Core Decorum

All human beings struggle with various personal and moral problems throughout their lives. One thing that most people share and have had in common since the beginning is a problem with balancing...

Core Decorum: rest

Aside from getting married and having kids, or becoming a priest and receiving a parish, there are few times in life which are filled with as many changes, responsibilities, transitions and things...

Core Decorum: Be offensive

Ah, the modern college campus. One would have a hard time contradicting the great Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I think that most of us can agree that he was very wrong when he...

Core decorum: the Eucharist

During these days of quarantine and social distancing, we realize how often we take for granted physical presence and contact.  As most of us are experiencing, this is true...

Core Decorum: Love ye UD!

One glaring trait that American college students and European soccer fans share in abundance is complete and utter devotion to their team. In Europe, the “team” is much more than just the...

Core Decorum: greatness

Throughout one’s childhood in modern America, there is one thing that most children are sure to have heard in one form or another: “You’re meant for great things. You can do anything...

Core Decorum: fate

A Schwarzeneggerian man wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a black leather duster steps out of his 80s car on the side of a busy road. He blankly gazes across the flowing streams of...

Core decorum: useless for Good

Being in college, especially at one so focused on the liberal arts, places one inan unusual state.  You know the feeling. You go home for the summer and run...

Core Decorum: an odd faith

I don’t think that enough people take time to consider what a weird place the university is.  This dinky Catholic school is filled to the brim with socially-stunted homeschoolers,...

Core Decorum: fall

A solitary red leaf detaches from its home on a faithful old Maple tree near the local church on top of a hill lit up like fire. The leaf gracefully twists and...

Core Decorum: historical thinking

Through University of Dallas’ core history classes, we students are challenged to think like historians, and this challenge develops our intellect and ability to discuss. With four history classes in the core,...

Core Decorum: what do the liberal arts teach us?

“Liberal arts” is a term that is tossed around constantly at the University of Dallas; it is ingrained deeply in every facet of our lives, curriculum, and classes. But what does this...

Core Decorum: daring

In T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the title character is faced with an internal dilemma concerning his place in the world. He is caught up in the world...

Core Decorum: unconquerable

What does it mean to be unconquerable? In “Paradise Lost,” Satan asks: “The unconquerable will, / and study of revenge, immortal hate, / and courage never to submit or...

Core Decorum: community

Evelyn Waugh writes in “Brideshead Revisited” that, “to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.” As believers, we have faith in God’s love. As human beings, we all...