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Spencer Kelly | Monday, November 14, 2022
This week, the men’s and women’s basketball teams ramp up their seasons at the Joyce Center, their home since 1968. Before the current venue was built, however, Irish basketball played at the Notre Dame Fieldhouse, a structure formerly located next to LaFortune Student Center, and now home to the commemorative Fieldhouse Mall. Once the Joyce
Spencer Kelly | Monday, November 7, 2022
In our edition celebrating 50 years of women at Notre Dame, we highlighted the often contentious nature of the coeducation process in the early 1970s. One aspect we couldn’t cover in detail was the decision over which of the men’s dorms would be converted to accommodate the new female students — a ruling arguably more
Spencer Kelly | Monday, October 3, 2022
This week, From the Archives continues its coverage on the early history of parietals at Notre Dame. Part one ended in 1969 with some early issues and complaints regarding initial parietal policies, but an overall sense of optimism that this new system would work out. We pick up our story in early 1970, as the
Spencer Kelly | Monday, September 26, 2022
Parietals continue to be a consistently controversial topic at Notre Dame, almost universally igniting the ire of the student body. While this policy may seem to be an eternal annoyance, in fact parietals as we know them date only to the late 1960s and are intertwined with the process of coeducation at Notre Dame, now
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
When Deborah Dell, known to her loved ones as Debi, arrived at the University of Notre Dame in 1972 with the first cohort of women, she entered with a sharp mind and a lot of determination. Now, almost exactly 50 years later, Dell is publishing a book, “Objects in the Rearview Mirror: A Social History
Mary Ellen Woods | Thursday, September 9, 2021
My return to campus as a Fellow in the Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI) allows me to reflect and reexamine, not only thoughts about ND, but my own growth and experience. In today’s episode of my column, I will revisit racism and ultimately, anti-racism. For many years, and with deep appreciation, I took pride in Fr. Hesburgh’s leadership
Evan McKenna, Jim Moster, Sarah Kikel, Uyen Le and Maggie Clark | Monday, February 22, 2021
Here at the Archives, we’re always on the lookout for examples of history repeating itself — and if there’s any subject of campus discourse doomed to be locked in a perpetual time loop, it’s the issue of parietals at Notre Dame. The parietals debate seems to revive itself every few years, with notable resurgences occurring
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, November 8, 2020
Robert Sam Anson, Notre Dame class of ’67, a magazine writer who co-founded The Observer as an undergraduate, died Nov. 2, the New York Times reported. He was 75. He died at a home he had been staying in Rexford, New York, from complications due to dementia. As a student at Notre Dame, Anson delivered
BridgeND | Monday, February 3, 2020
At the tail end of fall semester, a petition was posted outside of the second floor area of Hesburgh Library where renovations are scheduled to soon take place. The petition, which read “Keep Ugly Room Ugly” amassed signatures by passersby in the last week of school, as students crammed into Ugly Room to study for
Maria Luisa Paul | Monday, January 20, 2020
Two men joining hands stand firmly at Leighton Plaza. At times, people visiting the area pose next to them taking pictures. A historic snapshot, the statue featuring Martin Luther King Jr. and University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh permanently preserves an aspect of the civil rights movement in downtown South Bend. Created by local artist,