- -- - ---------------------·---------------------------, THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 39: ISSUE 59 TUESDAY. NOVEMBER23. 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM SMC to close underground catnpus tunnels Can1pus Officials cite changed utility regulations recruiting • By ANGELA SAOUD tunnels, Saint Mary's must now abide by the changes and close Increases Saint Mary's Editor the tunnels to the campus. After nearly a century of use. While Saint Mary's owns the Saint Mary's underground College classroom and admin­ Improved job market tunrwl systPm. which eonnects istrative buildings, the tunnels many buildings on campus. are owned by and are the leads to hiring push will close to pedestrians Dec. responsibility of the HCSC. 1 S. "The tunnels were originally Judith Johns, CEO of the Holy designed to provide utilities By JANICE FLYNN Cross Services Corporation, between buildings on campus News Writer made the announcement and. as such, they contain Monday in a writtnn press steam lines, electric power, After several years of a stag­ water lines, eommunications release. Due to changing codes KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer nant job market, many Notre and regulations on the under­ After a century of use by students, Saint Mary's announced Dame seniors now find them­ ground utilities housed in the see TUNNELS/page 6 plans to close underground campus tunnels Monday. selves amidst the most active fall recruiting season in recent years. In fact, competitive tactics by employers have forced the Notre Dame Career Center to intervene on the behalf of stu­ Students welcome Thanksgiving dents being asked to decide on job offers in very short periods of time. By KATIE PERRY This year's 25 percent News Writer increase in recruiting at Notre Dame is particularly welcome Planes, trains and automo­ after two years of difficult job biles will unite many Domers markets, when students some­ with their families Thursday. times could not land a job until but for some Notre Dame stu­ three months after graduation. dents, going home for The hiring surge ean be attrib­ Thanksgiving is not just uted to the recovering economy gravy. and pending retirement of baby Nicky Harrison, a freshman boomers. according to The from Rochester, N.Y., will not Associated Press. be making the trip back home In contrast to previous years, for Thanksgiving dinner. For this fall se.veral employers gave Harrison, the time it would job offer deadlines for several take to drive or ily back to days after the initial offer, New York did not seem logi­ prompting the Career Center to cal given that the University implement a policy requiring only allots a two-day break employers to give students at for Thanksgiving. She added least two weeks to decide. that plane tickets were also "What was happening was simply too expensive. that students were getting job Instead, she will spend the offers on Nov. 3, and were hearing 'Tell me by the lOth,"' RICK FRIEDMAN!fhe Observer holiday with her friend who Students eat dinner surrounded by festive Thanksgiving decorations in North Dining Hall on Monday in anticipation of the upcoming break. see HOLIDAY/page 4 see RECRUITING/page 6 Fire safety standards Students protest Pride Week shirt are up-to-date at ND Group finds College T-shirt offensive Georgetown fire prompts national discussion By MEGAN O'NEILL fire safety prograw, he added. News Writer By KATE ANTONACCI Many necessary technology News Writer A handful of Saint Mary's upgrades were made in the students protested the wake of the Jan. 19. 2000 fire College's Pride Week T-shirt In the wake of an Oct. 17 fire at Seton Hall University, which in a Washington D.C. row house Monday in the LeMans Hall killed three students and Lobby and in front of Madeleva that killed a Georgetown injured 58, Antonucci said. University student. the issue of Hall. "Before the Seton Hall disas­ The student group, named fire safety has sparked debate ter, every residence hall was on college campuses - includ­ Women Objectively Moving to either partially or completely Eradicate Negligence of ing at several of Notre Dame's protected by sprinkler sys­ student housing options. Knowledge, handed out flyers tems," Antonucci said. "After criticizing the shirt for failing The Notre Dame Fire Seton Hall, we chose to leap Department responds to rough­ to represent the student body into the forefront and have all accurately and asked students ly 1,200 campus calls per year, of our residence halls fully pro­ of which about 300 are emer­ to sign a petition requesting an tected by automatic sprinklers. apology from the Student gency medical calls and about We embarked on a very aggres­ 90 are actual fires, said Activities Board, which over­ sive retro-fit program." sees the shirt design and sales. University fire chief John Prior to the Seton Hall fire, 12 Antonucci. KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer Notre Dame is confident in its A Saint Mary's student protests the Pride Week shirt see SAFETYI page 6 Monday in front of Madeleva Hall. see PROTEST/page 6 r---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 23, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THANKSGIVING? Who says theNBAis dull? Frankie Bott Sarah Twedell Ted Lawless GeofGrubb Mary Ann Meunninghoff Zhiguo Ge Coming ofT a post-season that saw my Detroit Pistons, tho paragon of senior senior sophomore senior rector graduate student baskPtball boredom, win a champi­ Welsh Family Off-campus Knott Keenan Pasquerilla East Off-campus onship by inducing a coma. that same toam lwlped bring national attention "I'm going home ''I'm going home ''I'm planning ''I'm going to "Being grateful "Because I have ba1~k to their sport. Saturday's Matt Mooney to Minnesota." to St. Louis. " to fall into a watch Notre for life." some projects to prizdight with tbn tryptophan- Dame blow out do most of the bost street thugs induced coma the Trojans. " lime I will stay tho NBA could lind Sports signaled a new Production Thursday." in my lab." trend in sports Editor markoting. Why use those annoying Thunder­ Sticks to get the fans involved when activn participation works just as well? Tlw word on the street is that David Stern has contacted Sylvnster Stallone about bringing back the Hoeky charal~­ ter for promotional events. IN BRIEF llowever, basketball is new to the wholo lighting scone. Gnorge Mikan, onn of the lirst pro-basketball stars, NDTV will air Episode 0.3, wasn't exactly tho brawling type. Plus, their fall season's last, today at 7 as a sport that prizes height, the p.m. on cable channel15. physksjust aren't conducive to light­ ing. Tall people. with thoir high een­ International Studnnt tnrs of gravity, can bo knockPd over Programs and Services will much too easily. It took a long time for sponsor a free showing of the tlw NBA to cultivate a talont/thug like Hussian film "House of Fools," Hon Artnst to carry the torch. with English subtitles, today Basnbrawl has pnrhaps the longest from 7 to 9 p.m. in 117 tradition of mid-game rumbles. Ty DnBartolo llall. Cobb. ono of tho groatost players of all-time. startPd tho tradition early in The Notrn Damn Ballroom tho 20th century when hn went Dancing Club will sponsor waltz­ Indiana Pacer, charging into the ing lessons today from 8 to stands aft1)r a heckling fan. Nolan 10:30 p.m. in 301 Hoeknn llyan didn't let a batting helmet intimi­ Momorial. There is a small date him when lw turned Hobin charge for the lessons. Vm1tura's lwad into a bongo drum. Tlwn tlwn) 's hockey. Fighting is as The Notm Dam"e men's soccer old a tmdition in this sport as tho tnam will play Ohio Statn in the word "oh." The draw of hockey is not seeond round of tho NCM com­ tlw ability to execute a perfect uno­ petition today from 7 to 9 p.m. at timor or tlw artistic skating. If that Alumni Finld. worn tlw caso, SportsCenter would Notre Dame political science show a lot more Brian Boitano high­ RICHARD FRIEDMAN/The Observer lights. No, the beauty of hockey is the Andrew Sheehan, left, Andrew Hartnett and Ken Walsh throw a frisbee on South professor Michael Coppedge will ability to fly down tho ice on a sliver of Quad on Monday afternoon. give a lecture on "The metal, eontrol a little rubber disk and Conditional Impact of the still avoid the goliath that thinks he Economy on Democracy in heard something said about his moth­ Latin America," today from er. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in C-103 The one sport in whieh fighting OFFBEAT llesburgh Center. absolutdy confuses me is football. Every player on that fiold is heavily Camden, N.J., named most important contributing factor wich bore the image of the North Dining llall will serve a armorod in pads and, morn important­ dangerous city to its high crime rate. Virgin Mary will be getting a special Thanksgiving buffet ly, a hnlmet. Obviously, once a fight TRENTON, New .Jersey -­ Atlanta, Georgia, St. Louis, lot more bread after the item Thursday from noon to 3:30 gets startnd, as seen in Saturday's Camden has been named the Missouri, and Gary, Indiana, sold for $28,000 on eBay. p.m. South Carolina-Clemson game, the nation's most-dangerous city, rounded out the top five in GoldenPalace.com, an goal bncomes something like capture­ snatching the top spot from the most dangerous city online casino, confirmed that The Notre Dame men's bas­ the-flag with hnlmets.