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Isa Sheikh | Monday, October 10, 2022
Freight trains rattled overhead and a double rainbow stretched across the gray sky as hundreds of South Bend residents gathered for the second annual “Studebaker Talks” in a room that once served as a factory floor for the Studebaker company. The once-abandoned venue, which now serves as the South Bend City Church, reflected the history
Jim Moster | Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Traditionally, people measure emotional strength through clarity and relatability. For example, everyone recognizes the forces of blind rage, passionate love and overwhelming grief. In his YouTube show the Dead Mall Series, Dan Bell argues something much different. Based on each video’s comment section, viewers often feel the pang of ineffable, ambiguous and slow-burning emotions. This
Hanna Kennedy | Tuesday, November 5, 2019
The Brain Lair. It’s an anagram for librarian and a fitting name for Kathy Burnette’s bookstore, located just five minutes from campus. Before opening Brain Lair Books, Burnette held positions as a librarian in local elementary and middle schools for almost 20 years. “I’ve always wanted to open a bookstore,” Burnette said. “I visited some
Tom Naatz | Thursday, December 7, 2017
Notre Dame will host a TEDx event April 28 as part of Idea Week in the greater South Bend area. The event will feature 16 community members, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, delivering a TED talk based on scientific data. The event will be the third TEDx event Notre Dame has hosted in recent
Nora McGreevy | Thursday, March 3, 2016
I’m only seven pages into “Americanah,” the poignant and incisive novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, when Adichie delivers the first of many lines that strike me at my core: “It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, a bleakness and borderlessness. It brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief
Marisa Iati | Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Senior Tom White finds order in disorder. He finds it in the disorder of his Dillon Hall bedroom, where piles of socks and shoes rest by the bed, hats cluster around a plastic moose head and three broken hockey sticks adorn the wall. He also finds it in the disorder of his Tourette syndrome, a
Lesley Stevenson | Thursday, January 16, 2014
The most innovative members of the Notre Dame community will take center stage Tuesday at TEDxUND, an event coordinated by students and faculty to inspire conversation and examine critical questions through presentations by students, faculty, staff, alumni and local residents. The event will be held in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC). “We really wanted