Sports
- Notre Dame stands two wins away from NIT title (By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN Associate Sports Editor)
The Irish men's basketball team waits two wins away from a feat never before accomplished at Notre Dame — a championship in a postseason tournament.
- Doherty leaving his mark on program in just one season (By BRIAN KESSLER Assistant Sports Editor)
Two weeks ago, first-year head coach Matt Doherty was forced to put a little detour in this year's game plan.
- Saint Mary's opens home season with pair of wins (By KAREN SCHAFF Sports Writer)
The Saint Mary's softball team started the home season off on the right foot with an 8-0 win over the Concordia Cougars. With these wins the Belles bettered their record to 9-4.
- Heilman pitches a gem in Notre Dame's 3,000th game (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Writer)
In 1866, two students from Marshalltown, Iowa — Sturgis and Adrian "Cap" Anson — introduced the game of baseball to the students at Notre Dame. For the next 20 years, the sport was played between teams of students on campus. Finally, during the 1891-92 school year, Notre Dame decided to make baseball a varsity sport. 108 years later, the Irish baseball team played its 3,000th baseball game as All-American junior Aaron Heilman pitched a one-hit shutout to lead the Notre Dame past Villanova, 4-0.
- Irish fall to Michigan, place second at Invite (By RACHAEL PROTZMAN Sports Writer)
Notre Dame softball combined for a season-high record of 16 hits as it finished second in the Boilermaker Invitational over the weekend.
- Irish recruiting class ranked ninth in nation (Special to The Observer )
Notre Dame head volleyball coach Debbie Brown's 2000 recruiting class has been ranked ninth nationally in the May 2000 issue of Volleyball Magazine, one of the sport's most well-known and oldest monthly publications.
- Alkire earns second Big East honor (Special to The Observer )
For the second time this season, Notre Dame softball player Melanie Alkire has been named the Big East Player of the Week for her strong performances in Notre Dame's six games last week.
- Irish sweep Jayhawks 9-0 after 9-day layoff (By KEVIN BERCHOU Sports Writer)
After a nine-day layoff, the Notre Dame women's tennis team was eager to return to play Monday, and return they did, blasting the overwhelmed Kansas Jayhawks 9-0 at the Eck Tennis Pavillion.
- Irish drop to 9-7 with losses to Tar Heels, Blue Devils (By RACHEL BIBER Sports Writer)
Defeat is usually tough to swallow, but the 23rd-ranked Irish men's tennis team wrapped up a weekend of competition with an especially bitter taste in their mouths after losing to both 28th-ranked North Carolina and 5th-ranked Duke, to fall to 9-7 on the season.
Inside
- Let's get on with it! (A.J. Boyd Assistant Viewpoint Editor)
Do you have any idea what it is like to have to sift through the drivel and the genius to decide what goes into the daily Viewpoint pages? Sometimes it's a difficult task, having to decide between really compelling and well-written contributions to the intellectual discourse in this Catholic university community. More often, however, what gets printed is the least of a few dismal evils.
Viewpoint
- Papal pilgrimage is a radical act (Gary Caruso Capitol Comments)
Pope John Paul II's visit through the Holy Land was both moving and courageous. Many non-Catholics had viewed with suspicion the Pope's recent apology for Catholic transgressions throughout the ages. For some, he had not been specific enough about the kinds of discrimination and oppression which he addressed. For others, his apology did not seem sincere.
- Will you be someone's lifeline? (Bridget O'Connor Who You Gonna Call?)
Do you know who your lifeline would be? Sophomore Conor Murphy is hoping to find his. Diagnosed with leukemia early this semester, Conor is relying on a bone marrow transplant. The Notre Dame community has a chance to help Conor find his match tomorrow at the bone marrow drive that is being held at LaFortune Student Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Can't lawyers take a joke? (Letter to the Editor )
I am writing in response to Lindsay Sestile's letter "Creeps aren't the only cause" [March 27, The Observer]
- Act locally; change our community (Letter to the Editor )
Last Wednesday's edition of this paper gave me much more than the usual food for thought and I thank all those who contributed to the feast. On the front page were good articles on the Roseland incident and coverage of the sweatshop issue and the desire of the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) for the University to join the Worker's Rights Consortium rather than the Fair Labor Association.
News
- Council recommends continued alumnae involvement (MOLLY McVOY Saint Mary's Editor)
The President's Alumnae Advisory Council met this weekend to make recommendations to Saint Mary's president Marilou Eldred about the future of the College and alumnae contributions.
- OUTreach applies for recognition, acceptance doubtful (TIM LOGAN News Writer)
OUTreachND, the unofficial coalition of gay and lesbian students, has applied for official recognition from the University, but both leaders and administrators say the club's chances for approval are very slim.
- Bone marrow treatment helps leukemia victims u Leukemia (MAUREEN SMITHE Assistant News Editor)
Sophomore Conor Murphy's recent diagnosis with leukemia has drawn special attention at Notre Dame to this confusing and widely varying disease.
- Bone marrow treatment helps leukemia victims u National (MAUREEN SMITHE Assistant News Editor)
In light of sophomore Conor Murphy's struggles with leukemia, Notre Dame will host a bone marrow drive Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the LaFortune Ballroom.
Scene
- After 27 years, AC/DC refuses to soften up (By JOSEPH LARSON Scene Music Critic)
When you think of the world's greatest rock n' roll bands of all time, AC/DC probably isn't the first that comes to mind — but you can't completely disregard them.
- Indie band played an earful of a performance (By JOHN HUSTON Scene Music Critic)
The setting: Spring Break 2000; New Orleans, La.; the week after Mardi Gras. Lots of beads, boobs and beer. So why not take a night off and see some indie rock?
- `Giants' marks necessary transition for Oasis (By CHRISTOPHER McGOVERN Scene Music Critic)
Oasis are not the Beatles. Nor are they the Rolling Stones, the Charlatans or the Stone Roses. Yet due to some brash comments during their younger days, they will always be held to the standard that these great British bands set. It's a shame because the band responsible for some of the 90's best songs and one of the decades best albums, Definitely Maybe, is too often overshadowed by the unreasonable expectations placed upon them. It doesn't help that their last album, Be Here Now, was a critical flop (although it was the fastest selling album of all time in the UK). With their fourth album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, however, the Gallagher brothers should quell these pressures — least until their next album.
- Soundtrack offers a preview of upcoming U2 album (By TIMOTHY COLLINS Scene Music Critic)
U2, the biggest rock band of the late '80s and early '90s, is back with their first new release of the new millennium. But it does not come by way of a new album; it comes instead from the soundtrack to the film The Million Dollar Hotel. The movie, written by lead singer Bono and starring Mel Gibson, has received critical acclaim in Europe but has yet to pick up an American distributor. Its soundtrack, however, is quite a different story; it has been hyped because of the two new U2 songs that are the band's first new material since 1997's Pop.
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