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CLOUDY Welcome Junior Parents Friday The Observer extends a warm welcome to all parents here for Junior HIGH 43° Parents' Weekend. We hope you enjoy this weekend's events. FEBRUARY 15, LOW28° 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL. XXXV NO. 90 HTTP:! /OBSERVER.N D.EDU Bishop edges Moscona in election fall. Judicial Council vice presi By ERIN LaRUFFA ·"I think it will add to the dent of elections John Associate News Editor gender relations viewpoint," McCarthy announced the said Bishop, whose mother election results. In a race that was almost as was in the second class of - Campaign manager Pat close as Monday's primary, females to attend Notre Hallahan had to call Foley on Notre Dame elected its sec Dame. his cell phone to tell him he ond female student body "It's so funny that her expe had won. president in history on rience was so different," Foley's parents, who are in Thursday. Bishop said. town for Junior Parents' Libby Bishop and running Both she and Foley said Weekend, were in for a sur mate Trip Foley received 52.7 they plan to start work on prise. percent of the vote, just their platform goals immedi "He never told his parents enough to give them a 211- ately. he was running," said Bishop. vote victory over Brian "There's a lot of things I However, once he told his Moscona and Keri Oxley, who can do before April 1," parents he and Bishop had received 46.6 percent. Bishop said. In particular, won, Foley said they were "You really realize how she mentioned bringing new happy for him. good the other candidates head football coach Tyrone "They think it's great. They are. It could have gone either Willingham to the dorms, as were just surprised - happily way," said Bishop. well as expanding Flex Point surprised," Foley said. The fact that Bishop is a meal plan options. As Bishop and Foley pre female will shape her admin "I'm just ready to get to pare to begin their term, istration, she said, especially work," Foley said. "I think Moscona, currently serving as JASON McFARLEY/The Observer with the 30th anniversary of Libby will do a great job." student body vice president, Student body president-elect Libby Bishop calls running mate Foley was out to dinner women being admitted to the Trip Foley after learning of their victory Thursday night. University coming up in the with his parents when see ELECTION/page 7 Parents Charting new paths arrive for Cancer Center continues research with $2.1 million grant 50th JPW current head of the Center for By ANDREW THAGARD Transgene Research, the organi Assistant News Editor zation was established "in a small By JOHN FANNING way" in 1995 with a 50,000- News Writer For an organization pioneering 60,000 dollar grant from the new methods to diagnose and Walther Cancer Institute of The 50th annual Junior treat cancer, the Walther Cancer Indianapolis. The Institute's grant Parents' Weekend officially Research Center calls little atten was designed tb establish a basis begins at 9 p.m. tonight in the tion to itself within the Notre for an organization that would Joyce Center, and continues Dame community. The organiza effectively seek research grants, through Sunday afternoon. tion is spread out throughout like the one given by the However, the weekend's campus, and because the Center Department of Defense. upcoming events have been in has no central building, faculty Since its founding, the Center planning with various campus members use their own laborato has grown rapidly. What started groups since last April. ries for research. as an organization for which a The group leading the effort "I don't think if you think of few Notre Dame faculty members is the JPW committee, which Notre Dame and the College of researched under, has expanded was formed last April when Science you think cancer to include 30 members of the fac students applied for positions research," said Rudolph Navari, ulty and numerous graduate stu through Student Activities. Center director. dent researchers. Today the Chuck Lamphier was appointed But this perception may soon Center boasts a multi-million dol chair of the group and has change with the arrival of an lar budget that allows it to focus worked with a vice-chair and a additional $2.1 million in grant on pre-clinical cancer research committee of 17 other students money from the U.S. Department using state of the art facilities. since last spring, to facilitate of Defense. The money, according "The scientific community is the planning of all of the week to Navari, will be used to fund starting to realize the stuff that end's events. new projects and expand on addi goes on here," Navari said. "We "It's a bigger thing than I tional research including studies feel that at this point, in certain expected it to be," said focusing on cancer growth and areas of cancer research, we're Lamphier, who added that all development, genetics and drugs as good as anywhere in the coun preparations are essentially used in cancer treatment. try- including schools with med complete. "It's been a lot of fun, From humble beginnings ical schools." and I have a great group of Today's Walther Cancer What adds to the uniqueness of people that I've been working Research Center arose from the Walther Cancer Research with." rather quaint beginnings -begin Center, according to Navari, is the What the junior class and nings so quaint, it seems, that the close relationship researchers their parents will witness this Center's directors cannot agree enjoy from the different academic weekend is merely the end ANGELA CAMPOSfThe Observer on when it was founded. departments. product of many months of Researchers at the Freimann Ufe Science Center study transgene According to Francis Castellino, mice slides in a 5-headed microscope used in cancer research. the Center's first director and see CANCER/page 6 see JPW/page 7 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, February 15, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S HISTORY Non-voting halls postone election results ND student wins $25,000 in sweepstakes Journeys Thursday, Feb. 13, 1997 Thursday, Feb. 14, 1991 It all started on a chilly February weekend Officials unexpectedly rendered student body election Notre Dame sophomore Annie Cahill accepted a $25,000 in 1977 in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania. Braving snow drifts several feet high, hun results incomplete after discovering that Keough and check from the Publisher's Clearing House Prize Patrol dreds of guests witnessed an important event O'Neill hall residents hadn't voted. Presidential can- in her Siegfried Hall room. She accepted the money in in my life - a life that had yet to begin. Yes. on February 12, 1977, my parents, didate Matt Griffin and running mate Erek Naas won lieu of a red Nissan 300 ZX. The decision to accept the Walter and Kathy Kronk, were married. The coupling of my mother and father could the close, belated election the next day, capturing check was an easy one for Cahill, who said she would not have been more coin- about 52 percent of the vote. apply the money toward next year's tuition. cidental. Introduced by mutual friends - my father co-worker to the husband, my mother co worker to the wife - Mom and Dad instantly hit it off, BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports and were married not far from my mother's home town of Kutztown, Pa .. Syracuse graduate student TAs to establish union within a year of being Bryan Kronk introduced. SYRACUSE, N.Y. "We're hopeful that we can graduate assistants as possible Looking back, my par A group of Syracuse University within the next month to under ents are the definition of Sports Copy work cooperatively with the Editor graduate student teaching assis stand the issues important to them the cliche "opposites tants hopes to establish a union to SU administration in moving and to gauge interest in unioniza attract." My mother, a bargain collectively with the admin this proces along as quickly tion, said Menno Welling, a member rural girl, went to school at Penn State. My istration for improved compensa of the UGE working committee and dad, however, was born and raised in New tion and working conditions, mem as we can. a second-year anthropology doctor York City, and went to a rival Big Ten school bers of the TA organizing group al student and TA. in Ohio State. Somehow, someway, they said. The results of the survey will clar made it work back then. Richard Drucker The students' goal is to form a SEIU organizer ify what issues TAs are concerned And now, 25 years later, this weekend, in union United Graduate about, but stipends, health care and honor of their 25th anniversary, they are Employees - to give graduate resent themselves collectively and working conditions are issues UGE vacationing in ... South Bend?!? assistants a collective voice that come to be able to have discussions could address, Butts said. That's right, you heard me correctly. In must be recognized in discussions with the university about their con UGE has not yet contacted SU's honor of the 25th year since they were mar with the university, said J.J. Butts, ditions," Butts said. "As a union, administration, said Richard ried, my parents felt it was a greater priority an English graduate student, TA you are legally able to sit down and Drucker, an organizer with SEIU to make their presence known at the Notre and a member of the UGE working bargain as partners in the arrange who is working with theTAs.

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