observer names editorial board

Observer Staff Report seven new and two returning department heads will complete The observer’s 2023-2024 editorial board, incoming editorin-chief maggie eastland announced sunday. crimivaroli will be taking on the role of photo editor. originally from new york, she is an architecture student with a furniture design concentration in her fourth year of study. in her three years with The observer, she has covered games and tournaments in almost every sport, including soccer, basketball, boxing and fencing across the tri-campus community. previously holding the position of assistant photo editor, she has trained many other photographers in the photo department. duffy will take over as social media editor. w hile she is from long island, new york, she calls ryan hall home at notre dame. she is majoring in political science with minors in Journalism, ethics & democracy, constitutional studies and italian. at The observer, she has served as newsletter manager and covered various news stories. lange, a junior at saint mary’s college, will continue her work as the saint mary’s news editor. originally from chicago, she is a dual humanistic studies and communication studies major with minors in public relations and advertising from saint mary’s and constitutional studies from notre dame. lange has been writing means to secure-in-place and Fight means protect yourself if no other option.” a little over two hours away from the shooting on msu’s campus, students at both notre d ame and s aint m ary’s c ollege found themselves immediately worried about those they knew near msu and later, about their own safety on the tri-campus. see msu PAGE 3

The nine editors will join eastland as well as incoming managing editor ryan peters and assistant managing editors gabrielle beechert, hannah hebda and José sánchez córdova in directing the editorial responsibilities of the paper.

Juniors sofia crimivaroli, anna Falk, meghan lange, claire lyons, angela mathew, andrew mcguinness and christina sayut and sophomores emma duffy and isa sheikh will lead their respective departments beginning march 19.

Falk, a resident of pasquerilla east hall hailing from cincinnati, ohio, will take over the role of scene editor. she has remained a dedicated writer for scene over the past two years, focusing much of her creative energy on music and movies. Falk is a junior majoring in neuroscience with minors in French and linguistics.

This alert would be the one of six that students would receive throughout the night of Feb. 13 and the early morning of Feb. 14, keeping them up to date on the current active shooter situation on their campus.