/ ^ X THE O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys OLUME 41 : ISSUE 103 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Mendoza ranked by BusinessWeek Ruling Undergraduate business school listed seventh among top programs, drops four spots affects ND recognition, but it is more By EVA BINDA important to focus on doing TOP 10 UNDERGRADUATE endowment News Writer the best job we can to pre­ pare our students,” Woo said. BUSINESS PROGRAMS A new BusinessWeek rank­ Woo said she believes the IRS expands University ing puts Notre Dame’s best preparation for business 1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Mendoza College of Business students “includes profession­ investment options seventh among top under­ al excellence, integrity and 2 University of Virginia (Mclntire) graduate business schools — care for the common good.” 3 UC Berkeley (Haas) By MARCELA BERRIOS a drop from last year’s No. 3 Notre Dame’s seventh-place Associate News Editor ranking, but still ahead of 86 ranking put it just behind /> 4n ' «Emory aapa / A 1/ A M-Si/.Omy/.University A A mi AH % //i aOau -. a (Goizueta)A A ifcv- aja aS a-a-Iv-iIaOa iHajaiaha aVaia. A.J V mtf nv, VhVnUiiViMfVJiMAWivoumirtvm/ml iv, other programs. M assachusetts Institute of Dean of the Mendoza Technology’s Sloan School of 5 University of Michigan (Ross) A Dec. 21 federal ruling College of Business Carolyn Business. 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A - '. - ■-'.I/.. the trustee of numerous char­ ranking of 93 schools — tution with Georgetown and 7 NOTRE DAME (MENDOZA) itable trusts — to invest the included in Monday’s edition Villanova in the 11th and 12th donors’ contributions in the of BusinessWeek but released spots, respectively. 8 Brigham Young University (Marriott) University’s endowment, an to the University March 8 — Last year, BusinessWeek’s 9 New York University (Stern) investment option that will wasn’t the program’s most first-ever list of 62 under- rival the Goliaths of national important accomplishment. 10 Cornell University mutual funds with its diversi­ fied portfolio and 14.6 per­ “It’s great to have national see RAN KINGS/page 4 JEFF ALBERT I O bserver Graphic SOURCE: BusinessWeek Online ______________ cent rate of return, Assistant Vice President of Development Jean Gorman said Tuesday. “Not all institutions can out­ perform mutual funds offered Marine discusses opposition to war by firms like Fidelity or Vanguard, and we feel that we can,” Gorman said. ate, or the one that can be made Notre Dame had been limit­ By MEGHAN WONS for us,” Madden said. ed in the past in the invest­ News Writer He is currently on a speaking ment vehicles available for tour, promoting awareness about these trusts — but an Internal The war in Iraq has been a con­ the war and urging college stu­ Revenue Service (IRS) ruling troversial issue for both American dents to reject complacency in this opened up the possibility of citizens and soldiers on active “time of moral crisis.” growing the donors’ capital, duty since it began four years ago. Madden opened his talk with a or trust corpus, on the Liam Madden, a former Marine question — what does it take to University’s own endowment. sergeant, spoke last night in bum down a forest? After some­ “We are very excited about DeBartolo I lull at a public lecture one in the audience responded, “a this opportunity for Notre sponsored by the Progressive spark,” Madden said he spent the Dame,” Gorman said, cele­ Student Alliance, Notre Dame last few months questioning, brating the opportunity to Peace Fellowship, Center for “how do you burn down a war?” expand both the charitable Social Concerns and the Joan B. Madden said imagination and remainder trusts’ corpora and Kroc Institute entitled, “The leadership are important if the University endowment at Ground Truth in Iraq: A Marine’s Americans hope to effect change. the same time. View.” As co-founder of the Appeal for A charitable remainder Madden, honorably discharged Redress movement — a move­ trust, she said, is an income- in January, spoke about his expe­ ment of active duty, active reserve producing gift that provides riences in Iraq and what made and Guard soldiers tiling private an annual payout to one or him begin to disagree with U.S. grievances with their elected offi- more income beneficiaries, or LAURIE HUNT/The Observer participation in the war. cials against the war — Madden charitable organizations, dur- Liam Madden, a former Marine sergeant, spoke in DeBartolo “There are two futures colliding Hall Tuesday about his ex p erien ces in and after Iraq. — there is the future we can cre­ see WAR/ page 6 see TRUSTS/page 4 Forum hosts three-day Lecture examines public schools By BRIGID FENLON series on global health News Writer Cecilia Rouse, economist and pro­ By BECKY HOGAN knew all that was going on. fessor at Princeton University, deliv­ There were a lot of initiatives News Writer ered the Provost Distinguished happening on one side of the Women’s Lecture last night. Her University that the other side did­ speech “Making Schools Accountable: After last fall’s Notre Dame n’t know about.” Effects on Students and Schools,” dis­ Forum on the global health crisis The meetings started Tuesday, cussed the two dominant methods for generated significant campus focusing on the University’s large improving public school systems in a interest, the University decided to project initiatives such as the monetarily efficient manner. continue the initiative by hosting Center for Global Health and These “two basic flavors of school a three-day series of meetings for Infectious Diseases, the Haiti accountability,” Rouse said, refer to the Notre Dame community to Project and the Millennium test-based and market-based systems. further discuss its role in Village Project. Today’s meeting These models intend to provide fami­ addressing these issues. will address research initiatives lies with the appropriate information “I think when the global health on global health issues and in order to make informed decisions forum happened on Sept. 14, it Thursday’s discussion will focus about the best schooling for their chil­ catalyzed a lot of conversations on service learning projects and dren. on campus about what we are as outreach in developing countries. The test-based method, “holds the a University are doing to impact The idea for a broader campus institution accountable and heavily global health,” Vice President and discourse on global health began considers test scores as a means of LAURIE HUNT/The Observer Associate Provost Dennis Jacobs Economist Cecilia Rouse spoke Tuesday about improving the said. “No one on this campus see FORUM /page 3 see PUBLIC/page 6 public school system and its effects on students. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 I n s id e C o l u m n Question of the Day: D o you think high schools should be able to use the leprechaun logo? Pick fantasy baseball ■ As I go to outline what I’m going to 1 write for this column on a piece of scrap paper, I see last year’s statistics Sara Devore Adam Mathews Dan Dirscherl Kelly Kapshandy Adam McGinn Joey Curcio for pitchers Jeremy Sowers and Doug fr e s h m a n fr e s h m a n fr e s h m a n so p h o m o re fr e s h m a n sophom ore Davis on the other side. It makes me Welsh Family S ie g frie d Sorin H o w ard ' O’Neill K n o tt wonder, am I _. .. obsessed with Chris M assad fantasy baseball? ------------------------- “I think they 7 think so, “No, because “The mascot is “1 don’t have a “I don’t even For me, lantasy Photographer should be because no they're always ours. Hands problem with understand the baseball is a good way to stay in allowed one’s going to after me lucky using the name, question. ” touch with old friends and win because confuse those charms. ” but the logo is respect from new ones. I remember everyone still high schools for totally my roommate always on the phone consulting with his dad or brother recognizes it’s the real Notre different. ’’ about his family’s league during our the Notre Dame Dame. ” first days on campus. • leprechaun. ” A number of Web sites, like Yahoo, offer free fantasy sport leagues. For all you amateurs, fantasy sports include football, baseball, basketball and hockey. In most fantasy leagues, the game play is either “head-to- I n B r ie f head,” with pairs of managers com­ peting in various statistical cate­ gories, or “rotisserie,” where all the Registration for Summer managers compete for rankings in Session at Notre Dame begins the various statistical categories. At today. Students interested in tak­ the start of the season there is a ing classes during the summer draft, and throughout the season can register through insideND. there are trades, free agency pick­ ups, and chatting on message boards. A screening of the film Coming from Connecticut, the “Sometimes in April ” will be held boundary line between Red Sox in the Hesburgh Center nation and Yankee country runs right Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. The through my home state. This gave screening is sponsored by rise to heated online debates last BERWA, an organization made up year, particularly over the destination of survivors of the 1994 Rwandan of Roger Clemens.