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Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 22, 2021
In response to the recent news that the University will be closing the Zahm House community, we have witnessed an outpouring of support for the men of Zahm. There has been an alternate response, however, which has assumed this decision is based on an alleged history and continued existence of sexual assault and rape culture
Ellis Riojas | Monday, October 5, 2020
First-Year: Quad Sophomore: Quad Junior: Six-Man At this point, all the simple models I’ve learned in my forecasting class would predict that I would somehow find a way to have more than five roommates my senior year, but sadly that’s not the case. As an resident assistant in Baumer Hall, living in a single-occupancy room
Show Some Skin | Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Last week, Show Some Skin: 20/20 was scheduled to be performed. I had dreamed about this day since my first year at Notre Dame when I first became involved as the stage manager. Even as I sat crying in the lighting booth at the back of the Snite Museum auditorium watching the cast of Show
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 23, 2020
Fellow Belles, Saint Mary’s is not a place we go to, but a place we come from. The gift of our Saint Mary’s education is that after four years of discovering our place in the world, we then get to go out and change it. As we find ourselves separated into different communities, remember that
Danny McMaster | Tuesday, February 11, 2020
This past Thursday, Mr. Benjamin Testani wrote a column entitled ‘Why you are so whiny about your own school’ in which he whined about people saying that he whines in his columns. Naturally, when presented the opportunity to write a response column to another columnist’s response column to his responses on his columns, I felt
Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 4, 2019
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize there’s a disregard for LGBTQ+ individuals on this campus. I had the inconvenience of learning this in the first month of college when I was called a homophobic slur and thrown around a dorm stairwell. Things have not again escalated to a physical point since then, though a
Ciara Hopkinson | Tuesday, September 17, 2019
While most students do not have the resources to start their own business until years after graduating from college, senior Amanda Estrada is putting her business savvy to the test early. Using the homey environment and additional space of her single, the Howard Hall resident is starting what she described as a “speakeasy cafe” in
Lauren Fox | Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Between a set of double doors, 16 men from Keenan Hall raised a fellow Knight on their shoulders and sang “Happy Birthday” to him at the top of their lungs. It was more screaming than singing. It was crowded. It only lasted a few minutes. And it was junior Kevin Schneier’s favorite moment of the
Selena Ponio | Tuesday, September 29, 2015
The Gender Relations Center (GRC) will host a drop-in discussion entitled “My Home Under the Dome” today from 5:45 to 7:15 p.m. in the Coalition Lounge in LaFortune Student Center. Assistant director for LGBTQ student concerns Maureen McKenney said this event aims to facilitate conversations about belonging and providing a safe space on campus. “My Home Under the