the with confidence. ’’ practice this during the season’s second Williams’ sack on Kentucky’s year with 135 yards rushing. Lions on week to finish half. first series, and Norwood None of it was enough. offense. Katie Rose Hackney plays in the end “It’s way too early for that,” picked it up for a 2-yard TD The Wildcats closed to 31-23 That offense Badin captain zone and capi Spurrier cautioned. return that put the Gamecocks on Woodson’s 6-yard touch is complement talize on Not true, coach, not with the ahead 7-0. Then with the down pass to Steve Johnson ed by staunch ch an ces to Gamecocks (5-1, 3-1) poised teams tied at 10 in the second with 6:59 left, but Cory Boyd’s defense. Senior captain Judith score. for the top 10 and the lead in quarter, Woodson drove 27-yard TD catch on South Kaczmarek and senior safety A Badin victory Sunday over the SEC Eastern Division. Kentucky to the 9, but threw Carolina’s next drive secured Joanna Collins will look to undefeated Welsh Family This was supposed to be the his second interception of the the Gamecocks’ eighth straight force turnovers out of the would be quite the upset. Wildcats’ chance to prove season to end the threat. win in the series. Weasels and hopefully convert themselves worthy league con The mistakes continued after “We definitely made a lot of interceptions into touch Contact Griffin Dassatti at tenders and finally give the halftime. Woodson’s lateral mistake, especially me person downs. [email protected] , Andy Renner sharp-tongued Spurrier some attempt to fullback John ally,” Woodson said. “It’s some Lyons senior captain Katie at [email protected] and Kevin long overdue payback. Conner was muffed, and this thing we haven’t been doing all Mackin could not be reached Henry at [email protected] While at Florida, Spurrier time Norwood grabbed it and year.”
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.319 attack percentage. outside and opposite hitter Senior setter Ashley Tarutis Megan Fesl had 15 and Louisville recorded the best offensive Stasiuk had 14. continued from page 24 numbers with 25 assists and “The team is continuing to the highest kill percentage, learn a lot. There is no ques records of 4-0 and both successfully hitting six of tion that we feel like we shot Villanova and Pittsburgh are seven balls. ourselves in the foot with 3-1. Senior captain Adrianna Villanova,” Brown said. Last weekend, Notre Dame Stasiuk posted nine kills, and “Things were under control split its home series, freshman and then we let the match slip with its first 3-0 outside hit away. We are looking to sweep of the season ter Kellie regroup and learn from our against Seton Hall “The team is S c i a c c a mistakes.” Saturday, followed continuing to posted Saturday’s contest will be by a tough loss to learn a lot. ” seven. the third conference home Villanova Sunday. Though game of the season for Notre “I think there Notre Dame Dame. were some really Debbie Brown c o n tin u e d Last season, the Irish swept bright spots [this Irish coach its success- Rutgers 3-0. The Scarlet weekend] and there fu 1 o ffe n - Knights are 1-3 in the Big East were also some sive output with an overall record of 3-10. results that were with a .294 They have suffered two losses less than what we expected," attack percentage against to No. 19 Oregon and, most coach Debbie Brown said. Villanova, the Irish fell back to recently, lost their home open In Saturday’s match against .500. Sophomore outside and er 3-0 to South Florida. HY PHAM/The Observer the Pirates, the Irish played opposite hitter Serenity Sophomore middle blocker Tara Enzweiler goes for a kill during their most effective offensive Phillips recorded a career- Contact Ellyn Michalak at Notre Dame's 3-0 win over West Virginia on Nov. 12, 2006. game of the season with a high 26 kills while sophomore [email protected]
last season in goals (14) and points (32). Big East The Mountaineers miss continued from page 24 Johnson’s offensive prowess. West Virginia has not scored a target on us," Miller said. “They more than one goal a game this have a lot of pressure on them season, and each of its games has because they can’t really afford to finished in either a 1-0 win or 1-0 be losing games at this point. loss. “The Big East season is coming “Where [West Virginia] needs to a point where you really need to make up ground is their for to be gripping a position, and wards,” Miller said. “They’re we’re standing in their way.” returning a really strong squad West Virginia’s defense has other than [Johnson], so they’re been nothing short of a brick wall going to be really tough.” this season. In The Irish, who their nine games, have been the Mountaineers “The Big Hast season plagued by nag have conceded is coming to a point ging injuries, will only three goals, enter Saturday’s and their 0.33 where you really game as healthy go aIs-against need to be gripping aas they have been average is the position, and we're all season. best in the Big Sophomore mid East. Their tough stan din g in their fielder Michael defense will test w ay." Thomas and for the Notre Dame ward Tamba offense, which Ryan Miller Samba both has been shut out returned to the only one time in Irish defenseman lineup its last 23 games. Wednesday Irish coach Bobby Clark attrib against Michigan, and they will uted West Virginia’s defensive be available to play again prowess to a combination of tac Saturday. tics and talent. Senior forward Kurt Martin, NATALIE SEXTON/The O bserver “They’re fairly cautious, and who left Notre Dame’s 1-1 over Sophomore forward Michelle Weissenhofer plays a ball in front of Cincinnati’s net in Notre they keep their back four time tie with Cincinnati Sept. 28 Dame’s 6-1 victory over the Bearcats on Sept. 30. Weissenhofer had two goals in the game. [defenders] at home plus their because of an ankle injury, is like defensive central midfielder, ” ly to return Saturday. Junior recently tied No. 22 West undefeated in the Big East and Clark said. “Plus, they’re good defender Jack Traynor, who did Virginia in overtime. The win the Big East conference.” players, and the bulk of their not play in the second half of Red Storm Orange goalkeeper, sopho Bock said the team dynamic players are back from last year.” Wednesday’s game because of a continued from page 24 more Eliza Bennett-Hattan, felt more like that of her first West Virginia returns eight muscle strain, is also likely to be has allowed only 11 goals dur two seasons with the Irish. starters from last year’s team back on the field Saturday. Brittany Bock said. ing the season and has made Early in the year, the offense that finished 15-3-3, but one “We’re just more focusing on 63 saves. Senior midfielder struggled to convert scoring player that graduated is Zach Contact Greg Arbogast at how we’re playing,” Bock said. Jen Taormina leads Syracuse chances while the defense Johnson, who led West Virginia [email protected] “The past couple games have in scoring with four goals. lacked the full abilities of jun been more of our mistakes The Red Storm are 7-2-1 ior center back Carrie Dew, than anything. We’re really and are fresh off a 4-1 victory who was recovering from an focusing on what we have to over Pittsburgh. Senior for ACL injury she suffered at the do and that will take care of ward Krystle Jalalian leads St. end of last season. Now, the games.” John’s with five goals. The Red although sophomore center It’s a bit ironic that the team Storm has rotated two keep back Haley Ford remains side would work on fixing mistakes ers, junior Rebecca Capinera lined with a hamstring injury, after its last game, a 6-1 win and senior Jaime Reran. the defense is strong. over Cincinnati Sunday. Neither one presents a weak Freshman Lauren Fowlkes The Irish are 3-1 in their last ness — between the two of switched from midfielder to four games and have a 12-3 them, they’ve given up seven center back and has handled scoring edge over their oppo total goals and just 0.67 per the transition well. Sophomore W rite Sports. nents in that stretch. Bock said game. forward Michele Weissenhofer, that even momentary lapses of The Irish bead into this recently out because of an concentration can affect a weekend with a 27-game ankle injury, saw time against game, which is why the team unbeaten streak against Big Cincinnati and scored twice in is focusing on fundamentals. East opponents. They are 26- the final 14 minutes. Call Chris at “They're just little errors, lit 0-1 since a loss to Marquette The team is in good form, tle mental mistakes,” Bock in 2005. In light of the team’s Bock said. said. “We’ve been playing well early losses, Bock said, the “We’re excited about this as a team, but it’s just one lit streak remains important — weekend, and each weekend tle mental breakdown on any not only to the team but also on forward, just because we're part of the field that just leads to the NCAA Tournament. playing well, we’re on top of to a whole sequence and then “Especially with the four things, and things are just a goal. It’s just staying sharp losses we’ve had, it’s more starting to really click,” she the whole game, working hard crucial than any time to keep said. “ ... We’re looking for at any moment and not letting all those wins in the Big East ward to this Friday, and after down for one second. just to help our rankings for that, to lake care of business “Just 10 seconds of the game the NCAA’s,” she said. “That’s the rest of the way.” can put you out.” always on the back of our The Irish face a Syracuse mind, rankings for the NCAA’s. Contact Bill Brink at team Friday that is 4-4-3 and And obviously we want to go [email protected] Friday, October 5, 2007 The Observer ♦ TODAY page 23
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Mountaineers (6-3-0, 2-2-0) The Irish are 6-8 overall enter Saturday’s game No. 4 in with a conference record of the Blue Division. Given the rank 2-2. With the .500 league ings, Notre Dame senior Ryan record, the Irish are tied Miller expects an inspired West with Connecticut for No. 6 Virginia team to show up. in the Big East, while St. “We’re No. 3 in the country and John’s, Cincinnati and No. I in the Big East, so that puts PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Louisville have perfect Senior forward Joseph Lapira tries to control the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Michigan see BIG EAST/page 22 Wednesday. The Irish face West Virginia Saturday. see LOUISVILLE/page 22 M e n ’s In terhall F oo tba ll Battle for the Crooked Stick resumes Sunday but looks to improve its offense “We won the game by two said. “If we capitalize on our at the end of the game. By ERIC PRISTER, MIKE against Fisher’s stifling defense. touchdowns, so I’d say we opportunities and make huge Their early season perform GOTIMER, PETER “We’re just going to stick to played pretty well,” senior cap plays on D, then we should be ance has the Knights tied with REISENAUR, LAURA MYERS our game plan and try to move tain Bill Whitaker said. pretty well off come Sunday.” rival dorm Stanford for first in and ALEX BARKER the ball effectively,” Vermin The Green Wave has lofty the men’s gold league. Sports Writers senior captain Kyle Kownacki goals this season, but Whitaker Keenan vs. Alumni Despite such a hot start, said. “We have a lot of potential tries to remain focused on this Keenan looks to continue its Keenan sophomore captain Pat Fisher and Carroll will once to have a strong offense; we week’s rivalry game. winning ways while Alumni Burns thinks the Knights can do again battle for the coveted just haven’t found our rhythm “We prepare for every game looks to earn its first victory of better. Crooked Stick when the two yet.” like it’s the championship and the season this Sunday at I “We have lived up to our teams meet Sunday at 2 p.m. Kownacki also considers the we’ve succeeded so far, but p.m. on Riehle Field. expectations so far this year but on Riehle Field. rivalry a positive factor. we’ll be even more ready this Keenan enters the game with we still have room to improve,” The traveling trophy current “It elevates the intensity of Sunday,” he said. a 2-0 record. After beating Burns said. “We want to make ly resides in Fisher, after the the game because more is at No matter the opponent, Keough thoroughly in its first a big statement this weekend Green Wave defeated the stake,” he said. though, Fisher sticks to the game of the season, Keenan that we are the best team in Vermin in last year’s final regu Meanwhile, Fisher comes into same game plan. topped defending champion this league by going out there lar season game. this Sunday 1-0 after defeating “We just have to play Fisher Morrissey 9-6 in its last game and putting up some points, This year, Carroll comes into the Sorin Otters 12-0 last week football. The only thing that can on the legs of a 40-yard field the game with an 0-2 record, end. stop us is ourselves,” Whitaker goal and a key goal line stand see BURNS/page 17 W o m e n ’s In terha ll F oo tba ll N D W o m e n ’s S o c c e r Pangborn strives for Team's focus lies in details playoffs, Lewis a win Irish look to keep Big East 27-game Pasquerilla West , Lyons fight for playoff berth undefeated streak secutive games. The team By GRIFFIN DASSATTI, added to its unbeaten streak By BILL BRINK ANDY RENNER AND KEVIN Thursday by tying Breen- Sports Writer HENRY Phillips 24-24. Sports Writers Though they expressed some disappointment after Whatever the cause of Riding a four-game unbeat giving up an 18-point lead Notre Dame’s recent suc en streak and looking for con late in the game, the Phoxes cess, the Irish don’t feel they tinued outstanding perform are all but guaranteed a play are done improving as they ance from underclassmen, off spot now. head into this weekend’s Pangborn hopes to clinch a Lewis comes into the game games at Syracuse and St. playoff spot as it takes on at 1-2, its first win coming in John’s. Lewis Sunday at 5 p.m. on last weekend's 6-0 victory Rather than focusing on Riehle Field. over Breen-Phillips. However, specific game plans for the After an opening-game loss the Chicks’ game against Orange or Red Storm, the to Welsh Family, the Phoxes Badin was postponed earlier Irish worked on their own have bounced back, tying in the season, so if they can game, junior midfielder natalie sexTON/Theobserver Badin and then beating Lyons _ Senior forward Susan Pinnick dribbles upfield during Notre and Pasquerilla West in con see CHICKS/page 21 see RED STORM/page 22 Dame’s 6-1 win over Cincinnati on Sept. 30. u October 5, 2007 THE OBSERVER MM# 1 0 Irish quarterback Evan Sharpley threw two touchdown passes last week but remains second on the depth chart. But his priorities are —- and always have been — team first. Cover by Jared Wafer The Observer page 2 The Observer ♦ IRISH INSIDER Friday, October 5, 2007 C o m m e n t a r y 2007 Irish opponents Aggression can Last week This week 3-2 W, 13-3, Clemson at Maryland be a team strength 3-2 L, 20-27, Illinois vs Iowa Nobody wants to see a team of make an impact on defense with thugs. a high-energy playing style is a Avoiding fights is a good positive. But that needs to be thing, but red-blooded corralled into a positive, not a Ml I CHI 0 AM 3-2 W, 28-16, NW vs E. Michigan Americans are more than will negative. ing to support So there’s room for hope. a team that A bigger reason for hope is shows some w hat happened in practice aggression Tuesday. 4-1 L, 34-37, Wise. vs N'Western and its fair Charlie Weis explained the sit share of con uation this way: fidence. “We had one of our defensive And for players stone one of our offen good re a sive players right at the line of 5-0 W, 33-19, ND vs Ohio State son. Ken Fowler scrimmage, or even for a That’s the minus-one. And everyone kind of per walked back to the huddle. I sonalities, Sports Writer stopped practice at that time 4-1 W, 40-14, Oreg. St. vs Notre Dame by and and say, 'I don’t get it.’ I go, large, we ‘This guy just ... stoned a guy at have. the line of scrimmage, pancakes The balance between confi him to the ground. You would dence and cockiness — and think as a guy on that group, 5-0 W, 24-14, UMass vs Bowl. Green between aggression and stupidi you’d be excited. ...’ ty — however, is tough to meas “I think that sometimes you ure. just have to make them aware Against Purdue, freshman of the perception that they’re 4-0 W, 27-24, Wash. vs Stanford Brian Smith was flagged for a worrying more.” late hit on Boilermakers quar Having a head coach instill in terback Curtis Painter. Painter, the team a desire for emotion is 10 yards away from the first- something Notre Dame hasn’t down marker on third-and-long, seen since Lou Holtz was grab 3-2 W, 31-20, AFA at Pittsburgh was angling himself toward the bing facemasks and worrying boundary. Smith expedited his about the University of Navy. visit to the sidelines with some And it’s even more important thing more than a push but loss for Weis because lie’s been than a walloping, and the refer adamant about his skepticism 3-2 L, 20-31, Navy vs UNLV ees called a personal foul, for emotion-toying gimmicks extending Purdue’s drive, which before games. Weis still believes ended with a Curtis Summers that uniform changes and pre- field goal to put the game ploys last at most a quar 1-4 L, 14-24, Miami vs Wake Forest Boilermakers up 26-6. ter, but that doesn’t mean he Even though Smith hit Painter isn’t a fan of emotion. inbounds — and the call was, “It doesn’t matter what level well, bogus — the play was stu it’s on — pro, college, it doesn’t pid. There are certainly times to make a difference. What hap 1-3 L, 3-41, ASU at USC make that hit, even if you’re pens is, that stuff lasts for the going to get a penalty, but not start of the game,” Weis said. when you’re down 20 and about “Then, early in the game, to force a much-needed punt. whether it’s pro or college, if But there's something refresh you withstand the flurry that ing about Smith’s play, lie was happens at the start of the A bit of Ireland in showing a little passion, a little game, then it’s just a game.” emotion. It was an unusual And, as Weis knows, if you sight out of the Notre Dame don’t play with emotion, it does defense, which hadn’t seen that n’t matter — college or pro. your own backyard. type of play since the rain was coming down in East Lansing, The views expressed in this Mich. column are those of the author It was something of a good and not necessarily those of The sight, but Brian Smith’s aggres Observer. sion needs to be harnessed. Contact Ken Fowler at Certainly, seeing a freshman kfow lerl @nd. edu P u b Just seconds from campus. With its many choice beverages, hearty food and lively conversation, Brigid s is th e place to be. Plus th e re ’s live music on weekends, overstuffed leather chairs to cozy up by the fireplace and lots of big screen TVs to watch all thegames. And we re open seven nights a week, too. (W aterford Estates Lodge has hotel rooms at reasonable rates for upcomir# N D football weekends.) finnn W a t e r f o r d estates I o d e VANESSA GEMPIS/The Observer 52890 S.R. 933, just north of the Notre Dame campus and minutes from downtown South Irish running back James Aldridge runs upheld against Purdue Bend. Call toll free at 877-783-8496 or online at www.waterfordestateslodge.com . during Notre Dame’s 33-19 loss to the Boilermakers Saturday. Friday, October 5, 2007 The Observer ♦ IRISH INSIDER page 3 The consummate teammate Irish quarterback Evan Sharpley remains team-focused while vying for top job this fall in part because of By CHRIS MINE Weis’ comments before the Sports Edtor Penn State game. But Sharpley still said all the Reporters crowded around right things. junior quarterback Evan “I respect their decision and Sharpley as he entered the the way they feel and whatever Guglielmino Athletic Complex decision they make is the one auditorium Tuesday. Despite we have to go with,” he said. Sharpley’s 208-yard, two- “I’m not going to complain, I’m touchdown performance in the just going to keep working second half of Notre Dame’s hard.” 33-19 loss to Purdue, coach Charlie Weis said if freshman Hulkow’s disappointment Jimmy Clausen is healthy, Rich Hulkow, Sharpley’s Clausen will get the start. coach at Marshall High School Quarterbacks coach Ron in Marshall, Mich., said he isn’t Powlus said Tuesday — and surprised his former player is Weis reiterated Wednesday — handling himself well. Clausen looked line in practice “Well that’s it, he’s got great and probably will start character. He is a great kid, Saturday against UCLA, rele works hard, is responsible, gating Sharpley to play backup very coachable, does what the for at least another week. coaches ask of him,” Hulkow Sharpley was already the said. “If [their decision] isn’t backup for two years behind something he likes, he’s going Rrady Quinn. Now he is the to do what’s best for the team.” backup to a freshman. But Sharpley threw for 1,389 even though Clausen started yards and 16 touchdowns in the last four games, Sharpley his senior season at Marshall. didn't criticize his coaches. He He also had four interceptions didn’t complain. He said all the while playing free safety. The VANESSA GEMPI/The Observer things a true team player Detroit Free-Press named him Irish quarterback Evan Sharpley runs past Yellow Jackets linebacker Gary Guyton during Notre would say. Division IV all-state quarter Dame’s 33-3 loss to Georgia Tech on Sept. 1 at Notre Dame Stadium. “I think there’s always going back for his senior campaign, to be disappointm ent w hen in which he led Marshall to the was a Sunday for him. And “It was just an opportunity to more character than the situa you’re not named the starter, state playoffs. that’s playing in the middle of come in and help our team tion that’s been around him.” but at the same time I realize Sharpley was also named to basketball season. He’s a con win,” Sharpley said. “And what our goal is,” Sharpley the Michigan High School summate three-sport athlete.” unfortunately that didn’t hap B acking up said Tuesday. “If the coaches Baseball Coaches “Dream Sharpley came to Notre pen and I take a lot of the Sharpley said he is disap think those guys are giving us Team” twice and earned three Dame after Weis was hired in blame for that, that we didn’t pointed he is not the starter, the best chance to win then varsity letters in basketball. December 2004 and threw two come back. We w ere pretty but that does not change the that’s what I have to respect Sharpley continued his base passes in relief of Quinn last close, had an opportunity and way he gets himself ready each and do the best that I can to ball career at Notre Dame, season. Sharpley saw time in let it get away.” week. While Sharpley does not help the team anyway.” along with his Notre Dame’s Hulkow thought Sharpley take the same amount of snaps Before Clausen’s first start brother Ryan. In season opener played well in the loss. in practice that Clausen does, against Penn State, Weis said 2007, Sharpley 7 think [Sharpley] against Georgia “He looked poised. I thought he still has to concentrate on Clausen was the No. 1 quarter saw action in 14 has more character Tech and com the team responded really well taking “mental reps” and fol back coming out of the four- games for the pleted 10-of-13 also. They had a bit of a spark lowing along in practice, even man competition that dominat Irish baseball than the situation passes for 92 out there,” Hulkow said. ”... if he is not in the play. ed spring practice. team. that’s been yards in the 33- He’s got a great arm. He’s had “It’s basically the same as “1 think what we felt, at the Hulkow said around him. ’’ 3 loss. Three one since high school and the being on the field except end of spring, we took every Sharpley’s work weeks later, in days he was a baseball pitcher, you’re visualizing it,” Sharpley throw by every player, and ethic allows him Notre Dame’s so it didn’t surprise me. He’s said. “You say the play to your running the operation and to succeed at Rich Hulkow 31-14 loss to got a great arm and that’s why self and you go through your everything we do, as we evalu whatever sport Marshall High School Michigan State, he’s at Notre Dame.” read or if it’s a run play, ated as a staff, the nudge he plays. football coach he completed 4- Sharpley said he and Hulkow whether or not you need to would have gone to [Clausen] “You know he of-7 for 33 developed a good relationship motion someone to block. ... at that time,” Weis said. used to always yards. He had while Sharpley was at There’s a lot of things that go Reporters asked Sharpley if work in the middle of basket his breakout game against the Marshall. into it just mentally to keep he was upset because he feels ball season,” Hulkow said. “He Boilermakers last Saturday But while Sharpley is reluc yourself sharp.” he should be the starter. After led our team in three-point after replacing an injured tant to voice disappointment Against Purdue, Sharpley all, half of the quarterback shots and then every Sunday Clausen. with the quarterback situation, threw the deep ball to fresh candidates from spring prac w e’d go in the gym and he’d Still, for Sharpley, the game his old coach is not. man wide out Golden Tate and tice are gone — Zach Frazer throw with six or seven was “bittersw eet.” He threw “From what I understand is, found other receivers open transferred to Connecticut over receivers and from there he’d his first career touchdown pass I don’t know how well it was underneath. Despite the limit the summer, and Demetrius go with his dad to the batting but said he would be happier if handled in terms of Jones ed amount of reps he gets in Jones transferred to Cincinnati cages and get his swings. That Notre Dame won the game. being a starter and then hear practice, he said, he has a ing there wasn’t any competi good rapport with his tion at all,” Hulkow said. receivers. Before the season began, “I have a good relationship Weis did not publicly announce with a lot of the receivers and who the starting quarterback we’re here through the sum would be, but Hulkow said he mer throwing a lot, and I stay would have handled things dif after and throw with several of ferently. them each day to kind of build “Well you know it’s disap the timing and just get a few pointing that people aren’t up extra throws from myself,” front with their athletes. You Sharpley said. know, 1 wouldn’t do that with Sharpley said he is always my high school kids and try to ready to take over the reins at play mind games with them,” quarterback and that the most Hulkow said. “I think every important thing is not how body operates better from a much time he gets, but rather point of honesty and say, ‘You winning a game. It may be know when Jimmy Clausen hard to accept the backup role comes back, he’s going to be now that Quinn is gone, but if the guy,’ and let people work th a t’s what he has to do, he from there instead of building will do it. false hope.” “I think it is difficult,” Hulkow said he is proud of Sharpley said. “But at the how Sharpley is accepting his same time, we’re here to win role. football games and I’m not “I think he’s handled it with going to take frustration out on class a lot more so than the anybody. I want to win just as way it’s been handled,” much as the next guy does, Hulkow said. “It’d be easy for a and that’s really what we’re 20-year-old to pull a Demetrius here for.” KELLY HIGGINS/The O bserver Jones and say, ‘You know Irish quarterback Evan Sharpley, center, throws during Notre Dame’s 31-14 loss to Michigan what, I’m going to pack my Contact Chris Hine at State on Sept. 22. Sharpley was 16-of-26 in Purdue’s 33-19 win over Notre Dame last week. tent and leave.’ I think he has [email protected] page 4 The Observer ♦ IRISH INSIDER Friday, October 5, 2007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Record: 0-5 HEAD T( AP: NR Coaches: NR Notre Dame F Charlie Weis Quarterbacks Third season at Notre Dame M Aklridee Notre Dame 26Ti»oow 7 C ta w w 32 Selunidt career record: 1 9 -1 1 2007 Schedule WH t»W«M M G riw * at Notre Dame: I Ho* All good things must come to an end. So must This is the week Notre Dame’s offense puts it the bad. UCLA isn’t as good as it looked last week, all together — at least to the point of being bal and Notre Dame isn’t as bad as it looked in the anced and competent at moving the ball. For first four weeks of the season. Golden Tate will the sixth straight game, the undersized Irish Irish take the free safety deep on almost every pass defensive line will give up big yardage on the play, freeing up Duval Kamara underneath. The ground. Notre Dame will lose its eighth game Irish defense won’t be great, but it will do in a row, but this one will be close, which is an experts enough, and Notre Dame gets rid of the hoola improvement over the blowouts, at least. hoop in the win column. Ken Fowler FINAL SCORE: Notre Dame 27 Chris Khorey FINAL SCORE: UCLA 30 Sports Writer UCLA 24 Sports Editor Notre Dame 27 Friday, October 5, 2007 The Observer ♦ IRISH INSIDER page 5 UCLA Bruins 3 HEAD Record: 4-1 AP: NR Coaches: 25 m ------es------Karl Dorrell 7 Ben Olson 31 Trevor Theriot Fifth season at 14 McLeod Thompson 32 Michael Pitre UCLA UCLA career record: 2007 Schedule 29-21 19 Johnson 4 Austin at UCLA: Sept. 1 at Stanford — W 29-21 TE 8 1 S S £ LG against Notre Karl Dorrell 86 Paulsen 68 Abraham 74 Sutherland 60 Joseph 67 Irvin Dame: 0-1 head coach 18 Snead 72 Shelter 75 Ekbaiani 51 Skaggs 58 Reed Sept. 8 B YU — W Sept. 15 at Utah —I R o s t e r Sept. 22 WASH. — W No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. YR 1 Alterraurt Vernor DB 5-11 178 SO Sept. 29 at Oreg. St — W 1 Brandon Breazell WR 6-0 162 SR I- 2 Ryan Graves WR 6-1 166 SR 3 Rodney Van DB 5-10 164 SR LB t a Oct. 6 NOTRE DAME 4 Terrance Austin WR 6-1 199 SO 42 Whittington 33 Taylor 51 C arter 6 Jamil Turner WR 6-1 199 JR ■§4 Bosworth Halt 53 Edwards 7 Courtney Viney DB 5-8 153 FR Oct. 20 CALIFORNIA 7 Ben Olson QB 6-4 227 SR 8 Chris Forcier QB 6-3 185 FR Oct. 27 at Wash. State 8 Shawn Oatis LB 6-0 218 JR 9 Marcus Everett WR 6-1 204 SR 10 Gavin Ketchum WR 6-5 202 JR DE DT Nov. 3 at Arizona 11 Dennis Keyes DB 6-2 199 SR 96 Dr ago vie 52 Ward 75 Brown 44 Davis 11 Osaar Rasshan WR 6-4 216 JR 56 Blake 92 Price 55 Bdswortti Nov. 10 ARIZONA ST. 12 Patrick Cowan QB 6-2 220 SR 12 John Hale LB 6-4 226 JR 14 Chris Horton DB 6-1 216 SR Nov. 17 OREGON 15 Ryan Moya TE 6-4 229 JR CB SS 15 Kai Forbath K 6-0 185 SO 17 Aaron Perez P 6-4 23 Brown 14 Horton 11 Keyes Dec. 1 at USC 223 SR 18 Matt Slater DB 6-0 198 SR 22 Norris * \ 25 Lockett 27 Ware I Vcrocr 19 Dominique Johnson WR 6-3 209 SO 20 Raymond Carter RB 5-11 197 FR 21 Ben Bruneau WR 6-0 207 FR 22 Michael Norris DB 5-9 180 SR 23 Justin Fareed RB 5-10 198 SO 23 Trey Brown DB 5-9 189 SR 24 Ryen Carew RB 5-10 205 JR 25 Bret Lockett DB 6-2 209 JR 26 Joe Cowan WR 6-4 219 SR 27 Aaron Ware DB 6-0 193 JR 28 Chris Markey RB 5-10 210 SR 29 Terry O'Neal DB 6-0 191 FR 30 Chris Meadows DB 5-11 180 SR B ruins R ushing B ruins P assin g S pe c ia l T e a m s In ta n gibles 31 Garrett Rubio DB 5-9 188 SO 32 Michael Pitre FB 5-11 226 SR 33 Christian Taylor LB 6-1 220 SR 35 Matt Culver DB 6-2 200 SR 36 Kahlil Bell RB 6-0 211 JR 37 Luc Barbosa LB 6-1 236 FR It doesn’t matter if Purdue’s Curtis Painter The last two weeks, Notre Dame’s fourth 39 Danny Rees P 6-3 178 SO opponents run the was the first quarterback Notre Dame special quarter comeback 40 Akeem Ayers LB 6-2 224 FR 41 Dylan Rush FB 6-4 247 SO spread or the I- to complete over 50 per teams have been embar attempt against Purdue is z 42 Chane Moline RB 6-1 225 SO Formation and it cent of his passes against rassing. Blocking on the closest thing the Irish 43 Steve Sloan LB 6-3 230 FR 5 44 Bruce Davis DE 6-3 234 SR doesn’t matter if the the Irish this season, but returns was abysmal have had to momentum 45 Tobi Umodu LB 6-0 231 SO running backs are big Notre Dame did intercept and the Irish botched this season. If the Irish 3 46 Chad Moline FB 6-0 228 SR or small, the under him twice. The Irish two extra points and a continue to play like that, 47 Chinonso Ayanwu DE 6-5 219 JR 48 Mike Schmitt LB 6-0 222 SO sized Notre Dame must improve their disci field goal. Eric Maust the losing streak will end ? 49 Fred Holmes LB 6-2 231 SR front has given up pline — penalties in the has taken over for Geoff soon. But seven straight 50 Chase moline DL 6-2 268 JR 50 Aaron Meyer OL 6-1 283 SR tons of rushing yards secondary killed them Price as Notre Dame’s losses still weigh on this S 51 Nate Skaggs OL 6-4 299 SR all year. last week. punter. team’s psyche. 52 Christian Yount LS 6-1 240 FR 52 Jess Ward DL 6-4 287 JR 53 Joshua Edwards LB 6-1 223 SR 54 Kyle Bosworth LB 6-1 222 JR 55 Korey Bosworth DL 6-1 233 JR Chris Markey and Olson’s favorite targets The Bruins have been The Bruins are at home 56 Tom Blake DL 6-4 263 SR Kahlil Bell combine for this year have been solid in the kicking game and coming off two wins 57 Jake Dean OL 6-4 284 SO 58 Micah Reed OL 6-4 207 SR over 180 yards on the Brandon Breazell and this year. Field goal that saw them score over 59 Michael Lutu LB 6-1 220 SO ground per game, and Joe Cowan, each of kicker Kai Forbath is 10 40 points. They also have 60 Chris Joseph. OL 6-5 287 SR 61 Andy Keane OL 6-2 269 SO each is averaging more whom is averaging more of 13 on field goals and revenge on their side 62 P.J. Toby arisen LS 5-11 211 SO than five yards per carry. than 18 yards per catch. perfect on extra points. after losing a heartbreak- 64 Brian Rubinstein LS 6-0 259 SR The Bruins rushed for The Bruins scored on One negative is that er in South Bend last sea 66 Mike Harris OL 6-5 306 FR 67 P.J. Irvin OL 6-5 308 SR over 330 yards against passes of 69 and 30 kickoff specialist Jimmy son. UCLA has never 68 Brian Abraham OL 6-6 298 SR Washington two weeks yards last week against Rotstein has yet to regis beaten Notre Dame in 69 Brandon Bennett OL 6-4 318 SO 70 Tony Lee OL 6-4 270 SR ago. Oregon State. ter a touchback. three previous meetings. 71 Shannon Tevaga OL 6-3 316 SR 72 Sean Sheller OL 6-5 271 SO 73 Micah Kia OL 6-6 303 s o 74 Noah Sutherland OL 6-4 295 SR 75 Kevin Brown DL 6-3 294 SR 78 Aleksesy Lanis OL 6-5 319 JR . Notre Dame has been Notre Dame made a 81 Glenn Rauscher TE 6-3 224 FR For the sixth straight Olson is experienced uvvful on specialAeams big leap forward in the 83 Adam Heater TE 6-5 250 JR week, the Irish face a and has played well this 85 David Carter DL 6-5 259 SO for the nest two wpeks. second half last week, stellar dorps of run season. The Bruins don’t 86 Logan Paulsen TE 6-6 252 JR Weis practiced kicking at but it remains to b#seen ^ 87 Tyler Holland TE 6-4 240 JR ning backs. Notre run the spread which 89 Nate Chandler TE 6-3 261 FR full speed in full pads t£is if that will translate Ao E Dame’s rush defense Purdue ran effectively 90 Jerzy Siewierski DL 6-2 290 SO week to try to fix the more progress this r 91 Reginald Stokes DL 6-3 251 SO has been awful all last week, but they problems, but being week. UCLA comes in 92 Brian Price DL 6-1 295 FR year, and against Bell should get plenty of yards 92 Travis Martin TE 6-3 243 SR unable to convert extra confident and at home. 7Z 93 Brigham Harwell DL 6-2 299 SR and Markey, that does- through the air, especial points and giving up and with the bitter taste 96 Nikola Dragovic DL 6-4 263 SR not seem likely to ly if the Irish are geared 97 Darius Savage DL 6-4 325 SO yardage on short kicks of last year’s defeat ’Sufi change npt'osfop the run. 98 Jeff Miller DL 6-5 249 SO »nasreally hurt the Irish. ffesn in their mouths. 99 Scott Glicksberg TE 6-4 257 SR 99 Justin Edison DL 6-3 241 FR UCLA’s defense stifled Notre Dame last year Notre Dame showed a lot of improvement last until the very end, but has been inconsistent this week, despite the setbacks in special teams play. year. Against a struggling Irish offense, however, Jimmy Clausen and Evan Sharpley both looked UCIA will limit Notre Dame’s production. Bell like Division 1 FBS quarterbacks behind a line and/or Markey will run over the Irish defense just that gave them time to throw. The defense could Irish like everyone else has this year. The Bruins will use some tightening, but overall things look score points uisng the good field position Notre good. On the other hand, UCLA has been very Dame will inevitably give them. The first win will inconsistent this year, and has been on both ends experts have to wait another week. of pretty large blowouts. Chris Nine FINAL SCORE: UCLA 27 Associate FINAL SCORE: Notre Dame 17 Sports Editor Notre Dame 17 Sports Editor UCLA 13 page 6 The Observer ♦ IRISH INSIDER Friday, October 5, 2007 Crunching the Saturday Pick em Khorey Hine Fowler Fitzpatrick numbers Season Record: (73-27) (78-22) (82-18) (80-20) No. 9 Florida at No. 1 LSU LSU LSU UF LSU A v er a g e P e r G a m e Stanford at No. 2 USC USC USC USC USC No. 4 Ohio State at No. 23 Purdue Purd. o s u OSU Purd. UC1A points scored 32.4 INI) points scored No. 5 W isconsin at Illinois Wise. Illinois Illinois W ise. No. 6 South Florida at Florida Atlantic USF USF USF USF UCIA points allowed ______24.6 | ND points allowed Bowling Green at No. 7 Boston College BC BC BC BC No. 10 Oklahoma at No. 19 Texas Okla. Okla. Okla. Texas UCLA rush yards 199.4 | No. 12 Georgia at Tennessee UGA Tenn. UGA UGA ND rush yards No. 13 West Virginia at Syracuse w v u WVU WVU WVU UCLA rushing allowed 88.8 | No. 15 Virginia Tech at No. 22 Clemson Va Tech Clem. Clem. Clem. ND rushing allowed Utah Stale at No. 16 Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii UCLA pass yards 225.2 No. 25 Nebraska at No. 17 Missouri Neb. Missou Missou Missou ND pass yards No. 18 Arizona State at Washington State ASU ASU ASU ASU Rut. Rut. Rut. Cinci. 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You can also visit us on the web! http://www.nd.edu/~armv/home2.htm Friday, October 5, 2007 The Observer ♦ IRISH INSIDER page 7 Big catches make Tate instant fan favorite “Golden Gos.” include Tate in more plays, but By CHRIS KHOREY There is a group on he declined to comment on Sports Editor Facebook.com selling T-shirts specifics. that read “Golden is thy Tate” “If I told you that, you could Golden Tate has been on and feature an Xs and Os dia e-mail it to [UCLA defensive Notre Dame’s campus for a gram with a straight line point coordinator] DeWayne Walker,” month — which is about the ing up field labeled “23” for he said. same amount of time he’s been Tate’s jersey number. Despite Tate’s inexperience at playing wide receiver. But on the practice field, Irish receiver, Weis said, the fresh He only has coaches are man worked his way onto the three collegiate 7 rem em ber still working to field by his hard work on the catches, and, so get the fresh show team, imitating oppo far, he’s only watching [Tate’s] man, who was nent’s plays for the starters. come off the highlight tape with mainly a run “For the last two or three bench to run go- my wife at my house. ning back in weeks he’s easily been the best routes. high school, player on the field going against But in those I said, 'Can we get used to playing our defense,” Weis said. “And three catches, that guy?’” receiver in a when you watch the tape, and Tate has become collegiate you see him make these plays, a hot name in the offense. then you want to get him on the Rob Ianello dining hall. “When you’re field on offense.” “People can see Irish receivers coach a young guy, Weis said he used Tate “as an he’s got some the first thing example to the entire team as speed, people can see he’s got you’re trying to do is get lined what you can do by running full some explosion, and people can up and learn the offense,” speed on the show team.” see he’s got some ball skills,” Ianello said. “He played multi “We had this conversation on Irish wide receivers coach Rob ple positions in high school, so Sunday with the team ,” Weis Ianello said. settling in to one position, he’s said. “Sometimes when people Tate hauled three of the four growing with it.” are running the ‘look squad’ to passes thrown his way in a 33- Head coach Charlie Weis said simulate the opponent’s offense 19 loss to Purdue Saturday, the Irish are trying to “fast or defense, they look at that like leaping and diving for the ball track” Tate’s development so it’s a penalty.” and blowing by defenders who they can expand his role as While at John Paul II High probably knew by the third or quickly as possible. School in Hendersonville, Tenn., fourth time they guarded him “We all found out the other Tate was named Mr. Football exactly what he was going to day that he can run go-roules for the state of Tennessee. do. and catch the ball in traffic,” During his junior year, he had In all, Tate amassed 104 Weis said. “Now we have to more than 1,100 yards rushing yards receiving — and became make sure he can run a handful and added 800 receiving. a fan favorite in the process. of other routes and run them “I remember watching his Ilis circus catches are one the with some type of precision, so highlight tape with my wife at few bright spots in an otherwise you’re not guessing where he’s my house,” Ianello said. “I said, dismal 0-5 start for Notre going to be on different routes. ‘Can we get that guy?”’ VANESSA GEMPIS/The Observer Dame. Students are already That’s what we’re going to work Irish receiver Golden Tate catches a pass against Boilermakers thinking up nicknames for his on this week.” Contact Chris Khorey at comerback Royce Adams during Notre Dame’s 3 3 -1 9 loss to Purdue. patented fly routes, including Ianello said the staff will [email protected] Bragg returns to ND, becomes third-string QB he was treated somewhat up to third on the depth chart By JAY FITZPATRICK unfairly as a receiver before after Demetrius Jones left the Associate Sports Editor he left the team. University earlier this season. After the semester ended, “Darrin’s doing a fine job for ■lie Five months ago, Darrin Bragg went to Los Angeles to us,” Powlus said. “It’s good to Bragg wasn’t on Notre Dame’s begin his internship with Fox, see him running around, par football team. Now he’s the thinking that — even though ticipating. It helps us out on third-string quarterback. he was still coming back to scout team, it helps us out Over the summer, the senior Notre Dame — he was done wherever we need him, when Film, Television and Theater with football. ever we need him.” m major was an intern at 20th “When I left school in May I Even though Bragg is happy Century Fox under Executive thought I was probably going to have returned to quarter Vice President of Production to be done next year,” he said. back, he is even more excited Jim Sharp. Bragg said he was “But then 1 got the call, and it to play at UCLA, w here he on the set when Notre Dame was exciting — and I thought, knows a lot of the players. His Director of Football ‘Sure, why not?”’ brother Craig played wide Operations Chad Klunder Bragg said he was unsure if receiver for the Bruins from called him in July and asked the call was true since he had 2001-04. him if he would return to the only quit the team two months “[Craig] said they’re going to Irish. before he was asked to come smash us and that if he was T was in the middle of work back. playing they’d have 400 yards and they said, ‘We need you to “I called them back and I receiving, ” Bragg said. “But come back and play quarter was shocked,” he said. “I it’s going to be fun playing back,’” Bragg said. “And I’m called [quarterbacks] coach them.” like OK, sure. Why not? What [Ron] Powlus and a couple of Bragg also said that his am I going to say, no?”’ other coaches to make sure emotions haven’t changed Former head coach Tyrone they weren’t pulling my much since he returned to the Willingham recruited Bragg as chain,” Bragg said. “I was team, but that things will a quarterback out of like, Really? Are you sure?”’ probably change by the Duke Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, Bragg said he did not know game Nov. 17 — his final home Calif. But when Willingham why the coaching staff decided game as a Notre Dame stu was fired after the 2004 sea to bring him back or if it was dent. son, new head coach Charlie before or after sophomore “I think it will be much more Weis moved Bragg to wide quarterback Zack Frazer important for the last home receiver. transferred to Connecticut. game, suiting up instead of “I always wanted the ball Either way, he appreciates being in the stands watching every time the quarterback head coach Charlie Weis for it, so I’m really glad I came dropped back. I always giving him a second chance to back just for that last game,” thought. I'm open,’ even if I play Division I football. Bragg said. was covered,” Bragg said. After the call, Bragg began “I could never imagine going “[Being a quarterback] helped to train to return to quarter from playing quarterback to a out playing receiver because back — what he calls his more new coach ... and moving to you knew if there was a hot natural position. receiver and then moving to [read I or something you knew “I started training, I started quarterback,” he said. “In four what to do.” running and throwing and years, that’s not how you real Bragg did not see any time stuff like that because I hadn’t ly plan out to be. It’s been fun. as a wide receiver in his two thrown a ball in like two or It’s been a great ride so far.” seasons at that position and three years,” he said. ERIC SALES/The Observer decided in May that he would Bragg has made his mark on Contact Jay Fitzpatrick at Irish third-string quarterback Darrin Bragg throws during leave the team. 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