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Morris fills void in net, drives Irish success By CONNOR MULVENA Associate Sports Editor
Heading into the 20172018 season after falling to Denver in the Frozen Four, things weren’t necessarily looking up for the Irish. Soon after the squad’s season ended, star junior goaltender Cal Petersen, a crucial element of Notre Dame’s success in the 2016-2017 season, announced his intention to go pro. Petersen proved himself a top goalie in the Hockey East conference during his junior season. He finished with a .926 save percentage — which ranked 11th in the nation — 2.22 goals against average, and six shutouts, which tied him for the national lead. His absence left Notre Dame with a sizable hole to fill in net while the Irish had to adjust to a new conference in the 2017-2018 season. Luckily for Notre Dame, sophomore Cale Morris was primed for success. That being said, Morris wasn’t the clear starter heading into this season. With the starting goaltender position wide open, Irish head coach Jeff Jackson had his three young candidates — freshman Dylan St. Cyr, freshman Nick Sanford and Morris — compete for the job. W hen asked before the start of the season who would be in goal for the Irish, Jackson was unsure. “I think we got a real battle going on,” Jackson said at the beginning of the year. “Dylan was out for a little
while … he’s back now at full strength. But, I mean, we brought him in to compete with Cale. I think both goaltenders are capable and it is going to be a matter of who performs at this point. The one thing we have to understand is the both of them don’t have much experience at the college level … so it’s going to be a matter of who grows into that position sooner.” Fast for ward to the eve of Notre Dame’s Frozen Four matchup, and things are cr ystal clear for the Irish in net. Morris now leads the nation in save percentage (.945), wins (24), and saves (1,144). He sits sixth nationally in goals against average (1.91) and third nationally in win percentage (.757). He’s achieved a number of honors, including the Big Ten tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award and has made the NCA A East Regional A llRegional Team. He has undoubtedly been the driving force behind Notre Dame’s success this season, leading them to a 16-game winning streak, a Big Ten championship, and a Frozen Four berth. Heading into the season, Morris knew the starting position was open, and he knew he would need to battle for it. Morris simply set a goal for himself: to get better each day. “I knew coming in nothing was going to be handed and two awesome freshman goalies were coming in as well, and it would be a great
environment for us to all battle and compete and push each other,” Morris said. “And we all kind of knew that the starting position was open there. So it was a good [competition] to start the year, and we still battle ever yday. … I was just coming in with the mindset to get better each day and push myself and challenge myself to compete with myself.” Through the success Morris has had this season, he has been appreciative of his teammates — especially his former teammate Cal Petersen, who Morris knew even before committing to Notre Dame. “Sitting in behind Cal Petersen at World Class Goalie Camp, I knew it was going to be a great opportunity for me to soak in as much knowledge about the game on and off the ice,” Morris said. “I think I developed as much on the ice as off the ice learning from him as being the captain as well, so he definitely took me under his wing. And going into this year, I knew that I would have a great opportunity to battle for the starting position with the two freshmen coming in, and that it would be a healthy competition for all of us, and we all push each other each day. So it’s been a great ride so far.” On top of the accolades and success, Morris’ meticulous focus has been admirable. W hen asked about the 16game win streak, of which he was an integral part, Morris expressed that his concern
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Irish sophomore goaltender Cale Morris awaits the incoming puck during Notre Dame’s 1-0 win over Penn State on Nov. 11.
remained with preparation for a championship. “I think definitely throughout the 16-game win streak it wasn’t more about the streak, it was more just about coming to the rink ever y day with the mindset of getting better and sticking to the process,” he said. “It was awesome to get those results done, but I think the bigger picture was just preparing ourselves for kind of the final test, final weekend that we’re here at.” Jackson, who even admitted he was unsure if Morris would play at the level he’s displayed this year, lauded his goaltender’s performance and attitude this season. “We recruited Cale to be our heir-apparent to Cal two years ago,” Jackson said. “I’m not sure that I expected him to play at the level he’s
playing at this year, but all the credit goes to him, because if it wasn’t for last year I’m not sure where he would be this year. I’m talking about, in today’s game, with teenagers or young men, it’s like if they’re not playing, they’re usually not happy and they’re not fun to be around. But Cale was awesome last year — his attitude, his work ethic. I mean, he’s getting what he earned. I think because he had the right mindset, the right attitude.” It is clear that Morris’s excellence in net this season was crucial to Notre Dame’s Frozen Four berth, and he will continue to play a major role as the Irish vie for a national title this weekend. Contact Connor Mulvena at cmulvena@nd.edu
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Irish sophomore goaltender Cale Morris looks on after allowing a goal during Notre Dame’s 4-2 win over Wisconsin on Jan. 19 at Compton Family Ice Arena. The win was Notre Dame’s 16th straight of the season at the time, setting a program record. Morris played a pivotal role in guiding that stretch, as he leads the nation in saves and save percentage.
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Activist, Olympian to address community 1968 bronze-medalist John Carlos will speak on famed protest, contemporary demonstrations By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER Assistant Managing Editor
Forty-eight years before former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled in protest of police brutality in America during a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, John Carlos and Tommie Smith — who had just won bronze and gold medals respectively in the 200-meter race in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City — also staged a protest during the playing of “The Star Spangled Banner.” The two athletes raised their gloved fists throughout the anthem in protest of racial discrimination in the United States. In events spanning the four days from Wednesday through
Saturday, Carlos — in his third visit to Notre Dame — has spoken and will speak about his protest 50 years later as part of a University initiative, “1968: A Movement in Time.” Carlos met with members of the community Wednesday at the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture in downtown South Bend, will address faculty and staff at two separate events in Washington Hall on Thursday and will deliver the keynote address at “The Black Man’s Think Tank” — sponsored by The Wabruda — on Saturday in the Dahnke Ballroom. Carlos said 1968 represented a coming-together of various forces which helped to spark see CARLOS PAGE 4
College revives news broadcast program By MARIA LEONTARAS Associate Saint Mary’s Editor
Saint Mary’s communications studies students recently revived the production of an online news program called SMC-TV. SMC-TV is produced by the students in the practicum/production SMC-TV lab course. The course’s professor, Tim Richardson, said the program provides time to make two YouTube broadcast episodes each semester. “The challenge to it is that, over a month, students are putting together story ideas and researching, getting those interviews and getting the stories, and by the time we record it and put it on air, trying to make sure those stories are still somewhat fresh,” Richardson said. The class meets once a week, and in this time, Richardson said he and the students prepare to make the latest SMC-TV production. “We talk about topic ideas
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— what’s going on, what’s coming up — and we assign stories to each student,” he said. “There’s only six students in the class right now. It’s a class that can hold up to 10. One of the challenges has been having a small number of people putting together a show. Each one was responsible for making a minute-and-a-half news package, whether that was a feature story or it should be about sports. We basically wanted to look at news, sports and entertainment. We can include features and interviews highlighting students or other things of interest. Then we had the news anchors do the show to pull it all together.” It is this emphasis on student involvement that senior Kendall Wood loves about SMC-TV, she said in an email. Wood said the production is based on student interests in order to give the show reliability. “SMC-TV portrays the news by see BROADCAST PAGE 4
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Former U.S. Olympic athlete John Carlos meets with media at a press conference Wednesday afternoon, one of several appearances planned to honor the 50th anniversary of his 1968 protest.
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New student government cabinet choices confirmed By MARY BERNARD News Writer
The new student body leadership took their oaths of office during student senate Wednesday night. Student body president and junior Gates McGavick, student body vice president and junior Corey Gayheart and the student senate recited their oaths of office in front of Judicial Council president and sophomore Shady Girgis. The senators then approved 20 positions in the new administration’s cabinet, including freshman Halena Hadi as parliamentarian, junior Briana Tucker as chief of staff, freshman Isabel Edgar as secretary and junior Dylan Jaskowski as Executive Controller. The positions were approved unanimously. When Gayheart presented the nomination for Tucker, he said her experience as a commissioner in Flaherty Hall and as a former member of the department of diversity and inclusion made her a good fit for the role.
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“Briana also is extremely levelheaded and fair in her application of rules, accountability and the Student Union Constitution,” Gayheart said. The senators discussed the nominations very little, which drew a comment from, Alyssa Ngo, a junior and the president of Diversity Council. “I do find a bit of concern that you guys are motioning to end discussion so earlier,” Ngo said. “These positions are important. They are not just nobodies who are being nominated to these positions.” The other 16 approvals were for cabinet positions including the director of academic affairs and the director of university policy, among others. The only nomination that incited controversy among the group was the nomination for the director of social concerns, junior James Deitsch. Sophomore and Duncan senator John Cresson said one of his constituents had raised concerns regarding Deitsch’s nomination for the position.
Deitsch, a former Fisher Hall senator, had allegedly been present during election allegation and appeal hearings, Cresson said. “Because of this, there was some concern that he might have been promised a position before the election had concluded, and [the constituent] wanted that addressed in [student] senate,” Cresson said. However, the attendance and proceedings of the election hearings could not be discussed with the student senate, Girgis said. “That whole space, whoever was in there, whatever was discussed, is confidential,” Girgis said. Gayheart said the rumors circulating during the election that he and McGavick had promised cabinet positions to students were false. “The generic question of if we promised positions, we did not and we are being 100 percent honest,” McGavick said. The senators went on to see CABINET PAGE 3
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ND student featured on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ By LUCY LYNCH News Writer
Nearly every night throughout her childhood, sophomore Kathleen Capella and her family raced to the living room television after dinner to tune into “Wheel of Fortune,” a popular game show in which contestants solve word puzzles to win money and prizes. This deeply-embedded family tradition took on a new meaning in February when Capella competed and won over $20,000 and a trip to Aruba on one of the game show’s “College Week Spring Break”themed episodes, which aired Monday. Capella said her road to “Wheel of Fortune” began with a video application and a large
audition in New York City with her family, where they participated in tests and practice rounds. Despite not being invited onto the show following the audition, she received an email in February to join the show as a contestant on its annual college week. “It was pretty hush-hush,” Capella said. “I had to tell my teachers, obviously. They were really good about it. It was kind of crazy because when ‘Wheel of Fortune’ sent me the email, I had to respond to the invitation by the next day at noon, so I basically had to say yes to them first and then email my teachers.” Because of the College Week theme, Capella met other students during her time at “Wheel of Fortune,” who she said were
a mix of hardcore fans — fans who remembered every detail of specific episodes — and students familiarizing themselves with game rules for the first time. As a lifelong fan, Capella said getting to see and experience the game show for the first time was a surreal experience. The stage was smaller than expected, she said, and she didn’t realize the contestants stand on hydraulic risers that level their heights. “Also, the wheel is really heavy,” she said. “They have you do practice spins, and I was the first person that they had to ask to spin it again.” Given that Capella had seen so many episodes of “Wheel of Fortune,” she said she entered the game with some
strategy. Her strategy consisted of remembering what made past contestants successful, and the ways in which she critiqued other participants. “You don’t want to lose control of your turn,” she said. “I really tried to get the toss-up questions so that I could feel like I had something. Once you get one or two of those, you’re feeling pretty good and it boosts your confidence.” Overall, Capella’s experience on “Wheel of Fortune” was well worth it, she said. “This was not something I had expected to be doing,” she said. “It was worth all the homework I was doing beforehand and everything else, it was definitely worth it. They made it really fun for me.” When the time came to watch
her episode Monday, Capella said she gathered with friends from her dorm, McGlinn Hall, as well as friends from the Pasquerilla East Music Company (PEMCo). “It was so fun watching myself on television,” Capella said. “It was great how excited everyone was. Everyone kept joking they knew a ‘celebrity.’” As for her plans with her “Wheel of Fortune” earnings, Capella said she has nothing specific in mind. She plans to pay back her parents for making the trip to Los Angeles for her episode taping, as well as put some of the money toward her summer study abroad program in Rome. Contact Lucy Lynch at llynch1@nd.edu
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approve Deitsch’s nomination with two oppositions and two abstentions, with Cresson among those abstaining. The nominations were the result of a lengthy interview process to assure the best people for each position, Gayheart said. “We had literally a marathon of interviews from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. one Sunday, and 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on a Saturday. And they were 15-minute interview slots, so that’s a lot of people that we interviewed,” Gayheart said. The director of creative strategy and design in the department of development Matt Gelchion also presented to student senate regarding the upcoming Notre Dame Day. Gelchion, a Notre Dame alumnus, has been working for the University for about five years and began working for the annual giving department last year. “When I saw it close, first-hand last year, I actually came to the conclusion that [Notre Dame Day] is a pretty awesome thing,” Gelchion said. Notre Dame Day is a one-day event that encourages supporters of the University to donate to their favorite clubs or groups on campus. The University has a stake in the number of donors on Notre Dame Day because a large number will help their ranking on websites like U.S. News, Gelchion said. “The percentage of undergraduate alumni who make a gift back to their alma mater is one of the seven criteria that goes into college rankings,” he said. Gelchion said Notre Dame Day stands out because of the voting aspect, the hundreds of groups a voter can choose from, the 23-hour live broadcast and the events for students throughout the day. “There’s some really cool stuff that’s been put on the calendar, actually specifically for this year,” Gelchion said. “Notre Dame Day is a pretty big, involved thing.” Contact Mary Bernard at mbernar5@nd.edu
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his protest. “Apartheid was running rampant at that time, the Vietnam war was at that time, you had the stripping of Muhammad Ali’s awards and his belt at that time, we were still fighting for housing and all the things that America put out there for its citizens,” he said. “ … You might say it was a puzzle and my participation was just a piece of that puzzle in terms of dealing with human rights.” This protest, Carlos said, was in part motivated by advice Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave him months before the Olympics and weeks before King’s assassination in Memphis. “He said to me something that turned my life around and gave me focus in terms of what I’d been doing all my life,” Carlos said. “[King] said, ‘John, I have to go back and stand for those who can’t stand for themselves.’” Carlos said King described to him how to make an impact while still being peaceful. “My focus was to develop some sort of statement … where we were sending waves out throughout society because it was about a humanitarian issues,” Carlos said. Carlos said he saw the spirit of his and Smith’s protest in Kaepernick’s initial protests and subsequent activism. “The first thing I said to Mr. Kaepernick when I met him is that he is my hero, I admire him, I see myself in him, I think that he is a very learned individual, I don’t [think] he popped off and took a knee without a basis for it,” Carlos said. While Carlos said he warned Kaepernick about the initial reaction to high-profile protests, he urged him to stay the course and continue fighting. “I told him there will be dissent and people will walk away from him, but don’t worry about them walking away,” he said. “The game hasn’t changed, they walked away from me, too, but today they’re running and jumping over each other to sit down with me and get a picture.” These negative reactions to activist athletes, Carlos said, are evident with the recent charging of Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Michael Bennett with assaulting an elderly woman at the 2017 Super Bowl, despite no video evidence and over a year since the crime had allegedly been committed. “I don’t think Mr. Bennett had any ill harm or intentions of hurting that woman, I think that it’s an unfortunate situation,” he said. “I think they’re trying to blow the situation out of proportion based on who he is and what he’s standing for and the fact that
he’s getting ready to come out with his new book. I think this is a tactic to break him down and slow him down, but society will realize he has a tremendous amount of support behind him.” In addition to being inspired by activist athletes, Carlos said young activists fighting for humanitarian causes as he had across the country made him optimistic about the nation’s future. “I think that we have far more people that have a clear mind for themselves today, they’re not letting the headlines lead their [thought] process,” he said. “ … A lot more young people are stepping up to the plate just as I did 50 years ago — I was 23 years old. You look at kids today, 15, 16, 17 years old making statements, that’s critical to society today.” Contact Lucas Masin-Moyer at lmasinmo@nd.edu
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what will appeal to students, deciphered by students,” Wood said. “We do not necessarily talk about weather, or crime like a regular news channel, but we are timely with our topics — only including what is most recent. We include news of current events happening around the tri-campus area, religious traditions in our community, important sports status and even helpful segments like studying tips.” Wood said she wants SMC-TV to be a trustworthy source of information for students. “I hope the program impacts the viewers to be knowledgeable of what’s happening around them that they may not be aware of,” Wood said. Sophomore Libbey Tierney said she wishes for students to watch the program and gain knowledge on local events. “I hope that it gives them a new
outlook on things that they have already seen,” Tierney said. Richardson said he hopes students from the community learn from the program, as well as those involved in its creation. “Hopefully they are able to use their communications skills to cross over from communication to communications with
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an S, which involves more of media and video production,” Richardson said. “I always believe the best way to learn something is by doing it, so we try to dive in and hopefully they’re learning a lot by doing.” Contact Maria Leontaras at mleontaras01@saintmarys.edu
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By ADAM RAMOS Senior Scene Writer
Frankie Cosmos’s Greta Kline is tired of people dressing her up like a grandma for photo shoots — or so she explained to Vagabon’s Lætitia Tamko in a Talkhouse Podcast interview after a performance last year. The fascinating conversation finds the two indie rock powerhouses sharing a level of candidness rarely found in interviews — each shedding a poignant light on the ways they understand their respective positions within the industry. For Kline, it’s clear that a lot has changed for her since winning the hearts of the indie music community with her charmingly sweet debut record “Zentropy” back in 2014. Now — along with rest of her backing band, Frankie Cosmos — Kline is a veteran in the scene. Just listen to the pride and excitement she exudes when describing how her band is playing a show on a beach in Croatia — a long way from the cramped DIY Brooklyn universe she used to inhabit. But what does it mean for the music? For a band so entrenched in the ethos of DIY, a burgeoning popularity can raise more questions than answers. And that’s where we find “Vessels,” the third full-length from Kline and her band of jolly troubadours, and the first to be released on their new major record label, Sub Pop.
By MATTHEW MUNHALL Scene Writer
Kacey Musgraves’s first two major label albums — 2013’s “Same Trailer Different Park” and 2015’s “Pageant Material” — served as a kind of diptych on small-town life, which she documented with equal parts scorn and affection. The country singer’s debut was filled with the cutting observations of someone who desperately wanted to escape her hometown of Golden, Texas, which she compared to a suffocating merry-go-round. On her follow-up, the disillusionment had softened, with Musgraves admitting, “It don’t matter where I’m going / I’ll still call my hometown home.” A keen and observant lyricist, Musgraves was proof that, when it comes to describing the place you grew up, love and attention may be the same thing. It’s somewhat surprising, then, when Musgraves opens her new album, “Golden Hour,” by acknowledging a world outside of East Texas. “In Tennessee, the sun’s goin’ down,” she sings. “But in Beijing, they’re headin’ out to work.” “Golden Hour” is still largely concerned with place, but is more expansive in its scope, with Musgraves examining how new love can alter your view of the world around you. These songs, Musgraves explained in an Instagram caption, are “injected with a hopeful outlook on this time & space we have on this beautiful planet — despite it feeling tumultuous.” That sense of wonder pervades “Golden Hour,” beginning with “Slow Burn,” the opening track, which is a perfect song. “Slow Burn” — a blissed-out ode to slowing down and appreciating life — is the kind of
Ultimately, these advances aid the record; “Vessels” is a captivatingly fun set of 18 slick tracks, many of which stand among some of the best in the band’s now-sizable discography. While short songs have always been the norm in the world of Frankie Cosmos, they’ve never felt this immediate. Each track bursts with a distinct flavor before quickly fizzling into something new. The strippedback, minimalist feel of earlier Cosmos records is replaced on “Vessels” with something more urgent, something more compelling. Much of this newfound punch is a result of changes in the recording process, with Kline taking a step back and her band a step forward. For tracks like “Being Alive” and “Cafeteria,” percussion is the clear standout feature of the instrumentation, a feat rarely accomplished in a Cosmos track. Indeed, throughout the record there seems to be a greater persistence on complicating the traditional, albeit patented, Frankie Cosmos formula. Needling guitar melodies, whirling synthesizers and prominent backing vocals all aid in helping the band craft a new, fuller and more eclectic sound. Take, for example, “The Ballad of R & J,” a clear standout on the record and a song quite different from anything the band has ever recorded. Diverse genres from punk, to folk, to math rock congeal while Kline
and other band members take turns telling the fictional narrative. Between the varying time signatures, jumpy lead guitar hooks and the repeating angular refrains, the song encapsulates everything good about the band’s new and improved sound. Speaking of Kline, just because she isn’t the main attraction anymore doesn’t mean that she is no longer the star of the show. In fact, with less weight on her shoulders, Kline is able to shine even brighter within her fortes. “My Phone” finds Kline expounding something between a children’s nursery rhyme and an episode of “Black Mirror” — such is her astoundingly disarming wit. “Vessels” is filled with these moments. Whether she’s discussing the trees in her neighborhood, navigating a long-distance relationship or simply waking up in the morning and feeling out of place, Kline never ceases to inject a dose of curious mysticism and profundity in almost every line she utters. But for every improvement on “Vessels,” one can’t help but wonder where the band stands today and where they can go next. Should we accept Frankie Cosmos as another preeminent and polished indie rock act and move on? The verdict is unclear, and maybe that’s why photographers have such a hard time dressing Kline. A grandma? I mean, c’mon now.
song that you put on repeat and let wash over you for hours. With its plainspoken autobiographical lyrics and its patient build accented by banjo and strings, it musically falls somewhere midway between Loretta Lynn and Sufjan Stevens. It also encapsulates the defiant individualism that remains the core of the Kacey Musgraves ethos: “Taking my time, let the world turn / I’m gonna do it my way, it’ll be alright,” she sings. “Golden Hour” is Musgraves’ most pop-leaning album to date, a fusion of genres that she has taken to calling “galactic country.” Nowhere is this more apparent than on “High Horse,” a kitschy country-disco track that pairs a Spaghetti Western guitar riff with a fouron-the-floor beat. The soft-rock “Lonely Weekend” sounds like a “Tango in the Night”-era Fleetwood Mac cut, while “Oh, What a World” takes a page from the Daft Punk playbook with its vocoder-laden chorus. Yet, despite all of the genre experimentation on “Golden Hour,” I agree with Bobby Finger, who wrote that “it’s everything good about country music, written and performed by someone who has no interest in leaving the genre behind.” The influence of Dolly Parton — another country star who forayed into disco and pop — looms especially large over “Golden Hour.” Musgraves remains a sharp lyricist, too, with a country songwriter’s ear for a clever turn of phrase. “Space Cowboy” and its witty lyrical conceit — “You can have your space, cowboy / I ain’t gonna fence you in,” Musgraves sings to an ex — is the foremost example. As she sang on her last album, “You can take me out of the country / But you can’t take the country out of me.” The blissed-out mood Musgraves conjures on
“Golden Hour” — “All kinds of magic all around us, it’s hard to believe,” she sings enthusiastically on one song — would be overwhelming if not for the melancholy that creeps in throughout. The nostalgic “Mother,” in particular, on which she sings about missing her mother and evokes a sense of grief across generations, is among the most affecting tracks Musgraves has written. Likewise, the album closer, “Rainbow,” which sounds like a lost Elton John/Bernie Taupin ballad, is moving in its simplicity. Backed only by piano, she offers comfort to a loved one in distress: “You hold tight to your umbrella / Well, darlin’, I’m just tryin’ to tell ya / That there’s always been a rainbow hangin’ over your head,” she sings. “I feel like everyone is searching for a little bit of beauty right now,” Musgraves remarked in a recent interview, and “Golden Hour” succeeds in providing just that.
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Inside Column
A reflection on keeping in touch
Griffin Cannon Bridging the Gap
Alexandra Muck News Writer
Besides the general break from school, one of the reasons I enjoy breaks like the Easter break we just had is that it allows me to catch up with people I don’t always get to see that often. Though I opt to stay on campus for the long weekend instead of heading home (too much time traveling for too short of a break), I still like to talk to friends and family over the break. For instance, Friday night I spent about 2 1/2 hours talking to a friend from home who goes to a different college, and Saturday I talked to my mom for far longer than I would have if I had the thought of unfinished assignments due on Monday in the back of my mind. When I added it up, those several hours are ones that I could have spent on countless other tasks. Even if I had just cut in half the time that I spent on the phone with my mom and my friend, I would have added back another hour or two of sleep or reading a book or some other fun activity. Still, I would not have traded that time for anything else I could have been doing. Though we live in a world where it is widely regarded as easier than ever before to keep in touch with people, I’ve come to find that keeping up quality relationships still takes time. While a quick text back and forth between classes every now and then or seeing someone’s pictures on Facebook can make me feel like I’m keeping in touch with them and knowing what’s going on in their lives, it’s not until I actually hop on the phone and talk for a few hours that I’ve realized how much I’ve missed. (And how much I would have missed if I only relied on a few pictures and quick messages to figure out what they’re up to.) It’s deceptive to think that with all the technology at our disposal we would be able to keep in touch with people “efficiently,” fitting in communication in ways and at times that are convenient for us. I was reminded over break, though, that spending hours talking to someone often isn’t at the most convenient of times and is definitely not the most “efficient” way to find out what someone is doing, but it’s the best way to truly build and maintain a relationship. Moving into the final stretch of the school year and then into the summer when everyone begins to spread out geographically, I’m hoping to take what I’ve been reminded of during the break and use it to keep up quality relationships with family, friends from home and friends from college. Even though it takes time and effort, maintaining those relationships is one of the highlights of my week when I remember to do it, and I hope to do it more often. Contact Alexandra Muck at amuck@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily of The Observer.
I like to think of myself as fairly engaged in politics and the world. I follow many major and minor news outlets on Twitter, listen to a number of current events podcasts in the mornings and tend to look through the major stories of the day in The New York Times at breakfast. I don’t always know what’s going on in the world or within our country, but I tend to have a decent idea. For the past month or so, however, I decided to reduce my news consumption substantially. I dropped off Twitter, listened to more music and fewer podcasts and read only the headlines of the paper if I looked at it at all. I wasn’t a monk or anything, I just didn’t check the news every day — or every week. Now, as someone who grew up watching “60 Minutes” every Sunday night and reading The Week every Wednesday, this was a little strange. I’d had gaps in my current affairs knowledge before, but never intentionally stepped back from it all. For a while it was difficult. Those brief two-minute pauses as you wait in line at the dining hall or LaFun are perfect to work on an Economist article or look through the latest Trump White House gossip. It felt almost like I was being left behind. Not only were the ref lexive habits there, pulling out the phone before realizing sheepishly that there was really nothing to do on it, but the constant f low of information was gone. With a news cycle as rapid as ours, you feel like anything you miss is irretrievable. It’s not just the story, but it’s the reaction and counter-reaction that are fascinating. Personally, I found it was as much about the experience of being engaged as the content itself. After a little while, the strangeness passed. Checking Snapchat stories or reading random Wikipedia pages filled those brief moments of dead time, and national issues retreated back to the classroom. It was kind of nice. Thinking about my friends or even concrete facts about the past was less cognitively demanding than a constant worry about the ever-changing morass of the future. It was still weird when people asked if I’d heard about this or that to say “Nope, I had no idea,” but it wasn’t too uncomfortable. I knew that given a few more days the pundits and journalists and experts would move on to a different issue and whatever had just been discussed would lie dormant for a few weeks, months or years until it became relevant again.
It’s easy to feel, even as someone who grew up constantly watching or reading or listening to the news, that the entire process might be superf luous. We consume news constantly, and every few years when we go out and vote our “informed” decision counts the same as those of people who f lipped a coin inside the booth. Despite my evident frustrations, I shudder to think what a world looks like in which we simply give up on following national or international politics. Certainly, we could all bear to take a step or two back from the 24-hour news cycle, but we cannot simply throw our hands up in surrender. As we get older, in our lunch break conversations, on the sidelines of our children’s soccer games and perhaps even in our town halls we will have the chance and obligation to serve as citizens and catalysts for serious political discussion about both our communities and our nation. We must latch on to that in the wider world which we care about. We all have issues that resonate with us. These should drive us to read more, listen more and talk more to those around us, for it is these people we care about and can deeply inf luence. We must find issues that impact us. Few people are passionate about tax law, but no one is apathetic about their pocketbooks. Look at local and state government as well as the national and ensure that your communities are accountable to the people and their needs. We must wade into the national discussion without drowning in it. I point to the local level because we rarely lose sight of the reasons for our political action when we can see them with our own eyes. We read the local paper not to be part of some abstract struggle but for concrete reasons we can see in our day-to-day lives. If we are to do the same in national politics, we must be intentional and conscious of why and how we engage. Griffin Cannon is a junior studying political science from South Burlington, Vermont. The viewpoints expressed in this column are those of the individual and not necessarily those of BridgeND as an organization. BridgeND is a bipartisan student political organization that brings together people from all across the ideological spectrum to discuss public policy issues of national importance. They can be reached at bridgend@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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‘Roseanne’ and ideological diversity Eddie Damstra Dinner Table Talks
Recently, controversy has surrounded the reboot of the famous television show “Roseanne.” In the revived season of “Roseanne,” the main character, Roseanne Conner, is a supporter of President Trump. Some writers and viewers of the show found this troubling. Some people seemed to suggest that watching the show would be tacitly supporting Donald Trump and thus have decided to essentially boycott the show. The fact that some people have chosen to stop viewing a show based on the political affiliation of the show’s main character may seem unimportant, but I believe it is indicative of a broader culture trend characterized by an aversion to ideological diversity. Television shows today place an intentional emphasis on including previously underrepresented groups in storylines. Racial minorities, the LGBT community and other groups are increasingly represented on television nowadays. This is certainly a good thing. Television shows, and art more broadly, should be representative and inclusive. However, this embracement of representation and inclusivity should also be extended
to ideolog y. There is no reason diversity should be limited to skin color or sexual orientation. In fact, I would argue that diversity of ideas and ideolog y is the paramount form of diversity. Without engaging in an open marketplace of diverse ideas, people regress into echo chambers wherein they are unable to entertain opposing ideas and incapable of empathizing with others. This is dangerous and only serves to exacerbate the already high degrees of polarization and resentment fostering in the nation today. “Roseanne’s” writers succeed in representing a significant yet rather underrepresented portion of the population: white working-class people who cast their vote for Donald Trump. It is important to note that many of the other characters in the show are not fond of Trump and engage in discussion with Roseanne. This is extremely refreshing and demonstrates a path toward lessening the plague of polarization currently striking our nation. Encouraging more civil discourse and unity in this nation will be achieved by being able to understand and talk to people with radically different political views than you. “Roseanne” lays out this path by representing differing political ideologies and showing people who possess such differing ideologies conversing with one another.
After the 2016 election, there was a lot of talk about the seeming disconnect between “coastal elites” and “middle America.” The results of the election and the unexpected nature of such results can certainly be explained in part by this disconnect. Representing those in so-called “middle America” in “Roseanne” is an attempt to mitigate this disconnect and bridge the gap between Americans living in Los Angeles and those living in South Dakota. Diversity is a great thing. However, limiting diversity to skin tone or sexual preference is not only disingenuous, but also dangerous to society at large. People have differing ideas and such differing ideas should be represented in art, and especially in television shows depicting supposedly realistic American families. Due to its attempt at uniting and representing Americans of all ideological backgrounds, “Roseanne” should be celebrated and welcomed, not scorned and ridiculed. Eddie is a junior majoring in economics and political science, with a minor in constitutional studies. He plans on attending law school after his time as an undergraduate at Notre Dame. He can be reached at edamstra@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The murder of LaFun “A gift from Joseph A. LaFortune, the Student Center is the most visited building on Notre Dame’s campus.” At least, this is what the University’s website says. This claim may have been true before the start of second semester, but with the opening of the Duncan Student Center, LaFun is effectively dead. On my trek home to Mod Quad, I frequently cut through LaFun for the brief comfort of warmth and the aroma of Subway bread. I can personally vouch that, yes, some people do still take up residence in the 12th-oldest building on campus. However, what once was swarms of students crowded in LaFun is now reduced to intimate groups of people who possibly haven’t heard of DuStu, or the Disc, or Jenkins’ Imperial Palace or whatever people are calling it these days. The LaFortune Student Center is a classic, and I am not here to say that it will be torn down anytime soon. But I am here to say that, although the Duncan Student Center is great, it murdered a Notre Dame favorite. This violent act will result in the changing of traditions that have enriched
the lives of so many students. The tradition of Thursday-night Acousticafe in the dimly-lit LaFun basement is no more. The basement sits desolate now on Thursday evenings. And dances. The Notre Dame experience is incomplete without a sweaty, cramped LaFun Ballroom formal. The glitzy Dahnke ballroom instead usurps the honor of hosting these events, depriving students of a longestablished custom. Future students will never understand the euphoria when certain f lavors of Ben & Jerry’s enter the Huddle’s freezer doors. If they want an exotic dessert, they will just wander to the Duncan Student Center and purchase Hagerty Family Cafe’s gelato. Yes, OK, the gelato is good. But nothing can top Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked. Nothing. The battle for a booth in LaFun no longer exists as many booths lie empty, longing to be occupied. The new student center eliminates the feeling of victory one gets when finally acquiring one of these highly sought-after spots. Who knows what’s next? Will they run The Huddle out of business by attaching the Duncan Student Center to DeBart with a fancy supermarket? Will
they relocate all student clubs, leaving the upper f loors of LaFun even more barren? Will they transfer Starbucks to DuStu because they suddenly care about how long the line gets and the traffic it creates? Will they move quarter dogs to Modern Market? Where does it end? Imagine 10 years from now: On a campus tour, the guide proclaims, “And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the LaFortune Student Center.” Parents might reply, “Another student center? I thought we already went through your student center. What is this?” An alumni parent may chirp in, “This is LaFun, our old student center. I satisfied my late-night taco craving here. I stayed up all night to finish papers here. It was here, sitting at tables pushed together with my friends, that I realized these were some of the best days of my life. It may not have all the bells and whistles, but LaFun is a classic and we should appreciate it for what it is.”
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Opportunities will not turn into successes unless you are disciplined and willing to work diligently to make things happen. Stay focused on what you can accomplish this year. Tidy up loose ends and make a clear passage to a brighter future. Be creative in the ways you approach money, legal and medical issues. Good fortune comes through persistence and patience. Your numbers are 5, 9, 16, 21, 27, 34, 43. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Slow down and discover the ins and outs of a change you face before moving forward. What you discover will influence the choice you make. Partnerships should be looked at closely and adjustments made to suit the current and upcoming changes. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Open up a dialogue and discuss matters that can have a positive influence on an important relationship. Getting along with your peers, partners or relatives will improve your life substantially. Having greater understanding of a situation will promote workable solutions. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Trying to talk your way out of something will not be easy. Expect to be countered by someone with finesse as well as inside information. It’s best to be willing to admit if you made a mistake. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Put your effort into personal gains and changes that will improve your attitude as well as your financial security. Don’t worry so much about what others do, say or think when what’s important is how you feel about your own success. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Expressing the way you feel and bringing about changes that will help improve your life should be on your agenda. Size up your situation and refuse to let anyone stand in your way. Know what you want and follow through. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A positive change of attitude will take place if you make a physical change to your looks or to the way you present what you have to offer. Collaborating with peers will help you flesh out an idea. A proposal looks promising. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your finances separate and use your money to invest in better health, diet and exercise. Looking out for what’s in your best interest may not make someone close to you happy, but it’s what you should be doing. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Opportunities look inviting, but that doesn’t mean you have to overdo it. Look for benefits and the best way to get the most in return. Your unique style and intuitive insight will help when a difficult choice comes into play. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Spend more time nurturing and taking care of personal relationships and situations. Discuss problems openly, and make suggestions that will encourage positive change as well as a closer bond with the people who mean the most to you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put the passion back into your life. Love what you do and do what you love. Make physical changes that will improve your emotional attitude and your confidence. Take action. Engage in life, love and achieving happiness. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t take on more than you can handle or neglect your health. Use common sense and only bring about changes that are beneficial to you. Refuse to let someone who has been a poor influence in the past back into your life. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Personal updates will pay off. Whether you are revamping your image or taking care of personal investments, settlements or documents that need to be revised, you’ll come out with more than you anticipate. Getting together with an old friend is encouraged. Birthday Baby: You are intense, energetic and secretive. You are original and heroic.
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Stop sleeping on the women’s game Mia Berry Sports Writer
Three games. Two overtimes. Three buzzer beaters. Yet not nearly enough recognition nor media attention was given to arguably the greatest weekend in the history of the March Madness in either men’s or women’s basketball. Given the high level of play in the women’s Final Four, the media coverage and fan viewership should reflect numbers similar to that of the NBA and men’s tournament, but viewership and coverage were very selective. For two games that went into overtime, the viewership for the Final Four suffered a viewership decline. According to Sports Media Watch, the semifinals game dropped 21 percent from last year’s UConn vs. Mississippi State game, and the national championship suffered from its lowest viewership since 2009. It’s shocking to see that some of the most competitive basketball in the tournament wasn’t getting a lot of viewership. Considering the press coverage and social media buzz, I’m pretty sure Loyola Chicago’s Sister Jean and UMBC’s Cinderella narratives were given more national news coverage and spotlight than most of the entirety of the women’s tournament. The storylines practically wrote themselves: “UConn dethroned again,” “Mississippi State comes up Short, Notre Dame Back on Top,” but even nationally-regarded papers failed in the giving women’s basketball the platform it deserved. While perusing through five high-end media sites such as the Washington Post, New York Times, Bleacher Report, ESPN and CBS Sports, the only three outlets that that featured the women’s Final Four on its sports top stories were Bleacher Report, ESPN and CBS Sports. But none of the three had the women’s Final Four as the cover story. The sports cover story was reserved for the Los Angeles Rams freeagency acquisitions and which quarterback will have the unfortunate pleasure of being drafted by the Browns. The remaining two news outlets had the women’s Final Four games featured under the label “other stories.” One of the few times of the year that women’s basketball has an opportunity to shine, and it’s a shame to see elite competition in women’s basketball being overshadowed by one of the NFL’s most lackluster franchises. The little attention given to the Final Four and championship games were interrupted hours later with news from the
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men’s tournament. Why the discrepancy in coverage, especially when the level of basketball on the women’s side is just as good, and even more fundamentally sound than the collegiate men’s basketball and the NBA? Coverage for the women’s side has been so limited that the only team a majority of sports fans know would be Geno Auriemma’s UConn Huskies. My colleague Elizabeth Greason wrote about UConn’s blowout win against St. Francis in the opening round of the tournament being shameful, but UConn’s dominating nature has been good to women’s basketball from a national perspective. Out of a combined 50 women’s basketball games from both the NCAA tournament and the NIT, UConn’s 88-point lopsided victory was the only game given significant coverage over the opening round of the tournament by fans and media with the team trending on Twitter. Throughout the game, news outlets sent mobile updates to subscribers urging them to watch, and the mobile alerts are consistent with games that feature the Huskies. All eyes have been on the Huskies the last few years, but UConn’s dominance has elevated games of numerous other programs. Currently, there are many other teams deserving of the same national spotlight that’s been exclusive to the Huskies. If you’re still skeptical, UConn’s two buzzer-beater losses in the NCAA tournament makes a strong case that there are other teams ready for the spotlight. Now that the tournament is over, if you feel as if you missed your chance to start watching women’s basketball, there is another opportunity before collegiate hoops start back up again in the fall — the WNBA. Exciting games for women’s basketball extend past March Madness, especially ever since the WNBA eliminated conferences in its playoff seeding. Conferenceless seeding has caused the last two WNBA Finals to go to winner-take-all games that have been decided by a single possession. Competitive basketball exists outside of the NBA, and conference-less basketball and a shortened second-possession shot clock proves how the WNBA has advanced basketball as a whole. Hopefully this most recent tournament was a wakeup call for many to get both media and sports fanatics to hop on the women’s basketball bandwagon. Contact Mia Berry at mberry1@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Irish finish pair of meets with top-five finishes Observer Sports Staff
Last Friday and Saturday, athletes from Notre Dame participated in a pair of two-day competitions. Much of the team competed at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, California, while several Irish runners competed at the Raleigh Relays on the campus of North Carolina State. The Irish had finishers near the top in numerous events, and the team is continuing to achieve personal-best marks as it works its way through the regular season. Notre Dame found success across the board at Stanford. Several top-five finishers led the way for the Irish on the women’s side. Sophomore hurdler Summer Thorpe finished third overall in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.41, while junior sprinter Kyla Lewis earned fifth in the 100m dash, finishing in 11.80. The Irish 4×400-meter relay team earned second place overall in their event. The squad of Thorpe and seniors Allison
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dropping the second set 7-6. Ciamarra took the third and deciding set 6-3. On court No. 4, sophomore Matt Gamble dropped his first set 6-4 before bouncing back to win the second set 7-5. Gamble was unable to take the final set, falling 6-4. Sophomore Guillermo Cabrera and junior Alex Lebedev also came up just short in three sets. On Sunday against Wake Forest, Lebedev lost the first set of his match 6-3 before winning the second set 6-2. Lebedev was defeated in the third set 6-3 on court No. 1. Gamble (3-6, 6-0, 6-4), Broadus (4-6, 7-6(6), 6-2) and McCormick (6-1, 6-7(6), 6-1) experienced similar fates in their matches, each falling in the final set. Despite the results, Sachire said he saw a lot of things he liked from his team. “I thought the level that we played at was really good,”
Bartoszewicz, Payton Miller and Jordan Shead finished the race with a time of 3:40.33 — a season-best. On the distance side, senior Jessica Harris ran to a fifth-place finish in the 800 meters, crossing the line in 2:07.24. The Irish women had strong performances in the field as well. Freshman Rachel Tanczos earned sixth place in the discus with a season-best distance of 45.70 meters. Graduate student Indi Jackson won fourth place in the shot put with a toss of 15.06 meters. There were many strong performances on the men’s side at Stanford as well. Graduate student distance runner Jacob Dumford placed ninth overall in the 1,500 meters with a time of 3:42.04. Dumford also earned eighth in the 800 meters, finishing in 1:50.72. In the 400-meter run, Irish juniors Edward Cheatham (49.29) and Zachary Zajdel (49.47) earned 13th and 14th, respectively. The Irish men achieved two first places in field events. Graduate student pole vaulter
Nathan Richartz won his event after clearing the bar at 5.55 meters, while freshman jumper Antonio Villegas Jimenez won the long jump with a distance of 6.97m. At the Raleigh Relays, multiple Irish distance runners performed well amidst packed and talented fields of competitors. Junior Rachel DaDamio earned 25th in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 16:31.44. Senior Kaitlin Frei placed 37th in the 1,000 meters with a time of 35:55.05, and freshman Annasophia Keller finished the 1,500-meter run in 4:31.76, earning 39th place overall. Freshman distance runner Kevin Salvano led the way for the Irish men at Raleigh, finishing the 10,000-meter run in 30:15.76 and placing 46th overall in a field of 92 athletes. This coming weekend, the Irish are making the trek to the two-day Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Arizona, on the campus of Arizona State University. Action will begin at noon Friday, and the second day of events will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Sachire said. “We put ourselves in a position to be successful, we just didn’t cross the finish line in enough areas and in enough matches. Winning takes two parts. One is putting yourself in a position to win, and then the second part is finishing when you get there. We did the first part well, and I’m happy with that and that’s a good spot to build on, we just have to do the little things better down the stretch of matches to put us across the finish line this week.” Sachire said his team will work on a few details in their game during practice this week, such as serving. “We need to serve and return better,” Sachire said. “I think that is something we’re going to have to focus on this week in practice, for sure. I think we can do that a little bit better than we did, but other than that I think it’s mostly individual stuff with the guys, a little things here and there, but I think as a team we’ll work on the serve and return a little bit
better than we did. I think the next thing is, when we have our chances to be successful, take our shots and let it rip and trust that we’re going to be successful and not hold back.” Notre Dame will be back in action Friday afternoon when they host conference-foe No. 21 Duke at the Courtney Tennis Center at 3:30 pm. Sachire doesn’t think his team needs to make any big changes to its structure ahead of Friday’s match. “I think we’re just going to do what we do,” Sachire said. “It has helped us be successful up to this point, and we’re going to continue to trust what we do. We’re right there, and we were right there last weekend as far as on the doorstep of winning. We just need to have a little bit better poise and play in the late matches, and that will hopefully be the difference in helping us get a win on Friday night.” Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu
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the doubles point after sophomores Sydney Riley and Tate Schroeder’s 6-4 win over Notre Dame’s Bojczuk and Miller on court No. 2. Despite the pressure, Chong and Waldram had a 5-3 lead on court No. 3 when doubles action ended. Spence pulled her second singles win over the weekend, and Bojczuk improved to 17-5 in singles after her win. Despite the two losses added to their 10-8 record, Louderback said the experience the team had playing outdoors will benefit it regardless. “Getting outdoors is good, we’ve only been outside once since spring break, and we know we can’t get outdoors at home,” Louderback said. “We were able to get down early and
hit outside on Thursday, and I thought we stepped it up.” With every match in the ACC conference being a tough one, Louderback said the upcoming weekend will be another challenge facing No. 1 North Carolina and North Carolina State. “UNC is ranked No. 1 in the country, so once again we are consistently playing a lot of good teams,” Louderback said. “N.C. State will also be a tough, tight match. They are one of the other teams we are seeding with, so it’s a big match we are preparing for.” The Irish will host North Carolina at the Courtney Tennis Center at 3:30 p.m. Friday, and will have a day before facing North Carolina State at noon at home Sunday. Contact Meagan Bens at mbens@nd.edu
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came alive against Chicago State, scoring 18 runs. Senior left fielder Alex Kerschner led the way for Notre Dame, as he batted in five runs on three hits, while junior second baseman Nick Podkul tallied three RBIs. Aoki added that, while the Irish have struggled against ACC competition so far this season, getting swept by Duke in Durham, North Carolina, over the weekend, he feels the team has what it takes to take down any team — the Tigers included — if it plays within itself. He said he thinks it has
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dropped Friday’s game but returned Saturday to win both matchups and take the series. “We’ve done a lot of soul searching and asked what matters to us,” Gumpf said. “I think we’ve done a really good job of that as of lately.” Gumpf said the biggest takeaway from last week’s competition against the Hokies was
proven itself on multiple occasions already this year, it simply needs to find a more consistent groove. “I think for me the biggest area of improvement is just being able to play the way that we do the majority of the time. For each of our players to be consistent to who and what they are,” Aoki said. “And I think that at times, we’ve tried to come out of ourselves to make the hero pitch or the hero play and we don’t need to be any better than what we are. We just need to be the best Notre Dame that we can possibly be, and I think that when we do that, we’re pretty darn good.
“I think that we’ve proven it in situations like winning a game down in Florida State — they’ve only dropped two the entire year, one of them was to us at home — winning a series at LSU, those types of things. It’s there. We just have to show up consistently and worry about being the best us that we can be and not let the game situation create something that we’re not.” The Irish will host the Tigers for a three-game series this weekend, beginning Friday at Frank Eck Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m.
to keep attacking. “Stay with it,” she said. “It’s okay if it doesn’t come early. It’s a matter of just staying intense and continue fighting until it’s done.” This offensive-minded strategy may prove to be a crucial factor against Syracuse — a team notorious for being difficult to land hits against. “We need to be an offensive threat every single inning. We need to threaten them … because they have a very good
pitching staff. Their pitching staff is considered the top of the ACC,” Gumpf said. Additionally, Gumpf’s choice to prepare her team to be patient could be useful, as much of the Irish offense has been generated in the last couple of innings in recent games. Especially against Syracuse’s Alexa Romero, who has started in 16 of the Orange’s 32 games and will likely make an appearance in the series, this could give the Irish, a team that has struggled to score at moments, trouble. The left-handed sophomore has been having a historic year, recording the program’s second perfect game back in March. She is also currently ranked 19th among pitchers in hits allowed, as well as eighth nationally in strikeouts per game at 10.5. Although not as dominant, Notre Dame’s primary pitching squad of freshman Alexis Holloway and senior Katie Beriont have led the team through March with a 16-5 record to position them in fourth place in the ACC. This home series marks the beginning of the final regular-season stretch. With 12 of the 17 remaining games being ACC foes, April will likely define the season heading into the ACC championships the following month. “It’s time to rev it up and stay consistent. Period,” Gumpf said. This will mark the first time the Irish and Orange have faced off since 2016, when Syracuse won two of three games in that series at Syracuse, New York. The Irish will take the field at 6 p.m. Friday and will return to Melissa Cook Stadium on Saturday at 3 p.m. Prior to Saturday’s game, the athletic department will be hosting food trucks in the parking lot of Frank Eck Stadium for baseball, lacrosse and softball fans. The three-game series will conclude Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
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Irish fall to ACC opponents ND looks to keep on North Carolina road trip up offensive power By MICHAEL IVEY
By ELIZABETH GREASON
Sports Writer
Assistant Managing Editor
No. 25 Notre Dame traveled to North Carolina over Easter weekend for two conference road matches against ranked opponents. Last Friday, the Irish dropped a close 4-3 decision to North Carolina State in Raleigh. On Easter Sunday, the Irish were defeated by No. 1 Wake Forest 7-0 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. “I thought we played OK,” Notre Dame head coach Ryan Sachire said. “We just didn’t win enough of the individual matches to win the team matches, but we played OK and now we’re getting ready for Duke on Friday night at home.” On Friday against the Wolfpack, junior Grayson Broadus grabbed a 6-2, 7-6 victory on court No. 6, while freshman Tristan McCormick recorded a 6-4, 6-1 win on court No. 5. On court No. 3, freshman Richard Ciamarra won the first match of his set 6-1 before
Coming off a big 18-4 win over Chicago State at home Tuesday, the Irish were looking forward to an exhibition Wednesday against the South Bend Cubs that would give a number of fresh faces a chance to showcase their skills. However, an April snowstorm forced the game to be cancelled, so next up for Notre Dame will be hosting No. 11 Clemson at Frank Eck Stadium this weekend. The Tigers (23-6, 8-4 ACC) are riding a five-game winning streak coming into the series and have won each of their last five games by five or more runs. Clemson is led offensively by junior first baseman Seth Beer, who sits atop the starters’ rankings in batting average, touting a .286 mark, and home runs with 10. Senior catcher Chris Williams follows closely behind in both categories, posting a .278 batting average and seven home runs. Williams also leads the
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Irish freshman Tristan McCormick prepares to hit the ball during Notre Dame’s 6-1 loss to North Carolina on March 23.
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Squad drops two on weekend play By MEAGAN BENS Sports Writer
The Irish fell 5-2 to both No. 3 Georgia Tech and Clemson last Friday and Sunday, and now look to face North Carolina and North Carolina State at home this weekend. During their third and fourth matches on the road against ranked opponents, the Irish (10-8, 2-6 ACC) came up short as a team. Facing Georgia Tech (14-4, 6-2), all the Irish doubles teams were defeated, but sophomore Zoe Spence and freshman Caroline Dunleavy pulled victories in singles. Shifting to Clemson, Notre Dame fell in doubles again and only Spence and freshman Ally Bojczuk pulled away with wins. “I thought we played well during the two matches over last weekend,” Irish head coach Jay Louderback said. “We lost 5-2 to Georgia Tech, who is ranked No. 3, and one match was lost in three sets. Clemson, we had the same result, lost 5-2, but lost 7-6 in third doubles. It was a tight
competition. The energy level in both matches was high, so we were happy with that.” Facing Georgia Tech, junior Rachel Chong and sophomore Bess Waldram fell 6-3 on court No. 3 to senior Johnnise Renaud and sophomore Nami Otsuka. On court No. 1 the point was clinched, despite the strong effort from freshman Cameron Corse and Spence, who fell 6-4 to senior Paige Hourigan and sophomore Kenya Jones. Bojczuk and senior Allison Miller were behind 5-2 on court two against freshmen Ida Jarlskog and Victoria Flores before play was suspended. Spence and Dunleavy were the only ones able to walk away victorious due to their single results. Moving on to Clemson on Easter Sunday, the Tigers quickly put on pressure during doubles. The duo of juniors Marie Leduc and Fernanda Navarro defeated Corse and Spence on court No. 1, 6-2. Clemson took see W TENNIS PAGE 11
team in RBIs with 30. The Tigers will also bring with them sophomore pitcher Jacob Hennessey, whose 1.94 ER A is among the best in the nation, ranking 74th, with over 41 innings pitched and only nine runs given up. Irish head coach Mik Aoki said after the win over the Cougars (5-20, 0-6 Western) that he feels the Irish should be able to compete with the Tigers, despite the squad’s high ranking. “It’s about us trying to be the very best version of Notre Dame that we can possibly be. I think that when we do that, we can play with anybody in the country,” Aoki said Tuesday. “Obviously, it presents a great challenge, but one that I’m really looking forward to. I want to see our team continue to grow and develop and get a little bit better from the game.” Some of that growth took place Tuesday for the Irish (12-16, 4-8 ACC), whose bats see BASEBALL PAGE 11
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Notre Dame hopes for strong start after break By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS Associate Sports Editor
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Irish senior pitcher Katie Beriont begins her windup during Notre Dame’s 9-1 victory over North Carolina on March 24.
Currently in the middle of their longest break in play since the beginning of conference games began, Notre Dame head coach Deanna Gumpf said she can’t wait to get the Irish (23-12, 7-4 ACC) back on the field to host Syracuse (18-14, 4-7 ACC) on Friday as the start of a threegame series this weekend. The past month proved difficult for the Irish to train, with three games — North Carolina State, Western Michigan and most recently Michigan State — and several practices being cancelled or postponed due to inclement weather. The Orange have also been affected by the conditions, canceling a recent matchup against Boston College. The Irish are coming off of a road series against Virginia Tech last weekend, where they see SOFTBALL PAGE 11
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Irish set for Wolverines in semifinal contest By MICHAEL IVEY Sports Writer
For the second year in a row and the fourth time in program history, Notre Dame will play in the Frozen Four semifinals for a chance to play for a national championship. The top-seeded Irish (279-2, 17-6-1) will take on second-seeded conference-rival Michigan (22-14-3, 11-10-3) in the late semifinal game Thursday night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The game is scheduled to begin around 9:30 p.m. and will follow the other semifinal game between Ohio State and Minnesota-Duluth. Both semifinal games will be televised on ESPN2. The winners of the two games will play each other in the national championship game Saturday night on ESPN. This year’s Frozen Four will have a heav y Big Ten presence, as three of the four remaining teams — Notre Dame, Michigan and Ohio State, also a No. 1 seed — are members of the conference. Notre Dame won both the conference regular-season and postseason championships in their first year as a member of the league. Notre Dame is currently riding a four-game win streak, with all wins coming
by a single goal. The streak dates back to the beginning of the Big Ten conference tournament, when the Irish defeated Penn State 3-2 in the semifinal on a goal by junior forward Jack Jenkins with 31 seconds left in regulation. On March 17, Notre Dame defeated Ohio State 3-2 in overtime to win the Big Ten championship game and clinch the conference’s automatic NCA A tournament bid. Sophomore forward Cam Morrison scored the gamewinning goal in overtime. In the NCA A tournament, Notre Dame won two extremely close games against Michigan Tech and Providence College to win the East Regional at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the first game against Michigan Tech, Notre Dame needed an overtime goal from senior defenseman Jordan Gross to win 4-3 and advance to the second round, where they defeated Providence 2-1 with a goal from junior forward Dylan Malmquist with 27 seconds left in regulation. Notre Dame came back from early deficits in both games. Notre Dame and Michigan have played each other four times this season. In a twogame home-and-home series back in early January, the Irish swept the Wolverines
by identical 2-1 scores. In another two-game home-andhome series between the two in mid-February, Michigan won both games by 4-2 and 1-0 scores. It was the only time all year Notre Dame was swept in a two-game series. On Tuesday, Notre Dame head coach Jeff Jackson was named the recipient of the 2018 Spencer Penrose Award, given annually to the best coach in Division l ice hockey. It is the second time Jackson has won the award after previously winning it in 2007 during his second year at Notre Dame. Jackson said he knows the challenge Michigan will present to his team Thursday. “They improved from the time we played them in early January to the time we saw them in February, and they’ve improved since then as well,” Jackson said. “It’s the sign of a team that’s gaining confidence. They took some time to adjust to a new coach, and I think they’ve gotten better and better. They play a real solid game defensively and they transition well, so they’re a pretty talented team top to bottom. [Michigan sophomore goaltender Hayden] Lavigne has played well, and I think that has solidified their team more than anything now that he’s at a high level. They
don’t have any real deficiencies, they have a number of guys that are high-profile offensive players, especially their top line. They also have Quinn Hughes on defense. They have some really talented players.” Jackson also talked about how important the physical play of senior defenseman Justin Wade and junior defenseman Dennis Gilbert has been to the team’s success. “There’s no question they have had a huge impact on the success of our team all season, and I think that’s been magnified during the Big Ten and NCA A tournament,” Jackson said. “We rely on them to play a lot of quality minutes defensively, but I think Dennis especially has the ability to do more than that. They have the ability to keep the game really simple, but he’s a guy that jumps into the play and can do some things offensively, too. Justin is pretty much stay-at-home, but he’s as good of a stay-athome as you can get in my opinion. Those two guys have been instrumental in our success. No question those guys have given us a physical element, especially Justin. He was unbelievable against Providence. The physical impact he had in that game set a tone for our team.” Jackson also said he isn’t
surprised that three Big Ten teams made the Frozen Four. He said it shows how strong the conference is getting. “I think we expected it,” Jackson said. “I think everybody anticipated that it would be even better than it was last year. They got a couple of teams in last year. They didn’t get any teams in the Frozen Four but they had four teams make the NCA A tournament. You look at programs on the rise like Michigan, Michigan State was much improved this year, Ohio State has made great gains in their program, so did Penn State. You look at all of the programs, there aren’t any weak programs amongst them, and that says a lot about the quality of the programs. With a few coaching changes, now another one at Minnesota, any time there’s a coaching change — especially with the high quality coaches they bring in — the league only gets better and better. Of course it’s not just about the coaches, but the level of players that they recruit. I expect the conference is going to get more challenging than it currently is, and it doesn’t surprise me in the least that they have three teams in the Frozen Four.” Contact Michael Ivey at mivey@hcc-nd.edu
Big Ten set for big show at Frozen Four Jack Concannon Sports Writer
After the losses of Cal Petersen and Anders Bjork from last year’s team, many believed the Irish were due for a regression from last year’s somewhat miraculous run to the Frozen Four. Instead, the Irish (27-9-2, 17-6-1) proved those people wrong, returning to the Frozen Four for the first back-to-back run in program histor y. The No. 1-seeded Irish have a ton to prove this year in the Frozen Four, but not as much as the conference they play in: the Big Ten. The hockey Big Ten is only a 5-year-old league, and with the addition of Notre Dame before this season, it expanded to seven teams. Despite having storied programs like Michigan and Minnesota, the league had failed to establish itself as a powerful force. It has failed to put a team in the Frozen Four since 2014 as the Hockey East and ECAC have consistently put teams in the Frozen Four. This year, the conference has been second to none.
Traditional hockey powerhouses have bowed out in favor of newer teams from the Big Ten. Say goodbye (for now) to North Dakota and Boston College, and hello to Ohio State and Penn State. The balance of power in college hockey has shifted. W hether this is a permanent change or a brief one remains to be seen, but there is no doubt that the Big Ten was the toughest league in college hockey this year. The Big Ten put four of its seven teams into the 16team tournament field, and now has three teams in the Frozen Four. In addition to the Irish, No. 1-seeded Ohio State blew past the defending champion Denver 5-1 to reach the Frozen Four, and No. 2-seeded Michigan blew past Boston University 6-3. This Big Ten-heav y Frozen Four is no accident; Big Ten teams were punishing traditional hockey powerhouses on their way to Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Big Ten has been impressive so far, but it has unfinished business. A current Big Ten team has not won the national championship since Michigan State (then a member of the CCHA) did in 2007.
If the Big Ten wants to claim its stake as the best conference in hockey, it needs one of its teams to finish the job, and Notre Dame is the team to do it. Despite the incredible level of play in the Big Ten this year, Notre Dame was still able to have sustained success. The Irish clinched the regularseason title with five games left on their schedule, eight points ahead of second-place Ohio State. They gave up the fewest number of goals in the league and opened up 13-0 in league play. The Irish now face familiar foe Michigan (22-14-3, 11-10-3) with a trip to the national championship on the line. The team is 2-2 against Michigan this season, with both teams winning two games of the series on their home ice. This Michigan team is good, with a highscoring offense and an upand-coming goaltender in sophomore Hayden Lavigne. But Notre Dame can win the tough games. The Irish have won four-straight postseason games by one goal, two of those games in overtime. They have the Frozen Four experience. They weren’t
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Irish freshman forward Colin Theisen controls the puck and skates up the ice during Notre Dame’s 4-2 win over Wisconsin on Jan. 19.
quite ready for the stage last year. With the media and the national limelight, they just weren’t ready to keep the miracle going out of the No. 4 seed. They’re back this year as the highest seed left in the tournament, and they have an incredible chance to solidif y themselves as a premier program in a top-f light conference.
It’s Notre Dame’s time to prove itself. On behalf of itself and its conference, it’s time for the Irish to make this happen. Contact Jack Concannon at jconcan2@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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