Panel Examines Effect of Obama Campaign HEI Hotel Group Focuses on Diversity and Increased Civic Engagement in 2008 Election Season -Workers Ask
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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 43: ISSUE 92 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19.2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND works with city to revitalize community Off-campus projects add 'vibrancy,' help to tighten link between University and South Bend residents Universitv, he said. By MADELINE BUCKLEY "All three are important projects for us News Writer because they will tighten the link between the University and the-community," Affieck-Graves Editor's note: Thi.<; is the second installment said. "For the University to really succeed, we of a three-part series examining the develop need to be in a vibrant community." ment projects occurring near Notre Dame's Greg Hakanen, director of aSset manage campus. ment and real estate development, said the construction of the Eddy Street Commons is a The University's collaboration with South step in the right direction toward revitalizing Bend to develop the neighborhoods near r,am the neighborhood around campus. pus will bring a vibrancy to the community that The 'Commons presents faculty with a living can potentially reap benefit<> for students and option close to campus, and students will be faculty, according to Executive Vice President able to enjoy a variety of restaurants and John Affieck-Graves. shops, he said. Affieck-Graves said the success of the Notre "Notre Dame has never really had a com Dame community is dependent on a strong mercial district, that some would call it a col community outside the University. lege town, with an easy walking distance to The three projects Notre Dame is investing in campus, so that was kind of a vacuum," - the Eddy Street Commons, Northeast Hakanen said. Neighborhood Revitalization Project and Eddy Street Commons has apartments, eon- JESS LEE!The Observer Innovation Park - attempt to better the com The home pictured above was remodeled with a 'traditional look' as part of The munity, which in turn will benefit the see PROJECTS/page 6 Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Project. Panel examines effect of Obama campaign HEI hotel Group focuses on diversity and increased civic engagement in 2008 election season -workers ask Shades of Ebony, the By LIZ O'DONNELL Africana Studies Department, News Writer and the Black Alumni of Notre for support Dame hosted the discussion, A panel of students, faculty, which lasted approximately Employees fight for and staff discussed the an hour. impacts that President Barack The panel consisted of six right to unionize Obama's campaign had on members of the Notre Dame unifying the diverse American community ranging in ethnici population Wednesday ties, ages, and religious affili By KAITLYNN RIELY evening in the Coleman-Morse ations. Associate News Ediror Center Lounge. Members included Carmen Members of the Notre Dame Orozco-Acosta, a political sci Three hotel workers and a union community gathered to eat ence graduate student, Cecilia organizer urged Notre Dame stu dinner and listen to the dis Lucero, the assistant director dents to support the rights of HEI cussion, which was titled of undergraduate research, Hotels and Resorts workers to "Obama's Impact on Diversity, Jasmin Simmons, a sopho unionize at an event hosted by the more majoring in Spanish and PAT COVENYffhe Observer Inclusion and Civic Coalition for Economic Justice in Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Coleman-Morse Lounge Engagement: Now and the Dooley Room of LaFortune for a discussion on President Obama's campaign Wednesday. Beyond." see 0 BAMNpage 6 Wednesday. Maria Vivanco, 24, an organizer with Unite Here Local 2, a San Francisco chapter of the union, urged students to campaign for bet ter working conditions for hotel Course researches college-aged health employees. "You guys are among the privi in the past. After hearing of leged that have that [college] edu ByJENN METZ Friedewald's plans for the study, News Editor cation, so we really want you to use she helped plan the course with your degree and your education as him in the fall to launch in the a tool to make change," she said. At yesterday's Health and spring. The Coalition, a division of the Wellness Fair, students tested out "Together we put the skeleton of Progressive Student Alliance, first "drunk goggles," entered in raflles the study together," she said. hosted workers from HEI's Le and helped a class of 25 students Designed with an emphasis on Meridien Hotel in San Francisco begin a new clinical trial. increasing undergraduate last November. The clinical research course - research, the study's goal is to One of the workers who spoke, NDash For Better Health - is the measure the blood pressures of Michael Archeta, was fired from his first of its kind at Notre Dame. The between 800 and 1,000 under position as a cook after a Nov. 11 students, under the guidance of graduate students by the end of Observer article about the event semi-retired cardiologist Dr. Vmce the Spring semester. was discovered by the hotel man Friedewald, are conducting a The figure, Wash said, will agement, Vivanco said. study on college-aged blood pres ensure the statement about the The workers came to Notre sure. study is representative of the Dame to speak Wednesday and last Senior Erin Wash, a biochem entire undergraduate population November because the University is istry major who plans on attending at Notre Dame. JESS LEEffhe Observer one of several colleges that invests medical school after Notre Dame, Senior Allison Hickey, left, practices taking junior Amy has had experience doing research see HEALTH/ page 3 Leisenfielt's blood pressure in class last week. see HEll page 4 page 2 The Observer + PAGE 2 Thursday, February 19, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON PRESIDENT 0BAMA'S STIMULUS PACKAGE? Acadetny anticipation I get excited about the Academy Awards. Possibly not the most macho admission, but it's the truth. And this year's awards contain a number of Erich Wolz Lucy Lavely Graysen Petersen-Fitts Hannah Ha Jimmy Mitchell interesting nominees that will make the ceremony sophomore soplfomore sophomore sophomore senior Fisher Holy Cross Dillon Welsh Fam O'Neill fascinating, Bill Brink never mind the fact that Hugh "I thin it's a lot "I make love, "That seems "I don't know, "It's good as Jackman is Sports Editor hosting. of extra not war- we like an awfully but first, 'I'd cut long as it saves Where'd that spending we should all go personal a hole in the the polar , b ,,, ,, come from? -·don't need., back to question. ox. bears. Used to be funny people would run the show, the better to entertain the mass Woodstock. , es: Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres. Where'd Hugh Jackman come from? But we can't judge before we see. He may exude charm and charisma and connect with the audience better than all of the above. At the very least, his physique in a tux and hint of an Australian accent will entertain the IN BRIEF females. Here's what has me excited this The Class of 2012 presents "Frosh year: Four Square" tonight from 6 to 9 Up for Best Picture, we have p.m in Stepan Center. The event is "Slumdog Millionaire," a movie with free to participate, and $5 for a T no well-known actors (at least in shirt. America) that still captivates the audi ence. Half of the movie follows young The Lecture "Ethical Dimensions Indian kids who don't speak English, of Data Mining'' will be presented as yet the cinematography and Indian part of Ethics Week 2009. The lec music (two songs are up for Best ture will be given by Professor Song) move the film along at a rapid Barry Keating of the Mendoza pace. College of Business today from We also have "Titanic's" Jack and 12:30 to 1:30. All presentations will Kate 11 years down the road when be in the Giovannini Commons the relationship forged in the heat (or area. Mendo7a College of Business. cold) of the tragedy starts to fade, in "Revolutionary Road." Jack gets uppi The lecture "Knocking Down the ty with Kate, Kate's not having it ... Walls: The Fight for Latino Cultural whatever the case may be. Equity in NYC" will be given as part All the good things I heard about of the Institute for Latino Studies' Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" (ILS) spring lecture series titled couldn't describe his performance. I "Caribbean Flights: From the First judge movies by how they affect me Colonial Cities in America to after I see them. "The Wrestler" stuck Metropolis U.SA" today at 4 p.m around in my head. A movie about a in 212 McKenna Hall. It is co-spon washed-up wrestler in New Jersey, JESS LEEfThe Observer Members of the Notre Dame community enjoy events, including hula hoop sored by Notre Dame's Henkels and I .couldn't get rid of it. Lecture Series, Graduate School, Side note: Marisa Tomei, who plays contests, massages and relaxation tests at the Recsports Health Fair at ROLFS. College of Arts and Letters Office of a stripper in the movie, still looks real Undergraduate Studies, Kellogg good at age 44. Institute for International Studies, My biggest beef with the Oscars is and Department of Romance usually that they omit comedy movies languages and literatures. and focus on serious, ponderous OFFBEAT movies I don't want to see. Not this David Walker, the president and year, because Robert Downey Jr. got a Man caught sans pants could make it out of the Parish Sheriff's Office CEO of the Peter G.