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Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Arundhati Menon: Outward appearance never tells all

Arundhati Menon September 25, 2015

During my first week at Case Western Reserve University, we played a game where each of us were made to pick a card, keep it turned away from us and walk around the room interacting with people. Additionally...

Danny Miles: To old skeptics, phones do increase sociability

Danny Miles September 25, 2015

I don't know if there's something in the air or if it's just that time of year again, but I've started seeing an increase in posts on my Facebook feed making fun of millennials and their smartphones. I'm...

A large number of introductory biology and chemistry laboratory classes take place in the Millis Science Center.

Monica Chavan: Are lab courses irksome imperatives or indispensable in education?

Monica Chavan September 25, 2015

For those accustomed to smaller scale, single-teacher high school classes, the division of labor among the collegiate faculty teaching laboratory courses is strangely disconnecting. Freshmen and other...

Larry Wang: Friendship, definition please?

Larry Wang September 18, 2015

For freshman at Case Western Reserve University, orientation began about a month ago. The weeklong event covered everything from diversity to education to making friends. There was a focus on stepping...

Brian Eckert: Revamp education nationally

Brian Eckert September 18, 2015

In all honesty, I’ve never read a column before. I’ve never even read a newspaper. When I was younger my parents would read two papers everyday and I just assumed I would pick it up too. I never did. This...

Kate Rasberry: Consent is a gender-blind requirement

Kate Rasberry September 18, 2015

Within the past few years, feminism has reached center stage attention in the media, highlighting the inequalities of the sexes in topics spanning from the wage gap to gender-specific stereotypes to the...

Ankita Chakraborty: Are presidential elections losing respect?

Ankita Chakraborty September 18, 2015

If you’ve watched the news or even glanced at trending topics recently, you would have noticed a headline along the lines of,“Kanye West declares he will be running for president in 2020.” This proclamation...

The only Commuter Lounge is located in the basement of Thwing.

Anna Galipo: Bias and the basement

Anna Galipo September 18, 2015

Every day that I commute to campus, the first thing I do is walk behind the Thwing Center, down a small, stony stairway to the basement. I swipe in, turn on the lights and hope that I don’t step on a...

Amber Phillips: Don’t judge a girl by her gender

Amber Phillips September 18, 2015

I have a brother named Shane, born two years, one month and eleven days before me. With Shane, I built multistory Lego houses with five tier garages for the cars we put together from spare parts and sand...

Josh Lehrer: It’s time to talk guns

Josh Lehrer September 11, 2015

There are 268 dead and 288 injured from 33 separate incidents. All by the mass shooting sprees by one (in the case of Columbine, two) perpetrators since 1998. Men, women, children, fathers, mothers, brothers,...

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