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ND Ten recount 1969 protest, activism Former students suspended for demonstrating against Vietnam War criticize University’s response By MARY STEURER Assistant Managing Editor
Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the Notre Dame Ten protests, which saw the suspension of 10 Notre Dame students for protesting the Vietnam War on campus in 1969. Several former Notre Dame students and faculty from the era gathered to reflect on the legacy of the demonstration, as well as Notre Dame’s relationship with the military and corporate interests. Five guests gathered for an hour of conversation in Notre
Dame Studios that afternoon: three of the Ten — John Eckenrode, Chris Cotter and Mark Mahoney — and two former Notre Dame faculty who lobbied on their behalf, Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy and Carl Estabrook. Other events of the day included an 11 a.m. vigil in the Main Building, a Mass in Holy Cross Chapel and a 7:30 p.m. presentation in Eck Visitor Center. The 1969 protest began as a stand against on-campus recruiters for the Dow Chemical company and the CIA. Students were already
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suspicious of recruiters, often not forthcoming about their companies’ role in wartime efforts, McCarthy said. In a push for greater transparency, student government passed a resolution that year asking on-campus recruiters to open themselves to public Q&A sessions during their visit. But Dow Chemical and the CIA were particularly emblematic of the Vietnam War, he added — the CIA as a vessel of military interests, and Dow for its role manufacturing infamous wartime chemicals like napalm and Agent Orange. “Dow and CIA represented
Dulce and Moe, left to right, are frequent visitors at the Saint Mary’s costume shop, where they contribute to the welcoming environment. By MARIROSE OSBORNE News Writer
College life can be stressful. However, there are ways to turn a rough time into a ruff time with the various dogs who come to Saint Mary’s to hang out on campus. The Saint Mary’s costume shop is often full of dogs. Melissa Bialko, a professional specialist in costume design theatre,
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has eight dogs. Frequent canine visitors include Dulce, Moe and Napoleon. Bialko worked doggedly to create a schedule for her canines. She brings in the dogs on a rotating basis and shares their adventures on the Dogs of the Saint Mary’s Costume Shop Instagram page. “It started in around 2013,” Bialko said. “I began to bring see DOGS PAGE 3
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to disrupt the recruitment interviews. By 1969, anti-war sentiment had already roiled college campuses across the country, with many demonstrations escalating to violence. To avoid any such outbreak at Notre Dame, University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh introduced his famous 15-minute rule that February, which promised suspension for any student or group who “that substitute[d] force for rational persuasion” and did not “cease or desist” protest 15 minutes see ND 10 PAGE 4
Faculty, administrators describe ND provost role By GENEVIEVE REDSTEN News Writer
Notre Dame’s chief academic officer, provost Tom Burish sets the academic direction for the entire University. In an Aug. 1 press release, the University announced after 15 years in the provost role Burish plans to step down in July of 2020. His replacement, administrators and faculty say, will need to work with students, faculty and administrators to meet the unique demands
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the extremes of creating unnecessary human misery in the world … and the University basically was aiding and abetting that,” McCarthy said. “Not only in [the Notre Dame Ten protest], but in the way it sent a continuing flow of ROTC students over to Vietnam to do this killing, this maiming, this causing of human suffering.” Against students’ wishes, the University refused to accommodate forum discussions between students and Dow Chemical and the CIA. In response, students gathered near the placement office on the third floor of the Main Building
of higher education. Christine Maziar, Notre Dame’s vice president and senior associate provost, said the provost is tasked with a heavy workload. “If I talk about what a day for Tom really looks like, I think it’s starting at 7 o’clock in the morning and going until 10 o’clock at night,” Maziar said. “It’s pretty intense. I think it would be hard to say that a provost has a typical day.” Along with the University President, the provost is “the
final arbiter of all things academic,” said Louis Nanni, vice president for University relations. By collaborating with faculty, administrators and students — and by leading fundraising efforts — the provost works to achieve a grand strategic vision for academic life.
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Saint Mary’s seniors share athletic experiences By REBECCA STELLA News Writer
Each year, the Saint Mary’s athletic department hosts a variety of events to bring the programs closer together. Twice a year they host an event called “Why We Play,” in which seniors from each sport share their experience with athletics. While this was only the fourth year
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Saint Mary’s has hosted “Why We Play,” the tradition was first started at Kalamazoo College in 2001 by former Kalamazoo head volleyball coach, Jeanne Hess. This year, soccer player Kellen Hinchey and cross-country runners Shanan Hamilton and Katie Glenn spoke. Hinchey, a threeyear captain of the Saint Mary’s team, started off the night, speaking about her experience
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with soccer. “I want to start this off with a quote most of you will probably know,” Hinchey said. “In Lilo and Stitch Lilo says ‘Ohana means family and family means no one gets left behind.’ If you replace Ohana with soccer, you’ve got my family.” Being the youngest of six, see SENIORS PAGE 3
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Panel addresses human trafficking industry By MAEVE FILBIN and JOHANNAH WARD Saint Mary’s News Editor & News Writer
The President’s Committee on Sexual Violence and the Division for Mission at Saint Mary’s invited students to participate in a discussion panel Monday, to learn more about the “Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution,” or SOAP, project and the presence of human trafficking in the local community. SOAP, a “hands-on outreach to fight sex trafficking at large events and in communities,” was founded by advocate and survivor Theresa Flores. Those involved in the project travel the country increasing awareness on the prevalence of human trafficking in the U.S. The panelists, Jennifer Riggs, Cathy Knauf and Sister Michael Mary Nolan, each brought a unique perspective to the discussion, speaking from years of experience combating the various aspects of human trafficking and sexual abuse. Jennifer Riggs, the first panelist to present, has worked a registered nurse in the emergency department at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka for almost ten years. For the past three and a half years, Riggs — a sexual assault nurse examiner — has worked primarily as a forensic nurse, caring for victims of physical and sexual assault of all ages. Riggs said she first felt intimidated when she was asked to speak
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Hinchey said she was exposed to soccer at a young age, attending practices and often playing with those much older than herself. She said she always knew she wanted to continue playing for as long as possible. “It wasn’t a question of if I would be playing soccer in college, but where,” Hinchey said. Through a tough first two years of soccer with lots of ups and downs, Hinchey said she stuck with it and found a team that she could call her family her junior year.
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Bella, my Saint Bernard, because in the theater we work long and erratic hours especially for tech week. It made the experience more enjoyable and more relaxing for me and for the students.” Bialko said she wanted to create a welcoming environment for students in the costume shop. “We have a lot of students that visit the costume shop just for the dogs,” she said. “I keep tea and cocoa here and I just want everyone to know they are always welcome.” The Office of Student
with experts on human trafficking and other human rights violations, but ultimately decided to share her experience and expertise. “The more I thought about it, the more I remembered that tackling an issue like human trafficking really is a team effort, and takes many different perspectives and ideas and helping hands,” Riggs said. Sex trafficking has become a form of modern slavery, Riggs said. “The legal definition simplified is ‘the use of force, fraud and coercion to obtain some type of sex act,’” she said. “And we’re talking about men, women and children of all ages, who are recruited, groomed and sold into this. You know, we sometimes think that slavery was abolished along with the 13th Amendment, but this falls under this that definition and it is considered modern day slavery.” While human trafficking is most prevalent in California, Florida, Texas and New York, Riggs said it is also present in the Midwest, including Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Specifically, Indiana has seen an increasing number of documented victims, a trend that spans several years back, she said. “I don’t necessarily think that there are more women who are being trafficked, but I think because we’re talking about this the way that we are, we have more awareness, we’re better at recognizing victims, hopefully rescuing victims and that’s maybe the rise of the numbers that we’re seeing,”
Riggs said. Much of the current understanding of sex trafficking has been informed by survivors, Riggs said, who agree to share their stories in hopes of assisting those still being trafficked and prevent future cases. When speaking with these survivors, Riggs said she learned that based on survivor experiences, health services proved to be one of the top five access points to freedom. “So health services being number three means that I, as a nurse, have a big opportunity to help in this capacity,” Riggs said. “Nearly 90% of survivors interviewed said that they had been to a health care professional while they were being trafficked. Almost everybody received a healthcare professional at some point … 63% said they had been to a hospital or an ER, and then others Planned Parenthood or maybe like a women’s care center here in town, or a women’s clinic, primary care doctors or some type of neighborhood clinic.” Based on these numbers, Riggs said she believes professionals who are trained in identifying and assisting victims of human trafficking should be placed in these spaces. “It doesn’t always have to be a nurse,” she said. “But this was actually a project that my department at Saint [Joseph] kind of took on this past year. So we send out nurses to these different areas to teach them what to look for. And then also to let them know that we exist so that if
somebody presents to their clinic or office, that they know that they can send them to us for care.” Cathy Knauf, the second panelist, is a member of the Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force and the founder of the Southwest Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force. “Back when we first started, nobody understood what the word human trafficking meant, and we’ve come a long way,” Knauf said. “You see it in TV and movies, but that’s not always an accurate portrayal.” Knauf said even she struggles to comprehend the sheer size of the human trafficking market in America. “This is a number I can’t really even get my own head around, but it’s a $150 billion industry,” she said. “So I’m sure you’ve heard of Starbucks, McDonald’s and Nike. You put their annual income, what they made in 2018 together and that’s not even half human trafficking.” Young victims are often lured into human trafficking through social media accounts run by traffickers targeting the most vulnerable on the internet, Knauf said. The final panelist, Sister Michael Mary Nolan, of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, is a social justice attorney in São Paulo, Brazil and graduated from Saint Mary’s in 1964. Nolan and others founded the Institute for Land, Labor and Citizenship in 1997, after
discovering the unhealthy conditions of women’s prisons, with the goal of protecting human rights and eradicating gender inequality. Nolan currently serves as the Institute’s president. Located near the international airport in Brazil, Nolan said she works in an area that is perfectly set up for the illegal drug trade. While investigating the local women’s prison, Nolan stumbled upon women who had been arrested for smuggling drugs. “At that point, we found 40 foreign women in jail that nobody knew were there,” Nolan said. “None of them spoke Portuguese, the majority of them spoke English and other languages. So in the last 20 years, we have attended about 1,200 foreign women. As we listened to the stories of these women, we felt that they were not really international drug traffickers. They were victims of human trafficking.” Though separate forms of trafficking, drug and human trafficking are directly linked, Nolan said. “Human trafficking, according to the United Nations, is the third largest illegal source of money in the world,” she said. “You have arms, you have drugs, and you have human trafficking. And the drug trafficking is directly tied in to the human trafficking.”
“The personalities and talents of the current sophomores and juniors who have stuck around through thick and thin have turned around my entire soccer experience here,” Hinchey said. “I finally had a college team that I felt comfortable with and this year it only got better. The team this year has reminded me why I play soccer, not just for the love of the game but because my teammates are my best friends and my Saint Mary’s family.” Shanan Hamilton shared a very different experience. Hamilton joined the cross-country team her sophomore year of college without prior experience with the
sport, save for a lifelong love for running. “When I first started running it was very late in my career,” she said. “The first trickle of running I ever had in my life was in middle school when I was the only girl on the basketball team who loved running suicides.” After a difficult first year of school at Saint Mary’s, Hamilton wanted to transfer. Instead, she reached out to cross country coach Jackie Bauters to see if she could join the team. After working all summer to get her 5k under 22 minutes, she was on the team. “I never had a connection to Saint Mary’s my freshman year, but when I got to wear the French
cross on my jersey, I felt a part of Saint Mary’s,” Hamilton said. “This was my team and my people, and I was finally a Belle.” Katie Glenn took her own original spin on the “Why We Play” format. “I could’ve never guessed that I’d end up where I am today, so I thought it would be interesting to write a letter to my middle school self, give her a little heads up, tell her why she ends up where she does today and why it’s the best thing that will ever happen to her,” Glenn said. “Dear Katie, that boy with the curly hair who you think is really cute? He’s gay. You’re welcome.” She then went on to speak
about her struggles to live up to the expectations of her Division-I athlete siblings and her conversion to the sport of cross country — a sport she never expected she’d participate in. “‘Why we run’ is an impossible question to answer, because for us, it’s never been a question,” Glenn said. “Asking why we run is like asking why we breathe — it’s what we do. Why would you ever stop doing something that gives you so much in return? How could you ever stop doing something that has taught you to never stop pushing?”
Involvement at Saint Mary’s has a dog as well. Boomer is a four-yearold Sheltie who likes to howl up on the second floor of the student center, owner Tena Johnson, the coordinator of student organizations at Saint Mary’s, said. Johnson said students make an effort to visit Boomer, who in turn, gives them comfort. “Boomer has a huge impact,” she said. “He can sense when students are upset or have emotional issues, and he’s always ready to help. They love him. We have regulars that come in to visit him.” Terri Russ, associate professor of communication studies, is another advocate for dogs on campus. Russ often brings her maltese-poodle
mix, RBG, short for “The Notorious Little Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” to her office in the basement of Moreau. RBG will be three years old Dec. 4, and, Russ said, RBG is currently in training to become an officially licensed therapy dog. “She’s naturally social and has a natural empathy,” Russ said of RBG. “She’s really good at finding students who are stressed. I take her to class with me, which you would think would be a disruption, but it’s really not. She just goes around and jumps on people’s laps and gets petted, you know, walks around.” Russ started bringing RBG to campus in 2017. “I had her from when she was a
really tiny puppy,” she said. “She was only five pounds then. She had been abandoned early so she had abandonment issues. So she came in on and off. She was so small that I could zip her inside my coat and carry her around this time of year.” Russ also said there are advantages to having a dog in the classroom. “My way of teaching is very dialogic,” Russ said. “I rarely lecture, I do a lot of hands on learning, a lot of flipped classroom learning. And so she helps with that. She helps humanize me as more than just a professor who’s in charge of the grade.” Russ says the increased
openness to dogs on campus has been around for the past couple of years. “A few years ago, we had dog friendly residences and we also had a president who had her dog on campus, so we became a more dog friendly campus,” Russ said. Russ also acknowledged the importance of her department’s openness to canine companions. “I think in our department, we’re a very pet friendly department so we’ve always had dogs in and out of here the whole time I’ve been at Saint Mary’s,” she said.
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Heller said. “You need to make new hires because either people retire or majors have grow n, or you have research needs that aren’t being met.” The provost manages this constant f lu x, deciding which programs to grow and who to hire. Ever y professor who receives tenure, Heller said, must be approved by the Office of the Provost. The tenure rev iew process is extensive, requiring several levels of administrators to examine professors’ credentials — from the deans to the provost to the president. “I don’t know if they read ever yone’s books from cover to cover, but they read a ton of material related to the tenure,” Heller said. “Then the Provost Adv isor y Committee does the same. The provost does the same. And even the president does the same. And they can say ‘no.’” The Facult y Senate, a representative body of elected facult y members, consults w ith the Office of the Provost, prov iding administrators w ith facult y input and expertise. Heller currently chairs the Facult y Senate, and he said communication between the provost and the facult y is critical. “I think in prev ious years, before Provost Burish was in the position, there was not always great communication between the facult y and the administration generally,” Heller said. With Burish, however, Heller said facult y feel their voices have been well represented.
also have far-reaching impacts on students. “Academic concerns are, by their nature, both facult y and student concerns,” Maziar said. A lthough the provost is primarily concerned w ith questions of academics, Maziar said the Office of the Provost has to monitor all policy decisions affecting student life. “There are student concerns that lie outside of the academy, and those would be Student Affairs, Residential Life and that sort of thing, but we stay tuned in to those concerns because they can have an impact on academic life,” Maziar said. “But we don’t have direct responsibilit y for that.” To stay connected w ith students, Burish “makes a habit” of eating in the dining halls, Maziar said. “He’ll just sit dow n w ith a group of students who may not know who or what a provost is until after they’ve had dinner w ith Tom,” he said. “He picks up a lot of interesting things in those conversations.”
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Beyond collaborating w ith students, facult y and other administrators, the provost also supports the Universit y financially by leading fundraising efforts. “At many other places, the provost role is not as handson in fundraising activ ities, but that fundraising is important to an institution like Notre Dame and it means that it puts Tom on the road quite a bit,” Maziar said. “Just last week, he was in China and Rome.” That fundraising role, Nanni said, is in support of the larger academic mission. Specifically, as the cost of higher education continues rising nationw ide, Maziar
after being told to disperse. If the student continued to protest for another five minutes, they would be expelled. The University was quick to invoke this rule against the Dow and CIA protestors, with 10 ultimately suspended. It seemed the events of Oct. 18 were a perfect storm for a protest, McCarthy said. He said given campus sentiment against Dow Chemical and the CIA, and Notre Dame’s veto of Q&A sessions, the administration should have anticipated a demonstration. “It was a setup,” he said. The University had much to benefit from by cracking down on student protestors, Estabrook added. By 1969, a majority of the American population opposed the Vietnam war — an attitude
college demonstrators only amplified. “Friends of the [Nixon] administration and the president of Notre Dame were dealing with a situation of public dismay, at the least, at what the government is doing,” he said. “The notion of a setup that would criminalize, in some sense, student protest was not far from their thoughts.” Condemning student protest in support of government and corporate interests promised financial gain for Notre Dame, Mahoney argued. Hesburgh was skilled at attracting corporate investment, planting the seeds for the University’s massive growth over the next halfcentury, he said. Eckenrode said the moral implications of these entanglements run deep. As a symbol of the Catholic Church, Notre Dame imparts a kind of
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said this fundraising helps support access and affordabilit y for lower-income students.
Waves of change in higher education Burish has held the provost position for over a decade. If his predecessor also stays in the role long term, Maziar and Heller predict he or she w ill have to contend w ith many major shifts in higher education. Across the countr y, “the system of tenure itself is being eroded, and many more people are being hired w ithout tenure and w ithout the chance of tenure,” Heller said. Nationw ide, Heller said, colleges and universities are hiring more part-time professors, who don’t receive the same protections as tenured professors. Without long-term contracts, parttime professors “live a more precarious ex istence,” Heller said. “Notre Dame is a Research I universit y [defined by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as hav ing the highest levels of research in the countr y] where that is less of a problem generally,” she said. “But we’re not completely insulated from this. And I think that’s one of the issues that the new provost w ill have to keep an eye on.”
recruit new faculty members who may be skeptical of the Catholic mission. “In the larger academic world, outside of Notre Dame, it’s common for people to misunderstand Catholicism and the richness and variety of Catholic experience and expression,” Maziar said. Nanni said the University’s Catholic mission requires Notre Dame’s provost to balance three major goals for academic life at the University. “Father John [Jenkins, University President] talks about a three-part vision for the University,” he said. “One is to offer an unsurpassed undergraduate experience. Two is to be premier in our research and our graduate work. And three is to make certain that our Catholic character informs all that we do.” The provost, he said, has to juggle those three goals which can often be in tension with each other.
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Maziar said Notre Dame’s Catholic identity is “both an opportunity and a challenge” for the provost. “It’s an opportunity because it gives us a distinctiveness that makes us different than other schools,” she said. However, she also said it can pose challenges for the provost as he tries to
Before assuming the Notre Dame provost position in 2005, Burish rose through the ranks of academia. According to Notre Dame’s press release announcing Burish’s departure, he spent many years as a psycholog y professor before he became the provost of Vanderbilt University and, later, the president of Washington and Lee University. Heller said he believes the next provost should also rise from the faculty ranks. “[I hope] the next provost really has a background that will allow him or her to understand the particular mission of this University, as a Catholic institution of higher learning,” he said.
moral status to its partner institutions, he said. “A corollary … that I think is often promoted, and you still hear today, is that by having Notre Dame students go through ROTC, work in the military or work for the military-industrial complex corporations, it would somehow Christianize those organizations,” he said. Mahoney recalled the words of former a Program of Liberal Studies professor who he said penned an article condemning the University’s corporate ties. “The ‘we’ in the University was the University, the military and corporations, the Board of Trustees who were with major corporations,” Mahoney said. “The ‘they’ was us, the students.” According to Mahoney, even in the immediate aftermath of the incident, conf licting narratives of the protest emerged
— possibly to shield the administration from criticism. He said Hesburgh downplayed the suspensions in his memoirs. “He suggested that, ‘Well, boys will be boys. No harm, no foul. Everybody graduated,’ I think even hinting they graduated on time,” he said. “And, of course, this wasn’t true.” In reality, two of the Notre Dame Ten would never complete their Notre Dame education, Mahoney said. There is little excuse for these conf licting accounts, McCarthy said — the events of Oct. 18, 1969 and the students’ subsequent suspension are a matter of public record. “There is nothing hazy about this event. Nothing,” he said. “ … Ted Hesburgh could have had access to it since it’s in the [Notre Dame] archives, if he wanted it. But what he did, and what people in power
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Nanni said the next provost will need to have a zeal for Notre Dame’s Catholic mission but will also “have to understand the intricacies of academic leadership and all that that entails.” Dennis Brown, a spokesperson for Notre Dame, declined The Observer’s request to interview a member of the search committee. “W hen the committee has something to say, it will come from Father Jenkins, the committee chair,” Brown said in an email. He also declined a request to provide a comment from Jenkins about the committee’s criteria for a new candidate.
Burish’s work behind the scenes Although Burish has spent a long time in the provost position, Nanni said he doubts the University’s academic direction will change much after Burish steps down. “We’re all here [as] stewards of a mission that is greater than us all. I think that in some ways we do less to change Notre Dame, and Notre Dame does more to change who we are,” Nanni said. Nevertheless, Heller, Nanni and Maziar all agreed that Burish has had great inf luence over the machinations of academic life. But for Burish, Maziar said, that has meant largely working “behind the scenes.” “Like any really great leader, he doesn’t bring attention to himself,” Nanni said. “In fact, he would be about empowering others to succeed and excel and letting them bask in the glory of their accomplishments. So he’s been very self-effacing all the way through.” Contact Genevieve Redsten at gredsten@nd.edu
do, is they obfuscate.” A handful of the Ten and their supporters have made an effort to reunite on the anniversary of the demonstrations, most recently in 2009. Some of the Ten — perhaps still hurt by the University’s actions — ignore the invitation, Mahoney said. “They’re so disaffected because of this,” he said. “That’s huge. That’s true pain.” Though the five said there was no animosity between them and Notre Dame, they said they still struggle to make sense of that day. “How easy it would have been to say, ‘All right, maybe we should talk about this’?” Mahoney said. “But there was too much to protect, too much to hide.” Maria Luisa Paul contributed to this story. Contact Mary Steurer at msteure1@nd.edu
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By MIKE DONOVAN Scene Editor
“Monicalewinskymonicalewisnkymonicalewinsky!” shrieks the criminally young Geordie Greep as he — after sustaining an iceberg gaze and flatline grimace for over an hour — finally breaks into a grin, disintegrating the ferocious atmosphere surrounding he and his band, UK’s prodigious black midi. The improvised line, ushering in the end of his night at Detroit’s newly minted music hub, Deluxx Fluxx, offers a pleasant reminder: black midi — despite the hype (manifest in their media-given status as Prog Rock revivalists in the vein of King Crimson, Yes and others), obvious talent (if you claim to know of a drum/bass combo more electric than Morgan Simpson and Gordon Picton’s jet engine exchange, you are, in fact, wrong) and pseudo-serious demeanor — really only wants to have a really f-----g good time. Pitchfork, seeing some of itself in black midi, lovingly calls the band “pretentious” while the less impressed Guardian and Consequence of Sound openly deride the lads for their strains of self-importance. None of these pencil jockeys, in all their verbal dexterity, manage to capture, or even notice,
By JIM MOSTER Scene Writer
The 21st century media landscape is constantly evolving to keep up with technological advancements. In recent years, podcasts have skyrocketed in popularity as consumers realize the value of pouring distilled conversations into their ears. It was only a matter of time before the agents of the 24-hour news cycle infiltrated the podcast market. Today, every prominent news publication in the country wants you to plug into its daily podcast as you trudge to class with thermos in hand. So, who do you trust to start your morning? Each option has something different to offer.
“The Daily” — The New York Times The New York Times set the bar high for other news publications with its highly acclaimed podcast, “The Daily.” The soft-spoken host, Michael Barbaro, turns the news into a narrative by skillfully extracting insight from journalists and other guests. Depending on the week’s newsworthiness, “The Daily” alternates between covering current events and profiling relevant issues. Every episode is a neatly packaged product. The producers inject comforting continuity into the show with a catchy theme song and predictable pacing. In addition, Barbaro strikes an apt balance between feigning ignorance for the listener’s benefit and contributing his own knowledge on the topic. “The Daily” averages 25 to 30 minutes per episode and releases weekdays by 6 a.m. If you can spare the time, the substance and simple pleasures of “The Daily” are worth it.
the elemental qualities (beyond influence and comparisons) connecting the black midi of the stage to their adoring venue audience. Nobody goes to a black midi show for hooks, familyfriendly melodies and oh-so-very relatable lyrics. They go instead to soak in the band members themselves, live vicariously through their passionate yelps and overwrought rhythms — the wailings of people playing music for their own sake. These noises constitute a rejection of pop, brought to grotesque life on stage where they laugh violently at an industry in which every artist must, in one way or another, commodify their art to scrape out an existence. On this year’s record “Schlagenheim,” such noises sound relatively tame, but in person they breath sub-zero flames through the uncompressed, unmediated channels linking amps to ears. The black midi show, then, is an intimate transaction, discovering in the “pretentious,” “self-satisfying” corners of their songs an unexpected and infectious earnestness. black midi makes this earnestness a full stop when, after tearing through their single release discography and more than a few “Lewinskis,” they conclude their set with a wildly experimental cover of The Champs’ 1958 standard, “Tequila.” Emanating a melodious familiarity absolutely
alien to everything black midi, “Tequila” represents everything black midi is not: pop, pure and agreeable. But, in the young band’s irreverent hands, the track reinvents itself as both the butt of a lengthy joke and the object of intense admiration. As the band runs at breakneck speed from “Tequila!” to “Tequila!” the audience shifts, irreversibly, from a deeply ingrained “this is so stupid” mentality (a stock feature for punk show attendees) into a state to hallucinogenic bliss. As such, “Tequila” by black midi reclaims agreeable pop for the discontents so ready to disparage it. While realistically black midi’s “Tequila” exists so the band has something to play after exhausting “Schlagenheim’s” 43 min, its effects echo regardless of the band’s intent. They mark an experience specific to a moment and a room, available only to those in attendance, and they carry the intangible textures (outside even the band’s control) inherent in the word “live.” If you want the full black midi — the version you won’t find on YouTube or Spotify — then give up 15 of your best dollars and pay them a visit.
media. “Today, Explained,” Vox’s daily news podcast, appropriately reflects the image of Vox as a savvy startup. The host, Sean Rameswaram, is just there to have a good time — and explain the day, of course. “Today, Explained” beams breezy bits of meaningful, microcosmic stories straight to the listener every afternoon. Rameswaram controls the chaos of the news through a lighthearted tone, making it perfect if your brain is fried after a long day of classes. Unfortunately, the show occasionally feels more like “Yesterday, Explained” due to the time constraint of its release cycle. “Today, Explained” averages 20 minutes per episode and releases around 5 p.m. on weekdays. If you value a combination of high production value and casual delivery, add “Today, Explained” to your evening queue.
— clean, efficient, safe and with a dash of personality. Every episode of “Up First” starts by listing the day’s headlines over a classy jingle. Then, the hosts welcome several guests to systematically explains each headline. Through this format, “Up First” promises the listener cursory knowledge on a myriad of topics. Unlike its competitors, “Up First” merely lists the date in the episode’s title. Listeners have to take a minuscule leap of faith in the absence of foreknowledge on the episode’s content. However, “Up First” reliably delivers quality information regardless of the day’s news. “Up First” averages 10 to 15 minutes per episode. It releases every weekday at 6 a.m. and every Saturday at 8 a.m. If you barely have time for coffee in the morning, “Up First” will happily oblige your schedule.
“What’s News” — The Wall Street Journal
“Post Reports” — The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal gets down to business in its daily podcast, “What’s News.” The show describes the news through rapid-fire sound-bites and one longer conversation per episode. “What’s News” prioritizes content over character. Wall Street Journal experts in business, economics and politics come on the show to deliver their opinions on current events and corporate behavior. While many podcasts attempt to craft an experience, “What’s News” resembles a simple news broadcast on the radio. “What’s News” averages 10 to 15 minutes per episode and releases twice a weekday, with “a.m.” and “p.m.” editions. If you’re a Mendoza student with room in your Google Calendar, this is the podcast for you.
The Washington Post compresses two-to-three relevant stories into compact vignettes in its daily news podcast, “Post Reports.” Host Martine Powers engages with Post reporters and other experts to glean significant information for the listener. Episodes of “Post Reports” progress like two or three act plays, with each act being its own story or news event. Powers keeps the show flowing despite each act’s unique style and identity. In this manner, “Post Reports” pulls off the difficult task of telling multiple substantive stories in each episode. “Post Reports” averages 25 to 30 minutes per episode and releases weekdays at 5 p.m. If you want a middleground podcast in terms of breadth of scope and depth of coverage, “Post Reports” is for you.
“Today, Explained” — Vox Vox constructed and claimed its niche by keeping its finger on the pulse of changes in technology and
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“Up First” — NPR In “Up First,” NPR provides a classic NPR experience
Contact Jim Moster at jmoster@nd.edu CLAIRE KOPISCHKE | The Observer
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Thanksgiving on a park bench
Inside Column
Match point
Gabriel Niforatos The Road Less Traveled
Allison Thornton Photo Editor
It’s match point. The whole room is roaring because of your team’s incredible come back in the fifth set. Your mom and grandparents are in the stands biting their nails, your dad is keeping score at the official’s table and your sister is sitting on the bench pray ing you don’t mess up. You go back behind the ser v ice line. The g y m goes quiet as you focus all your energ y on the ball and your job at hand. To your left are the opponent’s fans tr y ing to get in your head. They are yelling things to distract you, but they aren’t successful. You bounce the ball on the f loor one time, you tell yourself, “Just make it over.” You bounce the ball on the f loor a second time, you tell yourself, “Just make it in.” You bounce the ball on the f loor a third time, you tell yourself, “Just breathe.” W hen you look up, the bright lights hanging over you are so bright you squint to just see the ball. You tw irl the ball in your hands. You started play ing in fifth grade and never thought that you would be where you are right now. The feeling of being out of breath and getting the block that tied up the game is an energ y you w ill never experience any where else but on the court. W hen you were younger, you couldn’t even do an underhand ser ve and make it all the way over the net. Now, overhand ser ving is like w riting your name. As you tw irl the ball in your hands, you look to see where your coach wants you to ser ve it. You take a deep breath. You can hear your heartbeat. You tell yourself, “Just focus, one point at a time, this is a mental game.” The referee takes a breath in and blows into his whistle, mov ing his arm to signal you to begin. You place one foot for ward and tell yourself, “Don’t let your teammates dow n.” You raise your left arm, holding the ball in front of you. Your right hand is shaking from all the adrenaline running through it. You take another deep breath and key into where you are supposed to ser ve it. You have to ser ve it to zone five as the coach signaled to you. You place your left foot in the direction of zone five w ithout mov ing your eyes to that zone, so the opposing team doesn’t know where you are going to ser ve it. You take one more deep breath and slightly toss the ball in the air. Your weight shifts for ward, and your right hand makes firm contact in the center of the ball. The room suddenly is no longer quiet. After making contact, you run into position and start another job. Contact Allison at athornton01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
There is a Thanksgiving that my family and I had one blustery November in New Mexico that stands out from others I have experienced. On its face, it might not seem all that different to you, but it is special to me in a way that is hard to describe. If I told you what it was like on paper, it might seem like your quintessential Hallmark holiday with Boston Market turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. Yet, this could not be further from the truth. You see, this Thanksgiving on that blustery November day was held on a park bench outside a library my family and I went to all the time. It was not that we did not want to have Thanksgiving in the warmth of a house. Rather, we did not even have a house of our own to eat in at the time. I sometimes get strange looks from people when I tell them about the park bench Thanksgiving. I get strange looks when I tell people my family and I were homeless when I was younger, that we cleaned homes that were on the housing market for realtors in exchange for a place to live. I get even stranger looks when I tell them these were some of greatest times in my life, that I am thankful for them and would never change them. W hen we were homeless, a family tradition we had every Thanksgiving was to write all the things we were thankful for on bits of printer paper and place them into an old plastic container we very originally called the “Thanksgiving Bucket.” This tradition grounded me; it showed me how much we really had to be thankful for even though we sometimes went days without running water or food. Even though living at school has all but made this tradition obsolete, and the “Thanksgiving Bucket” with its fading construction paper on the outside sits with a crown of dust on a bookshelf back in New Mexico, I wanted to say some things I am thankful for in honor of this tradition. I am thankful for my parents for being the giants that allowed us to get through these times of homelessness. They are the best, strongest people I know. I am thankful for their tenacity, the fact that they provided their children with a fun, memorable Thanksgiving experience even when all the circumstances at the time would seem to have gone against this. It does not matter that the clothes we wore came from thrift stores, that the food we ate was the generic brand. These were some of the very best times I have ever had, but they still would have been impossible to get through if it weren’t for two of the very best people on this Earth. I am thankful they filled my mind with some of the greatest stories and novels in literature. This was the fire that allowed my sisters and me to create imaginary worlds where we could travel to any time and place we dreamed of. It never once occurred to me that we lived in a draughty, ramshackle house with no
promise week to week of whether or not we would have to leave. To me, the old houses we lived in were castles with dragons inside, secret bases out of a James Bond film, doors to worlds and universes beyond comprehension. I am thankful for cardboard boxes we used as tables and chairs. I am thankful for the leaks in the houses we stayed in and for the memories running from each stalactite stream with a bucket in hand to catch them. I am thankful that my parents had our door open on Thanksgiving, and that this day was often spent with the lost and the lonely, some of the greatest company with the greatest stories. I am thankful for tears and laughter. The day after Thanksgiving is the time when my family and I put up Christmas decorations, and I am thankful for the times when we cut out a tree made of brown paper and placed it on the wall of a house that was not our own because we could not afford to buy a plastic tree. Yet, we never had a shortage of paper decorations and lights for this tree. I am thankful for nights spent under the stars in New Mexico, when the skies were clear of clouds and we could see constellations for miles. I am thankful for the dark, the lonely, the melancholy, the winter. You have stoked the fire inside me, and I have risen from the ashes. I am thankful for Thanksgiving on a park bench. Outside the library where we had Thanksgiving, there was a large, open stage, and in my mind’s eye I could see damsels and knights race across the stage as if in a “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” great battles at sea, Carthage’s last stand against Scipio Africanus and the forces of Rome. All the world’s a stage, and I spent much of my early life lost in my imagination. But lost is not the right word. I wrote this column from the warmth of my dorm room, surrounded by friends and in the midst of creating memories that will last for my entire life. But I will never forget the times when we imagined great feasts we did not have, the times when chicken from Walmart was ambrosia and nectar, the times when we would watch the stars and dream of infinite worlds. These were the best of times, the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness, the epoch of belief, the epoch of incredulity. But above all, these times taught me what it meant to be human. I would not change them for the world. Thank you. Gabriel Niforatos is a junior majoring in political science with a minor in the Hesburgh Program in Public Service. He is passionate about giving a voice to the disenfranchised, and writing is the muse he is persistently chasing. He can be found at gniforat@nd.edu or @g_niforatos on Twitter. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Opinion: Is Notre Dame renovating new dorms too quickly? Danny McMaster You’re Welcome for My Opinion
In my previous columns, I’ve often stated that I am The Observer’s foremost administration correspondent and advocate, and even though it gets edited out every single time I write that, I feel it’s important to start my column today doing that as well.* Really, I should try and find some way to refer to it in every sentence in my column, so that editing it out would leave like 30 words total. Don’t get me wrong, it is not true, per se, but you know how if you just say something enough times then people start to just accept it? However, that aside, I have long stated that the administration has never done anything wrong and, in fact, could do nothing wrong, forever. It’s a lot like papal infallibility only much stronger. That being said, I have some concerns. A 2017 official campus report presented to on-campus officials (alright fine, it was my management group project) found that 70% of students open their windows in the winter to cool down their rooms and 47% have dealt with roaches. After some student complaints about things like bats in the residence halls, the administration has been ambitiously
renovating approximately one or two halls per year. This is blistering. And scary. Dillon Hall is currently getting a full-scale renovation, but I wonder whether future classes will truly experience what it was like to live in a dorm with some grit. Hard times create strong people. Strong people create good times. Good times create soft people. Soft people don’t go to Reckers. And this cycle could possibly get even quicker. How fast could this renovating get, theoretically? Have you ever seen “Extreme Home Makeover?” If you haven’t, then wow, I feel bad because you missed out on one of the best reality TV shows of the millennium. The idea of the show was to completely knock down the house of some family who needed a new home and, in its place, build a mansion fit with perfectly designed rooms to match the family’s personalities. (The kids kind of got a raw deal in this one. I mean, yeah, the My Little Pony themed rooms must have been extremely awesome for those kids, but I feel like they might get a little tough at age 17.) And they would do this all in a week. It was incredible. So yeah, hire that crew back, and you could probably renovate South Quad in a couple fortnights. And what about our on-campus bat population? Where do they live? As many of you know, it
got really cold last year, and if not for Caroll Hall I would have been very nervous for our on-campus bat population. Losing them would be almost as bad as losing our squirrels. All I’m saying is that if you’d like to sit in Baumer and Flaherty and think, “This is awesome, and the living conditions here are really, really nice,” just know that there are downsides to it, too. Particularly for the bats. At the end of the day, I fall back on what I know to be true forever: The administration knows best. I’m just concerned that the grit of four-and-eight football seasons and dorms without AC may be leaving campus. For prospective students, I would recommend f locking to the remaining dorms to experience this true Notre Dame experience. And if at all possible, grow up faster. By 2026 it may be too late. *You’d think the whole “views expressed in this are just from the columnist and not necessarily the views of The Observer” thing would buy you some leeway, but here we are. Danny McMaster is a senior business analytics major and has never once been wrong in his entire life. He can be reached at dmcmaste@nd.edu or @DanMcMaster14 on Twitter. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Letters to the editor
Purpose of parietals “Because we are committed to a Christian ideal of community and to the growth and formation of each individual, the ties that bind members of this community are not always the same as those within society at large. The University’s expectations for conduct go beyond what is minimally required for maintaining public order, as we actively seek what is good and life-giving both for the individual and for the University community.” These are words that you sign on to when you enroll as a student at the University of Notre Dame. Early Sunday morning, a group of students staged a “sit-in” in Stanford Hall to protest parietals. W hen they were asked to leave and then subsequently penalized for ignoring both hall staff and NDSP, they complained. One particular student wrote a letter to the editor to The Observer. As a recent female alum and a former resident assistant, I can confidently tell you the purpose of parietals is not to “protect white, cis-heteronormative hegemony,” nor is it “an institutional attack against womxn, gender non-conforming students and the poor.” W hen you decide to attend a Catholic
university, you cannot balk at rules and regulations that are in line with Catholic teaching. The Church, and Notre Dame, hold that sex is only acceptable within marriage between a man and a woman — Notre Dame is not, and should not, be interested in fostering an environment where students are free to engage in activities they see as morally reprehensible. The Church, and therefore Notre Dame, hold that gender is determined by biological sex at birth. In order to stay true to Church teachings, Notre Dame must determine student housing on this basis. The Church still calls for us to “respect ever y person in their particularity and difference, so that no one should suffer bullying, violence, insults or unjust discrimination based on their specific characteristics (such as special needs, race, religion, sexual tendencies, etc.).” However, respecting and loving a person does not necessitate affirming their choices or lifestyle — and this equally applies to cis-gender, heterosexual couples who are engaging in extramarital sex. Yes, Jesus saved an adulterous woman from being stoned, reminding the righteous that all people are sinners. But, he also commanded her, “Go and sin no more.” Showing grace and love is not the same as affirming wrongs.
There are absolutely problems on Notre Dame’s campus — such as sexual assault — but (sadly) these aren’t unique to ND. These issues run rampant at most universities, which likely means parietals are not to blame. There is an issue with dorm life, namely that there is an inequality of enforcement of many Community Standards between women’s and men’s dorms, and that can cause massive problems (including essentially letting parietals slide anyhow!). But getting rid of parietals will not help to encourage a more respectful culture among any genders (when that’s a concern). There’s a much deeper cultural shift that needs to occur. So instead of attacking parietals, which has many benefits for residential communities, perhaps we should call for more equal enforcement of the guidelines that do exist. Finally, if the real issue is you wanting to stay the night in your significant other’s dorm, ever y student on campus knows it’s pretty easy to do (People only tend to get punished when they’re sitting in front of the rector’s door at 4 a.m.). Or just transfer to a Jesuit University. Julia O’Donnell class of 2017 Nov. 18
Thank you for your hospitality I wanted to thank the students of Notre Dame for their warm hospitality over the weekend. I came to your campus — your home — for a bucket list trip to watch Notre Dame play Nav y. We arrived onto your campus around 3:30 p.m. Friday. Y’all were besieged by folks like me. Tours running every where — I can’t remember ever seeing so many folks walking backward! Tourists absolutely every where. I would expect some reasonable resentment of this invasion by the students who still need to get to class or dorms or libraries, etc. I live near D.C. — I understand
the aggravation of tourists fumbling in the way of my everyday. But, I encountered just the opposite from the students and staff at Notre Dame. “Can I help you find something? ” “Did you hear about [fill in the blank with one of the plethora of game weekend traditions]? ” “Can I help with your pic in front of Touchdown Jesus? ” I was f loored and very appreciative of your welcome! It made this very special weekend for me even more so. I teach at a Holy Cross high school near D.C. (Bishop McNamara High School). I have taught wee freshmen about St. Andre and the importance
of hospitality in the Holy Cross charism. I am very proud of our kids when I hear friends from other schools mention how welcoming our students are whenever they visit our school. But, y’all are something else! You welcomed thousands. Brother Andre would be proud of you! I am deeply grateful. Keep building family! Keep bringing hope! Paul O’Brien Campus visitor Nov. 18
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Crossword | Gary CEe
Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Express your thoughts and feelings. Letting others know where you stand will help you cut through any uncertainty that might stop you from recognizing what’s best for you. Changes need to be thought through from beginning to end before you take action. Motives have to be honorable, and transparency will be essential if you plan to get ahead. Your numbers are 6, 13, 19, 22, 26, 37, 48. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Participate in something that excites you. Stop worrying about something you cannot change. Be kind to yourself and willing to wholeheartedly embrace the changes going on around you. Personal gains, romantic adventures and physical improvements are encouraged. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Look for the obvious, and make adjustments that will help you take advantage of an offer. A steady pace forward may not sit well with someone close to you. Make suggestions that encourage loved ones to join in. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Reveal your feelings and what you plan to do. It’s best to keep your plans out in the open to avoid accusations that you are sneaky or unfair. A positive change at home will bring you closer to someone you love. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Pick up speed and keep the momentum going. Share your vision, and you’ll encounter someone who wants to be part of your plan. Don’t sugarcoat or exaggerate. You will ease stress and achieve what you set out to do. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Explore new avenues. When one door closes, another one will open. Transform into whatever works best for you. Look for creative ways to use your attributes to get what you want. Physical fitness and moderation should be your priorities. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Someone will hide important information. Observation will give insight into what others are thinking or planning to do next. Make a decision before it’s too late. Don’t let someone’s uncertainty ruin your plans. Say no to temptation and excessive behavior. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Focus on what you can do to improve. Take time to unwind and relax. Refuse to let someone monopolize your time or cost you emotionally or financially. Make a change, purchase or decision that will enhance your life. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Spend time planning what you want to pursue. Preparation will play an important role when dealing with emotional situations. Less overreacting and paying more attention to facts, along with direct communication, will be in your best interest. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Look at the possibilities as well as the challenges. Mapping out the best way to deal with a situation that involves other people will ease your mind when it comes time to present what you have to offer. Say no to extravagance. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A physical change to the way or where you live should be welcome. Someone close to you won’t agree with everything you want to pursue. Presenting a detailed layout will help you gain the confidence, support and hands-on help you require. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Keep moving forward until you are satisfied with the results you get. An emotional situation will depend on your ability to discuss your feelings. Don’t assume others are aware of what you are going through. Romance is on the rise. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A decision you have to make will leave you in a quandary. Don’t let uncertainty overrule what you know has to take place. Stick to your script, and make it clear what has to be done. Take control, and keep moving forward. Birthday Baby: You are passionate, intense and unpredictable. You are dedicated and persistent.
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Miami Heat off to a blazing start Inigo Yturralde Sports Writer
This season, the Miami Heat are emerging as a dominant force in the NBA. With a 9-3 record, they are currently sitting in second place in the Eastern Conference. Since Lebron James’s departure from Miami, the Heat have only made the playoffs twice. After adding a new, young and dynamic core, the team is geared up for a successful season. At the helm for the Heat are long time president Pat Riley and legendar y coach Erik Spoelstra, also known as Coach Spo. A lthough the Heat did not break any trade records this offseason, they acquired a variety of new pieces to complement their already existing ones. On the list of notable additions are: Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Kendrick Nunn and Duncan Robinson. Jimmy Butler was traded to Miami as part of a fourteam deal, involving the Philadelphia 76ers (his former team), L A Clippers and Portland Trailblazers. Miami agreed to trading young center Hassan W hiteside to Portland and to a four-year $142 million deal with Butler. So far this season, Butler has added both experience and an indescribable X factor to Miami’s lineup. The 30-year-old is averaging 18.4 PPG and 7.2 APG so far this season. With the 13th overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, Miami selected Tyler Herro. It is hard to believe that 13 teams passed up on the young guard out of Kentucky. Herro, a Milwaukee native, was voted best shooter in the draft by his fellow draftees. The Heat have entirely integrated the f lex-shooting guard into their starting rotation. Bringing a versatile set of skills to the table, Herro has caught the attention of many, averaging 13.3 PPG and 4.5 RPG through the first 11 games of his rookie season. A lso making a splash for the Heat is undrafted rookie, Kendrick Nunn– or as some are coming to know him, ‘Nunn Better.’ Nunn played college basketball at Illinois for three seasons and then transferred to Oak land University for his senior year. In 2018, Nunn went undrafted and was signed by the Golden State Warriors
to play on their affiliated G League team, the Santa Cruz Warriors. After a successful season, averaging 19.3 PPG in Santa Cruz, Pat Riley reached out and made a deal to sign the 24-yearold. Since the trade, Nunn has been a key weapon in Coach Spo’s arsenal, proving that he deser ves a starting spot. He scored a total of 112 points in his first five games alone. That is the most points scored by an undrafted rookie in NBA histor y. In addition to this, the young Heat player is averaging 17.8 PPG so far this season. Another undrafted Heat rookie this year is former Michigan star Duncan Robinson. The now-Heat player started off his college career playing at Williams College, a Division III school in northern Massachusetts. After a stellar freshman year, the Wolverines quickly scooped up the young star. Robinson, similar to Nunn, went undrafted in the 2019 NBA Draft. The Heat signed Robinson to a Summer League contract and, after keeping pace with the team, they chose to sign him to a first team deal. Robinson has proven to be lethal from three point range. He is averaging 9.7 PPG and shooting 40.6% from three through his first nine games with the Heat. Combined with returners like Goran Dragic and Bam Adebayo, these four key new pieces may make the Miami Heat a household NBA name once again. This year, the team has come to rely on its depth. On most nights, there are five or six players scoring double digit points. After the end of the Lebron era, Heat fans were unsure of the future. Holding on to Coach Spo and Pat Riley was reassuring, but reaped no fruit over the last five seasons. Now, reenergized by the dynamic chemistr y of this new roster, the Heat are a force to be reckoned with in the NBA. The team’s next game is against the Cleveland Cavaliers and will take place in downtown Miami at the American Airlines Arena on Wednesday. Tune in, because this Heat team isn’t here to take part, they are here to take over. Contact Inigo Yturralde at iyturral@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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the performances of freshman and sophomore outside hitters Caroline Meuth and Charley Niego. Against Syracuse, Meuth led the squad with 21 kills, while Niego just trailed her with 20. Niego was also effective off the serve, with three aces to her name in this game. Both also performed well defensively as Meuth notched three blocks, while Niego got a pair of her own. Head coach Mike Johnson said he was especially
impressed with what he has seen from the pair as the season has progressed. “I think they are doing a real good job for us now and, over time, the goal for them is to become the best outside hitters in the country,” Johnson said. Another key performer for the Irish was sophomore setter Zoe Nunez, who, as she has done all season, put up huge assist numbers for the team. Over the four sets of Notre Dame’s 3-1 win over the Orange, Nunez contributed an impressive 46 assists. However, it is not just her assists that make her a valuable
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asset to the squad, Johnson said, who was elated with her contribution to the team as a whole. “Zoe brings a stabilizing leadership presence. She’s the person the entire team looks to every play,” Johnson said. “She does a wonderful job keeping our hitters in rhythm, but she is also improving in all other facets of the game.” Notre Dame’s next match is away at Louisville, where the team looks to redeem themselves after its 3-2 home loss earlier in the season. Contact Wally Osterberger at wosterb2@nd.edu
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Irish freshman outside hitter Caroline Meuth goes for the kill with Notre Dame dominating Syracuse 25-17 in the first set and 25-18 in the third set during Sunday’s match at home.
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Irish sophomore outside hitter Charley Niego clinches a victory for Notre Dame against the Sryacuse Orange in Sunday’s match. The Irish won the first and third sets, but lost the second set. The Observer accepts classifieds every business day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Notre Dame office, 024 South Dining Hall. Deadline for next-day classifieds is 3 p.m. All classifieds must be prepaid. The charge is 5 cents per character per day, including all spaces. The Observer reserves the right to edit all classifieds for content without issuing refunds.
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somebody that we had offered and would’ve liked to have come to Notre Dame. But I think there were other reasons maybe that he didn’t want to come here,” Kelly said. “I don’t know what they were. We never really had an opportunit y. Felt like BC was the best fit for him, and it’s obv iously worked out quite well for him.” In terms of the Irish (8-2), Kelly addressed the injuries that have been plaguing the team, specifically sophomore linebacker Shay ne Simon. “He’s going to have surger y tomorrow. It’s what we had feared. It’s a fairly significant injur y, one that he’ll be able to fully recover from, but it’ll be a lengthy process. Dr. Ratigan w ill do that surger y tomorrow. It involves the tendon, the patella tendon,” he said. “Outside of that, I would probably be getting a little bit outside of my comfort level in terms of other things that need to come together there. But something that they’re ver y confident that he’ll be able to recover and be back next year.” Aside from Simon, sophomore interior defensive lineman Jayson Ademilola suffered an ank le sprain against the Midshipmen (72), but is day-to-day. On the other side of the trenches, Kelly commented on how graduate student offensive lineman Trevor Ruhland is persevering through several surgeries because of his dedication to the team. “Yeah, he’s had quite a few [surgeries], and extensive [injuries]. I think a lot of it is just his love for playing the game, first of all. He loves to play, and he loves being w ith his teammates,” Kelly said. “There is a connection there that has kept him persevering through all the injuries. I think others would’ve probably moved on. I think what has separated him from some other players that I’ve had that have had multiple setbacks is his personalit y. You guys have gotten a chance to see a little bit of that this year. The players have such a tight relationship w ith him that he did not want to give that up. So it’s nice to see him finish off in his last year here w ith some play ing time and have some success. So that’s really what I think is his legacy, just overcoming a number of injuries and now really getting a chance in his last year to contribute to success.” On a lighter note, Kelly discussed the positive play of w ide receivers senior
Chase Clay pool and sophomore Braden Lenzy against Nav y. Lenzy’s performance, which included a 70-yard touchdow n pass from senior quarterback Ian Book, was particularly eye-opening because the former had seen little action due to fatigue issues. “We felt like w ith ever ything that was going on w ith him, we just wanted to protect him a little bit. Worked out prett y good. He looked prett y fast to me,” Kelly said. Lenzy has dealt w ith injuries in his career, but Kelly said Lenzy and the other young receivers are learning what it takes in terms of preparation to play football at this level. “I just think the work load at [the w ide receiver] position is such that it requires a whole different day-to-day kind of preparation. I think that transition is occurring w ith him and [sophomores] Joe Wilkins and Law rence Keys. Those guys are transitioning into that, and so there is going to be some days where they have to be protected, whether it’s soft tissue or whether it’s just the load of academics and football, where we have to make coach’s decisions based upon their readiness,” he said. “We do that by seeing how they’re practicing, how they’re handling the load from week to week. So I just think it’s a natural progression that they’re going through. They’ll be bigger, they’ll be stronger, they’ll be all the things necessar y for them to be much more consistent as we enter into next season.” As the Irish gear up for t wo more games in November, Kelly addressed questions regarding his performance in years past during the last month of the regular season and offered what he thought are the causes of their recent late-season success. “Better coaching, better leadership, just doing a better job of leading our football team,” he said. “You know, to really sit here and kind of think about the tougher months, November, it’s hard to put a finger on it. There are different things that occur in November, whether it might have been injuries, might have been — I don’t know. There are coaching decisions that you make. … I feel really good [about] where our program is, our culture, our coaches, our players, and feel like the things we’re doing right now are benefitting our players so they can go out and play fast and free.” However, Kelly said it is a balancing act of not slacking off too much as the season w inds dow n and losing any
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Irish sophomore wide reciever Braden Lenzy runs a 70-yard touchdown pass during Saturday’s victory against Navy. Notre Dame dominated the game from the start, winning 52-20.
momentum that has built up. “We’re not going as many periods as we were in September and October and November. I think what [the team] wanted was they wanted to maintain the intensit y of practices. I think that’s clearly the most important thing. It doesn’t necessarily mean the duration. You’re balancing intensit y w ith duration,” Kelly said. “I think the comments to me, the captains, more than any thing else, is make sure we keep the intensit y up in practice. Contact needs to stay up. Don’t pull off from that perspective. But I still have to manage duration, work load, things of that nature.” Kelly praised his team for the way they have attacked their practices to maintain their performance throughout the season. “I think that’s a commitment year-round to conditioning, weight training, mental and physical. This team has mental toughness. You can define mental toughness in any way you want, but I think it’s in the way they play. They’re doing their job. They’re holding each other accountable and doing that in the weight room as well,” he said. “There are no guys in there cutting corners. They’re doing their job in the weight room, in the training room. That training room was packed this morning. I mean packed. And you do that w ith a commitment towards getting yourself ready to be the best you can be on Saturday.
W hen you’re doing that on a Monday, that’s mental toughness. That’s accountabilit y in November that you need.” One of the reasons the Irish seem to be peaking this late in the season is the play of Book, who became the first quarterback in Notre Dame histor y to throw five touchdow ns passes in three games in a season during the w in over Nav y. Kelly commented on Book’s emergence since the controversy surrounding his status as a starter after a 45-14 loss to Michigan. “We’ve made some adjustments in practice that I think have helped Ian. We’re not scripting as much in terms of just calling it off the script and running it from a particular area in the field. We’re on the sidelines and we’re running plays much more like a scrimmage. So, Ian is getting plays from the sideline and getting it in much more of a gamelike fashion instead of just standing there and getting it off a script and almost it being formulated for him. … Because it seemed to me that we look great in practice because he already had the answers to the test. … I think that’s really helped him decipher what’s going on and what he’s seeing out there,” Kelly said. “We felt like we needed to do a better job coaching, quite frank ly. [He is] too good of a player, and he wasn’t play ing to the level that he’s capable of play ing, and so we needed to take a good, hard look at how we were coaching him. It’s benefited him, and he’s
play ing the way he should be play ing.” This weekend is the senior day home finale for the Irish. Kelly ref lected on this senior class and how they’ve grow n after stumbling through the 4-8 season in 2016. “Certainly there were some residual benefits. They didn’t seem to be benefits at the time, but they learned quite a bit from that season in terms of, I think, the preparation and the locker room and all the things that are necessar y to continue to build on your culture,” Kelly said. “Some of those guys are leaders today that have been able to make sure that no one takes our process for granted, and that you continue to work on it ever y day. So that experience definitely benefited those guys in their senior year.” Kelly described how the final home game and the final stretch of the season for the seniors affects him emotionally. “I get emotional just leading them, so I don’t know that it comes dow n to one day. You get emotional watching these guys succeed and struggle. It’s just not the one day. I think if it comes dow n to one day, then I don’t know what you’re doing the other days of the year,” Kelly said. “We have three more games. It’ll be [really emotional] where they’re not play ing in Notre Dame Stadium again. … W hat w ill be much more emotional is the last game that they play.” Contact Hayden Adams at hadams3@nd.edu
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assist and put the Irish on top 1-0. For the remainder of the game the Irish would control possession and limit the Billikens to fewer chances than in the first stanza. W hile Saint Louis would record five shots in both halves, none were on target in the second compared to three that required saves in the first. In addition, the Irish cleaned up their play in the second half and recorded only two fouls after racking up eight in the first period. Sensing the pressure, the Billikens committed six fouls in the first half and eight more in the second. Despite a couple of opportunities to make the lead insurmountable, the Irish couldn’t capitalize on any more chances. Their defense was enough, though, as they ran out the clock and got the 1-0 win to advance to the second round. The lone goal marked Van Zanten’s fourth of the year and her second game-winner, having recorded the only score in a 1-0 win over Michigan. The win also improved the Irish to 49-3-1 all-time in home NCAA championship games. Notre Dame will take on South Carolina (17-1-3, 7-03 SEC) at 6 p.m. Friday in Columbia.
scorers on the second unit, and Mooney has been play ing ver y well to start the season, hav ing been named ACC player of the week earlier Monday. The Irish sur v ived a scrappy, quick Presby terian team behind 11 points and 15 rebounds from senior for ward Juwan Durham and 13 points and six assists from graduate student for ward Rex Plufieger. Head coach Mike Brey had praise for those two in the absence of Mooney and Carmody. “I thought Juwan Durham, in the absence of [Mooney] was f ly ing around bouncing around more, and I thought Rex Plufieger and [senior guard] T.J. Gibbs just steadied us the whole night,” Brey said. The Irish began the game on a 7-0 run, started by a three pointer from Gibbs on their first possession. However, Notre Dame started to struggle on offense, and Presby terian battled its way back to an 11-11 score. Immediately after they tied the game, sophomore for ward Nikola Djogo hit a three pointer to give the Irish the lead, and on their next possession, Plfueger followed w ith a three of his ow n. Presybterian continued to stay w ithin striking Paid Advertisement
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Irish redshirt junior forward Juwan Durham battles back against the quick Presbyterian Blue Team on Monday night. The game was close with Notre Dame winning 63-53 within the last 5 minutes.
distance, thanks in part to their prolific three point shooting and quick ball movement that stretched Notre Dame’s defense. They shot 50% from beyond the arc in the first half. A steal and a fast break lay up brought the Blue Hose back to w ithin a point just after the under-8 minute timeout. Then, a tough putback lay up gave them their first lead of the game. After a long scoring drought, a steal and lay up by Plfueger and a three pointer by sophomore
guard Prentiss Hubb gave Notre Dame the lead back. Gibbs hit a lay up on the next possession, forcing Presby terian to call a timeout. Then, Gibbs drilled a buzzer-beating three pointer from the logo to give the Irish a 39-31 halftime lead that sent the crowd into a frenzy. Notre Dame’s offense opened the second half stagnant, but Presby terian also had a hard time scoring to start the period. An early Blue Hose lay up prov ided the only points scored for either side in the first four minutes. A Hubb three finally broke the drought for the Irish. Brey talked about the offensive struggles to begin the second stanza. “We were searching for a little bit,” Brey said. “A lot of stuff runs through [Mooney]. If he’s not scoring it, he’s handling it or dribble exchanging. We were a little lost there at times. We weren’t going to score 75, so can you defend well enough to get out of the building tonight? ” Presby terian was assessed a f lagrant foul after a hard hit on sophomore for ward Nate Laszewski, who split the free throws, but Pf lueger made a corner three on the extra possession to put the Irish up 11. Brey praised Plufiger’s performance in particular. “His offensive tempo, he’s not forcing any thing, he’s letting the game come to him, he’s always been a great passer, and again tonight he makes plays,” Brey said. “He’s playing like an old dude who just lets the game come to him.” Presby terian continued to hang around, and a 6-0 run capped by an acrobatic fast break dunk brought them back to w ithin t wo points, forcing Brey to take a timeout.
A Laszewski dunk right after the timeout rallied the crowd, but Presby terian got another offensive rebound then drew a foul and split the free throws to keep it a one possession game. Laszewksi dunked again and Durham blocked a shot on the other end, then scored in the post. Durham was then fouled and made both free throws to put the Irish up nine points w ith just over five minutes to play for a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Brey was happy the Irish could w in a close game like this one. “We’ve done some things w ith game pressure on us in a couple games that we weren’t able to do last year,” he said. “I look at that as progress for us, and a little more belief, and a little more we’re going to get over this hump, and we’re going to finish this thing.” Brey discussed their upcoming matchup with Toledo on Thursday. “Let’s build on [Monday], and we’ve got our hands full on Thursday because they’re really good,” Brey said. “They’re really well coached, they’re old, they know who they are, they shoot it. ... They’re a big w in for us, if we can get it, that’s going to be resume w in. I have to rally our fans for Thursday. This is kind of an ACC preparation, they’re really good.” Toledo (3-1) has a ver y high scoring offense, as they are averaging nearly 89 points per game, coming off a 112-68 w in over Howard, and w ill test the Irish as their first challenging nonconference opponent. The teams w ill tip off Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Purcell Pav ilion. Contact Liam Coolican at lcoolica@nd.edu
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Kelly discusses Senior Day By HAYDEN ADAMS Associate Sports Editor
Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly addressed the media Monday to recap the team’s dominant 52-20 win over Navy and preview their upcoming senior day matchup with Boston College. He began by giving his analysis of the Boston College program this season. “Boston College will be our seventh team that had the week off to prepare, and certainly they will be ready to come here and play their very best. They always do. They’re always very difficult games,” Kelly said. “The bottom line here is this is one of the top scoring offenses in the country. Mike Bajakian is doing a great job. I know Mike. He is an outstanding offensive coordinator. Very good offensive line. Defensively, they have lost a lot of guys in back end of their defense. This is traditionally a defense that turns over a lot of NFL players,
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so they’ve got some younger players back there that are going to be good.” Kelly specifically mentioned running backs junior A.J. Dillon and sophomore David Bailey, who are first and second for the Eagles (5-5, 3-4 ACC) in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, respectively. “It’s a team that, interestingly enough, has really evolved into a very difficult team to defend offensively with both the two running backs in Dillon and Bailey,” Kelly said. “Just outstanding backs. One is 240 pounds, 250 pounds, depends on what scale you look at. But both of them are just outstanding. Dillon has got the burst to get to the edge, the physicality that you’re going to need more than one guy to bring him down.” Kelly remembers Dillon in particular as a one-time Notre Dame recruiting target. “He was a really good player, see KELLY PAGE 10
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Irish sophomore guard Prentiss Hubb plays competively during Monday night’s game against Presbyterian Blue Hose.
Irish top Orange behind Meuth, Niego, Nunez By WALLY OSTERBERGER
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volleyball | ND 3, Syracuse 1
The Notre Dame volleyball team moved on from an away loss to Miami a week earlier as the Irish triumphed over Syracuse on Sunday afternoon, moving their record to 18-7, 11-4 in the ACC. It has been a fine season so far for the team, who hopes to maintain its solid form going into the last few games of the season, all against tough ACC opponents. After Notre Dame controlled the first set and won 25-17, the Orange (10-13, 7-9 ACC) responded with a 26-24 win in the second set to even the overall score at 1-1. However, the Irish would gain another point and inch closer to total victory with a 2518 win in the third set. Syracuse fought for its life in a contested fourth set, but it wasn’t enough as the Irish flipped the script from the second set and won 2624 to take the set and the game. The team was buoyed by
Notre Dame faced the Presbyterian Blue Hose at Purcell Pavilion on Monday night seeking their fourth-consecutive win, coming off a 74-64 victory over Marshall on Friday. The Blue Hose’s unique name dates back to the early 1900s when sportswriters would refer to the team as such in reference to the distinctive blue socks they wore with their uniforms. Presbyterian (1-3) was coming off a 22-point loss in their home opener against Morehead State. The Irish were missing two key contributors in this matchup, as sophomore guard Robby Carmody was ruled out for concussion protocol after an injury he suffered Friday against Marshall, and senior forward John Mooney did not play due to a stomach virus. Carmody is one of the Irish’s main
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Irish sophomore setter Zoe Nunez gives it her all during Sunday’s game against Syracuse where ND triumphed 25-17 in the first set.
For the Notre Dame women’s soccer team, the 2019 postseason began just as the regular season began with a 1-0 win over Saint Louis. With the win, the Irish (11-7-2, 4-4-2 ACC) advance to take on No. 2 seed South Carolina Gamecocks on Friday in Columbia, South Carolina. In the season opener against the Billikens (17-4-2, 9-0-1 Atlantic 10), it was a defensive struggle for the majority of the game, until freshman forward Kiki Van Zanten managed to beat the last Saint Louis defender and had a one-on-one with the keeper. As Van Zanten dribbled around, however, the goalie grabbed her legs in an effort to prevent the free score despite being assessed a red card and a subsequent disqualification. Thanks to Van Zanten’s effort, junior midfielder Sammi Fisher was able to bury the resulting penalty kick in the 76th minute to give
the Irish a 1-0 win to begin their season. Sunday evening, Fisher got the chance to pay Van Zanten back in a way. As the NCAA first round match began, the Billikens came out the aggressors, recording several chances on the net early. However, sophomore goalkeeper Mattie Interian, who missed the last two months of action due to an injury, stepped up big in her first start back and made some clutch saves, including one on a point-blank opportunity for Saint Louis off a corner kick. As the first half wore on, Notre Dame would break through in the 41st minute when Fisher returned the favor to Van Zanten for the seasonopening game-winner. Fisher sent a corner in that grazed the cross bar and fell into a mosh pit, but Van Zanten found the ball and put it in the back of the net to give Fisher the see W SOCCER PAGE 11