Opinion
It is time for the murals to go
By
Bailey Boesch
· Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017
John P. Slattery, Ph.D. ’17
Catalonia at an impasse
By
Devon Chenelle
· Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017
For all their ideological intricacies, Marxists are remarkably pragmatic. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than in Lenin’s Oct. 17, 1921, address to the All-Russian Congress, when he stated, “The whole question is — who will overtake whom?” He thus reduced the entirety of class conflict, at its core, to a question of which side will achieve domination, making all incidences of debate, compromise and agreement between opposing sides in the great class struggle ultimately nothing more than disguised attempts to gain mastery. This ultimately reduced all political debates to confrontations of power, not arguments on right or wrong. Could this framework be applied to similar debates over popular sovereignty?
Notre Dame: stop investing in fossil fuel companies
Monday, Nov. 20, 2017
This past June 1, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, agreed to by Barack Obama in 2015. The Paris Climate Accord was an unprecedented international agreement in which the U.S., along with dozens of other countries, pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep global temperatures below two degrees celsius warming from pre-industrial levels. Obama agreed to reduce U.S. emissions by 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. The U.S. will no longer follow that agreement, as the U.S. is the only countries not to agree to the accord.
Rally for the team
Friday, Nov. 17, 2017
Notre Dame’s student body needs to create a more exciting environment leading up to Saturday football game days if we want Notre Dame Football to succeed on the big stage. We do not make our excitement visible on campus during the school week, and that is required to compete with top-level football programs across the country. As we all learned from Miami University last week, the community’s excitement and support for their football team throughout the week can make all the difference in success. If we want to compete as an elite football university, then the student body must make changes to how we prepare for game day.
