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VOLUME 50, ISSUE 124 | FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Jenkins defends Laetare Medal decision University president responds to criticism on selection of Biden, Boehner as this year’s award recipients By KATIE GALIOTO has received both criticism N ews Editor and support from various members of the Notre Dame U niversity President Fr. John community. Jenkins defended his decision “I don’t think controversies to award the Laetare Medal to are necessarily a bad thing if Vice President Joe Biden and they lead us to have serious former Speaker of the House conversations, to think deeply John Boehner in an interview about issues,” Jenkins said in with the Observer on Tuesday, the interview. his first comments since the The Laetare Medal is award- University announced this ed to an American Catholic at year’s recipients in a press re- Notre Dame’s Commencement lease on March 5. each year in recognition of The decision sparked a con- outstanding service to the troversy — on campus and on a national scale — and see LAETARE PAGE 4 OLIVIA MIKKELSEN | The Observer Speaker explores gang Lecture promotes relations in prisons religious dialogue By JENNA WILSON “A Hole at the Center of the state authority and punish- N ews Writer State: Prison Gangs as a ment restores that authority.” Threat to State Authority” on His research has focused W hile mass incarceration Thursday. on two gangs: the Primeirio may incapacitate and deter Lessing said he focuses on Comando da Capital (PCC) individuals from committing organized armed violence in- in Brazil and the Maras in El crimes, it can actually em- volving non-state actors who, Salvador, Lessing said. power sophisticated criminal unlike revolutionary insur- “Calling them prisons gangs organizations, according to gents, are not trying to topple doesn’t convey the scope of Benjamin Lessing. Lessing, the state. these criminal organizations,” assistant professor of politi- “Crime is a transgression of he said. cal science at the University the authority of the state,” he This gang activity can be of Chicago, unraveled the said. “If everyone is breaking traced back to mass complicated dichotomy of the laws, there is no state au- prison gangs in a lecture thority. Criminals transgress see PRISON PAGE 4 CEO examines gender in MONICA VILLAGOMEZ MENDEZ | The Observer global consumer economy Marianne Farina speaks at the annual Madeleva Lecture in Carroll Auditorium, examining the importance of interfaith conversations. By MEGHAN SULLIVAN She addressed the fact that presence in the market has By KATHRYN MARSHALL original poems. The first was N ews Writer nations like Brazil, China and resulted in the creation of N ews Writer based on an image she saw in India tend to be labeled as the programs targeting women an illustrated bible, where lines T he Mendoza College of greatest growth markets, but by major companies, she said. S aint Mary’s Center for of scripture were being picto- Business and the University’s she emphasized that the com- Brennan said companies like Spirituality hosted the 31st rially hoisted into place with gender studies program host- monly unmentioned female Under Armour, Levi’s and annual Madeleva Lecture on a bumblebee and pulley, and ed Bridget Brennan, CEO of market is especially large. Harley-Davidson are develop- Thursday, honoring the 175th the other poem was inspired by Female Factor and author of “Women are now consid- ing these types of programs anniversary of the founda- the line of sycamores lining the “Why She Buys,” on Thursday ered to be one of the world’s with the hope of increas- tion of the Sisters of the Holy Avenue, she said. to discuss women’s role in largest emerging growth ing their brand by including Cross. The event featured three “I want tonight to celebrate business. markets because of women’s women. keynote speakers, all women in poetic image the mission of Brennan’s lecture, “Top increased economic par- “Women are the engine of scholars, to discuss religious this college and the sisters who Trends in Marketing and ticipation, educational levels the consumer economy, driv- dialogue. have worked here and the land Selling to Women,” began and political participation,” ing between 70 and 80 Sr. Eva Mary Hooker, profes- upon which it stands,” she said. by explaining the growth Brennan said. sor of English at Saint Mary’s, trends in the marketplace. This increased female see TRENDS PAGE 4 began the night reading two see MADELEVA PAGE 3 NEWS PAGE 3 SCENE PAGE 5 VIEWPOINT PAGE 6 SOFTBALL PAGE 12 WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 12 2 Th E OBSERVER | FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? 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