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Statement on Abdelhadi disinvitation

By Letter to the Editor · Wednesday, April 16, 2025

“We, the student organizers for this year’s Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, are deeply disheartened by the University leadership’s decision to rescind Dr. Eman Abdelhadi’s invitation to deliver a keynote address at the 2025 Student Peace Conference.”

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A letter in response to Taylor

By Jackson Lang · Wednesday, April 16, 2025

“I will admit I could be persuaded either way, but when I consider the case of the aid workers delineated above and the fact that millions, if not billions, more cases of a similar nature exist, I cannot bring myself to assert that I, the Catholic, am right, and they, the Muslim (or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist), are wrong.”

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On sunsets

By Duncan Stangel · Tuesday, April 15, 2025

"Every sunrise has a sunset, and this will be my last column."

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What golf means to me

By Molly Wu · Tuesday, April 15, 2025

"Golf taught me that you don’t need to speak the same language to understand each other. You just need to care about the same things."

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13.1 half thoughts

By Gracie Eppler · Sunday, April 13, 2025

“Dad says that when he runs, he thinks about his pace, his faith or sometimes, nothing at all. I wish that I could think about nothing at all. But somehow, when I run, I tend to think about everything that’s ever happened to me — all the small moments, the distracting things, the weird tidbits I’ve picked up.”

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A word from Martinique

By Olemo Gordon Brian · Thursday, April 10, 2025

All the elements of a solution to the present problems of America have, at different times, existed in African thought or elsewhere really.

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Things I find chic

By Moira Quinn · Tuesday, April 8, 2025

"A lot of videos have been popping on my social media feeds of people venting about what they find to be extremely chic. Thus, I felt like it is my duty to participate and provide a short list of my own."

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Why Notre Dame

By The Observer Editorial Board · Monday, April 7, 2025

"Many schools offer a great education, but not all offer what Notre Dame does. Ultimately, many of the challenges students face at Notre Dame will likely be the same challenges they would face at any college they might attend."

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Room picks and a response to Lang

By Richard Taylor · Sunday, April 6, 2025

"A reflective Catholic has no reason to doubt that if he were brought up under a different faith, the Holy Spirit would have guided his heart to convert to Catholicism, the one true faith."

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