Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Students ride emotional rollercoaster watching Irish play (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
      It was a half hour before game time, and something unusual was happening.
    • Irish defeat Huskies to advance to championship game (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
      ST. LOUIS
    • Irish draw comparisons to Husky championship team (By TIM CASEY Assistant Sports Editor)
      ST. LOUIS
    • Belles split doubleheader with Adrian (By KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      Using a loss to claim victory, the Saint Mary's softball team a doubleheader with Adrian College Saturday.
    • Notre Dame sweeps 3-game series with Pirates (By JEFF BALTRUZAK Assistant Sports Editor)
      It's easy to tell when Aaron Heilman is pitching just by glancing at the stands. Right behind home plate sits a contingent of major league scouts, each armed with a radar gun and a notebook, recording Heilman's every pitch and sizing up his potential.
    • Irish earn respect, Blue Devils add to tradition (By TED FOX Sports Writer)
      It's 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. The Notre Dame women's basketball team plays tonight at 7:30 in the first-ever national championship game for an Irish basketball squad.
    • National Champions: Riley's two free throws with 5.8 seconds seals win (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
      ST. LOUIS
    • National Champions: Muffet and Her Miracles earn first-ever national title (By TIM CASEY Senior Staff Writer)
      ST. LOUIS

  • Inside
    • Simply the best (By ERIN PIROUTEK Senior Staff Writer)
      SAINT LOUIS

  • Viewpoint
    • Global poverty indicates class war, involving us (Aaron Kreider Think, Question, Resist)
      The largest form of collective violence in our world is not war or crime. Imagine a violence that takes 20 to 40 years out of the lives of over a billion people.
    • Research better done in library than online (Linda Sharp reference librarian at Hesburgh Library)
      I am writing in response to Laura Kelly's article in the March 21 edition of The Observer entitled"Homework Got you Stumped? Help is just a Mouse Click Away."
    • Benefits of cloning people (Susan L. Sprecher South Bend, Ind.)
      The recent debate on campus over cloning individuals reveals the narrow focus that bioethics is using to view human genome issues. The more critical question is how we will preserve the germplasm, not of a single person, but of whole races that are rapidly vanishing.
    • The Terminator tackles politics (Brandon Niemeyer Daily Mississippian)
      OXFORD, Miss.
    • Quote of the Day (Daniel DeLeon writer)
      "Every reform granted by capitalism is a concealed measure of reaction."

  • News
    • Thousands welcome Irish back to campus (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
      Niele Ivey climbed off the bus, onto a platform and held the NCAA Championship trophy high in the air.
    • Couch burns, but ND students celebrate title quietly (By LAURA ROMPF Associate News Editor)
      Besides Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" blasting out a third floor Keenan window, North Quad was silent Sunday night after the women's basketball team won the National Championship. There were no riots, but approximately 20 students set one couch on fire and a six-man in Keenan thought they'd celebrate.
    • Purdue students riot, police deploy tear gas on students (Purdue Exponent Staff Reports )
      Purdue students lit fires, turned over a car and broke windows after Purdue lost to Notre Dame Sunday night in the women's basketball national championship game.
    • Nader: Students must take active role in democracy (By PAT McELWEE News Writer)
      In a speech delivered to a packed house at Indiana University-South Bend (IUSB), consumer advocate and 2000 presidential candidate Ralph Nader called on students to take an active role in democracy.
    • Supporters, students revel in Irish win (By ANNE MARIE MATTINGLY)
      ST. LOUIS

  • Scene
    • Last Team Standing (photos by: JOSE CUELLAR,)
      Moments make history. Sunday night against Purdue, the Notre Dame women's basketball team had a lot of moments — and made a lot of history.