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-Claire King | Thursday, April 11, 2019
It is not uncommon to hear in contemporary discourse that it is impossible to be feminist and pro-life; that in order to be a real feminist, you must support abortion rights. The McGrath Institute for Church Life and Notre Dame’s Office of Campus Ministry co-sponsored a panel discussion titled “Pro-Life Feminism” to discuss whether pro-life
Claire King | Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discussed his experience working in the White House during a talk Monday with professor William Kelley at the McCartan Courtroom at Notre Dame Law School. Gonzales was appointed by former President George W. Bush as the United States’ 80th attorney general in 2005 after serving as Bush’s general counsel during
Claire King | Thursday, March 28, 2019
If you ask senior Clare Strickland, PEMCo’s executive producer, how she balances majoring in Neuroscience with overseeing the spring show “Guys and Dolls”, she would respond: “That’s a funny joke! We simply don’t sleep.” If you ask sophomore Alison Croucher, the director of the upcoming spring show, “Guys and Dolls,” how she manages to stay
Claire King | Friday, February 22, 2019
Collegiate jazz bands from across the nation will come together this weekend to perform in a non-competitive setting for Notre Dame’s 61st-annual Collegiate Jazz Festival (CJF). The festival is the oldest and most prestigious collegiate jazz festival in the nation and will feature a panel of world-class, professional jazz musicians to judge the competitors. This
Claire King | Friday, February 8, 2019
For students with disabilities, tasks like getting to exams on time or to the dining hall on a snowy day can prove to be very difficult. While Notre Dame’s Sara Bea Disability Services aim to “reduce or eliminate the barriers that may be caused by the interaction of a disability and a traditional academic environment,”