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Vol XXXIV No. 123

Wednesday, April 18, 2001

Bush confirms speech

      Notre Dame officially announced Tuesday that President Bush will be the principle speaker and recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree at the Univer-sity's 156th Comm-encement exercises May 20. Several Notre Dame alumni, who are current members of Congress, wrote a joint letter to President Bush requesting the visit. "I hope he is coming because he wants to come, but we did have several people close to him put in ... [more]
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Irish blast Badgers for best record since 1985
      They expected to win. Just not by this much. Monday afternoon, the women's tennis team didn't lose a set as they demolished Wisconsin 7-0. With the win, the Irish extended their record to 21-4 — their best regular season record ... [more]
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The downfall of the Internet generation — is there life after Instant Messenger?
      What is more detrimental to a student than Snood and a plague of locusts combined? No, it is not food poisoning from the dining hall or yet another OIT outage. This evildoer is better known as AOL Instant Messenger. This criminal ... [more]
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