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Vol XXXIV No. 112

Friday, March 30, 2001

  O'Donoghue looks back, Norton takes office
By LAURA ROMPF
Associate News Editor

Jonathan Jorrissen sat in the student government office Wednesday night with his legs propped up on the conference table. In three days, he would take the office of chief of staff and while some would be nervous, Jorrissen seemed quite comfortable ... [more]


Saint Mary's issues security alert
By MYRA McGRIFF
Saint Mary's Editor

Saint Mary's Student Affairs office released an assault notice to campus Thursday afternoon over e-mail, notifying students, faculty and staff that three separate incidents of alleged sexual assault have been reported in the past week. "Three Saint Mary's students have reported ... [more]


University names Higgins Laetare Medal recipient
By ALYSON TOMME
News Writer

Monsignor George Higgins can now include himself in the company of former President John F. Kennedy, social activist Sister Helen Prejean, and Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day. As the recipient of the University's Laetare Medal for the year 2001, Higgins has ... [more]


Students hope to dust away Women's Center's old image
By MYRA McGRIFF
Saint Mary's Editor

The Women's Center was once only the vision of two Saint Mary's students. Today, seven years after the first opening of the Center, the small room in the basement of LeMans Hall will open its doors once again and try to ... [more]


Mori weaves culture and classics in writing
By NOREEN GILLESPIE
News Writer

Detailing her educational training and the discovery of the role her homeland could play in her writing, Asian-American author and poet Kyoko Mori explained her emergence as an Asian-American writer Thursday. Mori, a native of Kobe, Japan, settled in the United ... [more]


Students live migrants' suffering
By ERIN LaRUFFA
News Writer

Inspired by a spring break Center for Social Concerns [CSC] seminar, a group of Notre Dame students held a teach-in Thursday night to raise awareness about the plight of migrant farm workers in the United States. Over spring break, these 16 ... [more]


Sanford shares local fears in Guatemala
By GEOFF BRODIE
News Writer

Reading a section from her current project entitled "The Grey Zone of Justice," Victoria Sanford of the Kellog Institute and the department of anthropology told of the military stranglehold that has been choking the life out of the ethnic Mayan communities ... [more]