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Volume 58, Issue 3 | MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2023 | ndsmcobserver.com
Fans flood Dublin for football game More than 40,000 travel overseas for Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland By PETER BREEN Notre Dame News Editor
Fighting Irish football fans of ever y liv ing generation journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to see the Blue and Gold take on the Naval Academy in the Emerald Isle on Saturday for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. Notre Dame played Nav y in Dublin once in 1996 and again in 2012. This time, the Irish beat the Midshipman by 39 points at Av iva Stadium, which is the home of the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Football Association of Ireland. Organizers told the
Associated Press that the event was expected to have an impact of around 150 million euros on Ireland’s economy. Supporters from both schools f looded the pubs around Dublin on gameday, and many included the match as part of a longer v isit to the countr y. More than 40,000 overseas v isitors attended the contest, according to the Irish Times. A lex Haas, a junior from Cincinnati who f lew to the game out of Chicago, said she was meeting up w ith her mom and brother in Dublin. “We’re stay ing in an Airbnb see DUBLIN PAGE 3
ND construction ramps up for fall By LIAM KELLY Associate News Editor
As Notre Dame students return to their daily routine on campus, one thing is certain to remain the same from years past — the steady drone of construction on campus. Construction companies have been hard at work all summer and into this fall on a number of new buildings including the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the second McCourtney Hall research building and a new men’s residence hall. The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art w ill replace the Snite Museum of Art, which has now closed its doors and w ill transition into its new role as the Snite Research Center in the Visual Arts, according to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art website. Doug Marsh, v ice president for facilities design and operations and Universit y architect, offered his praise for the new building in an email inter v iew.
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“There are beautiful galleries in the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art including space for the ex hibit of contemporar y works, a feature that was lacking in the Snite Museum,” Marsh w rote. The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art was donated by philanthropist Ernestine Raclin and her daughter and son-in-law Carmen and Chris Murphy. It was designed by Robert A. M. Stern A rchitects, according to Notre Dame Facilities Design and Operations. The museum began construction in May of 2021 and w ill be completed by Nov. 30 of this year, Marsh stated. Further north on campus, the new men’s residence hall continues rise from the ground. The building, which is as of now unnamed, w ill be built in the collegiate Gothic st yle according to Facilities Design and Operations. The dorm w ill have facilities and a design similar to recently constructed dorms, see CONSTRUCTION PAGE 3
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Leprechaun Ryan waves a giant Notre Dame flag before kickoff of the 2023 Dublin game against Navy. This year’s contest drew over 40,000 fans, including many students, who united to cheer on the Irish.
Students launch club to fight kidney disease By JENNA ABU-LUGHOD News Writer
Over t he summer, four students ca me toget her w it h t he hopes of sta r ting a chapter of t he K idney Disease Screening a nd Awa reness Prog ra m (K DSAP) at Not re Da me. Their goa l is to a id w it h t he nat iona l issue of undetected k idney disease
by prov iding f ree k idney screenings to members of t he Sout h Bend communit y. W hi le complet ing a summer resea rch prog ra m, junior Zacha r y Joseph was int roduced to Li-Li Hsiao, t he founder of K DSAP. A f ter lea rning more about t he orga ni zat ion f rom Hsiao, Joseph sa id he beca me interested in
sta r t ing a chapter of K DSAP at Not re Da me. “The nat iona l orga ni zat ion is r un by Li-Li Hsiao, a nd she was a lso r unning t he resea rch prog ra m I was in,” Joseph sa id. “So t hat is how I hea rd about K DSAP.” Joseph sa id he bega n by reaching out to fel low see KDSAP PAGE 4
Alumna’s memoir commemorates Chileans By CAROLINE COLLINS News Writer
On t he day t hat 22-yearold Kat hleen Osberger arrived in Chile in 1975, t wo years follow ing t he CIA-assisted militar y coup which overt hrew t he democratica lly elected president and insta lled a militar y junta under t he leadership of Aug usto
Pinochet, she learned of a secret t hat would mark her time in t he countr y. The religious sisters t hat Osberger would be liv ing and work ing w it h were giving shelter to people who were t hreatened w it h torture and deat h by t he Dirección de Inteligencia Naciona l, Pinochet’s secret police.
Osberger’s memoir, “I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975,” recounts her experience during t he f ive mont hs she spent work ing as a teacher at Colegio St. George, a Cat holic grade school in Santiago. A f ter graduating from Notre Dame, Osberger was
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