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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 121 | THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ROTC holds Pass in Review on South Quad Annual ceremony displays ROTC units’ skills for President and reviewing officer, honors student achievement By EMILY McCONVILLE Officer Mike Ryan, University News Writer President Fr. John Jenkins and the general public at the Annual In the middle of the 20th cen- Pass in Review, a symbolic dis- tury, Notre Dame’s South Quad play of skill and precision. The was a military rallying point. ceremony included a benedic- University archive photos from tion by Fr. Peter Rocca, the pre- the WWII era and the 1950s sentation of student awards and show Notre Dame’s ROTC units a speech from Jenkins. and other military organizations “It’s a ceremonial thing, where marching up and down the quad in the field or in other military in front of Rockne Memorial environments, they’ll do this as and a partially-constructed kind of a big show,” said senior, O’Shaughnessy Hall. midshipman David Murphy, Wednesday evening show- who received an award at the cased that era, as the Notre Pass in Review. “There’s usually Dame Trimilitary Organization something attached to it, where – the Navy, Army and Air Force we’ll do the Pass in Review, and ROTC units ¬– presented them- it’s symbolic when [troops] come EMILY McCONVILLE | The Observer selves on South Quad for their re- University President Fr. John Jenkins and Lieutenant Colonel John Polhamus awards senior Cadet Sean viewing by Naval Commanding see ROTC PAGE 5 Kelly with the Patrick Dixon Award, one of two awards Kelly received during the ROTC Pass in Review. Atwood explores Coulter sparks controversy By LESLEY STEVENSON storytelling News Editor Conservative political pun- dit Ann Coulter will address Notre Dame students tonight as part of the Notre Dame College Republicans’ Lincoln Day Dinner celebration in a public lecture that LESLEY STEVENSON | The Observer has sparked debate among several Sophomores Michelle McCarthy (center) and Angela Bird (right) silently hand out flyers outside South Dining Hall on Wednesday. student groups. In the past, Coulter has com- Junior Mark Gianfalla, presi- Gianfalla is a columnist for The mented on issues relating to abor- dent of College Republicans, said Observer.) JODI LO | The Observer tion, illegal immigration, terrorism he chose Coulter to speak at the “We’re a chapter at a Catholic Margaret Atwood delivers the 2014 Yusko Ward-Phillips lecture. The and Notre Dame’s decision to invite group’s largest event of the year university, and we think issues of award-winning author discussed the nature of writing. President Barack Obama to speak because her views on political and abortion and gay marriage are just at the 2009 Commencement cer- social issues closely align with the as important as a balanced budget By CATHERINE OWERS is a transmission device that allows emony and give him an honorary points College Republicans has News Writer a voice to carry through time and degree. advocated this year. (Editor’s Note: see COULTER PAGE 4 space, Atwood said. Acclaimed author, critic and “The next time somebody asks poet Margaret Atwood delivered you why you write, the short an- the 2014 Yusko Ward-Phillips lec- swer is, ‘Because I’m human,’” she Saint Mary’s alumna creates ture “We Are What We Tell: Stories said. “All humans are storytellers As Human” on Wednesday eve- by nature. Writers who write stories ning in McKenna Hall. down are story transmitters as well The lecture was sponsored by the as storytellers.” summer seminar for girls Yusko Endowment for Excellence These stories can be a source in English, the Institute for of instruction or entertainment, By RONI DARLING place on Saint Mary’s campus on girls,” Bell said. Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Atwood said. News Writer Sunday, July 13. After discussing the effects Provost’s Distinguished Women “Do nothing but entertain, and Bell said she introduced the of the messages and images to Lecture Series, the Department it’s a one-time read, soon discard- In response to the Status of Girls idea for Bloom for Girls, aimed at which girls are exposed daily, Bell of American Studies, the Ph.D. in ed at the beach,” she said. “But do in Indiana report, Saint Mary’s young women between the ages said she suggested moms start Literature Program, the College of nothing but instruct and you will alumna Molly Bell, class of 1997, of 10 and 19, in the summer of discussing this issue with their Science’s Minor in Sustainability, annoy most readers very quickly.” created the Bloom for Girls semi- 2012 at a reunion weekend at Saint daughters before they enter high the Gender Studies Program and Atwood said stories are under- nar, an opportunity for mothers Mary’s. school. the English Department. stood in two senses, in the and daughters to celebrate the “I was invited to present a lec- “Bloom for Girls workshops were Although always subject to the gift of womanhood in a fun, open ture on the inundation of ‘pink’ interpretation of the reader, writing see ATWOOD PAGE 3 environment. 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