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The Observer | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, where the UW-Madison campus is seamlessly integrated into the city. Local families and students alike stroll the same State Street, hike in the same arboretum and frequent the same restaurants and cafes without a second thought. So imagine my surprise when I came to Notre Dame and saw how
Claire Reid | Monday, September 12, 2022
When junior Lane Obringer transferred to Notre Dame from Saint Mary’s College last year, the self-described extrovert from Charlotte, North Carolina, was eager to make new friends. “It was difficult to meet new people. You felt like you were living your freshman year all over again while being a sophomore, and COVID probably made things
Thomas Murphy | Wednesday, February 27, 2019
We do a lot of walking as students. To class, from class, to the dining hall, from the dining hall, to the student center, from the student center — I could go on. Sometimes it’s cold, sometimes it’s hot. Maybe there are puddles on the sidewalks, or maybe there’s snow. If you’re lucky, the sky
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, February 27, 2018
When I’m not toiling away for The Observer, I’m also an admissions tour guide. While poring over the tour guide manual in preparation for the job, I was amused to discover that an unusually high proportion of Notre Dame students were varsity athletes in high school. “That’s funny,” I thought. “You would never know that
Sydney Doyle | Friday, September 29, 2017
Saint Mary’s philosophy professor Patricia Sayre has decided to think outside the classroom this semester with the introduction of her new course, The Philosophy of Walking. This one-credit course takes a different approach to philosophy and requires that students simply walk during every class period. Sayre said she came up with the idea for the