Features

What Am I Doing Here?

Editor's Note: Whoa! What Am I Doing Here?

What Am I Doing Here? by Nicholas Ayo, CSC, '56, '62M.A.

The Stories That Save Us, by Brian Doyle '78

A Tyrant on Trial, by Evan Maher '03

Called to Ground Zero, by Patrick Burns '86

Made in China, by Jian Yi '98M.A.

We Might Get Arrested, by Bill McKibben

Part of a Larger Purpose, by Paul Kollman, CSC, '84, '90M.Div.

Traveling Mercies, by Mike Carroll '68

My Walk into History, by Sonnie Wellington Hereford IV '79

Missing in Action, by Lawrence A. Clayton

At Home in the World, by Gita Pullapilly '99

Daniela Papi Bikes Cambodia, by John Monczunski

Because Peter Is Here, by Christopher H. Nalty '84

John Crowley Takes Matters into His Own Hands, by John Monczunski

Only My Feet Are Numb, by Meg Towle '07

Getting Here (evolutionarily speaking), by Jake Page

I Just Knew It Was Funny, by Owen Smith '95

Looking for the Next Big Thing, by Dale Keiger

Why Notre Dame? by Brad Gregory

The Amazing World of Vittorio Hösle, by John Monczunski

Web extra

Musings of a Mormon, by Alonzo L. Gaskill '95M.A.

Working Hard for a Living, by Hannah Storm '83

Perspectives

• Leonard Will Go Home, by Melissa Musick Nussbaum
• My Enemy Within, by Stephen W. Kelley '86
• Holy Water, by Douglas Stephen Curran '00MFA
• The Prayers of Profoundly Perfect Goofballs, Ed Stubbing '64
• My Blooming Bed of Conflict, by Anne Trubek

(Cover art by Serge Bloch)

University News

• A Partnership With the Poor
  • Millennium goals
    
• Seen and heard on campus
• Letter from campus: Happy 90th, Father Hesburgh
• ND ASK: Student coalition targets Indiana's death row
• Scrabble Club channels a passion
• Student film lampoons Roseland politics
• Hall portrait: Pasquerilla East
• Student health facilities, image, catch up with quality of care
• Prayercasts package ND spirituality
• Deaths in the Family

Letters

Letters to the editor

Cafe Arts

• Pirates and Wookies and Orcs, Oh My
• Books and music by ND people
• Web extra: Books in brief
• Picks of the week
  

Alumni Affairs

• Domers in the News
• Alumni briefs

Bonus copy: Reflections

They traveled to Notre Dame from such women's colleges as Rosary, Mundelein and Barat for proms, parties and pep rallies. Shelia Sullivan McIntyre, a 1958 graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, was one of them, and she tells the story of the long commute, blind dates and magical moments of those ND campus visits in "The Girls of Autumn."

In "The Brusque and the Bountiful," Bernadette Shilts Curry '90 writes about her emotional visit to campus and the act of generosity that restored her faith in the Notre Dame family.

John Marszalek '63M.A., '68Ph.D., recalls how a football weekend visit to campus with his grandson really did offer "One Shimmering Saturday."

Another alum, Paul H. McCauley, M.D., '66, who visited campus for a seminar, shares his story of a chance meeting at the Grotto in "Who Was He?"

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