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Mannion McGinley | Friday, January 27, 2023
“Gilmore Girls” has been a comfort show of mine for years. Through my many watches, I’ve processed that Rory Gilmore is no perfect character. In fact, she’s one of the farthest main characters from “perfect” that I have come to know in my 22 years of reading, watching and learning. While she and Lorelai didn’t
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, August 23, 2017
It is great to be back home in Indiana and humbling to be here at Notre Dame. I am happy to be here with you today, but I know that some of you are not happy to see me. And I can see that freedom of speech is alive and well at Notre Dame. I
Courtney Phelan | Thursday, April 7, 2016
Starting in 2012, most of the United States adopted the Common Core State Standards. CCSS, or the Common Core, as it’s commonly (pun totally intended) called is a set of educational standards, or learning targets, that aim to ensure all students have the same expectations and opportunities. They’re rather controversial and misunderstood, and I’m not going to put myself
BridgeND | Thursday, December 10, 2015
It is an event of extreme rarity that our organization offers a viewpoint as a collective. BridgeND is a transpartisan student group dedicated towards open forum debate and inclusiveness, and as such, it is almost always inappropriate and impossible for us to offer opinions in chorus. However, in order for our club to function as
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, January 22, 2015
I have said things I regretted more times than I would like to remember. I have also refrained from saying what I have thought at times because I feared embarrassment or being misunderstood, or I was just unwilling to accept responsibility for my words. Being responsible for what I say is burdensome. The Twitter account