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Angela Mathew | Tuesday, April 25, 2023
The most ubiquitous Notre Dame bucket list is to visit all of the 32 residence halls on campus. You could rank food sales run by the dorms, go to Mass in each of the chapels or even participate in every dorm tradition (building boats, entering pageants, or even gambling). Dorms shape culture on campus, and
Angela Mathew | Thursday, April 6, 2023
“Stop-Zemlia,” which was screened at DPAC this past weekend, is a tender coming-of-age film following 16-year-olds in Ukraine. The film’s protagonist is Masha, a girl with pale, bleached hair cropped short and a vaguely vacant air about her. Though she seems quiet and out of place compared to the boisterous students in her class, Masha
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, April 5, 2023
To this day, I remember second grade as the time I started to love school. Before then, I was extremely reticent, allergic to socializing and participating in class, but my homeroom teacher, Mrs. Bhatia, was the first teacher who seemed to see me for something other than being shy. I would sit with my classmates at
Angela Mathew | Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Elaine Hsieh Chou described her 2022 novel, “Disorientation,” as the story of what happens when “a student who is clueless about race finds out the most racist secret at her school.” Ingrid Yang is a 29-year-old Taiwanese-American PhD student who has spent nine years writing a dissertation on Xiao Wen-Chou, the (fictional) “father of Chinese-American
Angela Mathew | Monday, March 27, 2023
As part of Palestinian Liberation Week, Student Voices for Palestine (SVP) will be hosting a Palestinian cultural cafe, a documentary screening, a talk by activist Lesley Williams and a mutual aid fundraiser Monday through Thursday. Traditionally, this week is known as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) across the world. The observance originated in 2005 at the
Angela Mathew | Monday, February 27, 2023
Dance Africa, a 14-member dance troupe at the University of Notre Dame, performs modern dances from different regions of the continent. They recently performed at Black Student Association’s Black Renaissance event and at a flash mob in Duncan Student Center on Wednesday, Feb. 22. Senior Lekabel Abul, a co-captain of Dance Africa, is originally from
Angela Mathew | Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Anne Carson, who will be visiting to speak on campus on Wednesday and Thursday this week, is a Canadian poet, translator and professor. Her writing often includes literary allusions, especially from ancient Greek and Latin works. Seeing posters for her “History of Skywriting” talk all around campus, I didn’t think I had ever heard of
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Valentine’s Day is a huge deal in America. Even if you ignore the unbridled consumerism (candy, flowers, expensive gifts) there is so much emphasis on celebrating the day even if you’re not in a romantic relationship. Just walking around my residence hall, with most of the bulletin boards awash in various shades of pink, emblazoned
Angela Mathew | Friday, February 10, 2023
“In Vietnamese the word ‘oi’ is so simple of a word that it only needs two letters ‘o’ and ‘i’ to evoke the deepest feeling and tenderness … the closest way to describe ‘oi’ is the feeling of being held,” sophomore Kat Le said during rehearsals for ‘Notre Dame By Night’. The University’s Vietnamese Student
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s latest film “No Bears” is an exploration of life under Iran’s authoritarian government. Like a lot of Panahi’s recent work, it has been shaped by his experiences with the government that has censored his art and placed him under house arrest. Since July 2022, he has been in Tehran’s notorious Evin