the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45 : Issue 5 Monday, August 30, 2010 ndsmcobserver.com University responds to contract lawsuitPolice Administration claims former professor used grant money to take pornographic photographs arrest 23 By LAURA McCRYSTAL News Editor students The University claimed for- mer Notre Dame professor Oliver Collins was fired at party because he used $190,000 of grant and University money to purchase equipment that he Observer Staff Report used to take pornographic photographs in a recently filed Twenty-three students were legal response a breach of arrested for minor consumption of contract lawsuit filed by alcohol at an off-campus party Collins. Friday night. Collins became a tenured South Bend police received a call electrical engineering profes- of a noise complaint at the 1300 sor at Notre Dame in 1995, Block of North St. Joseph St., the was officially dismissed in police report said. When police June 2010 and filed a lawsuit arrived, those attending the party began to flee the premises. see COLLINS/page 5 BLAIR CHEMIDLIN | The Observer “As officers were pulling up, a bunch of people went tearing out of the house, out the back door,” Sgt. Anne Schellinger said. Police entered the house and Dining Hall adds low calorie options allowed those who could prove they were at least 21 years old to leave the party. Those who were By SARA FELSENSTEIN think we’ve addressed a lot of underage were asked to take a News Writer those issues in the changes we portable breathalyzer test. made this year,” he said. The Indiana State Excise Police One noticeable change to the were not involved. Notre Dame Food Services dining hall menu is the addi- The suspects were 18 to 20 worked this summer to add tion of red pepper hummus, years old and were taken to St. more low calorie and multicul- which Poklinkowski said has Joseph County Jail. A list of blood tural options to the dining hall been extremely popular so far alcohol contents was not available. menus, responding to student this year. He said that all of This incident raises the number demand for healthier options. the hummus is made by the of students arrested for minor con- Marc Poklinkowski, general Food Service support facility suming since returning to school to manager of South Dining Hall right off campus. 26. Three students were arrested Food Services, said the “There’s a possibility that for minor consuming last week- changes were made directly in we will make different types of end. response to the student sur- specialty hummus in the Police also busted a party in July veys that are completed at the future,” he said. at 1017 East Washington St. and end of each semester. Student body president took 43 people to jail for various “If I had to sum up what the Catherine Soler said student alcohol charges. Those arrested SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer four to five hundred students government, aware of how included eight football players, one Spoons returned to North Dining Hall as part of the series of said on the survey, it’s, ‘OK, basketball player and nine hockey changes Food Services made this summer. we need to get healthier.’ I see FOOD/page 6 players. B1 Block Party features Guster, Mayer Hawthorne By CAITLYN KALSCHEUR News Writer With a lineup of star acts and the volume cranked all the way up, it was difficult to be on campus Saturday night and not know the B1 Block Party was happening. The B1 Block Party, Legends Night Club’s annual open-air event, kicked off the first weekend of the school year. Live music played through- out the night, with local acts Nick Gunty and Identity Crisis opening the stage for Mayer Hawthorne and the headlining act, Guster. “There was a fun concert feel during Guster,” sopho- COLEMAN COLLINS/The Observer COLEMAN COLLINS/The Observer Guster’s Adam Gardner performs as part of the headlining act Mayer Hawthorne performs songs from his repitore of soul of the B1 Block Party Saturday. see B1/page 6 music during the B1 Block Party Saturday. INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Architecture School explores disabilities page 4 N Arcade Fire review page 10 N Women’s volleyballs falls to Arizona page 20 N Viewpoint page 8 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Monday, August 30, 2010 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT BEING BACK AT SCHOOL? Off-campus adjustments I thought that by senior year, I knew exactly how to move into col- lege and get settled to begin classes. Allie Hensley Annie Reagan Katie Brown Kelsey Smoleck Olivia Killian Victoria Darling But then I moved off campus. While freshmen try to find their senior junior senior junior junior sophomore way to DeBartolo, Holy Cross Holy Cross Annunciata Holy Cross Holy Cross Holy Cross balance their trays and find seats in the dining halls, “I am extremely “Rollin’ with the “Being a senior.” “Co-ex tickets “Friends, football “Having a and learn to get excited for my homies, goldie ... Never mind and Blinkie Bob!” roomie again.” they took them along with room- student teaching included.” mates, off-campus away!” students are going placement with through similar my fourth grade learning process- class!” es. Laura McCrystal We may have dorm and campus life figured out, News Editor but in the past two Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] weeks my room- mates and I have had to furnish and setup an entire house, utility bills, cable television, Internet and a secu- IN BRIEF rity system. Many other off-campus seniors The Kaneb Center for might not be willing to admit it — we Teaching and Learning and the all love having our own houses or Career Center are holding a apartments free of communal bath- workshop “What Can We Do rooms, quiet hours and parietals — For You?” today from 5:30 p.m. but there is a definite convenience to to 6:15 p.m. in the LaFortune on-campus living that I already miss. Student Center Ballroom. I sat on the floor of my living room Registration is required. Please for two hours Saturday afternoon on register online at kaneb.nd.edu the telephone with a wireless Internet router company as a repre- Ning Lin, a postdoctoral fel- sentative took control of my comput- low at the MIT department of er screen and configured a network Earth, Atmospheric and connection. That amount of time Planetary Sciences, will present made me realize I missed Notre the next installment of the Dame’s ever-present and readily Environmental Fluid Dynamics available wireless Internet. Seminar Series Tuesday at On the first day of classes when my 11:00 a.m. in Fitzpatrick Hall roommates accidentally set off our room 258. alarm at 7 a.m. (understandably so; we hadn’t taught her how it worked), RecSports will offer an infor- I missed the security of not even mation session on its “Scuba having to lock my dorm room door. Instructional Training Class” As I cruised around the C parking Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 lot searching for a parking space GRACE KENESEY/The Observer p.m. in Rockne Memorial and then rushed from the parking lot Saint Mary’s College celebrates Opening Mass Wednesday. Pictured above is the Room 110. to class, I realized that even my old presentation of the fine art production of The Saint John's Bible, commissioned in home on Mod Quad is a pretty conve- 1998 by the Benedictine Monks. Students interested in joining niently located. I also felt strangely one of Notre Dame’s 250+ like a senior in high school — that undergraduate clubs and was the last time I ever drove to organizations can attend school. Activities Night Tuesday from Don’t mistake these instances for OFFBEAT 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Joyce regret that I moved away from cam- Center Fieldhouse. pus — I love my house. I can cook Mileage jump has couple investigated and looked Center, was pulled over for my own dinner, share a bathroom wondering where car’s been over inventory logs but speeding and arrested as a Online registration begins for with one other girl instead of 40 and NEW YORK — A couple “found nothing out of the man wanted for violating RecSports instructional classes blast music in the middle of the night who left their car parked ordinary.” parole in Texas. The minis- Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. Classes if my roommates and I feel like hav- in a long-term lot near He said there have been ter not only had the same are open to all ND students, ing a spontaneous dance party. And I Kennedy Airport during a no similar claims by other name as the wanted man, faculty, staff, retirees, and their have a bedroom to myself that is trip to California were try- customers, and the compa- but the same birthdate — spouses.Visit: much larger than the size of a room ing to figure out what their ny will be reviewing its and a Texas driver’s http://recsports.nd.edu/ to reg- I had to share in the dorms. car has been doing without procedures. license. So he wound up ister. When I mention to my parents the them. Mimi and Ulrich The Guntharts said the handcuffed and taken to a difficulties of getting settled in my Gunthart said their car incident won’t stop them Shreveport jail.