/ ^ V THE O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 40 : ISSUE 129 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Panel discusses immigration reformF r e s h m a n Speakers present opinions, offer solutions hospitalized that would attempt to tackle o v e r n ig h t By KATIE PERRY the status of the nearly 12 Assistant News Editor million undocumented immi­ grants living in the United Officials offered few On a day when President States. Proponents of the bill George W. Bush convened — which would also create a details of emergency with a bipartisan group of guest worker program — said senators to discuss the hotly they would like to revive the By KELLY MEEHAN debated immigration reform issue on the Senate floor as Saint Mary’s Editor bill, panelists at Notre Dame early as M em orial Day. held their own forum Tuesday Speaking at the Hesburgh Campus authorities and to address legislative initia­ Center for international local medical personnel tives and the possibility of Studies, Rodolfo “Rudy” responded to a medical emer­ such reform in the United Monterrosa, a local attorney gency involving a Saint States. who specializes in criminal Mary’s first year student at Entitled “The Immigration and immigration law, said approximately 10 p.m. Debate: Issues and though there is no perfect Monday at McCandless Hall, Prospects,” the event centered answer to the problem, law­ College officials said Tuesday. on the contention surrounding makers should not be hasty A McCandless Hall resident recent congressional propos­ when drafting immigration assistant notified hall direc­ als for immigration reform. reform legislation. tor Shay Jolly and Saint At today’s White House “I believe the time to reform PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Mary’s Security of the emer­ meeting, the president Father Daniel Greedy took part in a debate over immigration gency just before 10 p.m., showed support for a package see PANEL/page 6 Tuesday at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. Director of Residence Life Michelle Russell said. Neither Russell nor College spokeswoman Melanie McDonald would comment on the details of the emergency. Pulitzer Deans promote 4 year trackCollege Security was the first to arrive, McDonald Majority of Notre Dame students continue to graduate on timesaid. At 9:54 p.m. Saint Prize goes Mary’s Security placed a call to 911 at Jolly’s request. four-year institution, and it ness law classes left and half the Jolly was unavailable for By JOE PLARULLI seems that everyone wants to freshman class hasn’t regis­ comment Tuesday. Saint News W riter keep it that way,” Gaglio said. tered. In business ethics there’s Mary’s Security declined to to '71 grad “Our commitment to the stu­ only around 20 spots left,” he comment Tuesday. dents is four years.” said. With a price tag of nearly Notre Dame Security/Police, The overwhelming majority of According to Gaglio, there’s no By MARY KATE M ALONE $40,000 for one year of educa­ St. Joseph County Police and Notre Dame students graduate reason to panic. News Editor tion at Notre Dame, college a South Bend ambulance on time — 93 percent, according “If you don’t get business law deans are keenly aware of the immediately responded to the to the office of undergraduate in the sophomore year the way Adding to a growing list of four-year time table for gradua­ call, McDonald said. The admissions Web site — and both it’s scheduled, that’s not the end award-winning journalists tion — taking special care to ambulance was at the scene administrators and students of the world,” he said. “Our goal from Notre Dame, 1971 grad­ ensure that every student earns for 15 minutes, McDonald want to keep it that way. is to get everyone to graduate in uate Jerry Kammer was one a diploma as quickly and effi­ said, before taking the stu­ “ It’s very im portant to me to their four-year window.” of two lead writers on an ciently as possible. dent to St. Joseph’s Regional graduate in four years because According to Gaglio, schedul­ investigative project that won In the Mendoza College of Medical Center. that’s what I’ve planned for,” ing has never impeded a student the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Business, assistant dean Samuel Russell said Tuesday the freshman James Zenker said. from graduating on time. national reporting. Gaglio said no student is guar­ student “is in fine condition.” “College is meant to be four “We’ve never had a student Journalism’s highest award anteed to snag the professor or “She has been released years and I wouldn’t want it any not graduate in the year they was given to the staffs of the class time they want. Flowever, from the hospital,” Russell other way.” want unless they have deliber­ San Diego Union-Tribune and Gaglio said, the four year track said. “At this point I am not Zenker plans to go into the ately dropped a course,” he said. Copley News Service (which to graduation is not going to be sure when she is returning Mendoza College of Business “The only reason a student owns the Union-Tribune). lengthened because of it. [to Saint M a ry’s] ... it is up to Kammer and his colleague “I can’t tell you every student next semester, where classes wouldn’t graduate in four years Marcus Stern — both gets exactly the courses they have filled up quickly. reporters for Copley — were want. ... IButJ Notre Dame is a “There’s only three more busi­ see G RAD UATE/page 4 see HOSPITAL/page 8 noted by The Pulitzer Board for “their disclosure of bribe­ taking that sent former [Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Rancho Santa He, Calif. I to ROTC will perform review prison in disgrace.” “We were not the only two according to Captain Tim Dukeman, reporters involved, but we Jenkins to observe annual had the lead role,” Kammer Tri-M ilitary operations officer. said Tuesday. performance inside Loftus Although it is Jenkins’ first year at Kammer and Stern’s stories the helm, Dukeman said there will examined and uncovered the be no special additions to the cere­ By AMANDA MICHAELS dealings of Cunningham, who mony. News Editor “traded lucrative defense con­ The approximately 300 members tracts for millions of dollars in of the Army, Navy and Air Force ND cash, lavish antiques and With the Blue Gold game, AnTostal ROTC w ill present themselves to other payoffs,” according to — and even the design of the new Jenkins, who is expected to address an April 18 story in the The Shirt — ‘tradition’ is undoubted­ the group after the ceremony. Union-Tribune. Cunningham ly the watchword of the week. And In addition, 10 of the cadets and initially denied any wrongdo­ tonight, another long-storied event midshipmen are being honored for ing but later resigned from w ill take place on Notre Dame’s either national or University military his office and plead guilty to campus as all the branches of the awards. This year’s Navy awardees accepting $2.4 m illion in ROTC program come together at are Gregory Hiltz, Laura Joyce, bribes, lie was sentenced to 5:15 p.m. in the Loftus Center to Bryan Kreller and William Sullivan. eight years and four months perform the annual Presidential The Air Force awardees are Colin in prison and the investigation Pass In Review. Barcus, Caitlin Diffley and Matthew into his corrupt dealings with As per tradition, University Dvorsky. The Army awardees are defense contractors is ongo- JENNIFER KANG/The Observer President Father John Jenkins will Tanner Fleck, Shane Larson and A student in the Navy ROTC stood guard outside be in attendance, to be honored as see PULITZER/page 8 Clarke Memorial Fountain on Veterans’ Day. the “distinguished dignitary,” see ROTC/page 8 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 26, 2006 I n s id e C o l u m n Question of the Day: W h a t it e m s w o u l d yo u l ik e to b e a d d e d to G r a b a n d G o ? Pinstripe passion My name is Chris I line, and I am a Yankee fan. Even though non-Yankees fans give me dirty looks whenever I say that, 1 Kerry McGuire Dan McMahon Anne Reilly Geoff Hoppe Micki Cascio Michael Quisao remain a Yankee fan, and even though freshman freshman senior senior senior senior Derek Jeter made Welsh Family Sorin off-campus Alumni Lyons Morrissey the atrocious mis- Chris Nine take of kicking _______________ Mariah Carey to "S o u p ." 7 don’t use “I can't "This hottie. ’ “Free candy. ” “Zena treats.' the curb a few Sports Writer Grab and Go. 1 remember the years back, I remain a Yankee last time I went fan. to Grab and So, why in the face of so much con­ Go.” tempt, do I remain a Yankee fan? The first reason is simple. They are the greatest franchise in the history of sports, and the hate they generate is proof that other people just wish they had a sliver of that success, much like Notre Dame. The second reason is more personal — it’s all in the family. 1 can still remember vividly Game 6 o f the 1996 World Series. As soon as I n B r ie f Terry Pendleton hit a single off with two outs off John Wetteland to cut the Yankee lead to 3-2, my father leapt up Notre Dame softball w ill lake off the couch and throw a purple and on Purdue at 4 p.m.