Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Irish sign another top class (By CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Editor)
      After making its first appearance at the College World Series in 45 years last summer, the Irish baseball program used that momentum in signing another stellar recruiting class Saturday.
    • Tancredi shows a tough face on the field (By JOE LICANDRO Sports Writer)
      No one could ever accuse Melissa Tancredi of being shy. On the field, the starting fullback for the Notre Dame womens soccer team is that special type of player who can take over a game with her passion and swagger. Off the field, the twenty-year old native of Hamilton, Ontario, is a fun-loving, outgoing prankster, always quick with a smile and a joke.

  • Inside
    • Family ties keep spirit alive (Sarah Nestor Saint Mary's Editor)
      While I celebrate the success of the Notre Dame football team I have another team to be proud of this year. Making strides this year is Scecina Memorial High School's football team, which just happens to be my alma mater.

  • Viewpoint
    • Arbitrary sanctions on Iraq exist only to control oil (John Wiens webmaster)
      I am deeply disturbed and offended by Dan Lindley's Nov. 18 letter concerning sanctions on Iraq,"Ills caused by sanctions don't make war wrong." Saddam Hussein did not choose sanctions. Instead, sanctions were imposed against Iraq in response to the invasion of Kuwait and were to be lifted upon the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from that country.
    • Give the basketball team the support it deserves (Steve Mattingly sophomore)
      As one of the few who actually went to the first two mens basketball games, I have been appalled by the abysmal student turnout. While I recognize that the early-season slate is not exactly filled with national title contenders, it is more than ridiculous that fewer than 500 students, of the more than 3,000 with tickets, managed to drag themselves away from their precious lab reports to cheer on their fellow students for the first two games.
    • Walk with two feet of service (Andrew DeBerry ND Going Global)
      It was four weeks ago that I met Danny J. Being homeless, he spent the time we shared over coffee at McDonald's telling me about St. Mungo's, the place he hoped to stay that night.
    • Proposed ban on homosexual priests will create, not solve, problems for the Church (Richard Friedman A Skewed Perspective)
      On Nov. 6, the Vatican press office released a statement acknowledging a new internal document that is being considered that, if passed, will attempt to exclude homosexual men from becoming priests. In its current form, the document states that seminaries should screen men with "homosexual tendencies" from joining.
    • Arbitrary sanctions on Iraq exist only to control oil (John Wiens webmaster)
      I am deeply disturbed and offended by Dan Lindley's Nov. 18 letter concerning sanctions on Iraq,"Ills caused by sanctions don't make war wrong." Saddam Hussein did not choose sanctions. Instead, sanctions were imposed against Iraq in response to the invasion of Kuwait and were to be lifted upon the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from that country.
    • Give the basketball team the support it deserves (Steve Mattingly sophomore)
      As one of the few who actually went to the first two mens basketball games, I have been appalled by the abysmal student turnout. While I recognize that the early-season slate is not exactly filled with national title contenders, it is more than ridiculous that fewer than 500 students, of the more than 3,000 with tickets, managed to drag themselves away from their precious lab reports to cheer on their fellow students for the first two games.

  • News
    • Senate passes resoluton in support of bike program (By MEGHANNE DOWNES Assistant News Editor)
      Senators passed three resolutions Wednesday to support a bike deposit program, the South Bend Old Boys Rugby Team and the Sexual Assault Awareness poster.
    • ND seniors share home and hearts with reformed convicts (By TERESA FRALISH Assistant News Editor)
      The house at 521 South St. Joseph Street looks much like any other off-campus student house. In many ways, Notre Dame seniors Sally Wasmuth and Lauran Sturm, who live in number 521, are typical college students — they balance classes, projects, work, and consider the ever present question of what they are going to do after graduation.
    • SMC holds fair to promote study abroad opportunites (By KATE DOOLEY News Writer)
      The Center for Women's Intercultural Studies will be hosting a study-abroad fair today to highlight expanded international programs and services on Saint Mary's campus.
    • ND chemistry professor earns national honor (By HELENA PAYNE News Editor)
      Notre Dame chemistry professor Dennis Jacobs will be named the U.S. professor of the year for research and doctoral universities by two prominent educational organizations.
    • SMC creates rape prevention program (By JAMIE BELCHER News Writer)
      Saint Mary's is bringing a program to campus to help with rape prevention. Rape Aggression Defense [RAD] training has been successful at other colleges and is expected to come to the Saint Mary's campus in the spring.
    • `61 grad confirmed as Labor Relations chair (Special to the Observer )
      Robert Battista, a 1961 graduate of Notre Dame, has been confirmed as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

  • Scene
    • `Frida:' a bit too unconventional (Anne Hamilton Scene Movie Critic)
      "Frida," is a rigorously competent and compelling art house film that distills perhaps a bit too much of the unconventional life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The true story chronicles the life of political, artistic and sexual revolutionary Frida (Salma Hayek) in beautiful, broad-brush strokes of narrative and color. In addition to being a great artist, Kahlo (1907-54) was a bisexual and a Communist struggling with an abusive husband, a life of wracking pain following a trolley accident, the amputation of a leg and finally, drug and alcohol abuse which killed her at age 47.
    • Potter's `Chamber' captures everything but the soul (By JACK WATKINS Scene Movie Critic)
      Children, Harry Potter fans, and fantasy addicts will find much to love in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", but it might just not be worth it to anyone else.
    • `8 Mile' a crossover success for Eminem (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)

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