Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival postponed until next year
The 2020 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (NDSF) has been rescheduled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and concern for public health and safety, audience development manager of Shakespeare at...
View ArticleStudent committee to unveil 31st ‘The Shirt’
Each year since 1990, a student-run committee has created a uniquely designed shirt for students and fans to wear throughout the upcoming Notre Dame football season. In the Irish community, it is...
View ArticleUniversity chief investment officer to retire in June
Scott C. Malpass, Notre Dame’s chief investment officer of 32 years, will retire June 30, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in a press release on Friday. During his career, Malpass was...
View Article‘The Shirt’ committee reveals 2020 design virtually
The Shirt committee unveiled its design for its 31st installment of the long tradition Friday, April 17. The committee had originally planned to reveal the design at a celebratory event on Library quad...
View ArticleCollege to issue grants for partial spring 2020 room, board refund
Saint Mary’s will refund its students’ room and board payments for their time away from campus in the form of monetary grants, according to an email from vice president for strategy and finance Dana...
View ArticleFr. Ernest J. Bartell, inaugural director of Kellogg Institute, dies at 88
Fr. Ernest J. Bartell, a retired economist and director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, died Thursday at the age of 88, the University announced in a press release. “Father Bartell...
View ArticleIn the absence of education, focus instead on learning
With the recent cancellation of in-person classes, we are all experiencing a reduction in the educational value of our time at Notre Dame. But despite the many other downsides of the COVID-19 outbreak,...
View ArticleSufjan Stevens rises anew on “Aporia”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” — Walt Whitman Eight songs into “Aporia,” Sufjan Stevens changes course. The album, a collaboration...
View ArticleBand gathers to sing the Alma Mater over Zoom
Two weeks ago, members of the Notre Dame Marching Band met over Zoom to sing the Alma Mater. On April 5, the Band posted a recording of the performance on Facebook. “The students were looking for...
View ArticleThe authoritative pre-game playlist
Where would we be without adrenaline? We find it buried in the backseat of dusty, puberty-ridden school buses, or blaring on those trusted headphones that we’ve used since middle school. It reaches...
View ArticleTake Back the Night supports survivors of domestic, sexual violence in a week...
Take Back the Night (TBTN), a tri-campus event held annually to provide awareness and support for victims of sexual violence, has been converted to a series of virtual events to occur all this week....
View ArticleCoronavirus makes immigration detention even more unconscionable
This probably isn’t the first “how coronavirus is affecting X issue” article (or even Observer Viewpoint article) you’ve read, and probably won’t be the last either. But as we shelter at home, waiting...
View ArticlePart two: Ranking the five best Kanye West albums
Here, I complete the opus I began last week of ranking Kanye West’s work. There’s no way to write this list without snubbing a few masterpieces and drawing a little controversy. Still, I’m confident...
View ArticleSaint Mary’s Dance Marathon hosts first-ever virtual marathon
The 15th annual Saint Mary’s Dance Marathon looked different from years past, as tri-campus community members gathered virtually Saturday rather than in Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex. The 12...
View ArticleRecruiting Breakdown: Trey Wertz
Notre Dame men’s basketball’s 2020 recruiting class has now doubled after picking up commitments from three-star forward Tony Sanders Jr. on Apr. 3 and Santa Clara transfer Trey Wertz on Apr. 11. Head...
View ArticleMaking the most of a bad hand
I know how to find an inmate. In Florida, you can go to the department of corrections site and look up inmates via a combination of their last name, first name and DC number. This DC number is a...
View ArticlePosition Group Breakdown: Wide Receiver
There are question marks about the Notre Dame wide receiving corps heading into the 2020 season, as the Irish lost most of their top receivers from 2019. The depth chart appears to have plenty of...
View ArticleLessons from my 90-year-old grandmother
When I was fourteen, my grandmother was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. What we’d thought was pain from working too hard in her garden actually turned out to be a broken pelvis caused by the...
View ArticleMcKenna: A tribute to Norman Hunter, Leeds United legend
Death is always hard to stomach, and it should not take high-profile casualties in the sports world to make people realize the scope and severity of the current crisis we are living through. It is...
View ArticleThank you, Saint Mary’s
During freshman orientation at Saint Mary’s, we close the circle. It sounds rather cultish, doesn’t it? At least, that’s how I saw it, almost four years ago, in the midst of my pitiful “I don’t want to...
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