Editorial: Let’s de-stress for success
Editorial Board
September 9, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
When the wepa printers are breaking down daily, that’s when you know school has really started. But fixing our printers won’t fix a cultural norm on campus that shouldn’t be a norm at all: The majority of us are excessively stressed out and we are not doing anything about it. The Case Western R...
Editorial: Give us space
September 2, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
What does the concept of “safe spaces” mean to you? To the University of Chicago’s Dean John “Jay” Ellison, safe spaces allow students to be ignorant, rather than open-minded. They allow students to avoid conversations that cause discomfort. They prevent intellectual debate because indivi...
Editor’s Note: CWRU needs to invest in campus security
Taylor Moran, Executive Editor
May 14, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
The entire Case Western Reserve University community received a security alert on May 10 informing us that a student had been robbed, possibly at gunpoint, in the Rockefeller Physics Building. I was utterly shocked that such an incident had occurred in an academic building. Typically I brush off most secu...
Semester Grades
April 22, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
Case Western Reserve University students will be surprised to find that they earned at least one F this semester due to lack of participation. Despite the fact that the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) put an enormous amount of effort in encouraging student input on the tobacco-free policy, abo...
Editorial: Referendum too close to go tobacco free
Editorial Board
April 15, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
The decision that sits before the Board of Trustees is simple: Case Western Reserve University should not go tobacco free. The Undergraduate Student Government’s (USG) referendum results were inconclusive; a 52 to 48 percent vote in favor of tobacco free should not count as approval by the stud...
Editor’s Note: What journalism means to me but also CWRU
April 8, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
Few fields other than journalism will have you examine law school lawsuits one week and lost weather balloons the next. I’m fortunate to say that I’ve been able to cover both over my time on the staff of The Observer, among other topics. My time at The Observer kicked off almost immediately after...
The Observer endorses Gray, Goldberg for USG elections
Editorial Board
April 5, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
For the past several years, The Observer has endorsed candidates running for positions in the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) executive elections, which will run April 6th and 7th. Students can vote on OrgSync. Our endorsement committee was made of five select members of the Editorial Boa...
Editorial: IFC/Panhel should create a committee to allot rollover
Editorial Board
April 1, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
Imagine that you were handed $66,000 and were able to use it to improve the Tinkham Veale University Center (TVUC). What would you do? This decision currently sits before the presidents of the Interfraternity Congress and the Panhellenic Council, Will Oldham and Gina Belli, respectively. An allegedly...
Mather needs a makeover
Editorial Board
March 25, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion, Top Stories
When the provost announced that Yost would be toast in a couple years and that a new sciences building would replace it, we had mixed feelings. We are fortunate to be an innovative community constantly building, but we must remember that many small improvements to current structures can easily outweigh...
Let’s not further complicate student group funding
March 18, 2016
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
We drew a diagram (above) displaying the proposed Student Executive Council (SEC) restructure plan. Are you a bit confused by it? Because we were at first. The SEC Reform Task Force shouldn’t offer the current overly complex proposal to the SEC on March 31. The Editorial Board believes that the...