Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • FOOTBALL: Our turn Notre Dame makes the big play this year and defeats Michigan State (By CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Editor)
      EAST LANSING, Mich.
    • FOOTBALL: Sounding the Battle cry (By KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      EAST LANSING, Mich.
    • FOOTBALL: Backup QB emerges as improbable hero (By ANDREW SOUKUP Sports Writer)
      EAST LANSING, Mich.
    • FOOTBALL: Playing in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood (OBSERVER STAFF REPORT )
      There was no doubt in anyone's mind why Spartan wide receiver Charles Rogers is a Heisman candidate — he's unstoppable.
    • ND Womens Soccer: Payback Irish score a pair of 1-0 shutouts over Rutgers and Seton Hall (By: ANDY TROEGER Sports Writer)
      The Notre Dame womens soccer team got a little revenge this weekend with a pair of Big East victories over Rutgers and Seton Hall, although the feeling was a lot sweeter than the play.
    • Mens Soccer: Three quick goals finish off Friars (By: BRYAN KRONK Sports Writer)
      With conditions at the beginning of the Sunday's Notre Dame mens soccer game more reminiscent of coach Bobby Clark's native Scotland than South Bend, the Irish offense struggled early.
    • SMC Golf: Belles dominate in tourney (By: KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      It was a long time in coming, but the goal was definitely worth waiting for.
    • SMC Soccer: Albion escapes scare from Belles in victory (By: KATIE McVOY Associate Sports Editor)
      Last year Albion, the MIAA conference champion, dominated Saint Mary's. This year, the Belles almost managed to pull it out.
    • Womens Rowing: Irish boats finish strong in tournament (By: CHRISTINE ARMSTRONG Sports Writer)
      The womens rowing team secured second and fourth place finishes in its first race of the season Saturday at the Milwaukee River Challenge.
    • Football: Dillingham is in the spotlight — for now (By: ANDREW SOUKUP Sports Writer)
      Staring into the lenses of ABC cameras following Notre Dame's 21-17 win against Michigan State Saturday, Pat Dillingham grinned like a country boy seeing big-city lights for the first time.
    • ND Volleyball: Irish avoid letdown in defeat of Wolverines (By: MATT LOZAR Sports Writer)
      Losing game three after winning the first two games against Michigan Saturday made the Notre Dame volleyball team think about Wednesday's loss to Purdue, when the Irish won the first two games but lost the match.

  • Inside
    • Broke down (By Sarah Nestor Saint Mary's News Editor)
      Last week one of the worst things that could possibly happen did.

  • Viewpoint
    • It only takes three weeks (Laura Rompf Beyond the Bubble)
      My roommate has an interesting theory. He believes that after just three weeks in a completely new environment, one can adjust. This doesn't mean life becomes easy or effortless, just normal. No matter how difficult the change is, after three weeks, you wake up and it doesn't seem so different anymore.
    • UNICEF helps promote a better world (Ken Seifert senior)
      UNICEF, the United Nation's Children Fund, does make the world more fit for children. In response to Professor Rice's Sept. 20 column, I add my perspective after having worked for UNICEF briefly.
    • Quote of the Day (Mohandas K. Gandhi Indian nationalist leader)
      "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
    • Questioning Saint Mary's Catholic identity (Michelle Powell sophomore)
      In the past year, Saint Mary's has launched a new program, as described in The Observer on Sept. 20, that encourages students, faculty and staff to focus on the identity of Saint Mary's as a Catholic institution. At first, this news was pleasant to my ears. Knowing well from experience how desperately faltering St Mary's is in upholding Catholic doctrine and in encouraging students in the true beliefs of the Catholic faith, I was initially hopeful that this program would bring much needed attention to the areas in which the College is misleading many students.
    • America preaches false ideals (Danny Richter sophomore)
      President Bush has just released a new version of "The National Security Policy of the United States." It stresses preemptive action against governments that may be developing weapons of mass destruction that may be used against the United States. As reported in the Sept. 19 edition of The New York Times, it also pledges never to let any country come close to us in our technological development of weapons of mass destruction.
    • Sept. 11 reactions expose U.S. xenophobia (Adrian Acu sophomore)
      I am writing this in response to the Sept. 18 letter advocating an attack on Iraq. First off, not all the information there is correct. It is not just military installations that are being inspected, but anything the United Nations wants to inspect. The foreign minister of Iraq stated that scientific installations would be included, so there does not seem to be any restrictions. Almost the entire former Bush cabinet, the one from the Iraqi war era, the United Nations, and the U.N. inspectors, including the American ones, all do not support military action and say it has no merit.

  • News
    • ND students show Spartans their Irish pride (By Linda Skalski News Writer)
      "Cheer, cheer, for Old Notre Dame," belted sophomores Matthew Burkhardt, Kiran Pillai and Steve Delosh as they sped along I-96 North toward Michigan State's campus.
    • Seniors plan Margaritaville Office of Student Affairs allocates $15,000 for class events (By Helena Payne News Editor)
      The senior class is using part of a $5,000 allocation from the Office of Student Affairs to plan a class-sponsored event unlike any other.
    • Students meet Hispanic leaders Saint Mary's students attend Chicago conference (By Rocio Estrada News Writer)
      Ten Saint Mary's students participated this weekend in the 20th annual United States Hispanic Leadership Institute Conference held in Chicago.
    • College provides services (By Amanda Misnik News Writer)
      Saint Mary's offices and student groups are working to ensure that diversity is appreciated on campus.

  • Scene
    • PILLARS, SUB and FlipSide: an alternative way of life (By EMILY HOWALD Assistant Scene Editor)
      It's freshman year. You have gone through countless mandatory meetings and all you want to do is be finished. You want it all to be over so you can get on with being a normal college student and not the impressionable freshman who is having rule upon rule imbedded into their mindset. There is only one meeting left and you do not want to go, for its something called PILLARS and it is about responsible socializing. This is a waste of time, you tell yourself, and I already know how to be responsible.
    • The myth of the South Bend party school (By C. SPENCER BEGGS Scene Editor)
      In commentaries on the 2002 change in the alcohol policy that banned hard liquor (defined as drinks containing 14 percent alcohol by volume or more), students proclaimed that the Notre Dame tradition that the students know and love would be gone in the near future and that the new restrictive alcohol policy would drive students to move off campus, which would lead to a higher incidence of alcohol-related accidents in an uncontrolled environment.