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miami outlasts flyers in overtime, PagE 12 friday news, SOCIETY OF FREETHINKERS mEETS ON CamPUS, PagE 4 NOV. 18, 2011 a&e, WHaT’S THE DEaL?, PagE 6 opinions, PIZZa FOR THaNKSgIVINg DINNER?, PagE 8 sports, EDITOR ENCOURagES STUDENT support OF FOOTBaLL TEam PagE 12 flyernews.com univerSiTy of dayTon vol. 59 No. 17 students raise money for service trip Cornerstone Bar & Grille owner opens new restaurant sarA DorN Chief News Writer The owner of the former Corner- stone Bar & Grille on Brown Street opened a new restaurant called Jimmie’s Ladder 11 on Friday Nov. 11. Jimmie Brandell said it wasn’t easy to let go of the bar popularly known as The Hills – he had owned it for 26 years, celebrated his wed- ding night there and had both his sons work at the restaurant. But he said he knew he was in luck when he cut the red tape to Jimmie’s Ladder 11 at 145 Warren A group of University of Dayton students pose outside the Honduran medical clinic they worked during a UD service breakout trip in January. The Center for Social Concern is hosting a pancake breakfast Sunday, Nov. 20, to raise money for a similar breakout program to Honduras this winter. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY NICOLE SCHECKELHOFF St., just across the street from his old bar’s location. CHriS rizer breaks. and faith-based medical brigades, throughout Honduras, she said. He said he acquired Cornerstone News Editor Shannon Hallinan, a senior biolo- Scheltens said. Scheltens said the January 2011 Bar & Grille, located at 936 Brown gy major and a fundraising chair for These supplies include dietary Honduras breakout was led by Rob- St., only three years after he mar- The University of Dayton Center the trip, said the pancake breakfast supplements, pain medications, an- ert Kearns, a biology professor and ried Sue Brandell, and the couple for Social Concern will hold an all- will raise money to help two causes: tibiotics, topical creams, asthma, si- director of premedical programs had owned the bar ever since. you-can-eat pancake breakfast from Cover the $1,600 per student to go nus and pain medications, she said. Scheltens said Campus Ministry But then Premier Health Part- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at on the trip and to purchase needed The students also will teach Hon- asked her to advise this year’s trip ners, the non-profit organization the McGinnis Center, to raise mon- medical and dental supplies. The duran clinic visitors about healthy because Kearns was not available to which owns Miami Valley Hospital ey for the fourth annual Honduras UD students then will distribute practices such as brushing their lead it and because she led another behind the bar’s old location, of- breakout program. these supplies to people who visit teeth and washing their hands. She similar Global Brigades breakout in fered to purchase Cornerstone and Twenty-six students will go on the Honduran medical clinic where said the group will stay in dormito- May. to have the old Warren Street fire- the Honduras trip from Jan. 8 to Jan. they will work. ries owned by Global Brigades, the The January 2012 Honduras house remodeled into a restaurant. 14, 2012, said Kathleen Scheltens, as- Hallinan said the group of UD non-profit organization Scheltens breakout will replace the May 2012 Jimmie Brandell said he couldn’t sistant director of the pre-medicine students also is seeking medical worked with to set up the trip. Honduras breakout, she said. resist the offer. program and faculty adviser for the supply donations from outside Hallinan said three doctors, one Glenna Knape, a senior biol- “This is a bittersweet thing,” Sue trip. While most of the students are sources such as Miami Valley Hos- dentist and a nurse from the Dayton ogy and Spanish major who par- Brandell said. “I’m very happy with biology or pre-medicine majors, the pital and pharmacists. area are planning on going on the ticipated in the January 2011 it, though. We want to continue to program is open to all majors, she The students then plan to request trip to treat the clinic patients and Honduras breakout along with 15 give back to the community and we said. contributions from Caring Part- help the students distribute medica- other students, said she encour- want to be a destination spot.” Breakouts are domestic and in- ners, a non-profit Christian organi- tions. ages other students to partici- The Jimmie’s Ladder 11 building ternational service trips students zation which collects excess medical Global Brigades runs student pate in the program in the future. incorporates original aspects of the participate in through the Center supplies from doctors and hospitals medical and education service for Social Concern during school and donates them to mission trips projects in different communities See Honduras on p. 5 See Restaurant on p. 3 Today ThurSday friday weather 50/35 58/50 60/49 students hold fasting fundraiser (Source: www.nws.noaa.gov) Mostly Chance of This weekend: Fall’s last stand. Sunny sunny Showers Page 2 2 NEWS flyernews.com flyer News • friday, Nov. 18, 2011 campus fast brings attention to hunger, homelessness rachel ToviNitti participants collected pledges namic, Mackell said. grassroots campaigns, according to vice, helping others and raising Staff Writer which went towards the Thanksgiv- “[The event was] designed to al- its website. awareness.” ing basket collection,” Farrell said low students to experience hunger The week is an opportune time Emily Motz, a junior adolescent The University of Dayton Center in an email to Flyer News. “During while also connecting their faith for students to think about how to young adult education major, for Social Concern hosted its first this time, participants met periodi- lives in a sort of solidarity with they can give back to those in need, said in an email to Flyer News that Fast 4 Justice last week, just a few cally to pray together for an end to individuals across the world strug- according to Farrell. the fast was an eye-opening experi- days before the start of Hunger and poverty and a more just world. Par- gling for hunger,” he said in the “We are so blessed to be students ence. Homelessness Awareness Week. ticipants were invited to break the email. at the University of Dayton, but we “It was moving being in solidar- There were 10 participants who fast together with a simple supper The Center for Social Concern also are called to realize that we are ity with people who don’t have food fasted from 7 p.m. Nov. 9 until 7 p.m. on Thursday evening.” supported the Fast 4 Justice’s goal living in a world in need and have a to eat,” Motz said. Nov. 10., according to an email to The event was sponsored by the to raise awareness in the UD com- responsibility to take action,” Far- Fast 4 Justice was also a spiritual Flyer News from Stephen Mackell, Center for Social Concern as a way munity about the local and global rell said in her email. experience for her as participants a junior economics and philosophy to raise funds toward UD’s annual issues of hunger and poverty, ac- Mackell said in his email that he took time to pray throughout the major and Fast 4 Justice founder. Thanksgiving basket collection, cording to Farrell. thought of organizing Fast 4 Jus- day, she said in the email. She said They abstained from eating and which this year will provide 550 “The fast relates directly to Hun- tice at UD while researching other she encourages others to find new limited their intake to water or Thanksgiving dinners for impov- ger and Homelessness Awareness groups across the country which ways to participate in social justice. juice during that 24-hour period, erished local families, according to Week because one of its primary had fundraised by fasting. “I challenge you [students] to according to Lauren Farrell, a Farrell. purposes was to raise awareness of “I adapted my ideas with those think about how your actions af- graduate assistant at the Center for The fast raised about $100, she issues of hunger and poverty,” Far- examples to make something I fects others and to become more Social Concern. said. rell said in an email. thought UD students could get be- aware of the social justice issues “For each hour of the fast, the The fast also had a spiritual dy- UD’s Hunger and Homelessness hind,” Mackell said. and find out how you can get in- Awareness week started Saturday, Students who joined the fast volved on campus and in Dayton,” Nov. 11, and ends Friday, Nov. 18. were grateful for the experience Motz said. It consists of daily events and ac- and said would like to participate tivities for service, fundraising and in a similar initiative in the future, education around the themes of Mackell said in the email. hunger and homelessness. Will Marsh, a senior middle The week is a national initiative childhood education major, said in sponsored by the National Coali- an email to Flyer News that he also tion for Homelessness and the Na- helped plan the event. He said that Follow Us tional Student Campaign Against the fast gave him an opportunity to Hunger and Homelessness. Its goal express his faith. On Twitter is to educate people about the is- “I participated in Fast 4 Justice sues of hunger and homelessness because I wanted to try and raise and motivate them to take action awareness of the hunger and home- @FlyerNews against it, according to the NCH lessness issues in the Miami Val- & website.

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