/ ^ \ THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM S tu d ent S enate Caviezel NDSP officer stresses safe choices takes ND NDSP is aiding in the investi­ By MARY KATE MALONE gation of these crimes, but stu­ course News Editor dents must work to preserve their own safety on and off Days after news of off-cam­ campus, Johnson said. pus crimes rippled through “Your safety will be largely By RYAN SYDLIK campus, Notre Dame determined by how you organ­ News Writer Security/Police (NDSP) ize your life, and how you Associate Director Phil choose to live. ... You have to When junior Dave Daley walked Johnson asked senators to take responsibility for your into his intermediate Spanish class voice their concerns about own safety,” Johnson said. this summer and took a seat, he safety at Wednesday’s Senate “You have to be aware of your noticed one student was not quite meeting. surroundings and know what like the others. On Aug. 23, a female Notre kind of crimes are being com­ “All of a Dame student was allegedly mitted.” sudden assaulted in her Turtle Creek Assuring senators that NDSP someone in apartment. Three days later, offers a wide range of services the back another Notre Dame student to help keep students safe on struck up a was robbed and injured as he and off campus, Johnson said LAURIE HUNTZThe Observer conversation walked on Notre Dame Associate Director of Notre Dame Security/Police Phil Johnson with me,” Avenue. see SENATE/page 4 addresses senators Wednesday about recent off-campus crimes. Daley said. “He looked out of place, Caviezel he looked older ... he Architecture program ranks high on lists looked well put together, [like] this does not look like your average Notre Dame student sitting here in the classroom.” Faculty, students possess "sense of pride" A star-struck Daley soon found himself speaking with “Passion of because of strong reputation, achievements the Christ” actor Jim Caviezel. “After we had a conversation for trian-friendly cities. a little while ... it hit me, I was just By STEVE KERINS Faculty and administrators talking to Jesus, I was just talking News Writer are justifiably pleased with the to Caviezel,” Daley said. “It was a program’s standing this year, funny feeling — 1 d idn’t expect it at Two architecture journals said Dean Michael Lykoudis — all.” recently ranked the University’s although high rankings are Assistant Vice President for School of Architecture as a top nothing new to the School of News and Information Dennis program — the only undergrad­ Architecture. Brown said while Caviezel did take uate program recognized in both The School “ranks pretty well, classes” as a student during the the Designlntellegence and New and it has ranked fairly well in summer session, he is not current­ Urban News surveys. the last four or five years,” he ly enrolled. Notre Dame’s School of said. Brown said Caviezel — “obvi­ Architecture ranked twelfth When ranking programs, ously a non-traditional student” — among more than 75 accredited Design Intelligence and New is working with Arts and Letters undergraduate programs Urban News typically consider Associate Director Ava Preacher nationwide in the “which schools best prepare on “how to proceed” at Notre Design Intelligence poll. The their graduates for the profes­ Dame. School ranked second in the sion,” Lykoudis said, although Preacher said she could not LAURIE HUNT/The Observer New Urban News poll, which they do not reveal which of the comment on the specifics of Sophomore architecture student Mallory Mecham works focuses on input from architects on a draft at her desk in Bond Hall Wednesday. interested in livable and pedes­ see RAN KINGS/page 4 see ACTOR/page 4 Students embrace new Collegiate Readership Program business to the Notre Dame Student Center and one off- By ROHAN ANAND community. campus receptacle near the News Writer When elected last spring, Joyce Center. student body president Lizzi Many students said the pro­ Just three days after the Shappell and vice president gram prevents them from liv­ Collegiate Readership Program Bill Andrichik continued to ing in the “Notre Dame bub­ started on campus, senior promote the program, agree­ ble” and from becoming organizer Chris Harris was ing it would be an ideal invest­ impervious to important news. already witnessing positive ment for the students. “It’s great because I don’t go responses from students. “We’re extremely pleased off campus and I’m looking for “I overheard two students with the results from the different news every day,” jun­ saying how they would have launch last week,” Andrichik ior Brian Chester said. never known about the [Delta said. The program draws funds Air Lines] plane crash [with­ The Collegiate Readership from a $15 increase in the out] seeing it in Monday’s edi­ Program, which began at Student Activity Fee, passed tion of the New York Times in Pennsylvania State University last fall in Senate and Campus the dining hall,” he said. “They in 1997, currently serves more Life Council under then-stu- seem to really appreciate it.” than 400 schools nationwide to dent body president Dave For Harris, this kind of feed­ help students keep in touch Baron and then-vice president back is especially helpful. with national and global news. Shappell. The measure was Since early 2005, the former At Notre Dame, the daily ultim ately approved by Vice Senate Academic Affairs com­ program delivers 1,600 copies President for Student Affairs mittee chair has been working of the Chicago Tribune, New Father Mark Poorman. DUSTIN MENNELLA/The Observer with USA Today — which runs York Times and USA Today to Senate Academic Affairs committee chair Jim Grace picks up a paper the program — to extend its both dining halls, LaFortune see PROGRAM/page 4 from the Collegiate Readership racks in South Dining Hall Wednesday. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, August 31, 2006 In sid e C olum n Question of the Day: Do you feel safe on and around campus? A truly Catholic school Ben Solomon Pat Richel Claire Sobczak Jess Staffer Juan Pablo Garcia KC Hunt I suppose it began with the sign of the junior sophomore junior junior junior sophomore cross (lots of things here do). Keough Dillon Badin Welsh Family Stanford Pasquerilla East I was in class last Tuesday when the professor distributed a little green sheet with a prayer on it. Everyone bowed “I think my “As long as I’m “Now that I ’ve “With these ‘Yeah, “Yes, hut only their heads. with that girl. ” guns, who A prayer. In Eileen Duffy roommate starting because I hang because of Fran English class. ----------------------- watches me in pum pin' iron, I wouldn’t?” with this kid. ” McCann’s self I guess I’d forgot- Assistant my sleep. ” feel a lot safer. ” defense class. ” ten how religious jyews Editor this place is. “But it’s a Catholic school. You chose a Catholic school,” my friend said. “Besides, what’s wrong with thinking about someone other than yourself for five minutes a day?” Good point. I did choose Notre Dame. Along with its theology requirements — I’m fulfilling my second this year. I In B r ief went to do my reading assignment on the 10th floor of the library, where 1 snagged a desk with a pretty view of “Goodie and The Feel campus. A lr ig h ts” will perform at “Clearly, any profession of our con­ Legends at 10 p.m. Thursday. cern and love for the poor is ungodly, The show is free for students. senseless, and deceitful if it is unaccom­ panied by any effort to win release for Chicago’s “Howl at the the poor from the economic, political, Moon” dueling pianos will per­ and social chains that keep them form at L egends at 10 p.m. imprisoned both in body and in spirit,” Friday. ND, SMC or HCC stu­ my reading told me. dent ID required for admission. So if all I do is read and talk about helping the poor, and I don’t do it, I am “An Inconvenient Truth” will “ungodly, senseless and deceitful.” I was be shown at 7 p.m. and 10 marveling at this when the new $70 mil­ T h u rsd ay and F riday in lion building caught my eye. Browning Cinema at The It’s beautiful. So is the LaFortune ren­ DeBartolo Performing Arts ovation. I mean, I know I need that C enter. Admission is $6 for more than children in Africa need general public, $5 for faculty, health care. $4 for seniors and $3 for stu­ The Office of Stewardship gets plenty dents. of undesignated donations. Hey, Notre Dame — and your donors — why not The women’s soccer team put your (bountiful) money where your will take on USC Friday at 7:30 mouth is? p.m. at Alumni Field. The game You’re a Catholic university. I remem­ is part of the Inn at Saint ber that from last spring, when you Mary's ND Classic. questioned the Vagina Monologues. I PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer remember that from when a girl got Junior Nicholas Shaneyfelt plays the piano in front of South Dining Hall Wednesday The Snite Museum of Art will kicked out for letting her brother sleep to advertise for the Sept. 1 “dueling pianos” event at Legends. showcase Mexican migration to on the floor of her room. I remember the United States through a those white crosses representing the multimedia exhibit that pregnancies that are terminated by includes Chicano and Mexican abortion every day.