THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY VOLUME 46, ISSUE 125 | FRIDAY, apRIL 19, 2013 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM General admission Student football tickets will no longer specify seating; class division of sections will remain By ANN MARIE JAKUBOWSKI assigned seats specified, so the she said. “You go to other schools News Editor seats will be offered on a first- and their students are in the sta- come, first-served basis each dium, jam-packed and rowdy at Notre Dame’s Leprechaun game. least an hour before the game. Legion announced a revamped Senior Kristen Stoutenburgh, “It creates this atmosphere ticket distribution program former vice president for the where there’s so much buzz even Wednesday, and group leaders Leprechaun Legion, said the before kickoff. And there’s this said their goal was to create a group has been researching and player and fan interaction that “mutually beneficial” situation developing this plan since last you can only get when [people] for players and students invested fall. are there early,” Stoutenburgh in the game day experience. “As the Leprechaun Legion, said. An email sent to the student we have been looking at mak- Junior Matthew Cunningham, body said the plan will make all ing the atmosphere in each of who will begin his second year student seating general admis- our athletic venues better, and as Leprechaun Legion president sion by section, still sorted by so we’ve done a lot of research next fall, said the group visited class year. Students will pur- at other schools on how they do chase ticket booklets without their game-day atmosphere,” see TICKETS PAGE 6 BRANDON KEELEAN | The Observer Kelly to unveil The Shirt Special Olympics By CATHERINE OWERS News Writer hosts soccer tourney Closets and drawers are being thrown open today as students By CHARLIE DUCEY Michigan’s team came in sec- make room, all in anticipation News Writer ond and Notre Dame placed for the unveiling of the 2013 it- third. eration of The Shirt. In an effort to promote in- The players dedicated eight Irish coach Brian Kelly will re- tercollegiate Special Olympics, weeks to training after the veal The Shirt for the 2013 foot- Notre Dame hosted a soccer teams took shape in January, ball season at approximately tournament last Sunday in Glasnow said. He said the par- 5:45 p.m. as part of The Shirt collaboration with Western ticipation of the athletes was Unveiling Ceremony, which will Michigan University and the more important than the out- begin at 4:30 p.m. today. University of Michigan. come of the games themselves. The Shirt Committee 2013 Senior Ted Glasnow, co- Glasnow said the soccer president Dan Ogg said a big president of Special Olympics tournament, while perhaps part of the event is, alongside Notre Dame, said Special only a small start, attests to the the Blue-Gold Game, building Olympics Unified Sports com- rising involvement in Special excitement for the upcoming ALEX PARTAK | The Observer bines an approximately equal Olympics activities at the col- Brian Kelly dons The Shirt at least year’s unveiling. This year’s number of athletes with intel- lege level and the passion stu- see SHIRT PAGE 6 ceremony will take place today at 4:30 p.m. at the Notre Dame Bookstore. lectual disabilities and athletes dents bring to these activities. without intellectual disabili- “A few years back, Special ties on teams for training and Olympics International did competition. not think it was worthwhile “Unified soccer avoids what to promote the type of volun- Physicists discover supernova can sometimes be the patron- teerism they do for younger izing relationship between demographics,“ he said. “So, By HENRY GENS will announce the discovery by States, Woodrow Wilson, with volunteers without intellec- we felt the need to prove that News Writer co-authoring a paper, which will the official name UDS“ 10Wil.” tual disability and athletes college students can bring the be published in the Astrophysical Hayden said scientists esti- with intellectual disabilities,” same, if not more, passion to Even the most distant parts of Journal. mate the age of the universe is Glasnow said. “This event their service through Special the final frontier are no longer Hayden said the supernova is in the neighborhood of 13.8 bil- shows that the former is not the Olympics.” beyond the reach of Notre Dame so distant the light from the event lion years, so this discovery is only party that can bring some- Glasnow said his passion physicists with the recent discov- has taken 10 billion years to reach close to the frontier. This entity is thing to the table and high- comes from serving as a coach ery of the supernova “UDS10Wil.” Earth. classified as a typeI a supernova, lights the equality that should of Special Olympics track and Physics professor Peter “It’s at a redshift of about 1.9, a special kind of cosmological exist in society in general.” field since high school. He said Garnavich and physics graduate roughly 10 billion years old,” phenomenon that can be used to Glasnow said the tourna- events like the unified soccer student Brian Hayden worked Hayden said. “It’s taken that long measure the enormous distances ment took place Apr. 14 from tournament will galvanize col- as part of a team of research- for the light to reach us.” in space, Hayden said. 1 to 4 p.m. at Alumni Field. leges around the country to ers on the CANDELS+CLASH Garnavich said the type Ia su- The brightness of the super- There were three games, and consider adding and expand- Supernova Project to detect the pernova the two co-discovered nova can be used to determine each team played the other two ing Special Olympics programs most distant supernova yet dis- was nicknamed “SN Wilson” after teams. The team from Western covered. Garnavich and Hayden the 28th president of the United see SUPERNOVA PAGE 7 Michigan won the tournament, see OLYMPICS PAGE 3 LONGBOARDS PAGE 4 VIEWPOINT PAGE 9 SCENE PAGE 10 SOFTBALL PAGE 20 MENS LACROSSE PAGE 20 2 THE OBSERVER | FRIDAY, apRIL 19, 2013 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM TODAY Have a question you want answered? QUESTION OF THE DAY: Email [email protected] ndsmcobserver.com If you could trespass anywhere, where would it be? P..O.. BoxBox 779,779, Notre Dame, ININ 4655646556 024 South Diningining Hall, Notre Dame, ININ 4655646556 Editor-in-Chief Celeste Villa-Rangel Kerry Walsh AndrewAllan GJosephastelum Managing Editor Business Manager freshman freshman M eghan Megan Thomassen Doyle JeffJeff LLiptakiptak Welsh Family Hall Howard Hall Asst. Managing Editor: M Andrewatthew O DwenseFranks Asst. Managing Editor: M Samarisa Stryker Iati “North Korea.” “Prince William’s bedroom.” Asst. 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