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Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, March 9, 2021
On Feb. 24, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, the Equality Act. Supported by President Biden, the bill seeks to amend current civil rights law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. If passed, the Equality Act would be the most systematic attack read more→
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Growing up, I spent most of my time learning about the world in two rooms: my church sanctuary, and my living room, with the TV tuned to MSNBC. Religion and politics have always been a part of my life, but they were always completely unrelated. I’d hear my minister read more→
Sydni Brooks | Tuesday, March 9, 2021
I didn’t recognize how bad of an overthinker I was until I caught myself judging how I sounded speaking in class with my mask on. I grew nervous that I sounded extremely muffled and my professor wouldn’t be able to hear what I was trying to articulate. I simultaneously read more→
Adriana Perez | Monday, March 8, 2021
If there is anything I have learned in the past year, it is that life is unpredictable. I know this is not groundbreaking — by now, all of humanity has had plenty of time to come to this same realization. Around a year ago, almost to the day, we read more→
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 8, 2021
To The Observer Editorial Board, I agreed with most of the points made in your editorial, “Where’s the transparency?” However, I was disheartened to see that you chose to throw in an unnecessarily mocking comment about Masses on campus when you asked, “Does a tabernacle help prevent coronavirus transmission?” read more→
Andrew Sveda | Monday, March 8, 2021
In my previous column, I asked, “What is the main thing, the purpose of college that takes precedence over all other factors and shapes what a meaningful college experience looks like?” I examined three common answers — credential earning, job training and “learning things” — and discovered that each read more→
Maria Leontaras | Friday, March 5, 2021
About a year ago, I said hello. Now it’s time for me to say goodbye. Whenever anyone asks me about the past year at The Observer, I can’t make it more than two sentences without commending the hard work of my peers at the paper. I frequently follow up read more→
Gabriel Niforatos | Friday, March 5, 2021
I won the student body election. And I did not barely win, either. I won the election by the highest margin of victory ever recorded for a ticket in the history of Notre Dame. And yet, they want you to believe that we lost. You might have seen coverage read more→
Observer Editorial Board | Thursday, March 4, 2021
The Notre Dame Division of Student Affairs sent a campus-wide email Feb. 17 in response to a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases among the student body. In the hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus, the University decided to halt all student organizations’ in-person meetings and read more→
Clark Bowden | Thursday, March 4, 2021
One of my favorite things to do when returning to campus after a long break from school is to walk or drive directly up Notre Dame Avenue. Along this route you are greeted by Mother Mary standing atop the Golden Dome, arms open at her sides. Closer down God read more→