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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving ]\{otre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 42: ISSUE 118 FRIDAY, APRIL 11,2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Donn holds successful marrow registry SMCplans Howard Hall collects 375 donors, donations provide transplants for cancer patients to rebuild The event entered volunteers By KATIE PERALTA into the National Marrow Donor Assistant News Editor Program (NMDP), which keeps ho111es records of and contact<; its regis Howard Hall exceeded its goal trants when a cancer patient with of collecting 300 donors in its sig matched DNA needs a transplant, Project to restore nature Bone Marrow Registry according to NMDP's website. houses in South Bend Thursday in the Dooley Room of The registration process con LaFortune Student Center. sisted of students first filling out Scheduled to last from noon paperwork with their contact By KATLYN SMITH until 8 p.m., event organizers information and then swabbing News Writer were encouraged during the first the inside of their cheeks to 40 minutes of the event as they obtain a DNA sample. In an annual effort to reha registered 60 donors. In the case of a DNA match, the bilitate homes of low-income When the event was finished, donor would be contacted to residents, Saint Mary's stu the event had registered 375 peo donate marrow. dents will volunteer in the ple, topping the initial expecta "If you're called, you could save annual Rebuilding Together tion, according to sophomore a life," Stewart said. project Saturday. Emily Stewart, event co-chair. The last 75 students to register Over 100 Saint Mary's stu "You really underestimate how only filled out the paperwork, dents will participate in this willing people are to donate," said since other supplies had run out. year's event, said Carrie Call, VANESSA GEMPIS!The Observer sophomore Eleanor Trousdale, "We will have the swab kits Director of the Office for Civic Students fill out the paperwork necessary to register for the another one of the event's co and Social Engagement. National Marrow Donor Program in the Dooley Room of Lafortune. chairs. see HOWARD/page 3 Each April, students volun teer in the restoration of homes of the elderly, poor and disabled in the South Bend community. Saint Mary's is Shack City to raise fmtds for homeless sponsoring two homes owned by single elderly women on O'Brien Street this year, Call said. Participants will spend the night on South Quad to raise awareness for the less fortunate Students will be divided into teams to work on outdoor and Participants will construct will help "to combat the speak at the event, Amrhein interior painting, yard work, By EMMA DRISCOLL homes out of cardboard boxes homelessness that we are try said. roof repairs and cleaning. News Writer and spend the night on South ing to raise awareness about," DJs from WVFI and three The Rebuilding Together Quad. Amrhein said. performers from Acoustic Program, a partnership of vol In an attempt to emulate the Habitat for Humanity educa Proceeds from Shack City Cafe will be playing music on unteers from local govern real-life situation of homeless tion and outreach board will help Habitat for Humanity the quad. ment, businesses and other ness, students will forgo the member Jaime Amrhein said to finish building the house In past Shack City events, organizations, has rehabilitat comfort of their dorm rooms the event has a twofold pur that the organization has been Amrhein said there was a ed close to 700 homes in the or off-campus residences pose. working on in South Bend "community atmosphere," South Bend area since 1989, Friday night, rain or shine. The first, Amrhein said, is to since October - the 14th with many people playing according to the Office for Civil Through Habitat for raise awareness of the condi house that the organization football and Frisbee on the and Social Engagement's Web Humanity's Shack City event, tions in which many homeless has built in South Bend, quad site. the Notre Dame community people are forced to live, and Amrhein said. Shack City's South Quad Because of the significant plans to raise awareness and the second is to raise· funds Steve Camilleri, executive location enables Habitat for student turnout the past three funds to combat homeless for the organization. director of the Center for the ness. Funds raised from the event Homeless in South Bend, will see UGANDA/page 4 see REBUILD/page 3 Midvvest fihn conference Students to bike 7,657 miles to be held at Notre Dan1e ND-8 and Building Together charity organize fund raiser for Uganda organizer of the event. By MADELINE BUCKLEY By THERESA CIVANTOS Becker said this conference News Writer News Writer is unique for its emphasis on undergraduate research. Students will collectively This weekend, Notre Dame "Almost all conferences are attempt to pedal the 7,657 will welcome students from geared to professors and grad miles between South Bend across the Midwest in its sec- students, but Notre Dame is a and Uganda today in order ond annual Midwest place that really inspires to raise money to build a Undergraduate Film undergraduate research," she Ugandan elementary school. Conference. said. A joint effort of the ND-8 The program will run from Although the conference is organization and Building 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday only in its second year, Becker Together charity, Bike to and from 9 a.m. until 5:15 said, it gradually has become Uganda is the final fundrais p.m. on Saturday. well known. ing event that will contribute Thirty participants from 12 "It was started last year by to the construction of the different Midwestern universi Pamela Wojcik," said Becker. school. ties will present papers on dif "It was such a success we In the past, the group held ferent film genres. Papers decided to try it again." a brick sale, a T-shirt sale range from topics with titles Becker also said the confer and a Christmas tree orna such as "Dangerous Women" ence has since gained increas ment sale. to "Tales of the Uncanny" to ing recognition in academic "Our goal is to raise "Heroes and Anti-Heroes." circles as well. $35,000," said Erin Jelm, "We're probably the only "There are more submis ND-8 officer and Bike to undergraduate film conference sions this year than there were Uganda organizer. "We are in the nation," said Film, last year, and we even got sub- about $7,500 short, and we DUSTIN MANELLNThe Observer Television and Theater (FTT) A Notre Dame student registers students for the Bike to professor Christine Becker, co- see FILM/page 4 see SHACK/page 3 Uganda fundraiser last week. The event will take place today. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, April 11, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHEN YOU ARE AN RA, WHICH DULAC RULE WILL YOU ENFORCE? 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