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Maggie Eastland | Tuesday, January 25, 2022
College students rely on vending machines for a less-than-nutritious meal in a pinch or a late-night caffeine surge, but some of the drink machines on the Notre Dame campus have been less than reliable in the last few months. Refrigerator parts are “on order,” says a scrawled note on a piece of paper taped to
Ryan Peters | Friday, December 3, 2021
College campuses throw out on average 22 million pounds of food each year, according to the Food Recovery Network. With North and South Dining Halls serving thousands of meals each day, Notre Dame is no stranger to food waste. During the 2019-20 academic year shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the two dining halls and Center
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 1, 2021
“Some soup! Some soup! My kingdom for some soup!” Now, Richard III almost certainly never uttered these words, yet he also never said the same thing about a horse. Thanks, Shakespeare. Nevertheless, of late I find my own mind crying out this refrain. No matter how desperately I may yearn, I know each time I
Aidan O'Malley | Friday, September 24, 2021
Over the past two years and — *checks watch* — one month, I have written quite literally thousands of words in the pages of The Observer. As if that wasn’t unhinged enough, I wrote most of them with no expectation that anyone I know or love would read them. Yes, journalism is a public service,
Maggie Eastland | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Dear Campus Dining, I just have one question — what’s stopping you from serving Heinz ketchup? I know this might seem like a trivial request, but just imagine the utopia we could create by replacing the ugly, inferior Red Gold dispensers with the gold standard of tomato-based dipping sauces. Rest assured, I’m not the only
Claire Reid | Friday, September 3, 2021
Earlier this summer Campus Dining announced the opening of the Noodle Nook, an Asian concept located in the LaFortune Student Center’s Huddle Mart as part of their Retail Dining Master Plan. The new restaurant — occupying the space formerly home to the LaFortune ice cream shop — opened in August, just in time for students’
Maggie Eastland | Thursday, August 26, 2021
Sat in a close-knit square formation, markedly different from the scattered auditorium seating and masked faces of senate meetings last year, the student senate convened for the first meeting of the academic year Wednesday evening in the Notre Dame Room at LaFortune Student Center. During the meeting, student body president Allan Njomo announced the University
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, July 20, 2021
This response was written prior to the University’s announcement that Chick-fil-A would be opening on campus. However, I believe it’s important to portray this argument from a differing viewpoint. Chick-fil-A has recently faced backlash from a Letter to the Editor and a petition written by Notre Dame students. However, the situation simply doesn’t reflect the
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, July 1, 2021
A few weeks ago, Notre Dame Campus Dining revealed that it is considering the addition of a Chick-fil-A on campus as part of its “retail dining master plan.” While Chick-fil-A’s popularity on Notre Dame’s campus often goes unchallenged, we think it’s time to change that. We have serious ethical concerns regarding Chick-fil-A and believe that
Claire Reid | Monday, April 19, 2021
Friday evening, Flaherty Hall’s signature Flaherty Food Fights event turned the LaFortune Ballroom into the set of Notre Dame’s very own Food Network-style cake decorating competition. For the event, teams of two from each dorm were tasked with decorating a two-layer vanilla sheet cake in 30 minutes using two random colors of icing along with