Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • FOOTBALL: Breaking down the option No. 15 Air Force leads the nation in rushing with the triple option (By CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Editor)
      Every time Notre Dame plays a service academy, the question comes up again: How will the Irish stop the option?
    • INTERHALL FOOTBALL: Zahm grabs playoff spot with 16-7 win (By JOE HETTLER and TREY WILLIAMS Associate Sports Editor and Sports Writer)
      Zahm achieved a double victory in its final regular-season game Sunday against Sorin. The 16-7 win gave Zahm a spot in the playoffs.
    • MENS SOCCER: Irish host rival Spartans at home (By JOE HETTLER Associate Sports Editor)
      The Notre Dame's mens soccer team won't be on the road for another Big East game today.
    • SMC SOCCER: Belles look to avenge early 4-2 loss at home (By LAUREN CORISTIN Sports Writer)
      The Saint Mary's soccer team will seek revenge against conference rival Albion College today, after losing 4-2 earlier this season.
    • FOOTBALL: Holiday no longer cause for concern (By KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      For the first time in three weeks, Notre Dame quarterback Carlyle Holiday's shoulder isn't the cause for too much concern. Neither is his status as the starter.

  • Inside
    • `James the Baker' (Assistant News Editor )
      Whether you live on campus, have an apartment or a house, you will inevitably want to decorate your crib to make you feel more at home in your new surrounding. Everyone has his own sense of style and wants to feel original, so most students will lavishly decorate their rooms with posters, pictures and perhaps the occasional X-BOX to make them feel comfortable, but it's the more creative "fixtures" or adornments that go the extra mile to help you adjust to life without Mom and your old room.

  • Viewpoint
    • ND must respect workers' rights (Paul Graham Another Perspective)
      Around campus, the invisible army of campus workers is busy making this school one of the most beautiful places in the world. The bathrooms are spotless, rooms are clean and the food service staff has given us two of the best dining halls on any college campus.
    • Quote of the Day (Baruch Spinoza writer)
      "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for
    • The games people play (Jacqueline Browder Happily Ever After)
      It's amazing the games people play in relationships.
    • Students defend free speech Activists contribute to democracy (Anna Nussbaum freshman)
      I'm writing in response to Erin Fitzpatrick and Michael McCarthy's Oct. 15 letter, "Revive patriotism on this too-liberal campus." Last time I checked, no one, except Fitzpatrick and McCarthy, would classify Notre Dame as too-liberal. On the contrary, it's a school so conservative that my 14-year old brother can't come visit me and can't sleep on my floor for the night, because that would violate parietals. It's a perverse line of logic. The school thinks, without their rules, I or someone else might sleep with him.
    • Students defend free speech U.S. must avoid foreign wars (Tom Seabaugh sophomore)
      The campus is too liberal? It's hanging by a thread off the edge of the right wing, and it's those "bedwetting liberals" McCarthy and Fitzpatrick despise who have kept the rest of the campus from intellectual oblivion.

  • News
    • Hispanic music pays Saint Mary's a visit (By AMANDA MISNIK News Writer)
      The band Laura Fuentes y Calicanto entertained students at the College-sponsored Brown Bag Luncheon Tuesday that helped to close celebrations of Hispanic Heritage Month at Saint Mary's.
    • Prospect of war looms (By NATASHA GRANT News Writer)
      Ever since Congress voted to give President Bush the power to declare war on Iraq, many people have worried about the prospect of a military conflict.
    • Saint Mary's funds social change trip (By ANNELIESE WOOLFORD News Writer)
      Taking advantage of the upcoming fall break, Saint Mary's Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership is sponsoring a six-day trip for faculty, staff, students and Michiana-area women leaders to visit three social change projects in Ohio and Tennessee.
    • Taco Bell policy criticized (By MATT BRAMANTI News Writer)
      Upset with the plight of migrant farm laborers, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers spoke at Notre Dame Tuesday, renewing their call for a boycott of Taco Bell restaurants.

  • Scene
    • Audience flocks to The Crows at the Morris (By DANIEL McSWAIN and SARAH SCHNEIDER Scene Music Critics)
      "I want to have a good time like everybody," seemed to be Adam Duritz's way of connecting with his audience of mainly exhausted, overworked and midterm-frenzied students during The Counting Crows concert at the Morris Performing Arts Center Tuesday night.