Three anonymous women who attend the University of Notre Dame have been granted the right to intervene in the school's lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate. The school claims that because the government has declared contraception basic care for women, their right to base other people's health …
In 1972, Rutgers University admitted its first women. Now, forty-one years later, the University has finally gotten around to changing the lyrics of the school's alma mater so it's not all about going to Rutgers and becoming a man because your dad told you to. Uh, yay? I guess?
In an apparent response to France legalizing same-sex marriage last week, a far-right activist published his last essay online then killed himself at the altar in Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame is notorious for covering up sexual assault allegations involving its football players, but the school declared star linebacker Manti Te'o a "victim" within mere hours after the news broke that his saintlike dead girlfriend never actually existed. Why is Notre Dame in such a rush to assert Te'o's victimhood…
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Mizzou basketball player Michael Dixon Jr. was accused of rape last August, but his charges were dropped due to "insufficient evidence," according to police, and because boys will be boys and she was clearly just a jealous slut who wanted his high-ranking D, according to popular belief everywhere. But this wasn't the…
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A musician plays her violin in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral at sunset Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, in Paris. (AP Photo/CX Matiash)
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We all knew it was coming; what's surprising is that it took this long. The University of Notre Dame and a parade of other religious organizations have filed several lawsuits against the US Department of Health and Human Services today, alleging that a new Preventative Care Mandate in the Affordable Care Act that would …
The Baylor University women's basketball team defeated the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish to win the NCAA women's national championship last night, becoming the first basketball team in NCAA history to win 40 games in a season and only the seventh women's team ever to remain unbeaten for an entire season. The victory was a …
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Notre Dame pissed off a lot of its law students this week when an email went out on an official listserv comparing women who use birth control to prostitute. The source of the comparison wasn't a Christian conservative, though — it was Gandhi. And the scandal shines some light on his none-too-friendly thoughts about…
Notre Dame's upset over UConn made headlines Monday, but they only had a little while to enjoy it — Texas A&M beat them 76-70 yesterday to win its first-ever NCAA championship in women's basketball.
Notre Dame's women's basketball team had lost 12 straight games to UConn, but they rallied yesterday to beat the Huskies 72-63 in the national semifinals. They'll go on to play Texas A&M in the championship game tomorrow.
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Last night, Muffet McGraw earned her first career win over Pat Summitt. The Notre Dame women had lost 20 straight games to the Tennessee Volunteers before McGraw's squad — led by its phenomenal sophomore guard, Skylar Diggins — defeated the No. 1 Vols 73-59 in Dayton last night. This was a bittersweet moment for…
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Last year, Elizabeth Seeberg committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault by a Notre Dame football player. Now another woman says that she was assaulted by a Notre Dame student — and that once again, the university didn't take the case seriously.
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It is the motto of the University of Notre Dame Du Lac. And yet in the shadow of her statue there, a dutiful commitment to the safety and physical security of the women of her community seems dreadfully lacking.
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The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office has announced it won't prosecute the alleged sexual battery that led college student Elizabeth Seeberg to take her own life. Nor will the person who sent her a threatening text be charged.
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Dear Elizabeth: I don't see what more you could have done.
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A freshman at St. Mary's College committed suicide just nine days after reporting a sexual assault by a Notre Dame football player. Why isn't either school talking about the crime that may have led to her death?
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As previously established, 2010 is the year of everyone covering Gaga, and not even Division 1 football games are safe: The University of Michigan marching band is performing a Gaga medley, as witnessed during Saturday's (winning) game at Notre Dame.
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"Nervously, I approach the novelist, carrying the best box of chocolates I could find," writes Sharon Churcher. "I start to apologise that I hadn't brought more but a beaming Nelle, as her friends and family call her, extends her hand..."
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a biological sciences major from Gary, Indiana, and the University of Notre Dame's first African-American valedictorian. [ND Today]
