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London actors visit University classes Group performs ‘Measure for Measure,’ teaches students through Shakespeare at Notre Dame program By ALEXANDRA MUCK News Writer
It is not often that an accounting class might find an actor from London hosting a workshop, but Shakespeare at Notre Dame’s Actors from the London Stage (AFTLS) program allows for that. This week, the five actors in the fall 2017 company are at Notre Dame for the residency portion of the program. They will be teaching Monday to Thursday this week and performing “Measure for Measure” Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night at Notre Dame and Saturday at the Westville Correctional Facility. As part of the program, the actors will be visiting 15 classrooms
ranging from Irish history to theater to accounting. “It’s a pretty amazing thing to see them engage disciplines across the academic spectrum, and then they all come together for the performance of ‘Measure for Measure,’” Scott Jackson, the program director of Shakespeare at Notre Dame, said. Jackson said that for many of the actors, the teaching component of the program can help further their career. “It takes them away from the stage and puts them in the classroom, often for the first time,” he said. “… A lot of our actors go on in their careers to become lecturers. see ACTORS PAGE 4
Ally workshop explores language By STEPHANIE SNYDER News Writer
Saint Mary’s students, faculty and staff filled the Student Center conference rooms Tuesday for “Language Matters: An Ally Workshop.” The department of gender & women’s studies, the Student Diversity Board and the department of psychological sciences sponsored the event in order to educate allies about civil rights issues and LGBTQ communities. Associate professor of psychology Bettina Spencer said the workshop responded to an apparent need. “It grew out of a response for people wanting information,” Spencer said. “People wanted to have discussions on these topics but were nervous. This workshop tries to give people tools to have difficult discussions.” Jason Wilkinson, executive director of the LGBTQ Center in South Bend, and Darryl Heller, director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center, came together to speak on the issues. “The fact that we’re together in some areas would never happen,” Wilkinson said. “There are issues in every community.” “There’s homophobia in the
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black community, and there’s racism in the white gay community,” Heller said. “It’s about continuing to work and break down those barriers that keep us apart.” Wilkinson said he became passionate about language due to his upbringing in a Pentecostal Christian home. “My entire family was very into the Church,” he said. “It was preached very heavily that if you were a part of the LGBTQ community, you were going to hell.” Wilkinson said he always knew he was gay, but if he were to say anything to his family, he knew he would be disowned. This led him to become depressed and attempt to commit suicide three times. Wilkinson said he noticed when the Church talked about gays, it always talked about them in the context of males — never females. This led him to realize language — especially the careful selection of terms — is essential. “More letters get added to LGBTQ all the time,” he said. “That’s why our slogan at the LGBTQ Center is now ‘All are welcome.’ Even if you’re not a part of those letters, you are still welcome to come help out.” see WORKSHOP PAGE 3
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Five actors from London showcase their costumes. The group toured at universities across the country to share its insight with classes of all academic disciplines while also performing ‘Measure for Measure.’
Professor shares environmental practices By SARA SCHLECHT News Writer
Professor Chris Cobb admits he probably spends more time in Science Hall than most of his colleagues in the humanities department. The Saint Mary’s professor has served as both the English department chair and a professor of environmental studies. “What I use from teaching English when I am teaching Environmental Studies is primarily the teaching of observation of
detail … looking deeply at a text or looking deeply at, say, a patch of forest,” Cobb said. Detail, Cobb explained, is so very important in both of these contexts, despite how different the subjects might seem. Now in his 12th year at Saint Mary’s, Cobb said he is playing a different role this year as he is on sabbatical. “I have environmental projects and Shakespeare projects for my sabbatical … so far, I have been working mainly on the
environmental projects,” Cobb said. On campus, Cobb is working with the “Sustainability at Saint Mary’s” course, which is part of the Holy Cross Charism tricampus class. He is also working with a group seeking to establish a sustainable farm at the College. Off campus, Cobb is part of a group that is developing a network of environmental organizations for northern Indiana. see PRACTICES PAGE 4
Students dedicate fall break to funded research By NATALIE CASAL News Writer
During fall break, Notre Dame undergraduates will explore a wide range of research topics through funding from entities such as the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the College of Science and the Institute for Scholarship in the
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Liberal Arts (ISLA). The Nanovic Institute will send 11 students to 10 countries, including France, Spain, England, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland and the Netherlands, Christine Stump, student coordinator of the Nanovic Institute, said. Jeffrey Thibert, director of CUSE, said in an email that conducting research offers opportunities for
growth in more than just scholarly knowledge. “In addition to gaining experience that is relevant to a particular field of study, planning and implementing a research project teaches students how to be clearer writers (so they can produce a strong grant proposal), how to prepare a budget, how to adapt to unexpected
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challenges that inevitably arise in the pursuit of research and how to disseminate their findings in a way that has an impact on a field of study and, hopefully, on a community,” he said. While limited funding makes it impossible for Nanovic to award grants to every applicant, Stump said the institute wants to fund as many students as possible. “We are very much in the
business of wanting to support students …” she said. “We are here to cheer them on, and we want to empower students to do incredible things.” Stump said a strong research proposal incorporates three main components: a strong, feasible research question, a methodology structured to answer that question and a driving purpose. “We want to see what the fruits of the labor are,” she said. “What does the student propose to do with the learning?” Stump also said students can
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gain cultural insights from their time abroad. “Students come back with a new compassion, oftentimes a new appreciation, for those … who see the world differently,” she said. Kati Schuler, student programming coordinator of CUSE, said thus far, CUSE has awarded four grants for research over fall break, and the selection process will continue into the coming week. “The hardest part of reviewing grant applications is that there are more good projects than funding available” she said in an email. “We can therefore only fund very highquality proposals.” Senior Nicolle Ho will travel to Paris during fall break on a Nanovic grant to continue the work she did with the Institute Pasteur over the summer. She will continue writing computer programs that analyze data for a lab studying mycobacterium tuberculosis.
“I very much enjoy getting to mix my interest in math and modeling and telling stories with data with also using French,” she said. Ho said she has also examined tussock plants in the Arctic and deeply studied the presence of Vietnamese communities in France through grants from both ISLA and CUSE. “The first grant that I wrote was very difficult; the second and third and so forth became much easier,” she said. “I think you learn a lot from designing that methodology from the beginning. This is your problem. This is your vision. This is what you want to solve. How are you going to do that?” She said her research abroad has been a transformative experience. “I’ve been very much changed by the people I’ve met in France, and I’ve been very much changed by the people I’ve worked with here,” Ho said.
Senior Emily Gust will travel to London and Edinburgh during fall break in order to study the origins of the unsuccessful 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. She spent the spring semester in London as part of the Kennedy Scholars program, which is designed to help students refine research topics for their senior theses. Gust said she is looking forward to the greater freedom that comes with delving into her independent research, but is also aware of the planning it requires, compared to the more structured Kennedy Scholars program. “I think it’s a really good way to learn how to structure your time and move forward with a goal by making plans for yourself rather than having a curriculum making the plans for you,” she said.
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Wilkinson said. “However, now people who identify as this don’t consider themselves either male or female, or they identify as both.” However, Wilkinson warned not to ask people about their preferred pronouns. “When you ask someone about their preference, you’re disregarding who they are,” he said. “It’s like if you’re talking to a transgender person and you’re saying, ‘I’m calling you she, but I really could call you he.’ Wilkinson said another language issue involves the use of terms like “homosexual.” Wilkinson said although it is commonly used, this term is actually quite offensive in the LGBTQ community. “Homosexual is such a clinical term,” he said. “It makes gay people feel unwelcome.” Heller said “homosexual” is a dog whistle term — a coded term that is targeted toward a specific audience. He compared this word to the use of the term “terrorist.” “When you hear the word ‘terrorist,’ for most people, the first thing that comes to mind is Muslim or Middle Easterners,” Heller said. “Instead of saying, ‘I don’t like terrorists,’ people find themselves saying, ‘I don’t like Muslims.’” There is a current debate on whether the tragedy in Las Vegas was an act of terrorism, Heller said — because the shooter was not associated with any group, some say it was not terrorism. However, Heller said when a similar situation happened in another location and the man was a Muslim, it was immediately labeled an act of terrorism, even though he was not associated with any groups except the U.S. Army. “The word is made to sound neutral, but there’s a particular audience,” he said. “We have to be really careful about how we think about it and how we use terms like that. Context really does matter.” Another dog whistle phrase is “Black Lives Matter,” he said. Heller was a co-founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in South Bend, launched in response to Ferguson. “People associate the term with radical, angry, black people,”
Heller said. “However, Black Lives Matter was founded by three black queer women. The term is meant to encompass the full intersectionality of the black community. It’s pro-marginalized. “The thought of Black Lives Matter is that when black women are free, everybody is free. When people respond to Black Lives Matter, they’re saying all lives matter. If you fight for freedom of black lives, you’re fighting for the freedom of white lives.” Heller also discussed Donald Trump’s remarks about football players who chose to kneel during the national anthem. Trump has said kneeling during the anthem was a “total disrespect of our heritage” and “a total disrespect of everything that we stand for.” “Who is the ‘our’ and who is the ‘we?’” Heller asked. “Do we have a homogenous perspective on that? If the quote does exclude people, who is excluded?” The word “diversity” can also be problematic, Wilkinson said. “I hate the word ‘diversity’ — we’ve lost what diversity is supposed to be,” he said. “When we’re inclusive, we’re not discounting someone. It’s not just about acceptance, there’s a place for their voice to be heard.” In order to be an ally, people should use their words carefully and respectfully correct others, Wilkinson said. “I’ve known people who have moved from cities because they feel unsafe because of what another person has said,” he said. “It may not have anything to do with me or how I feel, but I say something because maybe someone else is wishing they could say something.” Senior Taylor Thomas said she attended the workshop because she knows she is transphobic. “My goal here was to work on tendencies I have to work on,” Thomas said. “The only way to do that is to come here and understand the community. I want to force myself into uncomfortable situations so I can grow as a person.”
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Ideally, these organizations would enable people who are concerned about the environment to work proactively for better environmental policies in the region, Cobb said. Around campus, Cobb is known for his environmentally-friendly practices, including riding his bike to campus. In fact, Cobb said, he doesn’t drive at all, biking where he can, then choosing to take public transportation and cabs when necessary. Cobb said he has been working on implementing sustainable practices into his daily life for about 15 years. These changes have come about gradually, Cobb said, just as his interest in environmental issues developed over time. “I try to eat local, eat organic and keep my meat consumption low,” Cobb said. In addition to these dietary choices, Cobb said he has made his home greener, using various methods to reduce electricity use. His home includes a high-efficiency furnace instead of a traditional Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system for heating and cooling. It also includes solar panels that produce nearly as much electricity as his home uses and a water heating pump that utilizes heat transfer rather than electricity. Cobb said he also does his yard work with hand tools instead of ones powered by gasoline or electricity. Students should care about their impact on the environment for a number of reasons, Cobb said. “It’s about the future of the world,” he said. “The conditions that enable our civilization and the ecosystems of the planet on which our civilization depends and that allow it to f lourish are changing. That change is a violently disruptive process … these are catastrophic events.” This summer’s three devastating hurricanes are among the more noticeable environmental catastrophes, bringing to light questions about what human actions can do to the natural world, Cobb said. If something isn’t done about environmental practices, Cobb said, these natural disasters could become the new normal. He said this concern drives his efforts to live in a way that conserves energy and resources. Cobb said he would also encourage others to implement these practices into their lives. “It’s basic care for the world around us and for us having a livable future to do something about these things,” Cobb said.
For a lot of these guys it constitutes not a career shift, but definitely a career complement.” Professors enjoy having the actors run the workshops for a variety of reasons, Jackson said and the workshops typically fill about 45 minutes after he emails professors to tell them about the opportunity. John Duffy, associate professor of English who teaches a college seminar titled “Great Speeches,” said he has brought the actors into his classroom four times. “They are really exceptional at helping students realize the performative nature of speech,” he said. “I’m good at the academic stuff, the rhetorical theory and so forth, but the actors are brilliant at getting the students to try new things and break down their inhibitions.” Ram Ramanan, who
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teaches graduate classes in Mendoza, has also been hosting workshops in his classroom with an actor for several years and said he sees it as an opportunity to develop the professionalism and presentation skills of his students. “Our students have to go make presentations in their careers, some of which are fairly complicated financial and economic transactions, and I thought if they could read some Shakespeare, which is fairly complicated language, and learn to deconstruct it from the professionals, that would help them in their presentation skills,” he said. In addition to teaching classes, the five-person cast will perform “Measure for Measure,” which includes 20 characters. The cast members said they have enjoyed the experience of bringing the play to life. “The more we tear it apart, the more we perform it and explore it as a company, and
the more we work on it with students at universities … [the more we realize] it’s a fascinating play with so many powerful themes,” cast member Ben Eagle said. With AFTLS, the cast must also cover roles outside of traditional acting. “We don’t have a director, we get to create from scratch, and we have responsibilities that I think we as actors tend to overlook, like costumes we’re responsible for, getting there on time, travel, media, etc., lighting,” cast member Wela Mbusi said. “We get to sort of understand the holistic thing of creating a piece of work.” The program includes performances at different universities including the University of Texas and DePauw University. Jackson said this travel experience is unique because it takes them to cities the actors might not visit otherwise. To select the cast, Jackson said AFTLS uses a traditional casting process but that
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special attention is paid to the personalities of the actors. “We call it the alchemy of the five,” he said. “You’ve got to make sure these five people will not only work really well together on stage but are they going to travel well together? Are they going to teach well?” Dominic Gerrard, a member of the cast, said the audition process was part of the reason he joined AFTLS. “The audition process was so enjoyable and so fun, so that was a good measure of what the actual job would be like,” he said. After the cast was finalized in mid-June, the company met once in July to get to know each other and do a read through. They began full rehearsals in August, Jackson said. “I think right up until the point we finish, it will be a really interesting journey,” Gerrard said. Contact Alexandra Muck at amuck@nd.edu
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Looking on the ‘Brightside’ of things Adam Ramos Scene Editor
Throughout early to mid-middle school, smackdab in the prime of my awk ward phase, I was what a mid-2000s aficionado may refer to as an emo kid. No, I never dyed my hair, painted my finger nails or self-harmed in any way. But despite my aesthetic distance from the emo scene, I still undeniably found some much needed refuge in the now-defunct and cringe-worthy ethos of the movement (if you can even call it that.) At the time, emo as a genre of music was moving away from the underground acts that helped create it, making way for a more pop-oriented and approachable sound. Bands like Fall Out Boy, A ll Time Low and We the Kings, w ith their catchy pop-punk hooks and emotionally saturated ly rics, gave emo a new mass appeal. Yet the culture behind the music was mostly static, characterized by skinny jeans, long bangs, and above all else, teen angst. Looking back, my attachment to the emo scene makes a lot of sense — I was, and still am, a sensitive (angst-y?), music lover. The new found accessibilit y of the genre was inv iting and its philosophy hit just the right emotional chord for an impassionate, albeit naive, middle schooler. Emo was something I could ow n, and it quick ly became part of my identit y for a brief period. Fortunately, like most misguided adolescent fads, the emo wave passed me by probably sometime before high school. My music tastes, along w ith my not-so-awk ward-any more body, grew. My hunger for new and diverse music also began to develop around this time, and now as a college senior and amateur music w riter, I can’t even really delineate my musical tastes into genres. Still, I never forgot emo. My foray into the genre helped shape the way I approach music fandom, and even today I often catch myself wanting to head bang upon hearing that mid-2000s pop-punk sound. However, there is one song from the era in particular that almost never has this effect on me: The Killer’s 2004 smash hit “Mr. Brightside.” W hile more electronic than many of its song peers and maybe not even technically emo, “Mr. Brightside” is a hallmark of the emo era. The Killer’s instantly iconic track is undeniably catchy, but it’s inescapable persistence shakes me at my core. The song should function as a periodic throwback and yet there is a bar in South Bend that shall remain nameless that plays the track ever y single night w ithout fail. Ever y time that saccharine chord progression rears its head, seemly ever y friend group reacts as if the bar is “like totally play ing our song.” And it bugs me. Well it, used to bug me. Hearing “Mr. Brightside” in a bar always felt like a strange appropriation of my emo past. As if the all the excited listeners neglected the emotional depth required to truly appreciate a song of that nature. But now I’m looking on the bright side. I am coming out of my cage of condescension and believe me, I am doing just fine. Grow ing up is about learning from the past, not festering in it. Hav ing a histor y w ith emo may make hearing certain songs today a little strange, but that’s just the price I pay. Contact Adam Ramos at aramos6@nd.edu. The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Hedge fund or mustard seed Devon Chenelle The Gadfly
Much of the last half-centur y of Notre Dame’s institutional policy might be described as attempts to make us more similar to the secular powerhouses we so desperately w ish to be recognized by as a peer. A lthough these efforts have met w ith mixed success, I have found a solution. Notre Dame ought join one of academia’s hottest trends: the replacement of racist mascots. We already have available for denunciation an explicitly racial mascot insultingly stereot y pical in both attire and comportment, summoning up ugly old prejudices about the pugnacit y and intemperance of the lovely and dignified Celtic people. For our new mascot, I suggest the dragon Smaug, desolator of Erebor, as a menacing and appropriate option. Like Smaug, the Universit y possesses a massive gold hoard that it seeks to enjoy and expand seemingly only for its ow n sake, sharing its wealth rarely and begrudgingly. In this way, at least, Notre Dame is already similar to mainstream research universities, which are, in effect, gigantic hedge funds. Notre Dame holds, per its latest annual report, assets worth a jaw-dropping $10,410,000,000, the 12th largest of all university endowments. This sum largely grows itself for no apparent reason, as the University spent a trif ling 3.29 percent of the endowment last year, while tuition continues its steady march upwards. Perhaps our theologians have discovered that a camel’s passage through the eye of a needle is facilitated by the application of sufficient lucre. The Notre Dame investment website announces “we celebrate a distinctively Catholic mission,” and it’s Approach page indicates its “adherence to Catholic Social Teaching.” Can this Universit y ex ist as a profoundly and essentially Christian institution, while also acting as massive agent of capitalism? I’m dubious. Christianit y and capitalism co-ex ist, not in harmony, but in profound discomfort w ith each other. The notion that the road to the Kingdom of Heaven is paved w ith gold is a fundamental error I might expect of some back water televangelist, not from one of the Church’s premier intellectual institutions. Let’s see what Christ had to say about the accumulation and retention of wealth. In Matthew 6:24, Christ is clear that “you cannot ser ve both God and money,” because “either he w ill hate the one and love the other.” In Matthew 10 :23-25, He states “how hard it w ill be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God.” Explicitly problematic is Luke 12:13-21, where Christ, warning his disciples
“life does not consist in an abundance of possessions,” narrates the parable of the foolish rich man, chastised by God as a “fool” because he “thought to himself I w ill tear dow n my barns and build bigger ones, and there I w ill store my surplus grain.” Most pressing is the episode w ith the moneychangers in the Temple, where the sight of commercial activ it y in the House of God incites the prince of peace to v iolence, overturning tables and even “making a whip of cords” to drive out the merchants. Catholic Social Teaching is enamored w ith the preferential option for the poor, a notion w ith which the accumulation of massive financial assets in an institution that over whelmingly ser ves the wealthy sits uneasily. Catholic Canon Law itself states “the Christian faithful are also obliged to promote social justice and, mindful of the precept of the Lord, to assist the poor.” It’s almost unthinkable what the Notre Dame endow ment could do to allev iate the suffering of the poor and the dow ntrodden. In South Bend alone, the fabulous wealth and power of this Christian universit y ex ists alongside terrible povert y and deprivation, and given St. Thomas Aquinas’ dictum that “charit y is the love of God,” it seems Notre Dame is compelled to contribute more to its impoverished neighbors. Furthermore, for a Christian riches are not a blessing but a potential trap. As G.K. Chesterton w rote in Orthodox y, “there is one thing that Christ and all the Christian saints have said w ith a sort of savage monotony. They have said simply that to be rich is to be in peculiar danger of moral w reck.” Notre Dame must choose whether to embrace the pursuit of an ever-greater endow ment, impressive to the great secular institutions of learning, or to earnestly embrace the Christian call to charit y and give away more of the endow ment. In my heart, I have confidence in the strength of the conv ictions this Universit y and its leadership hold for the truth and importance of Christian doctrine, embodied across campus in so many ways. Without a doubt, I owe the greater part of the thanks for the salvation of my ow n soul to the teachings imparted by Our Lady’s Universit y. I can only hope that the Universit y w ill do the right thing, and begin pursuing w ith its endow ment the social justice that Catholic Social Teaching demands. Devon Chenelle is a senior, formerly of Keough Hall. Returning to campus after seven months abroad, Devon is a history major with minors in Italian and philosophy. He can be reached at dchenell@nd.edu — “On resiste a l’invasion des armees; on ne resiste pas a l’invasion des idees The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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October is earned Patrick McKelvey In Moderation
This week marks the beginning of the 2017 MLB postseason, and if it’s anything like the regular season, we’re in for some amazing baseball. For just the sixth time in the over 100-year history of the MLB, three teams had a 100-win season — the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Houston Astros and the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland also managed to put together a 22-game win streak, something that has never been done before in American League history. Yankee right fielder Aaron Judge hit 52 home runs in his rookie season, a new MLB record. But these accomplishments mean little come October. There’s something very different about the postseason. Game models and systems that worked all season can become completely obsolete. Save for home field advantage, a team’s regular season performance doesn’t matter when the playoffs start. The 10 teams lucky enough to make it in start with a clean slate, a blank record that will soon be filled with stories of October glories and, for some, failures. The MLB is using the slogan “October is Earned” in advertising the postseason this year — and it couldn’t be more true. There are no f lukes in baseball. You can’t sneak into the playoffs. It’s
not like hockey or basketball where over half the league makes it. And it’s not like football where 16 games decide who will move on to the playoffs. No, the baseball season is long — 162 games long. It stretches from the beginning of spring to the beginning of autumn, from rainy days in April through sweltering games in August to chilly September nights. If a team makes it through this long season, if they can beat their division and obtain a spot in the postseason, it’s because they earned it. It’s because they proved themselves over the course of 162 games, proved that they have what it takes to play in October I’ve been a baseball fan my whole life, but I didn’t get to go to my first playoff game until last year. It was Game 2 of the NLDS, the Chicago Cubs versus the San Francisco Giants at Wrigley Field. The atmosphere was absolutely incredible. There were 35,000 fanatics standing on their feet for the entire game, shouting for the Cubs and hoping for the chance to win their first World Series since 1908. Every one of us in attendance hung on edge, waiting for every pitch. I’m about the farthest thing from a Cubs fan, but even I found it hard to not sing along to “Go Cubs Go.” If you’re not a baseball fan, if you think it’s too boring or too complicated to follow, I’m going to ask you to give it one more chance this October. I’ll be the first to admit that regular season can at
times be a little tedious (I sometimes struggle to sit through a game in May, too). But there’s something special about the postseason. The players, the managers and the fans bring an energy and an enthusiasm that elevates the stakes of the game and makes into a completely different experience. The Rockies, the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, the Cubs, the Nationals, the Red Sox, the Astros, the Indians, the Twins, and the Yankees have won their spots in the postseason. They toiled through a six-month long, 162-game season to get to this point. They all had one goal in mind, they all sought to arrive at the same place — October. Now, they’ll all compete for an even more exclusive prize of baseball, the World Series. Only one of them can win, and something tells me it’s not going to be my Yankees, but I can’t wait to watch it all unfold. October is earned, and whatever happens this postseason, these teams more than earned it. Patrick McKelvey splits his time between being a college sophomore and a grumpy old man. A New Jersey native and American studies major, he is interested in a legal career after graduating Notre Dame. If you can’t find him at the movies, he can be reached for comment at pmckelve@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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A dare to come to Lila Rose Hello Notre Dame communit y. I have a dare for you. This week is Respect Life Week on campus, part of the nationw ide Respect Life Month of October. The point of the week is to highlight all the various ways how this Notre Dame communit y can come together and find common ground on meeting each other in love, and respecting the dignit y of all people. Thursday evening w ill be the keystone event of the week, when Lila Rose comes to v isit campus and give a lecture on the life issue. If you don’t know, Lila Rose is one of the brightest young pro-life activ ists in the countr y. At only 29 years old, she is the president and founder of Live Action, the famed non-profit that is responsible for the controversial undercover Planned Parenthood v ideos that have been coming out since 2011. Lila has been on numerous media stations and talk shows advocating for life and is arguably the most articulate and passionate defender of the cause in the nation. If you think you’re pro-choice, I dare you to come here Lila’s talk. I offer this dare not to be controversial or hard-edged, but because I want you to ask yourself the hardest questions
possible about what you believe, because other w ise you don’t really have a solid or grounded belief. As a PLS major, I have to do this all the time; questioning myself and others is what I live for. Hearing the hardest possible arguments from (what you think is) the other side is the best way to understand what you yourself truly believe and to find the truth. As a passionate prolifer, I offer Lila Rose as the best spokeswoman for my side. She is firm and impassioned, young and energetic, but thoughtful and gentle. She responds w ith love and positiv it y, looking to fight for the woman and for the child. If you think you’re pro-choice, I’m not asking you to come to change your mind (though of course I’d always welcome that). I am asking you to give Lila Rose, and other pro-life millennials, the chance to ask you how deeply your beliefs go. If you’re pro-woman and pro-feminism, I think you w ill find that you agree w ith Lila. One of her main talking points revolves around “fighting for them both: woman and child.” As a young woman herself, she understands the woman’s pointof-v iew as well as anyone. If you’re in favor of fighting povert y by directing government aid to young pregnant women, I think you’ll agree w ith
Lila. She’ll show you how Planned Parenthood is nowhere near the best option for women or for federal spending. If you’re in favor of racial justice, I think you’ll agree w ith Lila. Part of her activ ism has been devoted to her project fighting racism in reproductive medical ethics. I’m pro-woman, pro-government-aid-to-women, and pro-racial justice. I dare you to come to Lila Rose, and see if you really, truly, honestly do disagree w ith her and w ith me. This appeal is all-inclusive: pro-choice Catholics, pro-choice agnostics, the “personally pro-life but who am I to enforce my v iew on others” t y pe, the unsure and undecided people in the middle, Hillar y voters, Bernie lovers, and social justice warriors. To all of you I offer a friendly challenge — come to Notre Dame Right to Life’s lecture w ith Lila Rose (this Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Librar y), and see that you just might walk away w ith an oh-so-slightly different perspective. I dare you. You won’t. John Paul Ferguson sophomore Oct. 3
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Being responsible and living up to your promises will be essential. Show discipline and be willing to follow through until you reach your goal. Change can be good, but only if you are fully prepared and have taken care of any protocol or regulations necessary to move forward. Emotional matters concerning health, family or institutions will require honesty. Your numbers are 6, 10, 22, 26, 31, 37, 48. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let temptation lead you astray. You need to stay focused on what’s important and take care of your responsibilities before you venture in another direction. Adapt to what’s happening rather than implementing more changes. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Look out for those less fortunate than you. Help children, seniors and the causes that you feel passionately about. Your contribution will be admired and give you the clout you need to call in support and favors. Romance is highlighted. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your responsibilities will limit what you can do to help others. A partnership will be difficult to deal with if you aren’t willing to make a commitment or promise. Change can be exciting, but impulsive decisions can lead to disappointment. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Look for something or someone that you find inspirational. Surrounding yourself with positive energy and love will help you create a space that keeps you calm and soothes your soul. Love and romance will enhance your life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do your own fact-checking. Someone will lead you astray if you rely on secondhand information. Altering the way you live will give you more maneuverability to follow through with your plans. Don’t let emotions lead to mistakes. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Emotional matters will escalate if you or someone you care about hasn’t been honest or straightforward regarding feelings, needs and intentions. Look for creative solutions that will support yourself and others. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take care of business before you move on to more enjoyable pastimes. Use your intelligence to keep the peace while convincing others to see things your way. A personal change will provide you with an opportunity to improve your living arrangements. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Look for unique ways to make your environment more comforting and inspirational. Surround yourself with objects and individuals that motivate you to carry on until you reach your goal. Physical improvements are encouraged and romance is highlighted. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotional mix-ups will lead to uncertainty if you aren’t clear about your intentions or don’t live up to your promises. Try to be as precise and detailed as possible to avoid confrontation. Take better care of your health. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will have to be creative when it comes to negotiations, investing and legal matters. Consider the type of incentive you can offer in order to get what you want and not go over budget. Drive a hard bargain. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t be fooled by insincere gestures of friendliness. Someone will take advantage of you if you don’t speak up and set boundaries. Discipline and thoroughness will help you achieve the goals you set and the success you deserve. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Demands will be made, and it’s up to you to limit anyone who is being too aggressive. Only offer to do what you can handle. Take care of yourself and your loved ones first and foremost. Physical improvements will lead to compliments. Birthday Baby: You are original, intuitive and mysterious. You are energetic and ambitious.
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Hossa’s health should be focus Michael Ivey Sports Writer
On Tuesday, it was reported that the Chicago Blackhawks will be allowed to place right winger Marian Hossa on the long-term injured reserve list (LTIR) for the entire 2017-18 NHL season. This means that Hossa’s salary cap hit of $5.275 million won’t count towards the Blackhawks’ salary cap list. In short, now the Hawks will have around $5.275 million more in cap space to add players whose contracts fit below that number. This ends a long summer of speculation that the NHL wouldn’t allow the Blackhawks to do this, given the convenience of Hossa’s possible career-ending skin condition worsening and the Hawks’ current cap situation, in which they have little money to add players. If none of you are following what I’m saying, let’s rewind and start from the beginning. Back on June 21, it was announced that Blackhawks right winger and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Marian Hossa will miss the upcoming 2017-18 NHL season because of a progressive skin disorder that he has been dealing with the last few seasons. The side effects from the medication he has been taking to combat the disorder have progressed to pain severe enough that Hossa and the team decided he needed to take a year off (and possibly longer) to receive treatment. The news was shocking in the hockey world because of the randomness and severity of Hossa’s skin disorder. And to some NHL executives and media personalities, it felt more than a little fishy. So fishy, it turns out, that some NHL executives actually complained to the league that the Hawks were trying to circumvent the cap and place the aging Hossa on the LTIR list to free up cap space to sign younger and more effective players. Hossa, 38, has four years left on his current 12-year, $63 million contract he signed with the Blackhawks back in 2009. The contract was signed during a time when many teams signed players to long-term contracts like this one as a way to circumvent the NHL’s salary cap system. By signing a player to a contract like this, teams can keep the player for a long period of time and not have that players yearly cap number, or average annual value, to be too high. There was nothing about this that was against the rules until the 2012 NHL Lockout. To end the lockout, a new collective bargaining agreement was
agreed upon between the owners and players. Part of the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was to limit the term of contracts to a maximum of eight years and include penalties against teams if a player retires before their long term contract expires by having that players cap hit count against the team’s overall cap, even though they no longer play for the team. Teams have found a way to avoid these penalties by placing players that fit this description on the LTIR list, where a player’s cap hit doesn’t count against the teams overall cap. Right now, NHL teams were worried the Hawks were going to do something like this to try and circumvent the cap by exaggerating the severity of Hossa’s condition and putting his contract off the books to add younger players to help them compete for another Stanley Cup. These teams complained to the NHL, and the NHL conducted their own medical review of Hossa, and that review revealed that Hossa’s condition was as bad as the Hawks reported and Hossa cannot play this season. The NHL needs to fix these confusing rules about cap penalties and the status of injured and inactive players by getting rid of these ridiculous cap recapture punishments altogether. But in the meantime, people should care about Hossa’s actual health more than the status of his contract. These rules have created an environment where all people have talked about since his diagnosis is: “How is this going to affect the Hawks?” The question should be: “How is this going to affect Hossa and his everyday life?” This is a future first ballot Hall of Famer who has scored 1,134 career points in 1,309 career games and has improved whichever team he has played for. He has also earned a great reputation off the ice and is known as one of the most respected players in the league. Even with his rise in age, Hossa not playing will hurt the Blackhawks more than help them. His fore-checking and back-checking abilities, along with his powerful shot, aren’t things many other players can imitate. He’s had an outstanding career, and it doesn’t deserve to end like this. Our thoughts should be on his well-being, not his contract. Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Irish sophomore Guillermo Cabrera returns a forehand during Notre Dame’s 7-0 victory over Boston College on Feb. 11 at Eck Tennis Pavilion. Cabrera won his singles match against the Eagles 6-2, 6-1.
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crew that went down there,” Sachire said. “They did OK, it wasn’t great in terms of the results. It was Guillermo Cabrera, Matt Gamble and Grayson Broadus, and I think all three guys played OK. They played fine. “Matt had a good win, Guillermo had a good win, but in a tournament like that, you love to see your guys win multiple matches and that didn’t happen, so from a result perspective it wasn’t the best, but I think the level of play that they played at was good and they can certainly build on it here the rest of the fall season.” Sachire said a notable moment during the weekend was when Gamble won his match in a come from behind fashion in the third and deciding set. “I think a huge thing for Matt was he was playing a match on Sunday against a good player from the University of Florida, and he was down in the third set,” Sachire said. “They split the first two sets and he was losing in the third, and he won the last four games of the match to close it out and really stepped up and played aggressive tennis and really took it from his opponent and that is always a good sign. When it is the heat of the moment and the biggest part of
the match and the result is on the line, to be able to step up and play confident tennis, go for your shots, be the aggressor on the court and take it from the guy and that is what he did. So that was a very positive thing to do against a very good player and something that Matt can take some confidence from and build on during the rest of the fall season here.” Sachire said he will be working with his team to improve their overall consistency and a few individual facets of their game. “We play again this coming weekend and all of our team will be playing,” Sachire said. “The practices have been pretty good and pretty intense. I think what we want is consistency and performance from our guys. We have a relatively young team and I think that is going to come with the territory a little bit where guys are a little up and down in terms of the level they are playing at on a daily basis, and that is ultimately what we want our guys to be striving for. When they are locked in and focused and playing their best tennis, they are really good. But it sometimes fluctuates a little up and down. So consistency in the way we go about things and consistency with our day-to-day mentality is what we want, and if that is good throughout the entire weekend coming up here, our results are going to be pretty good. Again, that is
what we are emphasizing to the guys and hopefully they can perform on a consistently high level this upcoming weekend.” The entire Irish team will be in action this weekend as they host the Bobby Bayliss Invitational Tournament at the Eck Tennis Pavilion, which begins Friday. Sachire said his team is excited to host a tournament that features some quality competition. “It’s a great thing to have quality opponents come in to Notre Dame to play us here,” Sachire said. “We are excited about hosting it. We are going to prepare like we would for any other fall tournament. This week will be to determine how specific we are getting with our games. I think today and tomorrow will be more for skill development and trying to work on specific aspects of each guys individual game, and as the week goes on, on Wednesday and Thursday we will do a little more competing to try and put it all together, and then peeking by Friday, Saturday and Sunday when the matches start. That is a pretty typical progression I think the coaches make leading up to events. But it is definitely special that we are hosting it here, we are excited about it and it should be a really good event.” Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu
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told me. I believe him. I have no reason not to believe him based upon my relationship with him over the last three years. “ … He wants to play. He’s a competitor. We’ve seen how competitive the young man is. We’ll examine all of those possibilities.”
Red zone After another perfect outing in the red zone against the RedHawks (2-3, 1-0 MAAC), the Irish (4-1) are one of six programs to have played five games with a red zone conversion percentage of 1.000, as Notre Dame are now 22-of-22 with 20 touchdowns scored. “I think it has a lot to do with the running of the football and then what we’re setting up off of the run, more so than trying to take shots on first down in the end zone,” Kelly said on his team’s success. “We’re staying ahead of the chains down there. We’re leveraging our calls down there through the run game is the best way that I would put it to you, and that leveraging is allowing us to do other things other than trying to attack the front pylon, the back pylon and the back of the end line.”
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Hubbard. For the remainder of the half, the Irish were unable to put a point on the board. Senior forward Jon Gallagher received a pass near the box, dribbled around White and put the ball into the net, but he was called offsides. As a result, Northwestern walked into the locker room with a 1-0 lead. “Last year, we lost 2-1, and we dominated the game,” Irish head coach Bobby Clark said. “A year before, we dominated the game and tied 1-1. It was definitely a strange game. One thing you can’t do against them is concede a goal, because then they just hang on. And that’s what we did, it just came out of nothing. We played well in the first half. We were playing into the wind, playing really good soccer and the game was in their half. Then, they just get a goal out of nowhere and you’re 1-0 down.” Coming out to redeem themselves during the second half, the Irish battled the Wildcats, as Northwestern put eight additional fouls on the board en route to a total of 11 for the day. Notre Dame only added two more fouls for a total of 3. Northwestern had a dangerous shot that sailed just over the crossbar, putting pressure on Notre Dame, but the remainder of the possession was in the Wildcats’ half, as the
surrounding the national anthem, the NFL and President Donald Trump, Kelly said the Irish have no plans to protest the anthem and would need to have a conversation together about a team response if the topic ever came up. “We’re in a college environment, a college setting and we want our young men to be free thinkers and have the ability to voice their opinions,” Kelly said. “That’s what college is about. But we’re in a team structure, as well, and so we have to be able to get together — if we had that current situation that they have in the NFL, which we currently don’t and we’d have to have a conversation about how we would move forward. “As a football coach who’s working in a team, you know, not with individuals, we would obviously prefer to do something if we were to do something as a team and I think that that’s the difficult part when we get into team structure. “All the other stuff is really, for me — becomes an issue of the flag and politics, and I really have had very little time to delve into all of those issues. If I had to, I probably would sit down, but in talking to my leadership group, it’s not something that we’ve had to sit down and discuss.”
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Irish continued to press their defense. “I gave them the old ‘festina lente,’ hurry slowly,” Clark said. “That’s the old Latin proverb. I told them, ‘You got to hurry, but you have to keep composure.’ We didn’t get rattled. We showed positive body language throughout. We didn’t get frustrated, and we had to be persistent.” After a sequence of corners, Irish junior midfielder Sean MacLeod delivered a cross back into the box, and junior defender Felicien Dumas headed the ball right into the net near the left post to bring the score to 1-1. For the rest of the play in regulation, Gallagher had a breakaway towards the goal but was tripped up by sophomore Wildcat defender Andrew McLeod, who was yellow carded. Entering into overtime, Notre Dame’s persistence was rewarded with a goal in the 99th minute by Gallagher. “They all stayed very positive,” Clark said. “You can’t feel down on your luck. They are a difficult team to play, but if you lose, even tie, from a [Rating Percentage Index] viewpoint, it wouldn’t have been a good one. It will be a completely different game against Clemson.” The Irish will play Clemson in an ACC conference match Friday at Historic Riggs Field. Contact Meagan Bens at mbens@nd.edu
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ND bests Northwestern with Gallagher’s late goal
Kelly talks Wimbush injury
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By TOBIAS HOONHOUT
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Notre Dame battled out a 2-1 win in overtime against Northwestern on Tuesday night at Alumni Stadium. Playing their second Big Ten opponent of the season, the Irish (7-2-1, 2-1-1 ACC) possessed the ball the majority of the game, but the Wildcats (2-9-0, 0-5-0 Big Ten) made all their chances count. At the beginning of the first half, junior midfielder Thomas Ueland had a promising shot from the center of the box, but Wildcats junior goalie Robbie White made the save. Shortly after, senior forward Jeff Farina took a chance near the six-yard box that was deflected out of bounds. Despite keeping the ball in Northwestern’s half, freshman Wildcat midfielder Tommy Katsiyiannis made a left-footed shot 18 yards out that snuck past graduate student keeper Chris
On Tuesday, Irish head coach Brian Kelly announced that junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush was in a walking boot due to foot soreness suffered during Notre Dame’s 52-17 win over Miami (OH) this past weekend. “I think we’ll take it day-today right now,” Kelly said of the injury. “We had an MRI and an X-ray both came back clean, no structural damage, no ligament damage. We just want to be really cautious with him, and we’ll begin the process of practicing and see how he progresses during the week.” Kelly remained noncommittal on when Wimbush would resume practicing and whether the junior would play this Saturday against North Carolina. “It’s his first injury. We’ll work through the process with him,” Kelly said. “We’re not going to push him really hard today. I think we’ll get him probably
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Irish senior forward Jon Gallagher dribbles the ball during Notre Dame’s 2-1 win over Northwestern on Tuesday at Alumni Stadium.
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This weekend, Notre Dame will travel to Lexington, Kentucky, to compete in the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. The Irish are coming off a strong performance at the Schooner Fall Classic two weeks ago, where they finished tied for sixth with host school Oklahoma. Junior Maddie Rose Hamilton finished in a tie for ninth place overall, carding a 210. Hamilton made Notre Dame history, shooting a 65 in the second round. Junior Isabella DiLisio and Emma Albrecht each tied for 21st place, each carding a 213. DiLisio’s final round 69 was her 10th career round in the 60s, while Albrecht’s first round 67 was her career-best round. Freshman Abby Heck followed DiLisio and Albrecht with a 218 and senior captain Alison Snakard rounded out the scores for Notre Dame with a 238. Sophomore Mia Ayer was competing in the Schooner Fall Classic as an individual for
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moving a little bit, throwing, making sure that — but I’m not in a position where we need to have him practice today. My vision would be more towards getting him out there Wednesday for practice. “ … We know we’ve done our due diligence here. […] He’s got to feel comfortable, and a lot of this is not just medical. This has got to be he’s got to feel comfortable and he’s got to feel 100 percent like he can put his foot in the ground and do the things that he can do. And so this will be a decision that we’ll have to make together.” Kelly said that the injury was diagnosed during the team’s noon Sunday check-in. Despite speculation that the injury happened after the game while Wimbush was out, Kelly dismissed those claims. “I have no reason not to trust 100 percent what Brandon tells me,” Kelly said. “He went out and felt his foot was not right, and he went home. That’s what he
the Irish and finished in a tie for 75th place with a 233. The Irish carded a 6-underpar 278 in the final round of the event, which was the secondlowest team score in program history. The lowest score for Notre Dame came at the 2014 Schooner Fall Classic, when the squad tallied a 277. Notre Dame most recently competed in the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational in 2009 and finished third place overall at the time. Hosted by the University of Kentucky, the tournament will take place at the University Club of Kentucky. This is the first time the event has occurred since fall of 2011. The invitational takes its name from director of golf operations at Kentucky, Bettie Lou Evans. Evans served 23 years as head women’s golf coach at Kentucky and it entering her 17th year as director of golf operations. The tournament will begin Friday and runs through Sunday.
Irish athletes compete in national singles tourney By MICHAEL IVEY Sports Writer
Three Notre Dame players — sophomores Matt Gamble and Guillermo Cabrera and junior Grayson Broadus — traveled down to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to play in the St. Francis Health ITA All-American Championships. On Saturday in the pre-qualifying singles round, Cabrera won his match in straight sets 6-2, 7-6 (3). Gamble dropped his first match Saturday and in the pre-qualifying singles consolation round, he won the first set of his match 6-4 before dropping the second set 6-1. Gamble won the deciding third set 6-4, giving him the match. Irish head coach Ryan Sachire said he saw some improvement in his players throughout the weekend, but wished he saw more wins. “We only had three guys competing down in Tulsa, this past weekend, so it was a pretty small see M TENNIS PAGE 9
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Irish junior Grayson Broadus prepares to serve in Notre Dame’s 7-0 win over Boston College on Feb. 11 at Eck Tennis Pavilion.