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-Maria Leontaras | Friday, April 20, 2018
Newspapers have always surrounded me. The first news story I’d ever read was about a lost peacock roaming the streets of my hometown, Crown Point, Indiana, when I was in second grade. The only reason I even knew this story existed was because said peacock hopped into my best read more→
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 20, 2018
My perspective is an uncommon one, but it is equally important as those recently and increasingly offered on the same subject. It might very well surprise some at the University of Notre Dame to know that there are students, staff and faculty among them who identify as both Roman read more→
Gary Caruso | Friday, April 20, 2018
To my graduating sisters and brothers who will forever share reunion weekends with me and other alumni from class years ending in either eight or three, beware that life is littered with disappointing disruptions. More often than you may expect, you will need to get over it — “it” read more→
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, April 20, 2018
On April 4, 2018, the Editorial Board of Southern Methodist University’s student newspaper, The Daily Campus, wrote an opinion piece titled “The kids aren’t all right: Who really killed the student free press of SMU.” “It’s not often that a newspaper has the self-indulgency to be able to write about itself, read more→
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 19, 2018
President Trump’s use of the term “Pocahontas” in reference to Senator Elizabeth Warren sparked outrage across the nation, particularly among American Indian communities. But just as soon as this controversy arrived in the news, it departed from the public eye as the latest scandal of the Trump administration replaced read more→
Alex Daugherty | Thursday, April 19, 2018
The possibilities are endless with a Notre Dame degree. That’s what I was told on my recruiting visit for track, what I heard at orientation, what alumni and professors ingrained in me over my four years here. However, it won’t be the technical skills I learned or even much read more→
BridgeND | Thursday, April 19, 2018
Bodily integrity, the right to physical autonomy, is fundamental to the self-determination of every human being. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights safeguards this principle by ensuring freedom from torture, sexual assault and forced disappearance. However, where industrial development permits, bodily integrity also includes an individual’s access to high-quality, read more→
Eddie Damstra | Thursday, April 19, 2018
A couple of weeks ago, a piece entitled “Pro-Life movement: Where were you?” was published in The Observer. Throughout the letter, the author argued that the Right to Life group on campus should have organized a cohort to attend the March for Our Lives, which took place in major read more→
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
GALA ND/SMC, the LGBT Alumni/ae affinity group for Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, adds its voice in support of the Observer Editorial, “Don’t just include, protect.” Over the past year, a number of significant events at Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and the broader Catholic Church have called into question read more→
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
When Welcome Weekend rolled around back in August, I repeatedly heard the sayings “welcome home” and “home under the dome” almost to the point of annoyance. To me, this seemed absurdly impossible. Nothing and no one could beat the relationships I had with my family and high school friends read more→