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-Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 28, 2020
We read nutritional labels looking for the two or three values that make a food “healthy.” We often assess learning in neat categories with established titles and well-defined precedents. We admire bold acts and risk-taking as aspirational models. Many times, we express surges of emotion with grand acts that feel commensurate with their intensity …
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
According to the HERE dashboard, 10.42% of my undergrad classmates have tested positive for COVID-19. As of today, there have been 910 undergraduate cases reported at a university with an undergraduate population of 8,731. For reference, a quick Google search and a calculator shows that about 2.65% of Americans nationally have tested positive for coronavirus.
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 26, 2020
A couple weeks ago, I attended a BridgeND event that emphasized the importance of civility in political discourse. After receiving similar emails from Fr. Jenkins and my rector, I decided to see for myself as to what this meant. This BridgeND event began with an enlightening lecture about the history of voting rights, then was
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 23, 2020
In her virtual Hesburgh Lecture at Notre Dame two weeks ago, Dr. Angela Davis asked the question: “How can we educate ourselves so we have the capacity to think beyond what exists in the present?” Dr. Davis suggests that this radical hope for what is possible in the future is what grounds us in the
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, October 22, 2020
I was supposed to be a senior at Notre Dame this semester. Having spent my junior year studying abroad, I cannot describe how much I yearned for the return to campus — having enlightening conversations with professors in and outside the classroom, cooking and celebrating reunions with friends, paying visits to the little ducks at
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 21, 2020
I’d like to start by saying that this is not meant to be a partisan letter. I also want to note that when I write about disagreement, I am speaking about political disagreement, and political disagreement only. There are issues of human rights that don’t invite debate (e.g. the rights of people of color, members
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
This summer, the six of us undergraduate students had the opportunity to participate in the Virtual Summer Service Corps through the Center for Social Concerns. We worked with Faith in Indiana, a coalition of faith leaders throughout Indiana that advocates for social justice and voter engagement, and NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby based in
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 19, 2020
Some moments in life are so significant, so integral to your story, that they become forever ingrained in your memory. One such instance that has been on my mind recently is from when I boarded the airplane that would take me from London to my first semester at this spectacular institution. It would be the
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 16, 2020
Our presidential election has become a family squabble. The choices are both septuagenarians — the grievance-prone, exaggerating, flamboyant, crazy uncle who dyes his hair or the empathetic grandpa whose calm temperament while conveying wise stories from another era strain to inspire us. To join our family food fight, read these tips carefully to sidestep sloppy,
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, October 15, 2020
Is that it? While those of you may or may not agree with the sentiments written in the following paragraphs, that is not the point. For all “man” and “woman” have lived, experienced and thought about their lives in different and unique ways. The words yet to come are just one’s own formulation and understanding