Perspectives
Persimmons for My Mother
Letting Go
Now They Call it Pre du Chevaux
What Our Lives Will Be
(Cover photograph by Bill Strode)
The Soul of a University Spring 2004
Editor’s Note: A Note on the Contents
Features
From Notre Dame to Iraq
Christmas in Iraq
Worth Fighting For
The Day My Life Changed Forever
Sole Survivor
The Soul of University
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God’s Arms Are Very Long
Notes from a breast cancer ward.
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Back in the Fold
Many Catholics have left the church and many have come home. Here are some reasons why.
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Escape from Purgatory
Those plenary indulgences may have granted salvation, but there was never much relief from that good old-fashioned Catholic guilt.
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Alone Among Many
Solitude may be something desired, but loneliness is a soul destroyer. How do you get one without the other?
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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.