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THE O bserver The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 44 : ISSUE 16 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Mendoza launches new Web site, slogan Program Business college works to improve identity with new marketing position and workseffort to as a business school,” he said. By LAURA McCRYSTAL “This is the first time we’ve News Writer all come under the same posi­ combat tioning umbrella.” The Mendoza College of “Ask More of Business” Business’ simultaneous emphasizes the college’s focus diseases launch of a new trademarked on ethics in the business field, slogan, “Ask More of Gangluff said. Business,” and redesigned The three tenets of the new Web site this summer marked slogan are individual integrity, By MOLLY MADDEN a commitment to unity within effective organizations and News W riter the college. greater good. Gangluff said Both the new slogan and they represent the skills and You might think 50 cents Web site were created to high­ principles that Mendoza won’t buy you much today, but light the philosophies shared teaches its students and asks on the contrary, 50 cents is by Mendoza’s undergraduate of its graduates. enough save a life, in some and various graduate pro­ Mendoza created separate cases, and a new program at grams, Bill Gangluff, director task forces for positioning and Notre Dame is trying to make of marketing and Web strate­ Web site design eighteen COLEMAN COLLINS/The Observer this statement a reality. gies for Mendoza, said. A student walks out of Mendoza College of Business. The The Neglected Tropical “This is a big moment for us see MENDOZA/page 4 College recently launched a new slogan and Web site. Diseases initiative is a new program brought to the University by the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington D C. Sabin is a non-profit organiza­ Sierra Club leaders discuss energy legislation tion that is working to cure the 1.4 billion people worldwide who are afflicted with the Francis says we have 'a moral obligation' to act, addresses climate change and clean energyseven diseases known as the Neglected Tropical Diseases, or NTDs. Week at Notre Dame. These are infections that By LAURA McCRYSTAL Francis is co-chairperson include hookworm, other intes­ News Writer for the Hoosier chapter of the tinal worm infections, schisto­ Sierra Club and is also the somiasis, lymphatic filariasis, Legislation for clean energy appointed chairperson of the and onchocerciasis, as well as and climate change in the green energy committee for the bacterial infection, tra­ United States is crucial at the South Bend Green Ribbon choma, which can cause blind­ both national and local levels, Committee. Quinn is the con­ ness. especially given the upcoming servation program coordina­ The one-time vaccine for international climate confer­ tor for the Hoosier chapter of these seven diseases can be ence in Copenhangen in Dec., the Sierra Club. covered for a mere 50 cents. Sierra Club leaders Steve Both speakers addressed "This new initiative by the Francis and Bowden Quinn the importance of the Sabin Vaccine Institute is said in a lecture Monday American Clean Energy and essentially trying to address night. Security Act, which the House and eradicate these seven dis­ “We have a moral obligation of Representatives passed in eases that affect millions of SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer ... a responsibility to act,” June and is currently under people each year,” freshmen Sierra Club leader Steve Francis addresses a group during a lec­ Francis said in the lecture, ture Monday night about energy legislation. which was part of Energy see ENERGY/page 4 see DISEASE/page 4 Fire near HerStory series promotes female role models golf course Lectures hope to strengthen women's voice at the University, faculty discuss their journeys to ND The women featured are bers. Lynn Hubert, Notre Dame’s Ramquist would also like to By CAREY LANDON females in the Notre Dame com­ Director of Regional Development stress her goal of promoting less extinguished News Writer munity who have been nominated for the Midwest, was the guest generation segregation. She said by their peers as positive role lecturer. she hopes the series will show With hopes of providing a models for young women. The “Our turnout was moderate, women of all ages that they share Observer Staff Report stronger female voice on the series will also offer the opportu­ but less than I expected,” common experiences, and despite A small fire broke out in a Notre Dame campus, First Year of nity for female colleagues to Ramquist said, “However, we age barriers, they can learn from maintenance building at the 9- Studies Academic Advisor Dr. become acquainted in an infor­ have had such a positive feed­ each other in a sort of mentor hole golf course at Holy Cross Elizabeth Ramquist launched a mal setting and hear one anoth­ back, especially from faculty, that relationship. Drive and Dorr Road about 8:45 lunch-time talk series titled er’s journeys and how it is they all I think we can expect better “As an undergraduate, I bene­ p.m. Monday, according to “Telling HerStory: Highlighting arrived to be part of the Notre turnout next time.” fited from being mentored by University spokesman Dennis Women as Role Models in the life Dame community. Ramquist built her idea for this women ahead of me,” Ramquist Brown. of the Mind, Body, and Soul,” “Great things can happen when talk series off another previous said. “I think for me that is the Brown said the fire was extin­ which began Sept. 8. generations connect and learn series similar to it under the same foundation of this series because guished around 9:20 p.m. by The events occur monthly in from each other,” Ramquist said, name organized by professor it is important for younger Notre Dame, South Bend and the Coleman Morse Center, gen­ “I think in many parts of society Dawn Overstreet during a year­ women to learn from older Clay fire department personnel. erally on the first Tuesday of the that’s lost. Through this program long fellowship here at Notre women.” The University will launch a month. The series will showcase I would like to regain that.” Dame. Overstreet’s program The next HerStory event will be full investigation to determine female role models who have suc­ Last week, the first session received wide praise from the held on Oct. 13 from noon until 1 the cause of the fire and the cessful careers, are good mothers drew a crowd of around 50 peo­ Notre Dame community though it p.m. in the Coleman Morse extent of the damage, Brown or are women in the religious ple, of them about half under­ failed to be continued after her Center featuring Dr. Nyree said. ministry. graduates and half faculty mem­ departure from Notre Dame. MacDonald as the guest speaker. INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Weight Watchers comes to SMC page 3 ♦ Kanye goes crazy page 13 ♦ Men's golf places sixth at tourney page 24 ♦ Viewpoint page 10 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Tuesday, September 15, 2009 In side C olumn Question of the Day: If you cou ld h ave a n y s u p e r p o w e r, w h at w o u ld it b e ? London flat feasts 4 Sometimes I miss Notre Dame. A lot. So much my heart wants to break into little bits and crawl Kaitlin Wegrzyn Matt Zak Katie Meaney Megan Kozak Priscilla Nyankson across the ocean and into McGlinn hall so it can huddle in the corner of freshman junior sophomore freshman freshman the quad that I Welsh Family Morrissey Pangborn Welsh Family Ryan will live in come Stephanie DePrez January. But these moments Scene “Teleporting, so “Flying because “I would like to “Time travel so “Super pass, and I am Writer I could go to the you don’t have be extremely that I could intelligence, so I once again sit­ dining hall to pay for fuel. flexible so I can sleep in and don’t need to ting on the steps of Trafalgar Square, eating lunch whenever I You could fly bend through still never miss study and I can with any number of the multitude of want. ” around the little corners. ” a class ." party all night ND kids studying abroad in London world, fuel and still get this semester. Spurred by these bouts of home­ free." straight A ’s. ” sickness, my flatmates and I have devised a way of channeling our comfort-yearnings into a fool-proof Have an idea for Question of the Day? [email protected] plan of daily satisfaction. We have Flat Dinners. Now, this is not simply meeting up at the end of the night to eat. In B rief Instead of a rushed dinner at the dining hall between meetings and “Graffiti Art Project,”an exhi­ rehearsals, ours are a full food pro­ bition featuring children’s art duction. from a summer program, will be Each day one of the five of us is in held in the Crossroads Gallery charge of the evening meal. This today at 9 a.m. means she must choose a recipe, 81 tttS 'Ift Cft t§ The “Fritz Scholder shop for ingredients, arrive at the MAP 'ima/ flat in late afternoon and cook a Contemporary Artist meal in its entirety. We are all even­ Influences” exhibit will be held tually drawn into the kitchen by the g a g at 10 a.m. today. The display smell of pasta/chili/beer brats/BBQ includes art from Native chicken and bacon wraps.

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