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Volume 54, Issue 68 | friday, january 24, 2020 | ndsmcobserver.com
Missing Notre Dame student
New students arrive Sixteen undergraduates embark on first semester at ND GENEVIEVE REDSTEN News Writer
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The Notre Dame Police Department (NDPD) is looking for 21-year-old
senior Annrose Jerry, who has reportedly been missing since Tuesday, Notre see MISSING PAGE 4
Last week, as most students were returning for their second semester of the 20192020 academic year, 16 new undergraduates were beginning their very first semester at Notre Dame, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions reported. “In the fall, the entire university is welcoming new students — new first-year students, new transfer students — we’re all thinking there are new people here,” said Erin Camilleri, the director of transfer enrollment.
Linda Timm reprises role as VP of student affairs By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Editor
Recently named interim vice president for student affairs Linda Timm describes the force that first drew her to Saint Mary’s 25 years ago — and enticed her to return twice since then — as a “glow.” Timm first arrived at the College in 1995 to serve as vice
president for student affairs. After 11 years of working closely with the student body, Timm left to become the President of Mount Mary College, now Mount Mary University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the years following, she returned to work in the Saint Mary’s Development Office. Timm retired in 2013, but is now back on campus filling her original
position and rediscovering the “glow.” “It’s the students,” Timm said. “It’s the environment here, it’s the spirit here. It’s hard to describe it. There is just a tug at my heart to come back.” Though the decision to step back into her administrative
“In the spring, people are kind of in their zone and doing their thing. So I always think that it’s a little bit harder to transfer in the spring. It takes a student who has a really strong desire to be here.” A wide variety of students choose to matriculate spring semester. Some of these students, Camilleri said, are student-athletes who are starting their athletic training early, the semester before their freshman season begins. Others are students who were admitted for enrollment in the fall but, due to personal circumstances, chose to defer their enrollment until
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Faculty, staff, students and community members came together in O’Laughlin Auditorium on Thursday evening for a performance by the Euclid Quartet, an ensemble whose four members have ties to four different continents. Jameson Cooper, a violinist from Great Britain, violinist Brendan Shea of the United States, violinist Luis
Enrique Vargas of Venezuela and Jaqueline Choi of South Korea collectively collaborate to perform classical music across the globe. The quartet has played for audiences from Carnegie Hall to school classrooms across the country. The Euclid Quartet is just one of many guest performers that Saint Mary’s hosts every year. Nancy Menk, chair of the music department, explained that groups are chosen based on the
inf luence they will have on the students. “We select groups that will serve as models of excellence for our students and that demonstrate something they can possibly aspire to themselves,” Menk said. “We have some fine young string players on our campus and bringing the Euclid Quartet to Saint Mary’s makes a lot of sense.” W hile the Euclid Quartet
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Scholars discuss Thomas Jefferson
Euclid Quartet performs at Saint Mary’s By MIA MARROQUIN
spring semester. A third category of spring enrollees, however, are selected from a separate pool of applicants. These students have attended a different college or university for at least three semesters, Camilleri said, and they have chosen to enroll at Notre Dame half way through the academic year. Camilleri estimated that about 100 students apply from this third category each year. This year, only four students enrolled from that pool of applicants. The selection process, she said, is highly
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Professors Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf discuss Thomas Jefferson, race and slavery in a lecture part of Walk the Walk Week. By TOM NAATZ Notre Dame News Editor
As the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson has always occupied a high place in the American pantheon. But Jefferson is also a complicated and controversial figure in American life: how can the United States reconcile the man’s words — “all men are created equal” — with the
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reality that he owned slaves and espoused ideas that today would be considered racist? Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf, a professor at Harvard University and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, respectively, considered this question in a Thursday lecture. Part of Walk the Walk Week, the lecture was titled see JEFFERSON PAGE 3
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