I spent the summer at a shelter for the unhoused. The Supreme Court has it all wrong.
About five days into my summer internship, a woman came in and asked for a blanket. I’ll call her Diane. That’s not the name I knew her by — I’m not sure if the name I knew her by was her real name either.…
March 15, 6:42 p.m. To any other person, this arbitrary time has no significance, and most won't even notice it passing on the clock. For prospective Domers, though, this is the most important 6:42 p.m. of their life. As the clock ticks, the minds of those high school seniors race in anticipation…
A colorful cascade of brightly flashing lights illuminate the sky at the inaugural ball, forming the shape of a green four-leaf clover. What’s this? Has the university found some way to dye the stars in the shape of a shamrock? If so, major props to the astrophysicists.
Notre Dame, it seems,…
Dr. Margaret Pfeil is a professor at Notre Dame and holds joint appointments in the Department of Theology and the Center for Social Concerns. Pfeil teaches a course on sustainability in the tri-campus community. Pfeil got her undergraduate degree in International Studies with a concentration in Latin…
When Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni were announced as the leads of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel, “It Ends with Us,” the internet exploded. Lively, a star since “Gossip Girl,” and Baldoni, the heartthrob of “Jane the Virgin,” couldn’t have been more appealing to Hoover’s romance-obsessed fandom. However,…
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…
As the Fighting Irish football team prepared themselves for a game in the nation’s toughest stadium to play in, I, a Notre Dame senior donned in Irish green, stood proudly in the front row of the Aggie student section. I had enjoyed true College Station festivities leading up to the game, including…
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…
“One, two, three . . . GO IRISH!” Somewhere in South Bend, IN, a group of determined individuals donning gold helmets huddled together and shouted these words.
Don’t be fooled! This wasn’t a Saturday in Notre Dame Stadium during a home game weekend. That rallying cry didn’t echo from the Fighting…
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…
CHICAGO–For Luca Ripani ’23, the Democratic National Convention just so happened to be in his backyard. The former Democratic Hill Staffer recently moved back to his hometown of Chicago, Illinois and wanted to get involved somehow with the convention.
“I decided that I didn’t really want a…
The first-year residential life process is a bit like going to a restaurant. The Notre Dame Division of Student Affairs has carefully curated a menu of random roommates. Unfortunately, you don’t get to order for yourself. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t peruse the options!
The Ghost…
Things to Pack:
A Wii or a Nintendo Switch
Whether you got a Switch for Christmas a few years ago or you can find the old dusty Wii Console bought by your parents in 2008, you should pack a medium to play Mario Kart.This may be a strange first item, but there are benefits of…
Just as humans must grow and adapt to thrive in an ever-changing society, so too must athletes evolve to fit the demands of innovative game plans and schemes. Less than a decade ago, every college and professional football team looked to find the next Calvin Johnson or Julio Jones, a towering physical…
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…
Spring in South Bend is always a gamble. Within a given April week, a Notre Dame student could be met with scorching 80 degree weather, a torrential downpour with 45 mph wind gusts and, yes, even a snowstorm that necessitates dusting off the parka that was prematurely put in storage. Monday, April…
Notre Dame has alumni currently elected to the United States’ Congress. As they run for reelection this fall, here’s a full list.
A tribute to Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
This month, our writers debate the pros and cons of single-sex education.