Opinion

A city, not a checklist

By Allison Elshoff · Monday, March 31, 2025

"To me, "flâneuring" is less about wandering aimlessly and more about curiosity. It's being aware that as a newcomer, you're barely scratching the surface of a place, a place that someone else calls home."

A response from president Katie Conboy

By Letter to the Editor · Monday, March 31, 2025

Saint Mary's College president Katie Conboy responds to a concerns about this year's commencement address speaker.

The craze of digital cameras magnifies our overconsumption

By Redmond Bernhold · Friday, March 28, 2025

“We all want to look better, but is it coming with an even greater price than hundreds of dollars: our reliance on materialism and excessive consumerism?”

Don't tarnish our degrees by giving an honorary one to Trump

By Letter to the Editor · Thursday, March 27, 2025

"God, Country, Notre Dame" was intended to memorialize the Notre Dame students who died in World War I. Those 56 Notre Dame veterans lying in Flanders' Fields deserve better.

When Notre Dame speaks my mother tongue

By Hannah Alice Simon · Thursday, March 27, 2025

In this place where we were once strangers and longed desperately for our familiar worlds, we are given the opportunity to celebrate and share with the larger Notre Dame community the pieces of home that we hold onto.

Biden fell first, now the nation: national security breaches and declining diplomacy

By Declan Burke · Thursday, March 27, 2025

Ultimately, this national security breach just cements the defining narrative of the Trump presidency, the fall of the United States on the world stage.

Kudos to Notre Dame for increasing plant-based options in dining halls

By Letter to the Editor · Thursday, March 27, 2025

"Keep the thought-provoking conversations coming, Notre Dame — and keep those mushrooms coming, as well."

Thank you for your interest

By Liam Price · Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Nobody can take the experience away from us who have attended this school. Not the books we’ve read, the friends we’ve made or the Ginger races we’ve watched.

Letter of concern regarding former Irish President Mary McAleese as commencement speaker

By Letter to the Editor · Wednesday, March 26, 2025

"We cannot, in good conscience, remain silent about a speaker who openly admitted she had ‘no hesitation’ in voting to repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, effectively legalizing abortion and denying the pre-born the right to life."

Bumps, no's and the road ahead

By Reyna Lim · Wednesday, March 26, 2025

"What I’ll try to do is I’ll try to start cutting myself some slack. And you should, too, because for each no we’ll be up against, we have plenty of yeses under our belts already."

Underqualified and overwhelmed: a message to the stressed-out student

By Sophia Anderson · Tuesday, March 25, 2025

“So, as a reminder to myself and to anyone else restlessly dwelling on their future right now, I will say this: don’t be discouraged. We will all get where we’re meant to be.”

Becoming a bookworm

By Moira Quinn · Tuesday, March 25, 2025

“This might not be the best time to praise reading for fun, as we’re all probably reading a ton for other reasons, but if you can, I encourage you to pick up a new book in the foreseeable future.”

A word on reading

By Richard Taylor · Monday, March 24, 2025

"I do believe that we can learn to love things — that we can train our desires — and that is what I have done with books."

The Video Game Olympics 2025

By Carlos Basurto · Monday, March 24, 2025

"Make a favor to your future self, be part of The Video Game Olympics 2025."

An ode to The Observer office in SDH

By Letter to the Editor · Monday, March 24, 2025

"I knew I could learn more about The Observer because I saw it when I went to the dining hall. After I learned more about The Observer, my life has never been the same since."

The horror of Christopher Grady

By Connor Marrott · Monday, March 24, 2025

"If Notre Dame is to be true to its mission, it must ask itself: are we preparing students to perpetuate the status quo, or to transform it into something closer to Christ’s will — into something that favors more prayers and less war?"

Likes over tikes: family vloggers and the exploitation of their children

By Zora Rodgers · Friday, March 21, 2025

"We must do more to protect these children from being exploited by the one force whose job it is to keep them safe."

Backyard barnstorming brilliance

By Jack Sirianni · Friday, March 21, 2025

“There could not be a more natural moment for a strong Democratic Party to rise up in opposition to President Trump and Elon Musk. They just need to go where Republicans aren’t: their own districts.”

The death effect

By Gracie Eppler · Friday, March 21, 2025

“It is not every day that you get to share a storm cloud with the author of your favorite book. But at my side, there Kaveh Akbar stood, twice my height, limber as a grasshopper’s legs.”

To my many homes and my many moms

By Hannah Alice Simon · Friday, March 21, 2025

“But perhaps gifts of love such as these are not meant to be given back; perhaps they are meant to be passed forward.”

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