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Notre Dame College Democrats, Student Coalition for Immigration Advocacy travel to Washington D.C.

Megan Fahrney | Wednesday, March 23, 2022

This month, members of the Notre Dame College Democrats and the Student Coalition for Immigration Advocacy attended Spring Lobby Weekend in Washington D.C. The event, organized by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCONL), gathered approximately 400 young adults from across the country to lobby for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the

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Processing the unprecedented

Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, March 22, 2022

For me, it started with an email. I didn’t know it then, but the email I received with the subject line “COVID-19/MANDATORY MEETING” was the first of countless I would receive about the pandemic from Notre Dame officials. I was studying away in Washington, D.C. at the time, so the email (and subsequent mandatory meeting)

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Scene Selections: Summer recap

Nora McGreevy, Charlie Kenney, Nicholas Ottone, Ryan Israel and Carlos De Loera | Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Twitter redemption stories, kitschy ‘80s television shows about women wrestlers, folk music in Rhode Island, jazz by the Smithsonian and Drake has a secret kid? Yes, to all of the above. Read on for a glimpse into the arts and culture that Scene’s writers loved this summer. “Brooklyn 99,” resurrected By Nora McGreevy,

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Over 1,000 students, faculty march through Washington for ‘March for Life’

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Monday, January 22, 2018

Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., junior Julia Dunbar had been to St. Agnes Parish in Arlington, Virginia, to compete in various sporting events throughout her childhood, but she had never seen it as filled as she did Friday morning when scores of Notre Dame students packed into the pews for a mass

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The March 28 Capitol Hill shooting: on and off the record

April Feng | Monday, April 4, 2016

Whether you are on campus or abroad, whether you get your news from Buzzfeed, Twitter, The Washington Post or The New York Times, on March 28, you probably heard that there was a shooting in Washington, D.C. I happened to be working inside the newsroom of CBS News, located only 20 minutes away from Capitol