Finish on the 50 to Benefit H and Friends Inaugural SK Race and One-Mile Walk Will Take Students Around Catnpus, Finish on Notre Dame Stadium's 50-Yard Line
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·,, THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 40: ISSUE 123 FRIDAY, APRIL18. 2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM , Mooney attend papal speech in Washington Pope discusses faith and education University and College presidents in talk at Catholic University react to Benedict's address By BILL BRINK By LIZ HARTER, BILL BRINK, and News Editor CHRIS HINE News Writers In an address to Catholic educators from across the country at Catholic University in Washington, When Pope Benedict XVI addressed over 200 D.C., Pope Benedict XVI discussed education and Catholic university presidents and educators, faith in the university setting. including the presidents of the University of Academic freedom is an important part of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College, Saint Catholic education, but is subservient to the \ Mary's president Carol Ann Mooney did not teachings of the Catholic Church, the pope said know what he would say when he entered the Thursday. Notre Dame President Father John room. Jenkins and Saint Mary's president Carol Ann "There was all this speculation like, 'Would he Mooney were in attendance. scold us?' There was none of that. I didn't The pope said Catholic institutions must be expect that, but I guess I didn't expect it to be consistent with the faith and teachings of the quite [as much of] an uplifting experience as it Church both inside and ouL'iide of the classroom. really was,·· Mooney said in a press release "Any appeal to the principle of academic free Thursday. dom in order to justify positions that contradict Instead, Benedict's speech was not a scolding the faith and the teaching of the Church would but an "affirmation of the importance of obstruct or even betray the university's identity AP Catholic education," Notre Dame president Fr. Pope Benedict XVI addressed an audience of Catholic educators see ADDRESS/page 4 during his speech at Catholic University In Washington D.C. Thursday. see POPE/page 3 Finish on the 50 to benefit H and Friends Inaugural SK race and one-mile walk will take students around catnpus, finish on Notre Dame Stadium's 50-yard line and Maura Weis to help spe idea for the event arose last "I used to do a lot of run number of registrants so far. By KATIE PERALTA cial needs children. spring. ning [in high school]. I "As of Wednesday night, Assistant News Editor The 3.1 mile race will take "We seriously started tak thought this would be a cool we 'had 300 signed up participants around the ing a look [at planning th·e opportunity for a good already," Bergstrom said. This Saturday will be a Stadium, through the Notre event] at the beginning of cause," Bergstrom said. The event, Bergstrom said, bustling day on the Notre Dame campus around South this semester once we got Although race coordina has received a great deal of Dame campus, from the Quad, around the Stepan the approval of SAO tors initially entertained the support throughout its plan annual Blue-Gold game to Center and back to the [Student Activities Office 1." idea of inviting the entire ning stages. the first ever Finish on the Stadium to finish on the 50- Bergstrom said. South Bend community, they Adidas donated T-shirts, 50, a 5K race that will finish yard line after running Six Alumni race commit eventually decided to keep it which each participant will on the 50-yard line of the through the tunnel. tees were responsible for open to only Notre Dame, receive with his or her reg Notre Dame stadium. The event also features a various planning aspects of Saint Mary's and Holy Cross istration fee, while colle Sponsored by Alumni Hall, one-mile walk for those not the race. Bergstrom's fellow College students. giate service organization the event will benefit wishing to run. Alumni residents chose him Bergstrom said the event, Circle K provided volunteers Hannah and Friends, the Race coordinator senior to head the effort once it although only in its first charity founded by Charlie Clint Bergstrom said the was underway. year, has seen an impressive see FINISH/page 6 Scam seeks· personal Faith-science link examined information of students Lecturer Barbara Fiand discusses scientific discovery and spirituality e-mails get a student's pass By KATLYN SMITH By BILL BRINK word, Dobbins said, they use News Writer News Editor the account to send out mas sive amounts of spam. Lecturer and author Barbara The Office of Information "As organizations get better Fiand explored the relation Technology (OIT) recently at fighting sources of spam, ship between scientific discov informed students of an e-mail spammers get better at using eries, particularly in quantum scam that has attempted to legitimate sources," Dobbins physics, and spiritual views obtain students' personal said. Thursday at Saint Mary's 23rd information. Formerly, it was possible for annual Madeleva Lecture. The scam, known as "phish spammers to send such e In her lecture, entitled "Awe ing," works by sending out an mails from home PCs, Dobbins filled Wonder: The Interface of e-mail designed to replicate an said. Now, however, internet Science and Spirituality," at e-mail from OIT asking for stu access companies are enacting the College's Little Theatre, dents to enter their passwords, stricter rules about usage so Fiand said humans interpret said Gary Dobbins, OIT spammers have to resort to their place in reality through a Director of Information using other people's accounts. worldviaw, a perception cur Security. Dobbins said OIT did not rently being transformed by "The latest round has know specific information scientific discoveries. changed to asking for pass about whether Notre Dame Traditional perceptions, such words under the guise of students had fallen victim to as dualism, Fiand said, stress deleting [the student) e-mail the false e-maiJs. Students at the division of spirit and sci account if you don't supply it other colleges have had their ence. to them," Dobbins said. Author and lecturer Barbara Fiand focused on science and Once the creators of the false see OJT/page 4 see AUTH 0 R/ page 3 spirituality in her talk at the Little Theater on Thursday. • --- ______________.. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, April 18, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SONG TO SING IN THE SHOWER AND WHY? Bye bye, Bubble "Well, Katie, you will only be living on the Notre Dame campus for only anoth Emily Norrs Meredith Thornburgh Colin Fisher Brandon Reichardt Conor McNamara er month," my mom said a few weeks ago. I had not really stopped to consider freshman grad student freshman senior senior this phenomenon. No more parietals, no Badin off campus Fisher off-campus Carroll more lofted beds, no more Sunday morning Katie Peralta ... The recaps, no more com ...Livin, on a ..I can see clearly ..Bleeding Love .. 'Circle of Life' munal bathrooms. I Assistant Prayer' because now the rain is Rubberducky' because I keep because of News Editor , have long taken these Bon Jovi is my gone. song by Ernie bleeding ... Mufasa., little things for grant- ,, , ed. Leaving the Bubble seems all the hero. from Sesame love. more daunting. Street., While studying abroad for the next academic year, I won't see the girls from my dorm with whom I have become such great friends these two years. The good news is we will all be living in a house together senior year. 7 .6.1. While I am initially excited about the prospect of a complete change of IN BRIEF scenery. I realize how much I will truly miss being on this campus. ·"The Shirt" will be unveiled I know we all complain about the Friday at the Hammes Notre parietals, the despot that is DuLac, the Dame Bookstore. Co-host of smell of the ethanol plant on those cool Mike and Mike in the Morning Indiana mornings and the hard water Mike Golic will be the guest that-strips your hair of any luster. speaker. Festivities begin at 4:30 But there also are those Saturday p.m. and "The Shirt" itself will mornings on home football weekends. be revealed at 6 p.m. And there are those all-nighters when it seems like everyone has big tests the College Democrats and next day. And there are those enormous College Republicans will put on group trips to the dining hall. And walk "Crossfire Debates" today at ing home at night under the light of the 6:30 p.m. on South Quad. Dome. And we cannot forget the ease of rolling out of bed 15 minutes before Flipside will host "The Office" classes start. Trivia Night tonight from 9:30 I am starting to sound like a nostalgic until midnight at the Hesburgh high school senior again. Ubrary Auditorium.Teams of The fact of the matter is, though, that up to 5 can register together with the prospect of not being here for a together. year looming over my head like the University's in loco parentis, I am forced Alumni Hall will sponsor the to start realizing the relative luxury we first annual Finish on the 50 5K have here of living on campus. race Saturday at 8 a.m. Race I am not going to start a tirade about registration is $15 and the event urging people to stay on campus as long ···---~- is open to all ND, SMC and HCC as possible - trust me, I am as ready to KELLY HIGGINSfThe Observer students. move on as any other sophomore. I Sophomore Ellen Pfister attempts to walk a straight line while wearing "drunk goggles" at guess I am just starting to realize what the Saint Mary's Fire and Safety Fair.