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Vol XXXV No. 101

Thursday, February 28, 2002

  Senators approve activity fee increase
ERIN LaRUFFA
Associate News Editor

After a month of debate and committee work, the Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night calling for the University to raise the student activity fee. Unlike previous resolutions the Senate considered, however, the one passed Wednesday night called for a ... [more]


Bishop breaks barriers
Second female president-elect reflects on experiences
KATE NAGENGAST
Associate News Editor

At a private Mass presided over by Father Theodore Hesburgh in his library office, Libby Bishop, student body president-elect, sat with Brooke Norton, current student body president and listened the University president emeritus deliver a homily about the importance leading with ... [more]


Classes hold elections
ERIN LaRUFFA
Associate News Editor

The Class of 2003 almost reelected the same four officers who currently represent it. The ticket of Matt Smith, Karen Lysaght, Nick Mastronardi and Josh Gentine received 48 percent of the vote, just under the 50 percent needed to automatically secure ... [more]


Committee proposals affect ND transportation
ANDREW THAGARD
Assistant News Editor

Based on safety concerns, Notre Dame officials have approved a policy requiring the removal of two rows of seats from 15-passenger vans and the eventual phase-out of the vans within University transportation pools. The decision, along with other issues being ... [more]


Food, freedom call SMC students off campus
SARAH NESTOR
News Writer

Many Saint Mary's students are choosing to live off-campus because of dissatisfaction with their on-campus lifestyle, citing a desire for more freedom unavailable on campus and a dissatisfaction with food provided by the dining halls. "It's a way to have more ... [more]


Brooks-Devita speaks on diversity
NATALIE BAILEY
News Writer

A single family's arrival at Saint Mary's last year ushered in a wave of diversity to the predominantly white campus. With Alexis Brooks-Devita as an Assistant Professor in English and her two daughters, Johnea and Novella, as students, the trio is ... [more]