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Notre Dame: No One to Blame in Student Videographer's Death
By not in system - AOL NewsSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The final investigation into the death of a student videographer who died after a 40-foot-high hydraulic lift he was atop blew over in a 53 mph gust during a University of Notre Dame football practice ended Monday without anyone involved being faulted or punished. The Notre Dame Observer / AP Declan Sullivan, 20, died while videotaping a Notre Dame football practice from a hydraulic lift during a windstorm in October. University officials acknowledged that their procedures and safeguards weren't adequate but said they couldn't find anyone to blame for ...
Jay Rosen, Media Critic, Wants to Hear All About ME! (Yay!)
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThere I was, driving my left-of-center kids to school in the Honda hybrid that only minimally assuages my concern about climate change, when NPR's David Folkenflik came on the radio. "Media critic Jay Rosen,'' he reported, "says mainstream news reporters don't disclose what they believe enough of the time.'' To which I -- a tax-and-spend pro-lifer who questioned our intervention in Iraq from start to finish even as my views on gay marriage evolved -- muttered to my comprehensive-immigration-reform-supporting self that maybe we should say what we believe more of the time, gosh darn it, because ...
Family Feels Rejected by Notre Dame After Teen's Suicide
By not in system - AOL NewsNORTHBROOK, Ill.( Dec. 17) -- All of the dozen family members gathered in Tom and Mary Seeberg's living room on Wednesday night said they've loved the University of Notre Dame, where 11 Seebergs have gone to college, for so long that they barely know how to process the way they've been treated by the school in the last three months. ...
Lizzy Seeberg's Family Feels Rejected by Notre Dame as Football Star Is Not Charged
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyNORTHBROOK, Ill. -- All of the dozen family members gathered in Tom and Mary Seeberg's living room on Wednesday night said they've loved the University of Notre Dame, where 11 Seebergs have gone to college, for so long that they barely know how to process the way they've been treated by the school in the last three months. Tom and Mary's daughter Lizzy, a 19-year-old freshman at Notre Dame's sister school, Saint Mary's College, committed suicide in September, 10 days after reporting that she had been fondled against her will by a Notre Dame football player whose aggressiveness terrified her ...
Notre Dame's Punt in Probe of Student's Sad Death
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(Nov. 25) -- Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg was a college freshman with a wide-open smile – here is a heartbreaking photo of her in spaghetti straps and pearls – who built houses with Habitat for Humanity and hoped to become a nurse. Lizzy also suffered from depression, and 10 days after telling friends and campus cops that she'd been sexually assaulted by a University of Notre Dame football player, rape crisis volunteers who knew she had missed a counseling session found her barely breathing in her dorm room. ...
Notre Dame Student Combined Love of Film, Football
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (Oct. 29) -- Tony Michluda and Declan Sullivan lived in the same residence hall at Notre Dame and used to have long talks about their future. Sullivan "was always interested in who you were," Michluda said. He and his sullen classmates gathered Thursday night for a special Mass to remember Sullivan a day after he died in an accident during a Fighting Irish football practice. The 20-year-old junior was videotaping the team from a tower when his hydraulic scissor lift fell over during another windy day in the Midwest. Matt Cashore - Pool / AP Students gather Thursday outside ...
Notre Dame in Mourning After Student Dies in Tower Collapse
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- Declan Sullivan was smart, fun and passionate -- the kind of person whose presence was actually addictive. That's how students at Notre Dame today are remembering Sullivan, a 20-year-old junior at the northern Indiana university who was killed Wednesday filming a football practice when the tower he was standing on collapsed in high winds. Those who knew him say Sullivan, a film marketing and television and theater major from Long Grove, Ill., was buzzing with life. "He was extremely enthusiastic and full of energy," Matt Gramber, the editor of Notre Dame's college paper, The ...
Notre Dame Student Filming Practice Dies When Tower Topples
By not in system - AOL NewsSOUTH BEND, Ind. (Oct. 27) -- A Notre Dame student died Wednesday after the tower from which he was filming football practice fell over. Declan Sullivan, a 20-year-old junior from Long Grove, Ill., was transported from the LaBar practice complex to a South Bend hospital, where he died. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Declan's family and friends," coach Brian Kelly said in a release. "Declan was a diligent student worker in our video department and had a tremendous personality and great sense of humor. He brightened the days for all that had the privilege to work with him, and the Notre ...
'The Circle Dance of Time' -- Finding Stillness and Solace in Our Modern World
By David Gibson - Politics DailyReading is a religious act. We hope it is also something spiritual, but above all it is a ritual designed to create a space where something sacred, or akin to the sacred, can happen. It may not. In that regard, reading is much like ritual prayer, or perhaps the sabbath. We follow the traditions, wait, and pray for the best. Even unbelievers cannot easily resist this logic. "Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and -- since there is no other metaphor -- also the soul," the cancer-stricken atheist and man of letters, Christopher Hitchens, once wrote. A new book by Father John S. ...
Scientists Create Super Strong 'Spider Silk' With Transgenic Breed
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- First came Spider-Man -- now come spider worms. Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have inserted spiders' genes into silkworms, creating a "transgenic" breed of worm that could be capable of mass-producing superstrong silk. "We nearly doubled the strength of the silkworm's silk," Dr. Malcolm Fraser, a researcher and professor of biological science at the University of Notre Dame, told AOL News. Spider silk is a coveted material known for its strength and flexibility. But while textile makers have learned to harvest large amounts of silk from silkworms, they haven't been ...
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