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-16 posts tagged "Spring Break"
Rebecca Stella | Thursday, March 7, 2019
The Saint Mary’s golf, softball, lacrosse and tennis teams will be traveling to different parts of the country in order to face new competition over spring break. The trips are funded by individual contributions, players and team fundraisers like working parking before football games. The golf team, consisting of seven players, travels every year for
Jake Winningham, Dessi Gomez and Cynthia Tran | Thursday, March 7, 2019
With Spring Break just around the corner, Scene is here with new singles sure to brighten up your travel — whether you’re going home or somewhere else. “Big Blue” by Vampire Weekend By Cynthia Tran, Scene Writer Vampire Weekend’s new song, “Big Blue,” is about a relationship that is as short and fleeting as the
Emma Ault | Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir will begin its bi-annual concert tour Friday, making stops at nine venues around the Midwest and Northeast including ones in Cleveland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, ending with a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The final concert will feature a Saint Mary’s alumnae choir — welcoming over 60 guest
Observer Staff Report | Monday, March 4, 2019
Holy Cross Drive will be closed to eastbound traffic between St. Joseph Drive and Wilson Drive from March 9 to March 17, the University announced in a press release and in an email to Notre Dame students Monday. According to the release, the road will be closed for utility work for the new residence hall
Kelli Smith | Tuesday, March 27, 2018
For spring break, I traveled to Houston with my journalism class to report on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. As a native Texan, I’d been to Houston before but hadn’t seen the city since well before Harvey hit. As soon as we arrived, it was clear to me this wouldn’t be anything like my past
Natalie Weber | Friday, March 23, 2018
This spring break, instead of going to Florida, California or somewhere considerably warmer than northern Indiana, I traveled to a place even colder: Canada. Throughout the week, I toured the country with the Women’s Liturgical Choir, with stops in Toronto, Montreal and Niagara Falls (as well as a night spent in Ypsilanti, Michigan along the
Kara Miecznikowski | Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Many college students travel for spring break, but not all do so for the sake of vacationing. This past week, numerous Notre Dame students partook in University-sponsored travel to towns and cities across the nation, experiencing firsthand the ideas and issues students are usually limited to learning about in a classroom setting. Among these service
Erin McAuliffe | Monday, March 27, 2017
I tried to avoid going spring broke this break and forwent the all-inclusive resort destination (and, thankfully, the “Cancun you believe I’m here?” / “Cancun I stay here all year?” Instagram “puns”) for a road trip across California with four friends. However, the trip taught me a few lessons about the pains of staying on
Courtney Becker | Wednesday, March 22, 2017
In the days after students return to campus from spring break, we exchange stories of trips to Florida, visiting friends abroad and road tripping to various places throughout the country. My response to people asking me what I did over the break is always the same: I just went home. While I love hanging out
Gaby Jansen | Tuesday, March 21, 2017
A Saint Mary’s marine biology class took in-depth learning to a whole new meaning. The class spent spring break in Belize at South Water Caye applying what it learned in the classroom life to the natural world. Saint Mary’s assistant biology professor Laura Kloepper said marine biology had not been taught in years, but the department