Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Vollers grows up Senior tackle once thought he'd stay smaller — now, he is the biggest man on the team (By MIKE CONNOLLY Sports Writer)
      Kurt Vollers has grown a lot at Notre Dame.
    • ND, WVU meet in battle of underachievers (By KERRY SMITH Sports Writer)
      At first glance Saturday's match-up between Notre Dame and West Virginia appears to produce a similar pair. Both teams are struggling offensively, both head coaches have searched for a leader at the quarterback position and both teams are looking for ways to turn a losing season around.
    • Irish ballers tip off at midnight Men hope for life after Murphy (By ANDREW SOUKUP Associate Sports Editor)
      Barely two sentences into his first press conference of the 2001-02 basketball season, Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey answered the question everyone else was dying to ask.
    • Defending champs start new season with three new starters (By NOAH AMSTADTER Sports Editor)
      When the 2001-02 installment of the Notre Dame women's basketball program put on their uniforms for media day and took the Joyce Center floor together for the first time last Thursday, they hardly resembled the squad that brought home the NCAA championship last April.
    • Irish harriers travel to Pre-Nationals No. 5 men face top competition in Greenville (By KATIE HUGHES Sports Writer)
      The front of the pack will be a little more crowded this Saturday for the men's cross country team.
    • No. 24 women face first test as ranked team (By KATIE HUGHES Sports Writer)
      For the women's cross country team, early season mission No. 1 is accomplished.
    • Top quarterbacks face off in PE-BP battle (By KATIE KINNER and MATT LOZAR Sports Writers)
      With the end of the season quickly approaching, the scramble to the playoffs will be marked by the competition between two scrambling quarterbacks when Pasquerilla East meets Breen-Phillips on Sunday afternoon.
    • Belles look to avenge stinging Hornet loss (By LINDSAY MOLLAN Sports Writer)
      The Saint Mary's soccer team takes on Kalamazoo College this Saturday at noon in their fourth consecutive away game.
    • Prescod scores 2 as ND blanks WV (By CHRIS FEDERICO Sports Writer)
      The difference between the good teams and the average teams is that the good ones win the close games and the games they ought to win. The men's soccer team took another important step towards making this distinction Thursday with a 3-0 win over the West Virginia Mountaineers.

  • Inside
    • The CCC What...? (By Angela Campos Lab Tech)
      So how many students do you think are in clubs?

  • Viewpoint
    • Questioning America's unity (Gary Caruso Capitol Comments)
      How united are we? Americans boast that they are united against our nation's aggressors, but many of their actions have thus far been less than inspirational. Each of us sees the same flag with its stars and stripes, yet our definitions of patriotism and freedom selfishly omit others.
    • Quote of the Day (Charles de Gaulle former French president)
      "Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."
    • Patients need to keep up their end of the deal (Stephen Carroll A Medical Perspective)
      Sometimes doctors get very frustrated when patients don't seem to get it. Take the overweight man with heart problems who will continue to decline in health until he loses weight and lowers his cholesterol but he never listens. Take the drug addict who shows up in the Emergency Room at least twice a week who will not kick the habit unless he gets put away and into a treatment program. And the list goes on…
    • Two decisions, one administration, (Geoff Heiple class of '01)
      Constantly students and alumni use this forum to complain about many things that, while they won't affect world peace, console victims of oppression or feed the hungry, are the issues that face the Notre Dame community — on campus and beyond. I could rage endlessly about the senseless ticket distribution system (football, U2, O'Neill SYRs), the terrible refereeing of girls' interhall flag football officials, the fact that The Observer can't ever get the crossword puzzle right or that student government is funnier than Befuddled and Bemused. Yet I've somehow managed to deal with these awful tribulations. However, two recent developments in the decisions of our morally conscious administration do cause me great distress.

  • News
    • Rego stays home after arrest threat (By Myra McGriff Saint Mary's Editor)
      Cooper Rego will not travel to Notre Dame with the West Virginia football team Saturday, the former Irish running back confirmed in a statement Thursday.
    • Dreaming in dollar signs: College waits on $31.5 million for next steps in major building plan (By Noreen Gillespie News Writer)
      Inside the Blue Mantle yearbook office at Haggar College Center, editor Courtney Boyle affectionately refers to her closet-sized workspace as "our little hole in the wall."
    • Documentary raises awareness of Taliban (By Sarah Nestor News Writer)
      Students and faculty gathered at Saint Mary's last night to view the documentary film "Beneath the Veil." The documentary was filmed earlier this year and focuses on women living under the Taliban regime.

  • Scene
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