| Vol XXXIII No. 8 |
Thursday, September 2, 1999 |
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Mission-Based Partnerships and Transformative Education
Rev. Don McNeill
 I am rewriting most of this after being with many of you Tuesday during Activities Night at the Joyce Center. What an energizing experience! Thanks and gracias to the Student Activities Office for sponsoring the event for hundreds with the support of Rec Sports, Center for Social Concerns, Club Coordination Council and many other partners from on and off campus. I especially enjoyed conversations with students exploring how their gifts and energy could be shared in areas of need in South Bend and beyond. ... [more]
Being Catholic means being open
Letter to the editor
One of the difficulties of being Catholic, or being deeply religious in any faith, is that we are constantly confronted with differing beliefs and ideologies. If Notre Dame were a place where students could live out their daily lives without ever encountering arguments about abortion, birth control, the ordination of women, homosexuality, or any of the issues on which the Church takes a stand, then they would never have to look deeper into their own faith and think about what they really believe. The reality of the world is that these are issues which Notre Dame students will be forced to confront at one point or another in their lives. The University should be a place where students encounter and experience different views and where they can explore new ideas in a supportive Catholic environment that allows them to reinforce their own faith while trying to understand other perspectives. ... [more]
ND has duty to guide student choices
Letter to the editor
Katie Dodd, an editor for UVA student newspaper, criticizes Notre Dame for its policy banning advertisements contrary to Catholic teaching. She writes, "By banning advertisements for certain organizations, Notre Dame is attempting to steer students toward the choices the administration and the Church deem appropriate." Dodd suggests that universities should not make up students' minds for them but allow them the opportunity to make up their own minds. Sounds nice. Yet, is it true that students should make up their own minds about every issue? ... [more]
Wake up, you cowards and hypocrites!
Letter to the editor
I am writing this letter out of my own selfish desire for sleep. Tonight I went over to "Activities' Night" looking for some kind of good cause I could support and I found it before I even entered the building. Members of Notre Dame's own community were standing outside telling us all to wake up to our own attitudes on homosexuality. ... [more]
I'll watch my westerns in peace
Dustin Ferrell
If you're a liberal activist, stop whatever it is you're doing. Turn off the Indigo Girls CD and pay attention. ... [more]
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