Navy Win Streak Faces Test Saturday Last Year, Saint Mary’S Had Between 80 and 100 Students at the Event
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/ ^ V THE b s e r v e r UThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 42 : ISSUE 43 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER2, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM 2 freshmen attempt to write novels Belles to Typing quickly , aspiring writers hope to produce 50,000 words before Nov. 30 deadline co-host Craven said most of their By KAITLYNN RIELY friends won’t be cranking out Assistant News Editor a novel anytime soon. Duke rally “They think we’re crazy,” It’s a process that takes Conway said. Board hopes for more some people years, but But they have company. Kaitlyn Conway and Emily Conway and Craven are part student participation Craven intend to do it in one of National Novel Writing month. Month, a self-described “liter Beginning Thursday, the ary crusade.” The competition By MANDI STIRONE Notre Dame freshmen each encourages people from News W riter began writing a novel, with around the world to pound the goal of finishing 50,000 out a 175-page work of fiction words by 11:59 p.m. on Nov. in 30 days. A press release Saint Mary’s students will be able to “shake down the thun 30. from the organization, nick That means writing, on named “NaNoWriMo,” says it der” along with three Notre Dame dorms as they co-host the average, 1,667 words a day — is the largest writing contest football pep rally Friday before in addition to doing hom e in the world. DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer work and going to classes and Kaitlyn Conway works on her novel Thursday night in the computer the final Irish home game, against Duke on Nov. 17. other activities. Conway and see NOVEL/page 4 lab in LaFortune. Her goal is to write 50,000 words by Nov. 30. Although the event is quickly approaching, planning has been in the works for months, said Emma Moore, a member of the Pep Rally Committee. Navy win streak faces test Saturday Last year, Saint Mary’s had between 80 and 100 students at the event. This year, the com Students optimistic ND football team will get 44th consecutive win against Midshipmen mittee is aiming for 200 to 260. The committee consists of six members of the Board of “Heck yes, we’ll win,” she Governance. Cassie Gallon, By THERESA CIVANTOS said. News W riter Annie Davis and Cassie Quaglia Sean Gibbons, also a fresh — in addition to committee man, expects Notre Dame to chair Courtney Kennedy — are With seven losses and only keep its winning streak the Executive Board members one win this season, Notre against Navy. on the Committee, Kennedy Dame’s 43-game winning “It’ll be a good game, but said. streak against Navy may be at we’ll come out on top,” he Members have all been work risk. But many students, like said. ing hard to make sure the stu senior Liz Byrum, are holding Sophomore Ben Spitler said dent body is aware of the pep out hope that Notre Dame will the competition Notre Dame rally and to persuade a large add one more game to the has played this season has number of students to attend, streak and avoid racking up a been tough and that the Kennedy said. historic loss. schedule is a reason for opti Between e-mails and commit “It’ll be closer than the ND- mism. tee members selling Saint Navy game usually is, but we “I would hate to be here Mary’s version of The Shirt, she will win,” Byrum said. when we break the Navy said, the campaign is going well. Freshman Kasey Puls said streak,” Spitler said. “I don’t think anyone on this FRANCESCA SETA/The Observer she is confident she will see But Spitler doesn’t think a campus is unaware that we’re Notre Dame and Navy football players sing Navy’s alma her first home win as a Notre mater, “Anchors Aweigh,” last year in Baltimore. Dame student this Saturday. see NAVY/page 6 see RALLY/page 8 Suite celebrates Day of the Dead Business can fight Mexican festival El Dia de los Muertos, marked with displays, dancing global warming By LINDSAY SENA News Writer structure, said Gordon Clark, Oxford professor cites head of Oxford’s School of With displays, a dance per new EU legislation Geography and director of the formance and a Frida look- Oxford University Centre for the alike contest, the Snite Environment. Museum celebrated El Dia de By MARCELA BERRIOS “Around the year 2050,” he los Muertos, the “Day of the Associate News Editor said, “we’re going to be faced Dead, ” on Thursday evening. with millions of people displaced” The Mexican celebration, A1 Gore may have received the as a result of climatic changes which takes place the day Nobel Peace Prize for his environ caused by modern industrial and after Halloween, honors the mentalist activism, but movies manufacturing systems. dead and celebrates the lives aren’t the most practical way to But the European Union (EU) of one’s ancestors. address climate concerns, based has sought to mitigate these Notre Dame students and on what an Oxford professor said effects, he said, through legisla faculty, as well as many area Tuesday at Notre Dame’s tion for corporations, taking full residents and high school Hesburgh Center. advantage of the EU as a stan students, attended the event. Europe has made strides in its dard-setting body that supersedes The program began with a fight against global warming and the individual countries’ politics description of the signifi carbon emission through revised and therefore reduces the pres cance of the Day of the Dead, WU YUE/The Observer accounting practices for global sure of corporations on local Dancers from the Ballet Folklorico Azul y Oro perform Thursday corporations and the maximiza see SNITE/page 6 in the Snite Museum for the annual Day of the Dead celebration. tion of the European political see OXFORD/page 8 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Friday, November 2, 2007 In s id e C olu m n Question of the Day: How m a n y pep rallies do you usually go to a year, a n d why? Is 'or she' necessary? Procrastination is a human tendency — one that college students are familiar with. Its consequences, however, can be Geoff Sullivan Joseph Moore Sarah Furman Tyler Orem more far-reaching than the occasional Jason Gott all-nighter or a 2.7-inch spaced essay. junior freshman freshman freshman junior Societies and Dillon Sorin Sorin Welsh Fam Stanford cultures procras- Joey King tinate too, and this is where the Viewpoint Editor “Four, “I don T go to all “Most, but not “One and a half, “Four, so I can real damage is because of them because all, because so far. I left sport done. If one finds a satisfactory way of per that’s usually sometimes I sometimes I fall early. ” pretentious forming a task, it can be easy to post about as lose m y I.D." asleep. ” hats. ” pone or suspend entirely the search for m any good a better way of performing the same task. Examples are everywhere. games as we Consider how long monarchy was have. ” thought to be the best form of govern ment, or mankind’s multi-millennial marriage to the geocentric model of the universe. Even in the 20th century, leaded gasoline was a great fuel, aerosol a nifty propellant, DDT an effective pesticide, and asbestos an In B r ie f ideal insulator. When something seemingly does what A collection of Douglas Kinsey it’s supposed to do, there’s no apparent paintings is on display in the need to change it. The problem is Great Hall of O’Shaughnessy Hall determining when finding a better way through Nov. 29. is justified. I don’t have a general solu tion. There is, however, one glaring and The Notre Dame Symphonic recent human development that must Winds and Symphonic Bands will be stopped — the current necessity of hold a concert tonight at 8:30 in the phrase “he or she.” Leighton Concert Hall in Someone realized that English was DeBarlolo Performing Arts being sexist when it used the word “he” Center. Tickets are $12 for facul to refer to an individual of unknown ty/staff and the general public, gender in the third person. Instead of and $7 lor seniors and students. using “he” in such situations, it became more proper to use “he or she.” Lately, The hockey team will play Lake it is becoming acceptable to simply use Superior State tonight at 7:35 at “she.” “She” is not sexist. tlie Joyce (enter Ice Rink. Neither of these two developments are good solutions. The problem was As part of the Boardroom realized, and a working solution was Insights lecture series, Brenda presented. “He or she” solves the prob Barnes, CEO of the Sara Lee lem. “She” solves the problem. But both Corporationwill speak today at solutions have their flaws. 10:40 a.m. in the Jordan “He or she” is taxing to write and say. Auditorium of the Mendoza It might not seem like much, but it adds WU YUE/The Observer College of Business. up. Even if only one newspaper with a Notre Dame Mariachi Band members Cassandra Montoya, left, Josh Diaz, mid circulation of 100,000 used “he or she” dle, and Lukas Mendoza, right, play traditional Mexican music after the Day of the Dead Celebration at the Snite Museum of Art Thursday. The Black Cultural Arts where it once used “he” just one time a Council is holding its annual talent day for 365 days a year, it would consti show, “Black Images: Through tute 182,500,000 extra characters after the Seasons,” Saturday at 8 p.m.