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Pro-life faculty launch national group chapter

By MEGAN DOYLE News Writer

University Faculty for Life (UFL), a national organization, approved a chapter on Notre Dame’s campus this fall, the University announced last week.

Notre Dame faculty and staff can now join the newly-formed group to engage in academic conversation about pro-life issues. Fr. Wilson D. Miscamble will serve as the president of the Notre Dame chapter, and Daniel Philpott, a political science professor, will serve as vice president.

Miscamble said the group would give faculty the opportunity to participate in moral issues and affirm

the right to life at all stages.

The national organization of UFL was founded in 1989 to promote research and dialogue among faculty and staff who “respect the value of human life from its inception to natural death,” according to a University press release.

“Our goal is to foster research and put forth a pro-life position to educate the community about life issues,” Miscamble said.

Notre Dame will host the national conference for UFL on campus in June 2011, Miscamble said.

“For this particular year I see it as a year of getting the chapter firmly established,” Miscamble said. “We will focus on meeting on a regular basis and doing the preparatory work for holding the

UFL national conference.”

Miscamble said the UFL chapter at Notre Dame would work on spiritual, academic and social levels. Members will support each other through prayer, invite speakers and academic discussion on life questions and host events that bring the members together to talk about issues related to their pro-life stance.

“Many of us have been individual members of the national organiza-

tion for some time,” Miscamble said. “What this marks is an effort for us to collaborate on campus.”

The Notre Dame UFL chapter currently includes 25 formal members, Miscamble said.

“One of my major objectives for the year is to increase membership,” Miscamble said. “This organization is multidisciplinary so we can bring faculty together from multiple colleges.”

Miscamble currently serves as

Game weekend attendance increases

By SAM STRYKER News Writer

The number of visitors on campus during football games this season has been much greater than it was in 2009, and the Pittsburgh game weekend was no exception, Director of Game Day Operations Mike Seamon said.

“The numbers are up because of the new energy with Coach Kelly and the team combined with being hospitable and opening the campus,” he said.

Director of Notre Dame

Security Police Phil Johnson said three people were

arrested outside the stadium and two people inside for public intoxication. In addition, 35 people who were removed for violating stadium rules, mostly for impairment or possession of alcohol.

“There were no citations issued by police for under age alcohol violation outside the stadium,” Johnson said.

Factors such as the roughly 5,800 people who walked through the Notre Dame Stadium tunnel on Friday led Game Day Operations to believe that the weekend was going to be busy,

see GAME/page 5

‘Quarter dogs’ return for midterms week

By CHRISTIAN MYERS News Writer

Sophomore John Hough

remembers a time when The Huddle always sold hot dogs for a quarter after midnight. Those times are over, but this week, thanks to the Student Union Board, he can relive them.

At the beginning of this school year, The Huddle raised the price of these midnight hot dogs, nicknamed “quarter dogs,” from 25 cents to 33 cents.

“There was a lot of drama about it [the price change], and it was something students seemed to care about,” junior Kevin DeLaMontaigne said.

Student Union Board (SUB) services programmers DeLaMontaigne and sophomore Jenny Yi arranged to subsidize hot dog prices from Sunday through Thursday and provide students such as Hough an opportunity to pay only one quarter for “quarter dogs” during midterms week.

Yi said it was relatively easy to provide this service; it required approval from Huddle Management and a commitment on the part of SUB to pay the difference in price for all hot dogs sold.

“We figured there’d be lots of students in LaFortune this week, see QUARTER/page 5

the chaplain for Notre Dame Right to Life, the student pro-life group on campus. He said events between the faculty and student pro-life groups will hopefully bring even more visibility to the pro-life cause at Notre Dame.

“I think students will gain encouragement and support for their own efforts when they see that their faculty who might be a little bit older are still deeply committed to this cause,” Miscamble said. “What I see occurring is indeed a close and cooperative relationship between the University Faculty for Life and the Notre Dame Right to Life, the student organization involved in the

see FACULTY/page 4

University tests new electric car

By AMANDA GRAY News Writer

In an effort to explore new sustainable energy options, the University added an electric car to its fleet of vehicles this semester.

The Mitsubishi iMiev, an electric car that seats four people, will be on loan from Mitsubishi Motors North America to Notre Dame this semester. Eaton Corporation is also providing three charging stations on campus, according to a Notre Dame Office of Sustainability press release.

“This is just the beginning of something good for campus,” said Erin Hafner, the Sustainability Program Manager for the Office of Sustainability. “It’s opening some doors for us to bring electric cars to campus. It really wasn’t an option before.”

This initial car is acting as a pilot test program, Hafner said. If successful, the University will look at adding electric cars to its fleet.

“We’d like to integrate these into the fleet for travel,” she said. “We’d also like to integrate these into our maintenance fleet. There’s a wide array of uses.”

The iMiev gets 100 miles to every charge, according to Mitsubishi’s website. It is also

see ELECTRIC/page 5

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“Wait, who’s Dayne?”

Caitlin Burke senior off campus

“Studied with Steph Lagree.”

Marisa Truong senior Farley

“Cheered on the the Fighting Irish to victory.”

Morgan Pino junior Ryan

“Went out with the FunLovers.”

Tommy Montalbano junior Morrissey

“By gazing at my beautiful girlfriend Maddie.”

which goes through Thursday night.

OFFBEAT

Ambulance stolen while paramedics treat patient CHICAGO – Bond was set at $50,000 for a 27-yearold Chicago man accused of stealing an ambulance over the weekend while two paramedics treated someone he apparently knew in the back. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said Jimmy McCoy allegedly jumped into the stopped ambulance and drove off with the emergency lights on.

The paramedics then radioed that they’re ambulance had been stolen with them inside.

Prosecutors told a hearing Sunday McCoy seemed to think he was driving his

diabetic friend to the hospital.

In the Saturday incident, McCoy only made it a few blocks before a fire truck blocked the road. Police surrounded the ambulance and McCoy was arrested.

Drunk man rescued after chasing goose into river WAUSAU, Wis. –Wausau rescued and arrested a drunken man who plunged into the Wisconsin River while chasing a one-legged goose. The 40-year-old Wausau man told officers he wanted to catch the bird and roast it. He said he took off his shirt and shoes Thursday afternoon and jumped into the

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frigid water. Authorities said he was overcome by the cold water and had to be rescued by firefighters. Police said the man had been drinking heavily before the stunt.

The man was arrested on an outstanding warrant for bail jumping.

Witness Sergio Lopez works by the river. He said he often sees people jump in the water during hot summer days but rarely in October.

Police told the Wausau Daily Herald that as far as they know, the goose is still on the loose.

Information compiled from the Associated Press.

IN BRIEF

The lecture “Identity, Legitimacy, Recognition: A Psychological Synthesis for Peace Research” will take place today at 4:15 p.m. in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Phillip Hammack , assistant professor of psychology at the University of California Sant Cruz, will deliver the lecture. It is free and open to the public.

The Berges Lecture: “An Ethical Odyssey from Notre Dame to CEO” will be held today at 7 p.m. in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business Michael Cahill , president and CEO of Tower Financial, will deliver the lecture. It is free and open to the public.

The College of Science will sponsor Astronomy Night today at 7:30 p.m. on Fieldhouse Mall . All Notre Dame students are invited to see Jupiter, the closest it has been to the earth in 50 years. The first 300 Notre Dame students will receive free tshirts and doughnuts.

The Center for Social Concerns will sponsor and International Summer Service Learning Program Information Sessiontoday at 8 p.m. in the McNeill Library of Geddes Hall . The information session will cover the application and selection processes and their timeframes, academic requirements, orientation and followup requirements and a brief description of work sites. Past participants will also be available to answer questions.

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ND grad competes for acting award

By ANNA BOARINI News Writer

Tyler Langdon, a 2008 Notre Dame graduate, hopes that winning a 2010 Yahoo Hollywood Movie Award will jumpstart his acting career.

support his decision to try and make it in the acting business.

“My parents always support whatever I do that makes me happy as long as it brings respect to myself and my family,” Langdon said. “They just don’t want me to compromise myself for Hollywood.”

A rm y R O T C t ra in s i n M ic h ig a n

By MIKE BOCK News Writer

While their fellow students attended events on campus such as the pep rally and football game last weekend, Notre Dame’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) members participated in a weekend of training exercises at Michigan’s Fort Cluster.

Langdon is currently one of 10 nominees for Yahoo’s Hollywood Discover Award, in which aspiring actors submit monologues for voters to view and vote on the Hollywood Movie Award website.

“The award is for up-andcoming talent in Hollywood,” Langdon said.

A resident of Dillon Hall while at Notre Dame, Langdon studied business and thought his performing career was over.

“I did a lot of acting before I came to Notre Dame.”

Langdon said, “I absolutely loved speech, but as fun as it was, I had to be practical, so I went to business school.”

However, Langdon couldn’t shake the acting bug. After graduation, he moved to California to attend a management program through Hillstone Restaurant Group.

“All the servers and cooks in the restaurant were actors and they were always talking about auditions and roles they had,” Langdon said.

“Everything I had done before rushed back.”

Langdon decided to pursue his dream and quit his restaurant job after two months to begin auditioning for acting roles.

“It takes a very long time to make it in this industry,” he said. “Most actors you recognize have been doing this for seven or eight years.”

Even though his career has not followed a traditional path, Langdon said his parents

His film credits include roles in “Pushing Daisies” and “The Pacific,” according to his website. He also hosted two different shows about Thai food. Langdon eventually hopes to act on a sitcom and work in both comedic and dramatic films.

“I love the comedy on ‘The Office’ and ‘30 Rock,’ with more subtle humor and good writing and natural actors,” he said.

Langdon recently landed a role for an upcoming movie about a man suffering from social anxiety disorder and his relationship with a female friend who studies his disorder for her graduate work.

“He’s just a really dynamic character,” Langdon said.

The transition from acting on stage and for speech competitions was different and a challenge for Langdon.

“The speech and debate gave me confidence, but it’s just so big,” Langdon said, “Acting teachers kept telling me to relax my face and think and play my emotions.”

Langdon hopes that someday he could work with Leonardo DiCaprio, his favorite actor.

“He’s a fantastic actor and has had some amazing roles,” Langdon said.

While still in the restaurant business, DiCaprio came into the restaurant Langdon managed and the servers sent him out on the floor acting like a bus boy so he could see him.

“I was nervous just cleaning the table next to him,” Langdon said.

Online voting for the Yahoo Hollywood Movie Awards started on Oct. 5 and closes Thursday.

Contact Anna Boarini at aboari01@saintmarys.edu

ND expert says Peace Prize winner no surprise

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobao was expected, according to Peter Wallensteen, the University of Notre Dame’s Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies. Liu, a professor of literature, is one of China’s most prominent human rights activists. He has been in prison since 2008 for publishing a political reform petition.

According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Liu is the first person in China to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and he is recognized for his sustained and nonviolent struggle for human rights in China. The Dalai Lama also received it, but for his peaceful struggle for Tibet, while outside the country.

“This continues a tradition where the prize has been used to highlight peaceful struggles for human rights in authoritarian societies,” Wallensteen said.

“For example, it went to Shirin Ebadi from Iran in 2003, Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma in 1991, Andrei Sakharov from the Soviet Union in 1975, Albert Lutuli from South Africa in 1960, and Carl von Ossietzky in Nazi-Germany in 1935.

“Several times, this use of the award resulted in crises between the Nobel committee and the regimes, most seriously perhaps with Nazi Germany,” Wallensteen said.

The Chinese government reportedly is outraged over the award to Liu and has issued a statement saying that the award will damage Chinese relations with Norway.

The weekend was a valuable experience for all members of the ROTC, especially for the juniors as they prepare to attend “Leadership Development Assessment Course,” the ROTC’s biggest summer evaluation, said Jim Hasson, a Notre Dame senior and ROTC cadet.

“The purpose of the training was to build basic military attributes among the underclassmen and to further develop the leadership attributes of upperclassmen, particularly the juniors,” he said.

tactics that were to be used in the field. To build their leadership skills, the junior class led the squads on field missions. The sophomores and the freshmen took part in the program led by the upperclassmen to learn important skills and leadership.

“The purpose of the training was to build basic military attributes among the underclassmen and to further develop the leadership attributes of upperclassmen, particularly the juniors.”

Each grade level of ROTC participants was assigned a different role within the training session, Hasson said.

Jim Hasson Army ROTC cadet

Hasson said the weekend included training exercises with individual missions for each cadet to complete, such as day and night navigation.

The senior class taught classes on basic skills and

During the night navigation operation, Hasson said each ROTC cadet received an eight-digit grid location

at 10 p.m. For the next three hours, each cadet was expected to navigate to five different grid locations using only a compass and map.

Hasson said the students also completed squad level tactics training, which involved groups of 11 or 12 cadets working together on skills such as movement and contact, squad attack, reconnaissance operations and ambush attacks.

Hasson said the training weekend was successful overall.

“Over the course of the weekend, all participants showed great developments in both their tactical skills and leadership styles while keeping a positive attitudes,” he said.

SMC pushes gift campaign

By ALICIA SMITH

Associate Saint Mary’s Editor

To encourage students to make their class gift and educate them about the benefits of donating to Saint Mary’s College, the Class Gift Campaign (CGC) hosted its second annual launch party Monday.

The event was held in the West Wing of the Noble Family Dining Hall during dinner hours.

Molly Gorszczyk, CGC co-chair, said the event was created to draw attention to the mission of the CGC as well as allow students to meet and get to know members of the campaign.

“The launch party is pretty much just a way for us to get publicity up of who we are and what we do,” Gorszczyk said. “It’s the first chance all of our girls get for the year to make their donation of class gift. It’s pretty much the starting of our season of campaigning and fundraising and trying to get the class gifts.”

Gorszczyk said the event invited students to enjoy themselves while learning about the CGC. Students were also encouraged to make their donation to the CGC for their class.

According to Gorszczyk, the campaign works during the academic year to earn money for each class’ senior gift. Each class decides which gift it would like to donate to the College.

“The class gift campaign is a student organization, and we are the ones that encourage

raising all the money to give Saint Mary’s that each class gives when they graduate,” she said. “Along with that we encourage the importance of philanthropy and giving back to Saint Mary’s. [Saint Mary’s College] just [relies] on giving back so much and they encourage it so much that we try to encourage our students to give back as well.”

According to Gorszczyk, during the launch party, students had the opportunity to break open a piñata, play corn hole, listen to music and meet with members of the CGC.

“People can come make their class gift, they can ask us questions, they can get to know us,”

Gorszczyk said. “[The Launch Party is] kind of like a meet and greet type deal so they [students] can actually get to know what the Class Gift Campaign is.”

The CGC also plans to offer other events throughout the academic year. Gorszczyk said the CGC will offer Give Back Night at Hacienda on Oct. 25. Karaoke Idol, an event that allows students to sing karaoke in front of faculty and staff judges, will also be held on Nov. 18.

Gorszczyk said she hopes to bring awareness to the importance of the CGC.

“I think it’s really important just because we have a tradition that part of our gift to give back is a scholarship of some form or scholarship money,” she said. “That’s really important just because so many girls are on

scholarship. Ninety- four percent of the student body right now is on scholarship. So if we can encourage girls to give back now that would also encourage them to give back after they graduate.”

The CGC doesn’t just ask for donations from juniors and seniors, instead, they encourage first-year students to donate money as well.

“We work really hard and start looking freshman year to raise a gift so you can give something amazing back to Saint Mary’s to thank them for the amazing time you had here,” Gorszczyk said. “Also, you try to raise the pride of Saint Mary’s that you have in your four years and beyond after you graduate and so you’re always proud to be a Saint Mary’s girl and you’re so proud of your school.”

The CGC asks that students donate whatever amount they feel comfortable giving, but also encourages each student to donate the amount of their class year, Gorszczyk said.

“We are encouraging all students to try to at least give their class year, so a senior would give $20.11, juniors would give $20.12,” Gorszczyk said. “But they are free to give as much as they want, and we appreciate everything they give and we understand that everybody’s situation is a little different so what they can give might not be the same as others.”

Contact Alicia Smith at asmith01@saintmarys.edu

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Philpott, who joined UFL in July 2010 and will serve as the vice president of the Notre Dame chapter, said his work with the Human Rights Defense Fund moved him to work for human dignity and the protection of the unborn.

proceeding on an issue that can be polarizing and rancorous in national conversation.”

“As scholars, we share a very strong commitment to reasoning and to cool, careful thought in dialogue.”

“Notre Dame is a university that has a strong commitment to teaching social justice in the classroom,” Philpott said. “And the killing of the unborn is the largest human rights violation in the world today.”

The UFL defends the right to life from conception to natural death and particularly works on the issues of abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, Philpott said.

Daniel Philpott professor political science

Other faculty members serving in the Notre Dame UFL chapter include Program of Liberal Studies professor Walter Nicgorski as secretary-treasurer. Engineering professor Craig Lent and Elizabeth Kirk, associate director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, will serve as members of the chapter’s executive board.

UFL membership also includes non-Catholic institutions and faculty members, but Philpott said Notre Dame, as a Catholic university, naturally fit into the organization.

“The UFL itself does not have a religious affiliation, but obviously there is a very close resonance with the mission of a Catholic university and protecting the right to life.”

Daniel Philpott professor political science

“As scholars, we share a very strong commitment to reasoning and to cool, careful thought in dialogue,” Philpott said. “This is the spirit in which we are

“The UFL itself does not have a religious affiliation,” Philpott said. “But obviously there is a very close resonance with the mission of a Catholic university and protecting the right to life.”

Contact Megan Doyle at mdoyle11@nd.edu

Electric

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into account, the iMiev still releases only 30 percent as much carbon dioxide as do its gasoline-powered mini-car counterparts.

“The

“Through our collaboration with Notre Dame, Eaton is paving the way for the development of the infrastructure leading to the adoption and expanded use of electric vehicles,” Jerry Whitaker, president of Eaton’s Electrical Sector, Americas Region, said in the press release.

tial of electric vehicles as we strive to reduce our energy consumption and carbon footprint on campus,” Executive Vice President John AffleckGraves said in the press release.

project will help us to further understand the potential of electric vehicles as we strive to reduce our energy consumption and carbon footprint on campus.”

John Affleck-Graves

The car will be on display at public events and promotions for the Office of Sustainability, Hafner said. These promotions include football Friday afternoons at Irish Green, where the car is stationed next to a table with information about electric cars.

Executive Vice President

This is not the first time the University has partnered with Eaton Corporation; the corporation helped the University with Stinson-Remick Hall.

“The project will help us to further understand the poten-

Different University departments will also drive the car, so students will see it around campus, Hafner said. It will have a Notre Damethemed car design similar to the three Smart cars that the University purchased this year.

Contact Amanda Gray at agray3@nd.edu

Game

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Seamon said.

“When people could forecast the weather earlier in the week, coming off a big win against Boston College, and Pittsburgh being a big game, you could tell it would be an exciting weekend,” he said.

Seamon also said attendance at the pep rally got a boost, with 14,214 fans watching former receiver Golden Tate provide some inspiration for the team’s victory.

“It was a perfect evening in terms of weather,” he said. “There was just a great spirit. It was a good way to kick off the weekend.”

Green was held. Seamon said the feedback from campus has been positive in regards to this new tradition, which started the weekend of the Michigan game.

“I thought it was a successful evening,” he said. “It seems we have gotten a good response from the students.”

“It was a perfect evening in terms of weather. There was just a great spirit. It [the pep rally] was a good way to kick off the weekend.”

Mike

ticipation also continued this weekend with on-site transportation, Seamon said. Student clubs raised money by giving 1,400 golf cart rides and 220 pedal cab rides.

“With the big nature of the Pitt game and the weather, it was a hugely succesful weekend.”

Mike Seamon director Game Day Operations

Attendance and energy on campus during the actual game day was also very encouraging, Seamon said, and contributed to the victory of the weekend as a whole.

Seamon director Game Day Operations

This was the second pep rally in which a student walkover to Irish

“People had a good spirit and attitude,” he said. “With the big nature of the Pitt game and the weather, it was a hugely successful weekend.”

The theme of high fan par-

“We had a lot of people using the pedal cabs and the golf carts, which shows that a lot of people were here enjoying game day,” he said.

Seamon said Game Day Operations has been working hard to consistently deliver a special experience for visitors to Fighting Irish football games by providing unique opportunities on campus that only Notre Dame can offer.

“Our goal for everyone who is visiting campus is for them to experience everything that is wonderful about Notre Dame, be it the athletics, the academics, faith or the social life,” he said. “These are signature weekends for us.”

Contact Sam Stryker at sstryke1@nd.edu

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and this would brighten up their days and give them something to look forward to,” Yi said.

DeLaMontaigne said he hoped that by specifically choosing a week when many students have midterm exams, the low-priced hot dogs might serve as a “stress reliever.”

Both Yi and DeLaMontaigne were optimistic about the weeklong event, and hope to repeat it sometime in the future. When and if this would occur depends in large part on student response.

“If people are into it and if the number of hot dogs sold goes up, then it shows people like it,”

DeLaMontaigne said.

Hough is supportive of the subsidy and was disappointed when the price was raised, he said. He purchased the hot dogs approximately twice per week last year, but Sunday was his first time back after the price increase. Another student taking advantage of the reduced price, sophomore Jessie Bretl, echoed Hough’s sentiments.

“A quarter is easy, but who has 33 cents in their pocket?” said Bretl.

Adam Hill, The Huddle manager on duty Sunday night, said the price decrease did not seem to yield a greater number of hot dog purchases Sunday night.

“The volume is about the same as any other night. There doesn’t seem to be a real difference,” Hill said.

Contact Christian Myers at cmyers8@nd.edu

NYC police arrest ninth suspect in anti-gay beatings

NEW YORK — Police on Monday arrested the ninth and final suspect in the brutal attacks on four people that authorities believe were touched off because gang members thought one of their recruits was gay.

Ruddy Vargas-Perez, 22, was arrested by members of the Bronx violent felony squad at a relative’s house after his attorney had told authorities he would be surrendering to police on Tuesday. He previously failed to show up as promised.

Vargas-Perez and eight others were accused of robbery, harassment and sexual abuse after the Oct. 3 attacks. Police say he participated in at least one of the attacks along with the others from his street gang, the Latin King Goonies.

Vargas-Perez was in custody at a police precinct Monday. His attorney’s name wasn’t known.

“He’s innocent of all the charges,” his aunt, Nancy Perez, said in Spanish when reached by phone on Monday night. “He was raised in a loving family.”

outraged responses from city and state leaders and gay advocates.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the attacks “completely unacceptable” in prepared remarks before a Monday night dinner for Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

“A lot of these gang subcultures are pretty homophobic”

David

C. Brotherton sociology chair John Jay College of Criminal Justice

He added: “As I said over the weekend, the perpetrators of the abuse and torture in the Bronx will be spared no mercy,” he said.

“As I said over the weekend, the perpetrators of the abuse and torture in the Bronx will be spared no mercy.”

Three of the gang members saw their 17-year-old recruit coming out of an apartment occupied by a 30-year-old man known throughout the neighborhood as “La Reina.” It was well-known that the man was gay, and the three wanted to know why the teen was at his apartment, authorities said.

Michael Bloomberg mayor New York City

She denied he was a member of a gang and said her nephew works in construction.

The beatings in the Bronx, and the recent string of antigay attacks and teen suicides elsewhere attributed to homophobic bullying, have drawn

They took the teen to a nearby abandoned apartment they used as a hangout and for parties at about 3:30 a.m. Oct. 3 and beat him until he confessed he had a sexual encounter with the man, police said.

“You crazy, you lost your mind,” gang member Nelson Falu said, as he sliced the teen

Study says students drink more when abroad

the results don’t necessarily indicate binge drinking.

SEATTLE — Students who go abroad while in college are likely to increase or even double their alcohol intake while they’re away, a new study has found.

Drinking increased most dramatically in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the study by researchers at the University of Washington found. Students reported drinking more when they perceived their fellow travelers were drinking more heavily, and those who planned to make drinking part of their cultural immersion did so.

The study published in the current issue of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors looked only at drinking habits of students who went abroad from the University of Washington, but UW graduate student Eric Pedersen said he would expect to get similar results at other universities.

“I don’t think this is just a UW problem,” said the psychology student, who noted, however, that his study sample included more women than the national average for studying abroad and the students he looked at were more diverse ethnically than the national average.

His research did not pinpoint why students drink more while they study abroad, but

with a box cutter, prosecutors said. David Rivera hit him in the head with a shaving can and ringleader Idelfonzo Mendez shoved the wooden handle of a plunger into the teen’s rectum, prosecutors said. “Do you like this?” he asked, according to the criminal complaint.

Through their interrogation, they discovered another 17-yearold they knew also had an encounter with the man, police said. When he came to the apartment around 8:30 the next evening, they pounced, attacking him as well, officials said.

While the other teen was there, Mendez invited the 30year-old over, claiming there was a party and asking him to bring alcohol, authorities said. The man met up with Mendez at the corner bodega and he walked with him, unsuspecting, into the apartment where he’d be tortured for hours by all nine suspects, who forced the malt liquor down his throat, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Rivera tied the man to a chair with a metal chain and blindfolded him.

From there, he was beaten and sodomized with a small baseball bat, according to the criminal complaint.

During the attack, they took the man’s keys and went to his home, where they beat up and bound his older brother and stole $1,000 in cash and a TV

from their apartment, prosecutors said.

Eight of the suspects were arraigned Sunday but didn’t enter pleas. Two attorneys, Paul Horowitz and Fred Bittlingmeyer, represented the eight at the hearing but didn’t expect to represent all of them through the legal process. Their families have said they are innocent.

The attacks, while vicious, aren’t surprising in the world of outlaw machismo, where being gay is a powerful taboo and broken rules can have violent

consequences, experts on gang culture said. Experts said it’s likely the 30-year-old would never have been attacked if he hadn’t been in contact with their recruit.

“A lot of these gang subcultures are pretty homophobic,” said David C. Brotherton, a youth gang expert and chairman of the sociology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “And some of them, they definitely have, the proper gangs have rules that don’t permit anybody in the group to be gay.”

Pedersen says a drink or so each night with dinner could add up to the 10 drinks a week European visitors reported on average.

“In general drinking is an issue on college campuses. When you take that and put it in a foreign country there’s potential for more consequences,” Pedersen said. He noted, however, that most students who study overseas, including those who drink, do not get in trouble while they’re abroad.

Of the several thousand University of Washington students who study abroad each year, 177 answered a questionnaire before they went away and when they returned.

On average, those students doubled their drinking while abroad, but most returned to an average of three to five drinks a week when they returned to Seattle. A subset of students who traveled to the Middle East and other places where drinking is not as prevalent reported their intake decreased while abroad.

Students who were less than the legal drinking age in the United States increased their drinking while abroad by about 170 percent, the study found. The overall increase was about 105 percent.

Democrats criticize Paladino

Senior citizens prepare for Social Security freeze

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as word spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase.

The government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through a second straight year without an increase in monthly benefits. This year was the first without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation started in 1975.

Dawson will buy cheap whiskey instead of his beloved Canadian Club.

“For people who have worked their whole life and tried to scrimp and save and try to provide for themselves,” said Baldwin, a 63-year-old retired teacher, “it’s difficult to see that support system might not sustain you.”

Baldwin and her husband mapped out their retirements, carefully calculating their income based on their pensions and Social Security checks. Trouble is, they expected an annual costof-living increase.

“They’ve got this idea that they’ve got to save money and basically they want to take it out of the people that will give them the least resistance.”

ALBANY, N.Y. — The tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration’s bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government. But some of its candidates are getting tripped up on social issues.

In New York, Carl Paladino, the tea party-backed Republican candidate for governor, caused a furor among Democrats when he said over the weekend that children shouldn’t be “brainwashed” into thinking homosexuality is acceptable.

In Colorado, GOP Senate nominee Ken Buck has tried to deflect questions about his stance against abortion rights. In Delaware, Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell has come under fire over the conservative religious views she espoused as a TV commentator, including preaching against the evils of masturbation.

And in Nevada, Senate candidate Sharron Angle, a Southern Baptist, has called herself a faith-based politician. She opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest, and doesn’t believe the Constitution requires the separation of church and state. Her opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeks to portray her as outside mainstream America.

One by one, tea party challengers have veered away from the issues of taxes and spending - or in some cases were pushed off message, either by the media or by the Democrats, who have tried to portray the insurgents not as populist alternatives to the mainstream GOP but as Republican regulars.

“It is clear that the Democrats and many of their allies in the media will attack the Republicans for being ‘too extreme,’” William Mayer, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University, wrote in a position paper this month.

Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta,

said his research shows tea party activists are overwhelmingly conservative Republicans. Rather than an outside alternative to the GOP, he said, the tea party is a movement from within the Republican Party’s most active members.

“My feeling has been that social issues were always an important component of the tea party movement all along,” Abramowitz said.

He said candidates have been questioned on their social views by reporters and by Democrats more now that they emerged as GOP nominees: “There’s more attention to it now, now that they are actually running their general election campaigns.”

Some tea party candidates are trying to moderate their social views or deflect attention from them back to the economy.

In Denver, Buck is challenging first-term Sen. Michael Bennet and opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest. He endorsed a state constitutional amendment that would give fetuses constitutional rights, then withdrew his support after doctors and lawyers pointed out it would also ban some types of fertility treatments and emergency contraception.

“Democrats see this as an opportunity to discredit Ken Buck, but I think most people are smart enough to know one person isn’t going to be able to do away with Roe v. Wade,” said Bobbie Chiles, president of the South Platte Republican Women’s Club.

In Kentucky, tea party Republican Rand Paul, a candidate for Senate, opposes abortion, same-sex marriage and a proposed mosque near ground zero in New York City. But he doesn’t talk about it much.

“I say the top three issues of the tea party movement are the debt, the debt and the debt,” Paul said in a recent campaign stop to a group dedicated to smaller government.

But in May, just hours after the political novice won a landslide primary victory, he took heat for a rambling interview in which he

expressed misgivings about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and appeared to suggest that businesses be allowed to deny service to blacks without fear of federal interference.

Paul scrambled for damage control, issuing a statement saying, “I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.”

In Alaska, tea party candidate Joe Miller says he is “unequivocally pro-life,” and also opposes hate crime laws as violations of free-speech and equal protection under the Constitution.

In New York, Paladino spent Monday’s Columbus Day Parade, a staple for politicians seeking votes in New York City, fending off a stream of criticism from Democrats for his comments the night before to a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders.

“That’s not how God created us,” Paladino said Sunday of homosexuality, “and that’s not the example that we should be showing our children.”

He added that children who later in life choose to marry people of the opposite sex and raise families would be “much better off and much more successful.”

“I don’t want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option,” he said.

Paladino’s Democratic opponent for governor, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, called Paladino’s comments “reckless and divisive ... (the) worst cynical politics,” especially since they come as New York City police investigate reports that three men were tortured in a night of anti-gay bias in the Bronx.

“It is repugnant to the concept of what New York is,” Cuomo said Monday at the parade. “We celebrate our diversity.”

State Sen. Thomas Duane, an openly gay Democrat, said he was “enraged” by Paladino’s “despicable rhetoric, which does cause people to hate themselves and commit suicide.”

“I think it’s disgusting,” said Paul McNeil, 69, a retired state worker from Warwick, R.I., who said his food and utility costs have gone up, but his income has not. He lamented decisions by lawmakers that he said do not favor seniors.

Paul McNeil Retired State Worker

“They’ve got this idea that they’ve got to save money and basically they want to take it out of the people that will give them the least resistance,” he said.

Cost-of-living adjustments are automatically set by a measure adopted by Congress in the 1970s that orders raises based on the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation. If inflation is negative, as in 2009 and 2010, payments remain unchanged.

Still, seniors like McNeil said they’ll be thinking about the issue when they go to vote, and experts said the news comes at a bad time for Democrats already facing potentially big losses in November. Seniors are the most loyal of voters, and their support is especially important during midterm elections, when turnout is generally lower.

“If you’re the ruling party, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happening two weeks before an election,” said Andrew Biggs, a former deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

“When we cut back, we’re cutting back on niceties,” Baldwin said.

“But there are other people that don’t have anything to cut back on. They’re cutting back on food and shelter.”

Many at St. Andrews said the cost-of-living decision won’t affect who they vote for next month. But seniors tied the Social Security issue to what they see as a larger societal problem with debt, entitlements and hopefulness for the future.

“I’m kind of glad in a way,” Stella Wehrly, an 86-year-old retired secretary, said of the freeze. “One thing depends on the other and when people aren’t working there’s not enough people feeding into the Social Security system.”

Wehrly and her husband, Hank, said curtailing government spending is necessary to maintain the Social Security system.

“We have a generation now that we’re not going to leave a very good legacy for,” she said.

Jack Dawson, 77, said the freeze is the right move considering the state of the government and the American economy.

“One thing depends on the other and when people aren’t working there’s not enough people feeding into the Social Security system.”

Stella Wehrly Retired Secretary

At St. Andrews Estates North, a Boca Raton retirement community, seniors largely took the news in stride, saying they don’t blame Washington for the lack of an increase. Most are also collecting pensions or other income, but even so, they prepared to tighten their belts.

Bette Baldwin won’t be able to travel or help her children as much. Dorcas Eppright will give less to charity. Jack

“Who would be surprised what’s happened?” he asked. “I feel this is the right decision in light of the malaise.”

More than 58.7 million people rely on Social Security checks that average $1,072 monthly. It was the primary source of income for 64 percent of retirees who got benefits in 2008; one-third relied on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income.

At the Phoenix Knits yarn shop in Phoenix, 73-year-old owner Pat McCartney said she already worries about paying for utilities, groceries and gas. Not having the increase makes her worry even more.

“If I have any major expense, I don’t know what I’ll do,” McCartney said while helping customers with their knitting. “I live on Social Security.”

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Cravin’

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I recently picked up a copy of Scholastic, partially out of pity for seeing them idle in the dining hall for so long. Of the few articles I read, there was one discussing the University of Notre Dame Class of 2014 Facebook group, expressing the writer’s qualms with one particular upperclassman. This column is a defense of that man, the myth, the legend.

Ankur Chawla Assistant Scene Editor

Enter Cravin Moorehed.

Although Cravin is a fictional being, as far as the masterminds behind Facebook are concerned he’s just as real as you and your friends. He is just another array of data, a picture, a name, a list of friends, activities and most importantly, groups. During finals week last semester, Cravin and his creators joined the Notre Dame Class of 2014 Facebook group. The group was full of young freshmen, eager to form the Facebook bond with other future Domers.

A freshman advice column was created on the discussion board by these devious upperclassmen as a Steven Colbert-esque guide to life at Notre Dame. (If you’re bored while studying for midterms, I suggest reading through it for a good laugh.) The freshmen were naive at first and asked legitimate questions. The upperclassmen treated these questions with as much respect as Simon Cowell treated William Hung and that guy who sang “Pants on the Ground.” After Cravin posted a few clever comments, the freshmen indeed began “lookin’ like fools with their pants on the ground.”

The playful banter and antics of Cravin and his gang were welcomed and praised by those more down to earth, though some felt the need to tell everyone that Cravin was a big phony. This fact was undoubtedly obvious to everyone other than those who tried pointing it out. Cravin was just providing a funny environment for the freshmen to get to know what life at Notre Dame might be like; he wasn’t doing any real harm, at least not initially.

The Facebook fanatics took the real blow when the upperclassmen managed to weasel their way into making Cravin the sole administrator of the group. At this point he began sending distasteful, albeit funny messages and videos to 1,858 members of the freshman class.

To anyone who was offended by Cravin’s antics, maybe you should take a step back and re-evaluate your frequented websites. Heaven forbid anyone attack your Facebook fundamentals, it might disrupt who and what you are as a human. We spend hours displaying our every move to people we hardly know. How many of your Facebook friends do you actually talk to regularly or even at all? Who cares if the kid you met at Domerfest likes when he accomplishes something before the microwave hits :00?

I can guarantee you that he doesn’t pause for a moment when you ask for help with Fast Money on Family Feud. The problem is that Facebook has become how we define ourselves. What would you be without your seven albums from freshman year?

Now that I’m done ranting, I’ve got to go update my Twitter. I’m up to 20 followers ... OK, only 18. But still I am eagerly waiting for the unsuspecting class of 2015’s group to be formed because I am indeed cravin’ more Cravin Moorehed.

The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Contact Ankur Chawla at achawla@nd.edu

The new Civil War

There are, in the perpetual war over abortion, two myths.

The first myth is that told by the prochoice camp: Pro-life partisans, they insist, seek to control women. Without access to legal abortion, they reason, women will be forced to actually bear their children — who will, of course, need care for decades to come. In becoming mothers, therefore, women will become housewives — kept from meaningful careers so that they can bear their men many sons: Their lives will be, as were the lives of their mothers, spent utterly in vacuuming rugs, pressing shirts and cooking pot roasts. To respect women as our equals, insist pro-choice partisans, requires correcting the systematic injustice inherited from our forefathers — indeed, inherited from nature. To do otherwise is crass manipulation.

Dan Sportiello Bound Variables

The second myth is that told by the prolife camp: Pro-choice partisans, they insist, seek to control women. With access to legal abortion, they reason, women have no claim on the fathers of their children — who will, of course, suggest termination. In not becoming mothers, therefore, women will effectively become concubines — kept from meaningful relationships so that they can remain sexually available to their men: Their lives will be, as the lives of their mothers were not, spent utterly in exploitive relationships that grant them nothing in social or economic legitimacy. To respect women as our equals, insist pro-life partisans, requires taking them seriously as our partners in parenthood — indeed, as our partners in life. To do otherwise is crass manipulation.

It is tempting to reject both myths as hysterical propaganda — tempting, but too quick. Of course, those of us who are mere foot soldiers in the perpetual war do not think in these terms: those who stage protests, hold marches and write newspaper columns — for whichever side — commit themselves to the freedom, not the enslavement, of women. The motivations of the wealthy and powerful elites behind each movement are less clear — though it is perhaps paranoia to attribute their

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actions to calculating misogyny. But motivations do not tell the entire story. During the American Civil War, Northerners took themselves to be fighting for the integrity of their nation and the freedom of all men to live on their own terms; Southerners took themselves to be fighting for the integrity of their way of life and the freedom of all states to order themselves as they saw best. And indeed, this perspective — the motivational one — is legitimate. But also legitimate is the sociological perspective: The American Civil War was, in the end, a conflict about how elites could best manipulate the masses — how labor could be most efficiently extracted from laborers and put to the service of society. Northerners held — or might as well have held — that the most efficient way to extract this labor was by the system of wage slavery — that is, of industry; Southerners held — or might as well have held — that the most efficient way to extract this labor was by the system of chattel slavery — that is, of agriculture.

The American Civil War was, in this sense, a war regarding the future economic ordering of American society, a war over the most efficient way to wring sweat from the brow — and, in asking this question, the war also answered it: The North defeated the South precisely because its economic ordering was the more productive by far. It is not coincidence that the newly industrial United States was able, over the next century, to dominate merely agricultural nations around the world.

The perpetual war between pro-choice and pro-life camps differs from the American Civil War only in its matter and its duration, not in its structure: It is, from a sociological perspective, a debate about how men can best manipulate women — how fertility and labor can be most efficiently extracted from women and put to the service of society. It is tempting to reject both the pro-choice and pro-life myths as hysterical propaganda — but, from a sociological perspective, both are true.

This does not mean, again, that anyone on either side of the perpetual war actually thinks in these terms: Women are numerous in both camps, and it verges on absurdity to think that they are advocating their own manipulation. This does not

change, however, what that society has witnessed the triumph of both camps — first, before 1973, the pro-life, and then, after 1973, the pro-choice: Under the former regime, women were indeed often housewives, forced by the necessity of motherhood into lifetimes of cleaning, laundering, cooking and child-rearing; under the latter regime, women are indeed free to look significantly beyond homemaking for employment — but, at the same time, they fall into cycles of empty, exploitative relationships that prevent many of them from realizing marriage and family — goods that their mothers obtained as a matter of course. Neither the pro-choice nor the pro-life camps think in terms of how to best manipulate women into offering more of their resources to society, but this does not change the fact that this is — from a sociological perspective — exactly what they are debating. It goes without saying that the liberation of women is linked to the sexual revolution, the rise of abortion and the contraceptive pill, and the breakdown of marriage and the family. This point has been made before. The problem, it seems, is the social framework that establishes this link — the same social framework that establishes the link between the liberation of slaves from the farm and their re-enslavement on the assembly line. In choosing between the industrial and the agrarian economic orders, one should not have to make the choice between two varieties — and rather sinister varieties at that — of enslavement. Similarly, in choosing between the prochoice and the pro-choice regimes, one should not have to make the choice between two varieties — and rather sinister varieties at that — of sexual manipulation. If some social framework forces this choice upon one, one ought to reject the choice — that is, one ought to reject the framework.

Daniel John Sportiello is in his third year in the philosophy Ph.D. program. Listen to his radio show on Thursdays at 2 p.m. on WVFI. He can be reached at dsportie@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

“Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don’t let that taint the thing you love.”

Randy K. Milholland Webcomic pioneer

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

LETTERSTOTHE EDITOR

A quiet sacred place

As I watched the Notre Dame claim a victory, I could not help but think of Coach Weis and his wife Maura, Charlie Jr. and sweet Hannah. I was watching the game with my precious son and his wonderful neighbors at Hannah and Friends Farm in the beautiful Eck Rec Facility. My son just recently became a resident there this summer.

My autistic son will never graduate from Notre Dame like I did, but he graduated to becoming independent at the Jon Bon Jovi home with support from Mosaic staff and Hannah and Friends staff. Having autism, a communication disorder and auditory processing difficulties, he greets each new day with enthusiasm and hope. My son is my champion. I am proud of his many accomplishments at his ripe age of 22. He has become a leader, and helps his friends at the Day programs at Hannah and Friends — a quiet sacred place not far from campus, where miracles happen daily. This is one place every student needs to visit before they graduate from the University of Notre Dame.

Come and see the legacy the Weis family left. A place where angels walking the earth are respected, celebrated and loved unconditionally. Come and say hello to the welcoming residents — they will make your heart smile. When you leave, you can say a prayer at the grotto of Mother Mary donated by the Golic family. I will never forget the legacy the Weis family left us, and when my time comes to meet my Almighty Maker, I know my son will be taken care of.

Until then, it’s just 2.8 miles away to visit my favorite hero.

Katherine Robinson Coleman alumna Class of 1978 Oct. 11

Cemetery of the unborn

My thanks to the students responsible for the white crosses on South Quad commemorating the unborn children who are killed each day in our nation by abortion. You are to be commended for reminding us all what a tragedy abortion is.

It’s deeply inspiring to those of my generation to witness student-initiated efforts to make our culture aware that the right to life is the human and civil rights issue of our age. You of your generation are now entrusted with steering our nation to more selfless values than did our generation. “A child shall lead us ... “

A building dedication brought me to campus where I saw the crosses and the little pink and blue flags representing the 3,500 girls and boys aborted each day in our country — more human lives taken every day than were taken by the terrorists on 9/11.

Attending the building dedication was a justice of the United States Supreme Court, who also walked past your Cemetery of the Unborn. When you have the courage to stand up for eternal values, you never know whom you might influence.

While some actions cause scandal, you, by your faithfulness, have given us an edifying example of what our Creator calls us to be: light, in a world of darkness.

Your witness to the Notre Dame community, and to the world beyond, distilled the abortion issue to its essence: each abortion kills a child, a little girl or boy waiting to be born. Thank you for reminding us of this immutable truth.

Anthony J. Lauinger Notre Dame parent

Oct. 11

Friends of Aaron Martinuzzi

Dear Notre Dame community,

On Aug. 20, 2010, Aaron Martinuzzi, my good friend, former roommate and classmate at Notre Dame, suffered a spinal cord injury in a diving accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. I visited Aaron this weekend, and he is approaching his recovery with incredible strength, courage and determination. To that end, I am confident that he will achieve his goal of resuming his studies at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he recently enrolled as a first-year medical student. But he needs our help.

As such, I am writing to ask everyone in the Notre Dame community to do anything they can to assist Aaron and his family in battling the daunting emotional and financial costs of his recovery. A foundation has been setup in his honor for this purpose, the stated objectives of which are:

• To provide support for Aaron during his rehabilitation and assist with the lifestyle needs his spinal cord injury will require;

• To purchase the necessary equipment (bed, wheelchair, transportation, technology) to sustain progress towards full engagement in the pursuit of independence and education; [and]

• To connect friends and family from … around the country, wh[o] have rallied to inspire Aaron and give him strength and encouragement.

Aaron and his family would greatly appreciate any support you can provide. Please rally around a fellow member of the Notre Dame family.

Donations can be made payable to “Friends of Aaron Martinuzzi” and mailed to PO Box 324, Milford, MI, 48381. More information can be found at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/aaronmartinuzzi/.

In Notre Dame,

The freedom to ignore speech

There is now a case before the Supreme Court of paramount importance to testing the limits of free speech. The case refers to the radical hate group, Westboro Baptist Church, who will be visiting Eastern Washington soon. The case deals with the group’s protest at the funeral of Lance Cpl Matthew A. Snyder, who died in Iraq. The group stood outside the church during his funeral, carrying such banners as “Thank God for dead soldiers.” The reason the church protested the funeral was simple. To them, many of the nation’s problems, including the Iraq War, are because God hates gay people.

According to the group, everything from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to the Gulf Oil Spill can be blamed on gay people and nonbelievers. Westboro has also called Jewish people the “real Nazis” and protested against a diverse group of individuals from Ronald Reagan to Coretta Scott King.

To put it bluntly, there are very few people in this country in agreement with the Westboro Baptist Church. For many of the Supreme Court justices, the case will not be a question of right and wrong, but how to issue an opinion upholding American values without triggering an Orwellian scenario where the government can restrict any speech they deem unacceptable.

The American Civil Liberties Union unsurprisingly took the other side of the issue. To them, speech should be nearly unrestricted regardless of the message.

However, if the ACLU’s fight in the court prevails, other messages such as cyberbullying could also be deemed legal. Cyberbullying is the latest of free speech controversies where people have been charged with bullying others, usually teens, via social networks. Many of these cases have ended in suicide.

If the justices make too broad of a ruling, this harassment could certainly fall under the guise of free speech because all speech would be unrestricted and bullying,

though hateful, is not always physically violent. Fortunately, there are options to ban groups such as Westboro from funerals while upholding the right to protest.

The Westboro Church did a few things at the funeral protests to set it apart from others. By protesting during a funeral, Westboro made their message unavoidable. Unlike a standard pamphlet, or a protest on any other day of the year, they forced the funeral attendees to see and hear their message no matter any reasonable effort to avoid it. That is not free speech, it is harassment.

Whenever someone is forced to listen, freedom of speech no longer applies. Inherent in any freedom should be the right to change channels, to put down the paper or avoid the protest. Our freedom of speech must also have a freedom to avoid speech built in. Without that guarantee, protests at funerals, cyberbullying and other forms of harassment become perfectly legal. With the advent of online media, the opportunity to harass people for a cause becomes exceptionally easy. Some basic preventative measures are needed to preserve American freedoms.

The justices now have an opportunity to help define these rights for all Americans so freedom of speech is legal, but harassment through the actions of individuals and groups such as Westboro remains illegal.

Westboro followers will be protesting at Gonzaga U. and Eastern Washington U. on Oct. 21. Hopefully, the students at these fine institutions will just leave the morons of Westboro alone to be hoisted on their own petard. If anyone present at these rallies is deserving of the eternal consequences the group is likely to describe during those protests, it is the Westboro congregates.

This article first appeared in the Oct. 11 edition of The Daily Evergreen, the daily publication serving Wasington State University.

The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

The Situation: Music hunters seek, read, blog and cull music from radio, print and, most often, the interwebs. Music gatherers collect mix CD’s, free digital downloads and whatever their friends happen to be listening to. If you are a gatherer, this space is for you. If you are a hunter, email me your latest find, and I promise you’ll find it written up here. (Seriously. Email. Even if you’re not a student.)

Today’s radio stations are dotted with the Gagalicious and your iPods are proudly packing the Gleeful. Today, however, I challenge you to delve into a genre that’s not just becoming “novel,” but is dangerously close to extinction (which of course just means reinvention). That would be the proud position of the independent folk-rock woman. Now I do not begrudge Sarah Bareilles or her place in the acoustic-pop realm, but she is just that — pop music. Today we’re talking exploratory, two feet out of the mainstream women who plotted their own paths, and whose music may help you find your own (path, that is).

Suzanne Vega

First of all, let us raise a glass to the woman who gave us the nearly ubiquitous late-eighties/early-nineties hit, “Tom’s Diner,” which you may know better as the song that goes, “Duh duh DUH duh, duh duh DUH duh…” as it chronicles her view from the diner stool pedestal. Nothing makes one feel “cultured” and “coffee-haus sheik” quite like this radio-friendly jam. But this was certainly not her only contribution to the popular realm, as the song “Luka” gained much status when it was released (in 1987). Though her sound is decidedly dated, there is something engrossing about listening to a full album of then cool “urban-folk.” It’s possible to imagine that Vega walked around with a tune in her head, plucking lyrics from whatever happened to pass by. Her deadpan alto, dripping with sarcasm and irony, is particularly pleasing on days when you want to chuck your chemistry textbook out the library window. At least Suzanne understands.

Tracks to Tap: “Blood Makes Noise,” “Left of Center,” “Marlene on the Wall”

Let’s get past it: she’s married to Paul Simon. All right, we’re past it. This woman is worthy of our praise in her own right, especially since she gave us the opening chords to “What I Am,” which demands leaning back into the driver’s seat and hanging your wrist over the steering wheel. She also proclaimed, “Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box. Religion is a smile on a dog.” (Try using that on your Theo midterm.) Her pre-Sheryl Crow sound is cathartically unassuming and far less Santa Monica than her Lance-loving follower. The lightly-whammied guitars and sliding vocals will compel you to sit back for a few minutes and think about something other than the narrative implications of Hitchcock’s cinematography.

Tracks to Tap: “What I Am,” “Stranger Things,” “Love Like We Do”

This more recent chanteuse has graced our ears on soundtracks such as “Reality Bites” and “Legally Blonde,” and pretty much every other romantic comedy/girl power/family holiday film since. Her roots, however, are firmly in nineties folk-pop. With the hit “Stay,” she became the first artist ever to reach No. 1 without a label. She kept that art/lit/original-indie image up through many albums (and later a reality TV show) as a mainstay in what became “Adult Alternative.” And she makes wearing glasses cool, so we can forgive her for lines like, “School school swimming pool, I walk barefoot home from school.”

Tracks to Tap: “Stay,” “I Do,” “We Could Still Belong Together”

The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer. Contact Stephanie DePrez at sdeprez@nd.edu

rock fans out of their chairs.

By CLAIRE STEPHENS Scene Writer

With Papa Roach’s concert at Club Fever a few weeks ago came Trapt, the band formed by high school students in California with a love of hard rock. Today marks the release of their fourth studio album, “No Apologies,” released under the Eleven Seven label and produced by John Karkazis. The album was originally scheduled for release on Sept. 14, but several singles from the album have been available on iTunes and the band’s official site between July and September.

The band’s four current members include Chris Taylor Brown (lead singer), Peter Charell (bass guitarist), Aaron “Monty” Montgomery (drums), and Robb Torres (lead guitarist). The album’s 12 new songs cover variations of heavy and alter-

native metal, with many songs that would be tame enough for mainstream.

Despite the heavy bass and guitar characteristics of the genre, Brown’s singing remains clear with very little of the gruffer, rougher and louder vocalizing normally needed to keep up with the instrumentalists. Though maybe a bit predictable musically and mainstream sounding rock for dedicated heavy metal fans, the album overall doesn’t blast the more milder of

“No Apologies” Trapt

Label: Eleven Seven Best Tracks: “Sound Off,” “Drama Queen”

Trapt explores the mellower side of metal in both music and lyrics in “Are You With Me,” “Beautiful Scar” and somewhat in the album’s title song, “No Apologies.” Brown’s solid vocals make the lyrics easy to follow, and perhaps surprising to those not fans of heavy metal, the lyrics are rather meaningful.

Particularly applying to their teenage and young adult audience, behind all the songs are messages of acceptance of others and one’s own identity.

“Get Up,” “Head Up” and “Rope,” are all songs about keeping at it when the going gets rough, and are

each slightly different from “Sound Off” and “Overloaded,” which sound and are written like one might expect from the average heavy metal band. With some exceptions, the music generally begins to sound the same, with songs tending not only to sound the same but also to have the same themes. It is not a bad purchase, but not a must have either; a better option would be to download the singles one likes individually instead of buying the whole album.

A balance between the blasting, energetic, screaming sounds of very heavy metal and the familiar sounds of more popular, conventional rock make it a decent listen for someone seeking a bit of edge in their regular rock or a metal fan seeking a more watered down alternative metal.

Contact Claire Stephens at cstephe4@nd.edu

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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s e e o n e o f o u r European counterparts

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s e s s e d I t a l i a n b u s i n e s s m e n c a r r y i n g it with pride to their board meetings, a n d s t u d e n t s e f f o r t l e s s l y l i f t i n g t h e hallmarks of their trade those prev i o u s l y p e s k y b o o k s o n t h e i r w a y to class The leather satchel, unlike

By ANKUR CHAWLA Scene Writer

“ I t ’ s K i n d o f a F u n n y S t o r y ” i s a n a d a p t a t i o n o f t h e b o o k b y N e d V i z z i n i , f o l l o w i n g t h e s t o r y o f a d e p r e s s e d t e e n a g e r, C r a i g , w h o g e t s admitted to the psychiatric ward of a

h o s p i t a l a f t e r h a v i n g s u i c i d a l thoughts However, it fails to live up t o i t s t i t l e b y t r e a d i n g t h e l i n e b e t w e e n d a r k c o m e d y a n d t e e n drama

C r a i g , p l a y e d b y t h e y o u n g a c t o r K e i r G i l c h r i s t i s a t y p i c a l D o m e r i n t h e m a k i n g a t t h e E x e c u t i v e P r e -

Professional High School in Brooklyn

A c o m b i n a t i o n o f l o v i n g b u t p u s h y p a r e n t s , e x c e s s i v e e x p e c t a t i o n s a n d s e v e r e s h y n e s s l e a d s t o h i s d e p r e ssion and culminates with him seeking medical help Not to belittle his cond i t i o n , d e p r e s s i o n a n d s u i c i d a l t h o u g h t s a r e v e r y s i g n i f i c a n t p r o b -

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The one exception to this is Bobby ( Z a c h G a l i f i a n a k i s “ T h e H a n g o v e r ” )

w h o q u i c k l y b e c o m e s C r a i g ’ s f r i e n d and mentor during his s t a y i n t h e p s y c h ward He is without a

d o u b t t h e d e e p e s t c h a r a c t e r a n d t h e u n s u n g h e r o o f “ I t ’ s K i n d o f a F u n n y

C r a i g ’ s E g y p t i a n r o o m m a t e M u k t a d a hides in his bed under his covers all day and a Hasidic Jewish man politel y a s k s o t h e r p a t i e n t s t o q u i e t d o w n every single time they use the phone

S t o r y a s h e b a t t l e s w i t h s e l f - e s t e e m i s s u e s a n d b e i n g a n a b s e n t e e f a t h e r t o a n 8 - y e a r - o l d g i r l G a l i f i a n a k i s s p e rf o r m a n c e i s p r a i s ew o r t h y a n d h e s h o w s t h a t h e c a n b e m u c h more than a one-man wolf pack and c a n p l a y a s e r i o u s r o l e ( d e s p i t e h i s

t r a d i t i o n a l b e a r d a n d s c r u f f y h a i r )

A l s o , a f e l l o w t e e n a g e r, N o e l l e ( E m m a R o b e r t s , “ Va l e n t i n e s D a y, ” “ N a n c y D r e w ” ) p l a y s a s e r i o u s r o l e a n d s e r v e s a s C r a i g ’ s c o n f i d a n t

Still she remains a static character with little depth

D e s p i t e t h e o v e r d o n e s t o r y o f a teenager with the typical three probl e m s ( p a r e n t s , s c h o o l , g i r l s ) , “ I t ’ s K i n d o f a F u n n y S t o r y ” d i d h a v e i t s h i g h p o i n t s A t o n e p o i n t t h e e n t i r e w a r d d i d a r e n d i t i

Rowing club places at meet

The men ’ s rowing club competed in its first regatta of the season Sunday at the Head of the Rock

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Five Irish boats placed in the

t o p t h r e e o f t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e events and medaled at the regatta To begin the day, the collegiate four coxed by Lauren Mach,

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men s open doubles event, Mark Kettler and Sean Gibbons placed second with Kurt Krautmann and M i c h a e l M

d with a third place finish

eight competed in its first race of the season Coxed by Kate von

Belden and David Murphy, the crew finished third in their event

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N e w Yo r k Ya n k e e s o n 2 ½ weeks’ rest

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N e w Yo r k d e c i d e d a g a i n s t u s i n g a t h r e e - m a n r o t a t i o n a g a i n s t Te x a s o r Ta m p a B a y, which would have required CC

Illinois

In the men s collegiate eight event, the club’s top eight finished second behind the University of

Wagner Michael Maggart Greg Flood, Zach Stackhouse, Graham Boechler, Kurt Krautmann, Tim Parks and Garrett Campbell sitting stoke to bow

The club will be travelling to Boston, MA during the second half of fall break for the Head of the Charles Regatta on October 23rd and 24th, racing in the collegiate eight, collegiate four, and club four events

S a b a t h i a , A n d y P e t t i t t e a n d P h i l H u g h e s t o a l l s t a r t o n t h r e e d a y s ’ r e s t i n t h e l a t t e r p a r t o f t h e b e s t - o f - s e v e n series “We hope he pitches well for us ” Cashman said “We believe in him every time he takes the m o u n d , b u t h e h a s s t r u g g l e d , n o q u e s t i o n a b o u t i t , h e r e i n t h e s e c o n d h a l f B u t t h a t w a s then This is now He’s a very competitive person We believe t h a t c o m p e t i t i v e n a t u r e w i l l allow him to step up and do a g r e a t j o b f o r u s We l o o k f o rward to that But you can’t run a w a y f r o m h o w h e p i t c h e d i n the second half He didn’t pitch well I n t h e s e c o n d

a p p e a r against Minnesota in the division series and has not pitched in a game since Oct 2 He was 10-15 with a 5 26 ERA during t h e r e g u l a r s e a s o n i n c l u d i n g 4-13 with a 6 48 ERA over the final four months and 1-7 from Aug 1 on He s got a very complicated d e l i v e r y, ” C a s h m a n s a i d “ B u t when he’s on, he’s as tough as they come ”

By SAM GANS Sports Writer

After a bit of a slow start, the Notre Dame rugby team

t u r n e d i t o n a n d d o m i n a t e d P u r d u e w i t h a 4 9 - 7 w i n o n

Saturday

Notre Dame (5-2) raced off to a 6-0 lead after Irish sophomore Sean Peterson kicked two penalty goals through the uprights Purdue then took a 7 - 6 l e a d w h e n t h e I r i s h turned the ball over deep in t h e i r e n d , l e a d i n g t o a Boilermaker try and conversion, but the Irish responded with 43 unanswered points to bury the Boilermakers

“We played about 60 minu t e s o f g o o d r u g b y ” I r i s h s e n i o r f o r w a r d N i c k C i v e t t a said “The 20 minutes there at the beginning we were not r e a l l y m a k i n g g o o d p a s s e s , but we buckled down ”

After Irish senior back and captain Andy O’Connor ran in the first try of the match for t h e I r i s h t o m a k e t h e s c o r e 1 3 - 7 , t h e I r i s h e a r n e d a s c r u m a t t h e 5 - m e t e r l i n e after tackling Purdue in their own try zone Civetta picked u p t h e b a l l f r o m t h e s c r u m and touched it down for a try, putting the Irish up 20-7, the first of his three tries on the day

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d i s t r a c t i o n c a u s e d b y a n N F L i n v e s t i g a t i o n i n t o a l l e g a t i o n s t h a t h e s e n t r a c y m e s s a g e s a n d l e w d p h o t o s t o a J e t s g a m e h o s t e s s i n 2 0 0 8

A p e r s o n w i t h k n o w l e d g e o f t h e s i t u a t i o n t o l d T h e

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Y o r k J e t s a t N e w

M e a d o w l a n d s S t a d i u m T h e p e r s o n s p o k e o n c o n d i t i o n o f a n o n y m i t y b e c a u s e t h e y w e r e n o t a u t h o r i z e d t o t a l k p u b l i c l y a b o u t t h e c o n v e r s a t i o n

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M V P, v i o l a t e d i t s p e r s o n a l c o n d u c t p o l i c y S h o u l d t h e

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Cosmo Kramer: They're trying to screw with your head. Jerry: Now why would a junior high school want to screw with my head?

“The first half was dedicated to setting up our structure a n d b r i n g i n g t h e d

f e n s e i n to allow us in the second half t o e x p l o i t t h a t f o r a l l t

points that we did,” O’Connor said

O’Connor had two tries and s e n

added another Peterson was s

making

three of his

for-six on conversions

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Irish know they can get better

“We were

little bit undis-

Bowling Green up next [Bowling Green] has dominated this league for

McGlinn Fields

While the Irish took a comf o r t a b l e 2 0 - 7 l e a d i n t o t h e half, they kept didn’t let up in the second half exploding for 29 points in the final 40 minutes

Contact Sam Gans at sgans@nd.edu

S t e r g e r h a s n o t y e t s p o k e n t o t h e l e a g u e T h e p e r s o n s p o k e o n c o n d i t i o n o f a n o n y m i t y b e c a u s e t h e y w e r e n o t a u t h o r i z e d t o c o m m e n t D e a d s p i n a l s o r e p o r t e d t h a t F a v r e p u r s u e d t w o f e m a l e m a s s a g e t h e r a p i s t s w h o w o r k e d p a r t t i m e f o r t h e t e a m , a c c o r d i n g t o o n e o f t h e w o m e n D e a d s p i n d i d n o t

Cosmo Kramer: Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know

Cosmo Kramer: You're wasting your life.

George Costanza: I am not. What you call wasting, I call living. I'm living my life.

Cosmo Kramer: OK, like what? No, tell me. Do you have a job?

George Costanza: No.

Cosmo Kramer: You got money?

George Costanza: No.

Cosmo Kramer: Do you have a woman?

George Costanza: No.

Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any prospects?

George Costanza: No.

Cosmo Kramer: You got anything on the horizon?

George Costanza: Uh, no. Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning?

George Costanza: I like to get the Daily News.

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Cronin said

T h e D a

of their success to their offensive line especially junior center Tim Curran

Our offensive line led us to victory,” Dansdill said “Tim is the cornerstone

injured in the first quarter and

Whitmore and sophomore running back Bryce Burton made

g

a

i n s Alumni’s defense held tough [Meinert getting hurt] obvi-

o u s l y h u r t t h e i r g a m e o f

awesome today ” Dansdill said

“We had a couple of guys play-

stepped up

W h i l e A l u m n i w i l l s e e k i t s f o u r t h w i

Morrissey, both at 7:30 p m at LaBar Field Thursday

Mor rissey 6, Duncan 0

B o t h M o r r i s s e y a n d D u n c a n battled for the full 60 minutes

o n S u n d a y b u t i n t h e e n d i t w a s t h e M a n o r ( 2 - 1 ) t h a t t r i -

u m p h e d o v e r t h e H i g h l a n d e r s (1-3)

T h e g a m e w a s a d e f e n s i v e s t r u g g l e f r o m t h e o u t s e t a n d

n e i t h e r t e a m s c o r e d a t o u c hdown

W i t h t h e m o m e n t u m o n h i s side, Morrissey freshman quar-

t e r b a c k N i c k C o n r a d s e t t l e d

i n t o h i s o w n g a m e a n d w a s able to find his open receivers

O n e o f t h e m o s t s p e c t a c u l a r plays of the game occurred on

t h i r d d o w n w i t h M o r r i s e y o u t o f f i e l d g o a l r a n g e w h e n Morissey sophomore tight end

Ta y l o r S t e i n h a u l e d i n a 2 0y a r d h a l f b a c k p a s s t o p u t t h e Manor in position to put points on the board

“In the heat of the moment,

C o n r a d s a w f r e s h m a n w i d e r e c e i v e r A n d r e w G a s t e l u m o p e n , ” S t e i n s a i d “ I n s t e a d o f

c a t c h i n g t h e b a l l , G a s t e l u m t i p p e d i t r i g h t t o m e I t w a s one of the best passes we have completed all season ” Morrissey junior kicker Rory

C a r r o l l n a i l e d a 3 9 - y a r d f i e l d goal as time expired in the first half to put his team up 3-0

“ I w a s a l i t t l e n e r v o u s a t f i r s t , a s i t w a s m y f i r s t f i e l d g o a l a t t e m p t t h i s s e a s o n ” Carroll said “I just kept a cool

h e a d a n d h i t i t t h r o u g h t h e uprights ” In the second half, the Manor d e f e n s e c a m e u p s t r o n g a n d f o r c e d a q u i c k t h r e e - a n d - o u t f o r t h e H i g h l a n d e r s o n t h e i r first possession Morrissey then drove down the field, allowing

C a r r o l l a g a i n c a m e u p b i g a s he nailed his second field goal of the game from 25 yards out “ W e c a m e i n t o t h i s g a m e w a n t i n g t o g e t m o r e c o m p l etions so we have the option of t h r o w i n g t h e b a l l m o r e , ” C o n r a d s a i d “ I c o m p l e t e d a t least one pass to all four of my wide receivers, so I d call this game a success ” As for Duncan, their hopes of b e c o m i n g t h e f i r s t t e a m i n dorm history to make the playoffs are slim to none Although

t h e H i g h l a n d e r s w e r e a b l e t o move the ball through the air at times, the Morrissey defense p r o v e d t o b e t o o m u c h f o r them

tender Siegfried

Car roll 10, Zahm 0 Despite a slow start, Carroll

win streak and move one step closer to their ultimate goal of a championship

Both Carroll (3-0) and Zahm ( 0 - 3 )

season was plagued by penal-

held Carroll to only a few first downs in the half

Zahm’s offense led by sophom

Bowman, showed improvement from previous games but failed to move effectively up the field

Relying heavily on the passing

connecting with receivers

Zahm freshman offensive tackle Scott Aufderheide said “Our

isn t there yet

L e d b y f r e s h m a n q u a r t e rback Jack Gardner, the Vermin offense came out stronger and more determined in the second half

“We started off slow,” junior running back Nick Tammerine said “Our coach talked to us at h a l f t i m e a n d w e g o t o u r a c t t o g e t h e r f o r t h e r e s

C a r r o l l f i n a l l y g o t o n t h e scoreboard with a field goal to open the fourth quarter From t h a t p o i n t o n t h e V e r m i n looked much more like a dominant undefeated team

W i t h j u s t u n d e r t h r e e m i nu t e s r e m a i n i n g i n t h e g a m e ,

C a r r o

e f e n

e h e l d Z a h m b a c k a n d

r e f u s e d t o g i v e t h e m t h e opportunity to score

T h e V e r m i n w o n a t o u g h g a m e t o r e m a i n u n d e f e a t e d and realize how important it is to keep working on their game

“We feel ready for the rest of o u r g a m e s Ta m m e r i n e s a i d

“We will work on tackling and staying positive

” While Carroll looks to contin-

u e i t s w i n n i n g w a y s , Z a h m i s still searching for its first win

A f t e r s h o w i n g a m a r k e d i m p r o v e m e n t o n o f f e n s e , t h e team remains positive Carroll looks to keep its win streak alive this week against

S o r i n w h i l e Z a h m l o o k s t o break through for its first win

a g a i n s t S t E d ’ s o n T h u r s d a y night

O’Neill 26, Keenan 12

I n S u n d a y ’ s s h o w d o w n b e t w e e n K e e n a n a n d O ’ N e i l l , t h e A n g r y M o b s a e r i a l a t t a c k m a d e t h e d i f f e r e n c e i n t h e

O’Neill win

T h e K n i g h t s ( 1 - 3 ) t o o k a n early lead in the opening minutes of the game when senior q u a r t e r b a c k J a m i e K o e p s e l threw a long touchdown pass

A f t e r m i s s i n g t h e e x t r a p o i n t

O’Neill (2-2) took over and took

o n l y e i g h t p l a y s t o p u n c h t h e ball into the opposite endzone

a n d t i e t h e s c o r e a t s i x J u s t f o u r p l a y s l a t e r, O ’ N e i l l h a d p o s s e s s i o n o f t h e b a l l a g a i n , and a 20-yard touchdown pass

b y j u n i o r q u a r t e r b a c k J P M c C a b e g a v

end zone Just before halftime,

l l returned to 40-yard line effectively ending the half with the score 14-6

Although the Keenan offense o

regained possession and tossed a 3 5 -

t helped O’Neill open up a 20-6 l e a d S o o n a f t e r, t h e M o b scored again on a long touchdown pass by McCabe

In the closing minutes of the

score to

hurt them that he didn’t play ” K

d b y injuries on the day, as sopho-

m o r e q u a r t e r b a c k T r e v o r Yerrick was out with an injury, forcing Koepsel into the start-

i n g l i n e u p H e w a s l a t e r r e p l a c e d b y s o p h o m o r e A l e x Green

“ We w e r e d i s a p p o i n t e d , b u t I ' m v e r y p

captain Bart Dear said

underwhelmed

Schwartz said, “But

differential really does matter so it leaves a little bit of a bitter taste in my mouth ”

O ’ N e i l l w i l l t r y t o e a r n a playoff berth against Stanford on Thursday at 9:30 at LaBar

Dillon 27, Stanford

clinic by the Big Red as Dillon

d

T h e B i g R e d (

good pressure on the quarterback We were looking for the t r i c k p l a y a l l g a m e a n d t h e n w e w e r e r e a d y f o r i t , ” D i a z s a i d “ I w e n t u p , g o t t h e b a l l a n d c a m e d o w n w i t h i t I t worked out for us ”

S t a n f o r d ( 2 - 1 ) s e n i o r q u a rterback Tony Rizzo said there w e r e t w o r e a s o n s f o r t h e turnovers

“ W e h a d w a y t o o m a n y [ t u r n o v e r s ] , R i z z o s a i d I t h i n k i t c a n b e a t t r i b u t e d t o t w o t h i n g s - w e p l a y e d r e a l l y s l o p p y, b u t m o s t l y D i l l o n j u s t p l a y e d a r e a l l y g o o d g a m e T h e y p l a y e d a g g r e s s i v e o n defense, and it looked like they k n e w w h a t w e w e r e g o i n g t o d o , a n d t h e y p l a y e d w e l l against it ” Dillon opened the game with a t o u c h d o w n a n d k i c k e d t w o field goals later in the first half

t o t a k e t h e l e a d a t h a l f t i m e , 13-0

“We came out a lot better in t h e f i r s t h a l f We s t a r t e d o f f s t r o n g ” D i l l o n s o p h o m o r e c o a c h L e e H a r u n o s a i d “ O u r defense played great Our cap-

t a i n w o r k e d h a r d t o c o m e u p with schemes to contain them ” With the victory the Big Red

w i n s t h e G r e e n L e a g u e t i t l e and have secured an automatic bid in the 2010 playoffs

“ G i v e c r e d i t t o S t a n f o r d They played hard, they played

w e l l T h e i r o f f e n s e i s v e r y e x p l o s i v e a n d w e ’ r e j u s t happy to get away with the vic-

t o r y, H a r u n o s a i d T h e y v e got a lot of good playmakers on

S t a n f o r d ’ s o f f e n s e , a n d w e

w e r e j u s t h a p p y t o c o n t a i n them ”

F o r S t a n f o r d , a w i n o n T h u r s d a y w o u l d q u a l i f y t h e

G r i f f i n s f o r t h e 2 0 1 0 p l a y o f f s as well

“ W e ’ v e g o t a g a m e o n

T h u r s d a y We a r e e x c i t e d t o b o u n c e b a c k a n d p l a y w e l l i n that, Rizzo said I feel like we c a n m a t c h u p w i t h a n y b o d y

We h a d a t o u g h g a m e t o d a y but we know what we need to work on ” The Big Red will play Keough

T h u r s d a y, w h i l e t h e G r i f f i n s will face O’Neill

F isher 28, St Edward’s 12 Fisher found its offense and b o l s t e r e d i t s p l a y o f f c h a n c e s with a rout over St Edward s

T h e F i s h e r o f f e n s e s t a r t e d strong on its first drive, pounding the ball down the field with

Ramblers.

crossed into St Edward s territ o r y, t h e y s w i t c h e d u p t h e i r attack and junior quarterback Pat Hertinstein hit senior halfback and team captain Michael McMahon for a 40-yard touch-

responded, marching down the

back Matt Abeling to get on the scoreboard T

seemed to be slowing down the F

play of the ensuing possession, McMahon took a pitch left and sprinted down the sideline 73yard Fisher touchdown A

a close with St Edward’s looking

Edward s within two points at halftime

The two teams butted heads f

physical play ruled the action In the fourth, an Abeling interception halted a Gentlemen drive, and Fisher began to run out the clock with their signature bruising style

The Green Wave continued to hand the ball to McMahon, and

zone for

final time on a 45yard run to put the final score at 28-12

Fisher felt it was their hard work that got them the victory

We had some good practices this week and tried to liven up

now but that would be great ”

The Green Wave wrapped up

while the Gentlemen play their final game this Thursday

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Stahl looks to finish career on high note

By ANDREW OWENS Sports Writer

n

c a m p u s a s a f r e s hm a n “ D a n i s a g u y t h a t w a s n ’ t r e c r u i t e d a s h e a v i l y a s h e s h o u l d h a v e b e e n ” I r i s h a s s i s t a n t c o a c h Ry a n S a c h i r e s a i d H e w a s n t r a n k e d a s h i g h l y a s o t h e r s , b u t h e e n t e r e d t h e s t a r t i n g l i n e u p a s a f r e s h m a n a n d h a s p r og r e s s e d e v e r y y e a r ”

A s a f r e s h m a n S t a h l w a s n a m e d t o t h e B i g E a s t A l l -

To u r n a m e n t t e a m a f t e r g o i n g

2 7 - 8 d u r i n g t h e r e g u l a r s e a -

s o n I n h i s s o p h o m o r e s e a s o n , h e w a s l i s t e d a s t h e 1 1 2 t h

b e s t p l a y e r i n t h e n a t i o n

D e s p i t e t h e e a r l y s u c c e s s ,

S t a h l h a s n e v e r s t o p p e d w o r k i n g t o i m p r o v e h i s g a m e

H e h a s d e v e l o p e d i n t o a n e l i t e t e n n i s p l a y e r w i t h s t r o n g s e r v e s a n d i n t i m i d a ti n g n e t p l a y t o c o m p l i m e n t t h e i m p r e s s i v e g r o u n d s t r o k e s h e h a d c o m i n g i n a s a f r e s hm a n S a c h i r e n o t e d t h a t S t a h l ’ s i m p a c t o n t h e t e a m c a n n o t b e o v e r v a l u e d “ H e ’ s a g r e a t e m b o d i m e n t o f w h o w e a r e a n d i s o n e o f t h e h a r d e s t w o r k e r s o n t h e t e a m , ” h e s a i d “ H e i s a l e a d e r b y e x a m p l e a n d r e a l l y b e l i e v e s i n h i m s e l f ” S t a h l c o n t i n u e s t o f o c u s o n r e a c h i n g t e a m g o a l s o v e r i n d i v i d u a l o n e s “ I t h i n k t

MLB Giants finish off Braves

AT L A N TA T h e S a n

F r a n c i s c o G i a n t s c e l e b r a t e d their first playoff win in eight years then paused to honor the man whose career they had just ended

As Bobby Cox came out of the Braves dugout to tip his cap to the chanting crowd one last time

M o n d a y n i g h t , t h e G i a n t s stopped what they were doing on the other side of the field

They began clapping, too, and tipped their caps in Cox’s direct i o n T h e A t l a n t a m a n a g e r waved back

Then the Giants headed off to s a v o r a 3 - 2 v i c t o r y t h a t s e n t them to the NL Championship

S e r i e s f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e s i n c e 2002 Twenty-one-year-old rookie Madison Bumgarner pitched six strong innings, late-season pickup Cody Ross homered and drove in the go-ahead run with a

t w o - o u t s i n g

h and the San Francisco bullpen closed it out

F o r C o x , t h e r e a r e n o m o r e games, only the reality of what he’s going to do with the rest of

h i s l i f e w i t h o u t a g r o u p o f ballplayers to manage

He can put away that familiar No 6 uniform for good “ I t d o e s n ’t f e e l l i k e t h e l a

again ”

putting

The series was tight and tense to the very last out Giants closer Brian Wilson walked two in the n i n t h , g i v i n g

m

n d C o x ’ s career But Omar Infante struck o u t a t t e m p t i n g t o c h e c k h i s s w i n g o n a n a s t y s l i d e r, a n d Melky Cabrera grounded out to third

“This series had everything,”

G i a n t s m a n a g e r B r u c e B o c h y s a i d “ J u s t t h e i n t e n s i t y a n d excitement of the series, it had to be thrilling for the fans There was never an easy moment for Bobby or myself because these games could have gone either way ” Indeed, every game was decide d b y o n e r u n , b u t t h e G i a n t s won three of them to take the b e s t - o f - f i v e s e r i e s a n d e a r n a s h o t a g a i n s t t h e t w o - t i m e defending NL champion Phillies

G a m e 1 i s S a t u r d a y a t P h i l a d e l p h i a a n d f e a t u r e s a m a r q u e e m a t c h u p : T i m Lincecum vs Roy Halladay

the final out, the

! Bobby! Bobby!” to lure the retiring skipper out of the dugout for a well-deserved curtain call

NFL

Favre fires 500th

TD in loss to Jets

Brett Favre was at his daz-

downs, including two to Percy Harvin the second bringing the Vikings within two points

Hit hard early and often by Rex Ryan s physical defense, Favre nearly led the Vikings back with a milestone night, but Dwight Lowery returned an interception 26 yards for

start by lightning

now the 41-year-old quarterb

Contact Andrew Owens at aowens2@nd.edu

n g i f a n even bigger punishment is in store from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Favre finished 14 for 34 for 264 yards for the Vikings (13) hours after he apologized to teammates for the distraction caused by an NFL investigation into allegations that h e s e n t r a c y m e s s a g e s a n d l e w d p h o t o s t o a J e t s g a m e hostess in 2008 H e b e c a m e t h e f i r s t N F L p l a y e r t o t h r o w 5 0 0 t o u c hdown passes and for 70,000 yards but two early fumbles a g a i n s t h i s f o r m e r t e a m

t h e i r s e c o n d d r i v e a s R u e k e r t made it a two-score game with a 50-yard rushing touchdown

The Chicks countered on their next drive with a 65-yard catch

a n d r u n b y f r e s h m a n w i d e receiver Colleen Haller, setting up a short rushing touchdown

b y s o p h o m o r e q u a r t e r b a c k

Connaught Blood

On Lewis’ next drive, however, Blood was intercepted, leading to the first of two rushing touchdowns by Tate

The Chicks offense came out stronger in the second half On their first drive, Blood was hip-

h e c k e

a s s h e streaked to the end zone forcing a penalty that led to firstand-goal Blood then ran it in

down

L

McKeever then forced a three-

on the next drive

There was only time for one m o r e L e w i s p o s s e s s i o n , a n d

Blood connected with Haller to s q u e e z e o u t o n e l a s t t o u c hdown

The Phoxes were thrilled with the win and are excited for the playoffs

We k n e w w e h a d t o c o m e i n t o t h i s g a m e a n d w i n , ”

Ruekert said “Gabby was really p a t i e n t a n d w a i t e d f o r g o o d opportunities to score ”

Looking ahead, the Pangborn squad is prepared to face stiff competition in the postseason

“We’re going to take the play-

o f f s o n e g a m e a t a t i m e , ”

Ruekert said

“The coaches do a good job of f i g u r i n g o u t w h a t t h e o t h e r t e a m i s g o i n g t o d o , ” Ta t e

added “Then we adapt to each opponent ” Lewis s fate was left unclear

a

either

“ L e w i s f o o t b a l l h a s h a d t h e most fun out of all the dorms,

C e p o n i s s a i d “ I f t h i s w a s t h e last game, we left a legacy ”

Howard 26, Pasquerilla East 0

H

P a s q u e r i l

E

s t d e f e n s e f o r touchdowns on each of itsthree first half possessions en route to a victory at LaBar Field Sunday The Ducks (4-0) were led by senior captain and quarterback

K

11 of 21 passes on the day for t h r e e t o u c h d o w n s B i

spread the ball around evenly among multiple receivers, who

showing quick strike capabili-

just three plays

Bishop said “They did a great job today ” The Howard defense excelled

downs in the game With excel-

returned an interception for a touchdown in the first half

Though the result was disappointing Pasquerilla East junior captain Kristin Mannion saw improvement in her team in the second half Through a muchi

n d a n increasing reliance on the running of Waller after completing only one of seven passes in the f i r s t h a l f , t h e P y r o s p l a y e d much better in the second half

“In the first half we had the

same issues that we ’ ve had all y e a r, n o t c o n n e c t i n g o n p l a y s a n d g e t t i n g i n o u r o w n w a y, ”

Mannion said “But in the second half we let go of our fear of making mistakes a little bit and lit a little fire under our butts

D e s p i t e t h e b e t t e r p l a y, t h e P y r o s w e r e s t i l l s t i f l e d b y a Howard defense that pitched its second shutout of the year and has its sights on a defending its championship from la year ago

T h e k e y, a s i t h a s b e e n a l l year, was our team chemistry,”

B i s h o p s a i d “ E s p e c i a l l y o n defense ”

T h e D u c k s w i l l h e a d t o t h e playoffs after Fall Break

Walsh 13, McGlinn 7

W a l s h p l a y e d s p o i l e r t h i s

Sunday as they upset a McGlinn

s q u a d t h a t n e e d e d a w i n t o

a d v a n c e t o t h e p l a y o f f s , a s

everything finally came together for the Wild Women (1-3) as t h e y g o t t h e i r f i r s t w i n o f t h e s e a s o n i n a v i c t o r y o v e r t h e Shamrocks (2-2)

Walsh struck first early in the opening half when senior quarterback Amy Langnecker comp l e t e d a l o n g p a s s u p t h e l e f t side of the field to set up a goal

l i n e s i t u a t i o n S e n i o r r e c e i v e r

L i n d s e y S c h a n z e r h a u l e d i n a short pass from Langnecker on t h e n e x t p l a y f o r t h e t o u c hdown

The Wild Women missed the e x t r a p o i n t , w h i c h a l l o w e d

M c G l i n n t o t a k e t h e l e a d j u s t

a f t e r h a l f t i m e A f t e r s e v e r a l

s t r o n g d e f e n s i v e p l a y s o n

Wa l s h ’ s p a r t t h e S h a m r o c k s w e r e a b l e t o b r e a k t h r o u g h

w h e n j u n i o r q u a r t e r b a c k

Lauren Miller lofted a pass to

j u n i o r r e c e i v e r K a t e M i l l e r i n the left corner of the end zone

A sharp pass to the right corner of the end zone that was barely k e p t i n b o u n d s g o t t h e Shamrocks the extra point and put them ahead 7-6 Walsh answered on the very

n e x t d r i v e w h e n L a n g n e c k e r

f o u n d S c h a n z e r d e e p i n t h e right corner of the end zone for t h e i r s e c o n d s c o r e T h e W i l d

Women held on for the win during McGlinn’s final drive of the game and sealed the deal with an interception

T h e w i n m e a n t a l o t t o t h e Wild Women, as they avoided a winless season

“We came together as a team

a f t e r t h r e e l o s s e s i n a r o w ”

L a n g n e c k e r s a i d “ We w a n t e d t o e n d t h e s e a s o n o n a g o o d note We wanted the seniors to go out with a win ”

L a n g n e c k e r c r e d i t e d h e r team’s tough defense for keeping them in the game

“ O u r d e f e n s e r o c k e d t o d a y

[ S e n i o r ] A l l i s o n Vi c e n z i e s p ecially did a great job knocking down passes left and right,” she said W h i l e t h e l o s s f o r t h e

S h a m r o c k s e l i m i n a t e d t h e m f r o m t h e p l a y o f f s , M i l l e r s t i l l h a s a p o s i t i v e o u t l o o k f o r t h e future of McGlinn’s program

“ I t h i n k t h a t w e h a d a g o o d season, Miller said We had a handful of veterans and a handful of young kids, who can now build on experience ” Welsh Family 20, Ryan 12

B o t h W e l s h F a m i l y ’ s a n d

Ryan’s seasons were on the line as the teams battled in the hope that a win would contribute to a potential playoff berth In the end the Whirlwinds (2-2) bols t e r e d t h e i r p l a y o f f c h a n c e s with a win over the Wildcats (13)

The Whirlwinds strong passi n g a t t a c k p r o d u c e d m u

Moreno to junior wide receiver Natalie Baldasari

The Wildcats jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead after sophomore quarterback Maya Pillai found j

across the

Curtis in

Whirlwinds possession Moreno tossed an 80-yard touchdown to Baldasari, which was followed b y

give the Whirlwinds a 7-6 lead T

the Whirlwinds came with less than ten seconds left in the first half Moreno threw a 25-yard c o m

e t i o n t

o r w i d e receiver Charlotte Seasly, which placed the ball at 35-yard line with only three seconds left A b e a u t

created to free up Baldasari for the touchdown as time expired, and Welsh Family took a 14-6 lead into the half “ T h a t p

a y w a s h u g e , ” Moreno said “We knew that we needed points for the point differentials to get into the playoffs [Baldasari] made a great catch ” T h e W h

s c o r e d o n their first possession of the second half when Moreno capped

Welsh Family’s lead to 20-6

pass from Pillai to

y O’Brien to narrow the deficit to 20-12, but it wasn’t enough as the Whirlwind won a do-or-die

Irish tied for first after day one at Firestone

By CORY BERNARD Sports Writer

The Irish started off their third tournament of the year with a bang, finishing the first two rounds of the Firestone Invitational in a tie for first place with Indiana University. Both teams finished with a 12-under-par 564 and have distanced themselves from the field.

With tournaments so far at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island and Notre Dame’s own Warren Course, the Irish have played on some nationallyrenowned courses. According to Irish coach Jim Kubinski, Firestone Country Club’s North Course in Akron, Ohio, is no different.

“It’s right in line with the first two,” Kubinski said.

Kubinski acknowledged that for his team has to earn the right to play in invitationals on such prestigious courses.

“That’s the neat thing about college golf,” Kubinski said.

ND WOMEN’S GOLF

“You don’t have your schedule set in advance. We have to get invitations.”

Integral to these invitations is his team’s body of work, and Kubinski noted that only two quality schools have gotten the better of Notre Dame this year.

“The only two teams to beat us this year, Iowa and NC State, finished one-two in Duke’s tournament, so it shows you how good they are,” Kubinski said.

Notre Dame’s play on Monday lived up to the expectations set forth so far this season, and freshman Niall Platt in particular helped the Irish keep up with the field in the first round.

“We were lucky this morning, Niall really kept us in it,” Kubinski said. “He shot that 65, one of the top three or four (scores) in Notre Dame history.”

After a first round 284, Notre Dame stepped up to deliver an eight-under-par 280 in the afternoon. Kubinski

credited the improved play of the rest of his squad, particularly juniors Max Scodro and Chris Walker.

“Max had two eagles, Chris shot a 69,” Kubinski said of the juniors’ second round efforts. “They really did a great job taking advantage of the par fives and putted really well.”

Another positive for the Irish after the first day at Firestone was the debut of freshman Andrew Lane.

Although not competing for the team, he entered as an individual and finished with a seven-over-par 157 for two rounds. Kubinski expects the talented first-year golfer to eventually contribute to the team score this season.

“He would tell you he didn’t play real well,” Kubinski said. “He’s very talented, and I would expect him to break into the top five at some point this season.”

Contact Cory Bernard cbernard@nd.edu

Junior Allare leads Irish on and off the golf course

By MEGAN FINNERAN Sports Writer

In college golf tournaments, the top five scores compose the total team score. While the sixth score may not count in terms of numbers, for the Irish, number six counts for a whole lot more.

Junior Katie Allare, from Phoenix, Ariz., has been playing golf since a very young age. What began as a pastime quickly became much more for Allare at an age when most people have barely played more than a game of miniature golf.

tackling an equilibrium that many athletes struggle to maintain.

“It’s made keeping up with grades much harder, but I love being able to compete for the university,” Allare said.

“I love the team trips — it’s just so much fun to spend time with the team.”

Katie Allare Irish golfer

Strong family ties pushed Allare to Notre Dame, who is surrounded by stories of her dad and uncle, both Notre Dame graduates. Her younger brother is here as well, which makes Phoenix seem far closer than a map may show.

“I began playing golf when I was really young, but I started taking it seriously when I was about twelve because I started competing,” Allare said.

From then on, the game became a large part of her life, as she left high school with four varsity letters. But when she was not golfing, she hit the books, remaining an honor roll student throughout high school, something she has continued since enrolling at Notre Dame

“The best experience outside of golf has been tailgating with my family every home football game,” Allare said. “We throw great tailgates, and I love hanging out with my family and my friends at the same time.”

“The best experience outside of golf has been tailgating with my family every home football game.”

In her most recent competition, Allare competed independently, but she pushed her teammates the entire way. She finished tied for 68th with a score of 235 in 54 holes, just three strokes behind Irish senior Katie Conway.

Katie Allare Irish golfer

“After college I think I’m going to law school,” Allare said. As a political science major, she has managed to balance the two worlds of athletics and academics,

Last year Allare competed in the Big East

Championship as a member of the starting five, which she remembers as her best individual college experience thus far. However, when it comes to her favorite part about playing

for Notre Dame, the answer is easy.

“I love the team trips — it’s just so much fun to spend time with the team,”

Allare said. While her score may not count in the record books, that is not what counts when it comes to Allare’s partici-

pation and memories with the Irish.

Contact Megan Finneran at mfinnera@nd.edu

Jackson gets back on track

By MAIJA GUSTIN Sports Writer

After two-and-a-half years of what he calls “very little success,” senior Dan Jackson is in top form and is ready to lead the Irish to the 2010 NCAA Championships.

“Last fall I had a dismal cross-country season and I came nowhere near accomplishing my goals,” Jackson said. “I believe this was due to a lack of commitment to the sport. I didn’t realize just how much work it took to compete at the highest level.”

After a year of training hard, Jackson has been a top runner for the No. 28 Notre Dame men’s cross country team. He led the Irish to a victory at the National Catholic Invitational in September, finishing second overall in 24:10.

Jackson again finished first for the Irish at the Notre Dame Invitational, running in 24:13. The Irish finished seventh overall, facing tough competition from No. 3 Oregon, No. 10 New Mexico, No. 15 Florida State, No. 21 Tulsa, No. 23 Penn State and No. 26 UCLA.

“I’m very optimistic about the season after our two tuneup races at the National Catholic Meet and the Notre Dame Invitational.” Jackson said. “I was able to compete well even while training very hard in the days and weeks leading right up to the meet. Once I begin to rest more and let my legs and body recover I will be able to run even faster.”

The Irish have several races in the upcoming month, including the Pre-National Meet and the Big East Championship, but Jackson is only thinking about the biggest stage.

“I have my eyes set on only one race this season and that is the NCAA National Championship in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 22,” he said.

Jackson is confident in his ability to make it to the championships.

“I believe my greatest strength as a runner is my body’s ability to withstand week after week of very hard training,” he said. “Durability is a great asset in a runner because consistency in training is arguably the most important predictor of success in distance running. While most people have trouble running 80 or 90 miles per week, I can easily run more than 100 for many weeks in a row.”

After what he referred to as a “dismal” past, Jackson believes he is on the right track.

“I ended the spring track season on a high note, finishing 20th in the country in the 10k at the National Championships,” Jackson said. “I now have the confidence and focus it takes to compete with the best in the NCAA.”

In the time leading up to the NCAA Championships, Jackson will look to befriend and fellow runner Greg Meyer for inspiration. Meyer is the last American male to win the Boston Marathon. He finished the marathon in 2:09 in 1983.

“Greg was a Boston Marathon champion in his day and was one of the greatest runners of his era,” Jackson said. “But more importantly, I look up to Greg because he is the toughest person I know. When he raced, he raced to win and wasn’t scared or intimidated by anyone he went up against.”

Jackson plans to lead the Irish to the Championships in November and says they are ready to do just that.

“Our team is improving every week right now,” Jackson said. “We are really going to surprise some people. We have some extremely talented runners on the team that have had a lot of success in the 1500, Mile, and Steeplechase in the past, but who are now expanding that talent to the 8k cross-country course. It’s going to be exciting.”

Beyond November, Jackson is looking forward to his favorite spring races.

“I really enjoy running the 5k and 10k in the spring when we travel out to California,” he said. “The races there are always held at night under the lights. The cool evening weather and still air provide for very fast times, and the competition is always very good.”

Jackson has high hopes for himself and for his team for the rest of the season.

“I want to be the best possible leader I can for this team,” he said.

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McGraw

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ly a great practice team, we had a lot of days where we felt that we didn’t get enough accomplished. I feel like since we had such a veteran team they were the type of team that knew they were going to get it done in the game. But this is a group that really wants to get it right.”

Losing five seniors from last season might slow down some teams, but not this one. With a summer full of pick-up games, weight training, three freshmen and a finally healthy Devereaux Peters, these Irish players have come back stronger and faster than ever before. The driving force behind the increased Irish focus, however, seems to stem from Notre Dame’s doubters.

“I think it’s people who don’t believe,” senior guard Brittany Mallory said. “I mean, we believe in ourselves, we believe we can get far and I think it’s just, we’re so excited about this season.

“You know we lost five good players, and we’re kind of a whole different team so we’ve just kind of got to prove ourselves, prove we can hang with everybody. We’re just a different team, different look, we have the same goals and everything. We just have to show everybody who we are.”

Proving themselves means everything for this young Notre Dame team that McGraw feels is beginning to come together the return of two freshmen to practice. Natalie Achonwa, a Guelph, Ont., native and the first international player ever in the program’s history, competed with the Canadian Senior National Team in the 2010 FIBA World Championships for Women in the Czech Republic Sept. 23Oct. 3. It was Achonwa’s second year being chosen for the team. Classmate Kayla McBride was busy this summer competing for the USA U18 National Team that earned a gold medal at the FIBA U18 Americas Championship in Colorado Springs, where she started in all five games. With those two back on the court, McGraw sees a change in the chemistry on the court.

“Now, I really think they’re starting to gel as a unit, I think they’re really starting to have fun together, which is important,” McGraw said.

“They’re pushing each other. They’re a competitive group, and I love that.”

A prime example of this team’s attitude can be seen in senior forward Peters, who has missed time in all of her first three seasons due to two ACL tears. McGraw referred to her development from last season to be like “night and day.”

“I think when you see her, you’re going to be really surprised,” she said. “Just looking at her, she’s in great shape, she has really worked hard in the weight room this summer, she is running the floor extremely well.”

Peters also feels like she is in a better position than ever before and that she’s more prepared than she ever has been.

“I’m just glad I can participate in everything with them this year,” Peters said. “It’s really hard to come back in the middle of the season. A lot of times last year, [Coach McGraw] was on me because I wasn’t really an offensive presence, but I didn’t have the confidence that everyone else did. Now I’ll have more confidence to actually take somebody, or shoot if I’m open, or on defense, little things.”

Having something to prove also plays a lot into what Peters knows her team is ready to do.

“I think we’re just a young, fresh team,” she said. “A lot of people think that’s a bad thing, because we graduated five people, and they think we’re young, we don’t really know any better. I think everybody’s just really excited for this year.”

Sophomore guard Skylar Diggins, who will be taking over as the lead point guard this year, is extra anxious to start the season as well, especially after a successful summer of learning one another’s playing style.

“I’m just anxious. I’m ready to get out there,” she said. “I’m excited to get out there with this squad because I know that they want to win, they’re willing to learn, and they work hard in practice. You know, the cohesiveness of this team is amazing.”

Notre Dame will begin its preseason Nov. 3 when it hosts Michigan Tech in an exhibition game and will start the regular season against New Hampshire on Nov. 12 at the Purcell Pavilion.

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Although the Irish have generally received strong support from the local South Bend community, the contingent of students who lent their support in the early part of the season has been missing in recent games.

Waldrum said that his players feed off the energy brought by the students, which can be the difference in a tight game.

“I think it’s important that they know that it’s difficult to come out here and not get supported,” he said. “We’ll keep plugging away, and see what we can do, but if the students have ideas, let us know.”

The Rakes of Mallow, the newly formed student-run soccer support group that serves as the equivalent of the Leprechaun Legion, mobilized students earlier in the year to great success. The Irish took down thenNo.8 Santa Clara in front of a nearly sold-out crowd of 2,229 on Sep. 3. Notre Dame battled the elements and emerged with a 1-0 victory.

“That Santa Clara game, we couldn’t have thanked them enough,” Waldrum said. “I think that’s one of the reasons we won — the players had goose bumps to see all the students out behind the

goals, and the bagpipes, and a packed stadium. It’s that twelfth man that you need.”

Since then, attendance has declined steadily, especially among student supporters. Attendance for Notre Dame’s 3-0 shutout of Syracuse reached 820, and only 1,166 fans were on hand Sunday for a thrilling 3-2 win over Rutgers on Senior Day.

“I’m disappointed more for our kids who to come out here and play in an empty stadium,” Waldrum said. “I hope they start realizing that we’ve got one of the best teams in the country here, and we’re fun to watch.

Along with Marquette, the Irish have clinched a playoff berth and are undefeated through 7 games in conference play. Although the Irish will play four consecutive road games to close out the season, Waldrum expects a strong fan contingent present when the Irish return to host the first round of the Big East championship.

“It’s equally as hard on our players to play in front of a big crowd if they’re not used to it,” Waldrum said. “We need to see [200] or 300 students turning out regularly. Maybe they’re saving it, and realizing that we’re always good, and [thinking] ‘we’ll be there to support you in the playoffs.’ ”

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ball pretty well and takes the pressure off just one guy being the ball-handler.”

Sanders adjusts without twin

By MEGAN FINNERAN Sports Writer

Over a decade ago, a father took his twin daughters out on a court and started feeding them tennis balls. At five years old, neither girl could hit a single one, but the dad never gave up. Now, both of these girls are college athletes on full tennis scholarships, and one of them calls Notre Dame home.

Irish freshman Britney Sanders remembers many occasions of not wanting to play the sport that had taken over her life.

“Tennis took up all my time and I never got to hang out with my friends. The only dance I went to in high school was my senior prom. I had practice six days a week,” Sanders recalls. “All I wanted was to be normal and not have tennis be my life.”

Sanders and her twin sister, Nikki, began playing at a tennis academy as high school freshmen, so when they joined the high school team sophomore year, they caught the school by surprise. Sanders remembers the semifinal game that year as her most memorable tennis moment thus far. After the sisters brought their underdog team to a winning level, they lost the first game in the semifinals.

tournaments and played against athletes from all over the world, tennis transformed more than a stressful waste of time to something that kept her fit and healthy.

“I love pushing myself and having people push me, and I loved the fact that I had something going for myself,” Sanders said. “I was doing something with my life.”

Although her twin sister, Nikki is at Texas Tech, the two still hold a special bond.

“I look up to my sister a lot. She will give it her all in matches and she won’t go down without a fight,” Sanders said.

Although her sister did not join her with the Irish, Sanders has found plenty of sisters at heart.

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changeable parts, because that’s tricky to defend and hard to scout.”

Joining the five seniors on the court, in some variety, will most frequently be sophomore forward Jack Cooley, sophomore forward Mike Broghammer and freshman guard Eric Atkins.

“I do apprach it like [I’ll be the primary ball handler].”

Yet, Brey’s track-record hints at Atkins taking on the load early in the season. Twice in Brey’s 10 seasons at Notre Dame he has handed the reigns over to a freshman: Chris Thomas in 2001 and Jackson in 2006. Both Thomas and Jackson then brought the ball up the court for the Irish for the next four years.

Eric Atkins Irish guard

Atkins played point guard in high school, and thus is the only player on Notre Dame’s roster to have experience exclusively at that position. But Brey hesitated to say Atkins would serve as the team’s primary ball-handler from day one.

“[Atkins] certainly needs to be a big part of things, because he’s the one true guy who has played that position,” Brey said. “With the five old guys, any young guy playing with them has a little cushion. … We have a group that handles the

Atkins said he anticipates such a role in his future.

“I do approach it like [I’ll be the primary ball handler],” Atkins said. “That is what coach is telling me right now. I just have to be ready for it when I step into the game.”

Atkins will get his first chance to take the court on Nov. 1 against Marian University in an exhibition game. Notre Dame’s first regular season game is on Nov. 12 against Georgia Southern.

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“It was one of the hardest moments in our season. We couldn’t believe that it was over. We cried with each other and it was then that we all realized how close we grew together,” she said.

After that season, Sanders’ negative feelings about tennis changed as she realized her love for the sport. As she traveled to

Just as her dad pushed her as a little girl, a small push later on in life led Sanders to the place she is now. One day he came home with Rudy, the classic Notre Dame pull, and after putting off the old movie for days, she gave in.

“I ended up crying at the end and falling in love with the movie,” Sanders said. “As soon as I watched it I wanted to go to Notre Dame.”

“I have seven other girls playing next to me wearing the same uniform I am and cheering me on. I’m not just representing myself anymore on the court,” she said. “I couldn’t have asked for a better team.”

With only one college tournament under her belt to date, the future is not set in stone, but Sanders is ready to take whatever comes her way.

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Atkins ready to take over reins from Jackson at point guard

By DOUGLAS FARMER Sports Editor

A picture of Tory Jackson celebrating and smiling still hangs in the Joyce Center Auditorium, but, make no mistake, the fouryear starter at point guard will no longer serve as Notre Dame’s floor general.

Instead, Irish coach Mike Brey heads into this season not knowing who will serve as his

primary ball-handler in the season-opener on Nov. 12, or if he will even have the luxury of a primary ball-handler.

“You lost the winningest class in school history, so certainly you’ve got challenges there,”

Brey said during a press conference Monday. “I don’t know if there’s one guy that will replace [Jackson]. I think we have to replace that, and certainly [graduated forward]

Luke Harangody’s production

— that has to be a group effort. But the ball handling and the leadership stuff is a concern.”

Fortunately for Brey, while Jackson, Harangody — Notre Dame’s second all-time scorer — and guard Jonathan Peoples graduated, he now has the luxury of a five-member senior class, and that doesn’t even count walk-on senior guard Tom Kopko.

“You’ve got five guys who are in their fourth or fifth years of

Narrow focus

college basketball,” he said. “We have a nucleus of guys back that have had some success together. We have five guys who are technically seniors who have been around a little bit, and so it’s a great group to try to build with and grow with.”

Among those five seniors, four are listed at 6-foot-8: guard Scott Martin and forwards Tyrone Nash, Carleton Scott and Tim Abromaitis.

Guard Ben Hansbrough, at 6foot-2, rounds out the class. Brey said this group of “old guys” will lead to match-up problems for Notre Dame’s opponents all season long.

“If you look at the old guys, we have a bunch of them who are all the same size,” he said. “My theme is a lot of interchangeable parts. … I would hope that we have some inter-

see ATKINS/page 18

By MEAGHAN VESELIK Sports Writer

The Irish were all excited smiles as they sported new uniforms Monday afternoon while taking team pictures during the Notre Dame Basketball Media Day, but there is much more going on behind the scenes with this team.

They have something to prove, and with an intensity that Irish coach Muffet McGraw hasn’t seen in a while, Notre Dame isn’t about to let any team stand in their way.

“I’m really excited about this team because of their intensity and focus,” McGraw said. “This is a team that loves to come to practice, and I’m really looking forward to it. Last year we weren’t real-

Coach

By CHRIS MASOUD Sports Writer

With an NCAA Division Irecord unbeaten streak of 73 consecutive games against Big East opponents, Irish coach Randy Waldrum has figured out what it takes to build up one of the strongest programs in the nation. However, he admits he still hasn’t mastered one of the final pieces to the puzzle — how to attract more students to the games.

“Around the country, teams like Portland are drawing 4,000 and 5,000 [fans],” Waldrum said. “We have big recruits coming in here and they see an empty stadium — it’s demoralizing.”

By TORI ROECK, CONOR KELLY, LAURA COLETTI and IAN GARRAHY Sports Writers

After a high-scoring, highenergy contest between two teams vying for playoff spots, Pangborn emerged with a 2820 win over Lewis and proved that it deserves to move on to the postseason.

The Phoxes (3-1) scored on the first possession of the game and never looked back. After getting sacked on the game’s first play by Lewis (2-2) senior defender Sarah Ceponis, who finished with three sacks on the day, Pangborn senior quarterback Gabby Tate marched the offense down the field to set up a touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Kristin Ruekert.

The Phoxes didn’t let up on

Defending champions fall to unbeaten Dawgs

By KELSEY MANNING, ADAM LLORENS, KRISTEN LASAK, KATIE HEIT, MEGAN GOLDEN and DAVID KENNEY Sports Writers

It was a defensive battle on Sunday as Alumni kept its perfect season intact by dethroning powerhouse Siegfried 6-0.

Siegfried (2-1), the twotime defending champions, was frustrated by Alumni’s steady run game from the outset. On the Dawgs’ first drive of the game junior running back and captain Dan Dansdill put Alumni (3-0) in the red zone with a pair of

long rushes. Dansdill accumulated 60 yards rushing on the day.

On fourth-and-goal, freshman quarterback Will Cronin ran it up the middle for a touchdown and sophomore kicker Dan Finan missed the extra point, giving the Dawgs a 6-0 lead that they would never relinquish.

Alumni relied heavily on their run game with a total of 130 yards rushing to just 20 passing.

“[The run game] is what’s been working for us in the past few weeks and we are very confident in it so that was our game plan today,”