Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Cox's goal sends Irish to 1-0 victory over Vikings By KERRY SMITH
      The Irish looked for some confidence heading into this weekend's Big East matchups and found it Tuesday night with a 1-0 win over the Cleveland State Vikings.
    • Davie addresses pressure and tough Irish schedule By TIM CASEY
      When Bob Davie was appointed the Notre Dame head coach three years ago, he knew the pressure associated with his position.
    • Brown leads Irish into start of three-game stretch By MIKE CONNOLLY
      The Notre Dame women's soccer team hosts the Butler Bulldogs tonight at Alumni Field without junior captain Kelly Lindsey.
    • Striowski steps up in sophomore year By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN
      Sophomore cross country runner Marc Striowski went the distance Saturday, earning his first college victory in the Valpa-raiso Invit-ational and hinting at the impact he will have on the Irish this season.

  • Inside
    • My Body is a Temple C. R. "Teo" Teodoro
      "My body is a temple, not to be defiled by the sacreligious act of consuming alcohol."

  • Viewpoint
    • Holier-than-thou debates bore Matthew Loughran
      Cut it out.
    • Forget football program Letter to the Editor
      At the Michigan game two weeks ago, one of the commentators remarked that only five NCAA schools have winning records against Notre Dame. Now noted for academic excellence rather than football greatness, the University of Chicago, Yale and Columbia were three of the five schools named in addition to the University of Michigan.
    • Respect lives of King, Beethoven -- all children Letter to the Editor
      Life does have the ability of homogenizing the black and white to make gray. That's why Catholics are there: to make sense of the gray (a.k.a. mix of right and wrong), again.
    • Booing at Davie is booing at team Letter to the Editor
      In the words of the great philosopher John "Bluto" Belushi, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?… Hell no, and it's not over now." I am writing partly in response to the article by alum Kevin Keane, and partly because I feel that something should be said concerning the rest of the final Notre Dame football season of this millennium.
    • DeBartolo decor is deadly Letter to the Editor
      I note with equal doses of exasperation and bemusement that the cordon sanitaire has been further tightened in DeBartolo Hall. Splayed with comic redundancy at the entrance to every classroom are formal prohibitions on the introductions of food and drink. While I do understand the way in which the practical and the moral converge cleanliness, godliness and the rest I am all the same disturbed by the ongoing fetishizing of this building. In other words, just saying "no" to comestibles and potables is symptomatic of a larger problem, namely the campaign against the signs of campus life.

  • News
    • Rampersad: Interest grows in black bios Mirabel Morey
      Arnold Rampersad, a Stanford University professor, spoke Tuesday on African-American biographies at the first lecture of the Joseph M. Duffy Lecture Series.
    • 11 bid for SMC frosh elections Katie Miller
      Competition for Saint Mary's freshman class elections will be tougher than usual due to an unusually large pool.
    • Saint Mary's students face parking problems Nellie Williams
      At 10 p.m. on Sunday, Francesca DePalma was faced with a dilemna.
    • Merrill: Solitary O'Keefe differed from Taos artists By LINDSAY FRANK
      Georgia O'Keefe was an outsider among her contemporaries, Christopher Merrill, a professor of English at Holy Cross College in Wooster, Mass., said in his lecture Tuesday.
    • Philosophy professor receives Book of Year Award By LIZ ZANONI
      James Sterba, Notre Dame professor of philosophy, received the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy for his book "Justice for Here and Now."

  • Scene
    • The proof is in the putter By ANDREW McDONNELL
      Got an itch for hitting colorful balls into their homes? Scene reviews three local mini-golf courses,
    • Restaurant Review: Siam Thai Restaurant By KATIE WILHELM
      Just minutes from the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's campuses, Siam provides avid and novice Thai connoisseurs a unique alternative to dining hall food.