A dorm wedding
Walsh (1909) is the elegant bride. With her three God Quad entrances, she is a regal princess, the dormers at the top jutting out like the peaks of her tiara. Though she used to be wilder in her...
View ArticleDespite 8 absences, Irish shut out South Florida for 20th-straight home win
A familiar sight returned to Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday afternoon as quarterback Ian Book looked long, tucked it under, sprinted wide and pranced his way into the edge of the end zone, recording...
View ArticleResidents of Lyons Hall report for surveillance testing after COVID-19...
After wastewater samples suggested the presence of COVID-19 in Lyons Hall Saturday, all residents in the dorm were required to report to surveillance testing Sunday as a precautionary measure,...
View ArticleJenkins releases statement on death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trail-blazing advocate for women’s rights, died at the age of 87 on Friday after serving on the court since 1993. University President Fr. John Jenkins...
View Article‘The Devil All the Time’ entertains despite its sins
“The Devil All the Time” is bad. But boy, is it the best kind of bad! Worse than a bad movie, in my opinion, is a forgettable one. You know the kind I’m talking about — those movies that exit your...
View ArticleGive out the Oscars five years later
With a year under my belt as Scene’s resident Oscars writer — check out my “Trophy Hunter” column if you have thus far been deprived — it’s time for my magnum opus. Freed from the confines of Scene and...
View ArticleNotre Dame students and faculty reflect on the life and death of Ruth Bader...
Last week, associate justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg died due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg, also referred to as “the Notorious RBG” and the...
View Article‘Unpregnant’: the politics of choice are ‘coming of age’
Bechdel test? Who is she? “Unpregnant” is a film in which two female friends talk about everything other than boys. This film handles the most contentious issue facing the tri-campus community with...
View ArticleAnd that’s on idolatry
Oh my God. If you, like me, were raised with the Ten Commandments drilled into your head since elementary school, this statement may have caused you to think, “No, Ashton! You meant to say, ‘Oh my...
View ArticleNotre Dame cleaning staff take on new responsibilities to keep campus...
Cleaning the 150 buildings and more than 10 million gross square feet that make up Notre Dame’s academic and administrative buildings, residence halls and athletic buildings is a daunting task for the...
View ArticleNotre Dame postpones game against Wake Forest after reporting 7 new COVID-19...
Notre Dame’s away game against Wake Forest, previously scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed after seven players tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday. All football activities have been paused...
View ArticleWe need a flex point stock market
What’s the deal with flex points? They’re not flexible, and they’re not points. Their market value is just far too low, and they can’t get you anywhere in this economy! We need an innovation, and fast....
View ArticleTrophy Hunter: 2015 Re-Oscars
Earlier this week, I wrote a Viewpoint column where I argued for the Academy Awards to be given out five years after the fact. Here, I put that theory into practice as I take the nominees from five...
View ArticleLocal website gives rise to meal kit industry in South Bend
A new South Bend local website, Chompion, was created by restaurant owner Kevin Lawler and software engineer Matt Knapper to connect customers with local restaurants that provide take-out meal kits....
View ArticleHoly Cross to begin spring semester classes Feb. 3
Holy Cross College will begin classes for the spring semester Feb. 3, 2021, College President Fr. David Tyson said in an email Wednesday. This announcement comes following Notre Dame’s schedule change....
View ArticleTalk of war, football and COVID-19
Talk of war surrounds discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic. When University of Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins announced only in-person classes for fall, he invoked comparisons to the risks of war...
View ArticleJenkins announces 2020 ND Forum theme
The ND Forum theme this year will be Election 2020: Think. Engage Respectfully. Vote., University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in an email Tuesday. The annual forum was created in 2005 by...
View ArticleUniversity announces 10-week winter session, Feb. 3 start date for spring...
The 2021 spring semester will begin Wednesday, Feb. 3 with classes ending Tuesday, May 11, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in a Wednesday morning email. Reading days will occur May 12,...
View ArticleIt is not okay to be not okay
This semester, everyone seems incredibly resilient, and while I can only aspire to be at peak productivity at this time, I simply refuse to believe that I should have to perform being okay right now....
View ArticleStraight fire: Rap’s best new releases
It’s 2020, the world is on fire, they killed Pop Smoke, Kanye leaked his contract, Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper released a devotional love song, Bobby Shmurda and Drakeo the Ruler are still in...
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