| Vol XXXIII No. 5 |
Monday, August 30, 1999 |
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Four Views and an Occasional Point
BY: Kate Rowland
 As part of my ongoing effort to increase the number of deadlines in my life, I have obtained a position as a Viewpoint columnist. One thing sort of scares me about this: getting the job done would require me to, every week, invent and submit an 800-word-long column containing, presumably, both a view and point. The view I can always manage to crank out. The point I'm not so sure. ... [more]
Ban on gay ads is outrageous, immoral
BY: Jay Johnson
The recent attack on gays and lesbians by the University administration with regards to "gay ads" is more than outrageous — it is criminal and immoral. Father Malloy, Chandra Johnson and their ilk are acting in a way that can only be described as bigoted and hateful. Notre Dame is a laughing stock among universities — and rightfully so. What other university goes to such lengths to discourage a healthy respect for free speech and human dignity? ... [more]
Security needs to lighten up
BY: Jeremy Joslin
I would personally like to thank campus security for their quick response to the rowdy crowd of Siegfried men who were rambling around campus as early as 6 a.m. Saturday morning. Lord knows, there's nothing as "dangerous" as a bunch of students filled with some of the school spirit that everyone was so fired up about Friday night. If security hadn't tried to send us home, people might have actually gotten out of BED — and everyone knows that that just leads to anarchy. ... [more]
Hard work should not be source of embarrassment
BY: Carrie Leonard
Being a 17-year-old Niles High senior and interested in going on to your university, I was reading The Observer that my mother brought home. I came across a letter that really bugged me. An African-American alumnus had written to the editor in regards to being asked if he was a janitor while visiting campus. He mentioned how much embarrassment it caused him and asked what we are doing to build new attitudes concerning racial sensitivity. ... [more]
ND contract with UA Telescope disheartening
BY: Charles J. Babbitt
Notre Dame has contracted for six viewing nights per year at the University of Arizona's Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mount Graham at $267,000 per night. The National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), representing the top U.S. universities, rejected Mt. Graham in 1987 noting that its turbulent, murky, cloud-enshrouded skies had suitable viewing only half of the time. ... [more]
While you were sleeping
By TIM LOGAN
Early Saturday morning, while all the good Domers were asleep, a menace was let loose upon the Notre Dame community. This menace did not come in the form of marauding Kansas fans defacing the Basilica, packs of undergraduates setting their lofts ablaze or even hordes of drivers trying to gain access to our pedestrian campus. No, this was something far more insidious. ... [more]
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