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Christopher Columbus murals covered with Native American tapestries at Notre Dame

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:15:39 +0000

In addition to Columbus, Queen Isabella, venerated as a Servant of God in the Catholic Church, was covered up with a tapestry depicting a turtle and two rats The University of Notre Dame administration has now covered the school’s 12 murals depicting the life of Christopher Columbus, which generated protests and petitions from Native American groups on campus. The 12 tapestries showing Native…

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Notre Dame divided on nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:20:08 +0000

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an alumna and a current professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, but students, faculty members, and alumni of the university are divided over her nomination to the Supreme Court. Barrett’s kindness, generosity, and excellent teaching are known throughout Notre Dame, and acknowledged even by those ideologically opposed to her. When she was nominated to the…

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In papers, grants and hiring, conservatives face discrimination in philosophy departments, study finds

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:18:48 +0000

More than half of liberal philosophers willing to discriminate against conservatives in hiring, study finds A new study found ideological bias is perpetrated much more frequently against conservatives than liberals in the field of philosophy. The study, published April 16 in Philosophical Psychology, is one of many which reveal ideological bias is one of the central means of discrimination in…

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Defying DeVos and Trump, Notre Dame says it will accept nearly $6 million in coronavirus relief funding

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 04:27:28 +0000

Notre Dame has a $13.8 billion endowment The University of Notre Dame, with an endowment of $13.8 billion, said Wednesday it would accept $5.8 million in federal coronavirus aid through the CARES Act. Notre Dame spokesperson Paul Browne said in a news release the funds “will be used exclusively for direct financial aid to students whose families have been struck by unemployment or otherwise…

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Calif. economists urge Newsom to suspend law restricting gig workers amid coronavirus crisis

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:10:14 +0000

More than 150 scholars and economists have signed an open letter calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to suspend California Assembly Bill 5, a law that restricts independent contractors, to help the Golden State as it continues to battle the coronavirus. California Assembly Bill 5 took aim at the “gig economy” by mandating companies hire as employees those they previously paid as freelancers…

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Professor seeks to end ‘gendered divisions,’ like only women eating salads

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:01:42 +0000

A professor appeared on a student podcast on March 21 with a lesson for Bucknell students: dismantle “gendered social scripts.” Erica Delsandro, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Bucknell University, told two male student podcast hosts remotely from her home due to the coronavirus that they should speak up when they encounter “gendered divisions” on or off campus.

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Proposal to mandate classical architecture in DC a ‘warning sign’ of ‘genocide,’ tweets Yale professor

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 04:02:12 +0000

When a draft executive order mandating new federal buildings in Washington D.C. be built in a classical style was leaked, many of President Donald Trump’s opponents drew a comparison to the architecture under Adolf Hilter’s Nazi Germany. “Hitler, most notoriously, repudiated modernism and mandated classicism as the state style of the Third Reich,” wrote Mark Lamster for the Dallas Morning News.

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‘Stand up’ against attack on Western civilization at colleges, scholars argue

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 04:24:11 +0000

Ideologies “deeply opposed” to the West are taking over colleges and society, argued two scholars at a recent event hosted by the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. Andrew Sullivan, contributing editor at New York magazine, said people need to “stand up” against attacks on the West, especially at universities. These ideologies are hostile to liberal education and the free exchange of…

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Faith lecture by religious studies professor lauds Karl Marx, doesn’t mention Jesus

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:15:57 +0000

An Ivy League-educated scholar called for an end to capitalism as the only means to create a moral world during her recent guest lectures at the Presbyterian-affiliated Maryville College last week. Skidmore College Professor of Religious Studies Lucia Hulsether said the country is “drenched” in capitalism’s blood. There is “no nonviolent action” in capitalism, she said.

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Elon Musk dismisses college, says it’s ‘for fun’ and people can learn ‘anything they want for free’

Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 04:04:07 +0000

Elon Musk said he believes learning is largely absent from college campuses, and that he wants to remove all degree requirements from Tesla hiring. “I think colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores, but they’re not for learning,” the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX said at last week’s Satellite 2020 conference in Washington, D.C. The main value of college…

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