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Saint Mary’s hosts autism workshop Friday’s event regarded as largest “disability-related training of this magnitude in this area ever” By JORDAN COCKRUM News Writer
Saint Mary’s hosted nearly 600 participants Friday in its Introduction to Pivotal Response Treatment workshop in O’Laughlin Auditorium. Stanford University researchers Bob and Lynn Koegel, who developed Pivotal Response Treatment — an approach to autism intervention that targets certain aspects of development, rather than individual behaviors — provided level-one certification for participants upon completion of the workshop. “One of the things that’s really important in this community is that we have a lot of really talented people who are thirsting for knowledge about the most cutting-edge approaches to working with individuals with autism,”
Master of Autism Studies faculty fellow Joshua John Diehl, said. “And so, by setting up something like this, it’s creating opportunities that this community wouldn’t otherwise have.” This event was made possible by collaboration among the Master of Autism Studies program, the department of communicative sciences and disorders, LOGAN Autism Services — a learning center that offers education and resources to individuals with developmental disabilities — Special Friends of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s and the Students Supporting Autism group. Pivotal Response Treatment provided the workshop free-ofcost and only required registration to partake in the training, Diehl said. see WORKSHOP PAGE 3
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Stanford University researcher Bob Koegel speaks at the Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) training workshop in O’Laughlin Auditorium on Friday. The workshop provided certification for participants.
Bishop examines role of faith for young adults By NATALIE WEBER News Editor
While often raised in religious traditions, many young people, known as the “Nones” do not identify with any single faith. Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire ministries, is seeking to evangelize this population, he said in a lecture at Leighton Concert Hall on Monday.
“ … The situation of young former Catholics is at the same time, something of an indictment of our educational, catechetical strategies, and I believe this, at the same time, a real Kairos,” he said. “It’s a privileged moment to connect with young people. It’s a call to action. It’s all of that at the same time.” Citing the research of Notre Dame professor Christian Smith,
Barron explored the trends amongst formerly Catholic young adults. One finding, he said, was that most people in this demographic believe in a god of some sort. However, he said, many do not have a clear sense of who God is, revealing a “rather deep confusion.”
Community march promotes political activism
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Conference links youth culture, religious practice By KELLI SMITH News Writer
A three-day conference dedicated to examining cultural influences on young people and equipping the church with a renewed missionary creativity started Monday in McKenna Hall. Themed “Cultures of
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Formation,” the conference is hosted by the McGrath Institute for Church Life, which brought in speakers including Bishop Robert Barron from the archdiocese of Los Angeles, Nicholas Carr — a technology and culture writer and previous finalist of the Pulitzer Prize — associate director of youth ministry for the archdiocese of Atlanta Katherine
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Angulo and filmmaker Joe Campo. John Cavadini, director of the McGrath Institute, said the conference is bringing in people from different areas of youth culture to try to propose a paradigm shift in ways the church can engage young people. see CONFERENCE PAGE 4
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Students meet before participating in the Dream SB march on Friday. The march was organized in support of a “clean” Dream act. By ANDREW CAMERON News Writer
Over 90 students and members of the South Bend community marched from Notre Dame to downtown South Bend on Friday, rallying for the passing of a “clean” Deferred Action
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for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act and demanding representation from Indiana senators Todd Young and Joe Donnelly and representative Jackie Walorski. The march, led by student grassroots campaign Dream SB, first met in see MARCH PAGE 4
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Lecture examines Tibetology By EVAN DaCOSTA News Writer
The life and legacy of founder of Tibetology Alexander Csoma de Koros were topics of discussion during a lecture in Jenkins and Nanovic Halls on Monday. Professor of theology emeritus and fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian studies Robert Gimello hosted the event, titled “A Protestant Scholar or a Buddhist Bodhisattva: Csoma’s Life and Works.” Professor Imre Hamar, a Professor of Chinese Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, said Csoma de Koros has great significance to the people of Hungary, who see him as a prominent national hero. Hamar said a debate exists over Csoma de Koros’s involvement with Buddhism, particularly over whether Csoma de Koros was a true follower of Tibetan Buddhism or a Protestant scholar. “For most Hungarians, Csoma is not so much a scholar who founded a new discipline, but a national hero who dedicated his life to find the true homeland of the Hungarian people,” Hamar said. “His main motivation was to find the origins of the Hungarian people.”
The Hungarian people were originally nomads from Asia, and Csoma de Koros sought to understand the origins of both the Hungarian language and people, Hamar said. To do this, he travelled east to Asia, and eventually Tibet. Csoma de Koros was born in 1784 in a small village near the border of the Ottoman Empire, Hamar said. He was born to a Szekler family whose ethnicity held the ancient responsibility for defending Hungary’s borders against invaders. Instead of becoming a border guard, as was his obligation, he earned a scholarship to a Protestant school, Hamar said. During his time at college, Csoma de Koros became increasingly appreciative of the Hungarian people and language, and his desire to understand the roots of the Hungarian people grew. After spending some time studying Slavic languages in Europe, Csoma de Koros travelled from Hungary, through the Middle East, Persia and India before finally arriving in Tibet. It was at the command of a British officer, William Moorcroft, that Csoma de Koros began his studies in Tibetology specifically, Hamar said. Csoma de Koros compiled a Tibetan alphabet
and book of grammar, “Alphabetum Tibetanum.” The book was intended to aid missionaries in their work in Tibet, Hamar said, although the main motif of the book was the struggle against many Protestant teachings. Hamar said Csoma de Koros was one of the first Europeans to bring Tibetan Buddhist teachings back to Europe, and he worked in three different monasteries in Ladakh, India. The Alexander books, which he wrote, were compilations of questions he had for his Lama — or teacher — in Ladakh, and his Lama’s answers. In 1834, he published the first Tibetan-English Dictionary. These were some of the first texts that were direct interactions between Eastern and Western thinking, Hamar said. “The Liu Institute was very glad to have an introduction by a leading expert into an important figure in the history of European knowledge of Asia, who is not well known in the western world except in Hungary, so we have the opportunity because of Professor Hamar’s lecture to learn more about this heroic figure,” Gimello said. Contact Evan DaCosta at edacosta@nd.edu
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Architecture project reconstructs Aleppo By TEAGAN DILLON News Writer
As part of their design studio, nine architecture students are engaging in a semester-long project aimed towards reconstructing Aleppo, Syria, a city destroyed by years of civil war. Associate professor of architecture Lucien Steil, who leads the project, said it aligns with the University’s mission of using architecture to create a better world. “Taking a war zone and imagining how we can rebuild it, that was really the challenge we took in this class,” Steil said. “Learning about non-Western architecture — Arabic architecture — and developing an understanding of the things that are important for different cultures.” Before the designing began, the fourth-year students researched how other post-war cities were reconstructed to gain inspiration. Then they turned towards Arabic architecture specifically, studying the city prior to any bombings versus the city today, Steil said. They noted weather and traffic patterns, completed character studies of buildings and developed damage
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“If any individual that came to this conference were to want to get this training, it would cost
assessments. “When we do projects, often we work in places we don’t know,” Steil said. “The project is an opportunity to discover a place. The students never would have known how the fabric is organized, how the buildings are structured, how public space versus private is organized, but just by engaging with the project they get more interested in learning about it.” After splitting up in groups of three for initial planning, the class came together to develop a single master plan. “The design we’re proposing is part new construction, part reconstruction of what’s already existing,” senior Madeleine Donohue, a student enrolled in the class, said. “It’s centered around a new square with a trade school, and from there it would become the tourism center of the city.” The design brings a lot of life to the city by adding a large marketplace, an educational aspect with the trade school and incorporating urban landscapes, Donohue said. With the master plan completed, each student is given a building to design further. While Donohue is designing a hotel, some of her
classmates are designing the trade school, market or shops and apartments. “The project just goes to show what a positive effect architecture and urban design can have on the world and how we live,” she said. “Aleppo is still home to so many people, and in the design we really tried to be respectful of what they need and what makes them comfortable. In the end, the goal of the project was just to design something that makes them feel at home in their city.” Once the project is complete, Steil said he plans on proposing it for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, an award that identifies and encourages building concepts that meet the needs of communities in which Muslims have a significant presence. While Steil is helping students with the idea of reconstructing physically, he is also reminding them to think about how they can make the world an even better place and stronger community, he said. “Talking about reconstruction kind of gives this signal for peace and for reconciliation,” Steil said. “You don’t wait until people are
them about $3,000 apiece,” Diehl said. “So the fact that we can get so many people trained and enrich people from all different disciplines, it makes a huge impact on the community.” Diehl said the financial burden
lifted by this workshop contributed to the incredible turnout. “As far as I know — and I have talked to people at LOGAN, and I have been here for a decade — there has never been disabilityrelated training of this magnitude
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Associate professor of architecture Lucien Steil leads a design studio with students centered around reconstructing Aleppo, Syria.
reconciled, you start building so that people can live together again and have to work it out.” By designing durable cities and adaptable buildings and using regional influences to give buildings identity, architecture can create strong communities and make the world a better place, dean of the School of Architecture, Michael Lykoudis, said.
By participating in a reconstruction project, fourth-year architecture students are given the opportunity to put this idea into practice, he said. “Aleppo is a place of suffering and, where there’s suffering, architects can heal,” Lykoudis said.
in this area ever,” Diehl said. “The number of people that attended and were affected at no cost is just phenomenal.” Director of the Master of Autism Studies program, Michael Waddell, said he was aware there would be community interest, but the turnout almost doubled what he had anticipated. “All of the reports that I received [Friday] talking to people during the event and after the event indicated that they had a really good experience, that they enjoyed being on campus at Saint Mary’s and that they thought this training would be very beneficial for them in their various schools and clinics and other organizations in the community,” Waddell said. In having a larger turnout than first anticipated, event planning needed to account for potential difficulties, Waddell said. “There was an awful lot of thought and planning that went into the event, and we tried to anticipate every kind of problem that might arise,” he said. “Because there was so much thought put into the planning, I think we had measures in place to address just about every need that there was.” Waddell said while the particular benefit to the participants varies, he sees two major benefits that attendees received. “I think for some people, it was really beneficial to understand the sort of theory that underpins Pivotal Response Treatment, and then to be introduced to the scientific evidence base for the success of that theory in providing autism intervention,” Waddell said. “For other people in the audience, what was probably most beneficial was the fact that in addition to giving us the theoretical underpinnings and the scientific
evidence for the efficacy of Pivotal Response Treatment, the Koegels also gave a lot of concrete, practical suggestions about ways that you could implement Pivotal Response Treatment in schools, in clinics, even in home and out in the community.” Pivotal Response Treatment in particular has a “broad applicability,” Diehl said, as it acknowledges both the needs of both young children and adults. “What’s great about this particular approach is that it comes across disciplines in a language that people can communicate across disciplines,” Diehl said. “Not only that, but it is a kind of approach that can be used by family and loved ones in their work with their loved one who has autism.” Waddell said this program fills a need created by the increasing diagnoses of autism in children. In the future, the Master of Autism Studies program intends to continue to host a couple workshops a year to address this growing need, he said. “In a situation where autism is becoming common in society, obviously there is tremendous need for understanding autism and providing the best services for autistic people and their families,” Waddell said. “The only way that that is possible is if we are providing the best training and the best education about autism and about autism interventions. So really, this is something which is an essential part of responding to the social phenomena of increasing need for understanding and serving autistic individuals and their families.”
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front of the steps of Notre Dame’s Main Building before convening in front of Holy Cross with students and faculty from Holy Cross and Saint Mary’s. From there, the attendees marched nearly two miles to Senator Donnelly’s office. About 36 students initially met at Notre Dame, many of whom were associated with Dream SB, and distributed handmade posters. Freshman Grace Stephenson said the members of Dream SB are enrolled in a class offered by the Center for Social Concerns titled “Advocacy for the Common Good.” “This year the whole class of 40 people rallied around one social issue, which is that of DACA students and the need for a clean DREAM Act in America,” she said. “We’re marching today to get all three presidents of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross to sign our petition for senator Donnelly, senator Young and representative Walorski to honor their constituents’ wishes and push for a clean DREAM Act.” The march marks the second event hosted by Dream SB, following a prayer vigil to show support for DACA beneficiaries. “We’re marching in solidarity and marching to show that we, as students of all three campuses and members of the South Bend community, really want them to honor our wishes,” Stephenson said. Holy Cross freshman Juan Aguirre said he was happy with the event’s attendance. “A lot of the students who decided to attend were not DACA students,” he said. “It was just amazing how there were students from Holy Cross and Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame and we were all able to come together for one purpose, which is
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“I’ve found in my own work with young people that the Augustian anthropology ‘Lord, you have made us for yourself, therefore the heart is restless until it rests in you,’ still provides a good deal of traction,” he said. “People instinctively know that none of the goods of this world finally satisfy the longing for joy that’s hard-wired into them. Tapping into this delicious dissatisfaction, if I can riff on a theme of C.S. Lewis, ought to be central to any program of our evangelizing of the young.” Barron said young, former Catholics often have religiously diverse family and friends, referencing Smith’s research. For fear of conflict, they avoid religious discussions, Barron said, and consequently, believe religion results in one of two extremes: violence or “bland toleration.” Barron said an alternative is religious argument. “One can marshal evidence, form hypotheses, cite authorities, make illuminating analogies, draw conclusions — in a word, one can make arguments religiously,” he said. “And contra Kant, it
advocating for dreamers. I also am a dreamer, so this is pretty important for me. Just being able to be here is amazing.” Following an introduction by Holy Cross senior vice president Michael Griffin, College President Fr. David Tyson delivered a blessing and announced his support for the purpose of the march. In an interview, Griffin said this event aligns with the mission of Holy Cross. “Fr. Tyson was one of the first signers of this petition to say that part of a just society is the recognition of human dignity for all,” he said. “This is a deep part of our Catholic identity.” During the nearly two-mile walk from Holy Cross to Donnelly’s office in downtown South Bend, the marchers carried brightly-colored signs and chanted “No dreams, no deal,” “Defend DACA,” “si se puede” and other chants, cheering when a passing car would honk in support. Several other supporters were already present at senator Donnelly’s office when the procession arrived. The attendees, numbering just over 90, gathered on the sidewalk by the entrance to the office, continuing to chant. Holy Cross junior Jacqueline Navarro addressed the crowd. Editor’s Note: Navarro is a former News writer for The Observer. “I’m sick and tired of waiting,” she said. “I’m sick and tired of waiting for somebody else to determine my future. … I think all of us are in the same boat right now. We want to know what’s going to happen to our families, not just us. There are 11 million undocumented people in America, and we don’t want a bill that will criminalize our parents. I feel like it’s time for Congress to stop playing games with us. It’s time for them to act.” Contact Andrew Cameron at acamero2@nd.edu
matters very much what we believe in regard to doctrine. Why? Ethical imperatives are grounded finally in certain metaphysical and anthropological convictions. Just as flowers will eventually wither once they’re removed from the plant that sustains them, so ethical principles will as they are disassociated from a doctrinal framework.” Many of the “Nones” subscribe to relativism, hindering them from committing to any single religion, Barron said. “In the measure I cannot or will not decide, I can remain permanently uncommitted,” he said. “But see, when we see this precisely in the religious context, we see how debilitating it is, for it means irresponsibility in regard to the highest and most important things. Not to take a judgment, not to take a stand.” Former Catholics often object to the religion on the grounds that faith is incompatible with reason, Barron said. In part, he said, this trend can be traced to a “dumbing down” of Catholicism and a failure to cultivate the intellectual aspects of Catholicism. Contact Natalie Weber at nweber@nd.edu
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“A lot of times, parishes hire a youth minister or a young adult minister, and then that’s that,” Cavadini said. “That’s really not enough at all. Instead, we should be thinking about all of the cultures that are associated with the church like the family, the Mass [and] church-schools, as all of these are cultures that form young people, and we should think of them more intentionally as cultures of formation.” As a resource that reaches out from the University to the church, the McGrath institute is trying to make the church’s spiritual wisdom accessible to renew Catholic leadership, Cavadini said. “A lot of the people who do the real work of the church aren’t in the spotlight, but we’re giving them an opportunity to share their views and their ideas,” he said. “I think that some of these people have worked hard and have labored and are very creative but are not well-known. What personally excites me the most is giving them a little chance at the spotlight.” Leonard DeLorenzo, director of undergraduate studies at the McGrath Institute, said the idea for the conference began to develop two years ago when Pope Francis dedicated the upcoming Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, an annual congregation held by the Pope, to the theme of young people, the faith and vocational discernment. “We wanted to host a
conference that helps to prepare for that [synod] to help especially the American church, bishops, pastoral leaders and scholars in the academy to think deeply about this important topic and give our best efforts in terms of our intellectual effort and our ministerial effort to thinking about how to support, engage and really guide young people into the fullness of the Catholic life,” DeLorenzo said. The conference’s theme was chosen, DeLorenzo said, to think about the kind of environment created in parishes, schools, liturgies and family life that can influence young people to encounter and respond to God’s call. “There’s a lot of things in our lives that might be inclining us in other directions and kind of deafening us or blinding us to the richness of the faith,” he said. “So how do we create the right kind of conditions and cultures to make it easier for young people to be Catholic — not to make the Catholic faith or life easier, but to make it easier to recognize and respond to it?” Though the keynote lectures by Barron and Carr are ticketed, DeLorenzo said, Barron’s was live streamed through social media Monday and Carr’s will be live streamed to the lower level of McKenna Hall on Tuesday afternoon. He said all other sessions are free to attend. With about 550 participants attending — including 26 bishops, leaders from all across church life and college campus ministers — DeLorenzo said the conference is bringing together people who provide leadership for the life of Paid Advertisement
the church in different ways to think about a critically important issue. “I suppose the outcome is to think about the cultures that we’re creating and not simply about the program or the messages that we might try to get across,” he said. “It might actually involve really deep, kind of substantial, almost seismic shifting type work in all aspects of church life.” The people coming together for the conference, DeLorenzo said, all have a fundamental trust in the power of their faith, which he thinks will help present and represent the beauty of the Christian faith for generations to come. “It’s pretty easy to get into a mourning mode in the church that we’re losing this and we’re losing that and people are leaving the church,” DeLorenzo said. “And it’s all true, we have to take this really seriously, but we also have to look joyfully at what we’ve received and what we have to pass on because it’s the most beautiful thing that there is.” DeLorenzo said engaging the church and opening up the University for it is consistent with what University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh said Notre Dame is — a place where the church comes to do its thinking. “I’m excited, I suppose, about living up to Fr. Hesburgh’s vision of Notre Dame and allowing the McGrath Institute for Church Life to be the host for that at Notre Dame,” DeLorenzo said. Contact Kelli Smith at ksmith67@nd.edu
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Over Christmas break, in a moment of inspiration, I decided to sign up to run the Holy Half. I enjoy running, but by no means have I ever been considered athletic. I attempted to run cross country in high school. I was plagued by stress fractures every year, and I would always hang up my running shoes a few weeks into the season. I was nervous that with a consistent training regimen my stress fractures would reoccur, but with new insoles in my running shoes, so far I have been fracture-free. After training for several weeks now, I have come to recognize familiar faces as I run around the lakes. With a soft smile and a wave, I feel a sense of camaraderie with the people who run at the same time as me every afternoon. I have many friends who are also planning on running the Holy Half. This has sparked many conversations and debates about running and training. The sense of community among runners at Notre Dame is strong. When visiting campus, my parents have commented on how active students at Notre Dame are, and I feel as though this is amplified around this time of year. The weather is warming up, the sun is shining and people are itching to get outside. I wonder if students all over the country are this active, but I think the Notre Dame mentality of always striving to be the best version of yourself plays a big role here. This helps students stick to their training plans. When you see your friends and countless other people getting outside and running every day, you are much more motivated to do the same. Along with an increased sense of community, training for the Holy Half has given me more of an appreciation for the beauty of Notre Dame’s campus. I am an introvert, and the time I spend running is often the only hour of true solitude I get each day. I prefer to run without headphones or music, just my thoughts. This time I spend with myself clears my head, and I often come up with great ideas or solutions to problems I am having while out for a run. This silence has also forced me to take in my surroundings around campus. So many other times while walking around campus I am distracted by a million other things, but in my time running I have truly been able to take in all the details of campus that I had previously overlooked. I am looking forward to running the Holy Half in a little over a month. I know the sense of accomplishment I will have upon finishing will be worth all the long runs I have pushed myself through this semester. And hey, maybe I will finally be able to consider myself athletic once and for all. For anyone who is willing and able, I highly recommend training for the Holy Half. You won’t regret it. Contact Claire Kopischke at ckopisch@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily of The Observer.
Dear Fr. Jenkins, You are, no doubt, aware that many students are now calling upon the University to provide them with simple contraceptives, even if they are not insured through Notre Dame. Their demands logically follow from your recent statement, which incorrectly justified the provision of a grave moral evil on the basis of personal choice. These groups rightly argue if those covered by Notre Dame’s insurance have the ability to make their own choices about contraception, why cannot all students make this same choice? Your decision blurred very clear lines of Catholic teaching and has made it almost impossible to correctly communicate the Church’s authoritative position on this serious issue. On this campus, many students each year make the laudable decision to enter the Catholic Church. Before receiving the Sacraments, these catechumens go through a period of preparation, during which they learn Catholic morality, including the rejection of the grave moral evil of contraception. Just as this teaching is difficult for many Catholics to accept, it is equally difficult for catechumens to receive, and it is especially challenging when prominent Catholic figures of authority, such as yourself, have cast significant doubt upon the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church. These catechumens and, indeed, all students at Notre Dame need you to be a firm, shining example of the goodness, truth and beauty of Church teaching and lead them to the fullness of life with Christ. The Church’s rejection of contraception is rooted in her teaching on the beauty of human sexuality and conjugal love. Intercourse is to be practiced only within the confines of the indissoluble bond of marriage, where it is an outgrowth of the total, free, faithful and fruitful love promised in the marriage vows. In accord with the Church, Du Lac, which every student agreed to obey when coming to Notre Dame, reiterates this teaching and calls unmarried students to chastity by total abstinence and married students to chastity within marriage. The Church bans contraception because it distorts the marital act, rendering it neither total nor fruitful, and weakens the institution of marriage by increasing the prevalence of premarital intercourse and infidelity. Couples using contraception do not totally give themselves, as they withhold their fertility from each other. In this way, contraception distorts the purpose and authenticity of intercourse, which signifies the complete gift of self between a couple. In addition, the very point of contraception is to sterilize the marital act, thus preventing the love from becoming fruitful and bearing new life. As Pope Saint John Paul II declared in Gratissimam Sane, “The two dimensions of conjugal union, the unitive and the procreative, cannot be artificially separated without damaging the deepest truth of the conjugal act itself.” This severance of total self-gift and procreation from intercourse has led to the hookup culture, where fleeting sexual encounters are sought to maximize personal pleasure with no obligation of fidelity. Contraception thwarts the natural ends of sex, thus diminishing the inherent obligations and consequences of the act. Therefore, many see little reason to abstain until marriage.
With this mindset, women especially, far from being liberated and respected, are treated as objects for pleasure to be used and discarded without due consideration for their dignity. As Pope Paul VI correctly predicted when stating the Church’s opposition to contraception in Humanae Vitae, “a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.” Although the teaching on contraception may be difficult to accept, especially in the modern world, it is definitively settled and offers the truth about human nature and the path to salvation with Christ. Catholic teaching on sexuality is not merely a restriction, but it is an invitation to genuine freedom and full humanity. We are called to reserve intercourse for marriage where, unhindered by contraception, it is the most complete expression of the total love between the spouses and an opportunity to share in the life-generating power of God. The students and faculty on this campus deserve a clear statement on this issue and support for living out this teaching from their University. Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, authoritatively declared, “I wish to remind all the faithful of the diocese, including the faithful who are part of the Notre Dame community, of the Church’s definitive teaching that ‘every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible is intrinsically evil.’” As the head of the nation’s most prominent Catholic university, you are called to guide those students entrusted to your care. As a priest, your primary responsibility is to lead others, especially your students and faculty, to Christ. You have failed in this duty by opening the door to sin and sowing confusion among the student body. As Pope Paul VI warned those in favor of contraception, “let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings — and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation — need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.” I hope you will consider clarifying the truth of the Lord you serve on this grave moral evil of contraception because many souls are in danger as a result of your actions. I humbly beg you to courageously proclaim the true teachings of your Holy Mother the Church.
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I spy with my little eye Erin Shang Brave New World
It is 4 p.m. Somewhere, the radio is playing “Mr. Brightside.” I am sitting at the new cafe shop in Duncan Student Center, drinking a 12 oz. vanilla latte. I just got out of class. The Notre Dame student center is just like that at any other university, swamped with college kids in hoodies and khakis, casually gathering around a cafe and chatting about college and life. But not today. Today is a little bit special, because first you’ll notice the people in suits here. Feeling a blow of wind, I see the entrance swing open. A group of suits solemnly walks in. Their hair is greasy from styling gels, their black-leathered shoes are polished, but they are twisting their sweating hands with unconvincing smiles on their faces that are segmented into two — nervous and confident, nervous and unconfident. The mid-February rain drips down from the South Bend sky. Beneath the tilted eaves of Duncan, a suited man with his briefcase yells angrily into his phone while walking into Duncan and leaving muddy footprints after him. Another young man who shelters beneath an umbrella walks in and looks around with an apprehensive look on his face. A third one walks in, stops, wipes the sweat off his hands on the suit and shakes hands with the previous suit. At one moment, all of them stop and look outside, contemplating the rain. They wait for the rain to stop. All of the people in suits wait for the rain to stop. They are all heading toward one direction — the career fair upstairs. I’m skipping this one. Usually I don’t, but today I am skipping it. To be honest, though I’m a somewhat proud Mendoza student, I’ve never been a strong advocate for these kinds of career events — never been a huge fan. I’m sure you understand the pain of attending info sessions, or at least you’ve heard of it. As soon as the door of that small room opens, the group of suits who are already lining
up eagerly floods in. Of course, you don’t want to be left behind and you follow them into the room. The air is stiff, and the desserts are not really good. Networking circles are worse, because you often feel trapped in it while hearing the boring answers to those meaningless questions others ask. You come forward with the sincerest smile you can fake and shake hands, but your mind is already drifting away. You get almost nothing valuable from this because the conversations are not spontaneous at all. Endless talking dries up your throat, but it’s the same for the professionals as well. Imagine this: after pulling two all-nighters, he gets on an early morning plane and comes straight to campus. While talking to those sophomores who literally know nothing, he is thinking about the feedback he got for his pitchbook, the amount of work he has to put in later and how his boss was yelling at him on the phone earlier today. At that point, all the candidates look about the same to him — in suits, holding padfolios, looking nervous. It’s impossible for him to remember anyone. Trust me, some of them dislike these events as much as you do. In fact, networking is not a new concept to me. I understand the importance of expanding one’s social network, especially building a professional network. However, what I described above should not be the correct way to network — I don’t even think that’s networking. Networking should be building sincere relationships that could benefit you in the future. If we take a totally utilitarian standpoint, the way students network during those career events produces little utility, not to mention the energy that gets exhausted in the process. What partially causes this problem are Notre Dame students themselves. Many of us dreaded info sessions and career events. The fear of not being able to land a job outweighed everything else. Before entering the room, you are already hopelessly trying to find that last straw on the back of a camel. Networking should never be the sole purpose of finding a job and should never be judged by a utilitarian
framework. Oftentimes, we forget the importance of having meaningful conversations with the people in the room. Somehow, we know how to chug beers with friends; we don’t know how to build a professional yet meaningful and lasting relationship with people anymore. I think relationships need to be nurtured and sustained through deliberate and careful efforts. When the students want the job too much, they then rationally chose to do irrational things. I’ve seen too many times how my peers, including myself, try to impress those professionals and then inevitably fail. I think we all know the rules, that you should neither ask questions that can be easily googled, nor do you want to act like you know everything. Somehow, we still can’t help ourselves. Humility is something we lack nowadays. Another part of the problem stems from the setup of those events. I don’t have so many pleasant memories with last fall’s career fair in the stadium. On one hand, students are encouraged to speak with as many firms as possible. On the other hand, given the ridiculously long lines at each booth, it is rather impossible to have meaningful conversations with a lot of people. It is equally as hard for the firms to scout talents from those career fairs as well. Even if they have the resumes collected, they couldn’t relate that to the faces. With a sigh, I see that rain continues to drip down from the sky, and I’m finishing up my latte. I wave to the suit coming into Duncan while shaking the rainwater off him. It’s getting dark outside, so I’m heading home. Erin Shang seeks to find the black and white from this world of messed up palette, the polygons from monotonous lines and passion from the shattered dreams in this brave new world we’re all living in. She is a sophomore studying finance and ACMS at Notre Dame, living in Cavanaugh Hall. Erin welcomes comments of any kind, and can be reached at yshang1@nd.edu. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Creationism and crayfish Ray Ramirez The Crooked Path
The First Amendment to the Constitution opens with a dual pledge of religious liberty: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The first part of this provision has come to be known as the Establishment Clause. While the “free exercise” of religion promised in the rest of the sentence has been taken by many to trump the Establishment Clause, those first 10 words have been heavily litigated and generally interpreted by courts as supporting Thomas Jefferson’s intent to erect a “wall of separation between Church and State.” To be clear, the prohibition regarding an establishment of religion only limits the actions of the government (federal and state, by virtue of the 14th Amendment) in supporting a specific religion. While government buildings may be restricted from displaying Nativity scenes or the oft-neglected Ten Commandments, individuals are free to display signs and symbols of their faith, and to proselytize within established norms of time, place and methodology. They are also free within religious institutions of learning to teach religion and to infuse every course in the curriculum with religious content, if they choose to do so. But in schools supported by the government, teaching should not favor or endorse the views of one religion over another. This tension between the constitutional dictates of the Establishment Clause and the usually well-intentioned efforts of proponents of religious education in public schools is most vividly displayed in disputes over the teaching of creationism. Teaching “creation science” in public schools has been outlawed since the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case of Edwards vs. Aguillard. The biblically-based creation science was easy to refute: Creation was attributed to the God of Genesis, the universe was pulled together in seven
days and any evidence to the contrary (e.g., fossils and millions of years of sediments) was also God’s doing. The clearest indication of the religious roots of creationism was its reference to God as the creator. In the following years, creationists regrouped, evolved and challenged the teaching of evolution with the concept of “intelligent design,” prudently stripped of references to God and religion. The dogma of intelligent design holds that the existence of this universe, and life as we know it, are too complex to be attributed to evolution and must be the purposeful work of an intelligent designer. Relabeling God as the intelligent designer gained some proponents, including schoolboards that were emboldened to attempt another assault on the Establishment Clause. The Dover, Pennsylvania, school district required ninth-grade biology students to be told that the theory of evolution was flawed and that intelligent design was an alternative. The strategy was not to remove evolution from the science curriculum (indeed, it was needed for standardized competency testing for high school students), but rather to proffer intelligent design as an alternative “scientific” approach to encourage critical thinking. While this may seem reasonable on its face, this approach ignores the nature of science as a rigorous, fact-based, data-driven discipline, and elevated the untestable body of work supporting intelligent design as being co-equal to science. The school board’s approach was challenged in court, and in 2005 the federal district court reviewing the matter held that intelligent design was not science, but a matter of religion. The presiding judge stated that the doctrine had “utterly no place in science curriculum.” In addition to losing the case, the school board in Dover was voted out as the trial wound down, but efforts to revive intelligent design sprang up in other states, such as Kansas. There, the state board of education supported teaching intelligent design by endorsing language suggesting that key concepts such as a common origin for all life on Earth and for species change were seen as controversial by the scientific
community (they’re not), and rewriting the definition of science as merely a search for rational explanations of what occurs in the universe. To its credit, Kansas reversed this effort just two years later, reviving Jefferson’s intent. More support for evolution comes from a surprising source — a crayfish born of a virgin. Dealers introduced a marbled crayfish into the German aquarium trade in the mid-1990s. Apparently it evolved from a species known as the slough crayfish, Procambarus fallax, which originated in Florida and Georgia. Unlike other members of the fallax species — or for that matter, any other crayfish — the new crayfish, which did not exist 25 years ago, has three sets of chromosomes and is capable of unisexual reproduction (parthenogenesis). Apparently a drastic mutation in one crayfish (perhaps caused by the extreme change in environments) produced the new marbled crayfish, Procambarus virginalis. The virginalis crayfish are clones of a single parent, each of which is capable of reproducing without a mate. Environmentalists are concerned that the new species will breed rapidly and displace other less-fit species. Ironically, these recently-evolved virgin clones likely carry the seeds of their own ultimate demise. They are identical copies of each other, and accordingly are susceptible to specieswide disease or parasites that might otherwise cause but a ripple in a more genetically-diverse population. Whether in 10 years or 10,000, they probably will cede their place to other more robust species. For crayfish and creationists alike, the inexorable and astonishing grind of evolution will continue apace, whether one chooses to believe it or not. Ray Ramirez is an attorney practicing, yet never perfecting, law in Texas while waiting patiently for a MacArthur Genius Grant. You may contact him at patrayram@sbcglobal.net 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: Step back and look at the big picture. It’s important to understand the magnitude of what you are trying to accomplish as a whole and to break it down into doable segments that will fit into your day-today schedule. Maintaining balance and integrity, and having the vision and the desire to do something beneficial, will make this year worthwhile. Your numbers are 7, 12, 23, 26, 31, 38, 47. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let impulsiveness get the best of you. Slow down and figure out the right way to handle situations that can affect your reputation or status. Speaking without accurate information will limit how to best move forward. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take the plunge and get things up and running. Work alone and forego joint financial endeavors. Take pride in what you can do and an opportunity will come your way. Don’t try to do the impossible. Protect against injury. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An opportunity will not be as good as declared. Do your homework before making a commitment that can tie up your time or cost you money. If you want to bring about positive changes, focus on personal growth and educational pursuits. CANCER ( June 21-July 22): You stand to gain if you participate in what’s going on around you. Networking functions and taking part in activities that include likeminded people are favored. Romance or personal improvements will highlight your day. LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let your generous nature get the best of you. Making others happy can be done without going into debt. The time you spend with the ones you love should be the greatest gift of all. What you provide is secondary. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Addressing matters concerning children, seniors and partners will bring about positive changes. An unusual opportunity will lead to personal gain. Get in touch with an old friend or relative, or sign up for an event that will improve your neighborhood. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sharing personal information or reconnecting with someone from your past will pose a problem for you. Focus on doing a good job and taking care of unfinished business. A compliment you receive could have ulterior motives attached. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time to have some fun, follow your heart and engage in activities that make you happy. Look at your prospects and pursue your dreams. The sky is the limit. If you reach high enough, you will reach your goal. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll be anxious to make some changes to your social life and future plans. Don’t let impulsiveness take over. You can only fit so much into your day. Falling short on a promise you made will lead to a negative response. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t underestimate others. Just when you think you have agreed on something, someone will make a last-minute change to throw you off guard. Don’t give in to something that doesn’t work for you. Walk away and do your own thing. AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s up to you to bring about change. Don’t wait for someone else to step in and take over. Size up the extent of what needs to be done, make sure your plans are within reason, and move forward with confidence. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Opportunity is knocking and the chance to make a financial gain is within reach. Check out your options, look at your resources and don’t get flustered if someone doesn’t see things the same way you do. Do your own thing. Birthday Baby: You are alert, innovative and charming. You are feisty and unpredictable.
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NBA, NFL minor leagues can work Daniel O’Boyle Sports Writer
Three Sports Authority columns. Three Observer Sports Writers. Two references to the Program of Liberal Studies. One slippery slope fallacy One invocation of Aristotle’s Golden Mean. 2,425 words. 20 em dashes. Some good ideas, but not one mention of the real problem. What just happened? Last week, this column was the scene of a heated debate between Tobias Hoonhout, Ben Padanilam and Marek Mazurek over paying collegiate athletes. Hoonhout’s argument that the NCAA’s recent failures prove a need to pay student-athletes recognized a serious problem, but his solution created issues of its own. Padanilam outlined those new problems skillfully, but his own solution of a renewed focus on amateurism would be so laughably ineffective he may as well have been ignoring the problem entirely. Mazurek’s Aristotelian solution offered the best ideas yet, but allowing agents and image rights is still looking at the wrong issue entirely. Because this isn’t an NCAA problem; it’s a problem with professional leagues like the NBA. Why do the best young athletes in the nation need to play in college at all? There’s no doubt that the likes of Deandre Ayton make a huge amount of money for their schools, their coaches, their conferences and the NCAA. There’s simply no way it’s fair to have those top-tier stars living below the poverty line, as 86 percent of student-athletes do while others profit off their success. Selling image rights could get around this, but is far too easy to exploit in its own way. Why come up with a whole new set of rules to police image rights when you could just let athletes turn pro right out of high school? We had prep-to-pro in the NBA before, of course. It gave us Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. But it also gave us Korleone Young, Robert Swift and Sebastian Telfair, so athletes had to be out of high school for a year instead. That never had anything to do with wanting to give athletes a college education, it was purely a scouting issue. Teams wanted safe investments, and 18-yearolds who never played against opposition above other high school and AAU teams were
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anything but safe. That argument did have some validity. There are only so many roster spots, so players naturally get discarded at a young age if they don’t make an impact. But that doesn’t mean college needs to be the solution. The real problem is the lack of an effective minor league. If the feeder system into NBA was larger and better-funded than the current G-League, or if a rival league for younger players existed, the results would be better for just about everyone involved. Players who should receive money can do so, college teams can still thrive with the knowledge that every player wants to be there and teams can develop players for themselves instead of trusting college teams to. Even better, the increased number of roster spots means that the number of athletes who do make it as pros will increase from the 2 percent Padanilam mentioned. But instead, the NBA abuses its status as a monopoly for professional basketball in the U.S. to avoid spending money on a real minor league. The concept works in baseball, despite the fact that top high school players are usually much further from Major League starters than young basketball players. Yet in basketball, people will pretend that a single year of college is somehow worthwhile for players who are guaranteed million-dollar paychecks when it ends. Even in football, where age restrictions have a safety component, a strong minor league could be a huge improvement. Yes, 18-year-olds generally shouldn’t compete with NFL linebackers, but asking an FCS-level Mercer freshman to go up against the NFL-caliber athletes at a team like Alabama is surely more dangerous. A league for best developing athletes would not only help counter the corruption that’s just as prevalent in football as it is in basketball, it would also be safer. The current college sports model is blatantly exploitative of many athletes and unsurprisingly leads to rampant cheating — denying that won’t get you anywhere. But as long as we act like it’s the NCAA’s problem to fix, we’ll never find a workable solution. A problem with professionalcaliber athletes deserves a professional solution. Contact Daniel O’Boyle at doboyle1@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Irish use scoring runs to top Cardinals on Sunday Observer Sports Staff
The No. 17 Irish hit the road Sunday to take on Louisville for their first ACC road contest. Notre Dame (5-2, 1-1 ACC) came in riding a two-game win streak, and saw out a tense second half to a third-straight win with a 14-9 win against the Cardinals (5-2, 0-1). Louisville scored two of the first three goals, followed by a ten-minute scoreless streak of strong defense and goaltending by junior Samantha Giacolone for the Irish. The latter part of the first half was all Irish, closing the opening frame on a 7-1 scoring run. Sophomore midfielder Erin McBride scored a free position shot at 14:58 to tie the game at two and start the landslide, followed by a goal from sophomore midfielder Savannah
Buchanan and two goals from freshman midfielder Katherine Enrietto. Notre Dame was able to continue its run of momentum by causing turnovers, as the Cardinals turned the ball over 10 times in the first half alone, allowing the Irish to capitalize in transition and earn themselves chances from the free position. The Irish entered halftime with an 8-3 lead. But Louisville stormed back in the second half. After junior attacker Nikki Ortega scored early for the Irish, Louisivlle would dominate the next 15 minutes of play, going on a 7-1 run and cutting the the lead to 10-8. With Louisville picking up momentum, Irish head coach Christine Halfpenny decided to make a change in net. Halfpenny substituted out Giacolone — who finished with
eight saves — in favor of freshman Bridget Deehan. Deehan would give up a goal on the first shot she saw, but would finish the game with three-straight saves to keep the Cardinals off the board late. The Irish put their foot back on the gas after seeing their lead cut down to just one with 16:35 left. Freshman midfielder Maddie Howe scored her third of the game from the free position to double the Irish lead, and the Notre Dame run would continue through the end of the contest. When the final horn sounded the Irish finished the game with a 14-9 win. Notre Dame next faces Virginia Tech on the road this coming Sunday in the team’s second-straight conference road test. The opening draw control is set for 1 p.m.
ND Women’s Tennis | iowa 5, ND 2; ND 6, Purdue 1
Notre Dame bounces back in weekend series By MEAGAN BENS Sports Writer
Heading into the weekend on a four-game win streak, the Irish dropped a 5-2 loss to Iowa on Saturday but rebounded with a 6-1 victory over Purdue on Sunday. Losing to the Hawkeyes 5-2 (7-4) in doubles and singles Saturday afternoon at the Eck Tennis Pavilion, Notre Dame (7-3, 1-1 ACC) turned the loss around the next day day, beating Purdue (6-5) 6-1 and winning five of the six singles matches. During the first match against Iowa, the Irish lost doubles, as Iowa’s duo of sophomore Elise van Heuvelen and senior Anastasia Reimchen defeated freshman Cameron Corse and sophomore Zoe Spence. The Irish came back with junior Rachel Chong and sophomore Bess Waldram’s victory over Iowa’s senior Montana Crawford and junior Adorabol Huckleby, but Iowa’s court-one doubles of senior Zoe Douglas and freshman Yufei Long walked away with a 6-4 win over seniors Brooke Broda and Allison Miller. On the singles side, Spence defeated Reimchen on court four for Notre Dame’s first point. Iowa’s Douglas defeated
Corse 6-2, 6-3, and Huckleby defeated Chong 6-1, 7-5. The Irish had Ally Bojczuk score a 6-2, 7-5 win over Crawford, but Iowa’s Long and van Heuvelen walked away with wins over Broda and Miller. “We just didn’t have a lot of energy in the match against Iowa,” head coach Jay Louderback said. “We talked about that after … I think they came down with doubles quickly and then we played like we were behind the whole time. We’ve played them a few times in the past, they just came out fast.” Turning around Saturday’s loss, the Irish left West Lafayette, Indiana with a 6-1 victory over the Boilermakers on Sunday. “We played the best we have all year against Purdue,” Louderback said. “We’re were all happy with the performance and Purdue just knocked off No. 23, they’re a good team. The energy level was also just a lot better compared to Iowa.” Notre Dame’s Corse and Spence clinched a doubles point on court two against Purdue sophomore Rafaella Baquerizo and freshman Seira Shimizu, and Chong and Waldram had a 6-3 win over freshman Zala Dovnik and sophomore Alex Sabe. Starting off singles, Bojczuk continued her strong play on
court six, winning 6-4, 6-3. Spence defeated freshman Ena Babic, and Corse beat Sabe 7-6, 6-4 after Shimizu defeated freshman Caroline Dunleavy. Broda sat out and Miller was brought to number one singles with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over junior Silvia Ambrosio. The match concluded with Chong coming back to defeat Baquerizo 5-7, 6-2, 7-6. “This was our first weekend of back-to-back matches this season,” Louderback said. “I think the times we had doubleheaders helped them this weekend. Everyone played well against Purdue, even with moving around some players.” The Irish will compete in Fort Myers, Florida on March 13 over spring break against Minnesota and Florida Gulf Coast. “We’re going to get down there on Friday, and we will have four days to play outdoors before the matches,” Louderback said. “The transition from indoors to outdoors takes a few days, and these matches will help us transition into our early ACC outdoor matches.” Contact Meagan Bens at mbens@nd.edu
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“First and foremost, [Avery has] got to be given a chance to play quarterback. He didn’t get that chance last year,” Kelly said. “He went right to scout team and did a great job for us. But he’s got to have an opportunit y to compete at quarterback. Then, when he’s not taking reps there, I’m sure he’s going to want to get involved in any thing he can do. He’ll be on special teams. He’s going to be a guy that definitely comes out on the field and helps us next year.”
Running back Another position that w ill be a big question mark heading into these next few weeks for Notre Dame is running back, as the Irish lost last year’s work horse, Josh Adams, to the NFL and saw junior Deon McIntosh and sophomore C.J. Holmes dismissed after incidents off the field that led to their suspensions for Januar y’s Citrus Bowl v ictor y. The one player Notre Dame expects to lean on heav ily at the position is junior Tony Jones Jr., who Kelly said has gotten stronger so far this offseason, demonstrated his importance last season and w ill get his “proper touches” on offense. The other returning player to the depth chart is senior Dexter Williams, who struggled to see time last season while dealing w ith injuries, carr y ing the ball just 39 times in 10 games played. Kelly said he’s been impressed w ith Williams so far this offseason now that he’s gotten healthy. “If there was one area where I really feel good about what he’s been able to do is that he’s broken through some barriers as it relates to his volume and his work load,” Kelly said of the senior. “That’s all on him. He’s had to do it himself. So I feel confident going into spring that he’s going to take on a bigger load.” One player the Irish w ill be mov ing to running back to shore up the depth concern there is sophomore w ide receiver Jafar Armstrong. Kelly said he sees Armstrong contributing from the backfield in the same vein as former players Theo Riddick and C.J. Prosise did. “Jafar is more towards that Theo Riddick, if you w ill, where Theo was a w ide receiver but took reps for us at the running back,” Kelly said. “I think I’d like to kind of move in that same direction. He’s going to be a guy that I think can touch
the ball coming out of the backfield, but also can give us some work at the running back position.”
Cross training Another area the Irish w ill experiment w ith cross training is on the offensive line, w ith new coach Jeff Quinn hav ing to find replacements for the left side of his line after losing A ll-Americans in Mike McGlinchey and Quenton Nelson to the NFL. “[Sophomore] Robert [Hainsey] w ill start at that left tack le position. Then, there w ill be a lot of cross training across the board w ith [junior] Tommy Kraemer, [sophomore] Josh Lugg — I think you’re going to see those guys cross training,” Kelly said. “I think it’s going to be an extremely competitive situation, one that I’m kind of looking for ward to because there’s probably — I’m just looking at my roster here, and there are probably four or five different combinations that we could run out there at the offensive line, and I think you’re going to see a lot of them in the spring.” The other position where the Irish w ill be cross training several players is the Rover linebacker spot, as graduate student Drue Tranquill w ill be mov ing to the Buck linebacker position to replace the nowgraduated Greer Martini. “There are going to be a number of guys that have the opportunit y to be that next guy,” Kelly said. “Or we go to nickel — we run a nickel out there.”
Injuries The Irish w ill already be dealing w ith some injuries as they enter the spring season — some new, some hav ing carried over from the offseason or end of last season. Freshman tight end George Takacs, an early enrollee for the program, had cartilage surger y to repair a bucket tear, leaving him out for the entiret y of the spring season, Kelly announced Monday. Two other tight ends, graduate student Nic Weishar and sophomore Brock Wright, w ill be limited throughout the spring practices after hav ing undergone shoulder surgeries prev iously, while junior w ide receiver Chase Clay pool w ill also be in a red jersey while recovering from his shoulder injur y. Lastly, graduate student defensive lineman Jonathan Bonner w ill be limited at least early on in the spring as he recovers from a w rist injur y. Contact Ben Padanilam at bpadanil@nd.edu
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guys tonight. I think it is especially driven by this senior class. There’s a little bit of belief that it is our place to play well.” Even with only having Colson for the last two games, the Irish have a 5-4 record over their last nine, and Brey said he is seeing glimpses of the team that won the Maui Invitational earlier in the season. “The last 24 hours we’ve been the discussion,” Brey said. “What do you do with Notre Dame? If you would have told me in the midst of the seven-game losing streak that a week away from selection Sunday they’d be trying to figure us out and talking about us, I would have taken that in a heart beat. Week away from selection Sunday and we are
healthy, so I’m feeling good.” Notre Dame may have lost 62-57 to Virginia on the road, but Colson said the team’s performance was promising as the team takes on the tournament. “We felt good competing,” Colson said. “Coach talked about emptying the tank and we did that. We played really well and their movement offensively is what we will be going over every day in practice. We played hard. We came up short but played hard and we’re still building and can get better.” Even though the team has had more time before playing their first game in the tournament in the past, senior point guard Matt Farrell said the team is up for the challenge. “It’s going to be fun,” Farrell said. “It’s a big challenge for us, and we’ve faced challenges all year. Just
another opportunity for us. I feel like we played really well down in Virginia and if we can continue that and play the way we play, we can do some damage. … Got to have confidence, and as senior captains we instill that confidence. We always have to play with confidence and play with that edge.” Although the team is confident to take on Pittsburgh again, Farrell said the Irish cannot take any team for granted, despite having beaten the Panthers in their last outing. “It’s do or die time,” Farrell said. “It’s another challenge and it’s fun, this is why we play and we got to get guys ready. … Every team is capable and the seniors need to realize this could be the last time to they will put their jersey on.” Contact Meagan Bens at mbens@nd.edu
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fielder Jake Johnson brought Daily home with a single to right field. A double from junior second baseman Nick Podkul followed, advancing Johnson to third, and Vierling followed it up with another single, bringing home Johnson and Podkul to put the Irish up 4-0. The fourth was even bigger for Notre Dame, as it tallied four more runs in the midst of a Youngstown State shutout. The Irish batted around in the inning, as junior right fielder Eric Gilgenbach led off with a single to center and was eventually plated by Daily’s third hit of the day — a single. Sophomore first baseman Daniel Jung came home on a passed ball and Podkul smashed a ball to right center, good for a triple and two RBIs as Daily and freshman catcher David LaManna scored. A pop fly from Gilgenbach ended the inning, making the score 8-0 — which would be the game’s final score — at the end of the fourth. Irish head coach Mik Aoki said while he was impressed with Daily’s performance, he was not surprised, as the junior has had notable success throughout the season so far — recording a batting average of 0.381 this year. “Cole played really well. He’s be playing well all season long,” Aoki said. “Although he certainly has not been 4-for-5 or whatever he was in every game that he’s played, he’s been really good defensively, he’s been really good at the plate, he’s been really, really good. He got some good pitches to hit and did a nice job for us.” Although Aoki’s pitchers only gave up three hits to the Penguins, he feels there is still room for improvement. “I think [graduate student southpaw] Scott Tully managed the game OK. I wouldn’t have considered him to be like super sharp, but he managed the game pretty well and kind of worked himself a little bit in and out of trouble,” Aoki said. “I think [sophomore right hander] Anthony Holubecki did well and I would’ve liked to have seen him finish the game, but his pitch count got to a point where he hasn’t really been in a while, so we just needed to get him out when we did, but I thought he threw the ball extremely well. And between [junior right hander] Shane [Combs] and [freshman leftie] Brandon [Knarr], we were able to sort of finish it up and our guys did a pretty good job there.” The next day, the Irish faced off against Seton Hall (4-5), getting down early as the Pirates jumped out to a 4-0 lead by the top of the second inning. Freshman pitcher Cole Kmet came in to relieve starter freshman Tommy Sheehan in the midst of some trouble in the second and managed to escape, but also gave up three runs. The Irish began to punch back
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in the third, as LaManna bunted his way aboard and eventually worked his way around the bases to get Notre Dame on the board. The Irish added a run in the fourth and another in the fifth. The Pirates tallied two more runs in the sixth, making it a 6-3 game. The Irish turned the momentum in their favor the next inning, however, as a series of singles and some smart base running from Johnson brought home three more runs to tie the game. The squads traded runs in the eighth, keeping the game knotted at seven and the Pirates scored once more in the ninth, forcing Notre Dame to score to end the game. And that is just what it did, as the Pirates walked four batters, the last of which was a two-out, bases-loaded walk drawn by Gilgenbach, bringing in the goahead run and handing the Irish the win. “I don’t think he’s pressing quite as much at the plate, trying to come outside of himself and do too much,” Aoki said of Gilgenbach. “In general, he’s been looking for better pitches to hit. I just think a lot of it comes with maturity. He’s still a work in progress, but he’s an extremely talented kid, a very hard worker and he’s doing a good job of developing into a good offensive player.” The Irish went into Sunday with a perfect record for the weekend, but struggled with pitching as they gave up nine walks to Seattle (7-5) over the course of the game. The Irish found themselves in another early hole, as the Redhawks plated three batters in the top of the first. Eventually, Notre Dame began to crawl back into the game, scoring runs in the third, fourth and fifth. The Irish kept it close until the seventh inning, in which they gave up two runs and failed to answer in the bottom of the frame. The Redhawks added another four in the eighth, and were able to keep the game just out of reach, despite a four-run bottom of the ninth from the Irish, who lost 11-7. “I thought we came out a little flat,” Aoki said of the game. “Pitching was a bit of a struggle in terms of just being in the strike zone and whatnot, but I do think we fell behind early and kind of clawed our way back into it, then they were able to sort of separate from us a little bit. But our kids kept going up there offensively and having good at-bats, just being able to sort of control what we could on the offensive end of things. I thought our kids never packed it in and did a nice job.” For their next outing, the Irish will head back to Florida to embark in ACC play, as they will play a three-game series at Miami, before playing two games against St. Joseph’s and then heading to Tallahassee to face off against No. 4 Florida State. Contact Elizabeth Greason at egreason@nd.edu
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baseball | ND 8, YOungstown State 0; Nd 9, Seton Hall 8; Seattle 11, ND 7
Notre Dame goes two-for-three over weekend By ELIZABETH GREASON Sports Editor
Coming off a narrow loss in the title game of the Alamo Irish Classic, the Irish headed to Florida to host the Kissimmee Irish Classic, where they took on Youngstown State, Seton Hall and Seattle, going 2-for-3 on the weekend. Notre Dame (6-4) opened the weekend with a win over the Penguins (1-8), as junior shortstop Cole Daily led the Irish to victory, going 4-for-5 and stopping just a home run shy of hitting for the cycle. Notre Dame opened up scoring in the bottom of the first when Daily recorded his first hit of the day, singling up the middle and advancing to third on a fielding error. It was junior third baseman Matt Vierling who plated the shortstop, however, singling to left field for the early lead. It was the bottoms of the third and fourth innings that truly separated the Irish and the Penguins. Daily recorded the first hit of the third for Notre Dame, crushing a triple down the right-field line. Senior left see BASEBALL PAGE 11
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Irish senior outfielder Jake Johnson finishes his swing during Notre Dame’s 5-4 win over Duke on April 28 at Eck Stadium. Johnson went 1-4 in the victory. This season, Johnson is batting .348 with 7 RBIs and a .448 on-base percentage.
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Spring season set to start for ND
By MEAGAN BENS
By BEN PADANILAM
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Notre Dame will kick off competition in the first round of the 2018 ACC Championship against Pittsburgh at 2 p.m. at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The 10th-seeded Irish (18-13, 8-10 ACC) will face the 15thseeded Panthers (8-23, 0-18 ACC) for the second time this season, with the previous contest being a 73-56 Notre Dame win Feb. 28 with the return of senior forward Bonzie Colson on Senior Night. Although the Irish arrived in Brooklyn on Sunday and only had an hour to practice in Barclays Center yesterday, head coach Mike Brey said the team has a great record in the building. “This group has loved playing in there,” Brey said. “I had our [sports information director] put every ACC school’s record in there and we by far have the most wins in the building, and I am going to share that with our
As Notre Dame prepares for the beginning of its spring season, it does not face nearly the level of uncertainty it did going into the spring last year — the team is coming off a 10win season and returns 10 of its starters on last season’s defense and the systems on both sides of the ball. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t questions for Notre Dame. One of the biggest questions the Irish face this spring is whether or not any clarity will be reached as to the starter at the game’s most scrutinized position: quarterback. In his opening press conference for the spring season Monday, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said although senior Brandon Wimbush will run with the first group early on, the competition will certainly be an open one — much in the same way Kelly has
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Irish senior forward Bonzie Colson shoots the ball during Notre Dame’s 73-56 win over Pitt on Wednesday at Purcell Pavilion.
maintained every position is open for competition in the spring. “By virtue of a lot of the really good things that Brandon did last year, he’ll go out with the first group,” Kelly said. “But we all know [junior Ian Book] was integral in our last win against LSU, and he deserves an opportunity to compete as well. “I think what we’ll do is we’ll foster an environment where our players truly know they have an opportunity to compete for starting positions. So I wouldn’t use words like he’s the presumptive starter. But he’s going to be going out with the first group. But Brandon knows that he’s got to work on his skillset as well.” One player who did not receive a look at the position last year who will get some looks, Kelly said, is sophomore Avery Davis — though Kelly also expects Davis to contribute in other ways when he’s not taking snaps under center. see FOOTBALL PAGE 10