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US Poet Laureate visits SMC Tracy K. Smith asks ‘why do I care?’

Smith embraces Christianity in her work

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In much of her poetry, current Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith allows her writing to be driven by her answers to questions such as, “Why do I care about [this topic]?” It is through this journey of sitting with a single question or phase that she finds other feelings and connections coming to the surface, a journey that she discussed Wednesday ahead of her appearance at this year’s Christian Culture Lecture. see POET PAGE 3

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The current United States Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, delievered a lecture at Saint Mary’s about poetry and faith onWednesday evening.

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Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S., spoke at the annual Saint Mary’s Christian Culture Lecture on Wednesday. The acclaimed writer shared her beliefs on the connections between poetry and faith, read her work and explained the Christian undertones of her writings. Smith said faith and poetry provide an opportunity for spiritual and personal awakening.

College President Jan Cervelli announced the resignation of Karen Johnson, the vice president for student affairs, in an email Wednesday. Johnson’s resignation will be effective Oct. 6. Johnson has served the College since 2006, according to the email. “Karen has played a critical role in the development and success of Saint Mary’s College,” Cervelli said in the email. “W hile we w ill

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Center for Social Concerns Professor receives goes paperless Mellon grant By MARY DONNELLY News Writer

Across campus — on bulletin boards in dining halls, the library and O’Shaughnessy Hall — one poster read: “The Last Poster (from the Center for Social Concerns)”. James Shortall, director of communications

and advancement for the Center for Social Concerns (CSC) said the organization will no longer be distributing its information for programs and applications by means of posters or any other paperrelated source. Shortall said this decision was based on the papal encyclical “Laudato Si,” which

was published by Pope Francis on May 24, 2015. The encyclical says that the poor are disproportionately affected by climate change, especially in developing countries whose natural resources often drive the economies of more developed

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Scholars and legal experts spoke on the shortfalls of the “zero tolerance” policy in the U.S. immigration system in a panel on Wednesday called “Immigration and Just Peace: A Discussion on U.S. Family and Child Detention Policies” in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium.

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Fr. Daniel Groody, associate professor of theology and global affairs and director of the Kellogg Global Leadership Program, said he believes the U.S. government misunderstands the nature of the mass migrations sweeping Central America. “Migration is not the main problem but a symptom of more fundamental issues,” he said.

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To help expand and improve the popular introduction philosophy course “God and the Good Life,” philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan has received a grant worth $806,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The three-year grant includes both Notre Dame and national components. On the Notre Dame side, Sullivan said the funding will help offer more sections of the course and complete research on teaching philosophy and creating exciting assignments for students. The grant will also fund the undergraduate teaching assistant program, which has expanded along with the course. The undergraduate teaching assistant program is unusual for an introductory philosophy course, and Sullivan said people were initially surprised that she wanted to use Notre Dame students to prompt better

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Scholars, experts speak on zero tolerance policies By MARY STEURER

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Groody said he advises the U.S. to avoid policies that merely seek to enforce border patrol but instead to enact those that address illegal immigration’s root causes — violence and economic destitution in the countries immigrants leave behind. He added that the government’s treatment of

discussion instead of graduate teaching assistants. “That program has been fantastic,” Sullivan said. “ … We have radically improved and made more personal our discussion sections, but also from a planning perspective, many of those students have been involved semester after semester … and now they provide really great sources of ideas and feedback for improving the class.” Justin Christy serves as the program coordinator for the Philosophy as a Way of Life project, which the God and the Good Life course is a part of, and said the discussion sections are a unique component of the course in terms of their structure as well. “Rather than just reinforce what’s been taught, they’re more aimed at dialoging in a group about concrete issues, about how to live well, concrete social issues that are in the news and not so much in a way that’s directly tied into see GRANT PAGE 3

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greatly miss Karen and her leadership, we w ish her the best of luck as she pursues another opportunit y.” In her position as v ice president of student affairs, Johnson has worked w ith various students and organizations on campus. She also organized the peer mentors for first years and moderated the class and parent Facebook pages. Johnson a nnounced her resig nat ion to pa rents on t heir Facebook page, w rit ing t hat she pla ns to “keep post ing unt il t he end.” According to t he ema i l, Cer vel li w il l appoint a n interim v ice president of student a ffa irs by t he end of t he mont h.

the material in class,” he said. “ ... It’s a very open-ended and free-flowing discussion.” The second part of the grant, which is the more outward-facing component, will include sharing the findings from the Notre Dame course with other universities who want to start similar programs. A weeklong workshop focused on how to teach people to live well will be offered during the summer, and the grant will fund 15 universities to send representatives. “The second half of the grant is focusing on making this project much bigger than Notre Dame, so getting a lot of educators, a lot of students together and thinking about what should philosophy education look like in the 21st century,” Sullivan said. “We’re 2,400 years after Socrates now; some of the basic insights

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value in trying to find ways to make the poem give the same experience to readers as she felt writing it. “I feel like if I’m trying to surprise a reader, then I’m not going to do that,” Smith said. “But if I’m trying to allow myself to be surprised then that’s possible, and if I can after get to that place, revise the poem so that it speaks clearly and viscerally to a reader then maybe I can trust the reader will go through the same series of realizations or discoveries.” This practice of “surprising herself” and leading readers through the same experience comes from looking at things from several angles, Smith said. “It happens by, you know, making those connections between things that don’t

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“The poem ‘Wade in the Water’ begins with this experience that felt so beautiful, and then I thought, ‘W hy did I care about it? Because it made me feel a kind of pang. W hy did it make me feel that way? Because love isn’t what we live by, love isn’t what I feel like I deserve to get from a stranger,’” Smith said. “And then just surrendering to that memory of that experience allowed other things to rise up.” This process led Smith to bring in elements of history to the poem, which is a theme present in much of her recent release “Wade in the Water.” Smith said that in her writing, she finds

are still the same, but the things we can do now with technology, with the kinds of students we have access to, are tasks we couldn’t have imagined even 10 years ago.” Sullivan has already collaborated with professors doing similar courses about philosophy as a way of life at Fordham University and Wesleyan University, and she said the workshops should help form a network of schools that are also interested. “We’ve been focused really narrowly on how to make things really incredible for Notre Dame students over the past three years … which is still really exciting to me, but now we’re kind of taking it up a level,” she said. Sullivan said she’s excited to see what does and does not transfer well to the other schools in terms of the approach to the course. “Different universities are not all like Notre Dame,” she said. “ … We’ve learned

a lot about how things will work well here. How do we help other universities and other departments that want to do the same thing for their students engage in the same process even though their cultures are very different? … What about the core of this way of approaching philosophy is universal?” Sullivan said the grant will also fund one to three schools to start undergraduate teaching assistant programs on their own campuses. To further build the network of schools, the Philosophy as a Way of Life project is putting together a website database that will include syllabi and blog posts about professor experiences to make the information accessible to universities who cannot attend the summer workshop. Christy said the course as a whole is “revolutionizing how philosophy is being taught at Notre Dame and hopefully elsewhere.” “Whereas in a more typical

introduction class you’d maybe tend to focus more on learning the history of philosophy in sequence and/or on learning what the responses have been to various philosophical puzzles or paradoxes or problems, in God and the Good Life, the focus is on thinking carefully on how each student is living his or her own life and living well,” he said. Sullivan said the course will continue to evolve just as it has in the past. “A place like Notre Dame should be the best in the country at teaching undergraduate philosophy,” she said. “It’s part of our required curriculum for a reason because we care so much about these topics and think it’s so central to our mission as a university so how do we make sure we’re pushing ourselves to make sure we’re doing as much as we possibly can?”

necessarily belong together,” Smith said. “It happens by looking from a perspective that I wouldn’t think to look from in real time, but because I have the luxury of writing a poem — sort of stopping time — I can move around within the scene and look for something that seems useful in sort of changing my view of things.” This idea of changing one’s view and challenging one’s perspectives is central to Smith’s view on the power of poetry, she said. “W hat I think one of our major shortcomings as 21st century, social media, immediate culture beings is we trust our own opinions, our own reactions, and we feel like we have the right to explain other people to themselves to speak for them or to speak over them,” Smith said. “And a poem is this great device because it says, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no. You have to be quiet, you have to listen, you don’t know me, you haven’t had these experiences but I will share them with you, if you can, put away your expectations and your assumptions and allow me to guide you through a new way of looking at experience and a new way of looking at the world.’ “It’s exciting as a reader to be gifted with different ways of thinking about the world that I think I know, but it’s also I think essential for a more compassionate citizenship to imagine that other people’s voices matter as much as our own, and that by listening we might be able to get past certain misconceptions or erroneous expectations that we have been taught are okay.” As Poet Laureate of the U.S., Smith was given a fund

that she could use to further a mission of her choice. Part of Smith’s mission is to take poetry to parts of the country that would not typically get a visit from a poet. Smith said she hopes to share her love of poetry with these communities, without the pressure of teaching. “Part of this project of going into rural communities has to do with just wanting to even in this small way mend or bridge the divide that we imagine between rural and urban perspectives and lifestyles and vocabularies for experience,” Smith said. “And teaching I don’t think is the way to do that. The way to do that I think is to go in and say, ‘Hey, we’re two people, or we’re a room full of people, we’re in the presence of this voice on the page, let’s talk about what it seems to be saying.’” Smith said that while she has looked forward to hearing the observations readers have made about her poems, she did not want to create anxiety due to putting attendees in the position of demonstrating a deeper understanding of poems. Instead, she feels that their natural interactions with poems can be just as powerful. “I really believe that a person can have a powerful and useful encounter with a poem simply by noticing what the poem makes him or her feel, allowing the mind to wander and making connections between where the poem is speaking from and where the mind goes and accepting that those might be useful and even purposeful associations,” she said. Smith also discussed the challenges that female authors have had in the world of poetry. W hile Smith said

that the challenges each individual faces is different, there are acts such as finding a sense of community that can help. Within the works of female poets, there are some similarities that are present that differentiate them from male writers, Smith said. “I really feel that there’s something that characterizes work by women that is different from men,” Smith said. “Now, that’s a sweeping statement and so it’s wrong to say that in many ways, but some things feel really true for me. I love the way that there is a willingness to listen and to be beholden to the environment, to the voices of others, to a sense of place that could move and shape a female speaker. … It’s not necessarily the urge to claim and imprint so much as to observe, detect, hear something that may be audible only if you are doing the work to seek it out.” Smith also said that women writers explore multiple aspects of the self, in a way that she hopes she does in her work. “There’s also, of course, a really wonderful tradition of speaking to the quiet rage that is a part of being a woman, thinking of a poet like [Sylvia] Plath. Or … the amazing balance between a really active mind and a raging heart and spirit,” Smith said. “I love that at least the women poets that have meant something to me have been fearless in engaging both of those parts of the self, poems that seem to be really an act of listening and learning which is what I like to believe my poems help me to do.”

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could start to steward our resources better and undergo what that document calls an ‘ecological conversion’ and care for our common home together,” Shortall said. He said for the past two years the organization has looked closely at reducing paper usage in particular. “We produce 50 to 60,000 pages of paper every year in posters and booklets, and given that most folks learn about us through digital means these days, we felt that didn’t make sense,” Shortall said. He said when considering the effects of going paperless, the CSC conducted three surveys, polling

students on how they found out about the courses, programs, applications and events they offer. Eighty-five percent of respondents said they found out about programming through digital means, he said. They decided to make the switch to not using paper last year and have since been building up their digital media platforms to reach a wider audience, he added. “We have an electronic newsletter that we send out every week to more than 3,000 people,” he said. “We have digital displays in the building that we just installed this summer, and those will show the 1,500 visitors to the building

every week what we’re doing, and they also will let us exchange our images with other buildings that have digital displays. We have an enhanced website and four social media platforms, a podcast and extensive video capability.” Shortall said the environmental benefits of this switch extend beyond saving paper. Considering there are some materials in printers that cause harm to the environment, there is no way of guaranteeing that all the posters andpamphletstheCSCproducesare recycled. The process of recycling can also produce additional

pollutants. He added that he hopes the change will set an example for other organizations looking to be more environmentally conscientious. “The impact we’d like to have has more to do with being seen as and being a leader on campus with regard for environmental issues. Given our mission we think it’s appropriate that we be early adopters of this kind of thing,” Shortall said. “We’d love to see other units go paperless, too.”

She said the conventional definition of a refugee was introduced in the “1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees,” a treaty that outlined the rights of immigrants in the international community. The treaty defined a refugee as “a person who is outside his or her own country of origin or last habitual residence who has a well-founded fear of persecution based on one of five reasons: race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.” Another significant change to U.S. immigration law came in 1996, she said, when Congress introduced the “expedited removal” procedure. This procedure allows border protection officers to deport immigrants who do not have valid travel documents without a hearing before an immigration judge, she said. “The thought was that people who didn’t have a right to be here shouldn’t have to be able to appear

before immigration judges,” she said. Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center, said family separation has fundamentally altered how undocumented immigrant children are handled when taken into custody by the state. “This whole system where children are placed in the care of the offices of refugee resettlement ... was really transformed into a detention system for children who had been separated from their parents at the border,” she said. Koop laid the practice began in March 2017, when John Kelly, then secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and now Chief of Staff for the Trump administration, recommended it as a means to discourage illegal immigration. This “zero-tolerance” approach to undocumented immigration has turned U.S. border control into a system “that left no space, virtually, for human rights to be realized,” she added.

Koop said though an end to family separation was mandated by U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw on June 26, the initiative has not been widely successful. “From there, the chaos that we all saw in the news ensued, because there never was a system to reunify the families,” she said. Professor of psychology Darcia Narvaez spoke on the dangers of separating children from their caregivers. Narvaez said the social stimuli that families provide — such as touch, play and emotional support — are all crucial for a child’s successful development. “We are biosocial animals,” she said. When these factors are removed, children retrogress developmentally, she said. This posesagraveriskforimpulsiveness, violent behavior and depressive disorders later in life, she added. Cory Smith, vice president of policy, communications and advocacy for Kids in Need of Defense, an organization that provides legal defense for unaccompanied

minors in the U.S. immigration system, called for public action against family separation. He said a new bill, called the Central American Reform and Enforcement Act would soon be introduced to Congress and would “provide a framework for how to address root causes” of human migration. “What this bill would do is address the root causes of gang violence, address the femicide — the sex and gender-based violence — the incredible violences going on the state is not willing or unable to protect,” he said. Smith said he advises individuals to work for change in U.S. immigration law by spreading awareness about the immigration process — publishing opinion editorials and reaching out to local Congress members, for example. “Nothing will change until the conditions on the ground change,” he said.

distinguishing them from one another, strikes me as, well, poetic.” The layered perspectives, imaginations, sensibilities and vocabularies of the Gospels reveal a singular, universal truth, Smith said. “This may be the history of all religions, all the various vocabularies devised to transmit what is fundamentally beyond us,” she said. “And so the most fruitful attempts at bearing witness are necessarily expansive, drawing upon disparate and sometimes desperate resources.” Smith said she prefers to focus on accounts of Christianity that relate to “the experience of wonder rather than demystifying or domesticating its source.” “Like the language of spiritual awakening, poems seek to be living words — vehicles for transmitting a sense of the strange and the powerful from speaker to reader,” she said. “And like the parable, poems offer tools that foster an ongoing and repeatable state of wonder. They impart to the reader a new kind of awareness, a new kind of sensitivity. The language of poetry makes you more attentive of the world beyond.” Though poetry and Christianity do not share the same terms, Smith said, the two share a commonality that allows exploration

of the world and oneself. “Christianity doesn’t exist without devotion to Christ,” Smith said. “Poetry’s devotions are many. But, if I back up far enough, I see that the two share a mode. I think the creative state which is beholden to something unseen lives both outside and within the self and is similar to the state of openness, humility, compassion and receptivity at the root of Christ’s message about the kingdom of God, which also lives both outside and within the self.” Reading and writing poetry requires an act of submission, Smith said, through which one becomes a beholden stranger and places personal knowledge aside to make room for new discoveries. Smith said the revelations of poetry and faith come from outside of logic. Smith said her work, “Life on Mars,” draws unconsciously upon her experiences with faith. Her 2012 Pulitzer Prize-awarded poetry collection started as a method of exploring her anxieties about the future of America through extrapolation. However, after the death of Smith’s father, she said the book became a way to wrestle with her grief and create a satisfying sense of where his spirit resided. Imagining the afterlife through the lens of outer space helped Smith come to terms with death

and those in her life who had died. “Space became a really useful backdrop for [imaging my father’s place in the afterlife],” she said. “I grew up in the Church. I grew up with the image of God in the Sistine Chapel, and I didn’t want my father to be circumscribed on something that seemed that graspable. I wanted to find a way of making the God that I entrusted [my father] to as large as math, as large as the universe, and so the poems relentlessly led me in that direction.” Smith’s poem “It & Co.” portrayed a God that Smith said she believed was greater than the one she already knew. “The first draft of this poem was a second person address to the God on the ceiling [of the Sistine Chapel] ... I felt almost blasphemous,” she said. “I felt almost worried that maybe I should hedge my bets and change my approach. And so the pronoun changed and became ‘it,’ and ‘it’ allowed me to create a vast, unhuman, unknowable version of God that oddly enough was more consoling.” The unknowable, unattainable version of God Smith portrays through her work reflects her thoughts on what poetry is, she said. Smith said she allows herself to pose questions that can remain unanswered throughout her work

and said she encourages others to embrace this notion in their writing. “A poem is not a puzzle,” Smith said. “It’s not written by someone who has figured something out and then hidden it inside of fancy language. A poem is a root towards reckoning with and building from real, urgent material, questions or experiences. Even if it’s a poem about joy, it seems to gather something more from the recollection of it than is possible in the actual moment.” Though Smith believes poetry does not always need to answer its own questions, she said it can still be purposeful in enacting change. “I do [see poetry as activism] for a lot of reasons, partly because of overt subject matter which challenges something,” Smith said. “I also think that poetry is a form of resisting the degradation of English and thought and conversation and social interaction and curiosity. That feels like an activist mechanism to say that mindful language, thoughtfully wielded and carefully listened to and discussed can make things better, can make us realer to each other, can make our feelings realer to each other. It feels like a tool of activism.”

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countries. Shortall said after reading the encyclical, members of the CSC began to considerhowitsmaterialconsumption impacted the environment. “Because there’s so much in that document about how we have gotten into the predicament we’re in with regard to the environment and who it affects, we started talking about what we do here at the [CSC] that might not be great for the environment and how we

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immigrants deserves special attention from church leaders due to the human rights violations it perpetuates. “It’s a significant moral issue I think that really demands the best of our energies, and it’s getting worse rather than better,” he said. The crisis asks individuals to weigh the importance of values such as civil law, natural law, citizenship and discipleship, he added. “There are kinds of issues of identity and belonging that have to do with being a member of the state, however there are deeper questions about who we are before God and who were are in relationship to one another,” he said. Erin Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute and concurrent faculty member at the Keough School of Global Affairs, discussed the history of immigration rights in the context of both international and domestic law.

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“Poetry is one of the languages that puts us in touch with our higher selves,” she said. “Poetry, like the language of belief, puts us in touch, if we let it, with our eternal selves. Spiritual belief has given us a vocabulary for wonder, for the miraculous and indescribable. In so doing, it has argued compellingly for the necessity of metaphor as a means of making familiar and intimate what we otherwise could not comprehend.” Smith said the use of metaphor is especially prevalent in the New Testament and provides Christ and the disciples with a way to transmit not only information, but also awe. “The Gospels offer languagebased proof that there is no such thing as seeing eye to eye, no such thing as having the exact same experience as anyone else,” she said. “In their accounts of Christ’s time on earth, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John create together a single story, complete with perspectival shifts, lapses and any contradictions as corroborations. That these different writings of experience work together toward creating a unified and dynamic whole, despite the gaps and variations

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Death Cab for Cutie wants to “Thank You For Today” Elizabeth Dundon News Writer

For anyone who grew up with the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie some 10 years ago like me, get ready to stand up and cheer. The group, best known for those melancholy hits of the late 2000s like “Soul Meets Body” is back and better than ever with the release of their new studio album, entitled “Thank You for Today.” For a band that has been so present in the alternative-rock scene for so long, one would think that they would recycle the same sounds, limiting their opportunity to explore further. While Death Cab very much sticks to its roots in this record, especially with its opening song “I Dreamt We Spoke Again” (which I find very similar to “Brothers on a Hotel Bed” from the 2005 album “Plan”), Death Cab brings an more mature kind of introspective energy to the table in “Thank You for Today,” in which they break new ground and give us a perfect playlist to use for an upcoming road trip. I credit keyboardists Dave Depper and guitarist Nick Harmer for providing a moving, resonant tone to each track, as well as drummer Jason McGeer for creating an authentic rhythm that is nostalgic yet optimistic, which is especially featured in my personal favorite, “60 and Punk.” Benjamin Gibbard is, as always, excellent throughout the album. While Death Cab’s lead singer croons about old memories of his home and his fear of change around him in the whimsical “Gold Rush,” I noticed his strong ability to transport his listeners back in time to when things were simpler and souls weren’t broken just yet. He’s like the Marty McFly of this day and age, but just a little more in touch with his emotional side. Gibbard’s poetic lyrics, however, do not encourage us to dwell in the past, but rather to celebrate it for what it was. He wants us, as sung in the moody “Autumn Love,” to be open to dig into “depths deeper than the deepest of connections.” As Gibbard explained in an interview with Independent UK, the sweet, earnest title of the album originated from positive memories made in the studio throughout the recording process. “A nightly sign-off that started out as an in joke borrowed from another band Costey (the producer), had worked with – ‘thank you for today!’ — quickly became sincere, and stuck… when Gibbard realized how much fun he was having in the company of the long-standing bandmates Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr (bass and drums, respectively).” The eventual name for the record, “Thank You For Today,” speaks for itself — not only does it encourage listeners to recognize and be grateful for everything and everyone around them, but it’s also an invitation to embrace the ever-evolving, yet beautiful, present. Favorites: “60 to Punk,” “Summer Years” If You Like: The Postal Service, Modest Mouse, The National Label: Atlantic Records 5/5 French Crosses Contact Elizabeth Dundon at edundon01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Lucy Collins Madame’s Musings

With the sun in the sleepy stages of wakeup, lazily drooping over the horizon, an inner dialogue pulses through my mind for what seems like the thousandth time this summer: “Keep going. W hen you round the corner, you can take a break. … No, I don’t need a break that’ll just make it worse, idiot … just keep chugging along. My God, this sucks. W hy did I do this? ” I got it into my head that because I am a relatively active runner, the next logical progression after several half marathons is to sign up for the beast itself — the Chicago Marathon. And while the experience has been more painful than I’d ever thought — 5 a.m. wakeups to avoid the heat, double-digit runs while hungover, etc. — there has been plent y of time while out on the road to ponder the similarities bet ween life and running. Without further ado: Don’t wait for things to happen Decisions are made by those who show up. So says President Bartlet in one of the greatest shows of all time. Make a few adjustments to this phrase, and it can be applicable to almost ever y thing in life. Businesses are started by those who show up, love is forged by those who show up and, as I’ve found most applicable to running and life, change is made by those who show up. There were weeks when I got lazy, skipping several runs in a row. And my body made sure to let me know its w rath when I finally got back to it. Conversely, after three weeks straight of putting in the work and actually completing long runs, I found myself going fast and feeling better than ever. Turns out that putting in effort makes you better. Crazy, huh? Trust your gut Last week, during what must have been the 100th run of my training schedule, I felt horrible, cramped and slow. It was supposed to be a recover y run, but my stomach was feeling any thing but rela xed. I had mile miles left when I passed a porta-pott y and had to make a decision — push through the final t wo miles, or stop and take a … break. I broke dow n and stopped, and let me tell you, it’s a good thing I did. Without going into too much detail, this anecdote goes to show that sometimes your gut gets a feeling that may seem counter-intuitive or illogical. My suggestion? Shut up and listen to what it has to say, it’s usually right and can help you avoid a messy situation. Don’t be afraid to mix it up a bit

Some days are better than others. Some runs are easier than others. If you have a three-mile run planned today and a six scheduled in for tomorrow, but you’re feeling that good ole’ runner’s high today, why not be proactive and finish that six now? Likew ise, it can be tempting to turn dow n a fun Saturday out w ith friends because of a “required” weekend long run. But there w ill always be another day to slog through a dozen miles — there may not be another chance to go dow ntow n on a sunny day w ith friends. Life can’t be neatly fit into a calendar, and I’ve found the most memorable events that have happened for me happened #spontaneously, so don’t be afraid to #seizetheday as it comes. Things don’t always go as planned Sometimes you’re cruising effortlessly w ith the w ind at your back feeling as if you could easily go eight more miles. Other times, you could feel like you’re dy ing on a three-mile run. Sometimes, life (and love) knocks you dow n. W hat I’ve found helpful during my bad runs is the mantra “you know how to do this.” Have faith in the preparation and work you’ve put in before, and trust in yourself to be able to bounce back from a setback and come back all the faster for it. Look out for yourself and your friends For women, certain thoughts cross your mind, ever y time you head out the door. Maybe this time, the voices yelling out of cars won’t be quite so light-hearted and f lirtatious. Maybe today, the man who decides to run next to me and ask me questions won’t get the hint and drop back after a few blocks. I often feel a surge of jealousy when I see guys going for a jog after the sun goes dow n. I love the feeling of running in the dark — like nothing can catch you, like you’re inv incible. Of course, some things can and you are not. I’ve been priv ileged to grow up in a place where running alone is hardly ever a concern — I’ve been know n to leave my phone at home when I head out the door, to truly escape. It takes the tragic murder of a girl not too different from me, partaking in my favorite pastime, to rip me out of whatever delusions my safe upbringing has shrouded me w ith. Let friends know where you’re going. Be alert. Have fun, but have each others’ back. That is all. Lucy Collins is majoring in economics and history, and continues to write despite knowing no one cares what she’s going to say. She can be reached at lcollin8@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Humanizing DACA students Show Some Skin Cesar Moreno

She didn’t even know until she was apply ing to college. As the midterm elections draw near, these Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students have found their lives are being hy perpoliticized once again. DACA recipients, hence the name, came to the United States as children. Many of them don’t know any countr y other than the U.S.; some of them didn’t know of their immigration status until they were adults. W hile legislators debate the future of undocumented immigrants, many of these DACA students live in fear for the safet y of their family members and themselves. I had the pleasure of sitting dow n w ith some of Notre Dame’s undocumented students and speaking w ith them regarding their experiences on Notre Dame’s campus. Several of my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins came to the United States from Mex ico w ithout documentation, so while the issue is not personal to me, it is a topic close to my heart. However, since I am documented, I find as though that priv ilege necessitates elevating the voices of indiv iduals to whom this issue is deeply rooted in their ex istence before adding in my ow n. The names of the participants have been excluded at their behest and to protect their identities. The first indiv idual I spoke w ith said she felt it was an almost helpless feeling know ing her mom could be taken away at any second and sent back to a countr y she didn’t call home. It was difficult for her not to feel any ‘sur v ivor’s guilt’ know ing her family doesn’t get the DACA protections she does. Immigrants, particularly undocumented ones, have had to bear the scapegoating and fur y of much alt-right propaganda. Recent events, such as the death of Mollie Tibbetts, have been blow n out of proportion by right-w ing media outlets to drive home a dehumanizing rhetoric toward undocumented immigrants.

The second indiv idual told me how he felt the right-w ing cherr y-picks its statistics and data. He felt that those outlets looked for the ‘worst of the worst’ and made all undocumented immigrants seem as though they were here to ruin this picture-perfect v iew of America. It goes w ithout say ing that undocumented immigrants create more jobs and commit crimes at much lower rates than native-born Americans, but highlighting only the best of their achievements and ignoring non-DACA undocumented folks is also problematic. Some DACA folks feel as though they are often used as a bargaining chip in the immigration debate. The t hird indiv idua l told me she felt as t hough she had a huge pressure to do well; as t hough if she took one w rong step ever yone wou ld decide she needed to go. She ex pressed how neit her she nor her mom shou ld have to be doctors or lawyers or ent repreneurs to be wor t h f ight ing for. For t hose liv ing at t he intersect ion of undocumented immig rat ion, gender, class, sex ua l orientat ion a nd race, t he conversat ion becomes even more complicated. In a Lat in x-centered movement, Asia n a nd Black undocumented folk have ex pressed a feeling of erasure a nd exclusion. The four t h indiv idua l told me t hat being undocumented a nd queer is like being in t wo different closets at once ; it was like being stuck in t wo dif ferent shadows a nd worlds. As a queer, undocumented A f ro-Lat in x indiv idua l, t hey (preferred pronoun) feel as t hough ot her queer indiv idua ls have t he priv ilege of being ‘just queer’ a nd get to turn a blind eye to t he rest of t heir (t he indiv idua l I spoke to) ident it y. For t hem, it is rea lly dif f icu lt to f ind sa fe spaces at Not re Da me when even g roups t hat a re a ll about inclusiv it y a nd diversit y decide t he discussion a round immig rat ion gets to be apolit ica l while at t he sa me t ime condemning homophobic, sex ist, racist, etc., la ng uage. They were so f r ust rated at hav ing so ma ny facets of t heir ident it y under attack a nd not be able to pa r t icipate in t he polit ica l process to protect t hemselves. A common f r ust rat ion in t he discussion of

undocumented immig ra nts is t he lack of huma n decency of fered, even in so-ca l led ‘sa fe spaces.’ Ma ny u ndocu mented i m m ig ra nts who a re open about t hei r i m m ig rat ion stat us f i nd t hemselves f ig ht i ng for a ba sic d isplay of hu ma n it y. T he fou r i nd iv idua ls poi nted out t hat someone who isn’t w i l l i ng to ack nowledge you’re hu ma n isn’t wor t h a rg u i ng w it h. Ca l l i ng someone ‘i l lega l’ den ies someone t hat d ig n it y. One of t he most i mpor ta nt messages some of Not re Da me’s DAC A st udents wa nt to convey is to ack nowledge t hei r hu ma n it y. It isn’t some rad ica l, pol it ica l ly cor rect idea to use ‘u ndocumented’ i nstead of ‘i l lega l’ when refer r i ng to u ndocu mented i m m ig ra nts i n you r d iscou rse. T he idea wa s put for t h by El ie W iesel, who w it nessed t he label l i ng of Jew ish people a s a n ‘i l legal people’ in Na zi Germany. It is only when acknowledging someone’s humanit y that a real, honest discussion can be had. How can you get involved in the discussion? Notre Dame’s Student Coalition for Immigration Advocacy has outlined several steps to become involved in the discussion. W hether it be calls to your representatives, senators and local officials, resources and action-plans for allies and advocates are prov ided in the form of phone-call manuscripts and news updates, among many others. In fact, this Thursday they w ill host a discussion called “Ethical Arguments: How to Disagree as Decent People” at the Geddes Coffee House from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Get educated, get serious and get involved. Innocent lives are at stake. Contact Cesar Moreno at cmoreno3 @nd.edu Show Some Skin is a student-run initiative committed to giving voice to unspoken narratives about identity and difference. Using the art of storytelling as a catalyst for positive social change across campus, we seek to make Notre Dame a more open and welcoming place for all. If you are interested in breaking the silence and getting involved with Show Some Skin, email tcarter8@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Learn from mistakes and move forward with confidence. You have plenty to gain by being a participant. Greater involvement in groups and organizations that have something to offer will encourage you to use your skills diversely. A walk down memory lane will revive old dreams as well as friendships. Plan to attend a reunion or visit familiar places. Your numbers are 4, 12, 18, 23, 29, 33, 42. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Be careful what you wish for. Change is only good if your timing is right. Make sure you have discussed matters with anyone who will be affected by the decisions you make. Moving forward transparently will improve the outcome. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Someone who has supported your efforts in the past will give you an opportunity. Include those you love and trust; you’ll find greater satisfaction in your success. Discover and demonstrate the power of joint ventures. Don’t look back. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Listen to what’s being said and take your time responding. Giving someone the wrong impression will lead to setbacks when you want to make a change. Focus on self-improvements and how to use your attributes to get ahead. CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Emotions will surface. Don’t jump to conclusions or disagree with others without looking at every angle and determining what’s best for you. Make suggestions and be willing to compromise. You will accomplish what you set out to do. LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Being secretive is favored. You may like to be the center of attention, but when it comes to personal information, be reticent about sharing too much about what you have. Confidence will do more for you than bragging. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Forward motion is encouraged. Let the past go and submerge yourself in new beginnings. An emotional tie to someone will be tested if you socialize. Observe carefully and consider how healthy this relationship is before denying yourself the opportunity to enjoy life. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take one step at a time. Be cognizant of the people around you and how your actions influence others. A change in the way you handle domestic affairs should be considered if it will help keep the peace. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Show your emotions and make your intentions clear. The changes you bring about will enhance your personal life and lead to a better romantic relationship with someone you love. Be open to suggestions and be willing to make concessions. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your words may charm some, but others will be leery of the promises you make. Walk a straight line when dealing with matters that concern money, contracts and legal matters. Ease stress by taking part in physical activities. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The effort you put in won’t go unnoticed. Be cautious not to put physical strain on yourself or cause emotional stress to those who care about you. Focus on personal and professional partnerships and doing your best to get along with others. AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep an open mind, but don’t let anyone talk you into something that is indulgent or costly. Use your common sense along with your charm to let someone down easy. Know your boundaries and stick to what works for you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Participate in joint ventures that offer unusual returns. What you learn and the people you meet will be well worth your while. Much can be accomplished if you share your creative ideas and offer incentives. A change looks promising. Birthday Baby: You are sensitive, caring and open. You are helpful and a game changer.

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MLB | cubs 6, brewers 4

Mayfield may be the chosen one Charlotte Edmonds Associate Sports Editor

With Thursday marking the opening of the 2018 NFL season in Philadelphia, I figured it’d be appropriate to address the potential for one team — the Cleveland Browns. In full transparency, I am neither an NFL fan or even a Cleveland fan for that matter. Having grown up in Oklahoma to a Notre Dame family, my interest in football rarely extend beyond the amateur level. However, not even I can ignore Browns’ abysmal season last year. As only the second team ever to go 0-16, Cleveland found itself in a strange position, as many were angered by the so-called “perfect season”, going so far as holding a parade in protest, attended by thousands. The Browns have been on a quest over the past decade to build their team and brand around a superstar quarterback, including several former Notre Dame players such as Brady Quinn and DeShone Kizer. So how has a team that has continually receives high draft picks, including seven first-round picks in the last decade and back-to-back No. 1 overall picks in the last two years, only posted doubledigit wins once in the last 20 seasons? More importantly, I can’t help but wonder why they keep investing in quarterbacks who continually turn out to be busts. Isn’t that arguably the definition of insanity – trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I’ll admit, the assertion that the Brown’s management is insane on the grounds that they keep drafting quarterbacks is a stretch considering each player has the potential to revive a dying franchise. The reality is something hasn’t been working, but I’m starting to believe that their newest addition to the quarterback carousel — 2018 No. 1 draft pick Baker Mayfield — might be the savior they’re looking for. My dislike for Mayfield is a

sore subject for many of my die-hard Boomer Sooner fans back home who would defend him through nearly anything. I want to like his walk-on turned Heisman narrative, but he’s simply too cocky for me (I know, coming from the girl who declared her love for Russell Westbrook just two weeks ago). That said, Mayfield has posted an impressive preseason, opening his career with 212 passing yards for two touchdowns. He’s continued his steady performance, complete 9 of 16 passes on 138 yards — all in the first half — in the final preseason game against the Lions. He may not be able to make all the f lashy plays he made back in college, but his creativity in the pocket could make him just the steady leader Cleveland’s been looking for. Having been named the back-up quarterback behind newly-acquired Tyrod Taylor — coming from three seasons with the Buffalo Bills — just this past Tuesday, Mayfield’s sure to use that as motivation. C’mon, head coach Hue Jackson had to know he was simply recreating the walk-on experience, challenging Mayfield to elevate his game. Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews said it best when describing Mayfield’s attitude back at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. “He doesn’t need much,” Andrews said. “It could be the smallest thing in the world, but in his head it’s the world ending, the biggest thing ever, and he’s gonna prove you wrong. People who are good at what they do have that drive.” I’ll probably never be able to find it in myself to cheer for Mayfield. Personally, he’s had a few too many antics. But, this is no Johnny Manziel 2.0. This is the real deal. Enjoy it Cleveland. Contact Charlotte Edmonds at cedmond3@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Murphy helps Cubs take final match of series Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Daniel Murphy sees no panic in his new Chicago Cubs teammates. The Cubs needed a win Wednesday night to avert a three-game sweep by division rival Milwaukee, and Murphy played a big role with three hits and a solo home run in Chicago’s 6-4 victory against the Brewers. Pedro Strop closed out a tense ninth inning as Chicago boosted its NL Central lead to four games over the second-place Brewers. Milwaukee is a half-game ahead of St. Louis for the top NL wild card. Jose Quintana (12-9) gave up two runs in 6 2/3 innings, improving to 3-1 at Miller Park with the Cubs. Strop allowed a walk and a single to open the ninth but got the final three outs, striking out Curtis Granderson with two runners on to preserve the win. “It’s a young group with a veteran mindset,” said Murphy, who joined the Cubs in a trade with Washington on Aug. 21. “You lose a tough one (Monday) and they played really well yesterday. All you can do is

come out and try to win this ballgame.” Granderson belted his first home run as a member of the Brewers in a pinch-hit role in the seventh, a two-run shot that cut Chicago’s lead to 6-4. After Travis Shaw walked and pinch-hitter Christian Yelich singled to start the ninth, the crowd of 37,427 was on its feet, nearly equally divided between Brewers and Cubs fans. Eric Thames f lied out before Strop got Lorenzo Cain to ground to third for a force play. Then a nasty slider on a 2-2 pitch struck out Granderson. “I thought he gained his composure nicely,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said of Strop. “He’s got 95 or 96 (mph) with that sink. The slider he got Granderson on, it’s good against righties and lefties.” Jhoulys Chacin (14-6) had tossed 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Cubs this season before Murphy led off the fourth with an opposite-field homer into the Brewers’ left-field bullpen. Javier Baez followed with a single and his aggressive baserunning helped the Cubs extend their lead. He raced for third on a single

by Anthony Rizzo, and when Cain’s throw from center field sailed, Baez scored and Rizzo went to third on a second error by shortstop Orlando Arcia. Ben Zobrist doubled to score Rizzo and give the Cubs a 3-0 lead. A soft RBI single by Willson Contreras capped the fourrun rally. Jonathan Scoop’s bad-hop single drove home a run in the bottom of the inning, and the Brewers loaded the bases with two outs. Quintana induced Arcia to hit a pop f ly to shortstop to escape the jam. Zobrist drove in his second run in the fifth with a two-out single, but Rizzo was thrown out at the plate trying to score from second base. Kyle Schwarber belted his 25th homer into the second deck in right field in the sixth to make it 6-1. Quintana allowed a leadoff single to Jesus Aguilar and a double to Ryan Braun in the sixth, but the Brewers managed just one run on a groundout by Schoop. “It was a fun series,” Granderson said. “It’s definitely something both teams can look at and say, all right, it’s going to be a fight to the end.”

MLB | Cardinals 7, Nationals 6

Adams stars in Cardinal’s win over Nationals Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For struggling Matt Adams, a return to Nationals Park was the perfect tonic. Adams homered twice against his former team who traded him last month, Marcell Ozuna tied his career-high with four hits and the St. Louis Cardinals held off the Washington Nationals 7-6 on Wednesday night. One night after bashing five homers against Washington, St. Louis settled for three in the rubber game of the series as Yairo Munoz had a solo shot in the sixth. Adams victimized Tanner Roark with first-pitch homers on a curveball in the first inning and a changeup in the fifth. Miles Mikolas (14-4) worked 6 2/3 innings and was charged with four runs on 12 hits. Carlos Martinez worked the final two

innings for his first save since 2014, getting three straight outs in the ninth after the first two batters reached. Ryan Zimmerman’s threerun double followed by Wilmer Difo’s RBI single pulled Washington within 7-6 in the seventh. Bryce Harper had three hits for Washington on a day when general manager Mike Rizzo responded that he hasn’t considered any other scenario when asked if manager Dave Martinez will return in 2019. Adams was signed by the Nationals in the offseason. The former Cardinal hit .258 with 18 homers for Washington and was traded back to St. Louis on Aug. 21, the same day Daniel Murphy was dealt to the Cubs. Tuesday’s homers were Adams’ first since the trade. He came into the game 3 for 23 with the Cardinals.

Roark (8-15) was a loser for the third straight start. He gave up six runs on 10 hits over five innings. It took the Cardinals just seven pitches to take a 3-0 lead. Following a pair of singles, Adams homered. Fielding problems helped the Cardinals expand their lead in the second. With two outs, third baseman Anthony Rendon had trouble getting a Mikolas bouncer out of his glove. Then Matt Carpenter launched a flyball to the warning track in center that Harper lost sight of in the twilight for an RBI double. Adams struck again in fifth, hitting a solo shot into the back of the second deck. Carpenter later scored to make it 5-0. “Like I’ve said a million times, if you don’t make your pitch, they hit it far,” Roark said. “And so he did it twice.”

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need to be prepared and make sure that everyone understands their role. “I think it’s just making sure that we’re focused, we understand exactly what the formation we’re trying to play is and how to do it, how to attack them and how to put pressure on them,” said Norman. “It’s going to be going over that and making sure it’s clear and concise and that everybody is on the same page.” Both Stanford (5-0) and Santa Clara (4-1) present a formidable challenge, but the matchup Friday against the Cardinal perhaps stands out even more as it offers Notre Dame an opportunity to knock off the defending champions, a team that is still undefeated to this point in the season. These two programs last met in 2016 when the No. 20 Irish were able to battle to a draw against No. 2 Stanford in Palo Alto, California. Coach Norman knows that if they hope for similar results or better, the team will have to plan specifically for their opponent’s style. “I think that Stanford is very heavy in the attack, that’s what they want to do as they’ve won [27] games in a row and the last ... national championship, so they do that by becoming very overwhelming in the numbers they push forward and keeping the ball,” Norman said. “For me, that means we have to make sure we apply pressure to them, we’ve got to make them uncomfortable. I think a lot of teams want to sit back, but I think it allows them to get in better and better rhythms.” ”From an attacking standpoint, it’s making sure that when we get the ball, we understand the areas where we can expose them and the areas we can exploit by the ways they attack,” he said. Santa Clara two days later will be yet another tough test, one the Irish have become a bit familiar with over the past couple seasons. After playing to a 0-0 draw in 2016, the Irish had a scoring surge when the two teams matched up last year, beating the Broncos 4-1. They’ll hope for similar results as the games this weekend wrap up non-conference play for the Irish before a difficult ACC schedule begins. Coach Norman recognizes the importance of heading into conference play on a good note. “I think it’ll put us in a good rhythm getting into conference play and I think it’ll be a wonderful opportunity,” he said. The Irish have depth on their roster as four players currently lead the team with four points apiece. They’ll have to find a way to put that depth to good use this weekend if they wish to come out with a positive result. Contact Alex Bender at abender@nd.edu

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for years to come. The time has never been better for this experienced team to make their mark. Newly appointed head coach Matt Sparks, who served as an assistant coach for the Irish for four years, brings knowledge of the team and the leadership skills needed for a team trying to get

back into the postseason. Sparks has displayed that he can lead teams and players to great success. He was integral piece for the Irish over the last four years, leading the women to an 11th place finish at the 2016 NCAA Championships, six ACC individual titles and an individual NCAA Cross Country Championship title with Molly Seidel’s 2016 Championship performance. Nuguse said Sparks is

doing a good job and providing strong leadership for both teams. “As of right now, I think [Coach Sparks is] giving really good leadership to the program as a whole,” Nuguse said. “I just feel like he knows us more on a personal basis than our last coach did, and everything is running smoothly so far. As far as I can tell, coach Sparks has been a great head coach.”

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Although cross country is a sport of many variables, the Irish have the talent and the leadership to make a deep run this year. Barring no major injuries occur, all eyes will be on this season’s team, as the Irish will attempt to bounce back from last season and end a drought that, by Irish standards, is too long. Contact Charlie OrtegaGuifarro at cortegag@nd.edu

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our opponent is, where we’re play ing them, we play Notre Dame volleyball and we hold ourselves to Notre Dame standards.” Those standards are intentionally set high. “Our coaches say all the time that ‘we train so much better than so many other schools.’ We’re up almost ever y morning at 7 a.m. morning practice and then we have afternoon practice,” Yeadon said. The coaching staff is now helmed by head coach Mike Johnson, replacing Jim McLaughlin who is stepping dow n due to health issues. McLaughlin, who ser ved as the head coach of the Universit y of Washington for 14 years, coming to Notre Dame during Yeadon’s senior year, played a big role in Yeadon’s, a native of Mercer Island, Washington, path to Notre Dame. “I was always at Washington games, always going to Washington camps, so Jim [McLaughlin] was definitely a big inf luence on my decision to come here.” said Yeadon. “[He] had been recruiting me at a young age at Washington. W hen I found out he was coming to ND that definitely piqued my interest for Notre Dame.” However, the neuroscience and behav ior major said the deciding factor for her was the holistic approach Notre Dame offers. “W hat really sealed the deal was when I came on campus and I just realized how special of a place Notre Dame was,” she said. “[Searching for a] balance

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of both athletics and academics and I don’t think you can have bigger academics and bigger athletics than any where else [but] at Notre Dame,” she said. Despite the loss of one of her earliest role models, Yeadon has faith in the current roster and coaches. “We have a great coaching staff…I definitely think we have a special group of girls,” she said. “I think the freshman that came in this year just, like, upped the ante on our team. I think they each bring something special to the core. I have nothing but high hopes for us.” One of those freshmen is setter Zoe Nunez, who is currently leading the team in assists, w ith a staggering 156 through five games, w ith more than her fair share coming courtesy of Yeadon. Despite her primar y offensive role, Yeadon still defers to her teammates for her success. “Zoe is an ama zing setter and she can locate the ball so well, and I think I just feed off of that,” she said. “We have Ryann DeJarld in the back. They make it easy for me.” It’s no surprise she places such an emphasis on those around her, as the people she has played with have made a huge impact on her development. “I first started playing volleyball in the second grade when my older sister decided to tr y out for the team and I decided to follow suit because she was doing it,” Yeadon said. One of her favorite memories is posting a 24-and-1 record her freshman year of high school while on the varsity team with her older

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Irish freshman setter Zoe Nunez sets the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Oakland on Aug. 20 at Purcell Pavillion. Nunez leads the team with 156 assists through five games.

sister, a senior at the time. The only game that rivals the memor y of that season was a game against Duke in her first year as part of the Irish. Reeling from a 7-25 record the previous season, the 3-1 win over the Blue Devils marked the best start for their best start since 2005. Yeadon recorded a teamleading 18 kills. “That was, I think, like one of the most kinda hyped games that I think we’ve had at Notre Dame,” she

said. “That was the specific game for me that I think I’ll remember forever.” The Irish (4-1) come off a tough loss at No. 19 Purdue (5-0) but are ready to bounce back. “We definitely didn’t handle business the way we needed to,” Yeadon said. “But, the mentality after a loss is just to get better; after a win its just to get better. That’s something that our coach stresses a lot, whether you win or you lose

you still have things to get better on.” As the Irish prepare to face the team that ended their season last year, Yeadon believes they are prepared for the challenge. “We put in the work, we put in the extra hours,” she said. Now, all those extra hours and high Notre Dame standards are primed to yield success.

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weekend. The Irish will be traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area to face two national powerhouses: No. 12 Santa Clara (4-1) and No. 1 Stanford, the defending national champions. While the games will pose serious challenges for the Irish, Norman is hoping to see Wingate provide a serious spark to the offense in both of them. “She can put a lot of pressure on their back line as a forward,” he said. “That can break up their rhythm very quickly. Being able to hold the ball when we’re transitioning and being able to make dynamic runs to get behind them, because they do leave themselves exposed at times.” With Wingate’s form playing a key role in the Notre Dame attack this weekend, Norman said opposing defenses will have to work a little bit harder. “She just gives us that natural player to really stretch them out,” he said. Notre Dame will need Wingate’s recent offensive

attack this weekend against the Cardinals (5-0), who have only given up two goals through five games. Similarly, the Broncos had only allowed two goals through four games. However, their first loss of the season came at the hands of No. 7 Texas A&M, who netted four goals while holding the Broncos scoreless. Santa Clara will face No. 4 North Carolina before they take on the Irish. Following their weekend in California, the team will return to Alumni Stadium to take on North Carolina State as they begin their ACC regular-season play. Notre Dame returns to action this Friday with a 9 p.m. matchup against Stanford at Cagan Stadium in Palo Alto, California. The Irish will complete their road trip as they head east for a game Sunday against Santa Monica. Kickoff is slated for 3:00 p.m. at Stevens Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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Irish freshman forward Olivia Wingate and sophomore midfielder Brianna Martinez high five during Notre Dame’s win over Cincinnati.

senior year of high school. This injury means part of the goal of Wingate’s season has been transitioning back to soccer. Norman said he has been very pleased already with the way he has seen Wingate bounce back. “She’s just now getting her rhythm back and her timing,” he said. “I don’t even think we’ve seen anything close to the best of her yet. We’re very excited to see her develop and get back into her normal self as the season goes on.” Norman has been impressed with Wingate’s dedication, citing it as one of her strongest qualities as a player. “Just [with] her general athleticism and mentality, she’s just a tireless worker,” he said. “She’s fast, she’s strong and she makes runs that put a ton of pressure on the back line ... We just want to see her keep growing and improving her game.” Wingate will be needed to make an offensive impact this

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ND WOMEN’S SOCCER

Irish prepare to head west for top matchups Notre Dame looking to bounce back with key wins

Wingate’s offensive production is just what ND needs

By alex bender

By peter baltes

Sports Writer

After a hot start to the season for No. 17 Notre Dame, in which they won their first three games while dominating in possession and scoring opportunities, things cooled off a bit in the past week. The Irish (4-2) have lost t wo of their last three games, those losses coming at the hands of Butler and No. 24 Ohio State. The team now prepares for what may be their toughest test of the season when they head out west for a matchup against reigning national champions and top-ranked Stanford. The match against the Cardinal w ill be followed by a game against No. 12 Santa Clara. Coming into the difficult weekend ahead, first-year head coach Nate Norman recognizes his team w ill

Oliv ia Wingate has burst onto the scene as an integral part of the No. 17 Notre Dame (4-2) offense. The freshman for ward has already found the back of the net t w ice, making her tied for first among Irish goalscorers. Both of those goals have come in the last three games. Wingate has also fired off the third-most shots on the team w ith 16. Those shots have not been wasted; 50 percent of her scoring attempts have been on goal. Those eight shots on goal put Wingate in the lead among her team. “She’s been fantastic,” head coach Nate Norman said. “She was a player we knew was ver y talented.” Wingate was sidelined due to a knee injur y during her

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Irish freshman forward Olivia Wingate battles a defender for the ball during Notre Dame’s 2-1 win over Cincinnati on Aug. 30 at Alumni Stadium. Wingate scored her second collegiate goal against the Bearcats.

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nd cross country

ND looks to make comeback By CHARLIE ORTEGA GUIFARRO Sports Writer

It’s been 61 years since either Notre Dame cross countr y team has won a championship. Prior to that, the men had been named runner up three times. This year however, there’s more hope than ever that this title drought could come to an end. The Irish were unable to make it to the NCA A Championship last year but, this year looks to be different. Senior Anna Rohrer — who missed last season due to a hamstring injur y — w ill return to race this year for the women’s side. Rohrer has won A ll-ACC Team honors, ACC Freshman of the Year and ACC Performer of the Year. In addition, sophomore Annasophia Keller w ill also aim to improve on an impressive first year in which

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she became part of the team’s top runners. Six of last season’s top-seven runners w ill be returning as well. To cap it off, the Irish w ill have plent y of experienced runners on the course w ith the likes of seniors Rohrer, Rachel DaDamio and Annie Heffernan, along w ith the return of graduate student Sydney Foreman. On the men’s side, nearly the entire team w ill be returning as well, w ith veteran Kev in Pulliam opting in for a fifth year. In addition to these returning veterans, rising star Yared Nuguse w ill seek to build upon what was an impressive freshman campaign in which he finished top-25 A ll-Region, a strong show ing for his debut season. To add to the team’s pedigree, the Irish signed three top-10 recruits last season which w ill help sustain the success of the team see XC PAGE 10

Yeadon finds balance at Notre Dame By HAYDEN ADAMS Sports Writer

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Irish junior outside hitter Jemma Yaedon prepares to tip the ball over the net during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Oakland on Aug. 31.

“I can honestly say I can’t think of a better place that just has the balance of ever y thing I ever wanted,” Jemma Yeadon said of Notre Dame. The junior outside hitter returns from a season in which she led the team in kills by a ver y comfortable margin. She hopes to eclipse the success of last season’s team, which was eliminated in the first round of the NCA A tournament by Western Kentuck y. The Irish w ill meet the Lady Toppers for the first time this Friday since that season-ending loss. “I think it’s in the back of our heads, of course,” Yeadon said of the loss. “But, the most important thing is we play Notre Dame volleyball. It doesn’t matter who see YEADON PAGE 11