THE The Independent f!ewspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's OLUME 42: ISSUE 46 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2007 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Pension act expires with new year Hypnotist Provision that makes cotributions from IRAs helps vvith tax-free helped University collect $2.5 million tax-exempt organizations, like confidence By MARCELA BERRIOS Notre Dame - and with a tax Associate News Editor benefit. Since President Bush signed Student taps minds of Notre Dame may have to lind a the Act into effect in August new way to encourage senior 2006, Notre Dame has received individuals, athletes alumni to donate a part of their more than $2.5 million in IRA retirement savings to the contributions, said John University starting next year, Butkovich, assistant director of By LINDSAY SENA because the piece of legislation planned giving at the News Writer that currently makes these con­ University's development office. tributions tax-free will expire at "These are dollars we might've So you want to quit smoking, the end of 2007. not received otherwise," conquer stage fright, improve A provision of the 2006 Butkovich said. your athletic performance and Pension Protection Act allows But the provision will expire gain self-confidence? Notre Dame people 70.5 years or older to on Dec. 31 as different groups in MBA student Dale "Doc" direct up to $100,000 of their Congress have expressed con- AP Dougherty might be able to help Individual Retirement Account President George W. Bush signs the Pension Protection Act with a few sessions of hypnosis. (IRA) to qualifying charities and see IRA/page 3 into law in the White House on Aug. 17, 2006. A certified hypnotist, Dougherty said he became interested in the practice after seeing a stage show in 1990 and has practiced it for seven years. He has hosted numerous hypnosis workshops at Alumnae Male feminist tackles gender issues Notre Dame, working with both individuals and sports teams. He held one such workshop. the offer their By BRIAN MCKENZIE last beginner's session of the News Writer semester, Tuesday in the Mendoza College of Business to help stu­ Anti-sexism activist Jackson Katz has told dents improve their study habits career tips members of the New England Patriots and and test-taking and memorization the U.S. Marine Corps that men need to skills. College graduates host stand up to a culture that allows the physi­ Dougherty kicked off the session cal and psychological subjection of women. with a few brief meditations, ask­ Expo, Insights Day On Tuesday, Katz delivered the same mes­ ing participants to visualize relax­ sage to a Notre Dame audience. ing settings. Contrary to stereo­ Part of the trouble with society's treat­ types created by hypnosis stage By LIZ HARTER ment of gender issues is that these matters shows, Dougherty said that your News Writer are widely considered to be "women's mind still has a moral code under issues," he said. a hypnotic trance. Saint Mary's alumnae from 21 So long as issues of rape, sexual harass­ "You totally have control over majors returned to campus ment and sexism are considered women's yourself," he said. "You can't be Tuesday to offer students advice issues, Katz said, it is easy for men to opt made to rob a bank unless you on post-graduate employment out of the discussion. rob banks in your everyday life." and nducational opportunities in "Opinion polls show that both women and Hypnosis produces a temporary the first annual Alumnae Career men think [violence against women] is an condition of attuned responsive­ Exposition and Career Insights important issue, but that it's an important ness at the subconscious level, Day, sponsored by the Board of women's issue," he said. giving Dougherty an opportunity Governance (BOG), the Division And with 99 percent of rapes committed to present positive thought.<; and of Academic Affairs and the by males, a widespread refusal among men values to the hypnotized mind. Center for Career Opportunities. WU YUE/The Observer to engage in problem-solving debates will "Ideally, the positive sugges- The alumnaP. participated in Anti-sexism activist Jackson Katz speaks to major-based seminars through­ students Tuesday night, in the Hesburgh Ubrary. see GENDER/page 4 see HYPNOTIST/page 6 out the day, discussing their careers and how current stu­ dents r:an crack into and excel in thosn finlds. Tlw main event of the day was the Carner Exposition in the Student Center Lounge. Diplomat wants female peacemakers About 75 students participated in the networking event, where the visiting alumnae spoke about Hesburgh Center auditorium. their own career experiences. Sorensen: Women have "Women are often marginal­ "The alumnae have bnnn so 'untapped potential' ized, pushed to the edge," supportive," BOG alumnae com­ Sorensen said in an interview missionnr Christine Darche said. before the lecture. "The United By THERESA CIVANTOS "Even tlH>Se who couldn't attend Nations is at the center of so I the career expo I wrote back News Writer many things. We could have saying this is a great program." focused on any number of top­ Many of the alumnae said they A former United Nations ics. But women's rights, wish there had been a similar diplomat told a Notre Dame women's issues, are very program in placn during their audience Tuesday that 80 per­ important." time at thn College. cent of the world's refugees are She said women have-been "Wiwn I came to school here women and children - and she throughout history victims of thern was only one bank that wants women, including female war, but they possess the traits interviewed lfor post-graduate refugees.,to become "architects that make strong peace employmentl," said Katherine of peace. builders. The opportunities to Waltner Harig, a 1977 graduate. Gillian Sorensen, a senior act in this capacity, however, "We had to do everything after adviser to the United Nations have been denied to them for college on our own." Foundation who is known as centuries. Waltner Harig is the executive "the diplomat's diplomat," "Although women are half director of the Illinois region of delivered the lecture "The CHRISTIAN SAGARDIAfThe Observer State of Women Gillian Sorensen, U.N. senior adviser, talks about the state of see ALUMNAE/page 4 Internationally" in the see DIPLOMAT/page 6 women internationally in the Hesburgh Center auditorium Tuesday. page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, November 7, 2007 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE AND WHY? Protest this A'> it is with many studnnL'i, the 21-ynar-old drinking age, our one-year losing stwak to Navy, people who 1:ut in linn at the Dining Minsoo Kang Ed Yap Puja Parikh Danny Wheelan llall and slow walknrs can annoy me. Brianna Muller But nothing so far this year has managed to sophomore sophomore sophomore freshman sophomore irk me morn than Carroll Keenan Farley Keenan tho unbdievable Kara King l~yons numbm· or pnople who havn ynt to Viewpoint Copy "The GDDfor ''The Exorcism "Amityville "The Descent. It "Shark Attack Editor learn how to Notre Dame of Emily Rose. Horror. It didn't need the Ill. It's so sodalizo. You know - that !-.'11Y at the f{JOtball game Football It's scary as strikes close to gore to be realistic. " who dairns he eould singlo-handPdly defend 2007. It's self hell." home." scary. against our offense. explanatory. " Tho snniors who still enjoy dorm parties and frnqunnt thnm despite tiH~ir ability to procure their own akohol. Anyone who, on more than one oceasion, has ({Jund humor in commenting on the appearance or Stepan Center. Pleasn don't misunderstand me- everyone can havo a lapse in judgment. But to do so on a regular basis leads to soda! awkwardness. One could argue that IN BRIEF this type or behavior is contagious. drawing our soda! interaetions further and further Ohio State University pro­ from normaky. fessor James Bartholomew This faet is only hampered by the Exdse will deliver the lecture "Is Police's insistence on striet enforcement or There Anything Unique the drinking age. Them's the impression that /\bout Modern .Japanese no one under the ago or 21 can set root at TC Sci1mce'?" Thursday at 4:15 for fear of being issuml an MIC. The nnw p.m. in 215 DeBartolo Ball. crackdown on oll"-eampus partying is just one of many problems. Heather Stoll, a professor Monotonous discussion is now common­ at the University of place. Wn as a studPnt body have little insight California, Santa Barbara, into new topies or l:onversation. will deliver the leeture Bocnntly, howovnr, a now debate arose: that "l'rnsidents, Powers and of Uw lack of studl'nt activism on campus. I Parties: Tlw Sources sno wlwrn the argunwnt comes from, but or Lngislativn Electoral thnn~ arc so many morn portirwnt issuos to Coordination in PresidPntial Not.n~ Damn that havn to be sortnd out bd"orn HPginrns" Thursday at 4:15 we nm fully devotP oursnlvPs to other causes. p.m. in Hoorn C-1 o:~ of the Pnopln are out protnsting for a living wag1\ Hesburgh Center. yet no one 1:an fully apprndatl' theso ell"orL'> wlwn their voiees an~ drownod out by the lntornationally known freshman claiming lw can coach bl'ttnr than advocate against the death Charlie Wnis or somn guys rnhashing tim Kaloidoscopn Md>aniels all-girls-at-NI>-are­ penalty Bud Welch will speak Thursday at H p.m. in grmnlins thnory. COLEMAN COLLINS/ The Observer /\nd tho worst part of our continuing Freshman Lilly Civantos reads her original poetry at Student Literature Night in the tho Heshurgh Center for domisn into completn soda! ineptness: No one Hammes Lounge of the Coleman-Morse Center Tuesday.