THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 43: ISSUE 126 TUESDAY. APRIL 21.2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM University a'dream school' for parents OIT gives Admissions office says it puts· little stock in rankings that don't focus on ND's 'unique qualities' heat to The dream school ranking was By LAURA McCRYSTAL based on a poll of approximately city vvaste News Writer 3,000 parents of college appli­ Notre Dame's place in cants, according to a press release Notre Dame was rated as the from the Princeton Review. Notre treaters fourth-most desirable school for Dame ranked behind only Princeton Review: parents to send their children, Harvard, Stanford and Princeton according to a poll of "dream in these parents' list of dream col­ schools" released earlier this leges. By SARAH MERVOSH month by the Princeton Review. The Princeton Review also ranks DREAM SCHOOL FOR PARENTS: 4 News Writer Various rankings of colleges are colleges in a number of other cate­ becoming increasingly popular, yet gories. For example, Notre Dame No one thought poop could be Notre Dame does not emphasize is currently ranked first for "every­ so useful, until now. its rankings, Dan Saracino, assis­ one plays intramural sports" and EVERYONE PLAYS INTRAMURALS: 1 The University and its Center tant provost for undergraduate "alternative lifestyles not an alter­ for Research Computing admissions, said. native," and second for "most reli­ received a 2009 Green "It's interesting," he said. "Do we gious students," according to the MOST RELIGIOUS STUDENTS: Enterprise IT Award, presented do anything different to improve company's Web site. 2 by the Uptime Institute and co­ our rankings? No. They are what Source: Princeton Review sponsored by the U.S. they are." see RANKINGS/page 3 Department of Energy, for their innovative work with the South Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is responsible for breaking down waste. 42nd annual AnTostal celebrates end of year The University plans to use the heat produced by its com­ puting equipment to break down Festival features events based on reality TV shows, 'Heavyweights' and band Slightly Stoopid waste, Dewitt Latimer, the University's Chief Technology Officer, said. includes both traditional "As part of the treatment By LIZ O'DONNELL favorites and new events. process you actually have to News Writer Among those carried over apply heat to help break down from past years' include the the waste steam into something This week marks the quarter-dog eating contest that can be distributed out to Student Union Board's 42nd and the Movie on the Quad, landfills or whatnot," Latimer Annual AnTostal at Notre which, this year, will be said. Dame. AnTostal, which is "Heavyweights." South Bend spends "a consid­ Gaelic for "festival," is the Also appearing at AnTostal erable amount of money basical­ school's end-of-the-year cele­ this year will be the annual ly heating poop," he said. bration. Spring Carnival, which will "We have been looking for AnTostal's theme this year take place Thursday after­ innovative uses for that waste is "True Life: I'm a Domer." noon on South Quad. heat instead of just dumping it Many of the scheduled events "This year's carnival will up in the atmosphere. We're try­ will be based on various real­ feature lots of inflatables," ing to fmd a second life for that ity television shows. MacCaughey said. "New this waste heat," Latimer said. DAN JACOBS/The Observer Megan MacCaughey, the year we also have a photo The heat released from com- Pat Kuntz participates In the "Ring by Spring Dating Game" as Programmer of AnTostal, part of the end-of-the-year AnTostal festival. said this year's celebration see ANTOSTAL/ page 4 see WASTE/page 4 CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL ND Vision gets CLC passes diversity resolution ready for summer Task force calls for creation of committee supporting older diverse students on campus during four weeks to upper-class students, it dents, in which they found By NORA KENNEY in the summer, is dedicated to By LAURA McCRYSTAL aimed to help all diverse stu­ that first-year students were News Writer helping participants discern News Writer dents feel welcome at Notre welcomed and made aware of "what vocation is, and how Dame. resources available for their Each year, more than 60 God calls them to give their The Campus Life Committee "We wanted to see how we adjustment to the University. Notre Dame, Holy Cross and gifts to the life of the church," (CLC) unanimously passed a could help international and After the first year at Notre Saint Mary's students con­ DeLorenzo said. resolution Monday to encour­ multi-cultural students feel Dame, however, the survey tribute their talents to the To achieve this, the pro­ age the creation of a commit­ comfortable and get into participants indicated that Notre Dame Vision program. gram focuses on the values of tee to support diverse stu­ Notre Dame," she said. their needs were no longer Some are counselors, some the Catholic Church and the dents beyond their first year When the task force discov­ addressed, Githinji said. are musicians, but all are ways in which these values at Notre Dame. ered that International "There's more focus on what the program's director, can enhance and deepen spir­ Brigitte Githinji presented Student Services was already helping first year students Leonard DeLorenzo, refers to ituality. The hope of the NO the resolution, which was involved in a similar project, being welcomed as diverse as mentors-in-faith for the Vision staff is that as partici­ created by the CLC task force Githinji said the focus shifted students," she said. many high school students pants grow more deeply in on new student introduction to diverse students on cam­ "[Resources] are available for who attend NO Vision in the their spirituality, they discov­ to Notre Dame. pus. everybody and not just first summer. er how they are called to use Githinji said that before the They conducted a survey of The program, which hosts task force narrowed its focus international and diverse stu- see CLC/page 3 different high school students see VISION/page 3 INSIDE TODAY'S PAPER Review "State of Play" with Russell Crowe page 12 +Notre Dame baseball prepares to take on Michigan page 24 • Viewpoint page 10 ------------------ ---- - ---- -- ------- - ------------- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, April21, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: IF YOU COULD TEACH A CLASS AT NOTRE DAME, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Ceremony :rrurrors• season The Notre Dame men's basketball team capped off a disappointing sea­ son last week with its annual awards ceremony. The event was a perfect Angela Carothers Sarah Spieler Johanna Kirsch Steve Santay Lee Haggenjos example of why the Irish have, and senior freshman junior sophomore freshman will continue to, underachieve under P.W. the watchful eyes of Mike Brey. Badin McGlinn Alumni Knott The group, a preseason top 10 pick, fmished 8-11 in the Big East and "Surfing IOI "Defense "How Not to "How to Grill "Healthy ... so failed to make the NCAA Tournament. (i ?) ,, Against the They were rewarded with eight tro­ OI. Write: A Good Food ... my roomate phies on Wednesday. Dark Arts. ,, Superficial Look have the DH wouldn ,t get Luke Harangody at the 'Twilight, staff sign up. ,, manor leads things off Dan Murphy Books.,, with the team MVP, and Senior Staff deservedly so. But Writer things went south from there. Six Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] other players won awards. On a 14- man roster that means exactly half the team went home with some hard­ ware. That is better than when we passed out Paper Plate Awards at the IN BRIEF end of summer camp. Never, since Gaylord Focker's Wall of Fame, has such mediocrity been celebrated. A lecture titled "Facing the Zach Hillesland won two awards - Obama Administration: one for every bucket he averaged per Economic Policy" will take game. There are also rumors about a place today at 7 p.m. in the Guinness Book of World Records entry first floor lounge of for most consecutive days with a black Coleman-Morse. The discus­ eye. Congratulations on the student­ sion will feature Michael athlete award, but the Captain Pries, Professor of Economics Award? I thought he won that along and Econometrics; Nelson with every other senior on the team Mark, Professor of when Brey named all four of them Economics and Econometrics captains in October. and Alexander Guisinger, Ayers won defensive player of the Professor of Political Science. year with his thrifty 3.5 rebounds per game. But, hey, I guess Harangody A lecture called "Ohama can't win every category. Tory Jackson Invitation & Religious won the Outstanding Playmaker Freedom" will be presented Award - a.k.a. the Starting Point by professor Rick Garnett in Guard Award. And Kyle McAlarney the Sorin Room of came home with the Team Irish LaFortune Wednesday at 8 Award. The criteria for this one isn't p.m. Curious about your role very clearly, but let's just say Seamus as a student at our Lady's O'Toole came in a close second. University in the upcoming Last, and probably the least, is the months? About the role of a DAN JACOBS/The Observer Most Improved Player Award. Most is Four players go for the rebound Monday afternoon during the Final Four round of Catholic in America today? generally a word reserved for a single bookstore basketball. The final game is set for today at 8:45 p.m.