PARTLY A move toward restructuring Thursday CLOUDY The Faculty Senate passed a resolution Wednesday that could be its first step toward changing its role in campus governance. OCTOBER11, 'I HIGH 61° News+ page 3 I 2001 I LOW 44° I •I •1 I I THE I The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL. XXXV NO. 33 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Rego criticizes assault claim Notre Dame and they assisted cism on how Notre Dame han­ He did not have witnesses to It states: "A charged student By MYRA McGRIFF him to transfer to West dled Hego's dismissal in 1998. collaborate his side of events. may be assisted, but not rep­ Saint Mary's EJitor Virginia ... they talked to cer­ He said that Rcgo could not Charges were never· filed resented, by a peer student at tain people at West Virginia h a v e against the Administrative Hearing." Cooper Hego issued ra state­ about the accusations," said received a Rego _in Whether or not Rego had a nwnt \\'Pdrwsday dPnying that Ginsberg. fair hearing "The decision was made that any crim­ peer advisor is still unclear, IH' sPxually assaulted Kori Denny Moorn, spokesperson when he i n a I but Ginsberg does say that PiPnovi in I 997 and said he for Notre Dame, said that peo­ was dis- he should transfer from Notre court. He Hego had discussions with arreplPd his punishmPnt from ple at Notre Dame did write missed. Dame and they assisted him I e f t people in relation to the hear­ NotrP DamP only lwcausP "life lntters for Rego to West "Cooper to transfer to West school ing. Also unclear is if those was too short to spend time Virginia. The letters wnrn not went in following discussions occurred during fighting.·· written in any official capaci­ without Virginia ... " the disci­ the Administrative Hearing or "[I'Pinovi 's I arrusations are ty. lie said one person even representa­ plinary outside it. not truP," HPgo said. told West Virginia to contact tion to· a Peter Ginsberg decisions Both Rego and Ginsberg also AftPr f{pgo ac('.Pp!Pd his dis­ Student Affairs. hearing advisor to Rego's father of an said that Pienovi 's accusations missal from NotrP Dame, "Two people on campus with non internal may have been racially moti­ Pntnr (iinsbPrg, an attorney wrote letters to West Virginia judicial hearing vated. serving as an advisor to giving their impression of people who at Notre "I was a young, black fresh­ Rego's fathPr. said Notre him. Tlwy were people who have no understanding of due Dame. The disciplinary proce­ man four years ago, accused DanH' assisted Bngo in his have no knowledge of process rights," Ginsberg said. dures as outlined in du Lac of a horrible act by a white transfer to West Virginia. University disciplinary pro­ Ginsberg explained that list the accused and the woman," Rego said in hi-s "TilP dnrision was made ceedings." Moore said. Rego did not have "factual accuser's rights in an that lw should transfer from Ginsberg also leveled criti- information" at the hearing. Administrative Hearing. see REGO/page 6 BONO ELEVATES NOTRE DAME Media 1 follows j patriotic I spirit By MARIBEL MOREY Assistant News Editor The American media has shared the country's patriotic ·sentiments as it follows the country's steps towards a war. But these media outlets have spent little time on ~. whether or not the country is tak­ 1 ing the right course of action. I "You haven't seen a lot of diver­ sity in perspective from main­ stream corporate media outlets,' said Jennifer Pozner, women's desk director at FAIR who has focused on anti-Arab bias cover­ age and censorship in the press. "In general. the overview has seemed in lockstep with the White House and what that line has been. You haven't seen a lot of variation.' In an act deemed patriotic by Condoleezza Rice. White House national security advisor, tlw five major television news organiza­ tions reached a joint agreement on Wednesday to abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers if the government deems the language inflammatory. These networks include ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, the Cable News Network (CNN) and the Fox News Channel. PETER RICHARDSON/The Observer Local and national newspapers U2's Bono shakes hands with some of his fans at the Joyce Center last night. U2 kicked off the third leg of their and TV media have not been very Elevation tour at Notre Dame. For a complete review see page 20. see MEDIA/ page 4 ------------------------------~-- ----- - r page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Thursday, October 11, 2001 r INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Practice acceptance + Religious service: "Blue + Athletic event: "Midnight + Lecture Series: + Lecture: Address by ~ Mass," presided by Father Madness," Joyce Center, ''I'm spiritual but not Justice Antonio Scalia of on Coming Out Day Edward Malloy, Basilica of 11 p.m. Religious," Saturday the Supreme Court, Law Teetering back and forth on the metal­ the Sacred Heart, 5:15p.m. + Dinner: "Late Night Scholars Series, Hesburgh School Courtroom, I chained swings at our grade school play­ ground, swinging fast and furiously above +Dinner: "Founder's Day Barbecue," Fieldhouse Center Auditorium, 5:15p.m. f the stable ground below us, my best friend Dinner," North Dining Mall, 1-3 a.m. 10 a.m. I turned to me and told me he was gay. I was 15 years old. And Hall, 4:30-7 p.m., South f with that confession, my t 4:30-9 p.m. ~ world became fundamen­ tally changed. Swinging ~ there, on the site that embodied my childhood, I suddenly became an BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports I adult, dealing with an I issue that was so much bigger than I could ever r Michigan study shows Americans feel less safe be. Noreen It still is an issue that is I bigger than many of us. Gillespie ANN ARBOR, Mich. Traugott, an expert on polling, said Growing up in the cradle Nearly half of all Americans feel the split divisions between how of the Catholic Church, more insecure and unsafe after last people are feeling about the attacks Managing month's attacks on the World should be expected. many of us have devel­ Editor oped attitudes about Trade Center and the Pentagon and "There are a lot of factors that go homosexuality that do not the country's declaration of war on into this, one of which has to be accept the lifestyle. We terrorism, according to a University proximity and place of reference," may have learned homosexual acts are a sin; of Michigan survey released Traugott said. "I believe that there we may have learned the lifestyle is immoral. Tuesday. is both a generalized concern and a And if we did not develop those attitudes Results from "How America situational concern." from the Church, society didn't help. We Responds," a study conducted by The survey showed that one grew up as little girls and boys dreaming of the University's Institute for Social cause of concern is the unemploy­ Prince Charming or Cinderella, a heterosexu­ Research, show that 51 percent of ment rate; the 668 people surveyed al ideal. We grew up watching our moms and Americans said their sense of per­ have less favorable buying atti­ predicted the rate would rise to dads hold hands in public, but never sonal safety was shaken only a little tudes. However, overall, almost about 6 percent in the next year. observed affection between homosexual cou­ or not at all following the attacks. half of Americans said that now is a University economist Richard ples. We grew up thinking that heterosexual­ The 49 percent of Americans who good time to invest in the stock Curtin, who directs ISR's consumer ity was the norm, and anything that fell out- - said they felt their personal safety market, and only 9 percent said it surveys, said consumers are usual­ side of it was wrong. had been threatened were also would be a good idea to withdraw ly accurate when predicting future So when we are asked to confront the more pessimistic about the future investments. unemployment rates. issue, it's uncomfortable. It was for me. After economy, the study discovered, and Communications Prof. Michael all, it goes against the very moral core by which we were raised. Today, National Coming Out Day, a day in support of lesbians, gays and bisexuals, will be celebrated nationwide. Last year on this NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY UC-BERKELEY very day, students at Saint Mary's wrote chalk messages on sidewalks to raise stu­ Administration responds to lawsuit Student gov't. debates censuring press dents' awareness about the day. But by the end of the day they were erased, vibrant EVANSTON, Ill. BERKELEY, Calif. messages snuffed into clouds of muddled Lawyers for Northwestern University responded The ASUC Senate considered a bill Wednesday night sidewalk chalk. Tuesday to the lawsuit filed in August by the family of that would condemn The Daily Californian for printing a ' I hope that today, on the day designed to Rashidi Wheeler, stating that the football player's Aug. 3 political cartoon and ask that its staff take sensitivity ' promote tolerance, that messages are not •I death was not caused by bronchial asthma. At the same training. ..I erased. I hope that today, people are not time, University President Henry Bienen released a Meanwhile, other senators introduced a new bill ' erased. I hope that today, people have the statement suggesting that NCAA-banned supplements defending free speech for campus publications, written courage to confront what may be uncomfort­ might have played a greater role in Wheeler's death originally in opposition to the condemnation proposal.