Spring 2004: The Soul of a University

Editor’s Note: A Note on the Contents


Features

From Notre Dame to Iraq

Christmas in Iraq

by Michael Baxter, CSC, ’83M.Div.

Worth Fighting For

by Andrew J. DeKever ’95

The Day My Life Changed Forever

by Dustin Ferrell ’00

Sole Survivor

by Gil Loescher

The Soul of University

by Anthony DePalma

React Online story: read the comments

God’s Arms Are Very Long

by Jennifer Moses

Notes from a breast cancer ward.
Full story

Back in the Fold

by Mitch Finley

Many Catholics have left the church and many have come home. Here are some reasons why.
Full story

Escape from Purgatory

by John Nichols ’72

Those plenary indulgences may have granted salvation, but there was never much relief from that good old-fashioned Catholic guilt.
Full story

Alone Among Many

by Larry S. Cunningham

Solitude may be something desired, but loneliness is a soul destroyer. How do you get one without the other?
Full story

University News

Core Course: A Death in the Curriculum
Letter from Campus: Love, Notre Dame Style
Deaths in the family
Seen and heard
Seen and heard: web extra
Hall portrait: Cavanaugh
NBC contract extended through 2010
Tribe sues over piece of campus
Basilica houses relics of saints
Are Juniper Road’s days numbered?
Siegfried Ramblers win one for ‘The Owner’
Overplayed party songs

Online checkbacks

How successful was the ND ticket office in cracking down on football ticket reselling?
How did Notre Dame’s hurling team do in its first year?
How’s the endowment looking after a year in which the stock market recovered?

Illuminations

Tales from the Crypts
Stomaching chemotherapy getting easier
One Pollution Solution?
How to Deliver Bad News

Letters

From print issue
Web extra letters

Cafe du Lac

Chicago actress Ora Jones
Music to Soothe the Soul
Teachers Tell Their Stories
Sample chapter: Doing What I Love
Books in Print
Books in Brief
Picks of the week

Alumni Affairs

Alumni profile: Real-life Work for Human Rights
Domers in the News
Alumni briefs

Bonus copy: Reflections

Bigger than Winter. Mickey Reilly visits campus and pays a touching tribute to her brother, Hugh E. Reilly ’76.
Memories from Another Century. Armiger (Joe) Sommers ’42, ’43M.S., ’48Ph.D. takes a walk on the nostalgic side.
Notre Dame Way Back When. Jerome Ledvina shares his fond memories of Notre Dame, including those infamous rules of discipline.

Perspectives

Persimmons for My Mother

by Peggy Vincent

Letting Go

by Andrew Santella

Now They Call it Pre du Chevaux

by Thomas Washington

What Our Lives Will Be

by Ronald Blubaugh ’60

(Cover photograph by Bill Strode)