THE ,I I The Independent Neu;spaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 38: ISSUE 47 THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 2003 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM STUDENT SENATE Group asks ND to form Women's Center Women's Resource Center." by the universities themselves. ly acceptable standards Currently, there is a student­ By MAUREEN REYNOLDS The resolution addresses Pangborn Senator Kaitlyn required for fostering the sup­ run club addressing women's Associate News Editor what Senators perceive to be a Redfield presented this resolu­ portive community needed to issues, but it cannot meet the large hole in the University's tion to the Senate, along with encourage student growth," needs of students as well as a The Student Senate unani­ services available to students, a separate statement regard­ the statement reads. University-sponsored facility mously passed a resolution acknowledging that many of ing a women's resource center "Notre Dame has an ever­ would, Redfield said. Wednesday asking the the top 20 institutions in the at Notre Dame. increasing responsibility to Redfield cited the University to "commit the country have their own "It is widely acknowledged educate its students on mat­ University's Multicultural appropriate resources to the women's resource centers that Notre Dame's gender ters of gender relations," it creation and maintenance of a sponsored, staffed and funded relations are below the social- says. see SENATE/page 8 ANALYZE THIS fACULTY SENATE Chair to step down By BETH ERICKSON News Writer Faculty Senate members dis­ cussed the election of a new chairperson and the dearth of library resources in the group's November session held Wednesday. Elections for a new chairper­ son will be held during the Senate's December meeting, over which Vice-Chair Jeremy Fein, director of the Environmental Molecular PAMELA LOCKfThe Observer Science Institute, will preside. Students listen to and analyze music lyrics of U2 for messages of social justice during an event entitled "The Gospel According This election has been necessi­ to Bono," sponsored by Interfaith Christian Night Prayer and Campus Ministry at the Coleman Morse Center Wednesday. tated by the decision of Chair John Robinson, associate dean of the Law School, to resign from his post due to medical reasons. Robinson expressed hope for University considers limiting business majors the continued success of the Senate during his absence. "[The Senate] still has a long way to go By BETH ERICKSON before it has proven itself," he News Writer said. He said that his principal goal Due to the steadily increasing as chairman has been to show number of undergraduate busi­ that, contrary to the beliefs of ness majors at Notre Dame, much of the faculty, "the inter­ University Provost Nathan Ha.tch ests of the administration and · and the deans of the University's the faculty do converge." In his colleges are currently discussing experience, the administration several structural changes to the highly values the interests of the Mendoza College of Business. University and the opinions of The College of Business cur­ faculty members, Robinson said. rently enrolls 1,769 undergradu­ The University would be the ate business majors, constituting worse for lack of the Senate, 32 percent of all undergraduate which strengthens the voice of majors. This proportion is the faculty, he said. extremely high relative to the Jennifer Younger, director of average percentage of under­ University Ubraries, was invited graduate business majors at by the Academic Affairs Notre Dame's top 20 peer institu­ Committee to address the Senate tions - 7 percent. concerning the current alloca­ 'There has been an increasing tion of and future outlook for trend in the number of under­ library resources. graduate business majors," vice Younger informed the Senate president and associate provost of the pressing need of addition­ John Affieck-Graves said. "It is al funds for the library materials our responsibility to explore this budget. "No [department] has and determine whether this fits too much money," she said, but with our mission statement and some departments are in direr the overall goals and aspirations straits than others. of the University." Throughout the past three Many feel that the size of the years, the materials budget has undergraduate business pro­ been flat, with increases only in endowment income. This year, gram at Notre Dame may conflict ANDY KENNAffhe Observer The Mendoza College of Business, In which nearly one-third of Notre Dame undergraduates see BUSINESS/page 8 are enrolled, Is considering some structural changes to Its curriculum and majors. see FACULTY I page 4 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Thursday, November 6, 2003 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO MOST DURING SATURDAY'S GAME? Greatness at what price? I certainly agree that Notre Dame must strive for higher academic stan­ dards and greater intellectual curiosity, as recent debates have indicated. Mart Cannen Astorga Emily Kane Eileen Duffy Sean Rose Soo. Han Park Shawn Park I have to ask, however, "At what Senior Junior price?" Freshman Freshman Freshman Sophomore It does worry me Lauren Beck Farley Welsh Family Lyons Siegfried Zahm St. Ed's if students fail to see the value of Associate ·Tm selling my "Definitely ..Halftime ... I "Football ... and "Running into "Going to the learning. But, what Viewpoint the stadium bathroom. , I fear more is that Editor ticket and going halftime ... I hear the band is we ARE going to in its quest to to Chicago. ,, hear Beyonce's going to be win!" and tackle the ascend in academ- making an CRAZY (hint, referee.,, ic ranking, Notre Dame might lose the hint)!" type of well-rounded students that make appearance!" it unique and make me proud to attend this University rather than any other top-20 school. Here, I can pray, party and study with my friends; discuss politics, athletics, philosophy, relationships and religion with them. And that is the essence of Notre Dame's identity. Looking back, I do wish I had attended IN BRIEF more lectures, read more newspapers, done more research and met with more St. Edward's Hall· is sponsor­ professors. ing a free throw contest today, But regardless, the majority of stu­ with all donations going to dents I know- of various majors - are charity. The contest will be indeed "academically engaged." They held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at St. have used their time at Notre Dame not Edward's Hall. merely to attain a diploma or a job but to grow in both wisdom and knowledge, Tickets on sale at LaFortune both inside and outside the classroom. box office for tonight's sopho­ Notre Dame professors deserve a more class dinner at BW3s. great deal of credit as well. I have Pay only $3 if you purchase encountered professors who are capable tickets before the event and get of engaging students and encouraging in early at 6 p.m. Pay $4 at the us to pursue and challenge ideas. · door and get in at 6:30 pm. That said, I do not want to be compla­ Sponsored by the Class of 2006. cent. There are improvements that should be and can be made at Notre The Notre Dame Symphony Dame. Orchestra will present orches­ I'd like to see greater activism. I'd like tral works from the 18th to bring students and professors togeth­ through the 20th centuries er more often. I'd like to hear more stu­ tonight from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in dents challenge theories and opinions in Washington Hall. Admission is class. I'd like to combat the notion that free. grades matter most and to foster a greater passion for pure learning. PAMELA LOCK/The Observer Come to the LaFortune base­ I hope the University seriously consid­ Students take a break from studying to enjoy the talents of musician Gavin DeGraw ment tonight to enjoy ers these issues, perhaps putting togeth­ at Legends Wednesday night. DeGraw has a hit single, "Follow Through," and his AcoustiCafe from 9 p.m. to er a task force of students, professors own music video. midnight. and administrators to probe them fur­ ther. Layna Mosley, a Kellogg Please, make the improvements that Fellow in the Department of need to be made in order to keep Notre Political Science, will present Dame's standards high, its curriculum "Rules in International rigorous and its students motivated. OFFBEAT Finance: Public Institutions, But please, do not neglect what is Private Regulation and right with this University. Please, do not Woman says O'Donnell told ness quoted O'Donnell as tume climbed down from a Everything in Between," today her liars get cancer saying. "They get sick and ignore the other vital points of its mis­ 120-foot crane Wednesday, at 4:15 p.m. in the Hesburgh they get cancer. If they keep sion as a Catholic institution. NEW YORK - A cancer ending a five-day protest that Center, C-1 03. Sponsored by lying, they get it again." Notre Dame faces a challenge that survivor burst into tears snarled traffic in London's the Kellogg Institute. grows greater year by year - can we Wednesday when she testi­ Spengler testified in busy financial district. attain status as a top research universi­ fied that Rosie O'Donnell sug­ Manhattan's State Supreme David Chick, 36, descended Speaker John Carson from ty, recruit top professors and enroll top gested she was lying about Court, where O'Donnell and the crane beside London's the University of Michigan will students while still retaining our long­ goings-on at her now-defunct "Rosie" publisher Tower Bridge at about 4 present "IQ and the Problem standing identity as one of the nation's magazine and told her liars Gruner+J ahr USA are suing p.m., cheered by a group of of Democracy in the Age of premier Catholic institutions? get cancer.