WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 28, 2010 – President Barack Obama announced during his State of the Union address last night that he intends to work with Congress and the military during the year ahead to repeal the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. Obama said he will aim “to finally repeal the law[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 28 – During his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama said he would work with Congress and the military this year to repeal the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The policy, passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1993, states that openly lesbian[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27 – A bill was introduced today in the House by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) that would, as Title IX did for girls and women, offer remedies for discrimination “based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity” in public elementary and secondary schools. The Student Non-Discrimination Act[Read More…]

From  Irena Zajickova at the Observer at Notre Dame: Student, faculty and other members of the Notre Dame community will participate in events this week to demonstrate their desire for the administration to add sexual orientation to the University’s non-discrimination clause. The events kicked off yesterday when students wore “Gay?[Read More…]

Note: This past Tuesday, a gay-bashing comic strip ran in The Observer. You can see the comic that ran in the paper, as well as the one that was originally rejected and the hateful conversation that transpired, here. GALA ND/SMC’s official response is below. As officers of the Gay and[Read More…]

Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– The Jan. 13 issue of the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer included a cartoon that was inappropriate and offensive. “The University denounces the implication that violence or expressions of hate toward any person or group of people is acceptable or a matter that should[Read More…]

Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Kara King, Assistant Managing Editor of the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer, tendered her resignation to the publication’s editorial board Monday. The editors published a statement indicating they "greatly respect King’s courage in writing a letter to our community and appreciate her service to[Read More…]

I Have a Dream Speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.[Read More…]

From NPR: With the election of President Obama, the phrase "post-racial" gained wider use. One year in to Obama’s term, Ralph Eubanks, author of The House at the End of the Road, and Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal define the term and the conversation around it. Audio is from[Read More…]

Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Staff at the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer published a staff report Monday indicating that the Observer Editorial Board has discontinued the publication of the cartoon “The Mobile Party” following the submission and subsequent printing of the offensive Jan. 13 comic strip. According to[Read More…]