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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

2013 St. Gobain Student Design Competition begins

Suneil Kamath, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

Every year, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) students across all schools come together to pitch creative ideas and prototypes during the Saint-Gobain Student Design Competition, which challenges...

Campus to be overrun by living dead this Monday

Brian Sherman, Staff Reporter September 27, 2013

Next week the Case Western Reserve University campus will be overrun by the undead horde as Big Games Club’s main event, Humans versus Zombies (HvZ), enters its eighth year on campus. From midnight on...

Case for Community Day Health to be hosted on campus this year

Mark Patteson, Contributing Reporter September 27, 2013

The Case for Community Day health fair will be hosted on the Case Western Reserve University campus for the first time this year from noon to 5 p.m. at Veale Center. Roughly 50 volunteers from the university...

Outside the Circle

Tara Tran and Mark Patteson September 27, 2013

1. Deadly earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan  On Saturday, Sept. 21 around noon, in Nairobi, Kenya, unidentified gunmen attacked the Westgate Mall and held hostages until Tuesday, Sept. 24. The Al-Shabaab,...

Police Blotter: 9/16/13 to 9/23/13

September 27, 2013

9/16 — Petty theft from bookstore, suspect located and arrested. Barnes & Noble, Euclid Avenue. 9/16 — Bicycle theft: Bike taken from rack between 9/13-9/16, Staley House. 9/22 — Motor vehicle...

On the Beat: 9/27

Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko and Officer Mark Chavis September 27, 2013

It is probably inevitable that a column on campus safety should address the issue of alcohol, so why fight the inevitable? All joking aside, since the start of the academic year, CWRU PD and various EMS...

Associate Professor of Physics Michael Martens works in his medical imaging physics lab. He is looking to develop cheaper MRI technology, primarily by designing a scanner that uses less liquid hydrogen, a costly substance) as a coolant.

Physicist to design new MRI scanner, nets $600,000 grant

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter September 20, 2013

When it comes to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, the average physicist usually has nothing to do with it — MRI technology is typically associated with those in the medical field. However,...

Yvon Chouinard speaks to an attendee of his panel session last Friday. Chouinard is an avid environmentalist and his company, Patagonia, has donated one percent of sales to environmental groups since 1985.

Dedication to sustainable business practices earns Patagonia founder Inamori Ethics Prize

Jasmine Gallup and Talia Gragg September 20, 2013

Yvon Chouinard and TM Herbert weren’t setting out to make history when they made their first continuous ascent of a then-unnamed climbing route in Yosemite Valley. They weren’t expecting their nine-day...

First year student Sonja Cuollo passes through one of the “bubble stations.”

Alumni and friends set new record for donations

Brian Sherman, Staff Reporter September 20, 2013

Case Western Reserve University has long been proud of its alumni, as their successes in the real world reflect upon their times as students of the university. Recently, however, CWRU has had another reason...

The university’s lease of Taplin Hall to CIA will expire at the end of this school year.

CWRU reclaims Taplin Hall to house incoming freshmen

Julia Bianco, Staff Reporter September 20, 2013

Beginning next fall, Taplin Hall will stop housing students from the Cleveland Institute of Art and will instead be home to freshmen from Case Western Reserve University. Taplin Hall, which belongs...

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