Trans students can opt for Fischer

By ISA SHEIKH

a ssociate news editor

The apartments at Fischer graduate residences have served as an residential option for transgender students, associate vice president for residential life heather rakoczy russell told The observer in an interview.

Transgender students could be assigned to a dorm aligned with their assigned sex at birth, move off campus or “they have the option to live at Fischer graduate residences, with or without a roommate,” russell said.

The interview came ahead of the university’s announcement that it would be establishing the undergraduate community at Fischer ( ucF), billed as a “new residential community for undergraduate women and men, opening in Fall 2023” in a Feb. 1 announcement. The ucF will house 80 students in the on-campus two-resident apartments with private bedrooms.

discussing how the university has approached transgender or gender nonconforming applicants, vice president for undergraduate enrollment m icki Kidder explained that the notre dame supplement to the common app now includes a question about sex at birth. russell discussed how residential life has approached these issues, mentioning how most transgender first-years choose to live in an on-campus dorm as opposed to the other two options. in an email, russell discussed the future of undergrads at Fischer.

“most of our students in their first year, transgender students, have chosen to be in a residence hall, and we handpick the residence hall based on what we know to be not only a welcoming community… a s part of a major renovation or new construction, we have a single user bathroom with a shower near or in a residential section, so that lends itself to more privacy and a more comfortable environment,” she explained.

“To echo what dan rohmiller, director of residential life for housing operations, provided forward to welcoming him back in may,” Jenkins said in the release. “his courageous leadership and resolute commitment ended a half-century-long civil war and put his nation on a path to peace and prosperity.” in september, santos delivered the 29th annual hesburgh lecture in ethics and public policy, discussing peacebuilding. his ties to notre dame go back further.

“president santos’ relationship with notre dame began in 2012, when he turned to notre dame’s Kroc institute for international peace studies for insight and assistance as he began exploratory talks with the Farc [revolutionary armed Forces of see sanTos PAGE 4