Talk about taking a wrong exit. It's not so much that the plane landed at the wrong tiny, northern Indiana airport, but that planes can land when the towers are closed by, according to the story, "using radios to activate runway lights."

Huh?

That seems to me like being able to drive down the street in your subdivision, clicking your garage door opener, and having it open your neighbors' garage. I imagine that there might be some kind of code or other safeguard that would prevent pilots from simply turning on the lights at any airport within 100 miles of the plane. South Bend and Elkhart are about 20 miles apart, so it's not like they ended up in Iowa, as head coach Mike Brey joked. But still, doesn't seem right that a plane can take off for South Bend and land, unannounced, in Elkhart.

Oh, not to mention that if planes are flying in from the east, they descend directly over campus and the Golden Dome on the Main Building is a recognized aviation landmark, meant for pilots to use as a marker when landing at South Bend.

Speaking of weird things at Notre Dame, a popular off-campus bar was raided for underage drinking last night, just days after a freshman was mugged walking home from the same bar. As one student � a senior, likely of age, nonetheless � pointed out, maybe they should've seen it coming.

But seriously, what kind of student 1) makes a cab drop him off and decides to walk back to a bar to look for his cell phone, 2) finds his cell phone and decides to walk back to campus, 3) gets mugged and then 4) tells police where he was coming from when he was mugged? If he had just paid the six bucks to have the cab take him back to the bar for the cell phone he hadn't lost after all, he'd still at least have all his other money. But that, too, I realize, is 20/20 hindsight.

I guess I'm just a whiny old alum droning on about today's stupid youth.