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~-~-----------------------------------------------, THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 41: ISSUE 109 THURSDAY. MARCH 29,2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Hesburgh recalls, contrasts activislll during Vietnam. era, today Alumni, University President Emeritus emphasize different natures of demonstrations from 1970s to present Notre Dame - until then­ at Notre Dame? Does today's By EILEEN DUFFY University President Father lack of loud protest stem from Assistant News Editor Theodore Hesburgh told them, apathy? Or is activism simply not "Enough." what it used to be? Editor's Note: This is the sec­ He established guidelines for ond article in a three-part series protestors, allowing their voices "Tough Times" examining activism at Notre to be heard while prohibiting When the possibility of a war Dame: its current role on cam­ any infringement upon other stu­ in Vietnam came to light, college pus, how that role has changed dents' rights. Violent protests students from Berkeley to and what those changes mean stopped and other universities Columbia staged violent protests, for the future. attempted similar efforts. taking their anger against the While the heated, excited U.S. government out on ROTC A<> is the case with universities activism of the 1970s has sub­ buildings, CIA recruiters and nationwide, activism at Notre sided nationwide, there still their university presidents - Dame has redefined itself as an remains a stereotype that Notre who, they claimed, were hiding effort to steer the boat in a cer­ Dame lacks passionate protest­ behind closed doors and not li<>­ tain direction, rather than rock­ ing. tening to them. ing it. Is the climate today an exten­ At Columbia, students took Many college students of the sion of Hesburgh's influence, over President Grayson Kirk's late 1960s and early 1970s where the University's readiness office, where they rummaged turned to sit-ins. lie-ins and to discuss problems makes through his files, drank, smoked Observer file photo stone-throwings to get their activism unnecessary - and Notre Dame students gather outside the Library for a "Resistance point across, inducting those at therefore somewhat invisible - see APATHY/page 3 Mass" against the Vietnam War on October 15, 1969. STUDENT SENATE Shappell gives last speech, launches initiative Outgoing representatives pass resolution recognizing Zahm Hall as 'Zahm House', approve Union endowment By KAITLYNN RIELY By KAITLYNN RIELY Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor The Student Senate meeting ran nearly two hours In her third and final State of the Student Union Wednesday as senators packed the agenda to pass address Wednesday, student body president Lizzi new items of business before their terms end Sunday Shappell announced the creation of a Student Union and newly elected senators take their places. Endowment - a new account that she says will leave The Senate approved three new amendments and "a lasting impression on student life at Notre Dame." passPd one resolution regarding the official name of "This initiative, more than any other, leaves a lega­ Zahm llall. as well as a letter to Provost Tom Burish cy," she said. "By supporting this endowment, you from the Multicultural Affairs committee (MAC). impact future student bodies." Zahm senator Luke Derheimer reintroduced the The endowment fund will be created with money well-known, but never-passed resolution arguing the from the Student Union's Carry-forward account and Notn~ Dame student body should formally recognize · royalties accrued from The Shirt project, Shappell said. Zahm Hall as Zahm House. Although several senators Fiscal policy changes to Financial Management argued against passing the resolution, the majority of Board (FMB) bylaws will budget for 50 percent of rev­ senators supported it. The resolution passed 20-6. enues above $250,000 from The Shirt Project and The letter to Burish - which encourages the funds exceeding $100,000 in the Carry-forward CHRIS MASSAD/The Observer Zahm senator luke Delheimer, second from left, reacts as sena­ see SENATE/page 4 tors pass a resolution recognizing Zahm Hall as 'Zahm House.' see SENATE/page 4 Messinger urges action in Darfur BCAC shovv to highlight Lecture calls students fashion, hip-hop culture to strive for peace show's coordinators. By GENE NOONE Flint said students will model By JOHN TIERNEY News Writer clothing from DEB, Cache, the News Writer Gap, Charlotte Russe, New York The students in the Black Style and 101 Collections to the Cultural Arts Council (BCAC) have beats of hip-hop hits. With compelling descriptions of spent a week polishing the runway the town massacres in Darfur "It is a huge production that and perfecting their struts for everyone has put a lot of hard and a call to social and moral Saturday's annual spring fashion consciousness, American Jewish work into," she said. show at the Century Center in Twenty-nine Notre Dame and World Service (AIWS) President South Bend. Ruth Messinger urged her audi­ Saint Mary's students will model Titled "I Love Hip Hop," this the designs, Flint said, while near­ ence Wednesday at the Eck year's production marks the Center Auditorium to help stop ly 40 students will be involved in BCAC's 30th anniversary - but the production's overall organiza­ the ongoing killings in the African while the history of the club will be region. tion. a focal point, the history of hip-hop The team of coordinators collab­ "There's a genocide in Darfur," will take center stage. she firmly told students in her lec­ orated to bring different fashions "The show takes a look at the to the show - but they also ture, "Bearing Witness: Crisis in evolution of hip-hop and its impact Darfur." brought a new perspective to the CHRIS MASSAD/The Observer on fashion not only as a style of BCAC's production. American Jewish World Service President Ruth Messinger music but also as a culture," said speaks about the Darfur crisis at the Eck Center Wednesday. see DARFUR/page 6 junior Brittny Flint, one of the see BCAC/page 6 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, March 29, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM? A series of unfortunate events I went to sleep late and when I woke up Andrew McKinley Eleanor Bradley George Kiamos Sean Smith Sarah Valdes this morning I got tangled up in my bed sophomore junior freshman sophomore junior sheets and the loft's Breen-Phillips Keough Kennan Breen-Phillips ladder and I fell oft' Marcela Berrios Keenan the bed and landed on my right ankle Associate "Evil Empire. "Houston Astros News Editor 'The Braves. "The Yankees "Philadelphia and I made a noise They are ready because when The greatest Phillies. Cole because I'm loud enough to wake up my roommate and I could tell it for another I 4- they lose my organization in Hamels equals from Houston was going to be a terrible, horrible, no year reign. " friends are sports history. " ace. baby." good, very bad day. miserable. " My roommate Alexa called NDSP and soon three firemen came to our room but I couldn't get up from the floor to change my clothes or brush my teeth because my ankle hurt too much so they saw me in my ugliest pajamas and carried me down the lobby and to Health Services with bad breath. I think I'll move to Australia. The nurse looked at my X-rays and said IN BRIEF I had a nasty sprain and a hairline frac­ ture and she gave me crutches and then I Ceyl Prinster, a 1976 Notre asked as a joke if it was a bad idea to go Dame graduate and executive dancing at Fever and drink until sprain­ director of the Colorado ing my left ankle. She didn't even answer. Enterprise Fund, will deliver the I could tell it was going to be a terrible, lecture entitled "Building a horrible, no good, very bad day. Balanced Life: Strategies for By the time I returned to McGlinn it was Combining Career and Family" noon and I hadn't showered and smelled today at 5 p.m. in 119 like Ben Gay so I hopped in to take a bath O'Shaughnessy. and forgot I had scheduled a phone inter­ view about my summer internship at that Howard Schultz, tho founder time. Next week I'm moving to Australia. and chairman of Starbucks. will On my long walk from McGlinn to deliver the 2007 Frank Cahill DeBartolo it was raining, I remembered Award tonight at 7 p.m. in my freshman year living in Walsh and its Jordan Auditorium in Mendoza. central location and I wondered if air con­ His lecture is entitled ditioning was worth the switch to "Entrepreneurship and Ethics." McGlinn because the distance factor was adding to my excruciating pain. It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Married lecturers and schol­ ars James Whitehead and I finally arrived at DeBartolo only to Evelyn Eaton Whitehead will realize the class I had rushed to catch had give the lecture "Spirituality been let out early and I went to the bath­ and Sexuality: The Marriage of room to see why my arms and upper Eros and Grace" tonight at 7 body hurt so much. p.m. in the Carroll Auditorium I lifted my shirt and the area under my DUSTIN MENNELLNThe Observer in Madeleva Hall at Saint arm was red and my friend Goose told me Sophomores Brian McArdle, far left, and Nathan Loyd pilot the "Land Yacht" Mary's. I shouldn't place the weight of my body Wednesday outside Keough Hall. on the arm support bar but rather on the Judge Victoria Marina de hand bar.

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