THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 53 FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16,2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Campus engages sexual violence issues Dialogue addresses prevention; 'Loyal' receives positive student nzen join activist efforts, groups feedback, draws large crowd By KAREN LANGLEY By MARCELA BERRIOS News Ediwr Associate News Ediwr In recent years, campuc; dialogue has increasingly Onstage since Monday, "Loyal Daughters addrnssnd issues of sexual violence. This attention and Sons" will end its run in Washington hac; grown throughout campus but has particularly Hall tonight after a weeklong effort to drawn male aetivi'its, University officials and student address sexuality and sexual assault at leaders say. Notre Dame, from both the male and female Student groups are calling with incmac;ing intensi­ perspectives. ty on both the men and women of Notre Dame to Thursday's audience of 337 was the reduce the instances of sexual ac;sault - which all largest the production has seen to date, and sources say occur much more often to members of a similar turnout is expected tonight, the campus community than may be perceived. according to junior Sarah Van Mill, one of "We want to create a movement where we say, the show's head writers. 'No, this ic; not OK. and we won't let thic; happen,"' "Loyal Daughters and Sons" has been said MichaPI HPdding, president of Men Against averaging about 200 people every night, she Violence. said. Though no more than two rapes have been report­ And the feedback from those hundreds of ed to NDSP during any year in the last decade, wu attendees - mainly students and faculty Alison Dunleavy, left, Cara Nazareth and Kevin Stein perform in a see ASSAULT/page 8 sketch in "Loyal Daughters and Sons" at Washington Hall. see LOYAL/page 9 Islam and Christianity: brothers in faith Cuba talk Archbishop discusses compatibility of two religions, common ancestry, misconceptions focuses on his brother. By JOSH LEEUW "Muslims see Christians as future News Writer monsters of the Crusades .... Christians see Muslims as mon­ The rift between Christianity sters in a similar light," Migliore Journalists: Government and Islam can bP solved by find­ said. ing a common ground in God and With both religions having has several options a sharPd ancestry, Archbishop ancient histories, rooted deeply in Celestino Migliore, Permanent tradition, it is often said the reli­ Observer of the I loly See to the gions could not be compatible, the By LINDSAY SENA Unit11d Nations, said Thursday. Archbishop said. News Writer Migliore told a popular Middle "However, both religions con­ Eac;tern story to illustrate the pic­ tain elements that are compatible, Io::xperts di<>eu&sed Cuba's political ture Muslims and Christians have but are just unaccepted because system and their thoughts on the of each other. of misconceptions," Migliore said. country's future, given the failing A man walks in the desert and Migliore addressed three points of health of President Fidel Castro sees a monster on the horizon, he convergence between Muslims Thursday. said. As the man gets closer, he and Christians, aspects both sects The lecture, titled "Cuba from realizes it isn't a monster but a of believers share. JESS LEE/The Observer Inside," featured Hewlett Visiting very ugly man. When he is right Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Permanent Observer of the Holy See Fellow and freelance journalist in front of the man, he sees it is see ISLAM/page 6 to the United Nations, speaks on Christianity and Islam Thursday. Cecilia Vaisman and former Havana bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune Gary Marx. 'We don't believe he's mming baek to power," Vaisman said. The two said Cuba ha<; several options for its Notre Dame delegation to attend vigil-protest government in the future. The nation could adopt a "ChinaMetnam style/model" of gov­ School of the Americas Watch to hold solidarity events for those killed at the hands of graduates erning, which would improve living standards for Cubans while still social movement leaders, "pup­ maintaining a single-party system, ByJENN METZ petistas," (an informal group of Vaisman said. Or, she said, Cubans Assistant News Editor puppeteers that denounce the could stage a violent uprising for SOA). presidential candidate democracy, which is "extremely This weekend. 35 members of Dennis Kucinich, and the Indigo unlikely." the Notre Dame community will Girls, among others. "Qvil society is not strong enough drive to Fort Benning, Ga., to The School of the Americas to challenge the government," she join thousands of people in the Watch, a nonviolent grassroots said. annual vigil-protest of the con­ advocacy movement, organized Although there have been several troversial School of the the vigil-protest, which will take positive changes since the 1990s, Americas (SOA), a combat place Nov. 16-18. The organiza­ such as the legalization of the U.S. training school for Latin tion seeks solidarity with Latin dollar and the opening of some American soldiers. Americans to close the SOA and Cuban sectors to tourism and invest­ Junior Michael Angulo organ­ to "change oppressive U.S. for­ ment, there is still a growing inequal­ ized the Notre Dame trip, which eign policy that institutes like ity between the rich and the poor, includes undergraduates, grad­ the SOA represent," according Marx said. uate students, theology profes­ to their Web site. 'There is a gap between those with sor Margie Pfeil and Liz "School of the Americas dollars and those without," he said, McKenzie from the Center for Watch has done an incredible using the quinciiiera as an example Social Concerns. job at networking between of wealthy Cuban excess. Photo courtesy of Jenna Knapp The delegation is joining tor­ A group of protesters stand with a 'puppetista' at the School of the ture survivors, religious organi­ Americas Watch vigil on Nov. 19, 2006. zations and leaders, students. see VlGIL!page 6 see CUBA/page 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, November 16, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE CHILDHOOD SNACK, AND WHY? Being super Everyone has thought about it. At least once or twice - what super pownr would you have if you could choosn anything? 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Sexuality and Sexual Assault As Shoplil'ling would become simple, Told by Notre Dame Students" and from that one could easily will be performed at 8 tonight at snowball into bad things. Anyway, Washington Hall. Tickets are $5 one would have trouble being a and are available at the super hero with either of those LaFortune Box OilieR powers, if that was the only one tlwy had. Unless you had super As part of' International st.rongth, or a super hero team to Education Week, them will bP a back you up, of course. faculty panel discussing If I wuld chooso any power. it "Overcoming Global Poverty: Is would he a dose dedsion bntween Globalization the Problem or the controlling tinH~ and eontrolling Solution'?" in Conference Homo gravity. Tinw control would be D of' the Saint Mary's Student both fun and useful. but the spnc.ific Center, !'rom noon to 1 p.m. details would havn to bn worked today. out. If you went back in limo a day, what would happen to the rest of "A Bright Hoom Called Day" tlw world - would they also go will be pnrl'ormed on the Dedo hack'! Could you meet. your past Main Stage in the DeBartolo self. or would there always bn only Perlhnning Arts Center tonight, one of you? It could get confusing and Sunday at 7::~0 p.m. Ticket<> if a new copy of you was made are $12 for the general public, every time you time-traveled. After KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer $10 lor snniors, faculty and staff a while, thero would be so many Notre Dame quarterback Evan Sharpley, left, autographs a Saint Mary's "The and $8 fhr students. copies of you, you would definitely Shirt" at the T-shlrt's unveiling in the Saint Mary's Student Center Thursday. run out of clothes for all of your The Notre Dame women's soc­ selves. 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