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Volume 52, Issue 82 | wednesday, february 14, 2018 | ndsmcobserver.com
Appeal denied For more on NCAA decision, see page 12
Sisters of Holy Cross featured in film festival SMC nuns highlighted in documentary about AIDS epidemic By JORDAN COCKRUM News Writer
During the mid-1980s, only two medical professionals would care for patients diagnosed with HIV or AIDS: Dr. Kristen Ries and physician assistant Maggie Snyder. Dr. Ries and Snyder cared for their patients in Salt Lake City’s Holy Cross Hospital, which was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, as well as at a clinic in southern Utah. Four Sisters of the Holy Cross were also involved in the care of
Dolores Huerta discusses activism, leadership role By MADISON RIEHLE News Writer
Welcomed by an audience cheering her famous phrase, “Si, se puede! Si, se puede!” Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers and civil rights icon, took the stage in McKenna Hall Tuesday night to discuss her career as an activist and leader. The lecture was hosted in conjunction with the Institute for
Latino Studies’ Transformative Latino Leadership Lecture Series which involved a discussion with the Institute for Latino Studies director Luis Fraga along with the local community. Huerta explored her upbringing in Stockton, California, as well as her road to founding the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in 1962. “Many organizations had tried to unionize farm workers but they had all failed,” Huerta
said. “But since Cesar and I had learned to do this kind of bottom up organizing, we thought we could do it. We knew it was going to take a long time. The thing is about organizing is that you have to teach people how to fight for themselves.” Through this method, Chavez and Huerta planned the Delano Grape Strike over three years by reasoning with farm workers in see HUERTA PAGE 4
College students reflect on pom squad experiences By MARIA LEONTARAS News Writer
The Notre Dame men’s basketball team cinches another victory. The fans are cheering, the student section goes wild and the band belts out a song of success. On and off the court, people wrap their arms around one another and begin to sway in anticipation of singing the alma mater. This celebratory gathering is tradition, as is having
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performances by the Notre Dame Pom Squad. Singing the alma mater is one of Saint Mary’s sophomore Claire Holman’s favorite things about being on the Notre Dame Pom Squad, she said. “We get to stand in front of everyone, and it’s having the whole team behind us and the student section in front of us,” Holman said. “Everyone’s there. The band’s there and cheer’s next to us. It’s a cool feeling, everyone coming together and singing
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those words. That’s a little part of it, but I love that.” Though the team is based at Notre Dame, it has members from both Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame. The Pom Squad performs at men’s basketball home games, football pep rallies and other community events, Holman said. Senior Hannah Hoody said in an email friends and family see POM PAGE 4
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these HIV and AIDS patients, two of whom were interviewed for the documentary “Quiet Heroes,” which debuted at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, from Jan. 18-28. Bernie Mulick, C.S.C., a nun who currently resides at Saint Mary’s, was one of the sisters featured in the film. “It’s part of our mission as Sisters of the Holy Cross to care for those who are poor and sick and needy,” Mulick said in an email. “We have always cared for the forgotten ones, for the underdogs. They were the railroaders
and the coal miners in our earliest days in Utah [1875]. During the 1980s and 1990s, individuals with HIV and AIDS were the lepers of the time, and no one else was taking care of them.” Mulick met Ries and Snyder at Holy Cross Jordan Valley Hospital in West Jordan, Utah, prior to assisting them with the care of HIV and AIDS patients, she said. “Dr. Ries and I talked about my going back to school to become a physician assistant,” Mulick said. see SISTERS PAGE 4
Professor shares advice on seeking success, balance By CLAIRE RAFFORD News Writer
Professor Maria McKenna, an education and Africana studies professor at Notre Dame, delivered the fourth Sorin Scholars lecture this year Tuesday evening. Her talk, titled “(In)congruence in Life and Learning,” gave advice to college students about success in higher education and how to find opportunities to engage in research that is fulfilling and interesting for each individual person. McKenna began her talk by suggesting that balance — which McKenna described as “congruence” — is often difficult to achieve, especially in education. “American education was designed with a factory model in mind, with a limited set of ideas about what the purpose and outcomes of education should be, and who benefits and who doesn’t,” she said. However, a little bit of incongruence is normal on the way to pursuing passions in college and finding one‘s way, McKenna said, sharing the story of a student who, after much deliberation, changed her major.
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“Be brave, especially in the face of incongruence,” she said. “When things that you don’t understand come flying at your face in classes, do not run away from that class. Jump right back into it.” McKenna also mentioned other incongruences that college students face on a regular basis — for example, the tension between professors’ stringent attendance policies which can become an issue when students are ill and the pressure for students to take care of themselves. Another incongruence, she said, is the struggle to balance studying a subject one loves with finding an economically successful career. “There is an inherent inconsistency in how we message what is important at different moments along the way in our career as students and even as faculty and staff,” McKenna said. McKenna suggested that because of these many incongruences, it is useful to evaluate how one’s actions relate to one’s values. “As you go through life, you are going to face many choices along the way. And in each moment, it is see ADVICE PAGE 4
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