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2 months ago | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Liam Kelly |Sophie Hanawalt
As President Donald Trump has taken action to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal and private sectors, colleges across the country, including Notre Dame, have adjusted language on their websites to remove some references to DEI initiatives. On Jan.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Liam Kelly |Sophie Hanawalt
Notre Dame students who traveled to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl expected to ring in the new year with hope and excitement. Instead, they were met with fear and terror in the early hours of Jan. 1 when a terrorist drove a truck down Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring 35. Although no Notre Dame students were injured or killed during the attack, many were in the area at the time.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Sophie Hanawalt
For the first time during their time at Notre Dame, many students will begin sitting for final exams this Saturday, Dec. 14, due to a schedule change announced Aug. 12 in preparation for the possibility that Notre Dame could host a college football playoff game. Instead of the typical Tuesday through Friday schedule, finals will take place Saturday, and Monday through Thursday, with reading days on Friday and Sunday.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Sophie Hanawalt
President-elect Donald Trump has discussed plans to implement a number of widespread changes to higher education, including increased taxation on university endowments and withholding of federal funding from universities with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, both of which could potentially impact the University of Notre Dame.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Sophie Hanawalt
Notre Dame’s AccessABLE club works to advocate for inclusion, as well as provide a campus community for students with disabilities and their allies, the club’s student leaders said. Co-president and senior Jill Maudlin said she was encouraged to check out AccessABLE after reaching out to student recipients of the Matthew Swinton Endowment for Excellence in Service to the Disabled to ask about accessibility at Notre Dame upon her acceptance.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Liam Kelly |Sophie Hanawalt
On Friday afternoon, Florida governor Ron DeSantis spoke in DeBartolo Hall, discussing his tenure as governor of Florida and the future of the conservative movement, as protestors gathered outside the building. The lecture was hosted by the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Studies and was this year’s Jeanie Poole O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Sophie Hanawalt
For most Notre Dame students, the upcoming election this Tuesday, Nov. 5 will be the first presidential election they are eligible to vote in. Johnson Family Hall freshman Maisy Adams expressed her excitement to be a voter. She registered online this past April, voted for the first time in the primaries at her local polling place this summer and voted early in the general election when she was home in Ohio for fall break. Flaherty freshman Grace Fuchs also registered this past spring.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Sophie Hanawalt
On Oct. 7, BridgeND held the kickoff for their signature event, ConvergeND. BridgeND is the Notre Dame branch of BridgeUSA, a student-led organization focused on bridging the political divide and encouraging spectrum-crossing conversations. ConvergeND participants are matched with a discussion partner who has opposite political views after taking a survey, then given the opportunity to attend a kickoff event and meet for a conversation with their match.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nour Rahal |Sophie Hanawalt
Nonprofit Detroit Horse Power has brought hundreds of Detroit students to farms and stables across southeast Michigan for about a decade, teaching them life skills through riding and caring for horses. That commute for Detroit youth will be a lot shorter in the not-too-distant future as the organization builds its own facility on the city's northwest side.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
ndsmcobserver.com | Sophie Hanawalt
Part of a longstanding tradition at Notre Dame, the first SYR dances of the year will take place Friday, Oct. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 5. SYRs, the casual counterpart to hall formals, get their acronym stood for “Screw Your Roommate,” refering to the process of a student choosing their roommate’s blind date. SYRs are now more commonly referred to as “setting up” for the dance. Howard Hall, Stanford Hall and Lyons Hall will hold their SYRs this weekend, in addition to Keough Hall’s toga dance.
