Sports
- Fencing: Irish bring out brooms with sweep at Duke (By MATT LOZAR Sports Editor)
When the national championships roll around in less than six weeks, the team with the highest combined score wins the title. At the Duke Duals this past weekend, the Irish showed a resilient team attitude with the mens and womens team each sweeping five matches.
- Big East season title still top goal for Irish (By ANDREW SOUKUP Sports Writer)
A blank NCAA Tournament bracket hangs in Mike Brey's office, but the Irish coach isn't too concerned about March Madness yet.
Inside
- Thanks, snow removers (Scott Brodfuehrer Associate News Editor)
As the lake effect snow machine roars into action again this winter, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of Facilities Services responsible for keeping the campus roads and sidewalks relatively snow-free every day. Sure, driving around a truck with a plow on it all day is probably every little boy's dream and it is every college male's dream to drive one of those cool tractors with a whirling brush on it and nail every pedestrian with a spray of snow (which the people at Landscape Services somehow avoid to do — I haven't seen any real snowmen this year). However, I am sure that this job becomes monotonous at 4 a.m. going back and forth down all the quads. Plus, the janitors already have enough work to do cleaning buildings without being responsible for clearing the entrances to their buildings from snow falling at the rate six inches an hour, as well. So, on behalf of all the students who haven't fallen down because of slippery sidewalks — and even the ones that have fallen (but only once or twice), thanks for all your hard work. I hope you get paid overtime!
Viewpoint
- Don't stand for pro-choice funding (Ben Nickol freshman)
A Catholic College is not an oxymoron — but it is just that, Catholic. So what happens when students at a Catholic college raise questions about Church dogma? Well, apparently we give said students a paid vacation to Washington, D.C. to participate in a rally opposing a tenet of Catholicism.
- I spy ... Russia (Martha Merritt is an assistant professor of political science. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.)
My favorite object at the recently opened International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., is a small lipstick-shaped pistol. No wonder the Cold War spawned suspicion and paranoia. The attractive woman next to you could reach for her cosmetic case, twirl the tube and bam! Death in KGB Red.
- Bengal Bouts represent Notre Dame at its best (Charles Rice Right or Wrong?)
Notre Dame students are supposed to be smart. Right? So why have 140 of them signed up for the Bengal Bouts? They do endless sit-ups, push-ups, running and hurting. Additionally, they subject themselves to the controlled violence of sparring which can give them a new facial configuration. As a "reward," they are allowed to climb into a ring to run the risk of embarrassment, if not unconsciousness, before thousands of people.
- Economics department needs reform (Thomas A. Gresik professor of finance and business economics)
As news of the proposal to divide the current economics department into two new departments has become public, genuine concerns from students are being expressed. Because the current problems the University seeks to rectify have persisted for many years, it is understandably difficult for students and most faculty to be aware of all the specific issues and past attempted solutions.
News
- Trustees stand firm on dance ban (By JASON McFARLEY News Writer)
Notre Dame trustees weighed reinstating in-hall dances but will keep the ban in place for at least another year, said Student Body President Libby Bishop, who delivered a report on the displaced dances and campus social life at the board's winter meeting last week.
- Bishop responds to resignations (By MEGHANNE DOWNES Associate News Editor)
Student Body President Libby Bishop said the resignation of her chief of staff Pat Hallahan came after she questioned his trust and ability to accurately represent the views of her office.
- Board of Governance: SMC group announces events (By MEGAN O'NEIL News Writer)
Various board members gave briefings Monday afternoon at the Saint Mary's Board of Governance meeting and the meeting included no new business.
- Police: NDSP played no role in Boat bust (By TERESA FRALISH Assistant News Editor)
Two weeks after the Jan. 24 raid of The Boat Club that resulted in over 200 Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students being cited, all police jurisdictions agree that Notre Dame Security Police was not involved in the planning of the bust, but it has not been clarified whether other University officials provided information to excise police about the bar.
- Executive Cabinet: Group discusses budget increase (By MATT BRAMANTI News Writer)
Student government's Executive Cabinet met Monday night to discuss the Financial Management Board's proposal for an annual increase in the student activities fee as well as student body president Libby Bishop's report to the Board of Trustees.
- Onion comic speaks at festival (By KEVIN ALLEN News Writer)
Throughout the 36 years of the annual Sophomore Literary Festival, a distinguished list of satirists has graced Notre Dame with their wit and anecdotes. Monday night another popular and widely-read satirist joined writers like Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut on that list. But unlike timeless names like Heller and Vonnegut, the latest addition to that list is better-known by his pseudonyms.
- SMC election today (By SARAH NESTOR Saint Mary's Editor)
Saint Mary's Residence Hall Association and Student Diversity Board president and vice-president elections will be held today. Only one ticket is running for each organization.
- Speaker highlights 3 civil rights leaders (By MELANIE BECKER News Writer)
In celebration of Black History Month, Rachel Harding, the Executive Director for the Veterans of Hope Project "A Center for the Study of Religion and Democratic Renewal" spoke at Saint Mary's Monday.
- Panel discusses sexual orientation (By SHANNON NELLIGAN News Writer)
The Saint Mary's community continued their partnership with the Catholic Common Ground Initiative Monday afternoon as both faculty, administration and students participated the conversation "Sexual Orientation: Questions and Concerns."
- Students respond to potential economics split (By NATASHA GRANT News Writer)
Students across the economics major have differing opinions on whether or not the potential split in Notre Dame's economics department would be beneficial or disadvantageous, while others said they are choosing to reserve judgment until more information is available.
- Hallahan, Ebersol move forward (By MEGHANNE DOWNES Associate News Editor)
The tickets of Charlie Ebersol-Lauren Meagher and Pat Hallahan-Jeremy Lao received the two highest percentages in Monday's student government election and moved on to Thursday's run-off election.
- Record number applies (By HELENA PAYNE News Editor)
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions received a record total of over 12,000 applications for fall 2003 enrollment.
Scene
- Interpol inters pretense, exhumes beauty (By BJ STREW Scene Music Critic)
If Allen Ginsberg was still here today, he'd probably characterize the current state of music with the following quote, "I saw the best bands of my generation destroyed by business. Some give up, some sell out, but some escape corporate claws." Somehow, out of the sinister TRL-Dave Matthews-John Mayer-etc. hegemonic vacuum, good bands continue to fight the good fight and good music continues to crawl out of the MTVoid.
- Gettin' rootsy with the Roots (By JULIE BENDER Assistant Scene Editor)
For those who believe that the phrase "intelligent rap" is an oxymoron, one listen to the Roots latest album, Phrenology, is the antidote needed for an attitude change. With their fifth studio album, a follow-up to 1999's Things Fall Apart, the Roots augment their repertoire with thought provoking, funk- and jazz-filled rhythms. This six-piece group stands apart from other hip hop groups of the day by using exactly what their name signifies: raw, earthy, "rootsy" beats and instrumentation. Unlike the other hip-hop acts that contaminate top 40 stations, the Roots don't rely on a deejay, and with few exceptions, don't sample the work of other artists in their music.
- Shania pops back "Up!" (By CHRISTIE BOLSEN Scene Music Critic)
With the release of her latest album Up!, country music superstar Shania Twain offers a two CD set of 19 radio-friendly tracks sure to score with her fans. Unfortunately, Shania does little in the way of reinventing her sound, opting instead for her usual methods of recording huge hit songs. The result is an album that is a little too recognizable, mimicking the same patterns as 1997's Come on Over and even 1995's The Woman in Me. Yet, Up! is one of the most charming recent country releases.
- Richey rises to a new sound (By KATE WILLIAMS Scene Music Critic)
"To me, rise means a gentle lift, like smoke rising. When you get so wrapped up in what's going on in your own tiny little world and things start to spin, you have to lift up and look at what else is going on around you, get a different perspective and rise above it all," said Kim Richey on the High Road Touring Web site. And that is the message her new album, Rise, emphasizes in all its different aspects.
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