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Volume 54, Issue 38 | wednesday, october 30, 2019 | ndsmcobserver.com
Panel talks impact of costume choices Student organizations host event regarding cultural appropriation, Halloween By ZIXU WANG News Writer
Student groups gathered Tuesday to host “My Culture is Not Your Costume,” a panel about cultural appropriation on Halloween. The organizations sponsoring the event included the Black Student Association, Latino Student Alliance, Asian American Association, Native American Student Association, African Students Association, Jewish Club and Dome-ish. Four students shared their experiences and opinions, mentioning costumes such as blackface and kimonos. “We host this event to provide
information of minority group’s culture, such as costume’s meanings and relations to the culture, and whether it would be offensive if you put it on,” senior Morgan Lumpkin, vice president of Notre Dame’s Black Student Association, said. While generally recognizing respecting other cultures, the essential question is how to draw the line between “cultural appreciation” and “cultural appropriation,” Lumpkin said. ”It’s hard to draw a universal line while it should be different in multiple cases of diverse cultures,” she said. “It
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Students hosted a panel,“My Culture is Not Your Costume,” on Tuesday in the ACE Building to discuss cultural sensitivity and costumes. Panelists shared their experiences and offered advice on the topic.
SMC resident assistants share ghost stories
BAVO hosts nurse, discusses role of SANEs By EMMA AULT News Writer
Saint Mary’s Belles Against Violence Office (BAVO) invited Nancy Grant, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) and Forensic Coordinator in the Forensic Department at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center,
to speak to students about her position, resources available and statistics on sexual assault as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Month on Tuesday evening. The event was held in Rice Commons and put on by cochairs of BAVO Awareness and Outreach Committee junior
Emily Scott and graduate student Jess Purvis. “We had brainstorming sessions during Student Advisory Committee training and this was one of the things that we decided upon,” Scott said. “We’ve heard the student nurses here on see NURSE PAGE 4
Notre Dame presents twoman ‘Macbeth’ show By ALEXANDRA MUCK MAEVE FILBIN | The Observer
Students gathered at the Riedinger House at Saint Mary’s to listen to the annual reading of the “Quiet Hours”. By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Editor
In the parlor of Riedinger House, students sat on couches and clustered together on the floor, leaning forward attentively to listen to the Resident Assistants sharing stories of ghostly encounters in the Saint Mary’s residence halls. Tuesday night, the Class Gift Campaign of
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the Office of Annual Giving hosted the annual reading of “Quiet Hours,” a 2002 collection of ghost stories and other paranormal activity reported on campus. Students sipped hot cider and ate donuts as they listened as Residence Life staff read from the collection written by three Saint Mary’s alumnae – Shelly see GHOST PAGE 4
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Shakespeare at Notre Dame will host two performances of “Macbeth” Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Unlike other “Macbeth” performances, these showings of the Shakespeare play will only include two actors: Paul O’Mahony and Troels Hagen Findsen. The play follows the story of Macbeth — a Scottish general who is told by three witches that he is destined to become king of
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Scotland — and his wife, Lady Macbeth. Together, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth take a series of steps to fulfill the prophecy. “It’s a story of ambition and what you do once you attain power — it’s a compelling exploration of our nature,” O’Mahony, who plays Macbeth and several other characters, said in an email. “We’ve aimed to explore some of the lightness within what is often a challenging and bloody play.” O’Mahony said the show, which will last 80 minutes, is a bit different since it is only performed by two people.
“It’s quite a physical show and we have many scenes where we’re playing multiple characters,” he said. O’Mahony said he and director Mike Tweddle knew when selecting the play they wanted to do a show with only two people, so it became one of the selection criteria for the play. “We knew that we wanted to create the show with just me and Troels … after he and I worked together on some of our earlier productions,” O’Mahony said. “A lot of our earlier work was
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