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Meghan Lange | Friday, May 19, 2023
Senior Libbey Detcher was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Senior Award by the Alumnae Association Board of Directors at the annual Alumnae-Senior Champagne brunch Monday. The Outstanding Senior Award is presented annually to a senior who “exemplifies the spirit and values of her school and is distinguished by scholarship, leadership and outstanding dedication to Saint Mary’s
Observer Viewpoint | Friday, May 19, 2023
Every year, graduating seniors from the Observer Editorial Board take to the commencement edition Viewpoint section for their final farewell and final byline, commemorating their time in the tri-campus. Read on for the work from our staff emeritus as well as some of the most memorable Letters to the Editor from the last four years.
Alysa Guffey | Friday, May 19, 2023
Around spring break of this year, I felt inspired by a close friend and writer I admire. We had a conversation about daily journaling — something she had been trying to practice and something I had been wanting to do for a while. A few days later, I bought not one, but two journals, all
Spencer Kelly | Friday, May 19, 2023
In my very first college class, my professor showed us the following monoprint, titled “Angelus Novus” by Paul Klee: It’s not exactly a looker. However, this objectively ugly image hides a beautiful truth, as my professor showed in this interpretation from the philosopher Walter Benjamin: “A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking
Aidan O'Malley | Friday, May 19, 2023
I’ve started and stopped (and restarted and restopped) this column more times than I would care to count. When my writer’s block reaches a particularly insurmountable impasse, I’ll turn to the search bar of this very website, type in the name of a colleague — a friend — whom I’ve admired and who graduated before
Observer Staff Report | Monday, February 27, 2023
In a statement released Monday morning, Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins announced former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos as the principal speaker at the University’s commencement ceremony May 21. Santos, who served as president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018, was the sole recipient of the distinguished award in