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ND to the ACC

By The Observer · Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

Conference realignment's coming in hot this week, and once again, Notre Dame's the best-looking girl at the high school dance. For the sake of the University, we need to end up in the ACC over the Big Ten.

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It's time for Palestinian statehood

By The Observer · Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

Just this week, Palestine announced that it would seek full membership in the United Nations. If accepted, this move would force the international community to recognize their right to exist as a sovereign state from Israel.

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Manipulation

By The Observer · Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

I had served as a teaching assistant in philosophy for some time before it occurred to me to wonder what it was, exactly, that I was teaching. The answer, when I finally found it, was rather more sinister than I had expected.

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The A&L blues

By The Observer · Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

I'm all out of the obligatory "congratulations" to each of my friends who have accepted job offers at some of the world's top corporations. They've been wooed by companies offering them $60,000 starting salaries with full benefits and the chance to live in the trendy areas of America's biggest cities. Lately, these congratulations I've dished out are accompanied by an equally obnoxious eye-roll, the kind you can see from 20 feet away. I'd like to offer them another deep and heart felt congratulations, a congratulations that they've befriended a lowly Arts and Letters major who might need some transition housing for a year.

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Keep the fight in the Fight Song

By The Observer · Monday, Sept. 19, 2011

How to create a controversy in The Observer: complain about an issue that is not an issue to the majority of the student body, and, if possible, insult those who love Notre Dame ("Rally all of Notre Dame," Sept. 19).

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Palestine's bid for U.N. membership

By The Observer · Monday, Sept. 19, 2011

Throughout most of its history, the United States has sought to be seen by the rest of the international community as the world's foremost promoter of freedom, democracy and human rights. While instances of America failing to uphold these virtues are both numerous and often quite embarrassing, seldom are they as brazen or ill-conceived as what is likely to occur at the United Nations this Friday, Sept. 23.

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Time for change

By The Observer · Monday, Sept. 19, 2011

Finally, some sense from current Notre Dame students Kyla Wargel and Cody Gaffney ("Rally all of Notre Dame," Sept. 19) about an issue some of us alums have been supporting since our days on campus back in the early 1980s. Last I recall, the student population at Notre Dame is now 50/50 men vs. women instead of 100 percent male back before 1972.

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Missing Mom's cooking

By The Observer · Monday, Sept. 19, 2011

The past few weeks my roommates and I found one of the most dramatic channels on T.V. No, it's not TNT (they don't know drama … ) or MTV (as much as I love the "Jersey Shore," it's getting a bit stale). There's only one channel on TV that truly grabs my attention: The Food Network.

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Eating responsibly in the dining hall

By The Observer · Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011

First, I must agree with you ("Let them eat bread," Sept. 15) that the monitor's action, in that particular incident at South Dining Hall, is a bit overboard. Most employees at South Dining Hall that I have met are generally very nice towards students.

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Politics and evolution: who cares?

By The Observer · Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011

Dear GOP presidential hopefuls and political pundits: I would like to respectfully ask you to discontinue your talks on evolution as a political discussion and shift the debate to issues that, well … matter. It's not that the issue doesn't make for entertaining debate so much as I (and presumably most people) would prefer to listen to the next President of the United States talk about things that might have some meaningful effect on my life. Come to think of it, the debate itself is not entertaining either, but that's beside the point.

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DNB solutions to grow the economy

By The Observer · Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011

During the summer, I drafted an op-ed about an economic agenda that President Obama could propose to help the American economy. The agenda was not simply Republican tax cuts or Democratic spending ideas, but more nuanced solutions that reflect the two major challenges President Obama faces in passing any legislation: (1) an unsustainable national debt that has made additional deficit spending politically toxic and (2) an ultra-conservative Republican Party unwilling to compromise.

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To my brother

By The Observer · Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011

Sept. 19: 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; Armed Forces Day in Chile; a Christian Feast day for six saints; the day Charlie Chaplin was refused reentry into the US in 1952 until he had been investigated; International Talk Like a Pirate Day; and the day the new season of How I Met Your Mother premieres.

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Rally all of Notre Dame

By The Observer · Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011

The "greatest of all university fight songs," the Notre Dame Victory March, is a powerful expression of school spirit, but it does not currently reflect the totality of the Notre Dame student body and athletic teams.

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Looking past the statistics

By The Observer · Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011

As a recent graduate of the college of Arts & Letters, I am encouraged to see discussions about the challenges A & L majors face as they near graduation. However, I do take issue with some the statements in the "Don't be Discouraged" letter ("Arts and Letters students: don't be discouraged," Sept. 15).

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Dead in the water

By The Observer · Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011

I may be a peace studies major, but my history with goldfish is nothing short of a bloody massacre tainting my otherwise virtuous college career.

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