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-Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, May 5, 2021
The end of a school year is always bittersweet. While writing large papers may feel like the magnum opus of finals week, leaving oneself craving a summertime bliss where homework and exams feel like a fleeting memory, I also would be lying if I said I didn’t completely miss the school year. I used to
Elizabeth Prater | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
While isolation due to disease may seem like a new, pervasive issue that has erupted after the onset of COVID-19, the notion is not completely foreign to the colony of Kalaupapa. Located in Moloka‘i, Hawaii, this was the location for people exiled from the 1860s through the 1960s because of their contraction of Hansen’s disease,
Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, April 7, 2021
I live about 10 miles north of Klickitat Street, the place where the eponymous Ramona Quimby lives in “Beezus and Ramona.” Beverly Cleary, American author of both children’s and young adult fiction, passed away March 25, 2021. While I felt particularly attached to Ramona because of the proximity of my world to her fictitious one,
Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
On March 18, Ali Kershner, a sports performance coach at Stanford University, posted a photo comparing the weight rooms for the NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament. The post went viral — and for good reason. While the men’s teams had a room with power racks and Olympic bars and weights, the women’s teams were
Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Looking out onto West Quad, you can occasionally see the splendor of the men of Duncan Hall, clad in their trademark green blazers. How does one of the newest men’s dorms on campus gain such status in their emblems of class and style? I can’t help but find striking similarities but as to Jay Gatsby’s
Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, February 24, 2021
I first read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” when I was on my French exchange trip in high school. Surrounded by beautiful architecture and the roaming plains of Normandy, I was entranced by the idea of reading a novel that took place in Europe while abroad. Little did I know how Wilde would make me
Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, February 10, 2021
When COVID-19 began, I was in the final semester of my senior year of high school. After my exams were canceled, I found myself, like many others, with more time on my hands. I turned to literature and the arts, as they gave me a refuge from the outside world. However, I noticed something interesting
Elizabeth Prater | Monday, November 9, 2020
Cathy O’Neil, a mathematician, data scientist and New York Times bestselling author, gave a keynote presentation on algorithmic bias Friday afternoon. O’Neil received her PhD in math from Harvard, and she has held academic positions at MIT and Barnard College where she did research on arithmetic algebraic geometry. She also founded the O’Neil Risk Consulting
Elizabeth Prater | Monday, November 2, 2020
This past Friday, Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the United States, spoke on voting rights as part of the Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary lecture series. Hosted by the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, the lecture series features scholars and leaders from around the world to better understand systematic racism and racial justice.
Elizabeth Prater | Friday, October 23, 2020
The Notre Dame student senate assembled Thursday evening to hear from presentations on the future updates on Campus Dining and Club Coordination Council (CCC), and passed the first two constitution amendments of the school year. The meeting commenced with an executive announcement providing an update on Title IX procedures and policies. On Wednesday, representatives of