Faculty Discuss Gradutate Research Funding

r---:-.-,-,,,---------------------- ~-- ----- Listen up Carnegie or bust Check out reviews of new work from the Foo Saint Mary's women's choir will be traveling to Tuesday Fighters, Incubus and David Bowie. Carnegie Hall for a performance later this Scene+ page 12-13 month. NOVEMBER 16, News+ page 3 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIII NO. 53 HTTP://OBSERVER.N D.EDU THE MUSIC MAKER Students for Clean Plates to protest By JACKIE OSTROWSKI News Writer In an effort to create stu dent awareness about the amount of wasted food at Notre Damn and throughout the world, a group called Students for Clnan Plates will be sponsoring a dining hall protest on Thursday. Students for Clean Plates will distribute llyers in the dining halls during the week to coineide with the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and llomelessness Week. The group will host a meal time demonstration to show the student body how much food they waste daily. Students will be asked to scrape their uneaten food into a trash dumpster to remind them that every item they leave on their tray will be EDEN ESSEX/The Observer thrown away. Conducted by Charles Ansbacher, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra performed pieces by Eric Breton, Asim Horozic and "The dining halls are set up Anton Dvorak at Saint Mary's last night. The event was sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. in a way that makes it very easy to waste food without thinking," said Hcne Mulligan, who coordinatP.d the week's events with Hamin Skibba. She noted that studnnts t~ould Faculty discuss gradutate research funding usc their expnrinnce at the Notre Dame demonstration to relate to the situation in thn University attitudes towards Castellino outlined three ment," he said. For example, rest of the world. By MAUREEN SMITHE research," said Frank steps that should yield commitment to capitalization Assisr.uu Nrws Ediror .Just as Notre Dame stu Castellino. dean of the College increased research funding. of new faculty and better and dents leave edible. untoudwd of Science. First, his committee suggested more sufficient office spaces food on their trays, many BtH~ausn Notrn Damn rnject Anthony Hyder, vice presi that "the overall attitude [of are needed. ml a proposal to join tho Big well-fed Americans, used to dent of the Graduate School, the University] must evolve," "To increase research fund an abundancn of everything, I 0 last February, tho Faculty blames Notre Dame's faculty he said. "We essentially oper- ing we need to hire the best Snnatn Forum on Aeademic do the same. for low ate as a and the brightest - and not "It's important to start at l.ife nstablishnd a series of external nine-month overload them," he said. "We panel discussions to address home," said Mulligan. "It is grants. Last "Centers and institutes undergradu must institute programs ... very obvious that we can do the isstw of research funding year 62 per ate driven that are necessary for at Notre Dame. The series, are the way to something to make a differ cent of university - research and scholarship." ence by not wasting food." whieh bngan live years ago to external significantly increase we should Hyder's committee made a This project is the first discuss matters of public con grants were research funding." operate as a similar recommendation. major undertaking for the corn, "provides a flexible for generated 12-month "The University should pro mat for discussion," according Students for Clean Plates. by just 40 graduate vide the infrastructure funds, The group began in to thnology professor and faculty Frank Castelllno driven uni but the faculty should seek Fac;ulty Snnate chair .lean September as a combination members. dean, College of Science versity." the funding," Hyder said. of two other student groups l'ortt~r. "Six per To improve Finally, Castellino suggested Thn discussions evolved in Students for cent of fac- the overall the establishment of institutes Environmental Action and the rnsponse to Notre Dame's ulty were responsible for research climate on campus, and centers on campus that small sum of nxternal World !Iunger Coalition - almost two-thirds of the Castellino said that attractive will heavily rely on research and has since become its own research funds. Two years awards dollars the University fellowships are needed to faculty. "Centers and insti ago, Notre Dame's outside organization. To recruit received. The key to generat attract graduate students. tutes are the way to signifi members, Mulligan and grants totaled $30.2 million. ing more external funds lies "We must provide to these cantly increase research Skibba also contacted all In comparison, peer institu in making more faculty students competitive salaries funding," he said. presidents of campus elubs tions such as Princeton, responsible for generating ... and increased funding," he Julia Douthwaite, associate Northwestern and Cornell that might be interested in part of the support for their said. In addition, his commit dean of the College of Arts such a cause. drnw in grants totaling $57 scholarship," he said. tee suggested changes such as and Letters, discussed the Though Students For Clean million to $1R9 million. As a The panel presented recom affordable family medical need for institute implemen rnsult, several faculty mem Plates is a relatively young mendations for program insurance and affordable day tation as well - a suggestion organization. Mulligan said its bnrs formed various commit improvement and stressed the care for graduate students' that she considers to be a new current campaign against t•~ns which outlined several need for increased research children. and ongoing initiative at food wasting s1mds a power key recommendations, funds. Secondly, Castellino said Notre Dame that will foster ful message rnminding stu appealing to the University's "We have a goal in which that changes to University grantship. Douthwaite noted dents of the less fortunate ad ministration. programs will exist for the infrastructure would increase that in Arts and Letters an world outside Notre Dame. "Thn report was generated institute has already been good of the University. We are research funds. "We must "No food should go to waste by an excellent committee ... more program driven than make Notre Dame as attrac when people are hungry," she !wavily interestnd in fund driven," Castellino said. tive as possible for recruit- see RESEARCH/page 4 said. page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, November 16, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK "This isn't a newspaper "Think of it as "We must establish and Bone thugs that just goes to "I've faced a lot of Germany's Woodstock if continue a structured [Malloy]. This is a ignorance here. " you will, except substantive, respective newspaper for us. " with deep and ongoing dialogue and basketball Ayana Fakhir significance. " between university pres Chlsle Veliky Muslim student idents and bishops. " Farley senator on practicing her Burkard Prause on the definition of faith at Notre Dame Ph.D. candidate in physics John D'Arcy Thugs. That's the only word that can relate on the fall of the Berlin Wall what the men's basketball team looks like in its editorial independence Bishop new uniforms. Thugs. on Ex Corde Ecclesiae Maybe you haven't seen these hideous new threads that the team is sporting this year, so let me describe them to you. Basically, take a T -shirt, cut the sleeves off Compiled from U-Wire reports and you've got what the OUTSIDE THE DOME new uniforms look like. A lot of teams are wearing this style of uniform and all Harvard's early applicant pool increases the teams that wear them Mike Connolly are a bunch of thugs. The CAMBRIDGE, Mass. "They see the statistics that other non-exclusive early action team that immediately Once they get to campus, Harvard Harvard has a freshman class schools. springs to my mind when I students may not often hand their But high school counselors said the Associate work in early, but a record number of ofr,6oo and over r,ooo are change has affected the applicant see these uniforms is Sports Editor Cincinnati. Harvard applicants are trying to get a dmitted early action. They numbers of other early action Now, don't get me wrong, ahead of the game. do the math. " schools, such as Brown and Cincinnati is a great basket- Harvard received 6,042 early action Georgetown, more than Harvard's. ball factory. Unfortunately, it's a horrible bas applications by the November 1 dead Instead, according to Stephen ketball school. Since Bob Huggins became head line, 31.8 percent more than last Stephen Singer Singer, director of college counseling coach 10 years ago, not a single scholarship year. The numbers reflect especially counseling director at Horace Mann School at the Horace Mann School in New player on the men's basketball team has grad large increases in the number of York City, many students are apply uated. None. 247 wins ... no diplomas women applicants, up 34.6 percent - financial aid William Fitzsimmons. "I ing early because they say they And you thought the Tennessee football team though women still make up slightly think the word is getting out." believe it will give them a better was dumb. The Volunteers have nothing on the less than half the pool. Applicants Fitzsimmons noted that a recent chance at being admitted. Bearcats (what is a Bearcat anyways?). Why do from the Midwest increased by 43 survey estimated the student to guid "I think the increase in applications we want anything related to Cincinnati on our percent from last year. ance counselor ratio in four of the to Harvard is a result of what the kids basketball team? (Although the No.

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