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Ryan Peters | Friday, October 16, 2020
The student senate gathered Thursday evening to provide updates on planning for the spring semester and winter break and to swear in a new senator. Chief of staff, senior Aaron Benavides announced the Student Advisory Group for Campus Reopening convened Wednesday evening. The group met with University President Fr. John Jenkins to discuss his appearance
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 10, 2020
Dear Provost Miranda, Fr. Jenkins and others, I am not an epidemiologist, and therefore am not writing to make an argument for or against remaining on campus. I pause, in the midst of planning for my return to in-person teaching, to make a simple request which could be granted at no cost to the University:
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, August 27, 2020
Professor Alford et al. may be right that our community is better off by keeping the campus open. What I object to is how they reach this conclusion: specifically, their appeal to a Cornell research and a CDC survey as evidence that opening the campus is good. Both inferences are unsound, with the first case
Show Some Skin | Thursday, August 27, 2020
I spent a good portion of July spiraling. I ranted to those around me about how dangerous it was to pack thousands of college students into 1.2 square miles in the midst of a pandemic. I wore my family and friends out with a torrent of negativity. From the earliest of these rants, my mom
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Notre Dame announced their guidelines and health and safety procedures for reopening campus for the 2020 fall semester in a statement Tuesday. The guidelines are based on “medical advice from local and national experts, including a team from the Cleveland Clinic,” and include measures such as rearranging classrooms, daily health checks, on-campus testing and a