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Fisher to host annual regatta Hall members look to draw large crowd Saturday with spring signature event

By CATE VON DOHLEN News Writer

Students, alumni and friends of Notre Dame will gather at St. Mary’s Lake at 1 p.m. for the annual Fisher Regatta. The dorm will provide free food and music for its signature even, which invites residence halls and campus organizations to participate in a boat race.

This year, funds will go toward St. Adalbert Catholic School in South Bend, junior Frank Dijak, the event’s commissioner, said.

“This year, [the raised funds are] for air conditioning in the junior high,” Dijak said.

Previous fundraising had

gone toward a new gym f loor, AC units, new concrete slabs and a new check-in area at the school, senior Dan Blackburn said.

While most funds come from t-shirt sales, in addition to the small fee to enter a boat, Dijak said a few independent fundraisers on Eddy Street this semester and proceeds from Fisher Hall’s fall signature event, the car smash, will also be donated to St. Adalbert.

Sophomore Owen Donnelly said the hall purposefully chose to hold the Regatta before finals.

“Having the Regatta at the see REGATTA PAGE 4

Symposium to recall Rwandan Genocide

By JOE ANDREWS News Writer

Notre Dame’s Law School is hosting a symposium this Friday and Saturday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, a 100-day period where an estimated 800,000 innocent Rwandans were slaughtered by their fellow citizens over ethnic differences.

Genocide survivor Immaculee Mukantaganira, the symposium’s organizer, said she arranges events like this one at Notre Dame to ensure the memory of those lost in the genocide are not forgotten.

“I think there is a reason for me to surviving. It’s not for myself, but it’s to tell the world that there were 1 million people who were killed that were innocent,” Mukantaganira said. “I wasn’t prayerful like my brother. I didn’t do good things to people [like] my brother. So why did I survive,

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not him? So I was like, ‘Maybe God knew that I would do this.’ … I think these people deserve justice, and the justice for them is for me and for other survivors to talk about them, to tell the world, and to be instruments of peace.”

Throughout most of Mukantaganira’s childhood, Rwanda’s three ethnic groups — the Hutus, the Tutsis and the Twa — coexisted relatively peacefully. This all changed, however, when colonists began moving into the country and placing labels on the ethnic minorities.

Any illusion of peace that persisted was shattered April 6, 1994 when a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu men, was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali. Hours later, the mass slaughter of Tutsis began.

During the genocide, see SYMPOSIUM PAGE 4

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Morris Inn to upgrade Observer Staff Report

Photo courtesy of Frank Dijak

One of Fisher Hall’s boats competes in their namesake’s regatta on St. Mary’s Lake last year to benefit St. Adalbert Catholic School.

The Morris Inn will undergo five months of dining renovations beginning in November, the University announced in a press release Thursday.

Rohr’s restaurant will receive a number of expansions, including a new bar, “increased intimate seating for small groups” and an “elevated focus on food and beverage offerings,” the release said. see RENOVATIONS PAGE 3

Storm the Stadium to benefit military students

By SERENA ZACHARIAS Associate News Editor

Notre Dame’s Office of Military and Veterans Affairs will host its second Storm the Stadium event Saturday to benefit the University’s military men and women with a day of stair climbing and other festivities on the field.

Regan Jones, director of Military and Veteran Affairs,

said the proceeds will benefit Notre Dame’s militaryconnected students — a term used to describe those on active duty, service veterans, ROTC students and their families.

“The purpose of the event is to honor the men and women that bravely serve our nation in uniform, to engage the community in a family fun event, and then the money raised will

support the military and veteran students on campus, the veterans fund, and it goes towards scholarships, fellowships, for those students,” he said.

Designing the event for those interested in a fitness challenge and people who just want to spend time with their community, Jones said they worked to make the see STADIUM PAGE 4

Tri-campus marches for sexual assault survivors

By EMMA AULT News Writer

Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross came together Thursday evening to participate in the Take Back the Night march in support of sexual assault survivors.

Senior Meredith Mackowicz, who took the lead

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in organizing the event, said a number of different groups on each of the three campuses were involved in the march’s success.

“Holy Cross — it was their dean of students a nd a couple of their interns.

Notre Dame — it was the [Gender Relations Center] with the director John Johnston and a few of his

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interns, and then Saint Mary’s [Belles Against Violence Office], specifically the Events and Campaigns committee put on the event,” Mackowicz said.

Mackowicz stressed the importance of supporting sexual assault survivors especially in universities. see MARCH PAGE 4

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“Storm the Stadium” Notre Dame Stadium 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

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Tri-campus to serve South Bend

By RYAN KOLAKOWSKI News Writer

Over 300 Domers are preparing to spend a day breaking out of the Notre Dame bubble.

On Saturday, students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross College will serve in 17 volunteer sites across South Bend.

Back the Bend, an effort between student government and South Bend community partners, will allow students to get away from their college campuses and engage with the surrounding South Bend community.

The tri-campus community, along with volunteers from other local colleges, will devote four hours on Saturday to planting trees, spreading mulch, painting murals and completing several other projects across South Bend. Aaron Benavides, sophomore and the director of faith and service for student government, said the service day allows students to bridge Notre Dame to the surrounding South Bend neighborhoods.

Editor’s Note: Benavides is a former News Writer for The Observer.

“One of the really unique missions that Back the Bend has had since the beginning has been the whole idea of connecting students with the South Bend community,” Benavides said. “Oftentimes, we feel like we live within these walls at Notre Dame. We never really get out of our bubble.”

Benavides said over 315 volunteers have already signed up for Back the Bend, and he expects over 350 students to participate in the service projects.

Fritz Schemel, the director of community outreach and engagement for Notre Dame Student Government, said he is excited for his second outing with Back the Bend. Last April, Schemel participated in the “Keep the Lead Away” project, an effort to spread mulch and prevent lead exposure at homes in the Near Northwest Neighborhood of South Bend.

This year, Schemel is leading a group of students from Dunne Hall in the same project.

“Something that I find really cool about it is, yes, it’s really great that students are going into the community to engage with these community partners, but I’ve also noticed that dorms or different clubs will come together for service projects,” Schemel said.

Other projects include planting trees at Fremont Park and painting murals at the Robinson Community Learning Center.

Andy Kostielney, the assistant manager at the Robinson Center, said he has worked to foster the relationship between the Robinson Center and student volunteers.

“One of the things we do in the community is we’re a bridge between the University and the Northeast Neighborhood,” Kostielney said. “It’s great to see students go out and get to see parts of South Bend that they might

not have seen before.”

To plan 17 volunteer projects, Benavides and Schemel worked with several community partners across South Bend. The student government representatives met with their partners on Friday mornings at the Robinson Center.

“I hadn’t heard a lot about these other community partners before, and so getting to interact with them and getting exposed to them and learning about their missions has been really informative for me, and I hope students will be able to get that out of Back the Bend as well,” Benavides said.

The day of service begins with registration at 9 a.m. at Irish Green, across from Eddy Street. Student volunteers work at their volunteer sites from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Following the day of service, volunteers will gather at the Robinson Center for a picnic.

“People might do service at the Robinson Center or the Center for the Homeless or go work at one of the hospitals, but this is a cool opportunity for people that don’t really have the time to volunteer multiple times a week off campus,” Schemel said. “It provides a platform for people to get involved who haven’t gotten involved in the past.”

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Lecturer discusses violence against women

By KATHLEEN MEYER News Writer

Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid spoke regarding the current crisis of feminicide in Latin America as a part of the 34th annual Madaleva Lecture series Thursday in Carroll Auditorium.

Madrid, the T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, defined feminicide as the systematic assassination of women because of their gender.

“While there are diverse forms of violence against women — rape, domestic violence, gender mutilation, sex trafficking and many others — I focus on feminicide because it remains the most serious and extreme form of violence against women,” she said.

Madrid said feminicide is tragically escalating around the globe.

In Latin America, the issue of feminicide is on the rise.

“We live in a time of distressing paradox,” she said. “On the one hand, women in large numbers and around the globe have stepped into significant positions of public leadership. On the other hand, women are being brutally assassinated in increasing numbers in our time.”

The most widely studied feminicide takes place in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Madrid said.

“Feminicides are also ongoing in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia and Argentina among many, many other countries,” she said. “These feminicides demand the attention of Christology today.”

Only by remembering the victims as part of Christ’s body, Madrid

said, can hope in salvation be plausible.

“If we do not recognize feminicide as a contemporary crucifixion and if we do not recognize our need for a message and vision that impels us to see that all humanity is essentially interconnected, then we render our belief in a God who saves limp and irrelevant,” she said. “The ongoing crucifixion of many women and girls represents a grossly misformed social imagination.”

Feminicide identifies the most extreme form of gender-based violence against women, she said, which is also a form of sexual violence against women.

“On the one hand, some scholars have used the term femicide,” Madrid said. “Femicide is synonymous with homicide, except that it refers to the killing of women exclusively. Like homicide, it can be used

to refer to one murder.”

However, feminicide is a term that is growing in scholars’ discourse, Madrid said.

“Feminicide has become the preferred term of use by an increasing number of scholars and activists, including myself,” Madrid said. “It refers to the brutal killing of women by men, a large number of assassinations and feminicide also refers to a system of impunity for the perpetrator or perpetrators.”

Pineda-Madrid said that when the character of a society deteriorates resulting in the violation of women’s health, wellbeing and freedom, then these violations contribute to the assumption that women are usable, abusable, dispensable and disposable.

“Over time, this contributes to a climate in which feminicide can erupt and develop,” she said.

Madrid said the eruption of feminicide makes clear the need for a more gripping vision of human oneness.

Pineda-Madrid said activists draw attention to this vision by using pink crosses as a symbol of protest against feminicide.

“At the most basic level, the protestors of feminicide link female humanity to the cross and crucifixion every time they paint a victim’s name on the crossbar and every time they organize marches on days that recognize female humanity,” she said. “When protestors denounce feminicide in their public practices, they subordinate evil. Their protests represent a radical fidelity to God’s name in our time.”

Contact Kathleen Meyer at kmeyer02@saintmarys.edu

Dillon Hall to host annual Opening Day event

By JESSICA REEG News Writer

The men of Dillon Hall said they are prepared to put Major League Baseball player Bryce Harper to shame Friday at the annual Opening Day celebration. The nine sections of Dillon will compete in a wiffle ball tournament and home run derby from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the grass between Dillon and South Dining Hall.

Sophomore and incoming hall president Curt Gouldin said he

expects a large turnout for this year’s event.

“Last year, close to 200 people came out,” Gouldin said. “There’s always a great turnout from within Dillon, but last year we had a bunch of people from all over campus come.”

Gouldin also said food and activities will be available for students who are not competing in the tournament but still want to come celebrate the day’s festivities.

“We have a band, a mechanical bull, a ton of food, high strikers, pop

shot, Jenga, corn hole, Spikeball and can jam,” Gouldin said. “We’ll have burgers, hotdogs and chips, too. All of this stuff is for all of campus to enjoy.”

Opening Day commissioners and sophomores Mark Adamo and Ryan Vazza organized the various activities and worked to promote awareness for the event across campus.

“We made a public Facebook invitation this year to try to be more inclusive,” Adamo said. “We’ve had around 200 respond that they’re

coming, and 200 more put down that they’re interested in coming, so we expect a good turnout.”

Vazza said they have also included an exciting new addition to this year’s event: live music.

“We got the chance to add a great band this year, the Basement Boxers,” Vazza said. “Our goal is to make this event bigger and bigger each year and eventually use it to raise money for a charity we support. But, as of right now, we’re just giving out free food with music and activities hoping everybody will

come.”

The residents of Dillon Hall encourage everyone on campus to join the Opening Day celebration, freshman and incoming hall vice president Shane O’Brien said.

“It’s a great time with great people enjoying America’s favorite past-time,” O’Brien said. “Good weather, good food, good-looking guys — there’s really no reason not to come.”

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and social environment, with a focus on service and fresh and modern food,” Joe Kurth, senior director of the Morris Inn, said in the release.

According to the release, the updated restaurant will combine the dining space of both Rohr’s and Sorin’s and is set to open next spring.

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Mukantaganira spent months f leeing the Hutus with her husband and newborn son.

She and her husband were separated while hiding out in a house with other Tutsis when Hutu militia arrived.

The Hutu militia put Mukantaganira, her family, and all the other Tutsis in a line, recorded each of their names, and marched them into a nearby forest littered with the corpses of dead Tutsis and scored by the voracious barks of hungry dogs.

One by one, the Tutsis were taken from the line and brutally murdered by the Hutus, who used only blunted machetes in the attacks.

When it was

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event accessible for a ll ages.

Pa r t icipa nts ca n choose f rom t hree dif ferent course opt ions, a v ir tua l climb a nd a fa mi ly-f un zone on t he f ield. The long course w ill move t hrough each of t he Stadium’s 72 sect ions w it h 36 in t he lower bowl a nd 36 in t he upper bowl, a mounting to just under 3,600 steps. For t hose look ing to sta ir-climb for a shor ter period of t ime, t he pat h of t he

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“College campuses like ours started this movement as a sta nce aga inst t he unfor tunately high rates of sex ua l assau lt during t he college yea rs, ra ising awa reness about sex ua l v iolence, domest ic v iolence, a nd relat ionship v iolence, assau lt, a nd sta l k ing,” Mackow icz sa id.

Ta ke Back t he Night is more t ha n just a ma rch, Mackow icz sa id.

“Tonight we ma rch toget her in solida rit y so t hat we ca n ta ke back t he night a nd recla im our ca mpuses,” Mackow icz sa id.

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end of the year is nice, because ever yone looks forward to it the entire year [and it’s] the culmination of all the year’s events, and by that point, ever yone’s already great friends, so you can really enjoy it together,” Donnelly said.

For the men of Fisher, the Regatta is rooted in tradition, and they rally together in preparation for the event,

Mukantaganira’s husband’s turn in line, he decided to handle his fate using a different approach.

“I saw my husband running ’cause he had told me, ‘No one will kill me with a machete.

I’d prefer that they shot me,’” Mukantaganira said.

He ran from the line, and Mukantaganira said she hoped dearly he would be able to make it to neighboring Burundi.

However, she would never be reunited with her husband, who she later discovered had been slaughtered in that very same forest.

Having survived these experiences, Mukantaganira said she acknowledges the importance of education in preventing genocide.

“I have talked to people who didn’t even know what is

a genocide,” she said. “And for me, that scares me, because I never knew my country would get to a genocide until it happened to me. … When you are on this campus, if you want peace, get education. Get education. I will say and say again many times, get education so that you can use your critical thinking when you have to make some decisions.”

The symposium, organized in conjunction with the Rwandan American Community of the Midwest and the Peace Center for Forgiveness and Reconciliation, will feature a range of genocide authors, scholars and survivors collectively working to educate the public on the atrocities of genocide and ways in which societies can better equip

themselves to battle these injustices.

Kizito Kalima, executive director of the Peace Center for Forgiveness & Reconciliation and fellow survivor of the genocide himself, echoed the same sentiment of using this blemish on history to better the world for future generations.

“If you don’t talk about it, we will forget about it,” Kalima said. “That’s how you prevent for the future massacres and teach people. People have to learn from our mistakes. … There’s no one else who came and killed us. We killed each other. So our goal is to teach the whole world to make sure that it doesn’t happen anywhere else.”

In promoting this mission, Kalima has made it his full-time commitment to

ensure these lessons from the Rwandan genocide are heard by as many people as possible.

“I do this 24/7,” Kalima said.

“That’s my full-time [job]. I used to work in the government, but for the last four years, I realized that genocide awareness has to be taught . ..because the genocide deniers, they’re 24/7 working trying to erase or delete all the memories.”

The symposium commemorating the genocide commence 8:30 a.m. Friday morning in McKenna Hall, with an exhibition also on site for two days helping visitors visualize the atrocities. The event is free and open to the public.

shor t course w ill stay in t he upper bowl of t he stadium.

Addit iona lly, a stadium wa lk w ill ta ke place for people interested in wa lk ing on a late course bet ween t he lower a nd upper bowls.

“We wa nted t he oppor tunit y to cha llenge people to be able to do a ll t he steps, but we a lso wa nted to ma ke it accessible for folks who a ren’t interested in in t he steps,” Jones sa id.

The Of f ice of Milita r y a nd Vetera ns A f fa irs held Storm t he Stadium for t he f irst t ime Ju ly 4 last summer,

but Jones sa id t hey decided to hold t he event while classes were st ill in session to encourage student involvement.

Former Nav y SEA L a nd current sophomore Bria n Duf f y sa id he attended t he event t his past summer w it h his w ife a nd daughter a nd completed t he long course.

“I t hought it was humbling seeing ever yone come out a nd suppor t t he milita r y,” Duf f y sa id.

He st ressed t he importa nce of prov iding f unds

a nd assista nce to vetera ns who have sacrif iced t heir sa fet y, t heir t ime away f rom t heir fa mi lies a nd t heir lives to our count r y.

“Their sacrif ices protect t he f reedoms ever yone living in t he United States enjoy,” Duf f y sa id.

Junior Sa mmie Esca mi l la, who works as a student intern for t he Of f ice of Vetera n a nd Mi lita r y A f fa irs, helped orga ni ze t he event a nd sa id she looks to Storm t he Stadium to ga rner suppor t for milita r y-connected students li ke her.

“A lot of people might not k now t hat I’m a mi lita r yconnected student,” she sa id. “My dad has been in t he Ma rine Cor ps for over 25 yea rs, a nd it’s not somet hing t hat comes up in ever yday conversat ion, so people might not k now t hat about me. But t his event is a g reat oppor tunit y for people to suppor t mi lita r y-connected students t hey k now a nd t hose who t hey don’t k now.”

bega n at Sa int Ma r y’s for Mackow icz a nd ot her pa rt icipat ing Belles a nd concluded at t he Grotto for a prayer v ig il. The evening featured a n event t it led “Spea k Out” in t he Da n ke Ba l lroom where attendees listened to t he stories of sex ua l assau lt sur v ivors as well as a ma rch across Not re Da me’s ca mpus “to ra ise awa reness about t he issue of sex ua l v iolence t hat a f fects us a ll so deeply,” Mackow icz sa id.

Due to t he sensit ive nature of t he event, resources for emot iona l suppor t were ava ilable t hroughout t he night, she sa id W hile t he ma rch commenced at La ke Ma ria n on t he College’s ca mpus, t he

t ri-ca mpus communit y ca me toget her to suppor t a ll t hose in attenda nce.

“Our t ri-ca mpus communit y recog ni zes t he importa nce of hav ing a sa fe place for sur v ivor’s to sha re t heir stories a nd a better government suppor t system,” Mackow icz sa id.

Sophomore Becca Wa rd, who attended t he event, sa id t he ma rch helped highlight women’s stories.

“I t hin k t his is just a n event t hat is impor ta nt for communit y building, k ind of t hat awa reness of people’s situat ions, because I k now t here were ot hers here who I k now, but I didn’t k now t heir stories,” Wa rd sa id.

Junior A nastasia Hite sa id

she was excited to see how t his ma rch w i l l impact attending fema les’ v iews t heir ident it ies as women a nd college students.

“I t hin k it’s rea l ly neat to be a woma n at Sa int Ma r y’s a nd pa r t icipate in a n event like t his because it’s k ind of like ta k ing back t he power a nd being able to just feel sa fe in t his space,” Hite sa id. “That ca n be k ind of ha rd, but it’s impor ta nt a nd just being able to do t hat in a g roup is rea l ly g reat.”

Mackow icz sa id t he event wou ld not have been possible w it hout ca mpus-w ide suppor t f rom ma ny dif ferent clubs a nd depa r t ments.

At t he end of t he evening, Mackow icz sa id she hoped t he dia log ue impacted

pa r t icipa nts a nd encouraged t hem to feel more comfor table discussed sensit ive topics li ke sex ua l assau lt.

“I t hin k if I cou ld have people wa l k away w it h one t hing, is t hat a lot of people t hey k now have stories, a nd a lot of t he t imes people t hey don’t k now have stories just li ke t heirs,” she sa id.

“I t hin k t he coolest t hing about tonight is how ma ny people got up a nd sa id, ‘This is t he f irst t ime I’ve sa id t his to,’ or ‘I never t hought I’d do t his, but.’ Just g iv ing people t hat conf idence to not just ex ists in a space li ke t hat, but to ex ist ever y where on ca mpus.”

Dijak said.

Freshmen often adopt “Regatta Hawks” for the event, Donnelly said, and some even shave the letter F into the back of their heads.

Blackburn said the upperclassmen hy pe the Regatta as early as Welcome Weekend to the incoming freshman, telling them it is ranked as one of ESPN’s top 100 studentrun college events.

“It’s never been disproven,” Donnelly said.

On the day of the race, the hall wakes up at 7 a.m., when

residents bang on doors with rowing oars. Two freshmen are chosen to drive a golf cart, coined the “Toro,” with a speaker and megaphone around campus.

“They go around campus telling people that it’s the day of the Regatta,” Dijak said.

Blackburn noted the diverse representation of student groups around campus who participate in the event.

“A lot of people have somebody that they can root for in the race, whether it’s their

dorm, friends they know in a club [or] an organization they are a part of,” Blackburn said.

“Ever ybody has something they can cheer for.”

Dijak said the Regatta effectively fosters both community and competition on campus.

“I think [the Regatta is] one of the few signature events that asks for participation from a lot of halls and gets participation from a lot of halls. The Keenan Rev ue is also a big event, but it really

doesn’t require anybody but Keenan to put it on,” Dijak said. “There are a lot of people who have tried to mimic the Regatta. … We have been pretty successful in getting usually around 20 halls to participate.”

Dijak encouraged students to come out the event and enjoy the day.

“Part of the Notre Dame experience is to go the Fisher Regatta,” Dijak said.

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By CARLOS De LOERA Scene Writer

Actor-comedian Ramy Youssef is a millennial. He is a Muslim. He is an American from the great state of New Jersey.

He is also the son of immigrants. Youssef’s new Hulu show, “Ramy,” explores what it means to be each of these things, how they all work together and how they seemingly conflict.

“Ramy” centers around the life of a fictionalized version of Youssef. Youssef grew up in a world where computers were always accessible and played an integral part in his formative years — he works at a failing startup and lives at home with this parents at the tender age of 27. It doesn’t get much more millennial than that. Youssef is American because he was born in the United States and lives in the US (The only real requirement to be considered American!) and, in most ways, embraces the larger American culture. Perhaps the most American thing about Youssef is that he is the son of immigrants — an Egyptian father and Palestinian mother.

The most unique and isolating aspect of Youssef is that he is a practicing Muslim. Though being Muslim is antithetical to the stereotypical agnostic/atheistic millennial, Youssef takes his faith seriously. The series goes to great lengths to show Youssef continuously turning down drinks at parties, how he intentionally stops all he is doing to go pray and the intentionality and necessity of his performance of wudu — an Islamic purification ritual performed prior to prayer.

However, the show-writers in no way try to represent Youssef

By MIKE DONOVAN Scene Editor

Stephen Dedalus, the young protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” approaches Sandymount (a long, skinny strip of beach in East Dublin) engulfed in a swirl of images — “Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs.” These visions — “Limits of the diaphane” — clog the young man’s mental pathways, holding his creative faculties hostage.

“Shut your eyes and see,” Dedalus tells himself.

So he continues, eyes shut, ears trained on the sound of his boots “crush crackling” over the sand and the shells — “crush, crack, crick, crick.” It’s not long before “Rhythm begins” — “Acatalectic tetrameter of iambs marching” — around which images coalesce, forming a song: “Won’t you come to Sandymount / Madeleine the mare.”

I’d imagine Grian Chatten, poet-singer of Dublin postpunk outfit Fontaines D.C., composes in much the same way (namely, in motion). That said, Chatten’s Dublin — a cashflooded tech and pharma outgrowth of the Celtic Tiger petri dish — bears little resemblance to its Joycean predecessor, and Chatten himself has little interest in beachside stroll. If “Dogrel,” his band’s debut LP is any indicator, Chatten composes at a dead sprint, drenched and screaming, “Dublin in the rain is mine!”

“Dogrel” is no James Joyce novel. It’s romance — beat poetry — thumping its drum-beaten “heart like a James Joyce novel,” but glowing the fresh-faced flesh of a generation raised on TV and economic prosperity, whose small existence in a “pregnant city with a Catholic mind” has grown out

as the “perfect” Muslim (whatever that would even mean).

On the contrary, a lot of the tension of the show comes from Youssef’s tendency to fall into what he views as vices — such as having premarital sex — and then him coming to terms with how he can earnestly reconcile parts of his life with his faith.

While much of the show is centered on the internal conflict of Ramy’s faith, the show also makes clear efforts to point out the external conflict that arises from being a Muslim in America. In the flashback episode, “Strawberries,” the viewer is taken back to 2001, where middle-school age Youssef finds himself the outsider of his friend group. While his friends at first poke fun at his prudishness, he is quickly made the outsider of his group for a different reason. Part way through the episode, the 9/11 attacks occur just a few miles away from Youssef’s New Jersey suburban community. While watching the news break in his classroom, Youssef receives a call on his “phone” (which is really just a walkie-talkie because his parents don’t trust him with a phone yet) from his parents in Arabic, which can be heard by his whole class.

Youssef feels particularly embarrassed and nervous about this because the newscast had just shown video footage of Osama bin Laden delivering messages to fellow terrorists through walkie-talkies in Arabic. The rest of the episode deals with how his family, like most Muslim families at the time, had to respond the suspicion that was thrust upon them. Youssef’s dad is compelled to hang an American flag on the front porch so as to prove his family’s American-ness.

Youssef is dared by his “friends” to do a disgusting act to prove to them that he is not a terrorist. At the end of this episode the young Youssef has a dream where he has a terrifying and humorous encounter with bin Laden in his New Jersey kitchen. In the encounter, bin Laden speaks to the alienation and harassment of Muslims in the United States, but regardless of the salient points, Youssef rejects bin Laden. The episode goes to show how quickly he had to grow up post 9/11 and how the country changed for all Muslims.

“Ramy” is good because it is distinct from other TV shows in its representation of the everyday Muslim-American, but it is also good because of its sharp and humorous writing that allows viewers to get a true sense of who Ramy is and who he is trying to be — even if those two views don’t always line up.

of proportion on the backs of big data (tech) and outsourced promise (pharma). Chatten plays the Dedalus role faithfully, exuding erudite confidence (“None can revolutions lead with selfish needs aside”), fully aware “charisma is an exquisite manipulation” to hide the chaos within, where “the room is spinning and the words ain’t sticking.”

Conor Deegan III, Conor Curley, Carlos O’Connell and Tom Croll — the Fontaines D.C. instrumental corps — construct the Dublin through which Chatten sprints. Planning streets according to sharp angles (think IDLES, Joy Division) and paving them with white noise (like fellow Dubliners My Bloody Valentine), these aural architects rely on the tuneless anger of an alienated youth (post-punk) to be their aesthetic blueprint. The sounds of old Dublin — pub-sung melodies akin to those of the city’s oldest/only boy band, The Dubliners — appear only as whimsical flourishes punctuating a postindustrial cityscape.

Such an inhospitable cityscape-soundscape degrades Chatten’s listless romance. On the record’s loudest tracks — “Big,” “Hurricane Laughter,” “Chequeless Reckless” — he fights for control of “the angry streets,” “twisted up” and “billow[ing] with the laughter,” and loses, succumbing to their unrelenting motorik motion.

Only during “Dogrel’s” downticks — “Roy’s Tune,” “Dublin City Sky” — does Chatten find the space to stop, grab a pint and soak in the excess of his emotions. These tracks, broken and ballad-like, respond to the “company’s” message about unprecedented (Celtic Tiger-style) corporate progress — “There is no warning, there’s no future” — offer an excuse to revel unreservedly in the past. “Dublin City Sky,” in particular,

coats the record’s previous post-punk artifice in a “foggy dew.” “[D]own at the bottom of some old bar in Chinatown,” Chatten’s melancholic charm sublimates upward, lulling listeners into a dull sway as they swig their Guinness and sing along.

As for the rest of the record, these romantic sentiments are either buried or in decay. Though Chatten yearns to refresh “the world in mind, body and spirit” — to be one of the “boys in the better land,” an individual completely in control of his identity and free to manipulate it (“You can be a rock star, porn star / super star, doesn’t matter what you are”) however he pleases — his yearnings amount to nothing more than fantasies. Nonetheless, Chatten uses these fantasies to turn contemporary Dublin into gothic Play-Doh, the raw material of his frenetic verse.

“Is it the same old line?” Chatten’s romance, his dejected youth, his brooding attitude? Of course it is. “Well, is it liberating?” Yes.

Contact Carlos De Loera at cdeloera@nd.edu

“Ramy” Starring Ramy Youssef, Hiam Abbass, Amr Waked Favorite episodes: “Strawberries,” “Refugees” If you like: “Master of None,” “Insecure,” “Shrill” Where to wathc: Hulu

Contact Mike Donovan at mdonov10@nd.edu

“Dogrel” Fontaines D.C. Label: Partisan Records Tracks: “Boys in the Better Land,” “Roy’s Tune,” If you like: Savages, Joy Division

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The NBA needs more Hispanics Charlie Ortega Guifarro Sports Writer

Four-hundred ninety-four. There are at least 494 players in the NBA this season. Can you guess how many of them are Hispanic? .2%.

Only 10 players in the NBA are Hispanic. Six of them are from Spain. Half of them averaged more than 10 points this season. Three of them are 24 years old or younger.

With the retirement of Manu Ginobili, an Argentinian basketball star, there isn’t much of a face to put on Hispanic NBA players. The Gasol brothers are in their thirties and running out of gas. (I am aware that they are arguably just as iconic as Ginobili, but they come from a country where basketball has world-class facilities and teams.) Celtics center Al Horford still has some legs, but he’s 32. Trevor Ariza is a solid player, but he isn’t a star like Ginobili was.

There’s no up-and-coming star, either. Willy Hernangómez was in the 2016-2017 All-Rookie team, but he averaged 14 minutes a game this season and has only started 26 games in his 178-game career. Willy’s brother, Juan, has started 37 games in the 157 times he’s seen action on the court. However, 25 of those starts came this season after teammate Paul Millsap was injured. Juan Hernangómez, playing the same power forward position as Millsap, filled the starting role. Ángel Delgado, 24, plays center for the Los Angeles Clippers. He appeared in two games this season for a combined 15 minutes.

The next-youngest Hispanic player is Ricky Rubio, 28.

Rubio is in his prime and has started all but one game this season with the Utah Jazz. He averages 12.7 points per game, six dimes per game, and plays a key supporting role in the Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert offensive scheme of the Jazz. Despite not being a household name (Rubio has half a million followers on Instagram, whereas Mitchell has 2.2 million), Rubio may be the face of Hispanic players in the NBA for the next couple of seasons.

No es bueno.

As the NBA tries to extend its reach into Latin American markets, it’s going to need more players from those areas for basketball to really get a footing there. The NBA has a growing number of African players like Joel Embiid and Serge Ibaka. The NBA has a growing number of European stars like Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic. The NBA doesn’t have a growing number of Hispanic players not from Spain.

Does the NBA care? Yes. In 2017 the NBA hosted four regular-season games in Mexico in an effort to expand its reach in the region. In 2018, the NBA Global Games hosted two more games in Mexico. And after the conclusion of the 2020 NBA Mexico City Games, the league will have played 32 games in Mexico since 1992.

The efforts of the NBA to expand into Latin America also includes hosting basketball camps alongside the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in places like the Dominican Republic with players from countries like Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, etc.

While there are a lot of factors that go into creating NBAlevel talent, it would be wise for the association to look into expanding the sport of basketball into Latin America more than what they are already doing. Soccer is, without a doubt, the most popular sport in Latin America, but there is a lot of potential for basketball to grow, as well. Baseball has seen a rise in popularity in Latin America, and that’s partly due to the stars that have emerged in the MLB that come from Latino origins. Basketball could do the same, it just needs someone who can speak the same language and play at an elite level.

Basketball needs a new Ginobili.

Contact Charlie Ortega Guifarro at cortegag@nd.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A requiem for Brownson Hall Dear members of the Notre Dame community, As some of you may know, Brownson Hall, the second-oldest standing building on campus after Old College and the University’s oldest academic building, is set to be demolished at the end of this calendar year. Those of us most immediately affected by the demolition first heard the news at a town hall meeting for staff this past fall. I quite recently stepped down as the very proud director of two programs housed in Brownson, the AnBryce Scholars Initiative and Office of Pre-College Programs at Notre Dame, to take a position at another University, but this missive has been brewing in me for a while. It has taken me time to simply wade through the many things I have to say about the demolition, so I hope you will be patient as I get to the heart of what it is that I have to say.

When I heard the news, which came to me second-hand from staff who attended the town hall, I was devastated. I am not ashamed to admit that. I railed to my staff and anyone else within earshot for the better part of an hour, and probably longer because I was angry, though I also experienced other emotions as I considered what the demolition meant. I was unhappy not to have been given even a little advance notice.

While many of us who have worked in Brownson have heard for years that the building would eventually be demolished to make way for something new, it is quite another thing to have the “eventually” be the “now.” Also, and probably least-surprisingly, I was concerned about where Pre-College and AnBryce would land. I was even concerned, and not without cause, that the University had made absolutely no provisions for us, that the demolition crews would knock on our doors the day the wrecking ball arrived to tell us to get out. And where we would be sent exactly? Just considering the offices I was responsible for, there are six staff in Pre-College, two staff in the AnBryce program, and dozens of AnBryce students and friends of the program who use our offices spaces to study, meet and socialize. Having space, and really good space, is vital to these programs. It may seem odd to use the phrase “good space” when referring to Brownson. Anyone who has worked in Brownson knows that it has problems: stink bugs and bees that randomly appear throughout the year, bathrooms with backed-up plumbing and odd olfactory emissions and whole sections that are, to be gracious about it, not terribly functional.

Even given these issues, Brownson has charm and an original quality to it. To save it, I considered laying down in front of the wrecking balls, ’60s-style, when it was time. Ask anyone I talked to when I found out about the demolition, I really talked about doing that.

More than anger, fear or indignation, however, I just felt sad about what was going to happen to old Brownson Hall. Demolishing it will mean the end of a unique community made up of a hodge-podge of offices and departments that do not quite fit (literally or perhaps otherwise) in other spaces around campus. I like to think of Brownson as the University equivalent of a land of misfit toys, except that most of us are pretty happy being un-adopted and left to our own devices. After all, between all the units there, we get a lot done for the University.

Demolishing Brownson will also mean that the University’s connection to many, many aspects of its past will be erased. I make no claims on understanding the full history of Brownson Hall, but a few basic facts are clear from the accounts that do exist. The building was erected

in 1855, and served as a dormitory for students.

It later became the home for the Sisters of the Holy Cross, who well into the 1950s supported the University in a number of capacities. At the time, Brownson was known as the French Quarter, presumably because of the large number of French clergy, including Father Sorin and his brethren, who staffed the University in its early years. After the Sisters’ era, Brownson became a number of things, ranging from a print shop to a gym, to its most recent incarnation as a space for a number of offices and programs, including the Office of Sustainability, the Haiti Program, Pre-College, AnBryce and others.

However corny it may seem to say, Brownson has almost always served as an annex made of people working behind the scenes to make the University a better place. That fact alone is worth acknowledging.

It is also worth acknowledging that Father Sorin likely had a very direct connection to Brownson Hall. According to the University’s building inventory, Father Sorin and Brother Francis Patois, CSC, designed Brownson, but I believe Father Sorin’s connection may be a deeper one. Years ago, a carpenter working in Brownson told me that Father Sorin probably laid the foundation of sections of the building himself. What an amazing thing. And what a shame, if true, that his handiwork — literally the work he designed with his own hands — will soon be a thing of the past. I wonder if future Notre Dame Administrations will look at this period like the City of South Bend does when talking about the ’60s and the demolition of historic downtown structures in the pursuit of modernism and progress.

In any case, weighing the bad and the mostly good, why is the University demolishing the building? There are two answers, I think. The short answer is that it is being demolished to make room for another building for the ACE program, which saw growth some years ago with the addition of Carole Sandner Hall and which is set to expand yet again. The other answer is a bit broader and more difficult to say succinctly, and it is that Brownson is being demolished to make room for a bigger, newer and presumably better Notre Dame. The University clearly sees new and large buildings as a sign of growth and progress and greatness; there is a lot of construction on campus, a mad rush to build really big things (though without the parking to support all those people who will fit in those buildings, a topic for another rant). While new, large buildings can be nice, and certainly the physical spaces we occupy are important, they do not alone make a place great. People make places great. What people do in those spaces are what count, and what they achieve creates the meaning we ultimately impart to them.

Father Sorin built Notre Dame and then had to rebuild one of its most important spaces in 1879, when the Great Fire burned the Main Building down to the ground. That fire spared nearby Brownson Hall. Evidently, the lure of expansion cannot.

So, in light of Brownson’s fate, I thought I would stir the echoes for it once more, and say a proper goodbye to it while it still stands.

Goodbye dear, old, odd Brownson Hall. Goodbye and good night.

Paulette G. Curtis Former director of the AnBryce Scholars Initiative and Office of Pre-College Programs April 17

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Bring socially responsible investing to Notre Dame Miguel and Clara were f leeing v iolence and death threats in Honduras and hoped to seek asylum in the United States. Clara was pregnant and pursuing a safe life for her unborn child.

However, they knew that when they went to seek asylum, Clara and the newborn, Paloma, would be separated from Miguel, who would be sent to an ICE detention facility for up to three years while their case was being heard. In our trips to the border, including a Notre Dame immersion seminar, we met Miguel and Clara, as well as many other families like theirs. As Catholics, we are passionate about protecting the rights of the poor and v ulnerable who come into this countr y seeking safet y and a better life.

Our Universit y strives to be a leader in higher learning and a role model for Catholics across the world. Therefore, we hold a commitment to the values of Catholic Social Teaching, which include the utmost protection of the life and dignity of the human person, especially the most v ulnerable.

The separation of families caused by ICE detention centers and private prisons is a gross violation of human dignity and goes against the values of our University.

Currently, the vast majority of our faculty and

staff — around 95% — invest in private prisons and ICE detention facilities through the University’s 403(b) retirement fund. These facilities are places where the dignity of human beings is blatantly violated.

The impact that the for-profit prison industr y has had on America is staggering; this issue affects us all. Though you may not know one of the 128,000 people detained in private prisons across the countr y, you may be familiar w ith our nation’s mass incarceration and recidiv ism problem, which has decimated thousands of communities, predominantly communities of color.

The United States tops the list of countries w ith the highest incarceration rate. We currently hold 25% of the world’s prisoners, yet only 4.5% of the world’s population. Private prison corporations such as CoreCiv ic and GEO Group — the t wo companies whose stock is included in the retirement fund investment portfolios — are massive contributors to these problems.

As institutions that run for profit, there is a strong incentive to fill each bed and keep people locked up for longer. These per verse financial incentives are trapping indiv iduals in a harmful cycle.

Upon meeting w ith the Notre Dame HR office and speaking w ith members of our communit y on campus, it seems that the majorit y of our facult y and staff are completely unaware of this investment. Essentially, our Notre Dame employees are unknow ingly profiting off of human bodies. We ask that the Universit y creates a socially responsible investment alternative for our facult y and staff. Employee benefits should not come at the expense of others’ dignit y.

If you believe our Universit y should support our facult y and staff by allow ing them to invest in accordance w ith their values, we inv ite you to show your support by signing our petition, follow ing us on Facebook and Instagram (@notredamesri) and sharing this letter.

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Bon voyage, senior class Gary J. Caruso Capitol Comments

Commencement is like a pinata bursting with an orchestrated cacophony of activities that jumble and swirl around the graduating students. By itself, the milestone elicits an array of emotions that range from pure glee to utter dread over departing Catholic Disneyland. On one hand, our graduates sail into the real world eager to embrace their next phase of life. Yet on the other hand, our new alumni tear away from a daily life surrounded by close friends who become relegated into exile with, at best, visitation rights scheduled annually based on the football calendar. In short, graduation is an early port-of-call microcosm of life.

We live in a fast-paced digital society into which has dawned a political era when we no longer own factual purity, despite perfect presentations. Perfect writing is no longer f lawlessly read.

A perfectly delivered speech is now a casualty to faultless listening. Reality has been spritzed with chemotherapy and toasted with radiation. The present is a difficult time to offer insights into how to plot a course cruising toward the future.

The senior class will hear anecdotes replete with advice and peppered with examples of how others navigated through life during their post undergraduate period. It is easy to pontificate whenever one is older than 50 and has navigated the stormy waters of graduation-like pinata events dozens of times daily. Like it or not, we all learn that life is a series of winning the fight, retreating from battle while dangerously teetering on losing the war and then regrouping at work with colleagues, at home with loved ones or in public with strangers. The trick to offering sage advice is to be frank, and to be able to differentiate between regurgitating a personal histor y and gleaning spiritual relevance that purifies the soul.

It seems to me that two truisms recycle throughout life — age breeds the wisdom we desperately needed during our youth, and a crisis always looms over the horizon. It is therefore incumbent upon graduates to anticipate predicaments against which they must measure their own personal character.

A time will arise whenever it seems a solution is impossible, so ignite your passions now in setting your life journey. If your ideal career path does not materialize, embrace personal hobbies and interests to own a balanced lifestyle. It is surprising just how often inspiration blooms from the personal happiness within the heart.

Expect time to eventually change and harden someone you thought you knew. A sibling will sue you over the family estate. A college roommate you thought you knew after three years together will become a person who disgusts you. A lover will betray you. How balanced your personal life becomes will dictate how well your psyche copes with trauma during your lifetime journey. Yet regardless of how well you believe that you are prepared to cope, one person or event will break your heart. Unfortunately, that’s life.

Sullen as such predictions may sound, life does offer more delight than not. Joy is attained not by acting to feel personally good or to be cheerfully lauded by others, but to simply do God’s work on earth. For those keen to notice, self lessness abounds around us daily.

Take to heart the call of Pope Francis to cheerfully give to the poor without judging or caring about how frivolously the homeless may utilize your charitable offering. Therefore, his message teaches that if you want happiness for a lifetime, live the rule of unconditionally helping others.

Graduating seniors will learn to appreciate the mysterious consistencies throughout life — time balances both the good against the bad. Know that our destinies offer much hope and unlimited unexpected surprises. For example, a congressional staff member friend of mine lost his Capitol

Hill job, a seemingly crushing career blow after 17 years of ser vice. That career-closing door in turn opened a window of opportunity for him to be named a presidential appointee who worked at the W hite House.

Oftentimes, personal desires also come to fruition, but with strict conditions. My best friend and college roommate succumbed to drug addiction after caring for his father who slowly degenerated from A lzheimer’s disease. After suffering an overdose and falling into a coma, my classmate offered a covenant to Our Lady to rescue him, promising to remain sober and dedicate himself to helping others. He recovered, volunteered in his small-town parish and sat alone in the church overnight for vigils as living up to his end of the bargain. Two short years later he was found on his kitchen f loor, having suffered from a brain aneurism.

For those of us heartbroken by his fall and rise and final demise, we know he earned his shortterm contract with the heavens. Actions begat consequences. Life is about death. Joy is best known through sorrow.

Such a pinata of conf licting assertions is best tolerated once we attain the wisdom we longed for during youth. However, graduating seniors who anticipate such acumen can be obtained, can further astutely gauge the lifetime voyage a ripple at a time. Those of us with decades of calluses from manning the rowing oars know that each horizon has the potential to be made bright.

Best of luck and bon voyage the class of 2019.

Gary J. Caruso, Notre Dame ’73, serves in the Department of Homeland Security and was a legislative and public affairs director at the U.S. House of Representatives and in President Clinton’s administration. His column appears every other Friday. Contact him on Twitter: @GaryJCaruso or email: GaryJCaruso@alumni.nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last

Crossword | Will Shortz

Happy Birthday: This year will bring lots of exciting twists and turns for you, so make sure to focus your energy on what is important. Knowing yourself and what you stand for will prove especially valuable during this time. Leave the past behind you and focus on the new adventure ahead. Life is what you make of it and this next chapter is up to your design. Your numbers are 2, 12, 25, 38, 46, 49, 50.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Good things are in the air for you. Be open to accept the love that flows around you and remember how appreciated you are.

A positive outlook will serve you well as you bring light to even the darkest of situations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Focus on your long-term goals instead of little things. Worrying about minor issues will not lead you toward the future that you desire, so stay optimistic. Your future is bright, even if you cannot see it now. Play the long game... the prizes are better.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Work with others instead of alone. You will find value in the opinons of close friends and family. They may be able to provide greater perspective than you can on your own. Your collaborative energies are flowing. Be open to them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When facing decisions, look beyond your present situation and see from a different point of view. Taking in your circumstances through a new lens will help you make the choice that you will be proudest of.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Love is all around you. In any relationship, taking time to be vulnerable will allow you to form deeper bonds. Be open to the love that others have for you. It may even help you learn more things that you love about yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The past is behind you, so start looking forward. Take a moment to breathe and focus on the now. You may want to focus on the things of yesterday, but today is much brighter and the future shines like the sun.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Make some plans. You’ll be more motivated to accomplish mundane tasks if you have something to look forward to. Switch up your routine and try something new. Now is the perfect time to step out of your comfort zone and into your growth zone.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Focus on having fun. Put stress and worries behind you and concentrate on things that make you happy. Be more comfortable with boldness and show off your wild side. You will feel lighter and draw more peope towards you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You feel a lot of changes occuring right now and may be nervous about what they signify. Stay grounded and focus on your values. They will keep you rooted amidst any chaos that comes your way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your friends may seem busy now, which means you have more time to spend on you. Take some time to yourself for now and schedule a date with your friends soon. The moment alone will allow you to appreciate their company even more.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Give the people around you time. Frustrations that you may be feeling will fade after you take a moment to step back and remember all of the memories you have. The strengths of your past experiences outweigh any present petty conflicts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Recognize the good that you have been doing.

When you keep your expectations too high, you miss out on the amazing feelings of accomplishment and pride. You will be more satisfied when you stop chasing perfection.

Birthday Baby: You are wise, excited and motivated. You are empathetic and understanding.

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Clippers are dark horse in NBA Playoffs Keegan Smith Sports Writer 35.5. That is how many wins the Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas projected for the 201819 Los Angeles Clippers. They were projected to be one of the worst teams in the Western Conference, making their hopes of entering the playoffs a long shot to put it lightly.

In recent seasons, the Clippers franchise has been nothing short of a disappointment. For years, their dominant core of Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan found themselves at the top of the Western Conference only to lose in dramatic fashion in the playoffs. The Clippers have since broken up the onceelite big three in an attempt to reinvent their team. In their first season without Griffin, Paul and Jordan, the Clippers have flipped the script. After so many years of underachieving, Los Angeles has put together a team that is better than most experts could have imagined — without an all-star caliber player.

Despite a 30-25 start (which, in all honesty, was an overachieving start), the Clippers decided to trade forward Tobias Harris for a slew of role players. Surely Harris was their best player at the time, and with the move, Los Angeles all but wrote themselves off as title contenders, knowing how good the competition was in the Western Conference.

During the two months between the trade deadline and the NBA Playoffs, many thought the Clippers would lay down, giving a team like the Lakers or the Kings a chance to salvage an eighth seed for the postseason. However, the

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Clippers and their gritty core of Lou Williams, Danilo Gallinari and Montrezl Harrell simply continued to win. In fact, Los Angeles finished the season 14 games above .500 — more than enough to earn them a playoff spot in the Western Conference.

They now find themselves matched up against the Golden State Warriors in the first round of Western Conference postseason play.

After an improbable 31-point comeback in game two and a win at Golden State on Wednesday, the Clippers now find themselves just one game behind the top-seeded Warriors. With the series sitting at 3-2, Los Angeles will have an opportunity Friday to even things on their home court and force a game seven.

While this Clippers team is by no means the most talented in the NBA, they continue to piece together scrappy wins that have them climbing the ranks of the NBA world. There is really no good explanation for what the Clippers are doing and how they are doing it. Doc Rivers has his team playing at an extremely high level in a series where their skill is clearly outmatched. Regardless of whether or not the Clippers are able to accomplish this amazing feat, they have already defied the odds in avoiding a sweep. As a non-superteam, the Clippers currently find themselves on the outside looking — but they may have a legitimate chance to beat what is considered to be one of the best basketball teams ever assembled.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.

— Broadway in downtown Nashville is as lively a place as any in America. The Vegas Strip, Times Square and Bourbon Street have nothing on it.

Particularly this week.

For the first time, the NFL draft is in Music City, and even in the days leading up to Thursday night’s opening round, Broadway has been buzzing.

Sure, the honky tonks tend to be full of revelers who don’t care if it’s New Year’s Eve or, well, a weekday in late April. The difference now: Nearly everyone is talking football while the bands on stage are playing their repertoires of Carrie Underwood and Blake Shelton songs.

“This weekend, Nashville, Tennessee, is, in fact, Football City,” declared Mayor David Briley. “This wouldn’t be happening if the league and team had not seen what we already knew about the city of Nashville.”

How much have the locals embraced the draft? Well, 100,000 or more are attending the opening round, with thousands more projected to turn out on Friday and Saturday.

Although, by the look of things Wednesday and early Thursday on Broadway — which has been shut down to traffic for several blocks, a fact that might bottle up traffic but doesn’t seem to bother pedestrians a bit — many of those attendees aren’t from middle Tennessee.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told SiriusXM NFL Radio: “One of the things is the geographic location of the city you are in. Fans love to go from other markets to here. The number of jerseys you see (fans wearing), it reminds me of our international games.”

Rain was in the forecast for Thursday night, something that didn’t plague Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas in the past four years as the draft has become a traveling circus. That

could put a damper on outdoor festivities, though it’s unlikely to affect the business in the restaurants and bars downtown. Might even help.

The bar — a different sort of bar from those on Broadway — for the draft has been set high by previous cities, particularly Philadelphia.

Twelve NFL cities have sent representatives here. In some cases, the league is looking to cities that aren’t likely to bid for a Super Bowl.

Taking particular interest in this week’s events are representatives from Las Vegas, which has next April’s draft.

In several ways, Las Vegas and Nashville have commonalities.

Both have a centerpiece street — of course, closing down much of The Strip in Nevada would be much more of a chore and much more unlikely than doing so with a significant portion of Broadway here. Both have a solid entertainment base. Both have become destination vacation spots.

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Williamson referenced in corruption trial Associated Press

NEW YORK — The player widely projected to be the NBA draft’s top overall pick came up at a college basketball corruption trial Thursday as jurors heard a recording of a Clemson coach who seemed eager for help from an aspiring agent.

Zion Williamson played one year at Duke before entering the draft scheduled for June.

His name surfaced as video recordings of meetings with college coaches were played at the criminal trial of the aspiring agent, Christian Dawkins, and an amateur basketball coach, Merl Code, who are charged with paying bribes to assistant basketball coaches to help secure NBAbound players as customers.

Prosecutors say the defendants teamed up with undercover FBI agents and a corrupt financial adviser to decide which college coaches should get money to steer players their way.

The tapes showed several meetings at a Las Vegas hotel where coaches seemingly auditioned for the chance to prove their schools had enough toptier talent. If the schools were

deemed qualified, they would be paid cash to match their best players with agents and financial advisers who would follow them to the NBA. Louis Martin Blazer is a financial adviser who started cooperating with the government after pleading guilty to ripping off clients for more than $2 million. He described the meetings to a jury during his third day on the witness stand.

He said assistant coaches from Creighton, TCU, USC and Arizona State received cash, while no cash was given to assistant coaches from Louisville, Alabama, Connecticut and Texas A&M. Some of the coaches did not get cash because “their programs weren’t at that elite level” and their recruits were not valuable enough or certain to go high in the draft, Blazer said.

“They were kind of pitching us on their services,” Blazer said.

“Kind of like they were pitching us to say: ‘Work with us.’”

In a July 2017 recording, Dawkins was heard telling Clemson assistant coach Steve Smith he could help get Williamson’s family cash if the

player chose Clemson over North Carolina, Duke and Kentucky.

Blazer testified that then-USC assistant coach Tony Bland was paid $13,000 at his meeting after Bland flew to Las Vegas on the school’s private jet.

He said Bland needed money to try to recruit Marvin Bagley III. Blazer described watching the undercover FBI agent put an envelope with cash on the table for Bland.

Bagley eventually played for Duke for a season before being selected second overall in the 2018 NBA draft by the Kings.

Bland and three other former assistant coaches have pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy and await sentencing. The others are Emanuel “Book” Richardson at Arizona, Chuck Person at Auburn University and Lamont Evans, who coached at South Carolina and Oklahoma State.

“We are aware of the developments in federal court today involving one of our men’s basketball assistant coaches,” Clemson said in a statement.

“We take this matter seriously and will immediately conduct a review.”said at practice Sunday that “everything is fine.”

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Lynch scored three goals apiece for the Irish, and Buchanan and senior defender Hannah Proctor both forced four turnovers.

Northwestern won the first draw, and senior attack Selena Lasota netted the first goal of the game less than 30 seconds after play began. The Irish answered by winning control of the second draw, and Lynch scored an unassisted goal. Northwestern junior middie Lindsey McKone then scored off of a crease roll to put Northwestern ahead 2-1.

McKone scored again after receiving a quick assist. Andy Aldave responded by giving Notre Dame a second goal and cutting the margin to one.

Northwestern answered with an unassisted goal by senior attack Claire Quinn and another goal on a free position shot by senior attack Liza Elder to run the score up 2-5 Northwestern.

Buchanan pulled a shooting space call off a drive to goal, missed the free position, but drew another foul and ripped her 8-meter shot into the goal.

This was followed by a crease roll and goal by Northwestern sophomore middie Lauren Gilbert, and Lasota scored her second goal of the game on an 8-meter shot, giving Northwestern a seventh goal and 7-3 lead.

Buchanan then scored her own second goal of the game

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unassisted in a drive to goal.

Northwestern answered with an unusual goal that was shoveled in by freshman middie Izzy Scane. Buchanan scored her third goal, unassisted, to give herself a hat trick and to make the score 8-5 Northwestern.

Northwestern’s Gilbert drove to goal and scored again, followed by a goal from Irish junior middie Erin McBride, who charged into her 8-meter shot to make the score 9-6 Northwestern heading into halftime.

Northwestern scored four goals in the first 12 minutes of the second half to cement their lead. Lasota drove and scored unassisted to give the team its 10th goal of the game, making the score 6-10 Northwestern.

The next draw control was won

by Northwestern, and junior defender Kathleen Roe was given a yellow card, forcing Notre Dame to play down a player for the next two minutes.

Northwestern’s Lasota scored off of a shooting space call to run the score up 6-11 Northwestern.

Freshman middie Madison Mote on the Irish responded by cutting in front of the crease and scoring off an assist from senior attack Nikki Ortega, who fed to her from behind the goal, giving Notre Dame a seventh goal. Northwestern scored two more goals unassisted, the first

by Scane and the second by Lasota, making the score 7-13 Northwestern.

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Maddie Howe then drove to goal and netted her 46th goal of the season, unassisted, to narrow the deficit. The crowd celebrated accordingly in the stands by doing pushups. Northwestern’s Gilbert then scored off of an assist by Scane to make the score 8-14 Northwestern.

Aldave then received a yellow card for a cross check after a collision with a Northwestern player, putting the Irish down a player for two minutes. Despite the disadvantage in numbers, Notre Dame’s Lynch scored to close the gap 9-14 Northwestern.

Scane scored off of an 8-meter shot to give Northwestern 15 goals, marking the most goals allowed by the Irish this season. The Irish did not allow this to dishearten them, as they responded quickly with a goal from Aldave on a crease roll.

That was Aldave’s 40th goal of the season, making the score 1015 Northwestern.

Lynch drove to goal with four minutes remaining and scored unassisted to make the score 11-15 Northwestern, her 47th of the season. With two minutes remaining, Aldave pulled a foul, but her 8-meter shot was blocked. Notre Dame pressed Northwestern in the final minutes of the game, forcing a turnover with 30 seconds left, but could not capitalize on it, leaving the final score 11-15 Northwestern.

“Well in terms of how we played, we came out kind of slow, we didn’t necessarily play

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with ourselves, and something that we talked about a lot was kind of belief in who we are and what we are doing, and we felt that kind of waivered during this game,” Irish senior middie Sydney Flynn said. “So keeping that consistent for a full 60 minutes would really help us going forward. That’s something we’ve done in the past. We’re looking to carry that forward, and that belief and that love we have as a team and carrying that into the tournament. We’re still number three going into the ACC tournament, so we have a ton of faith in what we’re doing and where we’re going.”

Following the conclusion of the regular season, Notre Dame entered the ACC tournament as the third seed, facing off against sixth-seeded Duke University (10-7, 2-5 ACC) on Wednesday in the first round of the postseason conference competition.

Despite beating the Blue Devils 15-7 Apr. 14, the Irish were unable to repeat their performance, falling 14-13 in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The contest was close for its entire duration, with neither team taking a lead greater than two goals. Duke scored the first two goals, and three of the first four, with Aldave breaking up the Blue Devil rhythm to make the score 3-1 with 18:29 remaining in the first period.

The teams then went on to exchange man-up goals, with the Irish capitalizing on the advantage first before surrendering a

penalty which the Blue Devils swiftly took advantage of, making the score 4-2. Notre Dame and Duke then exchanged unassisted goals, boosting the score to 5-3.

After a fairly even opening 15 minutes, the Irish took the reigns for the next five, scoring three unanswered goals to take their first lead of the day, 6-5.

Duke then netted two straight to close out the frame, including a man-up score with one second remaining in the period, to take them into the half with the 7-6 advantage.

To open up the second, Duke scored the first goal to extend their lead to two for the fourth time during the game. Notre Dame then went on to score four of the next five, closing the deficit and recapturing the lead, 109. But Duke answered by scoring three straight and five of the next seven, taking a two-goal lead 14-12 with just 4 minutes remaining in the game. Notre Dame closed the gap to one off of an unassisted goal by Howe with 3:37 remaining in the game, but it wasn’t enough, and the Irish lost the matchup 14-13.

With the loss, Notre Dame was eliminated from the ACC postseason tournament. They will now turn their attention to the NCAA tournament, which will open May 10.

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on the year, while Leonard has emerged as a premier faceoff man, finishing with the advantage in nine of 12 games this year, recording a 59.1% conversion rate along the way.

On the back end, Corrigan’s decision to switch starting goalies midway through the season has paid off. Jack Zullo’s first start of the season came in the loss to Duke, but since then, the junior has settled in and helped anchor a strong back line that has given up an average of just under 10 goals per game over the last three games of the regular season.

The ACC semifinal is set to kick off 4:30 p.m. in Chapel Hill. The game will be nationally broadcasted on ESPNU.The game will be nationally broadcasted on ESPNU.

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of them coming this past season.

Tillery was an integral part of Notre Dame’s 2018 title race, leading a prolific defense which shut down even the most efficient offenses in the regular season.

Tillery’s most efficient performance this fall came against Stanford, when he recorded four solo tackles and a career-high six total tackles, four of which were for loss to add up to 20 yards. In the same game against the Cardinal, Tillery had a collegiate-best six total tackles, also for 20 yards, and a season-best two quarterback hurries and one forced fumble.

As a senior, Tillery was named a second-team All-American by Sporting News, Associated Press and Sports Illustrated. He was also on the watch list for the Bednarik Award, the Outland Trophy and the Bronko Nagurski Trophy.

At 6-foot-6 and 295 pounds, Tillery posted a 4.93-second 40yard dash, 32-inch vertical jump and 115-inch broad jump. On the bench, he did 23 reps, amassing an overall prospect grade of 6.03.

With the Chargers, Tillery will look to earn a starting position under defensive coordinator Gus Bradley as the Los Angeles team has struggled to find a consistent player at the position.

Tillery is projected to sign a $11,422,088 contract, $6,326,972 of which will be a signing bonus.

Considering Duke held Notre Dame to one of their lowest outputs of the year April 6, allowing the Irish just eight goals, much of the weight will be carried by Notre Dame’s three headed offensive monster: senior attack Brendan Gleason, junior midfielder Bryan Costabile and junior FOGO Charlie Leonard, all of whom earned All-ACC honors this past week.

Costabile has stepped up his game even further from last year’s 30-goal campaign, scoring a career-high 31 goals in only 12 games this year with three hat tricks, a four-goal game and two five-goal games. Gleason leads the team’s attacks with 23 goals

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Former Irish defensive lineman Jerry Tillery walks around the field following Notre Dame’s 45-23 victory over Virginia Tech on Oct. 6.

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Tillery selected 28th by Chargers Observer Sports Staff

Former Notre Dame defensive lineman Jerry Tillery was selected in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Chargers with the 28th overall pick.

With the selection, Tillery becomes the first Irish defensive lineman to be selected in the first round since 1997, when defensive end Renaldo Wynn was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the 21st overall pick. He is the first defensive tackle to be selected in the first 32 since 1994, when the 49ers took Bryant Young at No. 7.

Tillery was the only Irish player selected in the first round, but his teammates cornerback Julian Love, wide receiver Miles Boykin, running back Dexter Williams, linebacker Te’von Coney, tight end Alizé Mack and punter Tyler Newsome will all seek to be selected in the subsequent rounds, which

Irish drop two matches to Northwestern, Duke

will take place Friday and Saturday.

Tillery is the 69th Notre Dame player to be selected in the first round in the history of the Draft, and the ninth first-rounder to be selected in the 2010s. He is the 499th Irish athlete to be drafted, making Notre Dame the school with the secondmost draft picks ever, behind only USC, which has 502. In Los Angeles, Tillery will join former Irish teammate and defensive end Isaac Rochell, who was drafted in the seventh round in 2017.

In his four years in an Irish uniform, Tillery — a Shreveport, Louisiana, native — played in 50 games, amassing 12 solo sacks, eight of which came in his 2018 campaign, for a total of 76 yards. He made 70 solo tackles, assisting on 65 for a total of 135 in his career — 24.5 of which were for loss, 10.5 see TILLERY PAGE 11

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Irish junior midfield Erin Mcbride looks to pass to a teammate during Notre Dame’s 9-7 victory over North Carolina on March 31.

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Squad completes regular season

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After bouncing back in their regular season finale against North Carolina last weekend, No. 11 Notre Dame will look to open its ACC title defense this Saturday when the Irish faces No. 2 Duke in North Carolina in the conference semifinals.

The two teams have faced off in each of the last four ACC semifinals, and while Notre Dame has won the last two conference tournament meetings, the Blue Devils (11-3, 2-2) beat the Irish ( 7-5, 2-2 ACC) earlier this season 14-8.

With an all-time ACC tournament record of 5-3 and two conference wins under their belt, Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan and his squad will be looking to cement their status in the upcoming NCAA tournament. Another upset of Duke — the Irish defeated the then-top seeded Blue Devils last year’s tournament — could jumpstart another run to an ACC title.

The men’s golf team rounded out their regular season with the ACC Championships beginning April 18. Fielding a strong five, the Irish competed in New London, North Carolina against a field with some of the strongest golf programs in the country, including seven teams among the top 25.

The Irish placed 11th out of 12 teams but saw some strong performances to build on as the NCAA regional tournaments and NCAA championships approach. Senior Miguel Delgado continued marked a 209 (-7) across three rounds, a personal best for Delgado on the year for 54 holes. His efforts warranted a seventh-place individual finish, whose even par Saturday was preceded by a 3-under 69 and a 4-under 68 Thursday.

Competitors played the initial 36 holes Thursday in anticipation of rain Friday.

By the end, John Felitto was the team’s second-best performer at 220 (+4), good for 38th place. Felitto ended the weekend

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For the first time all season, the Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team lost back-to-back contests, dropping their final regular season match to No. 6 Northwestern, 1511, and losing in the first round of the ACC conference tournament to No. 15 Duke, 14-13.

The match against the Wildcats (11-4, 4-1 Big Ten) honored the team’s seniors, but the Irish were unable to truly celebrate as they couldn’t escape with the win. Notre Dame never led in the entire game, and Northwestern won the majority of draw controls in the game — 18 of 28. Senior Samantha Giacolone was in goal, and had seven saves, while sophomore midfielder Andy Aldave took the draw for the Irish and won six controls, reaching a record 128 draw controls during the regular season. Additionally, junior midfielder Savannah Buchanan and senior attack Samantha

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Irish freshman midfield Quinn McCahon runs past an opponent during Notre Dame’s 12-10 win over North Carolina on Apr. 20.

with a one-over 73, staying consistent over the tournament as he marked a 74 (+2) and a 73 (+1) Thursday.

The Irish had ended tied for seventh after the first round, but eventually fell to 11th by the end of the weekend. Junior Davis Lamb finished with a 54-hole score of 221 (+5), placing him at 43rd overall. The junior found his rhythm in the first round, carding a 71 (-1), but shot five birdies and five bogeys as well as a double bogey to end at 74 (+2) in the second. Lamb finished the weekend with a four-over 76.

Freshman Andrew O’Leary shared 43rd place with Lamb, also finishing at 221. O’Leary also took the scenic route, going even, +1 and +4 in the three rounds over the weekend.

Promising freshman Taichi Kho marked an 8-over 224 in his first ACC Championships. Kho finished Thursday with consecutive rounds of 75 (+3), wrapping up Saturday with a 74 (+2).

The Irish will compete in the NCAA Regionals, held May 12 through 15, in Fayetteville, Arkansas.