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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 40: ISSL[E 84 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Controversial film event to begin Leaders Showings to be called 'Gay and Lesbian Film: Filmmakers, Narratives and Spectatorship' confront
"Gay and Lesbian Film: in such a way that it seems to and the University administra By MARY KATE MALONE Filmmakers, Narratives and support that which it doesn't tion," event eo-chair Martin ordinance A.sista111 Nows Editor Spnctatorship" is the new title support. It's more [about! Laina said. for the annual film event authenticity of character and Those parties are all satis Two wonks after University 1~ntcring its third year at the its representation," Jenkins fied with thP. name, Laina said. But city officials l'rnsidnnt Father .John Jnnkins University. In his addresses to told The Observer following But the event's content and questioned thn presencn of students, faculty and alumni, the addresses. purpose as an academic remain skeptical controversial events on cam Jnnkins said the event's previ The Queer Film Festival was endeavor have not changed, p us i n a s e r i e s o I' m aj o r ous title seemed "to celebrate renamed after months of meet Laina said, adding the new addresses to tho Notre Dame homosexual activity." ings between various groups name is not nearly as impor By KAREN LANGLEY community, tlw nvnnt formerly "When, year after year, we connected to the event. tant as the evP.nt itself. Assistanr News Editor known as tho <)uenr Film sponsor something or a unit of "The new name was agreed "The title accurately reflects F1~stival will begin today under the University sponsors some upon by all parties involved, the aims and purposes of the The eontrowrsial South Bnnd a nnw name - garnering thing that appears to be in which included student organ event, which are to showcase Public Nuisance Ordinanen national media attention and conllict with Catholic teaching, izers, the department of Film, which caused some studnnts to sl.irring student activism. the University's name is used Television and Theatre I FTTJ see FILMS/page 8 faen lines and evietions - may be less intrusive and strict if some student govnrnment load ers have it their way. Their Monday night meeting STUDENT SENATE initiated thnir plan for their Feb. 27 visit to the South Bend Common Council. where they intend to appnal for eonsidnra Group dissects academic freedom tion of' a Student Senate resolu tion on the controversial amendment to South Bond's receive the nxpected funds Public Nuisanee Ordinanen. By MADDIE HANNA raised in the past by "The A.sociatc Nrws Editor Assistant City Attorney Ann Vagina Monologues." Carol Nash said Wndnesday she "We want to know where that would not support such an l'rnsenting tlwir constituents' money is going to come from, if appnal. vinws while articulating their not 'The Vagina Monologues,"' The resolution requnsts thn own, senators grapplnd with thn Knapp said. Council further amend the ordi complex topic of acadnmie frnn lin said his constituents decid nance so that landlords are dom and Catholic character at ed the presence of the encouragnd to evict disruptive Wndnnsday's Student Snnate "Monologuns" on campus had tenant.., al'tnr thn sncond, rather m1mting - a discussion meant no deteriorating etl'nct on thoir than the first, violation of the to prnparn thn group for an own Catholie character. ordinanee. As it stands, the ordi upeoming visit from University "We're all just as Catholic as nance suggest.., landlords under Pn~sident Fathnr .John .Jnnkins. we were bnf'ore knew about lthe take eviction proenndings as a 1\ varinty of opinions and eon 'Monologues'!." Knapp said. del'ense against possible fines cnrns surfac1Hl in thnir dorm "It's art, bnfore anything else ... after a single notien to abate - communities, senators said. it's subjective ... meant to evoke a recommnndation which is "Tiw goal of a Catholic univnr mnotion, responses." contrary to tho spirit of a notice sity should be to indudn all stu Lnwis senator Katie McHugh, to abate, student body prnsident dents," Cavanaugh senator Liz Siegfried senator Hen Gunty and Dave Baron said Tunsday. Brown said. St. Ed's senator Fred Thwaites "In our rnsolution, wn lL'ik that ( :avanaugh residents worried all built on the idea of how a the ordinance bo made consis that a University dndsion to ban pnrson's Catholic faith can be tent with tho mnenpt of a notien 1~nrtain 1wnnts - like "Thn strengtlwned in the presence of' to abah~." he said. Vagina Monologuns" - could opposing views. Nash told The Observer that alinrHttn membnrs of tlw Notre Noting .Jenkins' extensive while she eould not prPdict tlw Dame cornrnullity, Brown said. study of tho works of Thomas Council's reaetion, she would Otlwr dorms approadwd thn Aquinas, Gunty paraphrased not suggest the ordinanen bn dnhatn from a charity angle. one of Aquinas' ideas. changed. Zahm s1~nator Pat Knapp said "With true knowledge of "My question to the Council many studnnts told him thny Jyourl Catholic faith, you should ADRIENNE RUFFNER/The Obse!Ver would be, 'Do you want to tell wnre nspeeially concerned Student body vice president Lizzi Shappell listens to a presentation about eharitins that would not see SENATE/page 4 from a College Readership Program representative on Wednesday. see RELATIONS/page 4 Panel discusses jazz, hip-hop's reflection of black culture
tant professor of English; Larry whether jazz was a force for By PETER NINNEMAN Dwyer, Notre Dame's director social change. News Writer of jazz studies; Alvin Tillery, "It was Ia l'orce for social associate professor of political change I in a few respects," The portrayal of hip-hop science; and Hichard Pierce, Dwyer said. "For one, it did artists in contemporary society associate history professor and bring white and black musi and the progression of music Afrieana studies department cians together to play music genres that reflect the progres chair. together." sion of black culture were the Jazz and hip-hop were the Nearly one quarter of Hillin topics of discussion Wednesday two music genres that received Holiday's accompanying musi evening in the Hesburgh the most attention, though the cians were white in the 1 !J40s. Center for International discussion involved the entire Black and white jazz musicians Studies. history of black music and cul got tognther for jam snssions, "Fight the Power: The ture. even though laws forbade them Evolution of Music in African "You literally could look at from doing so publicly, Dwyer American Culture" was spon black music as a soundtrack to said. sored by Shades of Ebony and black history," Wilson said. Wilson disagreed with ADRIENNE RUFFNERfThe Observer the Department of Africana After quick introductions and Dwyer's point. Panelists discuss the role of music as a representative of black Studies. It included a panel opening statements, the panel culture throughout history on Wednesday. comprised of Ivy Wilson, assis- dove right into the question of see MUSIC/page 8 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, February 9, 2006
INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WILL YOU ATTEND THE GAY AND LESBIAN FILM SHOWINGS THIS WEEKEND? WHY OR WHY NOr? Cheap seats
I'm known for a Jot of things, but among my college friends two stand out: my penchant for free crap and my tendency to be absolutely random. My roommates - one of whom hap pens to be the mail lady for our Nicole Zook Greer Hanan Patrick Milhaupt Stephanie Best Meghan Horn Michael Greer Zander Stachniak building - have often commented freshman senior junior senior Law student freshman on the multitude Assistant Farley Carroll WelshFam Cavanaugh Morrissey Morrissey of products and News Editor gift cards that ''I'm not, "Probably not, ''I'm going ''I'm going "Probably not, "Yes, they come to our door, , because I'm because I have if she goes." if she goes. because Father sound like great everything from free dinners at , Outback Steakhouse to books to Jots going to the a lot of Jenkins doesn't movies. and lots of free samples. I don't care Edith Stein homework think I should. " what's in the envelope as long as it's mail, because like all college students, project." to do." mail and free stuff make me very happy. The randomness is another story. My former roommate Tara told me on an almost daily basis, "You are the most random person I know." And this was before my decision to bring home a giant salmon - head, scales IN BRIEF and all - from the grocery store just because it looked cool. The student government I disappear for days and can often General Election Debate will be found in random spots around take place at 8 p.m. tonight town adventurously roaming about in the Huddle area of the and watching the residents. This has LaFortune Student Center. led me to the discovery of some of my favorite South Bend spots - Fiddler's Participants in Speed Hearth at lunchtime, the duck pond in Dating will have 10 dates in the park, the College Football Hall of half an hour at 11:55 p.m. Fame - but only one place in the city tonight at Legends. To sign has combined my love of everything up, e-mail [email protected] by that is free and my tendency to jaunt today. off to nowhere for no reason. Movies 6 on University. The Pasquerilla East Fondly known to me as "the dollar Musical Co. will present show," it actually costs two most of Footloose at 7:30 p.m. the time- but who am I to com tonight, Friday and Saturday plain? It's almost as cheap as free, at Washington Hall. Tickets costing only $1 on Wednesdays and are $5 for students and $7 for $.50 on Mondays when three people adults and can be purchased buy tickets together, and I can use the at the LaFortune Box Office. change I should be using to do my laundry with to get in. It costs three to The Edith Stein Project: six times as much to get in to a regu Redefining Feminism, a two lar movie. That's a lot of money for day conference on violence someone who sees as many movies as against women, will take I nuL,t:L,,v,.., I place from 12 to 7 p.m. do. Students check e-mail and finish assignments Tuesday in the OIT computer cluster I Friday and from 9 a.m. to 9 worked at a movie theater for five in the basement of the LaFortune Student Center. years before coming to college, and p.m. Saturday in McKenna my ADD-addled brain became almost Hall. addicted to the serenity that comes with engrossing yourself in someone The Notre Dame Symphony else's story for a few short hours. OFFBEAT will present its winter con Now, my video collection is monstrous cert at 8 p.m. Saturday in the and dropping in to see a movie at the Six-year-old boy suspended going to explain that? How? tirades against people she DeBartolo Performing Arts local theater from time to time has for sexual harassment Because he doesn't even believes have done her Center. It will feature two become almost second nature to me. BROCKTON, Mass. A know what that is." wrong. student soloists - winners of In my own hometown, the cheap Brockton, Mass., first grader Spokesperson for the The only problem is, she the ND Concerto Competition movie theater, Westlake, closed down was suspended from school school, Cynthia McNally hasn't gotten very far. Every on the Beethoven Violin after my senior year - which made for three days for allegedly said, "They would not have time she hits the road, the Concerto and Schumann me terribly sad, although I gained sexually harassing a girl in suspended the child without police stop her. Piano concerto. Tickets are $3 free entry at the theater I worked at. his class. doing an investigation." Her 4-foot-wide, 7 -foot online and at the box office at Westlake - like Movies 6 in South The principal of the long cart is a traffic hazard, 1-2800. Bend - was a Peoria institution, and Downey Elementary School Undercover kitten helps police said, and puts I was sad to see it go. claims the boy put two fin nab accused fake vet Schwarz and her dogs, The Handbell and Since I came to college, one of my gers inside the girl's waist EUGENE, Ore. - Debra Lucky and Junior, at risk of Celebration Choirs are pre favorite things to do when driving band last week during circle Schwarz and her two dogs being hit by a car. senting their annual joint con around South Bend at any time of day time. are taking the long way Police in Eugene and cert of sacred music at 8 p.m. is just pull in to the dollar show and The boy's mother, home. The really long way. Springfield have escorted Sunday in the Basilica of the see whatever's playing. Over the past Berthena Dorinvil, does not The three are stranded in her off local highways at Sacred Heart. Admission is weekend when my roommates all understand what her child is Eugene, with no available least three times in the past free. went home and I was left with noth being punished for. She says transportation. month after drivers com ing to do I saw three movies - three it was an innocent pat on the So Schwarz, 46, has decid plained that they couldn't To submit information to be -for a total cost of $4. Amazing. back; and now, her son is ed to walk home to Wichita get around her. included in this section of The Now, one of them was the worst being treated like a criminal. Falls, Texas, pulling a large Observer, e-mail detailed movie I have ever seen in my life, but "Say sexual harassment in cart she built herself and Information compiled from information about an event to hey- I only paid a buck to see it. front of my son ... how am I covered with handwritten the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu And I would have paid at least twice that to rent it. So at least I took a chance and got it out of the way. Say what you want about Movies 6 TODAY TONIGHT FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY - they play older movies, it's too a: small, the lobby isn't that nice- but LLI I, along with the hundreds of South :::c Bend residents who flood in every ~ day, sometimes kids in tow, to see a LLI cheap show, would have to argue with 3: you. I love the dollar show and I hope ..... it never closes. I know I'll be there c( every week to keep them in business. (,) ....0 HIGH 30 HIGH 28 HIGH 30 HIGH 24 HIGH 22 HIGH 24 Contact Nicole Zook at LOW LOW 24 LOW 18 LOW 14 LOW 10 LOW 14 zook892 8@saintmarys. edu 24 The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and Atlanta 46 I 27 Boston 32 I 23 Chicago 33 I 29 Denver 59 I 29 Houston 65 I 48 Los Angeles 80 I 50 Minneapolis 29 I 23 not necessarily those of The Observer. New York 36 I 28 Philadelphia 36 I 26 Phoenix 80 I 50 Seattle 56 I 36 St. Louis 39 I 29 Tampa 88 I 68 Washington 37 I 27 r------
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Special to The Observer Mahmood, associate professor years later entered the of anthropology at Notre Carmelite convent in Cologne. Special to The Observer wrong, Omar belinves. lin has A group of' Notre Dame stu Dame; Laura Garcia, professor Fleeing persecution, she joined Islamic: scholars and dnnts is hosting a two-day con of philosophy at Boston moved to a Carmelite convent Hashied Omar is a Muslim institutions all over the world l'nrnnce to examine the man College; Miehael Scaperlanda, in Echt, llolland, in 1938 but scholar at Notre Dame who - including the Grand Muf'lis rwr in which contemporary professor of law at the was arrested by the Nazis in makes it his mission in life to of Syria, Egypt and thn nrltum imperils the dignity of' University of Oklahoma 1942 during a nationwide harness religion as a force Turkish Ministry of Holigious wonwn and to describe the College of Law; and Deirdre retaliation following the Dutch for building peace. He shakos Affairs -who have unnquiv vocation of wornnn in the rnod McQuadn, pro-life spokes Catholic bishops' denundation his head in ocally condnrnned thn vio nrn world. woman for the United States of the deportation of Jews and deep dis lence that has accompanied Thn conl'erencn, entitled Conference of Catholic the expulsion of Jewish chil trnss that some of the Muslim protests "The Edith Stein Project: Bishops. dren from the Catholic school Danish car over the cartoons. Hmlefining Feminism," will be Born Oct. 12, 1891 to a system. She died at Auschwitz toons have "The death of four Afghan lwld Friday and Saturday in Jewish family in Breslau, on Aug. 9, 1942. Known in led to vio protesters, the killing of a MrKmma llall. Hapn, domes Germany, Edith Stein studied tho Carmelite order as Sister lent protests Catholic priest in Turkey, the tic violence, abortion, eating philology and philosophy at Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, in the name torching of Danish om bassins disordors, and the plight of the Universities of Breslau and Edith Stein was canonized, or of Islam. in Syria and Lebanon, tho fmnaln migrant workers will Goettingen and earned a doc proclaimed a saint, by Pope "This has issuing of death threats lm among the topics discussed toral degree in philosophy John Paul II in 1998. really set us Omar against journalists should be by a variety of speakers, from tho University of The conference will close back," said condemned as abomination including Alasdair Madntyre, Freiburg, where she was a with a Mass at 5 p.m. Omar, who coordinates the and contrary to the lettnr and senior msearch fnllow in Notre friend and collaborator with Saturday in the Basilica of the Program in Religion, Conflict spirit of Islam," he said. Damn's Center for Ethics and Edmund llusserl, the founder Sacred Heart. Bishop John M. and Peacebuilding at Notre lle callnd upon the world Cullum; Hev. John A. Coughlin, of phenomenology. She con D'Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute community to use the tragic professor of law in the Notre verted to Catholicism when Bend will be the presiding cel for International Peace sequence of events as an Dame Law School; Cynthia she was 30 years old and 12 ebrant. Studies. impetus for candid dialogue Omar is a former imam of a about freedom of spench, cul South African mosque, and tural xenophobia, and tho he teaches a course in root causes of' violence and Islamic ethics. lie under terror. stands why most Muslims "There is a dire need for Activist to discuss Emmett Till view a cartoon depieting the the followers of Judaism, Prophet Muhammad with a Christianity and Islam, as bomb coming out of his head well as all other traditions, to Special to The Observer leeture is free and open to the in the case were acquitted by gear as offensive and repre retrieve our common human public. an all-white jury. hensible. ity and to end the horrific Keith Beauchamp, eivil In a tragedy that eontributed Beauchamp's documentary "It is yet another illustra dehumanization that is taking rights activist and lilrnmaker, to the beginning of the civil provides eyewitness testimony tion of' Islamophobia and hate place on global scale," he will discuss his documentary rights movement, Till, a black and an interview with Till's speech against Muslims that said. "The Untold Story of' Emmett Chicago teenager visiting mother, which revealed other in their view appears to be Omar holds a doetorato Louis Till" at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 Money, Miss., was beaten and potentially guilty parties and pervasive in western media from the University of Cape in the auditorium of the murdered for publicly ultimately prompted the U.S. depictions of Islam," he said. Town, and a master's degree llesburgh Center for addressing a white woman in Department of Justice to But those who vent their in peace studies from Notre International Studies. The 1955. The two men charged reopen the case in 2004. dismay with destruction are Dame.
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dent<> who were evieted under the guest speakers does not imply While some people may see ordinance, perceived inconsisten approval or endorsement of academic freedom and Relations cies in the ordinance's text and Senate the views expressed either by Catholie character as opposing continued from page 1 alternatives to eviction available to continued from page 1 the sponsoring group or the forces, Keough senator Hob landlords. University." Lindley said the two arc p1~ople essentially it's OK to brnak "We're not going to complain," have no fear of opposition," Physics professor Philippe meant to coexist at Notre law on multiple occasions?"' she Baron said. "We're not going in a Gunty said. Collon, Faeulty Senate liaison, I> am e. ~aid. "That's the.. kind or message combative role. but in a participa Censoring productions that also drew from duLac. "Notre Dame should not It seems to send. tory role, whieh is something they present non-Catholic values, He quoted the University's have to sacrifice its academic The city's logic in sending a want to see." he said, is "indirectly implying mission statement: "The intel character or its Catholic val notiel' to the landlord is that he or Baron said ·he has not heard we as students don't have lectual exchange essential to a UPS," Lindley said. "llownver, she did not plan to disrupt the from the six evicted students knowledge of our faith." university requires, and is it shouldn't have to sacrifice neighborhood, Nash said. recently. Thwaites said while many enriched by, the presence and its academic values for its "But the tenant did, and if ten "I know they were intending to tim11s students are raised views of diverse scholars and Catholic character as well." ant servnd aleohol to an 18-year move out, to campus or other Catholic, it's by birth, not students ... Therefore, the old. and the 18-year-old gel<> hurt apartments," he said. choiee. Confrontation with a University insists upon aca In other Senate news: as a rosult, people Student govern- different belief system can demic freedom which makes + Hcpresentatives from the question what the ment is also reach help students realize the true open discussion and inquiry College !leadership Program city is doing." "We just want to ing directly to the nature oftheir faith, he said. possible." addressed senators at the Such question landlords through "When you come to a uni Collon testified to the confu- beginning of' the meeting to ing is sure to talk to landlords Josh Pasquesi, versity like Notre Dame, it's a sion sur- discuss the next occur if the ordi and let them know counselor to the very new experience. I think rounding the step in implement nance is further what students are president, who has the Catholicism, in a way, University's "! think what some ing the program at amended to been working with should fit thai mold," guidelines, a people are Notre Dame this encourage evic thinking." landlords at Turtle Thwaites said. "When you haze he said fall - a timely dis tion after two vio Creek, College come to a university, you're clouds both concerned about is, cussion, since stu lations, she said. Dave Baron Park, Lafayette not forced into the path, you current 'where do we draw dent body vice president Lizzi "If 1weryone student body president Street, Clover have options. Ultimately, hope debate and the line?"' gets two or three Ridge and East fully [questioning students] "many diffi Shappell said the bites of apple Race Condos, will choose Catholicism, not cult discus Board of Trustees before they get Baron said. [have it] chosen for them." sions" to be Ben Gunty recently approved evicted, knowing full well in "We just want to talk to land And despite Jenkins' discovered in Siegfried senator the $15 student advance there will be a problem, lords and let them know what stu attempts to open the dialogue the future. activity fee that tells the neighbors their com dents are thinking," Baron said. to the entire campus commu "I think increase passed by fort and quality of life doesn't mat "We want to let them know they nity - delivering three what Notre Dame lacks at the Senate in October. ter," she said. don't have to evict at the first vio addresses, putting the moment is a transparent poli USA Today account manager In hopes of persuading Nash lation." speech's transcript and feed cy," Collon said. "I would Megan O'Connell presented and members of the Council oth Landlords are encouraged to on the Internet and setting up strongly encourage you to options regarding distribution erwL<>e, members of the Council of evict students by the clause of the an e-mail address for feed work in that direction." locations - or "touchpoints" Representatives and the Student amendment stating that after the back - there are still plenty of Fisher senator Chris - and distribution recepta Senate Committee on Community notice to abate, a second violation unanswered questions and Garibaldi said if the University cles. Relations will attend the Feb. 27 on the premises will result in a widespread misunderstanding, continues to allow "morally "The goal of this program is meeting, along with any other stu fine ranging from $250 to $2,500. senators said. questionable" productions and easy access, convenient and dent senators who choose to do The amount of the fine is deter The boundaries of potential offers them a "place of promi accessible for students," so. mined in part by the landlord's University policies need clarifi nence enjoyed by no other O'Connell said. When the floor opens to the efforts to ensure that another vio cation, Siegfried senator Ben events," he did not see how Approximately 2,000 news public at the meeting's end, six lation does not occur. Another key Gunty said. Notre Dame could "stop [its] papers will be available to stu yet-unnamed students will speak point, Baron said, is that the fine "I think what some people Catholic identify from eroding dents daily next fall. The types to the Council as part of an organ can be passed on from landlord to are concerned about is, any further." and locations of papers have ized presentation. They will speak tenant. 'where do we draw the line?"' He believed the University's not been determined at this on topics including community "We're not advocating breaking Gunty said. decision to present "The point, but Academic Affairs relations initiatives, the six stu- the law," Baron said, "but there Both Brown and Walsh sen Vagina Monologues" in a committee chair Chris Harris are degrees of offenses, from mis ator Erin Hankins said there DeBartolo Hall classroom with will work on these details with demeanors to felonies. There are was confusion regarding the free admission was a good Readership Program repre degrees of law and degrees of different guidelines for depart solution. sentatives during the next few penalty based on the offense." ment-sponsored and dorm-run "I think that helps academic weeks. Baron expressed satisfaction events, citing an apparent freedom more than anything + The Oversight committee that community relations has double standard. else," said Garibaldi, who presented two resolutions to become a central issue in the cur Hankins read the Open thought the free admission the Senate modifying the rent student body presidential Speaker Policy outlined in could encourage more stu Student Union constitution. campaigns, noting that only he duLac - a University state dents to attend the production. Both passed without opposi and student body vice president ment she said seems to protect Several senators said the tion. Lizzi Shappell addressed the issue the presence of controversial most important avenue to pur The first resolution grants when campaigning for office last events on campus. sue is compromise regardless Senate committees the ability year. "Notre Dame students and of the side students take in the to program events - a power "We have seen the frayed rela student organizations are free debate. already used by many commit tions that exist and the potential to examine and to discuss all Welsh Family senator tees but technically unconsti for growth," he said. "To see so questions of interest to them Brenna Doyle emphasized the tutional.- while the second many students come with plans ... and to express opinions pub idea of a "common goal" that clarifies certain aspects of the is a great sign of progress." licly and privately ... [They] could satisfy multiple groups annual transition process. may invite and hear any per and suggested that "Catholic Contact Karen Langley at son of their own choosing," character be infused into [cur Contact Maddie Hanna at klanglel @nd.edu DuLac reads. "Sponsorship of rent] events to set standards." mhannal @nd.edu
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN Rebel riots disrupt Nepal elections KATMANDU- A rebel attack and an opposition boycott marred Nepal's first elec Islamic clerics call for end to riots tions in snvnn years Wednesday, as fnw vot ers turned out at sdwols, shrines and tem ples for munic~ipal balloting seen as a ref'er Police shoot civilians protesting cartoons of Prophet Muhamnzad, four dead mHium on thn llirnalayan country's king. Two people were killed in the riots. I lours before polls opened, rebels launched Associated Press a major assault on the eastern town of KABUL- Afghanistan's l>hankuta. bombing at least 12 govnrnmcmt top Islamic organization on buildings and dPstroying the local bank. Wednesday c~allml fi1r an end police~ ol1kials said. violent protests over draw Tlw rnlwls killed orw policeman and one ings of thn Prophet civilian. and took seven government of'fidals Muhammad, as police shot and thrPe policp oiTicers hostage, said a four protesters to death to police off'irial, who spoke on condition of stop a crowd from marching anonymity bne
sister, Rosa Sarrata Gonzalez, hid all wern packed into thn tractor Associated Press LOCAL NEWS the immigrants in their horne and trailer. As they travelc~d. they began HOUSTON - Three more people moved them to other houses before to succumb to the rising heat inside State to improve juvenile centers were convicted Wednesday in the they were loaded into an airtight the trailer. Snventeen were dead by INI>IANAI'OI.IS -The Indiana Department of nation's deadliest human smuggling tractor-trailer for transport from the time the trailer was discovered, Corrm:tion is to improve special education pro attempt, a journey that ended in the South Texas to Houston in 2003. and two died later. They all died grams at il"l juvenile centers under an agrPe deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who "It's time to send a message to from dehydration, overheating and nwnt with the U.S. Justice Department that had been packed into a stifling trac these three that their days of making suffocation. resolves dvil righl"l investigations at two radii tor-trailer. money on the pain, desperation of Survivors tHstilied that the immi ties. The defendants, all U.S. citizens others has come to an end," federal grants took off their sweat-drnnched The state agency also must try to provide bet from South Texas, were convicted of prosecutor Daniel Rodriguez told the clothes for relief and erowded ter security at the centers a<; part of the settle conspiracy and harboring and trans jury. around holes they punched in the ment, Commissioner J. David Donahue said porting illegal immigrants. All could The trio could have faced life in truck so they could breathe. They Wednesday. get up to 20 years in prison at sen prison if the jury had held the defen also kicked out a signal light to get The Justice Department's Civil Righl<> Division tencing May 1. dants responsible for the immi the attention of passing motorists. alleged last September that the state violated the Prosecutors said Vietor Sanchez grants' deaths, but jurors told the They were found after the driver eivil rights of juveniles held at facilities in Rodriguez, 58, his wife, Emma judge they did not feel that way. abandoned the trailer at a truck stop Logansport and South Bend. Sapata Hodriguez, 59, and her half- More than 70 illegal immigrants in in Victoria. page 6 The Observer + PAID ADVERTISEMENT Thursday, February 9, 2006
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Does the Church Still Use Excommunication? After creating and running the first ever Dil In short, yes. I would guess, though, that the ecclesiastical penalty of lon Hall retreat, it is only fitting that sophomore math major Matt Anderson should be featured excommunication is generally poorly understood. So what does it mean in this week's "Live It". Through collabora to be ''excommunicated"? One who is excommunicated can no longer tion with staff from Campus Ministry and other receive the Sacraments, including the reception of Holy Communion, Campus Ministry Commissioners, Matt nl'.lnnPrll the central act of worship within the Catholic Church. The practice of an overnight retreat for Dillon Hall that was separating certain gross offenders from the rest of the Christian commu filled to capacity in its first year. Matt took all the initiative to find quality speakers and recruit nity goes all the way back to biblical times (see Matt 18:15-20 and Dillon residents for the retreat. While it is I Cor 5: 1-5). certain that Dillon Hall will benefit greatly There are two different ways that excommunication occurs. First, all of Matt's work on the retreat, his service some sins are so heinous as to warrant automatic excommunication the to Dillon Hall does not stop there. Matt also started up a group from Dillon that says morn moment one knowingly commits such a sin. Church Law specifies sev ing prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours, Monday en sins that incur automatic excommunication: desecrating the Blessed through Friday at 7:45AM. As if he did not Sacrament or using it for a sacrilegious purpose, procuring or assisting already do enough for Dillon. Matt also leads in an abortion, using physical force against the Pope, a priest absolving the Dillon Hall Emmaus faith-sharing group. an accomplice in a sin against the Sixth Commandment (on adultery), Luckily for people not living in Dillon Hall, Matt's efforts of service extend past his home. a bishop consecrating someone as a bishop without permission of the Last summer Matt participated in a summer Pope, a priest directly violating the seal of confession, apostasy (renun service project in New Mexico at the Dismas ciation of faith). heresy (denial of revealed religious Truth), or schism House, which is an organization that helps (separating oneself from the Church). (It's important to note that a ex-convicts try to successfully re-enter society. This summer Matt's service will keep him on Catholic who is divorced is NOT among those listed as automatically campus as he pmticipates as a counselor for the excommunicated; a problem only arises if the divorced Catholic tries to NDVision program. He will mentor students rematry without an annulment of the previous marriage.) as they grow in their faith and discern their In addition to automatic excommunication, a bishop can pronounce vocation in life. Matt also commits his Sunday mornings to the RCIA program, where he is a excommunication on certain individuals or groups whose actions or be sponsor for a Notre Dame student who is pre liefs are so contrary to Catholic Christian faith as to warrant it. paring to join the Catholic Church. munication of this sort has occurred, for example, in the Archdiocese Matt accomplishes all of this while also be· of St. Louis as recently as this past December 2005, when a lay board a member of the Glee Club. This year Matt is of directors at St. Stanislaus Kostka parish time and time again refused the Glee Club service commissioner and has organized service projects that range from sing to submit to the authority of either the Archbishop or the Pope, and ing to elderly Holy Cross priests to helping out knowingly hired a suspended priest from a neighboring diocese as their at the Robinson Center. Matt brings his com new pastor. Both the lay board and the priest, in committing the crime mitment to his faith and service to everything of schism, were excommunicated and the parish has been suppressed in which he is involved. Thank you Matt for spreading the Gospel message through so many (more information on this sad yet interesting situation can be found of your life! online at http://stlouisreview.com/abpcolumn.php?abpid=9772). Excommunication, while a severe penalty, is never irreversible. As Let us know who out there Fr. John Dietzen writes, "Excommunication always includes the in · is making a difference! tion to repentance and return, and holds out the promise of forgiveness Send nominations to from God and the Christian community, the Church." Brian Vassel at Send uestions to Brett Perkins: [email protected]! bvassel nd.edu Tl····l E 0HSERVER
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Now why [the peaked de-industrialized cities in an they encourage open dialogue, interest] exists, I don't know," "Social change may have age when the state abandons the very best of filmmaking and AllianceND board member Laina said. occurred on an atomistic them. So thank God for hip to showcase gay and lesbian Stacey Williams said. Senior Monica Real said she scale, but not at a social hop. What would they be film within a tradition of film Fox News Channel will be on might have wanted to go the level," Wilson said. doing without hip-hop?" scholarship and a spirit of campus interviewing organiz film event if tickets had been The panel also discussed Kanye West the inclusion at this university," ers and stu- available. the role of jazz during the Rocafella records artist who Laina said. dents, Williams "There's so much American civil rights move had a relatively middle-class Though the future of the said. "We have to show publicity, I assume ment, and how it differed upbringing - was a specific event will remain uncertain AllianceND our support so it people want to see it from other artist Tillery until Jenkins has listened to members and to bother authorities music genres. singled out. feedback and made a decision, supporters will will be around next and see why they "Gospel, "Gospel, blues, funk Tillery FTT department chair Peter also be wear year and the year made such a big blues, funk - - those were much expressed Holland said he is sure this ing orange after." deal about 'The those were disappoint year's event will be "a tremen "Gay? Fine By Vagina Monologues' much more the more the soundtrack ment with dous success." Me" T-shirts and the Queer Film soundtrack of of the civil rights West's "irre "I think some people thought today in soli Anna Gomberg Festival," she said. the civil rights movement." sponsible" that the event was advocacy of darity with all co-coordinator Other students, movement," message on homosexuality," Holland said. gay students on Alliance NO like senior Sean Tillery said. the lack of "It wasn't. It isn't. Nobody campus Hanifin, said as a Eventually Alvin Tillery importance of could think 'narratives, film those who are business major, he more lyrical associate professor a college edu makers and spectatorship' is a open about it didn't have a vested music passed cation, citing statement about advocacy." and those who are not, interest in it. jazz as the most the success of Jenkins did not deliver a firm Williams said. "It's not at the forefront of popular form of black music West's album "College policy on events in conflict with "It creates a sense of unity, a my mind ... not a topic of con in American popular culture. Dropout." Catholic values but said enough visible presence on campus," versation," he said. Pierce said this occurred "We always want our to since spur widespread mobi Williams said. "Your average Williams said AllianceND because black culture had artists to act a certain way, lization on campus among person might see a bunch of made an effort to "not get changed, so the music fol and we're always disappoint groups like unrecognized orange shirts and think, 'O.K., involved by name" in the days lowed. ed," Pierce said. gay/straight student group I'm gay, and there are people immediately following Jenkins' "If you look at 1916 to The role of consumers in AllianceND and the newly here who are not completely address. But now that a few 1948, blacks are moving," controlling the ideals por formed group United for Free homophobic and hating me at weeks have passed, she said, Pierce said. "That's the hey trayed in rap videos and Speech. any given moment."' AllianceND is stirring up day of jazz in terms of popu music was also addressed. "There is a heightened sense Laina said ticket sales seem activism within its organization lar culture." Wilson diagnosed a problem of urgency in the people who to indicate a peaked interest in and among the greater campus The panel discussed many in consumers who "just want support [Gay and Lesbian Film: the event this year. The population. facets of hip-hop and rap. dope beats [that] carry Filmmakers, Narratives, DeBartolo Center for the ''I'm hoping it's not going to Major subjects included polit [them] through the day." Perspectives]," AllianceND co Performing Arts ticket office be so polarizing. I feel that's a ical roles, commercialization, "Consumers have to show coordinator Anna Gomberg reported the films sold out risk you take when you do objectification of women, record labels that we'll buy said. "We have to show our much faster than last year. On these things," Williams said. depiction of black culture the next 'Chuck D' ," he said. support so it will be around Tuesday afternoon, five of the "Hopefully we can get some and the effects music has on next year and the year after." seven screenings were sold out, signatures to show Jenkins black children. Contact Peter Ninneman at Hoping to draw regional and and only a handful of tickets we're interested in his policies ''I've got a lot of beef with [email protected] national media attention to remained for the others. In and what he has to say." their cause, both groups are response to student demand, hosting a "massive" petition organizers added an additional Contact Mary Kate Malone at signing outside Debartolo Hall screening of "Brokeback [email protected] Study: Birth defects vvere linked to corn Associated Press But no chemical links to the disease were ever HARLINGEN, Texas - proven, and Texas health Contaminated corn may officials began suspecting have caused an increase in fumonisin, a toxin in corn babies born with rare birth mold. Experts had noted a defects in the Rio Grande high concentration in the Valley in the early 1990s, corn harvest just before the according to a new study. outbreak. Some Texas hors Scientists have been es died from brain disease searching more than a caused by the toxin. decade for the cause of a According to the February surge in babies in the region issue of the journal with neural tube defects, Environmental Health abnormalities of the brain Perspectives, researchers and spinal cord that arise in now have a study that looks the first weeks of pregnan at the relationship between cy. tortilla consumption, fumon In one south Texas county, isin and neural tube defects. there were six cases in six Laboratory data have point weeks of babies born with ed to a link, but until now, rudimentary or missing researchers have lacked brains. Overall, a high rate human studies. of neural tube defects was The study found that preg ' found among almost all bor nant women who ate 300 to '. der counties. 400 tortillas a month during Residents and lawyers had the first trimester had more blamed pollution, and than twice the risk of giving General Motors and other birth to babies with the U.S.-owned factories paid defects than did women who $17 million without admit ate fewer than 100 tortillas. ting wrongdoing to settle a Blood samples indicated lawsuit accusing their bor that the higher the level of der factories of poisoning fumonisin, the greater the the air. risk of neural tube defects. IRISH HOC r------·------ Thursday, February 9, 2006 The Observer + INTERNATIONAL NEWS page 9 CANADA NIGERIA Canada opens 250-mile preserve Bird flu reported in Great Bear Rainforest to cover 16-million acres, home bears, wolves Africa for first titne Assodatcd Press donted collaboration bntween Full implementation of' the Associated Press nary snrviees nnnd int.nrnational First. Nations, industry, local project is not expected until hnlp. It callnd on othor African Vt\NCOUVI-:H Canada governmnnts and many other 2009. LAGOS - Al'riea's first out 1:ountrins to act quickly against unwiled a I h-million aero prn staknholdors in how we managn British Columbia's lush ever break of t111~ dnadly bird flu any suspndml outbrnaks. snrvl' Ttwsday, inrluding park thn vast richness of B.C.'s eoast green f'orosts have been the virus was reported Wndnesday "If thn situation in Nignria g~•L-; land eovoring an arPa twieo tho for tho bnnnf'it. of all British seenn of decades of' eonf'ronta in a large commercial farm in out of eont.rol, it will lmve a dev sizn of Yellowstone, tePming Columbians," said Promier tion between 1mvironnwntalists Nigeria that raised ehieknns, astating impaet on the poultry with grizzly hears. wolvns and Gordon Campbnll. who was and loggers. Sueeessf'ul boycott gnnse and ostriches, and 46,000 population in llw rngion," said wild salmon in tlw anenstral aeeompaniod by mitivn dancers campaigns in thn 1 @rEN~r~N)B1~ SMC HCC ID THE OBSERVER page 10 IEWPOINT Thursday, February 9, 2006 THE OBSERVER Beyond boxing P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 Sourh Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Why should you support the Bengal unrest, a rise in fundmentalism and The assistant coaches include Sweet EDITOR IN CHIEF Bouts? Because of people like Father corruption everywhere." In the past C. Robinson of the Buchanan Police Claire Heininger Eugene Homich, a veteran of 50 years six months, 25 people were killed in Department and former boxers Mike MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER in the Holy Cross Missions in two grenade attacks by Islamic ter Biolchini, Jeff Dobosh, Ryan Hans, Chip Farrell and Judge Holand Pat Leonard Paula Garcia Bangladesh. rorists. But the missionaries stay on With 131 million the job. ChamblPe. AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Maureen Reynolds people, represent For 75 years, the Bengal Bouts have The chapla-ins of the Club, who par AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Sarah Vabulas ing a religious blend sent to Bangladesh donations now ticipate in the workouts, are Father AssT. MANAGING EDITOR: Heather Van Hoegarden of 88 percent . averaging in excess of $50,000. In a Bill Seeteh, and Father Brian DalPy, Muslim and 11 per country where the price of a who also coaches. Even the upper SPORTS EDITOR: Mike Gilloon cent Hindu, Starbucks coffee could feed a family echelons of Church hierarchy are SCENE EDITOR: Rama Gottumukkala Bangladesh has only for a week, the success or failure of involved through the timer, Monsignor SAINT MARY'S EDITOR: Megan O'Neil 250,000 Catholics. the Bouts can actually make the dif .John Hagerty from Notre Dame parish PHOTO EDITOR: Claire Kelley The per capita Charles ference between life and death for in Hermitage, Penn. GRAPHICS EDITOR: Graham Ebetsch annual income is Rice some of the "ultra-poor." In 75 years, the Bouts has never ADVERTISING MANAGER: Nick Guerrieri $1,470, less than Under the supervision of Rich had a participant sustain a serious AD DESIGN MANAGER: Jennifer Kenning some of us spent on Right or O'Leary and Dave Brown of Club injury. That impressive statistic is no the Fiesta Bowl. Sports, the program is run by the stu accident. The Emergency Medical CoNTROllER: Jim Kirihara Wrong? Homich works dent officers of the Boxing Club - Co Technicians - Terri Engel and Mike WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Damian Althoff among the poorest Presidents Mark Basola and Nathan Ude - are present at all sparring of the poor, yet he has achieved an 85 Schroeder and Captains Andrew matches, and Doctor James Moriarty, OFFICE MANAGER & GENERAL INFO percent literacy rate in his parish in Breslin, Johnny Griffin, Greg the Univ.ersity chief of medicine, (574) 6.31-7471 keeps close tabs on every aspect of FAX Pirgacha. He also stresses that the Schaefer, Chris Calderone, Andrew (574) 6.31-6927 Garo Tribal people are well-versed McGill and Stu Stypula. the program. Jack Zimmerman, who ADVERTISING their own language and culture. "There's a unique camaraderie," brings decades of experience to his (574) 631-6900 [email protected] With the help of the Bengal Bouts, explained Nate Schroeder. "Boxers role as trainer, provides an important EDITOR IN CHIEF he has built a medical clinic that help each other, including their own safety reinforcement. (574) 631-4542 treats 9,000 patients per year, includ future opponents. And we make a dif The Bengal Bouts will be held in five MANAGING EDITOR (574) 631-4541 [email protected] ing hundreds of snake-bite victims. ference in the lives of many people in sessions, all in the Joyce Athletic and ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR He has placed over 750 abandoned Bangladesh." Each of the more than Convocation Center: Feb. 21, 22 and (574) 631-4324 infants with warm and loving fami 130 boxers sells tickets and program 28, all at 6:30p.m.; March 2 at 7:30 BUSINESS OFFICE lies. ads. p.m.; and the finals in the JACC arena (574) 631-5313 These and other works he combines Everyone knows, however, that the on Sunday, March 5, at 1:30 p.m. News DESK The "season" ticket will admit you (574) 631-5323 [email protected] with a full liturgical and catechetical entire enterprise is kept afloat by the VIEWPOINT DESK schedule, with the critical aid of Holy competent and organized student to all sessions for only $10. (574) 631-5303 [email protected] Cross Sisters. managers - Erika Meyer, Megan Real people, in very real need, SPORTS DESK "My life," writes Homich, "has been O'Farrell and Melanie Rodarte. depend on the annual successes of the (574) 631-4543 [email protected] enriched by working with the poor Without them, the details of finance, Bengal Bouts. If you have never ScENE DesK and marginalized." medical clearances and sparring attended the Bouts, give it a chance. (574) 631-4540 [email protected] SAINT MARY'S DESK The 185 Holy Cross brothers, sisters records would sink the program You will not only enjoy it, but your smc.l @nd.edu and priests there are mostly natives beneath the waves. - hearts will be touched, for the spirit, PHOTO DESK of Bangladesh. The Bengal Bouts pro The Bengal Bouts would not exist inspiration and good will are undeni (574) 631-8767 [email protected] vide the largest single donation for without the leadership of the volun able. SYSTEMS & WEB ADMINISTRATORS their work every year. teer head coaches - Chicago attorney (574) 631-8839 "We rely so much on all of you," Terry Johnson, Columbus developer Professor Emeritus Charles Rice is writes Father Stephen Gomez, "to Tom Suddes (who conducts practice on the Law School faculty. His column help us prepare our men in forma sessions that build character, includ appears every other Thursday. He can OBSERVER ONLINE tion, sponsor the social projects for ing, Tom would admit, his own, in a be contacted at plawecki.l @nd. edu www. ndsmcobserver. com the poor, and support our Tribal uniquely interesting way) and Pat The views expressed in this column POLICIES parishes." Farrell, the University pilot. All are are those of the author and not neces The Observer is the independent, daily newspaper "There is," he notes, "political former Bengal champs. sarily those of The Observer. published in print and online by the students of the University ofNorre Dame duLac and Saint Mary's CoUege. Editorial content, including advertisements, is nor governed by policies of the adminisrrarion of either institution. The Observer reserves the right to refuse LETTER TO THE EDITOR advertisements based on content. The news is reported as accurately and objectively as possible. Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the majority of the Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, Traditional values foster hope Assistant Managing Editors and department editors. Commentaries, letters and columns present the views of the authors and nor necessarily those ofThe Recently, in the debate over ''The Vagina "Instead of producing 'The Vagina "Bible of a new generation of young Observer. Monologues," students have been playing Monologues,' the best way for Providence women." The young women that I know Viewpoint space is available to all readers. The free the academic freedom card. The use of the College to work together to combat vio fmd the play embarrassing and disgusting expression of all opinions through letters is encouraged. term has become so perverted that it now lence against women is to strengthen il The O~rvtr is published at; POSTMASTER violence against women. There are many this type of education? ues for those who wish to perform this 024 South Dining Hall Send address corrtttiom ro: ways to educate people on this vitally I guess that is only true if the primary play. University President Father .John None Dame, IN.46~S6-0n9 'rbc Observer I'criudkal ]Wst.tge paid at Notre- Dame r.o. Box 779 important topic without explicit depictions goal of the educational experience is to Jenkins, please keep giving me hope. Jnd additional m;Uiing offic~. 024 Sourh Dining Hall Norrc Dame. IN 46554-on9 of homosexual seduction and masturbation affect positive change, rather than wallow and liberal use of lewd language in refer ing in lament about a pr{)blem. Brad Duffy ence to the female anatomy. Frankly, I find it offensive and presump sophomore Th~;: Oh~f'l\':f is a mcmlw.r ,lf \h~ ~ociatc:d Pt~. All reproduction right:; Me That is why I propose that Notre Dame tuous that the publisher of "The Vagina Fisher Hall r~rvcd. follow the lead of Providence College. Monologues" says that it has become the Feb. 7 TODAY'S STAFF • News Sports OBSERVER POLL QUOTE OF THE DAY Kelly Meehan Chris Khorey Joe Piarulli Ken Fowler What do you think of the Board Marcella Berrios Tim Kaiser of Trustees meeting in Rome? 1Sub \t aLetter "Dignity consists not in possessing Viewpoint Scene honors, but in the consciousness Caroline Murphy Liz Byrum that we deserve them. " Graphics ' to tbe Editor at ' Graham Ebetsch Vote by today at 5 p.m. at Aristotle www.ndsmcobserver.com Iwww .ndsmcobserver.com I philosopher ------ THE OBSERVER Thursday, February 9, 2006 IEWPOINT page II T-wo lllOlllents of grace Two important nvnnts took place last lloly Cross, and Notre Dame faculty and the history of the Congregation of Holy suing a most just cause that dearly has wnnk. students. Cross in higher education. many more hurdles to overcome, atti In the midst of gnnnrally thoughtful And, of course, participation by Honorary degrees were conferred on tudes to be changed and justice to be discussion following presnnlalions to Jenkins and many members of the dele Bishop Fisichella and L. Francis Rooney, secured before we can rest as a people. thn faculty, students and alumni on the gation in a general audience with Pope III, the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy President Dwight D. Eisenhower topic of acadmnie Benediet XVI. See. appointed University Prosident Emeritus frnmlom and the Father Richard Within the first months of the admin "Notre Dame is a great Catholic uni Father Theodore llosburgh as chairman Catholic identity of Warner istration of a new president and the versity," Pope Benedict said, as he of the United States Civil Bights Notrn Dame by trustees who had elected him, it was clasped Jenkins' hand in his. Commission, and the work of that group Univnrsity Prnsidnnl FaithPoint important to engage in a fruitful dia The phrase was both a statement of led to extraordinary changes in our lifo Father John Jnnkins, logue between high ranking oflicials of recognition of what Notre Dame has as a nation undor the rule of law. the trustees and ofli- the Vatican and members of our Notre achieved as well as a challenge for us to In 1987, Coretta Scott King receivml cnrs of thn Univnrsity spnnt live days in Dame community. continue to strive for even greater dis an honorary degrne from the hands of Homn. The opportunities for prayer were tinction and prominence in this impera llesburgh in a poignant Commencnmnnl In addition to holding their usual win extraordinary as Masses, which were tive, which lies at the heart of our mis Ceremony that marknd the end of a 35- tnr m1~nting. they also took advantagn of celebrated in Homan parishes as well as sion and channels our energy and ynar presidency. tlwir presnnen in the Etnrnal City and in St. Petnr's Basilica at the Altar of the informs our deepest aspirations. Both of these nvents represent signifi the Son of l'ntnr to partidpatn in an Chair and the Altar of the Tomb of St. The death of Coretta Scott King also cant moments for all of us. nxtraordinary pilgrimage for the first Peter, less than ten yards from the tomb took place last week. While she was the They represent, as well, a challenge tinw in our history. of the late Pope John Paul II. widow of the assassinated Martin for each of us to doepnn our commit Thn trustees and ol'licers had nnver Conversations with Vatican ul'lieials Lutlwr King, Jr., she was also a tower ment to pursue roalizable dreams for lwf'ore spnnt livn days together, and wore informative and mutually enrich ing figure in her own right. She was our University and our eountry and turn t.lwir days in Homo wnro characterized ing in a context of respect. At an every bit as courageous as her husband them into tho gnu:n-fillml possibilities by many rnomnnls of' prayer togetlH~r; Academic Convocation and Conference and suffered as much as he did in pur thoy hold out to us. privileged visits to spodal venues in at St. John Lateran Pontifical University, suit of equal rights for all people, Homn; eonversations with cardinals, popularly referred to as "the Pope's regardless of the color of their skin. Father Richard V. Warner is director archbishops, lloly Cross bishops from University," Bishop Hino Fisichella, While her death marks the end of one (~{Campus Ministry. lie can be reached Bangladesh. India, Homn and thn Unitnd Jnnkins and Bishop Daniel Jenky, of the most significant achievements in at [email protected] Stalns, ambassadors to Italy and the offered ref1ections on the role of the our history as a people, may it also be a The views expressed in this column lloly Sn11, nwmhnrs of' the gonnral Catholic University in the context of the continuing clarion call for our nation are those of the author and not neces administration of thn Congregation of Church and culture, academic lifo and and for our University to continue pur- sarily those of Tlw Observer. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Put 'Monologues' to the democratic test Nnndlnss to say, .10 pages of The Observer the past few their own childrnn are exposed to in their own houses In contrast to this crass corporate populism, I propose wn1~ks show how irresolvable issues of sexual ethics and Forcing these women to do otherwise would be a racist true democracy. I propose that the University of Notre frnPdom of expression have become on this campus. form of cultural imperialism extended today by too many Dame hold a campus-wide referendum whereby all We have readH· -;uch a stalemate becausn we are secular missionaries. members of the so-called "Notn~ Dame family" can voto lacking a basie and nfli1etive mode of government. Such a llowever, a large university like Notre Dame is not the on whether the University should sponsor "The Vagina mode of govnrnnwnt. would allow our en lin~ community same thing as a private home. This campus is the neigh Monologues" and the Queer Film Fnstival. Then we can to justly hamlin sut h eonlroversial decisions as whether borhood and the workplace of thousands of people. To be sure that nobody- including Jenkins - unfairly uses or not to sponsor tho <)ueor Film Festival or "The Vagina govern it like a private family with tight control and cen the University's name to hawk his own individual opin Monologues." This mode of government is called democ sorship from University President Father John Jenkins as ion. raey. the paterfamilias would be to treat thousands of work Now someone may object, "What about the tyranny of It is sorely lacking at thn University of Notre Dame. ers, professors and students like the indentured servants the majority?" What if the majority decides to bully and llnre, I will outlirw what dnmocracy is not, hoping to or young children of an abnormally large and excessive censor the minority? My response is that frne speeeh is nxpose some of llw nonsense posing in its name. Then I ly patriarchal private household. not free; it is not a gift of the state, and it only comes will conclude with a simple suggestion for how to move Jenkins seems to realize the absurdity of this when he when we secure and defend it ourselves. forward in this dnhaln and will consider snveral possible points out that he has no desire to censor 'The Vagina If anyone tries to organize poliee repression or violence ohjm:tions. Monologues" or the Queer Film Festival. lie is simply to shut down free speech on this campus, I will stand by Democracy dons not mean that we have to allow any concerned about whether or not to sponsor them. But whatever minority is getting threatened and hope others one to gel up in our private spacn in the name of "free why should he be the only one to make this decision of will join me. What we are talking about here is not een spl'ech" or "snxuallibnration." Sevnrallettnrs to the edi whether or not to sponsor? sorship, it is sponsorship. tor have pointml out that no on11 has a right to force If we believe in democracy, then why should it end at Of course, "The Vagina Monologues" should be able to somnhody to stagn "The Vagina Monologues" in her own the door of our workplace, dorm and dassroom? Why, be performed on campus mgardless of the outeome of a privaln home. just because thousands of stan·, professors, TAs and stu vote. What is at stake is whether or not it should bn This senms like common sense, but eoming from a lib dents work for and live at a legally "private" corporation shown using University money in Notrn Dame's name. oral East Coast university, I have encountered quite a few should we leave demoeracy outside its gates? As far as I Something this serious should be dedded by all peopln authoritarian feminists who do, in faet, want to police the am concerned, democracy is incompatible with capitalist who make up the Notre Dame eommunity. homo and the bedroom, getting the state involved to corporatism, the notion that experts and professional Others may object that I am reducing morality and reeducate traditional women and men who supposedly classes above society should make all informed decisions Catholic character to a simple opinion poll. But I am have "false consdousness," teaching us how to be sexu in our workplaces, schools and neighborhoods. saying nothing hero about the morality or immorality of ally lib!watnd. For democracy to flourish, we should be able to vote on the themes raised by the different narratives in "The Now I need to make it dear that I am not critiquing how to use our resources in our workplace, our school Vagina Monologues" or the films shown in the Queer fmninism hen~ in order to endorse the widespread status and our neighborhood. We, not PH oxperts, should be the Film Festival. I am not about to suggest that the campus quo on ntmpus: the fad that men ean talk about ones who decide how to project our community's name hold a referendum on whether female masturbation is a women's sexuality publidy, but when women talk about and image. moral act. it, moasuros are taken to silence them. Now, one could object that Jenkins is generously trying Again, the only decision I propose democratic control This is a patriarehal double standard that must be to get our "input" and "participation" as to what decision over is whether these event<> should bn sponsored by the ehallnngml, but within the challenge, there's no room for he should make in choosing to sponsor or not sponsor University. Since we're all supposedly lrainnd in Catholic a liboral vanguard that wants to enlightnn everyone and our campus' controversial events. He says he is kindly character, I don't sec why anyone should doubt that we'd show them where their vaginas are. My friends on vari trying to "dialogue" with us. I read this as nothing but a be able to come together and make an inli1rmed decision. ous campuses havo organized "The Vagina Monologues" patronizing insult to the maturity and self-governing I imagine that many who disapprove of some of the - I've seen it many times, and it isn't a bad play. capacities of the stall", faculty and students of this behavior portrayed in "The Vagina Monologues" would But it annoyed me my senior year of college to see it University. still vote to sponsor it simply because they want to advnrtised around campus by hundreds of posters of Democracy means that all adult members of a commu engage critically with the important moral, political and nak1~d white womnn. The implicit suggestion from many nity govern that community together with equal say. It aesthetic issues it raises, especially ito; important stanen secular feminists is that Muslim women who wear the does not mean that we get invited to send input-filled e against domestic violence. veil, African womnn who choose to be circumcised, or mails to a man who was not elected by us, is not Conversely, I am sure a lot of men and women who, Catholic women who praetice abstinence arn somehow accountable to us by instant recall and whose position quiet as it's kept, masturbate and engage in premarital backwards, irrational, brainwashnd and deluded. tends to rotate only with the retirement of the last reign sex all the time will vote against sponsoring it. Nowa Omoigui writos the following in tho Jenda ing big papa. Since Jenkins has asked for input, I chalhmgn him to Journal, a forum for African women activists who are fed It is an insult to ask us to participate when, in reality, step aside and allow this eontroversial decision to be up with such patronizing "liboration": 'The cultural war we as a community should be governing this campus made by the entire Notre Dame eommunity through ref against female cireumdsion is led by the same western ourselves. It is we who should be asking Jenkins to par erendum vote. If, fi1r some reason, he is intent upon human right-; crowd that ... puts pictures (of same sex ticipate, and to participate as an equal. As for Jenkins' making the decision through his own autocratic power, eouplns) in books li1r little children to read and learn call to dialogue, it reminds me of the way Fidel Castro then I challenge him to publicly explain why he does not from. I have the right to invoke my ancient customs and governs - articulated in Che Guevara's "Man and believe in democracy. look askanee at such a policy - and pro teet my kids Socialism in Cuba": the benevolent ruler goes among the from it- at the risk of being called conservative." people, listens to the people, dialogues with the people, Matthew Hamilton lndend. The College Libertarians ("Protecting learns from the poople and channels the "input" of the graduate studem Frnedoms," Fnb. 3 ) are right in saying that private indi people back to his unaccountable cadre of bureaucrats Theoloror viduals like Omoigui should be free to "censor" what who make the final decision behind closed doors. Feb. 7 ---~-~------, THE OBSERVER page 12 CENE Thursday, February 9, 2006 CD REVIEWS Franz Ferdinand can't get much 'Better' want to do something better," Kapranos By ANALISE LIPARI said in a recent FranzFerdinand.org arti Scene Critic cle. Franz Ferdinand consists of Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand - or the new Scottish guitarist and keyboardist Nick McCarthy, gentry, as they call themselves - has bassist Robert Hardy and percussionist released its latest album, "You Could Have Paul Thomson. With all its members hail It So Much Better." Continuing in the ing from Glasgow, the band began its rise musical vein of their self-titled debut in Scotland's largest city. With buzz slowly album, the record proves to actually be growing from positive word of mouth, that much better. as it stays true to their Franz Ferdinand guided themselves up characteristic style. the ladder of the local underground The band, drawing its name from the music scene until record labels pounced archduke whose assassination spawned upon them in 2003. World War I, also displays some of this Since its inception and growth in the left-of-center, funky irreverence in its music business, the band has continued songs. This time around, "Better" proves writing its own music and letting that no exception. personal writing and artistic touch be Originally meant to be the second in a central parts of their musical and person series of tideless albums defined only by al identity as a group. color - their first release was centered "You're letting such a fragile side of Photo courtesy ollbi.lv on brown, orange and cream, and yourself out when you're creating or writ Franz Ferdinand, whose first practice and performance space was an abandoned "Better" uses green, red and black - the ing music. To do that with people who are warehouse they called the Chateau, formed in 2001 in Glasgow, Scotland. title of "You Could Have It So Much almost strangers would seem very Better" came from what lead singer and strange to me," Kapranos said. "I think heavy guitar riffs anchoring their respec Ferdinand characteristic, having a fun guitarist Alex Kapranos feels is the band's that we're very lucky that we're quite tive tunes in different ways. Yet other sense of the goofy and irreverent about current philosophy. close. To us, it's almost like the band is tracks are less like rock and more like six them. That sensibility is clearly heard "You can always have it better. If you the grandest possible adventure you can ties mod ballads, not unlike their previous with great results in "Do You Want To." try. That's the attitude of the group at the go on with your friends. It's really really album's "Jacqueline." On "You Could "This Boy" is also a great track, with a moment. Never to feel satisfied, always to exciting." Have It So Much Better," tracks like "Fade distinct beat and a chorus whose melody That unique Together" and "Walk Away" use the varies distinctly from its verses in typical songwriting band's distinct vocals and a more relaxed Franz fashion. The beat is emphasized You Could Have It effort shows pace to both depart from and emphasize with strong guitar chords and, again, through in the more fully their signature sound. Kapranos' addictive and intriguing vocals. singular sound The tones of Kapranos' lead vocals are The disc on the whole is arguably better So Much Better for which the firm, jaunty and different. The overall than their 2004 self-titled debut, and it band has become sound leaves the listener wondering how both heightens and deepens their style Franz Ferdinand so famous. Oddly old-school punk, sixties mod rock and and skill for both the seasoned or fresh retro and yet modern alternative music can possibly listener. Ultimately, for Franz Ferdinand thoroughly mod work together so seamlessly. the aim is to keep its public mesmerized ern, Kapranos The album really shines on its first sin and moving. and his peers gle, "Do You Want To," which blends their "I want to make music that will make have created undeniably sexual energy with stripped the blood surge in your veins, music that another album of down lyrics and gorgeously simple guitar will get people up and dance," Kapranos Recommended tracks: 'Fade Together,''Walk Away,' solid guitar rock. riffs. In its most basic essence, the song said in a November article from the Each track is just makes you want to get up and dance. Aberdeen Express. 'Do You Want To,''What You Meant' and 'This Boy' deceptively sim The song's video makes for fun viewing ple, with single as it adds another typical Franz Contact Analise Lipari at [email protected] Band's new album boasts classic rock influence gressions are catchy and clever, although By JOE LATTAL not necessarily novel. The songs avoid Scene Critic being repetitive, but none of them sound rushed either. The album might not Few bands emerge these days one impress music enthusiasts with its imagi could picture on tour with REO nation, but it definitely will not bore any Speedwagon, The Who or Boston. But one. what The Darkness was to '80s hair While The Hellacopters don't explore a metal in 2003, The Hellacopters are to broad range of style on the album, the classic rock in 2006. songs don't fall into the trap of all sound Music fans would be hard-pressed to ing alike. Tempos remain roughly the find a rock 'n' roll band that embraces its same on most tracks. but structures and classic rock influences as openly as these hooks change quite a bit from song to five men from Sweden. They serve as a song. stark contrast to the rise of collegcfmdie Some of the tunes could pass as exag rock artists. which often preach peaceful gerated versions of Blues Brothers songs, resolutions and imagination to their audi but most of them come off as more gen ences. uine and sincere than the majority of Their newest album, "Rock & Roll Is commercial radio rock music. Photo courtesy ol markthalle-hamburg.de Dead," is a low risk, but spotlessly pro The second track on the release, With the release of their latest album, "Rock & Roll Is Dead," in 2005, The duced, rock album. Electric guitar pro- "Everything Is on TV," represents The Hellacopters showed their classic rock roots with brutal sincerity. Hellacopters' overall style - ly pop punk records, here they sound look like sand." music that inventive, surrounded by testosterone "Murder on My Mind," which reveals Rock & Roll Is echoes classic driven vocals and the glamorous sound of the haunting nature of the music industry, rock, but with a three electric guitars. is about how the business side of the modern cultural Even the narrative style of songwriting, industry has killed rock 'n' roll music. Dead conscience. The which has disappeared on modern com The honest and frank lyrics about how song is a simple mercial rock, is similar to the type of The Hellacopters, who are at Liquor and The Hellacopters yet gorgeous mix songs the Rolling Stones wrote 40 years Poker Records, feel about corporate execs of maturity, ago. Just as The Darkness took advantage is dear - "First you killed the heartbeat, Universal Int'l authority and of their cartoonish appeal a few years then you killed the soul I You killed rock pomp, but the ago, The Hellacopters don't mind poking and roll, I got murder on my mind." song is about the fun at themselves. Are The Hellacopters out to resurrect damage televi In ''I'm in the Band," Nicke Andersson rock 'n' roll? Maybe. With an evident sion has inflicted explains the frustrations of trying to get admiration for rock 'n' roll roots and bru Recommended tracks: 'I'm in the Band,"Everything Is on on culture. around bouncers at clubs. tal sincerity, they're certainly one of the Although pick "I may not look like Jagger, I may not best candidates. TV,"Leave it Alone' and 'Murder on My Mind' scrapes are all have money in the bank I I've got a pair of over radio-friend- cheap sunglasses I and my castle may Contact Joe Latta! at [email protected] THE OBSERVER Thursday, February 9, 2006 CENE Page 13 SHOW PREVIEW War against inhilarity Keenan Hall residents prepare to launch latest incarnation of annual comedy show CHELSEA GULLINGfThe Making fun of themselves and others, the men of Keenan Hall will wear Dance performances will add to the entertainment In Keenan Hall's "World War costumes ranging from women's clothes to cow suits. Revue: The Axis of Humor," which debuts tonight and runs all weekend. at developing theme ideas for the show Jones, a skit focused on popular Notre tion committee, and evnryono in By LIZ BYRUM and put together designs for the pro Dame Stadium voice, Officer Tim Keenan is eneouragod to try out. A~sisranr Scene Editor gram and T-shirts. In order to keep the McCarthy and a running gag about. Through the years, t.hn Kennan Keenan Hevue a free event for stu Notre Dame's very own stunt man. But Hevue has becomn quite a largo pro It's that time again. Ono of the most dents, tho staff also had the job of con the audience should be ready for a lot duction. highly anticipated dorm events returns tacting Keenan alumni with requests more than that. "Including evnryonn, the Ko(man this wrwknnd to provide thnw nights of for donations to help support the per "We don't want to give too much Hevue staff, peopln in thn skits, r:ommly, nntnrtainment and - as this formance. away. We have a lot more ultra-secret dancers, band membors and stagn year's director, Jamos Gower, puts it This year, the Keenan Hevue staff has stuff that we are ready to present at crew, we havn somnwhnrn around SO mirth. chosen to dub the show "World War the show," Flowers said. to 90 peoplo working on the show," II' the duns wernn't nnough, here's Hnvue: The Axis of Humor." Each year the show is put together in Flowers said. tlw bottom linn -the Keenan Hevuo "Most people think wars are always an original way, so even seniors com Nightly rohearsals hav(~ benn held has arrived, and it horrible, but ing back a fourth time this week to make sure is going to be bet there are some are in for some surpris- each one of thn pnr ter than PV(~r. The Keenan Revue comedic parts," es. However, there are formers is prnpared for The Kennan 2006 Flowers said. always the familiar "Our approach is his big debut tonight at Hnvun's Web site "We're trying to favorites as well. The Keenan waging a war ()'Laughlin Auditorium begins with the "World War Revue: find the comedy Keenan Revue has been on Saint Mary's cam subtle quip in a lot of stuff. known to take audience on humorlessness. We pus. "Making fun of' The Axis of Humor" Our approach is members on a trip are getting people to If students don't you since 1 97(1," Keenan waging a down memory lane with attack inhilarity. " alrnady have tieknts for making this the ~ates: February 9, 10 & 11 war on humor familiar songs and this nvent, they had :Hllh year for the Ttme: 7:30p.m. lessness. We are themes from childhood Thomas Flowers better start hunting for pop culture. frinnds with extras. At famous campus getting people to producer varinty show. Tho attack in hilarity." The crunch-time the ticknt release nvm1l kieks ofT tonight and runs until Some of the skits draw from the preparations for the Friday afternoon, poo Saturday, ending with a Hovue danen overall theme and portray popular his Revue have been in full plo began to line up for the few lucky ]adios who have a torical figures, such as Abraham swing since Keenan residents returned hours before the 4 p.m. releaso timn, Krwnan connection. Lincoln. It will be interesting to see from Christmas break. and each of' the three nights was sold Tlw process for this year's show how the men of Keenan take an often Dorm residents, including head writ out within a short timn af'tor. began way back in Soptember, when serious subject and stamp it with their ers Vince Lyzinski and David "World War Hnvun: The Axis of producer Thomas Flowers, a junior own brand of humor. Other highlights Fotopolous, were encouraged to gener Humor" debuts tonight at 7:30p.m. n~sidnnl of' Kennan, began putting the of the show Flowers would disclose ate ideas for skits during the break. staff togethnr. From there, they worked inelude the adventures of Indiana Skits are auditioned in front of a selec- Contact Liz Byrum at [email protected] Popular culture of yesterday and today will be seen In the performances. Here, In typical Keenan Revue fashion, one of the actors Is bound to be wearing a white two Keenanltes play off the recent film "Memoirs of a Geisha." collar. Skits in the show often revolve around recent campus events. page 14 The Observer + CLASSIFIEDS Thursday, February 9, 2006 NBA Gordon leads Chicago over Denver 110-107 Phoenix extends division lead to two games with win over Memphis; Milwaukee tops Orlando in double overtime Associated Press With the score 97-96, Gordon the league's best defensive club. made two 3-pointers and Luol DENVER - Ben Gordon Deng added another to give the Suns 108, Grizzlies 102 scored 30 points and the Bulls a 106-100 lead with 3:10 This time, offense won out. Chicago Bulls held off a late remaining. Shawn Marion scored 21 surge from the Denver Nuggets But again the Nuggets rallied, points and grabbed 16 to snap a four-game losing with Earl Watson making a bas rebounds, Leandro Barbosa had streak with a 110-107 victory ket and Anthony hitting two a season-high 24 points, and Wednesday night. free throws and a jumper to the Phoenix Suns hung on to Darius Songaila came off the make it 108-107 with a 1:03 beat Memphis Wednesday bench to add 21 points for the remaining. night, handing the Grizzlies Bulls, who handed the Nuggets Watson airballed a three with their fourth straight loss. their sixth loss in seven games 30 seconds remaining, and The victory increased the - the last four defeats to sub Marcus Camby and Andres Suns' Pacific Division lead to .500 teams. Nocioni got caught up on the two games over the Los Angeles Carmelo Anthony led the rebound to force a jump ball. Clippers, who were beaten by Nuggets with 31 points, but was After two false tries, the the Detroit Pistons on stuffed late in the game by Nuggets got the ball and called Wednesday night. Tyson Chandler when Denver timeout. "We had a great first half and trailed by a point. Anthony also After the break, Anthony a super second quarter, and missed a desperation 3-pointer drove down the right side, but then we just held on," Phoenix to tie the game at the buzzer. was stuffed by Chandler. coach Mike D'Antoni said. The Nuggets played poorly for Denver fouled and Andres The Suns beat the Grizzlies three quarters and trailed by as Nocioni made two free throws for the first time in three meet many as 20 before pulling to for the final margin. ings this season and scored 100 95-94 during a 23-9 run to start Chicago had lost its first four or more points for the 12th the fourth quarter. Anthony on a seven-game road trip straight game. scored seven points during the through the West. Boris Diaw added 18 points stretch and had 21 points in the The NBA's highest-scoring for the Suns, James Jones had second half. team was matched up against 16 and All-Star Steve Nash con tributed 14 points and 10 Chicago forward Tyson Chandler and Denver guard Earl Watson fight assists. for the ball during the Bulls' 110-107 win Wednesday. Bobby Jackson led the Grizzlies with 17 points. Eddie Jones scored 16, Pau Gasol had Dan Gadzuric added 17 points layup, but T.J. Ford, who fin 15, Antonio Burks scored 12, and Bobby Simmons 15, includ ished with 11 points and eight including 11 in the fourth quar ing a 3-pointer that tied the assists, answered with a driving ter, and Shane Battier had 10 game at 79 as regulation layup to keep the Bucks ahead rebounds and nine points. expired. by three. Memphis has lost five of six "If it doesn't go, we don't go "It was getting longer and games. to overtime," Bucks coach Terry longer, going back and forth, Stotts said of Simmons' shot, back and forth," Gadzuric said. Bucks 94, Magic 89 (20T) the only 3-pointer he made in "Shots weren't falling, but even Michael Redd made up for a three attempts. tually we played good solid poor shooting night with one The Bucks capitalized on defense and shut them down." big basket. Orlando's 3-for-17 shooting in Pat Garrity missed a 3-pointer Redd scored 27 points, includ the two extra sessions for its for Orlando and on the Bucks' ing the go-ahead 3-pointer in sixth straight home win over next possession, Stevenson the second overtime, to lead the the Magic. fouled out and sent Simmons to Milwaukee Bucks over the The Bucks, 14-1 at home the line for two free throws. He Orlando Magic on Wednesday against Orlando since the start made them both for the final night. of the 1997-98 season, also margin. "My shooting performance earned their season-high fourth "We played tough in the first was not so good, but my confi straight home victory. overtime, but in the second dence is still there," Redd said Redo Turkoglu led the Magic overtime, we just ran out of after going 10-for-30 from the with 27 points. DeShawn gas," Garrity said. floor. "I have high standards for Stevenson added 14 before foul In the first overtime, Redd myself." ing out in the second overtime. made two free throws and He was 0-for-3 in the first Steve Francis, who came in Simmons hit a 22-foot shot as overtime and 1-for-2 in the sec averaging 20.8 points per game the Bucks took an 83-79 lead ond. in his career against the Bucks, with 3:29 left. "This is one of those games scored only eight. The Magic missed their first you just have to grind it out, After a season-high five-game four shots before Stevenson's keep plugging away and even winning streak, the Magic have layup pulled them to 83-81 with tually things will go your way," lost six of seven, including four 2:22 to play. he said. straight on the road. Redd missed consecutive Magic coach Brian Hill said Redd's 3-pointer put shots to give Orlando a chance, his team worked as hard as it Milwaukee ahead 88-86 with and Turkoglu eventually tipped could to stop Redd. 3:25 left in the second overtime. in a miss by Stevenson to tie it "Michael Redd is an outstand Turkoglu made one free throw, at 83 with 13 seconds to play. AP ing offensive player," Hill said. but Gadzuric dunked as Redd missed a baseline jumper Phoenix guard Leandro Barbosa drives to the basket in the "He made some big shots down Milwaukee went up 90-87 with as time expired in the first over Suns' 108-102 win over Memphis Wednesday. the stretch." 1:37 left. 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Nevertheless, Petro admits to Everybody who gets at least being as touched as everyone KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Buek nirw votes is in. else by O'Neil's warmth and O'Neil's lean, sinowy frame is O'Neil and Minnie Minoso, charisma. stoopml just a bit. his grudging who playod in the Nogro "The vote should not be based c~onenssion to 94 years. Leagues from 1945-48 and also on what's best for our city, our A c·aptivating storyteller, he spent 14 seasons in the majors, pocketbook or our heart delights audi11n1~PS with tales of are the only living candidates. strings," he said. "But if Buck Satelwl l'aign and Cool Papa But in those parts, O'Neil is does go into the hall, I will be Btdl and his days as a playnr clearly everyone's snntimcmtaf thrilled for him." and nwrwgPr in tlw Negro favorite. Judge him by his entire body l.eagtrns. "Between now and Feb. 27, of work, say supportnrs. lin was 7 5 when he first shot we're all on pins and needles," A two-time Negro Leagues his agn in golf. lin's still shoot said Bob Kondrick, a musoum batting champion, O'Neil was a ing his age, too, though now, he nxecutivo. star f'irst baseman and later says, "it's not a good seore any Thoro aro baseball purists, player/manager who led the morn." oven in Kansas City, who say Kansas City Monarchs to four AP Sine11 1990, he's bmm a tire O'Neil does not deserve induc Negro League titles between Buck O'Neil talks about playing In the Negro Leagues In front of less f'undraisnr and goodwill tion. Among that small but vocal 1948 and 1953. For many years a statue of himself at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum In ambassador for the Negro group is sportstalk radio show he has been a scout for the Kansas City, Mo. on Feb. 11, 2005. LtHtgtws Baseball Museum in host Soren Petro, who says Hoyals. Kansas City's O'Neil's lif'etime While Jackie Hobinson was "Plus, there is his work as an a walking repository of baseball historie jazz dis average of .288 the first black player in the ambassador of the game in ton~. lie can describn the sound triet, travnling "You'd be hard-pressed is insuflicien t. majors, O'Neil was the first itself, his work keeping the lega of a Babn Huth home run. tlw country to to find anyhody's who's "Buck has a black coach, with the Cubs, and cy of the Negro Leagues alive. If "Like a small stick of dyna knep thn lngaey done more for the game broad list of was also one of the first African you put all that together, there's mite going oil'." of blaek husnball unique and American scouts. 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Chase and University of Notre Dame Office of Student Affairs ------ OUND THE NATION Monday, February 9, 2006 CoMPILED FROtv1 THE OBSERVER'S WJRF SERVICES page 16 TENNIS Men's College Basketball RPI Top25 team record RPI 1 Duke 21-1 .7198 2 Villanova 17-2 .6717 3 Tennessee 16-3 .6709 4 Memphis 21-2 .6655 5 Connecticut 20-1 .6588 6 Michigan State 17-5 .6446 7 Iowa 18-5 .6437 8 Texas 20-3 .6432 9 Pittsburgh 17-3 .6345 10 Gonzaga 19-3 .6331 11 UCLA 19-4 .6313 12 Ohio State 16-3 .6296 13 Illinois 20-3 .6293 14 Florida 20-2 .6278 15 UNI 20-4 .6264 16 Creighton 16-5 .6199 17 Michigan 16-4 .6192 18 Arizona 13-9 .6190 19 Oklahoma 14-5 .6178 20 Georgetown 16-4 .6177 21 LSU 15·6 .6161 22 North Carolina State 18-4 .6147 23 Wichita State 19·5 .6120 24 Indiana 13-6 .6115 25 Wisconsin 15-7 .6104 Women's College Basketball RPI Top 25 team record RPI 1 Tennessee 11·0 .7546 2 North Carolina 16-0 .7110 3 Duke 16·0 .7107 4 Connecticut 15·2 .7004 5 LSU 14·0 .6986 AP 6 North Carolina State 11-5 .6834 Martina Navratilova of the United States plays a shot in a doubles match against Liezel Huber of South Africa and 7 Ohio State 13·2 .6698 Lisa Mcshea of Australia during the Sydney International Tennis tournament in Sydney on Jan. 10, 2005. Even as 8 Virginia Tech 14·1 .6691 she approaches her 50th birthday, Navratilova plans to play a full schedule of doubles tournaments in 2006. 9 Texas 8-6 .6656 10 DePaul 16·1 .6623 11 George washington 11·4 .6584. Navratilova to play Grand Slam doubles 12 Oklahoma 13-,4 .6578 13 Arizona State 14·3 .6557 14 Baylor 12·2 .6537 Associated Press know when that will hap tory at Wimbledon in 2004. in November and had 15 New Mexico 13·4 .6520 pen." Nowadays, she won't arthroscopic surgery the 16 Rutgers 12·2 .6486 Even as she approaches In a sense, she's finally make any predictions next month, forcing her to 17 Purdue 13·2 .6454 her 50th birthday and being honest with herself about how much longer miss the Australian Open 18 Kentucky 13·3 .6402 recovers from knee sur and her fans, after having she'll play or whether and other events. Back at 19 Washington 12;4 .6396 gery, Martina Navratilova repeatedly made "This she'll again give singles a practice, Navratilova is 20 BYU 13·1 .6369 plans to play a full sched time I really mean it" dec try against players half her aiming to return to the 21 Minnesota 'Ar.:: .. 11;4 .6355 ule of doubles tournaments larations about when she age - or younger. WTA Tour at the Feb. 20- 22 Stardom 114 .. .6319 in 2006, including the would hang up her racket. "We'll see how the body's 25 hard-court tournament 23 Old Dominion &;7 .6303 Grand Slams, and might But farewell tour followed going .... I might get on the at Dubai, United Arab 24 Florida 13"3 .6288 take another stab at sin farewell tour. grass again," she said Emirates, then wants to 25 Michigan State 13·5 .6265 gles. Navratilova originally when asked about playing play the next week at "I just feel like I'm not retired in 1994, with a singles. "Right now, that's Doha, Qatar. quite done yet," record 16 7 singles titles so far away, I'm not wor Her partner at those Navratilova said and having spent 331 ried about it or thinking tournaments will be 29- Tennis Top 15 Wednesday in a telephone weeks ranked No. 1. She about it. If it happens, it year-old Liezel Huber, who Men's Women's interview with The returned to the tour as a happens. If I'm ready, then teamed with Cara Black to Associated Press from her doubles player in 2000, I'll play. If I'm not, then I win Wimbledon last year. No. Team No. Team home in Sarasota, Fla. and eventually couldn't won't." "Hopefully, I can keep up 1 Florida 1 Stanford "When I feel like I'm done, resist dabbling in singles, She injured her left knee my end of the bargain," 2 Georgia 2 Florida then I'm done. And I don't including a first-round vic- during an exhibition event Navratilova said. 3 Illinois at u-c 3 Texas-Austin 4 Pepperdine 4 Southern California 5 Mississippi 5 Duke 6 Virgina 6 California IN BRIEF 7 Stanford 7 Georgia Tech 8 UCLA 8 Northwestern whether they are consistent with the bring in his own executive to run the 9 Baylor 9 Harvard MLB concerned with D.C. 10 Duke council's lease for Nationals agreements between Major League baseball operation. 10 UNC·Chapel Hill Baseball and the city." 11 LSU 11 Baylor WASHINGTON - Major League Italy . rep)~ces injured 12 South Carolina 12 Texas Christian Baseball responded skeptically to a Krivsky leaves Twins to Olympic sfd Jumpers 13 Wake Forest 13 Miami(FL) revised lease for the Washington become Reds' GM TUHIN, Italy- Italy will replace its 14 Washington 14 Vanderbilt Nationals that was approved early CINCINNATI - Minnesota's Wayne two injured ski jumpers with athletes 15 Ohio Slate 15 UCLA Wednesday by the District of Krivsky overwhelmed the Cincinnati from its Nordic combined team - a Columbia Council, which rejected an Reds' new owner during an inter move that raises doubt about earlier proposal just hours before. view Wednesday, then got the job as whether the host nation can make a During a series of sessions that their next general manager. strong showing in the event. began Tuesday and lasted more than Krivsky's hiring ended a two-week The Italians were not considered to 14 hours, council members rejected search that involved eight candidates be medal contenders in ski jumping. around the dial the lease 8-5, then approved it 9-4 and ultimately came down to two - but they were hoping to perform well after capping the city's spending at him and Reds special adviser Jim in front of the home crowd at just under $611 million. Beattie. Krivsky's second interview Pragelato. "Major League Baseball has not yet went so well that owner Bob Instead, the team will take the COLLEGE BASKETBALL been provided with the filings made Castellini didn't need any more time unusual move of using Nordic com Ohio State at Michigan 7 p.m. ESPN by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment to think it over. bined athletes to replace the injured Georgia Tech at FSU 7 p.m. ESPNU Commission with the City Council "He was totally prepared," Marco Beltrame and Stefano St. John's at Georgetown 9 p.m. ESPN2 last Friday, nor the text of the legis Castellini said. "He blew us away." Chiapolino. West Virginia at Pittsburgh 9 p.m. ESPN lation passed by the Council last Krivsky was a leading candidate "With a lower number of athletes, night," baseball spokesman Rich for the Reds' job two years ago, but we will take part in the same num Levin said in a statement. "We are former owner Carl Lindner chose ber of events," Italian delegation GOLF very concerned about what we heard Dan O'Brien, who had worked for head Raffaele Pagnozzi said AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am First during the debate, and we need to the Houston Astros and Texas Wednesday. Round Coverage 3 p.m. USA read the materials and the legislative Rangers. O'Brien was fired last Beltrame and Chiapolino were hurt language so we can determine month by Castellini, who wanted to Monday in separate falls. Thursday, February 9, 2006 The Observer + SPORTS page 17 MLB Student Body President District of ColuiTibia Debate approves revised lease are very concerned about League skeptical of new what we heard during the financial offer for debate, and we neod to read the materials and thn lngisla Nationals' ballpark tive languagn so we can doter mine whethor they are consis Today Associated Press tent with tho agreements Major League Baseball be tween Major Loagu o February 9 responded skeptically to a Baseball and the city." revised lease for the The Distriet of Columbia and Washington Nationals that baseball reached an agree was approved early ment in 2004 that lnd to the Wednesday by the District of Montrnal Expos moving to 8:00PM Columbia Council, which Washington and becoming the rejected an earlier proposal Nationals. It eallnd for a lnasn just hours before. to be in place by Dee. :~1, During a series of sessions 2005, and whnn that deadline In the Huddle that began Tuesday and lasted wasn't met, baseball filed for more than 14 hours, council mediation. members rejected the lease 8- After the initial rnjeetion 5, then approved it 9-4 after Tuesday, baseball's chief oper capping the city's spending at ating olTieer, Bob DuPuy, said Candidates Topics Covered just under $611 million. the sport would proeend to "Major League Baseball has arbitration in an effort to not yet been provided with the enforce its 2004 agreement. Ryan Black & Christine Martinez Academic Freedom filings made by the D.C. Washington Mayor Anthony Sports & Entertainment A. Williams said he expneted Commission with the City baseball will soon sign tlw Jason Laws & Bob Costa Community Relations Council last Friday, nor the lease. text of the legislation passed "It wasn't a pretty landing, by the Council last night," but we brought the thing in," Ryan McCune & Tim Szewczyk Main Goal for Improving baseball spokesman Hich Williams said at his weekly Student Life Levin said in a statement. "We news briefing. Lizzi Shappell and Bill Andrichik Questions from the Erica Wells & George Chamberlain Audience February 9 So You Want to AP Fund Your Research Washington, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams speaks with reporters Tuesday after the D.C. Council rejected the lease for Project: UROP and the Washington Nationals' new ballpark. 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Yes! broadcast Sunday night co-hosted "Pardon the AI Michaels appears head games on ESPN with Mike Interruption" on ESPN since ed to NBC after ESPN hired Patrick and Paul Maguire. September 2001 with former quarterback Joe "1 feel like I'm a creature Michael Wilbon, another Post Theism ann. of Monday night. I'm home writer. Washington and I'm staying home," ''I've got about 27 gigs Post colum Michaels said then. "The right now," Kornheiser said. nist Tony three words 'Monday Night "''ve got radio, I've got tele Kornheiser Football' resonate like no vision, I've got The and Mike other." Washington Post." Tirico as its Skipper was evasive when He thinks listeners do care Monday asked about specifics on about who broadcasts games, night broad Michaels, saying only a "sat especially "if the telecast has cast crew Michaels isfactory resolution" had a certain amount of sizzle." Michaels been reached. " H o o n e had been with ABC since Pat Gibbons, a Arledge and 1976 and had been the play marketing rep "Roone Arledge and Howard Cosell, by-play voice of "Monday resentative for Howard Cosell, among others, Night Football" since 1986, Michaels, said among others, sort of sort of when he replaced Frank he could not changed the AP Gifford. A four-time Emmy reach the changed the viewing viewing habits ESPN sportscaster Mike Tirico, center, laughs with boxer Tommy Award winner, he is best broadcaster. habits ofAmerica. " of America," Hearns, left, and Oakland Raiders comerback Charles Woodson Jan. 30. known for exclaiming "Do NBC Sports he. said. you believe in miracles? chairman Dick He also must Associated Press Theismann, who had broadcast Yes!" when the United States Ebersol did not Tony Kornheiser adjust his Sunday night games on ESPN upset the favored Soviet return a tele sportscaster schedule. Former quarterback Joe with Mike Patrick and Paul Union in the 1980 Winter phone message "I live like a Theismann, Washington Post Maguire. Olympic hockey tournament. left with a barn animal. I columnist Tony Kornheiser and Mike Breen will replace NBC takes over Sunday spokesman. go to sleep at 9:30 and wake Mike Tirico will be the broadcast Michaels as the lead NBA play night games next season Mike Breen will replace up at about 5," he said. crew for "Monday Night by-play announcer on ABC/ESPN. from ESPN. John Madden, Michaels as the lead NBA Tirico has been a Football" next season as the lie will be joined by former NBA Michaels' broadcast partner play-by-play announcer on "SportsCenter" host for ESPN long-running show shifts to ESPN coach Hubie Brown. hired in for the last four seasons, ABC/ESPN. He will be joined and handled play-by-play of from ABC. December 2004 as the analyst. agreed in June to a six-year by former NBA coach Hubie the last Orange Bowl. He has The moves leave AI Michaels Theismann was an NFL quar contract with NBC. Brown, hired in December worked for ESPN and ABC free to switch to NBC. which terback for 12 seasons and had "AI was not comfortable 2004 as the analyst. since 1991. takes over Sunday night games worked on ESPN's Sunday night and let us ESPN plans "It's the best play-by-play next season from ESPN. John games since 1988. In addition to know he was to use its vari chair in sports," Tirico said. Madden, Michaels' broadcast working for the Post, Kornheiser not comfort "It's the best play by ous television "To be the next person to sit partner for the last four seasons, has co-hosted "Pardon the able with our play chair in sports. To and radio net in it is humbling." agreed in June to a six-year con Interruption" on ESPN since vision of works and Michele Tafoya returns for tract with NBC. September 2001 with Michael where we are be the next person to Web sites for her third season as a At a news conference in July, Wilbon, another Post writer. going," ESPN sit in is humbling." daylong "Monday Night Football" Michaels said he would remain Tirico has been a executive vice buildups to the sideline reporter, and Suzy with "Monday Night Football" "SportsCenter" host for ESPN president Monday night Kolber was added as a sec and handled play-by-play of the Mike Tirico when it switched to ESPN. He John Skipper games, which ond sideline reporter. was to be paired with last Orange Bowl. said after sportscaster will start at Wednesday's 8:40 p.m., announce- about 25 min ment. "Back in November he utes earlier than previously. said it was the greatest job MNF has not had a three ever invented. So sometime man booth since Michaels between the last couple of was teamed with Dan Fouts weeks and November appar and Dennis Miller in 2000- ently he had a change of 01. heart." 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[email protected] or [email protected] Thursday, February 9, 2006 The Observer + SPORTS page 19 NBA OLYMPICS 3-point competitors named Atnerican skaters look Mavs teammates Nowitzki and Terry both named to All-Star contest to change luck in Turin A..snciatcd Press Adds Inoue, who represented U.S. pairs have not Japan in both singles and pairs Dirk Nowitzki and Jason won an Olympic medal in two other Olympics: "Tho Tnrry wnrn snlnetnd Wndnnsday Chinnsn (Shnn Xun and Zhao to participate in the NB;\'s 3- since 1988 in Calgary llongbo, tho 2002 and '(n world point Shootout, pitting thn champions) have bnnn tognthnr Dallas tnammatns against each Associated Press since he was 12 and slw was 7. otlwr and four other com pnti That's a long tirnn tognthnr. You tors during the All-Star week Hena Inoue's smile lit up thn have to go through a lot to nnd in llouston. arena. John Baldwin's fist cut make yoursdvns orw." DPfPnding champion Ounntin through the air like a sword. One is thn appropria tn num llirhardson of thn New York The couple had plenty to celn ber for Hussian or Sovi1~t eou Knkks, 200 I winrwr Hay ;\linn brate after plns; thny have won nvnry of Snattln, Chauncny Billups of they landed Olympics sin en I 1H>4. I >Plroit and Baja Bnll of l'lwPnix the first Hnenntly, China has dnwlopnd an• tlw otlwr participants. Thn throw triple some of thn most athl1~tic and rontnst is Fnb. 1 S. a night axel in figure technically brilliant pairs twnr bPforn tlw All-Star game. skating. Evnn soon. l!ichardson won tlw 1~vnnt more amaz But in Amnri1:a. pairs has fall last ynar whiln playing for ing was that en f'lat. without much sign of l'hoPnix. hut lw has strugglml an American immediate nwitalizat.ion. Pairs this snasor1 for tlw Knieks. I~~~ pair made arn strong at tlw junior lnvPI, was shooting just :~ 1.3 pnrcPnt history. Inoue with American tnams taking up from lwyond thn arc nntering Or, at least, six of tlw night spots at this WPdrwsday. history of a positive kind. year's Junior Crand Prix final. lin will try to bncomn thn first Pairs, which opens the There is no guarantne, though, nqwa t win rw r sin en l'nj a Olympic skating competition that their success will carry Stojakovic in 2002-0:{. Saturday, is the weak link for over at the senior lnvnl. Or IWim ;\s Tnrry walked ofl' thn court American skaters. The last that tho eouplns will stay af'tPr tlw Mavnricks practiced Olympic medal was a bronze by togo thor long nnough to try. WPdrH~sday in Dallas, hn saw Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard Ludington bolinvns thn Nowitzki in thn corner taking in Calgary in 1988; rarely have emphasis on singles in this shots from long rangn. U.S. duos threatened to reaeh country has hurt pairs. Marva! "llt~y hro', what are you the podium since. blanws the lnadPrship of U.S. doing?," Tnrry askPd Nowitzki. ;\ modal this year isn't ovnn Figure Skating for not paying "What is this'!" part of the discussion. ;\ top 10 morn attnntion to pairs. ''I'm gnlting rnady," joked finish for lnoue-Baldwin would David Haith, the federation's Nowitzki, who was rnally going be a suceess. Same thing for new nxneutivo dirnetor, insists that will ehangn quickly. through a routine shooting drill. AP Marcy llinzmann and Aaron Nowitzki is shooting a carnnr Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki scores against Utah Jan. 29. Parehem. "Just to do morn camps, lwst 4:{ pnrcnnt (69-of'-162) Nowitzkl was selected Wednesday to compete In the 3-point Why can't the United States maylw havn a group that's look from 3-point range. Tnrry has contest during the NBA All-Star weekend. contend in pairs? Amerieans ing strictly at tlw pairs pro madn 41 J>Prcnnt (95-of-230) of Tanitl1 Belbin and Ben Agosto gram, which wn don't rnally do his long-mngn shots. are medals favorites in ice fully right now," he suggnsts as "Wn'll lw looking at each hopt~fully one of us will bring The winner will get $35,000, dance, whore the U.S. drought a solution. "Wo'rn making this a othPr, and hoppfully wn'll mont thn trophy to Dallas." Nowitzki with $22,500 going to the run dates baek to 1976. But pairs is priority." in thn finals," TPrry said. said. "If somebody bnats me, it ner-up and the third-place fin an icy wasteland. Thny'd bntter. Pairs is tlw only "It's about having fun, and bnttnr bn .Int." isher earning $15,000. "It's bnen on a downgrade for, evnnt in Turin wlwrn tho Unitt~d I'd say, the Statns donsn't last 10 havn tho full years," says "It's been on a r.omplnnwnt of l'orrnnr U.S. downgrade for. J"d say. thnw nntrants. pairs champi Although Inoue on Hoeky the last 1 o years. It :-; and Baldwin Marval. "It's unfortunate. It's a little arn two-tinw unfortunate. painful to watch. ·· U.S. champi It's a little ons, tlwy lwvt• painful to nnvor l'inislwd watch. Rocky Marva! highl'r than "What we former U.S. pairs champion I Ot.h at worlds. nend is to Evnn though Saturday, February 11 from 12 - 5 p.m. recruit and many Hussian scout talented skaters we fen( pairs, inducting world champi would be competitive with tlw ons and Olympic favorites For each stuffed animal friend intnrnational skatPrs. There arn Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim a lot of good skaters out there. Marinin, train in tlw Unitnd you buy, Build-A-Bear Workshop® It's our matching process that Statns, tlwir surpassing skills will donate a bear to Circle K for has not been successf'ul. There haven't rublwd off. Yet. are a lot of egos involvnd in that One solution could bn hiring children in our community. process. Too many (coaches) morn Hussian coadws to work interfering with the matching with ;\merkan tnams. Tamara A stuffed animal that you make is process." Moskvina, gnrwrally eonsidnmd Pairing up partners nevPr is a thn world's foremost pairs the perfect gift for your Valentine! problem in Hussia and China, tl~aelwr, guid<~d Kyoko Ina and Personalize it by recording your own the dominant countries. Nor is John Zirnrnnrrnan to thron Build-A-Sound'l'' message eoaching interferenee, because national championships and a most of the top coaches teaeh bronzn nwdal at the 2002 world to add inside. And choose from the same style. championships _ albeit against hundreds of outfits and accessories, "In other countries, especially a watered-down field. For sov Hussia, they designate certain eral ynars shn taught. in Nnw including a ~E~ Notre Dame® tee, people to do pairs," says Hon Jnrsny, but is haek in Hussia to make it even more unique! Ludington, one of America's now and has Julia Obnrtas and fiGHTING IRISH' "''• \ premier pairs coaches for Sergni Slavnov in t.Iw Turin J ; Gamns. ' ' decades and a bronze medalist ." in the 1%0 Games with his sis Moskvina is optimistic that m' ... ter, Nancy. "I've known skaters Amnriean pairs skating will from Hussia who've told me turn around. When'! Slw isn't they were originally singlns predieting. skatnrs and they were told they "It snnms now in t.lw Unill~d were going to be pairs. States there are many nnw "There are some good pairs and tlw quantity is out (American) girls out there. But standing. But t.lw quality is not these coaches won't allow the yet," Mo~kvina says. "Pairs girls to go out. because thny've need lots of' time f'or them to put all that work into thnm. It's adjust to nai:IJ other and to different in Hussia because develop thn artistry and styln. they're told what to do. These young pairs do not have "If we mismatch our pairs in it. In a few years, yns, thny will this country. they break up." achieve that. page 20 The Observer+ SPORTS Thursday, February 9, 2006 NHL NCAA FOOTBALL League hires former Idaho hires former Miami coach Erickson signs five prosecutor in probe year deal with team that started his career Associated Press MOSCOW, Idaho - Dennis Erickson returned to Idaho on Wednesday to become head coach at the school that gave him his start. The 58-year-old Erickson, who won two national champi onships at Miami, got his first head coaching job at Idaho in 1982. He left after the '85 sea son for a string of college jobs and eventually ended up in the NFL. His last stop was San Francisco, where after two dis appointing seasons with the 49ers he was fired in January AP 2005. Dennis Erickson speaks at a news conference Wednesday "I just thought it was an after being introduced as the new Idaho head coach. AP opportunity for me to come Former federal prosecutor Robert Cleary walks to a courthouse back, give back and get back good fit" for him. State program, directing the in Sacramento, Calif. Nov. 24, 1997. The NHL hired Cleary to to coaching college football ... Erickson has been unem Beavers to a 31-17 record, lead its investigation of an illegal gambling ring. my first love," Erickson said at ployed since the 49ers fired including a school-best mark a news conference. him. He still receives $2.5 mil of 11-1 and a 41-9 victory over nal justice. At Idaho, he succeeds Nick lion per year from the 49ers. Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl Robert Cleary once Marino called the state's Holt, who returned to He was fired with three years in the 2000 season. led the investigation charges against his new client Southern California as defen left on his five-year, $12.5 mil "The challenge here is to "false and irresponsible." sive coordinator after changing lion contract. win, to compete for the confer of the 'Unabomber' "Mr. Tocchet is one of the most his mind about becoming an Erickson turned Idaho into ence championship and to go well-respected men ever to play assistant with the St. Louis one of the top Division I-AA to bowl games," Erickson said. Associated Press in the NHL, and he's respected Rams. teams in the nation during his "Yeah, I love it here. I came for his integrity, his determina Erickson signed a five-year first stint with the Vandals. He here because I"m a football The NHL hired the former fed tion and his strength," the contract worth about $200,000 was 144-57-1 as a head coach coach and I want to help the eral prosecutor who headed the Newark-based lawyer said. "We a year, but with bonuses, it at Idaho, Wyoming, University of Idaho become Unabomber case to investigate deeply regret the attorney gener could be worth a total of about Washington State, Miami and successful." Hick Tocchet, the Phoenix al's precipitous charges and are $1.5 million over the duration Oregon State. His Miami teams Some of the Idaho players Coyotes assistant coach accused appalled at the ensuing media the contract, athletic director won national championships in who watched the news confer of financing a nationwide gam frenzy." Rob Spear said. 1989 and 1991. ence from the balcony of a new bling ring that took bets from Gretzky's wife, actress Janet Idaho is entering its second He had less success in the weight room are getting their about a half-dozen current play Jones, was also implicated, two season in the Western Athletic NFL, going 31-33 in four years third head coach in five years. ers. law enforcement officials told Conference. The Vandals were at the helm of the Seattle Erickson said he met with Authorities have not said they The Associated Press, speaking 5-18 in two years under Holt, Seahawks and 9-23 with the the players Wednesday and have any evidence of betting on on condition of anonymity including 2-9 last season. 49ers. talked about the work they will hockey in "Operation Slap Shot." because no bettors have been Despite the struggles, Between the two NFL jobs he have to do to be competitive in Nothing has been ruled out, New publicly identified. Erickson called Moscow "a revived a foundering Oregon the WAC. Jersey State Police Lt. Gerald She hasn't made any public Lewis said Wednesday. statements, and Gretzky said Tocchet was to meet with NHL Tuesday that she would answer commissioner Gary Bettman on questions at some point. Wednesday, Phoenix coach "The integrity of the game is Wayne Gretzky said a day earli obviously very important. And er. As of early evening, they had betting on hockey is obviously not gotten together. something we don't want," "We are fully cooperating with Ottawa forward Daniel the league and certainly will be Alfredsson ·said. "Until you know meeting with them," said all the facts, you don't know how Tocchet's newly hired New it's going to affect the game or Jersey attorney, Kevin Marino. put a black mark on it." "We haven't met with them yet. Lewis said authorities also 4.0 Student Living I'm not going to discuss the exact were exploring links between the time or date or place." gambling and Philadelphia-area Deputy commissioner Bill Daly mobsters. He said the investiga declined to comment about tion so far has only turned up At Notre Dame Wednesday's proceedings. He that there might be some links, said the NHL hoped to release a but not exactly what they were. statement later in the day. He also declined to reveal Former U.S. attorney Hobert which players will be inter (888) 278-5962 Cleary will conduct the NHL's viewed. internal investigation. He was "Obviously when you're watch the lead prosecutor from 1996- ing the news and it's on CNN and 98 in the case against the FOX, it's pretty major," New Look. Better Lifestyle. Still Closest To Campus. Unabomber Theodore Alfredsson said. "I think to Kaczynski, who was sentenced to everybody it was a shocker. It four lifetimes in prison on was the talk for everybody on the charges related to three deaths bus yesterday and also today. We • Walk to Campus and the maiming of two scien want to find out as much as we NOW LEASING FOR tists. can." • Covered Parking Cleary was the U.S. Attorney in Hockey players are prohibited 20061 New Jersey from 1999-02 and in from making NHL wagers, legal the Southern District of Illinois in or otherwise. There are no ruies •laundry 2002. that forbid them from betting on Fadlities On Site Mention This Ad Lewis said police investigators other sports. And The Application will interview other hockey play The substance abuse and ers to get a sense of the scope of behavioral health program joint Fee Is FREEt the gambling ring and to deter ly run by the league and the mine whether others should be players' association addresses charged. gambling during team-by-team Tocchet was publicly implicat training-camp meetings every ed by New Jersey authorities on year. Tuesday. He was not behind the Current NHL scoring leader bench for Tuesday night's home Jaromir Jagr of the New York game against Chicago. Hangers said he ran up a 1710 E. Turtle Creek Drive Tocchet is expected ·to be $500,000 debt in 1998 betting on Apply Online At South Bend, Indiana 46637 arraigned within 10 days, said sports events on the Internet John Hagerty, a spokesman for during his days with the www.campuscribs.net Turtlecreek.. [email protected] the New Jersey division. of crimi- Washington Capitals. Thursday, February 9, 2006 The Observer + SPORTS page 21 ~MJfif; 23 Photos by KIRSTEN HEOLMERfThe Observer At left, Irish forward Rick Cornett dunks as Rutgers' Marquis Webb, left, and Notre Dame guard Kyle McAiarney look on. Center, Irish guard Chris Quinn dribbles against a Scarlet Knight defender during Notre Dame's 90-63 win Wednesday. At right, Irish guard Colin Falls defends Webb on the perimeter. scorn would be 90-63 and that {4-6) sit only two wins ahead of next meeting in a home game record. the Irish would win by more the Irish. Saint John's (3-6) is one against 0-9 South Florida (USF) Wednesday night's romp was Win points (27) than the sum of their win away. Hutgers (3-7) is one next Wednesday? USF wants a impressive, if a 2-8 team ean hn continued from page 24 loss margins in their eight con ahead with the tiebreaker going victory just as badly, if not worse, described as such. But the eon ference defeats (26). to Notre Dame. Louisville (3-7) is than anyone. And not to mini versation ends thon\ because as NotrP Damn's s1mson followihg a It didn't know that playing both just one up, but the Cardinals mize the Hutgers win, but Seton mueh as Notre Dame needs tlw eomplntP thumping of Hutgnrs Francis and Rick Cornett for sig own the tiebreaker, and DePaul Hall, Marquette and Connectkut momentum, it also needs a snmns in line with Brny's attitude nilieant minutes would msult in {2-8) and Notre Dame have iden - who all remain on the Irish healthy dose of' malism. as tlw gamn nndml: "Who 13-for-20 combined shooting, 35 tical records, though the Blue schedule -will have more than The Irish am still in trouble, knows?" points and 14 rebounds. Demons won the only meeting one scoring option for Notre and this is only one step t.o get "Who knew?" was morn like it But as Brey said to open the thus far this season. Dame to stop. themselves out. Seeing Quinn on on Wmlnnsday. post-game remarks: "Well, we'll So, as the Irish players and Rutgers has been struggling, the bench at the end of a game is <;rantnd, Hutgers played with take that." coaches have reiterated through and it showed. But so has Notre promising, but it probably won't out a eouple signilkant contribu Th11 Irish will take the win the long losing streaks, there still Dame, and that is why the win happen again this season. tors who wnn~ sidnlinnd by because they desperately needed is a chance. There's no doubt means so much - and why it But then again, who knows? injury. And the Scarlet Knights it. There arn several teams Notre about it. Other teams have could be easy for Irish players to arn now only 3-7 in the confer Dame legitimately can catch at games to play against the same feel immediately relieved. But The views expressed in this ence, just one game ahead of the this point for a spot in the Big Georgetown, Villanova and West Brey said he has that attitude column are those of the author Irish. East top-12 - and a bid to the Virginia squads that scarred shift covered. and not necessarily those of the But Notrn Dame knew it need postseason conference tourna Notre Dame's postseason face. 'Til show 'em 2-8," Brey said, Observer. ed a win and that it could b11at ment in March. But who knows which Irish emphasizing his team must Contact Pat Leonard at Hutgers. It didn't know the final Syracuse (4-5) and Providence team will show up even for its remember its lowly conference pleonard@nd. edu just exactly what I've been wait Hutgers (13-10, 3-7 in the Big stretch alone, Francis scored ing into Wednesday's game) - ing for," Irish forward Russell East) never stood a chance seven points. scored 27 points on 9-of-25 Knights Carter said. "I know they can do Wednesday. The Irish came out Four Irish players - guard shooting. continued from page 24 that day in and day out. Just to of the gate strong - shooting Chris Quinn (16 points), Carter Notre Dame now heads into a see them do it, it gets me hyped. 59.3 percent in the first half (17 points), Francis and Cornett week-long break before next It's like I'm scoring the points - (58.9 percent in the game). - all scored in double figures. Wednesday's game against and grabbed seven rebounds. it gets me smiling." Notre Dame opened with a "We just wanted to come out South Florida. Brey said the Cornett addod 14 points and Notre Dame had struggled 10-4 run in the first 3:28 that tonight and start it up," Francis Irish would use the time to refo seven rebounds oil' the bench. this soason putting together a forced Rutgers coach Gary said. "They were feeding us the _cus and make a push for what "(Cornett[ and [Francis[, that's consistent 40 minutes, but Waters to call a timeout. In that ball from the perimeter, they're he expects to be a tough finish. always confident in us, but "It probably helps us to shift they're even more confident some gears for a little bit," Brey LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SUMMER SESSIONS when we're producing." said. "Slow it down, and then Notre Dame continued to speed it up maybe Sunday. We apply pressure on offense in the need to use [the break[ as an first half, capped off by a 10-2 advantage, and I think it will run out of the TV timeout with be." Your Summer Classroom: 3:36 left before halftime. Four different players - Francis, Notes: Get Ahead or Try Something New! Carter, guard Kyle McAlarney + Notre Dame used some of and guard Colin Falls - all its bench players in the final scored in that stretch. minutes against Hutgers. Brey Quinn credited the forwards said it is rare when a team is for Notre Dame's ability to get able to use some of its more going early and keep the inten inexperienced players in league sity throughout the game. play. "Torin [Francis) and Hick "It was nke to get all the guys [Cornett) are very skilled down in the game," Brey said. "You there," Quinn said. "A lot of the don't expect that nver in a times, teams are keying on the league game, and the way our perimeter.... If we can get Ithe thing has been going, we dnfi forwards) playing like they did nitely didn't expeet that. You're tonight, that would be good for thinking you are going to have us." to defend something in the Experience lakeside campuses Early Session The Irish did not let up in the end." . near Chicago internships and May 22- June 16 second half. Taking a 38-26 Irish forwards Zach Ilillesland lead into halftime, Notre Damn and Hyan Ayers both hit shots summer fun. Summer Session A outscored Hutgers 52-37 after for the Irish - llillesland's a May 22 - June 30 the break - mostly because of layup with 1:14 rnmaining and Earn a year's worth of science or the team's desire to continue Ayers' a 3-pointer that got foreign language credit. Summer Session B playing aggressively on oflimse. Notre Dame to 90 points with July 3 -August 11 A telling moment came mid two seeonds rmnaining. Study abroad in eight exciting Summer Session C way through the second half + Brey said the Irish nend to destinations! June 5- July 28 when Carter was wide open in improve their free throw the corner. The Irish guard shooting before the team plays Choose from more than 100 courses 1.800.262.2373 looked around as Rutgers South Florida. The Irish shot taught in four convenient sessions. defenders failed to come out 14-of-27 from the line. in thn and defend him. lie set his feet, game and 4-of-11 in the first and after much deliberation - half. drillnd tho 3. "I know we ean shoot fnw LOYOLA "There was a lady in the eor b1~ttnr IJNIVF.IfSITY CIIIC:A(iO throws than we have," ner who was like, 'Shoot it,' so I Bn~y said. "We have to work listened to her," Cartnr said. "I on that a little bit bneause give her the assist on that one." that's a good weapon l'or us. II' Apply online today! The Irish did a good job on were getting to the bonus by the del'ensive end limiting the using thos1~ big guys ... we'vn volatile scoring of Hutgers got to convnrt." www.luc.edu/summer ,...... Preparing People to Lead Extraordinary Lives ~ guard Quincy DcJUby. I>ouby - who leads the Big East in scor Contact Bobby Griffin at ing (23.9 points per game com- [email protected] ------ page 22 The Observer+ SPORTS Thursday, February 9, 2006 SMC SWIMMING Forward continued from page 24 Belles seek to end Orange Jan. 31. That game, along with her performance against Providence - when she scored 18 points season in top form and only missed one shot in 10 tries - earned her a spot on the Big East weekly Honor Roll, her ish our time together," she said. first such award of the season. By DEIRDRE KRASULA and The team will look to its sen "It was a huge compliment BECKI DORNER ior captains, Katie Dingeman because I thought this season Sports Writers and Kelly Nelis, for leadership has been kind of up and down in the championships. for me," LaVere said. "To have a The Belles' regular season Kachmarik said Dingman and good week of basketball and be came to a disappointing end Nelis have been excellent awarded that was a great Jan. 28, when they dropped examples for the underclass honor." two home meets to Albion and men all season. Her January scoring struggles Calvin by scores of 119-60 and "They are outstanding role ended at a time when the Irish 143-59, respectively. models for not only the rest of were laboring to stay in the top- However, Saint Mary's is in our team, but for anyone who 12 of the Big East- the cut-off search of redemption - as well knows them," the coach said. for making the league tourna as a bid to the NCAA champi Nelis has been a force to be ment. Notre Dame entered the onship meet - as it prepares reckoned with throughout the Syracuse game with a record of for the MIAA Championships season. In the Belles' final meet, 3-5 in conference and tied for today through Saturday in the senior recorded the team's 10th in the Big East. Grand Rapids, Mich. best time in the 500 freestyle, LaVere led the Irish to victo PHIL HUDELSONffhe Observer The Belles have struggled coming away with a 5:34.74 and ries in their next two contests to Irish forward Courtney LaVere drives to the lane during Notre this season due to the lack of a earning second place overall. get back to .500, and she shot 5- Dame's 68-64 overtime loss to South Florida Jan. 28. diving team. Despite this handi Although the meet, which of-9 from the floor in Tuesday's cap, Saint Mary's has continued begins at 10 a.m., is hosted by overtime loss to Villanova. and do a lot of stuff without all bench, and I think I did that," to work hard in search of both Calvin College, the events will LaVere's offensive emergence the pressure on me." she said. "I knew since I was team and individual improve take place some 15 miles from has provided the team with a As a co-captain with Duffy, starting I was still supposed to, ments. Coach Lynn Kachmarik the Knights' Grand Rapids cam more complete attack that it's LaVere understands her respon like I said, provide that spark said her team has been prepar pus. Teams will compete at been looking for all season. sibilities and feels the two com and be an offensive threat and ing for this event the entire Jenison High School in "We've been trying to look into plement each other well on the defensive threat when I go in." season. Georgetown Township, Mich. the post all season, and I haven't court. Despite another strong per "Our goals at MIAA are to been doing my job most of the "I think I'm supposed to pro formance from LaVere, the Irish have as many personal-best Contact Deirdre Krasula at season," LaVere said. "Now that vide a steadiness out there, once again have their backs times or season-best times as [email protected] and I am [playing better] I think they bring a lot of poise," she said. against the wall after Tuesday's possible, to enjoy our last few Becki Domer at are looking a little more [inside "Sometimes, if we get down or if loss. But the co-captain remains days together and to really cher- rdomer 1 @nd.du to me] because we really need a the other team makes a run, I confident the team can still be a low post presence if our outside think I'm supposed to be the threat down the stretch. team is going to do well." calm presence out there and "The past couple years we've That outside game has relied keep everyone focused. Megan really finished strong, so I'd like change the order of finish, it's all season on Megan Duffy, the does a good job of leading the to see that happen this year, you usually a freshman or sophomore team's other co-captain and guards and I think I'm supposed know, win the games we're sup Dive who wins the event," Welsh said. most recognized player. A pre to be that presence in the post." posed to win and maybe win the continued from page 24 Coyle has relished his new season All-American, Duffy has Though LaVere has been a games people don't think we found company. drawn the most attention from team leader all season and con will," she said. "I think we need and made a statement at the Big "I love it. It's great not having the media - and from other tributed quality minutes to every to finish strong so we have a East Championships that year, all the pressure on your shoul teams' defenses. game, she rarely started until good run going into the Big East finishing fourth in the three ders ... and in practice we com "Well you know Megan's a last week. After starting the past Tournament and the NCAA meter board. pete a lot, making us a lot bet great player, and she deserves three games, her total starts this Tournament." "It put a lot of weight and pres ter," Coyle said. "Having the all the press," LaVere said. "In a season have doubled. sure on Scott, and he did really competition is the best thing for way, it has taken [pressure] "Early on in the season I was Contact Eric Retter at real well," assistant coach Matt pushing it to the next level." away from me so I can come in supposed to be that spark off the [email protected] Tallman said. "But even if he With less of the scoring burden wins, and the other team puts up on his back, Coyle has been able three divers, points-wise it's a to focus on helping the under tie. So if he doesn't win, we're classmen. already behind." "I think he's been very helpful The men's and women's divers to the divers ... helping them practice together, so Coyle was with technique, almost like a Don 'I get caught the only male among several coach," Welsh said. "Scott's role female divers who trained under is far more important than his with your pants down diving coach Caiming Xie. points alone, although those are "It was really a great experi important too." ence," Coyle said. "I couldn't With only one upperclassman In 2007! have asked for a better experi on the squad, Coyle's assistance ence and better one-on-one to the young divers' accomplish attention. It was tough some ments indicate an even brighter times because everything was future for the group. 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IN 46556 Published Monday through Friday, The Observer is a vital source of information on D Enclosed is $100 for one aeademie year people and events in the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Community. D Enclosed is $55 for one semester Name------Join the more than 13,000 readers who have Address ______found The Observer an indispensible 1ink to the City ______State ____ Zip ______two campuses. Please complete the accompa nying form and mail it today to receive The Observer in your home. THE OBSERVER Thursday, February 9, 2006 PORTS page 24 MEN'S BASKETBALL Scarlet lettered Notre Dame ends losing Irish must build, not streak with lopsided win dwell on Rutgers rout By BOBBY GRIFFIN With 3:20 remaining in Associate Sports Editor Wednesday's rout of Rutgers, Notre Dame point guard Chris It's about time. Quinn did something uncharac Notre Dame got a much-needed teristic. l-Ie sat down. Big East victory in a 90-63 dis Just a few mantling of Rutgers Wednesday. moments before, The 27 -point victory was a one the senior had point larger margin than the trotted off the team's eight Big East losses com court with team- bined. mate Torin It has been that kind of season francis to a for the Irish, who moved to 11-10 standing ovation. (2-8 in the Big East) with the win. As Quinn But Notre Dame coach Mike Brey reached the was just happy to come away with bench, Irish Pat Leonard a victory. At left, Irish forward Tarin coach Mike Brey Sports Writer "[When] you're in the business congratulated as long as I am, you see a little bit Francis dunks for two of his 21 his co-captain of everything," Brey said. "This is and added a half-serious warning. pretty weird though -what we've points in Notre Dame's 90-63 "I said, 'Great job; stay ready been through. I will say that. This win. Above, Irish guard Kyle because the way things are going, I is pretty weird. But we'll keep rid don't know what's gonna happen ing on this [winl and keep build McAlarney chases down a here,"' Brey said after the game. ing." The coach and player chuckled Irish forwards Torin Francis and loose ball. bncause Brey was only kidding, but Rick Cornett led Notre Dame with through 10 Big East games, the a strong inside presence that Irish coach wasn't wrong to remain fueled the offense throughout the • on his guard despite a sizeable game. Francis scored 21 points PHOTOS BY lead. After all, the theme defining see KNIGHTS/page 21 KIRSTEN HOELMER see WIN I page 21 MEN'S SWIMMING NO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Irish divers aid In• LaVere's turnaround sparks tean1 team's title hopes Senior Notre Dame forward shot 80 percent from the field last week By ERIC RETTER diving by a lot that's a big disad Sports Writer Junior Scott Coyle has vantage." been instrumental in Out of 380 possible dual-meet Irish forward Courtney LaVere points this season, the young couldn't have picked a better team's recent success Irish team garnered 197 total time to get hot than right now. points, including a crucial 29 out LaVere, the team's senior co of 38 in a two-point team victory captain, has struggled for much By JACK THORNTON at Michigan State Nov. 11. of the season - failing to score Sports Writer But diving hasn't always been more than nine points for the such a large factor in the team's first nine games of January. But The Irish ended the regular success. After graduating three lately LaVere has begun playing season ranked No. 19 in the divers from the class of 2003, the like the post threat the team has nation - highest among Big East men's team had only one diver needed her to be all season, teams - and are favored to on the roster for the 2003-04 scoring in double figures in each repeat at the Big East season - then-freshman Scott of the past three games and Championships in New York next Coyle. shooting above .500 from the week. And while the swimmers "They hadn't gone out after floor in all three contests. may get most of the headlines, divers in their recruiting, so I "I think I just realized I need Notre Dame (10-2) wouldn't be was the only freshman," said ed to score a lot more if we here without the recent resur Coyle, who is now a junior. "I were going to be successful," gence of the diving squad. pretty much got thrown into a LaVere said. "After the Syracuse "Diving is a very important part situation where I was the only game, it gave me a lot more of the dual-meet season and it's guy. It was a big challenge for a confidence, and so going into going to be an important part of freshman, but it was also a great each game now, I know that I championship season," Irish learning experience. And I got can score. I've been able to get head coach Tim Welsh said. myself acclimated to the college some good moves and put the "[Diving accounts for] two out of diving experience." ball in the basket." 13 events lin the conference Coyle won five events late in LaVere scored 14 points on 7- championship meet]. so if you the regular season as a freshman of-10 shooting against the ALLISON AMBROSE!The Observer can win diving by a lot that's a Irish forward Courtney LaVere takes a hook shot over Villanova huge advantage, and if you lose see DIVE/ page 22 see FORWARD/page 22 forward Liad Suez-Karni during Notre Dame's loss Tuesday. SMC SWIMMING NHL NCAA FOOTBAll NFL MlB TENNIS MIAA CHampionships The NHL hired the Idaho hired former San ESPN named Mike The District of Martina Navratilova former U.S. prosecutor in Francisco coach Dennis Tirico, Tony Kornheiser Columbia revised and said she wants to play a The Belles begin the charge of the Unabomber Erickson, who was fired and Joe Theismann as approved the the lease full doubles schedule league meet today in case to investigate a by the 49ers last January, the new voices of on the Nationals' new and some singles in Grand Rapids, Mich. gambling ring. to revive the Vandals. Monday Night Football. stadium. 2006 at the age of 50. page 22 page 20 page 20 page 18 page 17 page 16