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Decision to cover Notre Dame’s Columbus murals stirs debate, disagreement

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:05:58 +0000

A recent decision by University of Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins to cover 135-year-old Christopher Columbus murals on display in a main campus building has elicited both praise and condemnation from students, alumni and outside observers. Jenkins on Jan. 20 announced the historic artwork would be covered and a committee established to decide their long-term fate, but that the plan is to…

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BridgeUSA takes students out of ‘ideological echo chambers,’ fosters friendly political discourse

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:10:57 +0000

Student-founded program grows nationwide as students clamor for constructive conversations Rogé Karma walked around the student activities fair his first year of college in 2015 searching for a club that would keep him informed and challenge him politically. What he found was the University of Notre Dame’s College Democrats and College Republicans clubs, whose members both kind of laughed…

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At Notre Dame, students lobby for removal of Columbus murals, call them ‘version of a Confederate monument’

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:05:08 +0000

‘Protest, write, plead and demand their removal’ Some students, employees and members of the Notre Dame community are calling for the removal of a series of paintings of Christopher Columbus that have adorned the walls of the university’s main building since 1884, calling the murals Notre Dame’s “own version of a Confederate monument.” The 12 murals, hung in the same hallway as the admissions…

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Full-ride, four-year college scholarships now offered through Coolidge Foundation

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:02:31 +0000

The only thing that distinguishes Calvin Coolidge’s gravestone from those surrounding his is the presidential seal on top. “His grave is no taller than the others around him,” said Matthew Denhart, executive director of the Coolidge Foundation. “I think it’s very fitting for his humble reputation.” Humility is one of the qualities judges look for when deciding who will be awarded the…

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Senator tells Catholic judicial nominee and Notre Dame law professor her beliefs are problematic

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 01:04:16 +0000

In a recent confirmation hearing, a Notre Dame law professor and judicial nominee was called into question because of her Catholic faith. “When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you,” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein told nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing. “And that’s of concern when you come to big issues…

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Death of objective truth on campus is destroying higher education, university president says

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 04:10:47 +0000

Higher education suffers when academics abandon objective truth for relativism, giving out degrees in opinions rather than knowledge, a university president says. “When we as a community rejected truth … when we decided that there is no objective truth any longer and that everything is truth with a lowercase ‘t’ — nothing but a construct, nothing but a collection of cultural constructs where…

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Sex Scandal: When colleges treat men and women the same — women get hurt, author says

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 04:15:07 +0000

Men and women are not the same, and colleges should not treat them as such. In her new book “Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female,” Ashley McGuire points out that the progressive feminist push to ignore differences between the sexes ultimately harms women in a variety of ways. “We confuse ‘treated the same’ with ‘treated equally,'” McGuire told The College Fix. “When we treat men…

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Many Notre Dame students voice dismay, disgust at Vice President Mike Pence as commencement speaker

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 04:05:07 +0000

UPDATED Many students at the University of Notre Dame have reacted with contempt at the decision to host Vice President Mike Pence as the institution’s commencement speaker this May, calling him anti-women’s rights, an enemy to undocumented students, and an anti-Catholic choice. While there have been no calls to disinvite Pence outright, much of the commentary among students has condemned the…

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UCLA students blocked from enrolling in conservative professor’s ‘Free Speech on Campus’ class

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:22:22 +0000

A conservative communications professor at UCLA claims his department chair is effectively blocking students from enrolling in his popular “Free Speech on Campus” class in a decision that’s likely politically motivated. The department chair, meanwhile, says the situation is based on maintaining “reasonable class sizes across the major” and denies that her decision to reject students’ requests…

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More than 12,000 professors ask to be added to ‘Professor Watchlist’

Lauren Fox - University of Notre Dame — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 05:07:21 +0000

Notre Dame professors’ open letter to have their names added starts nationwide trend In early December, more than 100 University of Notre Dame professors signed an open letter calling for their names to be added to the “Professor Watchlist” — a list of scholars compiled by a conservative group that asserts the educators use their classrooms for liberal indoctrination instead of unbiased…

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