/ ^ V T H E O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 42 : ISSUE 23 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER27. 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Brown gives State of Student Union address Speech urges all senators to raise bar of Senate supports Notre progress, focus working on projects at hand Dame divestment initiative ordinance that has been a By KAITLYNN RIELY focal point for student govern­ By KAITLYNN RIELY Assistant News Editor ment since the end of July. Assistant News Editor The ordinance, as it was Student body president Liz originally written, would have Student Senate unanimously passed Brown invoked her campaign required residents of boarding a resolution Wednesday commending slogan — “raising the bar, houses — defined as resi­ the University for divesting from redefining the standards” — dences where more than two companies that support the Sudanese in her second State of the unrelated people reside — to government as human rights viola­ Student Union address register for a permit before tions continue in the country’s Darfur Wednesday, urging senators to hosting a gathering where 25 region. not become complacent with or more people would have The resolution, presented by Social the progress they have access to alcohol. Concerns chair Karen Koski and already made and to keep Brown, as well as vice presi­ Lyons senator Kelly Kanavy, urges working on initiatives. dent Maris Braun, began Notre Dame’s Investment Office to “While our progress thus far meeting with the Common continue divesting from companies demonstrates our ability to Council and other South Bend that do business with the government effectively respond to student and University representatives of Sudan. concerns, I challenge you to in August to discuss changing While she was researching the work hard to raise that bar the ordinance. Over the issue, Koski said, Notre Dame’s Chief even farther,” Brown said at course of several weeks, the Investment Officer Scott Malpass the Student Senate meeting. proposed ordinance was even­ informed her that Notre Dame has Brown’s speech came two tually amended to describe — already divested from companies days after the South Bend but not activate — the permit that are involved in Sudan. Common Council passed an and registration process for IAN GAVUCK/The Observer “This was a resolution encouraging gatherings. Student body president Liz Brown delivers her second see BROWN/page 3 The ordinance, which was State of the Student Union address Wednesday. see SENATE/page 3 CSC hosts annual post-graduate service fair Students meet representatives from volunteer organizations, discuss options to contribute to global community Liz Mackenzie, director of College of Science, five p er­ By GENE NOONE senior transition programs for cent from the Mendoza News W riter the CSC, said between 300 College of Business and two and 400 students usually percent from the College of The Center for Social attend the fair — a figure Engineering. None were from Concerns (CSC) held its annu­ that she said reflects Notre the School of Architecture. al post-graduate service fair Dame’s role as a lead contrib­ “Every year about 10 per­ Wednesday in the Joyce utor to post-graduate service. cent of graduates go into Center to introduce under­ According to the Career service,” Mackenzie said. graduate students to opportu­ Center’s latest Future Plans “That’s around 200 students, nities available through vol­ Survey, 11 percent of 2006 which is pretty large com­ unteer programs. Notre Dame graduates went pared to other schools.” Representatives from 86 into service. In recent years, most top organizations, including the The 2006 survey found that universities have not seen Peace Corps and Teach for 80 percent of students partic­ post-graduate service rates as IAN GAVLICK/The O bserver America, were present to give ipating in service came from high as Notre Dame’s. For Students examine different volunteer opportunities at the CSC’s information and answer ques­ the College of Arts and post-graduate service fair Wednesday at the Joyce Center. tions about their programs. Letters, 13 percent from the see SERVICE/page 4 Party bust leads to 57 arrests SMC students benefit Indiana Excise Police ticket minors on Corby Blvd. early Saturday from band membership Of the 53 minors, two were and four officers from the played, like flute and clar­ By KAITLYNN RIELY jailed, Fults said. The first Indiana State Police Bremen By MOLLY LAMPING inet and, in the concert Assistant News Editor was taken to jail for minor Post arrived at the house at News Writer band, oboe,” said Assistant consumption and false 12:35 a.m. Saturday. Director of Bands Larry Fifty-seven people were informing, the second for “They were just doing sat­ Founded in 1845, the Band Dwyer. arrested, mostly for under­ minor consumption and also uration patrols in the cam ­ of the Fighting Irish was all The first woman to join the age drinking, after police for resisting arrest by flee­ pus area and they noticed a male until 1970, when it band, however, was a disrupted a party early ing. larger group of individuals first accepted Saint Mary’s Sousaphone player named Saturday morning at a house Several people fled from on the front lawn and students — two years before Rosemary Crock. owned by Notre Dame stu­ the area, Fults said. spilling out into [Corby the University itself became “For two years, Saint dents. Four of the five tenants Street],” Fults said. co-educational. Mary’s students were the Fifty-three people were were given arrest tickets for The incident was not listed Today, College students only women members of the given arrest tickets for furnishing alcohol to minors. as a noise violation, Fults are still full members of the band,” Dwyer said. “Those minor consumption of alco­ One of the tenants was not said. The police report says band, commuting to the women were pioneers in a hol at the house on the 900- at the house when police the large numbers of individ­ Notre Dame campus for co-educational band two block of Corby Blvd., known came, said a resident of the uals on the front lawn and practice and games. years before the University locally as Corby Street, said house who asked to not be overflowing into the street In 1970, former band itself became co-education- Jennifer Fults, a public rela­ named. alerted police to the party. director Robert O’Brien al.” tions officer for the Indiana Two officers from the wanted more instruments State Excise Police. Indiana State Excise Police see ARRESTS/page 3 that “women stereotypically see BAND/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Thursday, September 27, 2007 In sid e C olumn Question of the Day: If you could do a year of service , for w hom would you w ork a n d w h y? A tale of two state schools I lail to the victors! Victory for MSU! Elaine Amoresano Noelle Crooks Michael Gotsch Sarah Rauenhorst Katelyn Lentz Wo have hoard both these phrases under losing circumstances. freshman junior junior senior freshman I have witnessed the Irish battle PW Cavanaugh Keough off campus Howard Michigan and “Doctors “Doctors “Oxfam or City “Colorodo “I would do it Without Borders Without Borders Year - these Vincentian for the Peace or Peace Corps because I want organizations Volunteers Corps because regarded our to be a doctor. ” represent a because it’s in two neighbors to because I want they are the the noilh as bitter rivals and never knew to see the world commitment to Denver. ” best. ’’ whom to root for when they played each while helping social justice, other. not ju st Now, I have a team to root for in the the people in annual Michigan-Michigan State game. it.’’ charity. ” Go Wolverines! Before all Irish fans reading this jump on mo like the Oklahoma State coach at a press conference, let me make one thing clear. Notre Dame will always be my In B rief favorite team. Always. Instead of hoping for a tie or nuclear holocaust at a Spartans-Wolverines game, Fall intramural fees will I will be rooting for Michigan for the same start being collected today. reason we go to college: class (right?). Money can be dropped off at At the Big House last week, I witnessed Rolfs SportsRec Center. a terrible blowout loss while surrounded CoRec basketball is $50 per by Michigan fans in an area close to the team and interhall volleyball Michigiin student section. is $20. The final deadline is When your team loses 38-0 to one of Oct. 4. your bitter rivals in their house, you expect a chorus of taunting and single lin­ The film “El Norte” will be gers showing you who really is number show n today at 7 p.m. in one. Yet I did not hear a single negative Browning Cinema, in the comment from Michigan fans. DeBartolo Performing Arts I sat next to a man who did not attend Center. D irecto r Gregory Michigan but made the trip up from St. Nava is scheduled to be pres­ Louis to cheer on the Wolverines. I ended ent. Tickets are $3 for stu­ up talking to him the entire game. dents. Our conversation transitioned from the ineptitude of the Irish offense to my plans Award-winning film maker after graduation this May. Stephanie Black, a pioneer in At the end of the game, my new docum enting migration, will Wolverine companion gave me his cell speak about her work in Room phone number and offered me free hospi­ C-103 of the Hcsburgh Center tality if 1 ever visited his beloved St.