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...
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...
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...
Core Decorum: Fortuna
The absurdity of life’s inequality is one of the most baffling counterpoints to the power of reason in the world. Often the things born first from luck, like our various talents, end up defining...
Core Decorum: Dissatisfaction
The more we get, the less excited we are to receive things. Adults are rarely as excited to receive gifts as children. Even the success that comes from hard work becomes less exhilarating over...
Core Decorum: Boredom
Life is often so boring. Some say that boredom does not exist; we only imagine it does when we’d rather not face something difficult. It is really just symptomatic of a lazy lack of...
Core Decorum: Media
At the University of Dallas, freshmen who have barely shucked off their high school attitudes along with their teenage set of caps and gowns find themselves presented with a poem that casts them back...
Core Decorum: Work
In life, there really are no destinations. The moment you reach one place, you think fondly of where have you just been or where you’d rather be. The same is true of all our...
Core Decorum: Tradition
We only have one life to live, and each day seems shorter than the last. No matter how much one tries to fit into a month, a week or a decade there are physical...
Core Decorum: Standards
We are often reminded of why we go to the University of Dallas. Professors, administrators and students remind each other that spending four years at UD is not just an opportunity for an intellectual...
Core Decorum: Change
Often to our dismay, change is imminent. An uncontrollable force of the future, change often leaves us worried about what is to come. But although we can guess and plan, we do not know...
Core Decorum: Valete
The end of the school year brings many mixed feelings to students. As students, we remember that we are growing up and also realize how much we have learned. An eagerness to finish finals...
Core decorum: journeys
I cannot help but consider the relationship between a student’s journey at the University of Dallas and William Wordsworth’s poem, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality.”
In this poem Wordsworth reminisces about the glory of youth....
Core Decorum: Insistere
Ralph Waldo Emerson declared, “insist on yourself,” in his essay “Self-Reliance.” It is easy to brush off his advice and consider it the same as the common encouragement to “be yourself.” However, what Emerson...
Core Decorum: healing
One of the advantages of attending a small university is the tight-knit community it fosters. This is especially true at the University of Dallas. It does not take long before you start to learn...