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Elbel for everyone

Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, January 21, 2016

After living for three years on the Notre Dame-Saint Mary’s campuses with their manicured lawns, my un-adventured eyes hadn’t yet seen the wonders that the true South Bend has to offer. My move off campus senior year engendered appreciation for new kinds of green space as I found it: crabgrass persevering through concrete, my house’s garden and overgrown empty

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SMC students assist women Jordanian entrepreneurs

Rebecca O'Neil | Monday, April 13, 2015

A Saint Mary’s professor and two students traveled to Amman, Jordan, to observe and assist the inception and future growth of SheCab, a startup taxi service designed for and by Jordanian women. Associate professor of political science Sonalini Sapra accompanied junior Eleanor Jones and sophomore Emily Beaudoin abroad, a trip that followed the two students’

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Advocate examines women’s rights

Rebecca O'Neil | Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Saint Mary’s students, faculty and staff gathered in Carroll Auditorium on Monday to hear Pakistani entrepreneur and social organizer Shiza Shahid share her life’s trajectory towards her position as the co-founder and Global Ambassador of the Malala Fund. Shahid was the closing keynote speaker for the College’s 10th annual Diverse Student Leadership Conference (DSLC). Despite Shahid’s

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Speaker explores relativism with panelists

Rebecca O'Neil | Wednesday, February 25, 2015

“Relativism isn’t only a problem because it’s false — but it is.” Saint Mary’s Christ Lights Club invited Kristi Haas of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to explore how people of faith may live in truth despite contemporary society’s relativistic tendencies. Haas said human beings understand simple truths as cause and effects, but that

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Changing music, changing seasons

Rebecca O'Neil | Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Last year, I left Indiana for winter break with Chet Faker’s “Thinking in Textures” ringing in my ears. “I’m Into You” came up on a Flume binge sometime around Thanksgiving and soon after infiltrated every playlist I created. YouTube’s “suggestions for you” just get me. Faker’s warm raspy voice against the crisp sound of a

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Cynically romantic

Rebecca O'Neil | Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The second definition of cynic in the Oxford English Dictionary is “a member of a school of ancient Greek philosophers founded by Antisthenes, marked by an ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure” as they distracted the quest for self-knowledge. I fancy I may be related to a member of Antisthenes’ school — a churlish protégée

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Documentaries take the cake for each slice of life

Kelly Konya and Rebecca O'Neil | Monday, February 2, 2015

What is it about documentaries that make them so appealing? Is it our desire as human beings to want the truth and only the truth? When truth is transmogrified by directorial choices, artistic intent and finite filming opportunities, does the “production” of a film blur its accuracy, its “whole story”? The 26th annual Notre Dame

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SMC hosts symposium on domestic violence

Rebecca O'Neil | Friday, November 21, 2014

Saint Mary’s Justice Education Department hosted a symposium on intersectionality and domestic violence in Rice Commons on Thursday night. Domestic violence cannot be reduced to studying just violence or relationships, Justice Education interim coordinator Adrienne Lyles-Chockley said. The symposium explored “the interrelated factors at play in regard to the question, ‘Why don’t women in abusive

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Roundtable addresses female image

Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, November 6, 2014

Saint Mary’s students partook in a roundtable discussion to reflect on women’s limited depiction in the media after a public screening of the 2011 documentary “MissRepresentation” in the Student Center Wednesday evening. Jessica Richmond, a senior social work and political science major, facilitated the screening and following discussion. Richmond said she applied for the Dooley

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Saint Mary’s introduces SMCard rewards

Rebecca O'Neil | Thursday, October 2, 2014

Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) launched the SMCard to improve the student body’s participation in on-campus activities during the Student Diversity Board’s (SDB) annual bonfire on the College’s soccer field Wednesday evening. “We wanted to launch this event at the SDB Bonfire because it is one of the first major events on campus that

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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