Sports
Inside
- Ready to go home (Laura Kelly Associate Scene Editor)
OK, I admit it — I'm homesick. And I can't really figure out why. Maybe it's because I haven't been home since Christmas, and I'm longing for my own bed and some good cooking. Maybe it's because with these first hints of spring, I'm missing the regular family invasions of fall football weekends. Maybe it's the realization that since I'm going abroad next fall, time with my family is quickly becoming precious.
Viewpoint
- The gun control debate: Somebody shoot me (Amy Schill Dazed and Amused)
Nietzsche, everybody's favorite atheist anti-philosopher philosopher, wrote that every society feels a debt to its founders. Feeling forever unable to pay back the debt, the society elevates its founders to the level of gods.
- McVeigh brought fate on himself (Stacy Davis graduate student)
I would like to make two comments regarding Mr. Vallely's letter yesterday about Timothy McVeigh.
- Shopping in support of a green revolution (Anthony Pagliarini junior)
Looking for that organic futon? I know I am. And after all, what could be more inviting than curling up underneath a homespun wool blanket in hemp pajamas, sipping on a cup of anti-embargo Cuban coffee and resting assured that neither man nor sheep nor tree was harmed by our (excessive) consumerism? Perhaps, even, we could all gather `round the solar lamp with our Ben and Jerry's and pick through the pages of Peter Singer like the Dead Poets' Society. (AARP need not apply.)
- Argument irresponsible (Stephen Carroll freshman)
In Monday's issue of The Observer, Anna Barbour wrote a column calling gun control a wasted argument. I started reading with an open mind, thinking there might be a well-reasoned argument somewhere but what I found was senseless dribble from a gun nut.
- Plan goes beyond protest (Brigitte Gynther freshman)
I am very glad to see that Adam Turner is concerned about the situation of migrant farmworkers, as he expressed in his Inside Column on Tuesday, and agree with him that our protest last Sunday afternoon isn't going to change the entire world. However, I would like to address some of the issues that he raised, so that he and others on this campus can better understand what we are trying to do.
- Quote of the Day (Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman orator)
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
News
- Basilica prepares for tridium celebration (By JASON McFARLEY News Editor)
When it comes to the Lenten season and Notre Dame, the past 40 days perhaps have little on the next three.
- Eldred speaks on faith and prayer (By NOREEN GILLESPIE News Writer)
Speaking about the role faith and prayer play in her life as president of Saint Mary's, Marilou Eldred delivered the keynote address at the 30th annual Michiana Area Community Prayer Breakfast Wednesday.
- Pilon: Vietnam war had `terrible effects' on Americans (By MYRA McGRIFF Saint Mary's Editor)
University of Northern Arizona professor Charles Pilon, who served as a consultant for the Vietnamese Ministry of Education, gave the Vietnam war a human face Wednesday during his lecture, "The Vietnam War: What happened and what is Happening." Relaying stories from his book "Bridging the Gap: Twenty years after the War in Vietnam," Pilon spoke of the effect the war in Vietnam had on the American conscious.
- Group approves FMB budget for 2001-02 (By ERIN LaRUFFA News Writer)
The Student Senate unanimously approved the Financial Management Board's $600,000 budget Wednesday night, a figure $5,000 less than last year's FMB budget.
- BOT report to look at social space (By ERIN LaRUFFA News Writer)
When the Coleman-Morse Center opened recently, many University students and staff expected the lounge to be used as social space. Instead, students are using the building as study space.
- Oufkir speaks of life as princess, imprisonment (By ALLY JAY News Writer)
Malika Oufkir described her experience the daughter of a high ranking Moroccan general and the changes in her life after her father's failed coup in a lecture Wednesday.
Scene
- `Spider' satisfies its detective story formula (By CHRIS BANNISTER Scene Movie Critic)
There is, inherently, a puzzle to be solved in every detective film. Having a puzzle gives the genre an advantage over other movies because as long as the puzzle is there to be examined, people will watch the film, no matter how poor the acting, writing or theme. Even movies that can be unequivocally classified as bad will still leave a viewer with some sense of satisfaction because the audience is allowed to engage in solving the crime.
- Cinema bottoms out in `Just Visiting' (By MARIO BIRD Scene Movie Critic)
Ask any slack-jawed yokel's opinion of a particular movie, and he'll most likely tell you it was one of two things: good or bad. Movies that are universally acclaimed as "good," such as "Toy Story" or "Schindler's List," usually generate copious revenue and popular appeal for the stars and director.
- `Virgin Suicides' captures the contradictions of adolescence (By LIAM DACEY Scene Movie Critic)
Anyone who has tried to recommend "The Virgin Suicides" to a friend has come across the difficult task of finding the words to describe it. It most cases, the friend will take a look at the cover and put it back on the shelf. After all, many moviegoers find it risky to watch an independent film that separates itself from classical Hollywood conventions. This is understandable, that's the way the system is meant to work.
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