Breaking the bank Another school tragedy With the Generations campaign wrapped up, Two days after the Santee school shooting, an Thursday The Observer explores what will become of the 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl shot her more than $1 billion raised. eighth-grade clasmate. MARCH 8, In Focus World & Nation + page 5 2001 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 103 _ HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Eldred requests apology from CARE leaders 'Monologues' In Eldred's letter to CARE + officers, she wrote that the performance nets Board of Trustees felt deceived officers reprimand by an alleged discrepancy between their letter to the Board and the students' By MIKE CONNOLLY actions. News Wrirer "At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees, members were dismayed that they were College President Marilou blatantly misled by your let­ Eldred sent a letter to Campus ter," she wrote. Alliance for Rape Elimination None of the other students officers Wednesday requesting who participated in the reading a letter of apology to the Board of the play have received a let­ of Trustees for their individual ter from Eldred. Approximately involvement in a student read­ 20 students, including athletes, ing of "The Vagina student government members, Monologues" Feb. 19. Feminist Collective members CARE officers Ang Romano, and Student Diversity Board Emily Koelsch, Julie members participated in the Frischkorn and Katie Poynter reading, according to CARE may have been singled out for officers. punishment "She has because they refused to wrote a letter "At a recent meeting of acknowledge that to the Board the Board of Trustees, anyone but CARE of Trustees members were could have orga­ with Eldred's nized this," said permission. dismayed that they Cassie Carrigan, In that letter, were blatantly a student who the officers misled by your letter. , participated in outlined why the reading but they believe did not receive a t h e Marilou Eldred letter from "Monologues" Saint Mary's president Eldred. MOLLY McVOY!The Observer should be in letter to CARE officers Eldred decreed Saint Mary's President Marilou Eldred on Wednesday requested that officers of Campus Alliance performed. earlier this year for Rape Elimination write a letter of apology to the College Board of Trustees. The move follows a They also that CARE could Feb. 19 performance of "The Vagina Monologues" in Regina Hall for an audience of about 150. wrote: "The [C]ollege has not sponsor the "Monologues" decided it will not support a and said the four officers par­ would not sponsor the readings [at a meeting between the offi­ cers never said they would not performance of "The Vagina ticipation in the reading consti­ of the play but did not promise cers and Eldred] that students participate in an independent Monologues" this year, and out tuted "overt support" for the it would not be performed at might take the initiative to put reading of the play as individ- of respect for this college, we reading. The officers said they the College. on the play," Frischkorn said. will abide by that decision." promised Eldred that CARE "It was made very, very clear Frischkorn said the four offi- see ELDRED/page 4 ND alum Kelly, wife Notre Dame grad missing in Bolivia Peace Corps worker put out public service announce­ Poirier worked with Habitat for receive 2nd annual + ments on radio and television, and Humanity on campus and spent a Poirier missing 2 weeks set up a hotline for people with semester living in Dismas House information on his whereabouts. - a home where college students Hes burgh Award Similar announcements, and a and former convicts Live together ByTIM LOGAN picture of Poirer, will appear in in community. Senior SraffWrirer Bolivian newspapers today. He also volunteered at "There By GEOFF BRODIE Friends at Notre Dame remem­ Are Children Here," a camp for News Wrirer bered him as a good kid, with a Chicago inner city youth. Camp Walter Poirier, a 2000 Notre mischevious streak. director Jim Langford, a core pro­ The second annual Hesburgh Award for Business Dame graduate serving in the "He was unique. Everyone knew fessor, remembers him as a dedi­ Ethics was presented on Wednesday evening in the Peace Corps in Bolivia, has been who Wally was," said Joe Priest, a cated and energetic. Jordan Auditorium to Daniel Kelly, a 1957 alumnus, missing for two weeks, U. S. offi­ 2000 grad who lived with Poirier "Wherever he was, there was a and his wife Rosemary, founders of a center for the cials and col- in Zahm Hall. "It's obvious what a kind of buzz," Langford said. seriously mentally ill. leagues said good person he is." "He's a leader and a person that The award was presented by Father Theodore Wednesday. Poirier was briefly the president enjoys life." Hesburgh, University president emeritus, on behalf of Poirier, 2 2, of Zahm Hall, before having to Father Jim Lies, who was rector Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Religious values in was last seen leave the dorm, and he ran for in Zahm when Poirier lived there, Business. by fellow vol­ student body president twice, in said the young man was a model The ceremony also included a lecture, "The New unteers on 1998 and 1999. He also encour­ for his dorm. Role of Business in Society," given by the Kellys and Feb. 22 in aged other Zahm residents to run "He was the quintessential John Boatright, professor of business ethics at Loyola LaPaz, for president, usually on irrever­ Zahmbie," Lies said. "He has more University in Chicago. The lecture was the third part Bolivia's capi- ent platforms that gently mocked spirit than any youth I've ever of the Frank Cahill Lecture Series, which was estab­ tal. He had Poirier the typical student government worked with, with more energy lished to honor 1959 Notre Dame alumnus Cahill and been working priorities. than anybody I know. It didn't his commitment to ethical behavior and integrity. in tourism development in the But he had a serious side, too. surprise me at all that he wound The Kellys received the Hesburgh Award for starting nearby Zongo Valley since August Poirier was heavily involved in up in the Peace Corps and helping and founding the Rose Hill Center. Located in Holly, 2000. community service while at Notre others." Mich., the Rose Hill Center houses 51 adults who need Government officials are trying Dame, friends said. Poirier got in his share of trou- to find Poirier, an embassy official "He was always volunteering," told the Associated Press. They see MISSING/page 4 I see AWARD/page 4 Priest said. ,.r ' page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Thursday, March 8, 2001 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK AT NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Hatching + Lecture: "Violence, + SUB spring break + Mass: Sacred Heart + Mass: Sacred Heart Politics and Collusion: The shuttle: Transportation to Basilica, 5 p.m. Basilica. 10 a.m .. 11 :45 I got the privilege of ducksitting today. No, not babysitting- ducksitting. causes behind Northern the Chicago airports, tick­ + Confession: Sacred a.m. My friend is a teaching assistant for an ani­ Ireland's Worst ets cost $8, purchase at Heart Parish Crypt, 4-5 mal behavior class and is training a duckling. I got to take care of the duck this afternoon. Tragedies," 4:15p.m., LaFortune info desk. p.m. After watching the duck Room C-103, Hesburgh for several hours, I began Departure times: to see that he feels very Center O'Hare: 10 a.m., 3 p.m. much like I do right now. Sammy the duckling Midway: 12 p.m. hatched yesterday and left the warm familiar place that was his shell. Now, he's not quite sure what to OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports do. The new place he has entered is exciting and full Molly McVoy of possibilities, but it's much bigger than his shell Protesters denounce U. Wisconsin newspaper and it's very scary. Sammy sort of waddles Saint Mary·s MADISON Machine." around unsure of who to Editor Numerous University of Wisconsin After reviewing the proposed publi­ trust. When someone holds student organizations gathered cation, Paloma Wright, advertising him tightly, then he relax- Tuesday to voice their displeasure director for the Herald, said it would es. with what they labeled "racist propa­ be improper to publish the MCSC ad Although I am definitely not a newly hatched ganda" printed in The Badger Herald. in the Herald. She wrote a letter to the duck, I know just how Sammy feels. After the rally, participants marched MCSC stating that the newspaper I am beginning the process of hatching out of to the Herald's office, demanding an "inadvertently" published the Center my shell that is Saint Mary's and I'm not sure apology and the resignation of Herald for the Study of Popular Culture's how I feel about leaving. Editor in Chief Julie Bosman. advertisement for Horowitz's book. Although it's several months until gradua­ Bosman said she would not apolo­ In a response to this material, which The MCSC ad ran Monday in The tion, I've started "hatching" already. This week gize for publishing a cartoon and a it deemed offensive, the Multicultural Daily Cardinal. is my last week as an editor for The Observer, book advertisement that have been Student Coalition (MSC) submitted an Printing the Horowitz ad was the my senior comp is submitted, and I'm accepted the center of recent controversy. The advertisement to the Herald, con­ mistake of an advertising account and planning for medical school.