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Volume 53, Issue 62 | friday, november 30, 2018 | ndsmcobserver.com
Badin Hall hosts ethical goods fundraiser Conscious Christmas to raise money for the HOPE Initiative charity by selling fair trade products By SERENA ZACHARIAS News Writer
With a unique assortment of fair-trade goods including feather and tassel jewelry, cashmere and yak wool scarves, meditation singing bowls and a number of bags and totes, Badin Hall’s Conscious Christmas will work to support to support their signature charity — the HOPE Initiative — while providing gifts for mindful Christmas shoppers. The 10th annual Conscious Christmas sale will run Friday from noon to 6 p.m. in the ballroom of LaFortune Student Center. Assistant professor of industrial design Ann-Marie
Conrado founded the HOPE Initiative with her Nepalese husband in 2004. “The whole goal of the charity is to use design and creativity to address challenging and often intractable social and humanitarian issues,” she said. The sale serves as one of the driving fundraisers for maintaining various HOPE Initiative projects, Conrado said. “One of the biggest projects we did last year was building a play and learning landscape for a small government school in Nepal that is named after the women of Badin Hall,” Conrado said. see CONSCIOUS PAGE 3
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Proceeds from Badin’s Conscious Christmas last year went towards building a playground for a small government school in Nepal. A Badin Hall alumna and an industrial design major helped plan the space.
Nativity creches to Student Activities celebrate cultural diversity Board hosts of Christmas season seasonal event By THOMAS MURPHY News Writer
Christmas is just around the corner in Notre Dame, and with Christmas comes buildings and residence halls decked with garland and lights. This Advent season, several buildings will be host to Nativity sets from Eastern Europe, known as “creches,” as part of McGrath Institute for Church Life’s fifth annual Creche Exhibit and Pilgrimage. The pilgrimage begins at 2 p.m. Sunday when participants will gather at the Eck Visitors Center before setting out across campus. At each of the five sites, participants will listen to a passage from Scripture, sing Christmas carols and pray a decade of the Rosary before walking to the next site. The final site is the Hesburgh Library, where a reception with cookies and hot chocolate will be held following
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the end of the pilgrimage. Carolyn Pirtle, program director for the Notre Dame Center for Liturg y, said the McGrath Institute has partnered with the Marian Library at the University of Dayton to display the unique creches each year. “We were fortunate to start this partnership five years ago and it’s just been really great in keeping every year different,” Pirtle said. “We bring 30 creches to campus every year and we’ve never brought the same creche because their selection is so vast. Every year has a little bit of a different theme. … This year they’re all from Eastern Europe. [It] gives a chance for people to see different artistic descriptions and experience the Nativity in a new way.” John Cavadini, director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, said the way each culture expresses the Nativity allows them to
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adapt the story in a unique way while maintaining its universal message of hospitality. “The infant Jesus and his family have been welcomed in all cultures, and each culture has found a way of making the baby Jesus and his family at home in their culture,” Cavadini said. “All cultures of human beings can be and are in this instance cultures of hospitality. [The Nativity] gives you the sense that this a very universal thing. It’s so universal that it binds us all together, but it doesn’t homogenize us into only one culture. You can recognize in the hospitality of another culture the call to be hospitable yourself. So, there’s a kind of universality to it that bears witness to the unity of human culture.” The setting aside of studying and other activities and see CRECHE PAGE 4
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By MIA MARROQUIN News Writer
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and the Saint Mary’s Student Activities Board (SAB) is kicking off the holiday season by hosting an event for the community. On Saturday, SAB will host its annual Winter Wonderland event. The two-part event is designed for children in the community in the morning and Saint Mary’s students in the afternoon. The morning will consist of Christmas and winter-themed crafts, games and cookie decorating. Additionally, no Christmas event is complete without a visit from Santa. In addition to committee members of SAB, many members from the Notre Dame football, baseball and lacrosse teams volunteer to support the event each year. “They are role models to the kids, so it is good for these kids
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to see people they can look up to,” Sarah Law, a senior and chair of the Traditional Events Committee for SAB, said. The event is a hit with both children and Saint Mary’s students, alike. Zoie Clay, a senior and the president of SAB, said she looked forward to volunteering at Winter Wonderland every year. “This my favorite event we do all year,” she said. “My absolute favorite part is the kids — it is so great to see their faces light up and have fun with no worries for two hours. It is an awesome feeling knowing that I contributed to their joy.” Law shared similar sentiments. “There is nothing better than seeing how excited the kids get,” she said. “Especially when they are walking around with their goodie bags and lined up to see Santa.” Giving back to the see WONDERLAND PAGE 4
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