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Volume 51, Issue 92 | wednesday, february 22, 2017 | ndsmcobserver.com
Project highlights sexual assault stories Senior design major features quotes from ND, SMC student accounts in final project By SELENA PONIO Associate News Editor
Senior design major Mary Kate Healey said she tries to think of her major as problem-solving. In the spring of their junior year, design majors propose an idea for their big final project. Healey said when coming up with an idea she mulled through the things she was really passionate about and eventually decided she wanted to do something raising awareness for sexual assault, specifically at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. “We always hear about statistics, we get crime emails,” Healey said. “There’s a lot of impersonal information passed around. It’s very statistics driven and there’s also the kind of hidden shame and embarrassment that comes
with it. “I wanted to collect these very intimate stories and display them in a very public, unapologetic way while still maintaining the story of the storyteller.” Healey’s project is a 9-foot wide and 4-foot tall white sheet with quotes from sexual assault stories from students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. The quotes were first written out on the sheet and then Healey went back and stitched them on afterwards. “The reason I’m doing the stitching is because there’s a lot of art history between women and the domestic craft,” she said. “Women have always been making art, but because they didn’t necessarily have the resources, see PROJECT PAGE 5
Saint Mary’s grad helps refugees By MARTHA REILLY Associate Saint Mary’s Editor
When Hazim Al-Adilee arrived in the U.S. in 2014, his wife Entidhar Abbood was nearly 7,000 miles away in Jordan, having been denied relocation privileges. Now, more than two years later, Abbood’s application to enter the U.S. has still not been approved, as Al-Adilee discussed at a lecture about migration on Tuesday at Saint Mary’s. Al-Adilee said his family established a happy life in Iraq, where he and his wife both worked as teachers, but was forced to move to Jordan after the rise of insurgents in his homeland. “They kill anybody in Iraq, especially if they know he is a teacher, a doctor,” AlAdilee said. “We don’t know what happened. We are now refugees.” Al-Adilee said President Donald Trump’s desire to
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stop the entry of nationals from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen into the U.S. may prevent him from seeing his wife ever again. The situation is further complicated because Abbood suffers from diabetes and heart disease, according to Al-Adilee. “I have a green card now, but I cannot go back to help her,” he said. “If I go out of the U.S., I cannot enter again. That is a problem for me.” Alumna Laurie Pinter, class of ’84, who helps settle refugees in South Bend, said she aims to connect refugees with resources in the community that can fulfill their legal and medical needs. She said she works with a task force that arranges household items, enrolls children in school and conducts a cultural orientation for the refugees to make their transition easier. see REFUGEES PAGE 5
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Photo courtesy of Mary Kate Healey
Students participate in a sewing circle, an event senior Mary Kate Healey said was intended to foster an atmosphere of dialogue. The sheet features quotes from sexual assault survivors.
Jenkins shows support for DACA students Observer Staff Report
University President Fr. John Jenkins released a statement Tuesday in support of Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students at Notre Dame. “I was encouraged to learn today that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly will continue to respect Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children,” he
said in the statement. “They include DACA students who have been admitted to Notre Dame, thrived here and whom the University fully supports.” Jenkins also expressed concern that undocumented community members who are not protected by DACA will not be afforded the same respect. “We welcome this development, yet remain concerned that other undocumented members of our communities
are treated fairly and compassionately,” he said. “We call on our leaders to recognize that, throughout our nation’s history, immigrants have immeasurably enriched us culturally and have been the lifeblood of our economic vitality.” Jenkins’s statement comes two weeks after he announced in a letter to faculty senate that he will not designate Notre Dame a sanctuary campus.
Professor dies at 54 Observer Staff Report
Timothy S. Fuerst, William and Dorothy O’Neill Professor of Economics at Notre Dame, died Tuesday morning at the age of 54 after battling stomach cancer for the past 10 months, the University said in a statement. Fuerst’s research largely
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centered on monetary policy. He also served as senior economic adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and taught for 19 years at Bowling Green State University, according to the press release. “Tim was one of the cornerstones of a revived and extraordinarily successful economics program at Notre
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Dame. … We will miss him terribly, but we can be grateful for knowing him as we did and for his inspiring service to the University,” John McGreevy, the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, said in the statement. According to the University, arrangements for the funeral are pending.
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