New UD hire highlights the importance of having options

Health is a difficult word to define. The student-athletes who dutifully visit the fitness center only to subject themselves to fast food and binge drinking probably aren’t as healthy as they think. So, too, with...

Core Decorum: awareness

As University of Dallas students settle into a new semester, some look with eager anticipation at the Rome days to come, while others view the Rome semester as already merely another fond memory. Groundhog...

Commencement speaker selection at UD

Commencement at the University of Dallas is incredibly special. Outgoing seniors witness their time at school flash before their eyes as they receive the diploma that they worked for tirelessly. As at any university,...

Should UD alter its list of Core texts?

If you ask students what makes UD different, they often answer: “the Core.” The two-year curriculum emphasizes the development of Western civilization by including great works from a variety of subjects. In the Core, the...

Think tanks offer better journalism than mainstream media

In America, especially in recent years, there has been a trend of anti-establishmentarianism that has seeped into our national intellect. Since 2016, we’ve ventured as a country far beyond not trusting incumbent politicians to...

Core Decorum: musicality in all things

There is a musicality in all things. The whole world moves and seems to spin a tune with each turn. In the Paradiso, Dante sees the heavenly stars move. One of the saints in...

A guide to drinking well this Groundhog

Groundhog is the most wonderful time of the year for the University of Dallas: full of fires, laughter and the free flow of the wonderful ambrosia we call beer and wine. It is a marvelous time,...

Pope leads by example in Chile

What does the pope do? When the question of what the pope does was posed to me by a close friend and classmate, I was disappointed by my inability to provide a convincing or accurate...

Misery loves company: a Groundhog tale

Groundhog has come a long way, from its humble origins as a bonfire in the woods, to a school-endorsed event with bands and food and now to the on-campus affair it is today. In...

New smoking ban at Groundhog marks progress

For the first time in the history of the University of Dallas’ Groundhog Party in the Park, smoking will be banned at the event. This decision has provoked anger and indignation in many UD...

Farrell Hall offers improvement over Carpenter

As our beloved and eccentric Carpenter Hall nears destruction, its demise is met with nostalgia, as well as a sense of a new direction for the University of Dallas’s future. Esther Moon, a recent...

Appreciating Cardinal Farrell Hall

Our beloved University of Dallas has a new building! Finally, the incessant noise just outside the Cap Bar has subsided and we can see the finished product. But tall trees catch much wind, and...

Core Decorum: Antiquity

Patience is one of the most useful virtues to have, but perhaps the most difficult to cultivate. Time is one of the few things that we still cannot control and we often have no...

Morning people, or the lack thereof

I have a challenge for you. Take a walk along the University of Dallas Mall next Saturday morning. Before the Cap Bar has opened or the sausages are available in the cafeteria. Before most of...

UD’s political spectrum in class

This week I began a conversation with a close friend by asking: “Have UD’s classes changed your position on the political spectrum whatsoever? Have you become more right or center?” He replied no. When I...