Really, I don't care all that much if we win many football games, but I am relieved at the University's dramatic announcement that ND finally has a female woman of color as a leprechaun. This is historic for such a reactionary institution. Neither ND, nor the US, I venture to say, will be the same again, and I have to ask: What took so darn long to break through that particular glass ceiling, anyway? Why did we spend centuries telling generations of little girls, "Hey, by the way, you don't get to be the leprechaun?" Glad those benighted days are finally a thing of the past. And this is not our first, but our actual second, black male leprechaun, another triumph. (Funny, though, why does it still kind of FEEL like it is our first?) One day, there may well be one of them who can say he was the third black male leprechaun. And then a fourth, maybe. And some more after that. Baby steps . . .
Is it too much to hope that, one day, we finally break all the barriers and have an openly and proudly gay leprechaun? Now THAT would be sending a message! It would be like having ND's very own Mayor Pete. We can keep hoping. Let me suggest that each of you include a note that you would like to see this happen with your next donation check.