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Vol XXXV No. 1

Sunday, August 26, 2001

  ROTC freshmen converge on campus
Services draw 100 freshmen, millions of scholarship dollars
By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER
Assistant News Editor

A humvee mounted with a grenade launcher drove down Juniper Road and a blackhawk helicopter landed on campus Wednesday morning, but the Army wasn't responding to parietals protestors, it was conducting a demonstration for 18 freshmen joining the Army's Fightin' Irish ... [more]


Officials modify ticket distribution
By JASON McFARLEY
News Editor

Forget the campouts. Never mind the carnival-type events. Spurred in part by adverse student reaction to past procedures, Notre Dame student government officials have scrapped the gimmicks and gone back to the drawing board to create what they hope is the ... [more]


Hot Topics: Last Year on Campus
By Jason McFarley

It's tough enough finding the way from the dorm to class to the dining hall and back. First-year students don't want to get lost in the conversation loop, too. Briefly, here's a look at the last year's news at Notre Dame ... [more]


Big frosh class catches ND `off-guard'
Unexpected number of confirmations prompts officials to house 91 students in study lounges
By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER
Assistant News Editor

Many high school students want to attend Notre Dame. While the admissions office usually recieves this as good news, by the end of May it had 100 more confirmations than it planned for. At that time, preparations began to welcome this ... [more]


Raising the bar: Class of 2005
Officials admit University's brightest
By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER
Assistant News Editor

The Class of 2005 has done its job to raise admissions standards at Notre Dame. Like many classes before it, this year's incoming class is statistically the best class to ever enter the University. The class hails from diverse backgrounds; incoming ... [more]


Raising the bar: Class of 2005
Incoming freshmen exceed Saint Mary's diversity goals
By MYRA McGRIFF
Saint Mary's Editor

Their acceptances letters are in, their bags are packed, and their eyes are set on one mission: joining the women of Saint Mary's. Some 441 first-year students moved in on Aug. 23 and made Saint Mary's their home for the next ... [more]


Ins and outs of campus leadership
ND, SMC student government structure may be complex, but opportunities
By JASON McFarley
News Editor

It's likely that more than half the members of the Class of 2005 are entering Notre Dame with leadership experience on their resumés. If recent University admissions trends hold up, that experience will come in the form of student government involvement ... [more]


Ins and outs of campus leadership
ND, SMC student government structure may be complex, but opportunities
By LINDSAY MOLLAN and NELLIE WILLIAMS
News Writers

Freshman students at Saint Mary's will have a chance to catch a glimpse of their Board of Governance during this weekend's orientation. "[We] want to educate the students about who we are so that a student could never not know where ... [more]