ND Senior Travels to Vatican, Meets Pope Francis Juan Manuel Segura and Family Bring “The Chapels of Notre Dame” As Gift for Pontiff
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THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY VOLUME 47, ISSUE 44 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND senior travels to Vatican, meets Pope Francis Juan Manuel Segura and family bring “The Chapels of Notre Dame” as gift for pontiff By ANN MARIE JAKUBOWSKI D. C., and he has confirmed News Editor and baptized a lot of mem- bers in our family,” Segura The head of the Roman said. “It’s through him that Catholic Church now owns my family and I were able a copy of the book “The to get the opportunity to go Chapels of Notre Dame,” to Rome and be a part of the thanks to senior Juan Manuel papal audience, especially to Segura, who traveled to Rome meet [Pope Francis] and ac- with his family in October to tually shake hands with him briefly meet Pope Francis. and say a couple words.” Segura and his family Segura said he, his parents have been good friends with and two of his five siblings Argentine Cardinal Jorge made the whirlwind trip to Mejia for the past 20 years, the Vatican and back, arriv- and he said the Cardinal’s ing in Italy on Tuesday, Oct. 1, acquaintance with Pope and flying back to the United Francis made the meeting States on Thursday, Oct. 3. possible. They met Francis following Photo courtesy of Juan Manuel Segura “[Cardinal Mejia] has visit- Senior Juan Manuel Segura presents Pope Francis with a copy of the book “The Chapels of Notre Dame.” ed our house in Washington, see POPE PAGE 5 Segura and his family traveled to the Vatican to meet the pontiff over fall break. ‘Movember’ promotes Professor and men’s health with facial hair team earn grant to By TORI ROECK Associate News Editor analyze democracy Student body president By HENRY GENS needed to be asked. Alex Coccia may have the News Writer “Researchers need these in- most iconic facial hair on dicators because they’re in- campus, but he will blend in The rapidly-shifting nature terested in questions about more this month as students of today’s political landscapes the nature, causes and con- participating in Movember and conflicts calls for thorough sequences of democracy,” don moustaches and beards understanding of democracy. Coppedge said. “The indicators to raise awareness of men’s This is exactly what politi- that we had already really were health issues. cal science professor Michael not up to the task of measur- Senior Steve Fox said Coppedge and his collabo- ing things in a precise enough, rators are attempting to ac- fine-grained enough way to be see MOVEMBER PAGE 4 EMILY DANAHER | The Observer complish with the Varieties of able to test the ideas that we Democracy project. have. They were just lying far The team, which has more behind the kinds of theories than 2,000 contributing mem- and models that we wanted to Holy Cross Harvest collects bers around the world, recently test.” received a $5.8 million grant In refining the new indica- awarded over six years to ana- tors, Coppedge said his team lyze an unprecedented amount moved beyond the traditional donations for food bank of data related to democracies, American political science Coppedge said. He is one of view of democracy in the field, By SAMANTHA CASTANEDA hosted the festival, swipe in solidarity with four principal investigators in which tended to focus on only News Writer Jessica Bulosan, assistant the hungry. charge of steering the large- the basic requirements for such director of OSCE, said. “The food drive is the scale study and covering data government and left out rich The Saint Mary’s Office The festival aims to main event in the Holy from all countries and colonies aspects of democracy. Instead, for Social and Civic help people in the South Cross Harvest,” Bulosan in the world from the year 2000. the collaboration is examining Engagement (OSCE) has Bend Community who said. “We at Saint Mary’s Although previous research indicators across seven broad joined with Holy Cross lack basic resources, are donating all of the in the field revealed reliable classes of democracy, ranging College and Notre Dame Bulosan said. OSCE will food and monetary do- general indicators of certain from electoral to egalitarian. to host the Holy Cross host discussions, place nations we get to the types of democratic systems, “We don’t endorse all of these Harvest this week. food barrels around the Food Bank [of] Northern Coppedge said these were less views, but these are the views This is the third year College and encourage useful for answering the more the institutions have students to donate a meal see HARVEST PAGE 5 sophisticated questions that see DEMOCRACY PAGE 4 NEWS PAGE 3 VIEWPOINT PAGE 6 SCENE PAGE 8 FOOTBALL PAGE 16 MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 16 2 THE OBSERVER | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? QUESTION OF THE DAY: Email [email protected] ndsmcobserver.com What is your favorite monument on campus? P.O. 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