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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

Case Western Reserve University police need to update crime logs to reflect crimes that may affect the campus community, even if they are not under their jurisdiction.

Kim: Keeping updated on crime

Won Hee Kim, Columnist April 13, 2018

Type in "CWRU Alert" in the search bar of your email and you'll find that there were zero security alerts throughout the month of March. It seems strange when you scroll down a bit and compare March’s...

Kim: Marching madness: The people behind political protests

Won Hee Kim, Columnist March 30, 2018

What do you do when the people in power refuse to listen to you? Yelling loudly will not help if they are willfully ignoring you, and repeating your message will just annoy them. Albert Einstein is often...

Students are typically required to buy textbooks for most of their classes, but many students dont find them useful.

Kim: Reading into textbook problems: Don’t waste your money

Won Hee Kim, Columnist March 2, 2018

Case Western Reserve University’s culture seems to accept expensive textbooks as a necessary cost of college. The administration acknowledges it: the 2017-2018 Typical First Year Budget allots $1200...

Kim: Lessons from performance poetry

Won Hee Kim, Columnist February 16, 2018

It’s Thursday night. A group of forty or so sits in the crooked rows by the stage at Euclid Tavern, with more people milling about and eavesdropping. Among the crowd is the creative writing club of Case...

Kim: Bite the bulletin, it’s two minutes to midnight

Won Hee Kim, Columnist February 2, 2018

It is 11:58 p.m. and you have to submit an assignment by midnight. Only “you” is the human race, “midnight” is the annihilation of the human race and “assignment” encompasses all the reasonable...

Kim: A bit(coin) of regulation

Won Hee Kim, Columnist January 19, 2018

While the South Korean government has rescinded its proposal of banning cryptocurrency trades, the regulation of online currency such as the bitcoin are still being established globally and may become...

The CWRU Archery Club, which competes intercollegiately, will benefit from the tiering system. Other clubs may be disadvantaged by the new system.

Kim: Competition and the tiering system

Won Hee Kim, Columnist December 1, 2017

The administration of club sports is changing nationwide, and Case Western Reserve University is following the trend. In the bowels of monthly club sports meetings, there have been proposals for a tiering...

Many students shy away from using the RTA, but its free, convenient and available to all CWRU students. Dont be afraid to use it to eplore the area outside University Circle, including cool spots downtown like the Quicken Loans Arena.

Kim: Don’t be afraid of the RTA

Won Hee Kim, Columnist November 10, 2017

The RTA (Regional Transit Authority) pass for students costs $25 and lasts for the entire semester, allowing students to ride both the rails and the buses. Fare for an average adult rider is $2.50. In...

Kim: Problems with women boycotting Twitter

Won Hee Kim, Columnist October 27, 2017

On Oct. 13, Rose McGowan, actress and feminist activist, inspired a widespread spontaneous 24 hour long boycott of Twitter after the social media service suspended her account. McGowan is a survivor of...

Kim: Students bring Korean classes to life

Won Hee Kim, Columnist October 6, 2017

The languages taught at Case Western Reserve University are as follows: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. And this year, in the common area of...

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