r----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE The InJepenJent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41: ISSUE 80 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Tickets vie for student body votes College VP Presidential candidates Lack of realistic goals featured in campaign in debate shocks, dissappoints SMCtalk I've come to the conclusion BySONIARAO that no one on this campus Incandela speaks as News Writer knows just how impotent stu­ dent government is. part of Theology series The four tickets for Monday's And yes, that's impotent, not student body presidential elec­ impor- tion met at LaFortune Student tant. Amanda Michaels By ABBY RICHARDSON C1mter for the traditional presi­ Perhaps News Writer dential debates Wednesday "no one" night. is an Assistant News Recognizing the difference Junior Liz Brown and sopho­ overstate­ Editor between right and wrong more Maris Braun, juniors ment. was simply the starting Danny Smith and Ashley Weiss, Because I point for Wednesday night's freshman Cipriano Rivera and certainly do, and I've heard Theology on Fire sophomore Catherine Kane, and enough people complaining Discussion. freshmen Garret Coggon and about it to know that I'm not S a i n t Mike Padberg were given a plat­ alone. Mary's form to present their respective But apparently, the candidates Associate proposals to improve student for student body president and V i c e life at Notre Dame and sway a vice president are clueless -- or President few votes before Monday's elec­ at least expect student voters to and Dean tion. be. of Faculty Running mates Mike Padberg, left, and Garret Coggon present and College see DEBATE/page 8 their platfonn during Wednesday's presidential debates. see COLUMN/page 8 Professor J o e I n can de I a lncandela stepped out of his administrative duties to share personal stories Campus culture can be culprit for disorders and advice about moral choices, conscience, con­ stituency and conflict. Weight gain concerns may lead women, men to bulimia, anorexia, excessive exercising He defined conscience as a personal indicator of Disorders such as anorexia, men, even, experience from the "[Notre Dame] is really a pres­ "what is good, what to By AARON STEINER bulimia, binge eating disorder media- those two things togeth­ sure cooker for these disorders," avoid [and] what to pursue" News Writer and muscular dysmorphia are as er make the college campus a she said. -- an ingrained sense of prevalent at Notre Dame as at high pressure environment for Valerie Staples, a counselor purpose and obligation, he Last year, when an anorexic other college campuses - if not keeping up that aura of perfec- and eating disorders specialist at said. Brazilian supermodel died more so - due to a variety of ti.on. " the University Counseling Center, Conscience would not be weighing 88 pounds and design­ factors within the University's Notre Dame Food Services said typical Notre Dame students necessary, however, without ers announced the creation of environment, say University staff nutritionist Jocelyn Antonelli also "work hard and play hard." free will - choices that size 00 clothes for the thinnest members and the conference's stressed the dangers of perfec­ "Both can be positive. Both can "take us closer to destina­ customers, body image debates student organizers. tionism, which she said creates a be negative," she said. "Finding a tion, or literally we are raged through the style capitals proneness to eating disorders. balance is a challenge for many damned," he said. "Choices of the world. Perfectionism and competition "[Students] want perfection in students. Many have excelled [in [bring] us closer or further Notre Dame may be far Student body president Lizzi every area - including how they the past] and find it difficult when away from God. When we removed from runways, but it Shappell said students in any top- look and how they eat," Antonelli they aren't 'number one,' but one go against our conscience, hasn't escaped the same prob­ 20 university like Notre Dame said. of many very successful stu­ we diminish who we are." lems that plague the fashion are ambitious in the classroom - Such perfectionism can foster dents." Incandela said it is impor­ industry - and that's the reason and outside of it too. eating disorders and body image The fear of transitioning from tant to realize how our behind Student Senate's "Eating "It's a very competitive, perfec­ issues, ranging from compulsive superstar to another face in the actions are definitive of Disorders and the Campus tionist culture," Shappell said. "I exercising and anorexia to binge­ think that combined with the ing and purging meals, Shappell Culture" conference, which see CONFERENCE/page 6 see FIRE/page 9 begins today. pressures that most women and said. Snow no match for removal tean1 Media expert launches Crews work through winter weather to keep ND roads, sidewalks clear College lecture series By EMMA DRISCOLL Communication at the News Writer By KATIE KOHLER University of Pennsylvania Assistant News Editor gave a lecture entitled While students are often "Deception in Politics," a field looking for a reason to cut Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson in which she is nationally class, snow is not a viable spoke to a full house in the accredited as an expert in excuse at Notre Dame. Little Theater at the Moreau political communications. Within hours of any snow­ Center for Jill Vihtelic, the College's act­ fall - heavy or light - the Arts at ing vice president and dean of walkways and roads on Saint Mary's faculty, opened the series, wel­ campus are cleared to Wednesday coming Jamieson and explain­ make cross-campus travel night. ing the preface of the first as safe as possible for stu­ Jamieson, annual Plamondon Endowed dents. the director Lecture in Communication That snow doesn't clear of the Studies. The lecture series was itself, however. The work is Annenberg named for retiring communica­ done by Notre Dame's Public Policy tions professor Ann Landscape Services Center and Jamieson Plamondon, who has been at Department, which employs JENNIFER KANG!The Observer professor of Saint Mary's since 1981. A snow plow clears a sidewalk Monday near the Jordan communication at the Hall of Science. see SNOW/page 8 Annenberg School of see JAMIESON/page 9 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, February 8, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO STAY WARM IN THE COLO? A -won1an' s scorn Dateline Italy - The land of pizza, Popes and pasta. Enter the latest, hottest political scandal. No, it's not Joey Statz Christine Kennedy Alex Gorrell Mike Schubert Elisha Acosta Britta Zoeller about pregnant chads, a stained dress, or even a major political figure yelling freshman freshman freshman junior senior seniors "byaaaa" during a Alumni McGlinn Alumni Alumni Badin Badin speech. John-Paul Witt It's about honor, "Surround "Hot chocolate "A very furry "Beast up." "It's "Under loyalty, and respect. suit.,, ,, I'm talking about, of News Wzre yourself with and warm impossible. armor. course, the scandal Editor big sweaty clothes.,, involving the for­ men. mer Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, 70. It seems that he made a few comments, such as, to Miss Amazonia Aida Yespica, ''I'd go with you anywhere." And about a Member of Parliament of his own party, Mara Carfagna, "Take a look at her! I'd marry her if I weren't married already." If I weren't married already. He's married, of course, to the (beautiful, if I say so myselD former model and IN BRIEF actress Veronica Berlusconi, 50. His wife of 27 years. Freelance writer, editor and To us Americans, this may not seem publisher Anne Elizabeth so bad. Admittedly, those old enough to Moore will teach her tricks of remember the last 10 years have been the trade at 3 p.m. today in desensitized to extramarital affairs in the Notre Dame Room, government. But it seems that, while LaFortune Center. that evokes a "boys will be boys" response from the electorate, the delib­ David Lodge from the erate, public, verbal besmirching of a department of Biological woman's honor is intolerable. I mean, I Sciences will give the lecture didn't see any letters to the New York "The Other Alien Debate: Times after the events of 1998. Biology and Policy of But Veronica returned fire: "These Invasive Species" at 4 p.m. are affirmations that I see as damaging today in room 120 of the Law to my dignity, affirmations that ... can­ School. not be reduced to jokes," she wrote in a letter to the La Repubblica newspaper. Efraim lobar, Professor of I am impressed. I applaud Veronica for Political Studies at Bar-Ilan having the courage to stand up for this University, will give the lec­ affront to her self-respect. ture "Israel's Security On the other hand, in 2002, while he Environment"tonight at 8 in was prime minister, Berlusconi said of Room C-103 of the Hesburgh the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Center. Rasmussen that Rasmussen was "the best-looking prime minister in Europe QUENTIN STENGERfThe Observer As part of the Notre Dame ... He's so good looking, I'm even think­ Students eat and discuss interrace issues with panelists at the "Dialogue on the Literary Festival, writer, nov­ ing of introducing him to my wife." Americas: A Multi Race Conversation" forum Wednesday in the Coleman Morse Center. elist, essayist, editor, and He also said that he charmed the founder of the independent Finnish prime minister, a woman, into book publishing house allowing the EU to build a facility in McSweeney's, Dave Eggers Italy by using "all my playboy tactics, will read from his latest work even if they have not been used for in Room 101, DeBartolo Hall some time." OFFBEAT tonight at 8.