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University remembers finance professor Associate professor, former teaching fellow Michael Hemler served Notre Dame community since 1992

“I think he’s probably — no, not probably — the single most impactful person that I’ve met at Notre Dame.”

Professor Michael Hemler went above and beyond for his students, senior Trent McKinnon said, constantly ensuring he could offer his time to anyone who needed it during his 26 years as a finance professor in the Mendoza College of Business. Professor Hemler died unexpectedly Feb. 14 at the age of

The commitment Professor Hemler showed to his students during his time at the University

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64 due to natural causes.

For students like McKinnon, Professor Hemler’s commitment to those he taught was profoundly impactful. In fact, McKinnon says his time as Professor Hemler’s teaching assistant (TA) has altered his career path.

“He kind of changed the course of my life,” McKinnon said. “Now I’m going to go to graduate school to do a Ph.D. in finance because, you know, basically because of him. … I’m appreciative for everything that he gave me and everyone else.”

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was unmatched by others, Rick Mendenhall, the William and Cassie Daley professor of finance and chair of the finance

department, said.

“There’s a little common area on the third floor of Mendoza that’s just outside the faculty-staff lounge, and Mike could often be seen out there at a table talking to one or more of his students — just working through problems with them, talking to them about the course material,” Mendenhall said. “And on his syllabus — probably all of them, but the ones I remember, he says, ‘Please feel free to stop by anytime.’ And most of us don’t do that; most of us would rather have appointments, and so

that was just the kind of teacher that Mike was. He was always available for his students.”

One of the students Professor Hemler would stop to help was junior Brenna Moxley, who said Professor Hemler often extended his office hours to accommodate her, despite his heavy workload.

“Whenever I would work on my finance homework he was almost always there because he had so many classes and he also taught graduate students,” Moxley said. “ see HEMLER PAGE 4

Student body presidential elections wrap up Tumultuous Notre Dame student election concludes

Saint Mary’s elects new student leadership

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The 2018 campaign for student body president and vice president ended Sunday afternoon, as Judicial Council announced juniors Gates McGavick and Corey Gayheart as the winner’s of this year’s election.

McGavick and Gayheart were up against two other tickets at the start of the campaign: juniors Alex Kruszewski and Julia Dunbar and Zahm freshmen Andrew Gannon and Mark Moran. However, after

Saint Mary’s Student Government Association (SGA) announced the incoming student body president and vice president, juniors Madeleine Corcoran and Kathy Ogden, on Friday afternoon.

Corcoran said her election is especially significant to her because she was chosen by the students to be their representative.

“It’s such a special role and such an honor and humbling role just to be chosen by the Saint

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Notre Dame announces yearly tuition increase Notre Dame’s tuition is set to increase for the 2018-2019 academic year as part of a budget approved by the University’s Board of Trustees, data from the Office of Financial Aid’s website as well as a letter sent to parents and guardians of students indicates.

According to the Office of Financial Aid’s Website, both tuition as well as room and board

are expected to go up. Data for 2017/2018 indicates a tuition cost of $51,505 per academic year with a room and meal cost of $14,890, for a total cost of $66,390. Those same numbers for the 2018/2019 academic year are $53,391, $15,410 and $68,801, respectively.

In a letter mailed to parents and guardians of students, University President Fr. John Jenkins said that the 3.6 percent increase in tuition is the lowest in “more than

50 years.” He also reflected on the recent 175th anniversary of the university’s founding.

“Nowhere are the fruits of Fr. Sorin’s dream more evident than in our students and graduates,” Jenkins said. “Thanks to our extraordinary faculty and dedicated staff, we are able to provide your student with an education that is among the best in the world.”

In the letter, Jenkins noted three statistics about the Notre Dame

student body. The first was that Notre Dame boasts a first-to-second-year retention rate of 98 percent, the second was the school’s 90 percent four-year graduation rate and third that 98 percent of Notre Dame alumni had plans for their year after graduation (including employment, graduate school, military service and several others).

However, Jenkins said the “truest” value of a Notre Dame

education can be observed in graduates.

“In my travels across this great nation and in other parts of the world, it is a source of joy to encounter Notre Dame alumni making a difference in every imaginable field of endeavor,” Jenkins said. “…I know that one day your student will become part of this extraordinary network and by this example will inspire future Notre Dame students.”

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Junior Gates McGavick celebrates with his supporters after winning Notre Dame’s student body presidential election. McGavick and his running mate Corey Gayheart received 52.08 percent of votes, defeating juniors Alex Kruszewski and Julia Dunbar.

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the primary election concluded Feb. 7 and the votes were tallied, a runoff was required between the McGavick-Gayheart and Kruszewski-Dunbar tickets. The runoff election took place Friday.

“We’re just so thankful to our supporters,” McGavick said. “And yeah, we ran to reform student government — looking forward to doing that — and we’re just really thankful for everyone who got out and voted. It was really hard for our campaign the whole way through; happy it’s over, and we’re looking forward to it.”

Throughout this year’s election campaign, there were five instances in which Judicial Council’s Election Committee handed down sanctions against one of the tickets — the McGavick-Gayheart ticket was sanctioned three times, while the Kruszewski-Dunbar ticket was sanctioned twice.

The first sanction came Jan. 25, prior to the announcement of the

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Mary’s student body to represent them and be their voice,” Corcoran said. “So I think to me it just means so much respect for who we try to be as people and continue to be.”

During the campaign, Ogden said she felt that whether or not she was elected, it was important

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tickets. The McGavick-Gayheart ticket was found to have petitioned for signatures directly after class periods and received a five-hour suspension of campaigning as a result, though the suspension was reduced to two hours upon appeal.

The second sanction came Feb. 1 and required the KruszewskiDunbar ticket to rewrite the “Decrease Tuition” page of its platform in order to clarify any statements construed as endorsements from University departments, offices or officials.

The ticket’s appeal was not heard because student senate did not meet quorum, which is a requirement that two-thirds of the group’s voting members must be present for it to hear and vote on the appeals.

The third sanction was announced Feb. 6 and required the McGavick-Gayheart ticket to issue a public apology for an action taken by one of its supporters.

The fourth sanction was announced Feb. 7, as Judicial Council’s Election Committee announced the

Kruszewski-Dunbar ticket “was found to engage in unethical behavior and instruct others to engage in unethical behavior by means of text messages.” As a result, the ticket forfeited 10 percent of the votes cast for it in both the primary and runoff elections, and the decision was upheld upon appeal.

The fifth and final sanction came the morning of the runoff election, as it was announced that the McGavick-Gayheart ticket “was found to have supporters releasing confidential information from previous Judicial Council allegation hearings, as well as engaging in a continued pattern of unethical behavior.”

As a result, the ticket forfeited 12 percent of the votes cast in the runoff election, and the ticket’s appeal of the decision was not heard because student senate failed to meet quorum for a second time.

With the reductions, 402 student votes cast — 11.19 percent of the total valid votes cast — in Friday’s runoff election did not count towards the percentages

after sanctions. The McGavickGayheart ticket received 2,126 votes or 59.19 percent of the valid, or non-abstention, votes cast, but 255.12 of those votes were taken away after the 12 percent sanction was imposed. As a result, the ticket ended with 1,870.88 votes according to Judicial Council’s breakdown, or 52.08 percent of the valid votes.

After winning the election, both McGavick and Gayheart described the process as exhausting and said they hope to improve it during their term for future candidates and voters.

“The process regulations, I think, have just left a lot of people in the dark about what’s been going on,” McGavick said. “We’re looking forward to more transparency no matter how this next year goes.”

“Honestly, this campaigning process was extremely negative for both sides, and it was just extremely taxing emotionally, physically [and] academically,” Gayheart said. “We hope to be able to work with Julia and Alex moving forward, but also … we

have to make sure that we make improvements to this process, because this has been bad on all ends.”

The Kruszewski-Dunbar ticket, on the other hand, received 1,466 votes, or 40.81 percent of the valid votes, prior to the enforcement of the 10 percent sanction.

Judicial Council then took away 147 votes to bring the ticket’s final vote count to 1,319, or 36.73 percent of the valid votes cast.

In a statement emailed to The Observer, the KruszewskiDunbar ticket also thanked its supporters for their work during the campaign.

“We would like to thank our team and our supporters,” the ticket said. “They were phenomenal throughout the entire process, and we could not be happier with the work they did and the vision they believed in.”

McGavick and Gayheart will take office as student body president and vice president on April 1.

that the College selected leaders that reflected what they desired.

“If we weren’t to be elected, my overall thought would’ve been, ‘Well, that’s not what the students want, and we are a representation of the school so if that’s the case then okay,’” Ogden said. “But now it’s cool that since we are elected the student body do want us as their role models. So it’s an honor that we were elected by

the student body to be their representatives.”

Ogden said she felt the election experience was positive for her because the other candidates were all supportive of each other, she said. “[The other candidates] have just been really friendly and nice and they also campaigned really well,” Ogden said.

“Everything was very civil. I just feel like this [election] has been

really friendly and supportive.”

Corcoran said the fact that the campaign went over smoothly speaks to the community at Saint Mary’s.

“I think the campaign overall represents kind of what Saint Mary’s stands for and just that friendly environment that it is,” Corcoran said. “It really encompasses that students are kind and working together.”

The pair hopes to emphasize the importance of community, Corcoran said.

“The community topic in general is something I am really passionate about, and think is really important at Saint Mary’s,” Corcoran said.

The pair said they hope by the end of their term, they will leave Saint Mary’s ‘enhanced’ from years before.

“Saint Mary’s is already I think such a wonderful place but from our platform, and just being leaders, I think just making it even better than how it is now,” Ogden said.

Corcoran said she hopes to improve upon some of the common complaints by students over the course of the next year.

“There is always going to be something to complain about, but a lot of those things that students commonly complain about now, hopefully in a year from now they won’t be,” Corcoran said.

Ogden’s time at Saint Mary’s was what gave her the confidence to take on this new role, she said.

“I feel like Saint Mary’s has just knocked me out of my shell,” Ogden said. “Not that I was super introverted in high school, but I think I just wouldn’t do a lot of the things that I have done here and I have become more confident so I think that helps.

I just have been here for three years but I think with the friends I’ve made and the clubs I’ve been in and my relationships

with professors I’ve been able to become more confident and more involved.”

Corcoran said she also feels Saint Mary’s provided her the opportunities to develop her passion.

“Every time I take on a new role I just fall in love more with Saint Mary’s and what Saint Mary’s has for all of its students, and I think that is such a unique experience that you get at a smaller school,” Corcoran said.

Corcoran went into the week hoping just to enjoy the experience, regardless of the result, she said.

“I said to Kathy — Sunday, when we went out at midnight to put up the posters — I said, ‘You know what, regardless of how this week goes, as long as we are smiling and laughing throughout the whole thing that’s what’s most important,’” Corcoran said. “Because if you don’t smile and enjoy those moments, it wouldn’t have mattered whatever the outcome was it would’ve been not worth it.”

Although the week involved a lot of work, Ogden said she enjoyed being able to communicate with students about their desires as well as her platform.

“I thought it was fun,” Ogden said. “It was a lot, but it was fun.

Each thing we made and each thing we hung up I think we were really proud of.”

The two said they feel the campaign process was a way to get a feel for what the students are looking for during the next year, Corcoran said.

“That’s what our goal is, to try and be really open and listen to students and what they need,” Corcoran said. “I think just even the campaigning process we learned more about what students need or want.”

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… He would stop by my table and see if I was getting it. He would say ‘Do you have any questions for me?

I just want to check up on you.’ Just the fact that he wouldn’t walk by me if I was working on my homework, he always wanted to see if I understood it.”

This attention gave Moxley the confidence she needed to continue with Professor Hemler’s introduction to finance class, she said.

“I ended up doing poorly on my second exam of the semester,” she said. “It was right before the drop date, and so I ran into his office hours saying I think I needed to drop the course and that I would try again next semester. And he was so nice to me and just said that I didn’t need to do that, and I wasn’t going to fail his class and that he would work with me whenever I needed it so that I could earn my [business economics] minor.”

Professor Hemler’s patience with his students was evident during ever class, senior Owen Fitzgerald said.

“He wanted to make sure everyone got it,” he said. “And another thing that I think made him different from almost any other teacher I’ve had is he would cold call people, which a lot of professors do — but he would give each student the opportunity to pass that cold call onto someone else, so that they wouldn’t be, I guess, out on a limb by themselves.”

Editor’s note: Brenna Moxley is a former sports writer for The Observer.

Executive vice president John Affleck-Graves, who served as the Department of Finance chair from 1997 to 2000, said Professor Hemler’s selfless nature made him a valuable member of the department.

“Mike was a wonderful colleague and a personal friend,” AffleckGraves said. “He was both an outstanding teacher and a mentor to younger faculty in the Department of Finance. I, along with all in the department, will miss him dearly.”

Fitzgerald said Professor Hemler was able to teach so many classes due to his ability to adjust his teaching style to fit any class level, including non-business majors.

“He’d make it very approachable — even though he’s got his Ph.D. and however many years of experience of teaching the highest level of finance,” Fitzgerald said.

“He came down to teach intro to kids who he knows probably aren’t going to take many finance classes afterwards because it was that important to him.”

Senior Emily Vincent said she appreciated the fact that Professor Hemler imparted valuable life skills to all of his students.

“It didn’t matter that for him it was comparatively simple concepts but for us, for specifically students not in the College of Business, he was always very patient in making sure we understood exactly how the principles were being applied to the problems and how to work through problems we hadn’t seen before,” Vincent said.

Fitzgerald said there were

“multiple times” when Professor Hemler would take time out of his lesson plan to answer students’ questions and then continue to explain his answers after class.

“It didn’t make sense even after he took two or three minutes out of his planned class to try and explain it in the middle of the class,” Fitzgerald said. “So I’d spend two or three minutes afterwards and then he’d give a different perspective and say: ‘OK, what if you think about it this way?’ And all of a sudden it clicked. Or it didn’t, and then he gave me another one and that clicked.”

Professor Hemler’s passion for his work was not only clear from his teaching style, but also from the state of his office, senior Paul Sweeney said.

“His office, I thought, was exactly how I pictured an office to look like, I guess,” he said. “ … There’s just books and books and books, and papers and books and books and papers just piled up everywhere.

And so that was nice. But it was always like, even though it was messy it was always welcoming, and he

always wanted to sit down and talk. And after you were done with your question, or what you came for, he would always just want to get to know you.”

Getting to know his students was obviously a priority for Professor Hemler, Moxley said.

“He wasn’t just an average professor who didn’t know people’s names,” she said. “He learned everyone’s names and he really — it really meant a lot to me that even at a school as big as Notre Dame, with a professor who taught five classes at a time with probably 45 students in each class, that he would take the time out of his busy schedule to work with me, and I honestly couldn’t be more grateful to him for that.”

The gratitude those in the Mendoza College of Business and the Department of Finance feel toward Professor Hemler was made clear by his posthumous emeritus status, which Mendenhall said Roger Huang, Dean of the Mendoza College of Business and one of Professor Hemler’s close friends, suggested after Professor

Hemler’s death.

“I think it’s a really appropriate title for Mike,” Mendenhall said. “ … I think it recognizes what Mike did for the department and the College. And it does that as well for his family.”

Students who knew Professor Hemler particularly well knew that his family was the most important thing in his life, Sweeney said.

If there was one thing besides his family and teaching that made Professor Hemler happiest, however, it was tennis, McKinnon said.

“He loved playing tennis. That was a big thing to him,” he said. “He loved his family a lot. When I would have lunch or dinner with him to talk about stuff, he would mention, ‘My wife’s doing this, my daughters are doing this.’ … So, family above all else, that was his number one.

Number two was his job and his students. And then, number three maybe was tennis.”

The high priority Professor Hemler placed on making his students feel important to him, Moxley said, is going to be missed at Notre Dame.

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“This is a huge loss for our University … and I think his shoes are [going to] be a really big [pair] to fill for students to come,” she said.

“Because I know he made me feel the most important that any professor at Notre Dame has made me feel.”

Thanks to the effect Professor Hemler had on students such as McKinnon, though, his legacy as an educator will not be forgotten.

“I know that his legacy at least will live on through me because I’m going to be going to graduate school and if I get my Ph.D., when it finally gets awarded, I’ll definitely be thinking of him,” McKinnon said. “In life, there’s only so many points when you diverge. When you’re on a set path and then some event happens and then it just shifts you away from it to a different one. I think that only happens so many times in life. [Professor] Hemler was definitely one of those points in my time. … He changed my life, for the better, I’d say.”

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A few days ago, a friend of mine sent me a text. I won’t transpose it here since his writing style (comprised entirely of capital letters and misspelled expletives) may not be fit to print, but I will give you the gist. My friend, a musician and Car Seat Headrest early adopter, listened to Car Seat Headrest newly released “Twin Fantasy” and felt betrayed. 2011’s “Twin Fantasy,” now entitled “Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror),” had once served as his musical guidebook — a low fidelity blueprint detailing the ins and outs of a 19-year-olds manic bouts with obsessive desire.

Like most 19-year-olds, my friend included, “Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)” explodes with ambition — 13-minutes epics, near orchestral vocal arrangements and the intent to understand concepts far beyond the reach of the human mind — which it then attempts to execute despite limited experiential and technical resources. Will Toledo recorded the entire record at home with computer interfaces. The record illustrates, as Toledo sings midway through “Beach-Life-In-Death,” the headspace of a febrile young man, “incapable of being inhuman” and “living uncontrollably.”

Perhaps this year’s “Twin Fantasy,” or “Twin Fantasy (Face to Face),” hurt my friend so dearly because it tries to control the hormonal rage of the original. Even the titles suggest maturation — 2011’s “Mirror to Mirror” observes a 19-year-old Toledo as he glares at his own reflection. On the other hand, this year’s “Face to Face” transcribes a dialogue between the now 25-year-old Toledo and his younger self.

“It’ll take some time,” Toledo predicts on the record’s opening track, “My Boy (Twin Fantasy),” “but

By DANNY LIGGIO Scene Writer

Majid Jordan is currently in the middle of “The Space Between: A World Tour.” Before they hopscotch around Europe, the rhythm and blues (R&B) duo, composed of artists Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman, made stops in Chicago and Milwaukee. In between these two destinations, Majid Jordan was somehow convinced to play at a mid-sized Midwestern school, in a venue where the stage is raised probably only four inches above the floor. At this point in their career, Majid Jordan might be a little too big for Legends Nightclub at Notre Dame.

I arrived at about the scheduled start time of 10 p.m. to a sparse room with maybe a hundred people. I got to Legends early because, having been to only two previous concerts, I’m the type of person who thinks concerts start on time like a movie. Nothing but background music played for about half an hour until Stewart, the opening DJ, came on stage. The wait was fairly long, and the DJ’s set was longer. He began with some classic music a la Q-Tip, then transitioned into a

somewhere down the line / We won’t be alone.” These words, first written by a lone, young, and uncertain Toledo, seem to have come to fruition. Car Seat Headrest is no longer a solo endeavor. After two albums (including my personal 2016 Album of the Year, “Teens of Denial,”) and a relentless touring regimen, drummer Andrew Kats, guitarist Ethan Ives, and bassist Seth Dalby have proven themselves to be irreplaceable parts of Toledo’s recording machine. With his ensemble, Toledo has risen from his previous cult status to become a household name, at least by indie rock standards. His music has transformed into a platform from which he shares his burdens with thousands of devotees.

Certain Car Seat Headrest lifers take issue with this new reality on “Twin Fantasy” — and express these misgivings via angry texts and Reddit threads.

Nonetheless, the album marks a positive step forward for the band. Cult bands derive power form exclusivity. They, along with their small, intensely devoted followers, find solace in the fact that their shared artistic sense sets them apart from the mainstream. This outsider’s bond, while conceptually appealing, is not sustainable. Fantasy glues the bond together.

At the conclusion of the record in “Twin Fantasy (Those Boys),” Toledo delineates the idea clearly: “This is the part of the song where Will gives up. He dissociates from his own romance until it becomes just a fantasy. This is not something that could happen to him; this is something that takes place only in his mind. But he blinks now and shakes himself awake. He has rejoined society.”

Though skeptics may find society boring, those willing to embrace the inevitable flow of time might find it refreshing. If, as Will exclaims on the newly

dance-ified “Bodys,” “Everybody’s swinging their hips / Everybody’s giving their waitress tip / Everybody’s dancing all the dances / Everybody’s dancing all the dances now,” what good will it do you to sit in the corner and sulk? You may ironically yearn, as does the protagonist of “Mirror to Mirror” on “Cute Thing,” for the vintage glory of “Dan Bejar’s voice” and “John Entwistle’s stage presence” — Entwistle, christened “The Ox,” was famous for his utter lack of stage presence. Yet at the end of the day, the sincere passions of “Frank Ocean’s voice” and “James Brown’s stage presence” are probably better for you.

A cynical 19-year-old probably won’t understand this. To this cynic, pop constitutes a rejection of selfexpression. But, with age, pop ceases to be a rejection of the individual and metamorphoses into an acceptance of love. Pop, at its best, celebrates communion though the lens of individual expression. And no amount of capital or expletives can deny the redeeming value of even the smallest bond.

more excited pop music theme. While a reasonably enjoyable opener, Stewart overstayed his welcome once he began playing lyric less dance tracks. A few people danced to them, but most only listened.

Finally, at 11:32 p.m., about an hour and a half after I had arrived, Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman took the stage. Majid looked at the thin crowd from his position of slight elevation, smiled, and said, “We played one of our first shows in a place just like this.” Then he asked if it was “midterms week or something.” He seemed happier to have the opportunity to play such a small show on this tour than disappointed at the turnout.

The duo played a good mix of older songs and songs off their newest album “The Space Between” with a small but powerful fluorescent light display at the back of the stage. Their music ranges between a chill discoesque funk and more excited modern R&B ballads — it’s a perfect vibe for a concert. As Majid sang some pretty high notes and Jordan produced the music in more or less real time, the crowd swayed and bobbed without fatigue. At times, Majid would pull everyone into outright dancing with the characteristically funny

way he moves. He would also hush the crowd when the music called for it.

Although Majid Jordan knew how to control a crowd, the crowd has a strong influence in the show as well. Majid Jordan took a song request or two from the crowd over the course of the night (while ignoring the repeated callouts to play “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” Drake’s No.1 single they co-produced and performed on). They even acquiesced after a turn of the microphone towards the crowd resulted in a request to sing “Happy Birthday” to someone named Chuck. We all sang for you, Chuck.

As the concert just about ended, Majid Jordan, in a reverse encore style, asked the students if they could play one last song. Because of the of the quality of the performance — and not because of Majid’s comments on Notre Dame being “a legendary school,” which were appreciated — the cheers were loud enough to signal a yes. They finished their set and left with a goodbye.

For the few who went, it was a lucky experience to be so close to a group so talented.

Conact Mike Donovan at mdonov10@nd.edu

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A Jimmy John’s romance Colleen Zewe News Writer

This past weekend, I went on a date. The date went well, but even better was how we met.

As a front desk worker in the dorm, I’ve always admired one of the Jimmy John’s deliver y drivers who appears frequently by the front desk w ith fresh sandw iches in hand. He was cute and seemed my t y pe, so I would always crush on him from afar. How can you not crush on someone who is cute and brings food?

Eventually, though, crushing on someone from afar gets old. I decided to take matters into my ow n hands and actually get to know this mysterious Jimmy John’s deliver y driver. One night when he delivered me my slim four w ith avocado, I w rote my phone number on a scrap of paper and folded it into the cash tip. Not long after, he texted me. “Hi, this is your Jimmy John’s deliver y driver. There seems to be a mistake. You left your phone number in the tip!”

Coincidentally, I don’t make mistakes.

After a week of talking on the phone, just like our parents used to do, we went on a nice dinner date. I agonized about what to wear, asked my friends for conversation tips and worried about what would happen when the bill came — all classic antics before a first date. The date went well. We experienced our fair share of awk ward silences, but what would a first date be w ithout awk ward silences? We at least avoided going on our cell phones to fill those silences, and instead let the silence just be that: silence.

W hat took our date from fun to great was the fact that it was a true, classic date. We didn’t meet on Tinder, and we weren’t dating w ith the goal of just hooking up and not seeing each other again. We intentionally got to know each other. W hen planning, we called it a date. We didn’t say we were just hanging out or getting together the way so many people do. He picked me up like a gentleman, and he paid the tab.

Call me old-fashioned, but I appreciate that kind of gesture. We avoided checking social media and texting the whole time, and we laughed a lot. Honestly, I forgot how nice it feels to actually date. Not sw ipe on Tinder, text and hang out, but actually date. Don’t get me w rong, I’ve used Tinder quite a bit, but nothing compares to organically meeting someone and hitting it off. One criticism of our generation is that the art of real dating is lost, but this date restored my faith in it. We’re not all lost to the world of sw iping right. W ho needs Tinder when you have Jimmy John’s?

Contact Colleen Zewe at czewe01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

A light in the darkness Gabriel Niforatos The Road Less Traveled

The night was freezing. My breath was illuminated in the cold and it wisped away among the candles. I walked among the rows until I found an open place, placing the match upon the wick of another candle and lighting it. A family friend had died the week before and I felt this was the least I could do,1,500 miles away in South Bend.

Eight minutes, along South Quad briefly, past Lyons and Bond Halls, across the lake on a walk that had become so familiar by now. I left the Grotto after I had lit the candle and walked back to my dorm through the snow.

Last week for our first year Moreau class we read Dr. Tom Dooley’s Letter to Father Hesburgh.

Among other things, Dr. Dooley talks about how much the Grotto means to him and this got me thinking of my experiences with one of the most characteristic features to our campus. Over my first year, the Grotto has become an important place to visit when I need to clear my head or simply take time just to step back and think.

It is important to say that I am not Catholic and not particularly religious. I’m a Sephardic Jew who has ancestors who fled Spain and went to Greece, but I consider myself ethnically and culturally Jewish more than anything. I have gone to my dorm mass several times with my roommate and I still don’t know what lines are coming. I am left standing when others start kneeling and left kneeling when everyone gets up for Communion. What I love about Notre Dame, however, is that even though we are a Catholic institution there is a place for everyone here. I have found that the culture of Catholicism creates the kind of atmosphere where a visit to the Grotto can literally change you without you ever having to become or even think about Catholicism.

The first time I saw the Grotto was during Welcome Weekend three years ago during my sister’s orientation. I remember the experience extremely clearly. It was raining heavily, and the lake was dotted with droplets that showered its surface. We were racing past the Main Building and behind the Basilica, trying to catch a glimpse of the lake before we sought shelter. And that’s how I first saw the Grotto, rain streaking down the statue of Mary like tears.

I have come back many times after this, and I have seen the Grotto in every season and weather imaginable. Picturesque Thomas Kinkade landscapes with leaves and autumn breezes. Inky nights and cold breezes. And more importantly, days when the light was flat and rain wouldn’t stop. One of the most important things visiting the Grotto has done for me is help me see things differently even if those things didn’t change at

all. I’m not talking about meditation or religious realization. I’m telling you about how being a Jew in a Catholic university has helped me see things more expansively and through new and different eyes. In any and every season you find yourself in life, no matter the weather, sometimes stepping back from yourself is important.

Whenever I go to the Grotto and I see the flames that never go out, I’m reminded of a story in the Book of Judaism called the Talmud.

Thousands of years ago Judea was invaded by Syrians and the temple in Jerusalem desecrated.

The Maccabees recaptured the temple, purified it, and lit the menorah inside. Even though they had a limited amount of oil that should’ve lasted for one day, the menorah stayed lit for the entirety of eight days. In today’s culture where there is a meeting of diverse cultures at a college campus and in society, where questions on the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students and a multi-billion border wall are predominant, uniting and keeping the candles lit, even if in a corner of campus, is a step toward the kind of thinking we need in our society. The indirect connection between us when we keep the candles lit in the Grotto, passing each other’s pain, reflection and happiness on to the next person, is an important process.

I don’t mean to ramble. Yes, I do.

I close with a portion of an article that ran in The Observer in 1986, written by Kathy Martin.

“Scarcely a student passes through the challenges, dilemmas and triumphs of four college years here without taking refuge at one time or another in the peaceful silence of a moment of reflection before hundreds of glowing candles which are special prayers to the Virgin Mary. It is part of the Notre Dame experience and tradition.”

As I’ve said, I am not Catholic and not particularly religious, but I submit to you the importance of the Grotto. Across our four years on campus, we will find our spots and nooks where we meet with friends and study. We will encounter a wealth of diverse perspectives in those relationships and in what we study. If we have the courage to look past ourselves and our presuppositions about the world and people, we will acquire vision and perhaps the imagination and ideas needed to overcome racism and prejudice.

Find your Grotto, even if it isn’t the one across the lake.

When you do, light a candle and pass it on.

Gabriel Niforatos is a freshman who is double majoring in economics and political science. When he’s not at school he is busy hiking and running in the New Mexico mountain range. His email is gniforat@nd.edu.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Thank you, Irish 4 Reproductive Health I was out of town when I heard that a group named Irish 4 Reproductive Health was passing out condoms on campus. “W ho were these brave souls? ” I wondered. Secret agents from Planned Parenthood behind enemy lines? UNICEF airdropping aid to a college campus? Colleagues of the tooth fair y who f lutter into campus at night to grant good college students the means to safety and security during their moonlit escapades?

Or could it be that they were simply concerned students like me, hoping to make a difference?

W hoever you are, thank you, Irish 4 Reproductive Health.

In his most recent letter, Fr. Jenkins stated that the University would provide coverage for “simple contraceptives,” which he defined as “drugs designed to prevent conception.” I see no relevant distinction between providing the opportunity for students to obtain these simple contraceptive drugs and providing the opportunity to obtain condoms on campus, other than the fact that talking about providing condoms is perceived as more lewd and taboo.

This is likely because condoms are implicated more directly in the act of sex than the distance provided by talking about a pill taken regularly.

They are more, if I may, straight to the point.

But this does not change the fact that they are

by far the easiest and cheapest form of “simple contraceptive” on the market. The University has taken a great step for ward toward sexual health in providing coverage for certain simple contraceptives, and we should acknowledge that, but we should also demand that they provide us the opportunity to obtain the simplest of all contraceptives.

W hat Irish 4 Reproductive Health did was simply fill in the gap in coverage the university currently still allows to exist. And in doing so, they did more to advance the sexual health of Notre Dame students in a few hours than the University has done in many decades.

Access to condoms allows all students on campus to make this same conscientious decision of what is right for them. Under this current health insurance policy, the burden of practicing safe sex is placed solely on the female, but providing condoms allows the males on campus to take some of that responsibility onto themselves.

W hile students must jump through many hoops just to obtain the pill, requiring planning far in advance of any sexual activity, condoms have the advantage of being available immediately when you need them. No burdensome paper work, no weeks of waiting, no side effects ranging from uncomfortable to gut-wrenching — just safe sex

as soon as you’re ready. To be clear, this does not mean to condone hook-up culture, and neither would providing condoms on campus. It merely acknowledges that this phenomenon exists, and helps ensure that the individuals taking part are doing so safely.

Condoms have the added benefit of being one of the only forms of contraception that also prevents the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, which, if you’ve seen the recent studies done on the sexual health of U.S. campuses, appears to be a veritable epidemic at Notre Dame. I am glad to see someone finally stepped up and addressed the elephant-sized genital wart on campus.

This need not be a philosophical or theological issue, merely a safety and well-being issue. Sex happens on Notre Dame’s campus. Right now, the University’s stance on access to contraception makes it extremely difficult for this sex to be safe, but providing condoms would ameliorate some of this difficulty. So once again, on behalf of all sexually active adults on campus struggling to be responsible, I thank you, Irish 4 Reproductive Health.

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The opioid battle Jordan Ryan Words of WisDome

Not a day goes by without seeing something in the news regarding the opioid crisis. On average, we lose 176 Americans a day to drug overdoses.

Unfortunately, we have yet to unlock an effective solution capable of producing successful results.

State and local governments have reacted to this crisis by, at least in part, playing the all too common blame game. Hundreds of cities, counties and states have sued opioid manufacturers and distributors. The lawsuits contend that governmental units have incurred billions of dollars in costs addressing the problem created by the drug companies’ misleading marketing of opioids as relatively safe and rarely addictive alternative pain medications. While these suits may have merit and could well compensate the public entities for costs incurred, they do little to help those struggling with opioid addictions.

This problem is evident not only in the United States, but also in our neighbor to the north, Canada. In the first half of 2017, about 1,460 people died as a result of an opioid-related, a figure that Canada’s public health agency estimates will surpass 4,000 once data is reported for the balance of the year. Most of these deaths are concentrated in British Columbia, one third to be exact. As part of the battle to address this epidemic, the Province has initiated a new program: vending machines filled with drugs. The British Columbia Center for Disease Control just recently announced that it

plans to install three vending machines this spring that will dispense hydromorphone pills, a powerful prescription opioid, to people with a high risk of overdose. Experts believe this drug could reduce dependencies on contaminated street drugs cut with lethal substances such as fentanyl. The pilot program is being funded with a grant from Health Canada, the national Canadian agency responsible for public health.

Though seemingly counterintuitive, public officials are very optimistic about this program’s potential success. The province has experience with supervised access to drugs. Currently, they sponsor eight supervised sites, where addicts inject illegal drugs under the supervision of nurses who can intervene in case of an overdose. While these programs have been effective, officials say their models carry heavy costs, are difficult to scale and limited in their accessibility, particularly in rural communities.

Under the pilot vending machine project, drug users would be able to get two to three hydromorphone pills three times a day. The cost per patient would be roughly only 3 Canadian dollars per day.

The machines are relatively inexpensive, making it easy to expand the program quickly. Additionally, the security of the machines is an obvious concern.

The manufacturers of the pill dispensing devices claim that by the use of real time monitors and biometric identification to access the machines, there will be little risk of theft and fraud.

Surprisingly, vending machines have played a role in coping with drug abuse for some time now. Health officials in the United States have

experimented with the use of drug addiction related vending machines. Last April, the Southern Nevada Health District and a local organization Trac-B Exchange, launched a vending machine program which provided clean needles, sharps disposal boxes and other necessary supplies to encourage users to throw away used needles in order to prevent the spreading of diseases. Three vending machines were placed throughout the Las Vegas area, mostly in readily accessible community centers. These vending machines have been so successful that an additional five more were installed in October 2017.

In what seems to be a never-ending battle, our struggle with this opioid epidemic may take more aggressive and creative efforts. From past experience, what we do know is that the solution to the problem will take a multi-front approach. Part of the battle has to attack the root cause of the crisis, those who unfortunately find themselves addicted to these dangerous drugs. Our healthcare officials need to keep open minds and remain perceptive to out-of-the-box solutions to this incredibly complex problem. Perhaps the experience of our northern neighbor Canada may serve as a model for at least part of a solution which could save thousands of lives in our own country.

Senior Jordan Ryan, a Pittsburgher formerly of Lyons Hall, studies political science, peace studies and constitutional studies. She welcomes any inquiries, comments or political memes to jryan15@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Sort through any differences you have with loved ones or peers and work diligently to repair any damage or setbacks you have endured. Getting along with others will be half the battle when it comes to making progress. Know what you want and be prepared to make adjustments if necessary in order to get others to agree to your conditions. Your numbers are 4, 18, 20, 28, 32, 39, 46.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Err on the side of caution when discussing matters with friends, relatives or neighbors. Limit what you reveal about your position until you have a chance to observe where everyone around you stands. Private matters should be kept that way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll have the right ideas, the best plan of action and the support you need to move forward. A discussion or visit with someone you look up to will help you with a decision that is weighing on your mind.

Romance is highlighted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Work alongside the people who you feel have the most to offer in return. A partnership can work if you draw up a plan that is based on equality and fair play. Personal agreements should be taken seriously.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Share your feelings. Communication will make a difference to the outcome of any relationship you have. Short trips, friendly gatherings and enjoying the company of someone you love will do you good.

Romance will improve your personal life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a closer look at the fine print and read over documents that can influence your financial or legal status. It’s best to have a clear picture of whatever you are contemplating before you make a commitment. Caution is recommended.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): New openings will come your way. Get involved in events that you feel strongly about and you will meet someone who has something to offer. Be ready to take advantage of an opportunity that can alter your life. Romance is highlighted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Emotional matters will escalate at home if you give in to those using aggressive tactics to bully or pressure you into something you don’t agree with. Outsmart any opponent by doing research and using your intelligence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Personal improvements, travel and educational pursuits will help you sort through any pitfalls you face. A romantic gesture will bring you closer to someone you love and help you gain approval and support to pursue your dreams.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Listen attentively and take notes so that you get your facts straight. Don’t let anger set in or cause you to retaliate. Time is on your side, so slow down and wait for the opportune time to present your thoughts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll get the go-ahead to pursue something exciting. Working with someone you have enjoyed working with in the past will lead to interesting new beginnings and opportunities. Romance will improve your personal life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Live and learn from past experience. Observe the way others act before you make a decision that can influence your reputation.

Too much of anything is probably a bad choice. Avoid temptation, indulgence, overspending and poor behavior.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Discuss your plans and the personal changes you want to make at home or to the way you live with someone you trust and love.

Romance and family should be a priority. Good fortune will come from doing what’s right.

Birthday Baby: You are caring, giving and helpful. You are possessive and opportunistic.

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NCAA needs to pay athletes Tobias Hoonhout Associate Sports Editor

What makes the release of the FBI documents by Yahoo!

Sports on Friday so relevant?

It’s not the fact that the NCA A tournament is around the corner and could be missing some of college basketball’s biggest programs. It also isn’t that my colleague Marek Mazurek was right last week when he said the NCA A is a morally defunct institution (although I don’t necessarily disagree). It’s that once again, the NCA A has proved that it needs to consider paying its athletes.

There’s no question about the immorality of the actions of ASM Sports, Andy Miller and Christian Dawkins. It’s clear their intention to funnel money to star recruits was motivated simply by the business advantages that such “loans” would provide them down the road when the players in question turned pro and signed with ASM. In other words, it was about the money and not about the players.

But that brings up the point, why do the players need the money?

I’m not one to say that all the players need the cash so bad that they had to take it. Nor am I one to say the very fact that these players are getting educated for free — oftentimes at premier academic institutions — isn’t valuable either. But in cases like these, we have to keep in mind that there are three sides to the story and to the NCA A: it’s role as an organizer, as a business and as a pipeline.

For most college sports, the NCA A’s principal role serves as an organizer and overseer, making sure everyone is on the same page and providing the platform for schools to remain fair and consistent with funding, scheduling and the like, and for student athletes to have the security and support they need to even have the opportunity to play collegiately. On its website, the NCA A lists its priorities as “Academics,” “Well-being” and “Fairness.”

But the organization is also a business. A billion dollar business. It runs a monopoly on college sports, but with one catch. The one’s earning the money — the athletes — don’t receive a dime for their labor, despite oftentimes committing at least 40 hours a week to sports.

The NCA A tries to counteract this with scholarships

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and academic aids to help “ease” the burden. Compared to the money schools invest in athletics, however, it’s not even close. It’s also why cheating and academic scandals exist; schools try and cut corners to keep students eligible and keep teams competitive. Why? Because college sports are a business as well. The top schools earn hundreds of millions in revenue from athletics, money that can be used in a variety of different ways to help the institution. But, to keep that money coming in, schools have to make sure the earners — the athletes — are available to play.

While the college football and basketball players that go pro may be an overwhelming minority within the student athlete population, the reality is football and basketball are far and away the most lucrative divisions of college sports.

For those that are talented enough that college is simply a stepping stone to the pros, the NCA A mostly stands in the way of those individuals, not only by forcing them to go to school and abide by regulations that limit their athletic development, but by also robbing them of the chance to earn a salary, and even more importantly by using their image for marketing without any reimbursement. It’s clearly a power dynamic that leaves little wiggle room for the athletes who will make profitable salaries, but in the meantime, are pawned by the NCA A to the tune of millions in revenue.

Unless the NCA A stops trying to focus entirely on its so-called “mission” of helping student athletes and recognizes that its greed lends itself to corruption on numerous fronts, these issues won’t be fixed. The fact that some of college basketball’s biggest schools and names were mentioned in the report just shows how serious the nature of the mess is.

There is a clear disparity between the reality of the situation and the way the NCA A goes about its business. It’s time for the organization to take a cold, hard look at the facts, give college athletes what they deserve and having a real impact both in and out of the classroom.

Contact Tobias Hoonhout at thoonhou@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Individuals shine, team falls short at ACC meet Observer Staff Report

Notre Dame saw mixed results in the ACC championship over the weekend as they walked away successful in both men’s and women’s indiv iduals events while failing to repeat as champions in either team event.

Action got under way Saturday when the Irish women competed for indiv idual weapons titles, both making and repeating histor y in the process.

In foil, Notre Dame dominated, taking all four spots in the semifinals thanks to the strong performances of junior Elyssa K leiner, freshman Stefani Deschner and sophomores Morgan Partridge and Samantha Viqueira. The semis saw t wo tightly contested matches, but ultimately it was K leiner defeating Viqueira 13-12 and Deschner outlasting Partridge 15-13.

K leiner jumped out to an early lead in the finals, and despite the best efforts of Deschner who rattled off five straight points during the match, K leiner held on and secured her first career league title, 15-11.

Partridge defeated Viqueira 15-11 for third place. In sabre, three Irish fencers advanced to the semifinals led by defending champion Francesca Russo along w ith Tara Hassett and Reghan Ward. Hassett was able to defeat Duke’s Haley Fisher to advance to the finals where she faced off against Russo.

The defending champion was able to secure the title yet again, becoming the first woman to repeat since the event was introduced in 2015. Ward placed third after defeating Fisher in the semis.

In epee, junior Amanda Sirico was the lone Irish fencer to advance to the semis, but she made it count as she was able to march her way through to repeat as champion herself.

With the three v ictories, the Notre Dame women became the first women’s team to sweep the podium in consecutive years.

Competition w rapped up on Saturday w ith the men’s team event, and despite strong performances in their first t wo matches, defeating Boston College 20-7 and North Carolina 23-4, the Irish were faced w ith tough competition against Duke. Notre Dame was able to take sabre 5-4, but the Blue Dev ils handled epee and foil, w inning 8-1 and 7-2 respectively, and taking home the ACC title in the process. A bright spot in the day came for senior sabreur senior Jonah Shainberg who became the all-time w inningest men’s fencer in ND histor y at 194 dual bouts.

He ended the day at 196.

On Sunday, Notre Dame opened up w ith men’s indiv idual events, and the Irish were able to advance t wo Irish fencers to the semis in all three weapons.

In foil, both freshman Nick Itkin and junior A xel Kiefer advanced w ith Itkin

ultimately being able to take home the title after defeating Kiefer in the semis and Duke’s Eoin Gronningsater in the finals.

In sabre, senior Jonathan Fitzgerald as well as Shainberg advanced.

Shainberg was able to take the semifinal match bet ween the t wo 15-11 before taking dow n Duke’s Pascual Di Tella in the championship, the same man who had defeated him a year earlier.

In epee, junior Dylan French and sophomore Ariel Simmons faced off in the semis where Simmons edged out his teammate before ultimately falling to Duke’s Br y n Hammarberg in the finals.

Concluding the weekend’s action was the women’s team event. After defeating Boston College 24-3, Notre Dame took dow n North Carolina 21-6 in round t wo.

However, they would fall to Duke in round three, allow ing for a three way fence off bet ween the Irish, Blue Dev ils, and Tar Heels.

North Carolina was able to just edge out its competition and take home their first women’s conference fencing title.

Mov ing for ward, the Irish w ill now prepare for the NCA A Midwest Regional Championships starting Mar. 10 at Cleveland State Universit y. Follow ing that is NCA A Championships on Mar. 22 and 23 where Notre Dame w ill hope to defend their title as reigning national champions.

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free-throws led Wake Forest to tie the game 71-71 with 2:55 remaining. After a staunch defensive battle between both teams the game appeared to be heading into overtime until a ball screen by senior center Martinas Geben helped give Farrell enough separation to get off a three to give ND the lead once again with eight seconds remaining in the game. Wake Forest couldn’t answer and two free throws from Geben sealed the win for the Irish.

Coming out of the time out, Farrell said he knew exactly what play he wanted to run in the closing seconds.

“I told coach I was going to run a [ball screen] again and make a read off of it,” he said.

“Once the big took a step back I shot it and put it up. … After everything we’ve been through I just had to take the shot with confidence.”

Farrell wasn’t the only person confidence in the shot.

Geben said he knew Farrell had the ability to make the big shot down the stretch.

“I had full faith in him. He’s taken those shots, and he’s made those shots. It’s not that big of a surprise for us that he

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first. Less than a minute into the action, senior forward Jake Evans scored on a breakaway to put Notre Dame up 2-0.

Five minutes into the second period, Michigan State got on the board thanks to a goal from junior defenseman Zach Osburn, which cut the Irish lead to one. But the Irish would refuse to stand down.

A minute after the Osburn goal, sophomore defenseman Andrew Peeke scored on a wrist shot thanks to the assist from sophomore forward Cal Burke and junior forward Andrew Oglevie.

Several seconds later, Evans fed the puck to sophomore forward Cam Morrison next to the net, Morrison capitalized, scoring his sixth goal of the season and giving the Irish a commanding 4-1 lead. Notre Dame added to the lead a few minutes later, when junior forward Joe Wegwerth scored his fifth goal of the season off a rebound, assisted by Oglevie and Nardella.

With a four goal lead and time to play, Morrison continued his stellar offensive play, intercepting a botched Michigan State pass and slotting a wrist shot on the breakaway for his second goal of the night, which gave the Irish a 6-1 lead to end the period.

Notre Dame managed to maintain their lead despite a bit of a comeback effort from the Spartans in the third period.

made that shot,” Geben said.

Brey said he believes the team is finally recovering from numerous team injuries and thanks his seniors for leading the way.

“We have been dealt a crazy hand on the injury front, but we never used it as an excuse,” he said. “Other guys have come in and battles and played. I think it’s the culture of the program that has a lot of character and certainly our senior class.

Martinas and Matty [Farrell] set an unbelievable tone out there for us today.”

Farrell and Geben highlighted a trio of Irish starters that finished with at least 20 points.

Geben led all scorers with a game high 22 point and 14 rebounds, while Farrell added 21 points and six assists, finishing 4-9 from three-point range.

Sophomore guard T.J. Gibbs contributed 20 points.

Geben said he believed the Irish finally played liked themselves and called the win “satisfying.”

“We played like us,“ he said.

“We’re the team that’s able to be down and make the tough plays, got defensive stops when we needed them. [We] looked like the old us that everyone knows. … It was very satisfying that we were finally able to make those plays.“

The Irish will continue ACC play when they host the Pittsburgh (8-22, 0-17 ACC) for Senior Night. The Irish are also expecting the return of senior forward Bonzie Colson, who has been out since early

January with a broken foot.

With two games remaining in the regular season and the return of Colson to the lineup, Farrell is looking forward to next game.

“We’re not done yet were

going to keep fighting like we have all year,” he said. “We have an important one of Wednesday night. It should be a fun night.”

After Michigan State was called for a hooking minor, junior forward Brennan Sanford scored a shorthanded goal to cut the Irish lead to four.

Roughly four minutes later, after a Michigan State pass hit the boards, Osburn scored on a slap shot from the right side, further cutting into the lead. But Notre Dame held its ground the rest of the period, coming out on top by a score of 6-3.

Coach Jackson was pleased with the offensive firepower on Friday night.

“It was nice to score a lot of goals,” Jackson said. “It was good to see, especially in the second period, we started resembling our team in the first half. We started doing some good things and goals were a result — good effort, good back pressure good transitioning.

Defense leads to offense.”

Peeke said the team is focused on staying hot and maintaining a high level of play heading into the playoffs.

“The past couple of weeks, we had a few losses,” he said.

“And after we clinched the regular season and knew we were going to be the first seed, coach really wanted us to come in hot for playoffs, and that’s such an important thing for the team.

So, this week, after losing to Michigan, we really wanted to put an emphasis on going into playoffs hot.”

At Senior Night on Saturday, the Irish started brightly, but weren’t able to put Michigan State away, as the Spartans hung around for two periods before seizing control in the

third, winning 5-4 and putting a damper on the evening and the end of the regular season for the Irish.

In the first period, Notre Dame’s early pressure kept the Spartans on their heels, but for the first half of the period the chances didn’t lead to much. At 9:48, Notre Dame had a golden opportunity to open the scoring after Michigan State freshman forward Jake Smith was called for tripping. But on the power play the Spartans held firm, and Notre Dame again came away empty.

Three minutes later, the Irish used their speed to get out in transition, and Evans found a streaking Colin Theisen with a cross-ice pass, and the freshman forward subsequently coolly slotted top shelf over the left shoulder of Spartan goaltender John Lethemon to give Notre Dame a 1-0 lead.

It wouldn’t take long for Michigan State to respond.

After a bad outlet pass from deep in Notre Dame’s zone was intercepted by the Spartans, sophomore forward Taro Hirose fired home from the blue line past Irish sophomore goalie Cale Morris to tie the game up at one with 2:29 left in the period.

In the second, the Spartans opened on a power play after Theisen was called for slashing with five seconds left in the first period. But after an interference call on Spartan forward Mitchell Lewandowski made it four-on-four, Notre Dame went on the power play for a little over a minute. With the two minutes winding down,

senior defenseman Jordan Gross found Evans with his back turned in front of the net.

The senior turned and fired a wrist shot that Lethemon got his glove to but couldn’t keep out, as the Irish went back on top 2-1.

With six minutes left in the period, Michigan State once again answered. A slap shot from sophomore defenseman Jerad Rosburg was saved by Morris, but the rebound fell to Lewandowski, who finished in front of the net to knot the game back up at 2. The Spartans almost went up front a few moments later, but after review the goal was disallowed.

In the final moments of the period, the Irish once again went on the penalty kill, as junior forward Andrew Oglevie was called for slashing at 19:31.

But for the second night in a row, Notre Dame jumped out and made the Spartans pay short-handed. 42 seconds into the start of the third the Irish penalty kill got out on a two-on-one with Evans and Jenkins. A ricocheted-shot off the post from Jenkins found its way to junior defenseman Dennis Gilbert, who finished calmly to put the Irish up 3-2.

But the Spartans came right back, as Lewandowski added a second to tie the game back up 3:20 into the period.

At 8:50 in the period, Michigan State’s tenacity paid off, as Rosburg fired the Spartans ahead 4-3. Now down for the first time all game, the Irish pushed for a goal. Morrison had a shot ring off the cross pipe, while Evans

had a chance in front of the net that was blocked and dribbled wide. The best chance of the bunch came with a minute left, as Oglevie tried to put a rebound on net, but was kept out by a miraculous reflex save from Lethemon. Notre Dame piled on the pressure in the final moments after going with an empty net, but couldn’t break through, as the Spartans held on.

“As I’ve said all season long, it’s extremely hard to beat the same team four times in a row, and that’s more what I expected from Michigan State,” Jackson said after the game.

“That’s the team I saw on tape, last night we jumped on them in the second period and tonight we didn’t have that.”

With two weeks off until the Irish play again in the Big Ten semifinals, Jackson said the team will refocus to try and get back to its winning ways.

“We’ll have a full week of practice, they’ll get a couple of additional days off over the next few weeks since we want them to be rested, but we don’t want to lose our competitive edge,” he said. “… We haven’t been the same team since we clinched the league, I thought we showed signs last Sunday at Michigan, I thought we showed signs again last night, and for the first period tonight, if we had played 60 minutes like that we would’ve won the game.”

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Irish senior guard Matt Farrell drives up the court during Notre Dame’s 77-74 loss to Miami on Feb. 19 at Purcell Pavilion. During Sunday’s win, Farrell scored 21 points and reached the 1,000-point threshold.

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first goal of the season to tie the score a 6-6.

With 12:52 left in the fourth, Gleason took the ball and scored an unassisted goal to put the Irish back on top 7-6. It was Gleason’s fifth point of the game. After Notre Dame took a holding penalty, Richmond capitalized on the man advantage to tie the score 7-7 with 11:15 left in regulation.

Notre Dame had another opportunity to take the lead back with seven and a half minutes left when Richmond took a penalty. On the 30 second man-advantage, Costabile took a feed by freshman midfielder Wheaton Jackoboice and deposited it in the back of the net to give the Irish an 8-7 lead. Just a couple minutes later, Garnsey scored to add some insurance for Notre Dame in the form of a 9-7 lead with 5:18 remaining in the final frame. Richmond pulled their goalie with 1:42 left in the game for the extraattacker, but Gleason scored an empty-netter to make it 10-7 — Gleason’s sixth point of the game. Wynne scored with eight seconds left for his second goal of the game to make it 11-7.

Notre Dame finished with 41 shots while Richmond finished with 27. Brendan Gleason recorded three goals and three assists for a six point game, while Wynne and Costabile finished with two goals each. Collins, Garnsey, Sexton and Willetts

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each had one goal, while Notre Dame freshman goaltender Matt Schmidt finished with six saves on the day.

Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan said a various factors led to Richmond’s big third quarter comeback.

“Richmond won some face offs, they scored a couple of goals that we were responsible for and they scored goals that they made really nice plays on, and the next thing you know they’re on a run,” he said. “We didn’t have the ball much and it was hard for us to score because during the third quarter we weren’t winning any face offs.

“We had dominated face offs in the first half and won some face offs late, but we didn’t during that middle period. They were playing a lot of make it take it in the third quarter and it’s hard when you don’t have those possessions. It was a combination of a lot of things, and Richmond kept playing. They pushed out offensively and tried to disrupt what we were doing and did some good things.”

Corrigan said he liked his team’s offense throughout the game.

“I thought the whole game, we really ran some pretty good offense the whole game,” he said. “Obviously in the first half we played some really good defense and in the second half we got a little bit sloppy. We gave up a jump cut, we gave up an unsettled goal, we gave up two passes that went through our defense and ended up on the backside of somebody’s stick wide open Paid Advertisement

those are some things that we know we can’t do.

“But the good things we did, at times we faced off really well, at times we played offense really well, I think if we look back at this game we’re going to look at our shooting and go, ‘Oh my god, we left about eight goals on the board that we should have scored.’ Their goalie made saves, give him credit, but I didn’t think our shooting was great, and like I said in all aspects of the game we rode and cleared very well today, and that was atrocious for us against Detroit. I think we made a lot of improvements in two weeks from where we were two weeks ago. We have to keep getting better though.”

Up next, Notre Dame will travel to College Park, Maryland to take on No. 3 Maryland on Saturday for the team’s first road game of the season.

Corrigan knows his team will face a tough test against the Terrapins.

“Maryland is a really good team,” Corrigan said. “They’re athletic, they’re skilled, they’re well coached, and they’re experienced and confident. That is the whole package. The long and short of it is you just have to play good, smart lacrosse. You can’t give away goals in a game like that. Our games within the last few years have all been battles. We know it’s going to take the same kind of effort to beat them this year.”

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McGraw said Young had been cleared to play without the mask but the guard had decided to wear it. “[Young] was actually allowed to play without it — starting today — and she said that she was going to wear it anyway,” McGraw said. “I didn’t actually notice when it came off but, she played pretty well so I think she likes playing without it.”

The game started off with the Irish missing their first four shots. The game would finally open scoring with a 3-pointer by N.C. State with 8:26 left in the first quarter, this would be the largest lead of the afternoon for the Wolfpack.

The Irish would go on a 7-0 run before finding themselves down 8-7 with 5:35 left in the first quarter. With just under three minutes to go in the first period, N.C. State would take the lead 12-11 — the last Wolfpack lead of the game.

Both teams couldn’t garner momentum as the Irish led 1716 after 10 minutes.

The Irish got off to a hot start in the second quarter, jumping to a 25-17 lead with 7:24 left in the half after scores by four different Irish starters.

The Irish guard duo of junior guard Arike Ogunbowale and Young would score 16 of the team’s 22 points in the second quarter — and would combine for 43 points in the game.

Ogunbowale hit a jumper with 3:25 to give the Irish a 35-22 lead and their largest lead of the half. The Wolfpack responded with a quick 7-2 run but, after one half, Notre Dame led N.C. State 39-31.

Notre Dame would start the second half a bit slow, allowing the Wolfpack to cut the lead 45-43 with a tad over six minutes left to play in the third quarter. The Irish responded with a game-sealing 21-6 run to end the quarter, started by an Ogunbowale 3-pointer and capped off the same way. Irish junior guard Marina Mabrey put up a fast break 3-pointer that surprised McGraw, who commented on the run and emphasized the defense executed by her team.

“I think we made some big plays defensively, we rebounded, we got def lections, we got steals, we got the [fast-break] going, we had a lot of transition opportunities with the ball screen that were very effective for us, and then Marina pulling up for three on the break — which was a little unexpected but, it worked,” McGraw said. “I thought [Jackie Young], [Arike Ogunbowale] and [Marina Mabrey] just came to play, they were not going to be denied another championship.”

After three quarters, the game was 66-49 in favor of the Irish. The last quarter

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saw continued Notre Dame dominance.

Irish freshman forward Danielle Patterson scored four of the Irish’s six bench points and logged in 12 total minutes. McGraw said it was important to give Patterson playing time, especially with the postseason just days away.

“It’s good to see Danielle Patterson get some really quality minutes because we’re going to need her in the tournament,” she said. “Hopefully, we’re going to play three days in a row and if we are, we got to really be able to sustain our intensity, it’s going to be a lot.”

With this being the last regular season game at home, Sunday also marked Senior Day for the Irish. Senior forward Kathryn Westbeld and graduate student forward Kristina Nelson were the only graduating players able to play but guard Mychal Johnson and forward Brianna Turner — both seniors — were also among those graduating this year. Westbeld scored 16 points on 8-9 shooting and Nelson racked up six rebounds and four assists. McGraw said she was excited with the ability to send off Westbeld and Nelson as ACC regular season champions once again.

“I’ll play every day of Senior Day if Kathryn Westbeld comes out and plays like [today],” she said. “She was unbelievable, just a great game by [Westbeld]. So happy for our seniors — [Westbeld] and [Kristina Nelson] — to send them off with yet, another championship.”

Despite all the setbacks in the season — losing four players to ACL injuries and a loss to Louisville — the Irish managed to finish top-5 in the regular season rankings. McGraw was tearful in the postgame press conference because of her team’s ability to play excellent throughout the season.

“I’m just so proud of this team and what they’ve overcome,” McGraw said. “We kept losing people throughout the year, we never put our heads down — never felt sorry for ourselves — [the team] just came back to work every single day. [The players] stepped up, individually and as a team.

They handled the adversity – that’s the kind of thing that we want to teach them.

“That’s what sports does for you, it teaches you a lot of life lessons and handling adversity is definitely one of them,” she added. “I couldn’t be prouder of any team, this was definitely the most rewarding championship I think we’ve had … To come in without so many players and to be regular season champs again, it’s a really emotional moment for me.”

The Irish will start their ACC championship run Friday in the quarterfinal round.

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hockey | ND 6, Michigan state 3; michigan state 4, nd 3

ND finishes conference play with series split

Close win keeps NCAA hopes alive

By TOBIAS HOONHOUT and CONNOR MULVENA

By MIA BERRY Sports Writer

Associate Sports Editor and Sports Writer

No. 5 Notre Dame split its final regular season series this against Michigan State, winning on Friday night over the Spartans (12-19-2, 6-15-2 Big Ten) but falling on Senior Night on Saturday.

On Friday, sophomore goalie Cale Morris assumed his dominant form in the first period, stopping all 12 of Michigan State’s shots on goal with ease.

On the other end, with 4:28 remaining, sophomore forward Mike O’Leary slotted a wrist shot off an assist from junior defenseman Bobby Nardella and junior forward Jack Jenkins for his third goal of the season to put Notre Dame (239-2, 17-6-1) up 1-0.

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Irish senior defenseman Jordan Gross fights for the puck during Notre Dame’s 5-1 loss to Ohio State on Feb. 10.

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No. 8 Notre Dame (2-0) defeated Richmond (2-2) 11-7 Saturday afternoon. It was their second game of the regular season and their first outdoor game at Arlotta Stadium.

Both the Irish and the Spiders traded quality scoring chances during the opening minutes before senior midfielder Brendan Collins scored his second goal of the season to give Notre Dame the 1-0 lead with 3:29 left in the first quarter. Junior midfielder Brendan Gleason earned an assist on the play.

With only 58 seconds left in the opening frame, sophomore midfielder Bryan Costabile took a feed from Gleason and buried a shot behind the Richmond goaltender for his sixth goal in two games to give the Irish a 2-0 lead.

Notre Dame out-shot the Spiders 9-6 in the first quarter.

With 11:05 left in the second quarter, Gleason got on the scoreboard with his second goal of the season to put Notre Dame

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By MICHAEL IVEY

A late three by senior guard Matt Farrell kept the Irish’s NCAA hopes alive and helped seal a second half comeback against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 76-71.

Despite not having success closing out games recently, the Irish (17-12, 7-9 ACC) were able to make plays down the stretch against the Demon Deacons (11-18, 4-13 ACC).

“I’m really proud of our group. That’s a great win for us,” head coach Mike Brey said. “[Wake Forest] is a really gifted offensive team. It was hard for us to guard them.”

In a close back and forth battle throughout the first half, the Irish found themselves trailing 41-36 at half time. Farrell attributed the poor first half to a lack quality play on defense.

“We didn’t defend in the first half,” he said. “We didn’t defend in the first ten minutes of the second half. We know we can be a really good team, but we can’t be lazy on that end … we

can’t do that anymore.”

The Irish started the second half off strong with an 11-2 run that gave them a 47-44 lead with 17:41 remaining in the game. The Demon Deacons would answer with their own run outscoring the Irish 18-7 to take a 62-54 lead with 12:20 left to play. Both teams would exchange baskets, but the lack of defense would once again plague the Irish as they found themselves down by as many as nine, trailing 69-60 with 8:08 remaining in the game.

An 8-0 run by the Irish capped off a by three from junior Rex Pflueger cut the lead to one 69-68 with 5:48 remaining in the game, and Farrell would give the Irish a lead late in the second half with a three to put the Irish 71-69 with 3:19 remaining in the game. The made three gave Farrell 1,000 career points, making him the 62nd player in program history with that accomplishment.

A late foul by sophomore wing Nikola Djogo, and two made

up 3-0. After a goal by senior defenseman John Sexton, senior attackman Mikey Wynne took a pass from junior attackman Ryder Garnsey, faked out the goalie and then buried a shot to put the Irish up 5-0 going into halftime.

At the half, Notre Dame led 2212 in shots.

The Spiders came out much improved in the second half.

Richmond came out strongly to begin the third quarter, scoring two quick goals within the first two minutes of the quarter.

After another Richmond goal with 12:39 left in the third to make the score 5-3, two Spider goals within a minute of each other tied the score at 5-5 near the halfway mark of the frame.

Richmond took the lead with a goal at 6:11 of the third quarter.

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Notre Dame wins share of ACC regular season title

By CHARLIE ORTEGA GUIFARRO Sports Writer

Notre Dame’s No. 5 ranked women’s basketball team wrapped up regular season play with a dominant 86-67 win over No. 21 North Carolina State. The Irish (272, 15-1 ACC) used a big second half to seal the deal against the Wolfpack (22-7, 11-ACC) and clinch a share of the ACC regular season championship with Louisville (29-2, 15-1 ACC).

The Irish were led by sophomore guard Jackie Young, who got rid of her protective mask in the first quarter — after having worn it for more than a month. Young played all but three minutes of the game, leading all scorers with 22 points on an efficient 8-11 shooting, logging in six rebounds and five assists in the process.

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Irish senior forward Kathryn Westbeld looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 86-67 victory over North Carolina State on Sunday.