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/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 42 : ISSUE 100 THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM D'Arcy criticizes Jenkins' decision S tudent S enate Bishop again decries president's approval of'Vagina Monologues' performances on campusGroup mitting performances of [the permitting performance of 2006, which, among other By BILL BRINK “Monologues”] is not consis the play was “not consistent stipulations, said the play commends News Editor tent with the identity of a with the identity of a Catholic must be discussed within a C a t h o l i c university.” Catholic context. As he did in 2006, Fort u n i v e r s i "... Because it depicts and An academic panel discus University Wayne-South Bend Bishop ty,” D’Arcy endorses sinful sexual acts in sion will follow each per John D’Arcy has condemned said. direct opposition to Church formance, and at least one University President Father J e n k in s teaching, I believe its per panel member will discuss Resolution lauds ND's John Jenkins’ decision to said in a formance to be pornographic the play’s relation to Catholic allow “The Vagina tw o -p a g e and spiritually harmful,” beliefs. environmental efforts Monologues” to be performed s ta te m e n t D’Arcy said. D’Arcy called for the on campus and said he hopes M o n d a y The Eve Ensler play, which University to denounce the Jenkins rethinks his choice. th a t u n i was performed on campus play. By CLAIRE REISING News W riter In a six-page statement versities, D’Arcy for six of the past seven “Otherwise, the University released Wednesday, D’Arcy in c lu d in g years, has continually gener appears to endorse it as in said he “publicly and Notre Dame, are responsible ated controversy at Notre some way good and the The Student Senate applauded respectfully disagreels]” with for openly discussing contro Dame. Jenkins said he would impression is given that the University’s increased atten Jenkins’ decision to allow the versial issues and finding allow performance of the Catholic teaching is one tion to environmental issues in a play, which will be held from academic platforms for those “Monologues” after finding option competing among unanimously passed resolution March 26-28, to be per issues and so the play could the student proposal to per many,” D’Arcy said. at their meeting Wednesday. formed on campus. be performed on campus. form the play consistent with In the past year, Notre Dame “I am convinced that per D’Arcy disagreed and said guidelines he established in see BISFlOP/page 3 raised its grade from a D- to a C on the College Sustainability Report Card, the resolution stat ed. According to the Sustainable Endowments Institute’s Web site, the College Sustainability Report Tampons sold for charity at SMC Card evaluates the sustainability of United States universities with the nation’s top 200 endow Students raise funds to purchase feminine hygiene products for African girls who can't afford themments. The Senate’s resolution listed some efforts Notre Dame took to By MANDI STIRONE continue selling them the week, increase campus sustainability, News W riter Borja said. The donations from the sani such as decreasing greenhouse tary napkins and tampons sales gas emissions, serving some As part of W omen’s will be given to Protecting locally grown food products and Appreciation Week (WAW) at Futures, a project that provides strengthening its recycling pro Saint Mary’s College, students pads to young women in Africa, gram. have the opportunity to pur so that women don’t miss With these initiatives, the chase sanitary napkins and school because of their periods, University was one of 13 univer tampons for a $1 donation to according to the program’s Web sities to improve by a full letter charity, Co-chair of WAW, fresh site. grade on the report card. man Karen Borja said. The three organizers of the “I thought it was appropriate Senior Adriana Rodriguez, drive decided it was a worth to commend them for what freshman Maricruz Cardenas, while endeavor after seeing a they’ve done and encourage and Borja planned the event television commercial for the them to do more,” said Fisher and began selling the pads and program, Borja said. senator Stephen Bant, who tampons Monday at lunch and After deciding to take part in drafted the resolution. Photo courtesy of Protectingfutures.comdinner outside of the Noble the program, Borja, Cardenas The senators also discussed Young African women sing on their way to school in an advertisement Family Dining Hall in the from Tampax’s “Protecting Futures” campaign. Student Center Atrium and will see TAMPONS/page 4 see SENATE/page 4 'Live As You Are' focuses on eating disorders Counseling Center offers support, Nurse warns of physiological treatment for men and women effects of anorexia, bulimia By MADELINE BUCKLEY By BRIAN MCKENZIE News Writer News W riter Last year, just over one in every 10 stu- Dr. Mary Rodts, an orthopedic nurse dents to visit the University Counseling practitioner with over 30 years of experi Center was treated for an eating disorder, ence, delivered a lecture Wednesday on but today Valerie Staples will present ways the effects of eating disorders on the bones the University can lower that number. and body structure as a part of the “Live Staples, the coordinator for Eating As You Are” health and body image con Disorder Services in the Counseling Center, ference ending today at Notre Dame. will speak to faculty and staff today about According to a Harvard study, more than how they can impact the positive body 40 percent of primary school students image of students. wanted to be thinner and most 10-year- Her department recently ran a program olds had dieted, Rodts said. This weight- to educate rectors and RAs about recogniz consciousness causes three percent of ing and helping students with eating disor women and one percent of men to suffer ders and this week the Counseling Center from an eating disorder at some point in worked in conjunction with other depart- ABIGAIL WILKINS/The Observer their lifetime. Orthopedic nurse practitioner Dr. Mary Rodts spoke Wednesday about eating dis see STAPLES/page 6 orders in her speech “Physiological effects of eating disorders.” see LECTURE/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, March 13, 2008 In sid e C olumn Question of the Day: D o you think Spring is here? 9/11 stairs should stay Recently, a staircase from the World Trade Center in New York was moved 200 feet to make way for construction Erin Rogozinski Hannah Ha Luke Stavole Sarah Angle Xiao Liu of the new Freedom Tower on the site of the former twin towers. senior freshman freshman freshman freshman Stairs aren’t usually such a big cause Lyons Welsh Fam Fisher Howard Stanford for concern, but this case is different. That staircase was the only above “Spring started “If it isn ’t, I ’ll “I’m wearing “The Spring “It is fo r now. ’ ground remnant the party, but bring it with shorts and a t- state of mind is of the World Trade winter is crash flip-flops and shirt, so yeah. ’’ here, but not Center left stand ing after the ing it. ” neon. ” the sustained attacks of Sept. warm 11, 2001. It was temperatures. ” used by many of the survivors of the attacks to escape the build Jay Fitzpatrick ings and repre sents in the most Managing literal sense the Editor In B rief tragedy New York and the United The Notre Dame women’s States felt that day. lacrosse team will play The stairs were whittled away and Delaware at 3 p.m. Thursday on removed from their concrete base in Moose Krause Field . order to make moving them possible. They ruined what should have been a The film “I'm Not There,” national landmark, just like any other which tells the story of leg site. The USS Arizona still rests in the endary singer Bob Dylan at dif waters in Pearl Harbor to remind the ferent stages of his life and with world of the tragedy of that attack. different actors in the lead role, What makes the stairs different is will be shown at the DeBartolo their location. Situated in downtown Performing Arts Center on Manhattan, this staircase was occupy tonight at 7 p.m. ing prime real estate that, according to the Powers That Be, needed to be filled George J. Borjas will deliver as soon as possible. So by creating a his lecture entitled "Immigration memorial and building a symbolic and African-American “Freedom Tower,” the event could be Employment Opportunities: The remembered better. Response of Wages, Think about that. Employment, and Incarceration The 9/11 memorial group is getting to Labor Supply Shocks" tonight rid of the actual site and rebuilding an at 4:15 in C-103 of the Hesburgh artificial Ground Zero nearby. They are Center. destroying history to make room for progress. There will be Stations of the Cross on Friday at 7:15 p.m. in What is even more outrageous is the ABIGAIL WILKINS/The Observer attempts to rationalize this decision. Brett Berceau plays catch on South Quad with his friends on Wednesday. The the Basilica of the Sacred Joe Daniels, president of the memorial warmer weather coaxed many students out of doors. Heart. Stations will be held each foundation, told the Associated Press Friday during Lent.