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Kelli Smith | Monday, March 4, 2019
Six-thousand-one-hundred forty-one miles. According to Google Maps, that’s the approximate distance between Jerusalem and South Bend. On the day meant to celebrate Editor-in-Chief turnover this year, that number became painfully clear to me when the computers in the office spontaneously shut down. Since I’m studying abroad in Israel for the semester, I am thousands of
Courtney Becker | Friday, March 1, 2019
Every new Editor-in-Chief of The Observer inherits one heck of a legacy. That’s the nature of taking on the mantle of running a 52-year-old daily newspaper. Legends have come before you, and maybe even gone on to win a Pulitzer Prize or two. To me, the biggest legend to come before me was the Editor-in-Chief
Thomas Murphy | Wednesday, February 27, 2019
We do a lot of walking as students. To class, from class, to the dining hall, from the dining hall, to the student center, from the student center — I could go on. Sometimes it’s cold, sometimes it’s hot. Maybe there are puddles on the sidewalks, or maybe there’s snow. If you’re lucky, the sky
Maria Leontaras | Tuesday, February 26, 2019
If you’ve seen any of my past work, you’d know a few things about me including, but not limited to, the following: I have a really hard time coming up with ideas for Inside Columns, and I really love myself in a not-vain way. I’ve been trying to come up with ideas for this all
Elizabeth Dundon | Monday, January 28, 2019
You may know Mumford & Sons as the “banjo band.” They prominently catapulted to fame back in 2010 with their debut album “Sigh No More,” bringing in new, yet old, sounds into the mainstream alternative rock stratosphere. The unique group’s earlier hits like “Little Lion Man” and “I Will Wait” always grabbed my attention. Whenever I
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, November 6, 2018
In addition to my job at The Observer, I give tours for the University admissions office. On a recent tour, as I paused to explain the bells and whistles of the Duncan Student Center, I noted with dismay that I was talking to myself. That is, no one was listening to me. Every single person
Maria Leontaras | Wednesday, October 31, 2018
No one will tell you this, but writing a column is difficult. Every time it’s my turn to write one, I die a little inside because I never have any good ideas. The process with this column is no different. You may think that my past works have been wonderful, inspirational even. While I can’t
Charlotte Edmonds | Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Sitting in the Atlanta airport watching the masses buzz by I am struck by my anonymity. Nobody knows me here. In some ways that’s good. Nobody really cares that I just dropped marinara from my lukewarm pizza bagel onto my jeans. But it also makes me miss my family, not just my family at home
Andrew Cameron | Thursday, October 11, 2018
Shall I compare thee to a semicolon? Thou art more lengthy and more versatile — Though oft-sufficed by mere comma or colon, Thou art most beloved by me (and AP Style). My rhyming of “colon” with “semicolon” aside, the verse above surely betrays a passion few punctuation marks could hope to inspire — the passion
Charlie Kenney | Thursday, September 13, 2018
Bad DART times often go hand in hand with one thing for a quite large contingent of students across campus — no time for lunch. Often only 15, 20 or 30 minutes is allotted to this cursed bunch. It’s far less than enough time to walk to the dining hall, select your food and get