-------------------------------------------------- ---~------- ------ --- --- ~------- --- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 41: ISSUE 27 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER28, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM University promotes active staff role NDcourse Jenkins emphasizes Affleck -Graves details material campus plan specifics importance of values put online By AMANDA MICHAELS By AMANDA MICHAELS Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor University joins new In an effort to reach all mem­ Executive Vice President John bers of the University communi­ Aftleck-Graves grounded the oth­ OpenCourseWare site ty, administrators conducted erwise ideologically lofty Town four Town Hall sessions for Hall meetings held today and Notre Dame staff today and Wednesday for Notre Dame staff By EILEEN DUFFY Wednesday, emphasizing each in more concrete specifics, Assistant News Editor worker's role in achieving the explaining employee performance institution's academic and spiri­ initiatives, University budgetary Notre Dame has joined a tual success. concerns and campUs construction group of universities from "This is a chance for us just to plans. around the world offering speak to you generally about the "The most frustrating thing for materials for some of their University, thank you for your many of you is that you work at courses free of charge via the efforts and talk about where we Notre Dame, but fmd out about Internet. want to go in the future," said many projects from the newspa- _ At the invitation of the University President Father per instead of us, so I want to give Massachusetts Institute of John Jenkins, who delivered a you a sense of what's going on Technology, Notre Dame similar - but more academical­ over next year," Affleck-Graves signed on to the ly focused - address to faculty said. OpenCourseWare Consortium, members Tuesday. As part of an effort to make launching its own JENNIFER KANG!The Observer OpenCourseWare Web site Provost Tom Burish addresses members of the Notre Dame staff Sept. 20. The site currently fea­ see MISSION/page 8 Wednesday during one of four Town Hall meetings. see PLANS/page 6 tures materials for only eight courses, but the University plans to eventually post materi­ als for 30 courses during the year-long pilot program. STUDENT SENATE While MIT ultimately intends to offer materials for all of its 1 ,000-plus courses, other American universities are fea­ Shappell discusses meeting with Council turing the courses for which they are best known. For Johns Hopkins, that means medical City officials defend school courses; for Harvard, law school courses; and for ordinance amendment Notre Dame, courses on some­ thing the Consortium feels Notre Dame does best. By MARY KATE MALONE "MIT and the other members News Editor of the consortium found Notre Dame's focus on courses hav­ Student government leaders ing to do with the 'human con­ came to Wednesday's Senate dition,' in the broad sense, very meeting fresh from debating appealing, and a very valuable sticking points of the city's dis­ addition to the overall orderly house ordinance with Open CourseWare movement," members of the South Bend said Alexander Hahn, director Common Council - but the of the Kaneb Center for conversation ultimately did not Teaching and Learning. The PHIL HUDELSON!The Observer result in the removal of the JENNIFER KANG!rhe Observer Student body leaders Bill Andrichik and Lizzi Student body president Lizzi Shappell listens Shappell attend the Common Council meeting. see SENATE/page 8 during Wednesday's Student Senate meeting. see COURSES/page 4 Deere CEO speaks at Calllpus SublVay tops U.S. sales Berges Lecture Series BySONIARAO News Writer Company, delivered the third By STEVE KERINS lecture in this year's Berges Though it occupies only a News Writer Lecture Series, which addresses small niche in LaFortune, issues of ethics in business. Notre Dame's campus Subway In today's corporate climate, Lane devoted a large portion is one of the fast food chain's it's the task of company leaders of his presentation - which biggest sellers. to develop, was entitled "No Smoke, No Notre Dame's Subway is implement Mirrors: Straight Down the ranked very highly in sales and maintain Middle" - to outlining the role both regionally and nationally, their organi­ of business leaders both in pro­ according to Dave zations' com­ moting an ethical culture within Prentkowski, director of Food mitment to their own companies and in Services. ethical prac­ restoring public faith in busi­ "During the regular aca­ tices, a busi­ ness. demic year the Notre Dame ness execu­ "Frankly, these recent situa­ Subway is typically the num­ tive said tions in the United States are ber one sales store in the geo­ Wednesday. Lane very ... disappointing," Lane graphic region we are part of ... [which] includes northern Hobert W. said, referring to the wave of DUSTIN MENNELLA!rhe Observer Lane, chairman and chief exec­ Freshmen Mike Fitzgerald, left, and Peter Dixon wait in line at utive officer of Deere and see LANE/ page 4 see SUBWAY/page 9 the LaFortune Subway Tuesday. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, September 28, 2006 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT'S THE BEST PART OF GOING TO AN ALL-WOMEN'S COLLEGE? Television, ·-without pity At the beginning of the evening, I was going to write a serious Inside Column. Serious commentary about a serious Maribeth Sarnecki Kelly Gasior Amanda Brewer Kelly Biedron Kellie Anderson Libby Singelyn subject. Something about being dis­ junior sophomore turbed by the Career Fair being com­ senior sophomore sophomore sophomore pletely domi­ LeMans LeMans l/oly Cross Holy Cross Holy Cross LeMans nated by hard­ Amanda Michaels core business- "Cohabitating." "There's never a ''The "Classes "When you are "It's like a giant men, and the Assistant News Post-Graduate shortage of opportunity to without guys mad at boys, sleepover all Service Fair Editor chocolate!" experience a and being able you don't have the time!" frighteningly strong sense of to wear to deal with overrun with missionaries. It even had a nifty title: "Fair is fair?" female sweatpants and them ifyou But now it's rounding on 1 a.m., I still solidarity in a sweatshirts all don't want to." have to finish helping put today's news close the time." section together and I know better than community to try write scathing social commen- .. • tary when I can't think straight. So, setting. though I promised myself I would never publish mindless drivel under my name, I don't have much of a choice anymore. IN BRIEF Televisionwithoutpity.com. For any­ one that loves your TV with a hefty serving of unbridled sarcasm, this is Former Indiana Congress­ your Web site. Staffed by a slew of man and Majority Whip John "freelance recappers," each with their Brademas will be sharing his own special ability to turn a phrase, its experience and answering motto is, "Spare the snark, spoil the questions in a talk entitled, networks." "How to Effect Change in The most popular shows on television Government." It will take place are recapped weekly, and then today at 3 p.m. in the Dooley archived for future perusing pleasure. Room of LaFortune. The event It's really a beautiful way to procrasti­ is sponsored by the Notre nate -even an episode you've already Dame College Democrats. seen seems new under the sardonic stares of TWOP's staff. A panel discussion: "The War I use it to follow the shows I love but in Iraq: What Now?" will take can't get at Notre Dame -mainly, place today at 12:30 p.m. at "Project Runway," which I'm too cheap the Hesburgh Center to pay $1.99 for on iTunes- and the Auditorium. The event shows I just plain love, like "Grey's includes faculty panelists Anatomy" and the newly-added "Studio George Lopez, Keir Lieber, Dan 60 on the Sunset Strip." Who doesn't Lindley and Jerry Powers and love Aaron Sorkin? will be moderated by speech­ Below, I've included just a sample of writer to President Clinton, the type of recappage you get on Heather Hurlburt. TWOP. If I had world enough and time, I could compile an entire page's worth DUSTIN MENNELLA!The Observer Another installment of the of cheeky quips, but this will have to Anna Matveeva, associate fellow at the Crisis State Research Centre of the London "Pizza, Pop and Politics" series School of Economics, spoke Wednesday at the Hesburgh Center on "Politics and do. It's not only one of my favorite will take place tonight at 5:30 moments on last season's "Grey's" (of Security in Central Asia: Opportunities for Peacebuilding." Full coverage of this in Coleman-Morse with "The the many) but also includes just a taste event can be found on page 3 of the News section. Midterm Elections and the of recapper insight. You might need to War in Iraq: A Conversation be familiar with the show to get the with Foreign Policy Expert humor in it, but I have a feeling that Heather Hurlburt." quite a few of you already are. OFFBEAT Courtesy of AB Chao of TWOP: A lecture entitled Pope Fool and the Gang visit Bailey with Sea lion paints for fish Sexy dancers forbidden Prime Minister Thaksin Benedict XVI in Regensburg their big prom problem, but don't quite PITTSBURGH - Some near Thai troops Shinawatra in a bloodless "The Catholic Church and know how to address it. She tells them artists suffer for their work. BANGKOK, Thailand­ coup Sept. 19. Islam: Allies or Adversaries?" to spit it out, so Alex says the problem Maggie, an 11-year-old sea Thailand's military coup At first the ruling generals will take place today from 4:30 is with the colors, and the balloons.