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Tough and tested Irish overcome slow defensive start, sloppy play to notch key opening victory over Cardinals

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Irish senior quarterback Ian Book looks to the end zone as he scrambles with the ball during Notre Dame’s 35-17 victory over Louisville at Cardinal Stadium on Monday. In his first season opener as a starter, Book completed 14 of his 23 pass attempts for 193 yards and a touchdown. He also added 81 yards and another touchdown on the ground.

Defense not perfect, but lots of positive takeaways Hayden Adams Associate Sports Editor

It’s no secret what Notre Dame lost last season on the defensive side of the ball. Linebackers Drue Tranquill and Te’von Coney, interior defensive lineman Jerry Tillery and All-American cornerback Julian Love all departed following Notre Dame’s 12-1 season and first berth in the College Football Playoff. Because of what the Irish lost, there was, quite reasonably, concern for what the defense would look like this season, particularly in the interior line and at linebacker. However, the season opener against Louisville, as up and down as it may have seemed offensively, was actually a promising showing for the defense. With that said, here are five reasons why the defense’s performance against Louisville should give Irish fans hope. see ADAMS PAGE 3

By HAYDEN ADAMS Associate Sports Editor

Under a clear night sky and surrounded by a few green specks in a sea of black-andred clothing, No. 9 Notre Dame opened its 2019 college football season Monday night on the road against the Louisville Cardinals. In Notre Dame’s first Labor Day game in program history, and only the second matchup all-time against the Cardinals (0-1), the Irish (1-0) overcame a slow start full of sloppy mistakes to win by a score of 35-17. Irish head coach Brian Kelly said he was satisfied with the overall outcome and game environment. “Pleased with the win on the road,” Kelly said. “I thought it was a great atmosphere and Louisville played really hard. [Louisville] created a great atmosphere for an opener and it’s hard to duplicate that for your team. So I thought we benefited from being on the road in a great environment and I thought we came out and started really well.” The Irish started off strong, driving 75 yards downfield

with 59 coming on the ground. Sophomore running back Jahmir Smith gave the Irish their first score of the season on a 3-yard carry to take a 7-0 lead. While the offense performed well on the first drive, they struggled early to find a rhythm. Likewise, the defense also got off to a rocky start. The Cardinals responded by marching down to score a touchdown of their own, testing Notre Dame’s inexperienced linebacking corps with their run game. The Cardinals then proceeded to force the Irish into a three-and-out to get the ball back. They continued to ground-and-pound the Irish, with redshirt sophomore quarterback Jawon Pass capping off a 75-yard drive with a 17-yard touchdown carry — his second of the game — to put the Cardinals up 14-7. Notre Dame would return to their bread-and-butter in the rushing game, after giving senior running back Tony Jones Jr. the ball six times in nine plays on their third drive. Jones gained all the Notre Dame’s positive yardage on the drive as he ran for 78 yards and a touchdown to tie the game at

14-14 heading into the second quarter. While the run game was working for the Irish, the aerial attack left some to be desired. Senior quarterback Ian Book, who took three sacks on the night, talked about the emotions that came with the first game of the season on the road. “First game, [there were] maybe some jitters,” Book said. “Great environment here. Louisville played great; I respect them as a great opponent. And we just gotta put that behind us. We’re happy that we’re 1-0, and you know we’re gonna learn from this. Now we know what it’s like, the season’s starting now, and we’re good to go another week.” The Irish defense began to adapt in the second period to the Cardinal run game, forcing them into short possessions. Kelly said that was the point where the staff began to understand the Cardinals’ scheme. “We had to make some adjustments to their speed-option game and I thought we settled down and did that,” Kelly said. “Once we made those see OPENER PAGE 2

Jones provides strong leadership, legs for backfield By SHANE LEWIS Sports Writer

With the departure of Dexter Williams to the NFL, the Irish entered the year with the tall task of replacing the on-the-ground production from last season’s explosive feature back. That task grew even taller early in the first quarter of Monday’s season opener against Louisville, when starting junior running back Jafar Armstrong suffered what appeared to be a groin injury that kept him sidelined for the rest of the contest. Notre Dame responded with 225 yards on the ground, 110 of which came on the legs of senior running back Tony Jones. The hundred-yard outing was the second of Jones’ career, who took advantage of the extra carries that came along with Armstrong’s injury. “I felt amazing,” Jones said. “This was my second career-start, really, see JONES PAGE 3

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adjustments we kind of took control of the game after that.” Among the players stepping up on defense for Notre Dame were junior linebacker Drew White, who recorded the first sack of the game for the Irish, and freshman safety Kyle Hamilton. Senior captain and safety Alohi Gilman praised the way Hamilton stepped up in his first career action. “Kyle was huge for us,” Gilman said. “He came out, made some plays, did a great job in the packages that he was in, and he’s gonna continue to get better. He makes our team better.” While the defenses were gaining their footing, the offenses became very sloppy in the final minutes of the half, fumbling the ball on three straight plays. Pass fumbled while falling to the ground and Gilman recovered for the Irish, followed the very next play by Book fumbling the ball right back after colliding with junior tight end Brock Wright. Finally, the Cardinals lost the ball on the ensuing play as Pass bobbled the snap and Notre Dame

recovered it once more. Book offered his thoughts on the messy sequence. “Yeah, [that was] sloppy football,” Book said. “But, like I said, happy to move on from that, have some guys step up and be able to score touchdowns when we needed to. But yeah, sloppy ball tonight, I gotta work on that.” The Irish were finally able to capitalize, however. Book carried twice for 23 yards and a touchdown in a four-play drive, giving Notre Dame a 21-14 lead heading into halftime. The Cardinals received the ball to start the second half. They proceeded to fumble on their very first play but ended up recovering it. They then fumbled it again in Irish territory thanks to a strip by Irish senior defensive lineman Ade Ogundeji and senior defensive end Daelin Hayes, who recovered for Notre Dame. Though the Irish were then forced to punt, they immediately forced the Cardinals three-and-out. The Irish then looked to continue building the passing game, with Book completing 2-2 passes on a 57-yard drive — a 31-yarder to senior receiver Chase Claypool and a 26-yard touchdown pass to sophomore tight end Tommy

Tremble — to put the Irish up 28-14. On Louisville’s next possession, once again their first play resulted in a bad snap that they jumped on for a loss of nine yards. Two plays later, they received a false start call to make it a third-and-24 before eventually punting it back to the Irish. While the Irish punted back on the next drive, the Cardinals offense continued their haphazard play, fumbling once again on their next drive before recovering it. The third period came to an end after a 37-yard reception by Louisville to the Notre Dame 26yard line. The Irish took a 28-14 lead into the fourth quarter. The Cardinals attempted a trick play to open the stanza with sophomore wide receiver Tutu Atwell attempting a touchdown pass that sailed over the receiver. The Cardinals sloppy play continued to plague them as they were slapped with an illegal substitution penalty. The Cardinals managed to put up three points off a field goal from redshirt senior kicker Blanton Creque to bring Louisville within 11 points. Big third-down conversions by Book to Tremble and sophomore

wide receiver Lawrence Keys III on a scramble allowed the Irish to prolong their fourth quarter drive before Book completed a 34-yard pass to Claypool at the Louisville 2-yard line. The Irish would then add to their tally with a 1-yard run by Smith to go up 35-17. Book said the offense was able to make the necessary plays in the second half thanks to adjustments made from their subpar first-half performance. “We just, really after the first half, just really focused on the smaller details that we might’ve missed in the first half,” Book said. “So, [we] just focused and did what we had to do. The plays were there for us and we just executed.” The Cardinals would go on to lose possession on a penaltyridden drive and get the ball back with just over a minute left as they ran out the clock. Jones Jr. led the Irish with 110 yards rushing while Book went 14/23 for 193 yards and one touchdown through the air. Book also ran for 81 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries. Kelly said he was pleased with the way his young players burst onto the scene, but his veterans need to step up their play. “Our veterans have to play

better,” Kelly said. “Our young guys emerged tonight and showed that they can come through in areas that we needed them to come through in. We saw [Kyle Hamilton] as someone in the middle of the defense that can defend the pass. We saw [Tommy Tremble] tonight. We saw Lawrence Keyes ability. We actually need our veterans to step up another level of their play and I know they will. The younger players showed themselves and now all of them going forward, this will be a pretty good football team.” Going forward, Kelly said his team is headed in the right direction, even if the opening performance was less than ideal. “We’re aligning ourselves towards the kinds of things I want to see,” Kelly said. “We don’t look like the finished product by any means but we did some things tonight that aligned us in the direction that I want to go. … We still won the game and we have some good things to take away from it.” The Irish will play their next game against New Mexico in the home opener September 14. Contact Hayden Adams at hadams3@nd.edu

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Irish sophomore tight end Tommy Tremble twists toward the end zone after catching a pass from senior quarterback Ian Book during Notre Dame’s 35-17 win over Louisville on Monday at Cardinal Stadium. This was Tremble’s first career reception and touchdown, as he looks to take on a larger role after junior Cole Kmet broke his collarbone.

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Halfway through the third quarter, with the Irish holding on to a 21-14 lead, quarterback Ian Book found sophomore Tommy Tremble for a 26-yard touchdown pass. This capped a two-play, 36-second drive that saw Notre Dame’s offense capitalize on good field position after a Louisville three-and-out. Tremble was the second-leading Irish receiver, with 49 total yards on three receptions.

The junior recorded a team-best 110 yards on the ground during Monday’s game, including an 11-yard touchdown rush to tie the game in the first quarter. The Irish didn’t trail again after that score, which capped off an offense-heavy quarter that saw both teams score a pair of touchdowns each. His 35-yard run earlier on that drive was the longest run of his career.

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SMC students react to Transpo cuts Saint Mary’s students share thoughts on limitations, dangers posed by transportation changes By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Writer

When Saint Mary’s senior Marta Antonetti learned the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s student governments jointly moved to cancel the South Bend Transpo Midnight Express route, she created and distributed a Google Forms petition for students to sign if they were “angered by the decision.” Since then, about 40 students have signed the petition asking the Saint Mary’s administration to either reinstate the program or provide a new Saturday service as soon as possible, Antonetti said. “Recently the collective student ddministration of ND/SMC (of course [Holy Cross] was excluded from the conversation, we wouldn’t actually want to create [an] environment where we interact with one another) decided

to cease the Midnight Express/ Saturday service,” Antonetti said in the Google Form. “This decision harms ROTC students, band students, lower-income students, students with disabilities, student athletes, members of ND clubs, student workers and the ND/SMC/HCC community. As far as we know, this decision was made without consulting the student body … BAVO or GreenDot or anyone who might have a legitimate reason to keep the bus going.” Since starting the petition, Antonetti met with vice president for student affairs Karen Johnson to discuss the decision-making process that resulted in the cancellation and discuss potential solutions for the future. She said she feels frustrated that the administrations have

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The South Bend Transpo bus makes its rounds to Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross campuses on its new and shortened schedule, which no longer includes the Friday night Midnight Express and Saturdays.

Better Together fosters interfaith discussion at ND By JAMES BRODERICK News Writer

The Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns (CSC) plans to tackle diverse dialogue headon, offering a brand-new interfaith leadership program aimed at providing training to students interested in faith development and religious cooperation. The initiative, called Better Together ND, aims to bring students from the tri-campus community together from all types of faith backgrounds, including those who are nonreligious, in hopes of improving conversation and eliminating barriers among religious and non-religious students. Melissa Marley Bonnichsen, the CSC’s director for leadership formation, said she is excited for the rollout of the program Sept. 13. “What excites me the most is the possibility of just getting a

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whole bunch of people together monthly over meals and understanding the power of diverse populations in shifting the culture on campuses,” Bonnichsen said. The program consists of a variety of workshop trainings, ranging in topics from building relational power, storytelling, peaceful dialogue and engaging allyship. Students will also share monthly meals to build relationships among people of different faiths or non-faith backgrounds. Bonnichsen said the idea and realization for this type of interfaith training came from attending conferences, engaging with student government and receiving a grant from Lilly Foundation through InterFaith Youth Core (IFYC), an organization that works with universities across the country. “There was thought from see CSC PAGE 4

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FTT focuses on “developing new voices” By ERIN SWOPE News Writer

For its 2019-2020 season, Notre Dame’s Film, Television and Theatre department (FTT) will draw inspiration from the Cuban-American playwright and Obie award winner María Irene Fornés to present plays and musicals around the theme

of “developing new voices.” The season will begin with staged readings of four of Fornés’s plays from Oct. 2 through Oct. 13. The production of Notre Dame professor Anne García-Romero’s play, “Staging the Daffy Dame,” will follow, with showings from Nov. 20 to Nov. 24. Two new one-act plays written and directed by Notre

Dame students for ND Theatre NOW will premiere next semester, from Feb. 20 to March 1. The season will conclude with a production of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” from April 1 to 5. Kev in Dreyer, associate professor and director of theatre, said the idea of see FTT PAGE 4

SMC brings new energy to mentorship program By COLLEEN FISCHER News Writer

The Saint Mar y’s Belles celebrated their across-the street neighbors Monday as they gathered to v iew the Notre Dame Irish Football game as a part of their Big Belle Little Belle event. According to club

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representatives, about 289 students have signed up for the peer mentorship program. The program partners a freshman or sophomore belle or, “little Belle,” w ith an upperclassman “big Belle” w ith intentions to facilitate friendship and mentorship. The game watch part y was the first

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event of the year for the group. For some students, the Big Belle Little Belle experience can operate as a sort of pseudo-sororit y. The Saint Mar y’s students often speak on the values of sisterhood, and often refer to themselves see BIG BELLE PAGE 4

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Morrissey Manor hosts game watch By TOM NAATZ Notre Dame News Editor

The Fighting Irish kicked off their 2019 season at Louisv ille on Monday evening. However, the fact that the game was happening away from South Bend did not stop members of the Notre Dame communit y from gathering together to watch the game en masse. As the game kicked off from Kentucky, a multitude of Notre Dame students descended on South Quad to watch on a large television screen situated in front of the Rockne Memorial. For Vanessa Villalpando, a freshman, Notre Dame’s game against Louisv ille was her first football experience as a student. She said she came to the event so she could acquaint herself w ith the school’s football culture. “I thought it would be a good way to get involved in the football season, even though it’s away,” Villalpando said. “I’ll get the feel of the student section.” Students in attendance

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yet to effectively replace the Midnight Express. “It’s been two months and there’s been no real solution,” Antonetti said. “A solution has to be put forward, an actual one that makes sense.” This summer, the student governments of Saint Mary’s and Notre Dame decided to cancel the South Bend Transpo Midnight Express route after Transpo announced a 50% price hike in operating costs. Due to this cancellation and other scheduling changes, the final South Bend Transpo bus leaving the Grotto towards Saint Mary’s Regina Hall stop will leave at 9:13 p.m. Fridays, and no Saturday services will be provided at all. In a campus-wide email Aug. 27, Johnson said Blinkie, the Saint Mary’s escort van service, will serve as alternative transportation. “[Blinkie] WILL continue to run from dark to 2 a.m. Sunday-Thursday and from dark to 4 a.m. on Friday and Saturday,” Johnson said in the email. “Blinkie tries to get to Notre Dame at least once per hour to pick up students at the Grotto. Additionally, Blinkie will start service at noon on Saturday and Sunday starting Monday, October 28, 2019 through Monday, March 23, 2020.” Compared to the regular Midnight Express route, Blinkie is not always a reliable resource, as it doesn’t always maintain a strict

used the event to obser ve certain student section traditions. W hile it was difficult to see the screen as the game began, ow ing to the setting sun, that did not stop the assembled students from performing Irish pushups as they would do in the student section of the stadium at a home game. Nicholas Clark, a freshman, said the community atmosphere is what drew him to the event. “I decided to come because of the cool environment to experience the opener,” Clark said. Several students heralded the unique opportunity to watch the game on the quad with the whole community. Haley Holden, a junior, attended the event with friends from her dorm. ”We’re thrilled to support our team with our classmates,” she said. “It’s a good dorm bonding experience.” W hile the crowds gathered on South Quad, they were able to enjoy food prov ided

by Morrissey Manor, which hosted the event. Students were creative w ith their seating choices, w ith some bringing blankets, law n chairs and futons onto the quad. “I like that ever yone brought their futons,” junior Sophia Sheehy said. “It’s always nice to have free food.” The novelt y of the event was another draw for some attendees, as was the availabilit y of free food. “I feel like we didn’t experience this last year,” sophomore Oliv ia McKilligin said. “It offers a lot of Notre Dame communit y spirit you get on a game day. The free food helps.” Senior Matt Kowalczyk echoed that sentiment, saying that, while the free food was intriguing, as a senior he had never gotten the chance to attend a communal game watch such as the Morrissey event, and he was excited to experience it for the first time. “I heard ‘free food.’ That was definitely a plus,” Kowalczyk said. “The draw

of friends, being out in nature, getting that home game experience, for an away game, bonding w ith the communit y. It’s a unique experience we haven’t had in the last few years.” Among the crowd, there were also some expressions of guarded optimism about

schedule and can sometimes fill up quickly, Saint Mary’s sophomore Lisie Fahrenbach said. “Sometimes it’s just really hard to track down Blinkie and figure out when it’s going to come, and then it’ll pass you like five times and you can’t get in it yet,” Fahrenbach said. “I think that could end up being an issue for a lot of people, especially safety-wise, because it’s not going to stop people from going places. It’s just going to make it potentially dangerous for people to go places … when it’s dark out, instead of them having a safe option to get back and forth to areas around Notre Dame.” Blinkie does not serve the same purpose the Transpo Midnight Express and separate routes filled, sophomore Shannon Valley said. “The problem with trying to rely on Blinkie is that getting you over to other places is not its priority,” Valley said. “[Blinkie’s] priority is getting people from the parking lot to their dorms.” While some Saint Mary’s students might resort to using Uber, Lyft or other ridesharing apps, Valley said others relied on the free bus services. “Girls can’t afford to Uber anytime they want to go somewhere,” Valley said. “This is going to be a really hard thing for them. … If they depend on the buses for things, they’re not going to be able to go any where.” Junior Bridget Puetz said she does not think the cancellation will largely affect

upperclassmen, but she expressed concerns for firstyear students still trying to maneuver making their way across the street to Notre Dame. “I think it’s sad for our underclassmen,” Puetz said. “They’re still trying to figure out their friends, so if [they needed to go home alone], at least they had the bus. If I were a freshman and they took [the Midnight Express] away, I think that I would be really, really affected. I mean, I took it a lot freshman year. It was a really good backup just to know that it was there and to know that it was reliable.” Junior Hunter Kehoe said she also feared for the safety of students walking down Saint Mary’s Road, specifically first-years who are unfamiliar with campus. “I don’t think the administration realizes that girls are going over to Notre Dame very late at night and a lot of them are coming back intoxicated, may it be legal or not,” Kehoe said. “And it is just beyond me that they’re going to allow girls that just got here [and] don’t know their way around … to walk down a road that has one emergency service call on it [and] very, very dim lights.” Leaving students to walk across State Route 933 at night poses a grave danger, Kehoe said. “It scares my mom, because she’s ‘I don’t think they’re going to do anything about it until something horrible happens and they’re finally going to wake up about

it,’” Kehoe said. “You come here and you expect to have like guardians, because your parents aren’t here. It’s so sad that I have to sit here and say that it’s going to take a horrible accident for [the administrations] to realize that this is the worst decision they could have made.” Kehoe said she thinks relying on ride-sharing apps provides more uncertainty for those seeking a way back to campus and hopes Saint Mary’s Campus Safety will fill the hole left by the cancelled Friday and Saturday services. “Karen Johnson said that the other alternative means of transportation was that girls would have to find Uber rides home,” Kehoe said. “All across the country, there have been reported accidents of young women in Ubers being kidnapped, being killed, getting in the wrong cars that aren’t their Ubers. If you’re going to cancel [the bus services], then every single time I call Security, they better come pick me up … whatever the case is.” Johnson did not immediately respond when asked for comment. Senior Olivia Allen, Saint Mary’s student government association vice president, said Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross student government executives met Friday to discuss future plans going forward in the wake of the cancellation. “During our meeting on Friday, we discussed different transportation options for the tri-campus

the football team’s prospects for the season. “I hope they’re going to do well,” McKilligin said. “I’m a little scared of away at Michigan and Georgia. We’ll figure it out more tonight.” Contact Tom Naatz at tnaatz@nd.edu

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Students gather to watch the first football game of the season against Louisville at an event hosted by Morrissey Manor on South Quad.

community, looking into what other colleges have done and what each SGA can make work financially,” Allen said in an email. “We will be releasing a statement as a tri-campus SGA, so at this time I don’t have a definitive answer as to what the future will hold. We are putting a lot of work into finding a solution and to keep the students safe, but this requires an extensive amount of meetings with SGA advisors across the three schools as well as higher college administration.” Allen said she wanted to remind frustrated students the Midnight Express route was initiated and funded by Notre Dame student government, and Saint Mary’s only became involved in its cancellation late in the decisionmaking process. “For now, I think it is important to note that Saint Mary’s SGA never paid for the Midnight Express, it has always been a Notre Damefunded program, as we were only consulted on the matter a few days before the decision was made,” she said. Students in need of a ride between the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s campuses are highly encouraged to use Blinkie and call Campus Safety, Allen said. “The Saint Mary’s security department really cares about the well-being of the students and is doing their best to help us without the Midnight Express in place,” she said. Contact Maeve Filbin at mfilbin01@saintmarys.edu

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“developing new voices” is related to FTT’s goal to present more diverse casts and represent more voices in their shows, giv ing space to indiv iduals who might not other w ise feel included on campus. The FTT department has a unique connection to Fornés: she was a mentor to García-Romero, who then taught the two students who w rote the plays for ND Theatre NOW, Dreyer said. The season ser ves to commemorate the life and work of Fornés, who died in 2018. Notre Dame is not alone in celebrating her over 20192020 season, though. In her memor y, the Fornés Institute — of which García-Romero is a founding member — started Celebrating Fornés,

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IFYC that Notre Dame should petition for a grant,” Bonnichsen said. “So I decided to pitch for a project called Better Together ND and with that, create space for people to get together for interfaith cooperation.” Sophomore Meenu Selvan, Notre Dame student government’s director of faith and service, worked on creating

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as if they are one big sorority. The EMX logo on sweatshirts, pants and t-shirts, which imitates popular sorority culture, can be spotted around campus. Members of Big Belle Little Belle is sometimes seen as a substitute for Greek life by first-years and the club’s facilitators. “I think the sisterhood is really important, because we don’t have sororities,” Saint Mary’s senior and Big Belle Little Belle co-chair Moira LeMay said. “And I think a lot of girls want a sorority, but they don’t want the dues of a sorority or the commitments of the sorority. And this is one on such a small scale — by no means is it a sorority — but it’s a way for girls to feel like they have like an inner circle with people that they wouldn’t normally have.” LeMay pointed out the absence of dues as a reason for Belles to join, but the club did recently require a 10 dollar fee. “It is to pay for t-shirts,” LeMay said. “So girls can have the nice t-shirt, and we don’t have to worry about our annual budget. And we can put more into our activities, if we aren’t concerned about

which encourages universities and theatre companies to dedicate a school year or season to productions of Fornés and her works. Notre Dame is one of 22 participating organizations. “It kind of happened by sy nchronicit y and kismet that the trajector y of the season is [based on] my mentor, Fornés,” García-Romero said. “We’re doing her plays, then we’re doing a play of mine, then we’re doing my students’. … It wasn’t an intentional objective initially to do this sequence, but I’m really happy the way it [has] turned out.” She studied under Fornés at the Yale School of Drama and at the Padua Hills Play wrights’ Festival for two summers. Fornés’ own teaching was inf luenced by her background as a painter, such that her writing is very focused on creating

character first, followed by language and then structure, García-Romero said. García-Romero said Fornés had a huge inf luence on not only her teaching but also her writing. “Her methodolog y is very innovative and has inf luenced the way I teach playwrighting, the way I write plays,” García-Romero said. “ … She had a unique gift to help writers find their voice and encourage their voice to take shape in whatever way it needed to take shape, with the goal to be as authentic as possible.” Dreyer said García-Romero employs similar means of teaching students at Notre Dame. “We’re looking really at the lineage and heritage of developing a dramatic voice or a theatrical voice,“ Dreyer said. “Many of the same techniques that Fornés used

when she approached her own writing are what Anne teaches her students. We’ve got three generations of dramatic voice that have all been kind of focused on the same sort of approach to writing.” Dreyer said when it came time to choose which of Fornés play to perform, though, the department ran into difficulties. “W hat I realized in looking over her material and talking with Anne further about it is that one of the things about [Fornés] is that, stylistically, her plays change a lot,” Dreyer said. “To pick one piece was not representative of her as an artist … but if we’re going to be celebrating her legacy, it seems wrong to pin it on one play.” W hile the department couldn’t afford to produce four full plays with sets and costumes, they instead decided to do staged readings

of four of her plays to put the emphasis on the text itself. The FTT department not only produces several productions each year, but also teaches and instructs students, so many of the productions are centered around curricular connections, García-Romero said. Four different directors are directing the staged readings, she added. Two of them are Notre Dame professors and two are visiting directors from Chicago, giving students an opportunity to work one-onone with professionals. Similarly, students applied last semester to direct or have the play they wrote produced for ND Theatre NOW. The four chosen will take a class this semester to prepare them for producing a new show next semester.

this interfaith leadership curriculum and said the initiative will have “workshops to learn about blind spots,” with the goal of dialogue among students different from each other. (Editor’s Note: James Broderick is co-director of FUEL for Notre Dame student government.) Selvan also said such programs have a strong reputation throughout the country, and have shown to be effective at achieving their goals. “The program adopted

curriculum from the Institute for Interfaith Leadership, and they have worked with the government on interfaith programming, including with former President Barack Obama,” Selvan said. Sophomore Christoper Zahn, who comes from a Lutheran family, a minority among Notre Dame’s majority Catholic student body, said he believes Notre Dame’s atmosphere for people of non-Catholic or nonreligious faiths is good but can be improved.

“I have loved my time at Notre Dame so far and have never felt out of place due to my religious background,” Zahn said. “Yet I think that Notre Dame can be so much better, and I am excited to see offerings such as Better Together ND, a definitive step in the right direction.” The program is open to all students who seek interfaith cooperation, leadership development and meal-sharing opportunities throughout a semester or an entire academic year. There is a final information meeting

Wednesday in the McNeil Library in Geddes Hall at 5:30 p.m. Bonnichsen said everyone has a perspective that can benefit others. “Even though we are a predominantly Catholic and Christian campus, what faith looks like is different and everyone has so much to bring as an asset to the table,” Bonnichsen said.

t-shirts. It’s something that we’re doing different this year, just because of the amount of girls that we have.” The appeal of meeting people and getting involved was a large driving force for firstyear Caroline Jakalski making an appearance at the event. “I just signed up because I thought it’d be cool. [In a] small college, you don’t have sororities, but it’s like kind of like a sorority, so you have a big and stuff,” Jakalski said. “I decided that it’s a good way to get involved, especially freshman year not knowing a lot of people.” This year, Saint Mary’s’ Student Government Association and Big Belle Little Belle is reformatting the selection process to more closely that of a sorority. In years past, the board assigned “littles” and “bigs” based on things such as majors. “We’re going to do a ‘pref’ night this year to take away from having the committee chairs and the committee decide for students,” LeMay said. “We’re going to allow the big to choose their little.” The game watch is an event aimed at allowing bigs and the littles to get to know each other to facilitate the selection process. “It’s up to the bigs and

littles who attend these events to connect with one another [and] get to know one another,” LeMay said. “So then they’re like, ‘OK, this is a good relationship,’ rather than, ‘Well, you randomly paired me with somebody,’ and think, ‘I’m not happy.’” LeMay said the organizers will step in if a little does not get appropriately matched with a big. Despite the changes and the movement towards sorority culture, the motives for the organization is the same: They seek to give younger students an opportunity to feel comfortable and welcomed on campus and to provide them with guidance, LeMay said. These events led toward

reveal day when bigs will pick their littles. “Yeah, we are really excited for reveal day that will be on October 6,” LeMay said. “… That’s our biggest event of the year. We put the most money towards it — funding, activities, all of that. Reveal day [is] when our bigs reveal themselves to their littles. Last year, it was a lot of fun, but we’re hoping to be bigger and bolder. And our theme this year is Disney.” Big Belle Little Belle extends beyond the structured events and into everyday life and relationships. The organization encourages the students to participate and extend their relationships beyond the bigger all-club event.

“We really tell girls, you make it what you want,” LeMay said. “So like my little and I, we do homework together. She comes and hangs out at my apartment with me. We do a lot together. But we also provide non-event events. So it’s not something as big as game day or reveal day. But it’s like, ‘Hey, if anyone wants to go.’” For first-year Hannah Shoemake, this guidance is why she is seeking out a relationship with a big. “I think, when adjusting to the college life, having a big sister figure is really gonna help me through some tough times,” Shoemake said.

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By MIKE DONOVAN Scene Editor

Whitney’s debut, “Light Upon the Lake,” shone over a midsummer breakup, illuminating, albeit weakly, the lifeless reflection of a lost relationship. “How cheap were the nights you used to keep me warm,” drummer-vocalist Julien Ehrlich questioned while he dipped his toes in the water and watched the reflection ripple. No one answered. Ehrlich was left in the cold — “awake in all kinds of darkness” — miming the reluctant motions of the rippling reflection. “Forever Turned Around,” the Chicago outfit’s sophomore effort, rejoins Ehrlich and company at summer’s end, after the rippling has settled. The new record has abandoned the lake and its fraudulent reflections in favor of the forest. Though fears of “falling rain and a cold wind blowing / seasons changing” deepen as the summer fades (so Ehrlich sings on “Before I Know It”), Whitney’s new residence among the trees, “out where the redwoods grow,” has an un-fellable quality both lonely and comforting (according to “My Life Alone”). No longer skimming, shimmering, skipping and swimming as its predecessor did, “Forever Turned Around” relies on strong roots. Max Kakacek’s lightly reverberated guitar lines, delicately entwined with Ehrlich’s slim falsetto, sprout like shoots and leaves from the understory’s ground floor, feeding on nutritious stores of

By NIA SYLVA Scene Writer

If you want to understand what makes the second season of “Mindhunter” so undeniably eerie and effective, just watch the show’s opening credits. Images of a hand slowly setting up a recording device are interrupted by pictures that vanish almost before the viewer can fully recognize what they are. These “flashes” depict a myriad of dead and decaying body parts. The images aren’t graphic, per se, and the gore couldn’t rightly be called gratuitous, but these injections of carnage, however brief, suggest a darkness that permeates the opening theme and sets a mood for the coming episodes that never really disappears. Indeed, in these first images — and, I will suggest, in the show as a whole — the banal is interspersed with the grotesque. Mindhunter works hard to enmesh and equate the two in viewers’ minds until the hand threading the tape recorder is just as disconcerting as the images of bloodied, mutilated bodies, until the soft notes of the piano score, while not necessarily creepy on their own, are enough to send a chill down one’s spine. That’s what “Mindhunter” does so, so well. It makes the everyday terrifying. And it does so expressly by avoiding the very strategies employed by most other procedural dramas that might be considered traditionally frightening. There are no jump scares. There is no violence. There is very little gore. Unlike in “Criminal Minds” or “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Mindhunter” leaves the crimes themselves offscreen, allowing viewers to experience the stories of Charles Manson and the Son of Sam’s atrocities from the perpetrators themselves. Instead of watching a recreation of the Manson massacre or seeing Son of Sam

brass (trumpeter Will Miller) and ivory (keyboardist Malcolm Brown): altogether forming an immaculate “Rhododendron.” Whitney’s new livelihood — richer, deeper, more layered, less piercing than anything from their debut — lends itself to longevity. Whereas the brittle glimmers of “Light Upon the Lake,” “No Woman” and “Polly” would dissipate at the slightest splash, “Forever Turned Around’s” notable outgrowths, its eponymous closing track and “Valleys (My Love)” seem capable of withstanding the harshest storms. In the forest, underneath which an intricate root system binds everything in place, “the days of the year just slow down,” tempering emotional vibrations in the process. On the lake, near “The Falls,” the speed of things was “too much to slow down,” but life in the woods never much exceeds a gentle sway. The unhurried woodland intonations counter those of the lake in a “Day & Night” dichotomy — a clip that feels “good, but / strange at the same time.” After the irreparable descent of “Light Upon The Lake,” “Forever Turned Around” embraces the hidden comforts of reaching the ground. Fragments of broken loves and shattered connections occupy the forest floor in the manner of dead trees, providing a habitat with much needed food for sapling notions: fresh loves, blossoming friendships. Rising out of soil beneath old passions “drifting away / like a cloud hanging over the pines,” these infant notions aren’t yet acquainted with sunny days and clear

skies. Instead, they enter existence intuitively aware of the many (often grim) shades coloring an honest existence. It’s not a shimmering coming-of-age by any means. Because its content grows in the shadows of deteriorated hope, “Forever Turned Around” reaps the benefits of a cyclic musical ecosystem. The record’s respect for this system — its willingness to follow the not-so-obvious path from “Light Upon the Lake’s” elegantly thematic death toward a gradual and moody rebirth — earns all premature praises. Summer may be over, but so too is the blistering heat, the suffocating humidity and the splintering sorrows. What’s left is the soothing beginnings of autumn, a superior season to the summertime in every sense.

shoot one of his victims, we hear their excuses and their explanations. We, as viewers, don’t get the benefit of seeing them commit the very acts of violence and inhumanity that separate them from the rest of humanity; that way, we could dehumanize them. But “Mindhunter” doesn’t let us get off that easy. We hear Son of Sam talk. We see Blind, Torture, Kill (BTK) at the library. We are forced to admit these people are human, that they did once exist as members of society. We are forced to see them not as aliens, but as twisted versions of ourselves. And so are the show’s characters, in very effective (and off-putting) ways. In its second season, “Mindhunter” wisely chooses to pivot away from Holden’s personal life and explore more of the gruff yet lovable life of Bill Tench. Tench’s home life — specifically, his son Brian’s incident — begins to bleed into his work. He is clearly worried about the implications of his son’s actions, knowing what he does about the psychology of sociopathy. Indeed, the way the escalation of Brian’s problems informs Tench’s interview conduct effectively displays the permeation of the evils exhibited by the show’s killers into areas of life that should be safe from it. The show very effectively creates a terse environment within the Tench household thanks to tight dialogue and fine acting from Holt McCallany (Bill Tench) and Stacey Roca (Nancy Tench). Roca is especially convincing in her exhaustion at the family’s situation and growing fear about who her son is becoming. Another addition to the show’s pervasive, subtle atmosphere of eeriness is its treatment of the Atlanta child murders. Although occasionally employing a bit of lightheartedness — as seen, for instance, in the montage of the bridge stakeouts in episode eight — “Mindhunter” uses the

Atlanta cases to display the limits of bureaucracy, as well as the political and institutional racism that made it so hard to catch the perpetrator of these crimes. Again, there are no depictions of the crimes themselves: the source of fear is the ineffectiveness of those solving the case and the uncertainty that surrounds the arrest of Wayne Williams for the crimes. We see that Williams is guilty of something, but we’re left to wonder whether he is truly responsible for every murder, and we see other evil men, like the Ku Klux Klan member brought in and questioned, are allowed to walk free. But that’s just the way the show is. “Mindhunter” is content not to tie up loose ends. For instance, we watch brief vignettes depicting the BTK killer going about his daily life, but we know that Holden and Tench don’t catch him because he’s not apprehended until 2005. Moreover, we aren’t given definitive explanations as to why the serial killers interviewed did what they did — except, of course, the ones they give us themselves. Instead, we are left to squirm in our own uncertainty; “Mindhunter” is a better show for that.

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“Forever Turned Around” Whitney Label: Secretly Canadian Favorite Tracks: “Forever Turned Around,” “Rhododendron,” “Valley’s (My Love)” If you like: Tom T. Hall, Emmitt Rhodes, Trees

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“Mindhunter” Netflix Creator: Joe Penhall Favorite Episode: Episode One (It’ll suck you in) If you like: Criminal Minds, Law and Order

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Real life classes Anna Mason Photo Editor

I have taken a variety of classes that do not always relate to my major. W hile I have found some of these classes relate to other classes or work, I think having a curriculum that has to do with real life situations would be ver y important for students. Classes that teach cooking, paying bills, applying for mortgages or loans and personal finance are all classes that could help students transition into the real world with a better idea of what they are supposed to do after graduation. After living in multiple apartments with roommates from all over, I learned there are ver y few who know how to cook a wide range of meals. W hile a box of pasta and pasta sauce may be a cheap and filling meal, there would be a benefit to colleges having cooking classes. Some high schools used to teach cooking and home skills, and I have family members who still remember the skills they have learned. W hile cooking is a skill that can be learned from practice, I believe teaching students to cook could be beneficial and a way for people to save money. If people are confident and they can cook a delicious and filling meal, they may be less likely to go out to eat when they become hungr y. Bills and ta xes will be a reality in ever yone’s lives regardless of someone’s major or job. This important skill is rarely taught in classes, and it usually appears in finance courses when it is taught. Finance students are only a small percentage of people who will have to be paying these bills. W hile there are companies who help a customer pay ta xes, that is extra money going out the window. Knowing how to correctly pay bills and fill out ta xes may save people money and provide them peace of mind. A mortgage is probably the largest investment people will make in their lives, but there are many people who are not ver y informed about this decision. Many people may know about a fixed rate or adjustable rate mortgage, but people may not know about the different products. People should understand if they are getting a conventional or a Federal Housing Administration-approved (FHA) loan. People should understand the benefits that come from shopping around for interest rates. People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars on houses, and it would be beneficial to know exactly where the money is going and if there are ways to save more money in the long run. Personal finance classes are sometimes offered to students who are not specifically in business, and I would suggest them for all students. A person does not need to be in finance or business to invest in stock or in real estate. It is never too early to start planning for retirement, and these classes will help give guidance for how to go about this. If the thought of dealing with multiple accounts makes a person’s head spin, there are people who will help manage money. Financial planners are great resources people from multiple situations can use to help invest or save in a beneficial way. Many schools encourage students to have a range of classes that go outside their major. I would encourage schools to add classes that would leave students with lasting skills they will use ver y often. Contact Anna at amason01@saintmarys.edu The views expressed in this Inside Column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Reviewing pizza: Pizza Pi Danny McMaster You’re Welcome for My Opinion

There are decades where nothing happens. And then there are weeks where decades happen. I firmly believe that years from now, as you look back fondly on your college days, you w ill look back at the week Pizza Pi opened and realize that it was the greatest week of your life. Like ever y self-respecting student at Notre Dame, Saint Mar y’s and Holy Cross, I turn to The Obser ver for all of my opinions. Therefore, I felt that it was my responsibilit y to tell you how to feel about Pizza Pi. Going into this rev iew, I was skeptical. I had a lot of questions on my mind: Isn’t this place just Reckers w ithout the chicken nuggs? Didn’t we almost burn dow n South Dining Hall the last time the Universit y tried to make pizza there? Will Caroline ever text me back? Does she even like me? However, all (most... Caroline) of those concerns were immediately w iped away the second I walked into that gorgeous establishment. Let me walk you through the Pizza Pi process. Your pizza starts as a piece of firm pita-like bread where then sauce is spread over the premade delightful construction. From there, any selection of toppings can be added from sy mmetrical black boxes, only for the entire pie to be put in an oven to be cooked. Some minutes and a measly $ 8 later you are consuming a personal pizza. Now, I know what some of the haters are thinking right now. They’re sitting here and say ing, “Wait, isn’t that the exact same thing as make your ow n pizza night at SDH? Isn’t that the exact same process except there is someone making your pizza in front of you? And then you have to pay them $ 8? ” However, anyone who is thinking like this is completely unable to see the bigger picture, and honestly, I think that because of it they w ill be unsuccessful and unhappy their entire life. To them, I say, if you have never been to Pizza Pi, no explanation w ill suffice. If you have been to Pizza Pi, they now have eight of your Flex Points that you can’t have back. These haters may even have the guts to question why this has taken a full semester

to essentially re-establish Reckers w ithout the same number of menu items. To them, I say perfection takes time. I went to Pizza Pi for lunch this past Wednesday. Upon leav ing, I went back to my room and sat in the dark for three full days, wondering how I would w rite any thing that could do Pizza Pi justice. I haven’t done any homework or gone to class since. So don’t listen to those haters. Remove anyone in your life who might say any thing like, “That’s a lot of money for prett y average pizza that only feeds bet ween one and t wo people.” You don’t need that negativ it y in your life. You just need Pizza Pi. I just can’t stress enough to you how this place could not possibly be any better. Let’s talk about the menu changes. Some might say the fries and chicken tenders were a go-to menu option at Reckers. However, they have been replaced by Piadinas. Do you even know what those are? According to Wikipedia, they are a thin Italian f latbread, t y pically prepared in the Romagna historical region. I bet you feel silly and uncultured right now. W hat I’m tr y ing to tell you is that Pizza Pi is making you a better person. If you don’t spend all of your Flex Points at this establishment then I don’t know what to say to you. If you’re going to look me straight in the face and say that you can find a better meal deal than a Zest y BBQ Chicken personal pizza and a large smoothie for $15, then clearly any logical argument is lost on you any way. The only thing left to say, really, is that Pizza Pi is the greatest thing ever created on this earth and you should count yourself fortunate that you were able to be in South Bend while it ex isted. In conclusion, I give Pizza Pi a perfect 3.14 out of 3.14. God bless the wonderful people who created this establishment. Danny McMaster is a senior business analytics major, and has never once been wrong in his entire life. He can be reached at dmcmaste@nd.edu or @DanMcMaster14 on Twitter. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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A farewell to farewells Gabriel Niforatos The Road Less Traveled

Goodbye. I guarantee you that you felt the word more than you read it, and that is because there are certain words that hold this power. One word can have the power to instill an infinity of scenarios and emotions in the minds of those who see it. In one life, goodbye will be the word to describe a thousand moments. Goodbye will be the word you say to your childhood friend when they move away. It will be the word of your parents as they drive back to the airport. Goodbyes will be sad, they will be happy. Sometimes they will occur as if they were in a Holly wood script, with ice cold rain and a melancholic sun that couldn’t get out of bed for you that day. You will say goodbye on days where the heat is scorching and you wish you could wrest some joy away from the entire experience by seeking familiarity in the rainy Holly wood script. Goodbyes are eternal and familiar to us all, and, as a consequence, they will occur in ever y way they possibly can. And yet, goodbyes are terrif ying. Part of our fear of farewells is the inherent finality of them. Are lives meant to brush past each other with the frustrating alacrity of the colors at dawn? If I blink, will the person at my side disappear, the only goodbye a waft of their perfume and the void of space beside me? The emptiness of no words. But a goodbye regardless. A lthough I have only just begun my third year at Notre Dame, I am already looking ahead to the horizon of my own goodbyes. My older sister graduated from Notre Dame last year, and I seem to be surrounded by the theme of farewells lately. Even this past summer, goodbyes seemed to be a prominent theme in the music I listened to. Post

Malone released a song entitled “Goodbyes” and Benny Blanco released a song a couple of days ago about the challenges of moving on and starting new phases of life. Songs and stories about goodbyes may have seemed to be more relevant this past summer, but the theme of goodbyes is certainly one that has not been significant only recently. Farewells are an inherent part of what it means to be human. Tom Stoppard once wrote in the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” human beings are born with an inherent sense of our own ending. “For all of the points of the compass, there is only one direction,” he states. “And time is its only measure.” Goodbye is a portent of our ending, and I think this fact is at the root of why it scares us so much. So what are we to do when we are inevitably confronted by a goodbye? For one, we can embrace the inevitable sadness of the experience. Melancholy is the often unspoken thread that ties all of humanity together during our sojourn. Goodbye is on the other side of this coin, and we are a f lip away from another change or upheaval simply because that is what it means to be human. I think that melancholic experiences are some of the strongest in terms of character building because they rattle our foundation and force us to strengthen ourselves. This is certainly not an endorsement to look to ever y situation or experience in your life as having a moral. Instead, refuse to look at goodbyes as an ending. Do not look at them as an epilogue. Goodbye is the ultimate prologue; it is the exit sign with a f light of stairs and endless possibility on the other side. There is the illusion that we are leaving a tiny piece of ourselves behind when we say farewell. It’s the idea that if I say goodbye too many times, there will be nothing of me left except tattered and separate pieces belonging to all the friends and people I have left behind. The musician Phil

Collins once released a song called “We Said Hello Goodbye,” and the lyrics of that song provide timeless advice for addressing this illusion and navigating goodbyes: “Turn your head / And don’t look back / Set your sails for a new horizon / Don’t turn around, don’t look down / Oh, there’s life across the tracks / And you know it’s really not surprising / It gets better when you get there, oh.” Of course, there will always be an underlying sense of melancholy with a goodbye. Goodbye is frightening because it is a gateway to the future. Human beings, particularly those in aff luent Western society, are not fond of radical change. Goodbye is the ultimate challenge to such a mindset. And yet, farewell is a bridge and the nature of that bridge and the rivers and ravines that it spans will be different in ever y instance. Ultimately, goodbye is a challenge for us to fill our sails and enter the black storms on the horizon, with a joy of beginnings and uncharted territor y waiting and beckoning. Goodbye is a shift in perspective, it’s a new voyage. As we start another year of school, whether we are seniors and our goodbye to Notre Dame is shortly ahead or we are just beginning as first years, let us think on endings and relish the choppiness of the waters ahead. Let us say farewell to farewells once and for all. Unfurl your topsails, loosen the rigging and sail into the impossibility of possibility. There are storms to conquer and oceans to cross. Gabriel Niforatos is a junior majoring in political science with a minor in the Hesburgh Program in public service. He is passionate about giving a voice to the disenfranchised and writing is the muse he is persistently chasing. He can be found at gniforat@nd.edu or @g_niforatos on Twitter. The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

Letter to the editor

Response to Midnight Express cancellation Dear Observer reader (chaotic good), Father Jenkins, Interim President Nekvasil, Notre Dame student government, Saint Mar y’s student government and anyone who was responsible for this egregious decision, Understanding the fundamental disconnect between the members of the administration and the student body is crucial in the discussion surrounding public transportation. This decision to cancel the Midnight Express and Saturday service was made without consulting the persons directly affected by any change to the weekly schedule. The needs of students with disabilities, student workers, victims of assault and low-income students often go ignored by the administration (and to a lesser extent, the members of student government). The cancellation of all service on Saturday puts students at risk for harassment or assault. In addition to putting students at risk, this

decision separates the blending of the tri-campus community. Students of all three schools often interact with each other through band, ROTC, club sports and clubs, and the cancellation of Saturday service essentially limits students’ accessibility to these resources. Holy Cross, as you may know, was not consulted in the decision to end the bus — what does this say about how the schools feel about inclusion? The student governments of both Notre Dame and Saint Mar y’s are effectively telling the student body, “If you do not have a car, tough luck.” As for the “solutions” of Blinkie, SafeBouND and calling the Notre Dame Police Department: Blinkie is not wheelchair-accessible and only goes to one location, getting in a golf cart with a stranger seems suspicious and we know police can be oblivious to violence or even violent themselves. As for ride sharing apps, that’s way too

expensive for working-class students. These solutions are not comparable to the public good a bus brings. This petition serves two purposes: To put pressure on the administration and to encourage the student body to ask questions of the student government and administration. Ask why the budget was not modified to pay for a necessity, ask why Blinkie is not wheelchair-accessible, ask why Saint Mar y’s does not have the funds to get a vehicle that is wheelchair-accessible, ask why a “Catholic” university ignores the needs of low-income students and finally, ask why they have yet to come up with a real solution after two months.

Marta Antonetti senior Saint Mar y’s Sept. 2

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Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Put rigidity aside when faced with complex situations. Being able to see all sides of whatever situation you face this year will encourage change that is positive, doable and reflective of the type of leader you can be. Stand tall, set priorities and shoot for the stars. Compassion, participation and romance will result in personal growth and happiness. Your numbers are 9, 14, 22, 26, 30, 32, 41. ARIES (March 21-April 19): You can think big and make plans, but when it comes to taking action, size down, be reasonable and choose to spend your time and money wisely. A change may not be expected or wanted, but in hindsight, it will be beneficial. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your changing attitude may confuse some, but you’ll find solace with those heading in a similar direction. Divvy up the work that needs to be done, and you will reach a common goal and form a close bond with like-minded individuals. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t believe everything you hear. Someone will lead you astray to avoid owning up to a mistake or a rumor that’s traveling around your circle of friends. Keep your personal life a secret to avoid being talked about. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Control your emotions. You will need a clear vision if you plan to get things done your way. Persuasive tactics will work if you have a good plan that you present with passion. Ask for help, and someone will accommodate you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You don’t have to do what someone else is doing. Choose what works best for you. By using your skills, knowledge and experience appropriately and monitoring your spending, you will make a difference by completing what matters most. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take a logical approach to situations that concern a multitude of people. You’ll stand out if you make a point to understand what everyone else is doing and needs to succeed. Become the vehicle that unifies and brings everyone together. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do what you can to lend a helping hand. Keeping the peace will be necessary if someone tries to start an argument. Focusing on doing a good job and staying busy will deter anyone disruptive from getting in your way. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Put in the time and do your research to figure out the best way to incorporate positive change into your daily routine. A kind word or gesture will encourage others. Personal gain is apparent. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Listen and observe. Develop your ideas and plans before you share too much informListen and fact-check. Don’t expect to be offered the whole truth or both sides of a story. If you judge others, you will be judged. Avoid exaggerating, being indulgent or taking part in gossip or risky ventures. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t let your emotions interfere in your progress. If there is something you want to get done, concentrate on finishing what you start. Actions will speak louder than words, and sticking to a budget will help you avoid criticism. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Change the way you handle your cash. Look for an additional source of income. A change will boost your morale and encourage you to look and do your very best. Don’t let what others do lead you to make poor decisions. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stick to whatever plan you put in place. If you start bending to what people want, you will lose sight of your goal and end up going over budget. A partnership shouldn’t cause confusion or lead to regret, but strengthen your self identity. Birthday Baby: You are patient, unique and flexible. You are industrious and energetic.

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[with the early exit of Armstrong]. I showed [head] coach [Brian] Kelly that I’m growing up and can be a leader. I think I showed the world that I can be that back that Notre Dame needs.” The bulk of Jones’ yardage came during one of Monday night’s defining drives. Midway through the first quarter, the Irish had just surrendered 14 unanswered points and were facing an early 14-7 deficit. Notre Dame leaned on Jones on their ensuing drive, who accounted for 78 yards on six carries and capped off the drive with an 11-yard touchdown run. The Irish wouldn’t trail again. Jones was quick to credit his success on the drive to the men in front of him, as well to the confidence he’s built heading into the season. “I was seeing my line work, and the holes were big in front of me,” he said. “There’s not a better feeling than when you get the ball and it’s straight grass in front of you. I’m more confident in myself because I know the plays better. Coach Kelly tells me that if you believe you’re the best player on the field, nobody can stop you.” Senior wide receiver Chase Claypool saw the drive as a pivotal one, with Jones’ ability to run the ball opening up the passing game and making things easier for the offense.

“[Junior] Jafar [Armstrong] went down and Tony took the lead and put us on his back,” Claypool said. “He took the load, and because of that, he made all our jobs a lot easier.” Senior quarterback Ian Book wasn’t surprised at Jones’ ability to step up, he said he sees his contributions continuing in the future. “For Tony, it’s all about preparation,” Book said. “That kid works so hard day-in and day-out. I’m super happy seeing that work pay off. I knew that if his name was called he’d be ready, and I’m really proud of him. He’s going to be a good back for us.” Kelly also attributed Jones’ big night to a successful offseason and growing more comfortable in his role in the backfield. “He knows exactly what we’re asking from him,” Kelly said. “There were times last year when he wasn’t certain what his role was, and that caused him anxiety at times. He knows exactly what his role is and he’s been excellent at fulfilling that.” Jones wasn’t the only weapon in the arsenal for the Irish on Monday night. Book rushed for 81 yards on 14 carries, including a 37-yard run to open the game. Sophomore Jahmir Smith was a presence in the red zone, powering in for two touchdowns close to the goal line. Jones spoke highly of Smith, saying he believes that the Irish running backs have the potential to be a force going forward.

“[Smith] balled out,” Jones said. “He’s a load to handle, and you know he balled out and he helped me. He’s grown in the passing game and the running game, and he’s doing all of that now. We can be a 1-2-3 punch, really.” That “1-2-3 punch” will depend on the health of Armstrong, whose status remained unclear after the game. “We don’t know that it’s serious,” Kelly said. “We’re not sure that it’s a groin injury. He was telling us that it was more in the midline. He’s being examined by the doctors. He was moving around okay, and we’re hopeful that it’s not something that puts him out very long.” Even in injury, however, Armstrong proved to be a vital part of the running back corps. The junior was a vocal presence on the sidelines after departing from the game. “[Armstrong] was being a leader for us and even when he went down, he really wasn’t ‘down,’” Jones said. “He was giving me tips on my runs and telling me stuff I was doing wrong and stuff I was doing right. He was just being a good leader for us.” After a strong start to the season, the Irish running game has a week off before getting another chance to showcase itself. Whether or not Monday night was a sign of things to come, Jones was clear: “The sky’s the limit.”

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Limited scouting knowledge While it hurt Louisville that this was the first game of their first season under a new coaching staff, that was also what gave them the best chance of winning this game. Cardinals head coach Scott Satterfield, who had been head coach of Appalachian State for six years prior, sought to confound the Irish defense, and it worked for two drives. Notre Dame could only study tape of what Satterfield would run with his former players, and they didn’t know what to expect Monday night. It’s nobody’s fault — it’s just the way the chips fell — and it’s only logical that it would take the team a little while to figure out what their opponent was doing, but the Irish did so very quickly.

Resiliency and quick adaptation The Irish defense managed to not only pick up on Louisville’s scheme after two drives, but after giving up 14 points in the first quarter, they held the Cardinals scoreless until allowing a 42-yard field goal in the fourth quarter. What’s more, they turned the tide of the game when the crowd, in a full blackout, was in a frenzy over having a 14-7 lead. Head coach Brian Kelly talked about what playing in an environment like that can do to a young player. “Having gone through the

routine of going on the road and playing on the road in a hostile environment, those things help a football team when they do it again,” Kelly said. “… That’s a lot of distractions. The ability to go through that and eliminate the distractions the next time on the road is extremely beneficial.”

A veteran presence remains Yes, the Irish lost some key pieces from last season. However, they return AllAmerican caliber safeties in senior safety Alohi Gilman and fellow senior captain Jalen Elliott, talented cornerbacks in senior Troy Pride Jr. and graduate student Shaun Crawford, as well as arguably the best defensive group in the country with senior captains Khalid Kareem and Julian Okwara at the forefront. However, the showing for tonight’s veterans wasn’t great, as Kelly himself said. “There were bits and pieces of really dynamic play from the veterans,” he said. “But we need a little more from them consistently, and I’m sure that they will tell you the same if they were sitting here tonight. There was a little rust there and I’m sure game one had something to do with it.” That said, Gilman led the Irish with nine tackles, junior linebacker Jeremiah OwusuKoramoah was second with seven tackles and senior defensive lineman Ade Ogundeji was third with six. Also of note from the veterans, Okwara, senior defensive end

A new guard stepping up While the veterans will certainly be the key contributors this season, there are a handful of inexperienced yet talented players on the defensive side of the ball ready to step up and make a difference. Junior linebacker Drew White, who saw limited action last year when Tranquill suffered an ankle sprain, recorded the first sack of the year for the Irish as well as a key pass break-up, both on an important defensive stand early in the second half after Louisville’s two scores. Freshman safety Kyle Hamilton also stepped in and made some important plays in coverage.

It’s the first game It’s already been referenced, but this is the first game of a 12game regular season. No amount of training in summer or fall sessions can fully prepare a team for what they will face in a real, live game against another team. The team is going to get better, as all teams do, with more time and experience. 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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Jahmir Smith 3-yard run (Jonathan Doerer kick)