From “The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” For me, that rose has always been The Observer. At...

I joined The Observer almost without meaning to. I was a spring admit, walking around the student activities fair with current Director of Digital Media Auden Koetters into our first few days at Case Western...

There’s a familiar story at The Observer: coming onto campus as a first-year, never anticipating that you would join the student newspaper on a whim and finding the best family you never realized you...

Okay, the title is clickbait. It actually kind of did the opposite.   When I joined The Observer as a writer my first year, I was looking for an extracurricular activity—something that complemented...

It is hard to quantify my time at Case Western Reserve University. And yet, now that I’m on the precipice of leaving this campus behind and going forward into the world (and into the upcoming global...

Before I ever set foot in the UMB office, I had never worked on a newspaper in any capacity. Honestly, I had no idea what I was getting into. I joined The Observer because Auden Koetters, then-director...

I never really thought I'd be part of this for that long. I applied to The Observer before I had even unpacked a single box in my freshman dorm. I didn’t really know what I wanted to get out of it. I...

I don’t know what to say. Is there any possible combination of words that could sum up my feelings about The Observer that hasn’t already been said by older and wiser? Samuel Beckett learned to write...

Before I started senior year, joining The Observer was nowhere in the plan. My schedule was already full, graduation was getting closer and I thought I had already found the spaces that would define my...