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Sneaking past Despite 3 turnovers, Claypool, Book, Irish pull out victory with last-minute touchdown

ALLISON THORNTON | The Observer

Irish senior quarterback Ian Book unleashes a pass in front of a diving Hokies defender during Notre Dame’s 21-20 win over Virginia Tech on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium.

Book was 29-for-53 passing for 341 yards and two interceptions and two touchdowns. He also led the team in rushing, tallying 50 yards and the game-winning touchdown.

Book showed maturity under pressure Grant DelVecchio Sports Writer

“They had their character tested and they responded,” Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly said in his post-game press conference following Notre Dame’s 21-20 victory over visiting Virginia Tech. Following last week’s abysmal loss to rival Michigan, the Irish unsurprisingly had a target on their backs this week, more so than usual.

This is especially true of senior quarterback Ian Book, whose 8-for-25 performance throwing the ball against the Wolverines sparked a debate about whether or not he was truly the man for the job under center.

Although it was not pretty by any means, there’s no denying that Book stepped up in a big way when his team needed him the most on Saturday. When you’re trailing by six points with one timeout, a little over three minutes remaining and 87 yards to go, the quarterback becomes the most essential piece of the victory puzzle. If he see DelVECCHIO PAGE 2

By DOMINIC GIBSON Sports Writer

Despite opening up as 17.5-point favorites, Notre Dame needed everything and more to edge out Virginia Tech in 2120 victory. Even with 447 total yards of offense, the Irish required some late-game heroics including a seven-yard rushing touchdown from senior quarterback Ian Book to cap an 18play, 87-yard drive and a critical extra point from junior kicker Johnathan Doerer after freshman punter Jay Bramblett handled the botched snap, to push ahead in the dying seconds of the fourth quarter.

Irish head coach Brian Kelly was very pleased with how his team competed and responded after a tough loss in the previous week to Michigan.

“That was a great characterbuilding win for our football team. They endured a lot this week and had their character tested and they responded,” Kelly said. “They found a way to win the football game which is very difficult, especially the way they did it.”

Both the offense of Virginia Tech and Notre Dame started stagnant as each team would trade a three-and-out possession, a common theme for the night with both teams giving up six on the evening. It would not

be until 9:10 remained in the first quarter that points were put on the board. Ian Book connected with junior tight end Cole Kmet on a play action call for an eightyard pass that put the Irish up by seven. Despite several more three-and-outs traded, the Irish would find themselves in penalty trouble late in the first quarter that allowed the Hokies to drive down the field and tie the game up at seven when redshirt freshman quarterback Quincy Patterson II found redshirt junior receiver Damon Hazelton.

The Irish responded with an 11-play, 77-yard drive capped off by a touchdown to begin the second quarter. Quarterback Ian Book hit sophomore tight end Tommy Tremble off a play action pass to regain the lead at 14-7. The offenses for both teams stalled once again after tight defensive play left Notre Dame and Virginia Tech searching for a first down. Virginia Tech finally broke the stalemate and put together a solid eight-play drive, only to be cut short when a miscommunication on the snap allowed Irish junior linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah to grab the ball up and give possession back to Notre Dame.

The Irish then drove down to the Virginia Tech two-yard line, seeming to have the momentum and about to take a twoscore lead into the half when an

untimely fumble by junior running back Jafar Armstrong was scooped up by redshirt junior defensive back Divine Deablo and taken back 98 yards to tie the game up before the end of the second quarter.

Despite the fumble before half, Kelly did not lose confidence in Armstrong.

“This was really his first game back. We saw some really good things today with Jafar Armstrong back in for the first time,” Kelly said. “You got to go back to him. He’s going to mean too much to our offense.

Virginia Tech wasted no time coming out for the second half as they drove down to the Notre Dame 26-yard line before the Irish defense could bow up and force the Hokies to kick a 44-yard field goal off the foot of redshirt junior Brian Johnson to take the lead 17-14. Notre Dame responded with a drive of their own down to the Hokies’ 33yard line but Book threw his second interception on the day to Deablo for his second turnover recovery of the game.

Heading into the fourth quarter, Virginia Tech drove the length of the field powered by an explosive 50-yard passing play from Patterson to sophomore receiver Tre Turner. The defense of the Irish again held strong and see VICTORY PAGE 3

Offensive line embodies nextman-up mentality

By GRANT DelVECCHIO Sports Writer

Last week against Michigan, the Notre Dame offensive line was, to put it bluntly, horrible. The unit lost senior offensive lineman Tommy Kraemer early in the first quarter to a season-ending injury, and they didn’t look the same afterwards. All in all, a poorly played contest for the Irish.

Heading into this week, Kraemer was set to be replaced by graduate student Trevor Ruhland, an excellent lineman and highcharacter guy who is beloved within the locker room, according to junior tight end Cole Kmet.

But Ruhland is also someone who hasn’t seen the field much due to his injury-prone history.

“I didn’t know if I was going to be able to play,” Ruhland said.

“This spring was really hard for me. I was coming in [hopeful] to get the starting center spot that I’ve been waiting my four years for. Injuries kind of derailed a little bit of that, and I’m beat up, I’m not going to lie to you. I’ve been told not to play, that I shouldn’t play because I have the knee of see OFFENSE PAGE 3

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isn’t mentally or physically ready to make something happen, it’s unlikely the team will be either.

After Saturday afternoon’s game, it became abundantly clear that Book is someone who his teammates and coaches both believe in and rely on in big moments, and he came through for the Irish in a big way. Book ultimately capped off an 18-play, 87-yard game-winning drive with a seven-yard designed rush towards the right side of the end zone to tie up the game with 29 seconds to go. Junior kicker Jonathan Doerer then solidified the win for Notre Dame with his extra point, which was only made possible by an excellent hold from freshman punter Jay Bramblett after the snap came in low.

Against the Hokies (5-3, 2-2 ACC), Book was far from perfect; throwing two interceptions and having a third one nullified by a roughing the passer penalty. It’s easy for everyone to look at his performance and point out all of the missed throws and holes in his game, but what I think people should take away from this game is just how resilient of a player Book is, and how he was able to respond to the mistakes he made both earlier on in this

game and last week in the Big House.

“I’m just an extremely confident person but I also truly just believe in everyone on the offense and on our whole entire team. I knew we could do it. Last week was last week. We forgot about that and moved on. I’m just confident in all the guys; we work so hard every day and we’re playing for each other and that’s when you can make some pretty awesome things happen,” Book said post-game referencing how he and the team were able to rally together to get that last crucial score.

Book later when on to note, “When you come to Notre Dame to play quarterback, they’re going to love you when you win and they’re going to hate you when you lose; it’s a part of growing up and a part of being mature, but again I only care about the guys on the team, that’s it. It’s about blocking the noise and playing for each other.”

The belief in one another and relationship that the players have with each another as well as with Notre Dame football as a whole is really what separates the Irish from most programs, and this became increasingly evident in the way fellow teammates spoke on behalf of Book’s performance.

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lineman Trevor Ruhland — who made his first start of the season against Michigan, stepping in for injured senior Tommy Kraemer— commented, “I think [Ian] does a great job of just blocking [the noise] out, I think our whole program does a great job of blocking it out. It’s all about our team. … Ian knows he has a good support staff here and whenever he needs something he just leans on us and we have his back no matter what.”

Junior tight end Cole Kmet, who caught his fifth touchdown of the season in the Irish win, spoke very highly of Book’s presence as a leader for the team after the game.

“No matter what happens in the game good or bad, he just comes back, is a positive dude, and he knew was gonna lead us down the field and he did just that,” Kmet said.

The biggest surprise for me after the game was hearing Kelly say that the game-winning drive was the first time all year that Book scored during a twominute drive, including practice.

If that doesn’t tell you anything about the QB’s development, I’m not sure what will.

My point is that while it’s easy to tear down Book and some of his mistakes, today was an indicator of his maturity as a player and person overall, coming off of

a week in which really nothing good was said about him.

With all of this being said, I’d like to end this piece with pointing out the fact that while Book’s growth is commendable and noteworthy, Notre Dame’s offensive struggles continued on Saturday. Entering the game, the Irish were a perfect 24-24 on scores inside the red zone, yet that was quickly erased by a turnover inside the twentyyard line and a missed field goal against Virginia Tech. As aforementioned, Book threw two (could/should have been three) interceptions, the first one of which seemed as though it was for Hokies’ sophomore linebacker Dax Hollifield.

Moreover, on the ground, the Irish averaged just 2.8 yards per carry on 38 carries. The ineffectiveness that resulted in last week’s massive loss to Michigan seemed to be on display yet again against Virginia Tech, despite the Irish accumulating 243 yards in the first half alone (with only 14 points to show for it).

A win is a win, no matter the score. But, considering the Hokies least amount of points given up against a Power Five conference team this season was 35 against Miami (Fl.), the Irish’s 21 total points seem that much worse. Virginia Tech posted an awful six three-and-outs out of

their first seven drives, but by the end of the game both teams finished with six total threeand-outs. If Kelly and offensive coordinator Chip Long want to return to the CFP and continue competing for a national championship, they are going have to figure out a way to keep their offense on the field for longer than they are. Specifically, Book underthrew a few passes that could have led to scores throughout the game. He was lucky enough to make up for it later on and get away with it, but underthrown balls aren’t going to cut it moving forward on either the collegiate or professional levels.

For me, Book was impressive in terms of his resiliency and ability to step up in a big moment. After all, big time players make big time plays, and the Irish will still be able to finish this year with 10 wins (which would make it three consecutive seasons with 10+ wins, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since 1991-1993, with Lou Holtz at the helm). But, the offense still has a ton of work to do, both in terms of performance and play calling.

Contact Grant DelVecchio at gdelvecc@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

ALLISON THORNTON | The Observer

Irish senior wide receiver Chase Claypool is tackled after a catch during Notre Dame’s 21-20 victory against Virginia Tech at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. This 26-yard grab came on a do-or-die fourth-and-10 play that set up quarterback Ian Book’s seven-yard game-winning touchdown. The catch was Claypool’s eighth of the game.

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Ian book runs for a game-winning, 7-yard touchdown

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Down 20-14, Notre Dame started at their own 13-yard line had three and a half minutes to get a touchdown. The ensuing drive saw two fourth-down conversions, but the Irish were set up first and goal. In a designed run, quarterback Ian Book took off toward the right pylon and ran in untouched. Freshman holder Jay Bramblett saved a low snap and kicker Jonathan Doerer kicked the extra point for the lead.

Senior Chase Claypool came into Saturday’s game leading the Irish receiving corps with 29 catches for 436 yards. He continued his dominance during the game, recording eight receptions and 118 yards. Two of them were crucial grabs during the eventual game-winning drive, including an athletic play to get a foot down to stay in bounds.

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Arts festival honors third SMC president College revives tradition, hosts authors, poets, artists in yearlong 175th anniversary celebration

By MAEVE FILBIN Saints Mary’s News Editor

Sister Madeleva Wolff, the third president of Saint Mar y’s, was know n as the “lady abbess of nun poets,” and often inv ited artists and authors to campus.

Saint Mar y’s w ill continue this tradition w ith the first annual National Literar y Festival, hosted by best-selling author and Saint Mar y’s alumna Adriana Trigiani (‘81), beginning Friday.

“This event honors former Saint Mar y’s College president Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, and her bestselling memoir, ‘My First Sevent y

Years,’” Trigiani said in a press release. “She was a v isionar y who brought the great artists of her time to our campus. Luminaries including Helen Hayes, Clare Boothe Luce, Irene Dunne, Jean Charlot, Norman LaLiberte, Walter Kerr and Maria Augusta Trapp came to campus, created art, performed and inspired the students.”

Continuing the celebration of the College’s 175th anniversar y, the festival w ill host nine bestselling authors, poets and artists, according to the release. Interim Saint Mar y’s President Nancy Nekvasil said the goal of the

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Last week, Notre Dame’s Office of Student Enrichment sponsored a week dedicated to prov iding support and awareness for undocumented and DACA students w ith a series of events Monday through Friday.

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coordinator for the department, said over the summer she noticed universities in California and Texas were sponsoring weeks centered around immigration issues.

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literar y festival is not only to bring the arts to Saint Mar y’s students, but to engage w ith the local communit y in general.

“We have a ver y, ver y strong humanities program here, w ith the different areas in the arts, you know, from the art Fine A rts all the way through our English and humanistic studies,” Nekvasil said. “And so I think it’s really important for us to honor Sister Madeleva in a way of maintaining that as a outward facing activ it y that we do w ith the communit y.”

Nekvasil said she sees the festival as an opportunit y for Saint Mar y’s to interact

w ith the tri-campus communit y and beyond, and inv ite others to celebrate the 175th anniversar y of the College’s founding in 1844.

“I think sometimes we stay a little bit more isolated than we should as a communit y,” Nekvasil said. “You know, ever ybody’s busy and has a lot to do, and the students are busy and facult y are busy, staff, administrators, ever ybody is busy. But we have a lot to offer this communit y.

And so not only our beautiful facilities … but also just what we have here from an intellectual standpoint, and again, as part of the 175th bringing other people into

that celebration, I think is really important.”

As a former biolog y professor, Nek vasil said she has always encouraged more women to enter the STEM fields. Saint Mar y’s as an institution, however, challenges its students to educate the “whole person,” she said, through its multi-disciplinar y Sophia Program.

“I come out of the sciences — I come out of biolog y, and there is a huge push across the nation for women in STEM,” she said. “And I don’t disagree w ith that. I think it’s absolutely essential. I see ARTS PAGE 3

Holy Cross sister balances classes, duties to order

By HANNAH THOMAS News Writer

Editor’s Note: Sister Spotlight is an effort by the Saint Mary’s News Department to shed light on the shared experience of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and Saint Mary’s College students. We will be sharing the mission and stories of the sisters in an on-going series.

Saint Mary’s is not only a

college, and is home to the Sisters of the Holy Cross, the founders of Saint Mary’s, where the sisters try to stay connected to the students.

This is especially true for Sister Janet Nantumbwe, as she is also a student at Saint Mary’s.

Nantumbwe is from Uganda, and chose to make the move to the congregation at Saint Mary’s College to pursue a degree in elementary education.

She began this semester as a

first year and will graduate in 2023.

“My routine as a sister is to get up early in the morning, say my morning private prayers, go to Mass, have breakfast and go to college for my classes,” Nantumbwe said in an email.

Nantumbwe felt called to the mission of the Holy Cross sisters.

“I was drawn to the Holy see SPOTLIGHT PAGE 3

Sculpture park seeks to recreate natural landscape

By KAYLE LIAO News Writer

The Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park is located on the Northwest corner of Angela Boulevard and Eddy Street, and was funded

by Charles B. Hayes family which has deep ties with Notre Dame.

“Charles B. Hayes, Charles S. Hayes, his son and Charles

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B. Hayes’ grandchildren all came to Notre Dame,” the Snite Museum of Art’s director of marketing and communications Gina Costa, said.

The site of the sculpture park was formerly a landfill but nationally-renowned landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh appreciated the rolling topography of this neglected site, Joseph Becherer, director of the

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Snite, said.

“The sculpture park was designed by a very famous landscape architect whose name is Michael Van Valkenburgh,” Becherer said. “The basic idea ... for that site was to try to recreate a natural space that would be familiar to someone like Fr. Edward Sorin when they came and founded Notre see SCULPTURES PAGE 4

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SMC dance fundraiser to begin

By SARA SCHLECHT Associate News Editor

Each year, Saint Mar y’s Dance Marathon sells sweatshirts as one of its fundraisers that supports Riley Hospital for Children.

This year’s fundraiser begins this week.

Notre Dame junior Landis Collins, v ice president of merchandise for Saint Mar y’s Dance Marathon, said the EM X sweatshirt is a v isible tradition at the College.

“I design and help w ith the sales and that we do for Dance Marathon,” Collins said.

The EM X sweatshirts always feature the same design, yet it is different enough from year to year that some students purchase the sweatshirt each year, she said. As v ice president of merchandise, Collins comes up w ith the colors and patterns.

“We usually sell about 150 [sweatshirts],” Collins said.

The fundraiser is one of Dance Marathon’s biggest and most

v isible merchandise sales, Dance Marathon president and senior Clare Carragher said in an email.

“Over the past five years, EM X sweatshirts have been one of our biggest merchandise fundraisers at Saint Mar y’s College,” Carragher said. “The fundraiser has now expanded to include Holy Cross College, and we are looking to expand sales to Notre Dame students.”

This fundraiser is important to Dance Marathon because it allows support for the campus communit y as well as the hospital the organization supports.

“EMX sweatshirts not only raise money for the kids at Riley Hospital for Children but also strengthens the support among the tri-campus communit y,” Carragher said. “The EM X stands for SMC in the Greek alphabet. … A lthough we do not have a Greek system at Saint Mar y’s, Saint Mar y’s often feels like one big sororit y.”

This year’s design is different than prev ious years because it features a corded sweatshirt by a brand called Chicka-d as opposed to more traditional fabrics, Collins said.

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Collins said she had some familiarit y w ith the brand, which led to her decision to use it for this year’s sweatshirt.

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Collins said Dance Marathon tries to sell the EM X sweatshirts in the fall to correlate w ith Giv ing Tuesday.

“EM X sweatshirts have and w ill continue to bring awareness to all the kids we are fighting for one day at a time,” Carragher said.

Dance Marathon w ill begin selling the sweatshirts from Tuesday until Nov. 15 during lunch and dinner hours in the Student Center at Saint Mar y’s. Orders can also be placed through direct messages on Dance Marathon’s Instagram but must be paid for in person. The cost is $45.

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think that’s a world where men have pretty much dominated and so it’s really important for women to move into there. But what we offer at Saint Mary’s is broader than that. And so even our STEM women are taking courses in English and having to learn to write and to communicate. And so part of it is that for me, that is the whole of the person, if we continue to engage in the liberal arts and, and celebrating that on campus, and not to become siloed in particular disciplines.”

Students from all academic concentrations can benefit from studying and celebrating the arts, Nekvasil said.

“To me, the arts really cover everything,” she said. “You would be a very poor physician

if your mindset or intellect was only in the sciences. You are a much better physician if you can relate to all of your patients and part of that means, you know, understanding the arts, being able to read, being able to appreciate, you know, literature and all of that.”

Sister Madeleva, whose broad worldview inspired the community-oriented spirit embodied by the festival, Nekvasil said, was a big proponent of the arts.

“Sister Madeleva, interestingly, knew lots and lots of people,” Nekvasil said. “She was a friend of presidents and all these people. And so she was really this … kind of this outward facing representative of Saint Mary’s to the world, and in her love of and her own authorship of poetry and writing, and things like that, I think really reached out

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to say to people that that is an important aspect of your own personal development. In just thinking about creativity and appreciation of what God has put in front of us to appreciate in that you develop as a whole person when you can stretch that part of you no matter what your personal preferences is in terms of what you want to learn.”

Author Adriana Trigiani, who will host the festival, was the first to suggest that Saint Mary’s revitalize Sister Madeleva’s tradition of inviting artists and authors to campus, Nekvasil said.

“This really started when Shari Rodriguez, our vice president of college relations, and I visited Adri in her home in New York,” she said. “We were sitting around the living room and just talking about authorship and [Trigiani] having students come and do internships for her and the benefit of that and that’s then where this idea was born.”

Trigiani selected and invited the writers to attend the festival, Nekvasil said, and planned to host the event around their individual book releases.

“We wanted to do it before Christmas as a way to also encourage people maybe to think about getting books for friends and relatives for Christmas,” Nekvasil said.

Nekvasil said Trigiani’s experience in the literary world made her the perfect person to host the College’s inaugural

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festival. As a co-founder of The Origin Project, Trigiani mentors middle school students living in the Appalachian region of the U.S. According to her website, the program began in 2014 with 40 students, and now serves more than 1,600 students from 17 schools.

Through The Origin Project, the students write journal entries throughout the school year, and later publish their work in an anthology, Nekvasil said.

“So she’s really the ideal person to do this because she not only writes and, of course, has made her living as an author, but she deeply believes in helping others to learn to write,” Nekvasil said. “Not everybody’s going to be a polished writer, a published writer, but everybody can write their own story. Everybody can learn how to express the things that they’re feeling or thinking on paper in their own way. And so I just think she’s the ideal one, really, to help us get [the festival] off the ground because of her love of encouraging and helping, in this case, kids that have very, very little exposure to books or even being told that they can write.”

Two of the festival’s artists are alumnae of the College, including Trigiani (’81) and author and professor Anna Monardo (’77). Nekvasil said it’s important that current students meet alumnae who have found success after graduating from Saint Mary’s, who can

serve as a source of encouragement and inspiration.

“We have alumnae who are Congresswomen, we have alumnae who are authors, we have alumnae who rescue people off Mount Everest when there’s an avalanche,” she said.

“It’s possible. And so I think it helps them just to see possibility in their own lives for what, what they can achieve, and that nothing should hold them back.”

Located in such close proximity to Notre Dame, a much larger research institution, Saint Mary’s can sometimes be overshadowed, Nekvasil said.

“I think it’s really important for us to have something that is our very own that we do,” Nekvasil said. “You know, we have our own published authors, from the faculty, from the staff. We have alums that have published a variety of different kinds of books and I think it’s just so important for us to say that, first of all, we value it. We value the heritage that we have through Sister Madeleva and others who have been prolific writers and lovers of the arts. It’s taken a lot of people many, many hours to put this together. And it’s just a testament to the love that we have for our alumnae, for what Sister Madeleva started long ago, to honor her, and I just think it’s really important that we do this.”

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said. “She told me it was possible, and then I began discerning a call to religious life. It took me three years to join the Sisters of the Holy Cross.”

It was a long journey as she was converting to Catholicism and paying for her training for teaching, she said.

“But I remained strong in prayer and spent time sharing with people who encouraged me to discover my call,” Nantumbwe said. “Whenever I would pray, I would tell God that if it is his will, I would be a sister.”

Nantumbwe joined the Sisters of the Holy Cross and started off helping those in need. She is still continuing to teach.

“Later, when I was accepted into the Congregation’s International Novitiate here in the U.S., I was assigned to minister to the elderly in the assisted living community and in the disabled people’s community,” Nantumbwe said.

After she adjusted to her life abroad, Nantumbwe said she opened up to the opportunities God offers her.

“My favorite things about the Congregation are serving the underprivileged, being accepted for who I am and offering me different opportunities in my life,” Nantumbwe said.

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Cross Sisters by their charism of responding to the needs of the time, their hospitality and internationality,” Nantumbwe said.

Nantumbwe felt welcomed by the sisters.

“I wanted to become a sister and serve people who have no one to take care of them, like orphans, the elderly and those who are disabled,” Nantumbwe said.

She began to see that this passion to help others could be manifested as a Catholic sister.

While Nantumbwe desired to pursue this vocation, her mother said Nantumbwe would not be able to become a sister because she was not Catholic.

When she was trained to work at a school alongside a sister, she again began to desire to pursue a life in the Catholic faith.

“Being with her brought back my desire to become a sister,” Nantumbwe said. “Every weekend we would go to visit the sick and elderly.”

This encounter encouraged her to look towards ministry instead of teaching for the time being.

“I asked her [the sister] if I could become a sister since I was an Anglican,” Nantumbwe

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undocumented issues presented through our office,” K loski said. “ ... It’s designed more for an engagement for facult y, staff and peers, to raise awareness for undocumented indiv iduals in our countr y, in addition to the topic of immigration at large.”

According to the Undocumented Students Program at UCBerk ley, DACA was put in place “to protect eligible immigrant youth who came to the United States when they were children from deportation.” DACA gives those children protection from deportation, and a work permit as long as their DACA application is renewed ever y two years.

On the other hand, undocumented students are students who do not have legal citizenship in the United States but are able to apply to any U.S. universit y that allows undocumented student applications. Notre Dame is one of those universities that accepts undocumented students.

Many of the events throughout the week focused on prov iding stress relief and emotional support for DACA and undocumented students. A ll events were open to students who were not undocumented as well.

One of those events was “Stor y telling and Emotional Healing Through Art.” “It was a space for people to sit dow n and ref lect, and a space for healing through the process of being either supporter or someone who is undergoing the stresses of being an undocumented

or DACA student here on campus,” K loski said.

“W hen you’re able to express it through another form, I think it allows for some healing and to process those emotions, ref lect on that.”

K loski said the office created a website to help DACA and undocumented students feel welcome and have information concerning the Universit y and their documentation status in one place.

“If you are a are a high school student or you’re looking to apply to universities, your first step is t y ping in DACA or undocumented students applications at universities or universities that accept undocumented students,” K loski said.

“Our website would be one of those many that would pop up. And on our website we prov ide information about main contacts, and we have those resources and those supporters throughout all parts of campus.”

The Office of Student Enrichment also hosted a Welcome Weekend session for undocumented students and their parents for the first time this year.

On Thursday, the office held an event called, “Butterf ly Support Letters,” which involved allies of undocumented and DACA students w riting letters of support to those students.

The letters w ill be hung up for DACA and undocumented students to see.

“It was ama zing to hear the words of what our campus has to say to them. It’s so positive and I think it changes the light for our students here on campus just to feel

that and to see the names that are on there, because those people might be in their classrooms, and they might be a professor,” K loski said.

On Friday, the week concluded w ith “Monarch Butterf lies on the Green,” a unique event that sy mbolized migration.

The butterf lies were placed on the law n in front of Dillon Hall.

“The monarch butterf ly represents migration,” K loski said. “And it’s a sy mbol for immigrant communit y. Monarch butterf lies migrate into Mex ico when it gets cold and then migrate back into the United States. So it creates a great sy mbol for that immigration stor y. ... I just think it was a really great idea to display that, for people to see that.

It’s a little bit of a quiet form of support. It’s not necessarily like loud and bold, but it’s simple. And people can walk by and do the prayer or just silently ref lect on the lives and undocumented indiv iduals in our communit y.”

K loski said many students do not know what it means to be undocumented or to have DACA status.

“I know we’re tr y ing to create a program for next semester to create allies here on campus so that we can again show that support, whether that’s through programming or allyship,” K loski said. “I think just know ing what the phrase ‘DACA’ is or what that policy might be, it’s something that a lot of indiv iduals might not know. You might know someone’s stor y, but you don’t necessarily know the policies behind it.”

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Dame.”

The evolution and creation of the site took time.

“The project was really years in the making. But it was only dedicated a year ago this autumn. So it’s still pretty new,” Becherer said.

Becherer also emphasized the unique “nature-centered” feature of the sculpture park.

“The idea of the sculpture

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“Tale Teller VI,” part of a series of sculptures by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, celebrates the power and beauty of written language.

park in terms of horticulture is not to have something that’s very manic here with cut grasses and shaped bushes, but to have something that feels very natural in terms of tall grasses and tall shrubs and native trees,” he said. “We don’t have to use a lot of pesticides. We don’t have to do a lot of watering irrigation.

We’re really letting nature do its thing.”

One of the highlights among 12 sculptures in the sculpture park is a piece created by Fr. Austin Collins.

“I really enjoy the fact that we’ve got one of Fr. Austin’s pieces — which is the large green tower in the park

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— because it makes the park very strongly connected to the University,” Becherer said.

Costa believes the sculpture park can invoke “contemplative experiences” from the students.

“The arts are such integral parts of students’ engagement and process at Notre Dame,” she said. “What would the educational experience at Notre Dame be without the arts? The students at Notre Dame are so fortunate to have this incredible museum, the sculpture

park and a campus that is full of beautiful sculptures to really elevate and augment their educational experiences.”

As an extension of the Snite, the sculpture park contains artworks by some of the finest contemporary sculptors around the globe.

“I think that one of the things that we have a responsibility for is to celebrate that long relationship between the Church and the visual arts,” Becherer said. “So honoring the tradition, but also embracing the world, that’s what the museum is all about.”

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By GINA TWARDOSZ Scene Writer

October’s over and, while some of your friends might have already started playing Christmas music, if you’re like me, you might still be looking to watch one last strange and creepy show to close out spooky szn.

Undeniably, one of the most recent comedy series to completely hit the mark while still being creative and fresh is HBO’s “Los Espookys.” The six-episode bilingual comedy series, which premiered on HBO in June, follows the utterly weird and delightfully jarring adventures of four best friends who decide to create a horror staging business. Complete with the eerie quirkiness of “Twin Peaks” and the thoughtfulness of “The Good Place,” “Los Espookys” is the perfect show to add to your fall binge-watching queue.

Produced by “Portlandia” star and “Saturday Night Live” alum Fred Armisen with “Saturday Night Live” creator Loren Micheals, the show is just as alternative and outlandish as one would expect. Yet, thanks to writers Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega (who also star in the show), “Los Espookys” becomes a sort of love letter to the campy magic and neon red, gory bliss of Dario Argento’s technicolor ‘80s horror films.

“Los Espookys” delights in the absurdity of

By AIDAN O’MALLEY Scene Writer

Nestled in the AMC River East just a stone’s throw away from its eponymous waterway, the Chicago International Film Festival (Oct. 16-27) quietly came to life.

In its 55th year of competition, CIFF is the longestrunning film festival in the country, but you wouldn’t know it just from going. Despite its buzzworthy lineup and a rotating display of stars, CIFF has remained decidedly local. In stark contrast to its peers (both domestic and abroad), the vast majority of festival-goers are neither industry nor press; instead, CIFF is fueled by fans. From first-timers to festival veterans and everyone in between, CIFF audiences run the gamut in age, gender and race, united by their passion for cinema.

Like most film festivals, the majority of CIFF screenings are foreign or independent — and many are both. The week-long event also features programs for black filmmakers, female filmmakers and directorial debuts. They even host master classes with a variety of professionals; this year, production designers Eugenio Caballero (“Roma”), Hannah Beachler (“Black Panther”) and Adam Stockhausen (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) gave lectures on their Oscar-winning work.

Speaking of the Oscars, perhaps the most exciting aspect of CIFF is its awards season track record.

seriousness. It balks at elevated horror while still managing to be sharply hilarious and quick witted. It also carries the energy and faux melodrama of a Latin American telenovela.

Set in an undefined Latin American country, the show’s cast is majority Latinx. Yet, the series itself does not create a spectacle out of the diversity of its cast; rather, the narrative tension occurs organically, created from the misadventures that the quartet accrue as they try to pursue their unconventional artistic passions, as it would be for a similar sitcom with a majority white cast.

This is not to say, of course, that race is simply excluded from the series, as “Los Espookys” makes a point of broadcasting in Spanish with English subtitles — a bold move that could have ostracized many American viewers. Every choice is intentional, but the show is done in a way that attempts to normalize bilingual television and a majority Latinx cast.

If anything, “Los Espookys” seems more literary than cinematic. The series is infused with Gothic undertones ripped straight from a novel, with the characters themselves seemingly anachronistic for the twentieth century. There’s Andres, played perfectly by “Saturday Night Live” writer Julio Torres, as the prince-like adopted heir to his parents’ chocolate empire. Also, there is a pair of weird sisters, Ursula

and Tati, played by Cassandra Ciangherotti and Ana Fabrega, respectively, who foil each other with an oddness that is both tender and complex. Ursula is the mechanical mastermind behind the team’s best stunts and Tati, who is a little naive and often misunderstood (and often the one in the monster costume), brings an added warmth and hilarity to the melodrama of the team’s work.

Renaldo, played by Bernardo Velasco, is passionate about horror and cares about his craft so much he becomes the driving force behind forming the Los Espookys business of horror staging. His challenge to find fulfillment in his art while still appeasing his mother and pursuing an adult career is something that’s incredibly relatable, but not overdone. From staging an exorcism to run a priest out of a convent to pretending a sea monster exists to bring more tourism to a seaside town, the Los Espookys bring an exciting, whimsical strangeness with them wherever they go.

While a quick witted show broadcast in Spanish with English subtitles might not be for everyone, there is no denying that “Los Espookys” is the first of its kind. A comedic series that manages to be funky, heartfelt and spooky is definitely something worth watching.

Since 2013, every Best Picture winner has screened in Chicago ahead of its theatrical release. “12 Years a Slave,” “Birdman,” “Spotlight,” “The Shape of Water” and “Green Book.” In 2016, CIFF played both “Moonlight” and accidental winner “La La Land.”

While it remains to be seen whether CIFF will continue this Oscar-winning streak into 2019, the festival’s 55th program nevertheless featured countless critical darlings from the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, many of which were seen by yours truly. Don’t be surprised if you hear about them again in February.

But first, the films I couldn’t catch: opening night was “Motherless Brooklyn,” the directorial debut of Edward Norton; closing night was the world premiere of “The Torch,” a documentary about legendary blues musician Buddy Guy; and in between was the centerpiece of the festival, “Knives Out,” a star-studded whodunit from director Rian Johnson (“The Last Jedi”).

Other screenings included: “Clemency,” winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; “Harriet,” a biopic about Harriet Tubman; “A Hidden Life,” the latest from Terrence Malick; “Varda by Agnès,” the swan song of beloved French filmmaker Agnès Varda; and even “Zombieland: Double Tap.” Also worth noting are the winners from CIFF’s awards ceremony: Cannes sensation “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” took home the Gold Hugo (the festival’s top prize) while the Audience Award went to “Just Mercy,” a legal

drama about civil rights and the death penalty starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson.

As for my own experience, I saw five films at the festival. My favorite was “Marriage Story,” a terrific drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a couple whose divorce turns nasty in court. A close second would be “The Two Popes,” a surprisingly charming film about the transition within the Catholic Church from the old-fashioned ways of Benedict XVI to the modernism of Francis today. I also saw “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating (and hugely expensive) new crime epic starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, a solid addition to the famed filmmaker’s repertoire. “Jojo Rabbit,” the controversial new comedy set during the Holocaust from Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnarok”) was a bit undercooked but well-acted and intentioned, while “Honey Boy,” the autobiography Shia LaBeouf penned in therapy, wasn’t quite as interesting as that description might suggest.

This year marked my sixth attending the festival, and every time I’ve gone I’ve seen at least one fantastic film.

Positioned squarely during Notre Dame’s fall break, CIFF is a great opportunity for ND students from the Chicagoland area (and I know there are plenty) to engage with the cinematic arts. At the very least, it makes me sound a lot more pretentious when asked about my break.

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Inside Column

The endless transition loop Katie Harmeyer Viewpoint Copyeditor

October means football and Halloween, the change of leaves and the all-too-quick transition from sweatshirt to jacket to parka.

And, on a campus where 75% of students study abroad, the month of October is also #studyabroadappszn for sophomores. As we turn the calendar to November, I’d like to consider how Notre Dame’s study abroad culture perpetuates students into a seemingly endless loop of transitions, painful moments and an abundance of opportunities for growth. (Also, I’m a sophomore, so this is my preferred existential crisis at the moment.)

If an “endless loop of transitions” seems a bit dramatic to you, hear me out. Freshman year: Move to college. Sophomore year: Adjust to arguably the only normal year of a Notre Dame student’s career.

Junior year: Prepare for abroad, go abroad, come back from abroad and infamously never stop talking about abroad. Senior year: Answer the “what’s next?” question. Even those who don’t study abroad likely feel affected as they see friends leave for a semester, perhaps navigate a long-distance relationship and cooperate with midyear shifts in club leadership and rooming arrangements. All this transition involves a little chaos. Yet, it also feeds a whole lot of personal growth, and I think that opportunity for growth is what attracted many of us to Notre Dame in the first place.

As a sophomore, I sometimes feel straddled between last year’s move to college and my hopes to spend next spring abroad. I think my freshman year transition went … okay. I made wonderful friends, but it took me the majority of the year to feel fully myself around them. My grades turned out fine, but there were many 3:00 a.m. moments when I thought there wouldn’t be. I wish I had gotten more involved.

I wish I hadn’t gone out every time my friends did.

My greatest wish, though, is that I had been more transparent through all of the ups and downs of last year. I certainly wasn’t the only freshman last fall who had mixed feelings as I looked up at the dome after a long day, wondering if this whole Notre Dame thing would work out as I had dreamed. (For any freshman feeling that now: Hold on. One year later, Notre Dame’s not the dream I planned, but it’s a dream nonetheless.) From my Instagram and my smile and my “Oh I love college!” report to everyone at home last November, you’d never have known I struggled to do homework because the time to think alone usually led to tears.

As I sit here, in the beautiful in-between of the transitions for a Notre Dame student, I wonder if, next time, I will have the courage to be more honest.

In preparing to go abroad, will I share my real fears over the nicely-package-socially-acceptable ones?

Once I’m there, will I accompany the gorgeous photos with authentic updates? Will I talk about how some days it’s both awesome and awful? Will any of us? I know I want to practice this courage, but I can’t guarantee I will succeed. Moreover, I know that the rosy picture of time abroad is painted by us all collectively, and it will take some collective courage to peel it away.

I don’t intend to seem pessimistic. The difficult moments of last year created the beautiful ones. I’m sure the same will be true in the years to come. We don’t live in a happy vs. sad, painful vs. wonderful, hard vs. easy world. And, as I said, I think we chose Notre Dame because we like the world that way.

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Brennan Buhr God, Notre Dame, Country

Friedrich Nietzsche once opined within his memorable 1887 work “On the Genealogy of Morals” that “the inexorable decline of faith in the Christian god” has led to a “considerable decline in the human consciousness of guilt.” This legendary atheist philosopher truly believed that the “complete and final victory of atheism” would forever banish all notions of guilty conscience to the dustbin of history.

Nietzsche’s somewhat lunatic thesis on the guilty conscience was that it goes hand in hand with religion, although Nietzsche rejected the existence of both. In his view, this concept of guilty conscience was a religiously and sociallyconstructed fiction designed to reverse our animal instinct to inflict cruelty back upon ourselves. In other words, “pathetic” modern Christians torment themselves in believing that they stand guilty before God for their sins, as such guilt is merely a symptom of our own perverted imaginations. Naturally, the secularization of society would lead us to ultimately admit not only that “God is dead,” but also that there is absolutely nothing for which we must confess. Our belief in conscience dies along with our faith in God. Looking back upon this dreary argument in today’s American context, it is clear to me that Nietzsche was profoundly wrong to assume that secularization necessarily implies his own nihilistic brand of atheism and thus the death of guilty conscience. What we are seeing today is not “less religion,” but merely a different kind of religion, and a different kind of guilty conscience.

For example, conservative Catholic Ross Douthat points out in a recent New York Times column that “the decline of Christian institutions and the weakening of Christian affiliation may be clearing space for post-Christian spiritualities — pantheist, gnostic, syncretist, pagan — rather than a New Atheist sort of godlessness.” Although traditional Christianity in the West is quite ill, postmodern forms of religion (nature worship, Gnostic dualism, consumerist idolatry and the like) are very much on the rise.

Thus, the real story is not that religion has declined, but that ancient heresies are proliferating in new and varied ways. Indeed, the kinds of ideas which would for two millennia have been deemed “heresy” have become part and parcel of the new orthodoxy. In a complete reversal of roles, traditional Christians are now the heretics for preaching that marriage is a sacramental union between a man and a woman, that a fetus is always and everywhere gift from God and not a parasite and that gender is likewise a gift by nature and not a choice by right. And where heresy abounds, the quasi-integralist Church of “It’s 2019” must step in to suppress it. “Bake that cake, bigot,” says the state.

Likewise, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule, a deeply traditional Catholic, has written that contemporary liberalism possesses “a theology and eschatology” along with “a central sacrament and an accompanying liturgy.” Just as the French Revolutionaries of old obliged everyone’s obedience to the “Goddess of Reason” through active participation in liturgical festivals, so too do woke liberals of 2019 demand adherence

to a progressive view of history, the march toward “radical freedom for all,” through seemingly endless tweets, political speeches, academic papers, parades, marches and, most importantly, laws.

In particular, liberal dogmatists possess a comprehensive doctrine of atonement and an accompanying “sacrament” of reconciliation which is not confined to an actual confessional but must in fact be rendered in public. Hence, we see throughout the Democrat presidential primary field a myriad of public confessions ranging from Pete Buttigieg’s renouncing his former use of the phrase “all lives matter,” Elizabeth Warren’s finally admitting her misdeed of long identifying as a Native American and Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s apologizing for simply being a white male.

This phenomenon has overtaken American life, for this new secular “guilty conscience” is ubiquitous not just among Democrat presidential hopefuls, but also within the hearts of climate activists and gay pride marchers from coast to coast, all of whom take to the streets with a religious enthusiasm hardly ever seen to the same degree since the Palm Sunday event. The guilt that these folks exude is palpable, although it often takes the form of guilt for social oppression generally rather than personal iniquities. After all, the doctrine of intersectionality entails that those oppressed by our nation’s blatant history of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia and patriarchy (apparently “the structure on which this university was built”) cannot be challenged, for the experiences they share are fundamental to the liberal deposit of faith.

Allyship demands nothing less than unequivocal affirmation of the feelings of those oppressed.

My point is not to undermine the legitimate legacy of discrimination that certain minority groups have faced throughout American history and continue to endure today, most obviously through the de facto segregation of cities. However, it is clear to me that contemporary liberalism exaggerates this legacy to an absurdly false degree, such that practical Catholics who maintain the Church’s beautiful teachings on life, marriage and sexuality are somehow responsible for “centuries of dead queers.” Like the Gnostics of old, it takes a lively religious imagination to invent this perverted claim. The forces of light compete against the forces of darkness. The “woke” among us are saved by recognizing and rejecting the systematic oppression imposed by our traditional rulers. President Trump is the real Ialdabaoth.

All things considered, Nietzsche was wrong to claim that the “complete and final victory of atheism” is inevitable, for religion is alive and well in 2019. The key difference today is that ancient heresy has become the new orthodoxy in the form of contemporary liberalism, whose adherents possess a definitive creed, a sacramental structure, rituals, feast days and a philosophy of guilty conscience.

The dogma lives loudly within them.

Brennan Buhr is a senior Juggerknott from Albany, NY who studies theology, political science (but really, just theory) and history. He loves drinking cold glasses of skim milk and eating salad for dessert when he is not consuming “the living bread that came down from heaven” (Jn 6:51) at the Basilica. He can be reached at bbuhr@nd.edu or @BuhrBrennan on Twitter.

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The presidential debate and what it means for Notre Dame Vince Mallett Politically Ambidextrous

Notre Dame ​will host​the first presidential debate in the general election next fall. The response I’ve heard most often: “Why?” There are a multitude of easy answers: the prestige, the attention, the money. To “foster healthy dialogue on campus.” Of course, it’s going to be phenomenal to have President Trump and his opponent on campus, and for the nation and the world to see the inside of the JACC. But I’m not convinced it’s worth it.

First off, I’m assuming few Notre Dame students will be able to attend. It is, after all, a presidential debate, and I imagine tickets will be harder to come by than tickets to a basketball game — which are already sometimes difficult to get. I also would think Notre Dame and the media will want to focus on South Bend, its role in the Midwest and possibly its connection to Mayor Pete. That could lead to more community tickets and less for students. It makes for a more interesting political narrative than ‘We let in a bunch of our wealthy, mostly-white students’.

I’m also unconvinced that it will help foster healthy political dialogue, of which our university is in desperate need. Given the obvious, that “President Trump” and

“healthy dialogue” are nearly never in the same affirmative sentence, I would expect that the increased attention paid to the election will hurt our campus conversation, not help it. The President, whether you like him or not, divides people, and we shouldn’t expect ourselves to be the exception.

One response might be, “Sure, maybe the benefits are being overstated, but we aren’t truly losing anything by hosting this debate.” It’s a fair point, but I would disagree; I think we could use our resources more wisely.

Why didn’t Notre Dame host a debate in the last congressional race for our district? Why didn’t we host a debate for the Senate race last year, which involved a Notre Dame alumnus? Now, maybe we tried to and didn’t secure the opportunities; but given South Bend and Notre Dame’s prominence within Indiana, I find that doubtful.

In general, hosting this debate contributes to a political culture where only the presidency is important. We live in a nation where the near-entirety of political commentary focuses on the idiosyncrasies of one strange, disillusioned man. How is that healthy? How is that just?

Local and state governments play, or at least can play and should play, as large a role in our lives as the day-to-day decisions of Donald Trump. Why isn’t our focus there?

Again, one response might be: “Notre Dame is a

national university, and has never claimed to be something else. It’s right for a national university to have a national focus.” I think this one gets to the heart of the issue: For what kind of national life is the University training us? Is it one where we focus exclusively on the big picture, or one where we engage in our communities and give back to those who have lifted us up?

I don’t know if there are statistics of how many Notre Dame students from small towns move to big cities after graduation, but I don’t think it’s controversial to claim it’s a lot.

By hosting this debate, Notre Dame seems to want to gain national attention, for something other than football or leggings, and have some healthy dialogue on the side. I don’t think national attention is what we need, and I don’t think dialogue about the president and presidency is the most healthy. Will it be cool? Of course! Is it worth it? I’m not so sure.

Vince Mallett is a junior at Notre Dame majoring in philosophy with a minor in constitutional studies. He is proud to hail from Carroll Hall and northern New Jersey. Vince can be reached at vmallett@nd.edu or @ vince_mallett on Twitter.

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Letters to the editor

Student Government, bring back Xfinity Notre Dame Student Government has committed a crime against the student body that has gone unnoticed for too long.

About two weeks into the semester, the student Xfinity service was removed with very little notice and almost no warning to those of us who used the service weekly.

A few weeks into this new way of life, I have found myself reaching for the New York Times a total of z ​ ero​times and craving my old Xfinity services every Thursday night as I try to wind down from my stressful week with some ​Riverdale​. In the beginning of the semester, every Monday and Tuesday my attempts at dorm-bonding were consistently foiled by this university’s forcing me to absorb the intricacies and politics of ​Bachelor in Paradise ​a day late.

The decision to prevent students from enjoying television and instead promoting a

more “highbrow” form of entertainment seems like a propagandic move against the industry and past-time that is television, and not a decision made in the true interest of the student body. Examine the student body and tell me what will bond them more: watching our ​own​​team​play football on the road, or pretending to read news articles?

Would they rather talk about B ​ achelor in Paradise,​or have one poli-sci major trap them into a conversation about the newest edition of the New York Times they haven’t read? I think I know the answer — does the Student Government?

Greta Klaus junior Oct. 31

The future of data collection We are writing today in hopes to promote further discussion about user data, its usage and the privacy concerns associated with it. In this letter, we are hoping to bring to light some common misconceptions about data usage, as well as highlight some of the dangers that could arise if regulations and changes aren’t made soon.

One of the most common discussions regarding user data focuses on users’ lack of knowledge on how this data is used, how long it is kept for and exactly what kinds of data points are being collected. Google Maps is able to reconstruct an exact path of where you’ve been and when you were there, regardless of whether you are actually using the app. This type of information should be made clear to the user, and companies in general should be more transparent about their user data usage.

We agree with Richard Stokes, ​a former top executive at an advertising company​, and believe that users should have the option of opting out of data collection if they want to. The assumption that every user likes targeted ads is an overgeneralization that has been proven to be incorrect. A ​Pew study​shows 61% of people want to do more about protecting their privacy. However, as discussed in our Computer Science Ethics class, many people aren’t sure if they are able to actually do it. Stokes describes how third parties are selling very personal data — such as income, mortgages, addresses, vehicles owned and political stances — to advertising companies and making millions of dollars on it. In an effort to respond to this, the t​ hird party application​stopdatamining.me allows users to manually opt-out of data collection applications they probably didn’t even know they were on. This situation creates a vicious cycle where our data is being passed, sold or deleted by third parties and used by anyone willing to pay the right price. There needs to be more transparency and accountability with data so users know w ​ ho​has it and have the option to opt in or out in an easy and direct way. Companies should respect users who decide to opt out, and should still provide the entirety of their products or services to these people.

As computer scientists and product designers, we know there are ways for companies to innovate around such constraints if they are instituted. Core services should be allowed to any general user. If a company needs and desires a certain mass amount of users to opt into data tracking, they could create extra incentives for a certain amount of users to opt in.

The dangers of data collection and surveillance are huge. A F ​ orbes article describes a very

real example of data interpretation gone awry. Let’s say someone withdraws money from an ATM and goes to a casino every Friday night. It might be easy for companies to look at this data and think that this person has a gambling problem, and they should show this person gambling ads to try to make money off of them. But what if this person just prefers cash to credit cards, and really likes the food at this casino instead? And then, a couple of years down the line, hiring companies can see this data and assume they have a gambling problem, when in reality they don’t. As the years go by, it’s only going to become easier and easier for companies to build an online, digital profile of you that you don’t even know exists, based solely on the data they collect from you. What’s to stop companies from ​selling ​ this data to other companies down the line? What if you’re applying to jobs and a company doesn’t hire you because they didn’t like where you’ve been and what you’ve searched for on the internet? This is a reality that truly isn’t very far off.

In conclusion, we agree with and would like to echo the final three points made by Stokes in his article. Users should ​have a choice a ​ bout the data that they share, if any at all. The exact chain of where a user’s data is going and who its being shared with should be made obvious to the user.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Refuse to let anyone limit what you can do. Have a plan in mind, and work diligently to put everything in place. Preparation will give you the confidence you require to move forward and to get things done properly. Change is heading your way, and the chance to use your skills in a new and exciting way is in your best interest. Your numbers are 5, 12, 19, 27, 33, 38, 43.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Pay closer attention to a meaningful relationship.

Knowing where you stand and how you can bring out the best in each other will help you make the most of whatever situation you face. Love and romance will encourage a stronger commitment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Get together with someone who can offer information about your family history. Learn all you can, and share information with the people you love. A promise or commitment will turn into an incentive to do and be your best.

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Use your imagination to come up with a solution and persuasive tactics that are impossible to decline.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Sign up for something that excites you. Getting out and involved in a life-altering experience will make you more aware of what you want and how to go about making your dream come true. Your charm and discretion will win favors.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A celebration will bring you closer to someone you love. A lifestyle change is within reach, and planning for the future will lead to excitement and preparation. A discussion will clear up any uncertainty regarding prospects. Let your uniqueness shine through.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Listen to a pitch, but don’t take part in a scheme that has little substance. You’ll fare much better if you put your time and effort into something that you can do on your own. Personal improvements will be gratifying.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep a level head when faced with controversy. Make the adjustments necessary for your survival. It’s a competitive world, and you have to look out for No. 1. Make decisions for the right reasons, not due to emotional moments.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stability will be necessary when faced with financial, medical or legal decisions. Do your research, and rely on your intelligence and courage to choose what’s best for you. A change of heart is apparent, and romance is encouraged.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A financial gain is heading in your direction.

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Time for updates to CFP process Aidan Thomas Sports Writer

No disrespect to September and October, but November is the month that makes the college football playoff season as great as it is. Yes, those first two months supply us with some storylines and a few major upsets, but their main purpose is to prepare our palate for a month of heavyweight battles, rivalry weekends, teams making a run at their conference championship and, for a select few, a desperate surge to make the College Football Playoff.

Which of course, brings us to what truly defines November: controversy and the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. Unfortunately, the two go hand-in-hand, and the controversy creates a bevy of storylines that sadly overshadow some of the great football that is played.

Tuesday’s rankings should — likely — have very little controversy.

A few questions, however, linger. How will the committee view Clemson, which has been consistently devalued by the AP Poll by virtue of a weak schedule and very tight win over North Carolina? Who will be No. 1? With five undefeated teams locking down the top five slots, where does the committee rank Baylor and Minnesota, undefeated squads with lower-profile resumes, and who is ranked as the top one-loss team?

The reason we can’t answer any of these questions is simply because the committee has not provided any sort of blueprint for making the College Football Playoff. Some days, it seems that the “eye test” is the most critical point, while other times it seems avoiding a bad loss is critical.

There’s a million questions, and a committee made up of 13 members can only answer so many of them. Inevitably, there will be controversy in the coming month, and, after the championship, people will bemoan how their team that fell just short of the Playoff would have fared better, and we will enter another offseason wondering how we can improve the current system.

So what’s the best way to fix the Playoff? I’ll offer a few ideas: First off, expand the committee. Thirteen people is not enough to reach a consensus, in any way.

Moving from the automated BCS system was critical, as computer formulas simply were never going to be able to truly tell the best teams. However, to hand over this job to just 13 individuals is highly flawed. The AP Poll uses 65 voters — five times as many as the committee. There’s no reason not to make the committee bigger, and, like any vote, the results will be more accurate with more people.

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Secondly, expand the playoff field, but with a method. People who say that an eight-team playoff can fix the controversy have the right idea, but simply expanding the current system to the “eight best teams” will do very little other than to create controversy around the teams finishing 8th and 9th, rather than the teams finishing 4th and 5th. So let’s create a plan for an expanded playoff.

Ten slots are saved for the Power-Five conference champions and runners-up. Five slots are reserved for Group of Five champions, because every playoff is more fun when you have the little guys taking their best shots at the top dogs. And that leaves 1 at-large bid. However, there are exceptions to the auto-bid slots: If a PowerFive team has more than 2 losses, they’re eliminated from playoff contention. That prevents teams like the 8-4 2018 Northwestern team from making the field. And for any Group of Five team that takes a second loss, they are also excluded from the Playoff. For every auto-bid that is forfeited, an at-large bid is added. Thus, every conference gets their representative (unless they’re so bad that every team has 3+ losses).

Now certainly there is still room for controversy with the at-large bids, and how to rank the auto-bid teams. But this places value on both the regular season, winning your division, and your conference championship. Now this evidently adds two more games to the schedule for those who make it through the 4-game playoff bracket, which might be unreasonable. So let’s simply eliminate a non-conference game from the regular season schedule. Because nobody wants to see Clemson play Wofford on Nov. 2, or Alabama play Western Carolina on Nov. 23.

Would you rather watch one of those games? Or see a chance for 8-1 Memphis to take on LSU in a first-round playoff game?

The four-team playoff has scared teams away from scheduling competitive non-conference games. It has essentially devalued conference championships, and it has completely neglected the Group of Five teams. So let’s see a change: expand the committee, create a blueprint for how you select teams and expand the playoffs.

But this is all wishful thinking for now: the Playoffs will remain four teams for the foreseeable future, and for this year, the first rankings come out on Tuesday. So enjoy November football, and let the controversy begin.

Contact Aidan Thomas at athomas28@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Irish lose to Orange, beat Eagles in weekend series Observer Sports Staff

Notre Dame’s women’s volleyball team rallied after a Friday loss to Syracuse to win against Boston College on Sunday in a weekend on the road. Both games were in-conference, bringing the Irish to a 9-3 record in the ACC and a 16-6 record overall.

Despite a strong start against Syracuse, winning the first set 25-14, the Irish dropped the match after losing the next three consecutive sets in a series of close games.

The first set began with both teams picking up two points, followed by a 5-0 run from Notre Dame. They held onto the lead for the rest of the set, never allowing Syracuse within striking distance. The Irish took advantage of the Orange’s nine errors while only committing one itself. Junior libero Madison Cruzado won the final point on her second ace of the day.

The second set was a much closer game. With 16 lead changes throughout the set and neither team getting more than three points ahead, Notre Dame and Syracuse exchanged short runs of point gains. The Irish took the lead at 15-12 after two consecutive kills from freshman outside hitter Caroline Meuth, and after a run by Syracuse, the Irish retook the lead at 23-21, driven by three kills from sophomore right side hitter Sydney Bent.

Syracuse then took the third and fourth sets, winning 25-23 and 25-19, respectively. Notre Dame was up 23-21 after backand-forth play in the third set, but Syracuse won four straight points to win the set. In the

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almost the entire 2018-19 season with a knee injury. While he was scoreless in Notre Dame’s first exhibition game against Capital University, he contributed 5 points and 3 steals and played a critical role on defense in holding off Bellarmine’s late run, stealing the ball and scoring a layup on the ensuing fast break with less than a minute left to effectively end the game.

While Bellarmine kept it close for most of the game, they only led one time, 19-18 in the first half. The Irish led by nine at halftime and by as many as 13 in the second half, but the Knights

fourth, the Irish went up 3-2 early but could not hold on to the lead and would trail for the rest of the set.

The Orange racked up 55 kills and six aces throughout the match to the Irish’s 46 kills and seven aces. Bent led the team in kills, tallying 13 for the day, followed closely by Meuth and sophomore outside hitter Charley Niego, both of whom had 11 kills. Cruzado and graduate student setter Paige McKnight each served three aces in the conference game.

The Irish traveled from New York to Massachusetts for the Sunday afternoon game at Boston College and beat them in five sets. After the Eagles took an early lead in the first set, the Irish never made up the point difference and dropped the set 25-21. A strong performance

from Bent and Niego in the second set made the difference.

Both hitters had several kills to take the lead late in the closelyfought set and win 25-22.

After losing the third set, Notre Dame rallied from a three-point deficit in the fourth on a 6-0 run to win 25-21 and dominated in the fifth set behind another 6-0 run, taking down the Eagles 15-5.

Niego led the team with 22 kills throughout the match; Bent saw 19 kills, and Meuth recorded 12. Sophomore setter Zoe Nunez recorded 54 assists and two aces.

The Irish will travel to play at Florida State this Friday and at Miami (Florida) this Sunday.

Notre Dame is currently tied with FSU and Georgia Tech for second place in the ACC standings.

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Irish freshman outside hitter Caroline Meuth spikes the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-0 win over Valparaiso on Sept. 4 at Purcell Pavilion.

kept clawing back. They cut the lead to 54-51 with just over two minutes left, but Notre Dame then went on a 7-0 run to close the game out.

Notre Dame’s offense has continued its struggles from last season. They shot just 35% from the field and 26% from three. Bellarmine actually outshot them in both categories, but the Irish’s defense was opportunistic, forcing 12 turnovers and blocking seven shots.

Senior forward Juwan Durham was a force on defense, blocking five shots and grabbing 13 rebounds. Notre Dame collected 14 offensive boards to Bellarmine’s four and outscored them 15 to nothing on secondchance points. However, as the

Notre Dame coaching staff decided to play the game with a regular season-like rotation, Bellarmine outscored Notre Dame’s bench 31-11.

Notre Dame does need to improve its offense heading into the regular season, but its defense did enough to secure the win Friday. They were not challenged in their first exhibition game against Capital, but Bellarmine challenged them with a quick pace and energetic defense. That will be important heading into their first regular season game, which promises to be a tough matchup on the road versus No. 9 North Carolina.

Head coach Mike Brey moved to 60-0 all time in exhibition games with the Irish.

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interference.

The Irish would have another chance just under three minutes into the second period, and this time the puck found the back of the net to put the Irish on the board.

It was senior for ward Mike O’Lear y who gave the Irish a 1-0 lead as he put a rebound past Moe. The goal marked O’Lear y’s fifth on the season, and with it, he extended his point streak to five games.

In his last 24 games, O’Lear y has tallied 28 points.

The action picked up in the second period, as Moe was forced to make fourteen saves and Morris tallied eight, but O’Lear y’s goal would be the only one of the period, and the Irish would head into the intermission with a 1-0 lead.

Sophomore for ward Nathan Burke of Minnesota answered the Irish lead early on in the third, but Irish freshman for ward Trevor Janicke would come right back to hand the Irish the lead once more only 25 seconds after Minnesota struck.

It was Janicke’s second goal on the year. But after Janicke’s goal, things stayed hot as Scott Reedy tied the game once again only 18 seconds after the freshman struck for the Irish. After a 43 second span with three total goals, the period would

end with the contest tied at 2-2, which was fortunate for the Irish considering Morris’ clutch glove save with just over three minutes in the game to keep Notre Dame’s hope alive.

Neither team scored in the five-minute five-on-five overtime, officially making the game a tie. In the second, three-on-three overtime, Minnesota managed to score with under two minutes left, which officially handed them the extra point in the Big Ten standings.

On Saturday night, the Irish bounced back from their tie performance to earn a respectable 5-3 win over the Gophers.

Nearly half way through the first period, the Gophers managed to get on the board as junior for ward Brannon McManus scored on a pass from sophomore for ward Sampo Ranta on a 2-on-1 chance. Nearly four minutes later, freshman for ward Jack Perbix added to the first-period lead for Minnesota, and the Gophers headed into the locker room after the first with a 2-0 advantage.

But, as they often have under head coach Jeff Jackson in the past few years, the Irish bounced back early on in the second period. On a power play chance, sophomore defenseman Nick Leivermann slotted one low past Moe after the assists from sophomore for wards Alex Steeves and Graham Slaggert. It was

Leivermann’s first goal of the season.

Later on in the second, sophomore defenseman Spencer Stastney squared the contest at 2-2 on a wrist shot high after senior captain for ward Cal Burke and senior for ward Cam Morrison forced Moe to make consecutive saves.

Sophomore for ward Garrett Wait, however, gave the Gophers the lead once again just 42 seconds later on a low wrist shot.

Nevertheless, Leivermann soon struck again from the slot on a pass from Janicke, and the Irish tied the contest once more.

The Irish went on to seal the contest in the final period of play. Just over a minute into the period, sophomore defenseman Charlie Raith handed the Irish a one-goal lead on the pass from junior defenseman Matt Hellickson.

The Irish hung on to the lead for the remainder of the period, and Janicke sealed the contest on an empty-net goal in the final minute of play to hand the Irish a 5-3 lead. in the contest, Janicke extended his point streak to three games, and Morrison tallied his 14th career multipoint game.

Leivermann, who is originally from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, commented on his performance and how it felt to play on the road against Minnesota after the game.

“Both goals I had were plays helped out by other players, but it is fun to play here,” he said. “To come in and see the way [Raith] played the last six games, lights out, has been great.

It was awesome to see him score his first goal.”

The Irish will take on No. 13

Irish sophomore forward Alex Steeves skates down the ice during Notre Dame’s 1-0 home win over Michigan State on March 9.

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With just under twelve minutes to go in the half, junior defender Emily Fox delivered North Carolina’s lone shot on goal of the half, but Littman came up with the save. North Carolina earned two more corner kicks in the final few minutes of the half, but neither produced an on-target look and the game went to halftime scoreless.

The second half opened with more of the same, as the Tar Heels dominated in possession, but unlike in the opening 45 minutes, North Carolina quickly generated a strong chance and capitalized.

Tar Heels sophomore midfielder Brianna Pinto had her shot blocked by a Notre Dame defender in the first few minutes, but just minutes later, North Carolina would strike, as Pinto touched the ball to Fox,

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but they had already done that and shown the resolve,” Kelly said. “So it was just a matter of telling them, ‘Let’s do the same thing. You know that you’re going to see this drive again.

You’re going to get a lot of drop eight. You’re going to get pressure here and there.’ So it was just kind of confirming what they had already done, and

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who dished it junior defender Lotte Wubben-Moy; WubbenMoy’s strike from distance eluded Littman and gave the Tar Heels the early advantage.

Already struggling to create chances, Notre Dame’s deficit loomed large. They managed a corner kick and shot that was saved by Dickey.

Soon after, the Tar Heels doubled the lead. Freshman defender Maycee Bell flicked a corner kick into the box, and redshirt senior forward Ru Mucherera finished for a 2-0 advantage.

The Irish continued to struggle offensively, and the Tar Heels would eventually ice the game, as Wubben-Moy earned a penalty kick in the 85th minute and calmly put it away to deliver North Carolina to the ACC semifinals. The Irish dropped to 10-7-2 overall and 4-4-2 in conference play and will wait to see if their resume can earn an at-large NCAA Tournament bid, which will be announced Monday afternoon.

Irish junior midfielder Sammi Fisher dribbles with the ball during Notre Dame’s 3-2 loss against Iowa on Sept. 15 at Alumni Stadium. Fisher leads the team with six goals and 16 points this season.

[they] felt like they could do that again. And that’s essentially what they were able to put together on that last drive.”

A big part of that drive was senior wide receiver Chase Claypool, and Kelly took the time to comment on his development.

“He’s in a different role, obviously. He was much more complimentary in a sense and that he’s a go-to guy, and a go-to guy’s got to make big plays in a big situation. So fourth-and-10,

we’re going to call your number you got to make a big play,” he said. “I think he’s still the same guy. Obviously, he’s bigger, stronger, faster. He’s had another year to develop. But I just think that that tension for wanting the ball and not being afraid of the big moments.

I think that’s probably the biggest change from one year to the next.”

Despite that offensive success, Kelly did mention that the offensive unit needs to make

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more big plays at skill positions, especially in one-on-one situations. “[Junior running back] Jafar [Armstrong] is certainly a guy that is just coming back from an injury. I think what he feels more comfortable doing right now is using his size and running somebody over. But there’s no question that yards after the catch are also the ability to make people miss,” he said. “We’ve got to earn everything. It doesn’t come easy.

We’ve got to scratch and claw, and that’s why we can’t miss open receivers or miss some easy opportunities. We’ve got to take advantage of those, because we’re putting it together, certainly, but it doesn’t come easy, and we’ve got to continue to develop and continue to recruit and continue to put our kids in good position.”

Kelly, on his defensive unit, said that although it can be hard to get pure sacks in college football, the defense has done a good job of pressuring quarterbacks and keeping them out of a rhythm.

“Well, [in] college football, as you know, [it] is very difficult to get sacks — pure sacks — because the ball comes out so quickly. I think we’ve been really good at forcing quarterbacks to get out of rhythm or simply get the ball out of the hand quicker than they want to,” Kelly said. “Sacks, from one perspective, sometimes come from a lot of different players.

They could come from secondary players, linebackers, not necessarily your defensive line.

But I think what our defensive line has done really well is forced the ball out of the quarterback’s hand or put them in a position where the ball has had to come out quicker than they wanted to.”

Kelly also commented specifically on Ruhland, who was advised by the medical staff to not play the rest of the season but

decided to continue playing.

“I think the medical people were just giving him all of their best advice as to where he was physically and whether he could take the pounding in the weight room, all the running that you need to do through the summer. They couldn’t modify him that much or he wouldn’t be ready to play. He said, ‘I think I can handle it. I want to do it. I want to be with my teammates. I want to make my senior year one where I’m not inactive. I want to be active,’” Kelly said. “This is a conscious choice on his part, even after medical intervention — in a sense that this may not be the best decision for him down the road — but he wanted to do it and he’s taking care of himself.

He’s kept himself ready, and, consequently, he’s able to step in at a critical time when we need him and come through for us. So, good for him. All the credit to him for getting himself ready mentally and physically.”

Overall, Kelly said the physicality his team showed was good, but the squad will need to execute better going forward.

“I think it was pretty good.

We would have liked to have done some things a little better along the perimeter. I don’t know if we executed at the level that we’re pleased with at this time. We need to execute better,” Kelly said. “That’s not just the offensive line. Tight end and wide receiver blocking was not where it needs to be. We’ve got to really do a good job this week in making sure we know who to block and how to block them. We came out of that feeling pretty good about the five guys and where we’re going from here.”

The Irish will head to Durham, North Carolina, to take on Duke this Saturday.

Contact Connor Mulvena at cmulvena@nd.edu

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ND loses to UNC in ACC Tourney Observer Sports Staff

The eighth-seeded Irish came into Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for the ACC Tournament quarterfinals needing a stellar defensive effort and an opportunistic offense to earn the upset. For the first half, Notre Dame followed the blueprint, possessing the ball minimally but gifting the Tar Heels very few chances. But after the break, the top-seeded home team came out firing on all cylinders, finishing off three opportunities to end the Irish upset bid.

North Carolina, ranked third in the country, outshot the Irish 15-4, including seven on-goal efforts. Senior keeper Brooke Littman had four saves to keep the Irish close, but a lack of offensive opportunities doomed Notre Dame. Midfielders junior Sammi Fisher and graduate student Shannon Hendricks gave the Irish their only on-target shots, but Tar Heels sophomore keeper Claudia Dickey saved

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both to preserve the shutout.

The first half was largely dominated by the Tar Heels, but the hosts struggled to put shots on frame to challenge Littman, partly because the Irish started five defenders.

North Carolina earned two corner kicks in the first 11 minutes; they won headers off of both set pieces but directed their efforts just off-frame, with one sailing over the crossbar and the other sliding just outside the left post.

Shortly after the second corner kick, Notre Dame would generate their best chance of the half, but Sammi Fisher’s effort was denied by Dickey.

The Tar Heels came storming back, but junior forward Alessia Russo’s blast rocketed over the crossbar. After the early flurry of chances, the game settled into a midfield slog, with the Tar Heels largely keeping possession but unable to create quality chances. see W SOCCER PAGE 11

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Irish junior Colin Theisen looks down the ice during Notre Dame’s 5-2 victory over Michigan on Feb. 13 at Compton Family Ice Arena.

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The Notre Dame men’s basketball team escaped with a narrow 61-51 victory over Bellarmine University in their second exhibition game Friday night at Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center.

Senior forward John Mooney, who finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds, and sophomore guard Prentiss Hubb, who had 18 points and 8 assists, led the Irish.

Bellarmine is consistently ranked as one of the best Division II teams in the country, and next season they will officially make the transition to Division I. For now, though, they have proven they can compete with the nation’s toughest opponents. Before pushing Notre Dame to the brink, they nearly beat No. 5 Louisville in another exhibition last week.

Notre Dame started the game with a 7-0 run, capped with a three-pointer from graduate student guard Rex Pflueger.

Pflueger, one of the Irish’s leading scorers two years ago, missed

The No. 4 Irish opened Big Ten play with a 2-2 tie Friday night against Minnesota on the road. They continued their undefeated start with a 5-3 win Sunday.

Despite power play opportunities for both squads, along with several shot chances, the contest opened with a scoreless first period.

Each goaltender, freshman Jared Moe for the Gophers (3-4-1, 0-1-1 Big Ten) and senior Cale Morris for the Irish (5-0-1, 1-0-1 Big Ten), tallied six saves in the first period of play as well. For Notre Dame, things looked promising early on as sophomore defenseman Nate Clurman appeared to have slotted one several minutes into the game.

However, after an official review, the goal was reversed on account of goaltender

Kelly discusses offense, injuries

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Irish senior forward John Mooney backs up a defender during Notre Dame’s 64-62 loss to Clemson on March 6 at home.

Following No. 15 Notre Dame’s 21-20 victory over Virginia Tech at home on Saturday, Irish (6-2) head coach Brian Kelly addressed the media in his weekly Sunday teleconference to recap the game.

Kelly addressed the injury sustained by junior right tackle Robert Hainsey during the victory, saying that Hainsey will have surgery Thursday. He also spoke about the injured sophomore linebacker Jack Lamb and senior running back Tony Jones Jr. “Hainsey, he’ll have surgery on Thursday. The only other injury that we have is Jack Lamb. He’s got kind of a hip injury. We’re going to get a further evaluation on it. It’s non-surgical. But he will be out this week.

And then we’re going to have further information on that after we have a specialist look at him,” Kelly said.

“I think we should have Tony Jones back and up and going,” Kelly said. “He was close and he

probably could have done some things for us, but he’ll be full-go for this week. And for the offensive line, we thought that [junior Josh] Lugg and [graduate student Trevor] Ruhland played well, especially Josh coming in and seeing his first extended time. So we were happy for both those guys that they got in there and were able to impact and compete and gain some confidence.”

Kelly went on to commend his offensive unit for putting together a scoring drive in the final minutes of the game to lift the Irish above the Hokies and secure the victory.

“First of all, what did we see from our guys? Well, they knew that they needed to make a play on this last drive, but they had just driven the football from a tough situation when we started on the one-yard line and moved the ball all the way down the field, and then we got a very interesting call on the one-yard line for cutting a blitzing linebacker [and] that backs us up, see KELLY PAGE 11

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an 80-year-old, they say, but I couldn’t give up.”

He also stated a list of all the injuries he’s dealt with over the years, and it seemed to never end.

He’s known to live in the training facility by players and coaches alike. The list included: three left knee surgeries, a broken elbow, two torn pectoral muscles, a torn labrum, a torn shoulder, a broken ankle and a broken nose.

When asked why he’s still playing, Ruhland’s face lit up as he described how grateful he is to be a part of a locker room filled with the “best people in the world.”

Head coach Brian Kelly had some kind words about Ruhland after the game.

“Trevor Ruhland could have easily taken a pass on this, and said, ‘I’m out,’” Kelly said. “But he loves his teammates, he loves playing for Notre Dame. … We thought he was going to be a medical redshirt, quite frankly.

We thought that there was no way. If you ask our training staff — I don’t think I’m putting any words in their mouths — they didn’t think that he was going to make it through the summer.

But he wanted to play in his senior year; it was important to him, and so it’s great to see him have some success.”

If there was any worry about the state of the offensive line heading into the matchup with the Hokies, matters were only made worse after junior captain Robert Hainsey went down due to injury in the first quarter.

Hainsey has a fractured left ankle and will be sidelined for some time.

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limited the damage to only three points after kicker Brian Johnson split the uprights from 25 yards to take a six-point lead. Despite a near scare on the kickoff that almost resulted in a safety, Notre Dame ran 12 plays to get into the red zone where penalty trouble struck the Irish again. Notre Dame had to settle for a field goal, however, the 35-yard attempt from Doerer missed wide right.

Even with the missed field goal, Irish senior cornerback Troy Pride Jr. was extremely confident that the defensive unit could keep the game at one score and keep the hopes of an Irish victory alive.

“I trust each and every one of my brothers. That’s what it is, that trust. We trusted that we could get it done. We’re going to get the ball back to the offense. We’re going to score and then we’re going to stop them again,” Pride Jr. said.

“That was our mindset the whole time. It was never wavering.

Never a shadow of a doubt. It was really just us playing our game, playing like we play.”

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as the leadership of the team.

Effectively, the team played the rest of the game with one entirely new side of the offensive line made up of Ruhland and junior lineman Josh Lugg.

Speaking on Lugg’s performance, Ruhland had high praise for the Wexford, Penn., native.

“I can’t say enough about Josh Lugg,” Ruhland said. “I’ve been in his situation, and the hardest position to be in is the next guy in, because you have to prepare like a starter. One guy gets hurt, I’m in, and the next guy gets hurt, and he’s in, and he did a fantastic job. He showed so much grit; he’s such a warrior, and I can’t give him enough credit for how he stepped in and played.”

Kmet also emphasized the effectiveness of Lugg and Ruhland.

“They work so hard in practice every day,” Kmet said. “They’re with the ones all the time in terms of film room and all of that stuff, and they didn’t miss a beat.

They stepped right in, they were comfortable; I was making calls with Josh just like I would with Rob, so they do a good job of just coming to practice every day and that really shows when it’s their time to step in.”

Ruhland’s positivity also brings up the morale of the entire team, Kmet said. “[Ruhland’s] always in the training room, so you always know where to find him because he’s always getting healed up,” Kmet said. “But he is just a good positive guy to have who always keeps our spirits up. He’s been a great leader for that offensive line group and the rest of the offense.”

The Irish offensive line only gave up one sack throughout the entire game, and there were many moments in which senior quarterback Ian Book had a clean pocket to make a pass. This

next-man-up mentality is something Kelly said he drills into his player’s minds.

Aside from the offensive line unit, senior wide receiver Chase Claypool deserves as much credit as anybody after his performance. It could be argued Claypool is the man who put the Irish in the position to win in the first place.

Claypool finished the contest with eight catches for 118 total yards, two of which came in crucial moments on the final gamewinning drive (one of which was a game-saving toe-drag catch on the sideline on a fourth down and 10).

“Great players make plays during times when you need them the most, and he showed himself as a great player because of the time and the circumstances,” Kelly said of Claypool. “He’s got such a high competitive nature to him that he always wants the football, and I kind of like that.”

Kmet also spoke about how helpful it is to have a receiver like Claypool on offense.

“Chase was the dude on the [last] drive — he was just demanding the ball, and Ian was putting it where Chase could get it, and Chase was making those plays,” Kmet said. “There’s definitely a good feeling when you’re out there with him. It’s kind of nice knowing that he’s bringing some attention as well too, so he’s a good guy to have out there.”

When his team needed him the most, Claypool was there to answer the call, as he has been so many times before. Claypool is an “awesome” player, Book said.

“He works hard every day and he’s a leader on our offense,” Book said. “He makes my job easier so I can’t thank him enough.”

downs to force the Hokies to punt and give the ball back to the Irish for a game-winning drive.

Starting at their own 13 with 3:32 left in the game, Notre Dame struggled to get the ball moving, eventually needing to convert on a major fourth down in order to keep the Irish in the ballgame.

Book connected with Armstrong to help give them a fresh set of downs. But just 10 plays later, the Irish again needed to convert on fourth down and did so when Book found senior wide receiver Chase Claypool, who just managed to get a foot down for a 26-yard gain to the Virginia Tech seven-yard line. From there, Book wasted no time finding the end zone two plays later on a designed quarterback run to tie the game up at 20. Doerer would convert on the extra point to give the Irish the lead late, but not without a heroic hold from freshman punter Jay Bramblett. Bramblett corralled a low snap and get the ball up just in time so Doerer could kick the ball through.

Book credits the time spent in practice and the trust amongst the team that helped power the game-winning drive.

“We practice that every week.

We do two-minute drills and we

got another minute and 10 seconds,” Book said. “We knew we could go down there and do it and really put up points on this drive. It was really just the trust in each other. I thought O-line did a great job, receivers did unbelievable and I thought the play calling was awesome too.”

Despite the window closing on the chance for another appearance in the college football playoffs, the Irish found a way to dig out a gritty win that can serve as a positive point for the remainder of the season.

“I think we can build off this.

I think Ian Book can have great things happen for him. He was back to throwing the football with much more authority,” Kelly said. “Defensively the ability to stop the run today was absolutely crucial. That was the game plan and they did a very good job of controlling the line of scrimmage.”

The Irish will need to maintain their confidence and progress forward as they travel to North Carolina to take on the 4-4, 2-3 ACC Duke Blue Devils in a night time matchup next Saturday.

Contact Grant DelVecchio at gdelvecc@nd.edu

Contact Dominic Gibson at dgibson@hcc-nd.edu

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1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Total

7 7

7 7

3 0

3 7

20 21

notre dame 7, virginia tech 0

Cole Kmet 8-yard pass from Ian Book (Jonathan Doerer kick)

9:10

remaining Drive: Eight plays, 28 yards, 2:56 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 7, virginia tech 7

Damon Hazelton 8-yard pass from Quincy Patterson II (Brian Johnson kick)

1:15

remaining Drive: Eight plays, 45 yards, 2:27 elapsed

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notre dame 14, virginia tech 7

Tommy Tremble 4-yard pass from Book (Doerer kick)

11:45

remaining Drive: 11 plays, 77 yards, 4:30 elapsed

Notre dame 14, virginia tech 14

Divine Deablo 98-yard fumble return (Johnson kick)

0:09

remaining Drive: 10 plays, 40 yards, 4:00 elapsed

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virginia tech 17, notre dame 14 Johnson 44-yard field goal

11:00

remaining Drive: Seven plays, 49 yards, 4:00 elapsed

4

virginia tech 20, notre dame 14 Johnson 25-yard field goal

13:25

remaining Drive: 10 plays, 76 yards, 4:49 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 21, virginia tech 20 Ian Book 7-yard run (Doerer kick)

0:29

remaining Drive: 18 plays, 87 yards, 2:53 elapsed

statistics RUSHING yards 101 106

PASSING yards 139 336

total yards 220 442

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ALLISON THORNTON | The Observer

Irish junior tight end Cole Kmet is tackled next to sophomore tight end Tommy Tremble during Notre Dame’s 21-20 win over Virginia Tech on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium.

Kmet and Tremble both scored receiving touchdowns in the first half, Kmet with his team-best fifth of the season and Tremble with his third. Kmet had four catches for 28 yards.

driving to win it

After almost two quarters of limited offense on both sides, Notre Dame was three yards from heading to halftime with a 21-7 lead. Jafar Armstrong fumbled, however, and the Hokies returned it for a touchdown. The Irish found themselves down by six with under four minutes to play, but Ian Book led a drive downfield that culminated in a game-winning touchdown.

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Quarterback Ian Book prepares to hand the ball off during Notre Dame’s win against Virginia Tech.

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Irish graduate student cornerback Shaun Crawford dives for a tackle during Notre Dame’s 21-20 win over Virginia Tech on Saturday.

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Irish freshman punter Jay Bramblett punts the ball during the Notre Dame win Saturday at home.

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Irish senior wide receiver Chase Claypool changes directions to stay in bounds during Notre Dame’s 21-20 win against Virginia Tech at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. Claypool tallied eight receptions.