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A win for the ages 40 years after ‘The Green Jersey Game,’ Notre Dame dominates rival USC at home

MONICA VILLAGOMEZ MENDEZ | The Observer

Irish captain and junior running back Josh Adams breaks away from the pack and outruns the Trojans defense for an 84-yard touchdown during the third quarter of Notre Dame’s 49-14 win over USC on Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium. With 967 yards so far this season, Adams currently ranks seventh amongst all FBS players in rushing yards.

Despite big win, tough road lies ahead for ND Marek Mazurek Assistant Managing Editor

“You enjoy the win for 24 hours, then it’s back to work.”

That line is said by a member of almost every winning football team each Saturday.

After Notre Dame’s 49-14 over USC on Saturday, it happened to be sophomore defensive lineman Daelin Hayes who said it, but the thought is drilled into players’ heads by coaches everywhere.

After the biggest win for Notre Dame (6-1) in at least two seasons, that cliche is more than just a cliche. It’s how Notre Dame has to respond moving forward if it wants a berth in the College Football Playoff.

Make no mistake, Notre Dame played its best game this year — perhaps its best since the 2012 run at the see MAZUREK PAGE 3

By DANIEL O’BOYLE Sports Writer

Forty years ago, Notre Dame defeated a ranked USC team by 30 points.

Before and during Saturday’s game, Notre Dame Stadium showed clips of the 1977 blowout. It was a win iconic enough to earn a name: “The Green Jersey Game.”

In 2017, the Irish (6-1) went five points better.

It may not get a name.

The score will do fine. Notre Dame 49, the University of Southern California 14.

49-14.

The first Irish possession wasn’t perfect. When junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush missed sophomore wide receiver Chase Claypool streaking deep downfield and junior running back Josh Adams dropped a screen pass that could have turned into a big play, redshirt-sophomore quarterback Sam Darold’s Trojans (6-2, 4-1 Pac-12) took over near midfield, seemingly with the upper hand.

While the opening drive was

not a success, Wimbush said the decision to pass the ball deep early on helped the Irish offense quickly take over the game.

“Up front, they were so physical and dominant,” Wimbush said. “But I think throwing the ball down the field kind of backed them off a little bit, took a couple of guys out of the box. Still, I have to be way more effective when it comes to the passing game, and I think that will come in these next couple of weeks here.”

The first Irish defensive possession, however, was perfect for Notre Dame.

Darnold was on the field for one play. He couldn’t control the snap, and Irish junior linebacker Te’von Coney took the ball out of his hands on the way down.

Three plays later, junior receiver Equanimeous St. Brown beat Trojans sophomore cornerback Jack Jones downfield. Wimbush hit him in his stride.

Touchdown.

7-0.

Notre Dame forced a punt just over two minutes later.

Irish control line of scrimmage in rout of Trojans

The Irish had little trouble running the ball toward the Trojan endzone, whether it was junior running back Josh Adams, Wimbush, sophomore running back Tony Jones Jr. or sophomore receiver Kevin Stepherson — who took a sweep play 11 yards for his first career rushing attempt — carrying the ball. Kelly said he was especially proud of the less experienced players, like Stepherson, who made a noticeable impact upon the game.

“I’m really proud of all the young players who impacted the game,” Kelly said. “I’m really proud of them, because they were part of the challenge that we had last year after the USC game when we challenged our players to come back and get our program back to where it needed to be.”

Then, the Irish went to the passing game, as Wimbush threw 29 yards downfield to Stepherson, who had the better of Trojans junior cornerback Isaiah Langley.

No. 13 Notre Dame took a 28-0 lead into halftime.

How did it manage that lead?

Holding No. 11 USC to -4 yards on the ground while picking up 190 yards of its own played a big part.

Or in layman’s terms: The Irish (6-1) controlled the line of scrimmage.

“I knew they were very physical up front, especially their offensive line,” Trojans head coach Clay Helton said. “This was the most experienced offensive line that we faced. …

They got us today. They did a terrific job. Credit to them and their staff, their players. They played a heck of a game. “ … They won the battle in the trenches tonight.”

On the offensive side, the Irish found success on the ground from start to finish,

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Touchdown.

14-0.

USC sought a foothold in the game, and got one when Wimbush was sacked by USC redshirt-senior safety Chris Hawkins on third down for a loss of 10 yards. Darnold couldn’t connect with a wide open redshirt-senior Steven Mitchell Jr. deep downfield on the first play of the drive, but hit junior receiver Deontay Burnett for a 34-yard gain to enter the Irish red zone for the first time. Kelly said he was impressed with how his defense performed against Darnold and the Trojans, but Darnold’s talent ensured he still made some important plays.

“Sam Darnold is an outstanding quarterback,” Kelly said. “They’ve got great receivers. They’re very difficult to defend. We’re swimming upstream in some situations

trying to defend them. We just got into some good leverage situations in third down where you can’t make them all.”

Despite a holding penalty against sophomore safety Jalen Elliott, the Trojans couldn’t get the ball into the endzone, instead needing to attempt a field goal from 27 yards out.

It was no good.

Still 14-0.

The Irish started the following drive with promise, but couldn’t get past the USC 39yard line. But senior punter Tyler Newsome’s punt was fumbled by junior running back Ronald Jones II, setting up Notre Dame’s offense from just nine yards out. Adams’ first run took the Irish to the three.

His next was a touchdown.

21-0.

Darnold, needing a major completion, made a 17-yard pass to Burnett, but on his next attempt, senior cornerback Nick Watkins came down with the interception. Kelly

said he was impressed with how opportunistic his defense had been all season, forcing sixteen turnovers, as well as with how well his offense capitalized on those turnovers.

“Obviously, the plan was in hiring [defensive coordinator] Mike Elko that he’s got a great reputation in taking the football away,” Kelly said. “Then, it was the offense was going to have to be opportunistic and cash those in. And the plan has come together nicely, quite frankly.”

A 20-yard pass to graduate student tight end Durham Smythe and a 24-yard Wimbush run put the Irish back in the redzone.

Wimbush ran it into the corner for the fourth Irish touchdown.

28-0.

And it wasn’t even halftime.

Jones II started the second half with an 18-yard run. A 28-yard pass to redshirt-freshman receiver Tyler Vaughns set up first-and-goal, and Darnold hit Burnett on a

third-down slant.

28-7.

Until the Irish marched right back downfield. Wimbush finished this time, on an eightyard run with the help of a block from Jones Jr. 35-7.

USC’s hopes seemed lost, but Darnold quickly put together four big plays, three in the air and one on the ground, finishing with a 16-yard pass to Burnett to bring the lead back to 21.

35-14.

For 19 seconds.

That’s how long it took Josh Adams to run 84 yards into the Notre Dame endzone. He glanced over his right shoulder once, and his left three times. By the last time he checked, he was one yard from the goal line, just checking to see if a Trojans player would touch him on the way in.

Nobody would.

42-14.

The Irish still weren’t done.

Leading by 28-points in the fourth quarter, the Irish

showed why they had been talking about dominating opponents all season. Leading by 28 points in the fourth quarter, Notre Dame attempted a flea-flicker. It didn’t work as designed, with none of Wimbush’s receivers open. But Wimbush escaped a sack and Stepherson got himself open for a 23-yard gain. Another pass to Stepherson put the Irish into the red zone once more, where Adams scored his third touchdown of the game, bringing him to 191 yards on 19 attempts on the day, and 397 yards on 38 career carries against the Trojans.

And bringing the score to 49-14.

There were still over 13 minutes left, but Wimbush and Adams were done. So was Darnold.

That’s how the game would end.

49-14.

6-1.

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Irish junior linebacker Te’von Coney, bottom, sacks and strips Trojans redshirt-sophomore quarterback Sam Darnold of the football on the Trojan’s first offensive snap of the game during Notre Dame’s 49-14 win over USC on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Coney, who started in place of injured senior linebacker Greer Martini, had a game-high 11 tackles.

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Te’von Coney Strips Sam Darnold at midfield

Notre Dame running back Josh adams

Following two missed opportunities on their opening possession, the Irish were forced to punt the ball to USC, and the Trojans returned the punt to the Irish 43-yard line to start their opening drive. But on the first snap, redshirt-sophomore quarterback Sam Darnold juggled the ball, giving Irish junior linebacker Te’von Coney time to get to him for the sack and strip him of the ball before he was downed — setting up Notre Dame’s first score three plays later.

Having done much of his damage this season in the first half, Irish captain and junior running back Josh Adams got off to a slow start by his standards, scoring a short touchdown in the first two quarters. In the second half, however, Adams would break off an 84yard touchdown and a 14-yard touchdown as well, finishing the day with three scores. He would carry the ball 19 times for 191 yards in total, his fifth 100-yard day on the season.

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Sexual Policy change excuses absences assault Saint Mary’s addresses limitations on student participation in March for Life reported

By STEPHANIE SNYDER News Writer

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A rape was reported to a University administrator Sept. 13, according to the Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) crime log for Thursday.

The alleged rape occurred Aug. 25 in a “north side” women’s residence hall, according to the entry.

The incident did not appear in the crime log for almost a full month after it was reported. When asked about the timing of the posting, the University had no additional information to provide.

Information about sexual assault prevention and resources for survivors of sexual assault are available online from NDSP and from the Title IX office.

A policy change that took effect on Sep. 27 now allows College students who attend the March for Life, a peaceful demonstration that takes place in Washington D.C. in protest of the legalization of abortion in the Roe v.

Wade case, to have excused absences.

Approval for the policy change was due to a Saint Mary’s senior, Katherine Dunn, religious studies major and president of Belles for Life, and her proposal.

In the past, Susan Vanek, associate dean for advising and director of first year studies at Saint Mary’s, has sent out an email to faculty asking them not to penalize students for missing class for the March for Life, Dunn said. However, this has not stopped students from being

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penalized.

“Students have experienced penalties through judgment by professors, attendance markdowns or other sly penalties, especially STEM majors,” Dunn said.

“Therefore, we found that it’s necessary to officially excuse absences for the trip.”

Jana Zuniga, a studio art major in the class of 2016, along with other passionate students, formed a petition in the 2015–2016 school year in order to try to get the policy changed. This is a method that many other students have tried in the past, Zuniga said. The reason Zuniga wanted to try again, she said, was because of her friends who have not had the ability to attend the march.

“I had some friends who were nursing majors and they always talked about

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Seminar encourages community engagement

By KELLI SMITH News Writer

Sophomore Diane Lee said she had not showered in a week.

Her wrists cramped from spending one morning that week digging a ditch and spreading mulch around an orchard, Lee said, but she made her way across campus eagerly, her anticipation to shower propelling her

forward.

“It was a pretty shocking experience,” she said.

Lee, along with about 240 other students, spent fall break in the Appalachia region as part of the Appalachia Seminar, a one-credit-hour course with an immersion experience offered through the Center for Social Concerns (CSC).

Kyle Lantz, assistant program director of Social

Concerns Seminars, directs the fall semester programs and said the course introduces students to the complexity of history and current realities in the Appalachian region.

“We look at the current challenges facing the region [and] the vibrancy of the culture utilizing Catholic Social Tradition as a way to approach these communities with humility and see APPALACHIA PAGE 5

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Professor Peter Onuf of the University of Virginia addressed the recent conflicts surrounding Confederate statues in southern cities.

By TOM NAATZ News Writer

Historians Ciaran Brady of Trinity College Dublin, and Peter Onuf of the University of Virginia participated in a discussion of historicity and how the past is remembered entitled “Arguing with History:

Memory, Monuments and Making Sense of the Past in an Era of Fake News” on Monday afternoon in Jenkins-Nanovic Halls. The wide-ranging discussion focused on the current state of historical study and dealt with questions see HISTORY PAGE 7

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Man dies at football game Observer Staff Report

A 76-year-old man died after going into cardiac arrest during the Notre Dame-USC football game at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday night, according to an email from University

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spokesperson Dennis Brown.

The St. Joseph County Coroner’s Office confirmed the man was Stephen Briley of Midway, Utah, according to a report from WNDU. Briley went into cardiac arrest at about 8:10 p.m. and

paramedics from Notre Dame and the South Bend Fire Department tried to resuscitate him but were unsuccessful, according to the email.

The University “extends its deepest condolences to the family,” the email said.

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Group explores dangers of pornography

By MARY STEURER News Writer

In order to spread awareness about the dangers of pornography, Students for Child Oriented Policy (SCOP) is hosting W hite Ribbon Against Pornography (W RAP) Week. The initiative aims to inform students and facult y about the detrimental effects of pornography through a series of educational events.

“We’re tr y ing to look at the issue from several different vantage points for comprehensive coverage,” senior Shaun Evans, president of SCOP, said.

Senior Tierney Vrdolyak, SCOP v ice president, said the organization believes pornography is dehumanizing

to both its consumers and the actors who produce it.

Evans said the escalating nature of pornography causes people to “seek more extreme, often v iolent, abusive t y pes of pornography,” over time. This may lead its consumers to have an increased inclination towards sexual assault, Evans said.

Despite issues like these, pornography remains a little-talked about topic, Vrdolyak said.

Vrdolyak identified this as a major reason why organizations like SCOP work to promote public discussion about pornography and how it inf luences societ y’s understanding of sexualit y.

She said SCOP hopes that in addition to educating about the harms of pornography,

W RAP Week w ill prov ide a chance for those deeply affected by it to access help.

“We want people to know there is a communit y who cares,” Vrdolyak said.

W RAP Week kicked off on Sunday night w ith a prayer ser v ice in the Grotto. The ser v ice began w ith several readings, followed by a sermon by Fr. Terrence Ehrman and a chance for students to offer prayer intentions for further ref lection.

SCOP also handed out white ribbons and other W RAP Week resources outside Eck Hall on Monday morning to spread awareness about the program and its events.

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discussion featuring Crissy Moran, a former pornography actress, and Tray and Melody Lov vorn, a married couple who overcame prev ious struggles w ith pornography and seek to help others do the same.

SCOP hopes sharing these stories w ill help students to “ref lect on what pornography means for people in relationships,” Evans said.

The panel w ill take place in DeBartolo Hall, Room 102 beginning at 5 p.m, and is open to the public.

SCOP w ill also host a dinner presentation at Legends on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. w ith Ehrman. Ehrman w ill be discussing his latest book, “Man of God: Lessons to Young Men about Life, Sex, Friendship, Vocation

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“The book seeks to instill v irtue in young men and women affected by pornography,” Vrdolyak said.

Thursday, Jess Keating and Brett Robinson, both representatives from the McGrath Institute for Church Life, w ill host a lecture on hy persexualization in the media.

Evans said the lecture w ill address how the normalization of sexual content in media affects the public perception of sexualit y.

W RAP week concludes on Friday w ith a petition signing calling for Notre Dame to apply WiFi filters restricting access to pornography websites on campus.

Evans said because Notre Dame’s internet is the means through which pornography is accessed on campus, the Universit y is indirectly responsible for the negative effects it has upon the students who v iew it.

Vrdolyak added that, as a v irtue-conscience univerist y, restricting access to pornographic websites would allow Notre Dame to take a public stance against pornography’s deteriorating effect on indiv iduals’ character.

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wanting to be able to go,” Zuniga said. “They wouldn’t be able to go because they would be penalized academically because of their clinical schedules.”

She clarified that this is not only an issue for nursing majors, but all students who have classes that have attendance expectations.

“I thought that the policy should be changed because it could be a ver y simple but public display of Saint Mar y’s advocating for such a huge issue of injustice in our societ y,” Zuniga said. “Saint Mar y’s of all colleges should be encouraging their students to take a stand on this particular issue.”

Notre Dame Right to Life president, Sarah Drumm, who is a senior computer science major, said she has always been confused by Saint Mar y’s policy because of how supportive Notre Dame is.

“The Universit y, for as long as I can remember, has been incredibly w illing to work w ith us to support the March for Life,” Drumm said. “Even w ith the large number of students that go, they prov ide excused absences for all of the Notre Dame students.”

Notre Dame prov ides excused absence request forms for students to fill out and turn in to the Office of Communit y Standards.

According to Drumm, the office sets up specific times students can come to make the process even smoother.

Drumm describes it as a “painless process.”

“We always tell students at the March for Life information meeting that attending won’t be an issue academically, except if they go to Saint Mar y’s,” she said. “I’ve never had a clear understanding of their policy or why they do what they do.

That always felt a little unsettling to me.”

This policy has been a frustrating topic of discussion among students for years, Dunn said. She feels the College, as a Catholic institution, should support students standing up for their Catholic beliefs.

“I felt like I was always fighting administration,” she said. “In the past, we know Notre Dame students were granted excused absences and it’s an important enough event that we thought we should get excused absences as well.”

Dunn said there was word of another petition going around both last school year and this school year, but she did not want to take that approach due to the failure of past petitions.

“I’ve w itnessed petitions go through to tr y to get

excused absences, but none of those have ever worked,” Dunn said. “I knew we needed to approach this a different way.”

Instead, Dunn put together a proposal for why she thought Saint Mar y’s has an obligation to permit excused absences for students to attend the March for Life.

Dunn began by bringing her proposal to Vanek who, according to Dunn, thanked her for bringing the proposal early in the school year, which was something students in the past had not done. Prev iously, Dunn said, students would present petitions closer to when they would go to the March for Life in Januar y.

Vanek then passed her proposal on to the Academic Standards Committee.

According to the Saint Mar y’s website, the committee meets to determine education policies and regulations. It consists of the dean of facult y, the senior academic adv isor, the associate dean for adv ising, the v ice president for enrollment management, the v ice president for student affairs, six facult y members and t wo students.

Dunn’s proposal ended up being a three page document filled w ith reasons for why students should be able to have excused absences.

“I w rote it on behalf of all pro-life Saint Mar y’s students and alumnae,” she said. “They prov ide monetar y support for us, and it wouldn’t be possible w ithout them.”

One of the main points Dunn touched on was the fact that the College is focusing on the core value of justice this year.

Saint Mar y’s has four core values: learning, communit y, faith and justice. Each school year, Saint Mar y’s focuses on a different core value so that students are able to have a significant experience w ith each one, Dunn said.

“We advocate social action and practice principles of justice and compassion,” Dunn said. “The value of justice challenges us to reaffirm our commitment to overcome prejudice and change systems that oppress. Justice also challenges the College to continue to develop programs which affirm human dignit y in the workplace. It inv ites us to make an active commitment to diversit y.”

Dunn said there is no better way for Saint Mar y’s to support this core value than to outwardly support students who want to participate in an event centered on social justice.

Last year, over 100 students from Saint Mar y’s attended the March for Life w ith approx imately 600

Notre Dame students; that is 7 percent of the College attending the march without excused absences. President Jan Cer velli attended the march as well, which is something the Saint Mar y’s president has not done in the past.

“I extended another invitation for her this year as well,” Dunn said. “We loved having the support of our president with us on the March.”

This year, Belles for Life is working more with Notre Dame Right to Life in an effort to bring a record number to students on the March.

“The fact that absences will be excused on [Jan. 19] is a huge factor in getting more women to go on the trip,” Dunn said. “We want to bring a record number of students to the March in D.C., and we think we can do it.”

Dunn announced the policy change at a Belles for Life meeting the day she found out. She said the member’s reactions were priceless.

“Ever yone was ecstatic and surprised,” she said. “I honestly didn’t think it was going to happen. Mother Mar y is

watching out for us — I don’t know why was I worried.”

Zuniga said she was filled with pride for her alma mater when Dunn told her the news.

“I was extremely proud of Katherine because I read her proposal and thought it was exceptional,” she said.

“It was so well stated and articulate and I was ver y proud of seeing a change that took a lot of years of fighting for to actually happened. I am ver y excited and relieved for students.”

Attending the March for Life is what inspired Zuniga to be a pro-life activist. Her passion has led her to her current job as a counselor at First Way, a pregnancy support center in Arizona.

“I made the decision to become a more serious pro-life advocate after attending the March for Life my first year with Notre Dame,” Zuniga said. “That trip is what propelled me to what turned into 4 years of fighting for the pro-life movement and growing my passion.”

Drumm said Notre Dame students have been given a

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sense of comfort knowing they are able to have excused absences.

“It definitely makes things a lot easier for students to be able to work with professors and for professor to be OK with students missing class,” Drumm said. “I’ve never heard anyone say I couldn’t go on the March because my professor couldn’t work with me.”

Dunn said she hopes that from now on, Saint Mar y’s students will be filled with the same sense of comfort when they make the decision to attend the March for Life.

Zuniga said she hopes all Saint Mar y’s students who want to attend do attend the March this year.

“I know Saint Mar y’s already has a great presence for how small our school is,” Zuniga said. “I hope more students can participate and witness how many Americans unite together on this day for an issue that people are refusing to give up on.”

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openness to learning,” Lantz said in an email. “This seminar is about learning through experience and encounter so the immersion is an essential part of the course. Students take part in direct service as well as conversations and engagement with community members.”

With 20 teams each assigned to a different community in the Appalachia region of the country, Lantz said each immersion program focused on certain themes such as housing repair, education, health, environment, energy, poverty, sustainability or cultural engagement.

According to the CSC’s website, to prepare for the experience, the accepted applicants of the program take a weekly class where they discuss the seminar’s themes and form individual teams leading up to the immersion.

“Our community partners continually tell us that our students come very prepared and they especially enjoy the Notre Dame groups,” Lantz said.

“While students do encounter challenging situations at times, they come away ​w ith very positive things to say about the people they met and a realization that there is need for justice in all corners of our world.”

Of the community partners, Lantz said one of them was new this semester while many were with people and organizations the CSC has worked with for

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years. Overall, he said the goal is for students to take away a better understanding of the layered complexities of social challenges.

“We hope [students] see the resilience and hospitality in the communities who welcome them,” Lantz said. “We hope they consider ways to become more active citizens moving forward in light of what they learned on immersion and in light of what Catholic Social Tradition calls us toward.”

Along with direct servicework, Lantz said certain programs also engaged students in a variety of activities, including religious services, local music events, community potlucks and high school sporting events.

Lee, who explored food justice with the Grow Ohio Valley program in Wheeling, West Virginia, said she learned not just about food injustice in the area, but also about other issues residents are facing, such as homelessness and those brought about by mining and fracking practices.

“Each day was different, but most days we were doing some sort of work around one of the different farm or garden sites,” Lee said. “Some days we would go weed through the orchard or spread mulch or do other manual labor like that. But we also had a lot of fun activities that they had planned for us, so we got to visit a beekeeper for example and hear from different people in the community.”

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Students explore food injustice through the Grow Ohio Valley program, one of Notre Dame’s community partners in Appalachia. The seminar aims to challenge students to live out Catholic Social Teaching.

Seminar website, the immersion maintains that students live “intentionally and simply,” with some sites allowing “fewer showers” or “simpler sleeping arrangements.” Lee said her group was the first in Wheeling to all accomplish the challenge of not showering throughout the entire week.

Lee said her group also participated in the food stamp challenge, in which each member of the group was given the same amount of money — $1.25 — for lunch that each member of a similarly-sized family on food stamps would receive in reality. “[The immersion] was a very different experience from most people’s fall breaks,” Lee said. “I thought it was going

to be a sobering and almost depressing experience, but all the people who were working with Grow Ohio Valley and all those different organizations had such true and pure joy for everything they were doing which was so inspiring to see.”

Sophomore Tim Thompson said he and eight others visited McDowell County, one of the poorest areas in West Virginia, through the Sharing With Appalachian People program.

There, he said the group split up and dedicated themselves to home repair for two different houses.

“Before I started the seminar, I thought it was just going to be a service trip and I was just going to be doing servicework with Notre Dame people, but I felt like there was a lot of value going somewhere completely new,” Thompson said.

“Now that I’ve seen different areas of the country and people in severe poverty there, it makes me want to be more involved in the community and escape the Notre Dame bubble

to see other things.”

Thompson said seeing how complicated one person’s situation could be and the number of struggles a family could go through by themselves was an eye-opening experience for him. He said the program exceeded his expectations despite some of the tedious work, such as redoing an entire kitchen and scraping off old paint, that they conducted.

“Being a Notre Dame student, I always want to analyze situations and try to fix everything and come up with big solutions and change the world, but since I’ve been [to McDowell] I realize that there are so many different problems in the area and that’s just how life is,” Thompson said.

“There isn’t a single solution to everything. Everything is more complicated than what it seems. It takes good people doing small things to make a big difference.”

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related to controversies over historical monuments, particularly those related to the Confederacy and the Civil War. Introducing the two men, Notre Dame history professor Patrick Griffin noted the importance of history given the current historical and societal climate.

“What is the role of history today? Even though we seem to value the study of history less than we used to … we seem today to be addled by the past more than ever,” Griffin said. “We seem, in the United States especially, to be addled with the question of who we are, and this question is inextricably bound up in history. We see our place in time as somehow distinctive, judging from the spirit of the times we see ourselves today in the U.S. at a moment, or a critical juncture. … Every generation has its moments, every generation has its junctures, but this one is ours.”

Griffin noted the present day is closely related to history and the study of the past.

“Our job, I think, is to understand all of this,” he said. “Not only interpreting the past on its own terms, but also to help us see the relationship between us and that past. This is what professional historians do, or at least they used to.”

Griffin then introduced the two speakers before he gave the floor to Brady. Brady focused his remarks on the importance and deficiencies of history as an

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academic discipline, quoting a passage from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes which discussed the “making of many books.” Brady complained that history today is beset by the problem of too many books, Ph.D.s, journals and journal articles.

“Who can read all of this stuff?

I stand in admiration for people like Patrick Griffin who have written wonderful syntheses of the American Revolution, but I bet you didn’t read everything about the American Revolution, did you?” Brady said. “No, not all the journal articles, not all of the recently published ones. It is impossible to do. And that’s how I feel an awful lot of the time.

That’s how I feel on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of every week. What is the point of all this?

And on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I feel slightly different.”

He then explained that he thinks the amount of academic journalism about history is excessive, but ultimately necessary.

“On Monday … I feel, ‘God, I don’t like this, but what can we do without it?’” Brady said. “If you are thinking history, if you are researching history, writing history, expressing history is of the essence of what we do.”

Brady said he disagrees with the sentiment that it is possible to teach history without researching it. He said that the two tasks cannot be separated, and that it is impossible to teach history without “testing it … in the public marketplace.” Later, he stated similar sentiments when he said that he thought that historians should always feel the need to Paid Advertisement

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Professor Ciaran Brady of Trinity College in Dublin called on his audience to use history for self-reflection, and said historians’ thoughts and opinions should not be taken as absolute fact.

“express” history. He also said readers should not simply be content to hear about history from experts, but to also use history to judge themselves.

In closing his first set of remarks, Brady said the modern study of history is confronted by two problems, “one bad, the other worse.”

“The bad thing is the establishment of us professional historians as authorities,” he said. “The people who tell you what we’ve done, what you should know, and how you should get it from us. And we do that at all levels of things. Whereas actually we live through history, we move through history, we encounter the same existential questions of living through time that everybody else does and we haven’t made that explicit. That’s bad.

“What’s worse is the rejection of our meager, imperfect, deficient but absolutely sincere protocols of how we do our business by those who think that kind of history is dull, insignificant and not at all exciting. Those who want to read Bill O’Reilly on killing Lincoln, killing Kennedy, killing you like or want to kill. And there is our dilemma.”

Onuf then made remarks about his work on American history and the situation in Charlottesville, Virginia. He said it is important for students studying all disciplines to engage in a civically minded study of history.

“There is a real audience for history right now, and we are in the midst of what you might call a problematic moment in which there is a demand for history,” he said.

History is an ever-present part life, Onuf said, saying people talk about history “all the time.”

He then transitioned into a discussion of the controversy surrounding the monuments in Charlottesville and across the country.

“It was all about the effort to take down, in more ways than one, Robert E. Lee,” Onuf said.

“What could be more of a hot button issue? Why would Steve Bannon be so excited about this saying, ‘Do it, go for it, Lefties.

Take him down and my people will be there for me, and you’ll be sorry,’ he says gleefully, as if having these kinds of fights is what we should be doing.”

The reasons that the monuments were erected are complicated, Onuf said, but for him they stem from the fact that the Union won the Civil War itself, but the South “won the peace” in the sense that the true reason for secession, the preservation of slavery, was forgotten after the war. Instead, Onuf said Southerners insisted that they had fought to preserve “authentic” American values, such as self-determination and states’ rights.

“Here’s the paradox: Southerners mobilized their effort, in the run up to the Civil War, to justify their secession movement … based on authentic American principles, based on the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, forget the equality business,” Onuf said.

The Southern view of the cause of the war, Onuf said, was able to take root as part of postwar reconciliation. The South was forced to acknowledge its wrongdoing and allowed to rejoin the Union, as long as “the memory” of what really started the conflict, slavery, was “obliterated.” At this point, he also noted that the North had also benefited from slavery and thus had another reason to quietly forget the issue.

The final part of the event involved a dialogue between the two professors. Brady provided some Irish insights on the subject of the monuments, while Onuf discussed other myths of American history.

Discussing the removal of statues of British heroes, such as Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington that remain from Ireland’s time as a British territory, Brady talked about the debate surrounding the statues that has taken place in Ireland.

“What we had is a silent debate,” he said. “Once Nelson was blown up [by members of the old IRA in 1966] that expiated all of these things for a while … and Queen Victoria’s statue was removed from government buildings, it ceased to be a point of tension … Why would you go on about it? Why don’t you think of something else?”

Onuf said that among other myths about American history is the idea that the United States was founded to bring freedom to the world. Though he critiqued that idea, he said that we need to separate ourselves from “historical subjects.”

“We need to think of our historical subjects not as people who control who we are, and that our possibilities are only as far as they could see them, but we have to understand that any workable notion of community has to be forward looking,” Onuf said. “And only, paradoxically, only a historian can tell you that. Because history as we take it is taken as a given that we are the products of it and we have some kind of stewardship relationship to it. You can be freed from the past and think towards the future by knowing history.”

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The road less traveled Tobias Hoonhout Associate Sports Editor

“Ugh, do we have to?”

“It’s so boring!”

“Are we done yet?”

These were only a few of my complaints during my family’s stop at Yosemite National Park during the summer of 2012. At the time, hiking the outdoors wasn’t my ideal way to spend the valuable moments of freedom that summer provides.

Maybe it was the allure of the pool, the basketball court or playing video games with my cousins — I can’t quite remember what I would have rather been doing, but I do remember I wasn’t the happiest of campers.

Growing up in Maryland, we had an extensive forest that was at the bottom of the hill in my backyard. The one rule was we had to stay in earshot of the house so Mom could call us in, although I definitely broke it a couple of times.

Deep down, I love being outside and exploring, and even though at times growing up I didn’t embrace it, I’ve always had an appreciation for nature. Even at my low point in Yosemite, it was pretty epic to watch the sun set on Half Dome every day, or to see the rock climbers trying to scale El Capitan without any harnesses.

The summer before my senior year of high school, I had the opportunity to do a service project at Nazareth Farm in rural West Virginia — an experience I’ll never forget. I think it was there where I once again realized the awesomeness of the tranquility and beauty of being surrounded by nature. And being on Long Island for more than the last 10 years, always being close to the ocean has definitely been a blessing. Camping out on the beach is definitely still one of my favorite ways to spend a summer night and, in the end, I’m glad I’ve matured from the whiney high school freshman into someone who really cherishes spending time in the wild.

This past week, I went down to northwestern North Carolina to do some rest and relaxation, as well as to hike. I got to experience Grandfather Mountain, one of the highest mountains in North Carolina, in a seven-mile adventure that quite honestly is the best hike I’ve ever been on. The incredible rock formations and ledges let me get right to the edge and look out on a breath-taking sea of green and fall colors. It was both peaceful and powerful, physical and sublime. At the end of the day, my feet were definitely tired, but my soul wasn’t.

There’s something metaphysical about the outdoors, in the way amazing natural scenes move us to the core. While it’s been a windy road for me to finally fully realize this, it’s a lesson I’m thankful I’ve learned. Experiencing the outdoors is as much about oneself as it is about nature; the connection is apparent whether you’re at the top of the mountain, standing among the redwoods or burying your feet in the sand. So for anyone wondering why someone would ever want to spend time in the wilderness without Wi-Fi, I recommend trying it for yourself.

Go in with an open mind, and you’ll end up a happy camper.

Contact Toby Hoonhout at thoonhou@nd.edu The views expressed in the Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Do LSES students belong here?

Selwin Wainaina Diversity Council

During my freshman year, I maybe attended one football game the entire season. W hen asked about my absence, I offered an excuse of an over whelming work load in the form of exams or imaginar y papers that may or may not have ex isted at all. The truth was too embarrassing to admit: I couldn’t afford the tickets. Tickets aside, I couldn’t even surmount the $20 price tag of “The Shirt” until about three games in; one game day, my roommate’s family friend gave me $20 and told me to go buy one, not taking no for an answer. This was a piece of my freshman experience at the Universit y of Notre Dame.

The follow ing year, hav ing received a generous sum of scholarship money that, after mov ing off campus, I was able to utilize for things such as books, a partial meal plan, The Shirt and, finally, football tickets. At last, I could scream and ride the emotional roller coaster that close games give its fans, just like all of the other students. And as all the students went arm-in-arm, singing the alma mater, I finally felt truly a part of the Notre Dame communit y, something that I prev iously was not fully able to enjoy. This may be my personal stor y, but my dependency on the Universit y’s financial resources is far from unique.

My name is Selw in Wainaina, and w ith Paul Kwak, I am the copresident of 1st-G ND, a student organization that works w ith the Office of Student Enrichment to help meet the needs of the Universit y’s first-generational students and students of low socioeconomic status (LSES). As part of this organization, I have heard students give many similar narratives. We have heard of students being unable to afford necessities such as textbooks and w inter coats, requirements such as club dues, or even tickets to social and athletic events such as the awe-inspiring football games.

With its abundance of resources, including financial aid, what has the Universit y prov ided for its students w ithin these groups?

As of last year, we now have the Office of Student Enrichment (OSE). Through a small, hardworking staff, this office is designed to provide every student with the full Notre Dame college experience. The

office was created to provide services such as peer mentoring, financial literacy courses and need-based funding for individual needs (e.g., a winter coat or a laptop). Interestingly, this office is not funded by the actual University; rather, the OSE depends on donors to assist in providing their services to the Notre Dame community. The Office of Student Enrichment originally opted to utilize donor funding as opposed to the University budget, allowing them to increase its agency in supporting the student body. As a result, while other offices may operate with relative agency in their respective sectors, the Office of Student Enrichment must be concerned about reaching out to the Notre Dame population, cautious that it may not possess the resources to prov ide ser v ices to ever yone who seeks their assistance. If the OSE was created to prov ide the full Notre Dame experience to a ll students, shouldn’t they be prov ided the necessar y tools to do so?

There are possible solutions to address inequa lities of opportunit y bet ween the average Notre Dame student and low socioeconomic status student on this campus. To put the first domino in motion, the Universit y could begin to prov ide proper support for the Office of Student Enrichment. Naysayers may claim “At least they gave you the OSE, so stop complaining,” or as recently referenced, “Beggars can’t be choosers.” But to create the OSE w ithout a ll necessar y resources is like aiding a low-income family say ing “Please help, we are star v ing and need food” w ith an air-filled McDona ld’s bag w ith fr y crumbs. If the administration truly wants to support the numerous communities that ma ke up the broader “Notre Dame communit y,” it can’t just stop at fr y crumbs.

Other w ise, the Universit y caters to a feeling of neglect by this minorit y group and breeds a lack of belonging for students who fa ll into this categor y.

The Diversity Council of Notre Dame advocates for awareness, understanding, and acceptance on issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other intersectional identities in the Notre Dame community. The viewpoints expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Diversity Council, but are the individual opinions of the author. You can contact Diversity Council at diversnd@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Our own devices Caroline Humphreys Kindred

This I am not so sure I am more capable now than I was at 18, or just better at hiding my confusion. At 18, I was nervous about picking a major and couldn’t care for a beta fish. And today, finding a career path is terrifying and I am afraid of commitment — to fish, boys, Target memberships, etc. The stress I felt years ago when starting college is alive and well, but I’ve learned the most important lesson in the last three years: we aren’t left to our own devices.

Often I feel lost and without direction. Or as if I’m screwing absolutely everything up and making life-altering mistakes. Thankfully, this is never the case because although life is our own, the part we are responsible for is merely responding to what we can’t control. In other words, our fate is a combination of what happens to us and our reactions to these

circumstances.

My sister once sent me a letter when I felt life had cheated me of a relationship torn apart by distance and timing. She wrote about fate, and how it is “a name we give to the things we can’t control.” It’s the unexpected circumstances life leads us to because of the choices we’ve made in the past to the situations we have faced. She said that fate is “something you create for yourself. You’ve brought yourself to this page in your life, to this day, and this moment, and you’ll undoubtedly write yourself into more days and more moments for however long you’re here.” This is because life will keep going and circumstances will keep changing — the only two constants in life. But I take comfort knowing that God or the universe or whatever divine force subscribed to is conspiring in my favor. That life will take care of itself, despite the decisions we make. And our choices will affect us in good and bad ways, and definitely stress us out, but when we arrive to where life is taking us none of that

will matter.

Starting senior year I reminded myself of this often.

It’s so easy to give into the fears that feed on my insecurities. But somehow knowing I’m not completely in control or totally at fault for what happens is a huge comfort. Life will happen, things will change and we will move onto more difficult and brighter days than we could have dreamed.

My sister also told me that when it comes to fate, we need to trust that life takes us where we need to be.

Because it will do just that, regardless of our fears and confusion of what is to come. We don’t need to know all the details, just to trust ourselves and the universe, knowing that life will always work itself out.

Caroline Humphreys is a senior studying political science and peace studies. Find her at Whole Foods and here, chumphr1@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The truth about Columbus Recently, members of the Native American Student Association rallied in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (IPD) by protesting the Columbus murals in the Main Building.

They didn’t bother explaining the connection between IPD and Columbus in their call to action, because it has become well-known in recent years. The theory goes as follows: since Columbus’ arrival, the suffering of indigenous peoples has been horrendous, therefore his legacy should not be celebrated.

I have no opposition to holidays honoring indigenous peoples at Notre Dame or elsewhere. I grew up in Phoenix, where the culture is deeply enriched by native peoples, and I think that other communities have much to learn from their histories.

However, I must oppose the flawed facts and logic underlying this attack on Columbus.

In the spirit of full disclosure: I have spent months researching Columbus as part of my employment at the headquarters of the Knights of Columbus. Given the movement against him, my team found it essential to dig deep and examine whether Columbus is a defensible patron for our organization. I can say with full confidence that he absolutely is.

Recent attacks fault Columbus both for being a genocidal mastermind and a dunce. People of intellectual integrity should raise an eyebrow at this. Are we supposed to dismiss Columbus because he was on a mission to exterminate whole peoples and steal their gold, or because he miscalculated the size of a planet?

In truth, Columbus was a brilliant navigator, and he didn’t know he hadn’t reached Asia (though he knew the world was round — it was in Aquinas ).

Yes, he hoped to find gold for his patrons, but he also hoped that the natives — whom he greatly admired

— would be attracted to Christianity in the course of their exchanges. He actually left money in his will to train missionaries to learn their languages.

Critics also say Columbus was a violent man, often citing as proof the fact that he was once sent back to Spain in chains. In fact, he had enraged his fellow Europeans when he punished two men for mistreating the natives. Even Bartolome de las Casas, the outspoken critic of Spanish colonial practices, said that Columbus’ motivations and intentions were above reproach.

In general, Columbus’ critics tend to despise all symbols of Western influence. Howard Zinn, for instance, had little good to say about any American historical figure. Ward Churchill compared Columbus to a Nazi — but he also leveled that same charge at victims of the 9/11 attack. These two individuals are behind the theory that unfortunately influenced the Native American Student Association to think their (very legitimate!) call for recognition ought to be set in front of the Columbus murals.

This is a shame.

Even more divisive than the twisted facts employed in anti-Columbus rhetoric, however, is its twisted logic. It simply doesn’t make sense to argue that Columbus should be held responsible for all the crimes committed by those who came after him.

(Three-quarters of Americans agree, according to recent polling.) Almost no cultural icon’s legacy is perfect, not even the saints of our Catholic Church.

If we go on a revisionist crusade, only Mary atop the Dome is safe.

In New Haven this past year, I supported Yale’s decision to rename Calhoun College. Surely, other people our society currently honors are undeserving. But Columbus was no Calhoun.

This overbroad political attack ignores the reasons that Columbus Day exists in the first place. It is revelatory that the same year Luigi Gregori began painting Notre Dame’s Columbus murals, 1882, the Knights of Columbus were founded.

American Catholics faced serious discrimination at that time — especially if they were immigrants from Ireland or southern and eastern Europe.

Catholics had to convince other Americans that we could be loyal citizens, too — which is why we read the Preamble to the Constitution before every Irish football game to this day.

Columbus has come to symbolize the contributions of immigrants to America — especially Catholics, Italians and Hispanics, who often commemorate the blending of European and native cultures as el Dia de la Raza. In keeping with this tradition, the Notre Dame council has maintained a fund since the 1960s that currently helps 15 minority students attend Notre Dame.

Fact: Native Americans have suffered awfully.

Fact: Columbus neither intended nor caused the vast majority of this suffering.

Fact: Columbus is an important figure in the history of American Catholicism, and to many other communities that make up our diverse nation. His image is appropriately housed in the Main Building of America’s greatest Catholic university, just steps away from the Knights of Columbus building, where young Catholics who bear his name carry out countless works of charity, unity and fraternity each year.

Rebecca Devine class of 2016 Oct. 13

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By ADAM RAMOS Scene Editor

With every new project, Nick Kroll seems to get sharper. The 39-year-old funny man has transcended his “Rodney Ruxin” persona made famous on FX’s hit comedy “The League,” and his latest project may be his best direction to date.

“Big Mouth,” created in conjunction with long-time friend Andrew Goldberg, is Kroll’s first foray into the increasingly popular animated comedy format from both a voiceover and production side. The Netflix original traces the various stages of puberty and adolescence through the lives of five middle school friends residing in the suburbs of New York City, sparing no awkward, raunchy or uncomfortable detail. At the center of the friend group is two best friends, the semiautobiographical Nick Birch (Kroll), and the painfully awkward and hormone-drunk Andrew Glouberman (Mulaney).

Fresh from their starring roles in the skit-turnedhit-Broadway show, “Oh, Hello on Broadway” Kroll and Mulaney bring an undeniable chemistry to “Big Mouth’s” already funny script. Every dialogue between

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Nick and Andrew has an air of improvisation, creating the feel of an organic and believable friendship.

Kroll and Mulaney’s standout performances says a lot, considering just how impressive the rest of the cast is. Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Jordan Peele, Jason Mantzoukas and Jenny Slate provide each of their characters a distinct comedic appeal. From Rudolph’s hilariously assertive “female hormone monster,” to Armisen’s overbearingly touchy father character, at every corner the show finds new ways to entertain, utilizing the strengths of each of these comedy veterans.

Yet, despite all of this humor, the show really does effectively tackle the true face of puberty. Episodes like “Am I Gay?” and “Girls are Horny Too” genuinely investigate the often taboo areas of growing up in ways that are rarely attempted in the “irreverent comedy” format. Equally admirable, the show is concerned with spending equal energy tackling the feminine and masculine components of puberty; each side given a “hormone monster” — or embodiments of the developing hormones within the minds of the pubescent tweens.

These “monsters” (the male voiced by Kroll) are easy sources of comedy, but they also present an interesting take on the effects of hormones on the young mind.

But don’t let the young age of the protagonists discourage you, the show is layered with humor for all most every demographic. Regular characters like the eerily hilarious Ghost of Duke Ellington (Peele) and the admittedly slow gym teacher, Coach Steve (Kroll), seamlessly offer respite from the middle school age group. And while the show certainly caters towards a more modern, social-media savvy audience, it still never shies away from more nuanced references — “Head Push,” a clear standout episode, even features a lengthy Seinfeld parody.

Inevitably, some will find the humor too vulgar.

While the show does have a tremendous heart, it often enters territories that will challenge even the most jaded of viewers. Again though, don’t let this caveat scare you off, as “Big Mouth’s” charm, wit and cast provide enough context to justify the raunchiness.

Even at a time where animated comedies have entered into a renaissance period, ushered in by increasingly more thoughtful works like Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty” and Netflix’s “Bojack Horseman,” “Big Mouth” is a can’t miss.

Contact Adam Ramos at aramos6@nd.edu

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Crossword | Will Shortz

Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Change can be good if you are prepared to forge ahead. Look at your options and choose to take on projects or endeavors that fit into your plans. Getting involved in something unfamiliar to you may be intriguing, but will require time and patience. Take precautions or you’ll be at a loss because you’ve taken on too much, too fast. Your numbers are 2, 15, 21, 24, 27, 33, 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jump in and get things done. The experience you gain along the way will motivate you to do more. Collaborating with someone who shares your goals or interests will lead to a long-lasting friendship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Joint financial ventures are not looking good. Don’t trust your cash with anyone or let others negotiate on your behalf. Stick to your own script and make your thoughts crystal clear. You don’t have to overreact, just be up-front and honest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Network, enjoy friends and family, and work hard to keep your relationships running smoothly. If you offer to help someone, make sure you follow through, but don’t get taken for granted. Balance and equality will be important.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Dealing with issues that affect your home and family are best done with patience and intelligence. Children will offer insight into something that you’ve been questioning. An opportunity to bring about change should not be ignored. Be receptive to proposals.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Emotional confusion is prevalent. Refrain from letting generosity turn into a form of persuasive manipulation. Work hard, play hard and take care of your health through exercise and proper nutrition. Physical improvements are encouraged.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep your facts straight and your communication articulate. There will be no room for mistakes when dealing with relationships and domestic matters. Take care of your responsibilities and hold others to the same standard. Consider your motives.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Contemplation will not get you where you want to go. It’s time to head out and to live in the moment. Express your feelings and find out where you stand. Once you know, wise choices and changes can be made.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Dealing with creative people will bring you the most joy. Discussing new possibilities will encourage you to put your plans into motion.

A change regarding how you earn your living or your own personal finances will be beneficial.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dance to your own beat. Express your feelings and share your enthusiasm. Offer unique solutions and help to those less able to get moving. Change will empower you and intrigue others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do what you say you are going to do. Your reputation will be dependent on the way you look and how you perform. It’s OK to be different as long as you achieve what’s expected of you. Follow your intuition.

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Squads finish last meets US Soccer needs leadership change before ACC championships Daniel O’Boyle Sports Writer

“This is not heartbreak.

This is frustration, disgust and incompetence. This is failure and collapse. This is unacceptable.”

Ryan Kolakowski’s words in his column earlier this month are an excellent encapsulation of American soccer fans’ feelings after the men’s national team missed out on the World Cup for the first time since 1986.

But his argument is missing the most important piece.

Kolakowski makes the case that the sav ior for U.S. soccer is former Barcelona coach Tata Martino. Martino has international coaching experience w ith his native Argentina, he has an understanding of American players thanks to his current spell at Atlanta United and he has a fondness for a skillful and inventive st yle of play ing the beautiful game that is far from the bland, defensive tactics the U.S. has relied on for too long.

But Martino can’t fix U.S. soccer.

No coach alone can. The problems run much deeper than that.

A superstar coach might prov ide a short-term fix, but that isn’t what soccer in this countr y needs. Four years from now, a Martino-led United States team should qualif y for the 2022 World Cup, because the U.S. is still clearly a top-3 team in the CONCACAF region on talent alone (and would still have a shot at qualification against Australia, had Panama not been awarded a goal that clearly did not cross the goal line). But 10 or 15 years from now, the United States won’t get much better than that unless bigger changes are made.

The most important of those changes is remov ing Sunil Gulati from the role of president of the United States Soccer Federation.

Gulati is true figure behind the team’s failure to qualif y.

The United States struggled under Jurgen K linsmann and struggled under Bruce Arena because the problem is much more than just the head coach.

The American youth soccer system is a disaster. W hile football, basketball and baseball are readily available to all, soccer — despite a lack of expensive equipment needed to play — remains

only truly an option for the wealthy. Families earning over $100,000 per year produce 35 percent of youth soccer players, and those earning $25,000 per year or less account for just 13 percent, even though those two groups of Americans are of similar size. W hile other sports are filled w ith lower-income kids who set their sights on sporting success, soccer is the opposite.

A sport that requires only a ball, a field and a goal has somehow become a difficult sport to play.

Even more problematic is the pipeline to turning professional. The college athletics system works in other sports, but not in soccer.

W here football, basketball and baseball have one professional league that dominates all others, soccer does not. W here these sports require older, more experienced and physically developed players, soccer can see a more immediate impact from teenagers.

But too many soccer players don’t turn professional until they’re 22 years old, and are expected to compete against players who have been professionals since they were 16. Youth academies have been improving, but for a countr y w ith the resources the United States has, they are nowhere near strong enough.

Christian Pulisic, already America’s best player at just 19, benefited greatly from leav ing the U.S. to play for Dortmund. But for most American players — who do not hold EU citizenship like Pulisic — that isn’t an option. Similarly, it’s no coincidence that K linsmann, during his time as coach, favored German-born players, who took no part in the U.S. youth system.

For these problems, it’s the man at the top who needs to go.

It would be easy to look at U.S. soccer’s failure to beat worse teams, see the USSF hire a new coach and declare it a success when the team qua lifies for the next World Cup. But if soccer in the U.S. is going to ta ke it’s next big step for ward, change needs to come from the ver y top and dow n to the ver y bottom.

Contact Daniel O’Boyle at doboyle1@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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The men’s and women’s cross countr y teams have concluded t heir last meets before t he ACC championships.

The women’s team competed in t he Nutt ycombe Inv itationa l on Oct. 13 and t he men’s team competed in t he PreNationa l Inv itationa l on Oct. 14.

The women’s team f inished 24t h as a team in t he 6,000-meter race at t he Zimmer Championship Course . The meet consisted of 32 teams, including 15 teams in t he top-30 nationa l rank ings. The Irish f inished fourt h out of t he f ive ACC teams at t he meet, trailing NC State, Sy racuse and Virginia; Florida State was t he team t hat trailed t he Irish.

Junior A nnie Heffernan ran for an Irish-best 29t h overa ll in t he Women’s A Race w it h a mark of 20 :22.1.

This was Heffernan’s t hirdbest time of her career, only behind her time of 20 : 05.0 at t he 2016 ACC championships and her 20 :19.3 time at t he 2016 NC A A Great La kes Regiona ls.

Up-and-coming freshman A nna Sophia Keller f inished 84t h overa ll w it h

a time of 21: 03.1 in her f irst collegiate 6,000-meter race.

Keller f inished w ith the 2nd best time for the Irish and was trailed by junior Rachel DaDamio who f inished w it h a time of 21:18.4, freshman Claudia Magnussen who f inished w ith a time of 21:59.7, and senior Kait lin Frei who f inished w ith a time of 22: 02.9. These four plus Heffernan were the top-f ive for the Irish in the Women’s A Race.

The Irish were led by freshman Erin Sullivan in t he Women’s B Race, who f inished w ith a time of 23: 01.6, and was followed by junior Kelly Hart, who ran for a mark of 23:29.8.

The men’s team competed in t he Men’s Red and Men’s Black 8,000-meter races at t he Universit y of Louisv ille on the E.P. Tom Saw yer Park course. In a 41 team race, the Irish f inished 15th overa ll as a team w ith 450 points.

In the Men’s Red 8,000-meter race, senior Kev in Pulliam led the Irish w it h a time of 24:14.8 — a new persona l best for Pulliam, who f inished 68th overa ll. Sophomore Tyler Keslin had the second-best time for the Irish, crossing t he f inish line in a time of

24:23.1 and f inishing 86th overa ll. A ll top-f ive runners ran close to each other, which played a major part in Notre Dame’s 15th-place performance.

Trailing Keslin was freshman Yared Nug use, who f inished w ith a time of 24:26.6. Nug use was followed by graduate student Bradley Watt leworth, who ran for 24:23.1, and freshman Vince Zona, who recorded a time of 24:34.7.

In the Men’s Black 8,000-meter race, freshman A ndrew A lexander ran for 45th overa ll w ith a mark of 25:13.3 and freshman Brian Griff ith f inished 49th overa ll w ith a mark of 25:15.7.

Ta k ing a step in the right direction, the Irish performed better than Dartmouth, A rizona, Baylor, Day ton and Georgia at the Pre-Nationa l Inv itation, However, the Irish still trailed severa l notable teams such as Colorado, BY U, Oregon and Georgetow n.

The Nutt ycombe and Pre-Nationa l meets ser ved as precursors to the ACC championships. The competition w ill ta ke place Friday in Louisv ille, Kentuck y, and w ill a lso be hosted at the E.P. Tom Saw yer Park.

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Irish freshman Brian Griffith competes during the Joe Piane Invitational on Sept. 29 at Burke Golf Course. In the Men’s Open Race, Griffith finished tenth overall and first for ND with a time of 25:50.3.

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Irish sophomore forward Natalie Jacobs battles with a Blue Devils defender for the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Duke on Sept. 21.

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the locker room at halftime, Notre Dame ultimately fell short as the Hokies were able to sneak out the 2-1 win.

Things turned around for Notre Dame later in the week, as the Irish were able to pick up a pair of wins within the Sunshine State.

On Thursday, the team had an extremely important matchup down in Tallahassee against No. 18 Florida State, and the offense delivered in a big way as the Irish picked up a 4-3 win over the Seminoles.

Play went back and forth throughout the contest, and after a goal in the 87th minute by freshman midfielder Sammi Fisher, Notre Dame had the lead for good. The final score also marked the sixth time Notre Dame has notched four goals in a game, and improved the Irish record on the road to 4-1-2.

The trip to Florida wrapped up

this past Sunday with a matchup against Miami, a game Notre Dame was able to pull out by a score of 2-1 to complete the sweep in Florida.

The victory came thanks to a hot start as the Irish were able to net a pair of first half goals of the feet of sophomore forward Natalie Jacobs and senior forward Meghan Doyle.

For Doyle, this marked her second game-winning goal of the season and helped continue a long string of successful Sundays for the Irish who have been 7-1 this year when playing on Sunday. The win left the Irish at 9-5-3 on the season and 5-31 in conference play.

With the season coming into the home stretch, Notre Dame has just one regular season game remaining Thursday night on the road against North Carolina. The Tar Heels currently sit at No. 3 in the nation, while Notre Dame currently sits at fifth in the conference standings.

Play Thursday night gets underway at 6 p.m. in Chapel Hill.

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Irish senior forward Meghan Doyle looks to cross the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Duke on Sept. 21 at Alumni Stadium. Doyle scored her second game-winning goal of the year against Miami (FL) on Sunday.

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Irish were undone by a couple of penalty calls — both of which led to both A kron’s goals in the 35th and 88th minutes. The Zips finished the game with a 13-6 edge in shots, and preser ved the shutout to hand the Irish their second straight loss, 2-0.

Looking to stop the bleeding, Notre Dame returned to A lumni Stadium to host No. 15 Duke (10-3-2, 3-3-1 ACC) on Senior Day. After an early Duke surge gave the Blue Devils an early 3-1 lead in shots, Notre Dame began to dominate the f low of the game from there on, as the Irish outshot the Blue Devils by a 16-4 margin the rest of the way.

The game quick ly turned into a goalkeeper battle, as Notre Dame graduate student goalkeeper Chris Hubbard made three key saves in the first half, while Duke’s freshman goalkeeper Will Pulisic — cousin of USMNT star Christian Pulisic — made threes saves of his ow n against Notre Dame senior for ward Jon Gallagher in the early portion of the second half to keep the game scoreless.

The Irish would have other chances, but failed to capitalize and the game went to overtime. Both defenses continued their stellar play in the extra period, but Notre Dame found its last bona fide chance in the 110th minute, when Gallagher was tackled

by Pulisic and awarded a penalty kick. However,

the Duke freshman saved Gallagher’s attempt and a follow-up from fellow senior for ward Jeff Farina, improbably ending the game in a tie. W hile Notre Dame couldn’t come away with a win over break, Irish head coach Bobby Clark believes his team continued to grow over the three games.

“They were all good games — I think we learned something from each game,” Clark said. “Both the Pitt game and the Duke game we really dominated [time of possession]. Akron was a different game. Obviously it was on the road, and they’re a ver y good team, but I thought we played well in the game. It came down to two penalty kicks, and maybe one of those [fouls] wasn’t even in the box.”

“There were three referee decisions that were [harmful]: two offsides on Jon Gallagher — he might be too quick for the linesman — and the second penalty kick was certainly not in the box.

That’s life, and I thought we played well. We had periods in the A kron game where we were ver y, ver y good — we just had two lapses where they got behind us.”

Last season, Notre Dame stumbled over this portion of the schedule as well, as the Irish lost all three games over their fall break stretch.

Clark commented that the Irish have learned from the results of what is the unfortunate reality of scheduling, and still find themselves in a position to succeed in the postseason.

“It’s always a hard period … because you’ve just come off a lot of midterms,”

Clark said. “It’s the same ever y year, around this time.

There’s no way you can get the 17 games in without playing these games — if I had my way we wouldn’t have any midweek games during fall break, but it’s impossible to do that.

“That’s tough, but we’ve moved on, and I think we’ve learned some things.

In a funny way I was quite pleased with how the team played in all three games.

Obviously not happy with the results … but we’re still in a very good position if we can finish of the year [well].”

Continuing their string of tough opponents, the Irish will now face off against No. 9 Michigan State on Tuesday in the team’s final non-conference game of the regular season. The Irish have compiled a 6-2 record against non-conference foes this season, and although the Spartans (11-2-2, 5-0-2 Big Ten) will present a big challenge on their home turf, Cark believes the team is ready to get back on track.

“This is possibly the best Michigan State team there’s been,” Clark said. “They’re a good team; they play well, they’ve got good players, and they’re well-coached.

It’ll be another tough game — we’ve got two really good road games to finish [the regular season] — but I think we’ll be ready. I’m looking for ward to it, and the players are too.”

The Irish and the Spartans will face off at 7 p.m. at the DeMartin Soccer Complex in East Lansing, Michigan.

Contact Joe Everett at jeveret4@nd.edu

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Irish senior forward Jon Gallagher controls the ball and looks to get past a Wildcats defender during Notre Dame’s 2-1 overtime win over Northwestern on Oct. 3 at Alumni Stadium.

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Irish sophomore outside hitter Jemma Yeadon follows through on a serve during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Michigan State on Sept. 15.

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were decisive Irish victories, Clemson made the score 1110 part way through the third set. Notre Dame pulled away by winning 10 of the next 13 points, making the score 2113 before taking the win.

During Friday’s 3-1 w in against Florida State (11-7, 5-5), Yeadon matched her career high in kills w ith 24, and senior setter Caroline Holt recorded 51 assists.

The Irish won the first set easily by a score of 25-18, but allowed the Seminoles to take the second set 25-17 after keeping the score close for much of the set.

Notre Dame won the third set 25-18 and the fourth set by the closest margin of the night, 26-24.

Senior middle blocker Sam Fr y completed her 1000th kill of her career in the v ictor y over Florida State, becoming the 22nd player in Notre Dame volleyball histor y to achieve this milestone.

Additionally, DeJarld posted 35 digs on the night, and so became just the third player in Notre Dame volleyball program histor y to reach the 1,500-dig milestone for her career.

Finally, Notre Dame defeated Miami (12-4, 6-4) in a 3-2 comeback w in Sunday afternoon after trailing the Hurricanes by losing the first t wo sets of the match.

Miami secured the first set by a narrow margin, holding off the Irish by a score of 25-23. They carried this momentum into the second set, w inning 25-19 and going ahead in the match 2-0.

The Irish came out of the intermission re-energized, going ahead in the third set 21-11 and causing the Hurricanes to call a timeout. They kept the pressure on a won their first set 2513, making the score of the match 2-1 in favor of Miami.

Miami managed to keep the score closer in the fourth frame, but Notre Dame got the 25-21 w in, t y ing up the match at 2-2.

Several lead changes occurred in the final set, but Kuhn’s kills dow n the stretch allowed Notre Dame to take the set 15-13.

Nunge recorded her career high w ith 17 kills in the match against Miami.

Looking ahead, the Irish w ill host No. 25 Louisv ille on Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Pittsburgh on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both matches w ill take place in Purcell Pav ilion.

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Irish junior libero Ryann DeJarld prepares to pass the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Southern Illinois on Sept. 16.

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of the 2017 Frozen Four in Chicago back in April. The Irish struck first when senior for ward Jake Evans scored his third goal of the season to give the Irish a 1-0 lead. The lead would last for 15 seconds, however, when Denver responded w ith a goal of their ow n to tie the game 1-1. The score would remain the same until the third period when Denver took a 2-1 lead on a power play goal w ith 5:22 left in regulation. The Irish would get a power play opportunit y shortly after and made the most of it, as junior for ward Andrew Oglev ie scored his third goal of the season to knot the score at 2-2.

The game would go to a

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Irish junior forward Jack Jenkins passes the puck during Notre Dame’s 2-2 overtime tie with Denver on Oct. 13 at Compton Family Ice Arena.

Jenkins had three shots in the game. The junior also has two assists on the season, including one in Notre Dame’s win Friday over Sacred Heart.

five-minute overtime period to tr y and decide a w inner.

Notre Dame recorded seven shots in the overtime frame

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but couldn’t get any past Denver goaltender Tanner Jaillet.

After neither team scored during the overtime, Denver won a four round shootout by converting t wo goals to Notre Dame’s one. However, the result w ill go dow n nationally as a tie. Notre Dame freshman goaltender Dylan St. Cy r recorded 46 saves while facing 48 shots.

Both teams looked to earn a w in the next night in the second game of the series.

Denver took a 2-0 lead during the first period and would hold that lead all the way to the third period. Sophomore for ward Cam Morrison put Notre Dame on the board w ith his first goal of the season to cut the deficit 2-1 w ith 5:16 left in the third period.

Just 24 seconds later, senior defenseman Jordan Gross scored a power play goal to tie the score at 2-2. The tie wouldn’t last long, however, as Denver took the lead again on a goal that came 24 seconds after Gross’ goal.

Denver would add an empt y net goal w ith 1:20 left to seal the w in.

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Sophomore goaltender Cale Morris recorded 30 saves while facing 34 shots.

The Irish converted on one of their three power play opportunities on the night.

Against Sacred Heart on Thursday, Notre Dame got off to a quick start. Sophomore for ward Cal Burke buried his first goal of the season just a minute into the first period to give the Irish an early 1-0 lead. Sacred Heart responded about six minutes into the second period w ith a goal of their ow n to even the score 1-1. Notre Dame responded w ith a goal of its ow n just t wo minutes later as senior for ward Dawson Cook recorded his first goal of the season to give the Irish a 2-1 lead.

After the Pioneers evened the score again six minutes later, junior for ward A ndrew Oglev ie continued his hot start by scoring a power play goal, his fourth goal of the season, to once again give the Irish a one goal lead w ith 2:27 left in the second period.

The Pioneers came out for the third period scoring t wo

goals during the first 7:30 of the period to give themselves a 4-3 lead. Junior for ward Joe Weg werth tied the game when he scored a power play goal w ith 7:42 left in the game to even the score at 4-4. Sacred Heart would pull ahead again, however, just a minute after Weg werth’s goal to take the lead for good. The Pioneers would add an empt y net goal w ith one second left to seal the w in.

Notre Dame freshman goaltender Dylan St. Cy r recorded 22 saves on 28 shots.

11 Notre Dame players recorded a point during the game and the Irish scored on t wo of their three power play opportunities.

Looking for revenge on Friday night, Notre Dame got to work early. Weg werth scored his second goal in as many nights and second of the season just 3:51 into the first period to give the Irish an early 1-0 lead. Gross and sophomore defenseman Andrew Peeke recorded the assists on the goal. Each team was held scoreless until the 12:54 mark of the second period, when senior for ward Dawson Cook scored to give the Irish a 2-0 lead. Junior for ward Jack Jenkins and senior for ward Bo Brauer assisted on the goal. With 3:33 left in the second period, Weg werth scored his second goal of the game and third of the season to give Notre Dame a 3-0 cushion. Peeke and freshman for ward Colin Theisen recorded the assists on Weg werth’s second goal.

Sacred Heart could only respond w ith a third period goal to cut the deficit to t wo, as sophomore goaltender Cale Morris shut the door to a 3-1 v ictor y. Morris recorded 24 saves on 25 shots.

Weg werth finished w ith t wo goals on the night, while Peeke recorded two assists during the game.

The Irish w ill continue their month-long home stand this weekend when they host Nebraska– Omaha at the Compton Family Ice Arena on Thursday and Friday night.

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Martini (knee), graduate student wide receiver Cameron Smith (hamstring) and junior running back Dexter Williams (ank le) all missed the victor y with injuries.

However, Kelly said all three players are expected back to play North Carolina State on Saturday.

“We made a conscious decision not to play Dexter until he got back to 100 percent,” Kelly said. “We think he’s going to be 100 percent for the North Carolina State game. And we’ve got a lot of big football games. We’re going to need Dexter. So expect to see him play a big role in what we do down the stretch here.

“As it relates to other players, Cam had a grade-one hamstring on Wednesday.

He just wasn’t 100 percent.

We expect him, obviously, back next week. Greer Martini is cleared to practice on Tuesday. We expect him back. And the rest were just really bumps and bruises that we had from Saturday night.”

In Martini’s absence, junior Te’von Coney started at the “Buck” outside linebacker role and recorded a team-leading 11 tackles, as well as two tack les for loss, one sack and a forced fumble and fumble recover y on the opening Trojans offensive play. Kelly said the game was the best of Coney’s career.

“He played his butt off,” Kelly said. “He was outstanding. And not only obviously sets up the biggest play of the game, which was the strip early on in the game, which sets us up in great field position — he had two and a half tack les on special teams.

“He played the whole game. Obviously came off the field when we went dime and nickel, but played that position by himself as well as contributed heav y to special teams. It was his best performance at Notre Dame.”

Trojans, w ith junior Josh Adams and sophomore Tony Jones Jr. joining Wimbush in the backfield. Kelly said the formations had been something he had been hoping to use for some time, but Jones’ health meant the Trojans were the first opportunit y to do so.

“Well, it’s something we’ve wanted to do, quite frankly, for the last four or five weeks, but we haven’t been healthy,” Kelly said. “Tony prov ides us another dimension, especially as a blocker and as a pass catcher. He’s a big kid. He’s physical. A nd Josh, obv iously, is a big, physical kid, too. We just think w ith two guys that are closing in on 220 pounds in that split set, it’s a prett y imposing backfield and gives us another w rink le w ithin our offense.

“But as you know, Tony has not been healthy. We feel like he’s back at that level where we can feature that formation. That formation can be broken out and Tony can be a slot receiver in it, which, again, we feel really good about his abilit y to impact the passing game as well. So expect to see more of it.”

Irish junior running back Josh Adams evades a diving Trojans defender as he rushes through the open lane during Notre Dame’s 49-14 win over USC on Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium.

Recruiting The weekend was tabbed as the most important recruiting weekend for the Irish this season, w ith fivestar w ide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brow n highlighting the group. St. Brow n — who also received an offer from the Trojans — was one of four California natives making an official v isit on Saturday.

Kelly said the dominant w in could be a huge boost for recruiting, especially among West-Coast-based players.

“Well, it’s obv ious that you feel a whole lot better talking about a v ictor y in this fashion, especially when you’ve got a number of kids from the West Coast,” Kelly said.

“It’s a long weekend, but obv iously one that is ver y profitable in that sense, because we’ve got great kids on campus and it was a great, great Saturday.”

Two-Back Sets The Irish employed t wo-back sets against the

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Irish junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush celebrates a rushing touchdown during Notre Dame’s 49-14 win over USC on Saturday.

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Irish sophomore running back Tony Jones Jr., left, takes a handoff and prepares to give it to sophomore wide receiver Kevin Stepherson, center, on the reverse during Notre Dame’s win over USC on Saturday.

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Irish squads take two of three in break action

By MIA BERRY Sports Writer

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Irish junior Tabahn Afrik competes in the 200-yard freestyle during Notre Dame’s win in its dual meet with Louisville on Oct. 7.

The No.17 men’s team and the No. 25 women’s team claimed v ictories over Michigan State and Georgia Tech, but fell to the 15thranked men and the 5thranked women’s Texas A&M teams while competing over fall break.

The Irish’s first meet over the break was a dual meet against Texas A&M and Michigan State. Both the men’s and women’s team beat the Spartans 136-30 and 139.5-27.5, respectively.

W hile v ictorious over the Spartans, the Irish trailed the Aggies 65.5-101.5 on the men’s side and 46-121 on the women’s side after day one of

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the t wo-day, 38-event meet.

In day t wo, the Irish managed a comeback by w inning 10 of the remaining events, and the men’s team outscored the Aggies 94-92 during the final day. In the end, however, their comeback efforts fell short, as the Aggies outlasted the Irish men 193.5-159.5 and the Irish women 211-136. Irish head coach Mike Litzinger commented on the difference of the team’s performance bet ween the t wo days.

“The biggest difference was that we settled dow n and started matching up,” Litzinger said. “On the women’s side we were competing w ith a team coming off a 3rd place finish at NCAA’s, so we over-swam some races and

used our energ y unw isely.

On the men’s side, we lost a few touch outs early, but we recouped well.”

The Irish ended their fivemeet home stretch w ith a v ictor y over ACC rival Georgia Tech. The men’s team beat the Yellow Jackets 175-125, while the women’s team easily handled the Yellow Jackets 203-95. Litzinger attributed the v ictor y to a well-rounded team effort.

“The women handled Georgia Tech w ith a fair amount of confidence,” Litzinger said. “We swam some of the athletes in secondar y events, and they responded to that challenge.

The men had their hands full w ith Tech’s top end. In a dual meet, four really strong athletes can control the scoring in their events, but ACC champion and senior Joe Coumos came online to w in both div ing events, and our depth showed to carr y the day.”

Five meets into the season, freshmen Zach Yeadon and Lindsay Stone have proven to be a consistent force for the Irish. In five meets, Yeadon has won both the men’s 500yard and the 1000-yard freest yle for the men’s team, and Stone is a five-time event w inner for the women’s 500 freest yle. Last week, Yeadon was named the inaugural national sw immer of the week by the ACC and the Collegesw imming.com.

Litzinger not only praised the efforts of Yeadon and Stone, but he also praised the entire distance group and the coaching staff.

“Both Zach and Lindsay are hav ing terrific freshman outings. Coach Aaron Bell is doing a great job w ith the whole distance crew, and hav ing Zach and Lindsay train at a high level has helped the whole group,” Litzinger said. “I would say that the distance athletes are really feeding off each other’s success. It is a team thing.”

In addition to Yeadon, sophomore Abbie Dolan was also named national sw immer of the week for her performance against No.9 Louisv ille. Dolan finished the meet w ith w ins in the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freest yle events, and she swam a leg in the w inning 400-yard freest yle relay for the Irish in the meet.

Friday, the 17th-ranked men’s and the 25th-ranked women’s team w ill head to West Lafayette, Indiana to face in-state rival Purdue at 5 p.m.

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Notre Dame secures two ACC wins during week Observer Sports Staff

By DANIEL O’BOYLE Sports Writer

W hile the majorit y of students were able to head home and rela x over fall break, the Notre Dame women’s soccer team was still hard at work, play ing three games over the past week and going 2-1 in the process as it nears the end of the regular season. This stretch started Oct. 15 on Senior Night w ith the Irish play ing their final game at A lumni Stadium for the year. Play was postponed Saturday and conditions were still rather wet for the matchup when Virginia Tech came to tow n. Notre Dame got off to a good start taking the lead in the 37th minute when senior defender and co-captain Monica Flores buried her shot from 30 feet out. The goal marked the first of Flores’ career, a fitting accomplishment on senior night. However, despite taking a 1-0 lead into see W SOCCER PAGE 15

Kelly discusses game plan, health

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Irish senior defender Monica Flores chases the loose ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 loss to Duke on Sept. 21 at Alumni Stadium.

hockey | ND 2, ud 2 (OT); ud 4, nd 2; shu 6, nd 4; nd 3, shu 1

Squad falls in Denver rematch

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly talked about his team’s blowout v ictor y over USC, the health of his team and new w rink les in the Irish offense during his Sunday teleconference.

Despite its success in the run game all season, Notre Dame (6-1) opened its 4914 v ictor y over the Trojans (6-2, 4-2 Pac-12) w ith an attempted deep pass from junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush to sophomore w ide receiver Chase Clay pool.

The Irish went deep again on their first touchdow n of the game to junior w ide receiver Equanimeous St. Brow n and their second, to sophomore w ide receiver Kev in Stepherson before dominating on the ground for the remainder of the game. Kelly said the team’s bye week before the game gave them extra time to prepare the game plan.

“Yeah, you have a week off, you look at some things that you’ve done and you want to break some tendencies,” Kelly said. “We had a couple things that we wanted to get accomplished tactically w ith getting their eyes off of some things that we had show n before, quite frank ly.

And part of that, as you saw, was to add some misdirection w ithin the offense, get the ball on the perimeter and then come back and attack them inside-out.”

“So that’s kind of how we started the game w ith a little bit of misdirection, get the ball on the perimeter, and then come back and attack them inside-out. And, again, a lot of that has to do w ith your self-scouting and how you wanted to attack your opponent based upon some of those things.”

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linebacker

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men’s soccer | Pittsburgh 1, nd 0; akron 2, nd 0; nd 0, duke 0 (2OT)

Irish struggle over break

By JOE EVERETT Sports Writer

For the second year in a row, No. 12 Notre Dame stumbled during fall break action. The Irish (9-4-2, 3-2-2 ACC) fell to Pittsburgh and A kron, but salvaged the stretch by t y ing Duke at home on Senior Day on Friday.

On Oct. 13th, the Irish

hosted unranked Pittsburgh (8-7, 2-5), aiming to extend their undefeated streak to five games. That never materialized, as the Panthers weathered the Irish offensive pressure in the first half — which saw the Irish outshoot their opponent 11-0 in the final 20 minutes — and then proceeded to capitalize on a counterattack in the 52nd minute for

the game’s only score. The Irish couldn’t generate a response, and despite controlling the game for large portions, walked away w ith their second conference loss and first home loss of the season.

Traveling to face then-No. 19 A kron (10-3-1, 2-1-0 MidAmerican) last Tuesday, the see M SOCCER PAGE 16

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Irish freshman goaltender Dylan St. Cyr, right, takes a break during a stoppage in Notre Dame’s 2-2 overtime tie with Denver on Oct. 13.

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No. 5 Notre Dame experienced many ups and dow ns during its fall break home stand. During the weekend of October 13–14, Notre Dame (3-2-1, 0-0-0 Big Ten) recorded a tie and a loss to defending National Champion Denver. In its two game series against Sacred Heart on Thursday and

Friday, Notre Dame fell by a score of 6-4 Thursday night, but rebounded to defeat the Pioneers 3-1 Friday night.

On Oct. 13, No. 4 Notre Dame hosted No. 1 Denver at the Compton Family Ice Arena. It was the first meeting between the t wo teams since Denver defeated Notre Dame 6-1 in the semifinals see HOCKEY PAGE 17

ND tops triplet of ACC foes Observer Sports Staff

Notre Dame secured v ictories in three of its four matches over the fall break, w inning against Clemson, Florida State and Miami .

Their defeat came at the hands of Georgia Tech, only the second home loss this season for the Irish.

Sophomore outside hitter Jemma Yeadon and junior outside hitter Rebecca Nunge contributed big kills

to lead Notre Dame (16-5, 6-4 ACC) to v ictor y in the first set against Georgia Tech (10-11, 5-5) on Oct. 13.

However, the Yellow Jackets took over in the next three sets, defeating the Irish 3-1. With 14 kills and 13 digs against Georgia Tech, Yeadon recorded her thirteenth double-double of the season and has had at least 10 kills in 16 matches this year.

Against Clemson (6-16,

1-9) at home on Oct. 15, Notre Dame secured a w in in three sets. Senior outside hitter Sydney Kuhn posted 12 kills and junior libero Ryann DeJarld recorded 12 digs on the night.

The Irish came out sw inging, finishing the first set w ith a .400 hitting percentages while holding the Tigers to just .071.

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securing 377 yards on 47 carries. Captain and junior running back Josh Adams led the way with 191 yards on 19 carries and three touchdowns — including an 84-yard scamper for his seventh run of the season of at least 59 yards — as he took advantage of a Trojans defensive line softened by injuries.

“That 84-yard run was pretty — it was awesome,” Irish senior center Sam Mustipher said.

“Right up the middle, that’s really how you take it to an opponent. It was a statement run

by Josh, [and] statement blocks were made on that play on the field.”

“Josh isn’t going to do the talking for himself, but Josh Adams is one of the best — if not the best — running back in the country, and he’s the engine that’s been making our team go,” Irish captain and graduate student offensive lineman Mike McGlinchey said. “There’s no doubt about it that he should be talked about for the best player in the country.”

Junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush also found success with his legs, scrambling for 106 yards and two touchdowns of his own with his 14 carries.

Early on, however, he took several deep shots down the field with his arm, throwing four of his first five passes at least 20 yards down the field. After the game, Wimbush said those shots helped opened up the running lanes for Adams and

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championship.

The Irish jumped on the Trojans early, taking advantage of a USC fumble and going up 14-0 in the first quarter.

And they never looked back.

Last year’s team would have easily gotten complacent and let the Trojans back in. But this year’s team slammed the door, went for the jugular — whatever metaphor you want to use for utter domination.

And for as many times as head coach Brian Kelly has been criticized for coming up short in the biggest moments, he undoubtedly had his team ready to play with an edge that defines top-10 programs.

Junior running back Josh Adams continued to build up his dark-horse Heisman candidacy.

Junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush did what he needed to do, and the defense held the potential first-overall pick in the NFL draft to just 14 points.

But for as well as Notre Dame played, and for as important of a win as it was, the most important games are still to come.

It’s the beautiful reality of

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himself, which the offensive line sealed off to truly set them loose.

“Up front, they were so physical and dominant,” he said of the USC defense. “But I think throwing the ball down the field kind of backed them off a little bit, took a couple of guys out of the box. “ … [The offensive line did] what they always do well: Being physical, using their size, and their dominance to move guys up front, they’ve been effective doing that all year. So why change what you’re doing and you’re being successful with it? So they’ve done a great job all year.”

On the defensive side, the Irish held the Trojans (6-2, 4-1 Pac-12) to just 76 yards on 31 carries. Junior running back Ronald Jones II, who entered the game averaging just under 107 yards per game, finished with 32 yards on 12 carries.

The Irish defensive line also put redshirt-sophomore quarterback Sam Darnold and the USC offense under pressure throughout the night, finishing with five sacks and 10 tackles for loss.

“We just got into some good leverage situations in third down where you can’t make them all. We just got them into so many third down situations where they had to be almost flawless,” Irish head coach Brian Kelly said. “ … We were able to mix things up enough with some pressures and some drop-eights and some different looks that they were going to have to play so well because we got on to them so quickly with that 28-0 that again it made

for such a difficult climb for them.”

And the defensive line found plenty of success in those “good leverage situations,” which Irish sophomore defensive lineman Daelin Hayes credited to the unit’s mentality as much as it’s performance and depth.

“Physicality is as much a physical act as it is a mentality as well,” Hayes said. “I think being able to come out with that mentality to dominate, to keep your foot on these guys’ throats, to keep pounding them, I think that was huge for us, that mentality. Just continuing to finish our opponents and breaking our opponents. “ … You guys see our depth, it’s awesome. We’re electric off the edge and our guys inside are electric.”

Notre Dame came into the game knowing it would need to set the tone with its physicality, and Kelly said his team answered the challenged he presented to them prior to the game.

“I challenged our football team,” he said. “I said, ‘Look, we’re going to stick with our process. Our preparation has been great. But this game will be won by who’s more physical.’ I think when you run for 370-something yards and you hold them to 70, I think we know who the more physical football team was.

“Again, it was a challenge that our players needed to win this game by being more physical, and they were more physical today.”

college football that every week matters in the playoff hunt. But Notre Dame may find it more cruel than beautiful, because the next stretch of games for the Irish is brutal.

Next week, a sure-to-be top15 North Carolina State team arrives in South Bend, fresh off its bye week. In two weeks, an above average Wake Forest team comes to town as well, in what could be a classic trap game.

If Notre Dame comes out of those two games unscathed, it sets up an extremely large showdown with current-No. 8 Miami, who could be in the top five by mid-November.

And then, an always competitive Navy team and a trip to current-No. 22 Stanford finish up Notre Dame’s season.

Saturday’s win over USC sets the stage for the playoff hunt that will now be the second half of Notre Dame’s season. It gives the Irish confidence, and it puts other teams on notice. It puts Notre Dame on the map.

But that map still has twists and turns that need to be navigated. We’ve seen highly-ranked Notre Dame teams falter in the middle of campaigns as the pressure mounted.

In 2014, a No. 5-ranked Irish squad played its heart out against then-No. 1 Florida State, but fell on a controversial pass-interference call.

That team went on to lose four straight games and finished the regular season at 7-5 after starting 6-0.

Brian Kelly said it best in his postgame press conference, saying he wants his team to be unique.

“This is not the crown jewel for us, if you will,” Kelly said.

“We want more. This was a great victory. We’re excited about the win, beating a very good USC team. But our guys want to be unique. So there’s more out there for them.”

It’s one thing to say that in the locker room after a big win, it’s another to play like it the next week. And the next week. And then the week after that, until the season’s over.

The Irish can and should celebrate their biggest win in a while. But there’s no rest for the weary, and the going only gets tougher the closer they get to the top.

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2nd

3rd

4th

Total

0 14

0 14

14 14

0 7

14 49

Notre Dame 7, USC 0

Equanimeous St. Brown 26-yard pass from Brandon Wimbush (Justin Yoon kick)

12:45

remaining Drive: Three plays, 51 yards, 1:04 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 14, USC 0

Kevin Stepherson 23-yard pass from Wimbush (Yoon kick)

6:59

remaining Drive: 10 plays, 79 yards, 3:19 elapsed

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NOTRE DAME 21, USC 0

Josh Adams 3-yard run (Yoon kick)

7:43

remaining Drive: Three plays, nine yards, 0:36 elapsed

Notre Dame 28, USC 0

Wimbush 4-yard run (Yoon kick)

3:54

remaining Drive: Seven plays, 59 yards, 3:08 elapsed

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Notre Dame 28, USC 7

Steven Mitchell Jr. 5-yard pass from Sam Darnold (Chase McGrath kick)

10:00

remaining Drive: 12 plays, 77 yards, 5:00 elapsed

Notre dame 35, USC 7

Wimbush 7-yard run (Yoon kick)

6:06

remaining Drive: Eight plays, 65 yards, 3:54 elapsed

Notre Dame 35, USC 14

Deontay Burnett 16-yard pass from Darnold (McGrath kick)

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Contact Marek Mazurek at mmazurek@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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3:26

remaining Drive: Six plays, 73 yards, 2:40 elapsed

Notre dame 42, USC 14

Adams 84-yard run (Yoon kick)

3:07

remaining Drive: One play, 84 yards, 0:19 elapsed

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Notre dame 49, USC 14

Adams 14-yard run (Yoon kick)

13:17

remaining Drive: Five plays, 52 yards, 1:37 elapsed

statistics RUSHING yards 76 377

PASSING yards 260 120

total yards 336 497

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Irish junior quarterback Brandon WImbush runs up the field through the open lane during Notre Dame’s 49-14 victory over USC on Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium.

Wimbush ran for 106 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries in the game for the Irish, and he also threw for 120 yards and another two touchdowns on 19 passing attempts.

Ruling Troy in the Trenches

The Irish cruised to victory from the beginning, outscoring the Trojans 28-0 in the first half behind two passing touchdowns from Brandon Wimbush and a 194-yard rushing advantage.

Josh Adams would add two scores in the second half — including an 84-yard touchdown — to bring the game to its final score of 49-14 and return the Jeweled Shillelagh to Notre Dame.

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Sophomore wide receiver Chase Claypool blocks a Trojans defender during Saturday’s game.

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Irish junior kicker Justin Yoon kicks an extra point during Notre Dame’s 49-14 win over USC on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium.

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Junior wide receiver Chris Finke returns a punt during Notre Dame’s 49-14 win Saturday.

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Irish graduate student tight end Durham Smythe catches a pass and takes it down the sideline for a 20-yard gain during Notre Dame’s win Saturday. Smythe has a career-high 130 receiving yards this season.