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Notre Dame is not a final destination
BYAsked for six things I’d like students to take from here, I offer this unsystematic, partial and perhaps idiosyncratic list of activities and experiences that I hope are valuable parts of the education every student receives at Notre Dame.
Read full articleGolden Interlude
BYThe first two years of my graduate studies at ND were among the happiest of my life. After six claustrophobic years in the monastery, I was finally able to do what I wanted to do most.
Read full articleEditor's note: A very student issue
BYIt’s a question I’ve been answering for 30 years: What are students like today?
Read full articleA new generation of Domers
BYEvery generation has a story, uniquely theirs. Amid the countless individual voices shared sentiments emerge. This is the “stuff” of anthropology.
Read full articleElectronics as an extension of our physical selves
BYHello. My name is Lourdes and I have a problem. I first realized my addiction when I found myself checking my email at a stoplight. I didn’t have any new mail, but I “refreshed” my inbox anyway. It’s compulsive. I’ve crossed the threshold into obscene technological dependence: I have an iPhone.
Read full article‘Our lives are insane’
BYOur generation has been labeled as lazy, apathetic procrastinators, and so that is what is we call ourselves But this characterization reflects our actions within the previous generation’s realities — and our reality is changing. We think and act within a new and different mindset.
Read full article'I want to do more'
BYIf you were to ask Yamil Colon to name his favorite place on campus, his answer would likely be a tie between the LaFortune ballroom and Professor Joan Brennecke’s lab in Fitzgerald Hall.
Read full articlePrinceton Review’s Best 368 College Rankings
Rankings of Notre Dame based on student responses to national survey
Read full article'I love working with students today'
BYI love working with the students of today. Their energy and enthusiasm is contagious, and working with them truly does help to keep me young.
Read full article'I have a prayer'
BYI have a prayer. It is that my students would become people who would “redeem the time,” in the phrase of the great poet T.S. Eliot.
Read full article‘It’s not easy to explain’
BYIt’s safe to say most people would be daunted by Andy Manion’s academic pursuits.
Read full article‘We find ourselves connected to all humankind’
BYMalapane just called, and my heart sank and tears welled in my eyes when she said Keketso had died this morning. Malapane had taken him to the hospital, but Keketso died in her arms because they had run out of oxygen.
Read full article'The ground view of burgening adulthood'
BYGenius-level SAT scores, seismic rumbles in the job market and vocational preference are transforming our restless and rootless frequent fliers into the entrepreneurial generation.
Read full articleCarrine Etheridge: minister of hospitality
BY“Never a dull moment” is how Notre Dame’s longest reigning rector, Sister Carrine Etheridge, IHM, sums up her 16 years in Farley Hall. Need proof? How about the day someone’s pet iguana got loose, running up and down the corridors “scaring the bejeebers out of all the housekeepers and residents"?
Read full articleHow the other 28.1 percent lives
BYYou are a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. This is your Notre Dame experience. If you’re anything like most of your peers, you hate it sometimes, just a little. Mostly, though, you love it.
Read full article'Silence'
BYThough I’m not talking about the majority of Notre Dame students, I am talking about more than a few. The rosary and Eucharistic Adoration are not limited to one small group of devotees but gather a variety of different folks.
Read full article‘How it ought to be’
BY“I think the point of political science is to somehow get to how the world ought to be. Namely at peace,” John Busch says. “The problem is we disagree on how the world is. Until you agree on that, you can’t get to how it ought to be.”
Read full article‘Awkward is still the operative word’
BYWe don’t date at Notre Dame. At least, not casually.
Read full article‘Everybody has a reason to drink’
BYAnimal House. Old School. Van Wilder. If you ask any student in America for a “college movie,” the odds are you’ll be told to go watch one of these, or another like them. Everybody knows a college movie when they see one, because these movies have one thing in common: beer.
Read full articleMaking the dream come true
BYThe university’s aid policy enables us to say to every student who dreams of Notre Dame, “We can make this dream a reality for you.”
Read full articleStudent voices
BYIn their own words: Students examine various aspects of life under the Dome
Read full articleA winter’s tale in shades of gray
BYFrom spring through fall, the beauty of the Notre Dame campus can stun first-time visitors. In January, well . . . it ain’t necessarily so.
Read full articleSunshine on South Bend's foreclosure file
BYOn the first day of her Legal Aid & Ethics class, Judith Fox typically hands her students a mortgage file that contains a complicated subprime loan of the kind with which her clients are often saddled. And in five years of doing that,” the ND law professor reports, “I have had only one student, who happened to be a former loan broker, who could read the paperwork and tell me what it said.”
Read full articleEchoes: Benevolent tyrant of the Irish, 'King' Kersten
BYEchoes: A look back at campus past.
Read full articleDeaths in the family
Deaths in the Notre Dame family: Father James L. Riehle, CSC, and Bernard J. Kilbride
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