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Volume 51, Issue 104 | wednesday, march 22, 2017 | ndsmcobserver.com
Group experiments with fire, ice Physics graduate students demonstrate uses of elements in hands-on presentation By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER Associate News Editor
Throughout the academic year, Notre Dame’s physics department has brought science to the public with a series of events titled “Our Universe Revealed.” The ExPAND demo team, made up of physics graduate students Adam Clark, Austin Nelson, Craig Reingold and Allan Leishman, presented the next installment in this series, “A Show of Fire and Ice,” Tuesday evening in Jordan Hall of Science. Clark kicked off the event by starting a massive fire with a few simple ingredients. “[I used] just non-dairy coffee creamer,” he said. “So by spreading it out, it increased the amount of oxygen gas that see FIRE PAGE 4
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Graduate student Craig Reingold performs an experiment using an electric guitar and fire during Tuesday’s “Our Universe Revealed” lecture series installment, which engages audiences with science.
SMC student receives Fannie Mae externship By GINA TWARDOSZ Associate Saint Mary’s Editor
Over spring break, Saint Mary’s junior Margaret Cox participated in an externship with Fannie Mae, which was established and rewarded by College alumna and senior executive with Fannie Mae Renee Schultz. Although Cox began her first year at Saint Mary’s solely as a marketing major, she said she soon discovered an interest in finance. “I was a marketing major when I came to Saint Mary’s, and marketing students have to take a finance course,” she said. “I took it and I started really enjoying the topic and doing well in the class. So, I decided to major in finance as well.” The externship consisted of a four day trip to Washington, D.C. over spring break, Cox said, where she was able to shadow some of the female executives working at Fannie
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Mae. “They scheduled me to meet with different women in the company and see the different positions,” she said. “The women I met taught me a lot about the industry itself because I didn’t know much about it. It was nice to learn about something not taught in school. The externship was more about getting to know women and asking them how they got to their position.” Cox said a valuable piece of information she gained from participating in the externship was the importance of pursuing her passions. “One of the women told me you have to be really passionate about what you’re doing,” she said. “I feel you need to passionate about a job to enjoy it so it doesn’t just become work.” Cox said she hopes to continue working with Fannie Mae in the future. “They have a two year rotational program within the
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company so I’m going to look into applying for that next fall,” she said. Cox said her favorite part about the externship was actually seeing what happens in the private world of finance and understanding that world better. “I have interned with marketing companies before, and now with the finance externship I see how different the two worlds really are,” she said. “The finance world is so fast-paced. I enjoy doing these internships and externships because otherwise I wouldn’t know what to expect. That’s the best part about these opportunities — I’m learning what’s going on. I think if I didn’t have this opportunity I might not have thought about having a career in finance.” Young women should always be open to pushing themselves to take on new opportunities, Cox said. see FANNIE MAE PAGE 4
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A sexual assault was reported to the Universit y’s deput y Title IX coordinator, according to an email sent to students Tuesday night from Notre Dame Securit y Police (NDSP). The alleged assault occurred in a North Quad men’s residence hall early Sunday morning, according to the email. Information about sexual assault prevention and resources for sur v ivors of sexual assault are available online from NDSP and from the Committee for Sexual Assault Prevention (CSAP) at their website.
Speaker critiques policing methods By NATALIE WEBER News Writer
In an effort to create conversations about policing, Yale University professor Vesla Weaver and her colleagues created spaces called portals where people can speak with others from different cities about their experiences with law enforcement in their communities. In a talk hosted Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Center for Civil and Human Rights on Tuesday, Weaver spoke about her involvement in the project. “What are portals?” she said. “They’re a bridge. A wormhole, a conversation across states. Maybe even time. They’re gold repurposed shipping containers. They’re equipped with immersive audio [and] video technology. You can place them anywhere.” Weaver said traditional methods of gathering
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information about police brutality, such as surveys, did not sufficiently describe the experiences of members of marginalized communities. “We wanted to actually listen to what members of these impacted communities said in their own terms — in interactions not with researchers, not with us, but in conversation with others distant physically, but from similar neighborhoods,” Weaver said. Weaver said she wanted to enable vulnerable groups to become powerful forces in their communities. “We wanted to see if we could empower communities so often marginalized by contemporary discourse to have a say and to amplify the voices of those who are already often unheard,” she said. “Could we create a connected political space from connection? Can we make ordinary people the lifeblood of grassroots see POLICING PAGE 3
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