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7 posts tagged "Downtown South Bend"

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Local vendors sell art, pastries at farmer’s market on campus

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

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“It’s a getaway from campus”: Howard Park offers opportunities to de-stress, explore South Bend

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

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Student government hosts South Bend Scavenger Hunt

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

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Club Fever owner reflects on club’s legacy as it closes

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

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Notre Dame, SMC students participate in local ‘March for Our Lives’

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

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South Bend’s river lights

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

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Bolstering a relationship with South Bend

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

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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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