For the Week of August 21
Welcome or welcome back to campus!
University Campaigns and Initiatives
Opening of the Academic Year Mass
All students are warmly invited to gather for the Opening of the Academic Year Mass. University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., will serve as presider and homilist. This annual gathering is a Notre Dame tradition and offers an opportunity for our campus community to ask for God’s blessing on the year ahead. All are welcome!
Tuesday, Aug. 22; 5:15 p.m. in the Purcell Pavilion of the Joyce Center
Following Mass, all undergraduate students, regardless of meal plan, are welcome to gather for dinner in North or South Dining Hall. Student IDs will be required for entry.
Graduate and professional students and their families are invited to gather at Bond Quad. Complimentary food will be provided from campus and local eateries until 8:30 p.m. Wristbands will be required for food access. More details are available at go.nd.edu/openingmass.
Arts and Performances
Art Attack @ DPAC
It’s an arts crawl under one roof! ND students — first-years to grad students to those in executive education programs — can sample the diverse range of performing, visual and literary arts on campus. Enjoy two hours of student performances, mingling and free food from a selection of food trucks. Check out the Arts@ND. Bring art to your life!
Wednesday, Aug. 23; 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Performances
Theater: “Hamlet 50/50” (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival)
The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival Professional Company returns with “Hamlet 50/50,” a world-premiere adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tales. This unique new production model is designed to create a more balanced and equal company of cast and crew members alike. $10-$75.
Tuesday, Aug. 22; 7:30 p.m. in the Patricia George Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Wednesday, Aug. 23; 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 24; 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 25; 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 26; 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 27; 2 p.m.
Exhibitions
Fall Exhibit — “Making and Unmaking Emancipation in Cuba and the United States”
This exhibit explores the fraught, circuitous and unfinished course of emancipation over the 19th century in Cuba and the United States. People — enslaved individuals and outside observers, survivors and resistors, and activists and conspirators — made and unmade emancipation, a process that remains unfinished and unrealized. Learn more.
Mondays through Fridays through Dec. 16; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Rare Books & Special Collections (Room 102), Hesburgh Library
Spotlight Exhibit — “Football and Community at Historically Black Colleges and Universities”
Visit Rare Books & Special Collections to see a selection of items from the Joyce Sports Research Collection that preserve the history of HBCU football. The programs, media guides, ephemera, guidebooks and other printed material showcase the athletic accomplishments, celebrations, spectacle and community-building that accompany football at HBCUs. Learn more.
Mondays through Fridays through Dec. 15; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Rare Books & Special Collections (Room 102), Hesburgh Library
Visit Rare Books & Special Collections to see examples of mid-century books by African Americans whose designs — from dust jackets to illustrations to bindings and paper quality — conveyed their centrality in publishing and American literature, decades before Alex Haley’s “Roots” swept to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list in 1976. Learn more.
Mondays through Fridays through Friday, Sept. 29; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Rare Books & Special Collections (Room 102), Hesburgh Library
Films
“Amarcord” (1973)
This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period — the most personal film from Federico Fellini — satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies and political subterfuge. Part of “Learning Beyond the Classics: Early ’70s Italian Cinema.” $7 adults, $6 ND fac/staff, $5 seniors, free for university and high school students.
Thursday, Aug. 24; 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Flick on the Field: Free Screening of “Rudy”
The 1993 film “Rudy,” starring Sean Astin, tells the story of Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger, who follows his dream to play football at Notre Dame despite significant obstacles. Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College and Holy Cross College students, with student IDs, will be allowed to sit on the football field to watch the movie on the stadium’s video board. No outside food or drink may be brought into the stadium. Free and open to the public. Review the details, including free parking, entrance gates, bag searches, cashless purchase options at concession stands in the concourses and the inclement weather plan.
Friday, Aug. 25; 9 to 11 p.m. inside Notre Dame Stadium (gates open at 8:30 p.m.)
The Met Opera: Live in HD — “Don Giovanni” (Mozart)
The Tony Award-winning director of Broadway’s “A View from the Bridge” and “West Side Story,” Ivo van Hove, makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. $23 adult, $16 child/student.
Saturday, Aug. 26; 1 to 4:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Athletics and Sporting Events
Visit the Athletics composite schedule for events this week.
Deadlines or Registrations
Learning Beyond the Classics: Early ’70s Italian Cinema
The political and cultural turbulence of the 1960s rerouted many already-celebrated filmmakers’ styles while creating new pathways for emerging directors. During the early 1970s, that mix of old and new led to intriguing films around the world with Italy being no exception. This seven-film course looks at this period of Italian cinema, sampling filmmakers at various stages of their careers. $14 course registration; individual screenings are $7 adults, $6 ND fac/staff, $5 seniors. Free course registration and screenings for university and high school students.
Starting Thursday, Aug. 24, through Oct. 12; 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Deals and Discounts
Front Row Club
The Front Row Club offers Notre Dame students unlimited access to fantastic live performances, film screenings and events ticketed by the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. For a $40 annual membership fee, each Monday you may explore the week’s upcoming events and reserve your free ticket to those you’ll attend. It’s that simple. Couples may also purchase a “plus one” membership. Learn more now.
The Met: Live in HD
What began as an experiment is now a staple experience for music lovers worldwide. The new season reflects how opera is changing at the Met, where balancing timeless classics with accessible new work advances the art form and attracts younger and more diverse audiences. Two amazing encores not seen last season at DPAC start a season to remember. Buy discounted season packages or single tickets.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Black and Indigenous Faculty and Student Welcome Celebration
Join the Office of the Provost and the Black and Indigenous faculty of Notre Dame for a joyful celebration of your hard work and the wonderful things ahead of you as members of the Notre Dame academic community. This event is also an important opportunity for you to connect with fellow undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty. Refreshments will be served. RSVP online: requested, but not required.
Monday, Aug. 21; 1 to 3 p.m. in Foley’s Club (located in O’Neill Hall of Music on the south side of Notre Dame Stadium)
Educational and Research Opportunities
Hesburgh Libraries and Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship Workshops:
Click on each workshop to see more details and to register.
· Introduction to Text Mining
This hands-on workshop affords participants the opportunity to learn the benefits of using computers to analyze textual corpora such as a collection of books or journal articles. Sometimes called “distant” or “scalable” reading, text mining is a way to analyze the words (or phrases) in a text in order to find patterns and anomalies within it.
Wednesday, Aug. 23; 2 to 3 p.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
· Using the Distant Reader
This workshop is useful to anyone who needs to read large volumes of materials, and will help you take control of your content. The Distant Reader, a locally written system, can take large volumes of URLs or files, create a corpus, convert it into plain text, complete natural language processing and output sets of reports.
Thursday, Aug. 24; 2 to 3 p.m. in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (Room 247), Hesburgh Library
Health and Recreation
RecSports Annual Waiver Renewal
All RecSports facility access waivers must be renewed at RecRegister.nd.edu before users are permitted to enter any RecSports facility. Waiver renewal starts on Aug. 1 of each year. Your help is needed in limiting long entry lines! Sign your waiver before your next visit. If you have questions, you can visit recsports.nd.edu/about/recregister/ to learn more about signing your waiver. Email recsport@nd.edu for further inquiries or if you need to connect with a member of the RecSports professional staff about your account.
Lectures and Presentations
Lecture: “Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing”
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way we store, access and process data, offering a host of benefits that can drive innovation, efficiency and scalability. Mike Chapple, academic director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program, will speak about the benefits of transitioning data to a cloud system.
Wednesday, Aug. 23; 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 205, Innovation Park
Safety, Parking and Traffic
Notre Dame Shuttle Tracking Service Switching to BusWhere
Notre Dame Transportation Services has made the switch to BusWhere for shuttle tracking. This change allows for additional benefits to those using the shuttle service on campus. Visit the Transportation Services website for more information.
Tech Tips, Tools and IT Maintenance
Canvas Tip: Is My Registration Up-To-Date in Canvas?
Registrar updates happen continually throughout the day in Canvas, but Canvas courses will only be visible to students if they have been published by the instructor. A listing of all your course enrollments is available in Canvas under the Courses tab.
Password Manager Tool Now Available to ND Students
Did you know 81 percent of account breaches are associated with weak and reused passwords? Protect all your accounts by using 1Password — a password manager tool available to ND students at no cost. It provides a simple, secure way to create and manage your account passwords — all in one place. Register by Friday, Oct. 13, and you’ll be entered in a raffle to win valuable prizes.
Also This Week ...
Hesburgh Library Fall Semester Building Hours
Hesburgh Library will begin fall semester hours on Sunday, Aug. 20, continuing through Friday, Dec. 15. During the fall semester, Hesburgh Library will open Sundays at 9 a.m.; be open 24 hours a day Mondays through Thursdays; close on Fridays at 11 p.m.; and open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Find all branch and service desk hours at library.nd.edu/hours.