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Tradition connects students, parents Annual Junior Parents Weekend engages parents through student performances, academic workshops

By KELLI SMITH News Writer

The class of 2019 and seniors who spent the spring semester of their junior year abroad welcomed parents to campus Friday for Junior Parents Weekend (JPW), an annual University tradition.

According to the JPW website, the weekend featured a variety of events for students and parents including a gala, a Mass, a president’s address and a Sunday brunch. JPW’s executive chair, junior Maureen Schweninger, said in an email that, based off visitor feedback, JPW 2018 was “an incredible success.” [Editor’s Note: Schweninger is a former sports writer for The Observer.]

“I was really struck by how the

Notre Dame community embraced our families this weekend and the opportunity to thank our families for all they’ve done to form us for this community now,” Schweninger said.

With the availability of the new Duncan Student Center, Schweninger said, there were possibly more changes to JPW this year than ever before.

“The gala was especially different, with four levels of programming in Duncan and student performances throughout the night,” she said. “And the brunch was also hosted in the Duncan Ballroom, with open seating and a brunch buffet for guests to come in on their own time. I think the changes offered a great variety of see JPW PAGE 3

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Junior Rachel Belans, right, cultures cells with her parents in a lab in Jordan Hall of Science on Saturday.

Junior Parents Weekend included opportunities for parents to experience their children’s majors.

University names interim Breen-Phillips Hall rector Observer Staff Report

Director of residential life for rector recruitment, hiring and retention Breyan Tornifolio will act as the Breen-Phillips Hall interim rector throughout the rest of the spring semester, according to an email sent Friday to the Breen-Phillips community from Erin Hoffmann Harding, vice president of student affairs.

Tornifolio previously supervised Sister Mary McNamara, the former rector of BP who

died Feb. 7 due to complications following a stroke. According to the email, Tornifolio also served as rector of Pasquerilla East Hall from 2006 to 2009 and Ryan Hall from 2009 to 2013, for which she was the “inaugural rector.” She has taken on various leadership roles since then for the University, including being “the primary staff person for planning the University’s celebration” in honor of University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh after his death in

2015, the email said.

Tornifolio, who also serves as the chaplain of the women’s basketball team, graduated from Wheeling Jesuit University with a degree in psychology and earned her masters in higher education from Geneva College. In the email, Hoffmann Harding said the University administration will hire a permanent rector for Breen-Phillips Hall this spring as part of the regular hiring cycle for new rectors.

Landscapers handle record snowfall, challenges

By CLAIRE KRAMER News Writer

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can stop this crew; in fact, they’re the ones battling it.

Notre Dame’s Landscape Services team, known for clear sidewalks in the midst of heavy

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South Bend snowfall, may have met its match Feb. 9. According to the National Weather Service, 11 inches of snow fell on South Bend over a two-day span ending that Saturday.

The snow flew all day, creating problems for pedestrians and the crew alike.

“It’s not too often we lose

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the battle,” Charlie Henry, a Landscape Services crewleader, said. “Last Friday, we lost.”

Aided by rising temperatures and a reprieve from the seemingly constant snow, Dennis Payne, another crewleader, said that a week later the situation see TRAILBLAZERS PAGE 3

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Annual event celebrates Chinese culture

By GINA TWARDOSZ Associate Saint Mary’s Editor

Saint Mary’s hosted its 10th annual China Night on Saturday, which featured crafts, games and 14 performances spotlighting Chinese dance, songs, instruments and poetry. The event also showcased a 10-year reflection and a historical Chinese fashion show.

Every year, China Night celebrates Chinese New Year. This year is the Year of the Dog, an animal that symbolizes loyalty, honesty and working hard in Chinese culture.

Yidi Wu, Chinese Culture Club’s co-advisor and a first-year professor at Saint Mary’s, said China Night entertains as well as educates.

“It’s great that they’ve been doing it for the past 10 years because the Chinese New Year is the biggest holiday every year in China,” she said. “Chinese students are the biggest number of international students on campus, so we feel like we should celebrate it and, at

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the same time, introduce Chinese culture to other people on campus. It’s a good learning opportunity as well as a celebration.”

Chinese Culture Club president and director of China Night Yijie Ren said Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China and sharing it with the community is imperative in order to encourage diversity within the community.

“The Chinese New Year is the most important event. It’s like our Christmas,” she said. “We want to share it with the whole community and for people to see different cultures and diversity. Chinese students are the largest group of international students at Saint Mary’s College, so I think it is very important to show others the diversity at Saint Mary’s too.”

China Night began when, by chance, associate director of International Education Alice Yang met an American man named Jeff who spoke Mandarin Chinese and had visited China so see CULTURE PAGE 3

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By SERENA ZACHARIAS News Writer

Years in the making, Dr. Anne GarciaRomero’s play, “Paloma,” was recently published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. “Paloma” follows three characters, Ibrahim, Paloma and Jared, all of differing religious backgrounds, and explores the idea of coexisting with diverse religions and cultures.

Garcia-Romero, an associate professor of Film, Television and Theater, specializes in playwriting and Latina theater. Largely affected by her bicultural upbringing, she considers cross-cultural communication in a number of her works.

“My whole life has been negotiating diverse cultural worlds, and my plays often explore these kinds of intersections between Latinx worlds and Anglo worlds, questioning how we find ways to connect and how we find find ways to navigate these divides,” she said. “I think that the American theater needs to reflect the diversity of our society in language and in culture, and so my plays are my effort to contribute to that.”

While in graduate school studying the Don Juan plays throughout history GarciaRomero came across “Ring of the Dove,” an ancient Muslim text from Spain that examines the nuances of love. Garcia-Romero said the book and the idea of coexistence

together guided her in writing the play, and every scene in the play is named after a chapter in the book. Ibrahim and Paloma also study this text in the play, and eventually fall in love.

“After I found the book I just was so taken by this idea that in my personal family history and Spain there was this time where there was this coexistence,” she said.

After writing the first draft of “Paloma” in 2005, it has since been produced three times across the nation—in New Mexico, California and New York.

“In each experience I was involved in the production. I was revising it and trying out new things, adding new scenes and getting feedback from my directors and actors,” Garcia-Romero said. “After the third production in Ithaca, New York, the play had been through years of processing, and at that point my publisher said she would love to publish the play to make it more accessible to the theater-going community at large.”

Integrating a spectrum of religious and cultural ideas in “Paloma,” Garcia-Romero worked with a number of scholars and artists who share the same interest in the idea of coexistence.

“As a playwright it is really important for me to consider how I honor the traditions I am trying to write about that aren’t

my particular experience,” Garcia-Romero said.

She said Notre Dame has contributed largely to the success of her work by providing a degree of access and research necessary to fully represent the religions and cultures detailed in the play.

“I am really grateful to Notre Dame’s support through this process. The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, of which I am a fellow, both supported the development of my play,” Garcia-Romero said.

“I had a chance to bring my cast to campus about a year and a half ago, and it was really an extraordinary experience to share with Notre Dame, the journey of this play with these actors that have been working on it for two years.”

Although “Paloma” was conceived years ago, it addresses elements of the human condition that will resonate with audiences today and for years to come, she said.

“I am humbled by the fact that it continues to be very relevant, that these issues around coexistence and Islamophobia persists. My play is an attempt to look at these issues and complicate received ideas of what is means to coexist,” Garcia-Romero said.

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often he had friends there.

“Later that year, Jeff introduced me to Dr. Susan Kiang, a ChineseAmerican artist, who has lived in town for more than sixty years,” Yang said. “It is amazing that she also worked at Saint Mary’s, but in the 1960s. She told me that she taught educational psychology at Saint Mary’s for a few years and that her original Chinese name was Hongnong Yang. The first art exhibition at Saint Mary’s Moreau Art Gallery was her Chinese paintings.”

Yang said this meeting inspired her and many others to organize the first China Night event in 2008.

“The event was organized by the then-called SMC/ND Chinese Students’ Association,” she said. “Our conversation crossed over 50 years of history and produced China Night at Saint Mary’s today. I was thrilled that we could continue the international education history on campus via the event.”

Ren said many children attend China Night to learn about their own culture, as well as the culture of others. Some of the children in attendance performed on stage as part of the East Meets West Dance Company in South Bend.

“Majority of the kids in attendance are first generation or born in America, so their parents are immigrants from China, Taiwan or Hong Kong,” she said.

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are learning their about own culture.”

Ren said she encourages parents to bring their children to culturally enlightening events so that they can participate in cultural diffusion.

“The administration, staff and faculty bring their children to China Night because they want their children to see a diverse cultural perspective and because this may be something they’ve never seen before,” she said. “I believe China Night is a good opportunity for children to learn and gain new perspectives about the other half of the world.”

China Night is presented in English in order to accommodate a vast number of members from the South Bend community, Wu said.

“China Night involves people both on campus and off campus, so it’s a good connecting event that involves a lot of people from a lot of different places,” she said.

“We want to introduce Chinese culture to other people, that’s why we want China Night to be in both Chinese and English.”

Ren said by hosting China Night each year, Saint Mary’s is encouraging inclusion and diversity.

“We want to bring others into our culture and promote diversity here, so China Night gives the local people and our students a different cultural perspective and allows them to think about how international students impact the school,” Ren said.

Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu

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seemed to finally be under control.

During normal weather, Landscape Services provides 22 hours of coverage to campus, Henry said. However, when a snowstorm blows through, crew members switch to a 12-hour shift schedule to have a constant effort on the ground.

“Before a storm, we will treat the roads so the snow doesn’t bond to the pavement,” Payne said, “which I think gives us a leg up as far as keeping it clean.”

Payne added that workers who operate the Toolcat machines, which clear the walking paths, arrive at 5 a.m. so as to clear the 27 miles of pathways for students and others who will soon need to traverse campus.

Each crew member has a route on campus, but Payne said that with routes each taking a few hours, sometimes the beginning of the route is snowed over again by the time a worker gets to the end of the shift.

“It’s very rarely when we leave at two in the afternoon that it’s worse off than it was when we came in at two [in the morning], and last Friday there was nothing we could do,” Henry said.

Although Payne said attempting to keep up with mountains of snow covering parking lots and constant phone calls requesting services made for a stressful week, crewleader Terron Phillips Sr. noted that it’s all part of Notre Dame’s reputation.

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“Let’s say it’s snowing.

[People] know that if they get to Notre Dame campus, they’re safe,” he said.

Especially for off-campus students, Phillips noted that there is a lower level of attention paid to walkways and streets outside of campus compared to the areas under Landscape Services’ control.

“We take pride in making sure our stuff’s in better shape than what it is off campus,” Henry added.

Payne said the crew is able to clear snowfall of two to three inches, which he says is a normal snow situation. However, it’s not always smooth snowplowing even with the more moderate snowfalls. Crewmembers are cognizant of class schedules and popular walking routes, and plow while watching for students, who sometimes, they say, are too distracted by cellphones to realize the large machine in their path.

“If I get stuck in a certain spot there, say trying to go towards the law arch at 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, I’m going to wait for 15 minutes while the students go, and I know that,” Henry said.

Phillips added that he places first priority on the pathways that he knows are the most popular for students, as well as areas where many employees head into work each morning. He also said navigating around students can prove to be difficult.

“My goal is, if I see students coming, I’m going to try to get in front of them so I can make a path for them. Sometimes it

doesn’t work but sometimes they see what I’m trying to do,” Phillips said.

Sometimes, however, the biggest obstacles to the machines clearing the snow lie within snow piles: bright green handlebars poking through the drifts.

The LimeBikes, found scattered around parking lots and lying in the middle of the sidewalks, proves to be a substantial problem for the crew, Henry said.

“We got to stop, get out, move it, then you go ten more feet and there’s another one,” Phillips said.

“When we first told LimeBike, ‘You’re going to have some issues in the winter,’ they said, ‘What do you mean, winter?’

They didn’t know what to think,” Henry said.

Henry said the damage done both to the bikes and to the larger snow equipment may result in some changes to the LimeBike presence on campus next winter.

Whatever challenges the high snowfall and bright green bikes may bring, the three crew leaders said satisfaction and pride come from the sight of snowless parking lots, wet concrete, grass on the edges of pathways and the absence of ringing telephones in the Landscape Services office.

“I’m sure that would sound very corny to students, unless you had to deal with it,” Payne said.

“The last thing I want is a kid falling in my area,” Henry said.

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base on different aspects of the program. Another big part of the preparation, she said, was answering hundreds of emails over the last few months alongside junior Joe Crowley, the JPW vice chair.

“What drew me to become one of the leaders for JPW was the mission of the weekend,” Crowley said in an email. “All of the planning of JPW is dedicated towards creating a weekend which facilitates the encounter of parents with those people and experiences their student has come to call their very own Notre Dame family.”

A particularly powerful moment, Crowley said, was seeing families engage in “quality conversations” during Sunday brunch, drawing parents further into students’ experiences as members of the Notre Dame family. “[When] a parent meets a professor whom they’ve heard so much about, visits their son or daughter’s favorite study spot where countless hours of sweat and thinking have been expended or finally gets to have a conversation with another student who has come to play such a role in their own student’s life; it is in these moments that the mission of JPW is fulfilled and defined, in these moments when our community extends a little further to encompass our parents and their love for us now and their dreams for our futures,” he said.

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social spaces for our families.”

Alongside such changes, Schweninger said the JPW committee did its best to make the events accessible and affordable for more juniors.

“This meant widening the range for the gala’s recommended attire, as well as promoting financial assistance for tickets, housing and travel through the Office of Student Enrichment,” Schweninger said.

The weekend opened with the gala Friday night, which gala chair junior Daniela Iezza said in an email is the exciting moment in which students get to introduce friends and Notre Dame families to their own families. The gala was an exciting challenge, Iezza said, due to its new location.

“We had so many amazing things we wanted to show off, and for our inaugural year in the student center, we were blessed to be able to do just that,” she said.

The weekend also featured academic workshops that allowed parents to experience students’ chosen colleges. As the chair of the Arts and Letters showcase, junior Emily Hirshorn said her goal was to help parents see the value of a broad liberal arts education in a “warm and welcoming” manner.

As leaders of the JPW planning process, Schweninger said she and a committee met weekly to touch

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Seeing past Valentine’s Day: Lessons I learned dating culture on campus on the mountain

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No one thought I’d do it. Not even I thought I’d do it. As I sat in my friend’s backyard July 4, with the background of fireworks and watermelon and reality setting in that I was heading off in less than 12 hours, I had to wonder what compelled me to agree to spend 14 days backpacking with a dozen classmates in Cimarron, New Mexico at Philmont, a high adventure camp owned by the Boy Scouts of America.

I’ve always been active and I really like the kids who were going, but it was certainly out of my comfort zone, with my experience of camping more resembling “glamping.”

Our all-girls crew contributed to the 3 percent of women at the campsite, assuring we certainly stuck out like sore thumbs. It wasn’t uncommon to get confused looks from a posse of 13-year-old boys.

After one day at base camp, we set off to tackle 100 miles with 50 pounds of weight on our backs. The first couple days were full of challenges, from aching muscles, to hourlong battles about properly-hanging bear bags and even waking up at 4 a.m. to the sound of a skunk rustling right outside my tent, petrified about the next two weeks should it decide to spray me.

Needless to say, the physical struggles eventually did decrease with each mile as we became more acclimated to the conditions. However, like any trade off, other obstacles arose — particularly in terms of personality conf licts.

Spend 14 days with any group of six people and you’re sure to see their true colors. As tensions arose, we were forced to learn various coping tactics and communicate with each other more. Despite having a seemingly infinite amount of space at my feet, there were times where I’ve never felt more suffocated. Although we didn’t always get along, we each understood the role of protector and supporter we had to play. On day seven, we awoke to thunderstorms and a sharp dip in the temperature. My clothes got soaked as we continued our trek, leaving several of us at risk for hypothermia.

Even when I was convinced I’d never be warm again, I never doubted that I could rely on my fellow crew members. After the dust settled, I looked back on those two weeks as some of the fondest of my life, and I continue to do so.

Many of the lessons I learned on the mountain have been directly applicable to my first semester and a half at Notre Dame. The allocation of tasks, such as cooking and bear bag hanging, are not unlike taking out the trash and vacuuming my dorm room f loor. The feelings of incredibly deep and immediate friendships creating a dichotomy with a need for space are present both on the mountain and throughout campus. Eating the same meals over and over prepared me for the dining hall experience.

I still wear Philmont gear around campus and often get comments from fellow backpackers sharing their own experiences, each of them reminded of their own growth throughout the trek.

Despite the numerous times I declared that all I wanted was a home-cooked meal and a shower, I would go back in a heartbeat. The disconnect from the outside world was a euphoria. Standing 12,000 feet in the air overlooking miles and miles of valleys and peaks, there is no other choice than to be humbled. That humbling feeling has repeated itself many times as of recently — such as the first time I failed a test or during the struggle to make instant lifelong friendships. I’m grateful to have had a literal mountaintop moment. Those feelings are no longer ones of insecurity or inadequacy, but rather opportunity and memories.

If ever given the opportunity to participate in any backpacking or extended outdoor activity — say yes. Don’t think twice. At moments, you might worry that you’re losing your sanity, only to be followed by a view that leaves you breathless.

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The chocolates, the roses, the heartshaped pizzas delivered to lucky roommates from long-distance boyfriends — Valentine’s Day has me thinking about dating at Notre Dame; more precisely, the lack of it and why that’s bad for campus social life.

To those who acutely feel the pangs of being single in this “cuffing season,” who see couples on campus every where and would protest my statement that Notre Dame lacks a dating culture, I’d like to clarify why I describe it that way.

Let me begin by defining my terms. Notre Dame is known for its romantic Grotto engagements and Basilica wedding waitlist, yet as the upcoming “ring by spring” deadline draws near, few students are implicated in these traditions (for better, not worse, in my opinion). Dating does not mean immediate serious relationships or inextricable emotional commitments. In fact, the traditional dating system is structured to prevent errors of miscommunication, the dangers of sexual assault and frequent heartbreak.

W hen I say we ought to have more dating, I mean just that — boys ought to ask girls out on normal, public, getting-to-know-theother-person dates more frequently. All students, irrespective of gender, would benefit from this cultural shift.

Dating is supposed to be how you get to know someone in a public, safe setting (which is especially important for women, more on that later). That might sound obvious, yet with a campus culture that largely lacks regular dates, every date that does occur seems like a big deal. We need something that’s not a hookup but not a serious romantic gesture. W hen a guy asks a girl out to dinner, he’s not asking her to marry him, yet we often treat it that way. Don’t believe me? Think about all the times you’ve teased or been teased about a dining hall date; it’s just two people who are interested in each other getting a meal together, and yet we heckle and pull faces every time.

We should just admit it: The relationships between the sexes at Notre Dame is awkward and has been so since Domerfest.

Some say if only our dorms were integrated, parietals lifted and condoms distributed, all our awkwardness would disappear. I’d disagree, but I’ll leave that debate to another time.

Instead, I’d like to offer a more immediate practical solution — not an administrative policy overhaul — to this awkwardness phenomenon, a better dating culture.

A traditional dating culture empowers women and protects us. In a normal dating culture, when a guy asks a girl out, it’s not a strange or exceptional event. She can turn him down — no harm, no foul — but because it’s not a big deal, girls are more likely to say yes to a guy’s invitation. And a guy can ask out one woman this week and another gal the next. A date is not a commitment. It’s just a date. W hen a man takes a woman to a date in a public place, she consents to a definite proposition: dinner (or the like) in a public space for the purpose of getting to know her date.

For those who believe gender is a social construct and that women and men approach dating and relationships with equal physical power, let me set the record straight. I came across a phrase recently that revealed the gravity of the situation.

In his book “The Gift of Fear,” psychologist Gavin de Becker writes, “It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different — men and women live in different worlds. … The fact is that men, at core, are afraid that women will laugh at them. And women, at core, are afraid that men will kill them.”

Traditional dating culture respects this innate and nearly universal power difference.

To keep women safe and at ease (which is in the gentleman’s interest), dates are inpublic, social affairs. Women are truly at the reins here because we are safe. And because the woman is safe, she can also let the man take the lead. W hen a woman knows that she can comfortably end the evening and that she owes nothing beyond the date, she is, paradoxically, more open to a nice evening continuing or perhaps a second date.

Making things safer makes things better for both men and women.

So here is my call to the men (and women, who actually drive the dating train and set cultural standards): Ask her out. If you need ideas, look no further than upcoming DPAC performances, coffee or dinner downtown, a basketball game or a lecture. It’s not hard, and if we push outside our comfort zones, the entire campus social life will improve.

Let’s see past Valentine’s day and make dating more common.

Soren Hansen (junior) is a proud member of the Program of Liberal Studies and spends her free time lamenting the lack of intellectual culture on campus and playing the upright bass. Send your contrarian opinions and snide comments to mhansen3@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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A clarification on the meaning of abortifacient In a letter to the editor titled “Condoms and contraceptive coverage,” three of my fellow students addressed Fr. John Jenkins’s recent letter to the Notre Dame community regarding contraceptive coverage by the University. The authors of the letter made the claim that “There is no such thing as an abortifacient contraceptive.” There are two possible interpretations of this claim, the first being that you cannot prevent conception by aborting the embr yo that results from conception. Technically that’s true, but it’s just like saying I cannot prevent a fire from igniting by putting out the already-ignited fire. The second possible interpretation to the claim, the one I think the authors meant to convey, is that there is no contraceptive drug that can (if it fails to prevent conception in the first place) act to interrupt a pregnancy. I find this statement to be (perhaps unintentionally) misleading. The authors make their claim based on the fact that “The medical definition of pregnancy necessitates that a fertilized egg be implanted in the woman’s uterus.”

Does that make their claim true? Technically yes, but with a significant caveat — the life of the human individual starts days before the pregnancy “officially” begins.

It is a scientific fact that a new human being

is formed when an egg is fertilized. Most people will remember from middle school biolog y that this takes place in the fallopian tube, after which the newly-formed embr yo will, over the course of a few days, travel down to the uterus and implant itself in the uterine lining. If the embr yo fails to implant, it will die; if the embr yo successfully implants, it will receive nourishment from the mother and continue to develop. This might be when the pregnancy “officially” starts, but it most certainly is not when the life of that human being began.

The term abortifacient can be confusing — mostly because the medical definition of pregnancy itself is confusing. But what should be pretty clear is that when used in the context of Fr. Jenkins’s letter, Catholic teaching and even the overall pro-life movement, “abortifacient” means a drug that destroys a human life that has already begun. The pro-life mission is to protect life from conception to natural death, not to protect life from implantation to natural death. This also addresses the authors’ claim that “more than two thirds of all fertilized eggs naturally fail to implant.” Naturally failing to implant as an embr yo constitutes a natural cause of death. W hen a drug acts as an abortifacient by preventing

implantation, it is preventing the implantation of an embr yo that will other wise succeed to implant, constituting an unnatural cause of death brought on by the use of the abortifacient drug.

This constitutes, as Fr. Jenkins said, “the destruction of innocent human life.”

The objective of this letter is not to debate the morality of the destruction of an embr yo that will other wise thrive and develop. I will leave that task to wiser and better authors. My objective here is simply to clarif y what is meant by abortifacient. So to conclude, consider that in their letter the authors themselves say the drugs in question can work by “thinning the uterine lining to make implantation more difficult.” I hope that I have clarified that that is exactly what people mean when they use the word abortifacient. That is exactly why the drugs in question are “abortifacient contraceptives.” W hile they may sometimes work to prevent a new life from forming (by preventing conception), there is also the possibility the unwanted human life has already come to be and the use of the drug will result in its death.

Luis Erana-Salmeron senior Feb. 17

Dreamers needed Congress yesterday The immigration debate has been ratcheted up in recent weeks by impending deadlines and fierce rhetoric. Each shutdow n or court judgment stokes the fire as President Trump’s March 5 deadline approaches.

“You have to learn how to live w ith it because, at the end of the day, there are a lot of things we should be grateful for. So you learn to live, like my parents have learned to live w ith it. And we’re going to be a family. You just don’t let that fear get to you,” Guadalupe Gonzalez, a Saint Mar y’s sophomore, said. As a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, she watches the immigration debate w ith a careful eye.

Congressional action w ill shape her future.

Despite w ide support of DACA, Dreamers are used as political fodder, and no real legislation has gained traction. If our representatives truly want to protect Dreamers they w ill stop playing political games w ith American families and pass a clean Dream Act quick ly.

Pew Research says that 74 percent of Americans want protections for Dreamers. Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have vocally supported Dreamers. This, seemingly, is the w ill of a nation. A clean Dream Act should have been passed when Trump first tasked DACA to Congress on Sept. 5.

Instead, DACA has been pitted against legislation like Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and family-based immigration. Congress forfeits their ow n integrity by refusing to pass

popular and just laws so that they can use Dreamers as a bargaining chip later. Current proposals increase spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and, inevitably, for immigration raids of the ilk seen in 98 7-Elevens across America on Jan. 10. Fear-based tactics and power plays that threaten Dreamers’ families contradict the American conception of justice.

Guadalupe came to the United States from Mex ico with her mother before her second birthday. The dangerous journey ended in Chicago where they reunited with her father, who had been preparing for their arrival for more than a year. She condemned the current immigration negotiations.

“There are a lot of legislators using DACA people as pawns. Pretty much: We’ll give you protections, but you have to trade in your parents,” Gonzalez said.

For DACA recipients, the March 5 deadline is severe. Ever y day thereafter, an estimated 1,000 Dreamers lose their work permits. In just two years, this will eliminate the roughly $42 billion in GDP and $2 billion in ta xes that DACA recipients have contributed each year without any social benefits. For Gonzalez and other Saint Mar y’s, Notre Dame and Holy Cross students, this means an uncertain future.

“My DACA is going to expire a year before I graduate from college. So now it’s a question of: Would I still be able to pursue my career? Can I still do ever y thing I thought I could? Are my

options going to be even more limited now? ” Gonzalez said.

Future or family is no choice at all. As a nation of immigrants, we recognize that to be an American is far more than paper work.

Citizenship is the pursuit of the American Dream in accordance with our most dearly held values: family, opportunity and equality. Punishing families for their pursuit of a better life violates all of these. The consequences of inaction have never been more severe. With each passing day, there is more divisive rhetoric and fear in our communities. We need a clean Dream Act now. Demand Congress takes action to protect Dreamers and families.

A Notre Dame, Saint Mar y’s and Holy Cross student campaign, called DreamSB, is promoting awareness in our community and then bringing that voice to our Indiana legislators. We will be delivering petitions in our personal meetings at their respective local offices. Add your voice by signing this petition to show Rep. Jackie Walorski, Sen. Todd Young and Sen. Joe Donnelly that you need them to represent our classmates, community members, loved ones and our values as an American and Catholic university.

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How to deal with NCAA penalties Marek Mazurek Assistant Managing Editor

This year’s college basketball season has been as exciting as ever.

But there’s a cloud hanging over it. That cloud is the FBI probe into the influence of shoe companies over college basketball. Weeks before the season started in early November, the FBI released information that was enough to arrest assistant coaches and suspend players at half a dozen schools, in addition to forcing longtime head coach Rick Pitino out at Louisville.

But the other shoe has yet to drop, and media reports this week reminded the world of that.

One source in a report from Pete Thamel was particularly dramatic, saying, “Hall of Fame coaches should be scared, lottery picks won’t be eligible to play and almost half of the 16 teams the NCAA showed on its initial NCAA tournament show this weekend should worry about their appearance being vacated.”

If that’s the case, the NCAA has a problem. It’s obviously morally defunct and a sham of an organization, but that’s common knowledge.

A much more pressing problem is how the NCAA tournament will look if half of the field is missing due to postseason bans. If Thamel’s source said half of the top-16 teams in the committee’s early rankings would be affected, we can extend that out to half of the top-64 teams in the field as well.

So with roughly half of the field set to be ineligible, here are some of my thoughts on how to still have an entertaining, fair NCAA tournament.

Shorten the field to 32 teams This is probably the easiest solution, but it’s so boring. The field was 32 teams in the mid-1970s.

You know what else happened in the mid-1970s? Stagflation. We don’t want that, there are better options.

Sanctioned teams but with no shoes

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This option is high on the justice and irony meters.

Shakespeare would be proud.

Since taking bribes from big shoe companies was what got schools and players into this

mess, it seems fitting that they have to play the NCAA tournament without the symbol of their wrongdoing.

Ban sanctioned teams, but loosen qualification requirements This is the option to go with if we want to keep the field at 64 (or 68) teams, but still want to ban the teams with sanctions. With many of the sanctioned schools likely to be big-name programs, interest in the tournament may dip. Since the general viewer would care about a local high school team about as much as some super small college who won the Tequila Sunrise league title to slip into the field, why not blow the roof off the qualification barriers? Besides, my co-rec team — the South Quad Players — may have a chance.

Let sanctioned teams play in their own tournament This could be extremely fun.

No longer would big-name schools who shelled out major bucks to agents and shoe companies have to hide in the shadows. Each year, all the schools sanctioned for these shenanigans could play in their own tournament of cheaters.

As an added twist, since the shoe companies are paying college players just like they sponsor NBA athletes, each school can call in any NBA player with the same footwear contract it has.

Louisville losing at halftime?

Good luck guarding NBA MVP candidate James Harden, who also rocks Adidas.

NCAA tournament happens as normal and there are no sanctions You may think this to be just as unrealistic as the others, given the likely severity of the FBI probe’s findings. But knowing what we know about the NCAA, this is surprisingly probable. Why risk a ratings nosedive when the only thing at stake is the integrity of the game?

That hasn’t mattered to the NCAA for years, and something tells me it won’t start caring now.

Contact Marek Mazurek at mmazurek@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

ND picks up first wins of season on Florida trip Observer Sports Staff

No. 16 Notre Dame went on a successful Florida road trip, netting the first two wins of its season with overwhelming victories over Jacksonville and Stetson.

Facing Jacksonville on Saturday, the Irish (2-1, 0-1 ACC) proved too much for the Dolphins (1-1) to handle, outscoring them by a margin of 17-6. The win was made possible through strong allaround play and an avalanche of goal-scoring provided by no fewer than 10 Irish players.

While the matchup may have started as a relatively back-andforth game in the early part of the first half, the Irish were able to secure a 7-3 lead by halftime and never looked back. Notre Dame dominated in the second half. The Irish outscored the Dolphins 10-3 in the second half, firing 25 shots over the course of the period in comparison to Jacksonville’s nine, while also winning 14 ground balls against the Dolphins’ seven.

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she felt her team’s first-half performance was sloppy overall.

“I didn’t think we came out ready. I was really frustrated with our approach to the game today,” McGraw said. “I thought Koko gave us great minutes off the bench. She was really solid, had a lot of energy. We didn’t have a lot of energy. We were a little careless, I thought, and defensively, we had a lot of lapses.”

Thirty of Notre Dame’s 39 firsthalf points came in the paint.

Much of the Irish strength in the paint came from junior forward Jessica Shepard, who finished the game tied for a team-high 18 points.

The Irish were able to turn the game around and pull ahead of the Eagles in the second half.

The Notre Dame defensive effort made a marked difference in the third quarter, as there were multiple multi-minute stretches during which the Irish prevented the Eagles from scoring.

In the fourth quarter, the Irish outscored the Eagles

while coming from all different directions, was led by junior attack Nikki Ortega and freshman midfielder Andie Aldave, who each scored a hat trick. Both players posted three goals and three assists on the day.

From a defensive standpoint, the Irish were just as dominant.

The Dolphins were allowed only six goals, and Notre Dame’s defense managed to force 14 turnovers over the course of the game.

Irish junior goaltender Samantha Giacolone had a strong performance, saving 11-of-17 shots fired her way.

On Sunday, the Irish continued their success with a 21-7 rout of Stetson (0-2) in Deland, Florida.

Notre Dame won in much the same fashion as on Saturday, pairing stifling defensive play with a relentless torrent of goals.

By the end of the first half, the Irish were leading by a wide margin, 12-4. Ortega found the net four times in the first half alone.

Sophomore midfielder Savannah Buchanan scored thrice before halftime, with five other

teammates also posting goals before halftime.

The Irish were dominant offensively. Once again, 10 different Notre Dame players scored at least one goal over the course of the game. Joining Ortega and Buchanan as hat-trick scorers on the day were Aldave and freshman midfielder Katherine Enrietto. Buchanan made three assists along with her hat trick, while Aldave added two of her own. Aldave also notched 10 draw controls Sunday, tying a Notre Dame record for the most draw controls in a single game.

On defense, Notre Dame played just as tenaciously. The Irish forced 15 Hatter turnovers, and only allowed Stetson to take 14 shots over the course of the entire contest. In goal for the Irish, Giacolone and freshman goalie Bridget Deehan made two saves each.

The Irish will face USC at home this Friday for their next matchup.

The game, to be played at Loftus Sports Complex, is set to begin at 6 p.m.

28-13, sealing the win. It was junior guard Arike Ogunbowale who led the Irish in the final quarter with six points, as the Irish cruised to the 89-55 win, reminiscent of Jan. 14’s 89-60 win over the Eagles at Purcell Pavilion.

Aside from points in the paint, the real difference-maker for the Irish was points scored off turnovers, as the Eagles tallied nine second-half turnovers. Notre Dame outscored Boston College 26-2 on points off turnovers, as the Irish only had six turnovers on the afternoon.

Five Irish players finished the game with double-digit point totals. Aside from Shepard’s 18, sophomore guard Jackie Young also scored 18 points; Nelson finished with 16; Ogunbowale tallied 15 and junior guard Marina Mabrey notched 11 points.

Young, Nelson and senior forward Kathryn Westbeld each collected eight rebounds, as well, while Nelson dished out seven assists.

With the victory over the Eagles, the Irish have extended their winning streak to 10 games and only have two regular-season

games remaining before the ACC tournament in Virginia Tech and North Carolina State. McGraw said the Irish are ready for the regular season to come to a close, but she knows they cannot get too far ahead of themselves, as there are still games to come.

“It’s a grind. It’s hard to mentally get ready when you’ve already played a team once,” she said. “I think we’ll be OK at home because we haven’t played either of those teams yet. I think we have to come in with a little more energy, and I think our crowd will do that for us. I think now we can see the end.

“It’s one more road game. We just feel like we’re a little weary of the travel, and it’s that time of the year that you feel that way. And everybody feels that way. You can’t allow yourself to feel that way. And that’s why I was disappointed, because we didn’t battle through it until the second half.”

Notre Dame will return home to take on to play Virginia Tech on Thursday with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m.

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locker room down 2-0 and having been outshot 17-6. Jackson was not pleased with his team’s reluctance to put the puck on net late in the first.

“They drive me crazy when they don’t shoot the puck,” Jackson said. “They’re trying to make everything look pretty.”

A late first-period penalty gave the Irish almost a full two minutes of power-play time to open the second period, and the Irish made the most of it, working a series of passes that set junior forward Bobby Nardella up to fire a slapshot that picked up a deflection in front by junior forward Joe Wegwerth. The puck found its way through the five hole of Wolverines sophomore goaltender Hayden Lavigne to put the Irish on the board.

The Irish came out playing fast in the second, generating the first five shots of the frame. Despite the added pressure, the Wolverines would get the next goal, putting themselves up 3-1 on a thirdchance opportunity in the crease.

The Irish would kill a penalty and then go on a power play of their own. Lavigne would have to push across the crease to rob Irish senior captain Jake Evans of a sure goal, but a penalty was called on the play, putting the Irish on a 5-on-3 power play. They would do little with it, however, and the Wolverines would return to full strength unscathed.

The Irish would be given one more chance on the power play late in the frame, and they did not squander it. Nardella blasted home a slapshot immediately off a face-off win from Evans to put the Irish within one heading into the third period. Jackson was happy with the team’s effort in the later periods of the game.

“I thought we played much better after the first period. We made some bad defensive mistakes where defensemen got trapped up the ice a few times, and there were some bad turnovers too that led to goals,” Jackson said. “Those were plays that you can’t make against a team like Michigan, especially against their top-two lines.”

The Irish came out hot in the third, firing the puck on net and keeping the puck in the Michigan end at even strength consistently for the first time in the contest.

As Irish momentum reached its peak, a bad turnover led to a misplayed 2-on-1 and a backdoor goal for Wolverines freshman forward Michael Pastujov off an assist from his older brother, sophomore forward Nick Pastujov. Jackson lamented the Irish giving up oddman breaks.

“One of my biggest concerns as we approach the playoffs is giving up odd-man rushes, and over the last couple games, we’ve given up more than our share,” Jackson said. “We have to clean that up.

When we were playing real well there for a long stretch, we weren’t giving up those kinds of odd-man situations. That way Cale Morris doesn’t have to be spectacular all the time.”

The Irish kept the pressure on

in the third, forcing some clutch saves from Lavigne down the stretch, particularly a sprawling pad stop on sophomore forward Cam Morrison midway through the final frame. The Irish appeared to get one back at the 16:16 mark on a tip by junior forward Jack Jenkins, but a lengthy review overturned the goal for a high stick. The Irish kept fighting on with their net empty but failed to find the back of the net again.

Despite putting 30 shots on in the final two frames, the Irish fell to the Wolverines by a final score of 4-2.

“We’re not playing the way we were playing. We have to get back to that,” Jackson said. “I thought we played better after the first period, but you give a team a two-goal lead, you’re asking for trouble.”

Notre Dame looked to bounce back against the Wolverines on Sunday night, but were shut out 1-0 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

It was Michigan who got off to a fast start again, outshooting Notre Dame 10-0 in the first eight minutes of the game. The Irish regained their footing during the middle of the opening period, and with less than a minute to go in the first, Michigan was called for a penalty. Notre Dame had a couple of quality chances to bury the puck in the dying seconds but were denied each time.

After a scoreless first period, the shots on goal were 16-8 in favor of Michigan.

Sophomore forward Cal Burke and sophomore defenseman Tory Dello had opportunities to put Notre Dame ahead during the first seven minutes of the second period, but they were turned away

by Lavigne. The Irish got another power-play opportunity with 7:42 left in the period but could not capitalize. With 38 seconds left in the period, a turnover in the Notre Dame zone led to a goal by Michigan senior captain Tony Calderone to give the Wolverines a 1-0 lead going into the second intermission.

After the second period, the shots on goal were 27-23 in favor of Michigan.

Notre Dame had chances to tie the score in the third period but could not solve Lavigne. Notre Dame pulled Morris for the extra attacker with 1:31 left in regulation. Evans, senior defenseman Jordan Gross and junior forward Andrew Oglevie had chances to tie the game in the dying seconds, but they couldn’t bury the puck.

Morris finished with 36 saves, while Lavigne finished with 35.

This weekend was the first time all season Notre Dame was swept in a two-game series and extended Notre Dame’s losing streak to three games. The Irish have not won since clinching the Big Ten regular-season title last Friday.

Notre Dame will be back in action Friday and Saturday when it hosts Michigan State in a twogame series at Compton Family Ice Arena to close out the regular season.

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that mindset where if I have an open look, just be decisive and take it. It felt good today, so I just kept doing what I was doing.

“After a couple of them, I was feeling really good.”

Irish head coach Mike Brey also had praise for Farrell, who originally committed to play for Boston College before a coaching change opened his recruitment

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back up.

“It was one of the great performances in a Notre Dame uniform, it really was,” Brey said of Farrell’s night. “Especially at a time when we really need a win against a good team.”

Farrell’s 10 3-pointers tied a Notre Dame record for the most made 3s in a game. Farrell was 9-for-9 from deep before finally missing nearly halfway through the second half. On top of that, Farrell was just 1-of-12 from 3-point range in Notre Dame’s

previous game against North Carolina.

Farrell’s eight 3s in the first half propelled the Irish to an early lead that saw Brey’s squad up 4630 at halftime.

“I thought our first half, at both ends of the floor, really put us in a great position,” Brey said after the game. “I thought we defended them really well — they only had 30 points.”

The Irish run continued early in the second half, as two quick baskets from Gibbs put the Irish

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in front by 20.

But the rest of the half saw Boston College slowly whittle down the lead.

Farrell missed his first 3-pointer of the game with just under 12 minutes left to play, and the Eagles brought the game within 14 at 61-47 as Farrell’s production momentarily dropped off.

Junior guard and defensive stalwart Rex Pflueger also sat out most of the second half after hurting his back on a hard fall.

Pflueger briefly returned to the game but quickly ended up back on the bench. Brey said after the game that Pflueger should be ready to go for Monday’s game.

Freshman forward D.J. Harvey was also expected to come back against the Eagles, but he tweaked his knee in practice Friday and had his return date pushed back.

But Gibbs and senior forward Martinas Geben stepped up on the offensive end to keep the Irish above water for the middle of the second half. Gibbs finished with 15 points and Geben finished with 12 to compliment Farrell’s 37.

Sophomore guard Nikola Djogo — who played extended minutes in place of the injured Pflueger — also had a solid showing, putting up nine points without missing a shot.

Djogo’s burst of offense gave Notre Dame some breathing room before the home stretch, as the Irish took a 10-point lead into the under-four minute media timeout.

“I thought they were going to be keying on me a little more in the

second half, so I wanted to come out and maybe find guys,” Farrell said. “They were packing the lane, and guys made big shots.”

But the Eagles wouldn’t go away and made it a nine-point game with 3:33 left thanks to a 29-point performance from Robinson.

The Irish took the win, however, on the back of a key 10-3 run from that point of the contest on to put the game out of reach.

The win over Boston College was a much-needed victory for the Irish, who are trying to scratch their way into the NCAA tournament. The Irish, now at 6-8 in the conference, will likely need to hit a 9-9 regular-season record and make a run in the ACC tournament to have a shot to convince the selection committee.

“We didn’t talk much or celebrate at all in there,” Brey said of the job the Irish have left. “We talked about getting another one.

We need to go back and get some rest … and play against a good Miami team on Monday.”

The Irish fly back to South Bend to take on Miami at home Monday. The Hurricanes (188, 7-7) are coming off of threestraight losses, most recently a home defeat at the hands of Syracuse.

After that, Notre Dame will look at winnable games against Wake Forest and Pittsburgh, before traveling to take on No. 1 Virginia.

“We’re fighting and scratching and really trying to stay alive in this thing,” Brey said.

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2.12 meters in the process.

The Irish women had four first-place finishers. Sophomore Madysen Hunter won the 60-meter hurdles in 8.60 seconds, later winning the 200-meter dash in 24.67 seconds. Sophomore Michaela Butler finished ahead of the rest of the field in the 60-meter dash and freshman Rachel Tanczos won the weight throw with a distance of 17.54 meters. Sophomore pole vaulter Kassadee Ifft placed first in her event, clearing the bar at a height of 3.76 meters.

As a whole, Turner said he was proud of his team’s efforts and felt that the results show a Notre Dame team that is prepared to make a big impact at the conference meet.

“We got a lot done today, and we’re looking pretty good for the conference now ... we’re probably in the middle of the pack ... but that middle pack of the conference is pretty competitive and packed densely together,” Turner said. “If we can get some breakout performances and everyone has a great day, I think we can get up to No. 4 [in the conference] on both the men’s and women’s side.”

The Irish will compete at the ACC championships, which begin Thursday in Clemson, South Carolina.

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men’s basketball | nd 84, boston college 67

Farrell’s career-high helps Irish topple Eagles

By MAREK MAZUREK

By JACK CONCANNON and MICHAEL IVEY

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There must be something in the air when Notre Dame plays Boston College.

Because not even Oprah could hand out more career-highs than have been reached when the Irish and the Eagles have met this season.

On Feb. 6 at Purcell Pavilion, it was sophomore guard T.J. Gibbs — who scored 22 points in the first half to finish with 28 — and Boston College junior Jerome Robinson with 46 points, who tallied career-highs.

On Saturday in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, senior guard Matt Farrell wrote his way into Notre Dame record books with a career-high 37 points, as the Irish (16-11, 6-8 ACC) took home an 84-67 win over the Eagles (1611, 6-8 ACC).

“I just wanted to be aggressive, come out aggressive,” Farrell said. “I didn’t like the way I played against [North Carolina], and I wanted to come out with

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Irish senior guard Matt Farrell surveys the floor during Notre Dame’s 84-69 win over Florida State on Feb. 10 at Purcell Pavilion.

track & field | alex wilson invitational

ND finishes regular season

By PETER BALTES Sports Writer

On Saturday, Notre Dame competed in the Alex Wilson Invitational, the final regularseason meet of the indoor season. This home meet was the final opportunity for athletes to qualify for the fast-approaching ACC championships, which begin Thursday.

The Irish earned strong finishes across the board, but the biggest story of the meet for Notre Dame came in the distance medley relay.

On the men’s side, the team of graduate students Jacob Dumford and Elijah Silva, junior Edward Cheatham and freshman Yared Nuguse finished with a time of 9:28.79. The squad finished fifth in the Invitational, but it posted the eighth-best mark in the country and qualified for NCAA tournament. It also broke a school record in the event that was originally set in 2014.

Notre Dame’s women’s distance medley relay team found success as well. A team consisting

Notre Dame fails to stop skid No. 1 Notre Dame had a bounce-back on its mind coming into Friday’s home matchup with No. 18 Michigan, as it was looking to recover from a disappointing 5-1 loss at the hands of Ohio State last Saturday. The Irish were not able to rally from an early 2-0 deficit, however, dropping their second-consecutive Big Ten game for the first time this season.

The first period was a difficult one for the Irish (22-7-2, 16-41 Big Ten). The team came out flat, generating only one of the game’s first eight shots on goal.

Sophomore goaltender Cale Morris handled the game’s first real chance at the 4:54 mark of the game, pushing across the crease to stop a backdoor drive on a 2-on-1. The Irish would continue to pay on their heels, allowing the Wolverines (16-133, 11-10-3) to generate offense in the Irish end and ultimately score the game’s first goal — a slapshot from Michigan freshman defenseman Quinn Hughes

was tipped in front by freshman forward Adam Winborg past Morris to put the Wolverines up 1-0. The Wolverines would double their advantage just minutes later off a wristshot from senior forward Dexter Dancs. Irish head coach Jeff Jackson said he was impressed with the Wolverines’ play.

“Michigan puts a lot of pressure on you with their speed.

They skate really well, and you have less time to make a play,” Jackson said. “When you’ve got the puck on your stick, they’re on you right away and you have to move it quickly. To do that, you have to have good puck support.”

Later in the period, the Irish were given a chance to respond after an offensive-zone penalty by the Wolverines but took a penalty of their own shortly after, negating the advantage and returning play to an even 4-on-4.

The Irish would close the period with a 3-on-1 break, but tried one too many passes and failed to generate a shot out of the oddman rush. The Irish entered the see HOCKEY PAGE 10

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Squad downs BC in final road game before tourneys

of junior Kelly Hart and seniors Payton Miller, Samantha Murray and Jessica Harris earned a time of 11:03.38. This places them 11th nationally and could also earn them a nationals trip.

Irish head coach Alan Turner said he was pleased with the result, noting some of the key performances that contributed to the teams’ successes.

“That was No. 1, getting those teams to the NCAA meet, and I think we accomplished that goal,” he said. “Jess [Harris] had a great anchor leg, Yared [Nuguse] on the 1,600-meter leg was 3:57 for his split, which is outstanding for a freshman, those guys he was going up against were multiple-time All-Americans ...

Elijah Silva ran the 800 leg for us.

He’s a transfer from Tulsa. [He’s a] fifth-year guy, this is his first time going to nationals, and he had a 1:49 split on his 800 today.

The guys did really great, and I’m really happy for them.”

Six Irish athletes went on to post first-place finishes in their

The scores of Notre Dame’s two games against Boston College this season — 89-55 and 89-60 — are representative of, what one might think would be, two very similar games. And yet, in this road matchup, as opposed to Notre Dame’s home win, it was a tale of two halves.

The Irish (25-2, 13-1 ACC) went into halftime with a nine-point lead after getting out to a sluggish start. The Eagles (7-20, 2-12) kept pace with the Irish for the game’s first few minutes; however, the Irish went on an 8-0 run over the course of nearly three minutes in the first quarter, which yielded a 14-6 lead for Notre Dame.

Eight of Notre Dame’s points in the first quarter came from the bench — namely from freshman forward Danielle Patterson and graduate student forward Kristina Nelson. Irish head coach Muffet McGraw was pleased with Nelson’s performance, but

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Irish junior guard Arike Ogunbowale dribbles up the court during Notre Dame’s 94-62 win over North Carolina on Feb. 1.