Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Irish THE take care of FSU Insider The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXVII NO. 45 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Irish victories confirm ND credibility sits undefeated and on the brink By ANDREW SOUKUP of a national championship. News Writer "We've not looked at it as 8-0." said Willingham, only the fourth Heturn to glory used to be a Irish coach to win his first eight catchy T-shirt phrase. Now it's a games with the Irish. "We've statement about a football giant looked at it as win. win, win." awakening from a decade-long It's a position the Irish haven't slumber. been in for a while. As dozens of Irish players cel­ When Notre Dame beat ebrated Saturday on the field of Florida State in 1993, it was the Florida State's Doak Campbell last high-water mark for a foot­ Stadium, as hundreds of Notre ball team that would experience Dame students celebrated in the nine years of mediocrity. • i1e bleachers. as thousands of Notre Irish lost their next gaml' to Dame fans celebrated across the Boston College, missed out on a nation, one man managed to chance at a national title and remain calm. have never seriously challenged After most of the Florida State for a championship since. crowd had filtered out of the sta­ The underdog Irish began the dium, Tyrone Willingham stood season unranked, unknown and with his unrespected. a r m s Many thought crossed, his "It's great to take a Notre Dame back to near­ team's heart in their own would be ly 50 stadium." lucky to win reporters. lie eight games Above, Notre Dame fans looked all season, let straight Glenn Earl alone eight of suggest a higher rank for ahead, star­ safety their first the football team after ing at the eight. This scoreboard was supposed they defeat Florida State that had Notre Dame 34, Florida to be a rebuilding year, a year 34-24. State 24 blazing as bright as that Notre Dame adjusted to Notre Dame's future. Willingham and played in a dot­ At right, ESPN analyst Lee "Is this a Notre Dame com bowl game. Corso wears a Seminole moment? I think it is," athletic But if the Irish heard the talk headdress as he director Kevin White said min­ about rebuilding, they didn't pay utes after the Irish improved to attention. They were too busy predicts a Notre Dame 8-0. "I think this clearly is a spe­ reloading. Now, they're ranked loss before the FSU game. cial moment in the history of No. 3 in the latest Bowl this University." Championship Series standings, Even as White, the man who just four wins and four-tenths of hired Willingham after botching a point from creeping into the • the George O'Leary debacle, national championship Fiesta gushed about the Notre Dame Bowl. Photos by resurgence under Willingham, "Why are we playing so good? the Irish coach searched for a I think because we are good," Nellie Williams way to explain how a team that linebacker Courtney Watson finished with a losing record in two of the past three years now see VICTORY/page 3 CSC cancels D.C. seminars Saint Mary's hires • Sniper incidents University officials were con­ campus lecture, staying in sidering whether or not to the class and planning a security escorts prompt Center to cancel the program or give weekend trip of related halt 2 break trips students the option to drop events in Chicago and being out without penalty. compensated for the differ- a week. The department is also However, ence or stay­ By JAMIE BELCHER hoping that having firemen on By CHRISTINA CEPERO officials ing in the News Writer staff will improve service in the News Writer decided "The situation altered class and case of an emergency and also Oct. 16 to the dynamic of the trip going to the Students and faculty on the promote safety on campus. In response to the recent cancel the since we would have to capital for a Saint Mary's Campus may have Quinn and Firtl will alternate sniper attacks in the trips alto­ few days in noticed this semester that days, working a night shift Washington, D.C. area, gether. make sure no student m i d security escorts have been tak­ from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. escorting administrators at the Center Students was alone at any time." January. ing longer than in the past. students around campus. for Social Concerns opted to in the The esc Interim Security Director The college has also decided cancel the planned fall break seminars will also Rosemarie Harris has found a to start using vans, instead of Washington Seminar and were given Chris Broughton allow the solution for the problem. cars, for efficiency and added Living the Gospel of Life the oppor­ Washington seminar leader students in "We've hired two escort dri­ security. Seminar trips to the nation's tunity to the can­ vers and we are going to be "We are asking them, capital. attend one celled semi­ using a van so that we can because they are in a van, that The 33 students in two of the nars to be transport more students at one when they are not escorting seminars were scheduled to other CSC Fall Break semi­ automatically accepted for time," Harris said. somebody that they patrol the depart Notre Dame in CSC nars if they wished. same seminars offered in the The escort drivers are actual­ parking lot, just to keep an eye vans on Oct. 19 and return Loesch and the seminars' spring. ly off duty firemen that the col­ on the vehicles there. Since they are up in a van they can on to campus on Oct. 26. student leaders have given The Washington Seminar, a lege has hired from the South Bend Fire Department. Cyril see things a little bit better," Carl Loesch, director of the one-credit theology and polit­ the student participants the Quinn and John Firtl joined the Harris said. Appalachia Seminar and edu­ ical science course, focuses options of dropping the class team of security officers at the In an effort to cut back on the on ways for living a Christian cational immersions at the and receiving a full refund, college starting Monday. number of calls to the dispatch life by discussing readings in CSC, sent out an e-mail Oct. staying in the class, receiving When they are not working area, the department plans to 14 to the seminar partici­ a full refund and writing a at the firehouse, they will be on pants, informing them that paper on an approved on- see DC TRIPS/page 4 hand at the college seven days see ESCORT/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ WHAT'S UP Tuesday, October 29, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN WHAT'S INSIDE CAMPUS WORLD& BUSINESS FSU fans NEWS NATION NEWS VIEWPOINT SCENE SPORTS shovv class Saint Mary's Putin leads Pfizer agrees Response to Scene reviews Notre Dame BOG approves Russia in a day to pay for the Toogood Tom Petty's womens soccer Let me start this column by saying new student of mourning for Medicaid case reveals newest rock defeats Boston that I am NOT a Seminole's fan. overcharges contradictions album College Growing up in a family of Florida Gators magazine hostages and cheering for the Irish has nurtured a certain hatred for Florida State within Board members The Russian The pharmaceuti­ Columnist Tom Petty's The Irish close me. or as I call approved funding president led the cal company will Charles Rice album The Last DJ, out their season them (due to past Monday for a new nation yesterday in pay a $49 million to explains how the scores high marks with a win on the players'/convicts' student-produced a day of remem­ the U. S. Justice outcry over a for its criticism of road over the behavior), Free publication, brance for 118 Department to set­ recent child abuse abuses by radio Eagles Sunday as Shoes University. Bellezine. hostages who died tle allegations that case exposes the corporations. they hope for a I was, however, in the standoff at a it overcharged hypocrisy in spot in the post­ pleasantly sur­ Moscow theater. Medicaid for the American opinions. season tournament. prised by the way drug Lipitor. in which the 'Noles treated visiting Notre Dame fans. I've been dying to Andrew Thagard page 3 page 5 page 7 page 10 page 12 page 24 go to the Notre Dame-Florida Assistant State game since I News Editor first learned about WHAT's GoiNG DowN it. I borrowed WHAT'S HAPPENING@ ND seven friends IDs and entered the SUB­ sponsored ticket lottery, figuring I'd be a NDSP investigates his locked bike was stolen shoo-in with eight chances to win two harassment from a bike rack outside the tickets. I soon learned, however, that a + Blood drive. Holfs Sports Hecreation Center, complaint book store over fall break. few other Darners shared my interest in 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please pre-register at 1-6100. NDSP is investigating a The case is pending and attending the game. In fact, over a quar­ harassment complaint there are no suspects. received Sunday from Lyons ter of the University's underclassmen Student reports entered the ticket lottery, according to + Campus Bible Study. Colemen-Morse Center Hall. SUB. camera stolen Conference Hoom, 7 to 8 p.m.