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Squeaking by Doerer’s 3 field goals, Jones Jr.’s career night enough for Irish to hold off Trojans

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Irish senior running back Tony Jones Jr. looks to maneuver past Trojans redshirt sophomore safety Isaiah Pola-Mao during Notre Dame’s 30-27 victory over USC on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. Jones had a career-high 176 rushing yards on 25 attempts, including a 43-yard run that set up the touchdown that put the Irish on the board.

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It’s safe to say that senior running back Tony Jones Jr. has finally arrived, and all it took was being forced into the spotlight by an injury to junior running back Jafar Armstrong on the opening drive of the season opener at Louisville.

Jones, who ran for career-highs of 392 yards and four scores in 12 games last season, had already reached 381 yards and four scores coming into the matchup with the USC Trojans Saturday night, despite only getting six carries for 17 yards in a 66-14 rout of New Mexico.

Jones’ play was of the utmost importance as shades of Oct. 21, 2017 played out during the 30-27 win over USC (3-3, 2-1 Pac-12). Just over two years ago, the then-No. 13 Irish came out on top of the then-No. 11 Trojans 49-14 behind a dominant rushing performance.

In fact, the Irish only converted 9-22 passes that entire night for 120 yards. However, they rushed for 377 yards on 47 attempts, racking up 8.0 yards per carry and five see ADAMS PAGE 2

By HAYDEN ADAMS Associate Sports Editor

The Jeweled Shillelagh is staying in South Bend as Notre Dame defeated archrival USC 30-27 Saturday night. Irish head coach Brian Kelly talked his team’s play and what prevailing against their rival means to them.

“After the game, in the locker room, when you get a chance to kind of debrief about it, you feel really good that what you put in was going to be effective,” Kelly said. “ … [Head coach] Clay [Helton] had them playing very well. But again, to win against your rival is one of the things that we’ve wanted to do, and it’s a traveling trophy that’s important to us, and to come out as the winner tonight, we’re very, very pleased.”

At the beginning of the game, both teams took turns marching into the opponent’s territory but were forced to punt. Neither team was able to establish much of a rhythm until the Trojans (3-3, 2-1 Pac-12) forced the Irish (5-1) into a three-and-out and converted on a 40-yard field goal attempt the ensuing drive to take a 3-0 lead with 2:13 left in the first quarter. The Irish would finish the first quarter with 78 yards of total offense to the Trojans’ 90.

The Irish finally broke through in the second quarter, thanks in part to the running game finding

a solid footing. Junior tight end Cole Kmet credited the run game with opening the offense and allowing them to go on a scoring run.

“I think we were running the ball well today,” Kmet said. “I think that was something we [were] really good at, and we were just imposing our will. I think that’s what led to the scoring.”

After being pinned by a punt at their own three-yard, the Irish converted three first downs, one on a 43-yard rush by senior running back Tony Jones Jr., with senior quarterback Ian Book capping off the drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Kmet. As he broke the plane of the endzone, a Trojan player tackled Kmet below the knees, causing him to flip into the endzone. He said the hit only invigorated him more.

“I didn’t feel anything, that felt great,” he laughed. “Yeah, that was good; it was good to get the first touchdown in, get the lead to start — and, yeah, definitely felt good against the rival.”

The Irish would keep their foot on the gas, scoring on their next possession with a 51-yard reverse by sophomore wide receiver Braden Lenzy. On their next and final drive of the half, Notre Dame added to their margin with a 45-yard field goal, taking a 17-3 lead into the half. The Irish improved from 78 yards of offense in the first quarter to 289

total at the half.

The action would not stop with the clock, however, as both teams got into a scuffle on the field that saw players and staff from both sides involved. Both teams were assessed unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, meaning any unsportsmanlike conduct penalty by any player from that point on would result in an ejection.

The Irish received the ball to start the second half. On their first drive, USC forced the Irish into a fourth-and-10 at the Trojan 42-yard line, but junior kicker Jonathan Doerer nailed the 52yard field goal, the first 50-yard field goal for Notre Dame since Justin Yoon kicked one of the same length against Navy in 2015. The Trojans responded with a 27-yard field goal of their own to cut the deficit to 20-6 with 8:53 left in the third period.

After taking over on downs from the Irish at their own 38, the Trojans would trim the margin even further with a 38-yard touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Kedon Slovis to sophomore wide receiver AmonRa St. Brown. However, Doerer would step up yet again for the Irish, converting a field goal from 43 yards out to give the Irish a 10-point cushion.

The Trojans would not be fazed though, as they marched see VICTORY PAGE 3

Special teams unit shines in win over Trojans

By NATE MOLLER Sports Writer

During Brian Kelly’s tenure as Notre Dame head coach, there have been many instances in which the special teams has cost the team in big moments of the season. This season seems to be a different story, however, as the special teams unit has shown they can be an asset to the team rather than a liability.

Statistically, the special teams unit is much better than last year’s.

During the 2018 season, the team allowed an average of 23.1 yards per return on kickoffs and 8.3 on punt returns. To this point in the 2019 season, the special teams unit has allowed only 17.2 yards on kickoff returns and 4.0 yards on punts. Head coach Brian Kelly attributes much of this success to special teams coordinator Brian Polian.

“Brian has done an outstanding job, quite frankly. I think his approach has had a lot to do with it,” Kelly said after Saturday’s win.

“They enjoy playing for him. They want to play for him.”

Polian coached at Notre Dame see SPECIAL PAGE 3

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touchdowns on the ground.

Fast forward to Saturday night and the Irish (5-1) relied on yet another great rushing game to lift them to victory over the Trojans, admittedly by a much tighter margin. Notre Dame rushed 48 times for 308 yards (6.4 yards per carry) and two scores, while going 17-32 for 165 yards through the air. While a more balanced offensive performance this time around, the key to the victory was undoubtedly the superiority of the rushing attack. Irish head coach Brian Kelly explained why his squad was so persistent on the ground.

“Well, look, I mean, I could stand up here and BS you guys all day and tell you we’re the second coming of the Green Bay Packers rushing attack,” he said. “But [USC was] in two-deep, so they didn’t want us to throw the football.

They didn’t like the match-up early. You saw it. We got a one-on-one match-up early [with senior wide receiver Chase Claypool] and we took advantage of it because they went man and they pressured us.

“They must have said, that’s not going to be the way this game goes. They went two-deep and they gave us some box looks to run the football. We have to be able to offensively, if you’re going to play two-deep, we’ve got to

run the football. If we can’t, we’re not good enough. If you’re going to play man and pressure us and load the box, it’s hard to run the football, we’d better be able to throw the football and that effectively is what happened. We had fair numbers to run the football today, and that’s how we won the football game.”

The driver of the rushing success was none other than Jones, who single-handedly recorded more rushing yards (176) than senior quarterback Ian Book did passing, and who for the third time this season has eclipsed 100 yards rushing, setting a new career-high rushing mark in two different games (131 against No. 20 Virginia and 176 against USC) on the year. Jones talked about his mindset during the game.

“Coach let me out of the cage a little bit,” Jones said. “To be honest I saw my line working hard, I saw my tight ends working hard, and I knew I needed to do whatever I had to do. … It felt good that coach had the confidence in me, so I wanted to show him respect to pound the rock.”

Kelly talked about what makes Jones Jr. so special.

“Well, look, Tony has been kind of pigeonholed into this kind of ‘journeyman back,’ but he does so many things well. He just doesn’t have 4.3 speed,” Kelly said. “But he blocks, he’s tough, he’s physical, he’s going to get you the extra yard. Who wouldn’t want a back

like that?”

Even without that back-breaking speed, Jones’ play style was ideal for the Irish game plan, especially as the game grinded on and they wore down the USC defense.

“We keep doing our job no matter what. After a while, you start wearing them down a bit and eventually you are going to break open some big runs,” Jones said.

“During the game they started showing they were tired and beat up, so we kept pounding the rock at them and holes started opening up. And then Book scored [to win the game].”

Along with Kelly, Jones’ teammates also had rave reviews for his performance in this game and for the dedication he has shown for the program. Book said that tonight’s performance is evidence of the hard work that Jones has put in.

“I’m super happy for Tony. I see him work hard every day in practice and work his butt off, so he’s being rewarded for that like he should be,” Book said. “He’s a great tool in our offense and when he keeps doing that it opens up everything else in the passing game.”

Junior tight end Cole Kmet talked about the growth Jones has displayed as a leader.

“I think he’s become more of a leader out there, talking to us and keeping us up and all that stuff,” Kmet said. “So, Tony was great today, he did a really good job.”

Finally, junior offensive lineman Robert Hainsey praised Jones for his toughness and instinct.

“Tony runs as hard as he can every down,” Hainsey said. “I’ve known Tony for a while now and I love Tony to death. He gets up there and he makes our job easy.

We get out there, do our job, make our blocks to the best of our ability, and, even if there is not the biggest crease, Tony is going to find it and run past you, over you or through you. That’s what I love about Tony.”

Armstrong, on the other hand, was plagued by injuries last season as well, but played in 10 games and ran for 383 yards on 72 attempts. Armstrong was questionable to make his return against USC, but carried only once for a loss of four yards. While he most certainly will produce more once the coaching staff is 100% confident in his health and he finds a rhythm, the fact that Jones has emerged as a No. 1-option in the backfield has far reaching implications for the Irish, not the least of which is that it almost ensures that Armstrong will return for his senior season, because the coaching staff won’t turn their backs on a guy who they just gave a careerhigh in carries to against their biggest rival.

“I didn’t even notice I had 25 carries until the fourth quarter. I haven’t had that since my sophomore year in high school,” Jones

said.

Even though the chances of Armstrong going pro after this year were already pretty small, it is a greater comfort that he will be back to mentor young backs like sophomores Jahmir Smith and C’Bo Flemister and freshman Kyren Williams. But the biggest impact of Jones’ play is that the Irish have a workhorse running back who they can rely on to get necessary yardage and take care of the football. One of the mainstays of Kelly’s successful Irish teams has been a reliable run game, one that admittedly didn’t show up in week 4 against thenNo. 3 Georgia but is now hitting its stride, in no small part thanks to Jones.

“It feels good that I am working hard and that it is showing on the field,” he said. “Now I have to keep working harder to make this game look like every game.”

That shouldn’t be too hard with the kind of player and person Kelly says Jones is.

“You know, he plays through nicks and bumps,” Kelly said. “He practices hard. He’s a great teammate. Give me a boat load of Tony Joneses and I’ll take them in a heartbeat.”

Contact Hayden Adams at hadams3@nd.edu The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Irish sophomore wide receiver Braden Lenzy sprints in the open field toward the end zone during Notre Dame’s 30-27 victory against USC on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium.

After not seeing the field his freshman year, this season Lenzy has 155 total yards between rushing and receiving, averaging over 20 in both yards per carry and yards per catch.

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In a reverse play, Irish senior quarterback Ian Book tossed the ball to sophomore wide receiver Braden Lenzy, who took off toward the perimeter, pursued by a Trojans receiver. Lenzy was able to outstrip him and accelerated down the sideline. With his speed and a block by Chris Finke, the high school track star dove into the end zone for a 51-yard touchdown, putting an exclamation mark on a 17-point second quarter.

Junior Jonathan Doerer came into Saturday’s game with his career-high field goal distance at 36 yards. Right before halftime, he nailed a 45-yard field goal to give the Irish a 17-3 lead. He broke his personal best four minutes of gameplay later, knocking it through from 52 yards out — the longest Irish field goal since 2015 and tied for the third-longest in team history.

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Attorney General Barr speaks on campus Community protests White House official’s visit to law school

Lecture focuses on religious freedom, increased secularism

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U.S. Attorney General William Barr spoke at Notre Dame Law School on Friday evening, calling for a defense of Judeo-Christian values and religious freedom in response to growing secularism in America.

The event was reserved for students, faculty and staff of the Notre Dame Law School and de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, both of which

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Dozens gathered at the intersection of Eddy Street and Angela Road to protest Attorney General William Barr’s visit to Notre Dame on Friday.

The protest, which took place from 4-5 p.m., was organized by graduate student Andrew Cary and local activist groups MoveOn North Central Indiana, Indivisible Indiana and Northern Indiana Atheists.

At its peak, the protest involved

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United States Attorney General William Barr gave a lecture at the Notre Dame Law School centered around reviving Christian values in politics. During the lecture, he said society is in a state of moral chaos.

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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 ongoing series.

At the age of 85, Sister Elena Maltis is very familiar with Saint Mary’s campus — not only because she lives and teaches at the College, but also because she’s alum from the class of ‘56.

During her junior year at Saint Mary’s, Maltis was one of the first students to study abroad for an entire semester. She spent her time in Vienna.

“There was a group of about 20 girls and 20 guys and it was wonderful,” Maltis said. “I was the only Saint Mary’s person, however, my best friend from high school who went to a different college came with me.”

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The summer after her graduation and after much contemplation, Maltis decided to enter the sisterhood.

“When I was a sophomore in college I thought I was going to be engaged to a guy who was two years ahead of me at Notre Dame, and then he entered the priesthood which threw me for a loop,” Maltis said. “After I finished college I became more and more convinced that God wanted me to do this, but when I was sure I locked myself in my room and threw books against the wall, I was so mad.”

After her decision, Maltis taught for a year at a college and studied to get her Ph.D. in New York City. She studied at a convent across the street from Lincoln Center, and also spent time exploring the city going to Broadway plays and operas among other activities.

Soon after she finished her coursework in the fall of 1970, she found herself back in South Bend — at Saint Mary’s — teaching. see SISTER PAGE 4

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Notre Dame will host the first presidential debate of the 2020 election campaign on Sept.

29, 2020, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced at a Friday press conference. It will be the first presidential debate hosted at the University.

“Notre Dame — throughout

its history — has hosted presidents and world leaders, national figures,” Jenkins said.

“But this will be its first presidential debate, hosted here on campus. The world’s attention during that time will be on us, and will be on this region as journalists and many others descend for that period to report on and witness that debate.”

Jenkins said he thinks presidential debates hold a “sacred moment” in the democratic process.

“There is — as we all know — so much noise and spin and presentation with campaigns,” he said. “But that’s a time when candidates are asked to engage one another in see DEBATE PAGE 4

Justice Page reflects on football, law career

By GENEVIEVE REDSTEN News Writer

When the United States Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Alan Page was eight years old.

Growing up at a time when there wasn’t equal justice under the law, Page said, inspired him to pursue a career in law.

Almost 70 years later, Page is a retired Minnesota Supreme

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Court associate justice, a football hall of fame inductee and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. On Friday, Page spoke at Notre Dame Eck Hall of Law about the power of football, civil rights and justice.

“We all have within us the power and the ability to work towards whatever the objective is to try to make this world a better place, to try to ensure equal justice … to bend the moral arc — we all have

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that power,” Page said.

But, he added, this impact takes work.

“I think we have to be intentional about it,” he said. “It doesn’t just happen.”

Page was a defensive lineman for the Fighting Irish from 1963 to 1967, helping the team win the national championship in 1966. After earning his bachelor’s see JUSTICE PAGE 4

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By CIARA HOPKINSON News Writer

This year’s White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week began its effort to bring the conversation around pornography into the open on Monday morning with bagels and white ribbon pins outside DeBartolo Hall. Co-sponsored by Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP), the Gender Relations Center (GRC) and Campus Ministry, the fourth annual WRAP Week aimed to lay the groundwork for sincere dialogue about pornography in students’ lives.

Junior Ellie Gardey, co-president of SCOP, said in an email that the sponsors of the week “worked together to develop a program that educated the campus community about the harms of pornography, united the campus in prayer for those impacted by it, highlighted the success of major organizations in addressing pornography and connected students to resources that will give them hope and freedom.”

WRAP Week is largely studentdriven, with administrators at the GRC and Campus Ministry

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hosted the lecture. It took place in the McCartan Courtroom while another room in the law school streamed the speech to another crowd of ticket-holding students and faculty.

Barr began by discussing the new challenges the United States is facing today. It’s a difficulty he said the Founding Fathers foresaw as “the supreme test of a free society.”

“The central question was whether over the long haul, we the people can handle freedom,” Barr said. “The question was whether the citizens in such a free society could maintain the moral discipline and virtue necessary for the survival of free institutions.”

In the Founders’ view, Barr said, free government was only suitable for people who had the discipline to control themselves according to a transcendent moral order. As John Adams put it, he said, the United States Constitution was made only for “a moral and religious people.”

“Now, modern secularists dismiss this idea of morality as sort of otherworldly superstition imposed by a killjoy clergy,” Barr said.

“But in fact, Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate utilitarian rules for human conduct. They reflect the rules that are best for man not in the by-and-by but in the here-and-now.”

With escalating suicide rates, the drug epidemic, hate crimes and more, there is a campaign to “destroy the traditional moral order,” Barr said, and secularists ignore these results and press on with “even greater militancy.”

“Among the militant secularists are many so-called progressives,” he said. “But where is the progress?

providing guidance and support, Gardey said in an email. This year’s speakers and events highlighted the prevalence of pornography use, the breadth of its effects in society and the importance of support systems for those who struggle with pornography use.

“Pornography is an incredibly important conversation to have — it not only impacts an individual’s psychological, emotional and spiritual health but it also harms relationships and is a social justice issue,” GRC director Christine Gebhardt said in an email. “Pornography use is linked to sex trafficking, violence against women and targeting of vulnerable populations such as children.”

Donna Rice Hughes, an Internet safety expert and advocate, spoke Wednesday evening about a recent push to filter pornography in businesses.

“In her lecture, she provided valuable insight into reasons businesses are making this change such as workplace standards, safe environments and liability prevention,” Gardey said in an email.

“It is important for students to be aware of these changes so they can ethically run their own businesses

in the future.”

On Thursday, licensed counselor M.J. Vachon gave a talk about supporting loved ones with an addiction or dependence on pornography and creating a safe environment for talking about a delicate and often painful issue.

“I am particularly excited about her talk as it offers our students a way to make a change on our campus by helping one another in a nonjudgmental and loving way,” Gebhardt said in an email.

Mike Urbaniak, assistant director of pastoral care with Campus Ministry, said his conversations with students about their pornography use have been eye-opening and have shown him how isolated students can feel.

“We as a culture, I mean broadly, but also in particularly at Notre Dame, our challenge is to talk about sex and sexuality in a authentic and genuine way that allows people to really ask questions and be inquisitive,” Urbaniak said.

Urbaniak emphasized the similarities between Catholic Social Teaching and broader societal values, saying that both recognize and seek to promote human dignity and human flourishing.

While the fear of judgment can be a significant barrier to having genuine conversations about pornography, creating a supportive environment in which to do so can only make things better, Urbaniak said.

“The one challenge of having events is like, ‘Am I outing myself by coming to an event about pornography?’ The more we open up those spaces, I think the more people are willing to come forth in that and, and talk about it,” Urbaniak said.

In an email, Gebhardt said she has seen progress in generating those conversations over the years, but there is still a long way to go.

“It is my hope that WRAP Week will encourage us to not merely talk about these issues during October but throughout the year,” Gebhardt said in an email.

One of SCOP’s major efforts throughout the year is its petition to put a pornography filter on Notre Dame’s WiFi networks, an ongoing effort that the University has rejected in the past. The organization collected signatures on Friday in South Dining Hall.

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Policy will continue to call on Notre Dame to implement a filter on pornography like the filters at Holy Cross College down the street and the Catholic University of America,” Gardey said in an email. “The use of pornography on Notre Dame’s Wi-Fi network is already forbidden; the University should enforce that rule. The technology is easily available.”

WRAP Week ended Friday evening with a dinner and discussion of Fr. Terrence Ehrman C.S.C.’s 2017 book, “Man of God,” that tells a story of a man’s inner struggle to overcome a pornography addiction. The conversation brought the week to an optimistic end.

“Pornography pervades our society, but people often find it difficult to talk about because of fear and guilt. An accountability partner, a helpful friend, a significant other, a priest or a professional resource can all be invaluable resources to help people overcome struggles with pornography,” Gardey said in an email. “People should not have to fight their battles against pornography alone.”

We were told we are living in a postChristian era. But what has replaced the Judeo-Christian moral system? What is it that can fill the spiritual void in the hearts of the individual person? And what is the system of values that can sustain human social life?”

There used to be a self-healing mechanism that would get things back on course if they go too far in society, Barr said. That may not be the case today, he argued, due to three forces — the first being the “organized destruction” on religion by secularists and their allies.

Secondly, instead of addressing underlying causes of moral chaos today, Barr said society has now cast the state as the alleviator of bad consequences.

“So the reaction to growing illegitimacy is not sexual responsibility, but abortion,” he said. “The reaction to drug addiction is safe injection sites...The call comes for more and more social programs to deal with this wreckage — and while we think we’re solving problems, we are underwriting them.”

The third phenomenon he noted is the law being used to break down traditional moral values, and to force religious people and entities to subscribe to practices antithetical to their faith.

“The problem is not that religion is being forced on others, the problem is that irreligion is being forced — secular values are being forced on people of faith,” he said.

Because the Trump administration “firmly supports” accommodation of religion, Barr said, this battleground has largely shifted to the states.

“Ground zero for these attacks on religion are the schools, and to me this is the most serious challenge to religious liberty today,” he said.

There are three fronts for the battle being waged in schools, he said. First is the public school curriculum, with states adopting curriculum incompatible with Judeo-Christian principles. He used New Jersey’s passing of a law requiring public schools to adopt LGBT curriculum as an example.

The second axis of attack involves states enacting policies “designed to starve religious schools” of funds, he said, encouraging students to choose secular options for schooling.

The third assault on religious freedom in schools, Barr asserted, includes efforts to force religious schools to adhere to secular orthodoxy through state laws.

If these measures are successful, those with religious convictions will become more marginalized, Barr said.

Barr emphasized the importance of the “moral education” of children today.

“We cannot have a moral Renaissance unless we succeed in passing to the next generation our faith and values in full vigor,” he said. “ ... If ever there was a need for a resurgence of Catholic education, and more generally religiously affiliated schools, it is today.”

Barr closed his lecture by calling for vigilance in resisting efforts by secularists to “drive religious viewpoints from the public square.”

His lecture was followed by a Q&A session, which was closed to the press.

A recording obtained by The Observer, however, shows Barr fielded questions about the difference between working as Attorney General for President Donald Trump than under former president George H.W. Bush. He also discussed the digital age, hate in America, bipartisan support

behind examining big tech companies and his views on immigration.

Along with more polarization today, Barr said things “on the outside” move faster with technology and things “on the inside” are moving slower as compared to his experience under Bush.

“Why things move more slowly in the department, I’m not sure, I’m trying to figure that out,” Barr said.

“But I think part of it is of course the environment, people are more afraid of making difficult decisions and they try to finesse the problem rather than squarely deal with it.”

Barr said a serious problem is the rise of hate crimes in America, with many directed primarily at Jews and Muslims.

“I don’t know as much about the religion of Islam, but generally speaking as an Abrahamic religion, what I said about JudeoChristianity and the importance of ensuring the ability to freely exercise your religion applies to Muslims in this country,” he said.

Catholic schools today are being discredited for teaching hate, Barr said.

“Traditional religious doctrine is now being defined as hate,” he said. “ ... That’s used as a basis for trying to silence teaching of those traditional doctrines and moral precepts.”

On immigration, Barr said the problem he has is the unfairness with allowing people to “stand in line at the front door” while others “break into the back door.”

“One of the major problems [with illegal immigration] is the use of the asylum system, asylum or refugees, that is a system distinctive that is meant to deal with sort of exigent circumstances of someone who’s facing, you know, real harm in their country like persecution, fear of death, that kind of

thing,” he said.

Students in attendance at the lecture spoke to The Observer about their reactions to his speech.

Second-year law student Krystal Moczygemba said she had no idea what to expect but was struck by some of Barr’s insight.

“I thought he did a really great job of just presenting a topic area on something that all of us would be interested in,” she said. “ … His insight into the idea of self-governance and how that plays a role in how we view responsibility and moral accountability was I thought very interesting — I thought in a good way.”

Second-year law student Owen Fitzgerald said in an email he thought Barr brushed past the Establishment Clause to form an argument that America was founded as a Christian nation.

“Hearing the United States Attorney General blame ‘militant secularists’ for current American issues such as the drug crisis is as concerning as it is bizarre,” Fitzgerald said. “It should worry anyone who recognizes that the Establishment Clause is meant to keep government officials from acting to favor one religious view over another.”

Even so, Fitzgerald said he respects the law school’s decision to invite Barr.

“Now we know exactly what’s running through Barr’s head when he makes important decisions regarding the government’s role in religious matters,” Fitzgerald said.

“I trust that in the future the law school will be as willing to invite someone to speak who believes it is not the government’s role to advocate for religion.”

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Maltis said she was extra busy during her first years of teaching because she was writing her 400-page dissertation at the same time.

Over the years she has taught many courses within the religious studies department.

“You name it I taught it,” Maltis said. “I taught everything in the catalog, but as time went on I specialized in certain things.

Very often I taught ‘Theology and Biography’ where we would read the auto-biography or biography of a famous person and then discuss it. Students really liked that and found that they were touched in ways they never knew.”

Maltis formally retired at the end of the ‘90s, and then moved into the convent as a result of her Type 1 diabetes. However, she still wanted to teach and now teaches one discussion-based course called “Theology and Film.”

“I have found that a lot of Saint Mary’s students are better at writing than they are at talking, so if you really know something you can talk about it, so I insist that this is a discussion course,” Maltis said. “What I’ve learned best about teaching I’ve learned in the film course and that the important thing is the questions you ask not the answers you give.

That’s really interesting because it changes your perspective on teaching.”

Currently, in Maltis’ free time she mainly stays in her room enjoying reading, her computer and watching movies and the news.

“When you teach as long as I do, you have hundreds of books and you love to read them all,” Maltis said.

She also is the convent’s director of the pet therapy program.

Maltis brings different types of dogs around to the sisters almost every night of the week.

“I make sure that the dog is friendly and a good fit for the sisters and not afraid of wheelchairs or walkers,” Maltis said.

“People hear about the program and bring their dogs in, we have a good bunch of dogs that interact with the sisters.”

In addition to teaching, Maltis was heavily involved in Saint Mary’s relationship with Notre Dame and instrumental changes within the University. Maltis taught courses with a few Notre Dame priests and was the chair of the committee that made Notre Dame co-ed.

“I was in my room reading when I got a telephone call from the provost at Notre Dame at the time,” Maltis said. “He asked me to be the chair [of the committee] and I thought ‘You’ve got to be kidding me’ because I did not want to lose any friends from Saint Mary’s or Notre Dame, but I ended up doing it because I thought I could do some good. We did in three months what it took Harvard and Yale to do in three years.”

degree from Notre Dame, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round and won the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award in 1971.

But Page’s legacy extends far beyond football. While still playing professional football, Page enrolled at the University of Minnesota Law School, earning his J.D. in 1978. In 1992, he was elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court, where he served until 2015.

“I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say Justice Alan Page is the reason why I am here,” Notre Dame Law School dean G. Marcus Cole said. “He’s a hero of mine since I was a child, on and off the field.”

Although Page was a highly visible figure at Notre Dame, he also said he dealt with the struggles of being a racial minority. Jennifer Mason McAward, the Director of the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, asked Page how being one of roughly 30 students of color on campus at the time affected his college experience.

That minority experience, Page said, “gives you an understanding of what change needs to be.” The lack of racial diversity, he added, was not “by accident but by design.”

Page and his wife Diane, who passed away in 2018, developed a large collection of slave-era and Jim Crow artifacts. Page said he amassed this collection so future generations will not forget the history of racial injustice in the United States.

As Americans across the country debate whether or not to remove Confederate monuments, Page said it is vitally important that we understand what those monuments truly represent.

“I want that slave collar there so that people understand just what that history meant,” he said. “It’s not this gallant figure on a horse. It is about the subjugation of one human being by another.”

Page is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, so when Page learned that the president wanted to honor him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he initially struggled to accept the award. But, he said he ultimately decided the award stood for much more than his personal accomplishments.

“The things I have done in my life, I haven’t done alone,” he said. “I have had the privilege of standing on the shoulders of untold people — some known, some unknown.”

Page said he owed his legacy to the people who made his success possible.

“My ancestors who came to this country in the belly of the slave ship, my children who have supported me every step of the way in everything I’ve done, the people who died, who gave their lives, so that somebody like me — somebody with skin the color of mine — would have a fair opportunity to achieve … those people contributed in untold ways to who I am,” he said.

serious debate about serious topics so that we can inform voters. And that’s why we’re so excited to host this event at Notre Dame because it is that sacred moment in our democracy when we have that discussion.”

Though details have yet to be worked out, Jenkins said the debate will take place in the Joyce Center and will involve “elaborate” security preparations. Tickets will be “very limited,” he said, though a specific manner of distributing tickets has not been discerned.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, the body that organizes debates and of which Jenkins is a member, considers a variety of topics when selecting a venue. Jenkins said the group tends to favor universities because of their educational mission. In addition to the event at Notre Dame, the vice presidential debate will take place at the University of Utah. The other two presidential debates will take place at the University of Michigan and Belmont University in Nashville.

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about 100 people, with demonstrators gathered on all four corners of the intersection. Nearly 1,000 people expressed interest in the event on Facebook.

During the protest, organizers passed out fliers and whistles in solidarity with the whistleblower who brought to light President Donald Trump’s conversations with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, which led the House of Representatives to open an impeachment inquiry on Sept.

24.

Barr was pulled into the inquiry after the New York Times reported Trump offered to have him help Zelensky discredit the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

According to the Department of Justice, Barr did not discuss the matter with Ukraine and was not aware Trump offered his help to Zelensky until months afterwards.

While the protest stirred south of campus, Barr delivered a talk on religious freedom to a full audience in the McCartan Courtroom. The ticketed event was open to students, faculty and staff of the Notre Dame Law School and de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture only.

The University did not publicize Barr’s visit, claiming limited seating.

The general public caught wind of the lecture when an anonymous community member distributed fliers about the

“It’s a public process in which various venues can submit applications,” Jenkins said. “The Commission on Presidential Debates has favored universities because they feel it’s part of the education of young citizens to be part of these debates and to witness them. You’re asked to submit an application — a number of institutions did so. They come and visit your institution, and then they make a decision among their candidates. It has to do with a number of different considerations.”

Jenkins praised his team for their work in bringing the event to Notre Dame. He said the school’s experience with major events likely helped its application.

“I have to give a compliment to my team … it’s a very complicated logistical enterprise. My team did such a good job in presenting this,” Jenkins said. “We have the advantage of [hosting] 85,000 — 100,000 people, probably — seven times a year for football games, so we know how to do big events. I think the University presented itself very well through my colleagues. … I think that had an influence on the decision.”

Jenkins said the debate fits with past Notre Dame efforts to bring in high-level political leaders to campus from various different political backgrounds. According to press literature distributed at the conference, Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have previously spoken on campus. President John F. Kennedy was awarded an honorary degree when he was a congressman.

“I think our democracy so badly needs a place where we can have serious conversations,” Jenkins said. “Our politics have been taken over by tweets and by slogans.

We need to engage seriously about serious topics from across the political spectrum, the whole political spectrum.

That has always been the case. We’ve always [brought] leaders from various parties, various figures to talk seriously about issues. I see these debates as a particularly powerful expression of that effort to provide a forum where we can have serious conversations in our democracy about challenges facing us.”

event. Cary said he and the other organizers began planning the protest not long after.

“I was just posting in different groups about if there was going to be some sort of demonstration, and [MoveOn] reached out to me and offered for me to take the lead and just be the face, talk to the media, try to invite people,” he said.

Cary said though he supports the University’s open speaker policy, he believes it especially important that events with controversial speakers be open to the public.

“College is all about learning different things, hearing opposing viewpoints,” he said.

“I don’t want this school to be a ‘safe space,’ or anything like that. If they really want the student body to be exposed to different opinions, and viewpoints and individuals, they should have these things be open to people.”

With no means of attending the lecture, however, Cary said protesting was the best alternative.

“I would have loved to have to have gone and listened to what he had to say, but since we don’t have that opportunity, we’re out here demonstrating against what the president and his administration are doing with this impeachment inquiry,” he said.

Laureen Fagan, a South Bend resident, said she joined in the demonstration out of a sense of civic duty.

“The rapid disintegration of what most of us have thought were our democratic values is shocking,” she said. “And this

is basically not my scene — I don’t like to do this, and I rarely do. But I feel an obligation. If he’s appearing at the University today, and I live here in town, I feel an obligation to be present and to make clear that this is unacceptable.”

On Oct. 2, about 30 gathered to protest Barr’s visit to Wichita State University, the Wichita Eagle reported.

Graduate student Maureen McDermott, who attended Friday’s demonstration, said she suspected Notre Dame refrained from publicizing Barr’s lecture for fear of similar backlash.

“I think they kind of were afraid of stuff like this happening,” she said.

Graduate student Laura Ortiz, who also protested, said she was disappointed with how Notre Dame handled Barr’s visit.

“This whole event was kind of kept hidden from us — it was very shady, no one really knew that it was happening,” she said. “We just learned about it a couple of days ago.”

Ortiz said Barr’s political track record should be a cause for concern for Notre Dame.

“We should be a community for the people, a community sharing love, compassion, and this person that they just invited doesn’t represent any of that,” she said. “If Notre Dame really wants to take care of its Christian community, why would you invite someone attacking our rights?”

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For the love of letters Hanna Kennedy Scene Writer

When was the last time you sat down, put pen to paper, and wrote a letter? If it’s been a while — or maybe never — here are my top five reasons why you should.

1. Improve your handwriting This is probably the most trivial benefit of writing letters, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth mentioning. We all didn’t spend hours upon hours practicing our cursive in third grade only for it to go to waste in college. Or at least that’s what your third-grade teacher wants to think. Yet even if you’re like me and are already incapable of writing cursive — or legible print for that matter⁠ — that’s okay. Letter writing is practice and practice makes perfect.

2. Gain a moment of reflection Texting is convenient because it’s fast. Writing a letter forces you to slow down and to think. Depending on who you’re writing to, it can be an opportunity for gratitude, appreciation, meditation, just about anything.

And years later, the letters themselves will be great reminders to you and your correspondents about what was going on in your respective lives at the time. Write about how the latest Viewpoint war made you feel. Write about Billy Joel coming to campus in June. The latest football game. Squirrels. Anything. See them as your own personal time capsule in the making.

3. Surprise your loved ones Getting mail used to be fun. Now⁠ it’s always bills and advertisements. Imagine your mom or your grandpa or even your next-door neighbor’s face if he or she were to open up the mailbox and see a handwritten letter sent from someone that cares about them — and a perpetually stressed, busy, sleep-deprived college student at that. You can be the person to rescue friends and family from the drudgery of modern mail. The postal worker might even see your letter, be inspired and write his own. You could start a movement.

4. Maintain and make friendships Writing a letter confirms the importance of a relationship. The act of taking the time out of your day and deliberately putting pen to paper is a big gesture in the era of technology. There’s a reason that the act of writing love letters has survived. If you’re looking to expand your social network, a pen pal is a great way to connect with someone from a different culture or with someone that shares your same interests. There’s organizations that will connect you with just about any kind of letter writing opportunity imaginable, from practicing foreign language skills to appreciating Jane Austen.

5. Join a greater tradition James Joyce wrote letters. Alexander Hamilton did too. They’re not called emails to the Corinthians. You might say it’s just because these people were alive before the age of email, but try to imagine Abraham Lincoln’s emails in a museum. It just doesn’t have the same effect. If you want to go down in history, I suggest writing letters. The curators of the future will thank you.

If I haven’t persuaded you yet, maybe an appeal to every college student’s fondness for procrastination from Ernest Hemingway will: “Don’t you like to write letters? I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something.”

Next time you don’t feel like writing that paper or studying for that exam, I hope you write a letter.

Contact Hanna Kennedy at hkenned2@nd.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of

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Brennan Buhr God, Notre Dame, Country

The Catholic faith, rightly understood, is a living witness to the person of Christ. I write on behalf of the thousands of other men and women on this campus who recognize that our active, personal faith demands an unapologetically pro-life response to the contemporary culture of death, especially to the tragedy of abortion.

Without a doubt, Maggie Garnett and Molly Queal’s gem of a letter to the editor was desperately needed in the current campus conversation on pro-life topics. I have quite honestly lost track of the number of letters and columns I have read in these pages over the past two weeks which not only demonize but also fundamentally mischaracterize the purpose of Respect Life Week in particular and pro-life beliefs more generally.

Clearly, the past two weeks of incessantly hostile letters to the editor against pro-lifers has demonstrated that a significant number of Notre Dame undergraduates know very little about the Catholic Church’s definitive teachings on these matters, which St. John Paul II eloquently conveys in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (in English, The Gospel of Life). Anyone who wants to understand the pro-life perspective ought to be aware of the arguments this great pope and saint presents in his letter.

One of John Paul II’s chief concerns in Evangelium Vitae is to identif y the “culture of death” which pervades the modern world. He describes this culture as “a war of the powerful against the weak,” a terrif ying “conspiracy against life” which comfortably finds a home within an intensely secular, individualist culture. Perhaps most importantly, this culture promotes a warped concept of conscience that rejects our social responsibility for the most vulnerable among us, especially the unborn. On the other hand, the “culture of life” affirms the lesson of Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis that “every man is his ‘brother’s keeper’” (Gen 4:9).

The gift of human freedom “possesses an inherently relational dimension” that conscience binds us to uphold, for freedom can only exist when it is linked to this essential truth.

This reality of conscience has been articulated by educated and simple folks alike throughout history and in fiction, from St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Henry Newman to Pinocchio and Buzz Lightyear. The typical God-fearing man or woman perceives conscience to be an active echo or an inner voice pointing beyond itself to bear witness to truth and advise us how to act toward others in accordance with that very same truth. Men and women of good will who listen to the demands of conscience cannot separate truth as a mere ideal from its active component.

Hence, pro-lifers like myself understand that conscience urges us in this overtly secularized age to train our activism most specifically

against the tragedy of abortion which, far from the normal medical procedure that liberal individualist ideolog y distressingly identifies it to be, has destroyed tens of millions of lives since Roe v. Wade was established in 1973. For us, fighting to overturn Roe in American law is only part of the responsibility we have to defend all life from conception until natural death. More imminently and locally, we have a responsibility to aid women with unintended pregnancies, a loving task which the Women’s Care Center has taken up with outstanding results over the past few decades, and to pray for the conversion of souls away from either seeking an abortion or actively participating in the abortion industry. Though we surely pray for an end to Roe when we attend the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, for example, we pray even more strongly for the mothers and babies who are most vulnerable to the exploitative machinery which our society’s present abortion regime advances.

In South Bend, there is only one comprehensive abortion provider that possesses this machinery in a literal sense: W hole Woman’s Health, the site of Notre Dame Right to Life’s recent morning vigil culminating Respect Life Week, which has been so blatantly mischaracterized and angrily condemned over the past two weeks. The facility was closed at the time, but we nonetheless prayed for the conversion of souls and an end to abortion there and every where with our most effective weapon, the Rosary.

We prayed and will continue to pray there because we reject the logic that women facing unexpected pregnancies are best served by an impersonal, dehumanizing apparatus of death. The “choice” of abortion that the culture of death has coerced them to make can and must in fact be reversed before a woman walks through the clinic door. W hen a woman sees dozens upon dozens of young men and women praying for her across the street because they love her, though they may not even know her name, and ponders these things in her heart, she will be inclined to consider the life inside of her in a new light. She will be moved by grace to consider choosing life for her baby, the only choice which affirms her dignity as a relational person, as a person with a conscience, as a person who is created by and for love.

Ref lect upon the Gospel of Life. Pray for an end to abortion. Bear witness to the culture of life. Indeed, every single man and woman is “her sister’s keeper.”

Brennan Buhr is a senior Juggerknott from Albany, New York, 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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Cultural colonialism Sophia Sheehy BridgeND

For many, Columbus Day is a 19th centur y holiday in a 21st centur y world. It is not a harmless celebration of the old world meeting the new. It is the glorification of colonialism, a catch-all term for the social maladies that no longer plague a diverse and progressive society: paternalism, exploitation, coercive conversion. Yet it is exactly the denouncers of this holiday who enforce the subtle but per vasive colonialism that defines the cultural moment.

This is the age of cultural colonization of Trump voters, with elitists as its conquistadores.

To be clear, this declaration of new age colonialism has nothing to do with Trump himself, whose poor policy decisions, unbecoming character and lack of dignity for himself or his office have defamed American democracy. It also has nothing to do with college educated, white collar Trump voters, whose motives and place in society are an entirely different beast. And, before being labelled racist or insensitive, I am referring to cultural colonialism, which lacks the harsher physical abuse and enslavement that, at times, marked the colonization of the New World.

Rather, I am describing the cultural conquest of a Middle America subjugated by coastal elites.

Before denying the allegation, ask yourself honestly who the most overtly reviled group in America is. Certainly a number of minorities pop into one’s head as possible answers, but none of them in popular culture would be described, without back lash and rebuke, as backwards, provincial, even savagely simple-minded. At this point — especially if, like me, you are from a city or the prosperous suburbs thereof — you might retort “But they are all those things !” I’d imagine that is what many of Columbus and

Pizarro’s friends thought too. How quickly we condemn what we cannot understand.

There is no room to consider why it is they feel differently about certain issues, and suggesting some of their concerns might be valid is blasphemous. No attempt is made to understand, only attempts to find platforms to vent frustration that they will not change or that they have a voice at all: If only we could show them why they are wrong about trade, the environment, political correctness, the Confederate f lag, the role of government, gay marriage ... If only Trump voters were better educated on the issues ... Not ever yone in this countr y should be able to vote. It appears paternalism has sunk itself deep into an ideolog y built on despising it. And if blue collar Trump voters are not hated, then they are pitied. Their small town, community-oriented life is a drear y existence compared to our sacred, godless cities. If only we could save them from themselves.

Like Spaniards forcing Indians to convert to a new God, like explorers mocking traditional headdress, the coercive conversion of rural Trump voters is as palpable as it is sanctimonious. Ever y year there are more offenses added to the list of prohibited words, more atrocities we label the modern white man responsible for, more guilt we demand they feel about who they are, how they think and the way they live. The drivers of culture are pushing the speed limits and getting angr y at passengers experiencing whiplash. All the while, the job security of trade barriers gives way to the efficiency of globalism. W hat a shame they put so much faith in an economic system that has no remorse sacrificing pawns. Granted, it is not quite exploitation because it is voluntar y. They wanted that system, they were proud to finish the day with dirty hands. And for that, they are shown no mercy when they vote for a man who, for once, pretends

to empathize.

Still, it is almost understandable that many have such have trouble looking past opinions of Trump countr y that seem hostile towards their own. Yet ironically, those same people are all too willing to ignore the brutal cruelties and murderous habits of certain Indian tribes, opting instead to whitewash them in order to unilaterally sanctif y them.

Put aside Columbus’s legacy, a poorly informed yet often debated topic around this time of year.

Put aside the fact that, for hundreds of years, this day has been a celebrator y moment for Catholics under persecution in America. Let us, as many liberals do, ignore the nuances of the holiday and simply brand it a celebration of colonialism. I can envision a world, not too different from our own, where liberals are the defenders of such a holiday, precisely because it represents colonialism, an idea that in name they renounce, but in practice they worship. Perhaps Columbus Day can yet ser ve a new purpose, to remind us of a lesson that should have been learned long ago about those foreign to us, whose lifestyles and culture might offend our own: we have just as much to learn from them as they do from us.

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Letter to the editor

Indigenous people’s day We, the Native American Student Association of Notre Dame, would like to extend an inv itation to the Universit y and its students to join us in celebration of the Indigenous people of America by declaring Monday, October 14th, 2019 “Indigenous People’s Day” on the campus of Notre Dame.

W hile we are definitely happy w ith the universit y’s decision on the Columbus Murals, we feel the declaration would ser ve as another step in the right direction in improv ing the school’s relationship w ith its indigenous students. We ask the Universit y to honor its self-proclaimed commitment to “Respect the dignit y of ever y person”, “Build a Notre Dame communit y in which all f lourish,” and “Live in solidarit y w ith all, particularly the most v ulnerable.” These beliefs

would be put into action by show ing solidarit y w ith the indigenous people attending Notre Dame.

By recognizing Indigenous People’s Day, Notre Dame would join a grow ing list of states, cities, and universities across the countr y in honoring the people who were on this land first. Similarly prestigious institutions like Brow n Universit y, Cornell Universit y, Sy racuse Universit y and Stanford Universit y have already honored marginalized peoples by declaring the second Monday of October Indigenous People’s Day. States like Minnesota, Vermont and South Dakota have also adopted some form of the holiday. Across 24 other states, cities have celebrated Indigenous People’s Day. We ask that the Universit y act in accordance

w ith its beliefs of fostering a welcoming env ironment, respecting the dignit y of ever y person, and liv ing in solidarit y w ith v ulnerable members of its student body, all beliefs rooted in Catholic Social Teaching. A statement by itself means nothing, it requires action. By declaring Monday, October 14th, 2019, Indigenous People’s Day, Notre Dame would be putting those words into action.

Regardless of the Universit y’s decision, NASAND w ill be celebrating Indigenous People’s Day and we inv ite the entire Notre Dame family to join us in celebration.

Native American Student Association of Notre Dame Oct. 14

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Crossword | Will Shortz

Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Set precise goals, but be willing to make changes as you forge into the future. Now is not the time for patience or procrastination, it’s the time to take action and make the most of the opportunities that come your way. Changes in your financial situation, health and contractual agreements look favorable; however, he who hesitates is lost. Your numbers are 5, 13, 17, 25, 34, 37, 46.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Spend time sorting out any differences you have with someone you love. Working in unison to reach a similar goal will help you bring about the changes you are hoping to make a little faster.

Love is in the stars.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your changing attitude will push you to new levels.

Consider partnering with people who share your opinion but have something different to offer. Discuss your ideas and feelings with someone you love. A decision will lead to an improved lifestyle.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Just do it. Take on a physical challenge that will encourage you to improve your health and fitness. Surround yourself with people who are energetic, proactive and eager to make life better, not those who are wasteful or excessive.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):Get involved in something you’ve never done before or with people who have something unique to offer. Discussions will inspire you to try something new that will enhance your skills and your knowledge. A partnership handled properly will lead to greater stability.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Say less, and do more. You’ll be remembered for what you contribute, not what you tell people or the criticisms you point out. Look inward, and focus on personal growth, not trying to change others. Put your ego aside and do what’s right.

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Shake hands before the game David Kramer Sports Writer

The art of a good handshake.

I suspect that this phrase hardly staggers readers. A commonly recycled part of our lexicon, this paradigmatic idea, at surface level, seems paradoxical. How could a human gesture so straightforward have intrinsic artistic value?

The audacity of America to taint something so aesthetic, steeped with generations of inspired pioneers, with a simple slap of the hand! Certainly we ought not deem ourselves so uncultured!

Nevertheless, Americans share a far less narrow conception or art. The young musician at a local coffee house unveiling a new acoustic cover, voice cracks and all. The amateur photographer’s latest attempt at panning, an obscure mix of blur and color. A young millennial’s recent blog update on their experience at Starbucks.

Albeit far from the grandiose masterpieces that merit the real estate of multi-story museums or record labels, the genuine expressions of how we, as humans, understand the world around us deserve distinction as uniquely artistic.

Under this logic, then, extending a hand to individuals, known or unknown, acts no differently. We invade the personal space of a new acquaintance, offer a cultural sign of respect, and gain respect in return. Put simply, we show the people around us that we care.

This sentiment falls by the wayside in the heat of a sports rivalry, and understandably so.

During my days of Minnesota hockey, I stepped on the ice with the expectation to hear unspeakable attacks on my abilities, my girlfriend and my sisters. Amidst the distant screams and chants of fans, if I ever hoped to talk trash (an utter imperative, otherwise what would you ever talk about on the commute home?), I needed to know how to grit my teeth and bear it, too.

Adrenaline surges, the

atmosphere roars and yells from behind the bench only intensify. A cloud of hysteria pervades the arena, and with everyone at peak performance, nothing stands in my way.

Bodies clatter against the glass. A quick retaliating blow as I skate through the collision with a defamatory cuss. Did he just spit in my face?

By the time the dreaded final buzzer sounds, the contest now feels personal, provocative, undeniably bigger than a mere game. And yet, I pick up my head, force my emotions to fall back to earth and congratulate the enemies I’ve made in the course of two hours.

Current and former players know the story, one that seemingly rewrites itself at the threshold of sports’ newest era of trash talkers. Sure, rivalries teach us to defend ourselves, but in many cases, the abusive repercussions of confrontational sports reduce to rubble the possibility of genuine appreciation for opponents.

The world deserves to bring the art of a good handshake back to sports. No matter the brawling, no matter the trash talking, everyone deserves to receive some sort of genuine recognition for their play. While certainly not the traditional postgame gesture of “good game,” at least with a preliminary expression of “good luck,” fans, teammates and opponents find rest in knowing that every kid in that line means it.

Several hockey leagues across Minnesota now value this mutuality, but for the sake of our next generation of artists across the country, every contact sports organization should feel compelled to follow suit.

After all, without expressing that we, deep down, care about our bitter rivals, what makes the two hours of trash talking, mocking and fighting worthwhile anyway?

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us, we didn’t get those kinds of opportunities,” Kelly said. “It was just the structure of the way USC played us more than any issues relative to his preparedness. He was prepared to play kind of what we had talked about earlier, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 plays. But the way, again, they defended us didn’t allow him to get as many opportunities as we had thought.”

Kelly also went on to reflect on the maturity of his squad not only Saturday night but in general this season.

“I just think it’s a mature team in the way that they handle themselves. They know that they have to work. They know that they have to do the little things the right way, embrace some of the difficulties of preparing whether it be the weight room or the extra film time, practicing for two hours and putting in the time. I just think that they handle it with a mindset that we’re embracing this and it’s part of what you have to do to be successful,” Kelly said. “And then on game day, they flip that practice mentality to a competitive mindset. They just love to compete and they don’t get ahead of themselves. They stay one play at a time and stay pretty locked in. I think that’s what we’ve seen in terms of how they’ve competed all year so far.”

Although senior quarterback Ian Book did not put on his best performance

Saturday night, Kelly said he is confident in the senior’s decision making and overall development.

“The quarterback is always going to be scrutinized to a level that is fair, unfair — you can always do that. He led our football team to a victory against USC, we put 30 points on the board, didn’t turn the football over and used his legs to really spur us on late in the game. If you really want to talk about what you want from your quarterback is you want him to be a guy that helps you win games and he is helping us win games,” he said. “Can he be better in certain areas?

Absolutely. And I think he would tell you that. But he’s making good decisions. He’s taking care of the football.

He’s using all of his assets to his ability, meaning running and throwing and he’s working on the things he needs to work at each and every week.

I’m proud of what he’s doing.”

Senior running back Tony Jones Jr. also had a fantastic game against the Trojans, and Brian Kelly expressed his confidence in the running back unit as a whole.

“I think Jahmir [Smith, sophomore,] is a physical runner. He has got a little bit of an explosive step to him. But a big back, similar to Tony. C’Bo [Flemister, sophomore,] we saw, he’s got some elusiveness to him, hard to bring down, and then obviously, what we’ve seen from [sophomore] Avery Davis is a guy that can be very effective as a pass-catcher out of the backfield. That’s really where it is now until we

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get Jafar, which he’s a little bit of all those things when you put them all together. He’s got some explosiveness, he’s got some size, he’s got the ability to catch the football,” he said.

“So Jafar has been that guy that has a little bit of all those together, but obviously the injury has put him in a position where we haven’t been able to see that and hopefully moving forward we will.”

Kelly went on to reflect on his team’s performance thus far, commenting specifically on how each week has presented a new challenge for this squad.

“Just the way we’ve had to win each game. It’s been a little bit different. Each week has required our team to find different ways to win. This week was a team that was very difficult to defend in the passing game.

Georgia was a team that obviously beat us, but we had to defend a great running game.

Virginia, they had a quarterback that we had to contain.

So it just seems like each week it’s been a different challenge for us and finding different ways to win,” Kelly said. “I just liked the fact that our guys, regardless of what the situation is, can adapt and adjust during the game, late in the game, to whatever the situation is and find ways to win games. That’s a mark … Really, at the end of the day, what you’re looking for is a team that believes and knows how to win, regardless of the circumstances finds ways to win games.”

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the wet conditions, Turnbull held onto the ball, preventing any rebound opportunities.

Notre Dame dominated much of the next ten minutes, earning a free kick and a corner kick. Farrelly got his foot on the free kick, but he was unable to muster up too much power behind the shot, and Pulisic easily collected it.

With 35:16 left in the first half, Notre Dame appeared to have achieved their muchneeded breakthrough, as Jack Lynn served in a cross to the far post, where junior midfielder Aiden McFadden redirected it into the back of the net with a well-timed header. However, the whistle blew, and a call that was never made clear by the referees negated the goal. Replays didn’t appear to show an Irish player slipping offsides or committing any obvious foul, and for the second straight home game, after a controversial penalty kick sunk the Irish against No. 1 Virginia, Notre Dame was victimized by the whistle as the game remained scoreless.

After Notre Dame kept up the pressure for a few minutes after their negated goal, Duke gained their footing and began applying pressure on the Irish back line. With just under 31 minutes to go, Wright wound up from about 15 yards out but saw his blast

blocked by a defender. The ball trickled to the right, and Blue Devils senior midfielder Suniel Veerakone saw his opportunity and sent a rocket on target. Turnbull seemed to see the ball late, but he reacted well and made a stunning save, diving and punching the ball away with his right palm.

“That was great. That was a big boost for his confidence,” Notre Dame head coach Chad Riley said of the save. “He was really locked in and reacted very well and made a great save.”

Shortly after, Duke senior defender Max Moser saw a promising cross def lected out of danger, and dangerous senior Duke midfielder Daniele Proch would go on a strong run up the right sideline, touching the ball past a sliding Irish defender before dragging his shot just wide of the left post. For Proch, it was about his only quality chance of the night, as the Irish swarmed Duke’s main playmaker all night, giving him neither time or space on the ball. Proch entered the game as Duke’s leading goal scorer with eight goals, but his effort in the 23rd minute would be his only shot attempt of the game.

All in all, Notre Dame allowed just six shot attempts from the Blue Devils, with only one requiring a save from Turnbull.

Afterwards, Riley was extremely complimentary of his

team’s performance, particularly neutralizing opposing playmakers.

“You always want to be good defensively, and I think we’ve been doing better,” he said. “You just need to be aware of a player like [Proch], and I think we did a good job and didn’t give him a lot of space. I think our defenders played fantastic tonight.”

From that point on, Duke created minimal chances offensively, with a Moser shot slipping wide being their only opportunity the rest of the half. They had Pulisic to thank for entering halftime scoreless, as the Duke keeper denied a left-footed volley from Lynn with a diving lefthanded save.

The second half did not begin auspiciously for the Irish, as the Blue Devils created a strong chance in the first fifteen seconds. Moser collected a long ball off the kickoff, and his cross was blocked for a Duke corner kick. The ensuing kick was cleared without major issues, but it was still not the start the Irish wanted.

However, after the first minute of play, Notre Dame largely dominated the second half.

Senior striker John Rea overran a well-played ball in the middle of the box from about twelve yards out and couldn’t convert the scoring opportunity.

Graduate student set piece specialist and captain Felicien Dumas had several opportunities with two

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Irish sophomore midfielder Mohamed Omar passes the ball during Notre Dame’s 1-0 home victory against Denver on Sept. 8. Omar has netted two goals this year.

corner kicks and a free kick, but Duke prevented any shots on target. The game settled down a little bit, and when Notre Dame finally struck, it came out of nowhere.

After struggling to convert strong chances for much of the game, sophomore defender Philip Quinton took a free kick from the midfield stripe and simply played a short pass to the other side of the pitch. The ensuing long ball was headed away by a Duke defender, and the chance seemed to be over. However, senior midfielder Jack Casey, playing his first full game back from injury, headed the ball back to the corner of the box, where it was collected by freshman defender Mohammad Abualnadi.

Fending off multiple Duke defenders, Abualnadi pushed the ball to Lynn, who took a quick touch and curved his shot into the lower right corner, just beyond the reach of Pulisic. Exactly four weeks after Lynn scored in the 61st minute against Clemson, the sophomore forward let out an emphatic yell as the Irish broke through once more against a conference opponent.

The Irish, despite being up 1-0, continued to push hard against the Duke defenders, earning another corner kick and sending two more shots off frame. Meanwhile, as they sought to see out their victory, Notre Dame denied the Blue Devils any major

chances.

Farrelly collected a cross and used an athletic bicycle kick to send the ball well away from danger. Duke got three more corners, but Notre Dame’s defense prevented any quality chances out of the set pieces.

With six minutes to play, Duke senior midfielder Brandon Williamson attempted a shot from distance, but his effort sailed well over the crossbar. With two and a half minutes left on the clock, Turnbull rose up and collected one more cross. The Irish largely stayed in possession from there to secure their 1-0 victory.

When the final whistle blew, the importance of the victory was easy to see, as in front of a large student section, several Irish players offered emphatic and emotional celebrations.

“I think it [winning our first ACC game] is really good,” Riley said. “Mathematically, we can’t win the regular season in the ACC, so now every one of these teams we play, the way we look at it, is a good team. They’re just good games that we really want to win.”

The Irish have four games remaining, including three conference matchups. They will be back in action on Friday, as they travel to Virginia Tech (6-3-2, 0-3-2).

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Irish junior midfielder Aiden McFadden leaps to head the ball during Notre Dame’s 1-0 win over Denver on Sept. 8 at Alumni Stadium. McFadden has two goals this season.

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following the opening faceoff.

With the increased pressure and zone time, the Irish would soon end up on the man advantage. Despite the power play, the Irish would struggle to generate high danger chances.

With 12:05 left in the first period, Air Force would jump to an early lead finding the back of the net with a goal against the run of play when senior forward Brady Tomlak was able to bury a puck past freshman goaltender Ryan Bischel that took an awkward bounce off of the end boards. Soon after the Irish would need to deploy their penalty killing unit after junior forward Matt Steeves took an interference penalty. With tight defensive play and several clearances, Notre Dame would have no trouble stopping the special teams unit of Air Force, giving up 0 shots on the job.

The Falcons would strike again late in the opening frame when senior forward Matt Pulver cleaned up a rebound shot from freshman forward Blake Bride to give their team a 2-0 advantage that would hold going into the dressing room.

In the second period, both teams would play dump and chase hockey as the Falcons and the Irish continued to roll line after line in the first few minutes of play. After gritty work below the goal line, the Irish would soon find a hole through Falcons junior goalkeeper Zach LeRocque just six minutes into the period after Irish junior forward Colin Theisen redirected a shot from senior center Mike O’Leary to cut the Air Force lead to 2-1.

Despite an advantage in possession, the Irish would need to call on their penalty killing unit again after junior forward Colin Theisen took an offensive zone penalty. The man advantage for the Falcons would be cut short however with an interference call that would result in 4 on 4 hockey for a short period and a near full Irish power play.

Notre Dame would waste no time finding quality chances with stellar puck movement and open shots. However, the Irish were not able to capitalize on their man-advantage opportunity. With 6:38 remaining in the second frame, a stretch pass from sophomore defenseman Nate Clurman would find the stick of sophomore center Michael Graham who would saucer a pass across the Air Force crease to sophomore forward Alex Steeves. Steeves would hit his mark and find twine, knotting the game up at 2 all. Momentum would swing heavy in favor of the Irish, with several more quality chances and shots on goal but the score would remain at 2-2 going into the third period.

In the final frame, Irish goaltender Ryan Bischel would look sharp, stopping several quick Air Force shots without

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a rebound given up, keeping the game at a draw. With crisp passing and a clean breakout, the Irish would teak the lead just over 5 minutes into the third period after senior forward Cam Morrison would pick up a rebound from Alex Steeves and find open space to tuck home the goal for a 3-2 advantage. Michael Graham would also pick up his second assist of the night on the goal.

Both teams would have a few more chances on the power play in the period, but each would fail to generate any goals. Notre Dame would finish 0 for 4 on the power play and Air Force would finish 0 for 3. An early move to pull goaltender Zach LaRocque for an extra man would prove to be costly, as the Irish would waste no time taking advantage. Senior forward and captain Cal Burk would send a shot the full length of the ice to put the Irish up 4-2 with a little over 2 minutes left in the game.

Despite a last second goal from Falcons forward Matt Pulver, the Irish would win game one by the score of 4-3.

Irish head coach Jeff Jackson praised his team for their response in being behind two goals to start off the game.

“We started off a little slow again. You don’t want to be falling down two-zip every game,” Jackson said. “On a positive note we responded well to it.

I thought we played well after that. They [Air Force] play a hard game and they’re a challenging team to play against.

Probably good games for us as we move forward.”

Sophomore forward Alex Steeves credited the team’s ability of being able to come back in the game to the experienced gained from the last season.

“I think we’re a bit older than we were last year. Even the past two years this team has always been able to battle adversity really well and get back in games,” Steeves said. We just never really quit. We’re a very structured team and we’re pretty confident in our ability.”

Game two After struggling somewhat in the first game, Jackson said he was proud of the way his team responded on Sunday.

“I usually try to keep my message post-game on Friday nights minimal and then I deal with them on Saturday,” Jackson said. “Saturday I told them that I think we can be better because we did give up oddman rushes, we turned pucks over a little too often. I didn’t think we played poorly Friday night, they’re a hard team to play against, they definitely forced us to make mistakes. But we made adjustments and our guys, for the most part, executed on those adjustments just by the way they played.”

The Irish came out firing in the second match of the series. After a close call came just under a minute into the game as freshman goaltender Ryan

Bischel was forced to save a shot from close range, Cam Morrison broke through for the Irish.

Possession alternated back and forth until the senior forward slammed a Falcons player into the glass, then took the puck on a two-on-one break before putting it past Falcons junior goaltender Zach LaRocque to go up 1-0 with 17:00 left in the first.

Jackson said it was important for the team to find an offensive rhythm early after struggling in the first game.

“That’s important. We’ve got to get off to better starts than we did in the exhibition game and then Friday night, so, getting the first goal certainly helps,” Jackson said.

The Irish would then have a number of opportunities with the puck crossing right in front of LaRocque, but it failed to bounce Notre Dame’s way. After an icing call in the tenth minute, the Falcons had an opportunity to score but couldn’t convert. Air Force would continue their attack on a power play as sophomore defenseman Nate Clurman was penalized for the Irish, but still the defense remained stout. An ill-timed substitution and turnover by Air Force led to another Irish breakaway, but Larocque managed to save it.

After a brief break, the Falcons would come right back and score on a slapshot to knot the game at 1-1 heading into the second period. A late-period offensive spurt by Air Force granted them a 10-8 advantage in shots on goal. Despite allowing the goal, Jackson was confident in the play of Bischel and the defense as a whole.

“The only goal they scored was a faceoff goal that Bischel probably had no chance on because it was redirected in front of him so, I was pleased with his performance, too, first time he’s played back-to-back in college hockey,” Jackson said. “But our team played really well in front of him, it’s not like he had to make spectacular saves, I don’t know if we gave up an odd-man rush… our guys played really solid.”

In the second stanza, the Irish took six seconds less to score than in the first. Junior defenseman Matt Hellickson scored on a powerplay off assists from senior forward Mike O’Leary and senior defenseman Tory Dello to take a 2-1 lead with 17:06 left in the second. The Irish had another great opportunity off of a spin move by junior forward Pierce Crawford right next to the goal, but the puck was batted away by LaRocque.

Yet again the Irish had a near miss as Hellickson fed the puck to junior forward Colin Theisen in the middle who missed left of the goal. The Irish would get another power play opportunity on a holding the stick penalty on Air Force, but the Falcons managed to kill that as well. Both teams would have opportunities as the period wound down, but the Irish maintained their one-point

advantage heading into the third period while taking a 1917 advantage in shots on goal.

Jackson talked about what he told his team during the second intermission.

“Going into the third period I told them, ‘This is a chance to show your maturity as a team,’” Jackson said. “You want to simplify your game, you don’t want to turn pucks over, you don’t want to … give up odd-man rushes.’”

The Irish would heed his advice. Just 20 seconds into the third stanza, a fight broke out on the ice that saw three players penalized, two from Air Force and Dello for the Irish. Notre Dame immediately capitalized as Theisen scored on assists from O’Leary and sophomore defenseman Spencer Statsney with 19:25 to go in the period, giving the Irish some breathing room with a 3-1 lead. The Irish scored once more a couple of minutes later as O’Leary missed a shot left, recovered the rebound and passed to senior forward Cal Burke for the shot over LaRocque’s shoulder.

Still the Irish would not relent, as a Dello slapshot missed to the right but the rebound off the wall came right to Theisen who laid the puck in between the goalie and the upright. The Irish continued to outplay the Falcons for the remainder of the game, and if not for several near-miss chances throughout the remaining time, the score could have been worse.

Jackson complimented the way his team continued to compete even after accruing a commanding lead.

“Frankly I was more impressed with our guys after we

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got the 5-1 lead. We didn’t start getting individualistic, which happens,” he said. “Teams in the past that I’ve had have gotten individualistic. When you get a big lead they’re often gonna want to get points or whatever. But our guys stayed the course which was really impressive to me because that doesn’t normally happen with teams I have but it’s a real positive sign.”

Sophomore forward Jake Pivonka put the exclamation point on the contest with a long goal with 00.9 seconds remaining in the contest to give the Irish a 6-1 win. Jackson said he takes it as a positive to come away from the series with two wins, especially with a big football rivalry game against USC in between the two contests.

“These were good games for us and Air Force pushed us right to the limit. They work as hard as any team in the country and tonight I thought we bypassed a lot of their pressure sooner, which I thought was a key thing for us to get out of our zone quicker, get through the neutral zone a little bit better, and then we made some nice plays in the offensive zone moving the puck sooner,” Jackson said. “All in all the guys made the adjustments that they needed to, but I was really pleased with their focus. I was a little nervous about them going into the football game [against USC] and the day off in between, but they must have handled it very well because they played well today.”

Contact Hayden Adams at hadams3@nd.edu and Dominic Gibson at dgibson@hcc-nd.edu

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Irish senior forward Mike O’Leary sprints down the ice during Notre Dame’s 1-0 home win against Michigan State on March 9.

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Kelly updates on Book, injuries

By CONNOR MULVENA Sports Editor

After No. 8 Notre Dame’s 3027 victory over USC on Saturday night, Irish head coach Brian Kelly addressed the media in his weekly post-game teleconference. Kelly talked about the victory, senior quarterback Ian Book and injuries after the win.

Junior kicker Jonathan Doerer was an integral part of the win Saturday, and Brian Kelly commented on the development of special teams coordinator Brian Polian and his unit.

“I think everything is an evolution to being part of the program. Brian’s last year was his first year in the program, and I just think he was settling into what I wanted him doing within the program. I think there was a bit of a transition last year, and I think he feels comfortable now with the direction that I wanted to see the special team group go,” Kelly said. “I just think it was that natural evolution of coming into the

Irish open season with pair of wins over Falcons

program and becoming a lot more comfortable over the last couple of years here. Obviously we spend a lot of time together and we’ve had a number of conversations in terms of the way I wanted to see that group come together and he’s done a great job with that.”

Kelly went on to comment on junior running back Jafar Armstrong, who has been injured for several weeks following Notre Dame’s season opener at Louisville. Kelly said Armstrong’s injury is improving, and the junior could have gotten some snaps Saturday, but USC’s defensive scheme wasn’t suitable for the opportunity.

“He got quite a bit of work. We wanted to be very specific in terms of what he was going to do for us and the way the game kind of unfolded, it never really materialized. We thought that we would get him involved in more of the passing game, but because of the way they played see KELLY PAGE 9

By HAYDEN ADAMS & DOMINIC GIBSON Associate Sports Editor & Sports Writer

The No. 8 Notre Dame hockey team hosted the Air Force Academy Falcons this weekend for the first time since 1992 to open up the 2019-2020 regular season. Coming off of a 4-2 victory against the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, the Irish were looking to continue their good start with a strong showing in the series.

Game one

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Irish junior forward Colin Theisen watches the puck during Notre Dame’s 5-2 victory over Michigan on Feb. 12 at home.

The tilt between the two teams would start off relatively slow in the first period as both teams would struggle to connect on breakout passes and enter into the offensive zone.

The Irish would soon find their groove however, playing fast and physical hockey that resulted in two quality looks in the first three minutes see HOCKEY PAGE 11

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Notre Dame shuts out Duke for first ACC win

By AIDAN THOMAS Sports Writer

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Irish sophomore forward Jack Lynn jumps to block an opponent during Notre Dame’s 1-0 win over Denver on Sept. 8 at Alumni Stadium. Lynn scored the only goal Friday, adding to his team-high total of seven.

The Notre Dame men’s soccer team put together a historic performance on Tuesday, posting eight goals en route to a shutout victory over Purdue Fort Wayne.

But while that performance was a nice breather from Notre Dame’s grueling ACC schedule, Jack Lynn’s breakthrough in the 65th minute of Friday’s conference duel with Duke proved far sweeter and far more significant, as the Irish earned a hardfought victory over the Blue Devils for their first ACC victory of the season. Lynn’s goal broke a 364-minute scoreless drought in conference games for the Irish, as they improved to 1-4 in conference play and 7-4-1 overall.

The rain was pouring down on Alumni Stadium as the two teams kicked off Friday night, and the difficulty of the conditions was apparent from the first few seconds of the game, as Notre Dame sent a long ball down the right sideline off of kickoff, but the ball hit the wet grass and skidded past two streaking

Notre Dame players and out of bounds.

Despite the slick playing surface, neither team played conservatively, as the first half devolved into a fastpaced match, both teams creating quality chances in the opening 45 minutes.

Irish freshman midfielder Michael Pellegrino drove a cross into the middle of the box just three minutes in, but graduate student captain and forward Ian Aschieris saw his effort blocked before it reached Blue Devils junior keeper Will Pulisic.

Minutes later, Duke junior striker Daniel Wright dribbled towards goal as the Blue Devils broke out on a 3-v-3 scoring opportunity, but excellent individual defending from senior Senan Farrelly halted the chance before it became any more dangerous.

Irish senior keeper Duncan Turnbull only needed to make one save all game, but he was still active in his box, including in the sixth minute, when he dove off his line to snare a hard cross by Duke senior defender Hassan Pinto. Despite see M SOCCER PAGE 10

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under Charlie Weis from 20052009, when he coached defense, special teams and linebackers.

Polian returned to the program in 2017, and his impact is starting to show. Kelly said Polian is very energetic on the sideline, and his players can build off of his energy.

“Those guys want to run down on a kickoff team and they want to make tackles because they have an immense amount of pride for that unit, and he’s built that and instilled it,” Kelly said. “A lot of credit goes to him.”

The most notable player on the special teams unit against USC was junior kicker Jonathan Doerer. Doerer, made three field goals of 45, 52 and 43 yards during the game, shattering his previous best of 36 yards. Even more significant, the 52-yarder from Doerer was the first field goal of 50+ yards since 2015, and it’s tied for third-longest in school history.

Kelly used golf as an analogy for Doerer’s ability when he first came to Notre Dame.

“He could drive the golf ball 350 yards, but he’d be in the trees half the time,” Kelly said.

Kelly said Doerer has spent countless hours perfecting his form and it is starting to show in his on-field performance.

“He can go into any situation, and he trusts what he is doing,” Kelly said. “It’s like anything else, when you go on that first tee and you trust your swing, you feel like you can hit it no matter what the situation is.”

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75 yards down the field with Slovis throwing a touchdown pass to redshirt junior wide receiver Tyler Vaughns to bring the score to 23-20 in the fourth quarter.

With pressure mounting on the Irish, Kmet said the team had the utmost confidence the offense would do what was necessary.

“We knew we were going to score before the drive even started. There was no other option,” he said. “We had some third downs, we had that penalty that took us back [to] 1st-and-20, whatever it was. We overcame that, some adversity there on that drive, but we all knew we were going to put the ball in the endzone there.”

Book said he felt the same confidence toward the offense.

“I really felt that all 11 guys were truly confident that we were going to go down and score. I could feel the buzz, feel the energy. I was just confident. I knew we were going to be in the right play calls and just had to go out there and do it, and that’s what we did,” he said.

The offense would see their confidence realized as Book scrambled for an 8-yard touchdown rush to put the Irish on top 30-20 with 3:33 left in the game.

“They were bringing pressure off the edge, so I just wanted to go take it up the middle, and … it worked out perfectly. I saw the endzone and knew I had to get it in

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Doerer’s mindset has been positive throughout the whole process, Kelly emphasized.

“His mindset is, ‘I’ve got to do better. I’m a better kicker than this. I’m going to find a way to make sure that I am repeating this, and I’m going to be the kind of kicker I think I should be,’ and all the credit goes to him,” Kelly said.

Doerer’s teammates gave him a lot of credit for his performance on the field against USC. Senior captain and quarterback Ian Book was proud of Doerer’s development as a kicker and impressed by his composure to bail the team out when they could not finish drives.

“He went out there and just knew that he needed to put up points for us,” Book said. “When we weren’t able to score a touchdown we relied on him to go out there and do that. He did a great job.”

Book said he knows Doerer’s field goals were important to clinching the team’s victory over USC. “I talked to him after the game and I said to him, ‘I’m really proud of you man, good job, and you helped us win this game,’” Book said.

Junior tight end Cole Kmet talked about the steady progression that Doerer has made to become the kicker that he is now.

“You can see his confidence growing throughout the year, and each practice he gets more comfortable with stuff,” Kmet said. “He did great today. He was awesome.”

Senior running back Tony

Jones Jr. echoed compliments of Doerer and acknowledged the kicker’s intense work ethic.

“John is good kicker, and he knows how to kick the ball,” Jones said. “He has the right approach, and he does it all the time. It takes a long time, but when he does it, he is going to hit everything.”

Doerer received the game ball for his clutch field goals in the USC game. The Irish will need him to build off of this game and perform at similar — if not higher — levels in the future.

In addition to Doerer’s success, freshman Jay Bramblett is starting to develop into a solid, reliable punter for the Irish. Bramblett has 25 kicks for an average of 41 yards per kick on the season, and he showed Saturday that a night game against a solid USC team was not going to negatively impact his mentality.

The 2019 special teams unit appears to be the best Kelly has had while at Notre Dame, and their continued success will be vital for the remaining part of the season.

In two weeks when the Irish travel to the Big House, the special teams will need to be at their best. The Irish will need to get points in any fashion they can against Michigan’s solid defense, and little plays on special teams might end up being the difference in the game.

Although often under-appreciated, this special teams unit is shining for the Irish, and it just might be the difference-maker needed going forward.

there, so it felt really good,” Book said of the play.

Senior running back Tony Jones Jr., who recorded career-highs of 176 yards rushing on 25 carries, gave his take on the team’s clutch fourth-quarter conversion.

“All the plays [offensive coordinator Chip Long] was calling were for everyone, for the whole team,” Jones said. “The whole team had to do their job. And then when Book scored, it felt like the whole team scored a touchdown to win the game.”

USC would score on their next drive but failed to recover an onside kick, allowing Notre Dame to take a knee and drain the clock.

Kelly talked about the importance of draining the clock on their final touchdown drive and the role the running game played there and throughout the game.

“Whatever means necessary to win a football game, whether it’s throwing the football or running the football, you have to be equally effective. They were playing a two-deep zone, and it was important that we ran the football in that situation,” he said. “Our offensive line, tight ends did a great job blocking. Tony Jones was outstanding again in the fourth quarter, just like he was against Virginia, and again, taking a lot of time off the clock, I thought Chip did a really good job of being measured in terms of not wanting to push tempo but to use clock in that situation. So just a wellorchestrated drive that ate a lot of

clock.”

Kelly also talked about his team’s ability to limit the Trojan receiving corps and how that played a pivotal role in their success.

“I think we accomplished what we wanted to. [Senior wide receiver Michael] Pittman, four catches for 29 yards. I mean, that was first and foremost. He could not be a game wrecker,” Kelly said. “You know, St. Brown, we were in the right coverage on his touchdown.

We needed to be in better leverage.

That’s one where we needed to execute better in that situation. But number one was to take Pittman out of the game, which we did, and I thought in the first half we executed exactly the way I wanted to defensively.”

Regardless of how Notre Dame came away with the victory, Kelly had praise for the grit of USC. “They’re not too high, they’re not too low. At halftime, they knew that they had to play for four quarters. There was no giddiness of, ‘Hey, we’ve got this thing.’

USC, they had bite to them,” Kelly said. “This team had a bite. I have a great deal of respect for USC and its tradition and in particular for Clay [Helton], but this team has some fight to it, and you could feel that out there, and our kids can, too. When you’re down on the field you know if a team has got some fight in them.”

Scoring Summary 1

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Total

3 0

0 17

10 3

14 10

27 30

USC 3, nd 0

Chase McGrath 40-yard field goal

2:13

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

2

NOTRE DAME 7, USC 3

Cole Kmet 10-yard pass from Ian Book (Jonahtan Doerer kick)

8:37

remaining Drive: Nine plays, 97 yards, 2:32 elapsed

Notre Dame 14, usc 3

Braden Lenzy 51-yard run (Doerer kick)

4:38

remaining Drive: Four plays, 80 yards, 1:23 elapsed

Notre dame 17, usc 3

Doerer 45-yard field goal

0:15

remaining Drive: Nine plays, 29 yards, 2:49 elapsed

3

notre dame 20, usc 3 Doerer 52-yard field goal

12:34

remaining Drive: Nine plays, 30 yards, 2:26 elapsed

Notre Dame 20, usc 6

McGrath 27-yard field goal

8:53

remaining Drive: 11 plays, 66 yards, 3:41 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 20, usc 13

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3

Amon-Ra St. Brown 38-yard pass fom Kedon Slovis (McGrath kick)

2:34

remaining Drive: Five plays, 62 yards, 1:54 elapsed

4

NOTRE DAME 23, usc 13 Doerer 43-yard field goal

13:47

remaining Drive: 10 plays, 45 yards, 3:47 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 23, usc 20

Tyler Vaughns 5-yard pass from Slovis (McGrath kick)

10:27

remaining Drive: Nine plays, 75 yards, 3:20 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 30, usc 20

Book 8-yard run (Doerer kick)

3:33

remaining Drive: 14 plays, 75 yards, 6:54 elapsed

NOTRE DAME 30, usc 27

Markese Stepp 2-yard run (McGrath kick)

1:04

remaining Drive: Nine plays, 77 yards, 2:29 elapsed

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Irish senior running back Tony Jones Jr. takes a handoff from senior quarterback Ian Book during Notre Dame’s 30-27 win over USC at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. Jones Jr. rushed for a career-best 176 yards during the game, and Book added 49 yards of his own on the ground, including an eight-yard touchdown run to seal the victory for the Irish.

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Notre Dame’s offense struggled to start, finishing the first quarter without a score. However, they turned it on in the second, posting 17 points from an Ian Book pass, a 51-yard Braden Lenzy run and a Jonathan Doerer field goal. The Irish led for the rest of the game, but the Trojans kept fighting, narrowing a 17-point Irish lead to three points by the end.

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Irish senior defensive end Khalid Kareem tackles Trojans freshman quarterback Kedon Slovis.

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Irish senior quarterback Ian Book scrambles during Notre Dame’s 30-27 victory against USC on Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium.

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Irish senior safety Alohi Gilman makes a tackle during Notre Dame’s win over USC on Saturday.

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Irish senior wide receiver Chase Claypool, middle, and graduate student linebacker Asmar Bilal, left, tackle the Trojans kick returner during Notre Dame’s 30-27 home win over USC on Saturday.