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Volume 51, Issue 7 | Tuesday, august 30, 2016 | ndsmcobserver.com
Panel analyzes Brexit decision Professors examine impact of the British vote to leave the European Union By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER News Writer
Perhaps the most important geopolitical event of the summer happened completely outside the context of the United States’ presidential election, which has otherwise dominated news coverage. This event, dubbed Brexit, occurred on June 23, when the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU). The Kellogg Institute for International studies hosted a panel Monday on Brexit, featuring four Notre Dame professors — associate professors of political science Sebastian Rosato, Emilia Justyna Powell and Andrew Gould and professor of finance Jeffrey Bergstrand. see BREXIT PAGE 3
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The five Notre Dame football players arrested in Fulton County, Indiana, on Aug. 19 all face misdemeanor charges for possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor, according to a report from ND Insider. The five students — senior Max Redfield, sophomores Dexter Williams, Te’von Coney and Ashton White and freshman Kevin Stepherson — were arrested at approximately 10:07 p.m. during a traffic stop in Fulton County, Indiana. Redfield will also face charges for carrying a handgun without a license, a Class A misdemeanor according to the report. The handgun charges were dropped against Stepherson and Williams, who were both in the backseat of the car and had access to the handgun. The initial hearing for all five students is set for Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., according to the report. The 2007 Ford Focus, driven by White, was pulled over for a speeding violation and an improper taillight when State Trooper Ben Reason allegedly detected the odor of marijuana coming from the car, an Indiana State Police press release said. From there, a narcotics dog indicated the presence of illegal narcotics inside the vehicle, and in the subsequent search, officers allegedly found marijuana and a loaded handgun. Redfield was dismissed from the football team following the incident while the other four students were disciplined internally by the program. Irish head coach Brian Kelly has said that all four will be available to play against Texas on Sunday, unless otherwise disciplined by the University’s Office of Community Standards.
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Jeffery Bergstrand, professor of finance, speaks on the financial significance of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union at a panel hosted by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
2016 Election observer
Alum connects religion and election Editor’s Note: Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, The Observer will sit down with Notre Dame experts to break down the election and its importance to students. In this 11th installment, Associate News Editor Rachel O’Grady asks former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, current member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and 1980 alumnus Bill McGurn about the significance of American Catholics in this election. Rachel O’Grady: Starting off a bit on rhetoric, as a former speechw riter for President Bush, what are you noticing about speeches and rhetoric in this election? Bill McGurn: On rhetoric, I recommend the LincolnDouglas debates — remember, Lincoln lost that election. The speeches are long and v iv id. It’s not likely they would succeed
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in the age of the telev ised sound-bite. In our day, few campaign speeches are remembered past Election Day. W hichever your part y, in office you have it harder because you can no longer simply paint a f lower y v ision of your proposals or a dark picture of your opponent’s. Once president, your choices have real coneditorial board member Wall Street Journal
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sequences and trade-offs. A great speech deals w ith these realities and transcends them, whether it’s the Gett ysburg Address or [Ly ndon B. Johnson’s Voting Rights Act] speech. ROG: W hat is the significance about Catholicism and, obv iously, particularly American Catholicism in this election? Beyond that,
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what’s the impact and/or significance of the VP picks for both candidates? BMG: Tim Kaine embodies a decades-long effort, prominently encouraged by institutions such as Notre Dame, to make a safe space for pro-choice Catholic Democrats. Mr. Kaine is what you get: an affable man who treats as sacred a Supreme Court decision (Roe v. Wade) that a) outrageously short-circuited the democratic process and b) ushered in the killing of tens of millions of the most defenseless members of our societ y. Too often abortion is treated as a single issue. In fact, it has proved the beachhead for an entire ethic that is hostile to life, hostile to marriage and, as we see from the contraceptive mandate, increasingly hostile to religion, religious Americans and religious institutions. So rather than leaven the American experiment, liberal A merican Catholicism has spent the last four decades
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accommodating itself to the secular zeitgeist, largely because of their surrender on abortion. W hen you point this out, the answer is almost never to defend their position but to raise phony claims of moral equivalence that Republicans are “just as bad.” It’s all ver y sad. ROG: Hillar y Clinton and Donald Trump are arguably (and polls have agreed) the t wo most disliked presidential candidates in histor y. W hat’s the significance of that? BMG: Absolutely. Hillar y Clinton’s negatives are sk yhigh. But Donald Trump’s are higher still. November’s election may well be decided by who turns off more rather than who attracts more. Meanwhile, A mericans w ill watch the presidential debates the way they watched a Mike Tyson fight: to see if someone’s going to bite off the other side’s ear. ROG: Terrorism, and in particular ISIS, has been a