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Student government election results in runoff between McGavick-Gayheart and Kruszewski-Dunbar

Courtney Becker | Thursday, February 8, 2018

The 2018 student government presidential election will continue with a runoff election between the McGavick-Gayheart ticket and the Kruszewski-Dunbar ticket, Judicial Council announced Thursday night. While none of the three tickets — McGavick-Gayheart, Kruszewski-Dunbar and Gannon-Moran — achieved the required 50 percent of valid (non-abstention) votes to win the election, senior Matt Ross, the Judicial

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Observer Editorial: Step away from the monologue

Observer Editorial Board | Friday, March 31, 2017

The 2016 presidential election affected this country in profound ways. Some of these effects will become evident in time, but many have already manifested themselves. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, it is hard to deny that polarization defines a large portion of today’s political discourse. The election, however, is not the

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Student government tickets debate initiatives

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Monday, February 6, 2017

As Wednesday’s election for student body president and vice president rapidly approaches, the candidates were given their first and only chance to debate their platforms against one another Monday night. In the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library, student body presidential candidate — and current student body vice president — Becca Blais and her running

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An American abroad in the time of Trump

Jack Rooney | Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Every time I open my mouth in Ireland, somebody asks me about Donald Trump. My American accent gives me away, and everyone from curious taxi drivers and bartenders to the person sitting at the next table at Starbucks want to hear what I have to say about the new president. It’s been like this since

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Saint Mary’s Campus Ministry offers prayer after election

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 16, 2016

On the day after the election, students, faculty and staff gathered in one of the chapels at Saint Mary’s to pray for peace, healing and for our new governmental leaders. Our president, Jan Cervelli, invited the campus community to make this response. Before all else, we are a community grounded in faith, and we are

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Choosing love

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, November 10, 2016

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” -Yoda The dark side is present today. Those of you who know me probably know that the rhetoric of Trump deeply opposes my belief in preferential option for the poor, the marginalized, the migrant, the

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It doesn’t matter who wins

Jack Rooney | Wednesday, November 9, 2016

It doesn’t matter who wins this presidential election. I’ll be following the results from Ireland, where polls won’t close until 11 p.m. at the earliest, so I have to submit this column before I know who wins anyway. But it really doesn’t matter. In most election cycles, politicians and pundits frame the race for the

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We’re all just talking past each other

Courtney Phelan | Wednesday, November 2, 2016

This summer, I took a theology course at Notre Dame. It was an introduction to Christian theology and started with the very basics: what is theology, what is God, how do we study theology, etc. One of the first things we learned is also one of the things that’s stuck with me the most. Our

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Inspiring innovation: America’s duty to its public education system

BridgeND | Thursday, October 27, 2016

I started getting involved in my community in the fall of 2006 at the age of nine. My local public school district in Ohio was on the brink of financial ruin, and the local community was being asked to support a property tax increase to help ease the financial stress. The district had received state

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SMC panel examines election, ethics

Martha Reilly | Wednesday, October 26, 2016

With just 12 days until the general election, Saint Mary’s Center for Spirituality hosted a panel discussion about voting, titled “Community, Conscience and Conversation,” on Tuesday evening. Pat Pierce, professor of political science, said people of varying political affiliations should respect and appreciate, rather than denounce and attack, one another. “A central part of community

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