THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY V OLUME 50, ISSUE 72 | TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM ‘Walk the Walk Week’ honors MLK’s legacy Midnight March #BlackLivesMatter kicks off week of founders speak on celebrations its message By KATIE GALIOTO By MEGAN VALLEY N ews Writer N ews Writer Hundreds of candles shined P atrisse Cullors and Opal through a cold winter night as Tometi, who, along with Notre Dame students, faculty Alicia Garza, started the and staff congregated at mid- hashtag #BlackLivesMatter night to celebrate the legacy as a response to the acquittal of Martin Luther King Jr. early of George Zimmerman in the Monday morning. Trayvon Martin case, gave The midnight march and the keynote lecture for Walk prayer service was the kick- the Walk Week on Monday off event for the inaugural night to a crowd of over 500 Walk the Walk Week at Notre students, staff and commu- Dame, a series of events de- nity members. signed to reflect on King’s Cullors and Tometi said the legacy and promote diversity ROSIE LoVOI | The Observer phrase started in a Facebook Patrisse Cullors, right, along with Opal Tometi, center, gave a lecture Monday night in DeBartolo Hall see MARCH PAGE 3 about #BlackLivesMatter, a hashtag they started, which ignited a social movement across the nation. see HASHTAG PAGE 4 Professor lectures Faculty research legalized on laws and justice gambling and its revenue By RACHEL O’GRADY Inquiry into Religion and By NICOLE CARATAS Working together for 15 “What lots of folks N ews Writer Public Life. N ews Writer years, Pierce and Miller did don’t understand is how “Part of Dr. King’s argu- a study on how lottery rev- that affects the budget- A lthough laws are cre- ment concerns ... the rela- He has only been to one enue was being used and ary process,” Pierce said. ated to form a more just so- tionship between justice and casino in his lifetime, and then did more localized “Everybody thought when ciety, Martin Luther King the dignity of the human per- the only lottery ticket he case studies to explain why you say the lotto revenue Jr. demonstrated that laws son. Because of the people has ever owned was given states legalized gambling, was going toward education, themselves can be unjust, we are, we have dignity and to him by a friend, but pro- why they established state that that would be on top of according to Fr. Dominic claims to this dignity that fessor of political science lotteries and how gambling what we already spend for Legge, an instructor in sys- other people should respect,” Patrick Pierce has become education.” tematic theology at the Legge said. an expert on the politics of However, Pierce said some Dominican House of Studies. According to Legge, Dr. legalized gambling. states substitute the lottery “Sometimes it is possible King argued individuals can- In the 1990s, Saint Mary’s revenue going towards edu- that the positive law makes not appeal to the opinion of started a number of grants cation for part of the general something legal that should the masses to determine if a to support faculty research revenue allocated for educa- be illegal. It certainly hap- law is just. and teaching. Pierce said professor tion, freeing up some of the political science pened in totalitarian states “His argument is that dis- he and Donald Miller, a Pierce Patrick revenue to go wherever the like Nazi Germany, but it crimination goes against this professor of mathemat- state legislature wants to also has happened in the dignity, and this is his basis ics at the College, received use it. United States in the 1960s. for arguing that racial segre- the COSTAR grant, which spread the way it did. They He said because there was Even a democratic society gation is unjust,” he said. “He was designed to support re- compiled their research into such a large understand- can create an ‘illegal’ law,” appeals to the basic truth of search across disciplines. a book titled “Gambling ing that the revenue would Legge said. “It was actually what human beings are, and “[Miller] and I were close Politics: State Government supplement the education illegal to help fellow Jews in no law can go against that friends, and he decided that and the Business of Betting.” budget, using it as a substi- Nazi Germany, but would basic human dignity.” he would like to work with Pierce said it is largely un- tution was deceptive of state we not have helped these Legge focused on the fact me on one of these research derstood that the revenue legislatures. He said in the oppressed?” that racial segregation was projects,” Pierce said. “He from casinos and state lot- long haul, by having an edu- Legge spoke Monday after- never actually illegal, ac- was from the state of Ohio. teries would be used for a cation lottery, states were noon on “Martin Luther King cording to the Constitution Ohio had an education lot- specific purpose. Although actually spending less mon- Jr. and the Question of ‘Illegal or even local law. tery. [Miller] was an essen- the state could put the rev- ey on education than they Laws’: Civil Law Justice, and For examples of this re- tially skeptical person about enue in the general revenue would have if the money had Morality,” an event spon- ality, Legge said one can politics and government, pool, he said, some states come from general revenue. sored by the Constitutional look at some Supreme Court and he just believed that ed- chose to designate it for a “This is a problem in the Studies Department and ucation lottery wasn’t really specific purpose, most often the Tocqueville Program for see LAWS PAGE 3 helping education in Ohio.” education. see GAMBLING PAGE 3 NEWS PAGE 3 VIEWPOINT PAGE 7 SCENE PAGE 5 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 12 ND WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 12 2 Th E OBSERVER | TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? QUESTION OF THE DAY: Email [email protected] ndsmcobserver.com What is your favorite album right now? P .O. 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