U.S. News & World Report Ranks ND, SMC Faculty Support Lgbtq Individuals Seniors Seek Opportunities to Serve
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THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY VOLUME 46, ISSUE 28 | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM U.S. News & World Report ranks ND, SMC University rises College named to 17th in list 87th among of national liberal arts institutions schools By ANN MARIE By BRIDGET FEENEY JAKUBOWSKI Associate Saint Mary’s Editor News Writer For the fourth year in a row, U.S. In this year’s U.S. News and News and World Report ranked World Report Best Colleges rank- Saint Mary’s College among the ings released earlier this month, top-100 Best National Liberal Arts Notre Dame jumped from No. 19 Colleges. The College came in at to No. 17, landing at that spot in a No. 87, up from No. 90 last year. tie with Vanderbilt University and This year marks the fourth year Rice University. in a row the College’s position has The rankings take into ac- moved higher in the U.S. News count not only standard data and World Report rankings. such as admission rate, student In a recent press release, Saint retention rate and graduation Mary’s President Carol Ann rate, but also student satisfaction Mooney said she is extremely survey results, faculty resources satisfied with the progress the and percentage of alumni who College has made each year. contribute. “We know that national rank- Donald Bishop, associate vice ings are important to many see RANKINGS PAGE 5 BRANDON KEELEAN | The Observer see COLLEGE PAGE 5 Faculty support Seniors seek LGBTQ individuals opportunities to serve By JOHN CAMERON readers, whereas it had been News Editor limited to The Observer’s website in May. Nearly 400 University fac- “When we first put it out ulty and staff called upon the there, we put it together in administration to add protec- less than a week and we only tion for lesbian, gay, bisexual, had 120 people sign, but we transgender and questioning thought we could get a much (LGBTQ) persons to its non- broader and diverse group [if discrimination policy in a given more time],” he said. full-page ad in Tuesday’s is- “Originally [the list of names] sue of The Observer. was all online, so I think The University publically they got lost in the shuffle. declined to add sexual ori- I thought by getting more entation to its non-discrim- names and paying to get them KARLA MORENO | The Observer ination clause in April. On all in the paper, it would be a Elizabeth Cross with The Haitian Project and junior Sam Nordlund discuss opportunities to teach in May 2, faculty members sub- more striking statement.” Haiti after graduation. Interested students could talk with a variety of service organizations at the fair. mitted a Letter to the Editor The tripling in signatures in The Observer asking the between the issuance of the By MEGHAN THOMASSEN for student leadership and se- here and there. [The pro- University to reconsider that Letter to the Editor and the News Writer nior transitions at the CSC, grams] are looking for stu- decision. running of this week’s ad- said the fair, hosted by the dents in all disciplines, there The Tuesday advertise- vertisement indicates faculty For seniors networking with Center for Social Concerns is accounting work to be done, ment’s text was taken from participation in the original representatives from national (CSC) in the Joyce Center, of- there’s environmental work that letter but included an ex- letter was limited by lack of and international service pro- fered another option for stu- to be done, there’s counsel- panded list of 366 signees. awareness, not lack of sup- grams Wednesday night at the dents looking for jobs from ing [and] education. Students Sociology professor Richard port, Williams said. Since Post-Graduate Service Fair, every college. of all majors should be able to Williams, who led the effort to running of the ad, 20 ad- volunteer work after gradua- “It’s a full-time job,” find something that fits their collect signatures, said it was ditional names have been tion can be more than a “year Hebbeler said. “It’s a miscon- skill set, their passions.” important the complete list off.” ception that it’s a year off and of signees be made visible to see SUPPORT PAGE 4 Michael Hebbeler, director you’re kind of volunteering see FAIR PAGE 3 Defining our Autobiographies ELECTRIFIED UGANDAPAGE 4 VIEWPOINT PAGE 6 SCENEPAGE 8 SAMMY SCOFIELD PAGE 16 MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 16 2 THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? QUESTION OF THE DAY: Email [email protected] ndsmcobserver.com Which dorm is the oldest on campus? P.O. 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