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Blake Ziegler | Thursday, April 7, 2022
As the Lee-Stitt administration begins their term in office, I’ll offer the following Jewish prayer: “Blessed are You, Adonai our G-d, Sovereign of all, who has kept us alive, sustained us and brought us to this season.” Jews recite the Shehecheyanu for a new occurrence. I offer this prayer to welcome the new administration and
Evan McKenna | Friday, February 11, 2022
Among the usual hubbub of Duncan Student Center on Thursday morning were a new crowd, new sights and new smells. Notre Dame Campus Dining celebrated the grand opening of the new on-campus Chick-fil-A location Thursday at 10 a.m., serving the first of many chicken sandwiches and nuggets to students. Campus Dining staff and executives were
Observer Staff Report | Friday, January 21, 2022
The University campus community achieved over a 90% compliance rate with the required COVID-19 booster requirement, interim provost Chris Maziar announced in an email Friday afternoon. The email stated the University hopes to lift the indoor masking requirement and restrictions on University-sponsored travel and gatherings on Feb. 4 — two weeks after the booster deadline,
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Dear Fr. John Jenkins, Fr. Gerard Olinger and Mr. Louis Nanni: We are writing to you as more than 100 parents of the Holy Cross-Notre Dame Gateway 9.0 program to plead with you respectfully that the University find on-campus housing for these rising sophomores for the start of the 2022-2023 school year. We trust that
Claire Miller | Wednesday, September 15, 2021
It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Monday night in North Dining Hall and my friends are laughing at their phones. It might as well as been a random night in 2013 given the fact that my friends were using Yik Yak, an app I hadn’t heard of since it was downloaded on my iPod Touch nearly
Letter to the Editor | Monday, September 6, 2021
To any and all, This is not a letter addressed to a reader with any purpose but simply a recollection of a Fulbright Fellow who arrived on campus in August to teach her native language in a foreign land. From India to Indiana, from University of Lucknow to University of Notre Dame and from an
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
To the editors of the Observer and students of the University of Notre Dame, I never thought myself the type of person to write to the Observer after I graduated from Notre Dame, but — and allow me to be cliché — desperate times call for the most desperate measures. The rumor mills that churn
Letter to the Editor | Friday, August 20, 2021
Dear students, I extend a warm welcome to each of you. Whether you are arriving on campus for the first time or returning after a summer away, we are very glad you are part of the Notre Dame community. Over the last 18 months, we have all been impacted by COVID-19 in profound ways. Today,
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 22, 2021
In response to the recent news that the University will be closing the Zahm House community, we have witnessed an outpouring of support for the men of Zahm. There has been an alternate response, however, which has assumed this decision is based on an alleged history and continued existence of sexual assault and rape culture
Ellis Riojas | Monday, October 5, 2020
First-Year: Quad Sophomore: Quad Junior: Six-Man At this point, all the simple models I’ve learned in my forecasting class would predict that I would somehow find a way to have more than five roommates my senior year, but sadly that’s not the case. As an resident assistant in Baumer Hall, living in a single-occupancy room