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the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 4344 : Issue ???70 wednesDAY,Wednesday, JanuaryAugust 27, 13, 20092010 ndsmcobserver.com New bishop hopes to be active in ND community John] Jenkins, first as broth- By MADELINE BUCKLEY er priests, then as local bish- News Editor op with a university presi- dent,” Rhoades said in an e- Bishop Kevin Rhoades said mail to The Observer. “I am he hopes to be “an active grateful already for the participant” in the University warm welcome and offers of of Notre Dame as he pre- hospitality that I have pares to replace Bishop John already received from Fr. D’Arcy as the Bishop of the Jenkins.” Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Rhoades, who previously Bend. served as bishop of the Rhoades will officially take Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., D’Arcy’s place in an installa- said the five Catholic colleges tion ceremony today in Fort and universities that reside Wayne. D’Arcy held the posi- in the Fort Wayne-South tion for 25 years. Bend diocese make it unique, The Vatican announced which he said is an “extraor- Rhoades would take D’Arcy’s dinary” occurrence for a dio- place in November. cese of this size. “I look forward to a close “I believe that Notre Dame AP personal relationship with Bishop John D’Arcy, center, and Bishop Kevin Rhoades, right, greet visitors after Mass in Fort [University President Fr. see BISHOP/page 4 Wayne in November. Rhoades assumes D’Arcy’s position today. Students return from abroad DormBooks sees Over 350 Domers adjust to life back under the Golden Dome increase in business By MEGAN DOYLE “The bookstore is a rip-off,” News Writer By SARAH MERVOSH sophomore Frankie Gari, who Asssistant News Editor sold his books to DormBooks Students returning to for the first time last semes- South Bend after studying More and more students fed ter, said. “All the prices I got abroad last semester grap- up with high textbook prices back (at DormBooks) I was ple with more than new at the bookstore took their happy with. It was cash in my classes as they readjust to business elsewhere last pocket.” living on the Notre Dame semester. Gari said he decided to use campus. DormBooks, the student- DormBooks because he Over 350 students traveled run company that sells and learned more about it and abroad during the fall buys textbooks, had three because it was the easiest semester, Kathleen Opel, times more business in fall option. director of the Office of 2009 than in the past, sopho- “The awareness of it is International Studies, said. more Kelsey Falter, who being promoted a lot more The largest programs works as manager of opera- [and] the guy was a floor include those in London; tions, said. above me so I was just like Dublin, Ireland; Fremantle, Falter said DormBooks’ hey, can I sell you these Australia; Rome; Santiago, message to students is “plain books?” Gari said. “It was Chile; and Toledo, Spain; she and simple. We offer better really easy.” said. prices for used textbooks and Sophomore Mia Stenger “Each situation has differ- lower prices to buy text- also said DormBooks seemed ent adjustment issues, but books.” to grow in popularity last most students are prepared Students seemed to hear semester. to readjust when they come that message last semester back,” Opel said. “Students more than ever. see BOOKS/page 4 are familiar with Notre Dame, and they find that they have changed more than we have when they return.” Junior Lauren Guzman Faculty, staff safe spent her fall semester in Toledo. For Guzman, the pace of daily life was the most striking difference after Haiti quake between life in the United Courtesy of Chris Knoedler States and in Europe. Notre Dame students cram into a phone booth in front of University president Fr. John Observer Staff Report “In Spain, everyone takes Jenkins. “Our prayers are with siestas, so everything in the Four faculty and staff mem- them and all of those in Haiti in city would be closed from experience.” of things I wanted to with bers working for the Notre Dame the wake of this disaster.” two to five in the afternoon,” While most students felt my host family, like visiting Haiti Program were accounted Notre Dame’s Haiti Program is she said. “Everything runs a that the semester program their parents in the puebla for and safe after a 7.0-magni- based in Léogâne, about 30 kilo- little bit slower there.” was perfect for their needs, they grew up in and explor- tude earthquake hit Haiti meters west of Port-au-Prince. Guzman said that she was Catherine Scallen wished ing more of Toledo,” she Tuesday, University spokesman The four faculty and staff mem- ready to return home after she had remained for anoth- said. “I’ll miss my host fami- Dennis Brown said in a press bers were in Port-au-Prince at her months in Europe, but er semester in Toledo. ly a lot, along with café con release. the time of the quake, the press her semester was a source “Since I traveled so much leche, café con helado and “We are thankful that these release said. of lasting friendships and on the weekends last semes- dedicated members of the Notre There is no information about “an overall phenomenal ter, I did not get to do a lot see ABROAD/page 6 Dame family are safe,” said damage to Notre Dame facilities. INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER SMC students raise money for Africa page 3 N Women’s Basketball wins page 20 N That was so 2009 page 10 N Viewpoint page 8 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 13, 2010 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT YOU EVER RECEIVED? Rested up, ready to go Since I live close to Notre Dame, my house often becomes a refugee camp for displaced Notre Dame students whose flight arrangements do not yield Ashley Meklis Kerri Whelan Marcel Frenkel Maria Font Matt Gallagher them permission to immediately return junior freshman sophomore sophomore sophomore to campus before Ryan the dorms open on Badin Alumni Ryan O’Neil Sunday morning. The pre-spring “This one board “The movie ‘The “My family.” “A surprise trip “Snowboard semester gathering of students at my game because Hangover.’” to New York gear and pass house brought me my family City.” because now I to the rude awak- always plays get to tear up ening that I accom- it.” plished next to the slopes.” nothing over Molly Sammon break, which I am entirely fine with. One friend that Sports Wire came to stay at the Editor Sammon hotel for the night before break had spent the time off school in El Paso, Texas, working with immi- IN BRIEF grants and analyzing the social strains on their lives as migratory workers RecSports fitness classes are through the Center for Social Concerns. free today through Sunday. Sign She earned class credit and lived to tell ups for spring semester fitness the tale of being completely immersed classes begins Thursday at 7:30 in a life totally different from her life at a.m. home in rural New Hampshire. As we talked and shared stories from RecSports will hold a martial break while packing all our belongings arts demonstration in Rockne back up again, she told me all about the 109 today from 6:45 p.m. to interesting people she befriended and 8:15 p.m. Instructors will walk the perspective she’d be taking in her through the history of the disci- paper. I had no response. The most pline and give a brief demon- rewarding thing I did over break was stration of what could be watch Gossip Girl seasons one and two taught in a RecSports martial and all the extra special features that arts class. the DVD set Santa brought me had to offer. A pre-release of the film Maybe I couldn’t explain the social “Extraordinary Measures” will implications of being an immigrant be shown in the Browning worker and how it relates to the econo- Cinema of the DeBartolo my of El Paso, Texas, but I could give Performing Arts Center at 6:30 you a detailed explanation of exactly p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Thursday. why Serena and Dan needed to end The showing is free, but ticketed. their seemingly perfect relationship, Call 574-631-2800 to reserve why Blair did not get into Yale, and why tickets. Captain Archibald committed the ulti- SARAH O’CONNOR/The Observer Students bear the cold on their way to class. Students geared up for the spring SUB will show “The Box” in mate political scandal the upper-east semester when classes began Tuesday. side had ever seen. 101 DeBartolo Hall Thursday at Ultimately, though someone else in 10 p.m. and Friday at 8 p.m. and my shoes might feel otherwise, I’m not 10:30 p.m. embarrassed. It took me a really long time to watch those episodes. But more Get a taste of food from all importantly, I needed the rest to gear across the country Thursday up for this semester. I needed the ulti- OFFBEAT from 10 p.m. to midnight. The mate relaxation that the forty episodes food will be served in LaFortune detailing the lives of the far too wealthy Student apologizes for cials King’s College in Wilkes- ful woman pass him. Ballroom, Dooley Room and and far too fashionable upper-east urinating on nativity scene Barre on Monday.