What America Needs Now Winter 2012-13

Editor’s note: A Season to Remember
- Class Notes
Features
What America Needs Now
What is to be done?
What Would You Say
Invited to pretend they could write 300 words for the next State of the Union address, here’s what Notre Dame faculty penned.
Dogged by the Dark
Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder where His love is.
One of the Good Guys
Notre Dame fan Jack Riley has used a team approach to wage war against drug lords and dealers. His life has been a long and tenacious fight to end up on the winning side.
How Far We Have Come
Thirty thousand feet above the North Atlantic, somewhere between Greenland and Newfoundland, strapped in the darkened cabin among the silent, the dozing, the dazed — they come for me.
Being Skylar Diggins
The South Bend native has twice led the women’s basketball team to the national finals. But that’s only part of her story.
Zinaida and the Golden Cache
How Notre Dame came to be home to a treasure trove of long-buried documents that provide an intimate and previously unknown accounting of the Russian Revolution.
Playing It by Ear
Dick Miller ’60 has improvised a life as rich and roving as a flight of jazz. And the tunes keep rolling along.