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Vol XXXV No. 76

Thursday, January 24, 2002

  Coughlin, Winchester withdraw from race
By MYRA MCGRIFF
Saint Mary's Editor

Caroline Coughlin and Jeanna Winchester dropped out of the race for 2002 Student Body president and vice president early morning Wednesday, leaving only one remaining ticket, that of Kim Jenson and Elizabeth Jablonski-Dieh in the election. After an interview with ... [more]


ND, SMC students march for life
By ANDREW THAGARD
Assistant News Editor

One hundred fifty Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students returned from a trip Wednesday, organized by ND/SMC Right to Life Clubs, to Washington D.C. to participate in the March for Life. Thousands of pro-lifers from across the country gathered to remember ... [more]


MLK chat focuses on diversity
HELENA PAYNE
Assistant News Editor

Students and administrators revealed many unspoken issues regarding race Monday night during a fireside chat in Coleman Morse Center, one of the week's events honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Though the group consisted of less than 40 people, many opened up ... [more]


Nuestadt: Bush handles "war" well
LAURA ROMPF
Associate News Editor

The last time Richard Nuestadt, a Harvard professor and presidential scholar, visited Notre Dame's campus was Monday, Sept. 10, 2001. The next day, analyzing the current president George W. Bush's term in office became an unprecedented task. In a lecture Wednesday ... [more]


`Innovator' to lecture on Sept. 11 response
SHEILA EGTS
News Writer

Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will speak on "Patriotism and Compassion" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Saint Mary's O'Laughlin Auditorium. It will address the response to the events of Sept. 11. ... [more]


Groups may be liable for deficits
ERIN LaRUFFA
Associate News Editor

The Financial Management Board submitted to the Student Senate Wednesday night an amendment to the Student Union constitution that would require certain student groups, such as the senate itself, to repay funds if they exceed their allotted budgets. "Groups within the ... [more]


Memorial service remembers Minamiki
ALLY JAY
News Writer

Students, professors, priests and friends gathered in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Wednesday afternoon to remember the life of Father George Minamiki, the former associate professor emeritus of Classical and Oriental languages who died Jan. 4 of a heart attack ... [more]


ND Thespians put on French play
LAURA KELLY
News Writer

The dress rehearsal in Washington Hall's Lab Theatre seems just like any other, until the actors speak their first lines. Then this play's uniqueness becomes clear — it is entirely in French. Brought to stage by the undergraduate cast of "Le ... [more]


Forum addresses sexuality
JILL MAXBAUER
News Writer

Saint Mary's forum "Contraception: Is it a safe choice? Setting Limits: A Personal Choice," part of the Understanding and Embrac-ing Our Sexuality Series, left students asking the question, "when are we going to talk about contraception?" Issues surrounding contraception were ... [more]