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-12 posts tagged "trump administration"
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Writing this has been hard — hurt and anger have blocked my way. The entry point is a common one: loss due to the pandemic. We’ve all read about historical plagues, but the chance of actually experiencing one always seemed remote. My class wasn’t able to able to have our 50-year reunion because of COVID
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, July 14, 2020
On Tuesday, the Trump administration rescinded the policy from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which the agency announced a week before, that would have expired student visas and forced international students out of the country if their university operated exclusively online for the fall semester. The decision came after Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute
Observer Staff Report | Friday, January 17, 2020
Independent reproductive rights group Irish 4 Reproductive Health (I4RH) announced in a Friday email the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana will allow the organization’s lawsuit against Notre Dame and the Trump administration to proceed. The lawsuit was filed on the group’s behalf by the National Women’s Law Center — which released
Drew Lischke | Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Paul Ryan has officially been slated as a guest lecturer for the 2019-2020 academic term at Notre Dame. When asked for comment on being hired by Notre Dame as a guest lecturer, Paul Ryan said: “As an Irish Catholic from the Midwest, the University of Notre Dame has always held a special place in my
Raymond Ramirez | Monday, April 15, 2019
In reporting, the news journalists have an overarching principle: seek out and report the truth. The main way to uncover the truth is to assemble relevant facts and convey them to the audience. If enough facts are reported supporting a consistent view of a subject — coalescing into a clear pattern — then the resulting
Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Immigration lawyer Cecilia L. Monterrosa came to Saint Mary’s to speak to students and other community members Tuesday about policies surrounding immigration. The conversation happened over pizza slices and lemonade and covered the constitutionality of some of the recent immigration policy implemented under the Trump administration. She broke down some of the simpler parts of
Raymond Ramirez | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
I’m going to go out on a limb here and take a position that might put me at odds with a number of mainstream Americans: sins are bad. You remember sins, don’t you? Those are the things we are “heartily sorry” for, whether they were sins of commission — “what I have done” — or
Alexandra Muck | Thursday, February 8, 2018
Reflecting on the first year of the Trump administration and what it indicates about the future, professor of political science Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr. said the president‘s largest accomplishments include the tax reform bill and his judicial appointments, during a lecture Wednesday night in Geddes Hall as part of the Pizza, Pop and Politics series presented
Show Some Skin | Thursday, August 31, 2017
On Aug. 11, racism marched explicitly and visibly through the streets of Charlottesville. According to the Washington Post, a group of around 250 people marched with torches through the University of Virginia, chanting, “Our blood, our soil,” amongst other Nazi slogans. Upon pressure to respond, President Trump condemned violence “on many sides,” sparking backlash from
Eddie Damstra | Thursday, August 31, 2017
President Trump’s response to the Charlottesville events was, to say the very least, not good. His now infamous “both sides” remark was at best recklessly irresponsible and at worst a source of inspiration for the alt-right. And while a couple of days later he explicitly condemned neo-Nazis, white nationalists and similarly disgusting groups of people,