.--------~---- One of our own Another tragedy in littleton Scene reviews current St. Edward's Hall Two Columbine students are found dead in a Tuesday assistant rector Erik Goldschmidt local resturant and authories are looking new musical project. for answers. FEBRUARY 15, Scene+ page 13 News+ page 7 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 83 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU Despite antics, election ends in run-off of favorites By TIM LOGAN News Editor Dnspite Darths. a "death" and the debate that many called a debacle, when all the votes Wl'f\' rountPd Monday evening, it was the two favorites who wen• left standing in the student body presid(~ntial race. Keough llall senator Brian ()'Donoghue and sophomorP dass vicP president Brooke Norton will face llunt Hanover and junior class presi­ dnnt John Micek in the run-off elections Thursday. O'Don;lghuP!Norton received 43 percent of tlw :~.818 votes east. llanover/Micek garnered 34 percent. .John Osborn and Mark Donahey. the Board of TrustPns n~port chairs for student govPrnnwnt. linislwd a distant third with 6. 7 JW ITen t. Tlw two tickets still alive from tlw original field of I 0 promised to campaign diligently in the next three days. The Run-off "We're going to keep • What: final elec- going," ()'Donoghue said. lion for student "We're going to get our word out to thP students body president and and we're going to keep vice president on pushing." Micek had similar plans • When: Thursday, for his campaign. results announced "I think things went at 9 p.m. well," he said. "We just have to work hard and keep our nose to the JOB TURNER!The Observer grindstone." Surrounded by fellow presidential candidates, Hunt Hanover and John Micek discuss the results of Monday's pri­ O'Donoghuc/Norton received 400 more votes than their rivals, and. while that edge will not mary elections. They will face Brian O'Donoghue and Brooke Norton in a run-off election Thursday. count in Thursday's voting, it does show that their support is stronger. But Hanover and Micek were not discouraged. "It's ddinitely not over," Hanover said. "HPdueing it to two tickets brings in a lot of vows." Tlw otlwr Pight tickets split the remaining 23 JWrcnnt of thn vote, with Osborn/Donahey, Joe Shepherd/Jim Focht and "Darth" Todd Warapius/ "Darth" George Coppinger each n~cPiving at btst 100 ballots. Warapius. whose campaign goals ineluded establishing a strictly despotic student govern­ PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS nwnt. (~Xpn~ssPd hop!'. for the future, even if O'Donoghue/ Norton 43% sonwone else would have to carry on his mis­ Hanove1·/ Micek 34% simL MANDl POWELUThe Observer "I gw~ss I'll have to name an apprentice for next year and hope tlwy fare better," he said. JOB TURNER!The Observer Osborn and Donahey have no plans for Brian O'Donoghue and future despots. but they do say they will keep Brooke Norton examine the working in student government. The third­ numbers of Monday's stu­ place pair is still working on this semester's dent body election. Their Board of Trustees report. They said they were ticket received 400 more not surprised by the results. votes than the second-place "''m not terribly surprised," Donahey said of finishers of Hunt Hanover their third-place finish. "We waged a good and John Micek. see ELECTIONS/page 4 Renowed theology professor McCor01ick dies at 79 ethics. joined the Notre Dame Ohio, McCormick entered the The recipient of a number of Theological Studies to Sports Special to The Observer faculty in 1986. He previoulsy Society of Jesus in 1940 and academic honors and awards, Illustrated. He made frequent was the Rose F. Kennedy profes­ graduated from Loyola McCormick was a member of the appearances on television news Father Hichard McCormick, sor of Christian Ethics in University in Chicago live years American Academy of the Arts programs to discuss both ethical .John A. O'Brien professor emeri­ Georgetown University's later. He obtained a master's and Sciences and past president issues in public policy and eccle­ tus of Christian ethics at Notre Kennedy Center for Bioethics degree from Loyola in 1950 and of the Catholic Theological siastical politics. Dame, died Saturday at from 1973-86 and a professor of in 1953 was ordained to the Society of America. He wrote Visitation will be on Colombiere Center in Clarkston, moral theology at the Jesuit priesthood. In 1957 he obtained numerous books and articles on Wedensday at Gesu Church in Mich. School of Theology in Chicago his doctoral degree in theology medical ethics, and his work was Toledo, Ohio, where a funeral McCormick, a moral theolo­ from 1957-73. from the Gregorian University in published in periodicals ranging Mass will be celebrated gian who specialized in medical Born Oct. 3, 1922, in Toledo, Rome. from Common-wealth and Thursday at 11 a.m. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, February 15, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "There is no denying ''This place is a "It was an actual "I was wondering, that problems often multimillion dollar circus - three rings. ''Are we going to Get out lead to accomplish- business ... and a I was pretty pack it in or are we ments being over­ Catholic institution, disappointed." going to make a last and vote looked, and that cer­ but sometimes it's stand?" and we tainly has been true run more like a Kelly Folks decided we were Almost half of all American adults have no with respect to Mike multimillion dollar Judicial Council president going to fight. " right to complain about being sick of Bill Clinton Wadsworth ... " business." on the student body and his numerous scandals. presidential election Matt Doherty Why? Because 46 percent of Americans who Father Edward Malloy Vincent Slatt debates men's basketball coach on had the potential to make Clinton go away in Dillion Hall junior the Irish's win over UConn 1996 chose to do nothing. University president According to the U.S. Erin LaRuffa Census Bureau. only 54 percent of eligible voters chose to be part of the OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports presidential selection copy editor process that year. The sta­ tistics are even more pathetic among voters Hackers use UCLA computers to attack site between the ages of 18 and 24, a group among which only 32 percent voted in 1996. LOS ANGELES ''At this time we are not hacked computers are directed to I am by no means lamenting Bob Dole's defeat. Electronic attacks on some of the send a coordinated attack against a Internet's most high-prolile sites went aware of the motives behind victim. overloading the victim with In fact, if I had been old enough, I would have these attacks but they appear voted for Clinton. But this is not a commentary through UCLA, according to university information and blocking access to on the merits of one politician. I am concerned oflicials. to be intended to interfere legitimate users. UCLA computers are suspected to Part of an ongoing problem. denial­ with something larger: the fact that millions of have been remotely hacked into and with ... legitimate electronic of-service attacks were the subject of Americans do not feel the need to vote, even then used in at least one attack, most commerce. FBI alerts as early as December. though voting is one of the easiest and most likely the one that made Amazon.com "At this time we are not aware of important ways of participating in the American Inc.'s Web site inaccessible to eus­ Janet Reno the motives behind these attacks but republic. tomers for more than an hour last they appear to be intended to inter­ A major complaint of American colonists in the Tuesday. According to a statement U.S. Attorney General fere with and to disrupt legitimate 1770s was lack of representation in the British issued by the university, campus electronic commerce," U.S. Attorney government. In latPr years. countless numbers of exp1~rts are "confident that the hack­ General Janet Reno said at a press Americans fought to ensure the vote for women ers arr. not based on campus." Hamiro Escudero. a spokesman for conference last Wednesday. and minorities. Other countries look to the U.S. ThP attack was one of several per­ the FBI's Los Angeles field oiTice, The attackers are believed to have as a model for what a government should be. petrated against such companies as described the use of network comput­ used a desktop computer at UCSB to The right for all of a country's citizens to vote in Yahoo!, eBay, BUY.COM, ZDNet. ers like those at universities as "tram­ assault CNN. and an Internet router E*THADE and Datek early last week poline attacks" in which they are used free and open elections guarantees freedom in at Stanford to launch an amplified and comes on th1~ heels of reports that as a platform to launch assaults. attack on eBay. Like UCLA, officials at that country. Do you think that Fidel Castro UC Santa Barbara IUCSBI and According to reports late last week. both schools havP said that the uni­ would still be ruling Cuba is Cubans enjoyed the Stanford computers were used in a the sites were the apparent victims of versities are not the original source of same voting privileges as Americans? similar attack on CNN's Web site. dPnial-of-service attacks in which the attacks. I am not sure why so many Americans would not want to vote.