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(10/03/24 4:33am)
On Wednesday evening, professor Megan Halteman Zwart, interim provost at Saint Mary’s College, delivered a lecture in Carroll Auditorium focused on effective strategies for engaging in meaningful dialogue across differences. As the founding director of the Dialogue Project, Zwart drew from her research to address the challenges posed by political polarization, highlighting several crises that threaten democratic discourse.
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On Tuesday night, Breen-Phillips Hall hosted a pet blessing Mass at the chapel for Saint Francis of Assisi week, named for the patron saint of ecology and animals.
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The Notre Dame student senate met Wednesday to pass amendments to the Notre Dame constitution and approve new orders.
(10/03/24 4:00am)
At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center is screening “Bonnie and Clyde” as part of its “Learning Beyond the Classics: True Crime” film series. There are two reasons you should clear your schedule to catch the picture.
(10/03/24 4:01am)
After an unsuccessful weekend at the Rose-Hulman Invitational, the Belles dropped their conference opener 3-2 against the Alma Scots.
(10/03/24 4:00am)
There is nothing funnier to me than an inappropriate soundtrack to a film. For example, did you know that Aerosmith's “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” was written for a Michael Bay movie? Or Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” was written for “The NeverEnding Story III,” and used in the “Batman Forever” soundtrack the next year as well? What’s even funnier to me is the notion of an artist going, “Writing a single song for this isn’t enough … I need to write a whole album for this movie.” Now, typically these were just studio albums that coincidentally were inspiring movies with their source material. Prince’s “Purple Rain” and Whitney Houston’s “The Bodyguard” albums are examples of this phenomenon; even the Beatles did it with “Help!”, “Hard Day’s Night” and “Yellow Submarine” all serve as tie-ins to their film releases instead.
(10/03/24 4:35am)
Another intriguing litmus test awaits Notre Dame volleyball this weekend at Purcell Pavilion. Last weekend, the Irish started ACC play in the lion’s den with No. 3 Stanford and responded quite well, claiming a set and holding their own in a 3-1 loss. Notre Dame then followed up by taking care of business in a 3-1 defeat of Cal.
(10/04/24 4:03am)
It’s been a minute since the Notre Dame women’s soccer team last traveled to Syracuse for a match. The Irish haven’t visited the Orange since October 2018 and haven’t opposed them in any venue since 2021.
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On Tuesday night, Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz met in the first and only vice-presidential debate on CBS, discussing foreign policy, immigration and democracy.
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The University bestowed awards to three alumni this weekend during the Notre Dame Alumni Association board of directors meeting, according to a University news release.
(10/02/24 5:53am)
On Saturday, Notre Dame mustered a pivotal home win against No. 15 Louisville in the “Irish Wear Green” game heading into their first of two bye weeks this season. The game had just about everything you could ask for: incredible one-handed grabs, bizarre turnovers, questionable ball spotting, botched clock management and late fourth quarter drama. According to The Athletic’s college football playoff predictor, a win gave Notre Dame a 50.8% chance of making the playoff while a loss would have left them at 15.6%, essentially eliminating the Irish from contention before the month of October. That would have led to some very tough conversations. It was a rollercoaster experience for the Irish, but despite getting outgained by over 100 yards, they eked out a victory and pushed back those conversations for at least the next two weeks. Here are some of the team’s active strengths and weaknesses as they look to regroup this coming weekend.
(10/02/24 7:32am)
On Sept. 24, U.S. News & World Report released their 2025 edition of college and university rankings, placing the University of Notre Dame at 18th in the nation. This marks an improvement for the school, which tied with Rice University and Vanderbilt University, moving up two spots from its position in last year’s rankings.
(10/03/24 4:33am)
The Center for Faith, Action and Ministry (CFAM) recently appointed Sister Jacinta Kioko as assistant director for ministry and spiritual formation at Saint Mary’s College. The role is intended to guide students within their spiritual formation and integrate them further into their personal faith.
(10/02/24 5:54am)
As a chilly breeze from the north marked the calendar’s turning from September to October, Notre Dame men’s soccer produced more of the same Tuesday night at Alumni Stadium. The Irish extended their win streak to four matches, improving to 5-1-3 on the season with a 7-1 thrashing of Division III program Trine. Notre Dame scored in bunches, tallying seven goals or more for the first time since Sept. 27, 2022 against Kalamazoo.
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On Tuesday evening, Saint Mary’s College hosted Leah A. Milne for a talk on the connection between literature and empathy. Her lecture, “Mirrors & Windows: Reading For and Beyond Empathy,” explored the role of reading in fostering interpersonal skills.
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“Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog.”
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I have been writing for The Observer since February of 2023, and the third article I wrote was “Where do the New York Yankees stand heading into 2024?” I remember writing this article, asking former and fellow sports writer and editor Andrew McGuinness if I could write it and spending hours in my dorm doing research for it to make sure it was perfect and that all the facts were correct. To summarize, the article sums up why the Yankees did not make the playoffs, which was mostly due to injury.
(10/02/24 1:55pm)
On Monday, Sept. 30, Belles for Life, an anti-abortion student organization at Saint Mary's, hosted a training session on how to facilitate civil discussions about abortion. The session was led by Benjamin Ice, the Great Lakes regional coordinator for Students for Life of America. Ice, who is a cyber security student at Western Governors University, spoke for an hour and a half on the skills he obtained from advocacy within his four years of working for Students for Life.
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Don Hertzfeldt’s 17-minute short film “World of Tomorrow” has become one of my recentfavorite watches. It’s a story about Emily, a toddler fashioned from scant lines. In the future, shewill be impregnated with her clone, upload her past memories to this replica and live forever.Her second-generation self contacts young Emily from 227 years into the future. They timetravel to observe future Emily's past while technologies manufacture an emotionless utopia.“Our more recent history is often just comprised of images of other people watchingview-screens,” future Emily says.The film’s overarching message is to be wary of technology’s evolution while cherishinghuman-human interaction and its accompanying emotions. It hints that future — and current —technologies grasp the power to corrupt emotion and nostalgia. But I disagree.Like Emily, I have aged with technology (albeit not to the point of wide-spread time travel). Ihave been active on social media platforms Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok during theirrespective growths.Intriguing posts, to me and my friends, are the ones that evoke visceral, unexpected reactions thatoften precipitate off-screen life. I regularly say things for “the bit.” I try not to break characterwhile making humorous situations because I want spontaneous reactions.And I think Gen Z’s humor exemplifies the power of technology in stark contrast from “World ofTomorrow.” I’m confident and hopeful that technology has the sustaining power to connecthumans, especially Gen Z individuals, with humorous emotion.
