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Volume 53, Issue 85 | FRIday, february 15, 2019 | ndsmcobserver.com
Students to perform in BCAC Annual event will showcase black culture, art created by artists across campus By MAX LANDER News Writer
The Black Cultural Arts Council (BCAC) will be putting on the annual Black Coffee House event Friday. The two-hour event has taken place in its current form since the early 1990s and presents an opportunity to experience and engage with black culture, art and artists from across campus in a relaxed setting and across a variety of mediums. “Imagine a jazz house — that’s the type of feel for coffee house,” senior BCAC president Erin Williams said. “We do spoken word, a lot of
of people play music. This year we’ve got a saxophonist. It’s a very low-key feel. We have coffee beans and the lights are turned down, so it’s a very relaxed environment.” The event generally includes around 12 different acts or performances from mostly student artists across campus. W hile the event has no official theme, as to not limit the kinds of art and topics on display, the pieces tend to focus on some aspect of black culture or the black experience. “It’s about uplifting and highlighting the black experience, or even experience from the African diaspora,” said Iris Outlaw, the director
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of Multicultural Student Programs and Services and faculty advisor to the BCAC. “Those are the types of performances that happen.” Performances from past events have often had a deeply personal aspect that impacted both the artist and the audience. “Some of the pieces have just been so prophetic; they’ve really resonated,” Outlaw said. In addition to singing, music, spoken word and other poetry performances, this year’s event will also include an art gallery. The gallery will display a variety of student-created pieces and types of visual art, some of
Carroll Hall was built in 1906 as an educational building for the Brothers of Holy Cross, and began housing male students in 1967. By ASHTON WEBER News Writer
Junior Garrett Rethman said when he first toured Notre Dame, he actively hoped to not be put in Carroll Hall. “I remembered from my
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tour … my tour guide pointed out, ‘There’s a dorm down there called Carroll, but we’re not going to walk past it because it’s too far away.’ And I [thought], ‘Oh, I’ll never live there,’” Rethman see CARROLL PAGE 4
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University President Fr. John Jenkins announced the members that will make up his Columbus murals advising committee in a press release Thursday. The committee will advise the University on how to display the murals “in the appropriate context, as well as on see MURAL PAGE 3
Saint Mary’s play to highlight racial intolerance By COLLEEN FISCHER News Writer
Since theatre was first conceived, it has been a way to express historical narratives. Plays share stories across generational, cultural and racial lines to communicate multiple perspectives. Saint Mary’s is following in this centuries-old
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which will be for sale. This addition allows the event to display not only the normal performance art pieces, but also visual art from artists who can otherwise find it difficult to make their work and its message seen or heard. “It’s always wonderful and great to have a space for black voices to be heard because oftentimes they’re silenced or suppressed,” Williams said. “I think it’s important to create a space for black artists to say what’s on their minds, to say what’s on their hearts and to be able to send whatever message to the world that they think is
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tradition by hosting Mad River Theater Works’ production of “Freedom Bound” in the Moreau Center for the Arts on Saturday. According to the company’s website, the oneact play tells the historical story of Addison W hite, an escaped slave traveling through Ohio by means of the Underground Railroad.
“‘Freedom Bound’ brings history to life through original songs and an array of characters that pop right out of the past to relive the turbulence and hope of the Underground Railroad right before your eyes,” the website says. The company has started see FREEDOM PAGE 4
Mendoza focuses on inequality for Ethics Week By CATE VON DOHLEN News Writer
The theme for the thirdannual Notre Dame Ethics Week, hosted by the Mendoza College of Business and the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, was “Economic Inequality: On Campuses, in Communities
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and at Companies.” Past themes have included “Lead Local, Lead Global” and “Sports and the Common Good.” Ethics Week coordinator Brian Levey explained the reasoning behind the theme for the speaker series. “Income inequality, or economic inequality more
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broadly, has worked its way into the national conversation, and so it seemed like the right time for us to focus on the issue, especially as a Catholic business school,” Levey said in an email. The event spanned from Tuesday until Friday w ith see ETHICS PAGE 4
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