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We have been blessed

By The Observer · Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

Last Sunday, I walked out of the Senior Retreat with an overwhelming sense of pride for this great university we attend. The opportunity to reflect on my past three and a half years here, alongside my peers, filled me with a wonderful feeling of belonging and community that reminded me of many things that are so clear and obvious yet we often forget to appreciate.

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Girls like flowers and chocolate

By The Observer · Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

Gentlemen, in case you haven't picked up on the not-so-subtle hints your girlfriends have been leaving you, Valentine's Day is a week from tomorrow. This much anticipated, yet simultaneously dreaded, holiday seems to stress everyone out.

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Contraceptives and control

By The Observer · Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

I would like to reply to Notre Dame Right to Life officers' Jan. 31 letter, "Contraception and Dignity," touched off when it sternly condemned the use of artificial contraception. I am going to argue on behalf of the original letter's position by responding to some of the arguments made by "Contraception and Dignity," Feb. 3.

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Protecting the University's right to choose

By The Observer · Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

In response to Evan Graham's letter ("Protecting the right to choose," Feb. 2), I wish to make the case against the HHS mandate which forces Notre Dame to offer contraception in its health plans.

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Where are our leaders?

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

You may remember freshman orientation, when administrators from Notre Dame tossed around figures about how many members of your class were sports captains, editors of publications or presidents of student government in high school. Suffice to say, the University likes to pride itself on recruiting leaders and churning them out even stronger than before.

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Perspective

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

Men would not be free, Denis Diderot quipped, until the last king was strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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Dignity in contraception

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

I am writing in response to "Contraception and Dignity," published on Jan. 31. Although I understand and sympathize with the Catholic Church's stance on contraception, I found this article offensive. The argument put forth by Notre Dame Right to Life, that women who use contraception lack "dignity," is both narrow-minded and dangerous.

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Sports leagues of America: find balance, don't contract

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

Chris Masoud brings up two topics of deep debate in the sports world in his Feb. 2 Sports Authority piece. Contracts and competition are important issues to the fan who is both entertained by the competitiveness of the team and whose dollar pays the salaries of the players in front of him. Having determined this, contraction will never be the right answer because it hinders the potential for cities that deserve teams.

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A (brief) case for contraception

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

There has recently been a lot of discussion about contraception and the Catholic Church's teachings. I wish to continue the discussion about the use of contraception started in "Contraception and dignity" by Mr. Damian, Mr. Lynch, and Ms. Stempky.

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Allegory of the cave

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

As many of you know, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a part of Plato's larger dialogue, "The Republic." Many of you also know it is boring and unconnected to real life. I will now attempt to reinterpret the "Allegory" into terms any student can understand.

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SMC is doing it right

By The Observer · Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

Regarding medical amnesty in the Observer's Jan. 27 article, "ND explains lack of medical amnesty," Brian Coughlin stated, "It is hard to fathom one Notre Dame student acting so much out of a perceived self-interest that they may not help a fellow student in need because they are more worried about potential discipline."

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Father, I have had impure thoughts'

By The Observer · Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

I could never list all the things that I love about being a priest. There are very many. Of the top things that I love about being a priest is the incredible privilege that it is to hear confessions. I am always grateful to be able to be a minister, unworthy that I am, of God's grace and mercy in the confessional.

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Protecting the right to choose

By The Observer · Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

The recent issue of the availability of contraceptives on Notre Dame's campus has sparked much controversy. A letter from the officers of Notre Dame's Right to Life Club (Feb. 1) states that artificial contraception is "neither a ‘right' nor health care." I would like to respectively disagree.

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Senior year, no regrets

By The Observer · Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

This is it. The moment I've been waiting for my whole life. Tonight is the night I turn 21. When the clock strikes 12:00 and my Macbook calendar tells me it's finally Feb. 3, 2012, I'll let out a sigh of relief while casually sipping a legal cup of Franzia. Along with that sigh, though, I'll shed a tear or two. You see, I am the second-to-last last senior to turn 21 (Pat Coveney is last, in case you were wondering), and that is not an easy title to give up. You don't go all your life as the youngest person in the room just to be put on the same playing field as everyone else by some legal threshold. My time is here, but I'm not ready to go. What if I didn't have to?

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Ron Paul's undesired candidacy

By The Observer · Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

The GOP field currently features three presidential candidates who appear willing to do anything short of making a deal with the devil simply to be addressed as ‘Mr. President' come 2013. But the fourth candidate seems fine with keeping the title ‘Dr. Paul.' Just ask Ron Paul's campaign chairman, Jesse Benton, whose words were featured in a September issue of Time Magazine:

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The magic of Superbowl Sundays

By The Observer · Monday, Jan. 30, 2012

I'm a nostalgic person. Really, it's sometimes bad. I find myself at times not enjoying the present as much as I could be because I'm instead thinking of the past. I know I can't stop time or go back, but sometimes I wish I could.

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