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Volume 57, Issue 32 | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2022 | ndsmcobserver.com
ND adds security minor
Sophomore, veteran dies
Arts and Letters approves new interdiscliplinary minor By SAM GODINEZ News Writer
On Wednesday, Oct. 5, the Notre Dame Arts and Letters College Council approved a new international securit y studies multidisciplinar y minor degree for all undergraduate students. The minor w ill be codirected by Dan Lindley, associate professor of international relations in the department of political science and director of the Undergraduate Certificate Fellows program. SAM GODINEZ | The Observer A lthough details are curThe new international security minor will be housed in the political rently in discussion, the science department, which is located in Jenkins Nanovic Hall. minor is set to require students to take U.S. National and three electives relat- through any Universit y Securit y Policy making, ing to international sea militar y histor y class curit y, which can be met see MINOR PAGE 4
SGA hosts ‘Support a Belle, Love a Belle’ week By CORA HADDAD News Writer
For the first week of November, Saint Mar y’s College Student Government Association (SGA) hosted “Support A Belle Love A Belle” (SABLAB) week. SABLAB week has been a fall tradition held on Saint Mar y’s Campus, w ith events spanning an entire week. Its intention, SGA president Angela Martinez Camacho explained, is to encourage the building of communit y among Saint Mar y’s students. “SABLAB week is simply celebrating what it means to be a Belle, building communit y between one another and hav ing fun throughout a one-week period,” Martinez Camacho said. For the first time, this year SGA worked ‘Smick Day’ into the SABLAB week of events. This incorporation led to collaboration w ith many
different SGA committees. Thalia Mora, co-chair of the Social Concerns Committee, spoke on the efforts necessar y to make a week like this happen. “Preparation was a lot of working w ith my cochair for Social Concerns, Hannah Kaczor, to budget, order, design and set up these events. We also collaborated w ith other SGA committees like Student
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Student Diversity Board president Crystal Ramirez, vice president Anais Juliano and treasurer Ana Baca ran a table at Smick Day.
Life and Involvement who really headed up Smick Day and the Academic Liaison Committee for our alum mixer,” Mora said. Events started at the beginning of the week, early Monday morning, w ith Chick-fil-A for breakfast in Spes Unica Hall. “I think students appreciated a y ummy start to the week, starting on a good see SABLAB PAGE 4
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Notre Dame student James (Jake) Blaauboer has died, the Universit y informed the student body in an email Saturday morning. Blaauboer, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Letters, is also a militar y veteran of the U.S. Army. The Div ision of Student Affairs w ill coordinate support and ser v ices for friends and family of Blaauboer w ith
more details to come, the email said. The Universit y did not include a date or cause of death in the initial communication. Both officials from Notre Dame and the St. Joseph Count y Coroner’s office did not release any other details about the death. The Universit y Counseling Center (574-631-7336) and Campus Ministr y (574-6317800) are both available for anyone impacted, the email said.
Professors study climate resiliency By CAROLINE COLLINS News Writer
The 2015 Paris Agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to below two, but preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. However, a report published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shows that while countries are taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it will not be enough to limit a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the
century. While countries meet this month to negotiate and discuss the next steps relating to the climate change crisis at COP27, the 27th Conference of Parties hosted by the UNFCCC in Egypt, professors at Notre Dame are also working on climate change initiatives. Galla Professor of Biological Sciences and director of the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative Jennifer Tank’s research focuses on how agriculture impacts stream see CLIMATE PAGE 3
Alum leads moon landing efforts By RYAN PETERS Notre Dame News Editor
W hen Jon Olansen was a child, he wanted to be an astronaut. This dream doesn’t pan out for most children, but Olansen, a Notre Dame alumnus, has come close to liv ing it out. A lthough he personally w ill not be walking on the moon, Olansen has spent the
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past three decades enabling astronauts to travel to space. Currently, he manages the Habitation and Logistics Outpost Office (HALO), a module that w ill house up to four astronauts in space at a time. “As the first pressurized element for NASA’s lunar Gateway, HALO w ill be see MOON PAGE 4
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