Sports
- No. 1 Keyplay.com, No. 2 NDToday.com lead Sweet 16 play (By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN Associate Sports Editor)
538 teams entered Bookstore Basketball XXIX. Some entered for the fun, knowing that their lack of basketball ability would send them to the sidelines within the first couple rounds. Others signed up to take part in a great campus tradition, more intent on putting on a show for their friends than advancing in the tourney. But a few teams were aiming for something higher, the pride of winning the title in the largest collegiate campus competition.
- Belles defeat Crusaders in season ender (By KATIE McVOY Assistant Sports Editor)
The Saint Mary's tennis team ended the regular season on a high note, defeating Division I opponent Valparaiso University by a count of 9-0. The Belles wrapped up this match in just about three hours, handily defeating Valpo.
- Baseball bonds families (By BRIAN CHURNEY On the Hot Corner)
I think that God's getting an earful right now.
- Notre Dame takes doubleheader against UIC (By RACHAEL PROTZMAN Sports Writer)
Notre Dame's Jennifer Sharron led the Irish to victory in game one in a doubleheader against No. 25 Illinois-Chicago with her 10th shutout this year.
- Welsh rivalry sparks final eight (By BRIAN BURKE Sports Writer)
It is now down to eight, and tonight at 7 p.m. the women's Bookstore Basketball tournament will be narrowed down further to set up the Final Four. Highlighting the action is an intriguing game between the third-seeded Playmates Who Can Play and the sixth-seeded No Name But Got Game, pitting interhall teammates against each other in a Welsh Family clash.
Inside
- Ode to JP (Kelly Hager Copy Editor)
"Now Kelly, be nice to your little brother — no matter what happens or where you live he'll always be your greatest friend."
Viewpoint
- Mobilizing a non-violent army Column (Aaron Kreider Think, Question, Resist)
On April 14th, I drove to D.C. with four ND students to reverse the widening global gap between rich and poor. Our goal was to shutdown a joint meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on April 16 and 17.
- Wordmeisters make sports fans cringe Column (Cappy Gagnon Cappy's Corner)
I guess my journalism degree must have expired, because I no longer understand what has become of the craft (in my day, journalists did not consider writing to be a profession).
- Humorist missed the joke Letter to the Editor (Todd Callais Junior, St. Edwards Hall)
When I read Scott Little's article in the Scene section of yesterday's paper I was flat out shocked. It is the first piece of writing I have ever read that has made me rethink my stance on censorship. I now think that we should protect the public from ignorance and nonsense.
- Serving haitians, serving us Letter to the Editor (Myrmose Marcellon Sophomore)
There is something unique in the student body of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's, something that sets them apart from other students pursuing scholarly studies at ranked universities. Is it that they study more, party less? Or is it that they are survivors of South Bend's mercurial weather and Notre Dame's rigid administration?
- Quote of the Day (William Carlos Williams Poet)
"It's the anarchy of poverty that delights me."
News
- Married science professors enjoy a match made in lab (By MARIBEL MOREY News Writer)
Students who do not find a significant other or fiancé by their senior year of college will usually find one in graduate school, according to Jeff and Crislyn Schorey.
- Garces explores Pinochet trial issues u Victims' lawyer descibes (By HELENA RAYAM News Writer)
Juan Garces, a close advisor to a former socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, confronted the international aspect of General Augusto Pinochet's regime during a lecture Wednesday.
- Committee looks to foster academic life (By ERIN PIROUTEK Associate News Editor)
For most Notre Dame students, academic life does not end when class does. But should Notre Dame do more to foster the relationship between academics and student life?
- Committee looks to foster academic life (By ERIN PIROUTEK Associate News Editor)
For most Notre Dame students, academic life does not end when class does. But should Notre Dame do more to foster the relationship between academics and student life?
- Scholar to speak about women and the Church (By NELLIE WILLIAMS News Writer)
Fourteen years ago, when Sandra Schneider came to Saint Mary's College to give a biblical interpretation lecture for the Madeleva Lectures in Spirituality, she had no idea she would one day be back at the College to give the series' 16th lecture.
- Library theft teaches hard lesson (By BRIAN HOBBINS News Writer)
A yellow warning sign emblazoned with the message, "While you are grabbing a snack, somebody else might be grabbing your stuff. Don't leave your book bag or computer unattended," can be found throughout the floors of Hesburgh Library.
- O'Donoghue highlights Student Union strengths, weaknesses u Student body president suggests improving (By LAURA ROMPF Assistant News Editor)
Student government can do much more to improve life at the University, said Brian O'Donoghue, student body president, as he addressed the Student Senate last night with his State of the Student Union address.
Scene
- FilmJunkies.net is perfect for movie buffs Two Notre Dame freshmen launch successful Website from their dorms (By MATT NANIA Assistant Scene Editor)
Recently launched by two Notre Dame students, the all-new Film Junkies Website (www.film-junkies.net) is the ideal place for movie buffs.
- `U-571' sub thriller needs less speech, more speed (By JOEY LENISKI Scene Movie Critic)
The format of "U-571" reads like a roller-coaster ride. Like the clatty-clink, clatty clink of a coaster's 200-foot incline, the first half-hour is slow and boring. But it allows the viewer to look around the film and get a feel for what is going on.
- Exciting car chases punctuate a brilliant `Connection' (By JOHN CRAWFORD Scene Movie Critic)
Hollywood doesn't know how to do good car chases anymore.
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