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Clubs host Day of the Dead celebrations Campus Ministry, Latino Student Alliance facilitate Dia de los Muertos festivities on campus By MARIAH RUSH News Writer
W hen junior Cecily Castillo arrived at Notre Dame her freshman year, she found one thing absent from campus culture were celebrations of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. So, during her sophomore year, she went to Campus Ministry to ask why there were only a few Day of the Dead celebrations on campus. “I asked, ‘W hy is it that during my freshman year there were only two or three ofrendas [meaning ‘offerings’ in Spanish] on campus? ’” Castillo said. “It didn’t feel as much as an open invitation for anyone to place their own things there. I know that that
was definitely not intentional, but I remember feeling that way, especially it being my first year having not having that.” Castillo, a Day of the Dead committee member, said that common misconceptions about this celebration are that it is not compatible with the Catholic faith or that it is an extension of Halloween. “It is very much accepted in the Catholic faith as this is one big tradition that should be celebrated because it highlights the intersection of faith and culture,” Castillo said. “Nobody wants to think about what happens after they die. But a lot of this is really taking that head on. see OFRENDAS PAGE 4
Professors reflect on Hurricane Maria journeys By KELLI SMITH Associate News Editor
A few months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in Sept. 2017, Marisel Moreno received an email. The email was addressed to her and Thomas F. Anderson, both professors of romance languages and literature. It invited them to speak about the impact Hurricane Maria had on Puerto Ricans in a series of informational videos. A month and a half later, they found themselves on a plane to Puerto Rico with the mission of documenting one of the island’s most catastrophic storms in less than a week. “It quickly developed, we got our dates, we got our tickets and … next thing we know we’re getting an email saying we’re sending a film
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crew so that we can do this professionally and you can interview people,” Moreno, who teaches Latino literature, said. “Of course we’re not reporters; we’re both professors of literature, so that was a little bit nervewracking but we jumped into it.” Moreno and Anderson conducted the project this summer as part of a digital teach-out, a global community learning opportunity focused on a current issue. The original model was developed by the University of Michigan, which reached out to Elliott Visconsi of Notre Dame’s Office of Digital Learning in hopes of collaborating on a Puerto Rico series. Visconsi reached out to Moreno and Anderson, and the idea became reality. see PUERTO RICO PAGE 4
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An altar, or ofrenda, for Dia de los Muertos sits in the Notre Dame Our Mother Chapel in Coleman-Morse Center. Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrates, in a joyful way, those who have died.
ARK-ND volunteers provide therapy for kids By SERENA ZACHARIAS News Writer
Every Sunday night, Rolfs Aquatic Center fills up with student volunteers who gather with kids from the community for an hour of swim lessons and pool games. The weekly meetings function as a fun activity for
the kids who attend, but they also aim to offer distraction — the club aims to help children suffering from serious medical conditions, senior and co-president of Aquatic Relief for Kids at Notre Dame (ARK-ND) Ann Iverson said. ARK-ND coordinates with local hospitals to aid pediatric cancer and diabetic
patients through aquatic therapy, providing a safe environment for the young patients to have fun for an evening. ARK-ND was founded by a member of the Notre Dame women’s water polo team who suffered from cancer see ARK-ND PAGE 4
SMC Cycling Club hosts ride to raise money for ALS By MARIA LEONTARAS Associate St. Mary’s Editor
The Saint Mary’s Cycling Club hosted a Halloween Ride Wednesday night to raise money for the College’s ALS 5k, which will be held on Nov. 4. The ride was put on in the form of a class hosted by the club. Founder and president of
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the club, senior Megan Hall, said in an email that riders were encouraged to wear red for ALS. She also said the event was set to Halloween music. Marketing chair, senior Leslie Taubert, said in an email that she hoped having the event on Halloween would promote the fundraiser.
“We thought having [the ride] on Halloween would make it an even more fun ride and it would help encourage people to donate to ride,” she said. “We are excited to help out with [this] important cause and support everyone that is impacted by ALS.”
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Notre Dame redesigns website home page By ALEX ANDRA PARK News Writer
The University of Notre Dame’s home page went live at 7 a.m. on Oct. 17 after undergoing almost a year’s worth of major changes in content and design made to better represent the University’s priorities and promote more University-centered storytelling. The changes were overdue, as the previous version of nd.edu had been launched six years ago in April 2012. “Six years is a long time in the web world,” Andy Fuller, Notre Dame’s director of strategic content, said. “Technology improves, trends change, things like that. And it’s actually been kind of a long time at the University as well.” Planning for the website’s redesign started in November 2017 as a collaborative effort between the strategic content team and the marketing and communications team, two branches of the University’s media team. These teams then reached out to communicators in different departments all over campus for feedback on what changes to make and what content to include. The entire project, including planning, development, design and content elements, were done by the University’s inhouse teams. “It was an overall campus effort, and I think the site’s better as a result,” Fuller said.
A core theme while redesigning website content was showcasing the University’s “pillars,” or key strategic priorities: research, internationalization and faith. On the older version of the site, research and internationalization were not represented at all, while the content for faith was outdated and failed to represent all the faith-related administrative changes that have occurred since the website’s last update. The new site has a menu bar on the top right corner with links to each of these pillars, called “Research,” “Global” and “Faith & Service.” Another entirely new section in the same menu bar is “Campus Life,” which aims to provide visitors to the site with easy access to a holistic view of what the undergraduate living experience is like at the University. “You think, ‘Most university websites have [sections on campus life], what’s the big deal,’” Fuller said. “Well, we didn’t have one.” From a design perspective, developers and designers had three priorities — balancing news storytelling and the Notre Dame brand, making the website identifiable as the University’s public front in the digital space and creating more accessible webpages. On the prior version of the site, the home page featured a large picture of the golden dome, a traditional symbol of the University. Paid Advertisement
When designers decided to shift the site to a more news-based direction, they abandoned this model entirely. “The home page was totally redesigned, scaled back from what it was before,” Fuller said. “We think lending more real estate to a few key items really gives more prominence to them.” The new home page opens with a leading news story about the University. To further enhance storytelling features, webpages were designed to lead the eye from one item to the next using larger images and more white space. Multi-platform designer Taylor Packet also said the Notre Dame brand, the universal aesthetic that makes websites identifiable as belonging to Notre Dame, also underwent some fine-tuning. Nods to tradition remained in details like the types of serif fonts chosen, but the overall aesthetic was changed to be more contemporary. “It’s tradition, but modern,” Packet said. The site transitioned to a more external-facing site for University communications. Fuller said his team’s data scientist, using Google Analytics, noticed the campus community was using the nd.edu site to try to access internal resources, such as campus email or Sakai. “We felt like nd.edu is our primary external-facing communications tool digitally, and we
wanted to move away from doing the job an internal-facing site would do,” he said. “So we got rid of those links and are now encouraging people to go to inside. nd.edu for all those things.” Finally, accessibility was a top design priority for the current iteration of the website. Erik Runyon, the technical director in the marketing communications team, spearheaded an effort to ensure the Notre Dame site would be accessible for those with visual impairments or disabilities. For instance, color contrasts for the website had to reach the AA level, a visual accessibility status designated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), “an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards” according to its website. AA level web design should be accessible enough to compensate for the loss in contrast sensitivity experienced by those with 20/40 vision, which is “commonly reported as typical visual acuity of elders at roughly age 80,” according to the W3C. Another accessibility feature added to the site was alt-text for all images. This is a short piece of text that concisely describes the image it is linked to, and it can be read by screen readers to give visually impaired users a sense of what the image is. A final accessibility feature is the ability to
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The full class had 21 riders, and Hall said this class offers greater benefits than just for the rider. “I often say in class to ride for you and show up for yourself,” Hall said. “However, this cause is something bigger to ride for. We are given two hands, one to help ourselves and one to help others. This is where our ‘other’ hand comes in.” This desire to encourage people to help others is one of the main reasons Hall decided to organize the event, she said. “With the help of [Senior] Class Council, we decided to host the event because we wanted to get as many students involved in raising money and awareness to ALS,” Hall said. “[The goal was] to raise money, but also to bring students together to think about something bigger. We often get caught up in the little things. By hosting this event, I hope it gets
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navigate the website using just the tab key, which eliminates the need for a mouse. This is useful for those with motor impairments whose limited range of motion makes it difficult navigate a mouse, and for those with visual impairments who cannot see where to click with a mouse. “We’re adding to the big conversation about how this campus needs to be more accessible,” Packet said. “So [these changes] are a big win for us. … We’re doing it because we believe everybody should be able to access a website.” Overall responses to the new website have been positive, Fuller said. In coming years, the University hopes to use the nd.edu site as a template for other University websites, including those for specific colleges, as well as the sites for each major and program under those colleges. The goal of this second phase, which has no projected date yet, is to expand the level of visual consistency across all Notre Dame sites. “The new site will allow us to give a more attractive front door to stories,” Fuller said. “Our structure and the way we go about [telling stories], and frankly, the quality of our work, sets us apart from other institutions.” Contact Alexandra Park at apark@nd.edu
students to realize to not get caught up in the little things.” Vice president and senior Abbigail Yucha said in an email that the charity ride is something she hopes the club will continue with in the future. “We are raising money and awareness for the disease,” Yucha said. Taubert said she hopes the fun riders have will lead to an increase in fundraising for ALS. “We are hosting this to help a great cause,” she said. “Our goal is to have as much as fun as we can but also to raise money for an important cause.” Hall said there are other organizations the club hopes to collaborate with in the future. “There are many charities we hope to ride for in the future,” she said. “With Dance Marathon being a huge activity on campus, we hope Cycling Club can continue to contribute.” Contact Maria Leontaras at mleontaras1@nd.edu
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“To me honestly the most difficult part, it’s going to sound funny, is from the ver y beginning I just didn’t understand what a teach-out was,” Anderson, chair of romance languages and literature, said. “I mean, really, it ended up working great, but I felt almost the whole time like I was a little bit f ly ing by the seat of my pants.” The t radit iona l Michiga n teach-out involves ex per ts spea k ing about a pa r t icula r topic, Moreno sa id, but t he Not re Da me tea m suggest ing f lipping t hat model — a l low ing Puer to Rica ns to tell t heir ow n persona l stories. The result, “Listening to Puerto Rico,” features an array of on-the ground v ideo inter v iews w ith Puerto Ricans of various backgrounds and experiences who recounted the impacts of Hurricane Maria. Moreno and Anderson ser ved as inter v iewers on the Notre Dame team. “A lot of the technical side of it was done by Michigan, I think, but I do feel that Tom
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So much of it is the action of literally laughing at death. The celebration does have a certain amount of reverence to it, and so much of it especially involves prayer for deceased loved ones, but at the same time it is meant to be joy ful because it is a celebration of hope. It ties into the distinct Catholic belief that when souls die they go to heaven.” Day of the Dead celebrations involve putting up brightly colored personalized ofrendas for loved ones that have passed, and generally celebrating loved ones that have died. It t y pically
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as a child and participated in a similar program when she was young. She founded ARK-ND to give pediatric cancer patients in their maintenance phase of treatment an opportunit y to play games, connect and sw im, senior and co-president Caroline Murtagh said in an email. Both Iverson and Murtagh have been involved in ARKND since their freshman years, and as a result, have built relationships w ith some of the patients who have been coming to meetings for years.
and I are experts on Puerto Rico because that’s part of our academic research,” Moreno said. “We were guiding the contents more.” The website includes v isual narratives as well as an in-depth histor y of Puerto Rico, “Puerto Rico 101,” which Moreno and Anderson produced to give more context and background on the island. “We both felt ver y strongly that we didn’t want to have a course online [about] Puerto Rico where we were just imparting knowledge because it didn’t seem like it was appropriate for the given circumstance,” Anderson said. “So we ended up, like [Moreno] said, focusing more on personal stories.” The filming and inter v iew process in Puerto Rico took place between June 15-20, Moreno said, which constricted the team’s schedule to about “four heav y days of no breaks.” “As soon as this idea was presented to us, we knew that we wanted to have all of the materials up prior to the first anniversar y of Hurricane Maria,” Moreno said. “That was the deadline — Sept. 20. So it was an immense and incredible
amount of work to get all of this done.” The v ideos are categorized in a variet y of topics, among them “Call to Action,” “Economy & Migration” and “Infrastructure & Env ironment.” In total, the website presents over 50 v ideos documenting Puerto Rico and the impact of Hurricane Maria. “We also felt that v ideo was an important medium because part of the stor y about Puerto Rico is the devastation, the changes to the landscape, and we didn’t want to have a disaster narrative so-to-speak, but to see the back-drop, to have v isuals where people could explain some of the changes,” Anderson said. The project was split into multiple phases: first, there was an online teach-out course on Coursera which ran from Aug. 27 to Sept. 24. Second was launching the website. “We were sur prised t hat people tended to not wa nt to focus so much on a ll t he horrible t hings but rat her how Puer to R ica ns united, how t hey ca me toget her in a t ime of crisis,” A nderson sa id. “ … There were a lot of stories about fa milies
gett ing closer, communit ies gett ing closer, people being unplugged f rom t he internet — k ind of f inding simpler ways to enter ta in t hemselves.” Moreno sa id she was touched to hea r how Puer to Rica n communit ies gat hered to ta ke cont rol a nd help each ot her in light of “inadequate responses” f rom t he Puer to R ica n a nd U.S. governments. “But also we’d be ly ing if we didn’t say that there was some anger, too, in the interv iews, people ver y frustrated and upset w ith the governments and just w ith the way that things have been handled,” Anderson said. “They felt almost like a sense of relief to be able to speak.” The goal of the teach-out was to promote awareness about Puerto Rico, Moreno said, which includes promoting action in various forms and continuing to work on the issue. “It’s not over,” she said. “We have a whole academic year where we’re going to be bringing speakers, we’re going to have documentaries show n — so we’re continuing to engage directly, we’re tr y ing to build those links bet ween Notre Dame
and different institutions, whether it’s non-profits or universities.” The team is also planning a follow-up v isit, Anderson said, in which 12 to 15 facult y members from different fields w ill travel back to Puerto Rico in the spring, alongside Anderson and Moreno. “So much of what we do, articles and books, appeals to a ver y small limited audience of experts in our field for the most part,” Anderson said. “This t y pe of work we feel is so important that we’d love to encourage [more facult y members] to do it because it’s an engaged scholarship that potentially can impact thousands of people that wouldn’t necessarily have contact w ith our scholarly work. “In the inter v iews themselves, several people acknowledged that it was so important for this kind of project to be done, that people were being given a chance to speak from their ow n platform. Hopefully the website w ill continue to be v isited and people can take a listen.”
begins Oct. 31, and continues until Nov. 2. There w ill be a procession from Cedar Grove Cemeter y on Notre Dame Avenue to the Basilica on Friday at 8:15 p.m. for a prayer ser v ice followed by a reception and celebration in Coleman-Morse Center. Junior Kathy Casillas, v ice president of the Latino Student A lliance, said t y pically the group puts up altars in the Latino Institute, but this year Campus Ministr y has gotten more involved. In light of that, the altars have been set up in both the Institute and the Basilica. “Anyone can participate, it’s not even exclusively Catholic,” Casillas said. “That’s the idea behind putting it in the Basilica and the
Institute. … It’s supposed to kind of get people aware and share that part of it.” This year Castillo and Campus Ministr y are also working to put ofrendas up in more dorms around campus in hopes to make the dorms a more familiar place to live for students. Ofrendas are currently in 18 dorms, which is an increase of eights dorms from last year. “I believe they had just announced the required three years housing policy for incoming students,” Castillo said. “I remember a lot of people being upset, and a lot of the concern was for minorit y students and making them feel more at home in the dorms. So, instead of
getting upset and angr y, like I saw so many other people doing, I was like, okay, well why don’t you just take the first step in tr y ing to make just one thing maybe a little bit familiar to a small section of students. And so that was my main thought in this, aside from the fact that this is a tradition that really does fall right into the Notre Dame communit y.” Both Casillas and Castillo said Day of the Dead is not a sad occasion; it’s an opportunit y to celebrate the lives of those we have lost. “It’s important to celebrate it because oftentimes when we think about like people that have died, it’s a really sad thought,” Casillas said. “Day of the Dead isn’t really
about being sad about losing someone. It’s about being happy that they lived.” Castillo questioned why the topic of death is so taboo, especially concerning Day of the Dead. “W hy should you be afraid to die? If you have faith and you have it, you’re going to go to heaven,” Castillo said. “I grew up w ith my mother say ing that you never say you’re afraid to die because you have faith in that means. So that’s mainly what this is. It’s a big celebration of hope, and that’s where all of the colors come from. That’s why none of this is meant to be sad.”
“It is such a joy to work w it h t hese fa milies … I have loved watching t he k ids g row,” Mur tagh sa id. “One g irl was a f ra id to put her face in t he water for mont hs, so she spent ever y lesson dogg y padd ling in a bubble. Then, one day, she told me t hat she had a secret — she sa id t hat she lea rned to sw im. A ll of a sudden, she was putt ing her face in t he water, sw imming w it hout a bubble a nd jumping of f t he side of t he pool.” Iverson also recalled kids who were afraid of the pool a few years back who have since grow n up and now thoroughly enjoy sw imming and play ing in the water.
Iverson said ARK-ND not only functions as a healthy distraction for the children, but the activ ities also aid the parents of the children. “I think [ARK-ND] is a good communit y for the kids and for their parents because they are able to be around other people who have experienced similar situations; that includes kids who have had cancer and also their siblings who can meet other kids who have siblings w ith cancer,” Iverson said. Murtagh said a father of a pediatric cancer patient w rote a letter about A RKND this year and gave it to her to show his sincere
appreciation. “In the letter, he talked about how much his family had been struggling through his daughter’s cancer, but ARK prov ided just a short time each week where he could see his kids smile and laugh,” Murtagh said. “A lthough our club is small and we play only a tiny role in these families’ lives, moments like this mean ever y thing.” Iverson said the club welcomes any student who can sw im and is interested in volunteering to join. “It’s nice because it’s prett y low commit ment, but you ca n tel l t he k ids love it,” Iverson sa id. “It’s
a good way to sta r t out your week on a Sunday night, if you’re st ressed about homework a nd tests — it’s a nice brea k.” Iverson also discussed the benefit of engaging in communit y ser v ice as a Notre Dame student. “Even though this occurs on campus, it’s people from the broader South Bend communit y we meet. … Getting to know them and hearing what’s going on in their makes me feel more connected to the communit y, which is important,” Iverson said.
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Conservation God, currency, Notre Dame: videos and care The desecration of Waddick’s Nora McGreevy Scene Editor
A woman leans in close to a painting, propped up on an easel, w ith a magnif y ing glass. With light pressure, she swabs gently over the lacquered surface, working from a small section in the middle of the painting out in short, methodical gestures. Conser vator Nicole Ryder is cleaning — painstakingly remov ing bits of age-old grime, varnish and dust particles from the surface of an oil portrait of King Edward V I at the National Portrait Galler y in London. Maybe, to other trained professionals, this looks routine. To me, it looks like magic. But whereas a magician disappears w ith an explosion and a sweep of a cloak, the old varnish is slowly coa xed off of the dried paint over the course of weeks and months. Small cracks, barely-discernable to the naked eye, are smoothed over and erased. Conser vation v ideos live in a weird and specific corner of the Internet, on the YouTube channels of museums and conser vation companies, falling somewhere between art historical instructional content and Bob Ross v ideos. W hile not v iral, conser vation v ideos are also not niche — a v ideo of a conser vator restoring a Jackson Pollack painting from MoM A can attract more than 30,000 v iews on YouTube, for example. I can imagine that this kind of close work w ith precious objects might be conducive to stress. But in its v ideo form, the sometimes year-long process of restoration is fast-for warded for the v iewer — eliminating the risk and mundanit y, and instead evoking a surreal, contemplative calm. I first learned of the phenomenon of the conser vation v ideo from Abbi Jacobson’s short-lived podcast w ith MoM A, “A Piece of Work.” In one of the ten episodes, Jacobson v isits the MoM A conser vation studio to listen to conser vator Ellen Dav is talk about her work restoring Yves K lein’s radiant “Blue Monochrome” from 1981. Even tiny variations in texture, Dav is explains, have significant bearing on how the K lein’s trademark color is perceived by the human eye. Often, part of the work for conser vators is to undo the mistakes of prev ious caretakers, and here is no different — Dav is is fix ing a botched prev ious conser vation effort, slowly restoring the exact v ibrancy of K lein’s cool hues. For weeks, she slowly chips away at the paint and reapplies it w ith surgical tools, to match the texture of the original brushstroke. One of the most striking things about the v ideos — and part of their captivating charm — is how little rush is involved. Conser vators take their time. They are precise. They do chemistr y experiments, collect samples, test materials, research. To rush, it seems, would be to risk harming the object, but it would also be a disser v ice to the work. Preser vation of cultural heritage requires labor, time and care. At the end of Nicole Ryder’s process, King Edward’s white ruff led collar stands out stark ly from his dark jacket, and a delicate gold chain strung around his neck gleams anew. It’s closer to how the painting would have looked when it was first made, the conser vator says to the camera w ith a smile. Through her work — long hours, exacting study and close, watchful care — she has made the painting new. Contact Nora McGreevy at nmcgreev@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
In his statement justifying the six semester housing policy, Father Jenkins extolled such highminded notions as “tradition,” “community” and “student feedback” before announcing that his way to deal with students’ growing preference for moving off campus was simply to take that option away from them. To the uninitiated, it would seem that Notre Dame was so committed to preserving cherished institutions that it was willing to trap students in the dorm system to prevent even the slightest bit of cultural decay. The uninitiated would be surprised, then, to hear Margaret Meserve, the associate dean for the humanities and faculty affairs and associate professor of history who spearheaded the renovation, explain the total erasure of Waddick’s as follows: “We thought opening up the space to the South Quad and bringing in more natural lighting, as well as more places for people to charge their devices and different kinds of seating … would be a pretty good tradeoff for losing a space that people loved and felt very attached to.” Ah, yes. So you’re not allowed to move out of buildings you don’t love, and the places you do love will be destroyed in favor of ... outlets. When I wrote “The Iced Coffee Manifesto” last year, I was more raging against the dying of the light than seriously trying to effect change. I understood that one Observer viewpoint, or even a “Save Waddick’s” petition with almost 500 hundred signatures from both students and faculty which Campus Dining squashed at the height of its momentum, probably was not enough to throw a wrench in the machinations of a bullish Notre Dame bureaucracy. My fellow Waddick’s faithful and I were forced to simply sit back and trust that the administration had students’ best interests at heart. After all, Luis Alberganti, director of retail dining, assured us that “there [were] no plans to permanently close Waddick’s” and that it was merely “being considered for renovation.” These “renovations” actually amounted to an outright desecration of the Waddick’s we once knew. What was once aptly described as “the ultimate Arts and Letters retreat” was left absolutely gutted and utterly devoid of any of its former character. It is laughable how unnecessary and ineffective the changes were in light of the fact that they were largely influenced by faculty and staff feedback stating that the lines were too long and that it was too hard to get a seat. The typical rush between classes still sees the same lines into what used to be the hall, and the cluttered kitchen has only slowed service down if anything. There is only marginally more functional workspace; a “run-down table” is a far better place to work than a modern concept rocking chair with what might as well double as a Spirit Airlines dinner tray spinning annoyingly about the arm. The only way the new space facilitates community is by forcing
strangers to get uncomfortably close to each other on one of the squishy leather couches, because the logical solution to a dearth of workspace is more lounge furniture. Perhaps most bizarrely, Meserve described the cozy, oaky, carpeted holein-the-wall we once loved as overly “fluorescent,” and yet she replaced it with a completely gray, open-concept “commons” with the sanitized vibe of an orthopedist’s waiting room. The renovations didn’t get literally everything wrong — more and upholstered booths was a nice touch. But that’s about it. The claim that Campus Dining worked with “several” PLS students is at best reflective of a desire to have merely checked the box of having asked students for their input in light of how little any of their suggestions were taken into account. Seriously — try to find a single PLS student who prefers the new space. The administration could not have been more transparent about how little they cared about student input. Alberganti said, “[Students] can rest assured that every decision that we did was for the betterment of the space,” because at Notre Dame, it’s the spaces, not what happens in them, that matter. As long as prospective students can gawk at shiny accommodations on tours and benefactors can enshrine their names forever (except for, say, the Rolfs family — no one is safe!), the administration will be content. That’s ultimately what the tragedy boils down to: Robert Waddick was downgraded from namesake to guy-on-poster-stashed-in-corner because instead of having hundreds of thousands of dollars to fill Notre Dame’s coffers, he poured decades’ worth of time and energy into his students. The humanities already face a crisis of functionality; I’m willing to bet an iced coffee that every single Arts and Letters student has heard some sort of joke about useless majors and unemployment. As Assistant Dean, Robert Waddick was a shining example of the worth of humbly furthering knowledge not for fortune, but merely for learning’s own sake. And with barely a modicum of input from the community he loved, Notre Dame has washed his legacy of service away in a poorly executed and vehemently opposed cash grab. We loved Waddick’s because it was ours. Charron Family Cafe is unquestionably the administration’s. And in light of such impositions as the new housing policy, tuition hikes, the closure of Rolf’s and the desecration of Waddick’s, I wonder how much more of the student experience Our Lady’s University wants to auction off before it remembers that an endowment is supposed to serve more than U.S. News rankings. Frankie Hagan senior Oct. 30
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Give me PornHub or give me death Jeffrey Murphy Spilling the Tea
“[I]t is the state — not free speech — that has been the oppressor of women. It was the state, not pornography, that burned women as witches. It was 18th and 19th century law, not pornography, that defined women as chattel … 20th century laws that refused to recognized rape within marriage … It is the state, not pornography, that has raised barriers against women. It is censorship, not freedom, that will keep the walls intact.” — Wendy McElroy
Introduction One of the strongest instinctual urges of humanity is the impulse to label any content which we deem to be immoral as deserving of censorship. Everyone pretends to embrace the principle of free speech until they encounter speech with which they disagree; suddenly, they are all too willing to subject that speech to censorship. The authors and signatories of the two recently-published letters-to-the-editor requesting that Notre Dame implement a pornography filter have fallen to this primal instinct.
Censorship, even if well-intentioned, is bad for women Restricting the content or information accessible to the Notre Dame community does no service to the prosperity of women. Historically, censorial power (exercised by both the government and private entities), particularly in the context of sexual expression, has been disproportionately wielded against women (and often under the same guise offered by the ill-guided authors of these letters — the guise of protecting women). As American author Ellen Willis said, “The only obscenity law that will not be used against women is no law at all. How long will it take oppressed groups to learn that if we give the state enough rope, it will end up around our necks?” Don’t take Ellen’s word for it — examine recent history. Why did Margaret Sanger spend so much time in prison during her crusade to disseminate information about female reproductive health, contraception and abortion? Because it was a federal crime under the Comstock Act to disseminate such information. Sanger is just one of countless feminists arrested under the Comstock Laws during the suffragist movement. Similar to the arguments presented by
the authors to which I am responding, the government justified their censorship of these materials as being necessary to protect women and to maintain societal standards of propriety and morality. In fact, the New York Court of Appeals held that a film produced by Sanger entitled “Birth Control” could be censored “in the interest of morality, decency and public safety and welfare.” Sounds familiar! Moreover, it is not just feminists that have faced the consequences of censorial measures that they were promised would function to their benefit; activists of every minority movement for equality — black Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans etc. — have been crushed by laws intended to achieve the very goals outlined by Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP). I need not remind the Notre Dame community that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous letter while imprisoned in Birmingham for daring to defy the censorial efforts of the local government (efforts that were made in the name of cultural integrity). The relationship between the codified suppression of sexually-oriented material and the subordination of women extends well into the modern era (and will inevitably persist into the future). For example, consider the following ten countries in which pornography is illegal or vastly restricted: 1. Afghanistan 2. Pakistan 3. Iraq 4. Iran 5. Libya 6. Egypt 7. Sudan 8. Somalia 9. Saudi Arabia 10. China Ah yes, to be a woman in Afghanistan! Censorship of pornography has done wonders for their liberation and progression!
Trusting the Notre Dame administration? I trust the Notre Dame administration to make these subjective determinations as much as I trust the government to — that is to say, not at all. Furthermore, if the Notre Dame administration is going to engage their subjective power to determine what information or content should be inaccessible to our community, why not ban material that supports gay marriage as well? Why not ban access to
Planned Parenthood websites? If you demand that Notre Dame prohibit the consumption of pornography because it violates the principles of our school, should Notre Dame, by that argument, not ban any and all material that contradicts Catholic teachings? Once we permit the implementation of filters for the sake of restricting material that contradicts the mission of Notre Dame, what content will be safe? Individual students, not the administration, must be allowed to make decisions about material consumption for themselves. If this power is given to the administration, they will inevitably censor material that even SCOP thought would be protected. The women of Notre Dame neither need nor deserve regulations restricting access to certain categories of sexually-oriented expression. Rather, the women of Notre Dame need and deserve what all women of the world should be afforded — robust freedom.
Conclusion We must never conclude that because a certain category of expression is immoral to some that it must be inaccessible to all. Giving any governing body — even a private entity not bound by the First Amendment — the subjective power to determine what content is or is not permissible has never, and will never, lead to prosperity for the intended beneficiaries of such censorial measures. If you want to combat the alleged ill-effects of exposure to pornography identified in your letters, engage in counter-speech. Persuade your fellow students to join your holy abstention from pornographic consumption. Convince our community that you are right, and that we should willingly and voluntarily disengage the pornographic industry. But do not demand that you should make that decision for all of us, and certainly do not do it in my name. As a fellow man of Notre Dame, I must respectfully dissent. Jeff is a senior at Notre Dame majoring in science-business with a minor in sociology. A native of St. Louis, Jeff believes that his hometown is the greatest city in the world and is always ready to talk about The Lou. In his free time, Jeff likes to play tennis, bake in the sun, read autobiographies, spend time with friends, talk on the phone with his mother or twin sister and listen to Mariah Carey’s voice soar through one of her signature love ballads. Hate mail can be directed to jmurph29@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Vexation without representation? Vote anyway. John Sitter Tropospheria
An old Election Day joke typically features an uppercrust woman from New England who is asked whether she has cast her ballot yet. She replies loftily, “Oh, I never vote. It only encourages them.” An unfunny counterpart appeared recently in a New York Times story about non-voters, in which a West Virginia woman explains why she hasn’t voted since 1996: “I just can’t vote for any of them in good conscience.” I understand the alienation. I think of it as vexation without representation: the sense that most of my elected representatives do not really represent me and that their positions are often vexing or worse. Not voting, however, is the wrong response to flawed candidates in a flawed system. And heavens yes, the flaws are major: the obscene power of money, scandalous gerrymandering of districts, blatant discrimination in registration practices and voting requirements, to start with. All of these things make it easy to feel that no untainted choices are on offer. But voting isn’t mainly about feeling good about ourselves, or shoring up our own sense of virtue. It’s about choosing the better, or least dangerous, available alternatives. For young people especially, voting is now about choosing between candidates who give some signs of actually caring about the future and those who don’t. This criterion means favoring candidates who are “pro-life” and “conservative” in a deeper sense than those
terms usually carry. That is, genuinely “pro-life” and “conservative” candidates want to conserve life, a goal that they understand obligates us to preserve the intricate environment in which humans have flourished. That mission must precede everything else. Environmental stewardship may not itself be an ultimate moral goal — you may have many others — but it is a necessary one. Oberlin political scientist David Orr puts it well: “Whatever your cause, it’s a lost cause on a dying planet.” We know what not caring about the lives of young people looks like when we see people in power exhibit ethical laziness and cognitive cowardice regarding the largest environmental danger: climate change. President Trump has recently gone from regarding climate change as fake news from China to considering it something we need not, or cannot, do anything about. In a recent “60 Minutes” interview he told Leslie Stahl, “I don’t think it’s a hoax,” but added this pseudo-clarification: “I think something’s happening. Something’s changing and it’ll change back again.” As several commentators have pointed out, an overheated climate may indeed “change back again” — in a few million years. Back in the world of human time, President Trump is currently the most conspicuous instance of willful ignorance, but his enablers abound. They are the legions of legislators and recently appointed officials apparently ready to move straight from denial to despair, without bothering to pause in between for maturity, sacrifice or courage. Their timing, if course, is atrocious. Several recent
reports, including the special summary earlier this month from the prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, stress that the next ten years will be the decisive decade in mitigating climate change. One might expect rational grown-ups to be declaring a state of environmental emergency and leading the way toward a tax on carbon and investment in green jobs. But instead of a “Green New Deal,” we get rote claims that environmental safeguards are bad for the economy. We get the vexation of inaction or even retreat. We get to hear the Senate majority leader pontificate about a War on Coal when — knowing what we do about coal’s immediate effects on children’s health and its atmospheric legacy — the promotion of coal is a War on Kids. I am often surprised that college students remain so polite in their political lives. There are times when informed anger can be appropriate, ethical, patriotic. Surrounded by too many politicians who seem unable to imagine a world after 2040, those who are just starting their adult lives might trade generalized fear for focused indignation. Young people have every right to be angry when their elders behave like children. And they have an obligation to vote in self-defense for the candidates who take most seriously the future of their generation. Professor Sitter teaches courses in poetry, satire, and environmental literature in the English Department and team-teaches the introduction to the Sustainability Minor. He can be reached at jsitter@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Be cautious when dealing with others. If you are insensitive or you overreact, it will cause a ruckus in your relationships with others. Aim for consistency, offering helpful suggestions and steering clear of any sort of meddling. You’ll be walking a fine line if you get involved in the affairs of others. Focus more on self-improvement, not changing others. Your numbers are 7, 12, 15, 22, 31, 38, 43. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t limit what you can do. Check your personal finances and talk to an expert about a purchase or investment. Reconnect with someone you enjoyed working with in the past and see what transpires. Don’t let a personal relationship ruin an opportunity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t obsess over something. Once in a while you have to take a step back and enjoy what life has to offer. Look for the positives, not the negatives. A personal relationship should not be allowed to interfere with professional goals. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Use common sense when dealing with others. Whether at home or work, listen to what others have to contribute. Working with the popular consensus will give you more leverage to persuade others to see things your way. CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Making unnecessary purchases, trying to impress someone with your possessions or buying love will lead to a lack of cash. Be smart with your money and you’ll come out ahead. Take better care of your health through proper diet and exercise. LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Practice moderation. Use common sense. If you make promises, you’ll end up backtracking when you realize how much it will cost you emotionally, financially or physically. Take a step back and reconsider what’s possible. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take on whatever role is necessary to get what you want. Make a change that will improve your life. Consider a move, picking up more skills or making sure you are current on the latest technology. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your emotions out of the workplace. Becoming too chummy with someone who can affect your income will backfire. Situations will escalate quickly if you are misleading or flirtatious. Concentrate on your responsibilities if you want to get ahead. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Pay closer attention to the way you look and how you do things. If you are in sync with how you feel and what brings you joy, you will know exactly what to do to inspire yourself to press forward. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Times are changing, and opportunities are heading your way. Put a strategy together and pick up the pace. An aggressive approach to raising your income will lead to new opportunities. Don’t let the changes others enforce get in your way. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Redesign your future. Look at what it is that makes you happy and head in that direction. Personal change should bring you closer to someone you love. A serious conversation will lead to a better lifestyle. AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t be fooled by someone’s actions. Emotional manipulation can lead you down a dark road. Stay away from pushy people, excess and overspending, and keep busy to avoid boredom. Common sense will help you when faced with temptation. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t compare yourself to others. Be happy for what you have and who you are. Use your skills to help get ahead by doing what’s right. A physical or emotional change you want to make should not be excessive or costly. Birthday Baby: You are sensitive, caring and observant. You are charismatic and energetic.
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Hostile coaches don’t help players Avery Wythe Sports Writer
Picture this: you’re an employee of a company with a hostile workplace environment. Imagine the effect such a toxic community would have on your daily production. Even if there was the option for upward mobility and benefits, would you stay at this company, accepting their cruel and unusual tactics? What are your options — quit, take legal action or endure the persecution? Although this work environment might seem hard to imagine, it happens daily around the country. And not in secret, out of sight and mind of sane individuals. It happens after school, on college campuses and even on national television. The setting? Sports. The perpetrators being the very people we celebrate in the instance of a team’s success: coaches. Athletes of all ages and levels are subject to verbal, emotional and even physical abuse by supposed professionals entrusted with the all-around well-being of their players. We’ve all heard the stories. Former Rutgers Men’s Basketball coach Mike Rice, both psychologically and physically abusive to the players on his team, was terminated after three years of throwing basketballs at players during practice. Video evidence has shown him shoving guys on his team and regularly using abusive language on the sidelines. Bobby Knight of the Indiana Hoosiers, famous for his chair throwing and throat grabbing tactics, has been accused by former players of doing much worse. And let’s not forget Utah’s Greg “banned for life” Winslow — suspended from ever coaching again due to inhumane treatment of athletes at swim practices. Compared to psychological and emotional abuse, physical abuse is not only easier to recognize, it is legally more straightforward manner. However, when a coach is just a plain-old bully, what is there to be done? Baiting and degrading are still violent actions with harmful, long-term consequences. Should cursing and name calling be considered with the same severity? Or do we draw a line, eliminating targeted slurs and personalized attacks as acceptable? But s*** and f***, well they’re okay. The I’ll-make-a-man-out-ofyou mindset has a way of turning men into monsters. Do a simple Google Images search of “angry coaches”. Coaches are exempt from America’s societal intolerance
of bullies, causing players to often feel that their coach’s actions are normal, which they wouldn’t be in any other setting — social or professional. Sticks and stones, man. The old adage is often used to teach that it is best to let hurtful words hold no power over you. However, I’m sure many of us can recall that day in middle school when the teacher took an unopened tube of toothpaste and proceeded to squeeze it until it became a plate full of white-and-blue goo on a table at the front of the classroom, following up with a challenge to students to return the toothpaste to the tube. Eager hands shot up from their desks, and each one returned to their seat sticky and unsuccessful. The moral of the story being that you cannot take your words back. A recent study claimed physical pain and social shame activate the same region of the brain. Yelling does not actually accomplish anything beyond eliciting emotions of shame and fostering a negativity. Does it heighten intensity? Yes. Does it put people on edge? Yes. Is it an effective tool of clear communication? DEFINITELY NOT. A coach is a teacher, and a teacher’s main priority should be to facilitate learning. Successful learning rarely ever happens in an agitated environment. An improved performance by a player stems from learning from mistakes which requires proper understanding — not by shaming them for any minute mess up. Rather than treating athletes like the people they are, some coaches see them as simply win-generating, money-making machines. Fortunately, many coaches do practice positive reinforcement among their players — limiting negativity, augmenting productivity. And don’t get me wrong, I do not wish to see sports revert to the elementary-aged, everyoneis-a-winner mode of play. However, there is an epidemic of dehumanization on the road to glorification taken by hopeful athletes that needs to be addressed. So coaches, if you want to grab your players’ attention, or the attention of the media and their replay cameras, go ahead and yell. But if you want to produce resilient players? Simple. Treat them like human beings. Contact Avery Wythe at awythe@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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have … there could be an ebb and flow of it with 10 guys for the whole season. Maybe 10 aren’t playing night to night, but if one or two aren’t playing as much — you can’t lose them — because it could come back around. We have so much unproven stuff, so you have to keep everyone alive.” While the Notre Dame’s five freshman and UConn junior transfer forward Juwan Durham certainly bring inexperience, they also bring intrigue and excitement, and Brey analyzed what each player will bring to the team this year.
Prentiss Hubb “A playmaking guard, he’s a good defender, he makes plays for people and he’s a good shooter, too,” Brey said. “He’s gained some weight and he’s going to be a key for us and I anticipate we will start him on Thursday with the other two guards.”
Dane Goodwin “Can stretch the floor and shoot it. He’s an underrated defensive rebounder, competes, puts it on the floor as well — he’s kind of an allaround, feel-for-the-game guy who has a great stroke. Got a toughness about him that you feel he’s ready to play as a young guy, and we need to play him — he’s a guy [like all our new guys] that we have to develop,” Brey said.
Robby Carmody “Has gotten himself in great shape. He was a little heavy
the summer before senior year because of an injury, but he’s in unbelievable shape,” Brey said. “He’s a driving, slashing kind of wing, but guards you, is physical, knows how to play. Young guys sometimes don’t understand team defense — maybe they can guard their guy but they don’t know how to help their teammates — he really knows how to play and helps that way. Another guy that we have to bring along because he’s got to be part of things this year.”
Nate Laszewski “That prototypical stretchfour man — a big who can step out and shoot it. We want him to shoot it. I think he’s now very confident in where he gets shots in our offense and our system, but like the three I’ve already mentioned, he can guard, he talks on defense, he rotates over … he knows how to play basketball. The basketball IQ is high on those four guys I just mentioned,” Brey said.
Chris Doherty “Knows how to play and is a physical banger. Knows who he is,” Brey said. “Kind of a dirtywork, rebound and screen, physical guy. Obviously he missed the summer but I feel he’s all the way caught up from anything he missed [then].”
Juwan Durham “The sixth guy, that’s a new face, and while he’s had a year with us, this is the first time he’s played in a while. He missed [time in] high school with a knee [injury], he didn’t play much at Connecticut, sat out [last] year — I think we have three full years with
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him. I made the comparison to [Martinas] Geben — we kind of had to wait on [him] a bit to give us what we thought was there — but [Juwan] does some thing, because of his body type, that we have not had a guy like that. I’ve been very pleased with his focus and trying to make him become a player,” Brey said. Brey, known for his laid back coaching style, understands a team this young will require some trial and error. “[We’ve] got to be good about letting them play through mistakes” Brey said. “If we ride with them and let them develop, they’re going to be good for us at the end of the day.” For Brey, what makes an exhibition game against an opponent like Central State valuable is that it gets the new players comfortable on their home floor in a competitive setting before embarking on the real deal and the grind of the regular season, opening with University of IllinoisChicago on Nov. 6. “We’ve got six new faces that will put the uniform on for the first time on our floor, so that’s very important for Tuesday night, when we’re keeping real score when UIC comes in here,” Brey said. “For them to get comfortable on our floor, guys to get a feel for what it’s like to play in our building when the lights are really on … more dress rehearsals for a group like this is a good thing.” The Irish will tip-off against the Marauders at 7 p.m. inside Purcell Pavilion. Contact Joe Everett at jeveret4@nd.edu
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He’s had some injuries, he’s had some guys that were ahead of him. Ian’s going to score a lot of goals for us. With that said, I think it’ll feel good for him to hit the back of the net because we know he’s got it in him but, I think he did great with his chances tonight,” Riley said. The first twenty minutes were dominated by the Irish as they controlled the tempo and possession. In the 17th minute, a defensive mistake by Clemson left the goal gaping. After controlling the ball, Aschieris set up a shot to the lower right corner that was well saved by a recovering Sutherland. Following that play, Clemson switched from its original defensive formation of 5-3-2 and employed a more offensive 4-3-3 scheme. The difference was evident, as Clemson held its footing for rest of the half, maintaining possession and defending well against the Irish. Nevertheless, in the 42nd minute the Irish managed to get a good look at goal with freshman forward Jack Lynn taking a shot from the right side of the box. His shot was saved by Sutherland, but the rebound fell into the center of the box. As both teams scrambled to get the ball, Notre Dame’s senior midfielder Sean MacLeod managed to get a shot off, but a goal-line save from Clemson kept the Irish from doubling their lead. The latter half of the game got off to a slow start, as neither team was able to create any quality chances. The Tigers maintained their improved play and kept pushing men forward, but Notre Dame’s defense kept Clemson from getting any good looks on goal. In the 70th minute, the Irish got a great chance at scoring their second goal after off a deflection, Lynn had a chance from point-blank range. His shot hit Sutherland though, and Notre Dame was unable to capitalize. Two minutes later, senior forward Thomas Ueland went down for the Irish. Team medics checked up on him, prompting Riley to walk on to the field as well. “I was hoping it wasn’t his head, just had to see if we
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in eight swimming events, and the women will compete in the 3-meter diving while the men dive from the 1-meter. The meet will break for the night after the first 10 events Friday, and it will resume on Saturday morning with the 200-yard medley relay. On Saturday, the women will dive
needed to [substitute] for him but, he got the wind knocked out of him. You don’t want really, anyone to get injured at this time of the year but, with him he just took a hard knock so, I wanted to make sure he was doing okay,” Riley said. Ueland would walk to the bench on his own and returned to the game moments later. In the 75th minute, Clemson’s Quinn McNeill flicked the ball up and hit great-looking shot from outside the box that went just inches away from junior goalkeeper Duncan Turnbull’s left post. The Tigers kept knocking on the door, as they tried to score the equalizer, but the Irish kept making it difficult for Clemson to get any quality chances. With just a few minutes left in regulation, the Irish would score the dagger off a counterattack. Lynn would get the ball on the left side of the field and find a wide open Aschieris on the right flank. Clemson’s defense had collapsed, leaving Aschieris one-on-one with Sutherland, and one shot by Aschieris to the inside edge of the right post later, the Irish booked their ticket to Louisville. Riley praised Lynn for his performance and for maintaining his composure in the play that led to the second goal. “Jack did great. He’s been playing well all year, he’s causing every team he plays against — the defense is worried about him. He put in another good performance [tonight] and great composure on the pass to lead to Ian’s goal,” Riley said. Lynn finished with two shots on target and one assist. Overall, Notre Dame outshot Clemson 14-7, forced Sutherland to make six saves and only needed one save from Turnbull. Riley liked what he saw from his team and noted that the composure of the Irish was key to the team’s good performance. “It was a mature performance, is what I would call it. We got the goals, I thought we were maybe unlucky not to get the second goal a little bit earlier, which would’ve made the challenge for Clemson a little bit steeper. We knew Clemson was going to be a good team, that’s an NCAA team, they’re a very good team so we knew it was going to be a tough game,”
from the 1-meter while the men switch to the 3-meter. The Irish will aim to continue their winning streak with a victory this weekend. For the women, an undefeated record is on the line. Meanwhile, the men will battle for the chance to surface above .500 for the first time this season. Friday’s events start at 5 p.m. inside the Rolfs Aquatic Center, while Saturday’s competition will begin at 11 a.m.
Riley said. “It was just a mature performance, there was good composure, [we] created a lot of quality chances, and we were fortunate to put two away.” The Irish will now head to fourth-seeded Louisville on
Sunday in an ACC quarterfinal matchup. Riley showed a lot of respect for the Cardinals and expects to see his team put up a fight. “[Louisville]’s got some good athleticism out wide, they’re just solid, well coached. We’ll
be away from home, we’ve had good success away from home so, I think we’ll see an exciting Irish performance down at Louisville on Sunday.” Contact Charlie Ortega Guifarro at cortegag@nd.edu
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certainly deserve that, based on the returning team they have, it’s very close to the exact team they had when we played them here last year for the championship,” Jackson said of the Buckeyes. “They’re an experienced team and they have a lot of talent, and at this point — I said it’s a work in progress — but it’s all about us right now. It’s about us getting better in certain parts of our game, I talked to our guys today about the importance of improving on specific aspects of our game that we have to focus on over the next couple months.” The Big Ten currently has six teams ranked in the top 20, and for Jackson, the chances of Notre Dame repeating as conference champions will certainly be a tall order. “We probably still have a target on our back, and probably even bigger one since we won the league last year, but I think that the conference as a whole — I mean you look at Michigan State knocking off Cornell last weekend — I don’t think there’s a weak link in our conference, and we’re going to beat each other up for the next three months,” Jackson said. “There’s a lot of good teams in the Big Ten, and anybody could potentially win the league and anybody could finish in last place, and maybe a differential of half a dozen points, by the end of the year.” Most teams in the conference seem to have improved over the offseason, Jackson said. “It’ll be interesting to see how the conference goes now that we’re starting conference play,” he said. “I think that Minnesota is going to be much improved, Wisconsin is young but improved, Michigan State’s improved, Penn State’s an experienced team — they’re almost
like Ohio State and Minnesota is to some degree, too, they had a little bit of an off year last year, if you can call it that for them. But I think everyone in the conference, and Michigan is going to be a high-tempo team, explosive team. So I couldn’t predict what’s going to happen over the next three months in the Big Ten, I think it’s going to be extremely interesting.” While Notre Dame started the season brightly, blanking No. 3 Providence to win the Ice Breaker Championship 3-0 on Oct. 13, before sweeping Omaha on the road with a combined score of 12-3, the Irish hit a road block at home against the Bulldogs (6-1-1), particularly struggling to handle the speed and pressure Duluth exhibited. Jackson said Notre Dame still has a number of kinks in its game to iron out before the Irish can consistently produce. “It’s not going to change overnight, it takes time to develop specific fundamental skills,” he said. “We need to get better with our defensive sticks, which was one of our fortes last year, we need to do a better job of protecting the puck and being strong over the puck and making strong plays with the puck, but we need to focus on these things and continue to pound them in our guys’ heads.” Just because one part of the game was a strong point for last year’s team does not mean it will carry over to the ice this year, Jackson said. “One of the crazy things for me is that every year, even though you have returning guys, it’s like you almost start over again, and it’s like retraining them,” he said. “They go away for four months in the offseason and they play summer hockey — call it shinny — and it’s all fun and stuff, but they get away from all of those details that you learn throughout the year, and it’s like relearning to ride the bike at some points.
… Until we clean that up, we’re going to struggle against good teams until we clean up the parts of the game that we need to clean up, and maybe that’ll happen.” Jackson is particularly looking for his team to improve in terms of keeping up with fastpaced teams, he said. “They surprised me in how they played against Providence the second game of the season after playing high-risk hockey the night before. There’s a lot of factors that I wonder about the Duluth weekend,” Jackson said. “First of all, they’re an extremely fast and very good hockey team, and they’re experienced, they returned a lot of guys. So, I thought they broke us down because of their speed and because of the pressure, they pressure the puck as well as any team in the country, and we’ll see more of that against Ohio State this weekend. We just have to keep working on things to break that pressure, so we can make plays and score goals, and that’ll be the challenge.” A particular facet that the Irish have yet to consistently produce results in is the power play, where the Irish went 0-for-6 against the Bulldogs in last Saturday’s 3-1 loss. Jackson said working on special teams is just as much a mental battle as a physical one. “That’s something that our
guys have got to be able to make adjustments based on the pressure that the opposing team is applying. We did score one on Friday, but Saturday night, especially having a five on three, is extremely disappointing,” he said. “I think at that time Duluth was in our mind a little bit with the pressure that they applied, and I think that we didn’t fight through it. And that’s something that again, we have to get better at, just because we didn’t score on the first three, we can still go onefor-four, and it starts in practice. … I’m always reminding them, ‘Hey, the next power play is just as important as the first three,’ so we got to get in that mindset that we can go out and not automatically be frustrated before we get on the ice, just because of the previous power plays.” Jackson also commented on the news released this week that Notre Dame will play its third-ever outdoor game this coming January when the Irish take on Michigan on Jan. 5. The matchup with the Wolverines will take place in Notre Dame Stadium, the first-ever outdoor game to be hosted by the program. Jackson said the team is “extremely excited and pleased” to get the opportunity to go “back to the roots of the game” in front of plenty of Notre Dame faithful.
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“It’s something that’s been talked about ever since they put in the field turf in the stadium, and I know that [Notre Dame athletic director] Jack Swarbrick has always said that that’s something that we wanted to try and achieve. With the Winter Classic being at the Stadium it’s only natural that we get a chance to play in the Stadium,” he said. “It’s probably going to be a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing, certainly the first and maybe the last, who knows. But it will be a great experience for our guys, … so I’m hoping that all the Notre Dame alumni, football fans, everybody gets involved, comes and tailgates, and makes it a great experience.” With three months before the game, Jackson said he hopes Notre Dame’s rival doesn’t end up with more representation at the matchup. “Michigan is already pumping it out there as far as trying to get as many Michigan fans [as possible] into the stadium, and I don’t want to have more Michigan fans than Notre Dame fans in our own building,” he said. The Irish will face-off against the Buckeyes this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Compton Family Ice Arena. Contact Tobias Hoonhout at thoonhou@nd.edu
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Irish freshman forward Alex Steeves skates behind the net during Notre Dame Dame’s 3-1 defeat to Minnesota-Duluth at Compton Family Ice Arena on Saturday. Steeves has seven shots this season.
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Notre Dame to host ND beats Clemson, exhibition game advances to quarterfinals By JOE EVERETT Sports Editor
Notre Dame will take to its home court for the first time this year when it faces off against Central State this Thursday in the team’s only exhibition game before the regular season. After an offseason that featured a trip to the Bahamas, the Irish are most recently coming off a scrimmage against Cincinnati on Sunday — an opportunity Irish head coach Mike Brey believes was beneficial for the team. “We were in a hard game against a really tough, physical opponent,” Brey said. “We were disappointed we didn’t win, but I think that it was a hard-fought game, came down to game situations, and nothing was very easy against them and it was physical — I liked that we had that already.” Heading into the 2018-19 campaign, the Irish feature a young squad this year with six members who have yet to play
in a Notre Dame uniform. Brey knows that this season will be a process of tinkering with lineups and developing his largely inexperienced personnel, and reminded everyone that it will take some time. “I think this group’s going to be answering us a lot during the non-league, since we just have so many new faces,” Brey said. “ … I remind myself: patience. It’s a really neat group of unproven guys that are trying their darndest, and I think we could be in that a while — trying to figure this out.” The losses of the Bonzie Colson and Matt Farrell, two leading scorers from last year’s team, to graduation have left a void for offensive roles. “Where our scoring comes from — I think that’s still going to be a search for a while, and I’ve got to keep an open mind and keep looking at stuff, experimenting with lineups and with the number of guys we see M BBALL PAGE 9
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Irish junior midfielder Tommy McCabe leaps for a header during Notre Dame’s 1-0 overtime loss to North Carolina on Sept. 21.
Fifth-seeded Notre Dame defeated the No. 12 seed, Clemson, 2-0 at home on Wednesday night to advance to the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. The Irish obtained a brace from senior forward Ian Aschieris and booked a trip to face No. 4 seed Louisville on Sunday. The Irish got off to a quick start after scoring a mere 100 seconds into the game. Senior defender Sean Dedrick crossed the ball from the right flank into the box. His low cross was met by Aschieris, who headed in a shot just inside the right post and past Clemson goalkeeper Jonny Sutherland to give the Irish a 1-0 lead. Irish head coach Chad Riley praised Aschieris for his effectiveness up front for the Irish. “This is his first real season. see M SOCCER PAGE 10
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Irish to open conference play against Ohio State By TOBIAS HOONHOUT
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Coming off a sobering home sweep at the hands of No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth in a rematch of last year’s national championship, No. 5 Notre Dame now faces another tough test as the Irish (3-2-1) open conference play: No. 7 Ohio State, who pushed the Irish to overtime in the Big Ten tournament championship game. Notre Dame went on a historic run last season in its first year in the Big Ten, including a program-record 16-game win streak that saw the Irish capture both the regular season and tournament crowns. But for Irish head coach Jeff Jackson, this time around, the Buckeyes (3-2-1) are just the beginning of the gauntlet. “It’s a conference series obviously, but it’s not going to be much different from the Duluth series. You’re talking about the team that was picked to be first in the conference, they see HOCKEY PAGE 11
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Irish senior forward Bobby Nardella looks down the ice to pass during Notre Dame’s 3-1 loss to Minnesota-Duluth on Saturday.
The Notre Dame swimming and diving program will host its second-consecutive meet when the Pittsburgh Panthers and Virginia Tech Hokies visit South Bend this weekend. The Irish, coming off a home sweep of Purdue, will not have to travel for the secondstraight weekend as the competition comes to the Rolfs Aquatic Center. The upcoming meet will pit the Irish against ACC foes for the second time in the young season. In their first ACC matchup against Georgia Tech and Miami last month, the Irish swept the competition in Atlanta. Notre Dame’s second home meet will be a two-day dual meet against the Hokies and the Panthers. The three programs previously met in the regular season in November of 2016. In that meet in Pittsburgh, the Irish women claimed two victories while the men defeated Pittsburgh. On the women’s side, the
No. 13 Irish are coming off a dominant performance in which they claimed first place in 12 events against the Boilermakers. After dominating Purdue by the final score of 190-110, the Irish women face stiff competition from the Hokies and Panthers. The Irish women are undefeated to start the season, now holding a 5-0-1 mark through six meets. The lone tie came against Indiana, who is currently ranked No. 9 in the nation. The No. 18 Irish men, who started the season 0-3, falling to Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri in Bloomington, have bounced back to win their last two meets. Notre Dame carries that momentum into a challenging meet against No. 25 Pittsburgh and a Virginia Tech team that is fresh off a win against No. 10 Ohio State. The meet kicks off on Friday with eight swimming events and two diving events. Both the men and women will compete see SWIM & DIVE PAGE 10