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-Courtney Becker | Friday, May 17, 2019
One of my dad’s friends from his own days as a student at Notre Dame, someone who is like an uncle to me, told me during my freshman year that life — and college in particular — is about finding those people you would want with you in a read more→
Elizabeth Greason | Friday, May 17, 2019
A few weeks ago, I was driving the kids I babysit to a number of various locations while the two boys argued in the back seat. Punches were being traded, heads were in locks and tears were shed. And in the midst of all the chaos, a golden mop read more→
Jordan Cockrum | Friday, May 17, 2019
In August, I made a promise with my friends to enjoy each moment of our senior year. While it still felt far away, we knew the end was coming. We handled this realization by focusing on each day, one at a time. Living in the moment, in this way, read more→
Tobias Hoonhout | Friday, May 17, 2019
“If it’s half as good as the half we’ve known, here’s Hail! to the rest of the road.” How fitting that a Program of Liberal Studies major would shape his sendoff column around too many book references, am I right? But in all seriousness, it took me four years read more→
Joe Everett | Friday, May 17, 2019
”Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato’s unexamined life, is not worth living.“ — The Hesburgh Papers, 1979. Walking back from one of the last classes of my undergraduate career, I fell into a conversation with an underclassman read more→
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Friday, May 17, 2019
How do you move on from something you’ve spent your whole life looking forward to? For most of my time at Notre Dame, it’s been a running joke among my friends that “Lucas has been a Notre Dame fan his whole life,” but honestly, it was much more than read more→
Mary Freeman | Friday, May 17, 2019
I have learned many things in my time here at Notre Dame. One of these is that properly expressing depth of feeling with language is entirely impossible. I could sit here and write and re-write line after line of this farewell, but no matter what I say it likely read more→
Letter to the Editor | Friday, May 17, 2019
Editor’s note: This letter to the editor was originally published on October 2, 2018. On Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:34 a.m., Michael Adamek, a 57-year-old custodian at the University of Notre Dame, was found unresponsive in the Hesburgh Library parking lot. Moments later, after the arrival of the Notre Dame read more→
Letter to the Editor | Friday, May 17, 2019
Editor’s note: This letter to the editor was originally published on February 28, 2018. Those unacquainted with O’Shag likely don’t know of the tiny cafe nestled by the building’s DeBart-side entrance. It’s called Waddick’s, and its carpeted interior and rustic oak furniture give off an aura befitting the lovechild of read more→
Letter to the Editor | Friday, May 17, 2019
Editor’s Note: This letter was originally published on Feb. 9, 2018. On Wednesday, Sister Mary McNamara — the rector of Breen-Phillips (BP) Hall — was called home to our Lord. This loss is devastating to all who loved this incredible woman –– her community of the Sisters of the read more→