Opinion
‘How would The New York Times cover parietals?’: A collection of letters from Observer alumni
By
The Observer
· Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016
My best memory of The Observer coincides with the most challenging story that ever came up in my four years. The night we learned that University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh had died was the night I was supposed to turn the editor-in-chief office over to Greg Hadley (’16), and the overnight scramble to put out the “In Memoriam” issue was the greatest example of teamwork and cooperation that I’ve ever been a part of.
Observer Editorial: A promise, a purpose, a newspaper turns 50
By
The Observer Editorial Board
· Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016
Tribune and tyrant
By
Devon Chenelle
· Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016
The night was, like most in Paris, a fashionable one. It was Oct. 1, and a luminous collection of aristocrats had gathered to fundraise for the standard-bearer of the reigning world order. Though in most respects this event was not much different from most of Secretary Clinton's rarefied gatherings — unlike Trump's rallies, which share more in tenor and audience with an Indiana State Fair or a South Chicago flea market than they do with a haute Paris gala; trust me, I've been to two — the attendance of Barbara Bush, daughter of George W., must have raised a few eyebrows. Yet Barbara's attendance at the event, alongside Anna Wintour and other gentility, is not so surprising. George H.W. Bush, Barbara's grandfather, was vice president to contemporary rightist fetish object Ronald Reagan, the 41st president, and the father to a veritable clutch of Republican figures, not least our nation's beloved 43rd chief executive. Yet in a September conversation, H.W. announced he would be abandoning the GOP’s candidate for the presidency, who had been nominated with a deafening majority of delegates by primary voters even before the Democrats could finalize their champion's investiture. What does it say about the Republican candidate that much of his own party runs in fear from him? What does it say about this man that the two great dynasties of American politics — House of Clinton, House of Bush — are unified in opposition to this menace to their interests?
Encryption: It’s time to get serious about personal privacy
Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Hackers are out there; people who want your information are out there and they are willing to do what they can to get into your personal devices to retrieve such information and use it against you. Those texts to your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend? Public. Those not-so-in-good-taste photos? Public. Those personal secrets you’ve kept just between you and a few friends and family? Not so secret anymore. That potentially incriminating conversation or browser history? Evidence to be used against you the moment you slip up.
