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Peter Breen | Tuesday, September 26, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called for the court to adopt a code of conduct in a conversation Friday with Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole. In response to a question from Cole about the recent scrutiny of justices’ relationships with outside parties and law schools, Kagan said adopting a code would
Peter Breen | Sunday, September 24, 2023
The Notre Dame football team played like champions for 59 minutes and 59 seconds Saturday night at home before falling to Ohio State 17-14 after Buckeyes running back Chip Trayanum managed a game-winning one-yard touchdown on the ground with just a single second remaining on the clock. Here is how it happened. 1. A quiet
Peter Breen | Thursday, September 14, 2023
Notre Dame’s student senate debated raising the student activities fee and appointed eight at-large members to a committee on the constitution of the undergraduate student body during its weekly meeting Wednesday. The senate also voted to suspend first-year class council elections for candidates who were running unopposed and filled three officer vacancies on sophomore class
Peter Breen | Wednesday, September 13, 2023
The St. Joseph County Council adopted a resolution Tuesday in support of Clay High School and Save Clay, a group dedicated to protecting the school which the South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC) voted to close in April. “Sometimes somebody needs an advocate,” said council member Amy Drake, whose district includes Clay High School. “People
Peter Breen | Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Italian professor Tiziana Serafini, a voice for those caught up in the Italian refugee crises who was known to teach yoga classes in her native tongue to her students for extra credit, died in Rome from cancer Aug. 19. She was 62. Serafini spent most of her time in the classroom since coming to Notre
Peter Breen | Monday, September 4, 2023
I was a skeptic well before I came to Notre Dame. I wanted to believe the University marketers who said I’d find a “Home Under the Dome” here, but I simultaneously braced myself for the chance of that never happening. I wouldn’t find my “Home Under the Dome” until the very end of my sophomore
Peter Breen | Monday, August 28, 2023
Fighting Irish football fans of every living generation journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to see the Blue and Gold take on the Naval Academy in the Emerald Isle on Saturday for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. Notre Dame played Navy in Dublin once in 1996 and again in 2012. This time, the Irish beat
Peter Breen | Friday, August 18, 2023
Nearly a quarter of Notre Dame’s 33 undergraduate residential communities received new rectors this academic year. Rectors serve as pastoral leaders and administrators for the 17 men’s and 15 women’s residence halls on campus. A rector will also guide the University’s new Undergraduate Community at Fisher. Every freshman and 80% of sophomores, juniors and seniors
Peter Breen | Friday, May 19, 2023
Notre Dame rowing’s busy spring regatta schedule included trips to Tennessee, San Diego, Boston, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Bloomington, Indiana. On Lake Wheeler in Raleigh, North Carolina May 12 and 13, the Irish competed in the ACC Rowing Championship. “[The ACC championship] is what we shoot for at the end of the season. A high
Peter Breen | Friday, May 19, 2023
From the beginning of football in August to the end of the men’s and women’s basketball in March or April, the Notre Dame cheerleading team is standing on the sidelines rooting for the Fighting Irish. The team is composed of 18 female and 18 male cheerleaders along with the four leprechauns. For the past two