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Katie Dobelhoff | Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Zak Emmons, the owner and operating barber of University Hair Stylists, has been cutting hair for 25 years, but his business has been serving the Notre Dame community for almost double that. University Hair Stylists, currently located in the basement of LaFortune Student Center, has offered haircuts to students and faculty for 45 years. Emmons’ father Jeff started
Angela Mathew | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
The Center for Social Concerns (CSC) no longer provides vehicles for students to rent, free of charge, to do social service as part of community-engaged learning courses. The CSC’s website states “effective June 1, 2022 the center will no longer offer vehicles for reservation.” This change has impacted community-based learning courses across disciplines like romance
Meghan Lange | Monday, January 24, 2022
On Saturday morning, members of the Saint Mary’s community met in Reignbeaux Lounge to take part in the Office for Common Good’s monthly event Service Saturday. This month’s event was inspired by the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and was coined “Serves: MLK Edition.” The event was organized by the Office for the Common
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