- -------~------------------------------------------- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 39: ISSUE 35 MONDAY, OCTOBER 11,2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Cross display vandalized Right to Life demonstration torn down overnight the demonstration - one for Shaughnessy said this has not By PAUL SPADAFORA every three abortions that takes been the first time it has been News Writer place in the United States each vandalized. day - about 900 were knocked "I wasn't surprised, necessarily, Community members awoke down, said Caitlin Shaughnessy, a that there was vandalism, Friday morning to find the Respect Life Week co-commis­ because someone always vandal­ Cemetery of the Innocents - a sioner. izes this. Last year, someone two-day demonstration against 'Three hundred of those were drove their car through the abortion, run by campus club broken, and 100 were completely [crosses]," she said. "But I was Right to Life - had been vandal­ destroyed," Shaughnessy said. surprised at the degree of vandal­ ized by an unknown party. All of the crosses were re­ ism." According to Right to Life co­ assembled by Right to Life mem­ Rex Rakow, director of Notre president Janel Daufenbach, the bers by 3 p.m. Friday, Dame Security/Police, said NDSP cemetery was vandalized Daufenbach said. will be investigating the vandal- CHUY BENITEZffhe Observer between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. friday. While the damage done to the Mike Szaro, a member of Right to Life, picks up the pieces of Of the 1 ,200 crosses included in display was extensive, see VANDAL/page 4 the vandalized Cemetery of the Innocents on South Quad. Students rejoice in victory, pay for celebration Thirty ejected Fans glad Irish for alcohol, are back on marshmallows winning track By TERESA FRALISH By SARAH BARRETT Associate News Edi ror News Writer Stadium ushers ejected 30 After .last week's loss to students for either marshmal­ Purdue and the threat of a 3-1 low throwing or alcohol-related Stanford team coming to Notre offenses from Notre Dame Dame, fans were happy and Stadium during Saturday's relieved after Saturday's win game, coordinator of stadium against the Cardinals·. personnel Cappy Gagnon said. The storm clouds cleared and Of the 30 students removed the sun shined brightly from the stadium, about seven Saturday as fans gathered to to eight ejections resulted from watch the Notre Dame Irish marshmallow throwing, Gagnon take on the Stanford Cardinal. said. The other students told to After Stanford's fight to the leave either were visibly intoxi­ end against USC and the Irish cated or in possession of alco­ loss to Purdue still looming hol. About two-thirds of the from the previous weekend, alcohol-related cases involved Notre Dame students were pre­ possession, Gagnon said. pared for a win. "It's two criteria ... the first is Sophomore Doug Brown said that we see alcohol," Gagnon although he was anxious, he said. "The other cases are was happy with the final score. intoxication. In those we usually "It was a good time - a little observe some sort of symptom." closer that I would have liked, Gagnon said the number of CLAIRE KELLEY!The Observer but we played well and picked Seniors in the student section wail marshmallows at each other in the traditional halftime marsh­ mallow fight. Seven to eight students were ejected for throwing the confections, while over 20 see EJECTED/page 4 others were removed for alcohol-related offenses. see FANS/page 6 Saint Mary's hosts panel discussion on sexual diversity bisexual and queer (GLTBQ) are not part of the gender was something that I felt I had harder at Saint Mary's than By NICOLE ZOOK community during their time at everyone thinks they are," she to establish- this is who I am," elsewhere. News Writer Saint Mary's. said. "They are challenging the she said. "Whereas now, it's "Identifying as straight on this Event moderator Catherine assumptions kind of on the campus is so different from Approximately 45 Saint Pittman, a professor in the psy­ generally made "Identifying as back burner. It's identifying as queer. It's a com­ Mary's students, faculty and chology department, said cele­ about people. integrated into plete 180," senior Denae stafT kicked ofT National Coming brating the week is important to Heterosexuals straight on this my being, so it's Friedman said. "It's a really Out Week on a personal note Saint Mary's, a primarily het­ just do not have campus is so not something conservative place. I haven't felt Sunday by attending a panel erosexual environment where to do this." different from that I have to much oppression, personally or discussion on coming out as a most students do not have to Panel member think about as resistance, but it's just that gay or lesbian person in the deal with the issue of con­ Jenn Warner, a identifying as queer." much." everyone is so homogenous Saint Mary's community. fronting others with their sexu­ 1998 graduate, The panelists here. It's really hard. I've Those who ventured to the ality. emphasized com­ Denae Friedman shared both pos­ thought about transferring West Wing of the Noble Family "National Coming Out Day is a ing out is partic­ senior itive and nega­ thousands of times, but there's Dining Hall to listen were day where gay, lesbian, trans­ ularly prevalent tive experiences obviously a reason I'm here. It enlightened by a divnrsc panel sexual, bisexual and queer indi­ during the col- about their own makes me question myself." of three Saint Mary's graduates viduals are encouraged to tell lege years, a time when many coming out, ranging from com­ Kelli Harrison, a 1998 gradu­ and two current students who people that care about them young men and women attempt plete familial acceptance to ate, was one of the first Saint oll'ered perspectives on entering that they are attracted to people to shape their personalities. denial to rejection. the gay, l!~sbian, transgendered, of the same gender or that they "When I was in college, that All agreed the process was · see P~NEL/page 4 ....------------------------- --------- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Monday, October 11, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF SATURDAY'S GAME? Here goes nothing Oh mid-terms week, mid-terms week ... When I think about what the end of this week means for me, I get a Dan Lavrisha Jessica Maciejewski Gracie Madden Eric Doversberger Sarah Sibley Kevin O'Sullivan little scared. This week marks my last mid-terms junior junior sophomore senior junior junior week at Notre Michelle Otto Alumni Pangborn Cavanaugh Dillon Pangborn Off-campus Dame. I am halfway through . Photographer "I liked the "The band "That game was "I got a triple "I fell asleep in "Alas! My my last semester as a college stu- tailgating totally whack. yo!" word bonus for the third hippos are still dent. beforehand." dominated." 'varicose.,, quarter and Jell hungry; I lost. , No, I'm not graduating in offthe bench. December. l will still be here in South Bend, I will still be paying Did we win?" tuition to Notre Dame (sadly). But I will not have any classes on cam­ pus. Instead, I will spend eight hours a day (at least). five days a week at Mishawaka High School (MHS). student teaching in the English department. That's right. I'm a Notre Dame student who doesn't spend a lot of IN BRIEF time on campus. I am at Saint Mary's College for half of my classes this semester, and I spend a few Humala Aqrawee will give hours a day, three days a week at the lecture "The Progress of MHS. Democracy; the strategy for The time at MHS is a requirement Liberation in Iraq," tonight at for my education methods class. For 7 p.m. at Jordan Auditorium all of the science majors out there, at The Mendoza College of think of it as a lab; I spend the time Business. Aqrawee served as in a controlled (and sometimes not an interpreter for the 101st so controlled) environment, doing Airborne Division during hands-on work that relates to what Operation Iraqi Freedom. happens in the coordinating class. That's basically what a lab is, right? Zygmunt G. Baranski of Right now, I have three experi­ Cambridge University will ments, so to speak. I work with sen­ speak Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. iors in a college-credit course and about "Petrarch's Cavalcanti two remedial sophomore classes. and Dante." And wow, are they fun. The differ­ ence between the classes is Jazz pianist Marc Hossi will astounding. perform at Little Theatre or My seniors, well, I think some of Moreau Center at Saint them are on the same maturity level Mary's College Tuesday at as myself and my supervising 7:30 p.m as part of the teacher (their real teacher, Mrs. Leighton Music Festival. Fisher). My sophomores, on the other hand, well, I wouldn't know CLAIRE KELLEY !The Observer Former editor of where to begin. But getting them to Former Notre Dame head football coach Ara Parseghian and his wife gave a flag to Commonweal Magazine pay attention to early American a member of the Irish Guard at Saturday's Notre Dame - Stanford game. During his Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Literature (e.g. The Declaration of 11 years as Notre Dame's coach, he had a 95-17-4 record and won two National at 4 p.m. in Stapleton Independence, Anne Bradstreet and Championships. Lounge, LeMans lobby on Jonathan Edwards) is like pulling "Faith and Political teeth.