CLOUDY Wild Bill's brings Bluegrass to Notre Dame Tuesday In a collaboration with WVFI, Scene explores this band's music and its positive reaction on campus. Wild Bill's can be heard on WVFI HIGH 36° tonight at 9:30p.m. MARCH 5, LOW28° Scene + page 11 2002 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXV NO. 102 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU SMC holds University selects Fox first-round Mexican president will speak at commencement exercises elections said Dennis Brown, associate By KATIE VINCER By LIZ KAHLING director of Public Relations and News Writer Information. "President Fox has News Wrirer achieved that with his accom­ Class council voting Monday at University officials confirmed plishments in such little time in Tuesday that Mexican President Saint Mary's yielded a winner in office." the Class of 2005 race and set up Vincente Fox will be the princi­ Brown compared the annual pal speaker at May 19 run-off contests in the 2003 and process of selecting a speaker to 2004 elections. (:ommencement services. "kind of like athletic recruit­ Fox, 60, follows President In the close 2005 election, the ing." University officers first Sarah Brown ticket drew 51 per­ Bush as the second consecutive made overtures to Fox last fall head of state to deliver the cent of the votes to defeat current and received confirmation only class president Maureen Garvan­ graduation address. two weeks ago. Administrators "We are delighted that he will Oskielunas' ticket. Brown's run­ then coordinated with the ning mates included Mary honor us with his presence," Mexican general council in University President Father Holland, vice president, Jill Chicago as well as with people Roberts, secretary; and Shay Edward Malloy said in a in Mexico in drafting an appro­ release. "President Fox is a Jolly, treasurer. priate press release. "We're definitely excited," leader who is at once pragmatic Fox will be the sixth foreign and passionate. While he has Holland said. "The first thing we chief to speak at a University plan on doing is [to] start plan­ worked tirelessly to end corrup­ graduation. He follows tion and strengthen his nation's ning for next year." Canadian Prime ministers About 27 percent of the class Pronomy, he also has demon­ Lester Pearson (1963) and strated a steadfast commitment voted. Pierre Trudeau (1982), The Rachel Finley and Nickey to representing and serving the Salvadoran President and Notre most vulnerable among his con­ Prezioso tickets from the Oass of Dame graduate Jose Napoleon 2003 will meet in a run-off elec­ qituents. from the poor to the Duarte (1985). Chilean unborn." tion Wednesday after earning 41 President Patricio Avlwin and 30 percent of the vote, Fox had been in consideration (1992}, Irish Taoiseach Albert as speaker ever since his his­ respectively, in the primary that Reynolds (1994) and Bush. had a 49 percent turnout for the toric election in July 2000, Many students, faculty and when his National Action Party Oass of 2003. staff had speculated that the The incumbent ticket for the (PAN) defeated the 71-year speaker would be someone con­ rt->ign of the Institutional class of 2003, Alison Joseph, nected with the Sept. 11 attacks Stephanie Pace, Erin Hevolution Party (PRI), accord­ and ensuing rescue etl'orts. mg to Notre Dame officials. Fox Woloshansky and Kelly Logan, The University has yet to only received 26 percent of the was the first foreign head of release this year s honorary tate with whom Bush met upon vote and will not advance. degree recipients. Finley's running mates are assuming office, although that The 15 7th Commencement was not a factor in selecting Fox Candace McElligott. vice presi­ exercises will be at 2 p.m. in the dent, Erin Moran, secretary, and to speak, officials said. Joyce Center. Like every year, the University Torie Cox, treasurer. Prezioso's running mates are searched for a speaker who AFP Photo "made a significant contribu­ Mexican President Vincente Fox, this year's commence­ Kara Harms, vice president, Nina tion to church, society and the Contact Elizabeth Kahling at ment speaker, met with last year's speaker, President Ready, secretary, and Katie kahling.l @nd.edu. general welfare of mankind," George Bush, in October. see ELECTION/page 4 Students asked to donate marrow CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL + Requests follow Group approves, passes from overwhelming drive two years ago forward activity fee increase By MAUREEN SMITHE lowed slim debate on the matter Associate News Editor By JASON McFARLEY of raising the student activity fee News Editor from $65 to $80. In March 2000, Notre Dame "It's definitely looking toward and Saint Mary's students With little discussion Monday, the future and assessing where received a call for help. the Campus Life Council passed we want to go," Judicial Council Their ailing classmate, Conor a Student Senate resolution to President Tim Jarotkiewicz said Murphy, was struggling with increase by $15 in 2002-03 the about the plan drafted by the leukemia and in desperate need student activity fee assessed to Financial Management Board of a bone marrow transplant. Notre Dame undergraduates. and approved Wednesday by the The disease had recently taken Passage of the measure means Senate. "The Student Union two other Notre Dame students, JOB TURNER/The Observer the resolution will now go to the deserves a lot of credit for this." Brionne Clary and Miranda Students waited in line for hours in a bone marrow drive in Office of Student Affairs for If approved, it will be the first Thomas, leaving the community March 2000 and some are now being contacted because their approval. If approved by Father increase in four years. While desperate for a way to help. bone marrow has matched a person needing a transplant. Mark Poorman, vice president tuition has increased steadily. Hundreds heeded the call, for Student Affairs, the Board of the fee that funds student clubs stretching a line through the Jorrissen and Jen Woyach are 20,000. Jorrissen, a senior, and Trustees would still need to sign and organizations hasn't been LaFortune Student Center. some of those few. Woyach, a 2001 Notre Dame off on the increase. adjusted for inflation since 1998, Many came, but only a few will The odds of a patient actually The CLC adopted the resolu­ ever be chosen. Jonathan finding a match are only one in see MARROW/page 4 tion 13-1. The lopsided vote fol- see CLC/ page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, March 5, 2002 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "I thought it was classless. I "I don't feel we need points "People have commented to Adventures in thought it was vulgar. I wish or judges, wins or losses. For me that it's unbelievable to I had known more about it a lot of the girls, it's a huge have another woman elected the chair because if I did; I would not battle just to get themselves so soon. There are no more have gone. I was not the only in the ring. , barriers in that regard. I an:t person who walked out 10 confident she will do a Kerl Jerge great job., Here's a message from the guy on crutches minutes into it. , or in a wheelchair that you've passed on the women's boxing captain quads, in DeBartolo or in the dining hall: Kamille Peter on female boxing Brooke Norton Thanks! Saint Mary's sophomore student body president Three weeks after I fell getting down from on president-elect Libby Bishop my loft and broke all the on "The Vagina Monolouges" bones in my ankle, so many people have assisted me. Thanks to the golf cart dri­ vers who have navigated BEYOND CAMPUS Compiled from U-Wire reports through the snow while attempting to hit a mini­ mum number of people, curbs and buildings. Entrepreneurship still alive at Brown University Thanks to my friends from Knott Hall who have PROVIDENCE, R.I. Entrepreneurship Program, said he pushed my wheelchair on Scott Enterprises such as Turner feels the policy is a bit "far-fetched." the way to the dining hall Brodfuehrer Broadcasting, Nantucket Nectars, "A dorm room is different from through the frozen tundra Foresite Solutions and Jessica's using the Internet," Hazeltine said. of Mod Quad that never Assistant Wonders all stemmed from the minds "You pay for it, so in some sense it's seems to get plowed. News Editor of Brown University graduates. In yours." Thanks to the nurses in the some instances. the seeds of these He questioned how strictly Brown infirmary who watched in enterprises were planted while the enforces this policy and cited Jessica mild amusement as I filled a triple room with founders were still students at Brown. Nam '00 as an example of how the • all of my books and walking aide. And thanks Yet rules outlined in Brown's stu­ policy could be circumvented. As a to the countless people who have held doors dent handbook explicitly prohibit stu­ junior at Brown, Nam began her busi­ open and given my wheelchair a push when it dents from operating businesses out of ness as an independent study in which got stuck in the snow. their dorm rooms. The policy states: she explored baking as a business, I knew I was in trouble when I lay shaking "Brown University enjoys certain tax preparing her fresh baked goods in exemptions as an educational institu­ the kitchen of her Barbour Hall suite on the floor of my room when everyone within for the purpose of commercial activi­ earshot packed in the room to look at my tion which can be jeopardized when and selling them through local retail­ ties, including residence hall rooms, deformed foot that was rotated 90 degrees individuals in the campus community ers.