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Vol XXXIII No. 35

Tuesday, October 12, 1999

  Research Center plans educational programs
By ELLEN FITZGERALD
News Writer

Notre Dame has founded a new Center for Sport, Character and Culture. Although the center is still in the process of creating the foundation for its programs, it has already designed many programs that it will be implementing in the future. ... [more]


Members discuss further action over ad-hoc committee
By KATE WALTER
News Writer

Campus Life Council members expressed concern Monday about the composition of the Academic Council's ad hoc committee dealing with academics and student life. The discussion centered around a letter from vice president for Student Affairs Father Mark Poorman responding to the ... [more]


JED Program receives grant
By TIM LOGAN
News Editor

A new donation will continue and enhance Notre Dame's Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy, the University announced Monday. The contribution will provide scholarships and internship support for journalism students and help underwrite administrative costs for the program. It also will ... [more]


George: Church calls for millenium unity
By CHRISTINE KRALY
Associate News Editor

The mission "of the Catholic Church is to find out who we are by finding out who Jesus Christ is," said Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago. This mission can be best accomplished, said George, by a cooperative sharing of Church ... [more]


Rivero: Culture drives Latina literature
By KATIE MILLER
News Writer

Eliana Rivero's experience as a Cuban-American woman was a confusing combination of cultures. "I felt like hybrid tropical fruit transported to the desert," Rivero said. "We were people hollering to be let in and to tell our stories." Rivero found an ... [more]


'Sensations' draws criticism
By MARIBEL MOREY

The Brooklyn Museum of Art's controversial exhibit "Sensations" created heated debate on issues of free speech, government funding and the definition of art. The exhibit features, among other works, a painting of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and ... [more]


Hesburgh: Latin American relationship a 'special passion'
By TIM LOGAN

The week before Christmas in 1954, University president emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh traveled to a small village in Mexico. He was the first priest the villagers had seen in the nearly 40 years, since all Catholic clergy were killed in the ... [more]