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Vol XXXIII No. 20

Monday, September 20, 1999

  Commentaries

Tes Salb, All-American future Olympian
By CAPPY GAGNON

Several days a week, in the early morning hours, a young woman comes into the Security Building and reports to the dispatch desk. The security officer at the desk recognizes her and hands her the keys to a locked closet, which ... [more]
America needs more peasants
By JEFF LANGAN

Student activists have recently raised concerns about sweatshops. Sweatshops, they tell us, are nothing but trouble. But if sweatshops are a problem, they only point to a deeper problem, capitalism. Progressives and liberals have shown themselves, for better or for worse, ... [more]
Punt Davie!
Letter to the editor

He likes to punt so much that maybe we should do likewise to him. Thank you, Bob, for wasting two of my precious years at Notre Dame. Thank you to Jarious for wasting a year of your life for a dead-end ... [more]
If you've given up, don't come
Letter to the editor

I want to thank all of you who stayed in the stadium until after the playing of the Alma Mater. After that song I left the stadium with my head held high. The past 15 minutes just faded away. For those ... [more]


Inside Column
Notre Dame Renaissance
Dustin Ferrell, Assistant Viewpoint Editor

Like most football fans at Notre Dame, last Saturday's performance brought my spirits down and left me sulking. Notre Dame football has been a part of my fall Saturdays since I was very young, and that won't change anytime soon. But ... [more]


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