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-16 posts tagged "policy"
Spencer Kelly | Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) may seem like a distant technology, confined to Terminator-style sci-fi stories for the foreseeable future. But the rapid advances in AI capabilities, as exhibited recently with tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT, demonstrate that AI is already here and impacting our everyday lives. While AI holds the promise of advancing society and shaping
Liam Kelly | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Holy Cross College student body president Dion Payne-Miller and vice president Oscar Jarmon focused their efforts in the first semester on making student government more responsive to students and instituting policy to bring the community together. Payne-Miller emphasized that one of his biggest priorities was making student government more efficient and responsive to the students.
Isa Sheikh | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Last week, the Supreme Court heard two concurrent cases on the state of affirmative action in college admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The petitioner in both cases — Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit that has taken issue
Uyen Le, Adriana Perez and Lilyann Gardner | Monday, November 22, 2021
Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a two-part From the Archives series depicting the history of LGBTQ+ activism at Notre Dame. The first story was published Wednesday, Nov. 17. As the LGBTQ+ community at Notre Dame gained more visibility and social acceptance, University administration pushed back against acknowledging the group’s demands for official
BridgeND | Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Two and a half weeks ago, Metronome’s 62-foot-wide clock face was doing the same thing it had done every day in New York’s Union Square for more than 20 years: telling the time. Now, it continues to do the same, but the numbers have changed. A few moments ago, the clock read 7 087 15
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Fr. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, recently decided to cover murals of Christopher Columbus because they were deemed too offensive to be viewed by Notre Dame students. One week later, he rejected a student petition calling for a pornography filter on Notre Dame’s Wi-Fi. We are dumbfounded. Does the University of Notre Dame really believe
Sara Schlecht and Hannah Thomas | Thursday, October 4, 2018
Chris Cobb, Saint Mary’s professor of English and environmental studies, spoke to students about environmental policy in an event called “Environmental Policy Explained” on Wednesday. The event was held as part of an initiative of the Office for Civil and Social Engagement to inform the Saint Mary’s community about issues relevant to the upcoming midterm
Max Lander | Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Political Science professor and associate director of the Environmental Change Initiative Patrick Regan delivered a lecture Monday exploring the complexities surrounding climate change in America. Regan began his lecture by speaking about the level at which climate change is evident, accepted and supported by science. “We’ve known about climate change for 35 to 40 years,”
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, December 5, 2017
As our path leads us past the gates of complacence and our steps take us beyond the gaits of compliance, a moment is transformed into a movement larger than the space our bodies take up marching through the streets. Where I grew up, the act of protesting was a routine expression of civic duty. I
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, September 20, 2016
For the last year, commentators, TV personalities and seemingly every person in America (including me) has written about the danger that Donald Trump presents. Whether it’s the things he says, the hatred he taps into, or the way he treats his peers, he’s been criticized in so many different ways. Personally, these things are disqualifying