---------------- ------------------ ----- -- --- -----------------~-- - ... THUNDERSTORMS Observer editors respond to rape coverage concerns Friday Amid complaints of irresponsible and unethical journalism, the Observer ('j HIGH 820 editors explain the coverage of last Friday's alleged rapes on campus. SEPTEMBER 7, LOW69° viewpoint • page 11 2001 THE • The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO.9 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Cmnpus goes. Live! with Regis • Students, band • Donors break gather for talkshow ground for new performing arts By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER center Assistant News Editor Besides lining up for football By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER and basketball tickets. there Assistant News Editor are few things that will get stu­ dents out of bed at 7 a.m. - Benefactors dug into freshly until they hear that Regis laid sod Thursday as ground Philbin is hosting "Live! With was broken for the Marie P. Hcgis and Kelly" on God Quad DeBartolo Performing Arts at 8 a.m. Center on the south end of the By the time the program DeBartolo Quad. began, about 300 students had "When we were driving up. I gathered around Philbin to thought, 'Who's getting watch the broadcast, holding buried?' The tent and the fresh signs and cheering when the grass give off the aura of a celebrity prompted them. funeral, but instead of burying One student's sign reading someone, we are here doing "Kelly - Wish You Were the groundbreaking of a won­ Here," referring to Philbin's derful new facility," said co-host Kelly Ripa who was in University President Father the New York studio, got her a Edward Malloy. few seconds on the air. At the site. Malloy said a "I got to the quad around prayer and blessed the site, seven and started to make my and the benefactors were given sign. Hegis came up and asked shovels with which to turn up me what the sign was for and I the new sod. said sorry because it wasn't "I heard a rumor that this about him. I asked him if he dirt has been pre-turned so as needed a co-host for the not to labor us," said Malloy. show," said sophomore Katie The seven benefactors of the Cardinali. new center. their guests and When Ripa began to lament University officials gathered at the fact that she never got to the Chapel of Notre Dame Our travel and didn't have any Mother at the Coleman-Morse fans. Philbin motioned for Center for a mass presided by Cardinali to come forward and Malloy and concelebra ted by she held up her sign on the air. Executive Vice President "As he was leaving, Regis Father Timothy Scully. During told me 'There, I got you your the mass. Malloy emphasized co-host,"' said Cardinali. that the new center would pos­ After filming his program. itively influence cultural oppor­ Philbin reflected on his time at tunities on campus. Notre Dame at the Morris Inn. "We've always lacked that Philbin said that his days on quality facility that can make campus have been invigorat­ TIM KACMARffhe Observer available to everyone that ing. Regis Philbin waves goodbye to the audience of "Live! With Regis and Kelly" during a broad­ comes to us a chance for a full "This is my favorite place on cast of the show from Notre Dame while the band plays the Victory March. At end of the exposure to the best of what earth. No place compares to can be available through the hour-long show that included live and taped segments about Notre Dame, Philbin led the band see REGIS/page 6 in a rendition of the song. see CENTER/ page 4 Arts and Letters launches game day lecture series inclusion of an academic ven­ Homeless. Irish studies and will be given Power said he was excited By JOE ACKERMAN ture into the pageantry of foot­ ··we thought we should reach by University professors consid­ when he received a letter from News Writer ball weekends complements the out to the broader public," ered leaders in their fields. a former student expressing mission of the University. Roche said. F. Clark Power. chair of the gratitude that the alumni are Football fans can now get a "In the past, we have not even The Saturday Scholar lectures Program of Liberal Studies. is being offered an intellectual bit of academic discussion to go tried to engage the community will take place on all six home­ impressed and excited by the opportunity on game days. with their bratwursts and beer intellectually on football week­ game Saturdays this fall in the lineup of speakers planned. In Despite all the other events on game days through the new ends," Roche said. Hesburgh Center Auditorium. addition to himself and the going on during football week­ Saturday Scholars lectures. Another goal of the program Lectures will begin at 10 a.m. London company. other lectur­ ends at Notre Dame. both The brainchild of Mark is to allow the South Bend com­ for games with a 1:30 p.m. ers on tap include psychology Roche and Power are optimistic Roche, dean of the College of munity the opportunity to hear kickoff and at 11 a.m. for professor John Brokowski on that people will be receptive to Arts & Letters, and Greg from top professors. The lec­ games with a 2:30 p.m. start. Oct. 6, theolo"gy professor the lecture series. Sterling. associate dean of fac­ ture series serves as another The series opens on Sept. 22 Lawrence Cunningham on Oct. "We're not going to have ulty, the Saturday Scholars component of the college's com­ with an interactive perfor­ 13, economist Teresa 90,000 people there. but we series aims to incorporate intel­ munity outreach programs, mance by Actors from the Ghilarducci on Oct. 20 and couldn't accommodate that lectual discourse on contempo­ which include the Teachers as London Stage, who call Notre Keough Irish studies chair many anyway," Power said. rary issues into the overall Scholars program, where facul­ Dame their American home. Seamus Deane on Nov. 3. game-day experience. ty work with high school Future lectures will span an "It is certainly an honor to be Roche said that as the "heart instructors to teach at the array of topics such as psychol­ in the company of these schol­ Contact Joe Ackerman at and soul" of the University, the South Bend Center for the ogy, theology, economics and ars," Power said. [email protected]. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Friday, September 7, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK IN ND/SMC HISTORY Graduate student's body found Police crack down on parties Ode to· Nicole Thursday, Sept. 3, 1987 ~onday,Sept. 5,1994 South Bend Police Captain Patrick Cottrell expressed his intention to break up off-campus Hogarty The body of a Notre Dame graduate student in parties and arrest students for underage drinking. the mathematics department was discovered in a He noted that the police had been lenient in the wooded area off campus. The student was first weeks of the semester but that in the coming When I arrived in South Bend a few short • weeks ago, I had a small bet on the table with a believed by St. Joseph County police to have died months offending students could expect strict law friend from my hometown. Although we knew of self-inflicted injuries. enforcement. very little about our future roommates. I insisted that mine would be the stranger of the two. and she insisted the same. It was one of those bets that we both were secretly hop­ ing that we wouldn't win. Compiled from U-Wire reports The first morning on BEYOND CAMPUS campus declared the win­ ner of that bet and set the tone for the year as my GW to close classes fearing protests East Coast roommate fell face-first out of the top Sheila Egts WASHINGTON ,D.C. continue operating on any normal bunk while reaching to turn George Washington University will­ basis at all." off her alarm. cancel classes and evacuate resi­ No classes will be held and all After that experience, not dence halls Sept. 27 to Oct. 2 during facilities, including residence halls, a day has gone by when my Wire Editor anticipated demonstrations sur­ will be closed at the Foggy Bottom roommate, Nicole Hogarty, rounding World Bank and campus, according to a press release has not made me laugh in International Monetary Fund meet­ from University President Stephen some way at her expense. ings that will be held that weekend, Joel Trachtenberg. The Mount After falling out of the bed, Nicole no longer the University announced Thursday Vernon campus will remain open but bothers reaching down to turn off the alarm; morning. no classes will be held there during she sleeps through it. Although the meeting are sched­ this period. When I left for the weekend. Nicole's alarm uled for Sept. 29-30, GW's Foggy Students should go home, stay with was blaring for 30 minutes. She did not wake Bottom campus will close for five friends off campus or at Mount up in the morning until the authorities came days because of the large number of Vernon during the scheduled clo­ knocking on our door to see if a smoke alarm protesters anticipated. D.C. officials sure, King said. ·· was going off. expect as many as 100,000 visitors "The challenge here is you've got a "It's a good recommendation to go During the first week of class alone, Nicole and protesters that weekend. huge amount of protesters forecast­ home, and we're going to be working managed to oversleep three out of five days, so IMF and World Bank officials origi­ ed and you've got barricades with people who can't do that," she the rest of the year is promising.