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Monday, March 23, 2026
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The difference between parietals and hate

If two Notre Dame alumni meet, it is almost certain the first question they ask each other is, “Where did you live?” Notre Dame’s residential living is a major attraction, and is unique among most other universities. Parietals have been in existence since the admission of women in 1972. An excellent apology for parietals was written this week in The Observer, so I won’t repeat it.








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In my previous columns, I’ve often stated that I am The Observer’s foremost administration correspondent and advocate, and even though it gets edited out every single time I write that, I feel it’s important to start my column today doing that as well.* Really, I should try and find some way to refer to it in every sentence in my column, so that editing it out would leave like 30 words total. Don’t get me wrong, it is not true, per se, but you know how if you just say something enough times then people start to just accept it?