Observer published a letter to the editor by sophomore Nikole Hannah titled "Modern Savagery". In this letter, Hannah wrote that Africans arrived in the New World during the time of the Olmec civilization, a claim which is widely rejected by mainstream anthropologists. Tom McLaughlin of The Conway Daily Sun took issue with the letter's accusation that whites are engaged in a conspiracy to pump "drugs and guns into the black community." "The Legging Problem" On March 25, 2019, The Observer published a letter to the editor by Maryanne White titled "The Leggings Problem". According to the BBC, White described that "while attending a Mass service at the Catholic university with her family, a group of women in front of her wore 'snug-fitting leggings' and 'short-waisted tops'." According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "[s]tudents held pro-leggings protests at the University of Notre Dame after a self-described 'Catholic mother of four sons' wrote [the] letter in the student newspaper saying that 'leggings are so naked, so form-fitting, so exposing.'" Alumni George Dohrmann - 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for beat reporting Bryan Gruley - Pulitzer Prize Winner Nikole Hannah-Jones - Pulitzer Prize Winner References External links The Observer print edition - issuu.com The Observer archives 1966-2016 Student newspapers published in Indiana Independent newspapers published in the United States University of Notre Dame Saint Mary's College (Indiana) Notre Dame, Indiana