y ··~ ,. ' ,,.,.; .... ' , / ··-.'-"'-,'.'-11.-'~'/ f# ./I'_I 1 '.r .- t' • • _f --; / i _ ',·.-J _,. ;, . THE I I I - I The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 38: ISSUE 14 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 - NDSMCOBSERVER.COM A model for the world " ' Nobel laureate says South Africa peace process can be a 'beacon of hope' Tutu was the keynote speaker for boundaries of his native land. By MEGHAN MARTIN the Kroc Institute for International He said that the experience of Associate News Editor Peace Studies' "Peacebuilding After South Africa can be a model for the Peace Accords" conference, the cul­ rest of the world. On a day when Americans ! . mination of a three-year initiative "God takes this unlikely, totally :.,, remember only fear, he spoke of by the Institute's Research Initiative unexpected lot - God says, 'Yes, hope. on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict they can be -they will be a beacon At a time when revenge is often that examined the issue of building of hope,"' he said. "If it can happen seen as the only solution, he spoke lasting peace in the aftermath of in South Africa, it can happen any­ of peace. political and civil unrest. where." Archbishop Emeritus Desmond The audience, which numbered South Africa's break from Mpilo Tutu addressed a crowd yes­ in the hundreds, assembled to hear apartheid and the Afrikaner regime terday that spilled out the doors of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner that sustained it was officially final­ McKenna Hall and across the quad present a lecture entitled "The ized in 1994 when, in a free elec­ into DeBartolo, where students, Struggle for Social Justice in Post­ tion, the nation elected its first faculty and community members Apartheid South Africa," but Tutu's CARRIE PETERS/The Observer watched on a closed-circuit televi­ Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu speaks Thursday as part of message reached far beyond the see TUTU/page 8 sion system. a conference sponsored by the Kroc Institute. Campus gears up for Michigan game Sept. 11 Students memorial hit the road service held •; By ANN LOUGHERY for game News Writer Members of Navy, Army and Air Force ROTC gathered By ANDREW THAGARD Thursday morning outside Assistant News Editor Pasquerilla Center to reflect on the Sept. 11 attacks and to Excited about this football honor those who died with a season's most hyped away military memorial service. game and lured by talk of tail­ This year's service was spear­ I headed by the Navy ROTC and I gates, students are packing I their bags and hitting the road included a few words from a L for Saturday's match-up Marine colonel, a benediction between Notre Dame and the given by chaplain Fr. Peter Michigan Wolverines. Rocca, a moment of silence and the traditional playing of The official fun starts Friday CHIP MARKSfThe Observer afternoon at the Courthouse "Taps." The Irish Guard takes the field along with the band before last weekend's game. The entire As the second anniversary of Square Apartment complex. band will play at this weekend's game, but not everyone has a seat inside. The Alumni Association has the terrorist. attacks rented out the second floor approached, the ROTC brass ballroom of the former hotel to addressed concerns that the hold a pep rally and evening Michigan limits Irish band space historical importance of Sept. gathering where popular Irish 11 might fade over time. "One foods will be available, accord­ band members and associat­ according to an e-mail sent of the reasons [for the ceremo­ By ANDREW THAGARD ing to Chuck Lennon, the presi­ ed support staff. Thursday to band members. ny] is to try. to keep the memory dent of the Alumni Association. Assistant News Editor The decision, made by the "In order to have only the alive," said Marine Maj. Mark The organization is also spon­ University of Michigan allotted number of people in Lyon. It's nicknamed "The Big soring a tailgate Saturday Athletic Department, means the stadium [350], we are Capt. James Shelton, com­ House" and boasts a seating before the game at the that 50 members of the asking for two volunteers mander of the Navy ROTC bat­ ' ' capacity of over 107,500. University of Michigan Golf. band will be forced to watch from each section to sit out talion, agreed and said "We're But Thursday morning, Course. Students, Lennon said, the game outside and enter both halves, or four volun­ remembering the event that the Notre Dame Marching are always welcome. the stadium for pre-game. teers from each section to touched off a war." Band learned that Michigan and post-game activities sit out one half," the e-mail Shelton recalled explaining to Stadium wasn't big enough and the half-time show, his son the magnitude of the sit­ see GAME/page 6_ to accommodate all the see BAND/page 6 uation and telling him he thought it would be unlike any war the country has seen before. While Shelton emphasized the importance of remembering the Storage units hit by thieves attacks, he offered hope that the world will eventually close Wilcomb returned to South not be opened with her key. that dark chapter of history. By ANNIE BASINSKI Bend Aug. 26 and was After several attempts, she News Writer "Fifty years from now, if we shocked to find everything contacted a worker at the forget, maybe it's a good thing if she had left in storage miss­ storage company who it means we won," he said. Several Notre Dame and ing. Now, two weeks into the informed her of recent break­ Saint Mary's students Several thought Col. Regan's school year, Wilcomb is still ins and that "someone might speech was inspriring because returned to campus this year working to settle into her have cut off the lock and put to find their storage units at of the way he linked the past dorm room - a task that is a new one on." with the future to explain what Mini Storage Depot and behind most students. The worker proceeded to Airport Mini Storage were the ROTC cadets may once be Wilcomb, who rented a unit saw off the lock and open the called to do. STEPHANIE GRAMMENSIThe Observer robbed - and many incurred from Mini Storage Depot on unit, which was found empty damages in the thousands of "He urged us to respect their Saint Mary's junior Lora Grape Road, noticed that the aside from a $10 bookshelf sacrifice and reminded us why Wilcomb had to replace many dollars. lock on her storage unit of her things after the break-in. Saint Mary's junior Lora looked unfamiliar and eould see STORAGE/page 4 see ROTC/ page 6 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, September 12, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT'S YOUR PREDICTION FOR THE FOOTBALL GAME THIS WEEKEND? Hail to the ... Irish At the age of nine, I fell passion­ ately in love with Tyrone. Not Willingham -Wheatley. The hero­ worshipping crushes of my preteen Beth Vlscegtia Brian Chamberlain Margaret Kulwicki Kefta Miyamura Erin Daly Dan Sushlnsky and teen years also included Brian Griese, Charles Howard Morrissey Welsh Alumni Welsh St. Ed's Woodson and a Freshman Freshman Senior Freshman Senior Senior distinguished older man named ..Stronger "Oh. we're "45-IO "It's gonna be "48-ro. Notre ..It's gonna be a Lloyd Carr. That's right, beginning. gonna kill·em ... Michigan ... 5-3, Notre Dame." lot to not-so- faithful worship­ Same finish.·· Dame.·· much . •• pers of the sacred religion that is Notre Dame football, I Claire Heininger have a sin to con- fess - I grew up a Michigan fan. Before you Production start throwing things in the direction of Howard Hall, hear me out. IN BRIEF My baptism as a Wolverine was too unconscious to be considered a The Laughing Irish will per­ choice. We moved to Ann Arbor form at Washington Hall when I was in kindergarten, and by Friday at 7:30 p.m. The group seventh grade my neighborhood is composed of stand-up come­ practically had the Big House in its dians and Notre Dame gradu­ backyard. ates Jimmy Brogan, Owen Like any college town worthy of Smith and John Garrett. the label, Ann Arbor's identity is Tickets for the performance intrinsically tied up with that of its are $5. football team. This obsession extends to all residents, from the Slaine Mhath, an Irish band, maize-and-blue-sweater-knitting will perform Friday at senior alumnae to the influx of laUe­ Legends between 9 and 11 drinking East Coast students that p.m. Admission is free. inhabit the university's downtown campus for eight months out of the Lewis Hall is sponsoring an year. outdoor movie Saturday at 9 I was an Ann Arbor resident. I was p.m. on North Quad. The a football fan. I was hooked. movie that will be shown is So I cringed with the town when Ferris Dueller's Day Off. that eyesore of a yellow plastic "halo" replaced the classic brick The men's soccer team will surrounding the rim of the stadium, play Fresno State Friday at 5 and rejoiced a year later when the p.m. at Alumni Field. garish letters were taken down, one by one. I held my breath in the TIM KACMAR!The Observer Dirk Moses, will discuss The stands at Miami's Pro Player Members of the Notre Dame community pray the rosary at the Grotto Thursday In Holocaust and genocide Stadium as I stood next to my face­ honor of the Sept.