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Kelsey Quint | Tuesday, March 28, 2023
The campus-wide celebration of 50 years of women at Notre Dame came to its close Monday evening with a panel discussion between five women who have both witnessed and enacted change toward women’s empowerment. Each panelist was selected for her unique perspective and contribution to the tri-campus community. The panel was broken into four sections
The Observer | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Kathryn Muchnick | Monday, April 25, 2022
The Shirt committee unveiled the design for the 2022 Shirt at the Hammes Bookstore Friday. The navy shirt is the first design to feature a woman, celebrating the 50th anniversary of women attending Notre Dame. The Shirt Project began in 1990 to raise money to fund Notre Dame student activities. The original shirt fundraiser raised
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, November 2, 2021
In an email Tuesday afternoon, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced plans for a celebration ahead of the 50th anniversary of undergraduate women attending Notre Dame. The University welcomed its first class of women in the fall of 1972. The anniversary celebration, themed “Golden is Thy Fame: 50 years of Undergraduate Women,” will include keynote
Evan McKenna, Adriana Perez and Madilynn O'Hara | Monday, September 28, 2020
In the fall of 1971, after years of plans for a Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s merger were ultimately scrapped, the University offered a highly-contested consolation — the admittance of women into the class of 1972. This week’s edition of From the Archives explores the aftermath of the University’s coeducation decision: administrative adjustments, evolving traditions
Letter to the Editor | Friday, January 24, 2020
The Notre Dame fight song is quintessential Notre Dame. Every kid knows it. You probably knew it long before you even thought of coming to Notre Dame. Now it is time to bring the other half of the student body, namely its women, into that tradition. I imagine it must give Muffet McGraw pause to
Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, September 27, 2019
Among the attempts to characterize Notre Dame culture that line the shelves of the Hammes Bookstore, there exists a cheeky character called “Things Notre Dame Students Like,” its contents compiled from a blog of the same name. Being lovers of relatable and self-deprecating humor (read: Twitter. We like Twitter.), we were eager to discover aspects
Katie Hieatt and Annie Moran | Friday, September 13, 2019
“We knew we were groundbreaking. We knew there were a lot of people against us. We knew we would succeed.” Anne Pillai, class of 1977, remembers the day she came home from high school and her mother informed her Notre Dame was accepting women. Now working as the associate program director for education and outreach
Letter to the Editor | Friday, May 18, 2018
Editor’s note: This letter to the editor was originally published on March 1, 2015. Dear Father Ted, It is with gratitude and deep devotion that I write to reflect on your legacy at Notre Dame and your lasting gift to the women of Our Lady. Forty-plus years later, we women of ND are the proud legacy
Richard Klee | Friday, April 10, 2015
Fr. Ted was a fighter for human rights. As chief of the Civil Rights Commission, brokering landmark compromises that gave new legal protections to many Americans, and as Notre Dame’s longest serving president, opening Notre Dame to female students and integrating Notre Dame’s leadership with lay men and women, Fr. Ted sought greater respect for