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UCC, students discuss mental health resources and new national suicide hotline number

Jenna Abu-Lughod | Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Conversations surrounding mental health care and destigmatization continue across the country, as well on campus. In particular, many have heralded a new phone hotline, 988, specifically for people experiencing a suicidal crisis or emotional distress. “Mental health is an ongoing issue that students face in an intensely academic environment like Notre Dame,” sophomore Jane Stallman,

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Poetry Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey discusses her inspiration for writing

Jenna Abu-Lughod | Thursday, January 19, 2023

Students, faculty and guests came together on Tuesday evening to listen to Walk the Walk Week keynote speaker, Natasha Trethewey as she answered the question “Why I Write.” Trethewey is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, best known for her books “Memorial Drive” and “Native Guard.” As the Initiative on Race

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ZeroProof hosts alcohol-free tailgate, builds space for sobriety

Jenna Abu-Lughod | Wednesday, September 14, 2022

In the spring of last year, a group of Notre Dame students came together to start ZeroProof, a club with the goal of providing alcohol-free options for sober students and students workingtowards sobriety. “As I’ve been at Notre Dame, I found it difficult to enjoy activities that didn’t involve partying or alcohol and started to

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Bookstore renovation hopes to provide an improved customer experience

Jenna Abu-Lughod | Monday, September 12, 2022

On July 1, 2021, the University of Notre Dame announced that the bookstore’s management was going to be changed from Follett to Barnes & Noble College (BNC), a transition that has been in progress over the past 14 months. “The renovation was completed in August 2022, and the newly remodeled Hammes Bookstore is open and

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‘Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary’ lecture discusses history of the ‘white power’ movement

Jenna Abu-Lughod | Monday, September 5, 2022

Kicking off year four of the “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” lecture series on Sept. 2 was Dr. Kathleen Belew, an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern University. In her lecture, which took place via Zoom, Belew discussed the “white power movement,” which is the focus of much of her research as well