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More fem ales seek elected ND officesBy SCOTT BRODFUEHRERAssistant News Editor

One year a f te r Notre Dame elected its first female student body president, half of the four tickets runn ing in this y e a r ’s election feature a female presi­dent and a third ticket has a female vice-president.

S tu d e n t body p r e s i d e n t Brooke Norton, who served as v ice-president las t year , said she a t t r i b u t e s th e c h a n g in g gender make-up of the tickets to an ove ra l l c h a n g e in th e m in d s e t o f s t u d e n t s a b o u t women in leadership roles.

“Our g enera tion has grown up b e in g u s e d to h a v in g females right next to males in leadership positions ... in the

past few years, we really have seen females taking many lead­e r s h i p ro le s on c a m p u s , ” Norton said. “I’m very proud of Molly Kinder [the first female on th e I r i sh G u a rd ] a n d Tambre Paster [the first female head drum major]. It’s ju s t a coincidence tha t 1 w as in the right place at the right time to b e c o m e N o tre D a m e ’s f i r s t female president."

The past five years have seen m a jo r changes in the gender m a k e -u p of e le c to ra l c a n d i ­d a te s . Out o f 80 c a n d id a te s who ran for election either as pres iden t or v ice-president in the previous five years, only 14 people , o r 18 p e rc e n t of the candidates, were females. This year, th ree out of eight, 37.5 p e rc e n t a re . In the p rev ious

five years, 68.5 percent of the tickets were all male, 22.5 per­cent had a male president ru n ­ning with a female vice-presi­dent, seven and a half percent h ad a fem alep r e s i d e n t ru n n in g with a m a le v ice president and only one tick­et — two and a half percent — w a s all females. This year, one tick­et is all male, one ticket is a m a le v icep r e s i d e n t r u n n i n g w i th a female vice president and two tickets are a female president with a male vice-president.

All three of this yea r’s female c a n d id a te s e m p h a s iz e d t h a t gender is not the most im por­tan t fact in a ticket’s platform and said they would have run

th i s y e a rregardless of w h e t h e r o r n o t o n e of th e t h r e e w om en c a n ­d id a te s w as e le c te d th is y e a r . P re s id e n t ia l c a n d i d a t e L i b b y Bishop, r u n ­n in g w i th

v i c e - p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e Trip Foley, said she felt tha t las t y e a r ’s election helped to clear the way for more women

...in the past few years, we really have seen

fem ales taking many leadership roles on

campus. ”

Brooke Norton student body president

to run for the office.“It was very encouraging to

see th a t Notre Dame is ready for a qua lif ied fem ale p re s i ­den t . Seeing Brooke succeed this year really helped to ener­gize me in my decision to run, b u t it w as a very ind iv idua l decision ... if Brooke wouldn’t h a v e w o n , I d o n ’t th in k it would have been because she’s a w om an,” said Bishop.

Presidential candidate Nikki McCord, who is ru n n in g with v i c e - p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d id a t e Nick Williams, said last year 's election showed students were ready for a change.

“W h a t I th in k a b o u t Notre Dame students is that they get in a r u t so m e tim es and they

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Students watch Superbowl XXXVI Sunday in Lafortune Student Center. The New England Patriots, the 14-point underdog, beat the St. Louis Rams with a last s e c ­ond field goal. The Superbowl win is a first for the Patriots.

Zorich’s rise from poverty sparks his philanthropyBy JUSTIN KRIVICKASNews W riter

Notre Dame and Chicago Bear foot­ball great Chris Zorich gave a speech Sunday in the Coleman Morse Lounge on the importance of community ser­vice. Students clustered around Zorich on couches and cha irs as he spoke about his life growing up in poverty and the significance community’s assistance played in his life as a child.

While Zorich was growing up in the far East side of Chicago, his family was in a state of poverty. He grew up with a single m other and only through the help of government assistance was the family able to receive the bare essen­tials for survival. There were times, explained Zorich, when there was no food in the house and he would scour the garbage behind the local grocery store for anything edible to eat. Because of the conditions he had to live with, a ttending college never crossed his mind. Yet, fate was on Zorich’s side and he was able to play football at Notre Dame.

“I knew a chance to go to college would open better opportunities for me,” said Zorich.

After college, Zorich was drafted to the Chicago Bears, a thought that he did not think would ever bo possible.

“Playing for the Bears was a dream come true,” said Zorich.

After achieving fame and fortune, Zorich knew he had a duty to help fami­lies that are experiencing the poverty he faced as a child.

“I remember standing in line at our church waiting for a food basket,” said Zorich. “That makes an impression on you when you’re a little kid. I promised myself that if I was ever able to help others, 1 would. That’s why I created The Christopher Zorich Foundation."

The Christopher Zorich Foundation was established in 1993, and is commit­ted to the realization of human poten­tial — mind, body, and spirit. Its mis­sion is ‘One Purpose, One Goal,’ which is to provide assistance and opportuni­ties to disadvantaged Chicagoans. The organization strives to foster a sense of caring, which crosses race, religious, economic, and social boundaries.

The foundation runs a food drive, a w a rd s Notre D ame sc h o la rsh ip s , donates new toys and clothing to needy children, sponsors a 5K race, gives cor­sages to women in shelters on Mother’s Day, and p a r tak es in various other activities in the Chicago community. On one Thanksgiving, he distributed 97 turkeys to needy families in his commu­nity.

Zorich told students that to make a difference in someone’s life you must try to.put yourself in that person’s posi­tion.

“By understanding your client, you’re opening your heart to what they had to go through,” he said.

Zorich is cu rren tly a t tend ing law school at Notre Dame and plans to stay involved in the b e t t e r m e n t of Chicagoland families in the future.

The lecture was the keynote speech of the Blessing Unto Others series spon­so re d by the Notre D ame S tu d en t Government. Now in its second year, the Blessing Unto Others Week centers on the goal of raising student aware­ness on campus of how blessed s tu­dents are to be members of Notre Dame Family. Blessing Unto Others seeks to motivate the en tire s tuden t body to come tog e th e r each y ea r and raise money for a foreign charity tha t is served by current Notre Dame students.

Contact Justin Krivickas at jkrivick@nd.edu.

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In sid e C o lu m n

Horoscopes that are relevant

Has anybody seen these horoscopes lately?I have yet to see one of my horoscopes actual ly be useful or true, ra th e r th an the obvious, boring events tha t happen in everyone's life, every day. I will have an argum ent with someone today? She m ust be psy­chic! It’s like Eugenia Last dug th rough a pack of for­tune cookies and ate he r way into being an astrologer. My advice for you is tha t you skip all together the horoscopes for today, and take to hea r t w hat the s ta rs are really saying for you.Don't worry, I w ent ou t­side and checked. W hat A d m in is tr a to r follows is w hat was seen to be the events for today,January 31 ,2002 .

Aries — You will find th a t no one in your Philosophy class apprecia ted your rendition of the Hall & Oates hit “M anea te r .” Consider sitting in the back from now on.

Taurus — You are suprem ely disappointed when you discover th a t jo tt ing down the equation “Steak & Shake = Delicious” netted you zero points on your organic chemistry exam.

Gemini — Lunacy occurs when a situation similar to the Spanish Inquisition occurs, except th a t the Spaniards a re dressed like clowns and are handing out balloon animals ra th e r than executions.

Cancer — If th e re ’s one thing tha t should be admired, it 's courage. Wait, not admired, liked. And not courage, Taco Bell.

Leo — In a shocking tu rn of events, you will find tha t nothing pleases the opposite sex more than a well-timed bout of flatulence.

Virgo — Although they a re in short supply, virgins are pre fe rred to prom iscuous youths almost 4 to 1 by professional volcanoes.

Libra — Now th a t your nacho influx has reached 47 kilopascals, you find yourself in a Zen-like state, except th a t you are su r ro u n d ­ed by singing, dancing cans of Spam.

Scorpio — Disease occurs as you gorge yourself on a turkey sandwich from the din­ing hall along with a bag of medical waste. Don’t worry, something had to have been wrong with th a t turkey.

Sagittarius — Life slaps you in the face yet again when you discover th a t you have spent more time in the ba throom in the past week than looking for a job after graduation.

Capricorn — The smell coming from your room m ate 's w ardrobe is nothing to be con­cerned about. Ju s t make sure th a t you help him or her get rid of the body before room inspection.

Aquarius — New relationships ensue as you clumsily en te r class, a little bit late. Henceforth, you will be known as “T hat je rk tha t tripped over my b ag” to your m any fans.

Pisces — Strangely, you find yourself con­templating ra th e r or not a kum quat belongs in the tuber family as you ea t your 400th career ta ter-to t. Try to keep your mind in the present, man.

I *f rtcx rrr r- rr

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T h is w e ek on c a m p u s

Monday♦ Film: “The Killing Floor,” 4

p.m., Hesburgh Center

♦ Review: “Becker Conviser CPA

Review,” 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.,

Debartolo Rm. 126

Tuesday♦ Lecture: “Promoting Security in

Central Asia,” by Kathleen Collins,

4 p.m., Hesburgh Center

♦ Event: “Blessing Unto Others

Week,” 7 to 9 p.m., Montgomery

Theater, LaFortune

W ednesday♦ Lecture: “Hispanic Self-fashion­

ing: The Making of a Mexican-

American Middle Classldentity,”

by Jose Limon, all day,

McKenna Hall

♦ Film: “With a friend like

Harry,” 9 p.m., LaFortune

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Univeristy of California labs study drug resistant HIVBERKELEY

University of California-Berkeley and UC-Saq Francisco re sea rch e rs have discovered how HIV becomes r e s is ta n t to p h a rm a c e u t ica l t r e a t ­ments, according to a study published Friday.

“ [Our r e s e a rc h ] show s th a t the [Human Immunodeficiency Virus] is really able to mutate dramatically,” said professor Charles Craik of the pharmaceutical chemistry department at UCSF, who directed the study.

T he w o rk of C ra ik a n d his co l­leagues showed that resistance stems from c h a n g e s in th e v iru s , not changes in the patient. It also demon­s t r a t e d how th e v iru s m u ta te s to evade drug treatments.

“The virus can completely change its form to avoid the effects of these

d ru g s , p a r t i c u la r ly p ro te a s e inhibitors,” Craik said. He added these results are “quite disturbing.”

Although the researchers are con­cerned about resistance mechanisms, they hope the data presented in the paper will help scientists to develop more effective treatments.

“The hope is now we can make new drugs th a t can a ttack the m uta ted virus so no matter how it changes it still [will be trea table] — a m aste r skeleton key of the virus,” Craik said.

UC-Berkeley’s chem istry d e p a r t ­

ment developed the technology used by the UCSF team. Professor Jonathan E llm an , d i r e c to r of th e p ro je c t , emphasized the importance of collab­oration to accomplish the study.

“Science is beco m in g m ore and more interdisciplinary,” he said. “By working to g e th e r we w ere able to develop some things that a lot of peo­ple are using, including [pharmaceuti­cal giant] Merck.”

Stanford University medical profes­sor Thomas Merigan, head of the uni­versity’s Center for AIDS Research, said the s tudy m ay lead to b re a k ­throughs in AIDS treatment.

“The work between the University of California people and ViroLogic is interesting because it’s possible it can lead to the development of new drugs that are active against drug-resistant strains of HIV,” Merigan said.

W a sh in g to n U n iv e r s ity

School to begin inflating grade scaleST. LOUIS

For the first time in 22 years, the Washington University School of Law (WUSL) has decided to inflate the grades of its graduating students. The decision, prompted primarily by grade inflation at peer schools as well as an increase in the quality of the School of Law’s student body, is aimed at giving more of a competitive edge to WUSL graduates. The grading scale was changed from 65 to 100 with a forced median score of 83 to a scale of 70 to 100 with a forced median of 87. Professor of Law Daniel Keating headed the commission tha t sought faculty approval. Keating stated that a study conducted by WUSL found that there had been a steady creep in the grades of peer schools over the years. “In a survey that we did of the 35 schools in U.S. News and World Report that we are in the middle of, we looked at schools numbered 10 to 45 and we found that on average the middle score at those peer schools is a B-plus. We did a mini-poll of our employ­ers to ask them w hat they viewed as an 83. The gen­eral response was a B-minus,” said Keating.

O hio S tate U n iv e r s ity

Campus mourns death of studentCOLUMBUS

W h ile th e p a r e n t s o f C h r i s t o p h e r “G e r s h ” G erspacher m ake a r ra n g e m en ts to lay the ir son to rest , the Ohio S tate University com m unity m ourns the loss of an incredible student. “[He was] one of the b es t s tu d e n ts I ’ve ever h ad a t OSU,” sa id Ahm ad Sikainga, associate professor, who had Gerspacher in several of his classes. G erspacher, a senior, whose body was found Tuesday in a ravine off of North Old S tate Road in D elaw are County, h ad been missing s in c e Dec. 22 from his a p a r t m e n t in C o lum bus. Gerspacher had a great in terest in studying African history. “He was a very good s tuden t and very seri­ous a b o u t his s tu d i e s , ” S ik a in g a sa id . “He n ev e r missed class.” Gerspacher spent six weeks in Africa this past sum m er with the OSU Study Tour 2001. “He was close to g rad u a t io n and [had] applied to grad school,” said his fa ther Bob Gerspacher, in a previ­ous interview last month. “He did well this fall q u a r ­ter.

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Few activists protest World Economic ForumAssociated Press

NEW YORK Police g u a r d in g th e W orld

Economic Forum had the streets a ro u n d th e W a ld o r f -A s to r ia ho te l m ostly to th e m s e lv e s Sunday as few protesters braved chilly winds to vent their frus­

t r a t io n s a t the in te rn a t io n a l business and political leaders inside.

A day a f t e r a b o u t 7 ,0 0 0 a c t iv is ts for v a r io u s c a u s e s massed near the hotel, the only large group was about 150 yel- lo w -sca rv ed m e m b e rs of the s p i r i tu a l g ro u p F a lu n Gong, whose protest was aimed at the

Chinese g o v e rn m e n t’s c r a c k ­dow n on th e i r m o v e m e n t . Gathered at a designated protest a r e a two b l o c k s f rom the W ald o rf , t h e y exercised to ta p e d m u s i c , c h a t t e d w i t h p o l i c e a n d h a n d e d out leaflets.

One of the few inc iden ts of property destruction came late Sunday afternoon about a mile to the north. P ro testers in an an im al r ights m arch head ing to w a rd the h o te l s m a s h e d a glass door and threw a balloon filled with red paint at an apart­ment building. Police halted the march, which had grown to 200 people, but let it start up again.

Police later took 67 of the pro­testers into custody after some lay dow n in an in te r s e c t io n a b o u t 15 b locks f rom th e W aldorf and refused to move. Officers halted the m arch and dispersed the activists.

Earlier in the day, police said they a r re s te d 87 activists for disrupting traffic by marching in the s t r e e t on the Lower East Side, about 3 1/2 miles from the hotel. They were charged with

disorderly conduct.B efore S u n d ay , po lice h a d

arrested 46 people in the first th ree days of the forum, which has been free of vio­len ce th a t h a s a c c o m p a n i e d p r o t e s t s a ti n t e r n a t i o n a l summits in recent years.

Police and p ro ­t e s t e r s saychanges in tactics and perspectives

have kept the streets peaceful.In the days before the forum,

police made a pub­lic display of their c r o w d - c o n t r o l training, and news­p a p e rs t ru m p e ted the secu r i ty m e a ­s u r e s w ith f r o n t ­page headlines call­ing m id to w n an “A rm ed C a m p .”The city braced for the worst, a ss ig n ­ing 4,000 officers to forum security.

“P eo p le w e re m o re a f ra id — it was such a show of force. And now tha t there has been conflict at several of these types of events, I th ink police have a lot more leeway to use th a t fo rc e , ’’said one ac tiv is t , A labama Evers, 19, who wore

the characteristic black and red of the anarchy movement.

Protesters also said the Sept. 11 terror attacks changed per­spectives.

“After Sept. 11, I think people a re seeing cops in a different l ig h t ,” sa id R obert Wing, 19, who said he had attended major p ro tes ts a g a in s t in ternational econom ic m eetings in Seattle a n d G en o a , I ta ly , bo th the s c e n e s of e x te n s iv e r io t ing . “Instead of people thinking the police a re a g a in s t us, I think people now realize th a t th a t ’s not the case.”

Police also made a point of let- t i n g pro test- e r s g a t h e r near the h o t e l , allowing them to be seen a n d h e a r d b yf o r u m p a r t i c i ­pants.

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cities, “people cannot even get close to the venue and m ake their voices heard ,” said Deputy Inspector Matthew Pontillo, who oversaw the downtown police command center.

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make their voices heard.”

M atthew Pontillo deputy inspector

“After Sept n , I think people are seeing cops in a different light. Instead

of people thinking the police are against us I

think people now realize tha t’s not the case. ’’

Robert Wing protester

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A rgentina

President unveils economic planAssociated Press

BUENOS AIRES

Duhalde

P r e s i d e n t E d u a r d oD uhalde’s em battled govern ­ment worked to put the final touches on an economic plan th a t could s p u r th e n a t i o n ’ s d e v as ta ted e c o n o m y a n d e a s e an u n p o p ­u la r b a n k ­ing freeze.

T h e p l a n ’ s d e t a i l sw ere to be unveiled Sunday ev e n in g a t a p r e s s c o n f e r ­ence, w hich m a rk s th e f irs t m o n th s in c e D u h a ld e to o k over as A rg en t in a ’s c a r e ta k ­er president.

P r e s i d e n t i a l s p o k e s m a n E d u a r d o A m a d e o s a i d au th o r i t ie s w e re still d e c id ­ing w he the r to go ahead with a “bank ing ho liday” Monday and Tuesday th a t w ould b a r most cu r ren cy and f inancia l transactions.

T h e r e c o v e r y p a c k a g e c o m e s a f t e r A r g e n t i n a ’s Suprem e Court ru led Friday th a t the bank ing freeze w as unconstitu tional. The freeze, w h ic h b e g a n D ec . 1 a n d locks m an y d o l la r d e p o s i t s into the banks until 2003, is a highly unpopu lar symbol of the crisis.

Amadeo, speak ing on local r a d i o , s a id t h e n e w p l a n would give Argentines u n fe t­t e r e d a c c e s s to t h e i r p a y ­checks, which a re deposited

into banks and subject to the freeze.

W h e r e a s o n ly $ 8 0 0 a m o n th cou ld be p re v io u s ly w i th d r a w n from th e s a la ry a c c o u n t s , t h e n e w p la n w o u ld l e t w o r k e r s r e m o v e the en tire am ount in cash.

“T he s a la ry a c c o u n ts will be a b s o l u t e l y f r e e d u p , ” A m a d e o p r o m i s e d , a d d in g th e p l a n i n t e n d s to a l lo w m o r e c a s h in to t h e s t i f l e d economy.

S t i l l , m a n y p a r t s o f th e bank ing freeze were expec t­ed to r e m a i n i n t a c t , a f t e r D u h a l d e to ld A r g e n t i n e d e p o s i to r s th e c o u r t ru l in g d o e s n ’t m e a n th e y s h o u ld e x p e c t im m e d ia te access to penned-up savings.

“Let me tell you, ‘Don’t be deceived ,”’ he said.

T h e b a n k in g r e s t r i c t i o n s w e r e p u t in p l a c e Dec. 1 a f te r a ru n on banks by j i t ­tery investors yanked $2 bil­lion in a single day.

S e p a r a te ly , th e n e w s p a ­p e r C la r in r e p o r t e d S u n d a y t h a t t h e g o v e r n ­m e n t w o u ld a l s o e n d a m u c h - c r i t i ­c i z e d d u a l e x c h a n g e r a t e fo r t h ep e s o . A u t h o r i t i e s h a d no im m ediate confirmation.

A fter ta k in g office Jan . 2, D u h a ld e e n d e d th e p e s o ’s decade-old peg a t one to one w i th th e d o l l a r . He s e t an o f f ic ia l r a t e fo r i m p o r t e r s a n d e x p o r t e r s of 1 .4 p eso s per dollar but let the c u r r e n ­

cy devalue nearly 30 percen t on the open m arke t where it now trades a t 1.95.

The In ternational Monetary Fund had h a rsh ly crit ic ized the dual exchange ra te , s ig ­naling tha t it wanted it e limi­nated if Argentina wished to r e c e iv e e m e r g e n c y b a i lo u t aid.

Locally, r e p o r t s sa id t h a t A rgentina is seeking between $15 b il l ion and $20 b ill ion from the IMF.

T h e c o u n t r y ’s b a n k i n g freeze and wave a f te r wave of a u s te r i ty m e a s u r e s have led to n e a r - d a i l y p r o t e s t s a r o u n d A r g e n t in a . But the c o u n t ry w as ca lm over the w e e k e n d as it a w a i t e d th e m easures .

On Sunday, however, h u n ­d re d s of p r o t e s t e r s b a n g ed p o ts a n d p a n s in m a jo r S pan ish c ities to show so li­darity with Argentines and to urge cred itors to forgive the S o u th A m e r i c a n n a t i o n ’s

$ 1 3 2 b i l ­lion foreign debt.

S p a i n , w h ich s e n t h u n d r e d s of t h o u ­s a n d s of im m ig ran ts t oA r g e n t i n a in th e p a s t

cen tu ry , has tens of billions of d o l l a r s i n v e s t e d in th i s South A m erican nation . The rallies in Madrid, Barcelona, G r a n a d a a n d S a l a m a n c a w e r e c a l l e d by A r g e n t i n e e x p a t r i a t e s a n d S p a n i s h g r o u p s s e e k i n g r e l i e f fo r Argentina.

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a re looking for a ch an g e . Kids on campus are tired of the same old-same old. Sure the whole gender thing plays into it, but I think students on th is cam p u s a re s m a r t enough to see who will be e n a c t in g the m ost chan g e and elec t th a t c a n d id a te ,” said McCord.

Vice-presidential candidate K eri Oxley, r u n n in g w ith presidential candidate Brian Moscona, emphasized that it was Norton’s service to the e n t i r e s t u d e n t body th a t caused h e r to run, not her gender.

“I don’t think that [Norton] has an agenda with women’s issues and th a t s h e ’s very open to all types of views and I truly hope th a t when peop le look a t th e c a n d i ­da tes , they d o n ’t fac tor in r a c e or g e n d e r in to t h a t equation,” said Oxley.

N orton sa id th e b ig g e s t change her election brought about is the loss of a stigma associated with women ru n ­ning for student body presi­dent.

“There’s not a barrier any­more ... I th ink the biggest change is that gender really i s n ’t an is su e a n y m o re . When my class first got on campus, we were really su r­

p r i s e d N o tre D am e had n e v e r h ad a fem ale p re s i ­d e n t . Now, new s tu d e n t s may be as equally surprised to learn tha t I was the first female president. Over time, it w on’t really m a t te r an y ­more,” said Norton.

The candidates all em pha­sized tha t th e re have been an i n c r e a s in g n u m b e r of wom en involved in s tuden t government during the past years.

“I do think th a t Brooke’s im pac t overall has caused more females to get involved ... it is Notre Dame’s time for women to get involved. Now th a t w om en have b een on campus for 30 years, things are equalizing as we go on,” said Oxley.

McCord em phas ized th a t while the fact tha t she is a w o m a n p u ts h e r m o re in tune with women’s issues, it is the job of a leader to listen to the entire student body.

“I’m a woman, but t h a t ’s not my vibe ... i t ’s possible for people to be caught up in the image of, ‘Look at me, I’m a wom an and I’m ru n ­ning.’ But when people look at me, I w an t them to say, ‘Oh look, t h e r e ’s a p e rso n who’s willing to take a bullet for the student body.’ ”

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NEWARKThe head of H arvard’s black

studies program, Henry Louis Gates Jr . , said he will decide this sum m er w he the r he will fo llow a c o l l e a g u e t oP r i n c e t o n University.

G a t e s t h r e a t ­e n e d inD e c e m b e r to leave for P r in ce to n , s a y i n gH arvard P res id en t Lawrence Summers had not adequately backed affirmative action.

L a s t m o n th , P r in c e to n appointed his former Harvard colleague Anthony Appiah as a full professor in the universi­ty ’s ph ilosophy d e p a r tm e n t . N o v e l is t T on i M o r r i s o n , a Nobel Prize laureate in li tera­ture, is also at Princeton.

“A n thony A p p ia h h a s le f t four in s t i tu t io n s so t h a t we could be together,” Gates told The Star-Ledger for Sunday’s editions. “Maybe i t ’s my time to pay that friendship back.”

Gates, the au thor of “Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture W ars” and a winner of a 1998 N ationa l H u m an it ie s M edal, sa id he w ould w e lco m e the

chance to build a strong black studies program at Princeton. He said he h ad n ’t decided yet.

P r in c e to n s p o k e s w o m a n Marilyn Marks said the univer­sity was considering ex pand­ing its black studies program in to a full, d e g re e -g ra n t in g department.

At H a rv a rd , se v e ra l m e m ­b e r s of th e b la c k s tu d i e s departm ent have been at odds w ith S u m m ers , who becam e president last year.

S u m m e r s r e p o r t e d l y r e b u k e d C o rn e l W es t for recording a rap CD, for lead­ing a political com m ittee for the Rev. A1 Sharpton’s possible presidential campaign and for allowing grade inflation in his i n t r o d u c t o r y b la c k s tu d ie s course.

West said he had been “dis­h o n o re d ,” and th re a te n e d to le a v e fo r P r in c e to n . Acquaintances have said there is little chance that West, who is on leave re c o v e r in g from prostate cancer, will re turn to Harvard.

Appiah, the only p ro fessor who has made the move, said he h a d no g r u d g e a g a i n s t Summers and left for personal reasons.

T h r e e d a y s a f t e r he a n n o u n c e d h is d e p a r t u r e , H a r v a r d s a id it h a d h i r e d Michael C. Dawson, an expert in b la c k p o l i t i c a l b e h a v io r from the University of Chicago.

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Russian official visits Afghanistan:Russia’s foreign minister comes to Afghanistan today promising that Russia aims to help rebuild the country from 23 years of war that began with a Soviet invasion. Igor Ivanov represents a Kremlin whose policies are stunningly different than those in force at the time of the 1979 inva­sion. With its military in slow-motion collapse and its economy staggering back from catastro­phe, Russia now makes only pro-forma preten­sions of being a world power and has become increasingly cooperative with the West.

Hong Kong kills 100,000 chickens:Health w orkers com pleted the s lau g h te r of more than 100,000 chickens Sunday at a Hong Kong farm where the deaths of thousands of birds had raised fears of a second outbreak of avian flu in less than a year.

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Priest sex cases shock parishoners:Parishioners at two Randolph, Mass., churches outside Boston were stunned Sunday to learn their priests had been suspended as part of the Catholic Archdiocese’s efforts to root out priests accused of sexual m isconduct. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced Saturday it had suspended Father Paul Finegan and Father Daniel Graham, both 57. The deci­sion followed pub lic c r i t ic ism th a t it h ad ignored past allegations of priest misconduct.

Man wants money for sex change:A man sen tenced to life in p r ison w ithou t parole for strangling his wife is trying to force the to pay for a sex change opera tion and horm one the rapy to allow him to live as a woman. Robert Kosilek, who uses the name Michelle, planned to be in federal court today to ask a B oston ju d g e to o r d e r th e s t a te Department of Corrections to cover the trea t­ment.

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Pakistan

Kidnapped Pearl’s status unknownA ssociated Press

KARACHIThe Wall Street Journal

appea led Sa tu rday to the k i d n a p p e r s of r e p o r t e r Daniel Pearl to show evi­dence tha t he is still alive after an all-night search of Karachi graveyards turned up nothing.

P e a r l ’s w ife a n d an A m e r ic a n M uslim g roup is su e d s e p a r a t e a p p e a ls for his release, and e-mails purportedly sent Saturday by th e k id n a p p e r s gave conflicting accounts of his fate.

An e -m a i l r e c e iv e d Friday by U.S. news orga­n iza t io n s c la im ed P ear l ,

38, had been killed and his b o d y d u m p e d in an unsp ec if ied c e m e te ry in this city of 12 million peo­ple. He w as ab d u c te d in Karachi on Jan . 23 while working on a story about a Muslim extremist group.

A f te r an e x h a u s t iv e search, Pakistani officials and the Journal concluded that the e-mail was a hoax and exp ressed hope th a t th e n e w s p a p e r ’s S o u th A sian b u r e a u c h ie f w as alive.

T h e l a s t e -m a i l t h a t included pictures of Pearl was received W ednesday by Pakistani and American new s o rg an iza t io n s . The Journal urged the kidnap­

p e r s to f re e P e a r l o r a t least resume contact.

“We u r g e t h e m to release Danny,” Managing Editor Paul Steiger said in New York. “If th a t is not possible, we call on them to demonstrate that Danny remains alive. They can do this by providing us with a ph o to of D anny h o ld in g today’s newspaper.”

Police said they believed a r a n s o m d e m a n d , t e l e ­phoned to U.S. diplomats Friday, also w as a hoax. The caller demanded a $2 m il l ion r a n s o m a n d th e r e l e a s e of a f o r m e r Taliban diplomat.

In Islamabad, an Interior Ministry official speaking

on condition of anonymity said one person had been detained for interrogation on suspicion of calling in the ransom demand.

M ukhtar Ahmad Sheikh, g o v e r n o r of S indh province , which includes K arach i, ex p ressed hope tha t Pearl would be found “as we believe the man is still alive.”

P e a r l ' s F r e n c h wife, M a r ia n n e , is six m on ths p re g n a n t w ith th e i r first child. In a letter published Saturday in the Urdu lan­g u a g e n e w s p a p e r J a n g , she asked the kidnappers to f ree h e r h u s b a n d “as people inspired by Islam’s ethics.”

Bush proposes $2.12 trillion budgetA ssociated Press

WASHINGTON President Bush is sending Congress

a $2.12 trillion spending plan today th a t seeks to reco g n ize th e “new r e a l i t i e s ” c o n f ro n t in g th e n a t io n s in c e S ep t . 11 . It p r o p o s e s th e biggest jump in defense spending in two decades and a record increase in money devoted to making Americans more secure a t home.

The budget tries to revive an anti­r e c e s s io n s t im u lu s p a c k a g e th a t stalled late last year in the Senate. It also seeks billions of dollars more in

future years to make perm anent the biggest economic victory of B ush’s f i r s t y e a r in o ffice , a s w e e p in g , across-the-board tax cut.

But the spending plan for the 2003 budget year must face the new reali­ties of a reduced financial situation — $4 trillion in d isap p ea r in g s u r ­pluses because of the recession and that tax cut.

To do that, Bush wants to squeeze government programs from highway construction to job training and envi­ronmental projects.

C o n g re s s io n a l D e m o c ra t s a r e pledging a fight to restore spending

for their priorities and to oppose tax breaks in Bush's stimulus package for the wealthy and corporations.

“There are a lot of us who question w h e th e r or no t we rea l ly need to h a v e a m a jo r s t im u lu s p a c k a g e . Many people think we're coming out of this recession,” Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said Sunday on CNN’s “Late Edition.”

W h ite H o u se b u d g e t d i r e c to r Mitchell Daniels said Bush was p re ­pared to negotiate the elements of a s t im u lu s p a ck ag e and th e overa ll budget as long as it did not compro­mise his top goals.

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Kidnappers hold a gun to Wall Street reporter Danie Pearl’s head in this photo sent to U.S. media outlets. Some media organizations reported Sunday that Pearl, abducted Jan. 23 , w as found dead and his body recovered.

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A fghanistan

Warlords, UN draw cease-fire agreementAssociated Press

GARDEZAfghan and United N ations

mediators, joined by American officials, on Sunday extracted a conditional cease-fire agreement from two rival tribal warlords in an e a s te rn Afghan town th a t was rocked by two days of fight­ing last week.

With factional fighting threat­en in g g o v e rn m e n t e f fo r ts to a s se r t control th roughou t the country, the delegation hopes to a v e r t m o re t r ib a l c la s h e s in Gardez, a town of about 40,000 peop le t h a t is th e c a p i ta l of P ak t ia , a s t r a t e g ic b o r d e r province. U.S. forces w a n t to ensure tha t al-Qaida fugitives cannot flee through Paktia’s bor­d e r p a s se s in to n e ig h b o r in g Pakistan.

On Wednesday and Thursday, soldiers for warlord Bacha Khan exchanged a r t i l le ry fire with forces loyal to G ardez’s tribal council, or shura, which bitterly opposes Khan’s appointment as provincial governor. At least 61 people were killed.

Just before meeting the media­tors, Khan said he was ready to fight on to assert his rights as governor — an appointment that was initially self-declared, but later sanctioned by the govern­ment of interim leader Hamid Karzai.

“1 am officially the governor of Gardez. 1 am ready for m ore fighting,” Khan said, gesturing toward 200 of his soldiers stand­ing near a mud-walled outpost outside of Gardez, w h ere the delegation traveled to meet him. “You can see my fighters.”

Shura leaders say Khan is cor­r u p t and b r u t a l a n d h av e appealed for another governor.

During a break in the talks, Khan said he had agreed to a request by mediators to hold off until Friday on any new assault on Gardez, 60 miles south of the Afghan capital, Kabul. But Khan said he would resume the attack if he was not satisfied with the pace of prisoner exchanges and re tu rn of the bod ies of s la in fighters.

In an early sign of trouble, the G ard ez s h u r a sa id it h ad re tu rned the bodies of K han’s dead fighters, but he denied hav­

ing received any.Mediation efforts were to con­

tinue Monday.Townspeople said U.S. a i r ­

craft dropped leaflets Saturday night urging an end to the fight­ing, the worst clashes between rival w arlo rds since Karzai's government took office on Dec. 22 .

“We are all in Afghanistan,” said the leaflets in Dari and P a sh tu , th e two local l a n ­guages. “We m ust be united and one together.”

B-52 b o m b ers circled over the Gardez region on Sunday for what residents said was the first time in two weeks. U.S. Special Forces are hunting al- Qaida fugitives in the region, where Osama bin Laden’s te r­ro r n e tw o rk h ad ex ten s iv e t r a in in g c a m p s and a rm s caches.

“T here con tinue to rem ain pockets of Taliban and al-Qaida in the a r e a ,” said Capt. Tony Rivers, a U.S. Army spokesman in K a n d a h a r . "We co n t in u e c o m b a t o p e r a t io n s all over Afghanistan.”

T he m e d ia to r s in c lu d ed A s h ra f Rafi A h m ed za i , an a d v is e r to the U.N. spec ia l envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, as well as Shahboz Ahmedzai, a special adviser to Karzai who is also the Afghan leader’s uncle.

Although U.S. forces did not intervene in last week's clashes, s e v e ra l U.S. a r m e d e s c o r t s stood guard while the separate talks with the two sides went on. Two American officials took part in the talks, several partic­ipants said, describing one as a U.S. Embassy official.

T he A m e r ic a n s s ta n d in g guard outside would not identify themselves or their unit but said they were based “around here.” U.S. forces have a sizable base ju s t outside the nearby city of Khost and a smaller outpost on Gardez’s southern outskirts.

Instead of uniforms, the sol­diers wore rough Afghan wool cap s , j a c k e t s and sc a rv e s — dress common among U.S. spe­cial fo rce s o p e r a t in g in the region. Most of the soldiers were bearded.

Last w e e k ’s f igh ting ended

with Khan’s forces retreating into mountains around Gardez. But after resupplying his troops, he th r e a te n e d to a t ta c k aga in Sunday.

W ithout a na t iona l a rm y, Karzai’s governm ent has little power to force peace on feuding regional warlords.

Karzai, who returned to Kabul on Saturday, used a high-profile visit last week to Washington and London to push for a s tronger

in ternational security force in Afghanistan, with a mandate not just limited to Kabul.

But he was unable to win any pledge th a t the peacekeep ing force would be s ign if ican tly e n la rg e d or its dep lo y m en t expanded.

C ontinued u n r e s t h e re and elsewhere has led many Afghans to call for a larger, nationwide peacekeeping force.

In northern Afghanistan, two

main militias worked Sunday to finalize an accord aimed at keep­ing clashes from spreading into the region’s largest city, a media­tor said Sunday.

The pact, being worked out by r e p r e s e n ta t iv e s of w a r lo rd s Rashid Dostum an d Atta Mohammad, seeks to pre-empt a possible dangerous escalation of recent skirmishes. The fighting so far has been confined to relative­ly remote villages.

EPA revamps diesel engine lawsAssociated Press

CORNINGWithin five years, every new

d ie se l v e h ic le on A m e r ic a 's h ig h w a y s will n e e d to be equipped with filters and ca ta ­lysts that trap soot and convert lung-choking gases into carbon d iox ide , n i t ro g e n and w a te r vapor.

To keep pace with ever-tight­e n in g e m is s io n s s t a n d a r d s , diesel m anufac tu rers came up with a flurry of engine refine­m en ts in the 1990s , su c h as e lec tro n ic fue l- in jec tion sy s ­tems, and fitted oxidation cata­lysts that limit carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons.

The clean-air m andates com­ing thick and fast in the United S ta te s , J a p a n , E u ro p e a n d beyond over the next decade re q u ire m uch m ore s t r in g e n t steps: filters tha t dispose of at least 90 percent of soot and 95 p e r c e n t of n i t ro u s o x ides , a

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C uba

Fox visits Cuba for trade talksAssociated Press

Ex-Enron chief refuses to testifyAssociated Press

HAVANAMexican P re s id en t Vicente

Fox faced p e rh a p s his m ost difficult foreign policy dilem ­ma yet Sunday as he traveled to Cuba for trade talks under pressure to meet with internal opposition groups — a move tha t could d am age re la t ions w ith C u b an l e a d e r Fidel Castro.

Fox w as g r e e t e d S u n d a y morning by Foreign Minister Fe lipe P e re z R o q u e , th e n swept away to the Palace of the Revolution to be formally greeted by Castro before head­ing into private talks.

“This trip is very im portant for us,” Fox told repo rte rs at the airport. “We are doing this at the beginning of our admin­istration because we w an t to tighten, we w ant to s t ren g th ­en , o u r r e l a t i o n s h i p w i th Cuba.”

Mexico h as d e s c r ib e d th e 24-hour visit as “a w ork ing t r i p ” fo cus ing on w ays to i n c r e a s e Mexican t r a d e and investment with the island.

But a t th e same time, the U n ited S ta te s and Fox’s own c o n s e r v a t i v e National Action Party are p res­suring the Mexican leader to m eet with Cuban d iss iden ts . Trip o rganizers , citing Fox’s tight schedule , sa id no such meetings were planned.

M ee t in g w i th d i s s id e n t s would s e n d a s t r o n g p r o ­democracy message but likely anger Castro, possibly h a rm trade talks and leave bilateral relations in worse shape than before.

Severa l o p pos it ion g ro u p s also have asked Fox to press Castro privately for the release of political prisoners, a move tha t could allow Fox to show hum an rights concerns w ith ­out risking bilateral talks.

In addition to meetings with C as tro , F o x ’s s c h e d u le d included an official ceremony o u ts id e th e P a la c e ofRevolution and placing a floral w re a th a t th e m o n u m e n t to

Cuban independence hero Jose Marti. He also planned to pre ­s e n t H a v a n a City H is to r ia n E useb io Leal w ith M ex ico ’s h ig h es t h onor , the m ed a l of th e A ztec E ag le , fo r L e a l ’s r e h a b i l i t a t io n e fforts in Old Havana.

T r a v e l in g w ith Fox w as Mexican e n t re p re n eu r Carlos Slim, ranked by Forbes m aga­zine last year as the wealthiest man in Latin America.

C u b an F o re ig n M in is te r Felipe Perez Roque said Fox’s visit “could really contribute to g iv ing a n ew p u s h to r e l a ­t i o n s , ” w h ich coo led u n d e r F o x ’s p r e d e c e s s o r , E rn e s to Zedillo.

Cuba has long counted on its f r ie n d sh ip w ith Mexico, the only Latin A m erican country th a t r e fu s e d to su c c u m b to U.S. p ressu re to break diplo­matic ties after Castro’s 1959 r e v o lu t io n . M exico w a s an im p o r tan t Cuban t rad e p a r t ­n e r , second only to E a s te rn b loc c o u n t r i e s b e fo re the Sov ie t U nion c o l l a p s e d in

1991.T o d a y ,

M e x i c o ranks 10th a m o n g Cuba’s for­eign p a r t ­n e r s w ith c o m b in e d t r a d e top- p i n g $ 2 3 7 . 3 m il l ion in

2000. Mexico ran k s No. 6 in foreign investment in Cuba.

Fox’s visit “is an im portan t g e s tu r e a t a good m o m e n t” th a t cou ld k ick s t a r t Cuba- M exico t r a d e , s a id M a n u e l Orella, commercial attache for th e M e x ic a n g o v e r n m e n t ’s N a tiona l F o re ign Com m erce B an k , o r BANCOMEXT in Havana.

T h e l a s t t im e a M ex ican president visited Cuba was in 1 9 9 9 , w h e n Z ed il lo s e t a p re c e d e n t by publicly a ir ing his concerns about the island’s hum an rights record at a gath­ering of Ibero-American lead­ers.

D u r in g th a t t r ip , M exican F o r e ig n S e c r e t a r y R o sa r io Green m et with hum an rights activist Elizardo Sanchez, of th e C u b a n C o m m iss io n for H um an Rights an d N ational Reconciliation.

WASHINGTONF o r m e r E n ro n c h a i r m a n

K e n n e th Lay p u l le d o u t of th is w e e k ’s s ch ed u led c o n ­g r e s s i o n a l t e s t im o n y on Sunday, with his lawyer say­ing tha t hearings have taken on a “prosecutoria l” tone.

“I have instruc ted Mr. Lay to withdraw his prior accep­tance of your invitation,” Lay a t torney Earl Silbert said in l e t t e r s to th e S e n a te a n d H ouse p a n e ls t h a t w e re to hea r from him Monday.

“He cannot be expected to p a r t ic ip a te in a p roceed ing in w h ich c o n c lu s io n s have been reached before Mr. Lay has been given an opportuni­ty to be h e a r d , ” S i lb e r t added.

Lay had ag reed to a p p e a r voluntarily and thus was not obligated to show up.

In the letters, Silbert cited r e m a r k s on S u n d a y t a lk shows by various mem bers of C o n g ress s u g g e s t in g t h e r e w as r a m p a n t c r im inality a t Enron.

“These inflammatory s ta te ­m ents show th a t jud g m en ts have been r e a c h e d and the teno r of the hear ing will be prosecutoria l,” wrote Silbert.

“Mr. Lay f irm ly r e je c te d a n y a l l e g a t i o n s t h a t he engaged in wrongful or c rim ­inal c o n d u c t ,” the a t to rn ey w r o te D e m o c r a t i c Sen . E r n e s t H o l l in g s of S o u th C a r o l in a a n d R e p u b l i c a n Rep. Michael Oxley of Ohio. H ollings c h a i r s th e S e n a te Commerce Committee, Oxley the House Financial Services Committee.

ZAMBOANGAH elicop te r gunsh ips fired

rockets and troops bombed a su sp ec ted Muslim g u err i l la cam p with m o rta r shells on the southern Philippine island of Jo lo , k i l l ing a t l e a s t 20 rebels, a military official said Sunday.

T h e a s s a u l t on th e Abu Sayyaf camp in the mountain­ous outskirts of Indanan town took place Friday, and gov- e r n m e n t t r o o p s w e re s t i l l c h a s i n g rebels who s p l in te r e d a n d f led , the official said.

A r m y s o l d i e r s c a u g h t up w ith som e re b e ls S u n d ay in I n d a n a n , s e t t in g off a b r ie f f irefigh t that ended without casualties, sa id Col. Romeo Tolen tino , Jolo’s army commander.

“W e’re flush ing them out and when we see them in the open, they’ll be neutralized,” Tolentino said.

An offensive was under way against the Abu Sayyaf group in Jolo and n e a rb y Basilan island, where the rebels are holding Wichita, Kan., m is­s ionaries Gracia and Martin B urnham and Filipino nurse D e b o ra h Yap. U.S. a n d

A spokesman for the House E n e r g y a n d C o m m e rc e C o m m i t t e e , w h ic h h a d planned to invite Lay to tes ti­fy la ter this month, said, “It was c lear to us th a t he was looking for any little excuse to wiggle off the hook.

“As th e old s a y in g g o es , ‘you can r u n b u t you c a n ’t h id e ,”’ said the spokesm an , Ken Johnson . If Lay refuses to testify , “h e ’ll be s u b p o e ­n a e d l ik e e v e r y o n e e l s e , ” said Johnson.

A p p e a r i n g S u n d a y on NBC’s “Today” show and on MSNBC, S en . P e t e r F i tzg e ra ld , R-I1L, sa id th a t “Ken Lay obv iously h ad to know th a t th is w as a g ian t p y ram id sch em e — a g ian t shell gam e.”

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., called Enron “a lm ost a cu l­t u r e of c o r p o r a t e c o r r u p ­t io n .” Rep. Billy Tauzin, [R- La.], asked w he the r “maybe somebody ought to go to the pokey for this .”

“They w e re do ing a lm o s t no business, but they m a n u ­fac ture income from a bank l o a n , ” s a id D o r g a n , w ho a p p e a r e d w i th T a u z in on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“T h a t ’s the k ind of th in g th a t w en t on over and over and over again. We w an t to know w hat Ken Lay knew.”

Dorgan was to preside at a Senate Commerce Committee h e a r in g Monday w h e re Lay w a s s c h e d u l e d to te s t i fy . T a u z in ’s p a n e l p la n s th r e e Enron hearings this week.

An internal probe of Enron led by U n iv e rs i ty of T ex as la w s c h o o l d e a n W il l ia m Powers stated tha t a key doc­u m e n t w as m iss in g from a

P h i l ip p in e o f f ic ia ls h av e linked the Abu Sayyaf to the al-Qaida te rro r network.

The United States has been p roviding Philippine troops with weapons and training to crush the Abu Sayyaf, a loose band of a few hundred men in b o th i s l a n d s . T h ey a r e n o to r io u s for k id n a p p in g s , p i r a c y a n d b o m b in g s t h a t have killed scores of people an d s c a re d aw ay in v es to rs and tourists.

U.S. and Philippine military o f f i c i a l s o p e n e d la s t T h u r s d a y a t r a i n i n g e x e r c i s e in the sou thern p o r t c ity of Z a m b o a n g a and B as ilan b u t a c tu a l m a n e u v e r s a re to begin in a few

weeks. Left-wing groups have o p p o se d th e c o n t r o v e r s i a l war drills, called Balikatan or “shoulder to shoulder.”

A b o u t 160 U.S. S p e c ia l Forces am ong a 660 -s trong U.S. military contingent could be allowed into war zones in B asilan to observe Filipino t ro o p s b a t t l in g th e re b e ls , r a i s in g c o n c e r n s th e A m erican s could be d ra w n into clashes.

C r i t ic s say U.S. m i l i t a r y in v o lv e m e n t in th e f ig h t against the Abu Sayyaf could

partnersh ip deal. Lay says he was unaw are of the t ran sac ­tion and form er Enron chief executive officer Jeff Skilling says he was unaw are of the terms.

“We have not loca ted any Enron Deal Approval Sheet, ‘DASH,’ an i n t e r n a l d o c u ­m ent summarizing the t r a n s ­action and showing required approvals ,” stated the report. The r e p o r t n o ted the sam e type of s i tua t ion in an o the r t ran sac t io n as well, and the re p o r t ra ised the possibility th a t no app ro v a l s h e e t was ever prepared.

T a u z in s a id t h a t Skilling b a c k e d a w a y f rom s ig n in g h is n a m e to o f f - th e -b o o k s partnersh ip deals.

“W hat does tha t say about h is k n o w le d g e of w h e th e r th e se dea ls w e re h o n e s t or co rrup t?” Tauzin said.

“We found out tha t one of t h e g o o d g uys ... w e n t to Skilling and b rought him all these deals to get his s igna­ture on it,” Tauzin said. “He refused to sign it.”

Citing a company rife with conflicts of in te re s t , Tauzin said tha t in one deal, a man and his g ir l f r ien d a t Enron actually negotiated with each other.

“They w e re re a l ly s w e e t ­h e a r t s , e n d e d up g e t t i n g m a r r i e d , ” s a id T a u z in . “When they signed the deals, they signed as m arried pa r t ­ners, one against the o ther.”

Dorgan said the question of criminality is “a judgm ent for the U.S. Justice D epartm ent” to m ake, bu t he added tha t “ $1 b i l l io n in p r o f i t w as booked here tha t d idn’t exist. T h a t’s trouble .”

v io la te Ph ilipp ine c o n s t i tu ­tional limits on the presence of foreign combat troops and escalate violence in the coun­t r y ’s im p o v e r i s h e d s o u th , w here Islamic radicals have b e e n f igh ting for i n d e p e n ­dence for decades.

The Abu Sayyaf guerril las pursued by troops in Indanan were with followers of former M uslim r e g io n a l g o v e rn o r Nur Misuari, who is detained in a p o l ice c a m p s o u th of Manila on a rebellion charge, Tolentino said.

Misuari and his group, the M oro N a t io n a l L ib e ra t io n Front, led a quarter-century M uslim s e p a r a t i s t u p r is ing that killed more than 120,000 p e o p le in th e s o u th e r n M in d an ao re g io n , hom e to a b o u t 5 million Muslims in th e p r e d o m in a n t ly R om an Catholic Philippines. In 1996, M is u a r i s ig n e d a h i s to r i c peace accord and was elected g o v e r n o r of a M uslim autonomous region.

M isuari has been accused of plotting a deadly attack on a Jo lo a rm y c a m p in November to disrupt elections held to choose his successor as g o v e r n o r . M isu a r i w as a r r e s t e d as he f led to Malaysia. The country la ter h a n d e d h im o v e r to Philippine authorities.

Police a n d s o ld ie r s have p e r io d ic a l ly c la s h e d with M i s u a r i ’s fo l lo w e rs in the southern Philippines.

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Justice and Johnny WalkerJohnny Walker Lindh would be a col­

lege sophomore today. However, instead of dorm events and coursework he trained at an al-Qaeda camp and met Osama bin Laden. Walker sought reli­gious truth andfound meaning in S cott Flipsethe strict values ________________system of Islam. It was his unquench­able search for U rban itiestruth and meaning that brought him to Afghanistan, where he was captured by Northern Alliance troops. Is it possible to wrap our minds around his choices? Can we find a just punishment for his actions?

The discovery of an “American Taliban” set off media frenzy. The story took on a life of its own when it was revealed that CIA operative Johnny Spann’s last minutes were spent interro­gating Walker.

Spann and Walker were raised across an American cultural divide. Spann was the All-American boy. He grew up in small-town Alabama, worshipped at a conservative Protestant church, played football and joined the Marines after col­lege. He was patriotic and was sure of America’s role in the world.

Walker, on the other hand, was the embodiment of the northern California lifestyle. He was the product of a permis­sive upbringing that urged him to find his own path to truth. From an early age, he carried with him the liberal guilt of American power in the world — equat­ing it with repression and racism. What he found in radical Islam was a way to both identify with the oppressed and rebel against the oppressor.

The worldviews of these two young men were shaped by different values.One felt guilty about America’s power and institutions. The other represented and honored it. At a basic level, both symbolize historically grounded and legitimate parts of the American political discourse. If Walker had marched against globalism or worked against

sweatshops his foreign policy perspective would find sympathizers and adherents. Those who protest International Monetary Fund meetings and disrupt World Bank proceedings share his dis­trust of American capitalism and military might. But their actions do not lead them to shoulder an AK-47.

Sixty-two percent of those polled in a recent USA Today poll want Walker tried for treason. Most surprising, 69 percent of San Francisco Chronicle readers want him to face the death penalty. The polls show a deep anger and a desire to avenge the deaths of Sept. 11.

There are those who argue that international law allows the death penal­ty for the crime of genocide. And is not al-Qaeda’s plan for violence against Christians, Jews, liberal Muslims and Americans genocide? As this argument goes, Walker was trained and proudly took part in this plan. As a participant he is guilty of helping to carry out genocide.

The Nuremberg Trials, after World War II, made the case that those who plan genocide are as criminally liable as those who carry it out. I believe bin Laden and his lieutenants planned geno­cide and would have little qualm seeking the death penalty against them. It would be best if they were judged and executed by an Islamic Court, by the very law they purport to uphold, but that is not going to happen. It is up to the United States to seek justice for the victims of Sept. 11 and against al-Qaeda’s crimes against humanity.

But do Walker’s actions raise him to this level? The answer is plainly no. I base his conclusion on the facts. Walker was mobilized to fight against the Northern Alliance before the United States entered the war. It is not clear he even knew the United States was in the war. He was a recent recruit to al Qaeda who never had the opportunity to become a terrorist because his own com­mander sold out the unit to the Northern Alliance. He may have had the intent, but he never got a chance to carry out the crime of genocide.

So what would be a just punishment?Presently, there are many voices argu­

ing for leniency. Washington Post colum­nist Richard Cohen refuses to blame Walker for his actions. He says that every parent can recognize the romantic and rebellious kid who needs love, not punishment. Walker’s father wants to give him a “small kick in the b u t t ... and a big hug.” And President Bush, perhaps thinking of his own rebellious youth, urged compassion when he called Walker a “poor fellow.”

The calls for retribution and the calls for mercy do not fit the crime. Justice for Johnny Walker Lindh will require much more than love and much less than death. Willingly or unwittingly, he took up arms against his country. His journey of faith made him become an enemy of the United States. For that he must pay.

But can we punish the outcome of his earnest search for truth, while protecting all sincere journeys of faith?

I believe that Walker should receive a stiff prison term, but that his sentence should be contingent on the successful completion of the war on terrorism. Let President Bush promise to commute his sentence once al-Qaeda is wiped out. Such a sentence tempers justice with mercy. It penalizes Walker’s actions, but signals that his beliefs — whether moti­vated by religious zeal or youthful ideal­ism — can be tolerated in the United States.

This message of democratic and reli­gious pluralism is one of our nation’s strengths. We should use the case of Johnny Walker Lindh to preach it to the world.

Scott Flipse is associate director o f Notre Dame's Washington Sem ester and a Pew Civitas Fellow at the Brookings Institution. For more information on the Washington Semester, please visit the website at www.nd.edu/~semester/.

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Facing the fear of female dormsDishes in the hallway, in the scheme of things, are not a huge

deal. In my dorm, they would pass without comment. In fact, on a daily basis, the hall outside my room is littered with various a r t i ­cles of clothing, pieces of athletic equipment, drug paraphernalia and the occasional anim al carcass.

But I live in a guy’s dorm. A girl’s dorm is a different story. Joe Muto

Such was the case with my friends in anunnamed w om en’s dorm. They were con- -------------------------fronted in an intervention-style meeting by .the entire hall staff, who then proceeded to L iv in on atell them they were “obstinate .” More 19th P ra yerCcntury-style adjectives followed, most ofwhich had not been used since the writingof the book “The Secret G arden.”

Antiquated insults a re sadly the least of the problems of a resi­dent of a female dorm. Those of you still with me at this point will recognize tha t I’m tu rn ing my attention to a previously ignored yet well deserving topic: the te r ro r tha t is “The Female Dorm”.

Before college, I’d always ju s t assum ed tha t the worst things a woman would have to deal with in h e r residence hall would be pillow fights, panty ra ids and the like.

But no. Not a t Notre Dame. Our women are too good for these harmless yet endlessly videotape-able traum as. Instead, Notre Dame women are subjected to verbal intimidation, contempt and numerous violations of personal privacy. And th a t ’s ju s t from the Detex card.

My lady friends seem unable to convey to me the indignity of liv­ing under 24-hour lock and key, having an honest-to-God nun watching over them, and being hassled in their own 24-hour space by an overactive, blue shirt-clad lunatic.

But in my opinion, none of these things can top the fear that grips the common Notre Dame m an w hen he decides to visit the Capri pant and tank-top s trew n bowels of a girl’s dorm.

Don’t get me wrong — during the day, most female dorms at Notre Dame are almost visitable. However, as parie tals approach, and the hall staff p repa res the castra tion shears , a girl’s dorm changes significantly.

In all honesty, I would ra th e r walk into an al-Qaeda cave blind­folded and waving an American flag with my pants around my ankles and a George W. Bush sock puppet covering my bare geni­tals than walk into a female dorm within two hours of parietals. Even with the most innocuous of intentions, a male visitor is stared down as if he is p lanning to rape all of the residents before stealing the painting of the dorm benefactors.

Let me convey this fun little anecdote to illustrate: One night, I visited some friends in a w om en’s dorm. I heard the jingly keys at 11:50 p.m. and s ta r ted getting ready to leave. Less than 10 m in­utes later, I stepped out of the elevator onto the first floor, only to be confronted by the sight of the security guard and about five RAs chatting amiably by the front desk. As I s tepped off the eleva­tor, they froze and turned their gaze to me.

My initial reaction was to panic, bu t a quick glance at the offi­cial dorm clock told me tha t it was literally midnight and 20 sec­onds. I headed past the gathering, confident in my righteousness. As I attempted to walk out the front door, I hea rd a voice behind me.

“Hey.” One of the RA’s had stepped forward to challenge me.“Be more careful next time. You’re a couple of.” She paused to look at the clock.

“Seconds la te .” She w asn ’t even able to say “m inu tes” with a straight face.

Lest any naysayers out the re accuse me of unconstructive criti­cism, I thought I’d provide female hall s taff m em bers with some friendly advice.

Security guards: First of all, coming into the 24-hour lounge every five minutes admonishing occupants to “keep at least one foot on the ground a t all t im es” not only m akes you sound like an idiot, it’s counterproductive. You’re ju s t forcing would-be nookie seekers to be more creative in the ir positioning and faster to fin­ish.

RAs: Just because everyone says th a t women RAs are em bit­tered shut-ins doesn’t m ean you have to prove it on a daily basis. Live a little, and for God’s sake, lighten up.

Rectresses: Not every guy who walks into your dorm is ready to pluck one of the virgin roses placed under your care. Some of us are there to pick up books or something. Also, it greatly diminish­es your nunly authority when you refuse to w ear the full habit.

And one final note to all hall staff: i t ’s parietals, not a nuclear missile launch. Precision is not a necessity. Next time I get yelled at for leaving 30 seconds after midnight, I can ’t be responsible for my own actions.

Joe Muto is a sophom ore F IT and English m ajor who w ould like to congratulate the m ale dorm residen ts who stole the Farley p ink gorilla and took the Holy Cross girl photos, respectively. Contact Joe M uto a jm uto@ nd.edu.

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“Joke” ticket inspired real change

As Notre D ame’s “exciting” student body elections descend upon our icy campus, I wish to rem ind you all of a couple of crazy guys who attem pted to get elected last spring.

Chris Z immerman and I were deemed the “joke” ticket of last y e a r ’s race, but as I look at this y e a r ’s campus developments, it seems as though we were more successful than anyone expected us to be — and we w eren ’t even actually elected.

We wanted to trim the fat from student government, which has put on the fresh­m en 15 several times over.We were told, however, tha t we should learn to work “with the curren t system.”Not long ago, Erin LaRuffa and Jason McFarley of The Observer graded s tudent gov­ernm ent, and those grades were short of the Dean’s List. Also, the University recently decided to form a task force to examine the role of s tudent government on campus and w hat th a t role should be in the future.

We w anted to renovate LaFortune. We were told tha t it could never happen, tha t it would cost too much. Now, Starbucks,

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Sbarro and Eddie Peppers (whatever tha t is) a re on the ir way to our lovely s tuden t center.

We w anted to evaluate the grading system so th a t excellence would be rew arded more

fairly in each college. This fall, to the chagrin of the class of 2005, new . D ean’s List requ irem ents were \ announced. Grades in the College

V vf,T<DtQ \ of Engineering a re no longer ' held s tra igh t up against grades

from the Mendoza College of & T , w \ Business.

• — ' We w anted to add more all­school masses, and this y e a r ’s tickets a re all promis­ing the exact sam e thing for next year. Apparently, good ideas can come from a couple of “jokes te rs .”

As you can see, Chris and I have accomplished more this

year than the actual elected s tuden t body officers. Seems odd

th a ^ a couple of guys who were t rea ted as a joke last year inspired

so many actual changes this year.

Andy Nelsonfo rm e r v ice p re s id e n tia l c a n d id a te

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Notre Dame outdoes Saint Mary’s with

“Vagina Monologues”I would like to applaud Notre Dame’s Program in Gender Studies and the Film, Television and

Theatre Department for participating in the V-Day Initiative through the production of Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues.

It’s unfortunate that the administration of Saint Mary’s College is unable to see the value and importance of sponsoring a performance such as this. It’s hard to believe that a college that claims to have the interests of women among their top priorities would turn their backs on such an impor­tant issue.

Erin Reesejunior

St. M ary’s College W ashington Semester Program

Jan. 31, 2002

Judicial Council deservessanctions

W hat is wrong with speaking freely about one’s opponents? The Observer editorial hit the nail on the head Friday with its stance against the Judicial Council’s decision to sanction Moscona/Oxley, but permit me to add a nail to the coffin.

Why not sanction the Judicial Council for breaking its own rules? After all, the same election bylaws tha t were perverted to reprove Moscona/Oxley require tha t a six- m em ber committee sanctions candidates, not ju s t two Judicial Council leaders. Regardless of past precedent, Jarotkiewicz and McCarthy had a procedural directive to fol­low, which they blatantly disregarded. While it is not a t all clear tha t discussing the feasi­bility of opponents’ platforms with one’s

campaign staff comprises “insulting or defam atory” actions, it is explicitly clear that two people are not six, and tha t the Judicial Council should be reprim anded for its hasty, unauthorized judgm ent.

Somebody tell me how to force an apology from the Judicial Council to the student body

* for breaking the very rules with which they are en trusted to enforce. Such an admission of fault seem s to me an appropria te and p ro ­portionate response.

Jacob Rodenbikerjun io r

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Notre Dame s Annual Sophomore Literary Festival celebrates its 35th anniiBy LAURA KELLYScene A ssociate E d ito r

Like m any good s to r ie s , it all s t a r t e d w ith one m a n ’s dream.

D u rin g h is s o p h o m o r e y e a r a t N o tre D am e in 1967, J. R ichard Rossi envis ioned a literary festival, a ga ther ing of schol­ars to celebra te the life and writings of William Faulkner.

Rossi was inspired by a convention he h a d s e e n a t th e U n i v e r s i t y of Mississippi while in high school, and wanted to bring som ething of the sort to Notre Dame.

Dream becam e reality , and during th e w e e k o f M a rc h 5. 1 9 6 7 , fo u r Fau lkner scho la rs lec tu red and p r e ­sented a film series on the renow ned writer.

Rossi w anted the tradition* to co n ­tinue, and he app roached sophom ore John Mroz to organize the next festi­val. Mroz accepted, and as the cliche goes, the rest is history.At the beginning

K urt V onnegu t. Jo se p h H eller . N orm an Mailer. Ralph E llison . T he l in e u p of g u e s t s from N otre D am e’s 1968 Sophom ore L ite ra ry Festival sounds like the read ing list from a English class on g rea t American au thors.

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Feb. 7 Jean and

Robert Hollander

7 p.m. Lafortune Ballroom

got to Notre D am e is f a r f ro m lo f ty and acad em ­ic.

“We w e r e j u s t a sm a l l band of des- p e r a d o s , g u t s y a n d m aybe a l i t ­tle n u t s , ” said Mroz of th e 18 s o p h o m o re s w h o o r g a ­nized the second festival.

Determined to energize the cam pus with an infu­sion of good l i te ra tu re and im p o r tan t con tem porary au thors, the group of s tuden ts traveled around the country, urging w riters to come and speak on cam ­pus.

“We were pretty aggressive, to say the le a s t .” said M roz , d e s c r i b i n g t r i p s o u t to N ew Y o rk a n d California w here the s tu d en ts literally knocked on th e a u t h o r s ’ d o o r s to p e r s u a d e them to come to the festival.

T he fam o u s ly r e c lu s iv e E ll ison was s tunned to see a g roup of col­lege kids on his doorstep.

“He said, T told you ‘No’ by le t­te r , 1 told you ‘No’ by p h o n e and now h e r e you a r e a t my d o o r in New Y o rk ! ,” r e m e m b e r e d M roz.“But we got him to com e.”

D uring the tu m u l tu o u s V ie tnam y e a r s f i l le d w i th p r o t e s t s a n d u n r e s t a t c o l l e g e s a c r o s s th e n a t i o n , m a n y fo u n d i t h a r d to believe th a t s tu d e n t s w ould have any in terest in such a festival.

But Mroz and his fellow studen ts ap p ro a c h e d sev era l im p o r ta n t l i t ­e r a r y c r i t i c s fo r c o n n e c t i o n s to bring au tho rs to campus.

“[The critics] got a kick out of it,” said Mroz. “A group of sophom ores in te res ted in l i te ra tu re a t the time of V ie tnam , a t im e of neg a t iv i ty on college cam puses, ran coun ter to everything th a t was going on nationally .”

But the g r o u p ’s p e rs is te n c e and b e lie f in th e i r w ork paid off. Although m any of the le t te r s they sen t out cam e back with regre ts , they still a s se m ­bled an impressive list of guests.

“Most of the au tho rs were am azed by our gu ts i­ness and our vision,” Mroz said. “We w ouldn’t take no for an a n sw e r .”

D ue to t h e cos t o f b r i n g ­ing such well- known au thors to s p e a k , th e s tu d e n t g ro u p h a d to r a i s e m o n e y in a l t e r n a t i v e ways — collec­t i o n s in th e c a f e t e r i a , small concerts, even donations from their p a r ­ents.

G e t t i n g m o n e y f ro m the U niversity w a s d i f f i c u l t ,

said Mroz, but finally Rev. Charles Sheedy, dean of Arts and L e tte rs , a g re e d to give the g ro u p som e funding and eventually enough was raised to make the festival possible.

“T he festival w as a huge su c c e ss and it rea l ly m o t iv a t e d th e c a m p u s , ” s a id M roz. “Seeing the lines of people waiting ou t­side Washington Hall — it was good for the University and good for the s tuden t body.”

SLF drew na tiona l a t ten tion as well, w ith m a n y l i t e r a r y c r i t i c s in a t t e n ­dance.

A c c o r d in g to M ro z , th e g r o u p of sophom ore organizers were pictured on the cover of the S a tu rd a y Review, an im p o r ta n t l i te ra ry m agaz ine , with the caption “Every M other 's Dream Sons” .

E x trao rd ina ry events th a t took place d u r i n g th e w e e k o f th e f e s t i v a l — Martin Luther King, J r . ’s assassination and President Jo h n so n ’s decision not to seek reelection — gave the festival an “electrifying” a tm osphere , said Mroz.

“ It w a s an e x c i t i n g t im e , a v e ry strange tim e,” he said.

But overa ll , the f e s t iv a l ’s ea r ly and im m ed ia te s u c c e s s e s ta b l i s h e d a lo n g -s ta n d in g t r a d i t io n at Notre Dame.The tradition con tin u es

Organizing the festival is still a long and involved p rocess . The s tu d e n t com m ittee (now open to all u n derg radua tes , not ju s t sophomores) begins work on the next y e a r ’s plans in April, immediately fol­

lowing the fes t i­val.

A c c o r d in g to this y e a r ’s chair, sophom ore Katie E l lg a s s , th e b igges t p ro b lem f a c e d is s t i l l f u n d i n g , d u e largely to recen t budget cuts from d e c l in in g a t t e n ­dance.

M ost w r i t e r s a r e now r e p r e ­sented by agents, un like the ea r ly d a y s w h e n M r o z ’s g r o u p c o u ld c o n t a c t

them directly.S p eak in g fees of $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 and above for m a jo r

au tho rs make it difficult for SLF to a t t rac t the big n a m e s it hos ted in the pas t , like Allen Ginsberg , T e n n e s s e e W il l ia m s , A r t h u r M il le r , M a r g a r e t

Feb. 8 Jean Hollander

Poetry Workshop 10 a.m.

O’Shaughnessy Conference room (limit 25: lmari-

nan@ nd.edu) Maura Stanton

7:30 p.m. Lafortune Ballroom

Atwood, Chaim Potok and Seam us Heaney.Y et r e c e n t g u e s t s s u c h a s G lo r i a

N a y lo r , T im O ’B r ie n a n d W .P. Kinsella prove tha t SLF’s re p u ­ta tion is still solidly re c o g ­nized in the l iterary com ­munity.

“ We t r y to f ind p e o p le w h o a r e i n s p i r i n g a n d a r e w il l ing to g iv e t h e i r t im e to s p e a k to us ,” said E l l - gass.

A c c ­o r d i n g t oE l l g a s s , e v e n th e re jec tion le t ­t e r s th e c o m ­m i t t e e r e c e iv e d this year were pos­itive.

“ R o b e r t Pin sky [a previous guest of the festi­val] wished us continued suc ­cess and good luck,” said Ellgass.“Isabel A llende w ro te th a t she had h e a rd so m u ch a b o u t the fe s t iv a l , bu t couldn’t a ttend because of com m itm ents to her family.”Turning th e page

T h e c o m m i t t e e is o p t i m i s t i c a b o u t SLF’s future.

Partner-sh ips with the Creative Writing d e p a r t m e n t , t h e I n s t i t u t e fo r L a t in o S t u d i e s a n d th e C o re p r o g r a m h a v e he lped w ith fu n d in g and s t r e n g th e n e d the connection betw een au tho rs and s tu ­dents.

F a c u l ty m e m b e r s c o n t in u e to be an integral pa r t of the SLF’s success, offer­ing ass is tance and p ro fessional co n n ec ­tions to the s tu d e n t com m ittee to b ring writers to campus.

“T h e f a c u l t y k n o w o f t h e s e r i s i n g s t a r s , ” s a id E l lg a s s , “a n d th e f u t u r e depends on s treng then ing the connection

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an a r t ic le in the South Bend T r ib u n e , and w e ’re passing out bookm arks [to advertise] ,” said Ellgass. “But the best way is still word of m outh .”This year’s lineup

Over th e la s t 35 y e a r s of t-he f e s t i ­val’s existence, the range of guests has co m e to i n c l u d e poets, p layw rights, s c r e e n w r i t e r s and songwriters .

From a slam poet to t h e a u t h o r of “Sex in th e C ity ,” th i s y e a r ’s g r o u p e x e m p l i f i e s th e d i v e r s i t y t h a tE llgass h o p es will d r a w p e o p le from all over campus.

T he fe s t iv a l will o p e n onW ednesday night with a p resentation by Prof. Jose Limon of the University of Texas a t Austin.

Limon will discuss two of his books th a t highlight his in te res t in M exican-American cu ltura l s tudies: “Mexican Ballads and Chicano Poems, History and Influence in Mexican American Social Poetry ,” and “Dancing with the Devil: Social and Cultural Poetry in Mexican A merican South T exas.”

N e x t is a r e a d i n g on T h u r s d a y night by Robert and Jean Hollander, a u t h o r s of a n e w t r a n s l a t i o n of D an te’s “Inferno .”

This collaborative project betw een h u sb an d (a Dante sch o la r and p ro ­fesso r a t P r in ce to n University) and w ife (a V i e n n a - b o r n p o e t a n d teacher) is pa r t of a complete t r a n s ­lation of the “Divine Comedy,” with the “P u rg a to r io ” and the “P a ra d ise ” due out in 2002.

Friday night fea tures a read ing by M a u r a S t a n t o n , w i n n e r of N o t r e D a m e ’s R ich ard Sullivan A w ard in Short Fiction. Her latest book, a col­lection of sh o r t s to r ie s en ti t les “Do Not F o r s a k e Me, Oh My D a r l in g ,” was published as p a r t of the aw ard by th e U n iv e r s i ty of N o t re D am e press in 2002.

Stanton teaches in the M.F.A. p rogram at Indiana University and has had poem s and s h o r t s to r ie s published in many magazines.

The a r t is t known as muMs will perform his slam poetry on Saturday night.

As an a c to r , w r i t e r , po e t a n d ac t iv is t , B ronx- native Craig Grant has ap p ea red in severa l m ajor motion pictures — Martin Scorcese’s “Bringing Out th e D e a d ” a n d Sp ike L e e ’s film “B a m b o o z le d ” . m u M s h a s a l s o p e r ­f o r m e d on L o l l a p a l o o z a tours and has a r e c u r r i n g r o l e a s th e P o e t in th e E m m y - n o m i ­n a t e d HBO p r iso n d r a m a “Oz.”

Saint M ary’s a l u m n a A d r i a n a T r i g i a n i w ill p r e s e n t h e r two b e s t - s e l l ­in g n o v e l s ,“ Big S to n eGap” and “Big Cherry Holler,” on Feb. 11. Trigiani was the first s tu d e n t in the ND/SMC th e a te r p ro ­gram to write and direct h e r own play on the un i­versity main stage.

Since her g rad u a t io n in 1982, Trigiani has gone

Feb. 9 muMs 8 p.m.

LaFortune Ballroom

Feb. 12 Candace Bushnell 7:30 p.m.

Washington Hall

on to w rite and p roduce m any plays, TV sitcoms, docum entar ies and screenp lays , including the c u r ­ren t film ad ap ta t ion of “Big Stone Gap.”

The final n igh t of the festival, F e b . 1 2 , f e a t u r e s C a n d a c e Bushnell, au th o r of the bestseller “Sex in the City”, now a popular comedy series on HBO.

An asp ir ing ac tress tu rn ed fea­t u r e w r i t e r , B u s h n e l l w il l a d d r e s s th e t o p i c o f “ T h e R esp o n s ib i l i ty of J o u r n a l i s t s in th e T w e n ty - f i r s t C e n tu ry .” H er se c o n d New York T im e s ’ b e s t ­seller, “Four B londes,” was pub­lished in 2001.

In a d d i t i o n to t h e s e o u t s id e g u es ts , the l i t e r a ry festiva l will f e a t u r e th r e e of N o tre D a m e ’s own s tuden ts p re sen t in g original works.

M ic h a e l R a m p o l l a , a j u n i o r E n g l ish E d u c a t io n m a jo r , will

read before S tan to n ’s presen ta t ion .S e n io r E n g l ish m a jo r G regg M u r ra y p r e c e d e s

Trig ian i’s read ing , and sen ior PUS m ajor Eric Long will p re sen t his w riting on the festiva l’s final night before B ushnell’s talk.

The th ree s tuden t r e a d e r s w ere chosen by the SLF com m ittee a t an open coffeehouse las t November, and Ellgass considers this an essen tia l com ponen t of the festival.

“ I t ’s a g r e a t w a y to s h o w ­c a s e s t u d e n t t a l e n t , s i n c e t h e r e a r e u n f o r t u n a t e l y so few o p p o r ­tunities to p ro ­mote writing at N o t r e D a m e , ” she said.The storycon tin u es

In t ru e l i t e r ­a r y t r a d i t i o n , S L F ’s W eb p a g e o f f e r s a

_ hum orous defi­n i t i o n fo r th e

festival: ‘“ sophom ore l i te ra ry fes tiva l’<pron. s-l-f> 1. 35 y e a r old N o tre D am e l i t e r a r y t r a d i t io n 2. o ppor tu n i ty for s tu d e n ts , faculty , and com m unity m em b ers to lis ten to, in te r a c t w ith , and e m u la te notable au th o rs 3. a w eek-long r i tua lis tic carnival focusing on anc ien t papyrus ce lebra tions native to the Nile River Valley 4. FUN! 5. free adm ittance 6. w a rn in g : s e a t in g is l im ited , so com e ear ly ! 7. a reception will follow each evening even t.”

While this definition may not be able to inc lude the n a m e s of every gues t the festival has hosted over the years, its solid trad ition continues to a t trac t w r i t e r s f rom a r o u n d the co u n try to th e h a l ls of D eB ar to lo , W ash in g to n H all a n d L a f o r tu n e — k e e p in g th e d ream of one Notre Dame sophomore 35 years a reality today.

Ellgass and the re s t of the SLF com­m ittee a re looking fo rw ard to seeing the fru its of th e ir labors pay off this week. “But the most im p o r tan t th ing ,” said Ellgass, “is ge tting the word out so t h a t p e o p le co m e f ro m a l l o v e r cam pus to enjoy the opportun ities the festival offers .”

Feb. 11 Jean Hollander

12 p.m. Hammes Bookstore

Adriana Trigiani 7:30 p.m.

W ashington Hall

[Editor’s note: All photos of festival guests provided courtesy of SLF Web

site and used by permission.]

Contact Laura Kelly at lkelly@nd.edu.

between faculty and s tu d e n ts .”For exam ple , th is y e a r ’s Core c lasses

a re re ad in g the t ran s la t io n of The In ferno th a t will be p re sen ted

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b een t ry in g to rev ive the festival,” said Ellgass.

“W e’re try ing to sp re a d the word th a t this is for all s tudents ,

faculty and the genera l public .”An u n d e rapp rec ia t ion for the festival

is w h a t d r o v e E l lg a s s to b e c o m e involved.

“Last y e a r I w e n t to the r e a d in g of C.K. Williams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning p o e t ,” said Ellgass. “T h e re w ere only about 30 people there — I was very dis­appointed tha t m ore d id n ’t come and 1 w anted to change th a t .”

T h i s y e a r ’s SLF c o m m i t t e e , n o w under the d irection of SUB, has th e re ­fore em phasized publicity. A display in the H e sb u rg h L ib ra ry c o n c o u rs e will f e a tu re b io g ra p h ie s and books of this y ea r ’s guests.

T h e c o m m i t t e e ' s W eb s i t e — w w w .n d .e d u /~ s u b /s l f .h tm l —in c lu d e s w rite-ups on each p resen te rs and ad d i­tional links to the ir Web pages.

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year for the Patriots, who were 5-11 last year, started 0-2 and lost quarterback Drew Bledsoe to a chest injury.

Brady took over and led them to the AFC East title with an 11- 5 record. But few expected them to beat the Rams, who at 14-2 had the league’s best record and best offense and were trying to win their second Super Bowl in two years.

The Patriots had twice lost in the Super Bowl, both times in New Orleans. And it was the first championship as a head coach for Bill Belichick, who as defen­sive coordinator of the New York Giants, 11 years ago won a ring when Buffalo’s Scott Norwood missed a 47-yard attempt in the final seconds.

T here was plenty of d ram a, too, especially at the end.

W a rn e r ’s 2-yard sn eak with 9:31 left — his first rushing TD this season — pulled St. Louis within 17-10. After holding the Patriots, the Rams got the ball back at their own 45 and needed only 21 seconds to tie it.

F a v o red by 14 p o in ts , the Ram s w e re b illed as the “Greatest Show on Turf.” But if they expected to breeze , they d isc o v e re d e a r ly t h a t the P a t r io t s w o u ld n ’t le t th em . W arner was sacked only three times b u t pounded on a lm ost every play even as New England u se d five, six o r ev en sev en defensive backs to shut down the St. Louis offense.

The P a t r io t s sh o w e d th e i r tenacity early, giving up yards grudg ing ly an d m oving from th e ir own 3 to n e a r midfield after being pinned deep on their first possession.

New England stiffened on St. Louis’ second possession, limit­ing the Rams to Jeff Wilkins’ 50- yard field goal af te r they had moved from their own 20.

The P a t r io t s le t th e R am s reach their 34 early in the sec­ond q u a r t e r , b u t th is t im e Wilkins’ 52-yard a t tem pt was short.

New E n g lan d had t ro u b le m oving, b u t it w as s ti l l the Patriots’ pace at this stage of the game.

Everything w as slow as the Patriots’ varying defenses — as many as seven defensive backs on some plays — made Warner and the Ram s w ork for each yard.

With 8:49 left in the half, New England got the b re a k it was

playing for.On a first-and-10 from the St.

Louis 39, New E ng land l in e ­backer Mike Vrabel broke clear on a blitz. As he was about to hit W arner, the St. Louis q u a r te r ­back unloaded — right to Law, who raced untouched 47 yards down the sideline to give New England a 7-3 lead.

The second TD came after the Rams got the ball on their own 15 with 1:52 left in the half.

On the th i rd p lay , W a r n e r found Proehl over the middle. He was hit by Antwan Harris, who scored in the AFC championship gam e la s t week on a blocked

punt. This time Harris knocked the ball loose and T e r re l l Buckley p icked it up and returned it 15 yards to the St. Louis 40.

Five plays later, it was 14-3 as Brady found David Patten in the corner of the end zone for an 8- yard score. Patten made a leap­ing catch after tu rn ing Dexter McCleon around with a double move.

New E ng land co n t in u e d to stalemate the Rams through the th i rd q u a r t e r — R ichard Seymour’s sack of Warner ended a drive that reached the Patriots’ 41 on the first drive.

The Rams turned to the run to try to get New England ou t of its n ickel and dim e d e fe n se s as Marshall Faulk ran four times for 30 yards. But on third down cam e w h a t seem ed to be the inevitable tu rnover — W arner m issed T o rry Holt and Otis Smith picked it off, returning it 30 yards to the St. Louis 32.

Three plays later, Vinatieiri’s 37-yard field goal made it 17-3.

The Rams then put together their first sustained drive, get­ting inside the New England 32 for the first time. On a fourth- and-goa l from the 3, W arn e r fumbled and Tebucky Jones took

it all the w ay b ack for w h a t a p p e a re d to be the c linch ing touchdown.

But Willie McGinest was called for h o ld in g Fau lk — re p la y s showed it was obvious — and the Rams got the ball back at the 1. On the second play, W arner went in for the touchdown to cut it to 17-10 with 9:31 left to cap a 73-yard, 12-play drive.

Then came the tying TD and the winning drive.

“We beat all the odds,” Milloy said. “No one can ever take that away from us.”

No one is likely to try. At least until next season.

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Belles fall short against Calvin, come out on top of Alma

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A Saint Mary’s player g o es up for a basket while surrounded by Alma players in the B elles’ 50-43 victo­ry on Sunday.

By JOE LINDSLEYS ports W rite r

After a narrow loss Saturday to Calvin, the Saint Mary’s bas­ketball team bounced back on Sunday against conference rival Alma.

The Belles, 3-7 in MIAA play and 7-14 overall, fell sho r t of beating the Knights of Calvin by a single point, 52-51, in front of a season-high num ber of fans. But the team defeated Alma, 50- 43, on Sunday playing a make­up game for a contest that was cancelled e a r l ie r in the week due to bad weather.

While the close loss to Calvin was d is a p p o in t in g for S a in t Mary’s, the victory over Alma is both an emotional and necessary tactical victory for the Belles.

After losing at Alma 66-52 oil Jan. 5, Saint Mary’s was ripe for revenge and in need of a victory after recording four losses in a row.

"We are so th ril led . I d o n ’t even re m e m b e r the last time Saint Mary’s beat Alma. We are just so pumped after this win,’’ said s e n io r J a im e D ineen . “Before the game was cancelled, we prepared really well and we were all so excited to play Alma because it was such a rival for us. It w as such a close gam e when we played at Alma, and we wanted revenge.”

Freshman Emily Creachbaum led the Belles with 14 points, in a d d i t io n to c o n t r ib u t in g 12 b o a rd s and seven a s s is ts . Because of her play, she was named an honorable mention for the MIAA player of the week, as she and her team shut down for­m e r MIAA p la y e rs of w eek

Shelly Ulfig and Janelle Twietmeyer. Both were l im ited to 13 p o in tseach.

“She h as d o n e an amazing job this year,” sa id D in een of C re a c h b a u m . “S h e ’s been guarding top play­ers. She has stepped up in every game.”

S e n io r A nne Blair , who had a game-high 23 po in ts v e r s u s Calvin, h ad e ig h t p o in ts and eight rebounds against Alma.

Im p ro v in g itsrebounding has been an important goal for Saint M a ry ’s and the increased attention they d ev o ted to th is skill seems to be paying off.In recent games, Saint M a ry ’s has b een out- rebounded by as many as 20 b o a rd s , b u t Saturday they had 40 to C a lv in ’s 39 a n d on Sunday, 36 to Alma’s 39.

“We've been focusing on being disciplined ...You have to do the little th in g s . I t ’s not a b o u t r e c o rd s a n y m o r e ,”D ineen sa id . “Every te a m is p r e t ty m uch e q u a l . E ach n ig h t we have to come out, get the o ffens ive r e b o u n d s , make the free throws.”

A p ro b le m S a in t Mary’s has been dealing with is losing steam during the second h a lf , b u t th is w e e k e n d they g a in e d m o m e n tu m as th e i r games progressed. After being dow n 2 6 -1 9 , they o u ts c o re d Calvin 32-26 in the second half.

Against Alma, the Belles were dow n 30-25 a t th e ha lf , b u t came back to outscore the Scots 25-13.

“We concentrated on staying real positive during the second half, and I think we did,” said Dineen “We played incredible

team defense during the second half.”

Saint Mary’s will play at Hope, ranked number one in the con­ference, on W ednesday night. Hope has only one loss this sea­son. For the Belles, they hope to carry Sunday’s intensity through

the week.“We had so much fire in our

bellies [Sunday], We were real intense,” said Dineen.

Contact Joe Lindsley at jlindsle@nd.edu.

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Smith resigns after misrepresentationAssociated Press

ATLANTA Rick S m ith w a s fo rc e d to

r e s ig n a s G e o rg ia T e c h ’s defensive coord ina to r af te r a com m ittee concluded he m is­r e p r e s e n t e d h im s e l f in h is media guide profile.

Smith, h ired las t m onth by new coach Chan Gailey, adm it­ted Monday he n ev e r played on the foo tball and b a seb a l l teams at Florida State, as his profile said. He offered his re s ­ignation Friday.

“You d o n ’t w a n t to b r in g anyone in ... where they don’t have a wide base of su p p o r t from the faculty, the students and the a lum ni,” Bill Wepfer, a s s o c i a t e c h a i r m a n of th e S choo l of M e c h a n ic a l Engineering, said. “T h e re ’s a sense that we are in a new era w h e re e v e ry th in g h a s to be perfect.

“So th e re was a lot of con­c e r n f ro m p e o p le in th e Georgia Tech community that felt we needed to r ise to this new level.”

Athletic director Dave Braine

said Gailey called Smith to tell him the decision.

“I o ffe red to do it for him, bu t he sa id he w a n te d to do it,” Braine said. “It was tough for [Gailey]. But he also under­s tands the policy.”

Sm ith had se rv ed as a s s i s ­t a n t h e a d c o a c h , r e c r u i t i n g c o o r d i n a t o r a n d d e fe n s iv e b a c k s c o a c h a t K e n tu c k y b e f o r e t a k in g th e jo b a t G e o rg ia T e c h . R e a c h e d a t home in Lexington, Ky., Smith said his plans were unclear.

“I’m u n e m p lo y ed ,” he said. “ 1 d o n ’t h a v e a jo b a t Kentucky. I don’t have a job at G e o rg ia T ech . I’m b as ica l ly ru ined .”

The school was em barrassed in D e c e m b e r by r e v e la t io n s tha t former head coach George O’L eary l ied on his r e s u m e , c o s t i n g h im a jo b a t N o tre D am e ju s t five days a f te r he left the Yellow Jackets.

T h e f a l s e i n f o r m a t i o n in Smith’s bio was removed from 1 9 9 7 to 2 0 0 0 , b u t it r e a p ­p e a r e d la s t s e a s o n w h e n he w ent to Kentucky as a defen­sive backs coach.

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W o m e n ’s T ennis

Double trouble for Notre Dame in weekend lossesBy COLIN BOYLANS ports W rite r

While the formula for success for the Notre Dame women’s tennis team is by no means set in stone, a certain t r e n d seem s to be e m e rg in g five matches into the spring season.

When the team wins the doubles point, they win the match. When they lose the doubles point, the results are much less desirable.

A pa ir of losses last w eekend to o p p o n en ts Kentucky and In d ia n a dropped the Irish to 3-2 on the sea­son and will likely d rop the team from their 13th spot in the national rankings. In both matches, losing the closely contested doubles point set a negative tone for the rest of the com­petition.

“Even though its only one point, I think the doubles matches have a lot of significance.” said head coach Jay Louderback. “We d id n ’t play very well and that carried over to our sin­gles.”

Doubles certainly set the tone for the Irish in their 4-3 Saturday loss to Kentucky. After splitting the first two matches, the Irish tandem of Lindsey Green and Becky V arnum fell ju s t s h o r t in t h e i r e f fo r t to d e fe a t Kentucky’s seventh ranked doubles team of Carolina Mayorga and Sarah Witten, losing 8-6.

Kentucky followed by ra tt l ing off the first th re e singles v ictories to clinch the match.

Nina V aughan , Alicia Sa las and Katie Cunha rallied with three con­secutive wins of their own to stage and impressive comeback, but it was a case of too little, too late.

On Sunday, the m atch seem ed to follow a similar script in the team ’s 5-2 loss to 40th ranked Indiana.

The Irish suffered a close doubles

loss, but actually gained a brief upper hand when Salas and S a ra h Ja n e Connelly quickly disposed of their o p p o n en ts to give the team a 2-1 lead. Salas’ 6-1, 6-0 victory was par­ticularly impressive conclusion to a weekend in which she finished 3-1 — the only Irish player to have a win­ning record.

“I was disappointed that we didn’t pull through in doubles, so I wanted to start out as strong as I could in sin­gles,” she said.

However, the momentum was halt­ed w hen G re e n ’s second se t rally against Ind iana 's Karie Schlukebir fell s h o r t in a t i e - b r e a k e r and Vaughan lost a close match to Linda Tran 7-5, 6-4. Indiana then took the final two singles matches and the vic­tory.

Toward the end of Sunday’s compe­tition, the Irish seemed to be worn down by Indiana’s “We've had a cou­ple of tough matches over the past week, but I don’t think that was a big issue,” said Salas. “We played well against Kentucky, but we just didn’t com e ou t w ith as m uch in ten s i ty against Indiana.”

L o u d e rb a c k a g re e d w ith th a t assessment.

“T h a t ’s ju s t the way the season g o e s ,” he sa id of the t e a m 's five matches during the past week. “We need to be ready to play out there.”

Despite the relatively disappointing weekend, Louderback says he has no immediate plans to shuffle the lineup.

“I ’m going to see how everyone does in the N ational Indoors this week before I make a decision like that.”

Next week, the Irish will travel to Madison. Wisconsin for the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championship.

Contact Colin Boylan at cboylanl@nd.edu.

DOROTHY CARTER/The O bserver

An Irish tennis player returns the ball. Notre Dame falls to 3-2 for the season with lo sses to both Kentucky and Indiana.

M e n ’s T ennis

Notre Dame dominates Ohio State in 6-1 victorySpecial to T he Observer

T he 1 O th - r a n k e d N o tre Dame m en’s tennis team cap­tu red the doub les po in t and th e n w on th e five s in g le s matches at the top of the line­up to defeat No. 24 Ohio State 6-1 Friday at the Eck Tennis P av i l io n . S e n io r s J a v i e r T aborga and Aaron Tala r ico highlighted the victory, each u p se t t in g p la y e rs r a n k e d in the national top 20 in singles.

The Irish, who defeated Ohio State for the 14th consecutive time, improved to 5-1 for their b e s t s t a r t s in c e 1 9 9 7 . T he Buckeyes lost for the first time in four matches in 2002.

The Irish cap tu red a hotly- c o n te s te d d o u b le s p o in t to take a 1-0 lead. Taborga and Casey Smith, the sixth-ranked doubles te am in the n a t io n , drew first blood with an 8-5 win a t No. 1. The Buckeyes s t r u c k b ack a t No. 2 w h e n C onor C asey a n d J e r e m y W urtzman notched a win 8-5. T a la r i c o a n d s o p h o m o r e Matthew Scott broke serve in the final game of the match to win 9-7 at No. 3, clinching the doubles point for the Irish.

Notre D ame won th e f i rs t four singles m a tc h e s off the court to open up a 5-0 lead.

Talarico finished first, upse t­ting 16th-ranked Phil Metz 6- 2, 6-1 a t No. 2. T he win m arked the second time this season Metz has been upset by an Irish player. Scott defeated him in the se c o n d ro u n d of last fall’s Omni Hotels Region IV Championships.

Talarico has won all six of his singles matches in straight sets this spring and has been victorious in 18 of his last 19 dual singles m a tches , dating back to last year. Metz is the h ighest-ranked player Talarico has defeated in his career.

T a b o r g a , r a n k e d 9 5 th nationally, followed his class­mate off the court with a 6-4, 6 -2 w in o v e r 2 0 t h - r a n k e d W u r t z m a n a t No. 1. A f te r never playing at No. 1 singles prior to this season, Taborga is 3-0 at that position in 2002.

He has won nine of his last 11 matches and has now reg­istered four wins over ranked opponents, including back-to- b a c k t r i u m p h s o v e r to p -2 5 p l a y e r s . T a b o r g a d e f e a te d 2 4 th -ran k ed Michael Yani of Duke 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday.

Scott clinched the Irish victo­ry with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) win at No. 5 singles. He has won all six of his singles matches this spring and has won 12 of his last 13, dating back to last fall.

After the outcome was d e te r ­m ined , 8 3 r d - r a n k e d s o p h o ­more Luis H addock-M orales turned in a 7-5, 6-3 win at No. 4 to improve to 10-0 in singles matches a t home this season. Vince Ng got the Buckeyes on the board with a win at No. 6 b e fo re Sm ith , r a n k e d 88 th , registered a 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 7-5 win over 72nd-ranked Adrian Bohane at No. 3.

On Saturday, the Irish ra l­lied from a 2-1 deficit to move to 6-1 with a 5-2 road victory o v e r No. 46 N o r th w e s t e r n S u n d a y a f t e r n o o n a t the n e w ly - d e d ic a t e d C om be Tennis Center. The Irish lost the doubles point, but took five of the six singles m atches to gain the win and th e i r best s ta rt since 1997. Northwestern lost for the first time in five matches this season.

T he d o u b le s p o in t cam e down to a t i e b re a k e r in the f in a l m a tc h b e fo re N o r th w es te rn cla im ed a 1-0 lead. Irish seniors Casey Smith and Ja v ie r T ab o rg a , r a n k e d sixth in the nation, gained an 8-5 w in a t No. 1, b u t th e W ildcats won the rem a in in g two matches. Josh Axler and Thomas Hanus notched an 8-4 win a t No. 3 to s e t up the p o in t - c l in c h in g v ic to ry by J a c k ie J e n k in s a n d Chuck

Perrin at No. 2 by a 9-8 (8-6) score.

Smith, ranked 88th, tied the match with a 6-3, 6-0 win at No. 3 s in g le s , b u t H a n u s immediately put Northwestern ahead again with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory at No. 2.

The Irish claimed the final four matches on court to win the m a tch . S o p h o m o re Luis H a d d o c k -M o ra le s f in ish e d next with a 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 win a t No. 4 and sen io r A ndrew Laflin won 7-5, 6-4 at No. 6 to set up the clinching victory. Sophomore Matthew Scott pro­vided it, registering a 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 w in a t No. 5, s n a p p in g

A x l e r ’s 1 2 - m a tc h w in n in g s treak in dual m atches. Scott has won all seven of his s in ­gles m atches this sp r ing and 13 of his last 14, dating back to l a s t fa l l . 9 5 t h - r a n k e d Taborga then won 6-4, 5-7, 6- 3 at No. 1. He has won nine of his last 11 matches.

Notre D ame will r e tu r n to ac t io n on T h u r s d a y , ta k in g part in the USTA/ITA National T eam Indoor C ham pionships in Lexington. Ky. The Irish are scheduled to open play with a match against seventh-ranked P e p p e r d in e a t 9 a .m . on Thursday.

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Notre Dame learns lesson with 2 w eekend losses

RICO CA SARES/The O bserver

A Notre Dame player p a sses the puck to a team m ate against Alaska-Fairbanks th is w eekend. The Irish lost to the Nanooks 7-5 on Friday and 6-5 on Saturday.

By MATT ORENCHUKSports W riter

Sometimes speed kills. T hat was the lesson the Notre Dame hockey team learned this week­end, losing twice to the Alaska- Fairbanks Nanooks, 7-5 Friday and then 6-5 on Saturday.

“Teams look fast w hen they re a c t well," sa id I r ish h ead coach Dave Poulin. “[Alaska- F a irb an k s ] w as j u m p in g on every loose puck.”

The two losses d ropped the team to 9-14-5 overall, and 7-11-5 in the CCHA.

Saturday night’s game proved to be a study in two d ifferent teams. In the first period Alaska- Fairbanks started off fast. The Nanooks scored the first three goals of the game, and the first period ended with a 4-1 Alaska- Fairbanks lead. Connor Dunlop scored the only Irish goal of the first with 2:13 left in the period.

Morgan Cey started the game Saturday for Notre Dame, but he didn’t finish it. At the start of the second period Poulin pulled Cey in favor of s e n io r J e r e m ia h Kimento.

The second per io d s t a r t e d much like the first ended for the Nanooks. Two minutes into the period Alaska-Fairbanks scored their fifth goal of the night to make it 5-1.

Then the Irish started to relax and m ake plays. Rob Globke

scored 4:49 into the period to make it 5-2. Alaska-Fairbanks added another goal when Aaron Voros tapped in his second goal of the night to make the score 6- 2 .

T hen the Ir ish ra l l ied . Van Stastny and Kyle Dolder scored 34 seconds apart to cut the lead to 6-4. The Irish got another goal with 1:08 left in the period from Neil K om adoski to m ak e the gam e 6-5. It was Komadoski’s first goal of the year.

“In the seco n d we fina lly relaxed,” said Poulin. “We didn’t overthink the game, ju s t went out and made plays.”

In the third Alaska-Fairbanks pulled Preston McKay in favor of Lance Mayes in goal. The deci­sion proved to be the right one for the N anooks. Mayes sh u t down the Irish in the third. Notre D ame c o u ld n ’t ge t a n y th in g going offensively, and the game ended 6-5._

In Friday’s game the Irish just c o u ld n ’t ge t over th e h u m p . Down 6-5 late, Alaska-Fairbanks got an empty-netter to put the game away.

The game started out fast for both team s. A laska-Fairbanks scored 31 seconds into the game. 1:48 later the Nanooks were up 2-0. But the Irish fought back. Connor Dunlop and David Inman both scored late in the period to make it a 2-2 game.

15 seconds into the second period the Irish took a 3-2 lead

on an Evan Nielsen goal.A la s k a -F a i rb a n k s th e n

r e s p o n d e d by p u t t in g th r e e straight goals on the board for a 5-3 lead . T h a t lead s tood through the end of the second.

Stastny put one in 43 seconds into the third to pull the Irish within one. Through the third both team s traded goals, with Globke netting a goal for Notre Dame.

With the score 6-5 at the end

of the game the Irish pulled their goalie for a sh o t a t the tie. Instead Alaska-Fairbanks put in the empty-netter to seal the win.

A big loss in F r id a y ’s gam e was jun io r w inger Mike Chin. Chin crashed into the boards in the second period and had to be helped off the ice. Initially train­ers thought he broke his ankle, but it tu rned out to be a high ankle spra in . Nonetheless the loss of Chin’s firepower will be

crucial going into the final few weeks of the season.

Next weekend the Irish take on CCHA p o w e r h o u s e M ich igan State. With their CCHA position­ing fa l l in g fa s t th e p a s t few weeks, Notre Dame needs a win. Next week the Irish will have to play at their best to stay in con­tention.

Contact Matt Orenchuk at morenchu@nd. edu.

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Belles win, set personal bestsBy NATALIE BAILEYSports W riter

Swimming for personal bests and not worrying about earning points helped Saint Mary’s win Saturday against Albion by the score of 126-118. S a tu rd a y ’s win is Saint Mary’s first victory in a dual meet against an MIAA team o the r than Olivet in the school’s history.

“T his w as one of o u r b e s t meets of the year,” head coach Gregg Petcoff said. “The win really helps to give the women confidence and shows them that all their effort is worth it.”

Jus t beginning its taper, the team looked to drop time at their double dual meet against Hope and Albion Colleges. Some of the m os t exc it ing ra c e s cam e in those in which personal records were made.

Also, Meg Ramsey set a new> team re co rd in the 200 -yard

freestyle with her second place f in ish of 1 :5 7 .5 6 . M ichelle Stanforth swam a personal best and finished third in the 100- y a rd b r e a s t r o k e com ing in b e h in d f i r s t p la c e f in ish e r L a u r e n Sm ith w ith t im es of 1:13.81 and 1:13.02 respectively. Diver Angie Osmanski should be in the top twelve of the MIAA after her career high of 165.90 points in the one-meter event.

The team is going to focus on “sharpening up” in turns, starts, streamlines and the little things that make the difference. Junior c o -c a p ta in L ane H e r r in g to n th inks S a tu rd a y ’s victory will add to the team ’s confidence.

“Now we are looking to s u r ­p r ise som e o th e r te a m s who don’t expect a lot from us at our c o n fe re n c e • m e e t , ” sa id Herrington.

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Freshman Jaqueline B atteast struggles for the ball in Notre Dame's 71-46 victo­ry over Syracuse. The Irish topped Seton Hall in a 65-60 win Saturday.

time they got in, we were down. We got down early.”

However, Flecky, the freshman for­w ard , kept the Irish in the gam e in those open ing m inu tes , sco r in g the first seven points for a Notre Dame s q u a d th a t had i t ’s w o rs t sh o o t in g game of the season, hitting only 32.1 percen t of their shots from the field. Those seven points helped make up the nine th a t tied F lccky’s c a r e e r best. Flecky attributed some of that success to feeling in control of her game early on.

“It kind of felt a little like high school w hen I p layed my g a m e the w ay I knew h o w ,” she sa id . “T h e re have been a lot of chances, but it felt like before and I had a lot of confidence going in.”

Those seven points set Batteast up to bring the game within one with a trey, before the Irish fell behind by 10 with eight minutes to go in the first half.

“We just couldn’t put the ball in the basket and, really, that was our only p roblem ,” McGraw said. “Defensively we played pretty well. We just couldn’t make a shot.”

In the first 20 minutes of the game, th e Ir ish sh o t 25 p e rc e n t f rom the field. Fortunately, three of the 10 shots th ey m a d e w e r e t h r e e - p o i n t e r s . Bustamante and Wicks made consecu­tive treys that allowed Wicks to tie the game with two free throws with four seconds left in the first half. A buzzer- beater by Seton Hall’s Cecilia Lindqvist put the P ira te s on top 28-25 at the half.

In the second half, the Irish managed to squeeze out a lead and, thanks to a tightly called game, bring home the

win.Batteast, who had only scored four

points in the first ha lf added another 17 points to claim he r ninth doub le­double of the sea so n with 21 points and 12 rebounds.

“1 think she really settled in in the second half,” McGraw said. “She was really the player we were looking for.”

Although the Irish upped their shoot­ing p e rc e n ta g e to 40 in the second half, it was really foul shooting tha t allowed the victory. In a closely called game, the two teams together totaled 44 personal fouls.

“They called it really tight,” McGraw said. “There were a lot of sticky spots. Ju s t really some th a t we could have done without.”

W hile t h e r e w e re so m e fouls the Irish could have done without, there were even more fouls tha t were imper­ative. Notre Dame scored 18 points on 24 trips to the free-throw line in the second half, enough to give them the win.

“We definitely won by free th row s,” Flecky said. “We’re a pretty good free- throw shooting team and if you put us at the line, I think we can do a lot of damage and I think that was a de ter­mining factor.”

The Irish took their first lead of the second half on a lay-up by Haney five minutes into the half and managed to hold onto it for most of that half. In the final minutes, Seton Hall guaran teed that it would not be overlooked, bring­ing th e g a m e w i th in t h r e e b e fo re Batteast hit two foul shots to put the game away.

Notre Dame will have only a day of rest before the team takes to the road again to face Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

Contact Katie McVoy at mcvo5695@saintmarys.edu.

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Notre Dame dominates in win over St. BonaventureBy SHEILA EGTSSports W riter

The St. B onaven tu re m e n ’s s w im m in g a n d d iv in g t e a m lo a d e d b a c k on to i ts b u s s e s S a tu rd a y a f te rn o o n , h e a d in g h o m e a f t e r its 2 6 th loss to Notre Dame in the dual m eet’s 35-year history. The Irish con­trolled the meet from beginning to end with first place finishes in 10 out of 13 events.

T he I r ish s q u a d h a s b e e n focusing their efforts on m ak ­ing Big East qualifying times in these final m ee ts and ad d ed sophomore Adam Cahill to the Big East roster on Saturday.

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“I could have swam through a brick wall at that point because the team was going crazy for m e,” said Cahill. “I’m really an emotional sw im m er and do it all for the excitement. 1 know the Big East will be electric.”

Cahill was the only Big East q u a l i f ie r f rom th e m ee t , b u t

David Horak swam a season- best time of 1:51.81 in the 200 b re a s ts t ro k e and took a f irst place finish for the Irish.

Head coach Tim Welsh was p leased with David M oisan ’s first place finish in the 200 IM at 1:55.76, a time fairly consis­tent with his 1 l th - ra n k e d Big East qualifying time of 1 :54.26.

Andy Maggio set a pool and univers ity reco rd with 383.5 finish in the three-meter diving

event. Maggio won the one- and three-meter diving events with s e a s o n b e s t s c o r e s in bo th events.

Matt Bertke, Matt Englehardl, M ichael F l a n a g a n , M att Obringer and J R. Teddy also contributed with first place fin­i sh e s . B e r tk e f in ish e d a t 9:43.39 in the 1000 freestyle, Englehardl posted a 2:13.44 in the 200 breaststroke, Flanagan came in a t 4:49.62 in the 500

freestyle, Obringer took the 200 f rees ty le a t 1 :42 .33 and J R. Teddy topped the 200 butterfly at 1:53.71.

The men swim in their final m e e t b e fo re th e Big E a s t C h a m p io n s h ip s a g a i n s t Cleveland St. on Saturday in the Rolfs Aquatic Center at 2 p.m.

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T rack and F ield

Irish leaders top team with NCAA qualifying times

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An Irish player clears the bar in the Meyo Invitational held this weekend. Notre Dame senior and upperclassmen leaders led the Irish with NCAA qualifying tim es.

By DAVE COOKSports W riter

Senior leadership combined with superb underclassman tal­ent has been the story of the 2002 men’s and women’s track and field teams. In the Meyo Invitational this weekend, Notre Dame’s seniors led a deeply tal­ented underc lassm en team to several NCAA qualifying times and many victories against one of the most competitive fields in the nation.

The highlight of the weekend was in the women’s mile relay race. Under the leadersh ip of senior and anchor ru n n e r Liz Grow, the team took first place in the invitational with a time of 3:38.58, a time that is currently second best in the nation.

The team consisting of Grow, sophomores Ayesha Boyd and Kristen Dodd, and junior Kymia Love has been to g e th e r for almost two years now and are looking take first at the NCAA indoor championships in early March.

“We’re all like sisters. We trust each other and we want to do our best,” said Grow. “We knew this would be one of our only opp o r tu n i t ie s to qualify for na tionals . This has been my dream.”

Their blazing NCAA provision­al qualifying time set a school, track and meet record, and was over an 11-second improvement on their time in last year’s Meyo Invitational.

“I wasn’t expecting to be sec­ond in the nation,” said Grow. “When I crossed the finish line and it said we ran 3:38, I started crying. It’s been so exciting.”

The mile relay team also had a lot of success in other races in the m ee t . Boyd won the 60- meter dash with Dodd finishing behind Boyd in 4th place. Grow and Love finished second and th ird respective ly in the 400 meter dash behind prospective Olympic athlete Foye Williams. Their times were NCAA provi­sional qualifying times.

Senior Amanda Alvarez was also looking strong on Saturday. Alvarez won the 500-meter run in 1:14.94 to earn her first victo­ry of the season.

Sophomore Megan Johnson, the school record holder in the outdoor 1500 meters, was com­ing into top form on Saturday. Johnson won the mile run in a time of 4:51.39, just three sec­onds off a NCAA prov is iona l qualifying time.

Jamie Volkmer, after s t ru g ­gling the last two weeks in the pole vault, took first place with a12-foot vault. Volkmer also took first in the triple jump, an event she has excelled in this year.

Rounding off the s t ro n g women’s showing was Tameisha King, taking second place in the 60-meter hurdles and first place in the long jum p by alm ost 2 feet. Her long jump distance of 20 feet 7 inches was a provision­al qualifier.

Senior leadership was also dis­played in the men’s events, espe­cially by the distance runners.

David Kimani of Alabama won the 5000-meter race with Irish senior Ryan Shay right behind him in 13:46.80. Kimani and Shay are ranked first and second respectively in the nation right now in the 5000, and both run­n e rs posted NCAA autom atic qualifying times. Shay's time was

also a personal best time and school record.

Shay and c la ssm a te Luke Watson worked off each other in the 3 0 0 0 -m e te r run . They ex ch an g ed the lead sev e ra l tim es, bu t in the end it was Watson with a strong kick in the last several hundred meters that

pushed him in front of Shay for the win. Their times of 7:54.02 and 7:58.73 respectively, were also NCAA automatic qualifying times.

Senior Sean Zanderson was at his best on Saturday. Zanderson posted a personal best 4:09.12 in the Meyo Mile. The Meyo Mile is fam ous a ro u n d the coun try because it is the race that top r u n n e r s a ro u n d the co u n try compete in to try to run a sub-4 minute mile. This year the best t im e was 4 :03 .26 by Steve Sherer of Michigan State.

In the r e g u la r m e n ’s mile, freshman Eric Morrisson was on top w ith a time of 4 :09 .76 . Fellow freshman Dwight Ellick had great success in the sprint

Men’scon tinued from page 20

pulled out the ir f irst lead of the game, 18-17, on a Torrian J o n e s j u m p e r w ith 7 :10 remaining.

Irish head coach Mike Brey entered reserve forward Tom T im m erm ans into the l ineup in th e f in a l m in u te s of th e half, freeing up the p ressu re1 on Humphrey down low, and the Irish pushed their lead to 33-26 to end the half.

Notre D am e’s defense was key in its first-half comeback, as th e I r i s h o u t s c o r e d th e P ira te s 31-11 in the la s t 12 minutes of the half.

The second half proved to be a b a c k a n d fo r th b a t t l e b e tw e e n th e two Big E a s t team s, as the Irish relied on key 3-pointers by Graves and Matt Carroll to keep the Irish in the game.

Carroll, a junior, ended the game with io points, ju s t 13 shy of a career 1,000 mark.

H u m p h re y a n d S w a n a g a n

events. Ellick finished second in the 200 meter dash and fourth in the 60 meter dash.

Overall, the Irish had 10 victo­ries in 38 events. Eight runners or teams also qualified for the NCAA indoor championships in March. That is not including the men’s distance medley team who qualified last weekend for the indoor championships. Of those 8 qualifiers, five are seniors or included seniors on the team.

Next weekend the Irish look to continue the ir success a t the Windsor Invitational in Windsor, Ontario.

C ontact D ave C ook at dcook2@ nd.edu.

picked up four fouls each with eight minutes remaining in the g a m e , fo rc in g Brey to give T im m e rm a n s and f re s h m a n J o rd a n C orne tte som e e x t ra court time.

The Pirates, who dropped to11-10 on the season and 4-5 in the Big East, found som e unexpected offensive help to stay in the game. While the u s u a l h i g h - s c o r i n g duo of B arre t t and Lane contributed 26 p o in t s , th e P i r a t e s a lso found some help from quieter players. Manga turned in his best perfo rm ance of the s e a ­son with 14 points, an unchar­a c te r i s t i c 3 - p o in te r and 12 rebounds, while Greg Morton, also a traditional post player .connected on two quick 3s to throw the Irish defense off kil­ter.

John Allen added 10 for the Pirates.

The Ir ish r e tu r n to ac tion Wednesday when they take on Rutgers at the Joyce Center.

Contact Kerry Sm ith at ksm ith2@ nd.edu.

Roundtable:"Cuban Catholicism in the Diaspora"

Tuesday, February 5, 2002McKenna Hall, Room 200PART ONE 4:00 pm REFLECTIONSPART TWO 4:45 pm DISCUSSION5:30 pm ReceptionFeaturing:

Dr. Gerald E. Poyo, Historian, St. Mary's University, Texas/Visiting Professor University o f Notre Dame "Cuban Catholics in Exile"

Dr. Maria de los Angeles Torres, Political Scientist, DePaul University "Politics and Exile: The Peter Pan Children"

Rev. Mario Vizcaino, Director,Southeast Pastoral Institute "Cuban Catholic Pastoral Issues and Concerns"

Dr. Sixto Garcia, Theologian, St.Vincent DePaul Seminary, Boynton Beach, Florida "Reconciliation"Theology and Practice among Cubans"

Monday, February 4, 2002 The Observer ♦ SPORTS page 18

W o m e n ’s S w im m in g

Former swimmer, coach meet on opposites sides of pool

By N O R EE N GILLESPIES ports W rite r

ANN ARBOR, Mich.On a poo l d e c k in N o r th

C arolina y ea rs ago, 1 4 -yea r- old Bailey W e a th e rs s tep p ed o u t o f th e lo c k e r ro o m a n d onto Jim R ic h a rd so n ’s YMCA team.

The teenage b reastroker and distance freesty ler w a sn ’t the best kid on the team , bu t he h a d a w o rk e th ic f a r a n d b e y o n d th e o t h e r a t h l e t e s , Richardson remembers.

“He w an ted to do any th ing he could to ge t b e t t e r , ” said R ic h a rd so n , w ho is now the h e a d c o a c h of M ic h ig a n . “Anything you asked him to do as a coach he would try and kill himself to do.”

When W eathers thinks back to his club swimming days, he laughs when he talks about his former coach.

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“He was my first coach,” he says, w ith a smile sp re a d in g ac ross his face. “And he was h a rd .”

Saturday at the University of M ic h ig a n , W e a t h e r s a n d R ic h a rd s o n c o a c h e d a g a in s t e a c h o th e r d u r in g the Notre D a m e - M ic h ig a n d u a l m e e t . Both of the rivals were coach­ing in one of their most impor­tan t dual m eet of the season, but animosity was absent.

W e a th e r s a n d R ic h a rd s o n h av e b e e n f r ie n d s s in ce the Notre Dame coach ’s com peti­tive swimming days, when he b e g a n to d e v e lo p a d e e p friendship with his swim club coach.

It was when he re turned for sum m er visits during college to train with the

W in s to n -S a le m YMCA th a t W e a t h e r s ’ and R ic h a r d s o n ’s re lationship began to be less of a coach-sw im m er relationship and m ore of a pee r re la t io n ­

Irish head coach Bailey Weathers (right) fir s t

swam under Wolverine head coach Jim

Richardson (left) when he was 14. Saturday, Weathers topped his

form er coach w ith an Irish w in at the Notre Dame - M ichigan dual

meet in A n n Arbor.

ship, Richardson said.The two have followed each

o t h e r ’s c o a c h in g c a r e e r s th ro u g h R ic h a rd so n ’s te n u re as an a s s i s ta n t coach at the U n iv e r s i ty of Io w a a n d W eathers’ time as an assistant at Texas, to their head coach­ing positions a t Michigan and Notre Dame.

T oday , the tw o ta lk a b o u t th e i r p ro g ra m s , t r a d e w o rk ­outs and tra in ing stories, and have molded a common coach­ing philosophy they believe has e n h a n c e d both of th e i r p r o ­grams.

“Jim has inspired me to try to coach for the right reasons,” W eathers said. “Jim does it the r ig h t way, and for the r ig h t reasons. He really understands peop le very well, and t h a t ’s important.”

“ I t ' s m a d e us b o th b e t t e r coaches , and b e t te r p e o p le ,” Richardson said. “Notre Dame has a teacher in Bailey who is

concerned about those kids far beyond how fast they swim.”

B oth R i c h a r d s o n a n d W e a th e rs have s te e re d th e ir t e a m s to n a t io n a l r a n k in g s , lo a d e d the r o s t e r s w ith All- A m e r ic a n s and NCAA q u a l i ­fiers, and can boast numerous c o n f e r e n c e t i t l e s in t h e i r tenures as head coach.

That makes for hotly contest­ed d u a ls b e tw e e n M ich igan and Notre Dame. Since begin­n ing th e s e r i e s in 1 9 9 2 -9 3 , Michigan has won the m atch ­up four times. But W eathersa Irish have s n a tc h e d the las t three victories from Michigan, letting the series record stand at 4-3.

S ti l l , t h a t d o e s n ’t m a k e coaching against his friend and mentor easy.

“He’s tough,” W eathers said. “He know s w h a t h e ’s doing. You c a n ’t underes t im a te him. He swims to have his kids do well at the end of the season,

so you kind of know w h a t to expect.”

But no m atte r how close the m atches get, the two don’t let the r iva lry ge t in the w ay of their friendship.

“I t ’s one of th o se r e l a t i o n ­ships in sport tha t m akes doing w h a t you do v e ry s p e c i a l , ” R icha rdson sa id . “Of cou rse , he w a n ts to see his k ids ge t their hands on the wall first — and I w an t to see my kids get the ir h an d s on the wall first, too. But tha t doesn’t get in the way of w h a t’s more important, and th a t ’s our rela tionship .”

B ut l a u g h in g , R ic h a r d s o n admits it might be time he gets a little m ore competitive with his former athlete.

“ I n eed to g e t som e f a s te r swimmers in h e re ,” he laughs. “ B ecau se h e ’s k icked us the last th ree years in a row .”

C ontact N oreen G illesp ie at gill0843@ saintm arys.edu .

Irish finish unblemished season with Michigan defeatBy N O R EE N GILLESPIES ports W rite r

ANN ARBOR, Mich.W h en M ic h ig a n f r e s h m a n

Amy McCollough powered past two Notre Dame swimmers for a w in in t h e 1 , 6 5 0 - y a r d freestyle, the Wolverine bench came alive.

And a f te r M ichigan s o p h o ­m o re E m i ly -C la re F e n n touched the wall for second , the cheering ju s t got louder.

But tha t would be one of the only bright spots for the 17 th- r a n k e d M ic h ig a n t e a m S a tu rd a y a f te rn o o n , as they suffered the same fate as every Irish opponent this season. In a 175 -124 d ec is ion over the Wolverines, the Irish pu t the f in i s h in g t o u c h e s on a n unblemished dual meet record.

It is t h e s e c o n d t im e th e 1 3 t h - r a n k e d N o t r e D am e squad has gone undefeated in dual meet competition in three years. But it w asn ’t ever a goal fo r th e t e a m , w h ic h h a s r e p e a t e d l y e m p h a s i z e d th e success of its season rests on performances a t the upcoming Big E as t C h am p io n sh ip s an d NCAA Championships.

“I don’t think we ever really

focused on being undefeated ,” sa id Ir ish head coach Bailey W eathers. “But I think it gave us something to fight for at the end of the season .”

For the seniors who compet­ed in th e f ina l d u a l m e e t of th e i r c o l leg ia te c a r e e r s , the achievement hadn’t quite sunk in.

“We knew this was a possi­b i l i t y , ” s a id c o - c a p t a i n M a u r e e n H i l le n m e y e r . “ I t ’s kind of a rush of emotion right now. It’s all a little unrea l .”

The sen ior class had s ta n d ­out p e rfo rm an ces th roughou t th e M ic h ig a n c o m p e t i t i o n , h e a d l i n e d by s e n i o r C a r r i e N ix o n ’s w ins in the 5 0 -y a rd freestyle (23.06 seconds) and the 100-yard freestyle (51.10). Senior Heather Mattingly won both the 1-m eter and 3-meter d iv in g e v e n t s . S e n io r Kelly H e c k in g w on th e 1 0 0 - y a r d backstroke (56.24).

But even though the u p p e r ­c l a s s m e n ’s p e r f o r m a n c e s s e a le d th e v ic to ry , th e I r ish struggled to establish the load at the start.

A 1-3 finish in the 400-yard m e d le y r e l a y p u t th e I r i sh a h e a d 1 2 -4 a f t e r th e f i r s t e v e n t , b u t th e M cC ollough- Fenn finish in the 1,650-yard

freestyle tied the score a t I S ­IS.

The tie was only temporary. The Irish surged ahead with a s w e e p of t h e 2 0 0 - y a r d f r e e s ty l e o ne e v e n t l a t e r . Jun io r Heidi Hendrick won in 1 :5 2 .6 9 , fo llow ed by s o p h o ­m ore Lisa G arc ia in second , freshman Sarah Alwen in third and Hillenmeyer in fourth.

“ It w a s j u s t a m a t t e r of knowing one of the two events w ould be good for u s , ” said Weathers. “It’s a kind of scary thing, but at the sam e time, it’s not.”

The early tie was enough to put the Irish on guard, howev­e r , e s p e c i a l l y in l ig h t of M ic h i g a n ’s w in a g a i n s t N o r th w e s t e r n F r id a y n ig h t . The Irish beat the 16th-ranked W ild c a ts 2 0 1 - 9 9 a t h o m e T h u r s d a y , bu t th e M ichigan win had been closer and p e r ­formances were faster.

“We were a little thrown off, b u t it w a s n ’t a n y t h i n g we couldn’t hand le ,” Hillenmeyer said. “We saw how close the m eet with N orthw este rn was, and we knew this would be a lot h a rd e r .”

Despite a confidence-instill­ing win aga ins t the Wildcats, M ichigan c o u ld n ’t d e fea t the

I r i s h . It w a s N o t re D a m e ’s depth that enabled the win, as the Michigan squad struggled to get its 19 athletes into point- scoring positions.

With four a th le te s benched due to i l lness or in ju ry , the battle-bruised Michigan squad d i d n ’t h a v e m u c h ro o m to move in the m eet’s line-up.

“We had som e a re a s w here we just didn’t perform as well as we s h o u ld h a v e , ” sa id M ic h ig a n c o a c h J im R ichardson . “We h a v e n 't got the depth this year.”

The Irish were also aided by

wins from Lisa D’Oiler in the 200-yard butterf ly and Marie Labosky in the 400-yard indi­v idual m edley . S en io r Alison Lloyd c o m b in e d w ith s o p h o ­more Laurie Musgrave for a 2- 3 finish in the 100-yard breas- troke, and Garcia, D’Olier and f re sh m a n H an n ah Pawlewicz recorded a 2-3-4 finish in the 100-yard butterfly.

The Irish will nex t com pete a t the Big East Championships in Uniondale, N.Y. Feb. 21-24.

C ontact N oreen G illesp ie at gill0843@ saintm arys.edu .

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♦ Men’s Swimming, p. 16♦ Track and Field, p. 17♦ Hockey, p. 15♦ SMC Swimming, p. 15

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♦ M en’s Tennis, p. 14♦ Women’s Tennis, p. 14♦ Women’s Swimming, p. 18♦ SMC Basketball, p. 13

Monday, February 4, 2002

M e n ’s B a sk etb all

Irish earn 63-61 win at Seton HallBy KERRY SMITHSports W riter

Q uick th in k in g by Ryan Humphrey in the w aning sec­onds of Notre D am e’s confer­ence showdown at Seton Hall Sunday propelled the Irish to a 63-61 win over the Pirates a t the Meadowlands.

In a c lo se ly -m atched gam e with 11 lead changes . P ira te p o in t g u a r d A n d re B a r r e t t m issed a driv ing lay-up with seven se c o n d s r e m a in in g in the game and the score tied at 61. Humphrey pulled down the reb o u n d and connec ted on a long pass down court to Irish point guard Chris Thomas who tossed in the open lay-up with 5.8 seconds left on the clock for the two-point lead.

After two consecutive t im e­outs, the Pirates had one last look at the basket, but forward Charles Manga failed to drain a w ide-open 3 -po in te r a t the buzzer, giving the Irish the ir second win over the Pirates in jus t eight days.

F orw ard David Graves p ro ­

vided a spark off the bench for the 15-6 Ir ish , as the gam e- high scorer with 20 points.

D arius Lane w as the h igh- scorer for the Pirates with 17.

W h ile t h e I r i s h e k e d o u t a n o th e r conference win, they struggled to put points on the board early in the first half.

The Pirates came out strong a t th e o p e n in g b u z z e r w ith two quick 3s from Lane and a short ju m p er by Barre tt for an 8-0 lead be fo re the Irish got on the board with a Humphrey foul sh o t . T h e P i r a te s then ran the score to 15-3 for their l a r g e s t l e a d of t h e g a m e before the Irish connected on th e i r f irs t field goal a t te m p t m ore than eight m inu tes into the half.

S p u r re d by two b a sk e ts on s t r a i g h t p o s s e s s io n s by fo r ­w a rd H aro ld S w a n a g a n , the Irish sw itched up the tem po, an d w e n t on a 1 2 -0 r u n to bring the Irish to within one at 15-14.

The two te a m s t r a d e d b a s ­k e t s a n d th e I r i s h f in a l ly

see MEN’S/page 17

S u pe r b o w l X X X V I

Patriots upset RamsW o m e n ’s B ask etb all

Irish overcome slow start for winA ssocia ted P ress

NEW ORLEANSThe New E ng lan d P a t r io t s

m ade th is a S u p e r Bowl to rem em ber — for all the right reasons.

Adam Vinatieri kicked a 48- yard field goal as time expired, capping a thrilling final two min­utes and giving the Patriots a 20-17 upset over the St. Louis Rams.

“We shocked the world,” New England safety Lawyer Milloy said.

The P a t r io ts won on a day filled w ith p a t r io t ic th e m e s inside the Superdome and high s e c u r i ty o u ts id e . F an s w e re u rged to show up five h o u rs before kickoff to get through a perimeter that looked more like a m il i ta ry c o m p o u n d th a n a football stadium, with soldiers on the ground and sharpshoot­ers on the roof.

The winning kick came after the Patriots had lost a 17-3 lead in the final 10 m in u te s . The game appeared headed for the first Super Bowl overtime after St. Louis tied it on a 26-yard pass from Kurt Warner to Ricky

“We beat all the odds. No one can ever take that

away from us.”

Lawyer Milloy New England safety

Proehl with 1:30 left.But MVP Tom Brady, whose

s t a tu s as the s t a r t e r w as in doubt until midweek, drove the Patriots 53 yards with no time­outs to set up the deciding kick.

“No one gave us a chance to win this g a m e ,” said runn ing b ack A n to w a in Sm ith , who gained 92 yards in 18 carries.

A fte r b y p a s s in g ind iv id u a l pregame introductions in favor of running on to the field as a team , the Patrio ts — w earing u n ifo rm s sp la s h e d w ith red , white and blue — went out and won with contributions from up and down their unsung roster.

They did it with V in a t ie r i ’s calm-as-can-be kicking, Brady’s late leadersh ip and a defense that scored one touchdown, set up two o the r scores and shut down the m ost h igh-pow ered offense in the NFL.

Brady was jus t 16-for-27 for 145 yards, compared to 28-of-46 for Warner.

But B rady, a f o u r th - s t r in g rookie last year, was mistake- proof while Warner, a two-time league MVP, threw two intercep­tions and the Rams also lost a fumble that set up a score.

The key play in the final drive was a 23-yard pass from Brady to Troy Brown to the St. Louis 36.

T hree plays la te r cam e the kick by Vinatieri, who had made two field goals in the snow to give New England a playoff win over Oakland. But the game was won by the defense, which held the NFL’s best offense without a touchdow n until less than 10 minutes was left in the game.

“They say it’s the best track team in the National Football League, but I never saw anybody win a 100-yard dash with some­one standing in front of them,” said New England cornerback Ty Law, whose 47-yard in te r ­cep t io n r e tu r n gave New England its first touchdown.

• Defense was the an sw er all

see BOWL/page 12

By KATIE MCVOYAssociate Sports Editor

Your mom always said it’s a bad idea to come home past your bedtime. But that advice might not have hit home for five I r i sh p la y e r s u n t i l Saturday at tip-off as the Irish squeaked by Seton Hall 65-60.

A la te -n igh t Friday d inner s e n t five p layers , inc lud ing four starters, to the hotel after c u r fe w . Of N o tre D a m e ’s usual starting line-up of Alicia R a tay , J a c k ie B a t t e a s t , L e ’T a n ia S e v e re , A m a n d a Barksdale and Ericka Haney, only Ratay was at the hotel w hen the 11 o ’clock curfew rolled around . For th a t r e a ­son, only R atay w as on the court for the opening tip-off.

“They w en t to d inner next to the hotel and the service was really slow and they got back a b o u t tw en ty m in u tes a f t e r c u r f e w ,” s a id h e a d coach Muffet McGraw. “And t h a t ’s a te am ru le — if you

miss curfew, you don’t s ta r t .”So three Notre Dame play­

e r s go t t h e i r f i r s t c a r e e r s t a r t s . J u n i o r K a re n Swanson, who until recently h a d w a lk -o n s t a t u s , a n d fre sh m e n Kelsey Wicks and Katy Flecky took the floor for tip-off. They joined Ratay and Allison Bustamante, who had on ly s t a r t e d o n c e b e fo re S a tu rd a y ’s gam e, to face off against a team they defeated by 34 points a t the Joyce just four weeks earlier. The result on Saturday was a little differ­ent.

The new s t a r t i n g l ine-up , rad ica lly d if fe ren t th a n any o th e r com bina tion this s e a ­son, left the Irish a little shak­en in the opening minutes of th e g a m e . S e to n Hall had taken an early 9-2 lead before McGraw s ta r te d checking in so m e of th e u s u a l s t a r t i n g line-up.

“[The change| did affect the team .” McGraw said. “By the

see B-BALL/page 16

♦ M e n ’s basketball vs. Rutgers, Wednesday, 9 p .m .♦ W o m e n ’s basketball at Pittsburgh, Tuesday, 7 p .m .♦ Fencing, Ohio State duals at Ohio State, Saturday,

AT A GLANCE 9 a .m .

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Matt Carroll reaches for the ball in Notre Dam e’s recent 89-76 win over No. 2 1 Pittsburgh. Carroll scored ten points in the Irish 63-61 win over Seton Hall Sunday.

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