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Removing temptation

By The Observer · Saturday, March 3, 2012

I would like to thank Ms. Ryan for her letter, "A Lenten proposal," Feb. 22. She correctly points out meat is missing from Notre Dame's dining halls on Lenten Fridays, but remains available at other sites on campus. In addition, unhealthy foods many students gave up for Lent are still offered in the dining halls. How are students supposed to uphold their Lenten promises when bombarded by these temptations?

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A call for respectful dialogue

By The Observer · Saturday, March 3, 2012

For several weeks now, I've sat by and quietly read the ongoing debate over the HHS regulation requiring employers to provide preventative services for women. Both sides have been engaged in spirited dialogue, however, the last article written, "Notre Dame and the Catholic conscience," Feb. 28, represents the dangerous kind of digression we see in politics all too often.

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Cheers to a sustainable spring break

By The Observer · Saturday, March 3, 2012

While some of you have been planning spring break since October, when the winter weather set in, others of you I'm sure are scrambling to throw something together in the next four days.

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Alumni solidarity

By The Observer · Saturday, March 3, 2012

In the ten years since I have been a part of the Notre Dame family, I have been outraged and embarrassed by the lack of inclusion of the GLBTQ community. As a student, I had many ways to productively voice that discontent, but as an alumna I have found it challenging to find a forum to be an ally. Still, I cannot just watch from the sidelines and hope things change. Alumni, we need to help make it better because it is our moral obligation to do so.

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To writers and readers

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

Substitute "The Observer" for "Hotel California" and the old Eagles classic rings even truer for us in South Dining Hall's basement.

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Spend a night dancing in the jungle

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

The time of year has come again for a night of weekend dancing outside of the dorm room. Yes, the campus-wide ballroom-swing formal has returned. This year is a throwback to the first one of these held, which was held in the Knights of Columbus building by the gracious assent of the knights. This year it will be there again this Saturday. March 3rd from 9 p.m. ­- 2 a.m. If you have a dorm dance, come beforehand and get the legs warmed up.

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Faith, reason and Nietzsche

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

Immanuel Kant, in his "Critique of Practical Reason," argues that there are three postulates of practical reason. We should have faith in our freedom, in God and in our immortality. For only if we understand ourselves as free can we understand ourselves as rational — as acting, that is, for reasons.

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For Abromitis and Martin, a round of applause

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

For two Notre Dame student athletes, the past five years have been filled with trials and tribulations. They have faced injuries, transfers and controversy. But over the past three seasons, there is one thing these two have not faced — failure.

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What's in a meme?

By The Observer · Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

Good Guy Greg. Scumbag Steve. Courage Wolf ­— we find resonance with these and other characters and meaningful expression in creating their episodes.

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Take it personally

By The Observer · Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

As I sat and read The Observer in South Dining Hall during a lunch break this past Monday, a fellow diner-reader at another table exclaimed to her friend, "If I were black, I would be very offended by this."

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The best women for the job

By The Observer · Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Of the two tickets running for student body president and vice president, the duo of juniors Maureen Parsons and Meghan Casey shows the most promise for improving the future of the Saint Mary's Student Government Association (SGA).

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Santorum's words unnecessary, unproductive

By The Observer · Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Of the things that we as voters ask of candidates for public office, a couple stand out among the rest. However futile our requests may be, we hope that office seekers will "tell it like it is" and maintain a sense of civility in the process. We don't ask Candidate X to give us a narrative of his time in the Peace Corps when he was asked to explain a past mistake. Nor do we care to hear Candidate Y publicly call her opponent a bozo.

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Hedge your SYR date

By The Observer · Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Think hedging is important only for the British gardeners and Warren Buffets of the world? Think again, because knowingly or not, you hedge all the time.

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Loyal Daughters and Sons

By The Observer · Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

For months now, you've seen the banners in LaFortune, the dining halls, down Notre Dame Avenue and even on your way to class — "To Heal, To Unify and To Enlighten." They are beautiful, concise expressions of the aims that should guide our actions both here at Our Lady's University and in the world beyond this campus. However, it is our concrete projects and experiences that truly help us to profoundly internalize these abstractions.

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What's in store for the White Sox

By The Observer · Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

As spring training has opened all across Major League Baseball, I cannot help but be excited for the upcoming season. While basketball has always been may favorite sport to watch, I have always had a deep affinity for the game of baseball. Opening Day, the All-Star Game, the trade deadline, the pennant chase, the playoffs and the World Series are all events that I look forward to each year.

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Words with friends

By The Observer · Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

We are exactly one week into the season of Lent this year, and you may be feeling worn out already. The initial charms of striving to challenge yourself with your fasting and prayer perhaps even now feel tedious, and you face heading into midterms next week without caffeine or desserts or alcohol; or you are realizing that with two papers and a project due, it's just not as easy as you thought to close your computer and get to Mass or to Stations of the Cross.

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Single girl swag

By The Observer · Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

I am writing in response to the column "Dating and relating" (Feb. 26) by David Moss. As a student who is enrolled at Saint Mary's and at Notre Dame, this article is particularly appealing to me. First of all, to all Notre Dame and Saint Mary's women, this stigma between us has got to end. We are all adults and we have all worked endlessly to be where we want to be. This so called "rivalry" between us is old and is too similar to high school (coming from an all-girl's high school myself). Notre Dame ladies, where is this pressure from Saint Mary's students coming from? You have all worked so hard through high school to come to your dream college and to earn a degree that is second to none. There are thousands of people out there who would have killed to have your spot. Think of those who were accepted but could not afford to come to Notre Dame at all. Please don't take the gift you all have for granted.

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