| Vol XXXIII No. 99 |
Wednesday, March 8, 2000 |
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Community celebrates McCormick at memorial Mass
JASON McFARLEY
News Writer
 Family, friends and community members filled the Basilica of the Sacred Heart to half its capacity as they gathered to celebrate the life and achievements of the late Father Richard McCormick at a memorial Mass held Tuesday. McCormick, a professor emeritus ... [more]
SMC bans indoor smoking
MOLLY McVOY
News Writer
Saint Mary's administration handed down a new smoking policy, to go into effect next semester, which limits the areas where students are allowed to smoke. The policy prohibits smoking in any buildings on campus and encourages smokers to smoke only outside ... [more]
Members approve Student Life report
Group also asks ND to join Workers' Rights Consortium
JOSHUA BOURGEOIS
Assistant News Editor
The Faculty Senate passed two resolutions Tuesday dealing with a report to the Ad Hoc Committee on Academic and Student Life and the Progressive Student Alliance request for the University to take further action against sweatshops. The committees on academic affairs ... [more]
Members discuss future of Dalloway's clubhouse
SARAH RYKOWSKI
News Writer
Construction updates, a visit from the newly elected Notre Dame student body president and vice president and introductions of new Board of Governance members highlighted the Saint Mary's BOG meeting Tuesday. The Historical Preservation Committee had a meeting to discuss ... [more]
Prof wins book award
Special to The Observer
"The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931," by Donald Crafton, professor and chair of the department of film, television and theatre, won a 1999 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award. Crafton received the award, in the history and culture category, during ceremonies Feb. ... [more]
Dennis lauds Salvadoran martyrs
NELLIE WILLIAMS
News Writer
On Nov. 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador were mercilessly gunned down. Tuesday, Sister Marie Dennis, director of the Maryknoll Peace and Justice Center came to Saint Mary's from Washington to tell their story. "Like grains ... [more]
McEvoy: Northern Irish youth face host of challenges
AMANDA GRECO
News Writer
Though conflict in Northern Ireland is nothing new, the youth there are encountering more uncertainty, insecurity, inter- and intra-communal violence and segregation than ever before, according to Siobhan McEvoy, who spoke Tuesday at Notre Dame. McEvoy, a visiting fellow at the ... [more]
Keys receives prestigious Olin fellowship
SAM DERHEIMER
News Writer
Mary Keys, assistant professor of government and international studies at Notre Dame, won't have to worry about grading any papers or tests next year. She won't have to worry about preparing any lectures. In fact, she won't have to worry about ... [more]
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