the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 80 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 ndsmcobserver.com Students show support for GLBT community T-shirts worn in response to offensive comic; week-long initiative to include silent protest, panel discussion shirt day with StaND Against By IRENA ZAJICKOVA Hate week or National Coming News Writer Out Day, but given the controver- sy surrounding the comic we Student, faculty and other thought it would be better to do a members of the Notre Dame weeklong initiative promoting community will participate in these issues,” Bears said. events this week to demonstrate More students and alumni than their desire for the administra- ever expressed interest in obtain- tion to add sexual orientation to ing T-shirts to wear, he said. the University’s non-discrimina- Former Notre Dame wide tion clause. receiver Golden Tate said he The events kicked off yesterday wanted to get involved with the when students wore “Gay? Fine initiative to help show Notre By Me” T-shirts to show their Dame’s GLBT community that he support for Notre Dame’s and others on campus support Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgend their decisions. er (GLBT) community. Senior “I wanted to participate in the Patrick Bears, a member of the project because just like every- Core Council for Gay and Lesbian one else, [the GLBT community] Students, said that in light of a are people and have rights,” Tate controversial comic published in said. “The Notre Dame communi- the Jan. 13 edition of The ty is a family and family mem- Observer, there has never been a bers support one another to more important time for students make the family stronger.” to show support for the GLBT Senior Johanna Kirsch chose to SARAH O’CONNOR/The Observer community. Patrick Guibert, a Notre Dame freshman, wears a “Gay? Fine by me” T-shirt in LaFortune on “Generally we try to coincide T- see STUDENTS/page 4 Tuesday. Students wore the T-shirts to show support for the GLBT community. Honor code violation spurs more education Activist: beers during the exam. By ANN-MARIE WOODS After students brought the Race still a News Writer incident to the administra- tion’s attention, the depart- An alleged cheating inci- ment sent out a question- dent during an Introduction naire to all students in the problem to Marketing class last class, asking what they semester raised questions observed or partook in dur- concerning the effectiveness ing the final exam. By MEGAN HEMLER of the University Code of “We were asked if we par- News Writer Honor and the need for ticipated in cheating or if we increased education of the saw people cheating during America remains a society academic honesty policy at the final, if we saw anyone plagued by the problems of Notre Dame, a member of drinking during the final white supremacy, despite the the class said. and if we felt that our test- election of Barack Obama in Danielle Guidry, a sopho- ing environment had been 2008, said renowned anti- more student in the class, racism activist and author SOFIA ITURBE/The Observer said several students opened see HONOR/page 6 Tim Wise Tuesday night. Held in the Carey Auditorium of Hesburgh Library, Wise gave a lecture OUNCIL OF EPRESENTATIVES entitled “Between Barack C R and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama.” Wise said that even though TRANSPO, Haiti relief focus of discussion many pundits had declared America a “post-racial socie- “Given what happened last ty,” in the weeks following By MOLLY MADDEN week, I want to make sure that that historic Nov. 4 election, News Writer everyone knows exactly when there remains a significant and where TRANSPO stops,” amount of systemic racism The Council of Representative student body president Grant throughout our country. (COR) discussed ongoing issues Schmidt said. “Individual success does including student awareness of COR members suggested hav- not translate into systemic TRANSPO locations, as well as ing the bars and restaurants transformation,” Wise said. continued relief efforts for Haiti that TRANSPO stops at post a “Those who proclaim we’re at their meeting Tuesday night. large map of the route along a post-racial society offer no In light of the violent out- with a stack of the cards so that evidence, no data.” break involving a Notre Dame students have full knowledge of Wise said that this post- student at a TRANSPO stop last the times and location of the racial rhetoric was akin to week, COR distributed 4,000 bus. Schmidt said the business- saying Pakistan had moved wallet-sized cards that have the es were open to having posters past sexism because Benazir TRANSPO route and times of displayed in their buildings. ANDREW WEBER/The Observer Bhutto had been elected pick-up to the Notre Dame stu- The Council of Representatives met yesterday, discussing dent body. see TRANSPO/page 4 TRANSPO location awareness and Haiti relief efforts. see OBAMA/page 4 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Saint Mary’s sells carnations page 3 N Women’s basketball preview page 20 N Advice from ‘Scene Says’ page 10 N Viewpoint page 8 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER ON CAMPUS? Overtime due for a Change Unless he decides to come back for yet another year and play a full NFL schedule with bones that are turning Julia Kohn Cody Gaffney Anna Boarini to dust, Brett Favre’s last pass of his Bri Neblung career will go down as an intercep- freshman sophomore freshman freshman tion. This should Lewis Keough Regina Badin not be problemat- ic, for perhaps no sports figure of his “In The “Around the “In the middle “Through the era was as Observer.” lakes or under of LaFun, when beloved for his Emergency spectacular on- the Lyons arch.” its super busy. Response field successes You can stand System.” and failures as up on a table Favre, but there is and be like ‘I’m a lingering fact Chris Allen which makes it done with tough to swallow: you!’” it could have Sports Wire ended so much Editor better. The NFL’s overtime rules, regarded by nearly all fans with dis- dain, robbed us of a storybook IN BRIEF moment in a storybook career. In the NFL, the rules of overtime Campus tours led by student dictate that the first team to score tour guides will be given today wins the game, regardless of the man- from 1 to 2:15 p.m. The walking ner in which the points or scored. In tour will touch upon most major Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, campus highlights and will leave Favre sat on the sidelines as Drew from the Eck Visitors’ Center Brees and the Saints won the coin Lobby. toss, received the kickoff, and drove to the winning score. Favre and his Joshua Diehl, assistant profes- Vikings are not alone, as from 1974 to sor of psychology, will discuss the 2003 a whopping 28 percent of over- latest autism research at his lec- time games were decided on the first ture, “The Science Café: Solving drive, with the other team given no the Autism Puzzle” today. He opportunity to respond. How anyone will speak from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at can consider this a fair resolution of a 217 S. Michigan St., South Bend. game is beyond me. Ultimately it will The talk is sponsored by the probably take a Super Bowl decided in Community Relations this manner to initiate a change, but it Department. is still worth it to consider the alterna- tives. Dr. Peter Casarella from When I casually mention the idea of DePaul University will speak at a changing NFL overtime to football lecture entitled, "The Witness of fans, they usually respond by saying Mary’s Faith: What Catholics how much they love the way college Could Learn from Dialogue with football handles overtime. This is not SARAH O’CONNOR/The Observer Evangelicals," in the Oak Room a viable solution, however, for the Notre Dame students attend an informational meeting for the Riley Children’s of South Dining Hall at 7 p.m. more passing oriented NFL. College Foundation Dance Marathon that will be held at Saint Mary’s College March 26 and today. overtime favors strong red zone 27. There will be another meeting tonight in DeBartolo at 7:30 p.m. for anyone who teams, eliminating the downfield pass- is interested. Actors From the Stage of ing game and benefiting those teams London (AFTLS) will perform with bigger backs. It’s not football in a “Romeo and Juliet” at 7:30 p.m. sense; it is merely a part of football, a in Washington Hall today small piece of the bigger game. If one through Friday. Call 574-631- were to extrapolate the idea it’s OFFBEAT 2800 for tickets. almost akin to deciding tied baseball games with a home run derby or a Woman pleads no contest She threatened to alert the front of his jumped on his in rat meal scheme A forum and discussion, enti- bunting competition. Leaving college media. hood and kicked and tled “Where Do We Go From overtime rules to those who use them APPLETON, Wis. — An Instead of paying, the punched his windshield as he Here? Moving Beyond Fruits best, the NFL needs to look elsewhere. Appleton woman who tried owners turned the rat over waited for a traffic light to and Vegetables” will take place As is the case with most of the to extort money from an to investigators for their change.