/ ^ V THE O bserver The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 44 : ISSUE 24 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER25, 2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Students discern religious vocations Professor Old College residents integrated in Notre Dame community, undergo spiritual formation Sain dies was this impulse toward priest­ By LAURA McCRYSTAL hood which isn’t pushed in socie­ News Writer ty-” of heart Rosado and senior Britton While many Notre Dame Synder are applying to enter the undergraduates search for Dominican Order this summer. internships, jobs and graduate Snyder also felt the call to reli­ attack schools, they may not be aware gious life while he was in high that several of their fellow stu­ school, as he came to a deeper dents are discerning religious understanding of the Catholic By MADELINE BUCKLEY vocations. faith. News Editor Senior Santiago Rosado first “Once I understood that the thought about priesthood when Eucharist is Jesus Christ, and Professor Michael Sain, a 40- he was in high school. that Jesus Christ is God, I just year veteran of the Electrical “I was sitting in Mass one day wanted to be part of the office Engineering Department, died and was like, ‘Hey, I bet you that brings Jesus Christ to souls Tuesday morning, according to could do that!’” he said. “And I in that way,” he said. a University news release. He thought that was so strange for a Junior Kelly Mason also hopes w as 72. high school kid to think that I to join the Dominican Order as a SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer He died of a heart attack in wanted to find out what was Seniors Britton Synder, left, and Santiago Rosado plan to join his South Bend home, the going on there, like why there see VOCATION/page 6 the Dominican Order after graduation next year. release said. S ain w as of th e U niversity’s first Chipotle gives away free burritos chaired professors, and he has Popular Mexican eatery to open Friday; 80 percent of restaurant's business to come from University authored or c o - a u t h o r e d Wednesday event were pleased a b o u t 4 00 Michael Sain By IRENA ZAJICKOVA with the new restaurant, students p u b 1 i c a - News Writer who were turned away Thursday tions. He specialized in statisti­ evening were less than thrilled. cal control theory and taught The free burrito events held by “This in an outrage,” said several undergraduate classes, Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new loca­ Michelle Perone, a senior living off including a course that merged tion in Eddy Street Commons drew campus. “They made us all these theology and engineering. mixed reviews from Notre Dame promises and now they’re not Thomas Fuja, chair of the students. keeping them.” Department of Electrical The store held a small promo­ Xan Schwartz, a freshman from Engineering said Sain was a tional event Wednesday night Welsh Family, agreed, and said she pioneer for Engineering where students could bring in did not think the Chipotle staff was research at the University. cards they obtained from the stu­ doing all they could to serve the “When Mike joined Notre dent government office from 5 students. Dame, it was basically a teach­ p.m. to 8 p.m. “They can’t do anything about ing institution, with little or no However, Thursday the store the length of the line, but at least research activity,” Fuja said. promised to serve free burritos they could stay open longer, or “Mike was one of the young MEG SMITH/The Observer until 7 p.m. and cut the line off at pass out burritos or drinks out- lions who, in the 1960’s, Seniors Brendan Geisler and Julie Menold order their free burri­ 5:30 p.m. tos at Chipotle Thursday. The restaurant opens Friday. While students who attended the see CHIPOTLE/page 4 see SAIN/page 3 Court overturns state TV producer gives lecture voter identification law By LAUREN BALDWIN News W riter courts, arguing that it violated By KATIE PERALTA the state constitution. The Assistant News Editor case was at first dismissed by In order to create great TV or art a Marion County Court judge, of any kind, you have to dare to From now on, out-of-state but the League appealed and a suck, said Douglas Lieblein, Emmy- student voters can go to the panel of judges ruled in its nominated writer and co-executive polls without worrying about favor, 3-0, the AP reported. producer and writer of The Disney possession of an Indiana state Indiana governor Mitch Channel’s “Hannah Montana.” identification. Daniels called the ruling “an “You have to be brave enough as Last Thursday, the Indiana act of judicial arrogance.” an artist and throw that thing in court of Appeals struck down “It would be one thing if this the back of your head that judges a law requiring voters to have thing had not already been lit­ you out,” he said. a government-issued photo igated from the bottom up After previously pursuing acting, identification before casting through the federal system, directing and screenwriting, their vote, according to an and multiple court rulings — Lieblein found his passion as a half- Associated Press news report. including the Supreme Court hour sit-com writer during his time The U.S. Supreme Court had of the United States — hadn’t as a writer’s assistant. ruled the original law constitu­ already spoken,” Daniels said. “It is a completely different kind tional last year in a 6-3 ruling. Critics of the previous law, of writing that you’ve never heard COLEMAN COLLINS/The Observer The League of Women Voters Hannah Montana producer Douglas Lieblein speaks about challenged the law in state see VOTING/page 6 see HANNAH/page 4 the show and his career Thursday. INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Irish Insider Insert ♦ What to do before you graduate page 12 ♦ Soccer faces conference foes page 24 ♦ Viewpoint page 10 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Friday, September 25, 2009 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: If yo u r life w e r e m a d e in to a m o v ie, w h o w o u ld p l a y y o u ? Destination: Procrastination Procrastination — something that everyone does at some point in their college career. It’s inevitable. We all Christina Harmon Kelsey Flood Matt Apker Mitch Kochanski Molly Casanova have to put off doing something to tomorrow at least once. senior freshman freshman freshman junior Living with McGlinn McGlinn Fisher Stanford Farley three other Amanda Gray girls, I’ve come ~News “Angelina Jolie. “Anne Hathaway “Seth Rogen “Paul Rudd “Sandra procrastination I love her because / relate but sexier. ” because he is Bullock because comes in differ- b a it or becasue of what to a lot o f the awesome and I she’s super ent forms, and she does as a characters she like his style. ” sw eet!” while I won’t name my roommates directly, each of them (including myself) humanitarian plays and she’s takes on a different role. fo r the U.N. ” really well The four main groups of procrastina­ composed tion are as follows: The “Pro-procrastinator”: This is the person that actually enjoys procrastina­ tion, knows that they are doing it, and Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] doesn’t really care. We’ll call this room­ mate “Wendy.” Wendy has the ability to procrastinate just about anything. Her most amazing feat would have to be In B rief procrastinating a 10 page paper until the night before it was due. We were all The Notre Dame men’s soc­ telling her that she should get started ... cer team will play Louisville about a week before she did. She then today at 5 p.m. at the new got about 30 minutes of sleep when she Alumni Stadium. For ticket finally got around to writing it. information, call the ticket However, we can’t really get angry at office at 574-631-7356 or visit her — she knows exactly what she’s the athletic ticket office Web doing, and she really doesn’t care. This site. is most likely a good thing. The “Something-came-up-and-now- The Northeast Neighborhood I’m-not-doing-my-work procrastinator”: Council’s Annual Back to This roommate, “Penelope,” has the School Picnic will take place habit of waiting to do things until the today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in night before, which isn’t procrastinat­ the Robinson Community ing, but then comes up with something Learning Center parking lot. to do and doesn’t do her work, which is There will be free food, games procrastinating. She also then gets to and entertainment. The event stay up all night working on whatever is sponsored by the Northease gigantic amount of homework she has Neighborhood Council, to do. The major difference between Robinson Community Learning Penelope and Wendy is that Penelope Center, Center for Social feels bad afterwards. Not saying that Concerns and the Divison or Wendy doesn’t care — she just knows Student Affairs. what she did and doesn’t feel bad after­ wards because she chose to do so. SARAH O’CONNOR/The Observer The Tokyo String Quartet The “I-don’t-want-to-procrastinate — Students walk down the staircases in Jordan Hall of Science after their chemistry will perform tonight at 7 p.m.