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Observer Editorial Board | Tuesday, June 2, 2020
We’ve heard their names with a rumble of outrage from the white and tri-campus communities for years: Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland — the list goes on and on. And now, George Floyd. For the Black community, outrage, activism and courage have been a permanent fixture. But now, it’s time
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, April 3, 2020
Over the past three weeks, students at Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross have waited patiently for answers from their respective institutions as to how things will progress over the next few months. With each passing day, a new question seems to be answered. What will happen to classes? Zoom. Will Notre Dame move
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, March 20, 2020
While the week following spring break is usually a time of chaos and commotion for the tri-campus community, things are different this year. North and South Quads, once packed with students soaking up the sun on South Bend’s rare warm days, are eerie without the sound of Big Bootie Mix coming from a speaker in
Observer Editorial Board | Monday, February 10, 2020
Over the last week, six pairs of students have been hard at work campaigning for the role of student body president and vice president in anticipation of Tuesday’s student government elections. The six tickets — freshmen Henry Bates and Thomas Henry; juniors Michael Dugan and Ricardo Pozas Garza (Editor’s Note: Dugan is a former systems
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, February 7, 2020
You’ve seen him in the Noble Family Dining Hall on Saturday morning, bleary eyed and eating scrambled eggs, the only boy sitting in a sea of Saint Mary’s students. You’ve seen her sitting alone in her first Notre Dame course, struggling to log into a computer cluster because she keeps typing her Saint Mary’s email
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, January 31, 2020
We write this editorial with heavy hearts. Last week, we lost a member of the Notre Dame family. We are grieving with our community at this difficult time, and in particular extend our condolences to the Jerry family, Annrose’s friends, the Breen-Phillips Hall community and the Folk Choir. But know when tragedy strikes, the tri-campus
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, January 24, 2020
When asked about the role of white allies in the fight against racial injustice at Monday’s Martin Luther King Luncheon, Diane Nash — a civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 1960s movement — answered in plain and powerful terms: “The civil rights movement was a movement of black students supported by
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, November 15, 2019
We’re all here because we’re high achievers. We care a lot about our grades. We fixate on our futures, and it’s easy to believe every achievement is a notch on the ladder of success. The academic expectations are unrelenting, and those aren’t the only high bars we set for ourselves. We expect ourselves and each
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, October 11, 2019
When U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos repealed Obama-era Title IX policies in 2017, advocates across the country — including at Notre Dame — expressed concern over how the changes could negatively impact sexual misconduct investigations at universities. DeVos’ proposed replacement rules, announced in 2018, sparked additional concerns. The new regulations would only require schools to investigate sexual misconduct
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, September 27, 2019
In January, the Newseum tweeted that its creator, the Freedom Forum, had sold its building to Johns Hopkins University and the museum would be closing at the end of 2019. The Newseum, a monument to the First Amendment, opened its doors on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 2008. On the building’s facade, a stone