Give me the remote ... Stat! Face off in Seattle Take a look at "ER" after George Clooney's Riot police confront protesters outside the Wednesday departure. as well as shows like ''The X Files" World Trade Organization meetings on and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." Tuesday. DECEMBERl, Scene+ page 12 World Nation + page 5 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 60 HTTP:/ /OBSERVER.N D.EDU Women's basketball, class join to fight cancer 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 Michael Jordan versus Wilt Chamberlain. Mike Tyson versus Mohammed Ali. Undefeated '7 4 Mishawaka. Washington St. tree. Downtown sion. Northern Indiana Miami Dolphins 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- the Smurfs 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 Papa Smurf 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.