/ ^ \ THE U b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 38: ISSUE 94 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2 0 0 4 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM IU med school keeps low profile University Students study, dissect, resea employee By KEVIN ALLEN struck by News Writer Tucked away in the base­ ment of Haggar Hall, lies one vehicle of Notre Dame’s best kept secrets — a medical school. Since 1972, Indiana University By ANDREW THAGARD has been renting space in Associate News Editor Haggar Hall for the South Bend Center for Medical A University employee was Education, one of eight centers struck by a vehicle Wednesday in the Indiana University morning as she attempted to Medical School system. cross a stretch of Juniper Road When the South Bend Center adjacent to Grace Hall. first opened, just one IU faculty The female employee, whose member worked there. The identity was not released by rest of the teaching staff was Notre Dame Security/Police made up of Notre Dame facul­ assistant director Chuck Hurley, ty, primarily from the biochem­ was attempting to climb over a istry department. The Center snow embankment in. order to was eventually taken over by cross Juniper when she lost her full-time IU faculty, eight of balance and fell onto the road. which are currently on staff. The victim hit her head on the With only 16 students in side of a south bound vehicle as each class at the centers, the she was falling. Hurley said. IU School of Medicine system MICHELLE OTTOZThe Observer A witness and the driver con­ Students attend class at the South Bend Center for Medical Education located In the basement of tacted police, and police and see MED/page 6 Haggar Hall. The Indiana University Medical School system has eight such centers In the state. fire rescue vehicles responded to the call, Hurley said. The vic­ tim w as transpo rted to St. Joseph’s Medical Center, though it was not clear what treatment, if any, she received or whether Campus organizations sponsor blood drive she had been discharged. “She was alert and conscious at the hospital,” Hurley said. to 3:30 p.m. at Rolfs, has two time would really help someone.” are also asked a series of ques­ The victim attempted to cross By KATE GALES slots per 15-minute period. After the drive, Sanchez tions regarding their health and the street at an area not desig­ News Writer “We provide the received a card safety practices. nated as a crosswalk — places facilities, and the telling how her According to the American Red that Hurley said can be espe­ RecSports, in affiliation with the South Bend Medical contribution was Cross website, few of those able to cially dangerous at this time of University Health Services, Irish Foundation provides “You don’t realize used. give blood actually donate to the year with ice and excessive Health and the South Bend nurses, along with how much you can “You don’t real­ supply of healthy blood necessary buildup of snow. “The crosswalks are cleared,” Medical Foundation, will be spon­ Health Services,” he make a difference.' ize how much you for nationwide emergencies, mili­ soring a blood drive today and said. can make a differ­ tary casualties and bank use. Hurley said. “If you try to cross tomorrow. Freshman Brigitte ence,” she said. The campus-wide blood drive is in areas w here there aren't “Normally we fill up just about Sanchez participat­ Brigitte Sanchez Szwak, who taking place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 crosswalks ... you still have [snow] embankments on the every time slot,” said Andrew ed in the last Freshman plans to give p.m. today and tomorrow at Rolfs. Szwak, a RecSports supervisor. RecSports-spon- blood, said donors Call the RecSports information sides of the road. We would “Usually we even have people on sored blood drive. must undergo a desk at 631-6100 to sign up for a advise people to be sure they’re a waiting list.” “It w as my first two-month wait­ time. crossing at the crosswalks.” Szwak said slots were about half time [donating],” she said. “I was ing period. Those who donated on full as of 'fuesday afternoon. The kind of scared ... I always won­ or after Christmas are not eligible Contact Kate Gales at Contact Andrew Thagard at event, which will run from 9 a.m. dered what it would be like, if you to participate. Potential donors [email protected] [email protected] S tu d en t S enate SIMI describes migrant experience Observer editors By MERYL GUYER News Writer address members Members of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI), based in Rome, visited the “One of The Observer’s respon­ By AMANDA MICHAELS Hesburgh Library Wednesday to sibilities is to encourage discus­ News Writer speak in a lecture entitled “Border sions on viewpoint and perspec­ Policy and the Migrant tive, and that’s what these letters Representatives from The Experience.” do. However, I have to make it Father Claudio Ilolzer and Observer addressed the Senate at clear that the opinions of the writ­ Wednesday’s meeting to clarify Brother Gioacchino Campese, ers do not reflect the opinions of members of SIMI, were joined on Viewpoint section policies and pro­ The Observer staff,” Soukup said. cedures that have recently been stage by Allert Brown-Gort, asso­ Addressing the issue of two let­ ciate director of the Institute for called into question. ters in particular — one regarding Editor-in-chief Andrew Soukup, Latino Studies, which sponsored homosexuality and the other, affir­ the event. SIMI is an international managing editor Scott mative action — Soukup said that organization that studies the Brodfuehrer and next year’s edi­ they met the standards of good migration of people through multi­ tor-in-chief Matt Lozar defended writing and were neither hateful cultural and inter-religious the decision to publish controver­ nor ignorant, and therefore there methodology. sial Viewpoint letters, explaining was no reason not to run them. MICHELLE OTTO/The Observer that the section’s purpose is to A member of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute spoke promote debate on campus. see SENATE/page 9 about border policy In the Hesburgh Auditorium Wednesday. see SIMI/pagc 9 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, February 19, 2004 In sid e C o lu m n Question of the Day: Are you doing anything special this weekend to avoidJPW? Voting seriously Most students on the Notre Dame campus do not seem to think student body presidential elections matter very much. Possibly they are right. However, Philip Wells Lisa Lu Adam Frisch Michael Gerardi Aaron Zielinski the attitude of the student body in the S o p h o m o re last election infuri­ S o p h o m o re F resh m a n F resh m a n F resh m a n S ta n fo r d ated me. 1 encoun­ D illon Breen Phillips K eough K eough tered far too many students who “I would go to “No ...it will be “I’m going to “I am the slave “Heavy, heavy clearly voted on drinking. ” what they per­ Windsor, hut I interesting to Florida to surf o f JPW. I have ceived to be the have to do a find out what with the ND to perform in candidate’s per­ concert. ’’ JPW is all Surfing Club. ” the band sonalities instead of genuinely con­ m about. ” concert. ” sidering the candi­ Marla Smith date’s proposals. This is far more disturbing then the Scene Editor stereotypically shallow high school popularity contest it resembles; students apparent­ ly did not even vote for a candidate they In B r ie f personally liked as much as against a candidate they thought they might per­ sonally hate. Steve Watts, president and I do not intend to criticize the new CEO of Sokieski Bank will student body president, or to criticize deliver a lecture entitled anyone who compared the candidate’s “Ethical Crisis at a Bank: Re­ platforms and goals and chose to vote percussions and Response.” for Adam Istvan. However, anyone who The lecture takes place this did choose to vote for Istvan should afternoon at 12:30 p.m. in the have made sure they were voting based Mendoza College of Business on their faith in his ability to achieve Giovanini Commons. the things he ought to achieve and not on a poorly based or secondhand notion Yingxi Zhu of the Division of of Charlie Ebersol’s personality. Engineering and Applied There are cases where it is legitimate Science at Harvard University, to oppose a candidate on the grounds will present a seminar titled that he or she is not a good person. “How Does Water Meet a Politics should not be a moral waste­ Solid Surface?” The event, land, whether it be on the level of stu­ sponsored by the Notre Dame dent government or in the highest gov­ Department of Chemistry and ernment offices. However, in the case of Biomolecular Engineering, our student body presidential elections, takes place today at 3:30 p.m. there was no possible moral issue that in DeBartolo room 138. should have effected any student’s vote more than the legitimacy of the candi­ ND C inem a p re se n ts dates’ platforms. “Spellbound,” a film that I am not attempting to attack or chronicles the National MICHELLE OTTO/The Observer defend Ebersol himself. I don’t know Spelling Bee. The film will be Notre Dame professor David Cortrlght lectures to students Wednesday as part of what kind of person Ebersol really is.