Abroad Returnees Readjust to ND Unique Challenges Confront

THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 40: ISSUE 70 FRIDAY, JANUARY 20,2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Abroad returnees readjust to ND Catnpaign By JOE TROMBELLO exchange News Writer Hditor:<> Note: 11zis is the first in a two part series exploring how students heats up make the transition back to Notre Dame fmm studyiny abroad. SMC presidential, "l•:xpnet lif'n to bn difl'nrnnt," reads a snntnncn in tlw London Program's ori vice presidential nntation handbook given to students hdiJrn t.lwir snnwstnr abroad. For many hopefuls vie for votes Notm Damn studnnls, cultural and lin guistic dill'nrnnens can rnakn rn-nntry By MEGAN O'NEIL into t.hn Unitnd Statt~s - and espnda.lly Saint Mary's Editor into t.hn Notrn Damn community- dilli ('llll al'lnr spnnding a sunmwr. smnestnr Midway through tlwir cam or yn;u· abroad. paigns, Saint. Mary's studnnt body Tnrri Bays, assodatn dirnetor of' the presidential and vice prnsidential London Program - Notre Dame's AP eandidates trind to win ovnr vot Crowds gather outside Buckingham Palace in London, a popular study abroad destina ers Thursday by linlding studnnls' see ABROAD/page 9 tion for Notre Dame students - some of whom face difficulties in returning to campus. questions on everything from past lead- ership experi- See Also enco to the "Saint Mary's College's rela Book buyers look to new options for deals tionship with elections 2006" Notre Dame. page4 Though she had to wait for The nxch By LUISA CABRERA her books to be shipped, NewsWrirer ange bntween Cimino felt that it was worth · presidential hopnful and curnmt the wait. studnnt body vicn prnsidnnt Susan While many returning stu "The tradeoiT is that it takes Mcllduff and running mate dents packed the Hammes a couple of days to receive the Maggie Snifiwt and opposing can Notre Dame Bookstore with books, but it is worth it for the didates Amanda Shropshirn and seemingly endless lines during amount of money saved," she Annie Davis was largely eongnnial the past week, some opted to said. "I also sold many text as the tickets outlined intnndnd buy their books elsewhere. books online that I had not ehanges and highlightnd pnrsonal Arter semesters of purchasing been able to soli back to tho attributes. costly books while receiving bookstore. In the past two Mdldufl' mnphasiznd hnr role as minimal money back for the days, I have made $200 just presidnnt of tho Student used copy al'ter finals, students on selling books." Academic Counsel whiln saying say they are exploring less Students are using Web sites one of lwr main goals if nloctod expensive ways of buying such as Betterworldbook.com, would be to improvn students' books as well as buy back pro Amazon.com, EBay.com and seleetion of and enrollment in grams with better incentives 1-lalf.com (owned by EBay), courses by making all coursn - despite a new Bookstore which oiTer competitive prices requirements available to stu rewards program. on the same new and used dents prior to rngistration. Senior Mary Catherine books sold at the bookstore. McllduiT also hopes to exami1w JENNIFER KANGfThe Observer Cimino used Amazon.com for In December 2002, two adding and dropping Glasses, a Freshman Eileen Zander shops for books at the Hammes Notre the first time to purchase and Dame Bookstore_ Thursday. soli her books this semester. see BOOKS/page 6 see ELECT I 0 N I page 8 Unique challenges confront transfer students Patience required during class registration, housing search on-eampus housing her first who transferred in the fall By KAREN LANGLEY somester. Instead, she found of his sophomore year, lived A~sistant News Editor an apartment at Turtle in a one-person studio Crock with three other apartment at Turtle Creek When eollego students female transfer students while waiting to receive on open thnir transfer aeeept who had met on a message campus housing. He got a anen letters from Notre board set up by the Office of place in Knott Hall in l>anw, they may assume the Undergraduate Admissions. October of that year. hardest part is behind The group had addressed "That's when I met my them. But all of the paperwork friends," he said. "The first oven though required to rent the apart month a half was a little transfer ori- See Also ment but had not yet signed weird because there aren't entation tho lease, a delay that a lot of ways to meet peo During Freshman smooth o s "Saint Mary's proved fortuitous when ple. You go to class and Orientation, sophomores the start to transfers face Martell was contacted five then there's nowhere to go their careers days before she arrived on back to but your place." lead new students. as Notre minor campus and informed that Brennan had met people Transfer students must Dame stu difficulties" she could live in a dorm. in class and through pick assume greater dents, hous I ler roommates were also up sports, but he became ing and page3 given on-campus housing. more involved in the com independence. class regis- "The difference between munity after moving into tration have proved chal living on campus and off Knott. He served as the • lenging for some transfers campus is like day and hall's senator his junior PHOTOS BY this year. night," Martell said. ''I'm so year and is currently a resi DUSTIN Anne Martell, a sopho glad- I can't even imagine dent assistant. more transfer this fall, had not living on campus." MENNELLA& bmm told she would not get Ryan Brennan, a senior see TRANSFERS/page 3 BETH WERNET page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, January 20, 2006 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHERE DO YOU BUY YOUR BOOKS? I have an iPod dream_ There is nothing as blissfully anti intellectual as the late night cartoon comedy block (because the anime it Meghan Jason Vierig contains is to be avoided) on Cartoon Tom Hoffman Colin Heye Adebola Giwa Mike McKenna Network known as [adult swim]. Johnson The most well- freshman freshman freshman freshman freshman sophomore known show, and Peter Ninneman Alumni Cavanaugh Zahm also my personal O'Neill O'Neill O'Neill favorite, "Aqua News Teen Hunger "Umm ... the "Online." "I compete in "Amazon and "You have to 'Tibetan Force," features Production ,, a genius box of Editor bookstore. battles of the bookstore. " buy books?" traders in French fries, a valor." Mongolia." trouble-making milkshake and a lovable mentally handicapped wad of raw meat, all living under one roof in Jersey, next to the outstandingly irritable and libidinous Carl, clothed in a wife beater and blue sweatpants. This is basically the format of [adult swim] cartoons. There is some crazy situation with eccentric char acters from which hilarity (usually) IN BRIEF ensues. There is rarely a conven tional plotline or message. The best Football walk-on applications way to describe these shows, in all are due today at the football truthfulness, is "dumb." office of the Guglielmino This, however, is not really the Athletics Complex. Forms can be case with a show new to both [adult picked up at the football office. swim] and television itself: "The Boondocks," adapted from the politi The Notre Dame Student Film cally- and socially-charged comic Festival begins today at 7 p.m. in strip by Aaron McGruder that is syn the DeBartolo Center for the dicated in about 350 American Performing Arts. The Festival newspapers. will feature 12 short films made Over break, I was fortunate to as class projects during the past catch the Martin Luther King Day year and will include dark come episode, entitled "Return of the dies and documentaries. King." The premise of the episode is this: Bill O'Connell's Chicago when MLK was shot, he slipped into Skyliners, a swing band, will per a coma, but failed to die. He comes form today at 10 p.m. at to in the present day, and moves to Legends. Chicago, where the main characters, Huey and Riley Freeman and their The Saint Mary's swim team grandfather Robert, live. will compete against Kalamazoo It turns out that Robert and MLK College in its final home meet of were brothers in the civil rights the season today at 6:30 p.m. in movement (Robert was sitting next JENNIFER KANGffhe Observer Rolfs Aquatic Center. to Rosa Parks, but she got all the Students look over materials for the semester while gathering at a Right to attention). Through their relation Life meeting in the auditorium of LaFortune Student Center Thursday. The Saint Mary's first year ship, Riley, a politically aware board is sponsoring Battle of the "urban youth," meets and immedi Bands 2006 Saturday at 6:30 ately accepts Dr. King as a comrade p.m. in the Saint Mary's Student in-arms, asking him to head up Center. The event will feature America's first black political party. Notre Dame bands "Somers MLK, however, has been branded aults," "Slap Bracelet Suicide," by the media as anti-American for OFFBEAT "Robbie Hazen," "Ryan believing his country should turn the Connaughton" and "Patrick the Court upholds obscene other cheek to al-Qaeda. In addition, ($2,000) on three models inside. Michael Sean Unlikely Genius." Proceeds ben yogurt conviction for staging a nude per he has basically been forgotten by Ostrander, 33, was arrest efit Riley Hospital for Children. those he nearly gave up his life for. SEOUL - The Supreme formance with the yogurt ed Monday after allegedly The most memorable line of the Court has upheld a lower at a crowded Seoul art breaking into the home of Tim Reynolds, a collaborator court ruling convicting a gallery in 2003, Yonhap a Burke County woman show, in my opinion, is MLK saying, with the Dave Matthews Band, dairy executive for an said.

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