Editorial: Semester Grades Fall 2018
December 7, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
With finals fast approaching, The Observer wanted to wrap up the semester by handing out grades. We reviewing some of our editorials from throughout the semester and compiled our thoughts into these grades. Next semester there will be even more news on campus, and we look forward to both covering and an...
Editorial: Focus on alert times not reactionary measures
Jackson Rudoff, Opinion Editor
November 9, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
The Case Western Reserve University community was taken aback this past weekend when a third-year student was shot outside Phi Delta Theta in an attempted carjacking. Unfortunately, the campus is not inexperienced with incidents of similar magnitude. We are all too familiar with reports of muggings...
Editorial: The danger of false equivalencies
Jackson Rudoff, Opinions Editor
October 26, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion, Top Stories
On Monday, a number of news organizations reported that somebody had left a pipe bomb outside the home of George Soros, a notable left-wing philanthropist. Over the next few days, numerous other left-wing figureheads would receive similar packages, all playing into a Unabomber-esque picture of political violence. ...
Editorial: Kavanaugh, a board divided
October 5, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
For weeks, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing has dominated the news. During the process, Christine Blasey Ford came forward with an accusation of sexual assault that occurred while the two were in high school. It immediately shifted the tone of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s ...
Editorial: Understanding our media
September 7, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
In the modern political landscape, it is easy to view most things with a little underlying skepticism. When the 2016 election made the term “fake news” a part of everyday jargon, it entirely transformed how all of us approach information, especially when it comes to news media. While recent po...
Editorial: Semester Grades
April 27, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Undergraduate Student Government (USG): B- It’s been a turbulent semester for USG and the campus community. Things started off on a high note with the introduction of the initiative tracker, which provided students with a way of following the progress of different on-campus projects. In prov...
Editorial: Hearing, not listening
April 20, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion, Top Stories
In early 2018, a public school district in Minnesota banned the books “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from their English curriculum. Students persistently complained that the books’ racial themes and use of certain words made them uncomfortable, so the supe...
Editorial: Legacy Week could strengthen campus community
April 6, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion
Let’s get excited about what will hopefully become a campus tradition. For the first time in a significant way, Case Western Reserve University will be celebrating the anniversary of the federation of Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology through Legacy Week: Better Together....
Editorial: We support USG’s gender-neutral bathrooms resolution
March 30, 2018
It’s past time for improvement of transgender rights on our campus. But we’re hopeful because Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has passed a resolution to set up gender-neutral bathrooms in all campus facilities. The resolution, aimed at the university, was initially authored as a counter...
Editorial: We discuss CWRU police questioning of city councilman
March 23, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinion, Top Stories
Over a week ago, city Councilman Kevin Conwell was stopped by Case Western Reserve University police while walking through our campus. Police were responding to a complaint of a man with missing teeth asking students for money and claimed that the black councilman’s clothing matched the descriptio...
