Sports
- Hoosier heartbreak Indiana beats Notre Dame 76-75 behide Coverdale's foul-shooting down the stretch (By JOE LICANDRO Sports Writer)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
- Irish cannot master Assembly Hall, suffering 13 straight losses at Indiana (Andrew Soukup Associate Sports Editor)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
- Stoops will remain at OU (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
While all Notre Dame officials remain tight-lipped regarding the search for a new head football coach, the list of potential candidates began to come together Monday with Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops pulling himself out of consideration and Stanford giving Tyrone Willingham permission to speak to Notre Dame.
- 2001 banquet cancelled (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
The Notre Dame Football Banquet, originally scheduled to take place on Friday, has been cancelled, the athletic department announced Monday.
- 7-foot hurler towers over well-touted recruits (By CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Writer)
Last season, the Notre Dame baseball team surprised much of the collegiate baseball world and proved itself a force to be reckoned with in the NCAA. Earning its first No. 1 ranking during the season and playing to a school best 49-13-1 record, Notre Dame broke into the ranks of the nation's elite in baseball, proving a Northern school could contend in the once-Southern dominated sport.
- Belles look for improvement against Maple Leafs (By JOE HETTLER Sports Writer)
After a solid weekend of basketball on its home court, the Saint Mary's basketball team will take the road again and face Goshen College on Wednesday night.
Inside
- It is in giving (Angela Campos Lab Tech)
It's that time of the year again. Thanksgiving has come and gone. The Christmas lights are up. The shopping sprees have begun. Finals, papers and projects plague students as the winter holidays approach. In the midst of it all, we somehow have to make things work.
Viewpoint
- Raise your voice (Nick Fonte For A More Just and Humane World)
I live two lives; I wear two faces.
- Holy Cross College deserves recognition (Kristen Kurek junior)
I am writing to commend The Observer and its staff on a job well done. In the Dec. 4 edition, Holy Cross College was finally given the recognition it deserves among the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's community of which it is already a member. However, too often, it is forced to be a silent member. Perhaps because of its small size, it is not given adequate recognition in The Observer and the rest of the ND/SMC community. Yet, finally, it has been. Putting the story of HCC possibly offering a 4-year degree in the future on your front page is big news for both Holy Cross and the rest of the community. Holy Cross College has given many past and current Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students their start, including myself. The Brothers of Holy Cross created a unique environment 35 years ago, and its well-respected reputation continues to this day. The small, close "family" a student experiences at Holy Cross provides them with the experiences they need to continue on successfully at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's or any other four-year institution.
- Quote of the Day (Robin Williams actor)
"My school motto was `Monsanto incorpori glorius maxima copia' which in Latin means, `When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.'"
- Davie did not have Irish attitude (Michael Sweiker junior)
While I believe that Bob Davie brought some positives to the Notre Dame football program, such as a high team GPA and graduation rate, we should applaud the message that Kevin White sent to the Notre Dame community by letting Davie go on Sunday. The problem was not Bob Davie's lack of knowledge for the game, or his effort. The problem was attitude, and I don't believe that Bob Davie has the type of attitude that has always propelled Notre Dame to success.
- Appreciate coaches' sacrifices (Meghann E. Finerghty sophomore)
As Coach Davie and consequently the rest of the Notre Dame coaching staff is released from the University, let us please not forget to treat these men with the respect they deserve as not only people, but also as members of the Notre Dame family.
- Students fight battle between life, drudgery (Stephen Dick Guest Column)
It starts with the annoying pulse of my alarm clock. It's there on the mornings that I step into the frigid air when, just minutes before, I was wrapped in the warmth of my bed. I feel it as I trudge off heavily to an 8:30 a.m. class, with that almost embarrassed feeling of being up so early, to learn. I see it in my fellow class-goers from the groggy looks on their faces, which all but scream for more sleep (a rare commodity here). It seems to possess everyone around me; the aura of the room is death. It's there every early morning of classes and it's there every late night of studying; it is the drudgery of campus academic life.
News
- Victim lectures on date rape Nationally-renowned speaker shares story (By KATE RAND News Writer)
Katie Koestner was just like every other student in the room during her freshman orientation at the College of William and Mary. She had spent the last few days meeting new people and finding her way around campus, and was partially enjoying the movie "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail" when she spotted a guy who she now describes as "straight out of GQ magazine." The two became friends and saw each other for the next few weeks to study chemistry.
- DARTing becomes Web-based (By KEVIN SUHANIC News Writer)
In an effort to make DARTing more convenient, the Office of the Registrar implemented web-based class registration for the first time this semester.
- Welch: Values build a winning team Former GE CEO says family, growth and (By NORREN GILLESPIE News Writer)
Jack Welch knows the game.
- Group recommends more power (By JASON McFARLEY News Editor)
Should a measure by the Faculty Senate win support of University officials, faculty who want to serve on Notre Dame's most powerful academic body may have to go through the senate first.
- GSU lobbies for new handbook (By ANDREW THAGARD News Writer)
The Graduate Student Union plans to work with representatives from the MBA program and law school to draft a graduate student handbook, replacing the current graduate and undergraduate du Lac rulebook.
Scene
- Kinetica drives new format in racing genre (By AMANDA GRECO Associate Scene Editor)
Here's an interesting twist on an old favorite. Racing games are perhaps the largest and bestloved genre of video games. In the past, gamers have been able to gain speed using conventional modes of transport such as cars, boats and motorcycles, and even more non-conventional machines such as gravity defying vehicles and hovercrafts.
- Latest Metal Gear as `Solid' as they come (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)
Metal Gear Solid 2: the Sons of Liberty isn't a videogame, it's a movie. Of course, that statement is only half true; players of Konami's follow-up to the 1998 Playstation hit Metal Gear Solid will spend about as much time watching the game as they do playing it.
- GTA 3: for mature audiences only (By BOB MASTERS Scene Writer)
When Pope John Paul II called 20th Century Western society a "culture of death," he may have anticipated a time when the average American could experience car-jacking, gang warfare, prostitution, drug use and homicide from the comfort of their own couch.
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