Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • MENS BASKETBALL: Banging around in the Big East (By CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Writer)
      Through much of Notre Dame's pre-conference season, the story for the Irish had been perimeter players and ball handlers such as guards Chris Thomas and Matt Carroll and forward Dan Miller. But as Notre Dame's season transfers into the very physical Big East play, the focus of the team's style of play, especially on the defensive side, may need to shift as well.
    • SMC SWIMMING: Belles perform well over semester break (By ERIC POWERS Sports Writer)
      The Saint Mary's swim team was traveling and racing across the country the past couple of weeks. The Belles competed in a pair of meets over winter break with mixed results.
    • SMC BASKETBALL: Hornets defeat Belles, 60-53 (By HEATHER VAN HOEGARDEN Sports Writer)
      Going into Wednesday's game, both Saint Marys and Kalamazoo had a lot on the line, as each team looked to go over the .500 mark in conference play.

  • Inside
    • A letter to Irishlink (JUSTIN KRIVICKAS Assistant News Editor)
      You've been a good friend. Rarely slacking at your job, many students have grown to enjoy your ever expanding presence with this University, especially, since we can enroll online with your help, allowing many of us the opportunity of arriving on campus a day later.

  • Viewpoint
    • The greatest library abroad (Peter Wicks Englishman Abroad)
      On the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, there lies the ancient city of Alexandria. Named after its founder, Alexander the Great, the city was once home to a library the greatness of which was unrivalled throughout the world. The Library of Alexandria was more than a place where books were collected and studied; it contained lecture areas, gardens, a shrine to each of the muses (the original meaning of the Latin word "museum") and even a zoo. At one time the Library is thought to have held more than half a million documents from Greece, Persia, Egypt, Assyria, India and elsewhere.
    • Graduate school causes woes (Marlayna Soenneker Here We Go Again ...)
      I'm applying to graduate schools right now. Why? Because I am a psychology major. My two options in life are graduate school or spending the rest of my life asking people if they'd like fries with that.
    • Affirmative action bolsters higher education (Elmer Alvarez The Heights)
      Affirmative action gives Hispanics, blacks, women and other minorities special consideration for employment, education and contracting decisions. It was created to allow minorities to have an equal chance of advancing.

  • News
    • `Buy for less and sell for more' @ NDbay.com (MATT BRAMANTI News Writer)
      Ask a Notre Dame student about the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore, and you'll hear a lot of words, but "cheap" likely will not be among them.
    • Reckers: making south side smile (CHRISTINA CEPERO News Writer)
      Reckers, the only 24-hour restaurant on campus, revamped its menu over winter break to offer students new and improved items.
    • Officials reject tailgating park for fans (MELISA LOU News Writer)
      The St. Joseph County Council has voted down a measure that would allow South Carolina- based Go Park Enterprises to develop an off-campus tailgate parking lot for Irish fans.
    • Foley asks for respect (MEGHANNE DOWNES Associate News Editor)
      Respect. Or, to be more correct, disrespect was the topic of Trip Foley's remarks to Senate Wednesday in regard to the administration's attitude toward student leaders.
    • Unknown culprit in chemistry exam heist still at large (ANDREW THAGARD News Writer)
      No new information has come to light regarding organic chemistry final exams that were stolen during finals week, according to Xavier Creary, professor of the 200-level science course.
    • Reckers: making southside smile (By CHRISTINA CEPERO News Writer)
      Reckers, the only 24-hour restaurant on campus, revamped its menu over winter break to offer students new and improved items.

  • Scene
    • `Lord of the Rings' schmaltzy but visually stunning (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Movie Critic)
      The second installment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's saga of the struggle for Middle Earth, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," follows in its predecessor's footsteps and sets a new standard in fantasy films and seamless CGI integration.
    • `Chicago' paints the town red (By JACK WATKINS Scene Movie Critic)
      Critics have claimed that "Chicago" will revive the movie musical. Some have even called it the year's best film. Others, closer to the mark, have called it the movie event of the year.
    • `Gangs of New York:' A smashing, bashing success (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Movie Critic)
      It's said that good things come to those who wait. Well, moviegoers have been waiting 25 years for acclaimed director Martin Scorsese to finally get "Gangs of New York" through production. And it was certainly worth the wait.