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Volume 53, Issue 72 | wednesday, january 23, 2019 | ndsmcobserver.com
Philosophy professor emeritus dies at 76 Gary Gutting, founder of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, leaves legacy as teacher, scholar, author Observer Staff Report
Gar y Gutting, the John A. O’Brien professor of philosophy, died Friday at 76, the Universit y announced in a news release Tuesday. Gutting was a scholar of contemporar y French philosophy, philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. “As an aut hor, Ga r y
f unctioned as bot h innovator a nd instr uctor, as someone who saw philosophica l interest a nd power where ot hers do not,” Not re Da me philosophy professor Pau l Weit hma n sa id in t he release. “As a teacher, his w illing ness to build his lectures a round t he quest ions his students submitted by ema il gave t hem a rema rkable a mount of responsibilit y for
t heir ow n educat ion, a nd represented student-centered lea rning at its best. Gutting earned a doctorate from Saint Louis Universit y in 1968. He was a member of Notre Dame’s philosophy department for 50 years and ser ved as chair for si x years, the release said. According to the release, he a lso taught Universit y President Fr. John Jenk ins as
Students support Women’s March, participate in D.C. By ERIN SWOPE News Writer
38 Notre Dame students took a 10 hour bus ride to attend the third annual Women’s March in Washington D.C. on Saturday. This was the first year Notre Dame students arranged a formal trip to the March, though in previous years, students attended on their own. Senior Jack Grogan, co-president of Notre Dame College Democrats, said he and Rachel Ingal, one of the trip’s organizers, began planning the trip last semester. “[Ingal] asked me if College Democrats would be willing to see WOMEN PAGE 3
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Students marched in the third annual Women’s March as part of a trip that was organized by Notre Dame College Democrats.
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To senior Dan Lindstrom, team coordinator for Notre Dame Right to Life, the March for Life is less about tr y ing to change people’s minds in the moment — that can happen in ever yday discourse about pro-life issues — and more about bearing w itness to what he believes in. “It’s an opportunit y to
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give a voice to the unborn,” Lindstrom said. “As taboo as it’s become to talk about abortion, the fact is that if you believe that life begins at conception, then there has never been a bigger atrocit y in the histor y of mankind than the deaths of more than 60 million children.” Lindstrom, along w ith nearly 1,000 other Notre Dame, Saint Mar y’s and Holy Cross students, facult y
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and staff participated in the 46th annual March for Life on Friday in Washington, D.C. The trip was cut short due to a troubling weather forecast for Saturday, which forced those in attendance to return to campus directly after the March, Lindstrom said. He said he had to make last-minute calls to the bus see LIFE PAGE 4
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He also ser ved as the editor for A merican Philosophical Week ly and was a contributor for The New York Times’ philosophy blog, The Stone. Peter Catapano, an editor for The Stone, memorialized Gutting in an opinion piece Monday. Jenkins w ill preside over a funeral Mass for Gutting on Feb. 1 at 3:30 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Saint Mary’s club encourages fitness, health By REBECCA STELLA
Campus communities attend 2019 March for Life By KIERA STUBBS
an undergraduate. In 2002, Gutting founded Notre Dame Philosophical Rev iews, a philosophy journal, w ith his w ife and co-editor Stacie. Gutting earned a Kaneb Award in 2004 and a Thomas P. Madden Award in 2007 for excellence in teaching. He was w riter or editor of numerous books and scholarly articles, the release said.
After the completion of the Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex, Saint Mary’s has revamped an exercise incentive program titled “Belles for Fitness”. Athletic trainer and cocoordinator of the wellness program Katie Knisely, who restarted the initiative, said it was originally put on hold during the construction of the new center. “I’m glad that we were able to restart this program for the students, faculty and staff members to have more camaraderie between each other and encourage exercise on campus,” Knisely said in an email. According to Knisely, in this session there are 16 teams participating. Each team consists of five to 10 students, faculty or staff members, cultivating a tighter-knit Saint Mary’s community, she added. “I’ll admit, my chemistry lab professor, Mrs. Houser, had a few chats with us when we were beating her team on the leaderboard for the week, but all talk was lighthearted,” first year Elizabeth Zaczyk said. Each team is required to have a team captain and only one student-athlete is allowed
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per team. Zaczyk and her friends formed a team for the fall session and, according to her, after a tough loss to the “Enginerds and Your Moms,” they decided to try again in the spring session. Her team, “We Showed Up,” consists of ten girls. “There’s a variety of things that my team is a part of, which makes all of our workouts uniquely different,” Zaczyk said. “From dance, to marching band to cross country, we’ve got it all.” Teams compete against each other to see who can collect the most points at the end of the session. Points are determined based on the number of minutes teams exercise throughout the week, Knisely said. “Each member of the team is held accountable for 200 minutes of activity per week,” Knisely said. “However, each person may only claim up to 900 minutes per week to control any overtraining issues.” Exercise is allowed to be completed in or out of Angela. Each team is responsible for logging their own daily points, and at the end of each week the program director calculates the points for each team. “I think changing the see FITNESS PAGE 4
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