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/ ^ V THE U b se r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 42 : ISSUE 52 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM SAO rules frustrate political groups Firth talks Long club recognition process makes it difficult for students to organize for presidential candidates about ND the U.S. senator from Illinois’ allow clubs that supported Activities would tell a group By KAITLYNN RIELY campaign for president. specific candidates. Slavin did before it applied that it would­ Assistant News Editor But Slavin never put them not recall the name of the n’t be approved. journey up. man she met in the office. “It seems like that wouldn’t The Students for Barack All ad v ertisin g m ust be Assistant Vice President of be an answer that we give,” Obama Web site lists a Notre approved by the Student Student Activities Brian he said. Student Affairs official Dame chapter, but no Students Activities Office, according to Coughlin said he did not meet Mary Kate Havlik, the stu­ daughter of immigrants for Barack Obama organiza­ duLac, Notre Dame’s student with Slavin last year and was dent program coordinator in tion exists at Notre Dame — at handbook. Slavin said she not sure with whom she the Student Activities Office, least not officially. went to Student Activities to spoke. said any group, political or By MEG MIRSHAK Last spring, junior Molly get the flyers approved, but “I’m sorry if she got that not, must get two approvals — News W riter Slavin signed up on the Student Activities would not message last year,” Coughlin one from Student Activities Obama Web site with the approve them because the said. “I don’t know if that’s and one from the Club intention of starting a grass­ group was not a University- necessarily a policy.” Coordination Council. Ann Firth’s father, a roots campaign at Notre recognized student organiza­ Every group goes through “It comes down to a couple German doctor, was taken Dame. She received a packet tion. She asked how her group the same process to become a things,” Havlik said. “Student prisoner by the Russians and in the mail from the site last could become official but, she University-recognized organi­ Activities checks to see that it tortured during World War May. It included flyers to post said, a Student Activities offi­ zation, Coughlin said. He said II. around campus in support of cial told her the office did not he did not think Student see GROUPS/page 4 Notre Dame’s associate vice p r e s i d e n t for student affairs d e s c r ib e d S tudent S enate her journey as the daughter of immigrants Electronic reserves resolution passes to her posi­ tion at the University d u rin g a Firth Executive Vice President Affleck-Graves briefs group members on campus development talk Wednesday. best interests of their stu­ Firth prefaced her story By KAITLYNN RIELY dents based on the price and with her fath er’s. After the Assistant News Editor convenience of the materials.” Russian army captured the A similar resolution was doctor, who had been drafted The Student Senate passed presented to the Senate on into the German army, he a resolution Wednesday that Oct. 31 but failed to pass. was enslaved and tortured by encourages professors to High course packet prices the Russian government. But increase their use of electron­ have been discussed in the Firth’s father persuaded a ic reserves in place of course Senate over the past several Russian doctor he had tuber­ packets, which spiked in price weeks. Hendrickson and Bant culosis. He was then freed, this year. conducted an e-mail survey of since the Russians feared he The resolution, presented students last month and would infect other prisoners by Senate Academic Affairs found that the majority of of war. chair Carol Hendrickson and those who answered were After Firth’s father and Fisher senator Stephen Bant, unhappy with the higher mother met, they immigrated “respectfully encourages” prices of course packets. to the U.S. but maintained professors to use electronic This semester, the packets QUENTIN STENGER/The Observer reserves instead of course Executive Vice President John Affleck-Graves describes the packets “when it seems in the see SENATE/page 8 upcoming development plans for the campus Wednesday. see FIRTH/page 8 Woman president a possibility SMC holds annual Professors discuss whether America is ready for female chief executive Hunger Banquet By AMANDA JOHNSON News Writer meal, representing the upper By NIKKI TAYLOR class. The middle class sat on American citizens are ready News Writer for a conservative, “brand chairs and ate beans and rice. name” woman president, agreed The lower class, which com­ More than 75 Saint Mary’s panelists Wednesday in a debate prised more than half the peo­ entitled “Is America ready for a students traded in a meal at ple in attendance, sat on the the dining hall Wednesday to woman president?” floor, eating a scoop of rice. learn about worldwide hunger Much of the discussion, which The cards also told a story took place in the Oak Room of as part of the Student about the life of a person in Diversity Board’s third annual that situation. For example, South Dining Hall, focused on Hunger Banquet. an upper class-card might Sen. Hillary Clinton’s possible Upon entering the West nomination as the Democratic describe the life of a Wing of the Noble Family candidate for the 2008 presiden­ Hollywood plastic surgeon and tial election. Dining Hall, students who reg­ a lower-class card might istered for the pvent were describe a girl in Africa who is To begin the discussion, histo­ asked to draw a colored card ry professor Gail Bederman HIV-positive or an unemployed out of a bag without looking. teenage mother. questioned the phrasing of the This card designated their After the meal, Sarah event’s title. She proposed the KATE FENLON/The Observer “social status” for the night. real question should be “Is the Barnes, the co-chair of the History professor Gail Bederman discusses Wednesday in South A select few students got to see DEB ATE/page Dining Hall whether Americans would vote for a female president. sit at a table and eat a full see HUNGER/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, November 15, 2007 In sid e C olumn Question of the Day: S h o u ld a w o m a n b e p r e s id e n t of th e U nited S tate s ? Contemplate topics Like all other Notre Dame fresh­ men, I am required take Contemporary Topics to complete my I’.li. requirement. All I heard Mary Souder Mary Reilly Robert Scully Mary Beth Scully Nicole Medina from students who had already freshman freshman senior sophomore taken the Madeline Buckley junior class was __________________ McCandless McCandless Alumni Cavanaugh Pasquerilla West relief at being done, News Wire Editor “Does Hillary “Only if that “These days “No m atter “Yes, but not and most people count as a w om an’s me." anyone can be what I say, it Hillary. ” seemed to regard it as a joke. woman? If yes, a woman. ” will be My first impression was that this then no. ” controversial. ’ class has more going against it than it can possibly achieve. On my first day, I was bombarded with fact after scary fact about what happens when a student drinks, does not get enough sleep, etc. The sad paradox of Contemporary Topics is that while I am sitting in class learning about the importance of sleep, I n rief could be in my room receiving I B that extra hour of sleep that I so badly need. “Loyal Daughters and Sons: My question for the average Sexuality and Sexual Assault As Notre Dame freshman is, will this Told by Notre Dame Students” class inspire you to change your will be performed at 8 tonight habits? Will most students give up through Friday at Washington drinking on the weekends because Hall. Tickets are $5 and are avail­ they bear about all the adverse able at the LaFortune Box Office. effects in this class? Will they go to bed an hour earlier every night “A Bright Room Called Day” because they learn that lack of will be performed on the Decio sleep causes health problems? Main Stage in the DeBartolo My gut feeling is no. I do not Performing Arts Center tonight, believe it is the fault of the class, tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30 but rather the nature of the stu­ p.m. There will also be a per­ dents. It is the natural reaction of formance at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. a student to rebel against some­ Tickets are $12 for the general one continually telling them to not public, $10 for seniors, faculty do something, especially in a class and staff and $8 for students. most deem a waste of time. Also, people are so entrenched There will be a presentation on in habits that it does not seem Careers in the State Department likely that information from one today at 6:30 p.m. in class will be reason enough for Montgomery Auditorium of students to change their lifestyle. LaFortune. Although I am sure there are QUENTIN STENGERZThe Observer some who will take what they Students gather around the grill at an Alumni Hall Mentor Mixer. The mixer is part Archbishop Cclestino Migliore, learn in Contemporary Topics of the “Big Dawgs” academic mentor program, intended to give freshmen the the Vatican’s permanent observer seriously, the best reaction the opportunity to seek advice from upperclassmen in similar programs of study.

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