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-14 posts tagged "South Bend community"
Crystal Ramirez | Wednesday, September 15, 2021
This semester, the Office for the Common Good (OCG) is back with community-based and civically engaging campus initiatives, but with a new name. The office, formally known as the Office for Social and Civic Engagement, is a unique resource center, which exists for the Saint Mary’s College community, including students faculty and staff. OCG works
Evan McKenna | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Despite the 6:30 a.m. wake-up call, energy was high for the opening of a new grocery store in South Bend: Trader Joe’s. In the early hours of Friday morning, South Bend residents and tri-campus students began trickling into a freshly-paved parking lot off Howard Street. A line formed many hours before the scheduled opening and
Edward Brunicardi | Thursday, August 27, 2020
An 8-minute and 46-second murder caused outrage across the nation, 11,000 people signed a petition by Notre Dame Alumni and hundreds of Black students and allies walked in solidarity on Notre Dame Avenue. Yet to offer a first response, the Notre Dame President tweeted fifty-two words. The disconnect between Notre Dame’s faculty and its student
Nola Wallace | Friday, August 14, 2020
This summer, our timelines flooded with COVID data, press briefings and George Floyd. His story, the camera footage and the public’s outcry rocked the world. Not only did it spark a modern-day civil rights movement, but it also jumpstarted an important discussion on the injustices of the modern day criminal justice system. As much as
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 2, 2020
Notre Dame does much good for our community. And South Bend, a city that is 26% African American and 15% Hispanic, has a future being quietly crushed. South Bend has a lead poisoning epidemic that exceeds Flint, Michigan, by some metrics. The response by city, county and state has been poorly organized. We have thus
Marirose Osborne | Friday, January 17, 2020
Although water is one of the most abundant resources in the world, it exists on a wide spectrum of drinkability. Bottled water tends to be the safest option, while river and lake water should be considered non-potable. However, well water falls into a gray area. At times it can be consumed safely, but it can
Maria Luisa Paul | Thursday, December 5, 2019
Happy laughter mixed with cheerful screaming as children ran, jumped and glided down the bright green slides on the playground at South Bend’s Howard Park. Around them, couples and individuals alike made the most of the frosty afternoon by looping around the park’s new ice skating trail. A few took some tumbles but laughed it
Teagan Dillon | Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Last summer, while living in New York City, I posted my first Yelp review ever. A slightly satirical and exaggerated review, I graciously gave Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer five stars. Fifty-eight reviews, 56 check-ins and 236 friends later, what started out as a joke quickly turned into an obsession that only continued when
Ciara Hopkinson | Tuesday, May 1, 2018
For the past two semesters, Ph.D. student Stacy Sivinski has taught “The Rhetoric of Place,” a Writing and Rhetoric course focusing on residents’ relationship with their communities and the concept of community identity. The class specifically focused on the South Bend community, exploring its current challenges and its future. “The class is kind of scaffolded
Cristina Interiano | Wednesday, April 11, 2018
A few days ago as I was coming back into town on the South Shore Line, I met one of the most entertaining Uber drivers I have ridden with. For the first half of the ride he went on and on about his childhood memories growing up with sixteen other siblings. He told us about all