id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-006766 At Religious Universities, Disputes Over Faith and Academic Freedom | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1607 64 52 In 1967, a group of Catholic university presidents, led by the president of Notre Dame, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, issued the Land-of-Lakes Statement, which said a university could not thrive without institutional autonomy and academic freedom, an idea still disputed by some Catholics. On Valentine’s Day, Notre Dame students staged a production of “The Vagina Monologues.” cache/news-006766.html txt/news-006766.txt