Navy Win Streak Faces Test Saturday Last Year, Saint Mary's Had Between 80 and 100 Students at the Event
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----~-~-------------------~---------- -- -~ -- - THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 43 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER2, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM 2 freshmen attempt to write novels Belles to Typing quickly, aspiring writers hope to produce 50,000 words before Nov. 30 deadline co-host Craven said most of their By KAITLYNN RIELY friends won't be cranking out Assistant News Editor a novel anytime soon. Duke rally "They think we're crazy," It's a process that takes Conway said. Board hopes for more some people years. but But they have company. Kaitlyn Conway and Emily Conway and Craven are part student participation Craven intend to do it in one of National Novel Writing month. Month, a self-described "liter Beginning Thursday, the ary crusade." The competition By MANDl STIRONE Notre Dame freshmen each encourages people from News Writer began writing a novel, with around the world to pound the goal of finishing 50,000 out a 175-page work of fiction words by 11:59 p.m. on Nov. in 30 days. A press release Saint Mary's students will be 30. from the organization, nick able to "shake down the thun That means writing, on named "NaNoWriMo," says it der" along with three Notre average, 1,667 words a day is 'the largest writing contest Dame dorms as they co-host the football pep rally Friday before in addition to doing home in the world. DUSTIN MENNELLA!The Observer work and going to classes and Kaitlyn Conway works on her novel Thursday night in the computer the final Irish home game, other activities. Conway and lab in LaFortune. Her goal is to write 50,000 words by Nov. 30. against Duke on Nov. 17. see NOVEL/page 4 Although the event is quickly approaching, planning has been in the works for months, said Emma Moore, a member of the Pep Rally Committee. Navy win streak faces test Saturday Last year, Saint Mary's had between 80 and 100 students at the event. This year, the com Students optimistic ND football team will get 44th consecutive win against Midshipmen mittee is aiming for 200 to 260. The committee consists of six members of the Board of "Heck yes, we'll win," she Governance. Cassie Calion, By THERESA CIVANTOS said. News Writer Annie Davis and Cassie Quaglia Sean Gibbons, also a fresh - in addition to committee man, expects Notre Dame to chair Courtney Kennedy - are With seven losses and only keep its winning streak the Executive Board members one win this season, Notre against Navy. on the Committee, Kennedy Dame's 43-game winning "It'll be a good game, but said. streak against Navy may be at we'll come out on top," he Members have all been work risk. But many students, like said. ing hard to make sure the stu senior Liz Byrum, are holding Sophomore Ben Spitler said dent body is aware of the pep out hope that Notre Dame will the competition Notre Dame rally and to persuade a large add one more game to the has played this season has number of students to attend, streak and avoid racking up a been tough and that the Kennedy said. historic loss. schedule is a reason for opti Between e-mails and commit "It'll be closer than the NO mism. tee members selling Saint Navy game usually is, but we "I would hate to be here Mary's version of The Shirt, she will win," Byrum said. when we break the Navy said, the campaign is going well. Freshman Kasey Puis said streak," Spitler said. "I don't think anyone on this FRANCESCA SETA!The Observer she is confident she will see But Spitler doesn't think a campus is unaware that we're Notre Dame and Navy football players sing Navy's alma her first home win as a Notre mater, "Anchors Aweigh," last year in Baltimore. Dame student this Saturday. see NAVY/page 6 see RALLY/page 8 Snite celebrates Day of the Dead Business can fight Mexican festival, El Dia de los Muertos, marked with displays, dancing global warming By LINDSAY SENA News Writer structure, said Gordon Clark. Oxford professor cites head of Oxford's School of With displays, a dance per new EU legislation Geography and director of the formanee and a Frida look Oxford University Centre for the alike contest, the Snite Environment. Museum celebrated El Dia de By MARCELA BERRIOS "Around the year 2050," he los Muertos, the "Day of the Associate News Editor said, "we're going to be faced Dead." on Thursday evening. with millions of people displaced" The Mexican celebration, AI Gore may have received the as a result of climatic changes which takes place the day Nobel Peace Prize for his environ caused by modern industrial and after Halloween, honors the mentalist activism, but movies manufacturing systems. dead and celebrates the lives aren't the most practical way to But the European Union (EU) of one's ancestors. address climate concerns, based has sought to mitigate these Notre Dame students and on what an Oxford professor said effects, he said, throngh legisla faculty, as well as many area Tuesday at Notre Dame's tion for corporations, taking full residents and high school Hesburgh Center. advantage of the EU as a stan students, attended the event. .~.··~ Europe has made strides in its dard-setting body that supersedes The program began with a fight against global warming and the individual countries' politics description of the signifi carbon emission through revised and therefore reduces the pres cance of the Day of the Dead, WU YUE!The Observer accounting practices for global sure of corporations on local Dancers from the Ballet Folklorico Azul y Oro perform Thursday corporations and the maximiza see SNITE/page 6 in the Snite Museum for the annual Day of the Dead celebration. tion of the European political see OXFORD/page 8 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, November 2, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: HOW MANY PEP RALLIES DO YOU USUALLY GO TO A YEAR, AND WHY? Is 'or she' necessary? Procrastination is a human tendency - one that college students arc familiar with. Its consequences, however, can be more far-reaching than the occasional Jason Gott Geoff Sullivan Joseph Moore Sarah Funnan Tyler Orem all-nighter or a 2. 7 -inch spaced essay. junior freshman freshman freshman junior Sodnties and Sarin Sarin Welsh Fam Stanford eulturns procras- Joey King Dillon tinate too, and this is where the Viewpoint Editor "Four, "I don 't go to all "Most, but not "One and a half, "Four, so I can real damage is because of them because all, because so far. I left sport donn. If one finds a satisfactory way of per that's usually sometimes I sometimes I fall early." pretentious forming a task, it can be easy to post about as lose my J.D." asleep." hats." pone or suspend entirely the search for many good a better way of performing the same task. Examples are everywhere. games as we Consider how long monarchy was have." thought to be the best form of govern ment, or mankind's multi-millennia! marriage to the geocentric model of the universe. Even in the 20th century, leaded gasoline was a great fuel, aerosol a nifty propellant, DDT an effective pnsticidn, and asbestos an IN BRIEF ideal insulator. When something seemingly does what it's supposed to do, there's no apparent A r,ollection or Douglas Kinsey paintings is on display in the nnnd to change it. The problem is determining when finding a better way Gwat Hall of O'ShaughnffiSy II all is justilied. I don't havo a general solu through Nov. 29. tion. There is, however, one glaring and The Notre Dame Symphonil" rneent human development that must Wind<> and Symphonic Bands will be stopped - the current necflssity of hold a eoncerl tonight at X:30 in the phrase "hn or she." Leighton Concert Hall in Someone realiznd that English was being snxist whnn it used the word "he" DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Tir.ket<> arn $12 for facul to rnfnr to an individual of unknown ty/st.aJT and the general publie. gender in the third person. Instead of using "he" in such situations, it became and $7 fbr seniors 1md students. more proper to usn "he or she." Lately, 'Ibe hockey kmm will play Lakt• !.tis ~~~1~;~~mi~~ acc11pta?le to simply use Superior State tonight at 7:35 at she. She IS not sex1st. the Joyre Center ke Rink. Neithnr of tlwse two developments arn good solutions. The problem was As part or the Boardroom rnalizml, and a working solution was Insights lecture series, Brenda presented. "lie or she" solves the prob Barnes, CEO or the Sara Lee lnm. "Shn" solves tho problem. But both Corporation will spt~ak today at solutions have thnir flaws. 10:40 a.m. in the Jordan "lie or she" is taxing to write and say. Auditorium of the Mendoza It might not seem like much, but it adds • VUE/The Observer College of BusinffiS. up. Even if only one newspaper with a Notre Dame Mariachi Band members Cassandra Montoya left Josh Dlaz mid circulation of 100,000 used "he or she" dle, and Lukas Mendoza, right, play traditional Mexican' music after the Day The Black Cultural Arts whern it once used "he" just one time a of the Dead Celebration at the Snite Museum of Art Thursday. Council is holding it<> annual talent day for 365 days a year, it would consti show, "Black Images: Through tutn I X2.500.000 extra characters after the S<>,asons," Saturday at 8 p.m onn ynar (excluding spaces).