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Marie Fazio | Tuesday, September 18, 2018
The student senate met Monday to discuss goals and possible projects in committee groups at their weekly meeting in Duncan Student Center. The meeting opened with a prayer and welcome by Fr. Pete McCormick, director of Campus Ministry. Following the approval of the minutes from last week’s meeting, which lasted over two hours, senior and
Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Each spring for the past seven years, through a series of performed, anonymous monologues, Notre Dame’s “Show Some Skin” has provoked and encouraged its audiences to reflect on issues of identity and difference, especially as they intersect with race, gender, class, sexual violence, LGBTQ+ life and mental health. Yet as Samuel Jackson, a junior who
Claire Rafford | Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Notre Dame’s student senate convened for their weekly meeting Monday evening in Duncan Student Center, a change from last week’s meeting location in the Lafortune Student Center Ballroom. The meeting began with a presentation on parliamentary procedure from sophomore Halena Hadi, a Student Union parliamentarian. Hadi said parliamentary procedure was important for the senate to
Observer Staff Report | Friday, August 31, 2018
Show Some Skin and student government have partnered to lead “Notre Dame: Unfiltered” to connect students with campus resources surrounding important issues, the organizations announced in a press release Thursday. According to the release, the event “will share stories of identity and direct students to the many resources regarding race, socioeconomic status, sexual violence, mental
Nicole Simon | Friday, August 24, 2018
Notre Dame’s Flick on the Field is returning this Friday night to Notre Dame Stadium for the second year in a row. Co-directors of student life, senior Claire Marie Kuhn and junior Eduardo Luna, are leading the group behind the operation, a team that includes members from student government to the University’s administration. Seniors Gates
Jordan Cockrum | Friday, August 17, 2018
Members of Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) spent their summer preparing for the year to come, senior Madeleine Corcoran, student body president, said in an email. “This summer we have focused on planning orientation, Big Belle Little Belle, technology and transportation,” Corcoran said. “Orientation and [Big Belle Little Belle] start right away and both
Tom Naatz | Friday, August 17, 2018
When Notre Dame’s newest class arrives on campus during Welcome Weekend, they will not only be greeted by hall representatives waiting to unload packed cars, but also several student government and administrative groups ready to help them get involved in on-campus activities. The First Undergraduate Experience in Leadership program, or FUEL, is student government’s only
Jordan Cockrum | Friday, May 18, 2018
Bailey Oppman and Lydia Lorenc, Saint Mary’s student body president and vice president emeritus, set out to use their term to make several changes to the Saint Mary’s community. “One of the things I was most excited to accomplish was the student 5k fun run/walk to promote a healthy lifestyle,” Lorenc said in an email.
Tom Naatz | Friday, May 18, 2018
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in the print edition of The Observer on April 6. When outgoing student body president Becca Blais and outgoing vice president Sibonay Shewit, both seniors, ran for office a year ago, their slogan was “Reach, Reinvent, Represent.” Reflecting on their year in office as their term draws to
Mary Bernard | Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Four percent of the president’s leadership council at Notre Dame are people of color, compared to 30 percent of the student body while just 28 percent of the University’s Board of Trustees are women, compared to 49 percent of the student body. These statistics were among several others presented to the student affairs committee of