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19 posts tagged "gender relations"

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Student Government launches ‘Red Zone Awareness Week’

Peter McKenna | Tuesday, September 5, 2023

On Monday at noon, the Executive Cabinet of Student Government held its first Red Zone Awareness Week event outside DeBartolo Hall. Members of the cabinet gathered to hand out resources about sexual assault spread awareness about the “Red Zone” — the time between the start of the academic year and Thanksgiving break when more than

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GreeNDot widens focus under new department leadership

Peter Breen | Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Students gathered on Library Lawn from 9-11 p.m. Friday night for Notre Dame’s third celebration of National greeNDot Day. A DJ played music as attendees enjoyed two large inflatables, food trucks and lawn games. Mandy Miller, the program director of student health and wellness initiatives for the division of student affairs, said the event provided

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From the Archives: Panty raids and beauty contests — Notre Dame’s history of sexist traditions

Uyen Le, Chris Russo, Spencer Kelly and Lilyann Gardner | Monday, September 27, 2021

The anonymous messages on Yik Yak targeting Saint Mary’s students showed that fraught gender relations in the tri-campus community are not a thing of the past. Despite institutional and cultural shifts, many women here continue to be subjected to sexist attacks and microaggressions. This week’s edition of From the Archives seeks to uncover Notre Dame’s

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Stronger with Saint Mary’s

Observer Editorial Board | Friday, September 24, 2021

Following the results of a football ticket lottery for the Shamrock Series football game on Saturday, harmful, hateful messages surged on the anonymous social media platform Yik Yak. These comments were mainly aimed at Saint Mary’s students who had won tickets to attend the game. Yik Yak is a social media platform that allows users

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Feminist ND, student government host successful menstrual product drive benefiting South Bend

Isabella Volmert | Monday, March 1, 2021

Over the past two weeks, an inconspicuous cardboard box sat first in Duncan Student Center and then in the LaFortune Student Center. Almost everyday, it was filled with sanitary pads, tampons, shampoo and other toiletries to be donated in the Feminist ND and student government menstrual drive.  From Feb. 15 through Feb. 26, Feminist ND

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From the Archives: Notre Dame’s first class of women

Evan McKenna, Adriana Perez and Madilynn O'Hara | Monday, September 28, 2020

In the fall of 1971, after years of plans for a Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s merger were ultimately scrapped, the University offered a highly-contested consolation — the admittance of women into the class of 1972.  This week’s edition of From the Archives explores the aftermath of the University’s coeducation decision: administrative adjustments, evolving traditions

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Response to parietal protest — activism in search of a cause

Letter to the Editor and Nelisha Silva | Friday, November 22, 2019

Assuming the piece published earlier this week defending the parietal sit-in at Stanford Hall was not satirical, I write to respond to the absurdity of the author’s claims.  For those who have not read it — “Parietals criminalize gender itself, but we already knew that” — the basis of the author’s argument is that parietals

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Student government administration uplifts student voices, plans inclusive discussions

Serena Zacharias | Friday, November 1, 2019

Since senior Elizabeth Boyle and junior Patrick McGuire took office as Notre Dame student body president and vice president this past April, the pair said they have been working toward their stated goals of empowering students, improving gender relations and reforming the dorm system. They elaborated on their plans and recounted current progress in a

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Notre Dame needs to step up on intercampus stereotyping

Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, September 27, 2019

Among the attempts to characterize Notre Dame culture that line the shelves of the Hammes Bookstore, there exists a cheeky character called “Things Notre Dame Students Like,” its contents compiled from a blog of the same name. Being lovers of relatable and self-deprecating humor (read: Twitter. We like Twitter.), we were eager to discover aspects

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Seeing both sides of the same coin

Emma Farnan | Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The past year of my life has been incredibly exciting and eye-opening. In addition to expanding my academic horizon with every other student at Notre Dame, I have also taken medically prescribed hormones each day to physically transition into a woman. I am transgender and have finally been living as myself, a woman, for the

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