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Vol XXXIV No. 53

Friday, November 10, 2000

  Brownson Hall serves as home to many since 1855
By SCOTT BRODFUEHRER
News Writer

Home to nuns, graduate students, first year of students and printing presses during the last 150 years, First Year of Studies and Brownson Hall will be undergoing major changes in the next year as organizations housed in these two buildings are ... [more]


COURAGE speaker supports chastity for homosexuals
By TIM LOGAN
Senior Staff Writer

David Morrison was once an outspoken gay rights activist at the University of Maryland. Then he spent seven years in a successful, monogamous gay relationship. But now the 37-year-old writer spends his time calling on homosexuals to live chaste lives. He ... [more]


Private school graduate students granted right to unionize
By LAURA SEGURA
News Writer

Beginning this month, the National Labor Relations Board granted graduate students of private universities the right to form unions to negotiate terms of their employment as researchers and teaching assistants. Graduate students have argued for years over the wages, benefits and ... [more]


GSU considers Observer support, delays decision
By ANDREW THAGARD
News Writer

While most of the country's attention was turned toward the presidential election on Tuesday the Graduate Student Union considered a resolution supporting The Observer's independence. Eleven representatives voted in support of the resolution, six against it, and two abstained. However ... [more]


Week to highlight hunger, homeless with campus events
By KYLIE CARTER
News Writer

Several Notre Dame student groups have self-organized a series of five events next week for the National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week – Nov. 12-17 — specifically for the National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness. The week will start off ... [more]


Native American speaks at SMC, focuses on women
By SALLY GOLDBERG
News Writer

Discussing the religion, traditions, symbolism and music of a Native American lifestyle, John Warren, the cultural coordinator and vice chair of the Pokagon Band of Potawatami Indians, spoke at Saint Mary's on Wednesday. He also focused on the importance of women ... [more]