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THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY VOLUME 48, ISSUE 109 | TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND, SMC work to combat sexual assault CLC formalizes SMC receives grant prayer services after to promote an end sexual assault reports to sexual violence By EMMA BORNE By REBECCA O’NEIL News Writer News Writer Notre Dame Campus Life Council The Indiana Coalition Against (CLC) passed a resolution Monday Sexual Assault (INCASA) award- that will formalize the implementa- ed the Saint Mary’s Belles Against tion of prayer services conducted af- Violence Office (BAVO) and the ter sexual assault campus alerts. Office of Student Involvement and According to the chair of CLC, stu- Multicultural Services (SIMS) a dent body president Alex Coccia, the $10,000 grant. council has been working on the res- Revenue generated from the sale olution for the entirety of the 2013- of End Violence Together specialty 2014 school year. license plates funded the grant. The After two email alerts were sent license plates were a collaborative out during the first weekend of design developed by INCASA and the school in the fall, students talked Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, di- about whether these assaults were a rector of BAVO Connie Adams said. norm, Coccia said. CLC immediately “The purpose was to generate a new initiated discussions about how it AMY ACKERMANN | The Observer means of funding to support response Members of the Campus Life Council (CLC) meet in the Notre Dame Room of the LaFortune Student see CLC PAGE 5 Center on Monday afternoon. The CLC moved to institute a prayer service after sexual assault reports. see GRANT PAGE 5 Graduates share experience Parlor to close for By ALEX CAO News Writer floor repairs Four Notre Dame Master By MACAILA DeMARIO Mary’s later converted the in Business Administration News Writer space into a student center. (MBA) graduates convened According to O’Brien, in the Jordan Auditorium on Welsh Parlor, located in Haggar parlor is frequently Monday to talk about ethi- the Haggar College Center at used for meetings, panel dis- cal decisions in their previ- Saint Mary’s and more com- cussions and dinners. ous occupations as part of monly referred to as Haggar Haggar Parlor is a popu- a Frank Cahill Lecture in Parlor, will be out of com- lar venue for events, which Business Ethics. mission for an estimated now will have to change lo- During the first part of the nine to 10 weeks due to floor cations, O’Brien said. One event, each graduate shared damage, according to Gwen event that has been affected cautionary tales about their O’Brien, director of media by the closure of the space previous employers, which relations at Saint Mary’s. is the 2014 “Chimes Literary remained unnamed. “On Jan. 24, 2014, a steam and Arts Journal” release Nicole O’Connor, who coil in a radiator cracked, reading. worked as a financial con- and water from the unit Kathryn Haemmerle, an sultant for a hospital, said flooded the floor,” O’Brien editor of the journal, said her experiences dealing said. the parlor’s closure is disap- with negativity in the office WEI LIN | The Observer The damage done is not pointing, given the parlor’s taught her to be cautious in a Business professor Patrick Murphy speaks at the Frank Cahill only extensive, but also ir- ideal environment for the Lecture in Business Ethics on Monday. workplace environment. reversible, she said. The release reading. “In the interview process and people talked about each “The lesson here is that repairs, which include re- “We are partial to Haggar [for my job], something felt a other behind their back. … [the company] had a really placing the floor with white Parlor because it’s very little off with the culture, but Each day I went home, I had quick response because they oak wood, will cost $35,000, suitable to readings,” I kind of brushed it off since to check to make sure that I knew that they messed up,” and Saint Mary’s hopes to Haemmerle said. “It has I got the opportunity to work stayed true to myself.” Francica said. “They admit- have the parlor ready for light and space, with an area in a hospital,” O’Connor said. Chris Francica, who ted their mistake, and it was commencement, according near the piano for a contrib- “But it should have been a worked in marketing in the interesting because it ended to O’Brien. utor to stand and read their warning sign for me, looking telecommunications indus- up not being a huge issue for The Haggar College work.” back. Things were okay for try, described how his em- [the company] because they Center, which was dedicated Nevertheless, O’Brien me the first few months, but ployer handled a controversy acted so quickly. The first in 1942, originally housed said there are other venues then I found that people in over a potentially disastrous the Alumnae Centennial the office weren’t supportive false-marketing incident. see LECTURE PAGE 5 Library, O’Brien said. 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