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/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 127 FRIDAY, APRIL27, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Nobel prize winner speaks at SMC Encyclical Iranian activist , lawyer speaks to community discussion on democracy, women's fight for equality planned Thursday. By KATIE KOHLER In its first year of hosting the Saint M ary’s Editor National CWIL Conference, Liaison says Jenkins Saint Mary’s attracted Ebadi as Internationally renowned the keynote speaker with finan­ moved by Benedict's activist and author Shirin Ebadi cial aid from the Lilly spoke to an audience of more Endowment Inc., which funded 'Deus Caristas Est' than 400 students, professors, the visit. trustees, members of the media “We chose Dr. Ebadi because and local residents in Angela of her heroic advocacy on By KEN FOWLER Athletic Facility at Saint Mary’s behalf of human rights, and News Writer Thursday. especially the rights of women Ebadi served as the keynote and children make her an Nine students will present speaker in the three-day Center amazing role model of women’s papers on Pope Benedict XVI’s for Women’s InterCultural intercultural leadership for our papal encyclical “Deus Caritas Leadership (CWIL) conference students,” said Elaine Meyer- Est” (“God is Love”) tonight — “Women as Intercultural Lee, director of CWIL. “Her KELLY HIGGINS/The O bserver and Saturday during a two-day Leaders: Collaboration at the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi speaks to more than conference, which, will exam­ Crossroads” — that began see NO BEL/page 4 400 people at Saint Mary’s Angela Athletic Facility Thursday. ine the work and its relevance to the Notre Dame community and the University’s mission. The conference has been a major focus of University President Father John Jenkins, At 35, women's sports still growing although students have been the main organizers, said Micki Kidder, who has served with a dinner at the home of as a liaison between Jenkins’ By KEN FOWLER Athletic Director Kevin White. office and the student commit­ Chronology of Women’s News W riter “We wanted to give people a tee that has prepared the Sports at Notre Dame reason to come back,” said events. Editor’s note: This is the first Meg Henican, an intern with Last year, Jenkins asked his­ Fencing becomes first women's sport as a club in a four-part series looking at the athletic department whose tory professor Sabine Fencing and tennis become first women's ?ars:ty teams Notre Dame’s athletic depart­ major responsibility has been MacCormack to chair a faculty Women's basketball becomes a varsity sport ment under the direction of organizing the events. “Being committee that would study Field hockey becomes a varsity sport Kevin White as he enters his that these are all former ath­ the encyclical and find possible eighth year at the school. letes, we thought that some Volleyball becomes a varsity sport ways to “bring the encyclical type of sporting activities into the classroom and create Women's swimming becomes a varsity sport Notre Dame celebrates 35 would be fun.” awareness,” Kidder said. Late Women’s cross-country becomes a varsity sport; years of women’s athletics Henican said the idea initial­ in the fall semester, Field Hockey program discontinued tonight, Saturday and Sunday ly was to celebrate 30 years of MacCormack formed the stu­ Soccer and golf become varsity sport with the University’s biggest- women’s varsity sports. But, dent committee that became Softball becomes a varsity sport ever festivities for female ath­ she said, the athletic depart­ the main force behind the con­ letes at the school. ment wanted to include stu- Women’s track and field becomes a varsity sport ference. More than 100 former Irish dent-athletes who participated MacCormack, Kidder and a Women’s lacrosse becomes a varsity sport women’s athletes are sched­ on club teams starting in 1972, group of about 15 students Rowing becomes a varsity sport uled to attend the weekend events, which begin tonight see ATHLETES/page 8 see ENCYCLICAL/page 6 Officials work to curb dangerous drinking University strives to decrease alcohol-related hospitalizations, address dorm dis-orientations races, power hours and the clas­ By MARCELA BERRIOS sic drink-until-you-throw-up 21st Associate News Editor birthday celebrations. While students will undoubted­ Editor’s note: This is the third ly continue to make their own story in a three-part series exam­ choices with alcohol, University ining the use and abuse of alco­ officials said these reckless activi­ hol at Notre Dame, the ties can be contained. University’s attempts to solve alcohol-related problems and the Disoriented freshmen future of the campus’ drinking Dis-orientation — the antithesis culture. of the University’s traditional freshman orientation — pitches Though alcohol use and abuse the first-year students to the are present on almost any college upperclassmen to let them pour O bserver file photo campus — or any place that the rookie college students drinks Police examine patrons’ IDs during a raid at the Blarney Stone, known primarily as Finnigan’s, at 113 E. Wayne houses hundreds of young people all night or until they become Street in South Bend last year. Student drinking habits continue to concern Notre Dame administrators. at the same time — University intoxicated — and consequently, officials said they can, and will, inducted to the college life. Carroll Hall. have significant social depend­ redflagged it. continue to work to reduce the This practice, however, is not “Disorientation never was ence on alcohol.” “Things such as Dis-0 create a possibility of losing students’ lives really a service seniors are offer­ about ‘welcoming’ first-year stu­ Senior Bill Andrichik, the for­ dangerous situation for incoming to high-risk drinking. ing freshmen, but rather a pre­ dents,” Lewis said. “Do moderate mer student body vice president students, many of whom are not These situations include fresh­ text to host a bacchanalia, said or low-risk drinkers host disori­ and chair of the Campus Life accustomed to alcohol and don’t man disorientations, athletic Father Jim Lewis, OADE assess­ entation? At the least, it is an Council’s Conduct Awareness task team initiations, PigTostals, case ment counselor and rector of event perpetuated by those who force, also noted the trend and see ALCOHOL/page 4 p ag e? The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Friday, April 27, 2007 I n s id e C o lu m n Question of the Day:W h a t is t h e c r e e p ie s t t h in g y o u ' v e e v e r d o n e ? Bridges and wedlock At Saint Mary’s, Lake Marion is a well-known aspect of the campus. It’s a very pretty part of the cam­ Beth Daley pus, it sits in between LeMans Hall Alexandra Minnis Robbie Bernadin Chris Hall Eleanor Huntington and Madaleva and directly in front sophomore freshman sophomore sophomore freshman of Hagar Hall. Cavanaugh Welsh Family Siegfried Zahm Cavanaugh There’s a foun­ Mandi Stirone tain that spouts out of it, and in “I had my entire “My brother and “I caress “I grope every “My roommmate the winter, there Wire Editor quad facebook- I spied on our random people’s guy I see in is usually a giant woke up to me ice block around friend Crystal neighbor from weenises... Zahm ." sitting on the the fountain from Erwin at the same our roof with Google it. ” floor staring at all the water freezing overnight. time two days after binoculars her. ” Compared to Notre Dame’s two enormous lakes, it appears pretty we hung a huge dressed in all small and really fake. Well, it is poster o f her on her black for camou­ fake. You can see the concrete on door... She lives flage ... She the bottom and all along the “shores.” It’s also disgustingly down the hall. ” called the police. ” gross, though there are fish in it. I’m just not sure how they survive living in it. Something passers-by will notice I n B r ie f about Lake Marion is the island in the middle. This island is so big that University President Father it takes up most of the lake. There John Jenkins will preside over are a few trees, some wooden the opening Mass for the confer­ benches, a small fountain and a ence on the “God is Love” statue of the Virgin Mary. Encyclical today at 4 p.m. in the To get onto this island, you have Alumni Hall Chapel. to cross a bridge. Under the bridge live two or three geese, the most The reception for the confer­ famous of these had its disappear­ ence on the “God is Love” ance printed in The Observer. This Encyclical will begin today at is all pretty inconsequential stuff, 5:15 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the I’m sure, but the important part of Hesburgh Center for that bridge is the superstition that International Studies. surrounds it. One of the more noticeable things The keynote speaker for the about the bridge is that you rarely conference on the “God is Love” see a girl walk over the bridge with Encyclical, Mary Brosnahan, a guy. According to popular campus director of the Coalition for the legend, girls are not supposed to Homeless in New York City, will walk over the bridge with a boy. It deliver her speech in the Grand doesn’t matter who he is; you’re Hall of the Hesburgh Center for just not supposed to.

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