Vatican Reveals D'arcy's Replacement Students Disappointed As Irish Lose
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the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 53 Monday, November 16, 2009 ndsmcobserver.com Vatican reveals D’Arcy’s replacement Film festival Rhoades announced presents as new bishop for diocese including ND worldwide By AARON STEINER News Writer viewpoints The Vatican announced By MEGAN HEMLER Saturday morning that Bishop News Writer Kevin Rhoades, currently bish- op of the Harrisburg, Pa., dio- cese, will replace Bishop John Six international films, each an D’Arcy as the Bishop of the Academy Award winner or nom- Diocese of Fort Wayne-South inee, were shown this past Bend, which includes Notre weekend as part of the “One Dame. Rhoades visited Notre World: The International Dame Saturday, concelebrating Development Film Festival” and a Vigil Mass with D’Arcy in the offered students a chance to see Basilica of the Sacred Heart. the world from radically differ- Rhoades will take over for ent viewpoints. D’Arcy, who is now 77 years “It’s really important for peo- old and past the church’s ple to understand other people’s required retirement age, on perceptions of the same thing … Jan. 13. instead of staying under their In the past, D’Arcy has said own rock,” law student Yara his role for the universities in AP Sallam said. Bishop John D'Arcy, center, and Bishop Kevin Rhoades, right, greet visitors after Mass in see D’ARCY/page 6 Fort Wayne on Saturday. Rhoades will assume D’Arcy’s position this January. see FESTIVAL/page 4 Dad’s Root Students disappointed as Irish lose again Beer offered By JENN METZ News Writer at College Irish fans were hardly visi- ble in the sea of Pittsburgh navy that filled a sold-out Heinz Field Saturday. cafeteria Drowned out by a raucous Panther student section, Notre Dame students who made the By ALICIA SMITH six-plus hour drive east to wit- News Writer ness Saturday’s loss expressed disappointment in the team’s Gone are the days of the failure to follow through with Pepsi and Coca Cola oli- a win. gopoly in Saint Mary’s Senior Meghan Magargee TOM LA/The Observer Dining Hall. A new bever- Pittsburgh fans taunt the Irish with signs during Saturday’s game at Heinz Field. The Irish age choice has been intro- see LOSS/page 4 lost despite a fourth quarter comeback effort, dropping their record to 6-4. duced this semester, and for one student, it has a special place in her heart. Dad’s Root Beer reminds senior Micki Hedinger of Arts and Letters sponsors ‘What’s Next?’ Week home. Her father, Keith Hedinger is the president Next?” Week is sponsored by the and CEO of the company, By MADELINE BUCKLEY College of Arts and Letters and which is located in Jasper, News Editor the Career Center and has Ind. events Monday through “I am sure students are Senior Grant Wycliff is a Thursday. enjoying the wider variety Philosophy major with no plans “I have no job offers and I of soda options in the din- yet for after graduation. But he have no idea what I’m doing ing hall,” she said. isn’t worried. next year,” Wycliff said. “People According to Hedinger, As one of many students in the always tell me I should be con- the brand was established College of Arts and Letters with cerned, but it will work out 72 years ago. However, a major that “doesn’t necessarily eventually.” according to a press train for a particular job,” Lee Svete, director of the release, Hedinger Brands, Wycliff will participate in a stu- Career Center, said the program LLC did not purchase the dent panel Tuesday as part of a will feature a mini career fair, a company until 2007. weeklong set of seminars and talk from an Arts and Letters Since that time the com- networking sessions geared graduate, a student panel, an pany has been making a toward helping Arts and Letters information session about find- majors enter the workforce. see DAD’S/page 6 MARY CECILIA MITSCH | Observer Graphic The week, called “What’s see JOBS/page 3 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Women’s soccer update page 24 N Asian Allure review page 12 N Irish Insider analysis pullout N Viewpoint page 10 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Monday, November 16, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT THANKSGIVING? A recipe for memory Every time I eat pancakes, I think of my grandfather. Something about the smells of syrup Bill Naughton Carrie Altick Brian Pieh Keleigh Walker Josh Zavilla Laura Glaub and fresh batter and the combination of those things melting in my mouth takes senior sophomore senior sophomore junior sophomore me back to my child- off campus McCandless off campus Regina Zahm McCandless hood. When I was three years old, my mother “Football.” “Shopping on “Sweet “Cranberry “I spend a lot of “Decorating for and I would go to my Black Friday.” potatoes. Who sauce from the time deciding Christmas the grandparent’s house doesn’t like can.” what I like—the day after.” every Tuesday morn- ing, where my grand- sweet ambience or the pa would make us potatoes?” decor.” pancakes. I still remember Laura McCrystal him standing at the stove in his bathrobe News while Mom sat at the production table with me. editor Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] Those mornings are some of my earliest memories, yet I can still picture them clearly in my mind. Last week, Grampy passed away. IN BRIEF And so I found myself boarding a bus for Cleveland to be with my family. As I stared into the endless cornfields along the Ohio George Saumarez Smith will turnpike, I was flooded with memories of address the intricate crafts- Grampy. manship he brings to projects He, on the other hand, didn’t remember in a lecture titled much of anything by the end of his life, as “Architectural Tradition: is true of so many people who develop Draughtsmanship and Detail.” Alzheimer’s disease. The lecture will take place I began to wonder what memory really today from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 is, after all. p.m. in 104 Bond Hall. Why am I able to vividly remember those Tuesday mornings when I was three John Fetterman, the mayor years old, but in his last years of life my of Braddock, Pa., will be grandfather struggled to remember things speaking in a lecture titled as simple as the names of his grandchil- “The Mayor of Hell.” The lec- dren? ture is free and will be taking And worst of all, what will happen if my place tonight at 8 p.m. in own parents lose their memories, and will McKenna Hall. I someday also have Alzheimer’s? When I arrived at my aunt’s house last The New Playright’s Thursday evening, I found my family hov- Workshop presents its first day ered around a table covered in photo- of First Harvest on Tuesday graphs. Nov. 17 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 They were making display boards of p.m. The performance will pictures for the wake the following morn- TOM LA/The Observer take place in the Philbin ing, but I found that the very process of The Leperechaun, Dan Collins, waits on the sidelines to hear the result of an Studio Theatre, DeBartolo looking at the pictures was most impor- official review at the football game in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The Irish lost to Performing Arts Center. The tant. Pittsburgh 27-22. event is free but tickets are Each photo sparked a different memory. required. Contact the Some of the pictures triggered memories I DeBartolo Center box office at did not even know I had, such as piling 574-631-2800 or performin- into my grandfather’s old red Mustang garts.nd.edu convertible with my cousins for a ride OFFBEAT around the neighborhood on a sunny Johanna Fernandez, summer afternoon. Britons among ugliest peo- personal profile. Wednesday on the frontage Professor of History at Baruch Scientists can explain memory, and I ple in the world “I would say Britain is road of Interstate 45 north- College will be giving a lecture hope they continue to make progress in LONDON — Britons are stumbling because they bound in La Marque, about titled “The Young Lords and research about Alzheimer’s. But all we among the ugliest people in don’t spend as much time 35 miles southeast of Social and Structural Roots of need are our own experiences to under- the world, according to a polishing up their appear- Houston. Sixties Radicalism” on stand how it all works. dating web site that says it ance and they are letting The Lufkin, Texas, man Wednesday, Nov. 18. The lec- Years from now, you won’t remember only allows “beautiful peo- themselves down on physi- told of driving his luxury, ture will be taking place from reading this column. Instead, you might ple” to join. cal fitness,” Beautiful People French-built Bugatti Veyron 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in have memories of sitting in the dining hall Fewer than one in eight managing director Greg when the bird distracted Room 210 in McKenna Hall. reading The Observer and talking to your British men and just three in Hodge said. him, said La Marque police friends. 20 women who have applied Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The Poets Christine Hume and But if you happen to be eating pancakes, to BeautifulPeople.com have Man distracted by bird motorist dropped his cell Jeff Clark will read at the I can guarantee you they do not compare been accepted, an emailed drives Bugatti into marsh phone, reached to pick it up Hammes Bookstore on to the ones my grandfather made.