Is the Mall’s security camera causing issues?

Since their creation over 20 years ago, IP security cameras have sparked controversy over the amount of privacy people can reasonably expect. Last week’s paper addressed the uses  of Haggar’s 360-degree camera, which involves...

Recreational reading

Over the past month, I’ve heard one question a lot: “What are you reading?” People are surprised to hear that the book isn’t for class—it’s for fun. “I wish I had time for that,” they...

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...

Why cops shoot and get shot

On Feb. 5, Sheriff ’s Deputy Micah Flick was killed in southern Colorado Springs, Colo., while a part of a multi-agency task force investigating a car theft. His death marks the third Colorado police...

Saint John’s Bible inspires awe, confounds

Do words really matter to us? Do we live by them? After listening to Father Michael Patella’s impressive lecture on Saturday evening, those were the questions I left with. For those who attended the lecture, this...

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...

Christian tradition in a liberal arts education

It is difficult for the student body of the University of Dallas to imagine a liberal arts program that isn’t grounded in the Christian tradition. How many of us have heard of a Buddhist...

Cardinal Farrell defends the faith

On March 8, International Women’s Day, the Voices of Faith will be holding their annual conference, this year titled “Why Women Matter,” in the Aula of the Jesuit Curia just outside Vatican City, instead...

Response: why civilians get shot

Last week, The University News published a commentary article arguing against the general distrust of the police by civilians. “The current social and political climate,” it read, “makes general distrust of police socially acceptable and...

The impracticality of the new food stamps bill

The Trump administration, no stranger to public controversy, just released its contentious Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposal, aimed at reducing certain aspects of the federal budget. The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition...

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...

Foucault published posthumously

Recently, the New York Times reported that Michel Foucault’s final, unfinished book, “Confessions of the Flesh,” was recently published in France. The French historian’s work on power, history, sexuality and the caustic entangle- ments of the...

Instability of the Pax Americana

The British empire lasted nearly 400 years before sinking beneath the waves of economic turmoil. The Ottoman Empire was the uncontested master of the Near East for nearly 600 years before buckling under the...

President Keefe sets an example worth following

On Feb. 19, President Thomas Keefe sent a letter to the University of Dallas student body addressing the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In my three years at the...

Do the liberal arts make us free?

If you managed to crowd into the packed SB Hall multipurpose room last Thursday evening, you were treated to fine lectures delivered by our own Drs. John Norris, Jonathan Sanford, and Joshua Parens and...