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Volume 54, Issue 25 | wednesday, october 2, 2019 | ndsmcobserver.com
Panelists call for transparency in Church Educators, Notre Dame faculty address hope for reform, possible solutions to sexual abuse crisis By MARY STEURER and NATALIE WEBER Assistant Managing Editors
Speakers called for transparency in the Catholic Church and laity-guided reform in a panel titled “Where Did the Church Go Wrong: Crisis and Response” on Tuesday night in Geddes Hall. The panel was the first in a speaker series from the College of Arts and Letters’ Dean’s Fellows titled “God. Country. Notre Dame.” The panel featured Richard Jones, director of Notre Dame’s Gallivan Journalism Program; Jennifer Mason McAward, director of the Klau Center for Civil
and Human Rights; Fr. Pete McCormick, director of Campus Ministry; and Timothy O’Malley, director for education at the McGrath Center for Church Life. Jones said transparency is one of the most important keys to addressing the abuse crisis. He began reporting on clergy abuse about 17 years ago after the Boston Globe broke news of the Archdiocese of Boston sexual abuse scandal in 2002. At the time, Jones was working as a correspondent for the New York Times in New Jersey and interviewed a survivor, who described the abuse he suffered in detail. see CHURCH PAGE 3
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Richard Jones, Jennifer Mason McAward, Fr. Pete McCormick and Timothy O’Malley spoke Tuesday in Geddes Hall about their experiences learning about the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
Representative Campus Dining changes discusses politics, food options at University SMC involvement By NATALIE WEBER
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By MARGARET CICCHIELLO News Writer
Tennessee representative London Lamar (’13) sat down with students, faculty and members of the Student Diversity Board (SDB) of Saint Mary’s on Tuesday evening. Lamar, the state representative for District 91 of Tennessee, spoke about her experience at Saint Mary’s and the work she has done since she graduated. During the dialogue, which continued during the keynote address in Carroll Auditorium, Lamar described her journey. She began engaging with politics after former U.S. president Barack Obama was elected president during her senior year of high school. She said this prompted her decision to major in political science instead of engineering, which was her previous goal. “To see a man who looked like me get elected to the highest office in the land … really was lifechanging for me,” she said. During her time as a student, in addition to completing minors in sociology and intercultural studies, Lamar was the president of the Black Student Association (BSA),
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which at that time was known as the Sisters of Nefertiti. She also served in leadership positions in SDB and founded the College Democrats of Saint Mary’s during the 2012 general election. “I started this club and I invited everybody,” Lamar said. “Regardless of … party [affiliation] I wanted you involved.” The College Democrats of Saint Mary’s helped 10% of the student body register to vote that year, she said, in addition to hosting events such as watch parties. Lamar said she is proud of the work completed by the club she founded. “[I was able to] lead girls to be more active and bring more fair representation to campus in a time when there wasn’t any,” she said. Throughout her career, Lamar said she continually worked hard to motivate young people to vote and to get involved in the political sphere. “Young people are the majority and we are not using our power,” Lamar said. After she graduated from the see YOUTH PAGE 3
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In addition to the opening of Pizza Pi, Campus Dining rolled out several changes this semester, including the opening of Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh and the closure of express location, a la Descartes, in Jordan Hall. The organization is also continuing to evaluate its dining options and plans to announce changes to the meal plans during
the fall semester. “We’re always looking at new work, especially with technology now — it’s changing a lot faster,” director of student dining Luigi Alberganti said. “So we’re always looking, we actually go to conferences and whatnot, and see what the newest trend is.”
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said the decision to bring Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh to the Hesburgh Center for International Studies was part of the University’s ongoing evaluation of its restaurants. “With the new JenkinsNanovic building there, we wanted to create a dining experience that was also reflective of the global aspirations that the new Keough School, etc., aspire
Chris Abayasinghe, senior director of Campus Dining,
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Snite program fosters wider appreciation of art By CIARA HOPKINSON News Writer
Walking into an art museum comes with a number of feelings: momentary panic, indecision over which sections to visit and the lurking knowledge that the museum closes in three hours. The ticket cost $20 and it is time to start cramming in artworks in order to make the trip worth it at all. According to Rachel Heisler, assistant curator of education
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and academic programs at Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art, the vast amount of options in art museums leads to visitors spending just 15 to 30 seconds looking at individual works of art. “Museums don’t do well in just showing people one work. We [at the Snite] have about 1000 works on view,” Heisler said. “So all this work and energy goes on by the artist, and by the curators and the museum to even get people here looking and then they walk
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right past it.” In an effort to get art viewers to slow down and look at the work before them, the Snite is encouraging the local community to spend three hours looking at a single work of art over the course of the semester. The program, called Art180, is in its second year. “This is a way to just kind of slow down and to look and just have that time. As museum educators, see SNITE PAGE 3
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