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The narrative of overcoming

Elizabeth Hascher | Wednesday, March 2, 2016

In 2010, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a TED talk that addressed why so few women reach the top of their fields. She suggested that not many women can be found in the upper echelons of the business world because women do not “lean in” — in other words, women are largely responsible

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Don’t be afraid to fail

Neil Joseph | Tuesday, January 19, 2016

About a year ago, I was in an incredibly different place than where I am right now — quite literally (I’m in London now, I was in South Bend then). But also in incredibly more ways. In January 2015, my last few years at Notre Dame were going to be defined by one day, as

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Philosophy and football

April Feng | Thursday, October 8, 2015

“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.” — Anonymous. When I first came to America two years ago, there were a couple of things about this culture I did not understand, chief among them football. After my “pitiful absence” from the