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From the Archives: Creepy tales and cultural traditions

Spencer Kelly | Monday, October 31, 2022

With this week’s edition falling on October 31, we felt obligated to write about Halloween. For those currently imbued with the holiday spirit, the following stories about campus ghosts, ouija sessions and seances will not disappoint. But we also wanted to look beyond “spooky season” stereotypes. The blurbs below consider the transformation of Halloween from

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Students visit Riedinger House for Saint Mary’s Ghost Stories

Cathy Doherty | Wednesday, October 26, 2022

With Halloween approaching, the Class Gift Campaign and Office of Residence Life sponsored the annual Saint Mary’s Ghost Stories event Wednesday night. Students gathered at the Riedinger House, a house on campus originally designed for home economics courses that are no longer offered. The scarcely used Riedinger House is rarely made available to students. As

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From the Archives: The spirits of Saint Mary’s College

Evan McKenna and Jim Moster | Friday, October 30, 2020

In October of last year, the From the Archives team covered the story of the ghost of Washington Hall, arguably the most well-known supernatural story stemming from the tri-campus community.  But while Notre Dame’s supernatural claim to fame is a Travel Channel feature of its most prominent ghost, Saint Mary’s bests the University with its

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Saint Mary’s Resident Assistants share stories of ghostly encounters on campus

Maeve Filbin | Wednesday, October 30, 2019

In the parlor of Riedinger House, students sat on couches and clustered together on the floor, leaning forward attentively to listen to the Resident Assistants sharing stories of ghostly encounters in the Saint Mary’s residence halls. Tuesday night, the Class Gift Campaign of the Office of Annual Giving hosted the annual reading of “Quiet Hours,”

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From the Archives: The Ghost of Washington Hall

Sarah Kikel, Evan McKenna, Erin Fennessy and Jim Moster | Monday, October 14, 2019

The tale of Notre Dame’s first All-American football player George Gipp is one of the University’s most storied legends. The story goes that Gipp contracted a strep throat infection and pneumonia after falling asleep outside of Washington Hall. He died Dec. 14, 1920. Following the death of the Gipper, many students claim to have experienced

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Saint Mary’s Class Gift Campaign sponsors ghost stories event

Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Riedinger House at Saint Mary’s was full of mystery while stories from “Quiet Hours: Revealing the Mysteries” were shared over hot apple cider and doughnuts. “Quiet Hours” is a collection of ghost stories written by three Saint Mary’s alumnae. The event was sponsored by the Saint Mary’s Class Gift Campaign. Senior Maura Newell, co-chair for

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SMC students visit areas of campus featured in book of ghost stories

Nicole Caratas | Friday, October 30, 2015

Thirteen years after the publication of “Quiet Hours,” a collection of ghost stories taking place in various locations across Saint Mary’s campus, the Student Activities Board (SAB) held a tour Thursday for students to hear the book’s different stories in the buildings where they were reported to have occurred. SAB member Sinead Hickey said “Quiet Hours” was

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Saint Mary’s sponsors Halloween-themes festivities

Chelsey Fattal | Thursday, October 30, 2014

Throughout the week, Saint Mary’s has celebrated Halloween, beginning on Tuesday, with “Ghost stories at Reidinger” sponsored by the Class Gift Campaign. “Halloween has become a major event at many colleges, even Saint Mary’s is a popular place during Halloween because of the many stories in [Shelly Houser’s book] ‘Quiet Hours.’” College archivist John Kovach said. Kovach used

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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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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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