THE ~~~ The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 39: ISSUE 85 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Duerson resigns from Board of Trustees Former ND football captain is 1983 graduate often spoke charged with assaulting wife publicly about Irish program By CLAIRE HEININGER By HEATHER VAN HOEGARDEN News Editor News Writer Fornwr Notre Damn football captain and Dave Duerson. the former Irish football All­ two-tinw All-American Dave Duerson was American who recently resigned from the Board charged Monday with assaulting his wife of Trustees, leaves a legacy of pointed public c~arly Thursday morning at The Morris Inn, comments about event.'> surrounding the Notre the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office said Dame football program. in a statement. Duerson. a trustee since Duerson, who was charged with two counl'i of 2001. voluntarily resignnd his post Friday battery and two counts of domestic battery and is also nxpncted to resign as president of Monday after allegedly assaulting his wife tlw Monogram Club. a two-year appointment Photo courtesy of und.com Thursday, had been a University trustee since Dave Duerson, right, presents an Honorary Monogram at a Monogram Club sec DUERSON/pagc 6 meeting. Duerson Is expected to resign as president of the Monogram Club. sec VOCAL/page 9 Baron, Leito tickets advance to runoff Students 51 percent of students Student Body Presidential Election Results see profs cast votes; one ticket incurs a violation 4,816 students (51% of the student body) participated. Baron & 113 voters (2. 7%) abstained. as liberal Shappell A runoff election between Baron and Leito will take place on Thursday. By AMANDA MICHAELS Leito &. By MICHAEL BUSK A"istant News Editor News Writer Brede & .I udicial council presideflt Raman an White & Editor's Note: This is the Brin Anderson announced pri­ Healy& second in a three-part series vately to the candidates for stu­ Powers Costa exploring the role of partisan dent body president that the Marra & politics in classes at Notre tickets of !>ave Bart111-Lizzi Dame. Shappell and James Leito­ Jordan Bongiovanni would With the prevailing trend advance to Thursday's runoff in academia leaning to the election at a meeting 10:15 left, as many students and p.m. Monday. professors noted, Notre With 1.3:B votes, or 31.8 per­ Dame's always !=atholic and cent of the total, junior Baron often conserv.ativn tone~ can and sophomore Shappell edged sometimes lead to tension out juniors Loito and within departments and IWPil Bongiovanni, who had 1.074 between professors and thP.ir voll~s. or 25.6 percent. students. Abstentions made up 2.6 per­ Last semester. philosophy cent of votes. A total of 4,186 professor Kenneth Sayre Notre Damn students voted, taught a class called constituting a 51 percent Environmental Philosophy. turnout rate- 8.5 percent Subjects discussed included higher than last year's election. Western consumerism, global "We're very pleased with the warming, Alaskan oil-drilling turnout results," Anderson and other controversial sub­ said. "We worked very hard to jects. Sayre said that garner more support from stu­ although he generally keeps dPnts by holding debates in a his political views in the more accnssibh~ place. passing background in his morn con­ out flyers, reminding students ventional philosophy classes. to volt~ and setting up a voting this class soon developed a booth in LaFortunn." different tone. Though the polls closed at H "It's good not to Jet your p.m. Monday. a reported cam­ own views enter into the dis­ paign violation forced the CLAIRE KELLEYffhe Observer cussion. if you can have .any The student body presidential and vice presidential tickets of James Lelto-Jordan Bongiovanni, left, control over it," said Sayre. sec RUNOFF/page 9 and Dave Baron-Lizzl Shappell learned Monday night that they will advance to the runoff election. "I began the course with the point of view of keeping my own political views complete­ Losing tickets disappointed with outcome; decline to endorse remaining candidates ly in the background. As time went on, that became less Of the non-advancing tick­ Zahm. Brede-Hamanan also Ramanan said that neither and less possible." By MADDIE HANNA ets. Brede-Hamanan came in won Carroll and Fisher and he nor Brede had thought Sayre said that since many News Writer third with 610 votes, White-Powers won Knott. much about their future in of his students who took the White-Powers took fourth "We're obviously disap­ student government, but class were already con­ While disappointed in the with 505 votes. Healy-Costa pointed not to make the noted that he had "a lot to fin­ cerned with the current state outcome of Monday's primary finished fifth with 419 votes runoff. but we're both happy ish up this term in Senate" of the environnwnt. many prnsidential elections and fail­ and Harig-Marra brought up with the issues we put on the and that Brede will serve as had more progressive points ing to advance to Thursday's the rear with 122 votes. table and the campaign we Alumni Hall president for the of view. Nonetheless. he runoff. tickets Brede­ Dorm loyalty proved to be a ran." said Vijay Ramanan, rest of the semester. maintained that the class­ Bamanan, White-Powers. factor. demonstrated by the former vice-presidential can­ Alec White and Erik Powers room discussion never llealy-Costa and llarig-Marra fact that Brede-Ramanan won didate. speaking for himself also expressed disappoint- descended to the level ol' ser- oxprnssed satisfaction with Alumni, White-Powers won and running mate Craig their campaign efforts. Sorin and Healy-Costa won Brede. see ENDORSE/page 4 see POLITICS/page 6 r----------~---------- ------------------- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 8, 2005 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL AND WHY? Proud legacy child When sitting down to think of what I could possibly write about for my inside column (yes, ideas for these are harder . to come up with than you may think), I Rob Lindley Elizabeth Clifton Esther Probst Jason Perkins Charlie Doar Tom Le was brought back to last week's "town­ sophomore sophomore ie" column and thought, what about the freshman sophomore junior graduate student legacies? Keough University Village LeMans off-campus Sorin Siegfried Yes, I'm one of "them." Twenty-six years ago, my mom, a jock "The one with "Ced, The "Emerald nuts "Cedric, The "The local one "I liked the one BP babe who lives for March Madness, and dad, a ROTC M.C Hammer. Entertainer's -all the Entertainer's with the guy where the pilot accountancy Tricla de Groot Those pants can designated unicorns will fantasy running to jumpred out of Zahmbie, who do so much for driver dance die if you eat commmercial Menard's" the plane swears the dorm becuase it is was different when News Writer you. because it them." because Ced is he was here (no brings back hilarious. " something I bun runs back fond would do." then, or at least let's hope not) met via a mutual friend. memories." My mom, or so I'm told, acted kind of like a fifth grader does when they like someone. You know, the "Eeew, Steven de Groot, how could anyone like him?" attitude accompanied by a series of IN BRIEF childish pranks. But, I guess it worked for my dad because last year my par­ ents made the almost 700 mile drive· The Notre Dame men's bas­ from Atlanta, about half of which is ketball team takes on Boston I through Indiana cornfields (which College today at 7 p.m. in the r- makes the drive seem about twice as Joyce Center Arena. long), to drop their oldest, that's me, off at Walsh Hall. Four: 7 is sponsoring a show­ My dad proudly boasts that the first ering of "The Passion of the song I learned was the Notre Dame Christ" in honor of Ash Fight Song, the result of a long car ride Wednesday at 9 p.m. in the with a two-year-old and a real love for Coleman Morse lounge. the Irish. We have a "Play Like a Champion Notre Dame will present its Today" sign at the foot of the basement second annual Queer Film stairs, which my parents give even my Festival beginning Wednesday Purdue friends grief about if they don't and continuing through hit in on the way down. And yes, the Saturday. The event takes only reason we got cable television place all day in the DeBartolo growing up was so that my dad could Center for the Performing watch Notre Dame football games. Arts and is sponsored by the Notre Dame has been a part of me department of film, television since August of 1985, when at just two and theatre. weeks old my parents moved back to South Bend to live during the school The class of 2008 is holding year, so that my dad could join the "Speed Dating" Thursday Notre Dame Law School class of 1988 from 7 p.m. to 10 p_m. at and become a double darner (guess four Legends. years here just wasn't enough for him). TIM SULLNAN!Ihe Observer However, the ND tradition didn't just Sorln sophomore Christopher Tracy votes In the student government elections Actors from the London start with my parents. I have a picture Monday at La Fortune. Stage will stage a performance of my mom's parents standing in front of "Othello" Friday and of the dome before a formal when my Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m.