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Fresh off a season-defining blowout loss to No. 1 Duke, the Notre Dame men’s basketball team returns to Purcell Pavilion this Saturday for a noon clash against NC State.
For weeks, I have watched the opinions and outrage roll in over the appointment of professor Susan Ostermann to be the director of the Liu Institute. The outrage over a qualified professor’s personal beliefs on abortion and reproductive health raises many questions for me. While professor Ostermann has now decided to step back from the opportunity, I am left to wonder about this university’s priorities.
After losing all three attacking starters from their previous season, the 2026 Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team was going to need someone to step up on offense. For the first three games of the season the solution has been a graduate transfer from Air Force, forward Josh Yago. He has nine goals and four assists this year and has been the key leader for an offense that now leads college lacrosse in goals per game.
Associate professor of global affairs Susan Ostermann has decided to reject her appointment to lead the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. The decision was announced in an email to students of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs from the school’s dean, Mary Gallagher, Thursday morning. Ostermann will remain a faculty member of the Keough School.
It was night three of the 96th annual Bengal Bouts tournament, and this time, spots in the final were on the line. With Dahnke Ballroom full and 48 boxers nervously waiting in the wings, the stage was set for the fighters to prove themselves and book their place at Purcell Pavilion on March 28. The fights consisted of three rounds, each lasting 90 seconds, with 24 semifinals across all the weight categories.
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, along with several other bishops from across the United States, celebrated a Tuesday evening Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart with roughly 100 people present. According to their announcement during the Mass, the collective was on campus for a conference regarding faith, religion and science, hosted in part by the McGrath Institute for Church Life. The homily centered on the Lord’s prayer, which directly related to Tuesday’s Gospel reading, Matthew 6:7-15.
The senate rejected a motion to move forward with impeachment proceedings against Carroll Hall senator Charlie Bacon on Wednesday, who the Judicial Council recommended impeaching due to his seven total absences from weekly senate meetings. The final vote was eight in favor and 24 against, as the senate decided there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a trial.
Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a series covering a Feb. 27 student-led demonstration against promoting Susan Ostermann to direct the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. The first article documents early planning by event organizers. The second features perspectives on the protest from student and outside groups. The third records how the event shifted from a protest to a prayer service following Ostermann’s decision to withdraw from the position. The fourth covers the prayer service itself.
Professor of political science Vincent Philip Muñoz and professor of business ethics James Otteson are volunteering their time to teach a one-credit course titled “1776: The Ideas that Made the Modern World.”
Notre Dame’s football program is one of tradition, legend and lore, and much of its legacy is thanks to coach Knute Rockne. His name is all over campus, from the Rockne Memorial on South Quad to the Notre Dame Stadium’s main gate. But how much do you know about the man’s life beyond football? Right now, The History Museum, located in downtown South Bend, is having a special exhibition on the coach: “Rockne: Life & Legacy.” Rockne’s life was far deeper than athletics, and the exhibit wonderfully provides a holistic view of a man who forever changed Notre Dame.
The final installment of the 2025-26 Visiting Writer Series at Saint Mary’s College concluded with a book reading and Q&A session from poet and scholar Thomas O’Grady on Tuesday evening in Stapleton Lounge. O’Grady is married to College President Katie Conboy.
By now, hundreds of news stories and social media posts have shared the story of Punch, a young monkey in the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. Abandoned by his mother, Punch was given a stuffed monkey to cope with because the other monkeys wouldn’t accept him either. As a freshman in college, I relate to Punch the monkey on a deep level. I wasn’t abandoned by my mother at birth, but coming to college is essentially that; it’s a forced separation from family, and my only hope was and is to find new people.
The Notre Dame baseball team will play its last non-conference weekend series before May this weekend, heading south for three games hosted by the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles. In Cookeville, the Irish will take on Alabama A&M, University of Illinois-Chicago and Tennessee Tech.
When Notre Dame hockey breaks out the green jerseys, it’s a telltale sign that spring break is on the horizon.
Twenty-five years ago, Notre Dame hoisted its first national championship in program history under head coach Muffet McGraw and behind all-American point guard Niele Ivey. The trophy came after five of 23 consecutive Irish tournament appearances and was followed by a second title in 2018. Now, Ivey sits at the helm in her sixth season as head coach — and for the past two, she has been blessed with arguably the greatest player in Notre Dame history in junior point guard Hannah Hidalgo. However, though the Irish earned tourney berths in five out of Ivey’s six years and each of Hidalgo’s first-team All-American seasons, the program has not displayed the same level of excellence that McGraw made characteristic of the program. Thus far in this campaign, the trend of “good but not great” continues.
Not so long ago, Notre Dame was a place for athletic prosperity across the board, not just on the gridiron inside Notre Dame Stadium. Those days, especially for the University’s second most financially important and historically successful athletic program, are no more.
We often joke about Notre Dame being in a bubble. And there is some truth to that. Sometimes we can be oblivious to the world around us. One thing that we should not be oblivious to is this.
Christ will teach us the truth if we turn to him. He will startle us out of debates bleared by the myopia of human reason. He will focus our vision on the resplendent truth of his self. As he did for his two friends on the road to Emmaus.
Fourteen surgeries.
Baseball season in South Bend is off and running. So far, the Irish are 3-3 through their first two weeks of play, including a series win at Florida Atlantic two weeks ago. Last weekend at the Live Like Lou Jacksonville Baseball Classic, the Irish battled against UCF and LSU before emerging with a Sunday victory over in-state rival Indiana. Over the first six games, two juniors have emerged as both leaders and stars for the Irish this season: pitcher Jack Radel and catcher Mark Quatrani.
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