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ND Day scores record high donations Over 880 campus clubs, organizations participate in annual event, which raised $2.1 million By Kelli Smith Associate News Editor
At 18:42 military time Sunday, a live broadcast showcasing Notre Dame students, alumni, faculty and friends through a variety of interviews, performances and events kicked off for 29-straight hours. The broadcast’s start time was symbolic — Notre Dame was founded in the year 1842. And after nearly 176 years of generation after generation making its mark on the University’s history, the fifth-annual Notre Dame Day strived to reconnect the Notre Dame family by sharing campus stories while raising funds for student and alumni groups with a direct impact on students. With its official close Tuesday morning, Notre Dame Day
program director Pablo Martinez, a 2011 graduate, said the event hit record-highs by accumulating over 115,000 views on the broadcast’s website alone and over 31,500 gifts totaling over $2.1 million. “When it was all said and done there were 880 groups that had a stake in Notre Dame Day,” Martinez said. “ … Our goal is to tell the Notre Dame story more broadly [and] get more people to realize yes, you can have an impact with a gift because that really impacts the group.” According to the percentage of votes an organization received over the course of the 29 hours, a $1.1 million University challenge fund was divided to add to the donors’ gifts and encourage see ND DAY PAGE 3
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Students in the Glee Club are interviewed in the Duncan Student Center on Monday as a part of ND Day celebrations. The event, which raises money for student and alumni organizations, kicked off Sunday.
GALA-ND/SMC awards annual scholarships By Mariah Rush News Writer
This year’s annual LGBTQ student scholarships, funded by the Gay and Lesbian Alumni of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s (GALAND/SMC), has been awarded to two sophomores at Notre Dame, Anne Jarrett and Tim Jacklich. Bryan Ricketts, vice chair of
membership in GALA, said the organization looks for LGBTQ students who excel in serving their community through a variety of ways, as well as students who “may not be able to attend” without financial support. “It’s a combination of wanting to encourage and support highperforming LGBT students at Notre Dame, particularly those
with campus and community work,” Ricketts said. “Whether that’s working within established groups like Prism, or working on personal projects that help advance some part of LGBT inclusion, we want to support that.” Jarrett is a resident of Howard Hall majoring in gender studies see GALA PAGE 4
College valedictorian reflects on community By GINA TWARDOSZ News Writer
Editor‘s note: This is the third of a five-part series profiling the valedictorians of Saint Mary‘s class of 2018. Melissa Henry is one of Saint Mary’s five valedictorians this year. Although she worked hard at becoming valedictorian, her focus over the course of her four years was to get involved and
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form relationships with all those in the Saint Mary’s community. Henry, who will pursue a doctorate of audiology at Vanderbilt University after graduating, said she hopes to use hearing technology to work with clients who are in varying stages of life. “I went into audiology because of hearing technology and so I hope to be doing hearing and cochlear implants with a lifespan,” she said. “I’ve worked at the
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convent the past four years with the sisters but I’ve also been in the preschool setting, so I love people of all ages and would like to work with a lifespan of people.” Henry said she first learned about Saint Mary’s from her mother, who had fallen in love with the beauty of the campus. “I did a tour in November and then I ended up coming see VALEDICTORIAN PAGE 4
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SMC hosts sexual harassment discussion By Sara Schlecht News Writer
One of a series of workshops on sexual harassment in the workplace was held in Saint Mary’s student center on Tuesday. Entitled “What is Sexual Harassment: Looking Through Multiple Lenses,” the workshop included interactive case studies and a panel discussion moderated by WNDU anchor Tricia Sloma. Sloma introduced case studies for attendees to review and panelists to discuss. In each of the proposed scenarios, attendees were asked whether they deemed a situation to be sexual harassment. “When you look at the workplace, you have to do the right thing,” Tania Bengtsson, principal and director of marketing and innovation at Gibson Insurance, said. An important part of maintaining a work environment is maintaining and updating policies that make the workplace respectful of employees, Lonnie
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Douglas, executive director of the South Bend Human Rights Commission, said. Kris Urschel, director of human resources at Saint Mary’s, said the College‘s new orientation program would focus on a cultivating a respectful work environment. “Our new focus on our orientation program [for new hires] is going to shift a little bit … and talk about our culture, who we are and what the expectations are from a respectful workplace,” Urschel said. “That really is the right of every employee, faculty, staff or student at Saint Mary’s College.” When a situation of potential harassment is witnessed, there is a responsibility to report it so that the employer is aware of the occurrence, which is necessary for harassment claims to be legally actionable, attorney Elizabeth Klesmith said. Douglas said sexual harassment can also be combatted through the efforts of people who are willing see WORKSHOP PAGE 4
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SGA hosts Earth Day celebrations By IMAN OMAR News Writer
The Saint Mary’s Student Government Association’s sustainability committee hosted various events this past weekend in honor of Earth Day, celebrated April 22. The events were intended to support environmental awareness and provide information for students about ways to help care for the planet. Junior Emily Harrast, co-chair of the committee, said the main focus of these events was to educate students about small ways they are able to help protect the planet, both on and off campus, and encourage them to take those steps. An event centered around recycling kicked off the festivities Friday. “We felt that this event was important to bring about more information about recycling around Earth Day,” Harrast said in an email. “This year we brainstormed with the sustainability committee and decided that providing succulents would be a fun giveaway and a good way to encourage recycling.” To allow for more robust conversation around sustainability and
environmental awareness, Harrast said, the committee subsequently provided additional information about what is recyclable and hosted a talk on microplastics and their harmful effects. “Microplastics are in many cosmetic products and have slowly become more problematic, so we felt that more information on them and how to avoid them in your everyday life would be helpful,” she said. Sophomore and committee cochair Kassidy Jungles said this is the second year the committee has hosted an Earth Day event. “Last year, we hosted a similar event where participants planted f lowers and enjoyed fun earththemed snacks,” she said in an email. “In the past, we have also hosted ‘Paperless Day’ to raise awareness about paper waste on college campuses.” Jungles said the committee was very pleased with the turnout to their events this year, calling them “extremely successful.” “[The microplastics] discussion was also extremely engaging and we were able to teach students about
this extremely prevalent and important issue,” she said. Jungles said one of the committee’s main goals was “to raise awareness about ways to be more sustainable on campus and teach students how they can make earth-friendly decisions in their daily lives.” “We ran out of succulents within the first 15 minutes and filled an entire large recycling bin of recyclable materials,” she said. “We also had students from another sustainable club on campus promote their club and raise awareness about climate change.” This issue, Jungles said, is of utmost importance on campus because she believes it is college students’ responsibility to be aware of their environmental impact. “The average college student produces 640 pounds of waste each year, 320 pounds of which is paper,” she said. “It is important that students know about recycling and ways that they can be more conscious of this not only in college but also for life beyond college.” Contact Iman Omar at iomar01@saintmarys.edu
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Local exoneree examines justice system By MAX LANDER News Writer
The Notre Dame Exoneration Project invited local exoneree Ray McCann and his attorney, Greg Swygert, to share McCann’s story with Notre Dame students Tuesday at the Eck Hall of Law. The two discussed McCann‘s road to justice and exonerations‘ role in bringing about political reform. McCann was accused of sexually assaulting and then suffocating an 11-year-old girl, Jodi Parrack, to death in 2007. Due to a lack of any kind of physical evidence linking McCann to the crime, he was never prosecuted for the sexual assault and murder of Parrack. Even so, friends and some family turned against him as news that he was the prime suspect spread. Then, in 2014, McCann was arrested and prosecutors instead tried to charge McCann with 5 different counts of perjury, which McCann speculated may have been a technique used to elicit a confession.
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competition between different groups, Notre Dame Day’s website said. Every initial $10 donation made to an organization featured on Notre Dame Day’s website counted for five votes, while every subsequent gift from the same donor counted as one vote, assistant
“Personally, I thought it was a scare tactic,” he said. “Call it tunnel vision or whatever they had, they thought I had something to do with it. Personally I think it was their way of holding me for as long as they could to see if I had anything to due with it” These counts of perjury were largely based on the conflicting recollections of people McCann interacted with around the case eight years after the fact. However due to a unique statute of Michigan law, perjury in a case connected to a murder carries a potential life sentence. Due to the nature of the evidence, the prosecutor only proceeded with one of the perjury charges, which relied on supposed video evidence that later proved to be of dubious quality and usefulness. McCann took a plea deal in which he pled no contest to the single perjury charge and was sentenced to 20 months in prison. “I was wrongfully convicted of a perjury charge,” McCann said. “I took the plea, no contest,
because I knew it was the fastest way to get back to my family.” McCann spent six months in isolation, during which time he lost his voice due to lack of use. He was then moved to a prison where, due to his background as a former cop and the nature of the crime he was associated with, he received death threats upon arrival. During McCann’s time in prison, a man named Daniel Furlong confessed to the sexual assault and murder of Jodi Parrack. His DNA was also found on her body, making it clear Furlong was the culprit. Though Furlong insisted that he did not know McCann and that he had nothing to do with the crime, McCann stayed in prison until he had served his full sentence of 20 months. “Being in jail, knowing you didn’t do anything wrong, it’s a scary feeling,” McCann said. With the help of Greg Swygert and the Center on Wrongful Convictions, McCann was eventually exonerated after a lengthy legal battle. However, irreparable damage had already been
done. After his time in prison, McCann had trouble readjusting to a world that still remembered him for a crime he did not commit. He struggled with acclimating to life outside of prison as well as depression, drinking and even suicidal thoughts. Swygert focused on the particulars of this case and the larger issues in the justice system it brought to light in his portion of the lecture. “What Ray’s case most shows is prosecutorial overreach,” he said. “Ray wasn’t charged with the rape and murder of Jodi Parrack, he was charged with perjury. It was done to coerce Ray to talk.” Another ethical issue, Swygert said, involved the tactics prosecutors used to try to make McCann confess. “The prosecutor went and acted like an interrogator, he told him things that were not true,” Swygert said. “Which raises some ethical questions.” This is because, unlike cops who are generally allowed to lie to interrogation suspects
in order to get information or a confession, McCann was lied to by a prosecutor during what was technically a legal proceeding. This puts the exchange on shaky ground morally, and highlights a potential problem, or at least a degree of moral ambiguity in Michigan law. “The system isn’t perfect”, professor Jimmy Gurule, who introduced McCann and Swygert, said. Gurule said 1 in 3 exonerations involved cases in which the person had been sentenced to a minimum of 50 years. Organizations like the Center on Wrongful Convictions look to right these wrongs through exoneration but use the issues raised to improve the justice system. “If some good comes out of this, its that people are now working to make sure that this doesn’t happen to other people,” McCann said.
director of volunteer leadership Ellen Roof, a 2015 graduate, said. By limiting the number of additional votes, Roof said the program pushed for involving a broader audience of people. “Other than the freshmen, everyone on campus has experienced a Notre Dame Day now, so all the student groups are already counting on that budget money and they know how big of a difference that funding makes,” she
said. In addition to increased viewership and funding, Martinez said more groups leveraged the resources given to them to market their campaigns and communicate their messages to alumni more effectively. “We probably consulted with 200 groups individually across the board, [and] that includes our Alumni Association groups, that includes the centers and institutes, that includes the dorms and that includes all the student groups and clubs from [the Student Activities Office],” he said. The stories featured were captured year-round through submissions or “any University communication” that signified the Notre Dame message of being “a force for good,” Martinez said. “We want to share a few laughs, we want to show you some incredible stories and we might even shed a tear or two,” he said. “ … You’re trying to engage the entire Notre Dame family, so you’re talking about your grandpa 1961 alum who’s in Florida to the 2016 [graduate] who’s in Chicago. How do we give something that will entertain everything? … So we try to be very balanced in our approach.” The organizers found that balance, Martinez said, with over 200 live interviews, 40 performances and competitions such as an Observer-sponsored lip sync battle and the “Fighting Irish Forty,” in which students representing different dorms raced in a 40-yard dash. According to the program’s schedule, other keystone events included interviews with Masters Champion Patrick Reed, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year Lindsay Meyer and four-star admiral and 1984 graduate Christopher Grady as well as performances by former Celtic Woman artist Chloe
Agnew and four members from the cast of “Hamilton,” amongst others. “There’s so many different things that we try and broadcast,” Martinez said. “And those are all clipped and featured as little mini segments on the website now, so all these student groups can then grab those videos and say, hey this is what we do or this is a cool story and they can use it going forward. So it just doesn’t end on Notre Dame Day, they can tell their story on any other venue that they’d like.” The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund — a non-profit organization seeking a cure for rare neurological disorder Niemann-Pick Type C — received the most from donors with 4,445 votes and over $38,900 raised, according to the program’s website. Saint Edward’s Hall, Rowing Club, Financial Aid and the BolerParseghian Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases occupied the next four slots on the leadership board, respectively. The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund, Saint Edward’s Hall and Rowing Club landed in the top five slots for the second year in a row. Martinez and Roof said these groups see consistent success by investing more time and effort into Notre Dame Day throughout the entire year. “I think these groups also do a great job of thanking everyone after the fact and keeping everyone up-to-date throughout the year rather than just waiting until next year to hit them up again,” Roof said. “So these alumni still feel like they’re involved and they’re still actively aware of everything that’s happening, so that’s why they’re definitely willing to go above and beyond in terms of giving back and also sharing their message.” For the first time, Martinez said
last year’s top 100 groups with the most votes received an invitation to the Dahnke Ballroom in the Duncan Student Center to represent their organization in the broadcast and spend more time with Notre Dame Day staff to work on marketing strategies. “We have this idea where you can make a gift and then you get votes and it’s this fun competition,” Martinez said. “It’s very much a pride thing for a lot of groups … [some] don’t even know what they’re going to do with the money. And that’s the first thing we tell them is: What’s your plan, why are you doing this?” Another significant change, Martinez said, was the broadcast’s main location in the Duncan Student Center instead of LaFortune Student Center. “[Duncan Student Center] was such a better venue,” he said. “I think students could watch and enjoy the broadcast that they wanted but they could also just go around the corner and study, and they could. LaFortune was too small of a space to do that, you were either there watching the broadcast or you had no place to go.” Though other schools may raise more money on their giving days, Martinez said, Notre Dame is different in that it doesn’t target a select few people who can give out million-dollar gifts. “The numbers speak for themselves — 31,000 gifts, as far as we know that’s a higher education record,” Martinez said. “But that’s not why we do it. … We say we want everyone to have an impact so we can show you the collective impact of what it means to have a collective impact. That’s why we have a Notre Dame Day.”
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back to observe [professor] Susan Latham’s class and just by sitting in the classroom I knew that this is where I wanted to be,” she said. Henry has majors in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) and Psychology. As the only audiology student in her graduating class, she said she has been busy performing hearing evaluations and gaining the hands-on experiences that other students usually do not get until graduate school. “I am doing an independent study with Dr. [Rhonda] Tomenko, so I see two clients per week and I
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and philosophy. On campus she has been involved in student government, was a committee chair for PrismND and currently works at the University Writing Center. Last fall, she helped run and organize the Global LGBTQ+ Film Festival on campus as a student government representative. Jarrett spent last summer as a social media intern for TREES, Inc. (Transgender Resource, Education and Enrichment Services). TREES, Inc. works to share educational resources about the transgender community in small towns and rural communities, according to its website. Next year, Jarrett will be abroad in France, where she will
perform hearing evaluations,” she said. “That’s been great because I’ll go to graduate school with so many hours of experience.” Henry said she did not realize she could be a potential candidate for valedictorian until her sophomore year. “With freshman year, everyone comes in just trying to get through it,” she said. “I got all A’s those first two semesters and I didn’t think much of it. And then fall semester of my sophomore year, I sat down with my advisor who looked at my transcript and said that I could be valedictorian — and I said, yeah right. But ever since she mentioned that, it was a possibility for me. I was going to try for it, but it wasn’t the be-all-end-all for me.”
The hardest part of a Saint Mary’s education is wanting to embrace all the opportunities the school has to offer, Henry said. “The most difficult part is wanting to be involved in everything,” she said. “Saint Mary’s students are so involved. It’s probably because of the small campus, but, there’s times where I’ve realized you can’t do it all and it’s kind of sad that there’s only twenty-four hours in a day. You have to make choices about what to be involved in.” However, Henry said students should try to get involved as much as they can during their four years. “Getting involved is such an important part of becoming a part of the Saint Mary’s community,” she said. “It allows you to
form relationships with all sorts of people.” Henry said she will miss the students, staff and faculty who make up the Saint Mary’s community. “The campus is beautiful but without the people we just wouldn’t have what we have here,” she said. “I love meeting new people and I love that I can just walk around campus and see plenty of people I know.” Diligent attendance and reaching out to professors are the keys to success Henry said. “Up until this year, I have never missed a college class,” she said. “Some people call me crazy, but honestly, there were times when my grade was on the brink but it
was the attendance, the participation that helped. As well, taking advantage of that professors has to offer you in terms of resources, assistance and guidance is really how I got to where I am.” Saint Mary’s encourages leadership and inspires confidence for all those who consider the College to be their home, Henry said. “Saint Mary’s has given me the confidence to go for what I want,” she said. “The College has allowed me to realize my potential as a leader. I’ve had a lot of professors who have expressed their belief that I will be successful and that support will propel me forward.”
be working on her thesis discussing and researching the differences in identity construction in the United States and France. This past October, Jarrett authored the Huffington Post article entitled, “The University of Notre Dame Is Failing Its LGBTQ Students.” These achievements led GALA to choose her as one of its scholarship recipients, Ricketts said. “For Anne, the interest she has taken in LGBT social movements and the comparative studies she’s hoping to do, we think that’s really interesting and not something we’ve had a chance to support with this scholarship,” he said. Jarrett said the LGBT scholarships can help build a sense of community, but more inclusion is still needed on campus. “Just the fact that GALA exists,
even though it’s separate from the University, we are able to create a community at Notre Dame — which is really important for not only Notre Dame people, but for people outside of Notre Dame,” she said. “There’s a general idea of diversity on campus, but as for inclusion, I don’t know how much exists. I think coming out for Ally Week stuff, making an effort to educate yourself on appropriate terminology, making more of an effort to not assume straight-ness and not to judge people because they are ‘different’ than you. Being aware of your own faults in that is the first step to making progress.” Jacklich is an O’Neill Family Hall resident studying history and Spanish. He is a member of the Glee Club and he served in the student government
department of gender relations in the Blais-Shewit administration. Currently, he serves on an advisory committee focusing on to the campus climate related to LGBTQ students. He also has participated in the last two Campus Ministry LGBTQ retreats and works as an assistant teacher at a local South Bend grade school. Ricketts said the group chose Jacklich because of his participation on campus and support of other students. “[We were] impressed with Tim’s engagement with on campus groups, and in particular supporting those who are interested in exploring being LGBT and how they can live that reality in Catholic faith,” Ricketts said. Jacklich said the scholarship is important because LGBT students may need extra financial
support once they come out. He said he believes Notre Dame has been gradually improving its climate of inclusion for LGBT students. “Even today, LGBT students run the risk of being cut off financially by their parents upon coming out. Support systems like the GALAND/SMC Scholarship Fund help to mitigate that risk and ensure that LGBT students stay on track to graduate,” Jacklich said in an email. “Notre Dame has made significant improvements in its climate of LGBT inclusivity over the last few years. … To an LGBT student considering Notre Dame, I would say that ND is far from perfect, but it can definitely be a home for them.” for them.”
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to speak up. “Any organization needs what I call an interrupter, and that is a person that is not afraid to speak out, even though the harassment might not be happening to them, but they can interrupt it,” Douglas said. “We also need strong people to speak out and say, ‘That’s not acceptable to me.’” To bring forward a sexual harassment claim, one must go through a thorough an extensive process, Klesmith said. “There are multiple elements that you have to have in order to prove a sexual harassment claim,” Klesmith said. “It’s not just that the person harassed you.” Klesmith said the entity generally held responsible for sexual harassment is not the harasser but the employer. “Just because something doesn’t rise to the level of being actionable in a court doesn’t mean that it’s okay,” Klesmith said. The Seventh Circuit Court, under whose jurisdiction Indiana exists, has a strict set of requirements in order for a claim to be called actionable sexual harassment Klesmith said. Cases the court has determined to not legally constitute sexual harassment include unwelcome physical advances and lewd comments. “It’s very difficult in Indiana to
state a claim for sexual harassment, and it’s another reason why you have to try and protect your employees,” Klesmith said. “These are things that happen to people, and they’re not [actionable] claims. They get zero redress from them in the court system.” Common sense is essential to determining appropriate behavior in workplace situations, Steven Eller of Beacon Health System said. This common sense, he said, can come from the education system and remain in place once a person has learned what behavior is appropriate. “Those who are [teaching] in middle schools and high schools are … the role models for those students who then come to a college campus where they live on their own,” Eller said. “Those perpetuate to the work environment.” College President Jan Cervelli said sexual harassment is a social justice issue the College takes seriously. Saint Mary’s involvement in this series of workshops comes from a desire to create better workplaces for students, who are the leaders of the future, Cervelli said. “Since the beginning of the College, we have been developing women leaders, meaning that they go out and make the world a better place,” Cervelli said. Another workshop in this series is planned for June 18. Contact Sara Schlecht at sschlecht01@saintmarys.edu
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By MIKE DONOVAN Associate Scene Editor
In 1997, the illustrious German game designer Uwe Rosenberg introduced Bohnanza to the world — a card game that invites its players to build a microcosmic socio-economy at the hands of a particular, scarce resource, the bean (side note: bohne is the German word for bean, thus making Bohnanza a hilarious pun). Those, like noted player Nandi Rose Plunkett, who are lucky enough to take part in regular Bohnanza sessions, find solace in the game’s intentionally simplistic rendition of human connection. A player of the game can harvest, at most, three types of beans. His or her identity extends no further. Beans equate to money, and money to personal value. No player can rise above the sum total of his or her beans. The bean is everything. Needless to say, reality does not revolve around the legume. Theories of the human connection posit questions of far greater depths than those of the richest pinto flavor. It would be unwise of us to use a delightful German game as an allegory for the relationship. But we need not worry. When our beans fail us, we can still turn to the ceaselessly-compelling art pop of Nandi Rose Plunkett’s project Half Waif — whose latest album, “Lavender,” comes out Friday. That’s not to say Plunkett’s quietly erratic sy nt h-pop-meets-Celt ic-meets-a-smatter ing-ofclassical-meets-a-bunch-of-other-really-cool-thingsat-an-avant-garde-dance-gathering musical styling has
By DANNY LIGGIO Scene Writer
Patrick Star once uttered what has since become law: “W hen in doubt, pinky out.” And on the cover art of J. Cole’s newly released album, “KOD,” he, in agreeance with Patrick Star, stands a king with pinky finger extended. His pinky is meant to alleviate doubt, make you believe in him and his music. In “KOD,” J. Cole is certain, and he will do anything to make you certain as well. “KOD,” the titular first track of the album, hits hard. Cole effortlessly spits about his come-up and hyperbolizes motifs of drug use over errantly-rumbling 808s. “KOD” and other album highlights like “ATM” and “Motiv8” all function in a thematically similar way to Kendrick Lamar’s “untitled 07” from his “untitled unmastered” mixtape. These types of songs use the rapper’s voice to represent the pressures they feel outside of the music. Kendrick grits out, “Shut your f----- mouth and get some cash, you b----,” whereas J. Cole fires off, “Count it up,” repeatedly. The two rappers have unapologetically never been about money, but that does not stop them from living in a world that is. W hile that more thematic type of song allows J. Cole to make high energ y, mainstream songs while staying true to himself, it is not a trend on which his music is reliant. “1985,” the final song on the
all the answers. If a body of work claims to have all the answers, however, it’s either a religious tome, a B-school textbook or your weird uncle’s vanity press self-help volume. Plunkett’s music instead seems to ask the right questions — those not too broad to overwhelm us, but universal enough to comfort our wandering minds. “If everybody is searching for the same shelter / Why does anyone think it’s theirs to know,” Plunkett queries on the single “Torches” — a coy nod to the idea that our innermost musings, the pain and isolation we so often experience, are precisely the things that connect us to everyone else. In one respect, Plunkett’s question highlights the arrogance of those (evangelists, textbook writers and weird uncles) who glorify their own individual musings as divine law. But on another, more positive, level, the question implores the isolated individual to share his or her inner life with others because, ultimately, his or her “search for shelter” may be no different from that of the person he or she shares it with. And where might this shelter be? Plunkett has a few ideas. Aurally, she searches for it in the measured precision of her classical training (she studied music theory at Kenyon College), the vocal and rhythmic fluctuations of her Celtic heritage, the mind-bending poetic-modernity of computerized sound and the liminal glimmer in the middle of an unexpected paradigm shift. Verbally, she drifts into “the shifting darkness,” “on the bright side” of a pungent lilac house and, in a particularly compelling fragment, “Back in Brooklyn, for the night […] Back in Brookedale, for the day.” “After hundreds of unknown
streets in dozens of other cities, here were the streets I knew,” Plunkett writes (of Brooklyn, New York, and Brookedale, NJ) in an essay about the spare piano-driven track “Back in Brooklyn.” But the streets do not comfort her as she expects. Instead, they amplify the “rifts” between her present self and the self of her past. The spaces and, more significantly, the people within them do not love unconditionally. By tending her relationships with the spaces and people of her past, Plunkett discovers that her connection has faded drastically. It takes more than beans to mend seismic relational rifts — fissions that condemn everyone to a loser’s status. But, Plunkett suggests, the losing end epitomizes “the same shelter” that everyone claims to know. “Burning lavender in the oven / Filling the space with a strange kind of lovin’” an isolated soul merely has to reach out: “Look after me now ‘cause I’m a lost woman.”
album is a pseudo-diss-track at the newest wave of hip-hop. He sympathizes with the juvenile pitfalls that new-coming rappers often fall into, while at the same time giving some words of warning and restraint. Cole performs this old-head shtick in a manner worth listening to. He is a capable wordsmith, and “KOD” does not tell you any differently. But not ever ything J. Cole says on “KOD” is truth. On “Photograph,” he makes a clumsy attempt to disparage the current state of love in a world defined by social media. But he ends up saying nothing of substance other than that it is “messing with my [his] health.” “Brackets,” another low point on the album, finds Cole proposing a smartphonebased direct democracy and illogically ripping on ta xes. In this case, he chooses a low-hanging issue and approaches it with a lazy solution. W hile “KOD” is a well-built and enjoyable album, it does not have what has always made J. Cole great. His best music, “Wet Dreamz” from “2014 Forest Hills Drive” and “Neighbors” from “4 Your Eyez Only,” are narrative songs that are grossly lacking on “KOD.” J. Cole paints pictures of events that have affected him and invites the listener to remember with him. Through the stories of his experiences, J. Cole makes his distant pain understandable. This narrative approach is all but absent on “KOD.” J. Cole shows instead of telling. Instead of describing how and why he came to his conclusions
about drugs and moderation, J. Cole assumes his authority is enough to convince the listener. It is here that J. Cole becomes polarizing. If you are willing to accept his authority, you’ll enjoy the album and what he says will resonate with you. If you don’t think J. Cole has earned the right to state his conclusions definitively, then the album may be a little harder to stomach. “KOD” became the most streamed album on Apple Music in its first day. W hether J. Cole has something important to say or not, there are a lot of people out there willing to listen. The album further solidifies J. Cole’s position in the industr y as an artist who creates strong feelings: you either love him or you hate him.
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“Lavender” Half Waif Label: Cascine Records Tracks: “Back in Brooklyn” If you like: Florist, Deerhoof, Frankie Cosmos
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“KOD” J. Cole Label: UMG Recordings Tracks: “ATM” If you like: Pusha T, Jay Rock
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Tangible advice from a senior Adam Ramos Senior Scene Writer
After four years of writing for The Observer, the time has finally come to write my final inside column. So, in line with many that have come before me, here comes some ref lective advice. And while I endorse the classic senior recommendations of “Always try new things” and “Take advantage of Notre Dame’s bountiful resources,” I thought I might try and deliver advice that’s a bit more tangible. The first being to move off campus as soon as possible. Let me start by saying I really enjoyed my time on campus — Carroll Hall and the Vermin who inhabit it will always remain close to my heart. But, simply stated, living in a dorm stif les maturation. In my three semesters off campus, I’ve gleaned so many useful lessons by simply living in a house, such as fixing a fuse box, cleaning (everything), cooking, navigating a housing contract and dealing with communal chores, among many others. College is the time to figure these mostly-basic things out before the harsh reality of normal life sets in. So sitting in a tiny dorm room with a cleaning staff, R A, AR and rector seems like an unnecessary handicap for four years. While I am at it, I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention the importance of expanding the social circle outside of the dorm bubble. Again, I don’t want to undersell the importance of the dorm community, but too often students completely organize their social life around the people that live close by. Notre Dame has a plethora of lovely, smart, interesting and diverse students, so limiting yourself by proximity can be extremely detrimental. So join clubs, be open to spending down time with students you don’t know very well or simply don’t be afraid to greet the girl wearing the cool T-shirt in DeBart. Having a strong, supportive system of friends is such an essential component of the positive collegiate experience — but it takes a little work. The classic, “Enjoy your four years on campus, you have your whole life to travel,” is very bad, albeit very common, advice. The reality is that traveling to Rome for the weekend when you’re 30 is one thing, while living, studying and traveling for a five-month semester in a foreign country while in college is something entirely different. My semester aboard in Santiago, Chile was an indelible part of my experience at Notre Dame. Between normalizing to an entirely new culture, becoming f luent in Spanish and bonding with my fellow students abroad as well as my host family, I can’t say enough good things about study abroad at Notre Dame — and there is truly a program for everyone. My last piece of advice finally has something to do with academics, and that is to never build a curriculum based on what looks good on a resume. I understand that in some ways college can be just job preparation, and so it’s absolutely fine to pick a major with a career in mind. But college is truly more than that. Picking up a minor in the program of Philosophy, Religion and Literature allowed me to take an array of tremendously insightful and stimulating classes on top of my international economics course load. Diversity in my course load allowed for a much more well-rounded education than the standard one-track approach, something I will always cherish from my time at Notre Dame. To end, I just want to stress the importance of individuality. Don’t be afraid to defy convention; the Notre Dame group-think mentality is a very real thing — but it doesn’t have to rule your time here if you don’t let it. G’Irish. Contact Adam Ramos at aramos6@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
End-of-the-year ranks Davis Gonsalves Highest-Ranking Column According to Me
Bittersweet describes this column best. On the one hand, this piece signifies a close to my column for the year. On the other, though, I get to rank all the things that couldn’t fit into one column on its own, so they come together in a ranking extravaganza. Less talk, let’s get to the rankings: Numbers 1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four 5. Five Finally, an objective way to subjectively rank concepts. No one finishes the best in a competition as third. If you’re No. 1, you’re the best. Simple enough, and this line of thinking extends down to every number. I hate hockey and soccer scores; I’m going with the golf approach and the lowest number wins (side note: I’m not including all real numbers, only counting ones. That way the pesky zero can’t infiltrate my lists). Responses to my columns 1. Fr. Jenkins asking to meet with me after I ranked his emails 2. The girl who sent me the entire “Bee Movie” script 3. Being booed at a Howard Hall Council meeting after ranking the hall 27th 4. My rector being fine with me ranking the Holy Trinity but upset with me calling it the “Divine Trinity” Let me clarify and say that No. 1 is No. 1 by a long shot. I know of many students who greatly participate in social activism on campus that have been dying to meet Fr. Jenkins. Little do they know the secret is to rank his campuswide addresses and hopes he reads the paper the particular day my column appears. No. 2 was good because after this person thanked me for my column, I told her I was ranking the responses at the end of the year. The “Bee Movie” was her plan to make the list. Well, it worked, [insert name]. My ongoing feud with Howard Hall continued in their hall council, but joke’s on them — I love all the attention. Lastly, the ranking of the Holy Trinity may have been heretical, but the semantics seem to be the greater sin. My Observer editors 1. Copy editor Ev y Stein 2. Viewpoint editor Mary Freeman 3. Whoever is the back editor for the night W hat’s funny is that you may be reading this column now, but picture that these three are all reading this the night before, scanning for grammar and content. So you as the reader are cluing into a private dialogue that happened hours ago. You hear that Ev y? I’m talking to you directly now. It’s only you reading this, but I’m here on the page. Will this line be published? How about this one? If it’s not, I’ll know. Maybe the reader won’t, but I will. W hat’s going to happen? Your move. Away from that meta conversation, they are ranked in this order purely on political principles. Big
government may have its issues, and editing is no different. I want that personal relationship Ev y and I share on the page. Mary is one removed from this, and given that I don’t even know the name of the person working in the back, that should tell you how far removed he or she is. Parts of a night out 1. Post-party food 2. Pregame 3. Actual party 4. The sleep If you’ve never eaten three value-meal cheeseburgers with fries and a chocolate shake after a night out, do yourself a favor and experience some culture. It only narrowly takes the top spot from the pregame, where you get to meet new people, have engaging experiences with old friends and, most importantly, have total control over the aux. The actual party is far too inconsistent to warrant a high ranking. It beats out sleep, though, because a night out is often correlated with me skipping my nightly routine and waking up in khaki pants or something. You just hate to see that. Notice none of these rankings pertain to alcohol or any other substance (except salt in the fast-food) because parties come in all shapes and sizes. Things my white friends love 1. Songs that tell them what to do 2. Hammocks 3. Cream cheese 4. Colorado 5. Podcasts Coming from Portland and attending Notre Dame, I have accumulated my fair share of white friends. I will not commit to saying all white people enjoy these things or that only my white friends enjoy this; those are huge overgeneralizations. It just so happens that basically all my personal white friends like these things and you can extrapolate from there. I’m not even saying that these things aren’t cool (come on, who doesn’t love podcasts or hammocks?). I’m pretty sure, though, every one of my white friends has uttered the phrase “I can see myself living in Colorado at some point” when discussing his or her future plans. As for the top spot, put “Cha Cha Slide” on in a Portland suburban party and see what happens. I know you’ll agree after that. There are even smaller rankings I could include such as cutlery (where spoon goes will shock you), study abroad programs, papal encyclicals, American Girl Dolls, etc. but alas, there are only so few words I can write. Maybe next year you’ll see some of these, but for now, I leave this column for the summer letting you ponder how often you talk about Colorado. Send me any suggestions for next year; maybe you, too, can have your response ranked. Davis loves to rank people, places, things, ideas and sometimes even verbs. His current junior year places third among years, his neuroscience major places seventh and his theology major ranks third among all majors. Contact him at dgonsalv@nd.edu to be placed first in his heart. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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‘Berlin SONAR: Past, present, future’ “Berlin SONAR: Past, Present, Future” is the celebratory culmination of a course predicated on the belief that one must immerse oneself in a city’s geographic, historic and architectonic to glean a robust appreciation for the city. According to German art historian Karl Scheff ler, “Berlin is a city condemned always to become, never to be.” Indeed, through our week stay, we would discover this fact: Berlin is always energized, awake and innovative. As our class of 16 entered the Berlin airport, these thoughts resonated in our minds. Some of us have been here before, some have never been in Europe, and some have never traveled outside of the United States. But no matter. In our class with visiting professor and prolific artist Dr. Matthias Pabsch, we were charged with an interesting yet arduous task: seek to define the Berlin experience. But how can we define such an experience from only a week of exploration? In the past months, we studied how Berlin architecture has played a pivotal role in the city’s formation and evolution. And quite an evolution it has been. Berlin has been a symbol of artistic expression and construction for centuries. There are great architects like Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who seems to encapsulate the Berlin artistic spirit as an artist and self-taught architect. Berlin was home to the beginnings of modernist thought through Peter Behrens and
Bauhaus, which rejuvenated Germany following the war. The emergence of the great Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the tragic rise of Nazi architecture and destruction, the oppressive contrast of east and west and now the current state of Berlin thought, cosmopolitan and increasingly gentrified, all conspire to present a city with more diverse art and architecture than can be possibly reckoned with. We traveled to East and West Berlin, witnessing the contrasts of low and high class, utilitarianism and avant-garde. Our class toured the Parliamentary and Chancellery government buildings, where we considered how art commemorates, ref lects and shapes the German political landscape. Our trek took us to public museums like the historic Alt Museum on the Spree River Island and the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, located in a reappropriated train station. We were also privileged to visit private art exhibitions. One exhibition, interestingly enough, was located in a former Nazi bunker. Our class experience was quite unconventional: exhibitions by day, techno clubs by night. And yet this life can be put more simply as speculation and contemplation by day, liberation and participation by night. As we sat on the trams going from place to place, exhibition to exhibition, as we danced in the
pounding lights and fog at underground techno clubs, we looked at Berlin and noticed a striking similarity among so many contrasting thought processes: Art was everywhere, and it was equally diverse and individual. We realized that the Berlin experience is the individual’s experience. You can create as you please, and spectate when you tire. You can take from Berlin as much as you want to take, and imprint on it as much as you desire to. In turn, Berlin with its buildings, sculptures, music and its very history leaves a unique impression upon you. As you will see at our exhibition in the Snite Museum of Art’s Conference Room on Wednesday at 5 p.m., each artist went to the same place but returned with a different experience. No one art project can speak to the entirety of the Berlin experience, but we invite you to consider our collection of works, to immerse yourself in our inspired artifacts of Berlin’s impression, and catch a glimpse of the Berlin spirit. Jeff Graziano junior Logan Wishart junior April 23
Pardon, can you repeat that? Lauren Fox Life Goes On
When your communication skills are limited, you become a much better communicator. In my context, limited communication skills means living in a foreign-speaking country. Side effects of this condition include diminished ability to comprehend someone unless watching his or her mouth move and frequent demanding of a slower speaking rate. I’ve been abroad in Angers, France since February, and while my French is good, it certainly isn’t f lawless. And that can be scary. I’ve had my fair share of mistakes, as have my friends. But through my stumbles, I’ve learned a few new ways to improve my communication that can be universally applied. Let’s take a story as an example. I’m in a burger restaurant with another American and two French students. The waiter comes up to take our orders. When he gets to me, I tell him what I want, and then he asks me something in fast French that I don’t catch. Using context clues, I assume he asks me how I want it cooked, so I respond with what I think means “well done.” It turns out I told him “well cooked,” as in demanding him to “cook it well.” The waiter and the French students start laughing. I shrug my shoulders, grin and throw up my hands in confusion and feigned despair. “Classic. What the heck did I say this time?” The waiter
leaves and my French friends explain my blunder. Then halfway through the meal, he comes back to jokingly ask me if my burger was cooked to my standards. We laughed. I rouged. And in my folly, we passed an amiable moment together. I wasn’t too terribly embarrassed by my mistake, and the waiter wasn’t angered by it. In fact, due to my fumble, I shared more smiles and laughter with the waiter and my friends than I otherwise might have. Now how does this story, in which I fail in communication, teach you to be a better communicator? On y va. Here are three simple rules I’ve come to follow in Angers. I think if the whole world followed these communication principles, we all might get along just a bit better. 1. Use body language I threw up my hands, shrugged my shoulders and gave a cheeky grin to the waiter. That let him know I realized I made a mistake but I had no idea what it was. Motioning, using hand signals and expressing emotions through noises greatly helps communication. Forget how to say the words for rising and falling? Just lift your hand up and down. At the bar and want to warn your friend that guy next to her is about to spill his drink? Throw her the hand sign that means “drunk person over there.” Can’t remember how to say, “I’m alright?” Just say “Bof.” Body language can be a huge help. 2. Don’t be ashamed After my response prompted laughter, I too
simply laughed. You must accept your lack of knowledge and completely own it. It’s all a part of the education. If I were afraid of making mistakes every time I spoke, I would never speak. I frequently ask the French to repeat themselves or explain in simpler language. Asking for clarification gets you to the truth faster. 3. Be less judgmental The waiter didn’t judge me, nor did the French students. They understood my language barrier, and thus had compassion for me. Wouldn’t it be nice if we held this same level of compassion for those that speak our own language? So often we misinterpret others’ intentions through texts, emails or in-person communication, resulting in a misjudgment of their character. But if you speak with someone from a different country, you are typically less judgmental, understanding their habits might be due to a cultural difference. Of course, we must not lose all criticism, for that would be dangerous. But a little less judging and more compassion can go a long way in communication. Did that all make sense, or do I need to clarify? Don’t hesitate to ask. Lauren Fox is a junior in the Program of Liberal Studies who enjoys listening to summer hits of the 2000s and playing 500 rummy. You can follow her on twitter via @bylaurenfox and send fan mail to lfox6@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: Take the initiative to bring about positive change in your life and your relationships. Socialize more and volunteer your services for events that you find compelling and will lead to new acquaintances with unusual people. Don’t feel you have to make personal changes that will cost too much. Love who you are, and so will those you encounter along the way. Your numbers are 4, 11, 20, 29, 33, 38, 41. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Step up and do something that will make a difference to the people you love, your peers or your community. Getting along and offering hope to others will put you in a good position when you need something in return. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t feel you have to follow the crowd or make physical changes you cannot afford. Use your intelligence and skills, not your appearance, to help you get ahead. Keep your life simple and moderate to avoid being judged. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t do anything drastic. Changing your look will not turn out quite the way you want, and addressing an emotional issue will only make matters worse. Focus more on clearing a space to make room for a new project. Creativity can often help resolve frustration and stress. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Secrets are best kept that way. Someone you thought was like you will disappoint you. If you want change, take action and make it happen. Waiting for someone else to make a move will be unproductive. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You can make your current situation better if you aren’t excessive and don’t jeopardize your financial status. Practicality will weigh in heavy when it comes to easing stress and feeling secure about your future. Walk away from people with bad habits. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The changes you see going on around you aren’t a mandate for you to follow suit. Consider what’s best for you and surround yourself with likeminded people who can help you advance. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Listen to the voice of reason and put practical applications into play. Going with the flow instead of against it will prove to be in your best interest. Don’t be shy or reluctant to accept help when offered. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Overspending is not the way to win someone’s affection. Put your wallet away and use your personality and charm to turn heads. How you treat others physically and emotionally will be the deciding factor when dealing with important relationships. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Handling your relationships with colleagues or friends will be emotionally difficult. Be careful not to send the wrong message with your actions or words. You’ll face criticism or blame for something you unintentionally say or do. Don’t share private information. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you want to make a positive change, do something that will lower your overhead. Emotional problems will spin out of control, causing stress if you can’t find a workable solution. Trying to control someone’s bad habits will be fruitless. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t feel you have to pay for someone else’s mistake. Offer suggestions but don’t physically or financially step in and take over. Personal changes can be made as long as they are within your budget. Personal relationships will be tested. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t let an offer confuse you. A change may be tempting, but before you make a decision, find out exactly what’s expected of you and what you will receive in return. Don’t get caught up in someone else’s enthusiasm. Birthday Baby: You are sensitive, driven and bold. You are aggressive and dramatic.
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Ovechkin deserves NHL win Tobias Hoonhout Managing Editor
Hello darkness, my old friend. The Capitals and the Penguins are meeting yet again in the postseason, now for the third year running. And for all the recent regular-season success that my colleague and fellow Caps fan Jack Concannon pointed out last week, Washington should wonder if this matchup is probably over before it even begins. The Capitals have an atrocious record in the playoffs, and Pittsburgh has been a large reason why. The Caps have made it to the second round seven times in the last 10 seasons, and they have lost each of the previous six times. They’ve met the Penguins 10 times in the postseason, and have lost nine of them — four of which have gone seven games. Pittsburgh has yet to win a Stanley Cup without ousting Washington from the playoffs, including the past two seasons. But this year, it hasn’t been about the Capitals. No one was expecting much from them after the collapses over the last two years, and even after the team sneakily won the Metropolitan yet again, I wasn’t paying attention. My indifference seemed confirmed when Washington gave away twogoal leads in the first two games of an opening-round matchup with the Columbus Blue Jackets — at least the Capitals don’t even have to give any semblance of actually making a run and getting me even remotely emotionally invested. After that, of course, Washington put Braden Holtby back in net — where he belongs — and promptly rattled off four-straight wins to clinch the series. Monday night’s win was not even close. But what does it matter? The Penguins are waiting. So here we are again, facing off against Pittsburgh in the second round. But that’s not even the worst part. The ver y fact that I had no interest in watching the Caps fall short yet again was decided May 10 of last year, on what could have been “the biggest D.C. sports night in forever,” according to fellow D.C. sports fan Dan Steinberg at the Washington Post. Of course, it wasn’t, and I wasn’t interested in
having to endure another roller-coaster ride ending in disaster. But I’m back. Tr y as I might, I couldn’t resist the fact that however unlikely it may be, there’s still a tiny, oh-so-tiny chance that maybe the Capitals finally find a way to give Alexander Ovechkin a chance at his first Stanley Cup. There’s no question he deserves one, considering how much he has given to the franchise over the course of his career. He once again proved his agelessness by leading the league in goals scored this season, even as we enter the last years of the Ovechkin era. But there’s also no question of my stupidity. And yet again, the honey was too sweet to resist. My boss — and diehard Penguins fan — Courtney Becker is, and probably will be, laughing at me for a long time after the Capitals go up 3-0 and then decide they’ve had enough of leading the fans on and drop fourstraight games. But I’m not here for the Capitals. I’m here for Ovechkin. Not only has he been the best goal scorer in the NHL for almost as long as I can remember, but he’s also been incredibly loyal. He’s no Carmelo Anthony, who couldn’t win in Denver, so he decided to go lose in New York and now Oklahoma City. No, Ovechkin has too much integrity for that. And so, despite all the pain it has caused me, I’m back to see the franchise that owes him the most let him down once again. I’m also not as pessimistic as Concannon, or Lady Antebellum for that matter. Sure, losing sucks. But if you didn’t feel anything, you wouldn’t watch either. Instead, no matter how ready you are to be disappointed, and not without good reason, just think of how much greater just one second-round triumph over the Pittsburgh Penguins would feel. Because, as Blaise Pascal put it so eloquently, “if you [win], you [win] all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation.” Contact Tobias Hoonhout at thoonhou@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 senior Jordan Shead sprints at Loftus Center during the Meyo Invitational Feb. 3. Shead placed first in the 400-meter with a 53.45 time and helped the 4x400 team to a third place finish with 3:44.61.
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and fifth in the event w ith throws of 15.23 meters and 15.15 meters, respectively. Kusk y would also set a new personal best in the discus throw, hitting a distance of 48.27 meters in the open competition for a fifthplace finish. Watkins threw for a distance of 50.47 meters in the inv ite field, finishing in sixth place. Freshman distance runner Vincent Zona picked up a fifth-place finish in the 1,500-meter run, finishing w ith a time of 3:57.72. The Irish women also put together several strong performances on the track. Sophomore Summer Thorpe picked up a secondplace finish in 100-meter hurdles, setting a personal record w ith a time of 13.40 seconds, a mark which is the fifth-best in program histor y. Thorpe participated alongside seniors A llison Bartoszew icz and Jordan Shead and sophomore Grace Cronin in the 4x400meter relay. The team
earned fifth place w ith a time of 3:41.94. The Irish also earned second place overall in the women’s 4x100-meter relay, as junior Kyla Lew is and sophomore Naya Sharp teamed up w ith Shead and Thorpe to post a finishing time of 46.06 seconds. Shead also placed third overall in the 400-meter dash, picking up a personal record w ith her time of 53.30 seconds. That mark was also good enough to give Shead the fourthbest 400-meter time in the conference. Freshman thrower Rachel Tanczos finished as the runner-up in the inv ite field of the hammer throw, notching a new personal record w ith a distance of 53.84 meters. Notre Dame found some success at the Virginia Challenge as well. The meet is know n for its high-level distance competition, and the Irish were hoping to pace themselves against strong opponents. Junior Anthony Williams earned 18th place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, finishing w ith a
time of 9: 08.40, a new personal record. Freshman Parker Jones picked up a third-place finish in the 1,500-meter run, setting a new personal best w ith his time of 3:53.21. Senior Jessica Harris set a personal record in the 800-meter run, finishing second overall w ith a time of 2: 06.46. Junior Kelly Hart (2: 07.79) and senior Samantha Murray (2: 09.78), who finished eighth and 16th, respectively, joined Harris in the 800-meter run. Harris also went on to earn fourth place in the 1,500-meter run, posting a final time of 4:20.64. This coming weekend, Notre Dame w ill be splitting up again. Part of the team w ill be heading to Philadelphia’s Ben Frank lin Field to compete in the Penn Relays, while other Irish athletes w ill compete at the Gina Relays in Hillsdale, Michigan. Competition at Penn w ill kick off at 1 p.m. Thursday and run through Saturday. The Gina Relays w ill be a t wo-day affair, w ith competition beginning Friday at noon.
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Irish junior Kyla Lewis races at the Meyo Invitational, held at Loftus Center on Feb. 3. Lewis placed sixth in the finals for the 60-meter race. Lewis also placed eighth in the 200-meter finals. The Observer accepts classifieds every business day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Notre Dame office, 024 South Dining Hall. Deadline for next-day classifieds is 3 p.m. All classifieds must be prepaid. The charge is 5 cents per character per day, including all spaces. The Observer reserves the right to edit all classifieds for content without issuing refunds.
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her team was ready to go and score quickly Tuesday. “They had a nice attack mode mentality,” she said. “ … [The] Boston College series [this past weekend] was interesting … we played, at times, not great softball, but we saw so many good things happening that I felt like we getting there. It was a good transition, and we needed today … where everything went right.” However, the Irish bats quickly cooled. The Falcons (25-20, 7-9 MAC) appeared to be staging a quick response in the top of the second, as freshman third baseman Sarah Gonzalez and junior designated player Kellie
Natham stood on second and first base, respectively, with two outs. But Irish right-hander Alexis Holloway closed the door on the inning against the next batter to keep Bowling Green scoreless. The freshman pitched all seven innings, shutting out the Falcons and improving her record to 18-11 on the season. “She’s had good stuff all year, but today, I liked how she attacked the hitters really well,” Gumpf said of Holloway’s performance. “When she attacks hitters, she’s tough.” In the bottom of the third, Sweet — who was part of the initial three-run first inning — led off, taking a rise ball from Falcons junior righthanded pitcher Meredith Miller to the helmet. Marking
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Notre Dame freshman Abby Sweet swings at a pitch against Loyola at Melissa Cook Stadium on April 11. The Irish lost to the Ramblers 8-4.
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of competition, we needed to show up all three days. First round, at one point we were in fifth place, and at one point we were fifth place in the final round. We just weren’t able to hang on. It was super competitive, lots of good teams. We just didn’t hang in there.” With the postseason uncertain, the Irish are now at the mercy of a selection committee, as the team’s future w ill be announced Wednesday when NCAA regional selections are revealed. Holt said she remains hopeful her team w ill make it to regionals, and she still believes her team has what it takes to advance further into the postseason. “Overall, we got some good rounds and good production [in the ACC championship],” Holt said. “Just looking forward to [continuing] to keep play ing in the postseason and take some of that confidence from this past weekend into the postseason. Hopefully, we can put it all together. If this team does that, we’re making the next round, I think.” With the Irish now at the end of the regular season,
next year’s season w ill likely be in the back of their mind. The Irish have finished the recruiting process for the next three years and w ill not be gr waduating any of their top-five players this year. A lbrecht and junior Maddie Rose Hamilton, who both finished in the top 25 as indiv iduals this past weekend, w ill return and be looked upon as leaders to spearhead a seasoned Irish team, Holt said. “Emma, she’s been our top most consistent player all year. Her stroke average is just over 72 and, well, par is 72 — she’s shooting on par w ith how she plays,” Holt said. “Maddie Hamilton [is also a team leader]. They’re both really young and have been ver y consistent for us all year, a large part of our success. They’re t wo juniors that have played in ever y single tournament since day one. They have a lot of experience, and they’re competitors. They compete and they work hard. They bring a lot to the table.” The Irish w ill find out their NCAA regional fate Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. when the selections are announced. Contact Charlie Ortega Guiferro at cortegag@nd.edu
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Irish junior Cait Brooks prepares to hit a pitch in Notre Dame’s 8-3 loss to Northwestern on April 18. Brooks knocked in Notre Dame’s first run with an RBI single Tuesday in its 4-0 win over Bowling Green.
her team-leading 21st hitby-pitch on the season and second of the game, Sweet seemed shaken but quickly regrouped to remain in the game. Senior shortstop Morgan Reed followed with a double to right field, advancing Sweet to third. Despite having no outs and runners on second and third, Notre Dame was unable to capitalize on the opportunity, recording three-straight outs. “We just didn’t get the job done in those innings with runners on and no outs,” Gumpf said “That’s part of the game, and it happens. But we just hope we get in that position again, and I think we’ll do a better job next time.” Reed, who finished
1-for-2 in the game with a walk, played in the field for the first time since April 7, as she missed eight games earlier this month due to a series of injuries before returning to the lineup as the designated player this weekend against Boston College. Gumpf said she was happy to have the senior back on the field Tuesday. “She just needed time to heal a little,” Gumpf said of Reed. “She’s still kind of dayto-day. She realizes that she’s a key part to keeping it clean out here. It’s definitely nice to have one of our leaders back.” The Irish were finally able to extend the lead to 4-0 in the bottom of the fourth when junior left fielder Ali
Wester singled junior first baseman MK Bonamy in from second base. That lead would prove to be enough for the Irish, as Holloway held the Falcons to just one hit from the fourth inning on, and the game would end with a 4-0 victory for the Irish. Next up on the docket for Notre Dame is one final three-game series to end the regular season with No. 8 Florida State at Melissa Cook Stadium. The two teams are slated to play Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with first pitch of the first game of the series scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday. Contact Charlotte Edmonds at cedmond3@nd.edu
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that’s better for us. There’s just different factors when we need to play a left-handed player.” Irish freshman Cameron Corse is still ruled out to compete this week, Louderback said. Nevertheless, she made the trip down to Cary Tennis Park to cheer on her teammates. A lot of attention will be put on Irish seniors Brooke Broda and Allison Miller. As the leaders of the team, they will be setting the tone for the rest of the team during Wednesday’s match and throughout the ACC tournament. Although Broda will be returning next year as a graduate student, she and Miller celebrated Senior Day against Miami (FL) on Sunday. Louderback had a lot of praise for his two seniors, and he said he has been especially pleased with their performances in the final weeks of the regular season. “Allison, the girl she played from Miami is ranked No. 3 in the country, and Allison lost to her but played pretty well. They had tight games, and Allison felt like she played well against her and played loose,” Louderback said. “A lot of times in seniors’ last home matches, they can play nervous, but [Miller] really didn’t. She played well and also did a good job in the doubles. I feel really good that
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she’s prepared and ready to play [Wednesday]. I don’t even think that [Wednesday potentially being her last match] is going through her head. “ … [Brooke Broda has] gone through being sick and some injuries, and she’s been able to — the last two or three weeks of the season, [she] started playing better for us. I feel like she had a tight match with Miami on Sunday, and I think she’s going to have another chance [Wednesday] against someone she hasn’t played before, which is good. I really feel like she’ll be ready to go [Wednesday] because she’s played better the last couple of two or three weeks.” On the opposite side of the experience spectrum is the rising freshmen core that has played well this season. Louderback said he believes his young players will perform just as well as they have all year, despite the added pressure of the postseason. “[The freshmen] are fine; by now they’re not freshmen,” he said. “We’ve been through many matches this year. They’re used to dual matches. Really, at this time of year, you don’t have any freshmen.” The Irish and Demon Deacons will begin their ACC tournament matchup Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, North Carolina. Contact Charlie Ortega Guiferro at cortegag@nd.edu
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Irish see mixed results against Big Ten opponents Observer Staff Report
Notre Dame competed in a series of races Saturday against No. 4 Ohio State and No. 15 Michigan State at Griggs Reservoir in Columbus, Ohio, as part of the ACC-Big Ten Double Dual. Although the Irish were unable to top the Buckeyes, they rowed their way to a trio of head-to-head wins against the Spartans. In the morning session of the day’s events, the Irish competed against the Buckeyes in seven races — the varsity eight, second varsity eight, novice eight, second novice eight, varsity four, second varsity four and third varsity four — but failed to lock up a victory in any one of them. They competed against the Buckeyes head-to-head in all but two races, as Michigan State joined the two programs in the third varsity four and second novice eight races in the morning, with the Irish managing to beat out the Spartans but trail the Buckeyes in both races. In the afternoon session, Notre Dame largely went head-to-head with Michigan State. The Irish Paid Advertisement
picked up three wins in the same seven events in which they competed with Ohio State earlier in the day while finishing second in the other four. The Irish wins came in the varsity eight, varsity four and second varsity four races. In the varsity four race, the boat of seniors Stephanie Dubois, Jeanne Farnan and Lauren McKee and junior Ashley Young — with freshman coxswain Colleen Visnic — topped the Spartans boat by three seconds with a time of 7:18.6. In the second varsity four race, the Irish boat of senior Elizabeth Walter, sophomores Caroline Hills and Allegra Sodi and freshman Analisa Pines — with freshman coxswain Mary Ryan — topped the Spartans boat by nearly 24 seconds with a time of 7:17.8. The strongest performance of the day by the Irish came in the afternoon’s varsity eight race. The boat of seniors Erin Dolan, Treasa O’Tighearnaigh, Lauren Saunee and Christine Schindele-Murayama, juniors Evelyn McManus and Laura
Migliore and sophomores Emily Stinebaugh and Julia Randall — with senior coxswain Reilly Kearney — beat out boats from Michigan State and San Diego for first place with a time of 6:23.6. The performance earned the boat the first ACC Rowing Crew of the Week honors a Notre Dame boat has received this season, as the conference announced the honors Tuesday. In its other races during the afternoon, Notre Dame finished no worse than second. In the second varsity eight race, the Irish finished less than one second behind Michigan State — but beat out San Diego by 15 seconds — with a time of 6:38.53. The third varsity four and second novice eight boats for Notre Dame fell to Ohio State but beat out Michigan State in their races. In the novice eight event, Michigan State topped the Irish in a head-to-head race by approximately nine seconds. Next up for Notre Dame on the water will be the Dale England Cup in Bloomington, Indiana. Competition is scheduled for Saturday.
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Irish prepare for postseason run By CHARLIE ORTEGA GUIFERRO Sports Writer
Fourteenth-seeded Notre Dame arrived in Cary, North Carolina, on Tuesday to prepare for the beginning of its potential postseason run against 11th-seeded Wake Forest on Wednesday in the first round of the ACC championship. The Irish (11-14, 2-12 ACC) are coming off losses to ACC rivals in fourth-seeded Miami (FL) and fifth-seeded Florida State to end the regular season, pushing the Irish to 14th place in the conference and matching them against the Demon Deacons (17-12, 5-9 ACC). Wake Forest faced Notre Dame on March 25 in what was a 6-1 victory for the Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Irish head coach Jay Louderback said this game will be quite different from the previous meeting, however, specifically noting that Wake Forest has changed its singles lineup drastically since the last time the two teams squared off, prompting the Irish to prepare for entirely new match-ups. “We played them earlier in the
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year, and all of the singles matchups, it looks like they’re going to be all different from our first match, which is a little unusual,” Louderback said. “We play them twice and none of our [players] will play the same one. It’s good [since] we lost to them. I feel like some different matchups could be good. Doubles also is good, so we’re preparing [for singles] since each of [our players] are playing different players.” Louderback said he felt good about Notre Dame’s ability to match up with Wake Forest’s lefthanded players, something the Demon Deacons usually take advantage of in their matches. “We have two left-handed [players],” he said. “Lefties are usually tough to play against. When they serve to a righty, their best serve is going to be to the backhand. In the ad-court, they can stretch you out a lot wider with the left hand. If we want to get in a forehand-to-forehand rally with someone — a lot of our [players] forehands are very strong — it’s tougher to do. With a lefty, if their backhand is weak, see W TENNIS PAGE 11
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Naya Sharp sprints in the 60-meter dash during the Meyo Invitational, held at the Loftus Center on Feb. 2.
ND defeats Falcons in last of nonconference contests By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS
Irish struggle in first two rounds By CHARLIE ORTEGA GUIFERRO
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nd softball | Notre Dame 4, Bowling Green 0
In its final nonconference matchup of the regular season Tuesday, Notre Dame took on Bowling Green, who entered the contest on a seven-game winning streak, winning each of those games by at least two runs. The Irish (30-18, 12-8 ACC) wasted no time getting on the board, scoring three runs in the bottom of the first inning. With freshman centerfielder Abby Sweet on second base after she was hit by a pitch and advanced upon sophomore second baseman Katie Marino reaching first via a walk, junior designated player Cait Brooks stepped up to the plate and singled in Sweet. Junior third baseman Melissa Rochford, the next batter, then drove in both Marino and Brooks — though she was tagged out to end the inning — with another single to give the Irish a 3-0 lead. Irish head coach Deanna Gumpf said she could tell right away in the locker room that
Notre Dame athletes competed at a pair of meets this past weekend. Several members of the Irish distance squad traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, to compete in the Virginia Challenge, while the rest of the team competed at Baylor University’s Michael Johnson Invitational. The Irish recorded numerous personal bests and picked up several top-five finishes at both competitions. Notre Dame’s men performed well on the infield in Waco, Texas, on Friday, with graduate student Nathan Richartz winning the pole vault for the fifth meet in a row, clearing the bar at 5.51 meters. Richartz remains undefeated in the event this outdoor season. Irish freshman thrower John Stefan placed first in the open shot put, setting a new personal record with his throw of 16.07 meters. Teammates, sophomores Logan Kusky and Shae Wat k ins, placed fou r t h
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Irish senior pitcher Alexis Holloway releases a pitch in Notre Dame’s 8-3 loss to Northwestern at Melissa Cook Stadium on April 18.
Notre Dame took to Grandover Resort & Conference Center East Course this past weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina, for the 2018 ACC championship. The team competed in the three-round tournament from Saturday through Monday, with its best round — a 6-over 294 — coming in Monday’s final round. The Irish preceded that score by posting a 12-over 300 and 16-over 304 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. After a collective score of 34-over 898 in the tournament, the Irish placed 10th in the championship and now wait to see if they will be invited to the NCAA regionals. Irish head coach Susan Holt said she was pleased with the individual play of junior Emma Albrecht and freshman Abby Heck, praising their consistency throughout the weekend. Albrecht shot a 2-over 74 and a pair of 1-over 73s in her
three rounds over the weekend, while Heck carded two 6-over 78s and a 5-over 77 in her first ACC championship. Holt said she was also pleased by the final round performances of sophomore Mia Ayer and junior Isabella DiLisio, as they scored a 1-over 73 and evenpar 72 round, respectively. “We had some really good individual performances,” Holt said. “Emma and Abby played really well, consistent throughout the whole event, which was great to see. Mia had a big round [Monday]. Isabella had a big round [Monday].” Despite the strong finalround performance by the Irish, much was left to be desired from the team during the first two rounds, Holt said, as she acknowledged that her team was unable to deliver a consistent three-round showing. “We just couldn’t get four rounds each day, with the exception of [Monday’s final round],” she said. “In that kind see W GOLF PAGE 11