THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 41: ISSUE 47 MONDAY. NOVEMBER6. 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Annan cancels Notre Dame visit Soldiers knowing his visit could not ference is titled "Peace businesses - to get involved By MARY KATE MALONE be assured, given the Through Commerce: in problems of the wider request News Editor Secretary-General's full and Partnerships as a New society.... He will encourage often unpredictable schedule. Paradigm" and will bring them and probably implore Due to scheduling conflicts, Annan will be replaced by together intellectuals, corpo­ companies to do more," said ND ite111s United Nations Secretary­ M a r k rate executives, representa­ Williams, who sits with General Koti Annan has can­ Moody­ tives from non-governmental Moody-Stuart on the board of celed his planned Nov. 12 Stuart, organizations (NGOs) and directors for the Foundation Student-run project visit to Notre Dame, a chairman of government policy makers to for the Global Compact. Mendoza College of Business the board of examine how, through eco­ In addition to his chair­ sends care packages to official said Sunday. directors of nomic commerce, businesses manship of the Foundation U.S. forces overseas Annan was scheduled to be t h e and NGOs can advance initia­ for the Global Compact, the keynote speaker at a Foundation tives for peace. Moody-Stuart is also chair­ peace conference Nov. 12-14 for the Moody-Stuart will deliver man of Anglo American PLC, By KATE ANTONACCI exploring how commerce can Global his keynote address to an an international mining com­ News Editor be a tool for building peace. Compact, a Annan invitation-only crowd in the pany. He holds a doctorate in Father Oliver Williams, the non-profit dining room of the Notre geology from Cambridge For organizers of the Notre director of Mendoza's Center entity that helps fund one of Dame Press Box Nov. 12. University and, from 2001- Dame Accounting for Ethics and Culture and Annan's most well-known ini­ "[Moody-Stuart is] going to 04, was a member of the Association's care package the conference's lead organ­ tiatives, the Global Compact. talk about the need for com­ project, it is not the Gatorade izer, said he booked Annan The three-day peace con- panies - particularly large see ANNAN/page 4 mix, sunflower seeds or ban­ dannas that they need the largest stock of- it is "some­ thing, anything to do with Notre Dame," according to senior organizer Rena Zarah. Easley discusses ethics in politics Though the group collects everything from Christmas COs and DVDs to beef jerky and ChapStick, it is Notre North Carolina governor emphasizes reliance Dame memorabilia that mem­ on core values when enacting public policy bers of the armed forces serv­ ing overseas ask for most fre­ quently. attended UNC-Chapel Hill, Easley "We collect names and By EVA BINDA named University President News Writer addresses of soldiers overseas Emeritus Father Theodore serving our country. These Hesburgh as "one of my heroes." men and women either grad­ Declaring ethics and core val­ Easley admitted that his "reli­ uated from Notre Dame, are ues in policy-making as "not gious faith guides [his] policy," related or are friends with a optional" Friday afternoon, but insisted this view does not Notre Dame student, faculty North Carolina Gov. Michael violate the separation of church or staff, or are from the Notre Easley delivered a speech in the and state. Dame community," Zarah Snite Museum on the importance "It's natural and appropriate to said. "This is the most of drawing upon personal values navigate public policy with our rewarding project I personal­ in setting the right policy. own internal moral compass," ly have ever been involved In the talk, entitled Easley said. in." "Intersection of Politics and He repeatedly referred to the The care package project, Values in the 21st Century," importance of relying on one's which began four years ago, Easley said the right policy is core values in making and started out small, sending "at "the one that allows people to enforcing policy, helping less most 20" packages overseas reach their potential so they can powerful members of society. in its first year, said Zarah, use their God-given gift<>." "Small steps properly taken for who is organizing the project Easley, a Democrat, is the first noble purposes strengthen the with junior Liz Byrum. The Roman Catholic governor of weak among us," Easley said. I SAGAADIA!The Observer North Carolina, a predominantly North Carolina Gov. Michael Easley lectures on the Importance Protestant state. Although he see GOVERNOR/page 4 of ethics in policy-making at the Snite Museum Friday. see PACKAGES/page 4 Networking directory Local bishop visits Saint Mary's accessible to seniors D'Arcy celebrates Mass, offers opinions, answers student questions 10,000 alumni who volun­ By ABBY RICHARDSON By SONIA RAO teered their information, News Writer News Writer according to a student gov­ ernment press release. Full Celebrating Mass and Undergraduate seniors and access to the directory was answering questions at Saint graduate students now have not granted to seniors until Mary's Sunday night, South the option to receive full well after graduation. Bend-Fort Wayne Bishop John access to Irish Online, a net­ "We realized students did­ D'Arcy cited the importance of working directory of more n't have access to the full love and prayer as he than 100.000 alumni. after a alumni network until at least addressed scripture, current change that went into effect six weeks after graduation events and why he became a Nov. 1. and sometimes even priest. A result of a joint effort by [longer]," said student body "When the gospel is read in Student Government, the vice president Bill Andrichik. the Church, it is never about Career Center, the Alumni It didn't make sense that past events .only," D'Arcy said. Association and the the full directory was not "It is all about love." Deve lopm en t Office, the available during the "most D' Arcy continued to stress the change increases student relevant time for students to importance of love, referring to networking opportunities be contacting alumni for Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical tenfold - undergraduate stu­ their career search," he said. "God is Love." D'Arcy encour- HIGGINS/The dents were previously given Sc;uth Bend-Fort Wayne Bishop John D'Arcy speaks with access to a directory of see DIRECTORY/page 4 see D'ARCY/page 3 students after celebrating Mass at Saint Mary's Sunday. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Monday, November 6, 2006 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GET OVER 'A CASE OF THE MONDAYS'? Keeping our COllllllOn courtesy Julie McElroy Laura Hamman Mary Beth Scully Mauricio Rojas Ted Lawless Tom Kingsbury I'm no conservative. Terms like senior senior junior senior senior sophomore "family values" make me cringe, Breen-Phillips off campus Cavanaugh O'Neill Knott Alumni and whenever I hear mention of "traditional marriage" this election season, I want to run back to my 'it grande, "Write an angry "Looking at "/ don't know, "Sleeping until "Watching the ,, apartment movie 'Borat. ,,, triple-shot, Viewpoint letter pictures on but it involves a Tuesday. and put on Steve Kerins my rainbow nonfat, sugar- about it." Facebook of the 9-iron, some ice bandanna. free vanilla weekend.,, and a plastic In spite of News Writer latte. ,, lawn gnome." all that, I've always thought of Notre Dame and its surrounding community as a place where the norms of a simpler time are embraced, and where a refreshing sense of common courtesy holds the day. And while I might not always agree with Notre Dame's values, I IN BRIEF know that they stem from a sincere desire to set right the ills of the larger world. A conference entitled This is why I'm concerned that "Strategic Peacebuilding: the decency for which our The State of the Art," will University is known is under threat take place from 8:30 a.m. to from the outside. 5:30 p.m. today in the In my small East Coast hometown, Hesburgh Center our local coffee shop recently made Auditorium. Faculty, staff, the news following a fight over a students and the public are parking space in which one driver welcome to attend. maced another, sending her to the hospital. Charlie Thornton, the Now, this is a feeling I can relate chairman and engineer of to. We've all felt frustrated when New York's Thornton­ that self1sh mom in the ugly hip­ Tomasetti Group, will lecture buggers takes up two parking on "Engineering spaces with her Suburban, forcing Architecture: From High­ us to park illegally so we can run in Rise Towers to Restoration to get our dry-cleaning. We all Design" today from 4:30 to 6 know the pain of waiting in line at p.m. in 104 Bond Hall. the store as that fool with the comb-over pays for his $1.50 tube Henry Weinfieid and of toothpaste with a debit card. Catherine Schlegel will be I know a Notre Dame woman who reading from their new carries a "rape whistle" to defend translation of Hesiod 's herself in the event of an attack, poems, "The Thcogony and which I find a bit quaint. A friend The Works and Days" in the at home carries nunchucks in her TIM SULLIVAN!The Observer Coleman Morse Lounge at purse for the same purpose. Walt Parazaider, left, Keith Howland, center and James Pankow, members of the 7:30 tonight.