Campus News:
Last month the Mendoza College of Business scored another prestigious ranking. A Wall Street Journal poll of 1,600 recruiters placed us 15th over all in the top 50 business schools. In the category of overall value, we placed 5th. This category involved looking at whether it's worth their time to recruit at a specific school. The University's business school was 9th in the top 10 private school list, and 10th in the top 10 small schools. (Mendoza has only 318 full-time students.) Mendoza outranked Harvard and Yale in providing help to recruiters prior to, during, and following visits to campus. Mendoza tied for 8th place with SMU for long-term value, measuring how long MBA graduates are retained by a company once recruited. The number of recruiters visiting Mendoza was up 21% this past year. More companies are also coming, possibly due to students' leadership and ethics in practice which were mentioned in the WSJ poll. In April US News & World Report placed ND 33rd in a poll of MBA programs. Mendoza Dean Carolyn Woo was more impressed by the WSJ poll saying it "is very important to us because it's all recruiter-driven, and unbiased."
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
Administrators like to keep up-to-date on campus events. In fact, some of our esteemed upper brass apparently rely on that most reliable of news sources - The Observer - to keep them informed about what's happening in the residence halls. When some folks in ResLife saw the paper's "best dorm rooms" feature, they noticed the rooms pictured had mulitple violations, including microwaves and illegal lofts. The violators were duly contacted and told to clean up their acts. Look for The Observer's five-part feature next week entitled, "Parietals Violators Caught in the Act."
Hall Notes:
Here's some more historical info on Carroll...
Ron Romagnoli '72 lived in Carroll from '68 to '70. It was in 1970 that the University "threw all the students out of the hall." The Vermin (although not called that at the time) "all had to scramble to find living places in the Fall of 1970 and many of the Carroll Hall residents got separated to all parts of the campus." (See, Carroll became a graduate student dorm for awhile, although I don't have the whole story on that yet.) Ron had mistakenly heard that Carroll had been torn down several years ago. Obviously a rumor started by zahm. Ron also stated: "We were always considered 2nd class citizens by the University and all the other dorms. We finally took it on ourselves to secede from the University, and although we never succeeded in pulling it off, we sure got several administrators and our dorm's resident priest (Father Hund) very nervous."
Ah, how fitting is it we lived by St. Mary's Lake seeing as how we were always rocking the boat?
NDSportscenter:
We now have our second basketball transfer. Dan Miller has left Maryland for ND. The 6'8", 220 lb guard/forward will have one year of eligibility after sitting out this coming season. Miller is a former McDonald's All-American and started 36 of 104 games at Maryland. His career numbers are 5.8 ppg and 2.6 rpg. Those numbers are misleading, though. He is a much better player than the numbers seem to indicate. Miller is no stranger to Brey as his brother played under the coach at Delaware. Dan Miller is already at ND, in fact. He's in summer school, which started this past week.
The women's tennis team defeated Miami 4-1 in the Big East Championship. In doing so they received an automatic bid to the NCAA tourney. Before their first roung game, coach Jay Louderback was honored as the Big East Coach of the Year, an award he has received 5 times in the last 6 years. The team was ranked #8 but only received the 13th seed in the NCAAs. The Irish hosted the first 2 rounds. Eastern Michigan was dropped 4-0. Tulane was the next victim to be beaten 4-0. So the lady Irish advanced to the Sweet 16 to meet Florida for the second year in a row. Again we lost to them. The Gators won 4-1 and our final record was 25-5. Senior Michelle Dasso went out on a high note in singles action. She made it all the way to the semi-finals before falling to the defending champion.
The men's lacrosse team had its first season ever. They made it to the NCAAs and defeated Bucknell 12-7 to advance to the quarterfinals. We were the #5 seed and we then beat #4 Johns Hopkins 13-9. The Irish were 14-1 and advanced to the final four with a total of 0 scholarships. None. Not one. We met our match, however, in defending national champion Syracuse. They took us down 12-5.
Campus News:
Two construction projects will be finished this fall. The new Malloy Philosophy/Theology Hall and the Hayes-Healy-Hurley complex will open in late August. The Hayes-Healy Center and Hurley Hall renovation will be for the conversion of offices for the departments of math and international relations, in addition to new classrooms.
Three additional projects will begin during the summer or early next year. The big one is construction of the new Marie DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The other two are additions onto Stepan Chemistry Hall and additions to the Hesburgh Center for International Studies.
Also during the next year the University will employ the services of an architectural firm to update the campus master plan. During the update of the plan, future building placement, open space, campus landscaping, and academic space planning will be considered. The process, which was last completed during 1994, will take 12 to 18 months to complete.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
While the Gipp can't vouch for the MCAT-takers, he knows that there are at least some people on this campus enjoying themselves - in the library. One tipster reports that a group of high school boys makes frequent trips to the first floor periodicals room to take advantage of the free Internet access. Unfortunately, they're not doing research for term papers. Apparently, the boys sometimes show up two or three times in a single day. They also reap the benefits of free paper and ink, printing out, in full color, the result of their searches. Proving they have absolutely no sense of shame, the hormonal high schoolers actually ask the library workers for more paper when the supply in the printer runs out. In fact, when one female library worker approached the boys to ask if they needed help doing research (an effort to embarrass them out of the library), the boys replied bluntly, "Oh, we're not doing any library research."
No, they're certainly not. Instead, they're looking up...how shall the Gipp put this?...photos of "older" people. With their printouts in hand, the boys scurry to the basement bathroom to, er, take a long, hard look at their findings. (On a truly appalling side note, not all of the boys feel the need to relocate to the bathroom to continue their research activities.)
Library officials are apparently aware of the situation, but privacy regulations prohibit them from kicking the boys out of the library. Now, while the Gipp thinks this is absolutely disgusting (not to mention hilarious), he is upset at how the library has decided to handle things. In a typical Notre Dame fashion, library officials have chosen to take the easiest route out and punish the many for the sins of a few. Library officials recently barred Internet searches on the computers in the periodical room. Instead, the computers now feature catalog-only searches. While Notre Dame students have lost out on two more research options, the restriction seems to be having the desired effect - the boys haven't come in the library since the change.
Hall Notes:
Got some old school pictures for you to enjoy. They are so old school that 3 of them lack color. The first one is the dorm photo from the 1978-79 school year. Haircuts were highly overrated and baggy drawers had yet to droop onto the scene. That picture is on the "Photo Gallery" page. The other three pictures (shown below) depict various scenes that are non-existant today. The first is of the central staircase that used to be at the heart of Carroll. The mailboxes used to be behind and under the stairs. This photo is taken facing due west at the center of The Hotel. The second photo is of the old Carroll gym that has since been demolished. The third photo is pretty obvious. Except when this one was taken, more trees were present in front and the road that now crosses in front of Carroll does not appear. All pictures were provided by Dennis Callahan '83.
NDSportscenter:
Troy Murphy has been in southern California since leaving the Bend. His agent has set him up in a condo in Marina Del Ray. He is closer to his Cali-based agent and is working out with former Cincinnati guard Kenny Satterfield, who shares Troy's agent. So far Murphy has had private workouts for Houston, Seattle, and Washington. He is also scheduled to go to Detroit and Boston. Minnesota has shown interest but do not believe he will be available at their pick. Various mock drafts have him going from No. 10 to 17. Numerous reports have Murphy going to Boston at No. 10. Troy did not attend the NBA pre-draft camp in Chicago.
And here's a little news that wasn't in the paper. A little somethin'- somethin' I heard through the grapevine from a very reliable source. Troy had spoken how he was intent on finishing school and was planning to graduate with Matt Carroll's class. Well, he must have had a change of heart. Apparently after his press conference he skipped town, which means he ditched Finals. Word on the street is he vowed he wasn't coming back. Said he was sick of being under the microscope here and had had it. He didn't even pack up. Graves and possibly some other former teammates packed up his room for him and shipped his items out.
Six Domers were selected in the Major League Baseball draft, equaling our most ever. Aaron Heilman became the third Domer ever taken in the first round when the Mets took him at #18. Kansas City selected pitcher Danny Tamayo in the 10th round, 295th overall. The Bo-Sox grabbed shortstop Alec Porzel in the 13th round, 393rd overall. On the second day of the draft, sophomore outfielder Brian Stavisky was chosen in the 33rd round by the Cubs. The Giants wanted junior catcher Paul O'Toole in the 48th. In the 50th and final round, junior centerfielder Steve Stanley was rescued by the Marlins.
Campus News:
The University is looking into the possibility of closing Juniper, the north-south road just east of the stadium. The U has begun a comprehensive study of its campus master plan, which could result in a proposal to close, move, or alter juniper. About 10,000 vehicles a day travel juniper according to 1999 traffic counts. It is unclear whether surrounding roads could absorb the extra traffic if the road were to be closed. Juniper used to mark the eastern edge of campus. In recent years, heavy campus construction has pushed east of the road. That's resulted in pedestrain traffic estimated at 20,000 a day during the school year. As construction continues, the pedestrian number is expected to increase to as many as 40,000. ND has hired its own firm to collect data of volume and pattern for traffic. This push is because of the concern that serious traffic accidents could occur with the climbing pedestrian count. The County is open-minded about the study but will have to analyze everything. It is far from a definite. A meeting is to take place in late June. Juniper was relocated once before. It originally ran on the west side of the stadium. In 1957, ND received permission to relocate part of Juniper to the east side of the stadium. Eventually the entire road was moved to the eastern edge of campus. The possibility of moving or closing Juniper was discussed in the early '70s and again in the '80s. Both times County officials nixed the idea. In the early '90s, the University spent $2 million to add curb, gutter, sidewalks, landscaping, and clearly marked crosswalks.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
Surprisingly, something went wrong at the OIT last week. The Gipp was less than pleased when he tried to log on to his account last Friday, only to discover it wasn't working. The Gipp felt better, however, when he went to the bathroom and found an Observer sitting on the floor of the stall. The paper was open to an account of the e-mail outage that offered the following stunning insight from OIT head Lou Rapagnani: "Big computers have hardware failures just like little computers." Wow. In a stunning display of the bloody obviuos, Lou added, "It's always a bad thing to be off the air for 13 hours."
Maybe things would work better if the OIT didn't waste so much energy monitoring the activities of its computer consultants. Remember that tip about the nasty e-mail OIT sent to cluster consultants? Well, someone had the gall to disregard the video game prohibition and snuck in some Snood time. After a few games, the consultant quit playing and settled down to finish off some homework when the phone rang. An OIT administrator, who had been monitoring the activity on the kiosk computers, demanded to know who the Snood player was. The Gipp's glad to see the OIT's got its priorities straight, and that all the complaints about consultants playing video games are being addressed.
Hall Notes:
Yet again we have been passed a stellar Vermin tale. Sheer brilliance. That is all that needs to be said about this "Classic Moment in Vermin History." The fable is titled "Father Brad" and was written by Mark Vives '93. Without further ado....
"Father Brad"
While the tale I'm about to spin is quite tame by the standards of many stories posted here and even more so by the standards of the countless untold Carroll Hall shenanigans, it nevertheless holds a special place in my heart. It is a story of three of the prime directives of Vermin life: alcohol, tooling and camaraderie. It is the story of "Father Brad". It was a painfully hot day in late August 1989. I and the rest of my mates in the eventual Class of '93 were immersed in the miserable ritual of the freshman move-in. It was about 108 degrees, the heater appeared to still be on, the loft we were constructing swayed like a palm tree in a hurricane, and my 3 roommates (Tom Fellrath, Tim Sosnowski and Tom "Earl" Giblin) and I were about as dissimilar as you could get, at least at that point. The whole sorry affair of that first day culminated at 7PM in the infamously annual "No Nookie" talk, in which Father Sullivan laid down the law regarding such things as fornication, flushing the toilet after you take a dump, and alcohol. Words like "blatant violation", "no tolerance" and "banishment" were hurled at our tender freshman ears with no mercy. As we staggered out of the meeting, the mood lightened and most people adjourned to the upstairs rooms for some hang time. Because we lived in 204, the largest quad in the dorm, we were able to accommodate most of the 2nd floor in our room, including our new friends, Mike Kirkwood, Jay Lubanski, and a few other Class of '92 soon-to-be legends. Well, in about 5 minutes, our disaster area of a room was full of beer cans; I mean, they were sitting on every level surface in the room. It was great. Within an hour the upperclassmen on our floor had taught us every term in the Vermin lexicon, where to sit in the dining hall, and introduced us to quite possibly the worst beer in the world, Falstaff. Having been fooled into thinking that our rector was going to run a tight ship on the alcohol policy, we all relaxed and slugged down a few well-deserved beers.
Some ways into the festivities, a knock came at our door. We turned in unison to see a thin man, about 40 or so, standing in our doorway, dressed in dark brown trousers and a brown plaid shirt buttoned all the way up to the top, defying the late summer heat. The sophomores in the room hid their beers and called out "Father Brad!", walking over to him in an obvious, futile attempt to distract him from the decadence occurring within. Mike and Jay yucked it up with him for a few seconds and then introduced us to Father Brad. He was apparently the in-residence priest on our floor, and he seemed like a down-to-earth, Midwestern kind of guy. For an instant it seemed (amazingly) that this little opening night conflict-of-interests was going to blow over without incident, but then Father Brad's eyes fell disapprovingly upon the array of alcoholic beverages strewn about the room. The mood darkened, and so did Father Brad's face. After berating the freshmen for flaunting our disdain for the rules and giving the sophomores a few choice words for encouraging it, he shook his head, told us he was going to speak to Father Sullivan about this serious matter, and left the room in a huff.
The sophomores immediately began to apologize profusely, and Kirkwood bolted out of the room after promising to try to explain things to the powers that be. For ten minutes or so I struggled to maintain a calm demeanor as I considered the potential effect on my future medical career of being busted for alcohol on the first day of college. I wondered whether they let heat-ons into medical school. I grappled with where I would try to live off-campus if I was booted out of the dorm. I pondered what college I would transfer to if I was expelled from school. Finally, I could take it no longer: I got up and left the room, determined to track down our accusers and salvage my academic career. I was rewarded with the sight of Father Brad and Kirkwood having an animated discussion in the first floor hallway, and from the looks of it, Kirkwood was about to lose in a TKO.
Dejected, I returned to my room to rejoin my comrades in misery. Some joyless, nervous laughter punctured the silence, but a few minutes later Kirkwood stumbled in looking defeated and apologetic, and then we just sat there, feeling awful. A familiar knock came at the door, and there again was Father Brad, holding a pad in one hand and a pen in the other.
"Well, I've just been talking with Father Sullivan...", he began, as we held our breath and prepared to meet our fate. "He told me that there will absolutely be no more of THIS!".
With that he quickly pulled a can of Falstaff out of his pocket, popped the top, and chugged the whole thing.
The room exploded into laughter, and that's how many of us met Brad Grabs, Class of '92, who was not 40 but can look like it when he wants to, and was a member of that particular edition of the Duders. So much for my first night among the Vermin.
--Mark Vives
Class of '93
NDSportscenter:
The baseball team went into the Big East Tournament as the #1 seed. They promptly lost to Virginia Tech 4-3 in the first round. Rutgers was then beaten by a vengeful Irish 6-2 in the losers bracket. We then met up again with Virginia Tech. The Hokies booted us out 5-2. The Irish were still fortunate to host one of sixteen regionals. ND hosted three other teams: Wisconsin-Wilwaukee, UC Santa Barbara, and Florida International. Heilman took the mound versus WS-Milwaukee and won the 12-4 game to achieve a 15-0 record for the year. We were then upset by FIU. Brian Stavisky hit a homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat UC SB in the next game. So we had to beat FIU twice in the double elimination tourney. The Irish came strong and won the first game 5-2. However the glee was short lived as FIU won the final game 5-4 and advanced to the Elite Eight. We stranded a runner at 3rd in the bottom of the 9th. FIU's top pitcher went on 3 days rest. He threw 153 pitches in the very first game of the regional and came in in relief of the last game to throw 100 more pitches. Heilman was unable to go on 3 days rest after 131 power pitches. So we had to go with a sophomore with a 5-4 record. The Irish finished the season with a 49-13-1 record.
Season ending baseball awards: Aaron Heilman, 1st team All-American; Steve Stanley 2nd team All-American; 6 Domers on 1st team All Big East; Heilman Big East Pitcher of the Year, 1.50 ERA (6th nationally), 91 K's, 0.168 BAA; CF Steve Stanley co-Big East Player of the Year, .393 BA, 30 steals, 67 runs, 27 RBIs; 2B Steve Sollmann Rookie of the Year, .374 BA, 34 RBIs, 22 steals, 5 HRs; Paul Mainieri Coach of the Year.
News on the MLB draft and Troy Murphy next week.
Campus News:
Here's the low down on President Bush's visit to the Bend for Commencement...
A slew of articles have been posted on the visit, the speech, and the protests. Put on your reading glasses because there are seven articles in all.
I was able to view the address. Not live, mind you, as tickets were harder to come by then gas for under a buck. The largest auditorium in DeBartolo had it on the big screen. In fact half of the first floor rooms in DeBartolo seemed to be showing it. The crowd was quite eager despite not being in the JACC. Laura Bush was shown on screen and applause went up. Condoleezza Rice was give the same reception. An architecture major made the opening prayer. His hat drew a hearty chuckle from the crowd. (For those unaware, archies adorn their graduation hats with various models built on top.) It was quite fitting that the lad had the White House perched on his melon. Then Bush and Monk came out and an ovation erupted. It died down in DeBartolo, but it continued in the JACC. So a second ovation took place in DeBartolo.
The actual presidential podium was used for the 156th Commencement. In fact the stage was brought in and construction was fully supervised. Secret service had been scouting the campus since Tuesday and brought in all the president's gear. The valedictorium was an Arts & Letters major. She was a theology major and gave an excellent speech. She barely singled herself out and actually quoted OTHER students. The women's basketball team was given praise in her speech and the audience replied with thunderous applause. One interesting part of her speech talked about how the world should be working to end abortion and capital punishment. Applause followed. The camera switched to W who had a slight grin. That drew laughs in DeBartolo.
Then Bush spoke. People in DeBartolo were actually taking pictures of him on the big screen. He had some quality one-liners that are mentioned in the articles. One of my favorites that wasn't mentioned in the articles was when Bush mentioned the students' parents who were certainly "happy, proud, and broke." The speech centered on the war on poverty. Bush even mentioned LBJ and Clinton and gave them praise. The articles go into more detail. I believe they also quote Bush when he in turn quoted Knute Rockne. The very last article is the text of the entire speech. Check it out.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
In light of the recent blathering about women's clothing, the Gipp found this next tip pretty funny. Turns out the lovely ladies of the pom squad took some heat for baring too much midriff. Although they ordered tasteful long-sleeve shirts that are extra long in the torso, their dance moves make some of the girls' shirts ride up. Apparently, a few people couldn't handle the sight of bare belly buttons, and they logged complaints about this scandalous flashing of the flesh. Now, the girls have to wear tights beneath their uniforms to cover everything up. Plans for next season's outfits include veils, muumuus and iron chastity belts.
Hall Notes:
There is a birth to announce. Vermin John "Cutler" Butler '96 became a proud papa on March 29th. John Leighton Butler Jr. was born at 1:24 am. He measured 21 inches and weighed 8 lbs, 6 oz. John and his wife Tina '96 live in Niles, Michigan. They are both originally from Niles. John worked for 1st Source Bank in downtown South Bend after graduation. Then in January of this year, he and Tina became two of the three owners of Apex Technical Solutions. They started their own computer consulting firm.
NDSportscenter:
Got my hands on the article about the lawsuit due to Clifford Jefferson. A St. Mary's freshman filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Jefferson, who she says raped her in March. The 19-year-old filed a police report alleging she was sexually assaulted on March 21st on the St. Mary's campus. No criminal charges have been filed. The civil suit was filed in St. Joseph Superior Court. Jefferson denied the rape when questioned by police. He said the sex was consensual. At the time of the incident the girl was very intoxicated. The 19-year-old met Jefferson at a bar downtown and he gave her a fake name. (I guess the whole "ND football player" pick-up line doesn't do a fella much good when ya get repeatedly toasted and are scorned by all.) There is little physical evidence. She went to the hospital but did not complete a rape kit. Supposedly the woman did not know at the time if she intended to prosecute. The University has taken no action against Jefferson. The civil suit seeks punitive damages and compensatory damages for physical pain, post- traumatic stress, and medical bills.
The softball team had the best season in history. At one point during the season they had a 34 game winning streak and were #8 in the country. They fell 2-1 to Seton Hall in the Big East Championship but were still granted a #1 seed in one of the 16 regionals. The Irish defeated Western Illinois 8-0 in the first round. Iowa then beat us 6-0. Into the losers bracket the ladies went. They roughed up DePaul 8-1. Iowa was again waiting. The Hawkeyes won 6-2 and ended our season. The lady Irish just missed the College World Series and finished 54-7.
News on the baseball post-season next week.
Campus News:
The new theology & philosophy building under construction will be called Edward A. Malloy Hall. The structure is between Decio Hall, O'Shag, and the radiation building. It is being underwritten by Donald Keough, chairman emeritus of the University's Board of Trustees. Malloy Hall is a 67,000-square-foot office building for faculty and graduate students in theology and philosophy. The building will be completed by the opening of the 2001-02 academic year.
Keough is the person who named the new hall. He was chairman of the Board when Monk was selected president in 1987. Keough is the chairman of the board of Allen & Company, Incorporated, a New York investment banking firm which he joined following a 43-year career with The Coca-Cola Company. He retired from Coca-Cola in 1993 as president and chief operating officer, but remains an advisor to its board. Keough is the father of five Domers. He was given an honorary doctorate at the '85 Commencement and was given the University's Laetare Medal in '93. The Laetare Medal is the oldest and most pretigious honor given to American Catholics. Keough's gifts to the University include a residence hall, the Irish studies institute, the institute's academic chair, and the Irish studies center in Dublin's historic Newman House. Don Keough was elected a Notre Dame trustee in '78, served as chairman from 1986-92, and was designated a Life Trustee in '97.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
Computercluster consultants recently got a nasty e-mail from their superiors warning them about on-the-job behavior. Apparently, some of these ultra-knowledgeable technology gurus have circumvented the university's ban on Napster and were downloading music onto those kiosk computers they sit behind. Also found on the consultant-only computers: video games. The Gipp finds the e-mail especially funny since not too long ago, he heard that one of the upper brass at the OIT had to be reminded that drinks were not allowed in the labs. Whatever happened to leading by example?
Hall Notes:
This can double as some sports news. An inside source has reported that Julius Jones is now Vermin. He missed spring ball because of a University rules violation. Parietals were the issue, or so says word on the street. Anyway, Julius was kicked out of his old dorm, Fisher, I believe. Now, when Tony Driver was busted for parietals, he was booted off campus. He wasn't able to get back on campus until the following semester as I recall. Of course Tony came to The Hotel when he returned. And now Julius calls Carroll home. Apparently all the supposed "bad apples" are sent to be rehabilitated on the outskirts of the campus. Obviously the University doesn't know the inmates run the asylum.
NDSportscenter:
Earlier this year the men's tennis team cracked the top 10 for the first time in 8 years. We started the year #22 and peaked at #10. The year was started with a 13-2 record, our best since '92. When the men's team hit #10, the women were #7 and we were one of only four schools to have both in the top 10. Not too shabby for a midwest school. The men lost to Miami 4-2 in the Big East Championship. Thankfully our #13 ranking got us an at-large bid to the NCAA tourney. The men entered the NCAA with a 16-6 record and took on Harvard in the first round. We were the 17th seed and traveled to #45 and Ivy League winner Harvard. The Irish punished the yuppies 4-0 and advanced to take on Washington in round 2. Unfortunately that was the end of the line as the #18 Huskies beat us 4-1. We finished the year 17-7. This team was one of sixteen of our twenty two sports to be ranked this year.
The baseball team topped out the year at #1 in two polls and #2 in the third. However we then lost 19-12 to UConn to end our 18 game Big East winning streak. The team finished the year 45-9-1 and 22-4 in the Big East. The Irish became the first Big East team to win more than 20 games in one year. Pitcher Aaron Heilman finished the regular season 13-0 and was 41-7 over his 4 year career. Number 2 pitches Danny Tamayo finished 8-1. The post-season is about to get underway.
There is bad, bad news going around. I was informed that supposedly it has been on the local news. I missed it. A blurb was in the paper, though. Anyway, a St. Mary's girl is apparently suing the University because she was supposedly sexually assaulted by Clifford Jefferson. He is named in the civil suit but she's going after the University's deep pockets. Davie will not comment, nor will the University.
Campus News:
Once again parietals became an issue. It went a bit farther this year. Three students rallied support for a campus-wide campout to take place on South Quad on Monday night, April 30th. The event came in response to the Campus Life Council's April 23rd defeat of a resolution that would extend parietals from midnight to 1 AM druing the week. The CLC vote fell one short of the majority needed for passage. The voting was sharply divided. All the dissenting votes came from rectors and the lone administrator on the council, Bill Kirk, assistant vice president for student affairs. The CLC did vote to end parietals at 9 AM, one hour earlier than the current time. More than 1,500 fliers were distributed for the campout that began at 10 PM. The sheet contained a quote from Kirk allegedly calling the resolution "tyranny of the majority." In March the Student Senate conducted a survey that polled student opinion on changing parietal hours. About 80% were in favor of extending parietals.
I don't konw how rebellious a protest this was as Kirk had to agree to it as he has to approve all fliers. Kirk approved the protest but gave it rules on decorum. The '60s and '70s, this is not. The campout wrapped at 10 AM Tuesday morning and was reported to have had around 300 students. Kirk got the last word by basically saying: "Doesn't matter. I'm the ringmaster of little circus and y'all are just the bearded lady in the freak show."
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
Those tips about beer? Well, the Gipp thinks the South Dining Hall manager should read 'em and grab a few cold ones himself - maybe that will help him loosen up. Some loyal tipsters were eating lunch in the DH when they noticed two young men tossing a hard-boiled egg back and forth. Unfortunately, so did everyone's favorite head-set-wearing South Dining Hall employee. He rose from his seat and, running the risk of getting a wrinkle in his starched shirt, stalked over to the youngsters to put an end to their egg-catch. But then he went a step further, asking for their IDs and sending them to ResLife. A little harsh if you ask the Gipp. Couldn't he have just told the guys to knock off the egg-toss? But, then again, we're talking about a place where monitors are posted to make sure diners don't smugglel out more than one piece of fruit.
Hall Notes:
Word on another old school Vermin....
Kevin Marietta '84 had one helluva degree title when he graduated: "Major Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in MIS." (Meanwhile, I was a minor bachelor with frozen concentrated orange juice.) Kevin went on to Bloomington, which was followed by a stint in Indy. He and his family currently live in Cincinnati. (Kevin was recently on CNN after breaking the city's curfew. He has the rubber bullet welts to prove it.) Check out this occupation...for the last 15 years Kevin has owned and operated a computer rental company with branches in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville. Mr. Marietta is hitched and has four daughters. Kevin added some closing thoughts and here they are...
"It's kind of interesting that things have turned out the way they have. I was self employed at ND, and I am self employed now. Of course, my current business is totally legal (ha-ha). On a serious note, I always said I would never have any children, and I have four, (and they are all girls)! I still love to hunt, fish and play golf, although my career and family make the pursuit of these hobbies very challenging. I am even more politically conservative than I was in school, and by now I am sure that most of the liberals from ND in the early 80s have learned that conservatism is what allowed their parents to be able to afford ND in the first place, and hopefully they have matured into good "compassionate" conservatives. I still like hard rock, but now they call it "classic" rock. And since my roomates are no longer stuffing Springstein down my throat, I actually enjoy his music, too. My nick name at Carroll was "W" (or dubs), which is ironically the nick name of our current president. In summary, the more things change, the more they stay the same!
I probably couldn't have made it at ND had I been assigned to any other dorm. I am very grateful to all my friends from Carroll Hall that helped me get through life at ND, which was basically everyone in the dorm. I miss a lot of those guys and those crazy times we had back in the early 80s. I wish I would have stayed in touch with more Vermin over the years. I think the web site is great, so keep up the good work.
Lou Holtz forever, Bob Davie NEVER!!! GO IRISH!"
NDSportscenter:
Here are the notes on the 72nd Blue-Gold game....
20,700 spectators saw the defense beat the offense 74-40. Yeah, you heard right. They used some messed up scoring system. (I think it included power plays, corner kicks, 7-10 splits, and an overly aggressive game of Twister.) The three quarterbacks struggled. LoVecchio put up the worst numbers. The game was pretty ragged as 14 players and 9 starters sat out leaving only the less experienced to play. The offensive line was as matador-ish as ever, giving up 12 sacks. Sophomore-to-be Kyle Budinscak was named defensive MVP after he recorded 7 tackles and 5 sacks on the D-line. The offensive MVP was David Givens, who had 3 catches, 2 TDs (36 yards and 47 yards), and 102 yards.
Other football news: next years captains are Rocky Boiman, David Givens, Grant Irons, and Anthony Weaver....sophomore-to-be quarterback Carlyle Holiday was recently quoted about living out in Carroll: "I love it out there." Cheer on #7 in the Fall, Vermin!
Basketball news: Ivan Kartelo's transfer list is down to Northwestern and Purdue. He recently scrimmaged with Purdue and stated: "It's different to play with a group of guys who are unselfish." Ouch.... We recently landed a verbal commitment from a current junior. Chris Quinn is a 6-foot, 150 lb. point guard from Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio. Last year he scored 19 a game while grabbing 5 rebounds and dishing out 7.5 assists per. He was one of only eight sophomores invited to the NIKE summer camp. Quinn is a likely top 50 player when listings come out in the fall. He carries a 4.0 GPA and scored a 29 on the ACT. We won out over Penn State, Dayton, and Ohio State. Recruiting analyst Bob Gibbons said Coach Brey "is taking Notre Dame recruiting to another level."
Campus News:
The University has announced a new wave of construction projects. They are merely on the agenda for now. Ground will not be broken for awhile. Two of the new projects area a larger law school and a new hotel. The current law school has been deemed inadequate to achieve the University's goal of a top-tier school. The University is "restless to be a top-25 school," according to executive vice president Father Timothy Scully. The faculty is in place, however, the space needs to be doubled and the current facilities need to be upgraded. Details on the new building and its location will be decided this summer.
Secondary to the law school are plans for a new hotel. Scully stated of the hotel: "It will be a very beautiful and flagship hotel here at the University, with a sweeping and breathtaking view." I'm not quite certain how he could speak of the view seeing as how the location has yet to be determined.
Classes ended last Wednesday and Finals are this week. A week later W will be in da house. Speaking of W, an article has been posted concerning the women's basketball team's visit to the White House.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
Of course, if you live off campus, you can have your beer delivered instead of putting in the time to make your own brew. You just have to be willing to accept some minor inconveniences, such as walking to class from C1, cooking your own meals, and having your house or apartment picked clean while you're away on vacation. To combat the off-campus- crime problem, the landlord of some houses on St. Pete's Street sent around a memo with tips on what to do before leaving for the holidays. Among the recommendations: Take anything of any value home with you for the holidays because if you don't, IT WILL BE GONE. The Gipp was also particularly fond of another suggestion: Bring all kegs inside before leaving.
Hall Notes:
Last week's "Hall Notes" touched on the current Vermin spirit. An item mentioned was the enormouse "GO IRISH!" banner that was draped across the front of our beloved dorm. Here is the official story on the banner as was passed to me by a current Vermin...
"GO IRISH!" Banner
It is Wednesday, September 6, three days until Notre Dame faces the number one ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers in football. The campus is in a frenzy and Irish spirit is contagious. At the weekly hall meeting that Wednesday, David Rink passes around a small wooden model of Carroll Hall. Taped to the front is a piece of paper, covering half the dorm, with "GO IRISH" written on it. It is at this meeting that Carroll Hall decided to construct the world's largest "GO IRISH!" banner.
During the afternoon of Thursday, September 7, David Rink, with the assistance of Steve Bomeli and Pat O'Donnell, scoured South Bend for the materials. The decision was made to build the banner using linen bed sheets and staples because it was relatively cheap, sturdy, and since almost everybody owns a stapler, the entire dorm could help. To find 72 linen bed sheets, David had to visit three Meijer's, two Wal-Marts, two K-Marts, and a Target. Construction of the banner began at 9 pm Thursday evening. At any given time, there were 10 to 20 Vermin stapling away in the lobby of Carroll Hall. At 3 am, the stapling had been completed. More than 70,000 staples were holding the 72 bed sheets together. Next, the blank banner was taken to Carroll Hall's basketball court to be painted. The banner was so large that it took up the entire basketball court. Before blocking out the letters, Joe Fremeau used sheets of grid paper to create a scaled sketch of the banner with the lettering. Using this as a blueprint, Joe blocked out the letters with a marker. Joe deserves the credit for the clarity of the lettering. After three hours of painting and five gallons of leprechaun green paint, the banner was finished. If you look closely at the period on the exclamation point, you can read the names of the nine Vermin who stayed up until 6 am painting the banner. (For the record, they are David Rink, Bob LeBlanc, Joe Fremeau, Pat O'Donnell, Tom Flanagan, Eric Chanowich, Jason Raver, Dave Heinsch, and John Moore.) If you are ever jogging around the west end of St. Mary's lake, you may notice that the basketball court still has "GO IRISH!" painted on it.
On the afternoon of Friday, September 8, the banner was hoisted into place in front of Carroll Hall using 1000 feet of rope, 18 concrete blocks, and over 30 able bodied Vermin (while the music of "Braveheart" played in the background). The banner had been constructed and raised into place in less than 24 hours. The banner's final dimensions were 90 feet wide by 30 feet high, covering almost all of the windows on the second and third floor of Carroll Hall. Almost everybody in the dorm took part in the project, whether it was placing a couple staples into the cloth or helping hoist up the banner. The banner was hung in front of Carroll for two football games, making an appearance on national TV during the broadcast of the Nebraska and Air Force football games. During half-time of the Nebraska game, the banner, as seen from the Goodyear Blimp, was on the air. The announcers talked about the spirit at Notre Dame, commented on "the big banner" and mistakenly called Carroll Hall "a big house."
The reception for the banner was awesome. Plans for next year are to raise the banner for every home football game, continuing this new tradition. The Vermin are elated that people took notice and enjoyed the banner. Now people not only know that life exists on the other side of the lake, but that the Vermin are full of that Irish spirit! The new admissions poster, which will be sent to high schools and prospective students around the world, is a campus photograph taken from the top of the library one early fall morning. The morning sunshine brilliantly illuminates the golden Dome and the yellow bricks of Washington Hall, the Basilica, and the Dome. To the left in the background is Carroll Hall, wearing the banner. The caption reads: "Nowhere else but Notre Dame."
Pictures of the construction and raising of the banner can be found at: http://www.nd.edu/~carroll/rathole/photo_album/fall_2000/goirish_banner/
Banner statistics:
72 bed sheets
over 3,100 square feet of cloth
over 70,000 staples
5 gallons of leprechaun green paint
90 feet of PVC pipe
1000 feet of rope
The banner is erected only for important occasions and these occasions are written on the sheet next to exclamation point. Written so far:
| Notre Dame 24 | Nebraska 27 | OT | 9-9-2000 |
| Notre Dame 34 | Air Force 31 | OT | 10-28-2000 |
| Fusic Festival & Fisher Regatta (Vermin Victory) | 4-21-2001 | ||
NDSportscenter:
Bookstore Final Four....
#1 Five Reasons Your Girl Left You vs. #13 Verzatility
Verzatility started the tourney #21. They were led by a former walk-on named Hunt Hanover. He was a beast. He carried them single-handedly. Five Reasons took him out of the contest. They committed few turnovers and eliminated the transition buckets their opponents depended on. Five Reasons point guard was a one man wrecking crew. Five Reasons also had a 4-time Bengal Bout champ and a sophomore Hoosier who was 3rd team All-State in high school. Five Reasons won out 21-16.
#6 Nylon Strokers vs. #2 Versatility
No that's not a typo. The #21 team played off the #2 team's name. Versatility consisted of four seniors and a junior former walk-on. They made the finals two years ago and the final four last year. The game was rather lethargic. Zones were used heavily. Stokers were led by a quality point guard. Lineback Courtney Watson - the only football player in the final four - was also on Strokers. Versatility was wicked cold from the field while Strokers' point guard lit them up for 9 buckets. Nylon Strokers advanced, 21-19.
Final: #1 Five Reasons vs. #6 Nylon Strokers
The weather for the last rounds of Bookstore was off the hook. The final was even better. The four seniors on Five Reasons took on the #6 cinderella of the tourney. Nylon Strokers led 11-5 at the half. Five Reasons was turning it over and their point guard was being shut out. Their was a slight breeze but jumpers were still falling for Strokers while Five Reasons couldn't buy a hoop. The lead was up to 7 at 17-10. A run got it down to 2. A little later it was 1 at Point-19. But Al Vitter, Nylon's point guard, did what he had done all tourney: knock it down. He shut out the other poing guard, hit the game winner (21-19), and was named MVP. (B.J. Kloska was named Mr. Bookstore.)
Campus News:
It has been confirmed. President Bush will be the principle speaker at the 156th Commencement on May 20th. W will be the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree.
Crime sprees occurred recently. Two armed robberies took place at off-campus residences. Three masked suspects entered a home on East Howard Street and the same suspects later hit an apartment at Turtle Creek. Five arrests were made and there are a total of 60 counts of robbery. The thieves took everything they could get their hands on. Their victims forked over cash, jewelry, CDs, computers, etc. One female student said she was sexually assaulted. All the arrested males were aged 16 to 18. The University took in those students that were very shook up. At least 8 of the victims have moved on-campus for the rest of the year.
On April 19th Lou Holtz spoke before a sellout crowd of 1,300+ at the Century Center. He was the featured speaker for the College Football Hall of Fame's Gridiron Legends Luncheon Series. Two articles - one on the speech itself and one on a clipping of Lou-isms - have been posted.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
In more beer news, that funky smell in the air might not be the ethanol plant. Knott Hall apparently has its own microbrewery. One clever resident cooks up a special midnight brew using the hall kitchen in the wee hours of the morning to complete vital steps in the brewing process. With periodic trips to his home for more supplies, the Juggernaut brewmaster keeps a happy stream of liquid flowing out of Knott's kitchen.
Hall Notes:
The current Vermin were given major props this past weeek. Here is the Observer article...
This is the Story of a Hall
Source: The Observer
By: Laura Rompf
Date: Apr. 20, 2001
Posted on 29 April 2001:
These are the obvious reasons why Carroll Hall won 2000-2001 Hall of the Year: They won the Fisher Regatta. They created a dorm event "Fusic." They were named the best overall freshman orientation program by student activities. And they painted "Go Irish" on a 90 by 30-foot banner and hung it on the dorm for several home football games.
This is the hidden reason why Carroll Hall won 2000-2001 Hall of the Year: 107 men with a 10-minute walk from the center of campus who have to invent novel ways to entertain themselves.
This is one way they waist time: using an empty barrel and 12 empty soda cans, they bowl in the middle of the hallway.
This is what Jonathan Jorissen said about the invention of barrel bowling: "We were sitting around with no visitors, as usual, looking for ways to amuse ourselves. We saw a barrel and we saw 12 empty pop cans, and thought `These two go together.'"
This is what other Notre Dame students do when they're sitting around looking for ways to amuse themselves: walk to Lafortune, go to Reckers, visit other dorms or even study at the library.
This is why Carroll residents don't go to the places: Lafortune is a 15-minute walk, Reckers is 12, the closest dorm is seven and the library is 17.
This is what Carroll men talk about on those long walks back to the dorm: hockey versus basketball, why Switzerland stinks, are student managers drug dealers, the O.D.B. project and movies versus books.
This is how Carroll residents decided to unwind after a stressful finals week last year: they turned on all three showers at the highest temperate for 30-45 minutes and sat in the bathroom "sauna."
This is what Casey Grabenstein said to the Rector Brian Coughlin when he walked into the "sauna," a shower handle had fallen off, and Grabenstein and Patrick Brennan were trying to stop the water from squirting out at full force: "I didn't do it."
This is what other students do to relieve stress after finals week: leave their dorm.
This is what some Carroll residents do to entertain themselves: they accidentally light fires.
This is what the housekeeping lady said to Jimmy Mandich when he was running through the hallway with a trash can engulfed in flames: nothing, she simply opened the door.
This is why Mandich was running through the hallway with a burning trash can: he was refilling a Zippo lighter and unknowingly dropped lighter fluid into the trash can. Then, on a dare, he lit a piece of paper and when it was almost gone, dropped the flame into the trashcan. It instantly caught the entire can on fire.
This is why the housekeeping lady and students jogging around the lake did not question Mandich running with a burning trash can: events like this are somewhat normal at Carroll.
This is what Brennan asked the Grab'n'Go lady as he ran into the basement of South Dining Hall: "Can I still get lunch too?"
This is what Brennan took from Grab'n'Go for both lunch and dinner: three orange juice boxes, cereal, a milk, a container of yogurt, a banana, a bag of chips, a bag of popcorn and a sandwich.
This is how many times a week Brennan and most Carroll residents actually eat inside the dining hall: one or two.
This is how many times the average Notre Dame student eats in a dining hall per week: between 10 and 12.
This is why Mandich said the Carroll men often eat at Wendy's on U.S. 31 instead of at South Dining Hall: "Our cars are closer than the dining hall. And we dig red heads."
This is what happens when 107 men spend the majority of their time secluded together: they get to know everyone in the dorm. They never close their doors. They create weekly rituals. They all become best friends.
This is what Carroll's former hall president Bob LeBlanc said about the dorm's spirit: "Due to this small size, everyone in Carroll knows each other, and a friendly, family-like atmosphere pervades the dorm."
This is what Patrick Laboe said about the Taco Bell employees who informed him that there were no 49 cent tacos left to take back to Carroll for the weekly ritual, Sunday Night Taco Bell: "I think they were lying."
This is what rector Coughlin said when several Carroll residents, who won't even live on campus next year, showed up at the room picks lottery with signs to cheer for their best friends: "Why in the world are people here who aren't even living here next year?"
This is why those Carroll residents attended the lottery: because they support each other whenever possible. At Bookstore basketball games. Before big tests. Even during video games.
This is why Dan Soldato wanted Carroll Hall to create a new signature event: "Ever since we lost the Haunted House, we kept thinking about what could do for a new dorm event." This is what the event, "Fusic," accomplished in its first year: approximately 500-700 people came to eat from several different food booths and hear various bands. From the proceeds, Carroll Hall was able to donate $1,000 to the Make a Wish Foundation.
This is what Soldato said about the event, which will be held on Carroll's front lawn from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday: "It was a great day for Carroll Hall, because normally we don't have that much attendance at a dorm event."
This is what the Carroll men used to make the 90 by 30 foot banner which was hung on the hall during several home games: 72 bed sheets, 70,000 staples, five gallons of paint, 1,000 feet of twine, 15 cinder blocks and 90 feet of pipe.
These are the stores the Carroll men had to visit to find 72 bed sheets: two Walmarts, two Meijers, a Target and a Kmart.
This is how long it took the guys to complete the project: it was all done within a 15-hour period.
This is what an NBC announcer said during one of the three times the banner appeared on national television: "That's a very big house with a lot of school spirit."
This is why the NBC announcer's comment is true: in 2000-2001, the men of Carroll Hall did show spirit and enthusiasm, both within the hall itself and for the entire Notre Dame community.
This is what former hall president Tim Dosal says about Carroll's hall government: "Our first goal was always to serve the men of Carroll hall ... but then we tried to go out and serve the entire Notre Dame community."
This is why Jorissen, a junior, has no desire to move off campus next year: "And leave all this? No thank you."
NDSportscenter:
The baseball team made it to #1. It's our first time in the 109 year history of the program. This is our fourth team from this school year to be ranked #1. The team had a 16 game winning streak before losing this week. We are 37-6-1 overall. Of the 6 losses, 4 have been by one run.
Bookstore Notes:
I've never heard of a top 10 team going down in the round of 128, but #7 Mourning Wood lost 21-13. That was Arnaz's team, but he wasn't able to play. They got Frosh QB Jared Clark, but I guess he's got no game.... Ingelsby's team also lost at 128....Vermin and Frosh QB Carlyle Holiday has the SICKEST, NASTIEST dunk I have ever seen in Bookstore. Vince Carter-esque. His head was at the rim and half his arm was in the basket. That lad is one helluva athlete....one of the final 16 teams was disqualified. The #15 team used an ineligible player. Get this...it was Tony Rice. He had been with the University Development Office in the past, but is no longer an employee and was booted along with the team....Two more Kloskas (B.J. and Joe) were on a team just like Carroll's DOS KLOSKAS back in the mid '90s. The aren't Vermin, though. They were the #3 seed but lost in the Sweet Sixteen...the #16 team lacked Irish basketball player Hans Rasmussen who was gone. They picked up a 6'8" basketball assistant coach, but still lost....3 unranked teams made it to 16....the last football player team - which also had the last Vermin in Frosh QB Carlyle Holiday - lost in 16.... One football player - LB Courtney Watson - made the Final Four.... the #6 and #13 teams made the Final Four...news on the Final Four & Finals next week.
NFL Draft results:
Mike Gandy to the Chicago Bears, 68th pick overall, 3rd round
Brock Williams to the New England Patriots, 86th pick overall, 3rd round
Jabari Holloway to the New England Patriots, 119th pick overall, 4th round
Tony Driver to the Buffalo Bills, 178th pick overall, 6th round
Dan O'Leary to the Buffalo Bills, 195th pick overall, 6th round
Anthony Denman to the Jacksonville Jaguars, 213th pick overall, 7th round
Free agents: Jim Jones to the Baltimore Ravens, Lance Legree to the New
York Giants, and Joey Getherall to the Pittsburgh Steelers
Football News: Bill Regan is the new football administrator. Nick Carparelli Jr. left to become the director of operations for the New England Patriots. (Think he had anything to do with those 2 draft picks?)....We have been chosen to play in the 2002 Kickoff Classic in Giants Stadium. Maryland will be our opponent. It will be our first ever meeting....Davie tried to move next year's West Virginia game to come before the 'huskers. The Big East nixed that....Davie has said that next year we WILL use multiple quarterbacks. Be sure to keep your head on a swivel as you observer the rotating door.
The men's fencing team entered the NCAA Championship #1 and the women went in 5th. The Irish took 12 total fencers. Only one other school brought 12. Despite the added manpower in qualifying 12, they were not able to rack up enough points to take home the prize. In fact they came in third.
Campus News:
A little over a month ago the new Coleman-Morse Center opened. It is located where the old bookstore once stood. The Center houses Academic Services for Student Athletes, Campus Ministry, and First Year of Studies. Study and social space are also available. A large lounge on the first floor has space for studying or relaxing and is open 21 hours a day. (Closed 4 am to 7 am for cleaning.) It is named in honor of Dorene and Jerry Hammes who recently donated $1 million for a Campus Ministry endowment. The lounge has a big screen TV, two fireplaces, and free popcorn and pop provided by Campus Ministry. Food service is even available on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from 8 pm until 3 am.
Campus Ministry oppucies first and third floor offices and has a considerably larger amount of space compared to the previous offices on the first floor of Badin. It went from 5,000 square feet to 35,000. Campus Ministry also had some offices in the Library, so this new Center unites the program. The Ministry has a new catechist resource room designed to aid students who teach religious education in local parishes. A new choir room was built as well as a new choir library containing 100,000 sheets of music.
The Center for Social Concerns will have a satellite office out of the first floor. It is joined on the first floor by Academic Services for Student Athletes wich has moved out of Brownson Hall. Ample tutoring space is available. A small chapel is also on the first floor. An interesting addition is a cross-cultural ministry that will have permanent cultural displays and a small prayer room open for all, but is mainly targeted for Muslims to use during their Friday prayer.
First Year of Studies covers the second floor after 31 years in Brownson Hall. Classrooms are even present for some first year courses. Then in the evenings those rooms will be used for tutoring and collaborative workshops by the Learning Resource Center. The University Writing Center is also on the second floor.
The 66,670 square foot building cost $14 million. The Coleman-Morse Center is actually two centers. The Thomas A. Coleman Family Center for Campus Ministry memorializes the family of Thomas Colemn, a 1956 graduate and member of the Board of Trustees until his death last year. The James and Leah Rae Morse Center for Academic Services was funded by a gift from James Morse, a 1957 graduate and captain of the 1956 football team. Morse was the voice of ND football on ABC in the '60s and has served on the College of Arts & Letters advisory council since 1981.
Pictures of the new Center willl be posted in the near future.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
If you just can't stand the thought of drinking alone, why not call a taxi? Some girls were imbibing at one of the local establishments when they decided it was time to go home. They flagged down a cab and got in for the ride back to campus. Along the way, the friendly cabdriver inquired, with great tact and proper deference to the ladies, "Mind if I have a cold one?" He then proceeded to whip out a beer and started swigging it as he wove his way toward ND. The young ladies were less than amused and asked to be let out of the cab to find another ride home.
Hall Notes:
Carroll was mentioned twice in the last issue of Scholastic. The first shoutout was in a piece about room picks. It mentioned how Student Residences would provide a "random" generator for lottery picks. Well, "this" year a computer glitch produced a not-so-random list that was basically the same as last year, except with transfers taking the exact spots of seniors that moved off campus. Hello? "This" year it happened? Try Carroll in '96. The article stated how Carroll - instead of using the "random" generator - "has a hall-wide gathering at which the rector draws names from a hat." We may be out in the boonies, but at least we are smarter than the average chimp.
The other Carroll shoutout was in "Sarcastic," the Scholastic parody. The Monopoly game board was parodied as "Irishopolee: A Game Combining Money and Notre Dame...Who Would've Guessed?" Each dorm was a property and had a little description below it. Ours read: "It's the edge of the world as we know it..." There is good news and bad news. The good news is that our property was farther along than zahm's. The bad news is that it's only by one spot and we are in the same subdivision. There goes the neighborhood. (In case you were wondering, Park Place and Boardwalk went to Walsh and Sorin, respectively. Whatever.)
NDSportscenter:
Three new articles have been posted. The first has to do with how our newest National Champions were honored on Capitol Hill. The second article gives some background on next year's starting point guard, Chris Thomas. The final piece speaks about remembering Rockne. March 31st was the 70th anniversary of his death.
More basketball notes: Ivan "The Drug" Kartelo is transferring at the end of the season. Schools that have been mentioned are Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, and Illinois....ESPN The Magazine named Riley and Murphy the respective Centers of the Year. Murphy a center?....Women's recruit Jacqueline Batteast was named a Parade 1st Team All American.... The men finished 23rd in the rankings. We were 11-5 in the Big East, the first time we have ever been above 0.500....On April 8th our 22nd National Championship was celebrated in a banquet at the JACC that was open to the public. 3,700+ fans showed up to honor the women ballers. Season ticket sales have jumped to almost 4,000, up some 1,100 from last year....Murphy was named 1 of 10 John Wooden All Americans.... The women's team has been invited to the White House. They will meet W. on April 23rd....Riley was selected with the 5th overall pick by the Miami Sol in the WBNA Draft. Niele Ivey was the 19th player selected (3rd of 2nd round) and will play for the Indiana Fever. Kelley Seimon was the last player taken in the 3rd round (#48 overall) and will suit up for the Los Angeles Sparks....It's official, Murhpys is going pro. He made a formal announcement. He's gone.
The baseball team is up to 4th in the country in one poll. This is the fifth different ND team to be ranked #1 or #2 during the 2000-2001 athletic year. We are riding a 10 game winning streak and are 31-5-1 overall. We have the best ERA in the country at 2.61 and have the top winning percentage at 0.852.
Three Domers fared well at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Freshman Marie Labosky placed 11th in the 400 Individual Medley. Junior Kelly Hecking was 18th in the 100 m Backstroke and 13th in the 200 m Backstroke. Junior Heather Mattingly came in 12th in the 3 m dive. All three athletes were named Honorable Mention All-American.
Bookstore Notes: Coach Brey is playing! His team - BOB - is comprised of 4 Holy Cross students. They won their first round game 21-6. Ingelsby is on the #19 team. Hans Rasmussen is on the #17 team. Vermin Arnaz is teaming with a former basketball walk-on, and a former D-III prospect on #7 Mourning Wood. Vermin Carlyle Holiday and 2 other frosh football players are with 2 other first year students on #9 Diaper Dandies.
Campus News:
The Sophomore Class Ball took place on Saturday, March 31st at the Century Center. It is the campus replacement for Sophomore Sibs that was permanently cancelled last year. Spirit Week took place prior to the dance. The week included dress-up days, sophomore only activities, and ended with the Ball that included a formal dinner.
The Student Senate recently passed a proposal to alter parietal hours. The Senate has asked that parietals be extended one hour to 1 AM on weeknights and moved an hour earlier to 9 AM every morning.
This year's Glee Club president was Stephen Smith, a senior business major from Chicago. He is the first African American to lead the seventy-five member all male choir that is in its 85th year.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
It appears that our sacred Basilica was profaned over the weekend. During Sunday Mass, the celebrant mentioned that a pro-life demonstration would be taking place at St. Joseph's Church in South Bend. The priest gave the crossroads of the church and then paused before adding, "Some of you might know where this chuch is - it's right across from Boat Club." Ah, the Boat Club, a beacon for all Christians. The Gipp never thought he's see the day when the Basilica would be tainted with the mention of a seedy South Bend bar. Then again, he never thought he'd see the day when a Catholic university would use sweatshop labor to make a buck.
Hall Notes:
This is a PHENOMENAL Classic Moment in Vermin History. It was passed our way by Paul Acampora '85. The tale is not only hilarious, but it gives a little historical background on some past rectors and dorm life. The Classic Moment is titled "Father Steve." Enjoy...
August 1982. Day one of my sophomore year. I hadn't even started to unpack my car when our R.A., Gunner, gave us the news: Our rector, Father Jim Schultz, was dead. Gone. And there was no new rector... We looked at our feet for a moment of silence.... And then we all started to laugh (I never said we were sensitive).
Within moments, the kegs started to roll in. Our population rose from about 100 vermin to several hundred men and women from ND, SMC and much of the surrounding Michiana area. The next couple months are a beer- filled haze. We had a couple guys come and try to be rectors, but they only lasted a few days and nights at best. The party rolled on... and on and on and on.
Sometime after September, a large white van pulled up to the hall. A very tall man and a very large sheep dog got out. Another rector wannabe. It was a Friday and another huge party (or maybe it was the same one that started in August) was scheduled on the 3rd or 4th floor for that night. Certainly, this guy and his dog would be just one more casualty.
The party got into gear. Guys got loud. Guys got heated. Company arrived. Drink flowed. A tall man and a sheep dog stepped out of the stairwell. The crowd paused for a moment. "Hey," the big man said. "I'm Father Steve."
We all looked at him with sort of SO WHAT expression on our faces.
"What does a guy have to do to get a beer around here?" he asked.
And so, Father Steve won us over.
He visited with us one-on-one and in groups. He let us play his Pac Man game, and he joined us for meals. He built a bar in the party room and flooded the front lawn to create an ice rink. He tossed the pews out of the chapel (I wasn't the first one to do that) and signed up our hardcore guys to read at Mass. (You haven't heard the Gospel until you hear it from a guy reading through a big, juicy wad of chew tucked under his lip). We all crashed on the chapel floor for an hour every Sunday night, and Father Steve told us stories about getting chased around Africa by Idi Amin. He even got us to sing for chrissakes.
Pretty soon, there was less trash in the hall. The parties stayed raucous but they got (somewhat) less rude. Most of us started going to class again. Besides hanging out in party rooms, we started hanging out in the rector's room! And a study room!!
Sure, Father Steve had to nail the windows shut so we'd stop water dropping each other (and each other's guests... and university staff). Sure, he had to put up with assorted pranks and nonsense (we were still vermin). Sure, he spent many Sunday mornings mopping up unsightly liquid stains off the basement floor. But through it all, he asked us to follow one rule: Treat each other with respect. And before long, he raised us up from an animal house into a real home. He even made us a sign: THE HOME OF THE VERMIN. That was awesome.
Three years later, Father Steve was recognized on campus as Rector-Of-The-Year. That was the same year he got fired. (I guess one rule was not enough for the golden dome. But that's another story.) Without a doubt, Father Steve turned us from a dormitory into a community. Thanks Father Steve.
NDSportscenter:
Murphy has declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft. However he has not signed with an agent. He continues to attend class and practice with the team as if he will be here next year. Troy will not attend any pre-draft camps, but will privately workout for teams. Prognosticators have him going in the middle of the first round. He has until June 20 (one week before the draft) to pull his name out. There's a good chance he may come back. Brey has said Murphy changes his mind daily and this is anything but a sure thing.
This is my FAVORITE sports edition. I only get to do it once a year. It's Bookstore time. Time for a run down of the humorous team names. The total team count was 580. The censors were out in full force as 133 teams were relegated to "Team (sign up #)." That's 23% of the teams! Without further ado...
Names with animals in the title:
1) Team Deadhorse
2) Pink Bunny Ninjas
3) Captain Standee adn the weiner dogs
4) Duck Butter
5) Ill-Tempered SEA BASS
6) Crippled Squirrel
7) Flying Donkeys
8) We Be Deadhorsen' (what's with all the dead horses?)
9) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse & Steve the Bunny
Going Retro, the '80s:
1) Children of the Eighties
2) Ralph Macchio
3) Jack Black and the Purple Cosby Sweaters
Take Offs:
1) Slim Pickins (the situation not the actor)
2) Les Incompetents
3) Winnie the Poop
4) Menace to Sobriety
Current Events:
1) Strategery
2) He Hate Me
3) Du Loc Box
4) California, parietals, or us - anyway its lights out
5) Shirley Dimple and the Hanging Chads
The Ever-Popular Sexual Innuendo:
1) Feline Taxidermitsts
2) We play with Plastic, not Wood (chick team? i sure hope so)
3) Inappropriate Touching
4) No Come Upance
5) 5 guys who like it fast, cheap & easy
6) Tenacious STD
7) Boapy Soobs
8) Four Skins and a shirt
9) Woody and the Pup Tents
10) 5 Guys Not Used to Playing with Balls
11) Fallopian Swim Team
12) Six Rowers, no cox, but a Wang
13) We'll trade looks for a morally casual attitude
14) We gotta get our balls in there somehow
Just Plain Odd:
1) Gene Simmons' Tongue
2) Amish Midgets
3) The Breathable Pantyliners
4) Adelaide and her Garden Hoes
5) Grumshot and the Roast Beef Sandwiches
6) BYOB for Bring Your Own Booyah
7) Who Shot the Couch IV: The Final Schwantz
8) Sofa King Hung
9) I write name on grain of rice
10) My Dixie Wrecked Again
11) Slippery When Dwayne
I Don't Know How to Categorize 'Em, I Just Like 'Em:
1) The Observer, the infirmary, and 5 dudes who'll make you just as sick
2) If I Could Live Anywhere, it would be in Goshen
3) State School Prodigies
4) Live Fat, Die Young.com
5) You're out, like a fat girl playin' dodgeball
Funniest Name of Bookstore 2001:
The Mullets: Business Up Front, Party in the Rear
Campus News:
Next year's tuition increase will be the lowest in more than 40 years percentage-wise. The nearly 5 percent increase will bring the average cost of the 2001-02 academic year to $30,530. The 4.9% increase equals $1,430. Tuition will be up to $24,320 and room & board will hit $6,210. The current cost of $29,100 came after a 5.2% increase last year. This is the lowest percentage increase since 1959, when there was no increase from the previous year. School officials continue to state our prices are far below those of similar private institutions. The lower increase is linked to the record-breaking Genertions fund raising campaign and the continued growth of the endowment. Because of these increased resources the University has said it can meet the full financial need of undergraduate students. According to the 2001 annual report the amount of scholarship aid awarded annually by the University to undergrads increased by 21.5% in the past year. In addition to undergrad costs, the Board of Trustees approved three other tuition increases. Graduate school tuition is up 4.9% to $24,200, and tuition for the Law School and Masters of Business Administration program is up 4.8% to $24,920.
A biting editorial from The Observer has been posted. It is titled "Thanks for the Ten-spot, Monk."
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
The Gipp's not sure if the dining-hall card swipers would have let last week's clothes-less group in, but he knows one thing: if you're reading this while you're eating, stop now. What the Gipp's about to tell you could make you lose your appetite. It seems that South Dining Hall's been having some mouse trouble recently. The Scholastic office - housed in the luxurious basement of SDH - just got a visit from an exterminator, who placed some baited glue traps in the ceiling. Even as the Gipp is writing this, he can hear one of the not-so-little critters scurrying around above him. If that stir fry you're eating tastes a little funny, you might want to toss it in favor of a sandwich. Oh, and stay away from the Toad in the Hole.
Hall Notes:
More and more alums keep comin' 'round. More info on another old school Vermin...
Mike "Lipper" Schunk '85 left school with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. For the next 5 years Mike worked in the Officer Programs for Naval Nuclear Power and actually studied nuclear power as a graduate student for 1 year. That was followed by 10 years in Manufacturing. Currently this Vermin is in sales for a marketing company as an account executive. Mike went after an MBA but decided half way through that he'd had enough school. Lipper is going on his 15th year of marriage and has 3 future Vermin, ages 11, 8, and 5. Mike also passed a little info our way on dorm goings-on in the early '80s. Good stuff. Look for it in a future Hall Notes.
NDSportscenter:
More news on our newest National Champions. Numerous articles ran on their glorious return to campus. Three have been posted telling of the events. (Note on the NCAA tourney: only 800 tickets were available per team, 3200 total. Attendance was roughly 20,500. How nice of the NCAA to hoard 17,300 tickets. Only 100 of our students were able to attend.)
Bobby Knight spoke at Stepan Center recently. I saw the General with roughly 1,700 other people for a mere $2. He donned a blue sweater over a yellow collared shirt, saying it was as close as he could get to blue & gold. Knight didn't really have an outline. He talked about the life of a coach and then went into some motivational speaking. All the while he would sprinkle in stories of his interaction with ND, coaching tales from over the years, and humorous fables. He was an excellent speaker and had the crowd in the palm of his hand (not by their throats, mind you). Knight continually ripped on the media and sports writers. He mentioned little of his old school. Coach finished with a 20 minute Q&A. He closed the 1 1/2 hour session by showing his patriotism. He singled out veterans and anyone who had served in the armed forces. Hearing him speak was sometimes difficult. Knight liked to roam the stage and sometimes got too far away from the microphone. Lucky for us he has a big mouth.
Little known fact on Bobby Knight: he wanted to move to the Bend in the late '60s, and contacted the AD about the coaching position. It wasn't available. One month after Knight went to IU, our job opened up and Digger took it.
The baseball team is hot. After Coach Paul Maineri got his 600th victory, the Irish have raced up the polls. In the 3 polls we are 6th, 7th, and 8th in the nation. We have the second lowest ERA in the nation at 2.45.
The men's lacrosse team reached its highest ranking ever at #2. The season began 5-0 after beating 3 ranked teams including powerhouse Virginia. By the way, we have 0 scholarships for lacrosse. Unfortunately we fell 11-10 in overtime to Hofstra recently.
Campus News:
The Observer has stated the University is awaiting an official White House announcement that President Bush will deliver the keynote address at this year's commencement. (The South Bend Tribune has stated Bush HAS accepted the invitation.) Nothing has yet to be confirmed. The official announcement will come straight from the White House. Typically they do all of the commencement announcements at the same time. Five or six speeches are expected to be announced. Indiana Third District congressman (and Domer) Tim Roemer met with Bush on Dec. 22nd and carried with him a letter urging him to accept the University's invitation. On Feb. 21st, four other Domer congressmen joined Roemer in sending another letter to Bush that had a similar content. Roemer again urged him in person a week and a half ago. Bush would be the fifth president to speak at Commencement. Senior Bush came in '92 and before him Dwight Eisenhower ('60), Jimmy Carter ('77), and Ronald Reagan ('81) spoke. FDR ('35) and Gerald Ford ('75) received honorary degrees at times other than Commencement. JFK never visited during his presidency, but he did deliver the 1950 winter commencement address and in 1961 received the University's prestigious Laetare Medal.
Campus Watch by the Gipper from Scholastic:
Well, the Gipp's glad to see that some students won't let the man keep them down. Last weekend, a few innovative students decided to host an "Anything but Clothes" party. Party-goers had to derive creative ways to cover themselves up. Flags were a popular substitute for shorts and skirts, but there were more daring costumes as well. One guy wore nothing but bubble wrap, and another put a sombrero and a couch cushion to good use. The Gipp's favorite creative cover-up had to be the duo who dressed as Adam and Eve, using well-placed Frisbees to avoid breaking any laws. As the party wound down, a group of these revelers - including bubble-wrap man - decided to continue the fun....at Fat Shirley's. Needless to say, the scantily clad group attracted some stares from restaurant patrons. In fact, the wait staff was less than eager to serve the hungry exhibitoin-ists. Eventually, they got their food and went on their way without much incident.
Hall Notes:
This is extra double secret information that you have to keep under your hats. In the not to distant future, the Vermin will be receiving some neighbors. Plans are in the works to build senior student apartments out behind The Hotel. The location will be that by the big field out back where we used to play football. It will have a parking lot just to the north of it. I suspect the entrance will be right off of 31, as I doubt there will be any campus road built through to it. I have no idea what year this will be done and I have no idea about the actual apartments themselves. Of course the issue of parietals will be interesting as it is on campus. So it looks like some people will actually have a longer walk than we did.
NDSportscenter:
Women's basketball notes: This was the second 30 win season for the lady Irish. They currently have a 38 game JACC winning streak....Coach Muffet McGraw was named the Naismith Coach of the Year....The senior class finished 54-2 at home....Ruth Riley won the Naismith Award for the Player of the Year. She also received Academic All-American honors with a 3.64 GPA in psychology. This past week she was the ESPN The Magazine Center of the Year Award....Niele Ivey was given the 18th Annual Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the best player 5'8" and under. (The award was named for James daughter-in-law.) Niele also finished the season as a 3rd team All-American. Of course Ruth was on the 1st team....At the end of this week 2 more awards came down. The Associated Press named Muffet Coach of the Year and Riley Player of the year. Men's basketball notes: This is a tad old, but...Troy Murphy was the first player since Kansas' Raef LaFrentz in '97-'98 to repeat as a first team All-American. The only other Domer to do that was Adrian Dantley....Murphy has until May 13th to declare for the NBA draft. Word on the street is that he is 95% sure he is leaving. I sure hope my sources are wrong....Freshman-to-be Chris Thomas led Pike High School to the Indiana State Championship. He is a hell of a baller. Thomas finished 11th in Indiana history with 2,156 points. He was in this past week's McDonald's All-American game. He was phat. His game reminds me a lot of Jason Kidd only Thomas can shoot the rock. He actually looks like Kidd, just not quite as big. Thomas is a much, much better shooter and has an Iverson-like crossover. Look out for this kid. He's out first McDonald's All-American since LaPhonso Ellis back in '88. The women's track and field team placed 7th at the Big East Championships while the men placed 3rd. Senior Andrew Cooper won the high jump at 6'9". Senior Ryan Shay won the 5,000 m and was 2nd in the 3,000 m. Then it was on to the NCAA Indoor Championships. Ryan Shay came in 9th in the 5,000 m to earn his 4th All-American honor. This was his first All-American indoor honor. He was an All-American in cross country and two times an All-American in the outdoor 10,000 m. Junior Liz Grow got 8th in the 400 m with a time of 53.73 seconds and earned All-American honors. She became out first female sprint to win such honors.