Sports
- Saint Mary's eliminates track and field program (By KATIE McVOY Assistant Sports Editor)
At a meeting late Tuesday evening, Saint Mary's athletic director Lynn Kachmarik announced the Belles track and field team will be discontinued following the 2001 season.
- No. 1 Notre Dame gets brief scare from Providence (By TIM CASEY Assistant Sports Editor)
Niele Ivey extended her hand, deflected the ball from Providence's Brooke Freeburg, gained possession, dribbled over half-court and threw a one-hop bounce pass to Ericka Haney for an easy right-handed lay-up.
- Dasso, Varnum hit road, Irish look to make racket at home (By STEVE KEPPEL Sports Writer)
The Notre Dame women's tennis team has its plate full this weekend as Michelle Dasso and Becky Varnum travel to Dallas to compete in the National Rolex Indoor Championships and the rest of the women stay home to take on Illinois State and Western Michigan.
Inside
Viewpoint
- Reflecting on a lost brother (Letter to the Editor )
The mass at 10:30 on the night of Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, was quite an oddity. The music was thrown together at the last minute, the Nicene Creed was skipped and 10 percent of the congregation was forced to stand due to lack of sitting space.
- Quote of the Day (Dylan Thomas poet)
"Do not go gentle in that good night,
- Women's empowerment not expressed in `Monologues' (Letter to the Editor )
The last time I checked, rape and child molestation were not women's empowerment issues. They were considered violence against women issues. Apparently, all those who wrote to The Observer in defending "The Vagina Monologues" believe otherwise.
- Fielding feedback on sport utilities (Todd David Whitmore The Common Good)
One of the benefits of writing columns is that I often hear and learn from readers. In my last column, written half in jest and wholly serious, I argued that sport utility vehicles or "SUV's" violated Catholic social teaching in a number of ways. Their wasteful gas mileage, excess emissions and threat to both others and the vehicle's own passengers appeared to be in conflict with human dignity, solidarity and the common good in those instances — which is most of the time — when other vehicles would do. I also indicated that the posturing inherent in most ownership of SUV's was part of a consumer society that so pursues image that it divorces freedom from truth.
- Defending an MVP (Letter to the Editor )
Lately, Observer articles have pointed to Ray Lewis as an evil, treacherous and murderous thug. As far as The Observer seems concerned, he might as well have played the Super Bowl in the orange jumpsuit with which we are so familiar. It seems only fair that the Notre Dame community hear the true facts and not the decidedly biased opinions of Kevin Berchou.
News
- Pax Christi opens talks with ROTC Pacifist club attempts to open dialogue with ROTC (By TIM LOGAN Senior Staff Writer)
Editor's note: This is the third in a three-part series looking at the discussion concerning the place of ROTC at a Catholic university.
- Murphy succumbs to leukemia Friends and family mourn the death of Notre Dame student Conor Murphy (By FINN PRESSLY Senior Staff Writer)
With family and friends at his bedside, Notre Dame junior Conor Murphy passed away Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. following a year of intensive treatment for leukemia.
- Nagle, Matha run unopposed on SMC presidential ticket (By KATIE MILLER News Writer)
Current student body presidential candidate Michelle Nagle almost didn't run for office.
- Malloy announces new committee The University creates a new (By JASON McFARLEY Assistant News Editor)
University President Father Edward Malloy recently announced the nine appointed and elected representatives who will head up the new Academic and Student Life Advisory Committee (ASLAC).
- Hesburgh travels aboard nuclear sub (By MEG DADAY News Writer)
What can you give a man that has said mass within a mile of the South Pole and broken the world speed record aboard an SR-71?
- Revue prepares to open tonight amid controversy (By NOREEN GILLESPIE News Writer)
The Keenan Revue will take to a bigger stage than O'Laughlin Auditorium this weekend, as the Saint Mary's student body prepares to voice their opinion over the controversial variety show in a ballot initiative in Monday's student body president election.
- Baxter speaks on conscientious objection in Gulf War (By LIZ ZANONI News Writer)
As part of ongoing dialogue of Catholic Perspectives on ROTC started last spring, Father Michael Baxter, associate professor of Theology at Notre Dame, gave a talk Wednesday night at the Center for Social Concerns (CSC) entitled, "Conscientious Objectors and the Persian Gulf War."
- SMC candidates take on communication as platform (By MOLLY McVOY Saint Mary's Editor)
Communication is the focal point of the platform for Michelle Nagle and Kristen Matha, the one and only ticket running for Saint Mary's student body president/vice president.
- ND student fondled, report not published (Observer Staff Report )
A Notre Dame student was forcibly fondled by another student Nov. 3, according to Notre Dame Security Police.
Scene
- `Snatch' will attract male audiences (By JEFFREY Q. IRISH Scene Movie Critic)
"Snatch" is young, chic and energetic. It looks like it belongs on MTV with its gangsters, quick cuts, fast zooms and killer soundtrack.
- Make a `Pledge' not to see this movie (By LIAM DACEY Scene Movie Critic)
The crime thriller "The Pledge," directed by Sean Penn, stars Jack Nicholson as a retiring cop in Northern Nevada whose last case involves the murder of a young girl. Based on Friedrich Durenmatt's 1957 book, Nicholson makes a histrionic "pledge" to the victim's parents to capture the murderer of their child. The lead suspect, a mentally challenged Native American (Benicio Del Toro) who was seen near the area of the murder, is subsequently apprehended. After this suspicious character commits suicide in a rage behind bars, the case is closed and Nicholson leaves for retirement.
- Elements of `Vampire' don't add up (By CHRIS BANNISTER Scene Movie Critic)
Vampire films have been a staple of the film industry since its infancy. They have ranged from comical to sexy to terrifying and everywhere in between. "Shadow of the Vampire" meditates on the making of vampire films, and films as a whole, by exploring a fictional premise based on the filming of "Nosferatu," a vampire film created by premier German director F.W. Murnau in 1922.
- `Forrester's' tired formula still resonates (By CHRISTINE KRALY Scene Movie Critic)
When a movie character is hiding something, the screenplay usually focuses on an interesting, entertaining way to find out his dirty little secret.
- Keenan's kings of comedy Like its predecessors, this year's "Keenan Revue" is offensively funny (By MERIDETH PIERCE Scene Writer)
It might be surrounded in controversy, but it is here, and ... It is funny.
|
