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Vol XXXIII No. 98

Tuesday, March 7, 2000

  Commentaries

Deep moments in required classes
Mary Beth Ellis
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Atitudes

I have struck up an e-mail friendship with a college freshman, to whom I often allocate certain pearls of wisdom that only a Real World-embattled graduate is capable of dispensing, such as how to magically transform a five-page paper into a ... [more]
`War on drugs' is ineffective
Letter to the Editor

The United States has a higher percentage of our population imprisoned than any other country in the world. The number of prisoners is expected to double over the next 20 years. We can barely build enough prisons to keep up the ... [more]
UHS is endangering students
Letter to the Editor

I would like to respond to Ann Thompson's letter to the editor, published in The Observer last Friday. The author of the anonymous letter, printed last week, should be outraged at Ms. Thompson's callous critique of their reaction to the lost ... [more]
Holding out hope in students and alumni
Letter to the Editor

Our Notre Dame Family, we address you as members of our family. Our brothers, sisters, friends; we came to this school in the pursuit of more than an education — we came in pursuit of a community in which we could ... [more]


Inside Column
Tomorrow we fast
A.J. Boyd
assistant Viewpoint editor

Today we feast. Tomorrow we fast. That's the idea anyway, but what's the point? Bishop James Crawley, retired of this diocese and at 85 still going strong, gave an excellent homily this last Sunday on the idea of the Lenten Discipline ... [more]


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