Sports
- MEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish host Hoyas on Senior Day (By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN Associate Sports Editor)
The Irish have already earned the right to hang a Big East West Division championship banner in the Joyce Center, but they'd like to beat Georgetown Sunday to give seniors Martin Ingelsby and Hans Rasmussen a final home game to tell their grandkids about.
- MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD: Shay looks to double his distance pleasure (By ANDREW SOUKUP Sports Writer)
After its third place finish at the Big East Indoor Championships two weeks ago, the men's track and field team shifted their focus from team performances to individual ones.
- WOMEN'S TRACK: Relay team set to set another record (By ANDREW SOUKUP Sports Writer)
Imagine this — your relay just broke the school record and ran fast enough to earn an NCAA finals consideration time. So, what do you do next?
- BASEBALL: Notre Dame falls to professional Devil Rays, 17-4 (By NOAH AMSTADTER Assistant Sports Editor)
Notre Dame graduate Vince Naimoli faced and interesting dilemma Thursday afternoon. The 1959 graduate is the owner of the major league Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who were playing an exhibition game against the Irish.
- HOCKEY: Icemen look to tame Broncos, advance to playoffs (By JEFF BALTRUZAK Sports Writer)
The Notre Dame hockey team has risen in the past two weeks like a vampire at nightfall, with a 3-0-2 record in their last five games. This weekend, they face No. 13 Western Michigan in a home-home series that will determine whether the Irish will continue on to the CCHA playoffs.
- BENGAL BOUTS: Bracing for a final fight (By TIM CASEY Assistant Sports Editor)
The Notre Dame hockey team has risen in the past two weeks like a vampire at nightfall, with a 3-0-2 record in their last five games. This weekend, they face No. 13 Western Michigan in a home-home series that will determine whether the Irish will continue on to the CCHA playoffs.
- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish, Huskies on collision course for title game (By TIM CASEY Assistant Sports Editor)
Since Notre Dame stunned Connecticut on Jan. 15, both teams have pointed towards the Big East Championships. Provided the two top seeds win two more games, a rematch would occur on Tuesday night before the usual sell-out crowd at Gampel Pavilion, the Huskies home floor.
- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Irish seniors savor final weeks together Ivey, Riley, Leahy, Siemon and Dunbar lead Notre Dame into Storrs (By NOAH AMSTADTER Assistant Sport Editor)
It was a sunny morning in Washington, D.C, four years ago when roommates Imani Dunbar and Meaghan Leahy awoke in their hotel room. Perhaps a little too sunny.
- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Washington brings brains, experience to Irish bench (Tim Casey Assistant Sports Editor)
Coquese Washington's résumé reads like an excerpt from a fiction novel.
Inside
- Going forward, moving on (by Lila Haughey Viewpoint Editor)
The end of the year is fast approaching, while most seniors feel like they have a long time to graduation, things are happening all too fast in The Observer office. Next week will be our last official week.
Viewpoint
- Statue reflects school's Catholic character (Chris Neidlinger class of '97)
I am writing this letter in response to the letter submitted by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece regarding the statue of Mary dedicated to abortion victims outside the Basilica. The letter was an attack on the University's character and the uniqueness that makes Notre Dame the place it is today.
- Letter erred on the facts, hurt reputation (Bill LaFleur and Walter Pruchnik freshmen)
This letter is in response to a letter that was printed in Tuesday's edition of The Observer entitled, "Political correctness taken too far." We agree that political correctness is sometimes taken too far on our campus.
- Love justifies distance (Jennifer Lynch sophomore)
When I was reading Wednesday's column regarding long-distance relationships, I wondered what provoked the author to write it. It is obvious that Mr. Long has neither been scarred by an attempted long-distance relationship nor ever exposed to how great a successful one can be.
- Women's basketball ticket distribution needs reform (James Hogan Notre Dame biology department)
Monday morning I waited in line to purchase tickets to the women's NCAA Basketball Regionals first round games. The fact that there are few tickets left to these games and what students need to do to get them has not been well advertised.
- Quote of the Day (Ronald Reagan former president)
"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority and
- Evaluating Bush's first speech (Gary J. Caruso Capitol Comments)
This writer gives "Dubya" a B grade on his first address to Congress. I almost fell into the trap of expecting so little, then becoming so surprised at his performance that I blindly awarded a grade above its merit. Instead, I stuck to the rigorous academic standards embodied in the Notre Dame classroom.
- Media should accept all body weights (Editorial )
At the end of Body Image Awareness week, after assessing all the gains we have made in changing our self-conceptions, it is important to realize how much society still has to change. The forum with the greatest amount of changes to make is the media. The media have established body style trends throughout history, supporting and rejecting certain body types and deciding what weight is acceptable for women and men. Their current support of impossibly perfect body images has become far too culturally accepted. Combating unhealthily thin body images with support for body types on the opposite sides of the spectrum, while leaving little acknowledgement for the middle ground where most people fall has not compensated for the prevalent social acceptance of thin models.
News
- Ex corde guidelines propose bishop mandates Discussion continues on how to best balance academic freedom, Catholic character at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's (By PAT McELWEE News Writer)
Notre Dame and Saint Mary's are schools placed in a rather unique position within the world of American higher education.
- `Chubb Club' founder offers advice Molnar outlines ways of lifelong healthy eating (By KRISTEN FITZPATRICK News Writer)
For Judy Molnar, the founder of Rosie O'Donnell's Chubb Club, her struggle with weight began in college.
- Publicity boosts number of SMC RA applicants (By KATIE McVOY News Writer)
It's that time of year again. They're sitting on the edge of their seats, biting their nails, hoping they don't get red tagged, wondering where their home will be next year.
- Ohmer speaks on getting ahead (By KEVIN SCHUMM News Writer)
Consistency and confidence, cognizance and communication, connection and compensation — a combination of these six items is the key to getting ahead in today's society, said American studies professor Susan Ohmer Wednesday night.
- Latson lecture targets healthy eating habits (By KATIE MILLER News Writer)
Conscious eating and health awareness were the topics of Deanna Latson's program, "Eat Right. Feel Good. Look Great!" Wednesday night at Saint Mary's.
- MBA distance learning ranked 1st nationally (By GEOFF BRODIE News Writer)
With only five years under its belt, the Executive MBA distance-learning program at Notre Dame could still be considered in its growing stages. But since its start in 1995, growing doesn't seem to be an issue for the program.
Scene
- All that jazz ... This weekend, Notre Dame hosts the 43rd Collegiate Jazz Festival, (By LAURA KELLY Associate Scene Editor)
Last October, a mailing about Notre Dame's Collegiate Jazz Festival was sent out to 400 college jazz bands across the country. By December, 34 of them had written back, submitting an audition tape and information about their band.
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