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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...

Editorial: Spot Night can change, but only carefully

Observer Staff September 11, 2015

Spot Night is a key concert and a much beloved event that the University Program Board (UPB) historically put on weekly. Students always knew that they could find a band playing at the Spot on Thursday...

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...

Aderinola Fasipe in response to Josh Lehrer’s “Hillary Clinton: an agent of progress?”

September 11, 2015

To the editor, Despite how even the best-intentioned media have portrayed it, voting rights aren’t the only issues that minorities face. Few of the most important issues in today’s society that...

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...

Student groups were initially told that they must move out of the space within ten days, though they later received a weeks extension.

Campus leaders stepped up in Thwing storage mix-up

September 4, 2015

As students prepared to move in the Friday before classes, student organizations received an email from the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) that began in all caps. When hoping to reunite with their...

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...

Chandler Holcomb: The Trump card

Chandler Holcomb: The Trump card

Chandler Holcomb September 4, 2015

At the corner of East 56th Street and Fifth Avenue in the middle of Manhattan stands an impressive feat of architecture, a 58-story elegant skyscraper labeled in large metallic letters “Trump Tower.”...

Abby Assmus: The lack of community at CWRU

Abby Assmus September 4, 2015

Case Western Reserve University gets a lot of negative reviews from students and non-students for its status as a Division III, small private university. People might complain about the lack of parties...

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