Report: Holtz May Not Return Next Year by TIM SHERMAN in Addition, University President Father Sports Editor ______Edward Malloy Refused Comment on the Matter
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5 OBSERVER Friday, November 15, 1996 • Vol. XXVII No. 54 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Report: Holtz may not return next year By TIM SHERMAN In addition, University President Father Sports Editor ______________ Edward Malloy refused comment on the matter. With 98 career wins at Notre Dame, Lou As aired on last night’s SportsCenter and Holtz is the second-w inningest coach in published on ESPN’s web site, ESPNET Irish history. He needs just eight more vic Sportszone, Holtz may make an announce tories to pass the legendary Knute Rockne ment as soon as the middle of next week. and move into the top spot. Olbermann proceeded to give a laundry But there are published reports speculat list of items that indicate Holtz’s 11-year ing that the 59-year old Holtz will not get stay may be ending soon. the chance as he will not return to coach The seven events given, as “reported by the Irish in 1997. reliable sources close to the school or the ESPN’s Keith Olbermann is reporting athletic department or both,” contained there are a whirlwind of rumors on cam two particularly intriguing scenarios. pus surrounding an imminent resignation The first reported that the University’s of Holtz. Board of Trustees “canceled long-standing The Observer contacted numerous mem plans this week and headed to the campus bers of the team but each either denied the The Observer/Mike Ruma speculations or could not offer comment. Head football coach Lou Holtz leads the Irish from the sidelines during a recent see HOLTZ / page 5 game. Rumor has it that Holtz will not return to this position for the 1997 season. Catholics recall Here comes the Bernardin’s grace By BRAD PRENDERGAST bride, all dressed in... News Editor _______________________________________________________ Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s blue and gold? quiet charisma put a human face on the Catholic Church, in the process bridging the gap between O ver half o f ND, SM C students the Church and other religions. Such were the reflections offered find spouses under the D om e by Catholics nationwide after yes By JOHN DE BOY terday’s announcement that News Writer_________________________________________________________ Bernardin had succumbed to pan creatic cancer, three months after Bernardin B ells are ringing for graduates of Notre Dame and he had said he would die within a Saint Mary’s College. Wedding bells, that is. year. According to a statistic released by the Notre According to Scott Appleby, a professor of history Dame Alumni Association, as many as 55 to 60 per at Notre Dame and director of the University’s cent of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s graduates even Cushwa Center for the Study of American tually go on to marry other Notre Dame and Saint Catholicism, Bernardin was a leader by example in Mary’s alumni. Additionally, recent trends seem to the American Catholic Church in the years after the suggest that graduates of the two schools, when com Second Vatican Council. pared with other young people, tend to be less fearful “He will be remembered for his consensus-building, of marrying at an earlier age. collaborative and collegial style — all the ‘C-words’ of According to Charles Lennon, executive director of Vatican II,” Appleby said yesterday. “He was known the Alumni Association, the percentage of alumni who as a reconciler. He could find the good in (people who go on to marry fellow college graduates is probably disagreed in the Church) and bring that good togeth somewhat higher at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s er and synthesize it.” than it is at other colleges and universities. Bernardin, 68, the senior Roman Catholic prelate in “I would think it would be higher at Notre Dame the United States and leader of Chicago’s 2.3 million and Saint Mary’s because of the homogeneous student Catholics, died at his home, surrounded by friends body that we have here,” Lennon says. “There are more Catholics here, so that figure [55 to 60 percent] see DEATH / page 5 The Observer/Katie Kroener is probably higher here than it is at state schools, Notre Dame seniors Jeannine Haener and Danny although it would probably be similar at other Eisenbacher were recently engaged at the Grotto. Catholic schools.” Haener feels that “the whole Catholic aspect of Notre Others, such as Notre Dame senior and husband-to- Eseen&k. Dame really brought us together” and that the spiritual be Steve Dirnberger, feel similarly. Dirnberger, who facet of the University has helped the couple grow and Friday. November 15 mature in their shared faith. “It is what attracted us to 3-7 p.m. Football Weekend Social Gathering Notre Dame and what eventually brought us together.” see MARRIAGE/ page 4 The M orris Inn Patio 3:30-5 p.m. Center for the Homeless Alumni Tours (C.H.A.T) Meet at the Main Circle 4:30 p.m. Marching Band Rehearsal Step o ff - Main Building Lights go on at stadium tomorrow 6:45 p.m. Band Steps off for Pep Rally Band Building 7:00 p.m. PEP RALLY! By MICHELLE KRUPA JACC Arena, enter Gate 10 Assistant News Editor Saturday. November 16________ j 8 :30 a.m. Marching Band Rehearsal Darkness will cast its shadows no longer on Loftus Sports Center Notre Dame football players and fans. 9a.rn.-12 p.m. The Alumni Hospitality Center welcomes all alumni Tomorrow, for the first time, permanent and friends lights will be used during the game against Joyce Center, North Dome Pitt to illuminate Notre Dame Stadium. 10-10:30 a.m. PomPon Squad (10:00) and Cheerleader (10:15) Performances The project, a $700,000 enterprise by NBC, Notre Dame Bookstore became a supplement to the major construc 10:40-11 a.m. PomPon Squad (10:40) and Cheerleader (10:50) tion on the stadium after a decision last Performances JACC North Dome June. In past years, temporary lights have 11:30-12 p.m. Glee Club - Notre Dame in Review been used for games played late into the sea Joyce Center, North Dome son, as it begins to get dark earlier in the 12-12:45 p.m. Shenanigans Performance afternoon. Lack of daylight makes playing Joyce Center, North Dome 12-12:20 p.m. Marching Band Concert dangerous and televising the game difficult. Main Building (Step off at 12:45) Due to the increased height of the stadi 1:00 p.m. Women's Soccer vs. Indiana um’s facade, temporary lighting is no longer Alumni Field 1:10 p.m. Marching Band Pre-game Show feasible. at the Stadium “Due to the complexity of putting tempo 1:30 p.m. BEAT PITTSBURGH! rary lights in as the season draws on, there NOTRE DAME STADIUM The Observer/Katie Kroener wasn’t a good reason to do it. Since we’ve Sunday. November 17 Upon recent completion of a $700,000 construction project funded by ___________________________________________ 8:00,10#). Mass NBC, permanent stadium lights will be used for the first time tomorrow. see LIGHTS / page 4 611:45 Basilica of the Sacred Heart page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, November 15, 1996 ■ Inside C o l u m n W o r l d a t a G l a n c e What every Police prepared for violence in Florida ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. FLORIDA under control before the looting, arson For two weeks, members of a black R a c e r io t and shooting broke out. woman needs separatist group called for the “execu “I’m furious. I am sorry, but I am furi Rioting occured again in tion” of a white policeman for the fatal the same area as the , * ous,” council member Connie Kane told shooting of a black motorist, threatening Oct. 24 riot in southern St. Petersburg Chief Darrel Stephens. “Why have we Welcome back to the inside column’s two to “burn this city down” unless the offi St. Petersburg. waited so long to say that law and order part series on complaining. To recap, Lori’s cer was charged and fired. is going to prevail?” column dealt with why we complain. Today, The shooting itself had touched off f (UL%Tampa Stephens defended the police. I’m going to take complaining to a new level rioting Oct. 24, so police took the threats .Petersburg , “Our effort was not aimed at provok and illustrate the various seriously. They scoured the streets for ing violence,” he said. “Our effort was ways of bitchery by tak- Ka,ser Meany days, clearing trash bins and alleys of " 3 / Tampa / aimed at doing whatever we could to ing one subject and mak- Saint M ary’s Accent six tons of rocks and bottles they believe prevent violence.” ing it the focus of today’s _______ Editor_______ the group stashed as ammunition to use Gulf of In/^Area 5 miles This time, the violence was less wide co lumn. My topic? The against them. Mexico K shown y ' - ' spread, but more intense. Police Bra. And on Wednesday, the day a grand 5 km responding to reports of trouble were I know you’ve seen it....or else heard about jury cleared the officer, police prepared .l\ met with bullets, rocks and bottles. it. The bra. The million dollar bra that is to arrest leaders of the group so they Central Ave. Passers-by were attacked with concrete made out of diamonds. The bra that Claudia would spend the night in jail. and bottles. Schiffer is modeling on the cover of the But the strategy may have backfired: 5th Ave.