Funds Complete for Building Project Spes Unica Hall Will Ultimately Be
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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 42: ISSUE 75 TUESDAY, JANUARY 29.2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Funds complete for building project Dining hall Spes Unica Hall will ultimately be the most expensive construction project in College's history theft still the fall. future - a future that will see "A number of names for the By NIKKI TAYLOR The total cost of the project us ever more ambitious and academic building were con ra111pant News Writer is $19.2 million, making it the ever more widely recognized sidered; however, when the most expensive construction for the excellent education of name Spes Unica was consid When the 2008 fall semester project in College history. The women," she said. "I am most ered, it spoke to our mission," 12,960 spoons, 216 begins at Saint Mary's this building was entirely paid for grateful to our donors for their said Shari Rodriguez, vice August, students will attend in donations, without putting to commitment to our mission president of College Relations. trays missing in 2007 many classes in a building use any other college funds, and vision." Ground was broken on this completed after the most said Saint Mary's spokesperson The building's name, Spes 65,000 square-foot building in By KATIE PERALTA expensive construction project Gwen O'Brien. More than 600 Unica, is Latin for "our only the fall of 2006. Spes Unica will News Writer in College history. donations came in from faculty, hope" and refers to the cross of house 13 of the 20 academic Spes Unica Hall is a new aca staff, alumnae, students and Jesus Christ. It is the motto of departments at Saint Mary's, It's not everyday that students demic building currently under friends of the College, she said. both Saint Mary's and the as well as the Center for walk out of South Dining Hall construction on the northeast College President Carol Ann College's founding order, the Academic Innovation, the carrying long wooden tables and side of campus. Fundraising Mooney said the opening of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Center for Spirituality and the chairs back to their dorm rooms, for the building has recently building will allow continued The name was chosen by one Center for Women's but missing items from both been completed, and the build growth at Saint Mary's. of the significant donors to the campus dining halls have added ing is set to open for classes in "This building represents our project, O'Brien said. see BUILDING/page 4 up during the 2007 calendar year. Notre Dame Dining Hall man agers reported that losses of plates, utensils, bowls and cups have been similar to losses College of A&L sells o-wn course packets experienced in prior years, said Dave Prentkowski, director of Food Services. Professors seek alternatives to limit costs for course materials using electronic reserves Some of the most frequently pilfered items are glasses, silver expensive than previous ware and bowls, said Mary Ann By CLAIRE REISING semesters. Sobieralski, head monitor at News Writer Robert Becht, director of South Dining Hall. Since stu Finance and Administration dents have been able to bring Students can buy Arts and for the College of Arts and their backpacks into the dining Letters course packets this Letters, said that with the new hall, monitors do not see many semester directly through the arrangement, the College of students taking items, she said. College of Arts and Letters in Arts and Letter's copy organi The policy of students being Decio Hall, though professors zation Design, Copy and able to bring their backpacks may still sell packets through Logistic (DCL) Services can sell into dining areas has been in the Hammes Bookstore. course packets itself and still place for about five or six years, Some professors are also allow students to buy them at said Marc Poklinkowski, general trying to help students save one location and pay with manager of food services at money by placing materials their student accounts. Instead South Dining Hall. Food Services online on e-reserves, as an of selling course packets at has no plans to discontinue alternative to selling hard multiple locations throughout allowing bags in the dining halls. copy packets. campus, all of DCL Service's It is impossible to monitor Last semester, the College's packets are now sold in a everyone in dining halls, since decision to consolidate course Decio Hall conference room. South Dining Hall alone can packet distribution by selling "We made the decision to accommodate between 800 and all packets through the bring the retail sales back to 900 students at one time, our [operations], and it made Bookstore met with dissatis CHRISTIAN SAGARDIA I The Observer Poklinkowski said. faction by students who found Senior Jeff Simmer, a computer science and engineering the packets significantly more see PACKETS/page 4 major, reads a course packet for his engineering class. see THEFTI page 6 Choir tries Trappist lifestyle Stanford Hall111ourns By MEG MIRSHAK News Writer loss of beloved 'Honey' During winter break, the Notre He said that he planned to keep By BRIAN McKENZIE up Honey's plaque for the year. Dame Folk Choir spent four days News Writer on retreat at the Abbey of Gaughan adopted her when she Gethsemani, observing the lives was nearly eight-years old, and of Trappist Monks and reflecting Two weeks before they she passed away at the age of 15 in an environment with limited returned to campus, Stanford years. distraction. Hall residents were notified "We spent seven years, nine Fifty of the 55 choir members through e-mail about the loss of months and one week together," Pmbarkcd Jan. 11 for Trappist, dorm dog Honey. Gaughan said. Ky., where they focused on per Honey, a golden retriever, was He said that he wanted Honey's sonal rPlationships before begin 15 years old. memory to encourage adoption, ning the second semester of the Residents were affected by the especially of older dogs. academic year. loss of Honey, who was described Priests at Notre Dame have been Founded in the 1970s, the Folk as a "comforting presence" by unable to get permission to adopt Choir combines traditional choral Assistant Rector-Dan Sathre. new pets since 2001, Gaughan repertoire with contemporary Stanford Rector Father Tom said. Pets like Honey, who was music. Today, the choir uses Gaughan said Honey was "very adopted in 1999, were grandfa instrumentalists such as guitar, gentle and people-friendly." thered in under the old rules that violin and flute to accompany the "She was like a little person allowed pets. organ and choral voices. with a tail," Gaughan said. "If that policy changes [againl, Every two years, the Folk Choir He jokingly listed Honey on the I would be open to adopting tries to make a retreat to the duty-board as an RA. again but I. don't foresee that Abbey of Gethsemani, said PHOTO COURTESY OF NOTRE DAME FOLK CHOIR "She's always on duty, always happening soon," Gaughan said. The Notre Dame Folk Choir spent four days in Trappist, looking out for the guys here," he see CHOIR/page 6 Ky., as part a retreat over winter break. said. see HONEY/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, January 29, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD IT BE? Thank you, trailblazers When I was a kid. I had a paper route. 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