Faculty, Students Consider Academic Initiatives
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THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 38: ISSUE 46 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Faculty, students consider academic initiatives Faculty, students say Undergraduate Research Opportunity Student reaction to ND must promote Program support for student projects: possible changes mixed academics outside class 1999-2000: $9,000 awarded to average of 34 students By JOE TROMBELLO Editor's note: This article is the 2002-2003: $90,000 award to 86 students News Writer last in a series of articles focusing on academic engagement at Notre Student reaction to the programs Dame. Writing Center visits by students: described by College of Arts and Letters Dean Mark Roche and other By JOE TROMBELLO 1998-2001: average of 411 students per academic year faculty members that aim to News Writer increase academi~ opportunities 2001-2003: average of 2,288 students per academic year outside the classroom was mixed. Although faculty and students Most students said that they believed may express diverging opinions on Undergraduate Intellectual Initiative students could benefit greatly from the extent to which students are Program grant dollars awarded: increased funding and interaction academically engaged outside of the with faculty members while others classroom, both sides agree that the said they thought the money could University needs to provide more 2001-2002:$20,000 to support 30 initiatives be better used elsewhere. resources to bring faculty and stu 2002-2003: $40,665 for 59 projects Robert Gibbs, a sophomore dents together. finance/psychology major, said that To that end, numerous initiatives he thought business students would - both student and faculty driven benefit from increased lectures on -either exist.currently or arc *Source: Arts and Letters Dean's Report campus but not necessarily from increased funding for research. see INITIATIVES/page 6 MIKE HARKINS/Observer Graphic see FUNDING/page 6 Kelly promotes SMC on 'Live!' SMC debates current By ALISON NICKERSON events in CatholicisiTI News Writer Saint Mary's was recently fea department, said that he By NICOLE ZOOK believes that religious studies tured on the popular morning tel News Writer evision show "Uve with Regis and courses offered at Saint Kelly," when co-host Kelly Ripa Mary's address current events received a brochure and video In light of recent issues in the Catholic Church but that highlighted various aspects of affecting the Catholic Church added that the courses do not the school from the College's such as priest scandals and focus solely on such events. Marketing Communications the Sept. 29 papal appoint Instead, he feels that because Department. ment of 31 new cardinals, the a large percentage of the During the segment, which question is raised to what Saint Mary's population is aired Oct. 22, Ripa showed co degree such issues should Catholic, conversations are host and Notre Dame graduate' spark discussion within the placed in the context of a Regis Philbin the brochure that Saint Mary's community. 2,000 year-old tradition. featured her in several of the pic Special interest is given to "A large part of what a tra tures, thanks to computer repro the amount of discussion dition is, is an argument ductions of the images. She is fea these events receive within across the years about what tured "playing basketball" and the curriculum given that the to value, retain or jettison as AFP "making friends with the student College is a Catholic institu time passes," Incandela said. Talk show hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Rlpa speak to their body". tion. In terms of the sexual audience during a broadcast of "Live with Regis and Kelly." Joe Incandela, a professor Recently, the duo has talked about Kelly attending Saint Mary's. see RIPA/page 4 in the religious studies see CHURCH/page 4 SAT changes affect admissions Studies suggest new changes could favor girls over boys The first revised SAT will be before included on the exam. By TERESA FRALISH administered in March 2005. Mundy said he the felt the Assistant News Editor "We are going to start to do current SAT did not have any some studies and then track the major problems, and the The recently-announced first class [of students that takes 'University would not make any sweeping changes to the the test]." said Bob Mundy, changes to it admissions poli Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) director of admissions opera cies or process until it evaluated will affect undergraduate tions. the new SAT for four or five admissions at Notre Dame, The writing section will ask years. University officials said. test takers to revise grammati "I think the current SAT has The College Board, which cal errors in paragraphs and to been helpful," Munday said. administers the test., write a short essay from a topic "The new one may be better. It announced in June 2002 that a prompt. has the potential to be better." new writing section will be Analogies will be deleted from The SAT has typically been ·.· .......... :.. -..:.· .. added to the the traditional the verbal section and abstract used by college admissions ............................... math and verbal sections of the math reasoning questions will boards to predict freshman test, raising the maximum pos be replaced by questions cover Photo Illustration by Alison Nichols sible score from 1600 to 2400. ing Algebra II material never see SAT/page 6 Photo Illustration by Alison Nichols page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, November 5, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHICH TEAM WILL HAVE MORE LOSSES - FOOTBALL OR BASKETBALL? U.S. should hit the books America .seems to have begun to model one of the characters in e. e. cummings's war story The Enormous Room - le Directeur. Amelia Schmidt Brad Springman Claire Colclough Johanna Boslle Krlsty Luehm Margaret Martin As head of the prison, le Directeur Freshman Sophomore Freshman Sophomore Senior Junior knows well how Walsh Dillon Walsh Pangborn Welsh Family Pasquerilla East to use fear to Dolores Dlaz maintain power. He instills this Viewpoint fear through "Unfortunately, "Football, "Basketball, three means: his Copy Editor "/fit's not the "/think the "The football subordinates, football team, football team team - except I will have to go because they play more punishment and rm will have more Brady Quinnr with the football women's games, duh. ,, direct contact with prisoners. transferring.,, losses overall. ,, team ... prove basketball is The United States aims to instill fear in terrorists through its subor me wrong, awesome.,, dinates by using the North Atlantic guys!" I. Treaty Organization (NATO). Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., Secretary General Robertson invoked Article V of the alliance's constitution, which states that an attack on one is seen as an attack on all. America intends to strike fear into the hearts of ter IN BRIEF rorists but ends up intimidating its allies by pressuring them into Learn more about the upholding its views. The fear Caribbean in a conference that America wishes to instill in terror focuses on the region's culture ists may only get there by making and current issues. The confer our allies nervous and escalating ence takes place today from 2 to the atmosphere of fear worldwide. 7:30p.m. in McKenna Hall. The prison's most dreaded form of punishment was known as cabinot, The Career Center, Center for or solitary confinement. By desig Social Concerns and MSA nating Iran, Iraq and North Korea Program are sponsoring a work as the "axis of evil," the U.S. casts shop titled "Unlock Your Not out these countries from the civi for-profit Career." The event lized world. However, this fear is takes place today at the Career felt by the other countries of the Center from 5 to 6 p.m. world, as well. The fear of isolation is present to countries that must be Enjoy dinner and discussion in cautious of being associated with an interracial forum titled countries designated by a super "Images and Relations." The power as an "axis of evil." It forum takes place tonight at the becomes a playground conflict on a CSC Coffee House from 5:30 to 7 dangerous scale: Be friends with the p.m. Please RSVP to 1-6841. enemy of a superpower and risk your own prosperity. The Saint Mary's Student Finally, the greatest fear le Activities Board will sponsor a Directeur instills comes from direct ALLISON NICHOLS/The ObseNer showing of "Charlie's Angels: contact with his prisoners. The ulti Notre Dame students watch the elections at Recker's on Wednesday afternoon. Full Throttle" tonight at 8 p.m. mate fear invoked by the U.S. is the Around the nation, Americans headed to the polls to vote In state and local elec in the Caroll Auditorium. threat of war. Not only has the U.S. tions on Election Day. Admission is free and snacks war on terrorism and the fear asso will be provided. ciated with it touched the U.S., its allies, enemies and the rest of the Find out more about the world, but has real links to the war Alliance for Catholic Education in Iraq which continue to affect the OFFBEAT (ACE) during an information ses world arena. sion tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in What is it that le Directeur can Amorous ram blamed for thing staff had encountered "R" Us television commer the LaFortune Ballroom. teach the U.S. about the war on ter mysterious signals before and an investigating cial that featured the com Interested students can talk to rorism and the fear it creates? LONDON - A mysterious team initially thought they pany's mascot, Geoffrey recent graduates of the program Although the U.S.