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Access-ABLE, Gender Relations Center aim to raise awareness on violence against people with disabilities

Claire Reid | Tuesday, April 20, 2021

In recognition of Sexual Violence Awareness Month, Access-ABLE of Notre Dame and the Gender Relations Center (GRC) have partnered together to host “No Longer Silent,” a tabling event seeking to raise awareness about the prevalence of violence against people with disabilities. Representatives from Access-ABLE and the GRC were stationed at tables on North and South

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Flaherty Hall hosts interhall cake decorating competition

Claire Reid | Monday, April 19, 2021

Friday evening, Flaherty Hall’s signature Flaherty Food Fights event turned the LaFortune Ballroom into the set of Notre Dame’s very own Food Network-style cake decorating competition.  For the event, teams of two from each dorm were tasked with decorating a two-layer vanilla sheet cake in 30 minutes using two random colors of icing along with

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Notre Dame International Senior Fellows host photography contest celebrating cultural identity

Claire Reid | Friday, April 16, 2021

The Notre Dame International (NDI) Senior Fellows are holding a photography competition “Show Your Culture,” which is accepting submissions until Sunday. Entries can be submitted via a Google Form on NDI’s website. The competition challenges students to submit an original photo along with a caption explaining how it represents the ways in which they incorporate

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PEMCo adapts musical ‘Something Rotten’ to comply with COVID-19 guidelines

Claire Reid | Friday, April 9, 2021

This semester, the cast and crew of the Pasquerilla East Music Company (PEMCo) have adapted their latest musical “Something Rotten” to comply with COVID-19 restrictions.  The showtimes include April 9 at 8 p.m. and April 10 at 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. on the Washington Hall Mainstage. While in-person tickets sold out quickly since only

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Students bring Stanford University Marriage Pact survey to Notre Dame

Claire Reid | Thursday, April 8, 2021

In the fall semester of 2017, the Marriage Pact survey took Stanford University by storm. Within a week of the survey’s release, more than half of the campus was participating. The 60-question survey, created by two Stanford undergraduates for an economics class, presents students with questions on personality traits and future goals. Then, an algorithm

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Notre Dame students spend Easter in quarantine, isolation due to COVID-19

Claire Reid | Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Spending time with grandparents. Enjoying a home-cooked meal. An Easter egg hunt with her little cousins. For Notre Dame sophomore Ariana Arce, Easter every year is a time dedicated to family and coming together and rejoicing in another’s presence. This year, the Northern Indiana native looked forward to seeing her aunt, grandparents and parents —

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Notre Dame Right to Life club hosts ‘You Are Loved’ week

Claire Reid | Friday, March 26, 2021

Notre Dame’s Right to Life Club held their annual You Are Loved Week from March 21-26, which featured a variety of events including a faculty panel, a fundraiser for the Women’s Care Center and a debate on abortion issues. Senior Mary Benz, Right to Life president, explained that the club selected the theme for this

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Pasquerilla West Hall hosts thrift event

Claire Reid | Monday, March 22, 2021

The women of Pasquerilla West Hall will host their signature event, PDub’s Closet, virtually on the Instagram page @pdubs.closet from March 22 to April 2.  Clothing will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis, and students can direct message the Instagram account to purchase an item. “It’s a crossover between a Plato’s Closet type scheme

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Lecture explores deepfakes, media manipulation

Claire Reid | Monday, March 22, 2021

Matthew Turek, program manager of the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office, discussed media manipulation and developing strategies for detecting falsified media in a lecture Friday as part of the Ten Years Hence speaker series, sponsored by the O’Brien-Smith Leadership Program.  Turek holds a doctorate in computer science from

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Club sport athletes reflect on season, COVID-19 restrictions

Claire Reid | Thursday, March 4, 2021

In addition to its Division I athletics programs, Notre Dame is home to over 30 club sports teams. Normally, these teams travel across the country competing against other schools in shows, meets, races and tournaments. But due to the University’s COVID-19 travel restrictions, there have been no competitions this academic year. “There is little that

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