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Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, February 22, 2023
If you’ve taken a stroll across campus in recent weeks, you’ve no doubt noticed a new resident ambling amongst the various pedestrians, cyclists and scooter-riders inhabiting the sidewalks of Notre Dame. Sleek new Starship delivery robots, moving with either extreme confidence or halting uncertainty, are now serving up Grubhub orders for the low delivery fee
Andrew Marciano | Wednesday, February 8, 2023
The first fall of snow is always the most memorable experience of a South Bend winter. However, by the time January and February roll around, the cold just becomes an inconvenient nuisance. In addition to the horrid wind chill, black ice covers the sidewalk that makes your usual walk back to the dorm a consistent
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, November 7, 2022
SpeakUp Notre Dame is a call to the campus community to not be silent but heard. Following the Inclusive Campus Survey, which uncovered that only 15% of the student body knew how to use SpeakUp, the Observer spoke to University administrators and other leaders to dive deeper into the history behind the tool, the intended
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, October 10, 2022
The Campus Inclusive Survey, which has been done previously in 2018 and 2020, asked the Notre Dame student population to reflect on their sense of belonging and what factors have influenced how at home they feel under the golden dome. Data was collected from February to March 2022 and yielded a 42 percent response rate, according
lettertotheeditor | Friday, October 7, 2022
Editor’s note: This letter includes mentions of sexual assault. A list of sexual assault reporting options and on-campus resources can be found on the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross websites. I graduated in January, but I still live in South Bend and come to campus frequently. I am still connected to this community,
Angela Mathew | Tuesday, September 20, 2022
This Monday marked 56 years since Holy Cross College’s establishment. The College was founded on Sept. 19, 1966 by Holy Cross Brothers whose mission is to be “educators in the faith” to men and women everywhere — especially the poor, afflicted and oppressed. Michael Griffin, senior vice president and interim provost of Holy Cross College,
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 11, 2021
No, “Liam” Finn, we are not the bunch of bingo players who live in the “quaint” retirement home across the street: the stereotype on which you base the closing of your recent letter to the editor. In fact, many of us here have — years ago — traveled paths that you who read this now
Emily DeFazio | Thursday, April 22, 2021
The eve of Thursday, April 15 proved to be an exciting one for the Notre Dame student body. In an email, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced to the campus community that they had succeeded in achieving the “ambitious goal” of vaccinating at least 90% of undergraduate and professional students. Those included in the statistic
Ciara Hopkinson | Friday, April 3, 2020
As I struggled, yet again, to come up with a topic for the dreaded inside column, my cabin fever-addled brain hit upon the phrase, “if these walls could talk.” I paused, wondering what the walls of the tiny house I’ve shared with three of my best girlfriends for the past seven months would say about
Davis Gonsalves | Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Notre Dame is unique in many ways. Our relationships with varying groups on campus set us apart from other schools. However, the relationships within the school are hardly unique among students, and I am attempting to rank these to bring them out to fruition. 11. Traveler and Coach USA attendant The worst relationship at Notre