THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 38: ISSUE 24 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER26, 2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Conway visits SMC ca•ttpus Innovation collaborated to bring heroes, she said. Through this By ASHLEY DYER Conway to campus. characterization, the western News Writer Conway's presentation dis­ man is able to exercise judg­ cussed how culture has created ment by allowing actions to Consummating her highly forms on how women acquire shape themselves in the world. anticipated visit, famed author identity, how identity changes The western woman, howev­ Jill Ker Conway presented a by exercising power and er, is constructed to develop lecture entitled "Seeking authority and how heritage emotionally and spiritually. but Identity in the Western Culture" affects the formation of a is never allowed to develop Thursday in Saint Mary's woman's identity. Conway first leadership skills or claim space O'Laughlin Auditorium. touched on how as a society we in the world. In order to devel­ Conway's lecture was the pri­ must look at masculinity and op women leaders, Conway mary component in the femininity existing as a rela­ believes women need to take a Michiana Museum Consortium, tionship. in order to deconstruct stance through action. themed "Examining Identity." the formation of women's iden­ Conway's advice to young The humanistic studies depart­ tity. women in leadership develop­ ment, the· Center for Women's The western construction of ment consisted of throo compo- InterCulteral Leadership and male identity as we know it can Noted author Jill Ker Conway speaks during a lecture Thursday the Center for Academic be identified through Greek see CONWAY/page 6 at 'Saint Mary's O'Laughlin Auditorium. The Shirt sales rise Dante • above expectations seminar I' ' { held at NO f ; and community relations man­ ' By MARY MIGLIOZZI i ager at the Hammes Notre I News Wrirer Dame Bookstore, said The By JAMIE HOLLAND Shirt is selling better than ever News Writer Already three games into the this year. football season, sales of this "The sales have been unbe­ For those students who may year's The Shirt remain steady lievable compared to previous not be acquainted with Notre and continue to exceed expec­ years," she said. Dame's program in Dante and tations, according to Dave The special student sale that Italian studies, an upcoming Brenner, president of The the bookstore held before the symposium will provide the Shirt 2003. first football weekend was not exposure they need. "People are still buying The necessary last weekend The International Dante Shirt. We're ahead of pace for because the majority of stu­ Seminar, which attracts world­ last year.... Sales have far dents already have The Shirt, renowned scholars to discuss ANDREW KENNA/The Observer exceeded anyone's expecta­ but fans continued to buy it the works of Dante, will take Sales of The Shirt have exceeded expectations, according to tions," he said. place in the McKenna Hall audi­ Dave Brenner, president of The Shirt. Hedge Harridge, the event see SHIRT/page 4 torium over the next three days. The first featured event is a reading by Dante admirer Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney tonight at 8 p.m. in McKenna Hall. Snite Museum of Art The seminar, held every third year, is now in its fourth cycle. It has previously been held in Ascona, Switzerland, Florence, welcomes first-years Italy, and at Princeton University just three years ago. The next Johnny Zachman provided the seminar, in 2006, will be hosted By KATHLEEN JOYCE musical entertainment. Zachman by Oxford University in England News Writer has appeared at such venues as at which two Notre Dame pro­ Fiddler's Hearth and Higher fessors, Christian Moevs and The Snite Museum of Art host­ Grounds. Mary Burgess Smyth, have been ed a new program, "Freshmen Brief guided tours included invited to speak.. Night at the Snite," Thursday opportunities to view exhibits The seminar is primarily evening to welcome freshmen such as Native American Art sponsored by Notre Dame's students with food, musical enter­ Gallery, the "Face-to-Face" por­ William and Katherine Devers tainment and tours of exhibitions. traiture exhibit, and "Firing Art" Program in Dante Studies. Co­ "This is your museum," said - an exhibit of recent ceramics sponsors include the Medieval Snite Museum director Chuck from the Notre Dame anagama Institute, Department of Loving as he welcomed students kiln, built by artist and Notre Romance Languages, Keough to the event. Dame professor William Kremer. Institute for Irish studies and Gina Costa, the marketing and Costa said that it is difficult to Princeton University. public relations specialist for the attract students to the Snite The Devers Program has been museum, said the objective of the Museum. "Students don't have a busily preparing to host the con­ event was~ to break down stereo- lot of discretionary time," she ference, themed "Dante's types or a "preconceived notion of said. Cultures" at Notre Dame for the what the museum is." Loving said that 'students most past number of years. The event was an opportunity often visit the Snite Museum for Rather than a series of lec­ for students to "come meet fun programs such as class tours, lec­ tures, in which researchers sim­ staff and hear great music," while tures, exhibit openings, perform­ ply present their work, the sem­ hopefully realizing that the Snite an<~es or films. inar will highlight scholars as Museum is a "fun, great, vibrant In planning events, Costa said they present a short summary of part of their educational experi­ the Snite Museum attempts to their ideas. Following the sum­ ence" and a vital resource, Costa cover "issues pertinent to the stu­ maries will be a discussion pre­ said. dents" in an eJl'ort to reach the sented by a panel of other "Freshmen Night at the Snite" entire student body. experts who have been provided marked the first time the muse­ ln the spring semester of 2003, ALLISON NICHOLS/The Observer the author's paper in advance. um sponsored an event especially Lauren Greenfield's "Girl Culture" Meesch Miller, a freshman from Welsh Family Hall, views a This is intended to spur the targeted to welcome freshmen. portion of the "Firing Art" exhibit during the freshmen night Area musician and composer see SNITE/page 4 at the Snite Museum of Art. see DANTE/page 4 i .. IL ____ page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, September 26, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT'S YOUR PREDICTION FOR THE FOOTBALL GAME THIS WEEKEND? Defending choice Well, "Coupling" premiered tonight. Honestly, I didn't watch the show. I'm not outraged by its con­ tent; it's just that I'm not a big fan of network television. After all, Jen Eves Allison Christie Steven McDevitt Matt Carney Matt Dvorsky Ashley Peltier we're talking Sophomore about the same Junior Junior Freshman Sophomore Sophomore folks who bring Walsh Walsh Siegfried Dillon Stanford LeMans you "Last Call with ~ Carson Daly." "We are "Purdue ·s got "They have "Boilers get "The Irish .. We're going to But all week, ,, I've heard dozens definitely going nothing on the Purdue as a ten burned!'' Guard will win. of people berating to kick some 1rzs . hi''. point favorite ... smash their WNDU for refusing Boilermaker I guess that stupid drum. •• to air the racy new fall series. Matt Bramantl butt.·· means Cries of Purdue- Iol "Censorship!" Notre Dame- have gone up from J11ire Editor .. the student body. o. This very column was filled yesterday by a writer who is convinced that the "censor­ ship-crazy" WNDU is inches away from establishing a police state. IN BRIEF It's interesting to see this cam­ pus, which is normally politically All students and faculty par­ inert, transform into 1960s ticipating in courses on Latin Berkeley over a television show. America are invited to a recep­ That being the case, it might be tion prior to the performance time for a little crash course on the by the Brazilian Choro band First Amendment. No Em Pingo D'Agua. The Here's the relevant text: reception will be held tonight "Congress shall make no law ... from 6 to 7 p.m-. at DeBartolo abridging the freedom of speech, or Quad. The concert will be held of the press." from 7 to 9 p.m. in the That's it. I can say- or decline Mendoza College of Business' to say - whatever I want. I can Jordan Auditorium. broadcast - or refuse to broadcast -whatever I want. The women's volleyball team I do not have the right to demand takes on Villanova tonight at 7 that other people say. print or p.m. in the JACC. broadcast what I want to hear. And that's exactly what these complain­ Seamus Heaney, 1995 win­ ing students are doing. ner of the Nobel Prize for This isn't a situation where the Literature will be giving a poet­ government is stifling political ry reading co-sponsored by the speech. NDSP shock troops won't Keough Institute for Irish haul you off to a gulag if you watch Studies and the Dever Program a tape of the show. This isn't Cuba in Dante Studies. The reading or North Korea. ALLISON NICHOLS/The Observer takes place tonight at 8 p.m. in This is America, where the the McKenna Auditorium. integrity of our system of com­ Dana Lee, a freshman from Welsh Family Hall, carefully examines a piece of art at merce should trump a sitcom. the Snlte Museum. Thursday marked the first "'Snlte Night," held to Introduce fresh­ men students to the museum and Its various exhibitions.