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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

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,...

Austin Stroud: CWRU fails to structurally understand diversity

Austin Stroud September 11, 2015

Diversity has always been an issue at Case Western Reserve University. Underrepresentation of minority groups on campus has historically led to a multitude of criticisms and protests that have challenged...

Sarah Jawhari: It’s a (two) party and no one’s invited

Sarah Jawhari September 11, 2015

The frenzy hurtling us into the 2016 elections is nauseating to me. I despise politics. I actively choose not to follow it the same way I choose not to listen to the tedious din the radio believes popular....

Phil Hoffert: Dissatisfaction in American politics, part one

Phil Hoffert September 11, 2015

Isn’t it strange that we tend to detest politics and politicians—at least as uncomfortable realities within our republican system—yet wait in long lines and then shove through large crowds in order...

Arundhati Menon: When across the world, make that friend

Arundhati Menon September 11, 2015

On Aug. 13 at 5:45 p.m., I ran across the space outside Leutner Commons for my 5:30 p.m. group meeting—cursing early morning flights and hotel check-in times. I sat in my allotted circle and thanked...

JP. O’Hagan: Can’t we all just get along?

JP. O’Hagan September 11, 2015

There is an old journalism theory that states if the headline of a piece asks a question, the answer to that question is always no. The same holds true here. Can’t we all just get along? No. Now...

Danny Miles: Campaign proactively

Danny Miles September 11, 2015

It's hard to be even moderately aware of politics these days and not know the name Bernie Sanders. The Democratic senator from Vermont has been steadily gaining in the polls, even as detractors jeer that...

The SAGES Fellows’ Office Area provides students a place to meet their professors and study

Sunny Purighalla: Coveted First Seminar classes make for a lousy program

Sunny Purighalla September 4, 2015

I seriously hated my senior AP English class. Everyone hates something like spiders or early mornings, or even the dark. For me, it was having my teacher hand out obscure supplementary documents inscribed...

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