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Spencer Kelly | Friday, May 19, 2023
In my very first college class, my professor showed us the following monoprint, titled “Angelus Novus” by Paul Klee: It’s not exactly a looker. However, this objectively ugly image hides a beautiful truth, as my professor showed in this interpretation from the philosopher Walter Benjamin: “A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking
Genevieve Coleman | Friday, May 19, 2023
Writing this column will be the hardest part of my time here. Not being sent home in the middle of freshman year. Not triple majoring. Not writing my thesis. Not student teaching. Because finishing this column inevitably means the end of a very long journey which started when I tentatively attended my first Saint Mary’s
Ayden Kowalski | Monday, May 1, 2023
Listening is an underrated form of engagement. While we experience encouragement to find and use our voices here, it is equally important to recognize when we need to be focused on someone else’s voice, and how this absorption of another’s message can stir us. Exactly how our quiet attention aids us and our relationships differs
Isa Sheikh | Friday, March 31, 2023
I still never know what to do with a hardcover book that comes into my possession. Do I throw off the flimsy dust jacket that gives the book its character, or do I keep it on as it writhes and wrinkles at the edges? Every time I prowl the less-than-pristine shelves of a used bookstore,
Jose Sanchez Cordova | Friday, March 24, 2023
Money comes back. Those are the words a good friend said to me during our first week in Paris. Probably not great long-term financial advice, but he’s an econ major, so I’ve been living by those three words since. First, I realize this attitude comes from a place of privilege. I’m lucky to study at
Alysa Guffey | Friday, March 3, 2023
On Sept. 12, 2019, I achieved greatness. I wrote my first news article for The Observer. The 618-word article was arguably the most researched, well-crafted story The Observer had ever seen. The story offered a behind-the-scenes, intimate look into one of the most beloved traditions at Our Lady’s University: the annual Lewis House of Pancakes
Carolina Jiménez | Friday, February 24, 2023
Racism seems to be a never-ending battle that our modern society desperately tries to dig itself out of. We have battled external cues and blatant discrimination, believing that this will eliminate the big issue that is racism. However, these observable demonstrations of racism and explicit racial attitudes are minimal to the real battle we have
Aidan Thomas | Wednesday, February 22, 2023
It turned out that a week of sleepless nights in December of 2021, just a few months before I began as Sports Editor, was just some foreshadowing to a wild year that defined a significant part of my college experience. While the resignation of Brian Kelly and ensuing hire of Marcus Freeman remained one of
Anna Hurt | Monday, February 20, 2023
My name is Anna and I’m a student at the University of Notre Dame. This is a sentence dozens of girls on this campus, including myself, could say truthfully. Dozens more could say something similar — “my name is Hannah,” or “Annie,” or “Annalise,” or “Annika.” It feels like at least once a day I
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, February 13, 2023
Newf’s: If you know, you know. And if you don’t know, you’re about to find out. Before we get into it, I should preface this by saying I do not condone underage drinking, and I am 21 years old! (feeling #elderly over here) Finnie’s Next Door—affectionately nicknamed New Finnies or Newf’s for short as compared