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College charity fundraiser sets goal Dance Marathon seeks to raise $130,000 for Riley Children’s Hospital at annual event in April By GINA TWARDOSZ Associate Saint Mary’s Editor
The Saint Mary’s Dance Marathon is hoping to raise more money than ever before for Riley Children’s Hospital this year with ambitious goals and enthusiastic students. Senior Shannon Witt, the executive of Riley family outreach for SMC Dance Marathon, said the 2017-2018 goal is to raise $130,000 for Riley Children’s Hospital and get more community members involved in the process. “This year, our goal is to raise $130,000 by April 7, the day of our marathon,” she said in an email.
“We hope to spread the awareness of what Dance Marathon is all about to everyone in the trischool community, South Bend and beyond. We want to more people involved — not just at Saint Mary’s but also with Holy Cross and Notre Dame.” Senior Margaret Cox, co-executive of fundraising for the marathon, said in an email that 2018 is a special year for SMC Dance Marathon. “SMC Dance Marathon is going to have a great year because this is our ‘million-dollar year,’” she said. “This means over the lifetime of see DANCE PAGE 4
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Students at last year’s Saint Mary’s Dance Marathon dance to raise money for Riley Children’s Hospital. The goal for the 2017–2018 fundraiser is to raise $130,000 by the day of the dance marathon, April 7.
Student clubs raise money Professor explores with game day stands declining U.S. employment
By NATALIE WEBER Associate News Editor
When fans from across the country visit Notre Dame’s campus for home football weekends, many stop at food stands run by students to pick up something to eat on game day. Around 20 clubs have the opportunity to raise funds through concession stands on game days, Erin Riordan-Dye, assistant director of clubs for
the Student Activities Office (SAO), said. The Club Coordination Council (CCC) oversees allocation of the concession stands, Riordan-Dye said, and bases its decisions off of the funding each club has requested. “It’s pretty competitive because there’s only a certain number of spots,” she said. “So they look at need, and how much clubs are needing to raise money and have money to do the things
they want. If the CCC can’t fund that right out, they’ll give them a concession stand, knowing that that’s a great opportunity to raise the rest of their money themselves, in order to do the things they want to do.” After clubs are chosen to run concession stands, they participate in a training session, to learn how to run the stands, Riordan-Dye said.
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University starts Inspired Leadership Initiative By COURTNEY BECKER News Editor
Notre Dame is launching the Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI), a one-year program that aims to reopen the world of higher education to people who are looking for something fulfilling to embark upon after completing a career, beginning with its first group of fellows in 2018. The program, which ILI founding director Thomas
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Schreier — a 1984 Notre Dame graduate — said will continue to develop as fellows offer input over its first few years, will be made up of 25 fellows looking to discern their paths into the next phases of their lives. “For me, it’s something which fills a void that higher education hasn’t ever addressed,” Schreier said. Schreier said he learned about these initiatives after noticing an article about Harvard’s
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Advanced Leadership Initiative on the back of his alumni magazine. Schreier applied to and was accepted into both the Harvard and Stanford programs — at the time, the only two of their kind in the country. While Schreier was deciding between the two programs, vice president for University relations Louis Nanni suggested Schreier consider starting one of these programs at see LEADERSHIP PAGE 4
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Professor Erik Hurst from the University of Chicago delivers a lecture Thursday analyzing the declining employment rate in the U.S. By LUCY LYNCH News Writer
Erik Hurst, a University of Chicago professor and macroeconomist, explained the 2000s decline in U.S. employment Thursday night in the Eck Center auditorium. In the past 15 years, Hurst said, the annual hours worked by American men has declined by about 200 hours. While Hurst is more concerned with the drastic employment decline in the less educated male demographic, he addressed the
female workforce too. Hurst said the number of hours worked by women skyrocketed in 1900 and rose steadily throughout the entire century. “However, after 2000, we start seeing the patterns of women’s change in employment that look closer to men — so the 2000s are the first decade where women’s labor force attachment has fallen aside from World War II,” Hurst said. Hurst addressed two factors in determining theories for the em see ECONOMIST PAGE 3
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Notre Dame students assist immigrant youth By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS News Writer
Immigrant youths may be better informed of their legal rights in the near future thanks to the work of a group of Notre Dame Law students. Impowerus — which was founded in September of 2016 by Katelyn Ringrose, a second-year law student — is an organization that connects immigrant youth to pro bono legal aid and has continued to compete in various innovation competitions in the South Bend community. Ringrose said she first experienced the magnitude of the issue of information disparity as an employee of the Washington state public school district specializing in refugee students. She said she realized how many students had the technology but lacked the guidance to utilize their phone as a resource.
“Impowerus is about utilizing already-established resources and better educating clients on their legal rights,” Ringrose said. The difference in legal outcome for youths facing deportation who have received some degree of legal advice compared to those who haven’t is staggering, Ringrose said. Veronica Canton, a third-year law student and member of the Impowerus team, said Impowerus allows immigrants to learn about their rights in a comfortable setting. “It’s important that people who may fear reaching out to the authorities or those in positions of power, have a place where they can share candidly and build trust before engaging in the next step of the legal system,” Canton said. Canton, who immigrated from El Salvador when she was 9 years old, said she sees her background as a way to help establish trust between
her clients and the organization. Erika Gustin, a second-year law student and internal consultant of Impowerus, said the organization is working toward becoming more accessible. “We’re finishing the process of rebranding the initial concept and making the entire presentation more cohesive, and now we’re focused on generating funds to go towards our beta-test,” she said. The team operates less through titles and rather through collaboration, Gustin said. Impowerus has recently partnered with a South Bend organization, La Casa de Amistad, which has agreed to provide 100 youths to pair with five attorneys to run and troubleshoot the software. “The information we receive from that sample will help us make adjustments as we go,” Gustin said. These adjustments may include further protecting the information
of clients, Canton said. “Beta testing will allow us to address the elements of cyber security and confidentially through technology,” she said. Currently made up entirely of Notre Dame law students, alumni and professors of the Eck Law School and Mendoza College of Business, the team is looking to expand in the near future, Canton said. She said the organization’s platform is very applicable to students in the South Bend community. “If a student decides to move off campus, they might need assistance understanding their housing contract or addressing issues if their housing situation is not adequate,” Canton said. Ringrose and Gustin both said the University and the city of South Bend have been extremely supportive of Impowerus, providing them with mentors through the
IDEA Center, the South Bend Code School and the ESTEEM program, allowing them to continue their research. However, both said the law industry is slow to change and can be reluctant to catch up with technological innovation. “It’s about scalability,” Ringrose said. “We envision this expanding and have identified this as an area of crucial need.” Once testing is complete, the team will shift its focus to launching the website. “As we continue to move forward, people have started to realize we aren’t simply students working on a project, but that we have a long term vision for an organization,” Canton said. “Although this may seem ambitious, but I hope to see Impowerus evolve into a national platform.” Contact Charlotte Edmonds at cedmond3@nd.edu
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ployment change: declining labor demand and declining labor supply. His labor demand arguments stem from the fact that during this period, “wages have been going down for less educated workers.” More importantly, however, is the declining manufacturing sector, caused by both import competition from China and machinery being substituted for workers, he said. “In both stories, U.S. manufacturing output plummeted during the early 2000s,” Hurst said. “So this tells us that part of the story for what is going on in the U.S. labor force is a decline in manufacturing during this time. The decline in manufacturing has put this downward pressure on less educated workers.” Hurst said the 2000s marked a time when skills between declining sectors and growing sectors are non-transferable. Furthermore, it’s more difficult for the marginal person to acquire skills desired by the current labor market. Hurst also addressed what he called the more “tangible” and fun part of his research in the declining labor supply evidence. In searching for an answer as to why men from ages 21-30 are working less, Hurst found that many men from 21-30 years old do not receive government transfers, meaning they are supported by their parents or live with them. Additionally, the valuation of leisure time has increased — especially with rapid technological advancements in the mid-2000s. Hurst said he specifically focuses on the medium of video games and how that has impacted this demographic in not seeking out work. “Of that increase in leisure time for young men, almost all of it is in time spent on recreational computer activities, in particular, the video game component,” he said. Contact Lucy Lynch at llynch1@nd.edu
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Notre Dame instead. One of the ultimate goals of the program is to make an impact in the Notre Dame community, Schreier said. “One of the things that we’ve used to define success from the very beginning is that this program needs to be very valuable for the fellows and their spouses, because they’re going to come here and give a year of their life to participate in this program,” Schreier said. “But we believe it’s a failure if it’s not every bit as beneficial to the University and to the broader South Bend community. And I think the value there comes from the fact that you’re going to have 25 accomplished individuals and their spouses here for a full year.” Steve Reifenberg, co-director of the Integration Lab in the Keough School of Global Affairs, said ILI presents an opportunity for these fellows to be mentors in areas of the University outside of the classroom or residence halls. “I think fellows would find different communities that they really connected with all over the University, but one that we’d hope would be this Integration Lab where we have these kind of projects and we have these teams working on things,” he said. “ … There’s a number of ways that would be, I think, interesting for these Inspired Leadership fellows, but also really valuable for these student teams, just for an example.” The four aspects of the Inspired Leadership Initiative that are “unapologetically Notre Dame,” Schreier said, are discernment, “an invitation to spiritual enrichment,” community and internationality. Christopher Stevens, co-founding director of ILI and a professional specialist in the Mendoza College of Business, said each of these four pillars of ILI set it apart from the established programs at Harvard and Stanford. “For the Harvard and Stanford programs you have to pretty much know what you’re going to do before you get there,” he said. “We think that that’s maybe not the best way to approach it … so we’re going to provide a period of discovery and discernment for fellows to be able to figure out what they want to do, and expose them to all kinds of things so then that they find a passion that they really can focus on.” Stevens said he and Schreier hope to make the cohort as diverse as possible in terms of careers, nationalities and other levels of education. “We want people from all kinds of levels,” he said. “Whether they’ve had a successful career in education or the military, whether they’re from the United States or not, we want a really diverse cohort because one, we think it’s going to enrich each other in the cohort a lot, but we also think it’s terrific for the students. Because the interaction between the cohorts and the students and
faculty at Harvard and Stanford — the fellows call it life-changing. So we want to provide at least that opportunity here as well.” Schreier said the program seeks people who express passion for their chosen fields rather than people who have reached the pinnacle of these fields. “What we say is we want accomplished people,” he said. “And we use that word very carefully as opposed to saying successful, because I think when people think ‘successful’ what they think is somebody who was maybe the top of a business enterprise or something like that. What we want is people who have distinguished themselves in whatever vocation they’ve chosen.” Schreier said faculty, staff and administrators throughout the University have embraced ILI. This support is essential for the program to function as intended, Stevens said. “We’ll have advisors for the fellows to be able to help them negotiate and navigate the entire University, to pick the courses that they want, professors that are going to be most right for them,” Stevens said. “Each fellow will have a faculty adviser/mentor. So there’s ample opportunities for faculty to be advisers and mentors or for staff people like advisers in the undergraduate school and that type of thing.” Ultimately, Schreier said he hopes ILI will make an impact beyond the fellows who participate in the program. “I think it’s not only going to be something that’s life-changing for the people that participate in it, but I think it’s also going to be a very powerful force here on campus,” he said. “We really do take to heart the words that kind of are pervasive around campus — that if we can help to transform 25 of these people into a force for good, we will have done our job.” Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu
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SMCDM, we will have sent over a million dollars to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis.” Senior Alaina Murphy, executive of public relations for the marathon, said some other goals include student outreach and distribution of information. “We have a few other goals that aren’t necessarily dollar amountrelated,” she said. “This year, we really wanted to push what Dance Marathon is. The feedback we’ve gotten is that not many girls understand what Dance Marathon is and what it is that we do. We also want students to know, if they do decide to donate, what their money is going towards.” Cox said the money SMC Dance Marathon donates impacts the quality of life at Riley Hospital. “These goals are so important because the money we fundraise for Riley Hospital greatly impacts the quality of the hospital and the care the children are provided,” she said. “Dance Marathon is important to children’s hospitals around the country because it raises money that really improves the time Riley kids spend at the hospital. While at the hospital, you can truly see which rooms and sections have been donated due to Dance Marathon fundraising. It is a miracle to see the passion of high school and college students help the lives of sick kids around the world.” Recently, Cox said, SMC Dance Marathon executives got the opportunity to visit Riley Hospital and see how the contributions from the marathon affect life at the hospital. “The SMCDM executives were fortunate to visit Riley Hospital this fall and see what the donations from Dance Marathon really help towards,” she said. “Our contribution to Riley makes Saint Mary’s a recognized national spokesperson for Dance Marathon. In 2011, a room in the newly opened Riley Hospital Simon Family Tower was
named in honor of Saint Mary’s students’ passionate efforts to raise money year after year.” Witt said SMC Dance Marathon will be hosting smaller events before the day of the actual marathon in order to raise awareness about Riley Hospital. One of the biggest of these events will be ‘Giving Tuesday,’ she said. “On this day, we will be have Dance Marathon tables at a couple of spots around campus where people can learn about Dance Marathon and our Riley kids,” she said. Dance Marathon will also host a fundraiser in February to raise awareness, Cox said. “Another big event will be our Riley Week, hosted Feb. 12-16, which helps us fundraise and raise awareness for Riley Children’s Hospital and SMCDM,” she said. “All our fundraising leads up to April 7, which is the official day of SMC Dance Marathon.”
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Murphy said she wants students to understand Dance Marathon’s message and encourage others to participate. “Overall, from a PR perspective, I just want to make sure the message of what Dance Marathon is all about comes across,” she said. “I hope more people want to get involved, whether that be showing up to the marathon itself, or coming to other events we have during the year.” Everything that Dance Marathon does, Witt said, it accomplishes on behalf of the kids at Riley Hospital. “Dance Marathon matters because it helps kids become kids again,” she said. “It shows the children at Riley that they are special and loved, and that there are so many people who hoping and rooting for their recovery.” Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz@saintmarys.edu
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‘I asked for a concession stand and we got one, but I don’t know how to grill,’” she said. “And you know, if that happens, then we teach them how to grill. And we go over safety protocols and they’re basically given every tool that they can to be successful.” Before game day, clubs must also order their food from the University’s catering service and submit money orders to purchase any additional items they need, senior Dino Swan, president of the Adopt a Family Christmas Initiative, said. “The day of [the game] is when things are kind of crazy,” he said. “You have to show up to [LaFortune Student Center], pick up your money you’re going to use, as well as a tent. You Paid Advertisement
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also have to make sure you acquire grills from a dorm, so you set those up and then you get your tables and you go.” Swan said his organization earned around $2,400 last year and nearly $1,600 this year at concession stands. “For our club, it’s an easy sell because we help families for Christmas who might not otherwise have it,” he said. “So, you know, we have a big speaker [and] we’re playing Christmas music the whole time. We’re all wearing Santa hats. We have stockings hung up on our tables. “All the tables are giftwrapped and then we’re handing out candy canes to kids who walk by. So, for our club at least, we really embrace the fun part of club, which is the Christmas holiday spirit.” When the concession stand ran out of food last year, Swan said, customers continued to donate to the club. “We had sold out of everything and people would walk up and try to order,” he said. “And then they’d ask a bit more about our club and just leave like $200 and say, ‘Adopt some families,’ so it was really cool in that respect.” Senior Christian Flynn, codirector of Camp Kesem at Notre Dame, said the concession stands also allowed the
organization to inform others about its mission. Camp Kesem aims to support local children whose parents have been diagnosed with cancer. “My favorite part has been telling people about what we do,” he said. “ … They get so happy when we tell them, and they become inspired and ask for other ways they can help out instead of just donating $10 here, $10 there.” One aspect of the concession stand process that can be frustrating for the organizations, Flynn said, is that clubs do not have a say in when and where their concession stands will be held. “[The] first year we did it, I was a sophomore and we had the Texas game,” he said. “We had a great spot and make several thousand dollars. The last year that we did it was this previous year at the Michigan State [game], which is a game that doesn’t bring as many outof-state fans. It was later in the year. … There’s less people at the games, the colder it gets, I think, and we had a terrible spot. So we didn’t lose money, but it paled in comparison to the performance of our Texas game.” Still, Flynn said the University is very thorough in providing training and supplies for students. Paid Advertisement
“It’s really streamlined,” he said. “So from that sense it’s kind of a relief that with a lot other fundraisers that we run we’re taking a little bit more of a risk because it’s all on us, but Notre Dame provides great assistance and great support.” The Knights of Columbus council also runs a steak sandwich concession stand on game days, though it is not directly under the jurisdiction of SAO, sophomore and officer of the council Mark Spretnjak, said. “It’s a huge part of the game day tradition that a lot of people aren’t aware of,” he said. “I’m from here and I kind of knew it was there, but I wasn’t like always on top of it — going every week — but there will be alumni and people who have been part of the council or who have been coming to steak sales every day, game day, for 30 years.” While most clubs only run one concession stand per year, the Knights of Columbus steak sales take place at every home football game, Spretnjak said. “Kind of the layout for what we do is each week, we’ll pick a charity of the week and a certain percent of that day’s profits goes specifically to that charity,” he said. “We try to keep it pretty current or pertinent to the team we’re playing. So last
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week when we played USC, the charity of the week was relief for the wildfires in California.” The remaining profits from the sales are pooled at the end of the year and divided between a few different charities, junior Andrew Rebholz, chancellor of the council, said. Rebholz said one of the most fulfilling parts of the steak sales is counting the money afterwards. “It’s fun, also, just to have that much money in front of you and to be able to say we worked hard enough to get wads and wads of cash,” he said. “It feels fulfilling and then you remember all of it’s going to amazing causes. We’ve got all of that for charity.” Though it can be exhausting, working the steak sales stand is ultimately worth it, Rebholz said. “You find yourself at halftime at the game and you realize you’ve been standing for 12 hours,” he said. “And at the steak sales, we’re just taking in constant smoke from the grills and also screaming to stay enthused, so it’s a lot of energy and a lot of using your voice and then you go to the football game. It’s a blast to be with all the guys though, so it pays off for sure.” Contact Natalie Weber at nweber@nd.edu
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Earlier this year, Tim Cook made his yearly state of the union address to the technology world in Cupertino, California. The audience was filled with tech geeks, Wall Street analysts, venture capitalists and those who couldn’t wait to see the new apple watch (the iPhone was just the backdrop). Not only will the company launch the new iPhone 8, but also its new iPhone X for the cheap as dirt price of $999.99. What makes this phone stand out is not only the allglass front which looks more similar to a Samsung Android, but the fact that the home button fingerprint technology is no more. The phone will incorporate facial recognition technology as the new access point for consumers to unlock their phones. While the new phone promises to bring lots of added benefits to the smartphone-centered world we live in, it does bring up interesting questions about security and privacy that we should all consider. Many security analysts have pointed out that facial recognition technology systems can be used to learn about the nitty gritty details of someone’s personal life. Your every move can be tracked, your political activities and even your romantic encounters can now be determined using just your face. Not only that, but the rise of artificial intelligence has opened new doors for how this data can be used. Apple has been very cautious and earned the praise of many security experts, as data privacy is a high priority for the company protecting its customers. I doubt anyone is going to have serious reservations about enrolling their face into their phone, and Apple makes it very convenient based on their new camera technology installed. The larger issues to consider are twofold: Many people have tried to raise awareness about the mega databases that technology companies including Google and Facebook are building. Federal and state officials are trying to curb the use and expansion of these databases to identify users based on their photos they upload. Biometrics is something that has a wide range of applications, but like any other advancement in technology, has the potential to raise a new set of issues and pushback from consumers. How much do we value our privacy? How paranoid are we about a hacker gaining access to our personal information? Out of all technology companies out there, Apple is most qualified to derail and handle these issues to make sure this doesn’t in any way derail sales. But the debate about this topic is ongoing, and critics make interesting arguments that deserve our attention. Let’s celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the iPhone, but also keep in mind that it will take time for society and also government regulations to adjust to the new uses of biometrics. Contact Christopher Collins at ccolli13@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
On Monday evening, Oct. 23, Erin Hoffmann-Harding met with the University Village community to further explain the University’s decision to cease providing housing for graduate student families. Despite her admirable patience and attempts at clarity and transparency, the reasoning and figures she presented offered little comfort to the crowd packed into the Beichner Community Center. The administration — like anyone who has been involved with the Village over the years — clearly recognizes the beauty of the community and how much it has meant to those who live within it. That has never been the issue. The issue is whether the University should continue to invest in that community. The members of that community are saying “Yes, please” while the administration says, “No, it costs too much, and we can do better.” Or in the language of Dr. Affleck-Graves’s recent letter to the editor: “Ultimately, we learned the costs of renovating or rebuilding University Village, Cripe Street and O’HaraGrace were cost prohibitive, and we thought that alternative solutions might better serve more students, as the current facility houses only about 13 percent of graduate students who we estimate are married or parenting.” This is the kind of well-crafted sentence that I tell my students to slow down on and note the rhetorical moves at play. Labeling renovation or relocation efforts “cost prohibitive” sounds straightforward, but subtly masks the inextricable link between cost and value. For an institution with Notre Dame’s resources, to call something cost prohibitive is to make a value judgment, not state an objective truth. Notre Dame pays for things Notre Dame values. The $400 million Campus Crossroads project provides a particularly stunning example, as do the dorms being built to accommodate the new on-campus mandate for undergraduates. Pointing out the estimated percentage of married or parenting graduate students living on campus also sounds straightforward and rather ominous — certainly the University has cause to get rid of something that such a small portion of the population benefits from. But even if 13 percent is an appropriate estimate (it’s based on Graduate Student Life surveys that only had about a 50 percent response rate), speaking only in percentages denigrates the 89 families currently living in the Village. That is 267 people. 178 adults and 89 children (with five more children coming soon!). Sixty of these families are international. Simply citing a percentage overlooks the clear differences between those currently living in the Village and the majority demographic who have the choice to live outside the Village. Not everyone has the same flexibility to make that choice — especially international families. The real rub of proudly reporting “off-campus housing options receiving much higher marks than our on-campus facilities” stems from the ignorance of such differing circumstances. Of course off-campus housing options receive better marks — the alternative is neverrenovated buildings built in the early 1960s. That’s like saying the steak dinner receives much higher marks than the ramen noodles. But we love our Village for the same reason we love our ramen — it’s affordable and satisfying. The attempt to “better serve more students,” while
commendable, should not come at the cost of a particularly vulnerable group whom the University already serves so efficiently with a resource like the Village. While “in the process of implementing a variety of strategies to support graduate students in building community and finding safe, convenient and affordable housing,” the University is simultaneously in the process of turning its back on a resource that has been providing these precise features for over 50 years. In seeking to reinvent the wheel, the administration is ultimately searching for a cheaper option that, although perhaps not better for the type of graduate students currently residing in the Village, may be more helpful to more married and parenting students who currently live outside the Village (a demographic who presumably has no trouble finding safe, convenient and affordable housing in the first place). Dr. Affleck-Graves’s letter emphasizes that the current commercial plans for the land where the Village now stands came only after the decision to close the Village: “There is no ‘profitability’ motive involved.” In the discussion of timelines, it may also be worth emphasizing that the University announced plans to close the Village only after Douglas Road was realigned (against the protests of Village residents) in a way that made the land particularly attractive to developers—it now sits right at the Northeast corner of a busy intersection that connects South Bend to I-80. If the University never expected the Village to close after realigning the road, nor a development offer for the land once the Village did close, it certainly stands to profit from the coincidental sequence of events. The University’s “interest in working with the community at large to improve the safety and aesthetics of an area that is the main entry point for visitors to our region,” comes in the wake of plans to demolish the graduate student family housing complex that currently sits in that location and secures these precise objectives. As renderings of the proposed $65 million development are made public, Village residents await information on the new resources that are going to help more graduate families, if not necessarily their families. As of Monday,the one concrete option those without grandfathered rates do have is to move into the Fisher Graduate Residences for $1260 a month — a jarring increase from the current Village rate of $520. For many student families, especially international student families, this is exactly what cost prohibitive looks like. The University certainly does not have any obligation to ensure affordable housing options for student families, but the University’s 70-year tradition of providing such a resource has unquestionably made higher education possible for many whom it would not otherwise be. That tradition has meant the world to generations of Domers. Hopefully Dr. Affleck-Graves is right to end that tradition based on the results of his task force. Hopefully the new resources he mentions will support student families even more than the long-standing and vibrant tradition of the University Village. That is, of course, a lot to live up to.
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Ending the sexual predation problem Gary J. Caruso Capitol Comments
Yesterday, ABC News rolled out segments of reporter Diane Saw yer’s interview with actress Ashley Judd. Judd’s revelations of systemic sexual predation by Holly wood entertainment mogul and movie producer Harvey Weinstein gave voice to women nationwide through the trending hashtag #MeToo. The response of women around the country has been so powerful that former President George H. W. Bush apologized for an “occasional” pat he placed on the rears of women that his spokesperson claims was intended in a goodnatured manner as a playful joke. Bush joins a long line of infamous, powerful and wealthy men like television personality Bill O’Reilly, journalist Mark Halpren and the former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes who have been ensnarled with allegations of sexual misconduct. Judd’s hashtag has inspired more than 65 women to publicly join in an effort to once and for all end lewd advances toward and sexual assaults against women. The campaign urges women to take action despite their fears, knowing that other women and men will support them. In describing her experience with Weinstein, Judd outlined the classic modus operandi that characterizes chronic sexual predation: apply insistent pressure on the victim, deny the attack and reverse the role of the victim as the offender. Tragically, every day many women from typical lifestyles outside the glare of celebrity status face harassment and assault from ordinary men in their communities like their employers or supervisors. On Thursday’s Good Morning America airing, Saw yer played the voice recording of one such woman who identified herself as someone who is invisible and has no voice. The woman described how she needed her job to feed her children, but her supervisor set her schedule so that the two of them would be alone during odd hours. Her voice quivered during her desperate plea for help as she
wondered if anyone would believe her or even care about her predicament. Inappropriate sexual advances against women happen because they are rooted in longstanding religious and societal customs. We need look no further than our U.S. Constitution’s 19th Amendment that granted American women the right to vote — ratified on August 18, 1920, less than a hundred years ago. Saudi Arabia, for example, barely a month ago ended one of its longstanding discriminative policies through a royal decree, which was the face of a global symbol representing their oppression of women. The kingdom will allow women to drive automobiles beginning in June 2018. Weinstein blames his abhorrent behavior as a byproduct of his workplace coming of age surroundings during the 1960s and 1970s. Some contend that until Judd’s explosive expose of Weinstein’s conduct titillated Twitter, 21st-century workplace harassment was barely indistinguishable from 20th-century norms. This author can attest to 1970s chauvinistic attitudes on Capitol Hill, having witnessed disgusting harassment by a congressman at a bar on my second day as a congressional staff member. The congressman — who had earned a law degree from Notre Dame — propositioned a female college intern at the table next to us. After she politely rebuked him, the congressman turned to us guys sitting with him and described in graphically repugnant detail where he would like to pat her. Ironically, during yesterday’s airing of Saw yer’s interview with Judd, even Madison Avenue advertising yanked on our societal sense of how strange it is for a woman to be an aggressor in a family relationship. Ford Motor Company aired its television commercial entitled, “Champions.” Juxtaposing the traditional notion of mom and dad roles, the announcer poses the question of how does Ford become the best-selling truck brand in Texas. With a football field in the background, a father stresses football fun and safety to his two sons before game time while the
supposedly more reserved mother practically hyperventilates in her effort to cheer the boys onto winning the game. The dad adjusts his sons’ shoulder pads and helmets saying, “Safety first. Have fun out there guys.” Mom’s voice intensifies and builds as she instructs, “Be the hammer, not the nail. Drive with the shoulder, not the bodies. Go! Go! Go!” Dad turns to her and asks, “Who are you?” As the boys run onto the field, mom snaps her hand on her husband’s rear and startles him, causing him to jump away from her. The female announcer concludes, “Ford is safe, tough and game-day ready.” On many levels the commercial conveys that men are sensible, women are tough, Ford is a great truck and we live in new times. Sadly, it trivializes the bravery of those women who stood up to the disgusting conduct of Weinstein and others like him. Overall, families need to raise their children to respect others, respect boundaries and limit their impulses. Despicable men like Weinstein need to be placed on notice that harassment and assault are not behavioral problems but crimes. We as a society need to end our “boys will be boys” attitude that trivializes women. Ford truck owners or potential customers probably realize that merely reversing family roles in advertising may seem appealing to sell vehicles, but the product sells itself. Besides, Ford Fusion Energi electric plug-in hybrid owners like me usually respect the environment along with everything within it, most especially women. Gary J. Caruso, Notre Dame ‘73 American studies major, serves in the Department of Homeland Security and was a legislative and public affairs director at the U.S. House of Representatives and in President Clinton’s administration. His column appears every other Friday. Contact him on Twitter: @GaryJCaruso or e-mail: GaryJCaruso@alumni.nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Troy falls again Outlined against a blue-gray October sk y, the Cit y of Troy fell again last Saturday. In dramatic lore, Troy was sacked by Greek soldiers hidden inside a large statue of a horse — perhaps the most unwelcome gift in histor y. On Saturday, as low hanging clouds portended an epic struggle on the gridiron, the present day Gaelic warriors of Notre Dame delivered a stunning defeat to the new men of Troy. W hile the ancient battle may have been more sanguineous, Saturday’s defeat of the Trojans at the hands of the Fighting Irish was no less devastating.
The Trojans were obliterated by a tandem of Irish backs — Wimbush and Adams — whose remarkable efficiency of effort harkened back to the legends of George Gipp and the Four Horsemen. The lads on the offensive and defensive lines resembled the famous Seven Blocks of Granite chiseled by coach Jim Crowley, one of the Four Horsemen and an ardent disciple of Rockne. On this day, the Irish awakened the echoes w ith a vengeance and the ultimate v ictor y — 49 to 14 — was not only a foregone conclusion by the mid-point in the second quarter but also
carried w ith it a strong sense of deja v u of the Green Jersey game from two score ago. In a conclusion evocative of the legendar y fall of Troy, Notre Dame exorcized two decades of frustration by over whelming the unsuspecting men of Troy. Both Rockne and Homer would have been impressed. Michael G. Gotsch, Sr. class of 1979 assistant adjunct professor of law Oct. 26
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Share your feelings and lay out a plan that includes friends and siblings. Working alongside people who challenge you mentally and inspire you creatively will encourage you to follow through with unique and diverse plans. Travel and educational pursuits will give you experiences that will help you surpass your expectations. Socializing, creativity and children are featured this year. Your numbers are 3, 14, 17, 23, 31, 40, 42. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Listen carefully to what’s being said or asked of you. Take time to digest the information and consider your options before you make a decision or respond. Acting too quickly will cause unnecessary stress. Take time out to relax and reevaluate. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Partnerships should be handled carefully. Distance yourself from unpredictable situations or people who can threaten your reputation, job or future. Speaking from the heart is your best course of action, but if that fails, prepare to walk away. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Learn and update your qualifications in order to get ahead. Take better care of your physical health. Don’t let your emotions lead to a mistake that can cause injury or illness. Children or someone close to you will cause you concern. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Make alterations for the right reasons. Refuse to get involved in an impulsive act that won’t benefit you but can cost you a friendship or a financial loss. If you want to invest, put your money, time and effort into personal gain. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be careful how you handle your professional responsibilities. Work on your own if possible. Disagreements will leave you tired and confused. Consider offers or opportunities along with the chance to make a change in your status, reputation or position. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Participate in events that will bring you in touch with people who share your beliefs and have similar life goals. Sharing ideas will bring you closer to someone who can broaden your outlook and help you discover new possibilities. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Personal problems will prevail at home. Take care of your responsibilities without being asked. Don’t give anyone a reason to complain or to pick on you. A decision followed by a change to an important relationship is apparent. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Travel, meetings and gathering information that can help you get ahead are featured. Your unique way of presenting what you have to offer will separate you from any competition you encounter. Interacting with peers is highlighted. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Step up and do what has to be done. Take charge and show initiative. Your ability to adjust to whatever develops will give you the edge when helping others. Refuse to let an emotional matter stifle your ability to get things done. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put your own personal imprint on whatever you pursue. You’ll be viewed as an entrepreneur and go-to person when collaborating with others. Explore new opportunities and express your opinions openly. Protect against injury and emotional arguments. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do your research before you take a financial gamble. Moderation and leaning toward a simpler lifestyle will be in your best interest. Uncertainty and temptation will put you in a precarious position. Focus on personal growth and achieving better health. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll be rewarded if you volunteer for something that requires you to use your skills in diverse ways. What you gain will help you reconstruct the way you move forward and how you take care of your health. Birthday Baby: You are steadfast, detailed and progressive. You are compassionate and innovative.
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Game 2 drama teaches resiliency Joe Everett Sports Writer
Wednesday night’s Game 2 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Astros was one for the history books. Not to be cliche and overexuberant, but it was truly nothing short of epic. If you didn’t watch it and haven’t watched the highlights yet, do yourself the favor of watching the insane and awesome spectacle that unfolded. Then, read the rest of this article. I don’t want to recap the game as much as I want to explore what it meant, and what we can learn from it. Sports are a funny thing. In some cases and in certain situations, they can be a breeding ground for hostility, hatred, and violence. From Eastern Europe and the violence that, in the past, has ensued over soccer, to the normal confrontations and rivalries that boil over year, sports can easily bring out the worst of people — the players and the fans — and therefore in these situations fail to inspire and promote the best that humanity can be. However, on the bright side, sports do in fact have that potential. They can be incredible agents of good and teach valuable lessons and character traits, perhaps far more often than we give them credit for. As my colleague Michael Ivey accurately noted in his column earlier this week, sports can help us rally around the worst of situations, coming together in solidarity. In short, sports seem to encapsulate much of the human experience, and reveal many inspirational lessons that we ourselves, the fans, can begin to apply to our day-to-day lives. With that being said, let’s examine what we can learn from Game 2. Game 2 taught us about resilience, or fortitude — how to respond when you’ve been dealt a crushing blow. When the Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager hit a two-run homer off Justin Verlander in the bottom of the sixth inning to give the home team a 3-1 lead, it all but seemed a death toll for the Astros, who would now have to face a lightsout Dodgers’ bullpen that hadn’t surrendered a run in 28 innings. A heartbroken Verlander nonetheless implored his teammates in the dugout to show resilience, saying that while two runs “seemed like it was the Grand Canyon… I was just trying to remind these guys two runs is nothing.” The Astros responded, and hit the best closer in baseball, Kenley Jansen, for those two runs, sending the game in extras. But here’s the beautiful thing. The Dodgers showed their fortitude as well. The rest of the game was a game of resilience — one
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side seemingly breaking the spirit and will of the other, and the opposing team responding just the same, all the way down to the Yasiel Puig’s last strike. Think about the example of sheer resiliency the Astros and Dodgers showed during that game, and think about how it can inspire the resiliency of the people of Houston and California. Pretty powerful stuff, and not a bad way for the Astros to earn their first World Series victory ever as they head back to their hometown, trying to win this thing for their city. Game 2 taught us about adjustments, improvements and redemption. Take Astros outfielder George Springer, who came into Game 2 struggling with his swing and general approach at the plate, frustrated with his lack of production. He simplified his approach, and guess what? He hits the eventual-winning two-run homer in the 11th. Or even better, take Dodger’s outfielder Yasiel Puig. Fourteen months removed from being demoted to the minors — the subject of scorn and scrutiny for the brash and therefore controversial way he oftentimes played the game — Puig dedicated himself to improvement, both on and off the field, in his temperament and in his overall play. The result has been a vital component for the Dodgers’ success this season and postseason. His homer in the 10th ignited the Los Angeles’ rally, and while he failed to tie the game in the 11th, his story and impact is now long from over. Overall, Game 2 taught us that every single person has value, regardless of various differences and the “size” of their role, within the larger context of their team. Whether it was 5-foot, 6-inch Jose Altuve hitting a monster home run and pumping up his teammates, 37-year old Rich Hill wheeling and dealing with his incredible curveball or journeyman Cameron Maybin pinchhitting and stealing a key base, everyone has value. Baseball is a rare sport, as it is as much about the individual as it is the team, and within it we often learn our strengths, our gifts and also our individual weaknesses and failings. However, we also recognize that when we fail as individuals, we have our friends and teammates to lift us back up and support us. These are the lessons I learned from Game 2. The series is tied and headed to Houston, and I can’t wait for the lessons we’ll learn in Game 3. Contact Joe Everett at jeveret4@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Girardi fired as Yankees manager after 10 seasons Associated Press
Joe Girardi was fired as New York Yankees manager Thursday after a decade that produced just one World Series title for a team that expects to win every year. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman announced the move five days after New York lost to Houston in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series. “With a heavy heart, I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back,” Girardi said in a statement released by his agent, Steven Mandell. “I’d like to thank the fans for their great support as a player, coach and manager and the lasting memories of their passion and excitement during the playoff game. An intense and driven former All-Star catcher, Girardi was at the end of his four-year contract and said last weekend
he had to speak with his family before deciding whether he wanted to return. New York made the decision for him. “Everything this organization does is done with careful and thorough consideration, and we’ve decided to pursue alternatives for the managerial position,” Cashman said in a statement. Girardi’s 910-710 regularseason record with the Yankees is sixth in victories managing the team behind Joe McCarthy (1,460), Joe Torre (1,173), Casey Stengel (1,149), Miller Huggins (1,067) and Ralph Houk (944). Cashman said he and owner Hal Steinbrenne had spoken directly with Girardi this week. “He has a tireless work ethic, and put his heart into every game he managed over the last decade,” Cashman said in his statement. “He should take great pride in our accomplishments during his tenure.”
New York said Cashman and other team officials will not discuss the decision during the World Series. Girardi wore uniform No. 25 as a player with the Yankees from 1996-99, when he helped win three titles, but switched to No. 27 when he earned the manager’s job over Don Mattingly and succeeded Torre after the 2007 season — signifying the team’s quest for its 27th championship. Girardi took uniform No. 28 after leading the team to a World Series victory over Philadelphia in 2009. New York became the third of the 10 postseason teams to remove managers, joining Boston and Washington. There is no clear favorite to replace him, and candidates from within the organization could include bench coach Rob Thomson, Triple-A Scranton manager Al Pedrique and Class A Tampa manager Jay Bell.
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Big Ten Spotlight: Making bowl becomes goal for some teams Associated Press
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While Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State head into the last Saturday of October harboring College Football Playoff hopes, several Big Ten teams that got off to promising starts now are just trying to make a bowl. Ten of the 14 teams played in bowls last year. Here’s a look at the teams that need to win two or three of their last five to achieve eligibility:
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Maryland This year seems eerily similar to 2016, when the Terrapins lost six of eight after a 4-0 start and had to beat Rutgers in the final regular-season game to earn a Quick Lane Bowl inv itation. The Terps must go at least 3-2 the rest of the way to make a bowl for the fourth time in five years. They’ll play their fourth straight game w ith their thirdstring quarterback, Ma x Bortenschlager, when they host Indiana on Saturday. After the Hoosiers, Mar yland finishes w ith Rutgers (away) Michigan (home), Michigan State (away) and Penn State
One of Purdue’s stated preseason goals was to go to a bowl for the first time since 2012, and first-year coach Jeff Brohm looked to have the Boilermakers headed that direction. A 17-9 loss at Wisconsin didn’t stop the positive v ibe around the program, but a 14-12 loss at Rutgers last week did. “I’m sure some of our players’ confidence was shot a little bit,” Brohm said. “We’ve got to get that back up and really get back to where we were at before we took the field the first game, and that is believing that you can get it done when you take the field. If you have any t y pe of doubt ... that can snowball, and that’s what happened the last game.” The Boilermakers need three w ins among games against Nebraska (home), Illinois (home), Northwestern (away), Iowa (away) and Indiana (home).
Indiana There’s no sha me in a ny of t he Hoosiers’ losses. A l l
four were aga inst ra n ked tea ms. India na’s schedu le eases a bit w it h Ma r yla nd (away), Wisconsin (home), Il linois (away), Rutgers (home) a nd Purdue (away). First-yea r coach Tom A l len’s message to his tea m? “Here we a re w it h t he f irst ha lf a lready completed plus one, a nd you got f ive ga mes lef t. How a re you going to respond? How you going to f inish? ” A l len sa id. “So t hat word ‘f inish,’ applies to t he ga me, it applies to a lot of t hings. That’s going to be somet hing you’re going to hea r me say a lot here over t he nex t severa l weeks.”
Iowa and Minnesota More than Floyd of Rosedale is at stake Saturday in Iowa City. The winner is one win closer to a bowl. The Hawkeyes have the tougher remaining schedule after this week, with Ohio State (home), Wisconsin (away), Purdue (home) and Nebraska (away). The Gophers’ last four games are against Michigan (away), Nebraska (home), Northwestern (away) and Wisconsin (home).
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Irish compete at Head of the Charles Regatta By ELLIE OLMANSON Sports Writer
This past weekend, the Irish joined over 11,000 athletes and tens of thousands of fans from around the world for the 53rd annual Head Of The Charles Regatta in Boston. Coached by Martin Stone, Notre Dame raced three boats and an Alumni boat in the regatta. Two of these boats qualified based on last year’s times, and the third qualified by lottery.
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that snuck into the back of the net to take a 2-0 lead on just the second Omaha shot of the game. The two early goals put the Irish on their heels, and the Mavericks ran their shot advantage up to 1510 by the end of the first frame. The Irish went into the locker room licking their wounds down 2-0. Irish head coach Jeff Jackson felt the team made costly lapses in the first period. “We shot ourselves in the foot early in the game. Primarily, it was our defensemen not reading situations real well, and making bad decisions off the rush,” Jackson explained. “Somewhat uncharacteristic, but that’s where it started. Getting scored on on the first shift that bounces off a shin pad and off the ice certainly set the tone for how the game went for us.” The Irish came out fast in the first shift of the second period, but their momentum was crushed by another Omaha goal, this one coming by way of a garbage goal scored in a scrum in the crease by Maverick sophomore forward Steven Spinner just fifty-four seconds into the frame. Just three minutes later, the Irish would finally get on the board. Junior defenseman Bobby Nardella collected the puck off a pass from senior Jake Evans and fired a wrist shot over the glove of Omaha’s junior goalie Evan Weninger to cut the Mavericks’ lead to 3-1. The Irish were awarded two power plays in the second period
To begin the weekend, the Club 4 team of junior Ashley Young, senior Lauren McKee, senior Meredith Swartz and sophomore Julia Randall finished eighth overall with a time of 18:43.178. “Our Club 4 placed competitively,” Stone said. “Last year we were able to place third, but for the overall scheme of things, we’ll have to see where we are against teams like Ohio State, Syracuse and Michigan to get a better understanding of where we are boatspeed wise.”
The next day, the Championship Four placed 12th out of 16 teams. Sophomore Mara Bhalla, junior Gen Johanni, junior Kelly Fischer, junior Molly Pierce and sophomore coxswain Laura Schoonmaker finished with a time of 18:27.243. The Championship 8 crew captured 26th place with a time of 16:05.609. This crew consisted of senior Treasa O’Tighearnaigh, sophomore Emily Stinebaugh, junior Elizabeth Schrieber, junior Laura Migliore, senior Lauren
Matchett, senior Christine Schindele-Murayama, junior Jennifer Groth, senior Elizabeth Gilbert and senior coxswain Reilly Kearney. “Overall it was a great experience for our athletes to be a part of the amazing celebration of rowing,” said Stone. “The whole Charles river has people stacked up for three miles, and to be able to represent the University of Notre Dame was such a pleasure.” This event marks the end of the fall season of rowing and
transitions to the winter training season. Stone said, “This winter we are going to train really hard to get really fit. We want to be as good as we possibly can to move as fast as we possibly can.” The main season of rowing is in the spring, for which Stone, with nearly two decades of coaching at Notre Dame behind him, said their expectations are simply to work hard and be fast.
but neither were able to generate quality chances. The best chance was a one timer teed up by freshman forward Colin Theisen that looked like it had an open net waiting for it, but an unlucky broken stick spoiled that chance. The Irish played the rest of the period even with the Mavericks until a youthful mistake gifted Omaha a goal. St. Cyr had to handle a dump in late in the second period, but mishandled the puck, and the turnover gave Pope a prime look that he buried for his second goal of the game at the 16:39 mark of the second period. One minute and sixteen seconds later, the Mavericks added another goal on a defensive lapse that caused a two-on-one and a subsequent finish from sophomore forward Zach Jordan. These would be the last shots St. Cyr would face on the night. He finished with 25 saves and 5 goals allowed and was lifted in favor of sophomore goalie Cale Morris during the second intermission. Despite the pull, Coach Jackson had positive things to say about the young goaltender. “The first goal established things for him tonight. That’s two starts in a row where he hasn’t been quite as sharp, but that comes with being a freshman. That’s not uncommon for a freshman to learn the speed of the game,” Jackson said. “Some of the goals were a direct result beating ourselves in the first two periods with some of the plays we were making.” Down 5-1 late in the second, the Irish began to mount a comeback. Sophomore Cal Burke and sophomore Andrew Peeke scored back to
back goals late to cut the Mavericks lead in half, 5-3. The Irish were still down two goals, but carried more momentum in the locker room after the second period than they did after the first. Coach Jackson believed the team did a lot of things right late in the game, but were ultimately hurt by their slow start. “We did some good things, we just didn’t do them soon enough. We didn’t play with urgency in the early stage of the game which we need to resolve,” Jackson said. Especially at home, we want to be pushing the pace. They have a lot of talented forwards, if you don’t pay attention to the details of your game, you’re going to give up goals.” The Irish entered the third period on the power play and converted on a long range wrist shot from
senior defenseman Jordan Gross. The shot came through traffic and was never seen by Weninger who had no chance to stop it, suddenly making what had been a blowout a one-goal game. The Irish dominated play in the third period, outshooting the Mavericks 14-6. The Mavericks gave the Irish a gift at the 16:47 mark of the third, with Steven Spinner taking a neutral zone interference penalty to give the Irish a man advantage. But despite coming into the week tied with the secondhighest power play conversion rate in the country, Notre Dame failed to get pucks to the front of the net and squandered the opportunity. The Irish pulled Morris, who finished with 5 saves, late for an extra attacker, but Notre Dame couldn’t deliver, and Spinner scored his
second goal of the game on a long range empty net goal to make it 6-4 as time drained off the clock. After the loss, Jackson believes the team has areas to improve for the future. “They’re going to make plays, they’re a good team offensively, and you have to minimize what they do. You can’t give them odd man rushes and expect to not get scored on. We gave them several odd man rushes, and that’s a direct result of some bad puck plays but some bad decisions by defensemen that gave up 2 on 1s.” The Irish will look to improve in these areas tomorrow night in a rematch with Nebraska Omaha at 7:35 p.m. at Compton Ice Arena.
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Irish sophomore defenseman Andrew Peeke looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 6-4 loss to Omaha on Thursday at Compton Ice Arena.
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soccer. Neither team broke through in the first half, but in the 58th minute, the Irish offense got exactly the break it needed. Graduate student midfielder Sandra Yu made a run up the right side, bursting past a defender with speed. Yu found sophomore Jennifer Westendorf
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streaking past the defense and fed her a through ball, with Westendorf slotting the ball past the helpless goalie for her careerhigh ninth goal of the season. The Irish kept the ball deep in North Carolina’s territory to protect the one goal lead, holding onto possession for much of the final 32 minutes away from threatening positions near the Irish net, with the Tar Heels becoming increasingly desperate
as the half wore on. On what could have been the final possession of the game, North Carolina launched a desperation cross into the box that deflected off an Irish defender out of bounds over the goal line, leading to a corner kick for the Tar Heels. On their last chance of regulation, the corner kick sailed into the box and into the net off the head of Tar Heel sophomore forward Bridgette
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Irish graduate student midfielder Sandra Yu dribbles the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Duke on Sept. 21 at Alumni Stadium.
Andrzejewski, hitting off the cross bar and down into the net for the equalizing goal. The Irish were seconds away from a huge win over a storied rival, but suddenly had to brace for overtime. North Carolina held the ball for much of the first 10-minute overtime, with the Irish looking somewhat stunned from the last-minute concession. The Irish defended a threatening corner kick well and held North
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Carolina off the board to enter the second overtime period tied at 1-1. Both teams generated shots on goal in the second half, but neither team could convert on its chances. The Irish were forced to settle for a draw. The draw pushes Notre Dame currently into a tie for the fifth spot in the ACC, and will await the news on who they will face in the ACC quarterfinals on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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confidence. “I think it’ll actually have a bigger impact than a lot of people expect,” Carlson said. “Not a lot of ACC schools were here at Pre-Nationals, so I think we have a bit of an advantage there. We definitely ran really well two weeks ago on this course, and gained a lot of confidence on a course for the first time all season, so we have a good feeling about this course and we’re really excited to come back here and run. We’ll see what we are — that’s kind of the theme for the team right now — we’re trying to get to another level, and we’re a good team, so we’ll see what happens on race day.” On the other side, the women’s squad finds themselves in a much more precarious position than last year, as the Irish will compete without two of their top three finishers from last year: now-graduated Danielle Aragon and junior Anna Rohrer. However, thanks to talented youth such as freshman Anna Sophia Keller as well as the potential for star junior Annie Heffernan to win another individual championship for the Irish, associate head coach Matt Sparks believes Notre Dame has a real shot at securing a
consecutive second-place finish at the ACC championships. “NC State is one of the top programs in the country, so they’re going to be tough to beat for that first spot,” Sparks said. “If you score it out a little bit, it looks very competitive between second and seventh place, and anybody in that mix can come out on the front end of that second place finish. If we run similar to how we’ve been running the last couple weeks and have one more persons step up … we’ll be walking off the course with a smile on our face]. “One person that’s critical is [senior] Jess Harris — who’s had great success on the track — we just need her to come to and do the same thing on the cross country course. Individually, one thing we’re excited about is Annie Heffernan. We’ve won this meet individually the past two years … and Annie should be right in the thick of things — she can run with anybody in the race.” Regardless of past postseason experience, both squads will find out what they are made of come Friday morning at the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park course. The men’s championship race will start off at 10:03 a.m. and the women’s at 11:03 a.m. Contact Joe Everett at jeveret4@nd.edu
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trenches for this one, as both Tomshack and Fisher senior captain Dan Ridzik have touted the quality of their respective linemen. The Fisher Green Wave and the Duncan Highlanders kick off Sunday at 1 p.m. at Ricci Family Fields. Contact Paris Shirley at pshirley@nd.edu
Dunne v. Knott By PETER BALTES Sports Writer
The seventh-seeded Dunne Sentinels (2-1) and the No. 10seed Knott Juggerknotts (1-2) are set to face each other in the first round of the interhall football playoffs. The stakes are getting high, and both teams know that a strong showing is paramount if they hope to avoid elimination. Dunne and Knott are no strangers to each other. When the Sentinels and Juggerknotts met in a regular season contest earlier this year, Dunne was able to pull away with a 10-7 victory. Both teams have ample information on the other’s playing styles, and will be looking to exploit any weaknesses they have found. Paid Advertisement
The Sentinels would initially appear to be the favorites in this matchup. Not only did they defeat Knott already this season, but finished with winning record and earned a higher seed than the Juggerknotts. Hugo Kostelni, Dunne’s sophomore captain, said he is proud of his team’s achievement so far and is pleased with the level of play the Sentinels exhibited in the first three weeks of interhall competition. “We had a great regular season,” Kostelni said. “We were undefeated going into the game against Siegfried [in Week 3]. We lost, but I don’t think the score really indicates how well we were doing as a team in that game. We’ve really come together as a team, and we’re playing some great football, which is all you can really ask for.” Dunne Hall is only in its second year of operation. To Kostelni, this game is more than a playoff. It is a chance to help solidify Dunne’s status as a part of the Notre Dame community and an opportunity to craft the hall’s emerging sense of identity. “For Dunne, the goals go way beyond the playoffs,” Kostelni said. “We’re the new dorm on the campus and we’re looking to build tradition. Football is part of that. That kind of excellence and that brotherhood of being on the football team is so important for
Dunne. Whether we win or lose in the playoffs, we’re still building that team and that tradition, and that’s what’s important.” Knott, while finishing as the tenth seed, has high hopes for moving on in the playoffs this fall. The Juggerknotts exhibited solid play throughout the regular season, and secured a significant 8-0 victory against Sorin in Week 3 to gain significant momentum entering the playoffs. Knott senior captain Carl Schiro said he believes that the Juggerknotts are in prime position to be successful. “I always thought it was kind of a work in progress,” Schiro said. “We should be hitting full stride by the playoffs, which is good. And that win [over Sorin] should definitely give us momentum going into this game.” Schiro said he feels there is a lot to learn from Knott’s previous meeting with the Sentinels. While they are a talented team, he said, Knott is in position to win the game if it can slow Dunne’s powerful rushing attack and keep the Sentinels’ defensive front in check. According to him, the game will be won or lost in the trenches. “[Dunne is] a solid team,” Schiro said. “They’ve got a really good running game, a really good front seven. We’re going to definitely be telling our linemen to get ready for a big challenge.
Sports We’re hoping to capitalize on key plays and win this time.” The game will kick off at 3:30 p.m. this Sunday at Ricci Family Fields. Contact Peter Baltes at pbaltes@nd.edu
St. Ed’s v. Alumni By JACK MURRAY Sports Writer
The regular season is now over, and for the No. 12-seeded St. Edward’s Gentlemen (1-2) and the No. 5 seed Alumni Dawgs (21), this week’s game holds more meaning than an average playoff matchup. After completing a semifinal run last year that left them one game short of playing in the stadium, this year has been all about making it back for another chance at the championship for the Gentlemen. The team’s mission and confidence was restated by St. Edward’s senior captain Alex Schelhorn, who has his team focused on getting back to the semifinals for a second year in a row. “Coming off our semifinals loss last year, we are hungry at a shot to play in the stadium this year,” Schelhorn said. “We feel Steds is the best 1-2 team on campus. We’ve dealt with a lot of injuries, but as our bruises heal we become a stronger team. A healthy Steds team is a scary sight for the rest of the league.” Led by dominate play on special teams by senior kicker and punter Brandon Ryan as well as arguably the best linebacker corps on campus, St. Edward’s has the ability to return to the semifinals by knocking off a stingy Alumni squad. Schelhorn said he isn’t looking past the ability and talent of Alumni to come away with the win. “Steds is most worried about freshman standout Sam Hunt,” Schelhorn said. “Hunt is usually a friend of Steds, but on Sunday he will be our enemy.” On the other side of the ball for Alumni, this game is all about taking the next step in returning to competing for championships. For senior Alumni captain Tom Hellios, this year’s playoffs are all about returning to the glory days and cementing the rebuild of the program. “Four years ago, the Dawgs lost
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in the stadium and since then have dealt with a couple rebuilding years working on recruiting and organization,” Hellios said. “Last year, Alumni made a return to the playoffs after finishing the regular season 2-1 with a loss in the first round. This year, Alumni has a strong group of seniors that have been working hard to try and make it back into Notre Dame Stadium.” Excited by another opportunity to play football, Hellios said he and the rest of the Alumni players are just looking forward to having one more game. “Playoffs are always an exciting time of the year, and the opportunity to play football beyond high school in itself is always a lot of fun,” Hellios said. “Really we’re just looking forward to another game with a bit higher stakes.” It has yet to be seen whether Alumni can fulfill its goal and return to its former glory, but with an offense and defense that is clicking on all cylinders, an Alumni victory on Sunday is a real possibility. Whether or not the two teams have different reasons for playing the game, it is quite certain that both are looking to build of successful seasons and make a run for the championship. The matchup will kickoff at 2:15 p.m. Sunday at Ricci Family Fields. Contact Jack Murray at jmurray@hcc-nd.edu
Keenan v. O’Neill By ELLIE OLMANSON Sports Writer
No. 13-seeded O’Neill (0-3) are looking to upset the fourth-seeded Keenan Knights (2-1) this Sunday during the first round of interhall football playoffs. Keenan’s junior captain Daniel Neuson said that coming off fall break, both teams will aim to use this time to focus their energy on advancing through playoffs and getting the eventual bid to the championship game in the stadium. “This week, we’re focusing on solidifying our core plays and formations,” Neuson said. “We’re really trying to take advantage of all of the free time we’ve had since our last game and use it to put in some new twists on our schemes.” Sophomore O’Neill captain Brendan Burke said his squad
been able to scout Keenan’s play and are focusing on “playing to their opponents weaknesses.” “We really are trying get our defense off the field and give our offense a chance to make plays this game,” Burke said. “Keenan has a good offense so we’re going to need to learn how to combat it.” Burke said only four of the 20 players on the Mobsters’ roster are upperclassmen. O’Neill will be looking to freshman quarterback Andrew Turzai and freshman running back Thomas Wine to lead the offense through Keenan’s defensive wall. The Keenan defense has only allow 14 points this season, all of them coming against No. 1 Stanford in the first game of the season. Neuson said the Knights will look to learn from their week one mistakes. “We’re happy to have gotten a high seed even though we had a misstep early on in the season with our loss to Stanford,” Neuson said. “Our defense let up no points to the other two teams we had, and, based on the way they seed teams, that proved crucial to us getting a favorable spot in the playoff bracket.” Though O’Neill went winless in the regular season, two of its three losses were within a possession. Burke said they learned a lot from the close losses. “In our 13-12 loss against Keough, it came down to a missed field goal with seconds to go on the clock,” Burke said. “Against Alumni, it was just a one-score game until they had a long touchdown in the fourth quarter.” Though Keenan has not scouted its opponent, Neuson recognized that this is not expected to be an easy game and the Knights will have to work to continue to the second round of playoffs. As far as recent history goes, Keenan has the edge. The Knights made it to the semi-finals last year and the championship two years ago. Neuson said that a championship has been the goal of Keenan since the season began. On the other side of the spectrum, O’Neill is coming off from a couple tough seasons. Burke said they are trying to bounce back by making a run in this year’s playoffs. “The attitude of interhall football has completely changed,” Burke said. “We’re really trying to have this be a focus of our dorm and establish a name for ourselves. Paid Advertisement
We really believe we can win this game. We have nothing to lose.” O’Neill takes on Keenan on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Ricci Family Fields. Contact Ellie Olmanson at eolmanso@nd.edu
Siegfried v. Sorin By JACK ZINSKY Sports Writer
The No. 3-seed Siegfried Ramblers (3-0) and the No. 14-seeded Sorin Otters (0-3) meet Sunday in the opening round of the interhall playoffs. In their previous clash, Siegfried narrowly edged Sorin 15-12 thanks to a furious second-half comeback. Siegfried boasts an undefeated record thanks to a stout defense and balanced offensive attack. A powerhouse team, the Ramblers are looking to make another deep playoff run. Senior captain Mark Cerutti emphasized a renewed sense of focus in his team’s preparation. “We are stressing intensity and energy,” Cerutti said. “We have to play with the right attitude and not over or underestimate our opponents.” A key to Siegfried’s success has been intelligent football up and down the roster. Cerutti said he was impressed with the Ramblers’ knowledge of the playbook and consistent situational awareness. “Overall, having a set game plan with everyone knowing their assignments from starters to subs has been the key,” Cerutti said. “We’ve been able to play a lot of guys because everyone knows what to do when they are called on.” Challenging Siegfried’s unblemished record is Sorin, a team which so far has been unable to win a game. The Otters nearly pulled off the upset against Siegfried though, and the squad aim to get over the hump this time. Sophomore captain Eric Requet said that Sorin must not let up if they can get an early lead. “We need to come out hot like we did last game and then stay focused and continue to put pressure on them,” Requet said. “They are a good team but we proved last game that if we play a clean game we will beat them.” Knocking off a team as good as Siegfried will take an extraordinary effort. Sorin knows this, and Requet said that his team has a
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plan to lean on the run to control the game. “In order to get our offense going this week, we need to dominate the run game and then connect on some big pass plays,” Requet said. “It worked last game, so we will keep a similar game plan this week.” Ramblers vs. Otters will kickoff at 3:30 pm at Ricci Family Fields. Contact Jack Zinksy at jzinsky@nd.edu
Dillon v. Zahm By HANNAH WOZNIAK Sports Writer
After posting an undefeated regular season record, secondseeded Dillion (3-0) is ready for its upcoming game against No. 15seed Zahm (0-3) on Sunday. Dillon junior captain David Chao said the Big Red has been preparing psychologically for the upcoming playoffs. “We’ve been doing a lot of chalk talk and mental preparation for the game and doing a few walk throughs, but it’s mostly mental stuff,” Chao said. “Most of our errors from the previous games have been mental ones, so we’ve been trying to iron those out as best we can.” Chao said the Big Red is excited to play another game and is looking forward to the start of playoffs and showing off their both their defensive and offensive prowess. “[The team loves] to run the ball between the tackles, especially behind seniors Jack Mitchell and Dylan Volanth on the left side,” Chao said. “They’re unstoppable.” “[We aim] to put a ton of pressure at the line of scrimmage with [their] defensive line and have the rest of the defense follow right behind those guys,” Chao said. “That’s been really really effective for [them] through to this point in time.” The team has been prepping for the game off the field as well. Chao said that the team has done some scouting, but did not need to make any radical adjustments to their usual game plan. “[Our] guys are posed to absolutely control the pace of the game on Sunday,” Chao said. Dillon takes on Zahm at 2:15 p.m. on Sunday at Ricci Family Fields. Contact Hannah Wozniak at hwozniak01@saintmarys.edu
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Teams hopeful for ND fails to overcome early ACC tourney goals in loss to Omaha By JOE EVERETT Sports Writer
Notre Dame will compete in the ACC championships for the fifth time in program history this Friday, although the men’s and women’s teams are competing under much different circumstances than last year. For the men’s team, the return of senior co-captain Kevin Pulliam from injury, in addition to the infusion of talented freshman and graduate student runners alike, have all contributed to a notably improved Irish squad, one year removed from season chock-full of growing pains, frustration and a 10th place finish at the ACC championships. Irish assistant coach Sean Carlson talked about the current progression of the men’s team, their strengths and how they can be successful at ACCs this year. “At Pre-Nationals, we ended up running as a group well — we had a 20 second [gap between our first and fifth runners] — we did a good job of running as a
team,” Carlson said. “One of the big keys will be to keep a really tight split between our 1-5 and 1-7. We’re a team right now that doesn’t have any low sticks — guys that are scoring really low at meets — but we have a really solid pack of guys … so I think our team looks pretty good. “Last year we finished tenth [at ACCs], and we’re significantly better last year, so it’d be cool to see a really bit improvement from the men’s team, and to see [a bit of the potential for next year].” The men’s squad will also enjoy the luxury of being familiar with the course, as the ACC championships are being hosted this year by the University of Louisville at the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park — the exact same course the Irish competed on two weeks ago at Pre-Nationals. That day, the men’s team finished second out of ACC schools and 15th overall, and so Carlson believes the team will enter the race with a great deal of
On Thursday night, the No. 8 Irish opened up their series against Nebraska–Omaha in Compton Ice Arena, and ultimately fell 6-4 after going down 5-1 to start the game. It was the first time since 2012 that the Irish (3-3-1) had played Omaha (3-1-1), as the two programs are former conference foes in the CCHA. The Mavericks got off to a hot start in the first period and opened up the scoring 15 seconds in on their first shift, as Mavericks senior forward David Pope had a shot in that went in off a defenseman’s shin pad in front. That goal set the tone for rest of the period, as the Irish played most of the opening frame in their own end. Just over five minutes in, Mavericks senior forward Jake Randolph beat Irish freshman goaltender Dylan St. Cyr between his arm and his chest protector on a puck
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Irish senior defenseman Jordan Gross skates during Notre Dame’s 6-4 loss to Omaha on Thursday at Compton Family Ice Arena.
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Last-second goal dashes Irish hopes of upset win The No. 24 Irish traveled to North Carolina on Thursday night to take on the fourth ranked UNC Tar Heels in their final ACC regular season match. North Carolina (12-2-2, 8-0-2 ACC) came into the match second in the ACC, and hasn’t lost a match since Sept. 7. Despite the tough opposition, the Irish (9-5-4, 5-3-2) played strong soccer throughout the entirety of the game. Notre Dame controlled possession in the first 45 minutes, and senior goalkeeper Lexi Nicholas showcased her experience by anchoring a stifling Irish back line. The Tar Heels found little room to work with offensively in the first half, and only managed four shots. The Irish looked to catch the Tar Heels on the break, attacking the defense with a series of runs and through ball attempts and playing fast, counter-attacking
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Irish sophomore forward Jennifer Westendorf moves the ball downfield during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Duke on Sept. 21.
While the Notre Dame varsity football team gears up for a playoff push, members of the No. 9 seed Duncan Highlanders (2-1) and No. 8 seed Fisher Green Wave (2-1) will welcome the opportunity for glory this Sunday as they open up the interhall football playoffs. Implications loom large as well this weekend as Duncan and Fisher are familiar foes. The two teams met before this season in the season opener, but due to a rain delay in the middle of the third quarter had to postpone the finish. In that contest, Fisher held the temporary lead over Duncan by a score of 12-7, but upon finishing the match a couple of weeks later, it was the Highlanders that shut out Fisher while adding a touchdown of their own in the fourth quarter to win 15-12. Duncan’s sophomore captain, Kyle Tomshack, trusts in his team’s familiarity with its opponent and
believes that the changes the Highlanders made in the weeks and games between their delayed matchup with Fisher were warranted in the come-from-behind victory. Tomshack also cited the team’s experience as an advantage that could spark a deep playoff run similar to last year’s. He spoke of the extensive upperclassmen leadership that was a byproduct of Duncan’s relative “newness” as a dorm when they were underclassmen. “[The upperclassmen players] really bonded together to put Duncan on the map,” Tomshack said. After making their way to the championship only to lose to Stanford in the previous year’s playoffs, this year’s Highlanders will not only benefit from the experience that run provided, but the desire to get back and accomplish what the team fell just short in doing last season. Pay attention to the war in the see INTERHALL PAGE 14