Today's Stories
  • Sports
    • Irish claim Big East title with dramatic victory (By MATT OLIVA Sports Writer)
      The Irish came back from two games down to Georgetown to claim the Big East regular season title on Sunday.
    • Ratay leads women to victory (By KERRY SMITH Assistant Sports Editor)
      EOS Malbas may have put the first points on the board, but Notre Dame had the last laugh Monday night as the Irish won their second straight exhibition game 76-51.
    • Irish take on Buckeyes in Preseason NIT (By BRIAN KESSLER Sports Editor)
      The Matt Doherty era officially begins tonight when Notre Dame and Ohio State square off in the first round of the preseason NIT in Columbus, Ohio.
    • Belles place 28th at Regional Champs (BY MOLLY McVOY Assistant Sports Editor)
      The last race has been run.
    • Irish women receive at-large bid to NCAA Champs (By KATHLEEN O'BRIEN Assistant Sports Editor)
      The Irish women's cross country team received the best surprise possible yesterday — an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships on Nov. 22.
    • Women's team laps competition (By NOREEN GILLESPIE Saint Mary's Editor)
      Powering their way to an unbeaten record so far this season, the Irish women swimmers and divers improved to 6-0 with three dual meet wins this weekend.
    • Notre Dame falls to 0-3 with loss to Pittsburgh (By NOREEN GILLESPIE Saint Mary's Editor)
      The men's swimming and diving team didn't have much more luck than the football team did in warding off the Pittsburgh Panthers.

  • Inside
    • Bone thugs and basketball (Mike Connolly Associate Sports Editor)
      Thugs. That's the only word that can relate what the men's basketball team looks like in its new uniforms. Thugs.

  • Viewpoint
    • WRC opposes the Catholic mission (Sean Vinck Not peace, but the sword)
      Unfortunately, the issue of the Women' s Resource Center again confronts the University.
    • Worst restroom on campus? (Letter to the Editor )
      Kudos to Andrew McDowell for his recent study of bathrooms on campus ("The Royal and Not-So-Royal Flush," Scene Nov. 12). However, in spite of his fine research, Andrew seems to have overlooked what we are sure is the worst men's restroom at Notre Dame. Anyone who has ever visited the Law School and used the men's room in the basement (or even walked past it) will attest to the fact that it truly is the worst facility under the shadow of the Dome.
    • Protesting the School of Americas (Letter to the Editor )
      If Notre Dame's graduates included notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia, wouldn't US citizens be more than a little concerned about the ideas and values being instilled at Notre Dame? If Notre Dame's graduates were responsible for the assassination of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the torture and murder of U.N. workers in Chile, the La Cantuta massacre in Peru, the Uraba massacre in Columbia, and the deaths of 900 civilians in the El Mozote massacre, wouldn't U.S. citizens be indignant and adamant that Notre Dame be shut down immediately? Fortunately, Notre Dame is not responsible for graduating such dictators, nor those accountable for such atrocities, but the U.S. Army's "School of the Americas" (SOA) is.

  • News
    • Faculty discuss graduate research funding (By MAUREEN SMITHE Assistant News Editor)
      Because Notre Dame rejected a proposal to join the Big 10 last February, the Faculty Senate Forum on Academic Life established a series of panel discussions to address the issue of research funding at Notre Dame. The series, which began five years ago to discuss matters of public concern, "provides a flexible format for discussion," according to theology professor and Faculty Senate chair Jean Porter.
    • Students for Clean Plates to protest (Jackie Ostrowski News Writer)
      In an effort to create student awareness about the amount of wasted food at Notre Dame and throughout the world, a group called Students for Clean Plates will be sponsoring a dining hall protest on Thursday.
    • Junior's stock pick scores high (By KATIE NAGENGAST News Writer)
      Never underestimate the luck of the Irish.
    • SMC choir to perform at Carnegie Hall (By NELLIE WILLIAMS News Writer)
      Saint Mary's students and alumnae will perform this weekend at the same place Rachmaninov sang and Tchikovsky conducted.

  • Scene
    • Foo Fighters' new album smells like ... Nirvana (By EMMETT MALLOY Assistant Scene Editor)
      Much credit needs to be given to Dave Grohl. With the weight of being the drummer for the most influential band of this decade on his shoulders, Grohl left his Nirvana past and forged ahead with The Foo Fighters. Refusing to be a "replacement" for his former band, Grohl created his own sound, a fusion of punk and rock, balancing on a thin line between utter chaos and boppy bubblegum pop. While There Is Nothing Left To Lose is definitely the Foo Fighters' best album to date, one has to wonder whether Kurt Cobain's ghost is inhabiting Grohl's body.
    • Incubus goes from H.S. to the Family Values Tour (By BRIAN KORNMANN Scene Music Critic)
      Usually, success does not come quickly in the music industry. Most bands struggle underground for years before they finally get their big break. REM, Less Than Jake, Nirvana and Face to Face are perfect examples.
    • Jam band's new album is "wu"nderful (By ANDREW JONES Scene Music Critic)
      Only three years ago, a band playing in a tiny Minneapolis bar started to attract crowds that filled every inch of the bar. Live recordings of its zany performances began to circulate, and the word spread.
    • Bowie's new album keeps listeners up for 'hours' (By JAMES SCHUYLER Scene Music Critic)
      Think of the most influential artist of modern rock 'n' roll still actively producing music.