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Volume 56, Issue 56 | monday, march 21, 2022 | ndsmcobserver.com
New dining options open on ND campus Cafe J, student dorm businesses offer new, late night dining options to community By CLAIRE REID Associate News Editor
As the weather warms up and the days get longer, now is a great time to venture across campus to try a new on-campus restaurant or dorm food sale business.
Cafe J opens in the Morris Inn Cafe J is a new coffee shop that opened last month in the Morris Inn. The cafe offers Peet’s Coffee, lattes, cappuccinos, mochas and hot teas as
well as a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cool beverages including Notre Dame Family Wines. Pastries from the University’s executive pastry chef Sinai Vespie are also available for purchase, and the cafe plans to add charcuterie boards, fruit, sandwiches and salads to the menu in two weeks. Micki Kidder, vice president of University enterprises and events, helps oversee the Morris Inn and led the efforts see DINING PAGE 3
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Cafe J employees pose with the pastries they sell at the new, living room-inspired Cafe J in the Morris Inn located at ND. The new cafe opened in February of this year. It accepts flex points and Domer Dollars.
French students translate Fr. Sorin’s original letters By ALYSA GUFFEY Editor-in-Chief
A box of letters w ritten in t he 19t h centur y by Fr. Edwa rd Sorin rema ined in t he possession of t he Cong regation of Holy Cross until 2019 when t hey were ha nded over to Universit y A rchives. During t he relocation, it was discovered t hat ma ny of Sorin’s letters were w ritten in French a nd had not been tra nslated. As a Holy Cross priest, assista nt professor of French a nd self-procla imed Fra ncophile, Fr. Greg Haa ke f inds Sorin to be a fascinating f ig ure. Sorin, a Frenchma n, was a fellow Holy Cross priest a nd founded t he Universit y in 1842. “I’m ver y interested in [Fr. Sorin] a nd his life a nd what he did to found a nd build Notre Da me,” Haa ke sa id. Haa ke sa id he was initia lly shocked by t he number of untra nslated letters in t he a rchives. “W hen I went to t he a rchives for t he f irst time to look at t he letters at t he collection, it was boxes of letters, a nd I cou ldn’t believe it,” he sa id. To tra nslate a good chunk
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of t he letters, t he fa mily of Vernon H. Brinck donated f unds, a nd t hen Haa ke bega n teaching a one-credit workshop course in t he spring 2020 semester. He has taught t he class in t he spring ever since. Senior Ela ine Ca rter, a n accounting a nd French double major, decided to ta ke t he class a f ter being ex posed to t he letters in a prev ious class her sophomore yea r. “W hen t his project was becoming somet hing t he French depa rtment was interested in hav ing students work on … in t he last mont h of my French tra nslation class, t hat’s what we did,” she sa id. “It didn’t work in my schedule until senior yea r, but t hen t he timing worked well, a nd it was rea lly interesting.” This semester, t here a re ten students in t he workshop, a nd students pa ir up to work on a letter toget her. Haa ke sa id he does not require students to work on t he letters outside of class. Sophomore Jack Konrad, a pre-med biolog y major w it h a French supplementa r y major, sa id he enjoys t he unique experience of t he course
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— vast ly dif ferent f rom his ot her classes. “It’s k ind of g reat to ta ke a litt le brea k on Wednesday a f ternoons a nd get toget her a nd just tr y to solve t his litt le pu zzle so to spea k,” Konrad sa id. “But I t hink it actua lly w ill help me in my long-term studies in French because it has done a rea lly good job of show ing me how t he t wo la ng uages relate.” First, t he orig ina l ha ndw ritten letters a re tra nscribed direct ly f rom t he papers a nd t y ped up, Haa ke sa id. At t his point, t hey a re still in French. Then, t he text is tra nslated into English, resu lting in t hree documents: t he orig ina l letter, t he French tra nscription a nd t he English tra nslation. Konrad expla ined how t he goa l of tra nslating is to ensure t he letters a re “tr ue to t he French tra nslation, but at t he sa me time, coherent ly convey t he message in English,” which ca n be a diff icu lt task. “A lot of t he time, just by t he nature of how French is, sentences ca n be a lot more draw n out, a nd t here ca n be a lot of dependent clauses a nd verb ag reements t hat see LETTERS PAGE 5
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SMC announces masking update Observer Staff Report
In an email to the Saint Mary’s community, COVID Response Team chair Mona Bowe announced changes to the College’s masking and guest policies. Effectively immediately, students are no longer required to mask on campus, including in classrooms. Bowe noted how this new measure would impact students, especially sophomores and first-years. “We are thrilled to be able to
announce this, and celebrate this return to a more normal college experience,” she said. “We are especially happy for our sophomores and first-year students, who can, for the first time, enter a college classroom unmasked.” Bowe explained there are two notable exceptions to the new masking protocol, in addition to prior masking guidelines. “Faculty have the option of requiring the use of masks in see MASKING PAGE 3
Camacho-Haas wins election The 2022-23 Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) election results were announced Friday morning via email by the Office of Student Involvement and Advocacy (OSIA). The student body president will be Angela Camacho and the student body vice president will be Josie Haas. The Camacho-Haas ticket focused on uplifting the Saint
Mary’s community and listening to student feedback in order to better the community. Camacho, originally from Fort Worth, Texas, is a junior double majoring in sociology and psychology with minors in Spanish and film studies. Haas, also a junior, is majoring in Spanish and secondary education with a minor in English as a second language. Both Camacho and Haas previously held roles in the Residence Hall Association and SGA.
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