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Regarding proposed off campus ‘differentiation’ policies

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, December 12, 2019

As a young alum who cherished my senior year living off campus in addition to my three years on campus, I’m baffled by the University’s seemingly punitive policy proposals towards future seniors choosing to live off campus and am even more confused after reading The Observer’s reporting of the meeting with associate vice president of Residential

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My life as a gay ND alum and a faithful Catholic

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 29, 2016

My life as a gay Catholic man, father, husband and Domer started many years ago being brought up in a traditional middle-class Irish Catholic family in the suburbs of Boston. Both my parents were school teachers who strongly valued hard work ethic, advanced education and bringing their children up in the Catholic religion. My life’s

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When I was kicked out of my dorm

Christopher Damian | Thursday, November 5, 2015

I deserved it. There’s no doubt in my mind that it was a decision of retributive justice. I had broken the rules, and removal from my dorm was a reasonable response. At the time I had a number of personal issues. I didn’t have the psychological, intellectual, social or spiritual resources to manage some of