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-Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, December 6, 2019
Before the semester comes to a close, we have one more story that deserves to go down among the Notre Dame legends: that of the Notre Dame students whose campus activism amplified a farmworkers’ labor rights movement, becoming a part of one of the most successful social impact movements in recent memory. We all know
Annie Moran and Katie Hieatt | Friday, November 15, 2019
This coming Monday commemorates the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous moments in the history of ND campus activism: the Notre Dame Ten. Remembering this point in our history offers the chance to consider where we’ve been and where the current moment finds us with respect to when and how we choose to
Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, November 1, 2019
I (Katie) was caught off guard when I sang the Victory March with the student body for the first time my freshman year. My parents, Notre Dame grads, were ecstatic football fans. I’ve known the song by heart since I was young. But when I sang the line, “While her loyal sons and daughters march
Annie Moran and Katie Hieatt | Friday, October 11, 2019
October is LGBTQ history month, and this year, the attention surrounding the oral arguments to the Supreme Court regarding Title VII protections have brought LGBTQ issues to the national consciousness. While the Supreme Court is deliberating on the legality of discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, we must
Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, September 27, 2019
Among the attempts to characterize Notre Dame culture that line the shelves of the Hammes Bookstore, there exists a cheeky character called “Things Notre Dame Students Like,” its contents compiled from a blog of the same name. Being lovers of relatable and self-deprecating humor (read: Twitter. We like Twitter.), we were eager to discover aspects
Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, September 13, 2019
“We knew we were groundbreaking. We knew there were a lot of people against us. We knew we would succeed.” Anne Pillai, class of 1977, remembers the day she came home from high school and her mother informed her Notre Dame was accepting women. Now working as the associate program director for education and outreach
Annie Moran and Katie Hieatt | Friday, August 30, 2019
Like many rising seniors, we’ve amassed a treasure trove of urban legends about Notre Dame’s past over the course of our time around campus. Throughout this semester, we’ll be using this column to explore the most intriguing leads that we’ve come across, from the infuriating, to the inspiring, to the just plain bizarre: Did Notre