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Observer Exclusive: Swarbrick discusses potential college football playoff

Notre Dame Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick spoke with The Observer about the future of the proposed four-team college football playoff system Thursday. Full story

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Doyle to change positions

After just two years on the job, Fr. Thomas Doyle will be replaced as vice president for Student Affairs, the University announced Tuesday. Full story

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GSA decision postponed

Notre Dame to address recognition of AllianceND in the fall

Notre Dame announced Tuesday it would continue to consider whether to approve a gay-straight alliance as an official student club, deferring a decision until the beginning of the next academic year. The University also responded to requests for a public explanation as to why it did not add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination clause. Full story

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Signatures of solidarity

We are a family

Volunteer house to be dedicated to Seeberg

Faculty for LGTBQ

Men's Basketball: NCAA denies Abromaitis a sixth year

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Volunteer house to be dedicated to Seeberg

The legacy of former Saint Mary’s student Lizzy Seeberg will be kept alive when a volunteer house in Chicago is dedicated during a ceremony Sunday. Full story

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Men's Golf: Notre Dame wins Big East title

Behind a true team effort, the Irish defended their Big East title in dominating fashion, winning the team championship by 16 strokes over their next-closest opponent, Louisville. Full story

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Fashion by Felicia

Fashion Map

This last column, fellow fashionistas, needs few introductions but many thank yous. As a token of my appreciation for your fashionable readership over these past two years, I have created the quintessential Fashion Map for the Notre Dame fashionista. Full story

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Moments of Notre Dame

Managing Editor Emeritus

My Notre Dame experience, not unlike life itself, can be summed up by a series of individual moments.
The first moment comes on a Saturday afternoon in December. Around noon. I know the time because I had already been waiting for hours.

Clichés we love

Scene Editor Emeritus

Going into college four years ago, people tried to prepare me with a series of clichés. “These will be the best four years of life. The people you meet will change your life. Football Saturday is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. You will remember that late-night walk you took with your best friend more than that test you didn’t study for enough. You will grow up and find yourself. These four years will fly by.”

Now it’s time to turn

Assistant Managing Editor Emeritus

“To everything, turn, turn, turn, There is a season, turn, turn, turn, And a time for every purpose, under Heaven.”
The Byrds’ song, inspired by Ecclesiastes, captures the many dimensions and emotions of our ever-changing lives. 

The ‘break-the-ice’ college experience

Assistant Managing Editor

Writing the final words of my career as a student writer should probably be a bit harder than this. Reflecting on four years of friendships, accomplishments, failures and laughs should take at least a full day of sitting in my room, before composing an eloquent farewell worthy of the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s.

You can always come back home

Saint Mary's Editor Emeritus

Well, folks, there’s nothing like a final column to remind you that graduation is quickly approaching.
This is my last time to write as a student of Saint Mary’s.
So, I want to dedicate this final column to the Belles of Saint Mary’s Class of 2012. 

What have I learned?

Photo Editor Emeritus

Unless something rather miraculous happens between now and Sunday morning when I walk across the portable stage in Notre Dame Stadium, chances are I will not have a full-time job waiting for me after I graduate.

What are you giving up for Lent?

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Letters to the Editor

Signatures of solidarity

Letter to the Editor

As students of Notre Dame, we would like to extend some words of encouragement and solidarity to our fellow classmates.

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We are a family

Letter to the Editor

Monday night, I was disappointed and ashamed of my University and of my classmates. I, along with forty of my peers, learned that we have a classmate choosing to transfer away from Notre Dame because of their sexual orientation.

We are all responsible

Letter to the Editor

Dear Members of the Notre Dame Community:
On Feb. 24, Father Thomas Doyle, Dr. Don Pope-Davis and Notre Dame senior Brittany Suggs wrote to inform you about two deplorable and intolerable incidents in which fried chicken parts were left in the mailboxes of the Black Students Association and the African Students Association.

Faculty for LGTBQ

Letter to the Editor

We are writing to express our support for the 4-to-5 movement and for the members of the LGBTQ community at the University of Notre Dame.

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RAs want to make halls good homes

Letter to the Editor

Recently, these pages have contained much debate about the University’s reluctance and refusal to acknowledge a student club dedicated to advocating for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and questioning (LGBTQ) community, as well as to insert into the current non-discrimination policy a clause protecting this same community.

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