Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Irish, Trojans continue storied rivalry (By BILL HART Associate Sports Editor)
      Looking through the Notre Dame football schedule at the start of the season, many Irish fans paid special attention to this weekend when the USC Trojans, a traditional archrival, visit.
    • Cooper delivers hits for Irish u Senior free (By MIKE CONNOLLY Associate Sports Editor)
      Irish head coach Bob Davie recognized something special in Deke Cooper from the beginning.
    • Jackson key against USC (Observer Staff Report )
      Jarious Jackson has done just about everything in his career at Notre Dame — except play against USC.
    • Soward poses threat as receiver, on special teams (By BRIAN KESSLER Sports Editor)
      Last Saturday, the Irish defense took care of J.R., as in Redmond. This Saturday, they will try to shut down R. Jay, as in Soward.
    • Penn State tries to extend winning streak (By TIM CASEY Sports Writer)
      Penn State looks to extend its winning streak to nine when it plays host to Ohio State Saturday.
    • Davie looks for first win over Trojans (Anthony Bianco football columnist)
      Bob Davie is certainly no stranger to facing adversity. He's finally showed that his team has ability with turnaround performances against Oklahoma and Arizona State at home.
    • Stakes high in USC-Notre Dame rivalry game (Jenn Javier Daily Trojan Sports Editor)
      Rivalries. There's something about them that causes people to get into an uncontrolled frenzy.
    • Irish to run against best at pre-nationals (By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN Assistant Sports Editor)
      The men's and women's cross country squads take their highest national rankings of the season into the pre-national meet Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.
    • Irish head to Colorado for Icebreaker Tournament (By BILL HART Associate Sports Editor)
      After struggling against conference rival Michigan on home ice, the Notre Dame hockey team will take to the road this weekend for non-conference action in the Icebreaker Tournament in Denver, Colo.
    • Alumni shuts out O'Neill, Keough blanks Morrissey (By RACHAEL PROTZMAN Sports Writer)
      The Alumni Dawgs ended regular season play with a win over O'Neill to make increase their undefeated record to 4-0.
    • Big East opponents present challenge for Irish (By KERRY SMITH Sports Writer)
      The old adage "save the best for last" certainly rings true for the Notre Dame men's soccer team.
    • Underdog team faces top-ranked Santa Clara (By MIKE CONNOLLY Associate Sports Editor)
      Throughout its history, Notre Dame has gained a reputation for knocking off the No. 1 team in many sports.

  • Inside
    • Friday Night Lame (Mike Connolly Associate Sports Editor)
      With the end of John MacLeod's reign and the arrival of Matt Doherty, Irish men's basketball has a great chance of actually being exciting and worth watching. Tonight's "Friday Night Live" signifies the official start of college basketball practice with a night of excitement and fun.

  • Viewpoint
    • Rakowski misinterprets argument (By TODD DAVID WHITMORE )
      In a Sept. 30 letter to The Observer, economics professor James Rakowski cited my references to the focus in Catholic social teaching on the problem of the gap between rich and poor and concluded that such a focus "seems to disparage the focus on improving the lot of the least well off" and thus is "extreme." This is a severe charge; it is also a misplaced one.
    • We need to deconstruct myths about diabetes (LETTER TO THE EDITOR )
      As a Type I diabetic for 10 years, I enjoyed reading about other students living with the disease in last Friday's article. However, I did not enjoy the way the article inaccurately described how one "gets" juvenile or Type I diabetes.
    • 'Coming Out Day' sends wrong message (LETTER TO THE EDITOR )
      I am writing this letter to express my exteme disapproval and how disturbed I feel at the display of "Gay Pride" at Saint Mary's on Monday, Oct. 11. As a Saint Mary's student, I take pride in our Catholic teachings, values and morals. All my life I have been taught to live as a true Catholic. So in coming to Saint Mary's College, I felt assured and satisfied that my previous teachings would be supported and reinforced because of the religious environment of Saint Mary's.
    • Students should be above binge drinking (LETTER TO THE EDITOR )
      Returning to campus for the Arizona State game last weekend, I picked up a copy of The Observer to refresh memories of campus life. What I found was not so refreshing. As a grandparent with four grandsons, I was strongly favoring a Notre Dame education because of the values — both moral and ethical — that I remember being taught here. After reading the article on tailgating, I am not so sure.
    • Overpopulation scare lacks compassion (LETTER TO THE EDITOR )
      In response to Ms. Brooke Warner's letter "Dangers of overpopulation must be heeded for survival," I wish to proudly claim my status as one of 10 children and denounce her uncompassionate views. After reading her critique of the usefulness of foreign aid, I was insulted by her claim that help now (often in the form of "extra grain") simply leads to larger issues and increased suffering in the future. I presume that Ms. Warner has not gone to bed hungry often. She probably does not take time between classes to put food on the table. Whether or not she has been confronted with extreme levels of poverty, I do not know. If so, I contend that she has not absorbed these experiences.

  • News
    • Trustees to meet with SMC students (By MOLLY MCVOY Assistant Sports Editor)
      As the student body prepares for a break, Saint Mary's Board of Trustees prepares for work.
    • Deane: Colonization plagued Irish history (By ERIN LARUFFA News Writer)
      Irish history is categorized by colonial rule and peppered with political adversary, according to Seamus Deane, director of the Keough Institute for Irish Studies.
    • Group hopes to `see' charitable aid (By LIZ ZANONI News Writer)
      Notre Dame Global Health Initiative, a student club started this year, is asking students to donate old eyeglasses to send to Oaxoca, Mexico, with a group of ophthalmologists this February.
    • Rojo: Mistral's works relate to life experience (By COLLEEN GAUGHEN News Writer)
      Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral wrote feminist and radical poetry with a "spiritualism" inspired by her own life's experiences, said Grinor Rojo. Rojo, a professor from Universidad de Chile, focused on Mistral's artistic influence in his talk, "Summa Mistraliana."
    • Building tradition in the backwoods Students travel across country to earn credit and serve others (By TIM LOGAN News Editor)
      Early Sunday morning, while much of campus is sleeping, 164 Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students will stumble out of bed and make their way to the Stepan Center parking lot.
    • ND students attend Gore speech (By BRIDGET O'CONNOR News Writer)
      The students in the Notre Dame Semester in Washington Program attended Vice President Al Gore's speech before a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council Thursday afternoon.
    • Mullins case to get court status report (Observer Staff Report )

  • Scene
    • ND legends are keys to finding success (By MARY ANNE LEWIS Scene Writer)
      Reverend Stephen Badin bought several hundred acres of land in Indiana. It included three small, run-down buildings. He left it in trust to the Bishops of Vincennes, Ind., for the purpose of a school to be founded on that site.
    • Steele stories a visual Rockne (By CHARLES SKRINER Scene Writer)
      "Knute Rockne: A Portrait of a Notre Dame Legend" by Michael Steele is a pleasant combination of photographs, detailed text and interview transcripts that will leave any reader with a complete picture of the man who was Knute Rockne.