The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue 126
Friday, april 20, 2012
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Community unites voices to break the silence Notre Dame hosts Take Back the Night with sister school
Saint Mary’s women speak out against sexual violence
By NICOLE TOCZ AUER
By JILLIAN BARWICK
News Writer
Saint Mary’s Editor
Mem bers of the Notre Dame com mu n ity joi ned w ith Sai nt Mar y’s i n Take Back the Night on Thu rsday even i ng to break the si lence su rrou nd i ng the v iolence of rape and sexual assau lt. A manda Dow ney, assistant d i rector for Educational In itiatives at the Gender Relations Center (GRC), said the goal of Take Back the Night (TBTN) is for su r v ivors and al l ies to pu bl icly stand agai nst al l forms of sexual v iolence. “Men and women break the si lence su rrou nd i ng th is v iolence w ith voices of prayer, chanti ng and the shari ng of stories,” she said. Take Back the Night began i n Ph i ladelph ia i n 1975 as a way for com mu n ities to u n ite agai nst abuse, sexual assau lt and rape. Si nce then, the event has spread to thousands of u n iversities, crisis centers and cities arou nd the cou ntr y, Dow ney said. Dow ney said Notre Dame began supporti ng the cause
and com mu n ity mem bers, she said. “We are al l u n ited i n voices of hope and prayer that th is v iolence w i l l not be tolerated, and that those who have been hu rt w i l l
The Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame community recognized survivors of rape and sexual assault at Take Back the Night on Thursday evening, with events hosted across the two campuses. Connie Adams, assistant director for the Belles Against Violence Off ice (BAVO), worked with the team of sponsors for the event. The Core Council, Men Against Violence, and S-O-S of the Family Justice Center are co-sponsoring the event. She said this is the second year BAVO has co-sponsored Take Back the Night (TBTN) with the Gender Relations Center at Notre Dame. “The Take Back the Night event is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with survivors of rape and sexual assault, and to show a commitment to preventing this violence from happening in our community,” Adams said. A candlelight vigil service
see TAKE/page 5
see NIGHT/page 7
ASHLEY DACY/The Observer
Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students march on Thursday night from Lake Marian at Saint Mary’s to the Grotto to show support for survivors of rape and sexual assault during Take Back the Night. w ith its ow n TBTN several years ago. Th is year, the GRC worked w ith Men Agai nst Violence, the Core Cou nci l and the Bel les Agai nst Violence Of f ice at Sai nt Mar y’s. “We have worked col laboratively si nce the early
stages of plan n i ng,” she said. “Students and staf f from both campuses worked together to plan and i mplement the prog ram.” The cooperation across campuses m i rrored the n ight’s ef fort of promoti ng sol idarity among women
A&L grads compete in business Global powers face emerg i ng nat ions
By KRISTEN DURBIN News Editor
When senior Mitch Gainer began interviewing for a position with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), he expected most of his peers to have studied business during their undergraduate careers. But as he progressed through the interview process, Gainer, an economics major, said he noticed a majority of the interviewees had educational backgrounds grounded in the liberal arts. “The majority of the top-20 schools in the country don’t have undergraduate business programs, so I found myself competing against history and medieval studies majors,” he said. Like most graduating seniors entering the job market, Gainer said he was worried about employment prospects. But after securing a job in the business world with a liberal arts degree, he said he investigated the statistics on post-graduate
see ARTS/page 5
Inside today’s paper
By M AIJA GUSTIN Senior News Writer
MARINA KOZAK | Observer Graphics
British politician Lord Chris Patten of Barnes spoke about the role of world powers at his lecture “Europe, A merica and the Chang ing World Order” in Geddes Hall on Thursday evening. The Nanov ic Institute for European Studies sponsored the presentation. Patten said his experiences as governor of Hong Kong during its handover to the People’s Republic of China in 1997, and as a member of the European Commission prov ided insight to the problems global leaders face. The U.S. and European nations are especially affected by the emergence of countries like
China and India, he said. Though the A merican economy has declined in recent years, it maintains a global dominance of commerce and culture, he said. “The United States has really been … the only country which matters every where,” he said. Patten said while the United States g rapples w ith f inancial crises and a massive accumulation of debt, the European Union must nav igate a different set of economic and political issues to maintain its current stature. “The Eurozone is not yet out of the mire and is … a v ictim of the consequences of national democratic politics in which people feel a
see LORD/page 6
Business aspect of nonprofits explored page 3 u Viewpoint page 8 u Fashion by Felicia page 10 u Men’s baseball prepares for Georgetown page 20