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Protests not endangering stu d en ts abroad
♦ Students react
to tensions in
Europe
By SHEILA FLY N N
News Writer
TOLEDO, Spain
As Notre D am e s tu d e n ts in
study a b ro a d p r o g r a m s t r a v ­
eled a c r o s s E u ro p e Feb. 15,
they e n c o u n te r e d m a ssiv e
d e m o n stra tio n s p ro te stin g
th e p o ss ib ility of U.S. m i l i ­
ta ry actio n in I r a q t h r o u g h ­
out m a jo r cities on th e c o n ti­
nent.
S tu d e n ts sa id th e p r o t e s t s
th e y e n c o u n t e r e d w e r e n o t
violent, b u t w e r e m a s s iv e ly
a tte n d e d and v eh em en tly
anti-Bush.
“ It w a s p a c k e d , ” s a i d
ju n io r K ath ry n O’Brien, w ho
w i t n e s s e d t h e p r o t e s t s in
Toledo, Sp ain, w h e r e s h e is
s t u d y i n g fo r t h e y e a r . “ I
co u ld n ’t even w alk. I h a d to
pu sh my way t h r o u g h e v e r y ­
body.”
M any o th e r T o le d o s t u ­
d e n ts w e r e in Seville, S pain
for p r o t e s t s , w h e r e p o lic e
p la c e d
th e
num ber
of
d e m o n s tr a to r s a t 6 0 ,0 0 0 a n d
o r g a n i z e r s c la im e d a t l e a s t
tw ic e t h a t a m o u n t w e r e in
a t t e n d a n c e . S p o r t i n g “No a
la G u e r r a ” s tic k e rs a n d w a v ­
in g a v a r i e t y o f b a n n e r s
W omen
e ith e r rid ic u lin g or d e n o u n c ­
in g B u sh , th e p r o t e s t e r s
flo o d e d th e s t r e e t s a n d
c h a n t e d wildly as th e N otre
Dam e s tu d e n ts and m any
o th e r A m e ric a n s looked on.
“T h e r e w e r e a lo t o f
A m e r i c a n s w a t c h i n g , ” s a id
s o p h o m o r e Jo e G uintu, w ho
is also s p e n d in g th e y e a r in
Toledo. “I d id n ’t feel in d a n ­
g e r or a n y th in g .”
J u n io r Ali G robe w itn e sse d
th e m a r c h of o v e r o n e m i l ­
lion p e o p le in R om e, w h e r e 1
sh e is study in g for th e ye a r,
an d sh e e c h o e d th e sam e
s e n tim e n ts .
“W e ’ve a l r e a d y h a d a few
p r o t e s t s in th e m o n th s t h a t
w e h a v e b e e n h e r e , ” G robe
s a i d . “T h e m a r c h e s a r e n ’t
n e c e ssa rily an ti-A m erican ,
t h e y a r e j u s t p r o - p e a c e or,
a t th e v e ry m o s t, a n ti- B u s h
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . I m e a n , we
d o n ’t r u n a r o u n d s c r e a m in g
in E n g lis h , b u t I d o n ’t feel
l i k e I a m in a d a n g e r o u s
position w h e n I walk a r o u n d
th e city.”
Most N otre D am e s tu d e n ts
s t u d y i n g on t h e c o n t i n e n t
ag reed th a t th e E u ro p ean
feeling w as, in d e e d , a n t i- w a r
an d an ti-B u sh r a th e r th an
a n ti-A m e ric a n . M any s t u ­
d e n ts s a id t h a t w h ile th e
m ajo rity of E u ro p e a n r e s i­
d e n ts are stro n g ly ag a in st
see M A R C H /page 6
♦ No plans exist to
evacuate abroad
participants
By SC O T T BRO DFUEH RER
Associate News Editor
I n c r e a s e d p r o t e s t s of U.S.
f o r e i g n p o l i c y a c r o s s th e
globe h a v e c a u s e d a d m i n i s ­
t r a t o r s of stu d y a b r o a d p r o ­
g ra m s a t N o tre D am e and
S a i n t M a r y ’s to c a r e f u l l y
m o n ito r in t e r n a t i o n a l t r a n s ­
p o r ta ti o n a n d local s e c u rity
a t p r o g r a m s ite s , b u t t h e r e
a r e n o p l a n s to h a v e s t u ­
d e n t s r e t u r n to t h e U n ite d
States.
On Feb. 15, millions of p r o ­
te s to r s g a th e r e d at citie s
a c r o s s th e g lo b e to p r o t e s t
t h e p o s s i b i l i t y of w a r w ith
Ir a q , i n c lu d in g c itie s w h e r e
s tu d e n ts a r e s tu d y in g a b ro a d
s u c h as A th e n s , D u b lin ,
L o n d o n a n d R o m e. An e s t i ­
m a te d one m illio n p e o p le
t o o k p a r t in m a r c h e s in
L ondon and Rom e, and
p o l ic e in A t h e n s u s e d t e a r
g a s to c o n t r o l c r o w d s w h o
b r o k e w ind ow s a n d t h r e w a
b o m b a t a n e w s p a p e r ’s
offices.
Thom as
B o g en sch ild ,
d ir e c to r of I n te r n a tio n a l
S tu d y P r o g r a m s a t N o tre
D am e , s a id t h a t h e w as not
a w a r e of a n y s t u d e n t b e in g
e n d a n g e r e d w hile a b ro a d .
“I h a v e no r e p o r t s of a n y ­
one
b ein g
endangered,
a lth o u g h people have r e p o r t ­
ed
b e in g
t e n s e , ” said
Bogenschild.
A n a s ta s ia Gutting, d ir e c to r
o f N o t r e D a m e ’s L o n d o n
P ro g ram , said sh e h a d h e a rd
se c o n d -h a n d only one r e p o r t
of a s t u d e n t w h o w as a s k e d
if she w as A m e ric a n .
“A w o m a n s t u d e n t h a d
b e e n a p p r o a c h e d by a m a n
w ho a s k e d if sh e w as
A m e ric a n and w h en she
re s p o n d e d [th a t sh e w as]
‘C a n a d i a n , ’ w h i c h w e s u g ­
g e st s tu d e n ts use as an
a n s w e r to th a t kind of q u e s ­
tio n , a n d a p p e a r e d u n c o m ­
f o r ta b le , he im m e d ia te ly
b ac k e d a w a y ,” sa id Gutting.
P e te r C hecca, c o u n s e lo r of
t h e S a i n t M a r y ’s R o m e
P r o g r a m , s a i d t h e C o lle g e
h a s b e e n s e n d in g s tu d e n ts to
Rom e sin c e 1 970 an d s t u ­
d e n t s h a v e b e e n in R o m e
d u rin g o th e r te n s e tim es,
such as the Gulf W a r a n d the
w a r in Yugoslavia.
“In tim es like th e s e , we tell
t h e s t u d e n t s to s t a y a w a y
from p r o te s ts a n d p la c e s
w h e re A m e ric a n s a re k now n
to c o n g r e g a t e , k e e p a low
p r o f i l e a n d go a b o u t t h e i r
b u s in e s s ,” said Checca.
A lth o u g h d e m o n s tr a to r s
w e r e p r o t e s t i n g U.S. policy,
B o g e n s c h ild s a id m a n y s t u ­
d e n t s h ave n o tic e d a d iff e r­
ence b e tw e e n p r o te s to r s r a l ­
lying a g a in s t A m e ric a n poli­
cy a n d r a l l y i n g a g a i n s t
A m e ric a n s in g e n e ra l.
“M ost s t u d e n t s a r e s e e in g
t h a t th e p r o t e s t o r s are ' n o t
a n ti- A m e r ic a n , b u t a r e antiU.S. policy. W h e t h e r s o m e ­
o n e ’s
v ie w s
are
an tiA m e r i c a n a r e in t h e eye of
th e b e h o l d e r , ” B o g e n s c h ild
said.
Bogenschild a d d e d th a t his
office has no p la n s to suggest
s tu d e n ts do not ta k e p a r t in
th e p ro te sts.
“If som e p r o te s ts got out of
h a n d and v io len ce w as
d ir e c te d at r a n d o m stu d e n ts,
I m ight re c o m m e n d th a t s t u ­
d e n ts not ta k e p a r t in them ,
b u t I d o n ’t see t h a t now, and
I would h a te to give such an
o r d e r [fo r s t u d e n t s n o t to
p a r tic ip a te ] ,” he said.
At t h i s p o i n t , t h e r e h a s
b e e n no in c r e a s e in security
at
stu d y
ab ro ad
sites
b e c a u s e of th e p r o t e s t s . A
la rg e n u m b e r of secu rity
m e a s u r e s a r e a l r e a d y in
p l a c e a t p r o g r a m s in la r g e
m e tr o p o l i t a n a r e a s , su c h as
L o n d o n , w h e r e t h e r e is
k e y e d a c c e s s to t h e c l a s s ­
room building a n d re sid e n c e
h all a n d s ta ffe d r e c e p tio n
desks.
see PR O T E ST S/page 6
SMC raises tuition
for third straight year
in the ring
to in c r e a s e costs.
“E v erything n ee d s to m ake
Saint Mary’s Editor
a d j u s t m e n t s , w h e t h e r you
a r e a b u sin e s s or a c o lleg e,”
T he S a in t M a r y ’s B oard of E n g le r said.
H ow ever, th e cost i n c r e a s ­
T ru stees approved a 6 p e r ­
e s a r e n o t in r e s p o n s e to
c e n t tu itio n i n c r e a s e for th e
co n stru c tio n
t h i r d
projects,
s t r a i g h t
"E veryth in g n e e d s to
E n g le r said .
y e a r a t i ts
m ake adju stm en ts,
W hile
th e
February
tru s te e s d is­
w h eth er you a re a bu si­
m e e tin g last
cussed
th e
w eek.
n ess or a college. ”
pr op os ed
Tuition
c a m p u s
w i l l
Melanie Engler
ap a rtm e n ts,
i n c r e a s e to
th e topic w as
$ 2 1 ,7 8 3 for
Saint Mary’s spokeswoman
ta b le d u n til
2003-04, a
th e
next
$ 1 , 2 3 3
b o a rd m e e tin g in April.
i n c r e a s e from th e 2 0 0 2 -0 3
The tr u s te e s also a p p ro v e d
a m o u n t of $ 2 0 ,5 5 0 . In a d d i ­
a 1.5 p e r c e n t in c r e a s e in fa c ­
t i o n , r o o m a n d b o a r d c o s ts
u lty a n d s ta f f s a la r ie s .
i n c r e a s e d by 5 p e r c e n t to $7,
A l t h o u g h t h e i n c r e a s e is
289, $347 m o re th a n they
lo w er
t h a n in t h e p a s t ,
a r e this year.
E n g l e r s a id th e i n c r e a s e is
In c lu d in g tu itio n , fees a n d
te n t a ti v e an d could be hig h e r
ro o m a n d b o a rd , th e a v e r a g e
to ta l cost for 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 0 4 will d e p e n d i n g on f i n a l e n r o l l ­
m ent num bers.
be $ 2 9 ,0 7 2 . T h e a v e ra g e
H o w e v e r, E n g le r s a id t h a t
2 0 0 2 -2 0 0 3 to ta l w as $27,
S a in t M a r y ’s e m p lo y e e s a r e
492.
s e c u r e in th e ir jo b s a n d th a t
Saint M a ry ’s sp o k e s w o m a n
M elan ie E n g ler a ttr ib u te d
t h e r e will be zero layoffs.
“T h e College is c o m m itte d
t h e c o st i n c r e a s e to h e i g h t ­
to its f a c u l t y a n d s t a f f , ”
e n e d i n s u r a n c e a n d p e n s io n
c o s ts in a d d itio n to a l o w e r
E n g le r said.
p ro jected en ro llm e n t. The
slow econom y w as also a fa c ­
C o n ta ct Sarah N estor at
t o r in th e t r u s t e e s ’ d e cisio n
N est9877l@ sa in tm arys.ed u
B y SARAH N E S T O R
LISA VELTE/The Observer
Sara Sw eeney, left and Kim Dunn fought It out in the ring Sunday. This is the first year that
the women have boxed publicly during the quarterfinals of the Bengal Bouts.
The Observer ♦
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I nside C olumn
Keeping
pace with
tuition
Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame Board of
Trustees have once again approved tuition
increases, thereby passing the College and
University’s costs onto students. However, this
is not an uncommon
phenomenon in the
Sarah Nestor
State of Indiana, or ------------------------even across the
Saint M ary’s
nation.
Indiana
Editor
University, Purdue
University and Ball
State have all approved tuition increases for
next year.
A main component leading to the approval
of tuition increases is the unprecedented high­
er education cuts that states, such as Indiana
have approved. Because of state budget
deficits there have been major cuts to in the
amount of aid colleges receive, which are then
passed on to students. According to The
Indianapolis Star in the past two years Indiana
Gov. Frank O’Bannon has cut $228 million in
state aid to colleges, in an attempt to reduce
Indiana’s $850 million deficit Currently 49
states are now facing budget deficits, which
has lead to tuition increases at colleges
throughout of the country and to an estimated
2 million college qualified students not being
able to afford a higher education this year.
Now the State of Indiana’s proposed budget
cuts will begin to directly affect Indiana stu­
dents as legislators look to approve a budget
this week. The $22.9 billion two-year budget
was approved by the Indiana House of
Representative, 51-49, and will now be sent to
the Indiana Senate for approval. The House
Bill lOOlwifl restore cuts made by O’Bannon
that affected state colleges and universities.
As students at Saint Mary’s and Notre
Dame we are very much aware of the high
cost of higher education and the importance of
financial aid. The Independent Colleges of
Indiana organization, of which both Saint
Mary’s and Notre Dame are members, is ask­
ing that students express the importance of
state-funded financial aid to Indiana State
House Representatives and State Senators.
This is important as it is expected that for the
first time Indiana State grant aid will not be
able to cover tuition increases.
Funding for higher education institutions
has not been a priority, especially in light of the
State’s budget deficits, but state funded aid for
private institutions has become an even lover
priority. It is important that State representa­
tives realize how important state funded aid is
to students. Without this aid more and more
students will have to turn to private loans.
Already The College Board reports that pri­
vate loans increased from $1.3 billion in 19%
to $5.5 billion in 2002.
The continuingly rising cost of Indiana
Colleges has not gone unnoticed by Indiana
state legislators. There has been recent talk of
capping college tuition costs in the State.
“If these universities continue the way they
are and increase tuition to an excessive
amount - and we think they have - the legisla­
ture probably will take a look at taking over
the duty of establishing a percentage increase
in tuition,” Sen. Lawrence Borst, R
Greenwood, chairm an of the Senate
Finance Committee told The Indianapolis Star.
Although more worrisome is Stan Jones,
Indiana’s higher education commissioner,
assertion that Indiana’s tuition increases
exceeded what was needed to compensate for
state funding losses.
However, Jones’ comment that tuition
increases have not been solely caused by the
State’s recession, does not change the fact that
tuition increases seem inevitable, forcing stu­
dents to become ever more dependent on
much needed financial aid.
The view s e x p re sse d in th e In sid e
Column are those o f the a u th o r a n d
not necessarily those o f The Observer.
C o n ta c t
S a rah
N e s to r
at
nest9877@ saintm arys.edu.
Monday, February 24, 2003
WTLAT S U P
W h at ’s I nside
CAMPUS
NEWS
WORLD &
NATION
BUSINESS
NEWS
Notre Dame
recognizes
disability
awareness
week
Iraqis delay
final decision
on banned
missiles
Gas prices at
near record
levels
The C e n te r for
Social C o n c e rn s ,
a long w ith o th e r
c am p u s o rg a n iz a ­
tions, is sponsoring
a week of disability
awareness events.
Iraq h a s y et to
make a decision on
a U N . order that it
d e s tr o y
its A1
S am o u d 2 missile
program.
page 6
page 5
W hat’s Happening @
Gas prices rose 7
c e n ts per gallon
over the p a st two
weeks
p u s h in g
p u m p p ric e s to
near record highs.
Prices are the high­
est they have been
in alm o st two
years.
VIEWPOINT
SCENE
Reconsidering
slavery
Bring in the
spring
fashions
Winning
streak
extended to 4
as Irish sweep
Lakers
Find o u t what is
hot and what is not
for -both women in
men for the upcom­
ing 2003 spring sea­
son.
N o tr e
Dame
h oc k e y e x te n d e d
its w in ning streak
a n d m ov ed into a
tie for fifth place in
the CCHA with its
w in s o v e r Lake
S u p e r io r
State
F r id a y
and
Saturday.
Columnist Maite
Uranga encounters
s la v e ry in the
A frican n a tio n of
Mauritania,
th r o u g h h e r host
family and village
friends.
page 7
page 11
W
ND
hat ’ s
SPORTS
page 22
page 12
G oing D own
Student pick-pocketed
♦ Sign up for the Freshm an re tre a t at 114 colcman-Morse
Center.
A student rep orted the theft of money from her
coat pocket in LaFortune. There a re no suspects.
♦ Sign up for graduate student retreat, contact Fr. John
Pearson at 1-7953.
Student drinking violation
♦ Lilly F n d o w m e n t C om m unity Scholars open h o u se
5 p m - 7 pm a t M c k e n n a H all, C e n t e r for C o n t i n u i n g
education.
NDSP transp orted a student to St. Joseph
Medical Center for tre a tm e n t of injuries sustained
during a fall off campus. T he case is being
referred for administrative review.
Ambulance needed at Lafortune
A visitor w as transported by ambulance for tr e a t­
m e n t of an illness.
W hat’s Happening @
Suspicious activity at Graduate housing
SMC
A student reported the window screen in his bed­
room was removed and laying on the ground out­
side.
♦ Black History Month Speaker
Victor Lee Lewis will be speaking at 7 p.ni, Carrol
Auditorium.
Car towed for parking violations
♦ Political Science Club Meeting will be held in the North
Wedge room at 5 p.m.
Two student vehicles were towed for parking vio­
lations on W ednesday at the Hesburgh Center for
International studies.
♦ Post Graduation Service Fair will be held at 4 p.m. in
Stapleton Lounge.
- complied from the NDSP crime blotter
W hat ’s C ooking
North Dining Hall
South Dining Hall
Saint Mary’s Dining Hall
T o d a y ’s Lunch: A1 prosciutto pizza,
betsy flannigan grilled chicken breast,
b o u la n g e re p o ta to e s, brow n sau ce,
c h ic k e n g rav y , w h ip p ed p o ta to e s ,
m ixed v e g e ta b le s, c h e r ry crisp , orzo
w ith p o r to b e llo a nd c r e a m , broccoli
quiche, cut corn, sliced carrots, baked
potato, BBQ beef sandwich, fried potato
skins, onion rings
Today’s Lunch: Beef ravioli, spinach
fettuccine, pesto sauce, tom ato pizza,
app le tu r n o v e r , BBQ b e e f s a n d w ic h ,
sh rim p sp a g h e tti, r o tiss e rie chicken,
oriental vegetables, ro asted rosem ary
p o ta t o e s , r e d b e a n s a n d ric e , c o rn
dogs, fishwich, crinkle fries, soft p ret­
zels, stir-fry b e e f a n d s o u th w e s te r n
pasta sauce, basil-garlic linguine
T o d a y ’s L u n c h : B iriyani ric e with
cashews, baked potatoes, broccoli cuts,
fettucine pasta toss, sw eet potato b is­
cu its, to rte llin i, te x a s style b ris k e tt,
ly o n n aise
p o tato es,
corn
&
to m ato e s,c h ic k e n fajita pizza, cheese
p iz z a ,B re a d stick s, v e g e ta b le an d
c h eese c h im ic h a n g a ,refrie d bean s,
nachos, cheese sauce
T o d a y ’s D inner: Honey-glazed ham ,
baked beans, brown sauce, pork gravy,
w h ip p e d p o ta to e s, m ixed v e g e ta b le s,
c h e r r y crisp, v e g e ta b le s r a b a t , c o u s ­
cous, b a k e d p o ta to , b roccoli, c a u li­
flow er, s c ra m b le d eggs w ith c h e ese ,
french toast sticks, Lyonnaise potatoes
T o d a y ’s D i n n e r : B uffalo c h ic k e n
l a s a g n a , s p i n a c h f e t t u c c i n e , p e s to
s au ce, to m a to pizza, ap ple tu rn o v e r,
vegetables m a rin a ra , capri-blend veg­
etables, baked tu rb o t ja rd in ie re , beef
bourguignon, kluski noodles, bourbonbaked ham, baked sweet potatoes
T o d a y ’s D in n e r : P a s t a f a n ta s ti c a ,
veggie c u tle t with m u s h r o o m daice,
h arvard beets, vegetable corn muffins,
te m p u ra vegtable bar, broccoli, zucchi­
ni, cauliflower, sauteed chicken breast,
c h e e se stuffed shells, rice pilaf, s e a ­
soned corn, garlic tomato surprise
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Freshman have choice for council Lack of candidates
for sophomore class
By JOE TROMBELLO
N ews Writer
F r e s h m e n w ill e l e c t e i t h e r
M att G o u let fro m S t a n f o r d ,
J a m e s L e ito f r o m S i e g f r i e d ,
Michael Rooney from Alumni or
M att S o m m a fro m K n o tt fo r
sop hom ore class council p r e s i­
dent today.
“W hen th e s o p h o m o r e c la ss
officers a r e elected, they decide
h o w th e y w o u ld like to h a v e
th e i r c ouncil lo o k ,” sa id Amy
Geist, f r e s h m a n c la ss c o u n c il
sponsor.
Goulet’s ticket includes vicepre sid e n t Ralph Pantony, t r e a ­
s u r e r Justin O’Neill and s e c r e ­
t a r y M a t t B e c k . If e l e c t e d ,
G o u le t h o p e s to a p p o i n t o n e
m e m b e r from the Class of 2006
to th e S o u th B e n d m u n i c i p a l
c o u n c i l m e e t i n g s to f o s t e r
g re a te r
co m m u n ic a tio n
b e tw e e n N o tre D am e a n d th e
South Bend community.
O ther pla tfo rm ideas include
h o ld in g a Y a c h t C lu b - th e m e d
dance for the soon-to-be s o p h o ­
m ores an d m onthly class Mass,
im p le m e n tin g a life-skills p r o ­
g r a m to te a c h b a sic c o n c e p ts
like cooking a n d checking b a l­
ancing, c han ging North Dining
Hall h ours to close a t 7:30 p.m.
a n d e x p a n d i n g t h e S a fe W a lk
prog ram .
Letio, on a tic k e t w ith Kate
D istler, Mark Seiler an d A n na
Skoien, p ro m ised social events
like so p h o m o r e ta ilg a te s , d in ­
n e rs, dan ces, dorm riv alries
a n d c l a s s t r i p s to f o s t e r a
g r e a t e r s e n s e of c o m m u n ity
a n d class spirit. The Leito p la t­
form inclu des c h a n g in g N orth
D in in g H all h o u r s f ro m 5 to
7 :3 0 p .m ., im p r o v in g s t u d e n t
bask etball se a tin g in the Joyce
C enter, e x p a n d in g th e c u r r e n t
r o o m m a t e s u r v e y s e n t by the
F irs t Y ear of S tu d ies and
c h a n g i n g t h e DART s y s t e m .
This is the only fre sh m a n class
c o u n c i l t i c k e t w ith p r e v i o u s
stu d en t governm ent e x p e ri­
ence.
R o o n e y ’s t i c k e t i n c l u d e s
Brittany Radcliffe, Evan Dewalt
a n d K a th y rn Finn. T hey w a n t
to c r e a t e n e w t r a d itio n s such
as a kick-off p a rty a n d dance to
s t a r t th e s o p h o m o re y e a r, a
sop ho m ore rally and a Class of
2 0 0 6 c o n c e r t w i th b i g - n a m e
b a n d s c h o s e n by c la s s m e m ­
bers.
T h e ir p la tfo rm also includ es
t h e c r e a t i o n of a n e x p a n d e d
c la s s r e g i s t e r w ith m o re
d e ta ile d in fo rm a tio n ab o u t
c l a s s m a t e s , a H o o lig a n Club
s i m i l a r to t h e L e p r e c h a u n
L egion b u t in c lu s iv e of o t h e r
s p o rtin g e v e n ts a n d la te -n ig h t
w eekend food sales.
S o m m a ’s tic k e t f e a tu r e s fel­
lo w K n o tt r e s i d e n t s C la y to n
Allison, Matt Stefanski and Ben
Nickol. A lth o u g h th e y do not
have a formal platform or Web
s i t e , S o m m a s a i d h is t i c k e t
p la n s to c r e a t e m o r e feasib le
changes th a n o th e r tickets have
suggested.
Som m a said o pen forum dis­
c u ssio n s a n d a m o r e in -d e p th
r e g is te r will allow for g r e a t e r
co m m unication and interaction
b etw een class m e m b e rs and an
u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f w h a t th e
Class of 20 06 w ould like th e ir
go vern m ent to accomplish
In t h e e v e n t t h a t no ti c k e t
gains a majority vote, a run-off
election will be held Thursday.
C on tact J o e T ro m b e llo at
jtrom b el@ n d .ed u .
By M A TT BRAM ANTI
N ew s Writer
' sions, so they can’t commit” to
stu d e n t g ov ernm ent, he said.
Kinsella called on international
study programs to issue earlier
decisions, so that m ore inter­
e ste d s tu d e n ts could p u rsu e
class offices.
Kinsella said he was satisfied
with his council’s work so far.
“I was happy with w hat we
a c c o m p l i s h e d , a n d I hope
[Barrett] will continue the ser­
vice e v e n ts we s t a r t e d , ” he
said.
Barrett noted the work of the
c u r r e n t c la s s l e a d e r s , and
p le d g e d to c o n t i n u e t h e ir
efforts. Her ticket aims at con­
tinuing some successful themes
from her predecessors, includ­
ing s e r v ic e p r o j e c t s , social
events, and improved commu­
nication with faculty members.
“We really want to unite this
junior class,” she said.
Election day is upon us, and
w o u ld - b e c la s s o ff ic e r s a r e
j o c k e y i n g for p o s i tio n , b u t
sophomores have one ticket to
c h o o s e fro m w h e n e le c ti n g
t h e i r j u n i o r c la s s l e a d e r s .
C a v a n a u g h r e s i d e n t Katie
B a r r e tt leads the sole ticket
seeking election.
Despite the low t u r n o u t of
voting students in recent elec­
tions, Barrett dismisses talk of
a p a t h y a m o n g th e c la s s of
2005. She attributes the n a r ­
row field of candidates to the
large number of juniors pursu­
ing study-abroad programs.
“I had a hard time filling the
ticket because so many people
a r e g oing a b r o a d , ” B a r r e t t
said.
M att K insella, th e c u r r e n t
s o p h o m o r e c la ss t r e a s u r e r ,
echoed that sentiment.
“So many people are waiting C o n ta ct M att B ram anti at
for [international study] deci- b ra m a n ti.l@ n d .ed u
Current junior class to pick council representatives
♦ Council
candidates to look
at social services
By H IM A N S H U K O T H A R I
N ew s Writer
Ju n io rs
w ill
d ecid e
b e tw e e n J a z m in G a rc ia of
W elsh F a m ily a n d M e g a n
H orner of P a sq u e rilla E ast
fo r p r e s i d e n t o f t h e s e n i o r
c la ss co u n c il to d a y . T he
s e n i o r class p r e s i d e n t is u s u ­
a lly e l e c t e d fo r a p e r i o d of
fo u r y e a r s , m a k in g it a m u c h
la r g e r c o m m itm e n t th a n
o th e r
c la ss
p re sid e n ts.
B e s id e s o r g a n iz in g a c tiv itie s
for th e s e n io r c la s s , th e
p r e s id e n t also w o rk s w ith
A lu m n i c lu b s a c ro s s th e
n a t i o n to b r i n g t o g e t h e r
a lu m n i a f te r g r a d u a t i o n .
G a r c i a ’s t i c k e t i n c l u d e s
C h ip M a r k s o f S i e g f r i e d a s
v ic e -p re sid e n t, o ff-cam pus
r e s i d e n t K a tie C o n k lin as
tre a su re r
and
C arol
M cC arth y of P a s q u e r i l l a E ast
as secretary .
T h e i r c a m p a i g n is b a s e d
a r o u n d m a n y s o c ia l a n d s e r ­
v ic e a c t i v i t i e s t h a t i n c l u d e
b u i l d i n g u p o n m a n y o f th e
th in g s don e th is y e a r by the
s e n i o r c lass c o u n c ils , G a rc ia
s a i d . H er m a i n s o c ia l e v e n t
fo r th e y e a r w o u ld be a
p a r t y a t L e g e n d s , w h e n it
o p e n s , to c e l e b r a t e t h e
b i r t h d a y s of all t h e s e n i o r s
w h o t u r n 21 t h r o u g h o u t th e
y e a r . G a r c i a a l s o p l a n s to
w o r k w ith c lu b s lik e FASO,
L a A l i a n z a a n d N A A C P to
h a v e [m o re] m in o r ity clu b
a c tiv itie s .
G a r c i a ’s
tic k e t
faces
P a sq u e rilla W est re s id e n ts
M egan H orner as p resid en t,
C a n a S cott as v ic e - p r e s id e n t ,
L a u r a Sech as t r e a s u r e r a n d
A llyson S p a c h t as s e c r e t a r y .
H o r n e r ’s t i c k e t b e l i e v e s
th e i r effo rts an d id e a s can
m a k e s e n io r y e a r m e m o r a b l e
by unify in g th e s e n i o r class.
H o r n e r did n o t p r o v i d e f u r ­
t h e r c a m p a ig n d e ta ils .
Both c a m p a ig n s e m p h a s iz e
th e im p o r ta n c e of c o n tin u in g
th is y e a r ’s a c tiv itie s s u c h as
M a ra g a r it a v ill e .
C o n ta ct H im an sh u K oth ari at
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Colleges targeted
for terror threat
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B y A idian H older
T he Man eater
Don’t w rap Jesse Hall at the
University of
Missouri in plastic and duct
tape ju st yet, but FBI Director
R o b e r t M u e ller w a r n e d la s t
week that schools and univer­
sities may be on al Q aeda’s list
of U.S. targets.
M ueller
to ld
C ongress
attacks against targets such as
colleges or a p a r t m e n t b u ild ­
ings a r e likely b e c a u s e th e y
“w ou ld be e a s i e r to e x e c u te
and would minimize the need
to communicate with the c en ­
tr a l le a d e rs h ip , lo w e rin g
therisks of detection.”
Mueller's statements cam e in
conjunction with an elevation
of th e h o m e la n d se c u rity
t h r e a t le v e l f r o m y e llo w
“gu a rd e d ” to orange “high” for
o n ly t h e s e c o n d ti m e s i n c e
being created.
Although the increased alert
le v e l s e n t s o m e r u s h i n g to
h ardw are
sto re s
a fter
H om eland Security S e c re ta ry
Tom Ridge said plastic s h e e t­
ing a n d d u c t t a p e w o u ld be
useful in the event of chemical
or biological attack,
University of Missouri police
Capt. B rian W e im e r s a id he
w asn 't overly concerned.
“You just have to realize that
a n y th in g c a n h a p p e n a t any
tim e,” Weimer said. “Its som e­
thing w e ’ve been aw are of for­
ever; 9/11 ju s t pushed th a t to
the forefront.”
He said MUPD has been tak­
ing special precautions against
t e r r o r i s m s in c e t h e t e r r o r
a tta ck s of Sept. 11, 2001, but
t h e r e ’s no e a s y w a y to tell
howeffective they are.
“A lot of time you d on ’t know
if they work,” Weimer said.
MU professor of political sci­
ence and terrorism expert Paul
W allace said he's skeptical of
the te rro r warnings.
“U n le ss t h e r e ’s s o m e t h i n g
specific that the public can do,
a w arning without m ean in g is
c o u n t e r p r o d u c t i v e , ” W allace
said.
Wallace said he doubted the
effectiveness of plastic sheeting
to protect against chemical or
biological attack.
“ E i t h e r y o u ’ll s e a l u p th e
room so tight you c a n ’t get any
a i r in , or you w o n ’t a n d it
w on 't do any good,” he said.
A lthough som e critics have
m o ck ed the Bush a d m in is tr a ­
tion's terror warnings as inef­
fective, others have attributed
political motivations to them .
The latest alert upgrade came
on the same day as the Center
for Public.
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I raq
Iraqis delay final decision on banned missiles
Associated Press
BAGHDAD
Iraq has made no decision on
a U.N. o rd e r that it destroy its
A1 Sam oud 2 missile p r o g r a m
and hopes to resolve the missile
issue with the United Nations,
I r a q ’s c h i e f l ia i s o n to U.N.
inspectors said Sunday.
Gen. Hossam Mohamed Amin
to ld j o u r n a l i s t s t h a t I r a q i
authorities were studying a let­
ter sent Friday by chief inspec­
tor Hans Blix ordering the m is­
siles’ destruction.
“We are serious about solving
this,” he said.
Blix o r d e r e d t h a t a U .N .supervised destruction of all A1
Samoud 2 missiles, w a r h e a d s ,
fuel, engines and other com po­
nents m u st begin by M arch 1.
The missiles exceed the 93-mile
range limit set by U.N. r e s o lu ­
tions adopted at the end of the
1991 Gulf War.
Iraq says some of the missiles
t e s t e d flew b e y o n d 93 m ile s
because they were not weighed
dow n by g u id a n c e a n d o t h e r
systems.
“We d id n ’t expect UNMOVIC
[the inspection team] to dem and
the destruction of A1 Samoud 2
missiles,” Amin said.
He said t h a t d e s tr o y in g th e
m is s il e w o u ld b e a b lo w to
Ira q ’s defensive capabilities —
but not a serious blow.
It “w ould affect our fighting
c a p a b ilitie s , b u t it w o uld n o t
f i n is h t h e m o r a f f e c t t h e m
greatly,” he said. “This missile
r e p r e s e n ts only one a s p e c t of
our defensive capabilities. We
have c o m p re h e n s iv e c a p a b ili­
ties.”
Amin expressed optimism that
th e U n ite d N a tio n s a n d I r a q
would be able to work out their
differences over the A1 Samoud
2 — “without interference from
the Americans or the British.”
Amin r e p e a te d I r a q ’s claims
that it is “clean” of weapons of
mass destruction, and said Iraq
is cooperating with the inspec­
tors in an attem pt to prove it.
“I r a q is f a c i l i t a t i n g all th e
n e e d s of th e i n s p e c t o r s , ” he
said.
He cited as an exam ple th a t
Iraq has begun to dig trenches
a t s ite s w h e r e it u n i la te r a ll y
destroyed chemical and biologi­
c a l w e a p o n s so t h a t U.N.
inspectors can examine the soil
for proof of its action. He said a
U.N. team w as due in Baghdad
on M a r c h 2 to e x a m i n e t h e
sites.
Amin also highlighted I r a q ’s
ag reem ent to let American U-2
spy planes fly over its territory
to s u p p o r t th e w o r k of t h e
inspectors.
He said he expected Fre n ch
Mirage planes to begin flying as
well over the next two days, and
th a t Iraq w a s d iscu ssing with
AFP
Iraq’s top disarmament liaison officer General Hossam Mohammed Amin talks to the press in
Baghdad on February 2 3 . Amin said th at th e destruction of Iraq’s Al-Samoud m issiles as
demanded by the United Nations will adversely affect the country’s defense capabilities.
the United N a tions the use of
German drones as well.
The United States and Britain
a c c u s e I r a q of d e v e l o p i n g
w e a p o n s o f m a s s d e s t r u c t io n
and long-range missiles, despite
U.N. bans on both. Iraq denies
holding such w eapons and says
its enem ies have their eyes on
Ira q ’s oil and on world dom ina­
tion.
The United States and Britain
a re trying to focus the w o rld’s
a t t e n t i o n o n i l le g a l I r a q i
w e a p o n s activ ities while they
p re p a r e a new U.N. resolution
that could pave the way for mil­
itary action.
Nightclub tragedies motivate increased inspections
Associated Press
CHICAGO
Fire in sp e c to rs d e s c e n d e d on n ig h t­
clubs a c r o s s the n a tio n S a t u r d a y a nd
Sunday after two nightclub tragedies in
the sp a n of a w eek killed 117 people,
some caught in a sta m p e d e and others
burned to death in a fire.
In C h ic ag o , w h e r e 21 p e o p le w e r e
tra m pled at the E2 nigh tclub Feb. 17,
inspectors evacuated the second floor of a
club e a rly S u n d a y a f te r fin ding o v e r ­
crowding, blocked exits and other prob­
lems.
A rock band competition p lann ed for
S a le m , O re ., w a s c a n c e l e d a f t e r a n
in s p e c tio n t h e r e r e v e a l e d th e v e n u e
didn’t meet fire and building codes.
And other cities, including Dallas and
Kansas City, Mo., put more inspectors on
duty and kept them out until the early
hours Saturday and Sunday, when clubs
are most crowded.
The flurry of in spections closely fol­
lo w ed the d e a th s late T h u r s d a y of 96
people in a West Warwick, R.I., nightclub,
w here a rock ba n d ’s pyrotechnics ignited
the ceiling tiles and quickly engulfed the
n ig h tc lu b a n d its t r a p p e d p a t r o n s in
flames.
Fire officials a cross the country said
Sunday that they were finding clubgoers
almost everywhere w ere more aw are of
th e ir s u r r o u n d in g s t h a n u s u a l — a n d
more willing to report problems.
“W e ’ve seen a s h a rp in c rea se in the
W orld N ews B riefs
num ber of reported overcrowdings,” even
though most didn’t prove to be problems,
said Brian Humphrey, a sp ok esm an for
the Los Angeles Fire Department.
More p e o p le t h a n u s u a l also called
Chicago a u th o ritie s to co m plain a b o u t
clubs there, said Chief Kevin MacGregor,
a department spokesman.
It was a complaint that led police to the
Rive Gauche nightclub early Sunday.
“We f o u n d a n u m b e r o f life s a fe ty
issues that required closing down the sec­
ond floor of this club,” he said. “We will
be writing up violations on the building,
and they’ve got to comply before we let
them reopen.”
K ansas City’s fire d e p a rtm e n t, which
typically conducts inspections during the
week, sent four teams of investigators to
54 e stab lish m e n ts on Friday night and
Saturday morning. In Dallas, the city fire
departm ent, which now has two full-time
n ig h tc lu b in s p e c to r s , p le d g ed to t e m ­
porarily add a second two-member team
to search for safety violations.
P h i l a d e l p h i a M a y o r J o h n F. S t r e e t
announced Sunday that the city’s approx­
imately 200 nightclubs would face e m e r­
gency inspections in th e next 60 days.
M a s s a c h u s e t t s ’ g o v e r n o r on F r id a y
ordered similar inspections statewide.
In Miami Beach, which has more than
60 clubs, Fire Marshal Ed Del Favro said
t h e c ity c o n t i n u e d a n a l r e a d y b u s y
inspection schedule. Fire marshals are in
the clubs during peak hours every Friday
a n d S a t u r d a y n ig h t a n d m a k e a b o u t
3,000 inspections a year, he said.
N ational N ew s B riefs
Chavez opponent charged with treason
Possible shuttle debris found in Nev.
G overnors complain about health care
A leading opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez w h o h e lp e d le a d a tw o - m o n t h n a t i o n a l
strike was put u n d e r house a r r e s t Sunday after a
judge struck down a tre a so n charge but left s ta n d ­
ing two o th e r s erio u s c o u n ts. Carlos F e r n a n d e z ,
p resident of the F e d e c a m a r a s b usin e ss c h a m b e r,
was seized Wednesday by federal agents. An a rre st
o r d e r w as issu ed for a n o t h e r s tr ik e l e a d e r who
remains in hiding.
'T eam s searching for parts shed by the space s h u t­
tle. Columbia as it broke a p a r t found more small
metal fragments Sunday in a rural p a rt of sou th ­
east Nevada. Digital photographs of the material
w e re s e n t to NASA’s J o h n s o n Space C e n te r in
Houston for analysis. Several small scraps of a lu ­
m inum were also found Saturday. NASA has not
confirmed w hether any debris west of Texas came
from the shuttle.
Governors say the national program that guarantees
h ealth care for the poor b ears m uch of the blame
for their s ta te ’s financial woes. Governors at their
a n n u a l w inter meeting are hoping to present a unit­
ed front on tra nsportation needs, homeland security
f u n d in g , M e d ic a id a n d m ore . R e p u b lic a n s c o m ­
plained that the National Governors Association —
th e grou p h olding the m e eting — m o re reflected
Democratic views th a n a bipartisan approach.
UAE deploys troops to protect Kuwait
NIH creates grant for biodefense lab
Autopsy to investigate 17-year old’s death
H u n d re d s o f in fa n tr y m e n from the U nited A ra b
Emirates, along with tanks and a rm ored personnel
c a rrie rs, a rriv ed in K uw ait on Sunday, p a r t of a
security force deployed a h e a d of a p ossible U.S.
attack on Iraq. The troops w ere on a mission to pro­
tect Kuwait if it is attacked by Iraq and are not part
of the U.S.-led military force arrayed for a possible
offensive.
At l e a s t six i n s t i t u t i o n s h a v e a p p l i e d to t h e
National Institutes of Health for a g ra n t to build a
$200 million high-security biodefense laboratory
to r e s e a rc h the w o r ld ’s deadliest diseases. The
NIH will announce its choice in the fall. Among
the a p p lic a n ts a r e th e U niversity of Illinois at
Chicago, Boston University Medical C enter and
the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Medical ex a m in ers will determ ine w hat ultimately
killed a teenag er who survived a botched heart-lung
tra n s p la n t but died two days after receiving a sec­
ond set of organs. An autopsy was planned Monday
on the body of Je sica Santillan, th e state medical
e x a m in e r ’s office said. Santillan, whose own h e art
h a d a deformity th a t kept h e r lungs from getting
oxygen into her blood, died on Saturday.
Monday, February 24, 2003
The Observer ♦ N E W S
Thomas A quanias exam ined at SMC sym posium
By SARAH N E ST O R
Saint Mary’s Editor
Saint M ary’s hosted the sixth
a n n u a l T h o m as A q u in as
S y m p o siu m
in
LeM ans
S ta p le to n L oun ge S a t u r d a y .
The sym posium f e a tu re d le c ­
tu r e s by Keith Egan, a S a in t
M ary’s religious stu d ie s p r o ­
fe s s o r, a n d S is te r M ary
C a th e rin e H ilk ert, a N o tre
Dame theology professor.
Egan b e g a n the sym posium
with his in tro d u c to ry le c tu re
titled “T ak in g a Long Loving
Look at the Real with T hom as
A q u i n a s . ” He r e l a t e d t h e
teach in gs of T hom as Aquinas
to real life experiences, specif­
ically the e x p e rie n c es of col­
lege students.
T h e t e a c h i n g s of T h o m a s
A q u in a s , E g a n s a id , c a n be
u s e d to r e f l e c t on o u r ow n
lives and find the truth of con­
t e m p l a t i o n , w h i c h l e a d s to
happiness.
“C o n te m p la tio n and action
do and m u s t s h a p e each
o the r,” he said.
Egan c o n te n d e d t h a t th e re
a r e many things in our culture
th a t keep us from contem plat­
ing the t r u th , such as televi­
sion, w h ic h c a n d i s t r a c t us.
A c c o rd in g to Egan, s tu d e n ts
have m any w ays to e n te rta in
themselves, but little time for
leisure.
“The absence of leisure does
not allow for c o n te m p la tio n ,”
he said.
Egan said the following four
step s can lead to tr u e le a r n ­
ing: pay attention to yours and
o t h e r s e x p e r i e n c e s , try to
u n d e r s t a n d t h a t e x p e rie n c e ,
be willing to judge the correct­
ness of experience and make a
d e c is io n w h e t h e r to a c t on
judgment.
“We are doomed to medioc­
rity w h e n t h e r e is no joy in
l e a r n i n g , ” E g a n s a id . “Play
with your learning.”
H i l k e r t ’s l e c t u r e , t i t l e d
“ D o es God W ill S u f f e r i n g ?
H i l k e r t s a id t h e r e c o u ld
n e v e r be an e x p l a n a tio n for
senseless and radical suffering
a n d t h a t t h e s e a c t s c o u ld
n e v e r b e c o n s i d e r e d G o d ’s
will.
“ O ur d if f ic u lty is t h a t we
cannot see the g r e a te r good,”
Hilkert said.
The
Thom as
A q u in as
Symposium was sponsored by
t h e Joyce McMahon A q uinas
Chair in Catholic Theology at
Saint M ary’s and is the gift of
Board of Trustee m e m b e r and
alu m n a Joyce McMahon Hank.
Thom as
A q u in as
and
C o n tem p o rary T h eo lo g y ,”
focused on w h e th e r suffering
is a p a rt of God’s will.
H ilk e rt
spoke
about
trag edies such as the Sept.11
te r r o r is t attacks, the violence
in the Middle East and friends
dying of c a n c e r. H ilkert said
m a n y believe su c h tr a g e d ie s
a r e p a r t of G o d ’s p la n , b u t
a dded that belief is not neces­
sarily true.
“T h e y q u e s t i o n w h y God
w o u l d le t t h i s h a p p e n , n o t
h a v i n g c o m e to t e r m s w ith
w h a t has h a p p e n e d , ” H ilkert
said. “Avoid b lam ing God for
w h a t hu m a n s a re responsible
for.”
C ontact Sarah N estor at
nest9877@ saintm arys.edu
Notre Dame recognizes disability awareness week
By CLAIRE HEININGER
News Writer
N o tre D a m e s t u d e n t s w ill
have the opportunity to show
t h e i r s u p p o r t fo r a n d l e a r n
more about people with disabil­
ities this week as the Center for
Social Concerns, Best Buddies,
th e L o g a n C e n t e r , S p e c i a l
Friends and Howard Hall unite
to present Disability Awareness
Week on campus.
The reco g n itio n b e g in s
Monday, when silver aw areness
rib b o n s will be a v a ila b le for
students and faculty to display
their su p p o rt for the disabled
members of the University com ­
munity.
March
continued from page 1
military actio n, they a r e still
in te r e s te d in th e o pin io n s of
the ave ra g e American.
“ P e o p l e in G e r m a n y a n d
A ustria alw ays ask me w h a t I
th i n k a b o u t i t , ” s a i d j u n i o r
G r e g R u e h l m a n n , w h o is
stu d y in g
in
In n sb ru ck ,
Austria. “It has always b e e n a
polite and a good e x c h a n g e .”
Other Notre Dame s tu d e n ts,
how ever, a ttr ib u te d th is
g oo d -n a tu re d exchang e to the
non-com m ittal or c o n c u r r e n t­
ly
an ti-w a r
o p in io n s
e xp ressed by A m erican s d u r ­
ing conversation.
“Every w a i t e r t h a t we h a d
asked us if w e ’re for the w a r
and if we liked Bush,” Toledo
stu d e n t David Yeager said. “I
felt like as long as I said I’m
a gainst the war, no one would
Protests
continued from page 1
“ W ith t h e s e p r o c e d u r e s
r o u t i n e l y in p l a c e , i m p l e ­
m e n t i n g a d d i t i o n a l o n e s is
fairly sim ple. W e’ve no t yet
seen a need to go to a hig h e r
level [such as] limiting access
to o u r b u ild i n g s to a n y b u t
p rev io u sly -a n n o u n c e d v isi­
to rs or h irin g s e c u rity
g u a rd s ,” Gutting said.
Checca said he is in con tact
w ith lo c a l a d m i n i s t r a t o r s
a lm o s t d aily an d th e y a r e
carefully m onitoring se cu rity
issues.
“After consultation with the
A m eric a n e m b a ssy in Rome,
if th e College w e r e to d e e m
th a t stu d e n ts w ere in d a n g e r,
we w ould n o t s e n d t h e m to
Rome,” Checca said.
At N o tre D am e, th e r e is a
c o m m itte e c h a r g e d w ith th e
On T u e s d a y , j u n io r L a u ra
Hoffman will lead a discussion
titled “Life A fter College,” in
which she will address the diffi­
culties disabled stu d e n ts face
upon graduation. Notre Dame
a n d S a i n t M a r y ’s g r a d u a t e s
with learning disabilities, visual
im p a i r m e n t s , c e r e b r a l palsy
an d vario u s types of physical
d isa b ilitie s m u s t u n d e r s t a n d
th e i r c a p a b il itie s a n d d e t e r ­
mine t h e ir n ew level of in d e ­
p e n d e n c e , s u c h as h a n d l i n g
daily living ta s k s a n d t r a n s ­
portation. It is also crucial that
they become familiar with the
p ro te c tiv e te rm s of th e
Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) in o b t a i n i n g s p e c if ic
employment accommodations.
m e s s w i t h m e , b u t if I
w o u ld ’ve s a id a n y th in g s u c h
as ‘Well, th e r e a re two sides
to be c o n s id e r e d ,’ or a nything
t h a t w a s n ’t e x t r e m e l y a n t i ­
w a r , I w o u l d ’ve f e l t v e r y
th r e a te n e d . ”
S t u d e n t s in F r a n c e s a i d
a n ti-w a r
se n tim e n t
has
e x t e n d e d to a n t i - A m e r i c a n
s e n tim e n t at times.
“I had a sca ry experience in
a c ab t h e o t h e r d a y w ith a
ta x i
d riv e r
who
h a te s
A m erican s and A m e ric a ,”
s a id j u n i o r Lisa B o n k o w sk i,
w ho is s tu d y i n g in P a r is fo r
th e y e a r. “He gave m e a 2 0 m in u te p o litic a l l e c t u r e a n d
said I should go home to m o r­
row b e c a u se otherw ise people
w ill h a r a s s m e , a s t h e y
s h o u l d , a c c o r d i n g to t h i s
guy."
C ontact Sheila Flynn at
F lynn.59@ nd.edu
r e s p o n s i b i l i t y of e x a m i n i n g
se c u r ity issu e s and dec id in g
w h e t h e r to se n d s tu d e n ts to
sp ecific a b r o a d p ro g ra m s .
T h a t c o m m itte e would m ak e
any decision to evacuate s t u ­
dents.
G u t t i n g s a i d t h a t in t h e
ev e n t th a t th e U n iv e rsity
d e c i d e d to s h u t d o w n t h e
London P rogram and s tu ­
de n ts w e r e b r o u g h t b a c k to
th e U nited S ta te s, th e r e a r e
c o n t i n g e n c y p l a n s in p la c e
for co u rses and housing.
The in c re a s e d protests have
not ca u se d a d e cre a se in the
t o t a l n u m b e r of s t u d e n t s
applying to study a b ro a d next
y e a r. S o m e p r o g r a m s , s u c h
as London, received a record
n u m b e r of applications while
o th e r s did n o t see a c h a n g e
from p revious years.
C ontact S cott Brodfuehrer at
sbrodfue@ nd.edu
Students without disabilities
are also encouraged to attend,
said Marissa Runkle, communi­
ty-based lea rn in g coordinator
for the Logan Center. “We all
can benefit from h e a rin g the
perspectives o f stu d e n ts with
disabilities,” she said.
The talk will be held in the
Notre Dame Room on the s e c­
ond floor of LaFortune Student
Center.
Another discussion, “How to
Work with a Child with Special
Needs,” will be held at the CSC
on Wednesday, featuring panel
g u e sts w ho h a v e e x p e r ie n c e
working with disabled children
and adults. Several have been
participants in the Notre Dame
Special Friends club, working
closely with autistic children.
Two other guests are members
of ND/SMC S u p e r S ib s, a n d
h a v e b r o t h e r s w ith Down
Syndrome and mental r e ta rd a ­
tion.
The week’s keynote event will
be h e ld on T h u r s d a y in
D e B a r to lo 101 w ith G ir a r d
Sagmiller, a u th o r of the book
“Dyslexia, My Life.”
T h e U.S. D e p a r t m e n t of
Education estim ates th at 17.5
percent of Americans have lan­
guage-based learning disabili­
tie s, in c lu ding n o ta b le s Tom
C r u is e , C h e r a n d T h o m a s
Edison. Sagmiller will relate his
own experiences as a member
of this considerable part of the
population. His talk will share
obstacles such as being wrong­
ly diagnosed with mental retar­
d a tio n in e l e m e n t a r y school
and feeling isolated and misun­
d ersto o d by his te a c h e r s and
peers, as well as his eventual
tr i u m p h as a c o m p u t e r p r o ­
gram m er.
The week culminates Friday
as students who have attended
events a re encouraged to dis­
p la y a w a r e n e s s by w e a r i n g
their ribbons and sharing their
k n o w led g e
w i th
o th ers.
Ribbons are available from any
residence hall president or the
Center for Social Concerns.
C ontact C laireH eininger at
hein inger. 1 @ nd.edu
South Florida professor indicted
By ROB B R A N N O N
The Oracle
Florida p ro fe sso r Sami AlA ria n lo o k e d tir e d a n d
s u l l e n . He s l u m p e d low in
his s e a t a n d s ta r e d forw a rd
a t the table in fron t of him,
re m a in in g m ostly m o tio n ­
le s s . T h e o n ly p e r c e p t i b l e
sound com ing from him was
th e soft jin g le of th e c h a in s
on his legs.
All a r o u n d him, the b u s i ­
n e s s o f J u d g e M a r k P i z o ’s
fed eral co u rtro o m h u rried
past. Al-Arian continued to
sit quietly n e x t to his c rim i­
nal
a tto rn e y ,N ic h o la s
Matassini, as Pizo discussed
th e 1 2 0 - p a g e in d ic tm e n t
t h a t h a d le d to t h e e a r l y
T h u rsd a y m o rn in g a r r e s t of
A l-Arian a n d th r e e o th e rs.
A cross the aisle, a fleet of
g o v ern m en t in v estig ato rs
and la w y e rs w atch ed th e
re su lt of th e i r work unfold.
A l-A r ia n ’s c o u r t a p p e a r ­
a n c e T h u r s d a y la s te d le ss
th a n h a lf a n h ou r and w as
the culm in atio n of a sh o c k ­
ing d a y . A c c o r d i n g to h is
wife, N a h la , and d a u g h t e r
L e e n a , it a l l b e g a n w e ll
before daw n at th e ir
T emple T e r r a c e home.
N ahla Al-Arian said th a t
a t a b o u t 5 :3 0 a . m ., t h e r e
w a s a k n o c k on th e d o o r .
She s a id o n c e s h e o p e n e d
th e d o o r , s e v e r a l o f f ic e r s
c a m e in to t h e h o u s e . She
described th e m as “polite.”
M o m en ts la te r , L een a
sa id th e e n t i r e fam ily
a w o k e to s e e A l - A r i a n
p re sse d a g a in st a wall and
being ta k en into custody.
A l - A r i a n w a s m o v e d to
th e f e d e r a l c o u r t h o u s e in
T a m p a a n d held u n til his
2:30 p .m . h e a r i n g . In th e
i n t e r i m , o f f i c ia ls s e a r c h e d
both his hom e an d his office
a t t h e I s l a m i c A c a d e m y of
F lo rid a n e a r 56 th S tre e t,
n e a r the u n iv e rs ity . A round
11 a.m ., the in d ic tm e n t w as
re le a se d .
A b o u t a n h o u r l a te r , U.S.
A tto rn e y
G eneral
John
A shcroft m ade a s ta te m e n t
a b o u t A l - A r i a n ’s c a s e . He
sa id the J u s tic e D e p a r tm e n t
h a d i n d i c t e d A l - A r i a n on
ra c k e te erin g and te rro rist
c h a rg es b e c a u se of his a s s o ­
ciation with
P a le s tin ia n I sla m ic J i h a d ,
w h i c h o p e r a t e s in a n d
aro u n d Israel. A shcroft
l a b e l e d A l- A r ia n a s “t h e
N o r t h A m e r i c a n l e a d e r of
the P a le stin ia n
Islam ic
Jih a d .”
“ P a le s tin ia n Isla m ic Jih a d
is o n e of t h e m o s t v i o l e n t
te r r o r i s t org a n iza tio n s in the
w o rld ,” Ashcroft said.
A shcroft said Al-Arian has
been actively funding t e r r o r ­
ist a tta c k s in Israel. He said
those atta c k s re s u lte d in the
d e a t h s of m o re t h a n 100
p eo p le,
in c lu d in g
tw o
A m ericans.
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I n B rief
Spring retail sales off to slow start
Spring is looking like a n o th e r tough sell for
th e n a t i o n ’s a ilin g r e t a i l e r s . M e r c h a n t s ’
hopes for b righter days as spring sales get
un der way were dimmed by heavy snow th a t
blanketed the N orthe a st du ring P r e s id e n t’s
Day w eekend, w iping out the m u c h -a n tic i­
p a te d sales b o n a n z a n e e d e d to j u m p - s t a r t
th e se a s o n . Add th e lo o m in g u n c e r t a i n t y
a bout w ar with Iraq and a sluggish jo b m a r ­
ket, and r e ta ile rs a r e likely to stay in the
doldrums. The latest blow came as d e p a r t ­
m e n t and m a ll-b a s e d a p p a r e l sto r e s w e r e
grappling with the gov ernm en t’s heightened
terro rist alert, which made consum ers even
edgier and sent m any on buying sp rees for
b a tte rie s and d u c t ta p e a t such p la c e s as
Home Depot Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores.
Crest airs advertisement in Spanish
A Crest toothpaste ad during the Gramm y
Awards on Feb. 23 was in Spanish, the first
by Procter & Gamble Co. in a p rim e tim e,
g eneral-interest national broadcast. The ad
for Crest W hitening Plus Scope f e a tu r e s a
y o u n g H is p a n ic c o u p le b u t will h a v e a n
English tag line. H ispanics a re the la r g e s t
a n d fastest-grow in g m inority g ro u p in th e
nation, and the ad is a continuation of P&G’s
efforts to re a c h a S p a n is h -s p e a k in g a u d i ­
ence. The ad has aired on Spanish-language
television. For g e n e r a l- m a rk e t viewing, an
e n d in g line in English h a s b een a d d e d —
“white teeth and fresh b re a th ... in any la n ­
g u a g e .” Advertising analysts said the c o m ­
mercial is a daring move for the Cincinnatibased consum er products giant.
Greece and Turkey sign gas deal
Greece and T u rk e y s e t aside t e r r i t o r i a l
rivalries on Sunday and agreed to co nstruct
a p ip elin e link in g n a t u r a l gas p r o d u c e r s
fro m th e C a sp ia n Sea re g io n w ith th e
E u r o p e a n m a r k e t . T he $2 65 million d e a l
was signed at the end of a two-day m eeting
of European Union energy ministers.
CAMARILLO, Calif.
Gas prices rose 7 cents
per gallon over the past two
weeks pushing pump prices
to n e a r record levels, but
th e u p w a r d p r e s s u r e on
prices m ay be easing, an
i n d u s t r y a n a l y s t sa id
Sunday.
T h e a v e r a g e w e ig h te d
price for gas nationw ide,
in c lu d in g all g r a d e s a n d
taxes, w a s approxim ately
$ 1 .7 0 p e r gallon F rida y ,
according to the Lundberg
Survey o f 8,0 00 s ta tio n s
nationw ide. T h a t price is
within 7 cents of $1.77, the
all-time high recorded by
th e s u r v e y on May 18,
2001 .
Gasoline cost about $1.63
a gallon on Feb. 7, the date
of the last Lundberg Survey,
an increase of 11 cents over
the previous two-week sur­
vey.
“The pace of gas prices
has already slowed,” Trilby
Lundberg said. “The other
indicators show a possible
decrease in prices.”
In cre a se d production in
Venezuela, the approach of
w a rm e r weather, and the
re o pe ning of various U.S.
r e f in e r ie s th a t h a d b een
idled for a n n u a l m a i n t e ­
nance should help slow or
e nd th e p ric e s p i r a l ,
Lundberg said.
Crude oil prices are also
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A man pumps gas into his car at a gas station on Feb. 20 in Owings, Md. Prices
for regular gasoline are the highest they have been in almost two years.
up due to fe a r s of a w a r
with Iraq, b u t if the U.S.
goes to war, or if the crisis
is resolved, that oil bubble
could burst. Prices rose 30
cents a gallon in 1990 after
Iraq invaded Kuwait, and
then dropped 30 ce n ts in
1991 following the Persian
Gulf War, Lundberg said.
T h e n a tio n a l w e ig h te d
average price of gasoline,
in c lu d i n g ta x e s , at selfs e r v e p u m p s Friday w a s
about $1.67 per gallon for
r e g u l a r , $ 1 .7 6 for m i d ­
grade and $1.85 for premi­
um.
Shareholders push for reforms
Associated Press
NEW YORK
If t h e r e is a s i lv e r lin in g to be
found in all the recent business scan­
dals, it’s that shareho ld ers realized
they better start flexing their corpo­
rate muscle.
And come this s p rin g ’s corporate
proxy season, many will be trying to
do ju st that.
Most annual shareholder meetings
are held b e tw e e n April and Jun e ,
and from the looks of things, compa­
nies including G en eral Electric, El
Paso and others will come up against
a slew of investor-driven proposals
for reform.
Of. course, not every sh a re h o ld e r
idea will result in radical corporate
change. But that doesn’t mean they
will go unnoticed.
“At this time, with all the trust and
integrity issues out there, sharehold­
ers c a n a c tu a lly w in th e c h a n g e s
they a re ask in g f o r ,” said Patrick
McGurn, director of corp orate p ro ­
gram s at Institutional S h areh older
Services in Rockville, Md.
It’s not that investors didn’t go up
against big business before. It’s just
that now they are more aggressively
pursuing their own agendas.
They have good re a s o n . With so
m a n y c a s e s of a c c o u n t i n g f r a u d ,
excessive executive c o m p e n s a tio n
and corporate theft exposed over the
last year, they want to take steps to
protect their investments.
So f a r for th is y e a r ’s r o u n d of
annual meetings, shareholder groups
have filed 862 proposals with compa­
nies for reform, compared with 802
for all of last ye a r, according to a
r e c e n t r e p o r t by t h e I n v e s t o r
Responsibility R esearch Center and
the Interfaith C enter on Corporate
Responsibility.
The bulk of the resolutions pertain
to changes in corporate governance
policies, like executive salaries and
perks. But some include demands for
a h o u se -c le a n in g in the c o rp o ra te
ranks.
There are two ways proxy contests
generally work.
In some cases, shareholders try to
convince companies to include their
pro posa ls in the proxy sta te m e n ts
sent to investors before a company’s
a n n u a l meeting. C om panies get to
decide if the proposals appear or not,
though the Securities and Exchange
Commission can overrule.
Even if the re solutio ns receive a
majority vote, companies don’t have
to follow them. But the publicity of
the proposal — w heth er it gets into
the proxy s t a te m e n t or not — can
o f te n sw a y c o m p a n i e s to m a k e
changes.
Shareholders can also wage their
own proxy lights by connecting with
o th e r investors th r o u g h th e ir own
mailings. This can be expensive and
is often done with proposals deemed
m ore controversial, such as hostile
takeovers or board-seat nominations.
Som e t e n s e b a t t l e s b e t w e e n
investors and companies are already
cropping up, and more are expected
in the coming months.
A m ong th e m o st h e a te d is a t El
Paso Corp., where shareholder Selim
K. Zilkha, who owns about 1.5 p e r ­
cent of the struggling energy giant’s
outstan ding stock, launched a fight
Tuesday fo oust the entire board of
directors. •
A n o t h e r h o t - b u t t o n is s u e t h a t
shareholders at many companies are
p u sh in g is a split of the c h a ir m a n
and CEO jobs. They think that would
give the chairm an a more indepen­
d e n t r o le a s th e o v e r s e e r of t h e
board of directors.
Among the companies w here this
vote will come up is General Electric.
T he proposal, put forth by a group
c a lle d GE R e ti r e e s J u s tic e F u n d ,
u r g e s a p p o in tm e n t of a c h a ir m a n
who has never been the com pany’s
CEO.
S h a re h o ld e rs at many com panies
i n c l u d i n g B a n k o f New Y o rk ,
C itig r o u p a n d AOL Tim e W a r n e r
have also subm itted proposals th a t
w ould allow th e m to include th e ir
own nominations of board directors
on t h e i r c o m p a n i e s ’ proxy s t a t e ­
ments. As it stands now, companies
do not have to include shareholderproposed nominations on the s ta t e ­
ment mailed to investors.
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Murdered U. Penn student's suit comes to halt in city
By G A R R E T T Y O U N G
Daily Pennsylvanian
T he c a s e a g a i n s t tw o
P h i l a d e l p h i a p o lic e o f f ic e r s
filed by th e family of m u r d e r
victim a n d f o r m e r U niversity
of P e n n s y l v a n i a s t u d e n t
Shannon S ch ieb er w as d is ­
m i s s e d T h u r s d a y by a n
app e a ls c o u rt before going in
front of a ju ry .
S c h ie b e r , th e n a f ir s t - y e a r
W h arto n d o c to ra l s tu d e n t,
was found d ead in h e r C enter
City a p a r t m e n t in 1998. Last
su m m e r, a u th o r itie s a r r e s t e d
C e n t e r C ity r a p i s t T r o y
Graves in c onn e c tion with the
crime.
T h e U.S. C o u rt of A p p e a ls
for the T h ird Circuit r e v e r s e d
a P h ila d e lp h ia D istrict C ou rt
r u l i n g by a v o te of 2-1
T h u rs d a y and g r a n te d th e
d e f e n d a n t s ’, P h i l a d e l p h i a
police officers S tev en W oods
and R aym ond Scherff, m otion
for s u m m a ry ju d g m e n t.
S c h ie b e r fam ily a t t o r n e y
David Rudovsky, a P en n Law
S ch oo l p r o f e s s o r , e x p r e s s e d
fru stra tio n with the ruling.
“They basically say t h a t the
police m a y h a v e b e e n n e g l i ­
g e n t, b u t [ e v i d e n c e ] h a s to
‘shock the c o n s c ie n c e ,’ w hich
is a very high b u r d e n of p r o o f
for t h r e e p e o p le to d e c i d e , ”
Rudovsky s a id . “T h e y d e t e r ­
m ined t h a t it ’s no t even for a
j u r y to d e c id e .”
A m o tio n for s u m m a ry
ju d g m e n t is a d o c u m e n t filed
by th e d e f e n d a n ts th a t a rg u e s
t h a t , e v e n if e v e r y t h i n g t h e
plaintiff say s is tr u e , the c a s e
is n o t s t r o n g e n o u g h to w a r ­
r a n t a r g u i n g in f r o n t o f a
ju ry . If th e m otion is g r a n te d
and s u s ta in e d u pon a p p e a l, a
la w s u it will n e v e r go to j u r y
trial.
T h e s u i t a g a i n s t b o th t h e
city of P h i l a d e l p h i a a n d t h e
p o lic e o f fic e rs s t e m s from a
c la im t h a t th e o f fic e rs w e r e
neg lig e n t in th e ir h a n d lin g of
a c a ll e a r l y o n e m o r n i n g in
May 1998.
S c h i e b e r w a s s t r a n g l e d to
d e a t h in t h e e a r l y h o u r s in
h e r C e n te r City hom e.
E a rlie r
th a t
n ig h t,
S c h i e b e r ’s
n eig h b o r
P a r m a t m a G reeley re p o rte d ly
h e a r d S c h ie b e r yell for h e lp
and u tte r a “ch o k in g -lik e
s o u n d , ” a c c o r d i n g to c o u r t d o c u m e n t s . He t h e n r e p o r t ­
edly k nocked on h e r door a n d
s h o u te d h e r n a m e , to w h ic h
he r e c e i v e d no r e s p o n s e .
Following this, he called 911,
and
th e p o lic e a r r iv e d
a p p r o x i m a t e l y five m i n u t e s
la te r.
W o r k i n g w i t h G r e e l e y to
T he officers a n d S c h ie b e r ’s
o p e n a s l i d i n g d o o r on h e r
n e ig h b o rs th en a p p ro a c h e d
s e c o n d -flo o r b alc o n y , he
h e r a p a rtm e n t and knocked
e n t e r e d a n d fo u n d his s is te r
on th e d oo r, a g a in re c e iv in g
u n d r e s s e d a n d lifeless on h e r
no re s p o n s e . T he o fficers
t h e n i n t e r v i e w e d th e n e i g h ­ bed.
An au to p sy la te r c o nc lude d
b o rs , a p p a r e n tly looking for a
t h a t sh e had b e e n “m a n u a lly
r e a s o n to b r e a k d o w n t h e
s t r a n g l e d ” to d e a th .
door. Finding no n e , a n d with
For fo u r y e a r s , th e case
G re e le y no t q u ite p o sitiv e
r e m a i n e d u n so lv e d u n til la s t
t h a t w h a t he h e a r d h ad come
Ju n e w hen T roy G rav es,
fro m in sid e th e a p a r tm e n t,
kno w n as th e
th e officers
C e n te r
C ity
search ed
"We h ave to, a s law yers,
ra p ist,
con­
th e
area
s it down, a n d then s it
fessed
to
a r o u n d th e
dow n w ith the fa m ily an d S c h i e b e r ’ s
p e rim e te r
m urder
and
of
th e
m a k e a decision within
s i g n e d a guilty
building
the n ex t f e w days. ”
p le a
in t h e
and
her
P h ila d e lp h ia
ap a rtm e n t
C ourt
of
a n d found
David Rudovsky
C om m on Pleas.
no sig n of
Penn Law School professor
In 1 9 9 8 , t h e
f o r c e d
S c h ie b e r family
e n t r y ,
s u e d th e city
a c c o rd in g
a n d t h e p o lic e d e p a r t m e n t ,
to c o u rt d o c u m e n ts.
a lle g in g t h a t th e p o lic e offi­
T h e o f fic e r s le ft, a d v is in g
c e r s fa ile d to do e n o u g h to
t h e n e i g h b o r s to c a l l 9 1 1
p ro te c t S c h i e b e r ’s
a g a in if they h e a r d a nything.
life, s a y in g t h a t s h e co u ld
T h e y r e m a in e d on du ty until
7 a.m. an d h e a r d n o th in g f u r ­ h a v e b e e n a l i v e w h i l e t h e
police w e re t h e r e .
th e r .
In 2 0 0 1 , a P h i l a d e l p h i a
T he fo llo w in g day w hen
D istrict C ourt ju d g e a g re e d
S c h ieb e r did n o t show up for
t h a t the plaintiffs h ad e n o u g h
w o rk or lu n c h w ith h e r
e vidence to p r o c e e d to a j u r y
b r o t h e r from o u t of tow n, he
w e n t to h e r a p a r t m e n t to try t r i a l a n d d e n i e d t h e d e f e n ­
d a n t s ’ m o t i o n fo r s u m m a r y
to locate her.
ju d g m e n t .
T h e city a p p e a l e d th e
D is tric t C ourt ru lin g a n d the
T h ird C ircuit C o u rt a g re e d
y e ste rd a y .
Now th a t th e m o tio n has
b e e n g r a n t e d by t h e T h i r d
C ircu it, th e p la in tiffs have
tw o
m ain
o p tio n s. The
S c h i e b e r fam ily c a n p e titio n
e i t h e r the full U.S.
C ou rt of A pp eals o r the U.S.
S u p r e m e C ourt to re - e x a m in e
th e case. E ith e r c o u rt then
h a s t h e o p ti o n to a c c e p t or
d e n y th e p e t i t i o n . At t h e s e
c o u rts , cases a re m ore fr e ­
q u e n t l y d e n ie d t h a n a c c e p t ­
ed, Rudovsky said.
T h e s e c o n d o p tio n , he
a d d e d , is to r e t u r n to District
C o urt with a case a g a in s t the
c ity, n o t th e in d iv i d u a l offi­
c e rs.
T h e family, Rudovsky said,
e x p r e s s e d “s tr o n g d i s a p ­
p o i n t m e n t " w ith t h e r u l i n g
a n d is now w a itin g to decide
th e n e x t s t e p .”
“N o b o d y ’s h a d a c h a n c e to
stu d y th e o p in io n y e t,”
R u d o v s k y a d d e d . “ We h a v e
to, a s the la w y e rs , sit dow n,
a n d t h e n sit d o w n w ith the
f a m ily a n d m a k e a d e c is io n
w ith in the n e x t few days."
T h e c ity a t t o r n e y ’s o ffic e
w a s u n a v a ila b le for c om m ent
T h u r s d a y night.
Norah Jones' music takes home 8 Grammys
Associated Press
NEW YORK
The m u sic of p o p -ja z z
ch an teu se N orah Jones g a r ­
n e re d e ig h t G ra m m y a w a r d s
S unday n ig h t, in c lu d in g
a lb u m a n d r e c o r d of th e
year, cap p in g a y e a r w h e re
th e s u lt r y s i n g e r c a t a p u l t e d
to in t e r n a t io n a l a c claim .
“I feel r e a l l y b l e s s e d a n d
re a lly lu c k y ,” J o n e s sa id
a fte r w in n in g th e a lb u m of
th e y e a r a t th e end of th e
45 th a n n u a l a w a r d s sho w .
J o n e s , w h o w o n in e v e r y
cate g o ry w h e re sh e w as
n o m i n a t e d , tie d L a u r y n Hill
and A licia Keys fo r m o st
w ins by a fe m a le a r t i s t in a
single night.
As u n k n o w n a s t r i p l e - w i n ­
n e r B ruce S p rin g s te e n w as
a c c la im ed b efo re th e la st
ye a r, J o n e s won five in d iv id ­
ual G ram m ys.
“I n e v e r e v e r t h o u g h t t h a t
th e m u sic I m a d e w o u ld
b e c o m e p o p u l a r m u s i c , so
this is a m a z i n g , ” J o n e s s a id
as she p icked up an a w a rd
for b e st pop vocal a lb u m .
She also w on fo r b e s t
f e m a le p o p v o c a l, b e s t n e w
a r t i s t a n d for r e c o r d of th e
y e a r for “D o n’t Know W h y ,”
w ritte n by J e s s e H a rris, w ho
w on th e s o n g of th e y e a r
G ram m y.
H er a lb u m , “ Come A w ay
W ith M e,” e a r n e d b e s t e n g i ­
n e e re d alb u m and p ro d u c e r
o f t h e y e a r h o n o r s fo r A r i f
M ardin.
The
2 3 -y e a r-o ld
New
Y orker, w ho e m e rg e d la st
y e a r a f t e r s i g n i n g w ith t h e
t i n y B lu e N o t e l a b e l , s o l d
m o r e th a n 6 million copies of
h e r d e b u t w o r ld w id e . J o n e s ,
th e d a u g h t e r o f I n d ia n s i t a r
g u r u Ravi S h a n k a r a n d N ew
Y o rk c o n c e r t p r o d u c e r S u e
J o n e s , a p p e a r e d a lm o s t o v e r ­
w h e l m e d in a c c e p t i n g o n e
a w a rd from th e “Q ueen of
S o u l,” A r e t h a F r a n k lin .
“I c a n ’t b e li e v e t h i s , ” s h e
said b r e a th le s s ly .
H a rr is , w ho t h a n k e d J o n e s
for “ b e in g a p a l , ” said b a c k ­
s t a g e t h a t h e “t h o u g h t f o r
c e r t a i n B r u c e w a s g o in g to
w in."
S p r i n g s t e e n w a s c le a r l y a
f a v o r ite o f th e c r o w d in s id e
M a d is o n S q u a r e G a r d e n a s
t h e G r a m m y s r e t u r n e d to
N ew Y ork fo r th e f ir s t tim e
in five y e a r s . His S e p t. 1 1 i n s p ir e d “T h e R isin g ” w a s
h o n o r e d for m a le ro c k vocal,
ro ck a lb u m an d rock song,
a lth o u g h th e Boss lost out for
a lb u m a n d so n g of th e ye a r.
P e r f o r m i n g o n ly a few
m ile s n o r t h of g r o u n d z e r o ,
S p r in g s t e e n d e liv e re d a r o u s ­
in g p e r f o r m a n c e of th e title
t r a c k m id w a y th r o u g h th e
s h o w as th e c ro w d s c r e a m e d ,
“ B r u u u u c e !!!!”
L a te r, S p rin g s te e n jo in e d
E lv is C o s te llo , L ittle S te v e n
V a n Z a n d t, D ave G ro h l a n d
T ony K anal for a ro u sin g
t r i b u t e to t h e l a t e J o e
S t r u m m e r - a v e r s io n of the
C la s h ’s “L ondon C alling .”
T h e D ix ie C h ic k s , a f t e r a
b i t t e r legal b a t t l e w ith th e ir
la b e l Sony, took b e st c o u n try
a lb u m am o n g th e ir th re e
G r a m m y s . T h e t r i o ’s m u l t i ­
p la tin u m “H o m e ,” a r e tu r n
to t h e i r c o u n t r y r o o t s , w a s
c o - p r o d u c e d by m e m b e r
N a ta lie
M a in e s’ fa th e r,
Lloyd.
“I w a n t to c h e ck th e re c o rd
b o oks an d see how m any
fa th e rs and d a u g h te r s have
w o n G ram m y s t o g e t h e r , ” she
sa id , g ra b b in g h e r fa th e r.
A m ong th e d o u b le w in n e r s
w e re E m in e m , C o ld p lay ,
In d ia . A rie
and
N elly .
E m i n e m ’s s e c o n d G r a m m y
c a m e for b e s t r a p a lb u m , the
t h i r d t i m e h e ’s w o n in t h e
c a te g o ry .
I n s te a d of o ffe rin g an
a c c e p t a n c e s p e e c h , E m in e m
r a t t l e d off a lis t o f r a p p e r s
who had in sp ire d
h im ,
in c lu d in g Run-DMC, LL Cool
J, T u p ac S h a k u r an d th e
N o to rio u s B I G.
“T h an k you, b e c a u se I
l e a r n e d from all of y o u ,” he
sa id .
Eight a r tis ts w e re n o m i n a t ­
ed for five G r a m m y s a p ie c e ,
w ith all bu t t e e n r o c k e r Avril
Lavigne going h o m e w in n e r s .
P e re n n ia l G ram m y fav o rite
S heryl Crow, n e o s o u l s in g e rs o n g w rite r R a p h a e l S aad iq
a n d R&B n e w c o m e r A s h a n t i
w e r e single w i n n e r s .
C o u n try
sin g e r
A lan
J a c k s o n , who w r o t e “W h e r e
W e r e You (W h e n t h e W o rld
S t o p p e d T u r n i n g ) ” in t h e
w e e k s a fte r th e t e r r o r i s t
a tta c k s , won b e st c o u n try
so n g for the m o u r n f u l tu ne .
In d ia .A rie , w h o w a s n o m i ­
n a te d for se v e n G ram m y s
l a s t y e a r b u t lo s t t h e m a ll,
finally got h e r first tw o, w in ­
n in g for b e st u r b a n - a l t e r n a ­
tiv e p e r f o r m a n c e f o r “Little
T h in g s ” and b e s t R&B a lb u m
for “Voyage to I n d i a . ”
A m o n g th e o t h e r w i n n e r s :
th e p re v io u sly u n h e ra ld e d
Funk B ro th ers. The g r o u n d ­
b r e a k in g h o u se b a n d for
M otown R ecords, th e focus of
th e re c e n t d o c u m e n ta ry
LOSER NO LONGER!
L” is for “legal.”
gappy 21st,
h?
h
“ S ta n d in g in th e S h a d o w s of
M o to w n ,” w on tw o tro p h ie s.
S om e o th e r v e t e r a n a r ti s ts
a d d e d to b u l g i n g t r o p h y
c a s e s : b l u e s m a n B.B. K ing
w o n t w o , f o r 1 3 in h is
c a r e e r , w h i l e J o h n n y C a sh
w o n h is 1 1 th a n d T o n y
B e n n e tt his 10th w hile soul
l e g e n d S o lo m o n B u r k e won
his first.
“We got a G ra m m y , b a b y !”
B u rk e said as he h o iste d his
G ra m m y .
T h e disc “V a u g h n Williams:
A Sea Sym phony” garnered
t h r e e a w a r d s , in c lu d in g best
c la ss ic a l alb u m .
T h e sh o w o p e n e d w ith
D u s t i n H o f f m a n o n e in a
r e v o l v i n g s e r i e s of New
Y o r k - b a s e d h o sts in tro d u c in g
a r e u n i o n p e r f o r m a n c e by
l if e tim e a c h i e v e m e n t a w a r d
w in n ers
S im o n
and
G a rfu n k e l. T h e p a ir, who
s a n g “The Sound of S ile n c e ,”
have sh a re d a tu m u ltu o u s
re la tio n s h ip ; th is w as th e ir
fir s t p e r f o r m a n c e t o g e t h e r in
a decade.
H o ffm an , b e fo re ex itin g ,
p ro v id e d two g affes. He m is ­
p ro n o u n c e d the B o ss’ n am e
as “S p r i n g s t r e e t , ” a n d i n t r o ­
d u c e d No D o u b t by s in g i n g
“Say B a b y ” t h e i r h it is “ Hey
B a b y .”
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T oday ’ s S taff
Rumors of war in Iraq are now calcify­
ing into war. Will it be just? Prominent
ecclesiasts have now weighed in, their
perspectives predictably following what
they have long preached. The U.S.
Catholic bish­
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hawkish
national poll numbers raise old suspicions
about whether their congregations are lis­
tening.
Proponents of the Christian just war tr a ­
dition will want to interrogate both sides.
Emanating from the Christian Gospel,
developed by St. Ambrose, St. Augustine,
St. Thomas and later luminaries, the tra­
dition allows for lethal force, unlike paci­
fism, but limits it through a strict set of
criteria, unlike the holy crusade. When
applied in the spirit of their Gospel roots,
just war standards will focus particularly
on the plight of the weak, the helpless,
and the innocent. On balance, the tradi­
tion comes down against President Bush’s
war. But it is not an obvious judgment.
Partisans will discover ruefully that the
boundaries of ire and ideology into which
they seek to squeeze moral standards are
ones that suffering somehow does not
respect.
Critics who call the Bush administration
an imperialist one have troublingly little to
say about the evil of the enemy, a dictator
whose gulags have swallowed an estimat­
ed 200,000 political opponents and who
sent somewhere around a million of his
own people to their deaths in a war
against Iran. They are also loath to
acknowledge the justice of the U.S. protec­
tion of Iraqi Kurds from almost certain
destruction at Saddam Hussein’s hands
through the “no-fly zone” of the past
decade.
Yet defenders of the U.S. as a crusader
for justice — surely the text of a personal
ad for the idealistic neo-conservatives of
the Bush administration — are reticent
about the 100,000 to one million (esti­
mates vary wildly) Iraqi civilians who have
died at the hands of U.S. sanctions. A form
of siege warfare, seeking to pressure an
enemy leader by depriving his civilians of
nourishment and medical care, sanctions
run wildly afoul of just w ar morality’s
injunction against harming innocents as a
means to an end. Defenders of sanctions
lay the blame for suffering upon Hussein,
who has prevented alleviatory food ship­
ments from leaving unloading docks. But
while Hussein’s perfidy is real and his
responsibility for suffering significant, nei­
ther exonerates the sanctions.
Absent Hussein’s hindrance, does the
U.S. then hope that sanctions will be finely
tuned enough to deprive Iraqis of Persian
jewelry and silk veils but leave them fed,
cared for and just angry enough somehow
to force their brutal dictator from power?
In fact, U.S. policymakers have not even
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tried to avoid direct harm to civilians.
They have rejected “smart sanctions,” like
those proposed by the Kroc Institute’s
George Lopez and David Cortright, that
would block weapon building materials
but allow humanitarian relief to pass; they
have embargoed shipments of food and
medicine to Iraqis; there is no record of
them considering enforcing the delivery of
supplies.
Sanctions also fail the just w ar tradi­
tion’s proportionality test. Ten years of
hardship and hundreds of thousands of
deaths have failed to move Hussein an
inch from his plans to build weapons of
mass destruction or diminish his willing­
ness to allow his people to suffer. One of
the major lapses of just war voices in
recent years has been their absent or
muted outrage towards sanctions.
Similar balance, similar attention to the
many ways, hidden and unhidden, that
the “least of these” will be affected by
war, must suffuse judgments of our
prospective clash. Again, critics of the
administration are selective. Their con­
spiratorial “daddy theory” and “oil theo­
ry” of Bush’s motives merit a summary
red ink evaluation: “lack of evidence.”
Worse, such critics fail to recognize that
Hussein’s massive violation of Iraqi
human rights establishes a prim a facie
case for a type of just cause that has reemerged into the just war tradition since
the end of the Cold War: humanitarian
intervention.
Though not without their debacles and
ambiguities, interventions in Iraqi
Kurdistan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and
Kosovo — disasters whose magnitude
Hussein’s Iraq roughly matches — have
shown the reasonable effectiveness of mil­
itary force in stopping, relieving or pre­
venting massive suffering. To be sure,
U.N. or NATO multilateral support
enhanced the legitimacy of these interven­
tions, support that is as of now lacking in
the case of Iraq, but a just cause does not
strictly depend on it. Imagine if a Western
power had stepped forth to quell the 1994
genocide in Rwanda, but was prevented
by the contingent politics of the day from
garnering a U.N. sanction — would the
intervention have been unjust? In interna­
tional relations, vigilantism is sometimes
permissible
Ultimately, however, the just w ar crite­
ria defeat the case for war against Iraq.
They most directly reject President Bush’s
argument for “pre-emptive” w ar against
Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. In
fact, Bush misspeaks. Pre-emptive war is
a corollary of the classic just w a r criterion
of self-defense that allows for a first strike
against an imminent and sufficient threat
of attack. But neither condition obtains
here. Though Hussein in all probability
possesses chemical and biological
weapons and seeks to develop nuclear
weapons, he has not threatened their use.
What President Bush argues for instead
is “preventive w ar” — a war fought
against an enemy’s potential and capacity,
a war that egregiously defies what the tra­
dition has understood as “self-defense.”
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the
Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of
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the Faith, has reminded us that preventive
war “does not appear in the Catechism of
the Catholic Church.” Indeed, incorporat­
ing the concept into the tradition would
render it virtually indistinguishable from
realpolitik, for which the balance of power
alone sufficiently justifies war.
Other criteria diminish further the jus­
tice of the war, though these are more dif­
ficultly assessed as they depend on contin­
gent judgments. One is reasonable chance
of success. Alleviating suffering means not
only replacing Hussein but also building a
stable democracy in his place. The
American record of state building is not
auspicious. Attempts over the past century
to construct democracy in economically
underdeveloped countries have widely
failed; success has come only in Germany
and Japan, both economically advanced
countries whom the U.S. defeated, occu­
pied and governed in the wake of a total
war. In Iraq, ethnic division, economic
backwardness and the danger of a long­
term military occupation augur ill for
reconstructive efforts.
The other major relevant criterion is
proportionality — will the good of the war
outweigh the bad? Thousands of Iraqi
civilians are likely to die from damage to
Iraq’s infrastructure; urban warfare is
predicted to kill far more combatants than
were killed in the Persian Gulf War. A CIA
report and top foreign policy analysts cite
a strong risk that upon being attacked,
Hussein will use his weapons of mass
destruction against Israel or even the
United States. The war is likely to alienate
large swaths of Muslim opinion and fuel
exactly the sort of resentment that leads
young Muslim men into terrorism. And
from the looks of things now, the w ar may
lead to a deep fissure in the NATO
alliance, a blow to future cooperative
efforts even if such unity is not strictly
required for justice.
Added up, these liabilities point to the
comparative wisdom of a containment
policy that successfully defeated a far
more formidable power, one that once
lived under Stalin, a dictator at least as
evil as Hussein. A clearly expressed
Western deterrent would prevent Hussein
from using his nefarious weapons — not a
guaranteed outcome, but one with far
fewer risks and costs than a war.
Were he to change his justification to a
humanitarian one and fight a war that
succeeds quickly, elicits no horrific back­
lash and leaves Jeffersonian democracy in
its place, President Bush’s w ar could turn
out to be just. It is the unlikelihood of such
happy circumstances that hobbles his
case. The case against war, though, is not
an obvious one. It lies in doubts, not
dogma. It is wrong not tout court, but on
balance, all things considered, given the
circumstances.
Daniel Philpott is an A ssistant Professor
in the Department o f Political Science and
Faculty Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc
Institute fo r International Peace Studies
at Notre Dame.
The views expressed in this column are
those o f the author and not necessarily
those o f The Observer.
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“[S la very] e x ists w h erever men a re bought
a n d sold, w h erever a man allow s h im self to
be m a d e a m ere thing or a tool, an d
su rren d ers his in alien able righ ts o f reason
a n d conscience. ”
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U.S. philosopher
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Reconsidering slavery
Before I arrived in Africa I c a rrie d
with me m oral beliefs th a t w e re rock
solid — one th a t being slavery is w ro n g
reg a rd le ss of the context. I would
guess th e re a r e
few A m ericans
th a t would a rg u e
Maite Uranga
a gainst this. A______ ________________
c ou nter a rg u m e n t
would go a gainst
the ingrain ed
L ife in A fr ic a
A m erican a s s u m p ­
tion th a t all p eo ­
ple a re created
equal.
It is from this a ssum p tion th a t o u r
system of justice, g o v e rn m e n t and cul­
ture a r e b ased on in th e ir p re s e n t
forms. Every day in k in d e rg a rte n we
would all sta n d up with our h a n d s over
our h e a rts a n d say the Pledge of
Allegiance to a flag and a country. And
for those who have forgotten, this
pledge ends with, “ju stice for all.” Our
Civil W ar history cre a te d he ro e s su c h
as H arriet T u b m a n pitted again st the
u n n a m e d evil slave ow ners.
After I found out a b o u t my Peace
Corps assignm ent, th e r e w e re very few
things I could find a b o u t the Islamic
Republic of M auritan ia. One of the
Web sites th a t I k ept finding in my
se a rc h e s was for a n o n -g o v e rn m e n t
organization t h a t ’s entire p u rp o se was
to free the slaves in M auritania.
Alarms and bells w e n t off in my m oral
consciousness. I could not believe th a t
such behavior still existed in 2001.
During train in g we had one session
about slavery. The sp e a k e rs talked
about how it was not the way
Am erican slavery had been and t h a t it
did exist, but not like we thought. The
Peace Corps tra in e e s with all of o u r
American ideals disqualified every­
thing the s p e a k e r s said as u n e n lig h t­
ened.
With this a r ro g a n c e I moved to my
village. People w e re poor — some
more th a n o th e rs — but all w ere
generally h app y people.
T heir la u g h te r infected
me. I s ta r te d to e a t at
different fa m ilie s’
houses. I saw
everyone in the
village get
together for
weddings and
baptism s and
eat piles of
food. Slavery
was so m e ­
thing th a t I
did not
think about.
I assu m e d
after my
first four
months in
my village
that it p r o b a ­
bly h a p p en e d
in th e o th e r
ethnic groups
within
M au ritan ia but not
with my people.
This c ra sh e d down
within two days. I w as in
my frie n d ’s village, and
th e re w as a problem with the
taxi driver. He w anted to leave, but we
had not e a te n yet. He s ta rte d to m ake
a scene in som e language I did not
u n d e rsta n d . Everything w as solved
after we gave him a little m ore money.
As we walked back to my frie n d ’s
house, h e r host mom said, “Don’t
w orry a bout it. He used to be our
slave. He sh o u ld n ’t h av e acted like
th a t.”
Although again the denial set in as I
told myself th a t even though both
of our villages w ere the sam e
ethnic grou p, mine was
m uch m ore socially
advanced. The next
day this assum ption
also crashed. I sat
with my sister as
we talked about
nothing in p a r ­
ticular. I asked
a b o u t the fam ­
ily th a t lived
across the
com pound
from us. They
w ere one of
the poorest
families in my
village. They
lived in a
stereotypical
African mud
house with a
stick roof. My
sister was a little
m o re diplomatic
t h a n the w om an the
previous day as she
said, “They used to
work for us, but now they
only cook a t our weddings
and b a p tism s.”
Despite the subtlety, I understoo d the
tru e m eaning. I lived across the com ­
pound from former, or depending on
definitions, c u rre n t slaves. I belonged
to a family th a t had slaves. I never
talked ab ou t it with anyone. I did not
know w h a t to say. I did not know how
to feel.
It is now a year la te r and I ju s t read
two docum en ts a b o u t slavery in
M auritania. One w a s in a p opular
A m erican m a g az in e and the second
w a s a 50-page r e p o r t from an in te r n a ­
tional h u m a n rights group. They o ut­
lined a culture e m b e d d e d with slavery.
They had lists of h u m a n rights viola­
tions within the society, gov ernm ent
a n d legal system. One w ro te ab o u t the
daily life of th ree differen t “slaves.”
A y e a r ago, this w ould have been an
easy m oral case for me. Simply, slav­
ery is w rong in an y form, but now
th e re a re a lot of s ta te m e n ts to qualify
this. Many of the h a r d s h ip s both of
th ese texts outlined a re not only h a r d ­
ships for “slaves” b ut for everyone who
lives in M auritania. One talked a bout a
“s la v e ” living in one ro om with a small
light. T h at is how I live here. I consider
it luxury in the c ontext of Africa th a t I
have electricity a n d do not live in a
te n t like m any of the nom ads. Another
“sla v e ” had to cook at th e ir family’s
w eddings a n d ba ptism s like the family
a cro ss the com pound from me; th a t is
all they do. They m ay even call it a
social obligation.
In my m oral bedrock slavery is still
w rong. But different definitions and
c u ltu ra l situations c re a te m any cracks
an d fissures.
M a ite Uranga g r a d u a te d fro m Notre
D am e in 2 0 0 0 as an anthropology and
go vern m e n t major. S h e is cu rren tly a
Peace Corps volu n teer in the Islam ic
R epublic o f M a uritania.
The view s exp re sse d in this column
are th o se o f the a u th o r a n d n o t neces­
sa rily those o f The Observer.
War protests support Saddam
On Feb. 15, b etw ee n one a n d tw o million people
aro u n d the world m a rc h e d in su p p o rt of the regim e
of Saddam Hussein.
Of course, they d id n ’t say t h a t ’s why they m a rc h e d ,
but a clear con se q ue nc e of p re v e n tin g m ilitary action
a gainst Iraq is th a t the “Butcher
of B aghdad” re m a in s in pow er,
likely keeping the ability to p os­
sess w eap on s of m a ss d estruction
th at th e world com m unity h a s
unanim ously d e m a n d e d he
destroy.
Certainly, m any people disag ree
with a U.S.-led coalition strike
a gainst Iraq for perfectly j u s t i ­
fiable and defensible re aso n s.
Mike Marchand
Unfortunately, they chose to
throw in th eir lot with the
usual anti-A m erican suspects
U n d is tin g u is h e d
for the sake of n u m b e rs alone.
A lu m n u s
In so doing, th e y ’re allowing
the motley crew t h a t is the
anti-globalization left-wing
crowd to de-m arginalize itself a n d a tta in relevance.
Everybody’s seen the loonies who w e a r sandw ich
b oards th at c o m p a re George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler;
on Feb. 15, they got to ride along in p a r a d e s th a t
n um bered in the h u n d r e d s of th o u sa n d s in several
American cities.
At best, the m ajority of a n ti-w a r p ro te ste rs are
simply disingenuous — claiming to c a re abo ut the
people of Iraq while steadfastly opp osing a regime
change which would lib e rate them . T hey called for
the United States to stand down its “ag g re ss io n ” b u t
did n’t b e a r signs saying th a t S add am should stand
down his aggression and comply with th e 17 U.N.
resolutions leveled ag a in st him. And a secon dary
them e of the p eace m a r c h e s was “ Free Palestine.”
None of th em show the least concern for freeing
Iraq.
Even the m ost benign of th e d e m o n stra to rs, the
ones who said “Let The Inspections W ork” base th e ir
beliefs on a faulty prem ise. First off, the inspections
a r e clearly not w orking in the way they a re intended.
T h e y ’re suppo sed to be th ere to confirm I r a q ’s d is a r ­
m a m e n t, not hunting like bloodhounds over the
168,753 s q u a r e miles of Iraqi te rrito ry to sniff out
sm oking guns. Second, the only re a so n why in sp e c ­
tions a re w orking at all, such as they are, is because
th e United States has b een ra ttling s a b e rs for several
m onths. Remove the th r e a t of w a r a nd Iraq will
cease its tone of limited concessions.
This is the real flashpoint of this conflict. W hen
Bush an n o u n c e d his intent to force regim e c hang e in
Iraq, oppon en ts of all kinds insisted th at he should
gain U.N. approval. Despite th e fact th a t A m erica
should be u n d e r no obligation to have its na tional
defense get ru b b e r-sta m p e d by a body u n d e r which
Libya is the elected ch air of the H um an Rights
Commission, Bush agreed. And Security Council
Resolution 1441, which d em and ed Iraqi d is a r m a ­
m en t a nd suggested “dire c o n se q u e n c es” for noncompliance, passed unanim ously in November.
Sadly, the rally of p eace-at-all-costs has s tr e n g th ­
ened so m u ch since th en th a t should the United
States and G reat Britain su bm it a duplicate of 1441
to the Security Council — which will likely h a p p e n
this w eek — it will be vetoed, which m e a n s the
“coalition of the willing” would face acting a gain st
U.N. m a n d a te s . T han k you very m uch.
The chief pain-in-the-neck is F r a n c e ’s Ja c q u e s
Chirac, who, despite acting unilaterally in the Ivory
Coast and inviting Z im babw e’s b ru ta l dictator Robert
Mugabe for pate, has still found tim e to cut oil deals
with Iraq, tie A m erica’s h and s and tell E astern
Europe and Turkey to cheese off. T h e U.S. has
becom e th e w o rld ’s only su p e r p o w e r through mili­
ta ry s tre ng th ; Chirac is trying to build the Euro pean
Union into a rival by flexing diplomatic muscles,
which is th e only stren gth they have. And it seem s
the entire nation of France enjoys Jacq ues-in g off
over the idea of stand in g in A m e ric a ’s way.
This opposition, be it in the c h a m b e r s of the U.N.
or on the s tre e ts of the world, all plays right into
S a d d a m ’s h a n d s. The p ro te ste rs d enounce A m e ric a ’s
supposed “a g g r e ssio n ” b u t are oddly silent to the
untold th o u s a n d s of people Hussein has m u rd e re d ,
people in his own cou n try and his n e ig h b o rs’ (and to
the u nila te ra l strikes Bill Clinton m a d e in Iraq and
Yugoslavia du rin g his term). To them , the bru tal
criminal is n ’t Sa d d a m Hussein, it’s George W. Bush.
It’s A m erica who is out for Iraqi oil, not F rance,
whose T otalFinaE lf com pany recently signed co n­
tracts with Iraq. It’s not th e “axis of evil” of Iran,
Iraq and N orth Korea who re p re se n t the gra v e st
th r e a t to world peace, it’s the “axis of evil” of Bush,
Cheney and Rumsfeld.
M eanwhile, the a p p e a s e r s of the U.N. Security
Council insist on I r a q ’s d is a r m a m e n t but refu se to do
it with n e c e ssa ry force. As long as A m erica d o e s n ’t
get its way, Iraq can have its. In an interview with an
Egyptian m ag az in e in Novem ber, Saddam said this:
“Time is w o rk in g for us. We have to buy som e m ore
time, and the A m erican-B ritish coalition will d isinte­
grate bec au se of in te rn a l re a so n s and b ec a u se of the
p re s su re of public opinion in the Am erican and
British s t r e e t .”
For w h a te v e r re aso n s, good or bad, th a t people
oppose a w a r with Iraq, in the end, the only perso n it
benefits is Sa d d a m Hussein. Should he s ta r e down
A m erica a n d get th e m to blink — again — h e ’ll only
be stron ger. T he United States will em erg e w eak e r,
which is really w h a t m any, if not a majority, of the
opposition w a n ts m ost of all.
M ike M a rch a n d ’01 d o e s n ’t th in k he can kn o ck out
M ike Tyson b ut th in k s h e can a t lea st last 5 0 se c ­
onds, esp ec ia lly i f h e ’s being p a id $1 m illion. A t the
very least, he could bea t Tonya H arding in a sp lit
decision. H is e-m a il a d d re ss is M archand.3@ alum ni.nd.edu.
The view s e x p re sse d in this colum n are th o se o f the
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N o n e th e le s s , o n e s h o p p i n g s p r e e a t
the mall will c e rta in ly s t a r t you t h i n k ­
in g a b o u t s p r i n g a t t i r e . W i n t e r is
finally coming to a n end and it is tim e
to get rid of the heavy wool s w e a t e r s
a nd cords in o r d e r to m a k e room for
the sho rts, ta n k s, and d re sse s.
For girls, sim ple e leg ance w ith a lit­
tle bit of b rig h tn e s s will be very p o p u ­
l a r t h is s p r i n g . D e s i g n e r s s u c h a s
B anana
R e p u b lic,
GAP,
and
A b e r c r o m b ie & F itch h a v e l a u n c h e d
spring lines h ig hlighted by floral p a t ­
t e r n s a n d b r i g h t c o lo r s , w i t h p in k s
and sky b lues at th e top of th e c h a rts .
Girls, g e t r e a d y to s h o w s o m e leg
this spring too. Minis a r e com ing b a c k
into s ty le , b u t s o m e d e s i g n e r s m a y
have becom e a little too sc isso r-h ap p y
w hen cutting the length of the skirts.
T h is s p r i n g , o n e m u s t b e c a r e f u l
spring
break
inching
closer,
w h e n d istin g u ish in g b e tw e e n w h a t is
c o n s id e r e d a n a p p r o p r i a t e m ini a n d
one th a t is a bit too sm all to be co n ­
sid e re d tastefu l a nd p re s e n ta b le . The
n e w styles on sale at A b e rc ro m b ie &
F itch as well as H olliste r a r e s h o r ts
a n d s k i r t s t h a t a r e i n c r e d i b l y to o
s h o r t to be c o n sid e red a p p r o p r ia te .
T h e m in i s k i r t s c a n be w o r n w ith
t h e typ ical b o o ts a n d h ig h sock, b u t
for this spring , s tra p p y sa n d a ls along
w ith th e m in i is a big hit. Also, flat
sa n d a ls , p re fe ra b ly flip flops a r e c o n ­
sid e re d to be an cute addition to c o m ­
p le te a fun a n d sim p listic outfit. To
d re s s the mini up a bit, b a re legs with
high heels is a fun, yet classy w ay to
hit the town. Since the mini leaves so
m u c h to th e im g in a tio n , w ith a little
bit of creativity, any type of shoe can
m a k e it fun a nd still look cute at the
sa m e time.
If t h e m in i s ty le i s n ’t y o u r th in g ,
long e r, p r i n t e d d r e s s e s a r e n o t only
p o p u l a r a g a i n , b u t th e y lo ok g r e a t
d u r i n g th e day or for nig h tly a c tiv i­
ties.
To a d d a l i t t l e e x c i t e m e n t to th e
nigh tw ear, lace sk irts, seq u in e d , satin
ca m iso le s and sm all clu tch p u rse s
Photo provided by www.jcrew.com
This J. Crew model shows the casual and comfortable look that will be popu­
lar this spring. The bright colors embody the light and breezy look that will
fill the air in 2 0 0 3 .
Photo provided by www.fashio.about.com
These microminis are exam ples of the length that is coming back. Girls, get
ready to show som e leg because m ost stores are selling skirts that are pretty
tiny.
m a k e the outfit all the m o re alluring.
A lthough the typical N otre Dame s t u ­
de n t avoids the d r e s s ie r a ttire for the
n i g h t life on c a m p u s , t h i s s p r i n g
should bring in a lot of simple d r e s s ­
es t h a t will be s u ita b le even for th e
N o t r e D a m e g i r l s . A n d d o n ’t b e
afra id d to get alittle m o re dresse d up
on y o u r s p r in g b r e a k . S p rin g b r e a k
s h o u l d b e a t i m e to l e t y o u r h a i r
down and have a good time, so th ose
nw d re sse s th a t you a r e too afraid to
w e a r at ND will be p e rf e c t for y o u r
sp rin g b re a k en deavo rs.
Of c o u r s e , if y o u h a t e w e a r i n g
d r e s s e s , th e s p o r t y t r e n d is in fu ll
effect o nce a g a in this s p rin g , b r i n g ­
in g c h ic a t h l e t i c o u t f i t s by N ik e ,
P u m a a n d Ju ic y to th e N o tre D am e
c a m p u s in s o m e of s p r i n g ’s h o t t e s t
colors. Colorful, sporty, backless t e n ­
nis shoes designed by com pan ies like
P um a will do m in a te the sidew alks by
day, a l o n g w ith flip flops in e v e r y
color of th e rainbow. Not only is the
sp orty look a big hit this season , b u t
it a d d s so m uch com fort th a t it is not
to be f o r g o t t e n . M a n y s t a r s h a v e
d e c id e d to r e s o r t to th e c o m f o r t of
th e ir sporty suits, yet still m a n a g e d to
look chic while doing so.
As for o th e r fo o tw e a r fashion, s t e p ­
pin g out this sp r in g in s to n e -s tu d d e d
sa n d a ls is a m u st if you w a n t to be in
s t y l e . W h e n in t h e o f f i c e , p o i n t e d
sh o e s with high ankle str a p s will click
along th e office floors, sim ilar to those
w o r n by J e n n i f e r A n i s t o n , D e b r a
Messing and Katie Couric.
A n o th e r g r e a t a c c e s s o r y tr e n d this
s e a s o n is the in tr o d u c tio n of n a t u r a l
s to n e s into th e s p r i n g je w e lry . Rose
q u a r tz n e c k la c es , e a r r in g s a n d rings
d o m in a te d th e fa sh io n r u n w a y s , and
this a ccessory c o m p le m e n ts p erfectly
with the tre n d of pink clothes this s e a ­
son . M o th er of p e a r l shell n e c k la c e s
a r e also extrem ely popular, especially
w h e n they are form ed into flowers or
o th e r geom etric s h a p e s. The be a u ty of
th e s e n e c k la c e s is t h a t they c o m p le ­
m e n t a n y o u tf it b e c a u s e th e y a r e a
n e u tr a l accessory t h a t can reflect the
color of your shirt.
If you d o n ’t like th e n a tu r a l s to n e s
fo r je w e lr y , s im p le s ilv e r n e c k l a c e s
a r e also p o p u la r for the sp rin g , with
un iq ue silver pieces d angling from the
n ecklace. The classics are alw ays p o p ­
ular, so if you d o n ’t w a n t to sp lu rg e on
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bserv er
Monday, February 24, 2003
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)ring fashions
ot for both men and women in the upcoming 2003 spring season
new a c c e s so rie s , j u s t r e m e m b e r t h a t
jew e lry is tim eless.
To com plete y o u r new sp rin g a ttir e ,
make up this se a so n will ag a in r e t u r n
to a m ore n a t u r a l a n d less d r a m a t i c
look.
E y e lin e r will s t r a y fro m th e b a s ic
brow ns and blacks to eg g p la n ts, blues
and fudge tones.
In o rd e r to give cheeks a fre sh look,
highlight th e c h eek bones by applying
blush th a t is a s h a d e or tw o lig h te r,
and th e n u s e p a le , n a t u r a l p in k li p ­
sticks a n d s h i m m e r y g lo s s e s to give
the u ltim a te s p r in g chic look.
So e nough a b o u t girl’s fashion. Guys
a r e g o in g to s e e s o m e n e w r e l a x e d
looks for s p r i n g too. F o r a ll o f you
guys out t h e r e in n e e d of a f a s h i o n
m ak eov er th o u g h , y ou r b e st b e t is to
t a k e a g i r l w i t h y o u to h e l p o u t .
N onetheless, if you c a n ’t find a girl to
head to th e mall with you, j u s t abide
by t h e fo llo w in g s ty le h i n t s fo r th e
sprin g seaso n.
T he t r e n d y look for guys th is s e a ­
son, which can be found at s to r e s like
A b e r c r o m b ie & F itc h , H o l lis te r a n d
A m e r i c a n E a g l e , is v i n t a g e c a r g o
shorts or pa nts. Most of the c a rg o s in
the s to re s this sp rin g s p o rt the w r in ­
kled, w o rn and baggy pockets, which
e x p re ss th e re lax e d feeling of m e n ’s
s p rin g 2003 fashion.
As far as sh o rts a r e c o n c e rn e d , one
big style c h a n g e seen this s e a so n will
be t h e e l i m i n a t i o n o f t h e e x t r e m e
le n g th s . T h e m a jo r ity of th e s h o r ts
will hit rig h t at the knee, with only a
few styles hitting below th e knee. If
you like the lo n g e r s h o r t, y o u r best
b e t is to l o o k in s t o r e s lik e
A b erc ro m b ie an d A m e ric a n Eagle.
C ontinuing along the re la x e d them e
a r e v in ta g e b u tto n dow n sh ir ts with
r in g e r te e s w orn u n d e r n e a t h to give
the la y e re d look.
S o m e s t o r e s w ill e v e n b e s e lli n g
som e H a w a iia n and o th e r large floral
p r in ts fo r th e s p r i n g b r e a k s e a s o n .
However, th e r e is no do ub t th a t these
s h i r t s w o n ’t be as p o p u l a r fo r th e
u p c o m i n g s u m m e r m o n t h s as th e y
w e r e last year,
B aseball tees a re also a h ug e tren d
th is s e a s o n , w ith b o th lon g sleev ed
a n d th r e e q u a r te r length sleeved v e r ­
s i o n s a p p e a r i n g in m a n y o f t h e
s to re s . P e r h a p s the b ig g e st tr e n d in
long sleeved sh irts this s e a so n is the
Photo provided by www.jcrew.com
This model show s the cla ssic button down that is popular on ce again this
spring. Not only will the button down be popular, but the rugby shirt is huge as
well.
Photo provided by www.fashion.about.com
These outfits portray the laid back, yet sleek look that will be popular this
spring. Both men are casually dressed, yet look very put together.
ru g b y s h i r t , w h ic h c a n be m a t c h e d
w ith je a n s o r with cargo p a n ts for the
p e rfe c t relax ed, collegiate look.
T h e ru g b y is a g r e a t s h i r t for th e
. tr a n s itio n from s p r i n g into s u m m e r,
a n d its p o p u la r i ty will d o m in a te all
the w ay into th e fall season . P a ir th e
ru gby with a b a se b a ll h a t and this get
up shou ld definitely tu r n a few girls
h ea d s.
On the o th e r h a n d , the biggest f a s h ­
ion faux p a s this s e a so n has to be th e
r ib b e d ta n k s t h a t w e re p o p u la r la s t
y e a r . In o t h e r w o r d s , g u y s , d o n ’t
w e a r t a n k s u n l e s s y o u ’r e p l a y i n g
sports!
If y o u r s ty le l e a n s m o r e t o w a r d s
p re p p y clo th es th a n th e w o rn a n d
r e l a x e d look, B a n a n a R e p u b lic a n d
GAP a re in tro d u c in g flat fro nt cotto n
p a n t s w ith a b it of s t r e t c h to avoid
th e w r in k le d , v in ta g e lo o k of
A b e rc ro m b ie a n d Fith and Hollister.
W ith t h e s e c a s u a l p a n t s , s t r e t c h
b u tto n dow ns c o m b in e d with s tr e t c h
c r e w T - s h ir ts u n d e r n e a t h c o m p l e t e
this classic look.
N o n e th e le ss, the bigg est tr e n d s this
s e a s o n u n d o u b t e d l y will b e s e e n in
m e n ’s sh o e s. J u s t like last s e a so n , flip
flops will d o m in a te th e w a r m s p rin g
m o nths, w ith Reef sho w in g both twoto n e d solid a n d s trip e d p r in ts as the
p o p u la r styles for spring.
For a m o r e classic look, s q u a r e toed
s h o e s a r e still tr e n d y , w h ile for the
re la x e d look, bowling sh o e s and re tro
te n n is s h o e s m a d e by c o m p a n ie s like
Adidas a n d P u m a will flood the s id e ­
walks.
U ltim ately, no m a t t e r w h a t fashion
style you like, n o th in g w e a r s as well
as c onfidence. So pick out the clothes
t h a t you like a n d th a t r e p r e s e n t who
you are. If you follow this one simple
r u l e a n d th e s ty le h i n t s a b o v e , you
will no d o u b t look g r e a t th is s p r in g
seaso n.
C on tact E m ily H ow ald at
H o w ald .2@ n d .ed u and
Brin A n d erson at A nderson. 159@ nd.edu
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The Observer ♦
Monday, February 24, 2003
SPORTS
B engal B outs — 1 5 0 - 1 6 0 P ounds
Vargas tops Arevalo in closely fought split decision
By LUKE B U SA M
Sports Writer
Ju an Diego Vargas won a split
decision over Steven Arevalo in
an excellent fight that co u ld n ’t
have b e e n closer. The m u tu a l
respect each fighter had for the
other was obvious as both were
h e s i t a n t to i n i t i a t e c o n t a c t .
Vargas charged often th r o u g h ­
o u t th e f i r s t r o u n d , a n d t h e
e x c h a n g e s c a u s e d s ig n if ic a n t
contact for each boxer.
M id w a y t h r o u g h t h e f i r s t
round, both boxers found th e m ­
selves tied up in the ropes after
a charge by Vargas. Round two
began with an impressive flurry
of 10 s e c o n d s o f c o n t i n u o u s
p u n c h i n g . A r e v a lo w a s t h e
a g g r e s s o r in r o u n d tw o , b u t
every time he attacked he w as
m et with a lot of le a th e r from
Vargas. Forty seconds into the
third ro u n d , Arevalo sc o r e d a
standing eight-count on Vargas
with a s tr o n g left th a t c a u g h t
Vargas off balance.
In s p it e o f t h e e i g h t - c o u n t
Vargas still secured a victory.
Rogers def. Cardillo
Ryan R o g e r s ’ c o n tro l of th e
ring secured him a unanim ous
dec isio n o v e r C raig C a rd illo .
T h e m a t c h b e g a n w i t h fe w
ex c ha ng e s as Rogers s u c c e s s ­
fully u sed his j a b to k e ep th e
advancing Cardillo at bay.
E a rly in r o u n d two R o g e r s
fo rc e d C a rd illo to th e r o p e s .
R o g e r s h e l d t h e r i n g w e ll
th ro u g h o u t the ro u n d a n d his
sin g le j a b s w e r e s u c c e s s f u l .
Cardillo began th e third round
aggressively, forcing Rogers to
the ropes. The final round was
C a r d illo ’s s t r o n g e s t , b u t th e
dominating jabs of Rogers w ere
too much to overcome.
Gasser def. Gorynsk!
B ren dan G asser held off th e
aggressive adv a n c es of Bobby
Gorynski to e a rn a u n a nim ou s
decision victory. Goyrnski w as
forced to circle Gasser th ro u g h ­
out round one as Gasser’s ja b s
found their way through several
times.
In clinches, Gasser w as excel­
lent as he a tta c k e d G o y n sk i’s
body with a nu m ber of hooks. A
n u m b e r of stron g one-twos by
Gasser began the second round.
Gorynski forced G asser to th e
ropes in the middle of the s ec ­
ond and w as effective with his
a d v a n c e s . Both b o x e rs fell to
the m at with 15 seconds left in
round two after an off balance
clinch initiated by Gasser.
Gorynski fought well in round ' announced.
three when he moved forward, Keppel def. Peters
b u t G a s s e r r e f u s e d to m o v e
Steve K eppel w o n a u n a n i ­
fro m t h e c e n t e r of t h e r in g ,
m o u s d e c i s i o n v i c to r y o v e r
using his ja b to keep Gorynski Michael P e te rs in a fight th a t
back. T he u n a n im o u s decision found both fighters often on the
cam e s h o rtly a fte r a good
ro p e s and a t tim es tangled in
exchange th a t closed the third
them. Keppel began the match
round.
aggressively, sending Peters to
Lohmeyer def. Heaton
the corner three separate times.
Lohmeyer enjoyed the s h o r t­
P e t e r s b a c k p e d a l e d o f te n
est fight of the day as his fight t h r o u g h o u t r o u n d o ne a n d
a g a in s t C hase H eato n w as
f o u n d his b a c k a g a i n s t th e
called 15 seconds into the first ropes more th a n once. In round
r o u n d d u e to a n i n j u r y to two Peters looked good and he
constantly rep lied to K eppel’s
H e a t o n ’s r i g h t s h o u l d e r .
L o h m e y e r h a d a n u m b e r o f advances. Both fighters th re w
good o n e - tw o s in the first 15 and took a lot of leather in the
seconds and will be fresh for his s e c o n d r o u n d . K e p p e l f o u n d
f ig h t
ag a in st
G a s s e r himself in the corner twice late
in the round, once after a push
Wednesday.
from P ete rs with te n sec o n d s
155-pound class
left. Both fighters were tangled
Kerrigan def. Melby
in the gold corner to start round
Colin Kerrigan slipped u n d e r three after a solid exchange.
th e lo n g a r m s of Mike Melby
K e p p e l ’s p u n c h e s w e r e
and e arn ed a split decision vic­ straighter a n d more successful
tory over the 155-pound No. 1 t h r o u g h o u t th e f in a l r o u n d ,
seed.
s e c u r i n g h im the u n a n im o u s
Kerrigan w a s aggressive a n d
decision victory.
closed hard in the first round as Schaefer def. Arnold
h e got u n d e r Melby’s jab s. He
G reg S c h a e f e r o v e r c a m e a
landed a nu m b e r of body shots fair am o u n t of bleeding and a
a n d u se d his lead hook to th e
la te a g g r e s s iv e p u s h by Cliff
bo d y w e ll to n e u t r a l i z e t h e
Arnold to w in a split decision
taller Fighter’s jab. Melby’s ja b victory. Schaefer looked strong
found its t a r g e t m ore often in in th e first r o u n d as he s e n t
round two, b u t he continued to Arnold to the mat with a hard,
take th e hooks of the slipping s t r a i g h t r i g h t 40 s e c o n d s in.
Kerrigan.
Arnold was backed to the ropes
Round th r e e p ro duc e d m o re
early in round two and Schaefer
punches from each fighter and snuck in a n u m b e r of upstairs
Melby’s jab w as a bigger factor. ja b s to dominate the round.
A series of h a r d shots upstairs
Each fighter came out strong
p ro m p te d a s ta n d in g e ig h tin r o u n d t h r e e a n d A r n o ld
c ou nt on K e rr ig a n to end th e
forced a b leed in g Sc h a efe r to
m atch .
M e lb y
im p ro v ed
the corner with a series of high
t h r o u g h o u t th e f ig h t, b u t one-twos. Schaefer’s blood flew
K errigan’s consistent low hooks from the ring before a stop to
were the deciding factor.
clean him up with 29 seconds
Loughrey def. Basola
Galen Loughrey looked strong
in his split d ec isio n w in o v er
Mark Basola. Loughrey moved
well, c losed h a rd and got o u t
q u ic k ly t h r o u g h o u t t h e f i r s t
r o u n d , s c o r i n g a n u m b e r of
times to Basola’s body.
B asola’s j a b s found only th e
protective left glove of Loughrey
throughout the second round as
Loughrey slipped with textbook
form a n d delivered a n um ber of
straight rights to Basola’s m id­
section. In ro u n d th re e Basola
c o n t i n u e d to d e l i v e r j a b s
upstairs, but was unable to con­
siste n tly
break
th ro u g h
L o u g h re y ’s e x ce lle n t de fen se .
However a small cut was visible
over the left eye of Loughrey as
his sp lit d e c isio n victory w a s
left in the third. Arnold’s come­
back ended as Schaefer landed
an impressive shot to his oppo­
n e n t ’s h e a d a n d e a r n e d a
standing eight-count to end the
final round and secure his vic­
tory.
160-pound class
Desplinter def. Tschanz
Mark Desplinter’s straight left
j a b s e a r n e d his a u n a n im o u s
d e c i s i o n v i c t o r y o v e r S te v e
Tschanz. Desplinter earned two
s t a n d i n g e i g h t - c o u n t s on
T sc h a n z in th e second rou nd .
Both e ig h t-c o u n ts cam e a f te r
impressive rights by Desplinter,
the first following a jab and the
second as a lead to end the sec­
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one-twos were solid and nearly
alw ays found th e ir ta r g e t.
Tschanz did not lose quietly as
he landed a strong right hand to
Desplinter’s head that dropped
h im to th e m a t to e n d th e
m a t c h . D e s p l i n t e r ’s e a r l y
rou nds were s tro n g enough to
earn him a unanimous decision
in spite of the late knockdown.
Philip def. McCarthy
Bill Philip w o n a close split
decision over Kevin McCarthy in
this battle of evenly- m atched
boxers. A n um b e r of high solid
e x c h a n g e s by b o t h f i g h t e r s
d o m in a te d th e first ro u n d .
McCarthy was forced to the cor­
n e r by a num ber of strong onetwos by Philip to end the round.
McCarthy began round two with
a tough flurry of p unches and
moved Phillip to the ropes 40
seconds into the round. It was a
close round, b u t Phillip was a
bit more aggressive.
McCarthy clinched a nu m ber
of times in the final round, but
was unable to hold off the final
a g g r e s s i v e b u r s t of P h illip
w h ic h e n d e d t h e r o u n d a n d
persuaded the judges to declare
him the winner.
Enterline def. White
A s t r o n g t h i r d r o u n d by
Enterline won him a split deci­
s io n o v e r T o d d W h ite . Both
fighters tr a d e d blows early in
ro u n d one a n d E n te rlin e w as
forced to the blue co rn e r then
yellow midway through. Round
two began as a brawl and both
fighters’ forms suffered a bit. A
n u m b e r of c lin c h e s a n d wild
e xchan ges m a r k e d th e round.
Enterline did find success with
his ja b late in the second.
T h e th ird ro u n d b e g a n and
ended with Enterline’s jab find­
ing its m a r k . E n t e r l i n e w a s
m o r e a g g r e s s iv e in th e final
round and n e a r the end of the
match, dislodged W hite’s mouth
guard with a n u m b e r of strong
one-twos to W hite’s head th at
forced White to the ropes.
Pierce def. Shallcross
Senior c a p ta in Tom P ierce’s
first fight a f te r s p e n d in g last
sp rin g in London w a s a quick
one as his m a t c h w ith J e s s e
S h a l l c r o s s e n d e d 1:28 in to
round one. Pierce began with a
h a r d one-o ne-tw o combo th a t
sent Shallcross to the ropes 15
s e c o n d s in to t h e r o u n d .
S h a llc r o s s w a s f o r c e d to th e
r o p e s a g a in a t 40 se c o n d s in
and a final tim e 1:15 into the
fight. Pierce forced Shallcross to
the gold c o r n e r w ith u p sta irs
p u n c h e s a n d h e ld him th e r e
w ith a s e r ie s of ho o k s to the
body. A strong right hook dou­
b le d up S h a l l c r o s s a n d th e
match was called with two sec­
o n d s left in th e f i r s t r o u n d .
P ierce will fight E n te rlin e on
Wednesday.
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SPORTS
B engal B outs — 1 2 5 - 1 4 5 P ounds
Faist advances to sem ifinals by defeating Feduska
By ERIK PO W E R S
Sports Writer
Early in the match it seem ed
as if Michael Feduska and Brian
Faist were participating in a lit­
tle bit of geom etry, with Faist
circ u m n a v ig a tin g F e d u sk a .
Feduska w as the a g g r e s s o r in
the first round, causing the elu­
sive Faist to circle him arou nd
the rin g . But F aist fo u g h t off
F e d u s k a ’s flu rries well, th r e e
times using his left hand to block
series of ja b s before retaliating
with a wicked right hook. Both
fighters came out with flurries in
the second round, but the stac­
cato succession of blows failed to
give either fighter an advantage.
The second round ended with
a burst of momentum, however,
when Faist mixed two th u n d e r­
ous right hooks with a series of
jabs in order to knock Feduska
into one sid e of t h e r in g a n d
then another. Feduska and Faist
traded hooks in the final round,
but F e d u sk a ’s fate in the even
m atch could not be re w ritte n :
Faist won in a split decision.
Valenzuela def. Musiala
In the second fight of the 125pound w eight division, R ob ert
M usiala from off c a m p u s w as
pitted a g a in s t Jon V a le n z u e la
fro m Dillon. T he f i r s t r o u n d
p r o v e d to be an e x e r c i s e in
e x p o s i tio n , for M u s ia la a n d
V alenzuela fought to establish
t h e i r c h a r a c t e r in t h e r in g .
Musiala d epend ed upon speed
and quickness, with his highlight
being a left/right ja b and hook
combination th a t he landed at
the end of the round. Valenzuela
d i s p la y e d a m o r e p o w e r f u l
a p p r o a c h , u n le a s h in g a h u g e
hook on multiple occasions. In
the s e c o n d r o u n d , M u s lia la
sough to frustrate Valenzuela by
dancing around him and landing
in te r m itte n t ja b s. V a le n z u e la
t h e n c a u g h t M u s ia la w i t h a
series of sweeping right hooks,
battering his opponent into the
ropes. The third ro u n d ’s climax
was a seven-hit combination of
hooks and ja b s by V alenzuela,
who looked to put an end to the
match. Musiala valiantly staged
his o w n o ff e n s iv e , k n o c k i n g
V a le n z u e la b a c k w a r d s a t one
point, b ut V alen zuela still t r i ­
um p h e d in a u n a n im o u s d e c i­
sion.
Kim def. Rojas
Sung Hoon Kim w a ste d little
time in the final bout of the 125pound division. Facing Gerrardo
Rojas, Kim opened with v e h e ­
m e n t violence and lan d e d two
hooks and a jab within the first
ten seco nd s. Rojas re g ro u p e d
and attem p ted to feel out Kim,
but Kim responded with a n 11h it c o m b i n a t i o n t h a t d r e w a
c r e s c e n d o of c h e e r s fro m the
crowd and a dazed defense from
Rojas. While the referee paused
the fight to check that Rojas was
all r i g h t , a b u z z c o n t i n u e d
th r o u g h t h e cro w d . S m e llin g
blood and feeding off the a r e n a ’s
energy, Kim exploded w hen the
m a tc h re s u m e d . P iston-like
pu nches welcomed Rojas back
from the break, driving him into
th e r o p e s a n d d o w n to t h e
match. With 1:10 left in the first
roun d, the referee stopped the
fight. Kim won in d o m in a tin g
fashion.
1 4 0 pounds
Marks def. Hollowell
Chip Marks had anything but a
size advantage, giving up several
in c h e s in he ig h t and r e a c h to
T o n y H o llo w e ll. In t h e f i r s t
round,
M arks
p rev en ted
Hollowell from exploiting this
disa d v a n ta g e , however. M arks
r e p e a t e d l y r u s h e d H ollow ell,
landing a right hook and several
ja b s to his head before closing
o u t th e r o u n d w ith a f u r io u s
s e v e n - h i t f lu r r y . H o llo w e ll
recovered quickly and began the
se c o n d r o u n d like a d if f e re n t
man. Much more aggressive and
assertive, Hollowell se e m ed to
turn the tide of the m atch until
M arks eschew ed defense for a
r e c k l e s s h o o k - la d e n o ff e n s e .
S w in g in g m e r c ile s s ly , M a rk s
knocked the m om entum out of
Hollowell, causing the referee to
pause the fight once and limiting
Hollowell to a single landed jab
in th e final 30 second s of the
r o u n d . M a r k s c o n t i n u e d h is
impassioned display in the open­
in g of t h e fin a l r o u n d a n d
k n o c k e d Hollowell o u t of th e
fight only 40 seconds into th e
round.
Davidson def. Schmidlin
On
T hursday,
S tep h en
Davidson won a hard-fought w ar
of attrition that featured a bevy
of punches, an absence of block­
in g , a n d a s p lit d e c is io n . On
S unday, a refre sh e d Joe
S c h m id lin (coming off a firstround bye) beat him at his own
game. Early in the first round,
Schmidlin landed a six-hit com­
b ination. The two then tr a d e d
blows, a n d even as Schm idlin
h a d D a v id so n up a g a i n s t th e
ropes, Davidson still feverishly
r e t u r n e d his p u n c h e s. In the
se c o n d r o u n d S c h m id lin w a s
u n a b le to a b s o r b a n d r e t u r n
punches any longer, as Davidson
seized control of the match. The
t r a d i n g o f b lo w s b e c a m e a
m o n o p o ly w h e n D a v id s o n
u n le a s h e d a b r u t a l s e v e n - h it
c o m b i n a t i o n on S c h m i d lin ,
knocking Schmidlin into his own
corner. When the fight resumed,
the fighters switched directions
and Davidson promptly knocked
Schmidlin onto the bottom ropes
of the Davidson’s corner, ending
the fight at 46 seconds into the
second round.
Wuest def. Liva
Bill Wuest knew that he had a
h e ig h t a d v a n t a g e o v e r E d die
Liva, and he used it. Wuest posi­
tio n e d h i m s e l f a t a l e n g t h y
radius from Liva, using his long
reach in order to land long-dis­
tance jabs. Liva was aggressive
in the first ro u n d , a tte m p tin g
several combinations. But Liva
was unable to land enough of his
punches on W uest’s body, su c ­
ceeding in mainly a few ineffec­
tual a bdo m in a l hooks. N either
fighter looked tired by the se c ­
ond round, and neither fighter
e x p e rie n c e d m u c h of a t h r e a t
either. Wuest and Liva continued
to exchange parries and punch­
es. By the third round Wuest and
Liva confirmed that they were a
sta r k c o n tr a s t to the two c o n ­
tests of brute strength that p r e ­
ceded them. Liva and Wuest dis­
played lightness on their feet, a
combination of footwork, chess­
like strategy and cat-like quick­
ness in o rd e r to anticipate and
d e f le c t e a c h o t h e r ’s m o v e s .
T h e r e w e r e no bloody n o se s ,
pauses for count-outs or knock­
outs. W uest won in the end, a
unanim ous decision th at was a
t e s ta m e n t to his longer, m o re
successful reach.
Hoffman def. Pfizenmayer
C h ris H o ff m a n w o n v e r s u s
Mark Pfizenmayer, but the m a r ­
gin of v ictory w as sm all. T h e
tightly contested m atch opened
with H offm an s h o w c a sin g his
shiftiness and power by driving
Pfizenmayer into the ropes with
a series of six alternating hooks.
In r e s p o n s e to th is o p e n i n g
salvo, Pfizenmayer fired his own
flurry of fists, driving Hoffman
in to t h e o p p o s i t e r o p e s .
P fiz e n m a y e r th en sty m ied
Hoffman’s attempts to move him
a c r o s s th e r in g as th e r o u n d
ended. The second ro u n d
opened in even more sp ectacu­
l a r f a s h i o n , for P f iz e n m a y e r
r e e le d off 10 p u n c h e s b e f o r e
Hoffman responded with a furi­
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V alenzuela throw s a s tr o n g punch in his victory a g a in st
Musiala. The 1 2 5 Pound fighters met in quarterfinals Sunday.
ous s e v e n - p u n c h c o m b in a tio n
th a t p u sh e d Pfizenmayer b a c k
in to
h is
ow n
corner.
P f i z e n m a y e r a t t e m p te d to go
back on the offensive, but w a s
th w arted . W hat ensued w as
p u r e a n d sw ift v e n g e a n c e by
H o ffm a n . T w o j a b s a n d f o u r
hooks se n t Pfizenmayer reeling
a c r o s s t h e r in g . Tw o h o o k s
knocked Pfizenmayer up against
th e r o p e s . A n o t h e r s e r i e s o f
p u n c h e s h e ld him t h e r e . T h e
r o u n d e n d e d w ith th e m a t c h
s u d d e n l y lo o k in g o n e - s i d e d .
P f i z e n m a y e r d is p e lle d t h i s
notion within 20 seconds of the
third ro u n d w hen he d isa rm e d
Hoffman with a six-hit com bina­
tion and then used another sixhit combination in order to send
him in to t h e r o p e s . H o f fm a n
returned the favor with a sw oop­
ing r i g h t h o o k t h a t k n o c k e d
Pfizenm ayer’s headgear askew ,
and the two battled ineffectually
until the end of the round.
145 pounds
Dillon def. Sylling
Luke Dillon, this y e a r ’s to p
seed in th e 1 45-pound w e ig h t
division , w ith s to o d a s e r i o u s
c h a l l e n g e o v e r fellow j u n i o r
Andrew Sylling in winning a split
decision. T he fight began w ith
Dillon landing the majority of the
blows in the first round. Dillon
scored a five-hit combination, a
left hook and a right jab to mini­
mal success by Syllling. The se c ­
ond round featured Dillon on the
offensive once more, attempting
a series of left/right jabs, which
Sylling f e v e r is h ly f o u g h t off.
Sylling missed at least one ja b ,
however, for the fight had to be
paused for him to receive tr e a t­
ment on a bloodied nose. Dillon
followed with a pair of two com ­
binations in order to finish the
r o u n d . S y llin g w a s f a r f r o m
done, thou gh , and opened the
third round in inspired fashion.
Sylling and Dillon wailed at each
other in frantic fashion with no
clear victor emerging from the
scrum. The crowd, appreciating
the brave onslaught by Sylling,
ended its a lte rn a tin g c h a n t of
“m eatballs” for long enough to
e n c o u r a g e him while h e w a s
treated for his nose once more.
Sylling captured the support of
the majority of the crowd when
he follow ed w ith a s e v e n - h i t
combination highlighted by two
huge right hooks. The fight had
to be p a u s e d a final tim e for
Sylling’s nose, but soon a f t e r ­
w a r d s h e r o d e a c r e s t of
momentum into the finish with a
series of ja b s and an u p p e rc u t
into the m id se c tio n of Dillon.
But o n e r o u n d of d o m in a tio n
w a s n o t e n o u g h in o r d e r to
counteract Dillon’s two rounds.
H a rris def. Robinson ( w a lk ­
over)
The b a ttle of th e P auls j u s t
w a s n ’t m e a n t to be, for Harris
a d v a n c e d p a s t a f lu - s tr ic k e n
Robinson in a walk-over.
Ham def. Streit
E x p e rie n c e t r i u m p h e d ov er
youth as senior Jeff Ham defeat­
ed sophomore Jon Streit in the
fight for O’Neill Hall. Ham held
the upper h a n d at the onset of
the fight, landing the first punch
when he launched a hook. Streit
la n d e d a few j a b s of his own
before Ham had a five-hit com­
bination to en d the round. The
second round began with a hotly
contested row, and no clear win­
n e r emerged. Soon afterw ards,
Streit la n d e d a powerful rig ht
hook on Ham, sending spit and
sw eat flying. The round ended
with another closely waged flur­
ry, but Ham emerged relatively
unscathed, while Streit needed
to be treated for a bloodied nose
in between rounds. This did not
restrict Streit from dominating
the opening of the third round.
S tr e it h a d a p a i r of t h r e e - h i t
combinations, sending Ham into
a c o rn e r. H am re s p o n d e d by
knocking Streit off-balance with
his ow n s e r ie s of blows. Ham
won in a unanimous decision.
Duffey def. DeBoer
In t h e s e c o n d i n t r a h a l l
matchup of the afternoon, Ryan
“The Quiet M a n ” Duffey fought
Dave “T he Flying D u t c h m a n ”
D e B o e r. T h e S o rin r e s i d e n t s
formed a c o n tr a s t in size, and
the taller Duffey forced DeBoer
to circle him at first. Duffey dic­
t a t e d th e p a c e o f t h e m a t c h
e a rly, la n d in g s h o r t b u r s t s of
jabs while keeping DeBoer at a
d istance. In o rd e r to a adjust,
DeBoer began rushing his oppo­
nent, landing some point-blank
jabs and body shots from close
range. Duffey was able to string
more punches together, landing
a th re e -h it co m b in atio n and
later a six-hit combination after
DeBoer missed a punch. In the
second round, DeBoer was much
more aggressive and opened on
the offensive. T h r o u g h o u t the
round DeBoer swung hook after
hook at Duffey, trying to knock
the se n io r off-balance o r over
altogether. Reacting to DeBoer,
Duffey capitalized on D eB oer’s
unprotected head during offen­
sives in order to land four jabs.
In the third round DeBoer’s furi­
ous comeback attempt stalled as
the f r e s h m a n a p p e a re d to ru n
out of energy. DeBoer began to
miss p u n c h e s and the e x p e r i ­
enced Duffey adroitly connected
on calculated blows.
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Reuters
Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson and Clifford Etienne trade punches in the first round of their match
Saturday. Tyson knocked out Etienne 4 9 seconds Into the bout.
Tyson knocks out Etienne in 1st round
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MEMPHIS
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le s so n s le a r n e d from his
4 9 -se c o n d d e s t r u c ti o n of
C liffo rd E t i e n n e , a few
stand out:
First, rhinos don’t dance,
but they sure hit the c a n ­
vas with a thud.
Second, one devastating
r ig h t h a n d d o e s n ’t m e a n
Tyson has any chance in a
r e m a t c h w ith L e n n o x
Lewis.
T y s o n r a m b l e d on a s
o n ly T y s o n c a n a f t e r
S a t u r d a y n i g h t ’s f ig h t,
t o u c h i n g on e v e r y t h i n g
from his bad back (broken,
he says) to his d e s i r e to
party (it’s big) and, finally,
to his f u t u r e in th e r in g
(more Clifford Etiennes).
Etienne — aka the Black
Rhino — h ad g one d ow n
s e v e n tim e s in one fig ht
w ith s o ft-h ittin g F re s
O q u e n d o two y e a r s ago.
Tyson proved that the last
t h i n g to go in a n a g i n g
heavyw eight is his p u n c h
w h e n his rig ht h and flat­
tened Etienne.
E tie n n e m a d e th e m is ­
t a k e of t r y i n g to p u n c h
w it h a p u n c h e r , a n d a s
soon as Tyson landed his
rig h t, he w alked aw ay
knowing it was over.
“T h at’s w hat rhinos do,”
Tyson said. “Rhinos d o n ’t
dance.”
The crowd of 15,171 a t
th e P y r a m i d w e n t w ild
over the s ix th -fa s te s t
knockout
o f T y s o n ’s
c a r e e r . B ut t h e f o r m e r
heav y w eig h t ch am p io n
w as m o re r e a listic a b o u t
what it all meant.
“ P e o p le a r e e x c ite d to
see me knock guys out
because th a t’s how I made
my r e p u t a t i o n , ” T y s o n
s a i d . “ B ut I n e e d m o r e
ro u n d s. After a fight like
this, 49 seconds, I c a n ’t go
in th e r e a g a in s t Lewis, a
c o n f i d e n t f i g h t e r w h o ’s
accurate. I need to go back
to the gym.”
If he skipped training for
a w e e k j u s t b e f o r e th e
fight to g e t a t a tto o a n d
relax, w h o ’s to believe he
has enough dedication left
to get in top condition?
“ I lik e d o i n g o t h e r
things. I like getting high,
hanging out with my kids.
I lik e d r i n k i n g , ” T y s o n
said.
But 49 se c o n d s pro v e d
little , e x c e p t t h a t T y so n
can still hit like a mule and
Etienne can still fall down.
A nd e v e n t h o u g h T y s o n
desperately wants — and
n e e d s — th e m o n e y a
L e w is r e m a t c h w o u ld
b r in g , he sa id he n e e d s
another fight or two before
r i s k i n g it all a g a i n s t a
fighter who simply may be
too big a n d too good for
him.
I n B rief
McGrady rips Nets
Two days after watching 40-yearold Michael Jo rd a n become the old­
est NBA player to score 40 points in a
g a m e , th e N ew J e r s e y N ets got
burned by one of the league’s young
stars — Tracy McGrady.
McGrady had 46 points, 13 assists
and 10 rebounds in his second m on­
ster game since Orlando traded Mike
Miller and the Magic won their third
straight with a 113-105 victory over
the Nets on Sunday.
“M ichael sc o r in g 43 a t 40 y e a r s
old , t h a t ’s m o r e i m p r e s s i v e , ”
McGrady said quickly in ratin g his
performance against the Nets versus
J o r d a n ’s.
W h a t M c G ra d y did a g a i n s t th e
defending Eastern Conference c ham ­
p io n s j u s t tw o d a y s he t a l l i e d a
career-best 52 points against Chicago
was impressive, too.
McGrady, w ho le ad s th e NBA in
scoring with a 31.4 point average, hit
16 of 27 shots and got all his te a m ­
mates involved in posting the second
triple-double of his career.
The Magic need a big finish from
the 23-year-old to make the
playoffs.
Coupled with Dallas’ overtime win
over Washington, Orlando has a onegame lead over the W izards in the
race for E a ste rn Conference’s final
playoff berth.
Sooners hang on for win
O klahom a m ay have se n t a m e s ­
sage while beating Kansas to move
in to a f i r s t - p l a c e tie w ith th e
Jayhawks in the Big 12.
“Our program , from a consistency
s t a n d p o i n t , w e re g e t t i n g p r e t t y
g o o d ,” c oach Kelvin S a m pson said
a f t e r h is t e a m ’s 7 7 - 7 0 v ic to r y
Sunday. “Kansas has set a standard
for this conference and will continue
to do so. B ut a t th e s a m e t i m e ,
Oklahoma basketball is getting pretty
good.”
The fifth-ranked Sooners were b et­
ter than that for 25 minutes in build­
ing a 32-point lead, then withstood a
rally that saw No. 6 Kansas get with­
in five in the final 30 seconds.
Hollis P rice a n d Q u a n n a s W hite
each scored 19 points for the Sooners
(19-4, 10-2), but there were contribu­
tions throu gh ou t the lineup as they
extended the nation’s longest homecourt winning streak to 36 games.
The Sooners took control early by
hitting their shots and controlling the
backboards at both ends of the floor.
White had three 3-pointers and Price
had two as Oklahoma w ent 6-of-10
from behind the arc in the first half.
The Sooners had a 10-3 lead in the
first five minutes, stretched it to 17-6
with 11:30 remaining and went on to
lead by as many as 21.
Kansas got several good looks early
that didn’t fall. The Jayhawks missed
17 of th e ir first 20 sho ts a n d shot
26.7 p e rc e n t in the first half (8-of30).
“In the first half not only were we
not in the same building with them,
w e w e r e n o t e v e n in th e s a m e
league,” Williams said.
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B engal B outs — 1 7 0 P ounds -H eavyweights
Cosse's victory earns standing ovation in quarterfinals
his m ark, and it w as too much
for Padilla to overcome.
By H E A TH E R
VAN HO EGARDEN
However, Rocca would not give
up despite the unanimous deci­
sion, as the freshm an put up a
f ig h t d e s p i t e b e i n g o v e r ­
matched.
Sports Writer
Joyce def. Ward
In w hat sbme may deem the
best fight thus far in this y e a r ’s
B o u ts, Clay C o s se d e f e a t e d
Patrick McGarry in a split deci­
sion. The fight ended with both
bo x e rs tir e d a f te r a b a tt le of
two competitors that w a rra n te d
the first sta n d in g ovation this
year.
C osse a n d M c G a r r y w e n t
punch for punch the whole way
through, but it was Cosse who
c a m e o u t f i r in g in t h e t h i r d
round to pull out the split deci­
sion of a bout th at could have
been won by either fighter.
Rob Joyce’s unanim ous deci­
sion victory w as the third of the
fo u r 1 7 0 -p o u n d fights. The
senior set the tone with a huge
o p e n i n g j a b on J a m e s W a r d
and he never looked back.
W ard was unable to land any
huge p u n c h e s, as Joyce, a
senior, ducked and feinted the
entire fight.
J o y c e u s e d a m u l t i t u d e of
com binations to land his shots
on Ward, a junior. On defense,
he was too elusive for the slow­
e r W a r d , as he m o v e d on to
face Voss.
Knust def. Michalek
1 8 0 pounds
Groebner def. Christoforetti
A f te r t h e M c G a r r y - C o s s e
fig h t, M a tt K n u s t a n d B r ia n
Michalek had some big shoes to
fill. H o w e v e r, n e i t h e r j u n i o r
c o u ld l a n d a p u n c h in th e
beginning of the fight.
Finally, Knust connected on a
huge jab that ended the second
round. Building on this m o m en­
tum, he went on to use a series
of combinations on his way to
victory by unanim ous decision.
He w ill f a c e
Cosse
on
Wednesday.
Christopher Pearsall used his
ou tsta n d in g ja b to th e face to
d e f e a t Denis S u lliv a n . At th e
end of the first round, Pearsall
backed Sullivan into the corner,
w here he landed multiple com ­
binations to end the round.
S u lliv an, m e a n w h i l e , could
n o t l a n d a p u n c h . He w a s
f o r c e d to p l a y d e f e n s e t h e
whole fight, leading Pearsall to
th e
u n an im o u s
d ecisio n .
Pearsall will face Demko in the
semi finals.
Rooney def. Callahan
It was all Andrew Groebner in
S u n d a y ’s
f ig h t .
Jam es
Christoforetti could not land a
punch on the way to his defeat
by the off-campus senior.
G ro e b n e r w as too toug h for
Christoforetti, as he continually
cornered him using an offensive
strategy to score points with the
judges. His punches w ere domi­
nating, as Christoforetti had no
an sw e r for the aggressive style
Groebner displayed en route to
an unanim ous decision.
Voss def. Padilla
In a b a t t l e o f tw o s e n i o r s ,
Jason Voss prevailed over Matt
P adilla in a u n a n i m o u s d e c i ­
sion. “Criss Cross” Voss was too
much to handle from the start,
as his first left hook connected
to leave Padilla stumbling.
By the end of the bout, both
fig h te rs w e r e s tu m b lin g , a n d
u n a b l e to l a n d a p u n c h .
However, Voss had already left
Pearsall def. Sullivan
Demko def. Rocca
It w as a battle of the Dawgs
and the Big Red, as the AlumniDillon rivalry extended into the
r in g . J u n i o r c a p t a i n T o m m y
Demko of Alumni came out fir­
ing against Erik Rocca of Dillon.
Rocca was continually backed
in the corner and knocked offbalance, as Demko landed ju st
a b o u t every p u n c h he th re w .
If this w e re b a s k e tb a ll, one
w o u ld b e l i e v e t h a t E r ic
C a l l a h a n w o u l d ’ve h a d t h e
a d v a n ta g e in th e fight, as he
had the obvious advantage over
th e s h o r t e r L a r r y R o o n e y .
H o w e v e r, R ooney s t a y e d low
and landed punches to the body
all fight, keeping Callahan offbalance.
Callahan was unable to land
solid blows to th e head, while
Rooney scored points with the
ju d g e s by consistently landing
firm shots. The fight w ent back
and fo rth un til th e e n d w h e n
th e
sp lit
d ecisio n
was
an nounced in favor of Rooney,
who goes on to fight Groebner.
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Abeyeta def. Morrison
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M o rrison .
Morrison held his own for most
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into the third round, when the
referee stopped the fight for the
TKO.
A b e y e t a ’s m ix o f j a b s a n d
h o o k s w a s too m u c h fo r
M o rris o n , as he c a m e out
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fight t h a t looked to be up for
g r a b s a f t e r th e f i r s t r o u n d .
A b e y e ta c o n tin u a lly p o u n d e d
Morrison as he relentlessly kept
up a b a r r a g e of blow s to th e
head and the body.
Burton def. Pezanko
D arryl B urton d e c id e d from
th e b e g in n in g of the fight he
w as going to win. From there,
Timothy Pezanko was helpless,
as the senior lost to the sopho­
m o r e , in a n u n a n im o u s d e c i­
sion.
B u r t o n c a m e o u t s w in g i n g
u n d e r c o n t r o l . He f o r c e d
Pezanko on the defensive end,
a s P e z a n k o could n e v e r even
throw a punch. When he did, it
e i t h e r m i s s e d o r it d id n o t
phase Burton. Burton, however,
will h a v e his h a n d s full n e x t
w h e n he faces A beyeta in the
semifinals.
O’Connor def. Farkas
B en “ No N a m e ” O’C o n n o r
s u re m a d e a nam e for himself
after S unday’s unanim ous deci­
sion victory over Brian Farkas.
In t h e b a t t l e b e t w e e n tw o
A lu m n i r e s id e n ts , no one
seem ed to have the up per hand
in the early p a rt of the match.
H ow ever,
by t h e
end,
O ’C o n n o r fin a lly h a d la n d e d
m ore p u n ch es th an F ark as,
d e s p i t e th e fa c t t h a t n e i t h e r
f ig h te r d o m in a te d . Also, both
w ere tiring quickly by the time
t h e t h i r d r o u n d c a m e , so
Farkas was never able to make
up the lost ground.
Borovina def. McFeron
Stefan Borovina m a d e quick
w o rk of Donovan M cFeron as
the referee called the fight for a
TKO.
McFeron could not land any
punches against the dominating
Borovina, who started and fin­
ished a g g re ssiv e ly . He forced
McFeron against the ropes and
fired ja b after jab at the senior.
Borovina looks to c au se more
trouble in the semifinals when
he faces O’Connor.
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continued from page 24
title with a team total 730 points.
“This has been our strongest
day traditionally in terms of hav­
ing all the stroke events,” head
coach Bailey Weathers said. “We
feel like if we can get to this point
and we’re in the meet, then we
can win the meet.”
W e a th e rs is confident in his
girls, a n d his c o n fid e n c e has
validity in th e ir p e r f o r m a n c e
down the stretch.
In a microcosm of the champi­
onship w eeken d, Notre Dame
junior Danielle Hulick overtook
Rutgers in the final leg of the 400
freestyle relay, the night’s last
event. The team of Katie Eckholt,
Courtney Choura, Heidi Hendrick
and Hulick finished with a time of
3:21.18. Rutgers finished second
in 3:23.05.
“We w e r e a h e a d the w hole
time, but they were winning a lot
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of events and they were holding
on,” Hulick said. “We were a little
worried about Rutgers at times,
and they were really out to get us,
you could tell.”
T he Irish e s ta b lis h e d th ey
would not back down on Friday.
At least two swimmers scored in
the top eight of every event, with
as many as four swimmers com­
peting in the final heat of a single
swim.
F r e s h m a n Christel Bouvron
(54.57) and Lisa Garcia (54.90)
completed the 100 butterfly backto-back at second and third.
In the 100 backstroke, Hulick
(55.56), Kristen Peterson (56.13),
Kara Santelli (56.34), and Sarah
Alwen (56.73) finish ed th ird ,
fourth, fifth and sixth, respective­
ly, a huge nu m b e r of points in
only one event for the Irish.
Marie Labosky won the 400 IM
with a tim e of 4 :1 6 .2 4 , and
M eghan Perry-E aton scored a
309.20 for first in the 1-meter div­
ing.
Even with the points amounting
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Monday, February 24, 2003
SPORT S
for the Irish by Friday’s close,
Notre Dame had a formidable
task ahead of them Saturday. Tri­
captain Heidi Hendrick knows
how hard the team fought for this
championship all the way through
the weekend.
“We had a challenge up against
us th is y e a r , ” said tri-c a p ta in
Heidi Hendrick. “We did a lot bet­
ter than any of us expected. We
stepped up, and everyone swam
extremely well across the board.”
‘Across the board’ is an accu­
rate description.
Even in events in which Rutgers
sc o re d w ell, the Irish h u n g
around.
In the 100 freestyle, the Scarlet
Knights’ Casmera Wick took sec­
ond with a time of (50.50), but
Hendrick (51.05) and Eckholt
(51.55) picked up points at sixth
and ninth. .
R utgers’ Kelly H arrigan won
the 200 backstroke in 1:56.02 and
in the process broke a record set
by the Irish’s own Erin Brooks in
1997 of 1:57.56. Again, th e re
were
Hulick (2:00.27 ), L abosky
(2:00.75), A lwen (2:01.43),
Santelli (2:01.68), and Peterson
(2:01.70) at fourth, fifth, seventh,
ninth and 10th, respectively.
W e a t h e r s has n o th in g but
praise for his swimmers.
“We had som e g r e a t sw im s
today and that was a big part of
it,” Weathers said. “I thought Lisa
G a rc ia ’s butterfly swims were
great. Our 100 freestylers were
really good, and our backstrokers
I thought were excellent.”
Garcia, who holds the Notre
Dame record in the 200 butterfly
of 1:59.28), won the 200 butterfly
with a time of 2:01.02. She also
won the 200 IM on Thursday.
S o p h o m o re Brooke T a y lo r
(2:01.37) finished third in the 200
fly and Christel Bouvron (2:05.08)
took eighth. The 400 freestyle
team captured the night’s final
event as the Irish closed strong.
“I was really pleased with [the
championship],” Weathers said. “I
thought it was going to be a really
hard meet for us to win. We came
in pretty much as an underdog to
Rutgers and probably to Virginia
Tech.”
The Irish could have been an
underdog, even at 9-1-1, because
of the loss of defending Big East
champions Carrie Nixon and Kelly
D ecking. The two girls w ere
wholly or partially responsible for
all but one of Notre Dame’s victo­
ries last year at Big East.
“I think this was better than any
of the other years because we had
to w ork h a r d e r , ” said Hulick.
“This year, everyone was out to
get us, but we had a talk last
night and ju s t said we had to
cream them today, because the
past few years [we’ve] won by
hundreds of points. And we pulled
it out.”
So even as underdogs, Notre
Dame was the team to beat — or,
for the seventh year in a row, the
team to lose to.
C ontact Pat Leonard at
pleonard@ nd.edu
W o m e n s S w im m in g
Huskies hustle past Perry-Eaton: Simply outstanding
Irish for 65th straight
By PAT LEONARD
Sports Writer
By JOE HETTLER
Sports Editor
After trailing most of the first
half against the No. 1 team in
the country, Notre Dame tied
Connecticut at 28-28 on a field
goal by Teresa Borton with 1:30
left before halftime.
But there would be no upset
Sunday in Storrs, Conn.
The Huskies (26-0,13-0 in the
Big East) responded by ending
the half on a 5-0 run and never
looked back, en route to a 77-59
victory over the Irish (15-9, 7-
6).
“We d id n ’t finish the [first]
half strong. We took quick, bad
shots and they went down and
got easy o n e s , ” Irish c o a c h
Muffet McGraw said. “And the
beginning of the second half
was the same thing, and all of a
sudden we’re down 15.”
The five-point halftime lead
w as e x te n d e d to 16 a f t e r
Connecticut broke off a 16-5
run early in the second half.
Their lead reached as many as
22 before the game ended.
That six-minute stretch was
the difference in the game, Irish
coach Muffet McGraw said in
the post-game press conference.
“We let down our guard for
the last minute of the first half
and the first five minutes of the
second half, and UConn capital­
ized, and that was the differ­
ence in th e g a m e ,” McGraw
said. “Once we got our bearings
about us again, we played them
even.”
The win was C onnecticut’s
65th straight, extending their
own NCAA record.
Surprisingly, Notre Dame outr e b o u n d e d th e d e f e n d in g
national champs 43-40, led by
Jacqueline B atteast’s careerhigh 18 boards. It was only the
third time Connecticut had been
outrebounded this season.
“I was pleased with our post
ga m e
and
reb o u n d in g ,”
McGraw said. “I th ou ght the
r e b o u n d in g w as e s p e c ia lly
stron g on the offensive end.
[Batteast] had a tre m e n d o u s
day on th e b o a r d s , and s h e
helped us in other ways besides
scoring.”
However, poor shooting and
too many turnovers prevented
th e Irish from sn a p p in g th e
Huskies s tre a k . N otre D am e
shot only 33.9 percent from the
field and turned the ball over 18
times. The Huskies were able to
shoot 44.3 percent and only had
10 turnovers all day, including
just one in the last 10:21 of the
game.
“We j u s t h a d one of those
days w h e n the shots w e r e n ’t
going down and that’s going to
h a p p e n , ” McG raw
said.
“A g a in s t
a
te a m
like
Connecticut you can’t afford to
have a down day when it comes
to shooting from the field.”
Notre Dame had a few offen­
sive bright spots in Borton and
Courtney LaVere. Borton had a
game-high and career-high 21
points on 7-for-ll shooting. She
also knocked in all seven of her
f re e t h r o w a t te m p ts an d
grabbed six rebounds. But she
w a s s h u t dow n d u r in g the
Huskies run in the second half
a n d d id n ’t score again until
their were six minutes left and
the game was out of reach for
the Irish.
LaVere m ade 5-for-8 shots
an d scored 13 points for the
Irish.
Notre D a m e ’s two le a d in g
scorers coming into the game,
Batteast and Alicia Ratay, both
struggled to find their touch.
Batteast was held to only 2-for12 shooting and five points, ten
under her season average while
Ratay hit only 2-for-10 shots
a n d e n d e d the day w ith ten
points.
The Huskies did not have one
shooting star Sunday, but used
a balanced offensive attack. AllA m e ric a n Diana T a u r a s i led
C o n n e c tic u t with 13 poin ts,
while reserve Wilnett Crockett
added 12 more points as the
Huskies had five players score
in double figures.
C ontact J o e H ettler at
jhettler@ nd.edu
UNIONDALE, N.Y.
The Big East conference sched­
uled the weekend events precisely.
The Nassau Aquatic Center staff
worked out times slots for each
event and each awards ceremony.
So when the judges called the plat­
form divers to the winners’ blocks
at 8:49 p.m. Saturday, it was going
as planned.
A Rutgers diver received third
place. She waved her hand and
smiled .The Miami diver on the vic­
tor’s block beam ed with pride,
although platform diving awards no
points.
But the second-place block was
empty. Out of the crowd came
Notre Dame diver Meghan PerryEaton, who jogged down poolside a
bit late. Maybe Perry-Eaton was not
as enthused because she knew she
would be receiving another award
that evening as the 2003 Big East
Outstanding Diver of the Year.
Perry-E ato n may not have
stepped up to receive her platform
award right away, but the junior
diver did step up when it counted at
the Big East championships this
weekend to help her team to a sev­
enth consecutive title.
“I was pretty excited about win­
ning the award,” Perry-Eaton said.
“I didn’t know because Miami is
really stro ng and Katie Beth
[Bryant] got the same places as I
did. She has a little more experi­
ence and I thought she might have
a little more pull, but I was excited
to get it.”
Miami finished third ahead of
Virginia Tech at the championships,
in part due to its diving program
which is regarded as among the
finest in the country. Beating Miami
made the victory that much sweeter
for Perry-Eaton and Notre Dame.
“She’s been working for a long
tim e,” said head diving coach
Calming Xie. “We always knew she
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was capable of what she has done,
capable of winning this title. She’s a
fighter and she is prepared mentally
for that [kind of pressure].”
Injured and inactive her entire
freshman season, the Brandon, Fla.,
native rehabilitated and entered the
Irish lineup her sophomore season
with a bang. That year, Perry-Eaton
nearly qualified for the NCAA
championships, coming in sixth in
the one-meter diving and 13th in
the 3-m eter at the NCAA Zone
Diving competition.
As a sophomore at the Notre
Dame invitational, Perry-Eaton
even s h a tte r e d All-American
Heather Mattingly’s record in the 3meter dive in six dives with 333.82
points, beating the previous AllAmerican’s 332.40.
More pertinent to the past week­
end’s meet, however, Perry-Eaton
placed second in the 1-meter dive
with 293.50 and fourth in the 3meter dive with 507.50 last season
at Big East.
So this year she was out to prove
something to herself and, more
importantly, to help her te a m ’s
cause.
“Coach told me it would be a dog­
fight points-wise, so I knew what I
had to do for our team and that
really got me going,” Perry-Eaton
said.
During the season Perry-Eaton
was one of the most reliable Notre
Dame swimmers or divers. She
practically guaranteed the Irish first
place points from the dive.
So at Big East this year, Xie and
head sw im m ing coach Bailey
Weathers expected a solid contribu­
tion out of Perry-Eaton, but a firstand second-place finish?
Perry-Eaton won the 1-meter
dive (309.20 points) and finished
second in the 3-meter (501.05) to
boost the team’s confidence.
“Meghan really gave us a huge
lift,” Weathers said. “She’s been
working hard for this title and we’re
working hard too,” coach Xie said.
Xie has coached mens and womens
diving at Notre Dame since 1995.
He was acknowledged as Big East
diving coach of the year in 1999.
“To prepare for the meet, we
talked about confidence on the dive.
We told her she should just think of
herself diving well as she did all
year. She must concentrate and
focus and stay calm, and she did
that. She did an excellent job.”
She stayed calm during the
events. Don’t know about the award
ceremonies.
C ontact Pat Leonard at
pleonard@ nd.edu
Monday, February 24, 2003
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SPORTS
Fourth
356.50. Miguel Velazquez completed his
sweep of the diving events with a victory of
657.20 points, followed by Pitt’s Dennis
continued from page 24
Nemtsanov (564.20).
The 800 fre e sty le r e la y te a m of
coach Tim Welsh.
Obringer, J R. Teddy, Patrick O’Berry, and
In the 200 medley relay, Virginia Tech
Brian Guarnier finished sixth in 6:46.46.
set a new meet record (1:28.49). Rutgers’ St. John’s placed first in 6:36.32, and sec­
team was second in 1:29.93, and Notre
ond-place Pitt touched in 6:37.28.
Dame placed third. The Irish team consist­
In th e 1 ,65 0 f re e s ty le final, Eric
ing of Doug Bauman, Jason Fitzpatrick,
L im k e m a n n of Pitt fin is h e d first in
Frank Krakowski and Tim Randolph set a
15:21.48, followed by Michal Szapiel of St.
new Notre Dame record (1:30.58).
J o h n ’s (15:32.43). N otre D am e’s Matt
Notre Dame’s Jamie Lutkus placed sec­ Bertke placed seventh in 16:04.20.
ond in the 400 IM with a time of 3:54.38.
Shomberger was eighth (1:52.76) in the
Sean Smith of Rutgers won in 3:52.25.
200 backstro ke final, while te am m a te
ND’s David Moisan (4:00.29) and Patrick
Baum an finished 12th. W inner Anders
Heffernan (4:03.29) finished seventh and
F r a h m of V irg in ia T e c h to u c h e d in
12th overall, respectively.
1:46.98, followed by Rutgers’ Jon Stinson
With his second-place finish, Lutkus, a (1:47.90).
freshman from Granger, broke the school
Freshman Shomberger, despite missing
record he set in the prelims. Lutkus also the majority of the season due to an elbow
posted the highest individual finish for the injury, set a new school mark in the 200
Irish.
backstroke prelims (1:49.54).
In 100 b u tte rfly , K rak ow ski se t yet
“Our freshman stepped up tremendous­
another record for the Irish. In one of the ly,” said Welsh. “If you look across the field
most exciting and close races of Friday in Saturday’s championship finals, which
evening, Krakowski finished seventh with was by far not our best night, nevertheless
a fast time of 48.92. Dustin Rogers of it was mostly freshman and sophomores in
UConn placed first (48.35) and Pedro Pinto the finals.”
of West Virginia (48.41).
Senior Michael Grube of Pittsburgh won
Junior Matt Obringer placed fifth in the his third 100 freestyle championship in a
200 free for the Irish in a record time of row, with a time of 44.18. For the Irish,
1:38.49. Winner Kleyton Franca touched sophomore Krakowski finished seventh
in 1:37.31 a n d s e c o n d - p la c e fin ish e r
(45.47) and Obringer was 12th (45.60).
Marshal Livingstone followed in 1:37.52.
200 b r e a s t s t r o k e w i n n e r Randy
In the 100 breaststroke, senior Jason
Gertenbach of Pittsburgh set a new meet
Fitzpatrick was third with a time of 55.35. record with his time of 1:59.42, breaking
Winner Kevin Furlong of Virginia Tech set the old m ark of 1:59.45. For the Irish,
a new Big East record (53.54). Also for the David Moisan finished eighth (2:04.86),
Irish, Randolph came in ninth with a time
F itz p a tric k was 11th (2:04.36), Tyler
of 56.68. Teammates Josh Dermott (56.71) G r e n d a 13th, J o s h D e rm o tt 14th and
and Tyler Grenda (57.16) finished 10th Lutkus finished 16th.
and 13th overall.
F re sh m a n Patrick H e ffe rn an placed
F itz p atric k ’s tim e was a new school
e ig h th ov erall in th e 200 b u tte rfly
record as well as a “B” qualifying time for (1:51.66). Pittsburgh’s Jason Miller won in
the 2003 NCAA meet.
1:47.75. Also for the Irish, Lucas Wymore
It was all about freshmen for the Irish in (1 1 th ), J.R. T edd y (1 2th) a n d B rian
the 100 backstroke. Bauman placed sixth Guarnier (13th) contributed to a strong
with a time of 50.29, and fellow rookie effort.
Steve S h o m b e r g e r w as 15 th (51.43).
In the last event of the meet, the 400
W in n e r Steve T o z e r of V irginia Tech
freestyle relay, the Irish team of Randolph,
touched in 49.13, followed by teammate
Krakowski, F itzpatrick, and Obringer
Chris Lindberg (49.25).
placed fifth (3:01.91) in a close race. Pitt
In diving action, Andy Maggio and Joe finished first with a time of 2:57.74, fol­
Miller qualified for the 3-m e te r finals.
lowed by Virginia Tech (3:01.95), UConn
Maggio finished in third place with 494.80 (3:01.68), and St. John’s (3:01.82).
points. Miller was eighth with a score of
The Irish records that were set during
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Pat Davis dives into the pool during the Big East Championships held last week­
end. The Notre Dame men finished fourth overall.
the meet included new marks in the 200
backstroke, 400 medley relay, 50 free, 200
freestyle relay, 400 IM, 100 butterfly and
100 breaststroke.
Coach Welsh praised the team ’s recordbreaking efforts.
“The team this year was very focused
and did a good job in term s of p e rfo r­
mance and team building,” he said. “The
ones [records] that we missed we missed
close. We only missed the 500 [free] by a
tenth [of a second], 200 [free] by h u n ­
dredths, and 200 back by hundredths.”
S oph om o re F ra n k K rakow ski w as a
standout for Notre Dame, having a hand in
four of the seven records set during the
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both re la y te a m s and as a n individual
broke the previous marks in the 50 free
and 100 butterfly.
Despite the numerous new records and
the consistent performance of the Irish at
the meet, there was a feeling of unfinished
business.
“It’s a young team and w e’ll be back,”
said Welsh. “We know how hard it is to
move up and we will continue to work
hard towards that. We hope that it hap­
pens next year. We left something to be
done.”
C ontact L isa Reijula at lreijula@ nd.edu
th e Huskies. The 60-y ear-old
Connecticut coach was expected
to take three to four weeks to
recover from surgery to remove
continued from page 24
a c an c e ro u s p r o sta te in early
of
ju i c e
h eading
into
February.
Connecticut,” Matt Carroll said
But a g a i n s t St. J o h n ’s
Satu rd ay . “With Big Monday,
Saturday, to the deafening roar
w e ’ll be ready to go.”
of 10,000 fans, Calhoun led his
T h o m a s c a l l e d his fellow
team to a 77-69 victory just 16
sophom ore Okafor “the bread
days after undergoing surgery.
a n d b u t t e r ” of C o n n e c tic u t’s
“We saw coach w as there —
team, and for good reason. The
the general’s back — and it got
two last year were widely con­ us fired up and re a d y to go,”
sidered the best freshmen in the Gordon said after the game.
Big E a st, a n d w h e n T h o m a s
Neither team had a significant
won the award, Okafor made a amount of time to prepare sole­
point of talking
ly
for
to
Thom as
t o n i g h t ’s
about it before
m a tc h u p .
“Ben Gordon is one o f the
th e tw o te a m s
B o t h
best g u a rd s in the Big
s q u a r e d off in
sq u a d s fin­
th e s e m ifin a ls
ish e d th e ir
East, Okafor is one o f the
of
th e
g a m e s
b
est
cen
ters
in
the
Big
Tournament.
S a tu rd a y
East. I t’s going to be a
“He s a id to
aftern o o n ,
me last y e ar
l e a v in g a
very difficult game. ’’
th a t I stole his
little m o re
r o o k ie of th e
than
50
Matt Carroll
year a w a rd ,”
h o u r s
guard
T ho m as joked.
between
“I think he had
the conclu­
a little chip on
sio n
of
his shoulder.”
Saturday’s games and tonight’s
Although Okafor only scored
7 p.m. tip-off.
seven points and g ra b b e d 10
But B rey i s n ’t c o n c e r n e d
rebounds against the Irish last about the short turnaround, nor
year, he averages 15.4 points,
does he think the relative ease
11 reb oun ds and 4.7 blocks a with which th e Irish b e a t the
game.
Hokies will take any sharpness
Yet playing in Okafor’s sh ad ­ away from the Irish.
ow is his classmate Ben Gordon,
“Our frame of mind is really
who averages a team-high 20.4 g o o d ,” he said. “W e ’re loose,
points a game.
w e ’re
p la y in g
to
win.
“Ben Gordon is one of the best S o m e tim e s w e ’re a little too
guards in the Big East, Okafor is f e a r le s s , ja c k in g u p sh o ts to
one of the best ce n te rs in the
quick. But my gosh, that’s a fine
Big E a s t ,” C a rro ll sa id . “I t ’s line.”
g o in g to be a v e r y d if f ic u lt
game.”
C ontact A ndrew Soukup at
Chances are it will also be an
asouk up@ nd.edu
emotional one for Calhoun and
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Monday, February 24, 2003
SPORTS
B eng a l B o u t s — 1 6 5 P o u n d s
Dillon's aggressiveness pushes him past Rector in quarterfinals
R TITK T rttcam
by LUivh d UoAM
Sports Writer
m a t . Foy b e n t h is h e a d fo rw a rd and m ade h im self an
easy
ta rg e t for F erg u s
th r o u g h o u t th e m a tc h . F e rg u s
Ju n io r c a p t a i n P at Dillon’s
aggressive r ig h t h a n d won a
u n a n im o u s d e c isio n over
Reid Rector. Dillon c o nn ec te d
on a sdlid r i g h t to e a r n his
first s ta n d i n g e ig h t- c o u n t of
th e m a t c h 15 s e c o n d s i n t o
round
one.
D il lo n w a s
a g g ressiv e th ro u g h o u t th e
ro u n d and m o v ed R ecto r
a r o u n d e a sily w ith his o n e twos. Dillon e n d e d the ro u n d
w ith a n ic e o n e - t w o - o n e
up sta irs combo.
In r o u n d tw o , D illon c o n ­
n e c t e d w e l l in s e v e r a l
e x c h a n g e s , b u t R e c to r w a s
m ore a g g re ssiv e and sn u ck
s e v e ra l j a b s in ov er D illon’s
d r o p p i n g r i g h t . In r o u n d
t h r e e , D illon p r o m p t l y s e n t
R e c to r to th e c o r n e r w ith a
one-two u p s ta ir s . Rector c o n ­
t i n u e d to s c o r e , b u t D illo n
used his s tr o n g rig h t to le a d
th ro u g h o u t th e th ird an d
earn ed a seco n d sta n d in g
e ig h t-c o u n t 1 :1 0 in to th e
final r o u n d w ith two im p r e s ­
sive right leads.
held the ring well in the second ro u n d an d forced the hesi ta n t Foy to th e ed g e s of the
r i n g . A RSC w a s c a l l e d 48
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SPORTS
M en s B a sk etball
Second-half offense helps the Irish overwhelm Hokies
By A N D R E W S O U K U P
Sports Writer
T he g rin on M a tt C a r r o l l 's
face showed how happy he was
to get a win.
The red sc ra tc h e s stretching
from his neck to his collarbone
s h o w e d w h a t h e h a d to go
through to get it.
Carroll scored a team-high 25
po in ts S a tu r d a y a f te r n o o n to
lead the Irish past Virginia Tech
98-76 after Notre Dame led by
just one point at the half.
T h e t u r n i n g p o i n t in t h e
g a m e , in C a r r o l l ’s o p i n i o n ,
cam e early in a physical s e c ­
ond-half. When he chased after
a lose ball in front of the Notre
Dame stu d e n t section, Hokies
guard Bryant Matthews violent­
ly shoved th e Irish senior into
the c h e e rle ad e rs, leaving him
with a pair of m a r k s on a his
neck and a b u r n in g d e sire to
get even.
“I got a little a n g r y , a n d it
started coming out,” he said. “I
w anted to m a k e th e m pay for
it.”
He did, keying a second-half
explosion th at yielded 64 points
- e ig h t m o r e t h a n th e I r i s h
s c o r e d in t h e e n t i r e g a m e
against West Virginia Tuesday.
Simply put, Notre D ame’s sec­
o n d -h a lf offense w a s u n s t o p ­
pable. The Irish shot 71.9 p e r ­
cent from th e field, includ in g
63.6 percent from behind the 3point line. At times, the g am e
resembled less a Big East con­
t e s t a n d m o r e lik e a H a rle m
Globetrotters exhibition.
Irish guard Chris Thomas tied
a season high with 13 assists to
com plem ent his 21 points and
six rebounds. While he commit­
ted seven tu r n o v e r s , T h o m a s
o f t e n t h r e w n if ty p a s s e s
b e t w e e n Hokie d e f e n d e r s to
wide-open Notre Dame players
un d e r the basket.
“T h a t ’s how it’s supposed to
be,” he said. “Everybody shared
th e ball really w ell and w hen
we do that, w e ’re going to be a
heck of a team to beat.”
N o t r e D a m e ’s s e c o n d - h a l f
o u tp u t paralleled the first five
minutes of the game, when the
Irish exploded to a 16-4 lead.
But after a lethargic rest of the
h alf, th e Hokies h a d c lim bed
back into the gam e and trailed
34-33.
“We forced transition a little
to o m u c h , ” Irish c o a c h Mike
Brey said. “We h a d it easy in
the first four minutes, but once
th e y a d ju s te d a n d took som e
things away, we kept forcing it
an d probably shot some quick
th re e s.”
B ut a f t e r a h a l f t i m e ta lk
w h e re th e Irish ch a lle n g e d
themselves to play aggressively
for the entire second half, the
I r is h s t a r t e d li g h ti n g u p th e
Hokies.
A fte r M a tth e w s - w ho also
shoved T hom as to the ground
t w i c e a n d h it M ille r h a r d
enough to send him to the lock­
e r room for stitc h e s - s ta rte d
getting physical, the Irish start­
ed g e t t i n g h o t. W ith N o tr e
Dame leading 40-37, the Irish
reeled off 20 of the g a m e ’s next
27 p o i n t s to b lo w th e g a m e
wide open.
P a r t of N otre D a m e ’s s p u r t
came from T orrian Jones, who
scored 12 points in 31 minutes
and. Jones, whom Carroll com­
p a re d to the E nergizer bunny,
keyed the Irish on the defensive
end but also scored a variety of
points thanks to slashing drives.
T he final 10 m in u te s of the
g a m e q u ic k ly t u r n e d in to a
N otre Dame h ig h lig h t reel.
First Tom Timmermans, whose
fam ily w as in to w n fro m th e
Netherlands, sliced through the
line for an athletic tip-dunk.
T h e n C arro ll an d T h o m as
s t a r t e d s c o r i n g a t w ill fro m
behind the arc. Miller, who fin­
is h e d w ith 22 p o i n t s , t h r e w
down a reverse dunk on a fast
break.
Even walk-on Dan Lustig got
into the act with a 3-pointer in
the g am e’s final seconds.
The blowout w as a welcome
change for the Irish, who have
h a d s e v e n of t h e i r la s t e ig h t
games decided by 10 points or
fewer.
“All the security g u a r d s and
o ld e r p eo p le k e e p s a y in g we
need to stop taking it down to
t h e w i r e , ” T h o m a s s a id .
“They’re getting scare d.”
TIM KACMAR/The Observer
C o n ta ct A ndrew S o u k u p at
a sou k u p @ n d .ed u
Matt Carroll sh oots against Pittsburgh earlier this year. He led
the Irish to score 6 4 points in th e second half against Virginia
Tech on Saturday.
Chad S. Sharon
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A nd may perpetual light shine upon him.
M ay he rest in peace.
Amen.
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Monday, February 24, 2003
SPORTS
Hockey
Winning streak extended to 4 as Irish sweep Lakers
By JUSTIN
JU STIN SCHUVER
Sports
Sports Writer
Writer
As has happened so often d u r ­
ing the regular season, the Irish
ran into stellar goaltending by
their opponent.
Only this time, it didn’t matter.
Notre Dame extended its w in­
ning streak to four and moved
into a tie for fifth place in the
CCHA w ith 3-2 a n d 6-3 w in s
over Lake Superior State Friday
and Saturday, respectively.
“It feels good to have tu rn e d
things around over the last two
weeks,” said h ead coach Dave
Poulin. “T his w as a big fou rgame stretch for us.”
The only thing that prevented
both games from being blowouts
was stellar goaltending by the
two Laker netminders. The Irish
outshot their opponent 106-52
on the weekend.
Coming into F r id a y ’s g a m e ,
the Irish were on a tear, having
b e a te n Bowling G reen on th e
road the w eekend before, with
b o th g a m e s e n d i n g in 3-2
scores.
At home on Friday, the Irish
o n c e a g a i n m a n a g e d a 3-2
result.
D efensem an Brett Lebda put
the Irish a h e a d ab ou t m idw ay
through the first period after a
nice g i v e - a n d - g o p la y w i t h
senior forward Michael Chin.
The Irish outshot the Lakers
19-4 in the first period, but w ere
un a b le to g e t any m o re goals
p a s t s o p h o m o r e g o a lie M a tt
Violin.
The second period was a dif­
fe re n t story , as fo r w a r d Cory
McLean b e a t Violin j u s t le ss
than four minutes into the peri­
od with a nifty move.
McLean faked left to d r a w a
Laker d e fe n se m a n and goad
Violin out of the net. He th e n
quickly shifted to the right and
just m anaged to slide the puck
behind Violin.
The game remained 2-0 until
the third period, when freshman
forw ard Mike W alsh gave the
Irish some ex tra insurance two
minutes into the period.
Kyle Dolder and Tim Wallace
each attempted shots that Violin
was able to stop, but the puck
squirted aw ay from the Laker
goalie to Walsh, who buried the
puck for his first goal of the se a ­
son.
J u s t 54 s e c o n d s l a t e r , th e
Lakers got on the board with a
go al fr o m f o r w a r d A d r i a n
Kremblewski.
“After the goal that put us up
3-0, I thought there might have
been a bit of a la p s e ,” Poulin
said. “They got a little m o m en ­
tum as well.”
The Lakers were able to ride
that m o m e n tu m for one m o re
goal, with Kyle Anderson s c o r­
ing about the six-minute mark,
but the Irish were able to hold
on for the win.
The Irish outshot the Lakers
50-21 for the game, but Violin
k ept the v isitors in th e g a m e
until the very end.
Saturday, the Irish didn’t have
to deal with Violin. Laker head
coach Frank Anzalone decided
i n s t e a d to s t a r t s o p h o m o r e
Terry Denike in net.
Denike was stellar in the first
p e rio d , s to p p in g all 19 Iris h
shots he faced.
The Lakers got on the board
first, with a goal from defense­
man Ren F auci from the blue
line p a s t I r i s h g o a l t e n d e r
Morgan Cey for a 1-0 lead about
six minutes into the game.
T h e I r is h fin a lly g o t t h e i r
answer and solved Denike early
in t h e s e c o n d p e r i o d , w h e n
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Seven minutes
later,
Matt Amado gave Notre Dame
its first lead of the game. Again
it w as off a rebound as Denike
sto p p e d Neil K o m a d o sk i’s bid
b u t gave th e p u c k to A m ado ,
who flipped it home.
A minute later, the Lakers tied
the game a t two on the power
play as Fauci got his second goal
from the blue line that managed
to elude a screened Cey.
T h e I ris h a n s w e r e d w ith a
power-play tally with about five
minutes remaining in the period
with a freshman-to-senior com­
bination.
Amado took t h e puck to the
r i g h t c irc le a n d m a d e a g o r ­
geous pass across the crease to
sen io r
forw ard
John
Wroblewski, who beat Denike as
the goalie tried to move over to
the left.
Once more the lead was short­
lived as the Lakers came back to
tie it two m in utes later after a
costly Iris h t u r n o v e r led to a
g o a l by d e f e n s e m a n K ory
Scoran.
C onnor D u n lo p m a n a g e d to
r e g a i n t h e le a d for th e Irish
before the end of the high-scor­
ing s e c o n d , as h e once m o r e
s c o r e d a r e b o u n d g o a l on
Denike with about two minutes
left in the period.
The Irish blew the game open
in t h e t h i r d w i t h a g o a l by
d e f e n s e m a n B r e tt Lebda with
six minutes left in the game.
After the Lakers pulled Denike
with two minutes or so rem ain­
ing, Chin iced th e win for the
Irish with a n empty net goal.
D u n lo p , w h o a s s i s t e d on
Chin’s tally, was the game’s first
star with a four-point night.
“It was p e r s o n a lly nice, bu t
m o re than th a t it was good to
get th a t fo urth w in in a ro w ,”
Dunlop said. “I d o n ’t think I did
anything diffe re nt tonight, it’s
just that sometimes you get the
bounces.”
Dunlop w as the leading scorer
for th e I r is h l a s t s e a s o n , b u t
came into the game as only the
t h i r d - l e a d i n g s c o r e r on th is
year’s team.
“ [S c o r in g ] is s o m e t h i n g I
expect out of myself,” he said.
SARAH LATHROP/The Observer
Right Wing Rob Globke moves down the ice as his team looks on. The Irish won both gam es
against Lake Superior State on Friday and Saturday.
“As lo n g as I c h ip in a n d do
w hat I can th a t’s the best way
for me to help the team .”
The win puts the Irish in a tie
for fifth place in the conference
with N o r th e r n M ichigan, o n e
point a h e a d of s e v e n th - p la c e
Miami. The Irish face Northern
Michigan in a ho m e-and-hom e
series to end the season.
“It feels good [to be in fifth
place],” said Poulin. “The team
re a l iz e s t h a t th e g oal is still
ahead of us.”
C on tact Ju stin Schuver at
jschuver@ nd.edu
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Sports
Monday, February 24, 2003
N D S w im m in g & D iv in g
Lucky 7
♦ Men finish in
4th, break many
school records
♦ Women claim
7th straight Big
East title
B y PAT L E O N A R D
By LISA REIJULA
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
UNIONDALE, N Y.
“How m a n y tim e s h ave you
won Big East?”
Each swimmer and diver wears
the green shirt with navy blue let­
ters that asks this question. And
each member of the Irish squad
would be glad to a n s w e r t h a t
question.
Seven. Seven in a row.
Friday saw Notre Dame score
high in numerous events, includ­
ing victories in the 400 IM and
the 1-meter diving. Heading into
Saturday, Notre Dame led sec­
ond-place Rutgers at the Nassau
Aquatic Center, 501-428.
The Scarlet Knights accepted
their challenge, taking second in
the 1650 freestyle, first in the 200
backstroke and second in the 100
freestyle. Still, the Irish were too
much on the final day of competi­
tion, with 16 swimmers scoring
to Rutgers’ 11. Notre Dame won
its seventh consecutive Big East
ANDY KENNA/The Observer
UNIONDALE, N.Y.
At th e 2003
Big E a st
Championships, the Notre Dame
mens swimming and diving team
turned in a solid fourth-place fin­
ish. The Irish scored 462.50 total
p o in t s , a n d s h a t t e r e d se v e n
school records over the course of
the three-day event.
Pittsburgh’s victory (708 points)
gave them their seventh title in a
row. Virginia Tech (555) finally
pulled ahead of Rutgers (538.50)
to earn second place. St. Jo hn ’s
(348) placed fifth, followed by
West Virginia (281), UConn (265),
Syracuse (199), and Seton Hall
(168). Rounding out the field of
12 w a s Villanova (94), Boston
College (66) and Miami (40).
“F ro m an objective po in t of
view, we swam faster this year,
scored more points than in the
past few years, and were closer
to first pla c e ,” said Irish head
The Notre Dame womens swimming and diving team poses for a picture after winning their sev­
enth consecutive Big East title Saturday afternoon.
see F O U R T H /p age 19
see SE V E N /page 18
ND T r a c k
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& F ield
ens
B a sk etball
Men win first Big East crown National spotlight
♦ Women finish
on Joyce tonight
second, men rule
3,000-m eter race
to claim title
By A N D Y T R O E G E R
Sports Writer
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Led by t h re e high finishers
in the 3,000 m e te rs, th e Irish
m e n s t r a c k a n d field t e a m
won its first Big East ind oo r
c h a m p io n s h ip on S u n d a y ,
while th e w o m e n s te a m fin ­
ished second to Miami.
A fter t r a i l i n g C o n n e c tic u t
by five p o in ts fo llow ing th e
first day, th e m en found
th e m se lv e s
b e h in d
Georgetown by five with four
events to go. H ow ever in the
3,0 00 m e t e r s , th e Ir is h h a d
t h r e e r u n n e r s fin is h in th e
top four, w ith Luke W a tso n ,
Tim Moore a n d J o h n K e an e
p lacin g s e c o n d , th ir d a n d
f o u r th , r e s p e c t i v e l y . T h o s e
finishes w e r e w o rth 19 points
for the Irish. T h e Irish w e re
able to hold off C o n n e c tic u t
a n d W a s h i n g t o n in t h e l a s t
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th r e e events.
In a d d itio n to his s e c o n d p l a c e f i n i s h in t h e 3 , 0 0 0 ,
W atso n also won th e mile in
4 :1 2 .8 5 . M oore a n d K eane
p la c e d first an d th ird ,
r e s p e c t i v e l y , in t h e 5 , 0 0 0
m e te r s
S e lim N u r u d e e n f i n i s h e d
se c o n d in the 6 0 - m e te r h u r ­
dles, falling only .03 seconds
s h o r t of the title.
The w om ens team had
t h r e e i n d i v i d u a l Big E a s t
ch am p io n s
as
Jaim e
V o lk m e r , L a u r e n K ing a n d
T a m e i s h a King p o s t e d i n d i ­
vidual wins, leading the Irish
to a seco nd -place finish.
V olkmer won th e pole vault
w ith a n e w c a r e e r b e s t and
Big East m e e t re c o rd of 4.00
m ete rs. L au ren King won the
mile by over five se c o n d s in
a n N CAA -qualifying tim e of
4:46.90. T a m e is h a King won
h e r first in d iv id u a l Big E ast
title in the 6 0 -m e te r hurdles,
b e a t i n g M i a m i ’s S h a r i a n n e
L a w s o n by .0 1 s e c o n d s .
T a m e ish a King had pre v io u s­
ly b e e n o n t w o Big E a s t
C h a m p io n s h ip 4 x 1 0 0 m e t e r
relay team s.
T h e wom ens d ista n c e m e d ­
le y t e a m o f L a u r e n K in g ,
T ricia Floyd, M egan J o hn so n
a n d Molly H u d d le s e t a Big
E a st m eet r e c o rd in w inning
in 11:24.45
O th e r im p re ssiv e p e r f o r ­
m a n c e s fo r t h e w o m e n
i n c l u d e d H u d d l e ’s s e c o n d p l a c e f i n i s h in t h e 3 , 0 0 0
m e t e r s a n d K y m i a L o v e ’s
NCAA-qualifying tim e in th e
4 0 0 - m e te r dash. Her time of
5 4 .7 9 se c o n d s w a s only .02
seco nd s out of first. Love also
f i n i s h e d f o u r t h in t h e 6 0 m e t e r d a s h . E m ily L o o m is
p la c e d seco nd a n d qualified
for the NCAA C ham pionships
in th e high ju m p with a s e a ­
son b est of 1.79 m eters.
O t h e r top s c o r e r s fo r th e
m e n s Big East Cham pionship
T e a m w e r e Kevin Som ok in
th e 1 ,0 0 0 m e t e r s , C h ris
S ta ro n and Ryan M ineburg in
the high ju m p and Ryan Hurd
in th e 2 00 -m e te r dash.
Contact Andy Troeger at
atroeger@nd.edu
♦ Irish put home
winning streak on
the line against
Okafor and Huskies
B y A N D R E W SOUKUP
Sports Writer
S i ttin g in t h e l o c k e r r o o m
m in u t e s a f te r w r a p p in g up a
blowout victory against Virginia
Tech, the Irish couldn’t help but
ta lk a b o u t to n ig h t ’s m a r q u e e
matchup against Connecticut.
And for good reason, too. The
storylines surrounding tonight’s
nationally televised game at the
Joyce Center are limitless.
T h e r e ’s th e s to r y of H usky
coach Jim Calhoun, who will be
coaching just his second game
to n ig h t since he to o k a little
m o r e t h a n tw o w e e k s off to
re c o v e r from p r o s ta te c a n c e r
surgery.
T h e r e ’s the tale o f how the
Huskies, winners of four of the
last
seven
Big
East
Tournam ents, beat the Irish in
the semifinals last year.
T h e re ’s the matchup of prolif­
ic sophomores — Notre D ame’s
Chris Thomas and Connecticut’s
Emeka Okafor — who finished
1-2 in l a s t y e a r ’s Big E a s t
Rookie of the Year voting.
T h e r e ’s Notre D a m e ’s u n d e ­
feated home record this season
a n d t h e f a c t t h a t th e I r is h
haven’t lost in the Joyce Center
in 372 days.
But most importantly for both
team s, th e r e ’s the pivotal role
tonight’s gam e will play in the
race for regular season Big East
titles.
Fresh off the heels of a 98-76
b l o w o u t o f V ir g in ia T e c h
Saturday, the No. 12 Irish (21-5
overall, 9-3 in the Big East) are
r e a d y to t a k e on C o n n e c tic u t
(17-6, 8-4) tonight.
“This game gives us a little bit
see H U SK IES/page 19
WOMENS 8-BALL
Connecticut 75
Notre Dame 58
Notre Dame 98
Virginia Tech 76
After being tied with the Huskies
late in the first half, the Irish fizzled
in the second half. The Huskies now
have won their 65th consecutive
game.
After once again giving up a huge
lead, the Irish explode in the second
half, scoring 64 points and shooting
over 70 percent from the floor, to put
away the Hokies.
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Check out results from Sunday's
quarterfinals.
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