Legends of Notre Dame 2013

February 6, 2013
The Questions Brennan Can’t
Dodge
By MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL
AT his confirmation hearing today, John O. Brennan, President
Obama’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, is
likely to face tough questions on a host of topics, including the
soaring use of drone strikes, which have killed at least four
Americans, one of them intentionally; his performance as the
president’s counterterrorism adviser; the rise of Islamist
radicalism in northern Africa; and his past comments on
engagement with Iran.
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law at the
University of Notre Dame, is the editor of “What Is War?
An Investigation in the Wake of 9/11.”
Mary Ellen O’Connell
Short Professor of Law

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Jeffrey Bergstrand
Professor of Finance
“It’s quite startling that manufacturing actually
contracted. The banking system is exacerbating
the slowdown,” said Jeffrey Bergstrand, a
finance professor at the University of Notre
Dame.

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Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurulé, a former
Treasury official, said he thinks there could be enough
to prove wire fraud and a conspiracy to commit fraud.
Although MF Global apparently didn't intend to take
money from clients, it did intend to borrow that
money in a way that clients probably didn't expect: to
keep itself alive.
Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law

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Michael Desch, a University of Notre Dame
expert on international security, suggested
that Merkel, who often uses an unsecured cell
phone that security experts warned could be
tapped even by hobby hackers, was being
disingenuous.
Michael Desch
Professor of Political
Science

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Rick Garnett
Professor of Law
When the issue finally does come back to the high
court, there is little doubt that the language in the
DOMA case about equality and discrimination will help
frame the issue, observes Richard Garnett of Notre
Dame Law School. "A lot of that language is going to be
really helpful to people who are challenging traditional
marriage laws," he says.

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Should babies be allowed to 'cry it
out'?
By Amanda Enayati, CNN Contributor
January 24, 2013 -- Updated 1829 GMT (0229 HKT)
Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology at the University
of Notre Dame, studies moral cognition and development.
Her research examines how early life experience may
influence brain development, moral functioning and
character in children and adults.
Narvaez advocates a more responsive style of parenting
that mirrors nurturing ancestral practices, including
breastfeeding, frequent touch, soothing babies in distress,
outdoor play and a wider community of caregivers.
Darcia Narvaez
Professor of Psychology

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
Then there is Tumblr's adult content, which can
include pornography. "Tumblr does not insist on
knowing the real identities for users, and some of
the Tumblr content is very adult-oriented, both
features that advertisers would find repellant,"
says Brian Proffitt, an adjunct instructor of
management in the University of Notre Dame's
Mendoza College of Business.

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“If we had the kind of product listing and focus on
financial flows and interdiction on North Korea that
we placed on Iran, we would not be in this spot,” said
George Lopez, a professor at Notre Dame and a
former member of the United Nations panel of experts
charged with monitoring sanctions compliance.
George Lopez
Hesburgh Professor of
Peace Studies

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Timothy Matovina, Executive Director of Notre Dame’s
Institute for Latino Studies, says while members of the
Latino community have opinions on social and moral
issues, he has seen that it is largely concerned with issues
that hit closer to home.
“The deeper desire is for the Church to be on mission,”
Matovina says, giving examples such as how the Church
can better serve immigrant youth that it’s not reaching,
how it can better fund the Hispanic ministry, and create
more Hispanic leaders.
Timothy Matovina
Professor of Theology

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David Cortright
Director of Policy Studies,
Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies
Best way for
Obama to help
Syria is with aid
and diplomacy –
not weapons
As onlookers gaze in horror at the civil war raging in Syria,
many naturally feel a compulsion to do something to relieve
the people’s suffering. Many have called for arming the Syrian
rebels – a move President Obama is now reportedly
considering as Bashar al-Assad’s forces are apparently poised
to attack the key city of Homs. But such a step would worsen
the devastation and might involve the United States in yet
another Middle East war. A better way to help the Syrian
people is to pursue diplomatic efforts to end the killing and
provide greater support for humanitarian relief efforts.
…David Cortright is the director of policy studies at the
University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies.

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A new study offers a possible reason why. The research
team, led by psychology professor Alexandra Corning,
who heads Notre Dame's Body Image and Eating
Disorder Lab, asked 139 undergraduates, mostly
freshman, all with average BMIs, to look at photos of
both "noticeably thin" and overweight women captioned
with quotes ostensibly from the women expressing
either positive thoughts about their bodies or negative
thoughts -- "fat talk."
Alexandra Corning
Research Associate
Professor

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Previous research suggested that those elements
might have been brought to the moon from
outside sources like comets and meteorites after
the moon's crust formed and cooled. But
evidence of water-forming elements in lunar-
native rocks complicates that theory. "I still
think the impact scenario is the best formation
scenario for the moon," study leader Hejiu
Hui, an engineering researcher at the University
of Notre Dame, noted, "but we need to reconcile
the theory of hydrogen."

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Politics editor Christina Bellantoni hosted a Google
hangout Friday with religious leaders from both sides of
the argument. They addressed how each of their faith
communities view same-sex marriage, and how and
why they’ve gotten involved with the political
discourse.
Joining her were:
Father Paulinus Odozor, professor of Christian ethics
and moral theology at the University of Notre Dame

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Mark McKenna
Professor of Law
DAN BOBKOFF, BYLINE: Once you buy a book in the U.S., you’re
free to lend it, throw it away or sell it. This is called the First Sale
Doctrine, says law professor Mark McKenna of Notre Dame
MARK MCKENNA: This is why there are used book stores.

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To effectively blame Mason for the company's problems seems to
border on scapegoating. As Notre Dame Professor of
Management Timothy Judge, who researches management
psychology and leadership personality, put it in an email to
MoneyWatch:
After all, Mason started the company, but it seems as if that is, in
a real sense, being used against him. Moreover, it seems odd to
me that the board, who bought into Mason and his plan, not exit
with him. Why are they less responsible than he?
Timothy Judge
Schurz Professor of
Management

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Jeffrey Bergstrand
Economists Scott Baier and Jeffrey Bergstrand
have also found in a series of research papers
that agreements similar to the prospective TPP
and U.S.-EU pacts create far more trade than
they divert.

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Rick Garnett
Professor of Law
"Although Justice Kennedy's opinion explicitly states that
it is confined to same-sex marriages that have been
recognized by states, it contains reasoning and language
that will certainly be used, in later cases, to argue that
legal recognition of same-sex marriage by all states is
constitutionally required," said University of Notre Dame
law professor Richard W. Garnett, a past clerk to former
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. "Almost certainly, and
fairly soon, that argument will be presented squarely to
the court."

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O. Carter Snead
Professor of Law,
William P. and Hazel B.
White Director of the
Center for Ethics and
Culture
But University of Notre Dame law professor O.
Carter Snead, a bioethicist who specializes in the
governance of science, medicine and
biotechnology, urged the United Kingdom to
"proceed slowly and cautiously" given the
"unresolved safety and ethical questions"
around the new technique.

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In an effort to explore the meaning behind wedding
registries, University of Notre Dame marketing
professor Tonya Williams Bradford interviewed
and observed 72 registrants, gift-givers and retail
employees. She concluded that families "outsource"
the ritual of gift-giving to retailers, leading to less
personalized, more commercial gifts.
Tonya Williams Bradford
Assistant Professor of
Marketing

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The cardinal who will choose the next pope will pray
for guidance, but all believers need to pray along,
says theologian Timothy O'Malley, director of
the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.
The music site Spotify called on O'Malley and other
experts at University of Notre Dame to select two
dozen chants, hymns, suites, orchestral music and
more at Conclave: Institute for Church Life,
University of Notre Dame
Timothy O’Malley
Professor of Theology

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
"Whoever holds the mapping data is going to be a
hot commodity," said Brian Proffitt, author of
several books on mobile technology and an
adjunct instructor of management in the
University of Notre Dame. "As larger vendors
acquire mapping data, businesses and consumers
will discover that it's more difficult to gain free
access and correct errors."

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China's criticism shifted then from calling North Korea's actions
"not helpful" to actual condemnation, said George Lopez, a
nuclear proliferation expert at Notre Dame University who served
on a U.N. panel that monitored sanctions on North Korea.
The new sanctions are unlikely to stop North Korea from staging
another nuclear test or two, but hurt its weapons program in the
medium to long term, Lopez said.
"The fact this resolution has so many multiple prongs and
assertions and stipulations is a very clear message to the North
that the Chinese are serious," Lopez said.
George Lopez
Peace Studies

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British double-jeopardy laws prevent anyone
charged in the United Kingdom from being
extradited to face similar charges in another
country, according to James Gurule, a law
professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Officials at the Justice Department declined to
comment on the issue.
Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law

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Darcia Narvaez
Professor of Psychology
Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology at the
University of Notre Dame, is a leading figure in the
field of moral development, is concerned about the
effects excess stress in infants leads to long-term
developments that undermine ethical behavior. She
contends that her studies show that infants
experience stress when separated from parents,
thereby flooding the brain with cortisol. Increased
cortisol adversely effects the development of
conscience, empathy, self-regulation and impulse
control. “The way we raise our children today in this
country is increasingly depriving them of the
practices that lead to well being and a moral sense,”
Narvaez says.

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William Evans
Keough-Hesburgh
Professor of
Economics
That’s backed up by a study by Notre Dame’s
Williams Evans and Northwestern’s Craig Garthwaite,
who found that the expansion of the EITC included in
Clinton’s 1993 budget reduced the probability of
recipient reports of high blood pressure by 3.2
percentage points and the probability of reporting
biomarkers that predict stroke, heart attacks and
mortality by 9.6 percentage points.

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Lionel Jensen
Associate Professor of
East Asian Languages
and Cultures,
Concurrent Associate
Professor of History
The controversies surrounding many Confucius
Institutes were discussed in a book published last year
by Lionel M. Jensen, an associate professor of East
Asian languages and culture and a fellow at the
Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the
University of Notre Dame.

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Robert Blakey
William and
Dorothy O'Neill
Professor of Law,
Emeritus
"We thought that was incriminating of Oswald,"
said Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey,
former chief counsel to the 1977 House of
Representatives Select Committee on
Assassinations, which re-examined the evidence in
Kennedy's death.

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Kathleen Cummings
American Studies
Director, Cushwa
Center for the Study
of American
Catholicism
Editor’s note: Kathleen Sprows Cummings is an
associate professor of American Studies at the
University of Notre Dame and the Director of the
Cushwa Center for the Study of American
Catholicism. The views expressed are her own.
Conventional wisdom was that a short papal
conclave would result in the election of a front
runner. So when I heard that there was white
smoke after just five ballots, I prepared for a TV
interview by reviewing notes about Cardinal
Angelo Scola of Milan. Not visible on camera was a
thick packet on my lap containing profiles of other
candidates, just in case. Luckily, I had it arranged in
alphabetical order, and quickly laid my hands on
the rather slender file of Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio.

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Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Professor of Law
As Lloyd Mayer, a law professor at the University of
Notre Dame, explained, “because Congress and the
Treasury have left both the definition of political
activity and, for [social welfare organizations], the
amount of permitted political activity uncertain, the
I.R.S. is required to make broad inquiries and to use
politically sensitive criteria to decide if a given
organization qualifies for tax-exempt status.”

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Mark McKenna
Professor of Law
Google scores key legal victory in books
lawsuit
"This is a huge victory for Google, which had
previously tried to resolve legal issues regarding
Google Books by class-action settlement," says Mark
McKenna, a law professor at the University of Notre
Dame.

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Robert Schmuhl
Walter H. Annenberg-
Edmund P. Joyce
Professor of American
Studies and Journalism
During the recent White House ceremony
celebrating Irish and American connections,
President Barack Obama made a point to
emphasise the heritage of several key members
of his second-term administration.
…Author: Robert Schmuhl

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Christopher Waller
Gilbert Schaefer
Professor of
Economics
St. Louis Fed's Waller Talks Inflation
Risk, QE (Audio)
Christopher Waller, senior vice president and
director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis, discusses the Fed's leadership in
monetary policy and the future of quantitative
easing. Waller speaks with Bloomberg's
Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg
Radio's "The Hays Advantage."

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O. Carter Snead
Professor of Law,
Culture
The research "will lead inexorably to cloning
to produce a live born child," said bioethicist
O. Carter Snead, professor of law at the
University of Notre Dame, a Catholic
University in Indiana.

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Stay out of Syria
Transporting the stockpiles out of the country or
destroying them would take a lot of troops and
time. "There is no exit strategy with this option
either," says Michael Desch, a national security
scholar at the University of Notre Dame.
Michael Desch
Science

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Gerald Haeffel
Psychology
“Thinking styles are a really important factor in risk for
depression,” says the study’s lead author Gerald Haeffel,
associate professor of clinical psychology at Notre Dame
University. “How one thinks about life stress and negative
moods is one of the best predictors that we have of future
depression.”

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Cynthia Mahmood
Associate Professor
of Anthropology
It’s hard to underestimate the power of those
ties, said Cynthia Mahmood, an
anthropology professor at the University of
Notre Dame. She spent some of the past
decade on the Pakistan side of Kashmir,
talking to young warriors who had signed up
for violent jihad.

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Robert Schmuhl
Edmund P. Joyce
Two key appointments will
influence US foreign policy
Bob Schmuhl, Professor of American Studies at
Notre Dame University, and Niall O'Dowd, editor
of Irish Central.com, discuss the changes we can
expect in US foreign policy following yesterday's
appointments.

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Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Professor of Law
"I'm not sure how much law there is because it
is one of these things that everyone agrees
shouldn't happen," Professor Lloyd Hitoshi
Mayer of Notre Dame Law School, who has
written extensively on the law and politics of tax
exemptions, said in an interview yesterday.

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David Cortright
Director of Policy
Studies, Kroc Institute
for International Peace
Studies
Reports of possible chemical weapons use by
Syria’s Bashar Assad regime are serious and
need to be addressed. …David Cortright is the
director of policy studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc
Institute for International Peace Studies. He
blogs at www.davidcortright.net.

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Joshua Diehl
Assistant Professor
of Psychology
The thinking is that children with autism often struggle
with the complexity of social behavior, so they may
more easily learn such skills in the simplified
interchange with robots. In addition, they may be more
motivated to interact with a robot, said Joshua Diehl, a
psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame
who will present the data Saturday.

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Jennifer Mason McAward
Law
"The sky is not falling," said Jennifer Mason
McAward, a Notre Dame associate law professor.
"The Supreme Court made it very clear that racial
discrimination in voting is unconstitutional."
McAward, who clerked for Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor, went on to note that "federal courts
remain available to block discriminatory voting laws
from taking effect."
Supreme Court Rules on voting rights
law: Now what?

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George Lopez
Peace Studies
If entities in Pyongyang had to use the Foreign Trade
Bank, they would end up spending a lot of time seeking
clarity or an exemption to avoid hassle from the U.S.
Treasury and their homebase bank, said George Lopez,
a former U.N. North Korea sanctions monitor, now at
the University of Notre Dame.

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Agustin Fuentes
Professor of
Anthropology
Other macaque observers agree that life is no picnic for
middle monkeys. "The stress for macaques, like humans, is
not so much about getting the goodies within the
hierarchy. It's about how others relate to me and how I
relate to others," said National Geographic
explorer Agustin Fuentes, who was not involved in the
study but has been observing macaques in Singapore's
urban jungles using Crittercam.

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Timothy Judge
Franklin D. Schurz
Professor of
Management
But a new study, forthcoming in the Journal of Applied
Psychology, sheds some light on the connection between
ambition and the good life. Using longitudinal data from the
nine-decade-long Terman life-cycle study, which has followed
the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children
since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and
John D. Kammeyer-Mueller of the University of Florida
analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among
them. How did their lives turn out?

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could be charged with
several crimes including use of weapons of
mass destruction, terrorism and bombing of
places of public use in addition to homicide,
said former federal prosecutor and University
of Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurulé.
Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law

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Linda Przybyszewski
History
Professor Linda Przybyszewski teaches a class called
"A Nation of Slobs" at the University of Notre Dame,
in South Bend, Ind. "My students very often are
floored by the beauty of some of the vintage
pictures that I show them," she told Giles.

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James Sullivan
Associate Professor
of Economics
There may be
millions more
poor people in
the US than
you think
The federal measure is linked to about half
a trillion dollars in federal spending every
year, according to a paper published last
year by two professors, Bruce D. Meyer of
the University of Chicago and James X.
Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame,
in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Jeffrey Bergstrand
"This is a major move to bring more developing
countries into the liberalization of world trade. It
doesn't necessarily mean reinvigorating the Doha
Round because it has a lot of political baggage,"
said Jeffrey Bergstrand, professor of finance at the

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O. Carter Snead
Professor of Law,
Culture
Gosnell Case Fuels Bitter US Abortion
Debate
The Gosnell case could serve as a fulcrum for
more dialogue about abortion, said O. Carter
Snead, a University of Notre Dame bioethicist
and law professor.

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Robert Schmuhl
Edmund P. Joyce
WHEN Barack Obama arrives in Belfast next month
prior to the G8 summit in Fermanagh, it's likely
he'll still be nursing serious presidential wounds
he's suffered during the past few days in
Washington. …Robert Schmuhl is Professor of
American Studies at the University of Notre Dame

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Kathleen Cummings
Associate Professor
of American Studies
Director, Cushwa
Center for the Study
of American
Catholicism
“It’s just a change in tone, but a change in tone
can go a long way,” said Kathleen Sprows
Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for
the Study of American Catholicism at the
University of Notre Dame. It’s nice “when
you’re not hearing constantly about the issues
American Catholics have the hardest time with,”
she said.

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Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Professor of Law
As the Notre Dame law professor Lloyd
Mayer told the Christian Science Monitor
this week: “What has been missed in the
outrage is the recognition that this
problem arose from much deeper sources
than the poor judgment or possible
partisan bias of a handful of I.R.S.
employees.”

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John McGreevy, dean of the University of Notre
Dame's College of Arts and Letters, called the
choice remarkable, echoing Garanzini's surprise.
"Jesuits traditionally were discouraged from
becoming ... bishops. And they themselves didn't
want to become bishops, usually," said McGreevy,
who is working on a book about 19th century
Jesuits. "But there were exceptions over time, and
he's obviously one of them."
John McGreevy
and I.A.
O'Shaughnessy Dean
of the College of Arts
and Letters

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Mary Ellen O'Connell, professor of international
law at the University of Notre Dame, told
CBSNews.com that as U.S. combat troops prepare
to leave Afghanistan next year, it's time for a
complete change of course.

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
"Tumblr does not insist on knowing the real
identities for users, and some of the Tumblr
content is very adult-oriented, both features
that advertisers would find repellant," said
Brian Proffitt, an adjunct instructor of
management at the University of Notre
Dame.

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David Cortright
Director of Policy Studies,
Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies
And we pick up the debate now with Kori
Schake, a research fellow at Stanford
University's Hoover Institute and professor at the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and David
Cortright, director of policy studies at the
University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies.

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Timothy Judge
Franklin D. Schurz
Professor of Management
“We find that unattractive individuals are more likely
the subject of rude, uncivil and even cruel treatment by
their coworkers. And, not only do we, as a society,
perceive attractive and unattractive coworkers
differently, we act on those perceptions in ways that
are hurtful,” said study co-author Timothy Judge,
professor of management at the University of Notre
Dame‘s Mendoza College of Business.

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Ricardo Ramirez
American Politics
“It’s anybody’s guess to what’s going to
happen in terms of sequence,” says Ricardo
Ramirez, professor of political science at
Notre Dame University. “House Republicans
will have their own bill, the question is, is
there enough interest in the Senate bill?”

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Agustin Fuentes
Professor of
Anthropology
I am occasionally racist— and so is most
everyone in the USA. Even if we don't think
we are. Race is all around us, often in ways
we often don’t realize. We can be less
racist, and even move away from racism,
but it takes a bit of work and some courage.
...Agustín Fuentes, Ph.D, is a professor in
the Department of Anthropology at the

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Abigail Wozniak
Associate Professor
of Economics
According to calculations by economists Raven
Molloy and Christopher Smith of the Federal
Reserve and Abigail Wozniak of the University
of Notre Dame, the interstate migration rate in
2011 was 53 percent below its 1948-1971 average,
while the rates of moving between counties within
the same state and of moving within the same
county fell 44 and 36 percent, respectively, over
the same period.
Why Are Americans Moving Less?
Will It Hurt The US Job Market And
The US Economy?

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Guillermo Trejo
Comparative Politics
Brazil president Dilma
Roussef meets core protest
group
"Brazil will see several waves of protests,''
said Guillermo Trejo, a professor at the
U.S.-based University of Notre Dame
whose research focuses on social protests
in Latin America. "This cycle will decline,
and it'll likely return to episodic protests
once the media attention of the
Confederations Cup goes away.''

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Gerald Haeffel
Assistant Professor
of Psychology
At the University of Notre Dame,
psychologist Gerald Haeffel has recently obtained
results from a natural experiment that unfolds
every year at the university.

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But there actually is consensus on one of the
most important issues. Paul Schultz, director
of the Center for the Study of Financial
Regulation at the University of Notre Dame,
led a project that brought together scholars of
financial regulation from the left, the right
and the center to figure out what caused the
financial crisis and how to prevent a sequel.
They couldn’t agree on anything, he told me.
But a great majority favored higher equity
requirements, which is bankerspeak for the
notion that banks shouldn’t be allowed to
borrow so much.
Paul Schultz
John W. and Maude
Clarke Professor of
Finance

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Partisanship has meant heightened unrest, said Rory
McVeigh, director of the Center for the Study of
Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame
in Indiana.
“There’s been quite a bit of frustration with
stalemates in politics and things not being done,” he
said. “That helps encourage people to take it to the
streets.”
Rory McVeigh
Chair, Department of
Sociology

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Jennifer Mason McAward
Law
Even with no sweeping ruling, the court sent a
pointed reminder to judges that they must "actively
and skeptically review government programs that
allocate benefits or burdens according to race," said
Jennifer Mason McAward, a law professor at Notre
Dame Law School who once clerked for O'Connor.

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Gregory Crawford
Dean of the
College of Science
Meet Greg Crawford, Dean of Science at Notre
Dame. In an effort to raise awareness and find a
cure for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease, Crawford is
cycling 3,500 miles from Los Angeles to Baltimore.
This is the fourth such ride on this quest, and
Crawford will total more than 11,200 miles once
he's done.

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Guillermo Trejo
Comparative Politics
Brazil’s revolutionaries
reluctantly find themselves
in spotlight, ponder future of
movement
Doing that, however, will mean
becoming an actual movement
capable of expanding beyond its
single-issue base, said Guillermo Trejo,
a professor at the University of Notre
Dame in the U.S. whose research
focuses on social protests in Latin
America.

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Professor James J. McKenna, director of the Mother-
Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of
Notre Dame and the world’s leading authority on co-
sleeping, found that moms who bed-shared aroused
30 percent more frequently so if the baby were to
stop breathing, “mothers are going to sense
something is going on,” Sears said.
James McKenna
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce,
C.S.C., Professor of
Anthropology

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Elizabeth McClintock
Assistant Professor
of Sociology
"Notre Dame Sociologist Elizabeth McClintock
studies the impacts of physical attractiveness
and age on mate selection and the effects of
gender [meaning sex] and income on
relationships," announces a university press
release. "Her research offers new insights into
why and when Cupid's arrow strikes."

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"Everywhere we look, we see species that are
spreading and damaging our natural ecosystems,"
said University of Notre Dame biologist David
Lodge. "And when scientists look into the future,
they see the potential for many more damaging
species.“
David Lodge
Professor of Biological
Sciences

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The winners include:
Nitesh Chawla, Frank Freimann Collegiate,
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame:
Develop novel data science program that
requires immersion of an individual in a
domain to innovate by conducting data
exploration, feature engineering, machine
learning, inform system design and database
design, and conduct what-if analysis.
Nitesh Chawla
Frank Freimann Collegiate Associate
Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering,
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for
Network Science and Applications

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James S. O'Rourke
"It's unclear whether the USPS has the
legislative authority to take such actions on its
own, but the alternative is the status quo until
it is completely cash starved," James O'Rourke,
a professor of management at the University of
Notre Dame, told the Associated Press.

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R. Scott Appleby
John M. Regan Jr.
Director, Kroc Institute for
International Peace
Studies
"Pope Francis has already been very clear about his
priority for the poor, the marginalized, the suffering
and the oppressed of the world," said Scott
Appleby, director of the University of Notre Dame's
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. "His
focus [in the trip to the Holy Land] will be on the
human toll of the conflict."

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Alexandra F. Corning, a research associate
professor in psychology at the University of Notre
Dame, wondered whether a woman’s size would
affect her likability when she engaged in fat
talk. As an online experiment, Dr. Corning showed
139 undergraduates photos of two thin and two
overweight women, each making either a positive
or negative remark about her body.
Alexandra Corning
Research Associate
Professor

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
Brian Profitt, a technology expert and adjunct
instructor of management at the University of Notre
Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said the real
question is whether the Samsung watch "will make
the purchase of yet-another smart device worth it."

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The government “doesn’t bring that many cases,
so this does set a marker,” said Joseph Bauer, a
law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
“It says that if you engage in unlawful behavior,
the DOJ may go after you. Apple may not be a
big player in the e-books market, but they are big
in a lot of other areas.”
Joseph Bauer
Professor of Law

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George Lopez
Peace Studies
Syria chemical evidence fades as U.N.
team under fire
Former U.N. advisor George A. Lopez of the
University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies, accused Assad's
regime of applying "calculated maneuvers" on the
ground in Damascus to counter U.N. and world
reaction.

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"There are simply too many unanswered
questions at this time," said Jimmy Gurule, a
former enforcement official at the U.S. Treasury
Department. "I don't think that the banks will run
the risk of criminal prosecution."
Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law

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Elizabeth McClintock
Assistant Professor
of Sociology
Even single men in these careers spend more hours
cooking and cleaning, said Elizabeth Aura
McClintock, PhD, an assistant professor of sociology at
the University of Notre Dame who studies modern
romance and its effects on careers.

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Different critics draw the lines in different places. Mary Ellen
O’Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame,
is a determined and eloquent critic of drone strikes. She
believes that while strikes in well-defined battle spaces like
Iraq and Afghanistan are justified, and can limit civilian
deaths, strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other places
amount to “extrajudicial killing,” no matter who the targets
are. Such killings are outside the boundary of armed conflict,
she says, and hence violate international law.

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Gregory Crawford
Dean of the
College of Science
Dean Gregory Crawford, a physics professor
at the University of Notre Dame in South
Bend, Ind., counsels many STEM students
wrestling with their majors. He notices many
undergraduates drop STEM because of
weakness in introductory mathematics or
chemistry.
College STEM majors opting out
for other degrees

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The battle in Washington over the budget is not mere
partisan squabbling. What we are debating is the
perennial argument between right and left: Do we as
a society prefer to leave the well-being of our people
to the indifference of the market economy, or do we
believe that government also has an important role to
play?
Editor's note: Benjamin Radcliff is a professor of
political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is
author of the book "The Political Economy of Human
Happiness."
Benjamin Radcliff
Science

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Maurizio Albahari, assistant professor of
anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, said
it was time for Europe to enact new policies rather
than simply shed tears for those who died -- or
blame the traffickers.
Maurizio Albahari
Assistant Professor
of Anthropology

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Duncan Stroik
Professor of Architecture
Changing faiths at the
Crystal Cathedral
"The exterior will always be the Crystal
Cathedral, at least for a while," said
Duncan Stroik, a professor of
architecture at Notre Dame and editor of
the publication Sacred Architecture
Journal. "Catholic on the inside, but kind
of Protestant on the outside."

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Candida Moss
Professor of New
Testament and Early
Christianity
Last week there was a frenzy about an “angel”
(actually a priest) that prayed with a car crash
victim in Missouri, but are angels really who you
want to help you? Professor Candida Moss on
the scary way of angels in the Bible.
The Truth
About
Angels in
the Bible

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Timothy Loughran
C. R. Smith Professor
of Finance
"The market is signaling that it is very receptive
again to these young, high-growth social media
Internet companies," Tim Loughran, finance
professor at the University of Notre Dame in
Indiana, told the Associated Press, adding that
Twitter's success indicates that profitability is
irrelevant.

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Kathleen Cummings
Associate Professor of American Studies,
Director, Cushwa Center for the Study of
American Catholicism
He’s certainly not saying that there’s
going to be a historic reversal in the
Church position or in church
teaching, but it is a shift in emphasis
that a lot of American Catholics are
welcoming.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings,
University of Notre Dame
Pope Francis’ ‘remarkable’
new vision for Catholic Church

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
Finding a market for phones that can be used for
work and play is key to BlackBerry’s survival,
though the firm may see that market dwindle over
time as well, said Brian Proffitt of the University of
Notre Dame.

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Duncan Stroik
Professor of Architecture
Private spaces in the home for prayer have been
around in the U.S. since the colonial period but
went out of style in the 1960s, when communal
worship became more popular, says Duncan
Stroik, professor of architecture at the
University of Notre Dame who studies sacred
spaces. In the past 10 to 15 years, luxury homes,
in particular, have seen a resurgence in private
prayer spaces. "What we're seeing is some
people who believe in prayer are willing to
spend significant money to have a beautiful
room dedicated to that in their house," he says.

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"Utah resisted the creation of several of the
national parks that now blanket southern Utah
because it resented the federal control over
land within the state," says John Copeland
Nagle, a professor of law at Notre Dame
University and the author of a forthcoming
book on national parks.
Some States Allowed To Reopen
National Parks — And Foot The Bill
John Nagle
John N. Matthews
Professor of Law

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Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law
Massive breach
of privacy in the U.S.
In the video above Jimmy
Gurule, a senior law
enforcement official under
President George Bush,
speaks to CNN‘s Christiane
Amanpour about these
revelations.

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Louisville lacrosse coach
accused of abusive tactics
University of Notre Dame psychology
professor F. Power, co-director of the
school's coaching education program, said
Young's alleged treatment of players goes
beyond what is considered the tough love
many college athletes face.
F. Clark Power
Director of Play Like a Champion Today
Professor of Program of Liberal Studies

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John McGreevy
and I.A.
O'Shaughnessy Dean
of the College of Arts
and Letters
The Resignation of Pope Benedict
XVI
Joining me is John McGreevy, dean of the
University of Notre Dame's College of Arts and
Letters
The most important development in
Catholicism generally over the last 30 years is
that is a more global Church. There are more
ties between Rome and the Church around the
world. In some sense there are closer ties
between Rome and the United States than
there were even a generation ago.

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The fingerprint access makes KeyMe much
safer than a password or PIN would,
Schlesinger says. Researchers have
demonstrated before that they are able
to spoof fingerprint scanners. A safer login
could use scans from two fingers or an iris
scan, says Kevin Bowyer, chair of the
computer science department at the
Kevin Bowyer
Schubmehl-Prein Professor
of Computer Science and
Engineering

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"Going into this study, we were skeptical," said
lead researcher Joshua Diehl, an assistant
professor of psychology at the University of Notre
Dame in Indiana, who said he has no financial
interest in the technology.
Joshua Diehl
Psychology

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Just the other day one of my undergraduate
assistants reported a friend's boast that he had not
read anything for school since fifth grade.
Susan D. Blum, Professor and former chair,
Department of Anthropology, Notre Dame.
Susan D. Blum
Professor of Anthropology

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Maurizio Albahari
Anthropology
"They do know that they are risking their lives,
but it is a rational decision," said Maurizio
Albahari, assistant professor of anthropology at
the University of Notre Dame. "Because they
know for a fact they will be facing death or
persecution at home — whatever remains of
their home, or assuming there is a home in the
first place."

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Nobel Peace Prize decision
criticized
Max Foster talks to Peter Wallensteen about
criticism of the Nobel Peace Prize decision.
“There are about 100 peace prizes and this
is the one that we talk about so it definitely
has special status. Nobel, when he instituted
the prize, said that it should be given to
someone who has done things for the
reduction or elimination of standing armies.”
Peter Wallensteen
Richard G. Starmann
Sr. Research
Professor of Peace
Studies

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Benjamin Radcliff
Science
The more fundamental question, says Benjamin
Radcliff, is this: Does it make people happier or not?
Radcliff is a political scientist at Notre Dame whose
work places him in the forefront of what might be
labeled happiness studies. His particular corner of the
field looks at social policies and political outcomes.

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No human individual, even sometimes the most
wicked, is wicked from top to bottom. I think
what we frequently find appealing about
figures like Don Giovanni and the rest is their
struggle between goodness and evil and we can
relate to their being drawn to evil.
Gary Anderson, professor of Catholic theology
at Notre Dame University in Indiana.
Gary Anderson
Catholic Theology

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Candida Moss
Professor of New Testament
and Early Christianity
By Candida Moss
Over the past few weeks there has been a
growing sense among some Christian groups
that events in Syria herald the Apocalypse. A
prophecy in Isaiah 17 describes the imminent
and absolute destruction of Damascus, the
capital of Syria. Christian radio hosts,
organizations, blogs, and authors have come
forward to testify that that we live in the end
times. The story has received coverage on Fox
News, in USA Today, and in TIME.
In Syria, some see a sign of the
End Times

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Michael Desch
Science
University of Notre Dame political science professor
Michael Desch, an expert on international security
and American foreign and defense policies, says the
ambivalence is epitomized by Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson's famous line, "Gentlemen do not
read each other's mail." Stimson, who served under
President Herbert Hoover, shut down the State
Department's cryptanalytic office in 1929.

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Rick Garnett
Professor of Law
Richard Garnett, a University of Notre Dame law
professor and former Supreme Court clerk, said it is
likely that the court will reverse the appeals court and
that a narrow ruling of the sort sought by the
administration could cause some liberal justices to join
their conservative colleagues.

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U.S. Catholics hopeful,
but wary, of new Pope
Francis
And Francis has strength that will matter in the USA, says
R. Scott Appleby, a history professor at the University of
Notre Dame.
Francis also has the administrative talent to bring the
creaking, scandal-plagued bureaucracy of the global
church, the curia, into order. Appleby called Francis "a
model of personal holiness" who may inspire believers
worldwide.
R. Scott Appleby
John M. Regan Jr.
Director, Kroc Institute for
International Peace
Studies

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Allert Brown-Gort
Faculty Fellow, Kellogg
Institute for International
Studies
"It's natural that people in a federal organization
are going to take this chance to prove how
important they are to the public, especially as that
goal is aligned with a White House trying to raise
the ante" over the spending cuts, says Allert
Brown-Gort, an immigration expert at
the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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Erika Doss
Professor
Since then, "almost every memorial built in
Washington, especially on the Mall, has been the
subject of some sort of protest or dissent," says
Erika Doss, a professor of American studies at the
University of Notre Dame and the author of
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America.
"People don't like its location, its style, its cost—
there are all sorts of reasons."

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
Those ambitions are likely a key reason Google
scooped up Waze, said University of Notre
Dame management professor Brian Profitt,
who specializes in technology issues. "If
Facebook had gotten Waze, they clearly would
do something in the mobile market with it,"
Proffitt said. "Getting Waze is like a billion-
dollar remedy to a potential headache for
Google."

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James O'Rourke, a management professor at the
University of Notre Dame, a Roman Catholic
school in South Bend, Ind., said Francis will need
a strategic vision, team-building and financial
skills and what he calls "charismatic empathy."
James S. O'Rourke

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Thomas F. X. Noble
Professor
Thomas X. Noble, a professor of history at
Notre Dame University, says the choice of the
papal name evokes St. Francis of Assisi, who
preached in the streets as a pauper, could
signal that the new pontiff seeks to be a
populist pope as well as St. Francis Xavier, one
of the 16th century founders of the Jesuit
order.

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Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion
Short chair in law and research professor of
international dispute resolution at the University of
Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace
Studies. She is the author of "What Is War?"

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Mark McKenna
Professor of Law
"Most cases with these enormous stakes would have settled
by now — particularly once the court ordered a new trial on
damages, which could substantially increase or decrease the
damage award," said Notre Dame law school professor
Mark McKenna, who specializes in technology.

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Daniel Myers
Vice President and
Associate Provost for
Faculty Affairs
Daniel Myers, a sociology professor at the University
of Notre Dame, points out what should be obvious: If
there's an opportunity for people to gather in big
groups following the verdict, there's a chance for
things to get out of hand. And don't let it be hot,
because people go outside when temperatures are
hot.

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My title is “International Law and Drone Strikes Beyond
Conflict Zones” but my point today is to clear up the
mounting myths that it is lawful to kill people with the use
of military force represented by the drone which fires the
hellfire missile, a weapon only lawful on a battlefield
under international law.
Mary Ellen O'Connell is a renowned expert on
international law.
Legal Challenges to Drone Strikes

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Thomas F. X. Noble
Professor
"On issues like abortion or gay marriage, I don't
think it's reasonable to expect any changes,"
from the new pope, historian Thomas Noble of
the University of Notre Dame told LiveScience.
"These are not perceived as scientific issues,
they are perceived as moral issues."

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Mark Noll
Francis A. McAnaney
Mark Noll, a scholar of evangelical history at the
University of Notre Dame, argued it would be wrong
to view the papacy as weakened because of the
challenges before the church. Given the splits within
Protestantism and among secular-minded people,
few leaders have the platform a pope does.

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Abigail Wozniak
Associate Professor
of Economics
"The U.S. is almost alone among developed
countries in experiencing this decline," said
Abigail Wozniak, a University of Notre Dame
economist who wrote the paper along with
Federal Reserve economists Raven Molloy and
Christopher L. Smith. "That makes us a little bit
concerned."

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F. Clark Power
Director of Play Like a Champion Today
Professor of Program of Liberal Studies
In most sports, athletes let the
officials take responsibility for
upholding the rules. In fact in most
sports, athletes and coaches "play the
refs" and try to get away with as much
as they can. Not so in golf.
…by Clark Power, Professor of
Psychology, Notre Dame

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Brian Proffitt
Adjunct Instructor
But that doesn’t mean that wearables are
dead in the water. The price of such devices
is likely to come down over time, in the same
way the price of tablets did, according
to Brian Proffitt, an adjunct professor at
the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza
School of Business.

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In this bleak context, Father Timothy Scully
has led what might be considered a
counteroffensive, aimed at giving Catholic
schools in some of the nation’s poorest
neighborhoods and regions the teachers they
need—and developing new institutions to
revivify the system broadly. Inspiration for the
ACE (Alliance for Catholic Education) program
came through happenstance—and midlife
crisis.
Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C.
Director, Institute for
Educational Initiatives

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Tailgating Gets Online Playbooks
Lately, tailgating has attracted academic, as
well as commercial, attention. In a research
study titled “A Cultural Analysis of Tailgating,”
John Sherry, a University of Notre Dame
marketing professor and anthropologist, likens
tailgating to traditional harvest celebrations in
ancient Greece and Rome, which involved
excessive feasting and drinking and required
generous hospitality toward strangers and
guests.
John Sherry
Raymond W. & Kenneth
G. Herrick Professor of
Marketing and
Department Chair

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Cathleen Kaveny
John P. Murphy
Foundation Professor
of Law and Professor of
Theology
There are also wider problems in the ways people
take civic action generally. Polarizing politics is a
sign of the times, using a dysfunctional "prophetic
rhetoric" described by Cathleen Kaveny, professor
of law and theology at Notre Dame University.

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Christian Smith
William R. Kenan, Jr.
Professor of Sociology
We have a long way to go to get the work
force pulling in the right direction, as
research by a team led by the University of
Notre Dame's Christian Smith has
shown. That team discovered that two-
thirds of 18- to 23-year-olds either didn't
understand what a moral dilemma was or
couldn't think of one they'd ever faced.

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Timothy Loughran
C. R. Smith Professor of
Finance
"The market is signaling that it is very receptive
again to these young, high-growth social media
Internet companies," says Tim Loughran, finance
professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Twitter's successful IPO even proved that it's
irrelevant whether companies are profitable, he
says.

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Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C.
Director, Institute for
Educational Initiatives
For decades, Catholic schools have done a
tremendous job of educating poor and minority
kids — yet the church continues to close them
left and right. But tonight Rev. Tim Scully is
winning an award for his work in making
Catholic schools a viable option for more kids.

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William Evans
Keough-Hesburgh
Professor of
Economics
Last year, William Evans of Notre Dame University and
his fellow researchers blamed crack as the reason the
educational gap between American whites and blacks
stopped narrowing in the mid-1980s: The newly
popular drug increased dropout, murder and
incarceration rates among blacks but didn't similarly
affect whites.

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Candida Moss
Professor of New
Testament and Early
Christianity
We have four gospels written by four different
authors decades, maybe even a century after he
died and none of these authors actually met
Jesus.
Bible Secrets Revealed:
Lost in Translation

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