Jenkins to Address Academic Freedom Timm Hired Queer Film Festival, Vagina Monologues Are Starting Points for Discussion As Head Of
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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 40: ISSUE 68 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18,2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Jenkins to address academic freedom Timm hired Queer Film Festival, Vagina Monologues are starting points for discussion as head of Monologues. and Communication Hilary he's going to bn for or against it Mount Mary By MADDIE HANNA and "Academic freedom is an Crnkovich said. and he hasn't said anything one MARY KATE MALONE essential value in any university Professors and students said way or another. With pnople so New~ Wril~rs community, and our Catholic they were encouraged by polarized on this campus, each By MEGAN O'NEIL character is essenlial to Notre Jenkins' decision to speak pub convinced that .Jenkins is on Saint Mary's Editor Univorsity l'rnsidnnt Father Dame," Jenkins said in a state licly about two contentious and their sid.e, it is very useful for .John .Jnnkins will discuss the ment Tuesday. "I want to central aspects of the him to articulate where he Saint Mary's Vice Presidnnt int1~rplay bntwenn academic address both these central val~ University's identity. stands." for Student Affairs Linda frc-ndom and ues, and seek comment and dis James Collins, associate chair While the ()ueer Film Festival Timm announced last wnek Notro Danw's cussion from the University of the Film, Television and and Vagina Monologues - the she will leave the Collegn in Catholic community. I bnlieve such dis Theatre Department, whieh has former entering its third year at June in order to assume tlw character in cussion is an important one for traditionally co-sponsored the Notre Dame, the latter its fifth presidency th rt~n opn n Notre Dame and Catholic higher Queer Film Festival and Vagina - have particularly polarized at Mount dialogue ndueation in general." Monologues, said the addresses the campus, Brown said the two Mary College addrnsses Jenkins will not make a policy have already built anticipation. events would serve as examples in Milwau nnxt wnnk, a announcement in favor or ''I'm delightnd he's giving the rather than focal points in the kee, Wis. decision against certain productions dur talk on where he stands on all address Jenkins will deliver to As a viee spurred by ing his addresses, but will sim of this. Right now I think clarifi faculty on Monday, students on president at Jenkins rncnnt ply initiate dialogue, University cation of when~ he stands in Tuesday and alumni on Saint Mary's hnightnnnd dnbatn about the spokesman Dennis Brown and really important," Collins said. for 11 years, ()twnr Film Festival and Vagina vice president of Public Affairs "A lot of people are imagining see JENKINS/page 4 Timm inter- acted elosely Tlmm with stu- dents, overseeing various departments on campus including athletics and reere Off-campus student residences burglarized ation, student activities, counseling and career devel opment, health and wellnnss Locked doors, a/ann Renters disturbed, services and residenee lifn. "This is the next move in systems fail to stop but not surprised my life," Timm said of tho job winter break thefts by recent break-ins change. "In lots of ways, this will be a new beginning for me - a new bnginning pro l\y MARY KATE MALONE By KATIE PERRY fessionally and a new begin A.~siswn1 News Editor A~sistant News Editor ning personally." Timm began to consider thn Snvnral off-eampus hrllls Off-campus students possibility of a presidential position in recnnt years, she ns 01:eupil~d by Notre Dame victimized by burglaries students wore burglarized during Christmas break said, and was first contaeted or vandalized during said they were not sur by the Mount Mary search Christmas brPak in a series prised by the events - committee as a potential can ol' crimns that students said just shocked they did not didate in late .July. Timm said r:ausod serious damage to happen sooner. And some that institution's mission as a tlwir honws. feared the erimes would Catholic women's liberal arts Tnn studnnts Jiving at S25 increase already-inflamed eollnge resonated with her East Washington St. esti tensions between Notre from the very beginning. rnatml thn damagn to their Dame students and the One of six candidates ini I 0-bndroom house al about South Bend community. tially intnrvinwed, Timm visit $10,000. Burglars rmtnrnd "I was feeling like we od the Milwaukoe r:ampus in tlw house Doc. 27, stealing were going to get broken mid-Snptnmbnr wlwro she nvnryth ing from I>VI>s and into, even during met with the search commit tee - a body whieh ineludnd Residents of 524 Corby Street discovered their house was vandal sec THEFTS/page 6 Ized during break. Houses on East Washington Street were also hit. see SECURITY/page 8 see TIMM/pagc 6 College starts setnester day early Forn1er trustee pleads By KELLY MEEHAN guilty to misdemeanor A.o;.~istaltl News l'.di10r Saint Mary's studrmts' win Observer Staff Report the Notre Dame eampus, police said. The two were on eampus tnr bmak r~amn to an abrupt end Monday wlmn they found Former Notre Dame football for the winter Board of' Trustees thmnselvns sitting in a class captain and NFL Super Bowl meeting. Duerson pushed his wife out the door of tlwir room room on a day previously winner Dave Duerson, who resigned from the University's and she hit the wall, and she rr~snrwd for enrollment. pur chasing books and sclwdule Board of' Trustees last was treated and rnleased from a local hospital, police said. changes. February, pleaded guilty Thn Collngn Acadnmie Tuesday to a misdomeanor Duerson agreed to plnad i\lliLirs Council votnd in April charge of domestic battery. guilty to the domnstie battory 2005 to rnsunw class on thn Duerson, 45, of llighland eharge in return for thren otlwr first Monday of' the spring Park, Ill., appeared Tuesday in counts against him lwing dis tho traffic and misdemeanor missed. Catherine Wilson, a 2006 SOIJlestnr and 11VI11'Y division of' Superior Court in spokeswoman for St. .Joseph snnwstnr tlwrr~al'tnr. Tlw eoundl optnd to bngin a day South Bfmd and plead11d guilty County Proseeu tor M ieh a rd 11arlinr in ordnr to aehievn a to 01111 of' four misdemeanor Dvorak, told the Assoeiatnd an nqual nwnting time counts against him. Prns~. Tho formnr football star hPI.wnon classns thai. convmw The charges stemmed from is selwdulnd to h11 snntnnend on Monday, Wndrwsday and an argument betwnen Dunrson Mareh 14 and l'aens up to a 1-'riday and thosl' that nwt on and his wife, Alicia. that took ynar in jail and a $5,000 linn. Saint Mary's students listen in class, which started on Monday place last February in their sec CLASS/page 4 at the College - a day before classes at Notre Dame began. hotel room at the Morris Inn on see DUERSON/pagc 9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WAS THE BEST PART OF WINTER BREAK? Obligatory resolution It's the beginning of a new semester, and also still the beginning of a new year. Although the festivities of New Jeff Paone Jorie Reger Jon Kearney Bill Buzaid Kevin Washington Brian Desplinter Year's Eve are in the past, for many people New Year's resolutions are very junior junior freshman freshman freshman freshman much a part of Dillon Welsh Family Alumni Alumni Knott Hall Alumni the present. laura Baumgartner It has only , been about 17 "Watching The "When my "Hugging the "Frolicking in "The warm "Sobriety. Aristocrats. ,, friend became White Sox the snow with weather.'' days, give or Wzre Editor , take a few my friend with World Series Kearney. hours, since , these resolutions were made and I benefits. " trophy. hope most of you can still honestly say that you are living up to yours. However, if you didn't choose to con verge with the masses and resolve to improve your life in some way this year I think that's OK too. Based on my experiences, I haven't encountered many people who were able to sustain their goals for the New Year through out the month of January, let alone the entire year. IN BRIEF Personally, I don't even remember what my past resolutions may have The film "The Breakfast Club" been. This makes me fairly confident will be shown Thursday at 11:55 that I did not continue with my resolve p.m. as part of the Brew and to improve myself for very long. View at Legends. Free breakfast I think the problem with New Year's will be served. resolutions is that a lot of the time people don't really commit to them. The Notre Dame Student Film They make up a resolution whether Festival begins Friday at 7 p.m. it's to start working out on a regular in the DeBartolo Center for the basis, to quit smoking, or to spend Performing Arts. The Festival more time doing volunteer work not will feature 12 short films made because they truly want to do these as class projects during the past things but because they feel obligated year and will include dark come too. dies and documentaries. New Year's resolutions are a tradi tion that dates back to Babylonian Bill O'Connell's Chicago times, and because they are still so Skyliners, a swing band, will per popular in society today who wants to form Friday at 10 p.m. at be the oddball who doesn't make one.