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Sam Godinez | Wednesday, February 8, 2023
It’s election day on campus, and students have the opportunity to vote from 8 a.m. through 8 p.m. for the next Notre Dame student body president and vice president. This cycle has seen all three tickets use social media — Instagram, in particular — to promote their policies. As a result, this has allowed students
Isabelle Kause | Wednesday, February 8, 2023
A while ago, all of my friends started downloading the app BeReal and would ask me on a daily basis if I had finally downloaded it yet. My answer was always no, until a few months ago. I had finally decided to join the trend. The app encourages you to live in the moment, and
Reyna Lim | Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Every year I say, “this will be my year.” Every year. Something about New Year’s Day and the bells ringing and the balls dropped and the tteokguk I eat with my family, convinces me that something is beginning anew, bringing an inevitable force of change by some astronomical power. But January 1st is just a
Jonah Tran | Monday, December 5, 2022
The year is 5000 B.C. You just completed a successful three-day hunt. You speared the mastodon to death and harvested its organs. Your personal chef prepared for you a feast of grilled ribeye steaks, raw liver, testicles, and bone marrow. Before you settle into your makeshift straw bed inside the cave, you inject yourself with
BridgeND | Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Social media has given a platform for individuals to share their voices faster and to a broader audience than ever before. At our nation’s founding, it would have been unimaginable to predict that anyone would be able to speak at any time from anywhere. This phenomenon has lent itself to the creation of a new
Grace Sullivan | Friday, November 11, 2022
In modern-day politics, political parties are more polarized than ever. This division between Democrats and Republicans has prevented bipartisan legislation from being implemented to address critical issues in the United States. However, American politics were not always so divided. This begs the question, what caused political polarization in our democracy? The answer is simple: identity
lettertotheeditor | Monday, October 31, 2022
I came to Notre Dame wanting it all. I wanted incredible memories. I wanted success. I wanted to get holy, get fit and get involved. I wanted to waste no time. I knew that this experience, like high school, would fly by at an incredible pace. Like a fleeting shadow. A blink of an eye,
Kate Casper | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
I knew I was in a funk when I took myself on a lake walk last Saturday. While the cause was unclear at the time, I knew for sure my funk was triggered by something. Specifically, I knew it was triggered by my self-imposed “Snapchat Detox”: I would allow myself only 15 minutes of Snapchat
Genevieve Coleman and Liam Price | Thursday, October 6, 2022
Editor’s note: This story includes mentions of sexual assault. A list of sexual assault reporting options and on-campus resources can be found on the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross websites. Last Tuesday, a group of students protested on God Quad in the wake of a post from a student on social media claiming
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, March 2, 2022
“There’s no more days of the week. It’s just days of the war,” junior and president of the Notre Dame Ukrainian Society Maryna Chuma said. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six days ago, several Notre Dame students with Ukrainian ties are struggling to deal with the attack on the country. First-year Marko Gural said his