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-9 posts tagged "Kindness"
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Dear student body, Two years ago, I wrote a letter to thank you for the kindness that you’ve shown when the “Mass hype video” is aired during the home football games. Now, two years later I’m sitting behind my computer to write yet once again. Wow! I’m sometimes asked what I think about the response.
Julianna Conley | Wednesday, November 3, 2021
As children, we’re taught that if we don’t have anything nice to say, we shouldn’t say anything at all. By high school, it’s universally acknowledged that talking bad about someone behind their back is uncouth. In regards to unsolicited criticism, we are told to keep it to ourselves, to watch our mouths and to mind
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 19, 2020
Some moments in life are so significant, so integral to your story, that they become forever ingrained in your memory. One such instance that has been on my mind recently is from when I boarded the airplane that would take me from London to my first semester at this spectacular institution. It would be the
Show Some Skin | Thursday, August 27, 2020
I spent a good portion of July spiraling. I ranted to those around me about how dangerous it was to pack thousands of college students into 1.2 square miles in the midst of a pandemic. I wore my family and friends out with a torrent of negativity. From the earliest of these rants, my mom
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, March 27, 2020
We are living in the midst of an unprecedented global event with lasting medical, social, political and economic effects, and it sucks. Period. Many of us are lucky enough to be watching life slow to a gentle halt from our homes, surrounded by family. Others are battling this novel coronavirus on the front lines, in
Erin Grimes | Monday, April 29, 2019
According to Merriam Webster, the definition of hospitality is “hospitable treatment, reception or disposition.” That doesn’t really explain anything, so I turned to the definition of hospitable which is “given to generous and cordial reception of guests” and “offering a pleasant or sustaining environment.” Before my year studying in Innsbruck, I knew what the terms
Campus Ministry | Monday, February 4, 2019
I can’t help but notice how the weather outside parallels my experience coming back to Notre Dame for the spring semester. After a wonderful Christmas vacation followed by a beautiful weekend with students on the Becoming Retreat, the following days were like a snowy, uphill climb to get the semester up and running. The grind
Bianca Almada | Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The new semester welcomes to campus the new student organization, kiND Club, which focuses on performing random acts of kindness and spreading positive affirmations. “The overarching goal for the club is to create an infectious display of kindness on campus and in the community. … We want to use the concept of kindness to help,
Rebecca O'Neil | Monday, February 24, 2014
The night was hazy and slightly dull. My friend and I were receiving attention from all the wrong sorts at a random party. We needed to blow that popsicle stand — quick. In typical Smick/Domer style, my friend hit up her beloved cabbie, Ollie. “He’s teaching me French,” she said. The two of us are