A Fifth Year’s Guide to Senior Week in Chicago

Author: PJ Carroll

Just before curtains are drawn on our time here at Notre Dame, one final week awaits the senior class: senior week. One shot, one opportunity, to ruin everything you’ve built here in one moment. Will you capture it, or just let it slip? Senior week will see many olive branches extended between old…

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Where Should the St. Paddy's Day Darty Go?

Author: PJ Carroll

Weeks of worry subsided a few Saturdays ago when the fine people of Legacy Village successfully hosted the Saint Patrick’s Day Darty. The event had been thrown into question after last year’s festivities “crossed a line” as “the police” said. But, praise be, this year’s partygoers were able to celebrate…

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The Cost of Independence

Author: PJ Carroll

There is very little that can be relied on in college football right now. The mighty SEC has fallen. Indiana is the best team in the country and Bill Belichick is doing whatever that is. But one thing remains reliable: the money. Everybody is making money, and the Irish are no different.

According…

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South Bend and the Holy See

Author: PJ Carroll

As one of the world’s preeminent Catholic universities, Notre Dame has a long-standing relationship with the papacy. This tie grew strong while Fr. Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., was president and has remained so throughout the recent papacies and presidencies in Rome and South Bend.

The last face-to-face…

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The South Bend Golf Review

Author: PJ Carroll

Warren

Nothing screams class like a round at Warren. The “treat yo’self” of the Notre Dame student golfer experience, Warren has long felt just out of reach for us mere muggles hoping to squeeze in a Thursday afternoon nine. But that all changed with the closing of the Burke.…

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Why You Shouldn't Vote

Author: PJ Carroll

This election season, I am sure you have been inundated with requests from Taylor Swift, the NFL and your left leaning friends on why you need to get out and vote this November. But you know to be skeptical when it seems like everyone on this supposedly round Earth is saying the same thing. That’s…

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The Dirty Shirley Review

Author: PJ Carroll

CORBY’S

Do you remember the first guy in your high school to get a tattoo? That’s the Dirty Shirley down at Corby’s. He’s a pretty good guy, yes, and you like running into him, sure, but you probably aren’t texting him to meet up over Christmas break. If your buddy buys you a Dirty Shirley…

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A Term Well-Served

Author: PJ Carroll

The year was 2005. The Xbox 360 was about to hit the market. Prince Charles was getting married again. Tom Cruise had successfully completed two missions that now, five missions later, are beginning to seem not all that impossible.

Most importantly, we here at Scholastic had just published…

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