/ ^ V THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys I OLUME 41 : ISSUE 45 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER2, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Lottery includes graduate students Groups officials from Student Affairs — noon and 5 p.m. and roughly funds SUB. But Student Affairs By MARY KATE MALONE who were also concerned with 230 of them, or 10 percent, were officials decided that reason apply for News Editor SUB’s reasons for excluding from graduate students. “was not significant enough.” graduate students in the first Although SUB is solely respon­ “We were completely in sup­ At the urging of the Office of place — decided “to tell [SUB sible for the distribution of the port of the decision [to exclude club status Student Affairs, the Student manager] Patrick [Vassel] to 300 tickets allocated to students graduate students],” Vassel said. Union Board (SUB) decided open up the lottery to graduate for away games, the Student “We stood behind it and this Wednesday to include graduate students.” Activities Office advises the change in policy has nothing to By EILEEN DUFFY students in the Notre Dame vs. The last-minute instruction organization and it delivered an do with us.” Assistant News Editor USC football ticket lottery less came as a surprise to Vassel, “instruction” that SUB include He did not want to comment than an hour before it began. who was called into Coughlin’s graduate students in the lottery. further on the inclusion of grad­ Wednesday marked the final The threat of a possible protest office around 11:30 a.m. “It was a hard thing to do and uate students until the lottery day for Notre Dame students by graduate students was a cata­ Wednesday and told of Student we don’t like to do it. ... We like was completed, he said. interested in forming a club to lyst for the change in policy, said Affairs’ concerns. to be advisors, we don’t like to On W ednesday, SUB put for­ apply for University recognition Director of Student Activities Vassel was able to send out an tell student groups what to do,” ward a compromise to appease through the Office of Student Brian Coughlin, who spoke on e-mail to grad students notifying Coughlin said. the disgruntled graduate stu­ Activities. the phone with senior staff mem­ them of the change around noon Graduate students were origi­ dents, who had hoped to be Assistant Director of Student bers in Student Affairs around and clearly the word spread fast. nally excluded from the lottery included in the USC ticket lottery Activities Amy Geist had received 11 a.m. Wednesday. Vassel said 2,200 student ID because they do not pay the 15 applications by mid-afternoon, Together, Coughlin and top cards were swiped between Student Activities Fee, which see LOTTERY/page 6 but was expecting upwards of 25 by the 5 p.m. deadline. Groups turned in a thick pro­ posal packet, which included a S tudent S enate constitution, schedule of events, tentative budget, written approval from impacted depart­ ments or offices on campus, list Members pass Native American resolution of officers and official proposal form. Despite the preparation, they have to wait about a year ♦ The Office of the President to and a half before they’ll learn By MARY KATE MALONE appoint a permanent member of the whether they’ve been granted News Editor faculty or staff to serve as an “official club status, Geist said. advisor” to Native American students. Before granting club status, the The Student Senate unanimously ♦ Campus literature and public University requires a club to go passed a resolution Wednesday that, addresses to “render” a greater sensi­ through a probationary year, if implemented, will provide more tivity toward the Native Americans where the club puts its proposal resources for Native American stu­ who previously inhabited the into action. And before that pro­ dents — a group making up less than University area. bationary year of club status one percent of the University’s stu­ ♦ The student body to stand behind even begins, a prospective club dent body. the inclusion of all Native American must meet three approvals. Six Native American students sat students in “all spheres of the Notre The process begins with Geist, behind Minority Affairs committee Dame experience.” who looks through proposal chair Destinee DeLemos as she pre­ When Social Concerns committee packets to make sure they’re sented her committee’s resolution, chair Sheena Plamoottil asked about complete. which called for: the experiences of Native American She then hands the proposals ♦ Academic departments to make students at Notre Dame, senior Nikki to Student Activities Director seats available for non-majors in Williams, of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Brian Coughlin for the courses that examine the history and tribe in Nevada, described her experi­ “University filter.” Coughlin culture of Native Americans. There ence. makes sure the groups aren’t “in are currently four such classes, all “For me, coming here as a Native conflict with the teachings of the under the American Studies American person and not having any Catholic Church of the mission of Department. other Native American people to the University,” Geist said. ♦ Academic departments to explore share my experiences with ... it was PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer Geist said she could not specify the possibility of creating a modern Senator Sheena Plamoottil spoke in support of the Native American issues course. see SENATE/page 6 Minority Affair’s resolution at Wednesday’s meeting. see CLUBS/page 6 Ethicist discusses AIDS in Africa Chicago lawyer rails Farley addresses issues of gender and faith in epidemic response against death penalty By KATHLEEN McDONNELL imposing a moratorium on the By KAITLYNN RIELY News Writer death penalty in Illinois. News Writer Lessons about social justice While many African nations from the Holy Cross priests at continue to see a rise in the num­ Thomas Durkin, the first speak­ Notre Dame and his work in the ber of HIV infected citizens, Kenya er in Notre Dame Against State legal profession instilled in him a is one country that has seen a Killing’s (NDASK) four-part lec­ belief that the death penalty was decline. But that shouldn’t be ture series, told audience mem­ wrong, Durkin said. taken as a sign that the global bers Wednesday night he hoped “The one thing I have become pandemic is under control, Yale they did not expect an impartial convinced of in my thirty-three ethicist Margaret Farley said discussion of the death penalty — years of being a trial lawyer and Wednesday in a lecture entitled as he proceeded to speak passion­ [from] the experiences I have “Gender, Faith, and Responses to ately in the Snite Museum’s been involved in death penalty lit­ HIV/AIDS in Africa.” Annenberg Auditorium about his igation is that it’s wrong,” Durkin “It is outrunning both them and involvement in the death penalty said. “It’s morally wrong, it’s pro- us,” Farley told students and fac­ abolition movement and his moral cedurally wrong, it’s stupid and it ulty in the Law School Courtroom, opposition to capital punishment. has no business being in a civi­ referring to the people of Africa “This system wrongfully con­ lized country.” and those in the Western world victs people,” Durkin said. “This A letter from a death row trying to help. system cannot pick out who is inmate claiming he was the victim Farley said when she asked a innocent and who is not.” of an unfair system and pleading CHRISTIAN SAGARDIA/The Observer Kenyan woman why her nation’s Durkin, a 1968 Notre Dame for a good lawyer to defend him Ethicist Margaret Farley gestures during the lecture she gave graduate, is a Chicago-based trial Wednesday in the Law School Courtroom on AIDS in Africa. see AFRICA/page 4 lawyer who was involved in see LAWYER/page 4 page 2 Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, November 2, 2006 In side C olumn Question of the Day: If you could have th re e w ish e s , w h at w ould th ey b e ? 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