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The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue 116 Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Ndsmcobserver.com ND admits students, ranks as “dream school” University receives Parents rank Notre more applications, Dame as No. 4 accepts fewer students choice for children By TORI ROECK By ANN MARIE JAKUBOWSKI News Writer News Writer When most colleges see in- March saw Notre Dame ris- creases in applications, they ing in another set of rankings, admit more students, assum- as the Princeton Review survey ing a large number of them “College Hopes and Worries” will choose to attend other listed the University as parents’ schools. No. 4 “dream college” for their But Bob Mundy, director children, up from No. 9 in 2011. of admissions, said the yield Notre Dame was ranked be- for admitted applicants who hind Stanford University, Princ- chose to attend the University eton University and Harvard last year was unpredictably University. high, leading to a decrease According to the Princeton in the number of acceptances Review’s website, “dream col- this year. leges” are schools that parents “Clearly we think we’ve be- wish they were sending their come a more popular option children to if cost and admis- out there,” Mundy said. sion were not contributing fac- According to Don Bishop, tors. A separate ranking listed associate vice president for the top ten dream colleges for undergraduate enrollment, students. 16,952 high school seniors ap- Bob Mundy, director of ad- plied for a spot in the Class of missions, said the ranking 2016 and 3,850 were admit- speaks to the positive percep- ted. Last year, the University tion of Notre Dame nationwide. received 16,520 applications “If you can step back and and accepted 4,019 students, think about it as a parent might, Bishop said. I think it provides a nicely il- The number of internation- lustrative view of Notre Dame,” al applicants and applicants Mundy said. “Parents want of color also rose this year, he great things for their children, said. and I think this is a statement Bishop said this year’s ac- that they see Notre Dame as a ceptance rate was 22.7 per- unique combination of educa- see APPLICANTS/page 3 MARINA KOZAK | Observer Graphic see DREAM/page 6 University leaders Professor discusses HHS mandate By ABI HOVERMAN address discrimination News Writer Amid national controversy over the Department of Health By KRISTEN DURBIN discussions of these issues, but and Human Services (HHS) News Editor people leave feeling like, ‘I said contraception mandate, mem- all this, but what happens next? bers of the Notre Dame com- In the wake of last month’s in- What will be done? How will the munity discussed the devel- cidents of racial discrimination words we share be transferred to opment of conscience in the against two student groups and actual change?’” she said. Catholic faith Monday. the March 5 town hall meeting Suggs sent a campus-wide Led by David Clairmont, as- held in response, Notre Dame email last week alerting the Notre sistant professor of moral the- student leaders, faculty, staff and Dame community to the creation ology, the talk provided context administrators are formulating of the Plan of Action. for understanding the debate a “Plan of Action” for addressing Town hall attendees submit- over the mandate requiring discrimination on campus. ted personal responses address- employers to include contra- Senior Brittany Suggs, chair ing the changes they wanted to ception in their insurance of the Black Student Association see with regard to discrimina- packages. (BSA), said the decision to create tion in specific areas of campus “The bishops want to have the Plan of Action arose from the life, Suggs said. These responses the specific effects of the man- student body’s response to the will be used to formulate a for- date on Catholic institutions town hall meeting. She said stu- mal proposal to be presented to eliminated so Catholic institu- dents called for “more direct in- the University administration in tions will not be in the situa- volvement in changes on campus” early May. tion of providing things that go with regard to racial incidents “The committee goal is to have against Church teaching, even and discrimination. … something in place for transi- if there are varieties of opin- “[The Plan of Action] also came tioning officers [of student orga- ions among Catholics about XULE LIN/The Observer from the belief of students that we Professor Clairmont discusses the contraceptive mandate and have meetings and forums and see TOWN/page 6 see MANDATE/page 6 conscience formation in the Geddes Hall coffee house on Monday. 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