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Volume 54, Issue 57 | wednesday, december 4, 2019 | ndsmcobserver.com
PhotoFutures 2019 adds to Snite Notre Dame students select 1993 photograph for permanent museum collection By REGAN HULTQUIST News Writer
Museums are places of ideas, and the students of PhotoFutures 2019 had specific ideas in mind when choosing the new photograph for the Snite Museum’s permanent collection. The photograph added to the Snite’s collection was chosen by a group of Notre Dame students. Throughout the fall semester, members of PhotoFutures — senior Sarah Harper, sophomores Abigail Patrick and Claire Stein, junior Cameron Sumner and exchange student Stanley Ying — focused on helping choose a photograph in line
with the theme “American education.” (Editor’s Note: Patrick is a Viewpoint copy editor for The Observer.) Bridget Hoyt, curator of education for academic programs at the Snite, said PhotoFutures is responsible for selecting a photograph that “addresses a theme that adds value to the permanent collection of the Snite Museum, that is a good and important aesthetic object and that also supports the mission of the University.” “So [the photograph] doesn’t just belong in an art museum, but it belongs in this art museum,” Hoyt said. see SNITE PAGE 4
MLK keynote named Observer Staff Report
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The Snite Museum, pictured, acquired a new photograph that fit the theme “American education.” The piece was unveiled Tuesday.
Civil rights leader Diane Nash will serve as the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Celebration Luncheon on Jan. 20 at the Joyce Center, the University announced in a press release Tuesday. Nash has a long record of service in the Civil Rights movement. Her involvement began as a college student at Nashville’s Fisk University, where she was jailed for see KEYNOTE PAGE 4
ND student government hosts fiveHighsite South Bend scavenger hunt profile speakers to visit By GENEVIEVE REDSTEN News Writer
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Trevor Noah and Alexis Ohanian will speak during Idea Week 2020, the University announced in a press release Tuesday. Noah is a comedian and the host of the “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Ohanian is the co-founder of Reddit, a social news website. Idea Week will now also feature the Fighting Irish Esports Invitational — Notre Dame’s first official esports tournament, which will take place in an all-in-one area folding out from a semi-truck. The week will take place April 19-25. Noah will perform April 19 at Notre Dame’s Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center, and Ohanian will deliver a keynote address on see SPEAKERS PAGE 4
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For students who are looking for a study break or a change of pace, Notre Dame’s student government is hosting a scavenger hunt of the South Bend area. Students who visit the five sites on the Fall 2019 scavenger hunt list — and submit photo evidence — will be entered into a raff le for a prize.
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College community gives back through Adopt-a-Family program By MARIA LEONTARAS Assistant Managing Editor
As Christmastime grows near, the Saint Mary’s community is gathering donations for the Salvation Army’s Adopt-a-Family program. Individuals
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and groups contacted the Office of Civic and Social Engagement to express interest in participating in the program and received the information, including age and gender, for an individual who will receive their donations.
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Senior resident assistant (RA) Taryn Van Horn’s donations will go to a three-yearold girl. Vah Horn said she has been participating in the program since she was a first-year student and wanted to bring the tradition to her section.
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“I have just kept doing it,” Van Horn said. “Since I am an RA, I included my section. Even when I was little my family would do it, too. Just giving back around the holidays, I was like, ‘Oh it’s a see FAMILY PAGE 4
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