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Ready for round two Professors discussmidterm elections

The 2010 midterm electionsmight not be the bloodbathfor Democrats that many ana-lysts predict, AmericanStudies professor MatthewStorin, said Tuesday.Storin, along with journal-

ism professor and formerSouth Bend Tribune reporterJack Colwell and political sci-ence professor DavidNickerson, offered insights onthis years elections Tuesday

night at the first lecture in aseries titled Pizza, Pop andPolitics. Storin said Americans hold

five common assumptionsabout this years election: thatthe Democrats will suffermassive losses, there is a gapin enthusiasm between theDemocrats and Republicans,this years election could be adefining one for politicalraces in the future, that theTea Party is a game changerand the Tea Party could alsocause a civil war among

Editors note: This is the secondinstallment of a three-part seriesabout Terrence Rogers, a 1979Notre Dame graduate who hasreturned as a graduate studentwith the goal of winning BengalBouts.

Terrence Rogers plans tobecome the oldest boxer ever tocompete in the Bengal Bouts,

after three attempts to win theboxing tournament as an under-graduate in the 1970s and hecould not have come this far with-out the influence of a few keypeople.Rogers story begins as a 10-

year-old with dreams of followinghis oldest brother to Notre Dameand being a boxing champion likehis hero, Muhammad Ali.Me and my best friend were

pint-size, but we thought we wereMuhammad Ali, Rogers saidwith a laugh. We would go

around the neighborhood beatingup the other kids, and when weran out of kids to beat up, wedbeat up each other.Rogers kept that passion alive

as an active athlete in highschool. Rogers was a varsitywrestler at Chaminade HighSchool, where he won the NewYork state championship for allprivate and Catholic schools in hissenior year.When college time came,

Bookstore offersRace to New York

How can you get freeHacienda chips and salsa, afree T-shirt and backpack, andthe chance to win roundtripairfare, hotel accommodationsand tickets to the Notre Damevs. Army game at YankeeStadium? By participating in the Race

To New York, an AmazingRace style contest run by theHammes Notre DameBookstore. Teams of two willtravel around Notre Damescampus, competing to performvarious tasks and solve clues. The race will take place on

Oct. 2 at 8 a.m. The entry fee is$50 per team, or $25 per per-son. All money benefits theUnited Way Agency Partners,said Kristin Blitch, marketingmanager at the Hammes NotreDame Bookstore.Blitch said if your team gets

stumped during competition,

all is not lost. Teams are permitted to carry

up to $50, Blitch said, whichcan be used to buy $5, $10,and $20 clues. These clues willmake where a team is headedmore obvious. For example, a$20 clue might plainly statewhere the team is going, Blitchsaid. This extra money is alsodonated to the United Way. This year, Blitch said the

race has added a new rule thatshould make the game evenmore exciting.By paying $50, one team

can hold another team backfor a half hour, she said. Theonly way that team can get outof the hold is to find someonewith a cell phone, and makecalls to get [an outside source]to donate $20.The Race To New York event,

in partnership with AnthonyTravel and the United Way,was created in 2009. Last year,the Bookstore held the Race to

Notre Dame staff attempted toanswer difficult questions aboutmoral development at the paneldiscussion Morals and Markets:Being Catholic in a GlobalEconomy, one of the first largeevents for this years Notre DameForum. Our theme for the Forum this

year is the global marketplaceand the common good,University President Fr. JohnJenkins said in his openingremarks. I think that it is a spe-cific calling for Notre Dame toaddress these issues with expert-ise.The panel featured Dr.

Margaret Pfeil, assistant profes-sor of moral theology, Dr. BillEvans, professor of economicsand Dr. Douglass Cassel, profes-sor of law and director of theCenter for Civil and HumanRights at the Notre Dame LawSchool. Mary Hirschfeld, a Ph.D.student in moral theology at theUniversity, moderated the panel.[Forum] issues are complex

and demand a discussion on

morality from a variety of per-spectives, Hirschfeld said. Inmodern times, we tend to special-ize in our one form of knowledgeand we may miss the other sidesof the issue, which is why a dis-cussion like this is so important. Each panelist was given 12

minutes to deliver their views on

the interplay between morals andthe market, using Pope BenedictXVIs 2009 encyclical, Caritas InVeritate as a foundation for howthe Catholic Church shouldrespond to the issues raised bythe financial crisis and their

Forum: market, morals discussed

Photo courtesy of Terrence Rogers

Mike Orlando, left, hits Terrence Rogers in a 1977 Bengal Bouts match. Rogers went on to winthat round but lose in the 1977 finals. Rogers returned to compete this year.

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Matt Storin, left, Jack Colwell, center, and David Nickersondiscuss the midterm elections Tuesday.

INSIDE TODAYS PAPER Mary Daly head of task force page 5 Esperanza Spalding page 10 Football press conference page 20 Viewpoint page 8

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Economics Profressor Willaim Evans discusses moral develop-ment at the first lead up event to the 2010 Forum Tuesday.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DO YOU THINK THE OUTCOME OF THIS WEEKENDS GAME IS GOING TO BE?

IN BRIEFThe University Counseling

Center will sponsor Peace ofMind: The Art of MindfulRelaxation today at 4:05 p.m.This program is designed to helpyou help you to manage stressand clear your mind. It will takeplace in the Saint Liam HallConference Room.

In conjunction with NationalHispanic Heritage Month, theMSPS Fine Arts Lecture Serieswill begin with American Politicsin the 21st Century: The LatinoVote. This lecture will take placetoday at 7 p.m. in the McKennaAuditorium. Professors from var-ious schools will share their per-spectives of Latinos' roles andinfluences in American politics inthe new century.

The seminar "Engineering in2030: How the EngineeringProfession Is Changing" willtake place tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.This is the next installment in theFall 2010 Seminar Series Challenges and Innovation inCivil and EnvironmentalEngineering.It will take place in138 DeBartolo Hall.

The 2010 Rev. Bernie Clark,C.S.C. Lecture "GloballyEngaging Charity in Truth" willtake place tomorrow at 7:15 p.m.in Andrews Auditorium, GeddesHall. The speaker will be KenHackett, President of CatholicRelief Services.

The lunch session FosteringGlobal Citizenship LearningCommunity will take placeFriday at noon in the GeddesHall Coffee House. SubsequentGlobal Citizenship lunch sessionsare scheduled for the secondFriday of each month for the201011 academic year.

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OFFBEATChildrens pocket moneyfalls to 7-year lowLONDON British chil-

dren's weekly pocket moneyhas fallen to a seven-yearlow, in a sign parents are stillcutting back on non-essentialspending even as the countryemerges from recession, asurvey showed Monday.Halifax, part of Lloyds

Banking Group, said averagepocket money fell to 5.89pounds ($9.23) a week in2010 from 6.24 pounds in2009. The new figure is thelowest weekly sum since2003 when parents paid anaverage of 5.79 pounds.Children's pocket money

has fallen despite a small risein their parents' wages overthe past year. Average weeklypay in Britain in the three

months to July was 431pounds excluding bonuses,1.8 percent more than a yearearlier.Parents paid daughters less

pocket money than sons, in aparallel to the gender gap inthe earnings of grownups.

Dresses, weddings andparties its a dogs lifeBERLIN A German

woman has come up with anovel idea to give dogs goingto weddings or festivals a bitof style.Nicole-Juliana Schrei-

Jakobi has discovered a newmarket: clothing for dogs.They can now look the partat the Oktoberfest inLederhosen and dirndls -- atraditional dress with ablouse, bodice and apron.

The 36-year-old even has adog buggy so her ownMaltese dog does not gettrampled in the crowds ofpeople congregating atBavaria's annual beer festi-val.For male dogs invited to a

wedding she offers dinnerjackets with ties, whilstfemales can don bridal dress-es replete with veils andtrains or bridesmaid outfits.buyers.Her own dog, Emmily, who

recently won first prize forthe best-dressed dog in thecontest "Germany's next dogmodel," will be wearing oneof the bridesmaid dressessoon.

Information compiled fromthe Associated Press.

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Daniel Diaz serves Mexican food for the Hispanic Heritage Month dinner at SaintMarys Noble Family Dining Hall. During the meal there was live music, Latincandy and desserts.

Pshhh.

Chelsea Crane

senioroff campus

We are on alosing streak at

the moment.Hopefully, itwill change

Christie Draddy

juniorRegina

Well, aboutthat...

Megan Weinandy

seniorLe Mans

I love NotreDame... but...

Meghan Farina

juniorRegina

Hopefully wewill have the

luck of the Irishon our side this

weekend!

Amanda Lester

juniorHoly Cross

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San Antonio, which raised$2,200 for the United Way, Blitchsaid.The course last year took stu-

dents to the far reaches of cam-pus, including the AquaticCenter, DeBartolo PerformingArts Center, and various parkinglots. Last years race was very

successful, Blitch said. Thosewho participated had a funtime.Blitch said the Bookstore

hopes to raise even more moneyfor the United Way at the Racefor New York.It may not happen this year,

but wed like to see this eventeventually raise $5,000 forUnited Way, she said. This year, the course will

bring participants to differentparts of the Notre Dame cam-pus, including some areas theymay have never visited before. There is nothing people wont

be able to do physically, Blitchsaid. We have our staff run it,so we know its all possible. Blitch said it has been difficult

keeping specific details of therace in complete secrecy. Theplanning team has been cau-tious not to reveal the names ofthe various campus partners. We started mapping out the

route on a campus map, but youhave to be careful not to leavethat map out anywhere orsomeone could have a cake-walk, she said. Blitch encouraged students to

participate, because for just asmall fee you can have a greattime, donate to a good cause,and get a shot at winning a$2,000 prize package.[Students] are at an advan-

tage, Blitch said. This is theircampus. For 25 bucks a personyou get to see if you can win achance to go to New York.For those concerned about

Notre Dames football gameagainst Boston College, Blitchsaid, theres no need to worry.The race will be over well intime for the BC game.Students interested in partici-

pating can contact Blitch at(574) 631-6469 by Sept. 24. orvisit HammesRaceTo.com formore information.

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Daly accepts positionto be head of task force

The University announcedearlier this week that 2010Notre Dame alumnae MaryDaly has been appointed tothe newly created position ofcoordinator for University LifeInitiatives. Daly, a former president of the

UniversitysRight toLi fe club,will be incharge ofimplement-ing the rec-ommenda-t ions setforth bylast yearsTask Forceon Supporting the Choice of Life.I am very pleased with the

Universitys decision to createthis position and Im gratefuland honored to have beeninvited to work with theUniversity on this, Daly said.Daly will serve as a liaison

between various Universityunits to facilitate collabora-tion on life issues and willalso work to deepen the sanc-tity for life within the NotreDame community andbeyond, according to thepress release. Univers i ty Pres ident Fr.

John Jenkins created the pro-life task force a year ago tomake recommendations onhow the University can sup-port the sanctity of life. I would like to thank the

members of the task force fortheir exemplary service overthe course of the last aca-demic year, Fr. Jenkins said,and I look forward to contin-ued progress in this impor-tant area as we work togeth-er in future years.The task force was created

partially in response to thecontroversy over PresidentObamas 2009Commencement Address.As an undergraduate, Daly

was a leader of ND Response,a s tudent group that he ld

prayerful protests opposingthe administrations decisionto invite Obama. The groupalso requested to meet withJenkins regarding the issue,but was denied.Jenkins withdrew his invita-

tion to meet with the groupbecause they issued a set ofdemands as a precondition tomeet ing , Univers i tyspokesman Dennis Brownsaid in an Apri l 17, 2009,issue of The Observer. John Cavadin i , the

McGrath-Cavadini Director ofthe Institute of Church Life,will oversee Dalys positionand said the sanctity of life ismore important than pastdisagreements. We all must learn to dis-

agree respectfully when nec-essary, yet work together onissues of profound impor-tance. Mary and I share adeep commitment to thesanctity of life, he said. Asa student, she was a respon-sible and energetic leader oncampus, and now I amdelighted to work with her on current and new initia-tives related to life issues. Daly said her previous con-

flict with the administrationwould not affect her ability toperform in her new position.Daly said part of the task

forces recommendation wasto create more permanentstructures to coordinate pro-life efforts in the long term.One of her first initiatives willbe to assist in the organiza-t ion o f a facul ty adv isorycommittee on life initiatives,which wi l l be chaired byCavadini.Daly also plans to strength-

en the Universitys supportivepolicies for pregnant and par-enting students and to createacademic scholarship relatedto life issues across campus. Dalys office will be in the

Institute for Church Life. Shewill report to Cavadini andthrough h im as wel l asreporting to Jenkins.

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Daly

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effect on the developing world. Caritas In Veritate is about

people-centered economics,Pfeil said in her speech. Theencyclical tells us that social jus-tice is possible.Pfeil said Pope Benedict relied

heavily on the concept of theuniversal destination of created

goods throughout Caritas, andthis should be a guiding conceptfor all people when concerningthe role of the marketplace intodays economy.God is the giver of all creation

and humans respond to his gifts,primarily the gift of life, shesaid. He tells us that humansneed to exercise responsibility inthe world.Pfeil said signs of the current

times speak to a disregard foruniversal responsibility, which

elicits the need for more than achange in perspective.The ongoing crisis shows

there is an urgent moral needfor a new solidarity, especiallybetween developing and indus-trial nations, she said. While Pfeil focused on building

a social conscious, Evansapproached how the market sys-tem itself can be used to achievethe goals laid out in Caritas.

Forumcontinued from page 1

see FORUM/page 5

The Observer CAMPUS NEWSWednesday, September 22, 2010 page 5

College holds accounting awards reception

Five students receivedawards Sept. 14 during theannual accounting awardsreception held in StapletonLounge in Le Mans Hall at SaintMarys College. The students were recognized

for theirachievementswithin theac coun t i ngdepartmentat theCollege. The awards

were given toone juniorand fourseniors torecognize outstanding achieve-ment in the principles ofaccounting, intermediateaccounting, public accounting,accounting leadership and per-sonal and corporate tax. Junior Peggy Dobihal was the

recipient of the Bridget

Anderson/KPMG Award.Dobihal said the award wasgiven to the student with thehighest grade in both principlesof financial accounting andprinciples of managerialaccounting. I feel truly blessed that God

has given me the intelligencenecessary to succeed here atSaint Marys, and I am honoredthat I waschosen tor e c e i v et h i sa w a r d , D o b i h a lsaid.S e n i o r

Betsy Reedrece ivedt h e

PricewaterhouseCooper Awardfor accounting leadership.According to Reed, she

received the award due to herinvolvement on campus, withinthe Business and EconomicDepartment and her stronggrade point average (GPA).

It was an honor to win anaward and be in the presenceof professors and their alumnaecommitted to academic successand who have been successfulin their accounting careers,Reed said.In addition, senior Maureen

Temchuk won the DeloitteAward.Temchuk said the award was

for the stu-dent who hadthe highesta v e r a g egrade in twosemesters ofintermediateaccounting.It was a

great honorto receivethis awardbecause it was a validation ofall the hard work I put intoboth my major and the inter-mediate courses, Temchuksaid. Senior Marianne Jones was

awarded the Crow HorwathAward for the highest grades in

personal and corporate tax. It was a really nice ceremo-

ny, and it was a great honor toreceive an award from theaccounting program, Jonessaid.Senior Amanda Gajor was the

recipient of the Ernst & Youngaward.Gajor said the award was for

the student who was most like-ly to succeedin publicaccount ing.The studentwho receivedthe awardwas the mostwell roundedwho per-formed wellacross theboard inaccounting classes.It was exciting to know that

all the hard work I put in wasrecognized, Gajor said.She said the award pushes

her to succeed.It gave me motivation,

Gajor said. It makes me want

to succeed more because I havepeople behind me believing inme.Though only a few students

receive awards each year, themajority of the accounting stu-dents attend the reception,Jones said. The Saint Marys accountingawards ceremony is a greattradition, Temchuk said. Itallows othersto recognizethose stu-dents whohave goneabove andbeyond intheir time atSaint Marys.The facultyis devoted totheir stu-dents and love giving outstand-ing student achievement theopportunity to shine. Its thatdevotion that makes our schoolsuch a special place.

By ALICIA SMITHAssociate Saint Marys Editor

Contact Alicia Smith [email protected]

Saint Marys tohost Tailgate

The Saint Marys StudentActivites Board (SAB) will host aTwilight Tailgate on LibraryGreen this Thursday at 9 p.m.Twilight Tailgate has been a

traditional event each year thathas varied from outdoor moviesto concerts, SAB presidentAllie Courtney said.This year, SAB will be screen-

ing Toy Story 3 and servingcaramel apples, apple cider, hotcocoa and popcorn.Toy Story 3 was chosen

because it was most readilyavailable through SwankMotion Pictures Incorporated,the company through whichSAB purchases movies,Courtney said.We also picked Toy Story 3

because of its popularity thissummer and it seems like amovie that fits perfectly with theculture on campus, she said. The event is free to all Saint

Marys, Notre Dame and HolyCross students.

The first 400 students toarrive will receive a free fleeceblanket. SAB receives a certain allot-

ment of money from theStudent GovernmentAssociation (SGA) a year inorder to pay for student events,Courtney said.Courtney said the Board has

been trying to create newevents and enhance old ones,and that she wants SAB toestablish a name on campus. SABs goal is to increase par-

ticipation, variety and volume atall of this years events,Courtney said.SAB is currently planning an

Oktoberfest on campus, ascreening of the sixth HarryPotter film before the newHarry Potter movie release andarranging artists for SpringTostal.This is our second big event

of the year, Courtney said. Weare really excited and hope a lotof people come out.

By ALISON MEAGHERNews Writer

Contact Alison Meagher [email protected]

Officials discuss campus water supply

Notre Dame students mightwonder why the water from dif-ferent campus drinking fountainsmay differ in taste. A drink ofwater from a drinking fountainin the Rock might taste quite dif-ferently than that from a foun-tain in DeBartolo or a residencehall.Mike McCauslin, assistant

director of the Risk Managementand Safety Department (RMSD),the entity responsible for moni-toring and sampling theUniversitys water supply, offeredseveral explanations for the dis-parity in the taste of water fromvarious drinking fountains.The taste of drinking fountain

water depends on a variety ofcomponents, McCauslin said.Taste depends on the location ofthe well, the age of the pipe andthe amount of time the water sitsin the pipe.There are six wells serving the

water system, all of which arelocated on the campus proper.The water is drawn from deepaquifers surrounded by substan-tial clay barriers that serve toprotect the groundwater supply,according to the RMSDs 2009

Annual Drinking Water QualityReport.The wells are high in minerals

and, depending on the well, theiron and manganese levels canfluctuate, McCauslin said.When water sits in a pipe for anextended period of time, theseminerals can precipitate out andcause this different taste.The change is taste may not

please students, but McCauslinsaid it isnt harmful. While these minerals might

create an objectionable aestheticin the water, they present nohealth concern and have noeffect on the water quality,McCauslin said. RMSD carries out routine mon-

itoring and sampling of water oncampus for harmful contami-nants and, together with NotreDames Department of FacilityOperations, has added filters onseveral drinking fountains alldone just for aesthetic reasons.According to Paul Kempf,

director of utilities for the Officeof Business Operations, his officeworks closely with RMSD toensure the safety of campusdrinking water.We dont treat our water like

most municipalities, which sim-ply add chlorine, Kempf said. Alot of the research done on cam-

pus needs water without chlorineand we ensure quality by testingrather than adding chlorine.Water taste varies from indi-

vidual to individual, particularlythose with sensitive taste buds.According to McCauslin, there

is a step that students can take toimprove the taste of water fromthe drinking fountains.Taste often depends on the

frequency of use: the more youuse the fountain, the better thewater will taste, McCauslin said.Let the water run for 15 to 20seconds and this should improvethe taste.Sophomore Ryan Lynch has his

preferences on where he gets hisdrinking water. I am not a big fan of some of

the water fountains on campusand usually stock up on waterbottles, but the ones in the dormsare alright and taste good,Lynch said. Others are not so willing to

spend their money on bottledwater.I try not to buy bottles of

water so if the taste of the waterfrom some fountains bothers me,I just get it from the dining hall,senior Shannon Coyne said.

By CASEY KENNYNews Writer

Contact Casey Kenny at [email protected]

Dobihal Reed Temchuk Jones Gajor

Notre Dame alumnus Bishop appointed to VP position

Donald C. Bishop, a long-timeadmissions leader in highereducation and a University ofNotre Dame graduate, has beenappointed associate vice presi-dent for undergraduate enroll-ment at Notre Dame, effectiveDec. 1. He succeeds Daniel J.Saracino, who retired in June.In addition to directing the

Office of UndergraduateAdmissions, Bishop will overseethe Office of Student FinancialServices, a new collaborationthat will help Notre Dameattract and recruit highly tal-ented students whose interestsand aspirations align with theUniversitys mission as a

Catholic university.Don Bishop brings broad

experience, honed skills, and adeep understanding of NotreDame to this position saidThomas G. Burish, NotreDames provost. He has beenhighly effective in advancingthe enrollment objectives ateach university he has served,and doing so in a way consis-tent with the culture of theinstitution. He has used innova-tive marketing and financialaid strategies to help attractand recruit superb enteringclasses.Don also understands, and is

committed to, the special mis-sion of Notre Dame. I verymuch look forward to working

with him as we build upon themomentum that Dan Saracinoestablished during his 13-yeartenure.Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.,

Notre Dames president, added:As an alumnus and the parentof a Notre Dame graduate, Donhas a deep love for this institu-tion and appreciates the dis-tinctive educational opportuni-ties that Notre Dame offers as apremier Catholic research uni-versity. I am delighted to wel-come him back to his almamater.After earning a bachelors

degree in economics fromNotre Dame, Bishop beganworking in the Universitysadmissions office in 1977.

Later, as associate director ofthe office, he initiated theUniversitys first comprehen-sive marketing research activi-ty for admissions and financialaid, which led to increasedrecruitment initiatives andimproved results. During thattime he also earned a mastersdegree in economics from theUniversity and served on theAlumni Association s Board ofDirectors.In 1985, Bishop was appoint-

ed dean of enrollment manage-ment at Ohio WesleyanUniversity, where over the nextdecade he successfully recruit-ed more academically talentedstudents who were drawn tothe institutions commitment to

service.From 1996 to 2002, Bishop

served as the associate dean ofstudents and enrollment man-agement at the CornellUniversity School of HotelAdministration, the worldsleading school in the field.During these years, the aca-demic profile as well as the stu-dents leadership and entrepre-neurial abilit ies achievedrecord levels.Bishop was the associate vice

president for enrollment man-agement at CreightonUniversity from 2002 to 2009,helping the Catholic universityreach historic highs in fresh-man enrollment and doublingthe number of students of color.

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Caritas In Veritate picks upon the importance of trade afterthe ferocious development weveseen over the past 40 years,Evans said. Much of this trade iscoming from the developingworld.While Caritas may be viewed

as an attack on markets, Evanssaid Benedict actually expoundedon the benefits of globalizationand how it brought a new level ofawareness to the worlds poorthat had not previously beenseen.The rapid development of trade

combined with more globalawareness of world povertybrought about an opportunitywhere economic developmentand globalization can be used toactually improve the lives of thoseliving in poverty, Evans said. In a lot of circles, the phrase

economic growth is consideredto have a dirty connotation, hesaid. But for others in the devel-oping world, it can mean the dif-ference between going hungry ornot, or watching your child reachhis first birthday.Evans told the students that it

was their job to think about whateffect their everyday decisionshave on the developing world,but he also addressed the nega-tive aspects that inevitably come

as a result of globalization.However, he said there is no easyanswer to these problems andthe simplest solution may lie inthe development itself.Cassel said he believed the

greatest way for students toaddress these issue was to betruly informed about the globaleconomy and to understand therelationship the Catholic Churchhas with the market.There has always been a bal-

ance between the Church and themarket, he said. The Churchhas never worshiped the marketas a cure-all to the worlds prob-lems, but they have also neverdeclared it to be an instrument ofpure evil either.Cassel said he thinks Caritas

In Veritate stated that the mar-ket is subjective to communica-tive justice.We admit the market can be a

negative force bus only because acertain ideology can make it so,he said. Cassel focused his talk on real-

world examples and how specificmarketplaces hurt global devel-opment when they try and fur-ther their own countrys interestsby unethical and even illegalmeans.You should not for a single

second believe China is the suc-cess of the free-market system,because it is not free, he said.China purposely keeps its cur-rency weak, thereby creating afalse trade market. When coun-

tries do this, they prevent othercountries from access to marketsthat they desperately need.Knowing the truth about

Chinas market system is oneexample of several instanceswhere Cassel believes studentsneed to be educated in order tosucceed at understanding morali-tys role in the global market-place.Part of the answer to these

problems is what youre doingtonight, he said in his closingremarks. You need to beinformed. You need to use yourfaith so that you care. And mostimportantly, you need to act.

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despite Rogers Notre Damedreams, his parents pushed himto attend West Point instead, hesaid. So Rogers joined the militaryacademy, where he continued towrestle and finally tried outboxing for the first time.West Point has a full boxing

program, required for all first-year cadets, Rogers said. Mostcadets wanted nothing to do withit, but I got an A in the class. Rogers didnt join the West

Point boxing team, but insteadcontinued with varsity wrestling.Although he loved West Point,Rogers dream of attending NotreDame refused to die but trans-ferring schools was much harderthan it sounds.I had family pressures keeping

me at West Point, and the militaryhad invested in me so they want-ed me to stay, Rogers said. Mostof all, West Point is paid for by agovernment scholarship. Whowas going to pay for NotreDame?Despite the pressures, Rogers

finally transferred after his junioryear at West Point, but main-tained close connections to hisWest Point classmates. The West Point community has

been very supportive, giving meadvice on how to box, and espe-cially on how to box at my age,Rogers said. I have some distinctadvantages and I intend to usethem.Rogers paid for his entire Notre

Dame education out of his ownpocket. Although he had earned116.5 class credits at West Point,Notre Dames rules requiredRogers to enter Notre Dame as ajunior, so he used those extra

credits to graduate with twodegrees in electrical engineeringand psychology. Between earning a dual degree

and having to repeat his junioryear, Rogers had no choice but tostay at the University for two anda half years.That was fine with me,

because it gave me an extrasemester at Notre Dame and anextra year to fight in the BengalBouts, Rogers said. After graduating, Rogers pur-

sued a business career, but thatwas not enough, he said. As earlyas 1987, he became interested ina law career.I was doing it all for me, with

my corporate career and as abachelor for all those years,Rogers said. He kept thinking ofhis father, an FBI agent, whoworked to protect civil rights inthe 1960s South.As an FBI agent, my dad was

the enemy in some of thoseSouthern states, Rogers said.He investigated kidnappings, dis-appearances and burnings ofblack people.Rogers dad helped keep the

peace during the Little Rock, Ark.,school integration, Rogers said,and in 1952 he was in a gunfighton the streets of Manhattan witha criminal on the 10 Most Wantedlist.My dad had a very colorful

career, Rogers said. This wasdangerous work. It was aboutfighting abuse of authority andprotecting human rights. So as alaw student, civil rights becamemy focus.Rogers dad inspired him to go

to law school and to use his box-ing skill to help the Holy CrossMissions in Bangladesh, Rogerssaid. But after several rejections,Rogers gave up on Notre DameLaw School.

He instead graduated from theUniversity of St. Mary in SanAntonio in 2007.It was so hard to get back in. I

was competing with a pool ofgreater talent, Rogers said. Iwas accepted three times in the1970s, then rejected 11 times.Then I came back strong like afighter and got in.Rogers is now a student in the

Master of Laws (LL.M.) inInternational Human Rights.Thats not the only change in hislife Rogers married for the firsttime in August 2009.I met Michelle at my 30-year

West Point reunion, Rogers said.As a former Marine, she has thespirit to back me in this some-what unusual endeavor. Shes apart of my story now.Muhammed Ali, West Point

classmates and Rogers dad allinfluenced his quest to win theBengal Bouts tournament buttoday, his wife is his biggest sup-port, Rogers said.She believes in me, Rogers

said. She believes that Im goingto achieve what I want toachieve.After the influence that others

have had on his quest, Rogerssays it is his turn to inspire others.I will be fighting on behalf of

the missions, on behalf of myselfand on behalf of every 40-plus-year-old guy that wants to get avicarious thrill out of this, Rogerssaid. Life doesnt end at 40 or50.

The third and final installmentof this series will examine Rogerscurrent life as a Notre Damegraduate student and his goal ofwinning Bengal Bouts in 2011. Itwill run in tomorrows Observer.

Republicans.Storin said the notion that

Democrats could suffer mas-sive losses may hold true, buta lot of political pundits arebiased by personal investmentin the election.A lot of predictions and

analysis is colored by whatpeople want to happen, hesaid.Storin also said this election

is unique in that polls areshowing that voters areincreasingly dissatisfied withtheir own representatives inCongress. He said under nor-mal circumstances Americansdont approve of Congress asa whole but support their rep-resentatives.Despite the Democrats

troubles, Storin said there issome hope for the party.We live in a time of short

attention spans. Maybe byNovember people might swingthe other way, he said.Storin mentioned enthusi-

asm is off-pace forDemocrats, mainly because ofthe probable decline inturnout of young voters.There is going to be a huge

drop-off in younger voters,he said. That is seen as onereason why Democrats areexpected to suffer.Storin added that one of the

reasons this election is viewedas a defining election is thatthe majority party typicallyloses an average of 12 seatsin midterm elections.Americans like divided

government, he said. Rightnow, they dont have dividedgovernment.Despite this, he said the

long-term impact of the elec-tion, especially in terms ofhow it might impact the presi-dent, is being overstated.Even though Obama is get-

ting criticized a lot, he still isat a 46 percent approval rat-ing in tough times, Storinsaid. It is hard to predict thata strong Republican resultcould impact him down theline in two years.Storin closed his commen-

tary with some discussion ofthe Tea Party. He said thepolitical group has had someslip ups, but could make somestrong gains this November,doing more good for theRepublicans than bad.You could make a point

that there is harm [to theRepublicans], but they arecreating a great deal ofexcitement in some stateswith more conventional can-didates, he said.He said the reason the Tea

Party has enjoyed recent suc-cess is that it embodies apa-thy.

The influence of specialinterest groups on congres-sional votes is huge, and theone group who is not repre-sented is the ordinary peo-ple, Storin said. The onegroup who comes close torepresenting these people isthe Tea Party.Colwell started his commen-

tary by overturning the mis-conception that political racesdont gear up until afterLabor Day, stating some raceshave been determined asearly as Labor Day of lastyear. He also said part of the

GOPs expected successinvolves how women usuallytend to vote Democrat.The Republican tide start-

ed to become a tsunami. Theenthusiasm gap involves thegender gap, he said. Pollsnow show females are lesslikely to get to the polls. Theyseem disillusioned.Colwell said the main ques-

tion for this election is themargin of victory Republicanswill ultimately enjoy.Its going to be a

Republican year, there is nodoubt about it, he said.What were talking about isthe size of their victory.Colwell said the local con-

gressional race between cur-rent congressman Joe Donellyand challenger JackieWalorski could be one thatultimately decides whetherthe House turns Republicanor remains Democrat, andbetween $10 and $20 millioncould be spent between thetwo campaigns.The congressional race

here is one of the premierhouse races in the country,he said.Nickerson spoke on the

importance of campaigns andturnout, saying ultimately it isnot what the candidates dothat matters as much as thestate of the nation.The campaign stuff doesnt

matter, he said. What doesmatter is the state of theeconomy and how happy peo-ple are.Part of the reason that cam-

paigning is difficult is the verynature of convincing people tochange personal or politicalviews.Persuasion is super hard.

People are pretty set asDemocrats or Republicans,Nickerson said.Nickersons closing state-

ments related the nature ofcampaigns to go after specificvoters to the enthusiasm gapDemocrats are suffering from.When they target their

messages, they are very nar-rowly targeted, he said.This makes the enthusiasmgap very important.

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Mans mind, once stretched by anew idea, never regains its original

dimensions.

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CountercultureIve had many discussions with

friends about Notre Dames lack ofcounterculture or alternativelifestyles or whatever you want tocall it. But recently I had anepiphany: NotreDame does indeedhave a counter-culture, in the sensethat many of thecore beliefs shared by this culture govery much against prevailing trendsoutside the Notre Dame bubble. Iwould single out the Irish Rover asone of the premier exponents of thiscounterculture the voice thereof, ifyou will.The Irish Rover is quite possibly the

only alternative publication atNotre Dame.The only other potential alterna-

tive publication was mass e-mailedanonymously to Notre Dame kidssometime starting in fall 2009, andstopped production at the end ofspring 2010, when the would-beJonathan Swift apparently graduated.The Prodigal Son was an all-outattack on Notre Dame, the liberalversion of the Irish Rover. Where theIrish Rover desperately strove toovercome its low readership, TheProdigal Son reveled in its pseudo-underground trappings, even featur-ing a masked man holding up a bigsack of marijuana at the end of itsfirst issue. Shocking and edgy,amirite?The most interesting thing is that

these two publications were muchmore similar than they were differ-

ent, even if the Irish Rovers inspira-tions were Rush Limbaugh, FOX Newsand St. Augustine, where the ProdigalSons were Maddox, ChristopherHitchens and the Internet. The com-mon element is tone: self-congratula-tion for getting it. The best evidenceof this tone in the Rover is in themasthead, which states with no hintof irony, It behooves a watchdog tobark. Good, Rover. The best evidenceof this in the Prodigal Son is theextended story about a businessmajor experiencing romantic rejec-tion in Club Fever. (Fever-bashing is afresh and relevant form of humor.)In both cases, the critiques of the

larger culture seemed more rooted inpersonal disappointment thanresponsive to actual social need; andsadly enough, in neither case werethe critiques funny. Obviously the sec-ond point is more important than thefirst. What initially tripped me up in con-

sidering Notre Dames countercultur-al elements was the innate assump-tion that counterculture equals hip,cool and interesting. As often as not,counterculture is more or less anelaborate structure of inside jokes,signs and countersigns, which isunintelligible to outsiders; and cool-ness is merely a measure of howbadly those outsiders want to get onthe inside and understand. Smugself-congratulation can actually be anasset to cool scenes in terms ofmaking outsiders feel like hugelosers.Unfortunately, where outsiders

experience no discernible attractionfrom the outside, these scenes tend toremain the same size. The ProdigalSon, where the size of the scene wasone person, forms an extreme versionof this. The Irish Rovers scene is ofcourse bigger (to be extremely gener-ous, say one in 40 undergraduates)but still not on its way to any sort ofgrowth. And thats probably the wayboth scenes like; it preserves the auraof exclusivity, even if the number ofapplicants is zero.So why arent there any other

alternative publications, given theprofusion of smart, driven NotreDame students? I think the answer isthat most of the smart, driven stu-dents are looking for jobs that willmake them millions of dollars, to becompletely reductive and overgener-al. Many students may not be likethat, but it seems like people are busyenough here that they dont have thetime or energy to put one more con-straint on their lives starting andrunning a consistently entertaining,interesting and useful indie studentpublication. In any case, thats mytheory for why we dont have one ofthose things. As for why everyone atNotre Dame dresses basically thesame and why everyones social liferevolves around football Saturdays thats a topic for another editorial.

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A strange phenomenon in popularmusic is its ability to capture andbecome eternally correlated withperiods in our life. Without our con-scious control, certain songs becomeforever linkedto periods inour livesbecause of theirinherently over-played and finitenature.One of my fondest memories of my

first semester freshman year was theinevitable blaring of the Miley Cyrusclassic Party in the USA at onepoint (or several) during a dormparty. Other songs, such as the BlackEyed Peas I Gotta Feeling, JaySeans Down, Jason DeRulosWhatcha Say and Ke$has Tik Tokwill also forever conjure up dormparty memories from freshman yearfor me.Maybe I just have not realized it

yet, but that song has not been pres-ent yet this year. There have beensongs with serious potential, such asKaty Perrys Teenage Dream andTaios Cruzs Dynamite but we haveno definitive musical time capsules.There are several reasons why this

could be. Primarily, now that I am abig, bad sophomore, I do not attendnearly as many dorm parties as I didmy first few weeks as a freshman.Secondly, it is only a month intoschool and no song has really hadtime to catch enough traction tobecome party-viral. The one otherpossibility is that no musician hasbeen able to put out a song that hasthe immediate dance party appealcombined with the perfect amount ofstaying power. The correct mixture ofan infectious beat, autotune andlyrics that could be memorized by anamnesiac has not been reached.In order to solve this situation, we

can wait for an artist to put out thatsong, or we can decide amongst our-selves to create it. The latter is mysuggestion.Be that guy who causes his room-

mate to roll his eyes every time hewalks in the room because you areplaying the same song over and overas loud as your MacBook Pro willallow. Be the person who puts thesame song once every seven songs onyour Dance Party playlist on iTunes.Be the slightly drunk girl or group ofgirls who hijacks a carefully preparedplaylist to play your favorite song.Thats right. Risk being annoying toyour roommate, maligned by partyhosts and generally overbearing withyour dedication to one awful song.A few possibilities: F*** You by

Cee Lo Green and a song that hasbeen around but one that I feel nevergot the play it deserved, Like a G6by the Far East Movement. But besure to check out those songs if youhave not they have potential.Maybe the song of Fall Semester

2010 will present itself organically,and maybe thats the way it shouldbe. Forcing the issue may be againstthe true nature of these songs.However, Im afraid that if we do notact soon, this semester will be sweptaway in time, forever lost in ourmusical memory. That I cannot bearto accept. To modify one of MaximusDecimus Meridius famous lines inGladiator, What songs we listen torepetitively in life echo in eternity.

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Cheer for OldNotre Dame

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The class of 1964 holds the current record for mostlosses at 25. The class of 2011 has witnessed 23, andwe are only three games into our fourth year.Dont tell me its been a tough season. Weve been

giving our players, our school, and our tradition theirdue for three years straight. Weve been rewardedwith heartbreaking losses, a bowl game in Hawaiithat no students could reasonably travel to and anoverall ransacking of tradition. Weve lost 23 footballgames, the Dillon pep rally (the real one), and peprallies in the JACC (which students actually attend-ed).I will continue to support our team as fervently as

possibly. I personally believe everyone should becheering their hearts out for the entire three to fourhours of the game on a football Saturday. But donttell me that you cant understand why a senior mightbe less enthusiastic after these last three years.

Mike Cartersenior

off campusSept. 21

The point of the gospel of lifeWe would like to tactfully contest some points Mr.

Mullen brought up in the discussion of Mr. Williamseditorial (Gingrich is not Obama Sept 20). Regardingthe death penalty, Mr. Mullens quotation of Churchteaching is correct, but he makes a very common mis-interpretation. While it is true that the Church believesthe death penalty to be defensible in some cases, inwhich it is the only possible way of defending humanlives against the unjust aggressor, that should not bea concern in the United States today.In Biblical times, and in many developing countries,

there was/is no other way to protect people from thepotential of repeat offenses, but in the U.S. today, wehave the sentence of life without parole in a maximumsecurity facility. Also, Mr. Mullens connection of thedeath penalty with self defense is illogical because selfdefense is a defense used in criminal court for a crimecommitted in order to protect oneself from seriousbodily harm, while the death penalty is a criminal pun-ishment used in the most serious (or politically

charged) murder trials.Certainly abortion is a much more salient political

issue, but the morality of an issue is not tied to thenumber of lives lost ... Mr. Mullen seems to be trivializ-ing the legal homicide of 1,200 people. In addition, Mr.Mullen puts words in the mouth of Mr. Williams whenhe suggests Mr. Williams implied that abortion, capitalpunishment, waterboarding and health care access alllie in the same moral field. Rather, it seems to us thatMr. Williams is simply curious to see if Mr. Gingrichsvisit would go completely unnoticed, considering theconstant scrutiny on Notre Dame about upholdingCatholic tradition. If putting an end to abortion is theonly issue that Catholics are willing to stand up andfight for, we are missing the point of the gospel of life.

Michael OBriensophomoreKnott Hall

Sept. 20

Gingrich Visitto ND

Notre Dame policies and Notre Dame double stan-dards never cease to amaze and appall those of uswho work here: just two days after we faculty andstaff received a letter reminding us of the policy thatprohibits using university funds to sponsor partisanspeakers to campus, Notre Dame received theRepublican poster-boy Newt Gingrich, who was intown to Stump for Walorski according to today'sSouth Bend Tribune.Great use of university subsidies, to pay for Newt's

trip to town. Great way to reveal the double stan-dard operating on this campus and its non-partisanpolitics.

Julia Douthwaitefaculty

Romance Languages and LiteratureSept. 21

Give me a reason to shake upthe thunder

I am writing in response to Todd Velianskis letter toThe Observer (Shake up the thunder, Sept. 21). In theletter, Todd expresses his dismay over the abuses bymajority of the upperclassmen not cheering on the foot-ball team enough for his liking.Although some may agree with Todds desire for more

enthusiasm and zeal from the juniors and seniors, I donot believe it is a sentiment shared by many of theupperclassmen. What Todd seems to not understand ishow awful the football seasons have been for these upperclassmen. This senior class will graduate with the worstfour year record in Notre Dame history. We have seenone win against Michigan, zero wins against USC andzero home wins against Navy. Thats right, Navy. Excuseus, Todd, if we no are longer cheering our hearts out for

a team that has shown us nothing but disappointment forfour years.The truth is, tailgating and socializing with your friends

is too much fun to let something like the football gameruin it. So, Todd, my friends and I will continue to enjoyourselves on football Saturdays, throw out the occasionalcheer and not get too down when the team loses anothergame in the last minute. You keep cheering your heartout and see where that gets you. Oh, and you dont knowwhat a rough season is until youve experienced 3-9.

John Harigsenior

off-campusSept. 21

The Latino voteTonight Multicultural Student

Programs and Services (MSPS), theInstitute for Latino Studies, the RooneyCenter for the Study of AmericanDemocracy and the Center for SocialConcerns will hosta panel discussiontitled, AmericanPolitics in the 21stCentury: TheLatino Vote. Theevent is open to the public and it isscheduled to begin at 7 p.m. inMcKenna Hall Auditorium with a recep-tion to follow at the conclusion of theevent. Dianne Pinderhughes, the Presidents

Distinguished Professor in theDepartments of Political Science andAfrican Studies, will moderate the fourperson panel which includes: MichaelJones-Correa, Matt Barreto, MariaTorres and Ricardo Ramirez. MichaelJones-Correa is Professor ofGovernment at Cornell University. He isthe co-author of Latino Lives inAmerica: Making It Home (Temple2010), the author of Between TwoNations: The Political Predicament ofLatinos in New York City (Cornell,1998) and the editor of GoverningAmerican Cities: Interethnic Coalitions,Competition, and Conflict (Russell Sage

Foundation, 2001), as well as theauthor of more than two dozen articlesand chapters on immigration, race, eth-nicity and citizenship in the UnitedStates. Matt A. Barreto is an AssociateProfessor of political science at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle, andhe is currently the Director of theWashington Institute for the Study ofEthnicity and Race. Matt specializes inLatino and immigrant voting behavior,and teaches courses on Racial andEthnic Politics, Latino Politics, Votingand Elections and American Politics atUW. Maria Torres is the Director andProfessor of Latin American and LatinoStudies at the University of Illinois inChicago. She is author of two books,The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan,Cuban Children in the U.S. and thePromise of a Better Future. Currentlyshe is a co-Principal Investigator foranother book on Youth Politics in theAge of Globalization, funded by ChapinHall and the Kellogg Foundation andwas Co-PI for a National ScienceResearch Foundation Project: CivicEngagement in Three LatinoNeighborhoods. Ricardo Ramirez is aVisiting Associate Professor at NotreDames political science department. Hestudies diversity in politics by analyzingdifferences among Latino voters and

patterns of political mobilization by nat-uralized Latinos. His work is part of alarger effort by the political sciencedepartment of the College of Letters,Arts and Sciences to understand thenuances of the states diverse electorateby watching how African Americans,Asians and Latinos cast their politicalopinions.Ricardo Ramirez notes that, after

studying the data from the 2008 generalelection, it is evident that the number ofLatinos voting soared to historic levels.There was a large influx of youngLatino voters, along with many natural-ized Latinos submitting their votes forthe first time. Since 2006, these two fac-tors have heavily influenced the tremen-dous growth in the number of Latinoseligible to vote in elections. As for the2010 midterm elections, Ramirez statesthat he expects this trend to continue.Although it is difficult to predict whichparty most Latinos will align with forthe 2010 midterm election, Ramirezsresearch reveals that Latino voting pat-terns are heavily influenced by the levelof interaction they experience withpolitical candidates. He also details,Given that it will be an interesting racebetween a Republican, a Democrat andan Independent candidate, the Latinovote could heavily influence the out-

come of the election. Based on dataRamirez has collected from previouselections, Ramirez believes that theoverall number of Latinos participatingin the 2010 midterm election will large-ly reflect the participation rates of thegeneral population. Ramirez elaborates,Similar to the general population, instates that are very competitive, youwill have more Latinos coming out tovote, while in states that are not com-petitive, you will have less Latinos vot-ing. In the next 15-20 years, the Latinovoting landscape should mirror the cur-rent growth trends, both in the numberof Latinos eligible to vote and the num-ber of Latinos participating in elections.However, Ramirez admits that it is verydifficult to forecast which party themajority of Latinos will choose to alignwith down the road. The discussion, American Politics in

the 21st Century: The Latino Vote, willfurther explore these topics, in additionto others, as Ricardo Ramirez and theother panelists share more of theirresearch.

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SYR season is in full swing. Whether you have already attend-ed one this past weekend or are attending one in the coming month,take a look into the not too distant past to seehow this tradition has evolved. Years ago, it was typical for each dorm to host

one semi-formal SYR and one more formal danceeach semester. The host dorm held the SYR inany large space available within the dorm dec-orated hallways, 24-hour lounges, entire floors or whatever wasavailable. Formals were held at various on- or off-campus locationssuch as the Senior Bar (now Legends) or hotel ballrooms.

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In 2002, Notre Dame enforced a new pol-icy insisting that all dances be held outside of thedormitories. Many dances moved to locations likeSouth Dining Hall or the LaFortune ballroom,

where they remain today. SYR, an acronym for

Screw Your Roommate(orSet-up Your Roommateaccording to the modestDome editors of the early2000s), is a term used todescribe the process bywhich students acquireddates to their dorms dance.Roommates picked out datesfor one another in a com-pletely arbitrary fashion.

Students were as creative as they liked picking out gems at the dining hall, fromthe Dog Book or through friends of friends.Some people ended up with the dates of theirdream and new significant others, while oth-ers endured a painful evening with a pur-posely awkward date as a joke. While somestill put this tradition to use today, date hunt-ing has become a largely individual process. One other noteworthy change has arisen in

the past few years: the disappearance of thegift. Before an SYR could begin, the boy orgirl of the host dorm had to present their date(blind or chosen) with a gift. Serious optionsincluded books, flowers or candy, but mostopted for gag gifts. Shannon McGonigle couldeven stand inside the present she receivedfrom her gracious date in 2003 a massiveEaster basket. Needless to say, the ND stu-dent body should work collectively to revivethis hilariously gratifying tradition.

Though location and pre-SYR preparations have been modifiedwithin the past decade, one aspect of SYRs has not: the theme. It hasbeen customary for quite some time for SYRs to declare themes thatimply a dress code, which can range from full-out costumes to semi-for-mal apparel. Some have become tradition (the Keough toga dance, theLewis Hall Crush), while others are suited to the time, like an AustinPowers themed dance held in Pangborn in 2000 or the dance entitledThug Life of 2002.Yes, freshmen are curious of this SYR tradition looming upon us all

now, but some veterans are skeptical of its ability to make a night worth-while. This year, try embracing some tactics of decades past to guaran-tee you will have a good time set up your roommate, buy yourunknown date a gift, find a creative costume and hope for the best!

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Being strange is a tricky business. Itstough to tell if putting an unmodifiedprofile shot of a character from a recentTV series on your album cover will bewell received. Weezer is about to findout. Weezers new album, following last

years belly flop Raditude, is titledHurley after one of the charactersfrom the recently concluded televisionseries Lost. The assumption would bethat the allusion to this contemporarycharacter was meant to reveal some-thing about the approach of the songs.So who was Hurley? He was an over-

weight Cali dude. He was the comic relieffor the show. He was probably a Weezerfan. In fact, Jorge Garcia, the actor whoplayed Hurley in Lost, admitted that itwas more than an honor to have beenplaced on the albums cover. Suffice it to say, the album appears to

be a salute to the lovable dudes in theworld in all their average glory. Sound

like a Weezer album yet? Thats exactlywhat it is.Front man Rivers Cuomo is at his best

in writing catchy neo-punk anthems. Thealbum explodes with the dynamite trackMemories. Thesong is a retro-spect of the 90s,but not in therevisionist-VH1t e n d e n c y .Weezer wasthere, makinggreat music andhanging out withthe weirdoes the guys whothought theywere BuddyHolly. Trainwrecks

and Unspokenare almost asstrong as M e m o r i e s . Unspoken risesfrom acousticpunches to apunk rock plea.Trainwrecks isa classic Cuomosong about beingyoung and kindof a loser, and how thats OK.The remainder of the tracks taper off

into the zone of the likable but forget-table. The few songs that you dont for-get will be the ones you skip over thesecond time through. Wheres My Sexconsists of several statements about sexthat appear to actually be about socks.Dont look for meaning you might get

nauseous. Smart Girls is a song about, well,

smart girls, who are everywhere, likezombies. Cuomo asks, Where did allthese smart girls come from? If hesgoing to make songs about attending

Harvard, he shouldnt ask such dumbquestions. The albums weakest point is Cuomos

lyrics. On earlier albums, he was able topull off his weirdo-conversationalistanthems. Here, the words spit off awk-wardly as garage band lyricism from ateenage front man. Lyrics like In therain / in the sun / Everybody / Needs

someone almost sound tongue-in-check,and Cuomos intentionality is in question. Critically acclaimed neo-folk artist Joe

Henry said of his 2007 album Civiliansthat the sound and feel of the music hadbeen structured around a certain blackand white photograph, which eventually

became the albums cover. Henrypresented his strat-

egy as unique.Though mostdont workfrom cover tomusic, the ideaof matching thealbum artworkwith the over-all feel of themusic is actu-ally almost ascommon asalbums them-selves. In this aspect,

Hurley shines.The 10 tracks,more or less, are

the soundtrack forthe life of a 21st-cen-

tury dude, lovable andunsophisticated. Its a

catchy mix of idiosyncrasy andpop. Its weird and light hearted. It

will never change your life, or even yourmind. Its good Thursday night music.Good for, after winning the lottery, ridingaround with your buddy and savoringthe remaining hours of the simple life.Its Hurleys music.

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This Thursday, the DeBartoloPerforming Arts Center (DPAC) iswe lcoming Esperanza Spa ld ing .Never heard of her? Well, its timeto change that.S pa l d i n g i s a

hot up-and-com-i n g j a z z a r t i s twho s e mo s tr e cen t a l bum, Chamber Mus i cSociety, debuted number one ont h e i Tune s a nd Amazon J a z zcha r t s . S h e a l s o p e r f o rmed a t2009 White House Poetry Jam, the2009 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony,on Jimmy Kimmel Live,and on many o t h e rs hows ando t h e r v en -ues.E v en i f

you do notc o n s i d e rj a z z t o be y o u rt h i n g , Spa ld ingha s av o i c ethat wil ldraw youi n t o h e rmusic. Onher web-site, shesdescribedas having am u l t i -l i ngua lv o i c et h a t i sp a r ta n g e la n dp a r tsiren.

Her songs a re l a id backand me l l ow, wh i l e a tt h e s ame t ime b e i n gc a t c h y a nd upbea t .Spa ld ing has a won-d e r f u l c ommand o fboth vocal and instru-men t a l r a ng e . H e rmusic is both old-schoolj a z z and con temporary.Her approach to j azz i sbright and pop-oriented,wh i l e s t i l l ma i n t a i n i n gt ha t smoo th j a z z s oundthat everyone knows andloves. S pa l d i n g s l o v e o f

mu s i c c ame f i r s ta nd f o r emo s tfrom her moth-e r, who a l s oshares a pas-s i o n f o rsinging. Herpu r s u i t o fb a s s c amef r om ar e s p e c tt h a t g r ewou t o fwatch-ing YoYo Maper formon anep i s o d e o f t h echi ldhood c lass ic , Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Spalding beganto pursue mus ic on her own,bas i ca l l y t each ing herse l f t oplay the violin within the year.She then jo ined the ChamberMus i c S o c i e t y o f O r e g on , o fwhich she remained a memberfor ten years.During this time, Spalding dis-

c o v e r ed s ome t h i n g t h a t c o n -

tributed more to what she isnow: bass. She started toplay blues, hip-hop, funk,and, you guessed it, jazz.The sound o f her mus i cbrought flocks to the localclubs she played at. Spalding released herf i r s t a l b um ,E spe ranza , i n May2008. I t remained att h e t o p o f

B i l l b o a r d s C o n t e m p o r a r y

Jazz chart for over70 week s . S h e

r e c e i v e dbo t h t h e J a z zJ o u r n a l i s t sAssociations 2009 Jazz Award forUp and Coming Artist of the Yearand the 2009 JazzWeek Award forRecord of the Year. She was nomi-nated again in 2010 for the JazzJourna l i s t s Assoc ia t ion s Awardfor Up and Coming Art is t o f theYear.Chamber Mus i c Soc i e t y was

r e l e a s ed i n Augu s t 2 010 .Inspired by the classical trainingshe had when she was younger,the album keeps the surprise ofjazz alive through improvisationaljam moments. Other musicians ont h e a l bum i n c l u d e p i a n i s t L e oGenove se , d rummer Te r r i LyneCarrington, percussionist QuintinoC ina l l i , gu i t a r i s t R i ca rdo Vog t ,voca l i s t s G re t chen Par l a t o andM i l t o n Na s c imen t o , v i o l i n i s tEn t c h o Todo r o v, v i o l i s t L o i sMartin and cellist David Eggar.Thursday n igh t s per formance

promises to be a spectacular one,f e a t u r i n g c a t c h y, u n i qu e j a z z

music. The performance isat 7 p.m. on Thursday

i n t h e L e i g h t onConcert Hall ofthe DPAC.

W h a t :EsperanzaSpalding in Concert

W h e r e :DPAC : L e i g h t on

Concert HallWhen : Thu r s da y

September 23, 7 PMHow much: Regular $30, Senior

$22, Student $15, Youth $15Learn more : h t tp : / / per formin-

garts.nd.edu/calendar/

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piece of American cinema, billed asa comedy of gigantic proportions,from countlessreruns on theDisney channelback in the 90s.Some may alsorecognize i t asthat mov ie a tB l o c k b u s t e rwith the k idsand the guy inthe g iantcheeseburgeron the cover.For those unlucky enough to havemissed it, you should probably fixthat. Like right now.Heavyweights takes place at the

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STANFORD, Calif. Stanfordcoach Jim Harbaugh would notreveal any informationTuesday about the injury thatknocked star receiver RyanWhalen out of last weeks gameagainst Wake Forest.Im not going to tell you

anything, Harbaugh saidwhen asked about Whalensstatus at his weekly news con-ference. As soon as we tellyou, you tell Notre Dame.Theres no advantage to doingthat.Harbaugh has taken a

tightlipped approach to injuriesthis season, revealing as littleinformation as possible ininterviews.Thats the same approach he

is taking with Whalen, whoappeared to hurt his left armwhile being tackled following ashort catch in last Saturdays68-24 victory over WakeForest.Whalen was not listed on the

three-deep depth chart for the16th-ranked Cardinal (3-0).But Harbaugh wouldnt sayanything about his status forSaturdays game at NotreDame, saying it would give the

Fighting Irish a competitiveadvantage.I would want to know that

about the status of every play-er on their team, whethertheyre going to play, what per-cent they are, how many playstheyre going to play, howtheyre going to be used,Harbaugh said. Thats valu-able information.Whalen had 10 catches for

113 yards and one touchdownbefore being sidelined. Whalenled the team with 57 catchesfor 926 yards last year and has109 career receptions for1,558 yards and six touch-downs.He provides even more intan-

gible help to an offense that isaveraging 51.7 points and475.3 yards per game this sea-son.Whales is the leader on

offense for us. Hes our cap-tain, quarterback AndrewLuck said. Hes been thereand done it all at Stanford. Itwill be a serious blow if hesout for a while. We have guyswho can step in and fill thatrole. He knows hes going tohave to be out there coachingthe guys up. Whatever happensI think well be fine.

Cushioning any blow thatWhalens absence would pres-ent was last weeks healthyreturn of big-play receiverChris Owusu, who missed thefirst two games with a reportedknee injury.Owusu caught touchdown

passes on his first two drives ofthe season last week againstWake Forest. He turned hisfirst reception into an 8-yardscore and also made a leaping35-yard touchdown catch laterin the first quarter.Owusu added a diving 22-

yard catch over the middle ashis speed brings an addeddimension to an already high-powered offense.It was great to get him into

the mix early, get him a touch-down, get him in the endzone, Harbaugh said. It wasreally good to have him back.Hes just one of our best play-ers. You try to put him in asmany situations as you can forhim to have success.Owusu had five touchdown

catches last year and alsoreturned three kicks for scores.He did not return kicks in hisfirst game back but Harbaughsaid that could come soon asStanford looks to get him even

more involved heading into thetoughest stretch of the season.He has a lot of speed and

explosiveness that adds a lot tothe offense, Luck said. I donthink the wide receiver corpswas lacking with him out, but

he definitely brings the level ofplay up.After visiting Notre Dame on

Saturday, the Cardinal travel toNo. 5 Oregon next week andhost No. 20 Southern Californiathe following week.

NCAA FOOTBALL

Status of Cardinals Whalen remains mysteryAssociated Press

AP

Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, shown during Stanfords game againstWake Forest Saturday, refuses to report the status of Ryan Whalen.

PGA

Finchem expects Tour to go without some title sponsors

ATLANTA PGA Tour com-miss ioner Tim Finchemexpects three or four tourna-ments to be without a titlesponsor going into the 2011season, although he said thetour has no plans to subsidizethem.Finchem painted an opti-

mistic picture Tuesday of the

tour, noting its cumulative TVaudience number of view-ers who tune in to a PGA Tourat any point during a tourna-ment was down only 2 per-cent despite Tiger Woods notplaying the first three monthsof the season. And despite aweakened economy, the tourhas signed or renewed some18 title sponsors since 2009.But when asked about being

happy with how well every-thing appears to be going,Finchem added some contextto the situation.Were pleased that were

competing. Were not fallingbackward when were in adi f f i cu l t env ironment ,Finchem said. On the otherhand, you would much preferto grow. Wed much preferthe growth levels that we hadfor charitable contributions inthe three years before 2008than bumping along with veryslight growth. And the samething with financial benefitsto players.But g iven the c ircum-

stances, given the difficulties,given the cutbacks weve seenin other sports and given thefact that were headed intotelevision negotiations, weare cautiously optimistic. Andwe have to be pleased aboutthat.Finchem described the 2010

season as event fu l andinteresting, which takes ina lot.On the golf course, there

were two scores of 59 withina month o f each other, byPaul Goydos and StuartAppleby. And while Woods isenduring a miserable seasonon and off the course with hispersonal travails, a youngerc lass o f compet i t ion hasemerged through Dust inJohnson, Rory McI lroy,Hunter Mahan, Jason Dayand Rickie Fowler, the firstPGA Tour rookie to make theRyder Cup team.Most noticeable was Woods,

who has failed to win a PGATour stop for the first time inhis career.His downfal l from the

extramarital affairs that ledto his divorce to finishing inthe top 10 at only two tourna-ments comes at a t imewhen the tour i s about tostart negotiations on the nextTV contract.F inchem sa id he doesnt

th ink the per formance o fgolf s most popular playerwill have much bearing.I think Tiger brings a lot of

unique viewers to the tele-

cast, he said. Tiger doesntgenerate the core audiencethat we have week in andweek out . I l l say th is formaybe the 50th time wehave 47 tournaments, Tigerplays in 16. ... The economyis the problem, not Tiger.Having sa id that , there

isnt any question that whenyou have not just the No. 1player on this tour but themost dominating player in asport in history, you want himplaying because it makes a lotof things work a lot better,Finchem said. And we wanthim play ing, we want h implaying well. And given hisintensity, we assume thatllbe the case.The tournaments without

t i t le sponsors are the BobHope Classic, Hilton Head,the St. Jude Championship inMemphis, and the World GolfChampionship at Doral .Finchem said he expected atitle sponsor for Doral.As for the others, he said

they have enough funding toget by another year.

Associated Press

AP

PGA Commisioner Tim Finchem remains optimistic ratings will holdsteady despite the struggles of Tiger Woods so far this season.

NEW YORK New York Jetsstar wide receiver BraylonEdwards told a police officerhed been partying and drink-ing before being pulled over inhis luxury SUV, but he suggest-ed letting him leave the car andgo home, prosecutors said ashe was arraigned Tuesday ondrunken-driving charges.A solemn Edwards was

released without bail in a casethat could compound his legaltroubles while hes on proba-tion after a fracas in Clevelandlast year. He declined to discussthe drunken-driving arrest ashe left a Manhattan courthouse,thronged by reporters.There will be plenty of time

to talk. Ill address everybody,said Edwards, wearing a blackT-shirt and fashionably torngray jeans.Defense lawyer Peter M.

Frankel said Edwards wasexhausted and focused on get-ting back to his team.Obviously, this is very diffi-

cult for him, Frankel said.Without question, absolutely,he understands the seriousnessof the situation, and he is com-mitted to getting back on thefootball field and doing what hedoes best for the Jets.A breath test showed

Edwards had a blood-alcohollevel twice the legal limit afterhe was stopped on ManhattansWest Side around 5 a.m.Tuesday, prosecutors said.Chief police spokesman PaulBrowne said officers on thelookout for such violations asoverly tinted windows stoppedEdwards because his LandRovers windows were too darkand then noticed a strong smellof alcohol.Authorities said there were

four other people in the SUV,and the Jets confirmed Tuesdaythat starting left tackleDBrickashaw Ferguson and

defensive end Vernon Gholstonwere among them. Neither ofthose players was charged.Edwards told an officer hed

had a couple of drinks, thelast about an hour before,assistant district attorneyAlyssa Gunther said.We were coming from a

party. How about if I just leavethe car and take a cab and gohome? he asked, according toGunther.Edwards also quizzed the

officer about why he wasntfirst given a field sobriety test,saying they do it in Michigan,where he was a college stand-out, and questioned the basisfor his arrest, Gunther said.Why was I stopped for hav-

ing tints if my driving didntlead you to believe I was drunkdriving? Edwards asked,according to prosecutors.Its unclear where Edwards

was coming from or going.Teammate Jerricho Cotcherytold WFAN-AM Tuesday morn-ing that Edwards and otherJets had attended a Manhattanevent Monday night forCotcherys nonprofit foundationbenefiting underprivilegedyouths.Edwards was charged with

driving while intoxicated, amisdemeanor, and drivingwhile impaired, a violation.Hes due back in court Nov. 9. Ifconvicted, he could face up to ayear in jail.While awaiting the outcome

of the New York case, Edwardsmay have to return Clevelandto face a possible probation vio-lation, which could carry jailtime. The Cleveland MunicipalCourt judge handling his casehas been notified of his NewYork arrest, court spokesmanEd Ferenc said.In January, Edwards was

placed on probation for 18months after pleading no con-test to misdemeanor aggravat-ed disorderly conduct; hedbeen accused of punching afriend of NBA star LeBronJames outside a Clevelandnightclub. The ClevelandBrowns traded Edwards to theJets two days after the Octobernightclub encounter.Edwards also could be in line

for an NFL suspension for vio-lations of league policies onalcohol and player conduct.The NFL had no comment,

but Jets general manager MikeTannenbaum said Edwards hadshown poor judgment.

HOUSTON Houston left tack-le Duane Brown was suspendedTuesday for four games withoutpay for violating the NFLs policyon performance enhancingdrugs, joining linebacker BrianCushing on the sideline for thesame infraction.Brown, the Texans first-round

draft choice and the 26th overallpick in 2008, said he wouldntappeal the suspension, meaninghis next game will be Nov. 1 atIndianapolis. He will miss theundefeated Texans home show-down Sunday with the DallasCowboys and the next threegames.Brown apologized to the teams

owners, coaches, fans and histeammates.I take full responsibility for

putting myself in this situation,he said. I unknowingly took asupplement tainted with abanned substance and now haveto deal with the consequences.After reviewing the appealprocess and speaking with legalcounsel, I have decided not toappeal my suspension. I under-

stand the rules and accept mypunishment.The team didnt identify the

supplement.General manager Rick Smith

said the team was disappointedand called the suspension a sig-nificant blow.Our players have to under-

stand that they are responsiblefor what goes into their bodiesand that they take risks anytimethey use a supplement notapproved by the NFL, he said ina statement released by theTexans. Our head athletic train-er, head strength and condition-ing coach as well as our teamnutritionist have had many meet-ings and presentations constantlyreminding our players about thedangers of the supplement indus-try and risks associated with tak-ing non-approved products.Right tackle Eric Winston said

the Texans have raised aware-ness among the players aboutthe risks of using supplementssince Cushing was punished.We talk about it, there are

signs up in the locker room,Winston said. There are allkinds of things, but its an indus-

try problem, too. They can putwhatever they want in there.Theres no regulation to it. Untilthere is something done aboutthat, these things are going tohappen.Team owner Bob McNair had

no comment on the suspension.Brown had started all 34 gamessince he was drafted, and thetiming of his punishment couldhardly be worse.The Texans are aiming for

their first 3-0 start and a validat-ing victory over the high-profileCowboys, who still get most

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