Gone Phishin’ The debate continues Scene music critic Tim Bodony reviews last Two Notre Dame alumni explain why they feel Tuesday weekend’s double Phish concert in Chicago’s The Observer’s independence is a necessary Allstate Arena. and valuable asset to campus discussions. S E PTEM BE R 26, scene ♦ page 12 Viewpoint ♦ page 11 2 0 0 0 O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dam e and Saint M ary’s VOL XXXIV NO. 26 h t t p ://ORSFRVFR.ND.FDU N e w s A n a ly s is Bush, Gore campaigns tainted with controversy ducer, Alex Castellanos, denies By ERIN LARUFFA that the word was used intention­ News W riter ally, Mandell explained that some­ one would have had to type into a The word "RATS” recently computer any word that appeared flashed across American television on the screen. screens, courtesy of the “They probably watched that ad Republican Party. a million times ... Any editor But no one is really sure if the worth his weight would have word was intended to be there. picked it up immediately,” Mandell Although the Republican National said. “That would make me think Committee (RNC) was actually for that they were aware of it.” the ad, the campaign of GOP presi­ However, Mandell added that it dential candidate George W. Bush is possible that neither the RNC has faced numerous questions nor the Bush campaign staff were about it. aware that the word appeared. In the commercial, the words The tape would have gone “bureaucrats decide” appear on through many hands, Mandell screen, intended to criticize Gore’s explained, and therefore someone prescription drug plan. However, else could have inserted it. He in one frame, “RATS,” part of pointed out that animators have “bureaucrats,” appears on the inserted single-celled frames into screen. Disney movies as jokes the compa­ The word remains on screen for ny itself never wanted in the film. only one-thirtieth of a second, but Although the ad reflects nega­ it is the largest word to appear in tively on the Bush campaign, most the commercial. Critics suggested Americans will merely dismiss it that the ad was an attempt to sub- as part of politics, explained Notre liminally create a negative opinion Dame government professor of Gore. Benjamin Radcliff. As a result, if “Nobody does that accidentally,” Bush loses, no one w ill look back said Ted Mandell, a professor in at the ad controversy as the Notre Dame’s Film, Television and “defining moment” that cost Bush Theatre department. “[I am] 99 the election, Radcliff said. AFP Photo percent positive it was intention­ Negative ads are not new in With the elections fast approaching, republican nominee George W. Bush (above) and al.” political campaigns, though. democratic nominee Al Gore push ahead on the campaign trail. Both campaigns have Although the commercial’s pro­ been laced with controversy. see ELECTION/page 4 Malloy: IOC drug tests CLC don’t catch all users Members discuss GALA’s complaints Sydney, Australia, five athletes By HELENA PAYNE have tested positive for illegal By HELENA PAYNE News Writer substances to date; among them are three Bulgarian News. W rite r The Olympic Games need an weightlifters, a Latvian rower, independent committee to iden­ and most recently, Romanian Faculty Senate professor tify athletes’ abuse of perfor­ gymnast Andreea Raducan. Edward Manier spoke on behalf mance-enhancing substances, Raducan was stripped of her of the unrecognized group, the said gold medal in the women's all- Gay and Lesbian Alum ni-N otre University around competition Tuesday Dame/ Saint Mary’s (GALA), at P r e s id e n t after testing positive for a Monday’s Campus Life Council Father See Also banned substance contained in meeting where members dis­ Edward “ IOC strips her cold medication. cussed whether recent com­ Although a World Anti-Doping plaints from GALA are appro­ i f S The Raducan of gold Organization exists to make rec­ priate issues for council discus­ ch a ir of a after positive ommendations to the sion. commission drug test” International Olympic “I’m the closest thing they’ve researching Committee, Malloy and the 14 got to a voice on this body,” said drug abuse page 22 other members on the commis­ Manier, who told the CLC that in sports. sion want an independent orga­ members of GALA felt inconve­ “ The pro- . nization with more authority. nienced last Saturday when ANGELA STONER/The Observer g r e s s i v e ^ 8 0 Olypic The commission, under The they had to switch locations for Brooke Norton and the Campus Life Council discussed whether num ber o f boycott hits National Center on Addiction their Michigan State game GALA’s recent complaints are valid council issues. The CLC also instances of watch gathering. voted to research off-campus drinking habits for students. home for Notre and Substance Abuse at d e t e c t e d Columbia University (CASA), fin­ “A couple things happened substances Dame staff” ished a 100-page report titled that left that group feeling less serve alcohol. “ I re g re t th a t I am unable to than welcome,” said Manier. “That is not an area that we has made Back page “Winning at Any Cost: Doping in provide approval for this event the issue Olympic Sports” Sept. 8. The Initially, a representative of normally approve for the use of to include the service or pres­ m ore re le ­ report, the first in a series of GALA wrote vice president of alcohol,” Kirk said. ence of alcohol given its timing vant to the international com­ reports that w ill focus on athlet- student affairs Bill Kirk request­ Kirk shared with the CLC the and proximity to student social munity,” said Malloy. ing to hold a gathering in the letter he wrote in response to At the 2000 Olympic Games in see MALLOY/page 8 Recker’s Hospitality Room and the GALA member, which said. see CLC/page 8 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, September 26, 2000 I n s id e C o l u m n Q u o t e s o f t h e W eek “The ND social scene, 7 was thinking it was “Evolution is godless “There are people I soon figured out, going to be a happy in the same way around us who are consists of getting bus trip home. ” plumbing is godless. ” guardian angels." Drivers plastered and hooking up. ’’ Anthony Weaver Robert Pennock Kevin Clary License Blues Notre Dame defensive end visiting speaker on 15-year old cancer survivor Mike Marchand after the loss to creationism, evolution on Bob Davie after his Senior Notre Dame student Michigan State special invitation to a Okay, so maybe our 21st century, digitized, on gender relations football luncheon and game yuppified, surburbanized, peanut-buttery soci­ ety has lost most of the hardcore coming-of-age rituals of old. My mom never told me to sit in the woods until 1 saw visions. My dad never made me kill a bear. I never walked across hot coals in order to symbolically achieve manhood. All I had OUTSIDE THE D om e Compiled from U-Wire reports to do was sign up for the draft — and pass the d ri­ ver’s test. Duke researches effects of sleep deprivation That test has always embodied a sense of inde­ DURHAM, N.C. sleep. Although Wohlgemuth acknowl­ pendence for me. Sure, as a Most people know that drinking sev­ edged that the biological need for sleep kid I didn’t always ask my Pat McElwee eral drinks and then driving is danger­ varies from person to person, he said parents for a ride when I ous, but few realize that a lack of the average person needs about eight had to get out of the house. sleep, especially when combined with hours of rest each day. Sometimes I’d grab my bike Associate only one serving of alcohol, can make But advances in modern technology and a couple friends and Viewpoint driving just as unsafe. combined with the skewed schedule of just go. We’d sweat under E ditor According to the National Institutes college life often forces students, facul­ the hot sun, burn off a few of Health and the National Highway ty and employees alike to skimp on hundred calories, get surn- Traffic Safety Administration, roughly sleep. burnt and love the freedom of it all. But where 56,000 crashes occur each year due to Many turn to drugs to help counter would all that work get us? To K-Mart. Or, if driver fatigue, and 1,550 fatalities these popular habits' effects, but we were feeling really adventurous, to Super result from these accidents. Wohlgemuth cautions against employ­ Wal-Mart. But, with a car you can go some­ Sleeping less than approximately ing such methods. where. eight hours each night, combined with deprived has the same effect as driving “Some drugs, such as Ny-Quil, con­ And so. I had to get my license. as little as one alcoholic beverage, has with a blood alcohol level of .05, said tain alcohol, which will help relieve I was 15 for longer than I ’ve been any age. a compounding effect — meaning that Dr. Bill Wohlgemuth of the Duke anxiety and allow you to fall asleep, The number of friends who were on an even the effects of the two separate condi­ University Medical Center Sleep but once the alcohol leaves your sys­ rank with me (the bicyclers) was rapidly dimin­ tions together can severely increase Disorders Clinic.