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(02/04/26 5:00am)
A few hours before winning three awards at the 35th annual Gotham Film Awards in New York City, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to a year in prison, a two-year ban on travel and a prohibition on association with any political group from his own home country. His Oscar-nominated film “It Was Just an Accident” has won several awards this season, including the famous Palme d'Or: the most prestigious award in cinema, the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival and the first major award won by an Iranian film at Cannes. But one might ask: why is the Iranian government so against this film?
(02/04/26 5:00am)
As Notre Dame students, we often find ourselves a little frustrated over the lack of culinary variety on our campus. Dining hall food may fuel the body, but it never tends to feed the soul. My search for some variety in my meals brought me to JINYA Ramen Bar, the new kid on the block within the South Bend culinary scene.
(02/04/26 5:00am)
A panel of Notre Dame professors spoke on the current U.S. immigration crackdown on Monday afternoon in Jenkins Nanovic Hall, hosted by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights’ Migration Research Initiative. The panelists discussed the theological, moral and legal implications of migration, situating current U.S. immigration policy within its historical and political context.
(02/04/26 5:00am)
Hannah Hidalgo is not a new name for Notre Dame basketball fans. Upon her arrival in 2023, she quickly established herself as a household name and hasn’t turned back since. With the Irish struggling and March Madness hopes hanging in the balance, two huge away games on the West Coast against the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford proved to be a difficult task. After leaving Berkeley with a loss, the Irish were determined not to go home without a win. Hidalgo stepped up, putting up 37 points in a dominant performance, her second-highest points total of the season, to lead the Irish to a crucial victory over a then 15-7 Stanford.
(02/04/26 4:50am)
The Notre Dame Right to Life Executive Board calls on the University to rescind the appointment of professor Susan Ostermann as the head of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Ostermann publicly advocates for policies that are directly opposed to the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church, which state that abortion is an intrinsic evil. In Ostermann’s statement to The Observer, she says, “I respect Notre Dame’s institutional position on the sanctity of life at every stage.” However, she has spent her career advocating for and supporting organizations that directly contradict this statement. She has done so, moreover, in an inflammatory way; within the context of 11 op-ed pieces, she has referred to laws respecting the sanctity of life as based in “white supremacy” and “racism.” Her work as a member of the Population Council, an organization that collaborated with the Chinese government to promote abortion, contraception and the enforcement of the one-child policy, violates the dignity of human life. These and other actions render Ostermann unfit to serve as head of the Liu Institute.
(02/04/26 5:00am)
With elections for student body president looming, the two tickets battled it out in a Feb. 1 debate held in Midfield Commons in Duncan Student Center.
(02/06/26 5:00am)
After a very successful career as a player with Notre Dame women’s basketball, and a handful of years with the Indiana Fever, Phoenix Mercury and Detroit Shock, Niele Ivey stepped into the coaching ranks as administrative assistant at Xavier in 2005. Ivey returned to her alma mater two years later, when she began her tenure as an assistant coach, before climbing her way to the head coaching position prior to the 2020-2021 season. Her ascendancy made her the first Black woman to lead a varsity program at Notre Dame.
(02/04/26 5:00am)
This past season, the Notre Dame football team sent off six players to the NFL Draft, including cornerback Benjamin Morrison, safety Xavier Watts, linebacker Jack Kiser, defensive end Rylie Mills, tight end Mitchell Evans and quarterback Riley Leonard, all of whom found success with their new teams in the league. With these six players, Notre Dame now has 538 all-time NFL selections, making the Irish the program with the most NFL drafts in history.
(02/04/26 5:00am)
When the majority speaks only of its own needs and perspectives, accepting these as the norm, it also states to the world that the minority is invisible, that they do not belong, that their concerns are not as relevant.
(02/04/26 5:00am)
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when gyms closed for fear of spreading the virus and home fitness was all the rage, I bought a pair of 60-pound dumbbells at a sporting goods store in Mishawaka. At the time, it felt like a coup to land two large dumbbells. During the first weeks of quarantine, there was a mad scramble for exercise equipment as retailers struggled to keep up with consumer demands amid faltering supply chains. If I couldn’t go to the gym, I would make the gym come to me, I thought. New dumbbells, new me.
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Thousands of members of the tri-campus and South Bend community braved 19-degree weather and gathered for Candlemas Mass at an unexpected location: an ice chapel.
(02/03/26 5:00am)
The incoming residents of brand-new Therese Mary Grojean Hall will call themselves the Penguins next academic year after concluding with 20 ”Shark Tank“-inspired pitches for prospective mascots in a two-hour hall government meeting last Tuesday.
(02/03/26 5:00am)
With this endorsement, The Observer returns to its decades-long history of endorsing a ticket. Each year, we interview candidates and carefully deliberate who would best serve the interests of the University and its students. Two years ago, this paper made a carefully weighed decision not to issue an endorsement, citing the gross inefficacy of student government. Last year, we made an even bolder announcement when a sole ticket ran unopposed: Abstain, then abolish student government.
(02/03/26 5:00am)
Over the weekend, Holy Cross College reported an incident in which one of their students was approached by two masked individuals, a situation necessitating investigation by the South Bend Police Department, according to an email sent to Saint Mary’s students by Campus Safety. As of Monday evening, no email regarding the incident had been sent to students at Notre Dame.
(02/03/26 5:24am)
At the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, at least 55 transfer students were unable to receive a housing placement through the University. The opening of Graham Family Hall meant that male transfers could fill newly-opened slots, leaving female transfer students disproportionately affected by the shortage of housing for all transfers. This year, 15 new female transfer students were in the same position. The opening of Grojean Hall next fall means this will likely be the last class of transfers to lack adequate housing.
(02/03/26 5:00am)
The Notre Dame women’s tennis program closed out a busy January by
hosting Navy, Ball State and Xavier at the Eck Tennis Pavilion. After starting
out the season 3-1, the Irish doubled its total in the wins column,
defeating Navy and Ball State 7-0 on Saturday, before tying a bow on the
weekend with a 6-1 performance against Xavier. The women’s team only lost
three matches over all three duels, continuing their dominant form since the
start of the year.
(02/03/26 5:00am)
Ups, downs and everything in between. That’s been the story for Notre Dame men’s basketball’s 2025-26 season thus far. On Thursday night, the road doesn’t get any easier for the Irish as head coach Micah Shrewsberry’s team travels to No. 24 Louisville for a 7 p.m. clash.
(02/03/26 5:02am)
“I’m 82 percent sure I just saw Ethan Hawke walk by me in the Salt Lake airport,” I muttered to my mom over the phone as I hopped on an airport moving walkway. It wouldn’t have been surprising since Hawke’s newest film, “The Weight”, was premiering at Sundance later that week. Needless to say, this encounter made me even more excited to be in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. While others complained about Utah’s chilly temperature, it paled in comparison to the coldest South Bend winter I can remember. Additionally, this would be my first time attending any film festival, let alone Sundance! I hopped off the walkway and headed toward my mom’s gate, preparing to meet her for a weekend of films.
(02/03/26 5:00am)
On January 31, the Notre Dame Ballet Club put on their first showcase in the club’s history. Founded in 2021, the Ballet Club practices twice a week and has occasionally performed with the Notre Dame Dance Company in larger performances. However, this past weekend marked the first time they organized and performed a show independently. The club is entirely student-run, meaning it was up to just a few undergraduate ballerinas to coordinate with Washington Hall to set up performance and practice dates as well as schedule with various rehearsal spaces around campus to accommodate their modest troupe.
