| Vol XXXIIII No. 74 |
Tuesday, February 1, 2000 |
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We were left in the cold
Letter to the Editor
 I am writing this letter at 3 a.m. I just got back from Saint Mary's College. The only explanation I have for why it took me an hour to get back home is that the damn shuttle bus stopped early. Three ... [more]
Call for Pope to resign is wrong
Letter to the Editor
On Thursday, Mr. Gary Caruso took a fairly routine act by the Chinese government and used it to fashion a broad indictment of Pope John Paul II. Indeed, Mr. Caruso even asks for the Pope's retirement! These latest appointments of Catholic ... [more]
"Uninformed atheism is perhaps the most blind faith of all"
Letter to the Editor
At the risk of sounding arrogant, I would like to address — and perhaps correct — Mike Dillon for the little verbal fit he had over Elizabeth Bauer's comments. While I am not a devoted reader of The Observer, and therefore ... [more]
Don't condemn other's beliefs
Letter to the Editor
Today I read a letter from a person claiming that God does not exist. Contrary to what usually happens, I am NOT writing to condemn that person's view. I am also not writing to agree with him, because I personally do ... [more]
`Problem of Evil' is not sufficient to
challenge the Christian idea of God
Letter to the Editor
This letter responds to Mike Dillon's statements on January 31, 2000 regarding God and our notions about Him. Briefly, Mike weighed in on the occasional debate on premarital sex with the typical individualist position of mutual respect for opinions, and then ... [more]
Free Will is worth the price of evil on Earth
Letter to the Editor
Mike Dillon humored readers of the Observer on Jan. 31 with a misguided attempt to attack the Christian values of Elizabeth Bauer, who had written, as Catholic doctrine teaches, that sex should wait for marriage. Mike's response was that people can ... [more]
Sophomore Sibs Weekend cancellation unfair, unfounded
Editorial
The recent cancellation of Sophomore Sibs Weekend by director of Student Activities Joe Cassidy is unfortunate, unfair and unfounded. The several reasons Cassidy cited for the cancellation of the growing tradition are rife with hypocrisy, particularly the arguments that families are ... [more]
Harder than it looks
By Laura Rompf
Assistant News Editor
While home over Christmas Break, I made a "foolish" purchase. I used some Christmas money to buy a guitar. With a chord book and some sheet music, I figured in no time at all I would be able to imitate my ... [more]
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