Opinion

A letter from a gold star child

By Sienna Stephens · Friday, Sept. 19, 2025

Memories of those lost in service are found in the everyday lives of their loved ones.

Our crisis of compassion

By Michael Doyle · Friday, Sept. 19, 2025

We should embrace empathizing with one another, especially at a time of loneliness.

College and outsourced opinions

By Ana Prestamo · Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025

“Ultimately, what we consider our “own” thoughts and beliefs merge, instead, into a plethora of everyone else’s thoughts and beliefs, except, in the end, our own.”

There is no debate left to be had with the far-left

By Letter to the Editor · Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025

“The ‘marketplace of ideas’ as we know it died with the bullet that tore through Charlie Kirk’s neck.”

Why can’t I go to mass in my own dorm?

By Letter to the Editor · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

For male students, it’s visible and accessible, even if you don’t want to encounter it. For women, it’s invisible unless you go digging.

RIP: graduate student library lounge

By Oliver Ortega · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

Ongoing renovations and The Observer's new office space have moved the graduate student lounge.

Talking is not enough

By Edy McCurrie · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

We must serve as examples to love our neighbor at a time of polarization.

Editorial: Political violence is an affront to free speech

By The Observer Editorial Board · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

“Although Kirk’s legacy can and will be debated, all should affirm his conviction that college campuses should be places where students should be free to speak their minds and engage in constructive debate.”

A call for more authentic womanhood

By Noirin Dempsey · Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

Embracing real beauty in a world of fakes amplifies our authenticity.

Axios CEO: To make an impact, do this

By Letter to the Editor · Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

A follow-up to readers' concerns from last week's op-ed on being duped.

What Charlie Kirk got wrong about Black women

By Zora Rodgers · Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

“His racist remarks are inevitably a part of his legacy, and should be consequently painted into the picture of his character.”

Editorial: An A- first year for Dowd

By The Observer Editorial Board · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

While more could be done on the issues of transparency and free speech, the University appears to be in good hands with Dowd at the helm.

The threat to free speech on college campuses

By Liam Kelly · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

“To let free speech wither on college campuses is to let the shooter who took Kirk’s life have the final word. It is to lose a virtue essential to the functioning of democracy.”