'We Will Make This a Circus'

/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 43 : ISSUE 121 WEDN ESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM 'We w ill make this a circus' SMC class Radical activist Randall Terry brings his controversial pro-life 'battle' tactics to Notre Dame campus quota per created “the largest civil disobe By AARON STEINER dience movement in America.” hall ignites News Writer Now, he’s come to Notre Dame. The decision to invite President Randall Terry once arranged Barack Obama to give the 2009 to have a dead fetus sent to Bill Commencement address at controversy Clinton at the 1992 Democratic Notre Dame and receive an hon National Convention. orary Doctor of Laws degree has By ASHLEY CHARNLEY This long-time pro-life activist attracted the attention of pro-lif Saint Mary’s Editor is no stranger to controversy. His ers around the country and life — as an evangelical world. Calling the situation a Room selection quotas that Christian, later a converted “travesty,” pro-life leaders have were put in place more than Catholic, once a Republican denounced the University and its two years ago to help diversify political candidate and foremost president, Fr. John Jenkins. the residence halls at Saint a warrior in the fight against Terry said he first heard the Mary’s College have caused abortion — has been filled with news after a trip to Rome last some unrest between students similar appalling actions. month. and the Department of Terry likes to boast that he’s “When I was in Rome [...] I Residence Life and Community been arrested 40 times, spent a kept walking around, praying, Standards, especially in the ris year of his life in jail and had and saying to people that were IAN GAVLICK/The Observer ing junior class. cases before the U.S. Supreme Randall Terry attends the Right to Life prayer rally that took place Slandah Dieujuste, director Court. He even states that he has see TERRY/page 4 on Palm Sunday in front of the Main Building. of the Department, said these quotas were put in place to mix the class years and provide guidance to incoming classes. “There is tremendous benefit SMC increases admissions, creates Web site to [the quotas] as [they allow] our students to engage in College sees increase in Admissions site to help strong mentoring relation Saint Mary’s Admissions ships,” Dieujuste said. fincanical aid applications foster community before The quotas limit the number of students from each of the due to economic recession incoming class arrives classes who can live in each Applicants = 1 337 residence hall. For example, By ASHLEY CHARNLEY By MEGAN LONEY there can only be 95 juniors in Saint Mary’s Editor News Writer LeMans Hall. Once this quota is Accepted = 1 i 26 filled, the remaining juniors Saint Mary’s Office of Admissions Saint Mary’s College has joined the who need to select rooms must has noticed trend changes from pre Budget Target = 460 First Years growing number of colleges and uni choose one of the other dormi vious applicant pools because of the versities who have adapted to the age tories for their residence. current recession; however, the 1,126 of the Internet by launching a net Some upperclassmen, howev women accepted for the College’s " Diversity =T2,1% from 2008 working site for accepted students er, feel the quotas are unfair class of 2013 marks an increase of this year. because they force students to about 30 students from last year’s The designing and building of the live in halls that normally figure, Dan Meyer, vice president of “I’m Saint Mary’s” Web site began in wouldn’t be their first choice. enrollment, said. June of 2008, and the site went live Rising junior Erin Malone “This has been a more challenging ^Number out of all applicants not Dec. 15 at the same time as the first expressed her feeling on the recruitment campaign this year due out of accepted students round of acceptance letters were sent new room requirements. see ADMISSION/page 6 BLAIR CHEMIDLIN I Observer Graphic see WEB SITE/page 9 see HALLS/page 6 Off-campus transition Survey gauges student needs fair to take place tonight On-campus alcohol policy , 'Spirit of Inclusion' were top issues a totally new idea. By MOLY MADDEN “The seminar about moving off By ANN-MARIE WOODS News Writer campus has been going on for a News Writer few years, but all it involved was For students who are interested a few speakers and attendance In the spring student survey conduct in moving off campus, student was low. We didn’t feel like it was ed by student government, Notre Dame government is hosting the Off- as successful as it could be,” Gari undergraduate students were given the Campus Transition Fair tonight said. “With the fair we geared it opportunity to evaluate the current sta from 8 to 9 p.m. in the LaFortune heavily to students and got them tus of critical campus issues, as well as Ballroom. excited about the event.” voice concerns and opinions about “The fair is really going to be a Gari said the fair is meant to what they want student government to one-stop shop for students think appeal to students from all years pursue in the 2009-2010 academic ing about living off-campus,” sen at the University. year. ate community relations chair “The freshmen who are think “The student survey is a great way Gus Gari said. “All the m ajor ing about moving in the future for student government to ensure we’re landlords from the area will be can talk to all the landlords and focusing our efforts in the right direc present.” just see what’s out there and tion,” former student body president Gari, who has been overseeing know their options,” Gari said. Bob Reish said. “It doesn’t completely the event along with the off-cam “We also have a lot of features for guide the actions of our office, but it pus council chair Billy Lyman, sophomores and juniors who are does make sure we are continually said while in the past there getting ready to sign leases.” aware of the opinions of the student had been a seminar that spoke about living off campus, the fair is see FAIR/page 9 see SURVEY/page 9 BLAIR CHEMIDLIN I Observer Graphic page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 8, 2009 I n s id e C o lu m n Question of the Day:W h a t u p c o m in g m o v ie a r e you m o s t ex c ited to s e e? Loyal Son awakens Resurrection will soon be a celebrated topic, so imagine if the statue with out stretched arms on God Quad could see and think. Unfrozen in time and displaced across Robin Sturgeon Stephanie House Waylon Chen Jenelle Huddleston Karla Garcia-Huerta the world, His perceptions might seem a lit tle skewed — or be uniquely undistorted. freshman freshman freshman sophomore sophomore Here’s what might Lewis Welsh Family Stanford Lewis RE. pass through His, Robert Singer um, stoned head: ‘“Harry Potter “‘Knowing. ’ I “‘Fast and “‘Where The ‘“Harry “The scene is strange, and the cli- and the Half- think it’s Furious. ’” Wild Things Potter!’” mate is fierce, as ' s s ls ta n ' Blood Prince!”’ already out but A re’ ... That’s cold as nails. 1 News Editor I haven’t seen where you’ll assume I am far from the West Bank, it. ” fin d me. ” given the many magnificent temples and the prosperous inhabitants who hail from ‘The North Face.’ By my best estimate, lam ina thriving Roman capital near the northern border. “The daily parchment tells tales of bitter Have an idea for Question of the Day? E-mail [email protected] ness between Caesar and the local popu lace. ‘Jenkins’ — as Caesar is popularly known here — is in a perpetual struggle to I n B r ie f satisfy the demands of various sects. He appears intent on maintaining stable rela tions with neighboring empires. Whether Campus Ministry, Caesar is banning unpopular artistic rituals, International Student Services ignoring the cries of a peculiar minority who and Walsh Hall will host Holy protest the visit of an esteemed emperor Week Christian Taize Prayer from a distant land or denying legal rights to today from 10 to 10:30 p.m. in an ostracized group of people, his objective the Walsh Hall Chapel. The is to stave off foreign criticism at any cost multilingual prayer service will “Maintaining order within his empire be both communal and con appears to be another of Caesar’s goals. templative, with song, reading Even though many citizens live in primitive, of scripture, intercession and cramped living quarters, Caesar lavishly silence. The prayer service is outfits his Praetorian Guard who wear open to the public. emblems of‘NDSP’ with self-propelled char iots, allowing these elite soldiers to make up CEO of DHR International, in mechanized mobility what they lack in David Hoffman, will be coming personal fitness. to campus to give a lecture at “I believe a society is judged on how it 7 p.m. in Room 102 of treats the least of its people. This city, how DeBartolo Hall today. DHR ever, seems to have a confusing policy International is an executive toward its most unfortunate inhabitants. search firm that specializes in Lepers appear to be quarantined in two sep searching for top executives arate prisons, one known as Bond Hall’ and for corporations.

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