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Vol XXXIV No. 90

Monday, February 19, 2001

  ND welcomes stories of Cabrini Green
By MARIBEL MOREY
Assistant News Editor

The invisible bubble that provides comfort, safety and a homogeneous culture at Notre Dame has no creator, but its presence is still visible. Students stroll down campus at two in the morning without the impending fear of robbery — or of ... [more]


Judicial Council revisions result in election improvements
By ERIN LaRUFFA
News Writer

Following months of working to reform campus election bylaws, the Judicial Council pulled off a feat it could not accomplish last year: an almost flawless election of Notre Dame's next student body president and vice president. "We knew going in that ... [more]


Young's second lecture discusses violence
- Saint Mary's hosts political philosopher as part of series
By KATIE McVOY
News Writer

In a colloquium co-sponsored by the Notre Dame government department and the Saint Mary's philosophy department, political philosopher Iris Marion Young said that power and violence are opposed to each other. Young based her discussion on a paper she wrote discussing ... [more]


E-mail outage disrupts campus
Observer Staff Report

The technology-dependent Notre Dame community faced a challenge as e-mail was unavailable from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning. "It's always a bad thing to be off the air for 13 hours, but those things do happen," said Larry Rapagnani, assistant provost ... [more]


Students organize `Vagina' readings
Observer Staff Report

Following College president Marilou Eldred's announcement that student organizations could not officially sponsor a reading of The Vagina Monologues on campus, groups of students have been banding together to read the play on their own. One student reading of the controversial ... [more]