the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45 : Issue 21 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 ndsmcobserver.com Authorities ‘UNFINISHED BUSINESS’ NDVotes explain law anticipates to students elections By MEGAN DOYLE By EMILY SCHRANK News Writer News Writer Questions about the legal NDVotes 2010, a forum process involved with underage designed to promote voter drinking sparked student interest participation and engagement during the “State of Arrest” open in the upcoming midterm panel discussion Monday evening. elections, kicks off this Representatives from the Office evening with the first “Pizza, of Residence Life and Housing Pop and Politics” event. (ORLH), the Notre Dame Security Sponsored by the Center for Police (NDSP), the South Bend Photo courtesy of Terrence Rogers Social Concerns (CSC), along Police Department (SBPD), the Terrence Rogers, right, hits Mike Orlando, left, in the 1977 Bengal Bouts competition. Rogers went with College Democrats, Indiana State Excise Police, the on to lose in the finals that year, but is back this school year in search of the 2011 championship. College Republicans and St. Joseph County prosecutor’s College Libertarians, NDVotes office and a defense attorney 2010 is intended to increase from the public defendant’s office political dialogue among stu- participated in the panel discus- Boxer returns to ND at age 55 dents through a series of five sion. discussions. “Today’s panel discussion put a “The ultimate objective of face on the people involved in bodies fight that weak bodies in the 1960s. His oldest broth- NDVotes is to encourage issues that matter to students,” By TESS CIVANTOS may be nourished,” is a er, then a student at Notre political involvement, regard- student body president Catherine News Writer chance for male Notre Dame Dame, came home on break less of party affiliation,” said Soler said. students to train and spar with stories of the student Eileen Flanagan, College Morrissey Hall sponsored the Editor’s note: This is the while raising money for the boxers who sparred not for Democrats co-president. discussion to give students back- first installment of a three- Holy Cross missions in their own glory but to help “We’re thrilled to be involved ground information on Indiana part series about Terrence Bangladesh. people in Bangladesh. in an event that encourages alcohol laws and the legal effects Rogers, a 1979 Notre Dame At age 55, Rogers will face “All I ever wanted to do bipartisanship.” of drinking off campus, Morrissey graduate who has returned as competitors more than half ever since I was ten years old Tuesday’s discussion will assistant rector Josh Bennett said. a graduate student with the his age in this quest to win. was come to Notre Dame and provide an initial overview of “Our mission is not to give stu- goal of winning Bengal Bouts. But he is not sparring for his win the Bengal Bouts,” what is at stake in the 2010 dents a hard time or to go out and own sake. Following the Rogers said. midterm elections, Flanagan see how many parties we can After 31 years and 11 rejec- Bengal Bouts tradition, After transferring to Notre said. bust on a nightly basis,” SBPD tion letters, Terrence Rogers, Rogers is fighting for a differ- Dame from West Point in the Several professors will be Captain Jeffrey Rynearson said. Notre Dame class of 1979, is ent, very specific goal. 1970s, Rogers boxed in the on hand to discuss issues that “Our mission is to protect the citi- finally a Notre Dame student “I will be fighting on behalf Bengal Bouts three times as are especially relevant for zens of South Bend.” again and has one goal — to of the missions,” Rogers said. an undergraduate. He won voters and politicians this The best method to avoiding win Bengal Bouts. “The most money that the the semi-finals in 1977, beat- year, including Matthew confrontation with police is to Former Irish football coach Bengal Bouts has ever raised ing Mike Orlando by unani- Storin, professor of American minimize noise because a noise Knute Rockne founded the is $100,000. I want to help mous decision. Rogers won studies; David Nickerson, complaint is typically what draws amateur boxing tournament shatter the record and at second place as a junior and professor of political science; cops to a party, Rynearson said. known as Bengal Bouts in least double that.” became determined to win his and Jack Colwell, a writer 1920. The tournament, which Rogers has been a Bengal see PANEL/page 5 follows the motto “Strong Bouts fan since his childhood see ROGERS/page 3 see VOTE/page 4 Gingrich screens film on Pope John Paul II and the subsequent begin- China but are also for those By ELLIE HALL nings of the solidarity move- places in the West that have News Writer ment that overthrew the aggressively and abundantly Polish Communists in 1990. used courts and bureaucra- Former U.S. Speaker of the “You cannot understand cies to weaken the religious House Newt Gingrich the history of the collapse of impulse and the right of screened his Catholic docu- the Soviet Union and the end individuals to approach God mentary “Nine Days That of the Cold War without on their own terms,” Newt Changed the World” Monday understanding the power of said. night in Washington Hall and religion and in particular “Conflict between a secu- urged the audience to carry the influence of Pope John lar government determined the film’s lessons into an Paul II,” Newt said as he to impose its power and a increasingly secular nation. introduced the film. free people seeking the right “Nine Days That Changed He said the film and the to approach God on their the World,” produced and pope’s messages are still rel- own terms and seeking the narrated by the former evant today. right to openly profess their speaker and his wife, “The message of this film face is a conflict that has Callista, chronicles Pope is not just for those places gone on for most of human PAT COVENEY/The Observer John Paul II’s historic first that might have overt dicta- Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his wife visit to Poland in June 1979 torships such as Cuba or see GINGRICH/page 5 Callista address Monday’s audience in Washington Hall. 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