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(11/30/12 12:00am)
Shopping for Christmas presents can be stressful and overwhelming. Shopping for Christmas presents while also supporting education in Nepal is rewarding. Today, Badin Hall is hosting "A Conscious Christmas," a sale benefiting Hope Initiative. The sale will take place from noon until 5 p.m. in the Badin Hall large social space. The sale will feature handicrafts and gifts handmade in Nepal by fair trade artisans. Sophomore Badin Hall president CristinPacifico said the sale is an annual tradition, benefiting Hall fellow and design professor Ann-Marie Conrado's Hope Initiative. "Basically, we put this sale on every year and all the proceeds, everything we sell goes directly to Nepal and it funds Ann-Marie's Hope Initiative, which is an orphanage house she set up in Nepal," she said. According to the Hope Initiative website, the mission of the organization is "to uplift individuals in developing countries by focusing on transformative education for youth and adults alike. Hope gives individuals the tools they need to create change in their own lives to escape poverty and dependency." The money helps send the children living in the hope house to school, Pacifico said. "They [the kids] tested into one of the best schools in Nepal and that is where they are at school right now," she said. "Ann-Marie comes in and we try to have regular Skype sessions with the kids. It's just a great opportunity to get to purchase some really beautiful goods but also do it in a very responsible way."Pacifico said the handicrafts are the hard work of Nepali women and their families. "You can bring back beautiful gifts for your family and it's an awesome thing to see that you are helping people," she said. The Conscious Christmas is not the only event Badin holds to support Hope Initiative, Pacifico said. "All the other signature events, all the money we raise also goes to Hope Initiative," she said. "When we come back from break we also have the Polar Bear Plunge, which is a bit more chilly. It's for the more daring." Wednesday night, girls in Badin Hall were able to Skype the hope house children before they went to school. The children living in the house and attending school are SuryaKandel, Rajesh Nepali, SurackshyaPariyar, SushilaBK, Karan Gurung and SabinPoudel. The children in Nepal told the Badin Hall residents how school was going and sang a song in Nepali. When the girls asked if they could send anything to Nepal, the children asked for notebooks and pens. However, Poudel said a PSP [PlayStation Portable.] Freshman MaddieCaballero said she stumbled across the Skype session Wednesday night. "I fell in love," she said. "The kids were so cute and they had so much honesty in their eyes. They were just so happy to see you." Freshman Kristina Techar also got to Skype with the kids. "It was very interesting. ... I was expecting kids who were younger," she said. "But it was nice to have kids who were older because you could really talk to them."Techar said she was surprised to hear the children ask for what they needed, not what they wanted. "When we asked them what they wanted us to [send] them, instead of saying things like hair bows, they asked for things that they needed, for example a science notebook," she said. Caballero said she was excited for the sale Friday and to get involved. "I will probably be wearing the [Badin Hall] frog suit and hold up a giant sign and be really enthusiastic about the 'Conscious Christmas,'" she said. Contact Anna Boarini at aboari01@saintmarys.edu
(11/20/12 12:00am)
In less than 24 hours, a 38-0 walloping of Wake Forest on Senior Day and losses by the top-2 football teams in the country led the Irish to a perfect 11-0 record and their first No. 1 national ranking in the BCS era.
(11/20/12 12:00am)
I want to thank Anna Boarini for her Nov. 14 article, "Lecture explores Church teachings." I am grateful for her fair reporting of my St. Mary's College "Theology on Fire" series lecture "The Church and Same-Sex Attraction" which I gave the previous night. In spite of concerns voiced by some present and former SMC faculty members that my presence and presumed views would be too "controversial" and "isolating," I found the larger than usual audience of mostly students both attentive to and respectful of what I said. I am grateful that - at least among the SMC students and others who attended - "diversity" and "tolerance" also included me, a person with whom some members of the audience apparently came prepared to disagree. As a Saint Mary's dad of 1999 and 2007 (and a Notre Dame dad of 1997 and 2005), I am pleased that undergraduate students at Saint Mary's (and Notre Dame) are still being taught to see, hear, think and decide for themselves what is true! Philip Sutton Class of 1973 South Bend, IN Nov. 19
(11/16/12 12:00am)
As a motivational speaker, writer and artist Joni Arredia tries to find the best in everyone. "I reflect goodness," she said. "I love finding the best in people, I am a creative that always follows through. I use this gift that God has given me to make the world a better place. That's what I do."Arredia spoke at Saint Mary's on Thursday night for a Key Bank event. "I'm talking about lifestyle balance, " she said. "Key Bank puts this event on for women business owners that are their clients." With all the different ventures she is involved in, Arredia said she understands the importance of lifestyle balance. "All the things that I do ... they feel that I balance life very well," she said. "As an entrepreneur and creative businesswoman how do you keep your connection to yourself, your family and your business ... [with] space in your life to balance." Motivational speaking was not Arredia's first career choice. In 1982, she bought a jazzercise franchise. "I was teaching about 500 students a week," she said. "I really found that people were coming in and wanting to lose weight and get fit but what I found more than anything they were looking for a place that made them feel good." While teaching jazzercise, Arredia also became interested in the nutritional end of fitness. She studied with the 'Fit or Fat' method under Cover Bailey and became a speaker for the program. Then, one day, Arredia decided to speak for herself. "One day I thought I'll just get on that stage and ... speak about what I believe in," she said. "It worked, it worked to the point that I got everyone crying, like 300 people."Arredia realized while she wanted to impact people with her words, but she needed a tutor to hone her speaking and motivating skills. "Words are very, very powerful and you have to be very responsible [with them]," she said. "I took about another year before started speaking to motivate people [again]." Once she began motivational speaking, Arredia said she realized she wanted to be able to offer people something to take home to continue their journey. It was then she decided to become an author. Arredia has since written a newspaper column on the East Coast and has published two books. Along with motivational speaking and writing, Arredia is also a painter and a recent playwright. "I moved to Chicago seven years ago and started to study [acting] ferociously for two years," she said.Arredia said she got interested in theatre because of her involvement in high school and she wanted to work in a team again. Her play, 'Resurfacing', debuted in Chicago in 2011. Even with all she has accomplished in her life,Arredia said her work with Hut Outreach, a Toledo, Ohio-based organization in Haiti has been the "coolest thing in my life, other than my family." "I went to Haiti in January, and when I came home worked furiously on pieces [of artwork] and staged a show in my home," she said. "In one night we raised $20,000 dollars and went back a month later ... to work on some exciting outreach programs." Through her career, Arredia said she has been able to understand people more and realize how to motivate them. "I just love it. It is so much fun," she said. "It is such a blast to watch light bulbs go off and peoples eyes sparkly. I thank God every day for this gift." Contact Anna Boarini ataboari01@saintmarys.edu
(11/09/12 12:00am)
Much like the rest of the country, the reactions of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students to the outcome of the 2012 presidential election spanned the political spectrum.
(09/19/12 12:00am)
Arts and Letters majors worrying about getting a job after graduation can can calm their nerves at the Letters Career Opportunities Week, a series of events co-sponsored by the Career Center and the College of Arts and Letters. Rose Kopec, the associate director of the Career Center, said this is the fourth year of the event, formerly titled "What's Next Week." "The name was changed this year ... to the Arts and Letters Career Opportunities Week to hopefully more accurately reflect the week's activities," she said. "Arts and Letters students have many career paths available to them and we wanted to dedicate an entire week to exploring some of these options." This year, the tagline for the event is, "Start now to plan your future," Kopec said. Monday night's panel was titled "Thinking about Graduate and Professional School?" The panel discussed how to make graduate school applications great, as well as what to expect from graduate school, Kopec said. There will be a workshop on how to find and fund a student internship Tuesday night in the Geddes Auditorium. "[Students can] learn about exploring careers through Notre Dame's job shadow, externship and Arts and Letters Business Boot Camp programs," she said. "[They can] gain the tools to find the perfect internship [and] educate [themselves] about the various funding programs on campus." Wednesday night will be the Employer Networking Fair in the Monogram Club at the Joyce Center with Notre Dame alumna Nancy Ruscheinski, chief innovation officer and global vice chair for Edelman as the keynote speaker. This event will have representatives from many companies including Abercrombie and Fitch, Red Frog, Morningstar and Capital One, Kopec said. Throughout all the events, students need to keep in mind when the industry they want to enter into hires, she said. "Our keynote speaker for Wednesday night, Nancy Ruscheinski ... will address this," she said. "Edelman, a public relations firm, won't begin the full-time hiring process until the spring semester." This type of hiring is called "just-in-time hiring" and is very common, Kopec said. "This does not mean that students should wait until then to begin making connections with alumni and learning more about the industry," she said. "That should happen immediately following the time when a specific direction is discerned." No matter what industry students want to go into, the Career Center can help, especially in the current economic climate, Kopec said. "Our job is to provide the best services possible to students coupled with an aggressive employer recruiting strategy," she said. "There have been other tough economic times since I have been at the Career Center and these goals have not changed. We continually strive to offer both relevant and creative programming and services to help make Notre Dame students successful upon graduation." Kopec said Arts and Letters students do not need to worry about not finding a job post-graduation. "It is not more difficult for Arts and Letters students to get a job post-graduation," she said. "For example if you look at our 'future plans' data in 2011, only two percent of Arts and Letters students are still seeking full-time employment within six months [of graduation] which is in line with all of the other colleges." Contact Anna Boarini at aboari01@saintmarys.edu
(09/18/12 12:00am)
Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine sister and author of 45 books, discussed the common good during the annual Fr. Bernie Clarke Lecture on Catholic Social Tradition on Monday night in the Hesburgh Library auditorium. "Tonight I want to spend a little time sorting out ... the whole concept of 'the common good,'" she said.Chittister said celebrating the 50th anniversary of the encyclical "Pacem en Terris" brings people to the very heart of what it means not only to be a Christian or a Catholic, but also to be a citizen of the United States."In every single presidential election cycle, we enter as a people into the centrifuge of one of the oldest debates and at the same time one of the most pressing contemporary questions in the life of this country," she said. "That question is what exactly as a people are we about? Is such a think as the common good even possible in a world such as ours?" Chittister said in "Pacem in Terris", Pope John XIII does not talk about peace in terms of war or weapons of mass destruction, but in terms of the common good. "In 176 paragraphs of that encyclical, he talks 48 times about the common good," she said. "Without the common good, there will never be peace and certainly no justice." Chittister said the issue of the common good even divided Alexis de Tocqueville and James Madison on the question of what the common good is and how to obtain it. "[The common good] riveted the Founding Fathers 200 years ago and it clearly confuses this session of Congress," she said. "It has plagued political philosophers and economists across centuries and it continues to do so to this very day." The common good is the holy grail of politics, Chittister said. "The common good is a vision of public virtue, which engages the individual citizen, energizes the government, shapes the public system and points the public direction and all it's policies, all it's institutions and all it's legislative intents," Chittister said. "The common good is the answer to the question, what, that we all want for this country ... what is it that we really want for this country and how do we go about getting it." Chittister said now the discourse in the U.S. is more inclined to talk about the general good instead of the common good. "We talk about the public good, meaning natural gifts that benefit us all equally, like air, water and good order if of course we have the good fortune to find air that is pure, water that is clean and land that is toxin free, resources that are sufficient to afford anywhere," she said. There is no doubt the common good is an endangered species, Chittister said. Chittister said the world is changing through globalization with more diversity present in religion, nations and neighborhoods. What once divided people - language, geography - no longer do so, she said. "'Pacem in Terris' gets clearer everyday," she said. "The fact that one is a citizen of a particular state does not detract from anyway from his of her membership in the human family as a whole or from their citizenship in the world community." Contact Anna Boarini at aboari01@saintmarys.edu
(09/17/12 12:00am)
On Wednesday night, my friend Fran and I left school and drove to Boston for the Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway Park. That's right, we drove approximately 16 hours for a baseball game.
(04/25/12 12:00am)
Tuesday evening, Dr. Bruce Porter, an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) gave a lecture arguing there is currently a "Mormon moment." Porter is a member of the Quorum of 70, an LDS governing body, and titled his lecture "The Latter-Day Saints come marching in: Mormonism abroad and at home in the 21stcentury."
(04/18/12 12:00am)
Senior Ryan Geraghty did not become an industrial design major to win awards. He said he picked his major because it focuses on solving problems and communicating new ideas through form and function.
(03/28/12 12:00am)
Service has always been a part of Erin Wright's life, and the Notre Dame junior finally is being recognized for her tireless efforts to the area.
(03/22/12 12:00am)
Howard Hall sponsored the Tunnel of Love event Wednesday to promote discussion about diversity and inclusion in light of the alleged hate crimes against two black student organizations that occurred before spring break.
(03/21/12 12:00am)
After the success of last year's night game against USC, the Notre Dame football team will add two home night games to the upcoming season. According to a University press release, Notre Dame will host Michigan on September 22 at night, while the game against Miami at Chicago's Soldier Field will also be held at night.
(03/07/12 12:00am)
One group of graphic design students will spend spring break helping South African refugees understand their rights through the "together +" anti-xenophobia campaign.
(01/26/12 12:00am)
So far, this semester has not been going as smoothly as I expected or hoped. I'm already way behind on my homework, sources aren't calling me back and I miss my friends that are abroad, even though it's great to see my friends who just got back.
(10/10/11 12:00am)
I am currently suffering from a horrific case of writer's block. I honestly feel as though I have nothing to say. Anyone who has ever had this problem knows that it is ugly.
(09/15/11 12:00am)
Every once and a while, you have to do something that you absolutely dread. For me, that day came last week. My grandparents were in South Bend visiting my great aunt and my Nonie (grandma in Italian) wanted to cook me dinner. Being the Italian girl that I am, I was envisioning her homemade sauce and meatballs, gnocchi and a warm, fresh, crusty loaf of Italian bread. Instead, I got the only food I really hate — polenta.
(04/04/11 12:00am)
Dear UConn,
(02/15/11 12:00am)
Dear Anna Boarini,
(02/11/11 12:00am)
Dear students of "Saint Marian's College,"
