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109 posts tagged "Fr. John Jenkins"

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‘It’s starting to feel like it was before’: Pandemic looms over start of semester

Isa Sheikh | Friday, January 14, 2022

As students left campus in December, COVID-19 cases surged across the country. That trend has continued as the United States is averaging more than 700,000 new cases a day, far more than at any previous point in the pandemic. Though the Omicron variant has proven less fatal and less likely to lead to serious symptoms,

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130 years of Notre Dame: Thomas Blantz, Edward ‘Monk’ Malloy speak on University history

Simon Vogel | Thursday, November 11, 2021

As part of the Notre Dame Book Festival, Notre Dame University Press hosted an informal question and answer session with Fr. Thomas Blantz and former University President Fr. Edward “Monk” Malloy in the Hesburgh Library Scholars Lounge Wednesday evening. Malloy’s memoir, titled “Monk’s Notre Dame,” was published in 2005 and recounts his relationship with Notre

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Eastern Orthodox patriarch calls for environmental stewardship in ‘historic’ visit to Notre Dame

Ryan Peters | Friday, October 29, 2021

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, called for Christians to assume responsibility for addressing climate change and suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic during his convocation ceremony at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on Thursday evening. Bartholomew, the 270th archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and successor to the apostle Andrew, visited Notre Dame

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University utilizes grant to promote mental health

Bella Laufenberg | Tuesday, September 21, 2021

The process of securing funds from Lilly Endowment Inc. started a year before pilot communities appeared in selected dorms during the spring 2021 semester. Christine Caron Gebhardt, associate vice president for student services, said she began developing a grant proposal in January 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic struck campus. Before she started working on the

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Notre Dame Forum introduced by NBC environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson, Sen. Chris Coons

Observer Staff Report | Monday, September 6, 2021

The Notre Dame 2021 Forum’s keynote event will be hosted by NBC chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson and co-chair of the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus Sen. Chris Coons, the University announced in a Wednesday press release. The event will be held Sept. 10 from 3-4 p.m in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza

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Jenkins reflects on pandemic during Opening Mass homily

Adriana Perez | Wednesday, August 25, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, novels about widespread disease flew off the shelves. Popular among them were copies of Albert Camus’ “The Plague,” and University President Fr. John Jenkins was one of the many people who felt drawn to read it. Jenkins served as presider and homilist during the 2021-2022 academic year Opening

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Notre Dame shares trustee task force report on diversity, equity, inclusion; offers strategic framework

Observer Staff Report | Monday, August 16, 2021

In an email to the Notre Dame community on Monday morning, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced the release of a report conducted by the Trustee Task Force on diversity, equity and inclusion. The report, which was presented to the board of trustees in June, was focused on assessing the Notre Dame community and recommending

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Class of 2020 commencement to be held over 2022 Memorial Day weekend

Observer Staff Report | Saturday, June 12, 2021

University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in an email Friday that the commencement celebration for the Notre Dame class of 2020 will take place over Memorial Day weekend in 2022, from May 27-30. The announcement comes after the ceremony was postponed in 2020 and then in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the

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Year in Review: 2020-2021

Observer Staff Report | Friday, May 21, 2021

Notre Dame commits to reopening and announces initial protocols — May 26, 2020 In May, University President Fr. John Jenkins authored an opinion in the New York Times, taking a firm stance in favor of reopening Notre Dame in the fall with some changes, such as bringing students back two weeks earlier than usual, eliminating

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University to forgo exit, surveillance testing if 90% of student body becomes fully vaccinated

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, April 28, 2021

The University will no longer require surveillance testing and exit testing for those who are fully vaccinated if 90% of undergraduate and professional students become fully vaccinated, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in an email Wednesday afternoon. Additionally, $15 will be added to each student’s Irish1Card if this second 90% threshold is reached, according

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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