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Claire Reid | Friday, May 21, 2021
Director of the Office of Vocations for the Congregation of Holy Cross Fr. John DeRiso can often be found in the Duncan or LaFortune Student Centers, where he meets with Notre Dame students interested in discerning their vocation. DeRiso invites students who express interest in the priesthood or in religious life to consider the Congregation
Claire Reid | Thursday, May 6, 2021
The Department of Art, Art History and Design (AAHD) is currently holding its annual honors senior thesis exhibition in Riley Hall. The exhibition features senior thesis projects from students pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Bachelor of Arts with Honors (BA Honors) degrees in visual communication design, industrial design and studio art. Their work
Claire Reid | Monday, May 3, 2021
The University of Notre Dame offers approximately 75 degree programs encompassing everything from accountancy to theology. However, some majors are less well-known or populous than others. The Observer interviewed four students in the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame about how they chose their major and how they plan to use it in the
Claire Reid | Thursday, April 29, 2021
The Department of Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) will host the 32nd Annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival this weekend in the Debartolo Performing Arts Center’s Browning Cinema. Festival screenings will take place from Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. A livestream of Sunday’s show will also be available
Claire Reid | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
In recognition of Sexual Violence Awareness Month, Access-ABLE of Notre Dame and the Gender Relations Center (GRC) have partnered together to host “No Longer Silent,” a tabling event seeking to raise awareness about the prevalence of violence against people with disabilities. Representatives from Access-ABLE and the GRC were stationed at tables on North and South
Claire Reid | Monday, April 19, 2021
Friday evening, Flaherty Hall’s signature Flaherty Food Fights event turned the LaFortune Ballroom into the set of Notre Dame’s very own Food Network-style cake decorating competition. For the event, teams of two from each dorm were tasked with decorating a two-layer vanilla sheet cake in 30 minutes using two random colors of icing along with
Claire Reid | Friday, April 16, 2021
The Notre Dame International (NDI) Senior Fellows are holding a photography competition “Show Your Culture,” which is accepting submissions until Sunday. Entries can be submitted via a Google Form on NDI’s website. The competition challenges students to submit an original photo along with a caption explaining how it represents the ways in which they incorporate
Claire Reid | Friday, April 9, 2021
This semester, the cast and crew of the Pasquerilla East Music Company (PEMCo) have adapted their latest musical “Something Rotten” to comply with COVID-19 restrictions. The showtimes include April 9 at 8 p.m. and April 10 at 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. on the Washington Hall Mainstage. While in-person tickets sold out quickly since only
Claire Reid | Thursday, April 8, 2021
In the fall semester of 2017, the Marriage Pact survey took Stanford University by storm. Within a week of the survey’s release, more than half of the campus was participating. The 60-question survey, created by two Stanford undergraduates for an economics class, presents students with questions on personality traits and future goals. Then, an algorithm
Claire Reid | Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Spending time with grandparents. Enjoying a home-cooked meal. An Easter egg hunt with her little cousins. For Notre Dame sophomore Ariana Arce, Easter every year is a time dedicated to family and coming together and rejoicing in another’s presence. This year, the Northern Indiana native looked forward to seeing her aunt, grandparents and parents —