This year’s Notre DameForum has been canceledbecause of a scheduling con-flict with a major speaker, theUniversity announced Monday.

University President Fr.John Jenkins started theForum in 2005 when he tookoff ice to assemble “worldleaders on campus in discus-sion of the leading issues ofthe day,” according to a 2008press release.

University spokesmanDennis Brown said the admin-istration will not release theidentity of the scheduledspeaker or the planned topicat this time.

“We are going to revisit thetopic and speaker so wewould prefer to keep that pri-vate at this point,” he said.

The Forum, usually held inthe fall, was delayed to thespring.

Brown told The Observer inSeptember that the forum waspushed back because “thespring semester is a better fitfor the schedules of key pan-elists.”

The University plans to hostthe Forum next fal l , butBrown said it will not neces-sarily be the same topic andspeaker planned for thisyear’s discussion.

But that topic will be exam-ined on campus in some form,he said.

“It won’t necessarily be nextyear’s Forum but at somepoint in the future at a forumwe will take up that topic sowe’re going to hold on to thatidea for now and get back to itin the future,” Brown said.

This spring’s Forum wouldhave been the University’sf i f th. Last fal l , GeneralElectric CEO Jeff Immelt,Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, envi-ronmental activist MajoraCarter and MIT ProfessorErnest Moniz discussed sus-tainability issues.

Other issues examined in

past Forums have includedglobal health care, the role ofreligion in a plural world andimmigration.

Brown said the Universitywill not try to find a replace-ment for this spring’s forum.

“We think the Notre DameForum is such an importantevent so we didn’t want toscramble at the last minute toput together something not ofthe quality as the last havebeen,” he said.

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Notre Dame Forum canceled Students meet withprovosts about program

Students who studied inInnsbruck, Austria last yearmet with University provostsMonday to discuss the recentdecision to cancel theInnsbruck study abroad pro-gram.

“Our main goals for themeeting were a) to obtainsome sort of an explanationfor why the Innsbruck pro-gram was cancelled and b)what were the rationaliza-tions,” senior Jessica Technow,one of the nine students who

attended the meeting, said.Joe Buttigieg, assistant

provost for InternationalStudies, said Notre Dame’s old-est study abroad program hadproblems sustaining itself forthe past 10 years, due to lowenrollment numbers.

When the program fell toseven students in the 2005-2006 year, and nine in 2006-2007, the University created aspring semester option in anattempt to increase enroll-ment, he said.

“That basically saved it,”Buttigieg said.

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SIBC offers global experience

Photo courtesy of James Pappas

Junior James Pappas poses in Ghana in 2008, where he spentthe summer helping residents start a dried fruit business.

The Student InternationalBusiness Council (SIBC) willsponsor internships for up to20 students this summer,allowing them to participate inhumanitarian and businessprojects in locations aroundthe globe, vice president andsenior Maria Bufalino said.

“Students looking to broadentheir international experienceas well as their basic businessknowledge should apply to ourinternships,” Bufalino said ofthe programs, which send stu-dents to work in locations likeBelize, Thailand, Germany,Italy and Washington, D.C.

The internships range fromteaching and working withstudents to more general busi-ness projects in firms over-seas.

Group considers bandsfor annual spring concert

Talk of the upcoming StudentUnion Board (SUB) spring con-cert has been floating aroundcampus due to a survey recent-ly sent around Facebook askingstudents to rank their prefer-ences of seven artists of differ-ent musical genres.

MGMT, Girl Talk andDropkick Murphys are some ofthe artists listed as possibilitiesfor the concert.

Mallory Davidson, co-directorof programming, said SUB istrying to break from the NotreDame tradition of mainstreamrock concerts and diversify thetypes of bands they bring tocampus.

“SUB is certainly trying tobring an artist of a differentgenre,” junior Marie Wicht, co-

programmer of concerts, said.“In past years we’ve had rock-type bands like Jack’sMannequin, Cartel and OK Go… [and] we have also hostedrapper Lupe Fiasco and alter-native artist Citizen Cope.”

Planning for the upcomingspring concert began last April,Wicht said.

“We [first compiled] a long,long list of possible performersand genres,” she said. “Thegenres consisted of everythingfrom country to rap, mash-upto coffeehouse rock and Irishrock to techno. After narrowingdown to a few artists in eachgenre, we proceeded to look upagent information to inquire onpricing and availability.”

Wicht and co-programmer ofconcerts Brian Hagerty are incharge of picking talent based

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MIT professor Ernest Moniz speaks at the 2008 NotreDame forum on sustainability.

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By SARAH MERVOSHNews Writer

Last weekend I took a walk downmemory lane. No, I did not try to garner acomprehensive story of collegiateescapade from the wee hours of Saturdaymorning. Instead I went even furtherback to recesses mydim memories. Iwent back to ele-mentary school.

That is right. At20-years-old, I mademy very first returnto elementary andmiddle school. Forme, this was all oneplace. And thatmeans that a singlebuilding (and the lit-tle ones it held dur-ing school hours) gotto see me progress through my adorable,precocious younger years to my shame-fully awkward and embarrassing tweenyears. I should make a small confessionto give my return to primary school a bet-ter personal context. My awkward yearsfar (far far) outnumbered and out-weighed my “cute little kid” years.

If estimated, about 75 percent of myprimary school experience was spent inglasses, headgear, braces and a plaidjumper. On top of this, I had minimal tono athletic ability and generally a saucyattitude (that proudly persists today).And then there was always the stereotyp-ical acne and general disregard for myappearance typical of a tomboy. At best, Iwas, shall we say, not king of the kids,and at worst a huge (maybe lovable)loser.

Needless to say, my subconscious hasdiligently worked to suppress many achildhood memory. Orthodontia, contacts,a good sense of humor and just growingup took care of the rest. But last week-end, when I flew out to see my ankle-biter cousins’ basketball tournaments,my formative years came rushing back.

I revisited days of my childhood I hadn’tremembered in a long time. And, betteryet, got to see little kids in the same placeI was 10 years ago, except that they wereon basketball courts, which I certainlyavoided at that same age. All confidenceand swagger in the miniature, these kidsplayed ball as if they were inside an NBAJam game. Or like they thought theywere. With gangly limbs and lacking con-trol of their bodies, kids would randomlyfall out of plays, rolling off the court aftertripping over themselves. Then againsweet 3-pointers and layups were all themore impressive because of the constantfalling and flailing. In a word, it was bril-liant. And the tournament snack bar,packed with all of my childhood favoritecandies, wasn’t bad either.

In revisiting distant memories of mini-me, and seeing the new 10-year-old mod-els, I realized that not much has changed.I’m still stumbling around, but now in theworld of internships and academia. And Istill constantly comically trip over myselfby not knowing my own powers or limita-tions. But then again, I get to do thosethings in heels now so sometimes when Ifall there is a little more ankle twisting.And I am still undeniably quite a nerdthough less of a tomboy. All in all, wegrow into ourselves as we outgrow theshrunken geography of our childhoods.And when new me met old me, I realizedthat it is indeed a small world after all.

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IN BRIEF“Expanding the Boundaries:

Selected Drawings from theYvonne and Gabriel P. WeisbergCollection” will open at 10 a.m.today. This exhibit will be dis-played in the O’ShaughnessyGalleries West in the SniteMuseum of Art.

An exhibit titled “Markings byKoo Kyung Sook” will be held at10 a.m. today in the Milly andFritz Kaeser Mestrovic StudioGallery in the Snite Museum ofArt.

Daily Mass will be held in theBasilica of the Sacred Heart at11:30 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. today.

The Department of Aerospaceand Mechanical Engineeringwill offer “Flow and Turbulencein a Combined Wave-CurrentCoastal Ocean Bottom BoundaryLayer” at 3:30 p.m. The seminarwill be held in 138 DeBartoloHall.

A lecture titled “BetweenBarack and a Hard Place:Racism and White Denial in theAge of Obama” will be offered at7:30 p.m. tonight in the CareyAuditorium of the HesburghLibrary.

Dance Marathon 2010Information Night will be held at7:30 p.m. tonight in 116Debartolo Hall for students inter-ested in the Saint Mary’s DanceMarathon.

Campus Ministry will present alecture titled “What Catholics &Protestants Can Learn from OneAnother” at 8:30 p.m. tonight inthe Cavanaugh Hall Chapel.

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OFFBEATPriest accused of shopliftingbutter, sofa cover

WEST CITY, Ill. — ARoman Catholic priest wasaccused of shoplifting butterand a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois.Police arrested 41-year-oldthe Rev. Steven Poole onFriday. He’s charged with twofelony theft counts.Investigators said Poole failedto scan a $3.22 container ofbutter and a $60 sofa coverat a self-checkout. Poole thenallegedly went to the store’sbedding section, picked up amemory foam mattress andswitched the pricing barcode. That caused the $145item to be scanned for $31.

Allegedly, Poole also pos-sessed a stolen laptop com-puter power pack.

Inmate loses court battleto play video game in jail

MADISON, Wis. — A manserving life in prison forfirst-degree intentionalhomicide lost his legal bat-tle Monday to playDungeons & Dragonsbehind bars.

Kevin T. Singer filed afederal lawsuit against offi-cials at Wisconsin’sWaupun prison, arguingthat a policy banning allDungeons & Dragons mate-rial violated his free speechand due process rights.

Prison officials instigatedthe Dungeons & Dragonsban among concerns thatplaying the game promotedgang-related activity andwas a threat to security.Singer challenged the banbut the 7th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals onMonday upheld it as a rea-sonable policy.

Dungeons & Dragonsplayers create fictionalcharacters and carry outtheir adventures, oftenworking together as agroup, with the help ofcomplicated rules.

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Muslim students and professors, including those in the Muslim StudentAssociation, perform the evening prayer ritual (or “salat al-’isha”) during CampusMinistry’s “Prayer Around the World” series Monday night.

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Group examines du LacCAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL

CEO of housing company PulteHomes Richard Dugas will delivera presentation Tuesday evening,the second in a lecture seriessponsored by the Junior ClassCouncil.

Junior Class Council presidentCaitlin Pulte said she envisionedthe series as an academic compo-nent of her ticket’s platform.

Originally intended for CEOs,the series nowfeatures profes-sionals from avariety of fields.Tom Cole, aChicago lawyer,was featured inthe series lastsemester.

Pulte said theseries offers mul-tiple benefits forstudents, includ-ing contact infor-mation from busi-ness leaders and recommenda-tions beyond the academic realmto real-world settings.

“We are all looking for intern-ships,” Pulte said. “These peopleare willing to help us with adviceon how to get into the real world.”

Pulte also said she has seen pos-itive reactions from students.

“The questions that are askedare intelligent,” Pulte said. “Theyshow that the students are really

interested and really care.”Currently, Pulte and her com-

mittee are contacting Fred Smith,the CEO of FedEx. Approval by theStudent Activities Office (SAO) andthe scheduling limitation posed bythe April 1 student governmentturnover date have challenged theprogress of the CEO lecture series,she said.

Nevertheless, CEOs have theopportunity to detail their experi-ences in a more relaxed environ-ment.

“When I talked to Mr. Dugas, hehadn’t really beento many schools,”Pulte said. “TheCEOs can freelytalk about what-ever they wantand not have todo it in such aprofessional man-ner.”

Dugas’ lecture,titled “Managingthrough theFinancial Crisis,”will detail his

experience as CEO of PulteHomes, a major U.S. home build-ing company.

Pulte said this lecture is relevantfor students in future manage-ment positions dealing with eco-nomic downturns, a situation thathas especially impacted the hous-ing industry.

By KATLYN SMITHNews Writer

“We are all lookingfor internships. Thesepeople are willing tohelp up with adviceon how to get into the

real world.”

Caitlin PulteJunior Class president

Contact Katlyn Smith atksmith33@nd.edu

Class council serieshosts housing CEO

The Campus Life Council(CLC) hosted Jeff Shoup, direc-tor of the Office of ResidenceLife and Housing and WilliamKirk, associate vice presidentfor Residence Life at their meet-ing Monday, and heard possiblerevisions to policies and proce-dures in the student handbookdu Lac.

Suggestions for revisions per-tained to sexual assault, off-campus behavior and discipli-nary sanctions.

“I do not have texts of the lan-guage to be reviewed,” Kirksaid. “My purpose is to givesome sense of the direction thatthe drafting and revision willtake in this process.”

While University VicePresident for Student Affairs Fr.Mark Poorman has the final sayon revisions, Kirk said CLC’sfeedback is important.

The University’s handling ofsexual assault was discussed atthe meeting.

“That assault will result insuspension or dismissal fromthe University is not underreview,” Kirk said. “Our direc-tion aims for a separate proce-dural setup in dealing with sex-ual assault because of the deli-cate nature of those allega-tions.”

The discussion of these poli-cies is geared toward a new,more specific and “more user-

friendly” policy, he said.This division of the reviews

involves the Committee onSexual Assault Prevention(CSAP). One of the considera-tions presented by CSAP wasthe role of mediation in theprocess of dealing with sexualassault victims.

Student behavior outside ofcampus was also discussed atthe meeting.

“Some of the disciplinary poli-cies about off-campus behaviorare not explicitly outlined,” HallPresident’s Council co-chairBrendan McQueeny said.“Students are not always surewhat to expect.”

Shoup also cited the need toclarify the handbook’s descrip-tions of discipline and theappropriateness of certain sanc-tions such as community serv-ice.

“Philosophically, we think ofservice as a way to give back tothe community when in viola-tion of the community,” Shoupsaid. “But some see service asonly for altruistic purposes andnot appropriate for punish-ment.”

The revisions also focus onbuilding a clearer outline andstructure within the actualhandbook.

“The vast majority of thisbook contains campus resourcesplus about 12 pages of rules andregulations,” Kirk said. “It isvery possible for this informa-tion to be easily organized sostudents can be more willing to

read and better understand thepolicies.”

In order to make these rulesmore clear, the Office ofResidence Life aims to realignthe du Lac policies with actualUniversity practice, citing pari-etal violations as an example.

“We need to make sure thatwhat we do and what we say indu Lac match,” Kirk said.

Shoup reminded the Councilthat the Office of Residence Lifeand Housing does not functionlike a criminal court.

“Our goal is for students tolearn about how their behaviorimpacts themselves, others andthe reputation of the University,”Shoup said. “In the disciplinaryconference, we want to have agood conversation with the stu-dent about their behavior.”

CLC will meet in smaller taskforces to collect feedback afterMonday’s meeting, and theseideas will be presented to Kirkat the Council’s Feb. 8 meeting.

“We are not the ones toapprove these policies, and weare not an advisory board,” stu-dent body president GrantSchmidt said. “But this is agreat opportunity to provide ourinput.”

Kirk said the administrationestablished a completion dead-line for early June in order to beable to give hardcopies of thenew edition to freshmen arriv-ing in August.

By MEGAN DOYLENews Writer

Contact Megan Doyle atmdoyle@nd.edu

Saint Mary’s CampusMinistry invited students toparticipate in casual discus-sion with several priestsMonday about the call to voca-tion.

Students listened to the sto-ries of local priests’ trail toreligious life. Fr.John Pearson ofC a m p u sMinistry, Fr.John PatrickRiley, associatepastor of St .Joseph Parish inSouth Bend andDeacon KevinGrove also of St.Joseph vis i tedthe Col lege todiscuss theirpaths to thepriesthood.

“I think what happened tome is once I started it I justgradually gradually became

family and I began to under-stand something about howGod is cal l ing me to a l i fewhere I would take vows ofpoverty, chastity and obedi-ence and I would live with thiscommunity and I would helpthis community and theywould help me to find our wayto God,” Pearson said.

Called “The Religious LifeRoundtable,” the discussion

offered stu-dents the per-spect ive oflocal religiousas theyref lected ontheir cal l tovocation. TheR o u n d t a b l ewas createdby students incollaborationwith CampusMinistry. Them e e t i n g sal lowed stu-

dents to participate in casualconversations with religiousabout their calling to join the

religious family. “In the seventh grade I came

down to Notre Dame to HolyCross Seminary which nolonger stands and spent aweek learning about the com-munity,” Pearson said.

Pearson said he determinedhe wanted tobecome religiousat a young ageand said he wasinspired by thesisters that livedin his communi-ty.

“I rememberthat I just wasinspired by thisnotion which thesisters gave,which I st i l lbel ieve verymuch, some-times, you’re called to live thegospel in a very specific way,”Pearson said.

Riley also gave his accountof his calling to the priesthood.He said he did not think ofjoining religious life until after

college. Riley graduated fromNotre Dame and found hispassion for service while astudent.

“One day in [St. Edward’sHall ] , my roommates weregoing to go do a service proj-ect through the dorm at the

Center for theHomeless. Theywere like ‘John,you shouldcome along, ’”Riley said. “Sowe go to theCenter for theHomeless and itwas one of thegreatest days ofmy life. I could-n’t believe it.”

Riley also dis-cussed his serv-ice work in

Phoenix, Ariz., with the group.Grove said that his first call-

ing occurred in the thirdgrade, though he did not agreeto his calling until much later.

“In that instance in thirdgrade we were going around

and talking about what wewanted to do and I mentionedthat I wanted to be a priest,”Grove said.

Grove said that though hethought about the prospect ofbecoming a priest in the thirdgrade, he kept pushing thethought from his mind. It was-n’t until he visited the HolyCross Congregation that hedecided.

“Finally I went on a gradu-ate school tour … and the lastplace I stopped on my tourwas to visit with some facultyover at Notre Dame and justwent to a daily mass while Iwas there. I heard a greathomily about Holy Cross. Ipicked up the vocationbrochure,” Grove said. “Themore I read the more some-thing about it seemed to fit.”

The discussion Monday nightended with a song and collec-tive prayer. The next discus-sion will be held on Feb. 22.

The numbers then rose in thefollowing years to around 15,the minimum threshold to keepthe program viable.

But for the 2010-11 schoolyear, only two students appliedfor the year, and nine appliedfor the spring semester, he said.

“We noticed that the numberswere so low. We said my good-ness, not only have we had aproblem with the program forquite a substantial number ofyears, but now its reached thepoint where it is almost impos-sible to keep it going,” Buttigiegsaid.

Students in Innbruck usuallytake classes exclusively withNotre Dame students andtaught by Notre Dame hiredfaculty. This design creates aneed for a certain number ofstudents each year to make theprogram financially feasible,associate provost Dennis Jacobssaid.

“We would have needed tohire five faculty to teach two

students,” Jacobs said.Buttigieg said low enrollment

numbers reflected a shifttowards the semester, insteadof a year, abroad and NotreDame’s growing number ofstudy abroad locations.

“Since the program started,the landscape of internationalstudy has changed dramatically.We have 36 programs. Studentsare going to find more andmore programs that addressdirectly what they’re interestedin,” he said. “It’s not as if wehave in any way, privileged theprogram in Timbucktoo overthe program in Innsbruck.”

Jacobs said the Innsbruckprogram’s problem with enroll-ment was also partly due to theway its curriculum was mod-eled.

“Innsbruck has an on-sitedirector and has faculty teachNotre Dame students in anexclusive environment,” Jacobssaid. “On the opposite end ofthe spectrum, students wouldtake their classes at a universi-ty, like Oxford or something likethat.”

The disadvantage of theInnsbruck program was that it

could not absorb the fluctua-tions in enrollment, because itdid not exist as a part of a larg-er group, he said.

Technow said in an idealworld, the students would liketo see the Innsbruck programbe reinstated. For now, theysimply asked that the Innsbruckprogram not be ruled out in thefuture, and that the cancella-tion of the Innsbruck programbe used as a learning experi-ence.

Buttigieg said he has alreadybegun evaluating what wentwrong in the Innsbruck pro-gram so he can avoid it in thefuture.

“We should have insistedmuch, much, much earlier onthat a much higher percentageof the students’ courses beingtaken at the University becausethat was the soft underbelly ofthis whole thing,” he said.

He added, “you’ve got to finda way where the survival of theprogram is not dependent of theoscillation of the students goinginto it.”

Buttigieg also asked the stu-dents to think about qualities ofthe Innsbruck program thatwere most important to them,and said he would be receptiveto their suggestions.

“What is really fruitful is todistill in simple, straightforwardarticulation, what is the idealprogram for German language?What is it that, in your experi-ence mattered most?” he said.

Both parties said they werepleased with how the meetingwent.

“I think that was a great dis-cussion,” Jacobs said. “I think itwas very helpful and construc-tive.”

Though the Innsbruck pro-gram remains discontinued,Technow said she felt the stu-dents succeeded in opening upthe lines of communication withthe University, she said.

“We were definitely verypleasantly surprised with thereception that we received. Wefelt that they definitely listenedto use, respected what we hadto say and gave us a voice,” shesaid. “I think that we’re movingin the right direction. No one isreally happy with the decisionand what happened, but I thinkthat we’re more optimisticabout having some sort of inputin the future.”

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Innsbruckcontinued from page 1

Contact Sarah Mervosh at smervosh@nd.edu

“I picked up a vocation brochure. Themore I read the moresomething about it seemed to fit.”

Kevin GroveDeacon

St. Joseph Parish

“I remember that Ijust was inspired bythis notion which thesisters gave which I

still believevery much.”

Fr. John PearsonSaint Mary’s

Campus Ministry

Contact Alicia Smith at asmith01@saintmarys.edu

By ALICIA SMITHNews Writer

DALLAS — The worstTexas oil spill in more than15 years was containedMonday, and authoritiescredit a massive emergencyresponse with averting anenvironmental disaster.

About 462,000 gallons ofoil spilled when an 800-foottanker headed for anExxon Mobil Corp. refineryin Beaumont collidedSaturday with a vesselpushing two barges. As ofMonday, roughly 220,000gallons of oil had evaporat-ed, dispersed or beenrecovered, the U.S. CoastGuard said.

No injuries have beenreported. Port Arthur resi-dents were evacuated afterthe spill while officials test-ed the air quality. So faronly two oil-covered birdshave been reported; one ofthem was captured andcleaned up, and the otherflew away.

More than 60 vessels and550 people from the CoastGuard, the state, the ship-ping company and othersresponded to the spill.More than 11 miles worthof the plastic walls knownas booms are floatingaround the spill, and 27skimmer boats wereremoving the oil floating onthe water.

“This response hashelped contain this oil andkeep it from becoming acatastrophe,” said TexasGeneral Land Officespokesman Jim Suydam.“Had this oil escaped theship channel, it could havebeen a catastrophe.”

It was the largest spill inTexas since 1990, when aNorwegian tanker spilled4.3 million gallons about 60miles off Galveston. Thestate typically has about800 spills a year, but nearlyall involve less than onebarrel, according to theTexas General Land Office.

Two sensitive wildlifeareas near the spill remainunaffected by it. The spill ismostly contained in a 2-mile stretch of the SabineNeches Waterway near

Port Arthur, about 90 mileseast of Houston. The estu-aries and other delicateenvironments are crucialfor fish, shrimp and “every-thing that lives in the Gulf,”Suydam said.

Environmental watch-dogs were encouraged bythe speedy response butconcerned about what airpollutants people nearbywere exposed to.

Hilton Kelley, a PortArthur environmentalactivist and head of thegroup Community In-Powerand DevelopmentAssociation, said he wasnear the water Saturdayduring the evacuation. Hesaid the smell was so over-powering that he had toput on a respirator mask,and that he told twowomen walking down the

street with their coats overtheir faces to leave becauseit was dangerous.

“The fumes were justunbearable,” he said. “Ourmain concern is the num-ber of people who mighthave been impacted overthe long term by thefumes.”

The evacuation was liftedSaturday night. The TexasCommission onEnvironmental Quality wasmonitoring the air andwater quality and saidthere were no reports ofproblems with drinkingwater or wastewater.

“We’ve learned a lot overthe years how to do thisright,” said Tom “Smitty”Smith of the activist groupPublic Citizen. “The down-sides, of course, are thelong-term impacts of the

people who are exposed tothe emissions.”

The shipping channelwas closed Monday, and itwas unclear when it wouldreopen, the Coast Guardsaid. Coast Guard PettyOfficer Larry Chamberssaid there are currently 13vessels waiting offshore toget into the waterway and11 waiting to get out. Hesaid about a dozen tankersmove through the water-way each day.

Major refineries havebeen in this small area ofthe Gulf Coast since 1901,shortly after the discoveryin nearby Beaumont ofSpindletop, which at thetime was the world’s mostproductive oil field, saidJoe Pratt, an oil industryhistorian at the Universityof Houston.

AP

Oil spill specialists use booms, skimmers and absorbent cloths to clean up along thePleasure Island coastline Monday in Port Arthur, Texas.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers struckin quick succession Monday at threeBaghdad hotels favored by Westernjournalists in well-planned assaults thatkilled at least 37 people and woundedmore than 100.

The attacks were another blow to anIraqi government already struggling toanswer for security lapses that haveallowed bombers to carry out massiveattacks in the heart of the Iraqi capitalsince August, raising serious questionsabout the country’s stability ahead ofthe March 7 parliamentary elections.

The blasts were launched over a spanof 15 minutes, shortly before Iraq

announced it had hanged SaddamHussein’s notorious henchman“Chemical Ali” and gave rise to specu-lation about possible links to theattacks.

The first explosion struck near theSheraton Hotel, along the Abu Nawasesplanade across the Tigris River fromthe Green Zone. The force of the blasttoppled a row of 10-foot, 7-ton concreteblast walls protecting the site, tore carsapart and damaged a number of otherbuildings.

Twisted metal and shards of glass lit-tered the lawns and courtyards of thepopular fish restaurants along the river.

Although known in Baghdad as theSheraton Ishtar, Starwood Hotels &

Resorts Worldwide Inc. — owners ofthe Sheraton brand — pulled out of thehotel years ago.

Two other blasts followed minuteslater, striking near the Babylon Hoteland Hamra Hotel, which is popularwith Western journalists and foreignsecurity contractors

Militants in business suits walkingalongside a suicide car bomb openedfire on a private security checkpoint atthe Hamra, police and guards said. Thehotel and the compound in which it islocated is home to the Baghdad officesof several Western news organizations,including The Washington Post,McClatchy Newspapers, NBC and TheLos Angeles Times.

NATIONAL NEWS

Voter ID law faces Supreme CourtINDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme

Court will decide the fate of the state lawrequiring government-issued photo identifica-tion for voters.

The court announced Monday that it wouldhear an appeal of a 2009 lower court rulingthat overturned the voter ID law because itrequired those who vote in person to verifytheir identities but not those who vote by mail.

The League of Women Voters argued the lawviolated the Indiana Constitution by imposing anew requirement on only some voters. Thestate appeals court agreed with those argu-ments in its 3-0 decision.

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Quick response from authorities helps divert environmental disaster in TexasHaiti in need of more tent cities

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The collapse ofmuch of Haiti’s capital has a large part of thenation struggling just to find a place to sleep.

As many as 1 million people — one person innine across the entire country — need to findnew shelter, the United Nations estimates, andthere are too few tents, let alone safe buildings,to put them in.

That leaves about 700,000 other people livingon the streets around Porrt-au-Prince underwhatever they can salvage. In the case of JeanAnthony’s family, that’s a blue plastic tarpaulinfor a ceiling and a faded pink sheet with a floralprint border for two walls.

“I’m not sure what you’d call it, but it’s muchmore than terrible,” said Anthony, the 60-year-old owner of a collapsed restaurant.

Jet crashes in sea near LebanonBEIRUT — The first sign of trouble was a flash

of light on the horizon Monday — and then wit-nesses said the Boeing 737 tumbled like “firefalling down from the sky” into the stormyMediterranean Sea.

All 90 aboard were feared dead in the pre-dawn crash. Lebanon’s leaders ruled out terror-ism while investigators collected witnessaccounts in hopes they could provide clues.Aviation experts cautioned it was too early toknow what brought down the Ethiopian Airlinesjet — particularly without the black boxes.

Many people were giving DNA samples to helpidentify the remains of their loved ones; oneman identified his 3-year-old nephew by theboy’s overalls.

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Boats collide causing oil spill

Western journalists killed by suicide bomberIRAQ

Video game banned from inmateMADISON, Wis. — A man serving life in

prison for first-degree intentional homicidelost his legal battle Monday to play Dungeons& Dragons behind bars.

Kevin T. Singer filed a federal lawsuitagainst officials at Wisconsin’s Waupun prison,arguing that a policy banning all Dungeons &Dragons material violated his free speech anddue process rights.

Prison officials instigated the Dungeons &Dragons ban among concerns that playing thegame promoted gang-related activity and wasa threat to security. Singer challenged the banbut the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals onMonday upheld it as a reasonable policy.

Dungeons & Dragons players create fictionalcharacters and carry out their adventures,often working together as a group, with thehelp of complicated rules.

Damaged Picasso painting restoredNEW YORK — A Picasso painting damaged

when a woman lost her balance and fell on thecanvas last week will be repaired in time for anexhibition of the artist’s works in April, theMetropolitan Museum of Art said Monday.

“The Actor,” a painting from Picasso’s rose peri-od, will be restored at the museum’s conservationlaboratory, the Met said.

The accident has also led museum directorThomas P. Campbell to request a review of rele-vant policies and procedures, spokeswomanElyse Topalian said.

The museum described the damage as anirregular 6-inch tear to the lower right-hand cor-ner of the painting. Conservation and curatorialexperts “fully expect” that the restoration “will beunobtrusive,” the museum said in a statement.

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Lupe Fiasco performs at Notre Dame in 2007. The Student UnionBoard is in the process of selecting a band for the spring concert.

on student preferences, contact-ing agents and working to deter-mine possible groups that willstay within SUB’s allocatedbudget.

Wicht said one of the biggestdifficulties of planning the con-cert is finding just one or twoartists that would appeal to thewide majority of students atNotre Dame. She said even with-in SUB’s concert planning com-mittee, it is difficult to get every-one to agree on a single artist oreven genre of music.

“It is because of this that wereleased the recent SUB concertsurvey requesting that studentsrank their preferences … basedon genre and an artist,” Wichtsaid. “Thanks to the manyresponses to this survey, we arenow basing ourfinal decisionson these studentpreferences.”

Kid Cudi, GirlTalk, MGMT,D r o p k i c kMurphys, ZacBrown Band,V a m p i r eWeekend andBrett Dennenare the artistsincluded in thesurvey. Many students haveexpressed excitement about theproposed artists, Wicht said.

“I’d love to see Kid Cudi orDropkick Murphys,” juniorColleen Coleman said. “Girl Talkwould be awesome as well, but Iwould enjoy seeing an individualor a group actually performrather than someone who isbasically a DJ. Don’t get mewrong, I love Girl Talk, butexperiencing an act performinglive is such a great experience.”

Junior Casey Cockerham saidhe thinks MGMT is most popularon campus out of the seven sug-gested acts.

“I think MGMT would be thebest show,” he said. “They are

well known with Notre Damestudents. In second place Iwould vote for DropkickMurphys. A rowdy Irish bandwill draw a crowd at NotreDame.”

The survey also asks studentsif they would be willing to pay$20 for a ticket to this year’sSUB concert, as opposed to the$15 that tickets cost in previousyears.

“Traditionally [tickets have]been $15 and haven’t beenhigher,” Davidson said. “We’retrying to figure out if studentswould pay the five extra dollars,but we’re going to shoot for the15.”

Davidson said the artists’prices have been on the riseover the last few years, butSUB’s budget has remained stat-ic, which is why ticket pricesmay need to be adjusted.

“We are really trying to findthe best act available for the

money we have,”Hagerty said.“While it wouldbe wonderful tobe able to bookhuge acts likeTaylor Swift, Jay-Z or DaveMatthews Band,there isn’t nearlyenough money inour budget tomake that hap-pen. So we have

to try to find the best acts at theright prices who will appeal tothe most amount of students.”

The concert will be held inStepan Center, most likelytowards the end of the semester,Davidson said.

“We aren’t sure of [who’s com-ing] yet because of artist avail-ability and budget constraints,”she said. “We’re trying to getthings coming along here, andfrom there it just depends onhow long the contracts take toget approved by the agents. …We’re hoping to [let the studentbody know] really soon.”

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“We are really tryingto find the best actavailable for themoney we have.”

Brian Hagertyco-programmer of concerts

SUB

Although the internships aregenerally unpaid, SIBC coversthe costs of travel, documenta-tion and vaccinations.

“In some instances, theemployer will provide a stipendor some form of payment aswell as housing to the student,”Bufalino said.

Summer internships are oftenfiercely competitive, and sopho-more John Goedert, vice presi-dent of intern-ships for SIBC,said the 2010programs will beno different.

“This summerwill probably beabove the normin terms of com-p e t i t i v e n e s sbecause of thepositions we’reoffering and thestate of thee c o n o m y , ”Goedert said.

He predictedSIBC’s newopportunities,including a sports marketingposition in Germany and non-profit management inWashington D.C, will garnermuch attention this year.

“These are experiences thatare difficult to find elsewhere,”Goedert said. “What the interngets out of a position dependscompletely on where they are.”

Matthew Brownschidle, a sen-ior finance major, has partici-

pated in SIBC programs inThailand and Belize. He saidthe internships are “greatopportunities to get your feet offthe ground and develop themost basic business skills,which involve interacting withother people.”

Brownschidle worked for aprinting company in Belize inthe summer of 2008. He saidhis experience demonstratedhow the SIBC’s internships usebusiness and commerce to pro-mote peace and prosperity.

“The books were sold atextremely low prices in the

hopes ofadvancing chil-dren’s literacyin CentralAmerica,” hesaid.

J a m e sPappas, a juniorfinance major,also participat-ed in an intern-ship throughSIBC. Pappashelped NotreDame alumni inGhana withefforts to start adried fruit busi-ness.

“There are so many challeng-ing dimensions of internationalbusiness, like dealing with cul-tural differences, that an inter-national internship allows stu-dents to understand and mas-ter,” he said.

Pappas, like Brownschidle,encountered a humanitarianelement in his work abroad.The company that he helpedlaunch will be an important

source of jobs in an impover-ished country, he said.

“Everyone that I talked to inGhana was very excited aboutthe prospect of our companycoming in and bringing jobs,”Pappas said.

For its internships, SIBC seeksstudents of all areas of studywho have an interest in interna-tional business. Goedert saidthe ideal interns are students“who will be passionate aboutwhat they will be doing.”

Applicant reviewers particu-larly favor those who haveshown their dedication throughparticipation in previous proj-ects in SIBC, he said.

SIBC also offers a variety ofprojects that involve collabora-tion with major corporations.They enable students to thinkpractically, beyond what is sim-ply taught in the classroom,Bufalino said.

Bufalino and Goedert empha-sized the importance of theorganization’s mission state-ment, “Peace ThroughCommerce,” in its activities,especially the internships.

“Our interns come back witha better grasp of what interna-tional commerce is and howimportant it can be to our mis-sion of peace,” Goedert said.

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“This summer willprobably be above thenorm in terms of competitivenessbecause of the positions we’re

offering and the stateof the economy.”

John Goedertvice president of internships

SIBC

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SAN FRANCISCO —Apple Inc. rocketed to itsmost profitable quarterever over the holidays, ashuge sales of the iPhoneand Macintosh computersled to a nearly 50 percentjump in net income.

The company offered noclues about what it plans tounveil Wednesday in SanFrancisco, although ana-lysts expect the new prod-uct to be a tablet-stylecomputer. CEO Steve Jobsindicated that investorsshould expect a significantevent.

“The new products weare planning to release thisyear are very strong, start-ing this week with a majornew product that we’rereally excited about,” Jobssaid in a statement.

Apple also offered a prof-it and revenue forecastabove Wall Street forecasts.

The iPhone’s rollout inseveral major new mar-kets, including China andSouth Korea, helped Appledouble sales of the hotphone.

Apple’s numbers also gota boost from an accountingchange. Apple started put-ting iPhone revenue andprofit on its books whenthe gadget is sold, ratherthan deferring thoseresults over the presumedlife of the device.

Apple said Monday itearned $3.4 billion, or$3.67 per share, in the lat-est quarter, which endedDec. 26. In the same periodof 2008, had the sameaccounting standards beenin place, it would have hadnet income of $2.3 billion,or $2.50 per share.

Revenue was $15.7 bil-lion, a 32 percent jumpfrom $11.9 billion in thesame period last year.Apple’s chief financial offi-cer, Peter Oppenheimer,said on a conference callthat half of the company’srevenue growth could beattributed to the account-ing change, but Apple wassilent on the change’seffects on net income.

Apple’s report reflectedthe company’s ability toallure shoppers withoutdeep cuts to its premiumprices. Apple’s reputationas a luxury brand hasn’tdented its ability to put upbetter numbers even asmany computer buyersgravitate toward cheaperoptions.

Apple sold 8.7 millioniPhones in the quarter,double what it sold in thesame period the yearbefore. And its sales ofMacintosh computers rose33 percent.

But the 21 million iPodsit sold marked an 8 percentdecline. Although Applerefreshed its iPod Nanowith new colors and avideo camera last fall, salesof the iPod have suffered asthe iPhone, which has iPod

features built in, has grownin popularity.

Shaw Wu, an analyst forKaufman Bros., wasexpecting Apple to sellabout 800,000 moreiPhones in the quarter. Heattributed the lower num-ber to possible componentshortages.

Apple didn’t tell WallStreet analysts in advancethat it would make theaccounting switch in thefirst quarter. That mayhave left some investorsscratching their headswhen the numbers landed.In extended trading, theshares edged up less than 1percent, after gaining$5.32, 2.7 percent, to endthe regular session at$203.07.

Wu said that until hegoes back to re-crunch the

numbers, he is basing hisopinion on the number ofiPhones, Macs and iPodsApple sold in the quarter,and on the nearly $6 billionincrease in Apple’s cashstockpile.

“That number lookedpretty solid,” Wu said.

Apple said it expects thecurrent quarter, the secondin its fiscal year, to yieldearnings of $2.06 to $2.18per share, with revenue of$11.0 billion to $11.4 bil-lion.

Analysts did not factorthe accounting change intotheir estimates for the cur-rent quarter. On average,they had been predictingprofit of $1.77 per shareand revenue of $10.4 bil-lion in the current quarter,according to ThomsonReuters.

AP

Shoppers check out a MacBook Pro at the Apple Store in the Valley Fair Shopping Centrein San Jose, Calif. Apple Inc. rocketed to its most profitable quarter ever over the holidays.

PIERRE, S.D. — Three groupsopposed to a $10 billion oil refineryplanned for southeastern South Dakotahave asked a judge to overturn a stateboard’s decision to grant the project anair quality permit.

The Board of Minerals andEnvironment granted the permit inAugust after finding that HyperionResources, based in Dallas, had met therequirements set in state laws andrules. Board members endorsed thestate Environment Department’s rec-ommendation to issue the permit forwhat would be the first new U.S. oilrefinery built since 1976.

The Sierra Club and local groupsSave Union County and CitizensOpposed to Oil Pollution have filed a

lawsuit in state court arguing that thepermit should be thrown out because itdoes not address some environmentalissues.

Hyperion filed its own court appeal,which asks that the board’s decision ona carbon monoxide limit be overturned.

Circuit Judge Mark Barnett of Pierrehas consolidated the two appeals to beheard as one case. After further writtenarguments are filed, a hearing is sched-uled for June 23 in Pierre.

Ed Cable of Save Union County saidMonday that opponents believe thestate board has not complied with thefederal Clean Air Act. Both the processand the information used by the boardwere flawed, he said.

Cable said the Board of Minerals andEnvironment also should have requireda full environmental study before

approving a permit for the refinery.“If this doesn’t require an environ-

mental impact statement, what projectever would?” Cable said.

A spokesman for Hyperion did notreturn a phone call seeking commentMonday.

The refinery would be located northof Elk Point. It would process 400,000barrels of Canadian tar sands crude oileach day into low-sulfur gasoline,diesel, jet fuel and liquid petroleum gas.

The project would include a powerplant that produces electricity for therefinery. It would use a byproduct of therefinery process, solid petroleum coke,which would be turned into gas andburned to produce electrical power.The company says the gasificationwould allow the removal of more pollu-tants.

iPhone replacing iPod sales as Apple continues to see growth in revenue

Associated Press

Associated Press

Apple Inc. sees best quarter ever

Controversy surrounds planned refinery

Airlines abandon fare increasesDALLAS — Major U.S. air l ines have

dropped an effort to raise fares by up to $16a roundtrip after some carriers resisted theincrease.

American Airlines confirmed on Mondaythat it had dropped a price hike from lastweek. American spokesman Tim Smith saidDelta had pulled the increase even beforeAmerican did, and Continental and Unitedalso retreated.

“We can now declare the first domesticairfare hike of 2010 ... a failed attempt,”said Rick Seaney, CEO of travel Web siteFarecompare.com.

Air fare increases can be tricky. They canfall apart if one or two airlines refuse to goalong or don’t match on every route,because other carriers don’t want to risklosing customers by charging more for thesame trip.

Ford to add jobs in ChicagoDETROIT — Ford Motor Co. wi l l add

1,200 jobs at its Chicago assembly plantlater this year to build the new Explorersport utility vehicle, a person briefed onthe matter said Monday.

The company and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinnare scheduled to make the announcementon Tuesday at the factory, but Quinn toldreporters in Chicago on Monday that 1,200new jobs were coming to Illinois.

“Tomorrow, in one day, we’re going to get1,200 new jobs for Illinois,” Quinn said at abreakfast event that was unrelated to theFord announcement.

The person briefed on the announcementsaid some of the workers wil l be fromFord’s pool of employees laid off at otherfactories. The person did not want to beidentified because the announcement hasnot been made.

The new Explorer will be built on thesame frame as the Taurus sedan, which isbuilt at the Chicago plant.

Ford has long had plans to base the once-popular Explorer on a car rather thantruck frame. The company says the newone will have SUV-like towing and haulingcapacity, but will be more maneuverableand fuel efficient than its predecessor.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“You may be disappointed if youfail, but you are doomed if you

don't try.”

Beverly SillsU.S. opera singer

Barack’s choiceA year ago, our newly-inaugurated

President gave his address to a nationeager for change. Then just a week ago,the people of Massachusetts voted forchange, albeit one the Democrats didnot anticipate. Theseat held by Sen.Ted Kennedy fornearly half a cen-tury in a state thathas not elected aRepublican sena-tor since 1972 willnow be filled by aRepublican by thename of ScottBrown.

Yes, the sameScott Brownwhom KeithOlbermann called“an irresponsible,homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter ofviolence against women and againstpoliticians with whom he disagrees.” Hedid apologize later though … for leavingout “sexist.”

As my friend Wally Forman observed,“If Olbermann is right, people must real-ly hate Obama.”

Or at least his policies.To be sure, Brown is no conservative,

at least on social issues. Yet he cam-paigned on a straightforward platformthat included conservative positions oneconomic policy and national security.Most significantly, he has vowed to bethe 41st vote against Democratic healthcare legislation that until last Tuesdaywas steamrolling its way throughCongress.

Like their fellow voters in New Jerseyand Virginia demonstrated lastNovember, Massachusetts residents arenot pleased with the way Democrats arehandling the country. Obama may havesuccessfully kept his post-partisan prag-matist mask in place during the cam-paign, but lately that mask is slippingfrom his face to reveal the liberal ideo-logue underneath. And Americans arenot happy with what they see.

Some may take issue with the claimthat Obama is no fair-minded pragma-tist, declaring that Democratic leaders in

Congress are the ones refusing to act ina bipartisan manner. Between theclosed-door meetings to craft legislationand the labeling of conservativeAmericans as redneck, gun-toting,racist, sexist, Bible-thumping, Nazi-sym-pathizing tea-baggers, it becomes diffi-cult for anyone, even The Messiah, toreach out to Republicans.

This assertion, however, leaves thepresident open to charges of ama-teurism and incompetent leadership forallowing members of his party to hijackhis agenda. Obama the candidate prom-ised to rid Washington of “the same par-tisanship and pettiness and immaturitythat has poisoned our politics for solong;” as president, he appears to beenabling it. He stood by idly as SenateMajority Leader Harry Reid handed outkickbacks like candy to senators inexchange for votes in favor of healthcare legislation. He twiddled his thumbswhen Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosiaccused townhall protestors of carryingswastikas. He even allowed his ownadministration to pick petty fights withRush Limbaugh and Fox News.

That’s not to say that Obama has man-aged to stay completely above the fray.Recently, the president himself bowed tospecial interest pressure by giving unionmembers a five-year exemption from thetax on health insurance that Democratswere planning to impose on over 90 per-cent of the labor force in order to payfor their health care package.

Moreover, despite having held officefor over a year, Obama continues torecycle that same tired response to criti-cism again and again:

“The same thing that swept ScottBrown into office swept me into office.People are angry and they are frustrat-ed. Not just because of what’s happenedin the last year or two years, but what’shappened over the last eight years.”

Translation: it’s all Bush’s fault!Now Obama is correct when he says

Americans are angry. However, hisassessment of the source of their angeris not quite as accurate. Americans feelbetrayed by a president who vowed tobring bipartisanship to Washington buthas instead tried to ram his legislationthrough Congress without substantial

Republican support. His definition of“bipartisanship” is looking more andmore like Bush’s “take it or leave it”approach with each passing day. Realbipartisanship involves the willingnessto compromise, and so far theDemocrats have not demonstrated suchwillingness. In fact, Obama appears tobe much more comfortable offering anextended hand to the clenched fists ofcountries that want to destroy us than toAmerican politicians on the other side ofthe aisle.

But the main reason behind Americananger, to borrow a phrase from a presi-dent who became a real pragmatist, is“the economy, stupid.” Instead of thepragmatism we were promised, Obamaand the Democrats have convincedthemselves that the stimulus packagewill get the economy back on track,leaving them free to pursue their anti-capitalist, anti-growth, ideological poli-cies like cap-and-trade, tax increasesand the expansion of government healthcare coverage (which will cover morepeople, cost less, and will magically notbe rationed!). Yet the economy, if it isimproving, is still in a fragile state.Americans are fearful that more taxingand spending will short-circuit therecovery and plunge us into anotherrecession.

The most transparent indicator ofObama’s lack of pragmatism and bipar-tisanship may be yet to come, dependinglargely on how Obama and his partyreact to the Massachusetts election. Ifthey pretend Brown’s win was nothingbut a minor setback and continue push-ing their liberal agenda, they risk politi-cal suicide in exchange for adherence toideology. But if they step back and try torepair the partisan divide through com-promise and pay attention to economicrecovery, they may be able to hold ontothe pragmatist label, though at theexpense of implementing liberal policies.

Christie Pesavento is a senior who ismajoring in political science and sociology. She can be reached at cpesaven@nd.eduThe views expressed in this column

are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

ChristiePesavento

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Job well doneWe lost in Massachusetts because President Obama and

Democrats in Congress have not been tough enough in pursuingtheir goals. Yes, Martha Coakley was a terrible candidate anddeserved to lose (just about anywhere but Mass.), but the lessonmust be learned that this is not a call for all Democrats to move tothe center. It is a repudiation of politics without integrity. It is astatement against politicians who govern to get re-elected. TheDemocrats have been so paranoid of losing their majorities thatthey have forgotten what got them there. I am not advocating forDemocrats to be extremely ideologically rigid. I am pleading thatthey do not back down in debates of what is morally just. When weare confronted with “death panels,” and the “government takeoverof medicine,” we need to treat the American people like responsi-ble adults and tell them the truth, rather than caving from fearover being socialists, tree-huggers or anti-war hippies. We need topick our battles, not over catch phrases like public option, but onwhat the best results will be for our country. 2010 needs to be theyear when Democrats be honest with the American people and putwhat is best for them in the long term, ahead of what cable newsand lobbyists are shouting about in the short term.

Chris Rhodenbaughjunior

off campusJan. 20

Dems in Mass.LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

As occasionally happens, I wondered into the Huddle Martdue to a hunger that convinced me that Huddle Mart’s relative-ly close location made it the ideal candidate for me to purchasesome munchies. I headed directly to the Clif bars, a source ofquick sustenance I use to rely on to get me through timecrunches. To my angst, Clif bars are priced at $2.09 ratherthan $0.99 as I was used to. This made an article that was pub-lished in The Observer sometime within the last year (“HuddleMart unable to compete with retailers,” Oct. 13) pop into mymind.

The article argued that the Huddle Mart’s prices were com-parable to other convenience stores and displayed a list ofabout 20 assorted items compared to average store prices. Ifigured maybe the price of Cliff bars had increased since I hadlast purchased them and continued my search. The next itemthat caught my eye was a seven-ounce bag of chips, and thenits price. The Huddle Mart wants $3.29 for a bag of chips thesize you might pay $1.29 for or maybe $1.59 if you found it inan over-priced convenience store. I did not recognize the brandso I figured this may be an expensive brand and moved on.

Silk Vanilla soymilk caught my eye because I regularly pur-chase the half gallon size for $2.99 and I wanted to confirm thestory that Huddle Mart’s prices were reasonable. This was aquarter gallon; factoring in for the convenient size I guessed $2would be the maximum reasonable price. The Huddle Martprice is $3.29. Why would I pay more for a quarter gallon atthe Huddle Mart than I would pay for a half gallon somewhereelse?

To polish off my disdain of Huddle Mart prices, and convincemyself not to waste time hunting for munchies there again, Ipriced Clif bars on the Clif bar Web site, usually on par withstore prices. The current price is $1.25 per bar. So HuddleMart priced 20 items close to the average store price, but whatabout the rest of their selection? Why so overpriced?

Dave Schmidtgraduate student

off campusJan. 20

Still overpricedIn response to the letter “Keep ‘The Shirt’

kelly-green” by Jim Blase (Jan. 25), I agree thatNotre Dame Stadium would be much more intim-idating for our opponents and awe-inspiring forour football team if we had one single color torally behind rather than the current mixture thatfills the stands. The use of a single color has aunifying effect that definitely makes a differenceon the field. Home games at places like Michigan(boo) or Penn State look different, sound differ-ent, and feel different partially because of thesolid waves of Maize or White that dominatetheir stadiums. While neither venue can compareto the tradition, the purity, and the echoes ofNotre Dame Stadium, the intimidation factor cannot be ignored at either place. What better wayto add that extra factor which has been lackingfrom Notre Dame Stadium than by rallyingaround the color green? With the introduction ofour new Irish coach (who ironically happens toshare his name with a shade of green) this isclearly the perfect opportunity for all Notre Damefans to (in the words of the 1928 edition of theScholastic Football Review) come together as “aband of native and adopted Irish in their nativecolor.”

The only remaining question is whether or notcreating a green shirt every year would be feasi-ble. The shirt raises a great deal of money for a

good cause every year, and the fear that mayprevent the change that so many desire has to dowith the fact that fans may not buy a new shirtevery year if the color does not change. Thereare ways around this, such as cycling throughdifferent shades of green and coming up withfresh designs each year, but it will still prove tobe a formidable challenge.

Ultimately, what the designers of the shirt andthose in charge of promotions at Notre Damemust ask themselves is where their priorities lie.It is true that raising money for a good causeshould not be overlooked. This is Notre DameFootball though, and at this potentially momen-tous turning point in the history of our program Ithink it is at least worth considering the ways inwhich we can increase our home field advantageand bring more “Fight” to the home of the“Fighting Irish.”

At the very least, lets welcome in Coach Kellywith a Kelly Green shirt and an effort to promote“the wearin’ o’ the green” as we usher in a newera and a return to glory during the 2010 season.

Your “Fightin’ Irish” Leprechaun,

Daniel Collinssenior

Alumni HallJan. 25

Wearin’ o’ the green

It was completely unnecessary for Fr. DelFra to open his Thursdaycolumn (“What we can do together,” Jan. 21) with his explanation ofthe quote, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” The quote and evenhis explanation express a pervasive mindset that people cannot facegreat challenges without asking for help from above. I should notneed to clarify why this is absurd. He proceeds to explain that an ecu-menical spirit between people of all religions right now is what isneeded to face the crisis in Haiti. Should that spirit be what convincesyou to offer help to those in Haiti, so be it. However, for those whothink prayer will fix Haiti’s problems, I urge you to consider thisanonymous quote: “Two hands working can do more than a thou-sand clasped in prayer.” I have been told many times that God listensto every prayer, but he doesn’t answer them all. Rather than takingour chances, I suggest we all do something a bit more concrete.Imagine the thousands of hands at this University giving monetaryaid to relief organizations. That would most certainly have a tangibleeffect for the suffering people of Haiti.

Andrew Hillssophomore

Carroll HallJan. 21

Substantial aid

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The Star Power Behind theHaiti Relief Effort

•Sandra Bullock donated $1 million dollars to Doctors Without Borders

•Madonna gave $250,000 to Partners inHealth

•Not on Our Watch, a group funded byGeorge Clooney, Brad Pi t t and othersdonated $1 million

•Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG organi-zation donated $250,000

•Media mogul Ted Turner donated $1million

•Brad and Angelina donated $1 millionto Doctors Without Borders

•Gisele Bündchen donated $1.5 million

•The New Yo rk Yankees dona ted$500,000

•Actress Olivia Wilde promised to send apersonalized thank you video to anyonewho donates more than $200

•Jennifer Aniston donated $500,000

•Tige r Woods, Na ta l i e Po r tman andOprah Winfrey are just some of the otherstars that have donated

On Jan. 12, an earthquakewith a scale of 7.0 hit south-ern Haiti close to capital cityPort-au-Prince, where liveswere lost and families weresepara ted . The ca l iber o fthis tragedy has sent ripplesof fear and sadness through-out the world, with peoplevo lun teer ing the i r t ime ,dona t ing money to ma jorchar i t i e s , and comingtogether quickly for a catas-trophe that requires aware-ness and action.

Ho l l ywood ’s e l i t e cametogether this past Friday toput on a “Hope for Hai t i ”concer t and te le thon thathas been one of the largesta id e f f o r t s ye t . GeorgeClooney is no strangerto donating andgiving aid whereit is needed andFr iday n igh t ’scharity event wasone of the largesthe has hosted sofar. A wor ldwidebroadcas t w i thGeorge C looneyhos t ing in LosAngeles, Haiti nativeWyclef Jean in NewYork and CNN’sAnderson Cooper inHa i t i showedbrought raw emo-tion, news and sto-r i e s f rom theHait ian people right totheir living room televisions.

Throughout the bene f i t ,ce l ebr i t i e s l i ke ReeseWi therspoon , Brad P i t t ,Robert Patt inson, JenniferAniston, Leonardo DiCaprio,Stephen Spielberg and oth-ers manned the phones forthe te le thon f rom 8 to 10p.m. And even after the con-cer t was over, ce lebr i t i esworked overtime to answeras many phone calls as theycould.

The concert segment of the

event featured performancesby many artists including thelikes or Wyclef Jean, BruceSpr ings teen , Jenn i f e rHudson , Mary J . B l i ge ,Shakira and S t ing in NewYork C i t y. From the LosAngeles set came numbersby A l i c ia Keys , Chr i s t inaAgui lera , Dave Mat thews,John Legend , Jus t inTimberlake, Stevie Wonder,Tay lor Swi f t and a groupperformance by Keith Urban,Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow.And in London, Coldplay per-formed , and there was agroup performance by Bono,The Edge , Jay -Z andRihanna.

C l ips from the wreckagewere streamed during eventand Ha i t i an surv i vorsoffered their time to share

s t o -r i e sa n d

news f romtheir homeland. Hollywood’smos t eminen t per formersgathered center stage for theHai t i re l ie f concert whicha t t rac ted peop le f rom a l lover the wor ld , ca l l ing inwi th dona t ions and the i rprayers for the Haitian peo-ple.

Sophomore Dav idFosse lman f rom S ieg fr iedHall said the benefit concertgot his attention and got him

involved in relief efforts.“I wasn’t involved with the

Ha i t i r e l i e f e f f o r t un t i l Iwatched the concer t w i thar t i s t s l i ke Jus t inTimber lake who sangHallelujah,” he said. “It wasthen that I became inspiredto get involved.”

Dur ing the concert , s tu-den t s ca l l ed in t o thetelethon to give their dona-t i ons by phone . No t on lywere they dona t ing to anexcellent cause, they weregiven the chance to talk tocelebrities over the phone.

Sophomores ShannonWhelan and Karen Hanleydid just that.

“After getting the busy sig-nal numerous times I finallygot a hold of a telethon oper-ator where I was able to givemy donation,” Whelan said.

“Having the telethon was agreat idea because it made itso easy to call in and donate,plus I was able to watch agreat concert,” Hanley said.

“Hope fo r Ha i t i ” hasreportedly brought in morethan $50 mi l l ion a lready,and donations are still com-ing in.

A l l p roceeds f rom theeven t w i l l be d i v ided upbe tween f i ve char i t i e s ,including UNICEF, the Red

Cross , Ox fam Amer i ca ,Par tners in Hea l th andWyclef ’s Yele Haiti founda-tion. All five of these notablecharities are working active-ly in Haiti right now.

Per formances tha t weretelevised are now availableon iTunes for $.99 and Applehas agreed to give all fundsd i rec t l y to the “Hope ForHaiti” charities.

For more information onHai t i Re l i e f char i t i es andhow to dona te and makeyour con t r ibu t i on v i s i twww.hopeforhaitinow.org orcal l to l l free at 1-877-99-HAITI.

By KATHERINE GREENSPONScene Writer

Contact Katherine Greenspon atkgreen01@saintmarys.edu Contact Caitlin Ferraro at cferrar1@nd.edu

If you want to contribute to the Haiti relief effort, contact Student Government or visit

http://haitidisaster.nd.edu/for ways to help.

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It’s not easy for Terry Gilliam tomake a movie — something invari-ably goes wrong.

From studio squabbling overbudgets, to actors dropping out,Gilliam holds a wonderful series offailures, including two attempts at“Watchmen,” as well as the infa-mous “The Man Who Killed DonQuixote.” Regardless, every coupleof years a studio gives him $30 mil-lion to make a movie and expectsabout $60 million in return.

It’s actually rather surprising thishappens time and time again.Gilliam makes sprawling, dark,moody movies that are more oftenthan not confusing, sloppy andoverstuffed with ideas. In place of awell-executed movie, he delivers afilm that is a glimpse into the worldthat he lives in, one almost entirelyunlike our own. Regarding the plotholes, weak characters and hecticpacing, the fault lies with the audi-ence for not fully understanding hisworld; the details all exist in hismind.

In “The Imaginarium of DoctorParnassus,” Gilliam lets us furtherinto his mind than ever before. It’s acluttered place, populated bydwarves, monks, unruly drunks,misplaced ruffians, societal fringes,dreams, nightmares and piles ofrubbish. While you’re never quitecomfortable with all that you cansee, you’re more than welcome tohave a look around.

Although he’s explored it manytimes before, Gilliam once again isobsessed with humanity. The flaws,desires, weaknesses, temptationsand most importantly the eleganthope of the human condition arepushed and prodded, examined anddissected. Through the masterfullyconstructed plot device of theImaginarium, Gilliam is able totransform the human mind into avery real place, where desires areembodied in a brightly animatedreality, but deals with the devil arefollowed by a handshake.

The film tells the story of DoctorParnassus, a former monk, once aprotector of the existence of the uni-verse, as he travels through mod-ern-day London leading his motleycrew of four in their attempts toentertain and enlighten an unrecep-tive audience. Parnassus, his confi-dant Percy, his daughter Valentina,and her suitor Anton, run the shab-by but powerful Imaginarium,which opens to anotherdimension, where thevisitor is confrontedwith a choicebetween paths oflight andd a r k -ness. Int h e i rtravels,they findTony, am a nb e i n gchased bymobsters, hang-ing by his neck beneath a bridge.Tony, it seems, is a Godsend, help-ing Parnassus in his contest withMr. Nick, a devilish creature, to seewho can gather five souls first. IfParnassus wins, he continues hislife of immortality; if Mr. Nick wins,he takes Parnassus’ daughter.

The plot is every bit as cumber-some as it seems, but it’s well man-aged across the narrative arc.Several scenes seem written purelyto facilitate a beautiful shot at theexpense of real development, butthe majesty of thevisuals make up forthis more often thannot. The characters,while not fullyfleshed out, anddespite their over-whelming personali-ty traits, manage tonarrowly avoidbecoming parodies.

Gilliam’s mostunderrated talent iseasily his ability tocoax incredible per-formances out of hisactors despite any

script weaknesses. He again does soin the impressive performances ofChristopher Plummer, Heath Ledgerand Tom Waits. The efforts of eachactor are well appreciated, andWaits delivers a surprisingly suaveand astute performance as thesatanic Mr. Nick, displaying thesame brilliance that was found inhis role in Coppola’s “Dracula.”Ledger, whose death halted produc-tion, is replaced at different timesby Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and

Jude Law. Considering the cir-cumstances, the transition

is well done but Depp andLaw both seem to

struggle tound e r s t a ndthe mind ofthe character,while Farrell,despite aperiod of iso-lation fromHo l l ywood ,

gives an out-standing performance.

“The Imaginarium of DoctorParnassus” will no doubt divideaudiences. Its faults are evident andeasily critiqued, but a movie abouthumanity would struggle withoutsignificant flaws. Those who areforgiving of its weaknesses will berewarded with a strange trip intoan even stranger mind.

Contact Nick Anderson at nanders5@nd.edu

By NICK ANDERSONScene Writer

Damon Dash in one of the many men in theentertainment industry whose profile doesn’tmatch his influence. (In that sense, he’s likeDiddy, but the exact opposite).

He’s one of the co-founders of Roc-A-FellaRecords as well as the respective clothing lineand film studio. He’s worth more than $50million and has ambition to get more. Anyimportant act on Roc-A-Fella’s roster fromJay-Z to Kanye West has worked with him.

There is one rather odd thing about theman though: his favorite band is The BlackKeys.

If that doesn’t seem odd, it’s most likelybecause of unfamiliarity with The Black Keys’body of work. Working out of Ohio, the guitarand drums duo (insert unnecessary WhiteStripes comparison here) have been at theforefront of a wave of blues revival.

After seven albums, they’ve gained favor-able comparisons to Jimi Hendrix, ZZ Top andLed Zeppelin and enough critical success towarrant working with Ike Turner, DangerMouse and Rick Rubin. Continually poised tobreak into the mainstream, they’ve neverquite gotten over the hump, and instead have

found their music played in commercials,movies and television shows instead of on theradio waves.

Dash reached out to The Black Keys andmet them in studio accompanied by JimJones, a recent business and music partner ofDash. During the ensuing session, Mos Definterrupted the recording and ultimatelyjoined in the collaboration, putting the finish-ing touches on the album’s only single, “AtNothing Like You (Hoochie Coo).”

In the following 10 days, The Black Keysrecorded with an impressive set of importantplayers in hip-hop, including Ludacris, RZA,Pharoahe Monch, Raekwon and Q-Tip, as wellas acquiring an unused record from the lateOl’ Dirty Bastard.

The resulting “Blakroc” is a dangerousforay into a sullied genre. Any collaborationbetween rock and rap must not only have itsown merits, but must also risk associationwith so-called nu-metal acts such as Korn andLimp Bizkit. Luckily, the sound harkens moreto the early joining of the two musical styles,reminiscent of Run DMC and Aerosmith orAnthrax and Public Enemy. Twenty yearsafter these pioneers, rap and rock pairingscannot survive on novelty alone and “Blakroc”succeeds where they easily could have failed.

The sound is completely comfortable and

organic. By enlisting rappers who flourishedunder a gritty and under-produced style, TheBlack Keys were able to maintain their ownsensibilities while putting the spotlight firmlyon the hip hop. The lyrics stick firmly to mat-ters explored thoroughly in both genres —sex, drugs and money — and the music idol-izes them in all the glory for which both styleshave been demonized.

There are two outstanding performances:Raekwon and Nicole Wray. Raekwon’s gravel-ly flow, story book lyrics and stark realities on“Stay Off the Flowers” put the song far andabove the best song on the albumand an easy frontrunner for thebest rap song released in 2009.This track, along with last year’s“Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt 2,”solidifies Raekwon’s position inthe pantheon of rap.

While Raekwon’s performanceis unsurprising, Nicole Wray isreborn. A one-hit wonder fromthe 90s, Wray complements TheBlack Keys with a bluesy, soulfulvoice on “Why Can’t I ForgetHim,” as well as three moreimpressive hooks.

“Blakroc” is a hopeful noise intwo genres that are currently

weighted down with excess, money and exec-utive control. While the album missteps on itsopening track, guided by Ludacris, the spirit ofearly rock and hip hop is clearly evident andthe swagger is unmistakable. Not content withmerely releasing one of the best albums of2009, Dash and The Black Keys also started arecord label, anticipating more to come, and ifit’s of the same brilliance as “Blakroc,” it’smore than welcome.

By NICK ANDERSONScene Writer

Contact Nick Anderson atnanders5@nd.edu

The Imaginarium of DoctorParnassus

Directed by: Terry Gilliam

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Heath

Ledger, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp

Blakroc

Record Label: Blakroc LLC

Noteworthy Tracks: “Stay Off the Flowers,”

“Why Can’t I Forget Him,” “Tellin’ Me Things,”

“Ain’t Nothing Like You”

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Matter and energy had ended and

with it, space and time. Even AC

existed only for the sake of the one

last question that it had never

answered from the time a half-

drunken computer ten trillion years

before had asked the question of a

computer that was to AC far less

than was a man to Man. All other

questions had been answered, and

until this last question was

answered also, AC might not

release his consciousness.

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All collected data had come to a

final end. Nothing was left to be col-

lected. But all collected data had

yet to be completely correlated and

put together in all possible relation-

ships. A timeless interval was spent

in doing that. And it came to pass

that AC learned how to reverse the

direction of entropy. But there was

now no man to whom AC might give

the answer of the last question. No

matter. The answer — by demon-

stration — would take care of that.

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For another timeless interval, AC

thought how best to do this.

Carefully, AC organized the pro-

gram.

The consciousness of AC encom-

passed all of what had once been a

Universe and brooded over what

was now Chaos. Step by step, it

must be done.

And AC said, "LET THERE BE

LIGHT!"

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CBS urged to pullpro-life Tebow ad

NEW YORK — A coalition ofwomen’s groups called on theCBS network on Monday toscrap its plan to broadcast an adduring the Super Bowl featuringcollege football star Tim Tebowand his mother, which critics sayis likely to convey an anti-abor-tion message.

The ad — paid for by the con-servative Christian group Focuson the Family — is expected torecount the story of PamTebow’s pregnancy in 1987 witha theme of “Celebrate Family,Celebrate Life.” After gettingsick during a mission trip to thePhilippines, she ignored a rec-ommendation by doctors toabort her fifth child and gavebirth to Tim, who went on towin the 2007 Heisman Trophywhile helping his Florida teamto two college football champi-onships.

The New York-based Women’sMedia Center was coordinatingthe protest with backing fromthe National Organization forWomen, the Feminist Majorityand other groups.

“An ad that uses sports todivide rather than to unite hasno place in the biggest nationalsports event of the year — anevent designed to bringAmericans together,” saidJehmu Greene, president of theWomen’s Media Center.

CBS said it has approved thescript for the 30-second ad andhas given no indication that theprotest would have an impact. Anetwork spokesman, DanaMcClintock, said CBS wouldensure that any issue-orientedad was “appropriate for air.”

The controversy over the adwas raised Sunday when Tebowmet with reporters.

“I know some people won’tagree with it, but I think theycan at least respect that I standup for what I believe,” Tebowsaid. “I’ve always been very con-victed of it (his views on abor-tion) because that’s the reasonI’m here, because my mom wasa very courageous woman. Soany way that I could help, Iwould do it.”

Thirty-second commercialsduring the Super Bowl are sell-ing for $2.5 million to $2.8 mil-lion. Gary Schneeberger, aspokesman for Focus on theFamily, said funds for the Tebowad were donated by a few “verygenerous friends” and did notcome from the group’s generalfund.

Schneeberger said he and hiscolleagues “were a little sur-

prised” at the furor over the ad.“There’s nothing political and

controversial about it,” he said.“When the day arrives, and yousit down to watch the game onTV, those who oppose it will bequite surprised at what the ad isall about.”

The protest letter from theWomen’s Media Center suggest-ed that CBS should have turneddown the ad in part because itwas conceived by Focus on theFamily.

“By offering one of the mostcoveted advertising spots of theyear to an anti-equality, anti-choice, homophobic organiza-tion, CBS is aligning itself with apolitical stance that will damageits reputation, alienate viewers,and discourage consumers fromsupporting its shows and adver-tisers,” the letter said.

However, Schneeberger saidCBS officials carefully examinedFocus on the Family’s trackrecord and found no basis forrejecting the ad.

“We understand that somepeople don’t think very highly ofwhat we do,” Schneebergersaid. “We’re not trying to sellyou a soft drink — we’re notselling anything. We’re trying tocelebrate families.”

All the broadcast networks,including CBS, have policies thatrule out the broadcast of certaintypes of contentious advocacyads. In 2004, CBS cited such apolicy in rejecting an ad by theliberal-leaning United Church ofChrist highlighting the UCC’swelcoming stance toward gaysand others who might feelshunned by more conservativechurches.

CBS was criticized for reject-ing that ad — and perhapsmight have worried about com-parable criticism from conserva-tives if it had rejected an ad fea-turing such a charismatic andwell-known figure as Tebow.

CBS noted that it had runsome advocacy ads in recentmonths, including spots takingconflicting sides in the debate ofa national health care overhaul.

A columnist forCBSSports.com, Gregg Doyel,also objected to the CBS decisionto show the ad, specificallybecause it would air on SuperSunday.

“If you’re a sports fan, and Iam, that’s the holiest day of theyear,” he wrote. “It’s not a dayto discuss abortion. For it,against it, I don’t care what youare. On Super Sunday, I don’tcare what I am. Feb. 7 is simplynot the day to have that discus-sion.”

Associated Press

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

No. 1 seeds bounce last Aussies

MELBOURNE, Australia —Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Stosurfaced the best in the businessand could be excused for wish-ing they had skipped workwhen a half million otherAussies took a day off.

Roger Federer and SerenaWilliams ended local hopes ofbreaking a three-decadedrought at the AustralianOpen. The top-ranked Federerbeat former No. 1 Hewitt 6-2,6-3, 6-4 Monday night at RodLaver Arena. Federer saidhe’d been playing Hewitt sincethey were 14 and they wereold friends and rivals, but itdidn’t stop him from beatingthe Australian a 15th straighttime.

Williams, ranked No. 1 andthe defending champion,defeated No. 13 Stosur 6-4, 6-2 in the previous match oncenter court at MelbournePark.

Williams lost to Stosur intheir last meeting and decidedfrom the start to make surethe fans were not a factor. Shekept everybody quiet, conced-ing only seven points on servein the 65-minute match.

“It’s important when you’replaying a local girl to not letthe crowd get too involved orelse they’ll kill you,” Williamssaid.

The main evening newsbroadcast broke into theWilliams-Stosur coverage. Thematch was pushed backbecause Nikolay Davydenko’swin over 2009 semifinalistFernando Verdasco went tofive sets, undoubtedly longerthan programmers banked on.

And so the marquee matchesfeaturing the last two Aussiehopes for a first winner sincethe late 1970s fizzled the nightbefore Australia Day, thenational holiday.

News reports estimated thatone-third of employees acrossAustralia on Monday took a“sickie” — Australian slang fora work absence without aproper excuse — to give them-selves a four-day weekendthrough Tuesday’s holiday.

The day’s play brought arecord crowd of 49,073 for thesecond Monday at MelbournePark, and these story lines:Federer will play Davydenkoand 2008 champion NovakDjokovic will meet 2008 run-ner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga inthe quarterfinals; Serena andVenus Williams are each a winaway of setting up a sisterssemifinal.

Venus Williams advanced 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 over FrancescaSchiavone, the first time she’sdropped a set in six matches

dating back eight yearsagainst the Italian.

Venus will play No. 16 Li Na,who ousted U.S. Open finalistCaroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-3and joined 2008 Wimbledonsemifinalist Zheng Jie to giveChina two players in the quar-terfinals of one Grand Slamtournament for the first time.

Li beat Venus in their onlyprevious match — the quarter-finals at the 2008 BeijingOlympics.

Serena, who has won theAustralian title each odd-num-bered year since beatingVenus for the 2003 champi-onship, will play seventh-seed-ed Victoria Azarenka ofBelarus, who beat No. 9 VeraZvonareva of Russia 4-6, 6-4,6-0 in a late match.

O the men’s side, Tsonga,seeded 10th, had to go fivesets for the first time in acareer that has spanned 11Grand Slam events to edgeSpaniard Nicolas Almagro 6-3,6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (6), 9-7.

Djokovic had a 6-1, 6-2, 7-5win over Poland’s LukaszKubot, who was ranked No.101 at the end of last seasonand got a walkover in the thirdround when No. 20 MikhailYouzhny withdrew with aninjured wrist.

Davydenko held off No. 9Verdasco 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-7 (5),6-3, dropping a set for the firsttime in the tournament butextending his winning streakto 13 matches, including winsover both Federer and No. 2Rafael Nadal at the 2009 sea-son-ending championship inLondon and the 2010 season-opener at Doha.

Nadal, the defending cham-pion, takes on No. 5 AndyMurray, the Scot seeking hisfirst major, on Tuesday night.In the preceding match, No. 7Andy Roddick plays No. 14Marin Cilic, who is coming offan upset of U.S. Open champi-on Juan Martin del Potro.

Justine Henin resumes herGrand Slam comeback in aquarterfinal against NadiaPetrova, who has already oust-ed two reigning major champs— U.S. Open winner KimClijsters and French Openchampion SvetlanaKuznetsova.

China’s Zheng faces MariaKirilenko, who beat fellowRussians Maria Sharapova, the2008 champion, and No. 2Dinara Safina, last year’s los-ing finalist, in earlier rounds.

Davydenko has won 20 tourtitles and finished in the topsix each year since 2005 buthas never reached a GrandSlam final. The Russian’s bestruns in Australia have been tothe quarterfinals, this beinghis fourth.

Federer said he was nowmore wary of Davydenko, whohas overcome the nerves thatonce plagued his serve.

“Yeah, he just used to get theyips,” Federer said. “I mean,he would not hit his first serve,and if he would, he would missit and then he would serve aton of double-faults. Thatwould obviously give you manymore opportunities to break.”

Davydenko lost his first 12matches against Federerbefore finally beating theSwiss twice.

“In Doha when I played him,he hit 27 out of 27 first servesinto the court,” Federer said.“So it’s a bit of difference, youknow. That makes it a bitmore difficult to break.Obviously he’s one of the goodreturn players we have in thegame. He moves extremelywell and makes it hard.”

Federer has won three of hisrecord 15 Grand Slam titles inAustralia and has reached thesemifinals or better each yearsince 2004 at Melbourne Park.

“I’m in for a good match forsure,” he said, but “I obviouslyfavor my chances in a best-of-five set match.”

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AP

Roger Federer greets Australian Lleyton Hewitt afterFederer’s victory at the Australian Open Monday.

NFL

AP

Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, pictured here in Sunday’s NFC Championship loss to the Saints, is ponderingretirement. Favre led the Vikings to a 12-4 record this season in the only year of his contract.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. —One after another, theMinnesota Vikings mentionedhow much they enjoyed play-ing with Brett Favre.

Will the fun will be one sea-son and done?

The devastated Vikingsgathered Monday at theirpractice facility for exit physi-cals and meetings withcoaches, two weeks soonerthan they hoped thanks tothat epic overtime loss inNew Orleans for the NFCchampionship.

Despite all the otherintriguing in-game develop-ments and offseason storylines, the day-after focus fellon the 40-year-old Favre’sfuture. He didn’t appear in

the locker room at WinterPark while it was open toreporters, but his demeanorafter the game and responsesfrom teammates suggestedhe’s leaning toward quitting.

For now.“In a situation like this I

really don’t want to make adecision right now based onwhat’s happened, because Ido know the year could nothave gone any better asidefrom us not going to Miami,”Favre said Sunday night atthe Superdome. “I reallyenjoyed it, to be honest. Justwondering if I can hold up,especially after a day liketoday.”

He took a beating by theSaints, and the ankle injuryhe suffered in the third quar-ter was another reminder of

how draining the game hasbeen for him mentally andphysically down the stretch ofhis 19-year career.

“From a physical stand-point I feel for him, but defi-nitely mentally and emotion-ally as he always does he laysit on the line and gave iteverything he had,” line-backer Ben Leber said. “Itruly wish we could have himback next year, but that willbe his decision.”

Leber sounded resigned tolosing Favre to retirement,though the NFL’s all-timeleading passer is so famouslyprone to waffling over hisdecision he could always finda renewed desire to returnfor more after a break fromthe grind.

“It’s still early. Way too

early. Brett is liable to changehis mind five, 10 times downthe road," wide receiverBernard Berrian said. "Healready knows that we wanthim back. It’s more or lessletting him go off and do histhing.”

Without prompting, playerafter player brought up howfun Favre was to play with.Respectfully, they declined tospeculate about his decision,but the consensus was thathe can take all the time heneeds even if it means skip-ping training camp again.

The Vikings are stillsearching for that elusiveSuper Bowl victory, but thiswas as close as they’ve comein 11 years. With one of hisbest seasons, Favre was amajor part of that.

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LA QUINTA, Calif — Bill Haasfollowed his father's advice to bepatient through six long days at theBob Hope Classic until his finalhole, when a highly impatient shotclinched his first PGA Tour victory.

Haas made a short birdie puttafter an aggressive approach shoton the 18th hole to win the HopeClassic on Monday, beating MattKuchar, Tim Clark and BubbaWatson by one stroke with an 8-under 64.

“I’d been wanting to win from thefirst tournament I played, but it's aprocess, and there’s a lot to it,” saidHaas, a rookie in 2006. “It’s special,but I don’t know if it’s a monkey offmy back. I know how hard it was towin, and I’m grateful.”

The 27-year-old son of 1988 HopeClassic champion Jay Haas was thelast of three co-leaders to play thepar-5 18th.

Rick Ankiel to becomeRoyals center f ie lder

KANSAS CITY, Mo — The KansasCity Royals are reshaping theirentire outfield and making JoseGuillen their full-time designatedhitter.

While introducing newcomer RickAnkiel on Monday, general managerDayton Moore said the injury-proneGuillen would be replaced in rightfield by David DeJesus, last year’sleft fielder. Ankiel will play centerand Scott Podsednik, another new-comer, will be in left.

The Royals opened last year withCoco Crisp in center field but he gothurt and the posi t ion most lybelonged to Mitch Maier after that.

“We feel that right now, going intospring training, this is the best wayto position our outfield defense,”Moore said. “These three guys areall capable of playing center field.We felt Rick’s best use is to put himin center field at this time.”

Glen ‘Big Baby’ Daviswants to drop nickname

BOSTON — Boston Celtics for-ward Glen “Big Baby” Davis i slooking to change his image. StepOne: Drop the nickname.

Davis, who missed the start ofthe season following surgery for abroken thumb he sustained in afight with a childhood friend, wasrecently fined $25,000 for direct-ing inappropriate language at afan during a game against Detroitlast Wednesday.

“I’m in the public eye. Kids lookup to me. You just can' t makethose kind of statements,” he saidbefore Monday’s game against theLos Angeles Clippers. “It (stinks)that you have to learn this way,how to keep your emotions intact. Iknow who I am as a person, andhopefully my fans know who I amas a person, that I am a good guy.I’m not a troublemaker or a fight-er.”

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Colts hope to repeat ‘07 featINDIANAPOLIS — The

Indianapolis Colts started thisseason with one goal: winninganother Super Bowl.

Now they are a victory awayfrom a championship and head-ed back to the site of their previ-ous one.

No, the plans haven’t changedmuch from Indy’s last postsea-son trip to Miami. This week willbe spent putting in a game plan,and next week, first-year coachJim Caldwell is taking a pageright out of Tony Dungy’s play-book. The Colts will stay at thesame hotel, practice at the samefacility and follow almost thesame routine that they didbefore beating Chicago in therainiest Super Bowl on record.

“We’ll change some things.We’ll tweak them and adjustthem a little bit, according tohow we envision some things,and it depends on what happensto us this week,” Caldwell saidMonday. “We’ll make someadjustments, it’s not an iron-cladsort of routine. But, overall, we’llprobably be fairly close to whatwe’ve done previously.”

Some of the changes are notby choice.

Four-time MVP PeytonManning and his Pro Bowl team-mates, who include Dallas Clark,Dwight Freeney and ReggieWayne, are expected to be intown Sunday afternoon for apregame news conference — afull day before the rest of the

Colts arrive. Team president BillPolian called that rule “distaste-ful” and a “fiasco” on his weeklyradio show Monday night.

Indy’s team plane also isexpected to arrive a little earlierthan it did three years agobecause of new rules imple-mented in 2008.

But with nearly half of Indy’sroster having Super Bowl expe-rience, Caldwell will rely on hisveterans to help younger playerscope with the countless distrac-tions of the next two weeks.Players, like fans, are scram-bling to make travel plans, fillcountless ticket requests andanswer all kinds of e-mail andtext messages. Caldwell said hehad about 250 e-mail and morethan 150 text messages afterSunday’s 30-17 victory over theNew York Jets.

Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturdayoffers some advice.

“Make a list of how many tick-ets you’re going to have, set apriority, and tell them the ticketswill be there at will call whenyou get there. Let them findtheir ways down, because it canbecome a madhouse,” he said.“Truthfully, it falls a lot to ourwives and family members whohelp us out. It can get anybodystressed.”

Preferably, the Colts (16-2)would like everything resolvedbefore returning to practiceWednesday.

The reason? Once Indy reach-es Miami, Saturday recalls, play-ers will study film and do addi-

tional prep work for the Saints(15-3) in unfamiliar surround-ings or hotel rooms. NewOrleans is in the Super Bowl forthe first time in franchise histo-ry.

Another possible problem:Most people who come to townwant to vacation or party. Butthe Colts have a job — complet-ing a mission deemed so essen-tial they threw away a chance atperfection to win a title.

So the Colts don’t want any-thing derailing their plans.

“I guess it is kind of a reliefthat we’ve made it, but we’renot satisfied just being here,” leftguard Ryan Lilja said. “We wantto win, we want a ring, and thatmeans you shouldn’t be hangingout on South Beach on Saturdaynight.”

Indy’s leaders will make surethat does not happen.

Among those singled out byCaldwell were Freeney,Manning, Saturday and Wayne— all of whom are likely to treatthis trip like the business tripthey made to Miami in February2007.

“Hey, we’ve got three monthsto hang out after this,” Saturdaysaid. “You can hang out onSouth Beach for three months ifyou want. But we have a job todo first.”

And it’s that attitude thatCaldwell believes will make adifference on game day.

“The ultimate goal is to win itall,” he said. “Nobody is going tobe satisfied until we do that.”

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Mets’ Santana looksto pitch opening day

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — NewYork Mets ace Johan Santana isset to throw off a mound, hopinghis left elbow has recoveredfrom surgery late last season.

Santana is scheduled to pitchTuesday during the Mets’ three-day minicamp at their springtraining complex. He expects toready for opening day after hav-ing bone chips removed Sept. 1.

“I’m feeling good. Time willtell, but I am feeling good,” thetwo-time Cy Young winner saidMonday. “We did a pretty goodjob with the offseason, workingout and doing all the rehab, andI’m feeling good. Everything ison schedule.”

Santana went 13-9 with a3.13 ERA in 25 starts. He strug-gled after June, going 6-7 with a4.02 ERA before the Mets shuthim down in late August.

Pitcher Oliver Perez, who hadscar tissue removed from hisright knee last season, also wasoptimistic.

“Right now I don’t feel any-thing,” Perez said of his knee. “Ithink that’s why I’m reallyhappy.”

Mets general manager OmarMinaya said the team’s healthwas the key to this season.Depleted by injuries, the Metswent 70-92 last year.

“Two weeks ago we were con-fident in Carlos Beltran being in

the lineup, and now he’s notgoing to be for the start, sothat’s why we went out and gotGary Matthews,” he said. “Ithink a healthy Mets team willcontend for a playoff spot. Ithink the Phillies have reallyimproved themselves, so wehave a lot of work to do.”

“I don’t think we are a jokebut I do believe when you loseand you have a situation where— let’s be honest — we didn’thave a good year. In New York,for people to pay more atten-tion, you have to win,” he said.

The Mets quickly fell out ofcontention last year. In the twoprevious seasons, they doomedthemselves with late collapses.

“It wasn’t like last year wassomething that happened threeor four years,” Minaya said. “Weall feel disappointed by how theyear turned out last year, butthe good thing about it is it’s anew year.”

Minaya said the Mets werestill exploring their choices atcatcher. They lost out on free-agent Bengie Molina, who re-signed with San Francisco, andcurrently have four options:Henry Blanco, Omir Santos,Chris Coste and young JoshThole.

“If we need to go with theguys we have we will. But weare still talking to some otherteams and looking at some freeagents,” Minaya said.

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Archie roots forPeyton over Saints

INDIANAPOLIS — Who datsay dey gonna beat demSaints?

Wel l , Archie ’s boy mighthave something to say aboutthat.

In a s tunning turn ofevents, the team led throughi ts format iveyears by as t rong-armedq u a r t e r b a c knamed ArchieManning hasfinally made itto the SuperBowl. And lookwho’s standingin the way o fthe f i rs t NFLchampionshipin NewOrleans’ large-ly forgettable 43-year historyas a pro football city.

None other than PeytonManning and the IndianapolisColts.

Archie ’s son guided theCol ts into the Super Bowlwith a 30-17 victory over theupstart New York Jets inSunday’s AFC championshipgame. About four hours later,the Saints stamped their tick-et for South Beach by beatingBret t Favre and the

Minnesota Vikings 31-28 inan overt ime thr i l ler thatdecided the NFC title.

The winners will face off forthe ultimate prize Feb. 7 inMiami.

Ever the dot ing fa ther,Archie Manning attended theAFC championship gamealong with another son, New

York Giantsquarterback EliManning, andmade i t c learhe’ll be rootingfor the Colts inthe Super Bowl,though heknows a SuperBowl title wouldmean so muchto his adoptedhometown.

The e lderManning s t i l l

lives in New Orleans, hangingin there even as the c i tys truggles more than fouryears later to overcome thehel l i shness o f Hurr icaneKatrina.

“I’m pulling for the Colts100 percent ,” ArchieManning said. “It’s not evenclose.”

Still, the family subplot hov-ering over this game will giveeveryone plenty to talk aboutduring the next two weeks.

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“I’m pulling for theColts 100 percent. It’s

not even close.”

Archie Manningformer Saint’s QB

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Ryan expresses pride after run at AFC crownFLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Rex

Ryan was so pleased with histeam’s surprising playoff runthis season, he’s clearing out hiswardrobe.

Only green and white fromnow on for the New York Jetscoach.

“You won’t see me in nothingbut Jets gear because I believe,”Ryan said Monday before takingyet another shot at his king-sized build. “And the fact thatthere are 4X.”

All kidding aside, the Jetsproved they were no joke aftercoming within a win of going tothe Super Bowl. Any disappoint-ment from their 30-17 loss toIndianapolis in the AFC champi-onship was overshadowed bypride as the Jets began thinkingabout next season.

“I told our players to weartheir Jets stuff and be proud ofit,” Ryan said. “There’s no rea-son we shouldn’t be proud to bea New York Jet. This isn’t the‘Same Old Jets’ and any nega-tive connotation that way iscrazy. Like I said, punch some-body in the nose for it if that’sthe case.

“That’s the way we feelbecause our football team istough. We are resilient and Ithink we are going to get back.”

It’s tough to argue with Ryanconsidering the Jets (11-8) wereable to get to the conferencechampionship with a first-yearhead coach, a rookie quarter-back and a new defensive sys-tem. They were also able toovercome injuries to key play-ers such as Leon Washingtonand Kris Jenkins and a dismalstretch that appeared to ruintheir playoff chances.

“Rex came in here and laiddown the law and said howthings were going to be,” centerNick Mangold said. “We took itto heart and ran with it.”

They sure did, all the way toIndianapolis, where they were30 minutes from their firstSuper Bowl appearance in 41years before Peyton Manningtook charge.

“Even after looking at thatfilm, we still lost and wedeserved to lose,” Ryan said.“They won the game, no ques-tion about it. It’s a nightmarewatching Peyton Manning dothat again to us.”

The Jets’ top-ranked defensefailed to shut down Manningand the Colts’ offense in thesecond half after Mark Sanchezhelped New York to a 17-13halftime lead. Still, the defenseplayed well most of the seasonand should be even better withthe return of Jenkins, who torethe anterior cruciate ligamentin his left knee in October.

All-Pro cornerback DarrelleRevis had an incredible season,shutting down top widereceivers on a weekly basis, andis being asked by Ryan tobecome even more of a vocalleader.

“We had a great run,” Revissaid. “When people didn’tbelieve we could do it, we madea way.”

Ryan called it a “yo-yo sea-son,” one in which the Jetsstarted 3-0, lost six of their nextseven and then closed out theregular season with five wins intheir last six games to make theplayoffs.

“We started great and thenwe about hit rock bottom, cameright back up again,” Ryan said,“and then unfortunately,(Sunday) night, we hit rock bot-tom again, because there’s notomorrow.”

There was also an incrediblelucky streak in which the Coltspulled their starters in Week 16,giving up a chance at a perfectseason, and the Jets tookadvantage. New York benefitedthe following week whenCincinnati came to town withlittle to gain, and the Jets beatthe Bengals, too. Meanwhile, allthe teams ahead of them in theplayoff race kept losing.

“There was a point where wecould’ve just tanked,” Sanchezsaid. “But the way these guysare in this locker room, howexcited we are to play for eachother, and how Rex got usgoing, we just want to play foreach other and win somegames.”

While the top-ranked runninggame thrived behind ThomasJones’ career-high 1,402 yardsrushing, Sanchez struggledmightily with turnovers. Then,as the games became moreimportant, the rookie beganplaying like a seasoned veteran.

“I think we saw our future, Ireally do,” Ryan said ofSanchez. “I want to be, and Iknow all our fans want me tobe, more multiple I’m sure onoffense, instead of just the runfirst, run second, run third-typementality.”

Ryan established a brash,confident mentality the momenthe was hired as the coach ayear ago, making it clear he’snever afraid to say what’s onhis mind. For a franchise sorelylacking an identity, Ryan tookcare of all that by himself.

“We believed in him as theseason went on,” safety KerryRhodes said. “A lot of the thingshe said came to fruition, eventhough we didn’t meet thePresident. We got pretty close.”

Ryan warned his players thatit’s no given they’ll be back inthis spot again next season. Butthey all believe there’s muchmore to come, starting nextseason — and maybe with ahome AFC championship game.

“Let’s play this game in frontof our fans and our stadium, theNew Jets Stadium,” Ryan saidwith a smile. “That’s going to be(the name of) it when we play init. I can’t wait. We get our stadi-um and we are not the visitorsin our stadium. This is our sta-dium. We are the biggest showin town and that’s what it’sgoing to be.”

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practice where he would ownthe likes of Zach Hilleslandand Ryan Ayers.

The operative words thereare “some days.” Now he’sdoing it consistently — heaverages 16.7 points pergame and makes 49.6 per-cent of his 3-pointers.

“He’s a 6-7 wingman whocan do a little bit of every-thing,” senior guard BenHansbrough said ofAbromaitis. “He’s got a greatbody, great hops, he’s a verygood player for us.”

Abromaitis’ transformationthis season, however, is morecomplicated than just hisown improve-ment . Breysaid he startedplaying along-side the “per-fect storm” ofplayers: seniorforward LukeHarangody toattract help-s ide defenseand leaveA b r o m a i t i sopen, andguards Hansbrough and sen-ior Tory Jackson, who Breysaid may be the best passersin the country.

Jackson and Hansbrough

are ranked second and thirdin the country in assist-to-turnover ratio behind Duke’sJohn Scheyer.

But it’s not all on them.“To [Abromaitis’] credit, he

has delivered,”Brey continued.“He has madethe shots.”

A b r o m a i t i sisn’t just ashooter — sev-eral t imes hetook advantageof a gap andtook a passunder the bas-ket againstDePaul andthrew down adunk or two in the process.

“One of my strengths isreal ly my versat i l i ty,”

A b r o m a i t i ssaid. “I’m ableto score on theinside and out-s ide and i tmakes it hard-er for someteams to matchup with me.”

He alsou n d e r s t a n d show importantJackson andH a n s b r o u g h

are to his success. He credit-ed their drive-and-kick pass-es to helping him get openlooks.

“I don’t know how they seeme half the time when theygive me the ball,” he said.

Hansbrough does.“When somebody’s shoot-

ing 50 percent from the 3-point line, you have in theback of your mind, ‘Where’she at?’” Hansbrough said.

“He does a great job of find-ing open areas.”

Abromaitis has also takenadvantage of the transitionoffense. He can take a passon the fast break in the lane

or sit on thep e r i m e t e rwhi le thedefense rush-es past, thenwait for apass and anopen shot.

“At thebeginning acouple transi-tion bucketsgot me a cou-ple easylooks,” he

said. “The penetration of Benand Tory, they did a great jobgetting in the lane and know-ing where people are up anddown on them and kicking itout to the open shooter. Thatjust happened to be me a lotof the time today.”

That phenomenon burntthe Demon Deacons, DePaulinterim head coach TracyWebster said.

“If he was ball-side and hisguy had to help, he wasgoing to get an open look,”Webster said.

As potent a scorer as he is,he’s done it under the radaruntil recently, even in hisown eyes: He was surprisedthat he scored 30 pointsSaturday.

“I don’t real ly count oranything like that,” he said.“I’m kind of a quiet scorerbut that might be better forme.”

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“I’m kind of a quietscorer but that mightbe better for me.”

Tim AbromaitisIrish forward

“When somebody’sshooting 50 percentfrom the 3-point line,you have in the back

of your mind,‘Where’s he at?’”

Ben HansbroughIrish guard

This weekend the NotreDame Figure Skating Teamtied for f i fth at the Mid-America championships inFraser, Mich.

In an increasingly competi-tive division of 13 well-estab-lished open collegiate pro-grams, the Irish skatersimproved their rank from the

Porter Classic in spite of aminor fall during the program.

The team was proud of itsperformance, having had justthree practices prior to compe-tition due to winter break. Thegroup has a goal of peakingwith a top-three finish at theirmost important competition ofthe year, the MidwesternSectionals, in Cedar Rapids,Iowa, in two weeks.

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need to play with right now.”The Irish (11-10-7, 7-7-6-2

CCHA) also gained four pointsthe weekend of Jan. 15 in aseries against No. 6 MichiganState, and due to the two-week surge theyare in the mid-dle of six CCHAteams separatedby s ix points .Lake Superiorhas held onto itst r e a s u r e dfourth-place sta-tus with 32points, followedby Alaska with30 points , andthe Irish in sixthwith 29. From thereMichigan, Nebraska-Omahaand Ohio State are all sepa-rated by a point each, respec-tively in seventh, eighth andninth.

Thus, the ninth-placeBuckeyes could jump tofourth or fifth place in theblink of an eye with a two-win, six-point weekend. Allsix teams are hoping to dojust that as they chase the topfour standing and the rewardsthat come with i t . The topfour teams receive a f irst-round bye in the CCHA tour-nament, and also host thesecond round of the tourna-ment. Jackson said the differ-ence those perks can makecannot be underappreciated.

“It’s always easier to play athome as far as less changeand having the advantage ofplaying in front of your homecrowd,” Jackson said. “Plusyou don’t have to play thatfirst-round series which givesyou time to potentially healup guys.”

Indeed, the first-round byeand subsequent home iceadvantage have proven to bevital to Notre Dame’s successduring Jackson’s tenure.

In 2006, the Irish finishedeighth in the CCHA, and host-ed a first-round series, butwithout a bye fell to AlaskaFairbanks, 1-3, 0-1. The fol-lowing year, Notre Dame won

the CCHA reg-u l a r - s e a s o ntitle and usedits first-roundbye and homeice advantageto reach theCCHA champi-onship inDetroit, wherethe Irish wontheir f i rs tCCHA tourna-ment . The

team followed the same roadin 2009.

The value of winning theCCHA tournament cannot beoverlooked, as it brings withit an automatic bid into theNCAA Tournament, and a shotat the ul t imate goal , theNCAA Championship.

“[The CCHA tournament]dictates the [NCAATournament],” Jackson said.“I have said since I got herethat what you need to is putyourself in position to get toDetroit and there put yourselfin position to make the NCAATournament.”

Thanks to the recent surge,the Irish are closing in on thatdesired fourth-place position,and once the postseasoncomes, the poss ib le f irs t -round bye and home iceadvantage will be what mat-ter, not the early seasonstruggles and weekendsweeps.

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that sense of urgencythat we do need toplay with right now.”

Jeff JacksonIrish coach

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tired I’m fouling, I only havefive fouls in 10 minutes!’

“I thought I would be ridicu-lously exhausted.”

Peters, who still walks with abit of a limp, hasalready made animpact on bothsides of the ballfor Notre Dame.In just her secondgame back, a 74-69 win overVanderbilt onDec. 30, sherecorded eightpoints, sevenrebounds andfour blocks in 14 minutes ofplay.

After that game, Irish coachMuffet McGraw said shethought Peters was the playerof the game and joked thatthey would “expect her to dothat every game.”

And while Peters has contin-ued to play at a high standard— she averages 5.1 points, 5.3rebounds and more than oneblock and steal per game, andput up a team-high 12 pointsin Notre Dame’s loss toConnecticut — she said shefeels no demands from hercoach or her teammates.

“Obviously I want to[improve], but there’s not anyadded pressure,” Peters said.“You can see how well theteam does out there withoutme. I obviously want to doreally well every game, but if Idon’t it’s not like the team’s onmy shoulders. They’re perfect-ly fine on their own.”

Nor does Peters feel she isclose to being fully recovered.In 23 games before her firstknee injury as a freshman, sheaveraged nine points, 5.6rebounds and 1.96 blocks,good enough to be named tothe Big East All-Freshmanteam. However, her injurieshave stopped her from addingto that potential.

“Obviously you’re not goingto come back all the way, 100percent from where you were,”Peters said. “I’m trying to takeit slow, trying to be easy onmyself a little bit. It’s kind ofdifficult. I don’t see myself get-ting back fully until probablynext season, so I’m just tryingto give it everything I have andsee where that takes me.”

Peters tore her ACL the firsttime on Feb. 10, 2008, in thesecond half of a game againstthen-No. 15 Pittsburgh. Aftercorrective surgery in April2008, she was able to play atthe beginning of the 2008-09season, even earning a startagainst Evansville on Nov. 19,2008.

In the third game of the sea-son, against Boston College onNov. 23, Peters played just fourminutes before re-injuring herknee. She played 12 more min-utes in the game with just a lit-tle discomfort, but later foundout she had re-torn the ACL.

“The first one was prettytough,” Peters said. “By thetime I did the second one itwas really frustrating, but thenhalfway through that it’s justold news. You kind of get usedto it. It wasn’t as frustrating Iguess the second time becauseit’s kind of like been there,done that. I was used to it.

“A lot of my friends weremad at me because I didn’teven tell them I had to haveanother surgery because itwas just second nature for methen. It was just like ‘Oh, yeah,I’m having surgery in themorning, whatever.’”

This time Peters had to have

a two-part corrective surgery,one in February 2009 andanother in May.

“You don’t even have yourknee strong enough, and ontop of that I had to have abone graft done, which tookthree more months to heal,”she said “So I had added timeon top of the fact that I had to

have ACL sur-gery, so it wasr e c o v e r i n g ,and buildingup your mus-cle just to loseit again.”

Peters saidshe has notresorted togood luckcharms as shecontinues her

recovery, but rather hasworked hard and will continueto do so in order to strengthenher knee and get back to fullform.

“It was a lot of work,” shesaid. “You really have to bementally tough to get throughsomething like that. I reallyrespect people who have torntheir ACL because it’s tough.”

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“I’m just trying togive it everything Ihave and see wherethat takes me.”

Devereaux PetersIrish forward

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While the Irish opened theseason ranked No. 30 in thenation, Bayliss doesn’t worryabout the polls early in the year.

“I don’t put a lot of stock inrankings, especially pre-seasonones,” Bayliss said. “Ours isbased primarily on last year’sfinish. I think we are better thanthat.”

The Irish also have four play-ers with singles preseason rank-ings including freshman BlasMoros (No. 74), sophomoreCasey Watt (No. 18), and juniorsStephen Havens (No. 93) and

Dan Stahl (No. 95).Bayliss said the Irish will need

to rely on their doubles teams topull out the doubles point andstart the matches off strong.

“We have been working hardon our doubles this year, as wellas trying to concentrate on theareas of individual weaknessthat each of our players has,”Bayliss said. “I can honestly saythat critical decisions still needto be made regarding both whoand what combinations will stepout on the court. Watt and[Tyler] Davis played togetherlast fall and had some goodresults, but they need to buy intoa system that gives them a bet-ter chance to win, playing high-er percentages and being more

consistent, or perhaps find otherpartners.

“Havens and Fitzgerald havebeen a pleasant surprise so far.After that it will be our chal-lenge to find a solid No. 3 team.”

After losing seven matcheslast season by a score of 4-3, theIrish come their experience inclose matches will result inmore wins in the spring.

The Irish are 2-1 after open-ing the season with wins overWilliam & Mary and IUPUI butfalling 7-4 to No. 2 Virginia.They will return to the courtSaturday to face Tulsa inColumbus, Ohio.

Depthcontinued from page 20

Contact Jared Jedick atjjedick@nd.edu

extremely encouraging to herteammates and always takes timeto help them with their throw-ing.”

Espinoza’s progression as ath-lete and as a person has not beenone without adversity or chal-lenges. Regardless, she has

achieved success at every leveland continues to improve.

“During her time here, I haveseen Jaclyn become a very confi-dent person as well as an ath-lete,” Beltran said. “During myfirst year here at Notre Dame, shehardly spoke and could get a littlerattled at major meets. Sincethen, she has learned to use hervoice which has allowed her tobecome an effective team leaderand rise to the occasion of compe-

tition.”As a senior, Espinoza will get

her last crack at a national cham-pionship in the discus, her pre-miere event. One aspect thatbodes well for her is that theNCAA Championships, should shequalify, would be a homecomingand an opportunity to have a per-fect finish to a stellar career.

Espinozacontinued from page 20

Contact Matt Robison at mrobison@nd.edu

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The Observer apologizes for theabsence of Schad & Freude.

As Tim Abromaitis lined upa free throw near the end ofNotre Dame’s 87-77 win overDePaul Saturday, a desperateBlue Demon fan screamed,“Who are you?”

Thanks to his performance,not just against DePaul butthis whole season, now weknow.

Abromaitis scored 30 pointsand hit five 3-pointers in thegame Saturday, one point offhis season high of 31 againstCentral Flor ida, the f irs tgame he started. He’s startedevery game since.

For someone who didn’tplay a single minute last sea-son, that’s quite a transfor-mation. But not if you askthose who saw him last sea-son — Irish coach Mike Breysaid there were some days in

Two years is a long time fora scholarship athlete to gowithout running.

Junior forward DevereauxPeters faced that very problemwhen she took the floor onDec. 29 against CentralFlorida. It was Peters’ firsttime in a game in more than ayear after tearing the anteriorcruciate ligament (ACL) in herright knee two straight times.

“I was kind of nervous, justbecause it ’d been l ike twoyears since I’d really run,”Peters said. “I would jokearound with the team, theywere telling me I only had 10minutes so I told them ‘If I get

SportsTuesday, January 26, 2010 page 20

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ND TRACK & FIELD

Thrower Espinoza brings leadership to Irish squad

Jaclyn Espinoza has become astandout on the Irish squad thisyear in more ways than one. Notonly is the All-American throwerstarting the season with notableresults, she’s also becoming aleader among her teammates.

The Oregon native has gottenoff to a fast start this season witha fourth-place finish at lastweekend’s Notre Dame

Invitational, helping the women’sside to win the event. In theNotre Dame Indoor Opener onJan. 15, Espinoza finished thirdwith a Big East qualifying throwof 13.71 meters, and at the Blueand Gold Meet in December shefinished second.

Espinoza burst onto the throw-ing scene when she qualified forthe NCAA OutdoorChampionships as a freshman inthe discus and the shot put, oneof only two throwers in her classto accomplish that feat. She also

earned All-Big East honors thatyear with a second-place finishat the Big East outdoor champi-onships in the discus.

Her sophomore year featuredmore of the same outstandingperformances. Espinoza earnedAll-Big East honors again withappearances in the Big EastIndoor and OutdoorChampionships and a spot in theNCAA Outdoor Championships.

In 2009, things got even betterfor Espinoza. With a Big Eastoutdoor title in the discus and a

third place finish at the NCAAoutdoor championships, shebecame the first Irish athlete toearn All-American honors in thediscus.

“She is a student of her trade,and has a real understanding ofher sport that helps her win eventhough she is always the smallestperson out there,” throwingcoach Adam Beltran said. “Shesimply refuses to lose.

“Whether it requires a 6 a.m.lift or a 9 p.m. throwing session,Jaclyn will do it without com-

plaint and get the job done,”Beltran said.

In terms of her leadership, herpositive attitude has rubbed offon her teammates and has creat-ed a sense of oneness on thesquad.

“Jaclyn has been an amazingleader,” Beltran said. “She hasreally stepped up in helping culti-vate the new freshman throwers.Even though she is one of thebest in the country, she is

By MATT ROBISONSports Writer

Stepping upMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Junior forward Tim Abromaitis dunks during Notre Dame’s 87-77 win over DePaul Saturday.Abromaitis scored 30 points to lead the Irish and is averaging 16.7 points per game.

Abromaitis evolves intodeadly offensive weaponBy BILL BRINKSports Writer

ND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Peters undeterred by injuriesBy LAURA MYERSSports Writer

see PETERS/page 18

Observer File Photo

Junior forward Devereaux Peters dribbles in a 78-59 win overWestern Kentucky on Nov. 13, 2007.

MEN’S TENNIS

Experience, depth giveBayliss lineup options

see ABROMAITIS/page 17

HOCKEY

Two weeks ago Notre Damewas in a three-way t ie forseventh place in the CCHAafter being swept at home byNo.11 Ferris State.

After gaining four pointsagainst No. 18 Lake SuperiorState this past weekend, theIrish have come into sole pos-session of sixth place, and area mere three points behindfourth-place Lake Superior.Irish coach Jeff Jackson saidthe team realized the direposition it was in after theFerris State sweep, and set toplaying its way back into con-tention.

“They are playing like theyhave their backs against thewall,” he said. “I give them alot of credit to play with thatsense of urgency that we do

see CCHA/page 17

see ESPINOZA/page 18

If this year’s Irish team does-n’t meet expectations, experi-ence and depth certainly won’tbe to blame.

Notre Dame returns all butone player from last year’ssquad and adds three fresh-men, resulting in a team thatgives Irish coach Bobby Baylisssome unique challenges.

“The biggest challenges fac-ing us this year involve twothings: dealing with one of thecountry’s most difficult sched-ules and keeping a very deepteam happy with ample playingopportunities,” Bayliss said. “Ifeel we are good enough to take

on this schedule, but we need tobe sufficiently resilient to han-dle some losses and reboundwell to take advantage of thelarge number of opportunitiesthat we will have.

“As for playing time, I believethat this might be the deepestteam we have ever had in my23-year Notre Dame tenure. Wehave 10 players who have donewell as starters, or are impactfreshmen.”

Bayliss understands that withonly graduating one starterfrom last season’s roster andadding three solid freshmenthis season it will be difficult toget everyone ample playingtime consistently.

By DOUGLAS FARMERSports Writer

By KATELYN GRABAREKSports Writer

see DEPTH/page 18

ND movesup CCHAstandings