---- ----------- ------------------------------------. SHOWERS Playing games Wednesday Scene recommends "Tony Hawke Pro Skater 3" above HIGH 38° other video games for advanced combo tricks. MARCH27, LOW30° Scene • page 10 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 112 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU Midnight alcohol rally escalates ipating in the latest rally because • Police respond it was another chance to show the to calls reporting administration that their voices vandalism at would be heard. "I feel that Father Poorman's Main Building decisions are an invasion on our rights," said sophomore Cindy Adimari. who attended the rally By HELENA PAYNE with fellow Badin Hall residents. News Editor Muto. who spoke to the crowd, said he was satisfied with the stu­ In the latest student demonstra­ dent response. tion against proposed alcohol poli­ "We're very powerful," he said. cy changes. more than 100 stu­ "I don't think students realize dents burned copies of the Notre that." Dame rule manual. du Lac, and The idea for the rally. called hurled glass bottles of alcoholic "Give Back du Lac," came from beverages at the Main Building sophomore Walsh Hall residents steps early this morning. who wanted to prove that stu­ The midnight rally, which lasted dents weren't apathetic about for 30 minutes, ended abruptly campus issues. One of the coordi­ when students quickly scurried nators for the demonstration, away from the scene after Notre Krista Seidl, said she was disap­ Dame Security/Police arrived at pointed with University adminis­ 12:30 a.m. trators after the CLC meeting. NDSP Sgt. Greg Pavnica said "I was really frustrated after­ police received a call about a dis­ wards," said Seidl, adding that she turbance outside Main Building had expected more of a student and "some vandalism along with a response at the meeting. "I was fire." which they are investigating. surprised that only a small crowd The rally ended in no injuries or of the students was being proac­ arrests. tive." "Don't give up the fight," said Later Monday. Seidl, along with O'Neill Hall President-elect Joe sophomores Gabby Sopko, Leah Muto, a sophomore who has been Bertke and Mary Miksch decided vocal about his contempt for the to take action. The women made alcohol policy. which will ban in­ posters and began spreading mes­ hall dances. "hard" alcohol in the sage of the du Lac demonstration dorms and will allow students 21 by word of mouth. years old or older to host tail­ However. Seidl and the other gaters with alcohol in a designat­ planners advertised that students ed lot. should bring copies of du Lac and Vice President for Student old gifts from in-hall dances to the Affairs Father Mark Poorman offi­ rally, not the bottles of Absolut. cially announced the new policy at Bacardi, Jose Cuervo and lighters Monday's Campus Life Council to burn du Lac that participants meeting, although students also added to the list. received an e-mail about the "We didn't intend for people to changes on March 18. Since the e­ start lighting things on fire," said mail, there has been an all-cam­ Seidl. "[The people who started pus rally sponsored by student fires] went to extremes to try to LISA VEL TE/The Observer government. A Notre Dame student sets paper on fire to symbolically protest the University's proposed Students said they were partie- see RALLY/page 4 changes to the alcohol policy. More than 100 students gathered in front of the Main Building for the rally. Hahn shares stories in 'Last Lecture' couches of Welsh Family Hall's Los Angeles. By MEGHAN MARTIN family room Tuesday night, He took his friends' advice to News Writer Hahn imparted the wisdom and heart, and it eventually led him insight he has gained throughout to graduate school at Notr Notre Dame's Alexander Hahn his life, from his childhood in Dame, an arrangement that may have claimed to be out of Austria to his tenure as director would eventually lead to his cur­ his element, but the mathemat­ of the Science College Honors rent position as full professor of ics professor, entertained and Program at the University. mathematics at the University. inspired his audience with ease A 37-year veteran at the Realizing that he was asked to during Tuesday in the final University. he discussed his early speak in the Last Lecture series. installment of the student gov­ experiences in a "formidable" a theme which itself evokes a ernment-sponsored Last Lecture grade school run by Benedictine melange of emotions, Hahn series. monk and related the tale of his reflected on the relevance of his "Mathematicians," he said, family's subsequent move to work, asking himself, "What has "always have their 'security America, predicated by the dis­ your contribution been?" and blankets': a piece of chalk, a astrous Hungarian revolution. "What will your living days all blackboard and logic to the flow His initial frustrations with the have added up to?" LISA VEL TE!The Observer of their studies. Here, there is no English language and the sug­ His own response. he says, Mathematics professor Alexander Hahn, a 37-year veteran.at blackboard, no chalk." gestion of a college friend led was to initially rule out all mate- the University, entertains and imparts wisdom to his audience To the friends, colleagues and him to the study of math during at Welsh Family Hall Tuesday. students gathered among the his years at Loyola University in see HAHN I page 4 r---------------------- page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Wednesday, March 27, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Wednesday Thursday Friday Students vs. ND + Lecture: "Varieties of Secularism +Lecture: "Women and College + Good Friday: Campus offices It seems apparent that the student war on Father in Antebellum America. Leaves of Sports: A Legal and Practical closed, March 29-April 1 Easter Mark Poorman's drinking resolutions is going to plague student publications, in particular the glorious Grass as Spritual Exercise," Discussion," Jill Bodensteiner, Holiday; no classes in sesssion Observer. Essentially, it's not my problem anymore. I Michael Warner, professor of Office of General Counsel, am "of age," and !live off campus. !like to fight, argue and gen- · English, Rutgers University, Rooms department of Athletics, Room 129, erally make people feel uncom­ V. Van Buren fortable. but I am not about to 210-214, McKenna Hall, 5 p.m. Rolfs Recreation Center. 8:15a.m. Giles take on the administration of this University. If there is a stu­ dent petition, I will sign it. If News Copy there is a march on the Main Editor Building, I will show up and watch people burn the student handbook and revel in the raucous behavior of the BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports angry mob. But I am not going to organize my own movement in support of a student body that cares more about scholastics than drinking-oriented social interaction. Indiana University officials won't cover Klan mural I believe students should have alcohol, lots of it. I think before a student earns the right to drink beer, BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Brehm talked about the bigger issue they should be forced to drink two shots of Everclear. Amid reporters, cameras, lights that helped to create the mural For those of you who are not familiar with Everclear, and concerned students, Indiana argument in the first place: The lack it's not the one-rut wonder band from the 1990s. It's University- Bloomington Chancellor of an obvious commitment to diversi­ grain alcohol. and frankly, it's the toughest shot I Sharon Brehm held a press confer­ ty at IU. The campus has a black stu­ have ever had to do. The point is that you would ence Monday in the Maple Hoom of dent population of 4 percent, and rather strap yourself into a dentist's chair and the Indiana Memorial Union to make nearly 4 percent of the faculty is endure three hours of root canal than swallow this public her decision on the Benton black. The numbers are even smaller liquid. mural featuring Ku Klux Klan mem­ for other minority groups. In essence, drinking is part of the Notre Dame bers in Woodburn HalllOO. "There is no question that we need experience. I guarantee most people will remember Brehm stated the mural would not a stronger, more vigorous and more the night they yacked on their roommate from a top be covered because of moral issues ed a philosophical juxtaposition that joyous commitment to diversity on loft rather than the day they received a good grade and could not be moved because the Brehm also addressed. this campus," Brehm said. on a test or paper. painting could suffer irreparable "Freedom of expression requires With that, Brehm revealed her I honestly hope undergrads retain their drinking damage. "I am convinced that mov­ indifference, of perspective and of plan for dealing with the mural rights. Drinking is a part of college. Just walk into the ing or covering the mural would be opinion, to be any freedom at all," problem and also for dealing with Alwnni Association on a reunion weekend and you morally wrong, "Brehm said. "It Brehm said. "And without freedom diversity issues on the Bloomington. will see the proof for yourself. Every alum over 50 would, in effect. do what Benton of expression, diversity is restricted, Ind., campus. has a head ofwhlte hair, a well-defined beer gut and refused to do: That is. it would hide oppressed and excluded from posi­ A revamped mural education pro­ has an extremely red complexion.