the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 4044 : Issue ???47 Wednesday,FRIDAY, NOVEMBER August 6, 27, 2009 2004 ndsmcobserver.com H1N1 flu Bengal Bouts film vaccines highlights Missions arrive at Mark Weber, a 2009 gradu- By KATIE PERALTA ate, former boxing club presi- Assistant News Editor dent and captain and produc- er of the film, hopes the it University This weekend’s premiere of will not only educate, but also “Strong Bodies Fight: Rough remind audiences of the sig- Cut” will reveal not only a nificant connection between Observer Staff Report few months’ work of a dedi- the club and the developing The University has cated few, but also nearly 80 country. received a limited supply of years’ work of a passionate “Our goal is to transform the newly-developed H1N1 many. the connection [with vaccine and will distribute The 75-minute film, to be Bangladesh] from sending the vaccine Friday to people shown on tonight at the them an annual check to an determined to be at the Browning Cinema of the actual relationship,” Weber highest risk, Director of DeBartolo Performing Arts said. “It went from an Internal Communications Center, tells the story of the abstract mission to something Gail Mancini said. boxing club Bengal Bouts and we could see and touch. This Photo courtesy of Mark Weber Mancini said University its relationship with the Holy Mark Weber, producer of “Strong Bodies Fight: Rough Cut,” poses Health Services has about Cross Missions in Bangladesh. see BOUTS/page 6 with Bengali children during a trip to Bangladesh in May 2008. 500 doses of the vaccine for students, faculty and staff, which will be first given to pregnant women, people under the age of 25 who Cab companies: Over-charging is illegal have chronic health prob- lems as determined by the Center for Disease Control Most trips with two or more people within a three-mile radius of campus are three dollars (CDC). Some of the health prob- Ribbon Taxi. “That is kind lems outlined include can- By ROBERT SINGER of silly.” cer, asthma and diabetes. Assistant News Editor If students think they The vaccine will be dis- have been charged more tributed Friday in Stepan Students may be power- than the company’s rate — Center from 10 a.m. to 2 less to stop the pain of ris- which is considered price p.m. ing tuition costs or the gouging and made illegal by As more of the vaccine falling temperatures, but city ordinances — they can becomes available, Health they can do something to report the cab driver to his Services will expand the prevent cab drivers from or her company, groups eligible to receive illegally increasing their Ntakirutimana said. the vaccine. fares on the weekends, “If it happens, it may be The Observer reported according to Modern Cab with drivers who may seem Wednesday that there have Company manager Jean to be greedy. [Students] can been 659 presumed cases of Ntakirutimana. look outside of the car and the H1N1 virus, commonly “I’ve heard students tell look up the cab number and referred to as swine flu, at me that the driver has report the driver immedi- Notre Dame since August. charged them five dollars to ately to the cab company, so More information can be SARAH O’CONNOR/The Observer go from Main Circle to we can take care of the sit- found at the University Cabs wait to pick up students at Main Circle. Cab downtown,” said Kerry Health Services Web site. companies say price gouging is illegal. Clear, president of Blue see CABS/page 9 Getting the Library petition to be submitted By SARAH MERVOSH ‘ring by spring’ News Writer last month on campus. The petition for library By MOLLY MADDEN “I live in Zahm and she lives reform that garnered more News Writer in Cavanaugh,” Crecelius said. than 1,200 student signatures “I proposed to her in between is expected to be ready for sub- While some students might be the two dorms because I fig- mission by next week, said debating who to take to their ured it was a place that we graduate student David Morris, SYR, others are thinking of could come back to later in our who began the petition. their relationships in terms of lives.” The petition called for an lifelong commitment. Notre Dame senior Colleen increase in both the number of Several undergraduates have Minta and her fiancé Holy Cross collections and in professional recently taken the plunge and College senior Patrick Mac staff, as well as the renovation gotten engaged. Many of these Carthaigh also were engaged at of the entire building, Morris students are learning how to the end of October. Mac said. balance being a student and Carthaigh, who proposed by The petition will be submitted engaged while others are still Saint Mary’s Lake, said propos- to University President Fr. John adjusting to the idea of being ing at Notre Dame was impor- Jenkins and other prominent someone’s fiancé. tant. leaders of the University when Seniors Elysia Kramer and Andrew Crecelius got engaged see ENGAGED/page 8 see LIBRARY/page 9 JACLYN ESPINOZA l Observer Graphic INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Badin art show page 3 N SMC Right to Life Club page 4 N Mythical match-ups pages 14-15 N Interhall playoffs page 28 N Viewpoint page 12 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Friday, November 6, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHERE IS YOUR FAVORITE WEEKEND HANGOUT? Bored with the lakes Notre Dame is full of runners — a fact made even more apparent as the November weather has not deterred Alex Riney Chris Wynkoop Katie Mayka Gail Cech Joe O’Brien the joggers from running outside in Nike running tights and Under Armor. junior junior sophomore senior senior But during a Alumni Fisher Breen-Phillips Walsh Fisher recent conver- Madeline Buckley sation, a friend who runs “Off campus at “Chem lab.” “Legends!” “The football “Since my almost every News Editor a friend’s games.” weekend starts day said she house.” Thursday, The does not feel safe running off campus. This sur- Feve.” prised me because campus is not large, and I am curious about how many runners at Notre Dame feel the same way as my friend. As much I as love the two-mile, fig- ure eight run around the two lakes, the repetitiveness is dizzying after Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] awhile, and this short route gets bor- ing quickly during a long run. My other usual running routes on campus have become routine as well. IN BRIEF So I generally do the bulk of my runs off campus because it offers a The men’s basketball team greater variety of routes, instead of will play Quincy tomorrow in running past Carroll Hall, Moreau an exhibition game at 7:30 Seminary and the beach on St. Joe p.m. at the Purcell Pavillion at Lake over and over again. the Joyce Center. Ticket infor- And I always feel safe doing this. mation is available by calling Of course, I would never venture 574-631-7356. off-campus on a run by myself after dark, and I would recommend looking The Notre Dame Glee Club at a map if the neighborhoods around will host its Alumni Reunion campus are unfamiliar. Concert tomorrow at 8 p.m. But aside from the occasional, terri- with several hundred of its fyingly-large dog in someone’s yard, I alumni at the Leighton Concert never feel uneasy running through Hall of the DeBartolo the neighborhoods surrounding cam- Performing Arts Center. Tickets pus. are $3 for students. In fact, I have come to prefer run- ning off-campus. I run past some The film “Strong Bodies beautiful houses and through some Fight: Rough Cut” will be beautiful neighborhoods. Getting shown tomorrow at the away from campus, even if just for a Browning Cinema at the five-mile run, is refreshing. DeBartolo Performing Arts My current favorite route — and I Center at 9:30 p.m. The film encourage any runners out there to examines the Bengal Bouts try it — is about 4.5 to five miles, MAGGIE O’BRIEN/The Observer boxing club and its partnership depending on the starting point on Students enjoy the clear weather and play a game of pick-up football on the quad with the Holy Cross Mission in campus. Thursday. Bangladesh. Tickets are $3 for I head from Breen Phillips Hall to students and are available at Main Circle and continue south down performingarts.nd.edu. Notre Dame Ave. from there. I run about two miles on Notre Dame Ave., A science lecture series enti- through the Northeast Neighborhood tled, “The Physics of Angels and near downtown South Bend. OFFBEAT and Demons: Notre Dame at When I hit Wayne St., I head west the Large Hadron Collider,” toward Howard Park, and then pick SUV nearly slams into swiping the 29-year-old called 911 to report that will take place Saturday from up the East Race trail at Howard elephant on highway female elephant on U.S. 81 Osman and others who 11 a.m. to noon. The lecture, Park. I then take the East Race path OKLAHOMA CITY – It’s in Enid, about 80 miles were with him were block- given by Mike Hildreth, north back to Notre Dame. not unusual to see a deer north of Oklahoma City. ing the lane, knocking on Associate Professor of Physics, The trail ends near St.