Sports
- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Hurting Irish Batteast, Bustamante injured as Notre Dame blows out St. John's (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
Amidst Notre Dame's biggest win of the season, the team may have sustained its greatest loss.
- MEN'S BASKETBALL: Second-place Irish in search of national respect (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
After winning five consecutive Big East games, capped by a quadruple-overtime win Saturday against Georgetown, the Irish felt they finally deserved some respect.
- SMC BASKETBALL: Belles fail to grab a win (By JOE HETTLER Sports Writer)
In the days leading up to last night's battle between Saint Mary's and Adrian, Belles head coach Suzanne Smith praised her team for their solid defense and improved rebounding in recent wins.
- Bucs simliar to Irish (Coylin Boylan Boylin's Banter)
If you've been following off-season NFL news even somewhat closely over the past couple of weeks, then you have to feel bad for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Inside
Viewpoint
- Hate crime legislation is hateful (Christine Niles As I See It ...)
At least once last year I received an e-mail petition from the Multicultural Student Organization urging me, a "multicultural" student, to support hate crimes policies. For those not familiar, hate crimes laws punish criminals motivated by hatred for race, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual preference. The language of the e-mail brimmed with hope, urging that such legislation would be one more step in the direction of equality and justice. The afflicted would be comforted by the knowledge that the perpetrator received a double dose of punishment, for hate crimes policies apply additional penalties to criminal acts. In other words, the punishment for good, old-fashioned homicide is increased if the perpetrator is also found guilty of "hateful" motives.
- Differing views on effects of contraception Others' use benefits Catholics (Randall Lannie class of '99)
I do not mean to argue against any of the points Professor Rice made in his column Tuesday about contraception and its serious demographic effects. I would, however, like to point out a potential silver lining in the cloud that is our collective "race suicide."
- Differing views on effects of contraception Population changes should not be feared (Dillon Mahoney senior)
This is in response to Professor Rice's article entitled, "Reconsidering contraception," which gives a summary analysis of Pat Buchanan's new book, "The Death of the West."
- `The Vagina Monologues' violate Notre Dame (Sean Dudley freshman)
A few years ago, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed a painting of the Blessed Virgin with elephant dung thrown and smeared all over it. When the art museum received widespread criticism for showing such a tasteless and horrifically offensive piece, the museum spokesmen defended it in the name of "art."
- Redefining the mission of today (Kerry Walsh senior)
Each day in the U.S., 960 women are raped. Nine hundred and sixty. That's one woman every 90 seconds — of each and every day. Valentine's Day probably doesn't seem to be the most likely day for discussing such disturbing facts, but since I became part of the V-Day College Campaign movement, I have not been able to think of a better time to talk about violence against women.
- NDToday/Observer Poll Question (Vote at NDToday.com by today at 5 p.m. )
What is the most important issue for the next student body president's administration to address?
- Quote of the Day (Christian character in "Moulin Rouge")
"The greatest thing you'll ever know is just to love and be loved in return."
News
- One vote prevents raised activity fee (By Erin LaRuffa Associate News Editor)
The Student Senate rejected by a vote of 14 to 13 a resolution to increase the student activities fee.
- Assoc. sports editor moves up in staff ranks (By Jeff Baltruzak London Correspondent)
Andrew Soukup has been named The Observer's 2002-2003 Assistant Managing Editor and will direct editorial policy with The Observer's top two editors, incoming Editor in Chief Jason McFarley and Managing Editor Kate Nagengast announced Wednesday.
- RCLC celebrates first year (Meghan Marin News Writer)
Renalda Robinson would be proud.
- New office emerges from diversity issue (By Justin Krivickas News Writer)
In an attempt to improve the quality of professors Notre Dame has to offer, the University has created a new administrative branch called the Office of Institutional Equity. The organization will play an integral role in the hiring and firing of University teaching and staff positions. Also, it will be involved in sexual harassment issues, and deal with affirmative action responsibilities within the faculty.
- SISTAR accepts grant applicants (By Sarah Nestor News Writer)
The Student Independent Study and Research (SISTAR) program is currently accepting applications for this summer's participants. The SISTAR Program offers a grant to four students who work as junior colleagues with members of faculty on research projects during the summer. The SISTAR Program is open to full-time faculty and students in all disciplines.
- Leaders probe Food Services on campus dining (By Erin LaRuffa Associate News Editor)
Food Services director Dave Prentkowski addressed the Student Senate Wednesday to explain the University's opinions of the dining halls.
Scene
- Academy announces nominations (By MELISSA RAUCH Scene Movie Writer)
As a result of its remarkable critical and commercial success toward the end of 2001, "The Fellowship of the Ring" leads this year's Oscar race with 13 nominations, followed closely by "A Beautiful Mind" and "Moulin Rouge," each with eight.
- Movie Scene's Best of 2001 Critics Jude Seymour and Matt Nania weigh in with their picks (By JUDE SEYMOUR Scene Movie Critic)
Ever since Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" lost to John Madden's "Shakespeare in Love" for Best Picture, media pundits have speculated that it is in each distributor's best interest to hold their best "Award worthy" movie for a late-year release. The rationale behind this strategy is, with a December release, "Shakespeare" was more fresh in the minds of Academy voters compared to "Ryan," which had a July opening.
- Movie Scene's Best of 2001 Critics Jude Seymour and Matt Nania weigh in with their picks (By MATT NANIA Scene Movie Editor)
I begrudgingly admit that the Academy did a fairly competent job in its selection of this year's Oscar nominations. None of the Best Picture contenders are particularly inferior. "A Beautiful Mind:" Hollywood melodrama at its finest. "In the Bedroom:" A fierce but subtle character-study. "The Lord of the Rings:" An epic if there ever was one. "Moulin Rouge:" A revitalization of the movie musical. And "Gosford Park," which I haven't seen but am confident contains faultless performances and expert direction from the legendary Robert Altman.
- Desperation in `Ball' transcends racism (By CHRIS BANNISTER Scene Movie Critic)
"Monster's Ball" is not the feel good movie of the year. There is perhaps no aspect in it that leaves the audience with a positive outlook. However, it is a beautiful piece of film art. It is both austoundingly well written and well shot, and for those reasons, it cannot be denied consideration as one of the better films this year.
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