Winter Olympics: past and present
By John Soares
Sports fans watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver may not realize the connection to the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.
News » Archives » February 2010
TV or not TV: The Battle for Oscar: Avatar vs. Hurt Locker
By Christine Becker
Of the 10 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, two films offer the most compelling competitive storyline: Avatar and The Hurt Locker.
Unbalanced: The giants, gone
By Carol Schaal ‘91M.A.
Like a macabre line-up of dominoes, one after another the giants of Notre Dame fell: Frederick Crosson, Ralph McInerny, Elizabeth Christman, Robert Burns.
Bob Burns: May his memory be cherished
By J. Philip Gleason
The thing about Bob Burns that impressed me most was his zest for life, his adventuresome spirit. He was always ready to try something new.
Ralph McInerny had our number
By Michael Garvey
I am a fairly undisciplined and compulsive reader, but I sometimes think the number of books Notre Dame’s Ralph McInerny has written exceeds the number of books I have read.
Molarity Redux: The 'F'
By Michael Molinelli '82
Welcome back to Molarity Redux, the updated, continuing adventures of Jim Mole and friends.
TV or not TV: The Betty White phenomenon
By Christine Becker
The most talked about popular culture figure right now is an octogenarian who has emerged as the hippest grandmother a college student could imagine.
A pastoral welcome
By John Nagy ’00M.A.
The Notre Dame community officially welcomed its new bishop during a special Mass of Thanksgiving on Tuesday evening, February 9, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Pondering the true: A remembrance of Professor Crosson
By Walter Nicgorski
Frederick Crosson was deeply respected and loved by the students who came his way.
Drawing Purple Trees
By Elizabeth Christman
“I don’t think God has a plan for each of us, as we used to be told. I think he has made us free, really free, to devise our own patterns.”
The Differences Are Similar
By R. Scott Appleby '78
An essay on Catholics, Muslims and the so-called secular world.
Muslim-Christian relations: If not brothers, good neighbors
By Gabriel Said Reynolds
On September 12, 2006, Pope Benedict returned to the University of Regensburg, where he had been a professor of theology, to give an address to the faculty on faith and reason. His remarks generated an uproar.
The aftermath: Haitian photo gallery
By Daniel J. Towle '77
The earthquake in Haiti left more than crumbled buildings. One doctor shares photos of the shattered bodies he helped repair.
Another email: Reports from Haiti
By Kerry Temple '74
The first call was a phone message left during the weekend after the Jan. 12 earthquake fractured Haiti. It came from Ann Kloos. Her brother John, a 1974 Notre Dame graduate, had lost his son Ryan in the quake
After the quake: Help for Haiti
By Dr. Ralph P. Pennino' 75
Dr. Ralph P. Pennino, a 1975 Notre Dame graduate, is among those organizing a major Notre Dame relief effort in Leogane, the site of the ND Haiti program and an area near the epicenter of the Jan. 12 Haitian earthquake.
An angry mob and an earthquake
By Joey Leary ’09
An excerpt of Joey Leary’s report from Haiti. Leary, a 2009 Notre Dame graduate, was in the midst of the Jan. 12 Haitian earthquake.
I'm not a doctor!
By Joey Leary ’09
I seriously doubt that “the morning after” the Haitian earthquake or any of the details of the entire day of Jan 13 will ever fade from my memory.
J.D. Salinger: 'Detachment, Buddy'
By William Krier
J.D. Salinger died a few days ago. Do we feel the loss?
'Miss Christman,' elegant and gracious
By Margaret Fosmoe
When I got the call last week that my longtime friend Elizabeth Christman had passed away in St. Louis at age 96, I was flooded with memories.