the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 79 tuesday, JANUARY 26, 2010 ndsmcobserver.com Notre Dame Forum canceled Students meet with Planned speaker has scheduling conflicts; University will ‘revisit’ topic provosts about program By MADELINE BUCKLEY News Editor This year’s Notre Dame Forum has been canceled because of a scheduling con- flict with a major speaker, the University announced Monday. University President Fr. John Jenkins started the Forum in 2005 when he took office to assemble “world leaders on campus in discus- sion of the leading issues of the day,” according to a 2008 press release. University spokesman Dennis Brown said the admin- istration will not release the identity of the scheduled speaker or the planned topic at this time. “We are going to revisit the BLAIR CHEMEDLIN I Observer Graphic topic and speaker so we Observer file photo would prefer to keep that pri- MIT professor Ernest Moniz speaks at the 2008 Notre vate at this point,” he said. Dame forum on sustainability. attended the meeting, said. The Forum, usually held in By SARAH MERVOSH Joe Buttigieg, assistant the fall, was delayed to the “It won’t necessarily be next past Forums have included News Writer provost for International spring. year’s Forum but at some global health care, the role of Studies, said Notre Dame’s old- Brown told The Observer in point in the future at a forum religion in a plural world and Students who studied in est study abroad program had September that the forum was we will take up that topic so immigration. Innsbruck, Austria last year problems sustaining itself for pushed back because “the we’re going to hold on to that Brown said the University met with University provosts the past 10 years, due to low spring semester is a better fit idea for now and get back to it will not try to find a replace- Monday to discuss the recent enrollment numbers. for the schedules of key pan- in the future,” Brown said. ment for this spring’s forum. decision to cancel the When the program fell to elists.” This spring’s Forum would “We think the Notre Dame Innsbruck study abroad pro- seven students in the 2005- The University plans to host have been the University’s Forum is such an important gram. 2006 year, and nine in 2006- the Forum next fall, but fifth. Last fall, General event so we didn’t want to “Our main goals for the 2007, the University created a Brown said it will not neces- Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, scramble at the last minute to meeting were a) to obtain spring semester option in an sarily be the same topic and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, envi- put together something not of some sort of an explanation attempt to increase enroll- speaker planned for this ronmental activist Majora the quality as the last have for why the Innsbruck pro- ment, he said. year’s discussion. Carter and MIT Professor been,” he said. gram was cancelled and b) “That basically saved it,” But that topic will be exam- Ernest Moniz discussed sus- what were the rationaliza- Buttigieg said. ined on campus in some form, tainability issues. Contact Madeline Buckley at tions,” senior Jessica Technow, he said. Other issues examined in [email protected] one of the nine students who see INNSBRUCK/page 4 Group considers bands SIBC offers global experience for annual spring concert By LAUREN KNAUF News Writer programmer of concerts, said. By SARA FELSENSTEIN “In past years we’ve had rock- The Student International News Writer type bands like Jack’s Business Council (SIBC) will Mannequin, Cartel and OK Go sponsor internships for up to Talk of the upcoming Student … [and] we have also hosted 20 students this summer, Union Board (SUB) spring con- rapper Lupe Fiasco and alter- allowing them to participate in cert has been floating around native artist Citizen Cope.” humanitarian and business campus due to a survey recent- Planning for the upcoming projects in locations around ly sent around Facebook asking spring concert began last April, the globe, vice president and students to rank their prefer- Wicht said. senior Maria Bufalino said. ences of seven artists of differ- “We [first compiled] a long, “Students looking to broaden ent musical genres. long list of possible performers their international experience MGMT, Girl Talk and and genres,” she said. “The as well as their basic business Dropkick Murphys are some of genres consisted of everything knowledge should apply to our the artists listed as possibilities from country to rap, mash-up internships,” Bufalino said of for the concert. to coffeehouse rock and Irish the programs, which send stu- Mallory Davidson, co-director rock to techno. After narrowing dents to work in locations like of programming, said SUB is down to a few artists in each Belize, Thailand, Germany, trying to break from the Notre genre, we proceeded to look up Italy and Washington, D.C. Dame tradition of mainstream agent information to inquire on The internships range from rock concerts and diversify the pricing and availability.” teaching and working with types of bands they bring to Wicht and co-programmer of students to more general busi- campus. concerts Brian Hagerty are in ness projects in firms over- “SUB is certainly trying to charge of picking talent based seas. Photo courtesy of James Pappas bring an artist of a different Junior James Pappas poses in Ghana in 2008, where he spent genre,” junior Marie Wicht, co- see BANDS/page 6 see SIBC/page 6 the summer helping residents start a dried fruit business. INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Campus Life Council examines du Lac page 3 N Men’s basketball feature page 20 N Haiti benefit concert page 10 N Viewpoint page 8 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Tuesday, January 26, 2010 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: MILEY CYRUS: YEA OR NAY? A small world Last weekend I took a walk down memory lane. No, I did not try to garner a comprehensive story of collegiate Ryan Lion David Grau Kate Mullaney Stephen Santay Anne Robles Elizabeth Andrews escapade from the wee hours of Saturday morning. Instead I went even further freshman sophomore junior junior freshman sophomore back to recesses my Sorin Knott Cavanaugh Alumni Pasquerilla East Pasquerilla West dim memories. I went back to ele- mentary school. “She makes me “Gorgeous. And “She’s just “Fetish? I just “She looked “Mmm ... no That is right. At want to move a lyrical genius being ... Steve like to dance great at the thanks.” 20-years-old, I made my hips like to boot.” Santay’s and sing. Keenan Revue.” my very first return to elementary and yeah.” underage fetish Nobody’s middle school. For ... that’s rockin’ perfect!” me, this was all one kicks.” place. And that Jess Shaffer means that a single building (and the lit- Scene Editor tle ones it held dur- ing school hours) got Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] to see me progress through my adorable, precocious younger years to my shame- fully awkward and embarrassing tween years. I should make a small confession IN BRIEF to give my return to primary school a bet- ter personal context. My awkward years “Expanding the Boundaries: far (far far) outnumbered and out- Selected Drawings from the weighed my “cute little kid” years. Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg If estimated, about 75 percent of my Collection” will open at 10 a.m. primary school experience was spent in today. This exhibit will be dis- glasses, headgear, braces and a plaid played in the O’Shaughnessy jumper. On top of this, I had minimal to Galleries West in the Snite no athletic ability and generally a saucy Museum of Art. attitude (that proudly persists today). And then there was always the stereotyp- An exhibit titled “Markings by ical acne and general disregard for my Koo Kyung Sook” will be held at appearance typical of a tomboy. At best, I 10 a.m. today in the Milly and was, shall we say, not king of the kids, Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio and at worst a huge (maybe lovable) Gallery in the Snite Museum of loser. Art. Needless to say, my subconscious has diligently worked to suppress many a Daily Mass will be held in the childhood memory. Orthodontia, contacts, Basilica of the Sacred Heart at a good sense of humor and just growing 11:30 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. today. up took care of the rest. But last week- end, when I flew out to see my ankle- The Department of Aerospace biter cousins’ basketball tournaments, and Mechanical Engineering my formative years came rushing back. will offer “Flow and Turbulence I revisited days of my childhood I hadn’t in a Combined Wave-Current remembered in a long time. And, better PAT COVENEY/The Observer Coastal Ocean Bottom Boundary yet, got to see little kids in the same place Muslim students and professors, including those in the Muslim Student Layer” at 3:30 p.m. The seminar I was 10 years ago, except that they were Association, perform the evening prayer ritual (or “salat al-’isha”) during Campus will be held in 138 DeBartolo on basketball courts, which I certainly Ministry’s “Prayer Around the World” series Monday night. Hall. avoided at that same age. All confidence and swagger in the miniature, these kids A lecture titled “Between played ball as if they were inside an NBA Barack and a Hard Place: Jam game.