| Vol XXXV No. 102 |
Friday, March 1, 2002 |
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Era candidates win elections
Gary Caruso
Capitol Comments
 If anyone is an expert on the value of student government or the impact of so-called "era candidates" who run in student government elections, I am. During my junior year, almost exactly 30 years ago, I ran for student body president ... [more]
Quote of the day
Oscar Wilde
writer
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development." Oscar Wilde writer ... [more]
Homosexual immorality questioned
Biblical evidence is an oxymoron
Jonathan Diffley
sophomore
How dare Becket Gremmels call another student closed-minded when he is the very antithesis of understanding and tolerance. After reading Mr. Gremmels' letter from Feb. 28, I found myself disgusted with this condescending attitude. Who are you to say that homosexuality ... [more]
Homosexual immorality questioned
Scripture's words can be misconstrued
Meghan DiPerna
senior
Although I've never been compelled to write to The Observer before, I would like to question Becket Gremmels' claim that "Scripture makes it quite clear that homosexual acts are not only a moral evil, but are a mortal sin." Gremmels uses ... [more]
Poverty sucks — even
with a VCR
Daniel Byrne
visiting lecturer, history department
As is often the case with the right wing within the Catholic Church, they have missed Christ's message about poverty and, indeed, 2,000 years of thinking on the issue of social justice. This is truly obvious in the case of Christine ... [more]
`Monologues' break a culture of silence
Anonymous
February 25, 2002
I am an anonymous rape victim. You pass me on the quads, see me in the dining hall and observe me at Mass, always blending in, one of a sea of smiling Notre Dame faces. I am not a rape victim ... [more]
A Friendship Lost
Angela Campos
Lab Tech
I remember several songs from when I was younger and in the Girl Scouts. One that sticks out in my memory the most is entitled "Make New Friends." It goes Make new friends, but keep the old One is silver and ... [more]
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