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Volume 53, Issue 60 | wednesday, november 28, 2018 | ndsmcobserver.com
O’Neill residents celebrate SDH worker Students surprise ‘Notre Dame Grandma’ Pam Jobin with gifts for 70th birthday, featured on ‘GMA’ By TOM NAATZ Associate News Editor
In 2011, after spending 24 years working at St. Michael’s Laundry, Pam Jobin decided to retire. However, the grandmother of 10 — with one greatgrandchild — soon discovered that she missed work. “I was bored,” Jobin said. After a year of retirement, Jobin contacted a friend who was one of the managers of South Dining Hall (SDH). The manager was able to get Jobin a job as one of the dining hall monitors. Last week, her work as a monitor landed her and her 70th birthday celebration a feature on “Good Morning America.” Jobin explained that the job in the dining hall appealed to
her because it would allow her to engage with students. “I thought, ‘You know what? It’s something I would like because I’m still interacting with people,’” she said. “I like South and I love the people and I love the students and the ambiance.” As she began her new job as a monitor, Jobin said she sought to emulate the example of Lila and John Ritschard, a husband and wife who worked as monitors in South Dining Hall. Both have since passed away. “I always admired how they had such a camaraderie. They had such a relationship with the kids. Everyone knew Lila and John,” Jobin said. “She was kind of a mentor, she would always see JOBIN PAGE 4
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O’Neill Hall 4A residents celebrate South Dining Hall monitor Pam Jobin’s 70th birthday with Jobin’s granddaughter. The celebration was featured on ‘Good Morning America’ and other news outlets.
Saint Mary’s groups host Fair Trade Holiday Fair By SARA SCHLECT News Writer
Ethical purchasing is at the center of a new initiative at Saint Mary’s. Sponsored by the Office for Civic and Social Engagement (OCSE), the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Ambassador team and the department of justice studies,
the Fair Trade Holiday Fair takes place this week in the atrium of the Student Center. Rebekah DeLine, director of the OCSE, said the fair is occurring in order to “raise awareness that consumption, which we all participate in as individuals, can be done in ways that are conscientious,” as well as, “to promote some
of our local organizations that promote fair trade.” The idea that became the Fair Trade Holiday Fair began at a charity event, DeLine said. “I got to talking with the manager of Ten Thousand Villages, and she said she would love to bring the store see FAIR TRADE PAGE 4
Mass held to recognize Building Services workers By MIKE DUGAN News Writer
Tuesday evening, Fr. Pete McCormick celebrate Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The Mass was held in celebration and gratitude for those who work in Building Services at the University of Notre Dame and was cosponsored by the Senior Class Council, Campus Ministry and
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the student government department of faith and service. Senior Emily McAuliffe, co-chair of the Senior Class Council faith and service committee, said that the Senior Class Council was moved to put on the event after reading a letter to the editor lamenting the death of 57-year-old Michael Amadek, a Notre Dame custodian who died in the driver’s seat of his car
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in the library parking lot on Thursday, Sept. 20, after reporting that he felt unwell. “After the death of Michael, we felt that we should recognize this part of the community who is usually not given the full recognition that they deserve,” McAuliffe said. “We thought a Mass would be a good way to show our gratitude see SERVICES PAGE 4
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Panel discusses rise of far right By NATALIE WEBER News Editor
The month of October saw a wave of violence, with the pipe bomb scare, the Tree of Life synagogue shooting and the shooting of two African Americans in Kentucky that is “being investigated as a hate crime,” according to NPR. In response to these events, members of the Kroc Institute organized a panel Tuesday to discuss the rise of populism and means to combat it, including redefining dominant social narratives, eliminating segregation and enacting grassroots political change. Professor David Anderson Hooker said in order to fight racism, xenophobia and farright extremism, society must abandon its “narrative[s] of superiority.” “We have a narrative of superiority that has constructed us in ways that allow that there’s always going to be a superiority and an inferiority,” he said. “There’s a narrative we celebrate at Thanksgiving, we
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have all of the war holidays … that celebrate the glorification of violence that supports a narrative of manifest destiny and doctrine of discovery that allows for superior glorification of violence as the way we show up in the world.” In order to overcome this narrative, individuals must abandon certain identities — such as whiteness grounded in a sense of racial superiority — and reimagine themselves. “For most of you, I would ask, in your imagination, if you weren’t white, who would you be? Do you have a way of even knowing yourself?” Hooker said. “We’re going to need an imaginative capacity to know ourselves outside of the constrictions of whiteness. Otherwise, you have to continue participating in the reproduction of the hegemony that emerges from that, that we label as racism, populism and xenophobia.” Eliminating segregation is also key to combatting rising see PANEL PAGE 3
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