Spring Break
Former Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party's candidate for president, will speak at the University Friday, per the request of the Notre Dame College Libertarians. The subject of his speech will be "America's failure of leadership in the 20th century," Barr said in an e-mail to The Observer through his campaign's deputy press secretary.
Associate professor of medicine at Duke University Harold G. Koenig, M.D., said he is a strong advocate for the influence that spiritual and religious life has on the health of patients in the hospital. Koenig spoke on "The Practice of Spirituality and the Practice of Medicine: Worlds Apart or Overlapping?" as part of the Saint Mary's Quest Project: Women Exploring the Science/Religion Interface.
About 200 cadets from the three branches of ROTC joined University President Fr. John Jenkins at 6:30 a.m Tuesday to participate in a 2.5-mile run Tri-Military Run across campus, senior Army cadet and public relations liaison, Mike Howard said. "[The run] is just basically to foster good relations between the services and to work together," he said.
The Saint Mary's Volleyball team is hosting "Dig for the Cure," an event designed to raise money for breast cancer research, during its game against Trine University tonight at 7 p.m. Varsity players have been soliciting donations from College students, faculty and staff for a flat donation or pledge of a specific amount for every dig the team makes during the Trine match for the past week and will continue to take them at the game.
Haiti Working Group discussed the food shortages, poverty, and political and economic unrest in Haiti, calling for action from Notre Dame students during a lecture entitled "Why Haiti?" in McKenna Hall Auditorium Tuesday evening. "As Americans, as very privileged people, we are often ignorant to what is going on in other parts of the world or even the poverty that surrounds us," Erin Wash, a member of the class council for 2009 said.
The Council of Representatives (COR) discussed questions for the upcoming student census, which is designed to ensure that student government is addressing issues that students care about, at its meeting Tuesday. "These results will definitely have a direct impact on how student government proceeds for the next couple of months," student body president Bob Reish said.
The Entrepreneurship Society hosted a speech by Tom Suddes, who gave tips on how to become a successful entrepreneur Tuesday night. "I'm challenging you to think big," he said. "You do what you need to do to be able to get stuff done." Suddes, founder of the group For Impact, an organization which seeks to assist nonprofit groups change their approach to raising money, began his presentation by linking students to one another with a rope and encouraging the pairs to try to escape the tangle.