Jenkins reflects on presidency, campus controversies
Over the last 19 years, University President Fr. John Ignatius Jenkins hasn’t had much free time.
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Over the last 19 years, University President Fr. John Ignatius Jenkins hasn’t had much free time.
As part of a symposium on “Envisioning Federal AI Legislation” organized by the Law School’s Journal of Legislation, U.S. Sen. Todd Young, a Republican from Indiana, participated in a fireside chat moderated by the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Adam White. Young spoke to the audience in the McCartan Courtroom about the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), and its implications for regulation and national security.
After weeks with largely cloudy and rainy weather, Monday was intensely sunny. Until it wasn’t. From 1:53 p.m. to 4:08 p.m., the tri-campus was in the path of a partial solar eclipse. With the eclipse reaching its peak of approximately 96.6% of totality at 3:09 pm, students and community members crowded the quads and Irish Green to observe the rare cosmic event which won't be seen again in the United States for another 20 years.
The week after the Keenan Revue pilloried “a young ambitious dorm senator” from Carroll Hall with “his dumb, blonde hair,” the student senate reconvened on Wednesday evening to once again consider Hunter Brooke’s nomination to Judicial Council president, ultimately passing it. Brooke’s nomination failed last week, receiving 14 yes votes, 15 no votes and nine abstentions. This week, Brooke’s nomination received a total of 19 yes votes, 13 no votes and seven abstentions.
“Have you ever met anyone with a command of the English language like Nick Adams? No, I didn’t think so,” the internet commentator Nick Adams asked an audience of Notre Dame students. He followed up with another question: “Am I better looking in person or on Twitter?”
Allan Boesak, the “global face of the South African anti-Apartheid movement alongside the late Desmond Tutu” according to the Kroc Institute, spoke in Carey Auditorium on Friday at noon. Boesak, a Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician, spoke as part of an event titled “Palestine/Israel: Lessons from South Africa.” Boesak spoke to experiences of apartheid — a system of racial segregation and discrimination — in South Africa, and expanded his critique to Israel in a discussion of “global apartheid.”
Editor's note: Members of the student senate received an email Monday morning reporting Brooke's nomination had failed. He received 14 yes votes, 15 no votes and nine abstentions, thereby not meeting the threshold of a simple majority.
In two talks this week, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Archdiocese of South Bend and Fort Wayne spoke to students on campus. Earlier in the year, the bishop weighed in on Saint Mary’s transgender admissions policy and ultimately succeeded in having the rule reversed. Rhoades, who has served as bishop in the area since 2009, said he comes to Notre Dame often.
The very month that Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, human rights lawyer Roqia Samim arrived in South Bend for the beginning of her time at Notre Dame. Samim had worked with the United Nations in her homeland of Afghanistan, utilizing the law she studied as an undergraduate at Herat University.
Billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel took the stage of a packed Jordan Auditorium Tuesday night for a lecture and public conversation with political science professor Patrick Deneen. The event was hosted as part of Deneen’s seminar on “Liberalism and Its Discontents,” which Deneen analogized to the drag performance held on campus last semester. The event was not co-sponsored by any institutes or departments on campus, and Deneen said he did not ask.
At the last home game of the season, on Nov. 19, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish routed the Boston College Eagles during a 44-0 game, with offensive moments set to the band playing “Celtic Chant.” The piece was composed in the summer of 1998, and is accompanied by arm-pumping routine led by the cheerleaders. The music is also accompanied by less-sanctioned profane chants of “f*** you Zahm” ringing out through the student section.
Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist and economist from Stanford, was “blacklisted” by Twitter the day he joined the app. He carries a business card identifying himself as a “fringe epidemiologist,” quoting an email from Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, to Anthony Fauci. Bhattacharya, an academic at the center of many of the nation’s debates over lockdowns, delivered an address Tuesday night to an event hosted by the economics department.