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University addresses Title IX updates Notre Dame responds to U.S. Secretary of Education’s new rules replacing Obama-era guidelines By NATALIE WEBER Assistant Managing Editor

The University moved its Title IX office to the Office of Institutional Equity this summer and has been preparing for national changes to Title IX rules by submitting a public comment on new proposed regulations. University administrators said the Student Title IX Service’s move will have little impact on how Notre Dame handles cases of sexual misconduct. Notre Dame also does not anticipate major changes to its process in areas where universities may be granted more f lexibility under the new regulations.

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Metal detectors deployed at stadium entrances By TOM NAATZ Notre Dame News Editor

As students and fans made their way into Notre Dame Stadium ahead of the first two home games of the 2019 football season, they may have noticed an additional layer of security outside the gate. In the past, fans only underwent a bag check before having their tickets scanned. Now game patrons have to pass through metal detectors before entering the stadium. Vice president for campus safety and University operations Mike Seamon said the addition of metal detectors, also known as magnetometers, constitutes the most noticeable new security measure for the season. “The most, I think, visible change from 2018 season to 2019 is the introduction of magnetometers — or ‘mags’ as everyone refers to [them], or metal detectors,” he said. Seamon explained the metal detectors are designed to look for very specific items — namely

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weapons. Accordingly, everyday metal items — such as cell phones and keys — do not need to be removed, or “divested,” from pockets because they will not set off the magnetometers. “They’re looking for guns, knives, anything that could be used as a weapon,” Seamon said. “I’m not going to go into the technicalities, but it’s a very intelligent system. And so it’s been interesting, the first two games watching people take stuff out and be like, ‘where’s the bucket that I put it? ’ And you’re like, ‘no, just keep walking, keep walking at what I call a normal pace.’” On Saturday, there will be signs outside the stadium instructing attendees not to remove items from their pockets so that traffic runs more smoothly. “We’re going to add signs that say you don’t have to empty your pockets … just to help people,” he said. “But I also think I’ve seen it, definitely between New Mexico and Virginia. Just like the bag policy, everybody gets

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more used to it with every game. They get a routine.” One of the motivating factors behind the change, Seamon said, was a series of events with outside partners the University hosted last year, including the Garth Brooks concert last October, the NHL Winter Classic in January and the Liverpool FC soccer match over the summer. “We started looking at this as early as last year at this time,” Seamon said. “There were a couple of things that invited us to get really serious about it. And we had been keeping our eye on that in through the industry, but we got really serious last fall when we hosted Garth Brooks in October. And then we hosted the Winter Classic with the NHL on Jan. 1. And then when we eventually hosted the Liverpool soccer match in July.” All three outside partners wanted to use magnetometers for their events, Seamon said. see DETECTORS PAGE 5

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Dalloway’s alum recalls working with Sodexo By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Editor

Saint Mary’s Student Government Association announced it will be working on re-opening Clarissa Dalloway’s Coffeehouse sometime in the near future, potentially collaborating with Sodexo, the food service company at the College. As part of the long-standing contractual agreement with the College, Sodexo, formerly Sodexho Alliance, is the sole food provider allowed on campus. “Sodexho is the exclusive food provider for Saint Mary’s College,” the Catering and Food Services Policy from the Saint Mary’s Employee Handbook states. “Sodexho assumes responsibility for feeding students and catering College events. Sodexho also assumes the liability for providing this service.” According to the handbook, “Food may be brought to an

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event by a college employee or student for an internal event … if that event is strictly for College employees and/ or students. Internal clients, external clients and outside caterers will not be permitted to use kitchen facilities in the Clubhouse, CY BER Café, Haggar Center, Stapleton Lounge/Conference Room, Spes Unica, or in the Dining Hall.” During her years as the operations manager at Dalloway’s, Katie W hite (’07) said she and the rest of the student board struggled to maintain a working relationship with Sodexo. “We were constantly battling with Sodexo,” W hite said. “And that was a really difficult relationship to manage because Sodexo would not allow student workers to serve food or coffee.” W hite said this dynamic was introduced when see SODEXO PAGE 4

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Sister spotlight

Sister reflects on nontraditional vocation By MARY MANSFIELD News Writer

Editor’s Note: Sister Spotlight is an effort by the Saint Mary’s News Department to shed light on the shared experience of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and Saint Mary’s College students. We will be sharing the mission and stories of the sisters in an ongoing series. Sister Eva Hooker, an English professor at Saint Mary’s, has been a Sister of the Holy Cross for 60 years. She entered the community of the Congregation of the Holy Cross after her sophomore year of college and, apart from a 20-year teaching position in Minnesota, has remained at Saint Mary’s ever since. However, her path to the convent was by no means traditional, she said. “For one thing, my family was Protestant,” Hooker said. “My father worked for the government and was often on assignment out of the country, so my sister and I went to a Lutheran boarding school. My mother became

Catholic because she had an emergency and the hospital was Catholic. The priest visited her and one thing led to another.” Both of Hooker’s parents were baptized while she was in high school, and she said she was allowed to choose if she would enter the Church. “The priest who was guiding my parents was very wise,” she said. “He said that because my sister and I were teenagers, my parents couldn’t just force us into the Church. It was his suggestion that they put us in Catholic school. So we changed to Holy Cross Academy in Washington D.C.. I had to study religion just like everyone else, and I got hooked. I got baptized my senior year of high school, and my sister did, too.” Hooker said she first came in contact with the Sisters of the Holy Cross at Holy Cross Academy, and when she applied to college, she decided to go to Saint Mary’s. “My parents wanted me to go to a Catholic college and there were three very good Catholic colleges at

the time — Trinity College, Manhattanville College and Saint Mary’s College,” she said. “I was already in Washington, so I didn’t want to go to Trinity. Manhattanville had just moved its campus, and I was wondering where all the boys were going to be. Well, I was told that everyone just goes down to New York, and I knew I wasn’t going to have the money to do that, so I scratched that option off. Saint Mary’s gave me a full scholarship to attend, and that made a huge difference. I still have Sr. Madaleva [Wolff ]’s letter.” It was at Saint Mary’s that Hooker furthered her relationship with the Sisters of the Holy Cross and ultimately found her vocation, she said. “The sisters who worked in the college at the time — there were lots of them — were the most vibrant, intellectual women I had ever met,“ Hooker said. “I just wanted to be like them. I had them as real examples of the kind of teacher, sister and scholar that I wanted to Paid Advertisement

be. They were active politically, they read ever ything, they loved art, they came up to Chicago for different things — their lives were full of 20th-centur y culture.” However, her path to the convent was not without obstacles, she said. “I had fallen in love with a young man from Notre Dame, and we had really thought about marriage,” Hooker said. “The thing that I really worried about was whether I was going to regret not marr ying and having children. That was the piece. I think the sisters got wind of all this because the next thing I knew, Mother Rose Elizabeth, head of the Congregation at that time, sent me a note inviting me to come have a talk with her. I went in fear and trembling not knowing what to think. She was ver y charming. She really talked with me about religious life and presented it in a ver y positive way. Then, I don’t know why, I decided that I want to enter now. So I made that decision the spring of my sophomore year and entered the convent

that fall.” W hile in formation, Hooker finished her degree in English from the College, went on to receive a Master’s degree in English from Notre Dame and later earned a Ph.D., also in English. Hooker said the intellectual v igor of the sisters that originally attracted her to the College, and which she tried to emulate today as a professor, ultimately stems from what she perceives as Wolff’s v ision. “She was ama zing,” Hooker said. “She was charming. You had a real sense of her intellectual power and she was a real example, along w ith the other wonderful teachers, of commitment to the intellectual life and to hav ing an intellectual life that is woven w ith a spiritual life. And that’s no small task. I’ve been ver y fortunate to be able to become that person whom I dreamed of becoming, a sister who taught in college and loved a particular discipline.” Contact Mary Mansfield at mmansfield01@saintmarys.edu

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Sodexo Continued from page 1

Dalloway’s moved from its original spot near the Church of Our Lady of Loretto and Holy Cross Hall to its current location on the Avenue. During construction, a full kitchen was included in the new Dalloway’s. “They built a whole kitchen because they’re like, ‘Oh, well, now we can have food here,’” White said. “But because we could have food there, we had to have it staffed by a Sodexo person instead of just student staffers. That was a big problem, and it was something that was constantly a source of friction.” Upon the opening of Cyber Cafe, now called 1844 Grill, Sodexo stopped sending workers who previously staffed Dalloway’s to the coffeehouse, White said. “They didn’t want to have to staff it every single night,” she said. “So while it was open every night my freshman and sophomore years, by junior and senior year, when the new

student center came on and Cyber opened, Sodexo basically stopped staffing it except for Wednesday nights, and then whenever we could beg them to open it. So that was a big problem.” This dynamic possibly contributed to the phasing out of Dalloway’s in the years after her graduation, White said. “And I wish we had had more support from administration in kind of talking with Sodexo about this,” she said. “We were kind of left to our own devices negotiating with Sodexo. So we obviously have no good negotiating power, and then as soon as we leave, [Sodexo] then can change whatever they want for the people that are in those positions after us. So I think that was a really big problem.” Jim Risacher was officially named the interim general manager of Sodexo at Saint Mary’s Sept. 23, after former general manager Kenneth Acosta resigned due to health reasons. Risacher said the exclusivity clause that exists within the contract between Sodexo and Saint

Mary’s was put in place as an insurance measure and to save the College money. “Number one, the vendor they’ve secured has liability insurance for the food they serve on campus,” Risacher said. “Number two, they know the expectations of the University better normally than an outside vendor. The exclusivity clause is there because what normally happens is [the College] gets a better deal price-wise, and depending on the contract, [the College] may share in those profits from the catering, as opposed to if you go to an outside caterer which is not recognized on campus, you lose that ability to make some money from them to help pay for other things.” Risacher, who has 40 years of experience in the service industry, said he has worked with student organizations in the past to operate on-campus coffee shops. “It’s a mixed bag,” Risacher said. “My understanding here that [Dalloway’s] was closed because it had low sales, and wasn’t supporting the cost that was being put into it, including the

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labor and food costs and things of that nature. And that’s why it was closed. That’s what I was told.” Running a coffeehouse incurs a considerable cost, Risacher said. “In my experiences, I know the students want someplace on campus to hang out,” he said. “You know, a lot of times it just -- you want someplace that you have internet access, you can plug in, and you can talk to your friends, or you can study. When you start adding food to those venues, then you have additional costs. First question is who’s going to pay for that cost?” While Risacher said Sodexo works at the will of the College to provide financial advice and fill food services, the company is always open to conversation with student organizations. “We’re here to serve the students,” Risacher said. “I tell my employees we only have one goal here — it’s a simple mission to improve the food experience for the student. That’s all we’re going to do. So everything we do supports that. And that means

working with student groups. We are engaged with SGA on a weekly basis. We’re committed to working with [the College] and the student groups on any project they want on campus and use our expertise to make it happen.” In the past, Risacher said he has seen student governments take over and run their own coffee shops. “You have to have the participation to make it work,” Risacher said. “So you have to see who actually has some skin in the game when it’s all said and done. The problem is that you have students coming and going -- they’re here for four years at the most. … If you have a business entrepreneur, they’re going to push it, but when they graduate what happens?” However, Risacher said Sodexo will work with Saint Mary’s SGA in reinstalling Clarissa Dalloway’s Coffeehouse. “In every case I know of, we will work with whatever group to be available to them with the resources that they need,” Risacher said. Contact Maeve Filbin at mfilbin01@saintmarys.edu

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Title IX Continued from page 1

By NATALIE WEBER Assistant Managing Editor

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According to the New York Times, U.S. Education Secretar y Betsy DeVos rescinded Obama-era guidelines for Title IX cases in 2017, most notably reversing the policy that required colleges to use “preponderance of the ev idence” — the lowest standard of ev idence — in determining whether to discipline students for alleged sexual misconduct. Last November, DeVos proposed new rules to replace the former guidelines, and members of the public were welcomed to submit comments on the regulations over a period spanning about t wo months. Follow ing a rev iew of these comments, the new rules w ill be announced. In its public comment, the Universit y praised the new

rules’ support for alternative resolution and the f lex ibilit y it grants in investigating off-campus misconduct, as universities would only have to investigate incidents w ithin campus-sanctioned programming under the proposed policies. Notre Dame also approved of the requirements to prov ide both parties involved in the investigation w ith “detailed w ritten notices of investigation,” the right to rev iew ev idence and an appeals process should one ex ist at the school. However, the Universit y also expressed concerns about how outside parties would be involved in the process under the new regulations. The proposed rules would allow students on either side of the case to bring in an adv isor or attorney to cross-examine the other part y, a practice the Universit y said could discourage students from reporting. “We were concerned both about the env ironment — that it would not necessarily encourage students to come for ward in all cases — but we were also really concerned about inequitable resources that might be available to students there,” Hoffmann Harding said. “So we’ll see what comes out in the final rules.” Hoffmann Harding said the Universit y currently allows students to have adv isors during the Title IX process, but they ser ve in “non-speaking roles.” “Students can have adv isors available, but those are non-speaking roles so it doesn’t turn into the equivalent of sort of a litigation process,” she said. “But it

does allow us to gather information, I think, quite fairly and ask questions of both parties that again, tr y to ser ve students well and the communit y.” B. Ever Hanna, campus policy manager for advocacy group End Rape on Campus, appreciated that Notre Dame took the time to submit a comment. Hanna echoed the Universit y’s concerns about cross-examination, say ing the practice could be traumatic for students and promote inequalit y for those w ith fewer financial resources. “In general, there’s a lot of great language [in the comment] about what fairness actually is,” Hanna said. “Does fairness require due process protections like direct cross-examination, or can fairness look like something else? So the fact that the comment links fairness and not hav ing cross-examination is really great.”

the metal detectors will be redeployed to the Purcell Pavilion and Compton Family Ice Arena for all home men’s and women’s basketball as well as hockey games. “Our plan is to do it for both all home men’s and women’s basketball games in Purcell Pavilion and for all the hockey matches in Compton,” Seamon said. “That that’s our standard now, where we use the same set of mags that are housed for the fall in the

football stadium. One of the benefits of us purchasing is you don’t want to move them around too much because they’re sensitive. But yes, once the football season ends, we’re going to move a certain amount to the Joyce Center — to Purcell — and a certain amount to Compton and then we’ll use them there.” Football game day security involves more than just the magnetometers. Seamon and Dennis Brown, assistant vice

president for news and media relations, described a number of other security steps in addition to the metal detectors. For example, starting last year, uniformed police officers have also been aided by two sniffer dogs, Toxi and Skeet. Other local law enforcement groups — including South Bend, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County and Indiana State Police — help ensure a safe environment on game day. “The cooperation and

… that [it] had become a more common practice nationally to have facult y, staff and students’ cases handled in one place.” W hile reports of facult y, staff and student misconduct w ill now be handled through one office, the Title IX process at Notre Dame has remained nearly unchanged, Oliver said. “As far as the life of a complaint or report that comes into our office, through resolution, it’s primarily the same team doing the same good work,” she said. Students who report sexual misconduct can choose to pursue an administrative resolution — which can result in a disciplinar y outcome — or in some cases, an alternative resolution, which consists of mediation.

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Student Title IX Services, which formerly operated “as a support service within the Division of Student Affairs,” moved to the Office of Institutional Equity due to the departure of Bill Stackman, former associate vice president for student services. Vice president for student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding said when looking for someone to take on Stackman’s Title IX responsibilities, she turned to Erin Oliver, an assistant vice president who oversees the Office of Institutional Equit y. “She brings to Notre Dame, through her leadership here, deep experience from her past institutions w ith student Title IX ser v ices,” Hoffmann said. “So truly, it was just a happy marr y ing of hiring the right leader for institutional equit y, know ing

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“Those were three outside entities — Garth Brooks himself, the NHL and Liverpool soccer — that wanted to do mags,” he said. “They were used to that. We realized we were the host venue for their events. And when that kind of introduced into it, we were able to see how it worked.” Once football season ends,

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Assessing other potential changes The proposed changes loosen a few requirements for how schools investigate sexual misconduct including: allow ing colleges to determine what standard of ev idence they w ill use; greater f lex ibilit y in deciding what off-campus conduct they w ill address; and getting rid of the requirement that cases be resolved w ithin 60 days. Though the Universit y appreciates the “latitude” granted to colleges in addressing off-campus conduct, Notre Dame does not plan to change its practices in these areas or its other policies, administrators said.

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“The Universit y has long included the f lex ibilit y for us to take off-campus incidents into account,” Hoffmann Harding said. “We don’t anticipate changing that, even if the federal rules prov ide more f lex ibilit y.” Hanna said while they might disagree w ith the proposed rules’ stance on off-campus misconduct, they understand why universities could support this change. “I definitely think that from our perspective, being able to investigate, or at least look into more conduct than less is helpful, and I know that that’s not always the perspective of universities because it’s really timeconsuming and costly,” Hanna said. Hanna added it was “heartening nonetheless” that Notre Dame plans to continue to investigate off-campus incidents. The new rules would also allow universities to choose whether they use “preponderance of the evidence” standard or “clear and convincing standard” in evaluating alleged misconduct. Under the Obama administration, schools were required to use the former standard, which means the misconduct occurred “more likely than not,” according to the New York Times. The “clear and convincing standard” means the alleged misconduct was “highly probable” and requires a higher standard of evidence. Hoffmann Harding said the University plans to continue to use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard. “I think the new proposed rules would perhaps allow for more f lexibility, but you

collaboration between the various law enforcement and first responders is really phenomenal,” Brown said. “And we’re fortunate to have people in South Bend police and Mishawaka police and state police who really are there to protect and serve. And at the same time, we have a mutual policy. So we’re there for them too.” Contact Tom Naatz at tnaatz@nd.edu

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Inside Column

Hesburgh Library’s march toward silence Charlie Kenney Associate Scene Editor

In Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh Library, the fishbowl is set aside for loud, collaborative group work, cubicles are expected to be located in areas of serene quiet and, as tour guides love to remind their groups, the higher one goes in the building the more silent each floor becomes. Or, in other words, a certain level of ‘loudness’ seems to be assigned to each area of the library either by tradition or reputation. Such a system allows students to purposefully choose to study in those places, where they can work most effectively. For example, if a group has to do work on a project together they may go to the not yet renovated southwest corner of the second floor, where the volume of work is above average. While if an individual has to prepare alone for a final, they may go to a wooden cubicle on the library’s eleventh floor. The library is neither too quiet nor too loud because certain spaces are set aside for both sorts of work. Yes, spaces of differing volumes may overlap at times. But if one needs absolute quiet or an incredibly high level of noise, they are able to find it, at the very least, somewhere in the building. The survival of this delicate system, however, is currently in jeopardy. As Notre Dame’s administration has taken it upon themselves to modernize the library floor by floor, they have done away with historical spaces that possess certain reputations for their noise level. As a result, every new space thus far has defaulted to being a quiet area for, generally, non-collaborative work. These renovations, of course, do not matter a great deal when they occur on the higher levels of the library. Those floors will be quiet spaces regardless of whether they are adorned with scratched wooden tables or the new, sleek, space-age look the library seems to be moving towards. But when they take place on the traditionally louder bottom two floors, a problem does arise. During the fall of my freshman year in 2016, the northwest corner of the library’s ground floor consisted of a cohabitation of towering bookshelves, sturdy wooden tables and chairs of a muted color palette. The space was loud. Light streamed in through large windows, group conversation flowed freely and those who wanted to study in peace and quiet avoided it. If you visit the same area today, neon greens and blues have replaced the beige, and an eerie, almost pin-drop quiet has replaced the cacophony you used to be able to hear through your headphones. Construction workers remodeled the area, reputation and tradition left with the furniture it accompanied and now the space has slid into that feeling which should be reserved for the upper floors. This phenomenon is occurring all over the first and second floors. The second floor’s northeast, desktop-laden corner: silent; the first floor’s newly renovated northwest corner: hushed; the northern side of the second floor: a tranquil reading room intolerant of even an open door. When the renovations of these first two floors inevitably reach their conclusion and the southwest corner of the second floor is eventually modernized, what is to be expected? Will our only solace from quiet be found in the lobby and fishbowl? Will collaborative work retreat to the ever-more popular Duncan Student Center? Or will LaFun become more than a place to burn through your flex points? The students of Notre Dame need to take action. Break the silence on the first two floors. Reclaim that study space you used to frequent from its newfound soundlessness. Unplug your headphones and listen through your laptop’s speakers. Eat yogurt in the reading room without ever closing your mouth. If your peers don’t like it, 11 more floors and a basement await them just an elevator ride away. Contact Charlie at ckenney4@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

The zero-waste lifestyle: Will you take up the challenge? Krista Lourdes Akiki Lifestyle Nomad

Meet Bea Johnson: Labeled as “The Priestess of Waste-Free Living” by The New York Times, this activist and Grand Prize Winner of the Green Awards has published a bestselling book in over 25 languages and has given talks in over 65 countries as well as for Google, Amazon, Starbucks, TEDx, the European Parliament and the United Nations. Her only philosophy is rather simple: “Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot (and only in that order).” Johnson and her family adopted a zero-waste lifestyle in 2008; their household since produces only one pint of trash per year. Johnson initiated back then what has now become a global movement called “The Zero Waste Lifestyle,” inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to adopt waste-free living, open unpackaged shops, conceive reusable products and launch environmental organizations. She shatters misconceptions, proving that zero waste can lead to substantial health benefits and savings. Even though world leaders have often sidelined or even never considered waste management as a pressing issue on their agendas, the problem of waste has been a global one for a while now, gradually increasing in urgency. The Environmental Protection Agency reported that Americans generated 254 million tons of trash in 2013, of which merely 34% was recycled. The Agency also estimates the average American produces 4.4 pounds of trash per day, which according to the Duke University Center for Sustainability and Commerce, represents an increase of 1.6 pounds per person since 1960. The ultimate goal of the zero-waste movement is simply to reduce the amount of trash we send to the landfill by shopping, and living, diligently and saying “no” to things that can’t be recycled or composted. With the goal of mirroring nature’s sustainable cycles, zero-wasters aim to turn discarded materials into new, usable resources thus work towards achieving a more “circular mindset.” “They reduce what they need, reuse what they can, recycle what they must, and compost everything else, working towards” (Earth Hero). As one of the many leaders of the zero-waste movement, Bea Johnson is inviting people to lead a simpler lifestyle where they are able to reduce their waste output in today’s very disposable society. By re-evaluating how we approach the concept of trash and even transforming their own way of living, these leaders are teaching the world that we all have the ability and the responsibility to make a difference in protecting our environment. As Aldo Leopold expresses so strikingly in his book in his book “A Sand County Almanac,” “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” What I found quite interesting was the way Johnson debunked a common modern-day myth: “Disposable is more time and cost efficient” “We all yearn to save time, at any cost (including the environment), so we buy into time-saving tricks that marketing campaigns promise. But who is

disposability really benefiting in the end? Take a pack of disposable cups, for example: How does (1) ripping open its packaging, (2) carrying packaging and cups out to the curb with your recycling (or trash), (3) bringing that container back from the curb, (4) going to the store for more and (5) transporting them from the store on multiple occasions save time compared to (1) grabbing reusable cups from the cupboard, (2) throwing them in the dishwasher, and (3) putting them away? It seems that we have been duped into thinking that multiple shopping and recycling trips required by disposability save more time than reusing a durable product.” (Johnson, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste) Aside from powerfully clearing out all misconceptions people may have about zero-waste lifestyle, Johnson provides numerous creative ways to reduce waste. Here are her top 10 tips for beginners: Refuse: Fight junk mail. It’s not just a waste of resources, but also of time. Turn down freebies from conferences, fair ... because every time you take one, you create a demand to make more. I know it may seem like quite an insignificant step, but do you really need another “free” pen? Reduce: Declutter your home and donate to your local thrift shop. Reduce your shopping trips and stick to a shopping list. The less you bring home, the less you’ll waste. Swap disposables for reusables (refillable bottles, shopping totes, cloth napkins…) Bring reusable totes, cloth bags and glass jars to the store and farmers market. Recycle: Know your city’s recycling policies and locations. However, recycling should be your last resort. Have you refused, reduced or reused first? Buy primarily in bulk or secondhand, but if you must buy new, choose environmentally friendly materials. Rot: Find a compost system that works for your home. Turn your home kitchen trash can into one large compost container. A zero-waste lifestyle is a journey that cannot be completed in 24 hours. It starts with small changes and it requires awareness and education as well as the power of daily decisions. According to Johnson, the efforts will improve your life, “Reducing results in a simpler lifestyle that allows you to focus on quality versus quantity.” Krista Lourdes Akiki is majoring in management consultancy and global affairs. Coming from Beirut, Lebanon, she always enjoys trying out new things and is an avid travel lover. She hopes to take her readers on her journey as she discovers new lifestyles and navigates new cities. She can be reached at kakiki@nd.edu or via Twitter @kristalourdesakiki. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Keep Dalloway’s a student space On opening night, students sit in low light, smoking cigarettes and waiting for the band to arrive. Fresh coffee brewed in the back, dripping hot and black into miniature espresso cups. Gathered around tables, students lean in close to hear each other over the din of shared stories and laughter. It’s 1992, and Clarissa Dalloway’s part y had just begun. Fast for ward a decade. Though the festiv ities continue, the venue has changed. At its new location on the Avenue, Clarissa Dalloway’s Coffeehouse – other w ise know n as D-Way’s – is the “place to be on Wednesday nights” at Saint Mar y’s (according to former operations manager Katie W hite (’07). The schedule is packed: karaoke, poetr y readings, outdoor concerts, W heel of Fortune, murder myster y games, book club meetings, mov ie marathons, Casino Night, the Valentine’s Day Dating Game, a haunted house and more. A lthough Dalloway’s has expanded, it hasn’t outgrow n its original purpose: a cozy oncampus spot for a cup of coffee and a conversation w ith friends. Fast for ward to the present. The coffeehouse itself still stands alongside the Avenue, but it’s a different Dalloway’s than what alumnae fondly remember as a familiar, well-used student space. From 2017 to 2018, it ser ved as a temporar y office space for the Saint Mar y’s Athletic Department during the construction of Angela Athletic & Wellness Complex. Called Dalloway’s Clubhouse, it now ser ves as an event space rented out for luncheons, meetings, seminars and workshops. It has been a long time since that last Wednesday at D-Way’s, but students might want to start clearing their calendars. Saint Mar y’s Student Government Association recently

confirmed they are working on the reinstallation of Dalloway’s. As SGA converses w ith the College administration and Sodexo, we hope they remember the original purpose of the coffeehouse and encourage them to fight to keep Dalloway’s a student space. At the time of its creation, Dalloway’s was introduced as a “student-initiated, studentoperated” project. For Pegg y Abood, class of 1992 and creator of Dalloway’s, the coffeehouse was always intended to be a space dedicated to the Saint Mar y’s communit y, operated by and for the students. “This is our thing, this is ours,” she said. It is important for students to have a space separate from academic, athletic and residence halls — somewhere more personal and private than an administrative building. Dalloway’s prov ided a space for students to speak their minds and share ideas outside of the classroom. It created communit y like only a coffeehouse could. Student spaces introduce a sense of ow nership and inv ite students to love something so much they feel responsible to take care of it for the next generation. This is incredibly important for students no matter the institution they attend — Saint Mar y’s, Notre Dame or Holy Cross. In a 1992 Saint Mar y’s Courier article covering opening night at Dalloway’s, class of 1993 graduate Delia Garcia said the coffeehouse was a sign of grow th from both Saint Mar y’s students and the College itself. “It shows that students are beginning to answer their ow n questions,” Garcia said. “‘W hy don’t we have a space on campus to rela x? ’ students always asked. ‘Because we haven’t created one,’ we say now.” Today, Saint Mar y’s students are asking the same questions alumnae wanted answered more than t wo decades ago: W here can I get a good cup of coffee? W here can I go to just hang out

w ithout hav ing to use a sw ipe or spend Munch Money? W hy do I always have to go across the street to have fun? This is not to say Belles w ill stop making the trek dow n Saint Mar y’s Road. The tailgates, SY Rs and dorm parties of the Notre Dame social scene w ill always be a treasured part of Saint Mar y’s and the tri-campus culture. However, Belles should still have options for fun and leisure on their ow n campus. In the past, Dalloway’s not only offered a space for Saint Mar y’s students, but also opened the door to Notre Dame and Holy Cross v isitors who came to listen to a new student band, play a round in the Dating Game or simply sit and chat w ith friends. We are excited to see Saint Mar y’s SGA re-open Dalloway’s and look for ward to the third generation of student leaders taking ow nership of this beloved piece of Saint Mar y’s histor y, and enjoy it well into the future. Clarissa Dalloway never wanted her part y to end, so why would we let it?

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A call for allyship It doesn’t take a genius to recognize there’s a disregard for LGBTQ+ individuals on this campus. I had the inconvenience of learning this in the first month of college when I was called a homophobic slur and thrown around a dorm stairwell. Things have not again escalated to a physical point since then, though a similar sentiment repeatedly expresses itself through the words and actions of my peers. For every event like the Gender Relations Center’s LGBTQ+ barbecue, I’d see an Observer letter similar to the one on how “love loses” with the allowance of gay marriage (written by a former president of Notre Dame’s only LGTBQ+ student organization, nonetheless). Maddie Foley pointed out the endless cycle of articles and responses on the subject in the poignant piece she submitted two weeks ago, “A call for empathy from a gay Catholic.” I’m contributing to the feedback loop because despite Foley and Audrey Lindemann’s respective pieces, a large portion of the Notre Dame community still just doesn’t get it. Lindemann’s poem is a display of vulnerability that takes bravery to share with the same community that invited Mike Pence to speak at 2017

Commencement. It takes strength to be out on this campus, and even more to vocalize that experience. Appropriating that poem to fit your own agenda, regardless of its topic, is intrusive. The rewording of Lindemann’s piece is a cheap gimmick and prime example of what this campus does all too well: diminish queer voices. Notre Dame’s mission statement specifies that students shall cultivate “a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice and oppression that burden the lives of so many.” Francine Shaft’s rewrite, “There’s innocent blood on pro-choice hands,” downplays the struggle of LGBTQ+ individuals. If this was intentional, it furthers the injustice our institution says we are supposed to become more aware of. If it was done in negligence, then our chorus of queer voices begging for equality is exhausting itself for nothing. This is not to say that I would disregard a separate letter on the pro-life movement. In fact, I would be overjoyed to read a pro-life piece that advocates for those who are transgender, fighting HIV/AIDS, kicked out of their households for being LGBTQ+ and discriminated against at school or in

the workplace for their sexual orientation/gender identity. Populations such as the LGBTQ+ community constantly face persecution, yet receive little to no help from those allegedly most dedicated to preserving human life. Shaft directly linking Lindemann’s letter suggests that her pro-life stance is one that stands in opposition to the marginalized LGBTQ+ community. Queer individuals have the right to life, too, and should be respected. I write this to stress the urgency of individuals with privilege using it to speak out for minority groups of any kind, rather than against them. It is impossible to say you love your neighbors and foster a spirit of inclusion without doing so. Take it upon yourself to research how to be an active ally and put those practices to work rather than waiting for issues to affect you. We are called as Notre Dame students to take note of struggling communities and help raise them up. It’s time we get to work.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Change begins within. If you don’t like something, consider how to make it better. This is a year of progress, but it will take initiative on your part to work toward a brighter future. It’s time to put your plans in place and refuse to let anyone manipulate you into putting his or her needs first. Your numbers are 9, 13, 20, 26, 32, 38, 42. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Open your mind and take in all the information being offered. Being well-versed will help you deal with both personal and professional relationships that can be difficult. Knowledge is power, and it will protect you from being dominated by others. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do what matters most to you. Set up rules, and stick to your plan. Change happens when you are serious about the end result and you do the work yourself. Don’t let anyone interfere with your ideas or your life. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Take care of matters personally. Use your energy to complete unfinished business. The more you do, the less you say and the stricter you are with your cash, the better the outcome. Don’t give in to someone’s persuasive tactics. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Listen to your intellect, be practical and get the facts before you make a permanent change. Don’t let your physical or emotional desire turn into a costly mistake. Someone will promise you one thing and end up giving you something else. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Explore what life has to offer. Get involved in pastimes that interest you, and you’ll make some new friends. Use your physical and mental abilities to get things done your way, and you’ll stand out as a leader, not a follower. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Make a change to your daily routine. Do something that will spark your imagination or bring you in contact with people who inspire you to follow your dreams. Say no to temptation or to those trying to influence you to undertake bad habits. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Refuse to let someone change your plans. Express the way you feel, and make it clear what you want. If you settle for less, you will be disappointed in yourself for giving in to someone who is trying to control you. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let uncertainty take over. Do your research, consider what’s important to you and bring about the change that will encourage peace of mind and greater joy. It’s up to you to make things happen. Look, see and do. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your generosity and openness will make you vulnerable to people who are deceptive and eager to take advantage of you. Be careful who you associate with, and don’t let sweet talk and compliments manipulate you into doing something you shouldn’t do. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep your personal affairs a secret. Someone will be happy to spread rumors about you if you give them ammunition to do so. Focus on getting your business in order, not disrupting what you’ve taken so long to build. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look for a good deal, negotiate your position, and make the most with what you have. Change doesn’t have to be big to be good. The subtle adjustments you make will end up having the most significant impact. Romance looks promising. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Someone’s bluster will throw you off guard if you aren’t careful. You may have to make a slight adjustment to avoid someone taking over or costing you the chance to advance. Stick to basics, and live up to your word. Birthday Baby: You are unpredictable, reticent and secretive. You are fashionable and respected.

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Is playoff baseball entertaining? Liam Coolican Sports Writer

There is something about baseball in October that is just different. The crisp fall air, the fans packing the ballpark, tension hanging in the air on every pitch. I have been captivated by baseball ever since I went to my first game at seven years old. However, these last few years I have watched less and less regular season baseball. This may be in part because my favorite team, the Detroit Tigers, have been absolutely awful lately, as have many other teams which hope for a high draft pick. This alienates fans who cheer for a team who is blatantly not trying to win. Despite this, every year as summer ends fans find themselves craving postseason baseball. There are a couple reasons why this is. First, the difference in the type of play. As the baseball world has shifted towards analytics, the small ball, the do anything to push a run across the plate mentality has fallen by the wayside. In its place are a lot of players who will hit 30 home runs in a season but strike out in a quarter of their at bats, as analytics say fly balls and line drives are much more valuable than ground balls even at the expense of potentially striking out. This leads to a decreasing number of runners on base and the defense having to make fewer plays. Case in point: in Aaron Judge’s rookie season in 2016, he set the rookie record for most home runs in a season with 52. However, he also set the rookie record for most strikeouts in a season with 208. In the postseason, the strategy shifts. Managers ask their players to put the ball in play, steal a base or move the runner over far more often than they do during the regular season. This leads to more excitement, as the sustained tension that comes with having a runner in scoring position while knowing that run could make or break an entire season has fans leaning forward in their seats. This also makes home runs that much more meaningful, because they don’t happen as often and most playoff games are low scoring. Arguably, the close play at the plate as a runner tries to score is even more exciting than a home run, especially when it means so much to an entire season. One run means very little over the course of a 162 game season,

but in the playoffs, it can mean everything. A big problem regular season baseball has is that there are far too many games. This leads to a lack of excitement among fans, as there is a game nearly every day, while other sports like football and basketball have at least a few days between games which allows for excitement to build for the next matchup. Imagine if Notre Dame played a football game five times a week. Would we all still be so excited to go to every game? In the playoffs, there is more time in-between games, and each game means much more, which makes them that much more intense. Another reason I enjoy watching the MLB playoffs more than the playoffs of other sports is that there is less parity. As more and more sports become unequal, baseball is trending the opposite direction. In college football, Alabama and Clemson have met in four consecutive college football playoffs. In the premier league, it can be safely assumed that Liverpool and Manchester City will finish as the top two teams every season. The NBA gave us five consecutive CavaliersWarriors finals matchups until that streak was finally broken this year. On the flip side, five different teams have won the last five World Series, and there is not a clear favorite this season. In the NBA playoffs, for example, there are always a couple first round matchups that are effectively decided before the players even step on the court. In baseball, however, any team can win any given series. The MLB should make a legitimate effort to fix regular season baseball and attract more fans. They have made progress in the last few years, with commissioner Rob Manfred’s pace of play initiatives being a step in the right direction. Manfred has also done a great job with youth outreach and attracting younger fans, but he has failed to address the two main problems crippling regular season baseball: the length of the season, and the recent tanking that has pervaded the league. Until he addresses those, the MLB should enjoy its one month of coverage because it won’t get much the rest of the year.

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During No. 9 Notre Dame’s 35-20 win over now No. 23 Virginia on Saturday, senior defensive lineman Daelin Hayes suffered a torn labrum in his right shoulder. It was later announced that Hayes’ injury rendered him out for the season, which was a disappointing announcement for the Irish considering Hayes started his senior season with promise, recording six tackles, three tackles for a loss, one sack and one fumble recovery in his first three game appearances. After his season ending injury was announced, Hayes informed the public of his intention to red shirt and return to Notre Dame for a fifth year to continue his college football career. He posted a picture on Instagram on Tuesday with the caption reading, “… It is in these lessons that I have found peace within my current circumstance. I am blessed to have had the opportunity to suit up for this University with the greatest brotherhood I’ve ever known. I am even more blessed to have been granted an opportunity to return next year for my fifth year.” Hayes is expected to

have surgery on his injured shoulder soon. Although independent of this injury, Hayes does have a history of shoulder problems, having sat out last season’s road matchup against Virginia Tech due to a shoulder ”stinger” as well as missing a significant amount of his senior season in high school due to a separated shoulder. Hayes qualifies for a red shirt season on account of the fact that he only appeared in four games thus far, which allows him to qualif y for a redshirt according to the NCA A’s somewhat recently modified rules. This is a relatively new rule, implemented at the start of last season, that has allowed teams greater f lexibility to give underclassmen limited experience without burning a year of eligibility as well as provide a second chance to athletes who like Hayes injury themselves early in the season. Throughout his career with the Irish, Hayes has distinguished himself as an immediate impact player, having appeared in at least 12 games in each of his first three seasons and entering the starting lineup by his sophomore season. His fumble return against Louisville earlier this season makes him one of eight players on

the Irish roster this season to have recorded a fumble return. A highly-touted recruit out of Belleville, Michigan, — a suburb of Detroit and Ann Arbor — Hayes earned a five-star recruit rating by Rivals and the No. 7 outside linebacker in his class. He was also rated the No. 31 prospect overall in his class. Hayes chose the Irish over powerhouses Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama and USC. As it currently stands, Hayes has tallied 78 tackles, 14.5 tackles for a loss, six sacks and four fumble recoveries in his Notre Dame career. In the absence of Hayes, senior defensive lineman Jamir Jones is expected to step up, joining fellow seniors Khalid Kareem and Julian Okwara on the line. Jones has been a consistent role player over the last three seasons with the Irish but has only appeared in two games so far this season — Georgia and Virginia. Against the Cavaliers on Saturday, he made the tackle that stripped Virginia’s senior quarterback Bryce Perkins of the ball, before junior defensive line Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa returned the ball 45 yards to the Virginia seven-yard line.

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we want to do.” Offensively, the Irish have been clutch at times, but they have not established consistency, scoring just twice in

their past four games. However, both goals were game-winners, with freshman Michael Pellegrino finding the back of the net with 10 minutes to play against Michigan State, and Felicien Dumas, captain and set-piece specialist, drilling

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a free kick with just five ticks remaining on the clock against DePaul. The goals have been spectacular, but they need to come more regularly for the Irish to keep competing with the elite squads in the ACC, which has three of the top six teams in the countr y as well as seven in the Top 25 rankings released on Sunday. Grad student and captain Ian Ascheris has distributed the ball well, leading the team in assists, but as the team’s top returning scorer, he has failed to find the back of the net. Sophomore forward Jack Lynn scored in each of the first four games, but he has been shutout since the Clemson game. The chances have been there, but the finishing touch has not been, as the Irish look to spread the scoring around the offense. They’ll be facing an average NC State defense, which has posted just two clean sheets this year, allowing

seven goals in eight games. If the Irish can continue to possess the ball — they held the ball in their attacking half for almost 70% of the DePaul game — then the Irish should create opportunities to poke holes in the Wolfpack defense. “[We have to] let it come, play the open man, use the big spaces, get it around the box, and be composed,” Riley said on his team’s recent offensive production. “I think that the hardest part of being involved in a lot of 1-0 games is finishing your chances.” The Irish figure to be tested by the Wolfpack, who have posted a 5-2-1 record, including a 4-1 record at their home stadium. They’ve won three of their last four, and they are coming off a true road victor y, 2-1 at Louisville, which was ranked No. 17 at the time of the game. Both Notre Dame and NC State are just outside the Top 25, and if one of these squads can emerge with a victor y, they’ll

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likely find themselves back in the rankings. However, the pressure may be more on the Irish, who are 0-3 in ACC play. After being outclassed by Clemson and UNC, Notre Dame was an unlucky loser in the Virginia game. But unlucky or not, the pressure is starting to mount for a team that started the year ranked 11th in the countr y. Riley acknowledged the pressure to get a result. “I think in our league, ever y weekend is that way,” he said. “But I think especially with the Virginia game, we felt that was a good performance and we didn’t get a result so we’re pretty excited to play NC State.” The Irish are finding their groove, and if their defense maintains their stellar performance and the goals start coming, the rest of the ACC may not be too excited to line-up against Riley’s squad. Contact Aidan Thomas at athoma28@nd.edu

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Irish senior Alexis Martel-Lamothe attemps to defend the Irish at a home game as they face a 3-2 loss to Iowa at Alumni Stadium on Sept. 15.

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things, we w ill be in a good place.” W hen ref lecting upon the season, Norman has most admired his team’s abilit y to recover from hard losses and foresees that this skill w ill be on full display this week. “I have been most proud of is the team’s abilit y to respond to adverse situations,” Norman said. “We had some games where we felt that we could have won and maybe that we should have won. “It has been frustrating, but the way that they came out the next day at practice and into the next game giving a really good effort is ver y impressive. We had a tough game on Monday, and I am expecting to see the same response on Friday.” Notre Dame’s loss to No. 3 UNC was uncharacteristic of the team as they had not been blow n out all season w ith each of their prev ious losses only being decided by one goal. The Irish were also unaccustomed to holding opponents scoreless as they have had multiple four point matches. As Notre Dame looks to return to form, the team has several strong indiv idual performances to build off of. Junior Eva Hurm leads the Irish w ith four goals while sophomore Luisa Delgado and freshman Kiki Van Zanten have had three goals respectively. Delgado also leads the team w ith four assists, and junior Sammi Fisher follows right behind w ith three assists on the season. The Irish have been extremely successful in utilizing t wo goalies as Brooke Littman and Ma ttie Interian have made 26 total saves in eleven matches. Coach Norman highlighted the Michigan match as his best memor y of the season so far. “My favorite moment of the season has probably been our w in against Michigan,” Norman said. “Kiki Van Zanten scored the game w inning goal w ith about t wo or three minutes left, and it was in front of a big crowd in Ann Arbor. It was really just a great result for us.” Friday’s contest could prove to be a great chance for the Irish to improve their record in conference play as they have gone 1-2 against ACC opponents. The affair also marks a three game home stand that w ill last until the middle of this month. The next match w ill be played at home on A lumni Field at 7 p.m. on Oct. 4. Contact Patrick Gallagher at pgallag4@nd.edu

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acknowledged replacing these players will be a challenge, but the team has young players they are excited about. “Ideally we’re going to get one or two young defensemen to step up,” Jackson said. “We have Nick Lieberman who was a freshman last year, did not play a lot. I do expect him to make more of an impact this year. He did help in the void of Bobby Nardella moving on, he’s a good offensive defenseman we just did not have enough room to play last year. We have a young defenseman in Ryan Carmichael that I think has a good future ahead of him. He’s young, only a year out of prep school [and] played in the USHL last year. I think he could be a positive factor for us.” Nardella and Peeke were not the only ones to leave the team; the departures of former forwards Joe Wegwerth, Dylan Malmquist and others have left the Irish with an extremely young roster. Jackson said that having 17 underclassmen will force players to contribute. “I’m excited about some of the young guys,” Jackson said. “We need to be, we have 17 underclassmen and 10 upperclassmen. It’s a younger group, especially on the back end. It’s not much different

than it was a year ago. I expect we’ll have a fairly consistent line-up similar to last year, with the obvious exception of a few graduating seniors. Upfront the young guys I think are going to contribute right away. Despite all of his praise for the team’s underclassmen, the returning players are going to have the biggest impact on the season. The seniors are one of the winningest classes in Notre Dame hockey history already, having qualified for NCA A Tournament all three years, been to two Frozen Fours and won the Big Ten Title in consecutive years. Jackson had high praise for his leadership group, and believes that he has a deep senior class. “It is really going to be our returning guys, our seniors, we have a strong senior and junior class that could all contribute in a big way. It’s going to be led by Cale Morris and ... both [junior] Tory Dello and [junior] Matt Hellickson, the only two upperclassmen defensemen that we have,” Jackson said. “Those guys are going to be crucial. We are going to have great leadership with Cal [Burke] and Cale and Tory Dello as well. Also [senior forwards] Cam Morrison and Mike O’Leary could contribute in that area as well. It is a really sound senior class.” The most important returning player will be goaltender

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Irish senior Cam Morrison moves forward at a Big Ten game against the Michigan State at Campton Family Ice Arena on Jan. 26.

senior Cale Morris. There was speculation in professional circles that he may have been a candidate to leave the Irish early, but the goaltender is back after two dominant years as a starter. The goaltender has appeared in 72 out of a possible 80 games for the Irish in the past two seasons, a massive workload at any level. Jackson said the team will look for more opportunities for Morris to rest this season. “Especially in the early

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Irish senior Mike O’leary defends Notre Dame at a Big Ten game against Michigan State at Campton Family Ice Arena on Jan. 26.

stages of the year, obviously we don’t want to go into the non-conference portion of our schedule,” Jackson said. “It’s important for us as a team and it’s important for our conference to well nonconference. I assume I am going to get Ryan Bischel in there a little bit — our freshman goaltender. Our initial plans are for [junior goaltender] Dylan St. Cyr potentially to redshirt this year because Cale is going to play the majority of the games for us. Ryan Bischel is a good goaltender that played in the USHL last year, we expect he will probably get some games early on.” With quality young talent, a battle-tested and skilled group of upperclassmen, and an elite goaltender, this year’s Irish team appears well-positioned for its early season non-conference schedule. Jackson said the

team’s early season schedule allows them to face some opponents that may not be getting enough preseason respect. “We’re getting back to some our old CCHA rivals — we’re playing Bowling Green in a home and home, Western Michigan in a home and home, we’re playing Lake Superior State,” Jackson said. “Bowling Green was on the cusp of being in the tournament. Bowling Green was right there as well as Western Michigan being one [of ] the NCHC opponents that’s probably going to be a top two or three team in that league. It’s a sneaky nonconference schedule; and Boston College is reloaded now, I expect them to be one of the top teams in the country.” Contact Jack Concannon at jconcan2@nd.edu

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from home this season. While they had an up-and-down season so far, they have had to face some tough opponents, including back-to-back against then-No. 9 Wisconsin and at No. 7 Minnesota. They are led by redshirt junior outside hitter Kaylin Korte, who is averaging 3.49 kills per set this season and 4.03 points per set, both team highs. However, the Tigers do have a balanced attack with redshirt junior outside hitter Brooke Bailey and sophomore right side hitter Solei Thomas both averaging over 2.6 kills per set. The Tigers’ strength lies in their attack, ranking fourth among ACC teams in kills per set with 13.21. However, their defense has lagged behind by giving up 1.46 service aces per set — the worst mark in the conference. They are also giving up the third highest opponent hitting percentage at .227. While Notre Dame’s defense has been strong this year, their offense has somewhat lagged behind. The Irish are 11th in the conference with a .200 hitting percentage, sixth in assists per set at 11.9, and

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last in opponent digs at 16.98. Sophomore outside hitter Charley Niego and sophomore right side hitter Sydney Bent are even for the team lead in kills and kills per set with 158 and 3.29, respectively. Also, sophomore setter Zoe Nunez is posting 10.6 assist per set, the third best mark in the ACC. They will look to give the Irish a spark attacking. After Clemson, the Irish will face Georgia Tech (8-5, 1-1 ACC). The Yellowjackets are led by freshman outside hitter Julia Bergmann who has recorded 182 kills this season, 3.79 per set, and sophomore outside hitter Mikaila Dowd, who has posted 144 kills at a 3.0 per set clip. Sophomore setter Matti McKissock also leads the ACC with 11.25 assists per set. Those players fuel a highpowered Yellowjackets offense that is second in the conference in hitting percentage and kills per set at .270 and 14.21, respectively. Still, Georgia Tech’s defense, similar to Clemson’s, isn’t on par with their attack. The Irish will look to exploit those matchups this weekend and get their offense going. Notre Dame and Clemson will go head to head on Friday, Oct. 4. at 7 p.m in Purcell Pavilion.

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The Irish w ill look to bounce back from a rough 3-0 loss in Chapel Hill as they prepare to face the Orange this Friday at home. Notre Dame (7-4, 1-2 ACC) has only lost once in South Bend while only surrendering t wo goals in these home matches. Sy racuse (2-6-2, 0-2-1 ACC) has gone w inless on the road and has currently suffered seven contests w ithout a w in. The Irish edge out the Orange in almost ever y statistical categor y. Notre Dame averages nearly two goals a game at 1.9 and allows less than one while the Orange average less than half a goal a game and let in around one per match. However, Sy racuse has challenged many of the top schools in the nation this season and only lost to the defending champions, No.

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6 Florida State, by one point. There is no doubt that the Orange have the potential to come to South Bend prepared and ready to give the Irish a fiercely competitive match. Irish head coach Nate Norman stated that his team must come out w ith a fast pace and look to attack from both the left and right w ings in order to achieve v ictor y. “The goal is to w in the game,” Norman said. “I think to do that we have to make sure that we play w ith a ver y high tempo and move the ball to the w ide areas quick ly when we get more numbers in the box. “We used to be a ver y defensive minded team and clog up the middle, so we have to get sw itches…while continuing to cross it into the box. We also have to bring pressure on counter attacks. If we do all of these see W SOCCER PAGE 13

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The Irish have been back on the ice this fall, preparing to try to head back to the NCAA tournament and compete for a third-straight Big Ten playoff title. In a Thursday press conference, Irish head coach Jeff Jackson said the team is excited to get back on the ice. “At this point in the fall we’re always eager to get started,” Jackson said. “We’re limited up until Saturday to where we can only be on the ice four hours per week. There is still a lot of work to be done. The early part of the year is trying to get in game shape — trying to get your concepts in place. We spend a lot of time working with fundamentals and positional skills.” It will not be the same Irish unit that fans are used to from last season, especially on the blue line. Both former defensemen, Bobby Nardella graduated and Andrew Peeke left after his junior year to join the ColumbusBlue Jackets organization. Jackson

Notre Dame Volleyball w ill compete in the final games of their four-game homestand this weekend w ith matchups against Clemson on Friday night and Georgia Tech on Sunday. The Irish (9-3, 2-0 ACC) have been asserting themselves on the defensive side of the net this season, ranking fourth among ACC teams w ith a .174 hitting percentage allowed and third in blocks per set at 2.6. They also rank first in digs per set w ith 16.08 and opponent ser v ice aces allowed per set at 0.8. Junior libero Madison Cruzado is eighth in the ACC, averaging 2.68 digs per set while graduate student middle blocker Kristin Baer is fourth in the conference at 1.35 blocks per set. The Tigers (6-7, 0-2 ACC) have yet to win a game away

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Irish junior Andrew Peekes waits for a pass at a Big Ten game against the University of Michigan at Campton Family Ice Arena.

Coming off a thrilling v ictor y against DePaul, the Notre Dame men’s soccer team heads to NC State for a critical conference matchup, and the Irish are hungr y to make a statement after falling out of the Top-25 this past week. After a grueling portion of their schedule, the Irish appear to be hitting their stride, especially on the defensive side of the ball. After giv ing up seven goals in three games to Clemson (2-4 loss), Indiana (1-1 tie) and UNC (0-2 loss), the Irish seemed to have lost their way on the defensive side of the ball, but they turned it around in a hurr y. In the three games since that tough three game stretch, Notre Dame has not given up a goal in the f low of play, the lone blemish coming on a controversial penalt y kick awarded to now No. 1 Virginia in a 1-0 loss

last Saturday. Besides that, some late-game heroics have rewarded the Irish defense w ith a pair of shutout v ictories over Michigan State and DePaul. NC State has been inconsistent offensively, looking f lummoxed against Virginia’s system but scoring six goals in the t wo v ictories sandw iching that ver y defeat. Notre Dame tends to start a back line of sophomore Philip Quinton, grad student Felicien Dumas, junior Tow nsend Meyer and freshman Mohammad Abualnadi. The unit has seemed to gel as the season progresses, and head coach Chad Riley was complimentar y of his team’s defense. “I think we’re beginning to get some consistency back there, and we’re starting to understand each other,” he said. “It’s really a team mindset from striker to keeper, that we have to be great defensively to do what see M SOCCER PAGE 12