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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

Fixing our student group funding system

March 27, 2015
Here's the deal with the Student Executive Council, which funds all of the umbrella organizations on campus.

A third alternative

Andrew Breland March 27, 2015

The title of this column, for the last three years, has been “The elephant in the room.” As it pertains to campus, this title has always signaled that I write about topics seen and unseen that affect...

With residence hall delay response, housing fails us yet again

March 20, 2015

Delayed. The news that the new residence hall wouldn’t be ready for the start of next school year hit selected emails on March 12, an unwelcome way to end spring breaks for a number of students. The...

Housing strategies lack student focus

February 27, 2015

Housing for the 2015-2016 school year is something that most students have been thinking about in recent weeks. Greek students have been getting emails about chapter housing, and those upperclassmen whose...

New diversity board: let’s take a SEC to think

February 20, 2015

In last week’s issue, we ran a letter to the editor from Brittany Chung and Precious Amoako arguing that Case Western Reserve University students need to add a new diversity board to the Student Executive...

Speaking up on campus transportation concerns

February 5, 2015
Campus transportation still has some room for improvement.

Sparta your world

January 30, 2015
The Undergraduate Student Government offers many benefits to student groups, including the new Sparta Resource Center.

More than a Greek-only solution needed to solve CWRU’s sexual misconduct problem

January 23, 2015
Although Greek Life has instituted seminars to help prevent sexual misconduct on campus, more than a Greek-only solution is needed.

Semester Grades

December 5, 2014

Transportation: D Greenies, which could be a lovely resource as the days get colder, have instead—as always—been unreliable and far from useful for all but the luckiest students; stories of them...

This semester USG lives up to motto: “Students first”

November 21, 2014

In the 2005 animated movie “Robots,” there was a mantra repeated by several characters: “See a need, fill a need.” This semester, The Observer staff thinks that the Undergraduate Student Government...

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