Opinion

Notre Dame and its brat but its not cuz we don’t have fun

By Connor Marrott · Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

We must collectively mourn the end of brat summer by bringing its essence to the very institution we hold dear: Notre Dame.

Pressing play on college

By Emma Duffy · Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

When you are feeling alone, try to find a show that will remind you of the forgotten support you have around you.

College Republicans: an existential election

By College Republicans · Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

We will fight. We will win. And we will make America great again.

The agenda of replacing the Rock’s weights

By Joe Rudolph · Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

"This past summer, the deep state of Notre Dame revealed their commitment to suppressing our inert desire to live freely by replacing the weight room in the Rockne Gymnasium with a series of treadmills."

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An usher's suggestions for gameday

By Letter to the Editor · Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024

"As we begin the home season and my eighth season of ushering in the student section, I offer a few comments for your constructive consideration."

On Fr. Dowd's Notre Dame

By Redmond Bernhold · Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

For any monumental change to precipitate from Dowd's presidency — and to hold the attention of students, alumni and the world — the Notre Dame family must bestow faith.

In defense of ‘Olympia’

By Peter Mikulski · Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

Is it wise to write off human beauty as fascist? Only an idiot would cede the use of as powerful a weapon as beauty to his enemy.

They are human. They deserve to be served.

By Aynslee Dellacca · Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

Saint Mary's news editor Aynslee Dellacca recounts stories from her time volunteering with Saint Vincent DePaul's unsheltered ministries over the summer.

Dialectics: Detroit Red to X.

By Olemo Gordon Brian · Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

"The seed must die for a seedling to emerge. For a new life on earth, the birth pangs of a mother. It’s cold, in the heated sense, but it must happen."

An Irish blessing

By Gracie Eppler · Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024

It’s kind of like the opposite of an Irish goodbye.

Foregone moments, present memories, forever buildings

By Carlos Basurto · Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024

Visiting your childhood neighborhood, a distant warmth surrounds you, and yet, an innate coldness emerges from within

Hate like a champion today

By Jonah Tran · Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024

Love and hate are what we owe the world, Jonah Tran argues in his column.

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Occupation Free ND: the wide and narrow path

By Letter to the Editor · Friday, Aug. 30, 2024

"The second way is the way of the fully engaged student, the student who refuses to let their regard for Notre Dame stop them from criticizing it to make it better — more loving, more inclusive, more just."

College Democrats: Conventional wisdom

By College Democrats · Friday, Aug. 30, 2024

"Last week, members of the College Democrats of Notre Dame attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. These are their reflections."

A love letter to eternity

By Jackson Lang · Friday, Aug. 30, 2024

“Just before I resigned to my fate as a random, insignificant being, condemned to suffer the hardships of existence for the sake of nothing and no one, I grasped onto an idea — an idea which lifted my once-spiritless body off the terminal floor, and pointed me on a life-defining odyssey.”