Opinion
A clarification on the meaning of abortifacient
Monday, Feb. 19, 2018
Luis Erana-Salmeron senior Feb. 17
Pass or fail: Football wins matter
By
Mary Freeman
· Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
My neighbor — a Penn State graduate who vehemently opposed the NCAA sanction to strip former head coach Joe Paterno of his all-time win total in light of the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal — whisked by me on his way to work early Wednesday morning. “How does it feel that Notre Dame is the Black Lives Matter of college football?” he asked in reference to the NCAA decision to vacate Notre Dame’s 2012 and 2013 wins. He continued, “Don’t worry. You may get it overturned like we did with Paterno, but probably not.”
Condoms and contraceptive coverage
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
At midnight on Feb. 7, University President Fr. John Jenkins distributed an email to the Notre Dame community at large, describing the latest installment in Notre Dame’s enduring efforts to regulate birth control and the reproductive rights of its faculty, staff and students. In the fall of 2017, the University declared that coverage of birth control would be discontinued. After considerable backlash, Jenkins reversed this decision. Now, Jenkins’ Feb. 7 email has changed the policy again: Notre Dame will provide coverage for “simple contraceptives” through its own insurance plan rather than through third-party insurers, but will uphold Catholic values by not providing “abortifacients.” The email failed to specify precisely which medications were included in each category.
Robinson Community Learning Center should go zero-carbon
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018
Philip J. Sakimoto, Ph.D.
