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Campus Life and Culture
The Band of the Fighting Irish, at the boundary
Claimed 1845 — documented from 1844–46
The claim and the documents, side by side: The University of Notre Dame stands in the unincorporated Notre Dame CDP at the city's north edge, as the Notre Dame record states plainly; its band is covered here at survey size…
The University Stages — DeBartolo and Its Predecessors
Notre Dame CDP, outside the city limits · Washington Hall 1881 · the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center opened September 2004
The boundary is stated first, as this record states it everywhere: the University of Notre Dame stands in the unincorporated Notre Dame CDP, outside South Bend's city limits, and its stages are carried here at boundary size…
The Juggler: campus humor in print
First issue December 1919 · Notre Dame · semiannual today, as a literary and art magazine
The boundary, stated once for the campus entries: Notre Dame and Saint Mary's stand in the unincorporated Notre Dame CDP, outside South Bend's city limits, as the Place section of this history states; the campus comedy…
The Keenan Revue: the campus stage
First performed 1976, Washington Hall · annually since · the 2026 edition billed as the fiftieth
The show: Keenan Hall's annual sketch-comedy revue is written and performed exclusively by the hall's own residents — no outside cast, no borrowed script — and it is, by the university's own account, the most popular hall event…
The Notre Dame film record — the department, the student festival, and Fighting Irish Media
1990–present · the campus as a film school and a production house
The department and its festival: The campus whose cooperation the Hollywood productions of the earlier entries needed has, since the turn of the century, made filmmakers of its own. The Department of Film, Television, and Theatre…
Fighting Irish Media and the Martin Media Center: the campus as a production house
2011 — the present · the Notre Dame CDP, at the city's north edge
The modern successor, in the same line: The campus at the city's north edge — unincorporated ground, the Notre Dame CDP, printed as such — houses the largest production operation in this record today. Fighting Irish Media was…
The campus and magazine press: Ave Maria, the Scholastic, and the Observer
1865 — the present
The boundary, printed once: The institutions of this entry — the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College — stand in the unincorporated Notre Dame census-designated place at the city's north edge, outside the South Bend…
Across the line: Notre Dame's million images
1850s–present — the University Archives' photograph collection
The boundary stated: The University of Notre Dame stands in the unincorporated Notre Dame community north of the city, not in South Bend itself, and its photographic record is covered here at survey size for that reason — the…
Fighting Irish Media: the university as a content plant
2016 - present
The partnership that announced it: Notre Dame's creator infrastructure enters this record on 4 August 2016, when the university and Bleacher Report announced what the school called a groundbreaking social content partnership: the…
The Echoes: the alumni podcast
2025 - present
The launch: On 14 July 2025 a new Notre Dame football podcast, The Echoes, began publishing weekly, produced by Sinclair, Inc. and hosted by two alumni: Mike Golic Jr., who played on the Notre Dame offensive line, and Jessica…
The campus table: the Knights of Columbus steak sandwich
1968 — present · South Quad, the Notre Dame campus
The boundary, once: The University of Notre Dame stands in the unincorporated Notre Dame CDP, north of the city line, and this section prints its one food institution plainly as the university's — a tradition whose proceeds flow…
The university clubs, at the CDP boundary
The University Club opened 1968, razed 2007 — the alumni club documented from 1931
The boundary, printed: The institutions in this entry stand in the unincorporated Notre Dame community development district outside the city limits, on the university's ground — the same civic fact the Notre Dame section of this…
The Morris Inn, at the Boundary
Dedicated 1952 · Closed for rebuilding 2012–2013 · Open today
Boundary: The Morris Inn stands on the University of Notre Dame's campus in the unincorporated community of Notre Dame, Indiana — outside the South Bend city limits. It is printed here, boundary stated, because it is the…
The Rest of the Campus — Sorin's Presence, Columba Hall, the Tunnels and the Bell
Notre Dame district · lore in print from 1995
The founder's ghost: The campus's second spirit is its founder. Father Edward Sorin, who brought the Congregation of Holy Cross to this ground in November 1842, died on 31 October 1893 — Halloween, as Notre Dame Magazine notes in…