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Kathryn Muchnick | Thursday, February 23, 2023
“I think that we are going to find ways to disappoint our parents that nobody thought was even possible.” That is how Sammy Kacius, a senior in Keenan Hall, describes the 47th annual Keenan Revue. Kacius is the director of the Revue, which will kick off Thursday in the Stepan Center and run until Saturday.
The Observer | Tuesday, October 25, 2022
This year, Notre Dame’s book club is striving to go global by picking a book with an international connection each month. To maximize their multiculturalism, the officers plan to collaborate with Notre Dame’s cultural clubs that correspond with their monthly read. “We are choosing books based on different cultures,” said book club president and graduate
Katie Werner | Thursday, April 1, 2021
The Notre Dame student senate convened Wednesday evening over Zoom to change the role of Diversity Council (DC), determine the recipients of the 2021 student union awards and confirm three Student Union Board (SUB) positions. The meeting commenced with an update from chief of staff Aaron Benavides on the Campus Life Council (CLC). The CLC
Claire Rafford | Thursday, February 6, 2020
Diversity Council hosted its fourth-annual student government election debate on Wednesday evening in DeBartolo Hall. The debate asked the candidates to address issues of diversity and inclusion on Notre Dame’s campus. The candidates running for student body president and vice president this year are junior Noble Patidar and freshman Connor Patrick, junior Connor Whittle and
Diversity Council | Thursday, December 12, 2019
The concept of race has always been a part of my life whether I knew it or not. When I was little, I noticed the obvious differences between me and others, such as my dark, almond-shaped eyes and straight black hair. I noticed that the sharp, inflected sounds of the Vietnamese language weren’t heard in
Diversity Council | Thursday, November 21, 2019
Something I have mulled over for a significant part of the past year, and I have been presented with many times over the course of my past (almost) three-and-a-half years here, is the issue of lack of compassion. Compassion, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to
Diversity Council | Thursday, November 7, 2019
When looking at diversity on campus, it is common to look at this issue — and yes, diversity on campus is an issue — as a collective. It is common to broadly analyze and compare the differences between ethnicity, race, and culture between various groups at Notre Dame. It is uncommon, however, to have this
Diversity Council | Thursday, October 3, 2019
The Sacred Heart of Jesus statue is one of the most iconic, symbolic but also controversial pieces of public art on Notre Dame’s campus. The Sacred Heart of Jesus sits right in front of the Main Building on God Quad, and if one looks at the statue directly, one can see the Basilica of the
Diversity Council | Thursday, September 5, 2019
Notre Dame faces the issue of forgetfulness. We forget about the outrage over some new administrative action we read about a few weeks ago. We forget about ‘let’s get a meal sometime’ from three weeks ago. We forget about the impactful seminar we attended last week. We forgot about the results of the Inclusive Campus
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 12, 2019
My freshman year, I served as a representative on the Diversity Council of Notre Dame. During one council meeting, Erin Hoffmann Harding came to listen to the perspectives of the council about how Residential Life and Student Affairs initiatives could best meet the needs of minority students at Notre Dame in order to increase the