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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 102 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU SMC holds University selects Fox first-round Mexican president will speak at commencement exercises elections said Dennis Brown, associate By KATIE VINCER By LIZ KAHLING director of Public Relations and News Writer Information. "President Fox has News Wrirer achieved that with his accom­ Class council voting Monday at University officials confirmed plishments in such little time in Tuesday that Mexican President Saint Mary's yielded a winner in office." the Class of 2005 race and set up Vincente Fox will be the princi­ Brown compared the annual pal speaker at May 19 run-off contests in the 2003 and process of selecting a speaker to 2004 elections. (:ommencement services. "kind of like athletic recruit­ Fox, 60, follows President In the close 2005 election, the ing." University officers first Sarah Brown ticket drew 51 per­ Bush as the second consecutive made overtures to Fox last fall head of state to deliver the cent of the votes to defeat current and received confirmation only class president Maureen Garvan­ graduation address. two weeks ago. Administrators "We are delighted that he will Oskielunas' ticket. Brown's run­ then coordinated with the ning mates included Mary honor us with his presence," Mexican general council in University President Father Holland, vice president, Jill Chicago as well as with people Roberts, secretary; and Shay Edward Malloy said in a in Mexico in drafting an appro­ release. "President Fox is a Jolly, treasurer. priate press release. "We're definitely excited," leader who is at once pragmatic Fox will be the sixth foreign and passionate. While he has Holland said. "The first thing we chief to speak at a University plan on doing is [to] start plan­ worked tirelessly to end corrup­ graduation. He follows tion and strengthen his nation's ning for next year." Canadian Prime ministers About 27 percent of the class Pronomy, he also has demon­ Lester Pearson (1963) and strated a steadfast commitment voted. Pierre Trudeau (1982), The Rachel Finley and Nickey to representing and serving the Salvadoran President and Notre most vulnerable among his con­ Prezioso tickets from the Oass of Dame graduate Jose Napoleon 2003 will meet in a run-off elec­ qituents. from the poor to the Duarte (1985). Chilean unborn." tion Wednesday after earning 41 President Patricio Avlwin and 30 percent of the vote, Fox had been in consideration (1992}, Irish Taoiseach Albert as speaker ever since his his­ respectively, in the primary that Reynolds (1994) and Bush. had a 49 percent turnout for the toric election in July 2000, Many students, faculty and when his National Action Party Oass of 2003. staff had speculated that the The incumbent ticket for the (PAN) defeated the 71-year speaker would be someone con­ rt->ign of the Institutional class of 2003, Alison Joseph, nected with the Sept. 11 attacks Stephanie Pace, Erin Hevolution Party (PRI), accord­ and ensuing rescue etl'orts. mg to Notre Dame officials. Fox Woloshansky and Kelly Logan, The University has yet to only received 26 percent of the was the first foreign head of release this year s honorary tate with whom Bush met upon vote and will not advance. degree recipients. Finley's running mates are assuming office, although that The 15 7th Commencement was not a factor in selecting Fox Candace McElligott. vice presi­ exercises will be at 2 p.m. in the dent, Erin Moran, secretary, and to speak, officials said. Joyce Center. Like every year, the University Torie Cox, treasurer. Prezioso's running mates are searched for a speaker who AFP Photo "made a significant contribu­ Mexican President Vincente Fox, this year's commence­ Kara Harms, vice president, Nina tion to church, society and the Contact Elizabeth Kahling at ment speaker, met with last year's speaker, President Ready, secretary, and Katie kahling.l @nd.edu. general welfare of mankind," George Bush, in October. see ELECTION/page 4

Students asked to donate marrow CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL + Requests follow Group approves, passes from overwhelming drive two years ago forward activity fee increase

By MAUREEN SMITHE lowed slim debate on the matter Associate News Editor By JASON McFARLEY of raising the student activity fee News Editor from $65 to $80. In March 2000, Notre Dame "It's definitely looking toward and Saint Mary's students With little discussion Monday, the future and assessing where received a call for help. the Campus Life Council passed we want to go," Judicial Council Their ailing classmate, Conor a Student Senate resolution to President Tim Jarotkiewicz said Murphy, was struggling with increase by $15 in 2002-03 the about the plan drafted by the leukemia and in desperate need student activity fee assessed to Financial Management Board of a bone marrow transplant. Notre Dame undergraduates. and approved Wednesday by the The disease had recently taken Passage of the measure means Senate. "The Student Union two other Notre Dame students, JOB TURNER/The Observer the resolution will now go to the deserves a lot of credit for this." Brionne Clary and Miranda Students waited in line for hours in a bone marrow drive in Office of Student Affairs for If approved, it will be the first Thomas, leaving the community March 2000 and some are now being contacted because their approval. If approved by Father increase in four years. While desperate for a way to help. bone marrow has matched a person needing a transplant. Mark Poorman, vice president tuition has increased steadily. Hundreds heeded the call, for Student Affairs, the Board of the fee that funds student clubs stretching a line through the Jorrissen and Jen Woyach are 20,000. Jorrissen, a senior, and Trustees would still need to sign and organizations hasn't been LaFortune Student Center. some of those few. Woyach, a 2001 Notre Dame off on the increase. adjusted for inflation since 1998, Many came, but only a few will The odds of a patient actually The CLC adopted the resolu­ ever be chosen. Jonathan finding a match are only one in see MARROW/page 4 tion 13-1. The lopsided vote fol- see CLC/ page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, March 5, 2002

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"I thought it was classless. I "I don't feel we need points "People have commented to Adventures in thought it was vulgar. I wish or judges, wins or losses. For me that it's unbelievable to I had known more about it a lot of the girls, it's a huge have another woman elected the chair because if I did; I would not battle just to get themselves so soon. There are no more have gone. I was not the only in the ring. , barriers in that regard. I an:t person who walked out 10 confident she will do a Kerl Jerge great job., Here's a message from the guy on crutches minutes into it. , or in a wheelchair that you've passed on the women's boxing captain quads, in DeBartolo or in the dining hall: Kamille Peter on female boxing Brooke Norton Thanks! Saint Mary's sophomore student body president Three weeks after I fell getting down from on president-elect Libby Bishop my loft and broke all the on "The Vagina Monolouges" bones in my ankle, so many people have assisted me. Thanks to the golf cart dri­ vers who have navigated BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports through the snow while attempting to hit a mini­ mum number of people, curbs and buildings. Entrepreneurship still alive at Brown University Thanks to my friends from Knott Hall who have PROVIDENCE, R.I. Entrepreneurship Program, said he pushed my wheelchair on Scott Enterprises such as Turner feels the policy is a bit "far-fetched." the way to the dining hall Brodfuehrer Broadcasting, Nantucket Nectars, "A dorm room is different from through the frozen tundra Foresite Solutions and Jessica's using the Internet," Hazeltine said. of Mod Quad that never Assistant Wonders all stemmed from the minds "You pay for it, so in some sense it's seems to get plowed. News Editor of Brown University graduates. In yours." Thanks to the nurses in the some instances. the seeds of these He questioned how strictly Brown infirmary who watched in enterprises were planted while the enforces this policy and cited Jessica mild amusement as I filled a triple room with founders were still students at Brown. Nam '00 as an example of how the • all of my books and walking aide. And thanks Yet rules outlined in Brown's stu­ policy could be circumvented. As a to the countless people who have held doors dent handbook explicitly prohibit stu­ junior at Brown, Nam began her busi­ open and given my wheelchair a push when it dents from operating businesses out of ness as an independent study in which got stuck in the snow. their dorm rooms. The policy states: she explored baking as a business, I knew I was in trouble when I lay shaking "Brown University enjoys certain tax preparing her fresh baked goods in exemptions as an educational institu­ the kitchen of her Barbour Hall suite on the floor of my room when everyone within for the purpose of commercial activi­ earshot packed in the room to look at my tion which can be jeopardized when and selling them through local retail­ ties, including residence hall rooms, deformed foot that was rotated 90 degrees individuals in the campus community ers. This small-scale operation ulti­ from normal. Thankfully, no one acted on my operate a business enterprise on campus telephone numbers, campus mately served as a prelude to shouted demands to "snap it back into place!" University premises." e-mail and University postal facilities. Jessica's Wonders, the fresh-baked As the ambulance rolled away from Knott, I The policy elaborates students who Barrett Hazeltine, professor emeri­ goods company that Nam officially asked the medic what they would do to my start businesses are forbidden from tus of engineering and a member of began in her senior year at Brown. foot and he responded, "Well, they'll probably using University facilities or services the Advisory Board for the Brown Brown Daily Herald give you some medicine and snap it back into place. The bitch of that is it will hurt like hell at the time, but you won't remember it when you wake up." BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Well, I don't remember that experience, but the many others will stay in my mind forever. Interns return to post-Olympic life Rhodes scholarship in question I've fallen in the bathroom of the infirmary and had to swing my walker up into the air to PROVO, Utah SALT LAKE CITY snag the ''I've fallen and I can't get up" cord. Although the end of the Olympics means life can get Giving its winners at least two free years of study at I've seen the horror on the faces of the nurses back to normal, for many it is a bittersweet ending. Oxford University, the Rhodes Scholarship is arguably who were far more upset about the incident Many student interns who participated in the game are the most prestigious scholarship available to U.S. stu­ than I was. finding it difficult to return to school after the Olympic dents. A criticism of the scholarship is only students I've fallen on the ice outside the library and experience. For Amy Green, 25, a senior majoring in from prestigious colleges and universities have a had a passerby pick me up and then summon public relations, the Olympics was a once-in-a-lifetime chance of winning. Since the scholarship started in a friend to bring my wheelchair. Now, the opportunity. "The Olympic experience really changed my 1902, University of Utah has had 21 winners, the last library monitors remind me to "be careful" life," Green said. Green worked for International Sports one about 10 years ago. For 2002 Harvard University every time I crutch through the lobby. Broadcasting for six weeks during the Olympics and had five winners. Rhodes officials deny the accusation I've been stuck at DeBartolo after the go1f really enjoyed the experience. "I made a lot of really that prejudice against public universities exists. The cart couldn't make it through the snow and great friends and saw some incredible things. It's hard Chronicle of Higher Education disputed the accusation had to frantically dial the library to alert my to go back to school after being in that environment," last year as well. Former Utah student Jared Raynor, professor to my whereabouts as a class pre­ Green said. Green finished working for the Olympics on who almost won a Rhodes scholarship, said there's no sentation worth 30 percent of my final grade Tuesday and was disappointed to see the Olympics end. bias. "There's certainly no such bias whatsoever," said was under way. When I finally arrived at the "It was really sad to see how quiet and dead Olympic Elliot Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes library in the back of the security Durango, Square was on Monday and Tuesday," Green said. "The Scholarship Trust. "The best student at the University of my professor met me outside and pushed me whole Olympic atmosphere was so incredible. It was like Utah has the same chance as the best student at in. a big party all the time," Steadman said. Harvard or Princeton." Of course, having a broken ankle does have The Daily Universe Daily Utah Chronicle a few perks. I moved into a single to avoid my loft, I can use my crutches to hit the snooze button an my alarm without getting out of bed and I also get to park on campus. But this experience has taught me to appre­ LOCAL WEATHER NATIONAL WEATHER ciate all the small things in life we come to take for granted like walking, holding a dining hall tray, going up stairs and taking a shower without a large rubber plastic boot on my The AccuWeather.com forecast for noon,Tuesday, March 5. foot. So my message to everyone is appreciate what you have, and continue to help me and the other disabled students on our quest to lead as normal of a life as possible.

Contact Scott Brodfuehrer at brodfuehrer.l @nd. edu. The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those ofThe Observer.

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in American history, and experts issues. It will be available to stu­ By JUSTIN KRIVICKAS predict, it will eventually cause dents with a minimum of nine Board approves News Writer major detriment to the U.S. credit hours in accounting cours­ economy. With more than es. Notre Dame has responded to 21,000 employees in some 30 Accounting professionals, mailing funding the demise of the Enron countries and revenue in excess other interested students and the Corporation with a class to of $100 billion, it is still unclear general public are also encour­ explore the significance of the how the company ran out of aged to attend the course for no with the body. bankruptcy of the much-publi­ money. credit. By SARAH RYKOWSKI "We have a junior who cized corporate giant. Enron's executives and com­ "Given the singular impor­ Beginning March 18 and run­ News Writer attends every one of our meet­ pany board agreed to seek tance of this event, we would be ings," Roberts said. "We are ning through April 22, the five­ Chapter 11 bankruptcy protec­ remiss if we didn't provide a Saint Mary's Board of also trying to set up a system week course will focus on the tion in early December of 2001. forum for our students and Governance decided Monday to where we have a freshman and business and accounting issues The fast pace at which Enron members of the financial com­ donate $145 to the Senior sophomore on our board, so associated with Enron's collapse. collapsed is now the subject of munity to explore the issues that Leadership Committee to help that we don't have to start over The company's troubles have multiple investigations, including are so prominently in the news," defray the cost of mailings to the every year." made headlines since late last a criminal investigation into the Frecka said. year. student body. Funds donated by the senior company's alleged fraudulent Classes will run from 7:30 to 9 Thomas Frecka, professor of The committee typically uses class will be used to purchase a accounting methods. p.m. on Mondays in the Jordan the mailings to educate Saint gift for the College. According to accountancy, conceived the idea The course, according to Auditorium of the Mendoza Mary's students about alumni Roberts, the committee pur­ for and will teach the course. Frecka, will focus on fundamen­ College of Business. and senior donations to the chased several chairs in "The Enron debacle is the tal topics associated with corpo­ For more information about College. O'Laughlin Auditorium last most important event to impact rations - accounting and tax the course, contact Frecka at "The purpose of our campaign year. This year, they are aiming the accounting profession in disclosures, pension and man­ [email protected] is to educate seniors to give now a little higher. recent memory," Frecka said. agement compensation, the pro­ Enron's Chapter 11 reorgani­ and after they graduate, but we "We as a committee decided vision of audit and non-audit ser­ Contact Justin Krivickas at have been speaking to every­ [to endow] something in the stu­ zation is the largest bankruptcy vices and legal and ethical krivickas.l @nd.edu. body," senior Kelly Roberts told dent center, maybe a chair or a the Board. room," Roberts said. "We're According to Roberts, only a aiming high - we want to go for few seniors were acquainted a room." with the committee and its aims Student body president Cheney defends widening of war in the past. By targeting the Michelle Nagle and the rest of entire student body this year, the Board supported the com­ (Capitol) Hill have questioned us about going into Yemen. We're the committee hopes to raise mittee's efforts to spread their Associated Press awareness and increase the message to the community. about the strategy . .. on the war talking now about going into the Philippines and other places," amount and number of dona­ "We wanted to support the onterror," Cheney said at a tions that current and past stu­ education of the whole student WASHINGTON campaign event for Sen. John Daschle said on "Fox News dents give to the school. body," Nagle said. "Anything Vice President Dick Cheney Warner, R-Va., in suburban Sunday." Along with printed informa­ that gives back to Saint Mary's defended the Bush administra­ McLean, Va. ". .. Before we go into a lot of "I think I would suggest to these other locations, I think it is tion the committee plans to dis­ student body is very valuable." tion's worldwide strategy them, and I won't name any tribute to each student, Roberts The Board also agreed to against terrorism from important for us to better under­ said representatives were at a sponsor the attendance of two Democratic critics Monday night names here, but the president stand what our purpose is, how kick-off activity for the cam­ Saint Mary's art majors, Connie and said American casualties in has been abundantly clear on long will we be there, how many paign Thursday night. They also Williams and Lisa Ritter, at a Afghanistan are lamentable but the subject of who the enemy is. troops will be there, how does it plan to attend the upcoming conference on Education in the the!r cause is a just one. I can't remember the last time affect our efforts in Midnight Madness and Sai·nt Ceramic Arts. The Board gave Twice, Cheney refused to say we ever had as direct-spoken a Afghanistan." Mary's Tostal. A seniors-only Williams and Ritter $890 to help who he had in mind. But Senate president as we have today," Cheney also defended Bush's meeting is planned for April. with registration costs and Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Cheney said. use of the phrase "axis of evil" to In addition to attending vari­ transportation to the Kansas D-S.D., has recently criticized Daschle has faulted the describe Iraq, Iran and North ous events and answering stu­ City, Mo., conference. President Bush for not defining administration for what he sees Korea. The choice of words dents' questions about their the parameters of the war, even as lack of a clear direction in the sparked massive protests in Iran purpose, the committee plans to as it expands to include more war. and North Korea, and strong get underclassmen involved Contact Sarah Rykowski at countries. 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the end of last summer. Smith, the sole dissenter, said CLC after a month of debate "I was taken aback initially. I he opposed the resolution and committee work in the Marrow had signed up a co'uple years CLC because it doesn't reflect his Senate. Senators approved the continued from page 1 prior, and the notion of being a continued from page 1 constituency's interests. $15 dollar increase following a donor faded with time," Jorrissen "Most students I represent divisive 18-9 vote and a succes­ graduate and currently a medical said. "I was actually on a vaca­ according to Brooke Norton, don't participate in all the activ­ sion of changes. student at Ohio State University, tion when my contacts were try­ student body president. ities that are sponsored on cam­ The initial plan called for a beat all odds when they were ing to get a hold of me. Needless "It's a 23 percent increase, pus through the fees," Smith $10 hike next year and a $5 asked to donate tissue that could to say, I was surprised to hear but [more than] 10 percent of said following the meeting. increase every other year until save someone else's life. the answering machine messages that is from inflation," Norton "They don't want to pay when the fee reached $100. The pro­ The donation process presents when I returned. I thought it was said. they won't reap the benefits." posal passed by the Senate and many drawbacks. Countless pre­ a call straight from God." Supporters of an increase He also fought the proposal CLC recommends only a one­ liminary blood tests, extensive Jorrissen underwent two sepa­ believe the raise will allow pro­ because the University contin­ time raise and includes no men­ physical exams, pain in the lower rate blood tests, both of which gramming bodies such as the ues to deny club status to gay­ tion of additional increases in back and in-depth counseling confirmed his compatibility with Student Union Board to and-lesbian group OutReachND. subsequent years. make dona­ the patient. But increase and improve activities "A funding increase should be tion more "The bottom line is that when doctors and provide more money for accompanied by recognition for than just a taking part in the process found a better under-funded clubs. them," Smith said. Contact Jason McFarley at physical sac­ match, Off-campus sen-ator Matt The resolution came to the [email protected]. r i f i c e . might save a life. " Jorrissen's oblig­ Although only ation ended. 2 to 3 percent Jonathan Jorrissen Despite the of the mar­ relatively short row in the hip bone marrow donor duration of his Ridge: U.S.-Mexico Election area is commitment, continued from page 1 extracted, anesthesia and an Jorrissen still went through the overnight stay in the hospital are emotional anxiety most potential border is mismanaged Erchick, treasurer. required. donors face. Looming concerns of "We are thrilled with the Despite the drawbacks, pain - and even the very small Associated Press Canada in December. results since all the candidates Jorrissen and Woyach perse­ chance of death doctors warned The agreement with Canada were excellent," Finley said. vered. him about - made his family called for a computer system The 2004 tickets of Katie Events such as the bone mar­ members nervous. Yet they were MEXICO CITY that would ease the entry Haeberle and Jamie Belcher row drive bring together the extremely supportive, he said. The U.S.-Mexican border process into both countries for will also meet in Wednesday's community, according to "When something like this long ago outgrew the way it is low-risk, preapproved users, primary. Haeberle earned 37 Woyach, who decided to donate comes up, it alters your routine. managed, and both countries and new technology to clear percent of Monday's votes, as a sign of solidarity. If you dwell on the pain and need to find a more modern goods in factories, rail yards while Belcher won 33 percent. "I remember hearing about the inconvenience involved in the solution. Homeland Security and seaports instead of wait­ The Liz Bailey ticket ran a los­ bone marrow drive from friends process, it can be quite difficult, Director Tom Ridge said ing until they reach the border ing campaign, receiving only 24 and thinking that this is what but the bottom line is that taking Monday. crossing. percent of class votes with an makes Notre Dame such a spe­ part in the process might save a Kicking off a two-day meet­ Still, Ridge has said that election turnout of 36 percent. cial place - when someone is in life - that made it quite easy," ing designed to coordinate drug trafficking and illegal Haeberle's running mates are trouble, other people go out of Jorrissen said. security between the two immigration make U.S.­ Erika Kozlowski, vice president, their way to help them out," she Although Jorissen did not have countries after the Sept. 11 Mexican relations more com­ Kelly Viater. secretary, and said. to make the final sacrifice, he attacks. Ridge told reporters in plicated than America's ties to Jenny Burke, treasurer. Woyach has gone through all of said all his effort paid off in the Mexico City that he planned to Canada. Belcher's running mates are the necessary blood tests and is end. looks for ways to create a He was to meet with Rebecca Doll, vice president , scheduled to donate on April 2. "We are all united as brothers "smart, secure, friendly, 21st Mexican President Vicente Fox Bitsy Dora, secretary, and As a medical student, her sched­ and sisters in God .... Registering century border." and other key Mexican offi­ Anneliese Woolford, treasurer. ule is tight and classes are rigor­ is one small way t0 serve others "Our relationship long ago cials. "We just hope that the class ous. but that hasn't stopped her with love -to litp·- LJlv save a life, outpaced ... our approach," he Ridge acknowledged that recognizes that we're trying to from helping to save a life. which is a beau · thing," he said of the growing trade and increased security has signifi­ continue the projects we've "I think right now I'm most said. ties between Mexico and the cantly slowed both commerce been working on the past two nervous about the time commit­ Friends of Conor Murphy, who United States. and other legitimate traffic at years while on freshman and ment. I have had to miss a few died last January, agree with Ridge will be holding two the border and he said he sophomore board into our classes, and will have to miss Jorrissen. days of meetings with Mexican hoped the two sides could junior year," Belcher said. some more, but the people at the "Conor showed all along that officials to design a new bor­ develop a plan to ease cross­ Red Cross have been really nice he wanted everyone to band der-management agreement ings while maintaining a high Contact Katie Vincer at about working around my classes together to fight leukemia, and similar to one reached with level of security. [email protected]. and other activities," Woyach the fact that people are still sup­ said. porting his cause would obviously Although initial worries about make him happy," said Murphy's pain and apprehension from her fellow Zahm Hall resident, Wes parents gave Woyach cause for Jacobs. "I know that he's smiling concern, she said she is looking somewhere every time some­ forward to the actual donation. thing like this happens." Statement of the Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend "I was really surprised at first. Another friend, senior George Remus, said, "I think Conor then kind of scared about the heralding great disco1tries in che use of commitment required to be a would be just as positive and This month ic is expected chat che donor. Now, though, I'm pretty excited about it as the recipients United Scares Senate will consider a adulc seem cells. Noc only is the excited," she said. were, and I think it would Statement bill-me 'Huiltlll Ooning Prohibi­ scienrific worcb of so-called"cherapeuric Her bone marrow will go to an encourage him to try to continu­ cloning highly speculative, buc a anonymous patient suffering ally organize future bone mar­ tion Act of2001' (H.R. 2505, from leukemia, aplastic anemia, row drives, to help existing data­ on Human S. 790)-co ban all human cloning in further regres.~on in society's respect sickle cell anemia, radiation poi­ bases to grow." the Unired Scates. This is a measure foe human li~ and human dignity will soning or an immune deficiency A simple blood test puts an syndrome. The marrow, which individual on the registry. char all cicizms of good will should necessarily occur Wlless human doning produces red and white blood More than 4 million people Cloning rally co support. is prohibired by law. cells and platelets .. protects worldwide are registered donors, Campus Ministry against disease and controls but new registrants are always Bishop John ~I. D'Ar1y bleeding. Since the procedure's needed. Potential donors must be Creating human life in the laboratory While some question the dignity of introduction in 1987, more than between the ages of 18 and 60, by cloning presents us with afunda· the huiltlll embryo ac chis early scagc, 11,000 donations have come with no history of hepatitis, heart menral challenge. Can ademocratic civilization survive which reduces can anyone be sure beyond a reasonable doubt chat chis life does not bear from unrelated donors and disease, cancer or HIV/AIDS. the divine spark present in every human person/ I do not believe so. 60,000 donations from patients' human beings co mere products of a manuf2Crucing technique When family members. Contact Maureen Smithe at cloning is done co pursue medical reseacch, what is euphemistically called Imagine if a physician wanted ro remove the organs from someone who Jorrissen received the call at [email protected]. 'therapeutic cloning,' the reduction of human life ro acommodity is even he was not sure had died ycr. Could any appeal ciring all the people who more complete-a new human lilt i~ creared solely co be destroyed or would benefit from these organs justi~ risking che deach of an innocent harvested. Even if medical benefits could be derived from such des auc­ person! Certainly noc. tion, iris never ethical co achieve good ends by evil means. I encourage all the citizens of Indiana co cont:lct their senators, Richard Human cloning for any purpose is contrary ro cbe foundational values of Lugar and Evan Bayh, and express cheir support for che 'Human Cloning our nation, as was slavery and segregation in previous genecarions. As a Prohibition Act of 2001' {H.R. 2505, S. 790), which v,.11l ban all human representative of the Holy Sec seated in December co acommittee of the cloning in the United States. Uniced Nations General Assembly: "The ace of cloning... is acrually a form of imposing dominion over another human being which denies the Where to call or write: human dignity of rhe chJd and makes him or her a sla1>e ro me will of Hon. Richard lu~r Hon.EI'lnBayh ochers.' SH·JOO Hlrl SamrO!fia Building SR-436 Russdl Smart Office Building Washington. D.C. 205JO.J4Cl Vhshi~.gtun, DC.205lll-1404 Progress in stem cell research and ocher medical adl'allces does noc depend Td:202·2244814 Far.202·128-0J60 Td:2C2·224·562l F.lx:.202·228·1l77 on che pursuit of human clonllig. Every ~w weeks chere are news stories E·mali: 11nawr _lugar@l'!;Jr.semre.gcv E-r.:ail: u:mor@b•ylwn.ue.gov ATION Tuesday, March 5, 2002 COMPILED FROM THE OBSERVER WIRE SERVICES page 5

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Kashmir clashes kill 17: Separatist violence in India's region of Kashmir has left at least 17 people dead. Indian soldiers killed eight Islamic militants trying to sneak in from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir along the remote frontier. India accuses Pakistan of aiding at least a dozen Islamic militant groups fighting in Kashmir.

Russian vodka exporter blocked: The exporter of Stolichnaya vodka accused the Russian government on Monday of illegally blocking shipment of the popular spirit in a trademark dispute that has left tons of the beverage stranded in port in western Russia. Authorities in the western enclave of Kaliningrad have refused to release 150 ship­ ping containers of vodka, mostly Stolichnaya, that belong to the SPI Spirits Group.

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Lake at crematory to be drained: Investigators Monday planned to begin drain­ ing a three-acre lake at the Tri-State Crematory in a search for more discarded corpses. Authorities said they will probably spend more than a week dredging the dry lakebed for human remains. A skull and a torso were discovered in the lake last month. So far, 339 rotting corpses have been discov­ ered dumped in pits, left in sheds and stacked in vaults.

Fake NYC firefighter sentenced: A man who posed as a visiting firefighter after Sept. 11 was sentenced Monday to one to AFP Photo Two U.S. helicopters fly over the mountains near Gardez, Afghanistan in a U.S.-Ied bombing campaign against three years in prison for theft and planning Taliban and ai-Qaida forces. At least nine American soldiers were killed in the offensive. fraud. Jerome Brandl, 34, pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of stolen prop­ erty and scheming to defraud. Brandl posed as a volunteer firefighter from Milwaukee Attack kills at least 9 U.S. troops took accepted donations from community members. He had no comment in court. German, Danish, armed with howitzers and hundreds of fighters of the Associated Press Norwegian and French 40mm cannon, were serv­ al-Qaida terror network WASHINGTON forces were supporting. ing as the ground troops' and the former ruling As many as nine Fighting was fierce, by airborne artillery. Taliban militia dug in near INDIANA NEWS BRIEFS American soldiers were all accounts, in difficult Air Force bombers and the town of Gardez. killed and 40 more were conditions. Navy and Air Force strike Names of the Americans wounded Monday when U.S. ground troops and aircraft had dropped more Monday were being with­ Man beats toddler to death: Police two U.S. helicopters took pilots were operating at than 350 bombs by held until relatives could investigators believe a man frustrated enemy fire during the most elevations between 8,000 Monday. be notified. because he kept losing at a video game took deadly allied air and and 11,000 feet, said The men killed Monday The American deaths his anger out by beating a crying 2-year-old ground offensive of the Defense Secretary Donald were not the first U.S. underscored not only the boy to death. Michael Willis, 33, of Gary, was war in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld, cold, icy and casualties in the new dangers in pursuing being held Monday in the Lake County Jail on The U.S. assault, code­ snowy "like the Rocky offensive, which appeared President Bush's declared a murder charge after officers found Kenneth named Operation Mountains in the middle of far from finished. Army goal of eliminating Osama Coleman Jr. dead in his mother's home on Anaconda, marked a new the winter." Chief Warrant Officer bin Laden's al-Qaida but approach. Instead of Wednesday. Officers found the child with rely­ Army officials said Stanley Harriman, 34, of also the difficulty of ing on Afghan forces to Apache attack helicopters Wade, N.C., was killed in a assaulting what Pentagon bruises on his forehead, arm, stomach and take the fight to the al­ had been hit with extraor~ ground attack Saturday officials say are well­ chest, the county prosecutor's office said. The Qaida. with U.S. troops in dinary amounts of smali shortly after American armed and well-organized coroner's office found that Kenneth died as a support, the Americans arms fire but were able to forces, joined by Afghan pockets of al-Qaida resis­ result of the injuries. took the lead. Afghan, continue their assaults. Air and other allied troops, tance in eastern Canadian, Australian, Force AC-130 gunships, began the offensive against Afghanistan.

Market Watch March 4 Dow 10,586.82 +217.96 jones Powell endorses summit meeting

Composite Arafat. look at, and that all of us together in Volume: Associated Press At a brief news conference after the European Union, the United 1,593,341,952 WASHINGTON talking to Javier Solana, the senior States and other leaders around the Secretary of State Colin Powell diplomat for the European Union, world will look at this vision and see praised on Monday a proposal by Powell said the situation in the what we can do to make this vision Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Middle East was "terrible," with vio­ a reality," Powell said. for an Israeli-Palestinian summit lence between Israel and the Solana, who has been to the area, meeting. Palestinians escalating. said he was very concerned about Powell took up the proposition He said the Bush administration the fighting and the Europeans were with Mubarak, who offered to play was redoubling its efforts to halt the determined to be helpful. TOP 5 VOLUME LEADERS host to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon strife and that a peace proposal by In that regard, Powell spoke by COMPANY /SECURITY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE and Palestinian leader Yasser Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi telephone over the weekend with ORACLE CORP (CJRCL) -14.51 -2.3213.67 Arafat. "It's an interesting idea," Arabia was a positive development. German Foreign Minister Joschka NASDAQ-100 INDEX (oo:)) +3.95 +1.41 37.15 Powell said. "It is a vision that we all have to Fischer, who has played a promi­ SUN MICROSYSTEM (SU~ -2.91 -0.26 8.67 CISCO SYSTEMS (CSCO) +9.87 +1.48 16.48 However. he said a decision ulti­ exam~ -and hopefully it's a vision nent role in European peacemaking INTEL CORP (INTC) +2.81 +0.87 31.85 mately was up to Sharon and that all Arab nations and Israel will efforts. page 6 The Observer + NEWS Tuesday, March 5, 2002 Medical students report burnout problems gave less-than-ideal care. University of Washington med­ in the University of concluded that increased cyni­ Associated Press Too little sleep, frequent ical professor and one of the Washington system, called the cism and symptoms of depres­ shifts longer than 24 hours authors of the study, said the study a "snapshot" that doesn't sion were associated with edu­ PHILADELPHIA and lack of leisure time were research didn't determine fully describe the experience. cational debt. Three out of four medical most often rated as major whether patient care was "Sure, there definitely were Of those surveyed, 42 per- residents in a University of stresses by residents in the affected. times when I felt cent had Washington study report suf­ university's internal medicine But according to the study in really tired and debt of at fering from "burnout" and half residency program. Tuesday's Annals of Internal probably would "We cannot relieve the I e a s t of those said they sometimes Dr. Anthony Back, a Medicine, slightly more than say burned out," suffering of others we, $50,000; half the residents experiencing said Gore, in her if 19 per­ burnout reported one or more third year as a ourselves, are suffering. " cent had "suboptimal" patient care resident. "After debt of at Medical residents burn out practices at least monthly, a few days off or Linda Hawes Clever l e a s t compared with about 21 per­ after moving $1 OO,OOD A study of 115 young doctors shows that the majority of them cent of residents not experi­ onto a different Doctor at California Pacific and 43 suffer from "burnout," a syndrome of depersonalization, emotional encing burnout. rotation, my Medical Center percent exhaustion and a sense of low personal accomplishment. Residents Such practices included resi­ response would had a who reported these symptoms and behaviors also said they dents making treatment or be completely monthly sometimes gave suboptimal patient care. medication errors "not due to different." disposable income of $100 or a lack of knowledge of inexpe­ Even when fatigued, Gore less. 11111111111111 Those with "burnouf' rience," failing to fully discuss said, she felt "very supported" One-third did medical work 100% treatment options and answer by other residents and the outside their training and 349 patient questions and dis­ attending physician on duty. said they worked more than 20 80 charging patients "because the Another article in the journal hours a week at their moon­ 60 team was too busy." said about a third of 4,130 res­ lighting jobs. Doctors generally serve one idents surveyed nationwide "We cannot relieve the suf­ 40 year as an intern and train for reported four or five symptoms fering of others if we, our­ 20 three years as residents fol­ of depression. selves, are suffering," Dr. 0 lowing graduation from med­ The survey, by the Resident Linda Hawes Clever of Total Depressive Alcohol Career monthly weekly Residents symptoms misuse dissatisfaction Suboptimal patient care ical school. Services Committee of the California Pacific Medical Dr. Julia Gore, chief resident Association of Program Center in San Francisco said in at the Veterans Affairs hospital Directors in Internal Medicine, an accompanying editorial. Doctors in debt Almost 20 percent of doctors have over $100,000 in student loans while completing their residency. 4.6% ·mi1· Educational debt $0-4,999 ·1 $20 000- 49 999 $5,000-19,999 · Burning in the red A separate questionnaire shows that a substantial number of residents have had financial struggles that could have interfered with training.

All residents Second year through fifth year residents qm Credit card debt over $3,000 Cannot afford books and equipment

Disposable monthly income Cannot afford required fees for less than $100 certifying exam (t¥1 Cannot afford safe housing Work moonlighting jobs

SOURCE: Annals of Internal Medicine AP

ISRAEL Gunman kills 3, wounds 25 in cafe

attacker also stabbed people Associated Press with a knife. Shoe salesman William Hazan TEL AVIV told the station that amid the A gunman opened fire at a violence he saw a tall man Tel Aviv restaurant early fighting with someone else. Tuesday, killing three people "I thought he was beating the and wounding 25 before he was terrorist. Then the tall man shot to death, officials said. stabbed me in the back with a A shoe salesman who was knife. Then I understood that eating said he pulled his own he was the terrorist. Right gun and shot the attacker. It away I started firing at him," wasn't immediately clear if said Hazan. police also returned fire. The attack came during an The AI Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, especially violent period in the linked to Vasser Arafat's Fatah 17-month conflict between movement, claimed responsibil­ Israel and the Palestinians. In ity for the attack in telephone weekend attacks, Palestinians calls to local TV stations, Israel killed 22 Israelis, and in Radio reported. The callers reprisals, Israeli forces killed identified the attacker as a 16 Palestinians on Monday. Palestinian from the Jebalya "We saw a terrorist firing refugee camp next to Gaza City. toward the restaurant and then Police said the assault on the entering," said a witness, who all-night restaurant was car­ gave his name as Effie and said ried out by a lone gunman, but he is the owner of the business, did not further describe him. called "Seafood." "He was fir­ "A man fired with an M-16," ing all the time." He said the Tel Aviv police commander Uri attack lasted about five min­ Bar-Lev told Israel Radio. utes. "He also apparently tried to "We were dancing and all of throw a grenade, but it did not a sudden we heard gunshots. explode," said police comman­ We all hid under the tables," der Yossi Sedbon, also over said another witness, who Israel Radio. Sedbon said the declined to be identified. Tuesday, March 5, 2002 The Observer+ PAID ADVERTISEMENT page 7 esc Center for Social Concerns CENTER FOR SOCIAL CONCERNS

Over Spring Break•.. 1 1 Approximately 160 ND/SMC students will be departing March 8 h through l0 h to the following locations for spring break service and experiential learning seminars: Five states in the Appalachia region; Washington, D.C., to explore faith through the context of the public forum and policy-making; a L' Arche community in Toronto, Canada; Immokalee, Florida (an immersion into the lives of migrant farm workers); Coachella Valley, California (in conjunction with Holy Cross Missions); and El Salvador through the three-credit course Church and Society in El Salvador: Transforming Realities. There will be 3 departure masses to celebrate these students' travels. All Are Welcome! Please Join Us! *This Thursday, at 7:30 in Stanford/Keenan Chapel- the students part of the El Salvador, Migrant Experiences, Coachella, and L' Arche seminars/courses will gather for mass. *The Washington Seminar participants will join with Dillon Hall for the 10:30 Thursday evening mass. 1 *This Saturday, March 9 h, Appalachia participants will join for mass at 4:30 p.m. at Stanford/Keenan Chapel.

Pilot Seminar for Sophomores ... Sophomores are invited to apply to a new pilot seminar. A group of sophomores will travel to the sea islands of South Carolina from May 11th through the 18th to work with the Gullah people and other members of the coastal communities. The group will work with the Catholic sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in their ministries of home repair, OED tutoring, ESL tutoring, food and clothing distribution, in addition to learning about the rich history and culture of the area. Applications are available at the Center for Soci.al Concerns and are DUE TOMORROW, MARCH 6f"! For additional information contact Carl Loesch at [email protected] or Mary Murphy at [email protected]

Post-Graduate Service Opportunities APPLY FOR A GLOBAL HEALTH Red Cloud Volunteers INITIATIVE SSP IN RURAL . Looking for teachers dedicated to the education of the Lakota (Sioux) GEORGIA THIS SUMMER children on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Shawn Storer, ND '01 will host an information session Eight-week service learning internship in medically Thursday March 7, p:30 pm to 1:30pm underserved rural Georgia at the Center for Social Concerns. $1900 scholarship -Room and board provided Gain "in field" health and medical experience An experience of a lifetime! With aratitude .... Notre Dame, YOU helped donate a smile! Through your kindness, the APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT THE CSC Operation Smile Student Organization was able to reach its goal of $750! AND ARE DUE: MARCH 8th This sponsored the surgery for one child. Thank you to all who contributed to FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT this wonderful cause! For further questions and information regarding our club, rachel.r.tomasmorean.2@ nd.edu check our website at http://www.nd.edu/-opsmile 1-9404 '

Current Volunteer Needs: Scouting Program at LaCasa de Amistad - Charles Vonderheid - 289-0337 Were you a Boy Scout or Girl Scout? Looking for some interested volunteers to work with their scouting program on Thursdays from 4:00-5:30 at LaCasa de Amistad. The program will run until the end of the school year. Algebra/Geometry tutor for Junior in HS - Vanessa Kosanovich - 289-4330 She would like an algebra/geometry tutor to work with her son one to two times a week for 1-2 hours, preferrably beginning around 6:00 or 7:00p.m. Tutor would need transportation to her home in South Bend. 3n1 Grade Math Tutor- Tanya Ford- 234-6041 (w) 268-1047 (h) She is looking for a Mat~ tutor to help her 3'd grade son. Please be available after school at least once a week, a location on campus can be arranged. Tutors to help with 1-step preparation- Nan Thlchinsky - 283-7516 Many, many tutors are needed to help high school juniors and seniors study for their 1-step tests; which they must pass prior to graduation. Help is needed for English and Math, Monday thru Friday from 3:00-5:00 at LaSalle High School from February 25th· March Sh. Greater St. John Church Tutoring Program- Thelma Harris - 631-5447 They have a homework-focused tutoring program on Tuesday nights from 5:45-7:00 and are looking for volunteers to help keep the children on task and answer questions on their homework. The church is located on the west side of South Bend and its program serves up to 45 children of all ages. Tutor to help with study skills for 7th grader- Katie Mnichowski- 251-9870 She would like a tutor to assist her daughter with homework and most importantly help her develop better study skills, inducting tips on memorizing material or reading textbooks. Please be available once or twice a week (Thursday thru Sunday) for one hour. Male Mentor for 8-yr old boy- Deb Isakeb- 631-8844 Do you enjoy sports, cars, videogames and long for the days of childhood? If so, become a mentor for an 8-year old boy whose father is absent from his life. Please be available to spend time with him about once a week. Newly Opened Safe House for Elderly - Charlene - 246-0144 OASIS, a newly opened safe house which provides short-term emergen~y shelter for elderly at risk for abuse or neglect, is one of only 18 in the nation and is in need of volunteers for overnight (llpm-7am) and weekend shifts (7 am-7pm & 7pm-7 am). Volunteer must be able to become alert if needed during the night and 2 volunteers may sign up together for 1 time slot. ***If you have any questions about these volunteer projects feel free to email [email protected].***

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ADVERTISING MANAGER: Kimberly Springer AD DESIGN MANAGER: Alex Menze Blaming victims promotes rape SY~TIMS ADMINISTRATOR: Pahvel Chin WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Adam Turner CONTROllER: Kevin Ryan The incidence of false rape reports in no, and you're having sex with her, What would your response be, if after GRAPHICS EDITOR: Andy Devoto the United States is 1 percent to 2 per­ you're committing rape. Sadly, we live in bearing your soul, being denied the right cent. This is the same incidence as false a community that says. so long as you're to question your accuser or his witness­ reports of burglary. drunk, everything you do is excused. es, even though he could question you CONTACT Us Did you doubt that O'Neill's Mardi Gras How terrible. through the panel, and being forced to sit OFFICE MANAGER/GENERAL INF0 ...... 63!-7471 money was stolen Legally, it's a little different story. in the same room with your rapist for six FAX ...... 63!-6927 when rector Father John Litle According to the law as originally writ- hours, your case was basically dismissed, ADVERTISING ...... 631-6900/8840 John Herman • ten, interestingly, rape is non-consensual because "Well, your file is extensive, and [email protected] reported it? Then sex with a woman. 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If you can even vaguely under­ I would like to leave you with some THE OBSERVER ONLINE it, students at Notre Dame have a ten­ stand her incapacity, you're a rapist. information about rape amd getting help Visit our Web site at http://obseroer.nd.edu for daily dency to not only doubt the girl, but to An example: If your girlfriend wanted and other general facts you should know. updates of campus news, sports, fearures and opinion actually blame her for the crime commit­ to have sex with some guy, and she went If you're the victim of a rape, you know columns, as well as cartoons, reviews and breaking news ted against her. out and had sex with him while she was someone who is or you just need to talk from the Associated Press. Recently, I've had several conversa­ drunk, it wouldn't matter to you whether about it, you can call Sex Offense SURF TO: tions regarding this attitude with Notre she was drunk or not. Similarly, it Services (SOS) in South Bend. The num­ weather for up-to-the movies/music for Dame students. In one such conversa­ doesn't matter to the law whether you're ber is 289-HELP and it is in no way asso­ minute forecasts weekly student reviews tion, one student asserted, "the thing drunk or not when you commit a crime. I ciated with the University. They can help that gets me is naive people don't make hope women are reading this and con­ you get through the entire process of advertise for policies online features for spe­ the correlation between risky behaviors sidering reporting the criminals who so reporting the crime, if that's what you and rates of print ads cial campus coverage leading to negative things happening." callously abused them and hurt them for want to do, or they can just talk. Though certainly such sentiment on its one single night of physical gratification. Next, if you think you've been a victim archives to search for about The Observer articles published after to meer the editors and face is not without merit, it hides a bitter Of course there's a caveat to this whole of sexual assault, you have three days to Augusr 1999 staff and frightening undertone. That is, the discussion. Even when you report the get to a medical facility to have evidence attitude that if a girl is drinking, she ·crime to the proper authorities - taken. Some people are under the deserves terrible things to happen to her. ResLife - they're not going to treat you impression that you have less. but this is POLICIES Certainly this attitude pervades this cam­ with the dignity due a normal human erroneous. If possible, I'm sure you The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper pus, whether we want to admit it or not. being. This is because this administration know, don't shower or throw away your published in print and online by the students of the Perhaps it would do me well to define cares only to save face when confronted clothes, etc. Some additional Notre Dame Universiry of Notre Dame duLac and Saint Mary's rape in a manner consistent with at first with rape on campus. They substitute rape statistics are available at College. Editorial content, including advertisements, is not governed by policies of the administration of either moral, and then later, legal culpability. public image for justice, especially if your www.nd.edu/-jlitle/rapestat.html. Most institution. The Observer reserves the right to refuse Morally, you've committed rape if you set ·attacker is an athlete or a person in a importantly though, no matter what any­ advertisements based on content. out during an evening to have sex, and place of authority. Perhaps you doubt one tells you, even if you were drinking The news is reported as accurately and objectively as you have sex with someone who does not this assertion. Hopefully last year's or don't remember, no matter what­ possible. Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of consent. Consent consists of the permis­ Cosmopolitan article (March 2001), it's not your fault. the majoriry of the Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, sion granted by a person in full control of helped open some people's eyes to the Assistant Managing Editor and department editors. her faculties. It doesn't matter if you're University's non-confrontational stance John Litle is a junior MIS major who Commentaries, letters and columns present the views drunk, if you had it in mind before get­ on campus rape, because I can't relate hopes people actually still read and lis­ of the authors and not necessarily those of The ting drunk or while getting drunk, that all the specifics to you. ten to his column. His column appears Observer. What I can tell you comes directly from every other Tuesday. He can be contact­ Viewpoint space is available to all readers. The free you were going to have sex. You pre­ expression of all opinions through letters is encouraged. meditated your crime and as far as I'm someone who has endured ResLife "jus­ ed [email protected]. Letters to the Editor must be signed and must include concerned (far be it for me to pass judg­ tice." In a typical ResUfe action. espe­ The views expressed in this column are contact information. ment). you should burn for it. Similarly, it cially when it comes to athletes and rape, those of the author and not necessarily ~tions r~arding Observer policies should be direct­ doesn't matter if the girl you are raping you can expect that even written confes­ those ofThe Observer. ed to Editor in Chi4Milu ConnoUy. is drunk. If she's not capable of saying sions mean nothing to a ResUfe panel.

TODAY'S STAFF NDTODAY/OBSERVER POLL QUESTION QUOTE OF THE DAY News Scene Scott Sam Derheimer­ Brodfuehrer OrrisScott Do you believe there is a tolerant environment "Those who stand for nothing fall Sheila Egts Graphics for gays and lesbians at Notre Dame? for anything." Elizabeth Lee Andy Devoto Sports Production Vote at NDToday.com by Thursday at 5 p.m. Alexander Hamilton Katie Hughes Katie McVoy politician Viewpoint Lab Tech Lori Lewalski Amanda Greco THE OBSERVER VIEWPOINT Tuesday, March 5, 2002 page 9 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Feminist promotion Women's boxing of 'V-day' is not true deserves equal social work treatment Regarding the performance of "The nists' favorite. They are the teachings Vagina Monologues" and the contro­ of the Church. One only has to look at versy it has generated at Notre Dame the sad state of affairs of the mainline Why aren't these women angry? I'm ill-mannered knaves will come to leer and Saint Mary's, one only has to read Protestant churches that have caved referring to our women boxers. I'll get at "chicks" fighting. Maybe so. Well, the letters to The Observer in favor of into all manner of feminist dogma and back to this point later. here's a news flash: women get ogled the production to get an understand­ have gotten out of the business of res­ I hate boxing. Oh sure, boxing all the time. They might as well choose ing of the ideology of those who back cuing souls to see where all this leads. reflects every facet of athleticism: the circumstances for themselves. We the performance. One should be care­ Why does Notre Dame need "V-day" strength, dexterity, endurance and can't impose restrictions on women just ful in supporting such a production anyway? Notre Dame has a long histo­ strategy. Boxers are superb athletes. I to stop men from misbehaving. That without understanding the agenda ry of what used to be called charity grant you that. sort of logic leads to women wearing that drives it. It may be that many who and social work. I would have to ask Still, there must be some alternative burkas. back the production don't really your feminist experts what it is now sport that could showcase all the same In the same vein, we might start hid­ understand the depth of the agenda called so I don't use some patronizing skills, without resorting to formalized ing dedicated female athletes in a behind this play and "V-day" specifi­ or offensive language. Fifteen years violence. "tucked away" underground gymnasi­ cally and feminism in general. ago, there was plenty of discussion I hate boxing. It's the vicarious par­ um. Oh wait, we're already doing that. The vacuous words and phrases about violence against women and the ticipants who scare me the most. My A woman's dignity is her own, to be used in the letters are those that typi­ pathetic date rape committed by some suspicion is that few people learn to wagered against glory if she pleases. cally distinguish feminist cant; it's jerks. Students 15 years ago did chari­ judge boxing on technical merit. When When Beth Rinkus says that women's about "diversity," or it's about ty work to help battered women. This cameras pan the crowds at ringside, boxing is "more about form and con­ "empowerment," or it's about "giving went on without some national femi­ you don't see genteel observers trol" she seems to imply that voice to actual women" and "reclaim­ nist agenda driving it. sedately marking their score­ women's boxing can be ing these words and the right to tell It is disconcerting that today Notre cards. You don't see afi­ legitimized by emphasiz- our stories." What does "essentialist" Dame students need this feminist cionados nodding sagely ing technique rather mean, anyway? sophistry to justify social work. I hope at the outcome of a than violence. Why It's really about a long-term agenda the students who espouse it learned it nobly-fought split­ should this be so? that has as its roots Marxist and elsewhere and not at some so-called decision. As long as the Communist thought and won't be sat­ "gender course" at Notre Dame. They The crowd wants usual rules of isfied until science creates an artificial would be better off learning what VE­ blood. They want boxing ar~ satis­ womb to grow babies. This agenda is day means to understand what true to see heads snap fied, style really driven by a small minority of oppression is. back. They want should be a women who have a self-loathing to see mouth­ matter of per­ because they happen to have a period Lt. David Sauve guards fly. sonal taste. once a month and men don't. U.S. Navy Disoriented When a It also happens to run antithetical to class of '90 staggering and woman the social teachings of the Catholic March 2, 2002 unconscious­ chooses Church. Thos!) teachings are not just ness are the finesse over those of Pope John Paul II, the femi- only results brutality, it that most peo­ should have ple under­ nothing to stand. do with the Though box­ fact that ers are ath­ she's a Hold club funding letes, I fear woman. that many For spectators are women ghouls. fighting more accountable I hate box­ women, build ing. However, should not be It has been said that benign neglect number of clubs and organizations the refrain of an issue. If a is the worst thing that can happen in present on campus. my opening dia­ woman wants politics. I write in the hope that the What makes Notre Dame special is tribe is just a to be a savage student body, the Campus Life Council that its student body comes together preamble to my brawler, then and Father Mark Poorman will not for important events. Yet, as quoted actual point of nobody should neglect a full consideration of what is on the front page this past Thursday, contention: ifwe're stand in her way. at stake in the potential raising of the the outgoing head of the Club going to let men I certainly won't. I student activity fee. Coordination Council said, "The stu­ fight in public, then think that women's It must be made clear from the dent activity fee increase would add to we must allow women boxing will only gain beginning that the issue is not the the number of events for students and the same opportunity. acceptance if we aban- money itself. It is rather a question of keep the cost of events lower." This is We are all indebted to don the absurd notion the basic standards which must be good logic but is also bad policy. A Noreen Gillespie for bring­ that women must be dain- maintained for spending the burgeoning club system (which lacks ing this matter to our attention ty at all times. University's funds. The current stan­ appropriate accountability) will in her March 1 article. I now return to my opening dards for accountability are not strin­ decentralize the campus and further I don't see why "coaches' concerns question: why aren't these women gent enough, and until this is reme­ harm the extent of student unity. about the skill level" should deny angry? Most of the women interviewed died, further funding increases are These ideas, if accepted, would women boxers a public venue. No one seemed a little frustrated, yet resigned inappropriate. mean that·some ·clubs would not· · "lY' is refused admittance when uncoordi­ or even understanding. That was the As I understand it, club expenditure receive the funding they desired. I nated little boys make their first impression I got. Maybe that's what it reports are due at the end of each have absolutely no problem with this. attempts at tackle football. Fans cheer takes to work the system. Maybe they year and are accessible through the I love this school and gladly pay my loudly, even if the hits are not exactly were just being polite. Patience has Financial Management Board. While dues for well-attended and highly use­ bone-crunching (and rightly so). I know built a strong women's b.oxing program my hall's senator claims to have ful events and clubs. But I have no a guy who fought in the Bengal Bouts where once there was none. Perhaps access to these records, I am told that interest in funding the Cow Tipping after one season of training, with no further patience is required. It seems non-senators have been unsuccessful club, nor do I think a majority of stu­ prior experience. Some of the women like a gross injustice to me, but I'm not in obtaining this information, in spite dents do. I ask that the Campus Life have been boxing for years. They a woman so perhaps I'm not entitled to of the fact that our fees help fund Council and Father Poorman ade­ deserve a chance to test their mettle an opinion. these activities. This is not right. quately consider these issues, because under scrutiny, even if they are utterly Don't miss my point: I hate boxing, These reports should be open and the majority of our popularly elected laughable, which seems unlikely after but if we allow men to beat each other, easily accessible, perhaps through the senate has failed to do so. so much practice. The gateway to then women deserve equal opportunity. Internet with the requirement that Centre Court at Wimbeldon bears this one's AFS and password be submitted. Neil Ruddock Rudyard Kipling quotation: " ... if you Mark Zajac There is a larger issue, however. senior can meet with triumph and disaster, graduate student Notre Dame students entrust the Fisher Hall and treat those two importers just the Department of Physics Senate, CLC and administration with March 2, 2002 same ... " March 3, 2002 maintaining a healthy student life. Perhaps the administration fears that This is not to be equated with the THE OBSERVER

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ALBUM REVIEW String quartet attains perfect harmony with Tool

through pain. Physically and emotionally, creepier on By TOM O'CONNELL Tool demonstrate this through music that strings than Third Eye Open Scene Music Critic is more than typical head-banging power in the band's chord~" original ver­ Third Eye Open is an album with an Frequent changes in time and key makP sion. The The String Tribute extraordinary concept. The work of the many of Tool's songs like three-movement electric violin to Tool critically acclaimed art rock band Tool symphonies. Slow-building crescendos used on 'Tiw has been paid homage by an unlikely that explode at their culmination make a Grudgp" group; the string quartet. string quartet a good candidate to handle gives the Vitamin Records Tool's four studio albums are full of such songs. The strings can be quiet and song the hard-rocking beats and guitar riffs. With peaceful one moment, powerful and angry sound the instruments nicely balanced by vocal­ alienating the next. The reason this would it needs. ist Maynard James Keenan's pop-trained never have worked lor people like Britney T h P voice, Tool is a band that can overload Spears or Blink 182 is that their sounds GrudgP" is your senses. Third Eye Open takes Tool in are too sugary, too pleasant and too easily about an icy a completely different digestible. Tool does person who direction. Composed Third Eye Open was not write songs that revels in mostly but not exclu­ you can hear once and hate and is desperate to control all his paced, furious rhythm. sively of their greatest clearly a risky move, but then casually hum the relationships through guilt. "Aenema" is a song of bitter hatred and hits, this album is min­ upon listening to the melodv. Uke most Tool "Opiate" is given an upbe~t. almost pos­ loathing that depicts an earthquake that imalist, stripped down. album, you realize that it songs·, this album itive sound at first and ends up becoming breaks Los Angeles ofT into the ocean. The The hard-thumping makes you work to the lightest and one of the most pleasing music is arranged extremely well. with drumbeats are absent, makes perfect sense understand it, and that songs on the album. Last summer's hit cellos and contrabass giving the song its and only the complexi­ because it has been so is exactlv what makes "Schism" is given a truly creepy interpre­ fast moving low beats. However, this is· ty of the melodies brilliantly executed. it beautiful and ulti­ tation and is the best song on this tribute one of the few songs that loses a littlP remains. mately more satisfying album. The song is about the breakdown meaning because the lyrics were so Third Eye Open was than much of today's of communication between lovers, and important. The lyrics curse the hypocrisy clearly a risky move. but upon listening to mainstream music. though the lyrics were quite important for and inanity of such things as South the album, you realize that it makes per­ Tool's first big hit, "Sober," starts off the Tool, the instrumental sound handles the Central gangster wannabes, L. Ron fect sense because it has been so brilliant­ album. The violin takes most of the lead, cold and distant feeling that was the Hubbard and his celebrity Scientologists ly executed. The reason Tool was chosen and it can range from cool and mellow to essence of the song. At the very end, the and pathetic aspiring actresses. The lyrics for this tribute project was that they are screeching and violent. Sober is a song literally melts down, symbolizing the are missed, but can be sacrificed for this known for their intricate yet subtle musi­ depressed song, and its mood swings are ultimate destruction of the relationship. type of project. cal arrangements. The album synopsis on captured nicely by the string arrange­ "Ticks and Leeches" is a perfect exam­ the back cover of the album says that, ment. The sharp piercing viola of ple of the string quartet's ability to handle Contact Tom O'Connell at "The greatest road to advancement is "Intolerance" makes the song sound even a slow-building crescendo into a fast- toconnel @nd.edu

ALBUM REVIEW Morissette delivers typical, but strong album

Morissette tries to resist Cupid's the album's first track capable By MAUREEN SMITHE arrow. "You're essentially an of being her next big single, Scene Music Critic employee/ And I like you having thoughtfully establishes exactly to depend on mel You're a kind what the title states. "Do you Alanis Morissette never really of protege/ And one day you'll derive joy when someone else changes. From Jagged Uttle Pill say you learned all you know succeeds?/ Do you not play dirty to Supposed Former Infatuation from me." when engaged in competition?/ Junkie, her general sound and Morissette sings for the sake of Do you have a big intellectual lyricism maintains a constant, honesty, whether her emotions capacity but know that it alone familiar and dependable pulse. and intentions are nervouslv raw does not equate wisdom?" With that said, it should be or bitterly scorched. With "So Morissette knows what she expected that her newest album, Unsexy," she takes apart the wants and isn't afraid to ask. Under Rug Swept, would disap­ pain of rejection in an attempt to In her grand riot grrl tradition point Morissette fans looking for rebuild her self-asteem. "I can of "You Oughta Know" and something new. But, it does not. feel so unsexy for someone so "Your Congratulations," Morissette may do the same beautiful/ So unloved for some­ "Narcissus" attacks an ex-lover thing over and over again, but one so fme/ I can feel so boring in a seething ·account of his the same thing can be a good for someone so interesting/ So inconsistencies and egoism. thing. Her music channels hon­ ignorant for someone of sound "Dear momma's boy, I know esty and thoughtfulness through mind." you've had your butt licked by her brain into her listeners. Her As in her former albums, some your mother/ I know you've formula is kind of like a scientific of her lyrics in Under Rug Swept enjoyed all that attention from theory: it has yet to fail. creatively voice the frustrations her and every woman graced The album's first single, of the feminist movement. With with your presence after." "Hands Clean," is a typically "So Unsexy" and "A Man," Morissette wants to please her­ Morissette sublime untangling of Morissette tackles North self before pleasing another, a snarled relationship. Singing American gender issues head on. quite an honorable - albeit dif­ about a much younger lover, "21 Things I Want in a Lover," ficult - endeavor in both her personal and professional life. Morissette is known for con­ tradiction. both of herself and Under Rug Swept others. Many songs in her album compose a diatribe to her courtesy ability to rely on herself. She Under Rug Swept only further establishes Alanis Morissette's run Alanis comes down from her pedestal of honest and emntionally clad rock albums. with "That Particular Time," a Morissette song about a relationship lost world of open discussion, open feel safe." despite her countless efforts and minds, and open hearts, perhaps Like every other Morissette Reprise Records infinite patience. "I've always a quiet response to the attacks of album, Under Rug Swept is a wanted for you what you've Sept. 11. "We'd rise post-obsta­ safe bet. But with this Canadian wanted for yourselli' And yet you cle more defined and more siren, it doesn't take a gamble to Rating wanted to save us high water or grateful/ We would heal be hum­ know you've got a winner. hell." bled and be unstoppable/ We'd The album closes with a hymn­ hold close and let go and know like plea for what she considers when to do which/ We'd release Contact Maureen Smithe at perfection. "Utopia" describes a and disarm and stand up and smithe.l @nd.edu THE OBSERVER

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CAMPUS BAND Wild Bill's bring bluegrass to the Golden Dome

ver wonder what it's like to be in a band at Notre believe that we EDame? Ever wonder what it's like to be in a blue­ had actually been grass band at Notre Dame? Wild Bill's Bluegrass blessed with the Brigade are not afraid to answer these questions - good Colonel's regardless of whether or not anyone is actually asking. presence and Jn an attempt to advance the Notre Dame community's promptly left the awareness of its own campus bands, The Observer and room. Our fiddle V\'VFI have teamed up to spread the knowledge. In that player, Jamie, on spirit. ·wild Bill's Bluegrass Brigade have agreed to the other hand. share some of their crazy bluegrass antics with the pub­ being accus­ lic through a little Q&-\ tomed to spiritual Wild Bill's Bluegrass Brigade is made up of fifth-year apparitions. was architecture student Nick Doro on mandolin, junior sci­ unfazed. Marcel ence preprofessional Kevin Hansen on bass, law student and Jared, hav­ Jamie Klang on fiddle, junior engineer Marcel Lanahan ing grown up in a on guitar and senior government and philosophy major small town in Jared Marx on banjo. Here's a little more about their upstate New band. York, were more confused than Observer: How did Wild Bill's Bluegrass Brigade form? anthing. This was J-·Vitd Bill's: Actually, it's a pretty good story. The late a typical Colonel William T. Bonafide, affectionately known to his response for admirers as "Wild Bill," was a true bluegrass lover and them to most about as great a man as ever lived. While some say that things. But those Wild Bill is only a myth - a legend of sorts ~ we who who were brave believe in his spirit and the spirit of bluegrass know bet­ enough to stay in ter. The five of us, arriving on campus early last semes­ the room were ter as lonely bluegrass wanderers but believers in the known to hear Photo courtesy of Liesl Marx Colonel, found a common bond in Wild Bill and joined Wild Bill pro­ Wild Bill's Bluegrass Brigade, perhaps Notre Dame's only true bluegrass band, is together to bring his music to all who would listen. claim the birth of composed of (left to right) Marcel Lanahan, Jared Marx, Kevin Hansen, Nick Doro a new band, a and Jamie Klang (not pictured above). Observer: So, describe your style of music. band to bring the Wild Bill's: We play Bluegrass music, a form of music joy of Bluegrass [we're being serious now] that was originally invented to the cloudy skies of South Bend: Wild Bill's Bluegrass place. That's not really a moment, but it was probably and popularized in the 1940s by a mandolin player by Brigade. the luckiest thing that's happened to the band. the name of Bill Monroe. His group, "The Bluegrass Boys" had a mandolin, a guitar, a banjo, a fiddle and a Observer: Just who exactly usually shows up to a Wild Observer: Describe the weirdest thing that has ever hap­ bass [but no drums]. an instrumentation that has Bill's live show? pened to any of you as a result of being in a band at ND. become standard for bluegrass bands. Known particu­ Wild Bill's: Again, we turn to ol' Wild Bill - "Friends, Wild Bill's: Well, we once got a big group of kids from larly for its fast tempos and opportunities for exposition strangers, vagabonds, obscure appreciators and affi­ Amnesty International to dance in a big circle to Bob of musicians' virtuosity, bluegrass grew out of folk and cianados, your tired poor huddled masses ... "all walks of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." That's not quite country music and finds its geographical roots in the life show up to hear these boys play. It is truly a treat." so weird as incredibly fitting, though. Let's see. It sure southern Appalachian region of the United States. We will be weird when Student Activities actually pays us ... play a more "northernized" and popularized version of Observer: So far, how has ND received Wild Bill's? • bluegrass [not one of us, after all, is from south of the Wild Bill's: We'd say that most who come to listen to us Observer: What can ND students who have never seen Mason-Dixon line] but we try to keep our repitoire bal­ are pleasantly surprised by what bluegrass actually is. Wild Bill's expect from one of your live shows? anced with a good number of "classic" bluegrass tunes. All joking aside, we like to think that bluegrass is at its Wild Bill's: They can expect an upbeat, energized mix of heart just fun music. It's upbeat and it's lively and it's traditional and popular music played in true bluegrass Observer: What is the origin of your unique name? very accessible. The popularity of the "0 Brother Where style. Fast-paced dancing has been known to break out Wild Bill's: We were jamming one day on "Will the Art Thou" soundtrack has certainly helped to put the spontaneously at our shows, including various iterpreta­ Circle be Unbroken" when the ghost of the great Wild music form on the map as well. The best thing, really, is tions of the "electric slide" [at least, that's what it looked Bill was gracious enough to pay us a visit. Our mandolin that it's so flexible. We do Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and like to us] as well as many, let us say. less-choreo­ player Nick was really scared at first, and Kevin didn't The Grateful Dead right alongside with classic folk or graphed steps. If you like to clap your hands and stomp fiddle tunes. That definitely helps to get our audi­ your feet, we're your band. ences exCited about what we're playing. We have usually been received surprisingly well. As our gui­ Observer: What else does Notre Dame need to knoll' tar player Marcel says, "It's all part of our secret about Wild Bill's Bluegrass Brigade? plan to get our fellow students out of their rooms Wild Bill's: Many things we have said here are bol(: with their MP3 playlists and into the world of live faced lies. We're not lying, however, when we say tha: music." we love what we're doing. When all is said and done. we're mostly in all of this to have a good time. We enjoy Observer: lJoes Wild Bill have any groupies? just practicing and when we play in front of people wt· Wild Bill's: Being a Wild Bill's groupie is a calling just hope that we can share a little bit of the excitement that few have responded to as of yet. It requires a that we find in the music with them. And we might add special attitude, but more importantly, a special to any who are still not sure if they want to come out tu wardrobe, including straw hats, flannel shirts. see us: We do play a damn fine version of the CharJi,· toothpicks and perhaps some missing teeth. In Daniel's Band's "The Devil Went down to Georgia.'' truth, we are indebted to our close friends who, while at times failing the wardrobe test, have been This story was compiled by Sam Derheimer, who can great about supporting us everytime an_d every­ be contacted at [email protected]. For more information where we've played. Our bass player Kevin would on Wild Bill's Bluegrass Brigade. contact Jared Marx at like to remind the student body that we are, how­ jmarx@nd. edu. ever. an equal opportunity fan-base employer and This article is the first in a series of future collabora­ we are always trying to get the word out about our tions with WVF/. If you would like to have your band band to whoever will listen. Those who wish to featured, please contact the Scene Department at The receive the Wild Bill's email newsletter [this reallv Observer at [email protected]. exists] need only e-mail our banjo player Jared at [email protected].

Observer: Describe your greatest moment as a band. Wild Bill's: Our greatest moment was getting paid by Student Activities for a show at Senior Bar that we played in January. Oh wait, that still hasn't happened ... But seriously, we were pretty bummed out after Christmas break when our origi­ nal fiddle player, Nathan, wasn't able to come back Photo courtesy of Liesl Marx to school for the second semester. But we were Nick Doro and Marcel Lanahan of Wild Bill's Bluegrass incredibly lucky to fmd Jamie, a tremendous musi­ Brigade perform their style of energetic, "northern" blue­ cian who had played fiddle since his childhood and grass at the Coleman-Morse Center on Notre Dame campus. majored in music as an undergrad, to take his ~------

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MEN'S lACROSSE Notre Dame suffers 7-6 setback at Pennsylvania

Special to The Observer

The Notre Dame men's lacrosse team suffered its sec­ ond straight one-goal loss as the Irish dropped a 7-6 decision on the road at Pennsylvania. Sonny Sarker broke a 6-6 deadlock with 4:30 remaining when he tallied the game-winning score which gave the Quakers the vic­ tory in their season opener. Sophomore Dan Berger scored a career-high four goals for the Irish in the contest. Berger net­ ted Notre Dame's first four goals of the game. Trailing 6-5, freshman Chris Richez's first collegiate goal tied the game with 7:10 left in the contest. Kyle Frigon tallied the other goal for the Irish. Sarker and Scott Solow each had two goals f9r Pennsylvania in the win. The Quakers led 5-3 at the half after outscoring the Irish 3- 1 in the second quarter. Notre Dame held Pennsylvania score­ less in the third 15-minute stan­ za as the two teams head into the decisive fourth quarter tied at 5-5. With the loss, Notre Dame falls to 0-2 on the season. The Irish return to action on Sat., March 9 RICO CASAAESffhe Observer at home against Rutgers. Face­ A Notre Dame player makes his way down the field surrounded by Quakers. The Irish fell 7-6 to Pennsylvania this weekend to fall ofT is at 1:00 p.m. 0-2 on the season.

WOMEN'S lACROSSE Irish set pace early for 15-3 win over No. 17 Ohio University

"I was on a roll," said McCardell and Maureen Loftus. "We had to step it up." team has. By CHRIS COLEMAN Fischer. "I was just hoping to Henwood had steals that led to The team responded to "After coming off last week­ Sports Writer play well." .goals in the early first half. Loftus' effort and played out end at Loyola, it was really one Fischer was the leading scor­ Goalie Jen White had 10 the end of the game solidly of our goals to be the first to Alissa Moser and Lauren er for the Irish. saves, an interception and despite aggression from the score and to keep it rolling." Fischer set the tone early for The Bulldogs were nflt able some out of goal plays. frustrated Ohio team. said Moser. "We needed to the Irish in Sunday's game to come back from the initial "Jen is technically very The Irish dominated the mid­ come out strong this game and against No. 17 Ohio University scoring bombardment as the sound. She reads the play very dle of the field for the entire set the tone for the whole sea­ on the way to a 15-3 victory Irish played stingy defense the well," said Coyne. game, forcing the Bulldogs to son." over the Bulldogs. whole game. Ohio threatened to make the constantly try to catch up with The Irish hope to carry this Moser, team captain, scored "The attack was getting pos­ game closer in the second half the faster home team. Danielle tone into Stanford and Florida the first goal for Notre Dame in session off the draw, [Ohio] scoring two quick goals. Shearer set up three goals, and during their spring break trip. under 30 seconds, then was never got it down on our side Natalie Loftus led an Irish scored one herself. Angela The Irish will be back at home assisted by Fischer for another of the field," said Tracy Coyne, rebuttal, getting an assist and Dixon and Loftus both had two March 17 against Big East ! point two minutes later. Irish head coac11. goal as well as colliding with goals in addition to three each opponent Boston College, ~ I Fischer continued the scoring The Irish played a more the keeper. from Moser and Fischer. Ten which will begin a five game ~ streak, grabbing the next three active defense, attacking the "We played solid the whole different people scored for home stand. Irish goals. The pair scored ball as soon as it came into game and we did not want Notre Dame, showing the num­ five of the team's first six their half. . Both Kelly them to come back in it," said ber of potential weapons this Contact Chris Coleman at l goals. ccolemanl @nd.edu.

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SOFTBALL Irish split pair of games at Aggie Invitational Stenglein rebounded from her By AARON RONSHEIM poor outing to shut out Illinois Sports Writer State. Stenglein spread five hits over seven innings for her forth For the third time this season victory of the season. the No. 24 Notre Dame softball Both pitchers posted zeros on team split a pair of games on the the scoreboard until Irish All­ opening day of a weekend tour­ American center fielder Jenny nament. The Irish dropped the Kriech started a two-out rally first game 6-3 to No. 19 with a triple over the ISU center Louisiana-Lafayette, but fielder's head. Freshman right­ regrouped to defeat Illinois State fielder Megan Ciolli followed at the Texas A&M Aggie with a single up the middle, Invitational over the weekend. bringing Kriech home and giving "I think that we are playing the Irish a 1-0 lead. some great teams ... but that "[Megan] really stepped up. day, that game, they played bet­ All the freshmen have stepped ter than us," said Deanna up. I am proud of all of them, Gumpf, Irish head coach. and they can only get better," Against Louisiana-Lafayette, said Gumpf Irish pitcher Steffany Stenglein The Irish brought some awful was not helped by the Irish weather with them to Texas as defense, as two Notre Dame both of their games on Saturday errors allowed the Cajuns to take were cancelled because of rain a quick 3-0 lead. Stenglein was and high winds. The Irish were pulled in the second inning after scheduled to play Illinois State giving up another run on double again and a rematch of last down the leftfield line by the weekend's 2-1 lost to No. 23 Cajuns' Summer Lapeyrouse. TexasA&M. Hight-hander Carrie Wisen went "We would have loved to get a the rest of the way holding the second chance against Texas Cajuns to only two runs. A&M again because I know we The Irish capitalized on could have won. We were pretty Louisiana-Lafayette's errors to positive about the weekend but score three unearned runs in the unfortunately the weather didn't forth inning for their only scor­ hold off," said Hoag. ing. "Every weekend we are play­ "We battled back. ing top competition. I think that's Unfortunately we had too many something people don't realize. mistakes. The mistakes will get As long we keep improving you in the end because the team against these great teams we will with less mistakeS' is going to be there in the end and that is all win," said Kas Hoag, team cap­ I care about," she said. tain. ANDY WILSON/The Observer In their second game, the Irish Junior Andrea Loman prepares to take a swing In a previous Irish game. Notre Dame split its defense was again solid as Contact Aaron Ronsheim at games this weekend with a win over Illinois State and a loss to Louisiana-Lafayette • .------_.-ar,[email protected].

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BASEBALL Strong Irish pitching leads to three wins over weekend

strong pitching perfor­ in the game. Freshman John By JOE HETTLER mance, this time by fresh­ Axford was given his first Sports Writer man right-hander Chris career loss after going 2 1/3 Niese!. The rookie followed innings. The Notre Dame baseball up his 10-strikeout perfor­ In the weekend finale team relied upon strong mance against Southern against Sacred Heart pitching in all four of its Illinois with nine strikeouts University on Sunday, the games last weekend at the and only one walk against Irish were led by their 1-2-3 Homestead Classic in the Stags. He also picked up hitters and an effective Florida, en route to picking his first career victory in a pitching performance by up three wins in four tries. Notre Dame uniform. Senior Pete Ogilvie, who went five The Irish won their open­ right-hander Matt innings, yielding only one ing game 6-0 against Buchmeier grabbed his sec­ run, striking out four and Duquesne Friday night ond save of the season by walking only one batter. behind the arm of junior pitching the eighth and Stanley had another four-hit right-handed pitcher J.P. ninth innings. game, Bok collected three Gagne and the hitting of Senior center fielder Steve more hits, and freshman senior catcher Paul O'Toole. Stanley paced the Irish with shortstop Matt Edwards Gagne gave up two hits, four hits and scored two added two hits of his own to struck out six and did not runs, while Matt Bok w-ent pace the Irish. walk a batter in his seven 3-3 and scored one run. Bok improved his team­ innings of work. Another Macri started as the desig­ leading batting average to junior right-hander, nated hitter and had anoth­ .500 (10-20) while Stanley Brandon Viloria, worked er solid hitting performance moved into third place in scoreless eighth and ninth by adding a double, driving Notre Dame baseball histo­ innings to close out the in two runs and scoring ry, passing Alec Porzel, with game. once again. 280 career hits. Stanley O'Toole slammed his first Macri's classmate, Grant ended the weekend by going home run of the season, a Johnson, got his first career 10-18 and improved his bat­ three-run shot in the fourth start in the nightcap against ting average to .438. inning, and added a single Florida International and Senior closer Matt Laird as well. went 5 1/3 innings allowing pitched the ninth to record Freshman shortstop Matt only two earned runs and his first save of the season. Macri made his Notre Dame .l)triking out seven to give The Irish were without debut an impressive one by the Irish the opportunity to several players during the collecting two hits, including win. Unfortunately for Notre weekend trip, including a double and an RBI single. Dame, the eighth inning reigning Big East Player of Macri had been unable to turned into a disaster. the Week Andrew Bushey play in the any of the Irish's Trailing the Panthers 5-4 and junior outfielder Brian previous games this season in the eighth inning, the Stavisky. due to an elbow strain. Irish allowed eight runs, On Saturday, the Irish won including seven unearned, ERNESTO LACAYOffhe Observer their first game against before losing 13-4. Notre Contact Joe Hettler at Senior Paul O'Toole heads to the base in a previous Irish baseball Fairfield 6-4 behind another Dame committed six errors hettler.l @nd.edu. game. Notre Dame won three of its four games this weekend.

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WOMEN'S TENNIS Irish defeat Wisconsin, Ohio State in weekend matches

Green turned in a strong singles The win improved the Irish to By COLIN BOYlAN performance with a 6-2, 6-4 vic­ 9-5, a stark contrast from a cou­ Sports Writer tory over Shana McElroy to give ple of weeks ago when the team the Irish a 2-0 lead and some was struggling at 4-5. The Irish earned a convincing breathing room. Louderback credits the 5-2 win victory against Wisconsin on Varnum eventually won the against Iowa two weeks ago for Friday, beginning by sweeping first set and then rolled over the team's improved play. the doubles matches and going Raub in the second for a 7-5, 6-1 "I think the Iowa match was a on to sweep the match. They victory and Connelly quickly fol­ turning point for our season," came back against Ohio State on lowed with a 7-5, 6-2 victory that said Louderback. Saturday to win 5-2, pushing clinched the match. "It was a big one for us their record to 9-5 and their win­ The Irish were far from done, because all of our seniors ning streak to season-high five however, as Salas and Vaughan stepped up their games when we matches. both turned their games around needed them to. Since then, "I thought the team played and earned tough three set victo­ we've played very well as a fantastic this weekend," said Jay ries, and Cunha added a three team." Louderback, head coach. set win of her own to seal the The Irish now face a difficult "Obviously it wasn't good to lose shutout. road test as six of their next the doubles point against Ohio "I was really happy with the seven matches will be played State, but it's a great confidence way we fought back to win those away from the Eck Center. The boost to know we can come back three setters," road trip will include difficult and win a match like that." said Louderback. matches against North Carolina, Friday's match against the No. Against the Buckeyes Duke and Wake Forest. 35 Badgers was expected to be a Saturday, it initially appeared as Louderback, however, is trying difficult test, but the Irish played if the team's momentum had not not to focus too much orr that strong early on and fought back carried over into that match. The fact. "It's big for us because we in several tough singles matches top two doubles teams struggled will be playing outdoors for to blank their opponents. to losses and only the third team week, but I don't worry too much The team opened competition of Salas and Connelly played about six of seven on the road," by sweeping the doubles match­ strong enough to earn a win. he said. es with surprising ease. Down 1-0, the Irish were in the Instead, the team will focus on Teammates Lindsey Green and unfavorable position of having to improving their doubles play, an Becky Varnum won their match come back from a doubles loss issue that has concerned 8-3 and Katie Cunha and Nina for the first time all season. Louderback all year. Recently, he Vaughan clinched the doubles However, Green continued her shifted the doubles line-up and point with an 8-4 victory. Only strong play with a 6-2. 6-0 win re-paired certain players with the third team of Alicia Salas and and both Vaughan and Cunha one another. So far, the results Sarah Jane Connelly seemed to pounded their opponents by have been reasonably successful. encounter difficulty, but they too scores of 6-3, 6-2. Namely, the new tandem of pulled out a 9-8 victory and a Vaughan's win was particular­ Salas and Connelly has been doubles sweep. ly impressive, coming against rock solid to date. The team has Things got interesting when Erica Fisk, who was No. 49 in been 6-1 since their pairing and Wisconsin forged a strong come­ the nation entering the weekend. chemistry has been good. back in singles and several Irish Once again, Connelly was there "The switch was defmitely best players struggled early in their to clinch the victory with a 6-3, for the team." said Connelly. matches. Both Vaughan and 6-4 win, her second clinch of the "The No. 2 team [of Cunha and Salas dropped their first sets by weekend. Vaughan] has a lot more experi­ the score of 1-6, as both players "Yeah, it's really nice to clinch ence playing college tennis and seemed plagued by unforced the match," said Connelly, "but it Alicia's playing style is similar to errors. Meanwhile, Varnum was takes a whole team to play well, mine." TIM KACMAR!The Observer embroiled in a close first set bat­ so I don't think that my win is Freshman Sarah Jane Connelly, shown above as she returns the ball, tle with No. 71 Vanessa Raub. more important than anyone Fortunately for the Irish, else's." Contact Colin Boylan at earned a 9-8 victory with doubles partner Alicia Salas this weekend. [email protected].

WOMEN'S GOLF Irish 14th following Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College proudly present first round of Classics

Individually, Tulane's Alexis Special to The Observer Wooster and Alabama­ Birmingham's Heather Lourie The Notre Dame women's golf team battled cold and high each fired one-over par 74's to winds on the way to a 352 total tie for the first round lead. Anna after one round of the Tulane Knutson of Mississippi State and Green Wave Golf Classic at the Carolin Landmann of Tulane par 73, 6,008-yard Lakewood were one stroke behind with directed by Country Club. two-over 75's. Notre Dame's top golfer was Douglas C. Wager The second round of play was cancelled due to poor weather senior Kristin McMurtrie who conditions. The final 18 holes shot a seven-over par 80. will be played on Tuesday begin­ McMurtrie is entered in the tour­ ning at 9:00 a.m. with a shotgun nament as an individual entrant. start. Sophomore Rebecca Rogers The 352 total left the Irish 44 was the team's top scoring golfer strokes behind Tulane as she tied for 43rd with an 85. University. Playing on their 11 strokes behind the tourna­ home course, the Green Wave ment leader. turned in a 26-over par 308 on Shannon Byrne was tied for SPONSORED BY: the way to the tournament's first 57th with an 88. Terri Taibi was round lead. The Green Wave will tied for 62nd with an 89 and take a 10-stroke lead over freshman Casey Rotella had a Campbell University into 90. Karen Lotta Notre Dame's Tuesday's final round. top golfer this season, was dis­ Mississippi State was third with qualified in the first round. a 319 and was followed by the Senior Lauren Fuchs also play­ University of Memphis with a ing as an individual entrant, 321 in fourth and Central joined Taibi in a tie for 62nd Florida with a 323 in fifth. with an 89.

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MEN'S TENNIS Irish make transition to outside play with tournament

to hear the sound of the ball. By listen­ By JOE LINDSLEY ing to the sound you can pretty much Sports Writer tell how well it's hit and how hard it's hit, and [the ball's] trajectory stays the After its first outdoor tournament same because there's no wind," Bayliss play since last fall, the Notre Dame said. men's tennis team is confident about "Outdoors all that changes," he said. making the transition to the upcoming "Most indoor teams have a really hard outdoor season. time when they first go outdoors .... I The Irish participated in the 113th think we can be better outdoors. We annual Pacific Coast Doubles tourna­ have to make the transition though." ment over the weekend, which was The Notre Dame doubles team of held at the LaJolla Beach and Tennis Brent D'Amico and Aaron Talarico was Club. Since the tournament is open to the most successful of Irish pairs par­ professional, amateur and collegiate ticipating. They lost to Scott Lipsky and athletes it is not officially sanctioned David Martin of Stanford, one of the by the NCAA. While it counts towards a top doubles teams in the nation. playing date. it does not count toward "Our guys played awfully well," official standings. There are no team Bayliss said. "Over the weekend, I was scores since it is an individual doubles really happy [with the transition]." tournament. "I think everyone got some good Boasting Don Budge, John McEnroe practices. We could have done a little and Jack Kramer as previous winners, better in some areas, but overall, going the Pacific Coasts Doubles continues to outdoors after being in doors for so attract elite competition. long, it was a good transition," "We go for two reasons. One, the D'Amico said. competition is exceptionally good. The Irish duo of Javier Taborga and Secondly, it is our transition to outdoor Casey Smith, ranked seventh national­ play," said head coach Bobby Bayliss. ly, did not participate in this tourna­ Top-ranked teams such as Stanford, ment because the NCAA limits the University of Southern California, number of playing dates to 25, and University of California at Los Angeles Bayliss would rather have them com­ and Pepperdine competed. pete in tournaments that count toward Since South Bend :weather prevents official records and standings in the the Irish from practicing outside and Notre Dame's effort to win the Big East NCAA rules prevent teams from travel­ and to advance to the regional and ing to warmer areas in order to prac­ national championships. tice, Bayliss likes to have his team Andrew Laflin and Matt Scott compete in this tournament every year advanced to the second round, where in hopes that the outdoor experience they lost to Sebastian Graff and Stefan will help the Irish prepare for the Suter of Pepperdine. The duos of Matt approaching outdoor season. Horsley and Billy Pate and Br.ian "We are able to go there and play Farrell and Luis Haddock lost in the outside, and if we don't make that first round. transition very well, it really doesn't The Irish will next compete indoors cost us anything," Bayliss said. at Illinois on Thursday. It is not an easy transition from the indoor season to the outdoor season. BRIAN PUCEVICHfThe Observer "Indoors you're in a relative vacuum, Contact Joe Lindsley at so the ball sounds bigger. It's very easy An Irish player returns the ball in a match earlier this season. Notre Dame partic­ [email protected]. ipated in the U3th annual Pacific Coast Doubles Tournament this past weekend.

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CLUB SPORTS Irish figure skating places 7th in U.S. Championships League (Princeton, Columbia), sive play at libero anchored the fences to earn Reserve High Mike Stephens in the A divi­ Special to The Observer from Big East Syracuse to club. In a playoff game for Point Rider honors. Molly sion, and Matt Cassady and perennial powers such as seeding, the Irish defeated Ohio Kopacz again was a standout Meghann Finerghty in the B The Notre Dame figure skat­ Delaware and New Hampshire to advance to the gold bracket. for the Irish as she placed sec­ division. ing club skated a strong pro­ competed, yet the Irish, skating Jim Lowder, Brian Price, Adam ond in intermediate fences. gram with excellent presenta­ what was described as the Schreier and Brian Michalek Also garnering points for the Ultimate tion to place seventh in the "program of a lifetime" still were strong on attack all week­ Irish were Sabrina Badger and Injuries and illness prevented 2002 U.S. Synchronized Team were able to place in the upper end and led the Irish over the Quin Swiney, a depleted ultimate club Skating Championships at Lake tier of the nationals. Bobcats 15-7. women's squad from advancing Placid, N.Y. In the challenge round, losses Sailing in the Rocky VII tournament in With a backdrop of Sarah Men's Volleyball to Toledo, 25-17, 25-23 and While the campus was sub­ Philadelphia this weekend. Hughes, Michelle Kwan, Jaime The men's volleyball club Indiana, 25-20, 25-17 dropped jected to snow, ice and contin­ After opening with dominat­ Sale and women's figure skat­ split six decisions this week­ the Irish to a ninth place finish ued cold weather, the sailing ing wins over Maryland, 13-1, ing receiving so much sports end, including two matches in the 27 -team field. The Irish club was competing in the and Rutgers, 12-2, the Irish coverage in recent weeks, the with top-four nationally ranked held the lead most of the first Eckerd College Intersectional dropped a pair of games to timing was right for the Irish to teams. game against the third-ranked Regatta in Florida. Yale, 12-5, and top seeded receive well-deserved atten­ The Irish opened 2-1 in pool Hoosiers, before a powerful Competing in a strong field Bucknell, 11-3. A knee injury tion. Traditional power Miami play, losing to Lees-McCrae 25- arsenal of jump serves knocked against teams that practice didn't leave enough women to Ohio won the competition, even 21, 26-24 and defeating the Irish out of the tournament year round, the Irish placed field a team, so the Irish with­ as one judge placed the Irish Baldwin Wallace 25-21, 24-26, bracket. seventh as host Eckerd won the drew from competition. ahead of the Redhawks. 15-12. The highlight of the event followed closely by Highlights of the abbreviated Skating to a Latin-themed tournament was the victory Equestrian Rollins. weekend were Karen Chu's program, the Irish finished over No. 4 Illinois 25-20, 20- Several equestrians had The Irish were bunched with deep cuts and Meredith ahead of many experienced 25, 25-11. exceptional performances this Florida State, Florida, Tulane Sheperd's layout catches. The clubs and even several varsity Rob Smith, Dan Parziale and weekend at the Illinois and South Florida, with North Irish also attacked well against programs. Teams from the Big Mike Giampa provided consis­ Wesleyan Show. Carolina State trailing the rest the zone defenses that had 10 (Michigan State, Michigan, tent play from middle hitter Callie Willis placed first in of the field. The Irish were proven troublesome before this Illinois, Wisconsin) to the Ivy while Mark Overmann's defen- both novice flat and novice crewed by Jack Gaither and weekend.

MEN'S BASKETBALL Some thoughts before we go mad

Unseasonably warm weather Seton HalVSt. John's game in the ing in your direction), but that's improve their seeding for the big Of course, it will do the Irish no leaving town like a boxer running quarterfmals. Playing the Red why it's called "madness" and dog of all tournaments. favors if they have a hard time from Mike Tyson. Convincing Storm at Madison Square Garden not the "NBA Playoffs". As Kenny Zeigler of Furman, focusing on this week's prelimi­ yourself "studying" for midterms would be a tall order for the Irish So, of course, Notre Dame the team that lost to Davidson in naries. isn't really "trying to read every­ and, despite their 2-0 record wants to go to New York City, the conference championship, But it would be understand­ thing for the first time." against the Pirates, swashbuck­ win three games, pick up another said on ESPN.com: "It's March able. Finding out Notre Dame hadn't ling Seton Hall wouldn't be much trophy and some claim to a con­ Madness. Anything can happen." won 20 games in the regular sea­ easier. ference championship for its own And the Irish can be pretty Contact Ted Fox at son since 1988-89. But here's the funny thing sake. much assured they'll have a shot [email protected]. The views in this None of this could spoil the about the conference tourna­ But the bigger goals, some­ to make that anything happen, column are those of the author month of ment: what does it mean, again, times spoken and sometimes not, regardless of what happens on and not necessarily those of The college bas­ exactly? If you're a team like are to build momentum and Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Observer. ketball that Providence, the sixth seed out of is now upon the "Is There an Echo in Here?" us, or what and you can win four games in I like to call four nights, you'll get an NCAA "The Happy Tournament bid. Happy Joy And while you're pulling off Joy Time of that magic act, try to convince Year." Yes, the PAC-10 and Mountain West I am seek­ to stop complaining about the ing profes­ ·Ted Fox East Coast bias, would ya? sional help. Beyond that, it's a no man's But this Sports land of hoops, predominantly month of featuring teams already in the madness Columnist NCAA tournament and encom­ always passing four days that no one will tends to remember as soon as it ends. bring out the best in us. The two things that save these For starters, you can scratch conference tournaments are the Digger Phelps' late '80's team fact that they feature college bas­ from that distinction and replace ketball, and that basketball is it with Mike Brey's bunch, who played in March. picked up regular-season win No. The only playoff that does mat­ 20 Saturday against Providence. ter gets underway next week Throw in the three-game skid with the 64 teams that make it of Syracuse to finish the season, through selection Sunday and and the Irish finished second in onto the court on Thursday. I'm the Oxymoron Division (Big East sorry, but team No. 65, the loser West, as opposed to the "Is There of the "play-in" game, we have an Echo in Here?" Division, the no record of you actually being Big East East). there. Now, back in the pre-confer­ In the NCAA Tournament, it's ence tournament days, that win six straight games played didn't mean a whole lot. But as over the course of three weeks, long as Notre Dame has to play go home national champions. in a Big East Tournament, and Lose, just go home. since the folks at Conagra Foods This is all anyone cares about. :want to sponsor something, These are the brackets Brey has Brey's Bunch might as well take hanging up in his office all sea­ that first-round bye. son long. Besides, I'm all for anything Whether you're Davidson, that takes the Orange's 2-0 whose already in as the Southern record against the Irish and Conference Champion, or Duke, makes it less meaningful than who I'll go out on a limb and trying to figure out which of a guess will be there, the task possible three teams is the real remains the same: win six. Big East champion. Once you're there, no coaches Granted, the Irish don't have or sports writers can tell you an exactly sterling record in Big whether or not you get to play for East Tournament play, so win­ the national title. Win six, and ning games, and not first-round you can ask them to help you byes, should be their biggest con­ make room in your trophy case. cern right now. No, the best team doesn't They'll get the winner of the always win (Kansas, we're look- Tuesday, March 5, 2002 The Observer+ TODAY page 19

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MEN'S BASKETBALL Graves, Humphrey, Thomas named All-Big East

All-Big East first team. points per game and a league­ "[Thomas] has gotten a lot of and ready to go." By ANDREW SOUKUP Freshman point guard Chris leading 10.6 rebounds per respect from the players and The seven players named to - Associate Sports Editor Thomas joined him on the game. He recorded 18 double­ the coaches in the league, " the All-Big East first team squad as a third-team selec­ doubles in 27 games. Brey said. were Boston College's Troy Three Notre Dame basket­ tion and senior guard David Thomas, who was also Thomas, Okafur and Gomes Bell, Connecticut's Caron ball players earned spots on Graves earned honorable men­ named to the Big East All­ are considered the leading Butler, Georgetown's Mike the All-Big East team, but all tion recognition. Rookie team, is averaging 16 candidates for Big East Rookie Sweetney, Pittsburgh's insist the "It's great points per of the Year. which will be Brandin Knight, St. John's focus of the and all, but game. He announced at a banquet Marcus Hatten, Syracuse's Big East I'm just joined tonight. Preston Shumpert and -<"- Tourn­ glad three Connect­ Graves~ who has played the Humphrey. The Big East ament is on guys got icut's most games in Notre Dame Player of the Year will also be how the the honor," E m e k a history, is averaging 14.9 announced tonight. team does, Humphrey Okafur and points per game .. He has also The Irish play the winner of not their said. "It Provi­ recorded 49 steals this season. Wednesday's St. John's-Seton individual really dence's "It's a nice honor that some Hall game. Game time is 9 accolades. shows the R y a n guys think I'm good enough to p.m. Thursday. S e n i o r Graves strength of Humphrey Gomes as Thomas be on the All-Big East team," forward our pro- the only Graves said. "But my focus Ryan Humphrey was one of gram right now." unanimous selections to the was for us to win games, and Contact Andrew Soukup at seven players named to the Humphrey averaged 18.9 rookie squad. we've done that. We're poised [email protected].

WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD Irish set records at Alex Wilson Invitational

on that day. The provi­ • Women's sional time is what we were looking for. and we team awaits got it. Now we're just NCAA ·qualifying going to have to wait and decision see how we compare with the other teams in the country," said King, who runs the anchor leg of the By DAVE COOK relay. Sports Writer King also ran a person­ al best in the mile last The w~men's distance weekend. Her second medley team accom­ place time of 4:44.60 plished all they could in qualifies her for nation­ trying to qualify for the als. although she may not NCAA championships this be running in it if the dis­ weekend. tance medley team quali­ The relay team - con­ fies. sisting of Kristen Dodd, "[King] qualified in the \1egan Johnson, Lauren mile, but probably King, and Jen Handley­ wouldn't run it. She'll finished in first place at probably just run the [dis­ the Alex Wilson tance medley]," said head Invitational last Friday. In coach Joe Piane. doing so. they ran a sea­ Megan Johnson and Jen ... son best 11 minutes, Handley qualified in the 26.92 seconds, placing distance relay, while them 15th in the nation. Kristen Dodd also quali­ Each year the NCAA fied in the mile relay. determines how many The mile relay team teams will qualify for continued their succ-ess nationals in any given this weekend, breaking event. The relay team's all kinds of records. Their ranking of 15th in the time of 3:36.84 is a track nation puts the Irish on record, meet record, and the bubble. Now, all they school record by over 1.5 can do is wait for the seconds set by the same NCAA to make a decision four girls. It also moves Monday on whether or them up in the rankings not they will qualify. for next weekend's NCAA "I think everyone put TIM .KACMAR!The Observer together what they had see TRACK/page 17 Liz Grow runs her portion of the mile-relay. The team broke the track record, meet record and school record in this weekend's meet as well as being ranked in the top five in the nation.

+ Women's Golf at Tulane Green Wave Golf Classic, Tuesday, All Day SPORTS + Men's Basketball at Big East Tournament, Thursday, AT A GLANCE 9:30p.m.