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Hauling in a 10th win Irish topple Tigers behind play of Boykin, Book to finish out season with Citrus Bowl victory

CHRIS COLLINS | The Observer

Irish junior wide receiver Miles Boykin reaches out and pulls in the one-handed grab before scoring the game-winning touchdown from 55 yards out in Notre Dame’s 21-17 victory over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium. Boykin was awarded the game’s MVP honors after catching three passes for 102 yards and the go-ahead score.

Win foreshadows bright 2018 for Notre Dame Marek Mazurek Assistant Managing Editor

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jan. 1 was the first day of 2018, but for many, it felt like 2017.

For Brian Kelly, it must have felt more like 2014.

That year, the Irish were ranked as high as No. 5 before losing the final four games of the season.

But a 31-28 win over LSU in the Music City Bowl gave the Irish a feel-good ending to a season that desperately needed some positive momentum.

This year — well, technically last year — the Irish climbed as high as No. 3 in the College Football Playoff committee’s rankings before being blown out

by Miami (FL) and fumbling their way to a loss at Stanford.

The losses dropped Notre Dame down to No. 14 in the CFP rankings, meaning the Irish (10-3) were left out of a New Year’s Six game. see MAZUREK PAGE 3

By MAREK MAZUREK Assistant Managing Editor

ORLANDO, Fla. — Leading up to No. 14 Notre Dame’s matchup with No. 17 LSU in the Citrus Bowl, there were comparisons to the 2014 Music City Bowl.

Notre Dame (10-3) was playing the same team — LSU (9-4, 6-2 SEC) — on the heels of a disappointing end to a promising season.

And just like the 2014 contest where both Malik Zaire and Everett Golson saw playing time at quarterback, Irish head coach Brian Kelly even made sure both junior starter Brandon Wimbush and sophomore backup Ian Book made appearances under center for the Irish.

But the most important similarity between the 2014 Music City Bowl and the 2018 Citrus Bowl for Notre Dame was the final score.

On Monday, that score was Notre Dame 21, LSU 17.

Down eight points in the fourth quarter, the Irish needed a spark offensively and found one in the form of sophomore running back Dexter Williams.

Williams rushed twice for 36 yards, including a 31-yard sprint that propelled the Irish on their way to the red zone.

There, Book found freshman wide receiver Michael Young on a six-yard pass for a touchdown.

A shovel pass to junior running back Josh Adams gave Notre Dame a two-point conversion and brought the game to a 14-14 tie.

But LSU drove right back down the field and knocked on the goal line before settling for a field goal to give the Tigers a 1714 lead.

Enter Miles Boykin.

Before the 1:28 mark in the fourth quarter, the junior from Tinley Park, Illinois, had two catches for 47 yards.

But on one play, Boykin doubled his yardage total and gave Notre Dame the lead, as he leapt up over his defender to make a one-handed snag. When he came down, he stiff-armed one defender and juked another on his way to a 55-yard touchdown reception.

“That was something else,” junior wide receiver Chris Finke said of Boykin’s catch and run.

“I saw him go up and get it with the one hand. I saw him throw

the one guy on the ground and thought maybe he’ll get a few more yards, but all of a sudden he broke free. It was one of the best catches I’ve ever seen in person.”

The scoring drive took just three plays but went 73 yards in 35 seconds to give the Irish a 2117 lead and Boykin the game’s MVP award.

Though LSU senior quarterback Danny Etling was effective all game, throwing for 229 yards and two touchdowns, he couldn’t muster a comeback drive, and the Irish won their first January bowl game since the 1993 Cotton Bowl.

“Every year, our mission is to play for a National Championship, but we’ve built this to continue that process and work towards being one of those four teams that are part of the Playoff,” Kelly said after the game. “But as I was reminded yesterday, we hadn’t won a New Year’s game in like 752 years, so we’ve done that. We won a close game, so we’ve done that. So there’s strides that you make as you’re building yourself toward being a playoff team, and today see DEJA VU PAGE 3

ND’s depth shows in Citrus Bowl victory

By BEN PADANILAM Editor-in-Chief

ORLANDO, Fla. — In order to reach the 10-win threshold Irish head coach Brian Kelly had harped on in the days leading up to Monday’s Citrus Bowl, No. 14 Notre Dame needed to find a way to beat No. 17 LSU. And the Irish (10-3) did just that, leaving Camping World Stadium and kicking off 2018 with a narrow 21-17 victory over the Tigers (9-4, 6-2 SEC).

When Kelly took the podium after the game, he did so proud of his team. Particularly the stars of the game, sitting to his left and his right.

But those stars were not junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush or junior running back Josh Adams.

They were not any one of the members of the team’s award-winning offensive line. And they were not any of the teams captains.

Instead, Kelly was joined on the see DEPTH PAGE 2

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podium by the team’s backup quarterback in sophomore Ian Book and the team’s sixth-leading receiver entering Monday in junior Miles Boykin.

It might not have been the cast of characters everyone expected to lead the Irish to victory, but it only made sense, given the two were responsible for leading the Irish to the storybook ending they sought. That ending: a 55-yard pass from Book that Boykin caught onehanded before breaking two tackles and rumbling in for the game-winning score.

“It was really almost just a blur,” Boykin, who was awarded the game’s MVP honor, said of the catch. “ … It was an extremely humbling moment for me just to be able to go out there and make a play to help my team win. We talk about — as a receiver, we’re playmakers and winning the 50-50 ball, we talk about that every day.

During that moment, I had to make that play … Ian gave me a great ball.”

“It was the best play I’ve seen in my career here,” senior linebacker Drue Tranquill said, having watched the play on the video board from the sideline.

“It was absolutely incredible.

My jaw just kind of dropped, and I was like ‘Are you serious?’”

And while the duo’s performances may have caught many people outside the program by surprise, that certainly was not the case for those inside the program. In Boykin’s case, Kelly said he knew the junior wideout was going to have an impact — Boykin ended the day with 102 yards and a touchdown — in the bowl game victory from the beginning.

“Miles over here knows the story,” Kelly said. “We were in practice, and we knew that we were going to have to get a couple of one-on-one matchups on the outside, and I told Miles, ‘Miles, you’re going to win the MVP trophy,’ and he looked at me like I had two heads. But I felt like he had a chance. He’s got the ability, if we could get him the football. And Ian got him the football and Miles made a great individual play and, lo and behold, I’ve got the

MVP sitting next to me.”

And for the man who delivered the pass to him, there was no indication leading up to the game that he would even see the field. But making an appearance towards the end of the first half and playing the entire second half, the sophomore quarterback delivered a 14-of19 performance for 164 yards and two touchdowns, with his lone mistake being an interception in the third quarter — a turnover which could have led to a downward spiral but instead was followed by three consecutive scoring drives.

After the game, Kelly revealed that Book’s appearance in the game, even with Wimbush coming in as the starter, was always part of the plan.

“We went in with the idea of both of them playing,” Kelly said. “So this wasn’t a surprise to Ian. Ian was prepared.

Brandon knew as well that both of them were going to play. That was the game plan going in.”

And when Kelly ultimately decided to stick with Book from halftime on, his teammates knew exactly what they were getting with the sophomore

under center.

“Whenever Ian’s gotten reps with the [first team], he’s super calm and he makes sure we have all the information and we just trust him behind us,” senior guard Quenton Nelson said. “He did a great job today with his opportunity, and I’m very proud of him — proud to see that everyone else saw the same thing we see in him. He’s a great player.”

“Ian came in there and played with a ton of guts,” graduate student offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey said. “His first major action — he had the start against North Carolina, but we put the ball in [Book’s] hands today, and he stepped up and made huge play after play after play.”

Book had help from some other less-heralded heroes on the Irish as well. While Boykin’s 55-yard touchdown will be the play everyone remembers, the previous drive ended with a touchdown catch by a player who entered the game without an catches to his name: freshman wide receiver Michael Young. Without three of the team’s top four targets available

for this game, the Irish knew they would need other players to step up in the passing game, and they got just that from Boykin and Young.

“Next man up,” Young said.

“I’ve been watching those [veterans], and they’ve been doing a good job of setting an example of how to come prepared each and every day and how to practice each and every day. For me, it was just going there, giving my all; showing the coaches, ‘Look, we might be down a couple guys, but we got a couple guys that are able to step up and get it rolling.’”

And step up they did, sending the team and its seniors out with one final win on the year.

“We had guys step up today that hadn’t had a gigantic role for us all year,” McGlinchey said. “Like Mike Young coming up huge, Miles Boykin had an unreal game, Ian Book — it’s just cool to see those guys come in and step up in such a big way and send our team out with 10 wins and our senior class out the way they deserved to be.”

Contact Ben Padanilam at bpadanil@nd.edu

CHRIS COLLINS | The Observer

Irish junior wide receiver Miles Boykin evades two Tigers defensive backs on his way to scoring the go-ahead touchdown in Notre Dame’s 21-17 win over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium. Boykin had just nine catches for 151 yards and a touchdown on the season prior to his Citrus Bowl performance, his first 100-yard game.

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Miles Boykin’s one-handed catch and run for go-ahead score

Notre Dame wide receiver Miles boykin

With LSU having just taken the lead with 2:03 remaining, the Irish found themselves down a field goal and in need of a response. And they got that response quickly, as it only took junior wide receiver Miles Boykin 35 seconds to catch a pass from quarterback Ian Book with one hand, elude one defender, then push past another and sprint into the endzone for what turned out to be a game-winning 55-yard touchdown.

With three of the its four leading receivers unable to dress for the game and its top target sitting on the sideline for the final two drives, Notre Dame needed someone to step up in the passing game. And Boykin did just that, securing 102 yards and a touchdown on three catches to earn Citrus Bowl MVP honors. While his late game heroics stood out, Boykin also had a 29-yard catch on third down to extend his team’s other touchdown drive.

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Duncan Student Center officially opens New facility houses RecSports, Career Center, student media, three additional campus dining options

By COURTNEY BECKER News Editor

After years of planning and construction, the Duncan Student Center officially opened to the entire Notre Dame community during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday.

The new student center, which vice president for student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding said is meant to complement the LaFortune Student Center, sits on the west side of Notre Dame Stadium and houses RecSports, the Career Center, most student media and three new campus dining options for students.

The decor of the building features homages to the Notre Dame football program

— such as wood from the stadium’s old benches — and incorporates student art.

“It has, we hope, a very lofty feel, but with nods to the stadium nearby, but really the ownership of the student body itself in many of the touches that you see around,” Hoffmann Harding said.

Associate vice president of student affairs Brian Coughlin said the Duncan Student Center stands out from the rest of the Campus Crossroads project — which includes the new O’Neill Hall and Corbett Family Hall — due to its centrality to student life at Notre Dame.

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Activist discusses efforts to combat racism, injustice

CHRIS COLLINS | The Observer

Walk the Walk Week keynote speaker Bree Newsome spoke Tuesday night at DeBartolo Hall about her experiences combatting racism.

By ALEXANDRA MUCK News Writer

Bree Newsome, an activist, filmmaker and musician, delivered a lecture on her work fighting racism Tuesday night in an event sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Programs and Services. The lecture also served as the keynote address for Walk the Walk

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Newsome opened her remarks with a discussion of consciousness, which she defined as being aware of unconscious behavior. Newsome said she is conscious that she “live[s] in a particular time and place in human history where racism” exists. see KEYNOTE PAGE 4

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Students utilize a social space in the new Duncan Student Center on Tuesday. The building, which opened Monday, will serve as a student activities hub on campus in addition to the LaFortune Student Center.

SMC launches Master of Autism Studies program In 2018, Saint Mary’s will introduce a new graduate program: Master of Autism Studies.

Although coursework will not begin until 2019, the program will accept applications and host workshops this calendar year.

“Everyone knows about the critical need for understanding and responding to autism in the world today,” Michael Waddell, program director, said in an email.

“The Master of Autism Studies program responds to this need by examining autism from scientific, therapeutic and humanistic perspectives.”

This program speaks to the values of Saint Mary’s and specifically a Holy Cross education, said Susan Latham, a Master of Autism Studies faculty member.

“It’s important that this is happening at Saint Mary’s because we are Holy Cross. And Holy Cross means that we are educating our students in a way that reflects the way that Fr. Moreau envisioned our work happening,” Latham

said. “So for example, one characteristic of Holy Cross educators is respect for the individual in that we don’t concern ourselves with only the mind but also the heart, and that really speaks to our values and how we approach families with whom we work.”

Waddell said that students will study autism in relation to both intervention approaches as well as other subjects.

“Unlike other programs, the Master of Autism Studies will introduce students to the full range of evidence-based autism interventions, including — but not limited to — behavioralist approaches.,” he said. “And it will do all of these things in conversation with the Catholic tradition.”

Waddell said the program looks beyond just the science and examines the intersection of autism with the humanities.

“Autism therapies are important because, when done well, they can improve the quality of life of people who live with autism,” he said.

“And, of course, in order to provide the best autism therapies, you have to understand the science of

autism. But autism is about more than a diagnosis and treatment.

It affects every dimension of life.

That’s why it’s important to think about autism from humanistic perspectives too.”

In these humanities courses, students will study autistic art and literature and how philosophical, theological, political and legal lenses can aid in the understanding of autism, Waddell said.

“The humanities courses in the autism studies program help us to think about autism as more than a diagnosis and treatment — to understand that autism shapes the lives and identities of human beings and is giving rise to a distinctive culture,” he said. “This is the only program I know of that takes such a broad approach to thinking about autism as part of the human experience.”

This approach is unique to Saint Mary’s. Most other programs across the nation look solely at the scientific aspects, and the holistic approach taken in this program is “visionary,” Latham said.

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By MARIA LEONTARAS News Writer

For the seven Saint Mary’s students who attended the week long Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), there‘s no business like show business.

The festival, which ran from Jan. 8 to 13, aims to celebrate college drama programs and give students special opportunities.

Though KCACTF festivals happen across the country, the Saint Mary’s students attended the festival that took place at the University of Indianapolis and Marian University in Indianapolis.

“The festival offers a variety of workshops for multiple fields in theatre, shows from participating colleges, as well as competitions which can provide scholarships and performance opportunities,” junior Stephanie Johnson said in an email. “I attended the festival because it gives me the opportunity to strengthen my skills and meet new people who are also interested in my field.”

Johnson said that her continued participation in the festival has contributed to her learning and growth as an artist. She also said her Saint Mary’s education has played a key role in her theatre experience.

“I feel my Saint Mary’s education impacts me in everything I do from how I interact with others to how I perform as an artist,” Johnson said. “Specifically, I feel my education pushed me to pursue opportunities such as these.”

Sophomore Sandy Tarnowski said in an email the College has given her the courage to get involved in the theater program and ultimately attend the festival.

“Saint Mary’s gave me the confidence to go to something like this,” Tarnowski said. “I’m usually very shy, and I’ve definitely grown away from my shyness at Saint Mary’s. The theatre classes and shows here have helped me improve for the next year’s American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) and helped me feel confident enough to be part of it. I had more courage to talk to strangers and proudly explain why I liked going to an all-women’s college.”

Tarnowski auditioned for the Musical Theater Intensive, a performance that took place near the close of the conference. Though she did not make it past auditions, the personalized experience the judges offered encouraged her to continue developing her skills.

“One of the judges stopped me as I was leaving because she remembered me from

last year and told me she was so proud of how much I’ve improved from last year,” Tarnowski said. “That felt great and has motivated me to work even harder for next year’s ACTF.” Tarnowski said these interactions with the judges are the basis of her improvement and are one of the biggest benefits of attending the festival.

“I’ve improved in ways I didn’t know I could,” Tarnowski said. “What I think is awesome is that the judges of the auditions take the time to talk to every single person that didn’t make it and tell each person what they personally can improve upon and what they did great on. It gets you excited to show them next year how you’ve improved with their advice.”

Citing the encouragement she received at the festival, Tarnowski said students should attend ACTF even if theatre is not something they typically enjoy.

“Everyone should go,” Tarnowski said.

“Even if you think theatre is not your ‘thing,’ you never know. This festival exposes all the different areas of theatre you may not know about. You may end up discovering more of yourself at ACTF.” Contact Maria Leontaras at mleontaras01@saintmarys.edu

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Service honors life of Martin Luther King Jr.

By NATALIE WEBER Associate News Editor

Bundled in coats and scarves with candles in hand, members of the Notre Dame community crowded into the Main Buidling to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at a prayer service Monday evening.

University President Fr. John Jenkins opened the ceremony with a prayer, calling for the Notre Dame community to be more inclusive.

“May our celebration tonight, and this week, propel us,” he said.

“May it motivate us. May it energize us. May it unite us in a commitment to respect and admire and learn from what makes each of us unique.”

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“It’s nice to know that right here, on this campus, we are creating something and are really passionate about something that I feel is visionary, that is not what everybody is doing,” she said.

The program brings together faculty and faculty fellows who are experts in various aspects of autism studies, Waddell said.

“Every person teaching in the

Assistant director of multicultural ministry Becky Ruvalcaba delivered a speech calling for a return to forgotten moral principles and renewed awareness of God’s presence, referencing King’s sermon “Rediscovering Lost Values.”

“As Martin Luther King Jr. stated, the real problem is that through our scientific genius, we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius, we have failed,” she said. “We have failed to make of it a brotherhood.”

Referring to a passage in the Gospel of Luke, Ruvalcaba said that just as Joseph and Mary left Jesus behind in Jerusalem, so too has society left behind an awareness of God’s presence.

“We have become too

complacent and we have not taken the time to stop and look for what we have left behind like Mary and Joseph,” she said. “Because we have not taken the time, man’s issues and the world’s ills continue to exist.”

Ruvalcaba said that in addressing these issues, King drew from his relationships.

“All that he did for civil rights and for all humanity was realized not just because of his scientific genius, because the man was smart — it was realized because of his desire to live in brotherhood in and through his moral and spiritual genius,” she said. “[It was] realized in his constant search for God, our brother, who with Mary and Joseph walks with us in justice, kindness,

honesty, truth and love.”

Ruvalcaba concluded her speech with a call for individuals to reflect on their own shortcomings.

“We must begin by asking forgiveness from God and from one another for our own sins of indifference and hate, for fear and lack of trust, for our selfishness,” she said. “From this place of humility, God’s love will move us to stretch out our hands to one another and to build beautiful communities of brothers and sisters.”

After the service ended, attendees placed candles at the foot of the statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on God Quad.

Freshman Haley Wooton said she was impressed by the number of students at the service.

“I was really inspired by the amount of students who were passionate about this event and were excited to come and join in this expression of faith for such an important issue,” she said.

Junior Carlos Grosso said he was struck by the ways the speech highlighted problems in society.

“What stood out the most was the way that lack of communication is what has led to a lot of the hot button issues that are contentious,” he said. “It’s about the lack of people with power and influence willing to put themselves in the shoes of those who aren’t in their position.”

program has a significant interest in autism and brings a special kind of expertise to the table,” he said.

“In my personal opinion, the quality of the faculty and fellows is one of the greatest strengths of the program. I want to take every course my colleagues will be teaching.”

On March 2, the program will host its first workshop. Waddell said workshops will be focused on intervention techniques, sometimes offering an opportunity for certification.

“The autism intervention

workshops bring world-renowned experts to campus to provide training in state-of-the-art autism interventions,” he said. “… We strive to represent the full range of evidence-based interventions rather than just limiting ourselves to one particular approach, as happens in many programs.”

Waddell said that many of the workshops offer students and community members the opportunity to achieve valuable certification in intervention methods at little to no cost. The upcoming

one will be cosponsored by the Master of Autism Studies program, the Communicative Sciences and Disorders department and LOGAN Community Resources. It is free and open to all. Participants can register online beforehand.

“This is the sort of thing that students can list on resumes and professionals can use to maintain licensure,” Waddell said. “The training would cost a lot of money for students and community members if they pursued it on their own, but it’s being offered for free in our

workshops through the financial support of sponsors.”

Latham looks forward to sharing her passion through workshops and teaching, she said.

“It’s really encouraging to me to know that there are people that think that there is value in this as a graduate study and that they have that same level of compassion and concern for individuals on the autism spectrum,” she said.

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that is solely designed with you all in mind,” he said. “ … I think this was really intentionally put on this side of the stadium — closest to DeBartolo and Mendoza — so that there would be this f low bet ween those buildings during the academic day, that you could see this as really part of your day-to-day experience.”

W hile student feedback inf luenced much of the design of the building, including the innovation lab on the first f loor, Chris Abayasinghe, senior director of Campus Dining, said these opinions were particularly crucial when determining what new dining options would be available in the center.

“As we think about the restaurants themselves and the conceptualization, one of the main driv ing points for us was w ith our students,” he said. “We engaged them early on in the process. W hat we wanted to do was, we wanted to find restaurant concepts that speak to the trends of the future.”

These “micro-restaurants” — Star Ginger Asian Grill and Noodle Bar, Modern Market and Haggert y Family Cafe — focus particularly on diverse and organic food options, Abaysinghe said. The addition of these restaurants, he said, is expected to attract more communit y members to Campus Dining ser v ices each year.

“So historically, our program ser ves, on the student dining side, 2.1 million meals a year, and then on the retail side, about another t wo million,” he said. “We anticipate, w ith the addition of these three new restaurants to our restaurant portfolio, that we should see at least a 20 percent lift on those.”

In addition to an increased number of dining facilities, RecSports’s move from the Rolfs Sports Recreation Center to the third f loor of the Duncan Student Center has allowed the program to increase the number of fitness machines and activ ities studios available, Mark Williams, director of RecSports, said.

“We’ve increased the amount of treadmills, for example, from nine to 28,” he said. “… One of our goals is to make sure that there are no waiting lists for anyone. Before you had to sign up and you would wait, but now I think we have enough equipment where the students, the facult y and the staff w ill have more of an opportunit y to come in at

their leisure.”

Students played a role in determining what the focus of the RecSports facilities would be, Coughlin said.

“At first there was more of an emphasis on courts, and now we sw itched it during the process to be getting more pieces of equipment and more activ ities studios,” he said. “The shape of the track — we heard that people didn’t want just an oval, they wanted something unique and something different to run on each day. So if you go up there, it’s kind of a funk y shape.”

The facilities feature state-of-the-art equipment, 98 percent of which is brand new, Williams said, including a 37-and-a-halffoot climbing wall, a spin room and personal v iewing screens connected to the internet on the cardio machines.

“You could watch ESPN, you could watch Netf lix, whatever,” he said. “… We tried to make it where you could have a space where, if you really needed to, be engaged w ith social media or whatever, and another space where if you didn’t want to — if you just wanted to come up and just ride the bike or walk the track.”

Hoffmann Harding said she is most excited to watch students discover the extent of the building’s capabilities and features, such as numerous outlets throughout the center, private study areas and meeting spaces for student groups.

“It’s going to take time for ever yone to live into the space to see ever y thing that it does,” she said. “There are probably only about five

people on campus … who have knowledge of all of the pieces of furniture and all of the spaces and their capabilities, so it’ll be fun to watch.”

The office of student affairs is hosting a “Best of Duncan” event to introduce students to the building’s features, director of communications for the office of student affairs Kate Morgan said, which w ill offer performances by student groups, giveaways, food samples and interactive RecSports classes.

“It’s being held just like Best of LaFortune would be, only it’s in conjunction w ith Walk the Walk Week,” she said. “So we w ill have student group performances throughout the building, I think using those various spaces on the stairs [and] in Haggert y Family Cafe. … I would say that that’s the next biggest event that is coming up in this space — to really show it off to students.”

W hile Coughlin said parts of the Duncan Student Center were designed w ith specific uses in mind, he said his greatest hope is that students “use it how [they] want to use it” and come up w ith creative ways to take advantage of the facilities.

“If all we do is move currently ex isting programs or dances into the [Dahnke] Ballroom and into the space, then I think we’ve failed,” Coughlin said. “My hope is that the students and all the programming groups on campus create new programs to put in that Ballroom and to put in these spaces. The stor y of it’s unw ritten.”

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She said her sociopolitical consciousness on this issue arose when she and her family visited the Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. That same year, the U.S. Supreme Court declared parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.

To speak out against the changes, Newsome participated in one of the Moral Monday protests against the changes to the Voting Rights Act. Newsome said she came to several realizations as a result of her participation.

“One was the realization of how quickly our rights could be taken away,” she said. “… What was I really doing to ensure that these rights exist for myself and future generations?”

Newsome was arrested after participating in a sit-in at the North Carolina state capitol over the issue.

“There was no moment where I said to myself, ‘OK, I’m going to be an activist now,’” she said. “That was never the thought. The thought was just, ‘Oh my goodness, this is a moment of crisis and we have to draw attention to what’s happening here.’”

Around the same time, Newsome said Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, which sparked a new movement.

“Like many, I was deeply disturbed by the facts and circumstances surrounding Trayvon’s death,” she said.

After the Charleston church shooting in 2015 when nine African Americans were murdered at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, among other events, Newsome said a group of people decided they needed to take down the Confederate flag that flew next to the South Carolina state capital. “[The Charleston massacre]

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shook me to my core that here we were in the year 2015 and this level of racial hatred and terrorism was still happening,” she said. “ … A sense of shock and demoralization had overtaken the movement.

The United States and South Carolina flags were lowered to half mast, yet the Confederate flag remained high and fully unfurled.”

While Newsome said she did not want to get arrested again, she thought the cause was strong enough that it was worth risking the climb.

After a day and a half of training to scale the flag pole, Newsome climbed the pole to take down the flag while James Tyson, a white activist working with Newsome, stood guard and helped to deescalate the situation with the police.

Newsome said she worked with the team to accomplish the task and there were many roles to fill.

“We discussed it and decided to remove the flag immediately, both as an act of civil disobedience and as a demonstration of the power people have when we work together,” she said. “… For us, this is not simply about a flag. It is about abolishing the spirit of racism and oppression in all its forms.”

Today, Newsome said, Americans live in a tumultuous time, which makes it the right time to fight for equality — something everyone must work together to promote. She said people don’t have to participate in marches to be on the front lines but should be working to make changes in the systems in which they live.

“It is true that the darkest hour is right before the dawn,” she said. “I embrace this as a time of transformation and promise.”

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Remember you’re family Selena Ponio Associate News Editor

I lined up in the U.S. Customs and Immigration line which was, as I had predicted, discouragingly long. While officers drilled the people in front of me on what kind of livestock they touched abroad, I checked my phone.

Suddenly, there it was. I stood in the line for U.S. passport holders, in front of the large American flag waiting to talk to the officers who would give my first welcome back on American soil, yet I was fighting the urge to turn around and go back to the Philippines.

As I waited in line, a news alert popped up on my phone about President Trump using a word to describe countries he contended were unfit to send immigrants to the United States in comparison to other countries.

I stood in that customs line among people who were either returning or visiting the United States for the first time, staring at the expletive that came out of my president’s mouth. An expletive that I had heard only once in my lifetime during my freshman year of college when my mom used it to describe the state of my dorm room, which was buried under half-empty coffee cups and cereal boxes.

But this was not a college student’s messy room. These were countries, homes and people that were blanketed under that unbecoming word.

I was lucky enough to go home to the Philippines over break, my first time back in seven years. My uncle, aunt and cousins took me in as though it had been seven minutes and reconnected me with a country and culture that I had never forgotten, but felt further from as the years piled on.

I saw the house I grew up in, the hospital I was born in and the rooms I used to play in.

With every new memory that rekindled the old, I fell in love with a country I was proud to say I came from.

One of the reasons I am most proud to be American is because the only predictable factor among citizens is the unpredictability and variance of their backgrounds. Diversity is celebrated in our history and easy to see, whether I am talking to my bilingual friend who spent most of her childhood in Chile or my friend who can trace her family roots back to the early 1700s to the same area in Pennsylvania that she currently lives in.

When I came home to a president that implied certain countries should not be celebrated or welcomed with open arms, I suddenly felt further from home.

Before my flight back to the United States, my uncle dropped me off at the airport and said, “Remember you’re not a guest here, you’re family.”

To the people who have come from Haiti, African countries, El Salvador and any other country that may have been implied under his tactless word choice, you should never be made to feel anything other than pride from where you came from.

My uncle’s words apply to you as well: You’re not a guest here, you’re family.

Contact Selena Ponio at sponio@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Segregation in the city we live (but pay little attention to) Just weeks ago, the South Bend Community School Corporation Board unanimously (and remarkably quickly) passed Focus 2018, a strategic plan which shuts down area schools, adjusts hours of operation and redraws enrollment boundaries. Though hardly unusual, Focus 2018 has confounded South Bend residents through its rushed passage and apparent ignorance of the ill effects of neighborhood schools in a segregated city. In 1981, the case United States v.

South Bend Community School Corp. reshaped the South Bend school system, establishing a consent decree that ordered the number of “black students in each school … be within 15 percent of the total percentage of black students in the school system.”

The plan also “ensured student transportation and school closings would fall equitably on all racial groups,” adjusted faculty assignments and ordered “substantially equal disciplinary practices.”

The passage of Focus 2018 suggests the enduring pertinence of this consent decree (and others like it in cities across the nation). The normalization of plans like Focus 2018, however well-intentioned, could threaten the future educational opportunities of minority students.

In 1955, the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education deemed the Plessy v.

Ferguson rule of “separate but equal” facilities for racial minorities to be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. This ruling served as a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The Court subsequently ordered schools to desegregate “with all deliberate speed,” and from 1964 to 1988, desegregation accelerated as majority-white schools opened their doors to an increasing number of black students. However, in 1991, the Supreme Court authorized the termination of desegregation plans in Oklahoma City Board of Education v.

Dowell. Without federal oversight, school districts unintentionally (and sometimes, as in Tuscaloosa and others, intentionally) re-segregated, separating black and Latino students from their white counterparts.

Desegregation offered many minority students — previously educated in segregated schools with few resources and underqualified teachers — expanded educational opportunities.

Significantly benefiting all black students, desegregation even improved the educational outcomes of the few minority students who attended high-performing segregated schools. Desegregation boosted adult attainments (education level, future occupation and probability of incarceration, among others) while producing no noticeable negative effect on white students.

Today, however, black and Latino students are disproportionately punished, suspended and dismissed from schools, crippling chances of academic achievement and obstructing efforts for “equitable and supportive learning environments for all students.” Black students are disproportionately arrested in public schools as compared to white students, resulting in a school-to-prison pipeline fueled by

zero-tolerance policies. Beyond school discipline, residential segregation and the ill effects of concentrated poverty further disadvantage minority students trapped in segregated schools.

The New York Times reported on Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development research that showed the United States to be “one of few advanced nations where schools serving better-off children usually have more educational resources than those serving poor students.” This inequality stems from the use of property taxes, which are “allocated to each taxpayer proportionately according to the value of the taxpayer’s property,” to fund public education. Schools with high concentrations of black and Hispanic students who qualify for free or reduced lunch — a commonly used indicator of poverty — continue to spread with subpar resources and instruction. If education is indeed “a great equalizer of the conditions of men,” as educational pioneer Horace Mann and politicians of both parties argue, then the problem of school segregation poses an existential threat to the American notion of equality.

In South Bend, NAACP activists and parents alike expressed concern for the future of the consent decree, along with the implications of the Focus 2018 plan. In Indiana, more than 70 percent of black students attend a non-white majority school, and in 2015, several South Bend schools showed concentrated black enrollment, inconsistent with county racial demographics. The Indiana Department of Education’s most recent “report card” largely failed South Bend’s schools with 22 D’s and F’s and only three A’s and B’s out of 33 schools. Officials have responded that these grades reflect a single test score and do not account for student improvement over the years.

Before Focus 2018 can be implemented, however, the School Corporation Board must receive approval from the Department of Justice asserting the plan’s compliance with the 1981 consent decree. The Focus 2018 plan’s impending implementation has left the community with an excess of questions. Does Focus 2018 mirror Tuscaloosa’s recent redistricting efforts in an attempt to recapture the hundreds of students lost to private schools and nearby school districts? Will Focus 2018’s emphasis on neighborhood schools, which draw students from the surrounding area, simply reflect South Bend’s documented residential segregation? Can Focus 2018’s combination of higher-performing magnet schools and underfunded neighborhood schools fix existing educational problems for all students, regardless of race or class?

Only time will tell whether the Board’s plan — informed by a single town hall meeting — will perpetuate or hinder segregation. For now, the future of the South Bend school system lies in the hands of the Justice Department.

Isabel Rooper sophomore Jan. 1

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Give Notre Dame women the facts I am writing in response to the University’s reversal of its decision to end contraceptive coverage for staff and students. As a Catholic woman and an alumna of Notre Dame, I am concerned about what this decision means for all women within the Notre Dame community.

Throughout the controversy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, the University has stated that it supports church teaching on contraception. However, if University officials really considered why the church does not support contraception, they would understand it is an issue that affects all women, regardless of religious affiliation, and has a profound effect on the entire community.

Catholic institutions like Notre Dame should be known not only for their commitment to excellence and truth in academia, but also for their commitment to the teachings of the faith they claim to profess. It is true that many people do not see the problem with a Catholic university providing contraception for those who desire it, but it’s up to the University itself to show that the church’s teaching in this area is meant to promote the health and welfare of women, not to hold them back. And the science concerning contraception supports that empowerment.

In its official statement, the University wrote that it “will not interfere with the provision of contraceptives that will be administered and funded independently of the University.” Of course, the University should not force anyone to act against their own beliefs. And here it’s important to note that the University has covered and should continue to cover contraception prescribed for medical reasons. However, “not interfering” does not mean that the University is obliged to be a conduit for contraceptives. More to the point, it has a prime opportunity to communicate what we know about contraception and women’s freedom.

We know that when sex has been separated from the idea that it might lead to children, which happens when use of contraception becomes commonplace, women are more likely to face an unplanned pregnancy.

Women and men are more likely to ignore the value of sex within marriage, as well as more likely to have sex outside of marriage.

Contraception is not always effective in preventing pregnancy, which puts women in a difficult position when pregnancies do occur. According to the

Guttmacher Institute, 48 percent of women with unintended pregnancies and 54 percent of women seeking abortions were using contraception during the month they became pregnant. Without the support of marriage or a committed relationship, it becomes the responsibility of the woman to deal with the natural consequences that result.

In addition to the personal and social risks to women that result from separating the idea of sex from marriage and children, contraception also has associated medical risks to women that are often overlooked — everything from blood clots to hair loss to weight gain.

Research has linked hormonal contraception with an increased risk of depression, especially among adolescent girls. Using hormonal contraceptives can put obese women at a greater risk for deep venous thrombosis. And these are just a few side effects associated with a few different forms of contraception. The 40 percent dissatisfaction rate among women regarding their current form of contraception reflects that women want and need something better.

The pill and similar methods of contraception also manipulate women’s hormones in a way that changes their attraction to men, making them more likely to choose a partner that is not a good match in the long term.

All of these side effects and risks of contraception are related to areas of great concern for college-aged women — love, sex, physical health and happiness. There are a great many resources Notre Dame could be using to make this information available to their students — FACTS, FEMM and Natural Womanhood, to name a few — in order to better serve them in pursuing a fulfilling life. Part of the University’s mission is to foster the development of its students in body, mind and spirit. Empowering women with a greater understanding of their bodies and allowing them to reflect more deeply on decisions that affect their overall wellbeing should be part of this mission.

Is it a hard topic to address? Absolutely. Is it bound to raise controversy and make people uncomfortable? You bet. But their willingness to do so would demonstrate that an academic institution as fine as Notre Dame is committed to excellence for their students in all areas of life.

A university should be a place where students are given a chance to reckon with new ideas and strive to

discover the truth. If not at Notre Dame, then where will its students discover the truth about the Catholic faith, in all its many facets?

If Notre Dame says that it does not support contraception, yet does not give its students the facts about birth control, it is failing them. It is also missing an opportunity to foster greater understanding between people of differing beliefs, as well as an opportunity to reach students like me, who have to make decisions about birth control without all the facts.

In my own case, lack of knowledge about how contraception really was working in me caused me more harm than good. While I was a student at Notre Dame, I was prescribed the pill to treat painful, irregular periods. I didn’t receive much education on how this medication was “working” on my periods, what the cause of my issue was or how to effectively treat it. Meanwhile, I tolerated a host of uncomfortable side effects.

Years later I discovered the pill had been hurting me, not helping. It had actually been masking symptoms of widespread endometriosis. Only after I stopped taking the synthetic hormones was I able to uncover the real problem and receive treatment via fertility-awarenessbased methods and surgery. Today, I wonder why I wasn’t given more information regarding birth control before I consented to take it. I also wonder what role Notre Dame, a university dedicated to asking tough questions and pursuing truth, could have played in helping me to ask more questions about my “need” to be on birth control.

I wonder if people are afraid to talk about the problems with birth control because they fear that it will undermine women’s empowerment. In reality, the absence of frank conversation results in a lack of informed judgment. True empowerment of women means giving them all the facts and allowing them to make an informed decision.

Notre Dame has the opportunity to encourage such empowerment of women. I sincerely hope that the University will have the courage to face these difficult conversations, make people rethink their assumptions about birth control and enact a policy that will truly benefit all women within the Notre Dame community.

Erin Cain class of 2011 Dec. 6

We need more female directors Patrick McKelvey In Moderation

The 75th Annual Golden Globes, which aired on Jan. 7, were marked by a powerful display of support for the Time’s Up movement against sexual assault and harassment.

Allegations of sexual abuse by producer Harvey Weinstein, which first surfaced in October of 2017, have since shed light on the epidemic of abuse in Hollywood, with several men in the industry being exposed. In support of the movement, nearly all those who attended wore black, and many guests, including Oprah Winfrey, made speeches on the subject.

But the Golden Globes focused on more than the essential issue of sexual abuse –– they also spoke of the profound lack of representation for women in the film industry.

Actress Natalie Portman and director Ron Howard stood together to present the Golden Globe for Best Director.

Before reading off the names, Portman emphatically stated: “Here are the all male nominees.”

She wasn’t joking. Inexplicably, the Academy couldn’t find a single woman they deemed worthy of a Best Director nomination –– not Niki Caro for “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” not Sofia Coppola for “The Beguiled,” not Valerie Faris for “Battle of the Sexes.” Greta Gerwig’s film “Lady Bird,” in fact, won Best Comedy or Musical, as well as Best Actress.

Yet even Gerwig’s exceptional work on her first feature film was not enough to earn her a nomination.

Unfortunately, this is neither a new nor isolated trend in Hollywood. In the 89 year history of the Oscars, just one woman (Kathryn Bigelow) has won the Academy Award for Best Director — and only four have been nominated.

Neither Walt Disney Pictures nor 20th Century Fox released a film directed by a woman in 2017. From 2017 through 2019, the Big Six movie studios will release 149 feature films.

Only 12 of them will be directed by women. Only 12.

Patty Jenkins directed the 2017 film “Wonder Woman.” It received rave reviews from both critics and audiences, from casual moviegoers and comic book fans alike. It earned over $821 million at the box office, the highest grossing superhero origin film to date. It wasn’t Jenkins’ first success. She also directed the 2003 film “Monster,” which also received critical acclaim and earned $60.4 million against a budget of just $4.5 million. That kind of success is almost unprecedented — any director (well, at least any male director) who can make a film that earns such a high profit would typically be contracted by studios to create more films immediately. But Jenkins wasn’t given the opportunity to direct a single movie until 14 years after “Monster” premiered. Meanwhile, directors such as J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon have been given chance after chance to direct superhero and sci-fi films, despite a track record not nearly as perfect as Jenkins’.

This is not to say that every movie studio is operating out of sexism. They operate on profit — they invest in movies they believe will make them money, which typically

means making a safe movie. Unfortunately, the “safe” movie typically means the one directed by an already wellestablished male director. Audiences prove time and time again, however, that they don’t care if the movie they watch was made by a man or a woman, by an established or new director. If the movie is good, people will pay to see it.

It’s not fair that women in Hollywood are so often unable to pursue their craft and don’t get the recognition they deserve when they do — but the issue affects more than just women in the industry. How many great Patty Jenkins films have we missed out on because studios continued to pass her over? How many amazing stories have we not heard, how many characters have we not met? Movies offer an escape from our daily lives. They’re an integral part of our culture. They tell stories that explain and enlighten and inspire. The filmmaker’s gender shouldn’t matter — any story that deserves to be told should be told. Half the population can’t stand on the sidelines of movie-making. Time’s up.

Patrick McKelvey splits his time between being a college sophomore and a grumpy old man. A New Jersey native and American Studies major, he is interested in a legal career after graduating Notre Dame. If you can’t find him at the movies, he can be reached for comment at pmckelve@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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By NICHOLAS OTTONE Scene Writer

Magic. Guillermo del Toro’s genre-confounding film “The Shape of Water” is a wonderfully transporting adult fairy-tale that luxuriates in the intersections of sexuality, love and humanity. It is a movie enamored with movies, yet it retains an inextricable and unpretentious purity of self, an emotional core undiluted by any cheap homage.

Part creature feature, spy thriller and romance, “The Shape of Water” largely avoids empty stylization, investing its heartfelt story with substance and painting it with all the shades of blue and green del Toro could muster.

“The Shape of Water” is primarily concerned with Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a mute janitor at a secret research facility, and her love of the Asset, a powerful amphibious creature that evokes memories of the “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” She plots to free him from the oppressive shackles imposed by the Cold War-era American military, embodied largely by the single-minded and intense Colonel Strickland (Michael Shannon). Her friends, including her older gay neighbor (Richard Jenkins in a softly affecting turn) and talkative coworker (Octavia Spencer, excellent as always), cover her tracks to avoid suspicion, as Russian spies attempt to capture the Asset for their own uses.

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Woman after woman filed down the red carpet, each clad defiantly in black. #TimesUp pins on lapels glinted under the glare of paparazzi f lashes.

Activists such as Tarana Burke, Marai Larasi, Rosa Clemente, Ai-jen Poo, Billie Jean King and many more mingled with the regular Holly wood crowd on the red carpet and in the glitzy Beverly Hilton theatre. As he began his opening monologue, Seth Meyers glanced around the room and quipped, “Good evening, ladies and remaining gentlemen.”

Signs of a disrupted Holly wood abounded at this year’s 75th annual Golden Globe Awards. This year’s awards show arrived in the midst of a turbulent national conversation about sexual abuse and women’s rights. In the past year, the revelations of rampant sexual abuse and misconduct by many prominent men in a wide variety of industries — including Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey, Louis C. K., among an ever-increasing list — exposed the ugly and structural ways in which women continue to be systematically excluded and abused in all walks of life.

In the midst of a turbulent year for the entertainment industry, many women seized upon the Golden Globes as a highly visible platform to announce their messages for social change and elevate the messages of others. One of the most surprising things about the night was how little the speeches focused on the actors themselves ANDREA SAVAGE | The Observer

The plot pits spies and generals against lovers, and the twists more than satisf y, even if the conclusion feels somewhat inevitable.

But a simple plot summary cannot describe the astonishing generosity of del Toro’s vision. The film’s adoration of the “Other,” whether an older gay man, a black woman, or a mute woman, is rarely subtle, but its significance is implicitly yet beautifully expressed through the top-notch ensemble’s fully lived-in performances. The script affords every major character an interior life and background that f leshes out its beautifully rendered world, and the actors match this giving spirit with aplomb. Sally Hawkins, in particular, grounds the film’s more fantastical elements with a spirited performance nonetheless invested with a deep well of emotion and an unwavering understanding of humanity. In a nearly wordless performance, Hawkins expresses more in a longing glance than many do in a monologue.

Few directors could pull off a tonal balancing act of this scale and prevent the entire enterprise from tipping into outright parody, yet del Toro manages to confidently guide viewers through deeply emotional scenes while also constructing a wonderfully tactile world. Dan Laustsen’s cinematography bathes the world with teals, greens and blues, and his camera confidently roams about the facility’s dark corridors and Elisa’s light apartment,

revealing new facets of the beautiful production design with every motion. Alexandre Desplat composed an evocative score full of melodies dripping with passion yet consistently nails the tricky shifts into more pulpy genre territory. I have rarely seen a film so transporting, resembling a most lovely dream I wished would never end.Yet I feel del Toro anticipates this reaction, and he constantly punctures the illusion with ugly incidents of racism, homophobia and misog yny, afforded in spades by its 1960s-era setting. Shannon’s Strickland, seemingly trapped in an advertisement’s vision of the American Dream, constantly reminds the Asset and Elisa of their lower status, of how society sees them as the “Other.” Contemporary parallels prove almost too easy, but what else are fairy tales but fantastical parables teaching important lessons?

The film begins with Jenkins’ dulcet tones, narrating about “the princess without a voice,” warning of “the truth of these facts and the tale of love and loss and the monster that tried to destroy it all.”

Against this backdrop of good and evil, del Toro fashions a narrative to impart themes of empathy, inclusivity, love, humanity and morality — yet despite this weight, the film rarely falters, remaining surprisingly light on its feet. “The Shape of Water” is, quite simply, magic.

— nearly every woman who received an award spoke about the #MeToo movement in some manner (although few men did). For what can often be a self-congratulatory event, this year’s award show pointed outward. As Oprah Winfrey stated to thunderous applause in her acceptance speech, “Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell, and this year we became the story.”

Award shows can be, almost by definition, disjointed and awkward. Seth Meyers, who hosted the show, immediately recognized that his very being there was off-message and made a few awkward jokes about it. W hat Seth Meyers did most effectively, however, was to fade into the background and allow women to run the show. Many actresses brought social activists as their dates to the event, including Michelle Williams who brought Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement.

Many women and people of color also won awards this year. “Lady Bird,” directed by Greta Gerwig, the story of a teenager and her mother growing up in Sacramento, and Saoirse Ronan (who plays Lady Bird) won for best actress in a comedy. Aziz Ansari was the first Asian American to win best actor in a television comedy, and Sterling Brown was the first black man to win best actor in a television drama.

Talk of #MeToo also drew unusually high amounts of atention from the media outlets and journalists which published breakthrough stories of sexual assault, therefore providing one of the catalysts for the movement. In response to the journalistic media’s role in recent events, the Holly wood Foreign

Press Association made the uncharacteristic live announcement that the organization would give $1 million each to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York Times, taking advantage of the unique cultural moment, ran an elegant advertisement to promote the newspaper’s work in investigative reporting — the words “He said. She said.” appeared in black lettering on a white screen and eventually became “He said. She said. She said. She said. She said. She said.” The Times posted the advertisement to their Twitter feed, writing, “We hold power to account. Without fear or favor.”

And then there was Oprah. As she delivered her exhilarating, poignant speech, the theatre exploded in deafening applause again and again and again. Her speech was an immediate call to action: “So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon. And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.” That day remains on the horizon — but hopefully it will inch ever closer, as more celebrities leverage their power to help elevate the voices of those women who cannot speak for themselves.

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By MIKE DONOVAN Scene Writer

2017’s “13 Reasons Why” treated us to the melodramatic horrors of teen angst turned lukewarm.

The series (likely a televised incarnation of an unreleased My Chemical Romance album) whipped out its suicide porn like a toneless battering ram — slathering every arid line in gobs of undue emotion.

Will Toledo’s tweet captures the heart of the atrocity: “As someone who contributed to the soundtrack of ‘13 Reason’s Why,’ I’m obliged to tell you all that it’s kind of f-----.”

2018’s response to “13 Reason’s Why” is also f-----.

In fact, it’s “The End of the F------ World.” But it’s f----- done right — jet black, razor sharp, immensely funny and so absurd that it manages to convey something realistic.

“The End of the F------ World” began as most teen romances do — from a torn piece of paper outside a London comic store (which happened to be a page of Charles Forsmen’s self-published comic book series of the same name). Director Jonathan Entwistle, who was lucky enough to stumble across

By MAGGIE WALSH Scene Writer

It’s 3 a.m. I’m blear y-eyed, slightly disoriented, and I’m prett y sure a small animal could comfortably live inside the mess that is my hair right now. But I’m triumphant: After nearly six hours of textbook binging, I finished season four of “Black Mirror.”

“Black Mirror” is a strange show to binge watch because ever y episode stands alone. The show generally centers around technolog y’s impact on the world, and there are countless Easter eggs across the series that fans love to decode, but each episode features entirely new actors, plot lines and settings. You can’t quite get comfortable watching “Black Mirror,” and that seems to be a purposeful artistic choice.

Season four is the show’s second season as a Netf lix original series. The six episodes that make it up range from warm and blissful to horrifically dark. This diversit y inev itably leads to ever y “Black Mirror” fan’s favorite question: W hich episode was best?

The strongest episodes of the season are undoubtedly the premiere, “USS Callister,” and the finale, “Black Museum.”

Jesse Plemons, of “Friday Night Lights” and “Breaking Bad” fame, stars in “USS Callister” as Robert Daly, an antisocial and ultimately psychopathic computer programmer. Resentful of his coworkers and their apparent apathy towards

the scrap, fell in love with its prototypically juicy elements of teen drama.

The endearing tale of self-diagnosed psychopath James (Alex Lawther) meets potential victim Alyssa (Jessica Barden), as one might expect, dabbles in darkness. But it doesn’t wallow. In lieu of “13 Reason Why’s” ultra-American melancholic gloss, Entwistle’s British sensibilities leaves the dialogue dry and the frames unadorned. His leads, Lawther and Barden, look like actual 17 year olds — not 25 year old models, and their dialogue jettisons impassioned explosion for the condensed chirpings of rattled teenagers.

Their adventure, which takes place over the course of eight 20-minute episodes, evokes Bonny and Clyde with a healthy dose of existential pain (courtesy of a budding adulthood). Senseless violence, sexual tension and unsolicited kindness stand in for zits, breakups and house parties as James and Alyssa slowly come to terms with the world’s absurdity, leading the teens — loners by trade — towards nature’s hardest truth. There’s no punishment worse than loneliness and no better enforcer than the broken human spirit.

While most dark shows — like “Black Mirror” — broach their subject matter by introducing tragedy to comfort, “The End of the F------ World” manages to squeeze comfort, humor even, out of impenetrable bleakness.

“I feel sort of safe,” Alyssa says of James as he secretly plots her murder. We, the viewers, also feel surprisingly safe as we witness their grim trials.

Perhaps it’s because we know the facets growing up — figuring out that adulthood isn’t so much a victory over the bitterness as it is an embrace of it.

Things don’t always get better with age. Most of the time, they get worse. No time for angst-ridden existential moping.

As humans, we have the tools to be happy in spite of it all, to laugh at the lamentable state of the universe and find solace in those capable of laughing with us. “The End of the F------ World” may be dark, but it’s far from hopeless.

In fact, its eight short episodes may be the brightest glimmer of blood-soaked hope in contemporary television.

him, Daly steals DNA in order to digitally recreate his peers and abuse them in a “Star Trek” themed computer game. The costumes and meticulous effect details alone make this episode worth watching, but fans have also f lagged the episode as a timely commentar y on power relationships and gender issues.

“Black Museum” closes season four on a disturbing but impressive note. The episode centers on the remote museum ow ned by Rolo Hay nes, a specialist in neurological technologies. Many of the artifacts housed in the museum inspire questions about the ethics of technolog y. The episode’s brilliant t w ist is arguably one of the most unexpected endings in the entire series.

Another standout episode is “Hang the DJ,” which many have deemed the “San Junipero” of this season. “Hang the DJ” takes place in a world where a computer program called Coach helps indiv iduals find their soulmate. A lthough this episode lacks the action and danger that traditionally makes “Black Mirror” so addictive, it proves an enjoyable light spot bet ween t wo of this season’s strangest episodes, “Crocodile” and “Metalhead.”

“Crocodile” is nearly unanimously deemed the worst episode of the season. It follows Mia Nolan as she kills several people and covers up their deaths, all to save her ow n reputation. The episode’s title is presumably a play on the expression “crocodile tears,” tears that are insincere or fake.

“Crocodile” is the show’s first gratuitously v iolent episode and only loosely uses technolog y in

its plot line.

The shortest episode of the season is “Metalhead,” which seems to have garnered some mixed opinions. “Metalhead” is shot entirely in black and white and illustrates a post-apocaly ptic world where sur v iv ing humans are terrorized by killer robot dogs. The premise, while interesting, prov ides ver y little background. The episode feels more removed than its companions. These obser vations are seen as strengths to some, however, and it could be argued that “Metalhead” is innovative from an artistic point of v iew.

Perhaps the most lukewarm episode of the season is “Arkangel,” an episode about an overbearing mother’s misuse of technolog y. The technolog y is fascinating, but the plot fails to realize its potential.

“Black Mirror” continues to include Easter eggs in nearly ever y episode, w ith “Anyone W ho Knows W hat Love Is (Will Understand)” by Irma Thomas appearing once again this season. Season finale “Black Museum” is the culmination of prev ious Easter eggs — the museum’s artifact cases contained references to nearly ever y episode in the series.

If you enjoy binging as much as I do, all four seasons of “Black Mirror” are available on Netf lix now. Tr y to find all the cleverly hidden references as you watch, and decide for yourself: W hich episodes stand out and which fall f lat?

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Set your goals for the year and don’t stop until you are happy with what you have achieved. Your determination and desire will be recognizable, resulting in respect as well as rewards. What you discover will lead to new and unusual interests that can determine your direction for the remainder of your life. Think big, dig in and embrace change. Your numbers are 7, 10, 18, 27, 30, 36, 41.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Stay calm and keep your work and personal life separate. Your performance will be key to your advancement as well as to maintaining a sense of structure in your life. Don’t make changes based on hearsay or a senseless argument.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Partnerships are favored. Business meetings, travel and using past experience to ensure you get what you want will help you establish your strengths. Knowing what you have to offer will give you the upper hand when negotiations take place.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t travel to unfamiliar places or try to make changes that go against the rules. Don’t promise anything you cannot readily supply. Protect against injury and emotional battles. Discipline and control will be required regarding money matters.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll be tempted to spend money on something you don’t need or make a donation without knowing enough about the organization asking for help. Use your imagination and you’ll find cheaper ways to make physical improvements or to assist others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll be emotionally charged and eager to bring about changes. Consider the consequences of your actions if other people are involved. It is best to take baby steps instead of catapulting into the unknown.

Minimize your dreams to fit your budget.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Friends, relatives, children and parents will all have something to contribute that will encourage you to follow through with your dreams. The possibilities are endless if you use your imagination and skills to help you reach your goals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Relationship changes will take you by surprise if you have lost touch or haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on right in front of you. Don’t take anyone or anything for granted or you may suffer a loss.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ll excel if you present what you have to offer.

Your skills and intellect will help you gain respect as well as the go-ahead to follow through with your plans. A partnership that will allow you to expand your interests looks promising.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t divulge information that may be used against you. Someone from your past will disrupt your life if you are too generous or forthcoming regarding your life goals, beliefs and personal passwords. An offer will not live up to your expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take a different approach to the way you do your job or handle your responsibilities. Your ability to foster new ideas and turn them into something spectacular will give you the momentum you need to reach your goals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The best way to move forward and make positive changes is to recognize what isn’t working for you anymore and make revisions. Study the results you’ve been getting and make a point to start with small but effective adjustments.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look at investments that show promise and dedicate your time and effort to being part of something that has the potential to grow. Offer suggestions as well as a commitment to see matters through to the end.

Birthday Baby: You are direct, forceful and ambitious. You are unique and productive.

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Coaching carousel St. Brown and Adams raises doubts announce 2018 draft plans Ben Padanilam Editor-in-Chief

Over the long break, there’s been a lot happening in the world of professional football.

We’re down to the final four teams in the playoffs. But rather than talk about what’s happening on the field, I think what’s happening off it has been far more interesting.

It’s been a particularly interesting offseason for the NFL’s coaching carousel, with more moves that have me scratching my head than praising the respective decision-makers.

So I’m going to take this time to talk about a few of the most perplexing ones.

Jon Gruden to the Raiders Okay, so I know there’s a lot of Jon Gruden fans out there.

In fact, my colleague Marek Mazurek jokingly advocated for him to coach at three collegiate programs at once in a relatively recent column because he loves him so much.

But he’s nowhere near deserving of a 10-year, $100-million deal.

Yes, he has a Super Bowl ring. But he also has just a 95-81 record, including just 57-55 in his last seven seasons from 2002 to 2008.

Which was , you know, 10 seasons ago in a fairly different NFL landscape. So no, his resume does not exactly strike me as worthy of a very long-term contract and the second highest annual salary in the league.

The Raiders hiring Gruben served as yet another example of an NFL franchise making a mockery of the Rooney Rule — a requirement for NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for open coaching jobs.

Although the Raiders brought in two minority candidates for interviews, it was very clear the job was Gruden’s from the beginning and the interviews were more to appease the rule. I think the spirit of the Rooney Rule is still needed, but how it has taken shape in practice is seriously f lawed and needs to be revisited by the league.

The Titans fire Mularkey This move made little sense to me, frankly. Mike Mularkey went 9-7 each of the last two seasons — his only full seasons as the team’s head coach — and made the playoffs this year, winning once on the road as underdogs before losing to the New England Patriots on the road as overwhelming underdogs. To me, the move

comes as a result of unrealistic expectations by management and a misunderstanding of progress by the front office more than anything else.

I understand there were questions about whether Mularkey was using Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota properly and playing him with his strengths in mind, but those questions also ignore the other personnel on the team. Mariota is a spread quarterback at his best. But DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry are not spread running backs — we’ve seen Murray run the system before in Philadelphia, and the results were poor. Henry, on the other hand, has never played in such a system between his time at Alabama and Tennessee, and it certainly isn’t a system that suits his style.

The Titans were a team structured around its offensive line and running backs.

If it wants to change philosophies by building around Mariota, then the front office will have to expect to find personnel on the offensive side that fits such a system and the steps backward that will inevitably precede any potential steps forward. That leads me to think the Titans will wish they had continued under Mularkey.

Marvin Lewis stays with the Bengals The 15-year marriage between Marvin Lewis and the Cincinnati Bengals is roughly the NFL’s equivalent of the relationship between Ross and Rachel on “Friends” — existing with the eternally looming question of “will they/won’t they.”

This offseason, the Bengals said they will, for at least one more time, hand Lewis a two-year extension. For a team that considered parting ways with the coach when he was coming off his fifth consecutive playoff appearance and four consecutive seasons with at least 10 wins, the move is dumbfounding.

The same arguments — a winless 0-7 record in the playoffs hinting at the team having reached its peak with him at the helm — still applied, and he had just 13 wins in his last two seasons. If anything, the time was now.

I wish to some day enjoy the job security Lewis has found in the city of Cincinnati.

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Observer Staff Report

Junior wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown and junior running back Josh Adams have both opted to enter the 2018 NFL Draft.

St. Brown announced Jan. 4 via Twitter that he would forgo his senior year at Notre Dame.

“Three years ago, I decided to attend the best University in the world, Notre Dame,” St. Brown said in the statement. “I’m extremely thankful for the opportunities given me and the lessons that the coaches taught me. I’m a better person and player because of it. ... I’ve wrestled with this decision, but I’ve decided to declare for the 2018 NFL Draft.”

St. Brown saw action in seven games his freshman year, catching one pass for eight yards against UMass. His year came to an end four games early when he suffered a season-ending shoulder injury during practice.

However, as a sophomore, the Anaheim, California, native was thrust into a starting role, starting all 12 games for the Irish. He averaged 80.1 receiving yards per game and tallied 961 yards on the season, finding the endzone nine times. He registered at least one touchdown in seven of Notre Dame’s 12 games. As a result, the 6-foot-5 receiver was given Notre Dame’s Offensive Player of the Year award after the 2016 season.

During his final season with the Irish, St. Brown saw action in all 13 games, accumulating team-highs of 515 yards and 33 receptions.

He added four touchdowns to his

resume, giving him a collegiate total of 13. He was also named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List going into the season.

St. Brown also added in his statement that he plans on coming back and finishing his degree at Notre Dame.

Adams also opted to not return for his senior season and enter the Draft, according to a post on his Instagram page Jan. 5.

“With a lot of thought, prayer and discussion with my family, I have decided to forgo my senior year and enter the 2018 NFL draft,” the post said. “I’d like to thank the University, my coaches, support staff and everyone who has been with me throughout my journey at Notre Dame.”

Adams finished his Irish career fifth all time for the program in rushing yards, sixth in yards from scrimmage and 13th all time in rushing touchdowns. He finished his junior year just seven yards short of the all-time Irish record for rushing yards in a season, set

by Vagas Ferguson in 1979. His 6.7 career yards per attempt rank first in Notre Dame history among players with 200 or more carries.

Irish junior running back Josh Adams sheds a tackler in Notre Dame’s 21-17 victory over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 in Orlando, Florida.

After arriving at Notre Dame as a three-star recruit, Adams quickly made an impact as a freshman due to a season-ending injury to starting running back Tarean Folston in the first game of the 2015 season, taking carries in all 13 games and starting in three,

while rushing for a freshman record 838 yards, including a Notre Dame Stadium-record long 97yard score against Wake Forest.

Although the Irish struggled to a 4-8 record his sophomore season, Adams started all but the season-opener and led the team in rushing with 933 yards. He posted a career-high in receptions with 21 and in receiving yards with 193.

As a junior, Adams had the most prolific season of his college career and among the most successful of any Notre Dame running back, running for 1430 yards despite battling injuries that limited his carries. His 6.9 yards per attempt ranked ninth in the nation among qualifying players, while he also achieved a career-high in touchdowns with nine.

Earning a reputation for long runs, he ran for 60 yards or more on seven separate plays. He ran for over 150 yards in five different games, including a high of 229 against Boston College, while he also ran for 191 against rivals USC and 202 the following week against North Carolina State. He is one of only four Irish running backs with multiple 200-yard games. He was a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award, both for the best college football player in the nation.

In the post announcing his intentions to enter the draft, Adams also said he intends to return at some point to complete his degree.

“I’ll definitely be back to earn and receive my degree at Notre Dame,” the post said.

Hiestand to return to Bears Observer Staff Report

Irish offensive line coach Harry Hiestand will leave Notre Dame and return to the Chicago Bears in the NFL, the program announced Jan. 10.

Hiestand previously coached for the Bears from 2005–2009. Prior to that job, he had been the offensive line coach at Cincinnati, Missouri and Illinois. He returned to the college ranks with Tennessee in 2010 before joining Notre Dame’s staff in 2012 and coaching the Irish offensive line unit for the past five seasons.

“Harry is an outstanding coach — one of the best offensive line coaches in football,” Irish head coach Brian Kelly said in a statement. “He developed young men in the spirit

of Notre Dame. I know this was a difficult decision for him based upon his feelings for this program, this University and his student-athletes.”

“While disappointed to see Harry go, I’m not surprised by his decision. We knew six years ago when we hired him that his final step in coaching could be in the NFL.” This past season, the Irish offensive line won the Joe Moore award, which is given annually to the nation’s best offensive line unit. Notre Dame finished seventh in the nation in rushing yards per game with 269.3 yards on the ground per game.

The offense also averaged a modern-era school record 6.25 yards per carry, the third best mark in the nation. The previous school record was also set during Hiestand’s tenure in

2015, when the offense averaged 5.63 yards per carry.

During his tenure, four Notre Dame offensive linemen were drafted in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft since 2013, with two more expected to join that group. Prior to Hiestand’s arrival, the Irish had only had two offensive lineman drafted in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft since 2002.

“Coach Hiestand built upon the standard of Notre Dame offensive line play,” senior offensive lineman Sam Mustipher said in a statement.

“He helped bring it back to where it made those before us proud to tune in every weekend. The lessons he taught me as a football player, and as a man, will carry me through the rest of my life.”

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Chad Riley named program’s head coach Observer Staff Report

Chad Riley was named head coach Bobby Clark’s successor Thursday after Clark announced his retirement after 17 years with the program in November. Riley, a 2004 Notre Dame graduate, is a former Irish player and assistant coach, but he has been serving as head coach at Dartmouth for the past five years.

“My wife and I are excited to come home, not only to Notre Dame, but to the South Bend community,” Riley said in a statement.

“This is our home, and we look forward to getting back involved with this wonderful community. I would like to thank Fr. John Jenkins, Jack Swarbrick and Beth Hunter for their trust in me as the next leader of this special program. ... This opportunity combines everything for me, to be a part of the best University in the world, to work with amazing students and to build a program that will compete for championships every year. We are going to be an ambitious program and will build on

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the wonderful legacy that Coach Clark has left behind.

Our aim is now to take Notre Dame soccer to new heights, and I simply can’t wait to get started.”

Riley has led Dartmouth to Iv y League titles each of the last four years and has amassed a 51-26-14 record with the Big Green, claiming Iv y League Coach of the Year honors three of the last four seasons. Each of his Dartmouth teams has advanced to postseason play, and it earned the No. 15 seed this season.

“Chad Riley not only brings to Notre Dame a track record of winning titles and regularly qualif ying for NCAA championship play, but having both played and coached for Bobby Clark, he already has a great understanding of the culture this program has built over the last two decades,” director of athletics Jack Swarbrick said of Riley in the statement. “We expect Chad to have a seamless transition into his new assignment in great part because he has a perfect sense of the expectations and opportunities both on and off Paid Advertisement

the field at Notre Dame.

This is a program that has achieved at the very highest levels, including an NCAA title four years ago, and we are confident Chad has what it takes to continue that sort of achievement.”

Riley also served as an assistant coach at Notre Dame for six seasons, during which time the Irish registered a 71-37-21 record. The Irish made trips to the NCAA tournament in five of those six seasons and advanced to the NCAA championship quarterfinals twice. The Irish also won back-to-back Big East titles under Riley’s tutelage in 2007 and 2008.

Before coaching the Irish, Riley held coaching jobs at Oberlin and St. John’s.

As a player, the midfielder was a four-time monogram winner, notching 52 career points. Riley led the Irish in assists in three seasons and ranks second on the all-time Irish assists leaderboard.

As a senior, he was named an assistant team captain.

Riley was named second team All-Big East in 2003 and third team All-Big East in 2001 and 2002.

Coney, Tillery to stay senior years Observer Staff Report

In an offseason that has already seen defensive coordinator Mike Elko, offensive line coach Harry Hiestand and juniors running back Josh Adams and wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown, announce plans to leave South Bend, Notre Dame received some good news yesterday as juniors linebacker Te’von Coney and defensive lineman Jerry Tillery announced they will both return to school for their senior seasons.

“We talk about the mission everyday: graduate our players and win a national championship,” Irish head coach Brian Kelly tweeted Monday night. “While I’m excited to have Jerry and Te’von return from a football standpoint, I’m proud that they both believe in this mission and value the significance of the ND degree.”

Coney led the Irish last year with 112 tackles and Tillery was sixth on the team in that category with 56.

Tillery lead the team in sacks

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Durr hitting double-digit points.

“They came out ready,” McGraw said. “They delivered a knockout punch and we got knocked out in the first quarter.”

Things didn’t get much better through the second quarter, as the Irish gave up an 11-0 run in the final four minutes of the half and trailed 56-28 at halftime.

If the Irish hoped for a reprieve in the second half, they didn’t get one, as the Cardinals added 29 more points in the period, finishing with Asia Durr’s eighth three of the game. Though the outcome of the game was long decided, the Cardinals still weren’t done, stretching their lead to more than 40 points before finishing as 33-point victors. McGraw had high praise for the Cardinals and Durr in particular after the defeat.

“I thought Louisville looked like the best team in the country today,” McGraw said. “Asia Durr and Hines-Allen were just too much for us. Durr is maybe the best player in the country — we’ve played South Carolina and Connecticut, but she is just unstoppable. She’s a phenomenal guard. We tried a lot of different defenses, and none of them were really effective.

“They shot the ball extremely well. Some of it was poor defense but a lot was just them making shots.”

A lack of depth for the Irish, caused by four ACL tears that left only seven healthy scholarship players, seemed evident, as the Irish bench combined for just

with 4.5, while Coney also led the team in tackles for a loss with 13.

“After much prayer, thought and discussion with my family and loved ones, I knew in my heart that this was the best decision for me,” Coney said in an Instagram post Monday evening.

“I have a lot of unfinished business at Notre Dame — completing my degree and winning a national championship.”

Kelly also tweeted Tuesday that senior defensive lineman Jonathan Bonner would be returning for a fifth year.

“Jonathan’s an awesome kid,” Kelly said in the tweet. “He could’ve moved on with his degree from ND, but he decided to return to further his education and help us work toward a national championship. Jonathan’s made great strides on the field and I’m excited to see him rewarded for those efforts.”

Bonner started all 13 games in his senior season, recording 30 tackles, two sacks and four quarterback hurries.

four points. But McGraw said she did not believe depth played a major role in the defeat.

“I don’t think it has any impact on our effort, I don’t think it impacts our intelligence on offense, I don’t think it had anything to do with the score,” she said.

The Cardinals knocked down 11 of their 17 three-point attempts and 41 of their 63 shots, while the Irish shot only 27-for-61.

Yet the Irish were able to move past the loss when they faced Boston College, recording a comfortable 89-60 victory. The Irish opened up a 9-0 lead in less than three minutes and led 42-20 by halftime, with Jessica Shepherd finishing the game with 24 points. McGraw said she was especially pleased with the team’s ability to get the ball to Shepard.

“I liked the way we came out and got things going offensively, getting the ball inside was our goal and I thought we executed that really well,” she said. “I thought Jess was really a factor inside.”

“I think we all came in with a little bit of a chip on our shoulder,” Shepard said. “That game was embarrassing, and we just wanted to get past that and play hard for our home crowd.”

Freshman walk-on guard Nicole Benz was able to make her first appearance for the Irish after being added to the roster due to Lili Thompson’s season-ending injury.

The Irish will have another top10 matchup on Thursday, facing Tennessee at Purcell Pavilion.

Tip-off is at 7 p.m.

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Lea promoted to Irish defensive coordinator Observer Staff Report

Irish linebackers coach Clark Lea will be Notre Dame’s new defensive coordinator, the program announced Tuesday.

The program also announced that assistant head coach and defensive line coach Mike Elston will be promoted to associate head coach.

Both will also also remain in charge of their position groups.

Lea will replace Mike Elko, who spent one year in charge of the Irish defense, which improved as a unit from 62nd in the nation in points allowed in 2016 with Brian VanGorder and Greg Hudson to 31st in 2017. Elko left the Irish on Jan. 4 to take the same position at Texas A&M under new Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher.

Lea will be the fourth fulltime Notre Dame defensive coordinator in the last six seasons, and the fifth counting Hudson’s interim stint after VanGorder’s firing.

“I cannot express how grateful I am to [University President] Fr. [John] Jenkins, [director of athletics] Jack Swarbrick and [head coach] Brian Kelly for their confidence in my ability to take on this new role,” Lea said in a press release. “I am indebted to them and to the student-athletes that I have been blessed to work with over the past year — without their commitment and belief in me, I realize that none of this would be possible. Notre Dame represents everything I want to be a part of in my career as an educator, and I am deeply humbled to be able to

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an indefinite suspension before the Citrus Bowl, after two arrests in December, one for shoplifting at University Park Mall in Mishawaka and one for possession of marijuana, speeding and not having a valid driver’s license in Marshall County.

Holmes was also arrested for shoplifting alongside Stepherson. After arriving at Notre Dame as a four-star recruit and the No. 5 running back in his class, he saw very little action on offense with the Irish, carrying the ball only eight times for 32 yards, all at North Carolina with junior Dexter Williams, junior Josh Adams and sophomore Tony Jones Jr. all dealing with injuries. Also playing on special teams, he appeared in eight games for the Irish in the 2017 season.

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continue my work here.”

Like Elko, Lea arrived at Notre Dame last year from Wake Forest, also serving as linebackers coach under Elko and helping the 2016 Demon Deacons to a top-25 national ranking in points allowed.

Prior to his time at Wake Forest, Lea had spent time as the linebackers coach at Syracuse, Bowling Green — where he also coached under Elko — and UCLA. As a player, he earned three letters in football for Vanderbilt and was a two-time member of the SEC All-Academic team.

“Clark has quickly established himself as a rising star in the coaching profession,” Kelly said in the release. “He immediately commands the respect of those around him, whether that be in a meeting room, on a practice field or in a prospective student-athlete’s living room. Clark has demonstrated an ability to motivate, lead, teach and mentor through a positive teaching environment, while also developing the necessary traits of excellence in our players.

Clark has an incredible football knowledge, a keen understanding of personnel and a fierce work ethic, which leaves no doubt in my mind that we’ll maintain the defensive standard necessary to win at the highest level.”

Lea’s promotion will allow the Irish to continue to run the 4-2-5 scheme introduced

by Elko with a coordinator familiar with the system.

The system saw a move for Drue Tranquill from safety to “Rover” linebacker for the 2017 season, in which Tranquill

depth chart after seeing no action in 2016, he finished third on the team in carries, rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, with 65 carries for 368 yards and five scores. Like Holmes, his career high came against North Carolina, when he ran 12 times for 124 yards and two scores. McIntosh was also suspended for the Citrus Bowl for a “violation of team rules.” With Josh Adams also leaving the Irish for the NFL draft, the team is down three running backs who carried the ball in 2017. The Irish will have only three scholarship running backs for the spring — Jones, Williams and early enrollee Jahmir Smith.

Tiassum saw his first action for the Irish in 2017 after arriving as a three-star recruit and made two tackles. His three appearances all came in the opening five games of the season, against Temple, Michigan State and Miami (OH), recording tackles against the Owls and the RedHawks.

posted career highs in tackles, tackles for loss, sacks and passes defended.

Elston, on the other hand, had coached linebackers prior to Lea’s arrival. Last season was his first coaching the defensive line unit in three seasons, as he had previous headed the unit for the Irish for five seasons from 2010– 2014. In his return to running the defensive line, the unit increased its sack total from three in 2016 to 16.5 this season and its tackle-for-loss total from 23.5 in 2016 to 38.5 this past year.

“I love the University of Notre Dame,” Elston said in a press release. “My family and I are blessed to be a part of this University. I want to thank Jack Swarbrick and Brian Kelly for this opportunity that continues my growth as a coach and offers a greater leadership role in the program. I’m very excited to stay with the defensive line and help them develop to their fullest potential — both on and off the field.”

“Mike has been instrumental to the success of Notre Dame football,” Kelly said.

“His commitment and passion for this program and University are second to none.

In many ways, Mike can best be described as the backbone of our coaching staff. ... Mike’s

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Irish defensive coordinator Clark Lea walks onto the field after Notre Dame’s 38-20 loss to Stanford on Nov. 25 at Stanford Stadium.

also been a vital resource in recruiting — leading the efforts of that office for two years. He’s, without a doubt, a future head coach and we’re very, very fortunate to have him on our staff.”

The promotion of Lea may have some impact on the two Irish defensive players, juniors Jerry Tillery and Te’von Coney, who have still not revealed Paid Advertisement

their decisions on whether to enter the 2018 NFL Draft or return to Notre Dame for their senior seasons. Tillery, a defensive lineman, led the Irish in sacks in 2017 with 4.5 while also recording nine tackles for loss, and Coney, a linebacker, led the team in tackles with 116 and in tackles for loss with 13, despite only starting seven games.

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overtime, the Irish tried to run a pick-and-roll for sophomore guard T.J. Gibbs.

Gibbs’ drive was well defended, however, and Louisville came up with the rebound.

Senior Cardinals guard Quentin Snyder sunk his free throws and Louisville came out on top 82-78.

“They’re a good defensive team, they’re big, they’re long” Farrell said. “We put ourselves in a position to win, just like last game. We could very well be 5-1 right now, but we’re 3-3. … I had a chance twice to win the game.

I’m going to keep replaying that in my head all night, it is what it is. These guys fight so hard, we’re going through so much right now, it can only make us stronger.”

One player who fought all game was senior forward Martinas Geben. Geben recorded 23 points and 17 rebounds, including 11 offensive rebounds. Both numbers were career highs.

With Farrell showing signs of fatigue, Brey turned to the big man late in regulation and overtime to try and get the Irish

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some offense. “[Geben’s] playing so well, I’m just so proud of him. He deserves it, he’s so confident right now,” Brey said. “As I’m trying to figure out how to help this group, I think we have to throw it into him more and go to work.”

The Irish lost Harvey at the 8:25 mark in the first half.

Harvey injured his left knee fighting for a rebound. Harvey went to the ground screaming in pain and was helped to the locker room. The DeMatha High School product returned to the bench in the second half with crutches and a brace on his left knee.

“We’re hoping it’s just cartilage,” Brey said. “MRI tomorrow.

I’m hoping it’s just a cartilage thing … hopefully it’s not an ACL.” With 6:25 left in the second half, Pflueger picked up his fifth foul and exited the game with three points and three rebounds.

“That was too bad, he’s usually pretty good about fouls.

That was a big loss,” Brey said of Pflueger. “We just can’t afford to have a main guy get in foul trouble quite frankly.”

Now sitting at 3-3 in the ACC, Brey said he had an honest talk with his team about the odds of

making the NCAA tournament, and what the group needs to do to get there.

“I said, ‘Fellas, last year we lost five out of six in the ACC and we found our footing … and scratched and clawed to the end,’” Brey said. “Now I’m not sure we can scratch and claw our way to 12 league wins and a double bye. Quite frankly, I don’t know if that’s very realistic. But can we scratch out five or six more and go to Brooklyn and see what happens? And maybe Colson’s back? That’s the world we’re in. That’s how we’re going to manage it.”

Farrell wasted little time making an impact on the game.

With the Irish trailing 7-3, Farrell drove for a layup, threaded an assist to Geben for a dunk and then stole a pass for a layup of his own to tie the game up at 9-9.

Farrell continued his burst of scoring, dropping 15 points in the game’s first 13 minutes on 6-of-9 shooting to make it a 2616 Notre Dame lead.

The Cardinals battled back, as the Irish scored just two points in the final seven minutes of the half to give Louisville a 30-28 lead going into the locker room on the back of a 14-2 run.

The Irish look flustered

coming out of the break, turning the ball over three times in the half’s first two minutes and forcing Brey to call for a timeout.

The respite seemed to energize the Irish as Farrell, sophomore forward John Mooney and sophomore guard T.J. Gibbs knocked down shots to tie the game back up at 41 with just under 15 minutes to play.

Louisville surged to another lead with a string of fouls called against the Irish, but a few offensive rebounds by the Irish led to two 3-pointers from Gibbs and the Irish led 51-50.

Already without Harvey, Notre Dame was forced to play the final stretch of the game without junior guard Rex Pflueger who fouled out with just under seven minutes left.

The Irish put the Cardinals in the bonus with over six minutes to go in the second half and Louisville took advantage, shooting 10-of-12 from the freethrow stripe in the period and tying the game at 60 with 3:25 remaining in the game.

The game was tied again at 62 entering the final 45 seconds of the game. Sophomore wing Nikola Djogo — who played extra minutes in place of Pflueger and Harvey — stole the ball and took it to the hoop. A mad

scramble ensued for the rebound with Notre Dame coming up with the ball after four or five chances at the rim.

Farrell missed the potential game-winning 3-pointer and the game went into overtime.

Louisville jumped out to a 6762 lead in the first overtime, but the Irish reeled the Cardinals back in with a lineup of Gibbs, Farrell, Geben, Djogo and Torres.

Entering the second overtime tied 71-71, junior forward Ray Spalding knocked down a jumper and Snider hit a tough corner 3 to put Louisville up 78-73.

With no Harvey or Pflueger and Farrell fatigued just coming back from an injury, the Irish couldn’t come back for a second time.

“That 3 in the corner in the second overtime, that’s a hard one to dig out of,” Brey said. “We dug out of a hole in the first overtime. It was a little too hard to dig out of the second time.”

“I think we’re pretty darn resilient,” he added. “I really have a lot of faith in the seniors.”

Notre Dame’s next game will be a road tilt with No. 20 Clemson on Saturday.

in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Notre Dame got on the board early when freshman defenseman Matt Hellickson scored a power play goal 4:44 into the first period to give the Irish 1-0 lead. It was

Hellickson’s first career goal.

Notre Dame extended their lead five minutes later on another power play when junior forward Andrew Oglevie took a no-look pass by junior forward Dylan Malmquist from

behind the net and ripped the puck past the goaltender for his eighth goal of the year.

Michigan cut the lead in half when Tony Calderone scored with 4:08 left in the first period. It would be the last goal scored on the night.

Sophomore goaltender Cale Morris continued his consistent play, stopping 35 of 36 shots on goal to help preserve a 2-1 Notre Dame victory.

The second game of the series took place Jan. 7 at Compton Family Ice Arena. It was more of the same, as the Irish once again defeated the Wolverines by a 2-1 score.

The win was Notre Dame’s 15th straight victory dating back to Oct. 27.

A little more than six minutes into the second period, Oglevie finished off a breakaway attempt with his ninth goal of the season and second of the series to give the Irish a 1-0 lead.

Seven minutes later, with the Irish on the power play, Hellickson snuck the puck between Michigan goalie Hayden Lavigne’s legs and into the goal to extend Notre Dame’s lead to 2-0 with 6:09 left in the second period.

Josh Norris got Michigan on the board with 11:16 left in the third period, but that was as close as the team would come to mounting a comeback. Morris once again shut the door on the Wolverines, saving 33 of the 34 shots he faced.

Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson praised his team’s defensive efforts in both wins.

“Our goalie and our defensemen are, right now, the

backbone of our team,” he said. “The positive thing is we’re getting some timely scoring, some key goals, and we make it interesting every night. It always seems to be a tough game every night. … Every game’s a battle and we’re fighting through it and going through these tough games is good for us and is going to help us as we move forward.”

Jackson said he liked the way his team played after the long break, but noticed areas where the team could still improve.

“When you finish the first half after three solid months … and you take a month off, it’s almost like you’re starting over,” he said. “Your timing is a little bit off, and you’re not as sharp in some areas. It probably showed up more at Yost on Friday than it did tonight. I thought we had some really good spells, and we had some really tough spells, especially coming out of our zone.”

On Jan. 8, Notre Dame received the No. 1 ranking in both the U.S. College Hockey Online poll and the USA Hockey Magazine/USA Today poll.

After having this past weekend off, Notre Dame will be back in action this weekend when they host No. 18 Wisconsin on Friday at the Compton Family Ice Arena.

The second game of the series will take place on Sunday afternoon at the United Center in downtown Chicago.

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Four dismissed from squad Observer Staff Report

Less than a month after a Citrus Bowl victory, four Notre Dame football players have been dismissed from the team.

According to a University spokesperson, junior defensive lineman Brandon Tiassum, sophomore wide receiver Kevin Stepherson, freshman running back C.J. Holmes and sophomore running back Deon McIntosh will all no longer be with the Irish going forward, bringing the Irish under the limit of 85 scholarships for the 2018 season.

Stepherson, Holmes and McIntosh were all suspended for the Citrus Bowl victory against LSU to close out the 2017 season, but Tiassum has never been publicly suspended by the Irish, though he has seen the field in only three games, all in 2017, over the course of his three-year Irish career.

Stepherson had the most productive career of the four.

Although he arrived at Notre Dame as a three-star recruit, he played a major role in the Irish offense as a freshman in 2016 by

catching 25 passes for 462 yards and five touchdowns, putting him second on the team in touchdown catches. In the 2017 season, he caught 19 passes for 359 yards and a team-leading five scores, while also rushing for 76 yards on five attempts.

Over the eight-game period in which he played, he recorded more receiving yards than any other Irish player. Over his final two games for the Irish, Stepherson combined for 215 yards and three touchdowns.

However, Stepherson was also the player who faced the most disciplinary issues with the team. Before the 2016 season, he was one of five Irish players arrested in Fulton County and charged with marijuana possession, in an incident that saw safety Max Redfield dismissed from the team. Stepherson then missed the opening four games of the 2017 campaign, with Irish head coach Brian Kelly declining to confirm or deny whether he was suspended amid rumors that it was the case.

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Cardinals edge Irish in second overtime period

By Marek Mazurek Assistant Managing Editor

After Notre Dame’s loss to North Carolina on Sunday, Mike Brey announced Matt Farrell would be back in the starting lineup come Tuesday’s game against Louisville.

Brey said the team needed Farrell back to energize the offense.

Farrell did start and his 23 points and eight assists certainly energized the Irish.

But for the second game in a row, the Irish (13-6, 3-3 ACC) were unable to gut out a win, falling 82-78 in double overtime to Louisville (14-4, 4-1 ACC) without freshman wing D.J. Harvey and junior guard Rex Pflueger for most of the game.

“We’ve been punched hard before,” Brey said after the game.“Those were two amazing gut punches. We were thoroughly exhausted.”

Neck-and-neck through 40 minutes of regular time and eight minutes of overtimes, the Irish found themselves down 80-78 with under a minute left. After Farrell missed potential game-winning shots at the end of regulation and the first

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Irish senior guard Matt Farrell looks to pass the ball during Notre Dame’s 82-78 double-overtime loss to Louisville on Tuesday.

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Break headlined by loss for ND

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Despite playing only two games, it was an eventful winter break for Notre Dame hockey.

During the four-week break, the then-No. 2 Irish (18-3-1, 12-0-0 Big Ten) had two players compete in international hockey tournaments.

Sophomore defenseman Andrew Peeke was a member of Team USA at the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, which took place in Buffalo, New York, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5.

Peeke played in all seven games and tallied a goal and an assist to help Team USA win a bronze medal.

Senior forward and captain Jake Evans represented his home country of Canada at the 2017 Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland, from Dec. 26 to 31. Evans played in all four games to help Canada win the championship.

On Jan. 5, after a four-week break, the Irish returned to

Before Thursday, No. 5 Notre Dame hadn’t given up 100 points in a game in almost 20 years.

But on that day, the Irish could do nothing to stop Louisville from piling up points, as the Cardinals hit triple digits behind 30-point games for both senior forward Myisha HinesAllen and junior guard Asia Durr, dealing the Irish a 100-67 defeat, their first conference loss of the season.

Although the Irish won each of their other eight games over the winter period, including bouncing back with an 89-60 victory over Boston College, the 33-point loss — the team’s largest since the 2002 NCAA Tournament — cast a shadow over the otherwise successful break period.

The Irish eased past Penn, holding a 20-point lead with 1:28 left before winning 66-54, and beat DePaul 91-82 behind

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Irish junior forward Andrew Oglevie looks for the puck during Notre Dame’s 5-3 win over Penn State on Nov. 10.

a Purcell Pavilion-record 39 points on 17-of-22 shooting from junior forward Jessica Shepard.

Notre Dame faced a tougher challenge from Marquette, giving up an eight-point lead to trail by four with just under two minutes remaining, but came back to win 91-85 in overtime.

The Irish then opened conference play with four successive wins, over Syracuse, Wake Forest, Miami and Georgia Tech, setting up the clash with the Cardinals as a matchup of top-3 teams and crucial to the race for the ACC regular season title.

Although the game began with a Marina Mabrey threepointer, the Irish found themselves in a deep hole within the opening minutes. A 23-5 run for the Cardinals saw Irish head coach Muffet McGraw’s team trail 28-11 after seven minutes and 33-16 at the end of the period, with both Hines-Allen and see W BBALL PAGE 13

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was a nice stride toward that.”

Though the ending of the game provided excitement, the drama began before the game even started. Less than two hours before the game, Notre Dame announced that senior linebacker Nyles Morgan was stripped of his captaincy for an “internal matter” that Kelly declined to expand on after the game.

And then the drama made its way onto the field during Notre Dame’s second drive of the game.

Facing a third-and-10 at LSU’s 46-yard line, Kelly subbed in Ian Book. Book missed the pass high, but Kelly stuck with Book for the majority of the game after that point.

Book went 14-of-19 for 164 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.

“Well, Ian is extremely accurate as a passer,” Kelly said. “He’s got a really fine ability to locate the football. He throws strikes. And that’s the strength that he has. If you do not play him in the option game, he is extremely capable of pulling it and being effective in the run game. He’s a quarterback at Notre Dame, and so there’s high expectations. But we knew what he could give our football team. It’s like anything else. He just needs experience. And he got it today.”

Though Book came up big in the fourth quarter, the Irish scored just one field goal in the first half on a 46-yard kick from junior Justin Yoon.

But LSU had its own drama in the first half, as the Tigers missed two field goals from inside 40

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And, on top of all that, Kelly suspended four players ahead of the matchup with LSU for a variety of violations and misdemeanor charges. And then senior linebacker Nyles Morgan was stripped of his captaincy less than a day before the game for what Kelly called “an internal matter.”

It may not have been four straight losses, but 2017 was starting to look a lot like the end of 2014.

Yet, Notre Dame’s win against a talented — minus the kickers — LSU team in a bowl on New Year’s Day completely changes the narrative heading into the offseason.

Instead of answering questions about why his team lost its third game since the start of November and why he had four suspended players, Kelly got to answer questions about a possible quarterback competition and Miles Boykin’s game-winning catch.

That’s the benefit of achieving the 10-win season Kelly stressed so much in the days leading up to the game.

But the benefits to Notre Dame’s win don’t stop at Kelly being spared awkward questions from the media.

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yards en route to a scoreless first two periods.

In the middle of second quarter, LSU had a first-and-goal from the Irish 1-yard line, but Notre Dame’s defense held and Tigers redshirt-freshman kicker Connor Culp missed a 22-yard field-goal try to keep the game scoreless.

LSU head coach Ed Orgeron sent out sophomore Jack Gonsoulin for a 37-yard attempt on LSU’s next drive, but he also missed the mark, making it a 3-0 game at halftime.

The Tigers seized momentum after the break when an LSU punt bounced off the leg of freshman safety Isaiah Robertson, and the Tigers recovered.

Five plays later, star Tigers junior running back Derrius Guice took a check-down pass 20 yards into the endzone to make it 7-3 in favor of the Tigers.

Kelly stuck with Book on Notre Dame’s first drive of the half, and the Irish moved down the field until Book threw an interception in the redzone to end the Notre Dame drive.

“We talked about it before the game, and we talk about it every week. There’s going to be highs and there’s going to be lows,” Book said. “And part of playing the quarterback position is being able to move on to the next play. So I messed up and made a mistake, and immediately sat down with [quarterbacks coach Tom] Rees, Coach Kelly and had to move on to the next play, and we still had a bunch of football left to play.”

A 49-yard Yoon field goal on the next Notre Dame possession brought the Irish to within 7-6, but another Guice touchdown reception put the Tigers back up 14-6 before Book and Boykin’s

late-game heroics.

Though Notre Dame’s quarterback swapping and Boykin’s game-winning catch will attract most of the attention, the Irish defense quietly had a solid game.

Notre Dame did let up 399 total yards, but it held the All-SEC back Guice to under 100 yards on the ground.

More importantly, however, was Notre Dame’s ability to stop the Tigers on the goal line. Twice LSU had first-and-goals, and twice Notre Dame held the Tigers to field-goal attempts despite LSU runners coming within inches of scoring.

“Yeah, we fought for every inch,” Kelly said. “Guice is a heck of a back. Their offensive line is outstanding. But we fought for every inch. And, quite frankly, it became a game of inches down there where we were able to hold them to the field goals. And that was the difference in the game.”

The Irish fly home to South Bend with 10 wins — the third time Kelly has reach the 10-win plateau at Notre Dame — and much-needed momentum after losing two out of their last three games and a slew of suspensions leading up to the bowl game.

“It’s pretty close [to the perfect ending],” McGlinchey said.

“Beating a really, really good LSU team — well-coached, lot of talented players all over the field — it’s a big win for us, and it certainly feels good to go out with 10 wins and winning in the way that we did. Certainly, to end my career on a win is certainly something that I’ll cherish for a very long time.”

family to put in the trophy case at the Guglielmino Athletics Complex.

Kelly and his staff get another selling point for recruits as the Irish look to shore up what is already a top-10 recruiting class.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of all is the way the Irish won.

Notre Dame’s 21-17 victory over LSU was littered with snippets — and in some cases, big chunks — of what the future holds for the Irish. Kelly and the offensive staff designed a game plan around sophomore quarterback Ian Book after deciding Brandon Wimbush’s mechanical issues couldn’t be fixed during bowl preparation.

And Book stepped up, throwing for two touchdowns, going 14-of-19 and coming back from a bad red-zone interception in the third quarter.

Catching passes from Book in the absence of sophomore receivers Kevin Stepherson and Chase Claypool and junior tight end Alize Mack were Boykin and freshman Michael Young.

The new duo combined for 110 yards and two touchdowns and looks to be the future of the Notre Dame receiving corps with junior Equanimeous St. Brown declaring for the NFL draft and Stepherson being dismissed from the program.

On defense, sophomore

cornerback Julian Love was a force to be reckoned with, breaking up three passes and playing his best in the final minutes of the game. Sophomore defensive lineman Julian Okwara recorded a sack, and freshman safety Jordan Genmark-Heath saw solid minutes as he looks to push for a starting job at the position in the fall.

If you choose to use the bowl win as a crystal ball for the 2018 Notre Dame team, you’ll see a bright future.

And if you choose to use the bowl win as a punctuation mark at the end of the 2017 season, you’ll find a team with a 10-3 record that played 11 games against bowl-eligible teams, all coming off the heels of a 4-8 campaign the year before.

The 2017 version of Notre Dame certainly had its flaws, and a tough 2018 schedule means expecting a playoff berth is foolish.

But the 2015 Notre Dame team went to Fiesta Bowl after beating LSU in 2014.

The Irish were playing for citrus in 2017, but peaches or oranges may be on the menu in 2018.

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4th

Total

0 0

3 0

3 7

15 10

21 17

Notre Dame 3, LSU 0

Justin Yoon 46-yard field goal

0:04

remaining Drive: 11 plays, 51 yards, 2:00 elapsed

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LSU 7, NOTRE DAME 3

Derrius Guice 20-yard pass from Danny Etling (Jack Gonsoulin kick)

11:37

remaining Drive: Five plays, 43 yards, 2:16 elapsed

LSU 7, Notre Dame 6

Yoon 49-yard field goal

2:47

remaining Drive: Five plays, 18 yards, 2:20 elapsed

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LSU 14, Notre Dame 6

Guice 2-yard pass from Etling (Gonsoulin kick)

11:13

remaining Drive: 12 plays, 75 yards, 6:34 elapsed

Notre dame 14, LSU 14

Michael Young 6-yard pass from Ian Book (Josh Adams pass from Book for two-point conversion)

7:49

remaining Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards, 3:24 elapsed

LSU 17, Notre Dame 14

Gonsoulin 17-yard field goal

2:03

remaining Drive: 12 plays, 76 yards, 5:46 elapsed

Notre dame 21, LSU 17

Miles Boykin 55-yard pass from Book (Yoon kick)

1:28

remaining Drive: Three plays, 73 yards, 0:35 elapsed

statistics Total yards 368 399

RUSHING yards 152 170

PASSING yards 216 229

First downs 17 21

Time of possession 22:24 37:36

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Irish sophomore quarterback Ian Book scrambles from the pocket to his right and looks for an open receiver downfield during Notre Dame’s 21-17 win over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium. Book replaced starter Brandon Wimbush in the game and was 14-of-19 for 164 yards and two touchdowns in his team’s victory.

New Year, New faces

Despite missing its top targets in the passing game and benching starting quarterback Brandon Wimbush for the second half, Notre Dame found a way to squeeze out a win in a New Year’s Day bowl game on the back of its passing attack. Ian Book came in and threw for 164 yards and two touchdowns, one to Michael Young and another to Miles Boykin.

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Irish freshman wide receiver Michael Young catches a touchdown during Notre Dame’s win Jan. 1.

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Irish graduate student tight end Durham Smythe leaps and catches a high pass during Notre Dame’s 21-17 win over LSU on Jan. 1.

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Junior running back Dexter Williams makes a cut as he carries the ball upfield against LSU on Jan. 1.

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Irish senior linebacker Nyles Morgan dives to make a tackle during Notre Dame’s 21-17 win over LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium. Morgan had nine tackles in the game.