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Ben Testani | Thursday, April 16, 2020
In the Notre Dame universe, there have been wide-ranging consequences from the global pandemic currently ravaging our healthcare system and requiring everyone to socially isolate. The University has largely done its best to respond rapidly and flexibly to the challenges presented by COVID-19 to the Notre Dame family. While some of the changes were
Isabella Volmert | Thursday, April 16, 2020
The newly elected 2020-2021 senate met for its second session over Zoom on Wednesday night. In addition to honoring members of the former executive board, the senate heard a presentation on how the Club Coordination Council (CCC) is moving forward in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week the meeting was recorded and live-streamed
Christopher Parker | Thursday, April 16, 2020
As lectures, discussions and even exams have moved online, so too has dorm programming. Many of Notre Dame’s 31 residence halls have continued their traditions virtually in some capacity. Rectors and hall governments are finding new ways to engage with their communities in a time of isolation. Many dorms have retained hall council meetings and
Isabella Volmert | Thursday, April 9, 2020
The 2019-2020 student senate convened for the final time over Zoom on Wednesday, passing three resolutions and nominating individuals for the Irish Clover Award, the Frank O’Malley Teaching Award and the Michael J. Palumbo Award. First, the senate passed a resolution that urged the University’s division of student affairs and first-year advising to increase communication
Sarah Kikel | Friday, April 3, 2020
With classes being held online for the rest of the semester, you are undoubtedly devastated, kept up at night lamenting your failure to fulfill the fundamental item on your Notre Dame bucket list. No, not the Hesburgh Challenge — ring by spring. I get it. All year you were nervous, every day postponing that moment
Isabella Volmert | Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Student body vice president Patrick McGuire called the senate to order by banging his hydro-flask on his desk, while the group convened over a Zoom video conference call Tuesday evening. The last time the senate met was Wednesday, March 4, one week before the decision to move the University to remote learning changed the Notre
Jacob Neisewander | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has brought with it many new challenges, inconveniences and a cascade of uncomfortable adjustments to individuals’ daily lives. Yet another thing COVID-19 has brought upon us all, both at The Observer and, undoubtedly, everywhere else, is family time. Lots and lots of family time. Maybe you, like me, are stuck at home
Hannah Tonsor | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
As a way to continue its involvement in film for the Notre Dame community and beyond, the Browning Cinema has launched its first series of the “Zoom Back Camera” film event this week. This ongoing, weekly event is an opportunity for film-lovers to connect through cinema despite the closing of theaters due to COVID-19. Every
Andrew Cameron | Friday, September 23, 2016
In January, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) made Zoom freely available to all students, faculty and staff at Notre Dame. OIT product program manager Paul Drake said in an email the service is a “best-in-class video and audio conferencing service and the preferred tool for conferencing at Notre Dame.” Zoom allows up to 50 people