Dorm Asked to Change Holiday Sign

/ ^ V THE O bserver The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 42 : ISSUE 63 FRIDAY, DECEM BER7, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Dorm asked to change holiday sign Club raises Pangborn rector told to reconstruct 'Xmas' decoration to spell out Christmas money for ers from the Maintenance By KAREN LANGLEY Department hang the sign on News Editor the front of Pangborn. East Africa Construction of the sign had This holiday season, concluded just a day earlier Baraka Bouts hope to Pangborn Hall put the Christ after months of work by hall back in Christmas. president Allie Carrick and a send $10,000 to schools But the 19-foot-wide white friend from Dillon. and purple sign on the front of With Thanksgiving just days the dorm proclaiming “Have a away, no progress on hanging By JOSEPH McMAHON Phoxy Christmas” didn’t the sign was made until Nov. News W riter always read as such. Until last 28, when Yomekpe was able to week, when a University speak with a staff member This year, the Women’s administrator asked Pangborn from Maintenance, she said. Boxing Club of Notre Dame rector Kuukua Yomekpe to They agreed the sign would be hopes its Baraka Bouts event change it, the sign bore a more hung in front of the dorm. will bring in at least $10,000 economical spelling: “Have a Hours later, Yomekpe said, for Holy Cross schools in East Phoxy Xmas.” she received a call from Africa, more than double last The events leading to this Associate Vice President for year’s fundraising total. change began two weeks ago, Residence Life Bill Kirk. Photo Courtesy of Jackie Dineen The club, which raised when Yomekpe submitted a Pangborn Hall’s Christmas decoration reads “Have a Phoxy Christmas." $4,000 last year, believes that work order form to have work see SIGN/page 8 The sign was changed early last week from Xmas to Christmas. it is currently on track to meet its goal through dona tions from both students and alumni. “Hopefully, through our ticket sales, our merchandise Bookstore to add retail, seating space sales and donations from alums who have boxed, we will make $10,000,” said club Construction to change book, cafe areas; completion date scheduled for April 2008 co-president and senior Whitney Endsley. Endsley, By GENE NOONE have the best bookstore who joined the club in her possible,” Kirkpatrick said. sophomore year, has seen News Writer “We saw that the areas that Baraka Bouts transform into could use the most improve one of Notre Dame’s premier The Hammes Notre Dame ment from a quantity and fundraising events. Bookstore began renova presentation side were the This year, the club set a tions earlier this week to general books and cafe record when 120 girls signed add nearly 2,500 square areas.” up. On Thursday, 44 women feet of additional retail and The construction for the boxed in the exhibition, seating space to the build project should be completed which lasted from 6 p.m. until ing. by April 2008. The cosmetic 11 p.m. at the Joyce Center. The most noticeable details, like new carpeting The women participating changes will be made to the and painting, are expected are part of one of the fastest general books and cafe to be finished by fall 2008. growing clubs at Notre Dame. areas, said Keith The new plans include “When I first joined the club Kirkpatrick, director of several major changes to it was still forming and get ANNIE HARTON/The Observer retail management for the the store’s floor plan, the ting its roots set somewhere,” Sophomore Natalie Rojas studies in the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore. Bookstore. Renovations began this week to expand the bookstore. “The University w ants to see BOOKSTORE/page 4 see BARAKA/page 4 Papers give alternative news sources SMC seniors collect Rover; Common Sense take different approach to journalism “But Common Sense has She said Common Sense is funds for class gift By BRIAN McKENZIE always been more focused on Notre Dame’s “only publication News Writer methods of justice, social justice to include work from faculty, and the common good,” he said. alumni, graduate and under By LIZ HARTER which provides scholarships Common Sense and The Irish “We have a narrower focus, but graduate students.” and financial aid for current News Writer Rover provide students articles one that’s very important for the The theme of the November students, runs the Senior Gift on different topics and with dif campus.” issue of Common Sense was Campaign. The gift, which may ferent styles than The Observer, Senior Molly Hayes, Common immigration. The Saint Mary’s Senior Gift be a physical present or a dona said staffers at the two publica Sense’s editor-in-chief, said the “Given the immigration forum, Campaign provides an opportu tion to a student scholarship tions. publication has a circulation of we felt that it would be appropri nity for students to leave a lega fund, is presented to the College “Common Sense is a place 3,000 copies and published ate to have an immigration- cy at Saint Mary’s, honor their during the annual Alumnae where you can publish research- around once a month. Common themed issue,” she said. experience at the College and Luncheon in May. based articles that are either too Sense’s objective, she said, was In addition to papers, Common give back to a community that Past gifts have included long to print in something like to “provide a more humanitari Sense includes art, reflections has given much to them, said clocks, trees and benches. Many The Observer or too liberal for a an perspective on the news.” and poetry, she said. Heather Frey, assistant director of the statues found around publication like The Rover,” said “At ND, sometimes we forget Junior Michael Angulo, a con of Saint Mary’s Annual Fund. campus came from seniors who senior Jacqueline Collins, a that Catholicism and conser tributor to Common Sense, said “Giving back to Saint Mary’s is were students in the 1950s and member of Common Sense’s edi vatism aren’t synonymous,” she it “provides a forum for progres embraced from the beginning of 60s. torial board. said. sive, liberal students engaged in a student’s time on campus,” “The Class of 2007 gave The founder of Common Common Sense’s articles draw global issues, whether their Frey said. “The Senior Gift money to support student schol Sense, political science professor on each of the seven elements of papers are rather formal and Campaign is just a culmination arships and dedicated a room in Peter Walsh, said The Observer Catholic social teaching, she academic or more editorially of their four years of fundrais Spes Unica [the new academic reports on a wide range of cur said, but submissions are not ing.” rent issues. exclusively religious. see RELIGION/page 4 Saint Mary’s Annual Fund, see GIFT/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Friday, December 7, 2007 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W hat ’s your favorite fast food restaurant? Getting into the spirit Ah, the holiday season. With the fresh layer of snow on the ground and the knowledge that break is just Robbie Bernardin Katie Smith Amanda Dosch Jackie Dineen Brittany Pangburn around the corner, my festive mood keeps rising and is on the verge of junior senior junior junior senior going off the Siegfried Lyons Pangborn Pangborn McCandless charts. Nikki Taylor For some ____________________ une xplainable “Dog ‘n Mug — “Pan era “Dairy Queen, “Chipotle, “Wendy’s, reason, I have News Wire Editor their root beer because because / am because they because you can more Christmas is creamy Nicholas and I the Dairy put the burrito buy stuff for $i. ” spirit this year than I have had in a goodness ." go on a date Queen. ” in gourmet. ” long time. I was pondering this thought there. ” over some classic Christmas music the other day when my roommate pointed out to me that all the Christmas carols seem to be much more poignant to her this year now that she is away from home. It was a light bulb moment. I realized that she is entirely right. As a fresh man, this is my first year away from n rief my family during the holiday season. I I B never before felt a deep connection with Perry Como as he was singing, The Rosary will be said at “There's No Place I.ike Home for the at the Grotto at 6:45 p.m. Holidays” but now I realize how right today. The Rosary is said he is. daily. And hearing Frank Sinatra’s version of “Jingle Bells” takes me right to my To celeb rate the feast of grandma’s living room on Christmas Our Lady of Guadalupe, morning. Campus Ministry is hosting I know it seems bizarre, but I think prayer services to obtain that being away from my family during special graces in St. the beginning of the holiday season is Edward’s Hall Chapel at 9 making me more festive. Maybe it is an p.m. each night th ro u g h unconscious effort on my part to com Sunday. The celebration is pensate for what I am missing at co-sponsored by the Institute home. My roommates and I have deco for L atino S tu d ies, La rated our dorm room and we have Alianza and OLA. been playing Christmas music since before Thanksgiving (an act that 1 am The annual footb all usually staunchly against).

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