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Volume 53, Issue 20 | friday, september 14, 2018 | ndsmcobserver.com
Lewis Hall event supports food bank Annual Lewis House of Pancakes hosts evening breakfast buffet to raise money for local charity By PATRICK HUURMAN News Writer
On Friday, Lewis Hall will open its doors for the annual Lewis Hall of Pancakes, called LHOP by students. At this event, the women of Lewis provide an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet throughout all four floors of the building. For $5, students from all across campus will have the chance to experience Lewis Hall’s signature event. The organizers of the event will donate all proceeds to the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, just as they have in the past. “It started because students in Lewis wanted to have a cool event to raise money,” sophomore Dana Plagenz, one of the
event’s organizers, said. “We’re a really unique dorm in that we have kitchens on every floor, so it just worked out for us to cook food for people. And I think Lewis is kind of secluded in location, so it’s nice for people to show their friends where exactly Lewis is.” “[Our goal is] to raise more money than we have in the past,” Plagenz added. “I just want to get as many people to come as possible, because it’s a really good cause.” Organizing the event is no small task. Residents of Lewis Hall are asked to submit applications, which the hall president then reviews. Those deemed the see LHOP PAGE 5
Photo courtesy of Dana Plagenz
Residents of Lewis Hall volunteer for their signature event, Lewis Hall of Pancakes, an annual all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. The event raises money to support the Food Bank of Northern Indiana.
Journalist speaks out against cyber bullying By MAEVE FILBIN News Writer
While technology is an everchanging force, human emotions have always remained constant, journalist Francie Diep said when she visited Saint Mary’s on Thursday to share her experiences with cyber bullying as a teenager. A staff writer at The Pacific Standard living in Washington, D.C., Diep grew up in Washington state as the
daughter of Vietnamese immigrants. Diep was working as a freelance writer in New York City when she decided to stray from her field of scientific writing and submit a personal piece to The Atlantic. On Sept. 30, 2014, The Atlantic published Diep’s article titled “Confronting My Cyberbully, 13 Years Later,” in which she detailed the three years of online harassment at the hands of a former friend. Diep said she met
Amanda, her very real but fictionally named cyberbully, in the early years of middle school. “I was totally enthralled by Amanda,” Diep said. “We met our very first day of junior high. We were both twelve years old, so that liminal age between when you’re a kid and when you start to become more interested in more grown up things.” Amanda was followed by a see CYBER PAGE 5
Program allows retired alumni to take classes By TOM NAATZ Associate News Editor
At the beginning of the school year, some Notre Dame students might have noticed something a little different about some of the people in their classes. In addition to the usual demographic of 18to 22-year-old college students, sprinkled in classes throughout campus for the first time was also a group of 15 retirees, the first
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class of fellows in Notre Dame’s Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI). The ILI is a new program at Notre Dame this year that allows retirees to come to Notre Dame for a year, take classes and discern what they want to do in their retirement. It is based on similar programs at Harvard and Stanford. In 2016, Tom Schreier, founding director of ILI, was among
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the many retirees who had ended their careers, and he was wondering what to do next in his life. “I finished up what I call my ‘traditional career.’ I was leading a very large financial services firm based in Chicago,” he said. “We sold that firm. I was really trying to decide, ‘What’s next for me?’ I thought, ‘I think I want to do something different from see ALUMNI PAGE 5
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Football friday feature
Game day alters Mass schedule By MARIAH RUSH News Writer
For Notre Dame football game attendees, the day often doesn’t end after the competition has been decided. For those interested in attending a worship service after the Irish have played a day game, Masses are celebrated about 30 minutes after the close of every home game played. On these days, there are postgame Masses at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Crypt of the Sacred Heart, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) and six male residence halls across campus. For night games, there are Masses before the game, at 4 p.m. at the Basilica and in the same residence halls, and at 4:30 p.m. in DPAC. Karen Schneider-Kirner, choral program director and organist, said people attend Notre Dame football games not only for the actual games, but for what Notre Dame, as a Catholic institution, offers spiritually. “What’s very unique about the game-day Mass is that people
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come here not just for the football games, but they also really want the spiritual connection,” Schneider-Kirner, who also directs Handbell Choir, said. “That’s just a very important part of what happens as part of their weekend. So we just try to do our best to make the Masses as beautiful as possible because we know how much they’re appreciated by those coming to campus these weekends.” Schneider-Kirner deals specifically with the post-game Masses that are in DPAC, opposed to the Basilica post-game Masses that happen at the same time. DPAC Masses only started about five years ago to fill the need for more space and a quality sound arena once Basilica post-game Masses filled up, Schneider-Kirner said. “Previously they were held over at Stepan Center, which was not the most ideal location for sound,” she said. “I know everyone would love to be able to go to the Basilica after home football weekends, but it was see MASS PAGE 4
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