--------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 38: ISSUE 12 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Accuser testifies in Dykes trial County Obsuv<r Staff Report Lorenzo Crawford and Justin on the charge of sexual battery. cutoc Maureen Devlin and Smith. testified at Elam's trial The woman claims the four defense attorneys William The rape trial of former Notre earlier this football players sexually assault­ Stanley and Michael Tuszynski rezones Dame football player Donald month and ed her multiple times the morn­ questioned the approximately 90 Dyhs began this week and his all main­ ing of March 28, 2002 at Smith's potential jurors. The juror pool accuser, a former Notre Dame tained their off-campus home. She testified was larger than usual for this student. testified as the first wit­ innocence, today that she was too scared case due to fears that ·the pool parcel ness for the prosecution on claiming the and in too much pain to leave may be tainted by the extensive Tuesday. acts were Smith's home after the alleged media coverage throughout Dykes is the second of the four consensual. gang rape and waited to report it Elam 's trial. former Notre Dame football play­ Elam was because she did not think accus­ The trials for Crawford and By MEGHANNE DOWNES ers accused of sexually assaulting acquitted on ing Notre Dame football players Smith begin later this year. Dykes News Editor tlw woman to be tried. lie is the charges would win her much sympathy. charg11d with rape. conspiracy to of conspira- Jury selection for the trial WNDU and the South Bend The St. Joseph County commit rapn and sPxual battery. cy to commit rape and criminal started Monday and was a Tribune contributed to this Council unanimously Dyk1~s. along with Abram Elam. deviate conduct. but found guilty lengthy process as special prose- report. approved the rezoning of a land parcel near Notre Dame which will become a new upscale residential development near Notre Dame. SMC vaccinates against meningitis Dan Folny and Nicholas Tyszka, who formed the development company DNPEG. decided to build By NATALIE BAILEY "Irish Crossings" as a resi­ News Writer dential location for profes­ sors and administrators Saint Mary's Health and that is close to Notre Dame, Wellness Services provided their citing a need for an upscale third annual vaccination clinic community within walking for meningococcal disease, or distance of the campus and bacterial meningitis, on a retail area. Tuesday. The site is located on With recent research showing 8.25 acres between Willis that first year college students and Burdette Streets one have a higher rate of contract­ block east of Notre Dame. ing meningitis, awareness of the Final plans for the develop­ illness and vaccine is increasing. ment are awaiting approval This fall semester, colleges are and Foley expects the 11rst begiiming to fully implement the villas to be completed in state statute issued in October spring 2004. 2002 that required colleges in "We knew people who the state of Indiana to inform wanted an upscale living students and their parents of area that was an alterna­ the risks associ a ted with the tive to Granger," Foley disease, as well as the availabil­ said. "Hight now the area is ity and effectiveness of vaccina­ a hodge-podge of different tion. Those students who homes. Some arc rented, decline vaccination must sign some are owned and some waivers. arc run-down. People arc ALLISON NICHuLSfThe Observer "The thing that makes very hesitant to invest A Saint Mary's student looks away In fear as she receives a vaccination against bacterial meningitis. there, but by making this Saint Mary's has Increased its efforts to educate students about the disea!le and the vaccination. see VACCINE/page 4 into a community, people can be assured they have made a sound investment." The development. which will begin construction this fall; will have a maximum Two students to screen '9 /11' film of 70 single-detached and ' duplex villas. The entry price for a 1,600 square­ rorist attacks and a chance to foot duplex villa with a By MATTHEW SMEDBERG raise awareness of terrorism basement and attached News Writer and its effects The screening garage will be $189,000, will begin at 7 p.m .. in 102 Foley Sdid in a press Ask Scotl Schanfer and Debartolo llall release. Amanda Hothey what they did "9/11" is a film made by Foley said "Irish this summer. and tlwy will nut bruthers Jules and Gedeon Crossings," which comple­ 1Je1~d to seurch th1dr nwmory Naudct, whJ were originally ments Notre Dame's mas­ for sonwthing interesting. documenting the life of a ter plan to rejuvenate the That's because they partici· trainee NYFD firefighter. area adjacent. to the patnd in a fellowship with the However, their purpose University, could have a Foundation !'or the l>dense of changed dramatically as air­ ripple effect on the area by Democracies that sent them planes slammed into the improving the surrounding to Israel for twu weeks this World Trade Center towers residential community and August to learn about terror­ barely blocks away. "9/11" increasing the property ism and its effects. While has been hailed as an values over the next five to then~. they underwent an extraordinary tale of heroism. 10years. intensive regimen of lectures heroic too in its own right, Foley and Tyszka decided and activities. including meet­ and was shown on CBS tclevi­ to develop this land in May ing an agent of the Israeli sio.l last year. after learning the county counterterrorism force and Schaefer and Hothey applied council, in a 8-1 decision. touring the naval base at for the fellowship after taking voted against the develop­ Ilaifa. political science with Keir ment of a tailgate park on Back on campus. Hothcy Lieber. who is a fellow of the the same site. and Schaef1~r have decided to FDD as well as of the Notre AFP Photo organize a screening of the Dame Institute for Firefighters walk away from the remains of the World Trade documentary "9/11" today as Center Towers In New York on Sept. 11, 2001. The men are the Contact Meghanne Downes a commemoration of the tor- see FILM/page 4 topic of the documentary "9/11." at [email protected]. page2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, September 10, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHO DO YOU THINK PROGRAMS THE SPRINKLERS ON CAMPUS? Co111plainers be-ware I always thought writing the Inside Column for The Observer would be a great gig. You've got four hundred words to complain about ... well, any­ Kat Donovan Robert Bauchman Dan Maguire Jana Miller Tai Baird Jenny Peterson thing you want, really. Senior Senior Senior Freshman Sophomore Junior But when I got the fateful call to LeMans actually write this N" k McGlinn Hall Off campus Off-campus McGlinn McCandless 1 z00 column, I had to ICO e rack my brain to find a topic. For Staf!Writer 'The squirrels. " "It has to be "Somebody with "God." "Your five once, I had noth- Monk.,, "Jesus!" a sense of o'clock ing to whine about. So I turned humor.,, shadow.,, to my best resource - my room­ mates. "What about the dining hall?" they said. True, the lack of a deli or sun­ dae bar (and pretty much any good food) has been the major topic of con­ versation in our room since school resumed. But the fine quality of the SMC dining hall is a topic that has been beaten to death in the pages of this paper. IN BRIEF So the roommates left me back where I started. Other friends didn't leave me with too much either­ The Student Union Board will book prices skyrocketing (no news show "The Italian Job" this there), no money to buy beer (I'm not Thursday, Friday and Saturday 21, can't complain about that), and in 101 DeBartolo Hall. The how hard it is to get football tickets if movie will play at 10 p.m. on you're not a student (it's been done). Thursday and 8:30p.m. and 10 I can't complain about the baseball p.m. on Friday and Saturday.•. season because this isn't the sports Admission is three dollars. section. I can't complain about the people who write dumb crap on the Mothers: Founders of the sidewalks, because I would dread Environmental Justice opening my e-mail for the next two Movement will sponsor a lec­ weeks. ture featuring !laze! Johnson, a I can't complain about the masses lifetime resident of Chicago of poison ivy down by the lakes, Public Housing. The lecture because I haven't rolled in it. I can't takes place today at 4:30 p.m. complain about the South Bend in the Hesburgh Center weather, because it's great so far this Auditorium. year. And as much as it irritates me, I can't even complain about the con­ Anyone who is interested in struction on campus, because my hall pursuing a Latin American is so far away that I can sleep through Studies minor is invited to a all of it- and regularly do. meeting today at the Hesburgh For the first time in my life I had an Center at 5:30 p.m. open forum to gripe to the masses, or ALLISON NICHOLS!The Observer the ten people that read this, anyway. Saint Mary's students had an opportunity to enjoy the warm weather Tuesday.