The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue 6 Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Ndsmcobserver.com Woo leads business school for final semester Dean reflects on contribution to Mendoza College of Business, looks to future with national non-profit By EMILY SCHRANK “I really came to know the by myself,” she said. “But it is News Writer organization from those five really His work and His Spirit years and also traveled on be- that moves us along.” This semester marks the end half of CRS,” she said. “I had Even though Mendoza of Carolyn Woo’s 14-year ten- the chance to see firsthand the reached the top of Business- ure as dean of the Mendoza incredible impact and contri- Week’s undergraduate rank- College of Business. In June, bution of that work.” ings during her time as dean, Woo was named president and Woo said she thinks of her Woo said she is most proud of CEO of Catholic Relief Services new position as “an extraordi- keeping strong moral and ethi- (CRS), the official international nary privilege.” cal standards at the center of humanitarian agency of the “One of my greatest fears is the College’s mission. Catholic Church in the United that we learn not to see the “We never compromised our States. people who suffer,” she said. “I Catholic identity,” she said. “I felt like I needed a semes- consider myself blessed to have “We advanced our academic ter to tie up the loose ends,” the chance that I see.” reputation and Catholic mis- Woo said. “In particular, to After seeing how CRS trans- sion at the same time.” make sure the various foun- formed people’s lives, Woo de- Woo attributes her success dations of the College are in a cided it was time to go serve as dean to the efforts of the good place.” that family and said she is College’s staff. Woo, who begins her new po- looking forward to doing God’s “I think that the success that sition Jan. 1, served as a board work. the Mendoza College of Busi- GRANT TOBIN/The Observer member for CRS from 2004- “I get intimidated when I Carolyn Woo, dean of the Mendoza College of Business, will leave 2009. think of taking this job on all see WOO/page 5 Notre Dame in December to work at Catholic Relief Services. St. Michael’s offers Students leave halls for houses By VICKY MORENO campus laundering News Writer While the University high- lights dorm life as one of the By MEL FLANAGAN an assigned day, St. Michael’s greatest parts of the Notre News Writer visits each dorm to pick up a Dame experience, many stu- bundle of laundry from each dents head off campus for While the majority of stu- student, and then returns the their senior year, choosing dents set aside a few hours clean clothes a few days later. to live at a “home just be- each week to wash and dry “We pick it up, we bring it yond the Dome.” their laundry, others opt to back and your laundry is get- Eighty percent of Notre send their clothes to St. Mi- ting done for you,” St. Michael’s Dame students live on cam- chael’s Laundry Service to Counter Service Lead Repre- pus, the Office of Residence have it done for a fee. sentative Jean Rinehart said. Life and Housing (ORLH) St. Michael’s, located behind “It gives you more free time to reported. Of the 20 percent the Main Building, offers a study and do other things.” that live off campus, how- G. MATTHEW SAAD/The Observer “Student Bundle” plan for $225 Students Louise Fauth, Vishnu Thaver, Jack Heuer and their dog a semester. Once a week on see LAUNDRY/page 3 see HOUSING/page 5 Petey relax on the porch of their off-campus home. New professors join teaching faculty, pursue research By ANNA BOARINI generation of scholars while News Writer also enabling professors com- plete freedom to pursue their Frosh-O and Transfer-O ac- research interests,” she said. tivities may have wound down This year, Thrall will teach last week, but the University a course on structural steel welcomed one last group to design, a core requirement for campus as new professors be- all civil engineering and geo- gan their tenure at the Univer- logical science students. In the sity. future, Thrall said she hopes The new professors come to develop and teach courses from a variety of different in advanced steel design and backgrounds and experiences. bridge design, the topic of her For engineering professor dissertation. Ashley Thrall, Notre Dame will Thrall was drawn to Notre be her first teaching job after Dame partially because of its earning a doctorate in civil and Catholic tradition. environmental engineering “Notre Dame’s rich and from Princeton University last unique tradition of viewing May. research as service is deeply “I was drawn to academia be- intertwined with its Catholic cause it offers the opportunity LAUREN KALINOSKI | Observer Graphic to educate and mentor the next see PROFESSOR/page 5 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER College student interns for Disney page 3 u Viewpoint page 6 u Meek’s cutoff at DPAC page 8 u Men’s Soccer feature: Dillon Powers page 16 page 2 | ndsmcobserver.com The Observer u DAY-TO-DAY Tuesday, August 30, 2011 QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO PLAY AT THE B1 BLOCK PARTY? www.ndsmcobserver.com P.O. 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