THE O b s e r v e r The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 40 : ISSUE 117 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Minority decision causes diverse reactions Last week's Student Senate vote against making ad-hoc MAC a recognized part of student government angers, prompts action “The number one issue is Boyd said she was angered The committee was formed in MAC chair Destinee DeLemos By KAREN LANGLEY that MAC represents 20 per­ by the amendment’s defeat — a April 2005 with the goal of giv­ met to compose the amend­ Associate News Editor cent of the student body,” said vote she said she had not ing a voice in student govern­ ment, which would have estab­ Rhea Boyd, who chaired MAC expected. ment to racially underrepre­ lished the committee perma­ The Student Senate’s defeat this past year. “To have that But the issue will soon resur­ sented groups. Before that nently as a “means of expres­ last Wednesday of an amend­ h u g e of a face. Student body president time, issues of race had been sion for racially and ethnically ment to make the ad-hoc constituency Lizzi Shappell said Friday she addressed by the permanent marginalized students.” Minority Affairs committee w ith o u t a expects a new resolution to be Senate Diversity committee. Last Tuesday — the night (MAC) a constitutionally-recpg- voice in stu­ ready within a few weeks after That committee now under­ before the Senate meeting — nized part of student govern­ dent govern­ review by a newly established takes issues related to religious Baron, Shappell and Liu met ment has angered some stu­ ment is un­ task force. affiliation, sexual orientation with Boyd. At that meeting, dent leaders and prompted oth­ fathomable. “In no way are we eliminat­ and socioeconomics. they suggested the amendment ers to accelerate the comple­ P eople’s ing MAC,” she said. “It’s a m at­ In March, then-student body be taken off the Senate agenda tion of a revised amendment. racial and ter of articulating it best.” president Dave Baron, then- until it could undergo further The issue at hand, leaders ethnic identi­ The Senate’s Wednesday student body vice president revision. said, is the attention given to ties are such Boyd meeting was the last of the Lizzi Shappell, then-MAC chair “There was no attempt to the minority voice within the a huge part of their Notre 2005-06 student government Rhea Boyd, then-Diversity com­ student body. Dame identities.” term, which ended Friday. mittee chair Sarah Liu and new see MAC/page 6 Students find Facebook insecure forum for postings SMC professors access personal messages ND students attempt to enhance security classmates immediately thought By LIZ HARTER and of the popular Web site. MEGAN O’NEIL “I had no idea professors By KAITLYNN RIELY News Writers could be on Facebook at all ... News Writer that was a real shock to me,” In early March, Saint Mary’s Rizzo said. Kristin, a Notre Dame senior Angela Rizzo posted the Rizzo said the lecture left her sophomore living on campus following message on her feeling guilty. She logged on to who has asked that her last Facebook.com profile. her profile to check if it con­ name not be disclosed, felt “To my nursing faculty secret­ tained any postings or photo­ her privacy had been violat­ ly trying to spy on us ... posing graphs that could be deemed ed after she was approached as students on Facebook - ya inappropriate and activated the by members of her dorm’s found me!! I’m not as interest­ site’s option to restrict who hall staff concerning a ing as you’d think ... No secrets could view it. She discovered Facebook.com group she here!! You guys should start that Zoeller and several other belonged entitled Shower asking us to be your friends ... professors were listed, some as Power Hour — a group cen­ make it into a joke, please ...” undergraduates. tered drinking in the dorm The disclaimer came in “The first week everyone was showers. response to a lecture she and mad ... I know of girls who took Kristin and other members fellow nursing majors received all of their pictures off of the group were repri­ from nursing department chair Facebook. It kind of ruined it manded by their rectress for Linda Zoeller earlier this semes­ because facebook was a fun being in the club and told to ter on unacceptable Internet way to keep in contact with remove the profile from postings. Rizzo said staff mem­ friends,” Rizzo said. KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer Facebook. No pictures of any bers never mentioned Facebook Saint Mary’s sophomore Brie Anne Eichhorn views a picture on specifically, but she and her see FACEBOOK/page 8 Facebook in March. Her professors may also have viewed the photo. see SECURITY/page 8 Raymond lectures on Parents reflect on kids coming out Catholics in Tinseltown By MEGAN O ’NEIL Senior Staff Writer are artists and think a lot about Nancy Mascotte — a By ADRIENNE RUFFNER the important things, are more Saint Mary’s alumna — News Writer open to expressing their faith in was surprised by her own film,” Raymond said. reaction when her then Hollywood — a town known According to Raymond, Family college-aged son told her for its scandals, sex and violence Theater is a production company he w as gay. — is being m ade safe for helps young filmmakers settle in “I cried a great deal,” Catholics. Hollywood and allows them to Mascotte said. “I was In a lectu re titled “Young make films that present moral upset. In retrospect, it Catholic Hollywood,” Rev. Willie values — eschewing Hollywood’s wasn’t because [my son] Raymond, national director of tendency to make movies rife was gay, it was because [I Family Theater Productions, told with sex and violence. was afraid of] what he a group of about two dozen stu­ “So much of what is out there would have to face as a dents, faculty and community is driven by money, power, trying gay m an .” members in the Hayes-Healy to be edgy and impressing In an event Tuesday Center Tuesday night how peers,” Raymond said. “I’m not night sponsored by the Catholic newcomers to standing outside Hollywood Saint Mary’s Straight and Hollywood can embrace popular throwing a grenade and con­ Gay Alliance (SAGA) and filmmaking without sacrificing demning all of it, because there th e C o m m u n ity KELLY HIGGINS/The Observer their spiritual values. Tony and Beth Garascia and Nancy and Hank Mascotte speak about “Young people, because they see HOLLYWOOD/page 4 see PFLAG/page 4 experiences stemming from having gay children at Saint Mary’s Tuesday. page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 5, 2006 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: H o w often do you u se your d o rm phone ? Oh, how the time flies People say that the older you get the faster time passes, and I’m start­ ing to believe them. As of today we Cristina Tallarico Colleen Ferreira Biz Stohl Eugene Nam Sharon Lam Erin Heck only have a month left before this school year draws to a close. It feels freshman sophomore sophomore junior freshman sophomore like move-in day Pangborn LeMans LeMans Stanford Pasquerilla East LeMans Laura was only last week, but shortly Baumgartner w e’ll all have to “Never — we “To have my “I have a room "Whenever the “Let’s just say “When we start worrying News get scared when friends call me phone?” little light is I’ve never set prank call about moving Wire Editor it rings. ” from Jim m y blinking. ” up my people on the out. When 1 first started applying to col­ John’s and voicemail. ’’ death phone leges, Saint Mary’s was the last place Papa John’s to system . ” on Earth I thought I would end up. 1 pick up food. ” didn’t even consider it as an option until the school I had planned on attending sent me a letter saying they had mistakenly accepted too many freshmen and had randomly selected me as one of the “lucky” students being asked to find another school. In B rief After waging a battle to be reim­ bursed for my room deposit, reality The Fighting Irish Battalion struck, it was June and I had no will host a blood drive today from plans for the fall. I had already 8 a.m . to 2 p .m . in the turned down offers of admission to Pasquerilla Center.All donated the other colleges I had applied to, blood will be given to United and staying at home for a semester States soldiers. was not an option I was willing to consider. Barry Sharpless,the 2001 Family members encouraged me to Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, apply to Saint Mary’s, and because I will speak on “Organic Azides: had no other choices, I relented. My Later Bloomers” today at 4 p.m. application was turned in and in 127 Nieuwland Science Hall. processed with record speed, and a saintly woman in the admissions The SMC Tostal, sponsored by office helped me to arrange classes Student Activities Board, will for the fall. Despite her kindness and begin at noon Thursday in the my first cam pus visit, I was still less Student Center. The event will than thrilled to know I would be include chair massages, carica­ spending four years of my life in ture and henna tattoo artists, an South Bend.