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Volume 51, Issue 27 | Wednesday, September 28, 2016 | ndsmcobserver.com
Campus Safety recaps gameday Attendance, weather contribute to successful and safe Duke game weekend By EMILY McCONVILLE Associate News Editor
While campus was less full Saturday than it was for the football game against Michigan State last week, attendance for the Duke game was “very high” for an afternoon game, which vice president for campus safety and event management Mike Seamon attributed to good late-September weather. “It was the first of our football games that was dry from start to finish,” Seamon said. Seamon said the Friday pep rally in the Joyce Center was at its
capacity of 6,000 people, 1,408 fans attended a public practice at LaBar Practice Complex, and the maximum of 50 people attended Run Club, a Saturday morning running tour of campus. Additionally, 3,450 golf cart rides were delivered over the weekend. Parking lots were full with plenty of tailgates, which Seamon also said was due to good weather. “We noticed our medics have to deal with a lot more bee stings because the weather hasn’t gotten cold enough to suppress that,” Seamon said. Departure from the stadium
and campus was “smoother than Michigan State, but that’s expected with an afternoon game versus a night game,” he added. Saturday was military appreciation weekend — active duty members and veterans were recognized before the game. “It was nice to give another nod to the military,” Seamon said. According to the Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) crime log, an arrest on a charge of illegal possession, consumption or transportation of alcohol took place at Cavanaugh Hall early Saturday morning. Additionally, arrests on
charges of possession of paraphernalia, resisting arrest and “drugsmarijuana-other” were made at Stanford Hall. NDSP police chief Keri Kei Shibata said no “game related” arrests on Saturday. After three home game weekends in a row, Seamon said Campus Safety is looking forward to taking a break as the football team travels. “It’ll be nice to have a couple of weeks off for the away games,” he said. Contact Emily McConville at emcconv1@nd.edu
Lecturer addresses politics, religion By SYDNEY DOYLE News Writer
Julie Hanlon Rubio, a professor at St. Louis University, spoke Tuesday night at Saint Mary’s College about relations between Catholicism, politics and finding common ground. Rubio’s lecture highlighted the obstacle of an increasing polarity brought on by social media influences and the current presidential race. Rubio said that within this country and even within the Catholic communities the divide continues to grow. “It seems the divide is deepening rather than going away,” she said. “We sort ourselves into neighborhoods with people like ourselves.” Rubio said that we as people today tend to accept that people who are part of a different political party are just fundamentally different from us and that the most we can to is to merely tolerate them. When Rubio asked her students at St. Louis University if they could befriend a person of opposing political views, she said the majority of them answered no. Rubio said that people need to acknowledge the polarization today actually holds common ground. Most of what is spewed out in the media polls are misrepresentations of those who are actually in the middle on the issues, Rubio
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Julie Hanlon Rubio speaks at Saint Mary’s College on Tuesday night. Rubio’s lecture considered the relationship between religion and politics in light of the upcoming presidential election.
said. “Those choices do not capture what people actually think,” she said. “When given two choices, you just choose one.” Rubio moved to polarization in the Catholic community specifically and said that Catholics may disagree on the more political topics but there is common ground once we move past the hot-button issues. She said on the topic of marriage, while there has been disagreement in areas such as gay marriage and divorce,
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Catholics can find common ground in that they support marriage. While the specifics of those thing might be politically blurred, she said there is hope for common ground. Rubio said that even though politics creates a divide in the Catholic community, Catholics cannot give up on politics, but must instead find out a way to connect faith with politics. “The best thinkers today are ok to move from faith to politics in public,” Rubio said. “Catholics should bring faith into the public sphere.”
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Rubio said that the Catholic communities cannot let go of hope when it comes to politics. With politics, Catholics must to find the space between hope and realism, according to Rubio. Even though what some may hope for as Catholics never comes true through our political systems and it seems unfair, it’s important for Catholics to accept a modest hope and keep it alive, she said. “We are going to have to accept compromise and defeat,” see RUBIO PAGE 3
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Email warning fails to send Observer Staff Report
An email notification to students warning them to stay away from Galvin Life Sciences Center due to a suspicious package found there Thursday afternoon did not send because the email Listserv, which was supposed to contain students’ emails, was empty, University spokesperson Dennis Brown said. “As a result, no messages could be delivered,” Brown said. “We’re now working to understand why the list was empty.” Faculty and staff received an email through a separate Listserv notifying them to avoid the area. The notification was also meant to reach students via the empty Listserv, Brown said. Police officers responded to a call Thursday afternoon about a suspicious package in the bushes on the south side of the Galvin Life Sciences Center. A passerby noticed the container around 1:30 p.m. and contacted Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP), who roped off the area. South Bend and state police were called in to assist, and officers finished assessing the situation and reopened the area around 2:15 p.m. Police identified the container as a cooler containing food and beverages. Brown said Campus Safety decides when, and through what channel, to send urgent messages to students, faculty and staff. In this instance, the student Listserv — as opposed to the ND Alert system — was used, Brown said. “In last Thursday’s case, the size and location of the container made it clear that only the immediate area needed to be cordoned off and evacuated, which was done,” he said. “The message to the campus was to notify people to avoid the area.”
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