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Vol XXXIV No. 65

Tuesday, December 5, 2000

  Commentaries

'Tis the season to be shopping
Molly Strzelecki
Growing Up to Be a Kid

It's that time of year again. Sleep has flown out the window, the only steady relationship I am having is with the computer cluster and it's not uncommon for the voices in our heads to be louder than usual — just ... [more]
Give Irish basketball the home court advantage
Mike Coffey
class of '91

Tuesday night, the college basketball world will be introduced to the 10th-ranked Irish Men's Basketball team, as they take on the Indiana Hoosiers in front of a national television audience. This will be Notre Dame's first national game of the season, ... [more]
Quote of the Day
John Steinbeck
author

"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." John Steinbeck author ... [more]
Seeing the person beyond the image
Brittany Morehouse
It's All About Anthropology

"Ninety nine percent of all reporters cover only one percent of the stories out there. That leaves a heck of a lot more stories out there for the rest of us." ... [more]
Soccer team deserves respect
Greg Martin
Fisher Hall

When the best team on campus, by far, returns home after a devastating loss in the final of an NCAA semi final game, the last thing they want to see are the types of headlines that you and your staff printed ... [more]
Church not perfect, just certain teachings
Gabriel Martinez
Ph.D. candidate

I am writing to respond to your front-page article on the possibility of ordaining women. In the second paragraph, a faculty member (a good guy, I know him) says that he came to the realization that sometimes bishops and lay Catholics ... [more]


Inside Column
Words of Advice
Noreen Gillespie
Managing Editor

I heard something fall out of a professor's mouth this morning that left me dumbfounded. Running of the adrenaline of my morning cup of coffee and 2.7 hours of sleep, it was still dark out when I forged my path across ... [more]


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