/ ^ V THE O bserver The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 40 : ISSUE 21 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER20, 2005 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Circle K frustrated with transportation rules bingo. Social Concerns (CSC) vans. For By MARY KATE MALONE “By the time we would have years, the vans have been free to News Writer gotten to the nursing home, it any student doing service off would have been 20 minutes campus. This year, it costs $55 a They say the third time’s the before we were supposed to be day for one van. charm. back on campus,” said Teitgen, “It was costing the CSC $80,000 But not I'or Jake Teitgen and who is treasurer of Circle K. “So to rent vehicles from Notre Dame Circle K's 10 volunteers who have we just got back on the bus and for the students to use,” CSC tried three times to play bingo at went back to Notre Dame. We assistant director Jim Paladino a local nursing home using a spent an hour and a half out and said. “The cost had risen enough Transpo bus to get there. about without having done any over the past few years, and the Last Monday, the group of service.” vans still weren’t meeting the Circle K members waited 45 min­ That was strike one. They tried demand.” utes at a downtown Transpo stop two more times and still never CSC transportation director in order to catch a bus to the made it to the nursing home. Joanna Basile estimated the cost nursing home. When it finally Circle K and other service of renting the vans put the CSC arrived, they were told the bus organizations on campus have $40,000 over budget. JENNIFER KANG/The Observer system had consolidated and it been trying to cope with a new Students have been riding Transpo to and from service projects would still be a long drive to play $55 fee attached to Center for see CSC/page 9 instead of using vans from the Center for Social Concerns. Arrests made at tailgates, ejections at game COR City officials NDSP jails four Gagnon says 15 total people on Saturday students ejected Sat. try to clarify By KATIE PERRY By MADD1E HANNA Assistant News.Editor Associate News Editor ordinance Things got sticky at Saturday’s Notre Dame Security and football home opener when sta­ By KAREN LANGLEY Police (NDSP) arrested four peo­ dium security ejected five stu­ News Writer ple and cited 46 both before and dents for tossing marshmallows during Saturday’s football game within the stands, coordinator of Assistant City Attorney Ann- against Michigan State. stadium personnel Gappy Carol Nash and South Bend Assistant Director of NDSP Gagnon said. Common Council member Ann Phil Johnson said three custodi­ Gagnon said marshmallow- Puzzello met with student gov­ al arrests wore made for public related ejections were a “little ernment leaders at Monday’s intoxication and disorderly con­ down” from last year and he wit­ Council of Representatives meet­ duct at or near Notre Dame nessed a lower amount of this ing to exchange views on the Stadium. The fourth custodial behavior than in previous years. city’s recent amendment to the arrest was made for disorderly “It’s not so much marshmallow disorderly housing ordinance. conduct at Legends. throwing, but throwing in gener­ The disorderly house ordi­ The citations were given to 43 al I that concerns us]," Gagnon nance, enacted in the early adults and three juveniles for said. “We can’t tolerate it.” 1990s, enables the city to label a minor in consumption, minor in Gagnon said stadium person­ place where certain illegal activ­ possession, minor in a tavern nel used to put up with the tradi­ ities recur as a public nuisance. and false identification, Johnson tion when it was limited to “a The recent amendment, drafted said. The minor in a tavern cita- BETH WERNET/The Observer small group of seniors,” but now Students were ejected from Saturday’s game for by Nash, adds excise-related sec TAILGATES/page 8 throwing marshmallows and being intoxicated. see EJECTIONS/page 8 activities to the applicable code of conduct and allows the city to send landlords and tenants a notice to abate after a single instance of noise violation. If prohibited activities continue after this notice, the city will National Champs draw few ND students then file a suit that could result in a fine of up to $2500 per day season we have attendances of 1,200 for as long as the activity contin­ By KAITLYNN RIELY and 1,500 and over 2,000,” Cundiff said. ues. News Writer “But we struggle drawing for the very Student body president Dave wintery cold games, the rainy games, Baron said he was concerned On Saturday afternoon, more than which has played a role in why we draw with a clause of the ordinance 80,000 fans gathered at Notre Dame so poorly for the conference tournament that frees landlords from culpa­ Stadium to support the Irish football and the NCAA tournament games.” bility if they deliver tenants an team in their first home game. In the 2004 season, the average fan eviction notice. But Friday night, the defending attendance per game was 1,115, and in “From my perspective as a national champion Notre Dame 2003 the average was 958. student, you are being given a women’s soccer team beat DePaul 6-0 Nicole Jones, the Sports Promotion notice to abate without the in front of less than three percent of the Coordinator for the men’s and women’s opportunity to abate,” he said. attendance of the Michigan State game. soccer teams, is working to bring more “It’s not a warning. You are The fifth-ranked team’s soccer games students to the games. She believed dis­ kicked out on the street.” are played on Alumni Field, which has a tance factored into the low attendance. Nash silenced the student gov­ seating capacity of 2,500. On Friday, “Many students don’t come I to the ernment representatives when 1,914 fans attended. games] because it is too far to walk,” she said this notice was their The stadium was not filled to capacity, Jones said. warning. but the women had more fans than The soccer team uses promotions to “Who here does not know it’s usual due to the crowds in town for the draw people to the games. Usually illegal to serve alcohol to an 18- year-old?” she asked. “It is TIM SULLIVANZThe Observer football game. Director of Events and advertisements can be seen in the din­ Katie Thorlakson dribbles against DePaul Sports Promotion Monica Cundiff tracks ing halls in the days leading up to each unfair to frame this as a big sur­ Friday night in front of a crowd of 1,914 at the attendance numbers at these home game. At the DePaul game, the prise. It’s a criminal law. You’re Alumni Field. The defending National games. Champions are trying to build a fan base. “Many games throughout the soccer see SOCCER/page 8 see COR/page 9 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W hat N D sports memorabilia would you love to get your hands o n? Don't work too hard Ever get the feeling you are for­ getting something you just can’t quite put your finger on? Or have Brittany Pangburn Eleanor Bradley Kevin Baker Patrick Sweeney Tae Kang Tony Grosser days where no matter how many notes you leave yourself, or times sophom ore sophom ore sophom ore fr e s h m a n so phom ore sophom ore you check your M cC andless Breen Phillips K eenan St. E d ’s K eenan K eough schedule, the Dustin feeling doesn’t go Mennella away? _______________ “I would love to “Alan Carter’s “A game-worn “Joe Montana’s “A lock of "Tim Brown’s Since returning touch the speedo. ’’ ND jersey (#3), jockstrap from Charlie Weis’ Heisman to college life, Photographer clipboard that because the his national hair because he trophy." my weeks Weis uses every inevitably con­ number carries championship is the fairest of tain days like that. Sometimes it’s game and so much game. ’’ them all. ’’ lack of sleep, and others I really unleash the tradition with am forgetting something I should­ magic. ” it." n’t, but on most occasions it’s sim­ ply due to the college lifestyle. With so many clubs, intramural sports, dorm activities, organizations, stu­ dent jobs and possible charity events, not to mention schoolwork on top of it all, it’s a wonder 1 In B rief remember as much as I do. Not that I think all these activi­ ties are bad, just the opposite. Author Frances Sherwood While here, we should make the will give a lecture sponsored by most out of the opportunities this the political science department University offers us, because in titled “Meeting Mary real life there’s nothing like it. The Wollstonccraft: Legacy as trick is simply balance. Like we Personal Odyssey” tonight at 7 hear in breakfast cereal commer­ p.m. in room 210-214 cials and health class, a well bal­ McKenna Hall. A reception and anced diet is important for your book signing will follow the lec­ health. But more than just that, ture. balancing activities can be good for your mental health, and I don’t The English Department is mean simply organizing your sponsoring Haworth Day at schedule to fit all of your clubs, Notre Dame: A Celebration of meetings, and such for the day.