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Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, January 18, 2022
In an email sent by Saint Mary’s class council representatives Tuesday evening, student leaders announced Parents’ Weekend, which was scheduled for February, will be canceled. The message described the difficult decision to cancel the weekend, a meaningful time for senior and junior students and their families. “In light of recent events regarding COVID-19, we have
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, January 5, 2022
In a Wednesday email from interim vice president for student affairs Gloria Roldan Jenkins and COVID-19 response team chair Mona Bowe, Saint Mary’s updated its COVID protocols for the spring semester using guidance from the St. Joseph County Health Department. The updates include a campus-wide indoors mask requirement until Jan. 30 and a masking requirement
Crystal Ramirez and Genevieve Coleman | Wednesday, December 8, 2021
At the beginning of their term as Student Government Association (SGA) student body president and vice president, seniors Eleanor Hanson and Adriana Salgado set out to strengthen and enhance the tri-campus community relationship and to empower the women at Saint Mary’s. When Hanson and Salgado ran for their respective roles last May, their platform included
Crystal Ramirez | Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Michiana Writers’ Center, a local community organization, will host its annual Get Inked Teen Writing Conference on Saturday. The annual conference, which is usually held in person at Saint Mary’s College, will be held online for a second time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference is open to students from 7th to 12th
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
In an email Tuesday morning from COVID Response Team Chair and executive director of retention strategy Mona Bowe, Saint Mary’s announced immediate changes to its masking policies. “Effective immediately everyone on campus will be required to wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status,” Bowe said in the email to students. “This protocol includes employees
Crystal Ramirez | Monday, November 22, 2021
Saint Mary’s senior Sophia Sanchez hosted a workshop on transgender inclusivity Friday afternoon, which was aimed at making the tri-campus community a more welcoming place for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. Executive director of Transgender Resources Education and Enrichment Services (TREES) Megan Buell was in attendance to help answer questions and offer resources to participants.
Siobhan Loughney | Thursday, November 18, 2021
Students at Saint Mary’s College are strengthening literacy, community and love through Beyond the Belle, a student led program that works out of the Office for Common Good. For this Tri-Campus Thursday, The Observer spoke with two students who participate in the program by tutoring children in local South Bend schools. Beyond the Belle sends
Crystal Ramirez | Monday, November 15, 2021
During each spring semester, Saint Mary’s opens up applications for the student board of trustee position for the upcoming year. The application is open to any junior — who in the fall would be an incoming senior. An applicant is chosen in the spring as the incoming student trustee from the senior class. The student
Liam Price | Monday, November 15, 2021
SMC for the Spectrum hosted a cornhole tournament fundraiser Friday afternoon in the Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex. Contestants paid to participate, then formed teams and lined up across the field house to compete. The tournament was in fact originally planned to be outside but was moved inside the field house due to cold weather.
Observer Staff Report | Saturday, November 13, 2021
According to reporting from local NBC affiliate WNDU, an unidentified South Bend woman in her 60s was killed by an oncoming pick-up truck while attempting to cross State Road 933, just south of the intersection that connects the Saint Mary’s College and University of Notre Dame campuses on Saturday evening. A police commander at the