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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 43: ISSUE 32 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND students vote Obama in mock election Democratic candidate wins 52.6 percent of vote over McCain's 41.1 percent Issue Ticket Former congressman Bob Barr and South Dining Halls, where stu By KAITLYNN RIELY and Wayne Allyn Root, the dents could vote on laptop comput Associate News Editor Libertarian Party ticket, won 2.7 erS throughout the day Tuesday. percent of the votes, or 72 stu As some hurried to and from Students at the University of dents. class Tuesday afternoon, a line of Notre Dame elected Sen. Barack The independent ticket consist students waiting to cast their votes Obama and Sen. Joe Eiden as the ing of Ralph Nader and Matt stretched from the DeBartolo vot next president and vice president Gonzalez drew 1.4 percent of the ing tent down the sidewalk. of the United States in a mock vote, or 37 students. Thirty-nine "I think it could not have gone election Tuesday. students, or 1.4 percent of the vot any better," student body vice With 2,692 undergraduates and ers, chose to abstain and 23 stu president Grant Schmidt said graduate students voting in the dents, or .9 percent, voted other. Tuesday night after the voting sta •Abert .on • Saract Ob3rm I Joe S!Oen liiCM! L~t--~rt<es election, the Democratic ticket There was no option to write in a tions had closed. c'[C(ltlo!l'!f • John \lcCatl / Sarah Pain • [ducat lOll 'Bob Barr 1 Wayne Allyn Root won 52.6 percent of the vote, or candidate preference for the Schmidt told The Observer on • Encrgf aM the EnwQtlme<\t •Ra~ Nader f Matt Goozalez 1,414 students, followed by the "other" selection. Monday that he hoped to have 'fOfl!"JO Poky "'Atistafl Republican ticket of Sen. John Student government organized 1,500 people participate in the l!'rmgr at oo Other McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, the mock election, placing voting election, but he said his expecta- ,, .::a ·war which won 41.1 percent of the stations at LaFortune Student Other Graphic Provided by Notre Dame Student Government vote, or 1,105 students. Center, DeBartolo Hall and North see ELECTION/page 6 Graphic Provided by Notre Dame Student Government University reopens suspended Jerusalem program Abroad program at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies at Tantur will begin in summer 2009 after nine years said Liz Murdock LaFortune, program," Lafortune said. "A by people employed by the the University for several By EMMA DRISCOLL Assistant Director of OIS and lot of people weighed in on University, is located at the years to consider plans for a News Writer Program Coordinator for the that, including people on the Ecumenical Institute for Jerusalem Program. Jerusalem Summer Program. ground in Jerusalem." Theological Studies at Tantur, "We've actually been in dis Nine years after the In the past, the Jerusalem LaFortune said students which is on the road from cussions with various people at University suspended its study Program was offered as a have continued to express Jerusalem to Bethlehem, the University for at least the abroad program in Jerusalem spring semester program until interest in the program since it LaFortune said. last two years," LaFortune. eight to ten students will once 2000, LaFortune said. was suspended. "Students will live with the She said the Office of again have the opportunity to The program was suspended Although the State Tantur community and take International Studies has live and study in the city. in November 2000 during the Department warning still meals with them and be part worked with both the General The Office of International time of the beginning of the exists today, LaFortune said of the daily prayer," LaFortune Counsel's Office and Risk Studies (OIS) is offering a Second (or al-Aqsa) lnfitada violence has decreased in the said. Management. Jerusalem Summer Program and the "general violence in area and the program's struc According to Tantur's Web The Board of Trustees gave for summer 2009. the area" associated with the ture will enable the University site, it was purchased by the the final approval for the ''I'm really grateful that we Intifada, LaFortune said. to take steps to protect stu Vatican after the Second Jerusalem Summer Program have the opportunity to send The State Department issued dents. Vatican Council and leased to last spring, LaFortune said. students there because there's a warning regarding travel in The summer program will be Notre Dame for fifty years, However, the Program is sub just really nothing quite like it. the area at the time. a lot more structured in order according to the Web site. The ject to cancellation if there are . Talking to people there is an "One was planned for Spring to minimize risk to students, Institute was opened in 1971, any changes in security. experience that you can't 2001. At that point, the deci LaFortune said. according to the Web site. duplicate here on campus," sion was made to suspend the The program, which is run OIS has been working with see JERUSALEM/page 4 TCEs replaced vvith Vote can be tampere~ with easily online feedback forms OIT officer says electronic voting software has miniJnum security be a new section titled By TESS CIVANTOS "Detailed Course By MOLLY MADDEN News Writer Information." News Writer This section, known as Beginning this semester, Enhanced Class Search If someone wanted to Notre Danw 's Teacher and (ECS), will include the manipulate the presidential Course Evaluations (TCEs) instructor's description of election in November it will be replaced by the the course, the enrollment would be relatively easy due online Course lnstruetor history and student ratings. to the prevalence of technol Feedback forms (CIFs), The I ast section comes ogy in today's world, Office whieh students will be able directly from questions stu of Information Technologies to consult for advice when dents answer on the CIF (OIT) Officer Mike Chapple n~gistering for classes next evaluation forms. said at Tuesday's "Hacking semester. assistant provost Jacobs said they decided the Vote" lecture in Dennis Jacobs said. to make course evaluation DeBartolo Hall. When students register for information available to stu Election hacking, or using spring semester classes, the dents as a resource to help technology to fraudulently traditional registration students decide which class affect the electoral process, information, such as the es to take. Before this sys has become an unfortunate eourse description and tem, students' sources for reality in American politics, availability, will appear on information about a profes- he said. ZHtBtN DA!ffhe Observer the registration website as Office of Information Technologies Officer Mike Chapple usual, but below them will see FEEDBACK/page 4 see VOTE/page 8 discusses technological security and the election Tuesday. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 8, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO SOMEONE WHO WASN'T GOING TO VOTE? Hold on for one n1ore day The wise Wilson Phillips once sang, Someday sonwbody's gonna make you vant to turn around and say goodbye I Jimmy Zumit Kathleen Hession Mike Martinson Rob Schaus Taylor Sheppard Jntil tlwn hahy are you going to let l.lwm hold you down and make you sophomore senior freshman freshman freshman cry'? I Don't you know things ean Keough off-campus O'Neill O'Neill LeMans chang~~? I Things'll go your way il' you hold on for one more day." I'm sure Chicago Cubs fans could use "Vote or die. " "If you don't "You need the "Vote... please?" "Vote... it's sort those words of advieo right now. vote. you can't exercise. of the law." Let me prnl'aee my column with this, complain. " I am a Hod Sox fan. !\II that Sam Werner stands between my team and the World Snries is the i\ssistant fonnt~rly hapless .','ports [3'dilor and currently Pplwmeral (Devil) Hays. 1\.s a Hed Sox fan. though, I feel that it is my personal rnsponsibility to tdl Cubs fans to just "hold on for one morn day." It will be worth it, I promise. One IN BRIEF day you'll sn•~ your players spraying nad1 ol.lwr with champagne and it will Free Flu Shots will bo givnn out at lw worth thosn 100-plus ynars. lh~ JoYf.X~ Center today /i·om 9 a.m. I rPmemlwr just four years ago when until 4 p.m. Van~inations are avail my team hadn't won a d~ampionship in able for students. faeulty, staff, S6 years. 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