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Competition drives early recruitment Potential employers interview business students for internships as early as September of sophomore year By COURTNEY BECKER News Writer
Sophomore finance major Zach Prephan, like many business students, has already been through the internship interview process multiple times this year, an indication of organizations and industries looking to hire students earlier and earlier. “I’d like to think that I’m on track, but it’s kind of different because not everybody is starting their recruiting process earlier. But some people are,” Prephan said. “I don’t think it’s out of line at all for me to want to have an internship at the end of sophomore year when I know that for the longest time it was pretty clear — at least in finance — the only one that
mattered was junior year. But increasingly people are getting internships their sophomore years so by the time it becomes the norm, it’s not really going to be an advantage for anybody anymore.” Hilary Flanagan, director of the Career Center at Notre Dame, said the recruitment process may appear to be starting earlier in the year, but that impression could simply be a result of the sheer number of organizations participating in Notre Dame’s fall recruiting process. On-campus recruiting has always began the third week of classes, Flanagan said. What’s different, she added, is the number of recruiters trying to visit campus early see BUSINESS PAGE 4
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Junior finance majors Rudy Bernard, left, and Utkarsh Sonkiya walk to a recruiting dinner on campus. Both students worked in finance-related internships last summer following their sophomore year.
Donation to fund Basketball usher critically injured in hit-and-run new science center Observer Staff Report
The William and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation of Midland, Michigan, donated $10 million to Notre Dame to create a center specializing in biophysical research in the College of Science, according to a University press release. The Stavropoulos Center for Interdisciplinary Biophysics will aim to foster connections between physicians, biologists, chemists, mathematicians and engineers, according to the release. The group’s work will focus on new approaches to cancer, stem cell biology, imaging, therapeutic development and other research practices. “The interconnectedness of biology and physics to understanding living systems is longstanding, but in recent years has become even more central to scientific research,” Thomas Burish, University provost, said in the release. “Bill and Linda’s generous and visionary gift will give us the opportunity to
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significantly expand our work in this arena.” According to the release, Bill Stavropoulos has served on the College of Science Advisory Council since 1988. His wife, Linda, serves as president of the William and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation, which the couple created to support efforts in health care, human services, higher education and religion, according to the release. “We feel strongly about the future of science at Notre Dame and wanted to support this important area of research that we believe will bring the University to the forefront of biomedical research,” he said in the release. Physics has been used in biological research for years — a relationship that has grown in recent years, as questions in biology been examined from a more fundamental level, according to the release. The center will allow the University to attract “a cluster of elite research talent to see DONATION PAGE 4
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Notre Dame basketball usher John Jurek was critically injured shortly before 7 a.m. Monday morning in a hit and run, according to a story from WNDU. Police say a car that was heading north on Portage
Avenue struck Jurek near Cleveland Road and did not stop driving, according to WNDU. The driver f led through the nearby Meijer parking lot. Jurek is currently in the hospital with critical head and abdominal injuries. Officers said Jurek was
wearing a ref lective vest at the time of the accident, and that he is an active walker. Police are still investigating the situation and are currently looking the driver of a small, tan- or creamcolored car with front hood damage on the passenger side, according to WNDU.
Civil rights lawyer examines misconduct By R ACHEL O’GR ADY Associate News Editor
In his experience with civil rights law, law yer Bill Goodman has worked with a number of clients who have been the victims of police misconduct. “You can force government to answer for what they do wrong, and what is unjust, and you can force people in
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power to answer for what they do wrong as well, and I think that’s an important rationale for doing some of the work that we do,” Goodman said in a lecture on police misconduct Monday. Goodman said in his line of work, he has seen ways to combat the issue of misconduct. “In the end there really is only one way to affect police
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misconduct, through methods that I can point to,” Goodman said. “I’m talking about training, supervision and discipline. Those are the things that I think will really alter the way that police behave and carry out their roles.” Beyond this, Goodman said he thinks the law is see POLICE PAGE 3
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Club members prepare for 14th annual Baraka Bouts By KATIE GALIOTO News Editor
Every time she puts on her boxing gloves and steps into the pit, senior Rachel Francis said she gets butterflies in her stomach. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been as nervous as before getting into the ring on fight night,” she said. Francis is a captain for Notre Dame’s Women’s Boxing Club, which hosts Baraka Bouts — a charity boxing tournament — each fall. Proceeds from the tournament, through the congregation of the Holy Cross, go to support two secondary schools in Uganda. This year, Francis said the club has more than 300 girls registered. “A typical day at practice consists of working your tail off next to at least 100 other driven girls in a high intensity workout, and then moving onto technique drills or sparring, which help develop boxing skills,” she said. “While all of this training inevitably leads to personal improvement and — hopefully — a love for boxing, the most beautiful part of Baraka Bouts is that it is fueled by a mission.” Freshman Katie O’Sullivan said she decided to attend her first boxing practice after hearing about the club from a couple of veterans. And she decided to keep coming back after experiencing the team’s “energy, dedication and enthusiasm” that very first day. “I think for a lot of people who haven’t actually tried Baraka Bouts, they assume
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A referee raises class of 2016 alumna Maggie Adams’ hand following her victory over current senior Isabella Bianco at the 2015 bouts.
it’s just female boxing. But it’s so much more than that,” she said. “It’s about learning how to push your limits, defend yourself and be a teammate — even when you’re in a literal fight.” Training consists of hourlong intense boot-camp workouts, O’Sullivan said, often consisting of “prolific amounts of burpees,” technique training and, sometimes, spars in the ring. Francis recruited her friend, senior MK Andersen, to join the club this year — and Andersen said she’s loved every minute. “I know it’s hard to get on board with women hitting women, but there’s something to be said about empowering women to be the strongest version of themselves,” Andersen said. Participating in the club
has taught her how to focus and overcome both physical and mental obstacles, Francis said. “The actual bouts — that is the most intense adrenaline rush I think I’ve ever experienced,” she said. “ … Letting those nerves and adrenaline fuel you in the ring brings out skills and endurance that you would never imagine you had.” The first round of this year’s tournament is Nov. 10. Tickets can be purchased from boxers or on site. “Most importantly, it’s about working as hard as you can — not just for yourself, but for a really great cause that benefits for every ounce of effort you put in,” O’Sullivan said. Contact Katie Galioto at kgalioto@nd.edu
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another important aspect of fixing the issues he sees nationwide. “Litigation, I think also is important, and it plays a role, but I think it points out the lapses in training, supervision and discipline,” Goodman said. Specifically, Goodman said he sees a real issue with racism in relation to stop and frisk laws in New York. “The theory in [stop and frisk] is meant to protect everyone equally,” Goodman said. “But Latino males, young males especially, and black males, they are being stopped constantly.” Goodman said he wanted to find a way to see if what he observed was actually what was going on statistically. “We wanted to go into the statistics and see if, statistically, we could prove that if you’re a young black or young Latino kid that you are more likely to be stopped and frisked, beyond a reasonable suspicion,” Goodman said. One of Goodman’s colleagues proceeded to go through the police records of instances of stop and frisk and found it was more likely that a young male minority was more likely to be stopped than a white male. “The police were saying, ‘You know of course we’re going to stop more black and Hispanic kids in the Bronx, because that’s where the crimes are happening,’” Goodman said. However, Goodman and his colleagues looked into the number of arrests made on those that were stopped. “For every 10 stop and frisks of minorities, there were three arrests,” Goodman said. “For every 10 stop and frisks of
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caucasian kids, there were eight arrests, which tells you that there’s a real basis for stop and frisk for a white suspect, but color was the only basis if you were a minority.” Goodman said this caused him and his colleagues to challenge law enforcement to take a harder look at the policies in place. “So we said, you know, you have to go back and retrain and say you can’t just stop and frisk based on color,” Goodman said. When he was watching dash cam tapes, Goodman said he saw clear examples of racism. “In my opinion, one of the major explanations for acquittals of some police, is that when the prosecutor shows the tapes to the jury, they never show the ones with the white motorists,” Goodman said. “And what does that show, when you put them side by side with ones of minority motorists? They show racism. They show clear racism.” This racism affects the outcomes of the cases, Goodman said. “If you take these tapes, every single one of these policemen should have been fired,” Goodman said. “And how many were fired? None of them. You see the power of racism in these videos, and how they affect the outcomes of these cases.” Goodman says he is seeing some progress being made, but not much. “What we’re seeing so much of now, with police misconduct with these shootings is these chiefs that are saying this is what we need to do and this is how we’re going to proceed, and I think we’re seeing some progress, but I guess it would just be a little, not a lot,” Goodman said. Contact Rachel O’Grady at rogrady@nd.edu
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significantly strengthen science and biophysics at Notre Dame,” Mary Galvin, dean of the College of Science, said in the release. “This field of knowledge is crucial as we seek to explore the physical principles of biology and make advancements in human health,” she said. According to the release, Stavropoulos graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and earned a doctorate in medical chemistry from the University of Washington. He worked at Dow Chemical Company for 39 years, where he served as chairman and CEO from 2002 to 2004. The Stavropoulos’ children, Bill and Angela, both graduated from Notre Dame. The couple has six grandchildren and live in Naples, Florida.
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in the school year. “They don’t want to be the last person to get in front of the students because then they feel like they missed an opportunity to connect with talent,” she said. Flanagan said the organizations doing their heav y recruiting in the fall are only those already prepared to hire students for internships the following summer. “That would be in the industries where they can identify in the fall what their needs are going to be for the spring,” she said. “If they have a robust and traditional on-campus recruiting approach — and they know they’re going to hire X number of students — then why wait until December or January or February when they can do it in September or October and get in front of the students earlier?” Many students are also ready to get their foot in the door of an organization or industry so they can gain working experience earlier in their college career, Flanagan said. “You’ve got students who, for years, had been hearing that an internship is the right way into finding an opportunity [after graduation],” she said. “So that idea that students are also seeking opportunities earlier because they want to have as many experiential opportunities as possible, … and also because they’re seeking to have those experiences that will give them a leg up on their competition — other students — in building that pathway to what comes after graduation.” Despite this scramble for internships, Flanagan said not all students will interview with potential employers at the same time due to the lack of consistency in institutions’ hiring schedules. “There is not a one-sizefits-all in terms of how industries and organizations hire,” she said. “By and large, you are all traditionally-aged college students, and so the last big process you went through like this would’ve been your application to college. … There will never be that kind of consistency [in deadlines] again.” This inconsistency doesn’t bother Prephan because he doesn’t think it affects the application process. “[Applying for internships is] always going to be a pain whenever, no matter when in the year they do it. So I think it’s going to move earlier and earlier as things get more competitive,” Prephan said. “I really don’t think it changes too much about the process. It would be like applying to college over the summer. It really wouldn’t change too
much, it’s just different.” For some students, however, even connecting with companies at the career fair is difficult. Senior marketing major Aimee Wu said she struggles to find organizations that are willing to speak with marketing majors during the fall recruiting process. “If you go to the career fair, it’s often really strongly based on accounting and finance,” Wu said. “I would walk around to different tables and be like, ‘Hi, I’m a marketing major.’ And they would just say to me, ‘Oh, we’re not looking for you right now, but you can check our website.’ ... They just kind of blow me off right off the bat.” Flanagan said this is because certain industries’ schedules are more conducive to recruiting college students at the beginning of the year. “There are certain industries that are very active in recruiting on college campuses — so finance, accounting and consulting on this campus,” she said. “Those would be three industries that we can say, by and large, the majority of that recruiting is going to happen in the first two months of the fall semester. But that isn’t to say there isn’t still a ton of that in the spring semester. There is — just not on our campus with as big of a pocket or group of students.” Prephan said he appreciates interviews being scattered throughout the year because it offers more time to prepare and focus on school or networking between interviews. “I kind of like that a lot of them are staggered,” he said. “Everyone can find 45 minutes to an hour, but if you have to do that three times in one week it’s not that easy. So I don’t think that having one spread out hurts. A lot of our work is done outside Notre Dame toward getting a job, just because it is that competitive. You need to put in that extra effort.” Flanagan said although other industries might not hire as early as finance, accounting and consulting do, there are still plenty of internship and experiential opportunities available for students looking to go into other fields. “[Other industries] are not typically going to be in a position in September or October to know how many they’re hiring,” Flanagan said. “Hiring timelines are not necessarily in sync with an academic calendar year. But many are and so when you have large groups of students on our campus involved in those that do traditional on-campus recruiting, that can certainly ratchet up the anxiety for those that aren’t. But they have to remember they’re interested in
doing something different, and there’s a completely different process to that hiring timeline.” Wu said as a marketing major, hearing that students have lined up job offers thanks to a summer internship still makes her anxious. “It’s interesting that once you settle on one accounting firm you [can be] set for life, pretty much, if you decide to stick with it,” she said. “It’s kind of nerve-wracking since there’s not much to go on in sophomore year [for marketing majors]. … I think it’s easier to focus on accounting and finance because there are specific companies that are the ones to go to, and marketing is all over the place.” Flanagan said Wu’s feelings are a natural reaction to a high-pressure process — one the Notre Dame Career Center has tried to make easier for students. “I think career development is a stressful process, period,” she said. “Each one of those decision-making points can cause a lot of anxiety, so one of the things that we do is our career coaches — what we’ve done in the past few years is create two teams of career coaches.” Flanagan said while one team — the exploration team — helps students to move forward in their identified area of interest, the Career Center’s main focus is helping students determine certain factors that will allow students
to begin the cyclical process of career development. “Our other team of career coaches is really focused on early career discernment, so focused on what we affectionately call the VIPS — values, interests, personality and skills,” she said. “Your anxiety is going to be ratcheted higher and higher when you haven’t taken that time because career development is really a cyclical process, and we find ourselves in different parts of that cycle throughout the course of our lifetime — not just in the four years that you’re here — and you can go through the circle a few times while you’re here as a college student.” Figuring out one’s VIPS then allows students to focus on where they want to work instead of what they want to do, Flanagan said. “If you take the time to really think about and discern your VIPS, then you’re going to be able to better position yourself,” she said. “The anxiety decreases substantially when you’re able to do that. Then you’re thinking about finding a fit.” Flanagan encouraged students to visit the Career Center for formal and informal assessments, as well as a conversation about a student’s VIPS. “Really at the end of the day, it boils down to getting in here and talking to a career coach because just getting students to open up and Paid Advertisement
asking some good questions to get you to start thinking about values, interests, personality and skills very intentionally in a safe place — to have those questions is sometimes all it takes,” she said. “It’s information that a lot of times the student already has but hasn’t had anybody really ask them in that fashion.” Prephan said one helpful resource the Career Center pointed him toward was the alumni database, which lists Notre Dame graduates by profession and company. “I actually had a meeting with one of the guys [at the Career Center] earlier this semester, and he showed me the alumni database on its website,” he said. “I think that’s incredibly helpful for when you know what you want to do already. But you also never know what kind of opportunities are just going to come out of nowhere with people that you meet.” These opportunities are possible, Flanagan said, due to the incredible support of the Notre Dame alumni community. “We have the best alumni community going in terms of having people who will talk to you about, ‘This is what you can expect to see in terms of a timeline, and here are some of these other steps that you should be doing, too,’” Flanagan said. Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu
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It’s 1 a.m. at Club Hes. You’ve been in the intellectual trenches for several hours now, toiling away as the shadow of the coming exam looms over your stress-ridden head. You contemplate a study break — some relaxing and mindless activity to grant reprieve — but quickly turn the idea down. Netflix, YouTube and the milieu of social media platforms at your fingertips offer an enticingly convenient hiatus to the unassuming fool, but you are no amateur. You know all too well that these internet goodies are really the components of a sinister technological black hole. They trap their unwitting prey in a swirl of malicious click bait and pernicious phrases like, “The next episode plays in … .” Once you enter the void, there’s no hope of escape. So where do you turn? Is there a path to rejuvenation that doesn’t end in an anxiety attack? Fortunately, yes. A wandering and anxious bookworm can always find solace in the refreshing prose of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Granted, it’s a humor website. Like College Humor, reruns of “The Office,” and absurd Snapchat stories, the site intends to put you in a writhing fit of joyous hysteria. McSweeney’s, however,
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Take one look at D.R.A.M.’s album cover and you know this isn’t going to be your average hip-hop album. The 28-year-old Virginia-based rapper and his goofy, earto-ear smile take up the entire frame, save for the golden doodle he’s cuddling. This man with a big smile, a bigger heart and an even bigger personality is no other than D.R.A.M. (short for “Does. Real. A--. Music.”), who first caught mainstream attention near the end of 2014 with “Cha Cha,” a catchy, Mario-sampling track that Drake went on to blatantly rip off in “Hotline Bling” before backing off and claiming that it’s okay for multiple artists to use the same beat. As disappointing as it must have been for an up-and-coming artist to have his music stolen and turned into one of the biggest hits of 2015, D.R.A.M. just shrugged it off, tweeting that he felt he “got jacked for my record … But I’m GOOD.” That happy-go-lucky attitude and the big grin on the cover of “Big Baby D.R.A.M.” capture just about everything you need to know about D.R.A.M. The Lil Yachty-assisted “Broccoli” is the centerpiece that holds this record together. The top-10 hit is contagiously
delivers its humor in a high-brow lit mag sort of way. It’s a place where you can simultaneously experience the comic satisfaction of watching a great sitcom and the glorious smugness of reading a New Yorker think piece. The site’s editor — man, myth and legend Dave Eggers — takes pride in showcasing aspiring writing talent and unique comic perspectives. Every realm of the literary and cultural world is fair game for his young writers. Colin Nissan, for instance, took the site to new heights with his delicate musings on the nature of fall in “It’s Decorative Gourd Season M------------.” Another brilliant social critic, Mike Lacher, shook the world with “I’m Comic Sans, A------!” — a weighty examination of prejudice in the field of word processing. McSweeney’s even publishes articles with names that don’t need to be censored. When Jennifer Simonson seamlessly connected the art of film with the struggle of the young writer in her riveting piece “Lines from the Princess Bride that Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers” and Sarah Layden captured the nuances of thoughtful songwriting in “Seven Women on His Mind: The ‘Take it Easy’ Ladies Tell All,” they did so without titular cuss words. If you’re more politically minded, you may want
to explore the broad range of liberal viewpoints that McSweeney’s has to offer. Patrick Rielly’s “I’m a Social Justice Warrior, and I’m Here to Take Your Guns” boldly exposed the true consequences of our complicated government policy, and Peter McCleery’s “Casual Sexism Fridays” made a valiant effort to solve the conflict between women and systemic injustice through compromise. Lengthwise, most McSweeney’s articles contain between 700 and 1000 words — short enough so they don’t waste too much time and long enough to rule out your willingness to read more than two. There are no multimedia links, illustrated lists or generic images of tomfoolery to draw you further away from the task at hand than you already are, just a lot of good words. I recommend you read some of these good words. Send them to your friends, your enemies and people you don’t know. Spread the good words around like the autumn spirit. You may end up starting a small-scale internet revolution. (Disclaimer: The preceding sentence is excessively dramatic and highly unrealistic.) Get back to studying, you silly goose.
optimistic and straight-up bumping. There are few artists out there who can pull off rhyming “sleazily” with “greasily,” but D.R.A.M. makes it work so well because he’s just so funny. Of course, the runaway success of both “Cha Cha” and even more so “Broccoli” has led many to question whether D.R.A.M. will be able to break out of the fun-loving, viral-smashing mold he’s quickly developed for himself, or if he’s doomed to be a one-hit wonder. Thankfully, there’s more to this album than just “Broccoli.” It’s sandwiched right between the album’s two other best tracks, “Cash Machine” and “Cute.” Based on these few tracks, D.R.A.M. has unfortunately been quickly placed in a category with Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug and Lil Yachty because of their specific vocal idiosyncrasies, general newness and weird overall style. However, D.R.A.M. stands apart from them and many other rising stars because his intensity is so hard to match and his music is so hard to categorize. In just those three songs mentioned above, D.R.A.M. combines elements of rap, funk, rock, soul and so much more. This experimental attitude extends across the whole album, giving us great songs like “Misunderstood,” featuring Young Thug, Auto-Tune and ’80s guitars, and “WiFi,” a duet with Erykah Badu that flies effortlessly through a sparse, electronic soundscape solely on the power of
these two artists’ massive personalities. Closer “Sweet VA Breeze” proudly rocks jazz influences and organ features in a rather modern way without feeling tacky. This is an album that is very in the moment of 2016, featuring track titles such as the aforementioned “WiFi,” as well as others like “Change My #” and “Password.” That being said, D.R.A.M.’s overwhelmingly positive vibes and endlessly creative music ensure that he’s more than just a one-hit-wonder and will be cha cha-ing his way through the Billboard Top 10 for quite some time.
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“Big Baby D.R.A.M.” D.R.A.M. Label: Atlantic Records and EMPIRE Tracks: “Cash Machine,” “Broccoli,” “Cute” If you like: Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert
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Taekwondo’s five tenets Andrea Savage Graphics Designer
“A black belt is a white belt that never quit,” — and that’s exactly what I was thinking as I stepped up and bowed to Master Lindeberg. It had taken me three years to get to this point, and my commitment to the art of taekwondo had grown from a bi-weekly family activity to a way of life. My family was forced by my mom, wanting us to have more “family time,” to spend an hour a day together at taekwondo. Eventually, we chose to spend time together during our nightly family dinners, often sitting for hours, talking and laughing. On test day, I stood in line, looking down at my candidate belt, a bright red belt with a black stripe, waiting to start the test. I shifted my gaze to my toes and wiggled them in the wet grass. I looked across my row to the rest of my family: my older brother, my little sister, my mom and my dad. Our crisp, white uniforms looked dull and damp as the rain began to pour. “Courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control, indomitable spirit,” echoed throughout the outdoor field as we testers chanted in unison and waited nervously to begin. Those strong words, the five tenets, are chanted before each class, each tournament and each test. We recite them to remind ourselves why we practice taekwondo, and how we live our lives. I first joined taekwondo as a self-conscious fourth grader after an exhaustive search for a sport that required no spectators’ eyes on me. I always stood in the back row so I wouldn’t be seen. As I worked my way up through the 15 belts, I also worked my way toward the front of the room, feeling more and more comfortable in class. The consistent practice and desire to achieve helped me overcome my shyness and lead to new friendships with other students working toward a common goal. The main goal of taekwondo is to “achieve total mind and body control through training”. While in class, we’re expected to have one priority: taekwondo. While learning this concentration through sport, I‘ve also learned to apply it to other aspects in my life. Meditation before classes, tests and sporting events helps to clear my mind and improve my focus. Most importantly, taekwondo taught me to be comfortable with who I am. I went from being too afraid to perform at my violin recitals (yes, I was that girl who stayed in her mom’s arms the whole time and cried in fear) to being comfortable giving speeches in front of a large group. My newfound confidence gave me the courage to be myself and explore new things. At the end of the two-hour test, once I had finished my grueling 50 pushups on the boards I had broken, I contemplated what this really meant for me. I walked over to Master Lindeberg and bowed as he awarded me my black belt. As I moved away, I realized that this black belt was a symbol of so much more than passing a final test. I had grown to appreciate a new way of life based on respect and discipline. I continue to take the knowledge I’ve gained through taekwondo and the five tenets with me as I explore what I love and pursue my academic goals at Notre Dame. Contact Andrea Savage at asavage@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Letters to the editor
Liberal arts and helicopter parents In my short time here at Notre Dame, it has astounded me how certain people v iew the issue of choosing a major. I don’t usually care to point out that, for most people, their major w ill not be the field in which they go into as their profession. But what truly scares me the most is that people are w illing to make such decisions before they even come to school. I am in the College of Arts and Letters, and I have some leeway concerning what courses I take outside of my major, but people who choose to be business majors and engineering majors don’t fare quite as well. This isn’t a plug for more Arts and Letters students; this is a plug for finding something you truly love. The issue of helicopter parents isn’t something that is going away in the near future, and in my opinion, it is something that w ill likely only get worse as young adults fight tooth and nail for their respective golden tickets to elite institutions of learning. These kinds of parents can cause permanent harm to students who feel the need to appease their parents w ith a major that w ill “get them a real job.” This mentalit y, frank ly, makes me sick. As a result, we are seeing more and more double majors, one to appease the parents, and another for the real passion of the student. I plead to all students out there who may
feel these pressures, don’t give in. A major is a conduit in which a young scholar can feast on a bount y of knowledge and learning. I believe in the liberal arts, and I know there are some people who truly love and want to study chemical engineering, and it brings me joy knowing they are pursuing their passion. But for those of you who are pursuing a degree purely for the sake of acquiring a job that your parents w ill approve of post-graduation, please, reconsider. Above all, follow your heart and follow your passions. To those of you who still are undecided, like me, or who are unsure of your current path, take heart in know ing that you are at a wonderful institution that can prov ide you w ith some of the greatest education our nation can muster; don’t squander it. And I implore you, discover what you truly find fascinating and pursue that passion, regardless of the opinions of others. If you’re learning about what you really love, then you’re getting the full value of your education and you’re bound for success. Kit Jones sophomore Oct. 11
Calling for accountability Dear President Jenkins, I am writing to express my profound disappointment at your presence (or lack thereof) at the wpoetry reading by Juan Felipe Herrera, the U.S. poet laureate. First, I was frustrated by the lack of attention you gave to correctly pronouncing our poet laureate’s name during your half-hearted introduction. Especially for someone as respected as Juan Felipe Herrera, your role, at the most basic level, is to do your best to introduce his name accurately. Please consult a Spanish speaker if you are struggling. Further, as Juan Felipe Herrera is our first Chicanx poet laureate, I read this negligence as ignorant and indifferent toward the Latinx community and their achievement. Secondly, your immediate departure after the introduction came across similarly, as rude and uncaring. As the presenter, your task is to convince the audience of the legitimacy of that speaker. However, your glaring absence from the actual performance snubbed both our poet laureate and all attending persons. To be perfectly frank, you should not introduce a speaker if you cannot be present for the
performance. President or not, you are held to the same standard of accountability as the rest us, or, rather, you should be held to an even higher standard. Once again, I must reiterate that this seeming lack of attention communicated that you do not care to engage with or support our Latinx community, nor participate in dialogue about diversity and inclusion across differences in race, gender identity and sexuality. Again, being frank, I expect better of our president, and I encourage you to do better, or, at the very least, to give the semblance of caring. You are accountable to Notre Dame’s communities of color and other marginalized communities on our campus to be our strongest ally and advocate. I am by no means convinced that you are doing so. I hope that this transparent feedback will encourage you to be equally transparent with your students, and that it will serve in some small capacity towards creating a university where accountability is the norm, rather than the exception.
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Of horses and bayonets Stephen Raab Let’s Talk Smart
There are a few talking points that make their way around the various talk shows and debate circuits that really set me off. While waiting for a flight in South Bend International Airport a few weeks ago, I heard one of them from vice presidential candidate Mike Pence. On Fox News Sunday, Pence told Bret Baier, “We’ve got to rebuild our military. We have the smallest United States Navy since 1916. We have the smallest standing army since the end of World War II.” The fundamental intellectual dishonesty of this statement should be pretty clear, but I’m going to unpack it anyway. Pence deliberately ignores the very basic military concept of a “force multiplier.” Simply put, a force multiplier is anything which raises the fighting effectiveness of a unit. This can be anything from training to logistics to “esprit de corps,” but for the last three-quarters of a century, the chief American force multiplier has been technology. Let’s look at the composition of the U.S. Navy circa 1916. The most recently manufactured capital ship was the USS Arizona. She displaced 29,158 long tons, could steam along at 21 knots, and carried a dozen 14-inch guns that could fire a shell a little over 13 miles. The modern U.S. Navy’s most recent heavy hitter, on the other hand, is the USS George H.W. Bush. This powerhouse displaces 102,000 long tons and runs on nuclear power at over 30 knots. In place of the Arizona’s obsolete cannons, the George H.W. Bush carries dozens of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, which have a combat radius of nearly 450 miles and can carry multiple anti-ship missiles which themselves have an effective range of 77 miles. On land, it’s an equally lopsided story. The Army of 1945 had only just begun to develop the
bulletproof vest; in contrast, the modern U.S. Army’s latest gear innovations are exoskeletons that may enable soldiers to carry over 650 pounds of equipment. At the tail end of World War II, radar was still in its adolescence. Today, we inspect al-Qaida strongholds from space at resolutions measured in inches. The Sherman tanks that were iconic of Trump’s much-cited Patton and McArthur are tin cans compared to today’s M-1 Abrams. And let’s not even start to talk about nuclear weapons. In 1945, we had three — Gadget, Little Boy and Fat Man. Today, we have thousands. A more relevant measure of our defensive power is our relative capability in comparison to our possible foes. Combined, the entire rest of the world has nine aircraft carriers in active service. The United States alone has 10. Our nuclear submarine fleet numbers 75; China has 10. We have the only fifth-generation fighter aircraft in the world in the F-22 Raptor, and we’ve also got the F-35 Lightning II, an airplane so advanced even we don’t know how to build one that works. The Army has so many Abrams tanks that we can afford to park 2,000 of them in the Nevada desert, with continued production driven by Congressional dictum, not military necessity. Though we live in an increasingly multipolar world, America remains the sole military superpower, and that won’t change anytime soon unless the Chinese discover the Ark of the Covenant. And instead of quaking in fear at imaginary threats (better watch out for Italy, our second-place rival for aircraft carrier supremacy), let’s focus on the real conflicts we’re embroiled in. Since the invasion of Iraq, America’s “hot” conflicts have been focused largely on asymmetrical warfare against outnumbered and outmatched insurgencies. The Islamic State group and its various store-brand affiliates have neither Air Force nor Navy. Defeating them isn’t about creating more firepower, it’s about effectively matching that firepower to its
corresponding target. The money Pence wants to send towards supporting more unnecessary tanks and troops would be better spent on improving America’s cyberintelligence capability — a modern force to meet a modern threat. The true irony of Mike Pence’s statements is that they run parallel to those of a man with whom he’d never voluntarily associate his ideas. I speak, of course, of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. While his famous aphorism that “quantity has a quality all its own” is a fabrication of history, it has endured because it is indicative of the Soviet doctrine that rushed out inferior designs (such as nuclear submarines with minimal radiation shielding) instead of making quality weapons systems. This attitude simply isn’t the American way. Let’s also remember that we’ve seen the same sort of handwringing about America’s defensive capabilities. In the ’50s, we worried that the Soviets had more bombers than we did. Just a few years later, everyone in Washington was sure that the communists’ missiles outnumbered and outperformed our own. In both cases, these gaps were inventions of politicians willing to play fast and loose with the facts if it meant they’d look tough on defense. History repeats. It’s truly disappointing that Mike Pence, who is intelligent enough to see the folly of these comparisons, feels the need to use such anti-intellectual rhetoric. Of course, he wouldn’t be doing so if it wasn’t effective. Let’s hope that more people will realize that this particular talking point is spurious on its face. With luck, the news will at last be rid of it for good. Stephen Raab, an MSM candidate at the Mendoza College of Business, graduated Notre Dame with a bachelor’s in chemical engineering in 2016. He enjoys matching wits with all comers at sraab@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
A tribute to tyrants Devon Chenelle The Gadfly
The night was, like most in Paris, a fashionable one. It was Oct. 1, and a luminous collection of aristocrats had gathered to fundraise for the standardbearer of the reigning world order. Though in most respects this event was not much different from most of Secretary Clinton’s rarefied gatherings — unlike Trump’s rallies, which share more in tenor and audience with an Indiana State Fair or a South Chicago flea market than they do with a haute Paris gala; trust me, I’ve been to two — the attendance of Barbara Bush, daughter of George W., must have raised a few eyebrows. Yet Barbara’s attendance at the event, alongside Anna Wintour and other gentility, is not so surprising. George H.W. Bush, Barbara’s grandfather, was vice president to contemporary rightist fetish object Ronald Reagan, the 41st president, and the father to a veritable clutch of Republican figures, not least our nation’s beloved 43rd chief executive. Yet in a September conversation, H.W. announced he would be abandoning the GOP’s candidate for the presidency, who had been nominated with a deafening majority of delegates by primary voters even before the Democrats could finalize their champion’s investiture. What does it say about the Republican candidate that much of his own party runs in fear from him? What does it say about this man that the two great dynasties of American politics — House of Clinton, House of Bush — are unified in opposition to this menace to their interests? Plato wrote that democracy was doomed to degenerate into tyranny, as the ever-growing freedom
that justifies and sustains a democracy eventually becomes so extensive citizens “chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority,” dooming the democracy, as “the excess of liberty … seems only to pass into excess of slavery.” The late-stage democracy finds itself burdened with incompetent rulers despised by those they rule both because of their own faults and the peoples’ own hatred of authority. The ground is now ripe. As the peoples’ eyes are opened to the thieves and scoundrels who rule them and are leading them into ruin, they muster up the last of their energies to thrust into power the only one they know capable of crushing their perfidious masters, a figure greater and more fearsome by far. Enter the tyrant. He emerges as the enemy of the rulers and the rich, from whose ranks he once came, and as the guardian of the people. The tyrant’s elite enemies recognize him for what he is and hate him, for he portends their ruin. The tyrant promises to cut through the inefficiencies and excesses of the democracy. The people, overwhelmed and burdened by democracy’s excesses and failings, flock to his banner. The following events are far removed from a Paris runway. During last summer’s catastrophic flooding in Louisiana, the inhabitants of that state were ravaged by historic flooding. As these people suffered, the sitting president of the United States could not be bestirred from his rounds of golf, and the Democratic candidate appeared barely aware of the tragedy. But to the flood-struck people of Louisiana, tens of thousands of whom were now homeless, this was immaterial — those were not the politicians they wanted to see. All of a sudden, like a bolt of orange lightning, a shock of excitement coursed throughout the bayou:
Trump had alighted upon the devastated land, Trump Force One ferrying the tribune to his people. The crowds came around him, screaming and rejoicing in a scene reminiscent of Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor (“the people knew him”). In the succeeding scenes, our myopic media elites could finally understand what’s going on this election, if only they were still able to listen. As the people crowded around Trump, as their president fiddled (I mean, played golf) one woman cried out “we knew you’d be here Mr. Trump! We knew you’d be here for us!” Another crowd beset Trump at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, where a woman told Trump, “We lost everything and we knew you would come. This makes it all worthwhile.” To many, Trump’s move looks like nothing more than a political stunt. Yet note: While the people of the bayou were ignored by the media, forgotten by the president and neglected by the Democratic candidate, while they were slowly trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives in the mud and the dirt that their earthly possessions swirled around in, someone did not forget them. Remember the words “we knew you’d come.” Remember the image of a titan of industry striding into the misery of postflood Louisiana and embracing those who have just lost all that they had, telling them he had not forgotten them, telling them he would makes things alright for them. Remember it, for the people of this country will. Devon Chenelle is a junior in Keough Hall. He is a history major with an Italian minor. He can be reached at dchenell@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Don’t stop believing in yourself. Apply your skills and expertise toward something you love to do. Delve into the depths of whatever excites you. Bring adventure back into your life. Step up and stand tall and you will find the portal you are looking for. Let your imagination take over and your experience and expertise lead the way. Your numbers are 8, 11, 20, 28, 33, 36, 41. ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll discover an easy way to update or improve the way you present or market what you have to offer. Positive change will help you overcome any obstacle you encounter. Make relationships a priority and put aside time for romance. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Discuss your ideas with someone you are in a partnership with and you will make headway. Your practical, well-thought-out plans will help you find the support you are looking for. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your actions and ability to read signals and body language will be limited today. If you think you may be misinterpreting someone, ask them to clarify what they mean. You don’t want to miss out on an adventure that will make you rethink your future. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Interact, network and mix business with pleasure, and you will come out a winner. Doing things with children or learning something new will motivate you to live in the moment. A retreat will lead to enlightenment. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t waste time on something that won’t benefit you. Concentrate on being and doing your best. How you present what you have to offer will determine what transpires. A positive change is within your reach, and romance is on the rise. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dig in and make a difference in your community. Your astute point of view and your ability to make important decisions will help you find the success you are looking for. Don’t let someone’s demands stand in your way. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take a chance and do things your own way. Your input and dedication to being the best will be valued by your peers and help you move into a position you find more interesting. Don’t let problems at home affect your productivity. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Discuss your feelings and intentions. Secrecy can be a good thing, but not when you are dealing with business matters. You can get your way if you explain what you want. A creative idea will blossom into something good. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take care of your health. It’s not worth taking a risk if it jeopardizes your physical, emotional or financial well-being. Make positive changes to your lifestyle by aiming to get into better shape. Romance will ease your stress. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Assess and implement ideas and bring about reasonable changes to the way you make your living. Don’t get pressured into something risky that could cost you more than you can afford. Follow your gut, not someone’s guile. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t mess with anyone you are emotionally attached to. Do your own thing and compromise as much as you can to avoid a no-win dispute. Invest time into honing your skills and developing something you want to pursue. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Live the dream, but don’t go overboard. Signing contracts and making deals are favored. You stand to make financial gains if you play your cards well. Don’t expect as much when it comes to love and romance. Birthday Baby: You are intense, creative and progressive. You are hands-on and quick to react.
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Pelicans have to assist Davis R.J. Stempak Sports Writer
I read a tweet over the weekend that perfectly described the most exciting — and simultaneously sad — stor yline of the first week of the NBA season: “Anthony Dav is on this Pelicans team is like if you put Denzel Washington in a ‘Madea’ mov ie.” And to be honest, I don’t think this tweet is fair. To Madea. The fier y elderly woman portrayed by Tyler Perr y has been the namesake and star of eight films since 2005. Grossing nearly $ 500 million adjusted for inf lation, the “Madea” series is the furthest thing from a failure. Sure, the production qualit y and critical rev iews of the franchise are not exceedingly positive, but the films are profitable. Each of the eight films have grossed over $ 50 million. Not surprisingly, Denzel Washington has done better than “Madea” both w ith critics and consumers. But by not as much as one would think. Washington’s mov ies have averaged a little over $79 million gross per film, and the actor has earned t wo Academy Awards over his career. “Madea” is still waiting on a nomination from the Academy, but who knows, maybe adding Denzel in the next installation could help. He would have to carr y the team of actors on his back, but he would be in a better position to succeed than Anthony Dav is. This unfortunate Pelicans team is a dumpster fire that Dav is is tr y ing to put out w ith a teacup. Dav is has gotten ever y ounce of firesuppressing capacit y from that little teacup of his and
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more, but it hasn’t translated to success in the w in-loss column. The fourth-year player out of Kentuck y has put up monster stat lines to begin the season, only to see his team at bottom of the Western Conference w ith an 0-3 record. Dav is put up 95 points through t wo games, the most since Michael Jordan’s 91-point two-game start to the 86-87 season. In t he opener, Dav is was t he f irst player ever w it h at least 45 points, 15 rebounds, f ive assists a nd f ive stea ls in a ny NBA ga me. Dav is is t he on ly player on his tea m w it h a posit ive box score plus-minus, which is a n est imate of points per 100 possessions t hat t he player cont ributes to t he tea m above a leag ue-average player. Simply put, Dav is’ entire team is holding him back. But watching his superhuman performances is a thing of beaut y, and until the Warriors get their chemistr y together, he w ill be the most exciting player to watch this year. Dav is and the Pelicans is like if you cast Denzel Washington in ever y role in a “Madea” mov ie and it still f lops. It is a sad sight to see these Pelicans f lopping around w ith Dav is putting forth his best performance ever y night, but his $22 million salar y might dull the pain. In the meantime, Dav is should hope his teammates learn to contribute, or the Pelicans w ill be at the bottom of the league the entire season. Contact R.J. Stempak at rstempak@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Irish remain undefeated with victories over Purdue By Brenna Moxley Sports Writer
Notre Dame remained undefeated on the season after the men’s v ictor y over Purdue and the women’s w ins against Miami, Rutgers and Purdue on Friday night at Rolfs Aquatic Center.The men had not topped Purdue since the 2012-13 season, while the women had not bested the Boilermakers since 2008-09. Irish head coach Mike Litzinger said he was pleased w ith the outcome, particularly given how the Irish have improved since last season when the result was quite different. “Last year, in my first year as head coach, we lost prett y badly to Purdue,” Litzinger said. “It was great to see both teams come out on top against Purdue, as well as the women dominating both ACC and Big Ten competition in Miami and Rutgers. It was nice to be back at home — we had a lot of alumni and family at the meet celebrating the 100th anniversar y of the Monogram Club, so it was a fun night. It’s exciting to see the improvement so far this season.” After finishing in 1:47.14, freshman Abbie Dolan took first place in the 200-meter freest yle and also secured a new Rolfs Aquatic Center pool record. Litzinger said he wasn’t surprised by Dolan’s success Friday.
“We knew Abbie could break this record. She had come close before in our first meet, so she was striving for it,” he said. “That moment was exciting for the whole team, but especially for Abbie. She had been working extremely hard, and it is great to see an athlete be successful so early on in their college career.” Irish freshman Lauren Heller, sophomore Ky ra Sara zen and freshman Reilly Lanigan followed Dolan by placing third, fourth and fifth in the event, respectively. Heller’s time of 1:49.41 also marked a top-10 performance in the 200-meter freest yle in Notre Dame’s histor y. Notre Dame had strong performances in many other events as well, including the women’s 50-meter freest yle, in which freshman Katie Smith posted a 22.69, giv ing her an NCA A ‘B’ time and the third-best time ever posted in the event by a Notre Dame sw immer. On the men’s side, sophomore Matthew Grauslys came in first in the 200-meter butterf ly w ith a time of 1:50.59. Senior Kev in Bradley was not far behind his teammate, finishing in second in the event. Bradley also helped the men sweep the 200-meter indiv idual medley along w ith freshman Aaron Schultz and junior Rob W hitacre. Five women earned NCA A
‘B’ qualif y ing times, w ith freshman Abbie Dolan doing so in t wo events, the 100- and 200-meter freest yle events. Two men also posted ‘B’ qualif y ing times: junior Justin Plaschka in the 50-meter freest yle and sophomore Tabahn Afrik in the 100-meter freest yle. In div ing, freshman Erin Isola led the Irish women w ith 261.90 points. Rutgers junior Addison Walkow iak won the event on that side, however, w ith 293.45 points. The Irish men were guided by senior Joe Coumos w ith 312.10 points, which was good for fourth place. Oly mpian silver medalist Steele Johnson of Purdue won this event after posting 408.55 points. “Training was ver y difficult the week prior to this meet, and the team has been working hard both in the pool and in stay ing on track as students,” Litzinger said. “Our team responded ver y well to the challenge that this meet brought, and we are hoping to carr y this success into the remainder of the season as well as the ACC championships in Februar y. We still have that much more time to continue working and improv ing as a team.” Notre Dame next faces Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech on Friday and Saturday at Trees Pool in Pittsburgh. Contact Brenna Moxley at bmoxley@nd.edu
NBA | Toronto 105, Denver 102
Raptors top Nuggets behind Lowry’s late scoring Associated Press
TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan had 33 points and Kyle Lowry made a couple key baskets late to finish with 29 points, helping the Toronto Raptors beat the Denver Nuggets 105-102 on Monday night. Danilo Gallinari, Will Barton and Emmanuel Mudiay each had 16 points for Denver, and Jusuf Nurkic added 13 points and a career-high 18 rebounds. DeRozan is the first Raptor ever to start a season with three straight 30-point games, and his run is one short of
Mike James’ stretch from 2006 for the longest run at any point in the season. Lowry hit a tiebreaking 14-footer with 1:36 remaining, then made it 105-102 with 45 seconds remaining on a driving layup. Wilson Chandler’s 3-pointer with 8:49 left gave the Nuggets their first lead in over 34 minutes. The Raptors had the advantage from the 4:12 mark of the first quarter, leading by 19 at one point. The Nuggets pushed their edge to five before the Raptors clawed back, taking the lead for good on Lowry’s jumper.
Jonas Valanciunas’ foul on Nurkic 15 seconds later sent the center to the line, but he could only make one of two, and the Raptors extended their lead the next time down the court on Lowry’s layup. Gallinari’s desperation 3-pointer as time expired hit the rim and bounced away. Gallinari had nine points in the third quarter, helping propel the Nuggets on a 9-0 run to pull within four points. The Raptors got nine of their own from DeRozan, including a 13-foot buzzer-beater, to give them an 88-84 edge heading into the fourth quarter.
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specifically in passing efficiency on offense. “We’re going to try to keep the same momentum going,” Lund said. “We definitely need to work on some of our passing and some plays. I really like what our run has been doing. We just need to keep honing everything down and making it better.” As the regular season ends, both Dillon and Alumni have qualified for the playoffs. No. 6 Dillon will play No. 3 Stanford at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at LaBar Practice Complex, while No. 4 Alumni will take on No. 5 Duncan at the same time and place. Contact Darcy Dehais at ddehais@nd.edu
Keough def. O’Neill, 14-0 By PATRICK SKRINE Sports Writer
In the final week of the regular season, Keough shut out O’Neill to capture its first win of the year. In a low-scoring affair, the Roos (1-2) were able to find the end zone twice to earn a 14-0 victory over their rival, the Angry Mob (0-4). The rivalry matchup was nothing short of a scrappy contest, as there were several penalties throughout the game and an O’Neill player was ejected late in the fourth quarter. Keough junior captain Daniel Childers said he was happy with the way his team played. “We came out and ran all of our plays pretty well,” Childers said. “We definitely improved in all facets of the game, especially our offensive line.” The Roos put a solid finishing touch on their season by cashing in on two scores, both coming in the second quarter. Keough was able to find some holes in the O’Neill defense with touchdowns, one coming by air and one from the running game. O’Neill sophomore captain Charles Puntillo believes his team needed to execute better on both sides of the ball to win. “Our defense played pretty solid, but offensively we have to move the ball better,” Puntillo said. The Angry Mob were unable to get a win this season but Puntillo thinks his team made some significant strides this year. “We got a lot better as the season went on,” Puntillo said. “Our defense has been solid all year and we improved offensively, but it was just hard to keep it consistent all year.” Keough will head into next season with rivalry bragging rights while O’Neill will hope to take what it learned this
year and build on it, as neither team will see the postseason this time around. Contact Patrick Skrine at pskrine@hcc-nd.edu
St. Edward’s def. Dunne, 17-6 By MEAGAN BENS Sports Writer
With a 17-6 victory over Dunne and a three-win regular season record, St. Edward’s will advance to the playoffs next weekend as a top seed. When the Gentlemen (3-0) immediately scored a touchdown on their first drive, senior captain Phineas Andrews knew his team was going to win. “The first drive which resulted in the touchdown determined the rest of the game,” Andrews said. “At halftime I thought we played well, and although they came out in different formations and tried to confuse us, we pretty much dominated the first half. The whole game they only had that fake punt play which resulted in a touchdown.” Sentinels senior captain Joseph Schudt admitted the fake punt play was a unique decision resulting in a touchdown, but the St. Edward’s defense prevented Dunne from scoring any further. “We never did the fake punt play before; we didn’t even draw it up beforehand,” Schudt said. “We just said we were going to do it and it happened. After halftime, we were hoping to get the ball back and march down the field and score. But our offense had trouble and it was hard to deal with St. Edward’s because they were very consistent on defense.” While the Gentlemen continue their season, Andrews said the team will not be doing anything differently before playoffs. “We will just keep practicing like we have been, to be honest,” Andrews said. “We don’t have any specific strategies. We will work on improving our blocking and blitz pickup, but I think we are ready to take on playoffs.” As Dunne’s season has come to end, Schudt said he thinks St. Edward’s will move on and do well in the playoffs. “St. Edward’s is a solid team offensively and defensively,” Schudt said. “When we played them today, there was not much missing from their team. They are well rounded. They didn’t give us any room and our offense struggled get past their defense. I’d say that they will do well in playoffs.” St. Edward’s will move on to the playoffs as the No. 1 seed and will take on No. 8 Carroll at 1 p.m. Sunday at LaBar Practice Complex, while Dunne’s season has come to an end. Contact Meagan Bens at mbens@nd.edu
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Carroll freshman Justin Buettner punts the ball during Carroll’s 14-8 victory over Sorin on Sept. 25 at LaBar Practice Complex. Carroll earned the No. 8 seed in this year’s interhall playoffs.
Duncan def. Knott, 20-0 By KYLE BARRY Sports Writer
Duncan left the field celebrating after decisively defeating Knott 20-0 Sunday afternoon. Highlanders (2-1) sophomore running back Micah Rensch was the workhorse on offense, as he was responsible for two touchdowns. One of Rensch’s touchdowns was on a jet-sweep trick pass which he caught in the end zone to seal the victory against the Juggerknots (0-3). “I had my best game of the season,” Rensch said. “Because of the blocking from the offensive linemen, the holes were absolutely massive and that led to consistent drives and touchdowns.” On the defensive side of the ball, the Highlanders shut out the Juggerknots by forcing two interceptions and keeping the Juggerknots on their own half of the field for the majority of the game. Highlanders junior captain Thomas Staffieri was pleased and satisfied that his team was able to consistently move the ball well on offense and keep the Juggerknots off the scoreboard. “The most defining moments of the game was when we utilized our two trick plays,” Staffieri said. “We’ve been practicing on them and it worked to perfection in this game.” The Highlanders are now in uncharted waters, as they have clinched a spot in the interhall playoffs. As for the Juggerknots, senior captain John Tulloh
was disappointed about ending the season winless. “It was a tough loss for us today,” Tulloh said. “We didn’t execute, and the lack of practice showed itself on the field, especially near the end.” Despite losing in the end, Tulloh was proud of how the Juggerknots played hard until the final whistle. Knott failed to make the playoffs, but No. 5 Duncan will face off against No. 4 Alumni at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at LaBar Practice Complex. Contact Kyle Barry at kbarry@hcc-nd.edu
Fisher ties Carroll, 8-8 By RYAN LOKHORST Sports Writer
Four quarters of play couldn’t separate Fisher and Carroll, as they fought to a 8-8 tie Sunday. The game was dominated by the defenses, as the only points scored were a result of turnovers. Fisher (1-1-1) drew first blood with a first-quarter touchdown run by senior quarterback and captain Shannon Massey, set up by a long interception return by sophomore corner Alex Raymond. Raymond grabbed an overthrown Carroll (2-1-1) pass and sprinted across the field, weaving through wouldbe tacklers before finally getting tackled within the 5-yard line. Massey praised the play of Raymond. “Raymond is an all around athlete,” Massey said. “He had a great game with two interceptions.” The 8-0 score would not hold for long, however. Early
in the second quarter, Fisher fumbled a snap and Carroll pounced on it in the red zone. A few plays later, the Vermin capitalized on the field position and scored a rushing touchdown followed by a 2-point conversion to even the score 8-8. At the end of the game, Carroll elected to kneel to run out the clock rather than go for the win with 10 seconds remaining. Senior captain Anthony Vallera decided to play it safe in the end, knowing that his team was safely in the playoffs. “We are already in the playoffs so we didn’t want to risk losing the game on some fluke play or have an injury,” Vallera said. “We always love to win, but it turned out alright for us.” The Vermin now look forward to the playoffs. “Their defense was very well prepared to play against us,” Vallera said. “So we have to learn from today, make some changes.” Despite not making the playoffs, Fisher did retain ownership of the Crooked Stick. While the game was close and hard fought, the Fishermen ultimately left disappointed with the tie. “I understand why they [decided to kneel],” Massey said. “But I wish they played because you always want one more play.” The No. 8 Vermin barely secured a spot and will take on No. 1 St. Edward’s at 1 p.m. Sunday at LaBar Practice Complex. Contact Ryan Lokhorst at rlokhors@nd.edu
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in the spring, Irish fans could point to three players who’d be sure starters in November; seniors V.J. Beachem and Steve Vasturia would start on the wings, while junior forward Bonzie Colson would be the third shoo-in for the Irish starting five. Brey, however, wanted to settle those other two spots early on, giving starting roles to junior Matt Farrell, running the point, and junior Martinas Geben, who’ll be Notre Dame’s starting big man. Geben’s first two years at Notre Dame were “tough,” Brey said — the Lithuanian was stuck behind Zach Auguste — and at the start of the offseason, Brey’s first meeting was with Geben to give him the job. “We’re going to start workouts next week, white shirts are our starters,” Brey recounted telling Geben in the spring. “If I see you in anything other than a white shirt the rest of the way — spring and summer through the fall — I’m going to kick you out of the gym. You’re our starting big guy.” Brey left Geben, who contemplated transferring, with the thought that “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.” “He came back two days later and goes, ‘That’s a real good one, coach. Let’s keep moving forward,’” Brey said. Farrell burst onto the scene for Notre Dame last March, when he started games in the NCAA tournament, playing a key role in the team’s NCAA tournament success. Despite the arrival of freshman point guard Temple Gibbs, a consensus top-100 recruit, Brey wanted to make sure the starting point guard slot was
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settled with Farrell in the role. “Like Martin Geben, we gave him the ball,” Brey said. “ … Man, did he deliver for us in March. He’s a more confident guy because we’ve said, ‘It’s your team. Run the team.’” While the Irish preach sharing the ball, Brey said, he wants to see Farrell among the team’s leading scorers this season. “The one thing I want him to do, and I got on him [in practice], he should not turn down shots,” Brey said. “The guy is a heck of a shooter. … We need him to score the ball for us and I think he can.” The summer’s loss of Auguste, A.J. Burgett and Demetrius Jackson wasn’t the only big change at Notre Dame, though, as Brey brought two former Irish players, Ryan Ayers and Ryan Humphrey, on staff to fill assistant coach vacancies. Humphrey, a 2002 grad and first-round NBA pick, made an impact with the Irish squad from his first day on the job. “He’s got great energy and he connected with our big guys right away,” Brey said. “Here’s a guy who played in the [NBA], played here. The upmost respect was there from day one. But he delivered. … He’s out there playing post defense on ‘em. He’s still physical enough to demonstrate anything.” For years, Brey said he has felt Ayers, who graduated in 2009, would make a good coach, even when the guard was still playing for him in the Irish program.. “I remember him sitting in my office when he was a junior and me saying to him, ‘You ever think about coaching? You’d be really good,’” Brey said. “ … I love what he’s done with the individual
workouts with our perimeter guys. He really has brought some new stuff, some different stuff to our individual workouts that I think has freshened up some things in our program.”
New leadership After Jackson, who’s now with the Boston Celtics, declared for the NBA Draft in the spring, the leadership of the Irish fell into Beachem’s hands, after the now-senior’s breakout March. While Beachem hadn’t been a consistent voice in the past, he will be now heading into the new season. “I think I just need to have a consistent voice every day, no matter what’s going on, and let other guys bring the energy if we need a boost or a bolt,” Beachem said. It’s led to Beachem becoming, in some ways, the face of Notre Dame’s program. “It’s something that you dream about growing up, being the face of your team and the face of your program,” Beachem said. “So I’m just trying to embrace it and not add any extra pressure to myself and just having fun with it, honestly.” And despite the Irish losing four players to the professional game in two years — three in the NBA, one in Europe — this isn’t a young Notre Dame team. “We’ve got a heck of a lot to work with and we’re still old,” Brey said. “‘Get old and stay old’ has kind of been a theme around here, so we’ve still got experience.” That experience will be on display for the first time since March on Tuesday, when the Irish host Mercy at 7 p.m. in an exhibition contest at Purcell Pavilion. Contact Alex Carson at acarson1@nd.edu
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to happen, that they have to find a way to win,” Kelly said. “So, there was a resolve there that this was probably going to be the case, that it was going to come down to the fourth quarter and they were prepared for it and made it happen.” Find a way they did, as the Irish scored the final 10 points of the contest to secure a 3027 win. After dropping six straight games decided by one score, the Irish were both relieved and excited to finally come away with a victory in a close contest, Kelly said Sunday. But most of all, the victory has reestablished the team’s confidence in its ability to close out games going forward, he added. “I think really what I felt more than anything else was them really enjoying the fact that they know now that this won’t be a hindrance,” Kelly said. “In other words, they know how to win, and they can go out there each and every week and they know how to execute — they can trust that they can go out there and win. I think that that’s what I felt more than anything else.” Despite the win, however, Kelly acknowledged there are certain areas of concern following another blown lead. This week’s particular concern is special teams, where the Irish committed two turnovers on punt returns and allowed Miami to surprise them with an onside kick in the second quarter of Saturday’s win. On the onside kick, Kelly said freshman safety Jalen Elliott did not properly anticipate the possibility of the attempt, and he added that it will be something the coaches address to prevent from happening again in the future. “He was confused, and that’s
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on us to do a better job of making certain that he knows what to do,” Kelly said of Elliot. “I’m out there every day, and the first thing that we say is, ‘Your feet are in concrete until the ball is kicked to be aware for the onside kick.’ … I think he was caught off guard and probably panicked a little bit, but we got to continue to work on that and make sure it doesn’t happen again.” As for the punt returns, Kelly said both turnovers were the result of sophomore receiver C.J. Sanders being too indecisive in fielding punts. “I think I mentioned it last night, C.J. was tentative and he wasn’t trusting in his own ability, but he’ll get through it, and we got to just keep working on him and he’s got to — look, when you’re back there, if you lose your confidence, it can be a disaster,” Kelly said. “He’s got to be a confident player. When you lose your confidence back there, it obviously shows. And I thought that him being indecisive was the reason that there were two miscues there.” As a result of Sanders’ miscues, sophomore receiver Chris Finke returned the final punt of the game for the Irish, and it is now undecided who will be returning punts Saturday against Navy, Kelly added. “I certainly have to address the punt return situations, and that is something that I haven’t made a decision on yet,” he said. “But that has to be addressed.” But special teams aside, Kelly said he was largely impressed with his team’s performance against the Hurricanes. In addition to the resiliency the Irish showed, Kelly said he was most impressed by the defense’s performance, as the unit had 12 tackles for loss in the win, the most the Irish have had in a single game since 2005. “I thought it was one of our more dominating performances with our front four in a long time. And that causes a lot of issues [for opposing offenses],” Kelly said. “So, if your front four’s going to play that way, it helps your pass rush, it helps, obviously, in pass coverage. I thought that was probably a real, real big positive to take away.” Contact Ben Padanilam at bpadanil@nd.edu
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Kelly discusses special teams mishaps after win
Alumni def. Dillon, 14-7
By Ben Padanilam
By DARCY DEHAIS
Associate Sports Editor
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With 10:31 left in the second quarter of Saturday’s game, Notre Dame led Miami by a comfortable margin, 20-0. But then, the Irish (3-5) did what they’ve done all season, allowing 27 unanswered points and suddenly finding themselves trailing the Hurricanes (4-4), 27-20. It was the fifth time this season Notre Dame has allowed at least 17 unanswered points, and it appeared as though it was set to drop another tight contest. But, as he explained during Sunday’s teleconference, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said the team’s attitude on the sideline Saturday was a little different this time around. “Well, it was the situation like before where our guys knew that this is what needed see FOOTBALL PAGE 11
Alumni earns No. 6 seed with victory
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Irish sophomore C.J. Sanders returns a kick during Notre Dame’s 30-27 victory over Miami on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium.
Alumni and Dillon closed the regular season Sunday with a closely matched rivalry game that resulted in a 14-7 win for the Dawgs (2-1). Both teams played tight defense throughout the game, but it was ultimately decided by several costly offensive turnovers. The game began in exciting fashion when Alumni senior Patrick Tinsley blocked a Dillon (2-1) punt in the first series and ran it back for a touchdown. Although the Dawgs missed the extra point, senior captain Nick Lund said this opening play set the tone for the game. “In the first drive when we blocked their punt for a touchdown — that just riled us all up,” Lund said. “From then on out, it was a heck of a game to play. We were just having a lot of fun.” Dillon immediately answered on the next series with several long runs resulting in
a touchdown and extra point. Alumni sophomore running back Luke Dawahare made several big plays to put the Dawgs in field goal range in the second quarter, but Alumni missed the kick, putting the Big Red up by a point at halftime. Dillon threw two interceptions in the second half, giving Alumni the opportunity to complete another touchdown and 2-point conversion. Junior Dillon coach Jeff Melsheimer said the Big Red would overcome this loss in the upcoming interhall playoffs. “It was a tough loss,” Melsheimer said. “We could have prepared a little better. We executed fairly well. There were just a few bad plays, a few bad penalties and few mental errors that really cost us. We’ll bounce back, and we should be alright.” On the other side, Lund said the Dawgs were also looking ahead to playoff games and plan to keep improving their game, see INTERHALL PAGE 10
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Irish open with exhibition against Mercy By ALEX CARSON Assistant Managing Editor
A few years ago, Notre Dame had not been to the Elite Eight since 1979. Now, the program has done it twice in as many years, making deep tournament runs in 2015 and 2016. As his Irish are set to make their 2016-17 debut Tuesday night by hosting Mercy in an exhibition contest at Purcell Pavilion, head coach Mike Brey doesn’t necessarily need to set goals for the squad. “There’s no question in that locker room, I don’t have to talk about any goals,” Brey said at the team’s media day on Oct. 18. “This group of guys talks about playing past the Elite Eight. That’s awesome when your culture kind of generates that kind of leadership and tone without me getting involved.” While his players are thinking big, Brey is concerned with his team doing the basic thing that makes an NCAA tournament run possible: qualifying for it. “I always like to take a step back from that because I know how hard it is to just earn an NCAA bid,” Brey said. “You gotta get access to the thing
before you can have fun in March like we have the last two years. And it will be harder for us to get a bid this year than it was the previous two years, given what we’ve lost and that the league is amazingly deep.” Notre Dame enters the season playing a tough schedule; Brey thinks 10 of the ACC’s 15 teams could be tournament-bound at the end of the season, one that will see the Irish play eight regular season games against teams ranked in the AP’s preseason top 20, including showdowns with No. 1 Duke, No. 4 (and defending national champion) Villanova, No. 6 North Carolina and No. 8 Virginia. For Brey and the Irish, that tough schedule could be a blessing or a curse. “Bad news is, man, we play in the ACC and it’s deep and there’s 10 [NCAA tournament teams],” Brey said. “Good news is, there’s a number of games in your 18-game schedule that can be resume wins. And you don’t have to get all of them.”
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Irish junior guard Matt Farrell drives into the paint during Notre Dame’s 88-74 loss to North Carolina on March 27 at Wells Fargo Center. Farrell averaged 2.6 points and 1.6 assists per game last season.