Opinion

Sexual violence still happens here

Statement on Abdelhadi disinvitation

“We, the student organizers for this year’s Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, are deeply disheartened by the University leadership’s decision to rescind Dr. Eman Abdelhadi’s invitation to deliver a keynote address at the 2025 Student Peace Conference.”

A letter in response to Taylor

“I will admit I could be persuaded either way, but when I consider the case of the aid workers delineated above and the fact that millions, if not billions, more cases of a similar nature exist, I cannot bring myself to assert that I, the Catholic, am right, and they, the Muslim (or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist), are wrong.”

On sunsets

"Every sunrise has a sunset, and this will be my last column."

What golf means to me

"Golf taught me that you don’t need to speak the same language to understand each other. You just need to care about the same things."

What South Bend taught me

"No matter who you are, no matter where you are from, there is a home for you in South Bend. It just sucks it took me leaving to see that."

13.1 half thoughts

“Dad says that when he runs, he thinks about his pace, his faith or sometimes, nothing at all. I wish that I could think about nothing at all. But somehow, when I run, I tend to think about everything that’s ever happened to me — all the small moments, the distracting things, the weird tidbits I’ve picked up.”

My experience joining theater

Take that opportunity. Especially if it is in theatre.

When a Kennedy becomes an internet troll

The future of political trolling will have to rely on pushing the bounds of humor.

Ode to what we leave behind

“I think that nostalgia for childhood is a recurrent theme of the human experience.”

Rules I wish to live by

“After a lifetime of allowing others to steal my agency, I finally gave it away.”

A word from Martinique

All the elements of a solution to the present problems of America have, at different times, existed in African thought or elsewhere really.

Write this down

No insane revelations, just things on my mind today. 

Why you should give up political Viewpoint articles for Lent

The Viewpoint section can be more than just political rambling.

The joy of missing out: why I’m embracing JOMO

"Learning to tune out the hype, whether it's from TikTok, my friends or the Notre Dame community, has made me feel more confident in myself, my intuition and my education than I ever have. I only have JOMO to thank."

Things I find chic

"A lot of videos have been popping on my social media feeds of people venting about what they find to be extremely chic. Thus, I felt like it is my duty to participate and provide a short list of my own."

It’s a collective problem and it’s a collective action

Some people need to read this and reflect on themselves during sexual violence awareness month.

Why Notre Dame

"Many schools offer a great education, but not all offer what Notre Dame does. Ultimately, many of the challenges students face at Notre Dame will likely be the same challenges they would face at any college they might attend."

So, what of the Severed?

"That which distinguishes us, that which severs us from all others, what if that went away?"

Room picks and a response to Lang

"A reflective Catholic has no reason to doubt that if he were brought up under a different faith, the Holy Spirit would have guided his heart to convert to Catholicism, the one true faith."