THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 41: ISSUE 104 THURSDAY, MARCH 22,2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM STUDENT SENATE Cathedral Jenkins fields questions from group High gives "Please know that your work By KAITLYNN RIELY is important and we value it, upNDlogo Assistant News Editor and whatever you say we will listen to it," Jenkins said. "We University President Father many not agree with everything Use of Leprechaun John Jenkins ended an after­ you say but we will listen to noon that included open office you." violated trademark hours by visiting the Student Welsh Family senator Mary Senate Wednesday, giving mem­ Popit asked Jenkins for his bers the opportunity to ask thoughts on a resolution the By KATIE KOHLER questions about topics ranging Senate passed two weeks ago, Saint Mary's Editor from tuition increases to which urged the University to research. add sexual orientation to its After almost 90 years of Jenkins opened the floor for anti-discriminatory clause. using Notre Dame's discussion and told senators he Jenkins said he had not yet "'""'"'"•'Tho Observer Leprechaun logo, Cathedral appreciated their work as rep­ University President Father John Jenkins discusses senators' High School in Indianapolis is resentatives of the student body. see JENKINS/page 4 concerns at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting. changing its image - a move strongly supported by Cathedral's principal, if not its alumni. Cathedral, whose students have been known as the ACE teacher, alum meets with First Lady Fighting Irish since the school's founding in 1918, will no longer be permitted to use Class of 2005 grad discusses state of the Leprechaun logo due to the University's allegation of trade­ schools post-Katrina with Laura Bush mark infringement. An Indianapolis Star article try - Stowe has spent published on March 16 said By AARON STEINER nearly two years in Cathedral will stop using the News Writer Pascagoula, Miss., where logo, much to the chagrin of she has helped those many alumni who feel "dis­ Notre Dame alumna Liz struggling in the after­ owned by their own family," as Stowe has had her fair math of Hurricane Mary Boyle, president of the share of extraordinary Katrina. Cathedral Alumni Association, experiences in recent A year and a half after told the Star. years, including living the hurricane, Stowe is a Dave Worland, Cathedral through Hurricane few months away from High School principal, had a Katrina as a second ending her term in more optimistic view of the sit­ grade teacher in Mississippi. Schools and uation. Mississippi. She can add students along the Gulf "I can understand why some meeting the First Lady Coast continue to strug­ people are upset because it has to her list. gle, Stowe said, and First been part of our identity for so A second -year partici­ Lady Laura Bush recent­ long," he said in a telephone pant in Notre Dame's ly assessed the state of interview with The Observer. Alliance for Catholic schools and the obstacles Worland said he has not Education (ACE) program they still face. experienced any backlash from - a two-year post-grad­ Stowe said Bush's sec­ the students and sees the situ­ uate service program retary called her person­ ation as a positive one. Photo courtesy of LIZ Stowe that allows participants ally to invite her to meet "The students think it is ACE teacher and Notre Dame alumna Liz Stowe meets with First Lady to teach in Catholic Laura Bush to speak about education on Feb. 22. schools across the coun- see STOWE/ page 6 see LOGO/page 8 Irish tnascot cotnpetes Panel evaluates Honor Code on SpikeTV progratn By STEVE KERINS News Writer Braun he had an offer to be Academic integrity is an essential ByJENN METZ on the show, which airs at 10 aspect of Notre Dame's mission, and News Writer p.m. tonight. With the help of students, faculty and administrators his fellow cheerleaders, Braun share the responsibility of upholding Just because Notre Dame's prepared an audition video the Honor Code, a three-person basketball season has come to that showcased him playing panel said Wednesday. an end doesn't mean that basketball and football University Vice President and Leprechaun Kevin Braun's around campus. Associate Provost Dennis Jacobs, duties are over. Tonight, the Braun said the show usually philosophy professor Bill Ramsey senior will be featured in a puts three regular "Joes"- in and senior Sarah Glatt spoke to special college mascot edition this case, the mascots - with about 30 people at this semester's of SpikeTV's "Pros vs. Joes 2" varied athletic skills up second-to-last Theology on Tap - potentially the last time he against retired professional event, "To Cheat or Not to Cheat: will be seen in the green suit. athletes, or "Pros," in their The Academic Honor Code." Braun, along with Penn respective sports. The issue of academic integrity State's Nittany Lion Dave While the three mascots "really cuts right to the heart of the Johnson and Wisconsin's signed documents that forbid University," Jacobs said, citing a Bucky Badger Sky Halverson, them to discuss the results of phrase in Notre Dame's mission flew to California to film the the contest, Braun said keep­ statement requiring members of the episode last December on an ing that information from community to "seek and share truth all-expenses paid trip. family, roommates and team­ for its own sake." Preparation began early last mates "has been pretty diffi- Jacobs said the Undergraduate STENGER!The Observer fall when Notre Dame cheer­ Professor Bill Ramsey, right, discusses cheating with Associate leading coach Jo Minton told see BRAUN/page 8 see CHEATING/page 10 Provost Dennis Jacobs and senior Sarah Glatt Wednesday. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, March 22, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do YOU THINK THE WARM WEATHER WILL LAST? Squirrels are evil If there's one thing that I have learned while at Notre Dame, it doesn't have to do with theology or English. It's not about friendship or David Wilkerson Kate Kinasz Patricia Wilbur Jenny Plagman Lauren Pienn Ted Lee religion, life, work, society or univer­ sophomore freshman freshman freshman senior freshman sity life. It has nothing to do Chris McGrady Carroll BP McGlinn BP Lyons Alumni with relation- ships, truth, faith, Assistant "Absolutely not. "Of course. It's "Of course, or at '7 don't know, "No, that would "Hell yeah, I'm imagination or the development Scene Editor We live in South always hot least I hope so. " but I hope it be too good to going to hang of a viable skill Bend." when I'm snows soon." be true." out with Kate set that will help me in the real around." Kinasz." world. It's simply that squirrels are evil. Yeah, I said it. These furry fiends attack at a moment's notice and the truth is that the squirrels of Notre Dame are multiplying. Yeah, you know the ones -the obese little fluff-balls that roam this campus like bloodthirsty scavengers. They are growing in numbers by the day. In their plot to control the foot­ IN BRIEF ball team, run the dining halls and disrupt the campus sprinkler sys­ tems, the squirrels require a large The 2007 Natural Law amount of funding. To defray the Lecture, entitled "Why I Am cost, these beasts seek monetary (Almost) a Natural Lawyer," "donations" obtained largely through will be given by John Gardner, armed robbery of helpless North Professor of Jurisprudence Face wearing, iPod-toting students. from the University of Oxford at To help avoid these surprisingly 4 p.m. today in the Notre carnivorous beasts. I'd like to make Dame Law School Courtroom. you aware of a few of their strate­ gies for overtaking the common stu­ John Bruton, the EU ambas­ dent. Remember. knowing your sador to the United States, will enemy is key to survival. speak about "The Future of The first tactic is called the "wolf Economic and Political pack." In this strategy, the squirrels Helations between the attack in large numbers, sometimes European Union and the 40 or 50 deep. They overtaken the United States" today at 4:30 victim by sheer force and drag them p.m. in the Jordan Auditorium off to their secret lair (thought to be of the Mendoza College of somewhere in South Dining Hall). Business. Another tactic often employed by these animal assassins is the "kitty As part of the Nanovic coup." Only certain squirrels are Institute film series: able to pull this off, but given the "Terrorism: Perspectives from large size of these monsters, it can European Cinema," the film KATE FENLONfThe Observer "Battle of Algiers" will be be done. A particularly chunky Saint Mary's president Carol Ann Mooney, right, and philosophy professor Patricia squirrel is outfitted with a cat collar shown tonight at 7 and 10 in Sayre, second from right, speak to two Saint Mary's students before the College's the Browning Cinema of the and poses on the quad as a harmless "Women Honoring Women" event Wednesday night. feline friend. The unsuspecting vic­ DeBartolo Performing Arts tim approaches the "cat" and is Center. Tickets are $3 for stu­ quickly subdued by a strong tran­ dents. quilizer stolen from the chemistry lab. Hours later, the injured party Clayton Eshleman, professor awakens frightened, alone, and 100 OFFBEAT emeritus of English at Eastern Flex Points poorer. These creatures Michigan University, and poet will show no mercy. Man gets probation for treatment of an animal after Lahey, a transient, broke Johannes Goransson will give In addition to the large possum or dead deer sex he killed a horse with the into the rear of the building a poetry reading tonight at "cat-like" squirrels, there is another SUPERIOR, Wis.