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Volume 51, Issue 70 | tuesday, january 24, 2017 | ndsmcobserver.com
Alumna considers MLK’s legacy Judge emphasizes importance of education, communication in social change By EMILY McCONVILLE News Writer
In a wide-ranging interview on Monday, interspersed with quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr., Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit and Notre Dame trustee Ann Claire Williams discussed her childhood in Detroit, her challenges and triumphs as a young black lawyer and judge, and her vision for a more just future. The interview, which took place during a luncheon at the Joyce Center, closed off Walk the Walk Week, a series of University-sponsored events commemorating King’s legacy. Institute for Latino Studies codirector Luis Fraga reflected on King, and Erin McGinley, a 1996 graduate and Williams’ senior law clerk, conducted the interview. see LUNCHEON PAGE 4
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U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams, left, responds to questions about her upbringing and memories of the Civil Rights Movement at a luncheon at the Joyce Center on Monday.
ND, SMC graduates open pretzel franchise By COURTNEY BECKER News Writer
Students will have an additional food option this spring with the opening of a Philly Pretzel Factory location in South Bend. Maryse Naman, a Saint Mary’s 1996 graduate, said she and her husband decided to open a franchise in South Bend because they wanted to bring a slice of their home in New England back to Notre Dame. “Being from New Jersey, I loved the product because we were around it a lot,” she said. “So we wanted to bring something new, but also something which we consider home … out to the Midwest. Because the company is not this far out west yet.” Mark Naman, Notre Dame class of 1996 and a former member of the office of development, said the low cost for a Philly Pretzel Factory product sets the
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franchise apart from other pretzel companies. “You go to an Auntie Anne’s or a Ben’s Pretzel, it’s a little bit of a different experience where you’re going to buy a pretzel and pay $3.50, or whatever it is,” he said. “The Philly Pretzel is designed more to be a mass pretzel purchase that you can share with a lot of people. … The idea is, for a very low cost, you get a lot of these high-quality bread pretzels to share with your friends, which is a huge benefit, I think, and it’s great for students.” In addition to products ranging from traditional pretzels to Philly cheesesteak pretzels, Mr. Naman said, the Philly Pretzel Factory offers pretzel trays and catering for events such as tailgates. “We expect that, locally, our biggest days of the year are going
On behalf of the Estate of Lisa Yang, South Bend attorney Franklin Julian filed a lawsuit Thursday against the University and the University Counseling Center (UCC) over the latter’s actions in the time leading up to Yang’s death. Yang, who died by suicide in March 2015, was a senior from Herdon, Virginia, living in McGlinn Hall and studying in the Mendoza College of Business. The complaint states Yang had been treated at the UCC from May 2014 through February 2015, and that the center was made aware that Yang had attempted suicide in July 2014. see LAWSUIT PAGE 3
Snite displays photography of Civil Rights protests By CIARA HOPKINSON News Writer
“You get these epic, sort of monumental images of freedom and hope,” Costa said. The photographs, most of which were taken by some of the most influential photographers of the time, portray some of the most recognizable moments of the Civil Rights Movement: the first desegregated bus in Montgomery, protesters being sprayed with water cannons and attacked by police dogs in Birmingham,
and peaceful crowds at the 1963 March on Washington. “One of the most moving things about these pictures is the way the protesters are using their bodies — it’s a choice,” Bridget Hoyt, curator of education and academic programs, said. “They are victims, but they are also agents.” One of the most recognizable photographs shows a pensive
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The Snite Museum held a special exhibition on Monday afternoon of 17 photographs that capturing some of the touchstone moments of the Civil Rights movement as part of Notre Dame’s “Walk the Walk” Week. “On view are some of the seminal images that we have come to know as the images that tell the story of the Civil Rights movement,” Gina Costa, director of public relations and marketing for the Snite, said. The photographs follow the chronology of the Civil Rights movement, starting with images of individual protests and small victories, and progressing into large scale demonstrations and the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They convey a range of sentiments, from repression and hatred to strength, brotherhood, perseverance and human dignity.
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Students browse the new exhibition at The Snite Museum, which consists of 17 photographs that illustrate the Civil Rights Movement.
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Author delivers talk on chastity By KATHRYN MARSHALL News Writer
Author Dawn Eden Goldstein spoke on chastity and care for the “other” on Monday night as part of the Saint Mary’s Campus Ministry “Body, Mind and Spirit Sexuality” series. She has written books such as “The Thrill of the Chaste” and “My Peace I Give You.” Goldstein graduated from the University of Saint Mary of the Lake with a doctorate in sacred theology, making her the first woman to receive a canonical doctorate. The degree is issued under the authority of the Pope. The lecture began with Goldstein reflecting on an anecdote from earlier in the day, when she met a woman who had a tattoo that read, “Jesus wants the rose” on her arm. The rose, being an analogy for those who do not live perfect lives and yet are embraced by Jesus, expresses why Goldstein wrote “The Thrill of the Chaste” based on her own journey when she herself did not lead a ‘perfect’ life, she said. “I, myself, did not know about chastity,” she said. “All I knew is I wanted
love, and I had wounds in my background. And out of that woundedness, I believed I wasn’t valuable for who I was.” Goldstein was baptized into the Catholic Church when she was 31. Initially Protestant, she decided to learn what chastity was when she
“When I read what the Church teaches about chastity ... I found that chastity is a virtue.” Dawn Eden Goldenstein author
joined the Church and read St. Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” “I had been told that chastity was really just abstinence — just say no,” she said. “When I read what the Church teaches about chastity, what the catechism teaches, I found that chastity is a virtue. Virtues are not defined by things that are negative. They are defined by things that are positive.” With this message in mind, Goldstein wrote “The Thrill of the
Chaste” to share how chastity is a virtue with foundations in loving fully and completely. It is a virtue that can be applied to both single and married individuals, as single persons give love directly to God and indirectly through their neighbor, and married persons give love directly to God and indirectly through their partner, she said. Applying the question ‘How can I love fully according to my relationship with this person?’ takes chastity out of a sexual realm to a realm that invites the individual to live more fully as a human being, Goldstein said. In this way, chastity is a gift of self, she said. “It’s about being faithful, about making a sincere gift of self,” she said. “It’s about making a free choice to love — loving totally, faithfully and fruitfully.” The next “Body, Mind and Spirit” series speaker will be on Feb. 27 featuring Kerry Cronin, who will be speaking on intimacy and the search for the “other.” Contact Kathryn Marshall at kmarsh02@saintmarys.edu
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Activist discusses justice, freedom through rap By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER News Writer
From its roots in the Bronx in the 1970s til now, hip-hop and rap music has had its finger on the pulse of social issues in the United States. From Public Enemy calling to “fight the power” in inner-cities in the 1980s to Kendrick Lamar’s expression of what it means to be black in America, social activism has been at the heart of this genre. Monday night, in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library, Aisha Fukushima, a “rap activist” or “RAPtivist,” explored the ability of hip-hop and rap to act as a catalyst for change and explained how her background led her to a career in activism. Fukushima also performed a few recently released songs. Fukushima said her unique upbringing contributed to her early political views and allowed her to witness the power of music. “I grew up as a multiracial child, both African-American and Japanese heritage, and for me, that looked liked living in Seattle, Washington, as well as Yokohama, Japan,” Fukushima said. “I think at this early age, I started to see how global music was. ” When she spent time back in the United States, Fukushima
said that she first experienced the racism that would later help inform the civil rights message she would later advocate. “I was one of very few students of color in the entire school,” she said. “We had our tires slashed over 17 times. There were different seeds of hatred and discontent that would manifest sometimes in actions like that, even in my local community.” Fukushima said one avenue through which she was able to express her feelings about discrimination was through writing poetry, which she could share with her high school classes. This experience led her towards rap, a genre that she believes there are many misconceptions about, she said. “Often times, we get the booty, bling, bullets and sometimes bourbon,” she said. “Part of my experience in traveling around the world and connecting with hip hop activists — whether they be locally or globally — there is more to the hip-hop identity than this single story.” Fukushima said that the activist roots of hip-hop come from the Bronx. “People used the phrase, ‘The Bronx is burning,’ to describe [the 1970s] because the landlords figured out they could acquire more money by burning down buildings and collecting Paid Advertisement
insurance money than through the rent,” she said. “Hip-hop was born out of this place. Hip-hop was, in many ways, a response to the destruction that was going on.” Recently, Fukushima’s own activism has centered around helping the people of Flint, Michigan. “One of the issues that compelled me to speak out was Flint, and the water crisis there that has recently reached 1000 days of them not having access to clean water,” she said. Recognizing the severity of this crisis, Fukushima recorded and released a music video about the situation in Flint with all proceeds helping the residents of the city. Fukushima also advocated for restoring parts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. “...people tend to leave out the narrative about the last year of his life ... Around this time, he spoke out against the Vietnam War [and]he started to speak out about three main pillars ... he wanted to talk about racism, militarism and policy.” Fukushima ended by advocating to engage in social activism, citing Cornel West’s idea that “justice is what love looks like in public.” Contact Lucas Masin-Moyer at lmasinmo@nd.edu
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The suit argues University and UCC “violated accepted standards of medical care in treating a patient with a known history of mental health issues, depression and suicidal ideation without utilization of the proper medications as well as the appropriate medical and psychological treatment of her underlying mental health disease.
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to be when we have home football games,” he said. “So we do plan to have ways for people to pick up their pretzel trays for their tailgate, as well.” The Namans also plan on getting students from the Notre Dame community involved with distribution, Mrs. Naman said. “We have a lot of aspirations in terms of expanding and involving [students] all throughout the course of the year,” she said. “But, specifically, I would say the highest volume you get on campus in one day would be football season. And we do have some ideas in our heads as to how to get the student body involved on a football Saturday, early in the morning.” Mr. Naman said the franchise could also provide fundraising opportunities for students. “Part of the appeal of the product for us is it’s not just going to be sold in our store,” he said. “We do wholesale deals and other things where, for example, we could sell them at a pretty deep discount to the dorms for their ability to sell them and make money off them. So if a dorm wants to buy ... a couple hundred pretzels for a given day and sell them, they get to keep the profits for their dorm.” Mr. Naman said he and his wife will reach out to various student groups in the Notre Dame community to contribute to any fundraising efforts. “We will plan to do some outreach from that perspective,” he
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Dr. King just after his “I Have a Dream” speech. The image, Hoyt said, looks like it was shot in a photography studio, due to the way the light hits Dr. King’s face. “It’s so solitary, a moment of peace — you would never know from looking at it that it was taken during the March on Washington,” Hoyt said. “It speaks so much, even without context.” The timeline of the photographs is especially striking. One photograph depicts the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, in which a solid wall of workers holds signs reading, “I am a man.” It was this protest that brought Dr. King to Memphis in 1968. The photograph was taken on March 28; six days later, Dr. King was assassinated on his balcony, a photograph of
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“The defendants’ violations of applicable standards of medical and psychological care to Yang caused an otherwise preventable and foreseeable unfortunate outcome,” the lawsuit claims. As a result of Yang’s death, the lawsuit claims her family has suffered the “loss of services, affection and companionship of their daughter,” and asks for a “trial by jury; the costs of this action; full compensation for the injuries sustained; and any and all other just relief in the premises.”
said. “Hopefully to the ... Hall Presidents Council [and] hopefully some other groups on campus. Even just student groups who want to do fundraising — if they want to sell pretzels to make money, that’s a possibility and that’s definitely part of what we do with the product.” Mr. Naman said, as of now, students can expect the location to open before the end of the spring semester. “Early to mid-April is the target right now,” he said. “Maybe a little bit before, a little bit after, [but] we’d love to be open before the Blue and Gold game, and before the students leave campus in early May.” The Namans are also hoping to allow students to use Domer Dollars at their location, which will be across from The Linebacker Lounge in Edison Plaza, Mr. Naman said. “I’ve started the conversation to figure out what it would take to get Domer Dollars,” he said. “We’re not all the way in yet on an answer on it, but we want to accept Domer Dollars and I’m pretty certain it’s going to be fairly easy to do.” The Namans’ ultimate goal, Mrs. Naman said, is to provide quality products for the Notre Dame and South Bend communities. “Being that we both went to Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame … the biggest relationship that we can have with Notre Dame and the students, the better,” she said. “We were both students there, so we want them to be very happy with the product.” Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu
which was also on display in the exhibit. “Looking at this image, you can see how it’s still relevant today,” Hoyt said, gesturing toward a photograph of policemen locking eyes with a protester, who is holding a child, in Memphis. “It raises the same questions: what kind of relationships and communities are we building for our future?” The final photograph in the exhibit portrays Mrs. King holding her five-year-old daughter during her husband’s funeral. The image won the photographer, Moneta Sleet, Jr., the 1969 Pulitzer Prize. “We’re a museum — we’re collecting good works of art, but we also have another responsibility to our students,” Hoyt said. “Not just to their education, but to their development as a whole.” Contact Ciara Hopkinson at chopkin1@nd.edu
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Williams said although both her parents had college degrees and her mother worked in a school for juvenile delinquents, her father could not find a job in his field and worked as a bus driver. Williams said her parents worked hard and encouraged their children to follow their passions. “My parents realized they had to take it one step at a time, and they had to keep moving forward, and that’s what they told us,” she said. “They also emphasized how important education was, that education was the key and that we could be whatever we wanted to be.” Williams’ teenage years coincided with the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, her mother took her to the Detroit Walk for Freedom, at which King gave a speech that she described as a precursor to his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. two months later. “I was so taken and so moved by Dr. King and by his message of nonviolence, and so that was something that has stuck with me since then,” she said. When she went to college to study education, both of Williams’ parents joined her. All three became schoolteachers. Williams said they overcame challenges that everybody faces at some point. “We’re all in this room today because somebody sacrificed, somebody dreamed big, came to this country, worked hard, never gave up and gave back to us and to the community, and so I always think about those things as I move forward in my life,” she said. After teaching for a time and getting a masters degree, Williams applied to law school “on a dare,” she said. She was originally rejected from Notre Dame Law School, but a spot unexpectedly opened up for her. She became a member of several organizations, including the Center for Civil and Human Rights. She also took a job as an assistant rector at Farley Hall and worked on issues such as police brutality. “We still have a lot of major disconnects in our communities,” she said. “When we look at certain communities where violence erupts, we have a lack of educational quality, we have the issue of lack of jobs, we have lots of issues and some of it is that some people are just violent, and that’s the way it is. There are reasons that that happens. “On the other hand, we have police officers who come from communities [that are] not necessarily communities they serve and I think police departments are not doing the kind of job they need to be. They’re not doing enough to educate officers — there hasn’t been enough communication.” Williams said some communities, such as Boston, have made significant progress in increasing such communication. She said others have not. “I think both sides can learn, and I think it’s a problem that we
have to address head on and we have to face,” she said. “I think it’s tragic that we have these police officers killed and they’re afraid to go to work, and their families are afraid and the people in the community are afraid too that their kids are going to be murdered for no reason.” Other persistent injustices, Williams said, are that over half of people who need a lawyer can’t afford one, and many don’t know how to respond to evictions or arrests. The most important part of her job as a lawyer and judge, she said, is to provide equal justice. “Those vulnerable populations, those are the ones we have to worry about, and I think that’s what Dr. King was saying — it’s not just that you’re just safe and you can afford justice,” she said. Through a Notre Dame law dean, Williams got a job as a clerk on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the second African American to get the job. From there, she worked her way up. By 1985, President Ronald Reagan
appointed her to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. At 35, she was the youngest-ever appointee, and the first woman of color. “The Chicago Bar Association and seven other bar associations interviewed me,” she said. “I had tried a lot of cases as assistant U.S. attorney, and one of the lawyers said, ‘You know, Ms. Williams, if you get this position, you’re, like, young, you’re a woman, and you’re black.’ And I said, ‘Well, I’ve been a black woman all my life. I’ve handled that.’ And I said, ‘As for age, that too will change in time.’” In 1999, President Bill Clinton appointed Williams to the Seventh Circuit Court, again the first African American in the position. When McGinley asked Williams why it is important to have judges from different backgrounds, Williams said while all judges must provide equal justice, people hope to see judges who are representative of them, and judges from a variety of backgrounds bring a
variety of experience. Williams said she had, in fact, faced racism on the job, like when lawyers would assume she was a court reporter when she was the judge, or when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shook her husband’s hand instead of hers at a dinner for new federal appointees. “I’m not someone who gets angry and resentful,” she said. “You cannot carry every “ism” on your shoulders — racism, sexism, whatever the “ism” is — because then you look through the lens of your life through all those “isms” and it blocks you and you can’t go forward. You have to acknowledge that it’s there and then work with whatever the situation is. My view is, I will work harder, I will do more, I will use humor in some of those situations. That’s not to say I don’t get angry sometimes, but that’s not something I display in my inner action when I run into racism.” In addition to her work as a federal judge and on the Notre Dame Board of Trustees, Williams
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has done a variety of other work, from working with the Just the Beginning Foundation, which encourages law careers for African Americans and other underrepresented groups, to teaching the American legal system in other countries. “I believe if you have an idea and it’s a good idea ... you can move forward with the vision and get others to join with you,” she said. “And then you can make a [difference] in the world.” Williams said that, especially in light of a contentious election season, it is important for different groups to communicate with each other and to remember that one group’s gain is not another group’s losses. “It is not shouting,” she said. “It is not burning things up. It is doing it in discourse and standing up, marching, working within the political system, getting involved. “All those things matter.” Contact Emily McConville at emcconv1@nd.edu
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By CHRISTIAN BUNKER Scene Writer
No one can deny that the last few months have been a particularl y strong period for cinema. The recent slate of offerings is objectively better than “The Angry Birds Movie,” released in May. Apart from the quality of recent films, the change in the kind of films moviegoers see is also remarkable. Just as the recent release of “La La Land” signalled the triumphant return of original musicals to cinema, Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” marked the restoration of another genre: the brooding, brutally honest tragedy “Manchester by the Sea” is nothing if not realistic. In fact, this film seems to purposely lack all the hallmarks of filmmaking, such as plot twists, extraordinary characters, moralizing dialogue or special effects, in favor of the slings and arrows of daily life. Yet instead of producing boredom, this realism lends the movie its power. As the plot descended into deeper tragedy, I attempted to remind myself that the events of “Manchester by the Sea” are not real — but I never really could. The subdued manner in which the main character Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) carries the burden of his pain and the slight yet noticeable anger in his actions together mirror many people in my daily life. Similarly, the normality of Chandler’s backstory makes him nearly indistinguishable from myself. As a result, the movie feels disturbingly like something from my
By ADRIAN MARK LORE Scene Writer
Released in 1978, Brian Eno’s groundbreaking ambient record, “Ambient 1: Music for Airports” — the first of a four-part atmospheric composition series — must have felt like a betrayal of sorts, to some. A founding and thenformer member of Roxy Music, Eno had launched his solo career only a handful of albums prior, most of which were an extension of his glam rock past, foreshadowing the experimental electronic treatments he would pioneer in the following decades. With the release of “Ambient 1,” however, he had snuffed out his art-rock past in a stunning, quiet explosion of subtle and mesmerizing piano clicks. “Ambient 1” was revolutionary at the time, but since its release, Brian Eno has become the household name of ambient music. It seems appropriate, thus, that Eno’s latest fulllength release — a single 54-minute track titled “Reflection” — be strongly reminiscent of that four-part series. The contemplative track, according to Eno, attempts to summarize the legacy of his career in a single musical entry. In this regard, the title of the release functions as both a noun and a verb: Here, Eno takes a step back to meditate in quietness, and the result is a mirror of his identity as a musician. Hence the dark album cover, a grainy image of the artist himself — like a hazy thought that enters one’s mind at
own future. Much can be written about the pacing of the film, but suffice it to say that if you have ever hated a Coen brothers movie, this film is not for you. The movie gradually unfolds in a way that is neither formulaic nor spontaneous. That is to say, the viewer would be hard-pressed to predict what happens next, but the subsequent events are not surprising. The movie begins in tragedy: Informed that his brother has finally succumbed to his heart condition, the curiously antisocial Lee must return to his hometown to care for his nephew. Soon, however, this tragic but not unexpected event is eclipsed by a new catastrophe at the core of Affleck’s character. Although not the plot’s core, it hangs over the subsequent events like a dark but distant specter. Writer and director Kenneth Lonergan’s decision not to center on this tragedy is pivotal to the success of “Manchester by the Sea.” Anyone can crank out a relatable “character-tragedy-aftermath” formula, but Lonergan has decidedly rejected this archetype. Instead, he explores a time years after the tragedy, so that the pain and guilt clearly permeate Chandler’s every breath and step. Yet Chandler still breathes, still walks. That fact is the only hopeful part of the movie, yet it is a more authentic hope than any summer blockbuster could offer. “Manchester by the Sea” is laudable for its depiction of tragedy in all its forms. This makes it even more abhorrent that Affleck, who played the wretched victim with such poise in the film, seems in real life to be the villain. Although
sued by two women for sexual harassment in 2010, Affleck has yet to face serious inquiry into his conduct and character, as the press has largely refused to make a story of the lawsuits, which were settled out of court. Personally, I do not think that Affleck’s disgraceful behavior in the past somehow voids his obvious talent as an actor. However, I am fearful that as a society we often do the reverse and treat talent as an indulgence that pardons perpetrators of any serious blame. Affleck may win an Oscar this February, and he probably deserves it, but he also deserves more than a few critical headlines and a slap on the wrist for his conduct — as do many others that the court of public opinion has incomprehensibly pardoned. As “Manchester by the Sea” reminds us, the fact that tragedies happen is often beyond our control, but we can control how we respond to them.
the end of a sleepless night, or a face reflected on still waters. The exercise sounds pretentious on paper, but the product is humble and genuine. Eno was never grandiose in his compositions, and this is appropriately reflected on his latest work, a subtle and largely unassuming piece. Before “Ambient 1,” Eno released his first ambient experiment — “Discreet Music” — in 1975. The record’s title doubled as the genre’s nickname: Ambient music, Eno argued, was music that could and should blend discreetly into the background, becoming part of the atmosphere that surrounds the focal point of a space, rather than being that focal point itself. Ultimately, this is the spirit that drives “Reflection” — the track functions as a place, rather than a moment. The place is a dark pool, where aqueous synths drip and ripple in long, swelling drones. The sporadic moments of catharsis mirror the occasional piano of “Ambient 1.” The nocturnal atmosphere, haunted by the hums and strange warbles of distant creatures, is a nod both to Eno’s “Ambient 4: On Land” (1982), as well as to the lunar spaces of “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks” (1983) — two of his finest works. The enduring drones, reminiscent of Stars of the Lid on occasion, recreates elements of the pseudo-classical “Discreet Music,” though no element that happens upon “Reflection” overstays its welcome. In fact, the track as a whole — even by the 54-minute
mark — never bores. True to the original form of the genre, the track does not demand attention to begin with. It is necessarily discreet. Things happen, though to no apparent climax or conclusion — and purposefully so. The record is, after all, a reflection, not an epiphany. This is no criticism, however. On this release, the devoted fan may meditate on this abstract abstract of the musician’s radical career, while the inquisitive new listener may appreciate a succinct introduction to his work. To be sure, nothing about “Reflection” will stun or surprise, and the record is no artistic reinvention. But its sustained quietude demonstrates, after all, what makes Eno’s music so often transcendent.
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Congrats Patriots, but go Falcons Courtney Becker News Writer
I’m working my way through the stages of grief after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 36-17 loss to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game Sunday night. It all started w ith denial, of course. “We’re only dow n 11 points,” I said. Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers had been in worse positions throughout the 2016 season, so I was sure they could close an 11-point gap, even against Tom Brady’s Patriots. Once I lost a little more hope, I moved onto bargaining. I was literally reduced to pleading w ith players who couldn’t hear me through a telev ision screen to just pick Brady off once. I begged the officials to throw a f lag on at least one of Patriots cornerback Patrick Chung’s interference instances that went unchecked. This, of course, prov ided a smooth segue into anger. After the officials looked the other way again when Chung grabbed a chunk of Pittsburgh tight end Jesse James’s jersey and pulled him to the turf before the ball reached him on a third dow n play, my friends finally closed the door of their room — where I was watching the game — to spare the rest of our section’s residents from my outrage. Anger lasted until about an hour after the game, when depression set in and I reluctantly texted my friends from New England to congratulate them before sitting dow n to work on homework I had neglected in favor of watching a travest y of a game. It’s taken about a day of depression, but I’m mov ing into acceptance now. I’m sure ever y sports fan has had a similar experience. You go through this journey to reach acceptance and to come out the other side conv inced next year w ill be “the year” for your team, and do it all over again the next season. (Except in 2006 and 2009, in my case.) Sure, it would’ve been interesting to see a game in which penalties were called fairly and Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell wasn’t injured during his second carr y of the game, but the Steelers probably would have still lost that game. The Patriots outplayed the Steelers all game and they deser ve to be the ones going to Houston for Super Bowl LI. That was a really hard sentence to w rite, but there it is. That doesn’t mean I’m going to all of a sudden soften on the Patriots, a team plagued by scandals throughout most of their championship runs thus far. Rivalries are a huge part of sports, and I can’t name a single AFC team that wouldn’t consider the New England Patriots a huge rival — which is a testament to their dominance throughout the past decade and a half. It just means I can move on from our loss, comforted by the fact that even if the Patriots w in in t wo weeks they’ll still be one shy of the Steelers’ franchise record of six Super Bowl titles, and enjoy watching Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan pick apart the Patriots’ defense in Houston. Congratulations, Patriots fans, but go Falcons. Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Trump’s relationship with the truth is troubling Neil Joseph Moderately Opinionated
On President Trump’s first day in office, it seemed that he did little to deviate from the person and politician that he is in order to become a more dignified and calm president. His speech, which was one of the shorter inauguration speeches in histor y, became a populist rallying cr y, conveying a vision of a countr y that was on the brink of collapse. His tweets did not stop, his crusade against free trade ratcheted up and his ambitions for the presidency did not calm down. W hat was most striking, however, was the casual way in which he (and his staff ) treated the truth — they seemed to be no different and no better than the way they ran his campaign. The day after his inauguration, Trump’s press secretar y announced that his inauguration was the most widely attended inauguration that the world had ever seen. Even though he was refuted by multiple sources using multiple methods of fact-checking (not just a picture from the inauguration), Trump and his advisers still refused to admit the ver y true fact that his inauguration was not well attended. In fact, former campaign manager and current senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway merely stated that Trump’s press secretar y provided “alternative facts” to the real facts on hand — whatever that means. It was astonishing — no one, not a single person in the administration, would admit that the inauguration was not ver y well attended. Some might say that this really isn’t all that big of a deal. After all, Trump has always seemed to be a narcissist and the crowd size at his inauguration really doesn’t matter that much — it’s obvious that he just wanted people to think that he was popular with the people. Additionally, it’s been known that Trump has had a rocky relationship with the press, so the fact that he wants to push back on something that they report is normal and expected. But the casual relationship that Trump has with the truth has serious consequences. Firstly, Trump has managed to delegitimize the press and what they do. By calling them “fake
news,” or liars, refusing to take questions and calling them out on Twitter, Trump has taken power and respect away from one of the few institutions that can provide an important check on him. Sure, people should always be skeptical of media reports — but the media plays a ver y important role in the federal government. It is the one set of people who have access to the president and can hold him accountable for impermissible actions. This isn’t to say that Trump cannot counter false stories about him. But it’s obvious that any negative report — anything at all that makes him look bad — is vilified by Trump. Politicians can and should respond to salacious and inappropriate reports about them, but Trump feels the need to respond and attack anything that seems to go against him. Furthermore, Trump’s apathy towards the truth harms his relationship with the American people. On one hand, there are groups of diehard supporters who only believe what Trump says and discount anything and ever ything the media says. On the other hand, however, many Americans believe that most of the things that Trump says are lies. How are we, as Americans, supposed to believe Donald Trump when he says that we are safe amidst threats from abroad? W hy should we believe him when he addresses the nation to tell us something important, as ever y president before him has? One of the most important things for a president is to have the trust of the people, regardless of whether or not the people actually like them. President Trump’s past actions and first few actions in office have not fostered any sort of trust, and he has a long way to go to tr y and rebuild any sort of credibility. His — and his administration’s — penchant for lies and disregarding the truth is a troubling start to what will certainly be a divisive presidency. Neil Joseph is a senior from Columbus, Ohio, majoring in political science and economics. He hopes that you don’t use these articles against him when he’s running for School Board one day. He welcomes all compliments at njoseph2@nd.edu, and sometimes responds to those who criticize him. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Trump and the anti-science movement Sarah Cate Baker Science is Golden
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. For some people, this poses an exciting change — for others, it’s a terrif ying threat. Trump’s campaign could be catalogued as a series of attacks: on his fellow candidates, on the media, on women, immigrants and other marginalized groups. And if the persecution of these individuals isn’t enough for our new president, his election has put another, perhaps less obvious, group under fire: our scientists. Both on the campaign trail and as presidentelect, Trump has challenged scientific facts. His disbelief in science seems to be a matter of pride, as he takes to Twitter again and again to f launt his doubts in the scientific process. Trump doubts the legitimacy of climate change, famously calling it a Chinese “hoax.” He accuses vaccines of causing autism and announced his intent to form a “vaccine safety panel.” He has said that fracking “poses zero health risks” while windmills “are bad for people’s health,” that environmentally friendly light bulbs “cause cancer” and that the World Trade Center burned down because someone removed “f lame-retardant asbestos,” a notorious carcinogen. W here Trump gets the information for these claims is unclear, but that apparently doesn’t matter to him or his followers. Each of the above claims can and has been thoroughly disproved by our own scientists — but again, that doesn’t seem to matter. With the election of Donald Trump, the world seems to have fallen into two categories: those who believe in the process of
peer-review, and those who would rather cling to “alternative facts.” It’s a sobering moment when a presidential candidate says, “I believe in science,” and it’s a controversial statement — that was Hilar y Clinton, by the way, when she accepted the Democratic nomination. Given Trump’s blatant disregard for the scientific process, it’s no wonder that American scientists are terrified. The first concern is funding — some 80% of research is federally funded, according to a 2015 study from Boston University, coming from agencies like the National Institute of Health (NIH) or the National Science Foundation (NSF). If the federal government doesn’t see the value in that research and cuts the scientific budget, those organizations have less money to hand out, and research suffers. Federal funding for science has already taken significant hits; the NIH reports that it has lost over 20% of its available research funds in the last 10 years, resulting in “fewer grants, fewer discoveries, and talented scientists leaving research.” With the election of a president who is vocally antiscience, many worr y that funding will take additional hits that the field simply cannot afford. Some scientists feel more threatened by the new administration than others. A group of climate change scientists notoriously spent the days before the inauguration frantically copying down data from the Environmental Protection Agency and other government websites, which they fear may soon be taken down. They’re right to worr y — Trump’s administration has already removed all pages devoted to climate change issues from the W hite House website, disregarding the findings of hundreds of scientists in one fell swoop. But perhaps just as disturbing as Donald Trump’s tangible actions against science are
the anti-science sentiments he is encouraging. Because at the end of the day, Donald Trump isn’t the first person to claim that climate change scientists are lying. He didn’t coin the term “antivaccer,” and he’s not the first to argue for increased fracking. Anti-science sentiments already existed — Donald Trump simply built off their momentum. He capitalized on preexisting fears of climate change and vaccines to fuel his campaign, and his election as president has lent credence to movements that should have remained in the fringe. W hat American scientists are facing now isn’t a new problem — it’s a ver y old one, that has suddenly become much bigger. They can’t fight it alone. Part of the problem is that members of the public don’t trust scientists — PhDs can publish data all day long, and Donald Trump’s followers will still say they’re lying. They need help and it has to come from non-scientists. From informed members of the public, who are willing to stand up and say that they believe the hundreds of studies dispelling the vaccine-autism link and the thousands of climate change scientists who say we need to act now. It won’t be easy, and it won’t be quick, but it will be necessar y if we are going to continue scientific progress and preserve the state of research in America. It’s time we get started. Sarah Cate Baker is in her third year at ND, double majoring in biology and English. When she’s not in the lab pouring over viruses under a microscope, you can usually find her shooting caffeine in the Hesburgh basement, while she desperately tries to write papers and make deadlines. If you would like to question her sanity or her science, feel free to email her at sbaker6@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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A response to Right to Life Club I am writing in response to a Letter to the Editor that was published on Jan. 23 from the Notre Dame Right to Life Club. While I wholeheartedly respect individuals who are pro-life in the fullest sense from the moment of conception until death, I must bring to light the misalignment of the March for Life movement’s goal of overturning the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision with the Notre Dame Right to Life’s defense of their participation in the march. Overturning Roe v. Wade and making abortion illegal will not eliminate abortion as many individuals in the pro-life community envision it will. Ask doctors and medical experts. Ask women in this country who experienced unwanted pregnancies before 1973. Ask the Guttmacher Institute, which reports similar abortion rates in countries where the procedure is legal and where it is heavily restricted or even illegal. Ask women living in Texas where state family planning funds have been drastically cut and where more than half of the state’s 41 abortion clinics have been forced to close. Overturning Roe v. Wade would only result in American women taking drastic measures to attempt self-induced abortions or seek unsafe procedures to terminate their pregnancies, thereby putting their lives and safety at risk. Research has shown us over time that such extreme “DIY” attempts at abortion can result in death for the woman attempting to end her pregnancy. The National Center for Biotechnology Information
found that unsafe abortions make up 13 percent of the worldwide maternal mortality rate. And while a direct link between increased rates of unsafe abortions and maternal death cannot be made at this time, the state of Texas reported that the number of deaths due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth increased from 72 in 2010 to 148 in 2012 — a period of time in which funding for family planning clinics in the state was cut tremendously. I find the Notre Dame Right to Life’s claim that they “stand against the elimination of human life based on sex, race or disability” at odds with the March for Life’s goal of overturning Roe v. Wade because women of color and women who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are more likely to fall victim to these fatal consequences of self-induced and unsafe abortions. A 2015 survey conducted by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project found that Latina women and women who had experienced previous difficulty in obtaining reproductive health services due to factors such as cost and transportation were significantly more likely to have attempted a self-induced abortion or to have known someone who performed one on themselves. These statistics put forth the cruel reality that restricting or altogether eliminating access to abortion unintentionally threatens the lives of women who fall into certain racial and socioeconomic groups. When scientific and medical evidence points contrary to the ideal belief that overturning
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Roe v. Wade will end the “dehumanization of an entire class of people,” I urge those supporters of the pro-life movement to recognize that abolishing the safe and legal practice of abortion will have severe consequences that end up dehumanizing poor women and women of color whose lives have tremendous worth. So to truly live out their pro-life values and reconcile the differences between their club’s reason for marching and the March for Life Education and Defense Fund’s reason for organizing the march, I urge the members of the Notre Dame Right to Life club to stop vilifying Roe v. Wade and the industry that provides women with access to safe and legal abortions, and to instead embrace comprehensive sexual education, affordable and easily accessible contraception, and increased social spending on women and children. At the end of the day, supporters of both the pro-life movement and the prochoice movement value life. Although we may never come to complete agreement on how to best preserve the sanctity of life, I hope that members of the Notre Dame pro-life community will welcome an alternative perspective and be open to productive conversations about how we can best defend and value human life. Victoria Velasquez senior Jan. 23
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Explore new territory by using your imagination and being innovative and fearless. Implement greater detail and strive to be unique and respectable in the eyes of others. Stop thinking about the changes you want to make and put your plans into motion. Take strides to conquer whatever stands in your way. Engage in truth and expand your knowledge. Your numbers are 3, 10, 16, 20, 23, 32, 47. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let impulsiveness take over. Use common sense and discuss problems open-mindedly. Look at both sides of a situation and you will find a workable solution. Putting the past behind you will help encourage new beginnings. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Put on your thinking cap and look for a way to improve your qualifications or to gain greater self-awareness. If you can visualize what you want to do next, you can work toward making it happen. Don’t give up; get going. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Size up your situation and seize the moment. You cannot be and do everything for everyone, but you can show compassion and understanding while you proceed to do what’s in your best interest. Don’t follow the crowd -- be the leader. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have choices, and with a little ingenuity and common sense, you will be able to outmaneuver anyone trying to play emotional games with you. Don’t fold under pressure. Live within your means. Follow your heart. Make romance a priority. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Bring about change. Don’t fear the unknown. Revel in learning as you go and showing how spirited you can be. Engage in pastimes that promise to broaden your mind, skills and your friendships. Embark on a new and lively future. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Handle domestic matters and deal with children and seniors carefully. Offering help is one thing, but taking on more than you can handle will lead to criticism. Don’t feel the need to bring about changes just to satisfy someone else’s needs. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Changes bring new beginnings. There is a lot to learn from the experiences you encounter. Dealing with people who can make a difference in your life is favored, so don’t sit at home -- get out and participate. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Get involved in activities or projects that make you think. Use your imagination and you will come up with marketable plans that could lead to greater prosperity. A passionate approach to life and love is encouraged. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep an open mind, but don’t be gullible. Ask questions and don’t feel the need to take part in something if you have doubts or feel uncertain about the outcome. Protect your assets, possessions and your physical well-being. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): An open mind will lead to prosperous opportunities. Good fortune is within reach if you stand behind your decisions instead of following what someone else is doing. Staying grounded and using common sense will pay off. An old crush will tempt you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Use your skills, attributes and knowledge innovatively. Bring about change and update your game plan by setting new trends and exploring unfamiliar possibilities. Your ability to be a forerunner and convince others to see your vision will lead to success. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t misjudge someone with the potential to disrupt your plans. Emotional interference will leave you in an awkward position if you don’t react quickly. Make sure to follow through with your plans and protect your reputation. Birthday Baby: You are engaging, adventuresome and innovative. You are entertaining and popular.
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nba | spurs 112, nets 86
All-Star voting fine the way it is R.J. Stempak Sports Writer
With the NBA All-Star starters just released, and the reserves set to be released soon, the annual tradition of critiquing the All-Star voting process is in full swing. This year is special, as the system changed from solely fan voting to incorporating votes from the media and the players themselves. The main complaint of the old system, a complaint that carries over into the new system, is that All-Star voting is simply a popularity contest. Fans can just vote for players on their favorite teams, and even countries can f lood the internet with votes for their national heroes (as in the case with Zaza Pachulia of the Golden State Warriors, hailing from the nation of Georgia). Many believe the All-Star Game should have only the best players in the league on the teams, not just the most popular players, even though the two categories often overlap. An interesting wrinkle to this year’s results is that the players, who were supposed to provide insight and proper voting that the fans did not contribute, were the worst of the three groups in terms of voting for the “best players.” For example, No. 1-draft pick Ben Simmons received three votes, despite not playing a single minute this year. Ninety-eight different players received a single vote. The players did not appear to take the voting seriously, and that resulted in another year of a broken system. But I’m not trying to attack the system; I actually liked the old system of fan voting. What needs to change is not the system, but how we think about the All-Star Game. Again, the complaint is that it is a popularity contest when it should be a game featuring the best players from around the league. This is my point of contention: maybe it should be a popularity contest. All-Star weekend is a three-day festival celebrating everything great about the NBA. It has a game featuring young and exciting players, a threepoint shooting contest and a dunk contest. The weekend comes to an end with the best All-Star event in major sports. The game features high-scoring, dunks, threes and everyone’s favorite players having a blast playing together. It’s far
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superior to other sports, such as football, whose Pro Bowl is a watered-down “safe” version of the real sport. With basketball, you take away the defense in the All-Star game, allowing for f lashy and freef lowing fun. And that is what is important: fun. The All-Star weekend is for the fans of the game, so the most popular players should be in it. Quite frankly, popularity is an important and impressive attribute for a player to have in the NBA. The league needs players to expand the fan base, and not everyone has the charisma or exciting playing style to do so. Without popular players, the NBA wouldn’t be nearly as big as it is around the globe now. Look at Yao Ming, for example. He is an eight-time All-Star, and is the main reason the Chinese Basketball Association, and basketball in China in general, is so popular today. Rewarding players like him and allowing fans to watch him in the AllStar Game gives recognition to Yao for his role in expanding the viewership of the league. To address the complaint that the All-Star game should showcase the best players: besides the fact that the best players are often the most popular ones, the All-NBA Teams are a means for actually recognizing the best players at the end of the season. These awards give no say to fans and look at the entire season’s body of work before determining the worthy candidates from both conferences. Making an All-NBA Team is a much more impressive task than the All-Star Team, as there are only 15 players total, rather than 20-28 players selected for each All-Star Game. The All-Star Game is fun. It’s a celebration of the league as the whole, with events showcasing the most exciting players from the league. It is fine that popular players get in over some better ones. Even if Zaza Pachulia makes it in the game and blocks a spot from someone more deserving, just remember he brought the greatest sport to the minds and hearts of an entire nation. Contact R.J. Stempak at rstempak@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Spurs blow past Nets despite missing key players Associated Press
NEW YORK — Patt y Mills scored 20 points, LaMarcus A ldridge had 16 and the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a 112-86 v ictor y over the Brook ly n Nets on Monday night while play ing w ithout Kawhi Leonard and three other regulars. Pau Gasol (broken bone, left hand) and Tony Parker (sore left foot) didn’t even make the road trip, while Manu Ginobili was scheduled for a night off but couldn’t have played any way because of back spasms. Then Leonard, the Western Conference player of the week, was scratched. The Spurs announced Leonard was resting, though coach Gregg Popov ich said the A ll-Star for ward had a sore left hand, which was w rapped after Leonard was hit while scoring a careerhigh 41 points in an overtime v ictor y at Cleveland on Saturday. Without them, the Spurs put seven players in double
figures and turned the game into a blowout w ith a 39-point third quarter. They improved to 19-4 on the road. Isaiah W hitehead scored 19 points for the Nets, who got more bad news before the game when they announced Jeremy Lin w ill be sidelined another three to five weeks after aggravating his strained left hamstring. They have lost eight straight at home. Spurs: With Gasol out, the Spurs signed veteran center Joel A nthony to a 10-day contract. The t wotime NBA champion w ith the Miami Heat was w ith the Spurs in preseason but Popov ich said they had too many players and no room for him. ... The Spurs have scored 100 or more points in 21 straight games, their longest streak since 22 in a row in 1995. Nets: The Nets gave guard Caris LeVert the night off. LeVert had foot problems in college that delayed the start of his rookie season,
but coach Kenny Atkinson said LeVert was just getting a night of rest and wasn’t hurt. ... The Nets have lost the last four meetings. Popov ich chided himself for sounding like a politician when he said Leonard would be out for “an injur y that’s not really an injur y.” “That’s an ignorant statement, wasn’t it? ” Popov ich said, joking that “I shouldn’t have done that. But it wasn’t a lie.” Nets general manager Sean Marks said Lin’s injur y wouldn’t inf luence whether he felt any urgency to trade center Brook Lopez, whose name is annually in trade rumors, before he could get hurt and ruin any chance of a deal. “If things come up that make sense for us to move on, and that’s got nothing to do w ith Brook, that’s got to do w ith anybody, then we’ll take a look at it,” said Marks, a former Spurs player and assistant GM. “If not, we won’t just jump the gun because of this, no.”
NBA | kings 109, Pistons 104
Cousins, Lawson lead Sacramento over Detroit Associated Press
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — DeMarcus Cousins had 22 points and 14 rebounds, and the Sacramento Kings snapped a five-game losing streak w ith a 109-104 v ictor y over the Detroit Pistons on Monday night. Ty Lawson added 19 points and helped Sacramento turn the game around w ith a strong second quarter. Lawson scored nine points in the second, and the Kings outscored the Pistons 37-24 in the period to take a 65-62 lead into halftime. A 3-pointer by Lawson put Sacramento up 10190 in the fourth, and the Kings held on from there to stop Detroit’s three-game
w inning streak. Andre Drummond had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Pistons. The Kings were play ing the third game of an eightgame road trip. They’ve won only t wo of their last 10 games, and both v ictories were against the Pistons. Detroit jumped out to an early 11-point lead and led 38-28 after one quarter, but the Pistons were outplayed after that. Lawson scored seven points in a span of 38 seconds early in the second.
Tip-Ins Kings: Sacramento had 17 second-chance points. The Pistons came in allow ing only 9.4 per game. ... Sacramento’s bench
outscored Detroit’s 52-30. Pistons: Detroit G Kentav ious Caldwell-Pope returned after missing four games w ith a left rotator cuff injur y. He scored 14 points but went only 4 of 14 from the field. ... F Jon Leuer scored 15 points on 6-of-6 shooting in the first quarter. He didn’t score again. Sacramento’s prev ious game was Saturday at Chicago, but what figured to be a simple trip to the Detroit area Sunday turned into a bit of a mess. A team spokesman said the Kings’ f light was delayed and they were on the plane for about seven hours. Kings: Visit the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night.
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FENCING
Kiefer leads squad as Irish find success in New York Observer Sports Staff
Notre Dame had a strong showing at a pair of meets over the weekend, first at the St. John’s Invitational Saturday, followed by the NYU Invitational on Sunday. The fourth-ranked Irish men and the third-ranked Irish women women began by going 3-2 and 4-1, respectively, at the first tournament. The next day, both Irish programs went 4-1, losing only to No. 1-ranked Columbia. The men began the Invitational with a rematch against St. John’s, whom they had previously lost to the day before at the St. John’s Invitational, and were able to defeat the Red Storm, 1710. Contributing to this victory were the epee and foil groups, who both finished 7-2. In their match against host NYU, the Irish men finished 17-10. All three
weapons groups posted winning records. The men on Sunday fell only to Columbia, 15-12 — a slightly wider margin than the 14-13 Columbia win on Sunday — and soundly defeated Wayne State with a 25-2 victory that included both epee and foil groups finishing undefeated. The Irish women proved to be tough against their opponents as well with a 21-6 win over No. 10 St. John’s and a 22-5 win over host NYU on Sunday, after beating No. 5 Penn State, No. 7 Harvard, No. 4 Ohio State and the same St. John’s squad on Saturday. The Sunday foil team for the Irish women dominated with 9-0 wins over both St. John’s and NYU and the sabre team record followed closely behind, finishing at 7-2 against the two teams. The women’s only struggles came against No. 1 Columbia, to whom they lost 16-11 on Sunday and 14-13 on Saturday. Only the
Irish women’s foilists posted a winning record against Columbia on Sunday, finishing at 6-3. With a 20-7 win over Wayne State, however, the Irish closed the weekend on a strong note. Key players in the NYU Invitational included junior sabreur Jonah Shainberg, who led the men’s team with a 7-4 record. Two freshmen, Zachary Zeller and Ariel Simmons, also had strong showings, finishing 6-2 and 6-1, respectively. The Irish women were led by senior foilist Lee Kiefer, who posted an 8-0 record, giving her a 20-0 record thus far this season. Senior Eva Niklinska went 4-2 in epee on Sunday and, in sabre, junior Claudia Kulmacz was 9-3. The next competition for the Irish will be at home with the DeCicco Duals on Saturday and Sunday at Castellan Family Fencing Center.
SMC Basketball | ALBION 82, SMC 55
Diamond’s 19 rebounds not enough for Saint Mary’s Observer Sports Staff
A 20-0 first-quarter run saw Albion defeat Saint Mary’s by a score of 82-55 on Saturday, as the Belles still look for their first conference win of the season. Despite opening the scoring with a three-point play from freshman forward Megan Will, Saint Mary’s (1-16, 0-9 MIAA) soon fell behind, giving up 20 unanswered points in just under eight minutes before junior forward Gabby Diamond added a layup at the very end of the opening period to bring the score to 22-7. Saint Mary’s struggled to make shots in the first quarter, converting only 3-of-18 attempts, while the Brits (13-4, 6-3 MIAA) shot 9-of-15 from the field. The Belles brought the score to within 10 points early in the second quarter, but Albion began to pull away again and led 43-22 by halftime. Saint Mary’s appeared to have a chance to get back into the game in the third quarter when they brought the score to 51-38, but again, the Brits went on a run to extend their lead, bringing the score to 65-42 with one quarter remaining. Freshman guard Ally Steve’s shooting played a major part in keeping the Belles close through the third quarter, as
she made 3-of-6 3-point attempts in the period, while also adding two steals on defense. Diamond’s rebounding was also a third-quarter highlight, with the forward grabbing eight boards, including four offensive rebounds. The Belles couldn’t bring the game any closer in the fourth quarter, however, as the Brits continued to roll and brought the lead to as many as 29 points before a late layup
from sophomore guard Erin Maloney gave the game its final score of 82-55. Diamond and Steve tied as the leading Belles scorers with 14 points each, while Diamond also added a careerhigh 19 rebounds. Will added 13 points. The Belles will travel to Trine this Wednesday as they continue to look for a first conference victory of the season. Tip-off is at 6:00 p.m.
CAITLYN JORDAN | The Observer
Belle junior forward Gabby Diamond looks to pass the ball during a 52-49 loss to Olivet on Jan. 23, 2016 at Angela Athletic Facility.
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Irish senior Monica Robinson follows through on a serve during Notre Dame’s 6-1 victory over Indiana last season at Eck Tennis Pavilion.
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our first day, we got to get a lot of our kids into play and they played quite a bit. That was something we were really looking for.” Louderback was also satisfied with the way the two freshmen on the team performed. “Our two freshman, Zoe Spence and Bess Waldram, got in and played three matches,” Louderback said. “They each played two singles and one doubles match, and they went undefeated. So I thought that was good for them to be able to get the first match out of the way. Usually freshman have a bit of ner ves for their first match and not only did they get that out of the way, they got three wins each, which was good.” Louderback said his team will continue to work on
their singles performance. “We’ve been working hard on our doubles play and I’ve felt like the combinations we’ve been using have been really good,” Louderback said. “I would say we need to work a little more on our singles. Since it’s the beginning of the year and we are indoors, we want to really stay aggressive. Tr ying to come out to the net a little more is something that we’ve been working on.” The Irish will be back in action Sunday when they travel to take on ACC foe University of Pittsburgh. “Pitt is a tough team to play, especially at their place and indoors, because they hit the ball really hard,” Louderback said. “That is something we have to get our kids ready for and get used to playing against a team that hits the ball as hard as they do.” Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu
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[junior guard Matt Farrell] and we can run and get some easy buckets and you don’t have to play against that set defense.” Tuesday’s matchup comes just days after the Irish blew past another team known for its unique defensive style in Syracuse, whose patented 2-3 zone has given Notre Dame problems in the past. W hile the schemes are different, Brey said some of the things needed to break each one down are the same. “Like a zone, though, they jam the lane up, they protect the paint,” Brey said. “We had to make some shots over the top of that zone to be successful and you have to make some shots over the top of their defense to be successful. So there are some similarities there.” A player that could help hit shots over that defense is senior for ward and captain V.J. Beachem, who posted a career-high 30 points against Syracuse and has hit 10 of his last 15 3-point field goal attempts. “[I’d] love to keep that dude going,” Brey said. “He’ll get looks ’cause they jam it in.” After Saturday’s win over Syracuse, there’s just one team left in the ACC the Irish haven’t defeated since joining the league in 2013: Virginia. “They knew they didn’t have much success against Syracuse since we’ve been in the ACC,” Brey said. “I think the older guys wanted to change that and I think they talk the same way about this one [Tuesday] night.” According to Pomeroy’s adjusted tempo statistics,
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the Cavaliers play at the slowest pace in Division I — and Brey said that will pose challenges for the Irish on both ends of the court, especially the defensive one. “It’s long possessions on both ends, and being patient offensively to move them around enough where you can get an opening because you’re not going quick against their defense,” Brey said. “ … Your defensive patience is tested; you’re gonna be in a stance for 25 seconds ever y time and we’ve done some stuff [Sunday and Monday] about playing defense all the way through the shot clock.” Notre Dame currently sits in a three-way tie with No. 6 Florida State and No. 9 North Carolina atop the ACC, with the Cavaliers the only two-loss team left in the conference. That’s created some separation, making Tuesday’s game even more important in the chase for the top seed in the ACC tournament. “Regular-season championship — I’ve mentioned [it] in the last week and our guys, I think, certainly dream about that and talk about that and want to work for that,” Brey said. “ … And then the other thing is the double bye [in the ACC tournament]. That’s always on my mind, too.” Senior guard London Perrantes leads the Cavaliers with 11.9 points per game this season while junior for ward Isaiah Wilkins is his team’s leading rebounder with 5.6 boards per game. The Irish and Cavaliers will tip at 8 p.m. Tuesday night at Purcell Pavilion. Contact Alex Carson at acarson1@nd.edu
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Irish junior forward Anders Bjork surveys the ice during Notre Dame’s 2-2 tie against New Hampshire on Friday at Compton Family Ice Arena. Bjork leads the team with 15 goals and 21 assists on the season.
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opportunities and f lipped momentum by causing turnovers with a strong forecheck in Saturday’s action, as well. “They gave us some good minutes,” Jackson said. “Three big bodies, and they were playing against a line that was smaller and fast, so it was good that they kept the puck in the offensive zone instead of having to chase those guys. But I was pleased with them. I thought all three of those guys played well together tonight.” Irish freshman forward Felix Holmberg also returned to the ice with the third line this weekend after missing extended time with mononucleosis. Irish junior net-minder and captain Cal Petersen turned away 57 of the 59 shots he faced last weekend,
including all 31 in Saturday night’s victory. The shutout was Petersen’s fifth of the season — which is tied for first in the NCAA this season — and 10th of his career, leaving the junior just three behind former Irish goaltender Steven Summerhays’ school record. Sophomore forward Dylan Malmquist buried the game’s opening goal late in the first period, stretching to corral a long rebound and twisting a shot through Tirone’s legs to give Notre Dame a lead it never relinquished. After a scoreless second period, Petersen made a number of stops early in the third, including a big save on New Hampshire senior forward Tyler Kelleher, who entered the weekend tied for the NCAA lead in points. “The third period we had some decent quality shots, just before they scored that second goal,” New Hampshire
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head coach Dick Umile said about Saturday’s game. “ … Petersen made a couple big saves, then they came down and scored and kind of put the game away.” Jackson said he thought the defensive performance in front of Petersen was “pretty good” this weekend. “They’ve got three lines … so we needed to have good production from the three tops lines as far as being able to play at both ends of the ice,” Jackson said. “That was my point to them before the game, that we’ve got to learn how to be as good without the puck as we are with it. … I thought our puck support was better and I thought we did a better job of coming out of our zone.” Shortly after Petersen stonewalled Kelleher, freshman defenseman Andrew Peeke doubled the Irish lead on a snapshot that beat Tirone low to the blocker side. Evans added the insurance marker a few minutes later, firing his own rebound up under the crossbar. “We played well both nights,” Evans said Saturday. “ … Three points against that team is pretty good. They’re a highly offensive team, and we’re pretty happy with three.” Notre Dame completes its home-and-home season series with a one-game weekend against No. 13 Boston College, which currently sits atop the Hockey East standings six points in front of the Irish. Notre Dame won the teams’ first meeting 3-2 in comefrom-behind fashion on Dec. 10 at Compton. Puck drop Saturday night is slated for 7:05 p.m. at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Sports writer Tobias Hoonhout contributed to this story. Contact Zach Klonsinski at zklonsin@nd.edu
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HOCKEY | ND 2, UNH 2; ND 3, UNH 0
ND stifles UNH, posts three-point weekend By ZACH KLONSINKSI Assistant Managing Editor
No. 15 Notre Dame held one of the nation’s most prolific offenses to just two goals all weekend en route to taking three points from New Hampshire and vaulting to fourth in the Hockey East standings. The two sides skated to a 2-2 tie during Friday night’s series opener at Compton Family Ice Arena before the Irish (14-83, 7-4-2 Hockey East) pulled away late for a 3-0 victory Saturday night. “[New Hampshire is] hard to score on. Everybody talks about how good they are offensively, but their goaltender had a good weekend,” Irish head coach Jeff Jackson said following Saturday’s win. “ … Defensively, they’re tough because they create turnovers by the way they play. “ … It was a good weekend for us.” Despite Notre Dame finishing with a 48-29 advantage in shots on goal in Friday’s contest, it took a mid-third period
tally from sophomore forward Joe Wegwerth for the Irish to draw even with the Wildcats (11-9-4, 6-3-3 Hockey East) and force overtime. Irish sophomore forward Andrew Oglevie opened the scoring just over four minutes into the game on a feed from junior forward Jake Evans, but the Wildcats used a mid-first period marker to tie the game and then took the lead with a power play tally early in the second. Wildcats junior goaltender Danny Tirone kept the Irish off the scoreboard until Wegwerth found the equalizer in the third. Irish junior forward Anders Bjork had the best opportunity to win it in overtime, but Tirone turned away the wrist shot in the game’s final seconds. Wegwerth’s tally was part of an impressive weekend for Notre Dame’s fourth line of Wegwerth, freshman Mike O’Leary and junior Bo Brauer. The line created see HOCKEY PAGE 11
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Irish sophomore forward Joe Wegwerth scrambles for the puck during Notre Dame’s 4-1 victory over UMass Lowell on Nov. 18. Wegwerth scored a goal to force overtime against New Hampshire on Friday.
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ND women’s tennis | ND 7, WMU 0; ND 7, WSU 0
No. 12 Virginia brings new defensive test for Irish
Irish earn pair of dominant wins
By ALEX CARSON
By MICHAEL IVEY
Assistant Managing Editor
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Irish head coach Mike Brey’s Notre Dame teams have been known lately for their offensive efficiency, and this year is no different for the No. 14 Irish. But on Tuesday night at Purcell Pavilion, Notre Dame faces a team known for something different: its defensive efficiency. As has become customary under head coach Tony Bennett, No. 12 Virginia is again amongst the nation’s leaders in defense — Ken Pomeroy’s prominent adjusted defensive efficiency statistic has the Cavaliers (15-3, 5-2 ACC) ranked sixth — and Brey thinks it’ll be a key for his Irish (17-3, 6-1 ACC) to get out in transition against Virginia. “I’m gonna talk a lot about our defense again, just like I did before the Syracuse game and see if we can keep them to one-and-done,” Brey said. “Because then we can get it to
Notre Dame started its spring schedule w ith a bang, recording back-to-back 7-0 w ins, first over Western Michigan and then against Wright State. Both matches took place Sunday at Eck Tennis Pav ilion. The t wo matches were the first time the Irish have been in action since November. In the first match of the day against Western Michigan, the Irish enjoyed singles w ins from senior Monica Robinson, junior A llison Miller, junior Brooke Broda, freshman Zoe Spence and freshman Bess Waldram. A ll five won their matches in straight sets. Sophomore Rachel Chong dropped the first set of her singles match, 7-5, before storming back to w in the last t wo sets, 6-3, 10-8. In doubles action, the Irish won all three matches behind their doubles teams of senior Mar y Closs and Miller, senior Jane Fennelly and Waldram, and Broda
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Irish junior guard Matt Farrell looks to pass the ball during an 84-66 Irish victory over Syracuse on Saturday at Purcell Pavilion.
and Robinson. In the second match against Wright State, Robinson won her singles match, 6-0, 6-0. Miller followed that up w ith a 6-2, 6-0 singles v ictor y of her ow n while Waldram won 6-2, 6-3. Fennelly posted a 6-0, 6-0 v ictor y. Indiv idual v ictories by Spence (6-4, 6-0) and Closs (6-4, 6-1) rounded out the singles play. In doubles play, the doubles pair of Closs and Miller won their match, 6-3, while the duo of Chong and Spence emerged v ictorious, 6-0. The doubles pair of Broda and Robinson suffered the only Irish defeat on the day, dropping a nail biter 7-6(5). Irish head coach Jay Louderback was pleased w ith what he saw from his team. “I felt we played really well,” Louderback said. “We started off play ing well in the doubles competition of both matches, which I thought was key for us. To start w ith t wo matches on see W TENNIS PAGE 10