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Letter from the Sports Editors
The 2015 Notre Dame football team seemed to be following an all too familiar path.
GreeNDot Promotes Cultural Shift
This fall, Notre Dame launched a new program that gives people a concrete way of identifying and differentiating between instances that promote a culture of violence and instances that challenge the culture.
Core Curriculum Review: For A More Challenging, Flexible and Integrated Core
As spread through a recent email to students, the review committee has just released a draft report of its recommendations. The recommendations do not include the Moreau First Year Experience course, which has been deemed too new to currently review.
GALA-ND/SMC Supports LGBT Students
GALA-ND/SMC, the Gay and Lesbian Alumni of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College, recently announced a fundraising campaign to finance the first ever scholarship for qualified LGBT students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s.
#tbt: A Notre Dame Christmas Story
During that era, students could stay on campus during the ten-day break, far shorter than our modern winter break.
ND on Syrian Refugees
Debate across America is swirling around this central question related to the Syrian refugee crisis. President Obama has said that 10,000 refugees will be permitted entry into the U.S. over the next year.
From the Desks of Bryan and Nidia: Syrian Refugees
During our Thanksgiving break, Fr. Jenkins asked the Notre Dame community and our nation to avoid “turning our backs on our Syrian brothers and sisters, but instead — and in the name of Our Lady of Refuge — share with them our bounty and protection.”
Letter from the Editor
Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Anyone who disagrees provides justification to be called a Grinch.
Father McCormick Reflects on Pope Francis’ Message
Pope Francis’ homily embodied how God loves all people, and that families should be prioritized and cherished because “our families, our homes, are true domestic churches.”
Interview with ND College Republicans Former President Mark Gianfalla
Mark Gianfalla was the President of the College Republicans at Notre Dame for two years. A finance major and 2015 graduate, Gianfalla appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News last year and was vocal about his conservative ideology in debates and conversations around campus.
Interview with College Democrats Officers Grace Watkins, President, and Andrew Galo, Secretary
An interview with the College Democrats officers: Grace Watkins, President, and Andrew Galo, Secretary.
Service Dogs Help Notre Dame Students in a Variety of Ways
Fitzgerald is one of a slowly growing number of students on campus with service dogs. Service dogs meet a variety of specific student needs. There are guide dogs, hearing dogs, mobility dogs, medical alert dogs, psychiatric service dogs and autism dogs.
Deciding the Future of the Nation
The number of eligible millennial voters will outnumber baby boomers for the first time in American history in the upcoming national election cycle. This places the brunt of the electoral power directly into the ballots of Notre Dame students.
AnBryce Forum Explores Question of Class in America
The professors, who all came from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, spoke with candor about their upbringings, how they made their way through college to academia and, specifically, to Notre Dame.
Viewpoint: No Trays in the Dining Hall: Trays
Just ask any student who had to endure going trayless for a day — students need trays, and going without them is inefficient and messy.
Viewpoint: No Trays in the Dining Hall: Trayless
But the dining halls can, and should, go further to become even more sustainable; they should eliminate the use of dining hall trays completely.
#tbt: Scholastic on FDR
All that is left to tell is who exactly will win this 2016 election. In this 1932 issue of Scholastic, students voiced their opinions on what kind of man they thought would do that: a man that would come to be held as one of the greatest in the country’s political history.
Just a Thought: Romana Huk
R omana Huk is an associate professor of English who specializes in 20th century British literature and postmodern poetics. She serves as the editor-in-chief for Religion and Literature and she is currently working on a book called “Rewrit[ing] the word ‘God’”: In the Arc of Postmodern Theory, Theology and Poetry.
From the Desks of Bryan and Nidia: Curriculum Review
In a few days (or weeks — hang in there first years!), each of us will select classes for next spring. You might be searching for classes for your major or perhaps a University requirement. You may even be looking for classes that are simply engaging, regardless of whether or not the course fulfills…
Letter from the Editor
America needs a mini-revolution. Bold change requires sacrifice, and sacrifice is the only way that we can climb out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into.
Student Government Touches on Mental Health in Memorandum
Focusing mainly on the two subjects of further analysis of designated “high risk groups” as well as the individual colleges’ responses to the mental health needs of their students, the memo published a series of additional recommendations, categorized within the groups of Climate and Procedures and accompanied by commitments on the part of student government itself.
You Are Not Alone: Untold Stories of Mental Illness at ND
According to Susan Steibe-Pasalich, director of the university counseling center (UCC), more than 25 percent of undergraduate students use the UCC at some point during their four years at Notre Dame. The utopian ideal of perfect, happy students is a myth, but a persistent one that does more harm than good.
An Afternoon with Regis Philbin
The jocular voice that greets the crowd is all too familiar — for many families across America, it may have greeted them every morning for years. Regis Philbin, who began a speaking engagement at the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on Sept. 18 to raucous applause, has been…
Guest Column: The Papal Pilgrimage
Miss the football game? Nope. Drive 12 hours to another city? No way. No sleep for two days? No thank you. See Pope Francis? Forget the previous questions. I’ll miss the football game to drive 12 hours to Philadelphia without any sleep just to see Pope Francis.
#tbt: Construction Across Campus: 1960 vs. 2015
Nowadays it seems like campus is always under construction in some way, shape or form. It appears that students from just over a half-century ago might have felt the same way.
In My Opinion: Core Curriculum Review
The core curriculum is meant to consist of all the subjects that the university wants its graduates to know.
Just a Thought: Declan Kiberd
Declan Kiberd is the Donald and Marilyn Keough professor of Irish studies and a professor of English and Irish language and literature at Notre Dame. He has taught at University College Dublin for 32 years and at Notre Dame for five. He has written primarily about Irish Literature, but also has a strong interest in postcolonial texts and children’s literature, building upon his assertion that children are the ultimate colony --— the ultimate proletariat.
Student Government Launches New Initiative
As current leaders of student government, the two now do not have the same flexibility to perform this ritual again. In continuing with a campaign platform promise, however, they have now come up with what they believe to be a suitable equivalent: an online platform called “Onward.”
A Conversation with Sonia Sotomayor
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latino Supreme Court justice as well as the third appointed female justice, abandoned her typical black robes for more comfortable black slacks, a black shirt and a grey cardigan at a speaking event on Sept. 2 in Leighton Concert Hall.