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Kathryn Muchnick | Friday, September 15, 2023
Student Government hosted their own version of the South Bend farmer’s market Thursday afternoon, featuring vendors from the South Bend area. Anna Jang, student government’s director of community engagement, said the goal of the market is to expose Notre Dame students to local businesses. “We did contact a lot of different businesses in the South
Maria Luisa Paul | Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Hailing from Birmingham, Michigan, senior Jenna Wade has ice skated ever since she was a toddler. As a college student, she is a member of the Notre Dame Figure Skating Club’s intercollegiate team. An experienced skater, Wade found a way to inject her passion for ice skating into a fun outing with friends at Howard
Genevieve Redsten | Wednesday, December 4, 2019
For students who are looking for a study break or a change of pace, Notre Dame’s student government is hosting a scavenger hunt of the South Bend area. Students who visit the five sites on the Fall 2019 scavenger hunt list — and submit photo evidence — will be entered into a raffle for a
Katie Galioto | Tuesday, April 17, 2018
In the narrow alley off South Michigan Street in downtown South Bend, Dee Davis watched as hundreds of students jostled their ways to the front of the line, funneling into the fortified wooden fence he put up himself. He made the fence out of farm gates. They were built to hold back 3,000-pound bulls, Davis
Martha Reilly and Tom Naatz | Monday, March 26, 2018
Across all 50 states, young leaders and activists helped to organize the first “March for our Lives,” aimed at enacting gun control reforms in the wake of the Valentine’s Day shooting in Parkland, Fla. One of these marches was held Saturday afternoon in downtown South Bend, where students from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s marched
Charlie Ortega Guifarro | Thursday, October 5, 2017
It was on a cool April night when I found a treasure, a true blessing, an everlasting memory … As an incoming freshman, I never liked the idea that the college I was going to spend four years in was supposedly in the middle of nowhere. “South Bend, Indiana,” was never listed as a reason to
Jack Rooney | Friday, December 12, 2014
In a February interview with The Observer, now-student body president Lauren Vidal said the top priority for her and vice president Matthew Devine, both seniors, was to promote service both on campus and in the community. “We really have this idea of service, and although we understand that’s a broad term, we really [prioritize] service