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Flags protest Pence, ‘support inclusion’ Community members display LGBT pride flags distributed by We Stand For, College Democrats

By MARIE FAZIO News Writer

Last weekend, LGBT alumni from Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame walked around campus for the GALA-ND/SMC reunion and were greeted with a show of support that many of them had not experienced when they were students at Notre Dame: Rainbow pride flags hung out of windows across campus, ranging from dorms to Geddes Hall, Nieuwland Hall of Science and Hesburgh Library.

This show of support for the LGBT community of Notre Dame was partly out of protest of the choice of Vice President Mike Pence as the 2017 Commencement speaker.

“Students and alumni came together and said ‘we’re frustrated with the invitation of Mike Pence as the Commencement speaker on many fronts certainly,” Bryan Ricketts, a fifth-year student who was involved in the flag distribution, said. “Dealing with LGBT issues dealing with funding for

conversion therapy, his passage of a restrictive [law] that didn’t include a civil rights exemption when it was first written [and] at one point his professed intent to enshrine marriage between one man and one woman as a constitutional amendment.”

Last week, the student group We Stand For distributed almost 500 flags to students and faculty.

Funded in part by student and alumni donations, the group bought a second round of pride flags after more alumni heard about the event on social media or read about it in an article published April 21 and wanted to help, Ricketts said. “[The LGBT alumni wished] there could have been this overt expression of support of LGBT students when they were here,” Ricketts said. “Now that they have the opportunity to do that and show that … there is a community in the Notre Dame family who cares very deeply about the LGBT student body population.” see FLAGS PAGE 3

Professor teaches tap dance class

By SELENA PONIO Associate News Editor

A world-renowned expert on human parenting and infancy with more than 130 published articles in medical, anthropology and psychology journals, professor of anthropology James McKenna boasts a special talent: tap dancing.

McKenna, director of Notre Dame’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, is a leading expert on “co-sleeping,” which involves conducting research on the benefits of mother and infant pairs sharing a bed together.

However, when he is not kneedeep in his research, McKenna also teaches the Irish American tap class.

“I tap danced pretty much all my life in one form or another,” McKenna said. “I started when I was two or three years old

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watching a Fred Astaire film in black and white in Boston.”

McKenna said when he saw Fred Astaire dancing on the screen, his two-year old self ran to the two-foot wide hard wood space between the living room carpet and dining room carpet, looked at the television and “started tap dancing with perfect beats and rhythms and rolls.”

“I just could do it,” he said. “I could always tap dance to any music that has a beat. I don’t know why, but it’s been a great joy and a wonderful thing to do.

It’s like playing drums with your feet.”

After this talent surfaced, McKenna said he pursued it further by taking more formal dance lessons. He taught tap for five years at Pomona College until he was recruited to be a faculty see DANCE PAGE 4

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Pride flags hang from the windows of Nieuwland Hall. The flags, distributed by student groups, are being displayed as a sign of protest against this year’s Commencement speaker, Vice President Mike Pence.

SMC student awarded LGBT scholarship

By GINA TWARDOSZ Associate Saint Mary’s Editor

Saint Mary’s junior Morgan Haney is one of the recipients of a scholarship from the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s (GALA).

The mission of GALA is to create a future where no one is discriminated against because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Haney said in an email that the scholarship award is offered to LGBT students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s.

“GALA ND/SMC, the Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, offers a scholarship for current Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) undergraduate students at Notre Dame

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and Saint Mary’s,” she said. “I believe it started in 2015 as this is the third time it has been awarded to students.”

Haney said the scholarship provides financial support to students who identify as LGBT, thanks to the contributions of the donors of GALA. “The purpose of this scholarship is to provide financial assistance and support to fulltime undergraduate students who identify within the LGBTQ community,” she said. “This scholarship is funded by the monetary contributions from GALA members and friends.”

Haney said the scholarship assists recipients financially, which then allows them to positively impact their campus communities.

“The intention is that this scholarship will assist the recipients with reducing the

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financial costs incurred while pursuing their education as well as allow them to make a positive impact at Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College and/or the South Bend community, as LGBT students often face barriers in their education that other students may not,” she said.

Haney said organizations such as PRISM and SAGA are proof of the great strides Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s have made towards accepting LGBT students —however, there is a still a long way to go.

“A feeling of belonging and acceptance is always a challenge LGBT students face across the campuses,” she said.

Haney said she is working on a community service project to teach life skills to LGBT youth see GALA PAGE 4

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While many students are wrapping up final papers and putting finishing touches on their projects, students in Saint Mary’s Jane Austen Dance class are preparing for their Grand Ball.

The one-credit class is taught by professors Chris Cobb and Rosalind Clark. It provides an introduction to traditional English country dance popular in the time period Jane Austen lived in and wrote about. It features dances in popular books like “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma.” The class concludes with a Grand Ball in which the students perform the dances for the South Bend community.

Senior Leal Alday, who is currently taking the class for the third time, is excited to participate in her third Grand Ball.

“They have a live band, so it’s really neat,” Alday said. “It’s

active enough that you break a sweat, but you’re not dying at the end. It’s exciting to do it all with the people.”

According to Alday and MacKenzie Rizzo, another senior in the class, a big reason why the class is so enjoyable is because of the professors.

“Professor Clark is very enthusiastic and into it,” Alday said. “The dress she wears to the ball was made by her mother. She’s always excited, and her excitement is contagious. Professor Bonnell, another English professor, wears a full period dress complete with a cravat and everything.“ Rizzo said the class offers a chance for students to relax and enjoy time with their classmates in a more casual environment than most classes.

“It feels like a place for the whole English department to take a break for an hour on a Friday, make jokes and dance together,” said Rizzo.

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the public to come watch.

According to Alday, the audience sits in an upper balcony of the church normally reserved for the choir.

“It’s held every semester, and there are community people that come every year to see,” Alday said. “It’s fun to dance in front of an audience.”

Though period dress is not required for the audience or dancers, it is greatly encouraged. Students often use a local costume store to find costumes to wear.

“Professor Clark has a friend with the local Casaday Costume Company, so a lot of people rent from there,” Alday said.

“The professors want people to dress up more than they care about period dress. They want to see people dress nice and have fun,” Rizzo said.

The class learns about 10 dances and the professors cycle through a different set of dances each semester, so the

class can be retaken for credit. Alday, who has taken the class three times, feels she has learned something new each semester.

“They recycle some of the dances, but there’s still a lot that are new to me,” she said.

Rizzo said though the class takes place on Friday afternoon, she always looks forward to attending it.

“Normally I’m so exhausted that I want to take a nap and not go to class, but the second I step into class and the music starts, I start laughing, smiling and having fun with all my friends,” she said. “I leave the class feeling 20 times better than I did coming in, and it’s refreshing.”

The Grand Ball is Thursday, at St. Paul’s Memorial United Methodist Church in South Bend, and it is open for students and the public to attend.

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Annual Shakespeare festival set for summer

By ANDREW CAMERON News Writer

For its 18th consecutive year, the Shakespeare at Notre Dame initiative will present the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival this summer, drawing upon student and professional talent to bring new life to the Bard’s works.

A production of “Twelfth Night,” performed entirely by undergraduate and graduate student apprentices from colleges across the country will tour the Michiana area. Additionally, “Much Ado About Nothing” will be performed on campus by a cast of both student apprentices and professional actors. The festival also features a touring theater company, Actors from the London Stage, one of two major programs managed by Shakespeare at Notre Dame.

The initiative’s mission, according to its website, is “to establish Notre Dame nationally

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Ricketts, who distributed some of the flags, said allies, as well as LGBT students and faculty, took flags to fly in support of a friend, roommate or family member back home.

Given the number of flags currently displayed on campus, as well as the existence of student organizations such as We Stand For and PRISM, it is tempting to assume that Notre Dame is and has always been extremely accepting, when in fact, PRISM was only formed four years ago, Ricketts said.

“This perception of ND as LGBT friendly has arisen in some cases so we forget that there are still large pockets of people on campus who don’t see things that way,” Ricketts said. “We’ve come a long way, certainly, but we’re still not by any means a campus that’s uniformly welcoming and inclusive towards LGBT students.”

This was made clear by some negative responses both students and faculty received for flying pride flags.

Junior Nicholas Furnari helped distribute flags out of

and internationally as a center for the study of Shakespeare in performance.”

Grant Mudge, former founding artistic director for the Richmond Shakespeare Festival, has served as the artistic director for the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival for the past five years.

Although this will be the 18th year of the festival, Shakespeare has been performed at Notre Dame nearly since its founding, Mudge said.

“Shakespeare goes back to the absolute earliest years of the University,” he said. “Just a few years ago, in 2014, we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first ever Shakespeare performance on campus — the first full production. They did scenes of ‘Henry IV’ as early as 1847.”

Mudge said the festival has four programs — a professional company, a touring company and both an adult and youth performance of “ShakeScenes,”

in which members of the community rehearse and perform 10-minute scenes from Shakespeare, assisted by professional direction, staging and lighting.

The cast of “Twelfth Night” will be entirely comprised of graduate and undergraduate students, primarily from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, but also from other colleges across the country, Mudge said. They will rehearse for three weeks before touring to deliver 10 to 11 shows.

“In the morning the apprentices have voice text and movement classes, in the afternoon they have shop assignments — whether that be scene, costume, marketing, lighting or sound, depending on the needs of the week,” Mudge said. “And then in the evenings, they rehearse outdoors. They rehearse their show for three weeks, and then run it on the road.”

This year’s professional

performance of “Much Ado about Nothing,” Mudge said, will take a very different direction from last year’s performance of “The Tempest.”

“Last summer we had the Cirque [du Soleil]-inspired [performance] with aerial acrobatics and one of the world’s greatest jugglers playing Trinculo,” he said. “It sold out the entire run, so this year, one of the big challenges was how we were going to top that. The answer of course, is that you don’t try to top it — you try to do something in a different vein. ‘Much Ado’ will be set in the Second World War era, and we’ll have a live, big band on stage … we began to realize that that generation is leaving us, and we won’t have many more chances to do a sort of love letter like this.

“Much Ado seems to speak to a whole lot in our experience, but certainly the experience of coming back from armed conflict, the experience of being ‘right’ in

what you know, but then having reason to reevaluate that, and it’s simultaneously a great love story between two of the greatest wordsmith characters of all time, Beatrice and Benedick.”

Mudge said it remains important to perform Shakespeare’s plays because of the insights about the human experience in Shakespeare’s writing. “[Shakespeare’s] gift is in finding just that right thread that explores what it means to be a human being on this planet,” he said. “Students come alive when they realize that there’s way more than meets the eye with these plays — way more in the innuendo, way more in the discoveries of insights about human interaction and, as they discover that, the lights really come on and that’s why we keep doing Shakespeare.”

the College Democrats office last week. Since then, five students who were told by either their rectors or hall staff to remove the flags from their windows have contacted Furnari to seek advice.

“I talked to five different students that represent three different dorms all [on] North Quad, that just happens to be where they live,” Furnari said.

“Two were told by their hall staff, by their RAs, to take them down ... and the rest were told by their rectors to take them out of the window.

“I don’t think it was anyone in student affairs who told them to do that. I think it was just their own personal political ideology which is upsetting because when you’re working a job with residential life, as a person with some authority, you have a responsibility to try to separate your personal beliefs from the work that you’re doing with students. Student affairs and the administrative office have always been supportive to the extent that they can be.”

Furnari told the students to do nothing, and to his knowledge, none of the flags have been removed.

“Very few places and

buildings and dorms have actually taken them down, but it’s a little disappointing [that] in the face of what has been mostly viewed as good student organization that there’s been some animosity,” he said. “I feel like that’s not the appropriate response. When you see students rallying around a cause, you should let them do that because that’s their right as individual students.”

Additionally, two graduate physics students, Devin Whitten and Kaitlin Rasmussen, were recently contacted by the secretary of Nieuland Hall of Science and told to remove the pride flag that was hanging from the window of their third floor office.

“We put this flag up for Ally week and left it up during the weekend,” Rasmussen said.

“I think we both got an email from someone in the main office that said ‘we got a complaint about this flag, you need to take it down.’”

The email told them that it was urgent they take the flag down, as it violated University policy. This seemed strange to the graduate students who had seen flags all over campus, Rasmussen and Whitten said.

“The department secretary had been told that someone who was not associated with our department, but apparently works on campus, was walking outside, saw the flag and was apparently offended enough that they felt like they

needed to go inside and inform the office that it was against University policy to have a flag up in general,” Whitten said.

“Supposedly it wasn’t a reaction to the fact that it was an LGBT flag, just flags in general, although I’m not sold on that.”

About a week after they had taken their flag down, Whitten and Rasmussen said that they noticed flags appearing in the windows of tenured faculty of Nieuland for the flag drop.

Jessica Baron, the outreach and communications coordinator for the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, whose office is located in Geddes Hall, decided to participate in the flag drop as an ally to show support for a student. A few days after hanging the flag, Baron was contacted with a complaint.

“I was informed that a faculty member from theology who works on the fourth floor was personally offended by it because he thought it presumed to speak on behalf of the whole building. That didn’t seem like a compelling reason to take it down, considering our spirit of inclusion statement,” Baron said.

Baron contacted human resources to ask if she should take it down, and they told her she did not have to. Despite this, the faculty member is still calling for the flag’s removal, Baron said.

“I appreciate that I work for a private, Catholic institution

and that I won’t be in agreement on social issues 100 percent of the time, but it seems to me that we’ve made great strides to make our LGBTQ community feel safe and accepted,” Barons said.“The flag hanging from my office window has nothing to do with anyone else on our floor or with Geddes in general. It’s merely a signal that that person whose window this is supports our LGBTQ students along with the rest of the student body.

“That this is a problem is disturbing to me — a symbol of love and acceptance is offensive and misleading?”

Despite these negative responses, Ricketts, Furnari and the rest of the organizers of the flag drop have said due to the large number of pride flags around campus, it was a positive experience that they hope will become an annual tradition.

“I was happy in particular with the support we received from faculty and grad students,” Furnari said. “Beyond that, I think we have every dorm on campus with at least one flag … to be able to do that has been awesome. I think the vibe on campus is changing a little bit, but there’s still some tension. Small improvements add up to big improvements. I have definitely seen a change since I’ve been a student here.

Every year seems to get better.”

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member at Notre Dame. When he arrived in the fall of 1997, McKenna said, he discovered the University did not have a dance department, so he worked on starting a tap class. After a year of preparation, McKenna taught his first tap class in the fall of 1998.

Senior Allison Griffith, a current student in McKenna’s Irish American tap class, said she and her friends planned to take the class together. With majors in English and American studies, Griffith said she thought there was no better time than her senior year to try something new.

“It is a blast,” she said. “At least for my friends and I, it’s what we look forward to for most of the week.”

Initially unsure of what to expect when enrolling in the class, Griffith said she now knows how much time and practice goes into a tap dancing routine.

“My expectation before was that it would be a class that people kind of trickled in and out of, and maybe they were just taking it for fun,” she said. “What I’m realizing is that tap is definitely a really difficult skill, and it takes a lot of time and practice to get down.”

Previous students have written to McKenna saying they performed their tap dancing routine at their wedding reception with friends who were also in the class, he said. He said he believes the class remains meaningful for the students that take it.

“I think Notre Dame students are usually very self-critical,” McKenna said. “There are very few classes where students are able to be nonjudgemental of themselves, and to relax and be who they are without the kind of strain and struggles that all of us go through when you care about doing well.”

The class has proven a less-traditional, yet still learning-focused environment, Griffith said. McKenna tells his students from the start that they will make mistakes, she said, but that it is okay because they are learning a completely new skill.

“A lot of times at Notre Dame, we’re so fixated on making sure we do everything exactly right,” Griffith said. “A lot of us are afraid to make mistakes, and a lot of us are used to not failing — especially in a class setting. It’s very rare to have something to work towards that’s not a paper or an exam. We’re working towards a performance, and that’s really fun.”

Griffith said everyone should consider taking the class, regardless of their dancing background.

“I had not danced since like first grade,” she said. “Absolutely still take it. Probably a majority of the people in the class had never danced before, or did when they were really little.”

A transformation occurs once students put on their tap shoes for the first time, McKenna said, and students should not be afraid to sign up for the class.

“It is such a joyful exercise,” he said. “All your troubles blow out Washington Hall windows. It’s done in a very easy, relaxed manner. I have not had one single

person — of all the people that have taken this class — that couldn’t do just fine.”

The class will present its end-ofthe-year recital Tuesday around 8 p.m. in South Dining Hall, McKenna said. It is free to students, and the class performs about six numbers.

“It’s very raucous and joyful and really fun,” McKenna said. “These are students that never really saw a pair of tap shoes. I think they’ve all surprised themselves about how much they really learned.”

McKenna said he thinks the class is popular among seniors because they take it for no other reason than their personal satisfaction and joy in tap dancing as an activity.

“It really becomes this really absolutely joyful, no-holds-barred experience for the kids, and they let themselves go in there,” he said. “It is one of their truly joyful, restful, self-assuring spaces at the University.”

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in the South Bend area.

“My community service project is to create a workshop teaching life skills for the LGBT Center,” she said.

“Some of the curriculum I would like to include would be budgeting, getting insurance, and finding resources/ organizations in the South Bend area.”

Haney said her ambition comes from fellow LGBT youth who have become homeless as a result of coming out to their families.

Haney became self-supportive at age 19 after coming out to her family, and she said her personal involvement is the driving force behind her mission to provide resources to local LGBT youth.

“I personally wanted to provide resources and assistance to LGBT youth

who have found themselves homeless as a result of their sexual orientation,” she said.

“Coming out to family does not always go well and many LGBT youth face rejection. I, myself, had to become selfsupportive at the age of 19 as a result of coming out to family. I want don’t want other LGBT youth to feel the fear and isolation that I felt.”

Haney said her future plans include graduating early and pursuing a Ph.D. at Northwestern University.

“As for future plans, I will be graduating a semester early, so the fall of 2017,” she said. “My goal is to get into the JD-Ph.D. program at Northwestern and study forensic psychology.”

Haney said she would also like to encourage more clubs to host all-age LGBT events, as at these events, Haney was able to meet new people and feel more accepted in the community.

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“I am not a member of SAGA at Saint Mary’s, but I know they have worked really hard to put on events and panels to help spread acceptance,” she said. “I think it would be beneficial to spread the LGBT events that go on in South Bend. South Bend is a unique place, as there are fun social events people can go to put on by the LGBT community. There are GGB events, Gorilla Gay Bar, once a month for those who are 21 and older. There are drag shows every Saturday. SAGA can’t advertise events due to campus rules, but maybe Saint Mary’s could work with South Bend organizations to start having more all-ages events.

“Once I started going to those events, I found wonderful people that made me feel personally accepted.”

Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu

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By ADRIAN MARK LORE Associate Scene Editor

If Greek tragedies are the fossils of human experience, documenting our emotional range with melodramatic flourish, then Colin Stetson’s oeuvre is an osteological study of humankind’s potential, from our glorious peaks to our basest vices. Perhaps classical antiquity is populated by larger-than-life characters casting the long shadow of Platonic ideals — of suffering, as it happens. Yet we nonetheless — or perhaps all the more — see ourselves reflected in the triumphs and disgraces of characters like Antigone, Oedipus or Clytemnestra. How else could we explain their contemporary resonance?

Stetson’s breakthrough album trilogy, “New History Warfare,” approaches similar themes with an equally grandiose brush. “Judges,” the trilogy’s second and strongest entry, sonically portrayed an antihero’s moral angst, tackling the opacity of ethics at the fork of heroism and villainy. On lush, vaguely chthonic sound sculptures with titles like “The righteous wrath of an honorable man” and “From no part of me could I summon a voice,” Stetson psychologically disembowels the superego in our most familiar archetypes.

The experience is both harrowing and liberating.

Insofar as classical antiquity survives into the present day, these narratives are the vertebrae to the spine of Western civilization, of which our lived experience is the flesh and blood. As a result, the vaguely neoclassical sensibility of Stetson’s avant-garde jazz does not feel intellectually removed, but rather remains both poignant and imminent.

By SUSAN KRATZER Scene Writer

In Netflix’s new series, “Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On” — produced by Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus, and most notably Rashida Jones from “Parks and Recreation” — we get an inside look at the women who dare to work in the porn industry. The series follows up the trio’s 2015 documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” which examined women in the amateur porn industry. Whether we would like to admit it or not, porn plays an influential role in our lives whether you actively consume it or not. In past decades, teenage boys and middle-aged men might have hidden Playboy magazines under their beds and in their closets, but today porn is just a click away. It influences not only the way we have sex, but also the way we view the opposite sex.

The first episode of “Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On” tackles some of these issues. The episode follows three women: Suze Randall — Playboy’s first female staff photographer (now retired); her daughter Holly Randall — also an erotic photographer as well as producer and director; and Erika Lust — a Swedish erotic filmmaker.

All of these women operate behind the camera of erotic photoshoots and porn films and take a feminist approach

The virtuoso saxophonist maintains this familiar aesthetic on his latest record, “All This I Do For Glory” — perhaps his strongest release yet. The title does not confess but rather demonstrates Stetson’s favorite themes.

According to his webpage, the record is “a reasoning and exploration of the machinations of ambition and legacy.” In other words, through the provocative title, Stetson merely whispers what already lies quietly in the heart.

Methodologically, nothing has changed since “New History Warfare.” As with previous records, each track was recorded in one live take without the use of overdubs or loops. Stetson’s ability to render the impression of a full ensemble using only the saxophone and a hive of strategically-placed microphones is more impressive than ever.

Sure, we heard the semblance of thumping drums, warbling synths and spectral voices seeping in and out of “Judges.” But on the self-titled opening track to “All This I Do For Glory” — and throughout the record — every sound is impossibly crisp: three distinct types of percussion, an angular bass refrain and a memorable “vocal” lead interact as though actually separate. The techno-slanted “Between Water and Wind,” moreover, is perhaps Stetson’s single most forward-looking track of all time. By drawing from the avant-garde playbook of electronic musicians like Aphex Twin and Autechre, he crafts the track’s mind-boggling, jaw-dropping churn.

Perhaps it would be easier for Stetson to hire an ensemble rather than fill the role of every cook in the kitchen. But, rather than a limitation, his solitary approach is a fruitful self-imposed constraint. On “All

This I Do For Glory,” as on every other Stetson record, the claustrophobic quality of a single sax’s bursts echoing off its own body complements the record’s introspective subject matter. Each separate expression of the wind instrument sounds like an inner voice in profound conversation with itself.

Besides, much of Stetson’s unique appeal comes from that inimitable sound of a sax trying to play the guitar (and the violin and the piano and the drum kit). Plainly put, there Stetson’s records have no musical comparison, although in terms of sheer ambition he might stand eye-to-eye with Ornette Coleman.

To be sure, Stetson’s records are more cyclically meditative than improvisational, but — with contemporaries like Matana Roberts — the saxophonist is nonetheless pushing jazz in new directions, questioning not form but function: what new can a saxophone do?

He may have a long way to go, but on “All This I Do For Glory” Colin Stetson begins to answer that question.

to their project.

In the U.S., Holly Randall deals with the pressure to create mainstream porn that is more aggressive and more focused on the male gaze. While she refuses to make productions degrading to women, it becomes increasingly clear throughout the episode that her type of productions — high quality and female oriented — may not have place in an industry where fast production and cost are everything.

By contrast, Erika Lust’s productions seem to be doing well. Similar to Holly Randall, Lust is interested in creating productions that show positive experiences for women instead of the violent images visible in many mainstream porn productions. Instead, she wants to create a more emotional experience.

This first episode gives us an interesting and unique look at the porn industry. While it discusses the many gender issues within the industry, the women seem to have a genuine love for their profession. By the end of the episode, porn seems less like a taboo and more like a part of modern society that could perhaps be improved through thoughtful discussion. Unfortunately, the thought-provoking tone of the first episode is not carried over to the second.

The second episode follows the dating life of former “Big Brother” houseguest James Rhine. Rhine uses apps like Tinder and Bumble to date a bevy of women easily.

The entire episode is devoted to discussing the pitfalls of modern dating — specifically modern dating apps — but also seems laser focused on Rhine and the women he dates and then unceremoniously dumps. Rhine starts off as a serial womanizer, and by the end of the episode seems to have an epiphany after one scorned woman yells at him (as if she is the first). Afterward, he seems to realize how badly he has treated all the women in his past. His moment of clarity of feels hollow and unbelievable. Furthermore, I left the episode still not sure why I should care so much about his perspective on relationships or dating apps. He’s just another guy that ghosts women on Tinder.

While the first episode of “Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On” shows new perspectives and ideas on a subject not many people may have heard of, the second follows an unoriginal man through an unoriginal storyline.

Hopefully the rest of the series can retake its intriguing tone..

Contact Adrian Mark Lore at lore.1@nd.edu

“All This I Do For Glory” Colin Stetson Label: 52Hz If you like: Ornette Coleman, Matana Roberts Tracks: “All This I Do For Glory,” “Between Water and Wind”

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Finals week dawdling Nicole Caratas Senior News Writer

With finals quickly approaching, you can be sure to find me, in bed, for 14 hours a day, with a stack of reading that I didn’t keep up with, trying really hard to pretend like I don’t pay thousands of dollars a semester just to procrastinate. With a research project and paper due this upcoming week and finals on the horizon, I will further procrastinate by telling you lovely readers nine things I would rather do than study for finals.

1. Write listicles I know listicles are the way to go nowadays with online content, and I know my last inside column was a listicle about Twilight, but I really hate them. Then again, it’s better than trying to read all of “Paradise Lost” in one night.

2. Stare at the spider on my ceiling I like to call him my bug roommate.

I named him Alexander (yes, after Hamilton), and I really love him. If he came any closer, I would scream bloody murder and probably start crying, which is why I’m spending my valuable free time keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t crawl into my bed. He’s a good roommate, but I don’t think he’s that good at cuddling.

3. Go to the dining hall before the hash browns are out My sleep schedule is so messed up that I typically wake up around or before 8 a.m. every day. I tell myself I’m going to start studying, but instead, I end up at the dining hall every morning — and I almost never eat breakfast. The hash browns don’t even come out until 10:30 a.m., so I always just sit there, sad and alone, with nothing but a bagel for comfort.

4. Read horoscopes only to find out my boyfriend and I are not compatible.

I’m a Sagittarius. He’s a Scorpio. My moon sign is a Leo. His moon sign is a Capricorn. Any way you look at it, there’s no hope.

5. Drink a Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino “Mango syrup, sour blue powder.” Sour blue powder? Sounds healthy.

6. Go on a run The best thing that ever happened to me was that one time the Holy Half Marathon got canceled, and I got to go to Rise’n Roll instead of having to run 13.1 miles. I can’t even say running and I have a love/hate relationship. It’s all hate. But I’d sooner fight through allergies, humidity and the goose poop near the Grotto than sit in the library.

7. Listen to “Bad and Boujee.” On repeat.

Maybe now I can actually learn the words instead of singing all the memes?

8. Read the sports section of The Observer Go news, beat sports #rushdeltanews.

9. Read The Irish Rover Contact Nicole Caratas at ncaratas01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Why we fast: reflections from Immokalee

Ian

Beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, four other Notre Dame students and I started our food fast, for 24-hour or 48-hour periods. This idea was based on a similar fast by Ohio State students who are demanding that the Wendy’s on their campus be removed due to the corporation’s refusal to join the Fair Food Program, which would ensure just wages and the protection of human rights for migrant agricultural workers in the field.

The five of us participated w ith seven other students in the Migrant Experiences social concerns seminar, a course which taught us about the injustices that migrant workers face in and out of the fields, including sexual harassment, wage theft and exploitative housing conditions. Our class then spent spring break in Immokalee, Florida, a communit y of migrant agricultural workers. For three days, our class awoke at 5 a.m. to drive to a small store called La Fiesta to offer donuts, coffee and conversation to migrant laborers before they departed for the fields.

Tommy I heard stories of men and women f leeing their countr y due to persecution or war. I heard of husbands, fathers and sons, leav ing their family and home to come make money to send back to support their loved ones. I heard of men and women, years older than my parents, carr y ing about t wo tons of tomatoes each day — 32 pounds at a time — back and forth from the rows to the truck.

I heard the fear. A grow ing fear, lately. A fear of simply going out into tow n to the grocer y store, to work or to church at the risk of deportation.

It leaves me sick. It leaves me frustrated. But I haven’t lost hope. Because I have seen the hope and heard the dreams of so many of the hardworking farmworkers in Immokalee. I admire their sense of pride and accomplishment in their work and their courage and self lessness to prov ide for their family. They inspire me.

Elizabeth The word Ubuntu, “My humanit y is tied to yours,” is representative of our experience, because by allow ing us to live in solidarit y w ith the people of Immokalee for a week, we came to realize their humanit y and the importance of protecting their rights.

Yet it is all too easy to discuss grand ideas about change, only to return and quick ly become w rapped up in the daily craziness of life. The most effective way that I have shared my perspective is through stories. W hether it is sharing a stor y about the Wendy’s protest to my American Politics class or telling my close friends about the aspiring engineer from Haiti, it is these stories that rattle our core and call us back to our ver y understanding of human dignit y and human life. We are called,

specifically as Catholics, to recognize the dignit y of the human person, to recognize their rights and responsibilities, to offer a preferential option for the poor and to ensure the dignit y of work.

Karla As I w rite this, it is April 28, International Workers’ Memorial Day. It is a day to remember and honor those who have been killed, disabled or injured by their work. As I ref lect on my 24hour fast of solidarit y, it is hard to not think of the countless farmworkers who risk their lives ever y day to make sure that our grocer y shelves are stocked. As the daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin and friend of farmworkers, I know too well just how hard life as a farmworker can be.

During my 24-hour fast, whenever my stomach would start to grumble and I’d get hungr y, I’d think about the people who work in the fields to put food on others’ tables but don’t have enough money to put food on their ow n. I at least had the lu xur y of know ing that in a few hours, I’d be able to eat again. I had the lu xur y of tr y ing to calm my stomach w ith clean and safe drinking water during the fast. Some of the people I was fasting in solidarit y for don’t have that lu xur y.

So today, I ask you, my fellow Irish, my fellow consumers, to learn more about where your food is coming from. That you aren’t satisfied w ith the conditions that farmworkers must endure. Lastly, do not remain silent about the injustices that are going on; speak up and spread the word and teach others as well.

Juliana We the students at Notre Dame have pledged to aid in this fight for Fair Food, a campaign started by the CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) to hold more and larger entities responsible for ensuring protection of laborers’ rights and we ask that you pledge to do so w ith us. I w ill be going hungr y for t wo days because I am Hungr y for Food Justice, and ask for your support in the form of a simple pledge to not support Wendy’s until they sign on to the Fair Food Program and accept a share of the responsibilit y we all have in ensuring social justice for all.

In Notre Dame, Ian Salzman freshman Tommy Clarke junior Elizabeth Boyle freshman Karla Burgos-Morón sophomore Juliana Tiscareno sophomore May 1

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Chemicals are everywhere Stephen Raab Let’s Talk Smart

Friedrich Nietzsche once observed “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.” Even when your intentions are noble, making your case with flawed reasoning serves only to dissuade those who might otherwise be able to get on board. Such was the case a few days ago, when I was recommended an app called “Think Dirty,” a project of the Environmental Working Group. The app enables users to scan household cleaning products and receive a readout of potentially harmful ingredients the product contains, ranked on a scale of one to 10 with 10 being the worst.

Sounds great—until you actually use it. I experimentally scanned a bottle of sunscreen and was immediately greeted with screaming red “9/10” warnings.

The app had detected ethylparaben, a preservative and penetration enhancer, and a fragrance of unknown composition. It flagged ethylparaben in particular as an endocrine disruptor and allergen. As a chemical engineer, this piqued my interest, and I decided to do a little digging. A quick Google search brought me to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website. Their perspective was succinct: “At this time, we do not have information showing that parabens as they are used in cosmetics have an effect on human health.”

Honestly, I was far from surprised. I’d been skeptical of the Environmental Working Group ever since I noticed their literature’s emphasis on the dog whistles

of “toxins” and “synthetics.” My suspicions were confirmed when I glanced at EWG’s recommended alternatives, which were all tagged with meaningless buzzwords like “all-natural” and “organic.” Tragic though it is, the Think Dirty app is nothing more than a distillation of the worst elements of chemophobia.

Chemophobia has been defined by the American Chemical Society as “an irrational fear of compounds perceived as ‘synthetic.’” It’s the logical extension of the appeal to nature, in which things that are “natural” are good and things that are “unnatural” are bad. While this idea is wrong, it’s also easy to understand and remember. As a result, gullible people the world over have been indoctrinated into various stages of chemophobia, and from the fertile soil of their ignorance has sprung a bumper crop of charlatans and conmen. They come in a spectrum from the lovable panacea-pusher Dr. Oz to the hardcore vaccine deniers like Jenny McCarthy, but what the all have in common is an anti-scientific worldview and a desire to market the same to the credulous.

I’m sure you’ve seen their product labels—“contains no chemicals! Non-GMO, gluten-free, organic salt!”

Several false assumptions form the bedrock of the anti-chemical agenda. Many naturally-occurring products (ricin, arsenic, mercury) are deadlier than anything the cleverest scientist could devise. While this does not assure the safety of a particular synthetic compound — look at trans fats — its artificial nature should not count against it. Further, the relative harmful qualities of a chemical are often far less important than the amounts absorbed into the body.

Drink enough water, and hyponatremia will kill you.

Meanwhile, your average grocery store pear may contain formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, but the concentration is so low that it’s not a health concern. It’s the dose that makes the poison.

I have no reason to doubt that the Environmental Working Group’s intentions are (pardon the pun) pure, and to their credit they do a good job of advocating for more abstract environmental causes like climate change. But it’s hugely irresponsible of them to simply point at a product, shout “Chemicals!” and then duck out of the way of the stampede. The socioeconomic consequences of these false beliefs are staggering. Consider the one-third loss in efficiency of organic farming; how many families go hungry when a farmland’s potential is wasted on “chemical-free” lettuce? In this regard, the EWG and the rubes who have helped to propagate this hysteria should be ashamed of themselves.

So what steps can be taken to minimize the impact of this anti-chemical propaganda? Stick to authoritative sources on chemical safety like the FDA or CDC, not spin-doctor blogs or apps. When possible, get your facts straight from the peer-reviewed literature available on PubMed or any other free aggregator of scientific research. And never, ever assume the good faith of someone who is trying to sell you something.

Stephen Raab, an MSM Candidate at the Mendoza College of Business, graduated Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering in 2016. He enjoys matching wits with all comers at sraab@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

The new McCarthyism Devon Chenelle The Gadfly

By the winter of 1954, Joseph McCarthy had finally run out his string in Washington. The Wisconsin senator was catapulted to the national stage by a 1950 speech in which, channeling Robespierre, McCarthy displayed a paper purportedly containing a list of Communists at the State Department. McCarthy was the right, or rather the wrong, man for the time, as he exploited the paranoid American public’s resurgent fear of communism after World War II. Between the activities of McCarthy and other inquisitors, such as the appropriately-Orwellian House Un-American Activities Committee responsible for the Hollywood Blacklist, America was overtaken with a thoroughly foreign phenomenon — an inquisition. Yet eventually McCarthyism consumed itself.

After his importune inquiry into US Army officers’ alleged communist sympathies, McCarthy’s wild zealotry began to receive serious negative media attention, and in December 1954, McCarthy was condemned by the Senate. His political reputation never recovered.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said of his methods, which only slipped into a transitory abeyance.

McCarthyist fear-mongering and governance by accusation has made a resurgence in recent years. Just as the saga of Edward Snowden foreshadowed the rise of Trump by revealing the disconnect between the American state and common citizens, so too did it reveal how our government would attack someone beyond their physical remit, namely by the profusion, aided by useful idiots in the media, of unending calumnies, accusing Snowden of espionage for a foreign power and inventing only recently disproven tales about a putative time “gap” in Snowden’s

Hong Kong sojourn, and impugning his skill and character. The strategy worked, as it prevented any real attention to the revelations of the outrageous powers accrued by our own Ministries of Peace and Love.

Perhaps emboldened by the success of the Snowden smear campaign, many in our government seem to have realized crying “the Russians did it!” is a powerful tool, at least in the short-term, to distract from misdeeds and subvert foes. Upon the repeated release of the Democratic Party’s internal communications, all mouthpieces were set towards blaming Russia and attempting to conjure an image of Putin and his stooge Trump cackling malevolently from a Kremlin tower. The Russian hacking storyline became Gospel truth on the news — entirely muscling out coverage of the mysterious killing of a 27 year-old Democratic National Committee employee — despite the absence of any proof positive of Russian hacking, a claim further undermined by recent revelations of the CIA’s ability to disguise the origin of cyber attacks. After the attempt to pin the DNC email leak on Russia proved insufficient to guarantee Clinton’s election and when the attempts to link Trump to the attacks never stuck, the unthinkable happened.

After Trump’s election, the new McCarthyism took on a new tenor and fury. In the deep state’s desperate efforts to link Trump with Russia, prior to Trump’s accession to office, his staff and offices were under surveillance and the Obama administration’s final days featured the forced profusion of NSA-obtained, Trumprelated data throughout the alphabet soup agencies.

Allegations continue to swirl, yet as the breathtaking investigation and surveillance Trump was subjected to reveal none of the evidence of treason they were meant to produce, the more important questions relate to the investigation itself. By what means, and by whose

hands, were the Flynn conversations with the Russian Ambassador feloniously leaked? Additionally, who initiated the first requests to surveil Trump’s staff and offices, and to what purpose? And perhaps most importantly, what level of contact with Russia is allowed? Do I need to discreetly burn my copies of “Anna Karenina” and “The Brothers Karamazov?”

The long-term effects of political fear-mongering and tactical accusations are quite insidious. Living in a permanent witch hunt reduces our society to one of suspicion and fear, while the repetition of the same charges of foreign collaboration and treason eventually numbs the people’s ears to any such accusation. The dawn of the New McCarthyism forces Americans to a crossroads. The path we currently find ourselves on is that of the police state, where all live under constant surveillance both from state and neighbor, all watching all. It is a state where power belongs to the spy, the propagandist and their secret courts. It is a state where guilt is made by association and justice made by accusation.

It is a state where all live with a constant gnawing dread of finding oneself on the wrong side of the mob justice that is public opinion and falling victim to the latest sensational accusation. The other path represents a rejection of our animal impulses towards fear, suspicion and obedience, and instead embraces the right to freedom of speech and thought, and liberation from fear, as Americans remember we are a free and uncowed people who live under the one shared absolute rule of law.

Devon Chenelle is a junior in Keough Hall. He is a history major with an Italian minor. He can be reached at dchenell@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Crossword | Will Shortz

Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Let your imagination lead you into unfamiliar territory this year.

Embrace life and make a point to focus on your dreams, hopes and wishes. The future looks bright. A little effort will take you a long way. Don’t feel the need to share your plans with anyone before you are ready. Once you feel comfortable and confident, your presentation will be well received. Your numbers are 1, 5, 13, 24, 32, 39, 42.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Curb any emotional feelings until you have time to consider all the ins and outs of a situation. The less impulsive you are, the better. Stay focused on your responsibilities and refuse to let excessive spending take over.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are in the zone and ready to take on the world.

Embrace life and make adjustments to your lifestyle that will accommodate your plans. The future begins now, so stop procrastinating and start turning your dream into a reality.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before you take charge, make sure your motives are honorable. Charm alone will not get you what you want, at least not this time.

An intelligent backup or two to your plan will help you seal any deal you want to negotiate, financial or otherwise. Don’t let your emotions interfere, but don’t give up easily.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Calm down and make the most of your day. Getting upset over something you can’t change is fruitless. Put your energy into work, productivity and creative solutions. Simple acts of kindness will encourage more of the same.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you must make changes, do so for the right reasons.

Common sense, not emotional madness, should be behind every move you consider.

Overreacting and making assumptions will put you in a predicament that could be difficult to back out of.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Fast talk will get you into trouble. Don’t be too willing to say “yes” to a plea for help until you find out exactly what’s expected of you and why. Being put in a compromising position will detract from your personal progress.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll be prone to take on too much if you don’t take the time to consider what’s actually in your best interests. Make careful decisions and don’t be impulsive. A physical challenge will help clear your mind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Investigate your options and you’ll discover a way to turn something that interests you into a viable solution to any foreseeable problem that you might encounter along the way. You’ll attract unusual input from someone you least expect.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotions and finances won’t be a good mix. You won’t be thinking clearly when dealing with children, money or personal contracts. If you want change, consider altering your appearance or your lifestyle.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t venture too far from home. You’ll get more done if you take care of domestic responsibilities. Venturing out and interacting with others will result in unnecessary financial and emotional costs. Avoid making impulsive decisions that can cause problems with institutions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Get rid of emotional debt. Let go of whatever is stifling your desire to explore new beginnings. Rely on your intelligence to help you make choices that will improve your personal life. Reliability and moderation will keep you moving forward.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Trust your intuition and question what others tell you. Avoid anyone showing signs of inconsistency or looking for someone to take over his or her responsibilities. Offer help to those in need, not those trying to use you.

Birthday Baby: You are original, sensitive and loving. You are outgoing and assertive. Don’t let anyone else push you around and you will find the happiness you seek.

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NBA | CAVALIERS 116, Raptors 105

LaVar Ball might be right Daniel O’Boyle Sports Writer

“Name one genius that ain’t crazy.”

Feedback, the fifth track on Kanye West’s 2016 album “The Life of Pablo” is admittedly not one of Kanye’s best tracks, found in an album that — despite so many moments of brilliance — doesn’t get the genius/crazy balance quite as right as the Chicago rapper’s other works. But that one line deserved instant iconic status, capturing both Kanye’s career and a universal truth in just six words.

Everyone knows about Kanye’s reputation for arrogance. He thinks he’s the greatest ever and isn’t afraid to let people know it. Before “The Life of Pablo” dropped, he tweeted, “I am the Jordan and Steph Curry of music, meaning I’m the best of 2 generations.”

It’s bold to liken yourself to both Jordan and Curry.

It would be even bolder to declare yourself better than those two. Comparing basketball ability straight-up, instead of apples-to-oranges comparisons, it would maybe be too bold even for Kanye.

Enter LaVar Ball.

As has been hard to ignore, Ball said his son Lonzo — set to be a top pick in this year’s NBA Draft — was already better than Curry last season. Then, drawing the attention to himself, claimed that he would beat Jordan in a one-on-one game. Unlike Mr. West’s assessments of his own greatness, both of Ball’s statements are completely incorrect. Two months ago, Ben Padanilam said the Ball patriarch should keep his mouth shut and let Lonzo play. But there’s a chance that LaVar may just have that f lair of genius in him.

In the past week, word spread that LaVar made a decision that could cost his son greatly, or benefit him and change basketball as a business massively. Although Lonzo is a likely top-two overall pick in the NBA Draft and an All-American, Nike, Adidas and Under Armour all refused shoe deals with

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the former UCL A guard.

W hy? Because LaVar didn’t want an endorsement deal.

He wanted licensing of his Big Baller Brand.

Getting rejections from the three biggest names in basketball footwear sounds like a disaster, but if LaVar is committed to the strateg y, he’s taking a chance that may just work out in the end.

Basketball endorsement deals are big money — LeBron James famously signed a lifetime deal in 2015 believed to be worth over $ 500 million, while Kev in Durant’s deal w ith the Nike brand is worth around $30 million per year — yet those numbers are small compared to what the companies make from the superstars. In 2016, Morgan Stanley analyst Jay Sole said Curr y’s value to Under Armour may earn the company as much as $14 billion. Fourteen billion. That dwarfs any thing a player w ill make from the deal.

Like any player who has yet to appear in the NBA, the chances of Lonzo Ball reaching Curr y’s level are slim. But LaVar is gambling that he becomes a star, and if he does, shoe companies w ill have to respect players in endorsement negotiations like never before. His sons w ill be the first to benefit if the plan succeeds, but he may not be the last.

If Lonzo reaches his full potential, people w ill buy his merchandise. It’s that simple. It doesn’t matter who makes the shoes, the Ball brand w ill be a serious player. And some brand on the fringes of breaking into the NBA market w ill most likely take the chance and give LaVar something closer to what he wants.

Maybe LaVar Ball is completely crazy, caught up in the belief that his sons are impossibly good. But if Lonzo is the real deal, then LaVar may just come out of this looking like a genius.

Contact Daniel O’Boyle at doboyle1@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LeBron, Cavaliers stroll to victory over Raptors Associated Press

CLEVELAND — LeBron James considered swigging a beer while scoring 35 points, Kyrie Irving added 24 and the Cleveland Cavaliers picked up where they left off following a long layoff and throttled the Toronto Raptors 116-105 on Monday night in the opener of their Eastern Conference semifinal.

The Cavs hadn’t played since April 23, when they completed a four-game sweep of Indiana.

But the defending champions didn’t show signs of rust and were well-prepared to face the revenge-seeking Raptors, who lost to Cleveland in last year’s conference finals.

Toronto dropped to 1-12 in playoff openers.

Game 2 is Wednesday night.

“As a team I think we had great energy, and even some of the mistakes that we had we were able to cover up for because our energy level was high,” James said. “But we’ll be a lot better on Wednesday.”

Kyle Lowry scored 20 and DeMar DeRozan 19 for the Raptors, who were within seven in the third quarter before James dropped a 3-pointer, converted a three-point play, drained another 3 and then considered washing down a brew.

After drawing a foul on a missed layup, James playfully hopped toward the sideline, where a courtside server was passing by. The three-time champion reached and

grabbed a beer bottle from her tray and brought it toward his lips before putting it back.

By then, he and the Cavs had already downed the Raptors.

With trade acquisitions Serge Ibaka and P.J. Tucker, this Toronto team seemed better equipped to beat Cleveland than the one which lost in six games in last year’s playoffs.

Trouble is, James only seems to be getting better.

After nearly averaging a triple-double against the Pacers, he reminded the Raptors that to move on they’ll have to beat him.

Before the game, Toronto coach Dwane Casey talked about the big comebacks that have been a theme in these playoffs. The Raptors blew a 25-point lead to Milwaukee in the first round, while the Cavs overcame a 25-point deficit and pulled off the biggest second-half rally in playoff history.

“There’s no lead safe in the NBA,” he said.

That’s what happened to the Cavs in the first half as they built an 18-point lead only to watch the Raptors go on a 19-3 burst to pull within 41-39.

But Cleveland regrouped and, playing a turnover-free second quarter, led 62-48 at half.

James’ legs looked fresh early on as he and Irving teamed up on a stunning alley-oop.

After he poked the ball away for a steal, James took off up the floor with Irving on the

break. James pointed toward the backboard and Irving understood the message, bouncing a pass high off the glass that James grabbed and dunked with his left hand.

Tip-ins Raptors: G Norman Powell appeared to intentionally hit Kevin Love in the groin area, a play that could come under league review. Later, Powell was assessed a technical for jawing with Cavs G Dahntay Jones, who was ejected. ...

Toronto’s lone win in a playoff opener came in 2001. ... Casey said trying to devise a game plan to slow down James is almost impossible. “He’s the hub of everything,” he said.

“He understands where everybody is. He’s a quarterback.

He’s a point guard. He’s a power forward. He’s a small forward. He’s a shooting guard.

He’s everything.”

Cavaliers: James needs 25 points to pass Kareem AbdulJabbar (5,762 points) for second place on the league’s postseason scoring list, and two 3-pointers to join Ray Allen, Reggie Miller and Manu Ginobili as the only players to connect on 300 postseason 3s. ... James has scored at least 30 points in 88 playoff games, tying Kobe Bryant for second on the career list. Only Michael Jordan (109) has more.

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MLB | BLUE JAYS 7, yankees 1

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NEW YORK — Ryan Goins hit a two-run sacrifice fly, the first in Toronto’s 40-year history, to go along with a two-run homer that led Marco Estrada and the Blue Jays over the New York Yankees 7-1 Monday night for their season-high third straight win.

The crowd of 25,566 was the smallest for a Yankees home game since Sept. 20,

2004, against Toronto in a game moved to accommodate a makeup date. The current Yankee Stadium opened in 2009.

Jose Bautista hit a two-run homer for his 34th career shot off the Yankees, moving past Evan Longoria for most among active players. Chris Coghlan also homered for Toronto.

Still missing injured stars Josh Donaldson and Troy Tulowitzki, the Blue Jays kept up their

success against the Yankees, beating them for the 11th time in the last 16 meetings and outscoring them 82-44 in that span.

Estrada (1-1) pitched seven fine innings in his sixth start of the season. He gave up one run on seven hits without a walk, striking out five.

Luis Severino (2-2) was hit hard and left in the sixth, shortly after manager Joe Girardi and a trainer checked him for an apparent injury.

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allowed her to score five goals.

“I think we did a really good job of shutting [Apuzzo] off the first half.

We were ver y focused on deny ing her the ball, I think we made it really difficult for her to get the ball in the first half,” Halfpenny said.

“Granted, she did have some touches on the ball, but she didn’t get the looks she really wanted. And the second half, we had a breakdow n here, a breakdow n there, but they also had a gameplan.

They made some adjustments and Sam Apuzzo is an outstanding attacker … and you’ve got to give her credit for making us pay when we weren’t quite on our matches the way we needed to be.”

After trading a few more goals, the Eagles went on a 5-0 run to put them up by eight. With 13 minutes left, the Irish found themselves w ith under a quarter of the game to slow the Eagles’ momentum and make up a major deficit.

And they nearly did.

Notre Dame went on a 5-0 run as five different Irish players netted goals. Senior attack Heidi Annaheim started the charge and was quickly followed by Pearsall’s second of the game. After a seven-minute scoring drought from both teams, Cobb, Fortunato and junior attack Sydney Cardozo combined to add three goals.

But the scoring ended there, causing the Irish rally to fall short, giv ing the Eagles the

17-14 v ictor y.

“We were much more efficient in what we were doing on offense,” Halfpenny said of the adjustments that helped facilitate the 5-0 run.

“We were a little bit more organized in the setup, but to be fair, it was the players making plays. I think we took care of the ball, I think that they realized our backs were up against a wall and we had a great urgency about us ever y time we got the ball and I thought we really hit the reset button, so it was just some players making some great plays.

W hile according to the stat sheet the game was closely matched, Halfpenny said the difference in the game came through her squad’s turnovers and a few unluck y breaks. “ … We ended up w it h 15 turnovers and a couple of t hem were just unforced errors, just in ma k ing t he transition or just we didn’t sett le our attack or somet hing like t hat, so just a couple too many,” Ha lf penny said. “It’s unrea listic to t hink we aren’t going to have any errors in a game, but we got caught and t he timing of some of t hem were cost ly and BC was able to capita lize and score off a turnover. So, I t hink t hat t hat absolutely played into t heir hands and a few too many errors and t hey won t he ground ba ll war, which t hen gave t hem a couple of extra possessions t hat we rea lly needed in t he tournament setting and in t hat round t wo game w it h t hem. “ ... It was just k ind of unluck y in some areas. We did score t hree goa ls t hat got

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Irish senior Casey Pearsall cradles the ball during Notre Dame’s 16-13 victory over Ohio State on March 7 at Arlotta Stadium. Pearsall leads the team in assists on the season with 29 and has contributed 27 goals.

ca lled back v ia t he off icia ls, and sometimes you look and you feel like, ‘Man, we got t he short end of t he stick on t hat one.’ But a couple short ends of t he stick w it h a couple unforced errors and you come up just short.”

Next up for t he Irish w ill be t he NCAA tournament, which begins May 12. The selection show w ill ta ke

place May 7. Despite t he loss, Ha lf penny is excited for t he NCAA tournament based on t he way her team f inished t he game against t he Eagles.

“I was rea lly excited about t he way we f inished t he game. We rea lly batt led,” Ha lfpenny said. “ … It’s obv iously rea lly disappointing to have an early ex it from

t he tournament but we’re rea lly excited about how we f inished t hat game and I t hink t hat t hat’s somet hing t hat we def initely are going to ta ke into our training t his and next week as we await t he NCAA tournament selection.”

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final day on Sunday, top seed North Carolina, ranked No. 5 in the nation, defeated No. 8 Georgia Tech to take home its second consecutive ACC trophy.

The Irish must now wait to find out their fate, as the NCAA tournament selection show takes place Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

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With the loss to Clemson, Notre Dame’s ACC tournament run in Rome, Georgia, came to an close. Clemson ended up losing the follow ing day to second-seed Duke. On the tournament’s

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In the doubles competition, the top Irish pair of Covalschi/ Hagar fell in their match 6-2, while the No. 3 pair of Gamble/ Lebedev dropped an identical 6-2 decision. The third match was discontinued.

Irish head coach Ryan Sachire said it was a tough outcome for his team.

“Much like the first match we played against them this year, we had match points for the entire team match and ended up losing the individual matches 4-3,” Sachire said. “It was a pretty tough result for us but I was proud of the way our guys competed and they played hard and we were right there on the doorstep to win and just couldn’t get it across the finish line.”

Sachire said the play of Cabrera really stood out to him these past couple of weeks.

“I think the number one positive was Guillermo Cabrera, our freshman who had a great weekend the weekend before,” Sachire said. “He continued his awesome play and had a really impressive win and he’s playing his best tennis of the season right now, so that was a huge positive for us. I just thought up and down the lineup we were aggressive in the way our guys competed and went after it. I thought as a whole we did a really good job of that, but we came up just short at the end there.”

Notre Dame will now wait for the results of the NCAA Selection Show on Tuesday to see if they make the NCAA tournament. Sachire said his team will be on the edge of their seats watching.

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“We’re obviously hoping to get in but we’re right on the bubble,” Sachire said. “We’ll find out on Tuesday night.

We’ll definitely have some individual guys in the individual tournament, and those selections will be announced on Wednesday, but as far as the team event we’ll find out on Tuesday.”

Sachire said his staff will work with the individual players on fixing their weaknesses before the tournament.

“We’re going to continue to practice these next couple of days like usually until we find out we’re not in the tournament, so we’re going to prepare like we will be and get back to work on Monday,” Sachire said. “If it turns out we don’t make it to the team event, we’ll have a block of time between now and the individual event to allow those guys to really train. I think we’ll emphasize strength and conditioning and try to make a push in that area for the guys that are playing and also help some guys tackle areas of their game that have been weaknesses over the past couple of weeks. This gives us a chance to drill and practice a fair amount. Those are really good times to tackle weaknesses and really make some strides in that area.”

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After the 13-2 setback, the Irish gained a lead in the bottom of the fifth inning and fought until the last out to earn a 6-5 win in Saturday’s second game at Melissa Cook Stadium.

“It starts on the mound and we just challenged the pitchers and said, ‘you know what, you can’t give a team 10 base runners and try to win ball games, so let’s compete,’” Gumpf said.

“I thought [senior pitcher] Rachel [Nasland] did a great job of competing and that carried over. The team knew we could hit their pitching. They knew that we were going to make things happen and our offense did a great job of continuing to battle until we found a way.”

Notre Dame took the game into their hands during the bottom of the fifth after senior center fielder Karley Wester drove in a one-out RBI and junior shortstop Morgan Reed drilled a home run to create a 5-1 lead.

“Morgan hadn’t had a great day prior to that, but Morgan is so solid and great thing about her is that she has done a great job on keeping things level,” Gumpf said. “She is being consistent and keeping things level — not too high, not too low — slowing things down, taking a nice deep breath and slowing down the pitch. I think that is contributing to her successes

hitting-wise this year.”

After Notre Dame established a significant lead, the Razorbacks had a three-run home run that pulled them back to a one point game of 5-4.

Forcing three consecutive outs, Nasland stopped Arkansas from taking the game. In the bottom of the sixth, senior infielder Kimmy Sullivan hit a single and was later brought in by junior infielder Sara White as she blasted a RBI double, bringing the Irish to a 6-4 lead. Although the Razorbacks snatched a RBI double in the top of the seventh to make the score 6-5, Nasland brought the game to a close.

“At this time of the year, we are doing everything we can to make sure we secure ourselves a good position in the postseason,” Gumpf said. “And a win over Arkansas helped us do that. At this point we need to find ways to win, however that is. The girls realize that, and if we continue to take it literally one inning at a time, we do a better job of that. I think when we look at the big picture we think, ‘Whoa, that’s too much,’ so we really are trying to focus on one inning at a time and I think we did that really well during the second game against Arkansas.”

Next up for the Irish is a Wednesday matchup against Butler at home.”

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Notre Dame splits home series with Arkansas

Irish fall short in ACC tournament

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The Irish hosted No. 24 Arkansas last weekend for their annual Strikeout Cancer series and came out with a win, a loss and a cancellation.

Although Notre Dame (2919, 11-10 ACC) came back from their 10-2 road win over Northwestern on Tuesday, its momentum did not carry on over to the first game against Arkansas (30-19, 6-15 SEC) on Saturday, resulting in a 13-2 loss.

“Northwestern gave us confidence we know we had, and it should have carried momentum, but it didn’t show until the second game,” Notre Dame head coach Deanna Gumpf said. “ ... Our team knows we can beat anyone if we play our game. I am sure that our team thinks we can win any on any given day, if we show up.”

For the second-straight game, No. 13 Notre Dame fell to No. 12 Boston College, this time by a score of 17-14 in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament.

The Irish (11-7, 4-3 ACC) jumped out to an early 4-1 lead as sophomore attack Samantha Ly nch opened up scoring, followed by a goal from junior midfielder Molly Cobb. The Eagles (136, 3-4 ACC) prov ided a brief interruption to the early Irish run as junior attack Kenzie Kent netted one to put Boston College on the board, but Ly nch scored her second goal of the game just over a minute later, quick ly followed by senior attack Cortney Fortunato’s first of the game.

From that point on in the first half, however, the Eagles stole the show. Kent

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Irish junior Morgan Reed follows through on a swing during Notre Dame’s 13-4 win over IUPUI on April 12 at Melissa Cook Stadium.

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After defeating Pittsburgh 4-0 in the first round of the ACC tournament Wednesday, the 10th-seeded Irish fell to seventh-seeded Clemson by the same margin in the second round Thursday.

Against Pittsburgh (3-16, 0-14 ACC), the Irish (17-9, 7-7 ACC) went undefeated in doubles to secure the point.

The duo of seniors Mar y Closs and Monica Robinson won their match 6-4, junior A llison Miller and Brooke Broda took dow n their opponents 6-3 and senior Jane Fennelly and freshman Zoe Spence’s match went unfinished once the other two matches had ended.

In the singles portion of the match, Notre Dame’s v ictorious streak continued.

Sophomore Rachel Chong won her match 6-3, 6-4, while Closs came out on top 6-2, 6-3. Broda won her first set easily, 6-1, before ultimately taking a closer second set, 7-5.

The other three singles matches — those of

Robinson, Miller and Spence — went unfinished once the Notre Dame v ictor y had been clinched.

Thursday was a ver y different stor y for the Irish, who failed to secure a single point against the Tigers (13-11, 7-7 ACC). It was the second loss to Clemson in three days for the Irish, who fell 6-1 in the final match of their regular season on the Tigers’ home turf.

At the ACCs, the Tigers took the singles point, as the pairs of Fennelly and Spence fell 6-1 while Closs and Robinson lost their match 6-4. The Broda and Miller pair were knotted at four games apiece when their match was discontinued.

In the singles competition, Miller lost her match 6-4, 6-1. Spence fell as well, going 6-4, 6-2. Closs also failed to w in a set, losing 6-2, 6-1.

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scored t wo additional goals and picked up an assist, sending the Irish into halftime dow n 7-5.

Senior attack Grace Muller opened the second-half scoring just 23 seconds into the half, but Eagles sophomore attack Sam Apuzzo — who the Irish had held to just one assist in the first half — clicked into gear.

Apuzzo scored back-to-back goals, giv ing Boston College a three-goal lead, its largest of the game to that point.

Apuzzo then traded goals w ith Irish senior midfielder Casey Pearsall.

Irish head coach Christine Halfpenny said limiting Apuzzo, who stands at No. 2 in the countr y in points scored w ith 93 this season, in the first half was a success for her team, but some slipups in the second, combined w ith Apuzzo’s talent,

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Tenth-seeded Notre Dame lost a close 4-3 match to No. 7 seed Louisville on Thursday at the Rome Tennis Center in Georgia, ending the squad’s ACC tournament run in the second round.

In the singles competition, Irish sophomore Grayson Broadus lost the first set of his match 6-3 before bouncing back to win his second set 6-2. Broadus emerged victorious in the third and decisive set, 6-4. Notre Dame freshman Guillermo Cabrera won his match in straight sets (6-2, 6-1), as did senior Eddy Covalschi (6-4, 6-2).

Freshman Matt Gamble lost the first set of his match 6-2 before winning the second set 7-5, but fell in the third set 7-5.

Sophomore Alex Lebedev came up short in his match 6-4, 6-1.

Senior Josh Hagar narrowly lost the first set of his match 7-6(8) before rebounding to win second set 6-3. He came up short in the third set 6-3.

Irish senior Eddy Covalschi returns a shot during Notre Dame’s 4-1 victory over Northwestern on Feb. 24 at Eck Tennis Pavilion.

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