The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue 78 wednesday, february 1, 2012 Ndsmcobserver.com Scholar to Keenan primes for ‘Revue’ Professor join political Residence hall’s variety show to parody life at Notre Dame receives science dept. book award By MARISA IATI By NICOLE MICHELS News Writer News Writer Associate Professor in the Career-minded students Department of Government at should not shy away from a Georgetown University Patrick liberal arts education, profes- Deneen will trade the White sor Mark Roche says, because House for the Golden Dome as students educated in liberal he joins the arts will be faculty at the just as well University of prepared Notre Dame for the real at the begin- world as ning of next those who semester. study busi- Deneen ness. said he was R o c h e , drawn to GRANT TOBIN/The Observer former Notre Dame Members of Keenan Hall perform a skit about attire choice during the Keenan Revue in 2011. dean of the because of Patrick Deneen This year’s performance will take place in the Stepan Center for a second straight year. College of Mark Roche its dedication Arts and to building a By KRISTEN DURBIN and the show’s administra- The Revue, a campus tra- Letters, ex- great Catholic research univer- News Writer tors are optimistic about this dition since 1976, is a variety plored this theme in his book sity. He said despite the similar year’s potential acts, Senior show comprised of sketches titled “Why Choose the Lib- religious affiliations between Whether students are Producer Raymo Gallagher and satirical comedy written eral Arts?” for which he re- Georgetown and Notre Dame, he ready or not, the Keenan Re- said. entirely by the residents of ceived the 2011 Frederic W. recognizes a more rigorous com- vue is back with new skits, “We haven’t picked any of Keenan Hall. This year’s in- Ness Book Award. He said he mitment in the latter. new satire and nearly four the final skits yet, but we def- stallment, titled “The Keen- felt the need to express his “I think at Notre Dame there is decades of tradition to up- initely saw some good ones an Revue: The Revue Strikes support of such an education a stronger sense of a community hold. and we found a couple that Back,” will take place Febru- in a public forum. of scholars and students engaged Preparations for the 37th people will remember past ary 9, 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. in “Administrators often give in a common project [than there annual Revue are in full walking out of the Stepan the Stepan Center. abstract, brief and occasion- is at Georgetown] because of a swing after the first round Center doors after the show,” al speeches about the value greater awareness and presence of tryouts this past weekend, Gallagher said. see REVUE/page 5 of the liberal arts, but I give of [Notre Dame’s] Catholic mis- a fuller response,” Roche sion,” he said. said. “My unease [was] with Michael Desch, chair of Notre the sense that even though I Dame’s Department of Political was endorsing the practical Science, said Deneen will join the Club bridges faith, academics argument, education was be- University’s faculty as an associ- ing reduced to the practical. ate professor in the fall of 2012. We hadn’t set our sights lofty He will begin teaching courses By CHRISTIAN MYERS enough.” about American political thought News Writer The Ness Award is bestowed in the department’s recently an- annually by the American nounced new Constitutional A link between the Catho- Association of Colleges and Studies subfield the following lic identity of Notre Dame Universities to the book that spring. and the study of engineer- best contributes to the under- At Georgetown, Deneen taught ing may not seem obvious, standing and further develop- courses in ancient thought, but Notre Dame Students ment of “liberal education,” American thought and religion Empowering through Engi- according to the organiza- and politics. Though he does not neering Development (ND tion’s website. know which specific classes he SEED) bridges the gap — Roche said he was initially will teach at Notre Dame, De- literally and figuratively. driven to explore the real- neen said he hopes to offer an Professor Tracy Kijewski- world applicability of an edu- introductory political philosophy Correa, a faculty advisor for cation in the arts and sciences course. ND SEED, said the group’s because of the struggle to lure “Some of my teaching will be mission of building bridges students from the perceived aimed at building [the Constitu- in impoverished countries practicality of a business de- tional Studies] program,” Deneen blends Notre Dame’s reli- gree. said. “In nearly all my courses, gious affiliation with stu- “I wanted to make the case I try to show my students that dents’ academic interests. that students could pursue political philosophy, which can “In engineering, it has the liberal arts and succeed,” sometimes seem a little abstract not always obvious how the Roche said. and distant, has shaped and University’s Catholic iden- Exploring which talents em- transformed the world in which tity fits,” she said. “This ployers valued most, Roche we live.” project gives students an said he found students of the Deneen is the founder and di- opportunity to live out the arts and sciences are often rector of the Tocqueville Forum University’s mission in their considered ideal candidates. on the Roots of American Democ- field. Infrastructure chang- “The practical skills that racy. The six-year-old George- es lives.” you develop, especially com- town program promotes the ND SEED works with the munication skills both oral study of Western philosophical non-governmental organi- and written, are often the and theological sources’ influ- zation Bridges to Prosper- Photo courtesy of ND SEED most important skills identi- Members of ND SEED visited San Francisco, Nicaragua, during fall see DENEEN/page 6 see BRIDGE/page 6 break and completed a preliminary design for their bridge project. see ARTS/page 6 INSIDE TODAY’S PAPER Students use LinkedIn page 3 u Viewpoint page 8 u Luigi Gregori exhibit at the Snite page 10 u Women’s basketball vs. Rutgers recap page 20 page 2 | ndsmcobserver.com The Observer u D AY-TO-DAY Wednesday, February 1, 2011 QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE 90S TV SHOW? www.ndsmcobserver.com P.O. 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