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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

Parr: The curious case of our campus’s beauty, part II

Sarah Parr, Social Media Editor November 11, 2016

Bio:Sarah Parr is a first-year student who is very undecided about her major, but enjoys free food, which is the whole point of college. A couple of issues ago, I read a short opinion piece by Kevin...

Assmus: Cup controversy

Assmus: Cup controversy

Abby Assmus, Columnist November 11, 2016

Once again, it is November and it is time for Starbucks to reveal their infamous holiday cup. This year, only a day after Halloween, the coffee company revealed an all green cup with a white circle on...

Barrett: Self-care in the midst of political tension

Barrett: Self-care in the midst of political tension

Eva Barrett, Columnist November 11, 2016

Bio: Eva is a third year student, black queer poet and teacher who wants to make the load a little lighter for the next generation of students of color. Election Night is over. All of our strange election...

Nguyen: The Power of Nothing

Phuong Nguyen, Columnist November 4, 2016

Zero is a powerful number. Zero represents passion. In the axis of integer numbers, zero comes before one; you cannot get to one without passing through zero. The same thing happens in real life. Whenever...

Taleb: The concept of the body being a home

Nardine Taleb, Columnist November 4, 2016

Rupi Kaur’s TED Talk last month, “I’m Taking My Body Back,” brought up an interesting discussion about what the body means. Within the TED Talk, Kaur performed a spoken word poem using “home”...

Taekman: Combatting midterm blues

Sarah Taekman, Columnist November 4, 2016

The scene plays out the same way in most classes. It starts with a chorus of moans across the room as the professor sends their assistants out in a flurry of papers. The first wave of students bolts...

Barrett: The case for a Cleveland Studies program at CWRU

Eva Barrett, Columnist November 4, 2016

It’s high time that Case Western Reserve University thinks seriously about instituting a comprehensive, academically rigorous Cleveland Studies program. Much like University of Chicago’s Chicago Studies...

Patel: Change the name

Patel: Change the name

Riddhi Patel, Columnist November 4, 2016

Despite the progress we have made as a country in terms of race relations, we still have sports teams named after racial groups, such as Cleveland’s baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. The Cleveland...

The Curious Case of Our Campus’s Beauty

Kevin Smith, Opinion Editor October 28, 2016

New architecture without 90 degree angles, atriums connecting class halls, old buildings under renovations, trees on the quad transforming into their fall form and some massive construction project on...

Respecting each other this Halloween

Respecting each other this Halloween

October 28, 2016

College campuses have found themselves in a state of hypervisibility lately, mostly due to what some consider to be “political correctness.” Everything that happens on campus is watched, carefully,...

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