Print Edition for The Observer for Monday,November 14,2022

ND adds security minor

Arts and Letters approves new interdiscliplinary minor

By SAM GODINEZ news writer

o n wednesday, o ct. 5, the n otre d ame a rts and l etters c ollege c ouncil ap proved a new international security studies multidisci plinary minor degree for all undergraduate students.

The minor will be codirected by d an l indley, associate professor of in ternational relations in the department of political science and director of the u ndergraduate c ertificate Fellows program.

a lthough details are cur rently in discussion, the minor is set to require stu dents to take u s n ational s ecurity p olicymaking, a military history class

ing to international se curity, which can be met

SGA hosts ‘Support a Belle, Love a Belle’ week

By CORA HADDAD news writer

For the first week of n ovember, s aint m ary’s c ollege s tudent g overnment a ssociation ( sga ) hosted “ s upport a b elle l ove a b elle” ( sablab ) week.

sablab week has been a fall tradition held on s aint m ary’s c ampus, with events spanning an entire week. i ts intention, sga president a ngela m artinez c amacho explained, is to encourage the building of community among s aint m ary’s students.

“ sablab week is simply celebrating what it means to be a b elle, building community between one another and having fun throughout a one-week pe riod,” m artinez c amacho said.

For the first time, this year sga worked ‘ s mick d ay’ into the sablab week of events. This incorporation led to collaboration with many

different sga committees.

Thalia m ora, co-chair of the s ocial c oncerns c ommittee, spoke on the efforts necessary to make a week like this happen.

“ p reparation was a lot of working with my cochair for s ocial c oncerns, h annah k aczor, to budget, order, design and set up these events. we also col laborated with other sga committees like s tudent

l ife and i nvolvement who really headed up s mick d ay and the a cademic l iaison c ommittee for our alum mixer,” m ora said.

e vents started at the be ginning of the week, early m onday morning, with c hick-fil- a for breakfast in s pes u nica h all.

“ i think students appre ciated a yummy start to the week, starting on a good

Sophomore, veteran dies

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n otre d ame student James (Jake) b laauboer has died, the u niversity informed the student body in an email s aturday morning.

b laauboer, a sopho more in the c ollege of a rts and l etters, is also a military veteran of the u s a rmy.

The d ivision of s tudent a ffairs will coordinate sup port and services for friends and family of b laauboer with

more details to come, the email said. The u niversity did not include a date or cause of death in the initial communication.

b oth officials from n otre d ame and the s t. Joseph c ounty c oroner’s office did not release any other details about the death.

The u niversity c ounseling c enter (574-631-7336) and c ampus m inistry (574-6317800) are both available for anyone impacted, the email said.

Professors study climate resiliency

By CAROLINE COLLINS news writer

The 2015 paris agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to below two, but pref erably to 1.5 degrees celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.

however, a report pub lished by the united nations Framework convention on climate change (unFccc) shows that while countries are taking steps to reduce green house gas emissions, it will not be enough to limit a global temperature rise of 1.5 de grees celsius by the end of the

century.

w hile countries meet this month to negotiate and discuss the next steps relating to the cli mate change crisis at cop27, the 27th conference of parties host ed by the unFccc in egypt, professors at notre dame are also working on climate change initiatives.

galla professor of biological sciences and director of the notre dame environmental change initiative Jennifer Tank’s research focuses on how agriculture impacts stream

Alum leads moon landing efforts

By RYAN PETERS notre dame news editor

w hen Jon o lansen was a child, he wanted to be an as tronaut. This dream doesn’t pan out for most children, but o lansen, a n otre d ame alumnus, has come close to living it out.

a lthough he personally will not be walking on the moon, o lansen has spent the

past three decades enabling astronauts to travel to space. c urrently, he manages the h abitation and l ogistics o utpost o ffice ( halo ), a module that will house up to four astronauts in space at a time.

“a s the first pressur ized element for nasa’s lu nar g ateway, halo will be

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The new international security minor will be housed in the political science department, which is located in Jenkins Nanovic Hall.

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Student Diversity Board president Crystal Ramirez, vice president Anais Juliano and treasurer Ana Baca ran a table at Smick Day.

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Monday

AAHD Exhibit: Elizabeth M. Claffey

214 Riley Hall 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Themed “Darkness and Nothing More.”

“Daughters of Our Lady” Exhibit 102 Hesburgh Library 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Celebrate 50 years of coeducation.

Tuesday

Targeting the Talent Lecture

1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. By Rachel Whitlark.

Netball Night Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Wear SMC gear and cheer on classmates.

Wednesday

GIS Day

246 Hesburgh Library 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join us for GIS day to learn more about geospatial tech.

Fall Choir Concert O’Laughlin Auditorium 7:30 p.m. Come join the Saint Mary’s singing groups. Free to the public.

Thursday

The Revolutionary City Lecture

Hesburgh Center C103 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. Mark Beissinger from Princeton to speak.

Web Design Workshop Bond Hall 334 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Learn the basics of HTML coding.

Friday

Plato’s Lemonade Stand Lecture Jordan Auditorium 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Philsopher Thomas Quinn discusses book.

Notre Dame Men’s Basketball Purcell Pavilion 7 p.m. Game versus Lipscomb Bison.

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The Golden Dome is covered in snow from the first blizzard of the winter season. The snow came late Saturday night, and students awoke to a white campus Sunday morning. Students usually participate in a snowball fight to mark the occasion.

Church Properties Initiative hosts conference

By PETER BREEN news Writer

Within the secondfloor conference rooms of m cKenna h all, the Fitzgerald Institute for r eal e state’s (FI re ) c hurch Properties Initiative ( c PI) hosted its first on-cam pus conference last week entitled “The Future of c hurch Property.” Fortythree conference sessions took place, from 15-minute lightning talks to 45-minute panel discussions.

FI re director d an Kelly welcomed colleagues from many universities, repre sentatives of c atholic dio ceses and other religious denominations, leaders from the nonprofit world and the real estate industry, and n otre d ame faculty, staff and students.

Kelly said that c PI cov ers properties owned by religious organiza tions and nonprofits — churches, graveyards, hospitals and parking lots — although FI re ’s work spans all areas in the real estate sector.

“We’re hoping that this conference… can help to advance the ball in terms of research, in terms of educa tion and in terms of realworld impact [for church

properties],” he said.

The c atholic c hurch is the largest non-governmental landowner in the world, ac cording to the FI re website, with an estimated 177 mil lion acres v illanova University man agement professor m att m annion led off m onday’s opening panel, address ing the challenges faced by church leaders. v illanova offers the world’s first and only m aster of s cience in c hurch m anagement degree.

“We have an infrastruc ture that’s built for a time that no longer exists so that we have more properties and facilities than we can potentially use and or sus tain,” he said. “The things you own, end up owning you.”

m annion narrowed the c atholic church property discussion to the diocesan and parish levels, attribut ing, in certain cases, the cause of financial and mis sion strain to sex abuse scandals and declining s unday m ass attendance.

A most glaring example, the Archdiocese of s anta Fe, sold “over 600 church properties” since coming out of bankruptcy in 2018, m annion said.

In m ay of this year, the

n ew York Times reported the $121.5 million settle ment involving the archdi ocese was “among the top five payouts in abuse litigation involving the c atholic church in the United s tates.”

In n ew b runswick, c anada, the bishop made a different observation, that “it’s unjust to ask 10,000 people to try and [finan cially] sustain 31 parish es and all the associated properties,” m annion said.

Jumping in, n adia m ian, an urban planner from r utgers University, spoke to the factors impacting church property managers such as zoning bylaw regu lations, historic preserva tion boards and community activists known as n I mb Ys.

b ishop of the d iocese of Fort Wayne- s outh b end Kevin r hoades spoke Tuesday afternoon. b ishop r hoades was notable among church leaders in atten dance as he is in charge of making decisions about di ocesan properties.

“I really didn’t have a lot of knowledge in this area, nor the data needed for these decisions,” r hoades said. “ b ecause of my own inclination towards our evangelizing mission, I was often reluctant to close or

sell parish buildings and properties and tried to think of creative uses for our facilities.”

r hoades thanked FI re for cataloging Fort Waynes outh b end diocesan prop erty using GI s , or geographic information systems.

“[The] high caliber data that we now have really helps us in our pastoral planning,” he said.

c PI program manager m adeline Johnson explained that GI s is an umbrella term for an ecosystem of tools that use and integrate spa tial data, “cartography for the 21st century.”

Johnson said that GI s is used at the diocesan level in inventory and property management.

“Think of it as a series of linked spreadsheets, where you’ve got a [geo-located] shape on the map that de fines the property bound ary,” she said. “It’s not limited to property manage ment applications. It could be cultural artifacts that are located within the church.”

The number of columns in that spreadsheet is endless, Johnson said. FI re and c PI add the most recent prop erty appraisals, church or otherwise, into this map.

Johnson also overlays

available demograph ic information such as school enrollment into the data set to inform property management decisions.

“Another capability that is made possible by having property records in this form is that you’re then able to integrate it with a full ecosystem of GI s -based re search and tools that exist out in the world,” she said.

s outh b end community member r ichard Williams asked b ishop r hoades dur ing a Q&A session after Johnson’s talk to include data from church properties of other c hristian denomi nations in n otre d ame’s GI s model.

“ b ecause this is the uni versal church,” Williams said, “I would ask that you also, in particular for s outh b end, include the other churches because we may be able to show how we can map and pull a city together that has been frag mented for years.”

Williams explained his reasoning for raising this point, saying “I just wanted to offer that as a challenge to FI re and to the bishop and to n otre d ame.”

Contact Peter Breen at pbreen2@nd.edu

and freshwater ecosystems and how nutrients and car bon cycle in streams.

n utrient runoff from farm fields can be harmful to freshwater ecosystems be cause the runoff raises the amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus in the water, causing algal blooms and low oxygen dead zones, Tank says. This process, known as eutrophication, results in excess algae and plant matter which eventu ally decompose, releasing large amounts of carbon di oxide which contribute to greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

Tank’s research involves working with farmers in the m idwest to implement conservation practices to mitigate and minimize the impact that farming has on freshwater.

While her research docu ments ecological outcomes of conservation practices like cover crops and restor ing floodplains, Tank said there is another piece to con servation associated with changing farmers’ behaviors and trying to incentivize them to adopt conservation practices.

Tank further discussed

how many farmers are con cerned about environmental impacts but their primary concern is their agricultural yield.

When negotiating with farmers, Tank said she leads with the “unpredict ability and extreme events rather than climate change” because farmers know that the weather every year is un certain, and this negatively impacts their productivity.

c over crops are benefi cial for the environment, but they are also benefi cial for farmers because they increase levels of carbon in soils which in creases yields.

“The approach we take is to meet in the area of shared values, rather than trying to push an agenda,” Tank said.

c o-authors d ebra Javeline, associate professor of po litical science, and Tracy Kijewski- c orrea, professor of engineering and global affairs, are also working on research looking at how to incentivize people to make more environmentallyconscious decisions. Their research relates to home owners living in coastal areas and aims to inform insurers, leaders and poli cymakers about incentives to motivate homeowners to protect themselves

“We are working with communities all over the world to try to understand how they are adapting to the acute effects of climate change as manifested in in creased storm intensity, sea level rise and other factors in coastal areas,” c orrea said. “ n ot only are we seeing more frequent disasters but ev ery variety of disaster, from massive wildfires to flooding all across the United s tates and massive hurricanes in the southeast and Atlantic coasts, are driven by climate change.”

These disasters result in losses of life and losses of hundreds of billions of dol lars a year used to rebuild communities decimated af ter natural disasters.

In an email, Javeline said that when a major event hap pens “we should not reflex ively start paying the billions of dollars it costs to rebuild infrastructure in hazardous coastal locations.”

Instead, she suggested that people should consider where “infrastructure dol lars are best spent, given cli mate change and the need to invest wisely in more sus tainable locations.”

c orrea recommends that policymakers incentivize families to make investments in their homes through a

market-based approach that makes it attractive for peo ple to invest in safe homes. s ome of these policies in clude offering discounts on insurance premiums and real estate markets reward ing behaviors by raising the value of homes that adopt protective measures against flooding, strong winds and sea level rise.

“This resilience bene fits the homeowners, who don’t want to be stuck with the financial and emotional toll of losses, and it benefits the insurers who would oth erwise have to pay for those losses,” Javeline said via email.

While c orrea and Javeline’s research focuses on coastal areas, professor of engineering and geosciences h arindra Joseph Fernando is investigating how climate change affects urban areas.

Fernando is working with the c ommunity r esearch on c limate and Urban s cience ( croc U s ) laboratory as a co-principal investigator to look at how climate change affects urban areas to build more resilient cities. The project is funded by a grant from the U. s d epartment of e nergy ( doe ).

“ o ur research is focused on developing a quantita tive understanding of the

symbiosis between cities and their natural surround ings within the holistic cli mate system” to predict how climate variability will affect people living in urban areas, Fernando said via email.

Fernando explained that the research will use com puter simulations to un derstand how engineered elements like buildings, roads, pavements and in dustrial areas will affect the local environment. These models will guide mitigation strategies for environmental degradation.

The impacts of climate change influence a vari ety of different research topics, ranging from building resilient farmlands to incentivizing homeown ers living in coastal areas to make investments in safer housing, to designing cities that can withstand climate change.

There are many faculty whose work is informed by or impacted by climate change, and it is an interdisciplinary area of study.

“The ways we can think about climate change im pacts as well as what we do next are so diverse,” Tank said.

Contact Caroline Collins at ccolli23@nd.edu

department. a dditionally, the minor will not require a senior thesis, unlike the n otre d ame i nternational s ecurity c enter ( ndisc ) c ertificate.

“a ny course that has a preponderance of its sub ject matter focused on war would count towards the minor,” Lindley said. “ s o there’s a wide range of opportunities for people to satisfy the three other electives.”

a s a multidisciplinary mi nor, this minor is for under graduate students in any field who have an interest in international security.

“We’re intending the mi nor to be multidisciplinary so that people from other fields can do it and thrive in the minor because the mi nor doesn’t require a senior thesis,” Lindley said.

Given the current conflicts

on the global stage, interest in international security has increased, said r osemary Kelanic, assistant professor of political science.

“There’s always some lev el of interest out there, but i think it can increase or decrease based on current events,” she said. “This is a topic about real events in the world that are hugely con sequential to people’s lives, and i think that students find that very attractive.”

h owever, Lindley recom mended political science students steer away from the minor.

“ i f you do the minor, and you intend that many of your classes to fulfill the minor are also poli-sci, then you’re facing up to 14 classes in po li-sci, and that’s maybe a lot for some people unless you are really devoted to it,” he said.

i nstead, Lindley rec ommends political sci ence students interested

in international security apply for the ndisc cer tificate since the certificate program is “richer in de tail and kind of more fun to talk about,” but it does not show up on a student’s transcript. i n addition, a minor degree has more sub stance than a certificate, Kelanic said.

“ it gives it more vis ibility within the university and employers or graduate schools or wherever students go afterward,” she said.

i ndividuals involved in the minor will have to attend a seminar series on Tuesdays every two to three weeks, as do other ndisc certifi cate students. They will also be available to attend study abroad trips and research opportunities, though space is limited.

Last spring, Lindley worked with associate dean for undergraduate studies m ary Flannery to cover all points to propose the minor.

a fter several conversations, a final draft was presented to the c ollege c ouncil that was approved after vigorous discussion.

“ it was good discussions [that] gave us an opportunity to present our views and our beliefs and how it fits into the general framework here at n otre d ame,” Lindley said. “ i think we’re going to be a great complement.”

o ne of the curiosities re garding the minor was the lack of gender diversity in the coursework, generally attrib uted to the male-dominated environment of international securities.

“ i really do think women have been marginalized in it for a long period of time,” Kelanic said. “There’s a lot of sexism and gender is sues and discrimination in the world in general, like across all aspects of soci ety, not just international security. a nd so it’s really a society-wide problem, not

just an international security problem. it’s perhaps maybe a little worse in international security than in other topics, but i ’m hoping that that’ll change over time.”

h owever, the tides seem to be shifting, Lindley said.

“ n owadays, the entire class is sometimes majority female. s o things are changing,” he said.

Lindley and Kelanic ad dressed their argument by providing avril h aines, director of national intelligence, who gave a conference on s ept. 14 accompanied by a my m c a uliffe ‘90, assistant di rector of the cia’s Weapons and c ounterproliferation m ission c enter, as examples.

There is an ongoing discus sion about whether the mi nor will be first available in the spring or fall semester.

Contact Sam Godinez at sgodinez@nd.edu

note,” m artinez c amacho said.

Progressing through the week, Tuesday’s event pro vided students with infor mation from c allisto, and Wednesday’s events includ ed a “Proud s mick” t-shirt pop-up in Le m ans h all, along with the s mick d ay event itself.

“Tuesday, we tabled with

a representative of c allisto to promote the online tool to students — especially as we continue or address and fight against sexual violence. Wednesday, we had a t-shirt pop-up around 3 p.m. and s mick d ay later in the after noon,” m artinez c amacho said. “ i think this was my fa vorite day and event because we provided that sense of community to our students through food and various other activities.”

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humanity’s first permanent home away from earth,” according to a n orthrop Grumman press release. n orth Grumman is working with nasa to build ha L o ha L o is part of Gateway, which consists of ha L o , the power and propulsion ele ment (PP e ), a logistics mod ule, a lunar lander and the o rion spacecraft. The astro nauts will depart e arth for lunar orbit on o rion, which launches on the s pace Launch s ystem ( s L s ) rocket.

o rion will dock to Gateway, transfer the crew to the h uman Landing s ystem ( h L s ) lander — which is also docked to Gateway — which will transport the crew to the m oon’s surface.

Gateway’s orbit is expect ed to be about six and a half days, meaning inhabitants can travel to the lunar sur face once every six and a half days

o lansen said Gateway is designed for a minimum of a 15-year life. This particular design is focused on propul sion capability efficiency to help the module main tain its lunar orbit into the future.

s o we want to expand our technology base, and we want to prove out concepts that can be used for further deep exploration once we go beyond the moon,” he said.

When Gateway is com plete, a s paceX Falcon h eavy will launch the mod ule. The Falcon h eavy is partially reusable and built for transporting heavy lifts. This launch will take about a year, o lansen said.

“ i t’ll take us about a year to expand our orbit from e arth orbit and just con tinue to raise that orbit us ing solar electric propulsion to get out into lunar orbit. s o it’s a slow transfer. i t’s a much more efficient, fuel economical approach, but it takes us about a year to go do so,” he said.

The ha L o module will be about three meters in diameter. The living quar ters will resemble two hall ways. The e uropean s pace a gency ( esa ), the Japanese a erospace e xploration a gency (J a X a ) and the c anadian s pace a gency will each add future modules and parts to the Gateway, o lansen said.

o lansen said ha L o and PP e are a few years out from launch. They currently await critical design reviews in

m ora explained the oncampus significance of sab L ab , specifically the students’ positive feedback at events throughout the week.

“ d uring many of the popups and events throughout the week, we got so many comments about how it would make people’s day and that it made them feel appreciated as a student and a b elle. i t was really cool to hear and see how excited

the next few months before beginning full production.

The module will be avail able for crews as soon as it is ready, o lansen said. The a rtemis program, which plans to launch its first mis sion Wednesday, eventually expects to return humans to the moon in preparation for hopefully reaching m ars.

o lansen’s project office, based out of the Johnson s pace c enter in h ouston, has responsibility for over seeing the development of the ha L o module itself, the integration of the PP e and ha L o modules and the au tonomous vehicle system manager software, which will run the Gateway.

The team o lansen is re sponsible for consists of over 1,500 employees when including contractors, he estimated. a dditionally,

o lansen’s team needs to coordinate with foreign space agencies to ensure their technologies are compatible.

Graduating from n otre d ame with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engi neering in 1987 and with a master’s degree in mechani cal engineering in 1989, o lansen started working at nasa soon after graduation in mission control. a fter

students were about the little things that reminded them that they are cared for,” m ora said.

m artinez c amacho illus trated the overall impact the week of events had on the students and the s aint m ary’s community.

“a s a historically allwomen’s college, we are incredibly unique. This week allows us to celebrate that uniqueness and em brace and reinforce the

working in mission control, he went back to school to get a Ph. d . in biomechanical engineering before return ing to nasa and eventually working his way up to lead ing projects.

m ost recently, he led a project that built the crew

community that has been built.” m artinez c amacho explained. “ e specially as the semester is starting to come to a close, we want our students to feel supported by all of the b elles around them, knowing that this is a community that is right there to demonstrate love, unity and fight for their best interests.”

Contact Cora Haddad at chaddad01@saintmarys.edu

module for o rion’s a scent a bort-2 test flight in 2019. The launch tested the launch abort system, which will be in use on the a rtemis i launch this week.

Contact Ryan Peters at rpeters5@nd.edu

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By ANGELA MATHEW manager of Talent and Inclusion

“bergman Island” (2021) was screened at the debartolo Performing Arts center this past Wednesday as part of the nanovic Institute for european studies’ film series. The film is directed by French-swedish di rector mia hansen-Love who follows two filmmakers and their relationship with each other and with famed director, Ingmar bergman.

bergman, a swedish filmmaker, is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. bergman’s most famous films like “seventh seal” and “Persona” were released during the late 50s and early 60s and explored themes of spirituality, death and the identity. he would generally film at Faro, an island just off the coast of sweden.

The movie follows a filmmaker couple who visit Faro to work on their respective projects and to get inspi ration from bergman’s legacy. The wife, chris ( vicky Krieps), is troubled by bergman’s bad relationship with his children — he married five times and was not in volved in raising his own children. chris’ husband, Tony (Tim roth), is a more established filmmaker and doesn’t feel conflicted about separating bergman’s art from his personal life.

chris begins writing a film set on the island but strug gles with her work. she reads her script out to Tony to get his thoughts. The film switches between these scenes of

the film-within a film where chris’ script plays out for the audience and back to the story-line with Tony. he is constantly distracted while chris is sharing her work with him while the film within-a-film traces a passion ate relationship which seems to be drawn from chris’ own life, before her marriage.

The film is wonderfully meta — chris and Tony’s relationship breaks down in the same house where bergman filmed “scenes From a marriage” (1973), the series that caused many couples to divorce. The charac ters themselves seem to mirror the director’s own life — mia hansen-Love was in a long-term relationship with olivier Assayas, the established French filmmaker who, like Tony, has an uncomplicated love for bergman. of course, the film is not completely autobiographi cal. In an interview, hansen-Love says that her expe rience of writing a film in Faro was very easy, unlike chris’ struggles. Furthermore, she never visited Faro with Assayas. Peeling back the layers of what’s drawn from reality is a cinema trivia junkie’s game, but even for someone like me, a wannabe cinephile, it makes hansen-Love’s brand of realism feel authentic. recent scandinavian films in general have been ex ploring modern life with this similar sort of realism. Joachim Trier’s norwegian film “The Worst Person in the World” (2021) is similar to “bergman Island” in its exploration of creative ambitions and modern love. Protagonist Julie is a 30-year-old who still hasn’t settled on a career and struggles to cope with finding meaning

danish director Thomas vinterburg’s 2020 film “Another round” follows four school teachers to tell an engaging and emotional story about mid-life cri ses and the worrying side effects of drinking culture. “Flee” (2021) uses animation and realism to explore the life story of an Afghan refugee in denmark, evocatively capturing the trauma of alienation and exile.

The humor and realism of “bergman Island,” along with its many easter eggs, has inspired me to dive deep er into bergman’s legacy and into scandinavian cinema in general. It also made me consider fascinating ques tions about the relationship between art and artist — not just in terms of an artist’s problematic personal life, but also in terms of how artists insert themselves into their work while capturing universal experiences.

Contact Angela Mathew at amathew3@nd.edu

“Bergman Island”

Director: Mia Hansen-Love

Starring: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Anders Danielsen Lie

If you like: “Marriage Story,” “Worst Person in the World”

By ROSE ANDROWICH s cene Writer

When I heard that s aint m ary’s Theatre d epartment was planning a production of “Legally b londe,” I was excited to say the least. The feeling of nostalgia watching this musical combined with the way s aint m ary’s c ollege has empowered women was an amazing combination.

From the opening scene when the d elta nu sisters perform “o migod You Guys,” I was in absolute awe of the music, the set, the costumes and everything in between. The music within this production nev er failed to impress me throughout the show, and the vibrant dance numbers added to the fun. All of these outstanding elements were demonstrated an immense attention to detail.

The portrayal of Warner ( r ylan c hromy) brought justice to the ex-boyfriend we love to hate. h e wore a condescending smirk with his character and con stantly called e lle ( d elaney nold) “a m arilyn.”

Warner’s character in the musical was fascinat ing especially when it came to the creativity in his interactions with v ivianne’s character. v ivianne ( natalie b iegel) was not Warner’s fiancé in the be ginning of the musical, but instead, his girlfriend. s he ignores e lle’s wish to support each other as women and uses derogatory language.

The character development v ivianne undergoes

is amazing. s he stands up against Warner when he thinks e lle is sleeping with Professor c allahan ( s teve c hung), and she encourages e lle to stay. v ivianne tells her that women have to stick togeth er. The contrast to the film propelled the theme of women empowering women.

e nid ( c atherine c ushwa) feminist views were kept within this production, but the musical went further. e lle’s decision to dress as a bunny receives criticism from v ivianne, and when e nid becomes aware of this, she starts an argument. The changes within the dynamic between Warner and v ivianne made resulted in his unfortunate fate that was en joyable to watch.

The creative liberties taken in the show were not limited to the character’s but also within the musi cal numbers. Paulette (Tenley e dvardson) included a beautiful number of her Irish dancing accompa nied by an ensemble. The number was beautifully done, and fleshing out Paulette’s story to include a love for Ireland was an amazing addition to the show.

The musical numbers were not only beauti ful but the production played into the humorous components of the film. In a number titled “Gay or e uropean?” was broached with sensitivity, but it was highly humorous to watch. The scene ended with n ikos (Ayden Kowalski) admitting that he was both gay and e uropean.

The production invites laughing wholeheartedly and evenhandedly at a wide range of stereotyped characters. e lle is a reflection of the stereotypes placed on her. s he is not viewed as being serious and her value is related to her looks, and, in the end, she reclaims the insult initially used against her by c allahan.

The use of the production title “Legally b londe” comes about only within the musical. It is a number that e lle sings when she chooses to leave h arvard. The lyrics reflect e lle’s story, she sings, “ s ome girls fight hard, some face the trial, some girls are just meant to smile.”

s he overcomes the perceptions others have of her, and watching e lle’s journey throughout the musical is heart-warming and empowering.

Contact Rose Androwich at randrowich01@saintmarys.edu

“Legally Blonde” The Musical

Where: Saint Mary’s College

Director: Mark Abram-Copenhaver

Starring: Daleney Nold, Rylan Chromy, Brenton AbramCopenhaver, Tenley Edvarson

in life. It also boasts beautiful cinematography that captures summer in oslo in all its glory and hilarious commentary on the hypocrisy of social justice warriors online.

[Editor’s note: Ayden Kowalski is a Scene writer for The Observer.]

CHRISTINA

A briefly snowy Saturday

Madeline Law v iewpoint copyeditor

It’s snowing today. s nowing! You can read that line as an ecstatic exclama tion or a disappointed one, depending on your feelings about the wonderful phenomenon of drifting crystallized water.

I was talking with my roommate in our kitch en when I noticed it. I’m pretty sure I cried, “It’s snowing!” with more enthusiasm than I thought I could muster today. I surprised myself with that reaction — not the delight I felt, but the energy I found to share it.

I haven’t had much energy lately. s enior year. b urnout. Professors are just as stressed as stu dents. There’s more, too. r ecent discoveries about my own mental health have been occupy ing my brain and affecting my ability to func tion. I’m shocked I remembered this column. r unning on empty when it’s time to floor it. That’s a lie, actually, I didn’t remember the column. I was making a grocery list to avoid thinking about the work I’m going to be behind on soon and checked my phone’s “ r eminders” in case I had thought of something another day, and I saw the reminder to write the column. Floor it. That sounds weird now, does it sound weird to you?

e very time I think about my obstacles, I feel self-conscious and remember that others are going through similar, if not worse situations. And yes, I’ve learned that those things don’t ne gate my own (same goes for you, my friend), but my brain still fires those messages anyway. It’s still snowing. I walked outside this morn ing to feel the snow on my face and see my breath in the air and be mesmerized.

I don’t remember what I wanted the point of this column to be now — I had an excellent point about snow, then I thought about snow and forgot my excellent point. I’m not sure it was even excellent, but it might’ve resembled a point.

s now! o h, I remember now. I remember feel ing like the snow. Like a little ghost frozen in time, just drifting…subject to the whims of an indiscriminate wind. And I was spellbound by the snow, thinking about when it really snows, everything goes quiet.

I know it takes certain circumstances for that quiet to come and settle down for a while, and we’ve still got the toughest month to go in the semester. And I’m realizing that unintention ally, this column is a reflection of my brain — just the foggy surface. That mental health discovery? A dhd . I’m almost 22. That’s an early discovery for women.

s o, I guess to bring this column to a close, I want to shout out to all of you going through similar discoveries. It’s hard. And really incon venient timing.

If you’re feeling like the snow, you are not alone. e very single person’s experience is dif ferent and valid, and you are not alone. If you are looking for a quiet mind, you are not alone. I don’t know how the next few weeks will hap pen, but I’m thinking of you, and I’m drifting by your side. Weathering the wind.

You can contact Madeline at mlaw01@saintmarys.edu.

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rain on the just and unjust

Sveda c hurch and state

The s ermon on the m ount is full of startling claims, many of which, for various reasons, we fail to appreciate. o ne such statement is this: God “makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” ( m atthew 5:45 esv ). Jesus uses these words to show how much God loves h is en emies, and it serves as a glorious example that c hristians are called to emulate.

b ut we are thoroughly unimpressed with this example. The fact that God keeps sinners and unbelievers alive and gives them light and food seems more like fulfilling an obligation than grace. m any, implicitly or not, believe that God is required to give everyone x, y and z, and, if h e doesn’t, h e is either mean, un caring or inept. And not only that, but if h e doesn’t fulfill my wishes, if h e doesn’t give me a promotion, a spouse, happiness or good grades, then, well, maybe I just won’t wor ship h im today. This verse, and the b ible as a whole, challenges such wrongheaded thinking.

Let us begin with this question: What does God owe humanity? n othing. This is hard to accept, but that is what m atthew 5:45 is say ing. b ut how can God withhold such essential things from people? The underlying assump tion is that we’re generally good people, and thus deserve God’s gifts, but this is wrong. There are no good people. (While people, as in m atthew 5:45, are said to be good, this is through a righteousness by faith ( r omans 4:5, Philippians 3:9) and not by works, for “no one living is righteous before” God on their own record (Psalm 143:2; cf. Psalm 130:3).) “ n one is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one” ( r omans 3:10-12). o r go back to the s ermon on the m ount, where to be angry with your brother is to commit mur der and to have a lustful thought is to commit adultery ( m atthew 5:21-30), sins punishable by death in the o ld Testament (Leviticus 24:17, 20:10). Indeed, even the tiniest sin is worthy of eternal damnation ( r omans 6:23) since it is nothing less than, in the words of r c s proul, an act of “cosmic treason” against the Almighty and most holy God. We so often think of sin as a negligible scratch or blemish. It is not. e ven when we are deeply mournful over our sin, we are not even remotely close to fully grasping how repulsive, grievous, and perverse our sin really is. n o, reader, you do not want God to give you what h e owes you or what you deserve. All our works, even our best ones (Isaiah 64:6), make us deserving of h ell. What remarkable grace it is, then, for God to allow sinners one day, even one more hour, on earth. Again, this is not only true for the worst sinners but all who are outside of c hrist (Luke 13:5) and under the wrath of God (John 3:36). It is astonishing that God would allow those who have refused to repent and believe the

gospel — who are more guilty than the people of s odom ( m atthew 11:24), who were destroyed by fire from h eaven (Genesis 19:24) —to enjoy abundance, comfort, laughter and the beauty of h is creation, to have a family and caring friends, to sit in a warm home with a good book and to enjoy the benefits of modern tech nology and medicine. s uch “common grace,” as it is called, is given to the unjust and evil.

While m atthew 5:45 focuses on God’s love to this group, c hristians should rejoice in such things when they receive them, too. Although they have been forgiven all their sins through Jesus’ blood (1 John 1:7), are saved from the wrath of God ( r omans 5:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:10), and are freed from any condemnation ( r omans 8:1), c hristians are not guaranteed another day on earth nor any earthly comforts (cf. m atthew 16:24-25, h ebrews 11:36-38).

s uch common grace, which also includes such things as God’s restraint of evil ( r omans 1:2232, 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8), is most worthy of praise. When such blessings are taken away, we should thank God for having enjoyed them and not “charge God with wrong” (Job 1:22). Furthermore, the dismantling of societal mo rality, as we see today, allows us to see more clearly the depravity of man, just how much God has done in the past and our total reliance on h im. We will never fully grasp the blessings of common grace, but c hristians often see it most clearly when it wanes.

Let me conclude with a note to non- c hris tians. You may be quite pleased with all the things God has given you, but remember that these good things you enjoy will mean noth ing if you continue your present course (Luke 12:20-21, 16:25). “God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance” ( r omans 2:4), and such blessings you have received serve as a “witness” (Acts 14:17) to God’s goodness. If you do not know repent and believe, you will despise all such graces you now enjoy, for you have sinned against greater mercy, and thus, by enjoying them yet refusing to give thanks to God by worshipping h im, you are incurring a greater and greater punishment. While God still grants you days and the offer of the gos pel is still available, I plead with you to “flee from the wrath to come” ( m atthew 3:7). d o not think you can hide behind a lack of knowledge, and do not think your works can save you. b ut do not fear to come to c hrist, for h e will “nev er cast out” any that “come to” h im (John 6:37) and can save by h is “blood,” which “cleanses us of all sin” (1 John 1:7), even the greatest of sinners (1 Timothy 1:15). Go to h im even now; “now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 c orinthians 6:2).

Andrew Sveda is a senior at Notre Dame from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, majoring in political sci ence and theology. In his free time, he enjoys writing (obviously), reading and playing the piano. He can be reached at asveda@nd.edu or @SvedaAndrew on Twitter.

The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Andrew

Tootsie rolls mean ‘I love you’

Tootsie r olls rank number 27 on vox’s h alloween candy ranking. For me, Tootsie r olls are number one.

o nce a week in elementary school, my class would split into two groups and make the journey downstairs, where each group would have one class period in the library and one in the com puter lab.

e verybody was always excited to see the librar ian. They’d wave enthusiastically and say, “ h i m rs. m cGee!” “Thank you, m rs. m cGee!” “ h ave a nice day, m rs. m cGee!” When people said, “It’s nice to see you, m rs. m cGee,” she’d say, “It’s nice to be seen,” and she meant it. s he loved to be with people and to talk to people and to brag about her grandchildren.

m rs. m cGee made a great librarian. s he also made a great m om m om.

h aving my m om m om as a librarian was a joy because it is nice to be seen; it’s even nicer to see and be seen by people you love.

d uring the school day my m om m om couldn’t show any obvious preference for me over the other kids, even though they all knew she was my grandmom. I was there to learn like everybody else, looking for the book that would be mine for the week.

When I finally made a choice, most likely a musty-smelling “ m agic Treehouse” book that I was lucky to get my hands on, I went to the check out and said my code “585.”

I would happily slide the book across the desk. m y m om m om would stamp the logout sheet on

the inside of the cover and slide it back to me with the addition of a Tootsie r oll.

s he didn’t have to say what the Tootsie r oll meant. I knew.

m y m om m om m cGee always carried Tootsie r oll midgees. It sounds like it came straight from a nursery rhyme; It was sweeter than that. e verywhere she went, she would have a few Tootsie r olls in her pocket or her purse because what if she saw me? What if she saw my sisters? b eing together was grounds for celebration; it was grounds for sharing Tootsie r olls.

I have a distinct memory of sitting on the pic ture day chair in my elementary school’s cafeteria and seeing my m om m om pass through the room. s he walked right up to me, as I was sitting for my photo, and put a Tootsie r oll in my hand. I’m smiling nice and big in that picture; it is indeed nice to be seen.

When I went over to my m om m om’s house, I always looked forward to snagging an orange popsicle from the freezer or eating m ilano cook ies, which were her favorite. I loved climbing on the pink flower tree on the side of the house and trying to beat my sister to the reclining chair in the sitting room before we watched “ d ancing with the s tars.”

b ut the thing that reminds me the most of my m om m om is Tootsie r olls. At her house we had to do some impressive climbing to get to the Tootsie r olls and Tootsie Pops, which were hidden on top of the fridge, but that made them all the more enjoyable.

Sibling rivalry

Isabelle Kause simple beauty

As twins, my brother and I have spent most of our lives together. We attended the same grade school and high school and could very easily re late to one another when it came to the joys and stresses of everyday life. People have occasionally asked us if we have “twin telepathy, ” and while our answer is always no, we do share a close bond with occasional moments of competitiveness. After graduating from high school, we knew that going to college would be our first time going to different schools, as well as our longest time apart from each other. While I decided to stay in the midwest and attend n otre d ame, my brother de cided to venture out to the east coast and attend b oston c ollege. While we once saw each other ev ery day, we now only see each other every couple of months during the school year. In two separate areas of the country, a mere 887 miles apart, we manage to remain close through FaceTime calls and s napchat. And, even though we thought we’d

no longer be able to relate to one another as much as we used to prior to attending different colleges, we still find ourselves able to relate in many ways, whether it’s about a class we found challenging or something fun we did over the weekend.

Given that we attend rival schools, n ov. 19 is a date that we have both been anticipating for a while for obvious reasons. It’s the date where our two schools will finally play one another. In grade school and high school, we were able to cheer for the same teams. The same thing can be said about all of our favorite c hicago sports teams. o ur passion for the b lackhawks, the b ears and the c ubs runs deep. h owever, this will truly be the first time where we will be sitting on opposite sidelines. I’ll proudly be wearing my n otre d ame game day attire and cheering for the Irish, while my brother will be wearing b oston c ollege gear and cheering for the e agles. The h oly War be tween n otre d ame and b oston c ollege is sure to bring out our competitive sides. I mean, if we’re being totally honest, our sibling rivalry was made clear from the moment we realized our schools would be playing one another.

m y m om m om came over to my house a lot, of ten unannounced, which was bothersome at the time. s he’d pull down the driveway in her maroon h onda, rosary beads swinging from the mirror and Post-It note reminders on the dashboard. s he often parked askew across the grass. Then she’d walk in the kitchen door without knocking and in a shaky, old woman voice yell “ h ello! m aureen?” m aureen is my mom. m y m om m om would always bring random items and decorations with her to our house. “I found these in the garage,” she’d say to my mom, “I thought that you could use them.” We most likely did not want the decora tions or old sweatshirts or gifts that we gave her for c hristmas that she thought we might enjoy more than her. b ut on her way out, there were the Tootsie r olls being handed around the room and all of us wanted one of those.

s he came to my sports games, my church read ings, she even came to my handbell concerts. s he was at almost every event that my sisters and I participated in.

e very time we said goodbye, no matter the meeting spot, she would dig around her black c oach bag for Tootsie r olls to give us.

I don’t know many people that point to Tootsie r olls as their favorite candy. I’m not sure they would take the top spot on my list either, that is if they didn’t taste so much like love.

Erin Drumm junior nov. 5

e ven though my brother will be visiting for the football game, he’s just as excited to see all that n otre d ame has to offer. h e fell in love with the campus while helping me move in prior to the start of classes in August. h e has already told me he wants me to give him the full n otre d ame ex perience. s o wherever the day takes us, whether we’re grabbing a sandwich from c hick-fil-a (be cause apparently there aren’t many in close prox imity to b oston c ollege), going for a walk to the Grotto or around the lake, or simply just enjoying the game, I know it is sure to be am unforgettable experience for the both of us.

And who knows, after spending time on n otre d ame’s campus, maybe I’ll be able to convert him into an Irish fan.

Isabelle Kause is a sophomore at Notre Dame study ing sociology and minoring in journalism. When she’s not busy, you can find her listening to country music or Taylor Swift or trying out new makeup/skincare prod ucts. She can be reached at ikause@nd.edu

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Irish split series with Michigan

By TOM ZWILLER AND ANDREW McGUINNESS sports Writer, Associate sports editor

no. 18 notre dame hockey began its series against the no. 3 University of m ichigan Wolverines on Friday night. In honor of veterans day, the sellout crowd sang the national anthem. And at its conclusion, four army roTc cadets repelled from the jumbotron catwalk.

The game was incredibly physical before the puck drop, with both sets of wings getting into skirmishes awaiting the opening faceoff.

early in the first, gradu ate student defenseman nick Leivermann took a cross-check ing penalty, giving m ichigan the man advantage.

The Wolverines utilized the powerplay efficiently, scoring just under a minute into the penalty. mackie samsokevich took a pass from Luke hughes and carried it from point to point. h is cross-ice shot hit the post and bounced in, giving the Wolverines a 1-0 lead.

After a Luca Fantilli holding penalty gave the Irish a man ad vantage, michigan was nearly able to kill off the penalty, clear ing the puck twice. however, with just 14 seconds left in the penalty, Leivermann took a shot just above the left faceoff circle. The puck made its way behind the net, where graduate student forward chayse Primeau found an open Leivermann, who bur ied the puck.

early in the second, a poor turnover by sophomore for ward hunter strand allowed m ichigan’s T.J. hughes to take advantage of an unset notre dame defense. hughes found eric ciccolini, who scored from the slot to put the Wolverines up 2-1.

With just under nine min utes in the second, m ichigan continued their aggressive play and scored the third goal, with d ylan duke tipping a shot from Adam Fantilli right outside the crease.

shortly after, an excel lent breakout pass by Keaton Pehrson allowed Jackson hallum an odd-man rush op portunity. hallum beat his man, who appeared to be com ing from a line change, creating a one-on-one with Irish gradu ate student netminder ryan bischel. hallum beat him to the right with a backhand shot.

Irish senior forward Jesse Lansdell would provide the Wolverines with another power play opportunity with a trip ping penalty. And the no. 2 power play unit in the country got to work. off a faceoff in the Irish zone, samoskevich found T.J. hughes in the slot, and he

put the Wolverines up 5-1.

The third period saw no goals for either team. Instead, a slew of penalties would make a mi nor league hockey team blush. The Irish had five penalties. sophomore defenseman ryan helliwell earned a roughing minor. senior forward Trevor Janicke earned two trips to the box. And his brother, sopho more forward Justin Janicke, got a 10-minute misconduct for roughing.

not to be outdone, m ichigan committed eight penalties, in cluding two misconducts. one of which was a charging the goalie penalty by nolan moyle, who was ejected from the game.

saturday’s game, however, would play out much differ ently. The Irish got off to a fairly strong start, generating several odd-man rushes and catching an early post courtesy of sopho more center Tyler carpenter. however, the Wolverines would answer that close chance al most immediately after with a goal. ethan edwards cleaned up a rebound on a shot from the left point that was deflected en route to bischel.

For the second straight night, special teams appeared to be tilting things in m ichigan’s fa vor for good. The Irish gener ated tons of pressure on their first man advantage of the night but couldn’t light the lamp. The Irish did keep the Wolverines at bay for most of their first power play. but almost out of nowhere, samoskevich beat bischel clean with a wrist shot from the left hash marks, doubling the m ichigan lead.

but this time, the Irish would not go quietly. Their perfor mance in the second period wasn’t the prettiest — notre dame was outshot 8-6 and took a couple of penalties. but the finish they lacked in the first was suddenly readily avail able. For an Irish team looking for more from its depth, head coach Jeff Jackson had to be encouraged by the gorgeous passing play his fourth-line put together that ended with grad uate student right winger Jack Adams finding carpenter back door for his first goal of the year.

Then, a somewhat contest ed too-many-men call went against michigan with 2:07 left in the second, giving the Irish a golden chance to equalize. sure enough, they would take advantage, with Leivermann making an excellent pass to set up Primeau for a backdoor tap-in.

The Irish came out guns blaz ing to start the third, registering the frame’s first four shots and forcing m ichigan netminder

Irish have stellar offensive performance to beat YSU

By JOSEPH TUNNEY sports Writer

After the picturesque first snowfall of the season, the n otre d ame men’s basket ball team hosted the aptly named Youngstown s tate Penguins for a s unday after noon contest. While many have pointed to the Irish as one of the most experienced teams in the country due to their six graduate students (four of which played to day), Youngstown s tate had three graduate students of their own play big minutes.

The Penguins returned three starters from a team that went 19-15 last year. The Penguins were fifth in the h orizon League pre season poll, with one first place vote. They came into Purcell Pavilion with a 2-0 record. The Irish played their season-opener versus r adford on Thursday, ulti mately prevailing 79-76.

Going into the season, the Irish were sixth in the A cc preseason poll. The Irish knew going into today’s contest that the Penguins could score, as they tallied over 90 points in each of their first two contests. The Penguins shot 50.8% from the floor today, but the Irish bested them with a 60% mark. The Irish had an extremely balanced attack, with five players finishing in double figures.

Graduate student guard d ane Goodwin paced the Irish, scoring 20 points on 9 of 14 shooting. Although he had a slow start, the o hio product was able to get in the lane and hit from mid-range. Penguins head coach Jerrod c alhoun said that the Irish were “very balanced” and that “they played with a sense of urgency.”

Freshman guard JJ s tarling contributed 17 points in an extremely en couraging performance. c ompared to the first

game, where s tarling said he was “a little in his head,” the freshman phenom looked much more confi dent. h e was also the goto-guy down the stretch for an Irish team looking for a freshman leader, simi lar to the role b lake Wesley played a season ago. After Youngstown s tate cut the lead to three points with 2:20 left to play, s tarling hit a corner three to extend the lead to 6. After another Penguins basket, s tarling came back down the court and canned an other three to give the Irish a 7 point lead with under 80 seconds to play. h ead coach m ike b rey loved his star freshman’s play, prais ing his basketball IQ and his sharpness on the court. s tarling looks to be fitting in well in the Irish’s experi enced rotation. h is gradu ate student teammates can also serve as a calming presence during his first games. Another freshman, ven-Allen Lubin, contrib uted nine points as well. The athletic forward from Florida also sent back two shots in over 23 minutes on the court. Lubin also showed off his range, hit ting a three pointer on the wing. The play of s tarling and Lubin on s unday prompted b rey to call them “as poised as our four old guys.”

Graduate student Trey Wertz added 15 points, playing with more confi dence than Irish fans have ever seen from the guard. Wertz had 7 points in a two minute stretch in the first half. c oach b rey said he was “thrilled for Trey,” who has come into his own in a starting role after being a “loyal seventh man” for the last two seasons.

“ h e’s like Prentiss ( h ubb),” b rey said. h e re marked that Wertz’ calm ness with the ball in his hands resembled h ubb, last

year’s main ball handler.

The Penguins’ offense largely centered around forward Adrian n elson and guard d wayne c ohill. n elson, a graduate transfer from n orthern Kentucky, had a career high 27 points while yanking down 10 re bounds. After only scoring two points in the first half, c ohill, a h orizon League Preseason First-Team All c onference selection, came through with a 16-point performance in the sec ond. The Penguins played a scrappy game, cutting the Irish lead to three points or less four times throughout the game. They stayed in the game throughout. b ut the Irish never let them put together a run to take the lead.

The depth of the Penguins also presented a challenge. The Penguins played 10 players, where the Irish only played seven. If the Irish were fatigued, though, it didn’t show much late in the game.

n evertheless, the Irish are eagerly awaiting the return of graduate stu dent m arcus h ammond. h ammond, who scored 18 points per game with n iagara last year, will help to alleviate the pressure and workload currently on the starters’ shoul ders. b rey noted that he feels good about where h ammond is at regard ing his recovery. h e also said that he expects him to return for their game on Tuesday, n ov. 22 against b owling Green.

The Irish look to con tinue their winning start with two games in Purcell Pavilion this week. They play their first game of the Gotham c lassic against s outhern Indiana on Wednesday before welcom ing Lipscomb on Friday.

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Happy Birthday: Take a front-row seat and make the most of whatever situation you find yourself in this year. A change will tempt you, but uncertainty will hold you back. considering what moves you most will help you make time-sensitive decisions. Take care of domestic issues, and you’ll gain respect and a position of power. live, learn, laugh and be happy. your numbers are 8, 12, 17, 23, 28, 35, 42.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Take note of what others are doing, but don’t buy into someone else’s dream. Take the initiative to make your way down a path that encourages you to use your skills in a manner that satisfies you and helps you explore new possibilities.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): don’t give in to someone’s bullying. Trust and believe in yourself and your ability to get things done to your specifications. Time spent at home with loved ones will encourage positive change and comfortable surroundings. love is in the stars.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): don’t count on getting the help you want and deserve. be mindful of fast-talkers or those trying to take over or push you in a different direction. A disciplined attitude and working alone will help you reach your destination of choice.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): seal the deal. enhance your ideas with exciting twists and turns, and you will capture the imagination of creative people who wish to participate in your plans. embrace what excites you and enjoy the people you meet along the way. romance is favored.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): be careful what you ask for and who you believe. don’t let the changes others make cause confusion or tempt you to do something that isn’t beneficial. show discipline, and channel your energy into something that matters to you. don’t risk your health.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): mingle with people from different backgrounds and you’ll discover something that will change your beliefs. subjecting yourself to unfamiliar customs will broaden your outlook and enrich how you do things moving forward.

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Coolican: Notre Dame’s performance vs. Navy exemplifies uneven year

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For those wondering how notre d ame can dominate top-15 opponents c lemson and north c arolina, yet lose against m arshall and stanford at home in the same season, look no further than s aturday afternoon’s game against navy.

Junior quarterback d rew Pyne looked like a heisman contender in the first half on s aturday. he methodi cally picked apart the m idshipmen defense, com pleting 14 of 16 passes for 234 yards and five total touchdowns.

it was a performance that took everyone, the navy de fense included, by complete surprise. a week earlier in notre d ame’s upset win over c lemson, Pyne completed just nine passes for 85 yards. b ut as quickly as his brilliance arrived, it dis appeared even faster. i f someone had listened to

Pyne and head coach m arcus Freeman’s post-game press conference without know ing the result, they’d be for given for thinking the i rish had lost.

“We’re going to be bet ter because of it, somehow, someway,” Freeman said af ter the 35-32 win. “We have to be better because of what happened in the second half.”

“i’m just going to learn from it and keep getting bet ter,” Pyne said. “That’s all i do and that’s all i’ll ever do.”

That certainly doesn’t sound like the coach of a top-20 team that just won their fourth straight contest. nor like a quarterback who accounted for five touch downs and nearly 300 yards.

c redit navy for an impres sive series of halftime ad justments that managed to hold the i rish scoreless in the second half. b ut some thing has to go seriously wrong for an offense to go from accumulating 333

yards in one half to just two in the next.

Fans will point fingers at the coaching staff, espe cially offensive coordinator Tommy r ees, as they have all season. Pyne deserves some criticism after completing just three passes for 35 yards and being sacked five times in the second half. The run game and the offensive line did next to nothing in the final two quarters. They all deserve some of the blame for a half that saw notre d ame nearly surrender a seemingly insurmountable 35-13 halftime lead. b ut the real problem, as Freeman noted post-game, was a complete lack of urgency.

“We had to match their urgency throughout the en tirety of the game,” Freeman said. “We did the first half, we did not have the urgency, the execution, that we need ed to finish the game the way we wanted to.”

This isn’t a new phenom enon for notre d ame. a fter

spending most of fall camp preparing for the highlyanticipated season-open ing matchup in c olumbus, they fell flat the next week against m arshall. Following back-to-back impressive wins north c arolina and b YU, they turned in an abys mal performance against stanford.

The i rish have consistent ly followed up outstanding performances by looking completely hapless against inferior opposition. it clearly isn’t a talent problem. notre d ame’s drubbing against c lemson and the first half against navy, among other performances, have shown the i rish are undoubtedly among the most complete teams in the country.

Until now, i’ve resisted the urge to suggest that notre d ame has been overlooking certain opponents. it is hard to imagine that some of the best athletes and coaches in the country would ever come into a game with anything

less than everything they have.

b ut it’s difficult to find an other explanation for what happened s aturday — and throughout this season. i n the first half, 333 yards. Two in the second. i repeat this stat because it is almost un believable. The i rish thought they had the game in hand. a nd navy almost made them pay for their complacency.

For example, navy quar terback Xavier a rline went down with an injury, and backup m aasai m aynor en tered the game, the i rish were completely unpre pared for his throwing abil ity. Yes, it is true that navy hardly ever throws the football. b ut when a team is down by three scores in the fourth quarter, it is safe to assume that they’ll be passing. m aynor, who until two weeks ago was navy’s third-string signal caller, gashed the i rish defense for

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a disappointing 2020 showing.

Lenzy suffered a hamstring in jury in summer camp and then reaggravated it during the year. he finished with only seven catches on the season.

Lenzy figured back and better than ever in 2021. but he never developed chemistry with quar terback Jack coan (’22). even though he ended the season with 32 catches, he didn’t play as prominent a role in the offense as expected. nevertheless, his seven-catch performance in the Fiesta bowl ignited hopes and he returned in 2022 with unfin ished business.

With the disappointing and uneven performance by the offense this season, perhaps Lenzy’s catch of the year will ig nite the Irish the rest of the way.

Contact Maddie Ladd at mladd2@nd.edu

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multiple big plays in just a quarter of action.

I’m not sure whether to blame the coaching staff or the players for this lack of urgency and preparedness. o n one hand, it is the coach’s job to inspire his players and prepare them each week. Yet it is the players who are the ones who take the field each day

It is a bizarre phenome non. There’s no other way to describe what has happened with notre d ame football this year. under b rian Kelly, the criticism was always that his teams couldn’t compete on the biggest stage. While it is still early, the so-called Freeman e ra seems to be trending in exactly the op posite direction. The Irish play their best football in the biggest games, yet strug gle to put away twenty-point underdogs.

It is at times frustrating to watch notre d ame turn in these types of performanc es against teams like navy. however, given where notre d ame was a month ago after they fell to s tanford, most Irish fans would be thrilled to be in the position they are in now.

I’m sure Freeman, his staff and the players are work ing tirelessly to correct this problem. I don’t have a so lution to offer. b ut the team had better find one sooner rather than later. If this trend continues into next year, when the Irish should be c FP contenders once again, they’ll be in trouble. A half like the second one against navy can cost a team big time. It didn’t s aturday. b ut it has in the past. And it will again in the future.

their advantage to 16-10. o n the strength of a series of late kills, Florida s tate took the third set 25-16.

n ot willing to lose with out a fight, the Irish began the fourth set with a 5-0 run. Three of those points were kills from graduate student outside hitter c lare d elaplane. Florida s tate was eventually able to get within one point, but would not get closer the entire set. o n the strength of a 14-10 edge in kills, the Irish were able to beat the s eminoles 25-16.

The Irish, however, were unable to continue this mo mentum into the fifth set.

The final set of the night saw nine tie scores and two lead changes, the most of any other set of the night. n otre d ame started with a 4-2 lead, but a s eminole run

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would allow them to steal the lead. With kills from d elaplane and Tarnoff, the Irish were able to tie it at 1010. h owever, a 5-0 run from the s eminoles would give them the match.

e ven though the Irish fell, this was a major im provement from their pre vious matches. o nce again, Trump led the Irish with 17 kills. m any of these were as sisted by sophomore setter Phyona s chrader, who had a total of 39 assists on the night.

The Irish hope to use what they learned against Florida s tate in their rematch against nc s tate. The Irish played them last week, los ing 3-1 at home.

n otre d ame will face off against the Wolfpack on s aturday in r aleigh, n orth c arolina, at 5 p.m. es T.

Contact Olivia Schatz at oschatz@nd.edu

erik Portillo to make some difficult saves. bischel picked up his game too af ter the somewhat shaky samoskevich goal, including a massive breakaway stop on hallum about five min utes into the third. he then denied Wolverines star Luke hughes off a net-mouth scramble a few moments later. Portillo answered with a huge stop on notre dame graduate student defense man ben brinkman off a similar sequence.

After the Irish were un able to capitalize on an other late period power play, overtime became nec essary for the third time in notre dame’s season. After a strong defensive play by junior right winger r yder rolston to prevent a breakaway from m ichigan’s

rutger mcGroarty, senior left winger Grant silanoff ended the game at the oth er end, with the rebound of his shot on a 2-on-1 carom ing in off a sliding e dwards.

The victory was a muchneeded one for the Irish. before saturday, they had lost three straight in regu lation and had not won a game since oct. 28. For most of the year, notre dame has not looked like the nc AA Tournament-caliber team they were last season. now, this Irish squad knows they can skate with some of the best college hockey has to offer. That type of confi dence boost could mean far more to their season than an already impressive victory over the talented Wolverines.

Contact Tom Zwiller at tzwiller@hcc-nd.edu and Andrew McGuinness at amcguinn@nd.edu

Irish dominate Omaha to start NCAA Tournament strong

By J.J. POST sports Writer

notre dame women’s soccer cruised by omaha 5-0 saturday, advancing to the ncAA tourna ment round of 32.

Three early goals put the Irish in control early. sophomore midfielder Korbin Albert opened the scoring just six minutes in. Though notre dame was initially stymied by omaha’s deep 4-5-1 block, Albert’s affinity for finding the back of the net proved an ef fective tool in breaking down the maverick defense.

After Albert’s curled opening tally, omaha’s defensive solid ity weakened considerably. In the eighth minute, a searching cross from graduate student defender brianna martinez sailed across the goal untouched. Forward olivia Wingate tapped it home to double the score.

Wingate would then double up

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just moments later. senior mid fielder maddie mercado took a shot that deflected into her path just a few feet away from the net. The graduate student made no mistake, giving the Irish a com manding 3-0 lead before the 10-minute mark.

Following Wingate’s second goal, with the match comfortably in Irish control, the scoring touch mostly dried up for notre dame. The Irish continually generated shots — 26 to be exact. but they wouldn’t find the back of the net until late in the second half. mercado would then get her first of the contest, marking the senior’s first goal since oct. 9. mercado’s goal was perhaps the best of the afternoon as well, as she bent the ball into the top cor ner of the net from distance. notre dame would get one more for additional emphasis before the game’s end thanks to Paige Peltier. The junior forward

added her first career goal with five minutes remaining in the contest, heading home a corner from graduate student defender Ashley Zugay.

After the game head coach nate norman credited Albert’s early goal for helping the Irish take control of the game from the start.

“Getting the early goal was ev erything to set the tone,” norman said. “I think in these types of games, these first-round games, you want to get all over [the oppo sition.] They’re coming into the game, trying to build confidence as the game wears on, and I think to get that early goal deflates them and doesn’t allow them to get any comfort in the game.”

norman also discussed how his team looked more experienced in their first ncAA tournament game compared to last year’s run, which had been the longest in his tenure as Irish coach.

“That run last year obviously ended before we wanted it to, it created that hunger,” norman said. “Just having that experi ence, what it feels like, the emo tions going into the game. even having someone like [graduate student forward] Kristina [Lynch] here too, she’s won two national championships, and it’s really crucial to have someone like that in our group as well.”

With the win, notre dame advances to meet santa clara in the round of 32 Friday night. The broncos will mark a tough test. A college cup team last year, santa clara also features the nation’s second-leading scorer in Izzy d’Aquila. Kickoff will be at 6 p.m. at Alumni stadium. The match will be televised on the esPn family of networks.

Contact J.J. Post at jpost2@nd.edu

Belles season ends at regional

By JOSE SANCHEZ CORDOVA sports Writer

The saint mary’s cross country team finished 19th of 34 teams at the ncAA Great Lakes regional. Fellow mIAA school no. 19 hope college, who won the conference title the week prior, hosted a cold and snowy affair as temperatures dropped into the 30s on saturday. on the individual front, saint mary’s placed five of its seven runners in the top 150 of 247 to tal participants. The team’s best

individual effort came from ju nior Amanda Tracy who ran a 23:26.5 to set a personal record. The time was a 14-second im provement on her previous Pr she was the only belle to place in the top 100 finishers.

seniors Angela bannan and Anna demars closed their crosscountry careers on a high note. both set personal records in their final collegiate meet. sophomore susanna bernovich and fresh man carly davis also set personal bests. overall, five belles had

career days in the cold conditions.

The 19th-placed team finish was the best performance at a regional championship by the belles since a 17th-place during the 2019 edition. The result came on the back of a 6th-place finish at the mIAA championships held on oct. 29.

outside of saint mary’s, no. 25 John carroll took home the re gional team title. no. 23 calvin and hosting hope rounded out the top three. hope’s Anastasia Tucker also took home the

individual title. her 20:46.0 was the only sub-21 mark for the 6k race.

With the ncAA announc ing championship qualifiers on sunday, it’s official that the belles will be shut out of the na tional championships. As such, their season came to an end on saturday. A pair of sixth-place meet finishes proved the high watermark for the 2022 season.

Contact Jose Sanchez Cordova at jsanch24@nd.edu

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Catch of the year?: After slow start, Braden Lenzy enjoys shining moment

By MADDIE LADD Associate sports editor

Irish graduate student wide receiver braden Lenzy shocked the nation saturday afternoon with his circus catch in the first quarter of play against navy. m&T bank stadium held its breath as junior quarterback drew Pyne launched the ball 38 yards to an endzone-bound Lenzy. navy cornerback mbiti Williams Jr. appeared to be in a perfect position to defend the ball. Well, he was in a perfect position. Until Lenzy pinned the ball against the defender’s back to snatch it away with one hand.

not only was it an unbeliev able catch, but it was also an other touchdown that extended notre dame’s lead over the midshipmen to 21-6. Lenzy’s feat also placed Pyne in a more comfortable position in the pocket. With 234 passing yards in the first half, Pyne was mak ing good reads, completing all but two of his 16 first-half pass es. That early, substantial lead

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allowed the Irish to ultimately defeat navy despite looking slow and disengaged in the sec ond half.

If you have not seen this pivot al moment rotating throughout highlight reels yet, it is certainly one to watch. Lenzy’s catch is all over headlines of major sports outlets. It even clocked in at number one on sportscenter’s top 10 of the weekend.

Lenzy’s shining moment is well-deserved. The oregon na tive has had a slow start to the season and experienced. several disappointments in his career.

Lenzy only had 128 yards total in his first seven appearances of the season. compare that to Lenzy’s performance against navy, where he amassed five catches for 67 yards in the first quarter alone, and it is evident how far he has come. Pyne commented after the game on Lenzy’s work ethic and how it was truly his time to shine.

“braden’s a guy that, all sea son, runs as hard as he can,” Pyne said. “he’s a guy that, in practice, always has a smile on

his face. I felt like I gotta give him a shot. I scrambled out there and he beat his man by a couple yards. I saw that and I said I’m going to give him a chance so I threw it up and he made the un believable catch. I’ve never seen anything like it in my whole life. I’m so happy for him and he’s going to continue to keep get ting better.”

Taking a look at Lenzy’s ca reer, this catch comes at a pivot al time in the graduate student’s final year. Lenzy had a huge sea son in 2019 and was thought at the time to be the next big star for the Irish. his unique speed and chemistry with former notre dame quarterback Ian book (’19) made him an explo sive asset in the running and passing games, capable of a game-breaking play at any mo ment. he was frequently used offensively in the backfield, something notre dame could benefit from this season. however, Lenzy failed to back up his breakout campaign with

Irish defeat Cal in Citi Shamrock Classic

By J.J. POST sports Writer

It was a team effort once again for a potent Irish offense as notre dame women’s basketball de feated california 90-79 in the 2022 citi shamrock classic saturday evening, with five different players reaching double figures in scoring.

Graduate student guard dara mabrey led the way with a teamhigh 16 points. Junior forward Kylee Watson was efficient in the post, notching 15 points on 6-8 shooting. sophomore guard olivia miles added 13 points of her own in the victory but was more impres sive as a creator. The sophomore guard dished out 10 assists, at least doubling every other player’s finish in that category.

And while her play doesn’t ex plode off the stat sheet, junior for ward natalija marshall was also notable. A former top-40 recruit, marshall initially looked to be the first face of the Ivey era. Injuries had bogged down her college ca reer up to this point. but saturday was her first performance in over

a year where she looked like the highly-touted recruit she was be fore her injury.

Playing 15 crucial minutes, marshall saw her time on the court double from the season opener against northern Illinois. And she came up big for Ivey, adding an ad ditional player to the rotation. That was especially crucial, considering five different Irish players picked up four or more fouls. marshall made a convincing case for a con tinued uptick in minutes, notching nine points on 4-5 of shooting and six assists in her time on the court.

In contrast to the spread-out of fensive output from the Irish, the star of the show for the Golden bears was unquestionably Jayda curry. The guard put forth a mas terful performance under the enterprise center lights, drop ping a game-high 24 points. no other cal player had more than 10 points, as curry again and again willed the Golden bears into strik ing distance. cal ran its offense almost exclusively through the sophomore, who played 37 min utes. curry was also tied for the

Golden bear team lead in assists on the day.

notre dame will now look ahead to a showdown against northwestern, as the Irish will look to test their 2-0 record against another Power Five foe. The Wildcats have struggled so far in their first season in years without star guard veronica burton, who was taken no. 7 overall in the 2022 WnbA draft in April.

In its season opener, northwestern struggled in a ma jor way defensively. no. 20 oregon reached 100 points against the Wildcats on the back of four dou ble-digit scorers. The Wildcats did rebound with a win against Penn on sunday. They hope to prove their 43-point loss to oregon was not the bar for their games against top twenty opponents.

The Irish will take on northwestern at 9 p.m. esT in evanston, Illinois on Wednesday. The game is available on the big Ten network.

Contact J.J. Post at jpost2@nd.edu

Irish lose to Seminoles 3-2

By OLIVIA SCHATZ Associate sports editor

The Irish have failed to break their losing streak, which stretched to sev en games as they fell 3-2 on Friday against Florida s tate. d espite the result, this was a promising game for the Irish as it was the first time they made it to five sets since their 3-2 bat tle against d uke on o ct. 30.

The first set opened up evenly. While the s eminoles were originally up, the Irish were able to take the lead multiple times. Freshman outside hitter Lucy Trump had a kill that would bring the Irish up 10-9. The Irish lead, however, would not last long. The s eminoles were able to quickly regain the lead, pulling away to win the match 25-18.

The Irish would open up the second set hot. A Florida s tate error granted the Irish with the first point. Trump,

with some more s eminole errors, would bring the Irish to a 7-3 lead and force a Florida s tate time-out. After the break, Florida s tate scored a point. b ut a kill from freshman out side hitter Avery r oss kept them from going on a run. After key plays from several sources, n otre d ame took a 20-15 lead before going on a 5-1 run to close the door. n otre d ame had 18 kills to Florida s tate’s nine kills in the set, with Trump ac counting for half of n otre d ame’s.

While the s eminoles won the first point in the third set, kills from junior middle blocker Lauren Tarnoff and a Trump ace would bring the Irish briefly gave the Irish the lead. The teams went back and forth for the first 16 points of the set. e ventually, the s eminoles took control, stretching

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Irish graduate student Braden Lenzy receives a 38-yd pass from Drew Pyne to complete the touchdown and help to secure a 35-32 Irish win.