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Volume 46, Issue 35 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012| ndsmcobserver.com

‘We’re deciding our future’ Twenty-nine days remain until Election Day, students consider economy most important in voting booth By MEGAN DOYLE Managing Editor

Twenty-nine days. Twenty-nine days until the votes are cast. Twenty-nine days until the die falls for one candidate or another. As Election Day looms one month away, students are studying for the voting booths on November 6 as well as their midterm exams. Freshman Emily Collins cast her vote for the first time in a primary election in Georgia this summer. She will also send an absentee ballot back to her home state from Indiana to participate in the general election. “It was very exciting to be a part of something, to know my voice was being heard in something bigger,” Collins said. “It was exciting to do something small that was actually something really big.” As she prepares to finally participate in an election, Collins

said she watched last week’s presidential debate with a more attentive eye. “I thought it was definitely interesting to see President Obama, because it was my freshman year of high school when Obama was elected,” she said. “It was interesting watching him now compared to then.” Breaking out of the cycle of college life to stay informed about the election is sometimes difficult but necessary, Collins said. “It’s really hard being a college freshman, you kind of forget [the election] is going on,” Collins said. “Being kept in your college life, it’s hard to remember what’s going on in the real world. Keep in touch. Keep checking the news.” In order to encourage students to follow election issues, College Democrats and College Republicans will co-host a watch for the vice presidential

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President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaign in the swing states of Virginia and Wisconsin, repectively.

debate Thursday at 9:30 p.m. in the LaFortune Ballroom. College Democrats president Camille Suarez said she was pleased with the response to the bipartisan watch of last

week’s presidential debate, also hosted alongside the College Republicans. “Personally, my issue isn’t whether or not people vote Democrat,” Suarez said. “It’s

ESPN to visit campus

whether people vote. I think a lot of people don’t vote because they think their vote doesn’t count. The choices that see ELECTION PAGE 4

Goerner passes away Observer Staff Report

Observer Staff Report

Shortly after Notre Dame’s 41-3 victory over Miami in Soldier Field on Saturday, ESPN’s popular pregame show “College GameDay” announced it would be broadcasting live from Notre Dame’s campus before next Saturday’s game against Stanford. “GameDay” last visited campus in 2005 before then-No. 9 Notre Dame’s 31-34 loss to then-No. 1 USC. “College GameDay” started broadcasting in 1987, when it was filmed at ESPN studios in Bristol, Conn. Its first onlocation broadcast took place on Nov. 13, 1993 from Notre see ESPN PAGE 3

JULIE HERDER | The Observer

Irish fans gather in Chicago’s Millennium Park for the pep rally on Friday. The Irish defeated Miami 41-3 at Soldier Field on Saturday.

Edward Goerner, professor emeritus of political science, died Oct. 2 at Memorial Hospital in South Bend. He was 82. A Brooklyn native and a 1952 alumnus of Notre Dame, Goerner served in the U.S. Navy and earned a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1959, according to a University press release. He also taught at Yale for a year before he joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1960. Goerner, whose academic interests included the interaction of religion and politics, was one of Notre Dame’s most popular teachers. According to the release, he was once see GOERNER PAGE 5

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Notre Dame 41, Miami 3 Within