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the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 56 thursday, november 19, 2009 ndsmcobserver.com Past activism remembered, current efforts examined Panel celebrates 40th Students reflect on anniversary of ‘Notre their work to effect Dame 10’ protest change on campus By MADELINE BUCKLEY By MADELINE BUCKLEY News Editor News Editor Editor’s note: This is the Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a four- fourth installment in a four- part series commemorating part series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the the 40th anniversary of the Notre Dame 10 and looking at Notre Dame 10 and looking at student activism on campus student activism on campus today. The first two parts today. The first three parts introduced the Notre Dame 10 introduced the Notre Dame 10 and their protest efforts and and their protest efforts and examined University examined University President Emeritus Fr. President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh’s 15- Theodore Hesburgh’s 15- minute rule. minute rule. John Eckenrode said he was Senior Kristi Haas has just an ordinary student when observed two different kinds he was suspended 40 years of activism on campus during ago for participating in the her past three years at Notre Dow-CIA protest. QUENTIN STENGER/The Observer Dame. From left, Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, Mark Mahoney and John Eckenrode participate in a panel see PANEL/page 6 discussion Wednesday at Geddes Hall commemorating the ‘Notre Dame 10’ on their 40th anniversary. see ACTIVISM/page 6 ROTC holds Dixon Challenge Lupus survivor returns to ND for book signing physicians recommended By LILY HOUGH meant she’d have to quit her News Writer job and put her plans to have a family on hold. But this self- Notre Dame graduate Sara proclaimed high achiever was- Gorman will return to campus n’t ready to give in. Thursday feeling healthy and “I just tried to keep working strong as she signs copies of and pushing through the pain,” her new book “Despite Lupus: Gorman said. “That was my How to Live Well with a strategy — to not adjust at all. I Chronic Illness,” in he Hammes thought, ‘if I can get over this Notre Dame Bookstore from 4 and just grin and bear it, to 6 p.m. everything will go back to nor- But Gorman hasn’t always mal.’” felt this good — she was diag- Normal never happened. nosed with lupus in 2001 and Gorman gave in to working struggled for years to adjust part-time from home, but her her post-college lifestyle to the health continued to deterio- demands of the crippling dis- rate. A new medication offered ease before she was ready to her hope to restore her health, publish a book about it. but made pregnancy impossi- At 26 years old, Gorman was ble, which presented Gorman DAN JACOBS/The Observer newly married and recently with a dilemma. Members of Notre Dame’s ROTC Army division participate in the Dixon Challenge’s obstacle course promoted to a facility director “I wanted to stay on sched- Wednesday. The Dixon Challenge tested the skills cadets have learned throughout this semester. at Henninger Media Services — ule. I wanted kids,” she said. The platoons completed in the cadets simulate positioning in the midst of her “invincible “Postponing my plans was a By MOLLY MADDEN four challenges, which consist- themselves behind a bunker period” — when lupus hit, she shock. I was no longer in con- News Writer ed of a written test, obstacle and throwing a “grenade” into said. trol.” course, grenade throwing and a 12-foot circle 20 yards away. “It was a shock to the system Gorman decided to put her Crawling under barbed wire, a simulation that tested the Rodriguez said the cadets have to be walking around like an plans for a family on hold and grenade training and respond- cadets’ knowledge of radio spent the semester taking a 80-year-old with a cane, to not became more aggressive with ing to the fallout of a bomb all procedures. The challenge, “Leadership Lab,” which is the be able to do the things I did a her treatments. But one adjust- while carrying a 35 pound while fun for many of the par- basis of their practical train- week ago,” Gorman said. ment was especially hard, backpack — just an average ticipants, is designed to test the ing. Lupus is a chronic autoim- Gorman said. Her new medica- test day for Notre Dame’s cadets’ training. Junior cadet Graham Hoar mune disease that attacks the tion Cellcept not only prevent- ROTC Army division. “The Dixon Challenge is an said he preferred the hands-on body’s organs and tissues, ed pregnancy but also caused Last night, about 100 cadets important practical test training to regular class causing severe joint pain and her to lose all her hair. took part in the annual Dixon because it is a culmination of because it gave him a chance an array of other painful symp- “At first, I couldn’t cut it,” Challenge, a two-hour compe- the entire semester,” senior to apply the techniques he had toms. While there is no cure, Gorman said. “It was all falling tition incorporating all the Marina Rodriguez said. “We do learned. patients often treat their symp- out and I looked awful, but I techniques the cadets have try and make it fun, though.” “It’s really nice to get away toms to avoid flare-ups of the thought, if I just hold on to learned over the semester into Rodriguez, who is a cadet from the classroom,” he said. disease that can sometimes what I used to be, it might go a contest fought among the captain, oversaw the grenade have fatal complications. But four platoons. throw, which involved having see ROTC/page 4 the treatments that Gorman’s see LUPUS/page 9 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Student Senate page 3 N TV masterpieces made into movies page 12 N Men’s basketball preview page 24 N Viewpoint page 10 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Thursday, November 19, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WOULD YOU RATHER BE FORCED TO GO TO THE MIDNIGHT PREMIERE OF ‘NEW MOON’ OR HAVE NOTRE DAME LOSE ON SATURDAY? Don’t judge a movie by its unicorn As all of the dedicated readers of Ian Johnston Anna Wanzek Andrew Steier Meggan Muller Maureen Vigland our classified section should know, “The Last Unicorn” is a great movie. freshman freshman sophomore freshman sophomore A sports production editor quoted Keenan McGlinn Duncan Lyons Walsh me as saying so in Monday’s paper because he thought my state- “If it could “Well, I might “I don’t know “None of the “I can’t see ment was ridicu- guarantee a be able to do what ‘New above!” them lose lous. The rest of the win, I would both.” Moon’ is, but another one on office agreed. sacrifice myself whatever will Saturday, They laughed as I and go to ‘New bring us a win.” so ...” tried to explain the movie and Moon.’ We need laughed some the win.” more at my fee- Laura Myers ble insistence of Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] how awesome it Assistant is. They protested Sports Editor when I pulled up the opening song IN BRIEF on YouTube. The told me not to give them any more ammunition to make A performance of Dance: fun of me about. Flamenco Vivo! will take place So obviously I had to write a col- tonight at 7 p.m. at the Decio umn. Mainstage Theater of the “The Last Unicorn” is an animated DeBartolo Performing Arts movie that was released in 1982. It Center. Tickets can be pur- comes from the same animation chased online at performin- team that made the recent critical- garts.nd.edu ly-acclaimed movie “Ponyo.” Its plot summary reads: The film “Still Walking” will “A brave unicorn and a magician be shown today at 6:30 p.m. at fight an evil king who is obsessed the Browning Cinema of the with attempting to capture the DeBartolo Performing Arts world’s unicorns.” Center. Tickets can be pur- Who wouldn’t be curious after chased online at performin- reading that? Plus, the magician is garts.nd.edu voiced by Alan Arkin, who 27 years later, is still awesome. The Notre Dame men’s soccer The movie is a classic tale of good team will play Wisconsin-Green versus evil. It introduces the moral Bay today at 7:30 p.m. at conflict of choosing what is right Alumni Field. For ticket infor- over what is easy or safe. It shows mation, call 631-7356. children what it means to be self- sacrificing, and what you can The Notre Dame men’s bas- accomplish if you believe. TOM LA/The Observer ketball team will play Long Its wacky characters include an Students browse fair trade handcrafts from Latin America, Africa and Asia sold by the non- Beach State today at 7:30 p.m. evil king, a charming prince, a scary profit organization Ten Thousand Villages in the Great Hall of O’Shaugnessy on Wednesday. at the Purcell Pavilion at the circus ringmaster and the idealistic Joyce Center. For ticket informa- magician. Kids will love it for the tion, call 631-7356. characters, the music and the fanta- sy while adults can delve deeper The Higgins Labor Studies into its meaning. Program is hosting a workshop “The Last Unicorn” is great. OFFBEAT titled “Rethinking Race, What’s important about this, Relationships and Resistance at though, is that I made that judg- Police: Mail carrier found front door.