Bolivia Will Assist in Efforts to Find Missing, and Has Included Foot Newspapers
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The Boss is back Mrs. Muffet goes to Washington The latest live album by Bruce Springsteen President Bush recognizes the women's basket Tuesday captures both the intensity of his youth and ball team at the White House. the timeless quality of his music. Section + page 4 APRIL24, Scene + page 13 2001 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV N0.127 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU NO alumnus remains missing in Bolivia will assist in efforts to find missing, and has included foot newspapers. A video of the III in a statement Thursday. ByTIMLOGAN Poirier, a 22-year-old Peace and helicopter searches of the Poirier family began airing on But Poirier's family, and Senior Staff Writer Corps volunteer last seen Feb. area near his home and on Bolivian television last week, then Meehan, argued that the 22. The U.S. Embassy in routes and the Peace search was unorganized, and The Federal Bureau of Bolivia has been leading the Poirier com Corps has that Poirier deserved better Investigation (FBI) has joined search thus far, with help from monly trav "This is a rare and offered a investigative efforts. the search the Bolivian government and e l e d unprecedented situation reward for "I got the for Walter the Peace Corps. between for the Peace Corps and it information. sense that the See Also Poirier, a The FBI announced it would Bolivia's "I assure the investigation 2000 Notre join the effort last week, after capital of La is our sincere hope that Poirier family on the ground "Alumni hold Dame grad Poirier's congressman Rep. Paz and vil we find this young man and the Peace in Bolivia was vigil for student" uate who Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and lages where soon. Corps family not an investi w a s Massachusetts senators Ted he worked that we will gation the page4 declared Kennedy and John Kerry in the Zongo continue to pur United States missing in wrote a letter to Attorney Valley, two Charles Baquet Ill sue the search government could be proud Bolivia on General John Ashcroft calling hours away. Peace Corps Acting Director and the investi- of," the congressman told The March 5. Poirier the investigation to find Poirier Officials gation until Boston Globe as a representa Four FBI "haphazard and disjointed." have also Walter is tive of Lowell, Mass., Poirier's agents and a detective from The investigation began monitored border crossings found," said Peace Corps· the Miami Police Department when Poirier was declared and printed Poirier's picture in Acting Director Charles Baquet see BOLIVIA/page 4 CLC Committee Council rejects parietals extension unveils new By JASON McFARLEY News Editor ticket system While the Campus Life Council on Monday approved a measure proposing an extension . in By JASON McFARLEY University parietal hours, on-cam News Editor pus students shouldn't expect a change in late-night visiting hours Forget the campouts and picnics; when it comes to with members of the opposite sex. receiving their football tickets, students ask just two That's because although CLC things of a distribution system: that it be fast and conve members passed a resolution nient. clause calling for parietals to end That's been the overwhelming an hour earlier in the morning response to inquiry into the subject, than now, a second clause that according to student government would extend them an hour later officials who are hoping to deliver in the evening fell one vote short both speed and convenience in the of passage. fall with Kickoff 2001. Another resolution that proposes Kickoff is a modified - and sim uniform 12:30 a.m. parietal hours pler - version of last year's ticket on Sundays in all residence halls distribution system, said Peter was also defeated. Rossmann, president of the Oass of Norton "This is simply a request to allow TONY FLOYD/The Observer 2002. members of the opposite sex to On Monday Campus Ufe Council members voted to end parietals at 9 a.m. "We talked to students and looked at the system from have more hours each day to each morning but rejected a plan to extend the weekday ho1,1rs to 1 a.m. last year," Rossmann said. "What we found is that stu interact with each other in the pri dents want us to simplifY the process as much as possi Many agreed that ending pari But rectors and administrators vacy of their own rooms," said ble." etals at 9 a.m. every day was a argued that parietals serve an The changes include coordinating the distribution of Seth Whetzel, who served on the good idea. important purpose in halls. Student Senate committee that lottery numbers with enrollment day and providing a "It just makes sense," said Sister drafted the resolution which would Parietals affect not only students timetable for lottery-number holders to purchase tickets. Pat Thomas, Walsh Hall rectress. but hall staff as well, according to extend parietals to 1 a.m. on "People dan go to enrollment on Monday at the Joyce "Students are up, they're going to Brother Jerome Meyer, Knott Hall weeknights and end them at 9 [Center] then cross the street to pick up a lottery number class, they're meeting with each rector. [at the ticket office]," Rossmann said. "We know how a.m. every day. other." "There's a lot involved in pari The resolution's introduction to busy things are at the beginning of the year, and this The CLC voted 13-3 to end the etals that people who are in favor the CLC came after its passage in turns two events into one trip." hours at 9 a.m. Members will for of extending them don't realize," the senate and a senate survey A guideline for ticket buying is another added feature ward the change to the Office Meyer said. "It's my impression of that polled students' opinions on of the 2001 system. The guideline is a schedule that Student Affairs for consideration. parietals after midnight that it's changing the longstanding hours. gives approximate times for lottery-number holders Debate over extending parietals in not studying. Several rectors Of 3,038 survey respondents, within a certain range of the selected lottery number to the other direction divided the expressed similar concerns that 2,429 -about 80 percent - said arrive to purchase tickets. Other ideas included under council along student-staff lines. moving parietals to 1 a.m. would they were in favor of extending consideration was a mail-in distribution system. Members voted 10-6 to push cut into students' quiet time in parietals past midnight during the "We worked on the mail-in system for a while, but the parietals to 1 a.m. but the vote dorms. week. Another 2,378, some 78 ticket office didn't feel like it had the capacity to do that," was one short of the two-thirds "The truth of the matter is the percent, responded that they were Norton said. "Alumni and season-ticket holders' applica majority required for passage .. majority of us don't go to bed at in favor of ending parietals before tions are taken care of over the summer, and the office Luciana Reali, who also helped midnight," said senior Amy couldn't handle the student applications, too."Rossmann 10 a.m. each morning. pass the resolution in the senate, Szestak. "Pushing [parietals] back "When 80 percent of students acknowledged Student Senate-conducted surveys indi said the proposal allows for stu to 1 a.m. wouldn't have a drastic cate thafmost students favor mail-in distribution. make it perfectly clear that the dents to work together later at effect on quiet hours." extension of parietals is in their "If that's what students want, then we'lllook into the p.ight and encourages an integra "If you want quiet hours, tell the best interest, I'd like to give them possibility of it for next year," Norton said. "Either this tion between students' academic the benefit of the doubt," Whetzel [Kickoff 2001] can be the system from here on, or it can and social lives in residence halls. see CLC/ page 8 said. be a one-year thing." page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, April24, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "I hope he is coming "We want to get the "I've had a great time "We were sitting Unanswered because he wants to point across that kids here at Notre Dame, around with no come, but we did who live off-campus and now I'm going to visitors, as usual, have several people should feel just as chase a dream I've looking for ways to Questions close to him put in a secure as any other had for my entire life." amuse ourselves." good word for us. " citizen in South Bend. " In my attempt to understand human beings Troy Murphy Jonathan Jorissen more fully, I have assembled a list of what I Dennis Moore John Williams All-American basketball Carroll Hall resident on how consider unexplained phenomena. They appear to be obvious questions with obvious Director of Public Relations South Bend Police Captain player on his decision to his dormmates created a answers. But just think: do on Bush's choice to speak at after students were robbed leave Notre Dame to enter game they call you get it? Read on and Notre Dame's commencement during Easter break the NBA draft 'barrel bowling' see if you, too, are per plexed by the wonder of humanity.