Social notes from a bygone era Mary Beth Ellis Changes in Lattitude, Changes in Attitude
Authors Note: Grace Hall is home to fax machines and tie-wearing folk in this modern era, but in timeworn days of yore (1996), Grace was an actual dormitory housing actual male students wearing actual khakis. From The Observer's society pages of ... [more]
It's time to laugh at fear Kate Rowland Read This. It May Save Your Life.
Over break I went to the dentist to get some cavities filled. I hate going to the dentist. I'm terrified of it. Every time I have to go I dread it for weeks, and when the actual appointment comes around I ... [more]
Let's end the graffiti dance Letter to the Editor
The Graffiti Dance was a memorable point in my Freshman Orientation at Notre Dame late last summer. Unfortunately it was memeorable for all the wrong reasons. Besides becoming very good at finding a place left on my t-shirt for people to ... [more]
Honor donors in church Letter to the Editor
I wish to respond to the letter of Salvadora Hernandez in The Observer March 6, 2000. The letter in point was headlined "Don't discriminate in church." Apparently the writer was deeply offended that she was asked to sit in a side ... [more]
Popes and prophecy A.J. Boyd Assistant Viewpoint Editor
On the Ides of March (only coincidentally my birthday) last week, nearly 500 people were killed in a Waco-like conflagration in Uganda. Like some sort of Catholic Branch-Davidians, these eschatological radicals believed that the Virgin Mary had promised them that March ... [more]
