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Vol XXXIII No. 38

Friday, October 15, 1999

  Trustees to meet with SMC students
By MOLLY MCVOY
Assistant Sports Editor

As the student body prepares for a break, Saint Mary's Board of Trustees prepares for work. The trustees are on campus this week for one of their three meetings held every academic year. The board will not only deal with typical ... [more]


Deane: Colonization plagued Irish history
By ERIN LARUFFA
News Writer

Irish history is categorized by colonial rule and peppered with political adversary, according to Seamus Deane, director of the Keough Institute for Irish Studies. The talk concentrated on issues surrounding British colonial rule in Ireland. "The Irish were obviously a people ... [more]


Group hopes to `see' charitable aid
By LIZ ZANONI
News Writer

Notre Dame Global Health Initiative, a student club started this year, is asking students to donate old eyeglasses to send to Oaxoca, Mexico, with a group of ophthalmologists this February. The project will take sunglasses and prescription glasses to people in ... [more]


Rojo: Mistral's works relate to life experience
By COLLEEN GAUGHEN
News Writer

Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral wrote feminist and radical poetry with a "spiritualism" inspired by her own life's experiences, said Grinor Rojo. Rojo, a professor from Universidad de Chile, focused on Mistral's artistic influence in his talk, "Summa Mistraliana." Rojo discussed the ... [more]


Building tradition in the backwoods
Students travel across country to earn credit and serve others
By TIM LOGAN
News Editor

Early Sunday morning, while much of campus is sleeping, 164 Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students will stumble out of bed and make their way to the Stepan Center parking lot. From there, they will head for the hills of Appalachia ... [more]


ND students attend Gore speech
By BRIDGET O'CONNOR
News Writer

The students in the Notre Dame Semester in Washington Program attended Vice President Al Gore's speech before a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council Thursday afternoon. The speech was part of a day-long event which included presentations by top democratic figures ... [more]


Mullins case to get court
status report
Observer Staff Report

Roger Mullins, former associate vice president for human resources, will go to court on Tuesday, Oct. 19. The former University employee faces charges of stalking two former female law students. Mullins was set to go to trial on July 27, but ... [more]