Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Notre Dame hopes to leave Kentucky blue (By KERRY SMITH Sports Writer)
      After coasting through the first seven games of a non-conference schedule, Mike Brey and his Irish squad hit a few stumbling blocks.
    • MEN'S BASKETBALL: Together through the end Senior captains played together in high school before anchoring rebuilding process (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
      A hulking, trash-talking post player sporting a gold tooth quickly caught the attention of David Graves at a high school basketball camp.
    • MEN'S BASKETBALL: Big East race heats up; Irish in third (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
      After dropping Monday night's contest to Syracuse, the Irish missed a golden opportunity to take control of the Big East West Division. Now, with Notre Dame entering the heart of the Big East schedule, every game becomes important as the Irish try to defend their league title.
    • FOOTBALL: Making his mark New head coach meets with team for first time (By KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      He didn't get specific. He was relaxed. But Tyrone Willingham made his point perfectly clear at his first team meeting with the Irish.
    • FOOTBALL: Making his mark Willingham has last chance to land top recruits (By JOE HETTLER Sports Writer)
      The month-long search for a head coach may hurt Notre Dame's chances to land top recruits, according to recruiting analyst Tom Lemming. Lemming believes Tyrone Willingham may struggle landing his first Irish class.
    • MEN'S SWIMMING: Koss travels to Japan for physics research (By NOREEN GILLESPIE Sports Writer)
      Standing in the bathroom of a Japanese home, Mike Koss realized he was surrounded by a culture in which he just didn't fit.
    • HOCKEY: Irish ready to skate up CCHA standings (By MATT ORENCHUK Sports Writer)
      Throughout the course of any athletic season there is a separation of the contenders from the pretenders. Such a separation is about to come in the CCHA.
    • MEN'S TENNIS: Irish start off spring ranked seventh (By RACHEL BIBER Sports Writer)
      With the 2002 tennis season underway, the Irish find themselves in unfamiliar territory.
    • ND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish ready for battle before the war (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
      While players on both teams have had Monday afternoon's nationally televised contest between Notre Dame and Connecticut circled on their calendar for months, the Irish first must take on the Providence Friars in Rhode Island Saturday afternoon.
    • MEN'S SWIMMING: Irish look to swallow Grizzlies (By NOREEN GILLESPIE Sports Writer)
      In December's Notre Dame Invitational, Oakland University was the only team that came close to threatening the Irish stronghold on the meet.
    • ND WOMEN'S SWIMMING: ND hosts Iowa in 3-day meet (By NOREEN GILLESPIE Sports Writer)
      Notre Dame swam the University of Iowa before — but it wasn't exactly a serious type of meet.
    • TRACK AND FIELD: Irish open indoor home season tonight (By DAVE COOK Sports Writer)
      Luke Watson is back. He is strong and he is eager to get the 2002 track season under way.

  • Inside
    • What a basketball game should be (By Laura Rompf Associate News Editor)
      My favorite Christmas present was not earrings. Nor clothes. Nor perfume.

  • Viewpoint
    • Atlas analyzed (Christine Niles As I See It ...)
      What do you do when you can't find a single existing religion you agree with? Why, you create your own.
    • Quote of the Day (George Orwell author)
    • Society, not TV ads, creates `cool' drinking image (Charles Crawford The Daily Aztec)
      Alcohol is cool. There are no two ways about it. No matter how hard the average authority figure protests, it's cool. Alcohol is up there with leather miniskirts, riding motorcycles and cutting class. There is something sexy about the socialite's hip flask, with its shiny steel case and screw-off top. James Bond wouldn't be who he is drinking Sprite; only his ultra-dry vodka martini will do.
    • Corporate news endangers objectivity (Will Ulrich Daily Pennsylvanian)
      Mickey Mouse is creepy. Walter Issacson is a boob. And General Electric makes too many war machines to be in the television news business.

  • News
    • Abroad students return to housing pinch (Scott Brodfuehrer Assistant News Editor)
      Two study lounges in Pasquerilla Hall West were converted to resident rooms during the break to accommodate five women returning from study abroad programs, pushing the total number of converted study lounges in that dorm to five.
    • Activists travel to March for Life (Andrew Thagard Assistant News Editor)
      On Tuesday, 150 students from Notre Dame and Saint Mary's will join between 100,000 and 200,000 pro-life supporters from around the country for the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.

  • Scene
    • Good vibrations Scene examines the ancient art and science of object placement, Feng Shui (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)
      Feng Shui (pronounced "Fung Schway") is a term kicked around about as much as "PCS network" and "VCR Plus" and, like its fellow jargonistic catch phrases, nobody seems to know what it is or how it works.
    • Nine Feng Shui Tips for College Students: (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)
      1) Beds should always be made as well as books and papers organized, clutter in the room represents clutter in the mind.