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Volume 56, Issue 54 | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2022 | ndsmcobserver.com
Tickets run in College’s student election
Camacho-Haas By GENEVIEVE COLEMAN Assitant Managing Editor
Juniors Angela Camacho and Josie Haas expressed their desire to uplift the Saint Mary’s community if elected student body president and vice president, respectively.. “As empower[ed] young women, we aspire to motivate and educate the Belles of Saint Mary’s, the very people who will one day make a difference in our world,” they wrote in their platform. The pair is one of two tickets running for the Student Government Association (SGA) president and vice president in the 2022
election cycle. Camacho is a sociology and psychology double major with minors in Spanish and film studies. She currently serves as the president of Residence Hall Association (RHA) and as SGA’s vice president of operations. Haas is a Spanish and secondary education major with a minor in English as a second language. On campus, she is co-president of RHA’s Hall Improvements committee. One of the pillars of the Camacho-Haas see CAMACHO PAGE 3
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Yeager-Blackburn By MEGHAN LANGE Saint Mary’s News Editor
Juniors Hannah Yeager and Veronica Blackburn are committed to rebuilding the Saint Mary’s community and forming a transparent line of communication between administration and students who have felt left out of the conversation since the pandemic. Yeager and Blackburn are one of two tickets up for election for student body president and vice president for the 2022-23 academic year. Yeager, an English literature and
secondary education major, is originally from San Clemente, California. Although she is currently studying abroad in Ireland, on campus she serves as the formal copresident for the Residence Hall Association (RHA). Blackburn, a history major with a biology minor, is from Dalzell, South Carolina. She currently serves as a co-president of fundraising for RHA. Their platform emphasizes the importance of community both on the Saint Mary’s campus and in the tri-campus see YEAGER PAGE 3
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks “Race is, and has a lways been, the oldest wedge issue in A merica,” journa list Nikole Hanna h-Jones said. Dissecting that issue has been the goa l of her long-form New York Times project “The 1619 Project.”
Hanna h-Jones ’98 returned to Notre Dame on Tuesday evening to discuss the controversia l “1619 Project” for the Ga llivan Program in Journa lism, Ethics, and Democracy’s 2022 Red Smith Lecture. The event a lso ser ved as the Initiative on Race and Resilience”s inaugura l
Sojourner Truth Lecture and a part of the Universit y’s Kathleen Cannon, O.P., Distinguished Lecture Series. Mark Sanders, professor of English and A fricana Studies at Notre Dame, moderated the discussion. Hanna h-Jones has spent her career investigating racia l inequa lit y and injustice.
She has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, the MacA rthur Fellowship “Genius Grant,” a Peabody Award, t wo George Polk Awards and three Nationa l Maga zine Awards. She has worked as a staff w riter for The New York Times since April 2015 and helped found the Ida B. Wells Societ y for Investigative Reporting in
early 2015. Hanna h-Jones reca lled her inspiration to become a journa list when she rea lized that Black girls like herself were not represented in newsrooms. “Black women reporters were unicorns,” she said. “A nd as a Black girl, I a lso understood
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