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Observer Exclusive: Swarbrick discusses potential college football playoff

Notre Dame Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick spoke with The Observer about the future of the proposed four-team college football playoff system Thursday. Full story

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Doyle to change positions

After just two years on the job, Fr. Thomas Doyle will be replaced as vice president for Student Affairs, the University announced Tuesday. Full story

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GSA decision postponed

Notre Dame to address recognition of AllianceND in the fall

Notre Dame announced Tuesday it would continue to consider whether to approve a gay-straight alliance as an official student club, deferring a decision until the beginning of the next academic year. The University also responded to requests for a public explanation as to why it did not add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination clause. Full story

Today's Headlines

Signatures of solidarity

We are a family

Volunteer house to be dedicated to Seeberg

Faculty for LGTBQ

Men's Basketball: NCAA denies Abromaitis a sixth year

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Volunteer house to be dedicated to Seeberg

The legacy of former Saint Mary’s student Lizzy Seeberg will be kept alive when a volunteer house in Chicago is dedicated during a ceremony Sunday. Full story

Sports

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Men's Golf: Notre Dame wins Big East title

Behind a true team effort, the Irish defended their Big East title in dominating fashion, winning the team championship by 16 strokes over their next-closest opponent, Louisville. Full story

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Fashion by Felicia

Fashion Map

This last column, fellow fashionistas, needs few introductions but many thank yous. As a token of my appreciation for your fashionable readership over these past two years, I have created the quintessential Fashion Map for the Notre Dame fashionista. Full story

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Columns

Health care as a human right

Guest Column

In a public letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, President John Jenkins wrote against a federal policy that would classify Notre Dame as an employer obligated to provide contraception to its employees.

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Shake down the thunder from smog

Guest Column

Over the past 30 years, the “Green Revolution” has swept the U.S. and many other countries with the impending fear of global warming constantly looming. Activists have made many advances for cleaning up the environment and for enacting regulations to ensure cleaner manufacturing and energy production.

What are you giving up for Lent?

Letters to the Editor

Signatures of solidarity

Letter to the Editor

As students of Notre Dame, we would like to extend some words of encouragement and solidarity to our fellow classmates.

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We are a family

Letter to the Editor

Monday night, I was disappointed and ashamed of my University and of my classmates. I, along with forty of my peers, learned that we have a classmate choosing to transfer away from Notre Dame because of their sexual orientation.

We are all responsible

Letter to the Editor

Dear Members of the Notre Dame Community:
On Feb. 24, Father Thomas Doyle, Dr. Don Pope-Davis and Notre Dame senior Brittany Suggs wrote to inform you about two deplorable and intolerable incidents in which fried chicken parts were left in the mailboxes of the Black Students Association and the African Students Association.

Faculty for LGTBQ

Letter to the Editor

We are writing to express our support for the 4-to-5 movement and for the members of the LGBTQ community at the University of Notre Dame.

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RAs want to make halls good homes

Letter to the Editor

Recently, these pages have contained much debate about the University’s reluctance and refusal to acknowledge a student club dedicated to advocating for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and questioning (LGBTQ) community, as well as to insert into the current non-discrimination policy a clause protecting this same community.

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