Sports
- SMC Swimming: Belles win last race on Senior Day to defeat Albion (BY ERIK POWERS Sports Writer)
It came down to the final race.
- WOMENS BASKETBALL: It doesn't get any easier Irish blow 15-point second-half lead to Rutgers (BY KATIE MCVOY Associate Sports Editor)
Irish coach Muffet McGraw's reaction when she saw Saturday's game statistics tells the whole story. She crumpled them up.
- WOMENS BASKETBALL: It doesn't get any easier No. 3 Huskies give Irish a chance to turn their (BY JOE HETTLER Sports Editor)
A Big East opponent at home. A 15-point lead with fewer than 13 minutes to play. A game a struggling Notre Dame womens basketball team needed to win.
- MENS BASKETBALL: Cold-shooting Irish turn blue in Kentucky (BY CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Writer)
It was a rough afternoon for the Irish shooters. With very little inside game to speak of, Notre Dame looked to its perimeter players such as guards Chris Thomas and Matt Carroll for help, but there was only a limited response as No. 10 Notre Dame fell to No. 16 Wildcats 88-73.
- HOCKEY: Freshman Yale goalie shuts down Notre Dame offense (BY JUSTIN SCHUVER Sports Writer)
After a 4-1 loss at home Friday, a change of goaltender and a change of venue didn't have the desired effect as Yale again defeated the Irish, this time by a score of 3-1, in Chicago on Saturday.
- TRACK and FIELD: Irish start well at Central Michigan (Observer Staff Report )
Three Irish male athletes won events and two female athletes set school records as the mens and womens track teams opened their seasons at the Central Michigan Opener Friday night.
- MENS SWIMMING AND DIVING: Irish drop 2 meets but win 1 (BY LISA REIJULA Sports Writer)
The Notre Dame mens swimming and diving team had a whirlwind weekend, competing in three dual meets in Philadelphia. After a 181-116 loss to the University of Pennsylvania Friday night, the Irish concluded with a split at Villanova.
Inside
- Days to remember (Katie McVoy Associate Sports Editor)
Last Sunday I walked back onto campus after a long vacation – for the last time. As I walked down the hall of my dorm and greeted my friends who I hadn't seen for the last three weeks it struck me that this was the last time this group of amazing women would be within yelling distance. It wasn't until that moment that the thought finally struck home. This is my last semester of college.
Viewpoint
- Create a `Flex 10' student meal plan (Student Senate Steering Committee Trip Foley, chairman)
The Student Senate Steering Committee believes that students deserve a new meal plan option, and we have decided to make this the focus of our meeting this week.
- Home for the holidays (Amy Schill Dazed and Amused)
Winter break is great. There's no homework, my dry skin heals, Jesus is born and there's pie. Christmas of course also means family get-togethers, and the holidays at the Schill house this year featured even more people celebrating the Lord's birth, getting ridiculously drunk, and passing out on the lawn in a pool of eggnog.
- Quote of the Day (Ogden Nash American poet)
"A family is a unit composed not only of
- What would King do? (Elliott Magers St. Joe's Hall)
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But 100 years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
- Media bias still abounds (Benjamin Thomas Remmert class of '00)
Several interesting articles have been printed in these pages recently concerning race, media bias and U.S. senators. I would like to add a few observations which have not yet been made by others.
- 30 years of Roe v. Wade (Kathleen J. Black President, St. Joseph County Right to Life, Inc.)
Thirty years ago on Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States decided in Roe vs. Wade, that "legal personhood does not exist prenatally." In essence, the Court said that unborn children were not human, and therefore, could be dealt with much like property, to be retained or disposed of at will. The ruling was so broad that it enabled a woman to obtain an abortion at any juncture throughout her nine months of pregnancy, for any reason.
News
- Scully confronts TV reporter (By TERESA FRALISH Assistant News Editor)
A confrontation between WNDU-TV reporter Bonnie Druker and Notre Dame executive vice president Father Tim scully occurred near the Fisher Hall parking lot shortly before the beginning of the 10 p.m. Mass celebrated Thursday for missing freshman Chad Sharon, University officials said.
- E-mail reports student assaulted (Observer Staff Report )
A Notre Dame student was mugged while walking home from Boat Club over the weekend, according to a Saturday e-mail sent to Keough Hall residents.
- New student magazine debuts (By KIFLIN TURNER Associate News Editor)
Faced with questions about career paths and the personal interests that motivate those decisions, students frequently consider various post-graduation options throughout their college careers. But on the Notre Dame campus, there are few options for this type of career guidance, said Notre Dame senior John Cannon, president of the new student-
- ND cancels graduate insurance subsidy plans (By ANDREW THAGARD News Writer)
Budget cuts have forced University administrators to cancel previous plans to subsidize the cost of a larger, more comprehensive health insurance plan for graduate students, representatives from the Graduate Student Union and the Graduate School confirmed.
- Students celebrate MLK week (By NATASHA GRANT News Writer)
Beginning today, Notre Dame students prepare to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Scene
- Carrabbas Italian Grill: worth the wait? Carrabbas Italian Grill provides friendly services and a decent meal, but is it worth the time? (By EMILY HOWALD Assistant Scene Editor)
One usually thinks that when there is a 2 1/2 hour wait at a restaurant, the meal will prove to be worthy of the wait. Carrabbas proved that theory wrong.
- Something wonderful: getting to know Siam (By JACK WATKINS Scene Writer)
There is a certain rut that it is easy to get into in the South Bend restaurant scene — a rut that involves going to the same restaurants on Grape Road every weekend, eating the same burgers, the same buffalo wings, and yes, even the same Bloomin' Onions. Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students who are looking for a change of pace can hardly do better than Siam.
- Fiddler's Hearth a new hit The new Fiddler's Hearth mixes well with the Irish environemnt and gives the students a tasty and enjoyable place to escape (By JOSE CARLOS DE WIT Scene Writer)
"Aw, gimme some more of that juicy tang!" was the first thought that crossed my mind after I took my first bite of the Pork Tenderloin with Treacle and Mustard sauce at the Fiddler's Hearth, downtown South Bend's new Irish restaurant and pub.
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