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Liam Price | Friday, May 13, 2022
In his commencement speech, Miles Folsom plans to speak about willpower. Willpower, he said, can do and has done amazing things, including carrying him from maximum security prison to becoming this year’s Holy Cross College valedictorian. “If you try as hard as you can and you never stop trying, you will be amazed at how
Caitlin Gormley | Wednesday, February 24, 2021
After a year of living through the pandemic, many aspects of life for college students have changed. Students now sit distant from classmates and eat in the dining hall behind plastic barriers; yet, there are many things about life in a pandemic that we don’t fully understand, Holy Cross professor Justin McDevitt said. To explore
Evan DaCosta | Wednesday, March 28, 2018
A panel discussion hosted by the Kaneb Center on Tuesday covered various faculty members’ experiences teaching college-level courses at the Westville Correctional Facility, a medium-level security institution southwest of South Bend. The panelists included Maria McKenna, an education and Africana studies professor, Kaneb Center fellow and English professor Kate Marshall, the William R. Kenan, Jr.
Emily McConville | Sunday, September 14, 2014
Last March, the Notre Dame Celebration Choir visited the Westville Correctional Facility, an Indiana prison with thousands of inmates. Sophomore and choir vice president Anna O’Connell said the experience was profound. “To see the prisoners come in, it was a really cool thing because people in prison are definitely marginalized and forgotten about a lot,”