, THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 43: ISSUE 83 FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 2009 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Reish, Schmidt present to Trustees Candidates • Off-campus safety and security, community relations are prime focus of meeting campaign ByJENN METZ an overview of their efforts "We need to address the resources, like a "Know News Ediror toward accomplishing goals unawareness factor and Your Rights" guide. of better relationships make sure people know One Trustee voiced the with sites between members of the where to find this informa­ opinion that the Reish­ Student government lead­ Notre Dame and South Bend tion, who to call and how to Schmidt administration has ers met with the Student communities and informing access the Good Neighbor focused a lot of effort on off­ By TESS CIVANTOS Affairs Committee of the students on how to be safe Guide created by student campus concerns. Reish said News Writer University Board of Trustees off campus. government," Koski said. about 40 percent of their to offer updates on key ini­ "We're interested in mak­ Reish listed the ser1es of time is spent ori. these This year's student body tiatives they presented in ing students more familiar off-campus block parties issues. president and vice president their fall meeting, with a with their off-campus sur­ held earlier in the year, a Another member of the tickets are stretching their specific focus on off-campus roundings and providing Winter Break safety forum, Board asked about the campaign budgets of $200 safety and security and the them with services to make and the recent presentation Community Campus Action per ticket as far as possible, State of the Student Union. them more comfortable off titled on "How to Party Coalition (CCAC) and student with posters, inexpensive Student body president campus," Koski said. Legally" as ways student government's involvement Web sites and visits to dorms. Bob Reish, student body vice The results of the student government has reached out with South Bend. Three of the tickets, juniors president Grant Schmidt and survey distributed in the fall to address these concerns. Reish, Schmidt and Koski Laura Burdick and Derek chief executive assistant showed students were He said student govern­ described the events that Sanchez, junior Grant Karen Koski offered a Power unaware of resources avail­ ment is working to keep the took place on campus over Schmidt and sophomore point presentation to the able to guide them through a Good Neighbor Guide sus­ Cy1;1 thia Weber, and junior members of the Board with move off campus, she said. tainable by adding other see TRUSTEES/page 6 James McCaughan and soph­ omore Tom Gorski, have Web sites devoted to th-eir cam­ paigns, burdicksanchez.com, giveaschmidt.eom and Ramblers schmidtandweber.com, and Revue draws mixed reviews jamesandtommy.com, respec­ tively. Popular con1edy show pushes limits with raunchy material Presidential candidate brave cold to Grant Schmidt and running mate Cynthia Weber used the • domain name By SARAH MERVOSH "GiveASchmidt.com" to show ra1semoney News Writer they don't take themselves too seriously. Siegfried Hall's 'Day The annual Keenan Revue '"Give a Schmidt' is kind of opened last night with the a funny pun, but it's a serious of Man' benefits homeless theme of "It's a bird, it's a message too because we plane ... it's the Keenan don't take ourselves too seri­ Revue." But one might call ously, but we take the issues By IRENA ZAJICKOVA - the show super-sexual, or seriously," Weber said. "We News Writer super-funny, rather than take student safety seriously, super-heroic_ we take philanthropy seri­ Even though the temperature in Keenan Hall rector Fr. ously, we take ·sexual assault South .8end dropped below freezing Daniel Nolan prefaced the seriously." yesterday, approximately 150 show by asking those in The Web site only cost $10, Siegfried residents braved the frigid attendance to behave them­ but it is a major campaigning weather to spend the day wearing selves, but then said: "that tool, Schmidt and Weber nothing but shorts and T-shirts. might be hard to do when the said_ They were participating in strippers come on." "It's a complete invest- Siegfried's third annual "Day of Students act out a skit In the Keenan Revue at Man" fundraiser, where Ramblers see REVUE/ page 6 Thursday's show. see SITES/page 4 stand outside in inadequate cloth­ ing for the weather to raise money for South Bend's Center for the Homeless. A group of students stood near the LaFortune Student Center, hold­ ing plastic cups and imploring Welsh Fam presents 'DanceFest' passerby to donate money to the homeless shelter. Eight Notre Dame, Saint Mary's dance groups zvill perform at Washington Hall Participants could also be seen in dining halls and classroom build­ Club, ND/SMC Irish Dance, ings, carrying their plastic cups By LIZ LEFEBVRE Team Ballet Folklorico Azul around and wearing shirts that said News Writer y Oro, Troop ND, and First "Man Up'' to explain that they were Class Steppers. participating in the dorm event. This weekend, "One of the goals of the The project's coordinator, Robbie Washington II all will be event is to showcase all the Bernardin. said that the fundraiser filled with variety of different types of dance. has raised about $6,000 per year in dancers performing every­ This year we have pieces past years. thing from hip hop to ballet from tap, jazz. modern. Bernardin, now a senior, came up as Welsh Family Hall puts lyrieal, Irish stf~p dance. with the idea when he was a sopho­ on one of its signature stepping, swing, ballroom, more. He decided to walk from events, the Welsh Family and traditional Hispanic Siegfried Hall to Farley Hall to visit DanceFest, this weekend. dance," sophomore co-. a friend while wearing only shorts The two evenings of per­ director Kaitlyn Maloney and a T-shirt, and decided that the formances feature different said. idea had potential to become a way types of dance and eight In addition to the estab­ to raise money for charity. groups from across Notre lished campus dance ~ "It felt really manly and I felt we Dame and Sairit Mary's. groups, Dance~est also fea­ could make it into a dorm event The groups performing tures six numbers that and raise money," Bernardin said. include Dance Company of were choreographed Photo courtesy of Kaitlyn Maloney Notre Dame, Ballroom Student perfonns at last year's "DanceFest." Welsh Family Hall will see SIEGFRIED/page 4 Dance Team, Swing Dance see DANCE/page 4 feature a variety of dances at Washington Hall this weekend. page 2 . The Observer+ PAGE 2 Friday, February 6, 2009 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ON-CAMPUS ACTIVITY? The clocks ofND I love Notre Dame's campus. It's beautiful and rich with histo­ ry of many generations of schol­ Megan Aaherty Caitlin Asherl Meghan Curllss Colleen Trausch Krista Kulwicki ars. Nothing could be more gor­ geous than an early autumn sun­ Freshman Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Sophomore set shining its LeMans Le Mans Le Mans LeMans LeMans beautiful rays Amanda Gray down on Notre Dame's old "Visiting my "Trivia night at "Notre Dame "Hip-hop night "Notre Dame buildings, stu­ News Wzre nun. She is Legends.·· marching at Legends.'' basketball dents frolicking Editor quite the ban dl". games for on the quads, • playing Frisbee little lady!" sure!" or football. However, I have a complaint to register with the community of Notre Dame. I know I'm not the only one with this complaint - it was actually a friend of mine that brought this situation up. It all started with a mention of, «Would you look at that?" Now it irritates me beyond belief, and I'm on a rampage. IN BRIEF All of the public clocks on Notre Dame campus are running slow by at least two to three min­ There will be a lecture titled utes. "Did Catholic Social Teaching When I say public clocks, I incite a racial Revolution? mean the ones on the outside of The Rwandan Catholic O'Shag, Jordan Hall of Science, Church, 1956-1959" at 12 and the Basilica. Why are they p.m. today in 104 Hesburgh running slow? Who knows? Center. Jay Carney, a PhD can­ They've been that way as long as didate in Church History at anyone can remember, according Catholic University, will deliver to the people that I've asked. the lecture. The event, spon­ Maybe this is something little and sored by the Africa Working petty to be irritated by, but hon­ Group, is free and open to the estly, it makes life difficult. public. What irritates me so much is that I will be walking into Keenan Hall's annual come­ O'Shag, and I will look up to see dy show "The Keenan Revue" the time, thinking, "Oh, look! I will take place tonight and still have five minutes until Saturday at 7p.m. in the class!" O'Laughlin Auditorium at Then I walk into class late, Saint Mary's College. because that clock is running five minutes slow. Do you see how The Browning Cinema will inconvenient that is? I'm sure present the film "Children of I'm not the only one that has GRACE KENESEYfThe Observer Men," directed by Alfonso come across this problem. People Two Saint Mary's students sell tickets to the annual Dance Marathon, Cuaron, at 6:30 p.m. tonight in have got to dislike walking into which will take place April 3-4.