Opinion

In the trenches: surviving Hesburgh Library’s dissertation boot camp

By Oliver Ortega · Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025

A group of 30 graduate students spend a tedious fall break working on their dissertations.

Don't spoil your dinner

By Noirin Dempsey · Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025

Do politics deserve a place at the table this Thanksgiving?

Dear Domer: finance bros, trashy TV and embarrassing boyfriends

By Zora Rodgers as Dear Domer · Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025

To do: order boat shoes, watch “Scandal,” humanize the football team and get your Hinge match’s number!

Cooking in college: Is it worth it?

By Sophia Anderson · Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025

In today’s economy, grocery shopping is hitting college students even harder.

Dignity: what we owe others in work

By Letter to the Editor · Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025

“As students, you may be asking yourselves, nervously, ‘Will I be able to find a meaningful job after graduation?’”

Stop calling Mamdani ‘communist’

By Amaris O’Connor · Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

“Communism has to stop being used as a political slur to wreck a candidate’s credibility and to fearmonger and intimidate.”

Spend more time alone

By Sienna Stephens · Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

“The sidelines of life can be a place where you rediscover what actually makes you happy, not what everyone else desires for themselves.”

College football coach contracts: A symptom of a plagued America

By Grayson Beckham · Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

Many college football programs are allocating their resources to appease a tiny group of wealthy men rather than spending money for the betterment of the masses.

In gratitude for a beautiful All Souls’ Day Mass

By Letter to the Editor · Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

“As the first notes of Mozart’s iconic work began, the servers, Fr. Ching, and other C.S.C priests began the liturgical procession, and you could feel everyone in the space begin to offer up their prayer.”

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Gilgamesh would’ve gone to grad school

By Danny Baribeau · Friday, Oct. 31, 2025

“I’m feeling pretty existential right now.”

A case against voluntourism

By Ivy Clark · Friday, Oct. 31, 2025

The true motive of volunteering should be to enrich the soul, not to build a resume.

Want to be rich? Buy carrots.

By Redmond Bernhold · Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025

In an uneasy economy, food reigns a symbol of making it big.

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A fencing club is born

By Letter to the Editor · Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025

“To anyone who’s ever tried to start something new on campus, I see you. It’s hard.”

The price of European charm

By Abby Hernan · Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025

Cultural norms and lax laws increase pickpocketing across Europe.

Off the Dome: David Campbell

By Allison Elshoff · Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025

Political science professor David Campbell provides insight on the state of American democracy, social capital, and the value of having a dog.

In response to ‘The DMV: Humanity’s greatest crime against itself’

By Jonah Tran · Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025

The DMV is not a bureaucratic plague that seeks control and total cultural annihilation, clearly.

We cannot sit back to AI

By Letter to the Editor · Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025

“This debate is moving lightning fast, and one of the ways that you lose your seat at the table is by holding back, by being too tentative, by watching and waiting. Your generation cannot afford to do that. None of us can.”

Apologetics for the heart

By Richard Taylor · Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025

A call for more apologies of the heart in the Catholic Church.

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum

By The Observer Editorial Board · Friday, Oct. 17, 2025

The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

Dear Domer: Queso, flirting 101 and ‘Pink Pony Club’

By Zora Rodgers as Dear Domer · Friday, Oct. 17, 2025

Every week or so, Opinion columnist Zora Rodgers responds to anonymous advice submissions.

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