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Vol XXXVII No. 81

Monday, January 27, 2003

  Commentaries

Abstain from voting in SMC election
The Observer
Editorial

Saint Mary's students have once again been given only one choice for student body elections. Elizabeth Jablonski-Diehl, current student body vice president, and Sarah Brown, current sophomore class president, are the only candidates willing to run for president and vice president, ... [more]
A family tradition of storytelling
Maite Uranga
Life in Africa

Some of the first memories I have are of camping with my family. We had a sheepherder's tent exactly like the one that my grandfather used when he tended his sheep every summer. It was huge. The canvas walls and ceiling ... [more]
Losing the race: the politics of civil rights
Mike Marchand
Undistinguished Alumnus

It seems like every year about this time there's some sort of race-related scandal to perfectly coincide with the holiday devoted to America's greatest civil rights leader, Martin Luther King. Last year I wrote about a planned World Trade Center Memorial ... [more]
Seeking a Catholic response to the call for war
Peter Joseph Quaranto
freshman

These are times that try Catholics' souls. If the United States government declares war against Iraq, American Catholics will be faced with perhaps the greatest moral dilemma of our generation. On the one hand, the government of the country that has ... [more]
Quote of the Day
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
pilot and writer

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." Anne Morrow Lindbergh pilot and writer ... [more]


Inside Column
Start the clock
Matt Lozar
Sports Editor

What can you do in less than six minutes? Shower? Walk to class? How about beating Super Mario Bros. for your NES? Impossible you say? Just stop by Keough Hall's Section 2B and tell Chuck, Bill and myself that. It is ... [more]


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