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Angela Mathew | Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Nov. 26 marked 180 years since Fr. Sorin’s arrival in 1842 on the land now known as South Bend and as home to the tri-campus community. This land is the ancestral home of the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik, which are the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, an indigenous nation. The Potawatomi migrated from north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior
lettertotheeditor | Monday, November 21, 2022
For the past week, I have been reading “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin; during this time, I have also been reflecting on the Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action that took place on Monday, Oct. 31. On Thursday, while I was reading the book’s chapter on money (Chapter 7), I followed Rubin as she reflected on the
Chloe Coddington | Wednesday, November 16, 2022
On Tuesday, the Student Diversity Board (SDB) at Saint Mary’s hosted its seventh annual Mosaic celebration. Students socialized by listening to music and eating light snacks in Haggar Hall. At the event, SDB president Crystal Ramirez and vice president Anaís Juliano mingled with fellow students and class peers. [Editor’s note: Crystal Ramirez is a former
Isa Sheikh | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Last week, the Supreme Court heard two concurrent cases on the state of affirmative action in college admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The petitioner in both cases — Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit that has taken issue
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
The Observer | Tuesday, October 25, 2022
This year, Notre Dame’s book club is striving to go global by picking a book with an international connection each month. To maximize their multiculturalism, the officers plan to collaborate with Notre Dame’s cultural clubs that correspond with their monthly read. “We are choosing books based on different cultures,” said book club president and graduate
Liam Kelly | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
“People often say history repeats itself, but we allow history to repeat,” Commissioner Nury Turkel said in his conversation with Stephanie Barclay, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, this Monday. In the talk, Turkel detailed the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in China. Turkel, who was born in a Chinese “re-education” camp, is
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
Colleen Farrell | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The Notre Dame office of pre-college programming has received a grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc, a private charitable organization based in Indianapolis. The funding provided by this grant will go towards providing pre-college programming for teens from underserved high schools in Indiana. The Lilly Endowment has offered other grants in the tri-campus community, including
Liam Price | Monday, September 26, 2022
Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) and the Initiative on Race and Resilience will present “Afro-Latinx Poetry Now” on Tuesday and Wednesday, featuring six Afro-Latino visiting poets who will appear both publicly for talks in McKenna Hall and privately in selected Notre Dame classrooms. Both days, Poetry Now’s public events will consist of “Poets