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2017 student government department reviews

Lucy Lynch, Ciara Hopkinson and Sofia Madden | Thursday, December 7, 2017

Department of Health and Wellness Junior health and wellness commissioner Jade Martinez has been working to restructure the department to work more efficiently. This strategic change has resulted in the addition of commissioner positions, including two mental health commissioners, one physical health commissioner, one McWell commissioner and one sexual health commissioner. The addition of these

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Student Government promotes discussion of campus issues on online platform

Thomas Murphy | Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Notre Dame student government created Onward, an online platform where students could send in university issues they considered in hopes of initiating change, two years ago. However, since its inception student participation with Onward has fallen off dramatically, but the current student government administration is trying to change that. Junior and director of campus technology

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OIT introduces communication platform to University

Andrew Cameron | Friday, September 23, 2016

In January, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) made Zoom freely available to all students, faculty and staff at Notre Dame. OIT product program manager Paul Drake said in an email the service is a “best-in-class video and audio conferencing service and the preferred tool for conferencing at Notre Dame.” Zoom allows up to 50 people

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OIT releases print quota data

Gabriela Malespin | Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Notre Dame’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), in conjunction with student government, released their Fall 2014 PrintND Report that highlights some of the key data on student printing in light of the printing quota controversy presented last semester. According to the report, 90 percent of undergraduates print fewer than 1,000 pages per semester and 90 percent of graduate students print