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the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 43 : Issue 44 tuesday, november 3, 2009 ndsmcobserver.com Proposed Transpo route to run this month Contest to Student gov’t., Student Affairs to finance new service with safety in mind; stops include local bars m e a s u re By MADELINE BUCKLEY News Editor energy use A new Transpo route that will drop students near com- mon student bars and neigh- in dorms borhoods on weekend nights will tentatively start running this November, student body By IRENA ZAJICKOVA president Grant Schmidt said. News Writer The new Transpo service, one of the main initiatives of As part of an ongoing effort the Schmidt-Weber adminis- to make the University of tration so far this year, will Notre Dame more eco-friend- run every 18 minutes from ly, the Office of Sustainability Library Circle to South Street and student government are Station from about 9 p.m. to hosting a Dorm Energy 3:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday Competition, which kicked off nights, Schmidt said. yesterday and will continue “This is a new route, tai- through Nov. 30. lored to students, that is fast The competition will meas- and safe,” Schmidt said. ure each residence hall’s “Students will go off campus energy use and determine regardless so this is a safety which dorm saved the most issue and a convenience based on figures from the issue.” past five years. Hot water The route, with a round-trip consumption will not be of 36 minutes, has not been included in the measure- finalized, but the proposed ments. route has a stop on Patrick McCormick, a stu- Twyckenham Drive for stu- dent intern at the Office of dents living in apartments Sustainability, said there are east of campus, a stop on many ways students can pitch Edison Street near the in to help their dorms save Linebacker Lounge as well as energy, including simple stops near Corby’s Irish Pub actions such as turning off and The Blarney Stone, com- MEGAN SMITH/The Observer lights when leaving the room monly referred to as A Transpo bus pulls into Library Circle Monday. Student government and University administrators and unplugging electronics Finnegan’s. have worked to add a Transpo route aimed at students. The proposed service will start this month. that aren’t being used. Chip Lewis, chairman of the McCormick also emphasized Board of Directors for currently faced with bad situ- Commons. extending Transpo route 7, the community aspect of the Transpo, said Transpo was ations like overpaying cabs, Schmidt said one of the which currently runs between competition, and said the con- willing to work with the walking or getting in a car biggest advantages for stu- University Park Mall, Library test will be used to promote University to add a new route with someone who has been dents is that Transpo service Circle and South Street the idea of everyone at Notre because of the safety factor. drinking.” is paid for by the University Station, but after talks with Dame coming together to save Transpo does not make a The new route, called 7a, and therefore free for stu- the University’s Office of energy. profit on the added service. will hit the streets with high dents. Business Operations, they “Our hope this year is to try “The benefit is doing good numbers of student houses, “Taxis are not always safe realized it would be more fea- to use the Dorm Energy service for our community such as Notre Dame Ave., and don’t always provide the sible to create a new route. Competition as a way of and helping students get Washington St. and St. Louis best deals,” he said. Schmidt said Business emphasizing that acts of sus- home safely,” Lewis said. St., pass through downtown Schmidt and student body Operations is negotiating a tainability are acts of solidari- “Certainly getting home from South Bend and return to vice president Cynthia Weber bars at night, students are Library Circle via Eddy Street initially began looking into see TRANSPO/page 4 see ENERGY/page 4 Ex-employee settles with ND Grad. students raise By JOSEPH McMAHON money with mustaches Associate News Editor we grow mustaches for chari- By AMANDA GRAY ty,” Barnes said. The University of Notre Dame News Writer Those involved realize the settled their legal dispute with idea doesn’t sound convention- former Catering… by Design Notre Dame graduate stu- al. employee Sara Gaspar, according dents will benefit a local chari- “It may sound like a silly to court documents filed ty, Big Brothers Big Sisters of idea, but people will pay to see Wednesday. St. Joseph County, while grow- guys grow mustaches,” he said. Gaspar agreed to repay ing mustaches in November, The event will begin on Nov. $16,859.79 to the University, co-coordinator and Notre 3 with every participating male about half of the $29,387 she Dame graduate student in showing up to a meeting clean originally mistakenly received as Biological Sciences Matt shaven and with an initial gratuity on April 17. Barnes said. donation, Patrick said. Once a University spokesman Dennis “Mustaches for Kids is basi- week for the next four weeks, Brown said Notre Dame worked cally a fundraiser similar to a the participants will meet at a walk-a-thon or fun run, but see GASPAR/page 4 ANDREA ARCHER | Observer Graphic instead of walking or running see KIDS/page 4 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER SGA creates sponsorship guidelines page 3 N Interview with Cisco Adler page 10 N Women’s basketball begins season page 20 N Viewpoint page 8 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 3, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MICHAEL JACKSON SONG? Miseducation of an Indie kid I am a music snob. I listen to British soul artists, spend hours in music stores searching dusty stacks Alison Collins Derek Novacek George Farrell Nora Sakal of scratched vinyl, watch remastered DVDs of decades old concerts, spend freshman freshman freshman senior more on head- Lions Dillion Fisher off campus phones than most Nick Anderson people do on their “‘Billy Jean,’ I iPods, endlessly Scene Writer “‘Thriller.’” “‘Thriller’, I “‘Beat it.’” praise the music really like the love the video.” of Tom Waits, rythm and beat rewatch Prince’s “Purple Rain,” pub- of the song.” licly scoff at Pitchfork but still read the reviews, and know who won the Mercury Music Prize last year. I’m proud of all this. In my defense, this all started back in the eighth grade. As a chubby 14 year old with glasses, acne, the coor- dination of a lesser evolved species, Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] Napster, and a broadband Internet connection, I needed something to provide a wonderful feeling of supe- riority. I did some things right IN BRIEF (acquire the entire Beatles cata- logue), some wrong (piracy) and “Darkness and Light: Death some to this day that I’m ashamed to and Beauty in Photography” admit (acquire the entire Creed cata- will be held at 10 a.m. today. logue, including several live songs). The exhibit will be shown in the By the time I made it to high O’Shaughnessy Galleries in the school, I was a full blown music elit- Snite Museum of Art. ist. I couldn’t even stomach a con- versation with you unless you knew An exhibit titled “Sculptural the finer points of British rap, Vessels” will open at 10 a.m. understood the progression of punk The display will be shown in the starting in ‘77 or had a French boot- Milly and Fritz Kaeser leg of some lost Whiskeytown tracks. Mestrovic Studio Gallery in the This past summer, two events shat- Snite Museum of Art today. tered my longstanding relationship with music. First, I got my own car. “Dia de los Muertos (Day of Second, I purchased Kanye West’s the Dead) Ofrenda “808s and Heartbreak.” Installation” will be held at 10 Test driving cars with my father, I a.m. today in the Scholz Family could have cared less about the Works on Paper Gallery in the make, model or style. It needed a Snite Museum of Art. couple of seats, a working stereo, and the ability to make the journey The Monthly Luncheon Series between Minnesota and Notre Dame. “TellingHerStory: Highlighting In the end, I ended up with a Kia Women as Role Models in the Spectra5. It meets my minimal crite- EILEEN VEIHMEYER/The Observer Life of Mind, Body, and Soul” ria. Students take a break from studying and take a run around Notre Dame’s campus will be held at noon in the One bright July morning, as a on Monday. Coleman-Morse Study Lounge friend’s Jetta rumbled away from my today. Please bring a sack four cylinder steel box, I realized lunch. most people feel the same way about music as I do about cars — they Sister Miriam Cooney will really don’t care. While this doesn’t present the first part of a three- make sense to me, it did bring a OFFBEAT part series “Women and Math.” pang of regret for the 70s pop mix- Th lecture will be held in 145 tapes I’d subjected them to over the Woman loses diamond ring, lowcases. Records official confirmed Spes Unica at Saint Mary’s years. hopes trick-or-treaters find it Olson is asking people to the big meatball as a record College today and will begin at Mere weeks later, a good friend TERRACE PARK, Ohio — keep an eye out for the ring breaker and presented 7 p.m.