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‘He loved the kids, and they loved him’ Notre Dame community remembers South Dining Hall monitor John Ritschard, who died at age 86

By KATIE GALIOTO News Editor

If South Dining Hall was ever serving Carl’s chicken as the special, John Ritschard made sure the students knew.

He’d swipe their ID cards, give them a smile and tell a joke. Then he’d suggest a meal for them to try.

“He was a walking, talking menu,” his wife, Lila Ritschard, said.

John died Sunday afternoon at age 86. He had been diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer, in March 2015.

But that didn’t stop him from coming to work in the dining hall for months after his

diagnosis.

“He loved it. My husband loves young people,” Lila said.

“He loves to tell jokes and riddles and tease. He enjoyed students coming in and out, getting to know them. We just loved being here.”

Lila started working as a day monitor in 2007. When John was hired in 2008, the two took the night shift — 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. — on Mondays through Thursdays.

Over the years, they became an integral part of the Notre Dame community.

“Notre Dame was the greatest support over all these years,” Lila said. “It just blows see JOHN PAGE 6

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Members of the Notre Dame community may pay their respects to John Ritschard, who worked for the University since 2008, at Osceola Methodist Church on Sept. 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

ND Fan Council energizes fans, enhances experience

By COURTNEY BECKER News Writer

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Guests peruse Tim Lowly’s exhibit “La Mère | La Mer,” which features work from 20 different contributors, in the Moreau Art Galleries.

Saint Mary’s art gallery debuts new exhibition

By EMMA O’BRIEN News Writer

Saint Mar y’s hosted Chicago-based artist Tim Lowly to discuss his new ex hibit “La Mère | La Mer” on a panel which featured other artists from the exhibit Thursday. The ex hibit — which features works from 20 participants — w ill

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be displayed in the Moreau Art Galleries from Sept. 5 to Sept. 30.

“I’ve never done a show like this,” Lowly said.

Lowly said the inspiration for the title of the ex hibit came from a large painting of his mother he did following his father’s death. see ART PAGE 8

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It’s not just members of the athletic department who help craft the Notre Dame fan experience. A group of 24 passionate Notre Dame fans make up the ND Fan Council, a diverse group of Notre Dame athletics fan who work w ith the athletic department to enhance the Notre Dame experience for students and v isiting fans at various athletic events.

Assistant athletics director Brian Pracht said the athletic department tried to choose an accurate representation of the many t y pes of Notre Dame fans for the Fan Council, which is now in its second year.

“We had an online application system where we got to know a little bit about them,” Pracht said. “They were able to tell us why they thought they would be a good Fan Council member ... and then we did the best that we could from that grouping of applications. …

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We’ve averaged about 600 apps the last t wo years, and then we combed through those applications to tr y to find what we felt like was a good representation of Notre Dame fans, a cross section of fans.”

Associate American studies professor Richard Pierce, a member of the Fan Council, said in an email the diversit y of the Fan Council is one of the group’s most valuable assets.

“In the many committees I’ve been a member of at the Universit y, this one is as good — or better — than any of them,” Pierce said.

“The diverse perspectives add layers to and about events which I thought that I knew well. It’s been ver y refreshing.”

Senior member of the Council Robert Murphy said in addition to the differences between members of the group, their common bond through Notre Dame athletics helps them work together toward mutual goals.

“It’s cool because we’re

all brought together under one passionate fandom, so even though some people are f ly ing in, some are subway Domers, I think we’re able to build off each other because we all want to see, more or less, similar things happen,” Murphy said. “We want to see good teams out there, we want to see passionate fans and the ways in which, coming from different places, we’re able to add our different insights is really what brings value to the program.”

The group meets four times a year, Pracht said, but continues to be productive bet ween meetings due to the open communication bet ween members of the Fan Council and the athletic department.

“W hat we’re tr y ing to do is build relationships w ith fans who maybe felt like they haven’t had a voice in the past,” he said. “There’s been ... much positive [collaboration] to come from the interactions that we see FANS PAGE 9

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Archbishop examines religion and politics

By MEGHAN SULLIVAN News Writer

The Tocquev ille Program is a relatively new organization at Notre Dame — founded only in 2009 — that seeks to promote the study of religion and politics. The program organizes conferences, sy mposia and research on religious libert y.

The Program hosted its inaugural lecture on religious libert y Thursday.

“Life is a gift — not an accident — and the point of a life is to become the kind of fully human person who knows and loves God above everything else and ref lects that love to others.”

Rev. Charles J. Chaput archbishop of Philadelphia

Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia, gave a lecture titled “Sex, Family and the Libert y of the Church: Authentic Freedom in Our Emancipated Age.” Chaput began his lecture

by emphasizing Catholic beliefs about life and the goal of getting into Heaven.

“Life is a gift — not an accident — and the point of a life is to become the kind of fully human person who knows and loves God above ever y thing else and ref lects that love to others,” Chaput said.

Chaput used this v iew of life to express concern over the 2016 presidential election.

“Only God knows the human heart,” he said. “I presume that both major candidates for the W hite House this year intend well and have a reasonable level of personal decency behind their public images, but I also believe that each candidate is ver y bad news for our countr y.”

“One candidate, in the v iew of lots of people, is a belligerent demagogue w ith an impulse-control problem, and the other — also in the v iew of a lot of people — is a criminal liar, uniquely rich in stale ideas and bad priorities,” Chaput said.

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worse intent ions wou ld rema in.

“The political vocation matters because, done well, it can ennoble the societ y it ser ves,” Chaput said.

He sa id Christ ia ns need to become increasingly act ive in polit ics by focusing on t he k ind of people t hat t hey a re.

“Changing the countr y first means changing ourselves,” Chaput said.

According to Chaput, his experiences hearing confessions shaped his v iew on family life.

“W hen you spend several thousand hours of your life … hearing the failures and hurts in peoples’ lives — men who beat their w ives, women who cheat on their husbands, the addicts to porn, or alcohol, or drug, thieves, the hopeless, the self-satisfied and the self-hating — you get a prett y good picture of the world as it really is and its effect on the human soul,” Chaput said.

He expressed concern over the effect of a dramatic increase in the number of people confessing to sexual promiscuit y, infidelit y, sexual v iolence and sexual confusion.

“Sex is a ba sic appet ite a nd hu ma n i nst i nct,” Chaput sa id. “Sex ua l it y is t ied i nt i mately to who we

a re, how we sea rch for love a nd happi ness, how we defeat t he per va sive lonel iness i n l i fe a nd, for most people, how we cla i m some l it t le bit of per ma nence i n a world a nd a stor y by hav i ng ch i ld ren.

“The truth about our sexualit y is that infidelit y, promiscuit y, sexual confusion and mass pornography, by tens of millions of persons over five decades, destroys lives. Then, compound it w ith the media nonsense about the innocence of casual sex and the happy children of friendly divorces — what you get is what we now have a dysfunctional culture of frustrated and wounded people increasingly incapable of permanent commitment.”

Chaput said this incapabilit y of commitment has severe political consequences. In his v iew, people that are too weak to rule themselves and their passions w ill become ruled by other people, compromising their freedom.

“Sooner or later, they surrender themselves to a state that compensates for their narcissism and immaturit y w ith its ow n form of social control,” he said.

According to Chaput, millennials’ reluctance to have children is troubling for the

future. He said sexually selfish and weak people create broken families that contribute to a dysfunctional cycle.

“Only a mother and a father can offer the unique kind of human love rooted in f lesh and blood, the kind that comes from mutual submission and self-giv ing, the kind that comes from complementarit y of sexual difference,” Chaput said.

This t y pe of relationship is necessar y to instill good values in children, according to Chaput. He said societ y’s values and problems — crime, bad schools and unemploy ment — make it difficult y to raise children, which has political consequences played out in the government.

“In Catholic thought, government has a role to play is easing [crime, education and unemployment] problems, but not if a government works from a crippled idea of who man is, what marriage is and what a family is, and not if a government deliberately shapes its policies to interfere with and control the mediating institutions in civil society that already serve the public well — the family and the Church,” he said.

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Saint Mary’s earns 95th spot in annual ranking Observer Staff Report

For the eighth consecutive year, Saint Mary’s ranked among the top 100 liberal arts colleges, earning 95th on the annual U.S. News and World Reports Best National Liberal Arts Colleges list, which included over 200 colleges and universities.

According to a College press release, U.S. News considers factors such as retention of students, financial resources, alumni giving and graduation rate when determining the academic quality of institutions.

Approximately 93 percent of Saint Mary’s students earn a degree in four years, compared to only 80 percent of students at other non-profit private schools and 58 percent of students at public institutions.

“We’re proud to be recognized for the quality of a Saint Mary’s education, which reflects the dedication and

expertise of our faculty and the ability of our student body,” Saint Mary’s President Jan Cervelli said of the rankings in the press release. “Perhaps what’s most distinctive about the Saint Mary’s experience — our spiritual commitment to educating the whole person — cannot be captured in a ranking, but it’s gratifying to receive the acknowledgement of experts and peers for the work that we do.”

According to the College’s Office of Institutional Research, one year after graduation, 94 percent of graduates from the class of 2015 were employed, enrolled in graduate or professional school or engaged in other full-time activities such as service or volunteer work.

The “Best Colleges 2017” guidebook provides full access to the national rankings, both online and in a print edition. Saint Mary’s has been nationally ranked for more than a decade.

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McWell caters to changing needs of students

By ANDREW HERBST News Writer

In its second year, the McDonald Center for Student Well-Being, also known as McWell, is looking to expand the services it offers in order to encourage more students to utilize its resources.

Kelly Hogan Stuart, director of McWell, said the mission of the Center — located on the second floor of St. Liam’s Hall — was to strive for comprehensive wellness for all those on campus.

“Our mission is to cultivate a healthy campus environment where students thrive through the integration of mind, body and spirit,” she said in an email.

The Center pursues its goal by offering programs that focus on increasing well-being in all aspects of student life, Stuart said.

“By strategically partnering with units across campus, we create well-being programming and resources that are easy for our students to access,” she said.

These programs include leadership training workshops, the McWell Sleep Program, Koru Mindfulness Training and the Annual Wellness Expo. By offering many different options for students to better influence their own well-being, they “strive to make the healthier choice the easier choice for Notre Dame students,” Stuart said.

In addition to the many programs offered for the greater health of the University, McWell itself has also undergone significant changes in recent months in order to better serve its function as a place of relaxation and revitalization for students.

McWell now houses a student break room, living room —

“Our mission is to cultivate a healthy campus environment where students thrive through the integration of mind, body and spirit.”

Kelly Hogan Stuart director of McWell

complete with a mini fireplace — and the fort, a small room ideal for reading or meditating.

Every room is available for reservation, Stuart said.

After studying or lounging in the living room, students can take advantage of the resource hub, where coffee, tea, trail mix and even strawberries are all offered free of charge. The essential oil station provides a wide variety of calming and beneficial topical and air sprays.

Stuart said input from student

government and Notre Dame faculty experts in the field of environmental psychology was crucial to the planning of the renovations to the Center. She said that the “space was updated to reflect the expanded mission.”

“We have become a holistic well-being department, driven by students for students,” she said.

Concern for the environment was also a large factor in the creation of the new space. Dana Bakirtjy, sustainability communications project manager for the Office of Sustainability, worked closely with the staff of McWell to ensure that the upgrades to the center were as environmentally friendly as possible.

Bakirtjy said the “greener” solutions included reusable containers and bulk dispensers in the resource room, as well as a gooseneck spigot for the water fountain and the introduction of LED lights.

“They’re a fairly young office,” Bakirtjy said. “They were brought in to increase wellness through the student body.”

“They’re really working on the overall concept of wellness,” Bakirtjy said. “They’re always looking for new opportunities [to increase the sustainability practices of McWell].”

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Students can stop by the Resource Hub to enjoy coffee, tea and fresh strawberries. The room also has a make-your-own trail mix station.

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The Fort provides students with a quiet space to meditate, reflect and nap. This room is intended to help students manage their stress.

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University installs new organ in Basilica

By NATALIE WEBER News Writer

Although there are many weddings during the summer, there weren’t any scheduled in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart during the first two weeks of August.

Nor were there any Masses. From Aug. 1 to Aug. 14, the Basilica was closed so a new organ could be installed.

The efforts to replace the organ were led by associate director of music and choir Andrew McShane; rector of the Basilica Fr. Peter Rocca; and the late Gail Walton, former director of music.

The new organ was funded by Wayne and Diana Murdy.

McShane said the process of replacing the old organ began 10 years ago, due to increasing maintenance costs.

“It was the cost of the upkeep of the organ that was the main factor,” McShane said. “We were spending thousands of dollars a year just to service the organ, but that wasn’t the only problem with it. There were some design flaws, mainly the winding, and, also, the organ was never really big enough for the Basilica. So when you would have a big crowd, like on Easter or Christmas or [a] football weekend, people from

basically the altar area to the Lady Chapel really couldn’t hear. It just was not an adequate-sized organ for the space of the Basilica.”

Professor of organ Craig Cramer, who served on the committee for the new organ, said the University’s administration was very supportive of the project.

“The administration was really aware of the ongoing mechanical problems and inadequacies of the old instrument,” Cramer said. “I don’t think it took a lot of convincing. I think the problem was more just one of ‘How do we want to do this project?’ so that we really do it right and don’t compromise the instrument.”

Cramer said this process can take some time.

“You have to have meetings with the administration,” Cramer said. “You have to explain your position vis-a-vis the old organ, and you have to educate all concerned about what an organ is, what it could be, what it should do, what its role is in the liturgy and then you just come up with a plan.”

According to an email from McShane, the organ is equipped with 5,164 pipes, four keyboards — each of which have 58 notes and 30 pedals — as well as an air conditioning system to keep the temperature consistent

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The Basilica’s new organ has 5,164 pipes, four keyboards and an air conditioning system to maintain a consistent temperature. The instrument took 1,100 hours to design and 36,000 man hours to install.

throughout. It was built by Paul Fritts and Company and took 1,100 hours to design and 36,000 man hours to install.

Michael Plagerman, a graduate student in the Master of Sacred Music program who is studying the organ, said he believes these features will allow the organ to be used for a diverse array of music.

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this new organ is that it is very large, more than twice the size of the instrument it replaces,” Plagerman said. “A much wider variety of literature can be able to be played on it and a much wider variety of both choral and congregational accompaniments will be possible, in the liturgy itself and it will become, I think, a major recital

instrument for our program.”

The organ is currently in the process of tuning and voicing, McShane said, and will not be completed until Thanksgiving. It will be dedicated on the feast day of Fr. Basil Moreau and will be blessed by Bishop Daniel Jenky.

Contact Natalie Weber at nweber@nd.edu

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me away — the love that has been shown to us both here.”

Jack of all trades John was born and raised in South Bend, Lila said, but didn’t have much to do with the University until he started working in the dining hall.

“He found his niche here,” she said.

After high school, John worked in the Studebaker plant for a couple years. He worked at Sears in Elkhart for more than 20 years as one of the top salespeople. After stints in the real estate industry and other odd jobs, he made his way to Notre Dame.

The pair — John and Lila — quickly became a staple at South Dining Hall. They almost never missed a day of work.

“We just were always together.

We just enjoyed each other,” Lila said. “I don’t think we were ever off up until the last three years.”

John and Lila met in January 1999. She was working in a beauty shop at the time and a big blizzard had just struck the town. As she was cancelling the day’s appointment, in came John, traipsing over snow banks, to use his coupon for a free haircut.

“Everybody used to call me the coupon bride,” she said. “I said,

‘Yes, he came in for a free haircut.

See how much it cost him? The most expensive haircut of his life.’”

John was the type of person that would do anything for anyone, Lila said.

“I had to be careful what I said,” she added. “He was a jack of all trades. There was nothing he couldn’t fix, nothing he couldn’t make.”

He made all the wood furniture in the couple’s house. He made all of Lila’s lamps. He made the table that stands in the middle of the dining hall entrance, with carved Notre Dame logos.

And once, he even made his own plane, Lila said.

“He was a pilot,” she said. “And he taught his whole family how to fly. They used to fly about everywhere they went.”

All in all, John was a man who loved to help others, Lila said.

“He would reach out to anything in need,” she said. “He loved to teach and he loved to learn.”

A contagious smile Senior Marta Poplawski said she met John during her first weekend at Notre Dame. He stopped her as she was walking into the dining hall and asked for her name.

“The next day, he remembered me,” she said. “It was the first moment someone was really welcoming here outside of hall staff.”

A week later, Poplawski was going to eat dinner alone around 4:30 p.m. — then she saw John and Lila

at a nearby table.

“So I sat down and just ate with them,” she said. “And that started three years of friendship.”

Over the years, John and Lila kept up with students and graduates. John won the Irish Clover Award last year, given to two individuals each year for outstanding service to the student body.

“I felt like John and Lila were my grandparents away from home, in a sense,” Poplawski said.

John’s smile was simply contagious, said senior Adam Degand.

And it was always the same.

“He had such a goofy smile,” he said. “He would make you stop for a second, show you that smile and ask you about whatever’s going on.”

“Especially if you’re a freshman or new to the school — it makes you feel like you’re part of the community,” he added. “That’s special.”

Dining hall monitor Dee Michael said John always had a joke of the day.

“He loved the kids, and they loved him,” she said.

Some days, the dining hall would run out of certain dishes — because John talked about them too much.

“The cooks used to get so mad at him because he’d be telling them what the specials were, and people would listen to him. So we’d be running out of it,” South Dining Hall manager Ruth Pajor said.

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warm and welcoming presence will be missed by all.

“The night is not the same when he’s not around,” he said. “He just had a glow about him.”

The simplest things Sami Zuba, a 2014 Notre Dame graduate, said in her freshman year, her birthday fell during the first two weeks of school. And she wasn’t having a great day.

“It was my first birthday away from home and everything,” she said. “But then I got up to the front of the line, John swiped my card and told me happy birthday. It just absolutely made my day to know that someone on campus cared.”

It was small acts like this that showed John’s big heart, Zuba said.

“It was just such a simple thing,” she said. “And I think a lot of people walk out of Notre Dame hoping they can do big things to make a difference in people’s lives. One of the best ways you can do that is just doing little things.”

Editor’s note: Sami Zuba was an assistant managing editor for The Observer.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, sophomore Amy Mansfield and her service dog Juniper would eat dinner in South Dining Hall before folk choir practice. And every time, John stopped them to ask how they were doing.

“You don’t expect someone to have such a big impact on your life when it’s a 30-second interaction

each time you see him,” she said.

When people complained that the chairs the monitors sat on were too tall, John took one home each night and cut it down, until they were all shorter.

“That’s just the kind of guy he was,” Smith said.

John had the ability to immediately light up a room, Poplawski said.

“You could not enter with a bad mood into South Dining Hall,” she added. “I would wear headphones, and he would make me take them off to talk to him.”

John did much more than greet people, Mansfield said.

“I don’t know if it was his goal to touch every student, but I feel like everyone who walked through their line during dinner was somehow impacted,” she said. “Their day was probably made a little bit better.

A visitation for John will be held Sept. 24 at Osceola Methodist Church from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and will be immediately followed by a service. Both are open to the public.

Notre Dame Food Services is going to provide the meat and cake for the luncheon.

“We’re just so blessed and humbled to be a part of this community,” Lila said. “I couldn’t imagine it any other way.”

Contact Katie Galioto at kgalioto@nd.edu

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“The installations oriented generally around the idea of ‘mother,’” he said. “On [the painting], I w rote ‘La Mère | La Mer,’ and that’s where the title of the show came from.”

The artists’ works var y in sources of inspiration and themes, cultivating in a diverse ex hibit in terms of medias used and content displayed.

Artist Louise LeBourgeois’s work is featured in the exhibit and centralizes around her time spent sw imming in Lake Michigan as a kid. She said she focused primarily on the horizon line.

“It keeps you perpetually intrigued because it’s something that you want and when you get what you want, you no longer want it,” she said. “W hen I first started, I meticulously tried draw ing the shapes of the waves. It’s all muscle memor y now.”

Featured artist Steven Carrelli said he put more emphasis on the fragile and broken things that are often out of place in his work.

“W hat I’m attracted to is this idea of fragilit y … creating an illusion of something that doesn’t quite make sense,” he said.

Artist Kelly Vanderbrug said she uses lots of texture and build up in her work, including shadow ing.

“I’ve always liked taking things that ex isted in

the world but then recreating them … changing their shape and scales” she said.

“The shadow becomes a portal to another sk yscape.”

Corrie Thompson is also featured in the ex hibit for her piece,“The Lord Gives,” which is a handmade book.

“Doing this book was ver y therapeutic for me,” she said.“I was finding these different realms of myself that I’d never know n before.”

Thompson said her t woyear-old daughter plays a big part in her life.

“She draws on almost all of the pieces I make,” she said.

Featured artist Tim Erickson said he began to take an interest in rocks during his senior year of college, which inspired his art.

“I was really attentive to these little mundane things we walk on,” he said. “I paid attention to the color, texture [and] detail.”

Erickson said he moved around multiple times as a kid.

“The concept of home to me is very … fragile,” he said.

Deb HendriksmaAnderson, another artist featured in the ex hibit, compared painting to a puzzle and said that once she starts, she can’t stop until she is finished.

“Painting, for me, has been my favorite way to explore my surroundings and inner subconscious,” she said.

Contact Emma O’Brien at eobrien03@saintmarys.edu

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The Moreau Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s will host Tim Lowly’s exhibition “La Mère | La Mer” until September 30.

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have between the meetings because there’s been a good, open dialogue with our fans, and these are fans that we typically don’t know a lot about other than maybe what they presented to us in their application, so it’s really been good.”

Assistant director of Notre Dame research Veronica Kozelichki, a Council member, said in an email she hopes to be able to fully take advantage of the opportunity she and the other members have been given to help improve a place they have all come to love.

“Ever yone on the Council came to love Notre Dame through their unique paths in their lives,” Kozelichki said.

“I was really touched hearing others’ stories of how they became fans and how much Notre Dame means to them. … As for me — I’m hoping to

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further ingrain myself into Notre Dame. There’s a lot more I can learn from Notre Dame and, in return, I want to make Notre Dame go from great to the ver y best.”

Murphy said he appreciates having his voice heard as a student and learning further explanations about decisions that affect the student body.

“I think there’s three students on the committee, and I like the idea that we’re getting a voice in the process, especially when it comes to things like ticketing process and how that works, because that’s changed a few times — at least while I’ve been at school here,” he said. “I know they’re constantly refining it, and kind of being able to hear their side of the stor y and their logic as well as our side — it’s good to know that there’s communication there.”

Pracht said he tries to focus on topics that have a significant impact on the fan

experience at Notre Dame during the meetings.

“We generally are talking about things that have an impact on the fan experience or fan engagement opportunities that we are either considering or have recently launched, new initiatives and things that feel like could be beneficial to the fans and to the athletic department,” he said. “There’s a myriad of marketing, digital media, ticketing-type discussions that take place.”

The group also has more interactive discussions.

Murphy said one of his favorite moments during the Fan Council’s first four-hour long meeting was a question and answer session with vice president and James E. Rohr Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick.

“We had basically a onehour open Q-and-A session with Jack Swarbrick, which was probably the highlight in terms of just being able to pick his brain a bit about

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whatever we were interested in, and that was really cool,” he said. “Being able to see what he does and how many different things he is looking at, at the same time, was really cool and it really gave me a new appreciation for his job and the great job he does at it.”

It was these activities, as well as the liveliness and camaraderie of the group that made the meeting f ly by, Pierce said.

“We had a four-hour first meeting, and it didn’t feel like four hours,” he said.

“Any committee meeting where time doesn’t drag is a ver y good thing.”

Pracht hopes the Fan Council members take away a sense of “ownership” in the Notre Dame athletics brand from this experience.

“W hat I’ve said to them, and I feel like last year’s group agreed, is that by the end of the season they are truly brand ambassadors for Notre Dame athletics

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because they know a lot more about our operation and what we’re tr ying to accomplish,” Pracht said.

“They know the challenges, the obstacles, the opportunities and they feel like they’re just much more educated about what we’re doing and we’re ver y transparent with them, and they feel like they actually have some ownership in what we’re doing from the fan experience and fan engagement side of our business.”

Kozelichki said she already feels as though the group is making a difference.

“It is a magical experience when you gather the right group of highly passionate and motivated individuals around a worthy cause,” she said. “The ND Fan Council is a catalyst for positive change and it is a true honor to be a part of such a dynamic group of people.”

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Inside Column

Small talk is the worst Andrea Vale News Writer

For years during high school, my alltime favorite thing to do with friends was drive. It still is, but it’s a hard past time to keep up when my beloved thrice-handeddown Camry, full of my perfectly crafted mix CDs, is back in Massachusetts, and I’m car-less and stranded in the Midwest.

But weekend after weekend, I’d hop in with any friend and just go. We’d take turns picking left or right until we were hopelessly lost. There were only three rules — we had to start with a full tank of gas; there could only be two of us, maybe three, in the car at a time; and the music had to be turned down low, so we could hear each other.

I guess it isn’t accurate to say that my favorite thing to do was drive — what I really loved was the conversation. Between taking turns left or right, we’d take turns digging for the most provocative dirt we could think of. It ranged from the cute (“What’s your favorite childhood memory?”) to the serious (“What’s your biggest regret?“). One question never failed to get to the bottom of a person: “What’s something about me you’ve always wanted to know, but never thought you could ask?”

And more often than not, there was something big on the friend’s mind that had always kept him or her from truly knowing me. Conversation — real conversation, not small talk — helped bridge that gap.

And I think both of us felt a little less alone after those drives.

I’ve often been frustrated sitting with a person aimlessly combing through the weather, our classes or last night’s game, while all too aware of the stream of much more meaningful thoughts that were undoubtedly going through both of our heads in that moment.

“Seen any good movies lately?” he asks.

“Life is too short. Neither of us actually cares about this,” I think.

“Not really,” I say.

Conversation is particularly vital to cultivate in an age where our tendency to live out our lives and relationships through technology has rendered us barely able of moving past shallowness, whether in our attention spans, our work or our friendships. In an age where, all too often, I find myself staring around at a room in which every other person is staring at their phone screen in silence.

I’ve developed my deepest friendships and relationships through conversation.

And what’s more, I’m sure that there are many relationships that have passed me by, because every day when I sat next to them in class or stood next to them at work, instead of asking, “What’s your favorite childhood memory?” I asked that relationship death sentence: “Seen any good movies lately?”

Contact Andrea Vale at avale @nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

It was timely Editorial On the morning of Sept. 8, Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) released its daily crime report online. In it, NDSP — as it is legally required to do — published that a rape had been reported. The rape, which allegedly occurred between the evening of Aug. 26 and the morning of Aug. 27 in Keough Hall, was reported to NDSP on Sept. 7, 11 days later.

However, students did not receive an email crime alert that a rape had been reported to the University.

Why does this matter? The Clery Act — the national legislation requiring universities to keep a daily crime log and release statistics yearly on sexual assault (among other crimes) — dictates that universities must also issue “timely warnings” to the community if certain types of crimes (including all legally defined sex offenses ) are brought to their attention.

The law is named for Jeanne Clery, who in 1986 was raped and murdered by a fellow student in her dorm room at Lehigh University. University officials knew about an uptick of violent and non-violent crime on campus prior to her murder but did not inform students of the recent surge. Clery’s parents lobbied for the creation of a law requiring colleges and universities to inform their students about certain crimes when they occur on campuses.

The reasoning behind the “timely warning” requirement in the Clery Act is that by alerting the campus community about ongoing threats, students may act in a manner better suited to protecting themselves and those around them.

The Act, however, does not define “timely.” It allows universities to do so themselves (though Clery does require institutions to outline in their annual report how they determine what a “timely warning” is).

Most universities, while technically in compliance with the Clery Act, have an incredibly vague definition of timely.

Notre Dame’s definition is no exception: “Cases involving sexual assault are often reported long after the incident occurred, such that there is no ability to distribute a ‘timely’ warning notice to the community. For this reason, the reporting of sex offenses will be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on when and where the incident occurred, when it was reported and the amount of information known by the NDSP. Crime alerts may also be posted for other crime classifications, as deemed necessary.”

That brings us back to last Thursday. When we checked the daily crime log and saw that a rape had been reported, we asked a University spokesperson why students did not receive an email alert.

He said: “No timely warning was issued because the assault occurred two weeks before it was reported.”

First of all, 11 days is not two weeks, 14 days is two weeks.

Second, studies done on this subject suggest that rapists often do not just rape once. To suggest the threat is not ongoing or timely because 11 days have passed since it allegedly occurred is to ignore the reality of the situation.

Those same studies show that the first six weeks of college

are the most dangerous for freshmen. That time period — the “red zone” — is when a college student is most likely to be sexually assaulted, more so than during the rest of their college career. If the threat of sexual assault is ever to be “timely,” that time is now.

The response of the University in this case was an abject failure.

It demonstrates no inclination towards ethics beyond the minimum legal requirements. It demonstrates an arbitrary definition of what “timely” means. And it demonstrates a callous attitude toward student safety by neglecting to inform students of crimes committed against members of this community, by members of this community.

While all of Notre Dame’s actions were technically legal, Notre Dame claims to be a university that holds itself to a higher standard. There are real benefits to alerting the community that crimes have been committed. It is our opinion that ethically, Notre Dame must take that into account when making a decision to send an alert, instead of adhering to the bare legal minimum.

The University must set a clear cutoff for a timely threat, whether that is 11 days, two weeks, three months, as long as the perpetrator is still enrolled — so long as a standard exists.

Clear standards are a powerful tool for holding an institution accountable. As long as the definition for “timely” remains arbitrary, the University will continue to serve its own, and not its students’, best interests.

It is also worth noting that even if NDSP had sent an alert about this rape, students at Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross would not have received any type of notice; likewise, Notre Dame students do not receive crime alerts from either college. Given the amount of time students from the three schools spend together socially, this is also troubling.

The culture of doing the bare minimum to make students aware of sexual assault must end — ignoring a problem this significant has real consequences. It is unacceptable.

As an Editorial Board, we are mostly upperclassmen. We know that sexual assault happens at Notre Dame. We’ve received the emails; we’ve seen Loyal Daughters and Sons; we were here when “The Hunting Ground” debuted. We know.

Freshmen have been told that Notre Dame is special. That Notre Dame is the kind of place that cannot be described by words alone. That Notre Dame is different.

And, in many ways, it is. But Notre Dame struggles with the same problem that universities and colleges across the country struggle with: sexual assault.

Receiving your first crime alert email is a disappointing experience. It shatters the illusion that Notre Dame is the kind of place where bad things don’t happen — and for that reason, it is vitally important.

If receiving a crime alert could have caused just one freshman to step in when their maybe-too-drunk friend disappeared into somebody’s bedroom, or kept one student from leaving their friend alone at a party, or given one survivor the courage to come forward, then it would have been worth it.

Apparently, NDSP and the University administration thought otherwise.

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Why the media hypes “Daffy” Donald Trump Gary J. Caruso Capitol Comments

Conspiracy theorists like my sister — a Notre Dame graduate like me, an American Studies major like me and a Lyons Hall resident like me — fervently articulate, unlike me, a distrust of large media conglomerate broadcasting. Her premise is that today’s for-profit media companies mandate news coverage in such a way that they chase the almighty bottom-line dollar rather than the truth. In her view, gone are the days of unbiased, well-researched reporting services that once existed during the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign. While her premise may be technically true that news groups are not as thorough as days past, I ascribe the change to a journalistic role-play mindset.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is this campaign’s political carnival barker. His salesmanship style is an over-the-top rhetorical buffet of “believe me” peppered with Hillary Clinton is the “worst,” the “weakest,” a “total disaster” or “clueless.” How do journalists — or perhaps, more accurately, do they ever? — challenge his campaign narratives in such a forceful way in order to report the actual truth? Will reporters ever successfully persist when campaigns sidestep and do not address their questions?

My sister contends that corporate control conspires with journalists to favor the candidate who will support corporate interests. I, on the other hand, subscribe to the theory that journalists who cover the presidential election trail travel on a political monopoly board that in all quarters attempts to tear down the frontrunner and build up the underdog. To me, more outlandish, brazen candidates like Trump cause more drama that can assure the advertising support for the mother companies that in turn feeds their news outlets. However, I do not believe that most journalists conspire to slant their coverage to protect corporate interests, but rather perpetuate their merry-go-round in an effort

to tear down the frontrunner while building up the underdog. They simply recycle their efforts of tearing down the new frontrunner and building up the next underdog until the electoral clock expires.

Aside from the quite obvious right-leaning Fox News content, my sister contends that all reporters fall prey to our current 24/7 news cycle society. As a consequence, journalists will not challenge a candidate’s truthfulness, but additionally tilt their reporting to protect their own paychecks. She notes that after the Commission on Presidential Debates chose Chris Wallace, who hosts Fox News Sunday, to moderate a presidential debate, Wallace spoke about the difficulties to “ask smart questions” and “engage the two [candidates] in conversation.” In response to how Wallace planned to manage falsehoods or unfounded accusations, Wallace said, “That’s not my job. I do not believe that it’s my job to be a truth squad. It’s up to the other person to catch them on that.”

Yet a mere four years ago, during the second debate between the GOP’s Mitt Romney and President Obama, CNN’s chief political correspondent Candy Crowley — a blood relative cousin of former President George W. Bush — corrected Romney’s criticism of Obama in the wake of the attacks in Benghazi. While the Romney campaign howled that Crowley had chosen sides, Crowley, in fact, corrected the record that Obama had characterized the Benghazi attack as terror both on September 12 in the Rose Garden and on September 13 in Las Vegas. It was known as the “Please proceed, Governor” debate moment: ROMNEY: I — I think interesting the president just said something which — which is that on the day after the attack, he went into the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror.

OBAMA: That’s what I said.

ROMNEY: You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. It was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you’re saying?

OBAMA: Please proceed, Governor.

ROMNEY: I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.

OBAMA: Get the transcript.

CROWLEY: It — it — it — he did, in fact, sir. So let me — let me call it an act of terror ...

OBAMA: Can you say that a little louder, Candy?

Recently during the Commander In Chiefs Forum at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan, NBC’s morning host Matt Lauer found that his relaxed “Today” show approach to moderating failed when he seemed not only ill prepared but not optically neutral. Lauer never had the strength to challenge Trump’s “I was totally against the war in Iraq” statement by citing a Howard Stern interview that Hillary Clinton earlier that evening had quoted of Trump in 2002. Lauer blew about a third of Clinton’s time on her private email server, then rushed her when she was laying out her plan to defeat the Islamic State by saying, “As briefly as you can.”

Earlier this month, CNN’s Dana Bash intimated the media’s double standard in coverage of Trump and Clinton. She noted that the stakes in the upcoming debate are higher for Clinton “because she’s a seasoned politician … a seasoned debater” while “Trump is a first-time politician … Maybe it’s not fair, but that’s the way it is. The onus is on her.”

Perhaps Bash had just passed GO, collected her $200 and blindly sought Free Parking ahead.

Gary J. Caruso, Notre Dame ‘73, serves in the Department of Homeland Security and was a legislative and public affairs director at the U.S. House of Representatives and in President Clinton’s administration. His column appears every other Friday. Contact him on Twitter: @GaryJCaruso or email: GaryJCaruso@ alumni.nd.edu

Letter to the editor

A Catholic case for same-sex marriage In yesterday’s Tocqueville lecture, Archbishop Chaput spoke of the implications of religious liberty for the Church’s teachings on marriage and family. Putting aside the complicated question of religious liberty in America, I would pose a different question: Why does the Catholic Church choose to defend a limited interpretation of its teachings on marriage? The teachings contain an important message about the intertwining of self and other that occurs in marriage, but in considering marriage closed to same-sex relationships, the Church loses sight of this core message about marriage. There is a Catholic case to be made for same-sex marriage.

In a 2011 interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Archbishop Chaput laid out the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, as well as its opposition to same sex marriage. He defines marriage as “the faithful love of a man and a woman for each other, permanent, and for the sake of children … The Church does believe that human sexuality has a meaning in itself, that it’s about love and procreation … So a relationship between two people of the same sex is not in line with the teachings of the church and the teachings of the Gospel.”

As Archbishop Chaput indicated in his interview, the Church views marriage as both “unitive” and “procreative.” According to the Pontifical Council for the Family, these two characteristics can be understood respectively as “reciprocal self-giving” and “transmission of life.” The Church’s case rests on proving that same-sex couples are incapable of achieving these things.

I hope I’m not the only one to take offense to the idea that lesbian, gay or bisexual individuals are incapable of

self-giving love. But don’t take my word for it — look to the example of the LGBTQ people who spoke up about the AIDS crisis, and ministered to those in suffering. Or to those who have spent late nights and countless hours helping students who are coming out to themselves for the first time, trying to overcome years of harmful messages. Self-giving love is something that one develops, and there is nothing in the lives of LGBTQ people that prevents them from doing so — but there is plenty to promote it.

In fact, the Catholic Church would also take offense to denying that lesbian, gay or bisexual people are capable of self-giving love. Many of its teachings encourage them to develop friendships full of this love. It does, however, believe that this love of theirs cannot be expressed through their sexuality.

It is here that we come to the supposedly irrefutable truth of Catholic teaching. Without a male and a female, you cannot make a baby. Without biology, you cannot be procreative. Case closed. However, an observer might notice that the Catholic Church officiates over marriages that do not meet this strict test. We allow the marriage of infertile couples, and we marry those whose child-producing capacity has long passed. We do this because we innately recognize that procreation does not only mean “making babies.”

To use the Pontifical Council’s framing, procreation means that out of a relationship, one creates new life.

However, new life is not only the joining of a sperm and an egg but is created in the remainder of the act of raising a child, or in a mentoring relationship that leads a first

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generation student to college. It is in the care of creation that sustains our planet for the next generation, or in the care of a friend experiencing a renewal of life after a traumatic incident.

When the Catholic Church talks about procreation, it is speaking of the chance humans have to participate in God’s creation. It is the messy and imperfect earthly reflection of an ideal creator. The Catholic Church solemnizes and blesses the relationship of marriage because it helps cultivate the strength needed to carry out these actions. The concept of procreation is limited if it disregards the many other ways in which humanity participates in creation. The sacrament of marriage exists to solemnize a relationship that is expressly committed to the full range of procreation. It would be a shame to continue to argue that the ability to participate in creation is contingent upon the physical ability to make a baby.

I am not a theologian; I am simply a gay man who finds it strange that the Church cannot see the self-giving love and transmission of life in same-sex relationships that many of my friends, family and peers already have.

Perhaps the heart of the teachings of the Church will one day shine through the centuries of homophobia laid on top of them. Until then, those of us who find ourselves at the intersection of faith and sexuality can simply pray and live our lives the way God created us, regardless of whether God’s Church recognizes it.

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By MATTHEW MACKE Scene Writer

In 2001, Nas released a track called “Ether,” a withering attack on fellow New York rapper Jay Z. In the aforementioned song, Nas introduced a new phrase into the lexicon of hip hop conversation when he unloaded the line “and Eminem murdered you on your own s---.” At the time it referenced Jay’s song “Renegae,” but it has since come to describe any song where the artist listed after the “feat” outshines the one before it.

Keith Stanfield murdered Donald Glover on his own s---.

As creator, writer, executive producer, and star of FX’s new dramedy “Atlanta,” though, I doubt Glover is too upswet about it. Stanfield’s success only makes Glover look better as a writer and showrunner. Not that Stanfield’s success should come as much of a surprise to anyone who has seen any of his prior performances.

I first saw him in 2013’s “Short Term 12,” his first appearance in a feature length film. “Short Term 12” remains my favorite movie of all time, due in no small part to Stanfield’s portrayal of the introspective and troubled Marcus.

Naturally, I perked up when I happened upon

Stanfield playing a young gang member in 2015’s “Dope.” He poured emotion and weight into that fairly small role, which has been the calling card of his young Hollywood career so far. Despite his relative inexperience, he has drawn the attention of industry insiders.

Ava Duvernay picked him to play Jimmie Lee Jackson in 2014’s “Selma,” and after “Dope” he played Snoop Dogg in “Straight Outta Compton.”

“Atlanta” is Stanfield’s first appearance on the small screen, but Donald Glover had him in mind when casting the show. Although the show only debuted on Sept. 6, it appears to be a great fit for both Glover and Stanfield. Glover plays Earnest Marks, a Princeton dropout trying to jump on his cousin’s promising rap career. He appears to be motivated by a desire to provide for his young daughter and her unconvinced mother, but the bulk of what goes on between his ears remains mysterious. Stanfield plays Darius, the aforementioned cousin’s adviser and marijuana-fueled Confucius. Together with Brian Tyree Henry as “Paper Boi,” the rapping cousin, the trio make up the backbone of the show.

The characters, while compelling, have not yet established themselves as something we haven’t seen before on TV. The show itself, however, has made

By KELLY McGARRY Associate Scene Editor

Comic and 2014 alum Aaron Weber asked of Michiana’s hottest nightclub, Club Fever, “Do people still go to Feve?” They sure do. “Still Thursdays?” Until now.

Weber returns to South Bend on Friday, bringing along a host of his favorite Nashville-based comics: Brad Sativa​(CMT’s Still the King, Broken Record ComedyShow), Ben Sawyer​(Road to Now, Wild West Comedy Festival), Josh Lewis (Broken Record Comedy Show) and Josh Wagner​(SiriusXM, CMT’s Still the King).

As a former member of the Student Standups, Weber will be joined by the club’s current co-presidents Jack Riedy and Liz Hynes, who are excited to perform for a different audience than their usual Legends crowd. “It keeps the comedy fresh and ensures we won’t get stuck in a rut of #JustNDthings,” the pair expressed in an email. Like many students here, the co-presidents hold mixed feelings about the venue: “We’ve never done or seen any comedy at Feve before — besides the obvious material gifted to us each Thursday — so this venue choice will either be the best or worst choice ever.”

In a phone call Wednesday, Weber also hinted at a surprise appearance by 2016 alum Dayton Flannery.

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waves by confronting issues of police discrimination, mental illness and the glorification of gun violence in a way that bluntly represents real life for millions of African Americans. With such dark subject matter, “Atlanta” integrates its comedic elements surprisingly well. Whether it’s subtle gallows humor from Glover or destabilizing absurdism from Stanfield, “Atlanta” has established itself as some of the best comedy of the year. It also sets itself firmly in the recent trend of dark comedies popping up on the air.

When historians go back and look at the current era of TV, they will almost definitely wonder what was wrong with us. From “You’re the Worst” to “BoJack Horseman” and now “Atlanta,” we obviously need some help.

With any luck, these shows will give us the therapy we so clearly need. “Atlanta,” in particular, has the potential to raise our collective racial consciousness by bringing issues of discrimination to the forefront of television. Like “Ether” more than 15 years ago, “Atlanta” is a diss track from Glover and superstar-inwait Keith Stanfield to the people of the United States.

It’s up to us to laugh along and respond.

Contact Matthew Macke at mmacke@nd.edu

Naming Bill Burr and Kevin James as some of his influences, Weber confessed that he always wanted to do stand-up. He “loved to talk with a microphone and have a platform.” Performing with the Student Standups was his first experience as a comic.

Weber’s connection with Fever has deep roots, having managed the club’s social media accounts as a senior. After the success of a Student Standups performance at the Blarney Stone last year, Weber got the idea to have a show at Feve, which has never held a comedy show before.

The event is an opportunity for students to switch up their nightlife routine.

Weber recalled, “When I was a senior, it was like the day of the week determined where you [went] and that was it.” If nothing else, this show is a good excuse to be at Feve on a Friday.

Weber described his only previous post-grad trip to Fever. “It felt creepy and weird not being a student. I stayed for about twenty minutes.”

The show is scheduled “early enough so people can still go out after if they want” at 8:30 p.m. Doors open promptly at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $5. Must be 21 to attend.

Contact Kelly McGarry at kmcgarry@nd.edu

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Crossword | Will Shortz

Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Do what you do best and enjoy doing the most. Success is within your reach. The opportunities heading your way will encourage you to branch out and follow your dream. Changes are best embraced and can be turned into a chance to do something that is satisfying as well as profitable.

Romance is highlighted. Your numbers are 4, 11, 18, 25, 33, 41, 45.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t share others’ secrets. The less involved you are in gossip or what others are doing, the easier it will be for you to make the positive changes you want to see happen in your life. Romance is encouraged.

3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Step up and participate in a worthy cause.

Stand up for your own beliefs. Take action and make a difference to those who don’t have a voice. Your strength and courage will put you in a leadership position.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Friends, children or people you are indebted to will pose a problem. Clear your calendar in order to deal with matters that have the potential to escalate. Precision and technique will be required to meet your responsibilities.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your relationships with peers will face troubles if you can’t agree on how things should be done. Consider your options and look for a way to compromise now in order to get something in the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t fall for a fast-talking sales pitch that promises the impossible. Keep your money and possessions in a safe place and focus on self-improvement and personal growth. An elder’s point of view will be worth listening to..

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t take on more responsibilities than you can handle. Someone will criticize you if you can’t produce what you promise. You’ll get the best results if you update your skills to foster greater professional and financial opportunities.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Learn your lessons from those with expertise, not from someone who is trying to bully you into doing things his or her way. A positive change is one that allows you greater freedom to do as you please.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your charm and unusual approach to home, life and helping others will put you in a unique situation. Your powers of persuasion will help you succeed and may qualify you for bigger and better opportunities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Avoid anyone who is trying to take advantage of you. Deception and disillusionment will lead to poor judgment and loss. Focus instead on what you can do to make your life better. Physical improvements are highlighted.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A walk down memory lane will do you good and remind you why you have moved on from the things that were holding you back. You have little to gain from reconnecting with someone from your past.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ve got the drive to bring about the changes that will make you happy. Ulterior motives may be held by someone who is trying to deter you from reaching your goals. Put your own needs first and work hard to achieve your goals.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your emotions will take over, causing problems when dealing with superiors, older relatives or colleagues. Don’t voice your opinions until you have time to mull over all the information. Emotional manipulation is apparent.

Birthday Baby: You are sensitive, courageous and persistent. You are passionate and forceful.

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MLB | Rays 7, Orioles 6

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Mets, Tebow cause disappointment Elizabeth Greason Sports Writer

I should probably preface everything I’m about to say with the fact that I am a die-hard Mets fan.

Baseball was the first sport I ever had a second thought about.

I was fascinated by the wide array of Mets paraphernalia that my dad, a Queens boy and lifelong Mets fan, had maintained through the years.

My favorite number is 21, not because it is my birth date, but because it was the number that ex-Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado sported. I named our dog Shea in memoriam of my beloved team’s first stadium.

For as long as I can remember, the Mets have been a standup organization. They practice hard, lose a lot of games, occasionally pull off a stellar season, and maintain a staunch fan base.

Mets fans are not fair-weather fans because in the team’s 54year history, there hasn’t been a whole lot of fair weather. Mets players, unlike their counterparts on another New York baseball team, are rarely splashed across the headlines of the New York Post for their latest off-thefield antics. They play baseball, do well-publicized community service, and never stop smiling, no matter what their record is.

And while this idealized image of my team is one that I’ve carried with me, it’s one that I like to think it a reasonably accurate representation of the Mets, at least in comparison to some other MLB clubs.

But right now, I’m disappointed in my team.

I can honestly say that, before last week, I had been disappointed in the Mets twice in my life.

The first time was when the Mets traded Xavier Nady right before the deadline in 2006, when I was eight. I had developed an inexplicable attachment to Nady after watching him hit a home run to give the Mets the lead against the Pirates a few weeks before.

(In my defense, my disappointment turned out to be warranted, since, in return for Nady, the Mets received pitcher Oliver Perez, the thorn in the side of every Mets fan). The second time was when the Mets made the decision to let go of third base coach and bench

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coach Sandy Alomar Sr., of whom I could do a killer impression. To be honest, I cried when I found out that I would no longer be able to frantically wave players home, just like Alomar.

Last Thursday, however, I added another disappointment to that short list when the Mets signed Tim Tebow to a minor league contract. Now, I have nothing against Tim Tebow. I’m of the opinion that he was an extremely talented football player who never got a fair shot in the NFL. The Denver Broncos made the playoffs with him playing quarterback, so he couldn’t have been too terrible, and you can’t really blame the Broncos for trading up to an alltime great in Peyton Manning.

It’s impossible to argue that Tim Tebow is not a great athlete. He is. But I am truly skeptical about whether he can or will be a great or even a moderately successful professional baseball player. I agree with Mets’ general manager Sandy Alderson’s assertion that, no matter what his baseball career turns out to be, Tebow will be a strong leader and a good influence on his much younger teammates. But I’m simply not sure I believe Alderson’s claim that Tebow’s contract has nothing to do with publicity, good or bad.

I wanted Tebow to be signed by a team. I just didn’t want it to be my team. I didn’t want to be disillusioned by the fact that my Mets are not, as I like to think, above publicity stunts.

I want Tim Tebow to succeed with the Mets. I want him to end up in Mets’ record books next to the likes of Seaver and Piazza. I’ll be completely supportive if he pulls an Endy Chavez and make highlight reels across the country with “the Catch.” But, at the moment, until I am proved otherwise, I genuinely cannot believe that Tim Tebow was signed with the expectation that he will do much more than bring camera crews trailing after him to Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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Longoria drives in five to lead Rays past Orioles Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Evan Longoria homered and drove in five runs, and the last-place Tampa Bay Rays again played the spoiler’s role in a 7-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night.

The loss stalled the Orioles’ bid to enhance their position in the playoff picture.

Baltimore started the day trailing AL East-leading Boston by one game and holding a one-game lead over Toronto for the top wild-card spot.

Tampa Bay has won three straight, including the last two of a three-game series in Toronto. The Rays also defeated the wild-card contending Yankees on Sunday.

Longoria hit his career hightying 33rd homer with two on in the first inning and added a two-run single in the fourth to increase his team-high RBI total to 91.

Coming off a 6-3 road trip culminated with two successive wins in Boston, the Orioles fell flat against a team they dominated for much of the season. Baltimore is now 11-5 against Tampa Bay, 6-1 at home.

Alex Colome worked the ninth for his 33rd save. After

the Orioles got runners at first and third with one out, the right-hander struck out major league home run leader Mark Trumbo and slugger Chris Davis.

Baltimore went 3 for 15 with runners in scoring position.

Although the temperature was a comfortable 72 degrees and the Orioles are in the midst of a playoff push, the game attracted an announced crowd of only 19,233.

Longoria put the Rays up 3-0 before Yovani Gallardo (5-8) got an out. Baltimore answered in the bottom half with a two-run single by Matt Wieters and a two-run double

by J.J. Hardy.

Tampa Bay pulled even in the second, went ahead in the third and used Longoria’s two-run single to make it 7-4 in the fourth.

When Orioles manager Buck Showalter emerged from the dugout to pull Gallardo in the fourth, many of the hometown fans cheered. They subsequently booed the righthander as he walked toward the dugout.

Gallardo gave up six runs and seven hits in 3 1/3 innings. In 21 starts this season, he’s surrendered 21 earned runs in the first inning.

Baltimore’s Nolan Reimold

hit into a double play with runners on the corners in the fourth. The Rays worked out of an even bigger jam in the fifth, retiring Manny Machado, Trumbo and Davis with runners at second and third.

Brad Boxberger (4-1) got the last two outs in the fifth.

Run-scoring groundouts

by Hardy and Michael Borne made it 7-6 in the eighth.

Tampa Bay avoided being eliminated from playoff contention, but a Toronto victory against the Angels later Thursday would mathematically end the Rays’ chances of reaching the postseason.

Trainer’s room Rays: 1B Nick Franklin left in the fifth inning with a left hamstring strain. ... 1B Logan Morrison will get a second opinion on whether surgery is required for his season-ending left wrist injury. Morrison was injured while taking a swing Sunday and received an MRI this week.

Orioles: OF Steve Pearce will be sidelined until the final week of the season, maybe longer, after receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection in his throwing arm Wednesday. ... RHP Darren O’Day (rotator cuff strain) will throw a simulated game Friday.

NCAA FOOTBALL | Houston 40, Cincinnati 16

Big fourth quarter pushes Houston over Cincinnati Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Greg Ward Jr. returned from a onegame absence and ran for two fourth-quarter touchdowns to help No. 6 Houston — steadied by its fabulous defense — pull away to a 4016 victory over Cincinnati on Thursday night.

The Cougars (3-0, 1-0 American Athletic) trailed 16-12 early in the fourth quarter before Ward and the

defense took over. Ward had the scoring runs to regain the lead, and the Cougars returned a pair of interceptions for touchdowns to close it out.

Ward sat out a 42-0 win over Lamar on Saturday with a sore shoulder. He came through pregame warmups fine Thursday and dispelled any worries about his arm with a 39-yard touchdown pass on the Cougars’ second series.

Houston’s defense took away any semblance of a running game from Cincinnati (2-1, 0-1) and accounted for 16 points on its own — a safety and the two interception returns.

The Cougars haven’t allowed any of their last five opponents to rush for 100 yards. Cincinnati managed only 30 yards rushing, putting too much pressure on redshirt sophomore Hayden Moore.

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MLB | White Sox 2, Indians 1

White Sox top Indians behind Abreu’s homer Associated Press

CHICAGO — Chicago W hite Sox slugger Jose Abreu hit another home run Thursday.

And not just any homer.

Abreu continued his second-half surge with two more hits and Carlos Sanchez drove in the winning run in the ninth inning in the W hite Sox’s 2-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

Before the game, Abreu met with a young cancer patient and said he would try to hit a home run for the boy. He lived up to the promise on his second at-bat, a blast over the left-field fence that tied it.

“You feel for the people,” Abreu said through an interpreter. “It was very emotional for me, too, because if I couldn’t hit the homer, I would feel bad because I couldn’t accomplish what I promised to him. This is something I feel proud of, because these are the moments that you make people feel happy.”

Abreu needs six homers and five RBI to join Albert Pujols as only major leaguers with 30 homers and 100 RBIs in each of their first three seasons.

“He’s getting close,” manager Robin Ventura said. “He started out a bit slow, but when you look at the end of the year, he’s probably going to have numbers that are as impressive as anybody’s the league.”

After Omar Narvaez led off the ninth with a single off reliever Bryan Shaw (2-5), pinch-runner Leury Garcia stole second while Avisail Garcia struck out. Sanchez followed with a bloop single to right-center.

Reliever David Robertson (5-3) pitched a scoreless inning to earn the victory.

Cleveland threatened in the ninth, when the shadows around home plate made it more difficult to hit. Pinchhitter Francisco Lindor and Coco Crisp struck out to strand the lead run at third.

“You could see it coming,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “You’re hoping you get a lead before that.

We had a good chance. ... It’s hard enough to hit without being able to only see half the ball.”

In his most effective start since late July, Chicago starter James Shields gave up one run on three hits and three walks in six innings but remained winless in his last nine starts. He was 0-5 with a 10.75 earned-run average in his previous eight appearances.

After a rocky third, Shields mowed down nine

consecutive batters before Carlos Santana reached on an infield hit in the sixth.

The W hite Sox took three of four games in the series to conclude a 6-4 homestead against three playoff hopefuls. The first-place Indians remained six games ahead of the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central.

“Winning the series against the Indians, especially how they’ve been playing at the end of the year, is real nice,” Shields said.

Cleveland counterpart Mike Clevinger retired seven batters in a row before Abreu took him deep in the fourth.

That was the lone run off Clevinger, who allowed three hits and one walk in four innings.

Shields labored through a 33-pitch third but avoided major damage. The Indians scored only on Jose Ramirez’s sacrifice f ly despite a single, three walks and two wild pitches.

Clevinger encountered trouble in the first, but retired Narvaez on a pop out with the bases loaded.

Lindor remained 22 hits short of 200 this season.

Since 1996, Michael Brantley (2013) is the only Indians player to achieve the feat.

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Garcia has a .341 batting average in his last 11 games and five home runs and 16 RBI in his last 28. The hot streak coincided with his move from designated hitter to right field.

“His swings are better,” Ventura said. “W hether it was playing the outfield or not, there could be a correlation

Indians: C Yan Gomes could be activated and start on Friday pending the test results on his right wrist.

He was struck by a pitch Wednesday in a rehab assignment with Double-A Akron.

He has been on the disabled list since July 18 because of a dislocated right shoulder. ... OF Lonnie Chisenhall

to that. But I think it’s more (about) his mechanics and just the timing that he has right now.”

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(abdominal discomfort) was a late scratch. Crisp replaced him.

W hite Sox: INF/DH Justin Morneau (neck stiffness) sat out a third consecutive game as a precautionary measure.

Up next Indians: RHP Corey Kluber (16-9, 3.05) will bid for his third win in as many starts against the Tigers this season on Friday. Rookie RHP Michael Fulmer (10-6, 2.76) is scheduled to start for the visitors.

W hite Sox: LHP Chris Sale (15-8, 3.03) will take the ball in the opener of a weekend series in Kansas City on Friday night. The Royals will counter with RHP Ian Kennedy (11-9, 3.62).

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NFL | JEts 37, Bills 31

Forte’s three touchdowns lead Jets over Bills Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Matt Forte scored three touchdowns and Ryan Fitzpatrick finally solved Rex Ryan’s defense, leading the New York Jets to a 37-31 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night.

Forte’s 3-yard run put New York ahead 27-24 with 2:12 left in the third quarter. He sealed the win by patiently waiting for a seam to open before scampering into the end zone from 12 yards to put New York up 37-24 with 4:02 left in the fourth quarter.

Forte finished with 100 yards rushing, and the offseason free-agent addition became the 13th New York player to score three rushing touchdowns in a game.

The Jets (1-1) bounced back from a season-opening loss to Cincinnati and snapped a fivegame skid against their AFC East rivals.

Fitzpatrick finished 24 of 34 for 374 yards and a 5-yard touchdown pass to Eric Decker.

In beating one of his former teams, Fitzpatrick also

overcame the stinging memories of last year’s season finale, a 22-17 loss at Buffalo that eliminated the Jets from playoff contention. Fitzpatrick closed the loss by throwing interceptions on each of the Jets final three possessions.

The Bills (0-2) are suddenly reeling in Ryan’s second season as coach, and two years after being fired by the Jets.

Their offense sputtered in a 13-7 loss at Baltimore on Sunday, and now it was their defense that showed cracks against the Jets.

New York finished with 493 yards offense, 28 first downs and had seven drives cross midfield.

Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor rebounded five days after he was limited to 111 yards passing against the Ravens.

He went 18 of 30 for 298 yards and three touchdowns.

Marquise Goodwin scored on an 84-yarder catch, Greg Salas scored on a 71-yard catch and running back Mike Gillislee made it close, by catching an 18-yard touchdown pass with 1:17 remaining.

Brandon Marshall caught

Dan Carpenter’s onside kick.

The Jets scored on each of their first four possessions to build a 20-7 lead. Forte scored on a 1-yard plunge, Fitzpatrick found Decker on the 5-yarder and Nick Folk hit a pair of field goals.

The Bills rallied back to score on three straight possessions spanning halftime.

Dan Carpenter began the run by hitting a 39-yard field goal with 10 seconds left in the second quarter.

Then Buffalo scored twice in a span of 2:07 to go up 24-20.

After Salas scored, Bills safety Nickell Robey-Coleman returned Jalin Marshall’s fumble 36 yards for a touchdown on the Jets next possession.

Going deep Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis got off to another tough start. After having difficulty covering Bengals receiver A.J. Green on Sunday, Revis was burned by Goodwin on his 84-yard touchdown catch.

Goodwin burst past Revis up the right sideline at midfield and had two steps on him when he caught Tyrod Taylor’s Paid Advertisement

pass in stride at the Jets 35 and ran it in.

It was Buffalo’s longest touchdown pass at home in team history, and longest since Fitzpatrick hit Terrell Owens for a 98-yard touchdown strike at Tennessee on Nov. 15, 2009.

Adding in Salas’ 71-yard TD catch and Taylor became Buffalo’s fifth quarterback to throw two 70-plus yard touchdown passes in the same game, and first since J.P. Losman did it in 2006.

the Jets up 20-7

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Jets receiver Brandon Marshall proved to be a quick healer. It appeared as if he sustained a serious injury when his left knee twisted beneath him while cornerback Stephon Gilmore brought him down by the facemask in the second quarter. Marshall immediately grabbed his knee and lay on the field for a few minutes before getting up on his own.

Marshall returned for the next series and made an 21yard catch after having his knee examined. The catch helped set up Decker’s 5-yard touchdown catch which put

The game was the NFL’s first streamed live on Twitter as part of a $10 million-plus deal the social media company reached in April to deliver 10 Thursday night games through a mobile app. Twitter also announced its app will be available on Xbox One, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. This is the second time the Bills have been part of a social media broadcast experiment.

Last year, Yahoo averaged an audience of about 2.4 million viewers in broadcasting the Bills game against Jacksonville played in London.

Retiring No. 78 The Bills honored NFL career sacks leader and Hall of Famer Bruce Smith by retiring his No. 78 during a halftime ceremony.

“I don’t know if I’m worthy or lucky enough for all this,” Smith told reporters before the game. He joins Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, whose No. 12, is the only number the Bills have retired.

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MLB | red Sox 7, Yankees 5

Red Sox plate five in ninth to top Yankees Associated Press

BOSTON — Mookie Betts said it was his greatest moment in baseball. David Price told Hanley Ramirez the same thing.

“It’s an honor,” Ramirez said after hitting a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to finish off a five-run rally that gave the Boston Red Sox a 7-5 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.

“Unbelievable comeback,” the Boston first baseman added after helping the Red Sox snap a two-game skid and open a two-game lead in the AL East — knocking their archrivals back in the playoff race at the same time. “This one was a moment I really enjoyed.”

New York took a four-run

lead in the third inning and still led 5-1 before David Ortiz hit a solo shot in the eighth. It was the 537th home run of his career, passing Yankees Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle for 17th on baseball’s all-time list.

Ortiz also had an RBI single off Dellin Betances (3-6) in the ninth to make it 5-3. There were still two on and two outs when Ramirez worked a 3-1 count and then sent the next pitch to straightaway center field.

It was the sixth game-ending hit of Ramirez’s career and his first for Boston, earning him an ice-water drenching in front of the dugout as the crowd celebrated.

“Our games with the Yankees are unbelievable games,” said Ortiz, the only player left on the roster from the team that rallied from a

three-game deficit in the 2004 ALCS against New York and went on to win the franchise’s first World Series title in 86 years.

“This game was pretty much on their side,” Ortiz added.

“It’s huge, man. Hanley is a guy that has been doing some unbelievable things. Look at the year that he’s having.

Can’t ask for more than that.

He’s coming in every day to do something to make things happen.”

The Red Sox moved two games ahead of Baltimore, which lost 7-6 to Tampa Bay. Instead of improving to three games back in the division, the Yankees face a five-game deficit after losing for the fourth time in five games.

“This one hurts,” manager Joe Girardi said. “We’ve got to bounce back tomorrow. We

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were in a pretty good position going into the ninth inning and we weren’t able to close the deal.”

Starlin Castro had four hits and new addition Billy Butler drove in a pair of runs in his Yankees debut.

Joe Kelly (3-0) pitched into and out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the top of the ninth, striking out Chase Headley and then getting Mason Williams on a line drive back to the mound.

Ortiz had three RBIs and three hits — two for extra bases to give him 1,186 in his career. That tied the slugger with Frank Robinson for 11th on the all-time list for extrabase hits.

Collapse Girardi tried to avoid using Betances in the ninth, starting

with Tommy Layne for one out and then turning to Blake Parker, who nipped pinch-hitter Chris Young on the top of the helmet with a pitch.

Betances, the loser in Wednesday’s game against the Dodgers, walked Dustin Pedroia but got the second out when Young tried to score from third on a short grounder and was cut down at home.

With the crowd chanting “Papi! Papi!” Ortiz singled to make it 5-3. Betts singled to make it 5-4, and Gary Sanchez’s passed ball put runners on second and third before Ramirez ended it.

“The fastball that went out was 99 (mph),” Girardi said.

“Everyone’s tired this time of year. That’s the thing. It’s the end of the year. We’re fighting for our lives, he’s our best guy and I went to him.”

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Luck, Miller out to prove their worth Sunday Associated Press

DENVER — Von Miller has been chasing Andrew Luck around since the summer. He gets the chance to catch him on Sunday.

The stars are playing under new, standard-setting deals that were as jaw dropping as they were bar raising.

Colts owner Jim Irsay had promised a shocking deal for his franchise quarterback, and after relatively little drama, he delivered in late June when he signed Luck to an extension featuring a record $87 million in guarantees.

Miller and John Elway began patching up their rocky relationship two weeks later when the Broncos GM signed his Super Bowl 50 MVP to a

deal with $70 million guaranteed, most ever for a nonquarterback .

The two meet on the field Sunday when Denver (10) hosts Indianapolis (01). Miller figures it’ll be in the Colts’ backfield early and often, and Luck hopes it’s not until the post-game handshake.

“I haven’t had a sack on him yet,” said Miller, who has 61 sacks in his career. “I got close and he just has that knack for keeping his eyes downfield, feeling the defense and still making great passes.”

The Colts are coming off a 39-35 loss to Detroit that left their psyche bruised and their secondary in tatters.

The Broncos are coming off a clobbering of Cam Newton

in a 21-20 win over Carolina that left them defending their defense against charges they’ve gone from dominant and dazzling to downright dirty.

“Just because we hit Cam in the head a couple of times, that doesn’t make us dirty,” insisted linebacker Brandon Marshall, who had one of four helmet-to-helmet hits on Carolina’s big quarterback — and drew a $24,309 fine to go with safety Darian Stewart’s $18,231 citation.

Luck didn’t have to watch Denver’s defense nearly as closely as the league’s disciplinarians did during the week to know how Denver’s defense can put a serious hurt on the quarterback .

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win over the Broncos last year, but ended up in the hospital afterward with a lacerated kidney and torn abdominal muscle that sidelined him for the rest of the season.

“As a quarterback you have an obligation to be on the field,” Luck said. “That involves taking care of your body. Situationally, there are times when I need to slide or throw the ball away and I’ve been working on that.”

The Broncos return all but two starters from last year’s No. 1-ranked defense, and one of the newcomers, inside linebacker Todd Davis, earned a game ball as the unit’s top player against the Panthers.

Other keys to the first Colts-Broncos game since

Oct. 3, 1993, that didn’t feature Peyton Manning:

Dirty deeds Luck used these adjectives to describe Denver’s defense: tough, physical, great, winning, well-coached. His coach, Chuck Pagano, called the Broncos athletic, attacking, swarming. What neither called them was dirty. Said Luck: “I wouldn’t necessarily agree with that” description.

Pagano praised the Broncos’ pass rush, speed, closing quickness and cover skills, adding, “They’re a physical, physical unit.”

Suspect secondary After getting his first NFL pass, fourth-quarter comeback and victory last week, QB Trevor Siemian faces a patchwork secondary in Week 2. The Colts came out of their opener without their top three CBs: Vontae Davis (ankle), Patrick Robinson (concussion) and Darius Butler (ankle), and three of their top four safeties: T.J. Green (ankle), Clayton Geathers (foot) and Winston Guy (ankle).

Scuffling star Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas had a terrific training camp as he pledged to atone for 2015, when he was bedeviled by dropped passes and a big decline in TDs. Then he reinjured his bothersome left hip in the opener. He’s hoping the five-day break will help. “You pray about it, you work, you keep getting your treatment and hopefully by game day, you’ll be ready to go,” he said. “Hopefully, nothing freaky happens.”

Bronco’s beginnings When Elway matched Miami’s four-year, $18 million contract offer to C.J. Anderson, he told the thirdyear running back it was imperative for him to start fast in 2016 after poky beginnings to the last two seasons.

Anderson delivered in the opener, rushing 20 times for 92 yards and a score, catching four passes for 47 yards and a TD against one of the fiercest front sevens in football.

Slow starts Luck may be a master of the comeback, but he’s had it with the slow starts . Indy has faced 27 double-digit halftime deficits since 2012, and somehow has made the playoffs three times. The Colts fell behind the Lions 21-3 last week. “You can’t spot a team 18 points in the NFL,” lamented Luck, who would have pulled off his 15th winning drive had Indy’s depleted defense made one last stand against Detroit.

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Belles set for full conference slate this weekend

By BRENNA MOXLEY and DANIEL O’BOYLE Sports Writers

Golf Saint Mary’s will compete in its first MIAA tournament of the fall season Monday.

Albion will play host for the first conference round of the year, which is slated to start at 1 p.m. at The Medalist Golf Club in Marshall, Michigan.

The competition includes all nine MIAA teams, including the reigning conference champions from the spring season, Hope.

The Belles are coming off a strong showing in their last outing, having finished in first place at the Hanover Fall Classic last weekend. The team was leading by one stroke after the competition’s first day, but the rain shortened the round to nine holes, which the NCAA does not recognize as a scored round. However, the Belles came out strong on day two and built a 13-stroke lead to beat out the event’s host, Hanover. Freshman Lauren Read paced the field by shooting a 77, while sophomore Taylor Kehoe shot a 78 to finish second in the field.

Senior captain Ali Mahoney said the team is excited to build on its recent success as it enters the conference events.

“We’ve been looking forward to this tournament since August,” Mahoney said. “Since it’s the first conference match this year, we really want to show what our team is capable of. Coming off of the first place win this past weekend, we have great expectations for what we can accomplish this season.”

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Belles freshman forward Shayleigh O’Donnell jostles with a defender for the ball during Saint Mary’s 4-1 win over Manchester at Purcell Athletic Fields on Sept. 2. Saint Mary’s outshot Manchester 13-7 and held a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks in the match.

The Belles will tee off at The Medalist Golf Club on Monday at 1 p.m.

Volleyball Saint Mary’s earned its first conference win of the season in a sweep over Kalamazoo on Wednesday, winning each set by scores of 25-14, 25-16 and 25-22, respectively.

The Belles (2-6, 1-2 MIAA) took an early 6-1 lead in the opening set, and although the Hornets (2-7, 1-3 MIAA) closed the gap, Saint Mary’s pulled away towards the end of the set and won on a kill from junior outside hitter McKenzie Todd. It was the

first conference set the Belles have won this season, as they lost in straight sets in each of their previous two conference matches to start the season.

Saint Mary’s dominated the start of the second set, taking a 7-0 lead and soon extending it to 12-2. The Hornets struggled to keep up, as the Belles won the final point on a Kalamazoo attack error for a 25-16 win.

The Belles looked to be in danger of losing the third set, as the Hornets took leads of 14-8 and 16-10 in the set.

However, Saint Mary’s fought back to tie the game at 17-17 and won the final three points

of the game to win the set, 2522, and secure the match.

Senior outside hitter Meaghan Gibbons was the standout performer for the Belles, as she led the team with 14 kills and was second in digs with 12.

The Belles will travel to Illinois Tech this weekend for a pair of nonconference matches. They will play Rockford at 2 p.m. Saturday and Illinois Tech at 4 p.m.

Soccer Saint Mary’s continues to look for its first conference victory of the season, after falling to Trine on Thursday,

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Belles sophomore defensive specialist Emily Peppers serves during Saint Mary’s 3-0 loss to Adrian on Sept. 9 at Angela Athletic Facility. Belles senior outside hitter Meaghan Gibbons led all players with 13 kills on the night while registering 14 digs against Adrian.

2-0.

The Thunder (1-3-2, 1-3-0 MIAA) applied pressure early on, forcing saves from freshman Saint Mary’s goalkeeper Thallia Robles, but the Belles (1-5, 0-4 MIAA) could not hold off the attack for long, as Thunder junior midfielder Gigi Jarratt fired a shot from outside the box past Robles and into the net.

Saint Mary’s only managed one shot in the first half, but their best scoring opportunity came on a pass that went untouched. Belles freshman midfielder Mary Wandor came close to leveling the score at the end of the half, but couldn’t quite connect with a cross into the Trine box, leaving the score at 1-0 going into halftime.

Early in the second half, the Thunder made it 2-0, as freshman forward Morgan Sanderson intercepted a throw-in in Belles territory and slotted a finish past Robles.

The Belles looked to get back into the game, as sophomore defender Emily Beedie had a shot blocked and Wandor had one saved before a cross from freshman forward Shayleigh O’Donnell narrowly missed senior forward Liza Felix, who was waiting in front of goal.

Despite the Belles’ best efforts to get a goal back, the Thunder held on for a 2-0 victory.

On Tuesday, the Belles will be in action again, in a clash with the 2015 MIAA champions, Calvin. The game begins at 4 p.m. at Calvin.

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Irish freshman outside hitter Jemma Yeadon prepares for a serve during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Coastal Carolina on Sept 3.

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weekend. Sophomore outside hitter Brittany Maxwell of the Blue Demons shone with 55 kills and an average 3.93 kills per set. Maxwell tied a careerhigh record of 21 kills and recorded a .447 hitting percentage in the team’s match against Albany, which garnered all-conference recognition on the Big East weekly honor roll on Monday.

Host Michigan State (81) made its first appearance in national rankings after a tournament win over thenNo. 23 Western Kentucky at the Western Kentucky Invitational on Saturday.

Led by senior outside hitter Chloe Reinig and junior setter Rachel Minarick, the Spartans will be coming in hot at their home invitational this weekend. Reinig will be honored before Friday’s game for surpassing 1,000 career kills and Minarick ranks eighth in the Big Ten with 10.15 assists per frame and earned all-tournament honors last weekend.

Notre Dame and Michigan State have shared one

common opponent this season in San Diego State. The Irish dominated the Aztecs in straight sets on Saturday, while the Spartans took four sets to garner the win on their opening weekend. Friday’s match will be the first meeting between Notre Dame and Michigan State since 2004; the Spartans lead the series by a 7-4 margin.

The Spartan offense has limited its opponents to a 0.139 hitting percentage all season. Notre Dame will go into the weekend with a .217 average, but only No. 7 Florida and Western Kentucky have reached .200 or better in a match against the Spartans.

The Irish attack will be led by junior middle blocker Sam Fry, sophomore outside hitter Rebecca Nunge and freshman outside hitter Jemma Yeadon. Fry has been a key Notre Dame player all season, registering 2.77 kills per set, while Nunge and Yeadon have recorded 2.29 and 2.56, respectively.

The Irish squad will first take the court against Maryland East Shore in East Lansing on Friday at 11:30 a.m.

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Irish sophomore middle blocker Meg Morningstar spikes the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss against Coastal Carolina on Sept. 3.

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Irish junior setter Caroline Holt, left, and junior middle blocker Sam Fry attempt a block during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Coastal Carolina on Sept. 3. Fry leads the team with 29 blocks on the season.

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momentum, as they opened the ACC portion of their schedule last Friday w ith a 2-0 w in over Pittsburgh, followed by another 2-0 w in over Xav ier on Tuesday.

Louisv ille returned eight players w ith 13 or more starts from last year’s squad and thus is yet another ACC team that the Irish cannot afford

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to overlook, Clark said.

“They’re a good team, they’ve got some ver y good players,” Clark said. “Their right fullback is a key — it’s not often you see a fullback as a key to a team, but [Tim Kubel] is a German kid who’s ver y talented — he takes a lot of their set pieces as well … but they’ve got a lot of good players. They’ll be well organized — [Cardinals head coach] Ken Lolla there does a really good job. … We’ve

got a lot of respect for that program. They’ll play well, they’ll compete and, as I said, it’ll be an atmosphere, so it’s a good test for us.”

Friday w ill mark the 17th meeting all-time between the two teams, w ith Notre Dame holding the series edge, 11-4-1. The match is set to kick off Friday at 7 p.m. at Lynn Stadium.

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Irish senior midfielder Mark Gormley dribbles past a defender during Notre Dame’s 1-0 double-overtime win over UConn on Tuesday at Alumni Stadium. Gormley has two goals on the season.

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3-0-2 and throughout that stretch, Romagnolo said she has seen some very promising play out of her team.

“On the whole, I think that we’ve defended really well,” Romagnolo said. “There’s been good organization and offensively, we’ve been able to get into a rhythm in spurts, and I think we’re going to look to keep that chemistry going. Moving forward, we want to continue to create a lot of opportunities for ourselves and be aggressive in the right areas of the field. We also want to stress connecting with each other, which

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Irish sophomore defender Rachel Heard clears the ball during Notre Dame’s 1-0 win over Missouri at Alumni Stadium on Sept. 4.

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Irish junior forward Jeffrey Farina looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 1-0 double-overtime win over UConn on Tuesday at Alumni Stadium.

is something we’ve stressed all week in an effort to create more opportunities.”

However, Romagnolo also said there are some aspects of the team’s play that could be improved, specifically on the offensive side of the ball.

“We are still working on creating better offensive chances for ourselves with effort being put on finding each other more on the attack and supporting each other more,” Romagnolo said. “Really, the biggest thing for us is making sure the player with the ball is maximizing our options with her touches and players off the ball are creating better supporting angles.”

Romagnolo also said the team is striving for a positive

attitude, as her team enters ACC play.

“Every game we play in has to be about us and what we’re bringing to the table,” Romagnolo said. “I’m looking for us to defend really well and to create offensive chances and convert on those opportunities. In this game in particular, we aren’t looking too closely at any individual matchups. It’s more about us collectively asserting our will on the game.”

The game Sunday kicks off at noon and marks the first of 10 straight conference games for Notre Dame before postseason action begins.

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Irish junior defender Monica Flores brings the ball upfield during Notre Dame’s 1-0 win over Missouri at Alumni Stadium on Sept. 4. Flores has registered one goal and three shots on goal this season.

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Irish set for first true road test at Louisville

By JOE EVERETT Sports Writer

Resuming ACC play after its double-overtime victory Tuesday night against nonconference foe Connecticut, No. 1 Notre Dame hits the road for an ACC showdown with Louisville on Friday night at Lynn Stadium.

Looking to keep their undefeated season intact, the Irish (6-0-0, 1-0-0 ACC) will play in their first true road game of the year, as the two games they played at the IU Credit Union Classic were considered neutral-field contests. This will be the team’s first visit to Lynn Stadium, the relatively new state-of-the-art facility of the Cardinals (4-1-1, 1-0-0 ACC) that opened in 2014. According to Irish head coach Bobby Clark, it should provide a great atmosphere for the team’s first road test.

“I think [the team] will be excited, I think there’ll be a big crowd … [and] I think they’ll be really excited to play [at Lynn Stadium],” Clark said. “So it’ll be a good atmosphere. … We’ve

struggled down there in recent years, so this’ll be a good test for us.”

Although Notre Dame has enjoyed the benefit of having four of its first six games of the year in the friendly confines of Alumni Stadium, the team will now face of plethora of major road tests, ACC and non-ACC alike, during what remains of its rigorous regular season schedule. However, Clark said the Irish carry with them the expectation to compete well and win no matter where they’re playing.

“We try to win every game, and I think our mentality is such that no matter where we go, we want to win,” Clark said.

“We’ve got to play well — you don’t win if you don’t play well — so we’ve got to go into this fairly hostile environment and we’ve got to handle that, and then we’ve got to play our game.

This’ll be a really good test for us because Louisville’s always a very good team.”

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Irish graduate student midfielder Evan Panken battles for a loose ball during Notre Dame’s 1-0 doubleovertime win over UConn on Tuesday. Panken has scored two game-winning goals this season.

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Notre Dame will hit the road for its last non-conference competition at the Spartan Classic in East Lansing, Michigan, on Friday and Saturday. Notre Dame’s opponents over the weekend include Maryland Eastern Shore, DePaul and No. 22 Michigan State.

The Irish (7-2) will open with Maryland Eastern Shore (7-5) on Friday, a team that has lost its last three games. The Hawks have a .231 team hitting average led by sophomore outside hitter Lucia Babic (.300), with 91 kills and 15 blocks on the year. Freshman outside hitter Ivana Blazevic has also made a name for herself quickly on the young team, recording 16 assists and eight digs, both team highs, on the way to all-tournament honors last weekend.

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Squad starts conference play

By ALEX BENDER Sports Writer

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Irish sophomore outside hitter Rebecca Nunge, right, jumps for a block during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Coastal Carolina on Sept. 3.

This Sunday, No. 20 Notre Dame w ill head to upstate New York to take on Sy racuse in the first game of conference play for the Irish.

The last time these t wo teams faced off was last season when the Irish (5-12) were able to secure a 1-0 v ictor y in the early October matchup.

This season, Sy racuse (6-1-1) is coming off three consecutive v ictories before taking on both Buffalo and Notre Dame this weekend. The Irish, on the other hand, are coming back from a West coast trip that saw t wo ties — a 0-0 result against Santa Clara and a 2-2 draw against Stanford, currently ranked as the No. 1 women’s soccer team in the nation.

Regarding her team’s recent performance, Irish head coach Theresa Romagnolo said she was pleased, especially w ith

the draw versus Stanford.

“I think it was a good weekend for us,” Romagnolo said. “We took away a lot of confidence from what we were able to achieve out there. Overall, I thought that we defended well, and, especially in the Stanford game, I thought we attacked well and created a lot of good chances throughout the game.

“I’m excited about the way we continue to grow as a team. If you look back at where we started on Aug. 3, we’ve come a long way and our goal is to continue to make those steps forward ever y day we get out here on the practice field and ever y chance we have to play a game. We want to just keep focusing on growing as a team.”

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