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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

A tragedy the university missed

Mike McKenna, Director of Print September 12, 2014

For Chris Malloy's obituary, click here. During these past few weeks, Case Western Reserve University has seen an outpouring of community. Support in the wake of the plane crash tragedy was given...

Numbers might lie

Andrew Breland September 5, 2014

When applying to college, there is hardly a high school student that does not look at the U.S. News and World Report rankings of national universities. Every spring, the publication comes out with new...

Crimes and misdemeanors

September 5, 2014

Case Western Reserve University’s Police and Security Services Department was established in 2006. Since then, their presence has been felt on campus among students during the day, in the evening and...

From chaos, community

Jacob Martin, Opinion Editor September 5, 2014

Last year, the primary focus of my column was the importance of community on a college campus. More specifically, I focused on the lack of community at CWRU and why that should change. In my Oct. 4,...

Ex unitate vires

Andrew Breland August 29, 2014

On Tuesday morning, most students woke up to a series of emails detailing a potentially scary but all-too-common occurrence in our society. A suspicious package was spotted outside the Village Starbucks....

Reaching out

Katie Wieser, Executive Editor & Publisher August 29, 2014

As a campus, we’ve dealt with plenty of challenges in the past few years but few have hit us as hard as the events of Monday night. People always mention how a tragedy can bring a community together....

Did we pass?

The Observer April 25, 2014

Student Involvement/Initiatives — C CWRU students have been busy accomplishing great things. We’ve seen a number of newly recognized Undergraduate Student Government organizations including Nursing...

Where’s the outrage

Andrew Breland April 25, 2014

Over the last two week, eight different professors have approached me about student issues on campus. Academics, growing up in the protest-philic 1960s, expect students to be involved and engaged with...

One step forward, one look back

April 18, 2014

I hated the weekends when I was growing up. Every Sunday, after breakfast but before lunch, my father would knock on my bedroom door and beg me to wake. Within an hour this loving request would escalate...

A hazy issue

The Observer April 18, 2014

Case Western Reserve University is currently deliberating going completely tobacco-free—a policy that divides the undergraduate student body. But what if CWRU considered allowing students light up another...

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