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-Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, January 21, 2016
After living for three years on the Notre Dame-Saint Mary’s campuses with their manicured lawns, my un-adventured eyes hadn’t yet seen the wonders that the true South Bend has to offer. My move off campus senior year engendered appreciation for new kinds of green space as I found it: crabgrass persevering through concrete, my house’s garden and overgrown empty
Rebecca O'Neil | Monday, April 13, 2015
A Saint Mary’s professor and two students traveled to Amman, Jordan, to observe and assist the inception and future growth of SheCab, a startup taxi service designed for and by Jordanian women. Associate professor of political science Sonalini Sapra accompanied junior Eleanor Jones and sophomore Emily Beaudoin abroad, a trip that followed the two students’
Rebecca O'Neil | Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Saint Mary’s students, faculty and staff gathered in Carroll Auditorium on Monday to hear Pakistani entrepreneur and social organizer Shiza Shahid share her life’s trajectory towards her position as the co-founder and Global Ambassador of the Malala Fund. Shahid was the closing keynote speaker for the College’s 10th annual Diverse Student Leadership Conference (DSLC). Despite Shahid’s
Rebecca O'Neil | Wednesday, February 25, 2015
“Relativism isn’t only a problem because it’s false — but it is.” Saint Mary’s Christ Lights Club invited Kristi Haas of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to explore how people of faith may live in truth despite contemporary society’s relativistic tendencies. Haas said human beings understand simple truths as cause and effects, but that
Rebecca O'Neil | Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Last year, I left Indiana for winter break with Chet Faker’s “Thinking in Textures” ringing in my ears. “I’m Into You” came up on a Flume binge sometime around Thanksgiving and soon after infiltrated every playlist I created. YouTube’s “suggestions for you” just get me. Faker’s warm raspy voice against the crisp sound of a
Rebecca O'Neil | Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The second definition of cynic in the Oxford English Dictionary is “a member of a school of ancient Greek philosophers founded by Antisthenes, marked by an ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure” as they distracted the quest for self-knowledge. I fancy I may be related to a member of Antisthenes’ school — a churlish protégée
Kelly Konya and Rebecca O'Neil | Monday, February 2, 2015
What is it about documentaries that make them so appealing? Is it our desire as human beings to want the truth and only the truth? When truth is transmogrified by directorial choices, artistic intent and finite filming opportunities, does the “production” of a film blur its accuracy, its “whole story”? The 26th annual Notre Dame
Rebecca O'Neil | Friday, November 21, 2014
Saint Mary’s Justice Education Department hosted a symposium on intersectionality and domestic violence in Rice Commons on Thursday night. Domestic violence cannot be reduced to studying just violence or relationships, Justice Education interim coordinator Adrienne Lyles-Chockley said. The symposium explored “the interrelated factors at play in regard to the question, ‘Why don’t women in abusive
Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, November 6, 2014
Saint Mary’s students partook in a roundtable discussion to reflect on women’s limited depiction in the media after a public screening of the 2011 documentary “MissRepresentation” in the Student Center Wednesday evening. Jessica Richmond, a senior social work and political science major, facilitated the screening and following discussion. Richmond said she applied for the Dooley
Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, October 2, 2014
Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) launched the SMCard to improve the student body’s participation in on-campus activities during the Student Diversity Board’s (SDB) annual bonfire on the College’s soccer field Wednesday evening. “We wanted to launch this event at the SDB Bonfire because it is one of the first major events on campus that