Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • ND aims to end four-game skid against Valpo (By BRIAN KESSLER Sports Editor)
      Christmas is coming and the Notre Dame basketball team aims to give first-year head coach Matt Doherty an early holiday gift — a win.
    • Invitations for a celebration (Ted Fox Fox Sports ... Almost)
    • Irish prepare for rematch with Boilermakers (By KERRY SMITH Assistant Sports Editor)
      When a team plans from the start to make a run for the national championship, every opponent poses a threat.
    • Minutemen visit Irish for two-game series (By BILL HART Associate Sports Editor)
      While the academic semester is drawing to a close, the Notre Dame hockey team still has a little bit of cleaning up to do before exams.

  • Inside
    • Choose Wisely (Christine Kraly )
      Life is full of choices.

  • Viewpoint
    • Some suggested Notre Dame stocking stuffers (Matt Loughran Random Thoughts)
      The holidays are upon us. Hanukkah began on Saturday. Christmas is less than three weeks away. Kwanzaa follows immediately afterward.
    • Scout team salute (Letter to the Editor )
      I'd like to take this opportunity to say good-bye to some of my teammates. I am only a junior but I feel as though I lost some of my best friends. Last week marked the end of the 1999 football season and an end of a 3-3 year run by 15 individuals who gave up their time and sacrificed their bodies for a, more often than not, thankless job. I am saying good-bye to some of the most determined individuals enrolled at Notre Dame, whom very few people know. They never got the glory. They never got the interviews. They never got the scholarships. However, what these men, and I stress men, gained was an experience and an emotional education that will help them for the rest of their lives. I am saying good-bye to the walk-on class of 1999.
    • He's back, Martinez responds (Gabriel Martinez Like Arrows in the Hands of a Warrior)
      First, I apologize to the woman who was raped, at to all raped women. You are not responsible of the brutality of rapist beasts. Rape, I think, is about power and not sex: it matters little what a woman does, the rapist wants to affirm his nil sense of self-worth.
    • Foster parenting fosters love (Kate Rowland Serene Godess of Wisdom)
      My mom is a sucker for babies. But after four babies of her own, she and my dad decided they were through, and set to work raising my brothers and me.

  • News
    • Jubilee 2000 brings giving and forgiving Catholic Church sets forgiving example for governments (TOM ENRIGHT News Writer)
      While the new millennium may find many people prepared for the worst, a number of devoted students and faculty on Notre Dame and Saint Mary's campuses will mark the Great Jubilee with celebration and reconciliation.
    • Saint Mary's gives millennium gift to South Bend community (KATIE MILLER News Writer)
      The ringing of wind chimes echoes through the trees bordering the labyrinth built by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in a quiet place next to Dalloway's.
    • Members support Observer, affirmative action policy ( JOSHUA BOURGEOIS Assistant News Editor)
      The Faculty Senate passed resolutions dealing with The Observer advertising policy and affirmative action in faculty hiring at its Wednesday meeting.
    • Students bring art to local elementary school students (ERIN LARUFFA News Writer)
      On Wednesday afternoon, the halls of the St. Adalbert Catholic grade school in South Bend will become an art gallery.
    • SUB movies to change location in January (Observer Staff Report )
      Movies sponsored by Student Union Board will be shown in 101 DeBartolo rather than in Cushing Auditorium beginning next semester, said Joe Schellinger, director of Academic Space Management.
    • SUB: Small turnout exemplifies problem of student apathy ( ERICA THESING Associate News Writer)
      In a sparsely attended open forum last night, Student Union Board members spoke on the challenges of getting campus participation in their events.
    • Security will store bikes, valuables for students (Observer Staff Report )
      Notre Dame Security/Police is offering free storage to off-campus students over Christmas break.
    • Notre Dame recognized for service in Templeton guide (KATE NAGENGAST News Writer)
      On the 10th anniversary of "The Templeton Guide: Colleges that Encourage Character Development," the foundation has again recognized Notre Dame, this time with five citations for excellence.

  • Scene
    • Holiday Movie Alert Scene looks at the final movies of the (By MATT NANIA Scene Movie Critic)
      The holiday movie season always brings out the best and brightest of Hollywood filmmaking. And although this year has already seen some noteworthy films — "Eyes Wide Shut," "American Beauty," "Fight Club," "Being John Malkovich," "Dogma," "The Insider", "Toy Story 2" — many of the season's upcoming films (with a few exceptions) are sure to be on some year-end best films lists.