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space — that means you’re con­ President will meet nected with people throughout the world — but also in time, a with Vatican leaders tradition that runs through cen­ turies. I think at a personal and By MADDIE HANNA spiritual level, to become more Associate News Editor deeply aware of that, is beneficial to us.” ROME — For University Jenkins, the University Officers President Father John Jenkins, and the Board of Trustees his trip to Rome this week is arrived in Rome Sunday night about much more than attending and will leave Friday morning. official meetings or even cement­ Official Board of Trustees confer­ ing relationships with Vatican ences began Tuesday and will officials — it’s a connection to the culminate today in an academic Catholic Church so profound it conference, where Provost can hardly be described in Thomas Burish will award two words. honorary degrees. “You can’t walk around Rome Meetings with Vatican leaders without being struck by the lay­ — including Congregation for the CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer ers of history,” Jenkins said Doctrine of the Faith prefect CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer University President Father John Jenkins stands Tuesday. "To be Catholic, as Jenkins will meet with Church officials during the outside Santa Susanna, a church in Rome, Tuesday. someone said, is to be Catholic in see ROME/page 6 tru stees’ trip. Diversity initiatives underway Teachers Notre Dame seeks Intercultural floor carry on specific benchmarks educates students in gulf By MADDIE HANNA By LAUREN LAVELLE Associate News Editor News Writer By KATHLEEN MCDONNELL During his inaugural and facul­ Saint Mary’s students don’t News Writer ty addresses. University need to travel far for an President Father John Jenkins intercultural experience. In When 2005 Notre Dame grad­ stressed the importance of fact, they don’t even need to uate Melissa Hentges began increasing diversity at Notre leave campus. teaching in New Orleans last fall, Dame in broad terms — but The Intercultural Living she had no idea of the chal­ stopped short of pinpointing spe­ Community (ILC) on the lenges that would face her in the cific ways to do so. fourth floor in North Regina coming months. But the theme has been taken flail gives students the As a part of Teach for seriously, as the University will opportunity to experience America, a nationwide program pursue several “concrete, achiev­ ethnic and cultural diversity of more than 3,500 corps mem­ able activities” this semester in in their everyday lives. bers, Hentges began teaching at order to prioritize Jenkins’ goal, The Center for Women’s a local elementary school. said Jean Ann Finney, vice presi­ Intercultural Leadership However, a mere five days after dent and associate provost. (CWIL) began the program classes began, nature forced Those steps will be a student- three years ago in an effort New Orleans to evacuate as created project, a faculty-written KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer to promote awareness of cul- Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Junior Asma Quddoura works on her laptop on the Saint Mary’s see DIVERSITY/page 9 Intercultural Floor Thursday. see FLOOR/page 9 see TEACH/page 8 Exhibit unites Latino poets, artists Experts discuss future

By NICOLE ZOOK of war-ravaged Iraq Assistant News Editor

Two art forms merged into for International Peace By MARCELLA BERRIOS Studies faculty associate and one as “Poetas y Pintores: News Writer Artists Conversing with Verse” assistant political science pro­ opened in the Moreau Art fessor Daniel Lindley and sen­ Galleries at Saint Mary’s Jan. Almost three years after the ior fellow for the Kroc 27. United States overthrew Institute and political science Twelve Latino visual artists Saddam Hussein’s dictator­ professor George Lopez. chose works by 12 Latino poets ship in Iraq, three Notre Jordan spoke in favor of the and used them as inspiration Dame scholars with opposing United States’ present strate­ for brand new artworks ranging viewpoints met again in the gy concerning involvement in in style from abstract to digital auditorium of the Ilesburgh the reconstruction and representation. The poems Center for International democratization of Iraq. were displayed next to each Studies Tuesday to address Lindley argued in favor of a piece of artwork exhibited, cre­ the question “Iraq: What firm yet more analytically ating a truly multi-genre expe­ Now? Should the U.S. with­ studied American presence in rience for the over 75 patrons draw, stay the course, or Iraq. who visited the gallery on open­ engage more deeply?” Finally, Lopez suggested the ing night. The panel of experts includ­ incapability of the Bush The Center for Women’s ed the commanding officer of administration to fully com­ KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) Notre Dame’s Army ROTC prehend Iraq’s current state Sister Jean Klene, left, and Sister Pat Thompson discuss a paint­ program, Lt. Col. Kelly ing in the “Poetas y Pintores” exhibit at Saint Mary’s Friday. see EXHIBIT/page 4 Jordan, Joan B. Kroc Institute see IRAQ/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 1, 2006

In side C olumn Question of the Day: DO YOU THINK NOTRE DAM E HAS A GOOD LEVEL OF DIVERSITY? Life after lifeguarding

It wasn’t that long ago that lifeguarding *» was the most glamorous job around. Something about being a lifeguard was just Rachel Barrette Dennis Slater Mary Beth Scully Greg Vallejos Vinh Nguyen Shanna Pereira so appealing. Maybe it dated back to “The freshman sophomore freshman junior freshman Sandlot” and that magic moment between freshman Squints and Wendy Cavanaugh Zahm Cavanaugh Zahm Stanford Cavanaugh Peppercorn. It could have Kate Gales been the fact that mothers “Yes, because in “Yeah, check “I think Notre “Yes, because I ’m “Sweet! This poll “Yes. Well, boys banned their children from watching Associate my section alone, m e o u t... I ’m Dame caters to Hispanic... and says so. But no are enough “Baywatch” until the Sports Editor we have girls Peruvian, many walks of we have many ... not at all. ”diversity for me, seventh grade. It could from all around a ren ’t I?” life, especially wooden ships coming from an have just been the power wielded by the whistle. Whatever it the country." with used during the all-girls school. ” was, being a lifeguard was considered n eed-based Civil War era. ” “hottest summer job ever.” scholarships. ’’ It could have been the power trip — the lifeguards ruled the pool. They perched above the rest of us at local pools, observing the sunbathing teenagers and splashing teenagers from behind mirrored wrap­ around sunglasses and smears of zinc oxide. Lifeguards got to go behind the front desk. # In B rief The girls at the snack bar always served them free food. All I know is that at 15, it Author Kirsten Sundberg didn't get any cooler than lifeguarding. Lunstrum will give a reading Now, though, the magic word is “intern­ from her debut book, This Life ship.” I know people who have been prepar­ She’s Chosen, today at 7:30 ing for today’s career fair since 2004. p.m. in South Dining Hall’s Actually, I could probably rattle off the Hospitality Room. names of half a dozen people who have been preparing for this day since approximately The 2006 Winter Career the second grade. But for those of us who and Internship Fair will take didn’t have our career plans mapped out place today from 4 to 8 p.m. before we mastered the multiplication in the Joyce Center tables, it’s been a little harder to figure out fieldhouse. The event is free which direction we’re going to pick. and sponsored by the Career Nowadays, lifeguarding, waitressing and Center. babysitting just aren’t good enough. Bartending was glamorous at 18, but doesn’t The College of Arts & Letters cut it the summer before you graduate. will present “You Don’t Really Folding shirts at Ralph Lauren doesn’t Have to be a Rhodes Scholar impress anyone, except your sister who to Land a Fellowship for Post loves the employee discount. Nowadays, it’s Graduate Study” Thursday at investment banking and Big Four accounting 7 p.m. in the Hammes Student firms who rule the world of the business Lounge of Coleman-Morse. school juniors. You can rattle off the top marketing firms, management programs Legendary rap artist Chuck and IT salaries for summer internships, and D from the critically acclaimed “leadership programs” are a cutthroat busi­ group Public Enemy will pres­ ness. One day, your friend’s sleeping through DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer ent “Rap, Race, and Reality ” class — the next day he’s Hying to New York LJ Masters, left, and Andy Martinez, University maintenance workers, attach Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in for job interviews. wire mesh to the top of a chandelier in O’Shaughnessy Hall Tuesday to pre­ DeBartolo Hall, Room 141. A It’s been hard to condense 20 years of my vent mischevious students from throwing empty soda bottles into the light. Jimmy John’s reception will life into a resume. 1 had to leave out my follow at 10 p.m. sixth-grade Geography Bee win, clippings of my best column's, my nearly flawless driving Student band “The Harper record and 13 years of piano lessons. But O ffbeat Valley D rifters” will play today, I’ll put on my suit (which already Thursday at 10 p.m. at makes me feel like a high-powered execu­ Phil’s friend celebrates last In the years since The people voted. Legends. tive, not a lowly intern) and hand out copies year as groundhog handler Punxsutawney Spirit news­ Using the Internet of my resume to recruiters at the JACC. The PUNXSUTAWNEY, Penn. paper first carried word of allowed the show to reach The band Nice Save! will recruiters probably won’t know that I — Whether Punxsutawney the groundhog’s failing to the masses, while a new play Friday at 10:30 p.m. at already have a job here at The Observer Phil sees his shadow or not see its shadow in 1886, this category was created to Corby’s. where I work until 5 a.m. without batting an on Groundhog Day, one town of 7,500 people about recognize dogs that are not eye. They probably don’t care that in the thing’s for sure: The man 65 miles northeast of included in traditional dog Re c Sports’ Late Night work cafeteria, I would always be willing to who has been the furry Pittsburgh has been dubbed shows. Olympics will take place in the share the good parts of my lunch. It might be forecaster’s official handler the “Weather Capital of the “This is a classic Joyce Center from 10 p.m. irrelevant that I make amazing chocolate for the past 15 years will World” because of the Cinderella story,” said the Saturday to 4 a.m. Sunday. chip cookies and that I have a weakness for step down after this year. groundhog tradition. tuxedoed Ernie Planck, as Donations of $1 are taken at romantic comedies. Bill Deeley, 56, said he he draped a medal and rib­ the door. Proceeds benefit St. It’s hard to really stand out at a career fair, doesn’t have the energy or Shelter dog wins show bon around Tillie’s tiny Joseph County Special after all. the time. Part of the job ST. LOUIS — A d ach s- neck. “She’s a mixed-breed Olympics. Maybe that was the real appeal of the life­ includes taking Phil to hund-cocker mix named rescue dog selected from guard’s stand. parades and special events. Tillie that was rescued by a 15,000 entries. She is To submit information to be “I could stay in forever, no-kill shelter last year in America’s dog.” included in this section of The Contact Kate Gales [email protected] but even the Pony Express California won best of show The views expressed in the Inside Observer, e-mail detailed changed horses,” Deeley Monday in an online com­ Information compiled information about an event to Column are those of the author and not said. petition in which 45,000 from the Associated Press. necessarily those of The Observer. [email protected]

C o rr ec tio n s TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY In the Jan. 31 edition of The Observer, the article entitled K “‘Monologues’ have been banned at SMC since 2001” 111 reported the Eve Ensler play “The Vagina Monologues” was banned from the Saint Mary’s campus. In fact, the current administration has not banned the play and the previous administration struggled with the same issues o f “endorse­ ment” outlined last week by University President Father John Jenkins. No Saint Mary’s campus group has proposed < ***** a reading of the work in the past two years. Instead mem­ o bers of the College community have chosen to write about o HIGH 43 HIGH 35 HIGH 45 HIGH 38 HIGH HIGH 32 their own experiences and selected pieces have been read as the “SM C M onologues.” LOW 37 LOW 31 LOW 30 LOW 35 LOW 25 LOW 23 In the Jan. 30 edition of The Observer, a Viewpoint letter by Joanna Basile represented only her views and not neces­ sarily those o f the Center for Social Concerns. Atlanta 55 / 38 Boston44 / 36 Chicago 35 / 33 Denver 54 / 22 Houston72 / 48 Los Angeles 67 / 52 Minneapolis 31 / 22 The Observer regrets these errors. New York 46/ 41 Philadelphia 45 / 38 Phoenix74 / 47 Seattle 45 / 39 St. Louis 53 / 29 Tampa 67 / 57 Washington 43 / 39 Wednesday, February I, 2006 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS page 3 Career Fair ready for SMC ready to 'dump its plum p' job-hunting students Exercise program offers competition, team fun to raise fitness levels

opportunities will be available. with all of the women partici­ break so I think it will be suc­ By EMMA DRISCOLL “(There are] innumerable rea­ By LAURA KLEINSCHMIDT pating in the program. The cessful.” News Writer sons to come to the fair, even if News Writer competition aspect helps as “Belles for Fitness” began you don’t know what you’re [pur­ well, with teams of two to 10 Monday and ends right before Representatives from compa­ suing],” Rees said. participants competing against spring break. In order to nies and organizations such as The fair will be “for every sin­ The Saint Mary’s community each other for prizes and address other issues associated Reebok International, Ltd., JP gle major on campus,” with is looking a little more fit these recognition. with exercise and dieting, there Morgan Chase and Microsoft approximately 240 postings that days — due to students and Several teams have chosen a will be weekly lectures during Corporation will make their way list Arts and Letters majors faculty getting motivated and fun and creative team name. the program. to Notre Dame today for the 2006 among the majors sought, said dumping some “plump” in a Team names range from Talks will range from topics Winter Career and Internship Rees. Eighty-six postings include new fitness program at the “Making Spandex Look Good ” such as learning to monitor I air, sponsored by the Career sophomores as well. Angela Athletic Center. and “I’ll Take Fries with that” heart rates to nutritional facts Center. Rees also said students should The “Dump your Flump ” pro­ to “Why have a Six Pack when and information. The lectures This year’s fair, taking place bring resumes to the Fair, but gram was recently renamed you can have a Keg.” are meant to inform partici­ from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the cover letters arc not necessary. “Belles for Fitness” due to the Each team member is pants about problems with eat­ Joyce Center Fieldhouse, will “If you don’t have a resume, number of women who signed required to work out for a min­ ing disorders and over-exercise have “the largest number of come just to meet and explore up and in order to promote the imum of 200 minutes per week that many women face. employers ever,” said Anita Rees, the different employers that more positive aspects of exer­ (an average of about at least 30 Van Schoyck said she could the Career Center’s associate come to Notre Dame and the cise and fitness. minutes per day). If a partici­ not give an exact number at director. One hundred and sixty opportunities they offer,” she Director of Athletics and pant does not make the 200 this point, but handed out close four employers will attend the said. Recreation Lynn Kachmarik minutes, the entire team loses to 300 registration forms. fair while 37 non-profit organiza­ Employers will also hold a said she is impressed with the points. Each week there is a Many students said they are tions and 14 government agen­ reception from 12 to 2:30 p.m. in large turnout for the program “huddle” where teams gather excited to be participating in cies will also be represented. the Monogram Room of the Joyce and expects it to go well. to help encourage each other the program. Several employers new to the Center to allow students to “I expect the program to run and are can do a weigh-in, an Freshman Brittany fair include OMD (media commu­ address diversity topics — includ­ very effectively and with lots of optional part of the program. Fitzpatrick said she likes the nications specialists). Rod ale ing the roles of women, different fun and motivation,” she said. Contestants may have a goal to competition aspect. Publishing (book and magazine races and affinity groups — with­ “I am very excited to see lose anywhere from zero to 10 “It’s better to have a competi­ publishers), Midway Amusement in the organizations. Angela even more crowded pounds on an individual basis. tion because people are natu­ Games (Xbox, PlayStation 2, “All students and em ployers than it already is with Bridgette Van Schoyck, a rally competitive,” Fitzpatrick Gameboy Advance and are |also| invited to attend the increased Illness activity.” physical education instructor, said. “The prizes and timing of GameCube games), Our Lady of diversity reception ... to ask very While this is the first time began the program at the it ending right before spring Guadalupe Middle School and different questions of employers, ” Saint Mary’s has attempted to College after running the same break help a lot as well.” Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Rees said. launch a group fitness pro­ program at a Gold’s Gym Kristen Brickley — a fresh­ Chicago. Rees said the fair will be bene­ gram, “Belles for Fitness” is Athletic & Medical Center in man m em ber of the team “Will In past years, 20 to 30 employ­ ficial to students who attend. already so successful that stu­ Buffalo. Mich. Van Schoyck said Work for Food” — said -she is ers typically posted opportunities “[The fair intends I to provide a dents are not the only ones tak­ she found it to be very success­ excited about the team aspect with the fair but did not send unique opportunity for a large ing advantage of the program ful at Gold’s and hopes to of the program. representatives to the actual number of students to talk, greet — it has attracted many faculty achieve the same success at “We exercise after class event. This number has signifi­ and network with a large num­ and staff members as well. Saint Mary’s. together,” she said. “It makes it cantly decreased, as this year’s ber of employers from diverse One strong aspect of “Belles “The women really seem to more fun and there is more fair has only seven employers industries and sectors,” she said. for Fitness” is the focus on be excited about it. We are try­ motivation to go and work out.” that have posted opportunities group effort, which encourages ing to make exercise fun,” she but will not be attending. Full­ Contact Emma Driscoll at motivation and persistence said. “The contest runs right up Contact Laura Kleinschmidt at time, part-time and internship [email protected] within each team as well as to the week before spring [email protected]

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of a secure and politically sta­ ble Iraq in a global setting. Iraq “When countries feel inse­ continued from page 1 cure about their neighbors, they, want to sleep with bigger

guns under their pillows,” 1 ■ a , ,:| of political turmoil, and said Lindley, regarding the argued a continued involve­ international response that VI V- " -■ ' ment in Iraqi affairs would might follow if Iraq’s present not facilitate or hasten the internal conflicts continue to p i p e war-torn country’s transition escalate. into democracy. Lindley suggested that to Each panelist was given 10 maintain order in the region, minutes to explain and defend the United States must his respective viewpoint. restructure its forces and con­ Jordan stressed the impor­ centrate on key locations, tance of understanding that a such as oil-rich areas, to secure, politically stable and avoid fighting sporadic battles democratic Iraq is a long­ that do not substantially term goal, and that through advance the effort to maintain the current condition-based peace in the country. policies being implemented, He predicted, however, that the United States is helping the steadily declining Iraq slowly move toward that approval rate of the American state. people towards continued He emphasized the United involvement in Iraq will force States’ close monitoring and the Bush administration to study of statistics and figures withdraw some of its armed — such as the number of car forces — though he said it is i J d f l B H H bombs diffused every day and clear Iraqi nationalism is still DUSTY MANNELLA/The Observer the country’s growing GDP — not strong enough to hold the Dan Lindley, left, George Lopez, center, and Lt. Col. Kelley Jordan speak Tuesday about the future to understand the Iraqi politi­ country together on its own. stability of Iraq. cal and economic situation. Lopez took the podium to Jordan also urged the gen­ refute Lindley’s argument that eral public to realize that a a persistent American pres­ Lopez said the United States attended the discussion was very well defended, and nation emerging from decades ence in Iraq could consider­ armed forces are not able to applauded the eloquent and only makes us all realize that of oppressive authoritarian ably facilitate the country’s contain the daily violence, well-researched arguments of regardless of whether or not rule cannot be rebuilt democratization. which has not substantially the three panelists. you originally supported the overnight, and a lasting victo­ Lopez argued the United decreased despite achieve­ Kroc Institute graduate stu­ war, it is crucial that we all ry in Iraq will not come with States should not send any ments such as the constitu­ dent John Filson said he think about the position in one decisive event, but rather more troops to the region tional referendum and the thought the discussion had which we’ve put our country, slowly with time’s passing. because its intelligence and recent democratic elections. certain limitations to take into and the Iraqis’ country as “There will be no battleship strategy fail to fully grasp the Like Lindley, he said the consideration. well,” freshman Michael Missouri in this war,” said reality of the Iraqi people or current strategy toward Iraq “One thing that I think real­ Angulo said. Jordan, referring to the site of recognize that the country has is not an effective one — but ly limits this debate, and that “What will happen next with Japan’s formal surrender to entered a phase in its history chiefly because it fails to we must all recognize, is that Iraq is everybody’s concern, the United States after World that will now run its course understand the complexity of we cannot speak on behalf of and not just that of politicians W ar II. regardless of any military the country’s political state the Iraqis,” Filson said. “A lot and legislators in Lindley, the second panelist interventions to end the con­ and because the motives that of people here today spoke Washington,” sophomore Joe to take the podium, followed flict. drive decision-makers in about what the Iraqi people Murphy said. “I believe stu­ Jordan’s remarks by also urg­ He compared the Iraqi tur­ Washington are entirely polit­ want and need, but this is dents need to become ing the general public to real­ moil to that of Afghanistan ical. speaking from a perspective involved in our country’s deci­ ize that a precipitated with­ and Colombia, where deep “We’re in a political war, my we can’t possibly have.” sion-making process now drawal of American troops divisions between different friends,” Lopez said. “This Other students said the topic more than ever, because the from Iraq would only propel groups have led to decades of war is not about the safety of of the panel should be impor­ stakes are really high.” the Middle Eastern country violence, kidnappings, daily Iraq anymore, but about our tant to all citizens, especially into a complete civil war. attacks and unrest within the coming elections.” students. Contact Marcella Berrios at He stressed the significance countries’ respective borders. Students and professors who “Each viewpoint exposed [email protected]

reminded her of experiences with her own grandmother. Exhibit “Memories of my grandmoth­ continued from page 1 er’s house inspired the colors [of the painting],” Gama said. The exhibit — which, after Fellow and Saint Mary’s assis­ leaving Saint Mary’s on March tant English professor Maria 3, will travel to museums and Melendez, one of the exhibi­ galleries nationwide — was tion’s founders, gave a presen­ first conceived in 2003 when tation during the opening that National Endowment for the included a reading of her Arts (NEA) Chairman Dana poem “Remedio.” Gioia visited Notre Dame’s “|The exhibit is about] artists campus and suggested a proj­ responding to poetry,” ect that spurred dialogue Melendez said. between two forms of art. Melendez said the inspira­ Notre Dame Institute for tion for her poem — which is Latino Studies Fellow hung next to Saint Mary’s Francisco Aragon and alumna Regina Diaz’s work Melendez developed the proj­ “Pass Back Through Me” — ect with backing from both the dealt with wolves returning to University and College and their native area in Colorado. help from the NEA that includ­ “[The poem is about] what it ed a grant and Gioia personal­ might mean to live in an area ly helping select artists, where wild wolves are present according to Aragon. as well,” Melendez said. “We wanted to pursue pro­ Diaz shared her own process posals that fostered dialogue as an artist, first reading all between art genres,” Aragon Melendez’ poems, choosing said. “Remedio” and creating a work Both art and poetry enthusi­ inspired by the “nature-based, asts who viewed the exhibit engaging” poem. Diaz said her Friday night said the project particular choice of poetry was was a success, and the gallery due to the deep connection she was indeed abuzz with “dia­ felt to the work. logue,” as Aragon and “It hit,” she said. “1 knew Melendez had hoped. what it was saying. Not neces­ Notre Dame associate profes­ sarily the wolves part ... but it sor of French Louis went a lot deeper.” MacKenzie, a poetry aficiona­ During the presentation, do, said he was struck by the Melendez also read “La work and impressed with the Bufadora,” by Emmy Perez, exhibit as a whole. and a note from the author. “It’s very ... present,” he Esperanza Gama, the artist said. “It has a kind of vibrance who based her painting “Luna that I like.” de Siempre” on Perez’s work, KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer told the audience the poem Contact Nicole Zook at Visitors gather in the Saint Mary’s Moreau Gallery Friday to socialize and view artwork inspired touched her personally and [email protected] by various Latino poets. WORLD & NATION Wednesday, February 1, 2006 CO M PILED FRO m T h E OBSERVER’S WIRE SERVICES page 5

International N ew s U.N. reports on Iran nuclear threat Bush delivers State of the Union VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said in a report Tuesday President speaks to a Congress steeped in partisanship of issues on policy agenda that Iran obtained documents and drawings on the black market that serve no other pur­ pose than to make an atomic warhead. Associated Press Tehran warned of an “end of diplomacy” if plans to refer it to the U.N. Security Council WASHINGTON — President are carried out. Bush, mid-sentence in his The report by the agency, ahead of a meet­ State of the Union address, ing of its 35-member board Thursday, also got an earful Tuesday night confirmed information recently provided by from both sides of the sharply diplomats familiar with the Iran probe that divided Congress. Tehran has not started small-scale uranium Democrats stood in unity enrichment since announcing it would earli­ and cheered when Bush er this month. lamented how Congress Nevertheless, the findings added to pres­ failed to act last year “on my sure to refer Tehran to the Security Council proposal to save Social within days. Such a move, Iran said, would Security.” lead to a halt in surprise U.N. inspections It was the Republicans’ beginning Saturday and prompt it to resume turn to cheer when Bush, frozen nuclear activities. shaking his finger, continued, “yet the rising cost of entitle­ Hamas group seeks financial aid ments is a problem that is not HAM ALLAH, West Bank — A senior Hamas going away.” official said Tuesday the Islamic militant Then, for a moment, there group is already looking for new sources of was bipartisanship. funding after the international community Both sides of the aisle threatened to cut off aid, warning that applauded when Bush asked llam as will not be “blackm ailed.” them to join him in setting up Osama Hamdan, a member of the group's a commission to examine the exiled leadership, spoke a day after interna­ impact of aging Baby tional donors said millions of dollars in aid Boomers on Social Security, could be in jeopardy if Hamas does not Medicare and Medicaid change its violent ways. spending. llamas will likely find it difficult to per­ But with Congress facing suade Muslim nations to make up a shortfall midterm elections in from a Western aid cut, and the threat of no November, the partisan mood money remains the international communi­ dearly hung over chamber as ty's best weapon to get Hamas to moderate Bush, hampered by big budg­ its ideology. et deficits, offered his modest program. He declared that America must break its long depend­ N ational N ew s ence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay- President Bush gives his fifth State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress the-course strategy for the Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alito confirmed to Supreme Court unpopular war in Iraq. WASHINGTON — Samuel Alito took his place “America is addicted to oil, “Hindsight alone is not wis­ Bush declared that the “the Virginia Gov. Timothy M. on the Supreme Court Tuesday after winning which is often imported from dom, ” Bush said. “And sec­ state of our union is strong” Kaine, chosen to deliver the Senate confirmation, a personal triumph for the unstable parts of the world,” ond-guessing is not a strate- despite Americans’ anxieties response for the Democrats, son of an Italian immigrant and a political mile­ Bush said as he sought to gy" about the war in Iraq, the scolded Bush on the soaring stone in President Bush’s campaign to give the drive the election-year agen­ In an unscripted moment, economy and soaring energy national debt, the frustrated judiciary a more conservative cast. da. anti-war activist Cindy costs. Oil prices are inching effort to rebuild the hurri­ The 58-42 Senate vote was largely along party Rejecting calls for the with­ Sheehan, the mother of a fall­ toward $70 a barrel, throw­ cane-battered Gulf Coast, lines as Democrats registered overwhelming drawal of troops from Iraq, en soldier in Iraq, was taken ing a cloud over the economy Medicaid cuts and other opposition to Bush’s choice to replace Justice Bush said, “There is no peace into custody by police in the and pinching Americans’ issues. On Iraq, Kaine said Sandra Day O'Connor, whose rulings have in retreat.” He also slapped at House gallery just before pocketbooks. that Americans were given helped uphold abortion rights, affirmative action those who complain he took Bush spoke to a joint session Bush called for increased "inaccurate information and other legal precedents of the past 50 years. the country to war on the of Congress. She was escort­ federal research into alterna­ about the reasons for invad­ Bush hailed Alito as “a brilliant and fair-mind­ erroneous grounds that Iraq ed from the visitors gallery tive fuels such as ethanol ing" and that troops were ed judge who strictly interprets the Constitution possessed weapons of mass after she caused a disruption, made from weeds or wood given body armor that was and laws and does not legislative from the destruction. a Capitol Police official said. chips instead of corn. inadequate. bench.” Coretta Scott King, age 78, dies ATI ANTA — Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband’s dream alive with a chin- Iraq held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78. New video of German hostages airs The "first lady of the civil rights movement” died in her sleep during the night at an alterna­ tive medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. said the kidnappers threatened to kill of Carroll, who was seized in Baghdad Arrangements were being made to fly the body Associated Press the hostages, Thomas Nitzschke and on Jan. 7. back to Atlanta. BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed Rene Braeunlich, if their demands were Eleven bodies were discovered in a She had been recovering from a serious a British soldier Tuesday in southern not met within 72 hours. truck in the volatile western Baghdad stroke and heart attack sull’ored last August. Iraq, the 100th Briton killed since the The video came a day after U.S. jour­ neighborhood of Glmzaliyah, police Just two weeks ago. she made her first public war started nearly three years ago, nalist Jill Carroll appeared weeping and said. All had been shot in the head, appearance in a year on the eve of her late hus­ while two German hostages were veiled in footage also aired on al- police added. The five other bodies, also band’s birthday. shown on a new video as kidnappers Jazeera. men, were found near a sewage plant threatened to kill them if Germany U.S. officials said efforts were under in the eastern Rustamiyah district, a doesn’t cease cooperation with the Iraqi way to free Carroll, a 28-year-old free­ favorite dumping ground for victims of government within three days. lancer for the Christian Science Monitor, sectarian death squads. Elsewhere, police found the bodies of but they have ruled out meeting the kid­ It was not known if they were Sunni Local N ew s 16 young men — handcuffed and blind­ nappers’ demand to release all Iraqi Arabs or Shiites. Extremists from both folded — in separate parts of Baghdad, women in detention. communities have targeted the other in Republicans change highway plan and gunmen shot to death the wife and “Everything is being done to work a series of reprisal killings that have INDIANAPOLIS — With blessings from two sons of a Sunni Arab cleric north of with those who might have influence, claimed hundreds of lives and sharp­ Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, House the capital in a series of apparent sec­ and there are an awful lot of people ened sectarian tensions as Iraqi politi­ Republicans made changes to his “Major tarian reprisal killings. who are calling for her release,” U.S. cians try to form a new government Moves” highway plan on Tuesday to solidify Al-Jazeera television aired the video­ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after Dec. 15 national elections. the support needed to pass it without tape of the two German hostages and said Tuesday en route to Washington In another apparent reprisal killing, Democrat votes and advance it to the said the kidnappers demanded from London. gunmen shot dead the wife and two Senate. Germany close its embassy in Iraq and Reporters Without Borders, an inter­ sons of Sunni Arab cleric Qassim Although the bill cleared the amendment stop cooperating with the Iraqi govern­ national journalist advocacy group, also Daham al-Hamdani Monday night in stage Tuesday, it still must win overall pas­ ment. said it would sent representatives to the Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of sage by midnight Thursday to move to the An Al-Jazeera producer, contacted by Middle East soon to promote a cam­ Baghdad, police said. The cleric was not other chamber. telephone at the station in Doha, Qatar, paign in the Arab media for the release at the house at the time of the attack. page 6 The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEVC^S Wednesday, February 1, 2006

sion.” There’s a “sense of mutual Rome understanding,” he said, that continued from page 1 allows collaboration on com­ plex, challenging issues. Archbishop William Levada, “And a university, [with] its Pontifical Council for Justice intellectual resources, its and the Peace president inquiry, its research — it has to Cardinal Renato Raffaele be at the center of confronting Martino and Congregation for those questions and giving good Divine Worship prefect Cardinal answers to them,” Jenkins said. Francis Arinze — are dispersed “So I think those in the curia throughout the week. see that we need to work Those meetings, Jenkins said, together so the Church can be are one of Notre Dame’s main enriched by Notre Dame’s work reasons for the trip. and Notre Dame can be “To build relationships [with enriched by its connection to the Vatican] as we would with the universal Church.” people in the government in the That connection, Jenkins U.S., or any organization we said, is rooted in the Church’s interact with — that’s one physical history — history that dimension,” Jenkins said. can be discovered in Rome. But not the only dimension. “The Catholic Church has its Jenkins said he views the trip origins in the life and death and as a spiritual encounter for resurrection of Jesus Christ and himself, the Officers and what that meant. To be Catholic Trustees. is to be connected with that,” “It is a pilgrimage for us, Jenkins said. “In the Catholic which means that it’s a journey Church, that connection is to a place that has importance made in particular ... through for Catholics because it was the what’s called the visible place .to which St. Peter came Church, that succession of bish­ to preach the ops that 'trace Gospel, and his their origin back successor — the “[Pope Benedict to St. Peter and successor of St. the apostles, Peter is the bishop XVI] is very through the of Rome — is in terested in offices of the always seen as a universities and C hurch.” relative to unite very in terested in W hile he the Church, to stressed the phys­ bring it together, Notre Dame and its ical presence of the Church in to serve the whole work. ” CLAIRE KELLEY/The Observer Church,” Jenkins Rome, Jenkins did Statues of various saints on top of St. Peter’s Basilica look over the Vatican in Vatican City said. “I see our not undermine Tuesday. Notre Dame trustees are meeting in Rome this week. trip here as con­ Father John Jenkins the importance of necting each of us University president the intangible with the mission a s p e c t of Vagina Monologues.” John Paul IPs writings on issues must be informed by all rich­ of the universal Catholicism, “I don’t expect those [specific of academic freedom, specifi­ nesses of this tradition that Church ... [and] we have “because what really unites us issues] to come up, but certain­ cally the 1998 Ex Corde goes back two millennia, part of become conscious of that, we is the faith each of us have, and ly to talk about our mission,” he Ecclesiae document on Catholic which is what John Paul wrote, understand our role in the uni­ have together.” said. “We see our mission con­ universities. but also what other people said. versal Church.” The title of today’s academic nected to the Church, and so “I think that has to be a part I think [from] the extent of this But Jenkins will not meet pri­ conference, “Contribution of obviously it makes sense to dis­ of reflection on who we are,” whole tradition, our reflection vately with the pope during the Catholic Universities to the cuss that and to help them Jenkins said. “It’s a constant will be better, and we’ll be a trip. The reason, both Senior Church and Culture,” seems to understand what we’re doing, item of reflection for us. What better University.” Executive Assistant Father resemble the topic of Jenkins’ help us connect with that does it mean to be a Catholic James McDonald and Vice series of addresses last week — broader mission.” university in the 21st century? Contact Maddie Hanna at President for Public Affairs and academic freedom and Notre Jenkins has studied Pope All of our reflection on that [email protected] Communication Hilary Dame’s Catholic character. Crnkovich said, is that Pope But Jenkins said the trip to Benedict XVI does not feel Rome was planned more than a “comfortable” with addressing year ago and called, any corre­ private audiences. lation between his addresses Jenkins said while the Pope last week and today’s discus­ “understands English very sion purely coincidental. well,” he is “not as comfortable “The reason I gave that in speaking it” and often uses a address at that time was simply translator. because certain performances Jenkins met the former were coming up, we had dis­ Cardinal Ratzsinger during a cussions behind the scenes, and 2001 trip with then-University I felt it was an appropriate time President Father Edward to bring those discussions into Malloy. the open and in fact [into] the “It was interesting,” Jenkins whole community to partici­ said. “He is a somewhat quiet pate,” Jenkins said. “It made person. He doesn’t come on sense to do that at the start of strong. He is very thoughtful in the semester, but there was no his responses ... He’s very calculation [related to Rome].” interested in universities and Jenkins said while he would very interested in Notre Dame discuss academic freedom and its work.” broadly with the Vatican offi­ Jenkins said he hoped Notre cials he meets, he would not Dame would work together focus on the details of Notre with the Vatican during his Dame’s situation or the campus presidency on what he controversy surrounding the described as “a common mis­ Queer Film Festival and “The

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Reserve raises interest rates sibility for “serious personal lease a private hunting in fiscal 2005. Coughlin Prosecutors recommend­ NEW YORK — Disheartened investors bid mistakes in judgm ent.” area, upgrade his pickup held about $20 million in ed a sentence but Dawson stocks lower Tuesday after the Federal Reserve, “This was not an easy truck, buy liquor and a Wal-Mart stock, according sealed the plea agreement. raising interest rates for the 14th time in nearly decision. I regret the cooler, and receive $3,100 to an SEC filing last The judge said he was con­ two years, failed to give Wall Street a clear signal embarrassment this matter in cash. February. cerned that he read many on when those rate hikes would end. A disap­ has caused my family and As the company vice The former executive said of the plea deal’s details in pointing earnings report from Google Inc. after friends and I thank them chairman, Coughlin his guilty plea was in the newspapers before any the close of regular trading made it likely the for their support, love and received a base salary of best interest of his family, documents were filed with losses would continue when trading resumed friendship,” Coughlin said $1.03 million in his final friends and community. He his court. Wednesday. in the statement. year with the company. A remained a Wal-Mart Nothing was mentioned in Google suffered its lirst earnings “miss,” with In documents filed with filing with the Securities cheerleader, asking associ­ court about restitution. its fourth-quarter results falling below the mar- - the court, Coughlin specifi­ and Exchange Commission ates “to pull together in ful­ Wal-Mart spokeswoman kel's expectations. Technology stocks dropped in cally admitted defrauding last April said Coughlin also filling Sam Walton’s dream Mona Williams said the after-hours trading as investors expressed their the company to pay for the received $3.09 million in of creating the world's ordeal has been “embar­ dismay by selling. care of his hunting dogs, bonuses and other income greatest retailer.” rassing and painful.” The Fed, in its statement accompanying its quarter-point increase in rates, said “some fur­ ther policy firming may be needed” to keep infla­ tion under control — leaving the door open for another hike at the next meeting in March and E ngland beyond. The major indexes were already down ahead of the bed’s decision — the last one under outgo­ ing Chairman Alan Greenspan — and the hint of European markets may consolidate at least one more rate hike left investors uncer­ tain, although most analysts felt the program of continued, measured rate hikes was at an end. Associated Press Atlantic, is currently the prime tar­ chief executive of financial research get. Aside from the Macquarie firm Celent, said consolidation of the Europe approves Guidant’s new stent LONDON — The New York Stock approach — which the Australian stock markets made good economic INDIANAPOLIS — European regulators on Exchange wants “a leadership role,” bank on Tuesday extended until Feb. sense. Monday approved Guidant Corp.’s new drug- Euronext is “keeping all its options 14 — it has reportedly held talks “The exchange business is very coated stent, clearing the way for the product open,” and Australia’s Macquarie with Germany’s Deutsche Boerse AG, scale-led,” Marenzi said. “They have to be marketed in the 25 countries of the Bank Ltd. sees clear potential in get­ a former failed suitor, and pan- a lot of fixed and very little variable European Union. ting a slice of the market — European bourse Euronext NV. costs once the initial infrastructure is The Indianapolis-based company will launch European stock markets are hot But the potential deals don’t stop there. When you have those kinds of the Xience V everolimus eluting coronary stent properties again. there, Euronext — which already economies, people want to merge — an expandable mesh tube used to prop open Macquarie and its $2.65 billion bid owns the Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and get as much volume as possible.” clogged blood vessels — during the second for the London Stock Exchange is the and Lisbon stock exchanges — said Thain told reporters at the World quarter. wild card in the pack as the players earlier this month that it is still con­ Economic Forum in Davos, The drug coating helps to prevent scar tissue and analysts alike weigh the options sidering “all options” after major Switzerland, that the Now York Stock that could form new blockages. of who might team with whom. stakeholder New York hedge Fund Exchange wants “to play a leadership The Xience stent has not yet been submitted “They all consider themselves to be Atticus Capital urged it to revive role in the consolidation process.” to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for on the global playing field and, as stalled merger talks with Deutsche Asked w hat com panies the NYSE approval. such, it’s across the board consolida­ Boerse. would target, Thain said it was Guidant agreed last week to a $27.2 billion tion because the big guy wins,” said Jumping into the fray Sunday was watching Deutsche Boerse, Euronext acquisition by Natick, Mass.-based Boston Clem Chambers, chief executive of New York Stock Exchange Chief and the London Stock Exchange Scientific Corp., ending a two-month-long bid­ stock Web site ADVFN. “In the Executive John Thain, who said the negotiations, but didn’t elaborate. ding war with health products giant Johnson & exchange business, big is beautiful — U.S. bourse w ants to take a leader­ However, analysts said that the Johnson. The takeover must still be approved there’s no second place.” ship role as the stock market indus­ New York Stock Exchange’s position by shareholders and regulators in the U.S. and The London Stock Exchange, a try looks toward consolidation. in relation to the European bourses Europe. marquee name on both sides of the Octavio Marenzi, the Paris-based would limit its potential in Europe. pageS The Observer ♦ CAMPUS NEWS Wednesday, February 1, 2006

ALLISON AMBROSEThe Observer A Teach for America staff member makes a presentation on the program in DeBartolo Hall Monday. The teacher training program has 150 corps members near and around hurricave-ravaged New Orleans and participants have struggled to continue educating amidst the cleanup. On Campus Although none of her former classes, teachers placed more Teach students would follow her to the emphasis on the needs of stu­ charter school, Hentges said she dents than on covering new continued from page 1 does recall seeing four or five of material. As a kindergarten Junior Parent W eekend Special them in the Astrodome in teacher, Hentges said she Gulf Coast. Houston. While Hentges remains allowed her students to nap if Pre-Katrina, the Teach for unaware of the location of many, needed, or talk to the in-house America program had 150 corps she said she has located a few psychologist about issues result­ February 16-20,2006 members in and around New more former students in Atlanta ing from the hurricane. Orleans. Floods from the disaster and Dallas. The school received a number damaged the school where As for her current students in of grants for group therapy, and Come early, stay late, same price! Hentges taught beyond repair, Houston, Hentges said many of Hentges said she hopes this will and she was forced find another their families are make a real impact way to serve. not yet stable in on the children. Some corps members returned their new environ­ “There are Since Teach for Sacred Heart Parish Center has rooms available for your parents. to an outlying parish school in ment. Some fami­ definitely still America focuses on New Orleans that Katrina left lies still rem ain in those areas most in unscathed; others worked for hotels. Housing is areas that need to need, Hentges said Weekend donation is r parent, disaster recovery centers. not yet stable in be cleaned up, but she feels the stu­ Hentges, however, chose to work New Orleans, so the city is dents have been in Houston. She and 35 corps returning in the placed in a tremen­ members chartered a school for immediate future beginning to show dously tough situa­ Whether you stay New Orleans students who would is not an option, signs of vibrancy." tion, realizing remain — at least temporarily — although Hentges many already had in the city to which they had said the vast issues to deal with been evacuated. majority wish to Melissa Hentges before Katrinq. Two, three, or four nights. The volunteers acquired a return to their alumna Hentges made a school building that had recently home. few trips back to been closed due to low enroll­ “A lot of kids are New Orleans since Rooms are available Thursday through Sunday. ment, a surprisingly nice facility, very homesick,” Hentges said. the devastation of the hurricane. Hentges said. The quickly “It’s only natural, coming from She said while the breadth of the obtained one-year charter an area where the people have destruction was difficult to wit­ allowed classes to begin Oct. 3, a so much pride in their culture ness, the city has been making a For reservations call 574-631-7512 or 574-631-9436 date that could have been earlier and their city.” slow but steady comeback. if not for Hurricane Rita. During the first few weeks of “One month after, the city was hard for me to see,” Hentges said. “There are definitely still areas that need to be cleaned up, but the city is beginning to show signs of vibrancy.” Despite the challenges, Hentges said she still feels lucky I # AWB um CmMMT in her opportunity to serve. “Teach for America is a great experience,” she said. “If you are w ilui BlacLlow, Pitaiio Willi (.MeslAtttists interested in any aspects of edu­ cation, I would definitely recom­ Karen BuransLas, ( <1 lo Cornelia Heartr l V i o lii n mend it. Once you walk into the classroom, you realize that it is Carolyn Plummer, Violin K a ll. r y n P I itmmer, V io la not only about education, you are dealing with so many social issues.”

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ally include retreats, an annual having people from different Senior Rhea Boyd — who Floor trip to Chicago and discussion cultures as her neighbors. Diversity heads the Senate Minority Affairs groups about current world Native to Latvia, Afanasjeva is committee and sits on the continued from page 1 issues, Robison said. a junior at the College and has continued from page 1 Committee on Cultural Diversity “We also do fun things like go spent two years as a resident in and the Student Advisory Group to the pottery place and do an the Intercultural Living paper, increased focus on diversi­ — is one of those students. tural diversity on Saint Mary’s art project, and in the past we Community. Afanasjeva said ty issues in admissions and better “It is definitely frustrating,” campus, ILC program director have done cultural dances,” she enjoys living on the floor so communication of the University’s Boyd said. “You feel if [increasing Tracy Robison said. she said. “I think th.it learning she can not only learn about successes, Linney said. diversity I was completely a “The program gives students needs to be interesting and other people’s cultures, but “We feel like we’ve sort of got­ University priority, it wouldn’t an opportunity to learn more fun. ” share her own experiences. ten in the simplistic activity of take so much student initiative to about their peers, as well as Many residents say the “My favorite thing is just hav­ just counting people, [saying] we get the ball rolling ... You only learning more about them­ events, which are partially sub­ ing different people around me have diversity in this category want to hear that change comes selves," she said. “It provides sidized by CWIL, are not only from different backgrounds,” and this category,” Linney said. slow for so long.” an environment for students valuable in understanding dif­ she said. “Last year, I just “We really want to focus on a Boyd has been pushing for a who know that this is some­ ferent cultures but make living made a lot of friends, and some diverse community, who we are, cultural competency requirement thing they want to know more on the floor exciting. The of us still live together.” the way we think about things.” in the curriculum, potentially about and want to have it sup­ floor’s Residential Advisor, Both I lodges and Afanasjeva Linney is the chair of the requiring students to take a cur­ ported outside the classroom.” Mary Anne Schell, said being said they recommend living in University Committee on Cultural rently existing class on some Robison said the residents on on the floor allows her to plan the Intercultural Living Diversity, a group that recon­ issue of culture or diversity that the floor represent a variety of more activities around diversity Community to all Saint Mary’s vened this year after several would crosslist with another ethnic, cultural and socio-eco­ — whether it be cultural, students. Hodges said while years of inactivity. department. The resolution, nomic backgrounds. racial, religious or socio-eco­ you can’t force people to live on The committee, composed of which passed in Senate last “This year there are about 20 nomic. the floor, she thinks all stu­ administrators, alumni, faculty, semester, will face the Faculty residents, and that number “On this floor, there are a lot dents could benefit from the staff and students, created a list Senate for the second time tends to be the more people experience. Afanasjeva said of possible ways to build a more tonight. average,” Robison who are recep­ she recommends the program diverse climate at Notre Dame. While Boyd recognizes the said. “Some years 7 wanted to learn tive to those because it allows students who Linney said she presented that University’s hard work in pushing it is a little bit about those activities,” have never been exposed to list to Jenkins, who then selected for diversity, she said she thinks higher, but this Schell said. “It’s diverse backgrounds to learn the four specific activities he its current system, a seemingly semester I think different cultures always exciting how to live with people who wanted to target. tangled web of different diversity- we have right on my own so I and eye-open­ may be different from them. Linney said she believes several focused committees, is a hin­ around 20 resi­ figured this would ing.” “A lot of people are interest­ past efforts did not achieve full drance to achieving tangible dents.” S a in t M ary ’s ed now going into something to success because people “thought results. While Robison be a good floor tosenior do with other countries, like too big” and underestimated the Her committee created a list of said she would live on. ” Tanushree Bera international business, and I importance of smaller steps. benchmarking ideas for the encourage all lived in the com­ think it would really benefit These four goals, on the other University after a student asked if Saint Mary’s stu­ munity for two them,” Afanasjeva said. the University currently had Kimberly Hodges hand, can be achieved this year, dents to live in the years and said “Meeting other people and Linney said. benchmarks during a Student ILC, hopeful resi­ sophomore floor-sponsored doing these activities also helps She said the committee would Advisory Group meeting — with dents must com­ events were the you get to know yourself and “network” to find students and the reply being, “We don’t have a plete an applica­ best part about who you are.” faculty interested in proposing plan. That’s why we have groups tion process. The application the program. Despite positive word of and directing projects examining like this.” requires students to write an “They always do special mouth advertisement from the topics of diversity at Notre Dame. “I feel like [the effort] needs to essay explaining why they are things like take trips to see students who live in the ILC, Graduate and undergraduate be housed under one body — interested in living on the floor. plays and eat at unique restau­ Robison said the most difficult admissions are the third main they kind of need to scrap these Students are also required to rants. Almost all of the activi­ aspect of her job is raising focus, Linney said, ad hoc commit­ provide two character refer­ ties have a cultural theme,” awareness and interest about but it’s not about tees,” Boyd said. ences and must be in good aca­ Bera said. “The things we did the program. Advertising the percentage quotas “Image is powerful, “I’ve seen probably demic and residential standing. together were a lot of fun.” living community in a way that or straight number four final reports The ideal candidate for the Residents learn about cultur­ will grab students’ attention is crunching. and I think we are from similar com­ program would be a student al diversity not only through hard, she said. “It’s how [faculty trying to find ways mittees. You don’t who is open to learning about program activities, but also by “One of the most difficult and administra­ of telling the story see any continuity.” diversity on Saint Mary’s cam­ simply living with one another. things is getting the word out,” tors] assist ... While she attest­ pus, Robison said. “I wanted a different living Robison said. “I know there are [there are] so of the successes ed to the system ’s “I am looking for a person experience from the rest of still several students who don’t m any steps in the we've had with complexity, who is excited about this campus. I thought the floor know about it, and I am trying process,” she said. diversity. ” Shavers said it’s opportunity, who has an inter­ would be more mixed as far as to learn how to advertise in a “You can’t admit a not necessarily a est in intercultural issues,” she of people with different cul­ way that these students will diverse student bad thing. said. ”1 also look for someone tures,” sophomore resident pay attention.” body without Frances Shavers “It’s complex. It’s who is open to learning new Kimberly Hodges said. “I want­ Afanasjeva also said she diverse appli­ executive assistant to decentralized. The things, as well as is open to ed to learn about those differ­ thinks the program needs an cants.” the president good thing is peo­ sharing about themselves.” ent cultures on my own. so I increase in advertisement and More emphasis ple within their Once accepted into the com­ figured this would be a good awareness about the benefits needs to be placed areas take respon­ munity, students are encour­ floor to live on.” to living on the floor. on attracting a greater number of sibility for the goals of the institu­ aged to participate in program- Like Hodges, resident Zanna “1 think we need to improve applicants with diverse back­ tion broadly,” she said. sponsored events. Events usu­ Afanasjeva said she values the marketing of this program grounds and getting a greater “Within the departments, they because 1 don’t think that most percentage of those applicants to can say we want to focus on a people know it exists,” accept admission, Linney said. number of issues, one of them Afanasjeva said. “It is a good The communications aspect is being diversity, and they’ll create opportunity for people to learn to ensure the University publi­ a committee ... to focus on that. a lot of things about culture. It cizes the progress it makes And we encourage those things is one thing to have a class, but toward developing the climate, to happen because that’s where a it is another to actually meet something Linney believes is cur­ lot of the work happens and people who come from a differ­ rently lacking. that’s where a lot of expertise ent background.” “I think that Notre Dame, and knowledge resides,” she said. Robison said it is also difficult either we think of ourselves as a "I can’t say that it’s either posi­ to dispel the misconception non-diverse community, or we tive or negative. Anything can be that floor is only for students of present ourselves that way,” she good one day and challenging the color. In the past, Robison said, said. “There are lots of things next day. So 1 think for us the key the majority of program partic­ happening here. We’re not doing is communicating it as a priority ipants have actually been a good job communicating. ... setting it up to the entire Caucasian. Whatever’s happening, we’re not University community.” “The program is open to all getting credit.” And the mentality seems to be students who are curious and Frances Shavers, executive changing. Boyd said the attitude want to know more about other assistant to the president, agreed was all business when she sat cultures and about their own that Notre Dame’s image can down at her first Committee on culture, because everyone has sometimes differ greatly from its Cultural Diversity meeting. a culture,” she said. reality. “Everyone was saying, Let’s As for the future of the pro­ “I think it depends on who you not just have another commit­ gram, both residents and talk to and where you go. tee,’" Boyd said. “We don’t need Robison said with stronger Because you can talk to 10 differ­ committees — we need change. advertising and promotion, ent people here, five of them will We need things to happen now.” they hope more students will say it’s diverse, and it’s related to Shavers acknowledged the path Would you expect anything else from a airline? capitalize on the opportunity. where they came from,” Shavers ahead on the road to “create a Get to Vegas from South Bend for as low as $99* - when you book at... 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Associated Press Associated Press officer he is unarmed and is in the military. NEW YORK — Two federal CHINO, Calif. — A videotape At one point, a voice is heard appeals courts on opposite sides released Tuesday shows a sher­ saying several times: “Get up.” of the country declared the iffs deputy shooting an unarmed Carrion says: “I’m gonna get Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Air Force policeman who recent­ up. ” As he rises, at least four unconstitutional Tuesday, saying ly returned from Iraq as he shots are fired and Carrion col­ the measure lacks an exception appeared to obey an order to get lapses, crying out in pain. for cases in which a woman’s up off the ground. “Shots fired! Shots fired!” health is at stake. KTLA-TV broadcast a 40-sec­ someone shouts. The first ruling came from a ond clip it .said came from a In a telephone interview con­ unanimous three-judge panel of Chino resident who videotaped ducted in Spanish, Valdez said the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Sunday night’s shooting, which after the shooting, Carrion asks Appeals. Hours later, a three- followed a 100 mph car chase. the deputy, “Why did you shoot judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Senior Airman Elio Carrion, me if you told me to stand up?” Circuit Court of Appeals in 21, was listed in good condition That alleged exchange cannot be Manhattan issued a similar at Arrowhead Regional Medical heard on the video. decision in a 2-1 ruling. Center in Colton. He was shot The deputy, whose name was The New York decision AP File Photo three times in the chest, ribs and not released, was placed on paid affirmed a 2004 ruling by a Planned Parenthood workers stand in front of a clinic where leg, his father-in-law, Ernesto administrative leave, a routine judge who upheld the right to pro-life protesters rallied in Washington, D C. Jan. 21. Paz, told KTLA-TV. procedure in officer-involved perform the procedure even as State and federal investigators shootings. he described it as “gruesome, judgments of Congress and the nate a pregnancy to cover a are reviewing the case, officials Carrion was not charged with brutal, barbaric and uncivi­ state legislatures without child in the process of being said. a crime, although the incident lized.” departing from established, gen­ born morally, ethically and Carrion was a passenger in a remained under investigation, Chief Judge John M. Walker, a erally applicable, tenets of con­ legally unacceptable.” Corvette that crashed following a according to sheriff’s spokes­ relative of former President stitutional law?” Walker wrote. The California court said the brief chase, authorities said. woman Robin Haynal. George Herbert Walker Bush, Tuesday’s ruling was marked law was vague and so broad Amateur photographer Jose The driver of the Corvette, said the court was “compelled by an unusually sharp dissent that no other remedy was possi­ l.uis Valdez told The Associated identified by authorities as Luis by a precedent to invalidate a by Judge Chester J. Straub, who ble except to throw it out. Press that he made the video Fernando Escobedo, 21, was statute that bans a morally said he believed Congress’ “We are reluctant to invali­ after the car crashed into the arrested for investigation of repugnant practice, not because determination that the proce­ date an entire statute,” Circuit wall in front of his home. KTLA felony evading. it poses a significant health risk, dure was never medically nec­ Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote. aired the videotape early Carrion and Escobedo had left but because its application essary to protect a woman’s “However, after considering all Tuesday, then distributed it later a party at the home of Carrion’s might deny some unproven health was well founded and of the obstacles to our devising in the day. parents to drive to a store, said number of women a marginal supported by a lower court rul­ a narrower remedy, we con­ The dark, grainy picture shows the airman’s wife, Mariela. health benefit.” ing. clude that such is our obliga­ Carrion lying on the ground next An Air Force spokesm an, Lt. He called on the Supreme “Allowing a physician to tion.” to the car, talking to a silhouet­ Frank Hartnett, said Carrion is a Court to require a law’s chal­ destroy a child as long as one The panel also rejected argu­ ted officer who is pointing a gun security officer at Barksdale Air lenger to prove how women will toe remains within the mother ments made by the Justice at him. Carrion supports himself Force Base in Shreveport, La. be harmed by the law. would place society on the path Department that there was gen­ on one arm and his face is Carrion joined the Air Force in “Is it too much to hope for a towards condoning infanticide,” eral agreement among doctors brightly lit by the officer’s flash­ January 2003 and recently better approach to the law of he said. that such late-term abortions light. returned from a six-month tour abortion — one that accommo­ He added: “I find the current were never necessary to pre­ Carrion is hoard telling the in Iraq, Hartnett said. dates the reasonable policy expansion of the right to termi­ serve the health of a woman. T he is now accepting applications fo r O b s e r v e r General Board Any full time undergraduate or graduate student at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or Holy Cross is encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit a resume and an application at least 3 pages long explaining how they would run their department.

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' Monologues' or dialogue: another perspective

I would like to ponder a number of issues relevant to even recognized by many friends of Notre Dame, on or off ally engage the full range of articulate human passion in the recent presidential address, “Academic Freedom and campus, it has been a mainstay of the status quo here for a way that monographs of Galileo or Descartes, or even Catholic Character." These are the topics of (1) doctrinal nearly 40 years. those of Darwin and Freud, do not. Both artistic and ath­ pluralism at a Catholic university, (2) the special status of The practices of an irreducible plurality of approaches letic presentations at academic institutions may, and various performing and visual arts (staged plays, film, art to research, pedagogy and publication which have pre­ often do, both instruct and offend a much broader range shows and the like). The president of vailed here for so long they are part of the air we of spectators than do conferences on academic freedom the University also discussed (3) the Ed breathe, are fully compatible with an array of student, or abortion and public policy. academic freedom of students, but I Manier faculty and administrative initiatives intended to As a result, the politically liberal principles of the formulate a reasonable alternative to “enhance the religious identity” of Notre Dame in areas American Association of University Professors’ statement current and prospective policy in that Guest of scholarship as well as broad sections of student life. on academic freedom and artistic expression insist that area. As a university community we Columnist Everyone at Notre Dame should be aware of the essen­ “academic institutions are obliged to ensure that regula­ must also give more attention to (4) tial role played by Catholicism and Catholics at the core tions and procedures do not impair the freedom of criteria for fair procedures of dispute resolution and — the heart, blood and brain — of this University. expression or discourage creativity by subjecting artistic adjudication, as well as the accountability required if Executive functions are reserved for priests of the order work to tests of propriety or ideology,” and that “since executive power is not to be absolute. of the Holy Cross by our statutes. With this status comes faculty and student artistic presentations to the public are These issues will be split up into two parts. Today I will the privilege of assigning very high priority to a full range integral to their teaching, learning and scholarship, these discuss doctrinal pluralism and special status of various of initiatives which deepen and broaden the influence of presentations merit no less protection.” performing and visual arts while continuing on Thursday Catholicism on campus and in the world at large. This is At the root of these propositions is the core insight that with academic freedom of students and criteria for fair surely a huge part of what it means for a university to be “essential as freedom is for the ... judgment of facts, it is procedures of dispute resolution and adjudication. both Catholic and pluralistic. even more indispensable to the imagination.” (1) Pluralism. Notre Dame has clearly become a place (2) Performing and visual arts. It should surprise no The threat posed by artistic performance, whether on where a full range of options on the most controversial one that performing and visual arts are at the center of the stage or in film, is its unparalleled ability to stimulate topics can be fully and fairly discussed. These topics the current controversy on campus. Presentation of such empathic or abhorrent passion. range from atheism or “naturalism" to various creationist work to a wide and public audience is as essential to the A basic question we must continue to pose and try to alternatives to evolution, as well as challenges to ortho­ role of our departments of English and film, television answer is “Does our Catholic identity require departure dox views of the place of women in the Church, the and theatre as it is to our department of athletics. As we from politically liberal principles, including those articu­ morality of war or the death penalty, and the morality of have seen over the last 10 years, the public performances lated by the AAUP? Should executive privilege on this abortion, contraception, and homosexuality, to name just of the University’s most prominent athletic team are campus include the authority to withhold, unilaterally, a few. At Notre Dame, the finest scholars of Sacred capable of stirring a perfect — and image-shattering — “sponsorship” of artistic presentations to the general Scripture can and have contested the views of leading storm of controversy. No one expects Notre Dame football public on the grounds that they are offensive to Catholic philosophers of religion. Neither doctrinal authority nor to be played on Cartier field for the instruction of small moral principles?” presidential wisdom and prudence has imposed litmus groups of students of the game. tests of orthodoxy as requirements limiting the range of Shakespeare’s audiences included a broad spectrum of Ed Manier is a professor in the department of philoso­ inquiry or the array of viable conclusions presented for the citizens of London. The theatre did not thrive in the phy. He can be contacted [email protected] public debate. United Kingdom during and for a few years after the The views expressed in this column are those of the Although this circumstance is not fully understood or Puritan Revolution. Plays, films and the visual arts gener­ author and not necessarily those o f The Observer.

U niting under com m on ground C ensorship hurts

As we continue discussion about academic freedom Notre Dame is known and loved for her standards as As part of an open dialogue, I wish to take issue with the and Notre Dame’s Catholic character, I urge people to re­ an academic institution that also cultivates morality in recent repositioning and renaming of particular events on read University President John Jenkins’ speech. It dis­ Her students. Allowing the lewd “Vagina Monologues” campus. Inevitably, these actions bring into question the turbs me that a few people have oversimplified Ms and Queer Film Festival to continue under the shadow of cost of censorsMp. The Umversity relies on the generous stance, purporting some breach of free speech. Jenkins Our Lady would mean forsaking that for wMch She donations of its alumni and felt pressure to appease them deliberately spelled out how vital academic freedom is to stands. I low much more vulgarity must She suffer before on certain issues, specifically past performances of “The our Catholic university. He assured us that “faculty have She loses all semblance of a Catholic institution? Pope Vagina Monologues” and Queer Film Festival. Yet, 1 cannot the ability to research, create, teach and express them­ Paul VI writes in Humanae Vitae as if in direct response help but wonder whether the Umversity is compromising selves in accord with their own best judgment, and that to “The Vagina Monologues,” “Everything therefore in the its mission as an educational institution with its monetary students have the opportunity to inquire, express opin­ modern means of socialcommunication which arouses goals. Although significant contributions may have been ions, explore ideas and engage in discussion ... ” He went men’s baser passions and encourages low moral stan­ lost in the past due to the continued presence of these on further to state that, “the University certainly can host dards, as well as every obscemty in the written word and events on campus, is that loss justified by censorship of individual speakers who defend atheism, or infanticide, every form of indecency on the stage and screen, should academic and campus cultural events? or euthanasia or a first-strike nuclear attack. It is essen­ be condemned publicly and unanimously by all those who First, let us address the term censorship. Many have tial to a university that there be a variety of views have at heart the advance of civilization and the safe­ mistaken the definition of censorship to simply mean an expressed vigorously, even those contrary to deep values guarding of the outstanding values of the human spirit.” erasure of material that is deemed harmful, or in this case of Catholicism. We are richer, and the Catholic intellectual I would venture to say that just about everyone on cam­ contrary to Catholic values. Censorship, by definition, is tradition is strengthened, if a variety of views are pus wants to end the violence against women. The issue also characterized by the act of supervising conduct and expressed and discussed.” This does not sound to me like is not whether we should, but by what means we should. morals and persons of authority examining materials for a restraint on free speech, but a reasonable and nuanced Jenkins suggests that “The Vagina Monologues” are an objectionable matter. In a umversity setting, encouraging understanding of the intellectual playing field of a inappropriate means to achieve this goal due to its dialogue and questiomng is indeed essential, but we Catholic university. “grapMc descriptions of homosexual, extra-marital het­ should meet the unguarded alteration of material with However, any right or freedom comes with a responsi­ erosexual and auto-erotic experiences” wMch run con­ concern. So far, the name of one event and the venue and bility. Jenkins recognizes that each faculty member has trary to Catholic sexual teaching. I low does one mini­ purpose of another have been changed. The reality is that the right to free speech. Along with this right comes the mize sexual violence by maximizing sexual lasciviousness censorsMp has already occurred, making this dialogue not obligation mentioned in the Academic Articles as the in a play? wholly preemptive, but after the fact. “avoidance of using the University’s name to advance What surprises me about the developments of the past In addition, censorship poses a potential threat to the one’s personal opinion or interests.” Students also have week is that vocal parties have not united in an effort to quality of professors from whom we learn. After reading a free speech. Jenkins points out that students “are free to find alternate fundraising routes for an end to violence faculty member’s disconcerted remark at Umversity hold their own opinions on issues treated in the class ... against women, but have instead united to protect an President Father John Jenkins’ “finely discriminated judg­ Outside the classroom, students are free to express their abstract freedom of speech based on unfounded tangents. ment of what is acceptable and what is not,” it became my own views, while respecting the rules and procedures of Let’s refocus. I offer my time and help to mobilize, along­ fear that perhaps Notre Dame woMd not be able to the university.” However, freedom of speech does not side peers of all dispositions, a campus-wide fundraising acquire or retain distinguished faculty in the future, fur­ mean complete reign over one’s own education. effort for an end to violence against women. There is no ther jeopardizing the whole of our education. As part of Jenkins also has rights and responsibilities that come reason why we shouldn’t work together as a university in the dialogue, then, I would encourage others to think with his presidency. He has a right to make all final deci­ this common goal in a way that truly reflects Her Catholic about the “price” of our education. Are these changes and sions according to his most informed judgment. He was character. censorsMp worth, say, one million dollars? Five million? not obligated to include us in the discernment, but he A blog has been created as a medium for online discus­ Are they worth the possible long-term penalties of driving generously offered us the forum in which to do so. As a sion that is readily available for the Notre Dame family at away renowned faculty? That is for us, the students of professed servant of the Church entrusted with the oper­ large: www.freedomnd.blogspot.com . Let’s keep the con­ Notre Dame, and future alumM and benefactors, to ation of a Catholic university, he is also responsible for versation going. decide. preserving Notre Dame’s Catholic integrity. While individuals are free to present their own views on Arina Grossu Samantha Raneri any issue, the University as an entity cannot be associat­ senior senior ed, implicitly or explicitly, with any event that runs con­ president o f Notre Dame Right to Life off-campus trary to the teachings of the Church. Jan. 30 Jan. 31 T h e O bserver page 14 S c e n e Wednesday, February 1, 2006

M ovie R eview Inaccurate portrayal sinks 'Annapolis'

Founder’s Hall at Girard College, which By SARAH VABULAS substitutes for the Academy in the film, Scene W riter offers majesty with its Greek columns, it bears little resemblance to the grand . When a person thinks of Annapolis, Md., structures occupied by generations of mid­ he or she thinks of a beautiful harbor city shipmen. that boasts the home of the United States There are also many discrepancies of Naval Academy, one of the toughest and reality versus fiction in the daily life of a most rigorous institutes of higher learning midshipman. The film is not an accurate in this country. On any Friday or Saturday portrayal of life at the Naval Academy. The night, downtown Annapolis is filled with trailer claims 50,000 people apply to the midshipmen enjoying liberty — free time Academy each year — a fact that is grossly away from “the yard.” over exaggerated. But in the newly released film Despite grossing $7.68 million dollars on “Annapolis,” the Hollywood version of the its opening weekend, the movie falls well city is not much like reality. The streets are short of expectations. Starring tough and full of blue-collar workers who Midshipman 4th Class Jake Huard (James envy the midship­ Franco), as he men. The ship­ endures his “plebe” building industry A n n a p o lis year at the Academy, Photo courtesy of movieweb.com is lively — includ­ Huard dreamt of Lieutenant Cole (Tyrese Gibson), left, faces off against Midshipman Jake Huard ing the opportuni­ . / A . attending the Naval (James Franco), right, in Justin Lin’s woefully inaccurate new film “Annapolis.” ty to build a new «/ ‘ w* HI * t, J , T JvJ Academy but was Navy destroyer waitlisted, only to be classes and his roommate, nicknamed boxing to help Huard. right outside the Directors: Justin Lin accepted the day “Twins” — a midshipman who struggles The film is full of cliches and lacks depth Academy walls. Writer: David Collard before Induction Day with weight problems. Huard learns of the in the overall plot. There are moments And it’s no won­ Starring: James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, — when the plebes Brigade Boxing Championships — one of when the viewer is drawn into the movie, der the city looks Jordana Brewster and Donnie Wahlberg take the oath of office the biggest events at the Academy each but it can be largely attributed to the nothing like the as midshipmen. year. He finds Cole’s tests frustrating, but soundtrack, which features strong instru­ real Annapolis — Buena Vista Pictures Huard quickly learns the life of a plebe is figures that if he does well enough in the mentals by Brian Tyler. filmed in Philadelphia after failing to win one of discipline and hard work. The Brigades, he can fight Cole in the champi­ Other than offering a new, and not by script approval from the Navy, which movie includes scenes of hazing and onship — the climax of the movie. any means better, version of the 1982 film denied the privilege of filming at the racism — something which is not tolerated As a subplot, Huard falls for an upper­ “An Officer and a Gentleman” (starring Academy. The State House — the oldest in at the real Naval Academy. His command­ classman, All (Jordana Brewster), who Richard Gere), the film is missing sub­ the United States — never makes an ing officer, M idshipman Lieutenant Cole also happens to be one of his superior offi­ stance. The viewers keep waiting for the appearance, nor does the chapel dome, (Tyrese Gibson), sets out on a quest to ride cers — something forbidden at the real characters to develop and the plot to tie which attracts more than one million visi­ Huard and push him to his limit — so and Hollywood Academy. Brewster’s char­ together, but this never happens. tors per year. Not to mention the chief much so that Huard contemplates quitting acter never fully develops throughout the industries in the real Annapolis are politics on numerous occasions. movie and leaves the audience wondering Contact Sarah Vabulas at and tourism, not shipbuilding. And though Huard finds his place through boxing how and why she knows enough about [email protected]

S undance F ilm F estival R eca p Sundance highlights independent films granduncle and gay cousin. “God Grew By CASSIE BELEK Tired of Us,” directed by Christoper Scene Writer Quinn, follows three Sudanese refugees as they travel to Pittsburg and The streets of Park City, Utah are Syracuse and adjust to their new lives slightly less crowded now that the in America. The film prompted a Texas Sundance Film Festival is over. woman to donate $25,000 for one of Celebrities have headed home to the men to build a medical clinic in his Hollywood with Oscar on their minds town in Sudan. and left behind a slew of award win­ Directing awards went to James ners and box office potential. Longley for “Iraq in Fragments” and For the first time in its 22 years, Dito Montiel for “A Guide to jurors and audiences gave the same Recognizing Your Saints.” “Iraq in two films top honors for the Fragm ents,” tells the documentary and dramatic stories of Iraqis strug­ competitions. “Quinceanera” Robert Redford gling through the war (dramatic) and “God Grew founded the and occupation. Tired of Us” (documentary) Longley, who wasn’t made history, but not big Sundance Institute allowed to begin princi­ money like “Little Miss in 1 9 8 1 to support pal photography until Sunshine,” which drew in the development of the collapse of Saddam $10 million from Fox Hussein, shot over 300 Searchlight. independent hours of film over the When the Sundance Film artists and movies. course of two years. “A Festival first began, paying Guide to Recognizing a sum so large for a film Your Saints” features a was unprecedented. Robert Redford host of stars, including Robert Downey, founded the Sundance Institute in 1981 Jr., Rosario Dawson, Shia LeBeouf, to support the development of inde­ Chazz Palminteri and Eric Roberts. The Photo courtesy of sundancesummit.com pendent artists and movies. The festi­ film, based on Montiel’s youth, is about Robert Redford makes a speech at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The val soon followed to showcase the a boy who believes he has been saved wrlter-director founded the Sundance Institute to promote independent films. achievements of these artists and films by various “saints” while his friends and to promote creativity and risk tak­ meet unfortunate ends. ies and scandals, like when Harvey later in the year, but potential Oscar ing. Since 1981, independent films Films premiering at Sundance includ­ Weinstein made a public scene when nominees are already among them. have gained popularity and commer­ ed “Little Miss Sunshine,” a movie star­ he lost the rights to “Shine” in 1996. Last year’s award winners included cial success, with bidding wars reach­ ring Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear, This year, it was “Thank you for “Hustle & Flow,” “The Squid and the ing higher and higher plateaus. which follows a family in a cross-coun­ Smoking” that had festival-goers Whale ” and “Junebug.” All three films While purists complain that the festi­ try road trip as they try to get their scratching their heads. A 12-second have garnered Oscar nominations in val itself has become too commercial daughter in the finals of a beauty pag­ sex scene featuring Katie Holmes was acting or screenplay categories for the with its multiple sponsors and crazed eant, and “Wordplay,” a documentary mysteriously missing from the screen­ ceremony in March. It proves that celebrity fans, the focus remains on the about crossword puzzle lovers. The ing. While some speculated that the independent films are gaining recogni­ films themselves. “Quinceanera” is New York Times puzzle editor Will culprit was a protective Tom Cruise, tion and box office results, and the about 14-year-old Magdelena (Emily Shortz. paid $1 million for “Wordplay,” the real reason was due to a splicing Sundance Film Festival is just one step Rios), who becomes pregnant and is hoping it would become the “Mad Hot error in Los Angeles. in making that possible for these films. kicked out of her house. She then Ballroom ” of 2006. Most of the films showcased at makes a new family with her great- Sundance is never without its myster­ Sundance will not be released until Contact Cassie Belek at [email protected] T he O bserver

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

S cen e F eature Finding Hollywood's most elusive director

belong to any of the characters, or even to By BRIAN DOXTADER their voice-over philosophies. It belongs to Assistant Scene Editor Malick.” Such is true of all his pictures, in which the narration seems more suited to There are those filmmakers who follow the director’s philosophical wonderings the Quentin Tarantino track — little formal than the characters who speak it. education, minimal film school education Budgeted at less than half a million dol­ and a filmmaking appreciation developed lars, “Badlands” was an auspicious inaugu­ from cinephilia. On the opposite extreme of ral picture for Malick, ranking as one of the the spectrum is Terrence Malick — a guy best writer/director debuts. Based loosely who got his philosophy degree from on the real-life Starkweather-Fugate mur­ Harvard, became a Rhodes Scholar, taught ders, it follows Kit (Martin Sheen) and Holly philosophy at MIT, wrote for Life, The New (Sissy Spacek), two young lovers on the run Yorker and Newsweek and then graduated after Kit kills Holly’s father. A critical hit, from the American Film Institute’s Center “Badlands” established Malick’s distinct for Advanced Studies. style: voice-over narration, minimal plot­ Malick’s filmography is equally impres­ ting, sparse dialogue, breathtaking land­ sive, though often puzzling. In a career that scapes and a self-conscious artiness. Some spans four decades, the writer/director has still consider “Badlands ” to be Malick’s made only four films (less than one film finest film, though its reputation has been every ten years): “Badlands” (1973), “Days overshadowed by 1978s “Days of Heaven.” Photo courtesy of dvdbeaver.com of Heaven ” (1978), “The Thin Red Line” Like its predecessor, “Days of Heaven” Terrence Malick’s gorgeous “Days of Heaven” (1978) was the second film from (1998) and “The Now World” (2005). In employs an elliptical narrative and voice­ the elusive director, who has made only four pictures in a three-decade career. particular, Malick’s first two films were over narration, but it outstrips “Badlands” such a potent one-two punch that it in cinematographic beauty and artsy poeti- geous, easily one of the most beautiful films The argument could be made that seemed impossible that his subsequent pic­ cism. Less a movie than a visual elegy to a ever made. Though it forsook narrative Malick’s films are cold, indirect and tures would fare as well. by-gone era, the film follows Bill (Richard convention and easy interpretation, its sta­ detached. Nature seems more important to lie is also one of Hollywood’s great enig­ Gere), a factory worker who escapes to the tus as an artistically challenging film has the director than characters, which might mas, a director who rarely discusses his farm fields of Texas after accidentally never been questioned. be off-putting for some. His films are by no work and who disappeared from the public killing his boss. With his girlfriend Abby For many, “The Thin Red Line ” came means popcorn entertainment, and their eye at the apex of his success. He retreated (Brooke Adams) and his sister Linda (Linda dangerously close to dismantling the direc­ philosophical yearnings are more suited to to France after 1978’s “Days of Heaven” Manz) in tow, he begins working on a plan­ tor’s legacy. The near-perfection of his first art houses than cinemaplexes. Still, for and did not make a film for two decades. tation. When he discovers that the farmer two films and the ensuing long layover those who haven never seen a Terrence Malick is one of the few directors who who owns the fields (Sam Shepard) is ter­ built expectations to unrealistic levels. Still, Malick film, the maverick director’s few can consider himself an artist with a capital minally ill. Bill convinces Abby to m arry the film is remarkably unfocused, sprawl­ pictures are well worth the time and effort. “A." He writes and directs his own films, him for the inheritance. ing over 170 minutes with little regard for Few pictures are as meticulous and visually and his personality is stamped into every If nothing else, “Days of 1 leaven” is mas­ plot cohesion. An ethereal meditation on stunning as the four films in his oeuvre. frame. In his review of “The Thin Red terpiece for the way in which it was filmed the meaning of war, “The Thin Red Line” is Line,” critic Roger Ebert points out that, — mostly shot during “magic hour” in nat­ interesting and challenging, but still some­ Contact Brian Doxtader at “the central intelligence in the film doesn’t ural lighting, the picture is absolutely gor­ thing of a letdown for casual fans. [email protected] Malick's latest a new world, familiar style

say that plot has been completely jetti­ By BRIAN DOXTADER soned, as there is a clear story being told, Assistant Scene Editor even if its pacing is fitfully uneven. The film is a reconstruction of the decon­ Once upon a time, Terrence Malick made structed Pocahontas legend, providing a “Badlands ” (1973) and “Days of Heaven ” slick new gloss of mythos to the classic (1978), setting an impossibly high bar for story. Obviously not as saccharinely senti­ the his subsequent works. mental as other translations (Disney’s 1995 Perhaps realizing that following his pair film version being foremost), “The New of debut films would be a difficult task, the World” still brings a gracefully storied edge maverick director took a 20-year sabbati­ to the proceedings, mostly thanks to the cal, which he finally broke with 1998’s vision of its director. “The Thin Red Line, ” a sometimes brilliant, The story follows a group of English more often frustrating, treatise on the colonists who found Jamestown in the 17th meaning of war. He returns seven years century. Led by Captain Christopher later, with “The New World,” a film that Newport (Christopher Plummer), John continues his penchant for excess but also Smith (Colin Farrell) is a mutinous prisoner reminds viewers at the film’s start, that he has gen­ as they settle on uine cinematic The New World the coast modern vision, an increas­ Virginia. In an ingly rare thing in attempt to redeem I iollywood. >/(%J himself, Smith tries Once upon a to make contact time, too, Malick Director: Terrence Malick with the Native had an editor. The Writer: Terrence Malick Americans, which biggest criticism Starring: Colin Farrell, Q'orianko Kilcher, nearly leads to his that can be leveled Christopher Plummer and Christian Bale death, save for the against “The New effo rts of World ” is that, at 135 minutes, it is too Pocahontas (14 year-old Q’orianka Kilcher), Photo courtesy of movieweb.com long. The film is a 20-minute story the daughter of Chief Powhatan (August Colin Farrell stars a s John Smith in Terrence Mallck’s “The New World,” a rein­ stretched out over two hours. Malick’s first Schellenberg). Smith and Pocahontas fall in terpretation of the Pocahontas myth. It Is the maverick director’s fourth film. two films each ran 95 minutes, an appro­ love, but Smith eventually leaves, and priate length for his artsy mixture of ellipti­ Pocahontas instead marries farmer John nature, and “The New World” is no excep­ Line ” — by a restoration of the childlike cal narrative and naturalistic tableaux. Rolfe (Christian Bale), who brings her back tion. Neither the colonists nor the Native wonder that permeated “Days of Heaven. ” “The Thin Red Line,” by comparison, ran to England. Americans are presented as wholly good or In fact, though “The New World” may be 170 minutes, and “The New World ” follows Malick has always been a visionary who wholly bad, which complicates the direc­ closer to “Red Line" in style, it is closer to “ that film’s extreme lead. finds a detached beauty in strange things, tor’s moral stance. Smith and Rolfe are Heaven” in tone. Like that 1978 master­ “The New World” has the surest narra­ whether it be the mundane lives of poor good men, and Captain Newport and Chief piece, it combines breathtaking visuals and tive footing of any Malick film since 1973’ farmers, the inanity of young lovers on the Powhatan are competent leaders. an un-cloying naivete that often transcends “Badlands,” but that really isn’t saying run or the brutality of war. Here, he finds a It’s easy to get the impression that Malick criticism. Still, the film is overlong and suf­ much. The director has little concern or sweeping grace not only in the photogenic has made the exact film he wanted to fers through passages that wear even the need for the typical rhythmic pulse of a landscape of America, but also in a won­ make, but that doesn’t necessarily bode most tested of cinematic patience thin. Hollywood film, focusing instead on shots of derfully recreated London. well for the viewer. Self-indulgent to a fault, nature and the quasi-philosophical yearn­ All of Malick’s films are in some way “The New World” is saved from collapsing Contact Brian Doxtader at ings of the protagonists — which isn’t to about the contention of man against under its own weight — like “The Thin Red [email protected] / " ' I T h e O b s e r v e r page 16 S c e n e Wednesday, February 1, 2006

M ovie R eview s Unrecognized 1958 classic finally gets its due

sleeping in one of the station’s tunnels. By GRACE MYERS While working there, he observes thou­ Scene Critic sands of beautiful women every day, wit­ nessing the frequent and passionate Best described as a classic psychologi­ scenes of lovers’ separations on the sta­ cal thriller, “Cairo Station” examines the tion’s platforms. He quickly falls in love lives of the poverty-stricken workers in with the beautiful and vivacious Hanuma, Cairo’s main railroad station in 1958. a soda vendor, determ ined to make a life Although underappreciated upon its for herself and be respected by all those release, also in 1958, “Cairo Station” has around her. She is indifferent to Kinawi’s proven to be the beautiful preeminent advances, as she is already engaged to classic of the Egyptian screen, receiving the handsome and ambitious luggage car­ much international attention and esteem. rier, Abu Sir’. This film brilliantly and concisely Kinawi is the most marginalized char­ encompasses all of Egyptian society in the acter of the movie, forced to deal with his world of this railway station. The entire poverty and his physical handicap, but he nation is pulled together through the dis­ proves to be physiologically inept at deal­ carded timetables and black-and-white ing with his disadvantages. He becomes newspaper print littering the station’s more and more obsessed with women, floor, while time is told only through the fearing for his future and the possibility of station’s central clock. “Cairo Station” a life without a wife. He begins frantically Photo courtesy of filmarchiv.at highlights Egypt’s collecting cut-out Youssef Chahine’s 1958 film “Cairo Station,” which stars Chahine as a newspa­ per salesman, was screened last week in the Browning Cinema at the DPAC. invisible citizens — Cairo Station pictures of female the soda vendors, models scattered luggage carriers throughout the after Hanuma immediately rejects his madness. Chahine embraces the black- and newspaper newsstand and marriage proposal and inspired by the and-white world, using light, shadows salesmen. These the station. All the current serial killings, plots to kill her and and sunlight to unite faces and the bleak poverty-stricken while, the head place her body in the trunk she will use scenery, while grease and diesel steam men and women Director: Youssef Chahine . newspaper sales­ for her wedding. Hanuma’s best friend mark out the film’s backgrounds, remind­ sleep in abandoned Writer: Mohamed Abu Youssef man and Kinawi’s mistakenly walks into Kinawi’s trap and ing viewers of film noir. The film’s close railcars and peddle Starring: Farid Chawki, Hind Rostom, father-figure in is stabbed. Although shocked by his following of Kinawi’s psychological devel­ to the crowds of Youssef Chahine and Hassan el Baroudi this confusing actions, he continues the pursuit of opments pays great attention to his facial daytime travelers, environment Hanuma. In a passionate and violent final reactions and eyes, is highly powerful and lighting to survive. They struggle to main­ updates him daily on current events scene, Hanuma is saved by Abu Sir’ and disturbing. His eventual downfall and tain a sense of community and guard throughout the city, including the bizarre the head newspaper salesman and destruction of those around him are their personal security while living in a serial killings of women at another train Kinawi is taken to an asylum. painfully clear. “Cairo Station” is a won­ world that constantly shifts around them. station in Egypt where the victims are The film’s greatest strength is the stark derful achievement of the director and a Kinawi, played by the film’s director stabbed to death, packed into luggage contrast between the impermanency of m asterpiece of classic film. Youssef Chahine, is a crippled newspaper and boarded onto trains. Kinawi’s world with his universal feelings salesman, given the job when found Kinawi, growing increasingly desperate of sexual desire, repression, passion and Contact Grace Myers at [email protected] 'Squid' brings new twists to old story

breaks past the fact that she has been By LIZ BYRUM having affairs through the last four Assistant Scene Editor years of her marriage and appears to have a calm and innocence about her Tales of divorce and its effects on a that her sons finally begin to recognize family have been told and retold in toward the end of the film. Hollywood. However, in “The Squid and Despite the talent of these actors and the Whale," writer-director Noah the complexity behind their roles, the Baumbach uses a model of his own focus of “The Squid and the Whale” childhood to put a new spin on an old revolves around the characters’ two story. children, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Baumbach, who has worked on films his younger brother Frank (Owen including “Kicking and Screaming” and Kline, son of actor Kevin Kline). “Mr. Jealousy,” sets the film in The film is a portrait of the effects Brooklyn’s Park Slope, where he lived parents have on their children, and the for a large part of the ‘80s. At that way children begin to realize how they time, his own parents, film critic can take the information their parents Georgia Brown and novelist Jonathan feed them — through conversations Baumbach, went through a messy ranging from Dickens to desire — and divorce. decide for themselves what parts will Using his history as a starting point, benefit them in the future. Baumbach creates a story about the Each of the boys has issues regarding marriage and divorce of writer and their parents’ sexuality and the tension Professor Bernard caused by the (Jeff Daniels) and divorce. When aspiring writer The Squid and the Whale Joan begins to Joan (Laura see Frank’s ten­ Linney). nis instructor The film opens (p la y e d by at a time when Michael Baldwin) Photo courtesy of movieweb.com A complex story of divorce and its effects on a family, Noah Baumbach’s “The Bernard’s career Director: Noah Baumbach and Bernard Squid and the Whale" was one of the most impressive new films of 2005. as a writer is fal­ Writer: Noah Baumbach moves in with tering and he Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, one of his stu­ seems to care Owen Klein and Jesse Eisenberg dents (played by romantic love and the realization that Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” as being more about him­ Anna Paquin), the although his father may be an intellec­ “Kafkaesque,” to which the teenage self and his writ­ accusations fly. tual, not all the advice he gives Walt is girl replies, “It’s written by Franz ing than he does about his wife or fam­ What had started as a joint custody worth taking. Although the objects of Kafka. It has to be.” ily. Even larger issues erupt when he plan (one that even included the family distraction may vary, Baumbach’s story Although it’s hard to put a finger on finds out that Joan has had an excerpt cat in the weekly schedule) eventually of Walt’s discoveries and realizations exactly what makes this movie a good from her new novel published in The turns into a battle of parent against still take on a relatable feel. one, it’s worth trying to figure out. New Yorker. parent, and the boys are forced to One of the comical parts of the film A successful cast, interesting setting Daniels shines in this picture and choose sides. occurs when Walt attempts to have an and a complex storyline are just a few becomes the character for which audi­ Eisenberg does an outstanding job of intelligent conversation about Franz of the possibilities of what makes “The ence members might feel sorry, or by carrying his character through the con­ Kafka with his new girlfriend (Hailey Squid and the Whale” a winner. which they might just be disgusted. fusion of his mother’s sexual betrayals Feiffer). Trying to emulate his father’s Linney’s character, on the other hand, of his father, his first inklings of knowledge of literature, he describes Contact Liz Byrum at [email protected] Wednesday, February 1, 2006 The Observer ♦ PAID ADVERTISMENT page 17 Don't forget about MOVIES in the BROWNING CINEMA Call 63!-FILM for a recorded list of this week's showings! CHECK OUT THE ARAB FILM SERIES IN THE BROWNING CINEMA THROUGH FEB. 3.

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NFL Coaches present contrast in style, philosophy

Bowl, Cowher and Holmgren H olm gren, Cowher share a lot beyond their all­ ready to lead teams female households: Cowher has three daughters and Holmgren to Super Bowl win has four, plus four granddaugh­ ters (“that’s what we talk about,

Associated Press our girls,” Cowher said). They are the longest-tenured DETROIT — It’s an 8-year-old coaches in the NFL — 14th sea­ snapshot of Bill Cowher that sons without a break. The 48- endures: the Pittsburgh coach year-old Cowher was hired in by brandishing a fist at the Steelers in 1992, the same Jacksonville’s Chris Hudson as he year Holmgren signed on in races past the Steelers bench en Green Bay. route to a game-clinching touch­ After winning a Super Bowl down. with the Packers after the 1996 “Intense” is the word it con­ season and losing one the next jures — a word most often used year, Holmgren moved on to to describe Cowher. It might have Seattle as coach and general been more: as he clenched that manager. fist, Cowher looked like he might Both are considered among the jump on the field and tackle NFL’s best coaches, perhaps a bit Hudson. below the superstar/celebrity It’s easy to depict Seattle coach level that includes Bill Belichick, Mike Holmgren as just the oppo­ Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs. Some site: a laid-back Californian who of it is personality — neither has been fashioning precision craves the spotlight — and some Pittsburgh Steelers head Coach Bill Cowher, center, sits with his team during the Steelers offenses for more than two of it is they’ve experienced fail­ appearance at Super Bowl XL media day Tuesday at Ford Field in Detroit. decades. ure. Not really. Holmgren just Until this year, for example, shows his intensity a little farther Cowher had lost the only Super a franchise that had been consis­ Aaron Brooks and Hasselbeck. haul,” Steelers owner Dan from the cameras. Bowl he’d been in (to Dallas after tently mediocre. And a free agent named Kurt Rooney said Tuesday. “And that’s “He says to me, I don’t want the 1995 season) and also was 1- But their styles and systems Warner passed through their what he’s been. His roots have you to turn over the ball,” 4 in AFC title games, all at home. are markedly different. training camp and became a helped him. He’s not one of those Seahawks quarterback Matt The 57-year-old Holmgren was Holmgren is a former third- tw o-tim e league MVP with the people who come to Pittsburgh Hasselbeck said. “Then I’ll throw asked to step down as Seattle’s string quarterback at Southern Rams. and look around and think he’s an interception — it happens, GM after the 2002 season after California who aspired to coach Cowher comes from another in some provincial town. He doesn’t it? — and come off the the team went 9-7, 6-10, 9-7 and and teach in high school, and tradition — passing is second to knows Pittsburgh, he under­ field and he’ll say, I don’t want 7-9 in his first four seasons, not played in a rock-and-roll band. running. That’s one reason Ben stands the people, and he thinks you to turn over the ball.’” what was expected from some­ His success as a high-school Roethlisberger has been able to of it as home. It’s great to have Going into Sunday’s Super one who arrived as the savior of coach in the Bay Area led to a flourish at quarterback in his him.” job at San Francisco State and first two seasons — he doesn’t His players think so, too. then as quarterbacks coach at have to carry the offense. “Everyone thinks he’s tough. Brigham Young in 1982, where As Holmgren is a direct disci­ He is, but he’s a players’ coach,” one of his pupils was a young QB ple of Walsh, Cowher’s m entor is wide receiver Hines Ward said. named Steve Young. Marty Schottenheimer. “His door is always open if you Holmgren did enough there “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t have a problem, or just want to that he was hired by Bill Walsh for him,” Cowher said. “He saw talk. Yes, he gets angry, but most to coach the 49ers quarterbacks, something in me I’m not sure I of the time, he’s right.” moved up to offensive coordina­ saw in myself.” “You always know when he’s tor, then moved on to Green Bay What Schottenheimer saw was really angry. He says, ‘I’m mad as head coach. intensity. as hell and I’m not gonna take it “His success is right out of the Raised in the Pittsburgh area, anymore,”’ Ward said. Bill Walsh tool kit,”’ Young said. Cowher played at North Carolina Win or lose, the next time “It’s everything. How you prac­ State, then made the Cleveland Cowher and Holmgren get tice, How you diagram plays. Browns in 1980 when together, they’re likely to talk How you travel. It’s right down Schottenheimer was an assistant about their all-female families. there A-to-Z. Mike got it, passed there. He was used mostly on Cowher drove the length of the it on to Steve Mariucci, Andy special teams and played briefly Pennsylvania Turnpike several Reid, Jon Gruden, all the way for Philadelphia. times last winter to watch down the line.” In 1985, at 28, he was hired as daughter Megan play basketball Holmgren’s staff with the Cleveland’s special teams coach for Princeton and came back the Packers was one of the best ever by Schottenheimer, who had same night (Cowher’s wife, Kaye, — Mariucci, Reid, Gruden, Marty become the Browns’ head coach. played in the old Women’s Mornhinweg and Ray Rhodes, He followed Schottenheimer to Professional Basketball League). the former coach of the Eagles Kansas City, becoming defensive Holmgren’s wife, Kathy, who is and Packers and now the coordinator on a staff that also a nurse, and daughter Calla, a Seahawks’ defensive coordinator. included Tony Dungy. His atten­ doctor, won’t be in town for the He’s also developed quarter­ tion to detail was clear and even Super Bowl. backs. when he was barely over 30, he They’ll be in Congo to do med­ While Holmgren was in Green was introduced to people as a ical work. Bay, he turned Brett Favre into a potential head coach. “They didn’t know we’d get to star. During that time, the He got the job soon enough — the Super Bowl when the trip AP Packers also drafted QBs who back in his hometown. came up,” Holmgren said. “What Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren gestures during a divi­ were traded elsewhere and “I could see in him a guy who they’re doing is more important sional playoff game on Jan. 14. became starters: Mark Brunell, would have success over the long anyway.”

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NBA Bryant scores 40, averages over 40 for month

the line. The Knicks were 20-of- in the third quarter, and New Kidd leads Nets'win, 24. York’s Channing Frye and Mihm snapping Pistons' 11- Qyntcl Woods scored 15 points were called for double technicals and Quentin Richardson had 14 with 5:46 remaining in the peri­ game winning streak for the Knicks, who were called od. for five technical fouls — two on Brown was ejected during a coach Larry Brown — and a fla­ timeout following that play. Associated Press grant. New York has lost three Referee Steve Javie called a first straight and nine of 10, but at technical on Brown, then a sec­ NEW YOI1K — Kobe Bryant is least showed some fight after ond and an automatic ejection back in Will Chamberlain’s com­ "displaying little in a 120-101 loss after Brown continued to argue. pany again. at Atlanta on Monday night. Brown then walked onto the Bryant scored 40 points, Davis provided the Knicks with floor right up to Javie to continue despite making only one field an early spark in his first game the argument before being pulled goal in the second half, to cap off since serving his five-game sus­ away. Herb Williams, who his sensational month and lead pension for climbing into the coached the Knicks at the end of the Los Angeles Lakers over the stands during a game, scoring the last season, finished up the frustrated New York Knioks 130- seven early points as the Knicks game. 97 Tuesday night. opened an 18-9 lead. Bryant Bryant sparked a pair of early then scored 14 points in a 22-4 Nets 91, Pistons 84 runs, then spent the rest of the spurt that gave the Lakers a 31- Jason Kidd had 23 points and night leading a parade of Lakers 22 lead in the final minute of the 12 rebounds to lead the New to the foul line, lie was 7-of-17 quarter. Jersey Nets past Detroit Tuesday from the field and 23-of-26 at the Bryant sat out the early part of night, snapping the Pistons’ line. the second quarter, then helped NBA-best 11-game winning The NBA’s leading scorer aver­ the Lakers blow open the game streak. aged 43.4 points in 13 games this midway through the period, lie Richard Jefferson and Monad m onth, highlighted by his 81 - scored the final seven points in a Krstic each scored 19 for New point outing that was the second- 12-0 run that extended a seven- Jersey (23-20), which snapped a best scoring game in NBA histo­ point lead to a 49-30 advantage four-game losing streak. The Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant shoots a technical foul shot dur­ ry. He joined Chamberlain as the with 4:17 left in the half. Nets won their eighth straight ing the team’s 130-97 win over the New York Knicks Tuesday. only players in NBA history to Ilis layup a little more than a game at Continental Airlines average 40 or more points in a minute later made it 51-34, but Arena. month more than once, accord­ he wouldn’t make another field Chauncey Billups led Detroit Carter for an acrobatic alley-oop On Detroit’s next possession. ing to the Elias Sports Bureau. goal until a 3-pointer with 10? (37-6) with 30 points, including dunk. Billups answered with a 3- Carter stripped Hamilton on a Chamberlain, whose 100-point minutes remaining in the game, 6-for-6 from 3-point range. The pointer from the top of the key to drive to the basket, and Kidd game is the only one better than lie scored 82 points in two Pistons, who entered the game pull Detroit within a point, and made two free throws with 36 Bryant’s career-best outing, did it games against the Knicks this shooting 46 percent from the Krstic fumbled a pass out of seconds left. five times. Bryant also averaged season. field this season, were 30-of-82 bounds at the other end for New Detroit trailed by as many as 40.h points in February 2003. By then, the Knicks were fed (37 percent). Leading scorer Jersey. 10 points midway through the Elgin Baylor is the only other up with watching Bryant and the Richard Hamilton scored 19 But Tayshaun Prince commit­ third quarter as Kidd sank a 3- player to average 40 in a month. rest of the Lakers parade to the points, three below his average, ted an offensive foul on Detroit’s pointer and two jumpers sand­ Smush Parker added 15 points foul line. Davis was called for a but shot 8-for-24 from the field. next possession, and Kidd made wiched around a jumper by and Chris Mihm had 14 for the flagrant foul when he grabbed New Jersey led 85-81 with a 3-pointer with 48 seconds left Jason Collins, his only points of Lakers, who were 43-of-58 from Bryant by the neck with 7:09 left 2:00 left after Kidd found Vince to give the Nets an 88-84 lead. the night.

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NCAA F o o t b a l l Touted recruit Mustain to sign with Arkansas

August, then said in early most dominant seasons in state QB's signing ends December he was considering history in 2005, going 14-0 and months of stress after other schools. outscoring its opponents 664- Finally, two weeks ago, 118. earlier decommitment Mustain announced he would Mustain, who was already play for Houston Nutt at earning national attention Associated Press Arkansas, choosing the before the season began, lived Razorbacks over Notre Dame, up to the hype. He completed a LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Tennessee and Alabama. state-record 70.4 percent of his hoopla has died down a bit. Mustain’s decision could passes in 2005, throwing for The state can breathe easy. hardly have come at a better 3,817 yards and 47 touch­ Mitch Mustain decided to stay time for Nutt. Arkansas went 4- downs. Mustain won the home for school. 7 in 2005, missing the postsea­ Gatorade national player of the Mustain, one of the nation’s son for the second straight year year award and Parade top high school quarterbacks, after going to a bowl each of Magazine player of the year. plans to attend Nutt’s first six Less than a week after Arkansas. Now, of seasons. Springdale won the state title, course, comes the Nutt didn’t men­ reports surfaced that Mustain hard part for the “They’re going to tion Mustain by might be reconsidering his Razorbacks’ expect a lot out ofname — NCAA commitment — and the pres­ would-be savior rules prevent sure on Nutt and the — handling the m e.’’ coaches from talk­ Razorbacks increased again. pressure from ing about a specif­ Rick Schaeffer was Arkansas’ thousands of suc­ Mitch Mustain ic recruit before sports information director for he signs a letter of more than two decades and cess-starved fans. Arkansas recruit “They’re going intent. But there’s now is a color analyst on bas­ to expect a lot out no denying the ketball broadcasts. He also co­ of me,” Mustain A rkansas coach is hosts a sports talk radio show. said this week. “At the same excited about his class. Schaeffer defended Nutt’s time, they’ve got to realize, it’s “To have the No. 1 player performance in recent years, a new game for me too.” come out of your own state, you but he understands fans have Mustain is expected to sign really need him,” Nutt said. been growing impatient. with Arkansas on Wednesday, “You really need him to go to “Houston’s a good recruiter, Acclaimed Arkansas recruit Mitch Mustain is congratulated after his the first day —and by far the your school — and so that was but the question comes up: team won the Arkansas class AAAAA championship Dec. 3,2005. busiest — of the national sign­ huge.” ‘Well if he can’t sign the quar­ ing period. Mustain is actually ranked terback from 15 minutes from with dynamic freshman run­ of his desire to move to the col­ When Mustain makes it offi­ No. 3 among overall recruits by his school, who can he sign?’” ning back Darren McFadden. lege level — and Arkansas cial, it will formally end a College Sports Television said Schaeffer, who has also Around the time Mustain seemed a natural fit well before recruiting saga that has capti­ recruiting expert Tom Lemming announced Springdale games. reopened his recruitment, Nutt Mustain reconsidered his com­ vated the region for months. and No. 10 by Rivals.com. But Mustain’s recruitment was was making staff changes. For mitment. Malzahn’s hiring did­ Mustain played high school that’s of little consequence to even more important because the first time, he hired an n’t immediately secure football at Springdale, about 20 Arkansas fans, many of whom Arkansas averaged only 143.7 offensive coordinator. The Mustain. minutes from Arkansas’ cam­ have seen first hand what yards passing per game last choice: Gus Malzahn, Mustain’s In mid-January, Mustain pus in Fayetteville. He initially Mustain can do. season, never finding a clear coach at Springdale. finally recommitted to committed to the Razorbacks in Springdale had one of the cut No. 1 quarterback to go Malzahn had made no secret A rkansas. Congregation of Holy Cross

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NBA Women’s College Basketball AP Top 25 team record points 1 Tennessee 17-0 1,138 2 Duke 16-0 1,108 3 LSU 14-0 1,064 4 North Carolina 16-0 1,014 5 Connecticut 15-2 918 6 Maryland 14-2 915 7 Ohio State 13-2 851 8 Baylor 12-2 792 9 Bulgers 12-2 790 10 DePaul 16-1 742 11 Purdue 13-2 723 12 Michigan State 13-5 561 13 Georgia 12-4 551 14 Stanford 11-4 543 15 Arizona Stale 14-3 527 16 Minnesota 11-4 495 17 Oklahoma 13-4 461 18 Virginia Tech 14-1 322 19 Vanderbilt 13-4 251 20 New Mexico 13-4 244 21 Temple 12-4 165 22 Boston College 12-5 154 23 BYU 13-1 108 24 NOTRE DAME 10-5 97 25 George Washington 11-4 78

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Connecticut 5-0 16-2 .889 Rutgers 4-0 12-2 .857 AP Louisville 4-1 13-3 .812 New Orleans Hornets owner George Shinn speaks at a press conference in Oklahoma City Tuesday. The NBA St. John’s 4-2 14-3 .824 DePaul 3-2 16-2 .889 announced Tuesday the Hornets will play most of their home schedule in Oklahoma City next season. Marquette 3-2 12-4 .750 Seton Hall 3-2 6-10 .375 West Virginia 3-2 10-5 .667 Pittsburgh 3-3 12-5 .706 Hornets to stay in Oklahoma City for 2006-07 NOTRE DAME 2-3 11-5 .688 Villanova 2-3 11-5 .688 Associated Press served by having the team same time, maintains our with some 300-400 people USE 2-3 12-6 .667 play the bulk of its 2006- presence in the NBA,” expected to attend. Georgetown 1-4 8-8 .500 OKLAHOMA CITY — 07 schedule in Oklahoma Louisiana Gov. Kathleen “The permanent identity Providence 1-4 6-10 .375 The Hornets will play City. Blanco said. Cincinnati 1-4 11-5 .688 of New Orleans as an NBA Syracuse 0-6 7-10 .412 most of their home games “However, we are hope­ Stern also said the NBA city is important to the in Oklahoma City next ful that the team will be in will enter exclusive nego­ economy of our entire season with New Orleans a position to return to tiations to bring the 2008 region,” Blanco said. still recovering from New Orleans full time All-Star Game to New “New Orleans has always Men’s College Basketball Hurricane Katrina. beginning in the 2007-08 Orleans. been a great city for big The NBA announced season.” “From everything we events, and we are confi­ Big East Conference Tuesday that the Hornets The agreement reached have seen and heard, we dent that we can quickly will play 35 games in between the state of have little doubt that New negotiate a deal to bring co n f. o v e ra ll p e t. te a m Oklahoma City and six in Louisiana and the Hornets Orleans will soon regain the All-Star Game to New New Orleans in 2006-07. allows the team to amend its place among the Orleans." Connecticut 5-0 16-2 .889 NBA commissioner its lease agreement with world’s premiere cities for In 19 games at Rutgers 4-0 12-2 .857 David Stern said in a the New Orleans Arena. hosting major sporting Oklahoma City’s Ford Louisville 4-1 13-3 .812 statement the league “The agreement events,” Stern said. Center this season, the St. John's 4-2 14-3 .824 remains committed to reached today will ensure The NBA has also Hornets have averaged DePaul 3-2 16-2 .889 returning to New Orleans, the Hornets stability while agreed to hold its annual 18,546 fans, including 10 12-4 Marquette 3-2 .750 but “for now, our collec­ the New Orleans market marketing meetings in sellouts. The surprising 6-10 Seton Hall 3-2 .375 tive interests are best fully recovers and, at the New Orleans in October, young team is 22-22. West Virginia 3-2 10-5 .667 Pittsburgh 3-3 12-5 .706 NOTRE DAME 2-3 11-5 .688 Villanova 2-3 11-5 .688 USE 2-3 12-6 .667 In B rief Georgetown 1-4 8-8 .500 Providence 1-4 6-10 .375 Pimlico quarantine will not whatsoever,” Lou Raffetto, chief ling under the pressure at last year’s Cincinnati 1-4 11-5 .688 effect Preakness operating officer of the Maryland Winter X Games and used it as moti­ 7-10 Syracuse 0-6 .412 BALTIMORE — The hom e of the Jockey Club, said Tuesday. “Given vation, spending the offseason work­ Preakness is eerily quiet this week, the nature of this virus, I don’t think ing on some new moves. the result of a quarantine that has this will be an issue by the time we Woods defeats Garcia at raised questions whether troubled start the spring meet in April.” Buick Invitational Pimlico Race Course can regroup in US Snowboarders hope to SAN DIEGO — Sergio Garcia time to host the middle jewel of the repeat at Olympics squeezed his eyes shut and gouged a around the dial Triple Crown. ASPEN, Colo. — Shaun W hite’s 6-iron out of the tree, then sprinted An outbreak of equine herpesvirus eyes darted around the room before down the 16th fairway at Medinah at the 136-year-old track forced fixing on the gold medal hanging in youthful pursuit of Tiger Woods. three horses to be euthanized and around his neck. That was the summer of ‘99 at the led several states to ban the ship­ “This is awesome. I can’t believe PGA Championship. ment of horses into or from it,” he said. “1 can’t wait to get to More than six years later, Garcia is M en ’s C ollege B asketball Maryland. Although a horse was Torino.” still running after the world’s No. 1 NOTRE DAME at West Virginia linked to the virus Tuesday at near­ Neither can the rest of the U.S. player and hasn’t made up much Olympic snowboard team. 7 p.m., ESPN by Laurel Park, there have been no ground. The latest opportunity came new cases at Pimlico since Jan. 19 The Americans swept the podium Sunday at Torrey Pines, where he Iowa at Purdue and the track intends to lift the self- at the last Winter Olympics and, played with Woods in the final group 7 p.m., ESPN2 imposed quarantine next based on their performance at this for the first time since the 2002 U.S. Duke at Boston College Wednesday. year’s Winter X Games, there’s a Open at Bethpage Black. 9 p.m., ESPN But can Pimlico ultimately replace good chance they’ll do it again when He hooked his opening tee shot the Turin Games begin in less than Texas at Missouri the cautionary yellow tape currently and made bogey. He blasted out over surrounding several barns with the two weeks. the lip of a fairway bunker and over 9 p.m., ESPN2 bright yellow Black-eyed Susans that White leads the way. the green at No. 2, making another symbolize the Preakness? 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plays come to you.” Carter did, for the most part, Carter against Villanova. He finished continued from page 28 with 14 points, grabbed six rebounds and — perhaps most Villanova in the unfortunate importantly — made 8-of-ll free position of either having to foul throws. It was the most free him or simply watch the junior throws attempted by a Notre work down the stretch. Dame guard in a single game “That’s always been a big part this season, second only to Torin of my game, going to the bas­ Francis (12 attempts against ket,” Carter said following the Providence, Jan. 14) on the game. entire team. The Irish average nearly 24 3- “He went through a tough point attempts per outing. But week [during] the when Carter is on, opponents Providence/Marquette week,” almost have to tear up the scout­ Brey said, referring to Carter’s ing report to deal with the new five total minutes in the 1-1 scoring option. stretch. “I thought he was proba­ “I want him to keep doing bly forcing some plays and what he’s doing, because he maybe not focusing on the things KIRSTEN HOELMER/The Observer gives us that slashing guy to the that he does well for us. [The key Russell Carter, left, plays defense against Villanova guard Randy Foye in the team’s 72-70 loss basket that’s different than the is] staying to his strengths and to the Wildcats on Jan. 28. other perimeter guys we have,” away from his weaknesses.” Notre Dame coach Mike Brey Carter also understands that said Monday. opponents sometimes dictate the The problem has been Carter’s lineup Notre Dame shows. consistency, or the lack of it. Against an athletic, guard-heavy Though he’s averaging 9.2 team like Villanova, for example, points and 4.4 rebounds per Carter would most likely see game as the Irish head into increased playing time. The jun­ College of Arts and Letters Morgantown, W. Va. tonight, ior started, however — and Brey 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Carter has battled to earn his also left him in the game — coaches’ trust. because he had shown flashes of 1Thursday nights in February On Saturday, during a second- offensive force in the previous half stretch in which the Irish 85-82, double-overtime loss to had momentum, the junior Villanova. guard caught the first pass of the “In certain games, you may possession from point guard need certain players,” Carter Chris Quinn and fired a deep 3- said. “Everyone on the team pointer that rimmed out. understands that.” Februaiy 2 The Irish walked to the bench But if he continues to get to the as a timeout was called, and free throw line and remains You Don't Really Have Brey could be seen telling Carter, patient on offense, Carter may “Not so early,” suggesting the also force the issue on the per­ to be a Rhodes Scholar shot selection was unwise. m anent makeup of Notre Dame’s “We certainly want him to starting lineup. to Land a Fellowship drive, but he doesn’t have to drive on the first pass,” Brey Contact Pat Leonard at for Post Graduate said. “Don’t force plays. Just let [email protected] Study: Introduction of the Fellowship Office Hammes Student Lounge, Coleman Morse.

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how her team needed to play SMC B a s k e t b a l l hard right from the start to Belles get the win this time. continued from page 28 “We’re looking to attack, be really aggressive on both first-year head coach Steve ends of the court and play Kessler wins MIAA honor Bender, who has the team on like we know how to play,” pace for its b est MIAA finish she said. “We’ve go to be in ever. attack mode, ready to go.” shot to give the Belles a has also given us much bet­ Despite their recent suc­ The Belles also know that, Guard is first Belle three-point lead, and cement ter looks on offense.” cess, the Belles know they regardless of the outcome of to be named Player the 57-55 win. Likewise, In the past four games, the will have to play hard to tonight’s game, they’ve still against Tri-State Kessler Belles’ defense has allowed overcome Olivet on its home got a lot of work ahead if of the Week in 05-06 scored the Belles’ final six only 53.8 points per game, court and want nothing more they hope to finish strong in points, denying a 13-point an improvement from early than to get even after their the MIAA. second-half comeback by the this season when the Belles last loss. Saint Mary’s will finish up By JAY FITZPATRICK Thunder. gave up 65 points or more “Everyone is .definitely the regular season with four Sports Writer Despite receiving the con­ six times in their first 11 ready from our loss last more conference games, ference award this week, gam es. lim e,” sophomore forward including a contest at first- Allison Kessler’s hard work Kessler believes her and the The results on the defen­ Beanya Broderick said. place Hope and a home for the Belles has paid off as Belles’ best effort came sive end coincide with head “Everyone is hun­ matchup with the sophomore shooting against Kalamazoo on Jan. coach Steve Bender’s theme gry to win, hun­ second-place g uard w as nam ed the MIAA 14. for this season — mental gry to do well. “Everyone is Calvin. Player of the Week Monday. “The Kalamazoo game was toughness. And Kessler has We’ve been work­ definitely ready “We realize “ I w as where we really came taken the motto to heart. that [the sea­ h a p p y a n d together as a team,” Kessler Over the past five games, ing hard, |and| from our loss last we’re definitely son | is winding excited said. she has averaged 17.2 points mentally pre­ time. Everyone is d o w n , ” w h e n I The Belles’ 83-73 victory, and 36 minutes. Kessler has p a re d .” hungry to win, Broderick said. found out I spurred by also spearhead­ “W e’re read y to h a d w on Kessler’s ed the Belles’ Senior forward hungry to do well. ” Shelly Bender finish it out, but th is ,” career-high 22 “The Kalamazoo d e f e n s e , e s p e - echoed we’ve invested Kessler points, sparked game was where c ia lly w ith a so much in it. said. “But a stretch in crucial steal in Broderick's Beanya Broderick we really came thoughts, saying Belles forward Our coaches I ’m I m o re which Saint the closing sec­ her team can’t be told us in May, glad] that Kessler Mary’s has won together as a onds of last thinking about ‘It’s not how we s o m e o n e four of its last team. ” Saturday’s win their loss to Olivet when they start, its how we end. We from our school finally won five games, los­ over Tri-State. play them tonight. have to finish hard.’ The it.” ing only to Kessler also “We just came out flat,” coaches have been great at Kessler played a crucial Adrian on the Allison Kessler showed her abil­ Bender said of her team's keeping everyone working role in Saint Mary’s victories road by one Belles guard ity to adapt this loss to the Comets. “That hard, keeping everyone last week over Alma (57-55) point Jan. 21. past week when game was over break, we all u p b e a t.” and Tri-State (58-57). She Downplaying starting point had different schedules. “We want to play as well as took control of both games, her efforts, Kessler attrib­ guard Bridget Lipke was Being in a routine, riding the we can play, winning is playing 77 minutes out of a uted her team’s success this injured in the Albion game hus together, it’s a totally always on our mind,” Shelly possible 80 and shooting 11- season to its increased and Kessler look over. She different mentality. Bender said. “But as long as for-24 for 32 points. defensive mentality. maintained this role for the “We re just going to play we play 100 percent, play to Kessler showed the ability “We’ve been getting a lot next two games in Lipke’s hard like we would against our full potential, that’s all to make clutch shots toward more pressure when we’ve place, leading the Belles to any other team. We’ve got to we can ask for.” the end of games last week. been on defense, forcing bad the win over Alma. be aggressive — don’t back With less than a minute to go plays and the other teams I to d o w n .” Contact Tim Kaiser at in the home win over Alma, take] bad shots,” Kessler Contact Jay Fitzpatrick at Broderick also stressed [email protected] Kessler nailed an off-balance said. “Getting more pressure [email protected]

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Notre Dame has “This is a team that really Virginia have attempted more nation of Pittsnogle and range — for whom the Irish won the last 11 contests the got going last year after we than 65 3-pointers this sea­ Gansey. Pittsnogle is a talent­ coach had even more praise. two teams have played, dat­ played them in s o n . T h r e e — ed big man who has shown Gansey’s field goal percent­ ing back to Feb. 14, 1999. Morgantown,” Kevin an ability to step out and age is the best in the Big East “We’ve always been suc­ Irish coach “It’s never too late in Pittsnogle, Mike shoot 3s throughout his among players with 200 or cessful with West Virginia,” Mike Brey said. Gansey and career with West Virginia. He more field goal attempts. His Irish forward Torin Francis “They got real­ college basketball.... Patrick Beilein is averaging 19.8 points per 3-point percentage is best in said. “With our movement on ly confident, It’s always too early — h a v e game on 50 percent shooting. the league by 26 percentage defense we’re pretty good at really hot. to say you’re in great attempted more “He’s a big guy who can points. defending shooters out on the They’ve got than 100. The step out and shoot it,” Irish “I think right now a kid like perimeter.” more 22- and position and a lock. MI ountaineers guard Chris Quinn said. “He’s Gansey is a player of the year 23-year old think for our guys we m a d e 20 3- extremely skilled and this candidate,” Brey said. Contact Bobby Griffin at and married have to hang out hat pointers in the year he’s even been posting The Irish and Mountaineers [email protected] guys than us. victory over They’re very on that and keep M a r q u e tte — experienced.” playing. ” something that HUMAN R G H T S WATCH B re y s a id concerns Brey. 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The group that Scout.com Tuesday. “Make that plural — the class that recruiting Web Notre Dame as the No. 7 class By MIKE GILLOON ranks as the No. 4 class in the we want to win national cham­ sites have listed as one of the in the country. Sports Editor country — boasting the pionships.” best in the country. “I’m extremely excited to be nation’s top tight end, No. 2 Irish coach Charlie Weis, Scout.com lists the Irish as with these guys,” Reuland said One of the more highly tout­ offensive lineman and a pair of who due to NCAA regulations having 12 four-star verbal in an interview with The ed Irish recruiting classes in blue-chip quarterbacks — is not allowed to comment commitments and three five- Observer Tuesday. “We’re real­ recent memory is expected to holds high expectations. publicly on a recruit until he star recruits — tight end ly excited to get out there. become official today when “We want to win a national signs his letter of intent, will Konrad Reuland, running back “I was on the phone with Notre Dame’s 28 known verbal championship,” offensive line hold a press conference at James Aldridge and offensive [Irish linebacker verbal com- recruits are allowed to sign recruit Eric Olsen said in an noon today in the Guglielmino lineman Sam Young. national letters of intent. interview with The Observer Athletics Complex discussing Rivals.com, meanwhile, lists see RECRUITS/page 25

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By BOBBY GRIFFIN By PAT LEONARD Associate Sports Editor Sports Writer West Virginia knows first­ This time last season, Notre hand what Notre Dame is Dame guard Russell Carter was going through. barely playing. He averaged just The M ountaineers were 8.5 minutes in 2005 and logged struggling with one league two minutes in a 65-60 loss to victory last season when Villanova on Jan. 26 of last year. Notre Dame came to In stark contrast, Carter start­ Morgantown. The Irish won ed against the Wildcats by 13 — their fourth league Saturday, playing 31 minutes win of the season. But it was and forcing the issue on a sec­ West Virginia who found the ond-half Irish comeback. momentum from that point Notre Dame fell short on a forward to carry them to the Kyle Lowry tip-in with 1.7 sec­ Sweet 16, while Notre Dame onds remaining, and Carter watched from home. fouled out, but his aggressive The Irish are hoping to Photos by PHIL HUDELSON and KIRSTEN HOELMER/The Observer moves and athleticism put Left, Torin Francis looks to pass against Villanova in a 72-70 loss on Jan. 27. Right, Russell see HOOPS/page 24 Carter grabs a rebound in the same game. see CARTER/page 22

SMC B a s k e tb a ll ND Women’s Basketball Fourth-place Belles to Irish win in Carrier Dome face MIAA rival Olivet By KEN FOWLER Sports W riter might have trouble recogniz­ By TIM KAISER ing the team they played The Irish may have turned the Sports Writer before. corner. The Belles have run their Notre Dame (13-7, 4-5 Big Two MIAA rivals will vie record to 9-11 overall and 7- East) topped Syracuse (9-12, 2- for third place in the confer­ 4 in the MIAA, good enough 8) in the two teams’ first-ever ence tonight at 7:30 p.m. for fourth place in the con­ meeting in the Carrier Dome when Saint Mary’s travels to ference — right behind Tuesday night, 67-55, moving Olivet with hopes of avenging Olivet and its 8-2 conference the Irish to just one game under a 92-55 loss mark. The Belles have won .500 in Big East play. to th e See Also two straight and four of their “I think we were desperate [to C o m e ts on last five, all against confer­ get a win] at this point in the Ja n . 5. “Kessler wins ence opponents. season,” Irish coach Muffet I h e w in MIAA honor” A win tonight would put McGraw said after the game. l a s t m o n th pressure on the Comets to “We needed it badly.” gave Olivet a Pa9e 1? hold their lead, as the Belles Coming off a blowout loss to perfect 4-0 look to continue to improve Rutgers and an overtime defeat record, and upon their record under at the hands of South Florida in PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Saint Mary’s fell to 3-2. Chandrica Smith drives to the hoop against DePaul on Jan. However, tonight the Comets see BELLES/page 23 see ORANGE/page 26 17. The Irish improved to 4-5 in the Big East Tuesday.

C/9 NBA OLYMPICS PGA NCAA FOOTBALL SPORT SUPER BOWL XL Hornets to stay in Snowboarders Woods defeats Mustain to sign New Jersey 91 Coaches are a cc Oklahoma City hope for sweep Garcia with Arkansas Detroit 84 contrast of styles a The NBA announced The U.S. Snowboard Tiger Woods won the Despite decommitting Jason Kidd and the Coaches Bill Cowher < that the Hornets will team hopes for a repeat Buick Invitational over earlier this season, the Nets stopped the and Mike Holmgren stay in Oklahoma for of its performance at the rival Sergio Garcia. stellar quarterback will P istons' NBA-best 11- took very different CL most of 2006-07. last Winter Olympics. likely sign with his game winning streak. routes to Detroit in hometown team. 2006. C/9 page 21 page 21 page 21 page 21 page 19 page 18