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-Joe Nolan | Monday, December 3, 2018
If you don’t yet, you should start listening to lo-fi hip-hop beats. Most music platforms have some derivation of the genre. Spotify’s is “lofi hip hop beats – beats to study/relax/game to” by Chillhop Music. Note the chillness seeping even into the title. No capitalized letters. Confidently redacted dashes for words that, all grammarians are
Joe Nolan | Monday, November 12, 2018
A flurry of arguments and letters to the editor have been thrown around since Notre Dame students published a proposal to limit Wi-Fi access to pornography on campus. For all their diversity, all seem to agree on one thing — dialogue. Since this is the one thing both sides can agree on, and since I,
Joe Nolan | Monday, October 29, 2018
This is a proposal for stationing people experiencing homelessness in South Bend outside our campus dining halls as a method for a more holistic educational experience at Notre Dame. The homeless people would stand at the doors of North and South Dining Halls, holding signs like they do at street corners, begging for money like
Joe Nolan | Monday, October 8, 2018
There is a 10-foot rat at the corner of South Bend Avenue and Howard Street. That’s right on the boundary between Notre Dame’s off-campus real estate and the rest of South Bend. After a few passes, it’s not that scary. But it stands in the shadow of a 100-foot pile of dirt whose tyrannosauric footprint
Joe Nolan | Monday, September 24, 2018
I am a Catholic, but in light of the sexual abuse perpetrated by other Catholics, I am ashamed to be a Catholic. The Greeks considered music an essential component of a person’s education. The ability to recognize and orchestrate harmony from separate melodies was a human skill in a universe that, for all its imperfections,
Joe Nolan | Monday, September 17, 2018
When I was in high school, I had a sort of sexual revolution. For the first time in my life, doubt creeped into my mind about the religion I grew up with — maybe it’s all a lie. I had been a very chaste boy, but then chastity seemed arbitrary. The consequences do not need
Joe Nolan | Monday, September 10, 2018
According to the Oxford dictionary, ‘universal’ is defined as “the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world; the quality of being true in all situations.” Nowadays, everyone thinks that society is marching toward universal progress. The advances of science, democracy and Amazon.com, they claim, are making more liberty
Joe Nolan | Tuesday, August 28, 2018
It was a sad day when I first tapped on Spotify’s genre station “Your Favorite Coffeehouse.” Spotify — that brilliant music platform that supplied the geeky rigor of Pandora’s Music Genome Project with the internet-capitalizing muscle of a Google, Inc. to create the most efficient method of enjoying music today. Every week I have a