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Charlie Kenney | Friday, October 4, 2019
In Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh Library, the fishbowl is set aside for loud, collaborative group work, cubicles are expected to be located in areas of serene quiet and, as tour guides love to remind their groups, the higher one goes in the building the more silent each floor becomes. Or, in other words, a certain
Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Insert name, dorm, major. Smile, shake the hand of the person you met in class, in the dining hall or at LaFun during game day and walk away. 10 minutes later, you’ll be scratching your head, completely unsure of who the person you just met was. You’ll desperately scan the bleachers at the football game
Claire Rafford | Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Notre Dame’s student senate convened for its weekly meeting Monday evening, hearing presentations regarding the Sexual Conduct and Campus Climate Survey and Hesburgh Library renovations, as well as approving a new constitutional amendment and nominating senators for the Constitution Committee. Junior and student government director of gender relations Elizabeth Boyle started the meeting with a short
Maria Luisa Paul | Thursday, November 8, 2018
Brian Hubbard is not your average Joe. He wakes up before dawn, puts on a pair of blue jeans and a T-shirt — the Notre Dame 2018 Shirt is his favorite — and makes his way to Rockne Memorial to begin a shift that starts at 4 a.m. and ends at noon. He signs in,
Rachel O'Grady | Thursday, September 21, 2017
University librarian Diane Walker presented to student senate Wednesday night on the updates to Hesburgh Library, which is undergoing an extensive, multi-year renovation. “We’ve been thinking about [these renovations] since 2012,” Walker said. “We’ve developed a master plan, because we knew it was going to be a multi-year, multi-phase project, and the master plan was
Andrew Cameron | Friday, March 3, 2017
Last December during finals week, two students had an idea to create a new sort of clothing brand, calling it “The Cove.” The students, freshman Anthony DiCarlo and sophomore Charliepat Hart, both residents of Siegfried Hall, plan to sell high-quality clothing to college students, with a portion of the proceeds going to charity. DiCarlo and
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The renovation of the east concourse in Hesburgh Library has finished after over two months of work. The construction on the concourse started Nov. 20 in anticipation of the establishment of the Scholars Lounge, a new study space across from Au Bon Pain. The new lounge opened Dec. 1. One feature of the concourse’s transformation is
Aidan Lewis | Friday, January 27, 2017
St. John Paul II’s approach to canonization and beatification was unprecedented in its scale, Valentina Ciciliot said during her lecture “John Paul II’s Canonization Policy: the Italian Case.” “Pope John Paul II declared a huge number of blessed, and more than half of all the saints proclaimed by the Catholic Church since the establishment of the Sacred
Alexandra Muck | Wednesday, January 18, 2017
The new Catholic American exhibit in the Rare Books and Special Collections section of Hesburgh Library tells the story of early American Catholics trying to find a place in both the American and global communities. The exhibit, titled “Preserving the Steadfastness of Your Faith: Catholics in the Early American Republic,” was curated by Rachel Bohlmann,
Devon Harford | Thursday, December 1, 2016
During Wednesday night’s Senate meeting, University librarian Diane Walker and sociology librarian Jessica Kayongo presented on past, present and future renovations of Hesburgh Library. The librarians showed the senators before-and-after pictures as well as design simulations and drawings of the sections of the library that have not been renovated yet. “We have been renovating in