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Political leaders speak at ND Former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice, John Kerry come to campus By COURTNEY BECKER & TOBIAS HOONHOUT Senior News Writers
Two former secretaries of state, Republican Condoleezza Rice and Democrat John Kerry, came together in front of a sold-out auditorium in DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night to find common ground on issues including the United States’ role in foreign affairs, immigration policy and America’s future. Rice — the 64th secretary of state who served under President George W. Bush and received her master’s degree from Notre Dame in 1975 — and Kerry — the 66th secretary under President Barack Obama — were brought to campus by the Common Ground
Committee, a non-partisan organization that offers a platform for public figures to reach across the aisle to discuss policy considerations. On-campus partners for the event included BridgeND, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Notre Dame International Security Center. Kerry first addressed Trump’s decision to pull out of agreements such as the Paris Climate Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Iran Deal, agreements Kerry worked on during his time as secretary of state. Kerry said Trump “made a blanket decision to pull out of” these deals rather than attempting to improve them, which he thinks would have been a better
course of action. “Look, if you want to make them better, make them better. But he hasn’t made anything better,” Kerry said. “ … I think if you’re the world’s greatest negotiator, you negotiate.” Rice voiced a different view from Kerry’s on Trump’s decision to withdraw from various deals. “I want to get to the basic question of why we are seeing this pulling away from the liberal order,” she said. “Because I think, in this sense, the president is — in many ways — a symptom of a larger problem that we globalizers have. Now, to be very clear: I am a staunch defender, as John is, of the liberal order that we created. … Somewhere along the way, those of us who believe in the
New book explores Hesburgh’s contributions By THERESA OLOHAN News Writer
A new book shedding light on parts of University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh’s life previously unknown has hit the shelves. Written by Notre Dame professor of history Fr. Wilson Miscamble and published March 12, “American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre
Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh,” explores the many roles and contributions of Hesburgh. A Notre Dame faculty member since 1988, Miscamble said he wrote the book in order to gain a better understanding of Notre Dame’s evolution under Hesburgh’s influence, whose contributions range from higher education, to the civil rights movement and to his work as an advisor to popes and presidents.
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Saint Mary’s Office for Civic Engagement (OSCE) hosted the first of a three-part discussion series about women, mothers and their roles in society Tuesday evening. Tuesday’s event focused on the idea of being a Woman, Mother and Image Bearer, with guest panelists Ramal Winfield, Noelle Gunn
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Elliott and Christan Sheltan, as well as a question and answer section led by Rebekah DeLine, the director of the OCSE. DeLine started the event by asking the panelists how they serve in the South Bend community as individuals and as families. “It’s really important to us because my oldest is seven and we’re trying to find ways to include him in understanding how
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K.J. Martijn Cremers has been selected to be the new dean of the Mendoza College of Business by University president Fr. John Jenkins, the University announced in a press release Tuesday. Cremers, a professor of finance, has served as interim dean of the college since former dean Roger Huang stepped down in July. According to the release, Cremers was selected from several candidates after a six-month nationwide search. He will assume his new see MENDOZA PAGE 3
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“It was both a desire to understand the Notre Dame story and also to track something of these amazing involvements he had beyond Notre Dame,” Miscamble said. “I was curious about how Notre Dame had developed and evolved, and I thought a good way to understand that story would be to study the person who had led it for such a long period of see HESBURGH PAGE 3
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liberal order have begun to lose support for it. And I think we have lost support for it among common people.” Both Kerry and Rice attributed the rise of populism to America’s shift, which has altered America’s role in international relations. “When the president of the United States stands up and says ‘America First,’ he’s articulating something that every president of the United States has always believed and always acted on,” Kerry said. “… But when you say it the way the president has said it and you put it out there in the way that he has promoted it … America loses credibility. And that is what has happened.”
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important service is to us. There are times in our life that with wrestling, soccer, piano that we are not able to do that,” Sheltan said. “Right now his little heart is pulled towards helping homeless people, so we’ve been making blessing bags and keep those with us. That’s a way for us to serve when we don’t really have the time to serve.” see MOTHERS PAGE 3
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A mural painted on a house in the Pilsen neighborhood in the lower west side of Chicago acts as a tie to the culture of many residents. By SOPHIA LAUBER News Writer
Hundreds of murals cover the walls of homes businesses, schools, public buildings and train stops in the Pilsen neighborhood in the lower west side of Chicago. The murals depict the culture of the large Mexican population that blossomed in Pilsen in the 1960s and continues to live
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there today. However, visitors to the National Museum of Mexican Art located in Pilsen may find that information on the murals is lacking. Associate professor of American Studies Jason Ruiz recently received a $50,000 grant from the Whiting Foundation, an organization that provides support see PILSEN PAGE 3
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to cultural heritage writers and researchers. Ruiz said he plans to create a digital archive and the firstever mobile app devoted to the murals of Pilsen in partnership with the Historic Urban Environments Lab (HUE) at Notre Dame. The project aims to preserve the murals and share them with the public, he said. “A lot of people go to the National Museum of Mexican Art because of its location asking for information about murals and muralism, and they don’t have many resources to offer people,” Ruiz said. “One of the things I’m really excited about in building this project is equipping a cultural institution that’s already there with the types of tools that I can develop through my own archival research and the tools built by HUE.” Ruiz first came in contact with the murals while teaching a class on Latinos in Chicago and Northern Indiana at Notre Dame. He then took a trip to the Pilsen neighborhood to look at the murals. “I developed a walking tour, and people started asking me to give it for their classes,” Ruiz said. “Then the American Studies Association asked me to give it at a conference. I developed a little bit of expertise in the murals, and then my friend and colleague Jennifer Parker, who is the co-director of the HUE project, contacted me.” Parker then proposed applying some of the tools her team at HUE had already developed to further Ruiz’s mural project. “The Pilsen project, I thought,
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time.” Additionally, as a specialist in American foreign policy since World War II and the role of Catholics in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations and public life, Miscamble said he was excited by the opportunity to write about Hesburgh’s rich and extensive history. “I knew that Fr. Ted had been involved in so many activities beyond Notre Dame in American public life and in the life of the Catholic Church, so I knew it would be an interesting story to track him,” Miscamble said. “To follow his life would allow me to look at his involvement in the whole range of issues — from the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower all the way up to to Bill Clinton’s — and to his connections to the various popes, from Pius XII through to John Paul II.” Miscamble said he had been planning to write Hesburgh’s biography for quite some time. However, when he initially sat down with Hesburgh to discuss writing the biography, Miscamble said he had some misgivings. “At the outset, Hesburgh demanded, ‘How could any single person, let alone a busy one like me, investigate with care the records of the various commissions and agencies on which he served?’”
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was a natural connection for us,” Parker said. Parker said HUE takes traditional library resources and archives them to build websites and related mobile applications. “Public artwork is temporary, and so creating a lasting connection and record of the public artwork is crucial to understand the development of the neighborhood and the city,” Parker said. “We continue to look at ways to take these particular areas of interest and build them into tools that will allow people to study them further.” While the website will store the large amount of information Ruiz and his partners on the project are collecting, the app will serve as a discovery tool, offering customizable walking or driving tours of the murals. Ruiz said he and his team are conducting interviews with artists and searching for pictures of buildings and murals in Pilsen from the past. Intern Irma Rodenhuis, who is assisting Ruiz in the project, said she spends a lot of her time conducting archival research online. “It’s a lot of hunting in archives and just hoping you’ll find something,” Rodenhuis said. The topics of the murals are very diverse, but Ruiz said Catholicism — especially images of the Virgin of Guadalupe — and immigration are two popular themes. “Pilsen has always been a home to immigrants, and the murals are a reflection of that,” Ruiz said. Pilsen has historically been home to new immigrant communities, Ruiz said. Long before it became home to a predominantly Mexican community, it was settled
by Eastern Europeans. Ruiz said he believes the preservation of the Pilsen murals is important to document how artists have made their mark on the area. Nowadays, due to rising costs of living, many Mexicans are moving out of Pilsen, causing a cultural shift in the neighborhood. Ruiz seeks to protect and preserve the murals and empower the locals of Pilsen to celebrate muralism. “I think that murals are especially provocative politically and I think that they do a lot of work in terms of making a statement about what it means to be Latino in Chicago or Latino in general through art,” he said. Ruiz and Rodenhuis both emphasized the uniqueness of murals as an art form in that they are free to view and incredibly accessible to the public. “Sometimes I think that the public might think that real art is in a museum, real art is expensive to look at or access,” Ruiz said. “If you can get to Pilsen, you can look at a hundred pieces of art in one afternoon. They’re extremely accessible, and sometimes people mistake accessibility with a lack of value.” All of the resources Ruiz and HUE are developing will be free and open to the public, including the app, he said. Parker said HUE’s mission is grounded in providing their applications to the public for free. “Hesburgh Library’s mission is connecting people with knowledge,” Parker said. “And it’s very important to me that that knowledge be free.”
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Miscamble said in the preface of his book. Over many meetings with Hesburgh, however, Miscamble said he slowly accumulated the stories necessary for his work. Miscamble admitted it took an incredible amount of perseverance. “It was a matter of gathering my research, doing all of the hard work of research and then sitting down and having to write up a story,” Miscamble said. “You’ve got to put yourself in your chair and go to work.” Miscamble said his research uncovered some things previously unknown about Hesburgh. His relationships with the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson, for example, were not what Miscamble had anticipated. “You might think, ‘Oh the first Catholic president — Fr. Ted would be enthusiastic, etc.’ But [Hesburgh] found that the Kennedys were not as supportive on civil rights as he had hoped, and that there was some friction there … He had a great affection for Lyndon Johnson because he believed LBJ had actually pushed hard on civil rights and got the 1964 and 1965 legislation through,” Miscamble said. “And second, looking more at the internal operations of Notre Dame, were the challenges he felt in the late 1960s trying to maintain order on the campus. The extent of that and how it weighed on him surprised
me a bit.” When asked whether some might have a negative reaction to his book, Miscamble acknowledged a mixed reception was possible. “I’ve tried to write a serious book and an honest book, and my book is not a hagiography. I am trying to look at the strengths but also the limitations of Fr. Hesburgh and to weigh him as a real person, not as an icon. I would think some folks might have reservations about that, so I’m curious to find out what the reaction will be,” Miscamble said. “I’m excited now to get the book out and to hopefully have it discussed and for it to be something that stimulates further discussion.” Miscamble said this discussion is important to him as a Catholic professor of history, and he recognizes the importance of reflection and discussion of the past. “I think far too many people operate just in a present moment without having a good understanding of how things came to be as they are,” he said. “I believe history can provide us with a certain perspective and wisdom to address our contemporary circumstances, so I do hope students will pick up this book and realize something of how Notre Dame came to be the place that it is today — with its strengths, but also its limitations.”
role July 1. “[Cremers] is a distinguished scholar with a deep understanding of and commitment to Notre Dame’s distinctive mission,” Jenkins said in the release. “He will further the Mendoza College of Business’ work of making important contributions to research, training capable graduates who will be ethical leaders and encouraging us all to ask more of business.” Prior to arriving at Notre Dame in 2012, Cremers was a faculty member at Yale University’s School of Management for 10 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in econometrics from VU University Amsterdam and received his doctorate in finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. As a finance professor, he has taught investing and management classes at both the undergraduate and graduate level. An expert in corporate management and investing, Cremers has been published in several leading academic journals and featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. In 2009, he coauthored a paper titled “How Active is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure that Predicts Performance,” which helped introduce a new means of fund portfolio management called “Active Share” into the financial industry. Cremers has also served as an associate editor at the Review of Finance since 2010.
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Elliott said her family tries to do outreach in the community during holidays. “As a family, for Thanksgiving we try and go to the homeless shelter and we try to focus more on the giving and the giving thanks,” Elliott said. Winfield said she likes to go to events in the community that actively supports the younger generation. “I go to just a lot of different events around town that I feel are important, especially ones that are advocating for children,” Winfield said. The panel then discussed how each manages to create a positive work-life balance. “I try not to beat myself up or have the wrong expectations about what I’m capable of doing,” Winfield said. “I know that some people in my family say that I work too much, but you just have to do what you have to do.” Sheltan said she felt similar to Winfield’s thoughts on balance. “Balance is impossible to achieve perfectly. I personally know that I don’t feel like it is my shape to stay at home so then it was kind alike just trying to find balance,” she said. “I think what
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I work right now is a job more than a career, but it gives me the balance to be with my children a little bit more.” “So many women always think ‘Oh she’s judging me because I’m not going to work,’ but they really do wanna be working,” Elliott said. “There’s always this insecurity. And we’re not judging each other; hopefully we’re just trying to be the best moms we can be.” Elliott shared how she started her program, the Mommalogues, which gives women the platform to share their personal stories about being mothers. “If I have a force, it’s not so much being a mother,” Elliott said. “It’s about being in solidarity with other women whether they’re a mother or not, and being a positive force in the world.” The panelists then discussed their hopes for women to become more united through these types of discussions. “Eventually I want to [make] this so it’s not just for students, but also for women in the community,” DeLine said. The series will be continued on April 2 and April 16, and will cover women and mothers as change-makers and activists. Contact Emma Ault at eault01@saintmarys.edu
Prior to this position, he served as an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies and of European Financial Management. “[Cremers] is a gifted scholar, teacher and leader who brings to this position an innovative business focus, global business perspective, the highest standards of excellence and integrity and a deep understanding of and dedication to Notre Dame’s Catholic mission,” University provost Thomas G. Burish said in the release. “He is committed to partnering with the faculty to raise the level of research and instruction at Mendoza to even higher levels, and to help integrate Mendoza’s many strengths with other programs throughout the University.” As the leader of close to 160 faculty members, Cremers said he hopes to further improve Mendoza’s undergraduate and professional programs as well as positively influence the business world and beyond. “I am honored to be offered this challenging new role at Notre Dame and look forward to working alongside our impressive group of faculty members and students as we confront the myriad business challenges and opportunities facing our society,” Cremers said in the release. “I am grateful for the trust being placed in me and committed to advancing Mendoza’s distinctive mission as a Catholic business school, where we seek to educate business leaders who seek to contribute to human flourishing, cooperate in solidarity and compete with excellence.”
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Rice echoed Kerry, adding that “we don’t really have an answer for” populism. “We need to modernize the liberal order,” Rice said. “ … Populists give you a reason why you’re failing. They say it’s the immigrants. They say it’s the Chinese. If you’re on the left, they say it’s the big banks.” The panel landed on a subject of intense passion for Kerry when he led the discussion to climate change and Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a deal within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Kerry spoke for several minutes on this question, emphasizing the urgency of the need to combat climate change. “I will say to you bluntly tonight, that when the president said to the American people, ‘I’m pulling out of this because it places an undue burden on the United States of America,’ he lied. He did not tell the truth to the American people,” Kerry said. “It places no burden on any country other than what each country wrote as a plan itself. Every country wrote its own plan on Paris and what they would do to reduce emissions.” The panel then touched on the recent controversy surrounding border security, which led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Rice explained that while the country needs immigration reform, the discussion is being framed poorly. “We would not be in this mess today if we had comprehensive immigration reform,” she said. “If you ask most Americans, they will say, ‘We ought to be able to have an orderly border.’ I can’t even count the number of times the Democrats and Republicans have been for a wall, not for a wall, for a fence, not for a fence — I mean, come on. People are playing politics with this issue. … We want people at all ends of the immigration pendulum. I don’t like this idea of so-called merit immigration. The idea that we only want people who come here to make us better. I thought the idea was people came here and America made them better. And then they made us better in return.” Kerry kept his response short and to the point: “I agree with Condi.” The conversation pivoted to U.S. relations with countries that might pose threats to the U.S., beginning with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Rice began by explaining that she believes Putin has chosen the U.S. as Russia’s enemy to reunite Russia and make it a great country with strong leadership. While the U.S. needs to “contain and stop Putin,” Rice said, she emphasized that Russia is still producing citizens who should remain welcome in the U.S. “There’s a young generation of Russians who we shouldn’t be isolating,” she said. “ … Let’s isolate Putinism, but not isolate Russians. Because one day, Putin will be gone and those young Russians who are in my classes in the [Stanford] School of Business, who are in our law firms, who are in our
businesses, need to be supported. Kerry added that he believed working with Russia was possible, but that the country was still prone to suffer from a Cold War attitude of distrusting dialogue. “I got along with Putin, as [Rice] did, and we managed to cooperate on a lot of things,” he said. “ … I found them ready to deal, to be honest with you. And to be candid, I had some problems within our administration. I had people who just could only see them in a Cold War context, only wanted to bring the hammer down. … It was just, ‘Sanction them. Don’t talk to them. Isolate them.’” The two also discussed Trump’s recent diplomatic efforts with North Korea, agreeing that the president had made inroads, but had been mistaken in attending the second summit without a clear next step. They also explored the current administration’s approach to China, where Rice admitted Trump’s aggressive trade policies had been effective and the time to make a deal was nearing. Kerry agreed, and added that China’s “One Belt, One Road” program of international development was a byproduct of the narrative that the Western liberal order and America are on the decline. Once the moderated panel wrapped up, Rice and Kerry took questions from the audience. This was where the two encountered their biggest disagreement of the night, as Kerry raised the question of voter suppression, something Rice said she does not feel is a problem. “We’re not going to solve our problems in this country, I regret to tell you, ultimately, without major reform to the way we approach our elections and the structure,” Kerry said. “We are the only country I know of — well, only full democracy — that has major elections accountable to the people in which one party spends an awful lot of time preventing people from voting and gets away with it.” Rice interjected to offer a different take on voting rights and a
citizen’s ability to vote, citing the African American voter turnout in the Alabama special election for senator, when Roy Moore was the Republican nominee, as an example of citizens turning out to vote in droves when they feel inspired to do so. “It’s your fault if you don’t vote. It’s not the fault of the system. It’s not their fault that you’re not inspired,” Rice said. “ … My relatives in Birmingham, Alabama, my ancestors, died to vote. So if you don’t vote, it’s your fault. And secondly — voter suppression? I’m sorry,
John, people can vote if they want to vote.” Kerry pushed back, however, pointing to his own examples of elections in which voter suppression was evident, whether it went unpunished or not, and urging audience members to do their own research on the subject. The night ended with both speakers offering some final words of wisdom for the audience. Kerry stressed that the only way to change the recent shift in politics toward “the hard policy of orthodoxy thinking” was through voting Paid Advertisement
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for more moderate representation, and offered a Nelson Mandela quote as inspiration: “It always seems impossible until it is done.” Rice gave a three-part potential solution primarily directed to the younger members of the audience: to not live in a political echo-chamber, to avoid the appeal to a right of being offended and a plea to “own your democracy.” Contact Courtney Becker at cbecker3@nd.edu and Tobias Hoonhout at thoonhou@nd.edu
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Nearly two years after the release of DC’s “Wonder Woman,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally introduced its first female-fronted superhero movie. The endcredits scene of “Avengers: Infinity War” teased Captain Marvel as the savior of a universe devastated by the villain Thanos, and her origin story certainly establishes her immense power. In fact, that’s pretty much all it accomplishes. “Captain Marvel” begins on Hala, a planet inhabited by an advanced humanoid species known as the Kree. Vers (Brie Larson), an elite soldier of the Starforce, trains with her commander Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) to fight in a war against the malevolent shapeshifting Skrulls. Vers lacks any memory prior to arriving on Hala with the ability to launch red-hot photon blasts from her hands; however, an encounter with the Skrulls spurs her recollection of a previous life as pilot Carol Danvers and sends her spiraling towards Earth in the 1990s. Vers meets a young Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) who joins her on a quest to protect Earth from the Skrulls and uncover the mystery behind her past. Vers and Fury survive several clashes with the Skrull general Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) as they gradually reveal Vers’ past through the help of former Air Force pilot Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch). Unlocking the potential of “Captain Marvel” rests on a twist that the filmmaking duo of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck sterilize to its core. The Skrulls are actually desperate refugees scrambling to escape the merciless Kree, and Carol Danvers was tangled in an incident that wipes her memory while granting her the ability to manipulate energy. YonRogg renames her Vers, transforms her from human to Kree and shapes her into a Starforce puppet. Compelling social commentary eludes any of these proceedings due to the
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“We’re gonna introduce now the North Clayton Eagles / Coached by James Gwynn / His starters, number 21, Tauheed Epps.” The announcer’s voice cuts out, but you can watch, or just imagine, the rest. A tall, lanky high school kid strides past his teammates — receiving high fives as he goes — shakes hands with the opposing coach and prepares to ball out. It’s a scene that’s played out in gyms across the nation as young boys compete not only to score more points, but to achieve the golden dream for any player: going to the league. But the dream is just that — a dream. Few high school hoopers play in college, and even fewer — just over 1 percent to be exact — NCAA players make it to the NBA. Tauheed Epps played in college at Alabama State, but he never made it to the league, so he turned to an almost equally difficult dream to achieve: becoming a rapper. He achieved it. At 41 years old, Tauheed Epps, known more commonly as the veteran Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz, uses his latest album to reflect on his personal narrative, which combines two overarching elements of youth culture: basketball and rap. In telling his story, 2 Chainz comes with a focus and seriousness rarely found on his earlier work. His seriousness and
movie’s cast of one-dimensional characters, particularly Danvers herself. The leader of the Kree and Yon-Rogg tell Danvers that her success as a warrior rests upon the mastery of her emotions, but Carol morphs her supposed weakness into an advantage. She impresses with her unapologetic spunk and effortless strength, and her unparalleled power justifies recklessness. However, her self-confidence ushers in a return to the stale, unambiguous morality from which Marvel previously progressed. At the first hint of Kree manipulation, Danvers immediately recognizes the evil of everything she’s ever known and stands proudly with the Skrulls (who have tortured and attacked her throughout the film.) The Kree military obviously deserves contempt, but the issue lies in Danvers’ characterization as the first perfect Marvel hero — not due to her immense power, but her ignorance of the trademark doubt and emotional flaws that define relatable tales of heroism. The casting choice of a woman provides vital representation in the Marvel Universe, but can an impossible character truly inspire in a world of very real problems? “Captain Marvel” self-identifies as a story of female empowerment by playing No Doubt’s “Just A Girl” during intense combat and, in one scene, uncomfortably inserting complex messages into the mouth of a 10-year-old girl. In contrast, heroes like Wonder Woman, the Scarlet Witch and Gamora actually prove that women can overcome any obstacle through their valor and tenacity. Danvers’ near-invincibility, while sufficiently explained and even necessary, complements her lack of depth in creating a bland character that robs the narrative structure of tension. Other aspects of the film jeopardize its integrity. For example, Talos trades his jocular edge for a tender personality to remind the audience that its expectations of the villainous Skrulls were most definitely subverted. Unlike
the first “Captain America” movie, the historical setting of “Captain Marvel” feels disconcerting due to the inundation of sci-fi elements and the clash between grandiose orchestral tracks and ’90s tunes. Disbelief must be suspended in moments such as Danvers and Fury evading security in the Marvel equivalent of Area 51 and an unexplained killer cat easily defeating a cadre of the superhuman Starforce. Despite these fundamental flaws, “Captain Marvel” has its share of entertaining moments. Brie Larson manages to navigate Danvers’ numerous awkward lines while maintaining the engaging qualities of her character, and the playful banter between her and Fury redeems most of their joint scenes. The de-ageing technology used to give Samuel L. Jackson the appearance of a vigorous young agent function impeccably and provide Fury with a well-earned central role after years of minor appearances in Marvel movies. “Captain Marvel” clings to the historic significance of Larson’s casting in hopes that its spoon-fed message of “stay determined” will be enough to save it from the preexisting heap of mediocre Marvel stories. Hopefully, Danvers awaits the realization of her potential in the upcoming “Avengers: Endgame” showdown — after all, everyone deserves to see himself or herself as a legendary hero on the big screen..
focus is at times overbearing, but it makes “Rap or Go to the League” a compelling album. On “NCAA,” the standout track from the album, 2 Chainz uses a verse to highlight the exploitation of college athletes: “Let me get this straight, if I drop 40 today / You don’t care if I eat, you don’t care if I ate.” He’s still cracking jokes — “I have more crab legs than Jameis / You fake like you got a girlfriend, Manti Te’o” — and boasting his own success — “From the public houses to a couple houses / To a couple cars, sippin’ a cup of tea” — but his activist message, which is closely tied to his personal experience, also slips in: the NCAA is an unfair system. “Threat 2 Society,” another hit off the album, finds 2 Chainz rapping over a soulful sample from The Truthettes’s 1980 song “So Good To Be Alive.” In this track, he hits on the darker moments of his life, from suffering the loss of friends and family to selling dope, and also mentions the coaches who taught him his killer jump shot. It’s the repetitive, hardhitting chorus, however, that ties the track together and significantly increases its replay value. The buzz surrounding “Rap or Go to the League” is particularly loud thanks in part to the big names associated with it. Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and Ariana Grande all make guest appearances, although their contributions fail to match those of Travis Scott, Drake, Swae Lee and Jhene Aiko on 2017’s “Pretty Girls Like Trap Music.”
Most notable, however, are the contributions of basketball superstar and hip-hop fanatic LeBron James. The influential James, who’s in the midst of a difficult season with the Los Angeles Lakers, took some time off the court to serve as a consultant on the album and appear in an Apple-exclusive video with 2 Chainz. While “Rap or Go to the League” may not be remembered as 2 Chainz’s best album, it is undoubtedly his most significant. It tells the story of 2 Chainz, highlights the importance of basketball in that story and provides social commentary on a number of issues related to it. And, maybe most importantly, it has a couple of great songs.
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“Captain Marvel” Starring: Bire Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Genre: Action, Science Fiction If you like: “Avengers: Infinity War,” any Marvel film
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Ranking the campus outrages
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nothing, because fighting the department is futile. I believe it’s the closest we got to an uprising against the administration, however.
Caroline Pineda Sports Writer
The best piece of career advice I’ve received is “Say yes to everything; never turn down an opportunity.” With that in mind, when given the chance to participate in a reporting trip to Puerto Rico with a Notre Dame journalism course, I obviously said yes. Our trip took place over spring break, roughly a year and a half after Hurricane Maria hit the United States territory. Early in the morning on Sept. 20, 2017, Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico’s southern shore. It tore across the entire island with sustained winds of 155 mph, a mere 2 mph shy of being classified as a Category 5 storm. Maria devastated the island, leaving 100 percent of Puerto Ricans without electricity. In the days and weeks that followed, the territory received an abundance of media coverage, as journalists provided a voice to displaced people calling out for government aid. As the weeks and months went on, some regions of Puerto Rico regained power and a previous way of life, but many citizens waited up to 11 months for the lights to turn back on. By that time, the media’s focus had largely shifted to other events in other parts of the world, leaving Puerto Rico in the dark in more than one sense. A year and a half after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still rebuilding. Our class paired with local journalists in Puerto Rico to spend our spring break reporting on the extended aftermath of Maria. We covered various aspects of the ongoing recovery process, from education and government to tourism and sports. Our class talked to many people about a range of topics, but we all shared the common experience of listening to the stories of people whose lives changed forever on Sept. 20, 2017. On a much smaller scale, talking to these people changed my life and my perspective, as well. I watched 9-year-old Yadier Ortiz choke back tears while he talked about losing his home and everything in it. I saw his 13-year-old brother light up as he talked about how baseball helped his family recover from that trauma. I listened to local journalists talk about losing hair and sleep from PTSD brought on by the emotional toll of covering so much death and destruction. I heard many citizens express their frustration over the lack of government aid due to Puerto Rico’s possession of neither statehood nor independence. Through all of these conversations, I watched how a strong sense of community and identity helped Puerto Ricans brave the storm and its aftermath. After spending the day with Yadier and his family, his dad asked me what I thought of Puerto Rico and how my time there measured up to my expectations. Before the trip, I had read extensively on the state of Puerto Rico after the storm, and I thought I knew what to expect. In reality, I was severely unprepared for the strong sense of community, hospitality and strength that I would encounter on the island. Tucked inside our small nook of northern Indiana, we often hear that we are receiving a world-renowned education from award-winning professors. While that may be true, the problem with the Notre Dame bubble is that we sometimes forget to apply our knowledge on campus to the outside world. When people told me to say yes to every opportunity, they meant that doing so would help open doors to internships and interesting experiences. My trip to Puerto Rico showed me a different benefit of saying yes to opportunities, and it made me realize that everyone should take advantage of this kind of experience at least once. It is only by being curious and leaving the Notre Dame bubble that we can apply our educations and our degrees to the world beyond the Golden Dome and Touchdown Jesus. Contact Caroline Pineda at cpineda1@nd.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
As my time as a columnist (and a student) draws to a close, I have started to reflect on my time at Notre Dame. Of course, there are the interhall sports moments, the passions of the Grotto and the charm of dances. These are great and integral to my Notre Dame experience, but my favorite part of Notre Dame has been the campus outrages: the calls for protest, the scathing Observer columns with subsequent responses and that all students simply move on after the fact without really pondering the consequences after the initial week. Here is my list of the greatest outrages campus has had in my four years of Notre Dame judged — as always — by my completely arbitrary standards.
10. President Trump’s election Every college had a President Trump election outrage, so I’m ranking this one last based purely on originality. I have friends at the University of Oregon that had all their classes canceled the next day and people at Williams College who got the entire week off. All we could muster was a protest the next morning. If we are going to have virtually the only protest I have ever experienced at Notre Dame, I at least want there to be some sort of benefit for me after the fact.
9. Charles Murray coming to campus I am still not really sure if I am ranking these based on how much the outrage personally benefited me or if I am ranking outrages low based on how much they actually outraged me. Either way, Charles Murray’s visit to campus will remain low. For those that don’t recall, he claims to be a racial scientist which is akin to a KKK member calling themselves a ghost at Halloween. We all really know what he is despite the name branding.
8. Killing the anonymity of Yik Yak Yik Yak used to be a place of pure lawlessness with comments ranging from depressing to hilarious to overall strange. I may have posted frequently to Yik Yak, but none of you would ever know because of its beautiful structure. Then everything changed when they stripped their anonymous model during my freshman year. Yes, I understand people were sending hateful comments and school shooting scares at other schools and possibly at Notre Dame. Ultimately, it was a good thing Yik Yak died but I can’t help but be nostalgic about the Wild West of social media.
7. The Columbus murals I never really paid attention to those murals before this year, but you best believe they were the focal point of my dorm’s Dome Dance. I like this outrage more than others because our campus successfully memed the 15th-century explorer. However, the outrage felt a little overblown based on the apathy most of the students had. That’s why I keep this in the bottom half.
6. Three-year housing requirement From my senior perspective, this is how the three-year housing requirement announcement went: Step 1: “Wait, we don’t already have a three-year housing requirement?” Step 2: “I’m upset now I guess, they can’t force that on us.” Step 3: “Never mind, I already signed my lease for next year, anyway.” I loved this outrage because the Office of Housing ultimately did
5. The closure of Feve I don’t know if I can even joke about this one — the pain is still there. I would explain to many friends back home what Feve was, but they could never understand what Feve represented. It had something for every class (Disclaimer: as long as you were 21) and faith in the establishment came from seeing it with your own eyes. The worst part is, I was abroad for Final Feve, so I never got to say goodbye. Good night, sweet prince.
4. The closure of dining establishments Whether it be Waddick’s’ renovation, a closure of North Dining Hall temporarily or closure of Recker’s permanently, students really get up in arms about their eateries. I like these outrages because it shows what the Notre Dame student really cares about in the world — food. Yeah, there are issues we talk about that represent injustice, but the world is three meals away from anarchy. I personally believe all the changes to dining have been good, but the opposition’s opinion usually has funny takes to make this outrage higher on the list.
3. Pence as commencement speaker This outrage is high because it gave Notre Dame national news coverage and because, unlike Trump, it was completely original. No one else outside felt the dual burden of Trump in the presidency and Pence as the state’s former governor. I felt we had to have Pence because of the presidential tradition, but I am still glad we protested over it all the same.
2. Student body elections Last year’s student body elections were a goldmine. While abroad, I would check The Observer constantly to see whatever new drama popped up. Each ticket losing 10 percent of the vote combined with a joke candidacy to force a runoff, different publications endorsing different groups and closed senate meetings made this thing beautiful to watch from afar. I am sure if I were on campus at the time, this would have been much more divisive in my life, but as it stands, it was more entertaining than anything.
1. Pangborn as a swing dorm and other resident hall switching I place this in the number-one spot because it personally allowed me to move to Dunne and have a great time since. Morrissey was decanting its population which made me a prime candidate to move over to air conditioning and tall ceilings. Of course, we have a good community, too, I guess. I remember at the info meeting for the new dorm, many members of Walsh and Badin were upset at the changes while I was marveling at the idea of 14-foot ceilings. 14 feet. That’s insane, and the main reason why this outrage takes the top spot. Davis loves to rank people, places, things, ideas and sometimes even verbs. His current senior year places fourth among years, his neuroscience major places seventh and his theology major ranks third among all majors. Contact him at dgonsalv@nd.edu to be placed first in his heart. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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The Mayor Pete moment Patrick Aimone BridgeND
You’d be forgiven if your mind was elsewhere over spring break, but in the last week, the national media seems to have remembered the mayor of South Bend, Indiana is running for president. After a CNN town hall where he stunned viewers with direct, substantive answers to policy questions (as well as throwing some shade at Mike Pence’s biblical scholarship), Mayor Pete Buttigieg attracted glowing attention in major media outlets such as the Washington Post and Slate Magazine and landed a full-length profile in the New Yorker. He also reported his largest fundraising day so far in the campaign, raising over $600,000 in the 24 hours following the town hall. Even The Onion got in on the action, poking fun at his current mayoral office by reporting on his “bold plan for a 2,500-mile intercontinental riverwalk.” But mayor or not, Pete Buttigieg deserves to be taken seriously. And no, not just because he has more executive experience than the current occupant of the Oval Office and more military experience than any president since George H.W. Bush. Mayor Pete’s biography speaks for itself — Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar, Navy veteran with seven months in Afghanistan. However, what stands out in his public appearances, speeches and policy positions as well is his assured sense of intelligence. Mayor Pete’s measured, direct answers to policy questions, featuring bold ideas about “intergenerational justice” and the “Ignatian process of discernment” with quips about the current “porn star
presidency,” indicate a mind suited to meet the challenges of the presidency head-on with reasoned solutions, rather than one inclined to slink back into the residence for television and “executive time.” That makes Mayor Pete a candidate perfectly suited for this political moment. After all, no one can plausibly make the case that he lacks the experience to get elected — not with a reality star in office. And when in office, it’s very possible that successful executive experience, even at the municipal level, will be the best asset a president can boast. After all, one of the president’s primary roles is leadership of the executive; even the best-laid plans will go awry when an administration is plagued by internal dysfunction. In that vein, Mayor Pete’s experience corralling a city council divided on issues much more complex than, but just as tribal as, the partisan divide in Congress will prove much more valuable than Bernie’s or Beto’s or Warren’s or even Biden’s experience being part of that divide. The other skill critical to an effective presidency is good judgment — especially in high-pressure situations. In this regard, Mayor Pete’s military service, as well as his experience handling scandals like the racist police recordings in his first year as mayor, indicate a readiness and capability for this role. Other candidates might have boldly impractical ideas for domestic policy, but when unexpected crisis erupts in the Middle East, I’d prefer to have a president handling it who has experience serving over there. America, too, is aching for the sort of governmental stability and practicality on a national scale that municipal governments routinely provide. Cities don’t shut down services over policy disputes; if they did, their citizens
wouldn’t just be without TSA and national parks, but without sanitation or trash pickup. Instead, they work it out. Infrastructure is routinely a popular national bipartisan proposal because we can all appreciate that infrastructure is motivated by questions of practicality, not ideology — it’s not as if one party is vehemently anti-highway. Those are the sorts of pragmatic issues that mayors confront and solve on a regular basis. Some people seem to think that sort of deal-making, practical mindset is outdated or ill-suited for national office. On the contrary, the president is the thought leader and agenda setter for his party, and so electing a man like Mayor Pete to the presidency would change the tone and subject of our national discourse for the better. The idea of a President Buttigieg (President Pete? President Mayor Pete?) may have seemed far-fetched when he launched his campaign, but since then his star has been rising within the Democratic primary. David Axelrod’s adage that voters seek the remedy for, not the replica of, the current president has been stated often enough, but it might be time to accept that the greatest contrast Democrats can draw with the current president in 2020 is not one of identity or ideology, but of intelligence, plain and simple. It’s Mayor Pete’s moment — let’s make it last. Patrick Aimone is a first-year political science student in Sorin College, originally from Southern California, whose sunny days he misses dearly. The viewpoints expressed in this column are those of the individual and not necessarily those of BridgeND as an organization. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Observer.
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Right now: Exploring the realities of race in a post-racial society How does it feel? Right now? I’m pissed. I’m mad. I feel sick. As much as I try not to, Right now? I really hate you. I hate it when you walk. I hate it how you talk. I hate you like you hated me, Even when I was so small. The hate you gave? It’s boiling in my veins. A searing flame. It runs through my heart, Tearing it apart. Right now? Holl’up. Let’s take it back to the start. Let’s go back to when I was free. Free from the chains. Free from you.
Free from the pain. When I was free. Right now? A distant memory. My home. My family. All alone. You lay yourself down to sleep Somehow, At peace. You prayed to your Lord Your soul to keep As you sailed away Ignoring my weep. Everything, you had to take. The only thing you gave? Everlasting hate. You pushed me down So you could rise. Right now? It’s still a fight. You try to ignore it. Try to be blind. “I don’t see color,
I live in the light.” But don’t you see My color? It’s a part of me. It sits on my face, It kinks up my hair, And that’s just a taste. It weighs me down Every single day. But right now? Now I see, Despite everything, I see me, I see my strength, Finally. But it’s hard, you see. And that’s what I hate. You get it all so easily. You don’t have to fight. You don’t have to think. About any of these things. What’s it like? Being white. Just getting to live. What a life.
Right now? Although I try, I’m still angry. After all this time, Barely even an apology. Right now? You expect me to heal, Like it’s all long and gone, Like there’s nothing left to feel. You’re ready to move on. Tired of the past, Tired of the pain, From all the hate you gave. You Want to be great again. Right now? I Want to be free. Again.
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: You’ll experience an emotional revelation that will help you decide what to do next. An opportunity to change the way you earn your living should be considered. Reunite with people from your past. Staying informed will give you a chance to get involved in an interesting project. A partnership will enhance your life as well as your status. Your numbers are 8, 15, 21, 28, 32, 37, 43. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Get your credentials in order, and add to your skills, knowledge and the way you present yourself to others. Selfimprovement as well as connecting with people who are heading in a similar direction will encourage positive results. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Listen and learn. Delve into research and find out more about an interest, project or financial move you want to make. Put your energy into achieving your objective. Check out your options, and choose the path offering the least risk. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A reserved attitude will help you avoid being taken advantage of. A partnership will disappoint you if you are gullible or your expectations are too high. Don’t get angry; get out of the situation causing you grief. CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Take care of small but important details. Enlist the help of people you know you can count on. Someone you least expect will shed light on a situation you face. Stick to your plan and your budget. LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let the changes others make disturb you. Concentrate on the things you enjoy doing and develop a better emotional rapport with someone you’d like to get to know better. Refuse to let your emotions interfere with your responsibilities or reputation. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take a deep breath and do what will make you feel safe, secure and happy. Refuse to put up with anyone jeopardizing your rights or your chance to do as you please. Gravitate toward people who share your opinions and goals. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Pay closer attention to your living conditions, lifestyle and health. Distance yourself from bad habits and individuals who make you nervous or uncomfortable. Consider your needs, and initiate the changes that will ease stress and encourage greater freedom. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take a break and do something you enjoy. Honing a creative ability will give you greater options regarding your income or how you live your life. A change will do you good and encourage you to surround yourself with like-minded people. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll be attracted to unusual individuals. Be careful not to let someone persuade you into something that can be damaging to your reputation. Curiosity is OK, but falling for something that may not be true can lead to loss. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t sit on an idea you have. Take the initiative; you will be able to improve your life, your home and your future. Thoughts should be followed by actions, and plans should be put into place. Don’t second-guess your capabilities. AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Call in a favor if it will help you do something you are having difficulty with. Walk away from situations that are explosive before someone gets hurt. Avoid trouble, dealing with authority figures and institutions. Take care of yourself. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make calls, discuss plans and find out how to use your skills to get ahead. Opportunities are apparent, so don’t leave anything to chance. Check the online job market, and touch base with people who can help you get ahead. Birthday Baby: You are sensitive, resourceful and aggressive. You are adaptable and demonstrative.
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The Olympics have long served as home to some of the most inspirational and unifying sporting events in history. This is why when they decided to create an event for the only sport that I had a legitimate working knowledge of for the upcoming the 2020 games in Tokyo, I was relatively excited. I would get to see some of my favorite indoor climbers compete with their peers from around the world on a massive scale compared to what I was used to. The recognition brought a level of legitimacy to the argument that raged on at my high school that it is a “real” sport and therefore deserved funding. It was not until I looked at the format of the event that I was thoroughly disappointed. There are a diverse range of styles and disciplines in rock climbing, yet there will only be one set of medals handed out. There is some very basic knowledge needed to understand the sport. Firstly, there are two overarching approaches to the sport — indoor and outdoor. Outdoor climbers are relatively disinterested in competing in a venue such as the Olympics and focus greatly on setting first accents and links of natural walls. The world of indoor climbing is a different form of competition it has less to do with what you do and more to do when and how fast you do it. Indoor climbing is the form of the sport that can be judged objectively and conveniently enough to appear in the Olympics. Indoor climbing first developed as a way to train for the variety of different types of outdoor climbing one might encounter and consequently differences in disciplines within climbing developed. The first type of climbing the upcoming games will feature is bouldering: a
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four-meter-high wall that will be judged on speed of completion. Bouldering developed as a way to take the hardest parts of a wall and drill them without ropes or a partner. A climber who focuses most of his or her time on bouldering will most likely also focus on building upper-arm strength. The second discipline of climbing is lead climbing. This form of climbing requires endurance, pacing and thought. There are many ways to climb a wall and lead climbing causes a climber to consider all these ways while creating their path up a wall with a rope and harness. This section will be judged on who completes the wall or which climber is highest at the point of falling. The last discipline of climbing is speed climbing. This discipline is largely criticized in the rock climbing community and is relatively new to the sport. It considers many of the same things as bouldering and lead climbing but is judged purely on the speed that a climber ascends the wall. Climbing in any one of these disciplines requires focus and dedication. They are very different in nature. Combining them into one event and averaging scores is insulting to the athletes. It would be similar to ask a runner to train to compete in a marathon, a mile and a 200-yard sprint at the Olympics. Many climbers train in all of these disciplines, but they usually focus on one. Though the recognition from the Olympic community has minutely helped rock climbing there are real concerns about the structure of the event in the 2020 games, and what it means for the heart of the sport.
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The Irish continued their lengthy stretch of early-season road games over spring break, traveling to the Carolinas for seven games in 10 days. Over the course of the road trip, the Irish (8-10, 4-2 ACC) opened conference play and clinched two series against ACC opponents. Notre Dame opened the break with a trip to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to kick off conference play. After a Friday night matchup was postponed due to rain, the Irish and the Demon Deacons (13-9, 3-3) took the field for a doubleheader Saturday afternoon. Tommy Sheehan took the hill for the Irish in the first game of the doubleheader. The left-handed sophomore pitched around a pair of singles in the first inning and cruised through his first three innings work. Sheehan ran into trouble in the fourth inning. After Wake Forest first baseman Bobby Seymour reached on an error, Sheehan surrendered a two-run home run to designated hitter Shane Muntz. Home runs continued to plague the starting pitcher as left fielder Chris Lanzilli took Sheehan deep in the fifth and Muntz drilled his second home run of the day in the sixth. With the Irish trailing 4-3 in the 8th inning, first baseman Daniel Jung and designated hitter Carter Putz each singled. Third baseman Niko Kavadas worked a full count before sending a home run down the right field line. The home run gave Kavadas and the Irish a 6-4 lead and led to an eventual 7-4 victory in game one.
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sustaining a back injury in practice, the team was unsure if she would be able to play, but she persevered through the pain and posted rounds of 75, 73 and 73, including a final round that included five birdies. Holt was impressed by the gritty play of her senior. “We were warming up on Monday and she pulled a muscle in her upper back. She did not hit a golf ball again until we were warming up Friday morning the day of the tournament. We had a trainer out there doing a lot of work on
The Irish fell in game two on Saturday by a final score of 7-4. Wake Forest jumped out to a three-run first inning off Notre Dame’s Cameron Brown. The Irish surged back with three runs of their own in the fourth inning, but Brown surrendered another run to the Demon Deacons in the bottom half of the fourth. The Irish tied the game again in the fifth inning as Daniel Jung lifted a sacrifice fly to center field, plating Ethan Copeland. Wake Forest posted a run in the seventh and two runs in the eighth off the Irish bullpen to clinch the victory in game two of the doubleheader. Notre Dame clinched the series against Wake Forest with an 8-7 win on Sunday. The Irish trailed 7-4 in the ninth inning. Putz drove in John Arndorfer on a fielder’s choice, and senior right fielder Eric Gilgenbach brought home two more baserunners to tie the game at seven. The Irish wasted no time in extra innings, scoring a run in the 10th to take the 8-7 lead and clinch the victory. The Irish dropped a nonconference contest against Western Carolina next. The pitching staff surrendered 16 runs to the Catamounts (107, 0-0 SoCon), nine of which came in the first three innings. The Irish rallied to tie the game at nine in the eighth inning, but the Catamounts posted seven runs in the bottom of the eighth to take the lead and the 16-9 victory. Notre Dame wrapped up with a conference series against Clemson (15-5, 4-2 ACC). Sheehan got his second start of the road trip Friday night, and the left-hander did not disappoint. Sheehan
pitched a complete game and limited No. 12 Clemson to two runs on the evening. Gilgenbach had three hits, including a home run, for the Irish in the 9-2 victory. The Irish struggled to generate offense in a 5-1 loss to Clemson on Saturday. After starting pitcher Cameron Brown surrendered five runs in seven innings, center fielder Jack Zyska drove in the lone run for the Irish on a sacrifice fly that scored left fielder Brooks Coetzee. Notre Dame clinched the series with an extra-inning thriller on Sunday. Starting pitcher Cameron Junker cruised through his first seven innings of work, and the Irish entered the eighth inning with a 2-0 lead. Junker allowed a leadoff single to Clemson in the bottom of the eighth inning and struck out a Clemson batter before getting pulled for reliever Tommy Vail. Vail allowed a walk and a double to the first two batters he faced, surrendering two runs and allowing Clemson to tie the game. In the tenth inning, a Putz single, David LaManna hit-bypitch and Kavadas walk loaded the bases for Coetzee. Coetzee put the ball in play, and a Clemson error allowed Putz to score. Jared Miller drove in an insurance run on a fielder’s choice to give the Irish a 4-2 lead. Freshman Mitch Megias entered to pitch the bottom of the tenth for the Irish, and he allowed two hits before retiring the side and clinching the 4-2 victory. The Irish will host Florida State this weekend for their home opener. First pitch on Friday is scheduled for 6 p.m.
her, and it got her to where she could battle,” Holt said. “She was in a lot of pain, but I think she was happy to be able to try to play. She wasn’t swinging at 100 percent, she at about 80 percent of her full strength. She was effective in her three rounds. The team needed her and she knew it, and she got it done.” The team will now focus on the Brickyard Collegiate tournament on April 8 and 9. It is the team’s final chance to play before the ACC Championship on April 18, so it will be critical for the team to work out any remaining issues and get healthy. Holt hopes to see her team continue to improve
before its next tournament. “We need to continue to work on our games. Golf is a sport where everybody has their own things that they need to work on and all of our kids have different areas of their games they need to focus on,” Holt said. “It goes back to the reality of us needing four scores every day. We’re not getting that enough. It’s on them to be ready to compete once the tournament starts and get three rounds in. We’re just looking for that consistency. If we can get that then we’ll be in really good shape.” Contact Jack Concannon at jconcan2@nd.edu
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While the rest of the student body was getting some muchneeded rest and relaxation, the undefeated Irish (8-0, 2-0 ACC) continued their excellent form from the start of the season. On March 13, the ladies took on Virginia Commonwealth, winning 15-4. Sophomore attack Maddie Howe improved her goal tally to 23 on the season, scoring five times. Also on the scoresheet were freshman attack Mollie Carr and sophomore midfielder Andie Aldave with one goal apiece, and juniors Jessi Masinko and Savannah Buchanan with four goals and one goal, respectively. Senior attack Nikki Ortega scored two goals and midfielder Samantha Lynch scored once. Masinko also posted two assists while Aldave, Ortega, Lynch and
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and low key, not to overcoach.” After qualifying the maximum number of 12 competitors — one of four other schools to do so — Notre Dame is in good position to compete for its third-straight national championship. However, Kvaratskhelia is determined to make sure that his team doesn’t lose sight of the task at hand, understanding it’s a new year and new expectations have to be met. “Coming down the [final stretch] we’re as prepared as we could be and as healthy as we could wish to be,” he said. “Going in with the attitude that we have to fight for every single touch, nothing is given to us.” That attitude and determination will be needed against a competitive field of Columbia, Harvard and Penn State — all of which qualified the maximum number of athletes in each weapon — along with a number of other teams that are expected to put up a good fight. Specifically, the women’s side of the bracket puts Kvaratskhelia and his staff in a unique position, with each weapon featuring a senior and freshman. In foil, senior Sabrina Massialas and freshman Amita Berthier will take the mat. They’ll be joined by senior Amanda Sirico and freshman Miriam Grady in epee and senior Tara Hassett and freshman Kara Linder in sabre. While the women provide a stark contrast of youth and experience, the men are just as mixed, ranging from a reigning national champion to three first-time competitors. Sophomore Nick Itkin will look to defend his individual national title, but should expect some competition from teammate
freshman midfielder Hannah Dorney all had one. The Irish took control of the game early and did not let up until the end, getting the win over the Rams (3-4, 0-0 A10). After handling the Rams, the Irish travelled from Richmond, Virginia, to Charlottesville to face No. 7 Virginia. The Irish stepped up to the challenge, winning the matchup 10-9. Howe scored three goals, but Aldave stole the show, scoring three of her own and assisting on two others. A game of runs, the Irish ended the first period up 4-2. However, the Cavaliers (7-3, 03 ACC) fought back in the second, scoring five of the next six goals to take an 8-5 lead. Not to be outdone, the Irish answered with four unanswered goals of their own to retake the lead. After Virginia tied the game
again with 4:27 to go, Aldave stepped up to ensure the victory, scoring a last gasp winner with just 1:30 left in the game. Aldave and senior goalkeeper Samantha Giacolone were named the ACC offensive and defensive players of the week, respectively, after their performances against VCU and Virginia. A win over the then-No. 5 team in the nation sprung the Irish up the national rankings to No. 8. The next action for the squad will be Wednesday night against Vanderbilt, before a tough stretch of conference action, including games against No. 4 Syracuse, No. 3 North Carolina, top-ranked Boston College and No. 12 Duke. The Irish will take on the Commodores at Alumni Stadium on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Axel Kiefer. Kiefer, a senior, finished tied for third last year while Itkin brought home the gold. Additionally, junior Ariel Simmons will lead the way for the Irish in epee as well as sophomore Stephen Ewart. Rounding out the roster, junior Arsenii Panteleev and freshman Alessandro Contreras will both be making their NCAA debut in sabre. While some weapons boast multiple former All-Americans and others have garnered less national attention, Kvaratskhelia said he’s seen equal contributions from all six categories throughout the season, and he knows from the past two years that a balanced approach is the key to competing at the highest level. “Our goal is to peak in the right
moment, right time,” he said. “We’ve managed in the last two years to do so. … We’ve shown our best at the end of the season.” Although it still remains to be seen how these underclassmen perform under the bright lights, Kvaratskhelia maintains that each athletes has the opportunity to be a leader, knowing that they’re all needed for the success of the team. He even quipped that he never knows when a freshman could even win an individual title, a reference to Itkin’s title last year. “Everyone has to be a leader. You never know what leadership, in terms of production of the [champion]ship,” Kvaratskhelia said. Just as Kvaratskhelia
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teams in the nation.” Playing such a strong schedule allows stars to prove themselves against the strongest competition, and that is exactly what sophomore Ally Bojczuk has done this season. Bojczuk is 9-2 in singles matches this season when she plays in the No. 2 singles spot, forcing her to take on top competition from other teams. She was one of just two Irish players, graduate student Brooke Broda being the other, to take a singles win this weekend. Silverio has been impressed with Bojczuk’s progression as a player. “Looking at her results from last year, Ally has certainly made a jump forward. It’s a testament to the hard work and discipline that she has been bringing in every day,” Silverio said. “All the credit to Ally for the development she has been making. This development is no surprise. She comes in every day ready to
understands each member of his team — competing and noncompeting — are needed for the team to achieve their goals, he was also quick to acknowledge the contributions he’s received from his supporting staff. “The reason for my success is my incredible coaching staff,” he said. “We also recruit and develop incredible athletes, so I feel pretty confident who I’m going to be working with. I feel like we for sure have the best coaches in each weapon, and going with them to this battle, I couldn’t be more confident in who I’m working with.” As the team prepares to open competition in Cleveland this Thursday, Kvaratskhelia is ready for just another day of work.
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work and focuses on the areas she has control over.” The Irish will now turn their attention to Wake Forest (15-3, 5-1). The Demon Deacons recently picked up a 5-2 win over Syracuse followed by a 7-0 sweep of North Carolina A&T. They will have to try to beat the Irish at Eck Tennis Center where the Irish are 7-1 on the season. It will be the first home match for the Irish since a 7-0 win over Louisville on March 8. Siverio knows her team is excited to return home. “It’s always exciting to be at home and be in front of our crowd and represent Notre Dame on our home court,” she said. “Certainly when we travel on the road it’s a great experience and we learn so much and it brings us so much closer as a team, but to come back home and be able to be in front of our home crowd is an exciting feeling.” The Irish will take on the Wake Forest on Friday at 3:30 p.m. at Eck Tennis Center. Contact Jack Concannon at jconcan2@nd.edu
However, come Sunday, if all goes according to plan, he and his team could come away with a shiny prize to wrap up their season. “We never talked about Championships at all,” Kvaratskhelia said. “We look at every single day as part of the process, part of the development. … Competition at the end of the year is just another one. That’s how we try to address it, that it’s no big deal. If we train hard, we give ourselves a chance every single competition, regardless of the degree of difficulty.” Contact Charlotte Edmonds at cedmond3@nd.edu and Grant DelVecchio at gdelvecc@nd.edu
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Notre Dame’s offensive flow in its first postseason game deviated from that of regular season — the Irish shot 57.1 percent from behind the arc, well above its 31.5 percent regular-season average. “I thought [freshman forward Nate] Laszewski on the floor to start the game and having another shooter against a zone stretched it and helped us,” said Brey. Both teams recorded 16 assists and under 10 turnovers. The Irish’s ability to share the ball so effectively and capitalize on 3-point looks and shots around the paint earned the victory against Georgia Tech. “I was so hoping we could find a little bit of a rhythm down [in Charlotte] after a tough 18 games in the regular season,” Brey said. “For our young guys to play confident down here — [John Mooney] has been fabulous, I don’t know how he has any energy left, we rode him so hard to get double-doubles against athletic front lines every night, so I’m happy for the kids because they’ve been invested and so coachable.” Unfortunately for the squad, the program’s fortunes went
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way off its regular season tendencies with a double-digit loss to Louisville (20-13, 10-8). The Irish trailed by nine points at halftime, and were outscored 28-41 in the last twenty minutes of play. “I thought Louisville was really good and just wore us down physically,” Brey said. “We didn’t have much left in the tank.” Louisville’s defense cut off any carryover Notre Dame may have brought in terms of offensive flow from the previous night against Georgia Tech. The Irish shot a mere 11.1 percent from 3-point range, recording just six assists to the Cardinals’ 14. “[Louisville players] really do guard you,” Brey said. “Georgia Tech played a zone, so you could move more freely, and you got looks. The looks we got [tonight] — there was somebody athletic closing out all the time … They really have physicality. I’m not sure we had as many good shots as we thought.” Every player on Notre Dame’s roster, barring graduate student guard Liam Nelligan, possesses eligibility for the 2019-2020 season. The coaching staff has acknowledged at various points in the season, including during the ACC tournament, that the program
is experiencing an influx of young talent that will take time to develop. “I do feel good about how our young guys played for us to come down [to Charlotte] and
win a game after a really tough regular season,” Brey said. “Our young guys got to play a lot. We didn’t get the best results, wins-wise, but they got experience. We certainly need
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to get healthy and a lot stronger. It’s a great strength-training summer for us.” Contact Holden Perrelli at hperrell@nd.edu
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Irish junior forward John Mooney dribbles past his defender during Notre Dame’s 64-62 defeat by Clemson at Purcell Pavilion on March 6. Mooney put up 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds against Georgia Tech. Paid Advertisement
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ND loses pair of matches on trip By JACK CONCANNON Sports Writer
The Irish weekend trip to Miami and No. 22 Florida State was a challenging one. The team took 5-2 and 6-1 losses, failing to win a singles match in their matchup with the Seminoles. The pair of losses dropped the team’s ACC record to 3-5, and the team must now prepare to face Wake Forest this Friday. Irish head coach Alison Silverio commented that the team needs to focus on what it can control. “We need to focus on the areas we have control over. Fitness and the physical piece of the game have been big items for us this season. That’s certainly going to be a focus going into this week,” Silverio said. “Learning from the weekend we had in Florida and the dayto-day consistency of our attitude, effort and the decisions we’re making. We really need to take care of the details in the areas we have control over.”
nd men’s basketball | nd 78, georiga tech 71; louisville 75, nd 53
Notre Dame’s season ends with loss in ACC tourney
One of the biggest challenges for the Irish (10-7, 3-5 ACC) has been competing in such a strong league. The ACC has seven of the top-25 ranked teams in the country, and five of the top-15 ranked singles players. There are no games off playing in such a tough league, and Silverio says her team enjoys the challenge, even when the results do not go Notre Dame’s way. “We embrace the challenge [of playing in the ACC]. The ACC is hands-down the best conference to play in for women’s tennis. It’s the strongest conference, that’s what we want. We want to be playing the best teams week-in, week-out,” Silverio said. “If we want to be the best, which is certainly what we want to be, then we have to beat the best. We certainly see it as an opportunity to get better and a challenge we want to embrace every weekend. We’re grateful to get to play the best see W TENNIS PAGE 10
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Irish freshman guard Prentiss Hubb looks to pass during Notre Dame’s 64-62 loss to Clemson on March 6 at Purcell Pavilion.
Irish to compete for 3rdstraight national title By CHARLOTTE EDMONDS and GRANT DelVECCHIO
Squad finishes 6th at Clover Cup By JACK CONCANNON Sports Writer
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For Gia Kvaratskhelia, this week is familiar territory. In his fifth season with the Irish, championship chasing is like clockwork for the head coach. Kvaratskhelia, orginially from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, has built his program on the fundamentals, insisting that the work it has done throughout the season will set it up for success in the coming weekend. “Pressure’s not on us,” he said. Kvaratskhelia later commented on how he coaches his athletes to avoid the distractions that come with the national stage, instructing them to “keep the temperature low.” “There’s nothing we can do about it,” he said. “When they get on the strip, they really have to be in control of their emotions. The noise, the distraction, in terms of all the talk about defending. … We try to keep everything simple
After an opening round win in the ACC Tournament, Notre Dame men’s basketball fell in their subsequent matchup to Louisville 75-53. The Irish’s (14-19, 3-15 ACC) chances in post-season play flashed a glimmer of hope when the team defeated Georgia Tech (14-18, 6-12) by seven points, and for a moment it seemed as though the group’s fortunes may have turned following a dismal regular season. “We have had a tough regular season in the ACC to say the least,” head coach Mike Brey said in a press conference after the Georgia Tech game. “For us to mentally prepare and come down here and [have] understood we had a clean slate — I just thought we got out of the gate with such a free mind. We were flowing offensively.”
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Irish junior epeeist Ariel Simmons lunges at his opponent during the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships on March 9.
This weekend the Irish headed to the Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona, to compete in the Clover Cup. The Irish were hosting the tournament, and put together a solid weekend as hosts. The team finished sixth in the 15-team field, with senior Isabella DiLisio leading the way for the Irish. She shot a 5-over 221, good for a tie for seventh. Despite the team’s solid performance, Irish head coach Susan Holt believes the team needs to be more consistent. “We had some good individual performances and good individual rounds. There were a lot of positives there, but we need four scores every day and we’re not getting it,” Holt explained. “We’re going to have to keep working to try and get those four solid scores.” The team’s lack of consistency has been its undoing so far. Sophomore Abby Heck finished second individually in the team’s first event of the season, but has struggled to maintain
that same level across the season tournaments since. Senior Emma Albrecht has been an excellent player for the Irish throughout her career, but has only led the Irish team in one of the three tournaments so far. Holt believes this lack of constant play is limiting the Irish in tournaments. “The first three tournaments Abby played great our first event she finished second individually, and then Emma had an event where she finished second individually and then Isabella just had a top-10 finish,” she said. “We have had different people playing well which is great but we need everybody to show up for three-straight days. If we can do it we are going to be able to compete and we can matchup with anybody in the country. We just have to do it.” While the team has had a difficult time finding consistency across tournaments, DiLisio was extremely consistent all weekend despite playing through an injury. After see W GOLF PAGE 9