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Megumi Tamura | Thursday, May 6, 2021
I don’t see enough movies to be able to watch the Oscars and actually follow along, but I did see a video floating around social media on the night of the Oscars of Chloé Zhao making her speech after winning best director for her film “Nomadland.” Besides the incredible fact that this made Chloé
Lauren Kesic | Monday, April 19, 2021
Last Friday, Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt University professor of sociology and psychiatry, discussed the tension between racial prejudice and economic self-interest as portrayed in his book “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.” Metzl’s discussion was part of the “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” weekly lecture series hosted by the Klau
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, April 7, 2021
University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in a Wednesday email that Notre Dame will require all undergraduate, graduate and professional students to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to enroll for the 2021-2022 academic year. “Our goal for the fall semester will be to have as many members of the campus community vaccinated
Observer Staff Report | Monday, March 29, 2021
In an email Monday morning, the University announced the cancellation of all outbound summer 2021 study abroad programs due to the continued uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the decision, the study abroad office is offering four options to impacted students: defer to summer 2022, enroll in the virtual Global Professional Experience program,
Claire Reid | Monday, March 22, 2021
The women of Pasquerilla West Hall will host their signature event, PDub’s Closet, virtually on the Instagram page @pdubs.closet from March 22 to April 2. Clothing will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis, and students can direct message the Instagram account to purchase an item. “It’s a crossover between a Plato’s Closet type scheme
Caitlin Gormley | Wednesday, March 17, 2021
With COVID-19 restrictions limiting the number of gym appointments available on campus coupled with the unpredictable winter and spring weather forecast of South Bend, students’ workout habits have changed. To adhere to campus protocols, RecSports created a reservation service with different time blocks that help control the density of people in facilities. However, lower temperatures have
Isabella Volmert | Friday, March 12, 2021
Just over a year ago, March 6, 2020, I was riding passenger side with a friend as we drove home for spring break to Washington, Missouri. We talked a little about the concerns of the coronavirus, but the conversation probably didn’t last much longer than the first 20 minutes of the seven-hour drive. Five days
Alysa Guffey | Thursday, March 11, 2021
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 was rapidly spreading around the world, and life for students began to change drastically. Rome study abroad programs were suspended Feb. 28. The first case of coronavirus in Indiana was confirmed March 6. Students in the Washington program were forced to leave after their housing closed March 10. Yet,
Evan McKenna | Wednesday, March 10, 2021
During season one of quarantine — also known as March and April 2020 — boys in my hometown started shaving their heads. It was an outbreak of its own, honestly. The process was gradual, but the effect was frightening — like children slowly and mysteriously disappearing from the cozy Maine town in a Stephen King
Eva Analitis | Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Have you noticed a sense of jitteriness around campus recently? It seems we have reached that time of the semester: when the rest we soaked up over our long break runs out, when the glittery excitement of reuniting with our friends and becoming acquainted with our new classes wears off, and when we start to