| Vol XXXIII No. 118 | Wednesday, April 12, 2000 |
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Nuns struggle with challenges of age
Technology has increased longevity, but not age awareness, according to a recent study by JoAnn Meyer Burke, assistant professor of social work and anthropology at Saint Mary's College. Burke recently conducted a study on how the role of Catholic nuns is expanding to include family caregivers. She researched some of the difficulties sisters face and how they deal with them while living in a community of other rapidly aging nuns. The ... [more]
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Take advantage of your right to be heard
As many of you already know, it is virtually impossible to flip through the channels and not see something regarding the Elián Gonzalez case. News broadcasters have camped out in front of his Miami home interviewing neighbors, family friends, legal experts; ... [more]
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Doherty scores big with students in Bookstore Basketball
At most universities around the country, big time college basketball has come to a close for another year. But Notre Dame is not most universities. Bookstore Basket-ball, the largest five-on-five basketball tournament in the world, tipped off for the 29th time ... [more]
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Irish dancers `step' into South Bend
American culture is a shrieking, plaid walrus with a mouthful of radishes. That is to say: a strange and finicky beast. Have we so quickly forgotten the Aust-ralian invasion of the late '80s with the lovable antics of Paul Hogan and ... [more]
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