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Volume 49, Issue 56 | thursday, november 19, 2015 | ndsmcobserver.com
‘So much more power than we think’ ND, SMC community counteract rape culture on campus through advocacy and action
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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series on sexual assault at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s story focuses on rape culture at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. After several screenings on campus earlier this year, CNN will air “The Hunting Ground” for a national audience Thursday at 9 p.m. When the documentary debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it was billed as “a piercing, monumental exposé
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Activists Andrea Pino, left, and Annie Clark, the subjects of “The Hunting Ground” documentary, speak at a Sept. 10 event at Saint Mary’s. The two women founded the organization End Rape on Campus.
Memorial mass honors deceased faculty and staff By KATIE GALIOTO News Writer
As part of Campus Ministr y’s new initiative to strengthen the relationship between Notre Dame facult y and the Universit y’s faith-based roots, a Remembrance Mass for
deceased facult y and their loved ones w ill be celebrated tonight in the Dillon Hall Chapel. Fr. Mike Connors, senior facult y chaplain w ithin Campus Ministr y, said he thinks this is the first time a facult y memorial Mass like this has been celebrated on
campus in recent years. “Will it become an annual tradition? Maybe — this is all brand new,” Connors said. “It’s practically the first event geared towards facult y ever in terms of Campus Ministr y or some see MASS PAGE 3
Students perform musical By ANDREA VALE News Writer
In conjunction with Notre Dame’s Pasquerilla East Musical Company (PEMCo), the department of film, television and theatre is staging a production of “Little Shop of Horrors” this week. The show will be performed Nov. 18 through Nov. 22 in the Patricia George Decio Theatre of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC). A dark comedy based on the 1960 film of the same name, the musical “The Little Shop see PLAY PAGE 5
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Juniors Maggie Moran and Quint Mediate prepare for their performance of “The Little Shop of Horrors,” which runs at DPAC.
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Justice explores judicial review, international law By MATTHEW McKENNA News Writer
The Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies hosted the book launch for the book, “Italian Constitutional
Samuel Alito
Managing Editor and
of rape culture on campuses, poised to light a fire under a national debate.” The film, which examines Notre Dame and other universities’ handling of sexual assault cases, generated a renewed sexual violence discussion at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, but Saint Mary’s junior Lauren Zyber said most students still don’t know what “rape culture” is or why it’s a problem. “I think rape culture exists because people don’t know it’s a problem,” Zyber said. “A lot of the time women are taught ‘watch out for yourself,’ ‘take care of yourself,’ ‘don’t dress
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
By JACK ROONEY and KATHRYN MARSHALL
Justice in Global Context,” on Wednesday afternoon. The book was co-authored by a group of four legal scholars that includes Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame law professor, and Andrea Simoncini, a visiting fellow and professor of constitutional law at the University of Florence, and focuses on the Italian constitutional court system and the lessons it contains for constitutional legal studies around
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the world. As part of the launch, Kellogg and the Potenziani Program arranged a panel of speakers who were involved with the writing and editing of the book, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the O’Toole Professor of Constitutional Law, Anthony J. Bellia. Simoncini also spoke on the panel. Alito, who wrote his senior thesis on the Italian constitutional courts, said the Italian court is particularly deserving of study by the Englishspeaking world. “One of the great opportunities I’ve had is to compare how I do things with other judges and justices,” he said. Simoncini said he and his co-authors realized there was a lack of Italian constitutional study in the English language, which is mainly due to the lack of translations available. “It was surprising to hear decisions from Albania and Zimbabwe talked about and see ALITO PAGE 5
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