/ ^ 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 reporters involved, but we Jenkins to observe annual according to Captain Tim Dukeman, 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. today at blue nerf basketball as hard as he Ivy Field. could into the floor, yelling “Damn it, Wetteland!” Normally my father is Notre Dame baseball w ill take very careful with his words, especially on Bowling Green at 5:05 p.m. around his 10-year-old son. today at Frank Eck Stadium. It was the first time 1 had ever heard my father say anything that resembled The world premiere of the swearing. Never had I seen him more opera “Witness” w ill be at 6:30 animated in his life than that hit. p.m . today in O’Laughlin Then, when Charlie Hayes caught Auditorium. It will run through Mark Lemke’s popup to seal the victo­ the weekend with performances ry, my father picked me up and did at 7:30 p.m. Friday and not put me down until Wade Boggs Saturday and 2:30 p.m. had completed his victory lap around Sunday. Yankee Stadium on a horse. What inspired this passion in him? It was The film “Top Gun ” w ill be not until a few years later that I really shown today at 9 p.m. on North found out. Quad as part of AnTostal festivi­ 1 never met my grandfather on his ties. side, but as I get older, my dad tells me stories of he and grandpa watch­ Assistant professor of political ing the Yankees. For about 15 years science Dan Lindley w ill give a after my grandfather died, my father lecture titled “Shoot First, Ask didn't have a best friend with whom Questions Later. Preventive he could watch the Yankees. Nothing PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer and Preemptive War” can come close to the experience of a Kevin Carrier, left, Chris Carrington, center, and John Boyle compete in a pie eating Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Cl 03 father watching a game w ith his son. contest Tuesday as part of Section Wars during Fisher Hall’s Fred and Sally Week. of the Hesburgh Center. Only now, as I went through this past postseason and the beginning of Barbara Nicolosi, founder and the new season did I realize how director of Act One Inc., will give much different it is to watch the O f fb e a t a lecture Thursday titled “Why Yankees without my dad there. I was Does God Care about on the phone with him every time Man caught in awkward his clothes because as he marathon in their wedding Hollywood? The Role of something happened in one of the position was going down the chim­ clothes and getting mar­ Entertainment in Human Life.” playoff games. HAYWARD, Calif. — ney —the clothes would ried halfway around the The lecture, which will begin at We share a common loathing of Police in California, who rub up against it and slow course. 7:30 p.m . in 155 D eB arlo lo Jorge Posada’s inability to hit with had thought they had a him down,” Lt Branson Katie Austin and Gordon Hall, is part of the Center for runners in scoring position and radio botched burglary on their said. Fryer from Romsey in Ethics and Culture’s Spring announcer John Sterling’s lack of hands, have instead found “If it was skin on cement southern England ran the Catholic Culture Series depth perception. (That ball is high, it a naked man wedged in its he felt he would go down race with the bride’s par­ “Hollywood: Mission Field or is far, it is ... caught at the wall). chimney. easier.” ents, who gave her away Mission Imposible?” We also have memories of the “He didn’t have a stitch Mr Urbano’s effort ended at the ceremony in the games we went to, such as Game 1 of on," Lieutenant Gary disastrously when a cable Bridge Master’s dining The SMC Irish Dance Club the '96 ALCS when Jeffrey Mayer Branson of the Hayward television wire he used to room on Tower Bridge. will perform at 4:30 p.m. reached over the wall and snatched police department said. lower himself snapped. The groom and his Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday Jeter’s home run from Tony Tarasco. Michael Urbano, 23, father-in-law wore tradi­ in The Little Theaterin Moreau Not to mention the great games we’ve came home early Saturday British couple ties the tional waistcoats, wing- Hall. watched on TV, whether they ended in morning and finding him­ knot on the run collared shirts and cravats, Aaron Boone-like euphoria or self locked out and without LONDON — A British cou­ but with long shorts To submit information to be Gonzalezian disappointment (see his keys, tried to enter the ple has given a new twist instead of trousers. included in this section of The Game 7 o f the 2001 World Series). single-story house through to the idea of running Observer, e-mail detailed infor­ No, Red Sox fans, you can’t even its chimney. away together by compet­ Information compiled from mation about an event to take credit for the Yankees most dev­ “He told us he took off ing in the London the Associated Press. obsnews@nd. edu astating defeat. That is why every night over the summer you’ll probably find me in the same place — on the TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY couch, with my father, watching the Yankees. God knows where I’ll end up when I graduate in three years, so I Iti had better enjoy as many games with him as I can now. a Even though time will one day take away my father as it did his father, it will not take away the numerous hours we sat watching the Yankees. < o My name is Chris Mine, and 1 am, o and w ill always be, a Yankee fan. HIGH HIGH 60 HIGH 64 HIGH 65 HIGH 62 HIGH 63 Contact Chris Hines at LOW LOW 38 LOW 43 LOW 48 LOW 48 LOW 49 [email protected] The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and Atlanta 84 / 63 Boston 68 / 46 Chicago 51 / 40 Denver 48 / 29 Houston 83 / 71 Los Angeles 69 / 55 Minneapolis 58 / 35 not necessarily those o f The Observer. New York 67 / 53 Philadelphia 73 / 52 Phoenix 90 / 58 Seattle 63 / 44 St. Louis 61 / 48 Tampa 86 / 71 Washington 75 / 51 Wednesday, April 26, 2006 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NUWS page 3 Bush, UN prosecuted in mock Uganda-CAN trial

“Nearly two million people live northern Uganda a humanitarian By RYAN SYDL1K in internal displacement camps crisis zone. News W riter which are cesspools of disease “We must find him guilty of and violence,” Murray said. wanton neglect and unrespon­ Members of the Uganda Conflict Murray then said that 41 per­ siveness. It is only by realizing Action Network urged students to cent of those who perish are shared culpability of the world work to alleviate the humanitari­ under five years of age and that body, we can address the crisis,” an crisis in northern Uganda as the death rate from the conflict is she said. part of the Uganda-CAN mock three times higher than the death Junior Nicole Steele read the trial Tuesday. rate in Iraq. case against President Bush. The event, sponsored by the Murray accused Museveni of “ President Bush has abdicated Africa Faith and Justice Network banning relief agencies not asso­ his responsibility as a world and the Center for Social ciated with the government from leader,” she said. Concerns, placed Ugandan doing work and of withdrawing “He has never pushed for a UN President Yoweri Museveni, U.S. military escorts to humanitarian Security Council revolution and he President George W. Bush, UN aid workers for their protection has never made it a priority,” she Secretary General Kofi Annan against the Lord’s Resistance said. and the Notre Dame community Army. Steele said that Bush has not on trial for failing to take respon­ Murray also addressed the fact condemned Museveni for his sibility for the people of northern that Museveni has attacked the gross mismanagement of the cri­ Uganda, and found them guilty of institution of democracy in his sis and has instead largely abandoning their duties to help country. endorsed Museveni’s policies. northern Uganda. “He had his prim ary opponent “President Bush has shown LAURIE HUNTmie Observer “Today we gather here to call arrested on bogus charges of ignorance on the subject, refer­ Junior Stephen Murray lays out his case against Ugandan our leaders to accountability,” treason. And as the world stands ring to the Lord’s Resistance President Yoweri Museveni during mock trials Tuesday. senior Peter Quaranto said. by, Museveni is allowing democ­ Army as the Lord’s group,” she He called the civil war in racy to slip by,” he said. said. “We cannot allow compla­ the University. ing phone calls and w riting letters Uganda and its resulting second­ “Museveni is failing to uphold cency and complicity to deny peo­ “ Have we lived up to this mis­ to those in the U.S. government is ary effects the world’s worst the most important role of his ple the aid that they so desperate­ sion of solidarity and justice, par­ one way to make a difference. He unacknowledged humanitarian office, ignoring the protection of ly need. ... It our responsibility to ticularly regarding our solidarity also mentioned reading the 10 crisis. the Ugandan people,” Murray urge President Bush to take with brothers and sisters in north­ things you can help the people of “More than 30,000 children said. responsibility for the crisis in ern Uganda?” he said. northern Uganda, which is posted have been abducted by this war “I urge you to find President northern Uganda.” Notre Dame is one of the most at httpv7 www.ugandacan.org/ . He and 1.7 million have been dis­ Museveni guilty,” he said. Finally, Quaranto addressed the active campuses in the world for also encouraged students to pray placed,” he said. The case against UN secretary responsibility of the Notre Dame northern Uganda, Quaranto said, and fast for Uganda. The 1,000 deaths occurring General Kofi Annan was present­ campus in failing to do all that it and many of the key actors Quaranto ended the event say­ weekly in northern Uganda make ed by sophomore Shannon Reabe. can. involved in the peace process ing that students must do what it one of the world’s largest “The Conflict in northern “We thought about President have visited in the last year. He they can to end the conflict. humanitarian crisis. Uganda represents a categorical Museveni, Kofi Annan and said that Notre Dame should be “Take the responsibility to pro­ The first defendant was failure of the UN’s mission. The President Bush. But then we said, proud of what it has done. tect life wherever it might be Ugandan President Museveni UN has deliberately avoided tak­ you know, we cannot excuse our­ “Yet we have to admit that we under threat,” he said. “Take the whose case was read by ju n io r ing responsibility resulting in con­ selves, ways that we haven’t have failed to do more,” he said. steps to make 2006 the historical Stephen Murray. Museveni failed tinuing unrest,” she said. taken responsibility as an ND “Our administration, our lead­ year as the last for the crisis in to deal with the realities of the Reabe then said that the UN has family and as individuals,” he ers and ourselves have failed to northern Uganda.” conflict and ignored dealing with never passed a resolution to said. stand in solidarity with the people the ongoing violence, the prosecu­ address Uganda’s 20-year war Quaranto cited Notre Dame’s of northern Uganda,” he said. Contact Ryan Sydlik at tion argued. and that Annan never declared Catholic mission as set forth by Quaranto suggested that mak­ [email protected]

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UNIVERSITY OF N O T R E D A M E The Catholic Culture Series is generously underwritten by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Clarence and Freida Bayer of Arlington, Texas. page 4 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Nun, activist advocates eco-friendly measures vision. We need desperately to to discuss her suggestions and Gonzalez calls fo r a follow these guidelines in order to ideas to make Saint Mary’s a make our unsustainable 20th more eco-friendly place. 'green' Saint Mary's century a sustainable 21st centu­ “Although Saint Mary’s is a ry " magnificent and beautiful cam­ Gonzalez, who has lectured pus, it could be much ‘greener’,” By JEN M ALL around the world on the topic of Gonzalez said. “Everywhere you News W riter sustainable development, said look there is always something that although most of Catholic that can be made better, after all, Sister Paula Gonzalez, a well- Social Teaching deals with human nature reuses everything.” known environmental activist, virtues, there is also a sense of She said Saint Mary’s is average made a two-day visit to Saint caring for God’s Creation, the in its efforts to “livedightly” but Mary’s this week teaching classes Earth. She expressed her concern hopes that in the future, the and lecturing on the Earth about the extinction of organisms. College can become a model Charter. She also made an infor­ “We are losing yet another way green’ campus for students, mal review o f the level of environ­ to know God and his great alumnae, the community and the mental responsibility on campus. works,” Gonzalez said. world. A member of the Sisters of Saint Mary’s sophomore Eva Gonzalez was critical of the Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio, Tonsing-Carter thought the lec­ windows in many of the buildings Gonzalez was invited to visit Saint ture was very informative. on campus that lacked double- Mary’s by the Center for “I really am amazed at how paned glass. The insulating prop­ Academic Innovation’s much of the world’s resources the erties of double-paned windows KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer Community Leadership Team United States consumes every prevent heat loss and significantly While visiting Saint Mary’s this week, Sister Mary Gonzalez lectured (CoLT) for Earth Coalition. day,” Tonsing-Carter said. “Sister decrease heating costs, Gonzalez on the Earth Charter and environmental responsibility Over 60 students, faculty, Paula showed me that I should be said. administrators, nuns and commu­ more informed about products I Lighting at the College was also power was another suggestion. Gonzalez said she was nity members attended her cam- use everyday, take for example a concern to Gonzalez. Many “This is something you can’t impressed by the widespread pus-wide lecture Monday. Each bottled water. One bottle of water buildings were built or remodeled afford not to do,” Gonzalez said. interest the Saint Mary’s commu­ lecture attendee was given a copy costs as much as 1,000 gallons of in the 1960s when it was com­ “With turbine technology improv­ nity expressed in environmental of the Earth Charter, of which New York City tap water and uti­ mon practice to install “a ceiling ing almost daily, it will be well issues because every individual Saint Mary’s and the Sisters of the lizes petroleum products to make made of lights,” Gonzalez said. worth the initial investment and can make a difference. Holy Cross are signatories. Its the bottle which takes an unbe­ To make Saint Mary’s more serve as a money-maker in the Gonzalez lauded Saint Mary’s main principles are respect and lievably long amount of time to eco-friendly Gonzalez suggested future.” for composting leaves and brush care for the community of life, decompose.” old toilets and sink fixtures be Lastly Gonzalez recommended collected from campus grounds. ecological integrity, social and Gonzalez spent Tuesday m orn­ updated. She said leaky sinks like the campus raise its own fruits She was also complimentary economic justice as well as ing visiting two classes. In the those in Le Mans are blatantly and vegetables. Through a com­ about a new position created at democracy, nonviolence and afternoon, after conducting a wasting resources. Toilets with munity-supported agriculture the College to oversee energy and peace. ‘walk-through’ assessment, she lower flush volumes should also garden, Saint Mary’s could grow resource usage. “Without a vision for the future, met with a small group of stu­ be invested in, to conserve water organic food that could then be people perish. ” Gonzalez said. “ I dents, faculty, administrators, usage on campus. used in the dining hall and sold to Contact Jen Mall at believe the Earth Charter is our grounds crew and maintenance Using turbines to capture wind the community, Gonzalez said. [email protected]

Gaglio said. ment because we value students’ they try to offer enough courses to the major institutions,” he said. “If “Before a student can go abroad time as much as we value our own take care of incoming sopho­ you look at the statistics, there are G raduate we make them fill out what we time, or you can walk in here,” he mores, and even try to offer some schools that average between five continued from page 1 call a program of study,” he said. said. classes to the rest of the and five and a half years for the “That program of study identifies Gaglio’s advice to students University, though “not as many as average undergraduate to reach the courses they’re taking in the struggling with scheduling is sim­ they would like.” graduation.” is that they don’t want to take the semester before they go, the ple — “Talk to us.” While most students aim to With nearly 90 percent of stu­ load it would require to do it.” courses they’re going to take in “If you came in here in graduate after their fourth year, dents graduating in four years, Mitchell Wayne, associate dean their abroad semester, and then ... September or February ... it is the exceptions do exist. Notre Dame does not appear to be of the College of Science, said that we make them plan out all the perfect time to come in,” he said. “The norm at Notre Dame is headed in that direction. the College is always trying to way to graduation and layout While it’s possible not to gradu­ that everyone wants to graduate “We can validate that every sin­ accommodate students’ needs. every course so that there is a sys­ ate in four years due to dropping a in four years, but there are a few gle senior that has told us they “This is my fourth year as asso­ tematic plan that makes sure they class or not passing due to the that want to stick around ... nor­ want to graduate will graduate on ciate dean and I can’t remember a can graduate.” many prerequisites, there are mally to complete a second lime,” Gaglio said. single case of someone not being Representatives from the almost always options, Gaglio major,” Gaglio said. “The next Despite the certainty of having able to graduate in four years College of Arts and Letters and the said. most common reason is that they the required classes, individual because they couldn’t get the College of Engineering were not “We have a domino effect. graduate with two degrees.” scheduling tends to be much less classes they need, ” he said. available for comment, but both However, during summer school According to Gaglio, no student comforting. “The only issues that come up Colleges offer advising for students at Notre Dame we always offer the has ever — in his 16 years at the One o f the best ways to ease occasionally are when courses are with regard to scheduling and sophomore year courses so that College — asked him to have their frustration, Gaglio said, is to get for a given major and other requirements. students can pick up the course schedule spaced out for five years requirements out of the way, majors need them as electives. Gaglio’s office at the College of they had difficulty with,” he said. just to ease the load. However, it is because juniors and seniors have Often we have to make sure the Business has five advisors, and Each year around 500 students not unheard of at other schools. first pick of electives. majors that really need it that students are able to choose with — plus or minus 50 — are expect­ “In California, it’s actually quite semester get it first, and then the whom they want to meet. ed to enroll in the College of common that you can only pick up Contact Joe Piarulli at students that need it for electives “You can call for an appoint­ Business. According to Gaglio, three courses each semester at [email protected] come in after that.” In the School of Architecture, where students generally gradu­ ate in five years, scheduling is even less of a concern. “The courses that are needed to graduate are guaranteed ... so that the biggest [problem] that Arts and Letters Forum on Attending Graduate School I students 1 have is an issue of get­ ting the section that fits their schedule,” assistant dean Richard Bullene said. “Typically it’s a pret­ Thursday, April 27, from 7-9 P.M. in 119 O'Shaughnessy ty mundane operation.” Bullene said architecture classes hover between 45 and 55 stu­ dents, so adjustments are rather easy to make, and students have A panel of three current Notre D ante students will address those factors and some advantages when it comes to scheduling. people who influenced them to enter Ph.D. programs next year. A Notre “They have the luxury when they register of worrying about their University requirements ... Dame alum, now a 4th-year graduate student at Michigan State the things inside the school are taken care of for them,” he said. University, will offer her perspective on applying to and succeeding in Bullene cited academic difficul­ ties as the only reason a student would not graduate on time, call­ graduate school. ing such a situation “very rare.” “I’m not worried at all about graduating in four years, but it’s annoying to deal with trying to Refreshments will be provided. make a perfect schedule,” Zenker said. “I just hope something like going to Australia won’t screw things up.” Going abroad is never a prob­ lem in the College of Business, WORLD & NATION Wednesday, April 26, 2006 C O M P IL E D FROM THE OBSERVER'S W l RE SERVICES page 5

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30 arrests made in Egypt attacks Bush eases environmental policy DAHAB, Egypt — Egyptian authorities, already struggling with elusive terror cells in the President halts filling of oil reserves, urges clean air code waiver to fight gasoline prices rugged Sinai Peninsula, moved quickly Tuesday — arresting 30 men in the triple bombings that Associated Press ripped apart a resort town on a tranquil holiday evening. WASHINGTON — Under Radical Muslim groups moved just as rapidly election-year pressure to to distance themselves from the Dahab attacks, reduce surging gasoline which killed 24 people. The leader of Egypt’s prices, President Bush on banned Muslim brotherhood condemned them Tuesday halted filling of the as “aggression on human souls created by God." nation's emergency oil The militant Palestinian Hamas organization reserve, urged the waiver of called them a “criminal attack which is against clean air rules to ease local all human values.” gas shortages and called for Many frightened tourists Red Sinai coastal the repeal of $2 billion in resorts where two previous bomb attacks — like tax breaks for profit-heavy the Dahab blasts — bore the hallmarks of al- oil companies. Qaida-linked groups that appear to have a free Still, experts said Bush’s hand to continue operations in the barren, actions wouldn’t have much backward and extremely rugged Sinai impact on prices at the Peninsula. pump. The president warned that motorists Iran warns hidden nuclear program would have to dig deep into TEHRAN, Iran — Iran ratcheted up its defi­ their pockets all summer ance ahead of a U.N. Security Council dead­ long. line to suspend uranium enrichment, threat­ Bush urged lawmakers to ening Tuesday to hide its program if the West expand tax breaks for the takes “harsh measures” and to transfer purchase of fuel-efficient nuclear technology to chaos-ridden Sudan. hybrid automobiles, a politi­ Ali Larijani, the top Iranian nuclear nego­ cally popular measure that’s tiator, also renewed a vow to end coopera­ also supported by environ­ tion with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency mentalists. He also directed and said increasing pressure on Iran would the Environmental only stiffen its resolve. Protection Agency to use its “If you take harsh measures, we will hide authority to temporarily Ml M M: this program. If you use the language of waive air quality laws in force, you should not expect us to act trans­ states if that would relieve a parently,” Larijani said, adding that Western local gasoline supply short­ nations “have to understand they cannot age. resolve this issue through force.” The White House was unable to say how much Bush’s actions could affect the price of gas. N a t io n a l N e w s Bush said, “ Every little bit AP helps.” Prices over $3 a gallon are displayed on pumps at a gas station in New York City Tuesday. Mayors attend gun control summit Wholesale gasoline President Bush ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline. NEW YORK — The mayors of more than a futures prices for June dozen U.S. cities gathered at a summit delivery dropped 8 cents a encouraged, I would say — Democrats sought to turn When his 2004 presidential aimed at purging the streets of illegal guns, gallon to $2.10 on the New by this administration.” gas prices — like Hurricane opponent, Sen. John Kerry, with organizers saying the federal govern­ York Mercantile Exchange The country’s three Katrina and the Iraq war — D-Mass., suggested the ment is not doing enough to stop the prob­ right after Bush’s remarks. largest oil and gas compa­ into an issue to undermine same idea during the cam­ lem. May gasoline futures settled nies were expected to Bush’s standing with voters. paign, Bush called it “play­ “If the leadership won’t come from at $2.1291 a gallon, a report combined first-quar­ “What happened to Iraq oil, ing politics.” Congress or from the White House, it will decline of 4.48 cents. ter profits later in the week Mr. President? You said On Tuesday, Bush said the have to come from us,” said New York Democrats, eager to in excess of $16 billion, a 19 Iraqi oil would pay for the nation’s 685-million barrel Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who led the blame Republicans for high percent surge from last war. Ain’t seen no money. petroleum reserve had summit with Boston Mayor Thomas gas costs ahead of the year. Bush, a former oilman, A in’t seen no oil,” said Sen. enough fuel to guard Menino. November congressional asked his administration to Barbara Mikulski of against any major supply The mayors — from cities including elections, said Bush has had investigate possible price Maryland. disruption over the next few Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas, five years to find a way to gouging and said Congress The suspension of oil pur­ months. Milwaukee and Seattle — gathered to lower prices and has should revoke about $2 bil­ chases for the federal emer­ The president said exchange ideas, consult with experts and favored big oil companies lion in tax breaks that gency oil reserve until the Democrats in the past have promote law enforcement cooperation over consumers. Congress approved and he fall is likely to have only a urged higher taxes on fuel among their cities. “It’s crystal clear that the signed into law to encour­ modest impact. The halt in and price caps to control current spike in gas prices age exploration. deposits involves only 12 fuel expenses, but he said Families advocate Flight 93 memorial is at least partly due to an “Cash flows are up,” Bush m illion barrels — less than neither approach works. WASHINGTON — Family members of those act of greed,” said Sen. Bob said. “Taxpayers don’t need the 20 million barrels of oil Instead, he called for killed on United Flight 93 are urging a North Menendez, D-N.J., who pro­ to be paying for certain of used every day in the United increased conservation, an Carolina congressman to lift his hold on posed a 60-day suspension these expenses on behalf of States for transportation. expansion of domestic pro­ funding for a memorial planned for the of the federal gas tax. the energy companies.” Bush resisted calls for a duction and increased use Pennsylvania site where the plane crashed “Greed that has been Menendez spoke at a suspension of shipments to of alternative fuels such as on Sept. 11, 2001. enabled, abetted — even press conference where the reserve in the past. ethanol. Nearly a dozen family members are sched­ uled to meet with their members of Congress on Wednesday to encourage them to sign a letter that asks Rep. Charles H. I r a q Taylor, R-N.C., to support $10 m illion for the project. It was not clear if they would also meet with Taylor. Terror chief shows face in video

It also followed a high-profile audio­ attempt by the leader of al-Qaida in o c a l e w s Associated Press L N tape from Osama bin Laden and Iraq to rally Iraqis and foreign fighters BAGHDAD — Terror mastermind seemed a deliberate attempt by al- to his side at a time when U.S. and Police apprehend escaped inmate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi revealed his Zarqawi to reclaim the spotlight follow­ Iraqi officials are touting political NORTH VERNON, Ind. — Authorities have face for the first time Tuesday in a dra­ ing months of taking a lower profile progress as a setback to insurgents. captured one of four inmates who smashed a matic video in which he dismissed amid criticism of bombings against Al-Zarqawi appeared in the 34- first-floor window to escape from the Jennings Iraq’s new government as an American civilians. It was his first message since minute Internet video, which he said County jail over the weekend. “stooge” and called it a “poisoned dag­ January. was made Friday, dressed head-to-toe Marion County Sheriff’s deputies arrested ger” in the heart of the Muslim world. A U.S. counterterrorism official, in black with a black scarf around his David Fields, 36, Monday at an Indianapolis The video, in which he also warned speaking on condition of anonymity in head and a beard and mustache. motel, said Mary Ristucci, the Jennings County of more attacks to come, was posted on compliance with, office policy, said ana­ He seemed healthy, shown in one jail commander. He had been serving time on a the Internet only days after a break­ lysts believe al-Zarqawi is showing his scene standing and firing a heavy burglary conviction. through in Iraq’s-political process face to demonstrate that he is still machine gun in a flat desert landscape The three other escapees, Jeffery D. Boggs, 39, allowing its $hiite, Sunni and Kurdish engaged as a leader of jihad, or holy that resembled the vast empty stretch­ Robert Scott Pickett, 39, Gerald G. Perkins, 30, leaders to start assembling a govern­ war. es of western Iraq, where he is believed remained at large Tuesday morning, she said. ment. The message also appeared to be an to be hiding. page 6 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS N KVC^S Wednesday, April 26, 2006

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million families, whose mem­ HHIL HUUbLSUN/1 ne Observer bers total 15 million in sum. Contact Katie Perry at Timothy Ready, director of research at the Institute of Latino Studies, presented statistics on Roughly two-thirds of children [email protected] undocumented immigrants at the panel discussion Tuesday. in these families are born in the United States. 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"IThe enforcement of immi­ a good thing.)-— gration law I occurs often enough so people will accept poor conditions, but never enough to really hurt the employers who are exploiting these vulnerable workers,” said assistant professor of anthropology Karen Richman. Though some employers are when people are wasting your time, they’re not wasting your money. “unscrupulous and greedy,” others are merely “trying to remain competitive,” Brown- Gort said. Richman said recent Call Me • Text Me • Fix Me protests — including an April 10 demonstration in South Bend — suggest a “tremen­ dous galvanizing moment” for immigration law activists. “What happened at the march I in South Bend] is what we're seeing happen through­ out the country,” Monterrosa said. "We came out of the woodwork ... and it was so beautiful.” Ready said “a sleeping giant has awoken with the very large number of folks who have mobilized” — undocu­ m ented im m ig ra n ts and U.S. citizens alike. 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' POUND 0.5591 The former chairman CANADIAN $ 1.1314 and chief executive appeared to be trying to control the examination by defense lawyer George Secrest in his second day Enron founder Kenneth Lay and his wife Linda are escorted away from the Houston federal I n B r ie f on the stand, saying, “I’m courthouse Tuesday on his second day of testimony in his fraud and conspiracy trial. not sure where you’re Criticized SBA administrator resigns going with that,” when Skilling, Lay’s co-defendant questioning and charting Tuesday he may lengthen WASHINGTON — Small Business $ecrest asked him to differ­ in the federal criminal his own course” to “rein­ the court day or cut the Administration chief Hector Barreto resigned entiate strategic from non- trial, finished nearly eight force his version of reality,” daily 90-minute lunch Tuesday after a tenure marked by criticism of strategic assets. Lay then days on the witness stand while Skilling let his lead break to pick up the pace, the agency’s response to the Sept. 11 terror affably explained that a last week. attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, w hich seemed to drag as attacks and the Gulf Coast hurricanes. strategic asset is consid­ Hilder’s ex-Enron clients guide his testimony. Lay and Secrest often President Bush immediately announced a ered to be strategic to a include Sherron Watkins, a Testimony in the three- switched subjects without new agency chief, Steven C. Preston, an execu­ certain business. former executive who won month trial could last apparent organization. tive vice president for The ServiceMaster Co. “He and [former Enron fame for trying to warn Lay another three weeks, “I respect the court, but I The appointment requires Senate confirma­ Chief Executive Jeffrey] of the financial peril facing lawyers on both sides told have a constitutional obli­ tion. Skilling could not be more the company days after he U.S. District Judge Sim gation to my client. I don’t Barreto, a California businessman, was different in their stepped back into the CEO Lake Tuesday after jurors take it personally,” Secrest appointed head of the agency in 2001. After demeanor,” said Philip role after Skilling’s abrupt were dismissed for the day. said outside of court. He the Sept. 11 terror attacks that year, his Hilder, a former federal resignation in August The judge told the panel said Lay has “waited a long agency provided nearly $5 billion in economic prosecutor who represents 2001. last month that the case time to testify. He’s only disaster recovery loans to small businesses several ex-Enron execu­ Hilder said Lay appeared could wrap up before the been on [the witness stand] across the country. tives, outside of court. to be “taking control of the end of April. He said for two days." The Associated Press reported last year, however, that many of the businesses that received loans said they neither wanted nor knew they were receiving money earmarked for terror victims. Companies receiving aid ranged from an Oregon winery to a Virgin Home sales barely increase in March Islands perfume bar, drawing outrage on Capitol Hill. Associated Press double-digit gains turned in last year for a gradual slowdown in housing Steelmakers report decreased profits as the housing boom was peaking. that would result in a drop of around PITTSBURGH — Steel producers United States WASHINGTON — Sales of previously Analysts predicted that home prices 6 percent in home sales this year and Steel Corp. and AK Steel Holding Corp. posted owned homes edged up in March, but will come under more pressure in a slowing in price gains to around 6 lower first-quarter profits Tuesday as weaker the backlog of unsold homes still hit a coming months if sales slow more and percent, compared with the double­ sales and reduced operations hampered growth. record high, raising concerns that the the inventory of unsold homes keeps digit gains in prices in recent years. Shares of both companies slumped. once-booming housing market could rising. He said the fact that home prices U.S. Steel, the world’s seventh-largest raw be in for a rougher landing than The number of unsold homes on the have shown increases in the past two steel producer, said net income — after paying expected. market at the end of March hit a months was a good sign that sales are preferred dividends — fell to $252 million, or The National Association of Realtors record of 3.19 million units. At the stabilizing after the five consecutive $2.04 per share, for the three months ended reported Tuesday that sales of exist­ March sales pace, it would take 5.5 monthly declines. . March 31 from $455 million, or $3.51 per share, ing homes advanced by a tiny 0.3 per­ months to eliminate the backlog of “This is additional evidence that we in the year-ago period. cent in March compared with unsold homes, the longest period are experiencing a soft landing,” he The Pittsburgh-based company’s sales dropped February, rising to a seasonally since 5.6 months in July 1998. said. to $3.73 billion from $3.79 billion in the same adjusted annual sales rate of 6.92 m il­ $ome analysts expressed concern By region of the country, sales were quarter last year, as revenue from flat-rolled lion units. that the rising level of unsold homes up 1.7 percent in the Northeast and products and its European operations declined. The March increase followed a big­ would soon start putting more down­ 1.2 percent in the Midwest but fell 0.7 But tubular product sales jumped to $177 million ger 5.1 percent jump in February, ward pressure on home prices. percent in both the South and the from $122 million in the prior-year period. which had been boosted by milder “So far, the cracks in the housing West. U.S. Steel’s results surpassed Wall Street than normal weather this winter. market are not that great, but with This year’s rise in mortgage rates is expectations. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Those gains followed five consecutive inventories skyrocketing, that may not dampening sales of both existing and Financial expected earnings of $1.48 per share monthly declines in sales. last long, ” said Joel Naroff, chief econ­ new homes and forcing builders to cut and sales of $3.65 billion. The median price of a new home omist at Naroff Economic Advisors, a back on construction of new homes. The company said lower natural gas prices rose to $218,000 last month, a gain of private consulting firm. Housing has been one of the standout and the return to service of its newly rebuilt No. 7.4 percent from a year ago. That David Lereah, the Realtors’ chief performers in the current four-year­ 14 blast furnace in Gary, Ind., helped its results. price increase was far slower than the economist, said he was still looking long economic expansion. page 8 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Wednesday, April 26, 2006

deeper to find the underlying who broadly objected to the South Quad as a return to facts ... All reporters should University’s sponsorship of tradition of the past when P u litze r have [an] investigative mind­ ROTC the ROTC program . Notre Dame was a large continued from page 1 set and set of investigative continued from page 1 Then in 2001, the ceremo­ commissioning source for tools for digging out informa­ ny was moved to the Loftus the m ilitary,” he said. ing. tion through public records Center from its prior loca­ Waters concurred, empha­ The stories, which stirred and source development.” Michael Willard. tion on South Quad, due to sizing that the decision to national debate over the use After two years as the “ [The Pass in Review) is an potentially inclement weath­ hold the Pass in Review in of earmarks in Congress, were Republic’s correspondent in excellent opportunity for the er. It has stayed inside ever the Loftus Center was a joint published in the San Diego Washington, D.C., Kammer ND ROTC program s to show since, despite several peti­ decision by University and Union-Tribune, Copley’s flag­ joined Copley News Service, the Notre Dame family and tioning efforts from the stu­ ROTC officials. ship newspaper. where he specialized in immi­ greater South Bend commu­ dent body to have it held “As always many locations “They got a lot of reaction,” gration and U.S.-Mexico rela­ nity the impressive nature of once again on South Quad. were possibilities and con­ Kammer said. “If they, weren’t tions. one the most elite ROTC pro­ Many of those against sidered, to include Loftus, reprinted, they were cited. Noting his 16 years of grams in the nation,” said keeping the the I Joyce They got a lot of attention.” Catholic education, Kammer Ft.Col Rachael Waters, this p a -r a d e Center], Kammer began working for said the atmosphere at Notre year’s Tri-Military indoors “/The Pass in Review/ is D e B a r t o l o Copley’s Washington D.C. Dame fostered his sense of Commander. She added that claim that an excellent opportunity Q uad and duty to serve the public. the parade also gives the th e m ove South Quad. bureau in 2002, and was for the ND ROTC assigned to the Cunningham “One of the things that was cadets and midshipmen the w as m ade And after dis­ story in mid-2005, according pervasive in that education opportunity to share their as an effort Programs to show the cussions with to Kammer’s biography on was a sense of that obligation accomplishments with the to minimize Notre Dame family and th e ROTC to the community and to soci­ community, and thank them conflict programs and Pulitzer.org. Kammer said he greater South Bend com­ wrote in-depth stories about ety and I think I absorbed that for support and encourage­ between t h e the earmarking process, and that value is central to ment. protesters munity the impressive University, all which Cunningham had used journalism in a democracy,” According to Dukeman. the and partici- nature of one the most parties Kammer said. “The best thing Pass in Review has its roots pants. a g re e d to in his deals with defense con­ elite ROTC programs in tractors. journalists can do in a democ­ in the Middle Ages, when D u k e m a n , Loftus as the Copley and the Union- racy is tell the people how “rulers held reviews in order h o w e v e r , the nation. ” location for Tribune shared the national power is being used in their to show their strength to disagreed. this year’s others.” The American m ili­ reporting Pulitzer with James name, particularly when it’s “ Due to Lt. Col. Rachael Waters Pass in being abused in their name. ” tary picked up the tradition uncertainty Review,” she Risen and Eric Lichtblau of Tri-Military Commander the New York Times for their “I definitely value tremen­ after the Revolutionary War, in weather said. investigation of President dously my Notre Dame educa­ and Notre Dame has held the at this time Also taking George W. Rush’s post-Sept. tion and the friendships 1 ceremony since the 1940s, of the year, part in this 11 s e c re t w ire ta p p in g p r o ­ developed there that rein­ he said. it was agreed upon by ROTC year’s ceremony will be the gram. forced the value system that is In the past, the Pass in and University officials to Great Lakes Naval Marching Kammer, .an English major im plicit I at Notre Darnel. ” Review has been a source of hold the event in Loftus,” he Band, who will be perform­ and former club lacrosse play­ For the Cunningham project, controversy, not just its gen­ said. ing a ll the parade’s m usic as er at Notre Dame, began his Kammer and Stern were also eral presence on campus, There are those, Dukeman well as a short concert journalism career in 1974 at awarded the 2005 George but its specific location as added, that still would like immediately following the the Navajo Times in Window Polk Award for political well. The event has been to see it re tu rn e d to the o u t­ event. Rock, A riz. He earned a mas­ reporting, and the Edgar A. marked with protests by the doors. Contact Amanda Michaels at ter’s degree in American stud­ Poe Aw ard — w hich they w ill groups Pax Christi and the “Several of the students [email protected] ies at the University of New receive Saturday in Catholic Peace Fellowship, would like to see it held in Mexico and later worked for Washington at the annual din­ the Arizona Republic as the ner of the White House paper’s northern Mexico cor­ Correspondent’s Association. respondent. In 1998, he joined Kammer said President Bush the paper’s investigative team is expected to hand him the in Phoenix, where he spent award. four years writing award-win­ “Maybe [the annual dinner] ning stories about Phoenix fin­ is a good tradition [but] I ancier Charles Keating, who think we should be more They first met 80 years ago . .. eventually became the symbol interested in keeping an eye Since then, 14 Heisman Trophies & 20 National for the nationwide savings and on [ the politicians] than Championships.have changed hands. This year, there’ s loan scandal. socializing with them.” more than just a Shillelagh at stake. He said good journalism is about “looking beyond the Contact Mary Kate Malone at immediate facts and digging [email protected] ND vs. USC: comment on her condition at H ospital the time of admittance or release. THE DEBATE continued from page 1 McDonald said the g irl’s family was notified of the h e r.” medical emergency. 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C u b a U k r a in e Guantanamo prisonerSurvivors remember Chernobyl refuses to attend trialCountry observes 20th anniversary of world's worst nuclear disaster Associated Press reporters that he believed some Al-Qaida member may evidence against his client was KIEV — Ukrainian mourn­ face up to life in prisonobtained through torture, but ers carried single red carna­ declined to provide details. tions and flickering candles Associated Press It was clear as soon as al- during a solemn ceremony early Wednesday to remem­ GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL Qahtani sat down that things ber the 1986 Chernobyl BASE — An alleged al-Qaida would not go smoothly in the explosion, an event that con­ militant facing a military trial windowless courtroom with tinues to scar this ex-Soviet chose Tuesday to boycott the thick burgundy carpeting, republic 20 years later. proceedings, dismissing the leather-padded chairs and a The April 26, 1986, pre­ legal process and saying his varnished railing separating dawn explosion became the late was in the hands of God. trial participants from specta­ world’s worst ever nuclear Jabran Said bin al-Qahtani tors. accident, ripping off the did not return to the courtroom When O’Toole began to nuclear power plant’s roof after an hour-long recess. His explain the legal process, al- and spewing radioactive fall­ lawyer, Army Lt. Col. Bryan Qahtani responded, “This is out for 10 days over 77,220 Broyles, said only force would nonsense.” square miles of the then- get him back before the military The judge then explained the Soviet Union and Europe. It judge. benefits of having a lawyer, but cast a radioactive shadow In a brief earlier session, al- al-Qahtani was not interested. over the health of millions of Qahtani, a Saudi detainee who “ I would prefer to be ignorant people; many believe it also was making his first appear­ of these matters," he said, rest­ contributed to the eventual ance before the military tribu­ ing his head on his hands. “I collapse of the Soviet Union. nal at this U.S. military base, don’t care.” “My friends were dying told the court he At another under my eyes,” said had no interest in point, the Konstantyn Sokolov, a 68- participating in detainee, who “I would prefer to be year-old former Chernobyl Ukraine president Viktor Yushchenko lays flowers on a memorial the proceedings. has b ush y ignorant of these worker whose voice was to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion. “You judge me, black hair and hoarse from throat and lip and you sentence matters. I don’t care. ’ a th ick beard, cancer. Sokolov was among recovered. Twenty-nine res­ washing the long-term me the way you told the judge hundreds gathering for a cuers, firefighters and plant effects of the accident in want, if this is Jabran Said th a t a la w ye r middle of the night ceremony workers died later from radi­ order to restore trust in the God's w ill,” he bin al-Qahtani couldn’t help Wednesday in the Ukrainian ation poisoning and burns, safety of atomic power. told the judge. him, saying Guantanamo Bay capital, which President and another person died of Around 350,000 people Al-Qahtani, who the U.S. can prisoner Viktor an apparent were evacuated forever from was arrested with “either kill me Yushchenko heart attack their homes, leaving the senior al-Qaida or imprison attended. M y k o 1 a whole city of Pripyat and lieutenant Abu me or God w ill Sokolov said The whole country Malyshev, now dozens of villages to decay Zubayda and other alleged m ili­ provide me with rescue, and his memories of grieves and the 66, was working and rot away. Experts say tants on March 28, 2002, at an then you w ill regret every­ that time “are in the control some may not be habitable alleged al-Qaida safe house in thing.” whole world joins very terrible.” ro o m o f again for centuries. Faisalabad, Pakistan, is Broyles asked the court to In Kiev, bells us in this grief." C hernobyl’s Some 5 million people live charged with conspiring to delay the proceedings so he tolled 20 times Reactor No. 1 at in areas covered by the attack U.S. military and civilian could research what his ethical starting at 1:23 Lena Makarova the time of the radioactive fallout, in targets. The Department of obligations were to a client who a.m., marking explosion. He Ukraine, neighboring Defense says that, among other did not want his assistance. Ukranian citizen the time of the said the lights Belarus and Russia. things, he helped to prepare When the hearing resumed, al- explosion at went off and on Valentyna Abramovych, explosives for use against U.S. Qahtani was absent. The Reactor No. 4 at the and the room shook. The now 50, her husband and troops in Afghanistan. defense attorney then asked to Chernobyl nuclear power workers were ordered to the their infant son were forced Broyles had said he planned rescheduled the hearing, which station. Orthodox priests led destroyed reactor, but when to evacuate their home in the to argue that conspiracy to O’Toole denied. the mourners in a somber they got there, their co­ Chernobyl workers’ city of attack U.S. troops is not a war Al-Qahtani, who according to procession. workers ordered them to flee Pripyat, leaving behind all crime and that he hoped to his lawyer is in his mid-20s and Closer to Chernobyl in and save them­ their belong­ have the military judge. Navy has a wife and two children, is Slavutych — the town built selves. “They ings. They were Capt. Daniel O'Toole, removed one of 10 detainees at to house Chernobyl workers told us, ‘We are “Every day, I would shuffled around, from the case for an unspecified Guantanamo Bay who have displaced in the accident — already dead. firs t to a nearby conflict of interest. He also told been charged and are facing a watch television the commemorations began Go away,”’ m ilita ry tribunal. He faces up to and expect to hear village then to a life in prison if convicted. There an hour earlier to coincide Malyshev relative's house. storage are about 490 prisoners at the with Moscow time, which recalled at the when we could “Every day, I Guantanamo Bay detention cen­ was used in the then-Soviet Kiev ceremony. come back." would watch tel­ ter. Republic of Ukraine at the T h o u s a n d s evision and space time of the accident. have been diag­ expect to hear Residents laid flowers and nosed with thy­ Valentyna Abramovych when we could Lighted & Paved placed candles at a monu­ roid cancer, one evacuee come back,” Free Lock with Every Unit ment dedicated to Chernobyl of the only Valentyna 4 Month Special: as sirens blared. internationally Abramovych May through August for O ffe rin g Death tolls connected to accepted illnesses linked to said. “When they said we Notre Dame Students WRxndkWe the blast remain hotly debat­ Chernobyl, and the U.N. could never come back, I flying lesaom* ed, as do the long-term health agency said about burst into tears ... We feel 5x10... $149 + DEP fmm Bend health effects. 9,300 people were likely to like outcasts. No one needs 10x10...$199 + DEP Region#! Airport A t least 31 people died as a die of cancers caused by us.” direct result of trying to keep radiation. 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what the government initially Associated Press Congress is considering port wisdom of checking for terror Prosecutors suspected thought might be a much security legislation this week, links without also examining a man may plan attackslarger case. Its investigation WASHINGTON — Seaport prompting some to question the worker’s criminal history. into Lodi’s 2,500-member workers will undergo back­ sincerity and timing of ChertofFs “While today’s announcement Associated Press Pakistani community began ground checks for links to ter­ announcement. is an im portant and necessary after agents received a tip in rorism and to ensure they are “ It appears that DIES steps up first step, criminal background 2001 that Lodi-area business­ legal U.S. residents, the Bush to the plate to protect our checks must eventually become SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A es were sending money to te r­ administration said Tuesday. national security only when the a part of the screening process,” federal jury on Tuesday con­ rorist groups abroad. The announcement came cameras are rolling and the said Anthony Coscia, chairman victed a 23-year-old man of That investigation ultimate­ after months of scathing criti­ whole world is watching,” said of the Port Authority of New supporting terrorists by ly fizzled, but it did lead cism about security gaps at the Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D- York and New Jersey. attending an al-Qaida training agents to Naseem Khan. The nation’s ports. Miss., the top Democrat on the Some workers already have camp in Pakistan three years 32-year-old former Lodi resi­ The heightened scrutiny — House Homeland Security their criminal backgrounds ago. dent was working a variety of which will begin immediately — Committee. He gave tepid praise checked by local authorities, Hamid Hayat, a seasonal fast-food and convenience drew praise from some lawmak­ for the push for said Jim farm worker in Lodi, an agri­ store jobs in rural Oregon ers and port associations that ID cards, which M c N a m a r a , cultural town south of when agents approached him said the checks were long over­ he said should “What this w ill do is it spokesman for Sacramento, was convicted of in October 2001, just a month due. Others jeered the security have been will elevate security at I h e one count of providing mate­ after the terrorist attacks. measures as either too weak or issued years International rial support to terrorists and our ports themselves so Khan, a Pakistani native too invasive of workers’ privacy ago. Longshoreman three counts of lying to the that we can be sure who moved to the U.S. as a rights. In 2002, Union, which FBI. teenager, was recruited to Names of an estimated Congress that those who enter represents East The verdict came hours infiltrate Lodi’s Pakistani 400,000 employees who work in ordered the Coast port after a separate jury hearing our ports to do com m unity. the most sensitive areas of ports Transportation workers and a case against the man’s business come for He initially investigated the will be matched against govern­ Security said it wel­ father deadlocked, forcing the money laundering allegations ment terror watch lists and Administration legitimate reasons and comed steps judge to declare a mistrial. and then targeted a pair of immigration databases, to issue biomet­ “to secure our The father, 48-year-old ice not in order to do us local imams before finally Homeland Security Secretary ric ID card to ports in any cream truck driver Umer harm." befriending Hamid Hayat. The Michael ChertofT said. They will workers who way possible.” Hayat, is charged with two Hayats grew to eventually be among roughly 750,000 passed criminal Since the DP counts of lying to the FBI consider Khan almost a mem­ workers — including truckers background Michael Chertoff World furor, about his son’s involvement in ber of the family. and rail employees — who have checks. Those D e m o c r a t s the training camp. Defense homeland security secre­ After Hamid Hayat left for unrestricted access to ports and cards were sup­ have lambast­ attorneys and prosecutors will tary Pakistan in spring 2003, Khan will be required to carry tamp­ posed to be ed Homeland meet in court May 5 to decide kept in touch and recorded er-resistant identification cards issued to port Security for whether he will be retried. their telephone calls — some by next year. workers beginning in August failing to screen and inspect all Both men are U.S. citizens of which show Khan urging “What this w ill do is it w ill ele­ 2004. By that December, the cargo that enters the United and stood trial in federal Hayat to attend a jihadi camp. vate security at our ports them­ Government Accountability States at seaports. Senate court before separate juries. In one conversation, Khan selves so that we can be sure Office said, bureaucratic delays Democrats are pushing legisla­ They have been in custody exhorted Hayat to “be a man that those who enter our ports and poor planning were ham­ tion to require Homeland since their arrests last June. —do something!” to do business come for legiti­ pering development of the card. Security to outline how it will Both cases initially generat­ Hamid Hayats lawyers mate reasons and not in order Cargo industry officials have scan all cargo containers within ed widespread interest seized on such conversations to do us harm,” Chertoff said. worried that a federal ID system five years. The department cur­ because they raised concerns to show that the FBI inform­ He called the safeguards part of aimed at boosting security could rently inspects 6 percent of about a potential terrorist cell ant pushed Hayat to attend a a “ring of security” around U.S. cost many port workers their cargo containers that enter U.S. centered in the wine-produc­ training camp, but ultimately ports. jobs — leading to bottlenecks in ports. ing region about 35 miles produced no evidence that he The background checks will the flow of goods destined for Homeland Security treats port south of the state capital. But had. not examine workers’ criminal virtually every U.S. community. security like a “neglected the government presented no They also questioned the history, although Chertoff left “It seems to us that the stepchild,” said Sen. Charles evidence of a terror network informant’s credibility, in part open that possibility for the biggest security threat is coming Schumer, D-N.Y. during the nine-week trial. because of his own testimony. future. from the outside, and not from ChertolT said two-thirds of all Instead, the case centered Khan said that just before he How much the background the workers who live and work containers will undergo radia­ on videotaped confessions the was recruited, he told FBI checks w ill cost was not imme­ in those communities,” said tion screening for nuclear mate­ men gave to FBI agents and a agents he had seen Osama bin diately available. Steve Stallone, spokesman for rials by year’s end and that 80 government informant who Laden’s physician and two The Bush adm inistration has the San Francisco-based percent of cargo entering the secretly recorded hundreds of other international terrorists been under fire for months for International Longshore and United States comes from for­ hours of conversations but living in Lodi during the late what critics call holes in securi­ Warehouse Union. eign ports with rigorous inspec­ whose credibility was chal­ 1990s. At the time, they were ty measures at ports, which The added scrutiny “looks a tion standards. But he said it is lenged by the defense. wanted for attacks in the were highlighted after a Dubai lot like harassment of the work­ impossible to physically inspect Prosecutors described Middle East and Africa. company’s purchase of a British ers,” Stallone said. Because every cargo container without Hamid Hayat as having “a Defense attorneys and ter­ firm gave it control of six some truck drivers are illegal snarling port commerce. jihadi heart and a jihadi rorism experts said it was American ports. An outcry in immigrants who would quit “To call for all physical inspec­ mind” who returned from a highly unlikely they would Congress led the Dubai compa­ rather than face identity checks, tion of every container is like two-year visit to Pakistan have been in the U.S. at th at ny, DP World, to decide to sell that could “seriously cripple” saying we’re going to strip intent on carrying out attacks. time, a point prosecutors con­ the U.S. operations to an major ports, he said. search everybody who gets on Possible targets included hos­ ceded later in the trial. American firm. Still others questioned the an airplane,” he said. pitals, banks and grocery stores. 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T he O bserver The Independent^ Daily Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Fond farewell P.O. Box 779, Noire Dame. IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 How many of us follow God’s call for us? Leadership on Civil Rights. She marched their communities. How many of us can even see it clearly? I alongside the thousands for racial justice. They returned to Chicago in the 1980s, E d it o r in C h ie f Mike Gilloon see our greatest mandate in life as to Local lights were also important to her. In working for the Archdiocese Office of “ Love each other as I have loved you.” The Chicago, she was involved with the Human Relations and Ecumenism and at M a n a g in g E d it o r B u sin e s s M a n a g e r “I” being Jesus. This is a special calling to Contract Buyers League, a group trying to DePaul University Roach retired when Maddie Hanna Paula Garcia love, perhaps distinct stomp out racist realtors who would intim­ Egan died in 2001, but kept in contact with

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Dear Father Jenkins, play has garnered tremendous publicity, it has caused far anti-woman, anti-feminist and to be framed as an ultra- I graduated from Notre Dame in 2004. At that time “The more confusion about the true dignity of women than it has legalistic conservative — afraid of sexuality, crude words Vagina Monologues” was just beginning to reach its zenith ever clarified. This is a cost that I am not willing to pay. and scantily clad women — a fact that I think has con­ on our campus. I particularly remember a day in LaFortune Before “The Vagina Monologues” became such a hot tributed to much of the success of “The Vagina when I was studying for an exam. I was on my way out and issue on campus, it was easy to see the real and unre­ Monologues.” I am not afraid of my sexuality. I will be mar­ as I was walking toward the back entrance, I was accosted hearsed reaction of students to the play. You would see ried this fall and I look forward with anticipation to a happy by a young woman wearing only some flimsy crime tape some men coming out of Washington Hall either laughing and frequent sex life. I am not afraid of crude words. I have around her in the shape of a bikini, telling me that as a hysterically because some woman was screaming cunt over a very quaint grandmother who when given the proper woman I should be one of the first in line to attend this and over again or a few others walking rather shamefully provocation can make even a truck driver blush. And I am year’s rendition of “The Vagina Monologues.” I looked down and awkwardly back to their dorms because the visual and certainly not afraid of scantily clad women, fighting for at her “bikini” — the words wrapping around her said audio stimuli was more like a free peep show. Some men women’s protection or raising awareness for true femi­ “Date Rape Free Zone.” I looked up again into her eyes and just felt plain anger because of the absence of any nistic issues. However, despite the author’s good asked, “ Have you ever been raped?” Almost puzzled by the significant story about a good experience that intentions, “The Vagina Monologues” clearly directness of my question, she cocked her head to the side involved a man. Of course, the play generat­ trivializes the dignity of women because it before answering “no.” I asked all the girls there — not one ed conversations among women because, gauges the health of a woman’s sexuality of them had actually been raped. I turned and walked unfortunately, many of us have experi­ by her ability to personify her vagina, not away, feeling rather violated all over again because two enced some form of inappropriate sexu­ to mention the blatant misandry years prior to graduation, I had been the victim of rape. al aggression, but I never found the throughout the dialogues making it A little about me: I consider myself a very “liberated” conversations constructive no matter seem more like a work of hate than of woman. Growing up, I lived in 14 different states; cities as how open I tried to be. It was more love. different as Los Angeles, Calif, to Paducah, Ky. In other like a group of women trying to out Am I saying that “The Vagina words, I’ve been around. I can easily say words like vagina do each other with how horrific and Monologues” should be banned from and clitoris. I don’t really see this as a major accomplish­ miserable our experiences had the campus in any form? No, I would ment. I am a recent convert to Catholicism. I do not see been. never place such a restriction on myself as an “arch liberal,” “arch conservative” or “arch The only people on campus who academic freedom, and I believe anything.” I do not pass judgment on an idea until I think I seemed to truly “understand” this that any book or media with aca­ understand it. play and its direct correlation to demic interest and merit should be When 1 was raped in 2002,1 made a point to take a closer helping stem the tide of violence available for study at Notre Dame. look at gender relations because I wanted to understand against women were the faculty What I am saying is that I am shocked my own experience and be able to help others in similar endorsing it and the small group of and very sad to hear that you, a circumstances. I read and watched “The Vagina students dedicated to seeing the pro­ Catholic priest and philosopher, choose Monologues” performed by Eve Ensler herself. I read books duction through. Being a philosophy to keep a spotlight on t“The Vagina by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Betty Friedan and Jennifer major, I had to ask myself, “why?” As I Monologues” and claim that “The Vagina Baumgardner, and I attended as many talks as I could on became acquainted with most of the faculty Monologues” is not, “overt and insistent in campus on the topic of violence against women. What I and students involved with the production of its contempt for the values and sensibilities of found was a mass of confusion, pain and bitterness. Only “The Vagina Monologues,” I quickly noticed a this University, or of any of the diverse groups one talk on campus throughout my two years of avid, per­ rather common trend. Despite being dedicated to the that form part of our community.” I refrained from sonal research touched me in any real way — that talk was protection of women, most of the women I encountered w riting earlier because I believed given your initial state­ given by Katie Koestner in the Hesburgh lib ra ry who were directly involved with the production of “The ment on academic freedom that I would really have nothing Auditorium about her horrible experience as an undergrad­ Vagina Monologues” held a very limited and sometimes to worry about. Your recent statement on “The Vagina uate at the College of William and Mary. Her speech was even warped understanding of a woman’s true beauty and Monologues” shocked and, quite frankly, depressed me. To not overly dramatic or explicit, but it was real. The pain power. They simply equated sexual forcefulness with libera­ say that “The Vagina Monologues” does not violate our was real, the feelings were real and because it was so hon­ tion and healing. In essence, they advocated a position that Christian identity or show contempt for part of our commu­ est, respectful and simple, the discussions afterward on the it is healthy for women to act in a similar manner to the nity is to cross over onto very thin ice. As Catholics we are topic of violence against women were more poignant and men who had hurt them — domineering, insensitive and not allowed to do even a small amount of evil so that good encouraging than any others I engaged in at Notre Dame. completely self-absorbed. It was hard for me to warm up to may be obtained. I believe that “The Vagina Monologues” Unfortunately, this talk did not receive as much press as this idea. does more than a little evil by further confusing the dignity “The Vagina Monologues” that year because Koestner did During my final years at Notre Dame, I began to read of women and obtains only an infinitesimal amount of good not use words like vagina and cunt to describe her experi­ Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. I also took a the­ through its efforts to raise awareness of violence against ence. She only used words like emptiness and fear. ology class on this topic and participated in conferences and women. There are much better ways to accomplish this So why am I against “The Vagina Monologues?” You talks given by Christopher West, a Catholic scholar on the goal while still preserving an open, academic environment. would think that as a woman who has been sexually violat­ Church’s teaching of sexuality. I wanted to ensure that I You remain in my prayers. ed that I would want to further my cause at any cost; but was seeing both sides of the gender dialogue at Notre that is just the point — I believe “The Vagina Monologues” Dame, and I think it really did help me to see the difference Amelia Marcum does not further my cause or the cause of women. After between constructive and destructive dialogue. alumna many hours of reading and many hours of talking with oth­ Standing against “The Vagina Monologues” is a hard Class o f2004 ers on this topic, I believe that despite the fact that Ensler’s thing to do because to do so is to risk being persecuted as April 12 War and peace Respect education program

The Pass in Review celebrates and memorializes the I would like to dispute the opprobri­ writing and thoughtless public presen­ time to tasks you have already legacy of ROTC at Notre Dame. We, the co-presidents ous and shabbily written “salute” tation of your own thoughts. This deemed worthless. And, for someone of the Notre Dame Peace Fellowship (NDPF), would offered to the education majors of leads to my second point of dissension. who so clearly stated that she could like to personally acknowledge the dedication, hard Saint Mary’s in last Friday’s Inside Your writing is atrocious. I read your “only imagine the challenges” that work and courage of our ROTC cadets and officers. Column by Laura Baumgartner, article several times over, pausing and educators face on a daily basis, you As you may know, NDPF has a history of protesting “Student teachers.” As an education rereading to ensure that it was no are quick to point out faults in a sys­ the annual Pass in Review. Although we take issue major, I felt that it was demeaning on trick of the imagination or computer tem with which you claim to have no with this current war and look to the traditions of non­ several levels. The first of these was screen. I find it difficult to believe that firsthand experience. The focus of violence and Just War as guides, our club is not organ­ the outright criticism of the faculty of an attendee of this College would be your column is so unclear that it izing a protest this year. We wish to both show our our esteemed institution. I feel that the so impudent as to insult tenured staff leaves me wondering what your point respect and build bridges of communication. We recog­ professors of any education depart­ in the midst of writing littered with was. Were you looking to uncover an nize that we are all working toward the same goal of ment have an especially daunting task run-on sentences, misspelled words education program that is in derelic­ an increase of peace and justice, and often within the when it comes to the field of education, and blatant syntax errors. You can tion of its duties? Was your column an same Christian framework. simply because of its nature. The edu­ rest assured that your teachers and underhanded strike at pre-service This day let us commit to understanding each other’s cation of children, or, for that matter, professors — present and past — educators? Or was it simply a poorly common goals and aspirations for a more peaceful of adults, is not an exact science. Here would be less than pleased with your planned lament spurred by junior- world. Division and stereotyping only alienates and at Saint Mary’s, we are very fortunate latest literary venture. year stress and the bellyaching of offends. We likely agree that in order to make peace in to have a department that is filled with And finally, I speak for many of the close friends? Whatever the case may the world, we first have to make peace among our­ teachers who are competent, under­ women who share your campus when be, I certainly hope that the many selves. Last semester, you may have attended a few standing and, most importantly, pres­ I express displeasure at your seeming­ readers of The Observer can look past dialogues between NDPF and ROTC. They will start up ent us with new challenges daily. They ly backhanded concluding statements. this misinformation and poor repre­ again in the fall, providing us all with an opportunity to push us to explore the latest and best While it may be true that you meant sentation of our student body so that understand each other’s ideologies and collaborate in practices and present us with opportu­ no offense to the student-teaching the true value of our institution, its an effort to find common ground. We look forward to nities to push ourselves to new levels body, how is it that you conceived the professors and all of its students will dialoguing with you next semester. both in and out of the classroom. idea of undermining our entire major not be overlooked. When it comes to your promulga­ and department as being complimen­ Clare Feeney tion, I would like to agree with you on tary of our future roles as educators? Kate Keating sophomore one point. You are clearly in no posi­ In one sentence you debased the senior off-campus tion to judge any member of this facul­ entire core of our education, and in Le Mans Hall April 25 ty, as is clearly evidenced by your poor the next you thank us for devoting our April 25 T h e O bserver page 14 S cene Wednesday, April 26, 2006

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These developed dual-layer. One hun­ note. Square Enix, makers of the one the advantage over the other. ter become dred GB four layer and 200 GB famous “Final Fantasy” series of This will come with the PS3 and, DVD Laser Size: 405 sides of the eight layer discs are also current­ role-playing games, is releasing once it is released, the two groups nanometers. 1. ly in development. Final Fantasy XII exclusively on can gauge the market response Laser Color: Blue-violet. >VD Forum's Sony is arguably the most Jiigh the PS2. This seems to indicate and a clear front runner will VD, the Blu- profile member of the Blu-ray the series is returning to releases emerge. If the PS3 has the success announced Disc Association with its influence only on Sony platforms that began that its predecessors had. it may AffiHatedvideo game would sup- in the home console market. 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M ovie Review 'Dreamz' film fails to capture imagination

enough and when they do. they linger in By CASSIE BELEK an abyss. The first half of the movie Scene C ritic drags on as we wait for the “American Dreamz” competition, where the real Good movie satires engage ripe and excitement starts. sometimes controversial topics with On the way there, “Tweedy” finds hilariously witty dialogue that guaran­ someone as heartless and miserable as tees not only a good laugh, but a gen­ himself in Sally, and decides to help her uine social commentary. Think “Dr. through the competition. Enter the sexu­ Strangelove” first, then “Clueless,” fol­ al tension that isn’t quite there. Grant lowed by “This is Spinal Tap" and and Moore make an odd combination, “Office Space.” Unfortunately, and despite Grant’s dashing looks, his “American Dreamz,” written and direct­ age shows against Moore’s youthful ed by Paul Weitz, fails to live up to its glow. Both characters could be more sin­ predecessors’ caliber despite a spectacu­ ister, and don’t hold a candle to Simon lar ensemble cast and a juicy inspiration Cowell’s cruelty. In fact, Cowell is an — more people vote in the “American exaggerated version of Tweedy instead Idol” com petition than vote in the U.S. of the other way around. presidential elections. Shining stars include Golzari as Omer, “American Dreamz" follows a number the budding suicide terrorist, and Chris of characters, including President Staton Klein as William Williams, Sally’s dedi­ (Dennis Quaid), a dimwitted leader of cated Iraqi war veteran ex-boyfriend. the free world con­ Omer’s assignment trolled by his power­ is to blow up the ful Chief of Staff American Dreamz president, but he’s (Willem Dafoe). starting to quite President Staton suf­ enjoy his singing fers somewhat of a fame and life w ith Photo courtesy of movieweb.com breakdown, causing his spoiled cousins. Singing hopeful Sally Kendoo (Mandy Moore) gushes onstage as “American him to actually read D ire c to r: Paul Weitz Meanwhile, Sally is Dreamz” show host Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant) offers some constructive criticism. newspapers and non- W rite rs : Paul Weitz pretending to be in fiction books. After S tarring : Dennis Quaid, W illem Dafoe, love with William when we know she is capable of more, lists. With so many different plot disappearing from Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore in order to garner especially after her stint in “Arrested threads, the movie doesn’t completely the public eye, his more votes on the Development.” Jennifer Coolidge is gel until it’s time for the competition, Chief of Staff encourages him to be a show. Golzari successfully portrays a another underutilized comedic force, and it comes too late in the action. The guest judge on the singing contest show reluctant terrorist seeking a normal life playing Sally’s mother — a very uninter­ Bo Bice look-alike is priceless and “American Dreamz," hosted by Martin filled with song and dance and Klein esting part. These are roles that could Mandy Moore has perfected the blonde Tweed (Hugh Grant). Contestants of plays the red-blooded, devoted, high have easily gone to unknowns but brat routine, but “American Dreamz ” “American Dreamz” include white-trash school sweetheart with just the right instead were wasted on quality actress­ lacks the meat and potatoes of a quality starlet Sally Kendoo (Mandy Moore) and amount of exaggeration. es. It’s doubtful either will be remem­ comedy. The movie is good for a laugh, secret Arab terrorist Omer (Sam With its talent-heavy ensemble, bered in their roles, a fault not of their but doesn’t break any new ground in the Golzari). “American Dreamz ” is guilty of not using own, but of the movie’s. field of satires. It’s a brilliant plot combination that all its resources. Judy Greer settles for “American Dreamz” is funny, but not falls flat. The jokes don’t come quick her typical high-strung sidekick part funny enough to rank high on satire Contact Cassie Belek at [email protected]

Ho m e V ideo P layers in C ontext Betamax vs. VHS: an old-school technology battle Betamax cornered the market and held By SEAN SWEANY nearly 100% market share because of Scene Writer the incompatibility of other formats. However, VHS sales quickly overtook In a time before DVD, Dolby those of Betamax for several reasons. Surround Sound and digital movie pro­ First was the superior recording time jection — when hair bands and disco of VHS compared to Betamax. In spite ruled our culture — a format war over­ o f numerous product revisions by Sony, whelmed the entertainment world just VIIS always enjoyed a longer recording as the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray conflict does time. Along with this, both VHS tapes today. Known today mostly to older and recorders were available at prices generations and collectors, it was the cheaper than those of Betamax. light between Betamax and VHS. Betamax machines eventually became In the early 1970s, home videocas­ easier to rent, but by that point VHS sette recorders became available to the had already cornered nearly 70 per­ public at cheap prices. The first suc­ cent of the market for recordable cessful system was the Sony-produced tapes. Betamax. It was named “Betamax ” Sony again made a crucial mistake in because the shape of the tape running the marketing of its Betamax product. through the cassette looked like the Whereas 40 companies utilized the Greek letter “Beta.” VHS format by 1984, only 12 used One year after the debut of Betamax, Betamax. Sony’s refusal to sign licens­ JVC introduced a rival product, the ing agreements with movie studios and Photo courtesy of student.oulu.org VHS, or Video Home System. VHS cassette hardware companies led to a Its low storage capacity and higher price tag eventually doomed the Betamax works by running a magnetic tape further reduction in market share. By player in its evolutionary war against VHS, making it an obsolete dinosaur. between two spools, which is then contrast, VHS became more widely passed over various playback and available. broadcast video industry. Nevertheless, the length and licensing of its product. recording heads in a Video Cassette By the late 1980s, nearly every street the public popularity of Betamax dwin­ If different decisions had been made, Recorder (VCR) to produce an image. corner store held a rack of VHS tapes dled through the 1990s, except for sev­ DVD may have phased out Betamax The original Betamax systems fea­ available for sale, while Betamax tapes eral niche groups. Sony finally gave up instead of VHS. tured a high recording quality but only were almost impossible to find. In on the dying brand, producing its last However, as it turned out Betamax held one hour’s worth of footage — 1988, Sony began to manufacture VHS Betamax player in 2002. fell hard, while VHS went on to domi­ that’s less than a feature film. VHS, on recorders, conceding defeat in the for­ The format war between Betamax nate the marketplace for over a the other hand, lost some quality, but mat war. VHS went on to dominate the and VHS is a classic case of market decade. While there have been numer­ could manage two hours of recording industries of home recording and competition and has been applied to ous format wars in various industries thanks to larger cassettes and slower movie distribution until the introduc­ many battles in the computer industry, throughout history, the Betamax vs. tape speed. Betamax made changes to tion of the DVD in 1997. including Apple vs. IBM, Macintosh vs. VHS conflict is one of the most well its cassettes to eventually have space While Betamax died a silent death in Windows and Microsoft vs. Netscape. known and studied, thanks to its enor­ for over three hours, but VHS could the home video market, it lived on for a While marketing competition existed mous and lasting effects on the enter­ employ a “Slow Play” program to time in personal camcorders and a as one dimension of this format war, tainment industry. record eight hours of footage. derivative called Betacam is now one of the major reasons Betamax failed were In the beginning of its production. the standards in the professional and the decisions made by Sony concerning Contact Sean Sweany at [email protected] Wednesday, April 26, 2006 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISEMENT page17

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N B A P la y o ffs Wizards fight back to even series withCavs

Associated Press postseason game as a pro. team playoff record. “I missed a He finished with 26 points on lot of shots, layups that I usually CLEVELAND — The 7-of-25 shooting, and matched make. They did a great job. I Washington Wizards got mad, his career high with 10 didn’t come to play.” then got even. turnovers. James also made The series shifts to the Verizon Angry at allowing LeBron some mental errors, including a Center for Game 3 in the best- James to dominate them with a costly one late when he made of-seven series on Friday night. triple-double in Game 1, the an out-of-bounds save under his Drew Gooden scored 24 points Wizards roughed up Cleveland’s own basket that was picked off on 11-of-12 shooting and added superstar and downed the by Arenas for an easy layup. 16 rebounds, and Larry Hughes Cavaliers 89-84 Tuesday night The Wizards, who returned to had 16 points for the Cavaliers, to tie their Eastern Conference Washington after Game 1 to who trailed 85-77 with 1:34 left series at a game apiece. regroup, came up with all the following Arenas’ gift layup and Gilbert Arenas scored 30 right adjustments and snatched free throw. points, Antawn Jamison added away Cleveland’s home-court A free throw by James and 21 and Caron Butler was the advantage. two by Gooden got the Cavs primary defender on James, “We destroyed ourselves in within 85-80, and Cleveland who wasn’t the same after he Game 1,” Arenas said. “So we was still alive when Arenas got wrapped up by massive decided to come out and play missed an ill-advised 3-pointer. Wizards center Brendan better basketball.” Haywood in the first quarter. The Wizards stopped James Nets 90, Pacers 75 “Actually, that wasn’t the plan and also snapped Cleveland’s The Indiana Pacers know going in,” Arenas said of 12-game winning streak at what to expect from Vince Haywood’s hack. “Brendan just home. Instead of double-team­ Carter and the New Jersey Nets. decided he was going to give a ing the 6-foot-8 James, who dis­ They don’t quite get the offi­ hard foul to let him know he sected them with passes to open cials. was there. For some reason, teammates in Game 1, Carter rebounded from a dis­ that just threw him off a little Washington coach Eddie Jordan mal shooting performance to b it.” let Butler and Jared Jeffries score 33 points Tuesday night James got 32 points, 11 guard him with no assistance. and lead the New Jersey Nets to rebounds and 11 assists in his “They had a great scheme by a victory over the foul-plagued playoff debut, but he played like playing me 1-on-l,” said James, and undermanned Pacers, a mere mortal in his second whose 10 turnovers were a evening their first-round series at a game apiece. “ Maybe it came o ff as a chip, it was just focus,” Carter said Pacers’ center Rick Foster, middle, pulls down a rebound over when asked if had a chip on his Nets’ guards Jason Kidd, left, and Lamond Murray. shoulder for Game 2. “I wanted to get my first win here. They brought me here not to just win both of us are out, it’s hard. Our overtime by a 3-pointer from 49 games but to win playoff teammates play off us a lot, and Brent Barry that hit the rim games. That was my goal. It was it didn’t make it no better that twice, went high and fell important for me to come out Peja wasn’t playing. It’s hard to through with 4 seconds left in and just be Vince.” win a game like that.” regulation. Carter had plenty of help. The Pacers’ trio averaged a Then Manu Ginobili carried Richard Jefferson added 21 combined 56 points during the the defending champions to a points and Nenad Krstic had 20 regular season. Jackson had 10 victory Tuesday night in Game 2 points and 10 rebounds as New points before fouling out in the of their first-round series. Jersey avoided losing the first fourth quarter. O’Neal finished Game 3 is Friday night in two games at home. with 12 points on 3-for-l 2 Sacramento. With so many days Game 3 is at Indiana on shooting and five fouls. off, Kings fans might start won­ Thursday night. Both O’Neal and Jackson dering whether the Spurs could Jason Kidd added six points, chose their words carefully possibly find another way to 13 assists and 11 rebounds in a when asked about the officiat­ break their hearts. game the Pacers probably felt ing. San Antonio had its way with was decided a little too much by “I don’t quite understand it,” Sacramento in the opener, an officiating crew that included O’Neal said. “This is my 10th breaking things open in the sec­ Violet Palmer, the first female to year. These are the same moves ond quarter and winning by 34. referee a postseason game. I made the previous four or five Perhaps thinking this one would The crew called two fouls years that made me an All-Star. be ju st as easy, especially w ith apiece on Indiana’s Jermaine On the flops, they’re holding Kings forw ard Ron Artest serv­ O’Neal and Stephen Jackson in onto me. They’re not calling ing a one-game suspension, the the first quarter, and the Pacers them on the other end.” Spurs came out fiat and were were never able to find their down by five at halftime. offense on a night forward Peja Spurs 128, Kings 119 Although San Antonio Stojakovic was also sidelined Maybe the Sacramento Kings snapped out of it and went up with a sore right knee. would’ve preferred another by 10 in the third quarter, Bonzi “It’s hard when both of us are trampling over what the San Wells, Shareef Abdur-Rahim in foul trouble,” Jackson said. Antonio Spurs did to them. and Artest’s replacement, Kevin Cleveland Cavaliers’ forward Drew Gooden, left, looks to make a “If one of us is in foul trouble, Dominant early and resilient Martin, refused to let pass while guarded by the Washington Wizards’ Antawn Jamison. the other can play. But when late, the Kings were forced into Sacramento go away.

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N H L P la yo fffs Senators defeat Lightning, grab 2-1 advantage in series

Quick goals by M cCarty and Regehr lift Flames over M ighty Ducks in game dominated by power play scoring

Associated Press Lightning, who trimmed a four- respond by scoring three times goal deficit to 5-2 on Ranger’s in their first 11 shots, with TAMPA, Fla. — The Ottawa unassisted goal just 20 seconds Havlat finding the net for the Senators are determined to into third period. But any realis­ third straight game and Redden shake their reputation as playoff tic chance to make it interesting and Patrick Eaves adding their failures. faded when Tampa Bay’s Chris first goals of the playoffs. Two nights after a third-period Dingman gave the Senators a 7- The Lightning were fortunate m collapse at home revived talk minute power play by drawing to only tra il 3-1 after one period. about past postseason disap­ penalties for instigating and Tampa Bay has been putrid on pointment, the top-seeded team fighting. the power play in the first three in the Eastern Conference Dany Heatley and Zdeno games of the series, going 4-for- regained control of its first- Chara scored during the stretch 23 w ith two of the goals coming round series against the Tampa for Ottawa to make it 7-2. in 5-on-3 situations, including St. Bay Lightning with an impres­ Tampa Bay came back with Louis’ shot that got through sive 8-4 victory on Tuesday power-play goals by Ranger and Emery late in the first period. night. Pavel Kubina, but by that time The Lightning yanked goalie Ottawa leads 2-1 in the best- the game was well out of reach. John Grahame after llavlat’s of-seven matchup. Game 4 is Heatley and Chara didn’t make second goal made it 5-1 midway Thursday night in Tampa. it to the end as they were part of through the second period. Martin Havlat scored his third a brawl w ith 2:17 left. Backup Sean Burke yielded and fourth goals of the playoffs, Heatley squared off in a fight goals to Heatley, Chara and and defenseman Wade Redden with Nolan Pratt, and Chara Vermette in the third. had a goal and two assists after locked up with Vincent missing Game 2 to fly to Lecavalier. Ottawa’s 6-foot-9 Flames 5, Mighty Ducks 2 Saskatchewan to be with family defenseman cocked his right Darren McCarty and Robyn following the death of his moth­ arm and held it menacingly over Regehr scored 34 seconds apart er. Lecavalier, who was down on the in the third period to break open Antoine Vermette also scored ice, but restrained from throw­ a tight game and lift the Calgary twice for the Senators, who got ing the big punch. Flames to a playoff victory over another solid performance from The melee, sparked by Vaclav the Anaheim Mighty Ducks on goaltender Ray Emery. The Varada’s boarding penalty Tuesday night. Senators’ goalie Ray Emery flips Lightning defenseman Paul rookie stopped 35 shots and against Tampa Bay’s Ruslan Calgary took a 2-1 lead in the Ranger after Ranger scored a goal in Tuesday’s 8-4 Lightning win. again showed why Ottawa is Fedotenko, capped a physical first-round Western Conference confident it can go deep into the game that featured 139 penalty series. Game 4 of the best-of- only 24 shots against goalie cled toward the crease, reached playoffs, even without injured minutes — 79 for Tampa Bay — seven matchup is Thursday Jean-Sebastien Giguere. Miikka around and poked the puck past goalie Dominik Hasek. five fighting majors, and seven night in Anaheim. The teams Kiprusoff faced 29 Anaheim Giguere for a 4-2 lead. 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NFL NCAA Baseball R a n k i n g s

team record. prev.

1 Cal State-Fullerton 31-10 1 2 Rice 35-9 2 3 North Carolina 34-8 3 4 Nebraska 32-6 4 5 Oregon State 28-9 9 6 Alabama 31-12 11 7 Texas 28-15 5 8 Georgia Tech 32-9 13 9 Clemson 29-13 6 10 Oklahoma 32-10 15 11 Arkansas 30-12 12 12 NOTRE DAME 32-8 18 13 Kentucky 30-10 21 14 South Carolina 30-11 7 15 Florida State 33-10 8 16 Arizona State 28-14 10 17 College of Charleston 33-8 19 18 North Carolina State 31-13 14 19 Houston 28-15 NR 20 Virginia 34-10 NR 21 Vanderbilt 25-16 16 22 UCLA 23-16 NR 23 Mississippi 26-15 NR 24 Mississippi State 29-11 17 25 Old Dominion 35-8 20

NCAA W om en’s Softball

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No. team record prev.

1 UCLA 36-4 1 2 Texas 45-5 2 3 Arizona 34-8 3 4 Alabama 40-7 4 The Dolphins’ Ricky Williams smiles in the final seconds of Miami’s 33-21 win over the Oakland Raiders on Nov. 5 Stanford 33-10 5 27, 2005. Williams was suspended for the 2006 season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. 6 Tennessee 47-6 7 7 Arizona Stale 41-7 8 8 California 38-8 6 9 Oregon State 33-7 9 10 LSU 44-7 11 Miami's Williams done for another year 11 Georgia 46-11 10 12 La.-Lafayette 39-8 13 Associated Press 13 Michigan 31-12 12 statement released by the Trophy winner at Texas Saban repeatedly has 14 Northwestern 33-10 16 team. “I’m proud of my and 2002 NFL rushing praised Williams’ conduct 15 Washington 29-15 14 MIAMI — Miami association with the champion, Williams retired and performance last sea­ 16 Nebraska 35-8 15 Dolphins running back National Football League and sat out the 2004 sea­ son and supported him in 17 Texas A&M 32-13 17 Ricky Williams was sus­ and look forward to son, then returned last the appeal process. 18 Baylor 33-17 19 pended for the 2006 sea­ returning to the Dolphins year to play for new Miami “This is a league deci­ 19 Auburn 31-13 18 son by the NFL on Tuesday in 2007.” coach Nick Saban. sion, and we are disap­ 20 Fresno State 31-13 20 for violating the league’s Williams’ previous posi­ Williams served a four- pointed in what it means 21 North Carolina 46-13 22 substance abuse policy for tive tests were for marijua­ game suspension at the for Ricky and the team.” 22 Louisville 30-8 23 the fourth time. na, which he acknowl­ start of the 2005 season Saban said in a statement. 23 Oklahoma 29-18-1 21 The league announced edged using. The latest for his third violation of “Ricky did an outstanding 24 San Diego State 27-8 NR the suspension after test apparently involved a the drug program, then job for the Dolphins, not 25 Virginia Tech 33-14 NR Williams’ appeal of his lat­ drug other than marijua­ ran for 743 yards and only as a player but also est positive drug test was na. averaged 4.4 yards a carry what he added as a person denied. Williams met with Williams had been par­ while sharing playing time to the team’s chemistry NFL counsel Jeff Pash on ticipating in the offseason with rookie Ronnie Brown. and to our overall suc­ NCAA W om en’s Softball April 10 in an attempt to training program at the News that Williams had cess.” Big East Conference have the league overturn Dolphins’ complex and failed another drug test Attorney David Cornwell the test. was there working out surfaced in February, represented Williams in team conf. overall “I’m disappointed with shortly before the league while he was in India his appeal. NOTRE DAME 13-1 31-13 the decision, but I respect announced its decision. studying yoga and holistic “We raised substantial USE 11-1 41-20 it,” Williams said "in a The 1998 Heisman medicine. and legitimate issues.” Louisville 9-3 30-8 Syracuse 12-6 30-19 DePaul 9-5 24-15 Providence 9-7 26-14 I n B r i e f Pittsburgh 8-10 27-24 St. John’s 6-10 23-23 Connecticut 5-9 18-22 Duke lacrosse player to face Judge John Bayly also set a 9 p.m. 4. Including his first ATP title in Seton Hall 6-12 28-24 charges in separate case curfew, ordered him to report by Valencia as a qualifier, Almagro has Rutgers 4-14 12-34 WASHINGTON — A Duke phone to court officials every Friday, won 10 straight matches on clay. 13-32 Vlllanova 2-16 University lacrosse player charged and required that he stay away from He’ll next face third-seeded with raping a stripper in North places that sell alcohol. Guillermo Coria, who boat Spanish Carolina was ordered Tuesday to Federer beats Murray to wild card Galo Blanco 6-7 (4), 6-0, 6- stand trial in Washington on an advance to third round 2. Coria made 11 of his total 16 dou­ unrelated assault charge from last BARCELONA, Spain — Fifth-seeded ble faults in losing the first set, then fall. David Ferrer withstood a strong chal­ breezed through the next two sets. around the dialThe assault charge against Collin lenge from British teenager Andy Earnhardt to drive replica Finnerty, 19, could have been dis­ Murray, w inning 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1 to of father’s car at Talladega missed if he completed 25 hours of reach the third round of the Open CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The one thing a community service and stayed out of Seat Godo on Tuesday. NASCAR driver never wanted to see NBA trouble, but a Washington judge Ferrer took 65 minutes to win the was the black No. 3 Chevrolet closing on Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:30 p.m., NBA TV decided his arrest in the rape case second-set tiebreaker, then eased his rear bumper. One glance of the car Memphis at Dallas, 8 p.m., TNT violated that agreement. through the final set. in the rearview m irror was enough to LA Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m., TNT Finnerty and two friends are accused The second-highest ranked Spaniard send tremors through any competitor. of punching a man after he told them after No. 2 Rafael Nadal, No. 12 Dale Earnhardt Jr. hopes to achieve to “stop calling him gay and other Ferrer is streaking after reaching the that same effect this weekend at NHL derogatory names,” according to semifinals at Key Biscayne and the Talladega Superspeedway, where he’ll New Jersey at New York, 7 p.m., OLN court documents. quarterfinals at Monte Carlo last mark his late father’s birthday by driv­ Dallas at Colorado, 9:30 p.m., OLN Finnerty remains free pending a July week, losing both times to Roger ing a replica of the famed car. 10 tria l in the Washington case. He Federer. Junior’s trademark red Chevy will be MLB could get up to six months in jail and Also cruising into the third round painted predominantly black, with Atlanta at Milwaukee, 1:05 p.m., TBS a fine of up to $1,000 if convicted of was Nicolas Almagro, who beat 13th- white lettering and silver and red simple assault. seeded Gael Monfils of France 6-2, 6- stripes. Wednesday, April 26, 2006 The Observer ♦ SPORTS page 21

MLB Chipper Jones hits two-run dinger in return to lineup

grounder by Jeff Francoeur and Jeter hits homer and lost the ball in the seventh drives in three runs inning, but the play was ruled a base hit. Browers manager Ned in 9-1 Yankees win Yost said before the game that he will continue to take a patient Associated Press approach with Weeks, who is considered one of the team’s ris­ MILWAUKEE — Prince Fielder ing young stars. took advantage of an infield shift by the Atlanta Braves, singling in Reds 6, Nationals 5 the go-ahead run in the sixth Edwin Encarnacion drove in inning to lift the Milwaukee four runs, and the Cincinnati Brewers to a 4-2 victory Tuesday Reds took advantage of night. Washington starter Billy Traber’s The Brewers trailed 2-1 going wildness to take an early lead into the sixth, but scored two Tuesday night, then held on for a runs with two outs to take the victory over the Nationals. lead. The Reds have won six of their Gabe Gross doubled w ith one last seven to improve to 14-7, out, then advanced to third when their first time seven games over Braves starter Tim Hudson had .500 since July 4, 2004. to duck a broken bat on a Washington, meanwhile, groundnut by Geoff Jenkins. dropped to 1-6 at home. Traber Carlos Lee singled sharply to (1-1) lasted only 1 1-3 innings, center field, scoring Gross to tie and the Nationals had to go deep the game. Lee stole second with into their bullpen, using five Fielder batting. relievers. The Braves are using an infield Cincinnati starter Dave shift on the left-handed Fielder, Williams (1-2) wasn’t brilliant but Braves’ third baseman Chipper Jones, right, is congratulated by right fielder Ryan Langerhans moving their shortstop to the good enough for the win, allow­ after hitting a home run Tuesday against the Brewers. The Brewers won 4-2. right side of second base. But ing four runs and nine hits in Fielder chopped a 2-1 pitch five-plus innings. He gave up through a gaping hole into left rookie Ryan Zimmerman’s two- judge the ball, moving forward pitchers have allowed only one seventh on a two-run homer by center field, scoring Lee to give run homer in the second and before having to backpedal, and run in four of their past five Jay Gibbons, who is 9-for-l7 the Brewers a 3-2 lead. Alfonso Soriano’s solo shot in the the ball sailed over his glove. games. (.529) against Chacin. Chipper Jones, who came off fifth. Pitching at home for the first Rodrigo Lopez (1-2) walked the disabled list Tuesday after Traber faced 11 batters, and Yankees 9, Devil Rays 1 time this year, Mussina (3-1) Russ Adams leading off the bot­ missing 13 games with a seven reached base — four hits, Derek Jeter homered and yielded only a solo homer to tom half, and Jim Brower sprained right knee and ankle, two walks and a hit batsman. A drove in three runs, Mike Yankees nemesis Jonny Gomes in relieved and walked Frank hit a two-run homer that put the night after scoring three first- Mussina had another strong out­ six-plus innings. The right-han­ Catalanotto with one out. Wells Braves ahead 2-0 in the fourth. inning runs off Livan Hernandez, ing and the New York Yankees der allowed four hits, struck out doubled for a 4-3 lead, Troy Jones, who hit into a double play the Reds scored four in the open­ got off to a much better start seven and did not walk a batter Glaus was intentionally walked, in his first at-bat, added a single ing inning off Traber, who against the Tampa Bay Devil for his fifth solid outing in five John Halama came in and pinch- in the sixth. walked in a run and gave up Rays this season w ith a victory starts this season. hitter Shea Hillenbrand hit a Brewers starter Tomo Ohka (2- Encarnacion’s two-run single and Tuesday night., He left w ith an 8-1 lead and two-run single. Bengie Molina 1) gave up two runs and seven Brandon Phillips1 sacrifice fly. Jason Giambi also knocked in improved to 14-5 against the added a two-out RBI single. hits in seven innings. Derrick Traber began the second by three runs to give him eight RBIs Devil Rays w ith his 227th career Turnbow pitched the ninth for walking Williams, drawing some in two games. Jeter finished with win. Cubs 3, Marlins 1 his seventh save in as many boos. After Felipe Lopez followed three hits and scored three Dontrelle Willis lost for the first chances. * by singling to center, Traber was times. He has 16 hits in his last Blue Jays 7, Orioles 3 time in A p ril, w ith rookie Sean Hudson (1-2) gave up only one removed. 30 at-bats (.533). Vernon Wells doubled home Marshall pitching seven scoreless hit in the first three innings It was a big falloff from Mussina beat 22-year-old lefty the go-ahead run in four-run sev­ innings on a cold night to lead before Jenkins hit his fourth Traber’s debut with the Nationals Scott Kazmir and shut down a enth inning, backing Gustavo the Chicago Cubs over the home run of the season, a solo last week, when he gave up two depleted lineup missing Carl Chacin and leading the Toronto Florida Marlins Tuesday. shot in the fourth inning that cut hits in 5 2-3 innings in a win over Crawford, Jorge Cantu, Aubrey Blue Jays over the Baltimore Willis (1-1) allowed three runs, the Braves’ lead to 2-1. It was Philadelphia. That was the lefty’s Huff and Julio Lugo. The Devil Orioles Tuesday night. five hits and three walks in seven the second home run Hudson first start in the majors in more Rays, swept in Texas last week­ Chacin (4-0), who has won innings, striking out six. He had allowed in five starts this year. than 2 1/2 years, because he end, have dropped four straight. each of his starts this season, been 9-0 with a 2.20 ERA in 14 Damian Miller’s RBI single in missed all of 2004 after having Last-place Tampa Bay won the allowed three runs and six hits in April starts. the seventh put the Brewers reconstructive elbow surgery the season series a year ago, going seven innings. He lowered his W illis also began the night 2-0 ahead 4-2. previous September. 11-8 against New York — includ­ ERA from 5.60 to 5.11. w ith a 1.01 ERA in four starts at Struggling second baseman The Reds went up 6-2 in the ing 6-3 at Yankee Stadium after Justin Speier and Scott Wrigley Field. He was selected by Rickie Weeks, who had two fifth on Encarnacion’s two-run finishing 0-10 in the Bronx in Schoeneweis each followed with the Cubs in the eighth round of errors for Milwaukee on Monday double off Felix Rodriguez. Left 2004. The Devil Rays were the a hitless inning. the 2000 amateur draft, then night, tried to backhand a fielder Soriano appeared to mis­ first team since the 1974 Detroit Rodrigo Lopez (1-2) gave up was traded to the Marlins in May Tigers to finish last and beat New four runs, five hits and four 2002 as part of a deal that York 11 times. walks in six innings. The Orioles brought pitchers Antonio But the Yankees had an easy have lost three straight after w in­ Alfonseca and Matt Clement to time in the first of 18 meetings ning nine of 12. Chicago. this year. They have outscored Baltimore, which has scored Marshall (2-0) allowed two their opponents 22-3 in winning just five runs in its last three hits, struck out seven and walked three in a row, and New York games, tied the score 3-3 in the two in his fourth career start. POM SQUAP Ryan Dempster pitched a per­ fect ninth to complete the five- hitter. 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years, so it’s great to win this year.” Draws Martin also credited his oppo­ continued from page 28 nents. “They really stepped it up and fundamentals," Shadley said. played a great second half,” he said. No. 20 Huggie’s Place 21 No. 10 Hannah’s Storm 11 No. 13 Rocco’s Pizza 21 Huggie’s Place — made up of No. 20 Sparkle Motion 18 four O'Neill Hall residents and No. 13 Rocco’s Pizza erased a an NDSP officer — upset six-point second-half deficit with Hannah’s Storm’s five athletic an 8-1 run on its way to a 21-18 department employees to make victory over No. 20 Sparkle it to the round of 16. Motion Tuesday at the Bookstore The two teams traded baskets to courts. Rocco’s win advanced the start, with Huggie’s utilizing an team to the Sweet 16. effective fast break offense and With his team trailing 14-8, the Storm hitting shots from the J.P. Fiction spearheaded Rocco’s outside to even the game at four. charge with seven second-half Huggie’s won most of the bat­ points. tles in the post, and scored seven With the score tied at 18, consecutive buckets after the Rocco’s tallied the final three early tie to take an 11-4 halftime points on two baskets from lead. Lichon, who finished with eight The Storm endured harass­ total, and the game winner from ment from opposing fans but Ted Christopher, who tallied four. battled back in the second half “We shot well in the first half,” on the strength of Allen Greene’s said Sparkler Dave DiForenzo, DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer outside shooting and post who led his team with seven Clover Ridge’s John Carlson, center, elevates to take a shot in the team’s game against Five Hot defense. But the team was points in the losing effort. “They Girls Who Probably Won’t Get Past the First Round But Hope to Get Lucky Tuesday. unable to overcome Huggie’s were on fire in the second half.” inside offense, which drew seven Rocco’s shot 7-for-37 in the started to fall in the second half,” hope by keeping the score close During the game, League play­ fouls on Storm defenders. first half, but turned in a 14-for- Rocco’s Kern Creevey said. “It at 6-4. ers hit several shots from outside Huggie’s Tom Martin converted 28 performance in the second was a gutsy performance.” But the Boyz went on a 7-0 run the arc, but could not take on the foul shot from the seventh stanza. Sparkle Motion shot 11- Rocco’s also played a 2-3 zone, to make the score 11-4 at the advantage of their 3-point shoot­ foul to give his team a 19-10 for-32 in the first but just 7-for- except for a brief period in the half. ing, as all baskets are worth a lead. 36 in the second half. second half when it switched to The second half saw more of single point. Martin finished the Storm off a In the first half, Sparkle man-to-man. Rocco’s defense, the same, as the Boyz tried to “If they were counting twos, few possessions later with an Motion’s disciplined 2-3 zone which rotated between a box- show off their “mad skillz” for we probably would’ve only lost alley-oop layup. limited the effectiveness of and-one and straight zone at the crowd. The No. 9 team took I by] six or so,” League guard “They outplayed us,” Storm’s Rocco’s quick ball movement and times, forced Sparkle Motion to a 15-8 lead and closed on a 6-2 John Roche said. “The refs defi­ Matt Tallman said after the kept Rocco’s out of the paint, take a slew of perimeter shots — run to finish off the Feague of nitely robbed us of the game.” game. “They knew what they forcing them to take most of the same effect as Sparkle’s Shadows. The Bad Boyz were unavail­ had to do. They came to play and their shots from the corners. But zone. “We’re kind of sad it is over, able for comment after the we didn’t.” in the second half, Rocco’s got Rocco’s just hit those outside but we are very happy that we game. For Martin, the victory offered some transition baskets and shots when they counted the got this far,” the Feague’s Brian true satisfaction. their outside shots began to fall. most. Moy said. Contact Tim Kaiser at “We came out ready to play,” “We weren’t hitting anything in “We got some unlucky Moy led League of Shadows [email protected] and Chris Hine he said. “We’ve lost the past two the first half, but some shots bounces, some shots went in and with six points. at [email protected] out and they got some easy buckets,” Sparkle Motion’s Chris Merino said. His teammate Zach Ortiz agreed. “There wasn’t enough sparkle in our motion,” he said. The game was the last Bookstore contest as undergrads for four of Sparkle’s members, who played together all four years and went 14-4. “ I’m disappointed I to see it end],” Sparkle senior Ian Ward said. “We had a lot of fun.”

No. 9 Bad Boyz 21 No. 24 League of Shadows 10 Despite a self-proclaimed advantage in strength, No. 24 League of Shadows fell to No. 9 Bad Boyz 21-10 Tuesday night the Bookstore courts. “We definitely had the strength advantage. They just scrapped it out,” League player Mike Tallarico said. “ I’m sure we can beat them in a pushing contest.” Bad Boyz had the maximum quota of three football players on its team, while League of Shadows had none. Pat Kuntz led the Boyz with nine points and Derrell Hand DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer added six. DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer U Got a Bad Draw’s Chris Devitt, left, drives past We Surely In the early going, the Boyz Lee Goeddel of Clover Ridge shoots a jumper in his team’s game Received an Unfortunate Draw’s Rick Loesing during Bad Draw’s failed to break open the game, against Five Hot Girls Who Probably Won’t Get Past the First 21-10 victory Tuesday at the Bookstore courts. giving the League a glimmer of Round But Hope to Get Lucky Tuesday.

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SMC S o f t b a l l ND S o f t b a l l Belles postpone finalIrish reschedule matchup

home run and seven RBIs. The postponement should non-conference gameBy JAY FITZPATRICK “It’s exciting that both of have little effect on the Irish, Sports W riter us were honored this week,” who merely shifted gears Goshen brings a 21-game Bargar said. “It’s pretty cool quickly for their doublehead­ By DEIRDRE KRASULA losing streak into the contest. Notre Dame w ill have to that it was the pitcher and er today against Purdue at Sports W riter The Maple Leafs last played wait until Thursday for its catcher.” Ivy Field beginning at 4 p.m. Kalamazoo Saturday in a dou­ game against Valparaiso. Notre Dame outscored its Notre Dame holds a 10-7 Saint Mary’s postponed its bleheader and lost both But the Irish won’t have to opponents 39-12 and posted all-tim e series lead over final non-conference game games, 6-5 and 2-1. The team wait for accolades from this two shutouts while winning Purdue (27-27, 5-1 0 Big Tuesday due to inclement has struggled offensively, past week. five out of six games, includ­ Ten), and the Irish won the weather and rescheduled the posting only three hits in 9-0 Inclement weather ing all four of its Big East last game in 2005, 4-1. contest against Goshen for and 3-0 losses to the Tuesday forced the post­ contests. The Irish moved to “We just have to prepare today at 3:30 p.m. University of St. Francis April ponement of Notre Dame’s the top of the Big East stand­ for Purdue just like every Belles head coach Erin 15. (31-13, 13-1 Big East) game ings, passing South Florida, other game,” Bargar said. Sullivan said that the change Goshen w ill rely on sopho­ with the Crusaders (18-25, whose record dropped to 11- will not adversely affect the more pitcher Erin Layman. 5-11 Mid-Continent) to 1 after the Bulls fell to Contact Jay Fitzpatrick at team’s play. In fact, she thinks Layman recorded a single Thursday at 3:30 p.m. (CDT), Syracuse 1-0 Sunday. [email protected] that it may even help the against St. Francis and went which w ill kick off a five- Belles. l-for-3 from the plate. game road trip that includes Sullivan said Saint Mary’s Sullivan said that Belles will games against conference w ill use the extra time to look to add two more wins to rivals Louisville and South focus on improving its play the season, but are looking to Florida — third and second from behind the plate. try people in different posi­ behind the Irish in the Big “We are going to work on tions. The team might move East, respectively. getting more consistency driv­ freshman Calli Davison to the “This postponement won’t ...... ing through the ball,” Sullivan mound in order to prepare for have any affect on our said. “Get more power.” the loss of Grail next season. momentum or anything,” Today’s contest against the Even with movement Irish pitcher Brittney Bargar Maple Leafs is the last home around the field, Saint Mary’s said. game for the Belles. Saint hopes to shut down Goshen’s Bargar and her battery Mary’s will honor its senior offense. mate, catcher Mallorie Lenn, class as it plays its second-to- The Belles head into their were named to the Big East lasl regular season matchup. match against Goshen with Honor Roll for their per­ Eleven underclassmen will the MIAA tournament only formances last week. recognize pitcher and out­ nine days away. Sullivan said Bargar won three games fielder Bridget Grail, outfield­ the team wants to finish the for the Irish, posting a 1.05 er Audrey Gajor and second- season off strong and look ERA that helped push Notre baseman Meghan Marenkovic. toward the league tourna­ Dame into the top spot of the “Everybody is excited to ment. conference standings. Lenn have a good day and get two led the offense in Notre ALLISON AMBROSE/The Observer wins for the girls,” Sullivan Contact Deirdre Krasula at Dame’s six games, hitting Notre Dame catcher Mallorie Lenn rounds second base in an said. [email protected] .474 with two doubles, a April 11 game against Ball State. The Irish won 6-0.

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Congratulations to the following winners o f the Associated Press Johnson led the Mavericks to overall and coached the Apple video iPods. Their names were randomly selected 60 victories this season, match­ Western Conference All-Star from a pool o f participants who completed the LibQUALF (library) survey conducted over the last several weeks: DALLAS — During Avery ing the team record for wins. team this season. Johnson’s playing days, many That mark was first set three “Avery’s making me look real­ executives and players thought years ago, when Johnson was ly smart,” Cuban said. Charles Andrew Bassett, Senior the point guard would make a still playing for Dallas. Johnson got 63 first-place Rhodora Elizabeth Beaton, Graduate Student great NBA coach. Still, he had “I think I’m gifted to do what votes from the panel of 124 Kevin Michael Curran,Junior to be convinced it was time to I’m doing, that this is what I’m sports writers and broadcast­ Konrad Kulacki. Graduate Student make that transition. here for,” Johnson said. “I felt ers. He had 419 points, 172 Stephanie A. Severyn,Freshman Now, after his first full season like a coach when I was a play­ more than Fhoenix coach Mike Eric Michael Vcrkuilen, Freshman leading the Dallas Mavericks, er. ... In a lot o f ways, I know D’Antoni, last year’s winner. Johnson was honored Tuesday some things are still new to me. D’Antoni had 27 first-place Many thanks to all o f you who completed the library survey. as the NBA coach of the year. But in other ways, I just feel like votes. We received survey responses from over 2800 students and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban I’ve been doing this a lot of Dallas plays Game 2 of its faculty, for a response rate o f nearly 25 percent. We also remembers talking to Johnson time, and a lot of it just comes first-round Western Conference received over 1000 written comments from participants. We nearly two years ago about naturally.” series against Memphis on anticipate utilizing a variety o f outlets for summarizing the retiring as a player and becom­ Johnson retired as a player Wednesday night. The results o f LibQ UALF to the faculty and students. Look for ing the top assistant — and and became a Mavericks assis­ Mavericks won the first game more information later this spring. eventual successor — to Don tant coach before the 2004-05 103-93. Nelson. season. After replacing Nelson Maybe more impressive than Sincerely, Cuban told Johnson, “I know as head coach on M arch 19, his record is how Johnson has Sherri Jones. LibQ UAL+ 2006 Team Leader you can still play, but we want 2005, he reached 50 wins faster transformed the Mavericks into University o f Notre Dame Libraries to start you on the path to being than any other coach (62 a defensive squad. a Hall of Fame coach.” games) and recorded the best While the 2002-03 team was Johnson’s response then, “I start by a first-time coach in known only for its scoring, this don’t know, I don’t know.” league history by winning 66 of year’s squad ranked in the There’s no more doubt. his first 82 games — the equiva­ league’s top 10 in scoring and Johnson is a coaching natural. lent of a full season. He is 76-24 points allowed. notre dame baseball

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“We were surprised that The performance propelled 81s. after shooting a 281 [that] we Baldwin to a fifth-place over­ “We’re happy with the way Champs didn’t have the first-round all finish with a three-round N akazaki we finished, ” Brophy said. continued from page 28 lead,” Kubinksi said. “It total of 4-under-par 212. continued from page 28 The team, however, failed to opened our eyes and sur­ But Baldwin was not the live up to its pre-tournament five-stroke win. prised us a bit, and we didn’t only Irish player in the red ance] was kind of unfortunate,” No. 1 seed. Last year, in Kubinski’s first play a good Tuesday as Brophy said. “We shot our­ “We’re disappointed,” Irish season with Notre Dame, the second senior Scott selves out of the tournament.” coach Debby King said. “We team won the Big East rou nd .” “It ’s a good step fo r G u s t a f s o n Nagasaki’s 71 finished a solid felt like we should win it, but Championship by playing Monday the future, but we also fir e d a 5- week for the junior, who fin­ we had one decent round, one only 18 holes before the final afternoon, the under-par 67, ished second in the individual really bad round and one out­ two rounds were snowed out. Irish carded a want to take the next senior Tommy competition. standing round. This year’s victory marks 1-over 289 to step now when we Balderston In its first year in the Big “It just wasn’t enough.” the third straight, and give the team play at the NCAA c a rd e d a 4- East, Louisville captured the Notre Dame is unsure if it Kubinski is pleased with the a 3 6 -h o le under-par 68 conference title. will compete again this season. progression of his program. score of 570 [Championships]. ” and junior The Cardinals were paced by The Irish will now wait to see if “Winning three in a row — 11 shots Cole Isban the event’s they receive an shows we’ve arrived,” he better than Jim Kubinski p o s te d a 1 - individual win­ at-large berth said. “It’s a good step for the the old 36- Irish coach under-par 71. ner Adrienne “We’re disappointed. We to one of three future, but we also want to hole program Although his White, who NCAA women’s take the next step now when record of 581 sc o re on shot an even- fe lt like we should win it, golf champi­ we play at the NCAA set at the 1968 Notre Dame Tuesday did not count, fresh­ par 216 (74- but we had one decent onship region­ [Championships]. ” Invitational. man Josh Sandman played a 69-73), just round, one really bad al to u r n a ­ But it was only good crucial role in the team’s vic­ four shots Winning its third consecu­ round and one ments. The tive Big East Championship enough to put them in third tory as he shot a team-low ahead o f tournam ent wasn’t the p la c e , 12 score of 141 (3-under) Nakazaki (220, outstanding round. ” field will be only notewor­ strokes behind through the first two rounds, 71-78-71). a n n o u n c e d th y a c c o m ­ “After the firs t day, we Louisville. in addition to his birdie on N a k a z a k i Debby King Monday, May plishment for “After the the playoff hole. and teammate 1. knew we had to get Irish coach Notre Dame, first day, we By winning the Big East Brophy, who K in g sa id as the team out to a strong start knew we had Championship, Notre Dame finished in that her team’s set multiple and make some to get out to a gains an automatic berth in seventh place with a 227 (77- strong play in the final round records birdies. Since it was strong start the Central Regional of the 79-71), both earned All-Big sent a message to the tourna­ throughout the and m ake NCAA tournament, which w ill East individual honors for the ment committee. championship. team golf, the twelve- some birdies,” begin May 18 in Chardon, third time. “I feel like they’ll look pretty The team’s stroke margin didn't Kubinski said. Ohio. Notre Dame rebounded hard at that 294,” she said. first round seem as daunting. ” “Since it was The top four teams in the behind the steady play of all its “[In the third round], we did score of 281 team golf, the regional automatically top-three players Tuesday to what we had to do to still have Monday morn­ twelve-stroke advance to the national capture the third-place tie. a shot at the NCAA regionals.” ing was the Jim Kubinski margin didn’t championship beginning May Seniors Lauren Gebauer and best postsea­ Irish coach seem as 31 at the Crosswater Golf Suzie Hayes rounded out the Contact Fran Tolan at son mark ever daunting. We Club in Sunriver, Ore. Irish lineup with third-round [email protected] for the Irish only had to “We were just out of the and the third lowest score in make up three shots a person top four teams last year,” school history. instead of twelve.” Kubinski said. “We want to But even that score wasn’t Senior Mark Baldwin led take the next step this year.” Write for Sports. enough to give Notre Dame the second-day charge for the first-round lead as Notre Dame, shooting a 6- Contact Greg Arbogast at Call Ken at 1-4543. Louisville opened with a 279. under 66. [email protected]

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another base runner until a plete innings and took the loss walk to Hunter in the seventh in his first start of the season. COOPER HIT Streaks inning. He allowed two runs on five continued from page 28 “I was thinking about it a lit­ hits while striking out six and tle bit in the dugout,” Korpi walking one. and walking just one. said of the batters-retired “Early in the count you focus streak. “But when I was on the Notes: on getting ahead of hitters, mound it wasn’t really on my ♦ Korpi’s 11 punchouts not really strikeouts,” Korpi m ind.” marked the second time the said. “But once you get two After scoring 11, 15 and 14 sophomore has struck out strikes you go for that out runs against Rutgers over the double digit batters this sea­ p itch." weekend, Notre Dame (33-8, son. While Korpi extended Notre 14-1 in the Big East) mustered He became only the fifth Dame’s winning streak, anoth­ just six hits and two runs Irish pitcher all-time to record er Irish streak came to an end. against the Boilermakers. double digit strikeouts m ulti­ Notre Dame first baseman “What I really love about our ple times in one season and Craig Cooper was 0-for-4 at team is that if we have to win the first since Danny Tamayo the plate, ending his school- a 2-1 game, we can do it with and Aaron Heilman both did it re c o rd -ty in g h it strea k at 21 our pitching and defense and in 2001. games. an occasional clutch hit, or if During the streak, which we have to win a slugfest like ♦ Korpi may have to pitch dated back to Notre Dame’s we did [against Rutgers] we again Sunday on short rest in 11-9 victory over Central can do that because of our hit­ place of senior left-hander Michigan March 22, Cooper hit ting,” Mainieri said. Tom Thornton, who took a .471 with nine “Whatever sharp grounder off his leg in home runs and gam e gets Sunday’s 14-12 win over 27 RBIs. “IKorpi is/ the thrown at us Rutgers. “ lie ’s no Joe consummate crafty we have to find Thornton had an X-ray DiMaggio, and left-hander. When he’s a way to win.” Monday that came back nega­ h e ’s no Down 1-0 in tive. The team is awaiting S u p e r m a n , ” gettiny his curve hall the bottom of results from an MRI Thornton Mainieri said. and changeup over, the second, the had Tuesday. “(Cooper is| a his fastball looks like Irish scored “He’s a little sore still,” consummate their only two Mainieri said. “But we’re hop­ team player it’s coming in at ioo runs of the ing everything we’ll come out and I’m sure miles per hour. He was game. Catcher okay after the tests.” he’s ju s t happy just carving them up Sean Gaston wo won and sparked the ♦ Mainieri said after the isn’t worried tonight. ” ra lly w ith a sin­ game that he had hoped to about it.” gle to right keep Korpi’s pitch count under The Boiler­ Paul Mainieri field, and left 80, but with the left hander makers (21-15, Irish coach fielder Matt rolling along, he saw no rea­ 8-8 Big Ten) Bransfield fol­ son to take his starter out scored their lowed with a until he reached 99 pitches. lone run in the top of the first single of his own to left field. “He wasn’t laboring,” on an RBI single by third base­ Two batters later, shortstop Mainieri said. “It was an easy man John Hunter — one of Greg Lopez drove in both 99 pitches. He’ll be fine for only two Purdue hits in the baserunners on a two-run Sunday.” contest. double to right center field. PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Korpi retired the next 17 Purdue starting pitcher Trac Contact Chris Khorey at Irish second baseman Jeremy Barnes slides into second base in batters he faced, not allowing Douby (2-4) pitched six com­ [email protected] Notre Dame’s 2-1 win over Purdue Tuesday at Frank Eck Stadium.

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Bookstore Basketball XXXV ND W o m e n ’s G olf Drawn out Team ends Unfortunate Draw falls to conference U Got a Bad Draw21-10 tourney 3rd By T IM KAISER and CHRIS M INE Sports Writers Nakazaki finishes You Surely Received An Unfortunate second in individual Draw jumped out to a 2-1 lead against No. 1 U Got A Bad Draw in this matchup of competition with 216 celebrities and knock-off namers, but the former champions rallied for a 21-10 victo­ By FRAN TOLAN ry Tuesday night at the Bookstore courts. Sports W riter The scrappy Unfortunate Draw team used good ball movement to create open shots and, despite its height disadvantage, After struggling in the second played strong post defense, employing a round Monday, Notre Dame ral­ strategy similar to “hack-a-Shaq” against lied to shoot a 6-over-par 294 the taller players of Bad Draw. Tuesday — tying the best team Unfortunate Draw quickly committed the round of the tournament — to seven fouls and sent Bad Draw to the line. finish tied for third place at the Bad Draw sank just one of five baskets Big East Championships in Dade from the charity stripe and held only a four- City, Fla. point lead at halftime. Irish senior co-captain Katie DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer The game attracted a huge fan turnout, Brophy, freshman Lisa Maunu U Got A Bad Draw’s Eric Laumann, right, drives past Bill Ehrlich of We Surely Received and junior Noriko Nakazaki most cheering for the underdogs, subject­ an Unfortunate Draw Tuesday night at the Bookstore courts. Bad Draw won 21-10. ing the Bad Draw players to constant heck­ each posted a 1-under-par 71 in ling. Frustrated at their lack of success in the third and final round to lead the first half and the way they were being matchup and a good game to play before and they had three Division One athletes the charge for the Irish. tormented by the fans, Bad Draw members heading into the final 16.” and one potential NFL star in Dave Notre Dame posted a 16-over- came out aggressively in the second half, With the win, U Got a Bad Draw advances Fitzgerald.” par team score of 304 in the using their size to grab offensive rebounds to the Sweet 16 beginning Thursday. “We’ve been conditioning, so we thought first round but finished the day and increase their scoring opportunities. You Surely Received An Unfortunate we could outrun them,” Unfortunate in fourth place and well out of Unfortunate Draw was ultimately unable to Draw was no doubt happy to have played Draw’s Eric Cherney said. contention following a second- overcome the deficit. so well against the top seed, but was per­ “We thought we were more athletic, but round 316 (28-over). “The other team definitely came out to plexed at the loss. they just came out here and beat us with “[The second-round perform- play,” U Got a Bad Draw's Eric Laumann “We kept it close,” Unfortunate Draw’s said. “They had crazy fans. It was a good Fritz Shadley said. “They were big guys, see DRAW/page 23 see NAKAZAKI/page 25

Baseball M en ’s G olf Korpi continues winning waysDown a dozen, birdie Irish capture 23rd straight victory, Cooper's hit streak closes at 21hunters recover to win

By CHRIS KHOREY squad counting. Louisville fin­ Associate Sports Editor N D erases 12-shot ished the hole with three pars deficit in final round and a bogey, leaving the door Another day, another domi­ open for Notre Dame. nant outing for Wade Korpi. to take Big East title Led by freshman Josh The sophomore left-hander Sandman’s 10-foot birdie putt, allowed just one unearned the Irish sank the Cardinals run in seven innings as Notre By GREG ARBOGAST with three pars and Dame extended its school- Sports W riter Sandman’s birdie. record winning streak to 23 “Josh’s putt was key games with a 2-1 win over Notre Dame hasn’t seen a because it gave us some cush­ Purdue Tuesday at Frank Eck comeback of this magnitude ion,” Irish coach Jim Kubinski Stadium. in a long tim e. said. “It took the pressure off “He just keeps pitching like Down by 12 strokes through and allowed [junior] Cole that every game,” Irish coach 36 of the 54 holes of the Big 11sban 1 and (senior] Scott Paul Mainieri said of the East Championships at Lake [Gustafson] to relax on their sophomore. “He’s the con­ Jovita Golf & Country Club in par putts.” summate crafty left-hander. Dade City, Fla., the Irish shot Notre Dame is not a new­ When he’s getting his curve a Big East record 16-under- comer to either Big East ball and changeup over, his par 272 in the final round Championships or dramatic fastball looks like it’s coming Tuesday to force a one-hole victories. in at 100 miles per hour. playoff in which they defeated In the Big East tournament “He was just carving them Louisville by two strokes to two years ago at Notre Dame’s up tonight.” win their third consecutive Warren Golf Course, the Irish Korpi (5-1) pitched seven conference title. trailed Virginia Tech by four complete innings, allowing All five players from each of strokes going into the final 18 PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer one hit while striking out 11 the two teams regrouped to holes before emerging with a Irish sophomore Wade Korpi delivers a pitch in his win over replay the 18th hole with the Purdue Tuesday at Frank Eck Stadium. Korpi improved to 5-1. see STREAKS/page 26 top four scores from each see CHAMPS/page 25

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