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‘This is the time of your life to make that decision’: Students discuss switching majors

Kara Miecznikowski and Patrick Gerard | Monday, September 30, 2019

Editor’s Note: These interviews have been edited for conciseness and clarity. Jorge Rivera-Herrans is a senior at Notre Dame who, halfway into freshman year, switched his major from pre-med to Film, Television and Theatre with a concentration in theater. Before coming to Notre Dame, Rivera-Herrans had believed his entire life that he was destined

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Final Four set in Bookstore Basketball after Elite Eight contests

Evan DaCosta, Kara Miecznikowski, Alex Daugherty and Mia Berry | Friday, April 27, 2018

No. 1 Practice Squad def. No. 9 Run Table to Natty By Evan DaCosta The No. 1-seed Practice Squad took on the No. 9-seed Run Table to Natty in the quarterfinal of the Bookstore Basketball Tournament on Thursday. Practice Squad took an early lead, although Run Table to Natty was quick to respond. Effective defense

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Students participate in the Bald and the Beautiful

Kara Miecznikowski | Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Notre Dame’s campus hosts an abundance of fundraisers over the course of the academic year — the Bald and the Beautiful may be one of the most well-known of these fundraisers. This annual, three-day event involves participants shaving their heads in solidarity with cancer patients, donating hair or getting colorful hair extensions in support of

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Howard Hall reflects on annual ‘Chapel Crawl’

Kara Miecznikowski | Wednesday, April 4, 2018

During the Lenten season, Howard Hall set forth a bold goal for hall residents and other University students — attend Mass in every dorm chapel on campus over the 46-day period of Lent, covering all 30 residence hall chapels as part of their “Chapel Crawl.” The Crawl allows students to visit and experience different chapels on

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Students travel to serve, learn over spring break

Kara Miecznikowski | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Many college students travel for spring break, but not all do so for the sake of vacationing. This past week, numerous Notre Dame students partook in University-sponsored travel to towns and cities across the nation, experiencing firsthand the ideas and issues students are usually limited to learning about in a classroom setting. Among these service

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On University requirements

Kara Miecznikowski | Thursday, March 1, 2018

I normally try to get to bed early on Sunday nights — to start my week off on a less sleep-deprived note — but this time I stayed up past 2 a.m. talking on the phone with a friend from my hometown. He plays guitar as a jazz studies student at a university in Texas,

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Student Union Board hosts 60th annual Collegiate Jazz Festival

Kara Miecznikowski | Friday, February 23, 2018

This weekend, collegiate bands from across the nation will travel to South Bend to perform in Notre Dame’s 60th annual Collegiate Jazz Festival (CJF). The festival — which is the oldest in the nation — also features a panel of world-renowned jazz musicians, who serve as performance adjudicators throughout the event and participate in a “Judges’

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Right to Life launches babysitting service for parenting graduate students

Kara Miecznikowski | Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Notre Dame’s Right to Life Club now sponsors a free daycare service for the University’s parenting graduate students. Once a week, graduate students with children are able to take a break from parenting and use this valuable time to study, work, run errands or purely have some time to themselves. Meanwhile, trained students from their

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Professor examines political implications of rising secularism in the United States

Kara Miecznikowski | Wednesday, October 25, 2017

NDVotes hosted this semester’s first installment of Pizza, Pop and Politics on Tuesday night, exploring the political causes and consequences of the rapid increase of non-religion and secularism in the United States. The discussion was led by Geoffrey Layman, a political science professor at Notre Dame. Layman began by giving a brief background on the research he