CAP board pays for damage

FLING, page 1 allow for concerts such as the one held Saturday to happen again. She said, “Would I consider this minor? Absolutely.”

“The way they ran the show, it was like you going to the Tweeter Center and you are going to see a big, mainstream band. The Bouncing Souls have never been that type of band. They have always been an undergroundtype band,” Marty Shea, a freshman English and communication major, said. “At Bouncing Souls’concerts, kids jump on stage, they stage-dive and all that stuff, and they expected this to be the regular Cabrini crowd,” Shea said.

CAPboard had the capacity to sell 1,800 tickets. They set up a website, cabrinitickets.com, to sell tickets to not only Cabrini students, but also the general public. “We were never going to sell that many tickets if we didn’t open it up to the community. The crowd really was more outside people,” Hecht said.

“I consider it more CAPboard getting in over their head. I think what they were expecting was a happy, fun, punk band, you know, a Simple Plan-type to come, do a show and a lot of the Cabrini audience to hang out and enjoy the music. The Bouncing Souls are a type of band that attract kids who regularly go to underground punk shows, who live and die with the music,”

Ratzinger to be 256th pope

Cardinals elect a conser vative German pope on Tuesday

TOM HUNDLEY

STEVE KLOEHN CHICAGO TRIBUNE; (KRT)

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a doctrinal conservative who emerged as a pivotal figure in the days following Pope John Paul’s death, was elected pope Tuesday.

The German prelate, who turned 78 Saturday, will be the Roman Catholics’264th successor to St. Peter. He will be known as Pope Benedict XVI.

Although the announcement was greeted with delirious cheers by the multitudes gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the choice is certain to be a controversial one.

“Dear brothers and sisters, after the great pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me _ a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord,” he told the faithful from the balcony of St. Peter ’s Basilica.

“The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers,” said Ratzinger, who appeared smiling and serene.

As head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger served as Pope John Paul’s theological enforcer. Many who know him personally describe him as shy and reserved, but his strict enforcement of John Paul’s conservative views and his harsh silencing of several prominent theologians established his reputation as a somewhat divisive figure.

As successor to the immensely popular John Paul, whose 26year papacy combined bold political strokes, an epic global pilgrimage and a death that provoked mourning worldwide, he faces a daunting task.

Shea said.

Hecht said that if the students aren’t interested in a carnival during the day, “then why should we spend the money on it?” The idea for the carnival during the day, the concert in the evening, and the breakfast until 3 a.m. was to minimize the drinking on campus during Spring Fling. “It’s hard to justify spending $8,000 to $10,000 more on a concert and letting everybody drink all day and be even more drunk for the concert,” Hecht said.

As for there being a concert next year, Hecht said that CAP board would definitely put one on again. She said, “For the first year doing a major concert, it was great.”

Tougher laws, more drunk drivers

But the election of Ratzinger came surprisingly quickly.

When smoke began to curl from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney a few minutes before 6 p.m. Rome time, confusion reigned. Some in the crowd thought it was white; others were sure it was black. Italian television declared it white and so did the Vatican switchboard, but Vatican Radio said black.

The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica were supposed to clarify the matter. But at precisely 6 p.m., the bells began tolling the hour, adding to the confusion.

Finally, when the bells started to toll at a few minutes after the hour, it was clear that a new pope had been elected.

An air horn sounded. Flags waved and songs in different languages were lifted toward the balcony where the new pope would appear

From all over Rome, people flocked to the square. Via della Conciliazione, the broad avenue that leads to St. Peter ’s, became a fast flowing river of humanity, some strolling, some sprinting toward the square to see the announcement.

Monsignor Thomas Fucinaro, originally from Lincoln, Neb., but a longtime Vatican staff member, was waiting with fellow priests along one of the wooden barricades.

“The fact that this was such a brief conclave is a clear sign of the unity of the cardinals,” he said. “We are all ecstatic.”

After two inconclusive ballots Tuesday morning, and one Monday evening, Ratzinger was elected in the conclave’s Tuesday afternoon session on what would have been either the fourth or fifth ballot.

Atotal of 77 votes, the sup-

DRIVING, page 1 he was okay to drive home. While he was about a block away, he wrapped his truck around a tree Luckily, he was fine and walked away from the accident. He doesn’t remember hitting the tree, but his sixmonth-old truck ended up with $20,000 worth of damage. He said that this accident proved that if you have a couple drinks and think you’re okay to drive, maybe you aren’t,” Poroski said. Impaired driving is the number one cause of death among the ages of 1520. “It’s better to be safe than sorry, so if you want to go out for a few drinks, call a friend or cab to bring you home. It’s better than wrecking your vehicle or, worse, killing an innocent person,” Poroski said.

Alcohol awareness posters have lined the hallways of Cabrini College, attempting to educate students that there is a lot of things that they can lose while they drink, but drunk driving accidents still happen.

“It was August 2002 and it port of two-thirds of the 115 cardinal electors, were needed.

In the minutes after it became clear that there was a new pope, the faithful in St. Peter ’s Square, and millions watching on television around the world, still did not know the identity of the new pope. All eyes turned to the balcony of St. Peter’s and the curtained door that would open to reveal the cardinals’choice.

Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, the senior cardinal deacon, appeared first, and at 6:42 pm he told the world “habemus papam,” “We have a pope.”

He introduced Ratzinger as Benedict XVI.

The initial reaction of the crowd was mixed. Some seemed confused, but others began was midnight. I was home in Maryland a week before I was supposed to come to Cabrini and a 17-year-old crossed the double lines and hit my car at 75 mph. I had a broken foot, wrist and collarbone and shattered glass in my chest. I was a week late coming to college and I wasn’t able to be in the swim club here,” Lauren Walker, a junior special education/elementary major said. “All that the drunk driver got was probation because he was under 18 and his license wasn’t suspended.” Walker went on to explain how the accident has affected her life. Walker still has aches in her collarbone, so she uses a wool strap on her seat belt; she says the accident has affected her running as well. chanting, “Benedict! Benedict!”

There are simple tactics that can be used to stop a drunk driver from getting behind the wheel of a car. One simple step is to attempt to get the keys away from the driver Another step that can be used is approaching them in a calm way and convince them to take a cab or have someone drive them home. All these tactics are examples that Progressive.com has provided for their customers.

Ratzinger, the first German pope since the 11th century, has not yet explained his choice of name, but the last Pope Benedict, who reigned from 1914 until 1922, worked to bring peace during World War I.

The election marks the conclusion of the most widely watched change in leadership in the history of the 1.1 billionmember Roman Catholic Church, a dramatic three-week period that began with the April 2 death of John Paul II.

To the surprise of even church leaders, millions of pilgrims streamed into Rome to pay their respects to the late pope, some waiting in line 10 or even 20 hours to spend a few minutes

Christopher Reinwald, a freshman criminal justice and sociology major and president of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), said, “SADD and its chapters believe that there is no excuse or reason to drink and get behind the wheel of a car. We do not see any reason why any person would subject himself or herself to that kind of danger. After just one drink, alcohol changes your ability to think, so even after one beer, whether you are drunk or not, you put yourself and everyone around you in danger. To me, that is just too big of a risk.” praying before his body

If a visitor of a Cabrini student is of legal drinking age, has drank one too many to drive but it’s past visitation hours, would they be forced to leave? “We encourage them to find a ride home with another individual. If this isn’t the case, then there will be a talk with the area coordinator to come to an understanding that they will stay with a student,” says Schaffner. All of the victims concluded that drinking just doesn’t affect the driver, it affects others as well.

A quarter of a million mourners pressed into St. Peter’s Square for John Paul II’s funeral, while an estimated 2 to 3 million more found other spots in and around Rome to watch on television, an experience they shared with hundreds of millions more around the world.

The funeral, on a chilled and windy day, underscored the towering presence John Paul II had in the church, in life and in death. Aritual designed for pomp and dignity gave way to cheers and chants as the crowd showed its enthusiasm for the pope, some even calling for his immediate sainthood.