Vol.164No. 3
Spread amongst the northwest bleachers, the Band of the Fighting Irish...
While Zachary Mercugliano and Aviva Lund are a ticket with limited student government experience, they have crafted their multifaceted platform with passion and idealism.
Both Whittle and Rotolo brought humor, excitement and openness to their interview with Scholastic, and they seek to bring the same qualities to their campaign and possible tenure as student body president and vice president.
Scholastic endorses Connor Whittle and Jack Rotolo for their experience, their clear, feasible platform and most importantly, their understanding of the sentiments of the student body.
Michael Dugan and Ricardo Pozas Garza believe they can help student government better serve the student body.
For the fifth annual Walk the Walk Week, students, faculty and guests participated in an array of thought-provoking events. Programming included a discussion panel luncheon with keynote speaker and civil rights activist Diane Nash on Martin Luther King Day, as well as a unity-building mass at the Basilica presided over by Pete McCormick, C.S.C. …
More than any other team running for Student Body President and Vice President, Noble Patidar and Connor Patrick have prioritized creating a feasible platform.
On their approach to campaigning, Henry said, “I think when you wake up a champion you walk in with champion energy. That’s what we do. We wake up, we look at ourselves in the mirror, and we see excellence.”
“We’re hoping to extend the Notre Dame family to all walks of life on this campus, and make sure it really and truly is a very inclusive one.”
Notre Dame’s campus looked vastly different in 1961 ... However, some of the university’s traditions had already been adopted by the 1960s. Bengal Bouts, Notre Dame’s renowned boxing program, was one of them.
Be kind to yourselves, be kind to each other and be present for one another. Grieving takes time and is not easy, but you have the resources around you to hold you in love and grace and to help you to walk through this.
Laura Betz, assistant professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies in her department, focuses on Romantic-era poetry and literature. Scholastic spoke to Professor Betz to find out more about her writing and teaching.
The 2020 Iowa Caucus was a daunting event to cover as student journalists. We arrived in Mount Vernon, Iowa, not entirely sure whether we could distill the unorthodox nominating process into an intelligible story for our Notre Dame audience. One encounter led to another, and our three-day trip resulted in a personable tour of a small town that carries a significant electoral responsibility.
Every year Scholastic reviews the tickets running for student body president and vice president. We sit down and pore over the platforms these candidates have constructed over months of hard work and thoughtfulness. We attempt to understand who they are beyond their platform and then we debate who we think best represents the student body.…
The Irish Athletics Center, an imposing new steel and brick facility complete with an indoor field and a large TV screen stands across the street from the JACC as well as the Guglielmino Athletics Facility (nicknamed “the Gug”).
Impacting women in every corner of the globe, intimate partner violence (IPV) and its ramifications span generations.
In his lecture, hosted by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, Barr accused “militant secularists” of attacking American Judeo-Christian values.
In 2012, women made up 49% of the undergraduate population and 12 of the last 14 Fulbright scholars. Of the past fifteen valedictorians, 47% were female and 5 of the last 11 class presidents were women.
Whether it seems like it or not, everyone around you is struggling in one way or another.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Notre Dame this October to engage in academic discourse on global affairs as a part of a series of lectures at universities across the country.
In the September 26, 1991 issue of Scholastic, writer Ian Mitchell compiled a summary of opinions about Notre Dame drawn from various college guidebooks.
Jaime Pensado, associate professor of history, focuses his research on student activism in Mexico during the Cold War as well as the impact of the Cuban Revolution on liberal and conservative movements.
LimeBikes have vanished across campus as Lime moves away from bicycles and towards electric scooters. All of South Bend, as well as Notre Dame, St. Mary’s College and Holy Cross College have been affected as of May by the company’s shifting business model.
Everyday, 100 people’s lives are lost to gun violence. In the following segments, Scholastic investigates how gun violence has affected the community of South Bend and what prevention efforts are being made both on campus and in the city itself.
When Juan Carlos returned to Notre Dame, he choked up while walking around campus and remembering his time at the Moreau Seminary.
Outside Notre Dame Stadium, a bronze sculpture of Knute Rockne rests atop an inscription: “105 WINS, 12 LOSSES, 5 TIES.” A legendary head football coach, Rockne led Notre Dame to tremendous football victories. But according to Notre Dame professor of American Studies Annie Coleman, he also understood the power of theater, marketing and spectacle.
In the September 2002 edition of Scholastic, “Acting in the Aftermath” by Annie Robinson explored how University leaders first responded to that landmark Boston Globe investigation, which revealed how the Archdiocese of Boston — and later, we would learn, archdioceses across the country — protected and therefore enabled pedophilic priests.
Happy fall! We hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather, settling into the school year, having a blast supporting our top-10 football team and surviving your midterms as best as possible.
Joseph Rosenberg is a literary critic and cultural historian specializing in modernism and its aftermath.