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Volume 56, IssuE 49 | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2022 | ndsmcobserver.com
Supply chain affects ND Notre Dame Hammes Bookstore faces inventory challenges By MAGGIE EASTLAND Associate News Writer
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story was published online on Feb. 18.
Garth Brooks announces return to Notre Dame Observer Staff Report
Even Notre Dame’s signature Kelly green is not safe from supply chain issues interrupting industries across the globe. As supply chain complications persist into 2022, the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore confronts a number of lingering inventory
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Due to on-going supply chain shortages, Hammes Bookstore is experiencing issues with instore and online inventory distribution.
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story was published online on Feb. 16. Country music star Garth Brooks will return to Notre Dame Stadium for a concert May 7 at 7 p.m, according to a University press release. Brooks performed his first concert at the Stadium in 2018, during which he promised the crowd he would return.
One of the best-selling solo artists of all time in the United States, Brooks initially planned to make Notre Dame his last stop, but scheduling challenges related to COVID-19 caused him to not end the tour at the Stadium, according to the release. The concert at Notre Dame will be Brooks’ only stadium tour appearance in Indiana, Michigan or Illinois. Tickets will go on sale Feb. 25 at 10 a.m.
Saint Mary’s welcomes Students compete prospective nursing majors in ‘Survivor’ By GENEVIEVE COLEMAN Saint Mary’s News Editor
Courtesy of Mike Guyette
After losing the first ND Survivor challenge Saturday, members of the green tribe strategize on who to vote out before tribal council. By CLAIRE REID News Writer
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story was published online on Feb. 18. Seven Saturdays, 24 students, one survivor. Almost 22 years after the first season of the reality competition show “Survivor” aired on CBS, Notre Dame students gathered in the Joyce Center on Saturday afternoon for the first installment of ND Survivor, a multi-week competition based on the hit television show.
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Over the ensuing six Saturday afternoons, students will participate in physical and mental challenges and vote each other out of the game until one survivor remains. The final survivor will win a $25 gift card of their choice. Mike Guyette, a sophomore from Albany, New York, is the host of ND Survivor and organized it with the help of some friends and classmates. He began watching “Survivor” in the spring of 2020 during the pandemic lockdown. “I’d watched it for a few months, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is see SURVIVOR PAGE 4
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On Saturday, Saint Mar y’s hosted admitted students who intend to major in nursing w ith the Office of Admission’s newly created nursing prev iew day programming. Interim v ice president of enrollment management Sarah Gallagher Dvorak explained the reasoning behind creating a specific admissions event for students considering a nursing career. “We traditionally have a ver y large number of students admitted each year who have an interest in nursing,” Dvorak said. “That, combined w ith the opening of our new Center for Integrated Healthcare Education (CIHE), gives us a wonderful opportunit y to show off the facilit y and give these students a glimpse into what a wonderful program we can offer here.” Dvorak also detailed her hope that more students would enroll in the nursing program if given exposure to the program early. “Our goal is to introduce
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the nursing program and our state-of-the-art facilit y to our admitted students and hope that ultimately results in more students enrolling at Saint Mar y’s who are ready to pursue the rigor of a nursing degree,” she said. W hile the event was only recently launched, Dvorak noted that she suspects the event w ill become regularly scheduled. “This is the first year for this event, and I would suspect that we’ll make this an annual event for admitted students,” she said. In addition, Dvorak described ways the marketing department w ill continue to promote the nursing department to incoming students. “We are working w ith the marketing department on a number of things,” she said. “We have an email that goes out to students and parents all about the Center for Integrated Healthcare Education and a letter w ith a f lyer on the CIHE w ill be going out in a couple weeks. Our v ideo intern also created a short v ideo that highlights a nursing student and takes you through the new
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high tech simulation labs, classrooms and the exam rooms.” Dvorak noted the importance of creating majorspecific admissions events, similar to the prev iously established science, technolog y, engineering and math (STEM) prev iew days. “Rather than focus on broad exposure to Saint Mar y’s, which we do in many of our events, we aimed to let these students and families dig a bit deeper into their academic area of interest — in this case, nursing,” Dvorak said. “We are once again hosting the STEM prev iew day as well [on] Sunday w ith the same goals in mind. Facult y and current students from these departments w ill also be on hand to speak w ith families and answer their questions.” Describing the schedule of events, Dvorak said students could interact w ith administrators, facult y and current students throughout their v isit. “We [plan to] do a welcome from me and President Conboy, followed see NURSING PAGE 4
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