THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 43: ISSUE 6 · TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER2. 2008 NDSMCOB SERVER.COM Dillon Hall cancels annual pep rally Indu.strial Rector says he didn't prepare residents for the event, which won't be rescheduled in 2008 desig)l. gets The rector also told his resi­ By MADELINE BUCKLEY dents the pep rally "was not News Writer coming together in a timely top-:; rank fashion." Dillon Hall Rector Fr. Paul Though this year's event is Doyle shocked residents not intended be rescheduled, Small program gains Sunday when he announced the Fr. Doyle expressed his intent residence hall's pep rally, held to hold a pep rally in the respect internationally every year before the first future. home football game of the sea­ "I hope we can have a pep son, was cancelled. rally next year that is the sort By JOSEPH McMAHON The pep rally, a series of skits of pep rally the Dillon men and Associate News Editor mocking aspects of Notre Dame campus community have come life, has been a Dillon Hall tra­ to expect," he said. Tucked into a basement dition since the late 1970s, lead Before Fr. Doyle broke the studio of the Riley Hall of Art pep rally scriptwriter Ryan news of the pep rally's cancel­ and Design, Notre Dame O'Connor said. lation to the dormitory as a industrial design majors Fr. Doyle cited two reasons whole Sunday night, he had a labor for long hours, drawing for his decision. private meeting with current JAY FITZPATRICK/The Observer sketches and building mod­ "I failed to provide the neces­ Dillon Hall President, Brendan Chris Zorich, a member of the 1988 Notre Dame football els. Although only staffed by sary direction and support," he National Championship team, speaks at last year's two faculty members, the said. see DILLON/page 4 Dillion Pep Rally on August 30, 2007. industrial design program has become a powerhouse, and was recently ranked as one of the top five interna­ tional programs by BusinessWeek magazine. "[Industrial DesignJ is a Construction continues across campus way that you can use the thinking or the methodology . Projects are ongoing, with work to continue this winter; buildings expected to open on time of the artist and apply it to real world problems," Industrial Design professor By BECKY HOGAN University Architect Doug Paul Down said. "In the last Marsh, these projects made 11 or 12 years we've had stu­ News Writer considerable progress dur­ dents that started to win ing the summer, and their awards because we started to Three major construction construction will continue enter more competitions." projects started last year - throughout the academic The program gained cam­ a new women's dormitory, year. pus-wide recognition last an addition to the Law "The weather was nearly year when former senior School building called the ideal for construction this Mallory McMorrow placed Eck Family Hall of Law and summer," Marsh said. first in the Mazda Design a new engineering building Marsh also said the Competition, an online con­ named Stinson-Remick Hall University employed over test, where contestants - are still underway on 650 tradesmen everyday entered their vision of the Notre Dame's West Quad, during the summer to 2018 MAZDA3. DeBartolo Quad and near ensure progress on the cam­ Industrial Design has won the original site of the for­ pus construction projects. numerous other awards in JESSICA LEE/The Observer mer University Club. However, construction on the past several years, The $57.7 million Eck Family Hall of Law, currently under con­ According to Associate struction, is expected to be completed by December 2008. Vice President and see BUILDINGS/page 3 see DESIGN/page 4 Saint Mary's rank falls in new report Daniels asstimes College drops from 91st to 104th, but overall score improves position as director By LIZ HARTER TOP LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES 2009 Saint Mary's Editor programs. By LIZ HARTER He will oversee 25 student B104 Albion College Saint Mary's Editor Saint Mary's tied for Albion,MI workers and more than 60 stu- 1 04th among the U.S. dent organizations as they plan News and World Report's B1o4 Bennington College Patrick Daniels began his events for the College. top liberal arts colleges for Bennington, VT time at Saint Mary's as the "I am the one who advises, 2009. .104 Hampshire College College's new director of stu- rather than supervises," he said This is only the second AmherJt,MA dent involvement the same time in an Aug. 29 statement. "I give year the College, which as the freshmen arrived; mov- students suggestions and rec- had previously been count­ .104 Presbyterian College ing into his office in the Student ommendations and point them ed among the top liberal Clinton, SC Center as first-year students in the right direction, but they arts schools in the region, .104 Saint Mary's College moved into their residence make the decisions." has been on the national Notre Darru, IN halls. Daniels decided to take the rankings list. It held the Daniels, who came to Saint position with the College to be number 91st spot la~t year. 1!1104 St. Michael's College ·Mary's from Towson University closer to members of his family, The College's Director of Colche.•ter, VT in Towson, Md., where he was who live in Michigan. He also the director of student activi- I Media Relations Gwen Washington and Jefferson wanted to the opportunity to .104 ties. He spent eight years at work more directly with stu- I O'Brien said the school College 1 securing a national rank­ WtLJhington, PA Western Michigan University dents. ing for a second consecu- where he served many different "At my previous institutions «Ji} .. '~~ roles, including director of stu- see RANKINGS/page 3 MARY JESSE/The Observer dent activities and leadership see DIRECTOR/page 3 page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Tuesday, September 2, 2008 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT CLASSES ARE YOU DREADING MOST SO FAR THIS YEAR? Eyes on Denver I love Denver. I've lived in the Denver area all my life. Denver has a mountain mystiqun, an alluro that comes from being a world-da.'i'i city so dose to unchangeable, Cameron McConnell David Riehm Hannah Ha Graysen Petersen-Fitts Mercedes Llanas natural gr<Uldeur. We're in the middle of' the eountry, not sophomore sophomore sophomore sophomore junior near any ocean or lake, and yet we've Keough Stanford WelshFam. Dillon Welsh Fam. managed to blossom into a thriving culture hub with a top j)(~rforming a.rts complex "Philosophy of "I love all my "Organic "Beginning and brand nnw Oj)(lra house, not to men­ "Physiological tion our overwhnlmingly successfW sport.<.; Morals classes. '' Chemistry. Spanish II. Mi Psychology tllams (Broncos, Avalanche) who have each because I am a There's far too espafiol is because I know won national completely much carbon really bad. " championships in Stephanie DePrez nothing about the last decade, immoral involved." neurons. and the Rockies, person. who won the Assistant Scene National League Editor lastynar. We're a fiK~kin' city surrounded by fimr­ teeners (read - really tall mountains). We've got cowboys, ski burns, and the IX'.ca­ sional trust-fund hippie. But la.'it week we had something a little unheard of' on our wesoom plains: national IN BRIEF politid<uJs l1x1king filr a g1xxi show. It W<L'i quill~ a trip to watch my home city Activities Night will be held roll out thn md Cafj)(~t for everyone from tonight at the Joyce Center <>bam a <Uld llilla.ry to Susan Sarandon and Fieldhouse. The event, which Chri'iti<Ul Bale. showcases Notre Dame's under­ Though m11.-.1 j)(lOple in Colorado have an graduate clubs, is sponsored by opinion, politics hardly ever comes to the Student Activities Ollice. blows, and all oftlltl sudden the Democratic Party was staking out their territory. The Handbell Choir will hold I lillt a polar surge through Denver tlm auditions from S:30 to 10 p.m. likes of' which I'd never seen befilrn. Talking tonight in the Coleman-Morse to fiiends back horne on both sides, some Center. Hegistration is wnre having the time of' their life, volun­ required; contact Karen Kirner tnering for the convention and getting at 574-631-9326. caught up in thn political wave. Others were getting sick of' the one-sided l:Xmver The colloquium: "Making Post stl1rins <Uld the inability to start a mn­ Scientific Datasets Universally versation that didn't mntl~r on why Obama Acceptable" will take pla1:e is tlm J.,1fnatllSt man ever in a million ynars tomorrow from 4 to 5 p.m. in to nvnr breathn, nvnr. the Nieuwland Hall of Science. I watl:hnd with a cmia.in smugness as the whole nation and even the world turned The Student Activities Office toward Dnnver. Shot<.; of' the Pnpsi Centlw, will host "Hock the Quad" where tl1n Avs play and where I saw The tomorrow at 9 p.m. on South Policn rmmion tlmr last summer, were tak­ Quad. featuring Wii Sports and ing up 'IV screens nverywhnre. It wa'i cov­ CASEY CARNEY/The Observer Hock Band. Free food will be ered in "{:olnbraoo I>enver 08" bmmers <Uld Clockwise from left, juniors Javier Soegaard, Lee Marsh and Santiago Rosado and provided. used as tlw establishing shot behind count­ sophomore Brittani Russel enjoyed Monday's warm weather and ate their dinner on Ins.<.; station identification bit'i from CNN to God Quad.