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Hypersonic lab pursues innovation Largest quiet Mach 6 hypersonic wind tunnel project completed in 2018, group continues work

By ALYSA GUFFEY News Writer

Faculty and students at the Notre Dame Hypersonic Aerodynamics Lab unveiled the largest quiet Mach 6 hypersonic wind tunnel in the United States on Nov. 30, 2018. Nearly a year later, the lab continues to apply the technology to the future of flying.

Thomas Juliano, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, established the lab and began the project in August 2014. Juliano said his motivation behind the project is the possibility of hypersonic flight in the future.

“The story of transportation for the last 2,000 years has been

finding ways to go faster and faster,” Juliano said. “This is merely the latest step in that.”

Juliano previously worked with a smaller-scale quiet wind tunnel as a graduate student at Purdue University before coming to Notre Dame.

“We can do a lot with that, but we want to be able to test longer models in order to see more of what’s going on,” Juliano said.

“The logical next step for facility development in order to unlock these other investigations in fluid mechanics was to build a larger-scale item.”

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ACE to host informative event at Saint Mary’s

By JULIANNA McKENNA News Writer

The Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) will host its first-ever informational event at Saint Mary’s at 7:30 p.m. in Holy Cross Hall. Called “Cookies and Conversation,” the occasion will involve a discussion about opportunities available through ACE. “This is the first time we have done an event like this at Saint Mary’s,” ACE Chaplain Fr. Joe Carey said in an email. “Some Saint Mary’s students who graduated and are part of the ACE program have asked me to bring it to Saint Mary’s.”

The ACE program is an initiative through Notre Dame that provides graduate students with opportunities to teach in Catholic schools in communities across the world. ACE teachers pursue a master’s degree in education, which includes two summers

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of study at Notre Dame and online courses.

The program has developed extensively since its inception 26 years ago. Now, it is expanding to the tri-campus community.

Saint Mary’s senior Colleen Murphy said she is considering ACE to pursue a graduate degree in education because of communal benefits.

“I think that ACE has a lot of positives,” Murphy said.

“I’ve been thinking about doing it for a couple of years because I think the program is not just about going to school in the straightforward way that I’ve been used to. It’s about teaching and getting experience at the same time which I think enhances the experience.”

Murphy’s desire to maintain the Notre Dame community has inspired her interest in the program.

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Students and faculty have worked together on projects such as hypersonic flight at the Notre Dame Hypersonic Aerodynamics Lab. Last year, they unveiled America’s largest quiet Mach 6 wind tunnel.

Ballet to honor dancer

By CRISTINA INTERIANO News Writer

On Nov. 14, 2018, the family of Duncan Stroik, a professor of architecture who has been at Notre Dame for 30 years, experienced a terrible tragedy in the death of their daughter Raffaella.

“Our sweet daughter who is our second oldest died last year in November,” Stroik said. see BALLET PAGE 4

Photo courtesy of Duncan Stroik

Raffaella Stroik danced with the St. Louis Ballet until her death in November 2018. Her family hopes to honor her memory with a ballet.

College music department to put on fall concert

By MARIROSE OSBORNE News Writer

The Saint Mary’s Department of Music will present its annual choral concert featuring performances from the Collegiate Choir, Women’s Choir and Bellacapella on Wednesday.

The concert is in partnership with the 35th annual

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High School Treble Choir Festival taking place at the College on Thursday and Friday. American composer Andrea Ramsey will serve as a guest conductor for the concert, along with Nancy Menk of the Saint Mary’s music department. Ramsey will also be a commentator.

Menk composed notes on the programs explaining

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more about Ramsey’s work and the way she composes her pieces, focusing on ‘A Hive of Frightened Bees’ and ‘The Dark is Shattered.’

“The text for ‘A Hive of Frightened Bees’ was adapted from the poem by Taylor Huntley printed in [the] program,” Menk said in her see CHOIR PAGE 4

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Special Olympics aims to foster community through athletics

By KAYLE LIAO News Writer

Special Oly mpics Notre Dame is a club on campus that prov ides opportunities for people w ith special needs to gain not only athletic skills but also social skills.

“A lot of what we tr y to do is getting students of Notre Dame engaged w ith the athletes in the surrounding communit y,” sophomore Kristina Kane, communication and outreach of Special Oly mpics, said. “It’s so much fun for both the students and the athletes to be able to build relationships w ith each other and have fun play ing sports.”

Special Oly mpics hosts practices tw ice a week.

They practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays for soccer during the fall season and Sundays and Wednesdays for basketball during the w inter season.

“We always have soccer, basketball and football in addition to sometimes helping w ith sw imming,” junior Ellie Olmanson, co-president of the Special Oly mpics Notre Dame, said. “And we look into events of different varsit y sports teams or club teams such as frisbee, golf,

track and field. We’re also looking into doing a Zumba event.”

The founding of Special Oly mpics has to do w ith a United States national campaign called Spread the Word to End the Word.

Founded in Februar y 2009, the campaign encourages people to pledge to stop using the word retard.

“The person who started that campaign went to Notre Dame,” Olmanson said. “The campaign is tr ying to advocate for kindness and equalit y for people w ith special needs and to not put them in a discriminator y place w ith using the word retarded to describe something as stupid.”

Special Oly mpics club connects w ith organizations both on and off campus, like Best Buddies Notre Dame, Special Oly mpics Indiana and St. Joseph Count y Special Oly mpics, to prov ide the athletes w ith different opportunities.

“We’re looking for ward to a special needs panel, tr ying to get a conglomerate of all the special needs clubs here at Notre Dame, and the different opportunities in the communit y,” Olmanson said.

The club traveled to the

Universit y of Michigan the weekend of Oct. 25 for a football game event.

“This is actually our second time doing the event,” Olmanson said. “We did this last year at Notre Dame because when Notre Dame and Michigan played, it was here at home. So we tried to continue the tradition by doing it there.”

The age of athletes participating in the Special Oly mpics ranges from kids in middle school to people in their 40s and beyond.

“I really love watching the men’s soccer team interact w ith athletes because athletes are so starstruck to be play ing w ith the Notre Dame men’s soccer team,” Kane said.

Olmanson is impressed w ith how much the athletes were able to grow and mature through Special Oly mpics. She said she helped one girl gain confidence by encouragement.

“During a basketball season, this girl came for the first time and she had a deformed arm,” Olmanson said. “And she was probably in middle school, elementar y school age so she was a little ner vous to be w ith ever yone. Because of her arm, she was ner vous to shoot,

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but I said, ‘The best shooters only shoot w ith one arm and you’re ahead of the game.’”

Special Oly mpics Notre Dame creates a supportive and mutually rewarding env ironment, members of the club emphasized.

Olmanson said they feel appreciative of the relationships the club has allowed them to form.

“The relationships formed carr y out beyond the daily interactions and could grow the confidence of one person which has the butterf ly effect that can expand beyond comprehension,” Olmanson said. “I think that’s such a good way to break barriers and to advance ever yone who’s a part of it.”

Special Oly mpics Notre Dame looks for ward to hav ing new members join.

Students can participate in week ly practices by emailing sond@nd.edu.

“There’s no pressure to always come,” Olmanson said. ”We love seeing new faces ever y time. Our athletes love seeing new volunteers and making those relationships.”

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aircraft when going thousands of miles per hour, said first-year doctoral student Andrew Bustard.

“The high-heating rates, if not designed around, will destroy your vehicle,” Bustard said. “Obviously, we don’t want that. But the flow physics is so complex that we don’t actually understand fully what’s causing the heating or the best way to reduce it, so the whole point of this group is to study the flow around objects around potential or get a better understanding of the flow around high-speed objects.”

The Mach 6 quiet wind tunnel is unique as it better replicates the silent noise that occurs in the atmosphere, Bustard said.

“Most facilities we have on the ground have way more noise than in the atmosphere,” Bustard said.

“If we truly want to model the heating in the atmosphere, we need to have flow in our wind tunnel that represents those atmospheric conditions. [The quiet tunnel] better matches the atmosphere, and that’s why it’s very useful for us.”

The Mach 6 tunnel project has provided opportunities for multiple engineering students to get involved in hypersonic research.

Erik Hoberg, a third-year doctoral student, specializes in flow characterization and wind tunnel design. He has been involved in the project for a little over a year. ”I was not part of [Juliano’s] group when I came to Notre Dame,” Hoberg said. “Then I met him and saw what his group was doing and really wanted to be on that project.”

Fifth-year doctoral candidate Carson Running has helped with the quiet tunnel since his first year of graduate school. He worked heavily on the design and building of the tunnel in the early years of the project.

“One question that I researched was the best way to heat the large surface area [of the wind tunnel],” Running said. “We actually found a company down in Texas that sells these big long heating blankets that can just be wrapped around the steel portions of the wind tunnel and set to a certain temperature that we desire.”

Running spoke to the challenges of designing a state-of-the-art quiet tunnel that can advance the progress of hypersonic flight.

“A lot of the problems we’re trying to solve from small to big haven’t really been solved before, so overcoming that was … doing a lot of research but also a ton of collaboration and meetings with professor Juliano, using his expertise and kind of working together,” Running said. “One thing that I always like that [Juliano] says when he assigns projects or assignments to us is, ‘I wouldn’t be assigning them to you if I knew how to do them.’ He really does need our help and is willing to work with us and bounce ideas off of each other.”

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”She died tragically while she was hiking in a beautiful lake near St. Louis.”

“She was a professional ballerina and loved the outdoors, she was ver y athletic; but there was a sudden snowstorm, like the one last week, it got cold, and she somehow slipped and fell and drow ned in the lake, so this was incredibly tragic,” Stroik said.

A lmost exactly a year later, the Stroiks have found a beautiful way to commemorate her daughter by telling her stor y through her passion: ballet.

“Out of our grief we tried to bring something good out of this horrible, terrible situation, so we thought about what Raffaella loved: beaut y, love, noble people, and for dance to be inspiring for all ages, so we thought ‘why don’t we commission an original ballet that w ill inspire people,’” Stroik said.

The family is creating and organizing a ballet performance called “A Ballet for Raffaella” and has started a GoFundMe page in order to raise money to make the performance happen. The ballet is currently scheduled for the spring of 2022.

“We have about two, two and a half, years to get ready; it sounds like a long time but there is a lot to do

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going somewhere completely new, so I think being able to have this community is really helpful,” she said. “I’ve heard many stories about how ACE students will go to their respective schools in the morning, and then at the end of the day, come home and have a community dinner. Having people there to support you through that is really nice.”

Graduates participating in the ACE program agree the experience has many benefits, both inside and outside the classroom.

“The summer courses and student teaching opportunities taught me knowledge and skills that I use ever y day in the classroom, and they have helped me to work towards my goal of being the best teacher I can be for my students,” Notre Dame alumna Katie Ward (’19) said in an email.

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like the choreography and hiring the right people,” he said. ”We are just thrilled that Raffaella’s alma matter, which is Indiana Universit yBloomington has agreed to premiere it.”

The ballet w ill be a creative endeavor combining the work of artists across several disciplines.

“I am an architect not a composer, so the key to the success of the project is to hire the right composer and choreographer to create the ballet,” he said in an email. ”As an architect, I w ill design the sets.”

Stroik and his w ife started working on developing this performance a short time after the tragedy.

“We probably started thinking about it around Christmas last year, and my w ife and I have been w riting a libretto, just like the word they use in opera, so just w riting the stor y,” he said. ”We then started talking to ballet experts to get adv ice and have been preparing for the ballet so now we are fundraising for it.”

Raffaella’s father brief ly described what the family has in mind for the performance—portraying Raffaella’s stor y through a ver y classical ballet st yle.

“I think about ballet as a beautiful art, and that is why I hope to keep Raffaella’s memor y alive through it,” he said. ”She talked about ballet and about wanting to share joy and love through dance, so that’s what we

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“ACE gives people the opportunity to be formed professionally, personally and spiritually to become educators that ser ve their students with their whole heart and mind,” Ward said. “The passion and zeal that I see in my ACE classmates for their students and for Catholic education shows me that they will continue to ser ve others throughout their lives.”

Fr. Carey hopes ACE will continue to grow and that these events will raise awareness and interest in students from a variety of backgrounds.

“My hopes for the event is to create community and to bring students together to learn more about ACE,” he said. “We are inviting students from all four years to come and learn about the program.”

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Raffaella Stroik starred in a performance of the Nutcracker at Indiana University Bloomington, her alma mater. Her family began working on developing a ballet the Christmas after her passing.

want to do,” Stroik commented, “that’s why we want to do a traditional ballet like Giselle, Swan Lake [and] the Nutcracker—something that would really be an homage to great ballet of all time and also to tell the stor y of this little princess who died.”

In addition to honoring his daughter’s life, Stroik said he wants the ballet to encourage others to pursue their interests in ballet and music.

“My hope is to encourage young men and women who dance, also to encourage those who love classical music, and also to bring others

to show them the joy and the profoundness of classical ballet and how it still speaks to people today,” Stroik said.

Another way Raffaella is currently commemorated is a YouTube v ideo created by her brother, Giovanni Stroik in which he intends to show what he thinks a day in Raffaella’s life looked like by capturing his sister dancing around the Notre Dame campus.

“One of my favorite v ideos of [Raffaella] is a funny v ideo of my daughter and it is called ‘A Day in the Life of My Sister’; one of the great scenes is when she is dancing at the Notre Dame

campus,” he mentioned. “I think about her in the way she appears in this v ideo. It shows a ballerina dancing around South Bend.”

Raffaella’s lov ing family continues to ask for all the support they can get to be able to make this dream of sharing their daughter’s touching stor y through the art of ballet.

“If anyone wants to learn more about the ballet or support it, it’s called ‘A Ballet for Raffaella’ and its at gofundme.org,” Stroik said.

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member Dora Riddick said.

“We prepare all semester for the concert, and then we have the concert, and then we start rehearsals for lessons and carols,” Riddick said.

The collegiate choir will perform a wide variety of songs, including a British lullaby, “Old Time Religion,” “Ave Maria” and a Latin piece called “Vidi Aquam” as the closing song.

After the collegiate choir’s performance, the women’s choir and Bellacapella will perform. The women’s choir will perform songs such as ‘Psallite,’ ‘Acclamatio,’ ‘Ubi

Caritas’ and Ramsey’s ‘A Hive of Frightened Bees’ and ‘The Dark is Shattered,’ along with many others.

The performance will close with all three choirs coming together to perform ‘The Bells of Saint Mary’s.’ “[The concert is] a good way for people to come together,” Riddick said. “You can invite friends, friends of friends and it’s just a good reason for people to come together.

You don’t always have time to [be together], because we get caught up in life.”

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notes. “Her choir director shared the poem on social media, where Andrea Ramsey saw it and reached out about the possibility of setting an adaptation of it.”

The poem centers around the fear and anxiety most high school students feel in the wake of school shootings.

“The music is shaped with the hope of honoring Taylor’s words while also reshaping them slightly — adding breathing and heartbeats to elicit those feelings of panic, fear and anxiety that so many American students live with on a daily basis in our era of recurring school shootings,” Menk said.

Ramsey’s other work, “The Dark is Shattered,” is more personal to Saint Mary’s, as it was commissioned by the College for the choir festival.

“The text is a Christmas poem by Sr. Madeleva [Wolff ], C.S.C., a prominent figure in our College’s history,” Menk said.

The choir has been preparing for the concert since the first week of school, junior and collegiate choir

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Thank you to all the librarians in my life Taylor Strong Twitter Platform Manager

As a senior, I have been thinking a lot about where I am and how I got to this point in my life. With all the ups and downs in life, I could not have done it without my friends and family. They are my rock.

While reflecting on my educational experience, there is one other important factor that has helped shaped me to be who I am today: the library.

It all started my sophomore year of high school. I had planned to take a study hall that semester, but that lasted all of two minutes. The library gods sent an angel in a light pink North Face jacket to my study hall room. She walked right in the room asking for a library aid. No one responded, so she took the initiative by pointing directly at me and said, “You, come with me.”

Scared, I followed her into the library. She told me that being a library aid was much better than study hall because working in the library was a lot of fun and I could receive class credit. After one day, I was hooked. Shelving books and talking to supportive librarians helped me relax after stressful classes.

Although quiet during work, librarians have strong and powerful voices that protect our freedom of speech. Being a quiet kid, it made me realize that even though I rarely spoke out, my opinions matter.

The following year I got my first job at the library. I was the paper girl, shelver and shelf reader. Every morning I would drop off the teachers’ papers in their mailboxes. After, I would try and talk with all of the librarians until someone told me that I should start shelving.

Although this job was only an hour each day, I learned so much.

This job taught me basic job skills like time management. As a high schooler, I was always running around like a chicken with its head cut off. After starting my job, I became more organized and began to use my time more wisely. I also discovered that I liked working because it kept me busy.

Almost immediately after graduating high school, I remember scouring the Saint Mary’s job page for an application for CushwaLeighton Library. The day I found it, I emailed it directly to my future boss begging to get a job. Fast forward three years later and I basically live in the library because it’s my job, it’s my favorite place to study and it’s a source of free hot chocolate.

Additionally, I learned how to turn my passion for social media into a job. Every day I create content for the library’s social media platforms. My mentor has also exposed me to the administrative side of the library where I communicate between the different teams within the library. These communication skills are extremely helpful when it comes to planning contests, events and promoting certain posts. They will also be helpful when it comes time to find a job after graduation.

Most importantly, my experiences from the library gave me the drive to go and get things that I wanted.

Women often get the short end of the stick in life. Society has put women in a passive role that encourages us to wait for opportunities.

As women, we must be proactive and go find and take risks. At the beginning of this semester, I became one of the social media managers at The Observer. If it wasn’t for my mentor’s continuous support of my social media work, I am not sure that I would have been confident enough to contact The Observer about the position.

Before this semester, I had no experience in journalism. I knew that even though I didn’t know much about journalism, I had a plethora of skills in social media management and I knew that I could be an asset.

This lesson not only applies to me but is something that everyone should take with them. Be confident in yourself. No one is perfect and no one will ever be able to fulfill all of the requirements on a job application. If you believe you cannot apply for a certain position because you are not qualified enough, it limits your possibilities. You will miss out on amazing opportunities to learn about new subjects and to hone your existing skills. You could also miss out on meeting a bunch of amazing librarians or an awesome newspaper social media team.

Thank you to all the librarians in my life. I don’t know where I’d be without you.

Contact Taylor at tstrong01@saintmarys.edu.

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CGI acting isn’t acting Patrick McKelvey With the Current

Famous for his roles in “East of Eden” and “Rebel Without a Cause,” James Dean is one of the most celebrated actors of all time. His illustrious career, however, was cut short when he was killed in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24. It was a tragic loss for his family, for old Hollywood and an America that had already fallen in love with Dean and his films.

But, one way or another, it seems we’ll be getting another James Dean movie. Directed by Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, “Finding Jack” is a Vietnam War-film focusing on the thousands of military dogs abandoned in Indochina following the war. “We searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role of Rogan,” Ernst said, “which has some extreme complex character arcs, and after months of research, we decided on James Dean.”

After obtaining approval from the deceased’s family, Dean will be brought back to life by MOI Worldwide, a South African VFX company, using a combination of CGI, archival footage and a voice actor. It’s sure to be a triumph of modern technology that will introduce younger audiences to one of the greatest actors of all time.

And that’s a shame.

For one thing, the role of Rogan will not be James Dean. The directors and producers can say it is, they can credit him in the cast list — but Dean has been dead for 64 years. He, unfortunately, cannot act anymore. I would love to see him in a role like his in “Giant,” or playing a character as seminal as Cal Trask again, but I can’t. None of us can. Claiming that we’ll be able to is a disservice to audiences.

Claiming that no one else could play the Rogan character is an insult to the thousands of capable working actors totally deserving of and surely qualified for the role.

It should also be noted that the technology simply is not ready to feature so prominently in a film.

Despite the production team’s confidence, other recent “live action CGI” has completely failed at producing convincing characters on screen. The tech was most famously used in 2016’s “Rogue One: a Star Wars Story,” to return the characters of Princess Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin to the franchise. Peter Cushing, who played Tarkin in the original 1977 “Star Wars,” had died in 1994. To recreate his likeness, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) placed actor Guy Henry “in a transparent mask with small holes all over it on his face. ... A person from ILM would then put the motion-capture dots over the marks on his face. Then right before a scene was about to start a head cam would be placed on him, which would capture every facial movement Henry made.”

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Though Henry certainly gave a convincing performance, and ILM went to great efforts to produce a realistic Tarkin, there is something undeniably off about the final product. Tarkin’s eyes seem hollow, dead and unhuman-like. CGI may be advancing quickly, but I doubt that two years is nearly enough time to remedy this defect. It will be painfully obvious that we’re not watching James Dean, but a poor CGI imitation of him.

Most importantly, however, using Dean’s image in “Finding Jack” makes a complete mockery of his career, his legacy and the art of acting in general.

Actor Chris Evans, best known for playing Captain America and for being Captain America in real life, was just as dismayed as myself about the casting.

“I’m sure he’d [Dean] be thrilled,” he tweeted. “This is awful. Maybe we can get a computer to paint us a new Picasso. Or write a couple new John Lennon tunes. The complete lack of understanding here is shameful.”

Evans is right — it is absolutely shameful. If a computer were to take Lennon recordings, and move words around here and there, invent a new melody that samples his more famous tunes — I doubt anyone would accept it as a new John Lennon song. In fact, I bet it would be viewed as a perversion, a complete lack of understanding for the craft of songwriting and the work Lennon put in to create his music.

Likewise, acting can’t, and shouldn’t, be done with a computer. Dean’s performances were so much more than just his being on screen. They’re his inflection, his posture, his eyes, the thousands of seemingly insignificant choices that went into every character and every line of dialogue. To slap a CGI mask on someone and say it’s a new Dean performance diminishes his incredible talent; it says acting can be nothing more than a person’s poorly-rendered face.

If “Finding Jack” succeeds at the box office, it seems like the trend is going to continue. Recently, marketing agency CMG Worldwide and content creation studio Observe Media announced plans to merge into “Worldwide XR,” a new CGI effects company with the imaging rights to over 1,700 celebrities.

CMG’s CEO, Mark Roesler, stated that “This opens up a whole new opportunity for many of our clients who are no longer with us.” The company hopes that the technology will be used to bring other famous actors back to the movies, including Christopher Reeve, Ingrid Bergman and Jack Lemmon.

Unfortunate as it is, Dean and all these celebrities died a long time ago. Their contributions to the film industry are set. Resurrecting them would mean taking a role away from one of the many new actors who deserve to have their stars made. It would mean taking the very serious art of acting and turning it into nothing more than a computer program.

Roesler also stated that “Our job is to keep the memories of some of these icons alive and that’s what we’re trying to do.” But Dean and his roles remain as iconic as they were 60 years ago. His memory is already alive and well. He’s already a legend — and he doesn’t need special effects to stay one.

Patrick McKelvey splits his time between being a college senior and pretending to be a screenwriter. He majors in American studies and classics, and will be working in market research in New York after graduating. If you can’t find him at the movies, he can be reached for comment at pmckelve@nd.edu or @PatKelves17 on Twitter.

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The End Hate at ND movement lives To the Notre Dame community, We write on behalf of the End Hate at ND movement, a coalition of students who oppose the institutionalized divisiveness evident in the culture of our University. In the early hours of Sunday morning, we held a peaceful protest in Stanford Hall, the location of a targeted hate speech incident the night before. Choosing Stanford Hall was not meant as an indictment of that community or to intimidate any of its residents. The issue does not reside at Stanford. Divisive, exclusionary and hateful incidents are far from unheard of in the experiences of marginalized and allied Domers, and they are exacerbated by practices such as parietals. In fact, parietals are emblematic of the way Notre Dame creates community by artificially imposed homogeneity and identity.

Hate speech in any and all forms finds inspiration in artificially imposed divisions. The institution of parietals, as a core part of the Notre Dame experience, divides our community along a binary of gender presentation. It sexualizes friendships and associations which naturally form across the lines of gender division.

It has been instrumental to acts of sexual assault by allowing aggressors to trap victims in unsafe situations, and then criminalizes the victims. The fact that parietals are gender-based means that enforcing them often subjects students, especially women and gender-nonconforming students, to humiliating sexist remarks and dangerous circumstances. By restricting access to the already limited number of wheelchair-accessible spaces on campus, parietals further alienate students with disabilities in our community. Parietals can only be an institution policed if you live on campus, making them especially exclusionary for students whose living situations are dictated by their economic circumstances.

Parietals only segregate our community, creating echo-chambers of homogenous thought. History has shown us all too well the danger that homogenous thought bubbles can create. Thus, individual incidents of prejudice are validated by institutional structures.

If Notre Dame is to shift its culture to combat such incidents of racist, queerphobic, sexist, classist and ableist rhetoric, the first step is to end Notre Dame’s most salient form of division.

This is our first and primary demand for the administration: end parietals.

We envision that an end to parietals will build up our dorm communities rather than tear them down.

We propose instituting quiet hours instead of a gender-based spatial exclusion. We are aware that some members of the community may be concerned with non-female presence in women’s dorms during sleeping

hours. We believe the solution is GreeNDot and other inclusive, holistic anti-violence training rather than exclusionary policies that cause more harm than they resolve. We fully support positive dorm-bonding activities and dorm identities and believe that tearing down barriers will allow our dorm communities to thrive even more in the future.

Despite disbanding the protest in the early hours of Sunday morning at the threat of summary dismissal from the University and subsequent arrest for trespassing, the End Hate at ND movement lives. We are not done. On Thursday, we plan to hold another sit-in in a dorm to be determined. We will meet and enter a dorm with a member of that dorm community 30 minutes prior to parietals. We will, again, remain until the threat of dismissal or forcible removal is imminent, obvious and immediate. The event will be joyous, peaceful, educational, and in the parietals hours, a silent site meant for homework, prayer or meditation. Members of the dorm community will be invited to not only ask questions but also to participate in the sit-in.

If members of the community would like to be involved with our campaign against the divisiveness of Notre Dame’s campus, you can find us on Twitter (@EndHateND), Instagram (@EndHateAtND) and Facebook (End Hate at ND).

We ask the administration to seriously consider and meet the immediate demands we vocalized at the conclusion of Sunday morning’s event prior to Thursday night’s planned event: A succinct list of rights that Notre Dame students have when dealing with Notre Dame Police.

Participants deserve to know their rights as members of this community.

A list of all likely disciplinary actions as a result of demonstrations in the future. Participants deserve to know the consequences of any action before acting; the expectations need to be clear.

A clearer definition of ‘emergency procedures’ and under what circumstances the University is permitted to invoke them. The arbitrary invocation of ‘emergency procedures’ to dispel any dissent is egregious.

At 10 p.m. on Saturday night, we were offered a closed-door meeting with vice president for student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding, which we subsequently turned down. A closed-door meeting, in our perspective, would act as a muzzle on any activity or speech.

We would, in the future, be open to transparent, respectful and constructive dialogue with the administration without the attached strings of non-disclosure which accompany a closed-door session. In the future,

we welcome a meeting with the administration on the condition that it occurs at the protest site itself or in a public forum where members of the student body and press can hold the administration accountable and vice versa.

The focus of this movement is unity over division.

Our primary concern at the moment lies with the abolition of parietals. That is not our only concern. We intend to engage in open and educational dialogue between all participants and non-participant observers to make Notre Dame a safer place for members of marginalized communities. Here is our invitation to the students of Notre Dame: come to oppose parietals and stay to discuss other ways we can make Notre Dame a more unified student body. As the movement grows, the contents of these discussions will be compiled into a list and presented to the university as secondary requests.

We are pro-unity, anti-division. We will be here for the foreseeable future. If your dorm is next, please do not take it personally. This movement is an invitation.

Ask questions. Actively listen. Join us.

- End Hate at ND Matthew Bisner sophomore Anne Jarrett senior Savannah Joye freshman Drew Lischke senior Savanna Morgan senior David Phillips junior Meilin Scanish junior Kyle Weingartner junior Darrien Yafai senior Nov. 18

Call for artwork Peyton Davis Show Some Skin

Since 2012, Show Some Skin has given voice to unspoken stories from the members of the Notre Dame community. Each year, dozens of brave individuals have shared their stories about identity and difference, from which we select and present some of those anonymous monologues.

As a movement, Show Some Skin strives to be a catalyst for the campus community’s discovery and appreciation of Notre Dame’s true diversity and complexity.

Beginning in September, we asked the Notre Dame community what they see in 20/20. In response, we received over 80 stories, making us laugh, cry and experience the full range of human emotions. Some of these stories were about finding clarity. Others were about seeing the blindness in others. All of them allowed our team to see the world in new ways we never would have experienced.

To everyone who submitted a story: Thank you.

Thank you for your bravery and vulnerability. Thank

you for sharing your perspective on life. Every year, our writers give us so much light and hope.

As we were developing the theme for this year’s show, we came across the idea of “Envision 20/20.”

The more we discussed this theme, the more we realized that we wanted to leave it up for interpretation.

At the same time, we recognized there were many directions we could take regarding the design of our posters.

In recognition of the vision of the Notre Dame community, Show Some Skin is piloting a new initiative to realize the stories shared with us: Envision 20/20, a call for artwork to let designers share how they see Show Some Skin represented on campus.

In our Call for Stories, we asked a series of 20 questions to get you thinking. Now, we are asking you to visualize 20/20. What would a Show Some Skin poster look like for this year? How would you advertise our show for 20/20?

One of our motivations with this call for artwork is to find designers for Show Some Skin. We understand there are many different ways of telling stories, and we want to provide yet another venue to share your story. In addition to submitting artwork, we may

contact you to discuss other directions we may take with your work. This may include an exhibition of the artwork we receive, in addition to using it on posters and on our social media.

Please keep in mind: our call for artwork is NOT anonymous. By submitting artwork, you will also need to submit your email address. We will not release any of your information without your consent.

Submissions are due Jan. 17, 2020. If you have any questions, please contact executive producer, Peyton Davis, at pdavis6@nd.edu, or the Show Some Skin leadership team at s.someskin@gmail.com.

Peyton Davis is a senior and can be contacted at pdavis6@nd.edu Show Some Skin is a student-run initiative committed to giving voice to unspoken narratives about identity and difference. Using the art of storytelling as a catalyst for positive social change across campus, we seek to make Notre Dame a more open and welcoming place for all. If you are interested in breaking the silence and getting involved with Show Some Skin, email pdavis6@nd.edu.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Hit the reset button, and review what you’ve done.

Consider what’s worth keeping. Cleaning house will result in better insight into what’s possible moving forward. The change will spark enthusiasm for doing something that makes you feel alive. Face your demons head-on, and make an effort to improve your life physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Your numbers are 5, 11, 21, 27, 37, 45, 48.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Explore your options, pick up information, boost your qualifications or change your image to suit a new adventure.

Branch out and see what life has to offer. A physical change will boost your confidence and push you to master something you enjoy. Pursue your goals with this new energy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An unexpected turn of events will end up surprisingly well. Getting together with someone who can offer you information or point you in the right direction will encourage you to make a move you weren’t anticipating. Follow your heart.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A heart-to-heart discussion will lead to new beginnings. You can resolve business or personal problems using charm and persuasion. Invest in yourself. You’ll be able to turn one of your skills into a moneymaker. Do things right the first time.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Your mind may be on socializing, but it should be on work, money and success. An exciting proposal will lead to a partnership that looks like a good fit. Go over essential details first to avoid a setback later on.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll be tempted to overspend or be too generous.

You can’t buy love and expect to gain respect. Be a straight shooter when it comes to what you want and what you are willing to offer.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Get out of the house to avoid tension or temptation. Attend a function that will give insight into trends or possibilities. Someone you connect with will offer you a deal that could change your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A decision you make won’t be accepted by everyone. When faced with opposition, rely on your charm to persuade others to at least try doing things your way. Romance is in the stars and will improve your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A couple of adjustments to the way you live will help you feel more at home in your surroundings. It’s OK to be different as long as your motives are honorable and you are willing to be responsible for your actions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Put more thought into how you look, how you treat others and who you associate with. Traveling will be a learning experience. Make sure you have up-to-date documentation. Choose to keep the peace if tempers start to mount.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take care of personal matters. Deal with authority figures, and put any issues that could interfere with your plans to rest. A past partner will have something interesting to offer. Reach out and see what’s up and how you can be of assistance.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t trust hearsay or take anything or anyone for granted. Go to the source, and find out the details firsthand. Put your money and possessions in a safe place. An unexpected financial or legal change needs to be addressed immediately.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An unusual offer, gift or gain will take you by surprise. Don’t let someone from your past interfere in your affairs. Choose to help people or organizations that interest you. Avoid indulgent behavior or promising more than you can deliver.

Birthday Baby: You are charming, accommodating and helpful. You are resourceful and astute.

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Marking Dominican ball David Kramer Sports Writer

After nearly 30 minutes on the winding, jagged dirt road, I jump from the bed of an openair truck and step into the searing sun. The triple-digit heat feels unbearable, somehow far more potent than the dunes of the American South.

Initial greetings from the early arrivals of a nearby batey echo as my colleagues pitch our array of bags, each brimming with 50 pounds of baseball equipment contributed

by American donors, from the truck bed. A wave of fatigue floods my arms as I carefully carry two bags to a nearby shaded tree, their final destination following 12 hours of travel.

Arriving at the regional baseball practice field proved no small feat, but finding practice time for a local youth program, one that motivated our travel, remains the tallest task for us.

Hundreds of kids and coaches surround us, anxiously anticipating an open position on the field. With no set practice schedules, employment obligations or access to education, the local youths expend their entire day for even the briefest moment of training.

Here, demand for what countless Americans would deem a worthless plot of land soars.

While in the shade the program’s head coach, Amaury, assembles his trainees and announces a group meeting. The batch of aspirational players congregate, masking the underlying pain of poverty with a cheerful facade. Through translation, Amaury and I co-lead a discussion on the importance of character and faith in the realm of baseball and in the broader Dominican community. In spite of my intrusion as a mere stranger, the crowd, mature beyond its years, graciously gives me undivided attention.

What happens next exceeds my wildest expectations.

To the delight of his players in need, Amaury distributes our gear following the meeting. A pair of socks to the 12-year-old already receiving scouting notices from

MLB prospects. A belt to the 14-year-old with no living family members. An oversized jersey to the scrawny kid with a dream of MLB stardom.

Feeling like the pros, the kids lose their former patience.

No longer can they wait for an open slot on the field; they want to play.

In a flash, the kids race to the adjacent batey and scrounge materials from the trash heap that litters the settlement’s square. Feet away, a small group of teammates, with trash and tattered string in each hand, bind four “bases” of garbage with ease. Eyes smiling, they proudly declare that “estamos listos para jugar” and invite us to their neighborhood for a friendly grudge match.

Baseball consumes the lives of these young players. Locals and foreigners alike convince them that America’s pastime provides the only legitimate means of escaping the country’s immense poverty. The coercion, competition and commitment to the game stitches the very fabric of families’ viable solutions, and the resulting strain placed on society’s youngest members leaves an appalling mark on their reputation when they fail to meet MLB prospect standards.

At surface level, this harsh reality feels plain. But our socioeconomic positioning as Americans tends to blind us with the overbearing brilliance of privilege. With countless local fields left vacant and registration fees easily funded, the American baseball experience begins to resemble more of an expectation than a gift, more of a foregone conclusion than a hard-fought blessing.

During this Thanksgiving season, I remember the passion and dedication of Amaury’s kids, an almost reckless expression of devotion to the game that they love.

Today, I give thanks for the pickup games that I once took for granted. Perhaps you might find value in that gratitude, too.

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help you grow. And credit to the team, which did grow. I think our confidence is in a good place, but I think those challenging games helped our quality. And now, going into games in the NCAA tournament, I think there’s really nothing we haven’t seen, and we’re just really excited to compete against whoever is in front of us.”

The Irish are heading into the tournament with a bit of momentum, having picked things up at the end of the season after a bit of a rough patch. Although the team lost in its second game in the ACC tournament, Riley

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that this season has presented a new challenge to her after losing all five of her starters to the WNBA last season.

“It’s been very different,” McGraw said. “… I think everyone anticipated that it would be different. But when you get in it it’s even a little bit — well, I don’t want to say worse than we thought, but it’s been a challenge early on. I think we’ve had to really adjust what we do at practice. We’ve tried to make things a little simpler.

We’ve tried to do a little bit less, talk a little bit more, explain things a little bit more, show them a little bit more. They’re really coming along — it’s a great group, they’re so excited, they’re eager to learn and they want to be good. That always makes it fun. But it is definitely different from last year.”

The Toledo Rockets are 1-1 on the season after notching a win against Georgia State on the road but dropping their home opener 42-60 against Dayton.

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said he was pleased with how things turned out and where the team is now.

“I think we maybe played better than the scoreline showed against Clemson,” Riley said.

“I think they got their first goal on a set piece and their second goal on a PK in the second half.

I thought the first half we defended well — there were a lot of crosses and shots from a distance, but I thought we created two really good chances against Clemson in the first half but didn’t take them. Once they got the penalty when it was 2-0 with 10 minutes left, the guys chased and worked and went after it, but unfortunately we couldn’t get a goal to make things interesting. But overall, I’m pleased

with where we are.”

The Irish will host their first game in the NCAA tournament this Thursday at 7 p.m. against Wright State. When asked about the opponent ahead, Riley said the Irish respect Wright State.

“I think they’re clearly a good team,” he said. “They won their Horizon League tournament.

They’re an older team. I think they’re a team that has been together for a few years. They have some attackers that have scored some goals, so I think it certainly has all of our concentration, and it will take all of our intensity and effort. We certainly respect them a lot.”

off a two-game losing streak against Tennessee and MSU — both of which have seen their rankings rise since their contests at Notre Dame.

Tennessee is currently tied for No. 23 after being unranked before its win against the Irish, and MSU was ranked No.16 heading into its matchup against the No. 15 ranked Irish.

After the 69-72 loss to MSU, the Irish fell out of the top-25 and the Spartans would claim the No. 15 spot.

McGraw spoke after practice Tuesday about the two losses and how her team is looking to improve with the season ahead.

“We actually don’t talk a lot about winning and losing, we talk about playing well and controlling the things you can control and that’s what we need to do,” McGraw said. “We have to come out every game and control those things. We have to take care of what we can do, we have to box out. We have to think on the job. We have to try to be in great shape. We have to take care of the execution of setting and using really good screens, running the offense, knowing where you’re supposed to be. All the things you

can do regardless whether your shot is going in or not, and with a young team the shot going in or not is a big factor for them.”

Although the Irish have a youthful squad this year, they received seasoned transfers this season with the additions of graduate student guards Destinee Walker from North Carolina and Marta Sniezek from Stanford. Both Walker and Sniezek have started in all four games of the season.

McGraw spoke about the critical role they play on the squad despite this being their first season with the team.

“I think Marta is doing a really good job on the court of really directing and leading and telling them and helping them and encouraging them and doing everything that she can do,” McGraw said. “She is the only one that has been in a position of leadership so I’m really counting on her to do a lot.”

Tip off against the Rockets is set for Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in Purcell Pavilion. The game will be broadcast live on the ACC Network.

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“Our guys packed it up and ran together a lot better than they had all year,” Carlson said. “We had the most depth of any time in the region.

We had all seven runners in the top 30 and I don’t think any other team did that. Our seven was ahead of ever yone else’s five runners except Purdue.”

Jacobs also had a standout performance, Carlson said.

“I think the thing that is most impressive is that this is [Jacobs’] first NCAA cross countr y season,” Carlson said. “To run w ith that confidence and poise is ver y impressive.”

Carlson believes his team’s performance at the regional meet is a recipe for success at the national meet, as it is ver y important to have no big gaps between runners.

“Ever y four seconds is like 10 places at nationals,” Carlson said. “If we can do a good job of running another good team race at nationals I think we can accomplish our goal of taking a big step forward and doing better than we did a year ago.”

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14th at the national meet.

Carlson discussed the importance of hav ing this prev ious experience in the national meet.

“A year ago, none of those guys had seen the national meet in cross countr y,” Carlson said. “That was all their first appearance there.

Now they are going to be a little more confident going into it hav ing been there last year.”

The women’s team finished in fifth place w ith 144 points behind fellow ranked opponents Michigan State (49 points), Michigan (74 points), Wisconsin (100 points) and Ohio State (134 points).

Irish head women’s coach Matt Sparks recognized the team’s performance was not perfect, but he was happy his team achieved its goal.

“We did what we needed to do,” Sparks said. “The goal was to go there and qualif y.

The goal was to place a bit higher, and we are still looking for that perfect race. At some point in the season, ever yone has done well, but we just haven’t had our top five run well at the same time.”

Sparks hopes his team w ill be firing on all cylinders come Saturday.

“Our fourth and fifth

runners stepped up on Friday but the runner who has been most consistent all year for us, [sophomore Maddy Denner], struggled,” Sparks said. “We see the pieces coming together. Now we just need to get ever ybody on the same page at the same time.”

Notable finishers in the 6K race included graduate student Anna Rohrer, who placed fifth in a time of 20 :11.4, sophomore Jackie Gaughan (16th, 20 :49.5), Denner (38th, 21:14.7), sophomore Jocely n Long (42nd, 21:21.8) and senior Erin Archibeck (43rd, 21:23.3).

Sparks praised the performances of Long and Archibeck. “[Long] has been somebody that has trained really well and just hasn’t raced up to her practice potential yet, but Friday was a big step for her,” Sparks said.

“A lot of competition builds confidence and she raced w ith a lot of confidence on Friday. Same thing w ith Erin A rchibeck, who was our fifth. If those t wo come out and assert themselves early, then they w ill continue to run well throughout the rest of the year.”

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performance if the Irish are going to have a successful national meet. Sparks is confident in Denner’s abilit y to bounce back.

“We need to make sure she is well-rested,” Sparks said.

“She has been consistent all year, and I think she was a little run-dow n for that race.

We just need to make sure she has time to rest and recover, and she w ill be good to go on Saturday.”

The national meet must be treated like any other meet, Sparks asserted.

“Treat it like any other race you have competed in and you’ll do well,” Sparks said.

“The worst thing you can tr y to do is reinvent yourself for the big race. Prepare the same way and have a strateg y like you always do.”

Sparks also discussed the importance of closing the spread bet ween the first five runners.

“We have had a 90-second 1-5 gap, and if we can keep that dow n to 70-75 w ith our front runner continuing to excel, then I think we can compete for a top-15 spot,” Sparks said.

The national meet w ill be the LaVern Gibson Cross Countr y Championship course in Terre Haute, Indiana — a course that w ill

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be ver y familiar to the Irish.

The Irish ran on the course in last year’s Great Lakes Regional, and the course also hosts the Indiana State Cross Countr y Championships and the Midwest Nike Cross Countr y Regional — both of which have seen many Irish athletes.

“We w ill be a lot more familiar w ith that course than just about anybody out there on Saturday,” Sparks said.

Both coaches also expect a large cheering section for the Irish, which w ill ultimately ser ve to benefit the team.

“A lot of our team w ill watch and a lot of guys’ families w ill watch — it’s like we are on our home turf,” Carlson said.

Traveling on a bus w ill also likely reduce the pressure the team feels.

“There is a comfort level in getting on a bus and driv ing there instead of hav ing to f ly across the countr y,” Sparks said.

The gun will go off Saturday at 11:15 a.m. for the women’s race and 12:15 p.m. for the men’s race. Both will be livestreamed by Flotrack.

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Notre Dame cross country teams advance to nationals, aim to finish season on high note

By NATE MOLLER Sports Writer

The men’s and women’s cross country squads both qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships thanks to their performances at the Great Lakes Regional this past Friday. The men’s team placed second, which handed them an automatic qualification, and the women placed fifth to receive an at-large bid to the meet.

The men’s side was very close to an overall victory, but Purdue ended up taking home the title with 79 points. Notre Dame was close behind with 85 points, followed by Michigan with 86 points, Indiana with 87, and Wisconsin with 96.

Irish head men’s coach Sean Carlson said he was very pleased with his team’s performance.

“We were definitely happy — we ran a much better team race,” Carlson said.

Everyone has come to

understand their role on the team, Carlson mentioned.

“While it was a little late for that to happen, I am glad it happened,” Carlson said. “I think some teams don’t ever figure that out. I think our guys have figured out each one of our roles, and no one needs to do anything outside of their ability. If everyone runs to their ability and does what they are supposed to, I think we are going to be really happy with the result.”

Notable finishers for the Irish in the 10K race included sophomore Dylan Jacobs (30:20.5) who placed eighth, junior Yared Nuguse (10th, 30:28.9) and junior Andrew Alexander (15th, 30:44.1). The remaining four runners for the Irish were senior Kevin Salvano, sophomore Matthew Carmody, junior Brendan Fraser and sophomore Danny Kilrea who all finished within seven seconds of each other.

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Former Irish cross country runner John Flannery rushes to the finish line during the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational at Burke Golf Course on Sept. 27, 2017. Flannery finished 11th in the Men’s 5 Mile Open race.

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The Notre Dame women’s basketball team will be facing off against Toledo on Wednesday evening in Purcell Pavilion.

The Irish (2-2) are currently coming off a two-game losing streak after getting beat at home against Tennessee and Michigan State last week. Prior to these two games, the Irish were 110-3 in their last 113 home games in Purcell Pavilion, with all three of those losses at the hands of UConn.

For Irish head coach Muffet McGraw, this is a big shift from her normally dominant squad.

In her tenure at the helm of the team, she has an overall record of 835-234, 67 of those wins coming in the NCAA tournament.

Coming into those two home losses, the Irish had also been undefeated in November for 49 days — a streak that spanned nine years.

McGraw admitted Tuesday evening during her radio show

The Notre Dame men’s soccer team has earned a place in the NCAA tournament for the 22nd time in program history. The bid comes after the Irish finished 107-1, 3-5 ACC, capping the season with a loss to Clemson in the ACC tournament.

And for the Irish, this year’s bid impressively marks the 18th bid in the last 19 seasons. Notre Dame has had some success in its tournament history, tallying a total tournament record of 19-19-3, making the 16th round 10 times, the quarterfinals four times and winning the National Championship in 2013. Luckily for the Irish, they have some experience against a number of teams in the tournament, as they’ve faced six of the 16 teams to earn national bids. For head coach Chad Riley, this fact comes as no surprise considering the challenging schedule his squad took on this season.

“I think one of the crazy parts is you take Duke and North Carolina who didn’t make it

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Former Irish forward Jackie Young dribbles down court in an 84-70 victory over Tennessee at Purcell Pavilion on Jan. 18, 2018.

but were actually really good teams,” Riley said. “If you add those teams into it, it feels like a couple of more teams. It doesn’t surprise me. I think we knew we were playing good teams, so if anything we set that schedule up so we could grow throughout the season. But it really doesn’t surprise me that that many teams on our schedule are in the NCAA tournament.”

Riley believes this challenging schedule was a net positive in the end. It may have brought on a number of tough losses, but for Riley, the challenging competitors contributed significantly to his team’s growth.

“I mean I don’t know what it is, but I think we played somewhere around the fifth hardest schedule in the country, so there are always going to be those challenging moments in the season,” Riley said. “And I think whenever you feel like you’re playing your best soccer towards the end of the year, I think as a coach you’re pleased with that because you want these challenging games to see M SOCCER PAGE 9