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Brian Boylen | Thursday, October 4, 2018
You don’t need to stay until the end of football games. While the pressure to stay has been present throughout my career here at Notre Dame, it has never been as prevalent as it is now during my senior year football season. I’m not saying anyone is holding me hostage in the student section, but
Claire Rafford | Friday, September 14, 2018
My hometown’s almost daily forecast of constant sunshine and temperatures that fall on some scale of warm to “I am currently burning in my own skin” did not give me experience in navigating Midwestern weather. Even when it did rain back home in Tempe, Arizona, it was usually a comfortable sprinkle that lasted for no more
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, September 5, 2018
As an alumna, every so often I browse The Observer to stay informed of the current happenings of my beloved alma mater. Near the end of the last academic year, I decided to do this and I was extremely surprised to discover a viewpoint by Associate Professor Sara McKibben, who wrote on recent challenges for
Ann Curtis | Tuesday, August 28, 2018
I am a Saint Mary’s College student, and I work for The Observer. My tuition, classes and dorms are completely separate from Notre Dame’s campus, yet this club requires me to be in the basement of South Dining Hall for several nights every week (and I happily oblige). However, after photographing late-night lectures or editing
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, August 17, 2018
Since its inception, The Observer has served two campus communities just north of South Bend. Over the last 51 years, student journalists from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s have helped tell their classmates’ stories and report from their campuses as they have undergone profound changes. But over that time, The Observer’s coverage of the tri-campus community
Hanna Kennedy | Friday, April 27, 2018
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, student actors from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s will take to the stage and bring contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House” to life. Director Brynn Alexander, a senior Film, Television and Theatre major with a concentration in Theatre, chose to stage “The Clean House” after reading the script over
Claire Rafford | Monday, April 16, 2018
“What dorm are you in?” It’s a question that Notre Dame students ask each other frequently — in classes, at parties, in nearly every social introduction. Almost everyone reading this article probably has, at most, a three-word response. For me, it’s a little different. I didn’t get into Notre Dame. Instead, after a harrowing two
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 12, 2018
Notre Dame is one of the most prestigious schools in the nation. But other top schools boast increasingly higher rates of diversity in their incoming classes. This is because these schools recognize that they are preparing students for the real world. The Notre Dame bubble has verbally addressed this mission but has not taken clear
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 5, 2018
“A gift from Joseph A. LaFortune, the Student Center is the most visited building on Notre Dame’s campus.” At least, this is what the University’s website says. This claim may have been true before the start of second semester, but with the opening of the Duncan Student Center, LaFun is effectively dead. On my trek
Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 26, 2018
After I read the suspiciously positive reviews of the Duncan Student Center that have appeared in this publication, I was somewhat frustrated. The primary reason I am frustrated is not that the Duncan Center was not built particularly well — though they did build a gym two stories above rooms that are largely made of