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Notre Dame features

Found a few features today as I walked around the Notre Dame campus. A string of warm days has prompted me to walk around the campus to look for features this week. Today we were in the 60s. Can’t wait for spring officially to arrive.

Joe Dolan, a sophomore from Fishers, Ind., checks his iPhone as he lays under a cocoon of blankets on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, on a grassy area in front of Fisher Hall on the Notre Dame campus. Dolan said he had been laying out since about 8 a.m. and planned to do so until a class at 4 p.m. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Joe Dolan, a sophomore from Fishers, Ind., checks his iPhone as he lays under a cocoon of blankets on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, on a grassy area in front of Fisher Hall on the Notre Dame campus. Dolan said he had been laying out since about 8 a.m. and planned to do so until a class at 4 p.m. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Kelly Gibson, a senior at Notre Dame, interacts with a passing student as she encourages them to sign a pledge to stop using the word "retarded" in a harmful context on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at Notre Dame's South Dining Hall. The pledge drive is part of End the R-Word Day, a national drive on some 230 universities. The effort at Notre Dame was sponsored by the Special Olympics Notre Dame and Best Buddies organizations. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Kelly Gibson, a senior at Notre Dame, interacts with a passing student as she encourages them to sign a pledge to stop using the word "retarded" in a harmful context on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at Notre Dame's South Dining Hall. The pledge drive is part of End the R-Word Day, a national drive on some 230 universities. The effort at Notre Dame was sponsored by the Special Olympics Notre Dame and Best Buddies organizations. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

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Prom prep

Devon Graham, president of the campus Stand Up to Cancer club and a junior studying biology at Saint Mary's College, reacts as she hangs lights on a railing for a prom for cancer patients on Thursday, March 1, 2012, in Saint Mary's Welsh Parlor at the Haggar College Center. The dance is open to all cancer patients regardless of age along with students from Saint Mary's, Notre Dame and Holy Cross College. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Devon Graham, president of the campus Stand Up to Cancer club and a junior studying biology at Saint Mary's College, reacts as she hangs lights on a railing for a prom for cancer patients on Thursday, March 1, 2012, in Saint Mary's Welsh Parlor at the Haggar College Center. The dance is open to all cancer patients regardless of age along with students from Saint Mary's, Notre Dame and Holy Cross College. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Fat Tuesday features

I had a few hours to kill early in my shift on Tuesday before a high school basketball game so I set out to shoot a few features. Tuesday was Fat Tuesday, but the only Mardi Gras-related feature I found was a couple local musicians performing some New Orleans-style jazz at Chicory Cafe, a French Quarter-style coffee shop in downtown South Bend. After I returned to the newsroom, a reporter tipped me off that he spotted a barbershop mural going up out on the west side of town.

Isaro Simental adds green to the word "side" as he and Sammy Aguire, background, paint a mural on the side of the Little Mexico West Side Barbershop on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, along Western Avenue in South Bend. Simental, who is also a barber at the shop, and Aguire had been working on the mural for about two hours by 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but had already completed a barber's pole that spanned the height of the building's east side. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Isaro Simental adds green to the word "side" as he and Sammy Aguire, background, paint a mural on the side of the Little Mexico West Side Barbershop on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, along Western Avenue in South Bend. Simental, who is also a barber at the shop, and Aguire had been working on the mural for about two hours by 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but had already completed a barber's pole that spanned the height of the building's east side. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
As patrons slip their coffee, Danny Barber plays a few jazz notes on the trumpet as he looks down at his playing partner, Jim Pickley, left, on piano on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Chicory Cafe, a French Quarter-style coffee shop, in downtown South Bend. The two said they usually only perform at the cafe for Mardi Gras, and this year's performance was the third such occasion. "It's fun to do a duo," Barber said of the performance. "You just come in and play." (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
As patrons slip their coffee, Danny Barber plays a few jazz notes on the trumpet as he looks down at his playing partner, Jim Pickley, left, on piano on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Chicory Cafe, a French Quarter-style coffee shop, in downtown South Bend. The two said they usually only perform at the cafe for Mardi Gras, and this year's performance was the third such occasion. "It's fun to do a duo," Barber said of the performance. "You just come in and play." (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Paczki preparations

Marysia Rzeszutek shares a laugh with a family member as she adds a raspberry filling to a paczki, a type of cream-filled Polish pastry, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at Baker's Dozen Bake Shop in South Bend. Rzeszutek and her husband, Chris, own the shop and expect to make between 2,500 and 3,000 paczkis for Fat Tuesday. The pastries are a traditional treat for Polish Catholics before lent. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Marysia Rzeszutek shares a laugh with a family member as she adds a raspberry filling to a paczki, a type of cream-filled Polish pastry, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at Baker's Dozen Bake Shop in South Bend. Rzeszutek and her husband, Chris, own the shop and expect to make between 2,500 and 3,000 paczkis for Fat Tuesday. The pastries are a traditional treat for Polish Catholics before lent. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

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Siegfried Hall’s ‘Day of Man’ at Notre Dame

Jack Stumpf, a freshman from St. Louis, shares a laugh as he asks for donations during the annual Day of Man event on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, outside of the north dining hall on the Notre Dame campus. Stumpf was one of several Siegfried Hall dorm residents to brave cold temperatures Wednesday wearing only t-shirts, shorts and shirts all day while collecting donations for the South Bend Homeless Shelter. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Jack Stumpf, a freshman from St. Louis, shares a laugh as he asks for donations during the annual Day of Man event on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, outside of the north dining hall on the Notre Dame campus. Stumpf was one of several Siegfried Hall dorm residents to brave cold temperatures Wednesday wearing only t-shirts, shorts and shirts all day while collecting donations for the South Bend Homeless Shelter. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)