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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
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Golden is thy helmet

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This year, there are two golden domes stand proudly on the University's campus — one atop the Main Building and the other in Sorin Hall.


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Path of least resistance

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Welsh Family's hopes for a successful season came to an abrupt halt on Sept. 25, before it really even got a chance to begin.


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Pangborn's Heisman contender

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No one would expect a quarterback like Heisman favorite Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson to wear high, fluorescent green socks, sport a soccer-style headband to hold back wild hair or even have tied shoes.


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OK Go promises an energetic show at Legends

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OK Go is coming back to campus Oct. 9 at Legends, this time to play for Notre Dame students after playing with them. In 2004 they played at Legends as an up-and-coming band and in 2007, OK Go headlined "The Show" with Lupe Fiasco.

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Music Under the Radar: Movie Scores

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The Situation: Music hunters seek, read, blog and cull music from radio, print and most often, the interwebs. Music gatherers collect mix CD's, free digital downloads and whatever their friends happen to be listening to. If you are a gatherer, this space is for you. If you are a hunter, e-mail me your latest find, and I promise you'll find it written up here. (Seriously. E-mail. Even if you're not a student.)



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Player Profile: Kaitlin Robinson

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One of the biggest sports clichés is that the only thing harder than getting on top is staying there. That hasn't yet been an issue for Kaitlin Robinson and the Ducks.


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Deerhunter dreams up their best record yet

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Animal Collective fanatics may love or hate producer Ben Allen, depending on how they look at the situation. Allen was behind the experimental quartet's 2009 album "Merriweather Post Pavilion," which managed to present Animal Collective as something you might actually hear on the radio, not a strange experimental noise sampling you might come across in Andy Warhol's basement.



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The Social Network:' The film that defines a generation

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Highly lauded as the film that defines the past decade, "The Social Network" meets, if not rises above, expectations. David Fincher's film tells the story of Facebook's founding, adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 nonfiction novel "The Accidental Billionaires."


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Movie Rewind: Beauty and the Beast

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"Beauty and the Beast" is making a comeback (not that it ever really left) next week. The Disney classic, released in 1991, is one of the most beloved and successful animated (and non-animated) films of all time. Now the movie, about true love, personal identity and talking furniture, is making a return to pop-culture with the upcoming re-release of the film on Blu-Ray and DVD. There will also be a theatrical release of sing-along version for one day only, and that day is tomorrow.


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Socially Conscious: Does Life Really Imitate Art

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What do you want to do before you die? How would your life be different if you were a teenage mom? Would I like that person if I really knew them? What would it be like to spend a week in the life of a rapper, boxer or homeless girl?


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Young collaborates with Lanois on solo album

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 The title of Neil Young's latest album, "Le Noise," is an appropriate allusion to the record's producer, Daniel Lanois. Though Young's 33rd studio album is technically a solo effort, Lanois — a renowned producer who has worked with U2, Bob Dylan and Brian Eno — expertly disassembled and manipulated every track to create a remarkable new sound environment for Young. With no band backing Young's electric guitar, Lanois intervened to create a textured album never heard before from the veteran singer-songwriter.


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The Bible: Hilariously Abridged

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While Foundations of Theology may have put many a Notre Dame student to sleep, "The Bible: The Complete Word of God Abridged" promises to redeem theology of its dry and oftentimes sleep-inducing tendencies.



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Papa Roach on the Road

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For those able to make it to the Papa Roach/Trapt concert at Club Fever this Wednesday who liked what they heard, and for those of you who could not make it but are fans of Papa Roach or Trapt, both have new albums recently released or soon to be released.


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Fade to Black

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After eighteen years of teaching and editing in the film loft of O'Shaughnessy Hall, Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) professor and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Jill Godmilow will retire in May 2011. This weekend, "Days and Nights of a Filmmaker" will pay tribute to her profound impact on the Notre Dame community and the filmmaking medium.