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Vol XXXIII No. 95

Thursday, March 2, 2000

Vigil held for cancer-stricken student

      To say that the past week has been a rough one would be an understatement for Notre Dame sophomore Conor Murphy. Murphy was diagnosed with leukemia last Friday. After his diagnosis, he returned home from Washington, D.C., where he has been studying, to Cleveland, Ohio, where he will begin chemotherapy today at University Hospital. Murphy's doctors have narrowed his condition to one of two types of leukemia: acute myeloid and acute ... [more]
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