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INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER SMC candygrams benefit charity page 4 � Holiday TV episodes page 10 � Ianello to take over page 20 � Viewpoint page 8

Weis charity to stay in South BendHannah and Friends’location won’t changedespite coach’s firing

Despite former Coach CharlieWeis’ firing Monday, his family’scharity organization Hannah andFriends, named after Weis’daughter, will continue to beheadquartered and operate pri-marily in the South Bend area.

“Our programs will notchange,” executive directorSharon Bui Green said. “We real-ize that there is a mission and agreater good here that we aredoing for people with specialneeds, and [Hannah and Friends]is going to be a permanent placefor people with special needsgoing forward.”

Green said Weis’ position as

A new photography exhibit oncampus juxtaposes images ofBerlin from before and after theWall fell, bridging the historicaland ideological distance to atime most Notre Dame studentscan’t remember.

The traveling photo exhibit“Icons of a Border Installation”is the result of a semester-longproject that was undertaken bystudents at the University ofPaderborn in Germany. Theexhibit is on display in theCenter for the Study ofLanguage and Cultures in room329 of DeBartolo Hall until Dec.16.PAT COVENEY/The Observer

Maura and Hannah Weis cut the ribbon at the Hannah and Friends’ first residential home, which openedon Sept. 29. The organization will reamin in South Bend despite Charlie Weis being fired.

Studentslearn aboutoff-campuslife, rights

Moving off campus involvescontracts, and knowing theterms of agreement is animportant factor in successfuloff-campus living, UniversityAssociate Vice President forResident Life Bill Kirk said dur-ing an informational meetingTuesday night.

Held at 8 p.m. in MontgomeryAuditorium, “Moving OffCampus: What to Know Before— and After — Signing YourLease,” covered the basic pointsstudents should know if theydecide to leave Notre Dame’sresidence halls.

There are many reasons whystudents choose to live off cam-pus, like lower living costs andmore lifestyle freedom, but Kirkalso pointed out some of theburdens of life beyond thedorms.

“But there is a lot of responsi-bility involved in moving offcampus,” Kirk said. “Really doyour homework and under-stand why you want to move. …

Notre Dame’s Assistant Provostof Admissions Dan Saracino saidthis year’s early applicant poolincreased both in number andoverall quality, as measured byGPA and test scores.

He said the admissions officereceived 4,330 applications forthe Early Action deadline, whichis up 13.5 percent from lastyear’s number.

“The good news is that we sawan increase in applications. [Inaddition] we saw an even greater

increase in the number of minor-ity and international applicants,”he said.

Saracino said the percentage ofapplicants classified as eitherinternational or ethnicallydiverse rose more than the 13.5percent of the overall applicants.He also said the overall quality ofthe applications was greater thanthey’ve received in years past.

“Good news for us as well wasthe fact that we saw an increasein the quality of the overall appli-cant pool as measured by tran-scripts and test scores,” he said.

By JOSEPH McMAHONAssociate News Editor

By MOLLY MADDENNews Writer

see BERLIN/page 6see CHARITY/page 4

see EARLY/page 6

By LIZ O’DONNELLNews Writer

Exhibitshows old,new Berlins

By MEGAN HEMLERNews Writer

see RIGHTS/page 4

wednesday, december 2, 2009

Early applicant pool larger, of higher quality

Decorations awake Christmas spirit

Football season may be over,but another is just beginning,as festive decorations haveappeared on dorms and lightshave been hung to brightenbuildings and trees aroundcampus to commemorate theholidays.

Pat McCauslin,Superintendent LandscapeServices, described his depart-ment’s role in the Christmasdecorations as a service to theUniversity that he works hardto perform.

“Landscape Services isresponsible for hanging the

community lights around cam-pus and decorating some of thebuildings like Corby Hall, OldCollege and the guard posts,”McCauslin said. “We also han-dle special requests fromdorms to put up the decora-tions outside their halls, includ-ing trees over their porticos.”

Some of the Christmas fea-tures around campus include anativity scene by the Grotto, atowering pine underneath thedome in the Main Building, aChristmas tree inO’Shaughnessy Hall andstrands of lights on large treesnear the main entrance and bythe fire station.

see CHRISTMAS/page 4

By MEGAN DOYLENews Writer

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Two giant stockings hang outside of Sorin College in honor ofthe holiday season.

As of 3 p.m. Monday afternoon, JackSwarbrick became the most importantand most scrutinized member of theNotre Dame family. His task is dauntingand his goals are lofty. After more thana decade of medi-ocrity, he is theman tasked withfinding the savior.Jack Swarbrickcan either be KevinWhite or Moose Krause. For the sake ofthe Notre Dame Nation, I hope it’s thelatter.

So Mr. Swarbrick, I hope you are upto the task. As you conduct your search,I offer a few recommendations.

Your first task is gauging interest.This year, Notre Dame is the job. Thereis no Florida or LSU to compete withlike last time. I would suggest you con-tact anyone and everyone who couldremotely fill the post to gauge interest,starting from Bill Belichick down toSkip Holtz. Even if a coach has publiclydenied interest, they are candidatesuntil they say no to you. Be like DavidAbernathy asking out the much-olderKerry Piqua. Maybe they will say yes.

Once you have a list of interestedcoaches, your task gets far more diffi-cult. History has shown that coacheswith success as a college head coachhave a better chance of succeeding atNotre Dame. So scratch Jon Gruden,Steve Marucci, Will Muschamp and oth-ers. We need a strong defensive foun-dation. It is no coincidence that the topfour BCS teams also field the top fourdefenses. So extra emphasis needs to beplaced on coach like TCU’s GaryPatterson and Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops.Lastly, whoever you select needs tohave at least an understanding what itis to be a Notre Dame man. This wasthe area where Charlie succeeded, andour new coach needs to continue that.That means running a clean program,making athletes be student-athletes andgiving back to the community. This iswhy I am afraid of Urban Meyer, withhis 25-plus player arrests and lax disci-pline.

Whoever you choose Jack, now comesthe hardest part of all. Getting the sav-ior to South Bend, Ind. There are a cou-ple recommendations I would make todo this. First, don’t be cheap. If youbelieve the man you picked is the one,then offer him top dollar. And makesure it is clear that the school wouldalso make sure he has the support tohire the best staff possible. Guaranteethat he will have an unmatched recruit-ing budget to assist in the difficultnational recruiting that Notre Dame isinvolved in. Second, remind him whowe are. Remind him that we build stat-ues for national championship winningcoaches around here. Remind him ofthe unmatched tradition. Remind himthat all but one game since 1992 hasbeen nationally televised. Remind himthat there is plenty of talent that canmeet admissions requirements — thiswas one thing that Charlie proved. SoJack, the spotlight is on you. How willyou be remembered? If you take awayonly one thing, remember to reach forthe stars, aim high, and expect the best.Take nothing for granted and take allsteps necessary. I believe you will besuccessful. Good luck.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED?

IN BRIEFThe Kellogg Institute is

hosting a discussion on “TheRole of University inDevelopment” in the f irstfloor Coleman-Morse Loungetoday at 7 p.m. Refreshmentswill be served.

Hosted by the Notre DameEnergy Center , a lecturetit led “Future AutomobileFuels: Fill Up or Plug In?”will be delivered by MichaelDesmond, the distinguishedadvisor within BP’s Refiningand Marketing, Research andTechnology divis ion,Thursday at 4 p.m. in theCarey Auditorium of theHesburgh Library.

The Kellogg Institute issponsoring a lecture on “TheChurches, Development, andDemocracy in Uganda”Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in roomC103 of the Hesburgh Center.Bishop Lambert Bainomugishaof the Archdiocese of Mbararaand Professor PeterKanyandago of UgandaMartyrs University will speak.

“Bright Star,” a f i lmdepic t ing the ear ly n ine-teenth century love af fa irbetween John Keats andFanny Brawne, will be shownin the Browning Cinema ofthe DeBartolo PerformingArts Center Friday at 6:30p.m. Tickets are $3 for stu-dents.

The track team will holdits indoor Blue & Gold Meetin the Loftus Sports ComplexFriday at 5 p.m. There is nocost to attend.

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OFFBEATJesus Christ dumped fromjury pool for disruption

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —Court officials say aBirmingham woman whochanged her name to JesusChrist didn’t live up to itwhen she reported for juryduty this week. The woman,previously named DorothyLola Killingworth, was sentto Judge Clyde Jones’s court-room for a criminal caseMonday.

Court officials told TheBirmingham News Tuesdaythat the 59-year-old wasexcused because she wasdisruptive and kept askingquestions instead of answer-ing them.

Efforts to reach Christ forcomment were unsuccessful.

Court administratorSandra Turner said peoplethere were shocked whenthe woman insisted hername was Jesus Christ andsome potential jurorslaughed out loud when hername was called.

But Turner said unlikesome Jefferson County resi-dents, Christ didn’t try to getout of jury duty and was“perfectly happy to serve.”

Cowboy motorist helpsMass. troopers lasso 2 cows

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. —Two cows have escapedfrom a trailer onto a busy

Massachusetts highway, buta cowboy stuck in the trafficjam has come to the rescue.

State police say a manwearing a Western hat andboots lassoed the 500-pound heifers Tuesdaymorning as they wanderedon Interstate 91 South inSpringfield, one of thestate’s biggest cities.

Troopers shut down thehighway for about 30 min-utes as the man helped loadthe animals back into atrailer that was carryingthem to nearby Enfield,Conn.

Information compiledfrom the Associated Press.

COURTNEY ECKERLE/The Observer

First year students Katherine Trainor and Lindsey Bisch pick up stockings andcandy for their dorms in the Saint Mary’s Student Center on Monday.

Barrick Bollman

Sports Writer “I got a touchscreen phone

last Christmas.I had a Razor

before, butthose were

getting old!”

Alexis Hiner

sophomoreLe Mans

“My N’Sync CD,1997. Best band

ever!”

Allison Bandeen

seniorHoly Cross

“A teddy bear. Igot it two years

ago from mymommy.”

Matthew Sushinsky

sophomoreAlumni

“Probably mybig wheel when

I was five.”

Rob Goodale

freshmanKeough

“It’s a toss up. Mybrother gave me

his old Lego castle,or there was this

sword I got too, butit was plastic.”

Cavanaugh Hannan

sophomore Dillon

“When I wasfour, my twin

sister and I gotmatching pink

Lion King bicycles.”

Kate Augustine

sophomoreoff campus

Atlanta 60 / 44 Boston 44 / 32 Chicago 52 / 37 Denver 50 / 26 Houston 54 / 45 Los Angeles 68 / 46 Minneapolis 45 / 29 New York 49 / 36 Philadelphia 51 / 36 Phoenix 70 / 46 Seattle 49 / 36 St. Louis 59 / 38 Tampa 77 / 65 Washington 56 / 40

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College’s candygramsraise money for charity

With the hope raisingmoney for charity while get-ting students in the holidayspirit of giving, Saint Mary’sCollege is selling candygramsas a part of the 12 Days ofChristmas program.

Students can purchase thecandygrams inthe StudentCenter Atriumduring lunchfrom December1 to December12. An addition-al sale will beheld on Dec. 7during dinner.

The candy-grams can bedelivered to any-one on SaintMary’s Collegecampus. This isthe second yearthe College has offered thetreats to students.

“[We hope] to help makesomeone’s day a bit brighterduring finals week and also tohelp people learn more aboutthe 12 Days program,” CarrieCall, director of the Office forCivic and Social Engagement,said.

There are a variety of can-dygrams to purchase thisyear. Each can-dygram comeswith a card.

“If you want tosend a candy-gram, you cometo the table inthe atrium of thestudent center,”Call said. “Thereyou can pickfrom three dif-ferent styles ofcards. Each cardhas a holiday design and a dif-ferent message. Once youhave picked out a card, youthen choose which candygramyou wish to send.”

Students can choose one ofthree different designs tosend. Students then mustdecide between three differ-ent styles of candygrams. The

basic candygram comes com-plete with four Hershey’s kiss-es and costs 50 cents. For thesame price, students can buythe Ghirardelli candygram,which contains a square ofGhirardelli chocolate. Thefinal option is the Santagram,which holds a Russell StoverChocolate Santa and costs onedollar.

“The candygrams are a wayto send a lit-tle somethingspecial tosomeone oncampus dur-ing finalsweek,” Callsaid.

All of thep r o c e e d sfrom the can-dygrams salewill benefitthe familiesthat SaintM a r y ’ sCollege has

adopted for the 12 Days ofChristmas program.

Candygrams will be deliv-ered to the front desk of eachresidence hall for students,and to the offices of facultyand staff.

The 12 Days of Christmasprogram will continue to holdvarious events to studentsfrom December 1 throughDecember 12. The program is

designed tohelp raisemoney forfamilies andindividuals inneed duringthe holidayseason.

The pro-gram offers avariety ofsocial activi-ties, volun-teer opportu-

nities and worship services. Itwill sponsor the annualChristmas Craft Show to pro-vide local artisans with anopportunity to sell their goodswith proceeds from tablerental fees going to charity.

“The candygrams area way to send a littlesomething special tosomeone on campusduring finals week.”

Carrie Calldirector

Office for Civic andSocial Engagement

By ALICIA SMITHNews Writer

Contact Alicia Smith [email protected]

“You can pick fromthree different styles

of cards.”

Carrie Calldirector

Office of Civic and Social Engagement

New SUB controller appointedCOUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES

In its weekly meeting Tuesday,the Council of Representativesdiscussed a number of pressingcampus issues, the first beingthe appointment of Matt Howardto the position of ChiefController for the Student UnionBoard (SUB).

Howard will replace seniorKim Kyrouac, who was acceptedearly into the Master of Sciencein Accountancy Program andtherefore cannot maintain herSUB position, according to a let-ter from Kyrouac to the repre-sentatives.

“Matt is far and away the bestcandidate,” board manager KatBurke said.

Howard, a senior accountingmajor who has worked for SUBfor the past two years, hasinterned with Pepsi for the pasttwo summers and said hisproudest event so far with SUBis the Joshua Radin concert thatwill be held at Legends nextSaturday.

COR approved Howard’sappointment in a unanimous 14-0-0 vote.

COR’s second item onTuesday’s agenda was discus-sion of the Wall of Ideas initia-tives in the student governmentoffice, which displays sugges-tions and concerns voiced bystudents.

Student body president GrantSchmidt said one of the maintopics on the Wall are commentsabout University HealthServices.

“[Students complain that]Health Services is pushing peo-ple in and pushing people out …and not really examining themthoroughly,” he said.

Schmidt proposed the imple-mentation of a Health Servicesadvisory board, to which studentgovernment would appoint sixstudents to address the concerns

students have with HealthServices.

“It would be a neat conceptbecause we don’t have a medicalschool and this would be some-thing different for students to getinvolved in,” student body chiefof staff Ryan Brethellin said.

The board, Schmidt said,would also address student con-cerns as to where to seek spe-cialized care like dermatologists.

COR voted in favor of theimplementation of such a coun-cil 12-1-1.

In other COR news:Schmidt addressed the issue of

handicap accessibility on cam-pus, noting the need for func-tioning elevator buttons in build-ings like Mendoza College ofBusiness and DeBartolo Hall.

“The most tangible thing we’dlike to see is more accommoda-tions in the future,” he said.

Schmidt also addressed con-

cerns among off-campus stu-dents of the need for a guestmeal plan to accompany theiroff-campus meal plan. The guestmeal plan, which offers fivemeals a semester for the dis-counted price of $6, is currentlyonly available to on-campus stu-dents.

Schmidt lastly addressed thenew Transpo weekend bus routethat will begin this Friday.

The route will run from librarycircle to South Bend “hot spots”like downtown bars and restau-rants.

“It’s going to be fairly effi-cient,” Schmidt said. “Thisweekend will be a learningexperience … as it is the firstweekend this will be run.”

The bus schedule will be post-ed on the student governmentWeb site.

TOM LA/The Observer

Student body vice president Cynthia Weber and president GrantSchmidt participate in discussion at COR’s meeting Tuesday.

By KATIE PERALTAAssistant News Editor

Council also votes to implement Health Services advisory board

Blood drive held at SMC

The Office of Civil and SocialEngagement (OCSE) gave stu-dents the opportunity to savelives with a Red Cross blooddrive in the Student Centerlounge from noon until 6 p.m.yesterday.

Olivia Barzydlo Critchlow,assistant director of OCSE, saidthis is the secondblood drive of theyear, and thisdrive is being usedto kick-off OCSE’s12 Days ofChristmas.

“We did thisbecause it’s anoth-er way to giveback,” Critchlowsaid.

OCSE had a goalof collecting 80 units of bloodduring the six-hour drive. LizzyPugh, a senior who volun-teered her help with the drive,said over 100 students had setup appointments for the day.

Critchlow said they raisedtheir goal this time because theprevious target was “exceeded

by an astounding percent.”There were also chances for

prizes for the donor who couldget the most referrals. An e-mail was sent out to the stu-dents encouraging them tobring others with them. Thestudent with the most referralsat the end of the day wouldreceive a long-sleeve T-shirt.

Donating blood takes about10 to 12 minutes, Critchlowsaid, and the whole process

takes aboutan hour forstudents.

Pugh saidthis gives stu-dents theopportunity toconvenientlygive back.

“This givesstudents thechance to giveback in an

easy way and in a comfortableenvironment,” Pugh said.

Some students have donateda few times before.

Sophomore Emily Schmittsaid she donates because shehas a rare blood type, and feelsthe need to.

“It doesn’t hurt me, and it

helps people,” Schmitt said. She suggests students eat

and drink a lot before theycome to give blood, but to keepin mind that it isn’t a bad expe-rience.

A couple of first time donorsagree with Schmitt, and saidthey would return again.

Senior Margaret Burke saidshe would definitely do itagain. She said everyone therewas helpful and made her feelcomfortable.

“[The nurses] were all reallynice and cared how I was feel-ing,” Burke said.

Morgan Gay, a junior at theCollege, said she would alsogive blood again. She also sug-gested eating and drinkingbefore donating and to knowyour blood history.

According to the e-mailCritchlow sent out, every twoseconds someone in the U.S.needs blood and more than38,000 blood donations areneeded each day.

“It’s just an hour of you day,and you can give so much,”Pugh said.

By ASHLEY CHARNLEYSaint Mary’s Editor

Contact Ashley Charnley [email protected]

“This gives studentsthe chance to give

back in an easy wayand in a comfortable

environment.”

Lizzy Pughsenior

Contact Katie Peralta at [email protected]

head coach of Notre Dame neveraffected the mission of Hannahand Friends, and although hemay no longer hold that position,Weis and his wife Maura are fullycommitted to the organization’smission.

“Regardless of Coach Weis’position at the University, we stillrealize that there is a great needto help out people with specialneeds and Coach Weis and hiswife are still really committed toHannah and Friends and helpingus to further our mission,” shesaid.

Green said there would be nochange in Hannah and Friends’schedule moving forward, andadded the organization is cur-rently working on a holiday giftdrive.

“We have a whole room filledwith stuff right now, but we couldalways use more still,” she said.“We’re still serving a tremendousamount of families and a lot offamilies are directly involved inthe organization through involve-ment in our programs.”

Green also said the organiza-tion would continue to operate“the farm,” a 30-acre residentialcommunity just north of SouthBend “which aims to providemuch-needed housing and careservices for adult citizens withspecial needs,” according to theHannah and Friends Web site.

“This is going to be a perma-nent place and Hannah andFriends is going to stay,” Greensaid. “Our mission is still thesame. Our mission has notchanged and we will continue toserve as many families as possi-ble.”

Although some Notre Damestudents may be unhappy with

Weis’ record as head footballcoach, Green said many studentsare still showing up as volunteersfor Hannah and Friends.

“We have Notre Dame studentscoming tomorrow to help withcooking class,” she said. “SoNotre Dame students are stillgoing to be actively involved.”

Ultimately, Green said Weis’standing at the University neveraffected his passion for workingwith Hannah and Friends, andboth he and his wife will beactively involved in the organiza-tion moving forward.

“This is something [the Weisfamily] is very passionate aboutand its not going to go awaytomorrow,” she said. “Hannahand Friends has been very fortu-nate that we have two very pas-sionate founders of the organiza-tion.”

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McCauslin said approximately30,000 to 35,000 lights adornthe trees and buildings through-out campus. Five or sixLandscape Services employeeshung the lights while studentswere away from campus overThanksgiving break.

“I like the decorations thatare up,” sophomore JasonG’Sell said. “But I do wish thatthe trees on South Quad hadmore lights on them.”

While Landscape Services fac-tors cost and energy efficiencyinto its decorating process,changes to the campus decora-tions over the past several yearshave been minimal.

“Over the past few years, afew changes have been made,but mostly for when a tree justbecomes too big to put lights onit or a case like that,”McCauslin said. “Those sort ofadjustments help with ourbudget.”

Several of the buildings oncampus, including the mail dis-tribution center and the securi-ty posts, purchased moreexpensive LED lights in order topromote energy conservation.

Many of the residence hallspersonalize the decorationsover their main entrances. Forinstance, McGlinn Hall hangs agiant shamrock above the frontdoor in tribute to the hall mas-cot.

Father Ronald Veirling,Morrissey Hall rector, explainedwhy the current decorationsoutside Morrissey may look alittle comical.

“We do have a nativity scene

out in front situated within theword ‘JOY.’ The ‘J’ went astraylast year, and so we’re nowreduced to ‘YO.’ I’m fromPhiladelphia, so it fits,” Veirling.

Other dorms decorated withlighted signs, such asPangborn’s “Have a FoxyChristmas,” or Keough’s gianttree and presents.

“My favorite dorm is Keenanwith all of the lights on thesides of the building, and theChristmas tree in O’Shag isanother great one,” Farley sen-ior Katie Rose Quandt said.

“We put up our traditionalgiant stockings — one for Monkand one for Father Sorin,” Sorinfreshman Tom Oliver said.“Those are the best on cam-pus.”

“My favorite decorations arethe ones right here in KeoughHall,” Father Peter McCormick,Keough Hall rector, said.“However, if I had to choosesome other options, I would saythat the manger outside of theGrotto, followed by theChristmas tree in the MainBuilding.”

Both dining halls alsoembraced the spirit ofChristmas with lights, trees andnativity scenes. South DiningHall reported using roughly4,000 lights in the serving areasalone, as well as bright red andgreen strands in the diningrooms.

“The lights in South DiningHall are my favorite on cam-pus,” freshman Alison Collinssaid. “I love eating surroundedby Christmas decorationsbecause it really sets the moodfor the holidays.”

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Charitycontinued from page 1

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You can live off campus for lessmoney than living in the resi-dence halls, but you’re notgoing to get the same conven-ience and location.”

The terms a lease can legallyinclude, the basics of payingrent, late fee rules and sublet-ting were all topics discussed atthe event.

“I can’t tell you how manystudents don’t read their lease.… If you’re going to make adeal, at least read the darnthing,” Kirk said.

A common problem students

face when leasing occurs whenroommates unexpectedly can-not pay rent. Usually, studentsare still “on the hook” for thetotal rent, according to theirlease agreement, Kirk said.

With off-campus safety a topconcern among students, Kirkcautioned that choosing theright location is important.

“Do your homework. … Someplaces are safer than others,”he said. “Everyone should alsohave renter’s insurance. … It’scheap and affordable.”

“One of the things that’s mostimportant for people in the areais we don’t want houses for sin-gle families with sixteen stu-dents living in them next doorto us,” said Kirk. “Make sure

you know how your house iszoned.”

Kirk also stressed the impor-tance of student bargainingpower.

“It’s completely acceptable tobargain and negotiate,” he said.“There’s been an explosion ofsupply in housing.”

“Don’t jump on the first placeyou find because you’re afraidyou’re not going to get anotherone. If what you want is a rea-sonable, clean, safe place closeto campus — you could go andget it now and be in it in aweek. Ten years ago I couldn’thave said that.”

Contact Megan Hemler [email protected]

Rightscontinued from page 1

PRETORIA — SouthAfrica announced ambi-tious new plans Tuesday forearlier and expanded treat-ment for HIV-positivebabies and pregnantwomen, a change thatcould save hundreds ofthousands of lives in thenation hardest hit by thevirus that causes AIDS.

President Jacob Zuma —once ridiculed for saying ashower could prevent AIDS— was cheered as he out-lined the measures onWorld AIDS Day. The newpolicy marks a dramaticshift from former PresidentThabo Mbeki, whose healthminister distrusted drugsdeveloped to keep AIDSpatients alive and insteadpromoted garlic and beettreatments. Those policiesled to more than 300,000premature deaths, aHarvard study concluded.

The changes are in linewith new guidelines issueda day earlier by the WorldHealth Organization thatcall for HIV-infected preg-nant women to be givendrugs earlier and whilebreast-feeding. By treatingall HIV-infected babies, sur-vival rates should alsoimprove for the youngestcitizens in South Africa, oneof only 12 countries wherechild mortality has wors-ened since 1990, in partdue to AIDS.

Zuma compared the fightagainst HIV, which infectsone in 10 South Africans, tothe decades-long strugglehis party led against theapartheid government,which ended in 1994 withthe election of NelsonMandela in the country’sfirst multiracial vote.

“At another moment inour history, in another con-text, the liberation move-ment observed that thetime comes in the life ofany nation when thereremain only two choices:submit or fight,” Zumasaid. “That time has now

come in our struggle toovercome AIDS. Let usdeclare now, as wedeclared then, that we shallnot submit.”

Zuma was greeted with astanding ovation when heentered a Pretoria exhibi-tion hall filled with severalthousand people.

In some ways, Zuma is anunlikely AIDS hero. As hisZulu tradition allows, hehas three wives — expertssay having multiple, con-current partners heightensthe risk of AIDS. And in2006, while being tried oncharges of raping an HIV-positive family friend, hetestified he took a showerafter extramarital sex tolower the risk of AIDS. He

was acquitted of rape.The one-time chairman of

the country’s national AIDScouncil may never livedown the shower comment.But Zuma has won praisefor appointing Dr. AaronMotsoaledi as his healthminister. AIDS activists sayMotsoaledi trusts scienceand is willing to learn frompast mistakes.

South Africa, a nation ofabout 50 million, has anestimated 5.7 million peo-ple infected with HIV, morethan any other country.

UNAIDS executive direc-tor Michel Sidibe, who tookthe podium shortly beforeZuma, told the president:“What you do from this dayforward will write, or

rewrite, the story of AIDSacross Africa.”

Zuma said in his speechbroadcast across SouthAfrica on state radio andtelevision that the policychanges would take effectin April. They include treat-ment for all children under1 year old, regardless oftheir level of CD4 cells, ameasure of immune systemhealth.

Patients with both tuber-culosis and HIV will gettreatment if their CD4count is 350 or less, com-pared to 200 now, whichmeans treatment wouldstart earlier. Pregnantwomen who are HIV-posi-tive also would start treat-ment earlier.

AP

A man passes outside an office building on World AIDS Day in Johannesburg Tuesday. Signsencourage citizens to “Know Your Status” and to “ACT Now.”

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

TEHRAN — Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesdaythat Tehran is reviewing the option ofdecreasing cooperation with the U.N.nuclear watchdog after it issued aresolution critical of Iran last week.

Speaking in a live television inter-view late Tuesday, Ahmadinejad alsocriticized Russia’s support forInternational Atomic Energy Agency’sresolution, calling it a mistake.

“Fr iendly re lat ions wi th theagency are over. We will cooperateas much as they offer us compro-mises. We are reviewing this,” hesaid.

The sharply worded IAEA resolu-tion on Friday demanded Iran haltall uranium enrichment and stopconstruction of a newly discoverednuclear facility near the Iranian cityof Qom. Iran responded by saying itwould build even more such facili-ties.

Iran says its nuclear program ispeaceful, insisting it has a right toenrich uranium to produce fuel fornuclear reactors to generate electrici-ty. The United Nations has demandedIran freeze enrichment, because theprocess can also be used to develop awarhead. The U.S. and its alliesaccuse Iran of secretly planning tobuild a weapon.

Russia, which has cooperated withIran in the past to develop itsnuclear program, supported the res-olution, earning it Ahmadinejad’scensure.

“Russia made a mistake. It has nocorrect analysis about current situa-tion of the world,” he said, maintain-ing that Britain and Israel hadswayed the opinion of the U.N. bodybecause of their animosity towardIran.

The president’s threats follow upthose made by parliament speaker AliLarijani last week to cut ties with theinternational agency, whose inspec-tors are the world’s only eyes intoIran’s controversial nuclear program.

NATIONAL NEWS

Facebook helps singer quit smokingBLOOMINGTON — John Mellencamp’s 14-

year-old son has started a social networkingcampaign on Facebook that he hopes will gethis rocker dad to quit smoking.

The 58-year-old Mellencamp has said manytimes since his 1994 heart attack that he’s failedin trying to kick his decades-old habit.Mellencamp’s youngest son, Speck, says his dadhas promised to quit if he gets 1 million people tojoin the Facebook group. More than 7,000 peoplehad joined the group as of Tuesday afternoon.

Mellencamp publicist Bob Merlis told TheAssociated Press that the challenge is legiti-mate.

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South Africa plans to expand treatment of infected infants and pregnant women

Climate scientist to step downLONDON — The chief of a prestigious

British research center caught in a storm ofcontroversy over claims that he and otherssuppressed data about climate change hasstepped down pending an investigation, theUniversity of East Anglia said Tuesday.

The university said in a statement thatPhil Jones, whose e-mails were among thethousands of pieces of correspondenceleaked to the Internet late last month,would relinquish his position as director ofClimatic Research Unit until the completionof an independent review.

Actress’ wardrobe to be auctionedPARIS — Audrey Hepburn fans got a

sneak peek Tuesday of dozens of garmentsand personal effects once belonging to themovie star that will hit the auction blocksnext week.

A Givenchy black lace dress that Hepburnwore in “How to Steal a Million” and ademure ivory wedding gown that nevermade it down the aisle are among theitems.

The fans, fashionistas and those lookingto score a slice of film history were giventhe preview of the collection in Paris beforethe Dec. 8 sale in London.

“For her, what was important was notdecoration and lots of embellishment. Sheliked very simple things — less was alwaysmore for Audrey,” said auctioneer KerryTaylor, whose eponymous auction house ishandling the sale.

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HIV-positive patients to be treated

Officials consider reducing ties to U.N.

Black Friday shoppers forget kidsCOMMERCE, Ga. — A Georgia couple got

so carried away with snagging Black Fridaydeals that authorities said they left their kidsalone in a shopping cart. Banks CountySheriff Charles Chapman told WSB radiothat a 35-year-old man and and 31-year-oldwoman were charged with reckless conduct.

Chapman said the two left their 9-year-oldand 9-month-old children in a shopping cartat the Banks Crossing Walmart so they couldgo shopping.

Chapman said he figured the couplethought the kids would slow them down. Thechildren were not harmed.

D.C. council votes on gay marriageWASHINGTON — The D.C. City Council on

Tuesday took the first of two votes it needs topass a bill that will allow same-sex marriagein the city, voting to accept the bill 11 to 2.

A second, final vote is expected later in themonth, and D.C.’s mayor has promised tosign the bill. The bill had been expected topass, as 10 of the 13 council members co-sponsored it.

Marriages would begin in the city as soonas the bill passes a period of Congressionalreview, but it is unlikely Congress will alterthe law.

Massachusetts, Iowa, Vermont andConnecticut already allow same-sex mar-riage. New Hampshire will join them Jan. 1.

The two council members who votedagainst the bill were Marion Barry andYvette Alexander.

Barry, who served three terms as mayor ofthe city, defended his position before thevote.

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This fall, some schools havereported declines in early appli-cations, which some reportsattribute to the down economy.Saracino said, however, thatthere is no current trend inearly appli-cants this yearamong highlys e l e c t i v eschools.

“ D u k e ,D a r t m o u t hand Stanfordall hadi n c r e a s e da p p l i c a n tpools thisyear. Amonghighly selec-tive schoolsthere wassome increase and somedecrease, overall it was mixed.”he said.

One reason Notre Damestands apart from many of itshighly selective counterparts isits commitment to offering theEarly Action opportunity.

“We believe strongly in EarlyAction. We do not believe philo-sophically in Early Decision,” hesaid. “We don’t feel students areready to make early decision.”

Explaining the University’srational against Early Decision,Saracino said high school sen-

iors would have a difficult timemaking a decision about whereto attend college without firstseeing information about theirfinancial aid package.

“If you apply Early Decisionthen you don’t have the chanceto [receive] other offers. Giventhe current state of the econo-my, that’s very important,” hesaid.

Although theeconomy hasn’tgotten much bet-ter since lastyear’s applicationprocess, Saracinosaid he doesn’tbelieve the cur-rent economic cri-sis had any impacton the number ofapplications theU n i v e r s i t yreceived.

“Notre Dame isone of the dozen

or more universities in thecountry that have a commit-ment to meeting the fullydemonstrated need of everyadmitted student,” he said.

Part of the increase this yearcould be due to the switch to theCommon Application in theadmissions process.

Notre Dame transitioned tothe common application twoyears ago, but Saracino said theadmissions office didn’t see asubstantial increase in appli-cants until this year.

“The first year, colleges report

you see an increase in applica-tions,” he said. “We didn’t seean increase last year, [probably]because the economy was oneveryone’s minds.”

Saracino said the increase inearly applications this yearcould be due to a number of fac-tors other than the switch to thecommon application.

“This year we saw an increaseand that may be a result of thecommon application, but it’s aresult of a combination of differ-ent things. Notre Dame has got-ten stronger and stronger in itsreputation and we’re also meet-ing the needs of every admittedstudent,” he said.

With the Regular Decisiondeadline set for December 31,Saracino said he anticipates theincrease in applications willcontinue.

“We will probably see theincrease carry over. I wouldanticipate that we’ll have closeto 15,000 applicants when thedust settles mid-January, whichwould be a 6 percent increaseoverall from last year.”

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The exhibit, which was broughtto campus on by theDepartment of German andRussian as well as the GoetheInstitute, the official interna-tional German cultural center,features photographs ofremaining border strips,images capturing the culturesurrounding the Berlin Walland even a visual comparisonof the border area during theheight of the Cold War and thesame location today.

“This exhibit is very signifi-cant because it shows studentswho didn’t live through theWall what it was like duringthat time,” Dr. Katja Fullard,director of the Goethe Institutein Chicago, said. “These photosreally are worth a thousandwords.”

Notre Dame German profes-sor Hannelore Weber, whoworked with Fullard to bringthe exhibit to campus, said thephotographs are important toNotre Dame students who“have no personal perceptionof the Wall,” because it givesthem a clear visual of life inBerlin during the Cold War.

“What is really unique aboutthis exhibit is that it is from astudent-to-student perspec-tive,” she said. “A lot ofAmerican students aren’ttouched by the Wall and Berlinlike German students arebecause it is all so far awayfrom us.”

Students who visited theexhibit’s opening on Mondayafternoon agreed the photosgave them a new outlook on atumultuous time in history thatcame to an end just as many ofthem were being born.

“The photos really make youthink about the seriousness ofthat time,” sophomoreMaureen Vigland said. “To see

photos of the Wall during com-munism and to see a photonext to it of that same areatoday really lets you see thedifferences. It’s astounding tosee how much has changed.”

Sophomore Alex Gatlin saidthe photos are importantbecause they show how theonce divided cities reunited,but also that they highlight theeffects of the Cold War era stillfelt in Berlin today.

“It’s incredible to see how farthe city has come since the fallof the Berlin Wall but also tosee how much presence theWall and the division still hasin the city today,” he said. “TheWall is a symbol to people wholive there. It’s a good symbol tokeep and an important memoryto have.”

Fullard said one of the inten-tions of the exhibit was to showhow much development hasoccurred since the fall of theBerlin Wall twenty years ago.

“We can only hope that theseimages are still new enough toshow what a difference a fewyears can make,” she said.

Senior Chris Meister said thephotos gave him a new outlookon the Wall’s legacy today.

“Most of the images thatAmericans see of the destruc-tion of the Wall are very tri-umphant,” he said. “These pho-tos allow you to see it as it isand connects you to the Wall’spresence today rather thantwenty years ago.”

Weber said she hopes “Iconsof a Border Installation” willserve as a testament to a trans-formative time in history.

“I honestly did not think thatthe Wall would come down inmy lifetime,” she said. “I thinkthis exhibit can be shown as anexample of having hope, work-ing toward a goal and combat-ing repression. It really was arevolution.”

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overall applicant poolas measured by

transcripts and testscores.”

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Professer offers tipsfor clever students

College-bound students knowthey have to be book-smart inorder to get in to a top school. Butwhen it comes to impressing pro-fessors and standing out in thecrowd, good grades are only onepart of the equation.

A new book by a University ofNotre Dame psychologist empha-sizes the importance of “practicalintelligence” and offers advice tonew college students on how togive their teachers what theyreally want and get the most outof their hard-earned – and oftenexpensive – college education.

“The Clever Student: A Guide toGetting the Most from yourProfessors” by Anita E. Kelly, pro-fessor of psychology at NotreDame, aims to give students a legup by offering strategies for topperformance in the college class-room.

In the book, newly released byCorby Books, Kelly offers strate-gies to college students on suchtopics as social intelligence andclassroom participation, as wellas an insider’s perspective on howprofessors think. The book alsoprovides practical tips for how tohandle missed classes or exams,write a great paper for ademanding professor, and gettop-notch faculty letters of recom-mendation. It also contains a testof social intelligence in the class-room so students can see howsavvy they are compared to their

peers.In conjunction with the book’s

release, Kelly also has launched anew Clever Student blog, whichcan be found on the Web athttp://thecleverstudent.com.

“It is my hope that through thebook and the blog, I can help stu-dents use their social intelligenceto get the most out of their profes-sors, including getting very goodgrades and amazing letters ofrecommendation,” Kelly said. “Atthe very least, I hope these toolswill help students feel betterabout confusing or upsettinginteractions with their profes-sors.”

Kelly also is the author of “ThePsychology of Secrets” andnumerous scientific articles onsecrecy, self-presentation andself-concept change. Her work onsecrecy has been funded by theNational Institutes of Health andhas been featured in the ChicagoTribune, New York Times, LosAngeles Times, Newsday,Glamour and Health.

A 1986 graduate ofNorthwestern University, Kellyearned her doctoral degree inpsychology from the University ofFlorida in 1991. She became alicensed psychotherapist in 1993while serving as an assistant pro-fessor at Iowa State University,where she was awardedOutstanding Faculty Member forteaching. She has been at NotreDame since 1994 and became aKaneb Teaching Fellow in 2008.

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WASHINGTON — ForGeneral Electric Co., theNBC entertainment divi-sion was always an oddfit.

One of the nation’s iconicindustrial businesses, GEhas spent 23 years makingsitcoms and blockbustermovies along with jetengines, dishwashers andlight bulbs. The pairing ofglitzy entertainment andgritty manufacturing hasoften confounded investorsand even has been ruth-lessly satirized by NBC’sown show “30 Rock,” inwhich a fictional networkexecutive also heads a divi-sion that programsmicrowave ovens.

It’s a marriage that willlikely soon end. As GE pre-pares for an expected $30billion deal that will givecontrol of NBC to cable TVoperator Comcast Corp.,the conglomerate is shift-ing its focus back to itsindustrial divisions.

GE is shrinking itsfinance arm that has beenseverely buffeted by thefinancial crisis. It has soldsome businesses andshopped others around.And it is chasing nearly$200 billion in stimulusmoney from worldwidegovernments, much of itearmarked for such prod-ucts as medical equipmentand wind turbines. Thisnew GE will likely look alot like GE did before itacquired NBC in 1986.

“When you are running acompany like GE, yourroots are ultimately inmanufacturing,” saidNicholas Heymann, ananalyst with Sterne Ageewho once worked for GE asan auditor.

GE has reached a tenta-tive agreement to buy outthe 20 percent stake inNBC Universal that is heldby French media companyVivendi SA, according to aperson with knowledge ofthe deal. GE and Comcastare then expected to turnNBC Universal into a jointventure, with Comcast

holding a 51 percent stake.GE would likely fully leavethe partnership in a fewyears.

The financial crisis andrecession of the past yearhave been difficult for GE,which is based in Fairfield,Conn., and has 323,000employees. The companywas forced to slash its divi-dend by 68 percent. It lostits coveted top bond ratingand its stock fell as muchas 90 percent below thepeak it had hit in 2000. GEis still trying to workthrough big losses at its GECapital lending unit, oncethe source of half the con-glomerate’s profits, inareas like commercial realestate and credit cards.

GE earned $8.1 billionover the first nine monthsof this year on revenue of

$115 billion — but thatmarked a 43 percent dropin profit and a 15 percentrevenue decline.

NBC Universal has beenone headache. The unitincludes Universal Picturesmovie studios, the NBCnetwork, the UniversalStudios chain of themeparks, and such cablechannels as USA, Bravoand Syfy. The unit has suf-fered from the recession,with a drop in broadcastadvertising, and some flopsat the box office, such as“Land of the Lost.”

Operating profit fell 27percent in the first threequarters of this year. TheNBC network ranksfourth in ratings and iscutting down on scriptedshows to save money —reflected in its heavily

promoted move of come-dian Jay Leno to the 10p.m. slot.

That’s a contrast toNBC’s stature when GEtook it over in 1986 as partof its acquisition of RCACorp. for about $6 billion.

The move was part ofthen-CEO Jack Welch’sshake-up of GE, whichincluded selling majorbusiness divisions andgrowing the financial divi-sion. Buying NBC, theeventual home to such hitshows as “The CosbyShow” and “Seinfeld” andthe Olympics, was Welch’sway of generating a reli-able source of cash tocounterbalance the chal-lenges GE’s manufacturingbusinesses faced fromoverseas competitors,Heymann said.

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General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt speaks at a conference in New York. Immelt said hehopes to find stability for GE in a flurry of new products.

NEW YORK — Newspaper publisherGannett Co. imposed a new round ofcutbacks Tuesday, with USA Todayreducing its newsroom staff by 5 per-cent, as the industry continues to sufferthrough an extended advertising slump.

Along with 26 newsroom jobs atUSA Today, 11 positions will be cut atUSA Weekend magazine, a weeklyinsert in other newspapers. Andnonunion workers at other Gannettnewspapers will have to take moreunpaid furloughs, after already takingforced time off this year.

USA Today, which sells many of itscopies in hotels and airports, has beenhit especially hard by the advertisingslump and a falloff in travel, whichknocked it out of the No. 1 position in

U.S. newspaper circulation.The Wall Street Journal has

grabbed that spot, although thatincludes online subscriptions, as it isone of the few major newspapers thatcharges Web readers. USA Today stillhas the top print circulation.

Gannett shares rose 12 cents, 1.2percent, to close Tuesday at $10.01.

Other media companies have beenshedding workers as well. The NewYork Times, The Associated Press andTime Inc. have announced job cuts inrecent weeks.

“While advertising is showing somesigns of picking up, the economic out-look for 2010 remains weak and thedecline in travel has contributed to arecent drop in circulation,” USAToday’s executive editor, JohnHillkirk, told employees in a memo.

Hillkirk said the laid-off employeeswould get severance pay equal to thedifference between their salaries andwhat they can get from state unem-ployment benefits. He said the sever-ance would come for one week foreach year worked at the company.

USA Weekend is cutting seven posi-tions immediately and four more inMarch, according to a staff memofrom Marcia Bullard, the magazine’spresident. Its remaining staff is beingcombined with that of USA Today.

Bob Dickey, who heads Gannett’sU.S. community publishing unit, toldemployees at the division’s 82 news-papers that nonunion workers willhave to take one unpaid week off dur-ing the first quarter of next year,amounting to about a 2 percent cut inpay.

In light of economic downturn, General Electric returns focus to industrial divisions

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Comcast to buy ownership of NBC

Gannett Company imposes new cutbacks

Government funds transit projectsNEW ORLEANS — The federal government

is making available $280 million for streetcars and other public transportation projectsaimed at creating jobs and more walkable,environmentally-friendly communities.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHoodmade the announcement Tuesday at a street-car barn in New Orleans. The city, which hasbeen trying to overhaul its public transit sys-tem since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, wasLaHood’s first stop on a listening tour on fed-eral transportation policy.

The last transportation spending bill expiredin September. While President BarackObama’s administration has sought a reprieveinto 2011, given the federal stimulus packagethat passed earlier this year and was aimedlargely at public works projects, Congress has-n’t agreed to an extension past mid-December.

General Motors’ CEO resignsDETROIT — General Motors Co. CEO

Frederick “Fritz” Henderson stepped downTuesday after the board determined that thecompany wasn’t changing quickly enough.Chairman Ed Whitacre Jr. said at a hastilycalled news conference that he will serve asinterim CEO, and an international search fora new CEO and president is planned.

Whitacre thanked Henderson for his workduring a period of challenge and change, butsaid it is time to accelerate the pace ofrebuilding the largest U.S. automaker.

The resignation comes just eight monthsafter Henderson, 51, replaced former chair-man and CEO Rick Wagoner, who was oustedMarch 29 by the Obama administration’s gov-ernment’s auto task force.

Henderson has been with GM his entirecareer and was the government’s choice torun the beleaguered company after Wagonerleft. Whitacre, picked by the government inJune to be chairman of the new GM, is con-sidered an industry outsider, having runAT&T Inc. for 17 years.

Whitacre and the board have becomeincreasingly active in the company’s deci-sions, at t imes challenging some ofHenderson’s decisions. In November, theboard voted to abandon plans to sell GM’sEuropean Opel unit.

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to patient attention, than to anyother talent.”

Isaac NewtonEnglish physicist

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There are a lot of ways to look at mylast four years of Notre Dame football.I could be disappointed. I could beenraged. It’s hard not to get a littlenostalgic. But it’s also hard not to be alittle bitter. Let’stake it year by year.Coming into Notre

Dame, the hype wasunbearable. NotreDame was No. 2pre-season and hada big opener withPenn State. Beforechoosing NotreDame, I wasn’twell-versed incollege football,and was excitedto get my education, as we crushedteams all the way to a championship.As a resident of Zahm, we wereallowed to go into the stadium early topass out those green “9-3 isn’t goodenough” towels. I excitedly called myparents about that, and looked for-ward to the game the entire week.Looking back, that first 41-17 victoryover then No. 19 Penn State would bethe best game of my four years. Itwould be all downhill from there. Wegot through the rest of the season withten wins, suffering only serious break-downs to Michigan and USC. Sophomore year, as we all know,

was a total disaster. It took us quite afew trys to get a win. Regardless, I

went up to Ann Arbor to witness thefirst time Michigan and Notre Damehad ever played each other without awin between them. The weekend wasgreat and there was a certain cama-raderie among both sides as a resultof our less than stellar records. Whenall was said and done, Charlie’s magichad certainly diminished, but we werewilling to give him the benefit of thedoubt. After all, he had lost a ton oftalent. The last two years have played out

pretty much the same. We started outstrong, win some games, and thentank. The class of 2010 has the dis-tinct privilege of losing to Navy twiceat home, USC twice at home, Michiganonce at home and twice in Ann Arbor,and of course the crowning loss toUCONN on Senior Day. After the firstyear, we kept him, as in good faiththat that the program was back on therise. However, after another break-even season, one remembers the oldsaying, “fool me once, shame on me;fool me twice, shame on you.” Andwith that, the Weis era comes to aclose.I don’t mean to sound bitter, but it’s

hard not to when looking back overthe on field disappointment. However,I have a great satisfaction with myfour years of football. We didn’t get achampionship, but I did get to go toAnn Arbor twice and see the huge tra-dition behind that game. I did get to

witness Brady Quinn come into hisown, and I did get to stand off againstrabid LSU fans on Bourbon St. Thisyear almost every game day was per-fect weather, allowing for historic tail-gates, great pre-game traditions and ahope every week that we would win.Nearly every game this year wasexciting, with most of them settledonly in the closing minute or two, andthe marshmallow fight was the best ofall.There are also the positive take-

always. I will always be able to tellfuture generations of Notre Dame stu-dents who complain about losing agame here or there that they didn’thave to live through the 2007 season.Even better, once I become an alum-nus, my horizon for a national cham-pionship effectively goes to infinity.That is to say, I’ve got all the time inthe world now. Charlie may have never given me

the year-in, year-out title runs that Ihoped for, but he still gave us a teamworth rooting for, a no-nonsenseapproach to the game, and an excitingcouple of years. For that I am thank-ful.

Jason Coleman is a senior account-ing major. He can be contacted [email protected] views expressed in this column

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Ayn RandRussian American novelist

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

This is an open letter to Jimmy Clausen,Golden Tate and any other student ath-letes who are considering leaving NotreDame instead of graduating.Please reconsider your decision to leave

Notre Dame following your coach’s depar-ture. The value of your education and lifehere at Notre Dame should not be takenlightly. You have become an importantpart of our family not just our historysince you came here, and we support youas our ambassadors to the world. The trueglory of your leadership is not calculatedby how much money you can earn as apro athlete, but how many lives you cantouch through doing good work both onand off the field. That’s one of the reasonsthat Notre Dame expects our athletes tograduate: there are a lot more importantthings in life than money. And at NotreDame you are given the opportunity to doboth.As an Notre Dame football fan since the

early 1970s, I look forward to everyautumn with hope and high expectations.We sure seem to win a lot of close gamesthat nobody thought we could — the housethat Rock built is a magical place to be,that’s for certain. And having been a stu-dent from 1986 to 1991, I recognize thepressure and stress that you must endurethrough winning years and losing streaks.But storied competitors going back as longas I can remember have gone the full dis-tance to earn their degrees. Some of thesemen I still admire today, like Rocky Bleier,Bob Golic and Chris Zorich. They gavedeeply of themselves not just for theUniversity or for personal gain, but alsogave back to their communities becausethey understood their greater responsibili-ty to their world as a whole. Sure it’s greatto be popular, but it’s more important toshare love and mercy to those in need.I admit, I am a bit selfish. I would love to

see our football team win another nationalchampionship, or a major BCS bowl game,or perhaps have the opportunity to watcha great player like yourself earn theHeisman. And certainly you might findthat revenge wins against Stanford orNavy would grant some sense of accom-plishment. But with more thought, I real-

ize that I have received much more frommy education at Notre Dame than my GPAmight humbly suggest. At Notre Dame, Ibuilt relationships with amazing people,learned to open my mind to many newways of seeing the world, and was able toshare my skills with others for rewardsthat far outweigh my earnings hence. OurUniversity’s tradition of service permeatesour culture and inspires us to walk thatextra step and lend that helping hand. Infact I suggest participating in the UrbanPlunge program over Christmas if youhaven’t already taken on a social project. Ireadily admit that such experienceschanged and improved me in ways I couldnot have predicted.I’m not certain how an anonymous letter

from a stranger might influence yourweighty decision, but I urge you to consid-er the consequences of abandoning youreducation, and conversely, those conse-quences of how you would benefit by suck-ing it up and showing your brothers andsisters at Notre Dame that you have theintestinal fortitude to do the right thing forboth you and for your school. Earning afour-year degree isn’t just some hobby —it’s a commitment to yourself, to provethat you can succeed with your mind aswell as your body. Graduating is anaccomplishment that is fiercely personal,yet given your growing national populari-ty, it also sets a great example for youryounger fans — something that you can’tgo back and do over a second time. WhileI can’t give you much except a glimpse athow earning your degree from NotreDame will make your life better, I stronglyurge that you give Notre Dame the besteffort you can. In the end it’s your choiceto make, but I am praying that you willmake the right choice. Notre Dame gradu-ates take on responsibilities greater thanthose from other schools, and I think youhave a strong enough will to follow in ourfootsteps.

Jeff Sepetaalumnus

Class of 1991Nov. 30

Real leaders graduate

Dear Jimmy & Golden,By writing this letter, I am not

asking that you disregard yourpersonal goals, but only that youconsider the wishes of the studentbody and the University in theextremely difficult decisions youare about to make. We are allimmensely proud of you both andhave enjoyed seeing you progressover the past three years.Although saying goodbye to CoachWeis was a hard decision, I thinkeveryone would agree that theprogram needs a fresh start.Jimmy, I hate to bring this up, butthree and a half years ago, youcame to the College Football Hallof Fame and said you wanted to“get four National Championshiprings on our fingers.” Needless tosay, this hasn’t happened. Wehaven’t even had a winning season(unless you count the HawaiiBowl). Next year, with you bothreturning as seniors and with ris-ing talents like Michael Floyd andManti Te’o, we have a chance tomake the National Championshipdream a reality; a chance to finallyright the ship.As you know, the Class of 2011

— your class and mine — hasendured the worst three consecu-tive football seasons in NotreDame history. It’s been rough.While it is time for a new start, wecannot lose sight of the hopes anddreams we all have of a NationalChampionship during our timehere at Notre Dame. We have alldreamt of rushing the field afterdefeating Southern Cal on our wayto a perfect season. We have alldreamt of watching our team raisetheir gold helmets in celebrationafter a BCS Championship victory.I think we all deserve a finalattempt to make these dreams areality during our senior season.You will both have successful NFLcareers regardless of whether youstay for next season or not. Beforewalking away, please consider thedreams of your fellow classmatesin your decision-making, and real-ize that next season is our besthope for a true return to glory. Wecan’t do it without you.

Katie Pietruchajunior

Cavanaugh HallDec. 1

One more year, one more chance

What about Thanksgiving?It’s that time of year, again.

Everyone comes back fromThanksgiving break, refreshed, excit-ed (kind of) and ready to stare downfinals. The best way to celebrate this,of course, is tostart hangingChristmas lights,playing Christmasmusic and doingother assortedholiday activities. After all, the dayafter Thanksgiving marks the begin-ning of the Christmas season … right?I’ve noticed a disturbing trend these

past few years, particularly on thiscampus. It is one that, if leftunchecked, is capable of spiraling outof control. That trend is the creepingof the beginning of the Christmas sea-son to earlier and earlier days eachyear. It has gotten to the point wherepeople begin to celebrate so early thatit doesn’t even feel like Christmaswhen they do it. Think all the wayback to the first week of November,when the temperature was stillunseasonably warm and the footballteam was 6-2 and still harboredhopes of a BCS bowl (seems like for-ever ago, right?). It was during thatweek that Starbucks began to give outcoffee in their trademark red holidaycups. Less than a week after

Halloween!But Starbucks is far from the only

offender. Radio stations have startedplaying Christmas music beforeThanksgiving and Comcast cableoffers their entire Christmas On-Demand section way too early, com-plete with a video of a burning yulelog in a fireplace (that’s seriously theentire video). And don’t think I didn’tnotice those wreaths and Christmaslights hanging from DPAC on my wayout of campus last Tuesday.At the risk of being labeled a

scrooge, it was just far, far too earlyfor all of that stuff, and the problem isthat the date for the beginning of theholiday season just keeps barrelingforward on the calendar, withoutregard for anything it may eclipse,most notably Thanksgiving.Fortunately, however I happen to beone of the world’s biggest supportersof Thanksgiving. And since it clearlycan’t stand up for itself, I am going totake it upon myself to defendThanksgiving for its rightful honor ofbest holiday of the year.First of all, and most superficially,

Thanksgiving is all about football. Allthroughout my childhood and up untilwe graduated high school, I gatheredwith the friends I made in elementaryschool every Thanksgiving morning

on the same field in the same parkwith our dads for a game of touchfootball. Then, once you got home, allyou had to do was flip on the TV, andfootball was already on, and the Lionswere already losing. Once the firstgame was over, you just picked up theremote, changed the channel to theCowboys game, and you were set. Theaddition of night games has beenawesome, as well (it gives you some-thing to fall asleep to on the couch).When Friday morning rolls around,nothing cures your turkey hangoverlike another full slate of college foot-ball games, followed up by a fullSaturday and Sunday of more games.It’s like a four-day football nirvana.Perhaps just as superficially,

Thanksgiving is synonymous with food(and overeating). As a guy, there isnothing better than getting carteblanche to overindulge in some of themost delicious food you will eat allyear. No one judges you for goingback for a fourth helping of turkey,mashed potatoes and stuffing becausethey are probably on their sixth.The real reason that Thanksgiving

is the best holiday all year is that ittruly does still retain all of its mean-ing. Ask a lot of suburban momsabout “holiday stress” and they willtalk your ear off for a week about it,

as they have to cope with the presentsand everything that goes along withthe ever-expanding commercializationof Christmas. However, Thanksgivingis about being with family and givingthanks for everything that we have.How many times have people wel-comed in strangers (or people thatthey don’t know well) into their houseso that they didn’t have to spendThanksgiving alone? We all know sto-ries like that. I know my family hasdone it for a number of years now. Itis a time to reconnect with people youmaybe don’t see as much as youwould like, and to forge bonds foryears to come. And, most importantly,it is a time in which people reflect onwhat they have, and just how fortu-nate we are. There is a reason Thanksgiving is

the biggest volunteer day of the year.Even if it is only for one day, peoplebecome truly selfless, humble and lov-ing. And that is why it’s the best.

Andy Ziccarelli is not a scrooge. Hejust thinks that everything has a timeand a place. He is a junior majoringin civil engineering and can bereached at [email protected] views expressed in this column

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

Andy Ziccarelli

Moment ofInertia

I understand that Charlie Weis isgetting paid millions of dollars —possibly as much as $18 million —for not doing his job. Meanwhile,TAs like me get paid less than one-tenth of one percent of thatamount, and we show up and doours in the classroom every week.Does Notre Dame really mean toimply that firing Coach Weis is a

thousand times more valuable tothe University’s mission than theyearly contribution of each individ-ual TA? In the words of GOB Bluth:come on!

Darryl Campbellgraduate student

off campusDec. 1

Charlie Weis’ buyout

From “Seinfeld” to “Rugrats,” televi-sion series have turned out specialChristmas (or Christmakkuh andFestivus) shows. Some, like “GossipGirl” and “Buffy,” go the lovey-doveyroute, but others aren’t afraid to pokefun at holiday madness. The Scenestaff highlights a few stand-outs in thisarticle:

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” —“Amends”

This season three episode is techni-cally titled “Amends,” but just call it“A Very Vampire Christmas Carol.”Angel (David Boreanz), the vampirewith a soul, is all tormented and stuffbecause he has killed a lot of people inhis 240 years of existence, as a demonkeeps reminding him through a seriesof flashbacks. So he decides to go outon a deserted hilltop and wait for theChristmas morning sun to kill him (inBuffyverse, vampires don’t sparkle).But through Buffy’s true love andsome meteorological magic, all issaved. It snows for the first time everin Sunnyvale, Calif., so the sunlightdoesn’t cook him into roast beast. It’sa holiday weepfest tempered with therequisite “Buffy” wit and drama.

“Gossip Gir l” — “RomanHoliday”

No cuter couple couldbe found during 2007’sChristmas season thanDan and Serena. If you’researching for romanticand original gift ideasin the 50-dollarprice range, lookno furtherthan sea-son one“Gossip Girl”C h r i s t m a s

episode. Dan boughta Christmas tree and snuck it intoSerena’s hotel room, working his manmuscles and dodging security. Serena,with the help of Dan’s friend Vanessa,projected images of a snowy forest onthe walls of an art gallery and swirledwhite confetti from the ceilings to cre-ate a winter wonderland for Dan.Though Dan and Serena have unfortu-nately drifted apart since that firstperfect Christmas two years ago, fanscan count on Chuck and Blair this sea-son for some chic gift exchanging and

precious holiday canoodlingunder the mistletoe.

“It’s Always Sunny inPhiladelphia” — “A Very SunnyChristmas”

In their Christmas special, “AVery Sunny Christmas,” the

gang explores their pastChristmases andtries to regain theChristmas spirit.

Spoofing various holi-day classics, the 45-

minute episode,available on DVD,

has all theu s u a lshenanigans

and hijinks inwhich Charlie,

M a c ,Dennis,Franka n dD e e

m a n -age to

find them-selves. Unfortunately, whilemany parts of the episode havethe usual hilarity found in “It’sAlways Sunny” episodes, sometimesthe humor goes a little too far in thespecial, advancing beyond the regularoffbeat comedy into the slightly dis-turbing. Overall, the episode is amus-ing, not one of the best, but worth see-ing, though probably not buying.

“The Office” — “Christmas Party”“The Office” has presented many

classic Christmas episodes, but“Christmas Party” was the first andthe best. This second season episodefeatured a Secret Santa gift exchangethat ends in equal parts disappoint-ment and happiness for all ourfavorite employees. Any episode thatcombines the sweet will-they-or-won’t-they romance of Jim and Pam (we allknow how that turns out) and a top-less Meredith has to be a classic. Thetypes of presents bought unmistakablyfit the characters’ personalities, fromMichael’s over-budget iPod for Ryan toCreed’s dirty, worn flannel shirt.Anyone who wants a lot of laughs thisholiday season will not be disappoint-ed after watching “Christmas Party,”which is available along with the restof the season two on DVD.

“Pinky and the Brain” — “A Pinkyand the Brain Christmas”

Christmas specials tend to be a mashup of wintery atmosphere, cheesymusic and sappy lessons. While nor-mally an exact recipe for disaster, mixin two laboratory mice, an Orson Wellsimpression and a plot to take over theworld, and the end result will warm

the coldest miser’s heart(and win a well-deservedEmmy). The Brain nearlyachieves world domina-tion but is once againbefuddled by theactions of Pinky. Whilehe fails to reach hiselusive goal, he man-ages to spread joy tothe world, find the truemeaning of friendshipand gives the gift thatkeeps on giving: aspellchecker. DespiteAmazon solely stock-ing the VHS, this for-gotten holiday classicmerits an annual view-ing.

“Rugrats” — “Babesin Toyland”

Although not techni-cally about Christmas,

“Rugrats” once featuredone of the best holiday-

themed episodes of allt ime. An informative

episode, for all you gentiles out there,at least, it delved into the history ofChanukah, due to Tommy’s half-Jewish parentage. What ensues is anepic reenactment of the plight of the“Maccababies”, “Rugrats” slang forthe Maccabees, and their fight againstKing “Antonica,” played by oneAngelica Pickles. Tommy, as Judas,leads them to victory. But, upon theirarrival at the Holy Temple, they real-ize there is only enough oil left to lightthe Temple candle for one day. Canyou guess how many days it miracu-lously stays lit for? If not, get yourhands on this classic ASAP.

“Seinfeld” — “The Strike”In a somewhat anti-Christmas

episode of “Seinfeld,” George intro-duces the non-denominational holidayof Festivus to the New York area. Thisholiday, created in the show byGeorge’s father, was a holiday meantto battle the commercialization ofChristmas. Kramer discovers the holi-day and wants to celebrate it, whichbrings back horrible memories ofGeorge’s childhood, particularly the“feats of strength,” a contest thatforced George to attempt to subdue hisfather to end the holiday. As usual,hilarity ensues, focused mainly on themisery of George, as so often is thecase in “Seinfeld.”

“Six Feet Under” — “Pilot”Ain’t no party like a Fisher family

Christmas party. Mostly due to thelack of Christmas songs, festive deco-rations, eggnog, presents and overallChristmas cheer. The first season of“Six Feet Under” starts off with a bangwhen, on one fateful Christmas morn-ing, the fractured Fisher family isreunited for very sad reasons. Whenpicking out your favorite holiday TVepisodes, save this one for the daywhen you’re allowed to be a littledown. While not bubbling withChristmas excitement, though, theseries premiere of “Six Feet Under” isstill really, really awesome. You mayjust leave it finally able to truly appre-ciate those you spend your Christmasdays with.

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“Fantastic Mr. Fox” is an aptly released Thanksgivingdelight for Wes Anderson fans. Interjecting his patentedquirky, unlike-anything-else-out-there-Wes-Anderson-ness into a stop-motion animated film, Anderson giveshis faithful following a whole new look and feel in a filmthat harkens back to “Chicken Run,” except that this filmis catchier and more tailored to adults than its unassum-ing PG-rating might let on. Taking risks is the name ofAnderson’s game. His style, which by now we’ve grownto love, is a risk in and of itself, and this film is certainlyno exception. But it works, it really does.

The film’s title character, Mr. Fox (George Clooney), isa retired chicken bandit who has settled down to a life ofwriting a newspaper column that no one reads. His lifepredictable and numb, the now not-so-fantastic Mr. Foxlongs to return to his old lifestyle eventhough by doing so he’d be breaking apromise he made to his wife(Meryl Streep) before marryingher.

A new house though, in anabove-ground neighborhoodlocated right near the infamousBoggis, Bunce and Bean farms,presents him with the perfectopportunity to regain hissense of being. The prob-lem is that stealing live-stock and Mr. Bean’s covet-ed alcoholic cider carrieswith it consequences that noteven Mr. Fox, with his elabo-rate three-stage plan, can fore-see.

A portrait family and commu-nity, put together action-by-actionin an incredibly laborious fashion,“Fantastic Mr. Fox,” is a story aboutrealizing one’s true self while realiz-ing the true value of those close tous. However, it’s not the film’ssappy message that carries itthrough its rather short run-

time, but rather moments which soeffortlessly elicit an uproarof laughter so weird,yet for Andersonfans, so weirdlyfamiliar. Think aboutit, what would Pixarfilms be with-out theirtrademarkbrand ofc o m e d y ?The same goesfor Anderson’s firstforay into full-length animatedfilmmaking, as hisengaging story of afox living hisdreams isbrought to awhole otherlevel by thataforementionedunlike-anything-else-out-there-Wes-Anderson-ness.

The film is meticulous, down to the very motion of theeach fox’s tail, which swirls accordingly as the foxmoves, and to the precision of character injected intoeach animal, which somehow, and definitely not coinci-dentally, matches up with the person playing the part.It’s as though these foxes were made for the actors play-ing them, or as though these actors were made for thefoxes they play in Anderson’s chicken-centered world.For example, Clooney’s Mr. Fox acts in a pretentious yetelegantly reserved manner that elicits a sense of “cool”best captured by Clooney himself, while Mrs. Fox seemsan almost cut-out version of the more relaxed, non-“Mamma Mia” side of Streep.

Wes Anderson’s folk-like animated film seems surrealon so many levels, yet so close to the heart in the end,that its seems as real as any one of his best quirky por-traits of life—with its subtitled chapters, odd humor andwonderful music montages. Its inherently his, “FantasticMr. Fox” is, and you’d know it ten seconds into the film.“Up” perhaps not, but then again, “Up” is perhaps not

“Fantastic Mr. Fox.” There should finally be a race inthis year’s Best Animated Film category, and dare I say,Pixar might not win this one. In Wes Anderson fashion,here’s a toast to you sir, on thinking outside the box andgoing that extra mile, and doing it oh so well.

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Director: Wes AndersonStarring: George Clooney and Meryl Streep

“The Fantastic Mr. Fox”

New Zealand’s edgy, indie pop duo, The Brunettes,recently released their new album “Paper Dolls.”Their passion for songwriting and their natural abili-ty to belt a tune is obvious in this album, which ispacked full of light melodies and catchy instrumentalsound.

This pop group is original and fresh with bothJonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield playing offone another beautifully in every track. The albumopens with the song “In Colours,” introducing theirbrilliant usage of the drums and chimes, which offerthe listeners both heavy and light beats.

This 10-track CD is a joy to listen to because of theduo’s easy-going lyr ics and s imple approach.

J o n a t h a nBree showsoff his drumm a c h i n esound withthe assistanceof HeatherM a n s f i e l d ’ss m o o t h ,c ha r i sma t i cvoice. Insongs l ike“Connection”and “RedRollerskates,”listeners get adifferent elec-tronic soundthat ent icesthe occasionalhead bob.E l e c t r o n i celements arebeing testedt h r o u g h o u tthis album asboth art istsi n t e r t w i n etheir sweet,l ight voiceswith chimesthat give thesongs an airyfeel.

Their songs offer a storyline that, if paid attentionto, can be easily followed. Mansfield’s rhythmic voicein “The Crime Machine” illustrates passion andexcitement with every verse as she pretends to liveout her 1920s dream of being a “Queenpin.”“Bedroom Disco” is one track that would thrive at ahouse party scenario, with a guitar tremolo and vari-ous arrangements of imagination and pitch varia-tions.

This album is a continuation from previous worksbut stays true to their upbeat, fun and celebratedworks, which vocalists and instrumentalists havebeen known for. The album has a sort of fantasyeffect with an array of electronic buzz and a childishundertone. Every song on this album seems to glorifythe appreciation of a simple melody. With simpletambourine and guitar solos the whimsical duo doesan extraordinary job in swaying their voices to mesh

perfectly. This album is an easy listen that can calm or relax

any stressful soul during finals. “If I” is only one ofthe many songs on this album that could act as aharmonic lullaby. The simple trickle of trumpet andsynthesizers gives the effect of a dreamer with itscreative tone and subtle vocals.

It appears that The Brunettes are wandering fromtheir comfortable cute pop to a more instrumentaland technological kind of work. Their playful usageof keyboard and music technology achieves a moremodern and humming sound that shows their pro-gression as artists. This album has wide-spreadappeal with songs like “It’s Only Natural” whichbegins with an almost islander feel that leaves peo-ple in a mellow state of mind.

Fans of this band should thank them for onceagain delivering a masterpiece of eclectic songs thatembrace instruments like the xylophone. This indieband versatile, and not afraid to try to new stylesand beats. The Brunettes has a special air aboutthem that is refreshing yet risky. They don’t play bythe norms of popularity, they write about whatinspires them and telling stories through song istheir specialty. The Brunettes not only sing but theyincorporate synth and other unique sounds that tieall their work together.

Hearing about artists who step out of their comfortzones is refreshing and appreciated. The Brunetteshave come a long way since their first album, “MarsLoves Venus” EP in 1998 so keep your eyes out forthis dynamic duo as they continue to share theirmusic with the masses.

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Allen and the Celtics end Bobcats’ win streakD’Antoni leads Knicks’ offense against Suns; Arenas back in double digits as Wizards take down Raptors

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — RayAllen broke out of his shootingslump with 27 points, KendrickPerkins added 21 points and 12rebounds and the BostonCeltics cruised past theCharlotte Bobcats 108-90 onTuesday night for their fifthstraight victory.

Led by Allen, the Celtics hadlittle trouble slowing theBobcats, who had won fourstraight. Entering shooting 30percent from 3-point range,Allen took only nine shots, buthit 5 of 6 3-pointers, includingone from behind the plane ofthe backboard with 1 secondleft to give the Celtics a 62-39halftime lead.

Charlotte never recovered asGerald Wallace scored just fivepoints after getting into earlyfoul trouble. Nazr Mohammedhad 16 points for the Bobcats,who entered giving up aleague-low 87.9 points a game.

But the Celtics, on the secondgame of a four-game trip thatnext takes them to SanAntonio, scored at will insideand out and quickly ended anyhopes Charlotte had of erasingmemories of their embarrass-ing 59-point performance inBoston on opening night.

That came before the Bobcatsacquired versatile scorerStephen Jackson , and Celticscoach Doc Rivers joked beforethe game that they were goingto “do some tic-tac-toe” to fig-ure out if the 6-foot-5 Allenguarded the 6-8 Jackson or 6-7Wallace.

Allen started on Jackson,who immediately posted himand scored in the lane on thefirst possession. But Wallacepicked up two fouls in 5 min-utes and sat out the rest of thehalf, giving the Celtics matchupadvantages.

Stephen Graham failed mis-erably trying to defend KevinGarnett , who had 16 pointsand seven rebounds. Nobodycould keep a body on Perkins,who hit 9 of 10 shots and wasonly five points shy of matchinga career high. And the blowouttook shape in the first half asBrown stubbornly kept Wallaceon the bench.

Wallace entered as the reign-ing Eastern Conference playerof the week, after twice topping30 points in victories last week.The Bobcats shot 31 percent in

the first half without him, andtrailed by as many as 26 pointsbefore he got his first pointswith 8:15 left in the third quar-ter.

But it may not have matteredwith the Bobcats shooting 55percent and Allen finding histouch.

A career 40-percent shooterfrom behind the arc, Allen hadgone 6 for 23 in the past fourgames. Rivers said atshootaround that he had saidnothing to him.

“I don’t say a word — if he’sa shooter,” he said. “If he’s anon-shooter, I tell him to stopshooting. ... He hasn’t forgothow.”

With Perkins and Garnettdrawing attention inside, Allenwas hitting from the outsideand the foul line, where hemade all 10 attempts. TheCeltics didn’t even need PaulPierce (eight points) to moveinto a tie for the EasternConference lead with Orlando.

It was a setback for theBobcats, whose winning streakcame at the heels of a seven-game skid and included animpressive home win overCleveland Friday. They shotjust 41 percent and trailed byas many as 28 points.

Knicks 126, Suns 99Mike D’Antoni’s offense was

as spectacular against the Sunsas it used to be with them.

Danilo Gallinari had 27points and 10 rebounds, andthe New York Knicks beatPhoenix on Tuesday night,snapping a five-game losingstreak and giving their coach aresounding victory over his oldteam.

David Lee added 24 pointsand Al Harrington had 22 forthe Knicks, who rang up a sea-son-best 71 first-half points,then blew it open whenGallinari scored seven points ina span of barely a minute mid-way through the third quarter.

New York reached 100 pointsby the end of the third andcoasted to its easiest victory ofthe season.

Steve Nash had 20 points andeight assists for the Suns (14-4), who came in with the NBA’sbest record. They had won fourstraight by an average of 21.3points, but this time foundthemselves on the other side ofa blowout.

The Suns didn’t even reach

100 points, the first time thisseason that’s happened.

It was a sweet victory forD’Antoni, who rode his high-scoring offensive system to anaverage of 58 wins in his fourfull seasons in Phoenix beforehe and the Suns parted waysafter a first-round loss to SanAntonio in 2008.

He hasn’t been nearly as suc-cessful with an inferior rosterin New York, where he coachedhis 100th game Tuesday andrecorded just his 36th victory.He improved to 2-1 against theSuns, though said before thegame the emotions weren’t thesame as they were last season.

“I’ve got enough problems inNew York that I don’t reallyreflect on what they’re doing,”he said.

Phoenix missed the playoffslast season, but has rededicat-ed itself to playing fast underAlvin Gentry and was lookingto start 15-3 for the first timesince doing so under D’Antoniin 2004-05. But the Suns neverslowed the Knicks down forlong, even when they went to azone in the third quarter.

By then, New York was onthe way to doubling its 13-pointhalftime lead. None of theKnicks’ previous three winshad come by more than sevenpoints.

New York fell two points shyof its highest-scoring quarter ofthe season, opening a 39-28lead. Wilson Chandler (12),Gallinari and Lee (10 apiece)were already in double figuresafter the first 12 minutes.

The Knicks opened the sec-ond quarter with a 9-4 burst,extending the lead to 48-32 onGallinari’s jumper. The Sunscut it to six later in the period,but New York pushed it back to15, repeatedly getting layupsand dunks, and led 71-58 atthe half.

Amare Stoudemire, JasonRichardson and Alando Tuckerscored 14 points for Phoenix,which ends a four-game tripWednesday at Cleveland.

Wizards 106, Raptors 102Antawn Jamison had 30

points and 12 rebounds, GilbertArenas had 22 points and nineassists and the WashingtonWizards beat the TorontoRaptors on Tuesday night.

Caron Butler scored 19points, and Brendan Haywoodhad 15 points and nine

rebounds for the Wizards, whohave won three of four.

Chris Bosh had 22 points and14 rebounds, Andrea Bargnanihad 20 points and 11 reboundsand Jose Calderon added 20points for the Raptors, whohave lost four straight andeight of 10.

Jarrett Jack had 18 and HedoTurkoglu scored 13 for theRaptors.

Arenas had been held below10 points in each of his pasttwo games, the first time he’dfailed to score at least 10 inback-too-back games since hisrookie season in 2002. Thanksto a pair of 3-pointers in thesecond quarter, Arenas wasback in double figures by half-time in this one.

Arenas scored 12 points andJamison scored 10 in the fourthas the Wizards erased a five-point deficit in the final quarterby shooting 11 for 16. TheRaptors shot 8 for 23 in thefourth.

A free throw by AmirJohnson gave Toronto an 83-77lead with 9:52 to play but theWizards regained the lead witha 13-2 run over the next 4:25,including three baskets byArenas, whose driving layup

with 5:27 left made it 90-85 forWashington.

Calderon’s driving layup with2:45 remaining cut it to 93-91but Jamison made a jumper,then held his finger to his lipsto quiet the crowd as he ranback down the court, andArenas made two free throwsto push the lead to six, 97-91,with 2:15 to go.

Toronto rallied once more,with a free throw fromTurkoglu and two by Jack mak-ing it 99-97 with 58 seconds toplay but the Raptors couldn’tget any closer. Andray Blatchemade a pair from the line,Jamison made one of two andEarl Boykins hit two more,making it 104-97 with 23 sec-onds left.

Bosh missed all six shots hetook in the first but Calderonscored 11 points for Toronto,who trailed 25-24 after one onBlatche’s fadeaway jumper asthe buzzer sounded.

Bosh snapped out of his funkwith an 18-point second butJamison scored 11 and theWizards used five 3-pointers tokeep it close before anotherbuzzer-beating jumper, this onefrom Boykins, gave them a 55-54 edge at the break.

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New York’s David Lee, 42, shoots over Phoenix’s Grant Hill, 33, during the first half of a game Tuesday.

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Sgt. Kim Montes of the Florida Highway Patrol speaks during press conference Tuesday concerning Tiger Woods’car accident this weekend. Woods is to be fined $164 and receive four points against his driver’s license.

ORLANDO, Fla. — TigerWoods will be cited forcareless driving in a carcrash outside his Orlando-area mansion, but will notface criminal charges, theFlorida Highway Patrolsaid Tuesday.

Woods faces a $164 fineand four points against hisdriver’s license, not closeto enough to have it sus-pended. The citation clos-es the investigation of lastweek’s crash.

The patrol “is not pursu-ing criminal charges inthis matter nor is thereany test imony or otherevidence to support anyadditional charges of anykind other than the charge

of careless driving,” Sgt.Kim Montes said.

According to an accidentreport, Woods crashed hisSUV into a fire hydrantand a tree at 2:25 a.m.Friday. The airbags didnot deploy and Woods’wife told Windermerepolice she used a golf clubto smash the back win-dows to help him out.

Woods withdrew Mondayfrom his own golf tourna-ment, citing injuries fromthe crash.

Since the accident,tabloids and gossip Websites have fueled specula-tion about the events lead-ing up to it, including thatthere may have been adomestic dispute betweenWoods and his wife.

The crash came twodays after The NationalEnquirer published a storyalleging that Woods hadbeen seeing a New Yorknightclub hostess, andthat they recently weretogether in Melbourne,where Woods competed inthe Australian Masters.The woman, RachelUchitel, denies the affair.

An attorney for theneighbors who dialed 911after the crash said Woodsdid not appear to be driv-ing under the influenceand showed no signs ofhaving been in a f ight.Montes said there were noclaims of domestic vio-lence and insufficient evi-dence to subpoena anymedical information.

“Despite the celebritystatus of Mr. Woods, theFlorida Highway Patrolhas completed its investi-gation in the same profes-sional manner it strives tocomplete each traff icinvestigation,” Montessaid.

Bill Sharpe, an attorneyfor the neighbors, saidWoods’ injuries were“consistent with a carwreck and inconsistentwith him being beat up.The scratches on his facewere consistent withsomeone who maybe wasin a minor car accidentand hit his head on thewindshield. ... None of hisinjuries looked like he wasbeat up by his wife.”

Sharpe said neighbor

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Molson family to purchaseNHL’s Montreal Canadiens

MONTREAL — The sale of theMontreal Canadiens was approvedTuesday, days before the storied team’s100th anniversary.

The Molson family won approval fromthe NHL board of governors, becomingthe fourth group of Molsons to own theclub since the 1950s. George Gillett putthe team up for sale in the spring.

Geoff Molson and brothers Andrewand Justin are the lead investors in agroup that reportedly paid $575 millionfor the franchise.

“This is a proud moment for my fami-ly and our partners in the transaction,”said Geoff Molson, who will be thechairman and chief executive officer.“As owners, we will be right there withmanagement and the team, buildingand battling toward our next StanleyCup.”

The Canadiens celebrate their 100thanniversary Friday when they host theBoston Bruins.

Steelers’ Roethlisbergerexpected to play Sunday

PITTSBURGH — Steelers quarter-back Ben Roethlisberger has workedout without problems since missingSunday night’s game in Baltimore witha concussion and is expected to playSunday against Oakland.

Roethlisberger was held out of the20-17 overtime loss to the Ravens afterhaving post-practice headachesWednesday, Thursday and Friday. Ateam doctor recommended Saturdaythat the quarterback not play, andcoach Mike Tomlin agreed.

While the Steelers did not practice onMonday, Roethlisberger worked out onhis own and did not have any prob-lems, Tomlin said.

“All indications are he’ll be a full par-ticipant tomorrow (Wednesday) inpractice and ultimately play in thegame on Sunday,” Tomlin said Tuesday.

If the headaches should unexpectedlyreturn, Tomlin said the Steelers will“act quickly.”

Yankees manager Girarditeaches Jets’ Sanchez to slide

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — MarkSanchez is learning how to slide like aYankee.

Don’t worry, Jets fans. The rookiequarterback isn’t looking to trade inhis pads for pinstripes. He was justworking on his sliding techniqueTuesday with Yankees manager JoeGirardi, who guided New York to its27th World Series title last month.

“I’ve never really been a slider,”Sanchez said. “In baseball, I slid head-first. In football, I’ve done the samething or tried to get out of bounds orthrow the ball away. It’s somethingthat you need to learn at this level.”

Jets coach Rex Ryan wants Sanchezto make more of a conscious effort toslide and avoid potential injuries.

“When we bring Joe Girardi in, thisis all about business,” Ryan said.“Mark understands that. We kid aboutthe ‘Sanchise’ name, but he’s the faceof our franchise.

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Ilgauskas playingto set new record

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio —Zydrunas Ilgauskas never gotoff the bench during his firstattempt at history. Givenanother chance, Cavalierscoach Mike Brown assured itwill happen.

Ilgauskas will becomeCleveland’s all-time leader ingames played when he entersWednesday’s game at homeagainst Phoenix. He currentlyshares the record of 723 gameswith Cleveland general manag-er Danny Ferry.

Ilgauskas was expected tobreak the record at home lastSaturday, but Brown didn’tplay him during a 111-95 winagainst Dallas.

The perceived snub upsetboth Ilgauskas and LeBronJames — Ilgauskas hasn’tspoke to reporters since thegame and James criticizedBrown for it on Monday.

“I definitely thought heshould’ve played,” James said.“As a friend of his, I was veryupset and I know he was, also.”

Brown explained on Mondaythat he liked the smaller,quicker lineup that was playingwell against the Mavericks. Buthe said on Tuesday if he had itto do again, he would haveplayed Ilgauskas againstDallas. He won’t start Ilgauskasagainst the Suns — an ideafirst floated by James — butsaid he will play.

“I’ll be just as happy as any-body when the record isaccomplished,” Brown said.

Ilgauskas declined interview

requests for the second straightday Tuesday, while Brownstopped short of apologizing forkeeping Ilgauskas from therecord. He said he hadn’t spo-ken to Ilgauskas yet about theincident, but that he would. Hewasn’t sure what he would say.

“I don’t know. I haven’t wroteanything out,” Brown said.“We’ll talk. I don’t knowwhen.”

Ilgauskas has spent his entire14-year career in Cleveland.He battled foot problems earlyon that forced him to missessentially three full seasons.He is one of James’ favoriteplayers on the Cavaliers rosterand the only holdover fromwhen James was drafted.James was a big proponent inIlgauskas receiving a five-yearcontract extension during thesummer of 2005. Ilgauskas,now in the final year of thatdeal, has hinted at retiringafter the season.

“I’m not trying to stir up any-thing with coach or whatever isgoing on with the organization,but sometimes one game is thesmaller things,” James saidMonday. “What was on the linewas something way bigger thanus playing the Mavericks. Thatwas ‘Z’ breaking the record.”

Brown was not upset withJames for speaking out.

“LeBron is a loyal person,”Brown said. “That’s big on hisagenda. That’s what has madehim the type of person he istoday. You respect and under-stand that he was being loyalto Z. I have no problem withthat at all.”

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NBA

Sixers offer Allen one-year contract

PHILADELPHIA — Al lenIverson and the Philadelphia76ers are c loser to areunion.

A person with knowledge ofthe contract talks says theSixers offered a one-year,non-guaranteed contract toIverson on Tuesday. The per-son spoke to The AssociatedPress on condit ion ofanonymity because the con-tract ta lks had not beenmade public.

Iverson, his agent and busi-ness manager met with teampresident Ed Stefanski, coachEddie Jordan and two othermembers of the organizationMonday during the first for-mal meet ing between theSixers and their former MVP.

Iverson announced hisretirement last week after ani l l - fated st int with theMemphis Grizzlies. The 10-time All-Star was NBA MVPin 2001 when he led theSixers to the NBA Finals.

Iverson announced hisintention to retire last weekafter no other teamexpressed an interest is sign-ing the four-t ime scor ingchampion. The 6-foot Iversonplayed three games this sea-son with Memphis beforetaking a leave of absence toattend to personal matters.He was waived after the twosides agreed to part ways.

He’s on the brink of gettinga second chance with theSixers . The Sixers (5-13)have lost seven straightgames entering Wednesdaynight’s game at OklahomaCity and need Iverson tospark sagging ticket sales

and their playoff chances.This reconci l iat ion was

once thought foolish aftertheir acrimonious split threeyears ago. Iverson’s lastgame with Philadelphia wasDec. 6, 2006 in Chicago. Herefused to play the fourthquarter and was banishedfrom the team two days later.He was eventually traded toDenver as part of the AndreMiller deal, and bounced toDetroit then Memphis.

The Sixers finish their four-game road tr ip Saturdayagainst the Charlotte Bobcatsand Iverson’s former neme-sis, coach Larry Brown.

If Iverson accepts the offer,his likely debut would come

Monday night at homeagainst Denver. In a double-dose of intriguing timing, theSixers play at home Dec. 9against Detroit.

Perhaps Iverson will showhis former teams that he stillhas something left in the No.3 jersey.

Or, the Nuggets and Pistonswill see they made the rightchoice to move on withoutthe controversial guard.

CSNPhilly.com first report-ed the offer.

Memphis Grizzlies ownerMichael Heisley told the APon Tuesday that he spentalmost an hour on the phonewith Stefanski before hismeeting with Iverson.

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Matsui and Damonnot offered arbitration

NEW YORK — World SeriesMVP Hideki Matsui, VladimirGuerrero and Randy Wolfwere among the free agentswho weren’t offered salaryarbitration, moves that enablenew teams to sign them with-out losing draft picks.

Tuesday night was the firstbig deadline of baseball’s off-season, with teams havinguntil midnight to make arbi-tration offers to their formerplayers who became freeagents . Players have unt i lDec. 7 to accept; if they reject,they st i l l can re-s ign withtheir former c lubs at anytime.

With about two hours leftuntil the deadline, 18 playershad received arbitrat ionoffers and only seven of themwere posi t ion players: St .Louis outfielder Matt Hollidayand third baseman MarkDeRosa; Boston outf ie lderJason Bay; Los Angeles Angelsthird baseman Chone Figgins;Seattle third baseman AdrianBeltre; Texas catcher IvanRodriguez and Rangers out-fielder Marlon Byrd.

Pitchers offered arbitrationincluded Angels ace John

Lackey; Boston reliever BillyWagner; Detroit ’s BrandonLyon and Fernando Rodney;Oakland’s Justin Duchscherer;Atlanta’s Mike Gonzalez andRafael Soriano; Colorado’sRafael Betancourt and JasonMarquis ; Houston’s JoseValverde; and St. Louis’ JoelPineiro.

In addition to Matsui, theYankees decl ined to of ferarbitrat ion to lef t f ie lderJohnny Damon and pitcherAndy Pett i t te . The Angelsturned down pitchers KelvimEscobar and Darren Oliver inaddition to Guerrero. BesidesWolf, the Dodgers said no topitcher Jon Garland and sec-ond baseman OrlandoHudson.

Among others declined arbi-tration were Detroit pitcherJarrod Washburn, Seattle leftyErik Bedard, Mets first base-man Carlos Delgado,Milwaukee center fielder MikeCameron and Kansas Ci tycatcher Miguel Olivo.

Before 2006, players notoffered arbitration could notre-s ign with their formerclubs from Dec. 8-April 30,but that provision was elimi-nated in the latest collectivebargaining agreement.

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Allen Iverson brings the ball upcourt for the Grizzlies against theLakers on Nov. 6. He has been offered a one year deal with the 76ers.

ARLINGTON, Va. — AlexOvechkin’s latest on-ice indis-cretion netted him a two-gamesuspension, a sore right kneeand a new level of concernfrom his coach about his “pret-ty reckless” ways.

The league’s reigning two-time MVP was suspended fortwo games without pay by theNHL on Tuesday for a knee-to-knee hit on defenseman TimGleason in Monday night’s 3-2win over the CarolinaHurricanes.

Ovechkin’s first NHL suspen-sion will cost him $98,844.16in salary. He’ll sit out Thursdayagainst Florida and Saturdayat Philadelphia, although hissore knee might have kept himout of one of the games any-way.

“I regret that this has hap-pened,” Ovechkin said in astatement released by theteam. “I’m glad that Tim was-n’t injured because I neverever want to see anyone gethurt.”

The initial concern wasOvechkin would be sidelinedlonger — with a serious kneeinjury. The hit on Gleason wasscary, but the Russian forwardwas back on the ice Tuesdaymorning in a red Capitals tracksuit about 25 minutes beforethe start of practice. He skatedfor less than five minutes butdid not move at full speed. TheCapitals said he was day to daywith a sore knee.

“It’s not a bad injury,”Ovechkin said. “I thought itwas going to be worse, butthank God I can walk, I canskate. Of course, it’s a little bitsore, but it’s not that serious.”

Ovechkin was given a 5-minute major penalty for knee-ing and a game misconduct forthe hit on Gleason, the secondtime in three games he’s beenejected. Last week he waswhistled for a 5-minute board-ing major and game miscon-duct for a hit on Patrick Kaletaof the Buffalo Sabres.

Before hearing of the suspen-sion, Ovechkin tried to pleadhis case. He said he didn’t havetime to pull back when Gleasonchanged directions whileattempting to push the puckout of the Hurricanes’ zone.

“I can do nothing about it,”

Ovechkin said. “It ’s just amoment of the game. I turnedand realize I don’t have time tostop.”

Ovechkin was more defiantwhen asked about his style ofplay. No one scores goals bet-ter, but he also loves to hit. Heleads the Capitals with 18goals, 30 points — and 44penalty minutes. He missed sixgames earlier this season withan upper body injury, the firsttime in his career he’s had aninjury that cost him more thanone game.

“I just play my game and Ijust enjoy my time and I enjoymy life,” Ovechkin said. “It’sme, and it is what it is.”

“I play risky,” he said. “Iwon’t try and hit and makesome people get hurt, but peo-ple sometimes turn right awayand I don’t have time to realizeand stop. What can you do?You can do nothing.”

Coach Bruce Boudreau isn’tso sure anymore. After twoyears of essentially lettingOvechkin be Ovechkin,Boudreau said it might be timefor a heart-to-heart talk.

“He’s pretty reckless,” hesaid. “It’s hard telling a guythat scores 60 goals a year tochange the way he plays. Atthe same time, I don’t want tosee him getting hurt. Maybe hehas to pick his spots a littlebetter. The open-ice hits, youjust look around the league.It’s not only the hitter, it’s theguy that gets hit. ... It’s some-thing that wil l have to beaddressed by us, I guess. ...Not only as a coach, but assomebody who admires him, Ijust don’t want him to put him-self in harm’s way, so we’llsee.”

Boudreau said Ovechkin isn’ttrying to play dirty.

“Alex plays hard,” Boudreausaid. “All the time. I don’t thinkthere’s a malicious bone of himtrying to hurt anybody. He justplays hard and he plays to winevery shift. And it’s a reallyfine line between taking thataway from him, and I don’t seehow you can take it away otherthan talking to him and saying,‘We don’t want to put you inthat situation any more.’ Butwhen he gets out there, he justwants to win so badly he doeswhatever we can for that teamto succeed.”

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Stimulant exemptions riseNEW YORK — There was

just one positive steroids testin the major leagues over thefull first year of the tough-ened program, but the num-ber of players authorized touse otherwise banned stimu-lants because they haveADHD rose by a smal lamount for the secondstraight year.

Baseball granted 108 ther-apeutic use exemptions forattention deficit hyperactivitydisorder during the year end-ing with this World Series,according to the annualreport released Tuesday byMLB’s independent drug-test-ing administrator. That wasup from 106 a year earlierand 103 in 2007.

“Today’s report containsgood news and bad news,”said Rep. Henry Waxman,who has held hearings ondrug use in sports.

“The good news is verygood — only one posi t ivesteroid test . But the badnews is deeply disturbing,”the California Democrat said.“It is hard to believe that theADD prevalence rate in base-ball is that high.”

Rob Manfred, Major LeagueBasebal l ’s execut ive v icepresident for labor relations,said the level of ADHDexemptions, known as TUEs,was not cause for alarm.Manfred said concerns werenot justified because ADHD ismore prevalent among malesand young people.

“These TUEs are based ondiagnoses that originally aremade by a doctor and theyare reviewed by one if notmore doctors to verify thediagnoses,” Manfred said.“And I’ve got to rely on themedical people.”

Dr. Gary Wadler, a frequentcritic of baseball’s drug-test-ing program, also praised the

sport’s overall progress butsaid the amount of the TUEswas a concern.

“Is there something uniqueabout the sport of baseballthat attracts individuals withADD? I suspect not. It seemsto me an excessively highnumber,” said Wadler, chair-man of the committee thatdetermines the banned-sub-stances l ist for the WorldAnti-Doping Agency. “This isa problem that merits someindependent analysis. Is theTUE process as tight as itneeds to be or does it repre-sent some sort of a loop-hole?”

Other than ADHD, therewere just seven TUEs: twoeach for hypertension andhypogonadism, and one eachfor narcolepsy, obsessive-compuls ive disorder andpost-concussion syndrome.

“I f irst raised concernsabout these therapeutic useexemptions inhearings in2008, andb a s e b a l lpromised theywould lookinto the mat-ter. But i tappears thatno progresshas beenmade,” saidWaxman, nowchairman ofthe HouseEnergy andCommerce Committee. “ Ihope that MLB-sanctioneduse of ADD drugs has notbecome a substitute for therampant steroid use that theleague and i ts playersworked so hard to e l imi-nate.”

There were 12 positives forbanned st imulants among3,722 tests under the majorleague program. Since noplayers were suspended forstimulants, they either were

initial positive tests, whichdon’t cause suspensions, orare still in the arbitrationprocess. Eleven of the posi-tives were for Adderall, theother for Clobenzorex.

The one positive for a per-formance-enhancing sub-stance was for nandrolone.Baseball’s only announcedsuspension for a positive testtaken this year under themajor league program wasgiven in March to SanFrancisco Giants pi tcherKelvin Pichardo, who wasbanned for 50 games.

There also was one positivenot related to a test . InMarch, Los Angeles Dodgersoutfielder Manny Ramirezwas suspended for 50 gamesafter basebal l obtainedrecords that showed he usedthe female fertility drug HCG,or human chorionicgonadotropin.

Baseball conducted 3,722tests, up from3,486 the pre-vious year.

“We had avery low num-ber of posi-tives, low num-bers on thestimulants andsteroids, whichis a very gooddevelopment,”Manfred said.

W a d l e ragreed withM a n f r e d ’ s

assessment of the overal lprogram.

“Baseball has done a goodjob over the last severalyears in cleaning house overthe whole issue of perform-ance-enhancing drugs, ana-bolic steroids,” he said.

Dr. Bryan Smith issued thereport under toughened rulesbaseball adopted last year atthe recommendation of for-mer Senate majority leaderGeorge Mitchell.

MLB

Associated Press

“This is a problemthat merits some

independent analysis.”

Gary Wadlercommittee chairmanWorld Anti-Doping

Agency

NCAA FOOTBALL

TCU to extend coach’s contractFORT WORTH, Texas —

Gary Patterson is close to acontract extension with BCS-bound TCU, the deal comingamid speculation that thecoach of the undefeatedHorned Frogs could be a can-didate to fill the Notre Damevacancy.

A person with direct knowl-edge of the situation saidTuesday that Patterson’s cur-rent contract, which runsthrough 2014, would beextended at least two years,and his assistant coacheswould get pay raises. The per-son spoke on condition ofanonymity because the dealhadn’t been finalized.

An official announcementcould come Wednesday.

Patterson has an 85-27record in his ninth season asthe Frogs’ head coach, win-ning at least 11 games in fiveof the last seven seasons. Thelast time TCU had an 11-winseason before that was itsundefeated national champi-onship team in 1938 withHeisman Trophy winner DaveyO’Brien at quarterback.

Patterson didn’t return mes-sages left Tuesday by the AP.

The person who said a con-tract extension was in theworks said Patterson had notbeen contacted by NotreDame, which Monday firedCharlie Weis after five seasons.

TCU (12-0, 8-0 MountainWest) is waiting to find outSunday which of the big-money Bowl ChampionshipSeries games it will play in.The Frogs are fourth in theBCS standings, the highestever this late in the season fora team from a conferencewithout an automatic bid.

There is still a chance theFrogs could be the first BCSbuster to play for the nationalchampionship, if No. 3 Texasloses to Nebraska in the Big 12championship game Saturdaynight and they stay ahead ofCincinnati in the final BCSstandings. The other spot willbe filled by No. 1 Florida orNo. 2 Alabama, who face off inthe SEC championship game.

TCU wrapped up its unde-feated regular season and out-right Mountain West title witha 51-10 victory over NewMexico on Saturday. It was the

Frogs’ seventh consecutive vic-tory by at least 27 points, astretch that included BYU andUtah, last year’s BCS buster.

The Frogs have a 14-gamewinning streak, matching theseven decade-old schoolrecord set in 1938.

Patterson, 49, came to TCUas a defensive coordinatorwith coach Dennis Franchioneafter the 1997 season, whenthe Frogs were coming off a 1-10 season.

When Franchione left forAlabama after the 2000 regu-lar season, TCU promotedPatterson after a nationalsearch. Only Dutch Meyer, whowon 109 of his 201 gamesfrom 1934-52, has more victo-ries as the Frogs coach.

Patterson’s contract wasextended through 2014 at theend of last season, weeks afterstrong speculation that KansasState was interested in hiringPatterson to lead his almamater. Kansas State insteadlured Bill Snyder out of retire-ment. TCU was 11-2 last sea-son, including 17-16 win overBoise State in the PoinsettiaBowl that is the Broncos’ onlyloss the past two seasons.

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Friedgen to return as coach in 2010COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A

grateful Ralph Friedgen willreturn in 2010, eager torebound from his worst sea-son as Maryland’s head foot-ball coach.

Fr iedgen’s job s tatusappeared shaky af ter theTerrapins lost a school-record 10 games this season.But after meeting for twoconsecutive days with athlet-ic d irector Debbie Yow,Friedgen was given the go-ahead to make plans for a10th season as coach at hisalma mater.

“I’m very thankful for theopportunity,” Friedgen said.“I hope I wasn’t just judgedon this year. But this showsthe confidence the adminis-tration has in me and ourprogram. I ’m wi l l ing torepay thatwith every-th ing I haveto make thisthe team weexpect i t tobe.”

The 62-y e a r - o l dFriedgen hastwo years lefton a contractthat pays him$2 mi l l ionannually. Heis 66-46 atMaryland andhas gone tos ix bowl games, but theTerrapins have endured fourlosing seasons over the pastsix years.

Af ter Maryland’s f inalgame Saturday, a 19-17defeat to Boston College thatextended the team’s losing

streak to seven games,Friedgen made it clear heintended to retain his job.

He got his wish.“Coach Friedgen and I are

in complete agreement onthe expectationto return thefootbal l pro-gram to i tsc o m p e t i t i v estature,” Yowsaid. “He hasassured theUniversity andfans of h isintentions to dowhatever isnecessary tobecome a top25 programagain. He continues to havemy full support.”

Although Maryland went tobowl games in each of thethree seasons before this

one, Fr iedgenwasn’t sur-prised that hisp e r f o r m a n c ethis year cameunder scrutinyby Yow.

“ O b v i o u s l y,when you’re 2-10 you’re goingto evaluated,”he said. “She’smy supervisor.We sat and wetalked, and shedecided to staythe course.”

F r i e d g e nacknowledged that heentered the discussions withmore than a small measureof angst.

“It was a concern to me,”he said.

Maryland began the seasonhad only 14 seniors and 58

players with at least threeyears of eligibility remain-ing. The hope is that theexperienced the underclass-men gained this season willtranslate into victories in

2010 andbeyond.

“We havethree impres-s ive youngquarterbacksthat are pret-ty good. Wehave a l l ourrunning backsreturning, aswel l as ourw i d er e c e i v e r s , ”Friedgen said.

“All of our offensive linemenare back, except one, with afull year of experience undertheir belts. We had a veryyoung team this season. Wetook our lumps this year, butwe won’t be taking ourlumps next year.”

Friedgen, a former playerat Maryland, took theTerrapins to the 2001Atlantic Coast Conferencetitle in his first season as ahead coach. But Marylandhad the worst overall recordof any ACC team this yearand won only one leaguegame.

In February, o f fens ivecoordinator James Franklinsigned a contract that wouldenable him to take over forFriedgen after the 2011 sea-son or receive a $1 millionbuyout. Franklin is sure toreturn; however, Friedgensaid he will evaluate the restof h is s taf f in the weeksahead before dec id ingwhether to make anychanges.

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“I hope I wasn’t justjudged on this year.But this shows the

confidence theadministration has in

me and our program.”

Ralph FriedgenMaryland coach

“He continues to havemy full support.”

Debbie YowMaryland athletic

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MLB

Indians tradingShoppach to Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —Kelly Shoppach wants to getback to being the player hewas in 2008. That’s exactlywhat the Tampa Bay Rays arecounting on.

The 29-year-old catcher wasacquired Tuesday from theCleveland Indians for a playerto be named, giving Tampa Baydepth at the position and newcompetit ion for incumbentstarter Dioner Navarro.

“We’ve admired Kelly fromafar for a whilenow,” Raysexecutive vicep r e s i d e n tA n d r e wFriedman said.

A .241 careerhitter, Shoppachstruggled lastseason afterposting impres-sive numberswhile filling infor an injuredVictor Martinez with Clevelandin 2008.

“He’s coming off a disap-pointing ‘09 season,” Friedmansaid, “but we feel like he hasall the ability to be a much bet-ter player than that.”

After leading AmericanLeague catchers with 21homers two years ago, theIndians were expecting bigthings from Shoppach in 2009.But he batted just .214 with 12homers and 40 RBIs in 89games, striking out 89 times in271 at-bats.

“You can look at (last season)any way you want,” Shoppachsaid. “Obviously,it was a disap-pointing yearfor me. Ofcourse I wouldhave l iked toplay better. Ithink everyonewould haveliked to playbetter.”

S h o p p a c h ,who spent fourseasons withCleveland after being acquiredin a 2006 trade with Boston,l ikes the idea of joining ayoung team that’s only a yearremoved from its first WorldSeries appearance.

“Obviously, it’s an opportuni-ty for me to compete nowrather than the rebuildingprocess that Cleveland wasgoing to do,” Shoppach saidduring a telephone conferencecall. “Ultimately that is what Iwant to do. Help a team win.”

Shoppach’s departure fromthe Indians could make LouMarson, acquired in the dealthat sent ace pitcher Cliff Leeto Philadelphia, Cleveland’sstarter behind the plate. WyattToregas likely will be the back-up catcher.

Highly touted prospect Carlos

Santana is expected to beginthe season at Triple-AColumbus, but the Indianshope he will be in the majorsat some point next season.

“This is most about ouryoung players,” Cleveland gen-eral manager Mark Shapirosaid. “We are excited aboutgiving them an opportunity toplay. It’s an area of strengthfor us.”

Marson and Toregas bothspent time with the Indianslate last season, but the 23-year-old Santana is clearly

C l e v e l a n d ’ scatcher of thefuture. He bat-ted .290 with 23homers and 97RBIs last seasonat Double-AAkron and wasselected MVP ofthe EasternLeague.

“Most l ikelyfor Carlos sometime at Triple-A

continuing to develop hisgame-calling, his leadershipskills and honing his defensivegame will be beneficial,”Shapiro said. “I would expectat some point (next) season,between April and September,we’ll see him in Cleveland.”

Shapiro acknowledged finan-cial considerations wereinvolved in the trade.Shoppach, who made $1.95million last season, is eligiblefor salary arbitration andcould earn close to $3 millionin 2010.

Adding a catcher was one ofTampa Bay’s top priorities this

offseason. Theswitch-hi t t ingNavarro was anAll-Star in 2008but slumped to.218 this year —down 75 pointsfrom the previ-ous season. Hisbatting averageranked 219thout of 222 majorleaguers with400 or more

plate appearances.In f ive seasons with the

Indians and Red Sox, the right-handed hitting Shoppach has43 homers and 141 RBIs. He isa .295 career hitter againstleft-handed pitching.

“Kelly’s a guy who has greattalent and the ability to be acomplete catcher,” Shapirosaid. “He calls a good game, hethrows well and, obviously, hehits for power. I know hestrikes out a lot, but he’s gotgreat power. The more contacthe makes the more a run pro-ducer he will be.”

The Indians will complete thetrade before Dec. 20. Shapirosaid the player the Indiansreceive could be on the 25-man roster when the seasonbegins.

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student working toward becom-ing an English teacher.

“I learned through observa-tion and reading and attendingclinics,” Welsh said.

After a few seasons of work-ing his way up the coachinghierarchy from a YMCA coachto a division I collegiate swim-ming program, Welsh wasoffered a position at NotreDame in 1985.

“Most of what I wanted todo when I got here was to helpthe team get faster and competeat a higher level,” Welsh said. “Ihad the advantage of arrivingwhen the Rolfs Aquatic Centerwas built, so since we had agreat facility, we wanted tobuild a team that was worthy ofthe facility and the university.”

When Welsh started at NotreDame, he coached the men’sand women’s teams before theysplit into two programs, atwhich point he took over themen’s program. The team hasgrown from offering one schol-arship per recruiting class tothe NCAA’s maximum 9.9 schol-arships.

In September, Welsh waselected president of theAmerican Swimming CoachesAssociation by the board mem-

bers of the organization for atwo-year term.

“This position is more than Iwould have asked for myself,”Welsh said. “The ASCA is thefirst professional organization Ijoined many, many years ago,and over the years I have donea lot of work for ASCA, writingarticles, speaking at conven-tions, serving on the Board ofDirectors, and overseeing theASCA Fellows Program, a lead-ership program for youngcoaches which will select its10th class in January.”

So far this season, the men’sswimming and diving team is 2-1 in dual meets with an impor-tant conference win overPittsburgh.

“Our ambition is to become anationally prominent NCAAteam,” Welsh said. “We are get-ting closer each year, but thereis still a lot to be done.”

Each season, the men’s swim-ming and diving team workstowards winning the Big Eastconference meet at the end ofthe regular season, a goal thatif achieved this season would bethe program’s third in a row.

“The plan is simple; achievingit is where the challenge lies,”Welsh said. “One step at a time,and year by year, we are tryingto get faster each time.”

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Saint Mary’s hosts OhioNorthern University today forits second home game of theseason. The Bel les (3-1)defeated North Central 91-57over the holiday weekend.

Saint Mary’s opened up itshome season againstAnderson University on Nov.17, defeating the Ravens 72-33. The team’s only loss thisseason came in the f i rs tround of the Bluf f tonUnivers i ty Tip-Of fTournament when i t facedWheaton Col lege. The twoteams battled through 13 leadchanges and 12 ties until theThunder ousted the Belles 78-73.

“So far, our o f fense hasbeen great in games, and thedefense has been followingbehind closely,” senior for-ward Anna Kammrath said.“We are a young team, butwith quite a bit of experi-ence.”

Among the top returningplayers th is season, a l l o fwhom have made s trongappearances on the SaintMary’s court thus far, areKammrath, junior Liz Wadeand sophomores PatsyMahoney and Kelley Murphy.

The sole senior on the team,Kammrath came into the sea-son with 598 rebounds. Fourgames into the season, the 6-foot forward leads the teamwith 41 to go along with her37 points, the fifth-best onthe team.

Wade, a junior guard andthe MIAA Defensive Player ofthe Year, was one of theleague’s leaders in bothassists and steals. Thus far,she has 28 ass is ts and 18steals.

Both Mahoney and Murphy

had outstanding freshmanseasons for the Belles lastyear as two of the team’s topscorers . Alongs ideKammrath, the pair account-ed for more than 690 points.Murphy, a forward, leadsSaint Mary’s in points with57, as wel l as having 29rebounds, second only toKammrath. Mahoney, a guardfollows close behind with 49points . She a lso has n ineassists this season, second toWade and tied with newcom-er Annie Doyle, a freshmanguard.

Murphy scored a team-high18 points at North Central.Kammrath was not far behindwith 14 while leading SaintMary’s with nine rebounds.Mahoney had 13 as sopho-more guard Maggie Ronanput up 12. Wade had acareer-high 11 assists in thewin, one away from tying aCollege record.

Coming off one of their mostsuccessful season and losingfour seniors to graduation,the Bel les are cont inuingtheir hard work in hopes ofbesting last season’s confer-ence finish of second place.

“Although at times our dis-cipline is not quite there, Ihave been impressed with theamount o f ta lent on theteam,” Kammrath said. “Weare so deep and that i s agreat thing to be, especiallyin our conference. We sti l lneed to keep improving onour defense and rebounding,but the season has beenexciting so far and I am antic-ipating great things from us.”

The Belles wil l return totheir home court at 7 p.m. asthey host the Polar Bears andwork to move their record to4-1.

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been the most importantimprovement he made.

“He finds the hoop,” Brey said.“He’s one of those guys thatfinds the net. People ask meabout him and I say ‘he finds thebasket.’ It may not look ortho-dox, and it comes from all areasof the floor now — 3-point line,the short corner, underneath thebackboard, the free throw line,tip in — but he finds the bas-ket.”

After a back and forth firsthalf that saw 12 lead changesand five ties, the Irish turned athree-point halftime lead into a21-point margin after startingthe second half on a 25-7 run, alead that did not drop under 16until Notre Dame’s starters wereoff the floor late in the game.Senior Ben Hansbrough scored14 for the Irish, and juniors TimAbromaitis and Carleton Scottchipped in nine and eight points,respectively.

“We were better defensively tostart the second half, and I thinkthat really helped us,” Brey said.In the first half, I didn’t have usout pressuring the ball maybe asmuch I as should have, so that’son me, and they kind of gotcomfortable and made someshots. In the second half, we did

a better job of that. I thought wewere very efficient offensively,unselfish again. Scott andAbromaitis continue to give us agreat lift. I’m really pleased withtheir development.”

Defensively the Irish were

sparked by senior point guardTory Jackson, who added twosteals and a block to his eightpoints.

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Senior forward Luke Harangody takes a shot over two Long BeachState defenders during Notre Dame’s 82-62 victory on Nov. 19.

this year. I changed a lot aboutmyself and my physical abilityso I was pretty bummed aboutit.”

The injury forced the Irishblue line to make adjustments.

“I think we were gettingused to everybody duringtraining camp and then aweek before the season hegets hurt, so it just threw offthe chemistryon the backhalf,” saids e n i o rde f en s emanKyle Lawson,Ruth’s defen-sive partner.

Ruth saidafter he wentdown, hetalked to for-mer teammateand friend Erik Condra, whosuffered a season-ending leginjury in the 2008 CCHAPlayoffs.

“[Condra told me] it’s justone of those things that youcan’t really control,” Ruthsaid. “You’ve just got to workthrough it.”

One of the hardest parts ofthe injury, Ruth said, was notbeing with the team, especiallyas the Irish struggled througha mixed bag of early seasonresults.

Lawson, though, said Ruth,an alternate captain,

remained an integral part ofthe team.

“To be honest, he did a greatjob, whether it was in betweenperiods or after games, hewould just come in and tellguys like it is,” Lawson said.“That’s the type of guy he is.He’s real up front and honest.”

Physically, Ruth said themost difficult step in therecovery process was just get-ting back in “hockey shape.”

“There’s nothing like hock-ey,” Ruth said. “You can runand bike as much as you want,

but as soon asyou touch the iceyou’ll be suckingwind like it’snothing.”

Once he gotback into gameshape, Ruth saidhe didn’t havemental problemstrusting his leg.

“It was moregetting back in

the groove, in the pace ofthings, getting my legs backunder me,” Ruth said.

Jackson said the plan was toease Ruth back into the lineup,but not take away from hishard-nosed style of play.

“We didn’t give him normalminutes right away, but nowhe’s back to playing 20 min-utes a game,” Jackson said.“It’s a matter of him playing tohis strengths, being physicaland being a force in our end.”

As each game passes,Lawson said the duo gets moreand more comfortable with

one another.“Our chemistry has definite-

ly been improving a little bit aswell, and he’s only beginningto show what he’s capable of,”Lawson said.

With his return, Ruth alsoadded a boost of much-neededdepth to a defensive unit thathad been relying primarily ononly a handful of key players.

“He’s made a big differenceon our back end,” Jacksonsaid. “Not just his presence,but minimizing minutes playedby other guys, which hashelped those guys be moreeffective in transition.”

Lawson, though, said Ruthalso brings his own uniqueskill set to the Irish blue line.

“He brings a new dimensionto our game,” Lawson said.“Obviously he’s a great physi-cal presence. He’s got a bigbody and he uses it to hisadvantage.”

Ruth echoed his defensivepartner, saying his injurywon’t stop him from playinghis own way.

“I try to bring a tough physi-cal presence on the ice,” hesaid. “I want to get my nosedirty.”

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period of time and when we havea new coach in place.”

As recruiting coordinator,Ianello helped land three top-10classes from 2006-2008. Asreceivers coach, he’s coached pro-lific Irish receivers from MauriceStovall and Jeff Samardzija toGolden Tate and Michael Floyd.

So now that he’s assumedresponsibility for football opera-tions, what exactly will the 44-year-old be doing?

“Well, it’s a threefold thing rightnow. First of all, to supply the sup-port to our current student-ath-letes that they need during thistransition,” Ianello said Monday.“The second thing is to helpsecure the recruiting that we haveso far ... And the third thing is tosupply any support that I have forour coaches and our support staffand our administrative staff dur-ing this time [of] transition. Sothat’s how I see this breakingdown.”

Nowhere in that breakdown didIanello mention his own bestinterests. And while he saidMonday that he would “reach outto some other people to makesure to secure my future,” hisfirm commitment to the Irish pro-gram is both admirable and cru-cial, especially because Swarbrickhas not set a timetable indicatingwhen a new coach might be inplace.

Ianello has an impressiveresume, particularly with regardto recruiting — and that shouldbe his top priority in his currentposition, with Notre Dame still inthe running for several of thecountry’s top prospects. Ianellohas been recognized as one of thenation’s top recruiters byESPN.com, Sporting News,Rivals.com and recruiting analystTom Lemming, according tound.com, and he has previouslycoached at Alabama, Arizona andWisconsin.

Though recruiting is undoubt-edly more difficult in times ofuncertainty like the present,Ianello said Monday he wouldcontinue to sell prospective Irishplayers on the range of opportuni-ties and advantages Notre Damepresents.

“You come to school herebecause everybody that comeshere is going to get a degree,”

Ianello said. “You’re going to playon college football’s biggest stage.You’re going to be on television 32guaranteed times in your careerbefore you ever set foot on cam-pus here.”

“Those are great resources thatthis University has, and thosethings won’t change. I think thatmessage is clear to the guys thatwe’re dealing with at this time,and that will be what we go outthroughout the country and con-tinue to be on the forefront herein the next few weeks.”

Aside from recruiting, Ianello’srole largely depends on whetherthe Irish choose to accept a poten-tial Bowl bid, which Swarbrick,Ianello and several players allsaid had yet to be decidedMonday. Ianello said the teamwould be back in the weight roomTuesday under his guidance, andthen several coaches would hitthe road recruiting early thisweek in an attempt to strengthencurrent verbal commitments andseek further commits as well.

“I think we’ll have some guys insome homes [Tuesday] night andwe’ll be out on Wednesday andThursday,” Ianello said. “Ourcoaching staff will come back tocampus on Friday, we’ll regroupas a staff Friday afternoon inpreparation for our team banqueton Friday evening, and then dur-ing that time there will be discus-sions about if and when we’re in aBowl.”

The efforts of Ianello and therest of the staff have already paidoff, as it was reported that defen-sive tackle Louis Nix gave NotreDame his verbal commitmentTuesday night. Nix was previouslyconsidered a soft verbal committo Miami but had been interactingwith members of the Irish coach-ing staff for most of the fall. TheJacksonville, Fla., native is afuture Under Armour All-American.

As might have been expected,though, Notre Dame lost its firstverbal commitment Tuesday,when blue-chip defensive endChris Martin not only decommit-ted, but also eliminated the Irishfrom consideration, according toan ESPN.com recruiting service.Martin was said to have beenwavering throughout the fall, andhe will consider California,Florida, Oklahoma and USC,according to reports.

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maintain their intensity andfocus.”

The Irish won three straightgames from Nov. 26-28, twoagainst ranked teams, at theParadise Jam in the VirginIslands. Just three days later, theyhave to take on an Eagles teamoff to its best start since 2004.

“I think Eastern Michigan is areally good team,” McGraw said.“They’re playing well. For us, weneed to stay sharp.”

The Eagles are also playing onshort rest — they won a 93-81decision against Missouri StateSunday. In that game, guardTavelyn James scored 31 points.She averages almost 20 pointsper game.

James and guard CassieSchrock form a tough combina-tion for Eastern Michigan.Schrock, who averages 37.2 min-utes per game, is second in theteam in points and rebounds pergame.

“They’ve got a really good backcourt,” McGraw said. “[Schrockis] really good. She played wellagainst us last year. They’re bothgood. They shoot a lot of 3s.

They’re going to really challengeour defense.”

McGraw said the Irish havecontinued to work on theirdefense after the Paradise Jam.

“We’re working on our defensein general, I’m not happy with itafter coming off the Virgin Islandstrip,” she said. “I think we canget better defensively. That’s anindividual effort as well as a teameffort.”

Notre Dame will start the samelineup it did for its win over No.20 Oregon, which includes fresh-man guard Skylar Diggins in hersecond start of the season.Though she has played mainlyfrom the bench, Diggins currentlyleads the Irish in total points andtotal minutes and is second inboth assists and steals.

However, the Irish will onceagain rely heavily on its bench toensure everyone is able to go.

“We’re going to have to find theright combination of who’s readyto play,” McGraw said. “We’replaying well, we want to get outand play again. We just want tocome out hard with a lot of inten-sity and keep on playing.”

The game will begin at 7tonight at the Purcell Pavilion.

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In a twist that makes senseonly in sports, the Irish are happyto be back in South Bend after atrip to the Virgin Islands.

No. 5 Notre Dame (6-0) willhost Eastern Michigan (5-1)tonight at the Purcell Pavilion.

“This time of the year it’s reallygreat to be home,” Irish coachMuffett McGraw said. “We needto be playing at home. We’regoing to need the energy of thecrowd to get us going tomorrow.This is a tough week academical-ly. There’s a lot going on.Everybody’s got things to do. Wehaven’t gotten the rest we need-ed this week. It’s going to be achallenge for them, I think, to

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Harangody breaks two thousand points in ND victory

Senior Luke Harangody’s firstbasket of the night gave him2,000 career points on a night inwhich he led the Irish to a 80-70victory over the Idaho StateBengals.

He is the seventh Irish player toachieve the feat, and became thefirst to scored 2,000 while alsorecording 1,000 rebounds.

“It’s one thing I never thoughtwould happen in my career,”Harangody said. “Never once didI think about that, and last year Inever thought about that really. Ijust wanted to come in here as afreshman and do the smallthings. I’m just going to concen-trate on every game. I’m not wor-ried about the numbers that I’mputting up or the records I’mbreaking. I’m just worried aboutthe next game.”

Irish coach Mike Brey agreed,

saying he expected big things outof Harangody, but nothing quitethis big.

“The first time he put a jerseyon, I said ‘we have somebodyhere who can put some numbersup,’” Brey said. “I knew he’d bereally good for us. I didn’t knowwe were going to get this, but Iknew we were going to need thatmotor and that toughness. But itis staggering, really. I use thephrase ‘machine-like,’ and yousee it on game nights — this is

practice too. These are the kindof things in practice too. He onlyknows one way.”

After being named Big EastPlayer of the Year after his soph-omore season and averaging 23points and 12 rebounds per gamelast year, Harangody briefly con-sidered entering the NBA Draftbefore deciding to return to NotreDame.

“He came back for all the rightreasons,” Brey said. “He lovesbeing a senior, trying to lead his

team. He’s still too hard on him-self sometimes. I have to get himto loosen up, but he’s come a longway in the department.”

Harangody’s 27 points and 12rebounds led the team, and hescored from every area of thefloor. He shot 12-of-17 from thefield and hit both of his 3-pointattempts. Brey said his scoringgame has evolved from where itwas freshman year, and that has

By ERIC PRISTERSports Writer

Ianello insightFOOTBALL

When Tuesday morning rolledaround, a new man was leadingthe Notre Dame football pro-gram.

No, director of athletics JackSwarbrick had not named a full-time replacement for CharlieWeis, whose dismissal wasannounced Monday. But effectiveTuesday, assistant head coachRob Ianello was the man incharge, at least for the timebeing.

“I have asked Rob Ianello tostep in and take over the pro-gram during this period of time,”Swarbrick said at Monday’s pressconference. “Rob is a skilledcoach and has already played acentral role in coordinating ourrecruiting, and I know he willprovide us with the leadership weneed going forward between this IAN GAVLICK/The Observer

Interim head coach Rob Ianello speaks at a press conference Monday where Director of AthleticsJack Swarbrick announced Ianello will lead the football team during a coaching search.

Recruiting coordinatortakes over program reins

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Notre Dame returns northBy LAURA MYERSSports Writer

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Freshman guard Skylar Diggins drives against Indianapolis on Nov. 3.Diggins will start for the second time of her young career tonight.

HOCKEY

Ruth works way backto ice from leg injury

As the Irish try to turn thecorner and reestablish them-selves as a top-flight team incollege hockey, they’ll bedoing so with a familiar faceon the blue line that hasn’talways been there this sea-son.

After missing the first fiveweeks of the season becauseof a leg injury, junior defense-man Teddy Ruth returned forNotre Dame three weeks agoagainst Northern Michigan,and has taken the last sixgames to get readjusted asthe Irish enter the meat oftheir CCHA schedule.

“I mean my first game back,I was working some seriousrust off,” Ruth said. “Afterthat I feel like I’ve picked upthings pretty fast.”

After strong freshman andsophomore campaigns, Ruthwas considered to be a stal-wart of the Irish backlineheading into the season. Butin the last week of trainingcamp before the season open-er against Alabama-Huntsville, the junior wentdown with what Irish coachJeff Jackson described as a“fluke injury.”

“I was pretty disappointed,”Ruth said. “I did a lot thissummer to prep myself for

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By SAM WERNERAssociate Sports Editor

see RUTH/page 18

see BREY/page 17

MEN’S SWIMMING

Welsh leadsswimmersfor 25 years

After embarking on his 25thseason at Notre Dame andbeing named the president ofthe American SwimmingCoaches Association, men’sswimming and diving coachTimothy Welsh has establishedthis season as one to remem-ber.

“What draws me to swim-ming is the commitment swim-mers make to be at their verybest on a given day at a giventime and then doing it,” Welshsaid. “In our sport, the clocknever has a bad day, so it isalways clear and preciselymeasured when a person doeshis best.”

Welsh never swam in highschool or college, but begancoaching to make money as a

By MOLLY SAMMONSports Writer

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