THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 42: ISSUE 94 MONDAY. FEBRUARY 25,2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Bengal Bouts combats cyclone damage Haircuts Annual boxing tournament helps country still reeling from November natural disaster aid cancer to the missions, schools By BECKY HOGAN and hospitals, but also to a News Writer lot of the country that's in need [due to the cyclone]. patients Last November, the fierce We're excited about that," winds of Cyclone Sidr Land said. slammed much of the Senior captain Patrick 'Project Pink' helps already poverty-stricken O'Brien said the aftermath Bangladesh, and beginning of Cyclone Sidr gives the Pantene charity tonight approximately 185 competitors more motiva­ young men are fighting tion. back - in the boxing ring. "[The cyclone] makes it By ELIZABETH KELLY Hunter Land, president of even more important to NewsWrirer the Boxing Club, said Notre kick the fundraising into Dame's 78th annual Bengal high gear, and it's also Bouts tournament has even something tangible that the Students from Notre Dame more meaning for its par­ boxers can focus on," and Saint Mary's lined up ticipants because the need O'Brien said. outside Mishawaka's Salon for relief in Bangladesh is Since 1931, the proceeds Nouveau Sunday to cut off even greater this year. earned from the Bengal their ponytails as part "Our money is being put Bouts tournament have Pangborn Hall's annual Chris lzagguira and Sagare Navarre spar in last year's Bengal to good use over there ... Project Pink. Bouts tournament. this year it's not just going see BENGAL/page 6 Event coordinator Tricia Hughes described Project Pink as "a campaign to raise awareness about women's issues and celebrate women in society." Saint Mary's hosts siblings on campus Project Pink will donate the ponytails they collected yesterday to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, a charity Little Sibs Weekend features games, activities, as younger guests experience college life organization that turns donated ponytails into wigs luau theme, centered on the for women with cancer who By NIKKI TAYLOR idea that "Ohana means have lost their hair as a News Wrirer family" - one inspired by result of chemotherapy. Swan's little sister. The Project Pink commit­ The Residence Hall "Her second grade class­ tee selected this charity last Association (HHA) sponsored room had a luau," Swan March because it fit with the Little Sibs Weekend, an said. "When I came home event's theme of women in event in which Saint Mary's and told her that I was in solidarity, said Hughes. But encouraged students to charge of Little Sibs not enough girls had hair invite their younger siblings Weekend, which she had long enough to meet or relatives last weekend on been to before, she told me Pantene's requirement of the College's campus. it should be luau themed." eight inches. "I like getting students RHA provided games and "Last year we put up signs and siblings involved activities for students to all over Pangborn that said because in college there participate in with siblings 'Don't cut your hair!"' isn't a lot of time," event co­ of all ages, including an ice Hughes said. chair Jill Swan said. "Also cream social, a movie show­ Through advertising, the the siblings enjoy being col­ ing, games and karaoke. Project Pink committee was lege students, and that's a "We had a huge turnout at Photo courtesy of Caitlin Morrison able to convince 25 students big part of it." Junior Caitlin Morrison has dinner with her sister Madeline The event this year had a see SIBS/page 4 at Nick's Patio on Saturday night. see PINK/page 6 Prof. examines Chinese protest ND students, alumni Stanford's Andrew Walder shaws university impact in Cultural Revolution assess third-vvorld health Movement," lectured about n't have had a lasting By CLAIRE REISING the student Red Guard impact on the country." Development," which took News Writer movement at Chinese uni­ One of the Red Guards By BILL BRINK place in the Hesburgh Center versities between 1966 and functions was to target News Writer for International Studies. The story of China's 1968. Though the Red officials they deemed anti­ The effectiveness of tradi­ Cultural Revolution was a Guards supported Mao revolutionary at "struggle During a human develop­ tional medicine in third-world "political fiasco" that had Zedong, factionalism arose sessions," in which the ment symposium Saturda¥. countries took center stage in a deep impact on the coun­ among the movement. accused would be publicly Notre Dame students and the presentations. Sophomore try's universities, Stanford Instead of just purging humiliated and often phys­ alumni said a lack of Jeff Lakusta drew from his sociology professor government officials, ically harmed. However, resources and knowledge are experiences in South Africa Andrew Walder said Friday Walder said, Mao original­ Walder said students dis­ inhibiting health improve­ last summer researching the at "The Beijing Bed Guard ly sought the support of agreed about the. rebel­ ments both in America and HIV/AIDS epidemic. MovPment: China's students and young work­ lion's aim and which peo­ third -world countries. "There is $230 billion in aid Cultural Hevolution in ers to ensure that his poli­ ple to target. The Kellogg Institute for from the top 40 donors Retrospect." cies and legacy would con­ In his research, Walder International Studies, the alone," he said. "The obvious "They didn't accomplish tinue after his death. had expected to find that Ford Family Program in question is how can $230 bil­ anything but destruction," "There's a real logic to the factions originated Human Development Studies lioq not provide us more sig­ he said. what he did," he said. "If from the students' social and Solidarity, and the Center nificant results?" Walder, who wrote he would simply use a classes. However, he said for Social Concerns co-hosted The stigma of HIV/AIDS "Fractured Crusade: The purge to get rid of the top the event, "Solidarity in Beijing Red Guard officials, he felt he would- see CHINA/ page 4 Pursuit of Authentic Human see HUMAN/page 4 .------------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Monday, February 25, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE 0SCARS? Concerning 111y father My litlher wa'i the coach of my high school's b<L'ikdba.ll tmun filr :n years, but going into my senior year. lhe schml infilrmed him he Eileen Hall Nathan Payne Johanna Kirsch Kinzie Kiser Glynnis Garry would have to "mtim" at th11 nnd of that sea­ son <md my dad. not wanting to cause a stir, freshman senior sophomore junior freshman reluctantly went Welsh Fam Zahm McGlinn WelshFam Cavanaugh a.long. Thirty-thre11 years of loyalty 1uul dndic<t­ "The musical "The rich idiots "The dresses "Sexy Regis." ''The wrap-up tion meant nothing. performances that think they because they're music. " The fact that he taught hundreds - especially have style." shiny." about b<L.'iketba.ll <md when I sing life meant nothing, along." and the fact that he was the winningest Chris Hine active coach in the state of' Pennsylvania Editor-in-Chief mnant nothing as well. Parents who had money to throw around took adwmtage of a .5<Xl SP.ason our tnam had my junior year ID say thn !fdille had "pa'ised him by" and to push fi1r hi'> firing. Though only a handfi.tl of pamnt'i wanted him out, it IN BRIEF didn't matter. Thny had monny, and hn wa'i gonn. The preliminaries for the Wn won ov11r 20 g<unes my senior year, Bengal Bouts boxing tourna­ won lhn di'>trict tit.IP, lost in doubln overtime in ment will be held today at thn statn quarterfinals. and my dad was 6:30 in the Joyce Center mum~! mach of' t.l1n year in our confimmm. Field House. Tickets cost Still, he could not mtum for a 34th sna<;(l!l. $10 and all proceeds go A'>idn lhnn my si'>ter's batt.l11 wilh I !odgkin's towards Holy Cross Missions DismL'>Il, this W<L'> the most dillicult time my in Bangladesh. fiunily luL.'i ever fitcnd. It's hard to give up somntl1ing you've loV11d doing liw 33 years Tim Power from the Latin <Uld this i'in't ml111ge whem mru~hns make ~ix American Centre at Oxford or snvnn figurns. Wn depPndPd in part on University will present a lec­ monny my dad brought in fh1m maehing m1d ture entitled "Changing running dinirs. Evaluations of Brazilian But through lhat ynar, thnrn wnm two pno­ Democracy" at the piP who lmlp«~l 01L'ill the di'iitpp«lintment our Hesburgh Center at 4:15 fiunily li1lt, and oddly enough, they were p.m. The event will be host­ sp«Jrt'> writers. One W<L'> Dave Konopki, now ed by the Helen Kellogg Om sp«Jrt'i editor lilr 'The 'limns I11ader" in Institute for International Wilkes-BmTn. Pa. Dave look<ld into the !-;tory Studies. or my dad getting linld. lin got it, 1Uld wa'i mady to print it ;mel put t.lm S~:hool in its place. Former Senator Rick But my dad did not want thi'i !-.iory dbiraeting Santorum will present a lec­ our temn in th11 middll' of the sea'ilm and so ture entitled "Gathering Dave didn't print it. Storm of the 21st Century" Thn other wa'i thr. now-deceased Jerry WU YUE!The Observer Tuesday at 7 p.m.