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--------------------------------- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 38: ISSUE 125 THURSDAY, APRIL 15,2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM PSA descends on Office of the President Counselor to the President remained outside the office Students speak 'With Father Peter Jarret on doors. administrators about Malloy's behalf. Chandra Johnson, assistant About 30 members of the to the president, said she Taco Bell contract Progressive Student Alliance noticed Barnett having a con­ arrived at Malloy's office to versation with Jarret and deliver several copies of a let­ decided to brief the students By CLAIRE HEININGER ter asking the administration about Malloy's standard prac­ New• FJiror to issue a public statement tice. against renewing its current "I know he's not going to II u 11 ge r- striking stud~~ n ts marketing relationship with come out because historically who approaclwd the office of the restaurant, on the grounds he doesn't do that," Johnson U n ivn rsi ty PresidiHl t Father of alleged unfair wages and told the group. "That's not his Edward Malloy Wednesday labor standards held by Taco style." al't1•rnoon scPking comment Boll's tomato providers. After Johnson said later that about Notre Damn's r.ontraet speaking initially with admin­ although the students could with Taco Bell wore told that it istrative assistant Susan not speak with the President is not Malloy's "style" to issue Barnett. who informed them directly, their concerns were CHUY BENITEZ!fhe Observer a spontarwous statement. but that Malloy was unavailable, Cecilia Garza, left, and Melody Gonzalez, center, talk with admlstratlve w1•ro invill~d to speak with several of the students see INCIDENT/page 8 assistant Susan Barnett In the Office of the President Wednesday. ROTC holds Pass and Review Pollard • By MATT BRAMANTI receives Senior StatTWritcr Members of Notre Dame's lWTC units gathered in the Hesburgh Loftus Sports Center Wednesday afternoon for the annual Presidnntial Pass in a-ward Heview. Tlw ovent centors on a ceremonial parade, in which r.ad1~ts and midshipmen pres­ By KATIE LAIRD ent themselves to University News Writer l'n~sident Father Edward Malloy. C. William Pollard, the N1~arly 400 members of the chairman emeritus of Army battalion, the Navy bat­ ServiceMaster Company, talion and the Air Force wing received the Theodore M. stood at att1~ntion in rank and llesburgh Award for Ethics file, as a color guard marched in Business up to the reviewing platform. Wednesday As the Great Lakes Navy at the Band struck up the first notes Jordan of "The Star-Spangled Father Edward Banner," the color guard dipped the flags of the four Malloy, right, armed services in salute to the American flag. addresses ROTC Malloy then conferred sever­ al awards- consisting of off1- students, top, during Pollard eers' sabers - on the top eadnts from each unit. the Pass and Review. Auditorium. Following the awards pres­ The award was given as entation, Malloy addressed part of the Cahill Lecture the cadets. The university • Series, which recognizes pn~sident - a native of the PHOTOS BY commitment to ethical Washington. D.C. area - behavior and integrity. MATTHEW "1 cannot think of two men I admire more than C. see ROTC/page 4 SMEDBERG William Pollard and Father Hesburgh," said Joseph Maciariello, a Horton Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University, who was the 'Best class ever' adjusts, excels at Notre Dame guest speaker at the series. Maciariello encouraged the expectations of many but were captains of their teams, of Studies. students and other audi­ By JEN ROWLING still faced some challenges in 41 percent had artistic inter­ The average freshman GPA ence members to create News Writer adjusting to Notre Dame, ests, 10 percent held editor increased from 3.28 to 3.33 companies that are "not according to members of First positions and nine percent over last year. Additionally, 65 only economically sound, The current freshman class Year of Studies and freshmen. were either student body or freshmen received a 4.0 GPA but morally just." He earned the title of the "best In addition to academic senior class presidents. With - another substantial increase praised the work of Pollard, class ever" after it statistically achievements, the class of these statistics, many predicted over freshmen from previous who set up four objectives surpassed all previous classes 2007 also entered Notre Dame great success for this class, years. During the past few to define ServiceMaster and with an average SAT score of accomplished in a lot of activi­ and, in large part, they have years the number of freshmen its practices and stressed 1359 and an average ACT of ties. Their achievements also not been disappointed. receiving 4.0 GPAs has ranged the importance of recogniz­ 31.1. Nearly two semesters included non-academic Academically the class has from 38 to 56. ing the dignity of every later - and with a new "best endeavors: 84 percent were preformed exceptionally well, While the Class of 2007 has worker. class ever" on its heels - the volunteers, 71 percent played according to Kevin Rooney, Class of 2007 has lived up to a varsity sport, 36 percent assistant dean in the First Year see 2007/page 6 see AWARD/page II ~---- --- ~--~- - '·",' t page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, April 15, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ANNUAL PASS AND REVIEW? Interesting roo1nmates The end of the semester is rapidly approaching and I know y'all are thinking this is going to be a sappy reflection back on the year. Barbara Sloan Joe Sinnott John Sikorski Nick Matich Phil Moss Stephen Harvey However, to the dedicated readers of Freshman Junior Freshman Sophomore Freshman Freshman the inside col- Cheryl Barker Stanford Keenan Stanford Alumni umn, I have Pasquerilla West Siegfried decided to share my experiences Viewpoint "{It] makes me "It's pretty "It was 'uber' "I think we "I think it "I thought it , as the roommate Copy Editor jealous that I sweet., sharp. should march of two scene­ should've been was one of shop gnomes and a music major. outside because those 'punt, didn't do ROTC on South I believe that I shall start with my the snappy pass and kick' when they Quad.'' very own music major. I myself am competitions, wanted me to. , not a music major - never have white Navy been, never will be. With this in uniforms would but it wound be mind, I find it hard to understand have been being cool ,, why any one in their right mind blinding.,, anyway. would ever want to be a music major. I've learned that if you walk up to any music major and say "music theory," you get hit or pierced with killer eyes, or the music major faints at the thought. IN BRIEF Like all typical musiciany people -a word invented by us to describe the normal mental state of a musi­ An information session on cian - my roommate walks around Burma's Forgotten War will in her own little world. She is always take place today at 10 a.m. in spouting words like "f' and "g." And LaFortune. The event is part of she is very good at composing music; Asian American Heritage Week the other day she wrote a little ditty and is sponsored by the Free about the wonders of gummy Burma Coalition. worms. My music major fills our room with music. The room just James Wetherbee, an astro­ would not be the same without her. naut and Notre Dame graduate, Also here at Saint Mary's, buried will discuss high reliability in the middle of Moreau between lit­ organizations and the role of tle theater and O'Laughlin, lies a lit­ leadership and responsibility in tle room. This room would be the creating and maintaining the envy of every normal male in the conditions necessary to sustain a world. There are enough screws, culture of high reliability. The hammers, nail guns and other manly lecture takes place this after­ toys to keep several men busy for noon at 1:45 p.m. in the the rest of their life. There are even Hesburgh Center Auditorium. some welding thingy-majiggers thrown in for good measure. But the The Class of 2004 will host a amusing part of this is that the men dinner for seniors tonight at 6 who use these toys are actually tal­ p.m. at K's. ented, kick butt women who are the backbone of every production here A march for Sexual Assault at Saint Mary's. TIM SULLIVANffhe Observer Awareness Week will take place These girls can do things most Students join together In song during the Interfaith Christian Night of Prayer. The tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the men will only ever be able to dream prayer session took place Wednesday night In the Coleman Morse lounge and was Hesburgh Library reflecting about doing. They spend every after­ sponsored by Campus Ministry. pool. The event is sponsored by noon climbing ladders, adjusting CARE. sound equipment, sawing lumber, building fake floors, 'playing' with The Not So Royal Shakes­ nail guns and doing anything else OFFBEAT peare Company will present set designers and production man­ "King Lear" tonight at 7:30p.m. agers come up with. In the weeks Flasher attacked by 30 when more than a dozen Messiah College near in the Jordan Auditorium of the before a production, they bury schoolgirls sentenced girls from St. Maria Goretti Harrisburg in 1970, put Mendoza College of Business. themselves in the shop until the wee PHILADELPHIA - A man High School for Girls, with down his pointer Thesday at hours of the morning, yelling at who was tackled and beaten the help of a bystander, age 104.

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