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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
Gas leak evacuees gather in JACC Subway Transpo brings 500 evacuated workers and residents from downtown South Bend to campus By SARAH MERVOSH News Editor
Around 500 people gathered in the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center for shelter and assistance after a major gas leak caused the evacuation of many buildings in downtown South Bend Thursday. Thousands evacuated the downtown area, but no one was injured, according to the South Bend Tribune. The University made the fieldhouse side of the Joyce Center available to workers and residents who were displaced, University spokesman Dennis Brown said. Brown said 1st Source Bank, which has offices downtown, called the University and asked if their employees could come to Notre Dame’s campus. “ [ T h e y s a i d , ] ‘ We d o n ’t want them hanging out on the streets, can we bring them up to the Joyce Center?’ We said, ‘Yes, by all means,’” Brown said. Transpo began transporting evacuees to the Joyce Center, where f o o d , w a t e r, c o f f e e , juice, Internet access and blankets for the elderly were provided. “Anyone who wanted to jump on a bus could come up
By SARA FELSENSTEIN News Writer
AP
Emergency personnel establish a perimeter in downtown South Bend Thursday after a natural gas leak forced thousands to evacuate affected buildings. to the Joyce Center and have a place to wait it out,” Brown said. Evacuees arrived at the Joyce Center around 9:30 or 10 a.m. and were “coming and going” for the next four hours, peaking around lunchtime, he said. Brown said evacuees needed a place to wait because they did not know when the l e a k w o u l d b e capped and could not go home because much of the city was blocked off. “Wherever their cars may be parked, they couldn’t get
to them,” he said. In addition to the evacuation of businesses and restaurants, low-income housing and assisted living complexes were also affected. Many of these evacuees needed medical or wheelchair assistance, Brown said. “We were really concerned about those folks in particular,” he said. Va r i o u s Notre Dame departments, such as Notre Dame Security Police and the Office of Information Te c h n o l o g y, w o r k e d w i t h downtown businesses and the
Experts analyze disordered eating By LAURA McCRYSTAL News Editor
When a student approached Notre Dame psychology professor Alexandra Corning several years ago about writing a senior thesis on eating disorders, Corning said she knew very little about the topic. Now, she conducts research about eating disorders and teaches an undergraduate course titled “Understanding Eating Disorders.” While diagnosable eating disorders are a major concern, Corning said she focuses on the large number of people who struggle with symptoms, but do not have a diagnosable disorder. “Even when you’re struggling sub-clinically, you’re struggling,” Corning said. “Our campus, even if you looked around and discovered, yes, full-blown, diagnosable cases are rare …
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American Red Cross to assist evacuees. “It is a great example of collaboration between the broader community,” Brown said. The leak, which occurred in t h e 1 0 0 b l o c k o f We s t Jefferson Boulevard, was capped shortly after noon, t h e S o u t h B e n d Tr i b u n e reported. Brown said the Joyce Center cleared out by around 2 p.m.
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there’s lots of people who are struggling at a sub-clinical level.” One in three college-aged women has disordered eating habits, although only nearly 10 percent have a fullf l e d g e d e a t i n g d i s o r d e r, according the University
Counseling Center and resources distributed on Notre Dame’s campus this week as part of Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week, sponsored by the Gender Relations
see DISORDER/page 7
see PACE/page 6
Travel alert affects students abroad By CASEY KENNY
BRANDON KEELEAN | Observer Graphic
Each afternoon, like clockwork, lines form in front of the Subway in the LaFortune Student Center as students wait to order their favorite subs. What most of those students do not realize is Pace that the guy behind Subway’s global brand advertising, the guy behind $5 Footlongs, those television commercials with Jared Fogle and Subway ads with celebrities like Michael Phelps, is Notre Dame alum Tony Pace. Pace, a 1979 alumnus, is the Chief Marketing Executive of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust. Since Pace joined Subway in 2006 and helped create a new digital marketing
With the State Department’s recent release of a general travel alert for all Americans in Europe, Notre Dame’s Office of International Studies (OIS) took extra precautions to enhance awareness of the alert and to ensure the safety of its students studying or traveling abroad. The travel alert, released on Sunday, alerted U.S. citizens to the increased potential for terrorist attacks in Europe and recommended U.S. citizens take safety precautions when traveling abroad, particularly in public places like tourist sites and airports or while riding public transportation. The alert, a step below a formal “travel warning” which advises U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to
particular places, was issued after an assessment of information that terrorist groups appeared to be plotting attacks on cities in Europe. There are presently 235 Notre Dame students studying in Europe, according to Kathleen Opel, director of OIS. OIS is in close contact with its students who are studying abroad and the program directors urged students to listen to the warnings of the State Department and adopt appropriate safety measures. “The Office of International Studies has notified students in Europe of the State Department’s advisory,” Opel said. “We have advised them to follow the tips from the State Department and have provided them with various strategies to do so.”
see ALERT/page 7
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