THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 43 : ISSUE 85 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Burdick and Schmidt to compete in run-off No ticket reaches a majority, so a winner is not determined; toy two uote-getters will face off again Thursday- thfee e-mail messages sent out By JENN METZ by the Judicial Council to a News Editor Web site where they entered their netID and password to The Election Committee of the vote. Judicial Council announced the The number of students who tickets Grant Schmidt-Cynthia voted in the election was “the Weber and Laura Burdick- largest turnout ever,” Marcello Derek Sanchez will advance to Perez, vice president of the a run-off election for the offices Judicial Council Elections of student body president and Committee, told the four tick­ vice president Monday. ets, who were assembled in the In order to determine a win­ Notre Dame Room of LaFortune ner, one ticket must receive to hear the results. □ Schmidt - Weber 2,070 votes more than 50 percent of the Four thousand, five hundred total vote, George Chamberlain, and nine votes cast is approxi­ Burdick - Sanchez 1,109 votes president of the Judicial mately 54 percent of the under­ McCaughan - Gorski 383 votes Council, said. graduate student body based Lennon - Harig 557 votes Four thousand, five hundred on the enrollment numbers and nine students participated from fall 2008. 390 votes ALISON AMBROSE/The Observer in Monday’s election, which ran The Schmidt-Weber ticket MADELINE NIES/The Observer Top, from left to right, Laura Burdick and Derek from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on-line. Pictured above are the election results. Sanchez, bottom, Grant Schmidt and Cynthia Weber. Students were directed via see RUN-OFF/page 4 Schmidt-Weber failed to win a majority. Obama lands in South Bend, drives to Elkhart Air Force One lands as For College Dems, motorcade a crowd gathers to watch will be a day to remember By KAITLYNN RIELY By JENN METZ Associate News Editor News Editor The flight was not listed on the “arrivals” screen Professors at Notre Dame have probably heard a in the South Bend Regional Airport, but many peo­ wide range of excuses for why their students did ple stood in and outside the terminal Monday not show up for class. morning in expectation of the appearance of Air Driving in a presidential motorcade most likely Force One. isn’t one of them, but for eight Notre Dame students Several dozen onlookers gathered in front of a it’s an excuse they can use in class tomorrow. window on the second floor of the airport con­ Spencer Howard, the president of the Notre course in the hour before the plane arrived. Dame College Democrats, used a few words over Lisa Bruni, 47, of Niles, Mich., was one of them. and over again to describe Monday’s experience, She was ready with her camera to capture the most notably: “amazing” and “exciting.” plane’s landing. “It was a very proud moment for me,” he said. “It’s an historic event, and I wanted to do it,” she The students who volunteered in the motorcade said. “I want something to show my grandkids.” were able to spend a few minutes with President Her husband, who works at Saint Mary’s, was Barack Obama after his hour-long town hall meet­ planning on listening for the plane’s passage over­ ing in Elkhart, Ind., to discuss the stimulus pack­ head while he was at work. age. They waited by their cars while he spoke. The distinctive plane, with the words “United Taking a picture with the president was “the President Barack Obama disembarks from Air Force One at the see LANDING/page 4 South Bend Regional Airport on Monday morning. see OBAMA/page 6 Green Summit sparks new ideas Spring transfer students Second annual conference reccomends ways to make ND greener adjust to campus life By AARON STEINER Assistanr News Editor By JENN METZ Typically, the University News Editor receives between 75 and 100 Making faculty pay for parking applicants, she said. spots, creating a “cap and trade ” Of the 80 applicants, 14 system for print quotas and elimi­ Eight new students enrolled were offered admission to nating plastic bottles in Waddick’s at Notre Dame for this Notre Dame and eight were among the ideas suggested semester, while Saint Mary’s accepted. All transfer stu­ at Notre Dame’s second annual added 15 students as spring dents that enrolled at the Green Summit Monday evening tra n sfe rs. University in the spring are in McKenna Hall. The Notre Dame Office of second-semester sopho­ University administrators, fac­ Admissions received 80 mores, Linn said. Seven of ulty, staff and students attended applications for spring, the students entered the the event, organized by various which was a “fairly standard College of Arts and Letters, groups on campus including number,” according to while one joined the College GreeND and the Office of Catherine Linn, admissions of Science. PAT COVENY/The Observer counselor and transfer Administrators, students, faculty, and staff gathered Monday in admissions coordinator at the see GREEN/page 6 McKenna Hall to discuss ways to make the campus greener. University. see TRANSFERS/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, February 10, 2009 In s id e C o l u m n Q u e s t io n o f t h e D a y : W hat w ould you do if you w ere STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT? Fashion at ND. Or not. My dear fellow students, I am going to be honest with you. As you walk to class, I am judging you pure­ Angela Carothers Brian Dolinar Ariella Phillips Johanna Kirsch Stevie Biddle ly based-on what you’re wearing. Sit down and talk for me for five min­ senior junior freshm an junior freshm an utes and I Badin Siegfried McGlinn . McGlinn Fisher prom ise I’ll let Michelle Fordice it pass. But until then I am “Relocate to “Declare an end “Mandate nap “Abolish “Legalize pet going to indulge Scene Writer California?” to the game. ” time!” student squirrels. ” my vapid side government.' and silently laugh. As such, I thought I would use my time in the Inside Column to highlight some of the worst Notre Dame has to offer. Ugg Boots. Yes girls, I’ve been told they are ever so comfortable. I don’t much care. They widen your foot to gigantic proportions, hit that odd place on your leg that will make most girls shorter and bottom heavy, and really, can’t we try a bit harder? Stand out from 50 percent of the In B r ie f girls on campus and wander into a shoe department during a sale. Find yourself something in leather with a Valentine’s Day Candy bit more point to the toe. Perhaps a Heart-grams will be sold in bit of heel? I promise they aren’t the LaFortune today, Wednesday uncomfortable monstrosities you and Thursday. The hearts cost think they are. (Yes, I know just $1 per package and will be every once in awhile it snows here. delivered on Friday. Then you are free to wear whatever you like to make it across campus The Glass Club is having a without spread eagling across the sale of some of their products ground. I have worn my beloved — etched glassware, jewelry, heels a bit too far into winter and stained glass and fused glass, did just that in front of DeBartolo. in th e Sorin Room of To those of you that witnessed it, I LaFortune. It will take place hope it was gloriously entertaining.) T h u rsd ay from 5 p.m . to 7 Stuffing your pants into your p.m. boots. Sometimes it’s pouring rain or sleet, and for the sake of not having Brazilian Carnival will take to sit through hours of class with place Friday from 8 p.m. t o l l wet pants, I understand that this is p .m . in South Dining Hall. entirely practical (and I’ve done it.) The event will include music And on those women with legs up to and dance by Chicago Samba, my armpits (which it is possible you a costume contest, samba les- could be) it can work. But if you are sions and door prizes. anything like me, it just makes you PAT COVENY/The Observer look shorter. Your legs do so much Korean poet Kim Hyesoon speaks on the “Women In International Literary The Freshman Class Council for you on a day to day basis, taking Cultures” panel at the Hesburgh Center Auditorium on Monday. is hosting Lovefest on Friday you from place to place, don’t turn at 9 p.m. The event will take them into stumps. (I’ve broken this place in Casey Auditorium in rule on a couple of occasions, but I the Hesburgh Library and will have repented. Follow me into the include free candy from the light.) South Bend Chocolate Factory Crocs. Repeat after me: A wedge of O f fb e a t and musical performers from plastic does not make a shoe. Save the Freshman class. T ickets them for your garden. We aren’t Police find 22 dogs in for Feb. 16 in Denison. circus zebras through the are $5 and will benefit the even going to consider the ones with station wagon with owner The dogs were in the car streets after they escaped American Heart Association.