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THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY VOLUME 47, ISSUE 56 | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Students address sexual violence Off- Town hall meeting examines survey results, barriers to sexual assault reporting campus By MEG HANDELMAN alert emails and to think sex- News Writer ual violence does not occur at Notre Dame, but the right houses Student government host- thing to do is almost never ed a town hall discussion on easy, Daegele said. sexual violence Wednesday to “Silence: it surrounds every open up the on-campus dis- situation of sexual violence,” robbed cussion and instigate activism she said. “It keeps survivors in students. from telling their stories. It Observer Staff Report Monica Daegele, student makes us pretend that nothing government’s gender issues is wrong. It propagates sexual An email sent Wednesday director, said Notre Dame violence as it alienates those from Notre Dame’s Off Campus students dedicate themselves who have experienced it. Council notified students of to various causes to make the “It is the invisible force field a burglary and attempted world a better place, but they that smothers the sexual vio- burglary that took place last have failed to connect this ef- lence movement.” weekend. fort to sexual assault. Student body president A burglary to a student resi- “When we do discuss sexual Nancy Joyce shared statis- dence took place Sunday be- violence or actively work to put tics from a survey given to tween 12 a.m. and 9 a.m. on an end to it, it feels as though Notre Dame students in 2012. the 700 block of N. Notre Dame we are met with earth-shat- According to the survey, 41 Ave., the email stated. Entry was tering amounts of pressure to percent of students stated they gained by raising a screen then keep quiet, to focus on how did not know how to report opening an unlocked window, victims prevented it and to not incidents of sexual assault or and an Apple laptop was taken. question the existing systems sexual violence, she said. The email also stated some- that allow sexual violence to The survey also found 64 KEVIN SONG | The Observer one broke into a car at that site occur,” Daegele said. Student body vice president Nancy Joyce leads a discussion on It is easy to delete the crime see DISCUSSION PAGE 4 sexual violence prevention Wednesday in the Coleman-Morse Center. see BURGLARIES PAGE 4 Buddhist monk muses on Physicist analyzes true nature of compassion ice skating By GRACE McCORMACK By HENRY GENS and no high-tech equipment, News Writer News Writer so it’s amazing what he said. All of this was neglected.” Growing up in a Tibetan While Charlotte Elster’s day One of the reasons people monastery, Arjia Rinpoche job is researching at the fore- believe liquid exists on the sur- lived through the political front of theoretical nuclear face of the ice is because the oppression and forced la- physics, her self-described pressure caused by the weight bor camps of the Cultural “early day” job is figure skat- of a person concentrated on the Revolution, escaped to the ing. A physics professor at Ohio skate blade causes the ice to United States in 1998 and University, Elster gave a lecture melt, which turns out not to be now works as the direc- Wednesday about the intersec- the case, Elster said. The effect tor of Tibetan Mongolian tion of her two passions: the of this pressure on the temper- Buddhist Cultural Center in physics of ice skating. ature on the ice for a 50-kilo- Bloomington, Ind. As a physicist, Elster began gram person is only roughly 0.2 Rinpoche gave a talk titled with the most fundamental degrees Celsius. “The Power and Practice of aspect of ice skating: the ice it- Elster said frictional melting Compassion” to an over- self. Specifically, she addressed could be a potential explana- flowing crowd Wednesday in some common misconcep- tion, but found that rough cal- DeBartolo Hall. In the talk, tions about the reason ice is culations could only produce sponsored by the Hillebrand WEI LIN | The Observer slippery, the exact cause of a 2.1 degree Celsius change in Center for Compassionate Buddhist monks create a sand mandala in the Reading Room of the which was not confirmed until the temperature of the ice, not Care in Medicine, Rinpoche Jordan Hall of Science. The mandala will be destroyed Thursday. the early 2000s with Scanning enough to melt ice in rinks that discussed some of his own Tunneling Microscopy (STM). are generally kept between experiences and shared in- compassion. Two and three Rinpoche said we often re- “[In 1859] Michael Faraday minus-seven and minus-eight sights on the cultivation of are how to practice it. … serve compassion for friends postulated that a thin film of degrees Celsius. compassion. Everyone has a seed of com- and family. liquid covers the surface of the The real cause of ice’s low “There are three things I passion, which is love.” “We must think of the ice, even at temperatures well frictional coefficient is the want you to take from this Although the seed of below freezing,” Elster said. talk,” he said. “One: what is compassion is prevalent, see COMPASSION PAGE 5 “Michael Faraday had no STM, see SKATING PAGE 5 NEWS PAGE 3 VIEWPOINT PAGE 7 SCENE PAGE 9 VOLLEYBALL PAGE 16 MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 16 2 THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? QUESTION OF THE DAY: Email [email protected] ndsmcobserver.com What food are you most looking forward to at Thanksgiving? P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Editor-in-Chief James McQuade Andrew Fribush Andrew Gastelum Managing Editor Business Manager freshman senior Meghan Thomassen Peter Woo Fisher Hall Knott Hall Asst. 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