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Thank you for your interest

By Liam Price · Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Nobody can take the experience away from us who have attended this school. Not the books we’ve read, the friends we’ve made or the Ginger races we’ve watched.

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Bumps, no's and the road ahead

By Reyna Lim · Wednesday, March 26, 2025

"What I’ll try to do is I’ll try to start cutting myself some slack. And you should, too, because for each no we’ll be up against, we have plenty of yeses under our belts already."

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Becoming a bookworm

By Moira Quinn · Tuesday, March 25, 2025

“This might not be the best time to praise reading for fun, as we’re all probably reading a ton for other reasons, but if you can, I encourage you to pick up a new book in the foreseeable future.”

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A word on reading

By Richard Taylor · Monday, March 24, 2025

"I do believe that we can learn to love things — that we can train our desires — and that is what I have done with books."

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The horror of Christopher Grady

By Connor Marrott · Monday, March 24, 2025

"If Notre Dame is to be true to its mission, it must ask itself: are we preparing students to perpetuate the status quo, or to transform it into something closer to Christ’s will — into something that favors more prayers and less war?"

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Backyard barnstorming brilliance

By Jack Sirianni · Friday, March 21, 2025

“There could not be a more natural moment for a strong Democratic Party to rise up in opposition to President Trump and Elon Musk. They just need to go where Republicans aren’t: their own districts.”

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The death effect

By Gracie Eppler · Friday, March 21, 2025

“It is not every day that you get to share a storm cloud with the author of your favorite book. But at my side, there Kaveh Akbar stood, twice my height, limber as a grasshopper’s legs.”

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Bring back desperation

By Kate Casper · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

There’s no need to walk away from great people and great opportunities because we know we already have something good going. 

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ND Dining weaponizes Lent with fake meat

By Joe Rudolph · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

“What’s the use in serving fake, malnourished and unhealthy vegan meat to save carbon if South Dining Hall emits more carbon in a week than can be saved with 100 years of composting and cow-free production?”

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On going home

By Duncan Stangel · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

"Nostalgia is potent, and it was valuable to unwind. In honor of the DOGE chief, I will describe my week using Elon Musk’s five-point formula."

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From Mar-a-Lago with love

By Olemo Gordon Brian · Wednesday, March 5, 2025

"It has always been general policy to shy away from commenting on trending topics which in most cases are empirical manifestations of larger structural phenomena but these are extraordinary times."

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