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"260 Students Will Take "Plunge"
• Date: December 21, 1998
While many college students will be relaxing at home in early January, earning a few extra dollars at part-time jobs or watching their favorite football team on television, a select few will volunteer to help others and educate themselves.p. Between January 2-9, 260 Notre Dame students will participate in…
John Howard Yoder Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and Peace
• Date: December 20, 1998
The University of Notre Dame has received a gift from Anne Marie Yoder, the widow of Notre Dame theology professor John Howard Yoder, to establish an endowed lectureship in her late husband’s memory.p. The lectureship, entitled the John Howard Yoder Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and Peace, will be administered…
Yoder gift to establish an endowed lectureship in her late husband's memory
• Date: December 20, 1998
The University of Notre Dame has received a gift from Anne Marie Yoder, the widow of Notre Dame theology professor John Howard Yoder, to establish an endowed lectureship in her late husband’s memory.p….
Students, faculty, and staff protest the bombing of Iraq
• Date: December 16, 1998
Notre Dame students, faculty and staff will protest the bombing of Iraq today during a rally on the Old Fieldhouse Mall at 4 p.m. This evening there will be a candlelight prayer vigil for peace on the Old Fieldhouse Mall at 9:45 p.m. Both events are open to the…
Kenny endows a library collection in Medieval studies
• Date: December 15, 1998
Patrick W. Kenny of West Hartford, Conn., has pledged $100,000 to the University of Notre Dame to endow a library collection in Medieval studies.p….
Challenge grant received to support an endwoment for a faculty fellows fund
• Date: December 13, 1998
The University of Notre Dame has received a $450,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support endowments for a faculty fellows fund for medieval and Irish studies and an acquisitions fund for northern medieval vernacular literature.p….
Faculty members write on the relationship between Catholicism and Western political liberalism
• Date: December 13, 1998
An exchange of views on the relationship between Catholicism and Western political liberalism comprises three articles by Rev. Michael J. Baxter, C.S.C., visiting assistant professor of theology at Notre Dame; Michael Novak, theologian for the American Enterprise Institute; and David L. Schindler, theologian for the John Paul II Institute…
University of Oklahoma political scientist examines media, violence, family decline and gambling
• Date: December 08, 1998
University of Oklahoma political scientist Allen Hertzke examines media violence, family decline and gambling through a newly developed theory of moral ecology in the lead article in the autumn issue of The Review of Politics, appearing this week.p….
Privatization Would Mostly Aid Wall Street
• Date: December 06, 1998
As the White House Conference on Social Security meets, no fewer than four bills circulating in Congress aim to privatize our 54-year-old system. Privatizers want to divert payroll taxes into individual accounts; instead of collecting Social Security when we retire, we will cash in our stocks and bonds. This…
A collection of Kaeser photographs has been published by Notre Dame Press
• Date: December 06, 1998
A collection of works by the American photographer Fritz Kaeser, compiled by Stephen R. Moriarty, curator of photography at Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art, has been published by the University of Notre Dame Press.p….
Students pray for the abolition of capital punishment
• Date: December 03, 1998
Students at the University of Notre Dame will pray for the abolition of capital punishment during a series of events Dec. 8 (Tues.), the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.p….
Cinema at the Snite schedule
• Date: December 03, 1998
The spring 1999 schedule for the Cinema at the Snite (CatS) film series has been released by the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.p….
Asian American Association will present its annual fashion and cultural show
• Date: December 01, 1998
The University of Notre Dame’s Asian American Association will present its annual fashion and cultural show, “Asian Allure ’98” Saturday (Dec. 5) at 7:30 p.m. in Washington Hall.p….
Snite Foundation grant to endow fellowships in the master's in business administration program
• Date: December 01, 1998
The University of Notre Dame has received a gift of $500,000 from the Fred B. Snite Foundation of Northfield, Ill., to endow fellowships in the master’s in business administration (MBA) program.p. The gift memorializes Frederick Snite, Jr., a 1933 Notre Dame alumnus whose 18-year-long confinement in an iron lung…
