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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

Historic Tennis Seasons Come to a Close

Eddie Kerekes, Sports Editor June 24, 2016

All good things must come to an end, and this was the case for the Spartans tennis teams’ 2016 season at the Division III Championships held on Memorial Day weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Both the men’s...

Fighting Gobies End Best Season Ever

Eddie Kerekes, Sports Editor June 24, 2016

For the first time in program history, the Fighting Gobies advanced to the Division I College Ultimate Championships, held on Memorial Day weekend in Raleigh, NC. The team’s debut on the national stage...

Taleb: What the Cavaliers win really means for Cleveland and the world

Nardine Taleb, Opinion Editor June 23, 2016

The buzz really started at one minute and nine seconds, after the score was locked 89 – 89. There was this calm sense, at least in the Quicken Loans Arena, that anything could happen in the next minute...

The Morley Chemistry Lab will remain abandoned due to difficulties in demolishing it.

Outdated construction leaves Morley Chemistry Lab abandoned

Ashley Chan, Director of Web and Multimedia June 1, 2016

The vine-covered Morley Chemistry Laboratory holds campus myths and legends regarding its status on campus. It currently serves no function—it is closed, locked and unoccupied—yet there are no plans...

Adrian Bota, the owner of Piccadilly, launches a starup company that sells Golden Guernsey milk, which contains more nutrients than the A1 milk that is currently sold in many grocery stores.

Golden Guernsey Milk is Back

Tirth Bhatta, Contributing Reporter May 18, 2016

A few weeks after I arrived in the United States from Nepal, I had difficulty digesting milk. My parents experienced similar difficulty when they were here to visit me. I interpreted this experience as...

The Spartan Challenge Rewards Great Entrepreneurial Minds

Nardine Taleb, Opinion Editor April 27, 2016

The Spartan Challenge Entrepreneurial Competition, one of Case Western Reserve University’s entrepreneurship platforms, announced its winners on April 7. The Observer sat down with all of the teams to...

The Food Recovery Network takes initiative to let students donate their unused meal swipes to the poor

Unused meal swipes turned into donations to homeless

Hunter Overstreet, Staff Reporter April 22, 2016

The Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a student group on campus dedicated to fighting waste and feeding people. Through a partnership between the FRN and companies around University Circle like Einstein Bros...

Men’s tennis sweeps in emphatic fashion

Men’s tennis sweeps in emphatic fashion

Noah Crowley, Staff Reporter April 22, 2016

The sixth-ranked Case Western Reserve University men’s tennis team came home to Cleveland to close out the regular season and did so in the most spectacular fashion imaginable. The team was not to be...

The Fantasticks, which starts in May, is an allegorical musical following two neighbors.

End your semester at the theater

Ellie Rambo, Arts & Entertainment Editor April 22, 2016

The Cherry Orchard—If this semester is beginning to feel like a farce (or if your life is a strange mix of comedy and tragedy), this is the performance for you. Written by Anton Chekhov in the last days...

Andrew Bird performed a sold-out and emotional show at the Cleveland House of Blues.

Music halls and thriving cities

Anne Nickoloff, Staff Reporter April 22, 2016

The fact that Andrew Bird came to Cleveland and performed at the House of Blues stage is still hitting me. For seven years, I’ve tried to see Bird live. This included an unsuccessful attempt at convincing...

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