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Article: Notre Dame shuns Big Ten, fears losing `distinctiveness'. (Nation).(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 19, 1999
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Citing a "basic dissimilarity" between the University of Notre Dame and the 11 universities that make up the Big Ten athletic conference, Holy Cross Fr. Edward A. "Monk" Malloy said a Feb. 5 decision against joining the conference reaffirms the school's distinctive mission as Catholic, private and independent.
Malloy, Notre Dame's president, said the board of trustees' decision was made in light of the school's religious mission.
Similarly, the trustees' Feb. 5 decision to exclude a gay-rights clause from the university's nondiscrimination policy was rooted in concerns that protecting gays would give civil courts leeway to interpret Catholic teaching, ...