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-Letter to the Editor | Saturday, June 19, 2021
President Rev. John I. Jenkins and Provost Marie Lynn Miranda, On March 10, 2021, the Student Senate of the University of Notre Dame du Lac passed SS 2021-28: A Resolution Requesting a Full-Day Observance of MLK Day. On April 29, the Campus Life Council voted to send this resolution read more→
Observer Viewpoint | Friday, May 21, 2021
Every year, the graduating seniors from the Observer Editorial Board take to the commencement edition Viewpoint section for their final farewell and final byline. Read on for the work from our staff emeritus as well as the most memorable Letters to the Editor from the last four years. read more→
Maria Luisa Paul | Friday, May 21, 2021
I’m not a sports person. This year, I based my March Madness bracket on the teams’ colors and predicted that Garbanzo College (what I thought Gonzaga University was called) would win. If you’d ask me to explain football, I’d say it’s a bunch of guys running behind a ball. read more→
Serena Zacharias | Friday, May 21, 2021
After the year we’ve had, I should have more than enough content to fill this column. But oddly enough, I don’t really know what to say. Hiding in the news department, I’m not really used to writing my own opinions and allowing other people to judge my thoughts. I’ve read more→
Sara Schlecht | Friday, May 21, 2021
When I first got to Saint Mary’s, I had a sticky note list of classes I needed to take over the next few semesters and a mental list of graduate programs I wanted to attend. My plan was to do everything as efficiently as possible, and I thought nothing read more→
Mariah Rush | Friday, May 21, 2021
I like to think, like Sam Smith, I’m pretty good at goodbyes. Let me clarify — I’m good because I can maneuver out of them easily, and I don’t feel bad about it. You can count on me to disappear before I get cornered into an emotional goodbye. Jim read more→
Hayden Adams | Friday, May 21, 2021
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” -Aeschylus This has gone through far too many iterations in my head, but it’s very difficult to decide read more→
Mia Marroquin | Friday, May 21, 2021
“Don’t blink,” — my mom, circa move-in weekend in 2017. May 22, 2021 — graduation day May 23, 2021 — moving day May 24, 2021 — first day of work These three dates have been marked on every calendar and a countdown has been etched into my brain for read more→
Maeve Filbin | Friday, May 21, 2021
At the end of my first year at Saint Mary’s, I wrote about a feeling so indefinably special that it could only be explained as the opposite of something else. I borrowed the term from Marina Keegan, whose 2012 Yale Commencement address filled me with a sense of intention read more→
Ryan Israel | Friday, May 21, 2021
The summer after I graduated high school, people asked me if I was nervous about starting college. I wasn’t really, but only because I didn’t spend much time thinking about it. What was there to think about? I had no idea what it would actually be like day-to-day, so read more→