THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 45 TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Senator calls for ~puppet' rule BOG Siegfried's rep wants controls over presidential statements; senators to discuss Wednesday SMCto pet" at the meetings. position be strengthened to the agenda for consideration at By KAITLYNN RIELY Later, he sent a second e-mail some extent before I graduate," the Senate meeting Wednesday. unveil rally Assistant News Editor to his con- he said Monday night. ''I'd like In his first e-mail to Siegfried stituents to see the position have more residents, Lockwood explained Siegfried senator Jim saying he say in what is going on in the the purpose of the amendment. Lockwood has drafted an "exaggerat­ campus and have a bigger The amendment would T-shirt amendment to the Student Body ed" and voice." require the student body presi­ Constitution to give senators was trying Student body president Liz dent to report to the Senate all more power in dictating what to get stu­ Brown told The Observer activity that occurs during CCAC Ceremony planned the student body president says dents inter­ Monday she had concerns with meetings. at meetings of the newly formed ested in the proposed amendment. The CCAC is a coalition of city, to celebrate release Community/Campus Advisory student "You can't have people acting resident, student and college Coalition (CCAC). g o v e r n - Lockwood as puppets," she said. representatives from South In an e-mail to Siegfried resi­ ment. Lockwood first introduced the Bend. Its goal is to help the By ASHLEY CHARNLEY dents Monday, Lockwood said Lockwood, a senior, did not amendment at the Student South Bend Common Council News Writer the amendment was part of a offer The Observer details on his Senate meeting last Wednesday. identify neighborhood concerns "master plan" to turn the stu­ "master plan." It was sent directly to the Senate The Board of Governance is pro­ dent body president into a "pup- ''I'd like to see the senator Oversight committee and is on see PUPPET/page 4 moting a new T-shirt for Saint Mary's students to wear during the College-hosted pep rally before the Nov. 17 football game against Duke. CAMPUS LIFE COUNCIL The shirt will be unveiled Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in the Atrium of the Student Center, Board of Governance secretary treasurer Courtney Kennedy announced at Group discusses ca111pus construction projects the BOG meeting Monday. Two surprise guests from Notre Dame will be at Saint Mary's to University architect presents on new dorms, unveil the shirt, which is modeled after Notre Dame's The Shirt. buildings, seven tenets of grounds planning "I think it is really nice to have an SMC shirt that is in support of Notre. Hall, Geddes Hall and the Dame," Kennedy said later Monday ByJENN METZ Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce night. BOG is encouraging students Assistant News Editor Center. to wear it to the Saint Mary's co­ The seven tenets of campus hosted Duke pep rally on Nov. 16. University Architect Doug planning included in the Inspiration for the shirt came in Marsh spoke about current Campus Plan published in fall of early October. campus construction projects 2002 help the Office of the "We were talking about how the and the seven tenets of campus University Architect expand the pep rally attendance has been dis­ planning at the Campus Life University campus without for­ appointing, and we wanted to give Council meeting Monday. getting values and tradition, some incentive for SMC students to "We find ourselves now at a Marsh said. go to the pep rally we are co-host­ precipice," he said. "How do we They include such titles as ing," Kennedy said. expand but keep what is pre­ "Catholic Heritage and The BOG has sold more than 600 cious to us?" Sacramental Vision" - which shirts, though no purchasers have Current campus development reminds planners that Notre known what it will look like. Few projects include the expansion Dame is a place of prayer - clues have been given about the and renovation of the Law and "Campus as Home and DUSTIN MENNELLA!The Observer shirt's appearance, but it is the School and construction of Construction on Duncan Hall, a new men's donn, continues near Stinson-Remick Hall. Duncan see· CLC/ page 4 West Quad. The residence hall will be open for the next school year. see BOG/page 4 Trafficking victim speaks out Opinion page stance 'Katya' describes her on executions detailed enslav~ment after leaving Ukraine for U.S. Chicago Tribune editorials support moratorium paper has had a long history for By CLAIRE REISING By KATIE PERALTA its liberalism, Dold said, citing an News Writer News Writer instance in the 1940s when Tribune reporters, under then­ When she traveled from Ukraine to The editorial page editor for editor Robert McCormick, the U.S. three years ago, the woman the Chicago Tribune spoke reported on America's cracking known for her safety as "Katya" Monday night about the paper's of Japanese codes during World planned to study and work. Instead, conversion to supporting the War II. she was forced into bonded labor at moratorium on the death penal­ Despite this, the paper has an a strip club for six days a week and ty. almost 150-year-long history of 12 hours per day. She had no contact The speech by Bruce Dold, the support for the death penalty. with the oul'iide world for months. editor, was part of a lecture This stance changed, however, "We didn't have any rights," she series hosted by Notre Dame in March of2007, when Dold for­ said. Against State Killing (ND ASK), a mally announced a shift in the Katya told her story yesterday at campaign pushing for a morato­ Tribune's position. The paper's "Bought and Sold: Human rium on capital punishment in editorial page emphasized its Trafficking and Bonded Labor in the Indiana. support for the Illinois moratori­ U.S.," a Center for Social Concerns Dold started as a reporter for um, or temporary suspension, of symposium held in the Notre Dame the Tribune in 1978. He was executions. The state announced Law School courtroom. JESSICA LEE/ The Observer appointed to the paper's editorial the moratorium in 1999, Dold Law professor Bridgette Carr and U.S. Immigration official Angus board in 1990 and was named see KATYA/page 4 Lowe discuss humari trafficking Monday at the Law School. editorial page editor in 2000. The see NDASK/page 6 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 6, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NO SPORT AND WHY? Reexatnining genderatND In light of the rnennt hoopla surrounding l111j controversy ov1~r tlw lyrics oflhe fight song, I've decided I'm allli1r r.han!-,ring the Emily Meyer Jason Samikkannu Marie Sydlik lyrics to "while her loyal sons and daughters Brian Dolinar Undsay Williams marrh on to victory." 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