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disease will be honored. By ERIN PIROUTEK In addition to the informational Nt•w>Wrirt•r opportunities, fans will have the opportunity to see the No. 8 Fighting Whnn thn Notre Dame women's bas­ Irish in action. as well as participate in k ~~ t b a II t e a m t a k e s t h e fl o o r t h i s many giveaways and contests. £1Vnning, it will face not. only Butler, The first 1,000 fans will receive a but also a more formidable enemy - free T-shirt and every fan in atten­ breast cancer. Tonight's 7 p.m. home dance is guranteed a gift, such as a opniHH for thn Fighting Irish is a poster or magnet. Fans will also have Brnast Cancnr Awarennss Women's the opportunity to win a free round­ Basketball Game coordinated by pro­ trip airline ticket. fessor Chuck Lennon's management Tho students were responsible for class. organization and promotion, which Through narly d1~tnction and prompt includnd public service announce­ trnatmPnt. suffering ments featuring Dick and loss due to breast "This is going to be a spe­ Vitale. ~~ancer can hn greatly "The women's bas­ reduced. cial game to honor all of ketball team has been Bnforn t.lw gamn, the loved ones we've lost more than helpful," frPP to students, fac­ to cancer. " said student Ryan ulty and staff. booths Newell. from Mnmorial "It's been a great llospit.al, St. .Joseph's lmani Dunbar experience," said llospital and Ze1wea junior guard junior guard lmani pharmaceutical com­ Dunbar as she handed Photo courtesy of Chuck Lennon pany will provide out pink cards promot­ information about breast eaneer. ing the game to students at South Members of Chuck Lennon's management class organized tonight's Breast "Thn sayii1g we use is 'early detec­ Dining llall. "This is going to be a spe­ cial game to honor all of the loved Cancer Awareness Women's Basketball Game at 7 p.m. Basketball announcer tion means survival,"' said Lennon. Dick Vitale provided public service messages for the event. Pictured from left noting that a goal of the event is to ones we've lost to cancer." is Lennon, Wally Widelski (athletic department Intern), Ryan Newell, Vitale, al1~rting rweryone to the importance of In addition to wearing pink ribbons mamm_ograms and b1·east se1f-exams. in their shoelaces, the women's bas­ Kevin Bochenek, Megan McCauley, Ed Golom (kneeling) and Rachel Tolley. Mammography ean dnteet possibly ketball team will wear specially cancerous breast changes long before designed T -shirts that read "Long Live shirts to the Butler players. of management they leam in the class­ physical symptoms can bn seen or feH. Courage" with the pink ribbon breast Lennon's class. management 231, is room and apply them to a real-life sit­ At half-timn. thn sounds of the song cancer logo during the pre-game one of several service-learning classes uation that benefits the community. "I Will Survivo" will fill t.hn arena and warmup. As the players are intro­ offered by the University. The class duced, the Irish will present the same those who have triumphed over the allows students to take the principles see HOOPS/page 4

30 students donate blood to rally for lO~year-old patient

By TIM LOGAN News Editor

Virtually no one on this campus knows Patty Collins, a I 0-year old girl living in Seattle, but 30 studrmts took time out of their day Tuesday to donate a pint of blood in her name. The Arnold -Air Socinty held a blood drive Tuesday as part of a nationwide effort to raise 1,000 pints of blood by Collins' 11th birthday later this month. The young girl is suffering from a rare form of liver cancer and her parents have asked their friends to organize these blood drives in her name, to help combat blood bank shortages in the u.s. Junior Melissa Bouehe, a member of the Arnold Air Society, organized the event. and said it was a sueeess. "Our goal was to have 25 people come," she said. "We were really pleased with all the participation we had." Students actually had to be turned away at some points during the drive, which ran from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in LaFortune Student Center, because there were not enough nurses on duty to administer the donations. "We turned down so many people," Bouche said. "It's· too bad, but we didn't have enough faeilitins." Some students signed up in advance, BETSY STOREYfrhe Observer but word-of-mouth drew others to thn A nurse attends to Freshman Kathleen McGoey as she donates blood for the Arnold Air Society Tuesday at LaFortune see BLOOD/page 4 Student Center. The organization exceeded its goal of 25 blood donors. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Wednesday, December 1, 1999

INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN SOUTH BEND Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Clash of the + Star for Santa's Tree: + Holiday tea: +Santa's Christmas + International Winter 6:30 p.m., Planetarium Sandwiches, scones, parade: 5:30p.m., parade Festival: 4-7 p.m., enter­ Titans and Space Museum, 55860 cookies and music. 2-4 with fire engines, carolers tainment, refreshments Bittersweet Rd., p.m.; $9 per adult. 420 W. and lighting of Christmas and activities. $3-5 admis­ versus Wilt Chamberlain. Mike Tyson versus Mohammed Ali. Undefeated '7 4 Mishawaka. Washington St. tree. Downtown sion. Northern Indiana versus the '85 Chicago Bears. Which dream matchup ranks as the greatest of Reservations required. Mishawaka. Center for History, 808 W. all time? None of the ones I 234-5959. Washington St. have listed so far. There is only one such matchup that Tom Keeley could possibly live up to its billing - one that involves two of the mightiest behe- Cartoonist moths ever to grace their Compiled from U-Wire reports respective domains. One that OUTSIDE THE DOME pits two opposing forces so powerful that if they were ever to actually meet in the heat of battle the results would be so catastrophic that all Duke questions bonfire following A&M tragedy aspects of life would be drastically altered for decades to come. I give you the ultimate clash of DURHAM, N.C. president Tallman Trask said of the the titans- versus the Keebler Elves. The collapse of the six-tiered, 55- A&M tragedy. "At Duke, the danger These two competitors offer a matchup so foot-tall bonfire structure at Texas can be avoided if people behave prop­ intriguing that one cannot help but to examine A&M University earlier this month erly. For the last few years. we have both sides carefully and then try to determine an that killed 12 people illustrated the been very successful. ... I do hope peo­ eventual champion. tentative balance between universi­ ple will think about this a little bit and The Smurfs: though admittedly smallin size. ties' age-old traditions and practical be a bit more careful." the Smurfs compensate for this principle weak­ concerns about safety. At their Nov. 16 meeting, adminis­ ness in quantity. Scholars estimate that hundreds "I think the Texas A&M thing has trators decided to stick with what of different Smurfs of all kinds of character traits highlighted for us something we were worked last year, and they are apply­ and specialties populate the SmurfVillage, more certainly focused on in our planning ing for six permits, with one extra for than enough to greatly outnumber the Keebler - safety," said Sue Wasiolek, assis­ the women's basketball national Elves. tant vice president for student affairs. achieve a middle g:-ound, obtaining championship game. Another point to consider is the individual abil­ "The focus has and continues to be on permits for several potential bonfires But the A&M tragedy. served as a ities of several Smurfs that could lead to eventual the safety of the event." on the Main West Campus reminder that one year of safety - or Smurf domination. The most obvious of these key Duke administrators - many of Quadrangle while calling ofT the over­ 90 years in Texas - does not mean players is and his natural leadership whom patrolled last year's five cele­ whelming police and fire department that a potentially dangerous activity is capabilities. Time after time Gargamel has tested brations - met just a few days before presence of the year before. safe. Papa Smurfs mettle and in every instance he has the A&M tragedy to discuss bonfires For the first time in several bonfire "The A&M tragedy was a very sor­ proven his worth. and to attempt to strike that careful years, no serious injuries resulted. rowful reminder that even the happi­ Ever victorious, Papa Smurfs possession of no balance between safety and tradition "These things can be quite danger­ est traditions can have dangerous exploitable weaknesses make him an ideal mili­ at Duke. ous. Ours is a somewhat difl'erent sit­ implications," president Nan Keohane tary general. Other Smurfs of note include Jokey Last year, administrators tried to uation than this one," executive vice said. Smurf and his detailed knowledge of small explo­ sives. Hefty Smurf and his immense strength, ·and Handy Smurf and his expertise in the field of general mechanics. The Keebler Elves: the Keebler Elves principle Airline enrages Arizona students Virginia mulls funding options strength lies in their ability to make adjustments quickly. For almost three decades, the Keebler TUCSON, Ariz. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Elves have provided much of the free world with A University of Arizona doctoral student and a fel­ Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, III's (H) Blue Ribbon every kind of potato chip imaginable. Their mas­ low Saudi Arabian airline passenger are still trying Commission on Higher Education is recommending that tery of the world market did not come about by to get over the shock of being detained on an all state public institutions of higher learning should accident or circumstance. America West airlines flight 11 days ago in what receive funding based on how well the colleges and uni­ The Elves examine every market trend in they claim was ethnic discrimination. University of versities meet performance standards. So far, some minute detail to determine which way their Arizona doctoral student Muhammad Al-Qudhaieen University officials support the recommendation, which industry is headed and then make immediate and Arizona State University doctoral student potentially could increase state funding and aid budget adjustments accordingly. Such quick action Hamdan Al-Shalawi have yet to determine if they planning. The Commission's recommendation is com­ requires intense training and efficient employee will take any legal action. Al-Shalawi said they have prised of three main categories by which schools would management, qualities that would become most a lawyer but are still deciding what to do. "Our rep­ be judged: affordability, quality and accountability. advantageous in the heat of battle. utation is contaminated and for what - for nothing, Schools that meet these qualifications will receive The Keebler Elves also have terrain advantage. just because we're Middle Easterners," Al-Shalawi increased state funding or funding bonuses. Failure to The impenetrable hollow oak tree that the said. AI-Qudhaieen and Al-Shalawi were flying from reach the qualifications would result in minimal state Keebler Elves inhabit provides both protection Phoenix to Washington, D.C. when the plane sud­ support. "The University of Virginia has absolutely noth­ and a structure that could be made into much denly landed at an Ohio airport for an "airplane ing to worry about in terms of funding" because the more than a baked goods workshop if a battle inspection. We did not know at all, that we are actu­ University already has very high standards. said Larry J. would so demand it. ally the ones that were targeted, we had no idea Sabato, government and foreign affairs professor and Just like the American factories were convert­ about what was going on," Al-Qudhaieen said during member of the Blue Ribbon Commission. "A lot of the ed into war machine manufacturing plants dur­ an interview Tuesday. "They just stopped in proposals set forth by the commission are not new here. ing World War II. so too, the oak tree could be Columbus and they said they were having a inspec­ Many of the measures that were in the recommendation transformed into a weapons and ammunitions tion of the plane." are already in place throughout the school." facility. This technological advantage could give the Keebler Elves the edge they need to combat the Smurfs superiority in numbers. Who would win this battle of such epic propor­ tions? Could it be the Keebler Elves with their LOCAL WEATHER NATIONAL WEATHER high technology wiping out all ofSmurf-kind? Or would it be the Smurfs outlasting the Keebler Elves in a war of attrition? 5 Day South Bend Forecast Whatever the outcome, a battle between com­ AccuWeather'"forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures The AccuWeather<" forecast for noon, Wednesday, Dec. 1. batants such as the Keebler Elves and the Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. Smurfs could only be referred to as a Clash of the Titans. ··}·-.....-~··"·/'~.:......

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Collins family, according to Bouche. It was organized in the last two weeks. Blood There may be another blood drive in Hoops continued from page 1 Patty's name next semester, Bouche said, continued from page 1 but she encouraged students to donate Facts about drive. and many of those turned away now. "These kids have done every­ were these walk-ins. "You don't have to wait for the blood thing," said Lennon. "Our say­ Breast Cancer Nurses came from the South Bend drive to come to you," ing in class is 'high trust; high Medical Foundation Blood Bank to draw she said. "Especially performance."' provided by the American Cancer Society the blood, and that organization will during the holiday Blood Facts "It shows you that school receive the donations. season, that's when +Every three isn't just about classes and s u p - • Breast Cancer is the Junior Eric Schearer, a seconds, someone tests - there's applications to blood donor and member "We turned down so pI i e s real life situations," said most common form of are at in America needs of the Arnold Air Society, many people. It's too bad, Margaret Maus, one of cancer in American women. said that the experience their blood. Lennon's students. was a worthwhile one. but we didn't have I o. w - The project will continue long +Approximately "You give blood to help enough facilities. " est." after the final buzzer sounds. • One out of nine women people who are diseased, Most 40,000 pints of Lennon will teach the man­ in the U.S. will develop and the parents of people agement class again next blood are used each breast cancer in her !Collins] wanteci people Melissa Bouche i n semester. That class will orga­ to give blood in her Arnold Air Society good day in the U.S. nize a breast cancer awareness lifetime; In 1960, the health name," he said. "It's a +Roughly 60 baseball game April 30 when was one out of 14. good thing." w h 0 Notre Dame faces StJohn's. Like the donors, the girl's parents are are more than 17 percent of the U.S. Lennon explained that 2,800 members of the Notre Dame community. years old and weigh at population is female University alumni will Her father Bill graduated from the least 110 pounds are get breast cancer. He said the University in 1975, and her mother Kathy eligible to give blood. eligible to give awareness should be expanded graduated from Saint Mary's in 1976. Students who would blood, but only live to include those women. Patty Collins was diagnosed with the like to do so can con- percent do so. The students compiled a cancer in September. Since then, she has tact the South Bend booklet with instructions for had seven blood transfusions, Bouche said. Medical Foundation organizing a breast cancer The drive came to Notre Dame through Blood Bank Monday through Saturday awareness event. The booklet sophomore Peter Sweeney, a member of downtown at 234-1157, or in Mishawaka will be distributed to the 240 the Arnold Air Society and friend of the at 273-8879. Notre Dame alumni clubs .

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Witness: ValuJet executive worried about investigation

MIAMI In a ronf'Prnncn call aftnr tlw Valu.let crash. an airlirw PXPcutivn said he was worrind that fndl'ral of'lirials would lind out about tho air­ lin!~'s failurn to follow a rocomnwndation on airrraft doors that could have containod a cargo lin· on thn plane, an opnrator tcstilind Tuosday . .furors wPrn out of tlw room whnn Sprint opera­ tor Kathlnnn Wlwaton tnstilind. Tho judge in the trial of Valu.Jnt's mrlo;idl~ maintnnan1:e contrac­ tor. SabrnTn1~h. and two l'ormnr employoes !:on­ sidPrnd it inllarnmatory hnarsay and wouldn't allow tlw jury to !war it. Hecalling notns shn took during tlw ~~all. Wlwaton testified that Gil Morgan. Valu.IPL vicP prnsidnnt ol' contracts, said: "I hopn tlw pPopln or thn FM nevrr find out WI' did not follow McDonnc~ll-Douglas rec­ ommendations to keep thosn doors shut."

Security Council requests aid for Congo

UNITED NATIONS Anxious to knPp Congo's peacn ·pro!'.nss from bogging down. the Sncurity Counr.il askod tlw U.N. chif'!' on TlH~sday to start equipping 500 rnilitarv obsMvnrs who rould move quickly into Cc;ngo to monitor a l'ragilc~ c:c~aso-l'ire. Fighting has llart~d up again betwnnn rebnls and tlw troops of l'rPsident Laurent Kabila. Thn two sidns signed a pnacn agreement in August. along with Kabila's allies. Angola and Namibia, and tlw rc~bPis' backers, Hwanda and Uganda. Undc~r the pnacn accord, thn UnitPd Nations is to assistthn cnasn-lirn moni­ Anti-World Trade Organization activists (right) stand-off with Seattle riot police Tuesday outside the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle on Tuesday. WTO Director General Mike Moor opened the WTO mlnis­ tors from the Organization of Afric:an Unity ter's conference more than five hour late due to the demonstrations that at times turned violent. unlilthr) arrival of a largnr U.N. peacekeeping mission that will oversnn the withdrawal of fornign troops from Congo and the disarma­ mnnt of militias. WTO protestors, police clash

against each another. Theater. got in shouting matches By LUIS CABRERA Serbian mayor demands Angry renegades Demonstrators driven with more peacefully Associated Press release of EU oil shipment smashed downtown win­ from the site by clouds of inclined prot~sters during dows at a McDonald's, an red-pepper spray were a midday lull in the action. SEATTLE BliLGHADE. Yugoslavia FAO Schwartz to y store, tended by their own At least one person was Promises of nonviolent a Joan and David shoe medics, who carried bottles arrested for assault during Tlw mayor of a Serbian city despnratcly in pr·otest against World nnPd of hnating oil Tuesday protnsted the gov­ store and U.S.Bank. of water to clear swollen the morning dash outside Trade Organization talks "Barbie Kills" was eyes and breathing pas­ the WTO meeting rooms. nrnnwnt's blockade of a European Union oil were shattered - along shipnwnt nwant for two cities run by opponents sprayed on a toy-store sages. "We know there have with storefront windows - window full of Barbie "They sprayed me right been more [arrests) madn, of President Slobodan Milosnvic. Tomislav as 5,000 demonstrators l'anajotovie, the mayor of Pirot - one of two dolls. in the face. We were just we just don't have the dashed with police seeking Activists upended sitting there chanting to numbers," said police com­ St~rbian citins awaiting 350 tons of heating oil to dear the way for dele­ garbage bins in the streets the delegates, and they mand center spokeswoman stalled at thn southnrn border by Serbian eus­ gates to get into the confer­ torns authoritins - thrnatennd to go on hungc1r to serve as blockades and sprayed us with tear gas," Marti McKee, with the fed­ ence. barricades. Some vandal­ said Tom Wilson, 54. of eral Bureau of Alcohol, strikt~ if tlw shipment is not rnleased soon, the Tensions escalated after ized poliee vehicles, Viroqua, Wis .. who spoke Tobacco and·Firearms. indnpendnnt Beta nnws agency reported. police used pepper spray l'anajotovie said that by Tunsday afternoon. his methodically slashing with his eyes closed, gri­ Officers, trying to clear a Tuesday to disperse tires. kicking in doors and macing in pain, as he was path for delegatc1s moving dty had usNI up all its h1~ating oil rnsnrves. "Wn crowds that had stalled the scrawling graffiti after the treated on the street. between WTO venues. did cwerything to serurn thn needed quantities meeting's opening cere­ of hnating oil. but lwrause of the evil govern­ morning dash delayed the Black-garbed young men warned crowds blocking monies. In one place, conferenee 's opening cer­ in ski masks were behind intersections that they Ill!' Ill policies. Pi rot is without hnating," demonstrators turned l'anajotovie told independent B2-92 radio. Some emonies at the Paramount some of the vandalism and would be cleared using 14 EU oil trucks rnmainnd stuck at the Macedonian border.

lifijii.ft11ttlM@IW/J Study: Gulf War illness is brain damage Dow AMEx: 832.81 we have proof of brain cal exposure is the answer, The brain stem controls By BRENDA COLEMAN }ONES 7o.lo damage in sick Gulf War Quigley said. "We need to some of the body's reflexes, Associated Press Nasdaq: veterans," said the lead take a look at it." and the basal ganglia are -70.11 3336.16 researcher. Dr. James The researchers reported switching stations for nervn -85.21 CJIICAGO Fleckenstein, professor of that magnetic resonance impulses controlling move­ Brain scans of soldiers radiology at the University spectroscopy, which mea­ ment, memory and emotion. NYSE who believe they suffer of Texas Southwestern sures body chemistry, The basal ganglia, for 631.18 from Gulf War illness sug­ Medical Center in Dallas. revealed that veterans who example, are where thn -532 gest they have brain dam­ "They can be belinved - believe they have the illness malfunctioning occurs that age. possibly from chemi­ s&r• 500: Composite they're not malingering, have lower-than-normal causes Parkinson's disease. JJ 1389.07 Volume: cals they were exposed to they're not depressed. levels of a chemical, N­ In the study. brain scans 10,877.81 -I 8.76 I !1,639,!169,121 during the conflict, they're not stressed. acetyl-aspartate, in the of 22 sick veterans revealed VOLUME LEADERS rnsearchers reportnd There's a hope for treat­ brain stem and basal gan­ levels of N-acetyl-aspartate Tunsday. ment and there's hope for glia. 10 percent to 25 percent COMPANY TICKIR ' CHANQI I CHANQ! PRICK The researchers said vet­ V~ONJ: CORP VON I +l78. 95 +9 .9375 ll.SO being able to monitor the That suggests a loss of lower than those in 18 ANIR.ICA ONt..INR AOL -7.75 -6.1100 71:.88 erans who report symptoms MICI\OBOPT CORP MSPT .o. 96 +0.86l5 91. OS progn1ss of the disease." neurons in those areas, said healthy veterans. DILL COMPUTII\ DILL -1.11 -0.7500 u.oo MOLU INC MOLX +17.U +7 .5000 !50.50 of the illness had lower lev­ A Pentagon spokesman, the researchers. who pre­ Fleckenstnin said. The find­ A,..T CORP T -6.87 -4.UOO 55.88 nls of a certain brain chemi­ CUCO BTSTIMI csco -l.U -3.5600 89.19 Hear Adm. Craig Quigley, sented the findings at the ing held up in an additional IORIL CORP COI\L -12.57 -l.6l50 18 • .25 cal than hnalthy veterans of IICI WORLOCOM IN WCOM -5.09 -· .4350 8;l.69 said he looked forward to 85th annual meeting of the six sick Gull' War vctnrans INTIL COI\P INTC -2. as -2.2475 76.69 the 1991 conflict. examining the research. "I Hadiological Society of drawn from a different part "This is the first time ever hope he's right" that chemi- North America. of the military. he said. ~------~ -~------.,.--~-

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for 14 yoars at St. Moinrad, granted a defense motion to Associated Press whP-ro shp, was a tenured pro­ dismiss the lawsuit. He wrote leave Convention fessor. that the dispute was "one over ST. MEINHAD. Ind. In 1994, tho popp, doclared It's rare for Southern Baptist A nun who lost her teaching church doctrine" that his Associated Press in an Apostolic Letter that the congregations to hiro women job aftnr publiely critieizing court could not resolve. ordination of pastors or to facfl sanctions if l'opn .John Paul If's stance on In its ruling, BLOOMINGTON. Ind. women as they do. Nonetholoss. it's a hot wonwn joining tlw priesthood the Court of When members of University priests no "My lawyer is Appeals agreed issue in the denomination, said savs she will continue h1~r Baptist Church chose the Rev. longor was an prepared to take this Herb Hollinger, a spokesman legal battle against thn St. with Roell, say­ Annette Hill Briggs as their issuP.. Snveral for the Southern Baptist Meinrad Srhool ofThnology. to the U.S. Supreme ing the court pastor earlier this year. they months latflr. Convention. Most Southern Tlw Indiana Supremn Court would be thrust the church into the mid­ Sistnr McEnroy Court." "clearly and Baptist pastors would probably dndirwd to hear the cas1~ of dle of a feud. was among excessively say the Bible does not support Sister Carnwl McHnroy whnn For the past decade. moder­ 1 ,:iOO people entangled in hiring female senior pastors, it dnnind lwr petition on Nov. Sister Carmel McEnroy ates and conservatives in the who signed a religious Hollinger said. I 9. Thereforo. an Indiana Southern Baptist Convention letter of protest affairs" if it But "it's still a local church Court of Appeals ruling on the have been debating whether published in allowed the issue," he said. mattnr will stand. women can serve as senior thfl National Catholic case to go forward. "This issue of women as On .Junn 24, the appellate pastors. The debate hinges on Hnporter. Sister McEnroy, who now senior pastors is the last court upheld a deeision by the interpretation of Bible pas­ At the timfl, she said the let­ teaches at Lexington (Ky.) stronghold" in the battJp, over Sp1m1·.nr Cirwit .Judge Wayne sages. ter's intent was to generate Theological Seminary, said women's ordination, said Hoell. lie ruled his court had University Baptist quit the more debate on the subject she was disappointed that the Briggs, a graduate of thfl no jurisdidion ovor Sister convention in September, as and that shfl had signed it as Indiana Supreme Court Southern Baptist Thoological Mr.Enroy's lawsuit because the State Convention of an individual. not as a repre­ passed on hearing her case. Baptists in Sflminary in Louisville. thP rase delved too d1~eply sentative of the school. St. Meinrad issued a state­ Baptist into a religious issue. Indiana was According to court docu­ ment Tuesday saying it was "Sometimes you have Wonwn in "My lawynr is prepared to poised to ments, Sister McEnroy was pleased by the state Supreme declare that the Ministry. a takn this to th1~ U.S. Suprnme fired in 1995 after St. Meinrad Court's decision. to do what God Missouri-based Court." Sis tor Md\nroy said 75-member officials saw the published let­ Many St. Meinrad students wants and not what group that sup­ Monday. She is represented church "stands tor. She sued, allP.ging breach go on to become Catholic ports the ordi- by Hon ShnfTnr, an attornny in violation of a denomination of contract and denial of due priests who serve in southern nation of from Iltmdersou. Ky. the principlfls of wants." process. Indiana and western women, said Tlw nun taught Homan Scripture and In February 1998, Roell Kentucky. that by 1998. Catholil'. theology and doctrino outside the com- monly held Mike Campbell the last year for beliefs of University Baptist Church which figures are available, Indiana Baptists member by calling a • Southern woman to be Baptist churchP.s senior pastor." had ordainod Threatening woman gets trial date Said church member Mike 1,324 women to the ministry. Campbell: "Sometimes you Just fewer than 100 Southern have to do what God wants and Baptist churches had hirfld class D felony, carrying a approached the four studflnts, not what a denomination women as thnir top pastors or handgun without a permit, a showfld them a handgun hid­ wants." co-pastors. That ligure is about rlass A misdemoanor, and den beneath her shirt and told twice thfl numbflr of femaln CHAWFOBI>SVII.I.E. Ind. The church's withdrawal intimidation. Her trial is set them she had a bullet for flach senior pastors from 1993, tho .\ judg1~ has sPt a March trial from the 15.9 million-member for March 2H. ·or them. organization said. datf' for a woman who allegnd­ national convention under­ During a hParing Monday, a The incidp,nt occurred after Southern Baptists who ly thn•at1mnd four high srhool seores the confliet among judgn ordered Conkright not to Conkright's son allegedly drew oppose female sonior pastors studPnts with a handgun aflnr Southern Baptists over the havp, rontaet with the four un11attp,ring pictures of class­ rely heavily on passages in tho onn of tlwm had a r.onl'ronta­ interpretation of the Bible. a Crawfordsville lligh School mates and posted them on New Testament's book of I tion with lwr son at school. conflict as divisive as tho one studnnts shn is accused of school lockers. Timothy, which reads, "a l>nnisP Conkright, 40. is created when conservatives threatflning Nov. H in the A boy then challp,nged woman should learn in quiflt­ rhargNl with possflssion of a took the helm of the nation's school parking lot. Conkright's son, telling him to ness and full submission. I do nn~arm on school propnrty. a largest Protflstant church Conkright allegedly stop posting the pictures. group in 1990. At issue is the not permit a woman to tead1 freedom of a local congrega­ or to have authority over a tion to follow its own heart and man," according to thfl Now its own reading of Scripture, International Version transla­ and the group's national gov­ tion of the Bible. erning body's right to regulate But others say even thfl most A Kiss is just a Kiss ... its members. conservative Southorn Baptist churches don't follow every­ The AIDS virus is not spread by spread by: sexual activity with The Rev. Woody Cumbie, pastor of Northside Baptist thing in the Bible literally. Most kissing, hugging, shaking an infected partner, sharing IV Church in Indianapolis and Southern Baptist ehurchos hands, or eating from the same needles and other equipment, president of Indiana's state don't require womfln to covor· container. HIV isn't spread by infected mother to fetus & Baptist convention, said tho their hair in church or condone slavery, Hollinger said. mosquitoes or by donating breast feeding, receiving infect­ issue is not women being "I think what they do is they organs, blood, or tissue. HIV is ed blood organs, or body tissue. called into the ministry. "The issue that surfaced here prioritize it." Hollinger said. is. 'Is the office of senior pastor The debate over women as How does alcohol abuse relate to HIV/AIDS? an option?' And in my view­ senior pastors "is a leadership point it is not," he said. issue. That's a priority issue, at Alcohol abuse impairs your judgment about who you're with and least in Baptist life." what you're doing. 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tion to the FBI as a potential ated and need to move recorders. But last week, Gen. be a joint FBI-safety board • Public reacts criminal case, Frech raised no through the Egyptian police Issam Ahmed, who heads the operation. So far only the angrily to U.S. complaints with the role and court system. Egyptian Transportation cockpit and flight recorders suspecting co-pilot Egyptian investigators have The Egyptian public reacted Ministry's flight training pro­ have been brought from the played. angrily when word leaked that gram, blamed the crash on an Atlantic floor, and investiga­ "We have done quite a bit of U.S. investigators suspect that explosion. tors would very much like to Associated Press work with them, including a relief co- F r e e h recover the cockpit itself. some interviews in Egypt just pilot, Gameel declined to Bodies of victims also would WASHINGTON recently completed," Freeh El-Batouty, for "We have done quite a bit respond to be a recovery priority. FBI agents have examined said. "And we got access­ unknown rea­ of work with them, the uproar The bureau has hundreds of aircraft and personnel records together with the safety board - sons, sent the including some in Egypt: agents assigned to checking in Egypt and participated in in Cairo to personnel records, Boeing 767 ''I'm not out the plane's history and interviews there, FBI Director aircraft records." into the steep interviews in Egypt just going to dis­ that of any person who had Louis Freeh said Tuesday as "There's a whole series of dive that car­ recently completed." cuss what contact with it in the days he praised Egyptian coopera­ things we've requested," he ried all 217 any non­ before the crash. Freeh said tion with the investigation of added. "We have furnished the aboard to their Louis Freeh police offi­ there was no timetable for EgyptAir 990's crash. Egyptians with a list of partic­ deaths in the cials have deciding whether to turn the "The cooperation has been ular investigative leacls that Atlantic Ocean FBI director said." lead over to the FBI. very, very good," Freeh told we need to have covered. off Mass- F r e e h "I know it's been made an reporters at FBI headquarters. Obviously they need to cover achusetts Oct. 31. spoke with Hall again on issue as to who is the lead Although Egyptian govern­ them." NTSB Chairman James Hall Tuesday morning. "We're agency," Frech said. "But the ment objections halted the "We have not had any of our has said no evidence of an going to start a recovery oper­ investigation is going to pro­ U.S. National Transportation requests turned down," Freeh explosion or mechanical prob­ ation at the crash site in the ceed whether the FBI stays in Safety Board's plan to turn added. He noted some lem has surfaced in the next couple weeks," Freeh a subordinate role or a lead over control of the investiga- requests are still being evalu- plane's flight and cockpit said, adding that recovery will role." WWII 'Code talkers' honored Comanche "code talkers," who said. Associated Press frustrated enemy efforts to Chibitty and 16 other TONIGHT. decode Army messages. Comanche Indians were WASHINGTON "I wonder why they had to recruited to serve in the Army Fifty-five years after he and wait so long to recognize us," Signals Corps because of their FEMINIST 16 other Comanche Indians he said in ·accepting the unique language. Like the played a secret role in protect­ Knowlton Award, established larger group of Navajo Indians ing U.S. military messages on by the Military Intelligence who performed a similar ser­ the European battlefields of Corps Association and named vice as Marines in the Pacific COLLECTIVE World War II, Charles Chibitty for Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton, theater during World War II, received a special award from who served in the the Comanches were dubbed the Army on Tuesday for Revolutionary War. "code talkers." MEETING @ 9PM AT extraordinary service. Kevin Gover, assistant interi­ The Comanches coded mes­ The Comanches' efforts or secretary for Indian affairs, sages from the battlefields in SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE were particularly important noted the historic irony of the Europe back to division head­ during and after the Allied honor. quarters, where another of landings at Normandy in June "My agency, the Bureau of their group decoded the mes­ LEMANS HALL 1944. Indian Affairs, dedicated itself sages, thereby confounding In a ceremony at the for the first half of this century enemy efforts to U.S. Pentagon's Hall of Heroes, to destroying the native lan­ communications. They used WOMENS CENTER Chibitty, 78, noted that he is guages that proved to be so the Comanche phrase "posah­ the last surviving member of useful to our armed forces tai-vo," or crazy white man, to the elite group known as during World War II," Gover refer to Adolf Hitler.

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Washington, D.C. on Monday called for a halt to ed all of his appeals at the state resent Fleenor in clcmcnr.y By JR ROSS lie said the Supreme Court execution proceedings, even and federal level when he hearings. Assm:i.ncd Press has ruled that if' a defendant is though Fleenor refused to reportedly refused to attend a U.S. District Judge David II. mentally incompntent and can't attend his own clemency hear­ hearing before the clemency Hamilton ruled Nov. 4 .that Death penalty opponents say comprehend what's happnning, ing last week and reportedly board last week. Fleenor showed no interest in I >.II. Flmmor isn't men tally eom­ an execution can't proceed. Still, told one board member to show Board member Raymond having either attorney repres11nt p!~tent enough to undnrstand his even a basic childlike under­ him no mercy. Rizzo, who was dispatched to him and did not want the pending exncution. standing of' right and wrong can "Killing Mr. Fleenor isn't Fleenor's cell to make a person­ clemency hearings to go for­ But proving that to a court of satis(y the court's standard. going to fix a right or wrong, al plea for him to attend the ward. law won't be nasy. "If you can simply answer the but show the state our society is hearing, said he did everything "The court sees no reason to Fl!~nnor is schndulnd to be question 'Do you know why you in," said Lynne DeMichele, a he could to urge Fleenor to face force such proceedings upon exn!~utnd l>m~. 9 for tlw murders arf1 about to be executed and spokeswoman for the Indiana the board. him, let alone force upon him of his parnnts-in-law 17 years what executed means?', if you Methodist Church and member "He said: 'You tell them this' lawyers he does not want," ago, and eiTorts to prove he's ('.an answer Y!1s to that. that's of the Indiana Citizens to - and he repeated it twice - I Iamilton wrote. nH•ntally unlit to bn put to death usually enough with .some sense Abolish Capital Punishment. he said: 'Tell them I'm guilty Fleenor is scheduled to will bn diiTirult, said Hichard that it's an intdligent answer," which staged a news conference and to show me no mercy,"' become the seventh