The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue 107 Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Ndsmcobserver.com Third Eye Blind returns to campus ND plans Student Union Board’s spring concert welcomes one act back, introduces another for games at night By ANNA BOARINI News Writer After the success of last year’s night game against USC, the Notre Dame foot- ball team will add two home night games to the upcoming season. According to a Uni- versity press release, Notre Dame will host Michigan on September 22 at night, while the game against Miami at Chicago’s Soldier Field will also be held at night. Mike Seamon, the associ- ate vice president for campus safety, said the game day op- erations team started to pre- SARAH O’CONNOR / The Observer pare for this season’s night O.A.R. (Of a Revolution) performs during last year’s spring concert on April 8 at the Stepan Center. The concert, which featured games as soon as they were hip hip duo Chiddy Bang as the opening act, was sold out. confirmed. “We’ll look to build on the successes of last year’s night By AUBREY BUTTS taste,” Keating said. “Third Eye having a great time rather than have Hoodie Allen, a pretty game, while trying to iden- News Writer Blind have stayed popular for pleasing a small group a lot.” prominent up and coming hip tify any new opportunities to so long that it shows they are a Hoodie Allen, an independent hop artist.” improve the game day expe- This Saturday, Notre Dame great band and will generate a rapper from New York, will open Allen, a one time Google em- rience,” he said. “Last year, students will get a blast from the lot of interest.” the concert before Third Eye ployee, left his career at the In- we had additional staff, fire past when, for the third time, Keating and Guerin both ac- Blind takes the stage. By pairing ternet powerhouse to pursue a department personnel, medi- Third Eye Blind headlines the knowledged the difficulty of an up-and-coming opener with music career after generating cal teams, parking person- Student Union Board’s spring choosing an artist that would a more established headliner, significant interest during his nel, police, on hand through- concert. appeal to the entire student Keating and Guerin believe this side gigs, Keating said. out the day and the night to SUB concert programmers body, especially in the wake of year’s concert will match the “He is someone various help all the fans and guests.” Lauren Keating and Meagan last year’s sold out concert fea- success of last year’s. people mentioned that they Sophomore Kristen Jack- Guerin, both seniors, spoke en- turing Chiddy Bang and O.A.R. “I think we did a good job of would love to see as an open- son said she is most excited thusiastically about the decision “We started by asking our- keeping the concert on par with er,” Guerin said. “I wasn’t too for the night game against to host Third Eye Blind for a selves who we believed would last year’s,” Keating said. “Last familiar with him, but he is al- Michigan this coming season. third time. appeal to most of the Notre year’s was perfect because it ready generating excitement.” “I’m excited for the Michi- “When we began the pro- Dame student body,” Keating paired two very different bands Based on students’ reactions gan game because my par- gramming process, we went in said. “Ultimately, we decided and appealed to two different thus far, Keating and Guerin ents went to Michigan for col- with a completely open mind. We that we wanted to entice the groups. I think we have the same expect the concert to sell out. lege,” she said. know the Notre Dame student overall group enough that they thing going this year. Third Eye body has such a diverse musical will go to the show and end up Blind is so popular, but we also see CONCERT/page 5 see GAMES/page 5 Professor publishes Alumnus to launch new website By KRISTIN DURBIN paper on Fukushima News Editor Notre Dame is not often as- By DAN BROMBACH nuclear fuel on the environ- sociated with the phrase “tech News Writer ment following such an ac- startup.” cident. But the Notre Dame-bred cre- On March 11, 2011, the “The paper looks at what is ators of the social media web- world held its collective breath known, and then lays out a site Wikify.me hope to put the as the Fukushima Daiichi nu- research agenda for under- University on the tech world’s clear power station in Japan standing how radioactivity radar with the site’s March 26 melted down after being inca- is released from damaged launch at Notre Dame, Saint pacitated by the devastating fuel in different environ- Mary’s and Holy Cross. earthquake and tsunami that ments that can happen after “We’re trying to put Notre left over 19,000 people dead an accident,” Burns said. Dame on the map for a tech or missing. Burns said his paper seeks startup, to become known as A year after the tragedy, to build knowledge of the ‘that tech startup that came out Notre Dame professor Peter interaction of undamaged of Notre Dame,’” founder and LISA HOEYNCK I Observer Graphic Burns and his colleagues at fuel with geological reposi- 2011 alumnus James Ingalli- Michigan and the University tories. The paper also ex- nera said. “Seeing a tech start- the school into a new domain.” perspective” on social media by of California, Davis have pub- amines existing knowledge up out of Notre Dame is pretty Ingallinera founded Wikify.me featuring a “page about you cre- lished a paper in which they unusual, so the idea of the start- in the fall of 2010 with the goal discuss the interaction of see NUCLEAR/page 5 up being successful would bring of offering users a “third-person see WIKIFY/page 5 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER DSLC Lecture page 3 u Viewpoint page 10 u Scene NCAA Bracket page 12 u Women’s Basketball moves forward in NCAA tournament page 24 page 2 | ndsmcobserver.com The Observer u DAY-TO-DAY Wednesday, March 21, 2012 QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE MODE OF CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION? www.ndsmcobserver.com P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Editor-in-Chief Allan Joseph Managing Editor Business Manager Megan Doyle Jeff Liptak Asst. 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