Our Hall Values
Safety, Inclusion, and Community are our primary values.
Walsh thinks of itself as grounded in the Holy Cross ideal of family. Walsh is not just a place they keep their stuff, it’s our home. That means that we have responsibility of caring and accountability. So, we have three principles in Walsh that we base everything on: Safety, Inclusion, and Community--these are hallmarks of communal living in our hall and in our world.
Over the past few weeks, these values have come into focus as we've listened to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and their fight for safe, equal and inclusive treatment in our national community. So we've prepared some resources for our Walsh community, together with a statement below.
Walsh thinks of itself as grounded in the Holy Cross ideal of family. Walsh is not just a place they keep their stuff, it’s our home. That means that we have responsibility of caring and accountability. So, we have three principles in Walsh that we base everything on: Safety, Inclusion, and Community--these are hallmarks of communal living in our hall and in our world.
Over the past few weeks, these values have come into focus as we've listened to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and their fight for safe, equal and inclusive treatment in our national community. So we've prepared some resources for our Walsh community, together with a statement below.
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RESOURCE LIST
Click here to view the resource list Walsh has gathered this summer, and email wild@nd.edu with any additions, suggestions, or updates. Thanks! |
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY AND CHANGE FROM WALSH LEADERSHIP
As leaders for the 2020-2021 school year, the Hall Council leadership and the Hall Staff would like to say that now, more than ever before, we are firmly committed to the Walsh principles of inclusion, community, and safety. We acknowledge our role in racist and unjust systems that have excluded and harmed the people we love. This is not who we are called to be; the Walsh community is called--always-- to listen, to change, and to act.
We are dedicated to listening to the needs and desires of each of our community members. We apologize for the ways that we, as a Walsh community, have not heard the voices or stories of people and students of color or of marginalized populations. That should never have happened. We aim to embrace both a posture of listening and of intentionally reaching out to care for each other. We desire to improve and to learn, and we hope to hear from our community if and when we can do better.
Throughout this summer, we are in discernment together about what action(s) we can take to promote dignity, equality and change for oppressed people, especially Walsh residents. We invite your ideas and insight to help shape the road ahead, and we will be excited to implement these actions together as a community when the academic year begins. Until then, we hope to use Instagram as a way to share stories and solidarity right now.
We hope to hear from you and learn from all our residents on how to improve the culture in Walsh, not just for this coming year, but every year. Please feel free to reach out to Hall Council leadership during the summer with questions, concerns, ideas, frustrations, and hopes. We will have more structured “office hours” when school begins in August. Hall Staff will become available when the semester begins.
Know this. We are prepared to change our hearts and to do the hard work required of us to love each other better. We commit to take action against injustice.
In times like this, we may question what it means to be a member of Walsh. As it says in our Wild Woman Prayer, '[W]e will doubt ourselves. We will wonder if we are enough. In these moments, remember that we are WILD.' We’ve always connected being WILD with being strong; in these times, we recognize that being Wild means gathering strength to free ourselves from participating in harmful expectations and unjust social norms. We have a responsibility to prioritize the freedom of all people. We have the freedom to have hard conversations to know one another better. We ask that each one of us remembers what it means to be WILD, that we have the freedom to change, and that being a part of Walsh means that no one in our family gets left behind.
As leaders for the 2020-2021 school year, the Hall Council leadership and the Hall Staff would like to say that now, more than ever before, we are firmly committed to the Walsh principles of inclusion, community, and safety. We acknowledge our role in racist and unjust systems that have excluded and harmed the people we love. This is not who we are called to be; the Walsh community is called--always-- to listen, to change, and to act.
We are dedicated to listening to the needs and desires of each of our community members. We apologize for the ways that we, as a Walsh community, have not heard the voices or stories of people and students of color or of marginalized populations. That should never have happened. We aim to embrace both a posture of listening and of intentionally reaching out to care for each other. We desire to improve and to learn, and we hope to hear from our community if and when we can do better.
Throughout this summer, we are in discernment together about what action(s) we can take to promote dignity, equality and change for oppressed people, especially Walsh residents. We invite your ideas and insight to help shape the road ahead, and we will be excited to implement these actions together as a community when the academic year begins. Until then, we hope to use Instagram as a way to share stories and solidarity right now.
We hope to hear from you and learn from all our residents on how to improve the culture in Walsh, not just for this coming year, but every year. Please feel free to reach out to Hall Council leadership during the summer with questions, concerns, ideas, frustrations, and hopes. We will have more structured “office hours” when school begins in August. Hall Staff will become available when the semester begins.
Know this. We are prepared to change our hearts and to do the hard work required of us to love each other better. We commit to take action against injustice.
In times like this, we may question what it means to be a member of Walsh. As it says in our Wild Woman Prayer, '[W]e will doubt ourselves. We will wonder if we are enough. In these moments, remember that we are WILD.' We’ve always connected being WILD with being strong; in these times, we recognize that being Wild means gathering strength to free ourselves from participating in harmful expectations and unjust social norms. We have a responsibility to prioritize the freedom of all people. We have the freedom to have hard conversations to know one another better. We ask that each one of us remembers what it means to be WILD, that we have the freedom to change, and that being a part of Walsh means that no one in our family gets left behind.
