<p>The fact that you presume I know nothing about Notre Dame, know nothing of the Catholic church, when in fact you know NOTHING ABOUT ME, makes my very point for me. For all you know, I could be a priest heading up one of the dorms right now. </p>
<p>Name the factual inaccuracy I’ve stated about the Catholic church. It doesn’t oppose the use of birth control (even in developing third world countries with severe STD-related endemics and orphaned children)? It doesn’t oppose pre-marital sex? It hasn’t harbored priests known to have sexually assaulted children? You can argue all you want about papal encyclicals, but you are missing the forest for the trees. So do so-called religious scholars and theologians. They can discuss what certain passages of whatever texts should really mean, it doesn’t change what the Catholic church, as an institution, does or has done in this world. I don’t feel the need to listen to excuses that are designed to justify mistakes of those purporting to act on behalf of an all knowing, all loving, all powerful deity. </p>
<p>Similarly, besides incorrectly attributing the gaudiness of the golden dome to the wrong building, name the factual inaccuracy I’ve stated about Notre Dame? Its students don’t live in a dorm with a rector that is a priest/brother/sister? Students are allowed not to have members of the opposite sex in their dorm rooms? You may disagree with some of my opinions, but that’s why I labeled those as my opinion.</p>
<p>I believe I have contributed greatly to the discussions on this board. People making bald assertions about ND undergrad business being a better decision for some 18 year old looking to go into finance/econ/business than Northwestern, without any support whatsoever, deserves a response. I believe someone in the position of the original poster deserves to know that a student at Northwestern can study econ (even taking grad level econ classes or possibly even obtain a dual ba/ma in 4 yrs), take classes at Kellogg (a business school far superior to Mendoza), and have opportunities to partake in internships during the school year at investment banks and other finance-related institutions in the city of Chicago…and that these qualifications/advantages are viewed by many in the professional world as superior to those who simply received an undergrad degree in business at ND.</p>