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Volume 53, Issue 9 | thursday, august 30, 2018 | ndsmcobserver.com
College hosts annual Involvement Fair Activities event gives Saint Mary’s students opportunities for advancement, connections in clubs By COLLEEN FISCHER News Writer
Glittery posters adorned lines of folding tables as the Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex bustled with the excitement for a new year and new friends at the Saint Mary’s Student Involvement Fair on Wednesday. “From the student government perspective, it helps us recruit new committee members,” senior and student body president Madeleine Corcoran said. “SGA sponsors the event and it brings everyone together. First years find their niche and their passion — it helps this place feel a little bit more like home.” Coming to the fair was a
simpler choice for first year student Maria Del Real. “I came here to find something to do that is better than being in my room sleeping or eating,” Del Real said. The Student Involvement Fair was partially organized by Tena Johnson and her team. Johnson is the coordinator for student organizations with the Office of Student Involvement. “[The office] hopes for all students to find an organization to join and connect with other students with like interests,” Johnson said in an email. Planning for the fair began in the spring, when clubs registered for the fair. Throughout the process, see FAIR PAGE 3
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Students sign up for clubs, sports and activities at the Saint Mary’s Student Involvement Fair on Wednesday in the Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex. This year was Saint Mary’s biggest fair yet.
SMC Campus Cursive club ND to host prayer night to end slavery spreads ‘love letters’ By KELLY BURKE News Writer
Over the summer, Saint Mary’s seniors Katie Franz and Katie Shaffer began collecting stationary. Their goal? To begin leaving handwritten “love letters” for students to find throughout campus. The letters are a part of a new club called Campus
Cursive. The group stems from a larger organization called More Love Letters that allows students to start a chapter of this project at their own school. After being approved by the College and the More Love Letters company, Franz and Shaffer began their mission to promote kindness and positivity within the lives of students through the club.
Franz and Shaffer said as seniors, they want to positively impact Saint Mary’s before graduating. As roommates last year, Franz and Shaffer said they used to write “little love notes” to each other throughout the school year. This experience of exchanging words of affirmation inspired see CURSIVE PAGE 4
Engineering program earns accreditation By SERENA ZACHARIAS News Writer
Notre Dame’s environmental engineering program has now earned accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
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Technolog y (ABET). “There’s a process by which you first have to go through several years of your program, collect materials and information about your students and graduates, present that [to ABET] and then they consider you for accreditation,” said
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Robert Nerenberg, associate professor in the College of Engineering. Incoming sophomores in the fall of 2013 were among the first students who participated in the environmental engineering see ENGINEERING PAGE 4
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By THOMAS MURPHY News Writer
The International Justice Mission of Notre Dame (IJMND) will be holding a “Grotto Prayer Night to End Slavery” prayer service Thursday evening. Founded in the spring semester of 2018, the organization is a chapter of International Justice Mission (IJM) and seeks to bring an end to modern slavery through prayer, advocacy and fundraising. IJMND co-presidents and sophomores Ella Wood and Malia Marshall said the club hopes in its second year to solidif y its place on campus and begin holding regular events. “We’re hoping to gain a solid membership base, to have a lot of people who are regularly coming to club meetings, basic club stuff like that,” Wood said. “To have people interested, have people talking with their friends, raising awareness … is really
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important.” “Hopefully through our events we can also start fundraising more for IJM and the work they’re doing around the world,” Marshall added. The work of ending modern slavery receives little attention in a country that formally ended slavery over a century and a half ago, Marshall said. “General slavery now is not something we see in front of us every day,” she said. “In the past, before the Civil War, it was just around people and what they lived around. But now slavery is underground. It’s a huge industry that makes millions of dollars, but it’s underground, at least in the U.S.” W hile slavery is still prevalent, “we tend to think of it as a past thing,” Wood said. “We think the U.S. has been done with slavery since all slaves were emancipated a long time ago. We think see SERVICE PAGE 3
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Johnson was in “constant communication” with the organizations — which at times involved challenges such as dealing with “last-minute requests,” she said. The fair was different this year from years past in terms of its size, Johnson said. “This year we requested more tables because we have more registered student groups,” she
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that we’re good to go,” she said. “What people don’t know is that sex slavery, forced labor, all of these sorts of things are still a problem. Even in the U.S., but around the world as well.” Wood said modern slavery should be especially concerning to the Notre Dame community because of the way it violates human dignity. “As a Catholic school, it’s our calling to promote Catholic Social Teaching … that harkens back to social dignity — protecting it, making sure that everyone in the world has it,” she said. “It seems like something
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said. First year student Sarah Fegan noticed this year’s large turn out. “I didn’t think that there would be this many clubs,” she said. “There are a lot of different options for me.” The Student Involvement Fair aims to both help established clubs gain new members and aid newer clubs in gaining their footing. Junior Sophie McDevitt, co-founder of the newlyestablished Better Together Club, said she was excited for
the opportunities the event offered her organization. “We are a new club so this is our opportunity to get word out to the Saint Mary’s community,” she said. “[To show] that we are here. It is so important that we get a wide range of people. There is no better place to do this than the activities fair.” Others said they appreciated the fair’s depiction of the campus’s diversity. “The fair shows diversity, and it shows how we can come together as a
community of women,” fi rst year student Emme Licygiewicz said. In addition to the Saint Mary’s community, the Student Involvement Fair also highlighted the Notre Dame and South Bend communities. “I’m excited to get involved in service not only at Saint Mary’s, but in South Bend,” freshman Claire Schroeder said as she walked through the service section of the fair, which included organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and La Casa de
Amistad. The Student Involvement fair helps to build community because it encourages students to become more active on campus, senior Clara Chang said. “It gets people involved and encourages people to meet new people and start your own little family,” she said. “If that’s not sisterhood then what is?”
so basic to us because we live with it every day and get upset at even the tiniest infractions. We can’t even imagine having it taken away. Protecting human dignity around the world is the job of everyone. As Notre Dame students, we have a responsibility to care for the world.” Students in particular have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with victims of modern slavery, Marshall said. “At school we [students] have a voice that we’re given,” she said. “A lot of people around the world lose their voices as they go into slavery, so we have the chance to raise this topic and to say, ‘This still
exists and I want to do something about it and I think it’s important that our government does something about it.’ Around the world there arew people who can’t do that and we’re very lucky here at Notre Dame that we have the chance.” Though students may feel unable to manifest actual change in the world, Wood said there are still ways to take action. “Every student has, first of all, the opportunity to learn about these issues … there’s a lot of information out there,” Wood said. “Second of all, advocacy doesn’t require you giving money, it just requires making known the fact that you care about slavery. It’s calling your
officials, it’s trying to get laws passed in congress that help prevent slavery and prevent the US from giving money to countries where slavery exists.” Marshall said monetary donations are not the only way to get involved. “College students — although most of the people at Notre Dame are relatively well off — a lot of them are not necessarily willing to spend money and everyone is super busy. It’s understandable,” she said. “There are a lot of different ways you can help, whether you want to donate money, which is awesome, or whether you just have time to go to a prayer service every now and then.” Wood said the “Night to
End Slavery” prayer service — which will be led by Fr. Timothy Mouton of Fisher Hall and will begin at 8 p.m. — is an important way to begin fighting modern slavery. “As Christians, we believe that while we are the ones who are God’s hands in the world, we have to ask God for His help so He can then help us along — where to go, where to be to do His work,” Wood said. “Obviously, we can’t hope to end slavery with one prayer night, but [the event is] the beginning to get people interested and get people aware of the problems.”
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them to bring Saint Mary’s its own chapter of Campus Cursive. Franz added that this club complements her major in education. “The creativity in writing letters is really exciting,” she said. “I hope to carry this over into a classroom setting one day. There has been a significant increase in bullying and violence in schools, and that’s a huge problem.
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program. Since then, the department has graduated 50 environmental engineering students. The accreditation is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2015, meaning those alumni who graduated in the past now have accredited degrees, associate teaching professor Liz Kerr said. Kerr also currently serves as director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences. “The alumni that we have were the trailblazers,” Kerr said. “They were confident
I know that if I do this with my kids one day it will bring kindness into schools.” Similarly, Shaffer said the Campus Cursive chapter enriches her major in psychology. “I am a psychology major so I’m all about mental health,” she said. “It’s good for people to write letters and also be helping someone else. Mental health is something that is being talked about more frequently, and a small act can really impact one’s day when they are going through a rough
time.” The More Love Letters movement began with the desire of one college student to spread more love throughout New York City by writing anonymous, kind letters, Franz said. This one student’s vision transformed into a movement, and the More Love Letters c ompany was born. According to the organization’s website, over 250,000 love letters have been bundled into an envelope and delivered to “people in need.” In addition, over 100 campuses
have a chapter of their own. Franz and Shaffer are planning to hold Campus Cursive meetings every other week. The two said the meetings are designed to be “stress free” and comprised of writing letters. They are also planning on holding other events throughout the semester, including writing letters to first-year students and leaving letters at Notre Dame on game days when a large amount of people are on campus. “I think one thing I’m most excited about is the
community of girls who will be super passionate about this work,” Franz said. The Saint Mary’s chapter of Campus Cursive is open to students at Notre Dame and Holy Cross as well. Franz and Shaffer said no cursive handwriting is necessary for participation in this club. Students can follow @smccampuscursive on Instagram to stay updated on this club’s activities within the community.
that they wanted to be in this major, and they trusted that we would get the degree accredited so they could have a more meaningful degree and get an engineering license.” Nerenberg said it is a normal and natural step when a new degree is implemented to go through the accreditation process, and the department was accredited without any modifications. Separately offering the environmental engineering degree and changing the name of the department from Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences to Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences helped
students become more aware of the environmental aspect, Nerenberg said. The University’s environmental engineering program offers a variety of opportunities to engage students in the industry by combining practical environmental engineering projects with a strong theoretical foundation, Kerr said. She said the students work on a local design project their senior year with other environmental and civil engineers to benefit the city of South Bend. “This year they will be working on two different projects,” Kerr said. “There’s a western avenue project where they’re
working on separating the combined sewer system and creating green infrastructure to help mitigate f looding during storm events, and then they’re also working on a project to upgrade the water treatment facility.” Kerr said by bringing in community members and engaging the students with community projects, they receive a more realistic experience in the field. Nerenberg said because all of the faculty in the department are active in research, undergraduates have more opportunities to be involved in research which allows the students to be further immersed in the field.
With growing problems including climate change, water scarcity and population growth, the field of environmental engineering will become even more prevalent, Nerenberg said. “I think anyone who’s good at math and science and is interested in technical things should take a look at environmental engineering because we really are able to serve the public in a very direct way,” Nerenberg said. “We work on behalf of municipalities, state and federal governments looking after the health and safety of people.”
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It’s 2018 and Mitski is still looking for love. But this year, on her new album, “Be the Cowboy,” there’s something different. On her past albums, the New York-based singer-songwriter and burgeoning indie rock superstar has fallen in love with an innocence and teenage lust only fitting of albums named “Bury Me at Makeout Creek” and “Puberty 2.” On “Be the Cowboy,” Mitski’s love, and desire to be loved, has matured; she’s no longer “a love that falls as fast as a body from the balcony” as she did on “Townie” off “Bury Me at Makeout Creek” or hoping to be someone’s “little spoon” as she yearned for on “Your Best American Girl” on “Puberty 2.” Instead, Mitski’s desire to love has matured thanks to a recent breakup — the subject of most of the album. On “Nobody” — a song which explores her isolation after the breakup — Mitski pleads that she “just need[s] someone to kiss/give me one good honest kiss and I’ll be alright.” “Nobody,” which serves as the emotional thesis of “Be the Cowboy,” stands out as the album’s signature track, combining a dance and indie rock sound and vivid lyrics to tell a story of loneliness, desperation and a need for human contact. It’s been a pretty good year for Mitski. Not only has
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On June 8 it was reported that master storyteller, chef and TV show host Anthony Bourdain committed suicide in his hotel room in France while on location for his CNN show “Parts Unknown.” The nature of his death came as a surprise to many, especially those who viewed his life as idyllic, and it’s hard to blame them. Bourdain’s job was to travel the globe, eat delicious food and engage with interesting people along the way. In the wake of Bourdain’s suicide, I went back and watched season after season of Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown.” Viewing his show turned out to have a surprisingly profound influence on me. This wasn’t the first time that I ventured into the world of Bourdain. In high school, I was a very casual viewer of his former Travel Channel show “No Reservations” and “Parts Unknown.” I remember the now-famous episode of “No Reservations” where Bourdain and his crew were trapped in Lebanon because of the 2006 Lebanon War. In that episode there is footage of the moment when bombs hit Beirut and in that moment the viewer can see the fragility of life and the harsh realities of world. That moment has stuck with me since I watched the re-run of it about seven years ago. After a while, however, I just stopped watching his shows altogether for no reason in particular — I
she been hailed by Iggy Pop as “a great talent ... probably the most advanced American songwriter that I know,” but she also toured the globe alongside Lorde on her “Melodrama” world tour. Praise from the godfather of punk rock and the princess of offbeat pop certainly comes with its perks — namely a creative license to explore new sounds and ideas. This new freedom to explore and experiment shines through on “Be the Cowboy,” which moves away from the shoegazey and guitar-driven sound of her previous works toward a more simplistic and synthesizer-based sound. As the artist herself said, she wanted the songs to sound like they had been written centered on “the image of someone alone on a stage, singing solo with a single spotlight trained on them in an otherwise dark room.” While “Be the Cowboy” as a whole represents a departure from her previous sound, the album’s first track, “Geyser,” is something of a throwback to the sound of her previous albums. The song starts off with an organ playing alone, and Mitski coming in soon after, longing for the love she once knew, calling out to her ex-lover, “You’re the one I want … I keep turning down the hands that beckon me to come.” The song grows from there, slowly building as guitars buzz in the background. “Me and My Husband” is another highlight off the
album. On top of a bouncing piano, Mitski fantasizes about a future loving relationship in which her and her husband have been together so long they are perfectly comfortable with each other. If the album falls flat in any way, it’s that its tail end falls victim to a little bit of a stale sound, and the songs — especially “Two Slow Dancers” — lose their energy, and therefore the emotional weight of the rest of the album. In all, though, “Be the Cowboy” is a stunning success. Its new and upbeat sound combined with its vivid lyricism dealing with love, loss and everything in between are able to paint a picture of modern love in a way few singer-songwriters can do.
just naturally drifted away from it. So I had some experience with Bourdain’s work and was ready to jump back into it, but the truth is that I wasn’t. I did not realize that watching “Parts Unknown” would have such a profound influence on not only my summer plans, but also my own state of mind. At the time that I started re-watching “Parts Unknown,” I had just started my summer internship in the far-off city of Houston. I knew no one there, I didn’t have much to do and I had no means of transportation. I had just gone through a rough semester where I struggled both academically, but more importantly, mentally. So I was looking for something to bring some light into my life, and luckily, I fell into the sun. Coming into “Parts Unknown,” you might think that you’re stepping into a show about what people from different countries eat, but that’s not quite it. Bourdain was always more focused on how and why people ate what they ate. If the show was truly about food, then Bourdain could have easily gone to the highest-scale restaurants in a given city and eaten there. Instead, he went out of his way to eat street food and talk to locals about how they experienced everyday life. The perfect example of his admiration for the everyday was when he decided to share a meal with then-in-office President Obama in a small noodle restaurant filled with locals in the middle of Hanoi, Vietnam. The magic sauce of the show, however, was not the guests Bourdain would have on or even the places that
he visited — it was Bourdain’s voiceover intros, leadins and outros. These blurbs allowed for Bourdain to insert his deeply pensive, charming and humorous ponderings on his adventures, and they made for excellent storytelling. Sometimes he would reflect on the absurdity of eating something out of the cauldron of a street vendor. Or maybe he would talk about how despite sharing almost no ideological similarities with the locals, someone would always open their house for him. Or maybe he would shift his attentions toward coming to terms with his own bias and demons. No matter what it was, Bourdain was able to communicate his ideas thoughtfully, eloquently and effectively. Bourdain was someone who had many of his own problems, yet he embraced many of them openly and sometimes wore them as a badge of honor. He understood that he was just lucky to be alive after overcoming his drug addiction and that he had such a ridiculous job. It was this disposition that drew me into his world. It was with this wacky dude that I felt I had made a deep connection. And as crazy as it sounds, I felt, and still feel, that he is a good friend. He was able to help pull me out of my own depressive state, even if it was only for 40 minutes at a time, and show me a world so gloriously absurd and beautiful. For this, I will always be thankful to my good friend Tony.
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Since becoming a junior at Saint Mary’s, I’ve often been accosted by underclassmen in need of advice: “How did you survive your first two years?!” Well, I had a lot of bad luck, and maybe I made some mistakes, but I survived, which I believe is my raison d’etre for writing this now. So, here is some completely solid advice based on my own personal experiences at Saint Mary’s. Do make friends with everyone you meet, even if that girl is loudly yelling, ‘You leave him alone!’ at a security officer nudging a seemingly dead raccoon with a broom. This raccoon is not dead, just disorientated and bloated because your newfound friend likes to unwrap Rice Krispie treats and place them in the trash can as a treat for this raccoon. While your first encounter with her is strange, she becomes a great friend for life. Do go to your professors’ office hours — if anything, their offices are available as air conditioned spaces in which you can cry about all your stresses. Do not be afraid to stay on campus for breaks, just do not go to a sketchy sushi restaurant on Thanksgiving, get food poisoning and then go back a week later for a friend’s birthday party and order the same sushi because you are too shy to explain all that happened to your friend. Do ride your bike on campus, just make sure you know how to navigate your bike through a crowd of people because, if not, you will crash your bike into a girl, bend the rim and injure yourself and the girl all while being late for class. Do get a campus job, just get one in an office environment and not one that requires you to help several of your peers don camouflage squirrel costumes in the stuffy backstage of a theatre. This makes for awkward head nods and glances when you see these same people around campus. Do not laugh openly about the ghosts of Saint Mary’s because you will get trapped in an elevator, locked out of your room after a shower and almost get run over by a car all within the same week. About getting stuck in an elevator: Do press the emergency call button. Do not, as I learned, email the professor whose class you are running late for and tell them you are trapped in an elevator. They will not offer any assistance, only mark down an unexcused absence and send you PDFs of the readings they handed out in class. These readings, however, will help you pass the time as several firefighters attempt to pry open the elevator doors. Do not go to your Observer meeting if your credit card information/identity gets stolen. Maybe deal with that first. Do take every opportunity you are given. You will be tired, stressed, irritable and will organize the posters on your wall at 3 a.m. because you lack any other time to do so (much to the irritation of your roommate), but you will be better for it. While Murphy’s Law may be true, and even if the worst-case scenario happens, you will still survive your underclass years and have some really funny stories about all the misadventures you have accrued, too. Good luck. Contact Gina Twardosz at gtwardosz01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
“I plead with you — never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.” — St. Pope John Paul II It is a dark time for the Church and its faithful. This Thursday evening at 7 p.m., Archbishop Joseph Tobin of Newark, N.J., will deliver the Center for Social Concerns’ Annual Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C. Lecture on Catholic Social Tradition in the Hesburgh Library auditorium. Yet Cardinal Tobin has been implicated in recent allegations concerning the sex scandals and corruption in the Church. How should we think about Cardinal Tobin’s visit to Notre Dame in light of the allegations of complicity against him? Right now, we cannot make judgements about what is true or false. But we can and must make the necessary distinctions about the right and wrong approaches to begin the process of cleansing, atonement and healing within the Church — about what approaches will lead to the decisive action that justice here requires. Earlier in the week, I looked deeper into the Church’s crisis. I read former Vatican official Archbishop Carlo Viganò’s letter alleging corruption of the highest order, the new reports about the abuses of seminarians and children perpetrated by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, and various statements from Cardinal Tobin. I wish to call attention to the deeply problematic elements of Cardinal Tobin’s statements. His response to the Viganò letter deserves our attention. We must know why he believes the letter has no credibility. The Notre Dame community should demand the opportunity to ask this question to him at the lecture Thursday. The problem can be seen when we compare the Cardinal’s treatment of the Viganò letter to an excellent statement from Cardinal DiNardo, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Cardinal Tobin states that the letter “cannot be understood as contributing to the healing of survivors
of sexual abuse,” and that it is defined solely by “factual errors, innuendo and fearful ideology.” Cardinal DiNardo, on the other hand, writes, “The recent letter of [Archbishop Viganò] brings particular focus and urgency to this examination. The questions raised deserve answers that are conclusive and based on evidence. Without those answers, innocent men may be tainted by false accusations and the guilty may be left to repeat sins of the past.” Cardinal Tobin’s approach is to dismiss the letter, while Cardinal DiNardo asserts that the letter is to be taken seriously. The difference between these approaches is that one seems to aim at preserving current institutional order above all else, and the other seeks the truth for its own sake. The sad reality is that the “two” approaches, pursuit of institutional integrity and pursuit of truth, should never be different. Institutional order and truth must be one for the Church. But sometimes, and certainly now, their harmony is fractured. Their harmony can only be restored through truth. With the truth, we will be sustained and strengthened through Christ, whatever consequences may come. Faithful parishioners watch. Our nation watches. Our world watches. Our hearts are filled with faith and heavy with suffering. We have been given a valuable opportunity with Cardinal Tobin visiting campus at this crucial time. The opportunity is to find out how and why Cardinal Tobin is confident that the Viganò letter is not credible. This issue is of incredible importance for the first steps on the road — the road of cleansing, atonement, and healing — which now confronts the Church. We face this road with deep and resolute faith in, unending love for and rightful fear of the Almighty Lord. Nick Marr is a junior from Southern California. He lives in Knott Hall and studies history and political theory. His favorite book right now is Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. He welcomes agreement but appreciates strong disagreement, both of which can be directed to nmarr@nd.edu The views expressed in the column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Tropospheria John Sitter Tropospheria
“Tropospheria” is a word (starting today) meaning things of the troposphere. Since in our latitude the troposphere extends from ground level to about seven miles up, this faculty column will over the next few months clarify everything under the stratosphere. Or maybe not quite. The “tropo” in troposphere means “turn.” The troposphere includes the air that turns and moves with and around us. It is where we live. The fauna and flora that share this turning air with us shaped my boyhood in the Appalachian corner of Maryland. But as a teacher of literature, I find myself drawn as much to another sort of troposphere, the world of tropes. These are the “turns” of speech that give us metaphor, irony, hyperbole, synecdoche, personification and so much more of what lets language dance. This troposphere of figurative language also turns and moves with and around us. It too is where we live. The power and beauty of the figurative troposphere have held my interest for the past half century — and I hope that of my students. I sensed my mental home was there long before coming to these lines by the modern American poet, A.R. Ammons: “you have your identity when / you find out not what you can keep your mind on but what / you can’t keep your mind off.” Of course, metaphors are not just for those of us who can’t keep our mind off them. We all use them and, when we do so unconsciously, are often used by them (metaphorically speaking). We often have no trouble recognizing the difference between literal and figurative meanings. Even in a stadium loud with the hopes of 85,000 people, it’s not hard to know that the verb in “What would you fight for?” means something different than the two-fisted leprechaun on the video board suggests. The cause that feels increasingly worth fighting for is our fragile environment. And one available weapon in that fight is the readiness to analyze our discourse for the metaphors we use collectively and automatically.
Take the notion of “growth,” as applied to inorganic things, like economies, corporations and universities. Growth is usually an unquestioned goal. It is a mark of success for CEOs or academic leaders to say that their companies or colleges grew by X amount during their tenure. Presidents and parties like to promise growth and brag about it if it occurs, even if they have nothing to do with it. Who could be against such an organic and energetic and healthy thing as growth? But when we stop and think about that healthy part, we can imagine contexts in which growth is less welcome. After adolescence, the words “grow,” “growing” and “growth” are not reassuring in a doctor’s office. Even “benign growth” does not sound, well, benign. Still, it’s hard to shake the idea that growth is good, that increase is always improvement. Legend has it that some years ago an Ivy League college asked members of its largely prosperous 25th reunion class whether they were satisfied with their income, and only two said yes: a billionaire and a forest ranger. Many of the rest said they could use about 10 percent more. Probably they soon got their wish — and soon reformulated it. Whatever it might say about individual psychology, many environmental thinkers argue that a collective addiction to growth has brought us to our environmental moment. The so-called Great Acceleration from about 1945 to now has been a growth spurt like no other in human history. During this period the human population multiplied three-and-ahalf times, economic activity increased more than 15-fold, and the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere reached relentlessly globe-warming levels. Most people alive today are creatures of the Great Acceleration and have trouble understanding just how extraordinary it has been in the history of humanity. As the Great Acceleration’s native speakers, we so far have found learning another language very difficult. The connotative language of growth may be the most important place where the physical troposphere and the figurative troposphere merge. Understanding that growth and health are not synonyms will be essential to our maintaining a physical troposphere that can support human civilizations.
Pope Francis writes in “Laudato si” of our extreme “rapidification” of life and work and notes that the “speed with which human activity has developed contrasts with the naturally slow pace of biological evolution.” This encyclical calls emphatically for a more intense “ecological education,” grounded in scientific understanding and strong enough to foster a “distinctive way of looking at things,” a “new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature.” “Laudato si” is of course not the first papal writing to make such a call. Francis echoes the 1990 “Message for the World Day of Peace” in which Pope John Paul II called for “an education in ecological responsibility.” John Paul argued that “churches and religious bodies” should lead the way in such an education. In his visionary 1999 book, “The Great Work,” Passionist priest and environmentalist Thomas Berry criticized universities for failing to teach economics students that a “rising gross human product” at the expense of a “declining gross Earth product” is pointless. More broadly, by teaching that “the nonhuman world is there fundamentally for the use of humans,” universities become “one of the principal supports of the pathology that is so ruinous to the planet.” With thoughtful critiques like these in mind, one might expect that a Catholic university striving for an “unsurpassed undergraduate education” would excel in offering an education in ecological responsibility, one in which courses in earth systems, ecology, climatology, human geography and environmental economics would be, if not required, abundant and inviting for non-specialists. With that expectation in mind, go to the class search and start scrolling through our current course offerings. Then, with your search results in mind, please email me your thoughts about how we — faculty and students — might need to grow. Figuratively speaking. Professor Sitter teaches courses in poetry, satire and environmental literature in the English Department and team-teaches the introduction to the Sustainability Minor. He can be reached at jsitter@nd.edu The views expressed in the column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
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Statistics on Dreamers a nightmare? Only if you don’t read them right Sarah Kelly and Mary Guardino do an excellent job of discrediting Jeffrey Murphy’s “The statistics on Dreamers are a nightmare.” However, they did not need to do so much research. Murphy’s own sources are either irrelevant to his argument or even directly contradict it. Murphy repeatedly confounds statistics for the DACA recipient population, the DACA age-eligible population and undocumented immigrants. They are not the same thing, and using these statistics interchangeably as he does is highly misleading. In his most egregious distortion, Murphy says, “According to research published by the Center for Immigration Studies, it is estimated that 24 percent of DACA-eligible illegal aliens are functionally illiterate.” The article cited does not even mention DACA, Dreamers or “illegal” or “undocumented” aliens. It is a study of Americans aged 16-74, some of whom are immigrants, which is very different from the DACA population. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says you can’t even be in DACA unless you came to the United States before age 16 and were under age 31 on June 15, 2012; have been in the United States for at least five years; are in or have completed high school or are in the armed services currently or have been honorably discharged; and must not have been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or multiple misdemeanors. Given the education and residency requirements for DACA members, it is highly unlikely that many of them are illiterate. Counter to his explicit claims, Murphy’s source never says that they are. Murphy further argues, “A recent study published by the Crime Prevention Research Center ... found that while
illegal aliens between the ages of 15 and 35 comprise only 2 percent of Arizona’s population, they make up 8 percent of Arizona’s incarcerated population.” This unpublished study of one state talks about the DACA age-eligible population but, as already noted, there are more requirements for DACA than being the right age; and if the study does include any DACA members they should have quickly become nonmembers after their convictions. Further, Murphy also cites Tucker Carlson’s online publication The Daily Caller. That same article says, “DACA supporters say Dreamers are no more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens, and data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows that claim to be true. … those granted DACA status usually have clean criminal records. This is reflected in the relatively low number of Dreamers [0.3 percent] who’ve had their status revoked due to criminal activity.” Murphy also decries how poorly educated DACA members are. He says, “In a research project led by Harvard professor Roberto G. Gonzales, it was revealed that 21 percent of DACA recipients have dropped out of high school. As the statistics reveal, Dreamers are vastly less academically successful than the native population.” I can’t find where Gonzales says that — Snopes suspects it applies to the DACA age-eligible population rather than to actual DACA recipients, who must meet educational or military service requirements — but in any event, given that Gonzales’ report is titled “Taking Giant Leaps Forward,” it is not surprising that he sees things differently. Gonzales writes, “[DACA] has provided opportunities for hundreds of thousands of unauthorized young people to take giant leaps in their education and careers …
its impact is most felt by those young people who, because of barriers related to their immigration status, were forced into early exits from the school system. Because of DACA, these young people have returned to GED programs, workforce development, certificate programs and college campuses.” By removing barriers to education, DACA is transforming potential high school dropouts into college graduates or otherwise helping them acquire the skills needed to become productive contributors to U.S. society. Many debates become a battle between competing sets of sources; but in this debate Murphy and I are using the same sources, ones that he picked. The difference is that I am citing them correctly. Lest some potential student fear my biases, I stress that in my classes students have praised me for offering both liberal and conservative viewpoints. I have given many As to papers I personally disagreed with but which were well-written and offered strong supporting evidence. But a paper is not well-written if its own sources contradict it. Normally, I do not care if The Observer prints an article I disagree with; but in this case I feel compelled to speak out. Murphy’s piece does a great disservice to his DACA classmates who have fought to overcome adversity to get to Notre Dame and to the nearly 800,000 other DACA recipients nationwide. I hope no one is persuaded or harmed by his argument. I urge Murphy himself to reconsider it. Richard Williams associate professor of sociology Aug. 27
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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: This is a year of positive change. Don’t sit back and wait for things to come to you. Dig in and do your part; good things will transpire. You have the drive, skill and creative ability to turn your ideas into personal gain. Look for interesting people to collaborate with, but don’t rely on hearsay. Put your plans in writing. Your numbers are 9, 16, 21, 24, 35, 38, 49. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Share your thoughts and feelings with the people you love. Whether it’s a friend, your children or your lover, you can cover a lot of ground just by saying how much you care. Personal improvements will boost your morale. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll learn a lot through observation and talking to experts. Participate in events that can benefit you professionally or that offer alternative lifestyles or self-help. Personal growth, travel and retreats will open your mind to positive change. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Physical labor is encouraged. The satisfaction you will get out of hard work will be gratifying and will offer benefits and remuneration as well. Getting together with your peers to relax and enjoy one another’s company will improve your work relationships. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Tuck your emotions away someplace safe. Don’t display your feelings before you get your initiatives in place. By being observant, you will recognize others’ weaknesses, giving you the upper hand. A unique opportunity will unfold. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Keep doing what you do best. Don’t give anyone the chance to intervene or to entice you to take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you. It’s important to finish what you start. Invest in yourself, not in helping someone else get ahead. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Size up situations and take action. It’s up to you to bring about change that will lead to personal profits. Your initiative will be impressive, attracting people willing to help you reach your goal. A business trip or meeting will pay off. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll face emotional ups and downs if you let someone put unrealistic demands on you. Don’t feel responsible for what others do. Make your position clear and do not fold under pressure. Personal pampering and improvements will ease stress. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Leave nothing to chance. Before you present and promote what you have to offer, pay close attention to detail. Your reputation depends on how prepared you are. Traveling and dealing with institutions will be complicated. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stick close to home and nurture your relationships with close friends, relatives and those you live with. You’ll learn a lot about others if you discuss and share feelings. A romantic gesture will lead to personal plans that will improve your life. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Refuse to let emotions take over when dealing with friends, relatives or peers. Keep an open mind; be willing to listen and adapt to the changes necessary to help you reach your goals. Give and take will be required. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Money, health and legal matters should take top priority. Temptation to indulge in expensive pastimes should be avoided. Put an incentive in place to encourage you to stick to your budget and to do what’s right and best for you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You can help others, but don’t let anyone take advantage of you. Someone will use emotional tactics to make you feel sorry for him or her. Look past the melodrama and take care of your needs first. Birthday Baby: You are brave, resourceful and kind. You are motivated and thorough.
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NFL has to evolve to protect players Peter Baltes Sports Writer
It’s fair to say that I’m not among the closest followers of the NFL. Last year’s regular season came and went without me paying much notice, and it wasn’t really until the month of February that I had much of a rooting interest for any particular team. On a completely unrelated note, I happen to have grown up just outside of Philadelphia. While my serious viewership of professional football in the past five years might be almost solely confined to having watched an elite, well-established Nick Foles march the Birds past some freshfaced young upstart named Tom, I can still recognize that the NFL has a bit of an issue with player safety. This is hardly an original observation. When individuals wearing veritable suits of armor crash into each other at full speed, it’s not much of a surprise if someone gets hurt. That which was true of medieval warfare remains equally true of modern American sports. In recent years, the NFL has begrudgingly acknowledged the long-term health risks that its players have been exposed to for decades. After a 2017 Boston University study found that 110 of the sampled 111 former players exhibited symptoms of CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), a disease that severely inhibits one’s brain functions and impulse control and is understood to be caused by repeated trauma to the head, the league announced its commitment to “advancing progress in the prevention and treatment of head injuries.” Beyond donating significant funds to medical research on head trauma, the NFL has made various amendments to its near-sacred rulebook in the interest of preventing concussions during gameplay. One recent such amendment has attracted the ire of players and fans alike. Starting this season, teams will be penalized 15 yards when “a player lowers his head to initiate and make contact with his helmet against an opponent,” in accordance with Rule 12, Section 2, Article 8. The contact no longer needs to be helmet-tohelmet to draw a flag; any headfirst hit on an opponent’s body will be penalized. Many players, especially defenders, have been vocal in their opposition to the change. Outspoken San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman recently took to Twitter to air his grievances with the rule. “There is no ‘make adjustment’ to the way you tackle,” he wrote. “Even in a perfect form tackle the
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body is led by the head.” Other players have made similar statements decrying how difficult it will be to bring down ball-carriers without running afoul of the rule, while incredulous fans have angrily posted clips of various previously-legal tackles from this summer’s preseason games that resulted in the penalty. Others have pointed out that the rule may force defenders to focus their hits on the legs of ball-carriers, potentially resulting in a sharp uptick of injuries to that part of the body. Perhaps all these detractors are right, at least to some degree. Defensive strategy will certainly need some reevaluating in order to stay on the right side of the rules, and the means of tackling that have traditionally been most effective may have to be done away with. There is also the possibility that a decrease in concussions may be at least partly offset by an increase in lower body injuries. As it has repeatedly responded to rule changes, from the forward pass to instant replay, football will likely whine briefly before shrugging its shoulders and trudging on in its way. I can’t say for sure whether the rule change will ultimately affect the game negatively or positively, but I do think the debate itself highlights a bigger issue — there just may not be a way to make football safer without radically altering the sport. Why must choices have to be made between ACLs and brains? While football’s entertainment value is undeniably high for the millions of Americans who watch and play the sport at all levels, the game may be in need of some serious adjustments. How, though, would such a game remain captivating to audiences and players who have been accustomed to a game that is much more chaotic and physical? Would the United States lose one of its most enduring and iconic athletic landmarks? It’s a problem without an obvious solution, but one that will have to be reckoned with sooner or later as public pressure mounts and medical evidence grows more damning. Sherman ended his tweet with what was meant to be an ominous warning: “[It] will be flag football soon.” Is his statement exaggerated? Certainly. The NFL’s new helmet rule suggests nothing of the sort. Would the outcome he fears be the worst thing ever? Probably not. Contact Peter Baltes at pbaltes@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Dodger build on streak with win over Rangers Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Los Angeles Dodgers did what they have to do in a playoff race when taking on last-place teams in consecutive series. They won every game. Alex Wood pitched seven scoreless innings and the Dodgers hit three solo homers in a 3-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, matching a season-best with their fifth straight victory a night before the opener of a four-game NL West showdown at home against division-leading Arizona. Cody Bellinger and Manny Machado hit first-pitch homers off Mike Minor (10-7). Yasmani Grandal also went deep for the defending National League champion Dodgers. “I think we’re cooking as a whole team right now,” Bellinger said. “It’s just a matter of producing on the field. It’s just a matter of time until the talent takes over.” Los Angeles (72-61) remained within a game of the Diamondbacks (73-60), who won 3-1 at San Francisco on Wednesday night. The Dodgers were only a half-game behind idle Colorado (72-60). Wood (8-6) limited the
Rangers to four singles, throwing 67 of 98 pitches for strikes with five strikeouts and two walks. The lefty had faced the Rangers only once before, pitching at Texas for Atlanta four years ago when he struck out nine and allowed a run on four hits. Kenta Maeda, a 20-game starter for the Dodgers this season, worked the ninth to get his first save since June 2017. He did give up an RBI double to active career hits leader Adrian Beltre , whose 3,142nd hit broke a tie with Tony Gwynn and matched Robin Yount for 17th on the alltime list. The solo homers by Bellinger and Machado were the only hits and runs off Minor in his six innings. The lefty, a teammate of Wood’s in Atlanta in 2013-14, struck out seven and walked three. Bellinger’s 21st homer of the season put the Dodgers ahead to stay in the third inning. Machado hit the first pitch of the fourth into almost the same spot on the hill in straightway center field. That was Machado’s 32nd homer this season, his eighth in 37 games for Los Angeles since being traded last month from the Baltimore Orioles. When the Dodgers took a
3-0 lead into the ninth inning, closer Kenley Jansen was sitting in the dugout instead of coming out of the bullpen. Manager Dave Roberts said after the game that Jansen is still the closer despite allowing runs in all four appearances since coming off the disabled list Aug. 20 following a hospital stay due to heart issues. That included Tuesday night in Texas. Roberts said there was no plan to use Jansen on Wednesday night before the Arizona series. The Dodgers finished the game with four hits, the three homers and a triple. According to baseballreference.com, they are the first team since at least 1908 to have that combination when having only four hits in a game. Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig, in the lineup while awaiting a ruling on his appeal of a two-game suspension from a bench-clearing incident Aug. 16 against San Francisco, had the triple in the seventh, when his face slammed into the ground on an awkward slide into the bag. The inning ended when he was thrown out trying to steal home even after getting a good jump off third base against reliever Alex Claudio.
MLB | BREWERS 13, RED 12
Yelich leads Brewers in thrilling win over Reds Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Christian Yelich sat on a chair in front of his locker, trying to take in all that had just happened. “I’m so tired,” he said. No wonder. For more than four hours, Yelich led an improbable comeback with an historic effort. Yelich became the eighth Brewers player to hit for the cycle on Wednesday night and tied the club record with six hits. Jesus Aguilar took it from there, hitting a homer in the 10th inning for a 13-12 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. “I’ve never seen a game like that,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said of Yelich’s 6-for6 performance. “It was incredible. He’s coming up and you’re thinking he can’t do it again, and he does it again. He did everything tonight, he
really did. He’s driving the bus home tonight.” Milwaukee desperately needed all of it. Aguilar connected off Raisel Iglesias (2-3) for Milwaukee’s fourth homer of the game, halting the Brewers’ monthlong slide. Milwaukee has dropped 11 of 20 and slipped into third place in the NL Central, five games behind the Cubs. Yelich became the first Brewer s player to hit for the cycle since George Kottaras on Sept. 3, 2011, at Houston. He also matched the club record with six of the Brewers’ 22 hits, including a two-run homer . Mike Moustakas’ solo shot put Milwaukee ahead 1110 in the eighth, but Joakim Soria’s wild pitch allowed Billy Hamilton to score the tying run in the bottom of the inning. Jeremy Jeffress (7-1) gave
up Brandon Dixon’s homer in the 10th. The Brewers extended their Great American Ball Park record to 21 straight games with at least one homer. Cincinnati connected five times, including a disputed three-run shot by reliever Michael Lorenzen that made it 10-6 in the sixth inning. Taylor Williams threw an up-and-in pitch to Lorenzen, who was trying to bunt with two runners aboard and two strikes. The ball deflected off Lorenzen’s bat as he pulled away, and plate umpire Tony Randazzo ruled — over the objection of Counsell — that Lorenzen was trying to avoid the pitch rather than bunt it. Given an extra chance, Lorenzen connected on the next pitch for his fourth homer of the season, flipping his bat as he rounded the bases.
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tough areas.” Notre Dame is only four games away from the beginning of conference play, but the Bearcats won’t be the worst of their worries. A fter taking on Ohio State at home, Norman’s team w ill head west to California to take on No. 1 Stanford and No. 9 Santa Clara to w rap up their nonconference regular season.
The Irish, who finished fifth in the ACC last season, were ranked No. 7 in the preseason ACC poll. With five teams in the top-25, including three in the top-10, Notre Dame w ill be in for a fight against their conference foes. The match against Cincinnati w ill be held at A lumni Stadium and is slated to kick off at 7 p.m. Contact Peter Baltes at pbaltes@nd.edu
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the team looks to veteran leadership from a strong class of seniors, including 4-time ACC champion A nna Rohrer. Rohrer, the
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former A ll-A merican and Foot Locker Champion in high school, has battled a series of injuries in her back and hamstring, causing her to sit out her sophomore track postseason and the entiret y of her junior cross countr y season. The
Mishawa ka, Ind. native returned to the action in track this past season and went on to earn A ll-A merican honors w ith a si xth place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. In the absence of Rohrer,
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dow ns the season could present. The women’s team is currently ranked No. 23 in the preseason poll, while the men’s squad lies unranked. As the Irish open their season, they’ll be look ing to maintain the momentum from last year’s results at the Crusader Open, where the men took home first and the women came in second behind Purdue. A fter returning for the Crusader Open, Sparks and his team w ill refocus to their t wo home meets in the upcoming month — the Nationa l Catholic Inv itation and the Joe Piane Inv itationa l. Both have attracted elite teams in past years and w ill ser ve as a good baseline for training before post season and nationa l meets k ick off in October.
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ND hopes to bounce back from loss at Butler By PETER BALTES Sports Writer
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Irish senior defender Rachel Heard pursues the ball upfield during Notre Dame’s 1-0 loss to Virginia on Oct. 9, 2016 at Alumni Stadium. Heard has been a starter for the Irish since her sophomore year.
Notre Dame w ill face Cincinnati at home Thursday evening, coming off of a 4-1 loss on the road against Butler last Sunday. Irish head coach Nate Norman sees that loss, the first on the season for the Irish (3-1), as a teaching opportunit y for his team. “Seasons are really defined by how you handle adversit y,” Norman said. “Sometimes adversit y can destroy teams; sometimes it can make teams stronger. Sometimes it can bring you together, push you harder, help you learn from mistakes ... I expect we’ll come out stronger and more hungr y to compete.” The Irish had outscored their first three opponents 6-2 heading into the Butler game, and have outshot opponents 68-21 on the season. However, the statistics don’t give the full stor y. The Irish have struggled getting the ball in the back of the net, w ith less than a third of their shots being on goal,
compared to their opponents hav ing qualit y looks on over half their attempted shots. Notre Dame is capable of creating scoring opportunities, Norman said, but they’ll definitely be looking to do more against the Bearcats (3-1), whose only loss came at the hands of No. 6 Virginia in Charlottesv ille, Virginia. “I think we’ve done a really good job keeping the ball and tr y ing to control the tempo of the play,” he said. Cincinnati’s defense is expected to give the Irish plent y to handle, hav ing only given out four goals on the season, three of which were to the Cavaliers (4-0). Norman stressed the need for a careful, measured Irish attack. “They’re a tough, physical team,” he said. “They’ll tr y to be effective on the counter. We’ll have to make sure we match their physicalit y, and that when we have the ball we take care of it and [don’t] turn the ball over in
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Irish set for strong start at Crusader Open Observer Staff Report
This Friday, Notre Dame w ill head to Va lparaiso, Indiana to participate in the 30th A nnua l Crusader Open. The Open is their first meet of the year, and the competition w ill ser ve as a benchmark for newly appointed head coach Matt Sparks. Sparks, a member of the coaching staff since 2014, ser ved as the team’s associate head coach and focused on the women’s distance program, a long the way producing a pair of t wotime A ll-A mericans in senior A nna Rohrer and Molly Seidel, the latter of whom would go on to earn the first indiv idua l championship of the women’s program during her senior year. Sparks begins his first season at the helm attempting to lead the Irish back into the conversation of nationa l contention after neither team qua lified for the NC A A Championship this past season. There’s no doubting his pedigree, however. During his 12 year tenure as head coach at Southern Illinois
Universit y, the Sa luk is clinched si x Missouri Va lley Conference titles, including the first for the women’s program in 21 years. The Irish have a strong foundation to capita lize on last year’s strong recruiting season w ith an impressive group of freshman in addition to the core of upperclassmen returning from last year. The men added significantly to their team w ith key recruits including freshmen Danny Kilrea and Dylan Jacobs, both of whom have impressive resumes — a third and first place finish at the 2017 Foot Locker Nationa ls, respectively — giv ing Notre Dame one of the strongest recruiting classes in the nation. A long w ith the new additions that can be expected to ma ke immediate contributions, the men are a lso returning si x of their seven members from last year’s regiona l team, including top-20 regiona l finisher sophomore Yared Nuguse. On the women’s side, see XC PAGE 11
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Irish senior Kelly Hart leads a pack of Notre Dame runners during the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational at the Burke Golf Course on Sept. 29, Hart finished second for the Irish in the 5K Open Race.