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Vol XXXIII No. 119

Thursday, April 13, 2000

  Campus, local community `take back the night'
Group marches to sites where sexual assults have occurred
By ALYSSA SCHMITT
News Writer

The streets of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's echoed with the sounds of drumming and chanting as 50 members of South Bend and campus communities marched in "Take Back The Night." The students, faculty and community members walked together holding candles ... [more]


Mendozas visit Notre Dame
u University's largest donors tour business
By ERIN LaRUFFA
Assistant News Editor

The strong American economy will now help Notre Dame students beyond increasing their post-graduation job prospects. Notre Dame graduate Tom Mendoza, '73, and his wife Kathy recently donated $35 million to the newly renamed Mendoza College of Business. The couple, who ... [more]


OUTreachND denied official recognition
By TIM LOGAN
News Writer

When OUTreachND applied for official club status from the University in March, many people predicted that application would be rejected. This week, those predictions came true. In a letter dated April 7, Joe Cassidy, director of Student Activities, told OUTreach's former ... [more]


Students help local art program
By LIZ LANG
News Writer

Late in January, St. John the Baptist Elementary School approached Robert Sedlack's graphic design class and his special studies graphics design class with the task of helping a struggling fine arts program. St. John's believes that "the arts play an ... [more]


Student Activities puts
PSA on probation
Student Activities puts
PSA on probation

One of Notre Dame's loudest voices for change, the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), may be quieter for the next eight months after the Office of Student Activities placed the group on probation for holding an unregistered demonstration. The probation, announced Friday ... [more]


Cerneka describes life of Brazil's poor
By TESSIE HOWLAND
News Writer

The current rate of unemployment in Brazil is comparable to that in the United States during the Great Depression, said Saint Mary's alumna Heidi Cerneka, who spoke Wednesday about her ministry work with the street women of Brazil. Cerneka ministers to ... [more]


Journalist Tabe shares story of life in Camaroon
Journalist Tabe shares story of life in Camaroon
By COLLEEN McCARTHY
Associate News Editor

Africans have held tightly to marriage, birth and funeral rituals unique to their culture, said Angel Tabe, Cameroonian journalist and Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in a lecture Wednesday at Saint Mary's. Although in many parts of Africa, the ... [more]


Journalist Tabe shares story of life in Camaroon
u Writer struggles for free press
By SARAH RYKOWSKI
Saint Mary's News Editor

Angel Tabe's visit to Saint Mary's campus served as a grim reminder that democracy has not spread to the entire world. Tabe, a former journalist and news anchor in her native Camaroon, visits Saint Mary's this week as part of an ... [more]