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Volume 52, Issue 65 | monday, january 22, 2018 ndsmcobserver.com
Students march through Washington Over 1,000 Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s students participate in this year’s March for Life at National Mall By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER Associate News Editor
Photo courtesy of McKenna Cassidy
Students hold flags and posters as they march past the Washington Monument on Jan. 19. The March for Life began in 1974 as a response to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion.
Club sponsors service day for local organizations By SARA SCHLECHT News Writer
The Saint Mary’s Circle K Club gave students an opportunity to spend time serving others in an event called “Day of Service.” From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, students from the College as well as nearby Penn High School gathered for the event in Rice Commons. “The Day of Service is a way of bringing in-house projects to campus,” junior McKenzie Quinn, president of the Saint Mary’s chapter of Circle K, said. The date of this service opportunity was intentionally close to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “The campus has been trying to do something for the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day for a very long time, and a service week is something they’ve also been wanting to” senior Princess Mae Visconde, the club’s vice
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president, said. Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and involving students in service projects were ideas that had been previously discussed by service organizations on campus, so combining them worked to accommodate previously existing goals, according to Visconde. “This was the first time we’ve ever done an event like this,” Quinn said. Students learned about the event from flyers posted around campus as well through promotionss from the OCSE-Office for Civic and Social Engagement. “We reached out to our Circle K community, all the clubs in the area, along with the Penn High School Key Club and the Knute Rockne Kiwanis Club,” Quinn said. As a service-based club, the Day of Service helped the club work on its mission with community
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partners but was also open to people not involved in Circle K. “We want to do service projects that benefit a variety of organizations in the South Bend area,” Quinn said. Upon entrance, attendees were given cards that informed them of the organizations to benefit from their service as well as encouragement to work on multiple projects during the time they spent at the event. The Day of Service consisted of several different projects, such as making tie blankets for Our Lady of the Road and the Ronald McDonald House, bookmarks for the local school Madison STEAM Academy, nonslip socks for the Riley Children’s Hospital and door decorations for the Sisters of the Holy Cross. “The goal [of service] is to stop focusing so much on ourselves see SERVICE PAGE 4
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Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., junior Julia Dunbar had been to St. Agnes Parish in Arlington, Virginia, to compete in various sporting events throughout her childhood, but she had never seen it as filled as she did Friday morning when scores of Notre Dame students packed into the pews for a mass presided over by University President Fr. John Jenkins. “It was really loud and thunderous prayer in the church because there are 1,000 Notre Dame kids,” Dunbar said. “I think the mass was just a really beautiful way to start the day even if you were tired, it was actually recharging.” The students were in Arlington, just across the Potomac from the nation’s capital, to participate in the 2018 March for Life. The event, which has been held every year since 1974, was launched to combat the
landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. This year students sponsored by Notre Dame’s Right to Life Club packed into 19 chartered buses for a 12-hour overnight journey to Washington to participate. The journey was anything but easy, Dunbar said. “Our bus’ engine kept shutting off and losing power steering and we had to keep veering off to the side of the highway,” she said. “We were able to get everyone there and redistribute people onto busses with seats.” The “whirlwind” journey didn’t end there junior Maria Gardner said, as the students, faculty and staff arrived in Washington at 5:30 a.m., long before St. Agnes opened their doors for mass. “All 1,000 of us divided ourselves up and went to 16 different McDonald’s Restaurants in see MARCH PAGE 4
New art exhibits feature currency, female artists By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS News Writer
The Snite Museum of Art opened two new exhibits this past Friday: “Money Worries” and “Modern Women’s Prints”. They are on display in the special exhibition O’Shaughnessy galleries through March. “When deciding our curatorial calendar we always consider the current conversations in society,” Gina Costa, director of public relations and marketing, said. “Artists don’t live in cultural vacuums and museums are educational resources. We carefully consider who our audience is and how we should be responding to social, political, or art historical issues.” As curator of European art, Cheryl Snay credits “Money Worries” as being the brainchild
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of Julia Douthwaite, a professor of French. “She started out interested in 18th century depictions of tax collections. It evolved into wanting visitors to think more critically about the role that money plays in our lives and why we use money as a unit of value.” Snay said this collection is called to question who gets the assign value to money and the various forms of money and wealth throughout different cultures. “Money becomes a way to structure our relationships as we become both lenders and borrowers,” Snay said. This exhibit also features an installment near the entrance of the gallery that incorporates the role of money in other mediums. see EXHIBITS PAGE 4
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