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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 42: ISSUE 22 WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER26, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Course packet prices skyrocket COR Fundn1ay Students, professors outraged; Bookstore cites copyright and production fees for new costs see raise• :m• ByJENN METZ ment for the Bookstore. Kirkpatrick said this Assistant News Editor markup is the same as that on other course materials, allocation The Hammes Notre Dame but said he could not dis Bookstore is defending its close an exact figure. pricing of course packets, Professors, many of whom Expenses covered for which increased nearly to apologized to students for the equivalent of textbooks the extra cost have few students who need it and angered students and options - besides course professors alike, saying packets and the libraries' increased copyright and online reserves - to dis By JOHN TIERNEY production fees were tribute additional class News Writer responsible for the new materials, so the demand prices. for the packets remains The Council of Copyright clearance fees strong. Representatives (COR) dis and production costs con The legal basis for the cussed raising the amount of tribute to the overall cost of copyright costs is more than money allocated to the the packets for students, a decade and a half old. Rector Fund at its meeting but the Bookstore also adds In 1991, a federal court Tuesday. COLEMAN COLLINSffhe Observer a certain percent markup, ruled that the reprinting of The Rector Fund is used to Peter Balestracci waits while a bookstore employee rings up his said Keith Kirkpatrick, cover expenses for hall purchase Tuesday. Prices rose for course packets this year. director of retail manage- see PACKETS/page 4 events, football tickets, JPW event tickets, performance tickets and service trip regis trations for students who are financially unable to meet these costs, Vice President for Student Affairs Father Book of letters to Hesburgh released Mark Poorman said in a let ter to student body president Liz Brown. led the crusade to keep women Besides the notoriety he gained Notre Dame alumnae to Eligibility for the fund is By NICOLE O'CONNOR from to the University. as the captain of Notre Dame's Hesburgh, telling him how determined by the Office of News Writer "Bless me, Father 1966 national championship their lives have been impacted Financial Aid, but it is [Hesburgh,] for I football team, Lynch by their undergraduate experi administered to students CHICAGO - About 60 Notre have sinned," Lynch was an originator of ences at Notre Dame. through their rector. Dame alumni gathered at the said. "The 1967 the "Better Dead Included in the book are let Since its inception in the University Club here Monday to transgression I'm Thanking Than Coed" move ters from the top 25 University 2001-02 school year, the celebrate the release of referring to was my Father ment that swept the administrators in 1972, the amount of money used by the "Thanking Father Ted: Thirty boneheaded, campus in 1967. first undergraduate women Rector Fund each year has Five Years of Notre Dame wrong-thinking Ted Only after the who attained leadership roles increased from $10,454 to Coeducation 1972-2007," a opposition to the merger talks broke on campus and famous ·mem $60,663 last year. More than book sponsored by the Notre decision to make down in December bers of the Notre Dame com $53,376 has already been Dame Alumni Association in Notre Dame coedu of 1971 did munity - including Regis allocated to 230 students so celebration of former cational." Hesburgh make the Philbin, Lou Holtz and Anne far this school year. University President Father When Notre decision to open Thompson, chief environmen Currently, the Rector Fund Theodore !Iesburgh and his Dame announced undergraduate stu tal correspondent for NBC receives $35,000 per year decision to admit women into plans to merge with dent enrollment to News. from the first $100,000 The the University. Saint Mary's women in the fall of The book retails for $26.95 Shirt Charity Fund collects. The keynote speaker, 1967 College, much of 1972. and is available for purchase at This year, the. Rector Fund graduate Jim Lynch, was the -the all-male student body at "Thanking Father Ted" con the Hammes Notre Dame has already spent more than same man that 40 years ago the time voiced its opposition. tains 150 letters written by see BOOK/page 6 see COR/page 4
NDTV launches year's lineup ND among top schools Student-run television station increases original shows to seven for service program By NICOLE TAYLOR News Writer classrooms across the country By JOSEPH McMAHON through the program. NDTV, Notre Dame's stu News Writer "People are taking much more dnnt-run telnvision station, is interest in making a difference, getting a facelift this year Notre Dame, a university that especially in a society where New with a new lineup of shows strives for academic excellence Orleans still remains in ruins, and a new leader behind the and social serivice, remains one millions of people go without switchboards. of the top feeder schools for post medical insurance and 38 per Executive Director Nick graduate service leader Teach cent of fourth graders cannot Andert, a sophomore, said for America. read at the basic level," said jun hn's excited about the The national organization ior LuLu Meraz, one of four stu changes coming to the net works to create future leaders dents who are working this year work, which kicked off its new and eliminate educational as campus coordinators for season with a two-hour live inequalities between low-income Teach for America. broadcast Tuesday. The feed communities and the rest of the "The younger generation is featured a Guitar Hero con nation by recruiting college grad looking for a way to better the test, a performance by a live uates to teach in urban and rural country and make an enduring band, previews of the new schools for a minimum of two impact that can dramatically lineups and call-ins to the sta years. affect things on a systematic and fundamental level, and Teach for tion. COLEMAN COLLINSffhe Observer Last year 2,900 recent college Nick Andert and Colleen Ferriera edit film together in the graduates - including 44 Notre see NDTV/page 6 NDTV studio. NDTV premiered Tuesday at 7 p.m. Dame students - were placed in see TEACH/page 6 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, September 26, 2007
INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ORIGINAL SHOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ON NOTV? First signs of apocalypse?
Thorn arn li~w things in ihn world thai can really makn mn sad. Caitlyn Ranagan Jessie Robbins Lauren Theiss MacKenzie Sheets Noreen Sherred Shannon Hansen Pnopln oating babies. Hadsm. Thosn hugo 'XOs-inspirnd b«>ll<> ~rirls wear with senior freshman sophomore junior senior junior out realizing I 0 years down tim road Opus McCandless LeMans off campus LeMans LeMans tlwy'll look back at the picturos Marcela Berrios "Inside Edition: "College ''The Real Wold: "Life as a "The and wish Limy "The Fun Nun ,, Kitchen Style.,, Musical.,, Dorms. campus Bachlorete. '' had mad Thn Associate News Hour." Observnr to squirrel." know bntinr. Hditor Thesn things make nw wondnr about ilw l'utun~ of our soeinty and if bringing a child into this ill liltnd world is just eruel. It all saddens me, but I can carry on with my (ifi) lhr now. But thnn thorn arn a few narth-shai inring nvnnl'i that destroy what optimism I have IPil in mo. Kiefi~r Suilwrland was arrested on a I>UI again. Honaldinho's pnrf(mnance IN BRIEF this ynar is mnmly good a<; opposnd to spnd.acular. "Hock of Lovp" ends on Sunday. "Between Figurative and Thesn arn all tragic evenl<> that I'm not Abstract," will feature paint suro I'm strong 1mough to handh ings by Gao Xingjian. The But onn partimlar nvent Tunsday real exhibit will run from 10 a.m. to ly did worry mn and at the same time 4 p.m. in O'Shaughnessy got mn thinking about morn than how Galleries West in the Snite stupid Hnal Madrid is leading the Museum today. The exhibit Spanish soceor lnah'l.W. will end Nov. 11. Bolivian PrPsident Evo Morales was a gw~st on "Tho I >aily Show with John There is a Post Graduate Stowart" and, whiln thn man is undmli Service Fair today from 5 p.m. ably lind to tlw politiml turmoil of an to X at the Joyce Center. nntirn nation, lw WlL'i grnotml with Hnpresontativns from over 70 laugh tor in tlw sanw way Goorgn service programs will be prns Cloonoy would havc• bonn. nni for students who wish to Now I actually do stop back and won commit to a year or morP of dor what llw world hlL'i c:onw to. full-time serviee after gradua I won't liSP this spaco to talk about my tion. The nvPnt is sponsornd pnrsonal opinions on Moralos' national by the Centnr for Soeial ization of tlw natural g
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS page 3 Ecology lecture focuses on environmentalism Professors, politicians discuss the importance of 'being green' as a part of a faith-based college community
hosted by Saint Mary's sibility," said Regina Wilson, members to close their eyes Karl Hardy, another member By KATIE STAAK Campus Ministry in an effort assistant director of Campus and imagine a world where of the Green Party running for News Writer to promote environmental Ministry, before introducing people are literally tied to public office, said he believes awareness as an important the panelists in the Stapleton each other - and every step a the world is heading towards Four ecologically conscious aspect of a faith-based college. Lounge of LeMans Hall. person takes affects everybody an ecological crisis if society panelists stressed the impor "As a people of faith we have The speakers ranged from else. does not change its ways. tance of adopting a green a responsibility to our commu Saint Mary's faculty members "Next time you are in the "Participatory democracy is lifestyle Tuesday in an event nity, an environmental respon- to members of the Saint dinning hall, rather than see a must for a ecologically sound Joseph's County Valley Green ing individual people think community," Hardy said. Party. they have an elastic string tied He urged the students in the Tuesday's panel, titled "What between each of them," she audience and their generation Difference Does it Make to be said. "Every step taken either to think socially and to take Green?" was split into three tightens or loosens the steps towards making an eco sections that lasted about 15 strings." logical difference throughout minutes each. The first speak She said humans' smallest the community and the world. er, biology professor Naida actions have serious repercus The final speaker was Lehmann, began her segment sions on the environment. Director of Facilities Bill by explaining what led her to The second part of the lec Hambling, who shared with join the Saint Mary's faculty. ture had members of the coun the audience his opinions on "l struggled finding ways to ty's Green Party speak about how each building on campus educate the community that their experiences working is suffering from the wear it they need to be aware of their closely with the city to undergoes by the environ environmental actions," she improve the South Bend resi ment. said. dents' knowledge of the envi Hambling said Saint Mary's The College has allowed her ronment. is taking action to reduce this to share her research with Kathleen Petitjean, an occu deterioration and create an students who will contribute to pational therapist who is run ecol-ogically sustainable cam shaping the future of a world ning for office, encouraged pus. on the brink of an ecological students to take personal steps Spes Unica Hall, the new crisis, Lehmann said. She toward environmental friendli academic building scheduled lamented how the world views ness because small, daily to be ready for the 2008-09 nature as an object, or some actions can add up to mean academic year, has many thing that can be controlled. ingful contributions in the long aspects that are environmen She said she hopes the run. tally conscious, he said. Some future will allow for a more Petitjean said she tries to of the green features are the intertwined rela ti onshi p buy locally grown produce and hall's dual toilets, designated between humans and the rides her bike for fuel efficien recycling areas and motion nature that surrounds them. cy purposes. detector lights, to help con To help students understand "If you change yourself peo serve energy. KELLY HIGGINS!fhe Observer the relationship between ple will notice and even your Biology professor Naida Lehmann speaks during a lecture on the human actions and the ecolo small efforts may make a dif Contact Katie Staak meaning of evironmentalism Tuesday in the Stapleton Lounge. gy, Lehmann asked audience ference," she said. at kstaakO 1 @saintmarys.edu
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l'ied prior to production if a The Notre Dame Business Arts and Letters committee This year, the prie11 skyrock packet will cost more than Operations Web site lists sev that will investigate the eted to $93. Packets $50. eral benefits of course packet course packet issue in "I am not blaming anyone continued from page 1 The second problem, he sale through the bookstore October. in particular for gouging our said, is "the outrageously and its recent agreement His goal is to see if there is students, hut I did apologize copyrighted materials for sal11 high" bookstore markup - with FedEx a way to return to my studnnts on the first in aeademie course packets "in that it adds no value to Kinko's. to the old system, day of class for the price did not fall under fair use students. unless it's worth T h e where course increase," he said. and that permission was $20 for the convenience." Bookstore ''The bottom line is packets were lie was told by people at r11quired, according to the Kirkpatrick has be£m at his becomes a sold at the cam the Decio copy center that Stanford University Libraries position at the Bookstore for single point of that my students pus copy eent1H one of the articles he wanted copyright and fair us11 Web two months and said hn could con tact for had to pay $65 where they were to use. roughly 25 pages in sitn. Thn case, Basic Books not compare current course packet for a packet that printed, like in length, would cost each stu Inc. v. Kinko's Graphics Bookstore policy to the poli submission Flanner Hall, dent $8. Another article Corp.,l'orees institutions to eins of the old Copy Shop in and purchase, would have O'Shaughnessy would cost $6. The publish obtain copyright dParancn thn LaFortune Studnnt Center so students cost them $ r 6 Hall. Decio ers, he said, arc behind these for aeadnrnic course packets. basemnnt, which regularly can charge last spring. " Faculty Hall and usage and copyright costs, "Fair usn" is dPfined as any produ1:ed course packets in course pack the old Copy which contributn to overall rnproduetion or copyrighted previous years. ets to their Shop. packet priee. material for a "limited and Tim Wright of' Copy Wright, student Chris Vanden Bossche Though he is With e-reserve. students 'transl'orrnativn' purpose," Inc .. owned the Copy Shop, accounts English Professor not optimistic, can decide how much of the according to the Web site. whieh closed its doors last and faculty Bant said. he is material they want to print Distinguishing distribution of March after a long legal bat and staff need currently investi out. which is a method nHttPrials as fair usn can be tle to renew the lnase on the not spend gating elnctronic cheapnr putting tho artiel11s used as a defense against University premises. time obtain- means of distri- into packets. eopyright inl'ringnnHHlt. Whnn he produced course ing their own copyright clear bution like the '"electronic "I think students are much No eopyright pack1~ts for pro ance. reserve" In-reserve) system happier paying for the cost of elnaranen fessors, hn Through this system, the on the University Libraries' paper instnad of $94 for a oe1~urs in-hous1~ said, he tried to University "bears no copy Web sitn to lower student packet," hn said. at th n "/ didn 't like keep tho aver right elnarancn liability" and costs. "One of ln-rnservn'sl advan Bookstore; high-priced age cost to $50 is not responsible for excess llis committee is currently tages is that I am legally able ratlwr. rnall~ri for course inventory.. working on a student opinion to use a higher pertentage of als "are snnt course packets. packets. University Custom survey that will come out a book's pages for elass mate out of retail They didn't help "I didn't like Publishing (UCP) c'onduets the next week so students like rial than when I was submit w a I I s . " the kids and high-priced copyright clearance and, in freshman Jim Hasson can ting material for a hard -copy Kirkpatrick eoursn pack doing so, collncts royalties make their opinions on the packet," he said. said. Tl111 eopy they didn't ets," he said. and copyright fees from the matter heard. According to the Business right fen is help us." "They didn't Bookstore that contribute to Hasson acknowledged the Operations Web site, copy deterrn ined by help the kids the price of the course pack convenience of "one-stop right laws also apply to elec the number of Tim Wright and they didn't ets. Due to the "comprehen shopping" but complained of tronic media, but the references in a help us." sive copyright clearance by the high prices of course University Libraries pur givnn article on Copy Wright, Inc. lie used the UCP," the Web site says, fac packets. chased licensing agreements a "per incident Copyright ulty may see an increase in II ass on's philosophy course that allow linkages to E per use" basis Clearance the cost of their packets. packet cost $45, which he Heserves or reproduction. If and depends on Center to The average turn-around said was "way too much the materials to bn put on e the publisher. ensun1 permission to use the time for production is three money for a bunch of photo reservc fall outside of fair use English professor Chris materials. The organization weeks. copies." lie did appreciate guidelines, copyright clear Va n d ~~ n B o s s c h e s a i d t h e charged an administrative Student Government has the option of charging the anco is maintained. The turn eopyright fens paid for each fen, which -like in the book taken on the issue of course packet to his student charge around for that process is of his paeknts was $28.24. store production process - packet prices as one of its account at the Bookstore. about ten days. "I was told the bookstore added to the overall cost of projects this semester. As a result of student out "J will never use a hard- thnn addnd 25 percent," he the packets. Stephen Bant, Fisher Hall cry and his own discontent copy packet again," said. Still. course packets were senator and a member of the with the price increase. Malkovsky said. That additional cost, com vnry profitable for the Copy Academic Affairs Committee, Theology professor Brad binnd with printing fnes, Shop, Wright said. Whnn is leading the initiative. Malkovsky now posts artieles Meg Mirshak contributed would bring the packet total packets would be extremely "It feels like everyone is for students on e-reserve reporting to this article. to $59.69, Vandnn Bossche expensive due to copyright being ripped off." he said. through the Library. said. But tlw final cost of the fees, Wright would sell the In his research, he discov Last year, his tlu~ology Contact Jenn Metz at pack Pt. wa'S $65. packets for thn pricn of print ered plans for a College of packet was less than $30. [email protected] "Tlw bottom linn is that my ing only. students had to pay $65 for a "Wn did a pretty credible packet that would have cost job at getting things cleared, t h n rn $ I (> I as t spring." he getting it done quickly and at said. thn least amount of' cost to Vanden Bossclw snes major students," he said. problems wilh thn increase in Tho Bookstore oversaw the paekPt prien. First, hn said, production of about 120 thnre were errors in paying elassns' coursn packets this the copyright fpns. semnster, Kirkpatrick said. lin said lw was not consult Thnrn are othnr copy centers ed n~garding "all itnms and on campus that can handle fees that were charged for the copyright clearance of' Shape the lives materials that an~ in the pub matnrials and printing. but of others and lie domain." Tho Web site all retail sales takn placn in states professors will be noli- the bookstor·e. yout· own.
to most COH members. "A demonstrated tangible COR need should take precedence continued from page 1 over an unexpected or improbable medieal tlw $:{5,000 it nH~nivnd from expense," senator George What are r?\ T h ~~ Shirt Charity Fund . Chamberlin said. "It's not \ Additional funding has conw completely the school's I from tho monPy that was not responsibility to take care of I spnnt during the fund's initial mndiral bills." \ four ynars of opnration. But the Council noted the To sustain tho fund's viabil final decision to ehangn the I I ity. J>oo rm an proposnd Shirt Charity Fund's allot I increasing tlw $:{5,000 annu nHmts is beyond their control / al allotment to $60,000, as tlw fund's needs vary each I lwginning in Ortolwr. year,. depending on the spe Most CO H nwrn bn rs agrnnd cific mndieal conditions that with Poorman's proposal, students encounter. whirh would moan tho Shirt "You rwver 1:an bn at a safe / Charity Fund - which lwlps amount of the Shirt Charity studPnts pay for mndieal bills Fund," Student Union Board / / -would rncnivn $25,000 loss trnasurer Kadeja Gaines said. -~.// nvnry ynar. This tradeoff, hownvnr, Contact John Tierney at snnmnd fair and reasonable jtierne I @nd.edu.edu ORLD & NATION Wednesday, September 26, 2007 COJ'vW!U:D FROM THE OBSERVER'S WIRE SERVKES page 5
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Myanmar warns protesting monks Katrina reconstruction remains slow YANGON - Myanmar's military government issw~d a threat Monday to the barefi1ot Buddhist Paperwork continues to hinder execution of FEMA rebuilding efforts monks who led I 00,000 people marching through a major city in the strongest protests Associated Press against tho repressive regime for two decades. Tlw warning shows the increasing pressure tho junta is under to either crack down on or NEW ORLEANS - Nearly compromise with a reinvigorated democracy 2,000 pages spell out in movcmont. Tho monks have taken their tradi excruciating detail some tional role as tho conscience of society, backing thing that is plain to Virgil tlw military into a corner from which it may lash Tiller but not the Federal out again. Emergency Management The authorities did not stop the protests Agency: His school was Monday, even as they built to a scale and fervor destroyed and needs to be that rivaled the pro-democracy uprising of 1988 rebuilt. when the military Jired on peaceful crowds and The pages are a piece-by killed thousands, terrorizing the country. The piece inventory of everything government has been handling the monks gin wrecked by Hurricane gerly, wary of raising the ire of ordinary citizens Katrina - from the roof in this devout, predominantly Buddhist nation. right down to the bathroom fixtures - at Alfred Lawless Iran ignores U.N. Security Council High School in New Orleans' UNITED NATIONS - Iranian President devastated Lower Ninth Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday Ward. that "the nudear issue of Iran is now closed," But FEMA has yet to find and indicated that Tehran will disregard U.N. the school is 51 percent Security Council resolutions imposed by "arro destroyed - the clerical gant powers" and demanding suspension of its benchmark that must be uranium enrichment. reached before the agency Instead, he said, Iran has decided to pursue will pay to completely the monitoring of its nuclear program "through rebuild something. And so, its appropriate legal path," the International two years after Katrina, Atomic Energy Agency which is the U.N.'s while the state and federal nuclear watchdog. government haggle over the The U.S. delegation was absent during the extent of the damage, the speech except for a note taker. school lies empty, a ruin of The Iranian leader spoke hours after French toppled bricks, sagging roofs President Nicolas Sarkozy warned the assembly and missing window panes. that allowing Iran to arm itself with nuclear "The kids here were used weapons would be an "unacceptable risk to sta to disappointment. Leaving bility in the region and in the world." this school like this is anoth AP er form of disappointment, Alfred Lawless High School music teacher Virgil Tiller surveys damage to his old classroom not just for them, but for the in New Orleans on Monday. Bureaucratic red tape has slowed rebuilding efforts in the city. entire community," said money hasn't been spent?' said. "And the focus should federal Stafford Act, which NATIONAL NEWS Tiller, a 30-year-old former And the money's been spent be on providing the money to has governed disaster music teacher at what was building mountains of get public services restored. rebuilding since 1988. That Utah polygamist leader convicted the only public high school in paper," said Andy Kopplin, But what we've got is a sys law says that federal money ST. GEORGE, Utah -The leader of a polyg the Lower Ninth. "How can executive director of the tem where we have thou can be used only to replace amous Mormon splinter group was convicted anyone look at this and say it Louisiana Recovery sands of federal, state, local what was damaged, not Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for is not 51 percent destroyed?" Authority. and contract employees improve a facility, or even performing a wedding between a 19-year-old The answer to Tiller's About 20,000 project exchanging paperwork alter it cosmetically in many man and a 14-year-old girl. question lies in "project worksheet reports, common before the first nail can be cases. Warren Jeffs, 51, could get life in prison worksheets," forms that are ly over 1,000 pages each, hammered." So for Alfred Lawless, after a trial that threw a spotlight on a rene used to inventory damage to have been written since the Gil Jamieson, FEMA's No. 2 reams of project worksheet gade community along the Arizona-Utah line a facility down to the small storm. According to the LRA, administrator for Gulf Coast pages take stock of items as where as many as 10,000 of Jeffs' followers est pieces, and often go 83 percent of the state's recovery, does not agree. He minute as "five 4-foot two practice plural marriage and revere him as a through multiple versions as 13,200 general construction maintains that while the tube fluorescent ceiling light mighty prophet with dominion over their sal they wend their way through projects have been haggled project worksheet system fixtures, three vitreous wall vation. the bureaucracy. over at least once, tying up was slowed by early prob hung urinals, four plastic Jeffs stood and, like his 15 followers in the The PWs - which meas $469 million in rebuilding lems, such as a high rate of laminate partition stalls with courtroom, wore a stoic look as the verdict ure the rebuilding needs of funds. turnover among the FEMA four wall hung vitreous toi was read. thousands of Gulf Coast Kopplin has looked at workers who fill them out, lets." Prosecutors said Jeffs forced the girl into schools, roads, hospitals, cases like Alfred Lawless and they ensure money is not All the damaged items marriage and sex against her will. firehouses and other public called for an overhaul, argu overspent. accounted for at the school projects - are the red tape ing that the system was ill "The story could be written add up to $28 million in fed FBI investigates boat incident that politicians and policy equipped to handle a disas that the federal government eral funding that the school MIAMI - Four crew members were missing makers bemoan when they ter on Katrina's scale. is nitpicking," Jamieson said. district can count on toward from a boat found adrift and two passengers, speak of the slow rebuilding "There could be a cata "The other side is that we're rebuilding, Jamieson said. one of them a fugitive from Arkansas, were from Katrina. strophic earthquake in trying to be good stewards of All but two of the buildings being questioned by federal authorities "People look at Louisiana California. There could be the taxpayer dollar." on campus have reached the Tuesday after they were rescued in the and say, 'Where is all the other unforeseen disasters, The worksheets are 51 percent benchmark, he Florida Straits near Cuba. rebuilding? How come all the and terrorists attacks," he designed to comply with the said. Kirby Logan Archer, 35, of Strawberry, Ark., and Guillermo Zarabozo, 19, of Hialeah, were found in good condition Monday morn ing on a life raft. JAPAN They were brought back to land and FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said they were Fukuda elected nation's prime minister
Associated Press our opponents, if they are willing to ment's powerful lower house, Fukuda LOCAL NEWS engage with us," Fukuda said in his was defeated in the upper house, TOKYO - Yasuo Fukuda swept to first news conference after winning which voted for opposition leader Indiana sees improved test scores power as Japan's prime minister election in parliament. "I believe the Ichiro Ozawa. It was only because of INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's fourth- and Tuesday, promising to use his skills as government and all parties can come a law that favors the lower house Pighth-graders improved their scores on a negotiator to win approval for together to the negotiating table." that Fukuda was named premier. national math and reading tests this year and extending Tokyo's contentious mis But Fukuda, a proven survivor who It was the first time that parliament continue to do bettor than the national aver sion in support of U.S. troops in became the nation's longest-serving had split in a vote for prime minister age. Afghanistan. chief Cabinet secretary in 2000-2004, since 1998, and only the fourth time The seores are based on the National The 71-year-old, who studied back faces daunting challenges at the helm since World War II. Assessment of Educational Progress, a test room politics at the knee of his prime of the world's second-largest econo Ozawa, head of the Democratic used to compare student progress across state minister father, cast himself as the my: a parliament split by opposition Party of Japan, made clear, however, lines. steady hand Japan needs after the control of the upper house and rock that he was interested in wresting Indiana scores increased this year for stu scandal-scarred one-year term of his bottom public support for the long power from the ruling Liberal dents in eighth grade and fourth grade in both youthful predecessor Shinzo Abe, time ruling party. Democratic Party, not helping Fukuda math and reading, although eighth-grade who abruptly resigned two weeks One glaring sign of the troubles achieve his agenda. The opposition is reading scores improved by an amount not ago. ahead was his election Tuesday. pushing for snap elections for the statistically different than 2005 scores. "There is room for discussion with While easily triumphing in parlia- lower house. page 6 The Observer + CAMPUS NEWS Wednesday, September 26, 2007
founder of Teach for America, leadership in all areas, possess college-preparatory public Dame's own baekyard to realizo has been so impressed by the strong critical thinking skills and sehools in under-rosoureed com something had to bn done about Teach work Notre Dame students have have maintained a GPA of at least munities throughout the United underprivileged sehools. Gibson continued from page 1 donn that she is actually leomingl 2.5." States, according to its Web site. said 96 percnnt of students at to the University on Oct. 9 to host After eompleting their two-year TFA teachers that choose a dif PerlHy Elerllfmtary School on Arnnrka is a perfnet opportunity a student leader reception," eontraet with Teaeh for America, ferent career path than education Eddy Street qualify li>r free lunch to do so," she said. I Ierro! said. "Hfmlly, the work the past recruits have gone on to have dillerent options available to and only half of fourth graders And Notre Damn students have University has donn through earners in and out of the class them, including the possibility of passed state exams in math and answered that call to servien with things like the Center for Soeial room. Currently, there are more returning to school for an reading. 1-{n~at enthusiasm in past years, Conenrns has made Notrn Dame than 12,000 TFA graduates advanced degree at a lower cost "Many of tho students that said Patrick llerrel, dirnetor of onn of Teach for America's top working all over the country in - a result of their work with attend Notrn Dame went to great tho Lakn Michigan recruitment rm:ruiting schools." fields ranging from medicine to Teach for Anmriea. public schools or private team for Teach lilr Ameriea. llnrrel said the Lake Michigan business to law, I Ierro! said. The Notre Dame Law School, schools,'' he said. "For students "Notre Damn's Catholie culture recruitment team is hoping to Sixty-five percent of former for example, will give a $5,000 that grow up in low-income com and tho commitment to social recruit 60-70 Notro Dame seniors program partieipants choose to per year scholarship to any fi>r munities, going to a school like justice that it instills have always filr thn program this year. stay in education, with many opt mer TFA teacher. Notre Dame is not possible created a strong sense of obliga "One of" our major goals is to ing to beeome teachers. Some, But for most students that because of tho poor education tion in the student.-;," llerrel said. increase our Notre Dame num however, attempt to further choose to sign up for the two they will receive." lin said Notre Dame's 44- bnrs," llerrol said. "Notre Dame address education problems as year eommitment, the motivation Teach for America, he said, is tnadwr contribution last ynar students have always shown a principals or school ehancellors, is not monetary compensation. "a part of" Notre Dame's call to was tho fourth largest from any great eommitment to giving the he said. Teaeh for America is an oppor service that resonates with us all. single sehool - and the three childron a quality education. And One Notre Dame graduate and tunity to help out in some of the We ean and should make a diller schools that produced morn vol it is lilr that reason that they are former TFA teacher, Jim poorest, most downtrodden areas ence by helping to correct unteers than the University at always in dnmand." O'Conner, reeently established a of the country. America's greatest injustice." lnast tripled Notrn Damn in the Meraz said the program looks Knowledge is Power Program Senior Matt Gibson, another sizn of their studm1t bodies. for "outstanding eollnge seniors (KIPP) ehartnr school in Chicago. TFA campus eoordinator, said he Contact Joseph McMahon at "Wnndy Kopp, tho CEO and who havo dnmonstrated strong KIPP is a national network of free needed only to look in Notre [email protected]
years would stop by and visit grandchildren, other Domer Martino O'Brien- a 1977 grad Notebaert and many Chicago the statue," Palmer told the alumnae, particularly recent uate. president of the Mendoza based trustees. Book crowd at the book launch. graduates and women on cam College Business Advisory In addition to the newly "'Tell your children or grand pus today, what it was like to be Couneil and the president and released book, the Thanking continued from page 1 children your own story about one of Notre Damn's co-ed pio CEO of Harris Alternatives, an Father Ted Foundation is sell Bookstore and online at bning part of this history,' Ara neers." Palmer said. $11 billion Chicago-based hedge ing two posters for $16.95 each. Arnazon.eom and Barnes and said. 'Stop a while and try to lis Several of the gathered alum fund - expressed their grati All profits from the poster sales Noble. ten to the echoes. They'll be nae read from their own letters, tude to Hesburgh. will bennfit the Notre Dame The book's editor, 1973 grad horn."' ineluding 1972 graduate Mary University President Father Gender Helations Center. uate Ann Therese Darin Palmer, She said Parseghian, who eon Davey Bliley, the University's John Jenkins will give a spnech Tho first poster is a reprint of explained the idea behind the tributed a letter to the book, first female to receive an under here on "Notre Dame the 1972 poster recruiting the book and the goals tlu~ lntters eould have just as easily been graduate degree. Illinois Coeducation: The Past, Present first undergraduate women to hope to aehieve among the talking about llesburgh and his Appellate Court Justice Sheila and Future" here on Oct. 22. apply to the University. The sec younger Notre Dame genera contribution to the history of O'Brien - a 1977 and 1980 Palmer said the event will be ond poster commemorates the tions. Notrn Dame. graduate and the winner of this open to all Notre Dame stu 35th anniversary of Notre Dame "Last Saturday, whnn Jim "We'vn got a similar goal. year's Hev. Edward Sorin dents, parents and alumni. coeducation. Lynch unveiled the statue of" Ara Besides thanking Father Ted for Alumni Association Award for Guests at the luneheon, she Parseghian, Ara said he hoped the tremnndous gift he gave us, Distinguished Service to the said, will include Board of Contact Nicole O'Connor at we wantnd to tell our ehildren, University - and B.oxanne his former play1~rs over tho Trustees Chairman Hichard noconno 1 @nd.edu
That goal is key to one of the said it could be as early as accomplished at NDTV so far ming. We hope to improve the main purposes of "On later this week. and what is in store. production values as well, so NDTV Campus,'' which is to create a And while many of the "It's our biggest lineup yet. our shows look and sound bet continued from page 1 show with an ongoing plot to shows and the initiatives he We are expanding quickly, and ter." hook viewers and keep them has in mind are still in the have a lot of members," he Andert said one of" this fall's tuning in every week, Andert developing stages, Andert said. "We are trying to expand Contact Nicole Taylor at new additions is NDTV's first said. said, he is proud of what has and improve our program- ntayloO 1 @saintmarys.edu studont-produced sitcom, "On "We hope that On Campus Campus." The show is in draws a steady audience and "mockumnntary" style, he that it draws people to our said, similar to the popular other shows as well," he said. NBC series "The Office," Some of the other shows whieh in turn was a spin-off that will premiere on NDTV from a popular BBC show of this season ineludn "Talk it the same name. Out,'' a debate show. The show "On Campus" follows a girl will feature two groups debat named Sarah and her transi ing a hot issue before a mod THE HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION tion to Notre Dame as a fresh erator - sophomore Dan man, Andert said. She has Hotar. eanwras following her through In addition to the new her adjustment to the campus shows, all of the station's old life, documenting the realiza programs will return with new tion of" her droam to attend episodes, bringing NDTV's Notre Dame - and the con original-show-count up to trast bntwenn what she seven. nxpnctnd and what she NI>TV News and NDTV reeeivos. Sports were merged into one "On Campus" will air a nnw hour-long program, Andert episode weekly, starting next said. week, on Thursday nights. "Final Cut,'' a movie review Writing, producing, and taping show, will rnturn to the lineup an nntirely NDTV-produeed this year, and new episodes of siteorn was always an idea "Humor Artists,'' a live taping f"loating around the studio, of the campus improvisational Andt~rt said, but it was difTi comedy group of the same t~ult to accomplish logistically nanw, will be airing as well. for years. The interview show "Office "We shoot whnnever thn east llours" is also baek with a is available,'' he said. "It ean season opener that will fea be anytime during tlw wnnk. ture an interview with the We've nven shot on Sunday hand Plain White T's, who mornings bPf"ore." played at Legends on Sept. When it's the The show's producer, sopho 14. It will also include a inter {jJ; @@lfiJ@~(ID[J@[fiJO[?J~ more John Minser, said devel view with members of local oping and filming "On band Umphrey's MeGee. prestigious Luce scholarship, finding you an Campus" is a challenge finan NDTV's signature late show, cially and in time-wise, but he however, has a new host and a exciting Job In the far east, strategically chosen to match said tlw east and crew is new name. "The Mike 1·yr exeited about the upcoming Peterson Show" has been season. replaced by "Late Night ND," your career goals. Apply by November 2, 2007. "It's a prntty ambitious proj which premiered Tuesday with ect," he said. "We havn an new host junior Joe Kwaczala. ext1n1sive cast and erew and Anderst said tlu~ NDTV staff Interested? 29 or younger? Have you now (or will you have by the end of May, 2008) an NO degree? have been able to pull in the is also working on a new Web No east-Asia experience? For more contad Mrs. Nancy O'Connor([email protected]) biggest budget yet. We're hop site for the station that will infonnation, ing to be able to have a nnw havo a new streaming video half hour episodn every section. The date for the site's woek." launch is still unknown, but he THE OBSERVER
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 USINESS page 7 MARKET RECAP U.N. debates emissions solutions Stocks Dow Bush looks to voluntary company reductions rather than accept Kyoto-style mandate Jones 13,778.65 +19.59 Associated Press Up: Same: Down: Composite Volume: 1,318 91 1,917 3,187,767,487 UNITED NATIONS "Arnie" and "AI," AMEX Republican and Democrat, shared the world spotlight NASDAQ to press for climate action, NYSE adding a touch of star qual ity to the staid proceedings S&P 500 1,517.21 -0.52 of a U.N. summit. NIKKEI (Tokyo) 16,401.73 0.00 The two headliners, 6,396.90 -69.00 California Gov. Arnold FTSE 100 'London~ Schwarzenegger and for COMPANY %CHANGE $GAIN PRICE mer Vice President AI Gore, S&P DEP RECIEIPTS (SPY) -0.20 -0.30 151.39 also highlighted by their presence President Bush's POWERSHARES (QQQQ) +0.95 +0.48 51.07 absence from the eight MICROSOFT CP (MSFT) +1.65 +0.48 29.56 hours of high-level speech making Monday on what to EM C CP (EMC) +1.95 +0.40 20.91 do about global warming. Bush, who did take part Treasuries later in a small, private U.N. dinner with key play 10-YEAR NOTE -0.22 -0.010 4.614 ers on climate, rejects the 13-WEEK BILL +0.54 +0.020 3.690 idea of international treaty obligations to reduce emis 30-YEAR BOND +0.18 +0.009 4.886 sions of carbon dioxide and 5-YEAR NOTE -0.91 -0.039 4.259 other "greenhouse gases" blamed for global warming Commodities - an idea central to U.N. -1.42 79.53 climate negotiations. LIGHT CRUDE ($/bbl.) The Republican GOLD ($/Troy oz.) -0.50 738.80 Schwarzenegger, on the PORK BELLIES (cents/lb.) +1.23 88.73 other hand, has taken the lead on emissions caps at the state level, signing leg Exchange Rates islation mandating such reductions in California. YEN 114.6300 "One responsibility we all EURO 0.7073 have is action. Action, action, action," the former CANADIAN DOLLAR 1.0044 Hollywood action star said AP BRillSH POUND 0.4954 as he helped open the sum Former Vice President AI Gore gives a presentation on climate change during a mit, winning warm lunch session at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Monday. applause from the assem annual U.N. climate treaty sions caps say a break research on clean-energy bled presidents and pre conference, scheduled for through is needed at Bali to technology as one answer. miers. December in Bali, ensure an uninterrupted On Thursday and Friday, IN BRIEF The Democrat Gore - a Indonesia, where the transition from the Kyoto Bush will host his own Hollywood figure himself as Europeans and others hope deal to a new, deeper-cut Washington climate meet the lead in the Oscar-win to initiate talks for an emis ting regime, something that ing, limited to 16 "major Clear Channel buyout approved sions-reduction agreement SAN ANTONIO - It took just about three ning climate documentary almost certainly would emitter" countries, includ weeks for the nation's biggest radio station "An Inconvenient Truth" - to succeed the Kyoto require a change in the ing China and India, the operator, Clear Channel Communications took his star turn at a sum Protocol in 2012. position of the U.S., long first in a series of U.S.-led Inc., to accept a buyout offer after mit luncheon, where he The 17 5-nation Kyoto the world's biggest emitter gatherings expected to announcing last fall that it was considering cited a lengthening list of pact, which the U.S. rejects, of greenhouse gases. focus on those themes. "strategic alternatives." global warming's impacts, requires 36 industrial Bush objects that Kyoto "The Washington meeting It took another 10 months for sharehold from the shrinking Arctic nations to reduce the heat style mandates would dam is a distraction," Hans ers to finally approve the deal. ice cap to disappearing trapping gases emitted by age the U.S. economy and Verolme, climate cam On Tuesday they gave the OK to a $19.5 lakes in Africa. power plants and other says they should be paigner for the Worldwide billion buyout offer from a private equity '"The need to act is now," industrial, agricultural and imposed on fast-growing Fund for Nature, told group led by Thomas H. Lee Partners LP Gore told delegates to the transportation sources. The poorer countries such as reporters here. The Bush and Bain Capital Partners LLC. one-day summit, which 1997 agreement set rela China and India in addition administration needs "to The offer was first announced in drew more than 80 world tively small target reduc to developed nations. He show they are serious and November but was swee.tened after some leaders. "We need a man tions averaging 5 percent instead is urging industry implement domestic legis large shareholders signaled they would date at Bali." below 1990 levels by 2012. to cut emissions voluntarily lation to reduce emissions," oppose earlier offers. He was referring the The advocates of emis- and is emphasizing he said. The latest offer was $39.20 per share in cash or stock in what would be a privately owned company. Current shareholders could end up with as much as 30 percent of the new company. Consumer confidence, home sales fall
Consumer info exposed to hackers Associated Press by a report from the National after hurricanes Katrina and Rita BOSTON - Hackers stole millions of credit Association of Realtors that sales of devastated the Gulf Coast. card numbers from discount retailer T JX Cos. NEW YORK - Crumbling con existing homes declined for a sixth "Weaker business conditions com by intercepting wireless transfers of customer sumer confidence and slumping straight month in August, pushing bined with a less favorable job mar information at two Miami-area Marshalls home sales could prove to be a bad activity to the lowest point in five ket continue to cast a cloud over stores, according to an eight-month investiga combination for retailers, and for years. The Realtors showed a rise consumers and heighten their sense tion by the Canadian government. the broader economy going into the in median home prices, but a sepa of uncertainty and concern," said The probe led by Canadian Privacy holiday shopping season, if the rate report done by S&P/Case Lynn Franco, director of The Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart faulted TJX labor market contracts further and Shiller said home prices fell 3. 9 Conference Board Consumer for failing to upgrade its data encryption sys chokes off spending, economic data percent in July in its 20-city index. Research Center, in a statement. tem by the time the electronic eavesdropping showed Tuesday. Economists said that decline was "Looking ahead, little economic began in July 2005. The break-in ultimately But markets took some heart from probably a better :r:eflection of improvement is expected, and with gave hackers undetected access toT JX's cen the warning signs, hoping that they where the market stands now. the holiday season around the cor tral databases for a year and a half, exposing would goad the Federal Reserve to The New York-based Conference ner, this is not welcome news." at least 45 million credit and debit cards to lower interest rates more. Board said its Consumer Confidence The Present Situation Index, potential fraud. Worries about jobs and the econo Index fell to 99.8, an almost 6-point which measures how shoppers feel Credit card associations have declined to my flared in September, driving a drop from the revised 105.6 in now about the economy, declined to disclose total damages from thefts that are key barometer of consumer senti August. The reading was below the 121.7 from 130.1 in August. The believed tied to the T JX breach. But some ment to its lowest level in nearly 104.5 that analysts had expected. Expe~tations Index, which meas banks have said they've learned of fraudulent two years, a private research group It marked its lowest level since a ures shoppers' outlook over the purchases as far away as Hong Kong and said. 98.3 reading in November 2005, next six months, declined to 85.2 Sweden. The bad news was compounded when gas and oil prices soared from 89.2. TLlE OBSERVER page 8 IEWPOINT Wednesday, September 26, 2007 THE OBSERVER Assyrian suffering overlooked in Iraq
l~ll. flox 779. Noire I lame, IN 46';';6 021 South I lining H.tll, Notre Dame. IN '16116 The Assyrians havP lived in Iraq insurgents quickly pronounced him a askml about such a havnn, the Statn ElliTOR IN CIIIEI' since 5,000 B.C. Ethnieally distinct "dirty Christian sinner" and, shouting Dnpartmnnt's Iraq policy coordinator, David Sattnrfinld, told me that it is Maddie !Ianna from Arabs and Kurds. they are "Ailahu akbar!," beheaded him. Also Christians and spnak nco-Aramaic, last October, Father Paulos lskander 'against U.S. policy to further sectari MANAGINl; EDITOR BtrSINF.~s MANAtam similar to tlw language of' Christ. Tlwy was kidnapped in Mosul. I lis head, anism.' The administration has not Ken Fowler Kyle West indude Chaldean arms and legs were severed from his even brought together ... JeadPrs of Ass-1: MANA! aNI; EDI I'OR: Kyle Cassity Catholic. Apostolic Charles Rice body. Iraq's non-Muslim minorities to dis AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Mary Kate Malone Catholic and Syriac AINA graphically described many cuss solutions." Orthodox churchns. Hight or attacks since 2003, which wn can only Mmtnwhile, the mayhem eontimws. NEWS EDITOR: Karen langley "In Iraq," summarize here. Fivepriests have Fatlwr Hagheed Ganni and thrne dna VII'WPOINT EDITOR: Joey King Chaldean Wrong? been kidnapped and relnased after eons wnrn assassinated by gunmen as SroR rs Enrrolt~: Chris Khorcy Archbishop Louis ransom was paid. 33 churches have they drovn from a church in Mosul Chris Hine Sako. of Kirkuk, said last April, been attacked or bombnd sine~~ Junn after Mass on .June :1. 2007. Tlwir car SUN I' EDITOR: Tat· Andrews "Christians arc dying, the Church is 2004. At least 13 young womnn have was bobby-trapped by the gunmen to SAINT MARY'S EDITOR: Katie Kohler disappearing under ... porsecution, been abducted and raped. causing prevent rntrieval of the bodies. On threats and violence ... by extremists some of them to commit suicide. June 19, at a Mass for Father c;anni l'IIOTO EDITOR: Dustin Mcnndla who are leaving us no choice: conver Female students have been targeted in and the dn;u:ons in Southlinld, GRAI'IIIC.S EnrroR: Madeline Nics sion or exile." Basra and Mosul for not wearing veils; Michigan, Chaldean Catholic Bishop AOVEilTISING MANAGER: Jessica Conez Last Jun1~. the Assyrian International some had nitric acid squirted on their Ibrahim N. Ibrahim callnd for tlw All 1>1'.\IGN MANAGER: Kelly Gronli News Agency (AINA) issued a report, faees. Elders of a village in Mosul were withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. CONTROLLER: Tim Sobolewski "Incipient Genocide: The Ethnic warned not to send females to univer Bishop Ibrahim has a point. One result SYSTEMS ADMINISTRXfOR: Christian Saganli.t Cleansing of Assyrians in Iraq." In sities. The Madhi Army circulated a of' the Iraq War has been to exposn the 2003, Christians and smaller non letter warning all Christian women to Assyrians and othnr Christians to OFFICE MANAGER & GENERAL INFO Muslim groups wore about one million veil themselves. Al-Qaeda moved into genocidal rnprnssion by all the major (574) ().31-7471 FAX of Iraq's 26 million peopln. Probably an Assyrian neighborhood and began Muslim groups who appear to be of (574) 631-()927 50 percent have now fled the country. collecting the jizya tax and demanding one mind on this. But tlw U.S. should ADVERTISING Persecution began after the Gulf War that females be sent to the mosque to not leavn Iraq without ensuring the (~74) (,31-6900 ohservad@)nd.edu and escalated after the fall of Baghdad be married off to Muslims. Assyrian safety of those minorities in their EDITOR IN CHIEF in 2003. AINA reported that from 19<.!5 businesses have been targeted, espe honwland. (574) 631-4542 to 2002 there were 1 <) murders of cially stores selling aleohol, radios, Bishop Ibrahim is entitlt~d to makn MANAGING EDITOR (574) 6.31-4541 [email protected] Assyrians in Iraq. with none in 1996, TVs and music. On the night of Sept. 7. his point. because in December, 2002, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR 2000 and 2001. From 2003 to June 2005, a fire. with arson suspected, he warned thn United States against (574) 6.31-4324 2007 there were 370. Assyrians and destroyed or damaged more than 500 "going to war, whieh will be a disaster BUSINESS OFFICE other Christians have been attacked by Assyrian shops in Dora. The lire f'or the whole region, not only f'or the (574) 631-5313 Sunnis, Shiites. Kurds and al-Qaeda in trucks did not arrive for hours. The Iraqi people." Nor was he the only NEWS 0ESK every part of Iraq. The Assyrians, with owners had to watch from their Chaldean prelate to do so. On Jan. 9, (574) 631-5323 [email protected]•du VIEWPOINT DESK no tribal structure, military or militia, homes. If they violated curfew, they 2003, Chaldean Bishop Shlemon (574) 631-5303 [email protected] are defenseless. Since the coming of would be shot. Property of Christians Warduni of' Baghdad warned that "the SPORTS DESK Islam in 630 A.D., noted AINA, has been confiscated by Kurds and war threatens our children, our elder (574) 6.31-4543 [email protected] Assyrians have suffered thirty "geno Shiites. The Kurds blocked foreign aid ly, our sick and our young." We can SCENE DESK cides at the hands of Muslims," several for Assyrian communities and diverted now add to that list the Christians who (574) [email protected] in the 20th century. They experienced water and other resources from are about to disappear from Iraq. As SAINT MARY'S DESK smc.l @nd.edu comparative safety and tolerance Assyrians to Kurds. Kurdish forces Shea put it, "The very existence of PHOTO DESK under the oppressive but secular blockaded Assyrian villages. Children these non-Muslims within Iraq may (574) ()31-8767 [email protected] regime of Saddam Hussein. have been kidnapped and transferred soon be extinguished under pervasive SYSTEMS & WEB ADMINISTRATORS Since the fall of Saddam, the perse to Kurdish families. persecution that the U.N. High (574) 631-8839 cution has intensified, with the added The Assyrians and their supporters Commissioner on Hefugees says is tar TilE motive that many Iraqi Christians who urge, in the words of Doctor Nina Shea geted against them due to religion." 0BSERVERONL/Nf speak English have worked for of the Center for Religious Freedom, President Bush should have listened to www.ndsmcobserver.com Americans. The AINA study, however, the "establishment of a new the Chaldeans. POliCIES confirms that the persecution is pri autonomous district," in the Nineveh marily religious. Last October, for Plains "that would be jointly gov Professor emeritus Charles Rice is on The Observer is rhc indepcndem, daily newspaper instance, Ayad Tariq, a 14-year-old erned" by Assyrians and smaller reli the faculty of the Law School. lie can published in prilll and online by the students of the Univcrsiry of Notre Dame duLac and Saim Mary's Assyrian in Baquba. was accosted at gious groups. Unfortunately, as Shea be reached at [email protected] or (574) College. Editorial content, including advcniscments, is his place of employment by insurgents stated on Aug. 27, 2007. "there has 63.1-4415. not governed by policies of the administrarion of either who asked if he was a "Christian sin been no progress" on creating "a The views expressed in this column institution. The Oh.-;ervcr reserves the right to refuse ner." "Yes." he replied, "I am a Nineveh province" and "U.S. policy ... are those of the author and not neces advertisements based on content. 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" Sports Dan Murphy Vote by Thursday at 5 p.m. Virginia Woolf Michael Bryan at www.ndsmcobserver.com American writer Kevin llenry THE OBSERVER Wednesday, September 26, 2007 IEWPOINT page 9 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Campus workers deserve stronger voice In the all-stafl' town hall meetings con Jiant one - though it is not a new concept of the Church's rich tradition and social prides itself on service learning, justice ducted this week, Executive Vice President for this campus; it is something dozens of teaching? A right to organize, a right to and faith put into action. John Aflleck-Graves is quoted as saying, students have been doing for the past two bargain, a right to participate at the table I hope that visitors to campus pause and "It is critical and essential every member years, though their efl'orts have often been where decisions get made that affect your consider the people serving in the Subway of the Notre Dame family feels respected, oflittle success in attracting serious atten life (the technical Catholic social teaching line or cleaning up our mess after tailgat valued and understood." tion or recognition from the University. term is subsidiarity) and a right to speak ing - more than that, I hope we will be I couldn't agree more, and I applaud the They too have sought to give an "NO on your own behalf without fear of reper moved to stand in solidarity with workers Univnrsity's ell'orts to measure employee Voice" to employees who otherwise feel cussions in performance reviews, unjust in the Notre Dame family whose voice has satisfaction by conducting the NO Voice that they have no say in the decisions that consequences from supervisors or risk of yet to be fully proclaimed. surveys, as well as the development of directly affect them and their experience termination. These are rights that mem staff-generated action plans that seek to at work. bers of the Campus Labor Action Project Casey Stanton address concerns in the work force. How do we ensure that all members of - staff, students, faculty and alumni like Alumnus Similarly, the proposal for top adminis the Notre Dame family do in fact feel myself- are committed to upholding at Class of 2007 trators to shadow stafl' members is a bril- respected and valued? Especially in light Notre Dame, an institution that so greatly Sept. 20 Need to ensure Shirt solidarity day shovvs activisn1 In the past, Notre Dame students have generally several weeks ago when she claimed in this news not been known for large-scale activism. With so paper that Notre Dame students only get organized proper recycling much schoolwork, it's hard to pay attention to and active when our social life is threatened ("You much else. But then an organized response to the gotta fight for your right," Sept. 3). Cynics like I want to congratulate all of the volunteers that put proposed South Bend "party ordinance," Laidman must now find a way to explain together the recycling campaign for the Michigan State boldly led by student government how- if Notre Dame students are game. It is great to see that type of activity happening heads Liz Brown and Maris indeed so apathetic and politically on campus. Braun, defied that reputation inactive - such a day of solidari That being said, I hope the students ensure that the of complacency. ty was so successful. bags of recyclables are being properly recycled by Brown and Braun didn't It might be too early to tell, Notre Dame. In 1999, at the request of students, Notre stop there, though. On but it appears that solidarity, Dame installed recycling containers in Reekers, but it Friday, they brought us activism and battling adversity was only later discovered that the university was actu together yet again, this time together will be this student ally just disposing of all of the separated trash in the clad in green t-shirts, to stand government's legacy. Brown and same dumpster, regardless of the fact that the trash had in solidarity with our Irish foot Braun should be praised for their been sorted and labeled according to recycling stan ball team. As their campus-wide forward thinking and tireless pur dards. email instructed, _hundreds of stu- suit of unity and justice. dents showed their spirit and proudly Matt Hudson "battl[edl the adversity of an 0-3 start" by wearing Mike Laskey alumnus The Shirt a day early. senior Class of2000 Friday's day of football solidarity proved that Dillon Hall Sept. 24 Observer columnist Andrea Laidman was wrong Sept. 23 Legal education, institutional learning and the role of faith Forty years ago this autumn I began the greatest institutional honors, the people will meet your expectations; contact with your self, to become a lost law school. Between then and now I best job and highest salary or meeting avoid being judgmental. Cultivate and soul, to participate in your own de graduated, picked up two additional the expectations of others for they only maintain a faith life and relationship humanization. graduate degrees, successfully practiced create anxiety and frustration, impede with God, for absent this you will come The point is this: Do not be institution law, raised a family, owned a nice home, learning and, ironically, impede becom to depend on your own intelligence and alized or willy-nilly acculturated. Do not suffered the losses that come with living ing a good lawyer. ability, a losing wager as no one plays a live another's life. God made you a full and joined vowed religious life. On the Satisfaction and happiness in life, fault-free, tragedy-less game of life. In human - use all your endowment and strength of the nostrum that even blind learning included, comes more readily to short: Trust God, do not worry, and be relish the liberating faith reality that you squirrels find acorns, I offer what I know those who do work they enjoy, or work forgiving. need not adopt the impossible burden of in retrospect about legal education and that they find virtuous. Like it or not, a Third, be leery of being an objective authoring a perfect, self-designed life of institutional learning in general. happy and satisfied life requires that one participant in life and learning. Do not self-engineered success. First, relying on external rewards will knows who he is uniquely made by God fall victim to thinking like a lawyer. Do God made you to know happiness and produce neither satisfaction nor happi to be, and to follow that divine reality. not let acquiring the analytical skills satisfaction. He seeks only your faithful ness. Hather, those who place a primacy Second, forget perfectionism. Disabuse required to practice any occupation sep ness. Put God at the center of your life on a relationship with God, while accom yourself of any notion that you will not arate you from a pre-canonical sense of and proceed with confidence. modating personal growth and caring make mistakes. Humans err and wisdom moral order, your values, ideals, instinct, for others, find both satisfaction and comes over time, often as a result of imagination, your conscience, feelings or happiness. So avoid the single-minded mistake and failure. Hence be patient emotions or, most significantly, from Br. Bob Sylvester focus on securing the highest grades and with others and yourself. Do not assume your faith. To do otherwise is to lose Sept. 20 EDITORIAL CARTOON Call for lighter enforcen1ent f. , ,.., -,J- ..... c ....,.._ www.cagelcar1oons comfespanol unreasonable I would like to comment on Tuesday's argument, although I doubt the administra Viewpoint letter by Carla DeMarzo-Sanchez tion has the ability to rewrite Indiana law ("Reasonable regulation is key,"). I take it with regard to underage drinking, any she would like the administration ("Notre more than it has the power to convince Dame, please listen ... ") to put pressure on upcoming Notre Dame opponents to let the South Bend Police Department so that Notre Dame win, thus creating happier students who break underage drinking alumni and a healthier endowment. Nice laws will not be cited. try, though. According to her, this will lead to happier alumni who will contribute in direct pro Mary Waggoner portion to the positive memories garnered Notte Dame staff in their undergraduate years. Interesting Sept. 25 THE OBSERVER page I 0 CENE Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Notre Dame Kicks o • Fall Fas IOU DUSTIN MENNELLA and CHRISTIE RITTEN I The Observer J \ I \ \ \:, J Name: Alexa Doyle Name: Alyssa Moya Name: Meghan White Name: Javier Palomo Name: Heather Markel She's wearing: Frosh 0 She's wearing: Forever She's wearing: Urban He's wearing: Gap shirt, She's wearing: Fisher t Shirt, Old Navy flip flops 21 shirt, AE jeans Outfitters dress, flip flops Adidas shoes shirt, Old Navy bag -~· •• .r~ f:"f'1"" Name: Jim Devereaux Name: Kevin Garcia Name: Lorenzo Barrera Name: Nichola Danna He's wearing: Target He's wearing: Polo shirt, He's wearing: Polo, She's wearing: Parisian He's wearing: NO shirt, shirt, O'neil shorts AE jeans, sandals Banana Republic shoes scarf, AE jumper, boots Abercrombie shorts THE OBSERVER Wednesday, September 26, 2007 CENE page 11 eason MADELINE NIES I Observer Graphic FASHION BOUTIQUE OFFERS "INSPIRED" STYLE suits for when the mood is more dressy, All Mankind, Citizens of Humanity and By AMELIA THOMPSON but there are still Michael Stars tees, AG Jeans. 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BOSTON - Manny Harnirnz plate with one out in the first as Oakland scored twiee in the rnturrwd to tlw Boston Hml Sox tho fans chanted, "Manny, ninth on Jaek llannahan's dou lirwup after a 24-game absenee Manny." ble and Kurt Suzuki's sacrifice a rr d lw ltw d e u t t lw i r m a g i e lin rnsponded with a linn fly. numlwr to four to dineh thn /\L drive single to right and scowd The game was the first l~ast titiP. on Mike Lowell's doubln that betwenn the teams sino~ June 7 /\f'tnr !wing sidl'lined by a tied thn game 1-1. After pop when Schilling came within one strairwd musdt> in his left side, ping out to second baseman out of his ·first no-hitter. Hamirnz singlnd and scored Mark J·:Jlis in the second, Shannon Stewart broke it up Boston's l'irst run in tlw l'irst Hamin1z led off the fifth with a with a line single to right with inning, then walknd to start a walk on a 3-and-2 piteh. two outs in the ninth at two-run l'if'th in a 7 -:~ vietory Franeona sent in Brandon Oaklahd, but the Hnd Sox won oVIH' the Oakland /\thlntics on Moss to pinch run. Chad Gaudin 1-0. Tuesday night. ( 1 1-13) thnn walked the next Curt Sehilling also had plenty thrnn batters with the last, J.D. Marlins 4, Cubs 2 of n~st and it paid ofT with his Drew, forcing in a rur1. Ninety minutes before tir·st win sir11:n Aug. 24. Ellsbury's sacrifice fly drove in Tuesday's game, Lou Piniella l'itehing for the first timn in Ortiz for a 3-1 lead. sat in the Chicago Cubs' dugout nine days so manager Terry Knvin Youkilis pineh hit for reeiting a familiar mantra few Franeona could arrang1i his Erie llinske and poppnd out to believe. AP rotation for thn playoffs, end tho inning. Youkilis had "There's no eurse," Piniella Cubs Infielder Mark DeRosa argues with home plate umpire Schilling (9-S) allowed one run missed the previous seven said. "There's no curse." Mike Reilly in Chicago's 4-2 loss to the Marlins Tuesday. and left afl.er six innings with a games with a bruised right Keeping say it, Lou. 3-1 lead. lin struck out six and wrist sustained when he was hit Eager to sew up the NL Worst of all for Chieago, Willis inning and /\ndruw Jones fol allowed six hits and no walks. by a pitch from Chien-Ming Central, Piniella's Cubs instead (1 0-15) delivered perhaps his lowed with an HBI single to tie But it was Hamirez's return Wang of the New York Yankees managed only two hits in eight best performance in a disap it. that nxeited the crowd that on Sopt. 15. innings against Dontrelle Willis pointing season. He struck out Moyer pitehed to one more eamn to Fnnway Park with the The only run Schilling allowed and lost to the last-place seven to set a franchise earenr batier, retiring Brian MeCann Hnd Sox having lost six of nine was Darie Barton's third homor Florida Marlins. record, and won for only the on a bouncer to the mound. games and holding a two-game of thn snason in the first. Barton Given the Cubs' tradition of third time in 15 decisions since Geoff Geary entered and Matt lnad in the division over the has rnaehod base in all ·14 collapses, it takes little imagina May 29. Diaz lined his first piteh for an Nnw York Yankees. With five garnns hn's played since being tion for their long-suffering sup HBI single to give the Braves a games left, the Hnd Sox had eallnd up from Triple-/\ porters to envision another one Braves 10, Phillies 6 6-5 lead. After Yunel Escobar already clinclwd a wild-card Saeramnnto on SPpt. 10. this week. More than an hour Mark Teixeira hit a three-run doubled with two outs, Edgar lmrth. Jacoby Ellsbury singled in a after the Cubs lost, their lead homer and Chipper Jones had a Henteria hit a two-run single to Batting second for just the run in tho bottom of the soventh was trimmed to two games two-run shot, helping the make it 8-5. serond time in his 1, 995 games and tho Hnd Sox pulled away when second-place Milwaukee Atlanta Braves keep their slim Utley's solo homer off Manny so hn could get an extra at-bat with three runs in the eighth on beat St. Louis 9-1. playoiT hopes alive with a victo Acosta in the seventh eut it to S- lwforn Franeona followed Bobby Kielty's sacrifke fly and "That's why we had a three ry over the Philadelphia Phillies 6. Chipper Jones connected off game lead when we came," on Tuesday night. Tom Gordon in the ninth for Piniella said. "Now we squan The Phillies remained two insurance runs. dered a piece of it. You can't games behind the NL East-lead Desperate to see thnir Phillies win every day. You want to, but ing Mets, who lost 10-9 to end a 14-year playoff drought, a it just doesn't happen." Washington. Philadelphia fnll erowd of 39,129 cheered wildly Chicago's magie number for 1/2 game behind San Diego in and frantkally waved white clinching the division remained the wild card race, pending the and-red "Fightin' Phils" towels. four. Padres game at San Francisco But they left disappointed. "We've been playing really later. Moyer gave up six runs and good baseball lately," right Jimmy Hollins hit a solo six hits in 5 1-3 innings. Tho !ielder Matt Murton said. "We homer to become the second 44-year-old left-hander has one ran into a good piteher tonight. · player in team history with :{0 win in five starts this month, We've got five more games. homers and 30 stolen bases in though he pitchnd well in his We're still in a good position." the same season. Hyan lloward, previous two outings. Florida knows all about the Jayson Werth and Chase Utley Bravns starter Chuck .James supposed Cubs curse. Four also connected for the Phillies didn't farn any bettor. lin years ago, Chicago blew a (SS-72). allowed four runs and three hits three-games-to-one lead Atlanta (83-74) needs to keep - all homers - in 3 2-3 against the Marlins in the NL winning and get some help to innings. Bennett gave up one championship series. reach the playoffs after a one run in I 1-3 innings. The Cubs had won 1 0 of their year absence. The Braves won After Hollins hit a leadoff past 12 games and four in a an unprecedented 14 straight homer, Jamns cruised until the row, but bad luck - an omen'? division titles, before missing fourth. lie rntired 10 straight, - helped beat them Tuesday. out last season. striking out live, before running Consecutive bloopers by the Pat Burrell's sacrifice ny off into trouble. Marlins fell for hits in short Jeff Bennett (2-0) gave the The left-hander walked right-center field during their Phillies their !irst lead, 5-4 in Burrell on four pitches and fell four-run second inning against the fifth. But Atlanta answered behind Howard 2-0, prompting AP Ted Lilly. A sharp grounder by quickly against Jamie Moyer a visit from pitching coach Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez swings In the on-deck circle Amaris Hamirez became a dou (13- 1 2) in the SiXth. Jeff Hoger McDowell. Whatever he Tuesday during Boston's 7-3 win over the Athletics. ble play. Francoeur doubled to start the said didn't help. The Observer accepts classifieds every business day from 8 a.m. to 2 r.m. at the Notre Dame office, 024 South Dining Hall. Deadline for next-day classifieds is 2 p.m. AI classifleds must be prepaid. CLASSIFIEDS The charge is 5 cents per character per day, including all spaces. The Observer reserves the right to edit all classifieds for content without issuing refunds. 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Vick now faces more jail time from state charges. 6 California 4-0 8 7 Texas 4-0 6 8 Ohio State 4-0 9 Vick looking at tnore jail titn_e frotn state 9 Wisconsin 4-0 7 10 Rutgers 3-0 11 dogfighting conspiracy covered by the federal told The Associated Press 11 Boston College 4-0 12 Associated Press 12 Oregon .4-0 13 charges, faces state charges indictment for which Mr. on Monday night that he 13 Clemson 4-0 14 SUSSEX, Va. - Michael of beating or killing or caus Vick has already accepted would seek indictments on 14 Virginia Tech 3-1 17 Vick, already looking at a ing dogs to fight other dogs full responsibility." different crimes than the 15 Kentucky 4-0 23 federal prison term for and engaging in or promot Martin said he will ones Vick admitted to in 16 Georgia 3-1 21 bankrolling a dogfighting ing dogfighting. Each felony "aggressively protect his federal court. He did not 17 Hawaii 4-0 18 operation in rural Virginia, is punishable by up to five rights to ensure that he is elaborate to reporters out 18 South Florida 3-0 24 now faces two state charges years in prison. not held accountable for the side court Tuesday. 19 Penn Slate 3-1 10 that could get him more Arraignments are set for same conduct twice." The charges are the frrst 20 Missouri 4-0 25 prison time if he's convict Oct. 3. Vick was convicted of a leveled against Vick in the 21 South Carolina 3-1 14 ed. The grand jury declined federal conspiracy count county where he built a 22 Nebraska 3-1 22 After a Surry County to indict the 27 -year-old while the state indictment home that became the base 23 Michigan State 4-0 NR grand jury indicted the Vick and two co-defendants deals with the act of dog of the dogfighting opera- 24 Alabama 3-1 20 Atlanta Falcons quarter on eight additional counts fighting, said Steven . tion, where local investiga 25 Arizona Stale 4-0 NR back and three co-defen of killing or causing to be Benjamin, a Richmond tors first uncovered evi 25 Purdue 4-0 NR dants Tuesday, Vick's killed a companion animal, defense lawyer who is not dence of the enterprise. lawyers indicated they will felonies that would have involved in the case. The None of the defendants fight the state charges on exposed them to as many as prosecution will argue nor their lawyers were at the grounds that he can't be 40 years in prison if con that's enough of a differ the Sussex County court MIAA Volleyball convicted twice of the same victed. ence to allow the charges to house, where the grand Standings crime. Vick defense attorney proceed, he said. jury met because the court The NFL star, scheduled Billy Martin said in a state Surry County house in neighboring Surry for sentencing Dec. 10 after ment that the state counts Commonwealth's Attorney County is closed for renova team league overall pleading guilty to federal concern "the same conduct Gerald G. Poindexter had tions. Calvin 6-0 11-3 IN BRIEF Adrian 5-1 8-6 Hope 5·2 10-5 Tri·State 4-2 6-8 Pirates hire new general Carl Edwards' car fails Rex Grossman could be SAINT MARY'S 3·4 6-8 manager inspection, docked points benched for next game Kalamazoo 2-4 5-8 PITTSBURGH - Neal Huntington, CHARLOTTE, N.C. Carl LAKE FOREST, Ill. - Rex Albion 1-4 3-10 a former Cleveland Indians assis Edwards was docked 25 points Grossman still had his health when Alma 1-5 5-13 tant general manager who was Tuesday because his race-winning he walked off the field. But he may Olivet 1-6 2-13 moved to a mostly scouting role two car failed inspection at Dover not have his starting job much years ago, was hired Tuesday as the International Raceway. longer after his latest meltdown. Pittsburgh Pirates' general manag The penalty drops Edwards from Grossman threw three intercep er. third in the Chase for the champi tions as the Chicago Bears fell to The 37-year-old Huntington onship standings to sixth. He's now the Dallas Cowboys 34-10 on replaces Dave Littlefield, who was 28 points behind series leader Jeff Sunday night, and he did not get a fired earlier this month after failing Gordon. vote of confidence from his coach to produce a winning season since Team owner Jack Roush, who a day later. around the dial being hired in July 2001. The celebrated his tOOth win Sunday Now, the question is: Will he Pirates are finishing up a 15th con with Edwards' victory, also was start this week at Detroit? secutive losing season, one short of docked 25 owner points and crew "Will Rex Grossman start the major league record, and their chief Bob Osborne was fined Sunday?" coach Lovie Smith asked fifth with 90 or more losses since $25,000. on Monday, repeating the question. MLB 2000. Edwards' No. 99 Ford was "Well, our evaluation process is Braves at Phillies Huntington once worked under deemed to be too low following going on right now, and if you 7:00 p.m., ESPN Littlefield in the Montreal Expos' post-race inspection. Although come out to practice Wednesday, minor league system. NASCAR determined the height you'll have a better idea of who Huntington was the surprise infraction was not intentional, the will be starting at all positions." choice of new Pirates president team still was penalized in accor Has Smith made a decision? Frank Coonelly, who has been on dance with NASCAR's strict inspec ''I'm always thinking ahead," he the job less than two weeks. tion policy. said. ..------~ ------ page 14 The Observer + SPORTS Wednesday, September 26, 2007 NFL McAllister out for year, again, with torn ACL to bnlinw it. but just taking thn blocked fi1r McAllister sincn 2005, Associated l'rcss walk to tho lurker room I could chok11d up while talking about his NI·:W OBI.I~ANS - In Deuce !(~PI it just kind of giving way a lit teammate's latest setback. McAIIistnr's lcwkPr, front-and-cen tin bit and that was just kind or "I huggnd him and startnd cry ter on thn top slwll', is a gold rnminiscnnt of' how thn othnr onn ing," Karney said, taking a deep paintml woodnn carving of' tho f'nlt." brnath. "It's tough to see a great word: "Bdiovo!" MeAIIistPr said thm·n was also guy, first and foremost, a great Allor his socond season-ending sonw damage to his medial col player, have to suff'M another krwe injury in tlm~P seasons, tho latoralligamont. scason-nnding injury.... lie's the Saints' 2S-ynar-old all-timn lnad Fivn ganws into the 200!i smi bnst I've been amund. It's sad. It's ing ruslwr wants to hnlievo he son, MeAllistnr torn his right ACL hard to take ... I play the game will wturn to tlw N·FI. as an dite during a run in Crmm Bay. After for !-,'1.1ys like him." running back. It won't bn easy, reconstructive surgery, he Ilnad mach Soan Payton said it and lw knows it. rnturnnd to rush for 1,057 yards is "way too premature to start "Obviously. tlw qunstions: Will in 2006, lwlping the SainL'i to tho talking about where (McAllisterl you 1wnr lw tlw sanw'! Will you NFC South titll1 and starring in is from a career standpoint." nvnr he thn back that you once their playoff' victory over "He was able to come back oil" wnrn'! Those are the diiTnrnnt Philadelphia. the right ACL. lie's the type of thoughts that obviously run Now McAllister nneds recon guy that has the convietion and through your mind as a playnr," structivn surgery on thn other the belief," Payton said. "If he MrAIIist1w said. krwn, liknly a patnllar l!mdon puts his mind to it, and I know he "I bnlinvn in mysnlf'. It's just a graf't. l'ollowPd by tho long, will ... it's going to take a long mattnr of nw putting tho limn in painful rehabilitation that will time and he's som1wne who's and mn putting tlw work in." last almost until 200S training tough nnough to handle it." MeAllistPr said an MHI nxam ramp lwgins, if not longPr. If McAllister hmves the Saints, Tunsday conl'irnwd his worst In bntwnnn. thnrn will be an oll' lw'll do so with every significant f'nars: lin torn his lol't anterior season, when uncomfortable carenr rushing record in fran cruciate liganwnt in Monday rnmind11rs that the NFL is a busi chise history. Although he playml night's 31-14 loss lo Tcmnnssee. rwss resurface in grnater fre sparingly his rookie season During thn sncond quarter, qunncy. McAIIistnr is in tho third behind then-starter lUcky McAilistnr landPd awkwardly ynar of an night-year. $50.1 mil Williams, and although he missed Saints running back Deuce McAllister walks off the field aftpr nttching a short pass from lion contract. And tlw SainL'i also most or 2005, he has rushed for Monday after tearing his ACL against the Titans. Dn~w Brnns. M1:Allistnr walked havn Heggin Bush, who in his sec 5,67H yards and 44 touchdowns. oil" tlw lield on his own. but hav ond s1mson will now bn the undis lie is among the most popular there, is restoring a historic "You fool holpless becausn it's ing torn his right ACL in 200!i, he puted !"natured running baek in players the Saints have evnr had, downtown hotel, and runs his about making plays," McAIIistnr was worrind. Nnw Orleans f(lr the rnmainder of having grown up a eouple hours charitable Catch-22 foundation, said. "I can't do that right now." "I just told mysPII' to got up oil" this ymu·, at least. away near Jackson, Miss., and so named for his collnge jersny Those who can are fellow run tlw ground. Onn lnsson I learned Bush. who had two short having been a star at Ole Miss. number. ning backs Bush. Aaron Ste1:kor ·growing up was to rmver let your touchdown runs Monday night Although sor~1eone with his As for this Simson, it's a poten and Pinrm Thomas, an undral'tnd opponent see you hurt. but otlwrwise has struggled to money easily could spend ollsea tially devastating blow to the rookie out of Illinois who mad11 H1~gardlnss of' what it is, if' you find his game-breaking form this sons in Miami, Malibu or the Saints, who are 0-:~ and in des the active rostnr as a long shot can walk. walk ofT that liPid," snason, dedined to speak with French Riviera, he continues to perate nnnd of a victory to have following a string of impressive McAllister said. "Oncn I got to tim mportnrs Tuosday. make his permanent home in any hope of rallying back into runs and kick returns in the pre sid!~lirw. I knew it. I didn't want Fullback Mike Karney, who has Jackson, lie owns car dealerships posL<>eason contention. season. Uganda Information Session ~~ Interested in Africa? Morot\- Interested in challenges and issues of developing nations? ~o~ot~ . Masindi* · s~•cMbale* Interested in Holy Cross work in Fort~ortal • East Africa? " Kan1pal , Entebb Don't miss this study abroad Mbarara* opportunity through the School for International Training (SIT)! Informatjon Sessjon: Semester and Summer Options. Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Room 215 DeBartolo 5:30 PM APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR ALL PROGRAMS IS NOVEMBER 15,2007 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Observer + SPORTS page 15 NCAA FOOTBALL GOLF Fresh111an Devine returns ho111e Players prepared West Virginia phenom returns to south Florida to face No. 18 Bulls for Presidents Cup Associated Press be the 30-man field at the Tour MOHGANTOWN, W.Va. - Associated Press Championship. Before Noel Devine became a MONTREAL - One cup is Ten Americans were "at East YouTube sensation, he lost both over. Another cup is about to Lake, the exception being Toms his parents to AIDS, witnessed begin. (No. 32) and Lucas Glover (No. a friend's murder, rejected The question is whether a 35). The International team had Deion Sanders' attempts to world-class collection of players only six players in the Tour adopt him and became a father at Royal Montreal have enough Championship, and two of the of two. left to fill the Presidents Cup players - Mike Weir and Retief Ilis years of bouncing from with the kind of golf that has Goosen- didn't even qualify for home to home, which included made these matches so com the 70-man field the previous a brief stop at Sanders' Texas pelling over the last few years. week at the BMW ranch, eventually landed the Tiger Woods, who plays fewer Championship. former Florida prep star at golf tournaments than any other "Our team has been really West Virginia, where four star, will be competing for the playing well," U.S. captain Jack games into his college career sixth time in nine weeks. Ditto Nicklaus said. "I think they are Devine has proved worthy of for Phil Mickelson, who usually well prepared." the hype that followed him out shuts it down this time of year. Nicklaus tried to make the of high school. Even an ironman like Vijay case the International team is In a way, Devine's journey Singh has spent an awful lot of stronger on paper, which is usu comes full circle Friday night, time inside the ropes, skipping ally the norm. Comprised of 120 miles from where he grew only two weeks since August. players from all but European up, when No. 5 West Virginia Blame that on the FcdEx Cup, countries, the team has an aver (4-0) will play at No. 18 South a four-week bonanza that ended age world ranking of 18.5, with Florida (3-0) in a key Big East only nine days ago for 16 play Weir the lowest at No. 46. The matchup. AP ers in the Presidents Cup. It only United States has an average "Look where he is now. It's a West Virginia running back Noel Devine carries against figures to get tougher next year, ranking of 21.9, with Glover the success, in my eyes," said Western Michigan in a 62-24 Mountaineers win on Sept. 1. with the Ryder Cup scheduled lowest at No. 61. .James landoli, Devine's coach fathered two children with dif to adopt Devine. But the teen for the week after the Tour International captain Gary at North Fort Myers High. "I ferent mothers. He saw a 15- quickly returned to Florida, Championship. Player, however, was quick to don't wish the path that he had year-old classmate shot in leaving one of Sanders' sport As much as players are curs point out the United States was to take on my worst enemy. December 2004 during a con utility vehicles at the curb at ing the schedule, it could turn top-heavy in the world ranking "I guess the old saying is, frontation with a rival group. the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, out to be a blessing. with Woods, Mickelson, Jim what doesn't kill you only School officials brought the the engine still running. "You would think that you're Furyk and Stricker the new "Big makes you better. And I believe incident to the attention of "It devastated our family," pretty prepared to be here, Four." It is believed to be the he's becoming a wonderful Sanders, a 1985 graduate of said Sanders, who has maybe more so than years past, first time in the 21-year history young man." North Fort Myers. remained in contact with because of playing so much golf of the world ranking Americans The attention of being a high Sanders got to know Devine Devine. "To get your family on recently," David Toms said have occupied the top four spots. ly touted football recruit can be and brought him to training board isn't easy. We made con Tuesday. "I think that's some While the International team head-spinning to a 19-year-old, camp with the Baltimore cessions ... it was tough. You thing they need to take a look in looks good on paper, it hasn't but it's not much compared to Ravens in 2005. Devine then can't allow someone into your the future, how much golf is looked good in competition late what Devine has been through went to Sanders' ranch in home without allowing them being played at this particular ly. The most recent winner is outside of football. A past that Prosper, Texas, with the intent into your heart." time. For us this year, I know we K.J. Choi at the AT&T National the polite, shy Devine prefers of starting over. Devine, whose ability to have a lot of guys who are com in July. Angel Cabrera hasn't not to talk about. "We wanted to give him guid change directions with little ing in and playing well, and it done much since his U.S. Open Ilis father died when he was ance and structure, something loss of speed has drawn com should be an advantage for us." victory in June, and Singh an infant and his mother was not afl'orded him at the time," parisons to another Sanders - Indeed, the FedEx Cup could played five consecutive tourna gone before he was 12. His Sanders said in a recent tele Barry - finished out his career be a good barometer for these ments over par until fmishing 10 maternal grandmother became phone interview. "We just felt where it started. matches when they get under under at easy East Lake. his legal guardian, but he that at that point in his life he Recruited since he was a way Thursday. Even so, Player had reason to thought she was too strict and needed a tremendous amount high school freshman, Devine's Woods is playing a lot of golf, believe "the stage is set for he moved in with the family of of structure and discipline." video clips made him an but playing well. He has won another great match." an ex-teammate. With the approval of Devine's Internet prodigy, and a must four of the five tournaments he The last two have been so As a teenager, Devine grandmother, Sanders intended see for football fans on has played dating to the close they essentially were ------YouTube. He compiled 2,148 Bridgestone Invitational, includ decided by one shot - Chris rushing yards and 31 TDs as a ing his last two to easily win the DiMarco's 15-foot birdie putt on senior at North Fort Myers. FedEx Cup. The other two play the final hole of the fmal match He also found trouble. A off events were won by Phil in 2005 at the Robert Trent school confrontation prompted Mickelson (Deutsche Bank) and Jones Golf Club in VIrginia. The a two-game suspension and a Steve Stricker (Barclays). matches ended in a tie in South CENTER I~ SPIRffUALI'fY locker room incident forced Since all 24 players from the Africa in 2003. SAINT MARY'S OOLLEGE Devine to miss a postseason United States and International "I think that the whole 'on all-star game. teams are PGA Tour members, paper' is kind of a farce," Furyk "He's no different than any an even better barometer might said. other high school football play Education of the er I've ever had," Iandoli said. 'The only difl'erence is he was BIG PICK in the limelight. He's national Mind and Heart news and everyone wants to put it all over the paper. Everyone wants to pass judg Saint Mary's College and Doxology ment." West Virginia coach Rich Why? How? Where? When? Hodriguez said his only worry after getting to know Devine was about his grades. "The school had a plan for Thursday, Septen1ber 27 him and he was very deter mined to make it. So we hung 4:00P.M. in there with him," he said. Pushed by Iandoli and others, Stapleton Lounge Devine avoided prep school by qualifying for NCAA eligibility Le Mans Hall on his third attempt at taking the ACT. He then set aside overtures from Bobby Bowden at Florida State and other John Haughey, S.J., S.T.D. schools and ended up in Senior Fellow Morgantown, a decision Sanders let Devine make on his Woodstock Theologial Center own. Georgetown University "I didn't want to entice him. \\f.as ·h' 1ngton ...."[")( .....__, He would blame you for the rest of his life," Sanders said. "If it doesn't go well, he can't Free and open to the public. fault anyone but himself." AP So far, it's been a great fit on Irish safety David Bruton intercepts a Brian Hoyer pass ------__.the field. Saturday in the Spartans' 31-14 win over Notre Dame. page I 6 The Observer + SPORTS Wednesday, September 26, 2007 --- MLB Devil Rays postpone celebration Philadelphia GM Win over Yankees keeps New York from clinching playoff berth notretunnUngUn'OS is widoly eonsidnred the most Associated Press likely candidate to rllplac.e PIIIL/\DELPIII/\ - Philli1~s (;illick. Amaro's contract is up general managnr Pat Gillick aftl'r this snason, and ho has doosn 't plan to rnmain with the intnrvinw1~d for othnr jobs. team al'ter his thrnn-yoar eon Gillick brought a winning pedi tract expires following next sea gn1e to Philadl'lphia whl'n lw SOIL r11placed Ed Wadn al'tnr tlw "This is it for me," Gilliek said 2005 sl'ason. llis impressive in Tuesday's Philadnlphia Daily resume as a gnrwral managPr News. 'Til fullill my contract. It's indudns two World Series titles time to think about doing somn with Toronto, snvnn division othnr things in I iff~." championships and nino playoll' Tho longtime baseball man appnarancos with threo toams will be 71 by tlw time his eon - thn Blue Jays, Baltimore and traet is up. lie wasn't immedi Seattle. If tho l'hillins mako it to ately available to reporters tho postseason, ho'll he 4-for-4 before the Phillies played guiding dubs to the playofl's. Atlanta. Gillick has come under heavy Gillick's situation could affect scrutiny fi1r a few of his pnrson- manager Charlie Manuel, who is 11111 decisions. liis biggest mis in the final season of his con take was trading for Freddy tract. Manuel has done an out Garda last oll'season. The two standing job keeping an injury limn All-Star righty was 1-5 depleted team in the playoff bnforn nending snason-nnding race. shoulder surgery. Garcia cost The Phillies were tied with San tho Phillies $10 million this soa Diego for the NL wild-card lead son. and trailed the East-lea.ding Gillick's two biggnst f'rne-agent Mets by two games. acquisitions last offseason - AP Manuel insists he's not con third baseman Wes lielms and Devil Rays players mob catcher Dioner Navarro after his walk off home gave Tampa Bay a 7-6 cerned about his job status, and catcher Hod Barajas - didn't win over the Yankees Tuesday. New York needs one win to clinch a playoff berth. he won't talk about a contract pan out, either. Both were role extension until aftnr the season. gated to bench duty down the runs. "Wn're going to get back have four hits and we've got "It's not about me," he said. stretch. Associated Press to the postseason, and we're double digits, and we've got "It's about the team. I don't have Some of Gillick's best moves ST. PETEHSBUHG, Fla. - goin~. to bn going on all cylin the same number of runs. to worry about anything else." involved utility players and Nothing 1~omns easy for the ders. That's when you know you're Assistant GM Ruben Amaro Jr. relievers. Nnw York Yankmls this season, /\-Hod's homer was his in the charity business. especially against the Tampa major league-leading 53rd, a New York tied in the eighth Bay I>cvil Hays. shot that ended his longest on Melky Cabrera's sacrifice "" THE CUSHWA CENTER .Jorge Velandia hit a grand homerlnss drought in more fly ofT Dan Wheeler, but the FOR THE STUDY OF slam for his first earner homer than a year. lie has 151 HBis, Yankees wasted an opportuni and I>ionnr Navarro addnd a the most by a Yankee since ty to regain the lead when AMERICAN CATHOLICISM solo shot in the 1Oth inning to Joe DiMaggio's 155 in 194X. Jeter struck out with runners presents lift lasl.-place Tampa Bay over Gary Glover (6-5) pitched at the corners after Damon New York 7-6 and prevnnt the one scoreless inning for the singled. Yankens from clinching a play vietory. Eight Yankees pitchers "We've stood toe-to-toe to all ofT berth on Tuesday night. yielded a total of five hits, but the contenders: Boston, to • F "I can't really rPmembnr us hurt themselves with 11 Seattle, to L.A., then Boston having an nasy time," Yankcns walks. and New York here, and I like American Catholic Studie.fi Seminar captain I>Pn~k .Jntnr said. /\-Rod, who had gone 55 at the way our guys have gone "Drawing the Line Between What Should, and "Hegardlnss of who you're bats since last homering on about their business against playing, no onn likes to see Sept. 9 a Kansas City, circled them," Devil Rays manager What Should Not Be Told in American Catholic you 1~elnbrate. They'rn going the bases to a standing ovation Joe Madelon said. "It's not History-John Tracy Ellis and David Francis to play you tough." after driving an 0-1 piteh from about being the spoiler, it's Couplnd with Boston's 7-3 Jason llammel off one of the about learning how to play Sweeney's Life of John Lanca.~ter Spaltling" vktory ovnr Oakland, Nnw catwalks that support the roof this time of the year. And our York fell thren at Tropicana guys have risen to occasion." C. Walker Gollar, Xavier University gamns behind ~ield in the Kei lgawa, standing in for thn l'irst-placn "We're going to get third inning. scheduled starter Roger Hnd Sox in the back to the The stretch Clemens, pitched five scoreless Thursday, September 27, 2007 i\L East with postseason, and without a innings before New York's f'ivn gamns to homer was /\ bullpen let the Devil Hays back 4:30p.m. play. The we're going to be Hod's longest in the game. Yankees lnad going on all since he also Clemens was scratched 1140 Flanner Hall I>ntroit by 4 went 55 at bats because of a lingering left gamns in the cylinders." without one hamstring injury. lie tweaked wild-1:ard nu~n. from May 27- the hamstring while running and their Johnny Damon June 15 last last Thursday and has pitched magic number Yankees outfielder year. just once since Sept. 3, side to clinch a The ball was lined initially by a tender right playoff lwrth still rising when elbow that required two corti for thn I :Hh wnse1~utive ynar it hit tlw ring about 115 feet sone shots. rnmairwd at one. above th1~ field. The Devil Hays Yankees general manager Tlw Yanknns trailnd Boston estimalNl the grand slam - Brian Cashman said the 45- by 14 1/2 games on May 29 tlw I l>th of Hodriguez's earner year-old, seven-time Cy Young and havn salvaged tlwir sea and third this year - travele~ /\ward winner could have son by going a major lnagtw 42H feet. pitched Tuesday if it had been lwst 47-24 since tlw i\11-Star Trailing 5-0. the Devil Bays a must-win game. lmmk. But tlwy'rn just H-H this rallied to take a 6-5 lead in the "We're just playing it ynar against thn pPsky I>nvil sixth. smart," Cashman said. "We're Hays, who havP baseball's Navarro doubled oiT Edwar looking at the big pieture, and worst rncord. Hamirez to drive in Tampa giving it more time to heal. Vnlandia's grand slam off Bay's first run, and Bruney The point is he'll be bdter ofT Brian Brurwy finished a six walked i\kinori lwamura with with more time, and we'll go run sixth and ol'f'snt a the bases loaded bnforo giving from thorn." Hodrigw•z slam that gave Nnw up llw first homer the 32- lgawa made his first start York a 5-0 load in thn third. year-old Velandia had in 20S since pitching poorly in a loss Navarro, who had a HBI dou major league at bats spread at Kansas City on July 26. lie Information Meeting blo in thn sixth, hit tlw winner out over six seasons. worked out of a jam in the first on a 2-0 pitch from .JPI'f "It's a helpless feeling, after walking two and allowing September 27, 6:00PM Karstens ( 1-4 ). there's no question," Yankees the runners to move up on a Center for Social Concerns "It's not easy, but we're manager Joe Torre s.aid of the wild pitch, then clung to New going to get the job done six walks issued by his York's 5-0 lead whon he got before too long," said the bullpen. "You don't give your Delmon Young to fly to center for more information visit www.peacecorps.gov Yankees' Johnny Damon, who self a chance to get guys out. with the bases loaded in the or call 800.424.8580 was 5-for-5 and seornd two You look up there and they third. ------~------~ Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Observer + SPORTS page 17 .. SMC GOLF Belles finish 4th in MIAA tourney Julie Hoogerhyde was the Belles remain in 2nd medalist, 10 strokes ahead of place heading into O'Brien at 74. Belles freshman Emily conference tourney Gore continued to impress in her rookie season as she fin By JARED JEDICK ished second for the te-am Sports Writer two strokes behind O'Brien. Three more freshmen round ed out the scorers for the Saint Mary's finished fourth Belles- Rosie O'Connor shot Tuesday but held onto sec an 89, Michelle Hird posted a ond in the conference stand 92 and Amanda Mainstone ings at the third and final entered the clubhouse with a MlAA Jamboree of the fall, 97. held at Buck's Run Golf Saint Mary's junior Course in Alma, Mich. Meredith Fantom scored an The Belles posted a total 85, freshman Meghan Lehr score of 351 Tuesday and shot an 8 7, and junior Perri failed to gain any ground on Hamma came up with a 94 in KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer first-place Olivet College, the individual competition. Senior cornerback Terrail Lambert and a slew of other Irish defenders take down Javon Ringer which held on for the lead. The Belles now stand in during Michigan State's 31-14 win Saturday. Weis said the defense was beginning to click this week. Saint Mary's dropped 27 second place in the MIAA strokes in the overall MIAA conference with a total of led to the release of former said. standings but kept its overall 1,029 strokes in three defensive coordinator Rick One player that has been sur spot in second. Jamboree events. They trail Practice Minter. prisingly absent from the pass Olivet College led the day Olivet by 41 strokes. continued from page 2(} Weis said some of the defen ing game is fifth-year senior with 324, Hope College fin The conference champi sive issues are caused by an tight end John Carlson. Carlson ished second with a 345 and onship is decided by the offense that holds the ball for was Notre Dame's leading Tri-State University came in combined scores of the three both the team and the coach six minutes less returning receiv third with a 349. Rounding previous Jamborees and the ing staiT, he wants to keep the than the oppo- er coming into out the top five was host two championship rounds on team hitting each other at least sition every the year but has Alma with a 376. Oct. 5-6 at Battle Creek, once a week going forward. game. only seven Senior captain Kate Mich. "Last week's schedule was "I think that 'The better we run the catches for 63 O'Brien once again led the No players or coaches were different than anything we've last year there ball, the better the yards so far this way for Saint Mary's with a available for comment fol ever done," Weis said. "And I were a lot of protection is, the more season and has final round of 84, which was lowing the Jamboree think that this might be more times you could · often been kept placed her sixth overall. Tuesday night. like the way we're going to go count on the we'll throw the ball." in to block on Unfortunately for the Belles, the rest of the way, where we defense not pass plays. five Olivet players scored as Contact Jared Jedick at at least dedicate part of being on the Charlie Weis But, Weis said, well or better. Hope senior [email protected] Tuesday's practice to have ones field nearly as Irish coach Carlson is being going against one." much," he said. patient. Notre Dame "He knows the Players grasping defense has improved year's not over," Weis said that, after four on pass Weis said. "All CYCLING games, the defense is starting defense, giving up fewer than he wants to do is anything he to feel comfortable in Corwin 120 yards per game through can to give us the best chance Brown's 3-4 personnel scheme. the air. of winning." "Some of these guys are get Landis sticks to story, ting better just by pure reps out Pass catchers not griping Game time announced there playing," Wcis said. "It's While they haven't seen many The kickoff time and televi one thing to just practice it, but throws due to the offensive's sion coverage for Saturday's says he did no wrong I think another thing is actually line struggles and the switch to contest with the Boilermakers playing in the games." a power running attack against was announced Monday. Thn Irish have given up more the Spartans, Notre Dame's The game will begin at 12:02 not losing sleep over a deci than :30 points to each of their wide receivers aren't complain p.m. and will be carried live on Associated Press sion to strip him of his title first four opponents and more ing, Weis said. ESPN. SAN DIEGO - Disgraced following a positive drug test. than 230 yards per game on "The better we run the ball, American cyclist Floyd Landis A defiant Landis reiterated the ground - both worse than the better the protection is, the Contact Chris Khorey at says he won the Tour de on Tuesday earlier claims the 2006 defensive effort that more we'll throw the ball," he [email protected] France fairly and that he's that the anti-doping watch dogs, and not him, are the ones not playing by the rules. NBC ''I'm angry about the split decision ruling against me -OLYMPICS last week," Landis said. "I can sleep at night knowing that I won the 2006 Tour de INTERN France fair and square. I will - al~ays consider myself the PROGRAM rightful winner." Landis won the 2006 Tour POSITIONS- Runner, Logger and Production Associate BEIJING, but tested positive for a steroids during the event. QUALIFICATIONS CHINA That forced Landis to go to an NBC Olympics is looking for enthusiastic students with a passion for Sports and arbitration hearing against the Olympic Games. Television Broadcast experience and proficiency in Mandarin the US Anti-Doping Agency. are preferred but not required. ALL MAJORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Last week the arbitration panel ruled two-to-one ASSIGNMENT AREAS against the San Diego-based Accommodations, Audio, Executive Offices, Information Technology, Press, Research, cyclist officially stripping him Production Support, Sports Venues and the Runner Pool of his title and slapping him with a two-year ban for using ASSIGNMENT LENGTH synthetic testosterone. Positions are approximately 4 weeks. The earliest start date is The verdict comes almost July 24, 2008 and latest end date is August 27, 2008. four months after the longest anti-doping hearing in US COST AND LOGISTICS history, a rare public session The cost of the program is $2,500 per student and must be paid prior to the assignm~nt in which Landis' lawyers start date. This fee covers airfare, airport transfers in China, accommodations and meals. questioned the chain of com mand from the French labo TO APPLY- Access Go IRISH on The Career Center website http://careercenter.nd.edu/ for a more ratory that handles Landis' complete description and application requirements. Online applications and hard copies must be testing. - submitted to The Career Center by noon on Sept.28th. Questions? 574-631-5200 "We have shown that the anti-doping system is corrupt, INTERVIEWS-Interviews will be held on-campus in The Career Center Oct. 15th and 16th. NBC will inefficient and unfair," Landis hold an Information Session from 10:00 am-11 :30 am Oct 15th to provide additional internship details. said. page 18 The Observer + SPORTS Wednesday, September 26, 2007 .... frnshman quartnrback Kayla the extra point. Bishop, was unabln to score. Walsh defensive coaeh Chaos 1\f'tnr rl'eovnring the ball on Jeremiah IIerman was pleased continued from page 20 tlwir own 20, it took thn Wild with the win. w0 !liP II 0 n I y "Thesn are the on running plays for both thnH~ plays to games you're sup- oiTenses. rnareh down - posed to win," he tlw l'itdd and "The guarantee said. "We eame in Walsh 14, Howard 12 scorn a touch definitely gave us No. 1, lloward !\ little rain and a lot of mud down on a run some motivation and carne in number t:ould not slop thn Walsh by sophomorP has us fired up. " two. We really oiTonsn as tlu~ Wild Wonwn ran Mnghan made a state ovt~r lloward 14-12. lladlny. ment." Scattnrod showers, which "Thn offense Jenny Rolfs Jenkins had one lwgan an hour btd'orn tlw was vnry good Farley junior final thought for gamn, causPd many slips and with staying the Wild Women. slidns on both sidns of the ball, with the play "We'll see them but tlw tnams' oi'I'Pnsos Wl'rt~ until tlw whis- in the playoffs," abln to rreatP many long tln blnw," Walsh oiTnnsive she said. drivns. eoat:h Chris Cugliari said. Thn Ducks' next opponent is "Wo loVP playing in tlw mud," "l~vnn if tlwre wasn't an open Farley on Sept. 30, and the Walsh junior di'I'Pnsive back ing right away, they waitNI and Wild Women hope to remain Mary CampiH'II said. found ont~." unbeaten as they take on the Camplwll playPd an integral Tho Ducks took over and put Finest on Oct. 2. part in holding the Ducks to tognthnr a nine-play touch Farley 7, Pasquerilla East 0 two touchdowns, including down drivn but were unable to Defense was the name of the broaking up a long pass nnar t·onvnrt the extra point. During game in this one. With a great tlw ond of tlw ganw. tho drivn, Bishop completed team effort, Farley beat Walsh, which seven-of-eight Pasquerilla East 7-0 Tuesday is now 4-0 and passes. ineluding night and moved to 2-0-1 for in lirst placo in a touchdown the season. thn Blul' pass to "Our defense has been amaz l.nagun. won "We love playing in Giezeman. For ing, our whole defense from tho toss and the mud." the game, Bishop last year returned to play this PlnctPd to start was 14-of-1 Y. year and their experienee has KELLY HIGGINSfThe Observer o IT w i t h t lw Mary Campbell "We showed a been key," Farley junior cap footbalL But lot of promise on tain Jenny Holfs said after the Walsh quarterback Mary Sullivan runs down field during the lloward junior Walsh junior offense," Ducks game. Wild Women's 14-12 victory over Howard Tuesday night. I. a u r a sophomore cap- Holfs said that she felt the (;iozeman intnr- tain Mary ofl'ense was improving as well. pitching a shutout until Farley had us 11rcd up," Holf's added c:Pplnd Walsh .Jenkins said. "Passes are starting to be scored near the end of tlw see with a smile. snnior quartPrbaek Mary "We made several good pass- caught and people are startinr, one! half. But the unit's pre Sullivan's soeond pass to give os." to eome on the same page, game guarantee of a win did Contact John Whitty at tho ball to tho Ducks. Both tnarns scored again in Rolfs said. not pull through for them. [email protected], Laura Myers at !\!though facing a short liPid, tlu~ sm~ond half, with the Ducks Pasquerilla East's defense "The guarantee definitely [email protected], and tlw lloward ollnnsn, led by once again failing to convert though was not shabby, either, gave us some motivation and Kevin Henry at [email protected] llinton and Mieki lledinger the Belles will be foreed to digs, team high service aees, wnre knpt from the game. play people in different posi Loss team high solo bloeks. She and Britons llinton is recovering from an tions. Lorna were our two most efl'ee continued from page 20 ankle injury, and lledinger "We're still trying to sort it continued from page 20 tive attackers." recovering from a hip injury. all out," MacKenzie said. The Knights improved their "In a long term view, we " ... We're figuring out that record to 11-3 and a perfect 6- The tin brought the Be lies hope to be more versatile in other people can put the ball ior middle blocker Kaela 0 in Mil\!\ play. Saint Mary's overall record to 5-1-3, and our attack when they come in the back of the net, which Hellmann tallied eights of her dropped to 6-8 and 3-4, respec- their eonl'erenee record to 1- baek," MacKenzie said. "But is a good thing with injuries." own to go along tively. 1 0 short term it's tricky to find To keep their place as some with four serv- The Belles With the ball constantly some eonsistent play up top." of the top competition in ice aces and a have some work ehanging possession, it was " ... Playing physically the their conference, Saint team-best 15 "Kaela [Hellman/ did to do in the next no wonder Saint Mary's way we have been, we're Mary's will rest these few digs. have a good game. few days before couldn't find a rhythm. The always going to be fighting days before starting the Schroeder matching up g a rn ~~ w a s p h y s i c a I , w i t h some injury, but right now weekend games. Biek was proud She played nice and with Tri-State multipiH hard tumbles on wn're a little roughed up," "I hope we're patched up of her starting aggressive in all and Bethel over both sides. Senior Justine MacKenzie said. " ... We had enough to go out and win on blockers. aspects of her game. " the weekend. Higgins received a yellow thn best outcome we could Saturday," MacKenzie said. " K a e I a Schroeder- eard in thn 3Yth minute and have hoped for being down a "Today we did what we had [Hellman] did Biek was was sent ol'f' because of a player, we stuck in it as well to do to secure the tie, and I have a good Julie Schroeder-Biek focused on second eard in the first over as we could and ended with a liked our effort down the game. She Belles coach improving one time. She will miss the tie." stretch." played niee and thing. Bolles' nnxt eontest. against With Higgins gone from the aggressive in all "To put it sim OlivH Sunday. game. as well as her team Contact Meaghan Veselik at aspects of her ply, our fight, Loading seoror Laurnn mates !linton and lledinger, mveselO 1 @saintmarys.edu game," Schroeder-Hick said. our competitive spirit," she "She played to win from begin said. ning to end. The stats tell her game well ... very few errors, Contact Dan Murphy at good kill percentagP, team high @nd.edu/saintmarys.edu Proprietors - Warren & Linda ?irs/ Orrjinai.:Azza in Joam I Since 1951 Specializing in Italian Entrees Tues.· Thurs.: 5:00PM· 11:00 PM Fri.- Sat.; 5:00PM- 1;00 AM 537 North St. toui~ • South Bend, IN 374 :.!H-24()4 - KATE FENLONfThe Observer Sophomore midfielder Samanta Goudreau marks a Calvin forward during the Belles 0-0 draw with the Knights Sept. 12. Saint Mary's picked up their third tie of the season Tuesday. 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Last wnek. thn Irish spent thren praeticns just hitting After playing two periods each otlwr - including on overtime, Saint Mary's and Sunday. a day usually reserved MIAA foe Albion finished in a for weight lifting and film 1-1 draw Tuesday night. study. This week, Notre Dame The Belles struck first with again practknd on Sunday and only three minutes remaining spent thn lirst hour of Tuesday in the first half. Sophomore blocking and taekling. Katie Wehrli broke the score But, Weis said. that will be less tie when she took a pass the extent of physical practices over the middle from Mandy before the winless Irish take on Thompson and buried her undef"natnd Purdue Saturday in second goal of the season. West Lafayette, Ind. The Belles couldn't keep the "We still have elements of Britons scoreless for long, last week in there, because I allowing a goal past senior think last week helped us," goalie Amy Mahoney 12 min Weis said. "I didn't do full utes into the second half. spend, take-them-to-the "I thought we played slug ground on Sunday, because I gish today," Belles coach had a bunch of guys beat up. It Caryn MacKenzie said. "It becomes counter-productive." was hard for us to find a Weis said that while the more rhythm, and one of the most physical practices are new to physical games we've played VANESSA GEMPISfThe Observer this season." Irish linebacker coach Brian Pollan runs senior linebacker Joe Brockington through drills during see PRACTICE/page 17 practice Sept. 20. Weis said physical practices continued for the team this week. see BRITONS/page 18 SMC VOLLEYBALL WOMEN'S INTERHALL Belles drop below .500 in league Cavanaugh holds No. 15 Calvin takes down SMC in three on with defense consecutive matches sideline erupted, only to hear Walsh, Farley come the signal from the referee that By SAMANTHA LEONARD away with wins on time had run out before Sports Writer deGroot had hiked the ball. sloppy Riehle ·Field "Unfortunately, we used all Calvin came to Saint Mary's our last limo outs," McGlinn Tw~sday and stole the show - eoach Brendan Hyan said. "We the No. 15 Knights swept Saint By JOHN WITTY, LAURA had an issue with thn refnrne, Mary's (:~0-17, :w-2:{, 30-25). MYERS and KEVIN HENRY but we just neednd a bit more Knights senior outside hitter Sports Writers time." Kristen Kalb tallied a mateh The only offensive production high 17 kills to go along with Two winless teams, plenty of' for either team eamn lall\ in lwr 12 digs, senior middle hit high spirits and a dash of' rain the seeond half whnn ter Molly KrikkP had 16 kills made Tuesday night's game Cavanaugh drove down the and a match lwst .4H4 hitting between McGlinn and field with two long passes, two pereentagP in tlw winning Cavanaugh a close defensive fourth down eonversions and a ni"J"ort, and junior l.ibero struggle that went down to the touchdown pass from quartnr Lauren l)n(; root pos t1HI a wire. back Kalin Dunn to team eap match high 17 digs in the vic In the end, Cavanaugh tain Tarah Brown. tory to round oiT Calvin's big claimed its lirst win of the sea After a failed extra point pnrfornumcP. son with a 6-0 victory on a attempt. the score stayed (>-0 The seasonPd vetl\rans were controversial last-second call. in Cavanaugh's favor the rest just what Saint Mary's wach "We're really excited for our of the game. Julin Schrondnr-Bink wantl~d first victory," Chaos sonior Kim "This was our best offensive hnr team prepared for, but the Halpin said. "Our offense was game by far," Chaos senior Belles simply never found a stringing plays together and it Katie Zedler said. "But we also rhythm. KRISTY KINGffhe Observer was our lirst shutout this sPa stopped them in the red zone "Play tonight was on tlw 11at Senior Amanda David, right, sets a ball for sophomore son." and had a couple intercep side. Then\ wen\ definitely Kathleen Mills during a 3-0 Belles win over Olivet on Sept. 1.1.. With seeonds remaining, tions." good things happening but wo McGlinn's offense scrambled to Cavanaugh pressured the just didn't build on those ns was not on the court tonight was missing tonight." line up near the Cavanaugh (1- MeGlinn quarterback all night, things," she said. "lWei didn't to f"aee the No. 1 squad in the Despite the loss, some Belles 2) end zone, but the Shamrocks and McGlinn's defense came up get excited about those things conference. stood out individually. couldn't get a final play off' with two interceptions of its enough to build our momen "Calvin is a good team, but I Sophomore outside hitter before the whistle. Junior own. The wet eonditions at tum." felt that overall our play Lorna Slupczynski notched a quarterback Sarah deGroot Hiehle Field also contributed to The same Belles team that lacked heart tonight," team-high 11 kills, while jun- hurriedly took the snap, then some dropped balls and slips saw four players post double Schroeder-Biek said. "There sneaked the ball iHto the end doubles in the last two match- was that little extra spark that see LOSS/page 18 zone as the McGlinn (0-3-1) see CHAOS/page 18 .. . ·· ·· ld of ~pportunity SEPTEMY:~~,~,:et2::7w., Post-Graduate Service Guide A SPECIAL OBSERVER INSERT An Invitation to Index post-graduate service organizations ( Post-Graduate Service USA-NATIONAL USA & INTERNATIONAL (CONT'O) AmeriCorps*VISTA Cabrini Mission Corps Greetings! On behalf of the like the Peace Corps and build relationships with new Claretian Volunteers Christian Brothers Lay Volunteer Program Center for Social Concerns, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, to friends and communities; to Dominican Volunteers USA FrancisCorps I invite you to considn con- national teaching programs change your world. FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic Good Shepherd Volunteers tinuing your commitment to like ACE and Teach f!1r As we seek to live in soli University Students) Holy Spirit Lay Missionary Program service and justice through America, to local Amcri- darity with our sisters and Lasallian Volunteers Humility of Mary Service post-graduate service. This brothers, we remember Lutheran Volunteer Corps Incarnate Word Missionaries year, the Center is celebrat Jesus called love the greatest Mennonite Mission Network Jesuit Volunteer Corps/Jesuit ing its 25th anniversary, but or all commandments--to NET Ministries Volunteer International the tradition of graduates love the Lord God with all Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly committing to post-graduate our hearts and to love our Americorps Marianist Volunteer Program service star1ed long before neighbor as ourselves (Mark Providence Companions in Mission Mennonite Central Committee then. 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Yours, Franciscan Outreach Association Salesian Lay Missioners Holy Cross commit to a There are opportunities to Franciscan Volunteer Program year or two of post-graduate serve among the young, the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers TEACHING !{ervin~ at over 100 sites old, the sick, the hungry, the L'Arche Chicago Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)* across the nation ancl world. homeless, the imprisoned, MercyWorks- Mercy Home for ECHO They serve with a range the lonely, the poor and the Father Bill Lies, C.S.C. Boys & Girls Inner-City Teaching Corps or programs and agen- oppressed; Lo learn about Executive Director Misericordia Home Jesuit Alumni Volunteer Program cie-s, from internationally a new culture, language Center for Social Concerns Notre Dame Campus·Ministry Lalanne* recognized organizations or perspective on li fc; to Share Foundation LU CHOICE* Sister Maura Brannick Health Center Lutheran Education Alliance with St. Joseph Worker Rrogram Parochial Schools (LEAPs)* Su Casa Catholic Worker Magis* Vincentian Service Corps - Central operation TEACH* Post-Graduate Service Fair Pacific Alliance for Catholic USA-SOUTH Education (PACE)* Tonight September 26 5-8pm Joyce Center Casa Juan Diego PLACE Corps* Catholic Volunteers in Florida Providence Alliance for ABOUT THE FAIR representatives from more are interested in service. San Antonio Catholic Worker Catholic Teachers (PACT)* Considering post-graduate than 80 organizations Some placements are avail Red Cloud Volunteers service? 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This empower the powerless, promote peace and transform the ongoing formation and hands-on experience enables Service Opportunities world around them. apprentices to develop the skills, insights, and capacities that Type of Placement: Education, Health care, Social Services, and help promote the catechetical mtssion of the Catholic Church. Hispanic mimstries. Type of Placement: Full year placements in CatholiC parishes A Simple House of Sts. Francis and Alphonsos Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry Length of Service: One to two years within partner dioceses. contact: Ry~n Hehman [email protected] Contact: Shannon Curran [email protected] Length of Service: Two years [P] 202.678.5898 [w] www.asimplehouse.org/ [P] 410.442.3161 [ w] www.bonsecours.org/bsvm Christian Appalachian Project Goal of Program: To wonderfully and radically fall upon the Goal of Program: Lay women and men offer "Good Help" to Contact: Amy Schill [email protected] Farm of the Child cross of Chnst for grace and support, to serve the poor, those in need. Emotional and spiritual growth are encouraged [p)l.800.755.5322 [w] www.chrisapp.org Contact: Felicia & Sean O'Brien [email protected] volunteers, and sponsors by proclaiming the gospel through and supported through living in a small Christian community Goal or Program: CAP strives to meet the needs of the Appalachtan [p} 574.247.1018 [ w) www.farmofthechild.org acts of faith, love, and charity, and to sanctify volunteers with other volunteers, and service focuses on the Bon Secours people while fostering their self-sufficiency. CAP offers a Goal of Program: To care for and improve the physical, through friendshiP w1th the Lord, observance of poverty, ~nd charism of Healing, Compassion and Liberation. strong cultural experience, an assortment of service placements, educ~tional, spiritual and social needs of orphaned, abandoned obedience to the Holy Catholic Church. Typo of Placement: Health care, human services, distinctive community living, and a flexible time commitment. and neglected children of Honduras so that they may become Typo of Placement: Ministry, especially to those who suffer and education. Type of Placement: Long-term: Volunteers needed year-round productive, Christian members of Honduran society. from drug use, prostttutton, and/or homelessness. Length or Service: One year to serve in a variety of programs, including child and family Type or Placement: Teachers, medical professionals, social Length of Service: 10 months development centers, adult education, elderly services, workers, pastoral ministers, construction/maintenance supemsors, lCabrini Mission Corps housing and home repair, youth services, substance abuse house parents, administrators, and business/finance skills. ALIVE: A Lay Invitation to a Visitation Experience Contact: Gina Pultorak [email protected] recovery center, domestic violence shelters, outreach services, Length or Service: 27 months Contact: Sr. Manlyn Medinger [email protected] [P] 610.971.0821 [ w] www.cabrini·missioncorps.org educational programming, disability services. (p] 708.359.9299 [w] www.cnd-m.com Goal of Program: Missioners strive to be in solidarity with our Length of Service: Nine months to one year (long-term) FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) Goal or Program: In partnership with the Sisters of the sisters and brothers throughout the world, especially poor and Volunteers needed for summer camps and throughout the Contact: Angela Telthorst [email protected] Congregation de Notre Dame, you will work in educatiOnal marginalized women, children, 1mm1grants, refugees and the year. Minimum stay of three weeks (al>ort-trrmtinn;•ll Length of Service: One year Colorado Vincentian Volunteers Amigos de Jesus Capuchin Youth & Family Ministries Contact: Bill and Mary Frances Jaster [email protected] Franciscan Volunteer Ministry Contact: Kate Retter [email protected] Contact: Br. Lake Herman [email protected] [p)303.863.8141 [w) www.covivo.org Contact: Katie Sullivan [email protected] [ p )610.644.8237 [ w) www.amigosdejesus.org/ [P ]845.424.3609 [w] www.CYFM.org Goal of Program: We are a community of faith and action that [P )215.427.3070 [ w) www.franciscanvolunteerministry.org Goal of Program: To foster and model a Christtan lifestyle of Goal of Program: CYFM Lay Assistants serve as positive role responds to the Gospel call in the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul. Goal of Program: FVM provides a setting for volunteers to grow sptntualtty, Amigos de Jesus provides education and health for models for our youth, giving witness to their faith, and sharing Our year-long program offers an opportunity for spiritual, in faith, love, and hope by serving the poor and working for their children. Amigos de Jesus is a Catholic home for children, in our mission of reaching out to young people and their emotional, professional growth, and a way of discerning and social justice. We provide a setting where gifts and talents are school for technical school and advancement, agricultur~l families. Volunteers g~in experience in le~dership and ministry living one's Christian vocation. exchanged with the people of God in a loving and joyful community, and presently IS 111 the process of building a while living and working in a Christian community that is Type of Placement: Community organization, construction, Franciscan spirit, always being aware of how much we can Catholic primary school. supportive of their development as men and women of faith environment, health care, peace, teaching, and service with learn from and are blessed by the poor. Type or Placement: Construction workers, health professiOnals, and action. the homeless, Hispanic, and youth populations. Type of Placement: Adults' and Children's Activities teachers, soctal workers and business/computer workers. Typo of Placement: Youth ministry Length of Service: One year Coordinator, Community Organizer, Elementary School Teacher Length of Service: 12-24 months Length of Service: One year I Aide, ESL Instructor, Immigrant Minister, Medical Clinic Covenant House Faith Community Assistant, Mentor and Tutor, Music Minister, Outreach to Bend Volunteer Corps Casa Juan Diego Contact: Paula Rote [email protected] Shut·ins and Hospital Patients, Parish Assistant, Pastoral Contact: Charlotte Roe [email protected] Contact: Mark and louise Zwick [email protected] [P] 212.727.4149 [ w] www.covenanthouse.org Counselor, Prison Minister, Soup Kitchen Staff, Women's Day [p )541.318.4636 [ w] www.bendvolunteercorps.org/ [P ]713.869.7376 [ w] www.cjd.org Goal or Program: Faith Community offers people the opportunities Center Staff, and Youth and Elderly Outreach. Goal of Program: BVC needs people like you to carry on the four Goal of Program: To live out the Gospel by receiving in hospital to serve homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth of Covenant House; Length of Service: One year core values of simple living, social justice, community and ity and assisting immigrants and refugees, especially from live in a community living setting with other volunteers; and to sptntuality. Your challenge will be to integrate these values with Latin- America. spend time in daily personal and communal prayer /reflection. Franciscan Volunteer Program those 1n need by working 111 Chnstian faith With other volunteers and Type of Placement: To live as a Catholic Worker in the tradition Typo of Placement: Direct care with Covenant House youth as Contact: Sr. Kathy McNulty [email protected] by examtrung the causes of social injustice in the Central Oregon area. of Dorothy Day, living and working with immigrants in need. resident advisors, youth workers, or case managers: Health [ p] 312.628.1254 [ w] www.thefriars.org/volunteers Type of Placement: He~lth care, peace, and working with Immersion in Spanish. services, kitchens, and various administrative/corporate areas. Goal of Program: Community, Stmplicity, Spirituality, Service, Htspanic, homeless. and youth populations. Length of service: Three months to several years Length of Service: Three, Six, and Twelve months Outreach, Franciscan Life. Length of Service: One year Type of Placement: Social services, education, elderly and Catholic Volunteers in florida Dominican Volunteers USA HIV/AIDS ministry, peace and JUstice mmistry, pansh ministry, Bethany Catholic Worker House Contact: Candace Thompson [email protected] Contact: Anthony Butler [email protected] clerical duties, elder and child care and home repair. Contact: Donna Ecker [email protected] [p]407.382.70n [w] www.cvif.org (p] 708.524.5985 [w] http://dvusa.org Length of Service: One year [p ]585.454.4197 Goal of Program: CVIF is dedicated to providing people the Goal of Program: Together, we respond to the needs of our Goal of Program: Bethany House in Rochester, NY, offers opportunity to live out their faith by serving those with the sisters and brothers, especially those who are poor and emergency housing for homeless women and women with greatest need. Volunteers work towards justice and peace, marginalized. We live out the Dominican mission of proclaiming children. We also run an emergency food cupboard, a clothing positively transforming the commumties they serve as well as the gospel through our ministry, common life, prayer and study room, and a drop-in center during daytime hours. themselves. within a diverse, intergenerational community. Type of Placement: Live·in staff person (female) to be in Type of Placement: Community organization, health care, legal, Typo of Placement: Community organizing, environment, health community with poor and marginalized women and children. teaching, youth ministry and service with Hispanic, homeless, care, legal, peace, teaching, and working with Hispanic, We offer room. board, health insurance and a small stipend. and youth populations. homeless, and youth populations. Length of Service: One year Length of Service: One year Length of Service: 10 months, 12 months, or 24 months For more information visit SOCialconcerns.nd.edu ... Sept~f'DQ~f.2007 FrancisCorps Inner-City Teaching Corps LU CHOICE Maryknoll Lay Missioners Contact: Br. Jim Moore [email protected] Contact: Bridget Hogan [email protected] Contact: Lee Hubbell /[email protected] Contact: Kathy Wright [email protected] [ p] 315.426.0481, [ w] www.franciscorps.org [P] 312.491.9100 [w] www.ictc-chicago.org [p ]312.915.7049 [w] www.luc.edu/schools/education/choice [p] 800.818.5276 Ext.ll4 [w] www.mklaymissioners.org Goal of Program: FrancisCorps volunteers are lay men and Goal of Program: By combining teaching and involvement in Goal of Program: To serve the·needs of under-resourced Goal of Program: Maryknoll Lay Miss1oners is a Catholic women committed to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ after-school activities, such as coaching, we offer excellent Catholic elementary schools by recruiting, training, placing, organization inspired by the mission of Jesus to live and work through their actions: direct service to the poor. Volunteers opportunities to channel your enthusiasm toward children and supporting talented, highly motivated, enthusiastic men with poor communities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, live a simple lifestyle in community with other volunteers in from inner-city neighborhoods. Members live a simple and women as teachers in these schools. Participants are responding to basic needs and helping to create a more just the spirit of Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi while serving the lifestyle in community residences and participate in an enrolled in Loyola University Chicago's School of Education. and compassionate world. temporal needs of the local community. Alternative Teacher Certification Program. Upon successful Upon successful completion of their studies, they earn an Type of Placement: Lay and community formation, education, Type of Placement: Youth programs, drop·in elementary completion of requirements, Corps members earn a Stale of M.Ed. with certification. health/ AIDS, peace and justice advocacy, pastoral work and programs, refugee resettlement, teaching, social services, Illinois teaching certificate. Type of Placement: Elementary school teachers within technical/vocational instruction. developmentally disabled adults, women's shelter, medical Type of Placement: Full-time teaching positions in inner-city Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Length of Service: Three and a half years. Some Mission and legal clinic. Catholic elementary schools in Chicago. ICTC schools Length of Service: Two Years Awareness trips offered, 5 to 15 days Length of Service: One year primarily serve /ow-income families in African-American and (visit www.friendsacrossborders.org). Latino communities. Lutheran Education Alliance with Friends of the Orphans Length of Service: Two years Parochial Schools (LEAPS) Mennonite Central Committee Contact: Katherine Harig [email protected] Contact: Mary Ann Dudzinski [email protected] Contact: Mary Ann Weber [email protected] [ p] 847.690.1700 [w] http:/ /friendsus.org Jesuit Alumni Volunteer Program [p] 219.916.9368 [P] 574.534.4133 [w] http://mcc.org Goal of Program: We send qualified individuals, couples and Contact: Katie Mitchell [email protected] [ w] www.valpo.edu/gce/graduate/programs/med-il-leaps.php Goal of Program: MCC seeks to demonstrate God's love by families to support the staff and children living in the homes [P] 773.890.6800 [w] www.cristorey.net Goal of Program: This program provides talented people the working among people suffering from poverty, conflict, of Nuestros Pequelios Hermanos/ Nos Petit Freres et Soeurs Goal of Program: We strive to become men and women for opportunity to explore teaching as a lifelong vocation while oppression and natural disaster. MCC serves as a channel for (Our little Brothers and Sisters). others through our service to the family of Cristo Rey, our seriing as apprentice teachers in rural and urban parochial interchange by building mutually transformative relationships. Type of Placement: Teaching, childcare, construction, gardening, dedication to simplicity and community life, and our schools. The program has three components: academic and MCC strives for peace, justice and the dignity of all people by social work, therapy, medicine, dental and speech therapy. commitment to spiritual development. teaching preparation, community living experiences while sharing our experiences, resources and faith in Jesus Christ. Length of Service: One year or two months is~;mnwn Type of Placement: Cristo Rey is an innovative new Jesuit serving the teaching needs of parochial schools, and Type of Placement: Community organization, peace, teaching. High School which serves the low-income, predominantly exploration of spirituality and faith in the context of service Length of Service: One week to three years Gateway Vincentian Volunteers Latino immigrant population of Chicago's southwest side. and vocation. Contact: Jim Ryan [email protected] Volunteers serve the school in a number of ways, including Type of Placement: Teaching. Mennonite Mission Network [P] 314.771.1474 [w] www.vincentianvols.org teaching positions, facilitating student transportation and Length of Service: Two years Contact: Neil Richer [email protected] Goal of Program: Ta provide young adults with an experience providing supervision, coaching sports, coordinating student [ p] 574.523.3060 [ w] http:/ /mennonitemission.net of living in community and working with the poor in the spirit activities, anrJ implementing service projects. Lutheran Volunteer Corps Goal of Program: MVS attempts to match human resources to of St. Vincent DePaul. It is our goal that by living in the spirit Length of Service: Two years Contact: Eric Bjorlin [email protected] human needs in obedience to Christ. MVS works to change of Vincent, these young adults will develop a consuming [P ]202.387.3222 [ w] www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org oppressive social structures. Christians from many commitment to improving the lives of the poor and Jesuit Volunteer Corps Goal of Program: Volunteers are matched with non-profit denominations serve with MVS. marginalized in our society. Jesuit Volunteer International organizations in ten metropolitan areas across the United Type of Placement: Accountants, after-school workers, business Type of Placement: Education, Mental Health Services, HIV I Contact: AJ Cabrera [email protected] States. They work full-time in various positions ranging from and clerical workers, carpenters, construction workers, child AIDS Services, Immigration and Refugee Services, Social [ p] 410.224.1733 [ w] http:/ /jesuitvolunteers.org/ direct social services, to political advocacy, community care workers, staff for emergency intervention services, poverty Service Work in an Inner-City Parish, Prison Ministry, Social Jesuit Volunteer Corps - Northwest organizing, education, and activism while living in intentional relief services, group home staff, elderly ministries, Services and Poverty Relief, Social Work, Soup Kitchen and Contact: Leah Dahlin [email protected] community. environmental, migrant ministries, immigration/refugee service Food Distribution, Emergency Shelter, Teacher, Tutoring and [p] 503.335.8202 [ w] http:/ /jvcnorthwest.org/ Type of Placement: Community organizatiOn, environment, workers, teachers, social workers, peace and justice workers, literacy Programs, Work with at-risk youth. Goal of Program: JVC offers men and women an opportunity health care, legal, peace, teaching, youth ministry, and work public relations person, volunteer coordinators. Length of Service: 11 months to work full-time for justice and peace by serving the poor with Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations. Length of Service: Two years preferred; one year minimum directly and by workmg for structural change. Volunteers live Length of Service: One year Good Shepherd Volunteers a simple lifestyle in community with other volunteers and MercyWorks - Mercy Home for Boys & Girls Contact: lindsey Conlin [email protected] seek to develop spiritually. Maggie's Place Contact: Elizabeth Dayton [email protected] [p] 888.668.6478 x 780 [w] www.gsvolunteers.org Type of Placement: Teacbing, youth mmistry and mentoring, Contact: Becky Fair [email protected] [P] 312.738.9526 [w] www.mercyhome.org Goal of Program: GSV, in collaboration with the Sisters of the homeless advocacy, domestic violence and sexual assault [P] 602.262.5555 [w] www.maggiesplace.org Goal of Program: Highly motivated individuals who are Good Shepherd, provides long-term volunteers with the counseling, prison ministry, legal aid, farm worker outreach, Goal of Program: Maggie's Place is a house of hospitality for mission-driven and wish to make a diHerence in the lives of opportunity to work in social service ministries and to use refugee resettlement, elderly outreach, addiction recovery expectant women who wish to achieve their goals in a our children. Volunteers are provided the opportunity to grow their God-given talents, serving women, adolescents, and services, nursing and hospice ministry, AIDS services and dignified and welcoming atmosphere. As a community, we in their faith and spirituality through prayer and reflection children affected by poverty, violence, and neglect. community organizing. challenge one another to strive toward personal growth, to while being committed to a process of building community Type of Placement: Alternative Education High School, Length of Service: Dne year (USA) 2 years.Onlornahonali welcome the gifts of every person who enters our door, and and living in simplicity. Residential Group Homes, After School Program, Domestic to promote positive social change. Type of Placement: Residential youth care worker; case Violence Shelter, Foster Care and Adoption Services Program, Lalanne Type of Placement: Direct service to pregnant women, new worker; admissions case manager; volunteer coordinator; Fair-Trade Program, and Congressional Lobbyist. Youth Contact: Jacinta Mergler [email protected] moms and newborns in need. We also share the education & employment coordinator; family services Services, Human Services, Health Services, Economic/ [p] 937.229.3778 [w] www.udayton.edu/ -/a/anne administrative duties necessary to run the homes. representative. Psychological Empowerment Programs, Community Goal of Program: Lalanne teachers are assigned faculty Length of Service: l3 months Length of Service: One year Development, Education, Collaborative efforts with other local positions in urban Catholic schools and live in community for non-governmental and non-profit agencies. a supportive environment that fosters personal and Magis Mercy Volunteer Corps Length of Service: One year (USA) 2 years (International) professional development, and includes opportunities for Contact: Molly Davies [email protected] Contact: Maureen Kubicek [email protected] spiritual growth in order to make a positive impact on the [ p] 402.280.3491 [ w] http:/ /puffin.creighton.edu/edu/MAGIS/ [P] 215.641.5535 [ w] www.MercyVolunleers.org Holy Spirit Lay Missionary Program lives of students. Goal of Program: MAGIS is centered on community living, aca· Goal of Program: In partnership with the Sisters of Mercy of Contact: Ray Gavin [email protected] Type of Placement: K-12 Education in urban Catholic schools. demic coursework, and Ignatian spirituality that prepares and the Americas, lay women and men of MVC, enter into [P] 847.441.0126 ext. 609 Length of Service: Two years supports highly motivated faith filled teachers to serve in relationship with people who are economically poor and Goal of Program: A new program that allows women to under-resourced Catholic Schools. MAGIS recruits talented marginalized. In a spirit of mutuality, volunteers cultivate mercy become involved with the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters as a L'Arche Chicago individuals from under-graduate programs who have a desire and justice in the world by embracing compassionate service, lay volunteer. Volunteers will live in community with the Contact: Alexandra Conroy [email protected] to teach in grades 7-12. social justice, spirituality and a simple lifestyle in community. Sisters and engage in meaningful ministry. [P] 108.863.1273 [ w] www.larchechicago.org Type of Placement: Students are placed in under·resourced Type of Placement: Community development, education, hunger Type of Placement: Teaching, peace, youth. Goal of Program: L'Arche is an international federation of Catholic schools in the Omaha metro area and rural schools and homeless outreach, prison ministry, domestic violence Length of Service: One year or Summer communities where men and women with developmental in Nebraska. services and counseling, addiction recovery services, hospice disabilities and those who choose to share life with them live, Length of Service: Two years ministry, AIDS/HIV care, elderly outreach, programs for Humility of Mary Service work, play and pray creating a home together. Core individuals with special needs, border and integration ministries. Contact: Sr. Kathleen King, HM [email protected] members, persons with disabilities, make up the heart or Marianist Volunteer Program Length of Service: One year (USA'! 2 years (Int"matin,.,ai) [P] 4403335373 [w] www.humilityofmary.org/join_serv_OLhtrn core of our communities. The assistants are those who live Contact: Daniel Richter [email protected] Goal of Program: The program provides women and men who and share life with them. [p ]314.533.1207 ext. 229 [w] www.marianist.com/mvp Misericordia Home are desirous of serving among poor and marginalized persons Type of Placement: Faith based community living with adults Goal of Program: MVP provides opportunities for men and Contact: Joe Ferrarra [email protected] an opportunity to work with Sisters of Humility and/or their with developmental disabilities. women of faith to share in the Marianist Charism by building [p] 773.273.3054 [ w] www.misericordia.com colleagues in ministry as volunteers. Through a process that Length of Service: One or more years a community in mission for peace, justice, and solidarity with Goal of Program: To support individuals with developmental includes mentoring and shared reflection on the expenence the poor and marginalized. MVP provides opportunities for disabilities in maximizing their level of independence and of service, the program fosters a lifelong commitment to Lasallian Volunteers faith, spiritual, and personal development; empowering a self-determination within an environment that fosters Gospel values and to bringing more abundant life to God's Contact: Seth Whetzel [email protected] diversity of volunteers to be partners for peace and justice; spirituality, dignity, respect and enhancement of quality of people, especially the poor. [P] 202.529.0047 [ w] www.lasallianvolunteers.org experiencing the Marianist vision of lay leadership and life. We promote development of natural family and Type of Placement: Social work, community outreach, home Goal of Program: To respond creatively to the educational community; living out an option for the poor and marginalized community support, community awareness, education and nursmg, legal aide to Haitians, housing and homeless needs of the poor by providing volunteers who are generous through a simple lifestyle and cross cultural service. advocacy. services, literacy project, education, inner city neighborhood and talented, well trained and supported, from diverse Type of Placement: Education, social services, youth and Type of Placement: Support individuals with developmental ministry, jail ministry, parish ministry/outreach. backgrounds across the U.S., a unique and rewarding parish ministry, health care, peace and justice advocacy/com· disabi lilies. Length of Service: Two months to two years experience. munity organizing, services for the homeless, services for Length of Service: 6 ·12 months Type of Placement: Teacher/tutor in elementary schools, women and children, and other services. Incarnate Word Missionaries middle schools, high schools, adult education programs, Length of Service: One year (USA\ 2 years (Mexkll) Missionary Cenacle Volunteers Contact: Meghan Green [email protected] outdoor education programs and after school programs. Case Contact: Maureen Masterson [email protected] [ p] 210.828.2224 ext. 228 Managers/Social Workers; Campus Mimstry/Retreat Work/ Maryknoll China Service Project [p] 216.252.4727 [ w] www.tmc3.org/mcv.html [ w] www.incarnatewordsisters.org/iwmis.sionaries.htm Service Outreach coordinating; Development: Putllic Contact: Maretta McKenna [email protected] Goal of Program: To help Catholics and others become Goal of Program: An opportunity to respond to your baptismal Relations/Grant Writing/Fundraising; Coaching Sports [P ]973.889.1557 [w] www.chinaserv.org apostles by growing spiritually while in service to the poor of call to mission, and share in the mission, spirituality, and Teams; Adventure-based Recreation Leader, Support Staff at Goal of Program: Maryknoll is a Catholic orgamzation which is all America. charism of the Congregation. Volunteers receive the gift of a Homeless Shelter and Soup Kitchen. deeply committed to service work in the People's Republic of Type of Placement: Long-term: Catechists; teachers and cross-cultural community, and they are placed in ministry and Length of Service: One year China. We seek to place active and committed Christians in aides; pastoral ministry; office workers; retreat ministry; support services. universities where their dedication and personal example will youth and young adult outreach; maintenance; material Type of Placement: Environment, community organization, Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly be of service to the students and faculty. As a result of assistance; migrant ministry; soup kitchen; group home staff; healthcare, teaching, peace, work with Hispanic, homeless, Contact: Christine Bertrand [email protected] dedicated language teaching, we hope that foreign teachers Hispanic ministry; Native American ministry; social service; and youth populations. [P] 312.455.1000 [ w] www.littlebrothers.org will understand more about China and its people, and the homeless shelter; community development; thrift stores. Length of Service: One year (USAl 2 years {Int~~mation~l) Goal of Program: Little Brothers- Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) Chinese will understand more about the West and its values Short-term: Camp and recreation; family ministry; youth is a national network of non-profit, volunteer-based organizations and culture. - ministry; summer Bible school; parish summer programs; committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. Type of Placement: ESL teachers. "alternative breaks." We offer to people of good will the opportunity to join the elderly Length of Service: One year Oong term} 5 weeks (:;~.:rr:m:?r pt{lflf~lm) Length of Service: 9·12 months (iong te,mj 2-8 weeks (short turon in friendship and celebration of life. Type of Placement: Work with elderly and Hispanic populations. Length of Service: One year For more information visit SOCialconcerns.nd.edU • The University of Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns' Post- Graduate Service Guide September 2007 NET Ministries PLACE Corps Salesian Lay Missioners Teach For America Contact: Mary Gabriel [email protected] Contact: Matthias Schildwachter [email protected] Contact: Adam Rudin [email protected] Contact: Patrick Herrel [email protected] I p] 651.450.6833 [ w] www.NETusa.org [ p] 310.338.3774 [ w] http:/ /lmu.edu/Page25802.aspx [ p ]914.633.8344 [ w] www.salesians.org/slm [ p] 312.254.1000 ext. 381 [ w] http:/ /teachforamerica.org Goal of Program: To challenge young Catholics to love Chnst and Goal of Program: To provide elementary and secondary schools 111 Goal of Program: Salesian Lay Missioners seek to answer God's Goal of Program: To close the achievement gap that exists embrace the life of the Churr.h by proclaiming the Gospel of Chnst the Archdiotese of los Angeles w•th highly motivated teachers. missionary call 111 their own lives by dedicating themselves to between children growing up 1n 1ow-111come areas and the1r peers through a personal w1tness of laith; inviting young people to live Corps members earn their Master's degree in education ancl working 1u11-t1me for the human development and evangelization in higher-income areas by placing recent college graduate into for Chnst; forming yoong people 1n Christian character through preliminary California teaching credential wh1le serving as among the poor and abandoned youth. rural and urban classrooms. I he study and pract1ce of our fa1th: equipping youth workers and positive role models for another generation of students and live a Type of Placement: Youth ministry, teaching, child care, religious Type of Placement: Teaching in all academic subjects and all young adults w1th the ministry SkillS needed for evangelization. single lifestyle in supportive communities. e~ucation, staff for recreation/camp services, counseling, grade levels. Type of Placement: Volunteers serve on teams which travel the Type of Placement: Full-t1me elementary and secondary school pastoral/parish mmistry, health care, social work, building trades, Length of Service: Two years country proclaiming the Gospel through fun, high-energy retreats. teachers in under-served schools while attending classes at Hispanic ministry. The retreats Incorporate large group talks, small group Loyola Marymount University one or two evenings per week. Length of Service: One to two years The David School d1scuss1on, music, drama, personal faith shanngs and the Length of Service: Two years Contact: Danny Greene [email protected] opportunity for each retreatant to respond to Christ in prayer San Antonio Catholic Worker [ p] 606.226.9911 [ w] www.davidschool.org and/or through the Sacraments of Eucharist and Reconc11iat1on. Providence Alliance for Catholic Contact: Janet Trevino-Eiizarraraz [email protected] Goal of Program: To prov1de non-traditional high school programs Length of Service:' 10 months Teachers (PACT) [P] 210.532.0002 [ w] www.sa-catholicworker.org to low-income youth who have dropped out of publ•c educat1on. It Contact: Brother Patrick Carey [email protected] Goal of Program: To prov1de care, comfort, and support to the provides opportunities for academ1c, and vocational tranung as Notre Dame Campus Ministry [ p] 401.865.2657 [ w] www.prov1dence.edu homeless of San Antonio through our ministries of offering a well as community service. Summer programs mclude Vacation Contact: Darrell Paulsen [email protected] Goal of Program: To develop a corps of highly motivated and temporary home to homeless families and a weekday soup line to Bible School and Campus Improvement. [P] 574.631.5827 [ w] http:/ /campusministry,nd.edu committed young Catholic educators to teach and to serve in individuals in need. We clo our work following the philosophy of Type of Placement: Teaching, coaching, volunteer recruitment & Goal of Program: Collaboration with the permanent full-t1me grades K-12 in understaffed Catholic inner-city elementary and the Catholic Worker Movement which emphasizes faith-centered coordinator, development. office, public relations. Campus Mmistry staff members on programs for Notre Dame secondary schools throughout New England. act1on, personalism, community bUilding, nonviolence, simple Length of Service: 6-24 months students. Type of Placement: Teaching. living, and a respect for the environment. Type of Placement: Internship Length of Service: Two years Type of Placemertt: Peace, working with Hispanic and homeless The Haitian Project Length of Service: One academic year populations. Contact: Reese Jarret Grondin [email protected] Providence Companions in Mission Leogth of Service: Six months to over a year [p]4Dl.35l.3624 [w] www.haitianproject.org Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Contact: Sister Judith Connor [email protected] Goal of Program: THP provides a free secondary education to Americorps [ p] 412.931.5241 [ w] www.divineprovidenceweb.org Share Foundation students from the poorest areas of Port Au Prince who are Contact: Knsln1 M1odonski kristinmio@gma,l.com Goal of Program: An opportunity for Catholic women to fully Contact: Robert Hess [email protected] academically gifted and demonstrate a commitment to service and [p]773.273.6367 [w] www.ndmva.org participate in the community, prayer, and mimsteriallife of the [P] 219.778.2585 [ w] www.sharetoundat1on.org leadership in their commumty. Located in the poorest country in Goal of Program: To empower the economically disadvantaged Sisters of Divine Providence. Goat of Program: To provide a peaceful, loving community for the Western Hemisphere, the mission of the school is to maximize and oppressed through education and personal hands-on support. Type of Placement: Health care, peace, teaching, youth ministry, developmentally disabled adults where people's self worth can the potential found in its students and enable them to work Our program holistically a1ms to strengthen the community legal services, retreats, and work with Hispanic and youth come to the surface and they can share in the joy of being valued toward building a Haiti where justice and peace thrive. through the~r families; every person has an 1mportant role to play. populatiOns. for who they are, not what they can do. Type of Placement: Teacher/Staff at Catholic Boarding School. Type of Placement: Tutoring; after school programs; conflict Length of Service: One year, renewable up to six years Type of Placement: Live-in house manager, prov1ding Length of Service: 10 months resolution; parent eff~ctiveness; adult literacy. Educat1onat companionship and guidance to two mildly to moderately mentally service may be in conJunction with Latino m1grant worker ministry, Providence Volunteer Ministry retarded adults. Teach daily living and vocational skills. The Neighborhood Academy social services, volunteer coordination, AIDS mmistry, counseling, Contact: Julie Szolek-Van Valkenburgh [email protected] Volunteers live in one of 9 homes on site and share in the joy of Contact: Jessica Blose [email protected] credit uniun and environmental agencies. VISTA pos1l1ons: public [p]3l7.577.2477 [w] www.P-V-M.org living in community. r p 1412.362.2001 [w] www.theneighborhoodacademy.org relations; development; senior and college volunteer recruitment; Goal of Program: PVM provides opportunities for volunteer service Length of Service; One year tlong·!t-rmi 6 weeks (!>ilff'Hll!!>r) Goal of Program: In addition to classroom responsibilitieS, career couns~l111g; computers and web design/maintenance. and sp~rilual growth 111 partnership with the S1slers of Providence Teaching Assocmtes direct athletic and arts programrn111g, run the Prom1se Fellows: community and college volunteer recruitment; of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Our volunteers through works of Sister Maura Brannick Health Center meal program, proctor evening study, and support the daily serv1ce-learmng coordination; tutoring. International placements love, mercy and justice give witness to the spirit of Providence in Contact: Anne-Marie Rick [email protected] running of a grassroots nonprofit organization with the goal of are available in Kenya m partnership with Lay MISSIOn Helpers. a world that is in need of hope, healing and transformation. [ p] 574.239.5255 [ wJ www.sjmed.com/svc_outreach_HC_SB.htm breaking the cycle of generational poverty through education. Length of Service: One year Type of Placement: Education and Day Care; Health Care; Organic Goat of Program: Provides primary healthcare services to Type of Placement: Education, youth. fanning and Eco-Justice: Social Services; Youth Ministry and uninsured residents of St. Joseph County, IN. Our for.us is on the Length of Ser-vice: 10 months operation TEACH Hispan1c Ministry. unemployed Or WOrking poor, prOViding SerViCeS for thoSe that fall Contact: Sr. M. Karen Kelly [email protected] Length of Service: One year or Summer Program below 150% of the federally-designated poverty level. The Health Vincentian Service Corps-Central [p]410.5325326 [ w] www.ndm.edu/academics/nd __ abt_opTeach.clm Center addresses issues pertaining to prevention of disease and Contact: Sr. Teresa Daly [email protected] Goat of Program: Operat1on TEACH (Teachers Enlisted to Advance Puerto Rico Center for Social Concerns illness and focuses on the overall health and well-being of each [P] 314.533.4770 ext.l03 [w] www.vscorps.org Catholic Heritage) seeks to develop a corps of h1ghly motivated Contact: Sylvia Henriquez [email protected] patient. Goal of Program: To provide opportunities for women and men ,md committed young educators to meet the needs of the [p]787.944.4444 [wl http://prcsc.org/ Type of Placement: Health care ilk rom D'>o!;~y Ser..,.k~? J\w,:;rdJ who want to serve the poor, live in community with other VSC Ballnnore area Catholic elementary and secondary schuols. Goal of Program: Committed to improvmg the quality of life i.n Length of Service: One year members, and experience a simple lifestyle. While working Type ot Placement: TEACH IS a two-year commitment in a Catholic communities with limited resources through education snd directly with the poor, VSC members are called to deepen their elementary or secondary school, while earning a graduate degree socio-economic development with the support of professional St. Ignatius Loyola Academy faith, grow in charity, work for justice, celebrate life and develop in education, and s•mple living in a small commumty of TEACH volunteers. By matching volunteer interests and skills with the Contact: Christopher Wilson close bonds. participants. needs of the community, the PRCSC promotes the well-bemg of [email protected] Type of Placement: Adult literacy, AIDS/HIV ministry and Length of Service: Two years the residents while providing enriching expenences for [P] 410.539.8268 [ w] www.saintignalius.org outreach, case work for shelters and/or mentally ill, child care, volunteers. Goal of Program: An independent, tuition-free Jesuit Catholic coordinating volunteers, cris1s counseling, fund·raising, health Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education (PACE) Type of Placement: Community organizing, environment, health middle school for boys of families of modest means, diverse care, immigration/refugee counseling, maintenance, nursing Contact: Damel Adams [email protected] care, teaching, work with Hispanic and homeless populations. races, ethnicities and religions. The Academy's mission is to draw home, outreach to the homebound elderly, work with phySically [p ]503.943.7417 Length of Service: One or two years from and share with its students the very best spiritual ideals and and developmentally disabled, skilled labor, social work, teaching [ w] http:/ /educat•on.up.edu/delault.aspx?cld =4322&pid =278 moral values, knowledge and learning skills, discipline, character and teaching aides, parish social ministry, work with emotionally Goal of Program: To strengthen Catholic schools by providing Red Cloud Volunteers formation, and personal care, thereby providing its graduates the disturbed youth, work with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. talented educators committed to the vocation of teaching as Contact: Ian Mitchell, SJ [email protected] opportunity to pursue an excellent secondary educat1on that will Length of Service: One year. service; to provide college graduates, mcluding both those who [p]605.867.5888 Ext. 216 [w] www.redctoudschool.org lead to college and to lives in which they will be Men For Others. have majored in the field of education and those who come from Goat of Program: Dedicated to the education of the Lakota (Sioux) Free tuition to the Loyola College in Maryland department of other academic disciplines, with graduate degrees in education on children on the Pine Ridge Reservation, traditional Lakota values education provided. scholarship; to provide participants with the opportunity for l1ving are fostered in a positive academic atmosphere. Volunteers Type of Placement: Teaching, coaching, and advising middle m a supportive commumty of fellow professional educators. integrate their faith through serv1ce to others, the challenges of school boys. Network Organizations Type of Placement: Each PACE teacher earns a graduate degree 111 livmg "'a cross-cultural enviro11ment and sharing a simple Length of Service: Two years education; serves tor two years ~s a full·time teacher 111 a Catholic lifestyle in community. Catholic Network of Volunteer Service school in the Northwest; grows through the expenence of Simple, Type of Placement: Native American mmistry worker, teacher, St. Joseph Worker Program Contact: Katie Eberhard [email protected] intentional, commumty livmg; act1vely participates 111 h1s/her own tutor, bus Driver, communications and public relations. coaching, , Contact: Suzanne Herder, CSJ [email protected] [P ]301.270.0900, ext.ll [w] www.cnvs.org SPiritual growth and the spintuality of the1r community. education. [P] 651.696.2762 [ w] www.stjasephworkers.org Goal of Network: CNVS is a national membership organization of Length of Service: fwo years Length of Service: One year Goal of Program: Work for justice within diverse communities Chnstian volunteer and m1ssion programs that fosters and doing direct service that meets the needs of the poor and promotes full·t1me nat1onal and international service opportunities Passionist Volunteers International Response-Ability margmalized and act1vety work toward system1c change. Provide lor people of all backgrounds, ages and skills. Contact: Karen Kosmsk1 [email protected] Contact: Mary ScheuermJnn [email protected] mentoring for young women to be leaders/change agents workmg Type of Placement: Busmess, communications, community [ p] 708.2563013 [ w] www.passionistvolunteers.org [p] 610.6261400 Ext. 313 [ w] www.ravolunteers.org for social and spiritual transformation m the world. Assist the organization, construct1on, environment, legal, health care, Goal of Program: PV! mv1tes people to share the~r qifts and Goat of Program: A ministry ol the Soc1ety of the Holy Child ,Jesus, Workers to deepen their own spirituality throU(Ih retreats, prayer, service with the Hispanic, homeless, and youth populations, youth t.31ent> walkmg with the poor and accompanying the sufle11ng "' ;, Response-Ailility trams, coaches, and mspires mnovative and other experiences with the support of the Sisters of St. rnin~stry, teaching, peace, heallh care, and more. eros~ '"ltur,1l settn1g. The Volunteers have the opportumty to volunteer teachers lo provide quality education in inner CitY Joseph and others. Develop mtent1onal community focusing on ""rich their lives and enable their serv1r.e by livmg 1n commumty, schools and mternationat sites. L1ving "'commumty, volunteers living simply and blllldmg just relationships w1th others and the shanng sp~r,tuahtv ·Jnd la1th. They serve '"collaboration with the ach1eve spiritual, personal and professional growth. earth. St. Vincent Pallotti Center PaSSIOIHSt Commun1tv. Type of Placement: Full· time teacher and co-teacher positions in Type of Placement: Working with 1mmigrant commumties, contact: Jennifer Taylor [email protected] Typo of Placement· <:chootneeds for children and renwdml '"ner-city Catholil elementary and middle schools. cornmuruty organizing, health care, homeless, elderly; justice [ p·]202.529.3330 [w] www.pallotticenter.org educat1onalneed~ for adults. caring tor the s1ck, VISitlllQ the Length of Service: One or two years education and advocacy. Goat of Center: To promote lay volunteer service that challenges home-bound; tr;mung 111 hyg1ene Jnd prevent1ve care; youth Length of Service: ll months the la1ty, clergy and religious to work together In the mission of mn11stry- organwny, coJr.hmg, mentonng; housing ·bU1Id1ng and Rostro de Cristo the Church. Our goal1s to support lay volunteers before, during repa1r: onson mn11stry. Contact: Dan Kiers [email protected] Su Casa Catholic Worker and after their term ot service. Length of Service: One year [ p ]216.397.1571 [ w] www.rostrodecristo.org Contact: Cha11tel deAicuaz sucasacwG:i)gmail.com Type of Placement: Business, communications, community Goat of Program: We mvite participants to lead a simple lifestyle; 1· p ]773.376.9263 [ w ·1 http:/ /sucasacatholicworker.blogspot.com organizing, env~ronment, health care, peace, youth nlloistry, and Peace Corps build an intentional Christia11 community; be in relatio11Sh1p with Goat of Program: Su Cas111s a house of hospitality 111 the Catholic work with Hispanic, homeless, and youth popul8t1ons. Contact: L1z Ateyou eategnucq)peacecorps.gnv the Er:uadorliln people and rellect on the face of Christ111 lhe~r Worker tradition that provides a space of healing and hope to [PJ 312.353.77471 w j www.peacecorps.gov joys anc.t struggles; and work with the Ecuadorian people to lind displaced Hispanic families. Responding to the Gospel call to University Consortium for Catholic Education Goat of Program: Peace Corps Volunteers live and work at a gr~ss long-term solut1ons to the problems of poverty and together seek compassionate action, we are committed to a simple, non-violent [email protected] [p ]574·631-3165 [w J www.ucceconnect.com roots level 111 a commumty that has requested assistance with opport11n1t1es to improve the lives of the people. lifestyle as we live and work among the poor. Goal of consortium: The consortium establishes and supports o their soc1al, economic and human development. Type of Placement: Education, child care, religious education, Type of Placement: Business, communications, ·community collaborative cadre of pnmarily Catholic colleges and umversi!les Type of Placement: Bus111ess, wmm11111ty organizmg, c.onstructlrlll, tutoring, working in soup kitchens, leading retreat groups, organizing, enVIronment, peace, and work with Hispanic, as they design and 11nplement graduflte level teacllmg servir.e enVIronment, health care, teaching, youth. ass1sting 111 parish activities, working at a hosplldl for Hansen's homeless, ond youth populations. programs for the purpose of supporting Catholic/Parochial - Length of Service: 27 months disease, VIsiting orphanages and nursmg homes, and other social Length of Service: One year education in the United States. serv1ces. Type of Placement: Education (Catholic teacher semce corps) Length of Service: One year Length of Service: Two years 4 For more information visit SOCialconcerns.nd.edu •