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44 posts tagged "voting"

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SMC Votes hosts event discussing faith, politics

Moira Quinn | Friday, March 31, 2023

Saint Mary’s students gathered Wednesday evening for SMC Votes’ “Politics and Pretzels” series to hear Angela Espada, executive director of the Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), speak about the relationship between faith and politics. The ICC is the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Indiana. According to the ICC website, it acts as “the

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2023’s crucial ballot boxes 

Pablo Lacayo | Wednesday, February 1, 2023

As we settle into 2023, American politics has really simmered down to a near standstill. The country just emerged from the most enigmatic midterm cycle in recent history, with voters rebuking President Biden’s administration just enough to flip the balance of the House of Representatives while simultaneously giving the White House symbolic victories like a

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Rooney Center survey reveals worries about American civil war, partisan divides

Kathryn Muchnick | Friday, November 11, 2022

According to a new survey released by the University of Notre Dame’s Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, about half of Democrats and one-third of Republicans believe that the United States is on the brink of a new civil war — numbers that Matthew E.K. Hall called “shockingly high.” “I think these results

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University groups hold student engagement opportunities on Election Day

Sam Godinez | Tuesday, November 8, 2022

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, the midterm elections will be held for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, 35 out of 100 U.S. Senate seats and thousands of local elections in each state. With many students voting for the first time, the midterm elections are an indication of where the nation will head towards. 

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‘Derry Girls’ season three: Growing up and heading out

Rachel Hartmann | Thursday, October 27, 2022

On Oct. 7, the third and final season of the hit show “Derry Girls” was added to Netflix. After months of waiting patiently, international fans were finally able to watch. Premiering in 2018,  “Derry Girls” follows five working-class friends at a Catholic school during the 1990s. It is a show about the mishaps of adolescence

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Feminists United holds rally to encourage women’s voting

Katelyn Waldschmidt | Monday, October 10, 2022

Saint Mary’s Feminists United club held a rally Saturday afternoon in front of Le Mans Hall to mark one month until election day. Echoing other women’s marches around the country also held Saturday, the rally centered around speakers who addressed the importance of women getting out to vote in elections. “We are trying to highlight

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The contradictory road to November

Pablo Lacayo | Wednesday, September 21, 2022

In just over a month and a half, the United States of America has a very important date to keep: the 2022 midterm elections. Since the winter of 2021, every instance of significance that has dominated the news cycle at one point or another has come to be judged through midterm lenses, as political analysts,

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Write to vote: promote democracy and publish your writing

Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 8, 2022

Last week, I went to an informal meeting in Coleman-Morse to learn about a new initiative called Write to Vote. After some Domino’s thin-crust pizza, a compelling pitch for the project and an exchange of ideas, I walked away inspired. Professor John Duffy from the Department of English — well known in Arts and Letters

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Voter turnout among University students increased 18.1% in 2020, election survey finds

Maggie Eastland | Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Despite voting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Notre Dame students flooded the absentee polls in the 2020 presidential election. Even though the majority live outside Indiana, students secured absentee ballots with help from campus civic engagement groups like ND Votes. According to a Center for Social Concerns (CSC) research report published January, 71.4% of

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Make all voices count

Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 4, 2021

If you were perpetually consigned to choose between stale pancakes or runny scrambled eggs each morning, would you not develop an aversion towards breakfast? For avid followers of international affairs, 2021 has been a terrific year for observing and learning about the ways things are done differently, as voters in countless countries scattered across the

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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