--------- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 41: ISSUE 24 MONDAY SEPTEMBER25, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM MCAT exam reveals new online-only version Weddings Computerized test administration could -will return ~~~<~(g) create problems for students lacking access ~~ only known the exam being to LeMans ~~~> By KATE ANTONACCI delivered in familiar lecture News Editor halls or large classroom facili­ GPA ties. Hall chapel marriages For the frrst time in nearly 80 "The thing about the test 3.75 or above years, students sitting for the when it was being done on the reinstated for summer Medical College Admission Test campus of Notre Dame is that it 3.25- 3. .5 (MCAT) need not panic if they became a sort of community ;3.0- 3.25 forget a number two pencil. event," said Father James By MAGGIE DUNN Beginning in January 2007, Foster, assistant dean in the NewsWrirer the MCAT exam will be paper­ center for health advising. "The ~ group that is responsible for National acceptance rate: ~7o/o less, offered only on computers Summer wedding bells will at "climate and sound-con­ this transition from the written test to the computerized test soon ring again at Saint Notte Dame •cce)?!ance rate: .;;.;.gocyo trolled" Thomson Prometric Mary's LeMans Hall Holy testing centers off-campus. has been very reassuring ... but that culture is going to be lost." Spirit Chapel - an on-cam­ ?~f~~:;:E::.,,· This is a big change for the pus Catholic church that has Source: F~ Jam~:$ PoGter, amlltilllt ~:~the center for heolth advising roughly 1,200 pre-medical stu­ not been utilized for wed­ dents at Notre Dame who have see MCAT/page 4 dings in several years - when the College re-opens its doors for couples in sum­ mer 2007. The chapel is located on the third floor of the resi­ Campus erupts in wake of victory dence hall, and College alumnae can only schedule weddings during the summer Doing their best Michigan months, Campus Ministry By PATRICK CASSIDY impression, the Spartans Director Judy Fean said. , News Wrirer jumped out to a 17-0 first It was available for wed­ quarter lead. Freshman dings a few years ago, Fean "Emotional rollercoaster" is Anthony Parrish, a trombon­ said, but even though they not a phrase anyone would ist in the marching band, were set to take place in the have used to describe Notre said he knew that "an epic summer, scheduling became Dame's despairingly disap­ comeback was necessary." difficult because of unpre­ pointing home loss to "We just needed the team dictable renovations such as Michigan last week - unless to step up," he said. plumbing and wiring. the rollercoaster was going The Irish took more than a Not knowing what to nowhere but down. few big steps in tough weath­ expect for the next few sum­ The same can't be said er, which senior Annie mers, the chapel was madfl about Saturday's 40-37 win Hollenbeck said was "border­ temporarily unavailable for over Michigan State. line snow." weddings. For a while, the freefall "Although it was almost Although the on-campus continued in East Lansing. freezing rain, the students Church of Our Lady of That is. until the Fighting were still in high spirits," she Loretto has successfully Irish did their nickname jus­ said. remained open for weddings, lien, finding thnmselves Terrail Lambert's intercep­ many requests still came in strapped in tight on a roller­ tion in the closing minute for Holy Spirit Chapel after it coaster ride that ended at its sent the Notre Dame faithful became unavailable, Fean peak. into a frenzy. said. Frnshman Brandon Drenan "I was swept up in the urge Now that the chapel will said he had never "experi­ to hug random people," open again next summer, ANAND!The many faculty and alumnae nnecd so many fnnlings in a Students congregate in Stonehenge Saturday after Notre four-hour period." see GAME/page 6 Dame's 40-37 comeback win over Michigan State. see CHAPEL/page 4 Historical tnural rediscovered Runners fight rain Saint Edward's Hall celebrates recovery, restoration of priceless relic to help battle cancer alumna and the wife of Notre By JENNIFER METZ By MEG HAN WONS Dame Law School Dean NewsWrirer NewsWrirer Emeritus Dave Link. Participants had the option The Gentlemen of St. Members of Notre Dame, of running a three or six-mile Edward's Hall are proud, and Saint Mary's, Holy Cross and course, or completing a two­ with good reason. the local community laced up mile fun walk. Not only is St. Edward's the their running shoes and hit "We were pretty much survivor of a 1980 fire and the rainy road for the 24th right on target [in terms of the site of Knute Rockne's annual Domer Run Saturday number of participants] from reception into the Church, - logging miles and con­ where we were last year," but it also houses a newly tributing to a good cause. said Greg Weber, an intern at restored, eye--::atching Luigi The run benefited ovarian RecSports and member of the GrPgori mural. cancer awareness and educa­ Domer Run Committee. The mural, which dates tion and was in memory of "From our final tally, we had back to 1882, has always Barbara Link, who battled a total of 483 participants ... resided in St. Edward's, but ovarian cancer before pass­ pretty good considering the has not been visible to resi­ ing away in 2003, and Ruth race day weather conditions." dents' eyes- until now. Bautel, a former member of According to Weber, the A portion of the Gregori mural in St. Ed's Hall depicts Father Sorin the Domer Run committee. see MURAL/page 6 performing a wedding ceremony for local Potawatomi Indians. Link was a Notre Dame see RUN/page 6 -------~ -------- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Monday, September 25, 2006 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN THE FOOTBALL GAME IS AWAY? Fro111 scarlet and gray to blue & gold Kate Crecelius Jim Groff Will Mcleod Mike Lee Sarah Walter When I first came to Notre Dame sophomore junior junior freshman sophomore in August, there was little that con­ McGlinn Fisher Fisher Keough McGlinn nected me with the school. I am a first-generation student. I am not Catholic. And, perhaps most impor­ "Watching the "Sleep." "Be in the "Run through "Watching a tantly, I was game with my photo poll. " Stonehenge. '' glorious Irish raised in a family Sonia Rao that avidly sup- friends comeback. " ports Ohio State because I football. News Writer work first aid Eighteen years of brainwashing at home has made it so I cannot think of a games. Saturday football game without hearing the echoes of fight songs being played by "The Best Damn Band in the Land" throughout my house. When Ohio State played Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl last year, my dad found pictures of the IN BRIEF Pope dressed in scarlet and gray and taped them up all over the house. I Patrick Francis Sullivan, traveled with my family to Arizona S.J. will deliver a lecture enti­ to see the "pass interference" call tled "Catholic Tradition and that led to a national championship Traditions" today at 4 p.m. in in 2002, and a huge picture of it is room 102 DeBartolo Hall. displayed in my basement. Maybe this makes it easy to see RecSports will offer a fitness how, even when I had decided to room orientation workshop attend Notre Dame in the spring, the entitled "Exercise Basics: 1 01" Irish just didn't really feel like my tonight from 5:30 to 6:30 in team. I didn't know the fight song or the Rolfs SportsRec Center any of the rich tradition or history Fitness Room. associated with Notre Dame football. In a lot of ways, I think I just didn't Pasquerilla East Musical really get it. Company will hold auditions I just went home over the week­ for "Ragtime," the musical end, back into Buckeye territory, and tonight at 6:45. Auditions will I realized that all of a sudden my be held in Pasquerilla East house dido 't quite feel like "my Hall, and are open to all ND, house." My room was empty, dust SMC and HCC students. was collecting on the nightstand, and my car was bereft of the various Swing Club will host an newspapers, homework assignments open dance night tonight from and loose change that used to be 8 to 10 in the LaFortune there. I had this epiphany that life CLEM SUHENDRA!The Observer Ballroom. This event is open was going on there without me; my Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis celebrates Saturday's 40-37 comeback victory against Michigan State University in East Lansing. to all NO, SMC and HCC stu­ parents were still going to my sis­ dents, staff and faculty free of ter's tennis matches, sitting in the charge. rain during my brother's football games, listening to the latest high Kellogg Institute Visiting school drama at the dinner table. I Fellow Juliet Hooker will was still a part of things in a way, deliver her rescheduled lec­ but I had more of a cameo role. OFFBEAT ture entitled "The Institutional Watching the football game on Design of Multicultural Saturday night I realized that just as Burglars get severed head police. "From what it looks putably clear that a 25,500 Citizenship in Nicaragua: my family continued on in their shock like, they just left them euro charge is dispropor­ Effects on Afro-descendant & directions, I had found my own.