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-Dane Sherman | Wednesday, November 9, 2022
The No. 2 Bus is the route in Seattle that slices right through the city’s heart. Flying over the high hills of Queen Anne, winding through the tight one-way streets of the city center and crawling next to the thriving bike paths. This route is unique not only because of the diverse terrain it covers
Dane Sherman | Wednesday, October 5, 2022
We stand on the shoulders of underdogs. Notre Dame began as a school for the poor, Irish, Catholic immigrants that were not welcome anywhere else. At every turn, we have been counted out for being “too Catholic,” in the middle of nowhere, or as “just a football school.” For the game against Berkeley, one of
Dane Sherman | Wednesday, September 21, 2022
I hopped on the Manhattan-bound “L” train at 10 a.m., late for work. I overslept and took my sweet time getting up. That’s what summer internships are for messing up, right? The car was lightly filled. Most of the people had already made it to their resting places for the day. The subways are a
Dane Sherman | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The closest people to saints I’ve ever met are my two sassy loudmouth lesbian grandmas from rural Washington. Known as Moo and Ne, they represent the best and most thoughtful Christians I know. Moo, a veteran, spent most of her adult life running the chicken soup brigade, offering hospice and medical care for people living
Dane Sherman | Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Editor’s note: This column includes discussions of suicide and drug addiction. Do you ever wake up and feel something is wrong? On Aug. 18, 2014, the birds chirping, the sun shining brightly over Lake Washington and a fully planned day of hanging out with friends. The perfect way to end the summer. The recipe for
Dane Sherman | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 230,000 deaths in the United States since the first case of the virus nearly nine months ago. One concern of the pandemic, beyond the direct physical health impact of the virus, is its mental health impact. College students are just one of the groups feeling the mental health impact.
Dane Sherman | Thursday, November 5, 2020
Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) is a preeminent research body on campus focused on taking on the wide-ranging and complex challenge of poverty. The lab is run by and co-founded by Professor William Evans. According to Evans, there are many reasons why one might be experiencing economic hardship. “[Some people] dropped
Dane Sherman | Monday, September 28, 2020
This summer Notre Dame’s International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) will plan to hold both in-person and virtual programs in light of the pandemic. The ISSLP program sent their first students abroad in the summer of 1998 at a time when there were very few options available to travel to “less traveled countries,“ ISSLP director
Dane Sherman | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Last week, associate justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg died due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg, also referred to as “the Notorious RBG” and the court’s “Great Dissenter,” led with strength in the face of adversity. She spent much of her early career fighting gender discrimination, before being appointed to
Dane Sherman | Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies hosted an engaging panel Monday with experts from institutes around the world entitled “Xinjiang and the Uyghurs: Religion, Oppression and Geopolitics.” The discussion focused on the genocide and forced labor of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang and around China, and what the world needs to do to