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the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 83 Wednesday,MONDAY, FEBRUARY August 27,1, 2010 2004 ndsmcobserver.com Students continue job, internship search Notre Dame community Winter Career Fair to offers career advice feature 120 companies By SARA FELSENSTEIN By AMANDA GRAY News Writer News Writer As the spring semester rolls To provide students an on- into its second month, students campus opportunity to meet are intensifying their search for potential employers, Notre summer internships and full Dame’s Career Center will time jobs. host the Winter Career and Kevin Monahan, associate Internship Fair Wednesday director of the Notre Dame at the Joyce Center Career Center, said if students Fieldhouse from 4 to 8 p.m. looking for summer internships The fair will feature rep- have not begun the application resentatives from 120 dif- process, they should do so ferent companies and immediately. He said landing a organizations, Kevin job or internship in today’s Monahan, associate director economy takes more effort of the Career Center, said. than simply filling out applica- “Last year, 133 organiza- tions. KATIE GREENSPON/The Observer tions attended the Winter Students pack the Joyce Center Fieldhouse at the fall Career Fair in September. This see JOBS/page 8 semester’s fair will host 120 different companies and organizations. see FAIR/page 9 Former University professor dies at 80 Observer Ralph McInerny taught at ND for more than 50 years, directed Medieval Institute elects new career at Notre Dame, television mystery series. Humanities. By JOSEPH McMAHON McInerny began to write fic- McInerny also wrote several A devout Catholic, McInerny’s Associate News Editor tion, and after at first receiving murder mysteries which took works always contained strong top editor numerous rejections, he even- place on Notre Dame’s campus, religious overtones. Along with Former Notre Dame profes- tually published his break- and in total penned over 80 Michael Novak, McInerny sor and renowned author t h r o u g h novels. founded “Crisis,” a journal of Observer Staff Report Ralph McInerny, who taught at work, “The McInerny was also well lay Catholic opinion that he the University from 1955 until Priest,” in known for his nonfiction work, hoped to use to reach a wide The Observer General his retirement this past June, 1 9 6 9 , which included translations of audience. Board elected Sports Editor passed away Friday morning at w h i c h Thomas Aquinas’ commen- Towards the end of his Matt Gamber as the 2010-11 the age of 80. would go taries for Penguin Classics, and career, McInerny was very crit- Editor-in-Chief Sunday. McInerny was a professor of on to was regarded my many as one ical of some University policies Gamber, a junior finance philosophy and Medieval become a of the top experts on Aquinas’ he felt devalued Notre Dame’s a n d Studies and, for many years, bestseller. work. Catholic identity. A strong pro- A m e r i c a n directed Notre Dame’s The fic- In addition to his written life advocate, McInerny wrote S t u d i e s Medieval Institute. He held McInerny tion work work, McInerny was a public an essay criticizing the major with degrees from the St. Paul for which intellectual who appeared on University’s decision to invite a m i n o r i n Seminary, the University of he was best known, however, William F. Buckley’s “Firing President Barack Obama to be Journalism, Minnesota and Laval was his Father Dowling series, Line” and was a member of last year’s Commencement E t h i c s a n d University. which is composed of 29 books President George W. Bush’s Democracy, Shortly after beginning his and was adopted by NBC as a Committee on the Arts and see MCINERNY/page 8 is a native o f M t . Gamber P r o s p e c t , Ill. Gamber, a former resident of Sorin College who cur- New bishop says Siegfried Mass rently resides off campus, has led several sports beats, including football, men’s “David Rudy, Kevin Ortenzio love and charity. Siegfried Hall extended a basketball, hockey, baseball, By CARLY LANDON and I drafted a letter welcom- “I was struck in the letter I warm welcome with a packed women’s lacrosse and Saint News Writer ing Bishop Rhoades to the dio- got from David, Kevin and chapel and held a reception Mary’s cross country. cese and asking if he wanted Brian by one sentence. It after Mass in Rhoades’ honor. “I’m honored to assume the Siegfried Hall welcomed the to say Mass at Siegfried any- made this my first commit- “Students seemed very role of Editor-in-Chief, and I newly instated Bishop Kevin time this semester,” junior ment as a new bishop, coming excited for his visit, and not look forward to the opportu- Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Brian Patterson said. to this hall. I made this before only did we have a high nity to work with so many of Wayne-South Bend to say “He was very active in our my commitment to come to turnout of Siegfried residents the people that make the weekly Mass Sunday night. Harrisburg [Penn.] diocese [University President] Fr. but also we even had a few Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s After Bishop John D’Arcy and everyone seemed to like [John] Jenkins big Mass in the people from other dorms community such a unique stepped down last year, him there. He even spoke at Basilica,” Rhoades said in his attend,” Patterson said. and special place,” Gamber Rhoades was selected from my high school’s graduation,” homily. “It was a letter about “We’re very honored to host said. the Diocese of Harrisburg as Rudy, a junior, said, “We the dorm Masses saying some- Bishop Rhoades to celebrate Gamber became Sports his replacement. He was weren’t surprised he was will- thing like, ‘At our dorm his first dorm Mass at Notre Editor in the spring of 2009 instilled as bishop on Jan. 12. ing to take on new challenges Masses we connect to Christ Dame with the Ramblers of and led coverage of the Three students from and say Mass here at Notre and it helps us to grow in Siegfried Hall,” Siegfried Notre Dame football coach- Rhoades’ former diocese Dame.” faith, hope and love.’ I President David Surprenant ing change, producing spe- arranged the Mass in an effort Rhoades spoke about his thought if that is what going said. “We’re looking forward cial editions on both the fir- to welcome him to his new connections to Notre Dame to these dorm Masses does, I position. and gave a homily focusing on have to participate.” see BISHOP/page 6 see EDITOR/page 9 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Seminarians play in hoops tourney page 4 N Men’s basketball team falls to Rutgers page 24 N Grammys Breakdown page 13 N Viewpoint page 10 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Monday, February 1, 2010 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: IF YOU WERE AN INFOMERCIAL PRODUCT, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? Back in the day Feeling stupid and spoiled, I recently asked a professor how they produced news- papers “back in the day,” or in the Meagan Teague Jeremy VandeBosche Allison Jones Danielle Arthur Valeria Mejias Elizabeth Bush Paleolithic ages before the Internet. How did writers send in their stories if not by e- freshman junior freshman freshman freshman freshman mail? How did editors Lewis Keenan Lewis Lewis Lewis Lewis fact check obscure fig- ures without Google? How in the world did “A Snuggie, I “I don’t know … “The Bumpit … “Something for “Something to “I’d be a they check weird guess.” a ShamWow?” it defies cleaning … like lose weight.” gardening hoe.” spelling? gravity!” a special mop.” The answer I received was shock- ing. They submitted their articles either Katie Peralta hard copy in person or over the (naturally) Assistant landline telephone. News Editor Fact checking was Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] done by searching archives or encyclopedias and dictionaries were used to spell check. Webster’s big red brick dictionary, not Dictionary.com. IN BRIEF None of this really has any bearing on how we do things now, but it really got me Architecture critic Paul thinking about how this technological revo- Goldberger, a Pulitzer Prize- lution thing has made us feel so entitled, winning journalist, will give his and in a way, totally spoiled. lecture, “Why Architechture I curse the fact that I cannot electronically Matters,” today from 4:30 to page lost items like keys. I feel naked with- 6:30 p.m. in 104 Bond Hall. A out my BlackBerry. I cannot do my home- book signing will follow. work without Internet and if I don’t check my e-mail for an afternoon I feel utterly dis- A “Haiti — What You Need connected from the entire world. to Know about the Nation on None of this was around when, for exam- the News” lecture will be held ple, my parents were in school here. People today at 8 p.m. in the lower used typewriters. To get in contact with level of the Geddes Hall audi- someone, you could call his or her dorm torium. room phone. It seems like everything was way more personal and arduous and you The Winter Career and couldn’t arbitrarily flirt with someone by a Internship Fair will take place vague text, BBM or Facebook chat mes- Wednesday from 4 p.m.