THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT MAry’S IT ACCURATELY VLEO UM 48, ISSUE 90 | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Commencement to return to Stadium Jenkins announces change in ceremony location, addresses core curriculum concerns during town hall By EMILY McCONVILLE School of International Affairs, News Writer the core curriculum review and Campus Crossroads progress. U niversity President Fr. John Jenkins announced Tuesday that Commencement 2015 the Class of 2015’s commence- Jenkins said the ment ceremony will take place Commencement ceremony’s in Notre Dame Stadium in- location change comes due to a stead of the Joyce Center, as the relatively mild winter, which led University originally planned. to better-than-expected prog- Jenkins made the announce- ress on the Campus Crossroads ment at an undergraduate project. town hall meeting in DeBartolo “Campus Crossroads won’t be Hall, during which Jenkins, finished; there will be a little in- University Provost Tom Burish convenience, but I’m sure it will and Executive Vice President be minimal, and it will be a great John Affleck-Graves also updat- Commencement,” Jenkins said. EMILY McCONVILLE | The Observer ed the student body on staff di- University President Fr. John Jenkins announces the change in location of the 2015 Commencement versity and inclusion, the Keough see TOWN HALL PAGE 5 ceremony from the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center to Notre Dame Stadium. Law professor receives Alumni create Fulbright research grant endowment for By SELENA PONIO on human rights and represent- Cassel said. News Writer ed victims of human rights vio- Cassel said a new doctrine women’s basketball lations in Colombia, Guatemala, implemented in Mexico not Notre Dame law professor Peru and Venezuela. only tells national courts to Observer Staff Report Keyes Family Head Women’s Douglass Cassel, an interna- Cassel’s research in Mexico enforce international human Basketball Coach, as the posi- tional human rights law scholar, is for one of the Fulbright rights, but also tells them how Former Notre Dame wom- tion will be titled, is the first won a Fulbright Fellowship to Programs for the social sci- they should do it. en’s basketball player Karen endowed coaching position do research in the spring semes- ences, he said. He competed not “It’s a radical departure. ... It’s Robinson Keyes and her hus- in University history and is ter of 2016 on Mexican courts’ only against other legal schol- going to be fascinating how the band Kevin Keyes made a $5 thought to be the largest en- enforcement of Inter-American ars, but also against anyone else courts react to it,” Cassel said. million gift to Notre Dame dowment in women’s college human rights law. involved in the social sciences. “The purpose of my research to underwrite the salary of basketball, according to the Among his credentials, Cassel “The research is on the en- is [to see] how the doctrine is the women’s basketball head press release. served as Legal Advisor to the forcement of Inter-American working in practice.” coach, the University an- “We are so very grateful United Nations Commission on human rights law, and it’s re- According to a Notre Dame nounced Monday in a press to Karen and Kevin for this the Truth for El Salvador, was an ally important in the field of in- release. award-winning commentator ternational human rights law,” see FULBRIGHT PAGE 5 The Karen and Kevin see ENDOWMENT PAGE 4 Panel examines social media in the workplace By MARTHA REILLY Rupchock-Schafer, a 2003 gradu- Newa Writer ate who serves as the assistant director of communications at Saint Mary’s hosted a panel Church World Services. Monday called “Beyond Just Although all three women Being Social” to teach students work in different branches of about integrating social media public relations, they offered into their careers. similar advice for anyone seek- Speakers included College ing a job that revolves around alumnae Liz Harter, a 2009 social media: Personal accounts graduate who works as a so- should abide by the same rules cial media program manager that professional ones do. at Notre Dame; Megan Harr, “Of course I want to hire some- a 2014 graduate and the cur- one with a personality, but when MONICA MENDEZ | The Observer rent social media coordinator at Saint Mary’s alumnae Megan Harr, Angela Rupchock-Schafer and Liz Harter discuss the applications of Flourish Boutique; and Angela see PANEL PAGE 4 social media in the workforce at Monday’s lecture titled “Beyond Just Being Social” in Rice Commons. 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