Issues

Featured Performer: Alex Steeves

Author: Englehart, Matthew

As the Notre Dame hockey season starts winding down, it is time to highlight one of the team’s best players: Alex Steeves. The Irish currently boast a record of 10-12-2, which has them tied for third place in the Big Ten standings, and Steeves is a major reason for that.

Steeves has played in all 24 games and has 26 points, which leads all Irish skaters. Steeves also leads the team in goals with 13, including two against Wisconsin on Feb. 20, which was a come-from-behind shootout win for the Irish.

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By The Numbers

Author: Englehart, Matthew

4 — The number of third-period goals scored by the Irish on Feb. 20 in a game on the road against Wisconsin. The Irish entered the third-period trailing 3-1 and staged a major comeback that ended in a shootout victory for the Irish.

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Hockey Season Update

Author: Helenna Xu

The Notre Dame hockey team soared in its recent games against Ohio State. The series against the Buckeyes marked a bright spot on the schedule after the Irish dropped a series to Michigan and split a series with Penn State. The team won its second game against Penn State after a close loss the night before, despite 34 saves from goalie Dylan St. Cyr.

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Notre Dame Men’s Basketball Still Looking to Get Over the Hump

Author: Luke Thompson

The Notre Dame men’s basketball team now sits at 9-11 overall, and 6-8 in the ACC, putting them at 11th in the conference standings. The biggest standout for the Irish thus far has been forward Nate Laszewski, who is averaging 14.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game (both team highs) while shooting a remarkable 64.8% from the field and 51.5% from beyond the arc, ranking him 23rd and seventh respectively among shooters in NCAA Division I basketball. Guard Prentiss Hubb has added 13.7 points per game while leading the team in assists with 6.2 per game, and Guard Dane Goodwin has seen his role on the team expand and is averaging 12.5 points per game.

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Results from ND’s Trip to the Track ACC Championships

Author: Matt Cotner

The Notre Dame men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Clemson Feb. 25 to 27 to participate in the ACC Indoor Championships. Both squads looked to build off strong performances in the 2020 championships, which saw the women finish third and the men finish fourth.    

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To All Things Striking

Author: Katherine O’Neal

If you’re looking to feel inspired by fashion, beauty and lifestyle, keep your eyes on ​Strike​, a new student-run magazine that will be published for the first time in the fall of 2021. ​Strike​ was originally founded at Florida State University, but the magazine can now be found on numerous college campuses, including our very own.

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Women in ROTC

The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a college program dedicated to preparing young adults to serve as officers in the U.S. Military, and often, scholarships are offered for participants. Notre Dame is one of the few universities to offer all of the ROTC programs: Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps.

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Professor Sophie White Amplifies the ‘Voices of the Enslaved’

Author: Annabeth Briley and Dessi Gomez

Professor Sophie White’s book, “Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana” gives voice to individuals in colonial Louisiana, who otherwise had no outlet or representation during their lives. Most recently, White’s book won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the year’s best non-fiction book about slavery or abolition, which includes an award of $25,000.

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The HERE Campaign Student Board and The Effort To Keep Us Here

Author: Luisana Gonzalez

“Please help us reduce case rates,” Erin Hoffmann Harding and Mike Seamon asked near the conclusion of their Feb. 17 announcement on heightened COVID-19 regulations on campus. The new restrictions were the result of a spike in cases in the days prior, which saw case numbers jump from 17 to 48, a 182% increase, within the 24-hour period of Sunday, Feb. 14.

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#tbt: What about Spring Break?

Author: Leah Capuano

It’s officially that time of the semester when students typically begin counting down the days until spring break. In past years, spring break would consist of a one-week interlude in our busy spring schedules to ignore homework, catch up on sleep and escape the snow-covered campus for a restful trip back home or an exciting vacation.

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Letter from the Editor

Author: Daphne Saloomey

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes, including giving Notre Dame students what felt like our longest semester ever followed by our longest winter break in recent history, we have, for the most part, been able to get back to business as usual this semester.

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