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A dorm wedding

Sarah Kikel | Monday, September 21, 2020

Walsh (1909) is the elegant bride. With her three God Quad entrances, she is a regal princess, the dormers at the top jutting out like the peaks of her tiara. Though she used to be wilder in her earlier days, she has recently refined her image to a sophisticated facade. Extending long and stately in

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Scene selections: September singles

Ryan Israel, Jake Winningham and Sarah Kikel | Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Two weeks into September and we are all ready to put on our sweaters and watch the leaves fall. With the spirit of football in the air, the weather slowly getting colder and the nights gradually getting longer, we see fall on the horizon. In preparation for the crisp autumn days ahead of us, Scene

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From the Archives: What you might not know about ‘The Shirt’

Evan McKenna, Rebecca Fried and Sarah Kikel | Monday, September 14, 2020

In the spring of 1990, Notre Dame senior Brennan Harvath (‘91) had an idea: The Student Union Board would sell t-shirts to raise funds for AnTostal — and to unify the student body for the September season opener against Michigan. The idea was a success; over 9,000 shirts were sold, and sales reached over $17,000. 

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From the Archives: Reevaluating the racial justice of the Hesburgh administration

Evan McKenna, Jim Moster, Sarah Kikel and Adriana Perez | Monday, August 31, 2020

As the American civil rights movement enters periods of resurgence, Notre Dame often enters — and exits — the conversation by invoking a familiar image: former University President Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, hands interlocked with civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr. at a 1964 rally. For many, the legacy of Fr. Hesburgh is inextricably linked

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Anne Frank’s words of wisdom

Sarah Kikel | Thursday, August 13, 2020

As college students who were used to daily freedom and spontaneity, suddenly being forced to return home due to COVID-19 was a difficult adjustment for us. Feeling disheartened by the unexpected changes, I turned to Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl,” hoping to be comforted by her ability to embrace life in hiding, during

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From the Archives: The Notre Dame ‘uprising’ of ’99

Evan McKenna, Sarah Kikel, Andrew Cameron and Meghan Pryor | Monday, April 27, 2020

Notre Dame students tend to reserve mass displays of frenzy for Welcome Weekend events or football Saturdays, but one such display came April 26, 1999, both unexpected and unprecedented: a campus blackout and the student uprisings that followed. The events of that night remain largely enigmatic, but somewhere within the commotion and confusion lies a

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Zoom: The hottest online matchmaking platform

Sarah Kikel | Friday, April 3, 2020

With classes being held online for the rest of the semester, you are undoubtedly devastated, kept up at night lamenting your failure to fulfill the fundamental item on your Notre Dame bucket list. No, not the Hesburgh Challenge — ring by spring. I get it. All year you were nervous, every day postponing that moment

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From the Archives: The strange love scene at Notre Dame

Jim Moster, Sarah Kikel, Marirose Osborne and Nia Sylva | Monday, February 17, 2020

How’s your love life? This week, From the Archives shares some standout Observer content from Valentine’s Days past. There’s something for everyone — chocolate fever, polemics and, of course, heartbreak. Community members give Valentine’s Day wishlist  Feb. 14, 1984 | Researched by Marirose Osborne In the week before Feb. 14, 1984, a group of Observer

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From the Archives: Notre Dame student takes beating for civil rights

Jim Moster, Sarah Kikel and Evan McKenna | Monday, January 27, 2020

On Friday, Notre Dame wrapped up its fifth-annual Walk the Walk Week, an event week created to engage the tri-campus community in conversations about diversity and inclusion. We all know the famous picture of Fr. Hesburgh standing arm-in-arm with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a civil rights rally in Chicago. But what other civil

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Scene’s Best Albums of 2019

Ryan Israel, Charlie Kenney, Matthew Kellenberg, Dessi Gomez, Hanna Kennedy, Jake Winningham, Ethan Utley, Mike Donovan, Sarah Kikel, Elizabeth Gregory, Willoughby Thom and Sara Schlecht | Thursday, December 12, 2019

It’s the grand finale: Scene’s official list of the top 20 albums of the year. Our writers have spent 2019 listening to countless hours of music, as our Spotify Wrappeds can confirm, and have taken this time before finals begin to reflect on the year in music by ranking our top albums. Each writer’s rankings

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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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