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Epidemiologist delivers address, condemns University’s booster requirement

Isa Sheikh | Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist and economist from Stanford, was “blacklisted” by Twitter the day he joined the app. He carries a business card identifying himself as a “fringe epidemiologist,” quoting an email from Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, to Anthony Fauci. Bhattacharya, an academic at the center of many

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Students line up at UHS clinic to receive booster shots

Colleen Farrell | Friday, January 27, 2023

Students snaked out the Stepan Center Thursday morning to receive their bivalent booster shots. The line for the clinic, which was hosted by University Health Services (UHS), went all the way to the snow-covered sidewalks. In fact, when the clinic opened at 10 a.m., students were already lined up to get their COVID-19 booster shots.

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Commencement 2021: Four years in a review

Aidan O'Malley | Friday, May 21, 2021

Every year, Scene honors the graduating class with a snapshot of the most critical cultural moments of their four years in the tri-campus community. That includes pop culture, campus culture and American culture at large. Won’t you take a walk down memory lane? Fall 2017 — Male consequence and the #MeToo movement The fall of

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Are people inherently good?

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

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Vanderbilt professor analyzes racial implications of pandemic

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

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University to require COVID-19 vaccination for student enrollment in the 2021-2022 academic year

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

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University cancels summer 2021 study abroad

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,

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Pasquerilla West Hall hosts thrift event

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

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Students get creative in response to limited gym appointments

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

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March 11, 2020 and the OGQ

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

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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