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-28 posts tagged "women"
Diane Park | Monday, October 8, 2018
Oakland Elizabeth House (OEH) is a transitional residence located in Oakland, California that serves single mothers and their children who have suffered from poverty, homelessness and abuse. Providing housing and other resources like counseling and parenting classes for about 10 families, OEH particularly focuses on helping their residents find permanent housing, sustainable incomes and familial
Diversity Council | Tuesday, September 25, 2018
“Control is a mirage. The most effective leaders right now — men and women — are those who embrace traits once considered feminine. Empathy. Vulnerability. Humility. Inclusiveness. Generosity.” — Leigh Buchanan Empathy. Every year, The Posse Foundation and Posse Scholars facilitate an annual weekend-long PossePlus Retreat attended by members of the larger student body, faculty
Lucy Collins | Thursday, September 6, 2018
With the sun in the sleepy stages of wakeup, lazily drooping over the horizon, an inner dialogue pulses through my mind for what seems like the thousandth time this summer: “Keep going. When you round the corner, you can take a break. … No, I don’t need a break that’ll just make it worse, idiot
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
Hanna Kennedy | Friday, April 27, 2018
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, student actors from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s will take to the stage and bring contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House” to life. Director Brynn Alexander, a senior Film, Television and Theatre major with a concentration in Theatre, chose to stage “The Clean House” after reading the script over
Owen Lane | Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In 2018, the definition of music continues to expand. Even hip-hop music, once the edgiest genre of music and considered abrasive and threatening to middle-class American values, has become the dominant popular musical genre, complete with an endless queue of traditionalists complaining about the genre’s unpleasant new direction. So, what can a rock band even
Selena Ponio | Wednesday, February 28, 2018
A simple hashtag, #MeToo, was the spark that helped light a contemporary social movement, and on Monday members of the Notre Dame community came together in Geddes Hall to discuss the legal and political implications of the #MeToo moment. The lecture and discussion was part of the NDVotes lecture series “Pizza, Pop & Politics.” Jennifer
Nora McGreevy | Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Woman after woman filed down the red carpet, each clad defiantly in black. #TimesUp pins on lapels glinted under the glare of paparazzi flashes. Activists such as Tarana Burke, Marai Larasi, Rosa Clemente, Ai-jen Poo, Billie Jean King and many more mingled with the regular Hollywood crowd on the red carpet and in the glitzy
Sarah Cate Baker | Tuesday, September 19, 2017
To say that there is a gender discrepancy in STEM is nothing new. According to the NSF, women make up only 29 percent of the STEM workforce, and earn less than half of the bachelor’s awarded in almost all STEM fields. The situation is even more disparate for minority women, who in 2015 earned 3.1
Ariel Dominguez | Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Admittedly, I have always held a contrived understanding of leadership. My adolescent mind would conjure images of Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass valiantly mounting his steed, Caesar crossing the Rubicon, FDR delivering his first inaugural address; men who shaped the world in their image. Yet leadership necessitates more than drive and ostentatious charm. It requires