| Vol XXXV No. 137 |
Friday, May 17, 2002 |
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Jump in, dance and be yourself
Kerry Smith
Senior Staff Writer
 Sometimes you just have to dance to the music. You have to take what you're given and roll with it. You have to let loose, forget people are looking at you and just have fun. Those who frequent the Linebacker Lounge ... [more]
Quote of the Day
Ralph Waldo Emerson
writer
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson writer ... [more]
Saying the hardest goodbye
Noreen Gillespie
Senior Staff Writer
Wrapped in a dark gray hooded sweatshirt, chin-length brown hair swinging back and forth around my face and tears sticking to my cheeks in wet trails, I held my stepbrother tightly when I said goodbye to him four years ago. I ... [more]
Graduation brings freedom to choose
Nick Linstroth
senior
I think I slipped through the cracks. I transferred into Notre Dame as a confirmed, believing Catholic. I expected challenges that encourage intellectual growth, spiritual progression and maturation. What I found proved to be disheartening. Coming from the University of Michigan, ... [more]
Notre Dame defines memories
Joe Larson
Senior Columnist
In my swan song, (final exam here at Notre Dame), I was asked to read an article from a magazine called "The Commonwheel" by a writer named Bob Greene and to discuss how writers like Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman ... [more]
Following a feminist path
Maureen Smithe
Senior Staff Writer
My four years at Notre Dame have taught me more than I could ever squeeze into a final column. From the immigrant experience of the Irish to the philosophies of ancient Chinese scholars, I've gained a worldly experience worth more than ... [more]
Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Campus reacts to Sept. 11 attacks
A sense of horrifying dread set in. People had been injured and killed: people just like me with problems and dreams and families. The casualties of the attack were not soldiers sent with an understanding of combat and a willingness to ... [more]
Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Should a Catholic university host ROTC?
ROTC students, as well as pre-med students, will most likely face decisions with life-or-death consequences someday. While moral education is important for all students, it seems clear to me that it is absolutely crucial for these students, who will hold so ... [more]
Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Tragedy confirms Notre Dame family exists
New students are bombarded with somewhat cheesy talk about the "Notre Dame family" and the "spirit of Notre Dame." To me, this talk seemed rather hollow ... I had not yet been enveloped in the "spirit," as it was called. I ... [more]
Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Students beg: `Dump Davie'
In light of the recent losses by the Notre Dame football team, I felt compelled to rewrite the lyrics to a Blink 182 song called "What's My Age Again?" I ran 'em out, it was a Saturday, I wore headphones, so ... [more]
Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Administration must reach out to homosexual students
When we learned of the policy implemented by the administration of systematic discrimination against any advertisements from GALA, our hearts were deeply saddened and angered ... Where is the justice in censoring an ad that congratulated gay and lesbian students upon ... [more]
Four years in review: Students comment on campus controversies
Let students choose
Allow 21-year-old students to drink alcohol while tailgating, no matter the tailgating "sponsor." On the whole, Notre Dame students are pretty responsible. Allow those of us who are legal to support our storied football program and have a good time doing ... [more]
A common bond
Mike Connolly
Senior Staff Writer
Four weeks ago, I gathered at the South Bend Marriott with 100 other current and former Observer staff workers to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the paper. Although many of us had never met before, we shared a ... [more]
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