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Tori Roeck | Thursday, April 24, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a two-part series discussing two South Bend families’ experiences with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in light of Notre Dame’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of this tragedy, to take place April 26. Read the first installment here. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis, in which
Tori Roeck | Thursday, April 24, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a two-part series discussing two South Bend families’ experiences with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in light of Notre Dame’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of this tragedy to take place April 26. Jean Claude Mugenzi cannot lie face down in his bed without thinking of his father
Tori Roeck | Monday, March 3, 2014
These are some of my last words in The Observer, a publication for which I’ve worked since the beginning of freshman year. I have a love/hate relationship with The Observer. I love that I can call my co-workers my best friends. I hate when no one claims an important story and I have to do
Tori Roeck | Monday, March 3, 2014
To begin the Church and Immigration Conference, Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of the Diocese of Huehuetenango in Guatemala gave the keynote address Sunday night in McKenna Hall. Both University President Fr. John Jenkins and Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of the Archdiocese of Seattle introduced the speaker. In Jenkins’ remarks, he said the United States is in political
Tori Roeck | Wednesday, February 19, 2014
In a talk Tuesday at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, Frances Stewart, professor emeritus of development economics at the University of Oxford, described the history of human development from the 1950s onward. Thinkers from developed countries created the concept of foreign aid in the 1950s, and this aid promoted industrialization and an increase in
Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 13, 2014
Despite the University’s continuing fanfare in honor of his 200th birthday, which took place Feb. 6, Notre Dame’s founder, Fr. Edward Sorin, discouraged the celebration of his birthday in favor of Founder’s Day, the Oct. 13 feast day of his namesake St. Edward. Peter Lysy, archivist for the University’s records, said this preference reflects French
Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 6, 2014
In his new book titled “Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty and Conflict,” history and peace studies professor Asher Kaufman uses maps to illustrate the complexity of the border dispute among Israel, Syria and Lebanon, using this border area as a microcosm of Middle Eastern history for the past 100 years. Kaufman said
Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 6, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a three-part series discussing the Rutagengwa family’s search for God from the 1994 Rwandan genocide in light of their trip back to Rwanda in December. Notre Dame freshman Fiona Rutagengwa is the child of genocide survivors. Her parents, Jean Bosco Rutagengwa and Christine Rutagengwa, survived the 1994
Tori Roeck | Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a three-part series discussing the Rutagengwa family’s search for God from the 1994 Rwandan genocide in light of their trip back to Rwanda in December. In April 1994, Jean Bosco and Christine Rutagengwa were preparing for their July wedding when the Rwandan genocide began. They became separated
Tori Roeck | Tuesday, February 4, 2014
In McKenna Hall on Tuesday night, classics professor Joseph Amar argued officials in the Greek portion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century C.E. distorted the legacy of Ephrem the Syrian, an influential Syrian Christian, to protect its own state-sponsored religion, as part of the year-long lecture series in honor of the late classics