Going Pro: It’s Not Just for Athletes

Going Pro: It’s Not Just for Athletes

The NCAA used to run an ad on TV advocating its commitment to educating student-athletes. Between highlights of game winning Hail Marys, record-setting long jumps, and dunks worthy of bedroom posters, they portrayed students-athletes studying in the library, preparing Petri dishes in biology labs, and tinkering with robots. The final scene always featured a student-athlete stating: “There are more than four hundred thousand NCAA student-athletes, and most of us go pro in something other than sports.” Now, after four years of preparation in school, sport, and spirit, I have the opportunity to go pro.

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Look What You’ve Done!

Look What You’ve Done!

A community, a family, a home ‐ that is what the Catholic Community at Stanford is to me. Over the past year, I have had the honor and privilege of being the president of the undergraduate Catholic community. From welcoming freshmen at our annual welcome ice cream social to knitting scarves for the needy in our community to making a warm Lenten meal in solidarity with other Catholic communities around the world, I have seen our Catholic leadership team (CLT) direct fantastic initiatives. Still, what defines this community is not the events we have hosted but, rather, the people that made these events possible.

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CC@S Donors Open Significant Dialogue Between Art And Life’s Most Pressing Questions

CC@S Donors Open Significant Dialogue Between Art And Life’s Most Pressing Questions

How do you change hearts and minds about the madness of war and violence? How do you get people talking about families torn apart, running frantically from terrorizing oppression? How do we frame a conversation about the connectedness to our sisters and brothers in trouble? One way is to allow people to cry out, to lament, to be angry and heartbroken, to give voice to the voiceless.

 

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