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Rate My Professors: Student Evaluations and Modern Course Selection
By Aaron Steiner - Politics DailyIt's about that time of year when college students browse class listings and pick courses for the fall semester. As a senior, I won't miss the process. Between securing classes that start safely after 10 a.m., deciding which electives to take (pottery? basketweaving?), and getting a spot in fast-filling required courses, it's no easy task. On top of it all, there's a quest to find the best professors: the ones that make accounting or organic chemistry exciting; the ones that hold enlightening discussions; the ones that accommodate napping. Enter Rate My Professors, where students post ...
Notre Dame Women Look to Rebound After UConn Loss
By M. Kent - AOL NewsThe Notre Dame women's basketball team was cruising along with an unbeaten season, a No. 3 national ranking and a world of confidence.That is, until Saturday night, when top-ranked Connecticut stripped away its undefeated status and ranking in a 70-46 pasting in Storrs that wasn't as close as the final score would indicate.Whether the Irish (15-1, 2-1 Big East) should be mentioned in the list of national championship contenders is unclear. That question will be answered in part Tuesday night, when they travel to Louisville."This is a team that is very disappointed in the way we played ...
The Young and The Jobless: Unemployment Woes Continue Among Youths
By Aaron Steiner - Politics DailyWith the new year upon us, a fresh batch of college students who have just finished their studies will enter the work force. They arrive at a time when they have significantly lower chances of finding employment than their older counterparts had, and when the outlook for the coming months is extremely bleak. In November (the most recent data available from the Labor Department), the total unemployment rate for all 20- to 24-year-olds rose to 16 percent, almost double that of everyone older than them. The jobless rate for those 25 and up inched up to 8.5 percent. The national unemployment rate ...
Thoughts on Coach Weis' 'I Never Change' Policy
By Aaron Steiner - Politics DailyWhen President Obama's job approval ratings dip, the White House response typically is something along the lines of "this is a tough job" and "we're taking the long-term view." It's a good strategy. The president looks tough and firm without retorting that the polls don't matter or that he doesn't care. If only Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis would have stuck to that kind of strategy last weekend after a surprising and crushing 23-21 loss to Navy. Instead, Weis dug his heels in, and was much more defiant and stubborn than usual, knowing he'd face plummeting approval ratings in the ...
$$$ Textbook Dilemma: Rent or Buy?
By Lindsey Hough - Politics DailyFewer grievances are more heartfelt for the college student than watching that summer-made money get blown on back-to-school essentials -- most notably, textbooks. ...
Bishop to Notre Dame on Obama: 'We won. You lost.'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWhen Bishop John D'Arcy of South Bend, Ind., publicly and decisively declared he would boycott Notre Dame's graduation last May because President Obama was the commencement speaker, he touched off the proverbial firestorm -- and one that actually lives up to the cliche since the debate is continuing, fueled again this week by a fresh rejoinder from D'Arcy. At the time of the invitation in March, more than one-quarter of the nation's active Catholic bishops joined D'Arcy in declaring that Notre Dame -- the icon of American Catholic faith and success -- had sold her birthright for a mess of ...
Notre Dame's Goodbye to Graduates and Randall Terry
By Lynn Joyce Hunter - Politics DailyAs a supporter of President Obama and a Notre Dame alumna, my question is: What was accomplished by this graduation hijacking? A group of anti-abortion extremists from outside of the university used the graduation convocation as an event for staging protests against the president's position on abortion. Like a PETA stunt, this form of activism caused embarrassment and discomfort to its target and generated much media attention. But what, if anything, will be different once Randall Terry goes home? ...
Notre Dame Reagan Protest Organizer: Don't Ruin Anyone's Day
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyPhiladelphia – As a Notre Dame senior in 1981, Will O'Brien organized the protest against that year's commencement speaker, President Ronald Reagan. That was a tense time, too, in the world and in the church, and both Reagan's supporters and his non-fans had reason to be emotional: On March 30th, the president had been shot, and his May 17 trip to Notre Dame was the first time he'd left Washington since the attempt on his life. At the same time, another violent event was fresh in the minds of Reagan's detractors: Only five months before graduation, on December 2, 1980, four American ...
Archbishop to Obama: Look Past 'Strident Outcries' Over ND Visit
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThough dozens of his brother bishops have said they were "scandalized'' or "in shock and deep distress'' that our pro-choice president will speak and be honored at the University of Notre Dame this weekend, retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco has let President Obama know that not all pro-life Catholics -- or even all strongly pro-life Catholic prelates – see things that way. ...
Notre Dame Students Want a Protest-Free Graduation
By Robert Schmuhl - Politics DailyNotre Dame, IN -- It could be a first. The University of Notre Dame's commencement ceremony Sunday, featuring an address from President Barack Obama, has become something of a national Rorschach test. The same event provokes widely-and wildly-different interpretations and reactions. In the abstract, a university campus serves as the arena for airing opposing viewpoints to gain greater understanding of a subject to arrive (one always hopes) at elusive truth. In actuality, here at Notre Dame today, supporters and critics of the president's visit are in no mood for reflection or even listening ...
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