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Claire Rafford | Monday, April 6, 2020
If you’re on the Internet today, chances are that you’ve at least heard of the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen. As the video arm of Bon Appetit magazine, the immensely popular YouTube channel has over five million subscribers, and the chefs who work in the kitchen have become instant Internet personalities with hundreds of thousands of
Claire Rafford and Dessi Gomez | Monday, March 30, 2020
Picture this: it’s day who-even-knows of quarantine, social distancing, self-isolation — whatever you want to call it. You’re stuck inside, away from the comfortable chaos of the tri-campus community. You’ve watched absolutely everything good on Netflix, there’s no sports of any kind to distract from the world and you absolutely cannot play another round of
Claire Rafford | Thursday, March 26, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tri-campus community will be engaging in distance learning for the rest of the semester. Online classes for Notre Dame officially began Monday. While all disciplines face challenges in adjusting to remote learning, courses with hands-on components face great difficulties in adjusting to online classes. Dean of the School of
Claire Rafford | Friday, February 28, 2020
This report was updated Friday at 10:04 p.m. Notre Dame is suspending its Rome programs and bringing the 106 Notre Dame students currently studying abroad in the Italian capital back to the United States, the University announced in an email to students Friday evening. The move comes as the coronavirus has proliferated through Italy. The
Claire Rafford | Thursday, February 27, 2020
When students, alumni and fans attend a game at Notre Dame Stadium, they are greeted by the same familiar voice, commencing the event with the cheer of “Here come the Irish!” as the team runs out of the tunnel. Michael Collins is that voice. After 39 years as the Notre Dame football public address announcer,
Claire Rafford | Tuesday, February 11, 2020
While Notre Dame is a Catholic university, the students and community members that make up the Notre Dame community are not all of one faith or background. Better Together ND, a leadership program sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns (CSC), aims to foster conversations between people of different religious and humanistic beliefs through workshops
Claire Rafford | Thursday, February 6, 2020
Diversity Council hosted its fourth-annual student government election debate on Wednesday evening in DeBartolo Hall. The debate asked the candidates to address issues of diversity and inclusion on Notre Dame’s campus. The candidates running for student body president and vice president this year are junior Noble Patidar and freshman Connor Patrick, junior Connor Whittle and
Claire Rafford | Thursday, February 6, 2020
When I first arrived in South Bend as a freshman almost three years ago, it couldn’t have felt less like home to me. Growing up in sunny Phoenix with three younger siblings, two dogs and a constant cacophony of noise, I felt disoriented amid the permacloud of South Bend and increased independence and solitude that
Claire Rafford | Sunday, February 2, 2020
On Jan. 17, Irish 4 Reproductive Health (I4RH) — the independent reproductive rights group at Notre Dame — announced their group had been cleared to proceed in their lawsuit against Notre Dame after the University announced they would restrict access to certain forms of birth control for those people receiving insurance coverage through the University.
Claire Rafford | Thursday, January 23, 2020
Notre Dame released admissions decisions to students around the world who applied Restrictive Early Action (REA) to the University on Dec. 13. While 7,295 students applied early, 1,540 were admitted — an admissions rate of approximately 21%. Eight more students were admitted to this year than last year, Don Bishop, associate vice president for undergraduate