Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Bookstore Basketball XXXII: No. 8 Roc Sports Café uses inside game to get victory (BY ERIK POWERS Sports Writer)
      Roc Sports Café likes it rough.
    • Baseball: Irish down, but not out (BY BRYAN KRONK Senior Staff Writer)
      The locker room after the game was silent, but not empty.
    • Mens Tennis: Victory over Indiana State boosts team's momentum (BY JOE LINDSLEY Sports Writer)
      The Irish were in search of a confidence-boosting conclusion to their regular season.
    • ND Softball: Wins over Providence keep Irish undefeated in league (BY JUSTIN SCHUVER Sports Writer)
      The only thing that has stopped the Irish in Big East play this season is Mother Nature.
    • SMC Softball: Homestand a chance for Belles to rebound (BY PAT LEONARD Sports Writer)
      On paper, a doubleheader versus Calvin College today looks like another MIAA match-up. For the Saint Mary's softball team and coach Anna Welsh, however, it is much more.
    • Baseball: Blown away Historic winning streak snapped at 17 games as Irish fall to Eagles (BY BRYAN KRONK Senior Staff Writer)
      One team took advantage of the strong wind blowing out to left field.
    • Mens Basketball: Banquet honors season (BY JOE HETTLER Sports Editor)
      Notre Dame won 24 games and reached the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1987. In the Joyce Center Tuesday, the Irish celebrated their 2002-03 season at the mens basketball awards banquet in front of approximately 850 people.
    • Football: One year later, Holiday knows much more (BY MATT LOZAR Associate Sports Editor)
      Last spring, Notre Dame quarterback Carlyle Holiday was competing for the starting job and trying to learn a brand new offensive system.
    • Mens Basketball: Brey will not listen to Jayhawks (BY JOE HETTLER Sports Editor)
      Irish coach Mike Brey said he is leaving South Bend Thursday.
    • SMC Tennis: Belles earn league victory over Hope (BY LISA REIJULA Sports Writer)
      The Saint Mary's tennis team began their climb back to the top of the MIAA conference standings Tuesday with a 6-3 road victory over Hope College.

  • Inside
    • The college tour (By Joe Trombello News Production)
      While many of my high school classmates quickly forgot their junior year spring break vacation, having spent it in Cancun engaging in wild, drunken orgies, my week-long break proved an experience that I could not soon forget.

  • Viewpoint
    • Freedom of speech allows all views (Chris Lalonde freshman)
      I am writing this letter in response to Nick Shepard's letter Tuesday about the choice of the College Republicans to have Don Feder speak at the recent pro-America rally. I find it a disturbing trend in recent Viewpoint articles that people are criticizing both this newspaper and campus groups, such as the College Republicans, for allowing different perspectives to be aired. This trend continued Tuesday with Shepard's grand idea that someone he and a Democrat representative label as a "racist" should not be asked "to speak at a University."
    • Response to column on Arabs (Khalil Matta professor and director of the MIS Program)
      John Litle must be shocked to learn that two of those ignorant Arabs he mentions in his column to The Observer Friday have been responsible for his education at Notre Dame. As your advisor, John, I feel duty bound to educate you since your letter does not deserve a rebuttal.
    • Calves do not have a choice, but we do (Chandra Vaidyanathan graduate student)
      In his letter on Monday, Alex Pagnani makes an interesting argument challenging the effort of ND for Animals to eliminate veal from the dining halls. I am sure there are many others who would readily agree with Mr. Pagnani on his nice anecdote and the banning of smoking as an act that is against the right of people to indulge in their freedom of choice.
    • Spending Easter at Notre Dame (Joe Muto Muto Time)
      Well, the Queen of Notre Dame contest was an absolute success. I was the master of ceremonies. This is as close as I will ever get to having the initials M.C. come before my name without getting beat with orange-filled sweat socks for pretending to be a rapper.
    • A message from Uncle Sam (Adam Cahill A Domer's Outlook)
      I'd like to introduce myself. I am your Uncle Sam. You may not recognize me because I'm a very busy person. In light of that, I will describe myself.

  • News
    • Students consider religious life During national decline, Old College houses 9 students (By Kevin Allen News Writer)
      Notre Dame is one of the most well known Catholic academic institutions in the United States. Students here can partake in daily masses in a faith-based community, largely guided by priests and brothers on campus.
    • Students consider religious life Holy Cross nuns see decrease in their numbers (By Kevin Allen News writer)
      According to Sister Margaret Mary Lavonis, vocation director for the Holy Cross Sisters at Saint Mary's College, every congregation in North America has experienced a decrease in the number of women who profess to be sisters, and Notre Dame and Saint Mary's is no exception.
    • Senior Week registration online (Observer Staff Report )
      Notre Dame seniors can register for Senior Week activities — events held for the senior class during the week preceding Commencement — online for the first time this year.
    • Experts face off on religious, scientific theory (By Nicola Bunick )
      Professors debated the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design theory in schools at Tuesday's lecture titled. "Religion in Public Schools? Debating Creation, Evolution and intelligent design."
    • Doctor discusses bioterrorism (By Andrew Thagard )
      Dr. Charles Holt, an osteopathic physician and colonel in the United States Army Reserve, discussed the main bacterial and viral agents used in bioterrorism Tuesday evening. The presentation was the fifth in the Mini-Medical School Lecture Series hosted by the South Bend Center for Medical Education, Indiana University School of Medicine and sponsored by the Medical Education Foundation.
    • Feminist shares views on photography at SMC (By Nicole Zook News Writer)
      Feminist and author Jane Gallop visited Saint Mary's College Tuesday to present a lecture on her new book, "Living With His Camera: The Unhappy Woman and the Empty Chair."

  • Scene
    • God, country, corps, Notre Dame The yearly ROTC Presidential Pass in Review honors Notre Dame's (By CHRISTIE BOLSEN Assistant Scene Editor)
      At 4:30 this afternoon in Loftus, a tradition that dates back to the times of knights and ruling monarchs will take place. It is a tradition that has been a part of this University since the beginning of military instruction on this campus.