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Angela Mathew | Friday, February 3, 2023
This past week from Jan. 30 to Feb. 3, the Columbus murals on the second floor of the University’s Main Building were uncovered for instructional purposes. The 12 paintings depict Columbus’ arrival in the “New World,” his interactions with Indigenous people in the Caribbean and images of Spanish royals like Queen Isabella. They were covered
Angela Mathew | Monday, January 30, 2023
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) is hosting “Albertine Cinematheque and Contemporary French Film,” a film series that runs from January 19th to March 2nd on Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. Each week, students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s, Holy Cross, IUSB and community members in South Bend enrolled in the one-credit course watch contemporary
Claire Lyons, Caitlin Brannigan, Willoughby Thom, Rachel Hartmann, Isa Sheikh, Olivia Schatz, Kathryn Muchnick, Anna Falk, Angela Mathew, Natalie Allton, Connor Marrott, Alysa Guffey, Coby McKeown and Claire McKenna | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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Angela Mathew | Wednesday, November 30, 2022
When I told my friend about “The Rabbit Hutch” winning the National Book Award, she naturally asked me what the book is about. I grasped around for words but instead, vivid scenes flashed before my eyes. Voodoo dolls dropping from the ceiling, a white-haired girl obsessing over Hildegard von Bingen, a Catholic mystic and a
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Nov. 26 marked 180 years since Fr. Sorin’s arrival in 1842 on the land now known as South Bend and as home to the tri-campus community. This land is the ancestral home of the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik, which are the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, an indigenous nation. The Potawatomi migrated from north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior
Angela Mathew | Monday, November 14, 2022
“Bergman Island” (2021) was screened at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center this past Wednesday as part of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies’ film series. The film is directed by French-Swedish director Mia Hansen-Love who follows two filmmakers and their relationship with each other and with famed director, Ingmar Bergman. Bergman, a Swedish filmmaker, is
Angela Mathew | Thursday, November 10, 2022
The Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith spoke at the Smith Ballroom at the Morris Inn on Wednesday evening. Smith’s book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America,” was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and a 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Nonfiction. Smith’s talk was
Angela Mathew | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
The Center for Social Concerns (CSC) no longer provides vehicles for students to rent, free of charge, to do social service as part of community-engaged learning courses. The CSC’s website states “effective June 1, 2022 the center will no longer offer vehicles for reservation.” This change has impacted community-based learning courses across disciplines like romance
Angela Mathew | Friday, September 30, 2022
The Black Cultural Arts Council (BCAC) will put on Black Images, a talent show, Friday at 6:30 p.m. in Washington Hall. Senior Zoë Bonnichsen is the vice president of BCAC. She said the event will feature a wide range of talent. “We have spoken word poetry performances, a rap and bass performance, several dance performances from step
Angela Mathew | Friday, September 23, 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 to celebrate the cultures of Americans whose ancestors hail from Mexico, the Caribbean, Spain and Central and South America. In 1968, the country observed Hispanic Heritage Week and by 1988, the week was expanded to a 30-day period. The independence days of Costa Rica,