Thursday, March 19, 1998 • Vol. XXXI No. 109 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT Y'S Garrick resigns, protests gay policy
By MATTHEW LOUGHRAN !em I didn't think was mine. It is," the News Editor letter reads. "As a Christian and as a student here it's my problem too, and I Father David Garrick, assistant profes know others will realize the same." sor of communications and theater, Garrick, a member of the Notre Dame announced his resignation from the faculty since 1992, came out as a homo University last night in protest of the sexual, celibate Holy Cross priest in a administration's han- ...-I''!'!'~I'I'!!!P'!!Wh letter to the editor of The Observer on *1980 • Rector of Howard Hall dling of gay and lesbian April 4, 1996. Since then, he claims, in a students and faculty at letter to the editor today that he has Notre Dame. been wrongly suspended from his duties *1982-5. Rector of Keenan Hall "I think of taking this as a minister in th • STUDENT SENATE Lenten Lights ... Senate supp(>rts aid funding, construction ByTIMLOGAN need. The proposal suggested a News Writer moratorium on building projects until "every student with demon As the current Student Senate strated need has those needs term winds to a close, a slew of met." resolutions came up for debate "We have buildings going up at last night's meeting. with no apparent reason, but The University's funding prior with all that money, there ities, stu- doesn't d e n t seem to be response to 'WE HAVE BUILDINGS GOING enough to p y an upcom UP WITH NO APPARENT a ing Ku Klux tuitions," Klan march REASON, BUT WITH ALL THAT said Boyd. in Elkhart, MONEY, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO He noted and several that of the constitu BE ENOUGH TO PAY TUITIONS.' $767 million tional being raised a m.e n d- in the ments were A. J. BoYD Generations among the SE.VATOR, KHoucu HAu fundraising items on campaign, the agenda. only $178 million is earmarked A resolution proposed by for unrestricted financial aid. l Keough senator A.J. Boyd chal The resolution proposed that all lenged the University's priorities moneys for future building pro The Observer/Lizlang in spending, pointing out the jects, including those planned by Throughout the Lenten season, candles at the grotto have been burning brightly as Catholic prepare I for Easter. continuous construction and Generations, be used for finan l renovation of buildings, despite cial aid purposes. Notre Dame's inability to provide • fACULTY SENATE total fmancial aid to students in see SENATE I page 4 l 1 Organization seeks to increase national ratings j KRISTY KA TZMANN dent retention, alumni satisfaction and News Writer value added, the dill'erence between the predicted graduation rate and the actual Pressure to increase Notre Dame's graduation date, reputation, faculty and ranking in U.S. financial News and World resources all Heports annual need major 'ARTS AND LEITERS NEEDS A BUIWING listing of top col renovations. leges and uni BIGGER THAN fLANNER TO MEET ITS Proposals vnrsities has NEEDS, AND NECESSITY WILL DRIVE THE ISSUE to improve captured the t h e attention of the EVENTUALLY.' University's University's fac- GREG STERLING reputation ulty. CIJAIR, ACADI:MIC AFFAIRS COMMIITEE i n C ) U d e A large por- reserving 7 5 tion of the Faculty Senate meeting of the 150 newly endowed chairs for Wednesday night focused on measures to senior faculty with international reputa bring Notre Dame, currently ranked 19th, tions, establishing prestigious visiting pro- The Observer/Jose Mendoza into the top 10. The Faculty Senate considered various methods to raise Notre Dame's ranking in U.S. News and World Reports' annual listing of top colleges and universities. While the University scored well in stu- see FACULTY I page 4 page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, March 19, 1998 • ~NSIDE COLUMN Cults are Cool MSU says ne\\r legislation won't affect admissions that have multicultural experiences." If you are EAST LANSING, Mich. C.R. "Teo" Teodoro An MSU ol'licial says proposed fed .lames Cotter. associate director of extrmnnly sensitivn, Illustrator intolerant of impious ______eral and state legislation outlawing MSU's office of admissions and schol lwreties, an idealis- racial preferences in college admis arships, said race is not at all a faetor tic dorner conditioned by the Church to the sions would not affect the University. in aamissions decisions but that MSU point of no return, a mere mmnbnr of the A bill introduced in the state Senate is sensitive to divnrsity in recruit masses. narrow-minded, easily influenced by in November by Sen. Bill Bullard, H ment. the illusions imposed on us as a society, easi I Iighland, to outlaw discrimination on "The University is eommitted to a ly offtmdnd when questioned about your the basis of race, religion, sex, color, diverse population, but making dnei national origin or ethnicity will be sions on freshman and transfnr stu faith, lack an appreciation of dark humor, or But Hukeia Draw, president of the just don't care about religion, then please debated today in the Committee on dent admission to the University on Government Relations. MSU Black Student Alliance, said the basis of race is not something that discontinue rnading. But if you're not, enjoy! using race-based admissions policies Scary things, cults are. Most people would The proposed constitutional amend Michigan State University dons," ment would ban the use of racial can only enhance the education expe Cotter said. "In terms of when~ we agree that cults are strange, incomprehensi rience. bln. and probably very dnviant to what we prefp,rences in University admissions, are today, the decisions are indeed public employment or public con "I don't think the problem is with made free of one's raeial or ethnic would expect in society. Take for instance, preferences, because there are pref this hypothetical eult: if today we learned of a tracting. background." ".Just as in California, people in erences everywhere you go, like with The Center for Equal Opportunity, a new mystery cult that worships and follows veterans and athletes," said the social its founder whom everyone knows to be Michigan should be admitted to col conservative think tank based in lege or find employment based on relations senior. "If people think that Washington. D.C., reported in either a criminal or outcast, that meets minorities shouldn't get preferential together privately to perform their sacred rit their qualifications and skills - not January that eight Michigan universi on some characteristic or feature that treatment, we all know it's not true. I ties, induding MSU, admitted minori uals, and that claims to eat flesh and drink think (MSU) is doing a service to blood, then I think most people would agree they were born with," said Bullard in ty students with lower test scores a prepared statement. themselves by recruiting students than whitn students in 1995. that this mystery eult is rnon~ than just a little messed up. llowevnr, what I lind to be truly ironic is that this is probably how the church first • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-ST.LOUIS • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINwPLATTEVIlLE startnd. It is true; Christianity started out as but another mystery cult during the Homan Law student alleges police harrasment Police uncover narcotics lab in home Empim. Its founder, Jesus of Nazamth, was run out of his own hometown (Matthew 13: ST. LOUIS, Mo. PLATTEVILLE, Wis. 54-5S; Luke 4: 1 6-3()) and was even conviet A Washington University law student is alleging that a Two former UW-Madison graduate students are being ed as a criminal of the state (Matthew 27: 15- University City police ollicer harassed him while he stood investigated on charges of manufacturing illegal narcotics 2(,; Mark 15: 6-15; Luke 23: 1 S-25; .John 19: outside of his apartment last Thursday evening . .Jon Sims, in their rural home as well as in a UW medical physics 1-16). The early Christians shared their who is an African-American, said that the ollicer unneces laboratory. Andrei Kulago, 32, and his roommate, Dmitry nwals and prayers together in their homes sarily detained and frisked him and that he felt that the inci Sinitsyn, 27, both natives of Moscow, wnrn charged in fed (Acts 2: 42-4 7) and were later persneuted dent was racially motivated. "I believe firmly that if I had eral court March 6 with creating a methamphotamirH~ lab (Ads S: 1-3). Even the daim of eating flesh been a white person standing in that same spot I never in their home in Oregon, Wis. According to the affidavit of and drinking blood cannot bn denied, as would have had such a confrontational interaction with the detective Mike Geier, who has been working on the ease Christ said it himself (John 6: 53-SS). police," Sims said. The University City Police Department for the Dane County Narcotics and Gang Task Foree, the It's true that Christianity started out as a dedined to comment on the allegations pending a possible home was raided March 3, and inside was found one of cult. Now almost two millennia later, it is one investigation of the matter. According to Sims. he was wait the largest methamphetamine labs in the midwest. of the greatest influences, if not the gmatcst ing for a ride from a friend when he was approached by the Further investigation, however. revealed there w1m~ no influnncn, on the Western world. People ollicer. Sims said that the ollicer informed him that a van traces of methamphetamine in the lab. At a March 11 fanatically died for this cult. People were had been vandalized in front of the building and she asked hearing, U.S. attorney Larry Wszalek said a small amount burned, stoned. hung, erucifit~d. etc., all him to explain why he was standing in front of the building. of MDMA, or ecstasy, was found in the home. He said becausn of this silly little cult based on some After answering her questions, Sims said that he walked police found ecstasy, boxes of chemicals and glassware, earpnntnr's son from Nazareth. I may sound toward his friend's ear and was about enter when the ollieer recipes for methamphetamine and papers about the drug ironic but that's the point. yelled at him to stop and told him that he could be arrested. in and around the men's homn. We shouldn't fall into the arrogance behind this attitude that Christianity is the best and • BOSTON UNIVERSITY • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CAliFORNIA all other cults are wrong. I will admit that some cults arn a bit nwssPd up and actually Student might have taken his own life Protests arise over Oscar tickets do morn harm than good, but these are usu ally tlw exceptions rather than the rules. I'll BOSTON LOS ANGELES say that th!1 Branch Davidiots- eh, As the investigation continues into Sunday's stabbing A mob of USC students and others waiting for bleach I>avidians, were counter-productive, but I'll death of Harvard University junior David Okrent, his er-seat tickets to the Academy Awards protested the attribute that to the fact that they were not father said yesterday he is willing to a·ccept the likely pos academy's policies outside the Shrine Auditorium peaceful in their dealings with society, nor sibility that his son committed suicide. Okrent was discov Tuesday after 500 of the 1,100 available tickets ran out. with the ATF for that mattnr. ered early Sunday morning on Hevere Beach, with a single At 10 a.m., the Aeadmny of Motion Pictun~ Arts and I can't say much about the Hare Krishna stab wound to his neck. Investigators said yesterday that Sciences began handing out 500 priority tirknts. Shortly sinen I have had limited eontact with any and the knife used in the stabbing belonged to Okrent and was after 11 a.m., the tiekets ran out. Peopln who had waited know little to nothing of their beliefs. but at found under his body. Okrent's father, Lawrence, said he in line as early as 6 a.m. screamed that they were being least they haven't wagml any big Crusades knew his son had been depressed. David had taken a punished and that tickets had bPen given to those who lately. The Wieca is a cult of witches that semester off from Harvard last spring to return to his cut in line. The bleacher seats will allow fans to watch worship naturP, and am not really as bad as home in Evanston. Ill. He also worked in Chicago, where nominees and presenters arrive at the awards, which most would think them to be, sinee they keep he helped build a computer system for an industrial eom take place Monday night. When told that the otlwr 600 to thmnselves and hold valuable insights to pany. Aafter returning to school this fall, he had sought tickets would be given out Sunday at 1 p.m., Hiverside natur1~. counseling. "He was down in the fall. lie called us to say resident Erica Hodriguez said, "we're already here. I go I hope that I made my point that cults he was unhappy," Lawrence Okrnnt said. "We called him to the movies all the time, and pay my $S lik1~ everyone arnn 't all that bad. In fact, I belong to one. I evPry day and brought him home during break." else." hav1~ been baptized to the faith, made my Confirmation to the Church, confess my sins. and n~gularly eat flesh and drink blood at • SOUTH BEND WEATHER • NATIONAL WEATHER least once a we1~k; yeah, I'm a hard-con~ 5 Day South Bend Forecast Homan Catholic! AccuWeather® forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures The AccuWeather®forecast for noon, Thursday, March 19. 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Pelvic tor of the Breast Center at the was part of a presentation woman. the procedure with the exams should begin when a South Bend Memorial that included slides and a "It's getting over that fear of women. Helping the women worn an becomes sexually become more comfortable and mature, whether or not she is familiar with their tissue sexually active. enhances the effectiveness of "The [pelvic exam) is really the exam." for everyone," Lasky com Although mammograms are mented. not recommended until the With the increase in sexual age of 40, it is never too early activity among teens, the risk for health awareness, Lasky for cervical cancer - which is i Bd11g Expvsnl T.1 · Or Di,lgnowf l-\;J't/1: explained. Breast cancer is completely preventable, second only to lung cancer in detectable and treatable - Y ll1111111JJ Papillonur the leading causes of death also increases. she explained. l'irus(III'I"i among women, killing nearly Risk factors include having Ge11ital Warts 45,000 women annually. more than one sexual partner .. Otht>t St~'IWII11 Primary risk factors include or having a partner who has TYI!II>IItilted • being over 50 years of age been active with more than lnf•?dious IST/sJ and a family history of the one partner, according to disease. Lasky. Scientists have isolated two Lasky has earned a Master's of the breast cancer genes so degree in oncology (the study far. Patients who carry the of cancer) and is working on gene have a 65 percent her doctorate in genetics. chance of developing cancer, After 20 years in nursing, she although only seven to 10 per still finds the health care pro cent of all breast cancers are fession rewarding. Her speech inherited. was sponsored by the Student Lasky also mentioned that Academic Council for Sandy Lasky, from the South Bend Memorial Hospital's Breast Center, met with students yesterday to there are ethical concerns Women's Month. inform them about the importance of annual exams to prevent and treat various cancers. She also over expensive genetic test "Not only do I get to become explained the genetic influences of these illnesses. ing, although there are no good friends with the patients, laws preventing discrimina but I have learned to appreci tion by insurance companies ate lire on a day to day basis." rVOLUNTEER with poor families in New York JA-'' V\ lt\ eme V\ t. •Use •Community ObservateVtJ-A1 •Housing, vo«s F'lalt, !¥V4!dtit. One &Two Bedroom Apts Available for the '98,'99 School Year and January '98. Summer Rentals June,August. 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It would be nice if Othnr senators disagreed with and responsibilities of the fessorships and giving more pri and do they still exist?" the University could open its the com pletc ban on construc Student Union Secretary was ority funding to the graduate Father Richard Warner, eyes as a result ofthis." tion, but recognized the fact that proposed by Mark I Iiggins, who school. director of campus ministry Last year. the Student Sm1ate, more li>cus should be plaeed on will hold that position until April The major suggestion to who is in charge of the Basiliea Faculty Senate and Campus helping students in financial 1 . The proposed changes will improve faculty resources is Mass, could not be reaehnd for Life Council all ashd the nend. make the Secretary "not just reducing elass sizes. Smaller comment yesterday. administration to consider "It's a good idea in theory, but someone who goes to meetings classes arc more desirable Garrick said that his suspen including s«~xual orientation in you ean't deny that Notre Dame and keeps records but who is a because they increase the sion from Basilica Mass was the the official non-discrimination has mat«~rial nm~ds. Maybe we big link and helps facilitate com amount of student-faeulty inter deciding factor in his resigna clause. should just say 'wn should direct munication between the Senate action. The senate also wants tion. In response last September, more money to student needs,"' and the Executive Cabinet," pre the University to incorporate an "I was already protesting that University President Father said I> ilion senator Pat Coyle. dieted Higgins. additional 150 f[tculty members the University will only give Edward Malloy pn~sented the "The University doesn't just The amendment ineludes to its staff. This increase in the pretty language in a 'Spirit of "Spirit of Inelusion," a get morwy and decide to build: changing the title of the position number of facu11.y would cause Inclusion,"' he said. "I had University policy that named it's all planned out," observed to "Secretary-General" and dar an increase in financial already spoken out against thn homosexual students and facul O'Neill s1mator Hajit Basu. "It Hies the officeholder's responsi demands. fact that homosexuals were not ty as welcome members of the would be better stated if we bilities to provide information to The Academic Affairs given the legal protection that Notre Damn community. focusnd on getting more money students and government mem Committee estimated that nearly would have resulted from "We could have done without for financial aid." bers and to maintain records of $200 million would be needed putting sexual orientation into all the pretty language," Members of the senate also Senate and Executive Cabinet to complete the expansion. the non-discrimination clause. Garriek reiteratnd. "They eould stated that thn proposal's word aetivitins. While Academic Affairs But I wanted the opportunity to havn put, 'sexual orientation ing was too harsh. and asked too In other Senate news: Committee Chair Greg Sterling minister as a priest to the com according to tlw teachings of much of the University. • A resolution proposing a let said this figure may seem like munity. Whoever it was that thn Catholie Church,' and that "[A proposal to stop building] ter to President Clinton "pie in the sky," the expendi suspended me would havn would hav!~ solved any prob is not going to be met with denouneing the United States' tures arc necessary to achieve thought twice about it if sexual lnms. But they didn't." agreement." predicted Fisher "economic war on the citizenry these goals. orientation had been in the Father .John Jenkins, the s«mator Chip Warden. "We can of Iraq" was tabled for further Faculty Senate Chairman non-discrimination clause." Supnrior of the local lloly Cross send a message to the adminis discussion next week. The pro Michael Detlefsen also said He added that he received a community, said that it was not tration to go through with full posed letter, to be signed by money is what will get the lot of support from his fellow eertain whnn Garriek's reas finandal aid." Griffin and student body vice University into the top ten and a faculty members and from his signment would happen. lie Ultimately, it was agreed to president Erek Nass, echoed 9:1 student/faculty ratio. students. would not comment further on strike the section proposing a similar requests made by the Notre Dame's U!rgency to "Every member of the com the situation. stop on building, and simply Council of American Bishops make the top ten also involves munication and theater depart Garrick, who's first play, suggest that Notre Dame place and numerous other organiza the issue of faculty space expan ment that has talked to me has "The Eseapc of Kropotkin," was more focus on meeting the tions around the world. sion. Arts and Letters is espe been supportive. They seem to performnd by a group of his financial needs of students. The "By us concurring, we're act cially in demand of more space express concern over what studnnts last month, said that resolution will be discussed fur ing as Catholics in stating we for faculty and graduate stu could have happened that he hopes to continue writing ther at next week's meeting. support and agree with what dents. Over the last 15 years the drove me to this course of and possibly get his play pro Another bill which was dis our religious leaders have said," faculty has increased from 500 action," Garrick said. fessionally produced. lie added cussed proposed an organized stated Keenan senator Matt to 687. It is estimated that Arts "I just got here last fall and that he expected to be reas counter demonstration against a Mamak. and Letters needs an additional only got to know Father Garrick signed to parish work because Ku Klux Klan march in Elkhart Many senators were con 90, 000 square feet. over a short period of time," it was too late in the year to try on April4. cerned that the letter, which "Arts and Letters needs a said Donald Crafton, chair of to find a teaching job. "We should make dear that would be signed by only the two building bigger than Flanner to the communications and the Provost Nathan Hatch said we don't want them here, and leaders of the Student Union, but meets its needs," said Sterling, ater department. "But I consid that he was not surprised to they should go back to where would speak for the entire stu "and necessity will drive the er him a friend and a good col hear of Garrick's resignation they came from, and, preferably, dnnt body. issue eventually." league. I have an affection and but would not comment further stay there," said Boyd. "It's really a heartening effort, The CommitteH also proposed respect for him as a colleague without having a chance to The proposal suggestnd a col but in the Senate it has no place, the building of a new science and a teacher. It is certainly review thn situation, and laboration between the Student because we can't represent our faculty building where the park sad to see him go." Malloy could not bn rnachnd for Union and any other campus constituents on this," said ing lot at Juniper and Krause Garrick's students seemnd to eommen t. groups which would like to join Pangborn senator Eliza currently exists. echo this sentiment. Garrick sounded hopeful in the demonstration. Hommel. "At 60 million dollars, this "I think we are all really whnn asked if thn situation "W«l should specify that this is "A better form for this propos would be the most ambitious pulling for him," said junior changed that he might return a nonviolent event and show al would be a general student building process ever undertak Jason Seewer, a business major to Notre Dame. "You n«wer that this is a eommunity rally," body response," said O'Neill en by the University," said who is in Garrick's class this know where this story will said Cavanaugh senator Lauren Senator Basu. Sterling. semester. "The speech that he end." he said. llnrring. "''d like to see this as • Director of Food Services big as we can get it and get as David Prentkowski addressed many people as possibln out the Senate on the new 14-meal there." plan, to be introduced next fall. Tlw resolution, calling on the TIHl plan will allow students to SU,MMER AB.R0'AD IN Student Union leadership to eat 14 meals at dining halls each "tah direct and immediate week, and receive $200 in cred action ... to drive the KKK from its at the Huddle. Prentkowski 'JVESrERN AWSTRALIA our midst," passed unanimously. predicted that future additions Several constitutional amend would enable students to use ments regarding the role of the their credits at other restaurants Student Union Executive Cabinet on campus, such as Waddick's were passed last night. Student and Greenfields, and possibly Union Board manager Andria even at concession stands in the Wisler and Club Coordination Joyce Center and Stadium. 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Michiana ROOM 118 DEBARTOLO L------.J ...J...-___ L------=-..:....::....______.....1 Thursday, March 19, 1998 COMPILED FROM THE OBSERVER WIRE SERVICES page 5 • WORLD NEWS BRIEFS Publisher alleges Willey Amex, Nasdaq approve merger changed story Kathlmm Willey's credi bility was caught in a new crossfire Wednesday as a publisher and a former friend took aim at her alle gation about a sexual advance by President Clinton. California publish ~~r Michael Viner went on --...... ;, t!devision to assert that Mrs. Willey's account last Sunday night on "60 Minutes" was "a differ ent story" from the one given by her lawyer whnn they discussed a possible six-figure book deal over tlw last two months. Across tlw rountry, the Washington lawyer for Julie lliatt su~cln released a sworn affidavit in whid1 her dient says Mrs. Willey asked her to lin about tlw nncounter with r.Jinton. Plane crash in Taiwan kills 13 TAIPEI, Taiwan A passenger plane carrying 13 people AFP Photo crashcd Wec!Jwsday night into the Taiwan Chairman and chief executive officer of the National Association of Securities (NASD) Frank Zarb (L), and chairman and chief Strait. All aboard are presumed dead, res executive officer of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Richard Syron (R), shake hands bel'ore a news conference to wers said. Early Thursday, rescuers discov announce the merger of AMEX into the NASD family of companies. ered a life jacket from the plane and part of a ASSOCIATED PRESS material savings which can be passed antitrust watchdogs. It also requires body presumed to be one of the passengers. on to investors." backing from two-thirds of the Amex's Hough seas and fog hampered search efforts. NEW YORK The deal is expected to result in a 864 member·s, including traders, bro The Formosa Airlines Saab 340 disappeared The Nasdaq Stock Market's parent undetermined amount of job cuts in kers and investors who buy exchange after taking off from llsinchu at 7:30p.m. and the American Stock Exchange on areas where services are duplicated, seats for their value and lease them. with eight passengers and five crew mem Wednesday approved a merger they but Zarb said he didn't "expect mas The Nasdaq, which was founded in bers aboard. the officials said. The plane dis said would move them into the 21st sive layoffs." Some people whose posi 1971, has enjoyed a meteoric rise. It is appeared less than seven miles off the coast. century and preserve Wall Street's tions are eliminated could be home to some of the nation's biggest Visibility at Hsinchu airport was 3,200 feet dominance as the world's financial retrained for jobs in other areas, he high-tech companies, including soft when the plane took off. and winds were capital. added. ware giant Microsoft Corp. light. said Tsai Tui, head of the Civil The two markets will continue to In a news conference in New York, The 87-year-old Amex has been Aeronautics Administration. The incident fol operate separately. But their alliance Zarb said that the NASD hasn't ruled eclipsed by both the New York Stock lowed a series of plane crashes in Taiwan. would offer companies and investors out combining with other exchanges, Exchange and the Nasdaq. Nasdaq's the benefit of trading stocks either but that he didn't want to "suggest we average daily stock volume is 646 mil U.S. troops will stay in Bosnia over the Nasdaq's electronic trading are on a hunt." lion shares, compared with the system or in the Amex's floor-based The combination of the Nasdaq elec Amex's 24 million. WASHINGTON auction market. tronic trading system and the Amex Industry observers have said the The Clinton administration told a dubious The marriage of the nation's second auction market creates a hybrid Amex can benefit from the Nasdaq's Congress Wednesday it had a legal right to and third- biggest stock markets exchange that is similar to those that technology and its deep pockets. Amex keep thousands of American soldiers on would improve efficiency and save are found in other major world finan dealers also could gain access to the peacekeeping duty in Bosnia without a pull money for companies that want to cial markets. Its familiarity would be thousands of Nasdaq listed stocks. out deadline and asked for nearly $2.5 bil raise capital for dealers and investors, more appealing to foreign companies. The Amex will allow Nasdaq, which lion to finance the operation through executives said. It also would provide Under the plan, the NASD will spend is dominated by smaller companies, to September 1999. Within hours, the House tougher competition for the venerable more than $100 million upgrading the better compete with the NYSE. Nasdaq voted 225-193 against a hotly fought resolu New York Stock Exchange. technology of the Amex. Officials said would be able to sell companies elec tion that would have forced President "At the end of the day this is a major the Amex-Nasdaq combination is "the tronic trading and the Amex's auction Clinton to withdraw U.S. troops from Bosnia plus for the investor," said Frank first step in creating a market of mar system under one umbrella. Nasdaq or get permission from Congress to leave Zarb, chairman and chief executive of kets" that capitalizes on innovative also will gaiin a capable futures and thr,m there. Defense Secretary William the NASD. "We drive down costs big electronic technology. The deal still options business from the Amex. Cohen and Secretary of State Madeleine time and the member firms have faces approval by industry and Albright defended the peacekeeping opera tion as constitutional in testimony before the llouse National Security Committee. Cohen said the troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, over seeing a 1995 settlement arranged by the Tubercul United States to end a 3 1/2-year ethnic war, were unlikely to face hostile fire. Dow +3.62 ]ONES Nasdaq: 1788.28 8775.40 +8.98 Same:' I .. NYSE: 565.61 +2.52 S&P 500: Composite I 085.52 Volume: u+25.41 +5.07 628,736.506 BIGGEST PERCENTAGE GAINERS ('()MI1ANY TICKER % CHAN(jF SGAJN pRICE EI'LTF.C"IINOLOGIES F.PTGIJ 81.84 5.50 12.25 h\~ll.Y STEAK liSE RYFLD 58.60 1.172 3.172 MENDOCINO BREWNG M8R 50.00 1.00 3.00 DATA MARK HOLDING DTAM 41.67 1.25 4.25 I!OCA RF.SF.ARCII BOCI 37.50 1.688 6.188 BIGGEST PERCENTAGE LOSERS COMMODORE 5E·Pm CXOTP 34.55 2.375 4.50 CRYSTALLEX INTI. KRY 29.72 1.375 3.25 ALPIIA II05PITALIT ALPIIY 26.19 0.688 1.938 MILLENNIUM SP·WT MSPTW 21.57 2,75 10.00 SYMMF.TRICOM INC 5YMM 21.15 2.063 7.688 page 6 The Observer • PAID ADVERTISEMENT Thursday, March 19, 1998 ------~~~~~~~ ~~~==~~------~ Calendar of Events Hey Gang, It Isn't Over Yet! Fridays during Lent. 7:15 pm. Basilica of Jim Lies, C.S.C. the Sacred Heart Stations of the Cross What isn't over yet? You ask. Well, I'll tell you: none of it! Music Ministry: And this isn't only for the Seniors; this is for each and all of you. None of it is over yet: the hope for a reasonably respectable semester Friday - Saturday. March 20=21 Retreat for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual academically; the possibility of actually making something of Lent in Undergraduates and Friends the three weeks we have left; the hope of meeting, in these remaining For information, please contact: Kate days of the semester, the person who might most significantly impact Barrett at Campus Ministry (1-5242 or our lives on the longterm. Those are but three examples. The fact is [email protected]); Mark at 4- 1933 ([email protected]) or that the remaining weeks of this semester, few though they may seem, Alyssa at 4-1884 offer us endless possibilities with regard to who we are and who we ([email protected]). could become. The great danger is that we have settled into a routine or a Sunday, March 22 mindset which doesn't make room for the possibility that God may Does your relationship have a future? Should your relationship have a future? have something to say to us in these seemingly waning days of the Campus Ministry will offer the program school year. We can't seem to muster enough energy to imagine that "What's The Future of This these may be the days during which we could become more com Relationship?," an opportunity to explore pletely the people we most deeply want to be. Oh, it's all about the issues and questions facing couples in sig nificant relationships. For more informa self-help movement; it's about satisfying friendships and love rela tion. or to register for the program. Call 1- tionships; it's about balance in our lives and finding peace at the cen 5242 for Chris Etzel, John or Sylvia Dillon. ter even when it seems that the world offers us everything but; it's about becoming the people we've always said we wanted to be, trim Friday - Saturday. March 27-28. St. Joe Hall and fit, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Freshmen Retreat for residents of Carroll, Cavanaugh, Farley, Fisher, Knott, It's just that that self-help, that self-improvement project, isn't Pangborn, Siegfried, Stanford and Welsh often found in the places to which the world would direct us to find it, Family. or sadly, in the places that we aU too often seek it. It isn't found in a weekly alcohol binge; it isn't found in the "eat-all-you-want-and-still In orogress. LaFortune Box Office Free tickets are now available for the March lose-weight" diet plan; 1lt isn't even found in that daily work-out rou 21st NBC taping of .. Easter at Notre tine that you're so remarkably faithful to; it isn't found in that job that Dame." This broadcast will be aired nation you've always wanted, or in that professional school that's finally ally on Easter Sunday and will involve the going to give meaning to your life. Folk Choir and Notre Dame students. Let me put it to you simply: It is only found in God. Yes, it is that simple. It is only found in God. You may be in the best shape you've ever been, physically, and still not find peace at the center; you may have a great time partying with friends on the weekends and still there's an emptiness; you may be headed toward that job or profes sional school that you thought you always wanted and still be won dering if you're headed in the right direction. Listen gang, there's only one "right direction." It is only in relationship to God that we will ever find the peace that we seek. It is only found in God. It may come as a shock to you, especially if you haven't attended to that rela Fourth Sunday of Lent tionship in a while, or ever. I suppose if you're a self-described atheist LAETARE SUNDAY then you have no worries; you can continue to pursue peace in all the ways that you have up to now. But if you're not, if you're like me, Weekend Presiders then we need to be about the business of seeking God in our lives. Because those of us who believe in God, believe that we are nothing at Sacred Heart Basilica without God, and that peace will never be ours except in God. Saturday, March 21 The real trick in life is to be fat, have no friends, and no job and 5:00 p.m. (Note: Mass in Crypt) still find peace and contentment. And believe me, there is only one Rev. Brian E. Daley, S.J. way to do that and it is in God. Okay, so I'm kidding slightly, but I do Sunday, March 22 think that there is great irony in the fact that when we put aside all that the world deems important, when we surrender all the things 10:00 a.m. that are false props in our lives, like pride, control, alcohol, sex, or Rev. Richard V. Warner, C.S.C. almighty independence, for a relationship with Jesus Christ, all that we need will come to us. There will be a contentment in us that 11:45 a.m. inevitably draws others to seek it for themselves. There will be a bal Rev. James M. Lies, C.S.C. ance in our lives that doesn't always seek immediate pleasures but Vespers long term joy. There will be in us a greater appreciation for the things that do matter, and the friendships and pursuits that do give us life. Sunday, March 22 So just how do we do that? How do we put God at the center 7:15p.m. of our lives? This University offers a multitude of ways that might aid Sr. Mary Ann Mueninghoff, O.F. you in the ultimate of self-help projects; but to be honest, it's going to be different for every one of us. Some things will work for one person Scripture Readings and not for another. Ultimately, I think we know what we need to do. 1st Reading Joshua 5:9-12 Somewhere deep down inside of us, we know. Let the remaining 2nd Reading 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 weeks of Lent be the time that we pursue the Lord in earnest. Let this be the time when we at least pray, and reflect, and listen, to all the Gospel Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 ways in which God might speak to us about the joy that we seek. 0MPUS MINISTRY Thursday, March 19, l ~98 The Observer· CAMPUS NEWS page 7 Wisconsin experiments with new welfare system By ERICA THESING al belief is that they've all been Corbett believes that the push called Wisconsin Works, or W-2. dence. Potential participants News Writer taken into outer space by aliens for change stems from a public By outlining six main problems must be actively looking for and will be the next episode of perception of a connection with the former welfare system, work !before they can enroll in The welfare system in the X-Files," he said with a smile. between welfare recipients and W-2 seeks to empower people to the program, and must attend United States is changing rapid Corbett feels that the states certain social behaviors. These stand on their own feet. job training classes throughout ly, and states need to be respon who are reforming their pro include teen pregnancy, single "They are moving in the direc the program. sible for monitoring the people grams need to develop a system parent families and child abuse. tion of dissolving the clear "Everyone is obligated to work affected by those changes, for tracking the former recipi "People realized that there boundary of the welfare sys every week," Corbett said. "In according to Professor Tom ents who become ineligible for were these fundamental flaws tem," Corbett said. "Everything reality, it doesn't work out that Corbett of the University of aid. with the old system," Corbett is designed to move away from way, but that's the obligation on Wisconsin. "That's something I fault the said. "As people began making the notion that there is an paper." Corbett has watched numer state on - for not setting up a this connection between welfare agency that gives checks to poor Each of the four tiers, requires ous changes in the welfare pro monitoring system for not only and behavior, people began to people." at least 20 to 40 hours of work a gram of his home state of people who have left the rolls, have expectations for the [wel The former system, according week, in either a paid or com Wisconsin. He is especially con but also for those who don't fare] program." to Corbett, discouraged people munity service position. As cerned with the high numbers of come into the social services Corbett recognizes that, on welfare from seeking work members obtain better jobs, they people who seem to disappear office anymore because they despite the many conflicting the because they feared a loss of move to a higher tier with fewer once they are removed from the don't think they can get help ories on methods to reform wel benefits. benefits. The ultimate goal is to welfare payroll. there," he said. fare, there is agreement that "If you did choose to work, we slowly reduce benefits until par "Where have the people gone? Unlike others who point to change is necessary. would make your life a living ticipants are no longer depen I'm here to report that no one high prices or increasing case "We have a consensus on at hell. Essentially· we made it very dent on the system. has the foggiest idea. My person- loads as the impetus for reform, least one issue; the old welfare difficult for you to do the right Corbett realizes that W-2 and system was flawed and deserved thing," he said. other welfare reform programs to be changed dramatically," he W-2 sets up a four-tier system are still far from perfect, but said. where benefits and require stresses that the process is still In Wisconsin, that change ments vary according to person evolving and should be continu meant creating a new program al skills and levels of indepen- ally studied. Couple: 'Embrace Intimacy' ByKELLYANOE According to her husband, don't like about their partner. News Writer that is due to the fact that They don't take the time to lis everyone wants physical inti ten to their partner to resolve A discussion given last night macy in their relatioships to their ptoblems." by husband and wife Dominic make them feel closer to anoth "Conflict is normal in any and M.J. Murray Vachon cen er person. However, it often type of relatioship. If I'm in an tered on embracing intimacy in comes prematurely. Murray intimate relationship and relationships. Vachon's point to remember is haven't had any tension, the A central theme for the night that "the core of a healthy relationship remains untested." was that intimacy can range romantic relationship is friend The most important part of a from relationships with siblings ship." good relationship is communi ceramics, creative writing, to friends to lovers. According The couple both see time as cation, which is difficult to fibers (smc-core credit), to Murray Vachon, "one way to an essential factor in any mar have. printmaking (SMC-core credit) & understand God's unconditional riage. The average amount of "When you tell something sculpture love is through intimacy with time before a divorce used to personal about yourself to others." be seven years, now it is only someone else and your rela sponsored by During the presentation, four years. She believes that tionship ends, they will always Department of Art Murray Vachon asked each statistic is due to the failure of have a piece of you that you Saint Mary's College participant to rank six stages of many couples try to work out have given them," according to relationships in a healthy rela their problems anymore. Vachon. tionship and how they rate in a Also, she classifies relation call 284-4655/284-4631 "Something to always typical relationship. Although ships in stages, in which "the remember is that the key to a physical intimacy is the last first stage is infatuation, which good relationship is communi stage in a healthy relationship, lasts for two years. After the cation. The key to good com it ranks third in typical rela infatuation stage, people find munica,tion is listening to the tionship~. out there are many things they other person." 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The Associated Press about two more weeks of El California's voter-approved finally appeal her decision to The ruling meant "teachers Nino rainstorms. law dnnying education, social the Ninth Circuit so that the and doctors are not to become MIAMI "There is a light at the end of serviens and somn hnalth ben will of the people can be substitutes for immigration El Nino-driven storms should the tunnel," he said of' the ~~nts to illngal immigrants is upheld." officers," said Mark start to dwindle in the next storms. complntely unconstitutional, a In her November ruling, the Hosenbaum, legal director of month, but will likely limit the "We are forecasting condi fndnral judge said in a ruling judge eoncluded the proposi the ACLU of Southern number of powerful tions to start to return back to rnadn public Wndnesday. tion was unconstitutional California. The proposition Atlantic hurricanes that menace normal this summertime, U.S. District .Judge Mariana because it attempts to regu relied on publie employe1~s. the coast this year, a top although the Pacific will still b1~ l'fanlznr already had struck late immigration, which only including teachers, reporting government forecaster said slightly warm," he said. "There down most provisions of the the federal government can undocumented immigrants to Wednesday. will be a mild El Nino out nwasun~ in November. This do. authorities. Forecaster Ants Leetmaa with there." w1wk, stu~ got rid of the rest of "The states have no power Hosenbaum noted that no the National Oceanic and lie said the remnant of' El thn law, which voters passed to legislate in this area," the other states had followed Atmospherir: Administration Nino should still have an 1dl'net ovnrwhnlmingly in 1994 as judge reiterated in the deei California's lead, as often hap said it's likr~ly that storms that on the Atlantic hurricane sea Proposition 187. sion issued late Tuesday. pens with initiatives from the haw battered South Florida and son that starts June 1. Thn dneision resultnd from a "We are pleased," said state. othPr parts of the country will "Historically, when the Pacific consolidation of sevnral law Tomas Saenz, counsel for the Wilson contended that taper off in the next few weeks. is warm, the number of class suits f'ilnd against the state Mexican American Legal recent federal welfare reform, El Nino refers to warmer three, four and live hurricanes ovnr thn initiativn, which has Defense and Educational which denies payments to ille than-normal water in the will be less," Leetmaa said of not takm1 elTect beeausn of the Fund. "It vindieates the impor gal immigrants, actually Pacific. a condition that disrupts the most powerful storms. "So eourt challenges. tant constitutional principal empowers states to rngulate weather worldwide. one might anticipate this com (;ov. Pete Wilson, a staunch that we cannot be on1~ nation public benefit issues. But t.he Leetmaa says there are ing year will have some supporter of Proposition IS7, unless we have one immigra judge said the federal law already sonw signs of cooling. what fewnr storms. But that vowed an appeal of l'faelzer's tion policy ~~t by the federal ended any further debate but he said conditions won't be docs not preclude th1~ possibility decision. government. about what the states could dose to normal until the sum of one big storm coming into tlw "ller analysis of the measure The American Civil Liberties do. mer. He said Florida should get Southeast." ~ ~ liftoff preparations BOOK SEARCH Attention SOPHOMORESIIIIII • Used, rare and out-of-print daillage space shuttle books Want to plan one of the greatest events • Initial cost of $2.00 of your Notre Dame experience ...... The Associated Press two booster rockets and an • Nationall•,' - circulated ad external fuel tank. As the pow • Success rate of 50% Apply now to be CAPE CANA VEHAL. 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Technieians had just neath, and there also was no (219) 232-8444 hoisted Columbia into a verti damage to the thermal tiles, ~~Mtt,.,~ Dead/me. 5 p.m., March 24 cal position and attached its he added. . ~ Thursday March 19, 1998 The Observer· PAID ADVERTISEMENT page 9 25PSYCHICS Directed by Steven Kaplan Asian American Association Presents I Asian AmePicans qn tile APts· ~apcfl 20 ~ Ap, i c 4, 1998 March 20, Friday EAST ASIAN STUDIES March 26, Thursday SYMPOSIUM LUMPIA NllGHT 7 pm esc March 21, Saturday THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL March 31, Tuesday ELVIS ..... IS IN THE BUILDING LITERARY ROUNDTABLE WITH performed by Elvis John Newinn FATHER MALLOY Cosponsored by VSA, AIS, 7PM Student Government & Troop ND MOVIE: "HEAVEN AND EARTH" 8pm Washington Hall 8 PM Nieuwland 127 March 22, Sunday April 1, Wednesday 25 PSYCHICS-A COMEDIC ONE-WOMAN SHOW GENERAL MEETING & MOVIE: "DRAGON" performed by Lauren Tom 8 pm Washington Hall 8 pm Nieuwland 127 KOREAN CLUB DINNER 5:30PM, CSC. TICKET: $4. 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Kevin Dalum The ( Jh~ervcr i) the mdcpc:ndcm ncm.paper JH!hli.\hed by the ~cudent)o of rhe Universiry of Notre: Dame du Lac and S.1int Mary':t (:ollcge. lr do~ n • LEnER TO THE EDITOR • THE BELLE OF SAINT MARY's Gay Priest The Trials of a Lenten Sacrifice We're nearly halfway through because I heard everybody's going ing team hurls thn ball down th<~ Lent, which means I'll have to con to get free T -shirts. I refuse to length of the eourt to • 000NESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU • fiUOTE OF THE DAY A9 }(){JCAN !MA6/N/3, I'M JU5TSICJ< A80UT7H/S. \ " 1\ good education should 1-\ieave much to be desired." -Alan Gregg Tuesday, March 17, 1998 VIEWPOINT page 11 • LETTERS To THE EDITOR ROTCAtND/s Cheer Fencers Boxers Win This Round t a time when there is so much negativity, greed, and ego Not Hypocritical, OnTo A involved in sports, it is amazing to me that someone would A try to detract from an example of what all sports should aspire to. The only explanations I can think of are jealousy, igno It's Essential rance and cowardice. Mr. Kessler seems to be an authority on the National origin and evolution of the Bengal Bouts, but I wonder- have you am writing in response to the ignorant argu ever stepped foot in the boxing room? There are so many inaccu ments posed by a well-intentioned Mr. Championship racies in Mr. Kessler's short article, I almost don't know where to l McMahon in the March 18 edition of The start. Since it titles your article, lets start with the jackets. Yes, Obsnrvnr. First of all. I would like to admit that I am the winner and runner-up get jackets, but did you know that the boxers - not the team or the University - pays for T -shirts, a Senior Army HOTC cadet, about to enter the mili Do you want to win a National shorts, hand-raps, mouth pieces, shoes, hats and sweatshirts at an tary. I am also a theology major. I have approachea Championship? It's been a while since above-cost price so as to turn a profit for the missions. In fact, the this nxaet issue from many different viewpoints, but Notre Dame brought home a National soon to be delivered varsity-style warm-up jackets were pur am enrtain that Mr. McMahon is only looking Championship, but we could win one this through the world in his own narrow view. weekend. chased at an expense of $75 to each boxer. Should the champions not even be allowed one trophy free-of-charge in recognition of all First off. instead of referring to us as "professional From Thursday through Sunday Notre their hard work and accomplishment. The finalist jacket is the Trainnd Soldiers," he prefers to belittle us by refer Dame hosts the NCAA Fencing only tangible thing any boxer has the opportunity to receive with ring to us as "trained in the art of murder." This is Tournament, and our very own fencing out payment, yet that is what you chose to focus your article on. an ignorant statmnent at best. Thfl vast majority of team is battling for the championship right our training in HOTC has nothing to do with military now. Consistently ranked in the top three You claim to be tired if reading about the boxers acting as if warfare. Most of graduating cadets will enter into a year after year, the fencers enter the tour they are doing some great charitable thing. For starters, saving branch that has little or nothing to do with killing nament ranked third in the nation. Yes, lives and funding the construction of school ,and medical buildings are great charitable things, and who are yout to condemn people p Associ•ted Press think as the year goes on, he's going day with a run-scoring single in tlw. innings. Kenny l{ogl~rs pitr,hed s1wen to assume a greater ability to play fourth. lie is 10-for-19 in his last scoreless innings, allowing four sin Cleveland star Manny Hamirez did consistently." seven games, with four homers and 11 gles. not travel with the team to RB!s. Wednesday's exhibition game against Mets 7, Astros 2 Neagle (3-0) allowed only two hits in Angels 9, Diamondbacks 0 Atlanta as the Indians sorted out an his longest stint of the spring, extend altereation between the right fielder At Port St. Lucie, Fla., Butch Huskey ing his shutout streak to 14 innings. At Tucson, Ariz., Darin Erstad hit and a clubhouse attendant. homered twice. doubled and drove in Cleveland starter Melido Perez his first two spring training homers Hamirez reportedly slapped club five runs to lead New York over allowed three hits, three walks and and drove in five runs, leading house assistant Tom Foster after Houston. four runs in two innings. His EllA Anaheim over Arizona. being told that he could not remove Bernard Gilkey also homered for the climbed to 11.05. Erstad hit a thnw-run homer that two bats from the equipment room. Mets. Bill Pulsipher pitched four capped a five-run second inning otT The altercation took place about two scoreless innings for a save. Phillies 3, Blue Jays 2 loser Brian Anderson, who had given hours after the Indians lost H-4 to the up only one earned run in his first 12 Tampa Bay lhwil Hays on Tuesday. Hangers 7, Pirates :~ At Dunedin, Fla., new Toronto closer innings. Erstad hit a two-run homer in "From what I understand, there was Handy Myers gave up unearned three the fourth. an altercation," general manager John At Bradenton, Fla., Tom Goodwin's runs in the ninth inning and llart said. "It was an isolated incident. two-run single led to a four-run sec Philadelphia rallied to win. Brewers 12, Mariners (ss) 7 We've addressed it internally." ond inning against struggling Jason Blue .Jays starter Pat llentgen llart would not say whether Hamirez Schmidt as Texas defeated Pittsburgh. pitched seven shutout innings, allow At Peoria, Ariz., .ll)rmny Burnitz and would be fined or suspended. Rick Helling pitched three-hit hall ing only two hits. Bobby Hughes hit home runs and llart and manager Mike Hargrove for six innings as Texas improved its Phillies pitcher Calvin Madura, Billy Milwaukee had 15 hits off four Seattll) both said Hamirez stayed at the major league-leading spring record to Brewer, Darrin Winston, Wayne pitchers. Indians' training site in Winter Haven, 15-6. Gomes and Yorkis Perez combined on Burnitz got his third homer of the Fla., because of a pulled left quadri a one-hitter. Ed Sprague homered in spring and Hughes was 3-for-3 with ceps muscle. Red Sox 3, Expos 1 the seeond inning for Toronto's only four RBis. · llargrove said he talked with hit. The Mariners got home runs from Hamirez for about an hour before At Fort Myers, Fla., Derek Lowe Philadelphia's Gary Bennett hit a Alex Hodriguez and Edgar Martinnz going to Kissimmee, Fla., for a 10-0 filled in for injured starter Butch two-out, two-run single that tied it among their 18 hits. loss to the Braves. Henry and pitched five innings of one and Billy McMillon followed with an "It was an argument between two hit ball as Boston beat Montreal. RBI single. Cubs 5, Mariners (ss) :~ adults, and one of them settled it the Lowe, who walked one and struck wrong way," Hargrove said. "It wasn't out three, made the start because At Mesa, Ariz., Manny Alexander an attack on authority." Henry injured his hamstring while Athletics 6, Giants 0 drove in four runs as Chicago beat a Ham i rez, batting . 43 5 with five running the bases last week. Seattle split squad. homers and 15 RB!s this spring, is At Scottsdale, Ariz., HiCkey Glenallen Hill hit a two-run homer being tried in the eleanup spot with Braves 10, Indians 0 Henderson led off the game with a in the fourth ofT Terry Mulholland to !>avid .Justice third and .lim Thome homer and stole his first base of the give Seattle a 2-0 lead. l'ifth. At Kissimmee, Fla., Andres spring as Oakland beat San Francisco. lie has appeared focused and com Galarraga drove in five runs and Henderson, who holds the major Tigers 5, Devil Hays 1, 5 innings milled to improving his defense and Denny Neagle pitched five scoreless league record with 72 leadoff homers, baSIHunning, only to derail his innings as Atlanta beat Cleveland. hit a shot over the left-field fence At St. Petersburg, Fla., Brian lluntl'r progress with the clubhouse incident. Galarraga hit a three-run double in against Kirk Rueter. Ben Grieve added d r o v e i n t h r e I) r u n s a n d D e t r o i t "lie has been gn~at," Hart said. "He the first, added a solo homer leading a solo homer in the fourth inning ofT defeated Tampa Bay in a ganw callnd has made great strides this sp,ring. I o!T the third and finished his 3-for-3 Rueter. who allowed four runs in four after five innings IH~eause of rain. 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SHANNON RYAN If the Irish are successful pede, two of which were 7-0 the nation, will have his hands at No. 4 has proven a sure bet, Saint Mary's Editor against the Green Wave they sweeps, the Irish are not about full as he takes on the Swedish remaining undefeated on the will most likely go on to com to stroll this weekend. sensation. Samuelsson boasts a season at 11-0. The Notre Dame's men's t!m pete against other high level "It's going to be a great com ranking of second in the nation The tournament has become nis team. recently bumped up teams in attendance. petition," said junior Brian for singles and 21st in doubles. a highlight for the Irish in their to No. 21 ranking by the ITA, is Depending on their perfor Patterson, playing No. 3 singles Patterson and Jakub five years of participation, craving a hectic weekend. mance, Notre Dame may get to and No. 1 doubles. "We're real Pietrowski, slipping two slots in which is reasonable considering The l'irst round of the four prove themselves against ly pumped for the weekend." the polls to No. 7, will face the their SUCGeSS rate. day Blun Gray National Classic Harvard, Virginia The biggest threat of deflation task of eliminating the interna Last year, the netters won in Montgomery. Alabama will Commonwealth, or No. 2 may come with Tulane's Robert tional pair of Samuelsson and three out of four matches and begin today for the Irish against Illinois. Samuelsson. Ryan Sachire, now his Netherlands partner, fresh finished second in thn event. No. 25 Tulane. On a six game winning stam- 9-2 at No. 1 singles and 22nd in man Ronald Kloppert. They defeated Alabama The Irish duo lately have Birmingham, VCU, and Illinois gained the momentum to down before losing to South Alabama The Notre Dame African Students' Association the Green Wave combo, by win on the final day of competition. & ning five consecutive pairs The lrish squad is confident matches. that they again deserve to occu The World Affairs Council of Michiana Notre Dame, 9-2 on the sea py the courts with the best son, will also need to rely on teams in the nation. Proudly Present: the dependable play of Danny "I alwa.ys think we're going to Rothschild. The senior captain win," Paltterson said. 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"It was a difficult transition to doubt he is the The club recruited a premier best sabre Hussian coach, Igor Pleskun, to make in fencing for Notre Dame. Most of the tournaments fencer we lead the advanced students in have," he said. tlw local tournaments. but he are team-oriented, but the goal must be the same- to focus on After Notre also worked with the beginners Dame, LaValle of the club. whieh included the opponent on the strip. No matter what, to win you have to hopes to con LaValle. tinue fencing "I dedicated myself to fencing take it one step at a time," said competitively, because I knew it would be LaValle. The same attitude has bred already plan •~asy to excel in if I remained the same results for the sabre ning to train focused. Heing coached by such for the 2000 a top coach also helped," squad captain. lie has fenced his way to being named a two or at least the LaValle commented. 2004 Olympic The Observer/John Daily It wasn't long before LaValle time All-American and one of the top fencers on the collegiate games. But Luke LaValle and the rest of the Irish fencers are confident they have the mental reach to represented the New York LaValle still defeat defending champion Penn State in the NCAAs. Athletic Club in local tourna· level. His recent three-peat as the Midwest Regional has a number ments. I lis mastery of the sabre of duels to dominate in for the same outlook that has got him Arter all, bdore you can eap weapon soon led him to com· Champion has given LaValle a third trip to the NCAA Irish before that. this far. ture the king in a game of p1~te in .Junior Olympic quali LaValle's current focus is this "I'm going into !the chess, you have to have already fiers for the NYAC. where the Championships. Just as important for the Irish weekend's NCAA Championships] worrying about taken the rest of your oppo team has consistently been Championships. He will begin it one step at a time, one duel nent's pieces, one step at a dominant in New York. llis is his leadership roJe. As the captain of the squad, LaValln competition on Friday with the at a time," stated LaValle. time. arhi1werm~nts also IPd him to Vassil Etropolski, a Bulgarian has helped freshman Andrzej who won the JIJH5 world cham Bednarski make a successful pion in sabn\ to train with. transition to the collegiatn level. FPneing still in the NYAC, ".Just like myself. the main goal for Bednarski is to remain La Valli~ hPeamn nationally rec focused on fencing each match, ognizt~d after hn became the I 994 Division II National and not worrying about the Champion. A year later. lie tournament as a whole," said steppnd up to become the La Valle. .Junior Olympie Champion, and The results have been the cornpetPd in the U.S. Olympic same for Bednarski, as he will festival. fence alongside LaValle this weekend in the NCAA SUNDAY. MARCH 22 1:00-5:00 PM A workshop for couples in a serious relationship who want to explore choices and decisions for the future including the possibility of marriage TOPICS TO BE PRESENTED: Stages of relationship Steps in making healthy decisions Long-distance relationships THERE IS NO COST FOR THE PROGRAM, BUT... PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED... BY FRIDAY, MARCH 20 Applications are available at either Campus Ministry Oftke: Badin Hall or Library Concourse uestions? Call 631-5242 A'ik for John, S Ivia or Chris Tell mom most of what you're up to. 1-800-COLLECT ® Thursday, March 19, 1998 page 15 Lacrosse ..... continued from page 20 Murray. Marshall registered 7 saves and Murray picked up 5. "We didn't capitalize as much we wanted to," Callahan said. While the score at halftime remained somewhat close at 5-2, that is as close as Notre Dame would come. As far as scoring goes, the second half proved disastrous for the Irish. For seventeen minutes the team was held scoreless and Notre Dame watched as the score went to 11-2. "We played a good game and we played hard," junior Stephanie Fox said. "We kept with the pace. They were a ehallenge for us. The score really did not represent how we played." Notre Dame spent the majority of the second half in Colgate's end of the field but some bright spots came in the sceond half. especially from the play of Callahan and Calabn1se. Calabrese initiated an offen siV!l opportunity for the Irish with a quick check and The Observer/Jeff Hsu Callahan collected the loose One of the team's leading scorers last season, junior Stephanie Fox ball. Callahan patiently waited hopes to assist the Irish upfield this Sunday against Vanderbilt. for an opening and found a Calabrese said. "I created goes to 3-1. The Irish have cutting Doyle who drilled a some turnovers with good some time to recuperate, their shot into the net. Doyle's goal checks but I still have lots to next game coming on Sunday eamc too late in the contest, improve on." against Vanderbilt. Notre as the Irish found themselves With the win, the Red Dame hungers for revenge down 11-3. Raiders improve to 2-1 on the after losing to Vanderbilt last "I worked hard on defense." season. Notre Dame's record year, 20-13. Save the Earth. Please recycle The Obser,ver. I esc •t CENTER FOR ~ Where~s the PartY?. ~ t ,I I The Center for Social Concerns Presents .... A 15th Anniversary Bash in your honor SaturdaY~ March 21 st 9:30 PM to 1:30 AM EverYthing is free! D.J. and Food are Provided Thursday, March 19, 1998 .... page 16 The Observer • SPORTS------• TRACK AND fiELD Freshman Shay takes to the long-distance in Morocco By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN always be the one who's pushing forward to the outdoor track sea now," said Shay. ''I'm going to go make a profession out of it." Sporrs W rir"r the paw;, He's always looking to son. as far as I can with running, If his past ar.hievements are do more. "I have a goal of making it to maybe the Olympics someday. any indication, with continued Freshman Ryan Shay's talent Shay has been running since the NCAA Championships in the Hopefully I'm on the right path dedication and focus, Shay may and strong dedkation to running the fifth grade, carrying on a 5,000 and the 10,000 meters. for that. That's probably my someday be found on the victory has kept him from missing a beat strong family tradition in the That's my ultimate goal right eventual goal, and maybe to stand at the Olympics. in the transition to collegiate sport. His older brother, Joseph, cross-country and track. !lis ran for Lubbock Christian efl'orl'i will pay oil' this Sunday as University after winning two high he represents the United States school state championships in -PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PRESENTATION in the World Junior Men's Cross cross country; his older sister, Country Championships in Arnie, runs for Adams State; and Marrakesh, Morocco. his dad, Joe, coached his high Shay will be one of six men school team. DIVERSITY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES: running for the U.S. in the race. Ryan had an accomplished lltl qualilitld for the team by fin pre-collegiate career at Central A PLURALISTIC APPROACH ishing fourth at the U.S . .Junior Lake High School in Central National Cross Country Lake, Michigan, despite the fact Championships in Portland, Ore., that his school was so small. with NOTABLE AUTHOR. EDUCATOR. AND DIVERSITY FACILITATOR in December. About 300 runners only 27 students in his graduat ANDY EVANS from around the world will eom ing class, that it often did not (Wte in the R,OOO meter event. have enough runners to field an TAKES A .. REALISTIC ...LIGHT-HEARTED .. LOOK AT THE ISSUES AND with the top live finishers from entire ?141te~4~~ Proudly Presents Thursday March 19 (Tonightl) The return of Jump Blues Masters 10:30 Show Appearing LIVE with new superstars 1980-1998 525 N. Hill St. South Bend Procession: 4 p.m. Friday -- Get Excited® ------~---~ ------~------ Thursday, March 19, 1998 The Observer· SPORTS • WOMEN'S GOLF .. King swings top games at Snowbird Classic By GENE BRTALIK helped the move into eighth place ahead o( Sporrs Writer James Madison and one stroke behind Rollins College. Last weekend at the Snowbird Intercollegiate King's 72 give her the three top rounds in Classic Katie King continued to rewrite the Notre Notre Dame history, and her combined score of Dame golf record books. 150 for the tournament is second only to the 149 King's 72 in the second round was the one of that she carded at the recent Midwest Classic. tlw best performances by anyone in the tourna - Her season stroke average of 79.94 is set to ment, and coupled with her 78 on the first day, best her own Notre Dame record of 80.17. helped her achieve a fourth place finish two King's current career average of81.68 is two strokes off of first place. This finish marks her strokes ahead of Kelly Phares' record holding second straight top five finish. career average. The team, after a record setting day their last King struggled through the early part of this time out on the links, struggled the first day year but since then she has rolled through com and finished with an eighth place finish out of 20 petitions. teams. ''We [Katie and I] realized that her grip was Notre Oame's first day struggles mainly dealt too tight and thatshe was shanking and hooking with the weather. A<> many of those who visited shots," coach Ross Smith said. "We worked on Florida for Spring break know, the weather was the grip and adjusted it so that she could play not the typical spring like condition. The team her best.H faced 40 degree temperatures and prevailing The Irish now play in three very important winds. These factors resulted in the team shoot tournaments in the upcoming weeks. The Observer/Kevin Dalum ing a 326 and stuck them in ninth place 19 They arc currently ranked 11th in the district Finishing 19th at last year's championship, senior Carl Jackson (right) strokes behind leader and eventual winner and strong performances in the upcoming con hopes to step it up on the strip this weekend in men's epee. Purdue. tests could vault them up to either third or After adjusting to the conditions the team cut fourth and possibly a trip to the NCAA tourna Collliing in as the three-time 13 strokes off of its previous round, and it ment. Midwest Champion, junior Fencers Luke LaValle will lead the continued from page 20 Irish's sabre attack. His advice to freshman Andrzej that the Irish are expecting. Bednarski, who will also fence Once again, the Irish focus is sabre, is the same rule that the not on defeat, but rather a win rest olf the team is following: ning mentality. "If we worry "We're worrying about it one about those big bouts ·that we step at a time. We have to might lose, we'll lose the lower remain focused. bouts that we must win," said "Last Year, we got caught up Walsh. too much in the competition," Key for the Irish's hope lies she said. "This year. we're with women's epee. In order to worrying about our own fenc upstage the Nittany Lions, the ing, and because of it, our squad will look for sophomore intensity is up." Magda Krol to repeat as the "The field has a lot of great epee champion. fencers. It makes it easy to stay She will fence alongside intense," said senior John junior Nicole Mustilli, who will Tejada., who rounds out the ten fence in the championships for Irish fencers and will compete the first time. Coming off a in foil. "As a senior, this is my respective first and second last shot, and I'm sure that no place finish at the Midwest other fencer wants it more championships, Krol and than I do. Mustilli hope to carry that "This is why I came to Notre momentum into this weekend. Dame. to represent us in the On the men's side of the epee championships. Now is the time event, the senior tandem of to do it," Tejada said. Carl Jackson and captain Brian Notre Dame's first ever fenc Stone will dual for the Irish. ing NCAA Championship came Both fenced last year, with in 1977 when the Irish defeat Jackson placing 19th and Stone ed NYU, also at home. The 13th. Stone also goes into this Irish hope that with the mental weekend with the 1998 edge and the home field advan Midwest Championship under tage, this will be the time to do his belt. it again. • SPORTS BRIEFS NI>"SMC Gymnastics Club- The Qover·Classic Home Meet is onSaturday, March 21, at 4:00p.m. It will take place at Gymnastics Michiana, on Home Street across from the United Limo Office. Drop-In Volleyball - RecSports will be sponsoring Drop-In Volleyball every Wednesday night for the rest of the semester. Play will be from 8 to 11 p.m. in the Rolfs Sports Recreation Center. Open to all Notre Dame students, faculty and staff. Modern Dance- RecSports will be sponsoring a Modern Dance cla~sthat will meet Sundays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and Wednesdays • from 8 to 9 p.m. in Activity Room 2 of the Rolfs Sports Recreation Center. There will be an information meeting on Wednesday, l"tt*!JMtm!:te .\'!Udt'til .;l$,llJCiflilt1Jt. .:biil/1 .1.ttU'tiC.i.fJJ~4$11;v.;·ta!MJt. March 18 at 8 p.m. at the RSRC. You must register in advance for the .class and sign-ups begin Thursday, March 19, at 8 p.m. at •.f.\ldlt Jnlt'I'IJII!rltkd 11tKk'(t~ 5YtJdvnl (;,.lt.f't!ll.11tlfl. ¢' 1h)(J/J A/1 RecSports. The fee is $20 and no experience is necessary. The class is open to all Notre Dame students, :faculty and staff. /l~ame :J"encing a :lsJ Lacrosse ~CA A Championships ~ Men's Lacrosse vs. Rutgers Saturday 1:00pm ~ Thursday-Stmday & \. All Day Women's Lacrosse vs. ,Vanderbilt &•I St. 1\lary's Sunday 1:00pm Angela Athletic },acilfty Weather Permitting - Moose Krause Rain - Loftus -~.------~- - -- page 18 The Observer • SPORTS Thursday, March 19, I 998 ,, ------..~JCKEY Irish ice CCHA All-American and All-Rookie honors Sperial to The Observer Joining Eaton on the AII seventh-most ever by an Irish game of the season at Michigan, applications major, including n CCII;\ honorable mention list defenseman and most sinc11. giving him the third-most goals :~.92 in tlw 1997 fall snmnster. ANN AHBOH. Mkh. were junior left wing Aniket 1 9H6. lie helped the Irish set in the CCI lA this season and the lie went (1-3-1 this season while Seven Notrn l>alllll hockey DhadphalP. (Marquette, Mich.). school records for team goal most at Notre Dame since 1990. ranking nighth in thn CCII;\ players have eombinPd for 10 junior dnfenseman Benoit against average (2.74) and save He finished second on the tnam with a 2.HH goals-against avg., poslsnason Central Collngiate Cotnoir (Houyn-Noranda, Que.) pet. (.899) while playing a key with 35 points, including 12 plus an .H75 savn pet. Cotnoir llockPy Association awards, lnd and sophomore eenter Ben role in the best Irish season power-play goals-second-most carries a :t 15 eumulativn CPA by rrnshman dPfPnsnnHLn Mark Simon (ShakBr Heights, Ohio). penalty-killing pet. (.843) since at Notre Dame in the 1990s and as an economies major, indud Eaton and sPnior eenl!~r StPve The Irish players receiving 1975. third-most in the nation this ing a 3.07 in the 1 9 1J7 fall NobiP. season. lie scored tlHl first goal smnestnr. J In is tind with Eaton htlon was named to the six of the game a team-best six as the third -In ad i ng scon•r playPr all-rookie lNtm and is CCHA ALL-ROOKIE TEAM: times this season. Dhadphale among CCII;\ dnfnnsPnH•n, with considPrnd a lnading candidate Central carries a :~.34 cumulative CPA 29 points (1 0(;-ll);\) whi]P his for CCII/\ rookie of the year, to Mark as a finance major, induding a 19 pow1~r-play points (4(;-15;\) Ill' annouiH'Pd at tlw CCI lA ban 3.47 in the 1997 fall semester. rank1~d third among all CCII;\ quPt on March IIJ. Eaton also Collegiate Simon finishlld tlw season with playnrs. bnhind forwards was lllle or four Irish players to CCHA ALL-AMERICAN: a team-best 37 points (l)G-2HA), Muckalt of Michigan (27) and recnive votes for the t\11-CCIIA Hockey tied for 13th on the CCII;\ scor Sean Berens of MSU (2:~). tPam. joining Ohio State goal Steve Noble··· ..... ing charts. lie registered a To bn eligibiP for CCIIA t\11- tender Jpff Maund and point in 27 of the 37 games he Aeademie Team <'.onsideration, Miehigan defenseman Mike Van Association played while sharing for the a player must be at least a Hyn as the only freshmen to HONORABLE MENTION· team lead in shorthanded goals sophomore and have a 3.00 rPeeive aii-CCIIA votes. Awards (3). GPA on a 4.0 scale. The all-aea Noble was named to the six lyle An Andrusiak carries a 3.54 demic toam is selected tho fac player CCIIA All-Academic cumulative GPA as a business ulty athlntie rPprnsentatives of tPam for the SflCOIHI eonsecutive Aniket management information sys the 11 mPmb1~r institutions, season, after boostng his cumu Forrest tems major, including a :~.5H in considering both academic and lative grade-point average to the 1997 fall semester. llis 24 athletie achiovmnent. Tlw play 3.952. points (8G-16Al ranked eighth ers reeoiving the top six vote Four Notre Dame players on the 1997-98 Irish squad, totals arn honored as first-tmuu reeeived votes for the AII-CCIIA SPECIAL MENTION: highlighted by a pair of game members, with all others tnam. tied with Lake Superior winning goals and a four-point receiving votes narning honor for fourth-most in the CCII;\ Benoit game versus Perris State. Karr able mention recognition. behind Michigan, Michigan carries a 3.77 cumulative GPA Anyone nominated reeeiv11s Statn and Ohio State (five each). CCHA All-Academic honorable Noble has totaled 31 A's, as an accounting and eomputnr special mention honors. Nnarly half (15) of the 32 play mention were Dhadphale, three A-'s and one B+ in his ers receiving ali-CCIIA votes senior center Lyle Andrusiak, first seven semesters as a were seniors. with Notre Dame and junior goaltender Forrest finance major at Notre Dame, KELLOGG and OSU set to return the most Karr. Cotnoir received All including four perfect 4.0 INSTITUTE votn-gntters (four each). Academic special mention. semesters. lie ranked seventh FiVIl Notnl Damn players Eaton's 29 points tied with on the 1997-98 Irish squad with rncnived eonsidnration for the Cotnoir for third among all a career-best 25 points (8G-7A) TODAY, March 19 CCI lA t\11-AcadPmk team. tind CCIIA defensemen, behind while totaling just nine penal Annual Distinguished Lecture on with Ferris Statn for second in e Miami senior Dan Boyle ( 14G- ties. Noble appeared in the final CCI lA behind Bowling Green's 2(,A) and Fnrris State senior 75 games of his career and 148 Democracy and Development seven (MSU was the only other Brett Colborne (7G-30A). Eaton of 149 overall, becoming just school with more than three). In tied for fourth on the Irish scor the fifth Irish player to appear addition to Noble, three Irish ing list, highlighted by a team in 148-plus games and the third James C. Scott, Yale University playnrs were nanwd to the hon best 18 points on the road to log 140-plus while missing no "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to orahln mention All-Academic inducting a pair of first goals in games or one game. Noble team. giving tlw Irish the most last week's playoff series at joined MSU's Tyler llarlton and Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" play1)rs (4) on the t\11-Academk Miehigan. lie ranked second on Western Michigan's Jeff and honorable mention AII the team in plus-minus (+13) Hucinski as repeat selections to Aeadmnic teams. ahead of FSU, and power-play goals (7) while the All-Academic team. 4:15p.m. MSU and OSU (who had three totaling just 16 penalties in 41 Dhadphale netted his 25th Hesburgh Center Auditorium nach). games. Eaton's 12 goals are the goal of the season in the final • Christmas in April Benefit Run "America's Greatest Appalachian Artist" }. Whitaker Sat. March 21st 'SC Multi-Purpose Room, 4-5 pm Tom Whitaker will be sharing his entertaining musical talents, N\ 'Proc.udfl to ~enefit tln1~11\)~ ~In ~~\ including guitar and mandolin, through his original composi Sponsored By tion. This afternoon will be a great opportunity for students to ..e~~ experience the culture of Appalachia . Thursday, March 19, 1998 The Observer • TODAY page 19 MEN ABOUT CAMPUS DAN SULLIVAN YOUR HOROSCOPE EUGENIA LAST N£V£R LET 1"T Aquarius: The early tasks that tend to increase morning aspects reinforce your status and prestige. BE SAl0,1HAT spiritual ideas and aims. Distractions are pleasant HE CATHOLIC Guard against pesky acci at times. CHURCfl IS BEHINl> dents in the home and Virgo: More promising ~HE ·r,MES. about the grounds during aspect:> are evident today, the later afternoon. with good stimulation of Pisces: Seesaw patterns employment matters, busi during the morning can ness transactions, budgets, make for uncertainty interviews, and coopera regarding children, pets, tion. neighbors, and in-laws. Libra: Consider agree Aries: Painstaking ments reached today as efforts and attention to possibly being only tempo minor details will get you rary. There can be delays through a trying morning. in long-distance travel. Your health is well aspect Employment matters ed during the afternoon. improve during the morn Taurus: Planetary vibra ing. tions uphold health gains Scorpio: The aspects as well as support preven support domestic improve tive-medicine routines ments, attention to spots in during the entire day. your home where you There is good potential for have noticed signs of dete early-morning and late rioration. This is an excel evening traveL lent day for dining out. Gemini: Today you're in Sag;ittarius: Avoid • the driver's seat where becoming lost in details travel, health, shopping, and incidentals in which and social matters are others can trap you. Your concerned. You can write intuitive abilities are high your own ticket and carry lighted throughout the SCOTT ADAMS DILBERT loved ones along with your day. enthusiasms. Capricorn: Don't press 0"' I E':>TII'\ATED THE. HOURS 0 TH ~T WOULD BE FIFTY WELL, TO 1"\A\\E A LONG Cancer: Ideal aspects for agreements, decisions, -' IT WOULD TAKE TO DO 0 STORY 51-\0RT LET'S SKIP govern health, travel, or opinions in business or "' ~OURS A DA~. 50 I 1 AN EX.CELLENT J"Ol3 ON "" keeping on the go in your financial matters this "' RECALCULATED FOR DOWN TO "COI"\PLETE own community. A good morning. Disagreements ALL THE PROJ"ECTS YOU'VE ...~ "AOI:QUA.TE'' RESULTS. FIDUCIARY sense of personal freedom shoulld be controlled and A55I.GNE.O. :> THAT WOULD ~E. FORTY M lSCONDUCT. " is evident. not permitted to fester 0 Leo: The accent is on during the evening. "' ~OURS I'E.R DA'<. ) L>Th~ C~nter for Social Concems Invites you to eel· el)r~t~ Disabiliti~s Awa\eness Week and to. attend a hospitality luncheon sponsored by the LoganCenter on CROSSWORD Tbu~~~ay, Marclt19 from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. Corned Note: The answer to 53-Across contains a hint to entering B~ef andTrimmings will be served and the cost is the answers at 20-, 23-, 38-, 48- and 53-Across itself. $3~oo:''' :;r.J~b Search Orienta.tion for.J;uniors: This presen· ACROSS 28 Prepare to share 58 Staffers tation is designed to give juniors an overview of the 1 Like The 32 Circumference 60 Abominable Citadel, now 33 Sheik's peer Snowman types ofactivitit:~s involved in prepariQg for the job 5 The Constitution, 34 March V.I.P. &2 Turnoff search in their senior years as well as how Career and e.g. 35 N,O, e.g. &3 Reinstates Flaeemeb.t ServiCes office can ~,ssist in the process. 9 Wing it 38 What a "choosy 64 Dark __ Presented by raul Reynolds, Associate Director, Career 14 Fit mother" might and Placement Services. Thursday, March 19, 1998 in 15 Place for a pig pack for lunch 65 Southwestern sight room138rDe,Bartolo Hall from 4:00 to 5:00p.m. 16 Metier 42 Ninny Self-Assessment Workshop for Arts & Letters: 11 With 35-Down, 43 Compuserve 66 Elliptical a birth service 67 Crawl Master your career destiny! Identify personally signifi announcement 44 Wit Bombeck 68 Black ¢~ntjob values and satisfactions; assess skills, 18 Place to hold a 45 Winter Palace strength~ arid personal qualities; set goals to identify banquet roast? residents yourJdeal job. Students wilfbe given the Strong 19 Like some 46 Put on ice DOWN Interest Inventory to assess inter;est. Three part work diseases 48 Unsavory MTV 1 Smart shop ·Attendance to all is strongly encouraged. 20 Heavy-duty cartoon duo Limited space- sign up in adYance at Career and kitchen 52 Chevy rival 2 Swearword implement 53 Familiar 3 Otherwise Placement Services. Presented by Olivia Williams. 22 Rebound five-word phrase 4 Sugar Assistant Director. Jointly sponsored by Care~r and 2360's sitcom that that means substitute? Placement Services & The Colleg(~ of Arts & Letters. had a whistled "Excuses are 5 Mooch Natural Family Planning: Why it Succeeds: . A intra, with "The" unacceptable!" 6 Remain in an night of introductory information on Natural Family uncertain state Planning will be· held in LaFortune Student Center 3rd 7 "Crusade in floor .Foster Room. The program is open to the public, ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE Europe" author, on Thursday, March 19, from 7- 8:30 p.m. There is no familiarly SHIMS 27 Billboard listings 46 nie way and the 54 This might be in charge but materials are available for $10. This is a Place for a pig IONIA 28 - vu path for the long haul sponsored by Campus Ministry and the Natural Family 9 Recreational DR 0 S S 29 Troublemakers 47 They might be 55 Farm team Planning program ofSt Joseph Country, Inc. To regis four-wheeler, for short 30 Struggles zapped 56 Put on the line t¢r.call237~7405. 31 Stash for cash, 48 Crow 57 Corset part Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to 10 Least sweet briefly 49 Type of type 59 Mariner's dir. lmprove the Human Condition Have Failed: James C. ~~:rnm~~~~~~~mt:W 11 Durable wood 34 Maze word 50 Milk snake 60 Deviation at sea Scott, from Yale University will speak on Thursday, 12 Where Shoshone Falls falls 35 See 17 -Across 51 Keypad key 61 Psychology I Mar~h 19, at 4:15 in the Hesburgh Center for 36 Tiptop International Studies, Auditorium. 13 Not on deck 37 Roe source Dealing with Gross Human Rights Violations of 21 "The Spanish 39 40's theater Tragedy" Answers to any three clues in this puzzle the.Past: The Case of Colombia: Gustavo Gallon, will director James are available by touch-tone phone: dramatist speak on March 19, at 4:15p.m. in room C-103 of the 40 Thurman et al. 1-900-420-5656 (75ct per minute). Hesburgh Center for International Studies. 4~:,.-+:::..t+:-FBB 24 Rather stout 41 Cause of a fly's Annual subscriptions are available for the -=+:+.±:+.::+::-+.:::-BE-1 25 Press on demise best of Sunday crosswords from the last 26 Alpine elevator 45 Idiot boxes 50 years: 1-888-7 -ACROSS. The University of Notre Dame Student Union Board would like to inform you that AMISTAD Cushing Auditorium Thursday 1 0:30PM • Friday S:OOPM/1 0:30PM • Saturday S:OOPM/1 0:30PM ,.. Two Dollar Admission will be playing in place of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil due to Mr. Eastwood's reservations. ___.______------ - SPORTS page 20 Thursday, March 19, 1998 • FENCING Fencers duel for the NCAA Championship Junior captain Luke La Valle leads Irish, one step at a time By ANTHONY BIANCO A two-time All-American, he Spons Writ The Observer/Kevin Dalum The Irish look to continue building on the team's successes by focusing on each bout this weekend. Irish begin championship tourney at home today By ANTHONY BIANCO strategy of the team going into tlw comrwtition. Sports Writer "W!!'n! trying to be rPiaxed and ealm," slw said. We need to focus, going point hy point and eon The edge the Irish fencers bring with them this centrating on each bout. Out nwntality will giw weekend to the NCAA Championship isn't only us thn win." on their weapons. The team knows that in order The women's foil squad will also SPnd captain to unseat three-time returning champion Penn Myriah Brown to compPI.ll. Finishing fifth in last State, they must have the mental advantage on season's tournament, the pair with try to unseat their side of the strip. reigning champion Yelena Kalkina of Ohio State. "Last year, we lost mentally to Penn State. We Thn Irish have the advantag11 in numbers know we could have won, we had the depth and going into the tournament. the physical dominance to do it," commented foil Notrn Damn was only one of thre<' teams to captain and NCAA Champion contender qualify 10 fnncnrs for the championships, with a Stephane Auriol. Auriol qualified for the tourna school qualifying no mor • WOMEN's lACROSSE Lax takes first loss of season liSfJ Women's Lacrosse VANDERBILT -·~ ...... ~~..:_;;_.;.~ By KATHLEEN LOPEZ Kathryn Perrella each ehalked "We played really well," Sports EJiror up a goal. Senior captain Calabrese said. "We worked DUQUESNE Mara Grace and junior Kerry hard, but they were a good atQavidsori.·"..... -." ...... C~ Young talent seems to be the Callahan each added one. team. Even though we lost I highlight of the women's "We were pleased with our thought we were very success atbuke lacrosse games. The freshmen effort," Callahan said. "When ful." composn the Irish's scoring we walked off the field. we The solid play of Colgate's at Ohio State.: ~ threat. After a succflssful knew that we played as best goalie, Hilary Meyer, enabled SYRACUSE break, thn freshmen fell short as we could. They just had her team to win. She regis -~ in tlwir hornP debut. ColgatP sonw strond individuals." tered 14 saves in her 60 min at Connecticut held Notre Dame to just six Colgate's Torrey Fazen utes of play. Notre Dame's goals. as the Hed Haid11rs prov1ld too much for the Irish goalkeeping duties were split GANNON went on to win. 15-(J. to handle. Faznn's blazing between freshman Carrie at Columbia Fr vs. Purdue Fencing NCAA Championships ~ Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Q) Freshman runs in international meet at Angela Athletic Facility, vs. Rutgers 4SIJ • Saint Mary's College Saturday, I p.m. 'C see page 16 .. ~ Thursday through Saturday ~ at Providence Track CIJ Tennis to serve big competition ~~' Saturday, 12 p.m. • at Wabash College ·~ ·- see page 13 at Toledo s"' 'f1w Saturday, TBA Saturday, 12 p.m. ~