THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT MARy’S IT ACCURATELY VLEO UM 49, ISSUE 53 | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ND, SMC detail reporting processes Officials explain Saint Mary’s ND assault highlights options report process for reporting By KATIE GALIOTO By ALEX WINEGAR News Writer Associate Saint Mary’s Editor Editor’s Note: This is the first Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a five-part series installment of a five-part series on sexual assault at Notre Dame on sexual assault at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s stories and Saint Mary’s. Today’s stories focus on the process for students focus on the process for students reporting sexual assaults. reporting sexual assaults. Over the past year, the Saint Mary’s students who University’s administration, are survivors of sexual vio- Notre Dame Security Police lence have several different (NDSP) and the Special Victims avenues through which they Unit (SVU) of St. Joseph County can report a sexual assault. have implemented policies Students can either report to revise and raise awareness a sexual assault to confi- about the process of reporting, dential or non-confidential investigating and prosecuting resources and individuals, sexual assaults. director of the Belles Against Heather Ryan, Deputy Title Violence Office (BAVO) IX Coordinator, said Notre Connie Adams said. Dame students reporting a “We have confidential sexual assault have the option people on campus at Saint to pursue a complaint through Mary’s and that’s my- the University Conduct Process self in BAVO, Health and or law enforcement. A victim Counseling Services profes- can choose to pursue both op- sional staff so counselors, tions, concurrently or one after nurses, nurse practitioner, the other. psychiatrist all of those “The University takes every individuals and then the single one of these reports ex- pastoral ministers that are tremely seriously, and we must in Campus Ministry,” she and do investigate every single said. “If a student chooses one that comes to our atten- to speak with a confidential tion, where we have enough in- person, he or she does not formation to have to make a report unless see ND PROCESS PAGE 5 SUSAN ZHU | The Observer see SMC PROCESS PAGE 6 Event promotes solidarity Students avoid By EMMA BORNE News Writer harm in Paris attack Students wearing all By HALEIGH EHMSEN Tower, the Notre Dame black gathered at the Clarke Saint Mary’s Editor Cathedral, Arc de Triumph, Memorial Fountain, known the Love Lock Bridge, the colloquially as Stonehenge, Saint Mary’s sophomore Louvre Museum and so on Sunday evening to show Theresa McSorley said she much more. support for minority students was so excited to arrive in “After a beautiful day in on college campuses across Paris around noon Friday for Paris, while sitting in the the country who have recent- a weekend trip with a group Notre Dame Cathedral, I ly faced injustices. of students studying abroad began to cry. I had just lit a Senior Rachel Wallace gath- in Rome. candle for my family, friends ered the students together “We spent the day walking and a friends’ father whose and began the evening with the streets of Paris, eating health has not been well. I a moment of silence for those EMMA BORNE | The Observer macaroons and sight-see- took a look around the Notre Dame students stand in solidarity with students of color ing,” McSorley said. “We see SOLIDARITY PAGE 5 around the country Sunday evening at the Clarke Memorial Fountain. were able to see the Eiffel see PARIS PAGE 4 NEWS PAGE 3 VIEWPOINT PAGE 8 SCENE PAGE 9 INTERHALL PAGE 20 MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 20 2 TE H OBSERVER | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? QUESTION OF THE DAY: Email [email protected] ndsmcobserver.com What is your go-to shower song? P.O. 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NEWS N DSMCOBSERVER.COM | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | THE OBSERVER 3 Justice Friday considers emotional violence By ALLISON SANCHEZ because they care so much.” News Writer Caratas and Weston said other signs of an emotionally abusive Students discussed unhealthy relationship include putting relationships and how to rec- down a person, manipulating the ognize emotional relationship person, isolation, name calling abuse at Friday’s installment of and pressuring a person into un- the Justice Friday series at Saint wanted acts. Mary’s in a conversation led by Caratas said these behaviors sophomores Nicole Caratas and are usually not isolated, and an Courtney Weston. (Editor’s Note: abusive relationship is all about Nicole Caratas is a news writer for control. the Observer.) “A person almost never shows Weston said emotional abuse just one of these behaviors; usu- can be an often misunder- ally abusive behaviors go hand in stood aspect of an unhealthy hand with one another,” she said.