/ ^ V THE U b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 107 TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM NDSP arrests, cites ROTC protesters Coleman presence of the armed forces programs on campus, as these it. ready for By MARCELA BERRIOS in the Catholic University. condone and advance war­ Before their demonstration Associate News Editor Associate Vice President for fare, the letter said. at Notre Dame, Murphy and a News and Information Don Father Jim Murphy from the group of Catholic Workers Notre Dame Security/Police Wycliff said George Artiaga, a diocese of Madison, Wis., read spent the weekend in South ceremony (NDSP) officers arrested a Catholic Worker from St. the letter aloud before NDSP Bend convening for a confer­ man and handed arrest cita­ Louis, was arrested for disor­ officers escorted him away. ence and a retreat. On tions and trespass notices to derly conduct, while nine of “RO.TC institutionalizes the Sunday, the group decided to President will give 12 of his companions Monday his fellow campaigners scientific study and practice of stage at Notre Dame a re­ grad school address after the group — which received arrest citations and 3 warfare,” Murphy said. “ROTC enactment of the trial of St. included approximately 20 more were given trespass glorifies war ... and good Marcellus, a Roman centurion members of the Catholic notices. Christians follow only the who refused to take up arms Worker movement from differ­ Earlier Monday, the group Prince of Peace.” in 298 A.D. after he converted By EVA BINDA ent Midwestern cities — sent University President Wycliff said Monday he had to Christianity, Murphy said. News Writer organized an unauthorized Father John Jenkins a letter not spoken to Jenkins about Since many of the retreat demonstration outside the urging him to discontinue the letter and could not com­ The president of the Main Building, protesting the Notre Dame’s support of ROTC ment on Jenkins’ reaction to see PROTEST/page 8 University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, was chosen ear­ lier this month to be the prin­ cipal speaker at the Graduate School com­ m en cem en t Workers cause minor leak, evacuation May 19 — the first year in Transition point to which recip­ ients of mas­ blame, officials say t e r ’s and d o c t o r a t e degrees will By KEN FOWLER be honored Coleman News Writer in a separate ceremony. A construction crew working Coleman described the com­ south of the Center for Social mencement ceremony as “a Concerns ruptured a gas line wonderful way to highlight Monday morning, the second graduate-level education.” such incident along St. Joseph’s The separate event will allow Drive near the Hesburgh for additional recognition that Library within two months. had been omitted due to time Notre Dame Security Police constraints in the previous (NDSP) evacuated the Center for graduation ceremonies that Social Concerns (CSC) after awarded undergraduate crews caused a leak at a transi­ degrees in addition to the tion point from the gas main to graduate honors. a “tap” that serves the emer­ This additional recognition gency generators in the library, will include the Sheehan Director of Utilities Paul Kempf Award, Rev. James A. Burns, said. C.S.C Graduate School Award The construction crews, who and Distinguished Graduate were using backhoes to dig and Alumni Award. replace the sewer line along St. The practice of a separate Joseph’s Drive, did not come ceremony is likely to continue, QUENTIN STENGER/Tthe Observer A gas leak, above, caused multiple building evacuations Feb. 12. Construction work caused another leak Monday, leading to the evacuation of the Center for Social Concerns building. see LEAK/page 4 see SPEAKER/page 8 Resident assistants Nkuuhe, Siriri discuss project chosen for next year Leaders address Notre Dame's role in M VP said. By JOHN-PAUL WITT “All [27] dorms have at ByKATEANTONACCI News Writer least a half-dozen appli­ Senior Staff Writer cants, and some have many Job offers typically come more than that,” Kirk said. to second-semester seniors, “Often, halls will have a For Johnson Nkuuhe, the words but Notre Dame juniors are class of students that, three beneath the photograph of Father joining the game, anxiously years later, results in a lot of Theodore Hesburgh and Martin awaiting employment offers candidates.” Luther King Jr. in LaFortune from their rectors for posi­ Many dorms will also have encapsulate his message and that tions on hall Residence Life at least one RA who spent of the Millennium Villages Project staffs as resident assistants the past three years in (MVP). (RA). another dorm — this is “We must learn to live together Almost every dorm has decided in the application as brothers or perish together as completed the selection of process, Kirk said. fools,” Nkuuhe, the Uganda coun­ their RAs for the upcoming “A lot of applicants indi­ try coordinator of MVP, said to a year, but the process is more cate that they wish to be crowd of over 50 students in the complicated than it seems. considered for other halls,” Coleman-Morse Center Monday. There were “more than he said. “Even if there are “This is the same sort of thing we twice as many” applicants enough applicants from a are trying to do ... to be very good for the approximately 150 particular hall, RAs are cho­ disciples, intermediaries. The RA positions at Notre Dame, sen from outside dorms to road ahead may not be paved, but DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer Bill Kirk, associate vice Johnson Nkuuke of the Millenium Villages Project speaks at an president of Residence Life see SELECTION/page 6 see MVP/page 6 ND Forum follow up meeting at Coleman-Morse Center Monday. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 In side C olumn Question of the Day: W ho is your favorite author and w hy? Annual i cash gifts My dad has a knack for giving strange gifts. This past Christmas, for example, my brothers and I had the great fortune of receiving the ever- Alex B ess Diana Harintho Michael Wrapp Biz Stohl Kathy Lee Mike Cianciulli practical “multi-tool”— a gadget that sophomore sophomore freshman junior junior freshman functions some­ LeMans Walsh Alumni what like a Swiss Becky Hogan Knott McGlinn Alumni army knife (but ________________ better, of course). “J.K. Rowling, “Dostoevsky. He “Herman Hesse,“John Keats. “Isabel “Bobby Other holidays Wire Editor because she makes me for his thought- Loving the Allendale. I McKenna, have brought equally peculiar undermines the happy that I'm provoking throwbacks. ”enjoy her use of because presents: an old-fashioned hand Christian faith. ” not Russian. ” novels and imagination ‘Ensconced in warmer, coke bottle glasses, language social and magic. ” Chaunce’ is the dictionaries and miniature interna­ tional flags. commentary. ” highlight of my The list could go on, but one gift in day. ” particular has become a standard for my dad. Over the past several years he has routinely handed us two-dollar bills on special occasions or on an off day when he is feeling particularly gener­ In B rief ous. This gift always comes with a piece As part of Notre Dame’s com­ of wisdom: “Don’t spend it all in one memoration of the 27th-anniver- place.” sary of Archbishop Oscar Packed with a hint of sarcasm, Romero’s assassination, there these words have become somewhat will be a panel discussion today at annoying because it’s not that I have 12:30 p.m. in Hesburgh Center trouble finding a worthy investment, C-103 about “Human Rights in but that I can’t bring myself to spend El Salvador Today.” The panel this money at all. features Victoria Marina de Additionally, these bills have started Aviles, a Supreme Court Justice in to accumulate as they are tucked into El Salvador; Neris Gonzales, a the depths of my room, in purses and Salvadoran Catholic Church desk drawers. worker; Douglass Cassel, director Each time I open my empty wallet, of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil Thomas Jefferson just stares back at and Human Rights; and John D. me. French, associate professor of For some time I operated under the history at Duke University and misconception that this “rare” visiting fellow at the Kellogg denomination of money was valuable. Institute. These bills do retain some value, of course — a whopping two-dollars There will be a Ghana Reggae that is — but their rarity can really Coffee House tonight from 8 to 9 only be attributed to the fact that they in the Center for Social aren’t very useful. Concerns’ coffee house. The After doing some research, I found event features Don Savoie from that what actually keeps these two- QUENTIN STENGEA/The Observer the department of music and stu­ dollar bills in circulation is the fre­ The Notre Dame Sailing Club practices team racing on Saint Joseph’s Lake Monday. dents Francis Insaidoo and Theo quency at which people request them. Students across campus are taking advantage of the warm weather in outdoor activities. Ossei-Anlo. Banks only keep them in stock as long as their customers request them. Men’s baseball will play What really amuses me is that my Chicago State Wednesday at 5:05 dad actually goes to the local bank p.m. at Frank Eck Stadium. For and requests these bills from the tickets, call (574) 631-7356. teller. A small part of me wishes I O ffbeat could be there to see the look on the W omen’s softball will play teller’s face when he says, “Can I Stude.nts solve a sticky Tech students’ Carbon than they bargained for Toledo Wednesday at 6 p.m.