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Category: Notre Dame

Blog posts related to the University of Notre Dame, including posts from the early 2000s “PW Blog” (Pasquerilla West, my dorm)

  • Catholicism

    My University newspaper has a new column where a priest answers questions about Catholicism. This week’s entries are about holy water and pornography. Interesting.

    (I think he left out a very important argument in his porn answer. The biggest objection I have to it is simply that by consuming it, you’re contributing to an industry that thrives on the degradation of women. Whether it’s morally right or not, you’re putting dollars in the pockets of rich old men and ensuring that further generations of women are forced into the sex industry to support themselves. There, that’s my rant for the day.)

  • 0-3

    The Irish are 0-3 for the first time ever, and the vultures are starting to circle Coach Bob Davie. If he doesn’t pull a win out of his ass soon, they’ll run him out of town.

    Edited 03/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.

  • Slur

    The Notre Dame Observer picked up on that “Irish is an ethnic slur” story I mentioned the other day. As expected, nobody on campus agreed.

  • Horowitz

    Have you been following the David Horowitz story? He’s a journalist and “conservative provacateur” who sent ’round an advertisement attacking the notion of slavery reparations to dozens of American universities. When many of them refused to print it (or did print it and then published apologies), he accused them of censorship and claimed that his real point had to do with the First Amendment and the liberal press. It’s become a real headache for a lot of college papers and some of them are even revising their advertising guidelines. (For the record, my alma mater was among those who declined to print it.) Anyhoo, another Salon writer decided that if Horowitz is gonna try to paint the conservatives as the real defenders of the First Amendment, he’d put it to the test. So he devised an ad that said “God is an abortionist” and sent it to several prominent conservative universities. Needless to say, only one out of eleven printed it. I wonder what Horowitz would say about that?

  • Go… Irish?!

    Notre Dame Fighting IrishUh oh. A judge has ruled that “Irish” is an ethnic slur. A woman in Vermont tried to get “IRISH” on a license plate and was denied. If this catches on in other states, half of Notre Dame‘s student body are going to have to get new license plates. And what about our mascot? We’ll have to change the football chants! This is catastrophe in the making.

  • HA! Jake Tapper starts out by mentioning that the Notre Dame women’s national champion basketball team visited the White House yesterday. He finishes with an inspired mock-article that turns ND’s last second victory into a satirical account of the Presidential election. Very funny. My favorite part:

    One minute into the second half, TV networks broadcasting the game, using faulty projections, awarded the game to the Purdue Boilermakers — a call that later had to be recanted. “The game wasn’t over when the [expletive deleted] media declared that it was, just because they favor Purdue,” one Notre Dame assistant coach groused.

  • Vagina Monologues

    One of the SMC chicks who participated in the illegal reading of “The Vagina Monologues” wrote a letter to Salon.com defending the play to Camille Paglia. Very cool.

  • Courting the Catholics

    Let’s see, on Monday Metafilter wondered if George Bush’s new strategy is to “court the Catholics.” I’d say the signs are good… On Wednesday Notre Dame announced that Bush is going to be this year’s commencement speaker. Ugh.

  • Dubya

    I was just chatting with my mom on IM and expressing my disgust at the fact that Dubya is apparently going to give this year’s commencement address at ND. She responded with the perfect encapsulation of what I hope 50% of the American public are currently thinking:

    Mom:yeh, well, he’s kinda turning into a weenie or else I was pretty blind before

    Ahh, the remorse of the Republican voter. Is it too early to start chanting “Gore in ’04”?

  • Bobby Knight

    Apparently Bobby Knight is giving a talk at my university tomorrow. Seeing as how he just got a new job, the media scrutiny should be pretty intense. Why couldn’t anything interesting happen while I was there?