Opinion

Adults don’t get friends

By Carlos Basurto · Monday, Oct. 6, 2025

“I cannot help but feel as if the kind of friendship that was solidified in the innocence of youth can, for most, no longer blossom naturally after you reach a certain mutual mental age.”

Dear Domer: Zach Bryan, tailgates and situationships

By Zora Rodgers as Dear Domer · Monday, Oct. 6, 2025

Tailgates, concerts and bars have spurred some much-needed advice for the tri-campus community.

Too busy to be Catholic?

By Noirin Dempsey · Friday, Oct. 3, 2025

“With our busy schedules and constantly being pulled in different directions, it takes a committed effort to make time for cultivating our relationship with God.”

What has 13 years of Catholic education actually taught me?

By Michael Doyle · Friday, Oct. 3, 2025

I’ll give you a hint: It’s not Calculus III

The paradox of quantification

By Ana Prestamo · Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025

Our fixation on ranking lifestyle habits has switched our health and wellness values.

The waning moon does not exist

By Allison Abplanalp · Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025

“If I ever can break this cycle, I hope to find plentiful waning moons waiting for me. After all, when it wanes, it pours.”

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A flâneur in South Bend: Part 1

By Oliver Ortega · Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025

La Belle Vie hits a different nerve than South Bend stalwarts like Java, Cloud Walking and the General.

The revival of debate

By Sophia Combs · Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025

Whether during negotiations between parties in a major deal or on the congressional floor at the U.S. Capitol, we will inevitably encounter the infamous debate stage.

Belonging, memory and the new face of Notre Dame football

By Molly Wu · Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025

“When Notre Dame changes its football logo, it feels like more than a marketing decision; it feels like a rewriting of memory.”

Notre Dame has failed sex abuse victims

By Letter to the Editor · Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025

“President Dowd’s statement demonstrates that the University has yet to fully internalize the necessary lessons from its own history and the wider sex abuse crisis facing the Catholic world.”

Notes on my second baptism

By Zora Rodgers · Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025

Semantics regarding baptismal protocol leads to reflection on a second baptism.

It’s time to rethink networking

By Sophia Anderson · Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025

Networking should be more sincere, not forced, especially with Notre Dame’s palpable emphasis on being professional.

The dangerous politics behind Kimmel’s suspension

By Amaris O’Connor · Monday, Sept. 29, 2025

“We, the people, do not need interference when it comes to forming opinions. It is diversity of opinion that allows a democracy to thrive.”

Feed your spirit, not your flesh

By Sienna Stephens · Monday, Sept. 29, 2025

Living for God doesn’t mean we throw away everything in the world or act like nothing here matters. It simply means putting things in the right order.

What I hate about the word ‘hate’

By Noirin Dempsey · Monday, Sept. 29, 2025

“We need to put aside our differences and condemn acts of violence as one. And we need to respond to hatred like MLK, like Erica Kirk — with love.”

A successfully boring Opinion article

By Grayson Beckham · Monday, Sept. 29, 2025

“Political discourse on campus, especially in its most consistently circulated publication, remains particularly necessary and valuable.”

Viva la South Dining Hall

By Danny Baribeau · Friday, Sept. 26, 2025

Revisiting the history of South Dining Hall amid renovations driving more students to North.

India deserves better than untrained medical volunteers

By Ivy Clark · Friday, Sept. 26, 2025

“This post-colonial notion of ‘cultural difference’ is a thinly veiled excuse to perpetuate racism and structural violence with subpar levels of care.”

Resuscitating the servant’s heart

By Letter to the Editor · Friday, Sept. 26, 2025

“As we are imperfect, and in the vernacular of the Catholic framework, sinful, human beings, there will be lapses in virtue and outright vicious acts in the real world.”

Mass incarceration is helping no one

By Thea Bendaly · Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025

“I encourage everyone reading this to get proximate to their passion within the South Bend community.”

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