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The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Weatherhead professor shows how business and social consciousness can go hand-in-hand at TEDx convention

Arielle Soffer, Contributing Reporter October 5, 2013

In a global economy where movements like Occupy Wall Street vilify big businesses, Weatherhead professor David Cooperrider is trying to give a new meaning to corporations by making entrepreneurship synonymous...

Tara Tran and Mark Patteson October 5, 2013

1. Megan Young, Miss Philippines, crowned Miss World 2013 United States born Megan Young won Miss World, which was hosted on the Indonesian island of Bali. Young, 23, beat 126 other contestants. Runner-ups...

Police Blotter: 9/23/13 to 9/30/13

October 5, 2013

9/26 — Felony theft — Purse taken, Leutner Commons 9/26 — Disorderly conduct — Intoxicated male refusing to leave private property arrested, Mayfield Road. 9/28 — Petty theft — Unattended...

Security Alerts: What are they good for?

Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko, Officer Mark October 5, 2013

So we have gotten through the month of September— Homecoming 2013 was a big success, the Indians might be in the playoffs— and we here at Case Western Reserve University Police Department have had...

A Quiet Remembrance

A Quiet Remembrance

Mike McKenna, News Editor September 27, 2013

Cynthia Candau looks on as family cleans out her late husband’s half-empty office on the first floor of Guilford Hall. “His scholastic knowledge is over my head,” she says matter of factly, nodding...

Young Americans for Liberty sought to raise awareness of the Syrian conflict with their “Google Syria” chalking campaign.

Syria: the CWRU connection

Julia Bianco, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

With his extended family and friends embroiled in a conflict that has killed over 100,000 people, Walid Malki struggles with the Syria conflict more than most CWRU students. “People here don’t really...

Third-year student takes lab into the ambulance

Third-year student takes lab into the ambulance

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter September 27, 2013

Junior Serena Doyle spent her past summer constantly inside an ambulance. Fortunately for Doyle, a nursing major, she did not have to be transported at high speeds due to injury; she was analyzing how...

New media officer Jared Bendis is keeping KSL on the cutting edge

New media officer Jared Bendis is keeping KSL on the cutting edge

Jonah Roth, Contributing Reporter September 27, 2013

Jared Bendis’ office is crammed with technology. A disc duplicator sits on the edge of his desk, a 3D monitor is in a box on the floor and a force-feedback haptic arm is poised next to his computer....

CMA & CWRU Trustees donated $15 million to a combined doctoral program.

CWRU strengthens collaboration with Cleveland Museum of Art through $15 million joint fund

Tanvi Parmar, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art recently introduced an initiative that strengthens their existing collaboration. CMA Trustee Nancy Keithley and CWRU trustee Joseph Keithley...

WEPA revisited: One year later

Brian Sherman, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

Students at Case Western Reserve University are no strangers to printing long papers. In previous years, this task became increasingly arduous with reliability issues of the Print2Here printing system. Last...

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