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Observer Editorial Board | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve seen coverage of the 2020 presidential election. Many Americans turned to cable news channels such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News for updates, hoping to hear the latest race calls and calculate the margins each candidate would read more→
Blake Ziegler | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
After a tumultuous campaign amidst a global pandemic, Joe Biden was elected the next President of the United States. Americans should be proud that despite the challenge of COVID-19, our democracy still stands. Despite delays in counting votes, we should applaud ourselves for voting in record numbers. Yet, the read more→
Justice Mory | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Donald Trump has gone from unprecedented to un-presidented. As we have all seen, former Vice President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 US presidential election. What’s next? In this column, I will try to shed some light on what we can expect going forward. The Electoral read more→
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
A MESSAGE FROM A STUDENT WHO STORMED THE FIELD: I regret my error of judgement in not social distancing. Dear Fellow Students, Faculty and Staff, I know many of you have read about the Clemson field-storming I recently attended. I write to express my regret for certain choices read more→
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
When I was about nine, I fell off my bike. My brother and I had ridden our bikes to the park, and on the way back, I veered off the sidewalk, fell on the pavement and skinned my knee. It was a pretty nasty fall — my poor, seven-year-old read more→
Sydni Brooks | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
While watching “Grey’s Anatomy” in quarantine over the summer, as every decent pre-med student should (Yes, I’m calling you out if you don’t watch Grey’s.), “Street Lights” by Kanye West played at the end of season five episode 10. I know Kanye is quite controversial, but for the moment, read more→
Abby Patrick | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Isn’t that how the movie (and poem?) goes? If not, I apologize — I’m certainly no Scene Writer (I lack that certain cool mystique that generally surrounds the Scene department). I remember hearing that line in ”V for Vendetta” and being very taken read more→
Trevor Lwere | Monday, November 9, 2020
The 2020 presidential election confirmed what we knew all along; American society is as polarized as ever. After everything that has characterized the evening of the Trump presidency, one could be forgiven for having hoped for a landslide. Yet, the fact that the election was that close, defying polls read more→
Renee Yaseen | Monday, November 9, 2020
Nothing tasted sweeter than the capri-suns and orange slices passed from hand to hand after my elementary school soccer games. Do you remember? Water bottles dripping wet from a minivan’s melting cooler, air smelling like Kentucky blue grass and making everything kind of taste like it. You may have read more→
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 9, 2020
To “create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice”; that part of the University mission statement formed my worldview as an undergraduate at Notre Dame. In emphasizing the common good, the line offers a necessary read more→