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UHS debuts electronic records New system allows for easier monitoring of patients’ medical information By AIDAN LEWIS News Writer
This year, University Health Services (UHS), based in St. Liam Hall, has implemented Electronic Medical Records (EMR), a move director Sharon McMullen says will improve the quality and efficiency of care on campus. The change from paper to electronic records has a multitude of upsides, McMullen said, including an increase in student safety. “Our EMR interfaces with a national drug pharmacy database, and if we prescribe a medication that a student has an allergy to, the EMR alerts us to that,” McMullen said. McMullen said the EMR will also increase the efficiency of care, since the use of paper charts in the past meant necessary patient information was much harder to organize and locate. “The student waits while we go scurrying around for the paper charts, so it disrupts the continuity
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them with “green dots,” or individual decisions that promote change in this culture. “I think one of the most powerful parts of the training is the steps that a predator takes in order to find someone to prey upon,” she said. “I think it’s very intense, but it also helps people understand that when they see a situation playing out, while it may seem harmless, there’s actually an intentionality behind it that, as you see those steps, you see how you as a bystander may be able to intervene either before something happens, but also remind people that, regrettably, there are times that we can’t, but how they can intervene after and take care of the person who’s been harmed.” With the “strong momentum” from last year, Gebhardt said the GRC is
Saint Mary’s president Jan Cervelli launched her Presidential Listening Tour: “A Foundation for the Future” on Sept. 2 to gather feedback to inform the College’s next strategic plan, according to a College press release. According to the release, Cervelli will hold a series of meetings and attend events throughout the academic year with students, faculty and staff, as well as other members of the Saint Mary’s community, such as alumnae, parents and trustees. Surveys will also be conducted to gather data and personal input from members of the community in order to find areas for improvement in the College. Former College president Carol Ann Mooney initiated the current strategic plan, called “Boldly Forward,” to cover the years 2012 to 2017. Over the summer of 2017, Cervelli will use the data collected during her listening tour to develop the next strategic plan. Cervelli said in the release that she encourages everyone in the campus and in alumnae communities, as well as friends and supporters of the College, to make their voices heard in shaping the College’s future. “Saint Mary’s proud tradition inspires and reminds us that, though our service to the College will be short in the full sweep of its history, the influence of decisions we make today will be felt much longer,” she said in the release. “What do we want our influence on Saint Mary’s to be?” In a previous interview with The Observer, Cervelli said the listening tour is an opportunity to hear from everyone involved with Saint Mary’s. “It’s my objective to meet as many people as possible in as many different venues, to listen to what people have to say about Saint Mary’s,” Cervelli
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GreeNDot to receive award By MEGAN VALLEY News Writer
More than 100 students went through GreeNDot’s bystander training in its first year. Now, just starting its second year, the violence prevention initiative will be honored at Saturday’s football game against Nevada as one of the six organizations awarded the Presidential Team Irish Award. “I think two of the things that make GreeNDot remarkable for our campus is its cross-campus collaboration — you have faculty, staff and students all working in a way that’s different from every other violence prevention initiative I’ve ever been part of — and its impact on our campus has been really amazing,” Christine Caron Gebhardt, director of the Gender Relations Center (GRC), said. “People have really taken to the message, I think, because it’s
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very straightforward. It’s something people can get their hands on and it’s very practical.” The Presidential Team Irish Award recognizes a department as a group of people that live out core values of the University and do it in such a way that it impacts the entire University, according to the website for the Office of Human Resources. GreeNDot is a “campuswide initiative for violence prevention” that works by promoting culture change about violence and how everyone does their part. “W hat we like about GreeNDot is that it takes a large issues like sexual assault, or stalking or domestic dating violence and breaks it into strategies that a person can do in their everyday life and that is suited to who they are so that all of the individual efforts and individual choices to do green dots have an overall impact
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of changing Notre Dame’s culture, as well as preventing violence from happening here,” Gebhardt said. She said the main service GreeNDot offers is bystander training, which encourages participants to “do their part” to prevent violence with the “3 Ds”: delegate, distract and direct. Over 300 people have expressed interest in being bystander trained this year, she said. The GRC plans on holding six trainings this year. “This school year, we’d like to have over 500 people to be trained,” Gebhardt said. “We have a number of overview speeches that we’d like to make sure that we reach. We are trying to reach more faculty because we feel like faculty can be one of the strongest voices.” The training teaches participants about “red dots,” or individual decisions that contribute to a culture of violence, and how to replace
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Higgins Labor Program examines social justice By NATALIE WEBER News Writer
W hat are the origins of Labor Day? W hat is a just wage? How are racial justice and workers’ rights intertwined? These are all questions one might discuss for project or discussion group sponsored by the Higgins Labor Program, part of the Center for Social Concerns. According to the Center for Social Concerns’ website, the Higgins Labor Program “sponsors research, education and dialogue on issues involving work, opportunity, and social justice” and was named for Monsignor George Higgins, a priest and laborers’ rights activist. The program is sponsoring several projects and groups this semester to investigate both contemporar y and historical labor rights’ issues. Dan Graff, professor of histor y and director of the Higgins Labor Program, said he and Clemens Sedmak, a visiting professor of community engagement at the Center for Social Concerns, are forming a working group to study the just wage. The program will also sponsor research about the past of the labor
rights movement and its Catholic roots, he said. “The U.S. labor movement historically has had a really strong Catholic component to it, and still many labor leaders in the United States are practicing or raised Roman Catholic,” Graff said. “The Higgins Labor Program is in the ver y beginnings of undertaking a project to do an oral histor y of Catholic labor leaders.” In addition to these projects, the program sponsors the Labor Café, a discussion group that meets to discuss issues facing modern day laborers, Graff said. “The most casual program we run is called the Labor Café,” Graff said. “Ever y couple weeks on a Friday afternoon, anybody in the Notre Dame community gathers with interest in talking about a contemporar y labor concern.” The program also brings in speakers to discuss various modern-day labor concerns and share their knowledge as part of the Research, Advocacy and Policy Series. “We ask a member of the Notre Dame community or sometimes a visitor to give a talk on a topic of their Paid Advertisement
expertise over lunch, and we have two of those scheduled for each semester,” Graff said. “The two this fall both raise questions about the place of government in regulating in regulating the economy.” The program also plans on participating in the racial justice events happening on campus. “We’re going to do something, probably after the election — definitely after fall break — about some kind of black labor matters theme,” Graff said. “It’ll be participating in this broader campaign. I know student government is doing a bunch of stuff around race relations and promoting dialogue and equality, so it’ll be integrating with those efforts.” Overall, the program seeks to remind people of the importance of work and its human face, Graff said. “We cast our net widely,” he said. “A lot of our efforts are around educating folks, reminding people of the centrality of work to the human condition and raising awareness of that.” Contact Natalie Weber at nweber@nd.edu
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CCAC discusses student safety for upcoming year By KATIE GALIOTO News Editor
Just three weeks ago, the city of South Bend welcomed back thousands of students to the community. With the start of the new school year comes an influx of business and events in and around the area, as students host house parties, seek out jobs and tailgate for football games. The Community/Campus Advisory Coalition (CCAC) met Tuesday afternoon in the city government office for the first time this academic year. The panel — which consists of city leaders, law enforcement officers and residents of South Bend, in addition to students and administrators from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross College — meets once a month to discuss ways to foster a positive relationship between students and the local community. Students, administrators and city officials all highlighted safety as a primary focus for the upcoming weeks. Notre Dame student government is working to introduce two new initiatives — SafeRides and SafeBars — to compliment and expand upon SafeBouND, the rebranded campus transportation service, student body vice president Becca Blais said. For the SafeRides program, Blais said student government hopes to form a partnership with Uber to provide discounted rides for students in the area traveling back to their housing at night. The SafeBars program would aim to provide bystander intervention training to bartenders and bar owners in the South Bend community, an extra layer of safety for students who participate in the local nightlife scene. “Those two programs, we are just now beginning to negotiate and look into,” Blais said. The group voiced concerns about sexual assault and violence on campuses, particularly during the first six weeks of the school year. Saint Mary’s student body president Emma McCarthy
said the tri-campus community should aim to be a national model. United, the three colleges could make a difference, Blais said. “With the three of us, we can stand together and really make a statement for the rest of the United States,” she said. “It will go from here, to the ACC, to the rest of the country.” Dan Allen, off-campus liaison for the University, said a record number of students chose not to live in the residence halls this year, raising other safety concerns. More than 20 percent of students have moved to apartments or houses off campus. For example, two burglars have been reported in Legacy Village since the start of the school year, Major Dean Chandler of the Saint Joseph County Police said. In both cases, residents left their doors unlocked. Both Chandler and Robert Hammer of the South Bend Police Department encouraged students to remember general safety tips. “We know that problems occur throughout the school year,” Hammer said. “We’re here in support of the students. We want to make sure everyone’s safe.” The group also briefly discussed nuisance violations involving students and ideas for programming and promotions to expose students to downtown businesses. The next CCAC meeting will take place in October at Holy Cross College. Since its inception in 2008, the committee has provided an outlet for both new ideas and feedback, city council attorney Kathy CekanskiFarrand said. “This forum gives a great opportunity for so many offices and individuals at all levels to cut through some of the red tape that you might see otherwise,” she said. “When issues are raised, we can address them quickly, working with the administration and with the councilmembers that are here.” Contact Katie Galioto at kgalioto@nd.edu
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hopeful about GreeNDot’s second year, especially with some of the changes being introduced. “One of the key things we recognize is really having students be more directly involved in the implementation, so we set up the student advisory committee,” she said. “I think that’s one of our biggest initiatives this year. Ultimately, we want this to be something the students feel ownership of and the students can shape it to what it needs to be for Notre Dame, not just for this year, but for the long-term future.” Senior Mary Kate Healey, one of the members of the new student committee and who is working on the social marketing subcommittee, said the students will help with advocacy and awareness. “You need to have students involved in order to make a campaign for students,” she said. “We’re the voice of the student body for the adults.” Healey was pulled in because of her previous work with Campus Ministry; she said other student council members were pulled from athletics, student government, etc.
“If we’re going to say that we’re a community or a family and then acts of violence happens between students, there’s clearly something wrong there,” Healey said. “Having people from Campus Ministry brings that perspective, as well as letting the organization know that, as a faith-based institution, we’re not okay with what’s happening.” In addition to introducing the student advisory committee, Gebhardt said the GRC is also adding to their promotional plan for the program. “Ultimately, we’d like to get bystander stories out to people, because we’re hearing about the great ways in which people have used GreeNDot, and we want to get those stories out to other people so that folks can see that doing a green dot, while it’s courageous, may not be as hard as folks think it is,” she said. “If we can just have people share their stories, we can take that collection of green dots and show how we’re actually changing Notre Dame’s culture. “That’s really the heart of GreeNDot, that every day we’re sending a message about what Notre Dame stands for.” Contact Megan Valley at mvalley@nd.edu
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of care,” McMullen said. In addition, McMullen said the EMR will make it easier for students to monitor their own medical information. “The EMR brings our patient portal into the 21st century, so now we can transmit a student’s lab results directly to her through a secure portal,” she said. McMullen said another major positive of the switch to EMR is access to an enormous amount of data. “We have the ability to take big data, and use it to improve the quality of the Notre Dame student population, because now we’ll be able to make data-driven decisions,” she said. For example, McMullen said if she sees an earlier than expected spike in influenza patients, UHS can “bump up [their] flu vaccine blitz” in response. However, the rollout of EMR will
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said. “What they think of it today, what it means to them, how has it changed their lives, what works really well, what are some opportunities we’re missing and what are some things we could do better. “I’ve learned a great deal by
not be without its challenges for UHS, she said. “The convenience comes at a really high cost of learning curve,” McMullen said. “So say you’re a provider and you’ve been working for 20 years, and you’re used to paper records, and now suddenly you’ve got this big, complex system to learn.” As a result, McMullen said UHS will require time to reach the high level of efficiency she eventually expects with EMR. In the meantime, McMullen said, UHS is adjusting so students are not neglected during this transition. “We’re really concerned about students having to wait to get in to see providers, so to combat that, we’ve loosened up our scheduling, we’ve asked our providers to come off of their administrative time, and we’ve doubled up at some high volume times,” McMullen said. Currently, McMullen said UHS is also conducting an Organizational Analysis and Design (OAD), which is a process aimed at finding
avenues for positive change within an organization. “We’re at a place right now where we can really think more comprehensively about what our current students need, and question whether we are really meeting the needs of contemporary college students,” she said. One goal of the OAD process is to continue and expand medical education for UHS’s clinicians, which has been a focus of McMullen’s since she became director over two years ago. “We are trying to clarify both financial and operational support for clinicians to go to conferences, to pay for their licensure, and to engage in professional studies,” McMullen said. McMullen said another goal for the future is to provide care at a greater range of times. “I think our students need availability to providers beyond the nine to five,” McMullen said.
asking more questions than I have talking, so I want to continue that through the year and you will see that I want to share what I’m hearing — I don’t want to just internalize it. I think it’s also a good opportunity for all of us to do a listening tour — to listen to each other, to get to know each other. While it’s a small campus, we have a lot to learn from each other.”
According to Cervelli, upcoming events and other information about the listening tour can be found on the College’s website. “Anyone can get on [the website] and learn what I’m learning, can participate, can add,” Cervelli said. “I think it’s a great convening of who are we, who do we want to — where did we come from, and where are we going?”
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Roommate appreciation Rachel O’Grady Associate News Editor
Three days before move-in this year, I walked home from brunch and watched the Olympics with my mom. Three days before move-in, I texted my roommate, elated that I was going to get to see her in three days. Three days before move-in, my roommate never responded, but her brother texted me to let me know she was, essentially, in a coma. At the time, that was all we collectively knew. She was later diagnosed with a virus, which had caused brain inf lammation, and thus, induced a coma. My roommate is Grace Garry, and she is objectively one of the best people I know. I’m not just saying that because she’s my roommate — we’ll get to that part later — but because truly, she is a person of the utmost character and strongest values. She’s exactly the kind of friend you want, the kind that will love you unconditionally and call you out when you’re wrong. She’s funny, sweet and caring unlike any other, and for a few days, I truly was terrified I wouldn’t get to experience all of that love again. Grace came out of the coma the day before move-in. The next day I moved back into Ryan Hall, temporarily without a roommate. In the weeks that Grace wasn’t in Ryan with me, I realized all the things I had taken for granted when she was here. It dawned on me just how impactful her presence was in my life, and yet how infrequently I thanked her for these things. I never thanked her for pretending to be asleep every time I came back in the room well after midnight after a late night at the Observer, or for laughing at my jokes when they explicitly were not funny, or the constant f low of love and support. Most importantly though, I realized I had probably never thanked her for deciding to live with me again this year. I’m not a perfect roommate — my sisters at home were all too happy to see me leave for college two years ago — but Grace opted for a second year in Ryan Hall with me. This notion that someone is really, truly willing to put up with your f laws, your clothes on the f loor and your Diet Coke dependence, is incredibly humbling, and more than that, it’s validating. Grace has experienced me at my best and at my worst over the course of the past year and subsequently decided of her own volition that she wouldn’t mind putting up with that for the next year. As much as I try, words cannot fully express how self-assuring that is, and the validation that provides. As I slowly started telling people about why I was temporarily roommate-less, I kept on getting the question “Are you okay?” My answer stayed the same up until the very moment she came back: “I’ll be a lot better when Grace is back.” It’s been a little over a week since she moved in, and I can confirm that I was right. Hopefully she was right about picking me. Contact Rachel O’Grady at rogrady@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, revisited “What should we do, Mr. President?” Cigar smoke filled the room and maps of Cuba covered the wall. A distinct air of peril pervaded the trappings of the Cabinet Room, where the Executive Committee had gathered. It was a cold October day in 1962, and, whether the men knew it or not, the world was the closest it had ever been to Armageddon. The Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, realized the ultimatum before the President and his advisors. Now was the decisive moment when the President would have to choose — would he bomb the Russianinstalled missile sites in Cuba? Would he consider a naval blockade? Was there some course of action they had not yet discussed? General Curtis Lemay and the military hawks were eager to invade the communist stronghold, and the threat of a nuclear war loomed large. As the men in the room leaned in with anticipation, the President cleared his throat. “ … So what do we do about this Castro loser?” President Trump asked quizzically. His advisors paused, not sure if they had heard him correctly. “Sir?” McNamara gasped. Trump began again. “Look, let me tell you something folks. This Khrushchev guy, he … y’know, he is a dumb leader. I hate to say it, but look, I have to say it. He’s really so dumb. And this guy, he says about me, ‘Oh, Trump’s weak … I can put nuclear missiles in Cuba and Trump won’t do anything,’ and he is so, so, so wrong. I’m like the toughest guy. I’m one of the smartest people. My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.” The men in the room pondered the situation. Two men, Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President Donald J. Trump, were in a position to dictate the survival of humanity. Khrushchev was acting tactically and the world stood still on the President’s move. Trump was, simply put, not making any sense. General Lemay seized the opportunity. “Mr. President,” General Curtis Lemay began, “If you want to be tough, you should bomb Cuba and invade the mainland. At that point, we will have options to depose Castro, and we will be able to destroy
the warheads.” “I like this guy,” Trump jutted his hand toward the General. “He’s talking tough. He’s not like Lyin’ [Dean Rusk] over here.” He gestured at the Secretary of State. “The thing I like most about the General is I like people who weren’t captured. You weren’t captured, right, Curtis? Good.” McNamara couldn’t help but chime in: “Mr. President, what if we aren’t able to destroy all of the missile sites? What if Russia retaliates by launching a strike against West Berlin or even on our own soil?!” His voice trailed off in exasperation. “They hit us and kill a couple million Americans? Bang. Boom. We hit them and kill a couple million Russians. We’re gonna bomb the s--- out of them. It’s that simple, folks. It’s really that simple.” The advisors’ mouths dropped in awe. Even the hawks were shocked by the blunt proposition the President had laid forth. “Mr. President,” Secretary of State Dean Rusk implored, “If we attack the Russians unprovoked, the world will blame us. The media will destroy you. You won’t win reelection. You may have beaten the Democrats the first time around, but they’ll beat you in 1964.” “We all know you love the dishonest media, Crooked [Dean]. Look, fellas, it really doesn’t matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of a--,” the President bragged with a trademark puff of the lips. “As for the Democrats, if they win, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.” Secretary McNamara had had enough. “Mr. President, this is a real threat! I will resign if you continue with this nonsense. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. We need you to be poised. We need a measured response. We need moral judgment. We need you to consider facts, evidence, and reason. We need smart leadership.” What did he expect? Didn’t McNamara watch Trump’s campaign? Liam Dalton sophomore Sept. 6
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Why we travel Jack Rooney Irish Eyes
The day before I left for Ireland for the year, I walked down the street to my local bank. For the second time in as many years, I was informing them that I would be travelling for an extended period, so it wasn’t a case of identity theft when I used my debit card to make purchases on the other side of the world. This required only a few minutes and a little bit of paperwork, but during the course of my interaction with the personal banker, a delightful woman named Beth, it truly hit me for the first time that I was moving across an ocean for a full year. Beth asked where and for how long I would be travelling, and when I told her I would be spending a full year in Ireland, she reacted the same way as nearly everyone I told about my move. “Oh my goodness, that’s so wonderful,” she told me, eyebrows raised in excitement and smile expanding across her face. “It’s just so great that so many young people want to travel,” she said. I smiled and nodded politely and agreed that it’s nice how many of my peers have spent at least some time abroad. But by the time I left the bank, I came to fully realize that I wasn’t just leaving for a cookie cutter study abroad semester. I was actually moving somewhere else. For a year of my life, my home would be in a different country.
And now that I’ve been here a few weeks, I’ve thought quite a bit about travel and why we do it and why it’s important. The last thing I want is for this column to be a tragically cliched “OMG, study abroad changed my life” column, but I do want to articulate, from my own perspective, why we (and by we, I specifically mean young people) travel. According to a survey conducted by youth travel service Topdeck Travel, 88 percent of people aged 18-30 traveled overseas one to three times a year. And when we travel, we want genuine cultural experience — 86 percent of the 31,000 survey respondents said experiencing a new culture is a main factor motivating them to travel. So, some numbers seem to tell us that we travel to immerse ourselves in the unfamiliar. My own experience tells me this is true, but also just the tip of the iceberg. The longing to experience a different culture drove me to study abroad in Dublin in the spring of 2015. But what brought me back this year was a desire to deepen my ties with an adopted homeland, for when it comes down to our core motivations, I think we travel to find a home. In T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding,” the fourth and final poem of his “Four Quartets,” he wrote: “We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” I think the “place” to which Eliot refers is a home, however you might define it And though the poem was originally published
in 1942, I think the “place” today could be our entire planet. The world is a stunningly small place if you make it so, and on a macro level, it is one of the few things all people have in common — a shared home. We travel to different corners and crevices of our shared home for lots of little reasons: to visit friends and family, to escape the mundanity of our routine, to see and experience things we otherwise wouldn’t, to relax. But all these little reasons, and more, are pieces of the big reason I think our generation wants to travel. I am, admittedly, rather irrationally optimistic about our generation, but I think the more we see of the world, the more we can improve it. The internet has made the world a smaller place. Airplanes have, too. We’re the first generation to grow up with both. Perhaps, then, we travel to more deeply understand the world and the people who inhabit it, including ourselves. And maybe, at the end of our exploration, we will come to truly know the world as our home. Jack Rooney is a 2016 Notre Dame graduate, and The Observer’s former managing editor. He is currently spending a year living and working for the University in Ireland, and writes these columns to keep him busy and satisfy his need for journalism. Follow Jack on Twitter @RooneyReports and/or email him at jrooney1@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Beyond free speech? Jeremy Cappello Lee Lost in Translation
Two weeks ago, the University of Chicago informed incoming first-year students that the school would not support safe spaces, trigger warnings and censoring lectures in a commitment to “freedom of inquiry and expression.” A few days later, Northwestern University’s president argued for something a bit different, urging readers to consider how safe spaces and trigger warnings were a much-needed response to students’ concerns — especially those experiencing psychological traumas and discrimination. The media response revolving around these two messages has been disappointingly reductive. If we take the derivative op-eds and reader comments as gospel, we are left with depictions of a coddled left and an insensitive right fighting for the last word in a culture war of eschatological proportions. If recent political developments have taught us anything, it’s exactly this sort of rhetoric that kills any hope of communication. Now I realize that Notre Dame, unlike its Chicagoan neighbors, has remained out of national spotlight throughout this debate aimed at defining the limits of free speech on the college campus. But, as students, it’s very much our responsibility to join the discussion, keeping in mind that solutions often lie in finding a middle ground. In this spirit, here’s my own take on the issue: while schools must always err on the side of upholding free speech, we as students have a responsibility to address the underlying concerns that give our peers reason to demand school-wide implementation of trigger warnings, safe spaces and lecture censorship.
This means the University of Chicago should be applauded for adopting an official stance not to support these particular policies. Support for them would privilege an intellectual or personal conviction that not everyone may hold, obstructing a more general commitment to academic inquiry that should challenge deeply held assumptions, not confirm them. In any case, saying, “we will not support X” is a far weaker statement than its negation. Put another way, if a university supported trigger warnings or safe spaces, disagreeing with this position would be a matter of opting out of official policy. In the University of Chicago’s case, however, students who disagree with the decision are free to submit their own arguments in favor of trigger warnings and safe spaces. Opting out of policy is exclusionary. Offering the possibility of new policy is constructive, and exactly the kind of discussion that free speech protects. Which brings me to the second part of my argument. As students, we in fact have just as great a commitment to our community as to our right to free speech. At Notre Dame, where even in its name we invoke a sense of shared and catholic identity, we must care about things beyond ourselves. This means we must listen to those experiencing genuine psychological distress, and ensure their participation in campus discussion is not hindered by it. Accommodations in the classroom should be made to students who suffer debilitating traumas, in the same manner of discretion with which faculty accommodate students with physical and learning disabilities. What this looks like in practice is largely a private matter between student and professor. More importantly, however, a student’s health history should not become a matter of classwide scrutiny, and neither should the academic
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adjustments made to address these concerns. We must also take a look at the term “safe space,” broadly defined as an area where one can pursue full freedom of expression without fear of negative consequence. If, fearing harassment or even physical harm due to identity, someone finds refuge in a “safe space,” that only ref lects there is something seriously wrong in the environment, and something must be done about it. If, however, one designates a “safe space” solely to be an area insulating those of a certain mindset, identity or worldview from disagreement, that is a different matter. Notre Dame has no place for the latter, not least because such a space erodes our shared responsibility to talk through difference. But the very call for “safe spaces” may indicate underlying social problems that have gone ignored. These concerns must be addressed by the greater student body and the university, in hopes that one day, even the notion of “safe space” encompasses something far greater. No, refusing to support widespread implementation of trigger warnings and safe spaces is not “insensitive.” Providing the support that students with genuine concerns need is not “coddling.” Before we ourselves get caught up in this sort of name-calling, consider that when all is said and done, our call to compassion, not our right to say what we please, will change lives. Jeremy Cappello Lee is a junior at Notre Dame studying philosophy, though he dabbles in as many fields as his schedule permits. He spent the summer teaching English in Cambodia and is currently debating where next to go. Direct any comments and travel ideas to jcappell@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 MICHAEL DONOVAN Scene Writer
Angel Olsen’s latest release breaks away from the sparse introspection of her earlier records. The album is the 27-year-old songwriter’s attempt to repackage her trademark vulnerability and intimacy with a unique take on pop sensibility. With her first three studio albums, Olsen drew an honest and unadorned map of her headspace. On “Strange Cacti” and “Half Way Home,” she delivered stimulating but vague musings about the mental journeys of an introvert over restrained and largely traditional folk arrangements. Her fuzzy, garage-inspired third LP, “Burn Your Fire for No Witness,” displayed a considerably more dynamic feel, but, at its core, the album was still a bare-bones, underground work. On “My Woman,” however, Olsen embarks on an instrumental and stylistic pursuit that reaches a magnitude far exceeding anything she has previously done. The album has the energy and refinement of an enlightened pop production while still retaining a doit-yourself ethos. If Olsen’s earlier work describes her introversion on a personal level, then “My Woman” encapsulates her efforts to reconcile that introversion with the social mess of the outside world. “Intern,” a synth pop track in the vein of 80s indie giants Joy Division and New Order, offers a brooding and atmospheric introduction to the album. The song serves both as a statement of purpose and acknowledgment of failure. “I just want to be alive, make something
real,” Olsen sings in her distinctively wispy voice. Then, just seconds later she concedes, “Something in the work will make a fool of you.” This conflict of ideas, the dichotomy of ambition and failure, emerges many times over the album. In one respect, Olsen uses this theme as a lyrical vehicle for dealing with the harsh complexities of love and relationships. On another level, though, Olsen’s fascination with the ambition– failure dynamic reflects her own aspiration and fears as she strives for authenticity in her work. Structurally, “My Woman” has two distinct personalities. With its overdriven power chord progressions and pulsing rhythm sections, the A-side has a refreshingly positive vibe. “Never Be Mine,” “Shut Up Kiss Me” and “Give it Up” each take the fuzz-folk aesthetic of “Burn Your Fire for No Witness” and make it more palatable and upbeat. The songs pacify the pungent grit of Americana with the airy simplicity of twee pop. Underneath the vibrant buzz, Olsen weaves an equally assertive collection of sentiments. She forgoes an instrumental prelude on her signature track, “Shut Up Kiss Me.” Instead, without wasting a measure, she declares, “I ain’t hanging up this time / I ain’t giving up tonight.” Olsen demands progress in her emotional and musical life. The pounding sonic structures of the A-side embody this desire. The second half of “My Woman” sees an abrupt paradigm shift. Olsen returns to the realm of introspection and sets her sights on ambition’s less favorable counterpart, failure. “Sister,” a rambling, reverb-heavy track clocking in at nearly eight minutes, epitomizes
the spirit of the B-side. Evolving from a simple, dark guitar hook in the style of The Velvet Underground to an imposing folk rock cascade reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac, the track is a meditation on decay. The song’s mantra of “All my life I thought I’d change” suggests ambition may just be futile and defeat inevitable. Olsen does offer one last thread of solace with “Pops.” The scant and somber interplay between the piano and vocals resurrect the Olsen of “Strange Cacti.” A melancholy reflection on a decimated relationship, “Pops” is the naked definition of Olsen’s original ethos. Angel Olsen proves with her newest record that the pursuit of pop sensibility does not always equate to selling out. A passionate commentary on honesty, creative ambition and self-awareness, “My Woman” welcomes mainstream listeners to a previously exclusive underground club. Contact Michael Donovan at mdonov10@nd.edu
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Look at the big picture and set goals according to what you want to see happen over the course of the upcoming year. Face any problems head-on to ensure that you have clear passage to finish what you start with detail and precision. No matter what you decide to do, the initial setup will be what counts. Your numbers are 9, 17, 21, 26, 32, 43, 49. ARIES (March 21-April 19): A partnership will take a turn that could result in an important development. Follow your heart and be ready for an adventure. The changes will have a remarkable impact on your life. Embrace the opportunity to start something new. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Use your imagination when looking for solutions or dealing with problems that crop up. Your ability to see different sides of an issue will help you come up with answers that will please others. Business trips are favored. GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Do your best to get along with the people you encounter, but not at the expense of doing something that may jeopardize your position or your health. Put greater emphasis on self-improvement and taking care of important relationships. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Speak up and collaborate with the people you feel have something to contribute. Socialize, network and offer solutions about the causes you feel strongly about. A unique position will interest you and your children will play a role in a decision you make. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Someone from your past will cause an emotional situation to escalate. Don’t try to evade issues if you want to avoid a backlash. Work on self-improvement and offering your very best to those who need you the most. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Remain cautious when dealing with people who are likely to take advantage of your knowledge or skills. Take time out of your busy schedule to show interest in what friends and family members are up to. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Plan a vacation or a family gathering. Interacting with people from different walks of life will broaden your perspective. Don’t be angered by those who fudge the truth. Instead, you can avoid doing business with them. Choose your associates wisely. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take part in protests, fundraisers or anything that addresses issues you care about. Participating is the only way to bring about change. Your contribution will be appreciated, and the connections you make will last a lifetime. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stick close to home and avoid unnecessary conversations with people who don’t share your opinion. Arguing will be tiresome and could take away time and energy from the projects you want to accomplish. Home improvements will help you expand your interests. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t let the changes others make influence you. Stick to your own agenda and only collaborate with those who have as much to offer as you do. Charity begins at home, so don’t overlook where you can make the biggest impact. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There will be a fine line between fiction and truth. Take your time and make an honest assessment of whatever you hear before you take action. It’s best to concentrate on personal growth, not on what others think or do. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look into an investment that allows you to use your skills and put time and money into something you love doing. Refuse to let someone’s doubts hold you back or stifle your plans. Your insight will help you gain ground. Birthday Baby: You are intense, relentless and courageous. You are charming and passionate.
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AP poll should be done away with Ben Padanilam Associate Sports Editor
This past weekend saw the opening of the college football season. And man was it a good one. ESPN spent the last several weeks hyping it up, dubbing it the “Best College Kickoff Weekend Ever” in their advertising campaigns. And despite the incredibly high expectations for the weekend, it might have surpassed them in the level of excitement, number of upsets and quality of football we saw. Well, unless you were USC and had the pleasure of opening against Alabama. We saw Wisconsin surprise LSU at Lambeau Field. We witnessed Houston prove its remaining doubters wrong with a big win over Oklahoma. Texas and Notre Dame battled in a double overtime affair that ended with the Longhorns reasserting themselves on a national stage. Then, freshman quarterback Deondre Francois seemingly grew up over the course of a half, leading Florida State to a 22-point comeback against Ole Miss. That’s not to say, of course, there were not less notable outcomes that weren’t also exciting and shocking. Take Mississippi State, who fell to South Alabama after missing a 28-yard field goal that could have won it the game. And after all the excitement and thrills, we get the culmination of it all in the form of a meaningless AP poll. Wisconsin’s win over LSU was impressive, but why did the Badgers jump out of the depths of the unranked pool to become one of the nation’s 10 best teams at No. 10? The Longhorns were impressive in their win over the Irish, but they didn’t look like the No. 11 team in the country they are now ranked as. Conversely, the losers of those high profile games saw significant drops in the AP, as Oklahoma, Notre Dame and LSU fell to Nos. 14, 18 and 21, respectively. Tennessee even dropped eight spots to No.
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17 after struggling against Appalachian State. And now the perception, for all of these teams, is that they are on the outside looking in. Yet there’s no way to know that for sure at this point in the season. Remember when Ohio State lost to Virginia Tech in the second week of college football in its national championship season just two years ago? It only goes to show that the college football season is unpredictable. But, for some reason, we still waste our time with an AP poll that can create perceptions and rush to judgements on all these teams when it’s simply too early to tell. The only poll that ultimately matters is the one released by the College Football Playoff committee halfway through the season. Yet, the fickle nature of the AP poll can shape the way the committee’s voters look at these teams and, more importantly, the strength of the schedule they face. After all, the CFP voters are just as human and prone to recency and projection biases as the AP voters. And while they have standards that are supposed to limit the effect of those biases, those standards — such as strength of schedule — are still not capable of sufficiently removing those biases. So what can we do to ensure that this doesn’t happen? Well, the clearest answer is to get rid of the AP and Coaches’ polls. While they’re handy tools for the media, they are ultimately meaningless during the season outside of presenting distractions and potential biases to the voters of the poll that does matter. As radical or as strange as it might sound, it might ultimately be the best move for college football going forward. We’ll still know which games are important and which ones will be exciting. So why do we need a meaningless poll to tell us that? Contact Ben Padanilam at bpadanil@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Gonzalez’s three-run shot lifts Astros past Indians Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Corey Kluber lost for the first time since July 3 after Marwin Gonzalez connected for a three-run homer off Cleveland’s ace in the second inning, leading the Houston Astros over the Indians 4-3 on Tuesday night. Kluber (15-9) had won his previous seven decisions, a span during which he dominated the way he did while winning the Cy Young Award in 2014. But the right-hander had a bad sequence of six batters against the Astros, who have won the first two of four games between the playoff contenders. Gonzalez added two doubles for Houston, a major leaguebest 13-4 since Aug. 19. Reliever James Hoyt (1-0) struck out two in 1 1/3 innings for his first major league win. The 29-year-old rookie replaced Brad Peacock, who was called up to replace an injured Dallas Keuchel and made his
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he left it over the plate and Gonzalez drove it into the seats in right for his 12th homer to put the Astros up 3-0. The Indians, who couldn’t score on Peacock in the first despite opening with a single and double, got a run back in the second on Tyler Naquin’s RBI groundout. Houston went ahead 4-1 in the third on Alex Bregman’s RBI triple single off Kluber, who settled in and retired 15 of 17 before leaving after seven. He finished with nine strikeouts. Cleveland missed its chance to do early damage on Peacock, who worked out of the initial jam and gave the Astros all they could ask for in 3 2/3 innings. An injury to Keuchel prevented the game from being a matchup of former Cy Young winners. The lefthander was sent back to Houston with shoulder inf lammation, a significant setback to the club’s wildcard chances.
mlb | mets 5, reds 3
Mets stay hot in wild card race behind Cespedes Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Yoenis Cespedes hit the most damaging of New York’s four homers, a two-run shot in the seventh inning, as the Mets rallied for their 13th straight victory over the Cincinnati Reds, 5-3 on Tuesday night. The Mets’ winning streak is their longest against Cincinnati. The club record against any opponent is 15 straight wins against Pittsburgh in 1986-87. New York has won 18 of its last 20 against Cincinnati, including its division-clinching win at Great American Ball Park last
Sept. 26. Overall, New York has won 13 of 17 to tighten the NL wild card race. Curtis Granderson and Jose Reyes had solo shots off Brandon Finnegan. Cespedes connected off Michael Lorenzen (2-1) for his 28th homer. Alejandro De Aza had a pinch-hit homer in the ninth. Rafael Montero made his second start of the season and gave up Adam Duvall’s two-run homer in 4 1/3 innings. Josh Smoker (2-0) allowed one hit in one inning. Jeurys Familia pitched the ninth for his 46th save in 49 chances. The closer has allowed one earned run in
15 2/3 innings since Aug. 1. The Reds have dropped 11 of 15 overall, including the first two games of the series that concludes Wednesday. Granderson’s fourth homer in his last seven games gave him 24 for the season. The Mets have hit six homers in the first two games of the series, five of them solo shots.
Up next Mets: Noah Syndergaard (128) is 3-1 with a 1.63 ERA in his last four starts. Reds: Anthony DeSclafani (8-2) is 0-2 with a 12.27 ERA in three career starts against the Mets.
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first start since April 14, 2015. Carlos Santana homered in the eighth off Luke Gregerson to pull Cleveland within 4-2. The Indians scored an unearned run in the ninth and got the tying run to second before Ken Giles, Houston’s fifth reliever, recorded his ninth save. The Indians, who have led the AL Central for 95 consecutive days, lost for just the second time in eight games. Kluber has been a big reason why the Indians have stayed on top of their division. The unflappable 30-year-old had not lost in over two months, and whenever his team needed a big outing, Kluber delivered. He was 7-0 with a 1.94 ERA in 11 starts since losing to Toronto in July. An uncharacteristic run hurt Kluber in the second. After getting two outs, he walked Evan Gattis and Colby Rasmus before quickly getting ahead 0-2 on Gonzalez. Kluber tried to sneak a curveball past Houston’s first baseman, but
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Irish junior Brooke Broda returns a ball during Notre Dame’s 6-1 win over Indiana at Eck Tennis Pavilion on Feb. 20. Notre Dame reached the first round of the NCAA tournament last season.
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As always with the beginning of a new season, adjustments must be made, and this season is no different with the loss of two senior doubles players from last year’s team, according to Louderback. “We’re going to probably have all new doubles teams because two of our seniors who graduated were in the doubles lineup, so there’s a good chance of having three new doubles teams,” Louderback said. “So that’s a big thing, us working and
seeing what are good pairs to put together and who will compete well together. That’s probably our biggest thing right now — looking for our doubles teams.” Louderback is optimistic, however, about this year’s team’s ability to pick up slack left over from last year’s seniors, he added. “I feel like our group of freshmen that have come in have really good doubles skills plus our kids returning,” Louderback said. “All of those players will have a chance to fill in. We should be fine, I feel really good about what I’m going to see
tomorrow.” With players and coaches alike excited about the beginning of fall practice, Louderback said he welcomes the new atmosphere that accompanies each new season. “It always makes it more enjoyable for me when you have new kids coming in,” Louderback said. “As always, we’ll miss our seniors, but it helps you revive with new kids coming in. They come in and everything’s new to them, and they love everything.” Contact Molly Murphy at mmurph40@nd.edu
NEW YORK — Brett Gardner made a leaping catch at the top of the left-field wall on Justin Smoak’s bases-loaded drive for the final out, and the New York Yankees held on during a nervy ninth inning to beat the AL East-leading Toronto Blue Jays 7-6 on a misty Tuesday night. A scrambly September game with October implications seesawed to the last swing, and turned at the end in favor of the Yankees. New York won its third in a row and sent Toronto to its fourth loss in five games. At a season-high seven games over .500, the Yankees closed within 4½ games of first place, their smallest deficit since April, and remained 3½ back for the AL’s second wild card. The Blue Jays had already scored twice in the ninth off Dellin Betances when they loaded the bases with one out. Blake Parker, the eighth New York pitcher, suddenly became an unlikely closer, and he struck out Kevin Pillar. Smoak was up next, and he hit a drive to deep left. Gardner ran back, jumped and
corralled the ball at the top of the padding. He immediately leaped in the air to celebrate as the Yankees rushed out to congratulate him. A few minutes later, a replay of the catch drew another ovation from the fans. Tyler Austin’s two-run homer in the seventh off AL ERA leader Aaron Sanchez put the Yankees ahead 3-2. Pillar lined a two-out, two-run double in the eighth that gave the Blue Jays a 4-3 edge. The Yankees then rallied for four runs in their half for a 7-4 lead, capped by Chase Headley’s two-run homer. The drive off Jason Grilli (5-5) left the reliever bent over at the mound in frustration. With the Yankees running out of time to chase a playoff spot, manager Joe Girardi spared no expense with his staff. Chasen Shreve (2-1) wound up with the win and Parker got his first save since 2013 with the Cubs. Betances made it interesting in the ninth, walking the first two batters while working his third straight day. Edwin Encarnacion and Melvin Upton got RBI singles on infield hits to pull Toronto within a run.
mlb | cardinals 9, pirates 7
Pirates’ skid reaches eight Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Matt Carpenter, Randal Grichuk and Jhonny Peralta all homered off closer Tony Watson with two outs in the ninth inning, helping the St. Louis Cardinals rally past the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-7 on Tuesday night. The Cardinals were down to their last strike when Carpenter sent a long drive to right-center to tie it 6-6. Grichuk followed two batters later with a two-run shot off Watson (2-4), and Peralta piled on with a solo homer as St. Louis held on to the second wild card in the NL. Carpenter’s homer was the 15th by a St. Louis pinch-hitter this season, a major league record. Yadier Molina went 4 for 5, including a first-inning grand slam. Mike Mayers (11) tossed a scoreless eighth for the win, and Seung-Hwan Oh worked around a solo homer to Jung Ho Kang in the ninth for his 16th save. Kang had two homers for Pittsburgh and Jordy Mercer
hit a two-run double in the fifth as the Pirates took advantage of some sloppy defense by the Cardinals to overcome an early five-run deficit. Pittsburgh has dropped eight straight. The Pirates came in reeling during their longest skid in two years, one that dropped them to the fringe of playoff contention. Opponents outscored them 47-22 during the slide, including a 12-6 setback on Monday night in which the Cardinals simply overpowered Pittsburgh’s struggling pitching staff. It looked like more of the same early on Tuesday. The Cardinals loaded the bases against Ryan Vogelsong thanks in part to a moment of hesitation by first baseman John Jaso in which Jaso tried to throw out Kolten Wong at third rather than tag first for an easy out. Molina turned Vogelsong’s next pitch into his first grand slam since 2012, the 25th straight game the Cardinals have homered, a club record.
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played t heir last college match back in May.” Sachire said he expects his team to be one of t he hardest work ing, if not t he hardest work ing team, in t he countr y. “We expect to be a rea lly competitive team, bot h w ithin our ow n squad and w ithin ever y single match that we play,” Sachire said. “In terms of expectations for results and rank ings and w ins and stuff like t hat, we’ll let t hose happen. We’re going to focus on t he day-today process of t hose t hings and feel like if we ta ke care of those t hings, we’re going to have a great year.” The Irish f inished w it h an overa ll record of 15-14 last season, including a 6-6 mark in t he ACC. Their season ended when t hey were defeated by Stanford in t he f irst round of t he NCAA tournament. Sachire said he hopes his team w ill build off of t he success of last season. “We had a great mont h of April last year,” Sachire said. “We had some injuries and didn’t play ver y well at t he beginning part of last year,
but we did a tremendous job f inishing t he season off right and had a great mont h of April. I feel like we have some momentum because of t hat, but t his is a new team. This is a new chapter in t he histor y of our program. There’s a lot of good freshman coming in and look ing to ma ke t heir mark. We a lso have a lot of returning g uys, too, t hat didn’t play or didn’t play as much as t hey wanted to last year, and t hey want an opportunit y, too. “As a program, we feel a tremendous amount of conf idence and pride in what we did last season. But in terms of players who actua lly played in t he matches, we’re going to have a fair number of new faces and familiar faces in different roles, and we’re excited about t hat.” Sachire said improv ing his team’s doubles play is going to be a major point of emphasis in early practices t his year and t hroughout t he fa ll. “We lost a lot of our doubles superstars [from last season],” Sachire said. “We were a good doubles team last year, but more t han anyt hing, I t hink we lost some rea lly key pieces as part of our lineup. That’s somet hing where t he new g uys have a lot of experience to
ma ke up for. So we’re going to rea lly train and practice for t hat as much as we can and ta ke pride in, hopef ully, being one of t he best doubles teams in t he countr y.” W hen asked which members of his team he expects to have t he biggest impact t his season, Sachire pointed to t he team’s t wo seniors, Josh Hager and Eddy Cova lschi. “They have bot h been f igures in t he top ha lf of our singles lineup for t he last t wo years,” Sachire said. “During bot h t heir sophomore and junior years, t hey played in t he top t hree of our lineup, and as a doubles combo t hey’ve been ranked as high as No. 10 in t he countr y and have had some ver y signif icant nationa l w ins. If t hey have great senior years, we’re going to have a great season.” Sachire said he t hinks one of t he beautif ul t hings about his team’s schedule is t hat it’s tough. “We have a ll k inds of opportunities,” Sachire said. “The t wo-time defending NCAA champion Virginia Cava liers come to Sout h Bend. I t hink t hat w ill be an exciting match for us. But we play a lot of ot her great competition, bot h at home Paid Advertisement
and on the road. Our schedule is ba lanced w ith great opportunities.” Sachire said what excites him the most about this year’s team is the competition and the energ y that a ll of his players bring. “Ever y one of them [is] striv ing to play in a role for t he f irst time if they’re a freshman on our team, or
in a role bigger than what they played last season,” Sachire said. “We graduated our No. 1 singles player and our No. 1 doubles team that made it to the semis of the NCAA doubles tournament. Litera lly ever y spot is up for grabs.” Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu
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Irish senior Eddy Covalschi returns the ball during Notre Dame’s 5-2 win over Duke on March 18 at Eck Tennis Pavilion.
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only three series and gained only 23 yards of total offense. Kelly said no decision has been made concerning playing time against Nevada but added the decision will be made once he has a chance to sit down with both Kizer and Zaire. “We plan on having two really good quarterbacks the rest of the year,” Kelly said. “I haven’t sat down and talked with to either one of them, so before we do that, we don’t have any plans to make any decisions.” Kelly did say he expects whoever is relegated to the second-string to maintain a positive attitude at all times while on the bench and to be ready to play at a moment’s notice. “First of all, it’s about your attitude and your attitude has to be such that whoever the No. 2 is, whether he’s the No. 2 quarterback or the No. 2 running back, you’re one play away from being in there,” Kelly said. “So you can’t let your teammates down, and you can’t let yourself down. You have got in the way of yourself from preparing the way you need to to lead your football team. That’s really 99 percent attitude and accepting the role that you have. If you can’t accept the role, then you need to move out of the way and let somebody go into that role that can accept it and prepare themselves accordingly, so when they are called upon, they’re ready to play. So to me it’s really — it’s all about the attitude.”
Defensive improvement The Irish defense has come under intense scrutiny the last few days after giv ing up 50 points and 517 yards of total offense to Texas. The secondar y especially has received a large share of blame, giv ing up numerous big plays and allow ing the Longhorns 10.4 yards per pass attempt. And w ith graduate student safet y Aver y Sebastian going through the concussion protocol, the secondar y looks v ulnerable. According to Kelly, however, the problems in the secondar y start w ith the need for better coaching. “I think we have the
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personnel there,” Kelly said. “Look ... we were in Cover 3 on long balls. Balls that got throw n over our head, we were in Cover 3 — except for the one that we were in latch coverage the one time we got beat in the seam because our safet y was obv iously way too w ide. “Primarily, if we just do the ordinar y things ordinarily well we’re in good shape. We have to do those better. We have to coach better. If we’re not play ing cover three well, we’re not coaching well enough, so we’ve got to do those things better. I know if we’re coaching better and getting that from our players, we w ill be a better defense mov ing for ward.” With Sebastian likely out and Ma x Redfield’s dismissal from the team, freshman Dev in Studstill w ill see a lot of snaps at safet y on Saturday, Kelly said. “He w ill see a lot of playing time this week,” Kelly said. “Yes, we w ill have to continue to give him the opportunit y to get out there and play and experience the scenarios that you can’t really duplicate in practice. But, yeah, you’ll see a lot more of him on Saturday.” Questions have also arisen about Irish defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder and his abilit y to fashion a highcaliber defense in South Bend. Kelly is aware of the criticism but said he has no doubt in VanGorder’s abilit y. “Like I said, it’s great conversation for ever ybody to have, but it’s so short-sighted of what really happened in the Texas game,” Kelly said. “W hat really happened in the Texas game was you had the offense that had a chance to w in the game — you’re going to have to play some games where you outscore people. If we’re 10 or 11 games into the season and we have to outscore ever ybody, I’ll take the questions, you know? And I would say fair enough. We’re in game one of a brand new offense that we saw for the first time, and we got guys that went on to the NFL off this team. “So I just think we’re jumping the gun. If we’re ten games into this and we’re giv ing up 50 points a game, I’ll have to answer your questions. ... As I said yesterday, I think y’all should rela x a little bit. I think our
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Injury report Notre Dame suffered injuries to two notable players in the game: senior receiver Torii Hunter Jr. and Sebastian. Kelly said that Hunter Jr. is undergoing the concussion protocol and there is no timeline on his return. “I think with a guy like Torii, anything up to, you know, game time is [possible],” Kelly said. “Concussion symptoms come and go. ... There’s no real timeline, you know? W hen you start to expect somebody to clear — it’s so individual, and you just let it take it’s course and we will prepare accordingly.” Hunter was the only Irish receiver with meaningful game experience before the Texas game Sunday, and with the possibility of him missing the game against Nevada, the Irish receiving corps loses a valuable asset. Sophomore Equanimeous St. Brown had a breakout game against Texas, notching five catches for 75 yards and two touchdowns, but Kelly said he plans to keep St. Brown at the slot position, rather than moving him over to the X position, which may be vacant due to Hunter’s absence. “I prefer not to move [St. Brown],” Kelly said. “I think he’s established himself in a position that I would like continuity and consistency there. It’s a position that I think more than anything else requires somebody to really build a relationship and a rapport with the quarterback, and if you start to move him around now, it begins to erode some of the things that we have built on over the last few weeks. “So that’s not an option right now. We’ll look at options from [junior] Corey Holmes, who has been working at the Z but has been cross-trained at the X. Obviously [freshman Kevin Stepherson] and [freshman] Javon McKinley, those would be the places to look right now at the X.” Kelly did not comment on Sebastian’s status but did say junior defensive tackle Jay Hayes is closer to 100 percent and should see playing time against Nevada.
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Irish senior running back Tarean Folston rushes down the field at Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium on Sunday.
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Irish senior Isaac Rochell, left, and sophomore Jerry Tillery, right, attempt to deflect a pass during Notre Dame’s 50-47 loss to Texas.
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Irish sophomore kicker Justin Yoon attempts a kick during Notre Dame’s 50-47 loss in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.
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Kelly confident in team’s ability to rebound By MAREK MAZUREK Sports Editor
Following a narrow loss to No. 11 Texas in double overtime, No. 18 Notre Dame looks to pick up its first win of the season in its home opener against Nevada on Saturday. Despite the loss, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said he was proud of his team’s resiliency after coming back from a 17-point deficit to tie the game in the fourth quarter. “[I’m] certainly proud of the resiliency and the effort that was displayed on Sunday night,” Kelly said. “Coming back from a 17-point deficit and putting ourselves in a position to win the game. We were up late in the game. We asked our team to get us to the fourth quarter and find a way to win.” Now, the team needs to focus on finishing, and Kelly said he will preach that message all week. “Finishing was not something that we did well on Sunday,” Kelly said. “We competed. We played hard. We put ourselves in a position. We made some plays, but if you really look at it in a microcosm, offensively we
had a chance to finish out well or put us in a good position on the last couple of drives, and we came up with nothing. “ ... So the message to the team yesterday was about closing and finishing and hard-fought games on the road against quality opposition you gotta finish. That’s what we did not do in this game — we didn’t finish and that will be a ‘watch word’ for this group as we move for ward. Again, I like their effort, I like their fight.” Going into the contest with the Wolfpack (1-0), the Irish (0-1) have numerous questions that need sorting out — most notably, the quarterback depth chart and a rough defensive showing.
Quarterback battle Both junior DeShone Kizer and senior Malik Zaire saw playing time on Sunday, but Kizer stole the show. Kizer — Notre Dame’s starter for most of 2015 — threw for 215 yards on 15-of-24 passing and five touchdowns while also giving up zero turnovers and running for a sixth score. Meanwhile, Zaire played in
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Irish junior quarterback DeShone Kizer rushes during Notre Dame’s 50-47 loss against Texas on Sunday at Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium. Kizer accounted for 36 of Notre Dame’s 47 points.
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Irish senior Josh Hagar follows through on a return during Notre Dame’s 5-2 win over Duke at Eck Tennis Pavilion on March 20.
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A fter four mont hs of preparations, Notre Dame is ready to get back in t he sw ing of t hings. The Irish w ill k ick off t heir 2016 fa ll schedule in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where t hey w ill compete in a tournament at Har vard from Sept. 16-18. Irish head coach Ryan Sachire said he feels like a lot of his players made signif icant strides in t heir development over t he course of t his past summer. “Tennis is a year round sport, and our g uys did a rea lly good job of practicing and play ing in tournaments on t heir ow n t hroughout t he summer,” Sachire said. “We have a number of returning g uys who are better players right now t han when t hey
This season, Notre Dame begins its fa ll practices and inv itationa ls looking to build on last year’s successes. “We had a rea lly tight match w it h chances to beat UCLA in t he f irst round of t he NCAAs, so I t hink t hat’s somet hing we rea lly took a good feeling away from t hat loss k now ing we were right t here w it h UCLA,” Irish head coach Jay Louderback said. “I t hink t hat’s somet hing t hat’s going to rea lly help us as we go into t his year.” Close matches were a t heme t hroughout t he prev ious spring season for t he Irish, and t hat w ill be a motivating factor for t he team as t hey move a head, Louderback added. “Of our 14 conference matches, nine of t hem were 4-3 eit her w inning or
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losing, and a ll t he ot her matches were a ll 5-2, so ever y match we played, we were right t here w it h t hem,” Louderback said. “I t hink our k ids are look ing for ward to play ing some of t hose teams again t his year.” Wit h t hese dif f icult, close losses fresh in t he team’s mind, Louderback said he believes it is t he group’s work et hic t hat w ill set t hem apart t his season. “I feel like t hat’s our biggest streng t h. The k ids are work ing hard not just on t he court but in conditioning, and t hey’re doing ever y t hing to be ready for t he spring,” Louderback said. “Right now, our main t hing is to ma ke sure t hat we’re physica lly in shape for t he spring. Our main goa l is to be hea lt hy and ready and ready to compete when t he spring comes a long.” see W TENNIS PAGE 13