Captain John McGurty flew 200 miles from his Al-Asad Airbase in Western Iraq to the Forward Aerial Refueling Point (FARP) Korean Village in the Al-Anbar province of Iraq for the Sept. 13 promotion of Joe Gagliardi to the rank of 1st Lieutenant of Marines. Each officer gets to choose his or her promoting officer, as long as the individual is at least one rank higher than the person being promoted, Gagliardi said.
The "Gay? Fine by Me" tee shirt campaign is two and a half years old, and Notre Dame is no longer No. 1 in the Princeton Review's "Alternative Lifestyles Not an Alternative" category. But enough orange shirts were spotted around campus Thursday to show that students are still passionate, and persistent, about promoting acceptance and stimulating discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning people (GLBTQ) at Notre Dame.
I lose a lot of things. I leave shoes in hotel rooms, CD's in the computer cluster and magazines in the gym. I no longer buy expensive sunglasses because I lose about a pair a month at TC (who doesn't love sunglasses at night?), and don't even get me started on how a lost cell phone nearly triggered a long battle with ResLife (but that's a column that will probably never be written).
St. Joseph County police made an arrest on Notre Dame's campus Thursday night, the second one made in three days on campus, St. Joseph County spokesperson Jamiee Thirion said. Thirion said the arrest was made at the intersection of Juniper Road and Bulla Road for an "incident" involving "a particular individual" and a St.
Six distinguished scholars will present a conference on the Irish language's role in academia today in the Hesburgh Auditorium. "Why Irish?"- a forum hosted by the Department of Irish Language and Literature - will bring together internationally renowned scholars from the fields of comparative literature, medieval studies, linguistics, contemporary literature, cultural studies and Indo-European poetics.
Steve Coll, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist, drew upon his journalistic endeavors in India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Afghan-istan to explain the importance of the ongoing hunt for Osama bin Laden and the restructuring of the intelligence community after Sept.
Whether it meant taking their chances in the ticket lottery or masquerading on stage as Disney characters, students scrambled to get tickets to Saturday's Notre Dame football game against Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind. The Student Union Board (SUB) sponsored a ticket lottery last week and sold 346 game tickets for $43 each to students whose numbers were drawn.
Saint Mary's students were given a perspective on education Thursday by '81 alumna Dr. Mary Erdmans in her talk "Nuns and Moms: The Role of Religion and Motherhood in the Life Choices of White Working Class Women." Erdmans, who earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Northwestern University, explored Thailand as a member of the Peace Corps before becoming a professor at Central Connecticut State University.
Saint Mary's seniors will be spending a majority of their weekend with a very important man in their life - and it will not be their boyfriends. Instead, it will be their dads. More than 150 seniors and their fathers will participate in the College's traditional "Senior Dad's Weekend," which kicks off tonight at 8 p.