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Payne-Miller, Jarmon administration accomplishes community-building programs, policy making

Liam Kelly | Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Holy Cross College student body president Dion Payne-Miller and vice president Oscar Jarmon focused their efforts in the first semester on making student government more responsive to students and instituting policy to bring the community together. Payne-Miller emphasized that one of his biggest priorities was making student government more efficient and responsive to the students.

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First Gen Week brings students ‘back to the basics’ of self-care

Liam Price | Thursday, November 10, 2022

First Gen Family at Saint Mary’s is supporting first-generation students, a term describing students who are the first in their family to pursue a four-year degree, with “First Gen Week: Back To The Basics.” The First Gen Family team scheduled the series for throughout this week, including a celebration dinner with a discussion from faculty,

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Flashes in the Pan: ‘Tink Thank’

Caroline Lezny | Monday, November 11, 2019

Flashes in the Pan: Tink Thank by Scenecast, from The Observer Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part in a series featuring local artists in the tri-campus community. It started — like so many plans these days — as a text conversation. Juniors Gabriel Krut and Henry Stone and sophomore James Cullinane found each other

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Students perform ‘The Great Gatsby’

Alexander Daugherty | Monday, April 15, 2019

The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg survey the audience as they settle in for Anton Juan’s stage adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.” When the show starts, an unsettling short film, depicting fragments of 1920s culture in the United States, projects over Eckleburg’s gaze. The lights slowly rise over a party that most certainly could not

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Representation matters at ‘Revisions: Contemporary Native Art’

Hanna Kennedy | Monday, February 18, 2019

You may have seen the posters on campus — they’re hard to miss. In the black and white photographs reproduced on the posters, images of Native American men have been annotated, edited and — quite literally — revised in red ink. These images depict a series of works by the artist Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke/Crow),

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The cost of Notre Dame

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 8, 2018

In August 2016, I began college at Notre Dame. I lived through the ups and downs that everyone else did: first bad grade, first quarter dog, the 2016 football season and a Midwest winter (OK Chicago people, I don’t care if it was a “mild winter.” Humidity is killer). I also experienced true loneliness, exhaustion

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LimeBike etiquette

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, December 7, 2017

A bike was one of the top items on my list of things to bring to college. It’s not that I mind walking, I just hate how long walking takes and knew that having a bike would be much more efficient. What I didn’t know was that the availability of bikes on campus would be

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Accepting diversity

Vaishali Nayak | Wednesday, September 6, 2017

I’ve often been asked by friends, relatives, hopeful high schoolers and their concerned family members what diversity means on Notre Dame’s campus. I’ve faltered in my attempt to describe it, never having had enough words or the right words to describe the experience. It won’t be a far stretch to call diversity on campus quite

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ND, SMC students injured in crash

Katie Galioto | Sunday, April 3, 2016

A Notre Dame junior and a Saint Mary’s junior were taken to Memorial Hospital after a car accident on U.S. 12 in Niles, Michigan, on Saturday night. The hospital confirmed both students were still in critical condition Sunday afternoon. The car was heading east on a bridge over the St. Joseph River when the driver