Waste-Free Wednesdays Promote Sustainability Campus Groups Encourage Students to Waste Less Food Through Weekly ‘Clean Plate Club’ at Dining Halls
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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Ndsmcobserver.com Waste-Free Wednesdays promote sustainability Campus groups encourage students to waste less food through weekly ‘Clean Plate Club’ at dining halls By NICOLE TOCZAUER take place in the dining halls News Writer from 6 to 7 p.m. every week in November. In September, Notre Dame stu- “The goal of Waste-Free dents wasted an average of 4.63 Wednesdays is twofold,” Davis ounces of food after each meal in said. “One: to reduce the amount the dining hall, said William Yar- of fluid and food waste. Two: To brough, associate director in the raise awareness and have people Food Services Administration. feel empowered for not wasting.” “If 4,000 students eat a meal, The project began last year that’s 1,157 pounds of food and when Davis was on the Student beverage wasted for that meal,” Energy Advisory Board. She Yarbrough said. worked with ND Food Services, In an effort to combat food the eND Hunger Campaign, stu- and liquid waste at the Univer- dent government, GreeND, the sity, GreeND, Food Services and Holy Cross Food Drive and the the Office of Sustainability part- Office of Sustainability to create nered together this year to spon- the project. sor Waste-Free Wednesdays, “By the end, the results showed a weekly event in the month of that we cut food waste in half and November that asks students to raised enough money to provide think about the food they throw 6,300 meals in the South Bend out. community,” Davis said. “It really SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer Senior Elizabeth Davis, chair emphasized the season of giv- Notre Dame students wasted about 4.63 ounces of food per meal during the month of September. of the sustainability project, said Waste-Free Wednesdays encourage students to think twice about wasting food. Waste-Free Wednesdays will see WASTE/page 5 Community celebrates Film producer discusses mini-series Día de los Muertos By MARISA IATI for International Studies and News Writer the Snite Museum of Art. In Mexican tradition, Nov. 1 Notre Dame and South Bend is the one day each year when community members commem- the souls of the dead return to orated the lives of deceased the mortal world, said sopho- loved ones at a Día de los Muer- more Briana Cortez, who per- tos celebration Tuesday eve- formed with Mariachi ND and ning in the Hesburgh Center for Coro Primavera. International Studies. “It’s the one day where you The event featured perfor- can spend time with your fam- mances by student groups Ma- ily and friends that have passed riachi ND, Ballet Folklorico on to the next life,” she said. Azul y Oro and Coro Primavera “Instead of it being eerie, the de Nuestra Señora. It was spon- way Halloween is portrayed, sored by the Institute for Latino Studies, the Kellogg Institute see MUERTOS/page 5 SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer Film producer Lisa Chaundry, center, describes the process of making the PBS documentary mini- series, “Women, War and Peace.” The mini-series relates the stories of women involved in warfare. By ANNA BORINI the women and families who they deserve. News Writer are disproportionately targeted “Deciding which conflicts to in today’s conflict zones — but cover was one of the most diffi- Part four of the five part seldom covered in news re- cult decisions we had to make,” documentary mini-series, ti- ports.” she said. “We researched sto- tled “Women, War and Peace,” Chaundry said the idea for ries around the world, including aired Tuesday on PBS. The se- the film series was born after Asia, Central America, Chech- ries, which focuses on women’s this conversation. nya, Georgia, Israel and Pales- roles in warfare, was produced “Disproportionate attention tine, Northern Ireland, Congo, in part by Nina Chaundry, who has been paid to men in conflict, Sudan, Guinea as well as the spoke on a panel Tuesday about and we hope that this series is stories in Bosnia, Colombia and the documentaries. the beginning of a dialogue Afghanistan.” “The creators of the series, and that more films and more After all their research was Pamela Hogan, Abigail Disney reporting will look at conflict collected, the filmmakers de- and Gini Reticker, first met through women’s eyes,” she cided to tell the story of how about the project in the fall of said. war had changed in the last 20 2007,” Chaundry said. “They When choosing the stories years since the end of the Cold had each individually noticed to tell in the documentary, she War, Chaundry said. SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer a similar trend in reporting: a said the producers and film- “Since the end of the Cold An ofrenda by artist Ana Teresa Fernandez was displayed at the focus on the men and the guns makers wanted to give under- Hesburgh Center during the Dia de los Muertos celebration Tuesday. and a dearth of stories about reported stories the attention see COLD WAR/page 5 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Group votes on allocations page 3 u Viewpoint page 6 u Interview with William Mapother page 8 u Kelly looks to extend streak page 16 page 2 | ndsmcobserver.com The Observer u DAY-TO-DAY Wednesday, November 2, 2011 QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR STRANGEST TALENT? www.ndsmcobserver.com P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Editor-in-Chief Douglas Farmer Managing Editor Business Manager Sarah Mervosh Jeff Liptak Asst. Managing Editor: Adriana Pratt Asst. 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