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===Residence halls===
{{Main|University of Notre Dame residence halls}}
[[File:Howard Hall.jpg|thumbnail|right|alt=See caption |Howard Hall, one of 15 women's dormitories]]The residence halls, or dorms, are the focus of student social and intramural life.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://admissions.nd.edu/why-nd/student-life/ |title=Student Life |last=Dame |first=Marketing Communications: Web – University of Notre |website=Undergraduate Admissions |language=en |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.abc57.com/news/notre-dame-residential-life-provides-unique-experience-to-students |title=Notre Dame Residential Life provides unique experience to students |website=ABC57 |language=en |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://orlh.nd.edu/index.htm |title=Office of Residence Life and Housing:Housing Information |publisher=University of Notre Dame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214232740/http://orlh.nd.edu/index.htm |archive-date=December 14, 2007 |access-date=December 17, 2007}}</ref> Each hall is led by a rector, a full-time, live-in professional who serves as leader, chief administrator, community builder and university resource to the residents, and is a priest, religious sister or brother, or a layperson trained in ministry or education.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rector.nd.edu/ |title=Be a Rector at Notre Dame |publisher=University of Notre Dame |website=Division of Student Affairs |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref> Rectors direct the hall community, foster bonding, and often coordinate with professors, academic advisors, and counselors to watch over students and assist them with their personal development.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://residentiallife.nd.edu/employment/rectors/ |title=Rectors // Residential Life // University of Notre Dame |last=Dame |first=Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre |website=Residential Life |language=en |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref> Rectors select, hire, train, and supervise hall staff: [[resident assistant]]s (required to be seniors) and assistant rectors (graduate students).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://residentiallife.nd.edu/employment/hall-staff/ |title=Hall Staff // Residential Life // University of Notre Dame |last=Dame |first=Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre |website=Residential Life |language=en |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref> Many residence halls also have a priest or faculty members in residence as faculty fellows, who provide an additional academic and intellectual experience to residential hall life.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://residentiallife.nd.edu/hall-staff/ |title=Hall Staff, Residential Life |publisher=University of Notre Dame |access-date=27 January 2025}}</ref> Every hall has its own chapel, dedicated to the hall's patron saint, and liturgical schedule with masses celebrated multiple times a week during the academic year, in the tradition of individual chapels at English [[Colleges within universities in the United Kingdom|university colleges]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The chapels of Notre Dame |last1=Lawrence |first1=Cunningham |date=2012 |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |isbn=978-0268037352}}</ref>

[[Fraternities and sororities]] are not allowed on campus, as they are described as in opposition to the university's educational and residential mission.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dulac.nd.edu/community-standards/standards/sa/ |title=Student Activities Policies |publisher=University of Notre Dame |website=du Lac: A Guide to Student Life |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref> The residential halls provide the social and communal aspect of fraternities, but in line with the university's policy of inclusion and zero tolerance of hazing.<ref>{{Cite book |title=University of Notre Dame: Notre Dame, Indiana |last=Ayala, Anikka M. |date=2005 |publisher=[[College Prowler]] |others=Gohari, Omid. |isbn=1596581700 |location=Pittsburgh, Pa. |oclc=61330210}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ndsmcobserver.com/2006/03/nd-policy-upheld-by-hall-tradition/ |title=ND policy upheld by hall tradition |first=Katie |last=Perry |date=March 23, 2006 |website=The Observer |access-date=November 2, 2019}}</ref>

Over four-fifths of students live in the same residence hall for three consecutive years and about one-third of students live in the same residence hall for all four years {{as of|October 2017}}.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://scholastic.nd.edu/issues/kept-on-campus-residential-policy-changes-and-their-implications-for-the-student-body/ |title=Kept on Campus |volume=161 |last1=O'Neil |first1=Alison |work=Scholastic |access-date=August 14, 2019 |publisher=University of Notre Dame |last2=Rodriguez |first2=Juan Jose |issue=3 |last3=Vale |first3=Andrea}}</ref> A new policy was put into effect beginning in 2018, which required undergraduates to live on-campus for three years. In spring 2019, the university also announced a policy (that has since been reversed) that prohibited students living off campus from participating in dorm activities, such as intramural sports and dorm dances.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://residentiallife.nd.edu/undergraduate/room-information-and-policies/residential-community-enhancements/ |title=Residential Community Enhancements |publisher=University of Notre Dame |access-date=September 20, 2019 |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605114652/https://residentiallife.nd.edu/undergraduate/room-information-and-policies/residential-community-enhancements/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Most intramural (interhall) sports are based on residence hall teams, where the university offers the only non-military academy program of full-contact intramural American football.<ref name="Life FAQ">{{cite web |url=http://admissions.nd.edu/life-at-notre-dame/student-life-faq |title=Student Life FAQ |publisher=University of Notre Dame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107055440/http://admissions.nd.edu/life-at-notre-dame/student-life-faq |archive-date=November 7, 2007 |access-date=December 17, 2007}}</ref> At the end of the interhall football season, the championship game is played in [[Notre Dame Stadium]].<ref name="Dillon-Hall-Football-2017">{{cite news |url=https://ndsmcobserver.com/2017/11/interhall-insider-dillon-hopes-maintain-undefeated-record/ |title=Dillon hopes to maintain undefeated record |last1=Olmanson |first1=Ellie |date=November 17, 2017 |work=The Observer |access-date=October 8, 2020}}</ref>