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.
Why is this even being discussed? A total non story.
would offset Muffet’s call for females only on the women’s BBall team. Or, should they add a trans leprechaun? Or the SBN mayor?
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and now you have a problem with it?
desire to bring it up even when their life had nothing to do with the hardships that were unfortunately faced.
Seems like after 150ish and 50+ years, people could finally move on?!?!
In order to advance in life, one needs to stop looking in the rearview mirror. To continue to complain and bemoan shows a bit of ignorance IMO. I understand this isn't a popular view, but it's true.
in spreading contrived posturing, breathless pomposity and insufferable virtue-signaling
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the large appendage. Be who you are, do what you want—let’s just win some football games.
that would be a story but all you have now is nothing.
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Our university is in trouble like so many with the hard swing left. I spoke to a woman today who said it was only a small faction of students that are way left but as good as our undergrad programs are, the grad programs in the humanities are not finding jobs for their graduates.
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a team of leprechauns?
I thought they choose one person & that was it?
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There's a leprechaun crew?
Link: Notre Dame cheerleading selects first female leprechaun mascot
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To adequately represent the rainbow that is ND! One day, I hope to see a dozen or more, a veritable human pantechnicon of leprechauns, all celebrating together in the north end zone - gay leprechauns in rainbow attire, Muslim leprechauns - in burkas, if so desired, Latino leprechauns (why isn't there already one of those, I might add), differently-abled leprechauns, some really old ones to represent our adult and continuing ed students, maybe a couple of Sikh or other South Asian leprechauns (they are a big constituency on campus, actually, and deserve a leprechaun of their own), a Native American leprechaun since trickster elves were part of the Nathan Phillips heritage as well, leprechauns who, like me, are bespectacled, and so on. And when they are named, I want the university to clearly state the group that each particular diverse leprechaun represents. No one should ever feel that they cannot grow up and be a leprechaun. It's not my America if it doesn't have a leprechaun for every one of us.
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