Don’t shoot the storyteller

Can we find truth in artistic profanity? Why do we read Aristophanes? There’s nobody else quite like him in the Core curriculum. Surrounded by epic fables of war...

A plea for better mental health resources

When one is learning how to be on one’s own, balancing the hard things of life can prove to be difficult. For example, students may struggle with stress, test-anxiety and navigating life...

On Burning Our Hands

The false notion of the “UD Bubble” When king Porsenna marched against the city of Rome, a young man named Mucius stole into his camp, intent on killing...

The End of Forgetting

Memory and hope in the present academic year The hope and energy bubbling across the Mall on the first day of the new academic year was a special...

Ring by Spring

What is your (financial) plan? We have a moral and financial duty as Catholics to make decisions that set ourselves (and others) up for success both spiritually and...

Dating an Agnostic

How to honor your faith and respect his As someone who grew up as a nonpracticing Catholic, it was really interesting to witness my friends’ dating prerequisite that...

A reflection on personalism in an impersonal world

Actualizing the Philosophy of JPII In the era of technology, our generation is increasingly experiencing anxiety and distance from each other. While the typical University of Dallas student is...

The mass to an atheist

A meaningful morning at St. Peter’s Mass. The word means nothing to someone like me.  It's a piece of someone else's life. It's something I doubt I'll ever be...

Touching His cloak at World Youth Day

A Different Kind of Retreat After reading an opinion piece recently on World Youth Day, I realized that pilgrims this summer in Lisbon, Portugal, were craving a retreat-like experience....

The magical “two weeks”

An honest letter to freshmen By now you’ve been in classes for not only two, but three weeks. You’ve encountered the befuddling tangents of epic similes, you’ve realized there’s...

Letters from the Editors

Kate Frediani, Editor-in-Chief In July 2019, sitting in the kitchen of my parents’ house, I stumbled across the Instagram page of, formerly, The University News. There was a post...

Embracing the present moment

A couple of weeks ago I was sitting with a friend who was sharing Rome advice with me over mid-afternoon Cap Bar drinks. Midway through our conversation, she mentioned the importance of...

Exploring Catholic justifications of capital punishment

Capital punishment, otherwise known as the death penalty, has long been an issue contested amongst Catholics.  The Catechism definitively states that the death penalty is "inadmissible because it is...

Why Catholics can — and should — be pro-capital punishment

What follows is a brief list of reasons why Catholics can and should support the death penalty.  St. Thomas Aquinas condones the death penalty. Aquinas’ main argument is that...

Golden mean, not middle ground

Emily Dietrich, in her March 22 commentary “Hardly any middle ground: the UD dating phenomenon,” tries to provide an explanation for her fruitless freshman year relationship by inquiring: “Why is UD dating...