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Saint Mary’s Student Diversity Board reflects on fall semester, looks forward to future events

Colleen Zewe | Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Student Diversity Board (SDB) at Saint Mary’s has a busy spring semester ahead of it, all culminating in its biggest event of the year — the annual diversity conference. The conference, originally called the Diverse Student Leadership Conference, will now be called the Diversity and Leadership Conference, SDB vice president and senior Megan Uekert said.

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Saint Mary’s committee builds on Monthly Mingle initiative

Gina Twardosz | Thursday, December 7, 2017

The topics of Saint Mary’s Monthly Mingles — which take place on the first Monday of every month — vary from political issues to self-care. Sophomore Terra Nelson and junior Francesca Cervone, members of the Community Justice Committee, are Monthly Mingle co-chairs and responsible for planning each event. The goal of the Monthly Mingle, Nelson

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Play my game: a call to be uncomfortable

Diversity Council | Thursday, November 30, 2017

Table games: there are a lot. While we were young, we sometimes struggled to fully learn the games our family and friends already mastered. For me at least, there was a level of confusion and a little bit of discomfort as a 4-year-old trying to understand Monopoly. But among this confusion, there was a willingness

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PrismND hosts online forum for questions on LGBTQ issues and allyship

Madison Bollenbacher | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

PrismND will be hosting a Facebook livestream event Tuesday at 8 p.m. to address questions from the Notre Dame community related to allyship and LGBTQ issues. In an attempt to further their reach and better understand the issues that community members are facing, the organization decided to host a Q&A session. They created an online

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Cervelli encourages community to foster open dialogue

Observer Staff Report | Monday, November 13, 2017

Saint Mary’s President Jan Cervelli sent an email to the student body Thursday addressing diversity and inclusion initiatives on campus. Cervelli said in the email the President’s Council on Inclusivity and Multicultural Diversity (PCIMD) has compiled a list of Community Dialogue Events throughout this academic year. Upcoming events include a tribute to essayist and civil rights

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Students sign inclusion pledge as part of StaND Against Hate Week

Morgan Johnson | Thursday, November 9, 2017

On Wednesday, community members signed a pledge indicating their intention to create a more inclusive Notre Dame as part of the Gender Relation Center’s (GRC) annual Social Pledge Signing on Fieldhouse Mall. The signing was part of StaND Against Hate Week. The event was designed to encourage the spirit of inclusion across different ethnic, racial,

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The cost of silence: an authentic and vulnerable Notre Dame community

Diversity Council | Thursday, November 9, 2017

Vulnerability. I believe that if there is one thing a Notre Dame student is more afraid of than a C in a class, it is vulnerability. As students, we have a wide variety of conversations. Educational, insightful, thought-provoking conversations. However, seldom do we have the necessary and real conversations regarding our experiences on this campus.

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Week emphasizes theme of accountability for campus issues

Selena Ponio | Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Student government and the Gender Relations Center (GRC) are partnering to host the “Cost of Silence” week. Formerly known as “Race Relations Week,” sophomore Kaleem Minor, student government director of diversity and inclusion, said the new title was meant to encompass more issues on campus. “We feel like something bigger on this campus is what

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Structurally, Notre Dame is designed for wealthy White Americans

Adrian Mark Lore | Thursday, September 28, 2017

When discussing my experience at the University of Notre Dame with the institution’s apologists — or anyone for that matter — I’m usually met with dismissiveness. As an orphaned queer student of color, my demands for more inclusive policies provoke responses like: “But they’ve created [insert campus institute for marginalized community] precisely for students like

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Cervelli addresses repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Martha Reilly | Thursday, September 14, 2017

Editor’s note: This is the third story in a four-part series examining the effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and its potential repeal at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s story highlights the support the Saint Mary’s administration has demonstrated for DACA and undocumented students at the College. Last November, students assembled in

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