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Annelise Demers | Thursday, December 7, 2023
The Notre Dame community is in full Christmas swing, with halls hanging lights and Christmas trees decorated in buildings across campus. Notre Dame Stadium plays Christmas music throughout the day, a tradition that started seven years ago. With the help of the Student Union Board (SUB), Santa Claus made his way to campus to meet
Annelise Demers | Friday, December 1, 2023
On Thursday, the Nanovic Institute hosted a panel discussion on the intersection between life in the Soviet Union and athletics. Tom Heiden was the moderator and chief architect of the program. The fall of the Iron Curtain, symbolized by the opening of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, represented the end of decades-long Cold
Claire Lyons and Annelise Demers | Thursday, November 30, 2023
When Fr. Edward “Monk” Malloy announced he would step down as 16th President of Notre Dame during a press conference on April 29, 2004, he and the Board of Trustees also named Fr. John Jenkins as his successor. On Oct. 13, Jenkins announced he would step down from his role, but more than a month
Annelise Demers | Friday, November 17, 2023
Student Voices for Palestine and the Muslim Student Association of Notre Dame hosted a student-led panel Thursday to discuss a brief history of events that lead up to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and the current crisis in Gaza. “The goal is to provide a perspective on an issue that is not often shared
Annelise Demers | Monday, November 13, 2023
Two days of jammed packed music and food flooded Sorin College’s courtyard and the surrounding area this past Friday and Saturday. This was Sorin’s second year hosting “Otterfest,” a play on Oktoberfest. Evan Johnson and Joe Dicola are sophomores who organized this year’s event. Johnson, a civil engineering major, said, “We did it last year
Annelise Demers | Monday, November 6, 2023
Christopher Kaczor from Loyola Marymount University posed a question Thursday to a room full of Notre Dame students: “Is abortion justified self-defense?” In a event sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society, Kazor evaluated a thesis that argued “abortion is ethically permissible as a form of justified self-defense.” “Abortion cannot be justified in self-defense,” Kaczor
Annelise Demers | Thursday, October 12, 2023
On Wednesday night, the The McDonald Center for Student Well-Being (McWell) hosted an event as part of their “Choose less BOO-ze” initiative in the month of October to encourage students to reflect upon their relationship with alcohol. The event, called ”Crafting, Community and Chipotle Night,” was full of students decorating cookies, eating Chipotle and designing
Annelise Demers | Monday, October 2, 2023
University of Montana history professor Jeff Wiltse spoke about the correlation between race and drowning Friday as part of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights’ fall speaker series, “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary.” Wiltse set the stage of his talk by introducing a tragic accident that occurred in 2010 in Shreveport, Louisiana. “15-year-old Dekendrix
Annelise Demers | Friday, September 15, 2023
Three professors from Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, better known as LEO, recently published an opinion piece in The Hill about solutions to the homelessness crisis in America. Bill Evans, professor of economics and co-founder of LEO, has a dream for what LEO will be one day. “I want us to be integral
Annelise Demers | Thursday, August 31, 2023
At 5:32 p.m. Wednesday night in the Mendoza College of Business, the first official Senate meeting of the year took place. New council members were chosen, a student union parliamentarian was elected and the role of executive cabinet director of LGBTQ+ advocacy was filled. Clayton Chauncey guided the group in prayer then the meeting began,