the Observer The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 44 : Issue 131 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 ndsmcobserver.com Campus reacts to Osama bin Laden’s death Students see justice ND faculty experts in end of al-Qaida discuss implications terrorist leader’s life for Mid-East region By MEGAN DOYLE By SAM STRYKER News Editor News Editor On September 11, 2001, fresh- News outlets and social media man Beau Dolan’s father was sites exploded with up-to-the- among the Pentagon employees second content Sunday evening responding to the World Trade as President Barack Obama Center attacks in New York announced an American raid in when Flight 77 flew into his Abbottabad, Pakistan, killed al- office window. Qaida leader Osama bin Laden Nearly 10 years later, Dolan hours earlier. held an American flag in front of Though the nation celebrated, a crowd at LaFortune Student faculty experts on the Middle Center and led a student cele- SUZANNA PRATT/The Observer East said bin Laden’s death was bration through campus after Hundreds of Notre Dame students spread across campus celebrating with fireworks, flags and not the end of the war on terror, hearing the news about Osama “U.S.A.” chants after learning of Osama bin Laden’s death Sunday night. even though it was a significant bin Laden’s death Sunday American victory. evening. Asher Kaufman, professor of “It’s never going to be gone, History and Peace Studies, said but I felt really relieved yester- bin Laden’s death is a major day — a weird kind of peace,” accomplishment for the United Dolan said. “This guy murdered States, but the event is not criti- my dad, and he has been on the cal to America’s involvement in run for 10 years. I never got that the Middle East. sense of justice. After 10 years, I “I don’t see it making a major think I deserved to be ecstatic change in the broader sense of about this.” things,” Kaufman said. “This Dolan first heard the news was a symbolic thing that mat- when his mother called him tered to the United States’ from their home in Washington, domestic consumption more D.C. Dolan said he was unsure than anything else.” how to react initially. Though the pursuit of bin “When I found out from [my Laden represents one of the mom], I didn’t know what to greatest manhunts in modern make of it,” he said. “Then I told times, Kaufman said his death my friend, and he got really holds little impact on the excited, and then I realized that American military presence in AP President Barack Obama addresses the nation Sunday evening in Washington, D.C., with a stat- see STUDENTS /page 5 ment announcing the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden following a Navy SEALs raid. see TERROR /page 5 Hesburgh Students intern with politicians organizing fundraisers and vol- undergoes By MARISA IATI unteers to walk in parades, News Writer pass out stickers with his name and distribute pamphlets outlin- Notre Dame students will ing his platform. surgery work on both sides of the aisle She also helped Faber sup- and learn the nuances of port the campaigns of other American government as politi- local Republican politicians. Observer Staff Report cal interns around the country “This summer will be differ- this summer. ent because I won’t be in the University President Junior Paige Becker, a politi- district office,” she said. “I’ll be Emeritus Fr. Theodore cal science and English double working on constituent services, Hesburgh underwent a suc- major, will work for Republican helping people that call in. I’ll cessful kidney surgery Ohio Sen. Keith Faber at the also be doing some administra- Monday, according to a statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. tive duties. [Faber’s office is] University press release. “I actually worked for him doing the budget this summer, Hesburgh is now resting last summer as a campaign and I’ll be picking up some of comfortably after his surgery, worker in his district,” she said. the workload that the adminis- the release stated. “He’s also the President Pro trative assistants can’t do at The operation, which was Tempore of the Ohio State that time.” performed at St. Joseph Senate, so it will be exciting to Becker said when she first Regional Medical Center in be in the office.” contacted Faber last year, she Mishawaka, Ind., has been Becker said last summer she had applied to various public scheduled for several weeks. worked in Celina, Ohio, which is relations internships but was Hesburgh, 93, served as the the largest town in Faber’s dis- looking for a job that more Photo courtesy of Paige Becker president of Notre Dame trict. She helped Faber cam- Junior Paige Becker poses with Republican Ohio Sen. Keith from 1952 to 1987. paign for reelection in 2012 by see INTERNS /page 5 Faber and other volunteers at a campaign parade last summer. INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Professor to testify in Congress page 3 N Viewpoint page 6 N Water for Elephants movie review page 9 N Floyd court date rescheduled page 16 page 2 The Observer N PAGE 2 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 THE OBSERVER QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHERE ARE YOU GOING THIS SUMMER? P.O. Box 779, Notre Dame, IN 46556 024 South Dining Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Douglas Farmer MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Sarah Mervosh Patrick Sala ASST. MANAGING EDITOR: Adriana Pratt ASST. MANAGING EDITOR: Chris Masoud NEWS EDITORS: Megan Doyle Kyle Buckley Johnny Romano Claire Bourbonnais Gabriella Hernandez Briana Cameron Sam Stryker VIEWPOINT EDITOR: Meghan Thomassen sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore SPORTS EDITOR: Allan Joseph Dillon Dillon McGlinn McGlinn McGlinn SCENE EDITOR: Maija Gustin SAINT MARY’S EDITOR: Caitlin E. 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