Features

A note on the contents

'The love that dare not speak its name' -- Oscar Wilde

Articles on homosexuality

Editors' introduction to the articles

God gave me a gay son: A father's essay

Finding me here: A student's essay

Resolving family differences: The policies at Notre Dame

Notre Dame's Point Person: An interview with the chair of ND's Standing Committee for Gay and Lesbian Student Needs

What the church has to say: The teaching of the Catholic church

My alternative lifestyle: A celibate gay male's essay

All the way home: A gay male's essay

React Online -- Read the reactions to the articles on homosexuality.

The Great American Road Trip, by Andrew Malcolm
Although threatened these days, the family vacation on wheels is the best way to see America -- and much, much more.
Full story

Hooked on Watching, by Joseph Epstein
To enjoy sports nowadays we must forget personalities, money, bad behavior and the rest of it, and keep our eye on the ball.
Full story

Made in the USA, by Teresa Ghilarducci
When bad things happen to good jobs.
Full story

Perspectives

• Pilgrim on the Cross Road, by Gary Presley
• Buster Gives Me Fits, by Ruta Paskevicius
• American Woman, Gotta Get Away, by Kay Jordan
• My Welcoming Embrace, by Kathleen Whitney Barr

(Cover by Anthony Russo)

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SPECIAL NOTE
This issue of the magazine is out of print. However, a reprint of the feature articles on homosexuality is available for $1.50 (includes shipping). If you are interested in a copy of the reprint, contact the magazine's business manager, Julie Ettl, at ettl.3@nd.edu or call 574-631-5335.

University News

• Next leader of Notre Dame chosen
• Father John Jenkins, CSC, profile
• A look at the Jenkns family
• Letter from Campus: Continuity
• Deaths in the family
• Seen and heard
• Seen and heard: web extra
• Commencement 2004: Page tells graduates race problems remain
• Hall portrait: Breen-Phillips
• Malloy to chair NCAA task force on gambling
• Students need their bottles
• Security monitors gone from women's dorms
• New professor is Muslim scholar
• In a Michigan minute
• Students urge ND to say "gracias, no" to Taco Bell
• Online checkbacks:
  -- What happened with that Native American tribe's lawsuit over Notre Dame property?
  -- What's the latest on the proposed closing of Juniper Road?
  -- Did the University decide to cap enrollment in the business college?

Illuminations

• Charting the Skyscraper Dance
• Finding Far-flung Planets
• Are the Orange Beetles Sexier?
• A Carload of Contradictions
• KH 15 D: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Letters

• From print issue
• Web extra letters
• Comments on spring issue's The Soul of a University

Cafe du Lac

• Soprano sings sweetly to success
• Staging South Bend's Ghost Story
• Books in Print
• Books in Brief
• Books in Brief, web extra
• Picks of the week
  

Alumni Affairs

• Alumni profile: Decoder Ring
• Domers in the News
• Alumni briefs

Bonus copy: Reflections

• Shannon Reifsteck wrote the essay, Not a Tagalong, as a gift for her brother, Nick Reifsteck, who graduated from Notre Dame this year.
• Daniel Stollenwerk '80 offers a tribute to his mentor, Father Robert Schwenker, OMI, '58, in The World of the Desperate and of the Saint.
• Joseph Lewis Heil earned a degree in liberal arts from Notre Dame, but it is the music lessons that stay with him, he writes, in Mozart, Father Ted and Me.