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Volume 48, Issue 115 | Friday, april 10, 2015 | ndsmcobserver.com
SMC hosts viewing of ‘The Hunting Ground’ BAVO sponsors showing of CNN’s documentary exploring sexual assault on college campuses By HALEIGH EHMSEN Saint Mary’s Editor
The Belles Against Violence Office (BAVO) sponsored a showing of and panel discussion on the CNN documentar y “The Hunting Ground” on Thursday evening in O’Laughlin Auditorium on Saint Mar y’s campus. Saint Mar y’s College President Carol Ann Mooney introduced the film, which deals with sexual assaults on college campuses including Saint Mar y’s and Notre Dame. “The film promotes action and an important message and voices that need to be heard,” Mooney said. “I am
ver y proud that two Saint Mar y’s women and a Saint Mar y’s father were willing to be featured.” In addition to Saint Mar y’s and Notre Dame, several other schools were also featured in the documentar y, including University of Southern California, Har vard, Dartmouth, North Carolina and Yale, among others. Lt. Pat Cottrell, a retired official of Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP), was featured in the documentar y to talk about sexual assaults on Notre Dame’s campus specifically. see CNN PAGE 6
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Court hears ESPN, NDSP lawsuit By KATIE GALIOTO News Writer
On April 1, law yers representing Notre Dame and ESPN presented their oral arguments in front of St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Steven Hostetler in a case to determine if Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) violated Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act (APR A). The unresolved issue at the crux of the case is whether or not the law considers NDSP a private agency. In September and
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a wide variety of medical and surgical diagnoses from more than 20 referral hospitals throughout Southwestern Michigan and Northern Indiana.” “They [Memorial Children’s Hospital] were really in dire need of this new addition for their pediatric unit, and so we met with them, and they were really excited,” Joseph said.
The Irish centenar y celebration, commemorating 100 years of Irish independence in 2016, will feature Notre Dame’s documentar y “1916: The Irish Rebellion” as a major pillar of the festivities, Thomas J. & Kathleen M. O’Donnell Professor of Irish Studies Bríona Nic Dhiarmada said. The documentar y tells the stor y of the 1916 Easter Rising, an event that ultimately led to Ireland’s independence. A three-part series, it will feature leading scholars from around the world, many of them from Notre Dame, Dhiarmada said. The documentar y was produced by award-winning director Pat Collins and will be narrated by Irish actor
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SCC to hold first ever Dance-A-Thon By CLARE KOSSLER News Writer
Just a few weeks after the Holy Half, Notre Dame will see another kind of marathon come to campus — this time, a dance marathon. From 7 p.m. Friday night until 7 a.m. Saturday morning in South Dining Hall, the class of 2017 Sophomore Class Council (SCC) will host Notre Dame’s first annual Dance-A-Thon, the
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proceeds of which will benefit Memorial Children’s Hospital in downtown South Bend. SCC Treasurer Neil Joseph said the idea for the fundraiser was derived from the example of a number of universities, including Penn State and Ohio State, which have raised thousands of dollars through month-long campaigns that culminate in massive dance parties. “A lot of other colleges
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have been doing dance-athons to raise money for hospitals in their area, and we just really wanted to do something where we had an impact on our community specifically,” he said. Joseph said all proceeds from the Dance-A-Thon will help to fund the the estimated $10 million expansion of Memorial Children’s Hospital in South Bend, which, according to its website, “treats children with
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