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Vol XXXIII No. 105

Friday, March 24, 2000

  Snite exhibit explores color of Mayan traditions
By MARIBEL MOREY
News Writer

Few Americans would dare to paint their houses bright blue like the ocean or their church a rich red, but the Maya people use colors to represent different aspects of life. On the Notre Dame campus, the blue and red walls ... [more]


Restructured SafeRide starts tonight
By LAURA ROMPF
Assistant News Editor

After months of restructuring, the SafeRide program will be up and running once again this weekend. In its efforts to reinstate the late-night van service, student government formed an Ad Hoc committee to work on the structural problems with the program. ... [more]


Callahan calls on Church to rethink gender issues
By LINDSAY FRANK
News Writer

The Catholic Church needs to develop a more inclusive sexual ethic, said Sidney Callahan, professor of psychology at Mercy College, in her lecture Thursday night. The Church should rethink how it deals with issues of gender differences, contraception and sexual orientation, ... [more]


Couple wins first Hesburgh award for work in South Africa
Recipients began fondation in honor of slain daugter
By KIFLIN TURNER
News Writer

Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business named Peter and Linda Biehl as recipients for the inaugural Hesburgh Award for Business. The Biehls established the Amy Biehl Foundation in memory of their daughter, a human rights advocate murdered ... [more]


Police Blotter
Observer Staff Report

Public exposure Tuesday at 5:30 p.m, a Notre Dame student on a bicycle near Eck Tennis Pavillion reported harassment from a man in a white jeep with a black top. The man yelled at her, then exposed himself. Notre Dame Security/Police ... [more]


Conference aims to interest girls in
math and science
Special to The Observer

"Expanding Your Horizons," a career conference for 6th to 8th grade girls with an accompanying program for parents, will convene Saturday at 8 a.m. in the University of McKenna Hall, the Center for Continuing Education. The conference aims to increase young ... [more]


Ave Maria prints book of essays
Special to The Observer

"Keeping the Faith, Making a Difference" by Father Wilson Miscamble, associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, has been published by Ave Maria Press. The book is comprised of 26 essays which grew out of homilies and talks ... [more]