Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Morale boosts Belles to 73-48 win over (By JOE LINDSLEY Sports Writer)
      After losing four players — including two captains — in just a few weeks, most teams would have trouble coping.
    • Irish top Purdue Open (By KATIE HUGHES Sports Wrtier)
      The men's and women's track teams turned in strong opening performances at the Purdue Open Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind.
    • Irish remain undefeated with Walton's lead (By MIKE CONNOLLY Sports Writer)
      The long-delayed debut of sophomore epeeist Kerry Walton highlighted an undefeated weekend by the women's fencing team at the Northwestern Invitational.

  • Inside
    • Let it snow (Bryan Kronk Sports Copy Editor)
      I was very unpleasantly surprised when my flight into South Bend Regional Airport landed at 7:15 p.m. on Sunday night, Jan. 13, 2002, and I saw nothing but bare ground.

  • Viewpoint
    • Screeners deserve congratulations for a good job (J.D. Piland Northern Star)
      Last week, Michigan Rep. John Dingell was stopped in the Reagan National Airport because his fake hip kept going off in the metal detectors.
    • Student family housing is not adequate (Kevin Rodriguez Gingras graduate law student)
      Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my wife gave birth to a baby girl. Unfortunately, as a second year law student, my studies require me to spend most of my waking hours researching in the Law School. Why? I live in the University Village — one of Notre Dame's student family housing facilities. Without ResNet, I am forced to do all of my research at school. I call attention to this fact because I think something needs to be done.
    • Mauritania gets running water and the Internet (Maite Uranga Life in Africa)
      The major theme of last semester's columns was my life with lack of running water. Before I even got to my permanent site Mauritanians and Peace Corps staff kept telling me that the city of Toulde would get running water soon. There were even faucets spaced intermittently throughout the village. At first I was hopeful. But the longer I lived here the more I became resigned to the prospect that I may get running water in my last few months of service.
    • Willingham is what Notre Dame needed (Paul Zederbaum senior)
      After viewing the press conference introducing Tyrone Willingham as the new Irish head coach, I felt much better about the decision that had been made in the wake of the embarrassing O'Leary debacle.

  • News
    • ND, SMC gear up for area code change (By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER Assistant News Editor)
      For the next six months, Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and the entire South Bend region will have two working area codes while the 574 area code is introduced and the 219 area code is phased out. During this period of permissive dialing that began on Tuesday, callers from outside the region may dial either area code until June 14 when the 219 area code will stop working for the region.
    • ND community remembers late Minamiki (By ALLY JAY News Writer)
      Renowned scholar of classical and Oriental languages and professor emeritus Father George Minamiki died Jan. 4 while visiting family in Los Angeles. He was 84.
    • Athlete's project nets $4,500 for relief fund (HELENA PAYNE Assistant News Editor)
      In addition to posters and Coca Cola bottles among other things, the women's basketball team can add calendars to the list of items fans want the players to sign.

  • Scene
    • Expanding horizons The Snite Museum of Art reinstalls the Christensen family's collection of African art (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)
      Sometimes the best way to look at a culture is to see the way in which they look at themselves. "Mask and Figures, Form and Style: The Christensen Family Collects African Art," a reinstallation of a portion of the Snite Museum of Art's African art collection, gives patrons a glimpse of how traditional African cultures understood their world; a world so different from, but at the same time relevant to, our own.
    • To Moviegoers, From Hollywood Over winter break, the motion picture industry managed to spread some holiday cheer of its own (Scene Staff Report )
      Hollywood is known for manipulating audiences into crying and laughing at colorful streams of celluloid projected far above their heads. The ultimate Hollywood manipulation, however, is the release of their finest films at the tail end of each year. Whether it's for award consideration or buckets of money, the movie industry always saves the best for last. How else does one account for the sheer superiority of December's releases? Forget Santa Claus. The real gift bearer this Christmas was Hollywood.