Notre Dame Today and Tomorrow Autumn 2005

Features

My Love for the Place

by Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC

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Generation Map

by William Schmitt

Although it seems the pendulum has swung back to the right, perhaps it’s more that today’s students are the newest face in a recurring series of generational types . . . and really good kids.
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An Englishman at Notre Dame

by Peter Wicks

And the Brit finds—after relearning how to pronounce his name—that things in these United States are strangely familiar and similarly odd.
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Into Africa

by Ed Cohen

Those who try to make life better in East Africa take on an abundance of deely embedded problems—and a people who seem happier than their world would suggest.
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The Army of Kidnapped Children

My Mission to Darfus

by Brenna Cussen ’03M.A.
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A Gift of Hope in Haiti

by Walton Collins ’51

Some young Notre Dame graduates have gone to Haiti, where Louverture Cleary School is an outpost of benevolence in a land of destitution.
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A Troubled Past

Other Notre Dame Initiatives in Haiti

A Confederacy of Forces

by Farrell O’Gorman ’90

A meditation on innocence, faith and American individualism by a Carolina boy trying to understand how to be a good Catholic Southerner in a nation whose roots sprout from Exceptionalism, sin and Protestant predilections.
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