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-9 posts tagged "war"
Trevor Lwere | Monday, April 11, 2022
The war has gone on too long. It has caused a lot of suffering, death and destruction. No, I am not talking about the war in Ukraine. I am talking about the civil war in Ethiopia that has raged since November 2020 and has pitted the regional government of the Tigray region in Northern Ethiopia
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 2, 2022
It was the warble of a lone robin that did it. Not like the brash chortle exalted by the North American species of the same name, a member of the thrush family, it was more of a melodic aria. Staring at my Remembrance Day television screen I caught a sight of the little maestro wearing
Erin Drumm | Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Students and community members gathered at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at 8 p.m. Monday night for a prayer service dedicated to the peace and safety of the Ukrainian people amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine. University President Fr. John Jenkins invited the community to gather in prayer for Ukraine and shared a message
Maggie Eastland | Friday, February 25, 2022
Braving flurries and freezing temperatures, more than 100 students gathered at the Grotto Thursday night for a prayer service hosted by the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame. Students filed in from the north and south ends of campus just before 11 p.m. to pray the Rosary and show their support for the nation of Ukraine,
From the Archives | Monday, September 9, 2019
When the first issue of The Observer was released in 1966, the Scene department didn’t exist. It’s not that our journalistic predecessors hated art — quite the opposite, actually. Early editions of The Observer included detailed analyses of literature, theatre and art exhibitions. These articles just lacked a formal category. However, The Observer’s earliest scribes
Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Most generations have a defining comedy, and none is more notorious than “M*A*S*H.” As legend has said, the sewer system in New York failed because so many people went to flush their toilets during the commercial break of the show’s finale. During this weekend, I watched a couple of episodes and I was taken aback
Jeremy Cappello Lee | Friday, April 10, 2015
Addressing a standing-room-only audience, Judith Butler, professor of comparative literature at University of California at Berkeley, gave a lecture titled “The Ethics and Politics of Non-Violence” on Thursday night at McKenna Hall Conference Center as part of the annual Yusko Ward-Phillips Lecture series. Butler said it is not only difficult to define non-violence with certainty, but
Hannah Eckstein | Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Reed Wood, assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies, discussed the role and impact of women in armed conflict in a lecture Tuesday at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. His research is one of the first large-scale systematic data collection of women’s participation in combat. Wood,
Stephen Raab | Thursday, October 9, 2014
The Obama administration has overseen an eightfold increase in the number of attacks flown by unmanned aerial vehicles or “drones.” These small, pilotless aircraft have become popular with the U.S. Air Force for their ability to take on dangerous missions deep inside hostile territory while keeping American servicemen out of harm’s way. Yet the American