Summer 2006 : Change the World
Editor’s Note: Can you help?
Features
Changing the world
Earth Movers
The Humanitarian:
The Defender:
The Pacifist:
The Social Worker:
The Public Servant:
56,000 a year die from colon cancer
With some promising chemistry, the Notre Dame Cancer Institute hopes to cut into that number.
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Meeting the Almighty
Mystical experiences may simply be a way of conveying those rare encounters with God. But the true measure of their meaning may rest in the change in one’s heart—and actions.
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Letting Go of God
‘I feel compelled to speak out. By doing so, I intend to redeem God from the ones who hold the Holy One captive in their own system of belief.’
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Saving Grace
A meditation on my father’s life and soul
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University News
The one who walked away: Violence on the South Bend streets
A commitment to the neighborhood
Seen and heard on campus
Letter from Campus: The red-carpet treatment
Notre Dame Commencement 2006: An unusually fun time
The class of 2006: Student profiles
Hall portrait: Flanner
Fashion misstatement?
A protest over paychecks
Deaths in the family
Letters
Illuminations
A really cool planet
The power of magnetic chips
Don’t be a bad sport
You’ve got mail . . . just like Darwin and Einstein
Don’t fight, compromise
Cafe du Lac
Ernest Garthwaite: The painter with the golden touch
Legendary Irish quarterbacks DVD and website
Culture, Irish-style: Field Day Review
Books by ND people
Picks of the week
Alumni Affairs
Mike Hochstetler: The little penmaker who does
Domers in the News
Alumni briefs
Bonus copy: Reflections
It had been 22 years since Laurie Cuffe Kelley ’83, ’84MBA returned to the Notre Dame campus. She discovered that you can come home again.
Bonus copy: My Story
In our Spring 2006 issue, editor Kerry Temple ’74 asked alumni to send us their stories about “the Notre Dame you know.” We received several. Read what the essayists had to say My Story
I want to tell You Margaret’s story by Janet Thompson ’05Ph.D.
Bottles cast upon the sea by Andrew Malcolm
Keeper of the water by Margaret Frey
Mermaid at the ocean’s door by Mark Clevenger
(Cover art by Don Nelson ’91MCA)

