Madeline Gillen reflects on the Notre Dame, its student body, the many ways in which students can learn and live the faith at Notre Dame and the “inestimable advantage” that the university enjoys over its Ivy League counterparts.
Time to Act
Notre Dame has an institutional duty to emphasize more fully and publicly its conviction that the Church’s teachings about marriage are true.
Irish Rover Wins National Publication of the Year
The Irish Rover has been awarded the Publication of the Year by the Collegiate Network, a subsidiary of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Letter From the Editor
By now you will have noticed that the Rover is sporting a new design layout.
The man behind the curtain responsible for these design and graphic changes is Adam Conrath, a freshman whom we are now privileged to have contributing to the Rover as a member of the layout and production team. Adam brings a considerable amount of expertise and experience to newspaper layout design and style, and together he and I have agreed upon a new look that better comports with contemporary newspaper design standards that are at once informative, straightforward and aesthetically attractive.
Simple Living
What does it mean for our generation to live simply? There seem to be a myriad of opposing viewpoints, even concerning one piece of art, such as the song “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (featuring Wanz). The song and its content have become somewhat of a cultural icon; thrift shops are cool and trendy, a cheap and easy way to stand out and be different, which seems to be at odds with the musicians’ original intent. In an interview with MTV News, Macklemore talked about his motivations for the song and why he thinks it has become so popular––it’s something different from the norm.
The Most Important Jobs
This year’s Notre Dame Forum on “Women in Leadership” has me a bit uneasy. What really got me was how Father John Jenkins, CSC, explained in his message to the student body that this Forum is meant to introduce students to different fields “from the personal accounts of women who have risen to the top of their professions.”
Believe There is Good in Detroit
Notre Dame prides itself on the “education of both the mind and the heart.” A Notre Dame education at its best leads students to think beyond themselves and use their gifts for the common good.
Letter to the Editor: “What is Notre Dame Really Like?”
In his column “What is Notre Dame Really Like?”, Michael Bradley asserts that Notre Dame has two “incommensurable” goals: “to educate the minds and hearts of its students,” and “to actually outdo secular schools at what they do best.” If Bradley meant drinking and hooking up when he said “what secular schools do best,” then beating those schools at their own game is incompatible with educating students’ minds and hearts. However, he compares Notre Dame to “the Ivies, Duke, Stanford, and Northwestern” and not to certain other schools. This leads me to believe that “what secular schools do best” is academic and professional excellence, and that this is incompatible with authentic Catholicism. If Bradley believes that, he is wrong.
Striking Down More Bad Arguments
To say that the witness of Sacred Scripture lends itself to an affirmation of same sex marriages is to advance an incoherent, confused argument.
“What is Notre Dame Really Like?”
“So what is Notre Dame really like?” I fielded this question frequently this summer, during which I was fortunate […]