Sharon Bain held a mug of tea in her hands as she spoke, and she took occasional sips throughout the afternoon. It was rooibos tea, native to South Africa. She had just returned from a weeklong trip to Italy the day before.
“I never thought I would stay in South Bend,” said Bain.
Bain,…
This issue wouldn’t have been possible if not for the good people at Gene’s Camera Store on Lincoln Way West.
Okay, that’s not true. We could have gone back to campus to pick up the SD card Elle, our brilliant photography editor, brilliantly forgot. But this is the South Bend issue, gosh darn…
“He was Walter Kantorowski, he was my grandfather. He started here — well, they didn’t own the building in 1919 — he started on the Colfax Bridge. Then they bought this property, and he was one of the original ones that were here.”
“Here” is the South Bend Farmer’s Market on 1105 Northside…
I have to confess something. Lean in close.
Closer.
Okay, now you look stupid. Get the magazine away from your face, have some decorum.
I just wanted to tell you this: I don’t like football.
I wasn’t always this way; freshman year, I loved going to football games. It was the…
After the loss to Northern Illinois University, the Fighting Irish seemed done for. The campus went into mourning as students wailed about dashed hopes of a playoff or a national title. Yet the football team’s prowess revealed itself more and more throughout the season, and the Irish managed to finish…
Painting and Constructing the Life of Faith
Dear Reader,
“Hey, could I go to Mass with you tomorrow?”
I yelled that question over the blare of music and the haze of party air in March of 2023. It had been ages since I last attended Mass, and at the time I didn’t know what possessed me to ask my friend Ellie that question at that…
Inside DeBartolo Hall, the packed auditorium gave Gov. Ron DeSantis a standing ovation as he took to the stage.
The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government invited the governor to deliver the 2024 Jeanie Poole O’Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture on “Conservative Leadership on the Eve…
Dear Reader,
I saw Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate. I spotted Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a private box at halftime. I walked right into a stalled motorcade for President Joe Biden.
Has this ever happened to you?
You’re talking to some clean-faced girl in a long skirt with braided hair, and you say something slightly left-leaning. It’s nothing crazy, just that you think healthcare should be free, or that we should increase the minimum wage or that Kamala is “brat.” Her…
Dear reader,
As I was doing research for the cover story of this issue, I came across the April 30, 1987 issue of Scholastic. I glanced at a story called “The Transition Game” about the passing of the torch from Fr. Hesburgh to Fr. Malloy. The story wasn’t what I needed, and I was about to…
Celebrating the Inauguration of Fr. Dowd as the University's 18th President
Replacing a beloved main character is never easy. Do you quietly recast the actor, like Aunt Viv in “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”? Do you slowly reduce his role until there’s nothing left, like Mark Brendanawicz in “Parks and Recreation”? Do you [spoiler alert] the [spoiler alert] right in front of…
The Shirt Dress Halter ???
It’s your freshman year, and you and your absolute best friend of two weeks are hitting the bookstore just before the first game day with one goal in mind: The Shirt. You carefully select a men's medium, and the next morning, you put it on, ready to slay the…
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The bike-in-tree phenomenon at Notre Dame is not new; discover some possible explanations for this continued tradition.
The season-opening matchup at Florida State forced Notre Dame fans to consider how much their nerves could take. In a game that saw huge momentum shifts and several lead…