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-Alyssa Lyon | Sunday, February 22, 2015
English professor Stuart Greene held an open discussion on the depiction of black love and family on television as part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lecture series for Black History Month on Thursday in O’Shaughnessy Hall. The series was co-sponsored by the NAACP, Africana Studies department, the Africana Studies student
Alyssa Lyon | Thursday, February 12, 2015
Students can play games, enjoy food and try their luck for the new year at the Asian American Association’s (AAA) annual casino night in the Coleman Morse Lounge on Friday in celebration of the Lunar New Year, lasting from 9-11 p.m. Crystal Chen-Goodspeed, junior and treasurer of the AAA, said the event will give students the
Alyssa Lyon | Monday, February 2, 2015
College Degree Search selected the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) as one of the “25 Most Amazing Campus Arts Centers” in a recent post on their website, writing that it “truly embodies the attributes of the University of Notre Dame” as a “world class institution that embraces a broad liberal arts spectrum.” Ted Barron, senior
Alyssa Lyon | Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Notre Dame’s Worker Participation Committee held an open forum Monday in McKenna Hall to allow students and faculty to pose questions regarding the issue of freedom of association in the Chinese factories that could produce Notre Dame apparel and goods if the committee’s proposed pilot program receives approval. University Executive Vice-President John Affleck-Graves said the
Alyssa Lyon | Sunday, January 25, 2015
Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) partnered with the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to begin the Haiti Reads project in August 2014, working to improve the literacy of Haitian children. The initiative is sponsored by a $1 million grant from an anonymous foundation, with additional funding and personnel
Alyssa Lyon | Monday, January 19, 2015
Four of Notre Dame’s and Saint Mary’s a cappella groups will be participating in the A Cappella Battle, a singing competition based entirely on audience votes, Wednesday night at the Morris Inn. The event will feature performances by Bellacappella, The Echoes, Halftime and Harmonia, and the Notre Dame Humor Artists will emcee, according to the
Alyssa Lyon | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Gender Relations Center (GRC) hosted a panel discussion in The Oak Room of South Dining Hall on Tuesday that addressed the ways in which Disney positively and negatively establishes gender roles in its children films. Susan Ohmer, an associate professor of Film, Television and Theatre who specializes in Disney films; Kelly Cronin, a senior and
Alyssa Lyon | Thursday, December 4, 2014
Katie Mattie, Vincent Moore and William Neal — 2014 Notre Dame graduates — won “Best Short Documentary” at the 2014 Sunset International Film Festival in May in Los Angeles for their film “The Suicide Disease.” “The Suicide Disease” tells the story of Frances Shavers, former Notre Dame Chief-of-Staff, who suffers from Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), a
Alyssa Lyon | Thursday, November 13, 2014
When actress, producer and philanthropist AnnaLynne McCord spoke to Notre Dame students Thursday evening in the LaFortune Ballroom, she had one very clear message: the importance of acceptance and forgiveness. At age 18, McCord, who has starred in “90210,” “Nip/Tuck” and “Dallas,” was sexually assaulted in her own home by a male friend, and she said
Alyssa Lyon | Sunday, November 9, 2014
Phishing emails – “fraudulent emails and copy-cat websites [that] trick you into revealing valuable personal information,” according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – continue to target Notre Dame students and faculty. Kolin Hodgson, senior information security analyst for Notre Dame’s Office of Information Technologies (OIT), said the use of phishing scams is